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Diplomats sent
to hot spots
overstepped
authority:
former top spy
STEVEN CHASE
ROBERT FIFE OTTAWA

Former national-security adviser

and CSIS director Richard Fadden
said that during his time in gov-
ernment, there were internal
reports of diplomats with Global
Affairs’s foreign information-
gathering unit overstepping their
authority.
The Global Security Reporting
Program, which sends diplomats
to hot spots to collect security-
related information for Ottawa,
has come under a spotlight after
accusations by Michael Spavor,
held prisoner by China for nearly
three years.
Mr. Spavor alleges that Beijing
arrested and imprisoned him and
Michael Kovrig, a diplomat who
worked for the GSRP, because he
unwittingly provided information A woman injured in an Israeli strike sits amid rubble in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday. Palestinians say they are running out
to Mr. Kovrig that was shared with of places to go, with many having fled south as Israel targeted the north in the war’s early days. SAID KHATIB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Canadian and other Western spy
services. Mr. Kovrig has told The
Globe and Mail that he followed
the “standard of laws, rules and
regulations governing diplomats.”
Israel issues more evacuation orders
Mr. Fadden said: “I recall that
there were a couple of instances
where we thought individual
as it advances deeper into Gaza’s south
GSRP officers sort of exceeded
their brief a little bit and started Military vows operations in the area will be as forceful as the northern offensive
acting like intelligence officers.”
“I remember being told on a
couple of occasions that people NAJIB JOBAIN that killed about 1,200, mostly civilians. were women and children.
were just going a little bit too far.” SAMY MAGDY The United Nations estimates that 1.8 A Health Ministry spokesman asserted
Mr. Fadden served as the sev- ELENA BECATOROS KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA million Palestinians in Gaza have been dis- that hundreds had been killed or wound-
enth director of the Canadian Se- placed. Nearly 958,000 of them are in 99 ed since a week-long ceasefire ended
curity Intelligence Service be- UN facilities in the south, said Juliette To- Friday. “The majority of victims are still
tween 2009 and 2013, and went on The Israeli military said Sunday its ground ma, director of communications at the UN under the rubble,” Ashraf al-Qidra said.
to serve as deputy defence minis- offensive had expanded to every part of agency for Palestinian refugees. Fears of a wider conflict intensified. A
ter and then as national-security Gaza, and it ordered more evacuations in After dark, gunfire and shelling were United States warship and multiple com-
adviser to two prime ministers, the crowded south while vowing that op- heard in the central town of Deir al-Balah mercial ships came under attack in the
Stephen Harper and Justin Tru- erations there against Hamas would have as flares lit the sky. In Gaza’s second-lar- Red Sea, the Pentagon said. Yemen’s Iran-
deau, between 2015 and 2016. “no less strength” than its shattering ones gest city of Khan Younis, Israeli drones backed Houthi rebels claimed attacks on
GSRP, A5 in the north. buzzed overhead. UN human-rights chief two ships they described as being linked to
Heavy bombardment followed the Volker Turk urged an end to the war, say- Israel but did not acknowledge targeting a
evacuation orders, and Palestinians said ing civilian suffering was “too much to U.S. vessel.
they were running out of places to go in bear.” Hopes for another temporary truce in
the sealed-off territory bordering Israel The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza Gaza were fading. The ceasefire facilitated
Questions and Egypt. Many of Gaza’s 2.3 million peo- said the death toll there since Oct. 7 has the release of dozens of the roughly 240
ple are crammed into the south after Israel surpassed 15,500, with more than 41,000 Gaza-held Israeli and foreign hostages in
surround death ordered civilians to leave the north in the
early days of the war, which was sparked
wounded. The ministry does not differen-
tiate between civilian and combatant
exchange for Palestinians imprisoned by
Israel.
of Canadian by the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attack in Israel deaths, but said 70 per cent of the dead GAZA, A8

journalist
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as special ingredients for tasty treats at UBC bake-off
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ital awoke to the staccato to their instructor, Yasmin Akhtar. sect farming also has environmental bene-
rhythm of gunfire last Sun- velyn Springer, a third-year student “Talking alone is not enough,” Dr. Ak- fits, requiring significantly less space and
day, Canadian journalist Stephen in applied animal biology at the htar said. “When they cook it themselves, water and emitting less greenhouse gases
Douglas Lett stood on his apart- University of British Columbia, has get more creative, then they realize the im- than livestock.
ment balcony near downtown a holiday tradition of baking festive portance of insects.” During the bake-off, four teams of stu-
Freetown and sent phone mes- ginger cookies. But this year, she’s added a Dr. Akhtar’s course teaches students of dents competed to see who could make the
sages to friends and colleagues. new ingredient to her usual family recipe: UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems best insect-laden dish.
Renegade soldiers had mealworms. the risks and benefits of eating insects, with Dishes included tacos with homemade
breached the city’s largest bar- Ms. Springer baked the treats as part of the goal of reducing the stigma around cricket-flour tortillas, a lemon-cricket
racks, pilfering ammunition in her final assignment for the course “Insects consuming them. cheesecake, cranberry-cricket shortbread
what authorities would later call as Food and Feed” during the Great UBC “If they have some kind of fear or nega- cookies and Ms. Springer’s ginger meal-
an attempted coup d’état. Bug Bake Off last week. tive perception of insects, or they don’t like worm cookies.
“Fighting continues across “I never really thought about eating in- the texture or taste, by incorporating them To someone who didn’t know their se-
Freetown,” Mr. Douglas told a sects before this class, if I’m going to be into flour for baking purposes that flavour cret ingredients, the dishes would have ap-
Globe and Mail journalist. “And I honest,” Ms. Springer said recently. is gone [and] they can enjoy the benefits of peared totally benign, even by taste, as con-
can hear the gunshots and explo- Now, Ms. Springer and her classmates the insects,” Dr. Akhtar said. firmed by the competition’s adjudicators.
sions in my neighbourhood.” have become advocates of the nutritional Certain species of cricket have almost INSECTS, A6
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For more than 100 years, photographers and photo edi-
tors 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 showcasing seasonal parades.
eople have always loved a parade. Prehistor-
ic Spanish cave paintings likely showed the
first one – crowds cheering successful hun-
ters. And celebratory processions of Babylo-
nians and Egyptians, Romans and royalty kept the
parade spirit alive for thousands of years. But few
parades can match the mock horror of an event
devoted to bad Santa, the Krampus. Every year in
Alpine countries, the 900-year-old legend of the
Krampus is recreated in December parades, as seen
above in 2015 at the Munich Christmas market,
where hundreds of Krampuses ring cowbells and
make frightening noises as they chase children and
townsfolk. Krampus is depicted as a hairy half-man-
half-animal, with fangs, devil faces and horns. The
legend says naughty children are to be swatted with
birch sticks, captured in a woven basket worn on
Krampus’s back and carried off to the underworld.
Parade spectators enjoy the good-natured fun of the
evil Krampus, knowing that the holiday-season
good cop, the gift-giving Saint Nicholas, is never far
away. PHILIP KING

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UN climate talks focused Sunday
on the contagious effects on hu-
man health.
Under a brown haze over
Dubai, the COP28 summit moved
past two days of lofty rhetoric and
calls for unity from top leaders to
concerns about health issues like
the deaths of at least seven mil-
lion people globally from air pol-
lution each year and the spread of
diseases like cholera and malaria
as global warming upends weath-
er systems.
World Health Organization
director-general Tedros Adha-
nom Ghebreyesus said it’s high
time for the UN Conference of Par-
ties on climate to hold its first
Health Day in its 28th edition, say-
ing the threats to health from cli-
mate change were “immediate
and present.”
“Although the climate crisis is a
health crisis, it’s well overdue that
27 COPs have been and gone with-
out a serious discussion of
health,” he said. “Undoubtedly,
health stands as the most com-
pelling reason for taking climate
action.”
After two days of speeches by
dozens of presidents, prime min-
isters, royals and other top leaders
– in the background and on stage
– participants were also turning
attention to tough negotiations
over the next nine days to push for
more agreement on ways to cap
global warming at 1.5 degrees Cel-
sius since pre-industrial times.
Pope Francis, who was forced to
abandon plans to attend because
of a case of bronchitis, on Sunday
said that “even from a distance, I
am following with great attention
the work.” In remarks read at the
At the COP 8 summit in Dubai on Sunday, participants discussed
climate change’s effects on human health. SEAN GALLUP/GETTY IMAGES
Vatican by an aide, the Pope called
for an end of what he called “bot-
tlenecks” caused by nationalism
and “patterns of the past.”
Protests began in earnest Sun-
day at COP28: In one, a group gave
mock resuscitation to an inflata-
ble Earth.
“Well, I mean, it’s cheesy doing
CPR on the Earth,” said Dr. Joe Vi-
pond, an emergency room physi-
cian from Alberta, who took part.
“We’re kind of in a lot of trouble
right now,” he said, so he said he
will do “anything we can do to
bring attention to this issue.”
Saturday capped off with con-
ference organizers announcing
that 50 oil and gas companies had
agreed to reach near-zero me-
thane emissions and end routine
flaring in their operations by
2030. They also pledged to reach
“net zero” for their operational
emissions by 2050.
UN Secretary-General Ant nio
Guterres said “the promises made
clearly fall short of what is re-
quired.”
In comments Sunday, he called
the methane emissions reduc-
tions “a step in the right direc-
tion.” But he criticized the net-ze-
ro pledge for excluding emissions
from fossil fuel consumption –
where the vast majority of the in-
dustry’s greenhouse gases come
from – and said the announce-
ment provided no clarity on how
the companies planned to reach
their goals.
“There must be no room for
greenwashing,” he said.
Germany’s climate envoy Jen-
nifer Morgan said Sunday the oil
and gas industry needs to go be-
yond just cutting emissions that
are generated to make those
products and slash emissions
from indirect activities too, as well
as fossil fuels burned by the end
users.
“It’s 2023,” the former Green-
peace International co-director
said. “I was already speaking to
Shell about this in 1998.”
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ue ec sees spi e in stayed criminal cases

ocuments reveal more
than cases ended
with stay of proceedings
owing to court delays
FR D RI AVIER DUHAMEL
The number of criminal defend-
ants in Quebec who have had
their cases stayed because of
court delays, including many
charged with violent offences,
has more than quadrupled this
year, according to data obtained
by The Globe and Mail.
Between April 1, 2021, and Oct.
31, 2023, at least 109 criminal cases
ended with a stay of proceedings
because of unreasonable delays, a
Quebec Ministry of Justice compi-
lation acquired through an access
to information request shows. Of
those, 75 stays were granted in the
first 10 months of 2023, compared
with 18 in all of 2022. The Ministry
of Justice did not compile this da-
ta before 2021.
The data show the impact of
court delays on criminal cases
seven years after a landmark
Supreme Court of Canada deci-
sion set clear guidelines for when
a delay violates a person’s right
under the Charter of Rights to
timely justice. In a 2016 ruling
known as the Jordan decision, the
Supreme Court set a limit of 18
months from charge to comple-
tion for trials in Provincial Court
and 30 months in Superior Court,
with some exceptions.
Quebec also ended proceed-
ings in an additional 196 cases
this year between March 1 and
Sept. 22, through a procedure
called nolle prose ui, according to
data released through a separate
access to information request to
the Directeur des poursuites
criminelles et pénales DPCP ,
the province’s prosecution ser-
vice. The DPCP said this allowed it
to prioritize and meet Jordan
deadlines with other cases as
weather, staffing, housing and
other issues compounded delays
in northern Quebec, where most
of the abandoned cases were
filed, as La Presse reported in
September.
The Minister of Justice and the
DPCP blame the increase in Jor-
dan stays this year on a new court
policy that took effect last year
and reduced the number of days
when judges sit for trials, which
they say has made delays worse.
Judges and defence lawyers, how-
ever, argue delays are often the
result of mistakes by prosecutors
A car leaves the tablissement de d tention de Montr al. uebec stayed 1 criminal cases between April,
1 and October, 3, and dropped at least 1 6 since March this year. ANDRE IVANOV/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
and the police.
Karine Mac Donald, a spokes-
person for Quebec’s Crime Vic-
tims Assistance Centres, said hav-
ing cases stayed because of delays
hurts victims and can cause them
to regret coming forward.
“It’s clear that there’s a loss of
confidence in the system,” she
said.
Of the 109 stayed cases, of
which many included multiple
offences, 11 cases involved sexual-
assault charges, 22 cases dealt
with other types of assault and 12
included threats or harassment
charges. Another 31 cases in-
volved drug charges, 24 cases
dealt with impaired driving, and
15 included theft or other proper-
ty crime charges. Most stays of
proceedings were granted in the
Sherbooke, Montreal and Trois-
Rivi res districts.
In one case, a now 45-year-old
man was accused of uttering
threats, assault with a weapon – a
knife – and sexual assault against
a teenage girl, among other
charges. The events allegedly
occurred over a three-year period
starting in 2009, when the victim
was 12 years old.
The judgment in this case indi-
cates that the defendant would
have waited more than 38
months after being charged for
the end of his trial, far beyond the
legal limit, largely because police
in Trois-Rivi res waited a year
after charges were filed – and only
after the victim inquired about
the case – to make an arrest, even
though they knew where the sus-
pect lived and worked.
Of the 0 stayed cases,
of which many included
multiple offences,
cases in ol ed
sexual assault char es,
22 cases dealt with
other types of assault
and 2 included threats
or harassment char es.
When both parties were ready
to go to trial after additional
delays, some of which were
deducted by the judge because
they were attributable to the
defence only, a court date could
be scheduled only eight months
later.
Trois-Rivi res police spokes-
person Luc Mongrain declined to
comment.
In another case, a man who
faced charges of assault and utter-
ing death threats against his part-
ner was also granted a stay of pro-
ceedings in August because he
would have waited more than 21
months for his trial. Court of Que-
bec Justice Serge Cimon ruled
that the Crown failed to disclose
its evidence in a timely manner
and demonstrated “a certain
carelessness regarding the man-
agement of this file’s agenda.”
Patrick Michel, head of the
DPCP, Quebec’s prosecution ser-
vice, said in the death threats case
and others, the agency conducted
reviews to see what could be
improved and to remind prosecu-
tors of best practices. He empha-
sized that the vast majority of
about 88,000 criminal cases in-
troduced during the last fiscal
year respected time limits.
Mr. Michel said Provincial
Court policy reduced the number
of days when judges hear cases
and pushed trial dates nearer the
limit, allowing for less wiggle
room when mistakes happen.
This policy, introduced by the
Court of Quebec last fall, changed
the ratio for judges’ activities
from two days sitting on the
bench for every day of drafting
decisions to one day of hearing
for every day of drafting, saying
the old ratio had to be updated to
deal with increasingly complex
cases.
Quebec Minister of Justice
Simon Jolin-Barrette declined to
be interviewed for this story, but
his press secretary, lisabeth Gos-
selin, also blamed court policy for
this year’s delays. She said the
province is in the process of hir-
ing 14 judges to help with the
caseload.
Former Court of Quebec Chief
Justice Lucie Rondeau, who held
this role until late October, dis-
puted that the policy affected
delays, saying criminal judges “all
sat above the ratio, therefore with
very little impact on the reduc-
tion of court time” up to August.
Justice Rondeau said in an
October interview that the adop-
tion in 2019 of Bill C-75, a federal
law reforming various aspects of
criminal justice, inadvertently
contributed to more stays of pro-
ceedings being granted now. The
greater availability of summary
convictions and the restrictions
on preliminary hearings, both
introduced as time-saving mea-
sures in C-75, mean more cases
are now subject to the shorter, 18-
month limit set by the Supreme
Court.
The issue is compounded in
Quebec by the Provincial Court’s
broader jurisdiction in criminal
matters compared with other
provinces, Justice Rondeau said,
where the same indictable
offence would be subject to the
30-month limit because the trial
is held in a Superior Court.
Marie-Pier Boulet, president of
the Quebec Association of
Defence Lawyers, agreed with Jus-
tice Rondeau and added that
delays are most often related to
the disclosure of evidence. She
said as an example that if lawyers
ask for a police officer’s notes,
“it’s super important and basic,
but it’s going to take six months
before we get them.”
“That doesn’t make sense.”
Almost all stays of proceedings
granted thus far were in Provin-
cial Court, but Superior Court
trials – where murders and other
cases requiring a jury are decided
in Quebec – are also at risk. In
April, eight people facing drug
trafficking and illegal firearms
charges in Trois-Rivi res had
their cases stayed, because they
would have waited more than 43
months until the end of their
trial.
In a ruling granting the stays,
Superior Court Justice Fran ois
Huot wrote that the Crown was
careless and initially disclosed
incomplete evidence. His own
court also bore responsibility, as
the defendants’ files were “lost in
limbo” for nearly five months.
In a talk she gave in September,
Superior Court Chief Justice
Marie-Anne Paquette said the
court meets the Jordan deadlines
“at the cost of sacrifices that
would not be required if we had
sufficient staff,” and warned that
more stays of proceedings are
expected in the coming year.

oftima e founder Daniel an lois and partner FRENCH PROSECUTOR OPENS

presumed dead in urned out car in Dominica
JAMES BRADSHA TORONTO
Quebec artist, entrepreneur and philan-
thropist Daniel Langlois and his partner,
Dominique Marchand, died in Dominica,
the Caribbean island where they owned a
luxury eco-hotel, a representative for the
hotel said on Sunday.
A statement from the hotel and Mr.
Langlois’s personal publicist announced
“the tragic passing” of Mr. Langlois and
Ms. Marchand in “a devastating incident”
that happened on Nov. 30.
Mr. Langlois is best known as the foun-
der of Softimage, the company that pro-
duced 3-D animation software that was
used in major films such as urassic ark,
Titanic, ord of the ings and the arry
otter series. He sold the company to Mi-
crosoft in 1994 for US 130-million, and
started his charitable foundation three
years later to support artistic, scientific
and technological research.
Local media outlet Dominica News
Online reported that an investigation is
under way into the discovery of bodies
found in a burned vehicle, who are pre-
sumed to be Mr. Langlois and Ms. Mar-
chand.
The two Canadians had been reported
missing and the charred vehicle matches
the description of the one they drove, the
Dominica news site reported. It also said
police have taken three people into custo-
dy for questioning.
Calls and messages sent to Dominica’s
police service and the country’s govern-
ment were not answered or returned on
Sunday.
A spokesperson for Global Affairs Can-
ada said the department “is aware of the
presumed death of two Canadian citizens
in Dominica,” in an e-mailed statement,
without naming them. “Our hearts are
with the families and loved ones of the
Canadian citizens involved.”
The spokesperson said the department
is monitoring the situation and engaging
with local authorities but declined to pro-
vide further information because of priva-
cy considerations.
Acclaimed filmmaker Fran ois Girard
was a close friend of Mr. Langlois and vis-
ited him only a few weeks ago, touring
Dominica in the same car that appears
destroyed in a photograph published by
Daniel Langlois COULIBRI RIDGE
local media. He contrasted that tragic im-
age with the “harmonious paradise” he
discovered on his visit.
“It’s impossible to reconcile because
we’re talking about two truly good hu-
man beings – people who were generous
and contributing to this world with amaz-
ing, positive actions,” Mr. Girard said.
“The one thing that I learned and discov-
ered is how close Daniel and Dominique
were with that Dominican community –
how much they were loved, and how
much they loved them.”
Mr. Langlois was born in Quebec in
1957, and after he sold Softimage, he went
on to found the performing arts centre
and cinema Ex-Centris in Montreal, as
well as 357c, an exclusive private club
where a who’s who of business, culture
and technology figures in Quebec used to
rub shoulders.
More recently, Mr. Langlois and Ms.
Marchand opened Coulibri Ridge, an off-
grid luxury eco-hotel set atop a mountain
ridge in southern Dominica that the cou-
ple spent two decades researching,
designing and building.
“Daniel and Dominique were trailblaz-
ers in so many ways, most recently as
founders and operators of Coulibri Ridge
resort,” the hotel’s representatives said in
a statement that promises to release more
information “as it becomes available.”
Mr. Langlois was “a visionary artist”
first and foremost and “an accidental
businessman” who brought the cultural
and business sectors closer together in
Quebec, Mr. Girard said. And his under-
standing of how to use digital tools to
create virtual worlds was ground-break-
ing.
“Before anyone else, he’s the one who
showed the way, paved the way,” he said.
“It really changed the way we make mo-
vies. He was in a stratospheric space
with very few others in this world.”
Mr. Langlois’s former business partner
at Softimage, Pierre Nelis, said he felt
“shock” after hearing the news. He de-
scribed Mr. Langlois as “an artist” who
built a successful software company, with
difficulty, by surrounding himself with ca-
pable people. The result was “a software
created for artists, by an artist,” Mr. Nelis
said. “Basically, he created the creative
software industry in Montreal and Cana-
da.”
People used to ask Mr. Langlois why
Quebec had become a hub for software
development, Mr. Nelis said, and “his an-
swer was: Because it’s so cold here,
there’s nothing to do, we create great soft-
ware.’ ”
In addition to the eco-hotel he opened
in Dominica, Mr. Langlois’s foundation
created the RE DM Project, an environ-
mental-resilience program that sought to
help with the response to damage caused
to the island by Hurricane Maria in 2017.
One of its projects was to help rebuild an
elementary school that was battered by
the storm, allowing students to return in
2019.
And Mr. Girard said the project also
built kitchens to feed the local communi-
ty, bought tools to help rebuild and re-
stored a pier to help fishermen get back to
work.
Simon Walsh, a project manager for
RE DM and friend of Mr. Langlois and Ms.
Marchand, said in a text message that he
saw first-hand “the positive role [Mr. Lan-
glois] had in the terrible times after Hurri-
cane Maria.”
“They were good friends to me and well
loved by the entire community,” Mr.
Walsh said.
INVESTIGATION INTO KILLING
OF TOURIST IN PARIS
ARIS France’s anti-terrorism
prosecutor said Sunday he has
opened an investigation into the
fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old Ger-
man-Filipino tourist near the Eif-
fel Tower in Paris, allegedly by a
man who had been under surveil-
lance for suspected Islamic radi-
calization.
Jean-Francois Ricard said in a
news conference that suspect
Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab
could face a preliminary charge of
murder in connection with a ter-
rorist enterprise. He said Mr.
Rajabpour-Miyandoab is a French
national who is being held in
police custody. Mr. Rajabpour-
Miyandoab recorded a video be-
fore the attack in which he swore
allegiance to the Islamic State
group and expressed support for
Islamic extremists operating in
various areas, including in Africa,
Iraq, Syria, Egypt’s Sinai, Yemen,
Iran and Pakistan, Mr. Ricard said.
The video, in Arabic, was pub-
lished on Mr. Rajabpour-Miyan-
doa’s account on , formerly Twit-
ter, where his recent posts includ-
ed references to the Israel-Hamas
war, the prosecutor said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if
Mr. Rajabpour-Miyandoab had
legal representation. A message
left Sunday with the prosecutor’s
office seeking to locate him for
comment was not immediately
returned.
Mr. Ricard said Mr. Rajabpour-
Miyandoab converted to Islam at
the age of 18 and quickly adhered
to Islamic extremist ideology, he
said. In 2016, he had planned to
join the Islamic State group in
Syria. The same year, he was con-
victed and imprisoned for four
years on a charge of planning vio-
lence. He was under psychiatric
treatment and was on a special list
for feared radicals, the prosecutor
confirmed. Since the end of a pro-
bation period during which he re-
ceived mandatory psychiatric
care, Mr. Rajabpour-Miyandoab
was placed under the surveillance
of intelligence services, Mr. Ricard
said. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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e ntario i eral eader says party
needs to raise million this month
Crombie fresh from her
win on aturday says
fundraising must start
immediately to take on
the Cs and N
JEFF GRAY
UEEN S ARK RE ORTER
TORONTO
Bonnie Crombie, the Mississauga
mayor who won the leadership
of Ontario’s third-place Liberals
over the weekend, says she has
told party brass they need to
raise 1-million before the end of
the year and focus on rural and
northern ridings as they rebuild.
In an interview on Sunday af-
ter a meeting with the party exec-
utive and riding association pres-
idents, Ms. Crombie told The
Globe and Mail that she chal-
lenged all riding associations to
hold holiday fundraisers aimed
at bringing in some of the money
the Liberals will need to rebuild.
She said the fundraising jump-
start is needed to get the party –
which lacks official status in the
legislature with only nine seats –
ready to take on Progressive Con-
servative Premier Doug Ford and
NDP Official Opposition Leader
Marit Stiles in the next election,
currently set for June, 2026. For
her leadership campaign this
year, Ms. Crombie says she raised
1.3-million, far more than any of
her competitors.
The new Liberal leader said
her focus will be to reach out to
rural and northern areas, where
the party needs to recover in or-
der to compete, instead of relying
on urban voters. She also says
she can attract not only disaffect-
ed Conservatives, but those who
have voted NDP – even though
her main opponents in the lead-
ership race tried to paint her as
too right-wing, and too similar to
Mr. Ford, to lead the Liberals.
“I’ve seen polling and I do
quite well with Red Tories and
NDP voters. I’ve seen it. Everyone
comes back, because we’re run-
ning a very big-tent campaign
and we’re a centrist party,” said
Ms. Crombie, who is due to at-
tend her small party’s caucus
meeting for the first time on
Tuesday. “We are going to be
fierce opponents.”
Ms. Crombie won the Liberal
leadership in the third ballot on
Saturday, taking 53.4 per cent of
the points under the party’s new
ranked-ballot system, which
weighted all 124 of Ontario’s rid-
ings equally. Toronto Liberal MP
Nate Erskine-Smith finished sec-
ond with 46.6 per cent support.
anada la s other
AREN HO LETT
In Norway, every resident is auto-
matically assigned a family doc-
tor. Patients in the Netherlands
have access to primary care 24
hours a day through a network of
after-hours care. And in Britain,
newborns must be registered
with a local medical practice
within six weeks of birth.
As the number of Canadians
without a family doctor rises, pol-
icy makers can learn lessons from
these other wealthy developed
countries where more than 95 per
cent of people have regular ac-
cess to a primary-care provider,
according to a new report.
The report, published Monday
in the Canadian Medical Associ-
ation Journal CMAJ , reveals
how the country falls short in sev-
eral key areas in comparison with
nine other Organization for Co-
operation and Development
OECD countries. Canada has
fewer physicians overall per cap-
ita, spends less of its total health
budget on primary care, and has
PALESTINIAN A ERICAN STU ENT SHOT IN VER ONT IS PARAL
One of the three college stu-
dents of Palestinian descent
who were shot in Vermont last
month is paralyzed from the
chest down after a bullet lodged
in his spine, the student’s fam-
ily said.
Hisham Awartani, a 20-year-
old student at Brown University
who grew up in the Israeli-
occupied West Bank, was walk-
ing with two friends near the
University of Vermont campus
in Burlington on Nov. 25 when
New Ontario Liberal
Party Leader Bonnie
Crombie speaks after
winning the leadership
race, in Toronto on
Saturday.
CHRIS YOUNG/
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ms. Crombie said
she has to et her
Mississau a bud et,
and the Peel Re ion
bud et, passed
before lea in her
post as mayor, but
expects to do so in
anuary.
D countries in ey areas of health care: report
relatively high maternal- and in-
fant-mortality rates.
Statistics Canada’s most recent
data from 2021 suggest that 14.4
per cent of Canadians don’t have
a health care provider they can
see regularly for care. The num-
ber of orphaned patients is ex-
pected to increase as older doc-
tors retire and younger ones turn
away from traditional family
practice.
“We have to have a goal of
guaranteed access to primary
care and funded appropriately,”
Tara Kiran, an author of the re-
port and a family doctor at St. Mi-
chael’s Hospital and primary-care
researcher at the University of To-
ronto, said in an interview. “Until
we do that, unfortunately, we
have a situation where we have
haves and have-nots.”
Family doctors are the corner-
stone of a high-functioning
health care system. They help pa-
tients navigate the system, refer-
ring them to specialists for early
screening and treatment of med-
ical conditions. They also get to
know the people they serve over
police say 48-year-old Jason
Eaton shot them with a hand-
gun in a suspected hate crime.
Mr. Eaton has pleaded not
guilty.
Tahseen Aliahmad, who
attends Haverford College in
Pennsylvania, and Kinnan Ab-
dalhamid, who attends Trinity
College in Connecticut, were
expected to make a full recov-
ery. But Mr. Awartani – whose
grandmother the three 20-year-
olds had been visiting over
Ottawa Liberal MP and former
Ontario cabinet minster Yasir
Naqvi, and Kingston and the Is-
lands Liberal MPP Ted Hsu, were
eliminated on the first and sec-
ond ballots.
The party, which has struggled
since losing power to Mr. Ford’s
PCs in 2018, has been buoyed by
two recent by-election wins and
the flood of volunteers, fundrais-
ing and attention that came with
the leadership race. But many say
the party is still grievously
wounded by its drubbings in the
last two provincial elections – de-
feats that left it in the political
wilderness after 15 years in gov-
ernment.
Ms. Crombie, three times elect-
ed mayor of Mississauga, told the
leadership convention on Satur-
day that her early upbringing
taught her “resilience.” Her
mother was born in Poland, and
her mother’s family came to On-
tario after the Second World War.
Her biological father struggled
with addiction and mental ill-
ness, and left when she was
three. Before her mother remar-
ried when she was nine, Ms.
Crombie lived in a rooming
house in Toronto’s High Park ar-
ea with her mother and grand-
parents.
Drawn to Liberal politics by
Pierre Trudeau’s Just Society and
the Charter of Rights and Free-
doms, she has an MBA, worked in
time, allowing them to deliver
higher-quality care than a walk-
in clinic or emergency depart-
ment.
The CMAJ report examines
four countries – Norway, the
Netherlands, Britain and Finland
– where family doctors, known
there as general practitioners,
play a strong gate-keeping role.
Most of the doctors work in
primary care – an office-based
clinical setting that allows them
to provide continuity of care for
patients from infancy to old age.
Registration with a doctor is ei-
ther automatic, mandatory or
strongly supported in all four
countries, the report says. Doc-
tors also provide after-hours care
to their patients.
Walk-in medical clinics – a sta-
ple of Canada’s health system –
are almost non-existent.
“These countries have really
figured out how to hold their clin-
icians accountable for timely ac-
cess to care,” Dr. Kiran said in the
interview.
In Canada, by contrast, family
doctors have more freedom over
E FRO CHEST O N
Thanksgiving break from school
– received a much graver prog-
nosis, according to a statement
his family wrote for a fundraiser
to offset his medical expenses.
“He has demonstrated re-
markable courage, resilience
and fortitude – even a sense of
humour – even as the reality of
his paralysis sets in,” Mr. Awar-
tani’s family wrote on their
GoFundMe page, which had
raised over 200,000 as of
Sunday morning.
O T H E G LO E A N D
business, served a term as Liberal
MP for Mississauga-Streetsville
and first won her job as mayor in
2014, thanks to an endorsement
from her long-time predecessor,
Hazel McCallion. The late mayor
was also a booster of Mr. Ford.
Ms. Crombie does not yet have
seat in the Ontario legislature.
While she said Saturday she
would consider running in the
seat vacated by former PC cabi-
net minister Monte McNaughton
in Lambton-Kent-Middlesex, she
told The Globe on Sunday this
was off the table, as the Liberals
had already identified a local
candidate. She said if a seat came
up in Mississauga, she could run
there.
Ms. Crombie said she has to
get her Mississauga budget, and
the Peel Region budget, passed
before leaving her post as mayor,
but expects to do so in January.
She said the party’s new fun-
draising push will be needed
partly to come up with money for
her salary, since she will not be
on the legislature’s payroll.
In an interview, former Onta-
rio Liberal finance minister Greg
Sorbara, who supported Mr. Hsu
in the leadership fight, predicted
that the Liberals under Ms. Crom-
bie would reunite and win in
2026.
Mr. Sorbara batted away con-
cerns over comments Ms. Crom-
bie made early in the race, but
where they practise, how many
hours they work and the patients
they accept, the report says. A
Globe and Mail story last year on
Canada’s crisis in primary care
found that many doctors divide
their time between office-based
care and practising in hospitals,
nursing homes, walk-in clinics or
sports-medicine clinics.
Working in primary care is be-
coming less attractive for many
family doctors, causing them to
reduce their hours or close their
practices altogether. At the same
time, many doctors are nearing
retirement age – 14.6 per cent in
Canada were 65 and older in 2022,
figures from the Canadian Insti-
tute for Health Information show.
Overall, Canada has 24.4 physi-
cians for every 10,000 residents,
leaving it lagging well behind the
other nine OECD countries, the
report says. Norway has the most,
with 50.5 physicians for every
10,000 residents.
With fewer physicians in Cana-
da, family doctors must step in to
support other parts of the health
system, including working in hos-
Mr. Awartani, who is Pal-
estinian-Irish-American, accord-
ing to the fundraiser, hopes to
start his next semester of col-
lege on time despite his paraly-
sis, the family’s note said.
The shooting came amid a
surge in anti-Islamic, anti-Arab
and antisemitic incidents and
threats reported around the
United States since a conflict
between Israel and the Pal-
estinian militant group Hamas
erupted on Oct. 7.
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had to retract or clarify, such as
saying she was open to land
swaps in the protected Greenbelt
with proper consultation and
that she thought the party need-
ed to appeal to the “centre-right”
and had veered too far to the left.
“I have a good feeling. We are
coming out of a very dark period
for the party with a leader who is
really, really competent,” Mr. Sor-
bara said. “I mean, I supported
Ted. But Bonnie Crombie out-
campaigned all of them by a
country mile. And she has the en-
ergy to continue the battle.”
Kim Wright, a lobbyist and
NDP strategist, said the notion
that the Liberals now have mo-
mentum is overblown, noting
that only 23 per cent of the par-
ty’s more than 100,000 members
actually showed up to vote. Now,
she says, the Liberals will have to
try to appeal to the NDP’s pro-
gressive voters with a candidate
whose record turned off some
left-leaning members of their
own party.
“Being a known quantity is al-
ways a good thing. When you
have a record, and Bonnie Crom-
bie has a record, of saying things
like, the Liberal government
spent too much on health care
and social services, that should
be concerning to progressives
out there,” Ms. Wright said.
With a report from Laura Stone
pitals, which leaves less of the
work force providing primary
care.
Canada also earmarks 5.3 per
cent of its total health budget for
primary care, well below an aver-
age of 8.1 per cent among other
OECD countries, the report says.
In addition, the report notes
that Canada’s infant-mortality
rate was 4.5 deaths for every 1,000
live births in 2020, the highest
among the ten countries.
International variations in
how the data are collected can af-
fect the rankings. Canada, for ex-
ample, registers a higher propor-
tion of babies weighing less than
500 grams, with low odds of sur-
vival, resulting in higher reported
infant mortality, says a separate
OECD report. In 2022, Canada
ranked 31st out of 38 OECD coun-
tries, that report says.
More research needs to be
done on this issue, Dr. Kiran said.
“I think we actually just don’t
know what all the determinants
are for why or infant-mortality
rate is so much higher than in
other OECD countries.”
Mr. Eaton has been charged
with attempted murder and is
being held without bond while
authorities investigate whether
the Vermont shooting was a
hate crime. The students were
wearing black-and-white Pal-
estinian keffiyeh scarves and
conversing in a mix of English
and Arabic when the gunman
confronted them, according to
charging documents filed in
court.
REUTERS
M O N DAY , D ECE M B E R ,
Me ico City, Me ico
Guatemala
El Sal ador
Finland
Estonia
Riga, Latvia
Lithuania
arsaw, Poland
Croatia Belgrade, Serbia
Bosnia and
Macedonia Turkey
Her e o ina
Montene ro
Albania
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FROM A1
The Department of Global Affairs
says GSRP officers are not spies
but merely diplomats who have
been relieved of other foreign
posting duties to focus on col-
lecting security information for
Canada.
Global Affairs says these offi-
cers do not operate covertly and
do not pay sources for informa-
tion.
But the department acknowl-
edges that their reports can be
shared with CSIS and Five Eyes
intelligence partners that include
the United States, Britain, Aus-
tralia and New ealand.
Mr. Fadden said he thinks the
GSRP program requires more
scrutiny.
The program does not have
legislative controls such as CSIS
and the Communications Securi-
ty Establishment, the ultra-secret
agency that handles signals intel-
ligence and advanced cyberse-
curity.
“I think what this leads me to
conclude, though, is that the ac-
countability and the review
mechanisms applied to the GSRP
and to what Foreign Affairs does
generally in intelligence is not
adequate,” he said. “And they
need to be subject to the same
degree of transparency as our
other national-security activ-
ities.”
The Globe and Mail has also
reported that Canadians Kevin
and Julia Garratt were detained
by Chinese authorities in 2014 af-
ter Mr. Garratt met GSRP officer
Martin Laflamme.
China accused the couple of
participation in espionage – an
incident, like that of the two Mi-
chaels, that is widely seen as hos-
tage diplomacy carried out by
Beijing.
Mr. Garratt told The Globe that
he would not have spoken to Mr.
Laflamme had he known the dis-
cussions would be passed on to
CSIS and Five Eyes spy services.
Global Affairs spokesman
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Global Security Reporting Program coverage
AMERICAS
Cuba
Port au Prince, Haiti
Beli e
Dominican Republic
Honduras
Nicara ua
Panama Vene uela
Costa Rica
Bogota, Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Boli ia
Para uay
Chile Buenos Aires,
Argentina
EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Russia
Belarus
yiv, Ukraine
Ankara, Geor ia
Yerevan, Armenia
A erbai an
Cyprus Syria
Baghdad, Ira
Tel Aviv,
Israel ordan Kuwait
Bahrain
Ramallah, Ryadh,
est Bank Saudi
Arabia
Yemen
Pierre Cuguen said the depart-
ment is “not currently aware” of
other instances when contacts
were arrested by police in a for-
eign country after talking to
GSRP diplomats.
GSRP officers receive special-
ized “persuasion” training from
Frank Byrnes, a former RCMP
and CSIS officer who is now pres-
ident of Human Potential Con-
sultants Inc.
Mr. Byrnes said he does not of-
fer countersurveillance training,
which is provided in-house by
Global Affairs. He trains GSRP
recruits on getting their contacts
to talk and build a network of
sources.
“It’s people skills. It’s how to
develop good relationships with
people. It’s the nuts and bolts of
establishing rapport, bridging
perspectives, persuasion,” he
said in an interview. “It’s the kind
of skills you need to approach
people to interview them, how to
ask open questions and follow
with authentic curiosity.”
The Globe obtained a list of
the 30 countries where GSRP offi-
cers are based that include Chi-
na, Pakistan, India, Egypt, Ethio-
pia, Turkey, South Africa, Uk-
raine, Iraq, Sudan and Israel, in
addition to Ramallah in the West
Bank.
The budget is 20-million an-
nually.
The Global Affairs document –
including a map of the locations
– also said there were six
planned expansions, beginning
last summer, that include Po-
land, Serbia, Vietnam, Qatar, Bra-
zil and Armenia.
Asked to confirm the six new
locations, Mr. Cuguen of Global
Affairs said: “Due to security and
operational considerations, no
further information will be pro-
vided regarding specific loca-
tions.”
The Globe also obtained the
organizational chart for the
GSRP program that shows it falls
under Global Affairs’s Intelli-
gence Bureau. GSRP officers re-
Primary coverage, country of posting
Secondary co era e
Reported on from periphery AFRICA
Not reported on
Planned positions summer, 2023
Tunis, Tunisia
Morocco
Al eria
Mauritania
Mali Ni er
Dakar,
Senegal Burkina Faso
I ory Coast
Ghana
Abuja, Nigeria
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Sao Paulo,
Brazil
ASIA
Astana, Russia
azakhstan
U bekistan
Kyr y stan
Turkmenistan
Ta ikistan
China
Islamabad,
Pakistan
Nepal
Bhutan
Af hanistan
New Delhi, India Ban ladesh
Iran
Myanmar
Laos
Doha, atar Bangkok,
Abu Dhabi, UAE Sri Lanka Thailand
Oman Malaysia
Jakarta, Indonesia
port directly to Margaret Watts-
Poole, the acting director of In-
Canada wants telligence Assessments and Re-
porting, who answers to Philippe
forei n information. Lafortune, director-general of In-
But it doesn t want telligence and Chief Intelligence
to set up a forei n Officer.
human intelli ence Mr. Cuguen said in an e-mail
that Global Affairs’s Intelligence
a ency, mostly for Bureau is responsible for nation-
bud etary reasons. al-security policy advice, “all-
source written intelligence as-
STEPHANIE CARVIN sessments,” threat assessments
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
AT THE NORMAN PATERSON at embassies and serves as the
SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL “lead interlocutor with security
AFFAIRS AT CARLETON and intelligence review bodies.
UNIVERSITY However, he maintained that
the GSRP unit is only one part of
the Intelligence Bureau and that
its responsibilities “constitute
diplomatic reporting that con-
tains information. They are not
intelligence assessments.”
Asked why GSRP reports are
initially classified as Secret-Cana-
dian Eyes Only, Mr. Cuguen said
“this approach ensures that dip-
lomatic reporting is transmitted
in a manner that protects Cana-
da’s foreign-policy interests.”
Peter Jones, a former senior
policy analyst in the security and
intelligence secretariat of the
Privy Council Office, said GSRP is
not a clandestine intelligence
program.
He said GSRP reports are “very
informative” reporting, noting
that the specialized officers “are
trained to go out and speak more
broadly in society.”
But he acknowledged that the
concerns raised by Mr. Spavor
and Mr. Garratt should require
Ottawa to examine whether
there needs to be better over-
sight and rules on how GSRP dip-
lomats engage with contacts and
sources.
“The fact that GSRP officers re-
port directly to the intelligence
branch is maybe something they
should tell people,” said Mr.
Jones, now a professor at the
University of Ottawa.
“If you ask me on a personal
level, I would feel a bit more
comfortable if I was talking to
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Cairo, Egypt
Libya
hartoum,
Chad Sudan
Eritrea
D ibouti
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
S. Sudan
Somalia
U anda
Rwanda Nairobi, enya
Burundi
Tan ania
imbabwe Mo ambique
Pretoria, South Africa
Beijing,
China North Korea
Taipei, Taiwan
Hanoi, Vietnam
Manila, Philippines
Cambodia
Papua New Guinea
Singapore
Timor Leste
and CS S officer
one of these guys if they told me
a little bit more,” he said, “but I
would go into the conversation
assuming that the information I
am sharing in this discussion is
going to the Canadian govern-
ment broadly.”
Mr. Jones also said there is no
reason why a 2020 report on
GSRP by the National Security
and Intelligence Review Agency
is still being kept under wraps.
NSIRA delayed the release of
its December, 2020, review of Ot-
tawa’s foreign-intelligence-col-
lection unit, saying at the time
that there were “high sensitivi-
ties” about a public examination
of the GSRP program, while the
two Michaels were still in Chi-
nese prisons.
The two men were released in
September, 2021, and NSIRA said
it is still going through the redac-
tion process that began in early
2022.
“I could understand why they
might not want to release it
when the two Michaels were in
prison,” Mr. Jones said. “There re-
ally is no reason why it shouldn’t
be released given the public
awareness of this.”
Mr. Jones said the government
should consider establishing a
foreign human-intelligence-col-
lecting agency like the Central
Intelligence Agency in the United
States or MI6 in Britain. Both
GSRP and the Department of Na-
tional Defence’s intelligence unit
have arisen to fill a need for in-
formation abroad, national-secu-
rity experts say.
“Canada wants foreign infor-
mation. But it doesn’t want to set
up a foreign human-intelligence
agency, mostly for budgetary rea-
sons,” according to Stephanie
Carvin, a former national-securi-
ty analyst and assistant professor
at the Norman Paterson School
of International Affairs at Carle-
ton University.
“And at some point, we need
to make a decision as to what we
want the GSRP to become. It
should be subject to a debate.”
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Hong ong activist says she ill remain in Canada

gnes Chow who was
arrested and imprisoned
in is now
studying in oronto
ANDREA OO
A prominent Hong Kong activist
who was jailed for her role in pro-
democracy protests that swept
the territory has revealed that
she is now living in Canada and
will not be returning home to
meet her bail conditions.
Agnes Chow told The Globe
and Mail in a Canadian exclusive
on Sunday that she has been pur-
suing a master’s degree in Toron-
to and will not go back to Hong
Kong, citing its political situation,
safety concerns, and her physical
and mental health.
Ms. Chow said she had pur-
chased a return ticket but
changed her mind last month af-
ter careful consideration.
“For many people who live in
democratic countries, freedom is
something they have had since
they were born, something they
may take for granted. But the ex-
perience of these few years has
made me feel how important it
is,” she said in an interview on
Sunday, which marked her 27th
birthday.
Ms. Chow and several other ac-
tivists became the faces of a
youth-led movement for democ-
racy in Hong Kong that at its peak
saw millions of people take to the
streets in protest. Along with
Joshua Wong and Nathan Law,
she co-founded the pro-democ-
racy group Demosisto in 2016. It
sought self-determination and a
referendum on Hong Kong’s fu-
ture after 2047, the year the “one
country, two systems” policy is
set to expire.
Demosisto disbanded in June,
2020, hours after the passing of
Beijing’s sweeping national-secu-
rity law, which criminalized sub-
version, secession and collusion
with foreign powers. That No-
vember, Beijing-installed chief
executive Carrie Lam booted four
pro-democracy members from
the Legislative Council, prompt-
ing the remaining opposition
members to resign en masse in
solidarity.
More than 260 people have
been arrested under the security
law, including many of Hong
Kong’s most vocal pro-democra-
cy activists.
Ms. Chow was imprisoned
from November, 2020, to June,
2021, on charges related to unlaw-
ful assembly for her role in a pro-
test near Hong Kong’s police
headquarters. Shortly before her
imprisonment, she was arrested
for a separate incident alongside
pro-democracy media tycoon
Jimmy Lai, accused of “colluding
with foreign forces.”
On the latter, Ms. Chow was re-
leased on bail on the condition
she surrender her passport and
report to police every three
months. When she applied to
study in Canada, authorities said
she could get her passport back
on the condition that she agreed
to go on a trip to Shenzhen to
learn about China’s accomplish-
ments.
Ms. Chow said she hesitantly
agreed and was accompanied by
five members of Hong Kong’s na-
tional-security personnel, visit-
ing one exhibit on the achieve-
ments of China and the Commu-
nist Party’s leaders throughout
history, and another on techno-
logical advancements in the
country.
“For me, if China is such a
strong country, but they are try-
ing to deprive the rights and free-
doms of its citizens, they confis-
cate our passports, they take
away our freedom of movement,
they use our passports as a condi-
tion of exchange, to send people
to mainland China – I don’t think
that’s the behaviour that a strong
country should do.”
Ms. Chow said she felt she was
under constant surveillance in
Shenzhen and worried that she
wouldn’t receive her passport de-
spite complying.
Back in Hong Kong, Ms. Chow
said she was required to write
several letters expressing her
gratitude for the arrangement
and repenting for having gotten
involved in the pro-democracy
movement. She says she felt in-
timidation throughout, with se-
curity police regularly asking
about her life, her friends and her
family, and hitting roadblocks
when she tried to apply for hous-
ing and employment.
She was returned her passport
and arrived in Toronto in mid-
September, where she says she
scrambled to secure an apart-
ment and catch up on the first se-
mester of her studies.
The Hong Kong Police Force
did not return a request for com-
ment.
Ms. Chow said she has felt a
sense of freedom since arriving in
Canada but still grapples with the
anxiety, depression, post-trau-
matic stress disorder and panic
attacks that she was diagnosed
with by a psychiatrist in Hong
Kong. It was these factors that led
to her decision last month to stay,
she said.
She said she has no regrets
about her political actions.
Although “many people, in-
cluding me, are not even going
back to our hometown because
of the political suppression in
Hong Kong, I’ll say I still believe
that what I have been doing is
right.”

K IV OFFICIALS INVESTIGATE
ALLEGATIONS THAT RUSSIAN
FORCES SHOT SURREN ERING
UKRAINIAN SOL IERS
KYIV Ukrainian officials on
Sunday launched an investiga-
tion into allegations that Rus-
sian forces killed surrendering
Ukrainian soldiers – a war crime
if confirmed – after grainy
footage on social media ap-
peared to show two uniformed
men being shot at close range
after emerging from a dugout.
The video shows the ser-
vicemen, one of them with his
hands up, walking out at gun-
point and lying down on the
ground before a group of Rus-
sian troops appears to open fire.
It was not immediately possible
to verify the video’s authenticity
or the circumstances in which it
was filmed, and it was unclear
when the incident took place.
The Ukrainian General Prose-
cutor’s office on Sunday
launched a criminal investiga-
tion, hours after the Ukrainian
military’s press office said in an
online statement that the foot-
age is genuine.
“The video shows a group in
Russian uniforms shooting, at
point-blank range, two un-
armed servicemen in the uni-
form of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine who were surrender-
ing,” the prosecutor’s office said
in a Telegram update on Sun-
day.
The Russian Defence Ministry
did not immediately respond to
an e-mailed request for com-
ment. As of Sunday evening,
there were no public statements
from the Russian government
or military on the video.
Kyiv, its Western allies and
international human-rights
organizations have repeatedly
accused Moscow of breaching
international humanitarian law
since it launched its full-scale
invasion of Ukraine in February,
2022. The Kremlin denies these
allegations.
The video first appeared
Saturday on DeepState, a pop-
ular Ukrainian Telegram chan-
nel covering the war. The post
claimed the footage came from
the front lines near Avdiivka, a
Ukrainian holdout in the coun-
try’s part-occupied east where
there has been fierce fighting in
recent weeks.
The General Prosecutor’s
Office on Sunday said the al-
leged killing took place in the
Pokrovsk district, which in-
cludes Avdiivka and surround-
ing areas.
“It’s clear from the video that
the Ukrainian servicemen are
taking the necessary steps that
show they are surrendering,”
Ukraine’s human-rights chief,
Dmytro Lubinets, said hours
after the footage emerged on
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ournalist: Colleagues speculate ouglas was struck by bullet
FROM A1 homeland, in solidarity with those whose
lives were a daily negotiation with scarcity.
But the police officer’s account has been His wardrobe was a collection of African
met with skepticism among Sierra Leone’s wax cloth shirts. Jollof rice was his favou-
journalists, many of whom had been men- rite dish. He gave away much of his income
tored by Mr. Douglas as students. The con- to local families to pay for school fees,
flicting narratives surrounding his final transport costs and other expenses.
moments – including reports of a gunfight He remained unabashedly Canadian, a
at the spot where authorities say he died – vibrant splash of red and white in a land-
mirrored the political and social complex- scape of green and blue. He manoeuvred a
ities he had dedicated his life to decipher- large red motorcycle through the country,
ing. marked unmistakably by the maple-leaf
Two days after his death, at a crowded flag he had added to his helmet. In a city
news conference, Sierra Leone’s Informa- where Canada has no formal embassy, Mr.
tion Minister, Chernor Bah, gave a eulogy Douglas became an unofficial ambassador,
for Mr. Douglas, portraying his death as the extending generous friendship and sup-
result of a heart attack on a tumultuous port to his fellow Canadians.
day. But as the session progressed, the As news of his death broke, Canadians
questions from local journalists brought to across Africa lauded him, as did Sierra Le-
light the rumours that had been swirling Stephen Douglas, seen in , captured the one’s journalists.
through the city: that he had been hit by a decline of South African apartheid and the “He would stay long hours into the
bullet. depths of the Rwandan genocide in his early night at our office editing stories,” recalled
In a revelation that chipped a crack in days as a photographer. COOPER INVEEN Kelvin Lewis, former president of SLAJ and
the dam of the official statements, Mr. Bah owner of Awoko Newspaper, where Mr.
and a senior police commander acknowl- himself in health reporting, taking up ed- Douglas volunteered for many years.
edged that the cause of the Canadian jour- iting jobs at a variety of medical publica- “Stephen always wanted to help people,
nalist’s death was still unknown. His body tions, before shifting into educational always trying to work with journalists to
has been held at the military hospital, roles. Teaching stints at Sheridan College make them better. He was such a genuine-
awaiting an autopsy that has no scheduled and St. Lawrence College saw him guide ly kind man, so caring, and would go out of
date yet. prospective journalists through photo- his way to help at any chance.”
Questions have persisted. The Sierra Le- journalism and creative writing, foreshad- In his final years, Mr. Douglas immersed
one Association of Journalists SLAJ has owing a role that would come to define the himself in trying to unravel the 2018 mur-
lodged an official request for information, rest of his life. der of an American citizen who had been
seeking answers from the government Mr. Douglas returned to Africa in 2009, visiting her father, a well-known politician
about his death. this time to Sierra Leone, where his dual in Freetown.
Mr. Douglas, born in the Toronto area on expertise in media and education would Planning to write a book on the case, he
May 29, 1963, and educated at Ryerson converge. He became a mentor and trainer made regular visits to the country’s largest
Polytechnic Institute, began his career as a to young local journalists, always seeing prison to bring food and books to the man
photographer in some of history’s har- their potential. He dedicated himself to who was charged with the murder. He was
shest moments. His photos showed the strengthening the country’s media, volun- convinced there was more to the case than
waning days of South African apartheid in teering at scores of local newsrooms and the authorities had said.
the early 1990s and the harrowing depths coaching an incalculable number of re- It was a search for a truth that seemed to
of the Rwandan genocide in 1994. porters and students. slip further away with each day – just as his
But the fervour of capturing the mo- Mr. Douglas spent most of his waking own death, with its cloud of unanswered
ment, he felt, often eclipsed empathy and hours guiding Sierra Leone’s journalists questions, has become an enigma of the
understanding. This reshaped his life, with a patience and perseverance that kind that he pursued throughout his Sierra
steering him toward a path where his role seemed inexhaustible. Many viewed his Leone life.
was not to tell the story, but to empower work with skepticism, but he never lost his
others to narrate their own. resolve. With a report from Geoffrey York
After returning to Canada, he immersed He lived a modest life in his adopted in ohannesbur
Insects: Bugs on the menu a common practice in some countries
FROM A1
“All the dishes today, none of them had
this ick insect factor either in presentation
or flavour,” said UBC executive chef and
culinary director David Speight, one of the
judges.
Mr. Speight acknowledged the nutri-
tional and environmental benefits but
conceded that insects as ingredients
haven’t quite swept the culinary world.
“For insects, I think they have an even
tougher struggle,” Mr. Speight said.
“It’s more in the research and in the
classroom than it is in the professional
kitchens.”
Dr. Akhtar explained that bugs as part of
a menu is a practice already common in
countries such as Mexico and Colombia
and parts of Southeast Asia and Africa.
“In Western countries, they are a little
bit hesitant, but their perception is chang-
ing,” Dr. Akhtar said.
According to a 2022 report from Natural Above From left, judges Yasmin Akhtar, Lui ia Lee and David Speight taste ginger cookies
Products Canada, there are more than a with mealworms, created by students Mariam Alkandari and Evelyn Springer, during the
dozen active insect farms in this country. Great UBC Bug Bake Off at the University of British Columbia on Nov. 8. Below Other
These businesses not only make the sus- foods made with insects are displayed. PHOTOS BY TI ANA MARTIN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
tainable source of protein more accessible
to Canadian consumers, but they also cre-
ate jobs for prospective agriculture work-
ers like Rachel Yeung, another of Dr. Ak-
htar’s students.
“It’s not just something that’s far away.
It’s possible here too,” said Ms. Yeung, who
is graduating next semester and interested
in a job in insect agriculture.
Ms. Springer’s ginger mealworm coo-
kies didn’t ultimately secure her the bake-
off prize. Instead, it went to a pair of stu-
dents who prepared cricket cookies and a
pound cake.
But Ms. Springer said she will continue
experimenting with bugs in the kitchen –
and she encourages others to do the same.
“I think everyone should try them at
least once.”
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cGill to implement immediate hirin freeze

niversity official says
its financial situation
is deeply worrisome’
after large tuition
hikes proposed for
out-of-province students
FR D RI AVIER DUHAMEL
McGill University is freezing the
hiring of academic and adminis-
trative staff to cope with anticipat-
ed financial challenges related to
Quebec’s plan to nearly double
tuition fees for Canadian students
from outside the province.
In a note to university staff late
Friday afternoon, McGill provost
and vice-principal academic
Christopher Manfredi said the
goal is to reduce the number of
employees through attrition rath-
er than job cuts, as salaries repre-
sent the largest part of the univer-
sity’s operating budget. McGill
will also suspend all recruitment
processes already under way.
However, teaching assistants,
course lecturers, post-docs and
research assistants and associates
are not affected by the freeze,
which is effective immediately,
Dr. Manfredi said.
“The financial conditions that
we will face over the current and
upcoming fiscal years are deeply
worrisome,” his note says.
McGill’s hiring freeze is the lat-
est response to the provincial gov-
ernment’s new policy, announced
in October, that will see tuition for
non-Quebec Canadian students
jump to about 17,000 from just
below 9,000 annually. These un-
dergraduates will now face some
Montreal’s McGill University is suspending staff recruitment in response to the uebec government’s plan
to hike tuition for out of province students starting in September. RYAN REMIOR /THE CANADIAN PRESS
of the highest out-of-province
fees in the country.
The measure is expected to
have a dramatic impact on enrol-
ment at the province’s three
English-speaking universities –
McGill, Concordia University and
Bishop’s University – which
attract thousands of students
from elsewhere in Canada.
Quebec Premier Fran ois
Legault’s government has also
said it would claw back and redis-
tribute some of the revenue from
international student fees, which
will have a significant impact on
the anglophone schools as they
attract larger numbers of such
students.
Higher Education Minister Pas-
cale Déry has said the province
spends more than 100-million
annually subsidizing the cost of
postsecondary education for
students from outside the prov-
ince, and that some of this money
will now be redistributed to
French institutions.
Minister of the French Lan-
guage Jean-Fran ois Roberge has
said the government was acting to
counter Concordia and McGill
students’ contribution to what he
called the decline of French in
Montreal.
Ms. Déry’s office did not imme-
diately respond to The Globe and
Mail’s request for comment Satur-
day.
In his note, Dr. Manfredi
warned that “should the Govern-
ment proceed with any version
thus far proposed of its plan, addi-
tional extraordinary measures
will be necessary” at McGill over
the next financial year, without
specifying what those measures
might be. He said “activities that
are not mission-critical” would be
assessed and potentially put on
hold over the coming weeks.
The new tuition policy has
been met with criticism from
both anglophone and franco-
phone university leaders, as well
as from parts of the business com-
munity.
In a note dated Nov. 23, credit
rating agency Moody’s said the
government’s plan is likely to neg-
atively impact the credit of McGill
and Concordia, the two English-
language universities they rate in
Quebec, as it will put downward
pressure on demand from out-of-
province students.
La Presse reported Wednesday
that Quebec was considering
reducing the tuition hike for out-
of-province Canadian students to
about 12,000, which is still signif-
icantly more than elsewhere in
Canada.
At the University of British
Columbia, for example, domestic
undergraduates pay between
5,800 and 9,400 a year, approxi-
mately, depending on the pro-
gram. At the University of Toron-
to, Canadian out-of-province
undergraduates pay just below
6,600 annually for all programs
except management and com-
puter science.
McGill University Non-Aca-
demic Staff Association president
Judy Dear said in an interview that
the hiring freeze is “very, very dis-
tressing to our membership.”
Many members “have reached
out to us with concerns about
their employment security and so
forth,” she said.
McGill Association of Universi-
ty Teachers president Peter Grut-
ter said he needed to consult with
his colleagues before comment-
ing on the university’s announce-
ment.
McGill University principal
Deep Saini said last month that
the proposed policy would have
devastating consequences for
enrolment that could lead to tens
of millions in lost tuition revenue,
hundreds of job losses, the reth-
inking of infrastructure projects
and the suspension of some
sports teams.
Concordia has said that its rev-
enues for out-of-province Cana-
dian students and international
students could drop by more than
30-million each after four years.
Bishop’s very existence is
threatened by the new policy, the
institution has said, but the gov-
ernment has said it’s working to
address its impact on the univer-
sity located in the Eastern Town-
ships.

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Israeli military vehicles drive near the border with the Gaza Strip on Sunday, amid Palestinians help a boy injured in an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on
continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Sunday. SAID KHATIB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Palestinians carry their belongings following Israeli strikes on residential buildings in han Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday. AHMED AKOT/REUTERS

Gaza: srael recalls negotiators orders

more e acuations around han ounis
FROM A1
But Israel has called its negotia-
tors home, and Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu says the
war will continue until “all its
goals” are achieved. One is to re-
move Hamas from power in Ga-
za.
Senior Hamas official Osama
Hamdan said resuming talks
with Israel on further exchanges
must be tied to a permanent
ceasefire.
White House National Securi-
ty Council spokesman John Kir-
by told NBC’s Meet the ress the
U.S. was working “really hard”
for a resumption of negotiations.
Israel’s military widened evac-
uation orders in and around
Khan Younis in the south, telling
residents of at least five more ar-
eas to leave.
Residents said the military
dropped leaflets calling Khan
Younis “a dangerous combat
zone” and ordering them to
move to the border city of Rafah
or a coastal area in the south-
west.
But Halima Abdel-Rahman, a
widow and mother of four, said
she won’t heed such orders any
more. She fled her home in Octo-
ber to an area outside Khan You-
nis, where she stays with rela-
tives.
“The occupation tells you to
go to this area, then they bomb
it,” she said by phone. “The real-
ity is that no place is safe in Gaza.
They kill people in the north.
They kill people in the south.”
The United States, Israel’s clos-
est ally, has urged Israel to avoid
significant new mass displace-
ment and to do more to protect
civilians. U.S. Vice-President Ka-
mala Harris told Egypt’s presi-
dent that “under no circum-
stances” would the U.S. permit
the forced relocation of Palesti-
nians from Gaza or the West
Bank, an ongoing siege of Gaza
or the redrawing of its borders.
On the ground in Gaza, there
was fear and mourning. Outside
a Gaza City hospital, a dust-cov-
ered boy named Saaed Khalid
Shehta dropped to his knees be-
side the bloodied body of his lit-
The occupation tells
you to o to this
area, then they
bomb it. The reality
is that no place is
safe in Ga a. They
kill people in the
north. They kill
people in the south.
HALIMA ABDEL RAHMAN
GA A RESIDENT
tle brother Mohammad, one of
several bodies laid out after peo-
ple said their street was hit by air
strikes. He kissed him.
“You bury me with him ” the
boy cried. A health worker at Al-
Ahli Baptist Hospital said more
than 15 children were killed.
Israel’s military said its fighter
jets and helicopters struck tar-
gets in Gaza including “tunnel
shafts, command centres and
weapons storage facilities.”
It acknowledged “extensive
aerial attacks in the Khan Younis
area.”
The bodies of 31 people killed
in the bombardment of central
Gaza were taken to the Al-Aqsa
hospital in Deir al-Balah, said
Omar al-Darawi, a hospital ad-
ministrative employee. One
woman wept, cradling a child’s
body. Another carried the body
of a baby. Later, hospital workers
reported 11 more dead after an-
other air strike. Bloodied survi-
vors included a child carried in
on a mattress.
Outside a hospital morgue in
Khan Younis, resident Samy al-
Najeila carried the body of a
child. He said his sons had been
preparing to evacuate their
home, “but the occupation
didn’t give us any time. The
three-floor building was de-
stroyed completely, the whole
block was destroyed.” He said six
of the bodies were his relatives.
“Five people are still under the
rubble,” he said. “God help us.”
In a video from the same
crowded al-Nasser hospital, UNI-
CEF spokesperson James Elder
said: “I feel like I’m almost failing
in my ability to convey the end-
less killing of children here.”
Israel says it does not target
civilians and has taken measures
to protect them, including its
evacuation orders. In addition to
leaflets, the military has used
phone calls and radio and TV
broadcasts to urge people to
move from specific areas.
Israel says it targets Hamas
operatives and blames civilian
casualties on the militants, ac-
cusing them of operating in resi-
dential neighbourhoods. It
claims to have killed thousands
M O N DAY , D ECE M B E R , 3 | T H E G LO E A N D AIL O NEWS | A

ore than people

ith ties to anada
evacuated from Gaza
MAR RENDELL TORONTO department has helped a further 71 people de-
part from the West Bank.
Huriya Kraira, one of the people who
More Canadians and those with ties to the passed through the Rafah crossing on Sunday,
country left Gaza through the Rafah border said her travels across the border took 12
crossing with Egypt over the weekend, as hours. It “was easy and smooth to cross to
fighting in the southern part of the Palestinian Egypt with the help of Global Affairs Canada,”
territory intensified after the end of a tempo- she said in a brief message to The Globe and
rary truce between Israel and Hamas. Mail on social media.
Global Affairs Canada said approximately Ola Alanqar, who lives in Toronto, has been
130 Canadians, permanent residents and their begging the federal government to help her
family members crossed the border into Egypt elderly parents get out of Gaza. Fouad, 70, and
on Saturday and Sunday. A total of 165 people Hanaa, 69, went to visit Gaza from their home
Displaced Palestinians fleeing central and southern Gaza arrive at new with ties to Canada were approved to cross by in the United Arab Emirates shortly before the
Tall el Sultan camp west of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday. Gaza’s General Authority for Crossings and conflict broke out. They’ve been stuck there
MOHAMMED ABED/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Borders, according to a list published Satur- since, moving from apartment to apartment
day. Roughly half the people on the list were to avoid the fighting, Ms. Alanqar said in an
children younger than 18. interview. They are currently re-
“As the situation is quite fluid siding near the Rafah border
and unpredictable, Canadians, crossing.
permanent residents and their Neither Fouad nor Hanaa are
eligible family members should Since the attacks Canadian citizens or permanent
be prepared for significant de- residents they are Palestinian
lays and unexpected closures at resumed, there s no refugees. However, their four chil-
the Rafah border crossing,” sleep. And e en dren and eight grandchildren are
Global Affairs spokesperson Ma- durin that so called Canadians who live in Toronto.
rilyne Gu vremont said in a humanitarian truce, “We’ve been in touch with
statement. Global Affairs since the begin-
The situation for civilians in there hasn t been ning, since October 7th hap-
Gaza deteriorated over the any impro ement or pened. At first, we were told our
weekend. After the end to the any chan e. There is parents do not qualify,” Ms. Alan-
truce on Friday, the Israeli mil- no water, no qar said.
itary pounded targets through- “Then we got them to tell us,
out southern Gaza, while its electricity, the food We put their name on the list it
ground forces advanced toward is really scarce, and has been flagged in the system.’
the city of Khan Younis, some 15 medical aid is not But the priority is now given to
kilometres from the Rafah cross- a ailable. citizens and people who have
ing. Canadian [permanent resi-
Palestinian residents have OLA ALAN AR dence].”
been told by the Israeli military TORONTO RESIDENT Ms. Gu vremont said that
to evacuate certain neighbour- WHOSE PARENTS ARE STUCK Global Affairs is “facilitating im-
IN GA A
hoods that have been designat- mediate reunification of eligible
ed for attack. Many people fled family members who are not ac-
to the southern part of the territory earlier in companied by a Canadian or a permanent res-
the conflict, after being ordered to evacuate ident in Gaza,” and that “Officers have the
northern Gaza ahead of the Israeli ground in- tools and authorities necessary to deal with
vasion. individual vulnerable cases as the need
Since the start of the conflict on Oct. 7, the arises.”
Canadian government has been working to Ms. Alanqar said she and her siblings re-
get Canadian nationals and permanent resi- main in touch with their parents and that the
dents out of the conflict zone. However, this situation on the ground is worsening day by
has been a slow process, hampered by closings day.
of the Rafah crossing – the sole exit point “Since the attacks resumed, there’s no
from Gaza into Egypt – as well as difficulties sleep. And even during that so-called human-
getting to the crossing. Ottawa also does not itarian truce, there hasn’t been any improve-
determine who is permitted to enter the bor- ment or any change. There is no water, no
der crossing. electricity, the food is really scarce, and med-
“Communications remain difficult with reg- ical aid is not available.”
ular blackouts to Gaza’s main telecom servic- “The more scary part is that when you talk
es,” Ms. Gu vremont said. to them, it could be the last time. Everybody
More than 600 people with ties to Canada there is just awaiting death.”
have crossed from Gaza into Egypt since the
conflict began, according to Global Affairs. The With reports from Da id Milstead

ommercial vessels attac ed in the

of militants, without providing
evidence. Israel says at least 78 of
its soldiers have been killed,
The widening offensive likely
will further complicate human-
itarian aid to Gaza. Wael Abu
Omar, a spokesman for the Pal-
estinian Crossings Authority,
said 100 aid trucks entered Sun-
day, but UN agencies have said
500 trucks per day on average
entered before the war.
The renewed hostilities also
heightened concerns for the 137
hostages the Israeli military be-
lieves are still being held by Ha-
mas. During the recent truce, 105
hostages were freed, and Israel
released 240 Palestinian prison-
ers. Most of those released by
both sides were women and chil-
dren.
Elsewhere in the region, Leba-
non’s militant Hezbollah group
said it struck Israeli positions
near the tense Lebanon-Israel
border. Eight soldiers and three
civilians were wounded by Hez-
bollah fire in the area of Beit Hill-
el, army radio reported. The mil-
itary said its artillery struck
sources of fire from Lebanon and
its fighter jets struck other Hez-
bollah targets.
Iraqi militants with the Iran-
backed umbrella group the Is-
lamic Resistance in Iraq said they
struck the Kharab al-Jir U.S. mil-
itary base in Syria with rockets. A
U.S. military official, speaking on
condition of anonymity in line
with regulations, said rockets hit
Rumalyn Landing one in Syria
but there were no reports of ca-
sualties or damage.
Later Sunday, officials with
Iranian-backed militias in Iraq
said five militia members were
killed in an air strike blamed on
the U.S. near Kirkuk. The officials
spoke on condition of anonym-
ity because they were not autho-
rized to comment publicly.
A U.S. official who spoke on
condition of anonymity to dis-
cuss a military operation not yet
made public said the U.S. had
carried out a “self-defence strike”
near Kirkuk targeting a drone
staging site.
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ed ea arship do ns drones
JOHN GAMBRELL DU AI
Three commercial ships in the Red Sea were
struck by ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-
controlled Yemen on Sunday and a U.S. war-
ship shot down three drones in self-defense
during the hours-long assault, the U.S. military
said.
Responsibility for the attack was claimed by
the Houthi rebels, who are backed by Iran.
The attacks marked an escalation in a series
of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to
the Israel-Hamas war, as multiple vessels
found themselves in the crosshairs of a single
Houthi assault for the first time in the conflict.
In a statement, U.S. Central Command said
the attacks “represent a direct threat to inter-
national commerce and maritime security.
They have jeopardized the lives of internation-
al crews representing multiple countries
around the world.” It said the three commer-
cial ships and their crews are connected to 14
countries.
According to Central Command, the USS
Carney, a Navy destroyer, detected a ballistic
missile fired from Houthi-controlled areas of
Yemen at the Bahamas-flagged bulk carrier
Unity Explorer.
The missile hit near the ship. Shortly after-
ward, the Carney shot down a drone headed its
way, although it’s not clear if the destroyer was
the target. The drone was also launched from
Yemen.
About 30 minutes later, the Unity Explorer
was hit by a missile, and while responding to
the distress call the Carney shot down another
incoming drone. Central Command said the
Unity Explorer reported minor damage from
the missile.
Two other commercial ships, the Panama-
flagged bulk carriers Number 9 and Sophie II,
were both struck by missiles. The Number 9
reported some damage but no casualties, and
the Sophie II reported no significant damage.
While sailing to assist the Sophie II, the Car-
ney shot down another drone heading in its
direction. The drones did no damage.
“We also have every reason to believe that
these attacks, while launched by the Houthis in
Yemen, are fully enabled by Iran,” Central
Command said, adding that the U.S. will con-
sider “all appropriate responses.”
The Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-
missile destroyer, has already shot down mul-
tiple rockets the Houthis have fired toward Is-
rael so far in the war.
It hasn’t been damaged in any of the inci-
dents and no injuries have been reported on
board.
Houthi military spokesman Brigadier-Gen-
eral Yahya Saree claimed Sunday’s attacks, say-
ing the first vessel was hit by a missile and the
second by a drone while in the Bab el-Mandeb
Strait, which links the Red Sea to the Gulf of
Aden. Brig.-Gen. Saree did not mention any
U.S. warship being involved in the attack.
“The Yemeni armed forces continue to pre-
vent Israeli ships from navigating the Red Sea
and Gulf of Aden until the Israeli aggression
against our steadfast brothers in the Gaza Strip
stops,” Brig.-Gen. Saree said.
“The Yemeni armed forces renew their
warning to all Israeli ships or those associated
with Israelis that they will become a legitimate
target if they violate what is stated in this state-
ment.”
Brig.-Gen. Saree also identified the first ves-
sel as the Unity Explorer, which is owned by a
British firm that includes Dan David Ungar,
who lives in Israel, as one of its officers. The
Number 9 is linked to Bernhard Schulte Ship-
management. Managers for the two vessels
could not be immediately reached for com-
ment.
Israeli media identified Mr. Ungar as being
the son of Israeli shipping billionaire Abraham
“Rami” Ungar.
The Houthis have launched a series of at-
tacks on vessels in the Red Sea, as well as
launching drones and missiles targeting Israel.
The U.S. has stopped short of saying its Navy
ships were targeted, but has said Houthi
drones have headed toward the ships and have
been shot down in self defense.
Global shipping had increasingly been tar-
geted as the Israel-Hamas war threatens to be-
come a wider regional conflict even as a
truce briefly halted fighting and Hamas ex-
changed hostages for Palestinian prisoners
held by Israel.
However, the collapse of the truce and the
resumption of punishing Israeli airstrikes on
Gaza and a ground offensive there had raised
the risk of the seaborne attacks resuming.
In November, the Houthis seized a vehicle
transport ship also linked to Israel in the Red
Sea off Yemen.
The rebels still hold the vessel near the port
city of Hodeida. Missiles also landed near an-
other U.S. warship last week after it assisted a
vessel linked to Israel that had briefly been
seized by gunmen.
However, the Houthis had not directly tar-
geted the Americans for some time, further
raising the stakes in the growing maritime con-
flict.
In 2016, the U.S. launched Tomahawk cruise
missiles that destroyed three coastal radar sites
in Houthi-controlled territory to retaliate for
missiles being fired at U.S. Navy ships at the
time.
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The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures - Junius

Canadians are
still owed the
truth on ndia
A
ny Canadian who reads the U.S. indictment, made
public last week, related to the failed Indian govern-
ment plot to assassinate an American Sikh activist in
New York is bound to feel outraged.
The facts laid out in the indictment, which have not been
tested in court, forge a link between an Indian government
official and the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian
Sikh gunned down in his car in Surrey, B.C., on June 18.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shocked Canadians and an-
gered the government of his Indian counterpart, Narendra
Modi, in September when he announced in the House of
Commons that “Canadian security agencies have been ac-
tively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link be-
tween agents of the government of India and the killing of a
Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar.”
The allegation, made in an information vacuum because
of Ottawa’s reflexive instinct to keep Canadians in the dark,
resulted in a major diplomatic row with India.
The usual diplomats were rounded up and expelled on
both sides. But officials in Mr. Modi’s government exploited
the lack of public evidence to pounce on Canada. They flatly
denied the accusation, absurdly accused Canada of harbour- LE E S EE
ing Sikh terrorists and stopped issuing visas to Canadian citi-
zens. India resumed visas for Canadians on Nov. 22. ONE LEGACY HELPING HAND fore someone dies. It can begin in
The public had no idea whether Mr. Trudeau had blun- anticipation of a loved one’s
Re “Henry Kissinger was Ameri- Re “Nearly 20 of inmates home- death.
dered by making a grave allegation he couldn’t support, or
ca’s secretary of state of paradox” less upon release from Ontario So bring on counselling for
was speaking from a position of strength. Dec. 1 : Henry Kissinger played a jails, data show” Nov. 27 : Thank people who are grieving, but
central role in the 1973 military you for highlighting the plight of make it available to all who need
The U.S. government indictment is compelling evidence
coup in Chile, which overthrew a recently released inmates. Like it.
for the latter scenario. It is a huge embarrassment for Mr. Mo- democratically elected socialist those who work tirelessly with in- Jan Vanderwal Toronto
di, whose pugnacious response to Canada in September now government and left thousands mates, striving for positive
dead and countless more impris- change and a reduction in recidi-
comes across as manufactured outrage designed to cover up RIGHT AY
oned and tortured. vism, a group of us were so struck
an ugly truth: That a government official in the Indian capital His support of the dictatorship by the immense hurdles ex-pris-
of general Augusto Pinochet con- oners encounter upon release Re “Banning right turns on red
tried to organize the assassinations of multiple Sikh targets tinued afterward, and this should that we felt compelled to take ac- would be a step forward for pe-
in the U.S. and Canada. be his real legacy: informing on- tion. destrian safety” Nov. 28 : I rarely
going U.S. foreign policy of inter- In 2018, we formed a charity: turn right on red.
It’s all there in the indictment in black-and-white. In May, a fering with progressive forces in Restorative Justice Housing Onta- Wide open road, nobody
known government official in New Delhi approached the Latin America and elsewhere. rio. Our mission is to provide af- around – maybe. Otherwise, pe-
Greg McMaster Edmonton fordable, stable and supportive destrians, cyclists and cross-traf-
sole suspect charged in the indictment, Nikhil Gupta. The of- housing to individuals in transi- fic can have the intersection.
ficial promised Mr. Gupta, who was also in New Delhi, that he tion after their recent release Of course, this provokes much
MA ING PLANS horn-blowing and gesturing. But
from prison.
would secure the dismissal of criminal charges against him if We launched our first house waiting for green is perfectly le-
he arranged the assassination of an advocate of Sikh inde- Re “There’s a foundation to ease for men in February, 2020, and as gal. And sort of fun.
the housing crisis – but Ottawa of November, RJHO operates four Ross Peacock Vau han, Ont.
pendence living in New York. Those charges were promptly
needs to do more” Editorial, Nov. houses in the Greater Toronto Ar-
dropped “nobody will ever bother you again,” the govern- 28 : The premise of almost every ea, one of which is a women’s I cannot disagree, but would add
commentary I read on the hous- house. that an even more effective ban
ment official told Mr. Gupta.
ing crisis is that supply is the We now search for a landlord would be on phone use while
The rest is history. Mr. Gupta contacted an acquaintance in problem. Finally, deep in this edi- for our fifth. walking across a road.
torial is mention that demand We operate without govern- If pedestrians exercised more
New York for help hiring a hit man. The acquaintance turned
may also be a problem arising ment funding, supported by caution and common sense
out to be a U.S. government informer, who promptly put Mr. from a surge in foreign students amazing donors and tremendous when stepping off the sidewalk,
Gupta in touch with an undercover police officer who acted and temporary foreign workers. volunteers. While challenging, we then they would do a lot to im-
The supply side of the equa- remain focused on breaking the prove their chances of safely get-
as the desired killer for hire. All their electronic exchanges tion will take years, if not dec- cycle of homelessness and incar- ting to the other side.
were intercepted, including a photo of the handover of a ades, to fix. It is a given that im- ceration, one person at a time. John right Oak ille, Ont.
migration is necessary and posi- Jim Harbell
US 15,000 advance payment. tive but it is clear to me that, in Re erend chair, Restorati e ustice Many motorists don’t even pre-
Mr. Gupta was arrested in the Czech Republic on June 30 at the near term, its surge is not only Housin Ontario Toronto tend to stop at red lights before
adding to the housing crisis, but turning right any more, and po-
the request of the U.S. government, and the New York hit was also all the other crises we are fac- lice don’t seem to take notice.
TEST, TEST Changing the law won’t help
never carried out. ing.
Why are we so afraid of sug- unless there’s a change in how
But before the plot fell apart, the government official all gesting a temporary return to Re “Ontario appeal court upholds well it’s enforced.
but confessed to arranging the killing of Mr. Nijjar. The very lower immigration levels until mandatory math test for future Michael Locke Toronto
Canada can offer newcomers teachers” Nov. 29 : Here’s a
day of that murder, the official sent Mr. Gupta a video of Mr. and residents alike a place to short anecdote about the issue of Yes, by all means let’s ban right
Nijjar’s slumped and bloody corpse. In a subsequent phone live and a decent quality of life teacher testing from my experi- turns on red.
Marc L tourneau Toronto ence in California. We all could use another traffic
call, he told Mr. Gupta: “We didn’t give to [the undercover
Before accepting a job there, law for drivers to ignore with im-
officer posing as a hit man] this job, so some other guy did While I think most Canadians and despite having several uni- punity.
agree with the the Prime Minis- versity degrees and years of expe- Alan Shanoff Toronto
this job in Canada.”
ter’s plan to rapidly grow the pop- rience, it was necessary to pass
Mr. Modi has been understandably subdued in his res- ulation through qualified immi- the three-part California Basic
LIGHT A FIRE
ponse to the U.S. indictment. Faced with evidence that’s been gration, we are equally concerned Education Skills Test: a demon-
that little or no planning has strated competence in reading,
made public, the postured outrage has vanished instead, his been done to increase infrastruc- writing and math. At the time, I Re “Mitch Marner’s position in
government has vowed to have a “high-level” committee in- ture in ways that such a popula- thought it odd that such a re- the Maple Leafs’ fab four is begin-
tion increase demands. quirement was necessary. ning to look shaky” Sports, Nov.
vestigate the allegations. I’m not just talking about af- On reflection, I remembered 30 : Given columnist Cathal Kel-
That’s satisfying, in its way. But Canadians are still in the fordable housing, a crisis in itself, some fellow teachers, a very ly’s ability to admonish a Toronto
but also water supply, sewage, small minority to be sure, were Maple Leaf for subpar perform-
dark. The Foreign Minister, Mélanie Joly, won’t comment on roads, police, courts, hospitals, poor spellers, struggled with ances, then have the player re-
the U.S. case. She won’t say why Canada failed to stop a plot doctors, nursing and health staff, arithmetic or really didn’t know spond by scoring three goals and
schools, teachers and others. much about grammar. In the end, a shootout winner that night,
that the Americans were able to prevent. We don’t know what Where are the plans that show we I realized that having a bachelor might I suggest he now fix his
the state of the RCMP’s investigation into Mr. Nijjar’s killing can safely absorb this population of education is no definite signal sights on Justin Trudeau, Doug
growth And while most, if not of literacy or numeracy to stand Ford, Elon Musk and the CEO of
is, or if India is now co-operating with Canada on the case, or all, of these are provincial res- in front of students as a role mod- whichever bank just missed its
whether the “guy” who killed Mr. Nijjar is still at large in Can- ponsibilities, where is the federal el. numbers.
leadership and funding A layer of assurance is worth- The guy gets results.
ada or has left the country. We don’t know anything at all. Peter Shier Toronto
One plan that might help alle- while before being hired.
All Canadians ever get from Ottawa is condescending ad- viate this situation is to request Duncan Mac enzie Guelph, Ont.
that all cities, towns and villages
monitions to trust the government and stay out of the way.
across Canada submit to a na- Letters to the Editor should be
But this entire episode is proof that, if you’re going to make a TA E CARE exclusive to The Globe and Mail.
tional office of immigration set-
tlement an inventory of available Include name, address and daytime
serious allegation public, then the evidence can also be made
housing and the skilled workers Re “New health care program phone number. Keep letters under
public without jeopardizing the related investigation. needed. A small start, but per- aims to tackle a commonly ig- 150 words. Letters may be edited for
The public deserved the truth in September. It deserves it haps an important first step. nored side effect of disease: grief” length and clarity. E-mail:
Collin Craig Toronto Nov. 29 : Grief can start well be-
even more now.

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A police-produced podcast is a cop-out

ictoria’s police union
decided to ignore
reporters’ uestions
about a major shootout
and tell its version of
the story instead
JIMMY THOMSON
OPINION
Freelance in esti ati e ournalist and
ournalism teacher based in Victoria.
He is the author of the newsletter
One Day, I m Goin to Write for The
New Yorker
n the early summer of 2022,
two brothers were killed by po-
lice in a shootout outside a
bank in Saanich, B.C., which ad-
joins the provincial capital of Vic-
toria. The brothers shot five offi-
cers – a sixth was hit by a ricochet-
ed police bullet – and several of
them had extended hospital stays
while they recovered from serious
injuries.
It was one of the biggest news
events in the country at the time,
with reporters rushing in from
elsewhere to cover it.
It turns out they might have
been better off waiting for the
podcast to come out.
Yes, the Victoria police union
released a show last month about
the incident – not with answers to
the many outstanding questions
left by the high-profile case, but
with a moment-by-moment ac-
count of the incident, told by po-
lice, to police, with no involve-
ment from anyone resembling a
neutral party. It has kept the story
of the most shocking violent
crime in Saanich’s history far re-
moved from any external chal-
lenge, with full control and auton-
omy over the narrative resting in
the hands of those involved. It’s
like if the Trudeau government
released a Netflix documentary
about a diplomatic trip overseas,
instead of providing media ac-
cess.
In one sense, this isn’t surpris-
ing. In contrast to U.S. police de-
partments, Canadian cops are al-
most invariably tight-lipped to
the point of absurdity. Even when
Justin Trudeau publicly blamed
the Indian government for the
murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in
September, all police would offer
on the months-old investigation
was that “investigators continue
to gather information and evi-
dence.” And given that the Saan-
ich shooting was a particularly
sensitive, developing and contin-
uing case, with several of their
own having suffered major inju-
ries, journalists covering the inci-
dent – myself included – knew not
to expect much from police at the
time, especially at first.
But in the days, and then weeks
that followed, the police would
only provide terse updates before
eventually refusing outright to
answer questions, even simply
walking away from the lectern
when their statements had been
read. In that context, a podcast
seems like a direct insult – a brash
reflection of the disregard the po-
lice have for the media’s role in
oversight of powerful institu-
tions.
Yes, police have the right to
participate in public conversa-
tions. In fact, they’ve been doing it
more and more, including in the
promotion of the polarizing film
ancouver is ying released on
YouTube during last year’s munic-
ipal election, which was won by
Ken Sim, who had promised to
hire 100 more cops. But major
questions are still unanswered,
more than a year later: how had
the Saanich operation gone so
badly as to result in the deaths of
both suspects and the injury of six
of Vancouver Island’s most highly
trained police officers How is it
possible that there was a police
tactical squad just blocks away
when the robbery began How
had police reached the conclu-
sion, as they eventually did, that
the deceased brothers had only
set out to kill police, and that the
bank robbery was only bait for
their ambush
This is the best the police have
offered, all these months later: “It
was determined the suspects’ pri-
mary objective was to shoot and
kill police officers in what they
saw as a stand against govern-
ment regulations, especially
against firearms ownership,” ac-
cording to an RCMP spokesper-
son. They never provided specific
evidence for that claim, which ap-
pears to clear the police of any
possible blame if violence was in-
evitable, the logic goes, police
were right to charge in as the
heavily armed brothers were leav-
ing the bank. Now, the police have
chosen to release interviews and
recordings in a highly produced
format.
What’s more, the Victoria
media’s response to the podcast
has largely been to gobble it up
and launder it for public con-
sumption, rather than treat it
with scrutiny the podcast, un-
challenged, has now entered the
public record as fact rather than
as a particular point of view from
people with a lot on the line. By
failing to do so, the media also
failed to fulfill its mandate of
questioning the powerful, instead
amplifying their account of their
own work.
Reporters have a troubling
habit of blithely repeating police
information, something that has
been shown to create false narra-
tives and an overblown sense of
public fear, particularly in disad-
vantaged neighbourhoods. If re-
porters play along, that repre-
sents an abdication of responsib-
ility if they stand up to it, it’s a
public service. CTV demonstrated
the role of responsible crime re-
porting in November when it
showed that, despite the Van-
couver Police Department’s elec-
tion-season promotion of an in-
crease in random attacks, such in-
cidents had been steadily declin-
ing for years.
But when the police are out-
right taking over the media’s job,
telling the story their own way
without an opportunity for ques-
tioning, we have reached a new
and dangerous point.

hat America must do to defeat rump

DARON ACEMOGLU
OPINION
Institute Professor of Economics
at MIT and co author of Power and
Progress: Our Thousand-Year
Struggle Over Technology
and Prosperity
hese are unique and trou-
bling times for the United
States. A twice-impeached
former president who now faces
four separate indictments for se-
rious crimes is the de facto leader
of one of the two main political
parties. Having remade the Re-
publican Party in his image, Do-
nald Trump will almost certainly
be its nominee in the 2024 presi-
dential election, despite mount-
ing evidence of his financial mis-
deeds and role in an attempted
coup. While Democrats fared well
in various recent elections, polls
show Mr. Trump leading U.S.
President Joe Biden in key battle-
ground states. Clearly, something
is rotten in the American Repub-
lic.
A second Trump presidency
would be a much greater threat
to democracy than the first. Mr.
Trump’s own outlook and rheto-
ric suggest that he has been rad-
icalized further, and his support-
ers have now learned from their
failed attempt to overturn the
2020 election. Friendly think
tanks are drawing up plans to dis-
mantle the U.S. government’s
checks and balances, allowing
Mr. Trump to usher in a police
state targeting his political oppo-
nents. The Heritage Foundation’s
Project 2025 aims to “create a
playbook of actions to be taken
in the first 180 days of the new
administration to bring quick re-
Supporters of Donald Trump rally at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,
President Joe Biden in key battleground states in the
lief to Americans suffering from
the left’s devastating policies.”
Central to that effort will be to
staff key positions with Trum-
pian cadres.
While Trump and his enablers
in the political establishment ob-
viously bear the blame for this
dire state of affairs, so do the
American left and the fact-based
media, which have failed to de-
velop a well-calibrated response.
Reactions vary from implicit nor-
malization who can deny a ma-
jor party’s choice of nominee to
showing zero tolerance toward
Trump’s supporters. But a practi-
cal blueprint for addressing the
situation is missing, even though
the future of American democra-
cy is at stake.
The most promising response
1. Polls show Mr. Trump leading U.S.
presidential election. OSE LUIS MAGANA/AP
would feature two seemingly resenting most people who will
contradictory stands. be voting for Republicans in the
First, the centre and the left next election.
must unite in declaring Mr. A significant share of the U.S.
Trump and his inner circle a mor- population has suffered econom-
tal threat to the American Repub- ically over the past four decades.
lic. His top lieutenants should be Real inflation-adjusted earn-
treated as such, rather than as ings among men with only a
ratings-boosting talking heads. high-school degree or less have
Mr. Trump’s clearly stated plans declined since 1980, and median
for destroying American democ- wages had all but stagnated until
racy must be highlighted con- the late 2010s. Meanwhile, in-
stantly. comes for Americans with col-
But the centre and the left also lege degrees and specialized
must recognize that most Trump skills such as programming
supporters have legitimate griev- have risen rapidly.
ances. This is the part of a suc- There are many reasons for
cessful response that has been this labour-market transforma-
lacking. While there are undoubt- tion, and several of them are
edly strong white-nationalist and rooted in economic trends that
racist elements in the MAGA establishment politicians and the
movement, they are far from rep- media long sold as benefits to
workers. The wave of globaliza-
tion that was supposed to lift all
boats has stranded many.
Many workers also sense that
they have lost ground socially.
Legal, political and cultural
changes that have helped previ-
ously disadvantaged groups mi-
norities, women, the LGBTQ
community have flustered oth-
ers. In the process, many Amer-
icans have grown resentful as
they feel their viewpoints and
grievances are being ignored by
the mainstream media and the
educated, technocratic elite.
Reversing this trend requires
changes not just to the specific
policies that centre-left parties
endorse, but also to the language
they use. It also may require pro-
active efforts to promote workers
to leadership positions within
parties, rather than letting highly
educated elites capture most top
positions.
In the U.S., bringing workers
back to the Democrats is not just
an imperative for defeating Mr.
Trump and the acolytes who will
do his dirty work. It is also essen-
tial for America’s economy. Regu-
lating the tech industry and sup-
porting workers will be key issues
in the coming decade and be-
yond. A centre left that is devoid
of workers’ voices cannot hope to
rise to the occasion.
Americans who still support
democracy must expose Mr.
Trump for what he is and work
hard to prevent him from return-
ing to power. But to do that, they
also must be more accommodat-
ing and responsive to workers –
including those who have not
benefited as much from globali-
zation and technological changes
and may not share all their posi-
tions on social and cultural is-
sues.

ublic lands hold the key to Canada s housing crisis f only we knew where they were
ALE ANDRA FLYNN
OPINION
Associate professor at the
Uni ersity of British Columbia s
Allard School of Law
here is little doubt that
Canada has a dire housing
crisis. A recent report pub-
lished by the Federal Housing
Advocate estimated that we will
need almost 10 million new
homes in the next decade. To ad-
dress this need, governments
must step up with every tool
they have available, including by
offering up underused public-
owned lands no longer needed
to deliver programs and services.
The federal government’s an-
nouncement on Nov. 7 – that it
would unlock six parcels of fed-
eral land for the development of
much-needed housing in Cal-
gary, Edmonton, Ottawa and St.
John’s – was a step in the right
direction. By 2029, according to
the plan, the use of public land
for housing is expected to trans-
late into almost 30,000 new
homes for those who need them.
This bold action is made pos-
sible in part because we know
where federal lands are located –
that is, Ottawa makes this data
available to the public. Unfortu-
nately, that’s not the case for ev-
ery government in Canada. The
result: the public doesn’t know
where all public lands are.
The Housing Assessment Re-
source Tools project, to which I
contribute, provides data on
housing need across Canada.
Now, each municipality can
identify how much housing they
need, at which income levels,
and for particular priority pop-
ulations. Our project has also
created detailed maps of thou-
sands of potential land parcels
that could be used for affordable
housing in 12 jurisdictions in
Canada. These maps show prox-
imity to child care, public transit
and other amenities. They in-
clude not only vacant land, but
also underutilized parcels like
post offices in a single-storey
building that are zoned for addi-
tional floors on top. These maps
of federal, provincial and munic-
ipal land parcels give govern-
ments yet another option to con-
sider in their housing solution
tool kits.
We would love to roll out this
information for every communi-
ty across Canada, but we can’t:
the data are either not available,
or cost too much. In B.C., land
assessment data are easily avail-
able to the public at no cost, and
the same is true of federal lands.
This best practice is followed in
the United States, where public
property assessment and land
data are routinely released.
But in many Canadian prov-
inces, it is almost impossible to
access the necessary data. For ex-
ample, in Ontario and Alberta,
the public land registry is run by
private companies and available
at a high cost. To access Ontario
data, we paid 40,000 for a sin-
gle year of restricted informa-
tion, plus extra costs to make the
data suitable for use.
Without knowing the data, re-
searchers like us can’t help gov-
ernments with identifying which
parcels of public lands are most
useful for housing. These data
are profoundly important in
overseeing what public author-
ities are doing with respect to
our shared resources. And this
oversight makes a difference: for
example, after obtaining registry
data in Ontario, reporters were
able to show that some land as-
sessments were unfairly skewed.
According to the Canadian
Housing and Renewal Associ-
ation, land acquisition is one of
the biggest costs associated with
the development of new hous-
ing. Given those exploding costs,
acquiring land that is close to
amenities and other markers of
accessibility is very difficult for
those who provide affordable
housing. Accessing free or low-
cost land is vital to achieving the
progressive realization of hous-
ing that is enshrined in the Na-
tional Housing Strategy Act.
Despite the dire need for all
data possible to solve Canada’s
housing crisis, provinces are able
to make this information virtual-
ly inaccessible to both the public
and researchers who are at-
tempting to provide practical so-
lutions. Given the urgency
around housing and homeless-
ness, we are in an all-hands-on-
deck situation with govern-
ments: we need all the data pos-
sible to know what homes to
build and where.
This is also a question of fair-
ness. Public lands are held by
governments on behalf of the
public – so why shouldn’t the
public know where they are
Once publicly owned land
that is appropriate for housing
has been identified on a national
scale, the process of creating
even more units of affordable
housing can truly begin.
The federal government’s an-
nouncement earlier this month
of just six parcels means more
than 2,800 new homes. Imagine
if we knew the locations and
suitability of all other public
lands
Identifying public lands
would be a major step toward
the ultimate goal of adequate
and equitable housing for all.
Now, all levels of government
just need to tell us where these
lands are.
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L E
ayne Akyol goes to the front lines
for her startling new film E
he Montreal-based
director sits down with
jailed members
and shows scenes of
the postwar landscape
in yrian urdistan
BARRY
HERTZ
SCREEN TIME
he world is on fire. Or at
least that is the sense you
get while watching E ,
ayne Akyol’s new documentary
in which the Montreal-based di-
rector sits down with jailed ISIS
members. Oscillating between
direct conversations with the ac-
cused terrorists and scenes of the
postwar landscape in Syrian Kur-
distan – including one sequence
in which farmers battle a crop
blaze – Akyol’s film is a deeply
unsettling exploration of moral-
ity and terror that was recently
named Canada’s official submis-
sion for the 2023 Academy
Award for Best International Fea-
ture Film the category formerly
known as the best foreign-lan-
guage film .
Ahead of E ’s Whistler
Film Festival premiere this week
– the film will also be available
across the country via WFF’s on-
line screening portal, from Dec.
4-17 – The Globe and Mail spoke
with Akyol, who moved to Cana-
da from Turkey as a child, about
putting herself on the front lines
of the war on terror.
How did you secure such pro
longed one on one time with the
ISIS members
It’s been a long journey, but it
started when I made my first film
[2016’s Gul stan, and of oses]
about Kurdish fighters, so I had a
connection there. I was going
back and forth between Mon-
treal to Iraqi Kurdistan, and
there were people in charge who
i e myths about lifting weights that are stopping you from starting
ALYSSA AGES
OPINION
umping into any new workout
regimen can feel daunting. But
with strength training, the
intimidation of the weight
room, coupled with an overabun-
dance of misinformation, can be
enough to stop you from even be-
ginning. You may be aware of the
many benefits of strength train-
ing, but now let’s delve into the
myths that might still be holding
you back.
LIFTING EIGHTS IS BAD FOR
YOUR JOINTS
Many be-
lieve that repeated pressure on
your joints in the form of heavy
deadlifts, squats and presses can
cause stress and degeneration in
the form of osteoarthritis. Older
populations, and people with ar-
thritis in particular, have been
told that lifting weights could
cause further joint damage and
bring on severe flare-ups.
If your joints
hurt while lifting or after, you
may be adding weight too quick-
ly or lifting with incorrect form.
According to a study published in
the Journal of Rheumatology,
strength training can help ease
arthritis pain and stiffness, not
lead to a worsening condition,
because building muscles helps
support and protect joints,
whereas weak muscles put more
stress on joints. In a study focus-
ing specifically on individuals
with knee osteoarthritis, re-
searchers found that resistance
training improved pain and
physical function. In another that
looked at older adults with osteo-
arthritis, researchers learned that
benefits were particularly im-
pactful with programs that fo-
cused on progressive overload
gradually increasing the intensi-
ty or difficulty of workouts over
A S
Montreal based director Zayne Akyol’s ROJE was recently named Canada’s official submission for the
Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. UAN NAHARRO GIMENE /GETTY IMAGES
knew me. Access is still complex,
especially after the war, so every
time I needed permission to film
something, I had to talk with
hundreds of people – it’s not
even a joke. We also stayed more
than six months in the region –
normally filmmakers or journal-
ists don’t stay more than one
month because it’s too danger-
ous. So, they saw our intention
was deeper.
It must have helped that you also
speak the language.
Yes, speaking Kurdish and Turk-
ish. And I was very persistent, be-
cause once I had one permission,
I was just pushing to have anoth-
er and so on. Sometimes they’d
throw us out, but I’d keep com-
ing back and explaining my vi-
sion so I could get access to one
jail, then another. We had three
jails in the end.
ere you ever concerned for your
safety
time .
YOU HAVE TO LIFT TO FAILURE
The basic
idea behind lifting to failure is
that instead of doing a specific
number of repetitions of a lift
and stopping when finished, you
keep going until you are physical-
ly unable to perform another
one. Then you rest before doing it
again. Advocates of this type of
training suggest that it’s the opti-
mal way to encourage muscle
growth.
While training to
failure can promote gains in
muscle strength and size, it’s not
clear that it does so in a better or
more efficient way than regular
strength training in which you
perform a prescribed number of
reps and sets.
More importantly, it’s not nec-
essarily a safe method. “Training
to failure consistently can lead to
fatigue, increased injury risk and
slow recovery,” says Sean Blinch,
CrossFit coach and co-founder of
Toronto’s RedLeaf Fitness. Pro-
gressive overload can lead to
strength gains without the risk of
overtraining.
YOU HAVE TO TRAIN JUST ONE
MUSCLE GROUP AT A TIME
You’ve
heard it in movies and in gym
locker rooms: “It’s leg day” or
“It’s chest day.” Bodybuilders, in
particular, subscribe to this type
of training because it can help
maximize muscular gains and
minimize the number of rest
days they need to take if your
back is sore, train legs tomor-
row .
If bodybuilding
is your goal, this may well be the
right approach for you. For the
rest of us, “this approach isn’t
necessary,” says Blinch. Full-body
workouts allow us to avoid
In the jails, no. There were
guards everywhere, and I had my
own security with me. Outside
the jail, it could be scary. We
were in Raqqa a few months af-
ter it was liberated from ISIS, so
it was dangerous. One time, we
were in a spot that was beautiful,
where people were trying to re-
construct their street, kids were
running around playing. A great
scene that showed life is taking
over after the war. After five min-
utes of filming, our security
came over to say he didn’t feel
like it was safe. He didn’t have a
reason, but people in war zones,
they have strong intuition. I was
mad and insisted we had 15 min-
utes to shoot, it didn’t make
sense. But we wrapped every-
thing, went to the car, and five
minutes later in the exact spot, a
bomb explodes.
Certainly documentarians, more so
than feature narrative filmmakers,
put themselves into fraught real
world situations. Have you always
According to a study published in the Journal of Rheumatology, strength
training can help ease arthritis pain and stiffness, not lead to a
worsening condition. HAGEN HOPKINS/GETTY IMAGES
spending endless hours in the
gym while still seeing strength
and fitness gains. “Compound ex-
ercises, like deadlifts, squats and
presses, can target multiple mus-
cle groups simultaneously and
offer efficiency and effective-
ness,” says Blinch.
IT ILL MA E YOU BUL Y
Women of-
ten hear one of two protests
when they start lifting weights:
Don’t lift too much or you’ll get
bulky. Or, if they’re talking to a
lifting devotee: Don’t worry, lift-
ing won’t make you bulky In
both statements, the suggestion
is that bulkiness is bad. But why
This might offer a clue: The dic-
tionary definition of bulky is
“Taking up much space, typically
inconveniently.” We can chalk
the existence of this myth up to a
century of diet culture perpetu-
ating the ideal of the thin body
for women. If someone is telling
you to be wary of taking up
space, be wary of why they’re
concerned.
Muscle mass and
muscle strength are beneficial in
so many ways, from making it
O T H E G LO E A N D
H EA LT H ELLNESS | OPINION
3 I’m Canadian, which I am. I grew
thought of yourself as a risk
taker, someone who prioritizes
their work, their storytelling, over
their own well being
A lot of people tell me I’m coura-
geous, but it’s not about courage.
It’s only when you’re past that
feeling of being afraid that you’re
courageous. I’m not. People who
are living there, they’re coura-
geous. I didn’t want to put myself
in danger, but I had to make this
film. I wanted to understand
how someone can explain a vio-
lent act. You’re not born a bad
person, a killer, you become that.
How does that happen It was
never about putting myself in
danger, but because of the sub-
ject, it was dangerous.
You take a uni ue approach with
your interviews, because we
never see details about what
these men and women are ac
cused of. You’re not putting a
narrative on top of their dia
logues.
easier to do everyday tasks, to en-
couraging longevity. Not to men-
tion that visible muscles are cool
ask any superhero .
Mass doesn’t magically hap-
pen. “Building significant muscle
mass is very hard it involves a
high focus on training intensity,
which most gym-goers need help
to achieve,” explains Blinch. To
purposefully put on mass, you
need to be engaging in a specific
type of training called hypertro-
phy, as well as consuming more
calories than you burn, with a
specific focus on your protein
and carbohydrate intake.
YOU’LL BECOME MUSCLE BOUND’
According
to the late Terry Todd, an accom-
plished powerlifter and physical
culture historian, there are two
equally comical reasons why we
think muscle will make a person
inflexible and slow, and both can
be traced to the early 1900s.
The first: At the time, people
knew a shocking amount about
horses, and they understood that
saddle horses small, light
moved faster than draft horses
bigger, known for carrying
heavy loads .
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That was a clear line for me. I
didn’t want to judge them,
they’re already in jail. My inten-
tion was more about how can I
have a discussion with someone
who thinks that I’m brain-
washed, and I think that they’re
brainwashed I would try to lis-
ten instead of trying to find out
what’s wrong with what they’re
saying. Even if their truth doesn’t
seem right to me at all.
ith the Oscar submission,
there’s bound to be discussion
about how Canadian’ a movie
ROJE is.
Obviously, I’m Canadian. I immi-
grated to Montreal just before I
was five years old. But the ques-
tion is very interesting because
Canada has a lot of immigrants
and each year we have more and
more, so it’s a blend of culture.
When you have a double culture
like me, it’s just a richness for
Canada. It’s a Canadian story if
up here. Canadian stories can be
different.
It’s interesting because there was
a similar case last year, when
Canada submitted Jason Loftus’s
Eternal Spring for the 3 Os
cars, and that was a doc focused
on the Falun Gong in China. Previ
ously, Canada submitted primarily
French language films set here.
Jason is actually a friend of mine,
and his film is amazing. If you’re
talking about someone born
here and raised here, he’s a white
guy [laughs]. And he made a
film about a subject that doesn’t
happen to take place in Canada,
but it’s something that matters
to him. It’s totally Canadian.
We’re rich in diversity and cul-
ture.
O is a ailable to stream across
the country ia the Whistler Film
Festi al from Dec. 4
whistlerfilmfesti al.com .
This inter iew has been condensed
and edited.
The second was all about
shrewd business. Self-proclaimed
fitness experts discovered that
shipping heavy weights was ex-
pensive. So they vilified weight
training, suggesting it made one
rigid and unathletic, and mailed
how-to pamphlets about body
weight training instead.
Studies and a
century of our own lived experi-
ences have shown that strength
training can actually make you
faster. A 2017 study of trained
runners, for example, showed
that adding two or three strength
training sessions per week in-
cluding heavy lifting was likely
to provide benefits to middle-
and long-distance runners’ per-
formance and running economy
the amount of oxygen your
body needs to maintain running
pace . That’s likely owing to a
number of benefits of strength
training, including improved co-
ordination and power, and in-
creases in VO2 max the maxi-
mum amount of oxygen you can
use during intense exercise .
As for concerns about rigidity,
those have been debunked too,
with studies showing that when
strength training is performed
through a complete range of mo-
tion, it increases flexibility.
There’s a lot of misinforma-
tion out there when it comes to
lifting heavy and much of it like,
ahem, basing our understanding
of the human body on an equine
one is woefully outdated and in
some cases, dangerous.
As with any new program,
working with a certified profes-
sional can help cut through the
noise.
Alyssa A es is a ournalist and the
author of Secrets o iants:
ourney to ncover the True
eaning o Strength, published by
A ery/Pen uin Random House in
September, 2023. She is also a
stron man competitor and
endurance athlete, as well as a
former personal trainer and roup
fitness instructor.
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Can handle being a li ing donor

FIRST PERSON

had been struggling with

the decision fter all my
partner needs a kidney and
have two perfectly good ones
Monique Montgomery writes

he six-year-old working the mush-

room stall at the market that
morning was eyeing me up and
down. It was only a matter of time
before she made her way over.
I have this effect on little girls lately, and
I think I know why. My husband, Henry, has
been the object of fascination of every little
girl I’ve ever seen within his proximity, and
his magic has rubbed off on me. Unsurpris-
ingly, she approached Henry first.
“You know,” she said, pointing to an
open notebook on Henry’s music stand
just as he was about to pick up his guitar, “if
you really want people to think you’re
good, you should do it without the book.”
Henry looked at her, pleasantly stunned.
“Oh. This is a list. It’s not the music,” he
explained. “The list tells me which songs to
play next.”
“Did you see I gave you money already
In your guitar box ”
“I did. Thank you.”
“You. Are. Welcome.” She said it as if
each word were a poem unto itself. Then,
she pivoted on the heel of her rubber boot
and found me standing against a pillar, in
my regular position as Henry’s roadie, se-
curity personnel, and No. 1 fan.
“Is he your husband ” she asked, mo- ILLUSTRATION BY ULIANA NEUFELD
tioning to Henry with her thumb.
“He is.” to feel guilty. After all, I knew in my heart body part printing or human organ cloning they rub off on us in all the ways we need
“Guess how old I am,” she said, eye- Henry was the real reason for the girl’s at- for a solution. But no, we are not there yet. them to, and in my best moments, Henry
brows raised. tention being lavished on me. Marital os- I had been struggling with the decision. has made me the kind of human a little girl
I took a moment. I knew she wasn’t 8 be- mosis had given me a hint of Henry’s su- After all, Henry needs a kidney, and I have might want to marry on the spot: cool,
cause 8 is the magical age of self-awareness, percool soul, and here I was, entertaining a two perfectly good ones. We are the same kind and unwilling to sacrifice their integ-
and this little wonder was far too uncon- six-year-old mushroom seller and ignoring blood type, so my kidney could very well go rity.
taminated for that baloney. I did not want his solo acoustic Saturday show. directly into his body. But the prospect of “Babe. I think I’m done.” Henry called
to guess too low for fear of hurt feelings or In fact, I was feeling protective of my going under the knife, which is a terrifying- over as I stood by the pillar, daydreaming.
reprisal husband in that moment. The reason is too ly literal expression, had kept me up at He had been playing for a few hours, and
“Seven,” I said. hard to say out loud, so we have not told night, staring at the ceiling and trying to my six-year-old friend was back at the
“Six ” too many people. Six months before that find a way to keep him alive that wasn’t so mushroom stand.
She looked at me deadpan. “I’m very day at the market, we learned Henry was scary for me. “Last song ”
smart for my age.” going to need a kidney transplant. We had a I have known Henry Taylor since I was 16 “Yeah, last one.”
“I can see that.” year, maybe two, before his kidneys would and he was 19, and he still wears the same “Hey I like this song,” said the little girl,
She started tapping on my purse like a fail completely. combination of jeans and a lumber shirt he who magically appeared beside me. She
bongo drum and dancing. This went on for My initial reaction, when I realized the wore back then. He still has the air of mys- started dancing with abandon next to Hen-
a minute as I stood by awkwardly and she nature of the kidney transplant operation, tery one would expect from an older, high- ry, and Henry could barely contain his
smiled up at me. Then, solemnly, she took along with my potential as a living donor, school heartthrob, and the crush I had on laughter as he sang.
my hand in hers. It was thin and surprising- was not heroic. I was appalled that such a him then is the same crush I have today, in Henry has made me whole, and I, in re-
ly cold. surgery could exist in this age: “They cut our 20th year of marriage. turn, will do the same for him.
“Maybe we could get married,” she said. into human flesh, carve out a bloody or- Staring at the ceiling has made me con-
Staring up at me with her wide eyes, she gan, and deposit it into another human template life and mortality and how many Monique Mont omery li es in Waterloo, Ont.
was so earnest, and I could only look to the body ” I thought. It did not sound right. It years we have left as physical beings on this
heavens and laugh. did not even sound sanitary. By the way, beautiful planet. But mostly, I have been First Person is a daily personal piece
As complimentary as the impromptu where was all the technology Part of me thinking about Henry. submitted by readers. Ha e a story to tell See
marriage proposal had been, I was starting was hoping for an advancement in 3-D If we choose the right partner in this life, our uidelines at t am.ca/essay uide.

Eight easy ways to swap out meat for plant-based food

LESLIE
BEC
OPINION
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
here is increasing aware-
ness around the health
benefits of cutting back on
red meat.
Many studies, for example,
have found that replacing red
meat with poultry, dairy, eggs,
nuts or beans and lentils guards
against coronary heart disease.
Now, a comprehensive evi-
dence review suggests that sub-
stituting different animal foods –
not only red meat – with various
plant-based foods protects
against cardiovascular disease,
type 2 diabetes and premature
death.
This doesn’t mean you have to
adopt a vegan diet. Even small
daily diet shifts can benefit car-
diometabolic health. Here’s what
to know.
THE LATEST RESEARCH
For the review, published Nov. 16
in the journal BMC Medicine, Ger-
man researchers analyzed the re-
sults of 37 studies conducted in
the U.S., Europe and Asia which
included healthy adults. Partici-
pants were followed, on average,
for 19 years.
Studies were included in the
analysis if they investigated the
link between the substitution of
plant-based food for animal-
based food and the risk of cardio-
vascular disease, type 2 diabetes
and or premature death. Ani-
mal-based foods include red
meat, poultry, fish, shellfish,
dairy and eggs, and plant-based
foods include beans, nuts, seeds,
soy, whole grains, fruits, vegeta-
bles and oils.
Replacing 50 g of processed red
meat with 28 to 50 g of nuts each
day was tied to a 27-per-cent low-
er risk of developing cardiovascu-
lar disease including heart dis-
ease, heart attack, stroke and car-
diovascular mortality .
Swapping out 50 g of processed
red meat for 50 g of legumes e.g.,
beans, lentils, soybeans or 30 g
of whole grains each day was as-
sociated with, respectively, a 23-
and 36-per-cent reduced risk of
cardiovascular disease.
For perspective, 28 g of nuts is
equivalent to 20 almonds, 15
cashews or pecans, 20 walnut
halves or 30 pistachios 50 g of
legumes is equivalent to one-
third cup of chickpeas or eda-
mame or one-quarter cup of len-
tils 30 g of whole grains is equiv-
alent to one-half cup of cooked
whole grain e.g., oats, brown
rice, whole wheat pasta or one
slice of 100 per cent whole grain
bread.
Replacing one egg with 28 g of
nuts a day was tied to protection
from cardiovascular disease, as
well as all-cause mortality. So was
substituting one teaspoon olive
oil for a teaspoon of butter this
also lowered the risk of type 2 dia-
betes.
The researchers observed a 10-
per-cent lower risk of type 2 dia-
betes when 50 g of red meat was
traded for 10 g of nuts or 11 to 30 g
of whole grains. Swapping out 50
g of processed red meat for a
larger quantity of nuts, 10 to 28 g.,
was tied to a 22-per-cent lower
risk of type 2 diabetes.
The certainty of evidence for
these findings was graded as
“moderate,” meaning it’s very
likely or probable that the true
risk is close to the risk deter-
mined by the researchers.
LIMITATIONS, STRENGTHS
The studies included in the evi-
dence review were observational
so the findings don’t prove that
replacing animal foods with
plant-based alternatives directly
caused the resulting health bene-
fits.
It’s possible that people who
ate more plant-based foods led
healthier lifestyles. However, all
included studies controlled for
participants’ lifestyle habits and
the results remained the same.
According to Dr. Sabrina
Schlesinger, senior study author,
“the most important take-away
from our study is the robust evi-
dence supporting the positive
impact of substituting animal-
based foods with plant-based
foods on cardiovascular disease,
type 2 diabetes and all-cause
mortality.”
EIGHT EASY PLANT BASED S APS
1. Instead of ground meat, fill ta-
cos and burritos with seasoned
black beans, pinto beans or diced
extra-firm tofu. Use 100 per cent
whole wheat tortillas.
2. Replace meat in stir fries
with shelled edamame, cubed to-
fu or cashews. Serve with a whole
grain such as quinoa, brown rice,
farro or soba noodles made from
100 per cent buckwheat flour .
3. Substitute homemade black
bean burgers for beef burgers.
4. Stuff bell peppers with
cooked farro and crumbled tem-
peh instead of ground beef.
5. Try a pasta made from black
beans, chickpeas, lentils or eda-
mame. Serve it with a meatless
marinara sauce with vegetables.
6. Add nuts or seeds and left-
over cooked whole grains to
green leafy salads instead of ani-
mal protein.
7. Trade scrambled eggs for a
tofu scramble made with crum-
bled extra-firm tofu, bell pepper,
baby spinach, onion, garlic and
spices such as cumin, turmeric
and chili powder.
8. Swap out butter for olive oil
when cooking and baking. Extra
virgin olive oil has a smoke point
of 410 degrees Fahrenheit 210
Celsius , making it suitable for
oven roasting, sautéing and stir-
frying over medium-high heat.
Smoke point refers to the tem-
perature at which an oil starts to
burn and smoke.
Leslie Beck, a Toronto based pri ate
practice dietitian, is director of food
and nutrition at Medcan. Follow her
on LeslieBeckRD.
TODAY’S SUDO U SOLUTION

FOR ER APRIL INE SINGER LES GOO N IES AT

Myles Goodwyn, the legendary
Canadian musician and song-
writer who shot to stardom as
the lead singer of April Wine,
has died at 75.
His publicist Eric Alper said
Goodwyn died Sunday in Hali-
fax. No cause of death was an-
nounced.
Alper described Goodwyn as
one of the great songwriters of
the classic rock era, who helped
propel April Wine to interna-
tional success and paved the
way for other Canadian rock
acts.
“April Wine was kind of lead-
ing all of it because they were
breaking through on American
rock and roll radio a little bit
earlier than everybody else was,”
he said in an interview.
“And the fact that they had
just so many hits and sold out
arenas and places in the U.S. and
around the world just showed
them that we can kind of com-
pete on our own level.”
April Wine has sold 10 million
recordings worldwide and was
inducted into the Canadian
Music Hall of Fame in 2010. The
band was also added to Canada’s
Walk of Fame this fall.
The group formed in Halifax
in 1969 and consisted of Good-
wyn, his friend Jim Henman,
and Henman’s cousins David
and Ritchie Henman.
After moving to Montreal, the
band would go on to record a
steady stream of hit songs in the
1970s and early 1980s including
ou ould ave een a ady, ou
on’t ance ith Me, oller, and
ust etween ou and Me.
Their 1975 album Stand Back
was the first by a Canadian band
to sell more than 100,000 copies.
Their 1978 album First Glance
would be their first gold album
outside Canada, while 1981’s The
ature of the east would help
them attain platinum status on
both sides of the border, accord-
ing to the band’s website.
In later years, Goodwyn re-
leased several blues recordings,
including the Juno-nominated
Myles Goodwyn nd Friends f
The lues, as well as an autobiog-
raphy titled ust etween ou nd TODAY’S EN EN SOLUTION
Me Memoir.
Alper, who has represented
him in recent years, described
Goodwyn as a “straight shooter”
and a “breath of fresh air” who
retained a keen interest in the
music business.
Alper said Goodwyn stepped
away from the band earlier this
year owing to health issues and
no longer wanting to “live out of
a suitcase,” but continued to
perform and work with other
musicians. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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BRIDGE This deal occurred in a match disclosing the 4-1 trump split, weak rather than one. Here,
BY STEVE BECKER between two U.S teams in the and then set about reducing his spades had not been bid, so Free-
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2023 semi nal of the 2000 Orbis Ber- trump length in preparation for man, West, led the spade queen,
muda Bowl. The world title was a coup. removing a vital entry from
captured by the U.S. squad of He started by cashing the A-K dummy.
Bob Hamman, Paul Soloway, Eric of clubs, discarding a diamond, After ducking the rst spade
Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth, Rich- and ruffed a club. A spade to the and taking the second, the de-
South dealer. ard Freeman and Nick Nickell. ace was followed by a diamond clarer, Jeff Wolfson, cashed the
North-South vulnerable When the deal was rst played, ruff, after which Meckstroth ex- A-K of clubs, discarding a spade,
Meckstroth became declarer ited with a spade. Regardless of and then led a diamond to the
at four hearts after the auction how East-West defended, declar- king, which held. The Q-A of
shown. West led the diamond er could not be prevented from hearts revealed the trump situa-
The bidding: queen, which proved to make all scoring his ninth and 10th tricks tion, but with the ace of spades
the difference in the outcome. with the K-10 of hearts, and the already gone, Wolfson could not
South West North EAst East overtook the queen game was home. reach dummy enough times to
1 [H] Pass 1 [S] Pass with the ace and returned a At the other table, four hearts reduce his trump holding for the
2 [H] Pass 4 [H] diamond to South’s king. Meck- was reached by a different route coup, so he nished down one
Opening Lead – diamond queen. stroth cashed the Q-A of hearts, after South opened two hearts for a loss of 12 IMPs.

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1. Each row and each
CRYPTIC CLUES QUICK CLUES column must contain
ACROSS DOWN ACROSS the numbers 1 through
1 Bizarre occurrence (5) 6 without repeating.
1 Levels the score 2 The futility of conceit (8)
and quits (5) 3 The latter years of 8 An appraising glance (4-4)
8 Possibly avenge it, Einstein? (8) 9 Take pleasure in (5) 2. The numbers within
the heavily outlined
possibly not (8) 10 Unchallengeable (4-4)
4 Provocative article in boxes, called cages,
9 He’s wicked and communist paper? (3,3) 11 Impudence (5) must combine using
may be fined (5) 12 Fix at set level (3) the given operation (in
5 Convenient for
16 Alternatively (2,4) any order) to produce
10 Treading slippery slope (8) Hungary’s borders (5)
17 In present circumstances (2,2,2) the target numbers in
11 Possibly untie but here 6 Be careful! It’s said to 18 Pinch (3)
join together (5) be booby-trapped (5) the top-left corners.
23 Large webfooted birds (5)
12 Past constitution of Goa (3) 7 Some ornate style that 24 Begin to understand (6,2) Freebies: Fill in
16 Get up for wild dances (6) makes us irritable (5) 25 Rift (5) 3. single-box cages with
17 Note to change flag (6) 12 The fuss that’s made when 26 Cooperate (4,4) the numbers in the
18 A bumpkin of a sort (3) you open a door! (3) 27 Limbless reptile (5) top-left corner.
23 A factor in show business (5) 13 Gone away (3)
24 Open coal fires I left 14 Scandalous tirade is DOWN
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have this language (5) for an interval (8) 4 Lest (2,4)
5 A fight (3-2) FRIDAY'S CRYPTIC
26 Supplied – subject to 19 Old soldier taking flight (6)
6 Prevent (5) ACROSS: 1 Curious, 5 Pearl, 8 Clergyman, 9 Coo, 10 Acts, 12 Repulses, 14 Make up,
certain conditions (8) 20 Twists and wraps around (5) 15 Outrun, 17 Gradient, 18 Blue, 21 Tot, 22 Escalator, 24 Norms, 25 Stopper.
7 An eccentric (5)
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12 Small enclosure (3)
pepper in the hash (5) 22 Cat in middle of well is in 13 Break in continuity (3) 11 Take after, 13 Business, 14 Megaton, 16 Knocks, 19 Error, 20 Also, 23 Tap.
awkward position (5) 14 Exposed to attack (4,4) FRIDAY'S QUICK
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19 Would that (2,4) 15 Gloomy, 17 Eminence, 18 Bear, 21 Dog, 22 Two-timing, 24 Reply, 25 Leg-pull.
20 Space of activity (5) DOWN: 1 Wafer, 2 Rig, 3 Hurl, 4 Prolix, 5 Motherly, 6 Number one, 7 Amnesty,
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area of the A section. Crossword solutions will be with tomorrow's puzzles. 22 Favourite leisure activity (5)
M O N DAY , D ECE M B E R , 3 | T H E G LO E A N D
ssem ly of irst ations to elect ne
he winning candidate
will take over after
internal strife led to
ouster of rchibald
RISTY IR UP OTTAWA
Leaders of First Nations from
across the country will choose a
new national chief on Wednes-
day, with the winner facing the
challenge of moving the Assemb-
ly of First Nations past a difficult
chapter in its history.
The AFN, an advocacy organi-
zation that represents more than
900,000 people in 634 communi-
ties, works to influence federal
government policy. Its national
chief often deals directly with the
Prime Minister and his cabinet.
The national chief must be
elected with a 60-per-cent major-
ity of the votes. If no candidate re-
aches that threshold in the first
ballot, there are additional
rounds of voting. This week’s vote
will take place on Wednesday at a
special chiefs assembly in down-
town Ottawa. Voting will begin in
the morning, with the first ballot
result expected at about 4 p.m.
ET.
The AFN typically holds an
election for a national chief every
three years, but this vote is taking
place after a tumultuous time of
internal strife at the organization.
In June, RoseAnne Archibald,
who had been serving as national
chief since July, 2021, was ousted
from her position after 71 per cent
of 231 chiefs voted to dismiss her,
saying they did not have confi-
dence in her leadership.
When she first became nation-
al chief, Ms. Archibald, from the
Taykwa Tagamou Nation in
Northeastern Ontario, was the
first woman to hold the position
in the organization’s 50-year his-
tory.
Her removal took place after
an external review found evi-
dence that she harassed staff
members. Ms. Archibald denied
all wrongdoing.
The organization has since
Power and Prediction
AIL O
Former Assembly of First Nations national chief RoseAnne Archibald was removed from her position after
1 per cent of 31 chiefs voted to dismiss her in June. An e ternal review found Ms. Archibald harassed staff
members, but she denied all wrongdoing. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
SI CANDIDATES IN THE RUNNING FOR AFN NATIONAL CHIEF
There are six people who are
yin to become the next
national chief Sheila North,
Cindy Woodhouse, Da id Pratt,
Re inald Bellerose, Crai Maki
naw and Dean Sayers.
Sheila North Ms. North, of
Bunibonibee Cree Nation in
Manitoba, pre iously ser ed as
the rand chief of the Manitoba
Keewatinowi Okimakanak,
commonly referred to as MKO.
When she was elected in 20 ,
she was the first woman to hold
that position. She has also
worked as a ournalist.
Cindy oodhouse Ms. Wood
house, from Pinaymootan First
Nation, is the Manitoba re ional
chief for the Assembly of First
Nations. She pre iously worked
Truth Telling
for other AFN leaders, includin
Perry Belle arde and Shawn
Atleo. As re ional chief, she was
the lead ne otiator for the AFN
on a multibillion dollar settle
ment o er child welfare ser ices
for First Nations children.
David Pratt Mr. Pratt is from the
Muscowpetun First Nation in
Saskatchewan. He has been
ser in his second term as the
first ice chief of the Federation
of So erei n Indi enous Na
tions.
Reginald Bellerose Mr. Bellerose
was pre iously chief of Musk
owekwan First Nation in Sas
katchewan. He also spent
years with the Saskatchewan
Indian Gamin Authority. He
was the runner up to Ms.
Booze, Cigarettes, and
Constitutional Dust-Ups
national chief
Archibald in the last AFN elec
tion for national chief.
Craig Makinaw Mr. Makinaw
has held a series of political
roles includin as the AFN
re ional chief for Alberta, ser
in as chief of Ermineskin Cree
Nation and rand chief of the
Confederacy of Treaty Six First
Nations.
Dean Sayers Mr. Sayers ser ed
as the chief of the Batchewana
First Nation in Northern Ontario
for nearly two decades. Durin
the course of his career, he was
a lead ne otiator for the Rob
inson Huron Treaty liti ation that
resulted in a 0 billion settle
ment. He also was an ad ocate
durin the Ontario First Nations
fi ht a ainst the proposed HST.
The Compassionate
Imagination
NEWS | A15
been led by an interim national
chief, Joanna Bernard.
In the past, Prime Minister Jus-
tin Trudeau has been careful
about discussing the organiza-
tion’s leadership. When he was
asked in June about the possibil-
ity of Ms. Archibald’s removal as
national chief, he said that one of
the “colonial principles” that gov-
ernments should do away with is
having opinions on how Indige-
nous people govern themselves.
It is the responsibility of the
federal government to be there as
partners, Mr. Trudeau added. “I
can assure you that this govern-
ment will always be there to work
with the Assembly of First Na-
tions and their leadership, re-
gardless of what various posi-
tions, or who wins, or who does
what within that leadership.”
One of the current issues for
the AFN has been federal legisla-
tion known as Bill C-53, which
recognizes Métis governments in
Alberta, Ontario and Saskatche-
wan.
Ms. Bernard said the bill must
be withdrawn, and the govern-
ment must “properly engage and
consult with First Nations rights
holders” about the potential ef-
fects of the legislation. She also
called for a First Nations-led proc-
ess to ensure all impacts of the
legislation are thoroughly con-
sidered.
Some First Nations leaders be-
lieve the legislation was intro-
duced by the federal government
without proper consultation and
fear it could pose a threat to First
Nations’ inherent and constitu-
tional rights.
Ottawa has not said that it in-
tends to rescind the legislation.
Crown-Indigenous Relations
Minister Gary Anandasangaree
told a parliamentary committee
that pushback on the legislation
is “largely based on misconcep-
tions.”
Another key priority for the
AFN is its national climate strate-
gy, released in October, which un-
derscores the need for climate ac-
tion led by First Nations. The or-
ganization also has sent a delega-
tion to COP28 in Dubai.
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anada must
[ BOARD GAMES ]

address aps
in supply
chain industry
e ecutives say
JEFFREY JONES
ESG AND SUSTAINA LE INANCE
RE ORTER

Canadian ambition to be a force in

electric vehicles could be driven
off course by insufficient support
for key segments within the sup-
ply chain, including critical-miner-
al processing, or the lack of a strat-
egy to attract capital with incen-
tives from government, senior in-
dustry executives say.
The country is already playing
catch-up with Europe, the United
States and China, which have
plowed ahead with massive invest-
ments as demand for zero-emis-
sion transport trends higher.
Canada must develop its own
long-term blueprint, incorporat-
ing the minerals used in batteries
and other components right Gordon Raman of law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP says provincial and territorial regulators should find
through to assembling vehicles consensus on how companies must report diversity on their boards. CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
and developing charging net-
works, according to a survey of
sector leaders conducted by Accel-

Companies di erge on di ersity

erate. The industry association is a
coalition of manufacturers, parts
suppliers, miners and others seek-

disclosures with no fix in sight

ing to weave together that supply
chain.
Governments have committed
tens of billions of taxpayer dollars
to manufacturing plants for bat- Without a national standard firms must navigate a hodgepodge
teries and their components in
Ontario and Quebec. of rules and benchmarks and risk discouraging global investment
EVs, B

DAVID MILSTEAD about one-third of those traded on public markets

– to disclose additional information on visible mi-

S
o forecast ome Canadian public companies are re-
norities, Indigenous people and the disabled.
There has been no new law or regulation since,

to hold rates
steady in final
announcement
of umpy year
MAR RENDELL
The Bank of Canada is expected
to cap another tumultuous year
for monetary policy with a stand-
pat decision this week that keeps
interest rates steady while offer-
ing few hints about what comes
next.
The central bank has held its
policy rate at 5 per cent since July,
while leaving the door open to
further increases if inflation
doesn’t move lower. But over the
past month, the likelihood of
additional monetary-policy tight-
ening appears to have declined.
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff
Macklem said in a November
speech that interest rates “may
now be restrictive enough,” and
that excess demand in the econo-
my “is now gone” – his clearest
comments to date suggesting
that interest rates have peaked.
This message was reinforced
by a string of data showing the
Canadian economy is struggling
to grow under the weight of high
borrowing costs, and that infla-
tion is finally moving in the right
direction again, after trending
higher over the summer.
Bay Street analysts, however,
don’t expect Mr. Macklem and his
team to adopt a noticeably more
dovish tone in Wednesday’s state-
ment-only rate announcement.
The bank has an incentive to keep
talking tough about the possibil-
ity of rate hikes to prevent a fur-
ther decline in bond yields –
which have retreated significant-
ly from their October peak – and a
rebound in the housing market.
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quired to follow a federal law that requires however. Canada’s provincial and territorial secu-
them to disclose data on how many visible rities regulators are deeply divided on a possible
minorities, Indigenous people and people national standard for diversity disclosure, perhaps
with disabilities sit on their board of directors.
Other companies produce diversity disclosures
hopelessly so. The country’s stock exchanges have
not put forward any requirements.
that follow that law, even if they’re not required to.
Some go beyond the law and say how many direc-
In the absence of a Canada-wide standard,
companies must navigate a hodgepodge of rules,
tors are part of the LGBTQ2SI community. Some
companies craft a diversity narrative that offers
standards and requirements, many from influen-
tial private ratings entities, such as proxy advisers
some disclosure, but falls short. and The Globe and Mail’s annual Board Games
And some companies do nothing. corporate ranking, done in partnership with
Canada has been a world leader in diversity dis- Toronto consulting firm Global Governance Advi-
closure. A 2015 regulation forced companies to dis- sors. And institutional investors themselves often
close the number of women on the board and in have their own policies on diversity that expect
executive management, and explain why the even more from the companies than regulations
company didn’t have a target for more. In 2020, Ot- or raters do.
tawa required federally incorporated companies – DIVERSITY, B
i an s report fe er orro ers ith
mort a e alances ro in from unpaid interest
RACHELLE YOUNGLAI ter ended Oct. 31, according to their finan- facing when they are required to increase
REAL ESTATE RE ORTER cial results released this week. their monthly payments to get back on
That was down from 130-billion in the track with paying down their mortgages.
third quarter ended July 31, suggesting BMO had mortgages worth 30-billion
Canadian banks are seeing fewer borrow- their borrowers were making higher in negative amortization in the fourth
ers adding unpaid interest to their mort- monthly payments to cover their interest quarter, representing 20 per cent of its
gage balances, but lenders still have 110- costs or had sold their properties and dis- Canadian residential loan book, according
billion of outstanding loans that are bal- charged their mortgages. to its financial disclosures. That is down
looning because the monthly payments do The negative amortization trend began from 32.8-billion, or 22 per cent of its port-
not cover the interest costs. last year as interest rates soared, leaving folio, in the third quarter.
When a mortgage increases in size that some borrowers with variable-rate mort- TD had mortgages worth 37.4-billion in
way it’s known as “negative amortization.” gages facing the possibility of far higher negative amortization in the fourth quar-
Three of Canada’s major banks offer mort- payments. Some banks allowed their cus- ter, accounting for 14 per cent of its port-
gages that permit negative amortization – tomers to keep their payments stable by folio and down sharply from 45.7-billion –
a product the federal bank regulator is now reducing the amount going toward the or 18 per cent of its portfolio – in the third
calling “dangerous.” loan principal and even not paying the in- quarter.
Bank of Montreal, Toronto-Dominion terest in full. And CIBC had 43-billion in negatively
Bank and Canadian Imperial Bank of Com- The billions of dollars that quickly accu- amortizing mortgages in the fourth quar-
merce had a total of 110-billion in loans in mulated in negative amortizations has ter.
negative amortization in their fourth quar- been a clear sign of the stress borrowers are MORTGAGES, B8
FO O D E N T E RTA I N M E N T OPINION
Not just a flash in oughly rovinces should
the pan perts workers in visual co-operate with
still see plenty of effects animation the in the
growth ahead for unioni e as C development of
plant-based meat studios join a continental grid
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nimation visual effects studios unionize
Canada’s largest
entertainment union
certifies two prominent
ancouver studios
PHOEBE FULLER VANCOUVER
Canada’s largest entertainment
union has certified two promi-
nent Vancouver studios in recent
weeks, making gains within the
underrepresented animation
and visual effects industries.
On Oct. 31, WildBrain’s Van-
couver office became the second
Canadian animation studio to
join the International Alliance of
Theatrical Stage Employees
IATSE . Workers at visual effects
studio DNEG were certified two
weeks later, on Nov. 15. DNEG is
the first to unionize of the VF
studios in Canada that contract
out their services to larger pro-
duction companies.
Each studio employs approxi-
mately 500 now-unionized work-
ers, according to IATSE.
“For us, it’s just about trying to
build an industry that is fairer,
that is less precarious and that
really values the incredibly tal-
ented workers who make this
stuff every day,” said Will Glad-
man, an international represen-
s: president says attracting capital for all parts of E industry will be a challenge
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A missing piece remains the
capacity to process raw materials
that go into those cells. This mid-
stream processing is one key to
ensuring Canada is fully integrat-
ed with the North American EV
industry, said Marissa West, pres-
ident and managing director of
GM Canada.
“China has a huge base of this
investment already – the major-
ity of the capability and the in-
tellectual property for processing
these raw materials into what we
actually need to go into the bat-
tery cells resides in Asia. It
doesn’t reside in North America,”
Ms. West said in an interview.
“And I think it’s absolutely
prudent to attract the invest-
ment into the country, into Can-
ada, into North America, so that
we can continue to build that
supply chain, but also reinsert
the innovation and evolution of
this technology here in North
America.”
GM and South Korea’s Posco
Chemical Co. Ltd. are building a
600-million plant in Bécancour,
Que., to produce cathode materi-
als for EV batteries, with the pro-
vincial and federal governments
funding about half the price tag.
In addition, the Detroit-based
auto giant has converted plants
in Oshawa and Ingersoll, Ont., to
assemble EVs, also with govern-
ment support.
Canada has all the necessary
segments to build a full supply
chain, she said, including the raw
materials, a largely carbon-free
power grid, talented work force
with experience in manufactur-
ing and full integration within
the North American market, and
that presents a “generational op-
portunity.” The Accelerate sur-
vey reflects optimism among ex-
ecutives about the potential,
based on those attributes.
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tative for IATSE.
IATSE represents more than
168,000 film and television work-
ers in the U.S. and Canada.
While the union has repre-
sented animators in the U.S.
since the 1950s, Canadian anima-
tors and most VF workers in
both countries have remained
without representation in the
densely unionized entertain-
ment industry.
The recently resolved Holly-
wood writers’ and actors’ strikes
brought pay cuts and layoffs to
Canada’s VF and animation in-
dustries, hardships that
smoothed the path for the union
drive, said Mr. Gladman.
“People looked to the U.S. as
an example of people who had
enough and used their voice and
fought for something together,”
Mr. Gladman said. “It was really
inspiring for a lot of people.”
The union said both compa-
nies have been co-operative in
the certification process.
“We look forward to working
constructively with the union to
negotiate a collective agreement
over the coming months while
maintaining our high standard of
creative work,” Stephanie Betts,
executive vice-president of con-
tent creation at WildBrain, said
in a statement.
DNEG declined to comment
A worker installs a plate into a battery pack at Lion Electric Company’s lithium ion battery manufacturing
facility in Mirabel, ue., in September. CHRISTINNE MUSCHI/THE CANADIAN PRESS
A challenge, however, will be
attracting the capital for all parts
of the EV industry, especially as
the United States woos invest-
ment with the Biden administra-
tion’s Inflation Reduction Act,
which features US 369-billion in
green incentives.
“It’s going to take all of the
assets in Canada’s favour as well
as continued support from the
government to make sure that
we do take advantage of this op-
portunity,” Ms. West said.
Accelerate comprises compa-
nies and organizations in
mining, batteries, fuel cells, vehi-
cle manufacturing, infrastruc-
ture, the public sector, research
and labour. It polled 21 top exec-
utives from several of those seg-
ments to gauge how the country
is faring as it gears up to compete
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Mary-Ann Bell
to Board of Directors
The Institute of
Corporate Directors
on the unionization.
According to the Vancouver
Economic Commission, the city
hosts the world’s largest cluster
of domestic and foreign-owned
VF and animation businesses,
with over 150 studios that gener-
ate more than 8,000 jobs.
Katie Winchester, a former
animator at WildBrain, said ani-
mation work in Vancouver had
been drying up since well before
the strikes as studios cut back
programming.
“This last year has been a pret-
ty bad one for anyone working in
the animation industry in Cana-
da,” Ms. Winchester said.
Even in the best of times, Ms.
Winchester said Canadian ani-
mation workers deal with precar-
ious contract-based work marred
by a lack of consistent benefits
and low wages.
“Especially for a lot of young,
keen people who just want to
work in animation, they are just
so eager and they’ve got so much
passion that they can be exploit-
ed really easily,” Ms. Winchester
said.
Jeremy Salter, another interna-
tional representative for IATSE
involved in organizing DNEG,
said similar issues plague the
VF industry.
In a 2022 survey by IATSE, 39
per cent of VF workers at stu-
with global giants.
Among other participants
were senior officials from the
Canadian units of Stellantis NV,
Volkswagen AG, Toyota Motor
Corp., Glencore PLC, Rio Tinto
Group and Nova Bus Volvo
Group as well as Lion Electric Co.,
Linamar Corp., Martinrea Inter-
national Inc. and smaller players.
Uncertainty has crept in over
the ability to ramp up supplies of
nickel, lithium, graphite and
copper to match Canada’s hopes,
as financing new mines and ex-
pansions has fallen well below
historical averages and capital
remains tight. Recycling of mate-
rials from spent batteries is seen
as one way to set Canada apart.
Another concern among exec-
utives is the slow pace of ex-
panding the charging infrastruc-
Tom Woods,
ICD.D
to Board of Directors
The Institute of
Corporate Directors
O T H E G LO E A N D AIL
dios that contract out their ser-
vices reported working unpaid
overtime and only 25 per cent re-
ported consistent health care
benefits. Of the total respon-
dents, 68 per cent said working
in VF was unsustainable.
In their first collective agree-
ments with WildBrain and DNEG,
IATSE hopes to address the issues
raised by animation and VF
workers.
IATSE reports receiving signed
union cards from hundreds of
animation and VF workers
across Canada, especially in the
other major industry hubs Mon-
treal and Toronto, but only Van-
couver studios have reached cer-
tification.
Mr. Salter attributes Vancouv-
er’s success to the workers’ deter-
mination and B.C.’s single-step
certification process, which auto-
matically certifies a union when
55 per cent of eligible workers
sign cards.
Barry Eidlin, associate profes-
sor of sociology at McGill Univer-
sity, said there’s a growing inter-
est in union organizing that’s ris-
en with the postpandemic cost of
living crisis and increasing visi-
bility of strikes.
“There’s a general sense that
the union option is back on the
table,” Prof. Eidlin said.
He added that labour disputes,
ture, which remains a key hurdle
to acceptance among consum-
ers.
Still, Canada has experience in
developing industrial strategies,
and that can be instructive as the
EV sector embarks on what will
be a multiyear effort, said Mat-
thew Fortier, chief executive offi-
cer of Accelerate.
As an example, he points to
the Alberta oil sands, which
boomed in the 1990s and 2000s
after the industry and govern-
ments developed a series of mea-
sures, including tax and royalty
incentives, that attracted tens of
billions of dollars in investment
and turned the country into an
energy power.
“This is something that could
be a big part of Canada’s indus-
trial future that can create
NINE EA AFTER RAI ON PERU S PON EROSA
Nine people were killed and 15 in-
jured after armed men raided
Peru’s Ponderosa mine with ex-
plosives and took hostages, the
Interior Ministry said late on Sat-
urday.
Police have “taken control of
the situation,” seven people have
been arrested and weapons
seized, the ministry said in a
statement.
The attackers entered the mine
shaft using explosive charges,
“violently confronting internal
security personnel from the com-
pany and taking four people hos-
tage,” the ministry said.
Fernando Reategui, director of
special operations for Peru’s po-
lice force, said police deployed 50
agents to area, doubling the cur-
rent police presence, and had
identified the group responsible
for the attack.
“[Those arrested] are part of a
criminal organization called La
Gota del Norte, which is involved
in illegal mining, extortion and
assassinations,” Mr. Reategui
said.
In a statement, Ponderosa said
10 workers were seriously injured
and three had light injuries.
“These tragic events aren’t
happening in isolation. They’re
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especially in the entertainment
industry, spike during periods of
reinvention and technological
change.
“The push for unionization is
an effort by workers to intervene
in that process of technological
change,” Prof. Eidlin said.
Protection from AI outsourc-
ing was a major factor in the Hol-
lywood strikes that animation
and VF workers are also looking
to address in their union con-
tracts, according to IATSE.
Ms. Winchester agreed that AI
“makes artists in our line of work
pretty nervous because it’s a
threat to our livelihood, poten-
tially.”
IATSE has had similar success
organizing animation and VF
workers in the U.S.
Eighteen Disney VF workers
joined the union in October and
another 70 previously non-
unionized Disney animation pro-
duction workers joined in No-
vember. In September, 50 Marvel
VF workers also voted unani-
mously to join IATSE.
In 2021, animation workers at
Titmouse Vancouver became the
first animation studio in Canada
to ratify a collective agreement
with IATSE, securing wage in-
creases, defined overtime proce-
dures and increased sick and per-
sonal days.
wealth over the course of gener-
ations,” Mr. Fortier said. “Now is
the time to invest in that and it
will pay dividends if we get it
right, but we need to know what
getting it right means.”
Canada currently has nowhere
near the capacity to process raw
materials today to compete with
Asia. It must set itself apart by
investing in research that would
lead to processing that empha-
sizes environmental protection
while keeping costs in check,
said Dan Blondal, CEO of Nano
One Materials Corp.
The company’s plant for man-
ufacturing lithium iron phos-
phate cathode material in Que-
bec is the only one of its kind
outside Asia. The operation is in
the precommercial stage.
“It’s a greenfield opportunity
here. We have a chance to do it
right and do it better and that’s
where government’s role really
comes in – to support innova-
tion, particularly in the mid-
stream between the mine and
the battery,” Mr. Blondal said.
“Ultimately, it’s the chemical
processes that bring all of these
materials together that define
the supply chain.”
Executives say the industry
has to develop a set of indicators
and timelines to gauge progress.
The difficulty will be deciding
which ones should be priori-
tized. The way the industry
works, not all vehicles that are
sold in Canada will be built here,
so one measure could be the per-
centage of minerals that are ex-
tracted in Canada and remain in
the supply chain, Ms. West said
in the Accelerate survey.
Other metrics could involve
sales figures to individuals and
fleet managers, numbers of fac-
tories, job-creation and sustain-
ability indicators, such as carbon
emissions reductions and waste
elimination.
INE
the result of a downward spiral of
safety conditions in the zone,”
the company said in a statement,
adding that organized crime has
led to an “exponential growth in
illegal mining.”
The company said previous at-
tacks have already led to the
death of seven other workers and
the destruction of 10 transmis-
sion towers. Ponderosa said crim-
inal organization have been oper-
ating with “absolute impunity,
under the mantle of protection
granted by REINFO.”
REINFO is a program Peru’s
government has used to grant
permits to artisanal miners since
2017. Speaking to reporters in
Lima, President Dina Boluarte
said that illegal mining was a
“scourge” and the government
was “evaluating” artisanal
mining permits in the area.
Peru’s National Society of
Mining, Oil and Energy also
issued a statement condemning
the attack and exhorted the gov-
ernment to take measures to re-
establish order in the region
“where illegal miners want to es-
tablish liberated territories’ and
make the local population sub-
mit through violence.”
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lant ased industry still poised for ro th: e perts

espite waning interest
there’s an opportunity
for emerging Canadian
processors to e pand
domestic operations
ROSA SABA
It’s been more than five years
since A W first started selling
. burgers to cus-
tomers eager to see whether the
patties could compete with their
beloved beef.
The burger chain sold out of
the patties when they first
launched, having underestimat-
ed how many people would want
to try them. The day Beyond Meat
went public on the Nasdaq in
2019, its share price rose 163 per
cent.
These days, however, shares in
Beyond Meat are trading at a frac-
tion of their 2019 high.
Since the flurry of excitement
over A W’s beef-free burger and
the company behind it, the nas-
cent plant-based meat industry
has had to swallow a bitter pill:
The exponential growth antici-
pated by many has not panned
out.
Yet industry experts say there’s
still plenty of growth in the future
for plant-based meat products –
and several areas where the sec-
tor still needs investment.
The plant-based meat sector
was starting to ramp up not long
before A W made a splash by
adding the Beyond Meat burger
to its menu, said Robert Carter,
managing partner at The Straton-
Hunter Group, precipitated by
game-changing technology and
an increased focus on health and
the environment among con-
sumers.
“There was so much hype in
the beginning, and everyone was
so excited,” Mr. Carter said.
U.S. sales of plant-based meat
products rose by 42 per cent
between March, 2016, and March,
2019, according to Nielsen. It
The day Beyond Meat went public on the Nasda in 1 , its share price rose 163 per cent. These days, the
shares are trading at a fraction of that high. RICHARD DREW/ASSOCIATED PRESS
wasn’t just an American phenom-
enon: In Canada, sales of plant-
based protein products rose 7 per
cent in the 2016-17 year, according
to a 2019 report from National
Research Council Canada.
In the second quarter of 2020,
Canadian company
. reported higher reve-
nue, led by a 41-per-cent gain
from its plant protein business.
The firm bought Lightlife Foods
and Field Roast Grain Meat Co. in
2017, and in 2018 launched sub-
sidiary GreenLeaf Foods with the
two brands in its portfolio. It has
announced investments into
processing facilities for its plant-
based products.
The high expectations for con-
sumer interest in plant-based
meat were especially evident
when traditional protein compa-
nies like Maple Leaf started get-
ting involved, Mr. Carter said: “I
would say they were hedging
their bets.”
There was also a spike in sales
when COVID-19 hit, said Bill
Greuel, chief executive of Protein
Industries Canada, a not-for-prof-
it that receives funding from
Innovation, Science and Econom-
ic Development Canada to invest
in plant-based food and ingre-
dient manufacturing.
“I think a lot of consumers
were shifting from eating out at
restaurants to having to cook at
home, and they were looking for
new products and new experienc-
es,” he said.
But the pandemic-related lift
may have obscured reality, Mr.
Greuel said: The plant-based
meat industry was growing at an
unsustainable pace. Sales started
to take a turn and some of the
companies at the heart of the
industry have had to re-evaluate
the scale of their investments.
According to market research
firm Circana, U.S. retail sales of
fresh meat alternatives, like sau-
sages and burgers, were down 21.5
per cent in 2023 through Oct. 8,
while sales of frozen products
were down 6 per cent.
Last month, Beyond Meat
announced it was cutting 19 per
cent of its non-production work
force. The company also said it
was considering exiting some
product lines and changing pric-
ing and manufacturing processes.
In 2021, Maple Leaf Foods
announced it was re-evaluating
its plant protein business.
Experts say the plant-based
meat industry still has much to
improve upon.
Ellen Goddard, an agricultural
economist and professor at the
University of Alberta, thinks
many of the products aren’t quite
on the mark with taste and tex-
ture – or price, which has become
top of mind for more consumers
over the past couple of years.
“Unfortunately, they hit a very
high inflationary period when
the industry was taking off,” she
said.
Whether companies are pour-
ing money into new facilities, or
raw materials have to leave Cana-
da to be turned into food
products, the processing step
makes plant-based meat more
expensive for consumers than
many traditional meat products,
Mr. Greuel said.
Canada is the world’s largest
exporter of pulses like lentils and
chickpeas, according to Pulse
Canada. Despite the advantage of
producing some of the key ingre-
dients in plant-based meat alter-
natives, the country’s processing
capacity for plant-based food
products is struggling to keep up
with market growth and demand,
Mr. Greuel said.
With most of Canada’s produc-
tion exported for processing,
there’s an opportunity for emerg-
ing Canadian processors to
expand domestic operations,
creating other export opportuni-
ties and diversifying the Cana-
dian economy, said the National
Research Council report.
Health-conscious consumers
may have also been caught off
guard by concerns about how
processed plant-based meat is,
and its sodium levels, Mr. Carter
said, a perception Beyond Meat
has said it plans to counter in its
advertising.
One of the biggest priorities for
Protein Industries Canada right
now is to incentivize private-
sector investment, said Mr.
Greuel, which can be a challenge:
Processing facilities cost several
hundred million dollars and rep-
resent a risky, longer-term invest-
ment.
A September, 2023, report by
Ernst Young for Protein Indus-
tries Canada offered a positive
outlook despite recent challeng-
es. The global market for plant-
based meat could reach between
US 88.3-billion and US 139.4-bil-
lion by 2035, the report said, up
from US 16.5-billion in 2021.
According to the National
Research Council report, more
than 40 per cent of the popula-
tion is actively trying to incorpo-
rate more plant-based foods into
their diets.
THE CANADIAN PRESS with reports
from Associated Press

ASTRA ENECA SIGNS EAL ITH AI IOLOGICS FIR A SCI TO ESIGN CANCER RUG

Anglo-Swedish drugmaker
has signed a
deal worth up to US 247-million
with U.S. artificial intelligence
biologics firm . to
design an antibody to fight can-
cer, Absci said in a statement on
Sunday.
Absci’s collaboration with
Astra eneca aims for a zero-shot
generative AI model designed to
create new and improved anti-
body therapeutics, the company
said. It did not say what kind of
cancer they plan to target.
Absci applies generative
artificial intelligence to design
optimal drug candidates based
on target affinity, safety, manu-
facturability and other traits.
“We’re proud to work closely
with Astra eneca to leverage our
AI to bring novel treatments to
oncology patients,” Absci chief
executive Sean McClain said.
Astra eneca did not immedi-
ately respond to a Reuters
request for comment.
The Financial Times, which
first reported the deal, said it
includes an upfront fee for Absci,
research and development fund-
ing and milestone payments, and
royalties on any product sales.
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developer ver rande’s
plans for restructurin
ZEN SOO HONG KONG

A Hong Kong court will convene a hearing Monday on trou-

bled Chinese property developer Evergrande’s plans for res-
tructuring its more than US 300-billion in debts and staving
off liquidation.
The company, the world’s most indebted property devel-
oper, ran into trouble when Chinese regulators cracked down
on excessive borrowing in the real estate sector.
Last month, the company said Chinese police were investi-
gating Evergrande’s chairman, Hui Ka Yan, for unspecified
suspected crimes in the latest obstacle to the company’s
efforts to resolve its financial woes.
The Hong Kong High Court has postponed the hearing
over Evergrande’s potential liquidation several times. Judge
Linda Chan said in October that Monday’s hearing would be
the last before a decision is handed down.
Evergrande could be ordered to liquidate if the plan is
rejected by its creditors. In September, Evergrande aban-
doned its initial debt restructuring plan after authorities
banned it from issuing new dollar bonds, which was a key
part of its plan.
The company first defaulted
The company first on its financial obligations in
2021, just over a year after Beijing
defaulted on its clamped down on lending to
financial obli ations property developers in an effort
in 202 , ust o er a to cool a property bubble.
year after Bei in Evergrande is one of the big-
gest developers to have defaulted
clamped down on on its debts. But others including
lendin to property Country Garden, China’s largest
de elopers. developer, have also run into
trouble, their predicaments rip-
pling through financial systems in and outside China.
The fallout from the property crisis has also affected Chi-
na’s shadow banking industry – institutions which provide
financial services similar to banks but which operate outside
of banking regulations.
Police are investigating hongzhi Enterprise Group, a
major shadow bank in China that has lent billions in yuan to
property developers, after it said it was insolvent with up to
US 64-billion in liabilities.
Real estate drove China’s economic boom, but developers
borrowed heavily as they turned cities into forests of apart-
ment and office towers. That has helped to push total corpo-
rate, government and household debt to the equivalent of
more than 300 per cent of annual economic output, unusu-
ally high for a middle-income country.
To prevent troubles spilling into the economy from the
property sector, Chinese regulators reportedly have drafted a
list of 50 developers eligible for financing support, among
other measures meant to prop up the industry.

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A AL S S
ew greenwashing rules
will do little to fix the issue
JULIEN BEAULIEU
REN MONTGOMERY
OPINION
ulien Beaulieu is a law lecturer at
the Uni ersity of Sherbrooke and a
researcher with the Quebec Center
for En ironmental Law.
Wren Mont omery is an associate
professor of sustainability at I ey
Business School at Western
Uni ersity.
n November, after months of
public consultations, the fed-
eral government released its
plan for the third phase of its
In June, several U.S. states wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Energy calling for a new approach competition law reform, includ-
to interregional planning, proposing some Canadian jurisdictions should take part where appropriate. ing new rules meant to prohibit
NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS “misleading greenwashing
claims.”
The changes come at a time
In addition, the current rules
do not recognize any industry
standards that would allow firms
to know which evidence is con-
sidered sufficient to back an envi-
ronmental claim under the act.
For example, which carbon
accounting methods are accept-
able when making climate-relat-
ed claims What are the minimal
requirements for aspirational
claims such as a commitment to
achieve net zero by 2050 Can a
company say a product is carbon
neutral even if it relies on volun-
tary carbon offsets The Competi-
tion Act is and will remain silent
about these questions.
The federal government’s min-
imalist changes are surprising, as
the need for clearer, more strin-
gent greenwashing rules is one of
the few areas where civil society
groups, academics and compa-
nies seemed to agree. Two weeks

Canada U S must
when allegations of greenwash-
ing are becoming increasingly
pervasive globally, leading to a
rise in corporate green-hushing
ago, a group of 92 firms and ex-
perts publicly called for a clearer
legal framework to counter
greenwashing, restore consum-

co-operate on grids
rovinces continue to plan their
power systems in virtual isolation
from one another and with little
discussion with their neighbours
FRED C T
DAN SOSLAND
OPINION
Fr d ric C t is the eneral mana er of Ner ica.
Daniel Sosland is the president of Acadia Center.
n the halls of power where the future of the
electrical grid is planned and billions of
ratepayer dollars are on the table, there is
an elephant in the room – and it isn’t happy.
This paper’s editorial board was spot on
when it said the topic of clean power should be
“top of the list” for provincial leaders, and we
applaud the federal government’s repeated
promise to deliver clean electricity investment
tax credits in its recent fall economic state-
ment. But Canadians are missing a much wider
and significant context emerging in North
America: The United States is planning a conti-
nental grid, and much greater cross-border
co-operation is needed for both countries to
succeed in building it.
Grid modernization is essential to meet cli-
mate targets and position the continental
Northeast to take advantage of clean energy
opportunities. Done correctly, it will also im-
prove service reliability and help control costs.
Provinces, however, continue to plan their
power grids in virtual isolation of one another –
and with little discussion with their American
neighbours. This isolationism is not in the
long-term interest of both countries and cuts
against a consensus that such interregional
planning – as it is known in electric industry
circles – is imperative to our collective energy
security.
Why consider co-ordinating efforts Well,
first of all, American states are seeking it In
June, the six New England states, New York and
New Jersey wrote a letter to the U.S. Depart-
ment of Energy DOE calling for a new ap-
proach to interregional planning between the
jurisdictions, proposing that appropriate Cana-
dian jurisdictions should take part as well. The
DOE and federally regulated regional transmis-
sion organizations of the U.S. Northeast have
voiced support for this new model and are
co-operating to develop strategies. To date,
Canadian provinces are missing from the table.
A co-operative dialogue between the prov-
inces and states offers improved public interest
outcomes: consumer energy savings, increased
system reliability, greater technical efficiency,
more equitable distribution of benefits and the
intentional inclusion of local concerns on mat-
ters such as project siting and mitigating com-
munity impacts. The latter is imperative in
earning public support for infrastructure build-
out to fight climate change.
Complex problems related to the future of
our electricity supply in a carbon-constrained
world are unlikely to be solved at a political ne-
gotiating table. Rather, they require patiently
thought-out solutions achieved through inclu-
sive discussion. These solutions will require
analysis derived from regulators, developers,
utilities, researchers and market design experts
from various jurisdictions. The inputs of con-
sumers, communities, Indigenous leaders and
other stakeholders who pay for and are directly
affected by decisions made about the grid must
also be prioritized.
The ratepayer and voter should be very con-
cerned that provinces and states are not collab-
orating to pursue these benefits. Interjurisdic-
tional co-operation has been limited to narrow
issues around specific, often controversial
transmission projects, not on the broader and
critical issue of how our shared electricity sys-
tem can improve the lives and pocketbooks of
all residents. Simply put, the clean energy tran-
sition cannot maximize consumer, system and
equity benefits if provinces treat their grids as
closed markets except to promote electricity
exports.
The United States is focusing increased at-
tention on power infrastructure and market co-
operation. The Inflation Reduction Act, emerg-
ing federal regulations and state policies are all
pushing electrification forward on a new foot-
ing. Canadian grid planners need to align with
that effort.
Various scholars, trade associations and util-
ity planners from both sides of the border have
been calling for interregional planning in the
Northeast for more than a generation. It is seen
as an economic imperative. Given the right in-
terregional mandate, regulators and planners
from across the Northeast will enable greater
investment in infrastructure and technology,
from onshore and offshore wind and rooftop
solar to district energy plants and energy effi-
ciency measures, elevating community con-
cerns as a top-level consideration, not an after-
thought, as is often the case now.
and consumer skepticism.
According to a 2023 Deloitte
study, 57 per cent of Canadian
consumers do not trust the envi-
ronmental claims made by
brands any more, and 46 per cent
are not willing to pay a green pre-
mium because of the difficulty of
identifying genuinely sustainable
products.
Prior to these amendments,
the Competition Act already pro-
hibited false or misleading adver-
tising, and at least eight green-
washing complaints have been
filed with the Competition
Bureau – the agency responsible
for the statute’s enforcement –
over the past two years.
Under the new rules, firms
making environmental claims
will have to back them with “ade-
quate and proper” tests. This will
ensure that they conduct serious
studies and maintain records to
prove their green credentials. A
similar requirement already ex-
isted for performance claims in
general, but the new rules are
specific to claims about the cli-
mate, ecological and environ-
mental benefits of a product.
However, the new greenwash-
ing rules proposed by the govern-
ment will not put an end to green-
washing in Canada. In fact, the
proposed changes will only con-
firm something that was already
clear to everyone under the Com-
petition Act: Environmental
claims, as with any other types of
performance claims, must be
backed by “adequate” evidence.
But the amendments fail to pro-
vide clearer substantiation stan-
dards, information disclosure re-
quirements or enhanced penal-
ties.
For example, the Competition
Bureau will keep relying primar-
ily on consumer complaints to
identify greenwashing cases and
launch investigations. However,
consumers are unlikely to detect
most cases of environmental dis-
information, as there is no re-
quirement for firms to publicly
disclose the evidence substantiat-
ing their environmental claims. If
someone tries to sell you a falsely
“carbon neutral” apple, how can
you detect that you are being
greenwashed Good luck.
ers’ trust in Canadian firms and
allow well-intentioned compa-
nies to reap the rewards of their
investments in green innovation.
Similarly, during last spring’s
public consultation on the future
of the Competition Act, a group
of 40 environmental NGOs and
academics called for more ambi-
tious and predictable greenwash-
ing rules, including clearer sub-
stantiation standards and new in-
formation disclosure require-
ments.
The new rules are also unambi-
tious when compared with those
recently proposed in other juris-
dictions. For example, California
recently enacted the Voluntary
Carbon Market Disclosures Act,
which introduces new disclosure
obligations concerning net zero,
carbon neutrality and emission
reductions claims, as well as
emissions-related claims using
voluntary carbon offsets. These
rules will complement Califor-
nia’s existing greenwashing laws,
which include the right to request
the information substantiating a
firm’s environmental claims.
The changes to the Competi-
tion Act have not yet been adopt-
ed by Parliament, and there is still
time to propose more stringent
greenwashing rules. Interestingly,
the government has shown ambi-
tion in other aspects of its reform,
like introducing a certification
scheme to exempt certain sus-
tainability agreements from the
act’s cartel provisions, which will
allow firms to collaborate on cli-
mate issues. The government also
committed to consult on the in-
troduction of mandatory emis-
sions disclosures for major corpo-
rations, two months after Califor-
nia announced similar require-
ments.
We urge the government to
show the same degree of
ambition for the regulation of
greenwashing. Canada needs a
more effective regulatory
framework to break consumer
skepticism and incentivize firms
to invest in green innovation.
Without environmental
transparency, we might as well
throw “green markets” and
“stakeholder capitalism” in the
trash can.

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For years, professional sports or-
ganizations including the Nation-
al Basketball Association and
Major League Baseball prohibited
liquor companies from buying
advertising in locations in stadi-
ums and arenas that could be
seen on television, in deference to
efforts to curb drunken driving.
But in 2009, during the depths
of the worst recession since the
Great Depression, those same
leagues found themselves scram-
bling for cash as their biggest
sponsors – automakers, banks
and others – cut back on market-
ing. Suddenly, they began signing
multimillion-dollar deals with
companies that made rum, tequi-
la, vodka and other hard liquor,
and the advertising was displayed
for all to see.
It was a sign of how justifica-
tions can change seemingly over-
night, especially when money is
involved. The sports world was
reminded of that last week when
Miriam Adelson and her trust
sold US 2-billion worth of shares
in the Sands Corp., a casino oper-
ator, to buy a professional sports
team, which turned out to be the
Dallas Mavericks. The purchase
still needs to be approved by the
league’s board of governors
before becoming official.
“The Adelson and Dumont
families are honored to have the
opportunity to be stewards of this
great franchise,” they said in a
statement.
For decades, most major pro-
fessional leagues largely kept the
gaming world at arm’s length.
They barred players, referees and
owners from gambling on sports
to insulate game results from any
hint of impropriety, a stance that
dated back at least a century to
the famed Black Sox scandal of
1919.
Some leagues likewise forbid
owners from holding stakes in ca-
sinos. In one instance, Dan Roo-
ney, the principal owner of the
National Football League’s Pitts-
burgh Steelers, had to buy out his
brothers’ stake in the team be-
cause the brothers owned race-
tracks in New York and Florida.
The NBA had no such rule and
has had owners with ties to casi-
nos, including Tilman Fertitta,
the current owner of the Houston
Rockets.
“If gambling is permitted freely
on sporting events, normal inci-
dents of the game such as bad
snaps, dropped passes, turnovers,
penalties and play calling inevita-
bly will fuel speculation, distrust
and accusations of point-shaving
or game fixing,” NFL commis-
sioner Roger Goodell said in 2012.
Yet at a time when sports gam-
bling – once done only in casino
meccas such as Las Vegas or
through bookies – has been legal-
ized in dozens of states, the
leagues’ former approach seems
quaint. While restrictions remain
on players, referees and owners
wagering on their own sports,
gambling has otherwise been em-
braced by the mainstream sports
establishment.
They have removed restric-
tions on casinos and sportsbooks
advertising in stadiums and on
television. Some stadiums, in-
cluding FedEx Field in Landover,
Md., home of the NFL’s Washing-
ton Commanders, have sports-
books inside. Sports wagering
companies now plaster their
names on signboards in stadiums
and buy TV commercials during
games, including the Super Bowl.
The leagues have also done an
about-face on operating in the
home of sports wagering, Las Ve-
gas, which was for years off-limits.
Now the National Hockey League,
the Women’s National Basketball
Association and the NFL have
teams in the city. Last month,
MLB’s owners unanimously ap-
proved allowing the A’s to leave
Oakland and head to Las Vegas.
The NBA, which has held All-Star
games, summer leagues and a
new in-season tournament in Las
Vegas, could add an expansion
team in the city in the coming
years, which would give every
major pro sport a team in a locale
the leagues once shunned.
“The leagues are constantly re-
evaluating their business as laws
change, social mores change, and
different companies and catego-
ries become bigger,” said Marc
Ganis, a consultant to numerous
teams and leagues. “That in-
cludes look at ownership rules,
sponsorships and advertising.”
The NFL’s embrace of Las Vegas
has perhaps been most surpris-
ing, given the league’s conserva-
tive reputation. The Raiders won
approval to move to the city in
2017. The league has held the Pro
Bowl and college draft on the
Strip. And in February, the Super
Bowl will be played in Las Vegas,
removing perhaps the last vestige
of any distance between it and
the city.
“Las Vegas is acceptable not so
much because of us but because
gambling is almost everywhere
now,” said Michael Green, a histo-
rian at the University of Nevada,
Las Vegas. “The Strip is as legit as
any large business.”
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he climate is changing and so is Canadian disclosure

DAVID MILSTEAD creased 113 per cent since 2019. considers climate issues, includ- panies outside the sector: Cana- or training, but left unclear
“A year ago, two years ago, I ing identifying board committees dian National Railway Co., Gildan whether directors had specific ex-
would have said this is a slog, this responsible for climate policy and Activewear Inc., iA Financial pertise or received training in cli-

A
s investors want to know
more about how compa-
nies are dealing with cli-
mate change and other sustaina-
bility issues, Canadian compa-
nies are responding.
In 2018, fewer than half of the
members of the S P TS Com-
posite Index released a dedicated
ESG environmental, social and
governance report, according to
Millani, a Montreal-based con-
sulting firm. That figure rose to
roughly three-quarters of index
companies by 2022.
This has happened as investors
and companies sorted through
many competing global ESG dis-
closure standards and developed
a consensus on which ones to
adopt. The number of companies
specifically using standards de-
veloped by the Swiss-based Task
Force on Climate-Related Finan-
cial Disclosures TCFD has in-
is hard work,” says Milla Craig,
Millani’s chief executive officer.
“But what I would also say is most
Canadian companies know this is
the No. 1 issue on top of the minds
of investors and institutional in-
vestors – and that they need to
have a strategy behind this.”
Companies are issuing these
extensive disclosures in dedicat-
ed ESG or sustainability reports,
often several months after their
annual report and yearly share-
holders’ meeting. Many of the key
disclosures are making it into
companies’ shareholder proxy
circulars, and they are now part of
the criteria for The Globe and
Mail’s Board Games corporate
ranking, done in partnership
with Toronto consulting firm
Global Governance Advisors.
One question, worth two
points, examines whether a com-
pany makes clear how its board
other committees that consider
climate-related issues as they re-
view strategy, risk management
and operating performance.
Another two-part question,
worth one point for each part, re-
quires a company to have at least
one director with climate exper-
tise and to provide climate-relat-
ed education sessions to their
boards.
A total of 13 companies in this
year’s ranking received the maxi-
mum possible four points. Many
were in the resource sector, where
climate-related disclosure is com-
mon because of the companies’
impact on the environment. Alta-
Gas Ltd., Cameco Corp., Cenovus
Energy Inc., Hudbay Minerals
Inc., Parkland Corp., Suncor Ener-
gy Inc., Torex Gold Resources Inc.
and West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd.
all received four points.
The group also includes com-
Corp. Inc., National Bank of Cana-
da and RioCan REIT received four
points.
“It’s not surprising to see it in
some of those industries like ma-
terials and in the energy sector,”
said Tony Spizzirri, the Global
Governance Advisors partner
who oversees Board Games scor-
ing. But, he said, financial and re-
al estate companies “say a lot
about it as well.”
Of the 219 companies scored in
Board Games in 2023, 122, or
56 per cent, received full two-
point credit for disclosing how
the board oversees climate mat-
ters. Forty companies received
one point for having a director
with climate expertise. And 58
companies, or 26 per cent, re-
ceived one point for board cli-
mate training.
Many companies made broad
disclosures about ESG expertise
mate-change issues. Companies
did not receive credit for those
disclosures.
There were 76 companies,
slightly more than one-third, that
received no points across the
three climate criteria.
Companies “need to be look-
ing at climate change as risk,”
says Elizabeth Dove, executive di-
rector of the UN Global Compact
Network Canada, a group that
promotes 17 United Nations sus-
tainable development goals.
“So, it is alarming to see so
many companies, based on the
data you found, with boards with-
out climate-change expertise or
meaningful discussion,” she said.
“To investors it may signal an ab-
sence of medium-term perspec-
tive – because climate-change im-
pacts are not a long-term thing –
or denial of the evidence that is
immediately before us.”

BOARD GAMES 3 HO E RAN ED CANADA’S CORPORATE BOARDS

For the 22nd year in a row,
Report on Business has rated
the work of Canada s corporate
boards usin a ri orous set of
o ernance criteria desi ned to
o far beyond minimum man
datory rules imposed by re u
lators.
The Globe and Mail s data
partner, Global Go ernance
Ad isors, examined the boards
of directors of companies and
trusts in the S P/TS Compos
ite Index to assess the quality
of their o ernance practices
and disclosure.
The chart shows the total
marks for 2023 and 2022
based on do ens of indi idual
criteria across four broad sub
cate ories.
The marks are based on
information published in the
most recent annual shareholder
proxy circulars of companies
that were members of the
S P/TS Composite as of Sept.
. Companies added to the
index after une 30, as well as
companies that do not publish
proxy circulars, are not marked. er a board has at least one which the o erwhelmin ma or
A company must disclose its director with climate expertise ity of companies rou hly 0
policies and practices in its and whether companies pro per cent or more recei ed
circular for the company to ide climate related education full credit. The Globe also
recei e marks. sessions to their boards. reallocated se eral marks to
All references to directors To make room for the new other questions, particularly
also include trustees at real criteria, which brin the total those about di ersity. And it
estate in estment trusts and number of factors scored to 34, raised thresholds in those areas
trusts. All references to shares The Globe reallocated points and others.
also include trust units. from some of the criteria in Past Board Games rankin s
In 2023, there are two new place in 2022. and articles are a ailable at
criteria on matters related to In 2022, The Globe made a https //www.the lobeand
board o ersi ht of climate number of ma or chan es to mail.com/business/careers/
issues, a first for Board Games. Board Games criteria, includin mana ement/board ames/.
The questions examine wheth remo in many questions for DAVID MILSTEAD
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Diversity: esponse to CSA s competing rule proposals suggests hopeless di ision
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The risk As those institutional
investors demand more data –
and strong commitments to di-
versity at the board and executive
level – Canadian companies may
lag in attracting global capital.
“Oftentimes, I will get ques-
tions from senior executives or
directors with respect to How do
I report this Which categories do
I use ’ and my answer is Well, that
depends,’ ” Kelly Gorman, execu-
tive vice-president at Kingsdale
Advisors, said at a September
panel discussion of diversity
reporting sponsored by the Onta-
rio Securities Commission.
For securities regulators, “it’s
time to step in and create a defini-
tion that at least is the floor and is
comparable disclosure for all in-
vestors,” she said. “Institutional
investors today are using this
information to make decisions
that will have significant conse-
quences to individual directors
and have the ability to change the
whole composition of govern-
ance for that company.”
The Globe has found, through
its 22nd annual Board Games re-
search, that Canadian companies
are still struggling to navigate the
field of diversity disclosure. Board
Games has steadily increased the
number of points devoted to
diversity disclosure and practices,
and the issues now represent 13 of
the possible 100 total points.
But for 2023, only 19 of 219 S P
TS Composite Index companies
scored received the maximum
possible points for these issues.
And more than a third of them –
79 companies – received none of
the six possible points for diversi-
ty beyond the representation of
women. These criteria exceed
the standards of the federal law.
Canadian advocates for gender
diversity say more can be done,
but they typically acknowledge
that the 2015 required disclosure
has already helped prompt the
steady increase in women on
boards.
According to law firm Osler,
Hoskin Harcourt LLP, which
does an annual study of corporate
diversity in Canada, women
T H E G LO E A N D AIL O
Gordon Raman, a lawyer at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP who chairs the firm’s ESG Sustainability Practice,
says regulatory groups should have forced themselves to find common ground on diversity disclosures.
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made up 23 per cent of boards of
S P TS 60 Index companies in
2015, the year the rule was intro-
duced, and 12 per cent of Cana-
dian board membership over all.
By 2023, those numbers were 38
per cent for companies in the
S P TS 60 Index and 27 per
cent for all companies that pro-
vided the disclosure.
The hope is that expanded di-
versity disclosure will help drive
up board representation of other
groups. Osler found that from
2021 to 2023, visible minorities
went from 6.8 per cent of board
positions to 10.2 per cent Indige-
nous directors went from 0.5 per
cent eight people to 0.9 per cent
17 . And directors who disclosed
disabilities went from 0.5 per cent
eight people to 0.7 per cent 11 .
For an example of the mélange
of Canadian diversity disclosure,
look at Magna International Inc.
A shareholder looking at the pho-
tos of the company’s directors
and reading their biographies
would see that Magna has a di-
verse board.
Two directors, one a woman,
appear to be East Asian. Another
two, one a woman, appear to be
South Asian. There are also three
white women, one of whom, ac-
cording to her biography, won the
lifetime achievement award from
the group Out on Bay Street.
That’s seven of the company’s
13 directors, or 53 per cent. It’s a
majority-diverse board in an in-
dustry – automobile parts – that
had been very white and very
male for a very long time.
But Magna’s official disclosure
on diversity in its shareholder
proxy circular says only 46 per
cent of its board is diverse by
“gender, LGBTQ and underrep-
resented minority in home coun-
try.”
Magna, as an Ontario-based
and incorporated company that
trades on the Toronto and New
York stock exchanges, is not sub-
ject to the Canadian federal law
and faces no other regulatory re-
quirements for diversity disclo-
sure other than the representa-
tion of women. So the disclosures
it makes are voluntary – and im-
precise.
By combining the diverse
groups in the disclosure, Magna
does not disclose how many di-
rectors are part of each. And Mag-
na’s policies, like those of most
companies, rely on directors to
self-identify which groups they
belong to – which means one of
those seven directors apparently
chose not to claim they are part of
any diverse group. Instead of us-
ing the Canada Business Corpora-
tions Act framework and Cana-
dian definitions of “visible minor-
ity,” Magna uses a term from Nas-
daq stock market regulations in
the United States that the compa-
ny need not even follow.
Tracy Fuerst, a spokesperson
for Magna, declined to comment
for this story.
“It seemed like many of the
companies do not want to use the
term visible minority,’ for in-
stance,” said Tony Spizzirri, the
R E O RT O N U S I N ES S | B
partner at Global Governance Ad-
visors who supervises the Board
Games scoring. “ Racial ethnic
diversity’ is more common to
read about in a circular. The CBCA
specifically uses visible minority’
and, so, to provide a different
term means that now all of a sud-
den there’s ambiguity, and many
of the companies didn’t clearly
define what they meant by racial
diversity’ or ethnic diversity’ or
cultural diversity.’”
Magna’s challenge with direc-
tor self-identification is not
unique, says Rima Ramchandani,
co-head of the capital markets
practice at law firm Torys LLP. She
has advised companies that think
one of their directors fits within a
diverse category, but that person
has chosen not to identify that
way.
“My answer is you report what
the person tells you,” Ms. Ram-
chandani said in an interview. “It
isn’t the issuer’s job to police this
information of their directors and
officers. Most individuals have
sufficient lived experience to de-
cide what they’re going to identi-
fy as and you should respect that
determination.”
Melanie Adams, head of res-
ponsible investment at RBC Glob-
al Asset Management, told the
OSC roundtable in September
that while gender diversity is a
factor in her firm’s voting on di-
rectors, other forms of diversity
can’t easily be considered be-
cause data don’t exist. “A lot of
times, it’s just not available. It’s
just not there.”
Enter the Canadian Securities
Administrators CSA , an um-
brella group for the provincial
and territorial securities regula-
tors. It planned to present inves-
tors with a proposed rule for all
publicly traded companies on
how to disclose diversity. With
the regulators divided in their po-
sitions, however, the CSA pub-
lished two competing rule pro-
posals in April. And the com-
ments the CSA has received from
market participants suggest a
hopeless division, creating a
strong possibility the process
won’t produce a unified policy.
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Disclosure: egional
regulators weigh two options
FROM B

One proposal, for what is called a “Form B” disclosure, is sup-

ported only by Ontario regulators, and would require compa-
nies to report on the number of directors from each of the
four designated groups in the CBCA law as well as LGBTQ2SI
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, 2-spirit, intersex
and others . The proposed form would require companies to
use a standardized table so investors could compare different
companies’ numbers.
The other proposal, Form A, would not require companies
to disclose numbers for any group not part of their diversity
goals. Instead, a company would describe its diversity objec-
tives and how it would measure progress. Form A requires no
specific table or format. Securities regulators in British Co-
lumbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Northwest Territories
back this approach.
The remaining provincial and territorial regulators have
taken no position.
“They were probably having an internal tussle figuring out
what the proposal should be, and that must have taken a long
time,” Gordon Raman, a lawyer at Fasken Martineau DuMou-
lin LLP who chairs the firm’s ESG Sustainability Practice,
said in an interview. “Having taken that time, though, it
BoC Governor Tiff Macklem said last month the central bank e pects the economy to remain weak for the ne t would have been better to have forced themselves to come up
few uarters, indicating more downward pressure on inflation is in the pipeline.’ PATRICK DOYLE/REUTERS with a common view. I don’t think it’s that helpful when regu-
lators open it up and say, We’re not sure which way to go.’ ”
A little more than half the 50-plus commenters on the

ates: hile a oiding outright recession Canadian form proposals endorsed the OSC’s preferred Form B, with
some saying Form A is no better than the status quo. Others

economy s sluggish growth hits BoC s sweet spot

FROM B1
In the spring, house prices took off after the bank
suggested that it was finished tightening monetary
policy. It ended up raising rates two more times, in
June and July, after economic growth came in stron-
ger than expected and inflation remained stub-
bornly elevated.
“The threat of rate hikes helps the bank maxi-
mize the economic impact of the tightening already
in the system, and lifting the mission accomplished
banner too quickly would run the risk of stalling
progress on short-term inflation expectations
which remain uncomfortably high,” Toronto-
Dominion Bank rate strategists, led by Andrew Kel-
vin, wrote in a note to clients.
With the annual rate of Consumer Price Index in-
flation dropping to 3.1 per cent in October – only
slightly above the upper end of the bank’s inflation-
control range – market speculation has shifted from
whether the bank will tighten monetary policy fur-
ther to when it might start cutting rates. The bank
officially targets 2-per-cent CPI inflation.
Interest rate swap markets, which capture mar-
ket expectations about monetary policy, are cur-
rently pricing in a more than 60-per-cent chance the
bank starts cutting rates in March, according to Re-
finitiv data. But some economists think traders are
getting ahead of themselves and that the bank is
more likely to start cutting rates around the middle
of next year.
“There have been some signs of core inflation
moving more sustainably lower, but it remains too
early to have a high level of confidence,” Simon Dee-
ley, director of Canadian rates strategy at Royal
Bank of Canada, wrote in a note to clients. He put
the odds of the first cut happening in the third quar-
ter of 2024 at 60 per cent.
Getting interest rates back down into neutral ter-
ritory “will be a high hurdle as they just can’t afford
another mistake,” Mr. Deeley said of the central
bank. “Undershooting the inflation target is a more
desired outcome than overshooting it.”
As it stands, the Bank of Canada is in a holding
pattern: nervous about inflation moving up again
and straining its credibility, but increasingly confi-
dent that monetary policy is doing the trick.
Higher interest rates make it more expensive for
households and businesses to borrow money and
service their debts. This lowers demand for goods
and services and reduces upward pressure on con-
sumer prices. In other words, the central bank is
purposely slowing down the economy to put a
brake on inflation.
Recent data suggest this is working. The coun-
try’s gross domestic product shrank at an annual-
ized pace of 1.1 per cent in the third quarter, Statis-
tics Canada said Thursday. It revised second-quarter
GDP upward to show annualized growth of 1.4 per
cent instead of the slight decline it had shown previ-
ously.
On Friday, Statscan said Canada added around
25,000 jobs in November. That was slightly higher
than Bay Street estimates, although job growth was
slower than population growth, leading the unem-
ployment rate to rise one notch to 5.8 per cent.
Taken together, the data suggest the Canadian
economy is growing at a sluggish pace, well below
its potential, but avoiding an outright recession.
That’s a sweet spot for the Bank of Canada, which
has consistently said that it is not trying to cause a
painful economic downturn to get inflation under
control.
“The economy is approaching balance, and infla-
tion has fallen from 8.1 per cent in June of 2022 to 3.1
per cent last month,” Mr. Macklem said in his
speech last month. “We expect the economy to re-
main weak for the next few quarters, which means
more downward pressure on inflation is in the pipe-
line.”
Crucially, three-month measures of core infla-
tion, which strip out the most volatile price move-
ments, are finally trending downward after getting
stuck in the 3.5-per-cent to 4-per-cent range for
much of this year.
But other signs of inflationary pressures remain
higher than the bank would like. Average hourly
wages, for instance, rose at an annual pace of 4.8 per
cent in November – a pace the bank has said is not
compatible with price stability.
endorsing Form B said it doesn’t go far enough in requiring
disclosures and company-defined targets for diversity. More
than a third of commenters, however, endorsed Form A.
Their main objection to Form B: Allowing regulators, rather
than companies, to define diverse groups is “too prescrip-
tive” and fosters a “tick-the-box” approach.
The Form A supporters include industry trade groups and
multiple companies in the Alberta oil patch. Mark Stain-
thorpe, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.’s chief financial offi-
cer, referred to Form A as “the western proposal” in his com-
ment letter to the CSA. It “provides a balance between the
need of stakeholders to have transparency” on a company’s
diversity while supporting the need “for flexibility to craft a
fit for purpose’ approach to fostering greater diversity with-
out creating undue administrative cost and burden.”
The Form B supporters include nearly all major pension
plans in Canada and a number of advocacy groups and gov-
ernance consultants. Adrian Mitchell, the senior managing
director for public equities at Healthcare of Ontario Pension
Plan, wrote that it “strongly prefers” Form B, which “will pro-
vide investors with consistent, comparable disclosures form
A will not do this.”
John McKenzie, chief executive of TM Group Ltd., which
owns the TS , wrote that after consultation that included
some of the hundreds of small companies on its Venture Ex-
change, TM decided to back Form A for its “potential to pro-
vide shareholders with better information. One size does
not fit all when it comes to corporate governance.”
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, manager of
the country’s biggest pension fund, broke from its peers and
endorsed Form A. Richard Manley, its chief sustainability offi-
cer, cited Form A’s “more flexible approach” and said that
“the scope of Canadian diversity is not fully captured in the
proposed list of designated groups.”
The end result of the CSA process is unclear. Stan Magid-
son, the current chair of the CSA and CEO of the Alberta Secu-
rities Commission, said the CSA will “take the time we need to
review the comment letters.” Some pension executives, such
as Barbara van, CEO of the Toronto-based University Pen-
sion Plan, said the Form B diversity disclosures are important
enough to move forward immediately if consensus cannot be
reached among the CSA members. “UPP supports the Onta-
rio Securities Commission in acting independently to issue
new regulations before the end of 2023.”
Scott Blodgett, a spokesperson for Ontario’s Ministry of
Finance, did not directly answer the question of whether the
province’s government will bless the OSC forging ahead, say-
ing the government “has identified corporate diversity in
capital markets as an issue for further government consid-
eration.” The OSC will not say publicly whether it is willing to
act on its own. OSC CEO Grant Vingoe said at the September
roundtable, “This shouldn’t be perceived as a strict choice,

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ONTARIO SUPERIOR COURT O USTICE o er years declining
COMMERCIA IST FROM B1
IN T E MATTER O T E COMPANIES CREDITORS That represented 16 per cent of its portfolio. In its previous
ARRANGEMENT ACT R.S.C.198 quarter, it had 49.8-billion worth of such mortgages – 19 per
. C-36 AS AMENDED cent of its loan book.
Royal Bank of Canada does not allow mortgages to negativ-
AND IN T E MATTER O A P AN O COMPROMISE OR ely amortize.
Bank of Nova Scotia’s variable-rate products do not have
ARRANGEMENT O IGNITE O DINGS INC. fixed monthly payments for the most part, so as interest rates
IGNITE SER ICES INC. AND IGNITE INSURANCE CORPORATION rise, so do payments. With a fixed monthly payment, more of
the borrower’s payment goes toward interest costs and less
toward the loan principal whenever interest rates rise. As a re-
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF Ignite Holdings Inc., Ignite Services Inc., and Ignite Insurance Corporation (collectively, sult, the amortization period lengthens.
the “A ”). On their respective conference calls this week, the chief
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT, pursuant to an order of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) grant- risk officers of BMO, TD and CIBC said they were taking steps
ed November 29, 2023 (the “P C O ”), any person who believes that they have a PRIORIT C AIM to reduce the number of negatively amortizing loans.
against the Applicants must send a Proof of Claim to the Applicants and the Monitor to be received by 5:00 p.m. BMO’s Piyush Agrawal said the bank had a “positive cus-
(Toronto time) on January 11, 2024 (the “P C B D ”). All capitalized terms not defined herein have the tomer response to the outreach resulting in a reduction in
meanings ascribed to them in the Priority Claims Order. mortgages and negative amortization from prior quarter.”
TD’s Ajai Bambawale said borrowers were either making
PROOFS OF CLAIM WHICH ARE NOT RECEIVED BY THE PRIORITY CLAIMS BAR DATE WILL BE FOREVER EXTINGUISHED
AND SUCH PRIORITY CLAIMANTS WILL BE FOREVER BARRED, ESTOPPED AND ENJOINED FROM ASSERTING OR lump sum payments or moving to fixed-rate mortgages.
ENFORCING A PRIORITY CLAIM AGAINST THE PURCHASED SHARES, THE APPLICANTS, RESIDUAL CO. OR THE And CIBC’s Frank Guse said 13,000 borrowers “took action
PURCHASER. to remove themselves from negative amortizing status for the
most part by increasing their monthly payments.”
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A PROOF OF CLAIM IN THIS PROCESS IN RESPECT OF SUCH SECURED CLAIM OR UNSECURED CLAIM AT THIS TIME.
have become problematic for the federal bank regulator, even
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ACCEPTED SETT ED OR DISPUTED NOR I T E BE ORE ER BARRED E TINGUIS ED OR DISC ARGED. though such products have been around for years.
“That particular product, a variable-rate product with fixed
Further details regarding the Applicants, a copy of the Priority Claims Order and the Proof of Claim form can be payments, is a dangerous product in our view,” Peter Rout-
obtained from the Monitor’s website at https://kpmg.com/ca/IgniteGroup. ledge, head of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial
For questions, please contact the Monitor at: Institutions, told a Senate banking committee in early No-
vember. “While not wanting to impose a judgment on prod-
KPMG Inc., in its capacity as the Court-appointed Monitor of the Applicants uct design, we would like less of that product. We think the
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from 25.7 per cent over the same period. At CIBC, it eased to 24
per cent from 27 per cent. And at RBC, it fell to 23 per cent from
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L BE
he cost of raising kids: o the right math
o understand what
these numbers mean
would-be parents need
to take a closer look
at individual situations
ANITA BRUINSMA
A
study that pegged the cost
of raising a child in Canada
at more than 350,000
made headlines in October.
Why In part because it’s the
first official data on the topic in
more than a decade – and it’s an
intimidating amount. But it’s
also because we like peeking into
other people’s finances to see
how much other parents are
spending on clothing, food and
education. It gives us a bench-
mark against which to compare
ourselves.
The issue, however, is that the
numbers cited don’t apply to
everyone. Averages are often use-
less, as demonstrated in the joke
about the statistician who
drowned crossing a river with an
average depth of three feet. The
findings about how much it costs
to raise a child in Canada are a
prime example of that.
The Statistics Canada study
looking at the period from 2014
to 2017 found that medium-
income earning parents with one
child will spend 375,000 to raise
them to age 17. In 2023 dollars,
that’s the equivalent of 455,000,
taking into account that the cost
of living has risen 21 per cent
since 2017.
The report also provided data
for households at lower and high-
er incomes. For the medium-in-
come household we’ll look at
here, the income bracket was
100,579 to 165,525 of total
household income, in today’s
dollars.
Some would-be parents may
be left wondering if they could
even afford to have a child. But to
really understand what these
ith in esting knowledge perception
does not always match reality
PREET BANERJEE
OPINION
Consultant to the wealth mana ement industry
with a focus on commercial applications
of beha ioural finance research
verconfident investors are more like-
ly to sell after a market crash, locking
in losses and missing out on market
recoveries, says a paper published in
the Journal of Behavioral Finance this year.
Selling after a market crash can be one of
the biggest mistakes an investor can make.
Since 1942, the average bear market for the
S P 500 has lasted little more than 11 months,
with an average loss of 37.1 per cent, while the
average bull market has lasted more than four
years, with an average return of 147.2 per cent,
according to First Trust Portfolios L.P.
The implicit assumption is that sellers will
time their re-entry into the market accurately.
That is a poor assumption, says a separate
study by Dimensional Fund Advisors. It looked
at 720 different stock timing strategies and
found that only 30 outperformed a buy-and-
hold approach.
But before you start digging for the details
on those 30 winning strategies, know that they
are unlikely to continue working in the future
– and the reason they outperformed in the
first place was mostly just luck.
As the authors of that study note, “if you
ask a large enough number of people to
repeatedly flip a coin, someone will flip 10
heads in a row. Similarly, we should expect
some strategies to generate outstanding
results just by chance if we try enough param-
eter combinations.”
In the first study, the researchers were able
to identify overconfident investors by cross-
referencing respondents from two surveys of
U.S. investors in 2018 and creating two com-
parison variables: “perceived investment
knowledge” and “actual investment knowl-
edge.”
People were asked to rate their level of
investment knowledge, and this formed their
perceived investment knowledge score. The
surveys also contained 16 questions that could
be used to score their actual investment
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17, for a two-parent family with
one child who already lived in a
sufficiently big home and didn’t
need to buy a new car but re-
quired full-time child care, the to-
tal cost is more like 258,000.
So how do you come up with
your own number Well, you
focus on the big three costs.
Let’s start with housing. Will
you move if you have a child If
you don’t need to move, your
housing costs won’t change
much. If you do need to move,
compare your current rent or
mortgage payment to the up-
graded one: How much more is
it You may also need to consider
the increased costs for mainte-
nance, repairs and furnishing.
Next, look at what child care
will actually cost you. Call the
daycares in your area and find
out the going rates. The expense
will vary depending on where
you live and whether the daycare
is part of the 10-a-day program.
Statscan data suggest numbers mean, they need to take number is low for parents who If a nanny is your preferred route,
raising a child in 3 can a closer look at their individual need full-time daycare, even with research that option.
cost more than 5 , circumstances. the recent reduction in daycare On the transportation front,
over 1 years, depending The three big costs – housing, costs through Ottawa’s 10-a-day think about whether adding a
on daycare, housing and transportation, and child care child care initiative., child would mean you’d need a
transportation costs. and education – made up two- In 2023, parents who put their new car. What about a second
DARRYL DYCK/ thirds of the total cost. But these toddler in a Richmond, B.C., day car Would you have bought a
THE CANADIAN PRESS expenses can vary dramatically care can expect to pay as much as new car regardless What is the
from one situation to another. 905 a month – that’s 43,400 up actual additional cost that can be
Housing is the biggest to age five if we assume four years attributed to a child
expense. The authors assumed of care is needed after a year of The other categories have a
that an individual or a couple parental leave. Even with daycare smaller impact on your personal
who has a baby will need to move at 10 a day, the cost for four calculation and you can probably
into a bigger home and add one years would be around 10,000. use the numbers in the study.
bedroom per child. The housing Then there’s transportation You can see all of the figures on
On the cost is calculated based on the costs. The study allocated half of the Statistics Canada website.
cost of moving to a bigger place. the cost of a household’s trans- Don’t forget to add 21 per cent
transportation front, But people who have a baby portation to the parents and the for inflation since 2017.
think about whether don’t necessarily move. rest is divided equally among the If the 455,000 number
addin a child would Some people already live in a kids. This means that in a family seemed overwhelming, remem-
mean you d need a place with two or three bed- with one child, that child ber that doing your own calcula-
rooms. For these folks, having a accounts for half of the cost. tions will help you make a more
new car. What about child does not require a move I know many one-child fam- informed decision – and hopeful-
a second car Would and that means the 103,000 ilies who own one car – and it’s ly feel more confident that rais-
you ha e bou ht a additional cost to house a child as not an SUV. In these cases, the ex- ing a child won’t decimate your
calculated in this study is almost tra transportation cost of a child finances.
new car re ardless entirely eliminated. is minimal, except for all the gas
Next, let’s look at the child it takes to drive them around for Special to The Globe and Mail
care and education number. The activities and appointments.
study shows that from birth to So while Statscan’s numbers Anita Bruinsma is a Toronto based
age five, families spend 5,414 work out to an average of financial coach and a parent of two
over those five years. This 455,000 today to raise a child to teena e boys.
HAT INVESTORS NEE TO KNO FOR THE EEK AHEA
MONDAY Brown For-
man Corp. Campbell Soup Co.
Germany trade surplus Evertz Technologies Inc. Gam-
knowledge. 10 a.m. ET U.S. factory eStop Corp. North West Com-
If an investor’s perceived investment orders for October. The Street is pany Inc.
knowledge was high but their actual invest- projecting a decline of 2.7 per
ment knowledge was low, they were categor- cent from September.
THURSDAY
ized as “overconfident” – they didn’t know as Nio Inc.
much as they thought they did. Conversely,
investors with low perceived investment Euro zone real GDP
knowledge but high actual investment knowl- TUESDAY 8:30 a.m. ET Canadian
edge were categorized as “underconfident” – building permits for October
they actually knew a lot but didn’t think they Japan, China services and 8:30 a.m. ET U.S. initial
did. composite PMI jobless claims for Dec. 2. Esti-
Those who rated their knowledge as low Euro zone services and mate is 225,000, up 7,000 from
and also had low actual knowledge were composite PMI and Producer the previous week.
labelled “accurately unaware” – they knew Price Index 10 a.m. ET U.S. wholesale
they didn’t know much. And finally, those who 9:30 a.m. ET Canadian trade for October
rated their knowledge as high and had high S P Global Services PMI for 12 p.m. ET U.S. flow of
actual knowledge were “accurately aware.” November funds for Q3
In response to a 20-per-cent market crash, 10 a.m. ET U.S. ISM Ser- 12:15 p.m. ET Bank of
overconfident investors were more likely than vices PMI for November Canada deputy governor Toni
the other groups to sell out of the market. 10 a.m. ET U.S. Job Open- Gravelle speaks at the Windsor-
Accurately aware investors were another sto- ings and Labor Turnover Survey Essex Regional Chamber of
ry: They were more likely to buy. for October Commerce.
Overconfident investors were also the most Auto one 3 p.m. ET U.S. consumer
likely to buy cryptocurrencies, use margin Inc. Descartes Systems Group credit for October
accounts, utilize options and trade penny Inc. Ferguson PLC Broadcom
stocks. These more aggressive trading activ- Inc. Dollar General Corp. EQB
ities tend to be associated with DIY investors. Inc. Laurentian Bank of Cana-
While not everyone who opens up a dis- EDNESDAY da Lululemon Athletica Inc.
count brokerage account will engage in these
activities, the access to these types of products China trade surplus
and strategies is arguably too tempting for FRIDAY
Euro zone retail sales
some. Sign away enough responsibility and 8:15 a.m. ET U.S. ADP
you are free to blow yourself up. Caveat emp- National Employment Report Japan real GDP, household
tor. for November. Estimate is an spending and bank lending
Discount brokerages are known as order increase of 125,000 jobs from Germany CPI
execution only OEO platforms and have October. 8:30 a.m. ET Canada’s
restrictions on the kind of advice they can give 8:30 a.m. ET Canadian capacity utilization for Q3.
DIY investors. These investors may not want to labour productivity for Q3. Estimate is 81 per cent, down
work with traditional advice channels and Estimate is a month-over- from 81.4 per cent in Q2.
instead are turning to social media and other month drop of 0.6 per cent. 8:30 a.m. ET U.S. employ-
unlicensed sources of information, for better 8:30 a.m. ET Canada’s ment for November. The con-
or worse, in tandem with their DIY accounts. merchandise trade balance for sensus is an increase of
The findings suggest that overconfident October 200,000 jobs from October with
investors might therefore benefit from addi- 8:30 a.m. ET U.S. produc- the unemployment rate
tional guardrails. This supports the Ontario tivity for Q3. The Street expects remaining 3.9 per cent and
Securities Commission’s proposed Statement an annualized rate increase of average hourly earnings up 0.3
of Priorities for 2024-25 item six , which sug- 4.9 per cent with unit labour per cent or 4 per cent year-
gests the regulator is open to the idea of non- costs declining 0.9 per cent. over-year .
tailored advice on DIY platforms. 8:30 a.m. ET U.S. goods 10 a.m. ET U.S. University
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ow this portfolio manager ar ets price in

saw double-digit returns
d ollbach uses a mi
of dividend-paying
larger-cap stocks
and undervalued
smaller-cap names to
diversify his portfolio
BRENDA BOU
GLO E ADVISOR
THE MOVER
oney manager Ed Soll-
bach isn’t buying big
bank stocks to balance
his portfolio or betting on the
hottest artificial intelligence play
for growth.
Instead, the portfolio manager
at Spartan Fund Management
Inc. in Toronto puts together a
mix of high-yielding large and
medium-cap equities and lesser-
known micro and small-cap secu-
rities he believes are set to re-
bound.
Mr. Sollbach refers to it as a
“core and more” strategy for the
65-million Spartan Fund Man-
agement MM Fund he oversees.
He says the strategy has enabled
the fund to generate double-digit
compounded annualized returns
since its inception in 2015.
The fund’s F class has returned
11.7 per cent over the past 12
months. Its three-year annual-
ized return is 11.1 per cent and its
five-year annualized return is 14.6
per cent. The performance data is
based on total returns and is net
of fees as of Nov. 24. Over all, Spar-
tan manages about 1.6-billion in
assets.
The Globe and Mail spoke with
Mr. Sollbach recently about what
he has been buying and selling
and a big tech stock he wishes he
hadn’t sold.
Talk more about your core and
more approach.
The core’ side includes long-term
holdings. The main thing we look
for is yield, mostly through high
dividend-paying Canadian equi-
ties. We currently have an average
overall yield of about 3.5 per cent.
The more’ side of the portfolio
includes smaller-cap names that
are more speculative and volatile
but have a higher potential for
capital gains.
hat is the current core and more
mi
The baseline is 50-50, but right
now, we’re at about 71 per cent
core and 29 per cent more, which
is based on our conservative ap-
proach and focus on yield since
the U.S. Federal Reserve Board
started raising interest rates last
year. It was the reverse at the end
of 2020. The core part of the port-
folio was 29 per cent and more
was 71 per cent. Fortunately, we
became more defensive well
ahead of the bear market that be-
gan in early 2022.
hat’s your broader market
outlook
We think the U.S. economy will
continue to slow as the effect of
interest rate hikes ripples
through. Many companies are in
good shape but will be impacted
by refinancing debt at higher
rates. Higher rates are also a hur-
dle for new investments, so cap-
ital spending will likely slow. We
also believe higher rates are here
to stay. We’re taking advantage of
that by increasing our fixed-in-
come exposure in the portfolio to
about 11 per cent today.
Canada is a little worse off on
the consumer side, given that we
have shorter-term mortgages
compared to the U.S. So, house-
holds will likely feel the impact of
higher rates sooner. That said,
we’re bullish on energy in Cana-
da. It’s an area that has been un-
derinvested and is still necessary.
We expect oil prices to remain in
the range of US 80 to US 100 a
barrel in the near term. Energy
stocks are cheap, and we like how
many companies in the sector are
being managed. They’re about in-
creasing dividends and doing
share buybacks.
hat have you been buying
One stock we’ve been buying is
Converge Technology Solutions
Corp. It’s a consolidator in the in-
formation technology space. It
has a lot of government and busi-
ness contracts. The stock was
trading at 12 a couple of years
ago and then dropped signifi-
cantly. We started looking at it
again this summer. We saw it was
growing and felt the company
was misunderstood. It also pays a
dividend, which is rare in the
technology sector, especially in
small-cap land. We started buying
the company in the summer at
around 3 and 3.50 and again in
the fall when it fell to about 2.50.
It’s now trading at around 4. It’s
an example of a core stock be-
cause it is profitable, growing,
and pays a dividend.
Another stock we’ve been buy-
ing is Source Energy Services Ltd.,
which provides fracking sand to
the energy industry, mainly in
Western Canada. The company
has started to make a profit again
this year after aggressively paying
down its debt. It has also benefit-
ILLUSTRATION BY OEL KIMMEL
ed from higher prices for its ser-
vices. We started buying the stock
around 3 last fall. It’s currently
trading at around 7. It’s an ex-
ample of a more stock.
hat have you been selling
We trimmed our position in
Hammond Power Solutions Inc.,
which makes products for the
electrical and electronic industri-
es. It’s a stock we owned for about
four years and decided to take
some profits in the summer. It’s
still a big position in the fund. I
like the company a lot as it’s ben-
efiting from the electrification of
the economy to reduce emis-
sions. It’s another example of a
core stock. A stock we sold out-
right this summer was Neo Per-
formance Materials Inc. We like
the stock because of its long-term
growth characteristics and divi-
dend yield. However, profitability
has declined because of falling
prices for rare earths and neo
magnets, so we sold our position.
It’s a more stock for us, even
though it pays a dividend, be-
cause its profitability is very vola-
tile.
Name one stock you wish
you didn’t sell.
Apple Inc. We sold it a couple of
years ago. It saw a big bump dur-
ing the pandemic with so many
people working from home, so
we thought sales would slow after
that. Our thesis was correct. Sales
growth has slowed, but the stock
keeps increasing. So, that’s one
we wish we would have stuck
with.
hat’s your advice for new
investors
Investing is a learning game – it’s
important to learn as much as
you can. And start slowly. If you
have an investment idea, buy a
few shares and see how it goes be-
fore taking a full position. Also,
be diversified. Investors make
mistakes, so being diversified is
important so you can recover
more easily from those mistakes.
And try to learn from your mis-
takes to avoid making them
again.
This inter iew has been edited and
condensed.
rate cuts for
Festive cheer has come early to world markets bar those
dollar bulls on growing certainty that central banks will
start slashing interest rates next year.
For sure, key U.S. jobs data will test the exuberance, while
Australia’s central bank could reinforce a view that rates
have peaked. Here’s your week ahead in financial markets:
SANTA’S COME EARLY
Christmas has come early with global stocks posting their
best monthly performance in three years in November and
global investment-grade bonds returning almost 4 per cent -
the best month on record going back to 1997.
Now, the early Santa rally risks running into a central
bank Grinch. Markets price rate cuts as early as the first half
of 2024. The U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central
Bank, wary of market euphoria loosening financial condi-
tions, may start to push back.
Whether equities and bonds can rise in tandem next year
also feels doubtful. Stocks price in a benign economic scena-
rio of lower borrowing costs and steady growth. Government
bonds, which shine in recessions, have been boosted by
signs that the impact of previous rate rises is starting to
cause pain.
Both cannot be right.
GOLDILOC S, ELCOME
Will Goldilocks stick around That’s the question investors
are pondering as they await the Dec. 8 U.S. jobs report after a
rebound that has taken the S P 500 within spitting distance
of a fresh year high.
The data will have to walk a fine line to satisfy the so-
called Goldilocks narrative of cooling inflation and resilient
growth that has boosted asset prices.
Too strong a number would undercut bets that the Fed
will begin easing monetary policy sooner than expected,
presenting an obstacle to the searing fourth quarter rally in
stocks and bonds. A weak number, on the other hand, could
spark fears that the economy is beginning to roll over follow-
ing 525 basis points of rate increases, potentially dulling risk
appetite. Economists polled by Reuters expect the U.S. econ-
omy to have added 175,000 jobs in November, versus 150,000
in October.
A HA ISH HOLD
Cooler-than-expected consumer inflation has sounded the
death knell for any expectations the Reserve Bank of Austra-
lia will hike rates on Tuesday.
But investors are wary of a hawkish hold, with prices still
elevated and new Governor Michele Bullock increasingly
seen as more of a hawk than her predecessor. Traders cur-
rently put odds for a hike at the following meeting in Febru-
ary at about 1-in-3.
Some hint of how soon the Bank of Japan can begin its
own, much-delayed tightening campaign may come from
the Tokyo CPI data, also on Tuesday.
Whether business and the economy could even weather a
return of higher interest rates will also be clearer from the
Tankan corporate sentiment surveys and GDP data on
Wednesday and Friday.
TROUBLE AND STRIFE
First political turmoil in Spain and Portugal and now up-
heaval in Germany and the Netherlands heralds fresh un-
certainty ahead of a jam-packed 2024 election year.
After November’s constitutional court blow, Germany
faces a 17 billion-euro US 18.54-billion hole in next year’s
budget. No date has been set for the budget, so news from
Berlin remains in focus and a fiscal correction means the
economy is at risk of shrinking for a second straight year.
And coalition talks are stumbling in the Netherlands after
far-right, anti-EU Geert Wilders’s shock election win.
Turmoil in two EU heavyweights is unwelcome just as the
bloc seeks more cash from members and finance ministers
meet to iron out new fiscal rules on Friday.
Bond vigilantes are watching for a deal giving leeway for
public investments while taking debt sustainability serious-
ly.
All this as the first EU-China summit in four years on Dec.
7-8 looms.
REUTERS

An ad iser s personal lesson on market di ersification and what keeps her up at night
BRENDA BOU
GLO E ADVISOR
BEHIND THE ADVICE
n this new series, ehind the d-
vice, we ask advisers about their re-
lationship with money from a
young age, lessons learned over the
years, and how their experiences in-
fluence the advice they give clients
today.
rixie Rowein, senior portfo-
lio manager and financial
adviser with PA Portfolio
Advisory at Raymond James Ltd.
in Edmonton, discusses her
brush with entrepreneurship as
a child growing up in Edmonton
and offers advice for women
looking to pursue a career in fi-
nance.
hat was your first money les
son
I grew up in Edmonton, near
Commonwealth Stadium, home
to the Edmonton Elks football
club and a venue for other large
events such as concerts and
shows. On event days, my family
let stadium-goers park on our
lawn and driveway. I would
stand outside our house with a
sign saying, Parking for 4,’ and
my dad would let me keep 50
cents for every spot we filled. I
was seven years old then and
would save the money I earned
to buy snacks at the corner store.
I learned that the more parking
spaces we filled – and there were
up to eight we could fill for each
event – the more treats I could
buy. More money also meant
more choices of what to buy. It
was my first lesson in entrepre-
neurship.
How did that e perience influence
your saving and spending habits
as you got older
It inspired me to continue earn-
ing my own money. I started ba-
bysitting at age 10, delivering
flyers at age 12, and when I turn-
ed 14, I got my social insurance
number. I used it to get a job
working in retail at a local mall. I
worked in retail throughout high
school. When I graduated, I used
some of my savings to visit my
relatives in Chile for three
months. It was an amazing expe-
rience.
I continued to work in retail
while attending university, and
for about six months, I also got a
job as a waitress. I was working
two jobs and going to school,
which became overwhelming. I
was spreading myself too thin.
So, while I was making more
money, it affected my health,
school work, and time with fam-
ily and friends. I decided to stick
with the retail job because the
hours were more reasonable. I
later worked at a car rental agen-
cy until I finished my degree.
Tri ie Rowein learned to diversify
her investments after the bear
market that followed the Sept. 11
terrorist attacks in 1.
hat was your biggest money
mistake, and what did you learn
from it
I started investing in 2000, the
year the tech bubble burst. The
market dropped again in 2001 af-
ter the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
That bear market lasted about
2 years. I was invested in just
one stock at the time because it
was all I could afford, and it went
down. I learned the importance
of diversification. The good news
is that I started to diversify after
that and continued investing re-
gardless of the market ups and
downs, which has worked out
very well for me – and my cli-
ents.
hat are you best at when it
comes to your finances
I’m good at spending less than I
earn. I preach this to anyone
who will listen. If you spend less
than you make, you will have
less to worry about.
hat do you worry about
I worry about people spreading
themselves too thin to help oth-
ers. I see this with parents and
grandparents who want to help
their adult children buy a home
or pay for other big-ticket items.
But I worry they could sacrifice
their retirement and other finan-
cial goals to help others.
hat aren’t you good at when it
comes to money
I’m not very good at spending
money on myself. I like to spend
more on family and friends, but,
sometimes, I’m afraid to treat
myself even when I can afford it.
I think that comes from my par-
ents, who immigrated to Canada
from Chile during the coup d’é-
tat in the mid-1970s. They
worked hard and saved their
money to give me and my sib-
lings a good life here.
hat did you want to be when
you grew up and why did you
decide on a career in finance
Early on in high school, I wanted
to be a psychologist because all
my friends would tell me their
problems, and I enjoyed listen-
ing and trying to help. In high
school, a teacher pointed out I
was good at math and comput-
ers. She suggested I pursue a ca-
reer in one of those fields. I end-
ed up studying finance at univer-
sity and took the Canadian Secu-
rities Course. Once I graduated, I
landed a job as a junior invest-
ment adviser. Interestingly, being
an adviser also involves some
elements of human psychology.
We often help clients understand
the different human emotions
that can impact their investment
decisions.
hat advice do you have for
someone who wants to be an
adviser
A closed mouth doesn’t get fed.
So, if there’s something you
want, you need to ask for it. This
can be especially hard for wom-
en, given we’re in a male-dom-
inated industry. My advice is to
ask for internship opportunities,
ask someone if they’ll be a men-
tor, or if there are any part-time
opportunities. If you don’t ask,
you’ll never know what might be
possible.
This inter iew has been edited and
condensed.
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been a slip but it s clear who s in charge
CATHAL
ELLY
OPINION
B
ack when life was simple, Li-
onel Messi played soccer and
went home. That’s it.
By North American standards,
top European pros are almost
never interviewed, and Messi far
less than most.
He was too pristine a talent to
disturb with the roughhousing of
regular back and forths. For years,
you could consider yourself a
great admirer of the player and
yet be unfamiliar with the sound
of his voice.
Now that he’s moved to Amer-
ica to become the world’s tiniest
billion-dollar corporation, Messi
is expected to speak more. And
not just about last night’s game.
Through his partnership with Ap-
ple, he’s in the documentary busi-
ness.
Messi’s no great orator, but he
has one salutary habit – he says
what he’s thinking. Maybe that’s
inexperience. Maybe it’s having
been raised in one of the last plac-
es where the art of conversation
isn’t bludgeoned out of you in
childhood.
In one of many off-season in-
terviews, at home in Argentina,
Messi got to musing about the
past year.
“I said it several times and it is a
reality – I will always try to com-
pete to the maximum and I am
the first to know when I can be
there and when I can’t,” he said,
according to a translation by Reu-
ters. “I am also aware that I went
to a minor league, but a lot hap-
pens because of the way one faces
it and competes.”
Compared with the places
Messi’s been, Major League Soc-
cer is minor-league soccer. This is
an indisputable truth. But it’s not
polite to say it.
T H E G LO E A N D AIL O
Sil er secured
to claim the silver medal ead the story on B15
In an off season interview at home in Argentina, Lionel Messi recently
said he would continue to compete to his ma imum level while referring
to Major League Soccer as a minor league.’ MARK . TERRILL/AP
A good rule for athletes speak-
ing in public is to imagine them-
selves sitting with friends, having
a couple of pops, trading stories.
Anything you would say in that
milieu is everything you should
not say in front of a microphone.
Say the opposite of that.
I hated his guts’ becomes in-
credible competitor.’ Complete
idiot’ becomes does not know
how to lose.’ Like so.
Messi’s slip – if that’s what it
was – made news all over. Some
tabs wanted to turn it into a scan-
dal. But that word suggests a mis-
take has been made and that
there will be consequences for it.
What consequences can MLS
visit on Messi It will take his face
off the billboards and replace him
with who exactly It will stop dou-
bling the prices to games Messi
plays in, at home and on the road
And what if it wasn’t a slip
What if this was Messi reminding
everyone who’s in charge He can
take the field in a tank top and flip
flops and all MLS can do is make
sure it has Messi flip flops for sale
at the online store by halftime.
He doesn’t just play in its dinky
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league. Messi’s the de facto com-
missioner of it. The day he leaves
is the day this whole operation
goes back to being fourth-rate.
Until then, Messi can say what he
likes.
This is a whole new level of
power for a pro athlete. You don’t
just front the league – you run it.
And after you, the deluge.
Messi had the opportunity to
go to Saudi Arabia for even more
money. But he ceded that territo-
ry to his great rival, Cristiano Ro-
naldo.
There was something very Oc-
tavian and Marc Antony dividing
up the known world about it. You
take that soccer backwater and I’ll
take this one and we’ll both have
our fiefdoms.
Ronaldo exercises a power akin
to Messi’s in the kingdom, but
quietly.
The Portuguese star used to
love a cheeky interview. He
seemed to draw immense plea-
sure out of antagonizing his em-
ployers. As his powers dimin-
ished, so did the returns on that
strategy.
ELLY, B13
R E O RT O N U S I N ES S | B11
Canadian women open
season with fourth-place
finish at sevens
rugby event B1
Leafs look at positi es from
loss to Bruins despite lea ing
points on the table again
MARTY LIN ENBERG
f it’s a Maple Leafs game, it must be overtime.
On Saturday Toronto went beyond 60 minutes for the
fifth time in six games and the 11th in 22 overall. It ended
in a 4-3 loss to the Boston Bruins despite a good effort.
The Maple Leafs clawed back from two goals down and
nearly forced a shootout but the villainous Brad Marchand –
boo, hiss – did them in in the final seconds.
Certainly getting a loser’s point is better than none at all
but if the Maple Leafs had won a few more games to this point
they would be bird-dogging Boston in the Atlantic Division
standing instead of in their perpetual pursuit.
What’s bad is that the team has escaped mistakes so often
that it has begun to pat itself on
the back for coming close. What’s
good is that it holds down fourth With fi e, the Maple
place in the division but is only
about an inch behind the third- Leafs ha e the
place Red Wings and second- second fewest wins
place Panthers. in re ulation in the
“We played well and deserved Eastern Conference
to tie that game at the end,” Mat-
thew Knies said after practice on and are tied for third
Sunday. Auston Matthews tied it for the third fewest
with a Houdini-esque goal with in the lea ue. The
six seconds left in regulation
time. “We ended up with an un-
San ose Sharks
fortunate result but we battled ha e one more.
back hard.”
With five, the Maple Leafs have the second-fewest wins in
regulation in the Eastern Conference – and are tied for third
for the third-fewest in the league. The San Jose Sharks have
one more.
It is slightly unfair to be so critical of a 12-6-4 team but in
this case it is deserved. Add the numbers up and they have
just two more triumphs than defeats.
“The Bruins are an elite team so we knew we were going to
get their best,” Toronto winger Nick Robertson said on Sun-
day. “It was a very competitive game. It could have gone ei-
ther way.”
It could have, but didn’t. Matthews scored twice but that
effort was wasted. So was another solid performance by Jo-
seph Woll in the Toronto net.
“Our guys gave us everything they had,” coach Sheldon
Keefe said after the loss. “If there is ever a game where both
teams deserve two points, this is probably it.”
The Maple Leafs were denied the opportunity because
William Nylander fell and coughed up the puck with 15 sec-
onds left. Eight seconds later Marchand tapped one past the
sprawling Woll.
LEAFS, B1
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urdy
fter an off-season of
acrimony an rancisco
earns statement victory
in rematch of last year’s
N C championship
DAN GELSTON HILADEL HIA
Brock Purdy threw for 314 yards
and four touchdowns, Deebo Sa-
muel scored three TDs and Eagles
quarterback Jalen Hurts was
checked for a concussion in the
San Francisco 49ers’ 42-19 win
over Philadelphia on Sunday
night.
The fiery NFC championship
game rematch also featured
49ers’ touchdowns on six straight
possessions and a pair of ejec-
tions that showed this year’s title
game might not run again
through Philly, after all.
The 49ers 9-3 left Philly 10
months ago battered in the NFC
championship game behind inju-
ries to Purdy and his backup, and
they never stood a chance in a
31-7 loss. The 49ers spent an off-
season chirping at the Birds – Sa-
muel called one Eagles corner-
back “trash” – and then entered
the Linc as a rare betting favourite
against a 10-win team at home.
The Eagles 10-2 suffered a
scare when Hurts jogged off in the
fourth and went straight to the
locker room. He was cleared to
play and returned to action with
about 10 minutes left.
It was not immediately clear
when Hurts was injured.
By the time last season’s NFL
MVP runner-up returned, the Ea-
gles trailed 35-13 and were on
their way toward their first home
loss of the season. Hurts did hit
DeVonta Smith for a two-yard TD
round the
In New Or-
leans, Sam LaPorta had career
highs of nine catches for 140
yards, including an early touch-
down and a crucial first-down
snag in the final minutes, and the
Detroit Lions defeated reeling
New Orleans on Sunday to post
their best record through 12
games since 1962. The Saints lost
quarterback Derek Carr in the
fourth quarter to back, shoulder
and head injuries. Carr was hurt
on a penalized hit by Bruce Irvin,
who drove the weight of his body
into the quarterback. Jared Goff
passed for 213 yards and two TDs
for the Lions 9-3 , who raced to a
three-touchdown lead and then
held off a valiant comeback bid by
the Saints, who fell to 5-7. The Li-
ons have their best record
through 12 games in six decades.
Detroit started 10-2 in 1962.
In Hous-
ton, Nico Collins had a career-
high 191 yards receiving and a
fourth-quarter touchdown, and
Jimmie Ward intercepted Russell
Wilson in the end zone with nine
seconds left to preserve Hous-
ton’s win over Denver. Ward leapt
in front of intended receiver Lu-
cas Krull to secure the fourth vic-
tory in five games for the Texans
7-5 and snap a five-game win-
ning streak for the Broncos 6-6 .
Wilson was intercepted a season-
high three times, all of them after
halftime. Derek Stingley Jr. had
the first two picks for the Texans.
Houston rookie C.J. Stroud threw
for 274 yards to end a streak of
four straight games with at least
300 yards passing. Star rookie re-
ceiver Tank Dell injured his ankle
in the first half and was carted off
the field.
In Nash-
ville, Gardner Minshew threw a
four-yard touchdown pass to Mi-
chael Pittman with 2:31 left in
overtime, and Indianapolis beat
Tennessee for its fourth straight
victory. The Colts 7-5 had to
score a touchdown after the Ti-
tans’ Nick Folk made a 46-yard
field goal with 4:19 left in over-
time. Minshew threw for 312 yards
and two touchdowns as he won
his fourth straight game for the
first time in his five NFL seasons.
Tennessee 4-8 lost at Nissan Sta-
dium for the first time this sea-
son.
In East Ruther-
ford, N.J., Desmond Ridder threw
a 20-yard touchdown pass to My-
Cole Pruitt and Atlanta took sole
possession of first place in the
NFC South with an ugly win over
New York. The Falcons 6-6 have
back-to-back wins for the first
time since starting the season 2-0.
The Jets 4-8 got an early safety
but couldn’t get anything going –
again – on offence in losing their
amuel lead
Philadelphia Eagles uarterback Jalen Hurts finished 6 of 5 passing for 8 yards and was checked for a concussion during Sunday’s
1 loss to the San Francisco ers. CHRIS S AGOLA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
on his return drive. He finished
26-of-45 passing for 298 yards.
Purdy put the finishing tou-
ches on the win with a 46-yard TD
to Samuel.
Perhaps all that braggadocio
paid off for the 49ers. Hard feel-
ings spilled into the game, high-
lighted by a scrap in the third
quarter that got 49ers linebacker
Dre Greenlaw and the Eagles’
chief security officer tossed.
fifth successive game. A rain-
soaked MetLife Stadium ap-
peared about half full.
In
Landover, Md., Tyreek Hill had
two touchdowns among his 157
yards receiving, and AFC East-
leading Miami routed Washing-
ton, getting to 9-3 for the first time
since 2001. Tua Tagovailoa was 18
of 24 for 280 yards, including TD
passes of 78 and 60 yards to Hill,
the NFL’s leading receiver, who
was left wide open on his 11th and
12th trips to the end zone this sea-
son. De’Von Achane ran for two
touchdowns after missing five of
the past six games with a knee in-
jury. Miami’s league-leading of-
fence put up 406 yards. Washing-
ton quarterback Sam Howell has
been sacked 58 times this season
and has thrown 14 picks, both of
which lead the league.
In Pitts-
burgh, James Conner ran for 105
yards and a pair of touchdowns
against his old team as Arizona
won at Pittsburgh for the first
time since 1969. The Cardinals 3-
10 took control late in the first
half with a 99-yard touchdown
drive that ended with a five-yard
strike from Kyler Murray to Trey
McBride. They led the rest of the
way, enduring a pair of lengthy
delays owing to severe weather.
In Foxbor-
ough, Mass., Justin Herbert threw
for 212 yards and set up a pair of
Cameron Dicker field goals that
were all Los Angeles needed to
blank New England and its latest
hapless quarterback, Bailey
appe. The Chargers 5-7 had
their first shutout in six years.
Keenan Allen came back from a
thigh bruise to catch five passes
for 58 yards, but the only scoring
Los Angeles could manage on a
cold and rainy day was a pair of
38-yard field goals in the second
quarter. The Patriots 2-10
benched Mac Jones in favour of
appe but still lost their fifth suc-
cessive game. It was the first time
since 1993 that the Patriots failed
to score in the first half in back-to-
back games, ESPN tweeted.
They’ve been shut out at home
twice this season, a first in fran-
chise history. “It’s a very simple
game: You’ve got to score points,”
Patriots centre David Andrews
said. “You’ve got to score points to
have a chance to win.”
In Ingle-
wood, Calif., Matthew Stafford
threw three touchdown passes,
Puka Nacua became the first
Rams rookie wide receiver to re-
ach 1,000 yards in a season, and
Los Angeles extended its winning
streak to three games. The Rams
have won three in a row for the
ers past a les
Dom DiSandro, a constant
presence on the Eagles’ sideline,
pulled Greenlaw off Smith after a
reception. Greenlaw popped up
and reached over two officials to
touch DiSandro’s face with a
closed fist.
Greenlaw was ejected. DiSan-
dro, a cult hero in Philly for his ev-
er-present backup when Eagles
are out in public, also was told to
leave and walked to the locker
first time since winning the Super
Bowl after the 2021 season. At 6-6,
they are back in the playoff race.
The Browns 7-5 have dropped
two straight but remain in the
thick of the AFC playoff race.
In
Tampa, the Buccaneers’ Mike
Evans scored on a 75-yard recep-
tion and joined Jerry Rice as the
only players in NFL history to
string together 10 consecutive
seasons with 1,000-plus yards re-
ceiving while helping Tampa Bay
beat struggling Carolina. Evans
finished with seven receptions for
162 yards, increasing his season
totals to 61 catches for 1,012 yards
and 10 TDs. Rice set the league re-
cord of 11 straight seasons with
more than 1,000 yards receiving
from 1986 through 1996.
Taylor Swift
was on hand at Lambeau Field to
watch Travis Kelce and Kansas
City in their Sunday night game
against the Green Bay Packers. It
was the fifth KC game Swift has at-
tended since the pop superstar
and the four-time all-pro tight
end started their relationship.
Denver quarterback Russell
Wilson’s touchdown pass to
Courtland Sutton in the third
quarter was the 329th career TD
pass for Wilson, who moved past
Dan Marino for second-most in a
player’s first 12 seasons.
Passing yards for San Francis-
co quarterback Brock Purdy on 19
completions of 27 attempts in the
49ers’ win over the Eagles.
Reception yards for Houston
wide receiver Nico Collins on nine
catches and one touchdown in
the Texans’ win over the Broncos.
Rushing yards for Arizona
running back James Conner on 25
carries and two touchdowns in
the Cardinals’ win over the Steel-
ers.
The Lions scored 21 points in
the first quarter, tying a franchise
record.
The Patriots’ loss
was the third time in a row that
New England gave up 10 or fewer
points – and lost. They are the
first team to do that since the 1938
Chicago Cardinals.
Miami’s Tyreek
Hill, the NFL’s leading receiver,
who also has the most TD catches
with 12, remains on track to
eclipse Calvin Johnson’s record
for the most yards receiving in a
season 1,964 and become the
first to reach 2,000. Hill has 1,481
yards through 12 games this year.
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room to a roaring ovation. game, of course. But they kept an
The Eagles offered few other Eagles offence that made a habit
reasons cheer. of halftime rallies at bay.
Purdy picked apart a defence The Eagles turned halftime
that left receivers open for big deficits into wins in each of the
chunks of the game. Samuel also past four games – including a Su-
inflicted his damage in the third per Bowl rematch at Kansas City –
quarter on a 12-yard rushing TD and five times overall this season,
and caught a 48-yard TD pass but have been outscored 144-156
from Purdy that stretched a 14-6 in the first half this season.
halftime lead to 28-13.
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face off in controversial
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RALPH D. RUSSO
The final season of the four-team College Football Playoff
turned out to be the most controversial with an unprece-
dented snub.
Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama were selected
Sunday and Florida State became the first unbeaten Power
Five conference champion to be excluded from the field.
Michigan will face Alabama in the Rose Bowl, Washing-
ton will play Texas in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1 and the
winners will meet for the national championship Jan. 8 in
Houston.
Before the CFP grows to 12 next year – an expansion that
was delayed by a year because of infighting among the
conference commissioners who manage the postseason
system – the selection committee faced the toughest deci-
sion in the 10-year history of the format.
“Florida State is a different team than they were through
the first 11 weeks,” explained Boo Corrigan, the selection
committee chairman who is also the athletic director at
North Carolina State, Florida State’s Atlantic Coast Confer-
ence rival.
The Seminoles 13-0 lost star quarterback Jordan Travis
to a season-ending injury two weeks ago, but continued to
win with a backup and then a third-string quarterback. The
committee, though, is instructed to judge teams for what
they are heading into the playoff and decided FSU without
Travis is not among the best four in the country.
“I am disgusted and infuriated with the committee’s de-
cision today to have what was earned on the field taken
away because a small group of people decided they knew
better than the results of the games. What is the point of
playing games ” Florida State coach Mike Norvell said.
Whichever team was left out had a good argument to get
in. That created unprecedented controversy and the com-
mittee passed over FSU to pick Alabama, which upset Ge-
orgia to win the Southeastern Conference championship,
and Big 12 champion Texas, which beat the Crimson Tide on
the road in September.
The SEC had never missed the playoff. Alabama, which is
in for the eighth time, kept that streak alive. The Crimson
Tide have won the playoff three times, most recently in
2020.
Texas would have been just the second Power Five team
with only one loss to be left out. Instead, the Longhorns will
be making their first appearance in the CFP in their last
season as a member of the Big 12. Texas moves to the SEC
next year.
Texas and Alabama were ranked seventh and eighth, re-
spectively, in the committee’s penultimate rankings and are
now the first teams to jump from outside the top six in the
second-to-last rankings into the playoff field. Georgia be-
came the first team to enter championship weekend No. 1
and fail to make the field.
“We had eight really good teams this year, somewhat of a
unique year in the last year of the four,” Corrigan said.
Big Ten champion Michigan is making its third straight
appearance in the CFP, still looking for its first playoff victo-
ry. The Wolverines, who have stayed unbeaten amid an
NCAA investigation into allegations of in-person scouting
and sign-stealing, are the favourites to win the national
title, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.
Michigan, looking for its first national title since 1997,
opened as a 1 1 2-point favourite against Alabama. The Tide
have won six national titles under coach Nick Saban.
Washington is in the CFP for the second time, breaking
the Pac-12’s playoff drought after six years, and doing so the
year before it leaves the conference for the Big Ten. The
Huskies opened as a 4 1 2-point underdog to Texas and
former Washington coach Steve Sarkisian. The two played
last season in the Alamo Bowl and Washington won.
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cLeod in good company for retirement game

oalkeeper saying were all in awe of her.”
It was a performance McLeod
goodbye at C lace puts up with Sinclair’s hat-trick
tadium alongside in a losing cause against the U.S.
Christine inclair in the 2012 Olympic semi-final at
Old Trafford.
and ophie chmidt McLeod was front and centre
that game. With Canada leading
3-2 in the 76th minute, Norwe-
NEIL DAVIDSON VANCOUVER gian referee Christina Pedersen
controversially ruled that McLe-
od had broken the rarely en-

E
rin McLeod joins Christine
Sinclair and Sophie Schmidt
in the spotlight Tuesday at
BC Place Stadium.
But unlike the other two, the
40-year-old goalkeeper from St.
Albert, Alta., won’t be suiting up
for the friendly against Australia.
“I’m just really happy to be
there, to be honest,” said McLe-
od, who announced her interna-
tional retirement in January after
119 senior appearances and 47
clean sheets. “The thought of
dressing hadn’t even crossed my
mind until Sophie was talking
about if she was going to dress or
not.
“Not for me. I’m just super-
happy to be there and support
the team and Sophie and Sinc
and get to see a lot of former
players. And then acknowledge
Sinc for what she’s done for the
country.”
McLeod is also close to
Schmidt, whom she calls “an ab-
solute joy.”
“Sophie has the ability to
brighten a room. She’s so just
unique and her authentic self.
Salt of the earth, that one,” McLe-
od said.
The 35-year-old Schmidt, who
plays for the NWSL’s Houston
Dash, announced earlier this year
that she was retiring from inter-
national football after this sum-
mer’s World Cup. But she agreed
to pull on the Canadian jersey
Erin McLeod announced her international retirement in January after 11 senior appearances. She last played
for Canada on Oct. 6, 1, in a 1 win over New Zealand in Montreal. SAM GREENWOOD/GETTY IMAGES
twice more to go out the same
night as the 40-year-old Sinclair,
who announced in October that
she would retire from the inter-
national game after the Decem-
ber international window.
Sinclair and Schmidt both
came on as substitutes on Fri-
day’s 5-0 win over Australia in
Langford, B.C., earning cap No.
330 and 225, respectively.
McLeod still has one more year
on her contract with Iceland’s
Stjarnan W and plans to spend it
as a player-coach, doing analysis
and prepping videos for the
team. She is also taking her UEFA
B coaching licence and has
already started a goalkeeping
academy in Iceland.
“I’m very bad at relaxing,”
McLeod, who is also an artist,
musician, entrepreneur and
LGBTQ spokeswoman, said with
a laugh.
McLeod, who last played for
Canada on Oct. 26, 2021, in a 1-0
friendly win over New ealand in
Montreal, was 19 when she made
her Canada senior debut in a 4-0
victory over Wales in March,
2002, at the Algarve Cup. An 18-
year-old Sinclair scored twice
that day, her 22nd and 23rd career
goals.
Five months later, Sinclair and
McLeod were key players on the
Canadian team that finished
runner-up at the 2002 FIFA U-19
Women’s World Championship
on home soil. Canada made it to
the final, losing 1-0 to the United
States after extra time before
47,784 at Edmonton’s Common-
wealth Stadium.
McLeod played every game
while Sinclair was named the
tournament’s top player and
leading scorer after scoring 10 of
Canada’s 16 goals, including an
eye-popping five in a 6-2 quarter-
final win over England.
“She just played out of this
world,” McLeod said. “That was
just kind of her normal for us.
There was Sincy and then there
was like everyone else. I think we
forced six-second handling rule.
The ensuing indirect free kick
in the Canadian penalty box led
to a penalty for handball. The
Americans tied the game from
the penalty spot and went on to
win 4-3 after extra time.
McLeod was outstanding in
the bronze-medal match that fol-
lowed, helping Canada make the
Olympic podium with a 1-0 win
over France.
McLeod started throughout
the 2015 World Cup on home soil.
She was an alternate with the
team that won gold at the Tokyo
Olympics in 2021 but dressed for
the game against Chile when Kai-
len Sheridan stepped in for the
injure Stephanie Labbé.
McLeod expects Tuesday’s
farewell to be emotional.
“I know I’ll probably bawl my
eyes out,” she said with a laugh.
“This has been my family. It’s go-
ing to be tough. But at the same
time, it’s kind of time. It’s a good
time. I look at that [current Cana-
dian] squad of players and
there’s fantastic players. But
there’s also fantastic humans and
leaders. And I think that’s a testa-
ment to the people before them,
Sinc and Sophie. Hopefully I
rubbed off on a few of them too.
“It will be emotional but it’s so
natural in sport to pass the
torch.”
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an ity dra s ith purs in si oal thriller elly: essi

onaldo likely
setting example
JAMES ROBSON ANCHESTER, ENGLAND

Pep Guardiola said it would be fun.

Manchester City’s clash with Tottenham
definitely lived up to the prematch hype af-
ter a thrilling 3-3 draw at Etihad Stadium on
Sunday.
Not that Erling Haaland was too happy
after referee Simon Hooper denied Jack
Grealish the chance to score a stoppage-
time winner for the defending Premier
League champions.
The Norway international reacted fu-
riously when the whistle was blown for an
earlier foul on him just as Grealish looked
set to run through on goal. Haaland was
booked for his response.
“He’s a little bit disappointed,” City man-
ager Guardiola said afterward. “Even the
referee – if he played for Man City today, he
would be disappointed for that action,
that’s for sure.”
Haaland had been brought down by Tot-
tenham defender Emerson Royal as City
went in search of a winner after Dejan Kulu-
sevski’s 90th-minute equalizer. But as the
forward regained his feet, Hooper ap-
peared to gesture for play to carry on, with
Haaland releasing Grealish with a pass.
It was then that the official blew his
whistle, much to the anger of the home
fans and City’s players.
Haaland went on to express his frustra-
tion at what had happened in a post on ,
formerly known as Twitter, when respon-
ding to a video of the incident.
Guardiola was asked to comment on the
referee’s decision in his postgame news
conference and was more careful with his
response.
“I don’t want to criticize him [the refer-
ee],” Guardiola said. “On the touchline
sometimes I lose my mind and my gestures
are not proper ... But I would say we didn’t
draw for that [reason].”
City had twice been ahead in the match
and looked to have scored a winner when
Grealish came off the bench to make it 3-2
in the 81st.
Kulusevski’s header earned Tottenham
a point and consigned City to a third
straight draw in the league, leaving Guard-
iola’s team three points off league leader
Arsenal in third. Liverpool, which beat Ful-
ham 4-3, is a point ahead of City in second
place.
Son Heung-min had put Tottenham
ahead in the sixth, but put one into his own
net three minutes later and Phil Foden
struck in the 31st.
Giovani Lo Celso levelled the score in the
69th before strikes from Grealish and Kulu-
sevski.
City’s recent winless run in the league
has seen it concede eight goals in three
games, after a 4-4 draw with Chelsea and 1-1
match against Liverpool.
“Football is about mistakes sometimes,
but still we are there,” Guardiola said. “Af-
ter many years we still have the feeling that
we want it [the title].”
Tottenham ended its recent three-game
losing run, which had seen it drop from
first to sixth in the standings.
“We weren’t at our usual standard first
half – Man City could have blown us away
during that period,” manager Ange Poste-
coglou said. “They missed a few chances, a
lot like us last week to be honest.”
Tottenham’s Oliver Skipp, left, slides in for a tackle attempt on Manchester City’s
Mateo ovacic at Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, on Sunday. CARL RECINE/REUTERS
“We hung in there and second half was a
lot better. We had more belief and convic-
tion and we made it more uncomfortable
for them.”
HOME RUN
Liverpool hasn’t lost at Anfield since being
routed 5-2 by Real Madrid in the Cham-
pions League in February. But a run that
now stretches to 19 games looked on the
verge of being broken when Bobby De Cor-
dova-Reid put Fulham 3-2 ahead in the
80th on Sunday. The visitors had twice
come from behind and De Cordova-Reid’s
goal looked like ending Liverpool’s 100-
per-cent winning record at home this sea-
son. That was until goals from Wataru Endo
and Trent Alexander-Arnold in the 87th
and 88th minutes completed a dramatic 4-3
win for J rgen Klopp’s team. Victory
moved Liverpool to within two points of
leader Arsenal and maintained its proud
home record.
CHELSEA PREVAILS
Chelsea didn’t spend a British record of
more than US 130-million on Enzo Fern n-
dez for his scoring prowess. But the Argen-
tina international struck twice to secure a
battling 3-2 win against Brighton to help
Mauricio Pochettino’s side quickly put last
week’s 4-1 rout by Newcastle behind it. Fer-
n ndez scored his first Premier League goal
to put Chelsea ahead in the 17th and con-
verted from the penalty spot for what turn-
ed out to be the winner. Chelsea had to
show resolve after going down to 10 men
just before halftime when Conor Gallagher
was sent off. Brighton threatened a come-
back with a goal from Jo o Pedro in stop-
page time to make it 3-2 and then had a
penalty overturned on video review.
VILLA HELD
After four straight wins in all competitions,
Aston Villa needed a 90th-minute equaliz-
er to rescue a point at Bournemouth. Ollie
Watkins scored his 13th goal of the season
as fourth-place Villa came from behind for
a second time in the match to draw 2-2. An-
toine Semenyo put Bournemouth ahead in
the 10th and Leon Bailey evened the score
in the 20th. Dominic Solanke’s goal in the
52nd put 16th-place Bournemouth on the
brink of a surprise win until Watkins struck.
West Ham missed out on the chance to
move above Brighton in eighth when Od-
sonne douard earned Crystal Palace a 1-1
draw with an equalizer in the 53rd. Mo-
hammed Kudus had given host West Ham
the lead in the 13th.
FA CUP DRA
LONDON Arsenal will host Liverpool in the
third round of the FA Cup after the Premier
League rivals were drawn against each oth-
er on Sunday. The teams, who were among
the favourites to win the competition and
are likely to challenge each other in the
race for the title, will meet at Emirates Sta-
dium over the weekend of Jan. 6 and 7.
Teams from the Premier League and sec-
ond-tier Championship enter the FA Cup at
the third round stage. Holder Manchester
City was drawn to play division two Hud-
dersfield at Etihad Stadium. Last season’s
beaten finalist Manchester United travels
to division three Wigan, which caused one
of the biggest upsets in recent history when
beating City in the final to win the trophy in
2013. Division two Sunderland hosts New-
castle in a north east derby. All-Premier
League ties include Tottenham vs. Burnley,
Crystal Palace vs. Everton and Brentford vs.
Wolves.
LAFC TO FACE CRE IN MLS CUP
LOS ANGELES After the longest season in
Major League Soccer history, Los Angeles
FC still has one more week of work to do. If
the club completes its final assignment as
well as it handled Saturday night, the re-
ward will be historic. Ryan Hollingshead
scored late in the first half and defending
champion LAFC advanced to its second
straight MLS Cup Final with a 2-0 victory
over the Houston Dynamo. Houston’s
Franco Escobar scored an own goal in the
80th minute to seal the Western Confer-
ence Final for LAFC, which will travel to Co-
lumbus next weekend to play for the title.
The Crew beat FC Cincinnati 3-2 in a thriller
earlier Saturday.
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for the future
for chosen few
FROM B11
In Saudi Arabia – a league even
more minor than MLS – Ronal-
do’s job isn’t winning games or
making news. It’s being seen. He
is a human avatar of progress –
whether or not any progress is
made. All you have to say is Ten
years ago, would a Ronaldo be
here No. So there you go. We’re
coming up in the world.’
Now that Saudi Arabia is set to
hold the 2034 World Cup, Ronal-
do has potential value for all the
years in between. In a league this
mediocre, it’s possible he can re-
main a viable presence well into
his middle 40s.
All of a sudden, this is the new
possible career path for a few very
exceptional performers.
You spend your teens building
up your name recognition. In
your 20s, you seek out the best
competition available and dom-
inate. In your 30s you retire to
some warm place where you’re
paid 10 times what your play is
worth in order to sell whatever
those people happen to be sell-
ing. Politics is the most lucrative.
Spurred by Ronaldo’s exam-
ple, LeBron James is publicly toy-
ing with the idea. A few months
ago, he joked about signing a one-
year deal to play in the Saudi Bas-
ketball League – a league so thin
on talent that you hesitate to put
caps on it. The number getting
tossed around in the press was
US 1-billion for one year. A week
later, James was seen in Saudi
Arabia.
We used to think of playing
professional sports as a vocation.
It destroyed your body in return
for a few years’ worth of high-sta-
tus employment. Then you had to
figure out something else to do
with the rest of your life, knowing
that nothing would give you any-
thing close to the same juice. Few-
er than you think make it out of
that process intact.
Now a pro career has the po-
tential of a startup. You’ve got 10
years to grow your business from
scratch. If you plan and execute
right, it may continue to pay off
for the rest of your life. If you do it
really right, it can turn your fam-
ily into a dynasty. The Messis and
Jameses could be the 21st centu-
ry’s Carnegies and Rockefellers.
When you’re thinking on that
scale, in a timeline of decades
rather than years, who cares if the
league is major, minor or any-
where in between What matters
is that you have control, and that
everyone knows it.
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anadian ru y sevens omen fall to rance

to finish in fourth at season openin event
Canada falls - in
third-place playoff to
drop second decision
of weekend to rench
DU AI CITY,
UNITED ARA E IRATES
Canada finished fourth on the
women’s side of the Emirates Du-
bai 7s on Sunday after falling 26-5
to France in the Cup third-place
playoff.
The Dubai event marks the sea-
son kickoff of the rebranded
HSBC SVNS, formerly known as
the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Se-
ries.
The Canadians, who went 2-1-0
on the opening day including a
29-0 loss to the French, defeated
Ireland 14-12 in the quarter-final
on the strength of tries by Charity
Williams and Kristy Scurfield. The
Irish made it close with a late try
but missed the conversion that
would have tied the score.
Canada led defending Series
champion New ealand 21-14 late
in the ensuing semi-final but con-
ceded a 13th-minute converted
try to Jorja Miller to lose 21-19. Flo-
rence Symonds and Carissa Nor-
sten scored tries for Canada,
which trailed 14-7 at the break.
Olivia Apps scored the lone
Canadian try in the third-place
playoff that saw the French lead
19-0 at the half. Australia, last sea-
son’s Series runner-up, upset New
ealand 26-19 in the Cup final
thanks to a 13th-minute convert-
ed try by Maddison Levi.
The Canadian women finished
ninth overall last season with
sixth place in both Vancouver and
Hong Kong as their best showing.
It was a different story Sunday
for the Canadian men who fin-
ished 12th and last after falling 21-
14 to Britain in the ninth-place
semi-final and 19-14 to Spain in
the 11th-place playoff.
Canada lost all five outings at
the tournament, beaten 26-21 by
reigning Series champion New
ealand, 35-14 by defending Dubai
title-holder South Africa and 24-0
by Samoa on Saturday.
The Canadian men pushed the
All Blacks to the limit in their
opening game, however, New
ealand got a late converted try by
Fehi Fineanganofo for the win.
South Africa won the men’s
Cup final Sunday, dispatching Ar-
gentina 12-7. New ealand
downed Fiji 17-12 to place third.
Phil Berna and Kalin Sager
scored tries for Canada in the loss
to Britain, which trailed 14-7 at the
half and pulled ahead on a late try
by Harry Glover. Jack Carson and
Sager had Canada’s tries against
Spain.
The slimmed-down sevens cir-
cuit features seven regular-season
events, each featuring men’s and
women’s competition, plus a
grand final with promotion and
relegation at stake.
Vancouver is the fourth stop of
the season, scheduled for Feb. 23-
25 after Dubai, Cape Town and
Perth, Australia. The teams then
go to Los Angeles, Hong Kong and
Singapore before wrapping up in
Madrid May 31 to June 2.
The men’s field has been cut to
12 core teams from 16 to match the
women’s setup as well as the
Olympic competition.
Canada retained its core team
status in dramatic fashion, defeat-
ing Kenya 12-7 in the relegation
playoff final in May in London
thanks to a last-minute try by Alex
Russell. The Canadian men were
forced into the playoff after finish-
ing 14th in the season standings.
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eafs: oronto falling behind

early in race for di ision title
FROM B11
Another loser’s point.
Toronto does not play again
until Thursday when it meets
the Senators in Ottawa. It will
practice twice more before then
and perhaps figure out more
about this winning business.
“There was not a lot of differ-
ence between the two teams,”
Keefe said. “It was fast and com-
petitive and I think our guys
were right there.”
A loss to the Bruins is nothing
about which one should be
ashamed. The shame is that the
Maple Leafs are 0-0-2 against
them during the 2023-24 cam-
paign. Of course the task at hand
is to make the playoffs. Winning
the division is nice, but it did not
help Florida or Boston in either
of the past two seasons. Each
failed to get out of the first
round.
After a shootout win over the
Seattle Kraken on Thursday, To-
ronto defenceman Jake McCabe
pronounced that two points are
two points. What failed to res-
onate with him is that the team
had blown a late two-goal lead in
regulation and barely squeezed
by a lesser opponent.
“It was tight at the end and
you could feel the intensity ris-
ing,” defenceman Simon Benoit
said on Saturday.
“But it’s good for us, these are
good games to prepare for the
playoffs.”
Well, that is one way to look at
it. Another is that a team that
expects to contend for the Stan- Boston captain Brad Marchand, second from left, was a nemesis to the Leafs again on Saturday, scoring the
ley Cup is just getting by. winner in overtime as the Bruins left Toronto with a 3 victory. CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV/THE CANADIAN PRESS

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EASTERN CONFERENCE WESTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE AMERICAN CONFERENCE HERO WORLD CHALLENGE PREMIER LEAGUE
ATLANTIC DIVISION CENTRAL DIVISION W L PcT GB W L T PcT PF PA GP W D L GF GA PTS
GP W L OLSL GF GA PT GP W L OLSL GF GA PT Boston 15 4 .789 — EAST Sunday Arsenal 14 10 3 1 29 11 33
Boston 24 17 4 3 0 81 59 37 Colorado 23 15 6 1 1 86 67 32 Orlando 14 6 .700 1 / 1
2 Miami 9 3 0 .750 384 266 AT NaSSau, BahamaS Liverpool 14 9 4 1 32 14 31
Florida 24 14 8 1 1 72 62 30 Dallas 22 14 5 2 1 79 62 31 Milwaukee 14 6 .700 1 / 1
2 Buffalo 6 6 0 .500 328 227 PuRSe: $3.5 million Man City 14 9 3 2 36 16 30
Detroit 23 13 7 3 0 86 68 29 Winnipeg 23 13 8 1 1 75 65 28 Philadelphia 12 7 .632 3 N.Y. Jets 4 8 0 .333 171 251 YaRdage: 7,449; PaR: 72 Aston Villa 14 9 2 3 33 20 29
Toronto 22 12 6 3 1 76 74 28 Arizona 23 12 9 2 0 76 68 26 New York 12 7 .632 3 New England 2 10 0 .167 148 254 FINAL ROUND Tottenham 14 8 3 3 28 20 27
Tampa Bay 25 10 10 5 0 83 93 25 St Louis 23 12 10 0 1 68 73 25 Indiana 10 8 .556 4 / 1
2 SOUTH Scottie Scheffler, $1,000,00069-66-65-68—268 Newcastle 14 8 2 4 32 14 26
Montreal 24 10 11 1 2 68 87 23 Nashville 24 12 12 0 0 76 77 24 Miami 11 9 .550 4 / 1
2 Jacksonville 8 3 0 .727 254 225 Sepp Straka, $450,000 72-67-68-64—271 Man United 14 8 0 6 16 17 24
Buffalo 25 10 13 2 0 71 85 22 Minnesota 22 8 10 2 2 70 80 20 Cleveland 11 9 .550 4 / 1
2 Houston 7 5 0 .583 281 249 Justin Thomas, $300,000 70-67-68-67—272 Brighton 14 6 4 4 30 26 22
Ottawa 19 9 10 0 0 64 63 18 Chicago 23 7 16 0 0 56 85 14 Brooklyn 10 9 .526 5 Indianapolis 7 5 0 .583 300 296 Tony Finau, $212,500 67-71-68-67—273 West Ham 14 6 3 5 24 24 21
METROPOLITAN DIVISION PACIFIC DIVISION Atlanta 9 10 .474 6 Tennessee 4 8 0 .333 213 255 Matt Fitzpatrick, $212,500 70-68-65-70—273 Chelsea 14 5 4 5 25 22 19
GP W L OLSL GF GA PT GP W L OLSL GF GA PT Toronto 9 11 .450 6 / 1
2 NORTH Jordan Spieth, $190,000 68-67-71-68—274 Brentford 14 5 4 5 22 19 19
NY Rangers 23 18 4 0 1 80 60 37 Vegas 25 16 5 3 1 82 59 36 Charlotte 6 12 .333 8 / 1
2 Baltimore 9 3 0 .750 324 187 Collin Morikawa, $185,000 69-69-70-68—276 Crystal Palace 14 4 4 6 14 19 16
Carolina 23 14 8 1 0 81 75 29 Vancouver 25 16 8 1 0 96 64 33 Chicago 7 14 .333 9 Cleveland 7 5 0 .583 258 245 Brian Harman, $177,500 67-69-71-70—277 Wolverhampton14 4 3 7 19 25 15
Washington 21 12 7 2 0 52 59 26 Los Angeles 20 13 4 1 2 77 49 29 Washington 3 16 .158 12 Pittsburgh 7 5 0 .583 192 229 Justin Rose, $177,500 72-71-68-66—277 Fulham 14 4 3 7 16 26 15
NY Islanders 23 10 7 4 2 65 74 26 Calgary 24 10 11 0 3 71 82 23 Detroit 2 18 .100 13 /1
2 Cincinnati 5 6 0 .455 212 242 Viktor Hovland, $170,000 73-73-70-63—279 Nottingham Frst14 3 4 7 16 22 13
Philadelphia 24 12 10 2 0 72 69 26 Seattle 25 8 11 3 3 68 88 22 WEST Jason Day, $165,000 71-69-66-74—280 Bournemouth 14 3 4 7 16 30 13
Pittsburgh 23 11 10 1 1 72 61 24 Anaheim 24 10 14 0 0 67 84 20 WESTERN CONFERENCE Kansas City 8 3 0 .727 256 181 Lucas Glover, $160,000 71-71-69-70—281 Luton Town 14 2 3 9 13 26 9
New Jersey 22 11 10 0 1 79 83 23 Edmonton 22 9 12 1 0 74 79 19 W L PcT GB Denver 6 6 0 .500 263 302 Keegan Bradley, $152,500 72-74-68-68—282 Everton 14 5 2 7 15 20 7
Columbus 26 8 14 3 1 74 88 20 San Jose 25 6 17 0 2 47 102 14 Minnesota 15 4 .789 — L.A. Chargers 5 7 0 .417 275 258 Max Homa, $152,500 69-73-71-69—282 Burnley 14 2 1 11 15 32 7
Oklahoma City 13 6 .684 2 Las Vegas 5 7 0 .417 202 256 Cameron Young, $145,000 69-71-69-74—283 Sheffield Utd 14 1 2 11 11 39 5
Sunday Detroit 5 Montreal 4 (OT) Denver 14 7 .667 2 Sam Burns, $140,000 71-76-68-69—284 Sunday
Minnesota 4 Chicago 1 Boston 4 Toronto 3 (OT) Sacramento 11 7 .611 3/
1
2 NATIONAL CONFERENCE Rickie Fowler, $135,000 74-70-73-69—286 Bournemouth 2, Aston Villa 2
N.Y. Rangers 6 San Jose 5 Arizona 4 St. Louis 1 Phoenix 12 8 .600 3/ Tiger Woods, $130,000 75-70-71-72—288 Chelsea 3, Brighton 2
1
2 W L T PcT PF PA
Boston 3 Columbus 1 Vegas 4 Washington 1 Dallas 11 8 .579 4 Wyndham Clark, $125,000 76-73-71-70—290 Liverpool 4, Fulham 3
EAST
Nashville 2 Buffalo 1 Vancouver 4 Calgary 3 L.A. Lakers 12 9 .571 4 Will Zalatoris, $120,000 81-68-79-71—299 West Ham 1, Crystal Palace 1
Philadelphia 10 2 0 .833 329 288
Colorado at Los Angeles Anaheim 4 Colorado 3 (SO) New Orleans 11 10 .524 5 Man City 3, Tottenham 3
Dallas 9 3 0 .750 388 220
L.A. Clippers 9 10 .474 6 N.Y. Giants 4 8 0 .333 159 292 DP WORLD TOUR
SaTuRday Monday Houston 8 9 .471 6 SaTuRday
Washington 4 9 0 .308 261 395
Dallas 8 Tampa Bay 1 All TimeS EaSTeRn Golden State 9 11 .450 6/ Arsenal 2, Wolverhampton 1
Winnipeg 3 Chicago 1 Dallas at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.
1
2 SOUTH ISPS HANDA AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Utah 7 13 .350 8/
1
2 Atlanta 6 6 0 .500 226 240 Brentford 3, Luton Town 1
N.Y. Rangers 4 Nashville 3 Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Portland 6 13 .316 9 Burnley 5, Sheffield United 0
New Orleans 5 7 0 .417 257 255 Sunday
N.Y. Islanders 4 Florida 3 Carolina at Winnipeg, 7:30 p.m. Memphis 5 14 .263 10 Nottingham Forest 0, Everton 1
Tampa Bay 5 7 0 .417 233 245 AT Sydney
Ottawa 2 Seattle 0 Seattle at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. San Antonio 3 16 .158 12 Newcastle 1, Man United 0
Carolina 1 11 0 .083 191 313 NoTe: Tournament is played on two
Carolina 6 Buffalo 2 Washington at Arizona, 9 p.m. Sunday NORTH courses with different pars (71 and 72).
Philadelphia 4 Pittsburgh 3 (SO) St. Louis at Vegas, 10 p.m. No games scheduled. TueSday, Dec. 5
Detroit 9 3 0 .750 327 286 PuRSe: $1.8 million
Minnesota 6 6 0 .500 263 242 All TimeS EaSTeRn
Final Round
AHL OHL SaTuRday Green Bay 5 6 0 .455 231 224 (x-won on Second hole of playoff)
Wolverhampton vs. Burnley, 2:30 p.m.
L.A. Clippers 113, Golden State 112 Chicago 4 8 0 .333 242 296 Tottenham vs. West Ham, 2:45 p.m. ppd
Sunday Sunday x-J. Niemann, $203,396 66-69-70-66—271
Minnesota 123, Charlotte 117 WEST Luton Town vs. Arsenal, 3:15 p.m.
Utica 7 Cleveland 6 Erie 8 Owen Sound 5 Rikuya Hoshino, $131,609 68-68-65-70—271
Cleveland 110, Detroit 101 San Francisco 9 3 0 .750 352 189 Min Woo Lee, $75,376 67-64-70-72—273
Manitoba 3 Rockford 1 Ottawa 6 North Bay 5 Brooklyn 129, Orlando 101 L.A. Rams 6 6 0 .500 268 253 Laurie Canter, $50,809 70-67-69-68—274
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Providence 3 Lehigh Valley 2 Niagara 2 Peterborough 1 Milwaukee 132, Atlanta 121 Seattle 6 6 0 .500 264 290
Chicago 5 San Diego 3 Mississauga 5 Sudbury 4 (SO) Grant Forrest, $50,809 65-71-70-68—274 MONDAY (ALL TIMES EASTERN)
Chicago 124, New Orleans 118 Arizona 3 10 0 .231 230 331 Adam Scott, $50,809 71-68-67-68—274
Calgary at Henderson Kingston 4 Flint 3 (OT) Indiana 144, Miami 129 WEEK 13 SOCCER
Guelph 3 Oshawa 2 Lucas Herbert, $35,893 68-69-66-72—275
Oklahoma City 126, Dallas 120 ByeS: Baltimore, Buffalo, Las Vegas, Chi- Alex Fitzpatrick, $22,299 68-68-66-74—276
Monday Kitchener 6 Sarnia 3 Phoenix 116, Memphis 109 cago, Minnesota, N.Y. Giants FA Cup Soccer
No games scheduled Ryo Hisatsune, $22,299 69-67-71-69—276
Utah 118, Portland 113, OT Sunday Alexander Levy, $22,299 66-71-72-67—276 AFC Wimbledon vs. Ramsgate, SN
SaTuRday Sacramento 123, Denver 117 Arizona 24, Pittsburgh 10 World, 2:30 p.m.
Flint 4 Ottawa 3 (OT) Adrian Meronk, $22,299 73-68-69-66—276
TueSday L.A. Lakers 107, Houston 97 Atlanta 13, N.Y. Jets 8
Oshawa 5 Brantford 2 Jason Scrivener, $22,299 72-64-69-71—276
All TimeS EaSTeRn Detroit 33, New Orleans 28 HOCKEY
Owen Sound 7 Erie 4 Julian Suri, $22,299 71-69-70-66—276
Grand Rapids at Toronto, 7 p.m. Monday Houston 22, Denver 17
Saginaw 7 London 5 Sam Brazel, $22,299 70-65-70-71—276
Rockford at Iowa, 8 p.m. All TimeS EaSTeRn Indianapolis 31, Tennessee 28, OT NHL: Seattle vs. Montreal, SN 1, Ontario,
North Bay 7 Peterborough 3 Yuto Katsuragawa, $22,299 67-70-70-69—276 East, Pacific, 7:30 p.m.
Boston at Indiana, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Chargers 6, New England 0
QMJHL Sault Ste. Marie 4 Barrie 1 New Orleans at Sacramento, 10 p.m. Miami 45, Washington 15
Patrick Rodgers, $16,870 64-70-68-75—277 NHL: Carolina vs. Winnipeg, SN West,
Philipp Katich, $15,195 68-71-71-68—278 7:30 p.m.
Tampa Bay 21, Carolina 18
Sunday WHL TueSday L.A. Rams 36, Cleveland 19
Connor Syme, $15,195 64-70-72-72—278 NHL: St. Louis vs. Vegas, SN 1, Ontario,
Chicoutimi 2 Saint John 1 (OT) Cameron Smith, $15,195 71-68-69-70—278 East, West, Pacific, 10 p.m.
Sunday New York at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m. San Francisco 42, Philadelphia 19 Jhonattan Vegas, $15,195 66-69-72-71—278
Acadie-Bathurst 3 Cape Breton 2 (OT)
Victoria 6 Kamloops 3 Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 10 p.m. Kansas City at Green Bay Richard Mansell, $13,161 71-68-68-72—279
Drummondville 10 Québec 3 FOOTBALL
Rouyn-Noranda 4 Victoriaville 1 Moose Jaw 5 Edmonton 1 Angel Fanegas, $13,161 69-72-73-65—279
WedneSday Monday — All TimeS EaSTeRn Aaron Baddeley, $13,161 67-72-70-70—279
Prince Albert 5 Calgary 2 NFL: Cincinnati vs. Jacksonville, ABC,
Memphis at Detroit, 7 p.m. Cincinnati at Jacksonville, 8:15 p.m.
SaTuRday Wenatchee 7 Tri-City 4 Jeffrey Guan, $13,161 70-66-70-73—279 TSN 1, 3, 8 p.m.
Prince George at Portland Orlando at Cleveland, 7 p.m. Jake McLeod, $13,161 71-69-72-67—279
Baie-Comeau 5 Blainville-Boisbriand 0
Val-d’Or 4 Victoriaville 2 Vancouver at Spokane Philadelphia at Washington, 7 p.m. MLS PLAYOFFS Jasper Stubbs 69-70-71-69—279 BASKETBALL
Brooklyn at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Nicolo Galletti, $11,187 66-73-75-66—280
Québec 6 Charlottetown 5
Rimouski 8 Gatineau 0 SaTuRday
Miami at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS Adam Bland, $11,187 69-72-65-74—280 NBA In-Season Tournament
San Antonio at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m. Michael Block, $11,187 71-70-69-70—280 Boston vs. Indiana, TSN 4, 5, 7:30 p.m.
Saint John 6 Cape Breton 3 Regina 6 Swift Current 5 (SO)
Charlotte at Chicago, 8 p.m. (Single-Game EliminaTion) Marc Leishman, $11,187 71-67-69-73—280 New Orleans vs. Sacramento, TSN 4, 5,
Moncton 8 Chicoutimi 2 Red Deer 3 Everett 2 (SO)
Oklahoma City at Houston, 8 p.m. SaTuRday — All TimeS EaSTeRn Kade McBride, $11,187 72-68-67-73—280 10 p.m.
Sherbrooke 4 Shawinigan 3 Wenatchee 6 Portland 5 (OT)
Utah at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. EASTERN CONFERENCE Elvis Smylie, $11,187 68-71-70-71—280 NCAA: Arkansas vs. Alabama, TSN 2, 8
Rouyn-Noranda 2 Halifax 0 Medicine Hat 6 Prince Albert 2
Denver at L.A. Clippers, 10 p.m. Columbus (3) 3 Cincinnati (1) 2 (ET) John Catlin, $8,628 67-73-71-70—281 p.m.
Vancouver 6 Tri-City 3
Portland at Golden State, 10 p.m. WESTERN CONFERENCE
Monday Prince George 6 Spokane 3 Hayden Hopewell, $8,628 65-72-73-71—281 RESULTS AS OF SUNDAY,
No games scheduled Seattle 3 Kelowna 2 Los Angeles F.C. (3) 2 Houston (4) 0 David Horsey, $8,628 66-70-73-72—281 DECEMBER 3, 9;30 P.M.

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M O N DAY , D ECE M B E R , 3 |
anada’s
outitt claims
orld up
silver medal
in s i umpin
LILLEHAMMER, NORWAY
Canada’s Alexandria Loutitt
earned World Cup silver in wom-
en’s ski-jumping action on Sun-
day. The Calgary native totalled
267.5 points to finish just behind
France’s Joséphine Pagnier, who
had 272.4 points in the large-hill
competition.
Norway’s Eirin Maria Kvandal
took bronze with 252.8 points.
“It was good today. My per-
formance was better overall, and
I am happy to have been able to
achieve my personal goals in ad-
dition to the results-based ones”,
said Loutitt, who was the top
qualifier in both competitions in
Lillehammer.
“Yesterday, I was upset be-
cause I missed out on what I
wanted to do, results wise, be-
cause I didn’t achieve my per-
sonal goals technically, but I was
able to do that today.”
Fellow Calgary native Abigail
Strate finished 13th with 221.9
points.
It was the second medal of the
season-opening World Cup
weekend for the 19-year-old Lou-
titt, who also grabbed bronze on
Saturday in the normal-hill
event.
Loutitt had 241.6 points to fin-
ish behind Pagnier 242.7 and
Japan’s Yuki Ito 244.6 .
THE CANADIAN PRESS
ports in rief
GRON IN INS SNO OAR
CROSS SEASON OPENER
ROMANS SUR IS RE liot Grondin
won the season-opening men’s
World Cup snowboard cross on
Sunday. The 22-year-old from
Sainte-Marie, Que., edged reign-
ing Olympic champion and
runner-up Alessandro Haem-
merle of Austria in Sunday’s
final by less than a tenth of a
second. Grondin finished first in
his round-of-16 race, quarter-
final and semi-final en route to
the four-man final at Les Deux
Alpes resort. Spaniard Lucas
Eguibar was third in the final.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THENAULT CLAI S AERIALS
GOL IN ORL CUP
RUKA, FINLAND Canadian frees-
tyle skier Marion Thénault
captured season-opening World
Cup gold in women’s aerials on
Sunday. The 23-year-old from
Sherbrooke, Que., posted a
winning score of 99.05 points
ahead of Australian runner-up
Danielle Scott’s 88.47 under the
lights at night. hanbota Alda-
bergenova of Kazakhstan placed
third. THE CANADIAN PRESS
ITAL S RIGNONE EARNS
GOL IN GIANT SLALO
MONT TREMBLANT, QUE. Italy’s
Federica Brignone won her
second consecutive gold medal
in the women’s World Cup giant
slalom event on Sunday at
Mont-Tremblant. Brignone, who
also won the event Saturday,
finished with a total time of 2
minutes 11.95 seconds. Swit-
zerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami took
silver 2:12.28 , while overall
World Cup leader Mikaela Shif-
frin of the United States grabbed
bronze 2:12.34 . Valérie Grenier
of St. Isidore, Ont., was sixth. THE
CANADIAN PRESS
SCHEFFLER VICTORIOUS AT
HERO ORL CHALLENGE
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Scottie Schef-
fler closed with a four-under 68
for a three-shot victory in the
Hero World Challenge on Sun-
day. Tiger Woods, the tourna-
ment host playing for the first
time since surgery to fuse his
right ankle a few weeks after the
Masters in April, finished 72
holes for only the third time in
the past two years.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LE LAN ELECTE TO
ASE ALL S HALL OF FA E
NASHVILLE, TENN. Jim Leyland,
who led the Florida Marlins to a
World Series title in 1997 and
won 1,769 regular-season games
over 22 seasons as an entertain-
ing and at-times crusty big
league manager, was elected to
baseball’s Hall of Fame on Sun-
day. Now 78, Leyland received 15
of 16 votes by the contemporary
era committee for managers,
executives and umpires. Fomer
Blue Jays manager Cito Gaston
got fewer than five votes. AP
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(William Alexander Mills)
ANN IA E IN LACK September 29, 1 930 – Nove mber 27, 2 023
1929 – 2 023 long life well-lived
It is with great sadness that we
announce Boyana Ann Bia’s death Passed away in Kitchener on Alex Mills was the son of the late Ralph S. and Thora R. Mills. He follows his
on November 20, 2023. Ann Friday, December 1, 2023. Edwin’s dear, late brothers, Donald S. Mills and Dr. Howard M. Mills. He is survived
suffered debilitating injuries in a family will celebrate his life by his loving brothers, James R. (Elizabeth) Mills, J. Paul (Jannie) Mills; and
nearly fatal car crash on May 29th. privately. sister-in-law, Geegee Mills.
After heroic fight for six months,
Visit www.henrywalser.com for Mourning his loss but grateful to have been enriched by his life, love, tireless
Ann decided that the life with her
Edwin’s memorial. Henry Walser guidance and support are his beloved wife of 70 years, Jane (Taylor); his
disabilities was not worth living
Funeral Home, Kitchener, (519) adoring children and their loving spouses, Debbie (Prof. Jim) Wahlen, Tracy
and chose to end it assisted by the
medical services (MAID).
749-8467. Mills, Sue (Jim) Delsnyder, Jill (Dan) Devlin, Tim (Nicki) Mills and Katie (Dr.
David) O’Connor; as well as treasured grandchildren, Jessica Corbin, Sarah
Ann lived a full and rich life and (Nick) Kellner, Jaymie Wahlen (Aaron Bingea), Thomas Alexander Schmidt,
unselfishly enriched the lives of Alexander James Delsnyder, Victoria (Matt) Bursey, Katie and Daniel
family and those of her friends. Devlin, Taylor Mills, and Mason, Davis and Dawson O’Connor; and great-
Uncompromising in her ethical
standards, a firm believer in Celebrate grandchildren, Ailsa Corbin, Charlie Kellner and Esther Wahlen Bingea.
Alex graduated from University of Toronto Schools (UTS) and then Princeton
a li e
fairness and social justice and
University (class of 1952), where he captained both schools’ Varsity Hockey
compassionate with friends and
teams. These educational and athletic experiences, combined with the Mills
students, Ann was respected and
family’s code of unwavering loyalty, profoundly shaped his character and
loved by friends, fellow teachers
and family members. She loved Memorialize and how he chose to live his life.
travels, social events with friends celebrate a loved one in He began his business career covering the Maritime Provinces and
and took great pride in gardening Newfoundland as a salesman for Proctor and Gamble, based out of Pictou,
and domestic affairs. She will
The Globe and Mail. Nova Scotia. He was joined by his new bride a year later and together they
be missed by husband Velimir, travelled his territory, exploring those beautiful parts of the country. They
brother George, and many of referred to it as their extended honeymoon.
her dear friends. A memorial A move back to Toronto in 1954 led to a shift in his sales career. First at
service celebrating her life will be CONTACT US 1-866-999-9237 Commercial Union and later at Canada Life, Alex began helping his clients
arranged in near future. ADVERTISING@GLOBEANDMAIL.COM with their insurance and estate planning needs. This training taught him the
critical importance of real estate ownership in people’s lives. This shaped the
next 55 years of his life as he devoted his efforts to serving his clients’ real
estate needs in Toronto and in his beloved Muskoka. He did it all. Homes,
RICHAR SUTTON CHERR cottages, apartment buildings and commercial developments. It started
Inventor, E ntrepreneur, A uthor with his creation of Alex Mills & Associates and led to the building of The
Mills Team, first with Prudential Sadie Moranis Realty, and later joining Royal
Richard Sutton Cherry of Fort Lauderdale, Florida at home on Sunday, LePage Signature Realty. Throughout his entire life, Alex loved to learn.
Every new professional and personal adventure brought him the excitement
November 12, 2023 at the age of 86.
of new learning and the search for solutions that others could not easily
Richard was born on August 26, 1937 in Toronto, Ontario Canada where he see. Tenacity? Or perhaps stubbornness? For Alex, the result was aways the
grew up in High Park and Port Credit. Richard attended Lorne Park High same. He would never give up until he found a solution, even when others
School in Port Credit and Thomas L Kennedy High School in Cooksville, felt the task was impossible.
Ontario. In his teens he enjoyed being a LifeGuard at Jasper Park Lodge,
a Forest Ranger in Temiskaming, and helping his Grandfather Sutton at his Unfailingly supportive and encouraging, his absolute loyalty to family was
200 acre hobby farm. and always will be an inspiration to all. He loved spending time with family
and friends, on a ski hill or golfing at York Downs, or his favourite pastime,
In 1955, at the age of 18, Richard joined his Fathers’ company, Tri-Canada going for long boat rides on Lake Muskoka, ideally in a wooden boat! Alex
Ltd. Richard quickly evolved the company into an industry leader in stainless loved discovering new properties on the water, often recounting fascinating
steel engineering and fabricating of dairy, brewery and pharmaceutical
stories about the histories of the families who had developed the Muskoka
equipment. After selling Tri-Canada, Richard built a highly successful new Lakes area. In his quiet way, Alex never failed to observe something that
company, Phillips Parkway to manufacture ‘recyclable’ plastic box containers needed attention and would devote whatever personal time it took to
with divisions to produce retail shipping containers, canoes, and truck caps. make it right. Whether building a raft for a slide or fixing a dock, he enjoyed
He received an Entrepreneur of the Year Award and an Environmental Award filling his cottage days working on projects for others, before savouring a
for his patented plastic shipping containers which saved trees instead of well-earned swim and a delicious meal at the end of a long day’s work.
destroying them as did conventional cardboard boxes. He similarly found great joy discovering the wonders and rugged beauty of
In 1989 he started Willow CSN with Gail Nichols. They developed and Southern Arizona, particularly at the Buena Vista Ranch.
patented technologies and services for ‘work at home’ call centers which Alex also found satisfaction volunteering. His many volunteer efforts included
provided rapid call answering and delivery systems in the U.S. and Canada serving as chairman for the Building Committee of the Toronto Racquet
of retail items such as groceries, fast food, and household supplies. It was Club and co-chairing The Donway Covenant United Church Sanctuary
before Amazon. Building Project.
He received a Smithsonian ComputerWorld Award for his developments in As we say goodbye to a remarkable man, we take heart knowing that Alex
Internet- related innovative uses of technology. Richard was granted patents Mills, at age 93, led an exceptionally full and rewarding life devoted to
for a ‘shared workforce call center business method’. His online ‘remote serving family, friends, clients and others. His wife, Jane, and their children,
workforce scheduling technology’ is currently used by Arise.com (formerly sons-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are
Willow CSN), America’s patented and leading online staffing service for forever indebted to him for his wisdom, generosity and love.
major call centers.
In lieu of flowers, the family would be honoured if you would consider
An accomplished respected entrepreneur, Richard founded, operated, making a donation to the St. Michael’s Hospital Cardiac Research
and sold 5 companies in diverse industries over 35 years including Project. Please state in memory of Alex Mills, alexmils@rogers.com
designing and patenting products and services used worldwide by
(stmichaelsfoundation.com/donate/).
consumers and businesses.
Cremation has taken place, and a celebration of the life of Alex Mills will take
A dynamic marketer, when Richard did have a booth at a Convention it place in the New Year.
attracted the largest crowd. One of his companies did have a fleet of yellow
delivery vehicles, and brilliant billboards throughout the city. It was also one
of the first companies to enable customers to pay at the door by the new
Point of Sale handheld wireless machines. Inevitably people were inquisitive
and did want to participate in his intelligent creative inspiring ventures. FUNERAL SERVICES
Richard enjoyed 15 romantic years with Gail at Cherry Island, near
Windermere, in Muskoka, Ontario. His parents purchased the private island TO ADVERTISE 1-866-999-9237
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clean lake. He replaced the weathered wood cottage with a beautifully
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cottage home. Rick and Gail groomed the garden landscape and 1,600 feet MONDAY FRIDAY 8:30AM 5:30PM
of shoreline to be a beautiful estate day and night. They were the first to SUNDAY HOLIDAYS 1:00PM 5:00PM
enjoy living at the island winter and summer where they could welcome EA LINES EST
family. It is now Airbnb.
Benjamin’s NE T DAYS PAPER SUBMISSION
In his eighties, in Florida, he wrote numerous books including topics on Park 2 00PM DAY PRIOR
the prevention of diabetes, healthy lifestyle choices, and nutrition. He
would routinely swim, roller skate, bicycle, and long distance walk. He was
Memorial PAYMENT/APPROVAL 3 00 PM DAY PRIOR
interested in family Ancestry back to 1790 in England. Chapel
He is preceded by his parents, Richard Cowan Desmond Cherry and Ruth
Caroline (nee Sutton) Cherry; and by son, Richard Alexander Cherry. C ASSI IED
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St. Catharines, Ontario.
YEARS
Through the generations…
He was a dearly loved grandson of Walter T. Sutton born in England, and of a sacred trust
Christopher Cherry and family born at Waterford, Ireland; and a dear nephew MERC ANDISE
SUN A
of Westcott and Zena Macmillan Cherry. ANTE TO U
BEALLOR, Dennis - 10:30 Beth Tzedec
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er appointment by onald eagan made her the first woman on the country’s top court becoming
its ideological centre as she helped preserve a woman’s right to abortion and upheld affirmative action on campuses
WASHINGTON
ustice Sandra Day O’Connor,
the first woman on the U.S. Su-
preme Court, whose centrist
views and shrewd negotiating
skills allowed her to steer the
country’s law for much of her
quarter-century tenure, died on
Friday at the age of 93, the court
said.
The court said in a statement
that Ms. O’Connor died in Phoe-
nix of complications related to
advanced dementia and a respira-
tory illness.
Chief Justice John Roberts re-
called Ms. O’Connor as having
“blazed an historic trail as our na-
tion’s first female justice.”
“She met that challenge with
undaunted determination, indis-
putable ability, and engaging can-
dour,” Chief Justice Roberts said.
“We at the Supreme Court mourn
the loss of a beloved colleague, a
fiercely independent defender of
the rule of law, and an eloquent
advocate for civics education.”
Ms. O’Connor, who retired
from the country’s highest court
in 2006, had in her latter years
been diagnosed with dementia
and announced in October of 2018
that she was withdrawing from
public life.
When Republican former pres-
ident George W. Bush replaced
the pragmatic westerner with the
more ideologically rigid conser-
vative Justice Samuel Alito, the al-
ready-conservative court moved
further to the right.
Ms. O’Connor, who grew up in
an Arizona ranch family, navi-
gated the male-dominated world
of politics in her home state and
then of law in the country’s cap-
ital. Her 1981 appointment by Re-
publican president Ronald Re-
agan made her the Supreme
Court’s first woman justice nearly
two centuries after the Supreme
Court was established in 1789 but
her place in history went beyond
breaking men-only barriers.
Although she was conservative
by nature, she became the court’s
ideological centre. With pragma-
tism and a knack for building con-
sensus, she controlled decisions
on the most contentious issues of
her era, including helping pre-
serve a woman’s right to abortion
and upholding affirmative action
on college campuses.
Ms. O’Connor described her
tenure as similar to walking on
ogues frontman fused rish folk with punk to create timeless classics
CONOR HUMPHRIES DU LIN
S
hane MacGowan, the Lon-
don-Irish punk who trans-
formed Irish traditional mu-
sic with the Pogues and penned
some of the most haunting bal-
lads of the 1980s before sinking
into alcohol and drug addiction,
died on Thursday. He was 65.
Mr. MacGowan brought Irish
traditional music to a huge new
audience in the late 1980s by
splicing it with punk, and
achieved mainstream success
with his bittersweet, expletive-
strewn 1987 Christmas anthem
Fairytale of ew ork.
But he became just as well
known for his slurred speech,
missing teeth and on-stage melt-
downs, with drug and alcohol
abuse leading to the Pogues firing
him at the height of the group’s
success in 1991.
With his health near collapse
in his 30s, few at the time expect-
ed him to survive into old age.
The singer died in the early
hours of Thursday with his family
at his side, his wife, sister and fa-
ther said in a statement on .
In an Instagram post featuring
a picture of Mr. MacGowan smil-
ing with a wine glass and ciga-
rette, his wife Victoria Mary Clar-
ke said he had gone to be with “Je-
sus and Mary, and his beautiful
mother Therese.”
SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR
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Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor served on the United States’ highest court for 5 years,
stepping down in 6 and being replaced by Justice Samuel Alito. ASSOCIATED PRESS
wet cement “because every opin-
ion you offer, you’ve left a foot-
print.”
With her ranch-bred work eth-
ic and plain-spoken way, Ms.
O’Connor’s mantra was “be con-
structive.”
Unlike any of the justices who
served during her time, Ms.
O’Connor had run for elective of-
fice and knew how to work a back-
room and count votes. The for-
mer Republican state senator of-
ten strategized with individual
justices to try to force the hands of
others and reach the crucial five
votes among the nine for a major-
ity decision.
Ms. O’Connor avoided sweep-
ing pronouncements and voted
for incremental change, becom-
ing a pivotal vote on the court in
the process. Her views became
more liberal with time. After ex-
pressing some ambivalence
about Roe v. Wade, the 1973 deci-
sion that made abortion legal na-
tionwide, she created a critical al-
liance in 1992 to affirm Roe’s cen-
tral holding.
“Some of us as individuals find
abortion offensive to our most ba-
sic principles or morality but that
“Thank you for your presence
in this world, you made it so very
bright and you gave so much joy
to so many people with your
heart and soul and your music,”
she added.
Born in the English county of
Kent to Irish parents on Christ-
mas Day 1957, Mr. MacGowan in
his autobiography described
early childhood summers spent
at an Irish farmhouse with his ex-
tended family, drinking, smoking
and singing traditional songs.
“It was like living in a pub,” he
told the Guardian in 2013.
After winning a scholarship to
the prestigious Westminster
School in London, Mr. MacGowan
struggled to fit in and was ex-
pelled two years later for drug use
and started hanging out in Lon-
don bars with other musicians.
At 17, his alcohol and drug use
helped trigger a mental break-
down and he was kept in a psychi-
atric hospital for six months.
After recovering, he embraced
the eruption of punk in London
in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Following a fad for fusions of tra-
ditional music from around the
world, Mr. MacGowan started
screaming Irish ballads over dis-
torted guitars, setting up a band
called Pogue Mahone.
The band, which later short-
ened its name to the Pogues, re-
leased their debut album in 1984,
catching the attention of the Brit-
JUDGE, 3
cannot control [the court’s] deci-
sion,” she wrote.
The Supreme Court, which has
had a 6-3 conservative majority
since 2020, overturned the land-
mark Roe ruling in 2022.
While Ms. O’Connor was gener-
ally suspicious of racial remedies,
she was a crucial vote in 2003 to
uphold campus affirmative ac-
tion favouring racial minorities in
admissions.
Ms. O’Connor wrote in the rul-
ing that colleges must strive for
diversity “if the dream of one na-
tion, indivisible, is to be realized.”
The Supreme Court’s conser-
vative majority in June struck
down race-conscious admissions
programs in higher education, ef-
fectively prohibiting affirmative-
action policies long used to in-
crease the number of underrepre-
sented minority students in
American colleges.
Ms. O’Connor’s views on gay
rights evolved, too. In 1986 she
voted to uphold a Georgia law
prohibiting sexual relations be-
tween homosexuals but voted in
2003 to strike down a similar law
in Texas.
Ms. O’Connor was with the
SHANE MacGO AN
MUSICIAN, 65
After years of struggling with alcohol and drugs, Shane MacGowan was
fired from the Pogues in 1 1. After a decade apart, he and the band
reunited and toured regularly until 1 . SCOTT GARFITT/AP
ish music press with their irrever-
ent lyrics about drinking and
fighting with penniless Irish im-
migrants on the streets of Lon-
don.
But it was air of rown Eyes
on their 1985 follow-up album –
the Elvis Costello-produced um
odomy the ash – that demon-
strated Mr. MacGowan’s immense
talents as a songwriter, a song
that paved the way for later clas-
sics such as ainy ight in oho
and ummer in iam.
The Clash’s Joe Strummer, who
later played with the Pogues and
O T H E G LO E A N D AIL
majority when the court ruled 5-4
on ideological lines to stop the
Florida presidential vote recount,
ensuring that Republican candi-
date George W. Bush won the
presidency over Democrat Al
Gore in 2000.
She later expressed regret
about the ruling, telling the Chi-
cago Tribune in 2013 that the
court did not need to get in-
volved.
Ms. O’Connor was born on
March 26, 1930, the eldest of three
children of Harry and Ada Mae
Day and growing up on the fam-
ily’s Lazy B ranch was a hard,
lonely life. For school, she was
sent to El Paso, Tex., where she
lived with her maternal grandpar-
ents.
She graduated from high
school at the age of 16, went to
Stanford University and was only
19 when she started law school as
one of just five women in the
class.
Ms. O’Connor graduated near
the top of her class but was reject-
ed for most law-firm jobs. A Los
Angeles-based firm offered a job
as a legal secretary but she de-
clined and eventually found work
briefly replaced Mr. MacGowan as
lead singer, described Mr. MacGo-
wan at the time as a visionary, a
poet and “one of the finest writers
of the century.”
Irish President Michael D. Hig-
gins, also a poet, described Mr.
MacGowan on Thursday as one of
music’s greatest lyricists.
“So many of his songs would
be perfectly crafted poems, if that
would not have deprived us of the
opportunity to hear him sing
them,” Mr. Higgins said. “His
words have connected Irish peo-
ple all over the globe to their cul-
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in the San Mateo County, Calif.,
county attorney’s office.
She and her husband, John,
whom she met in law school, later
settled in Phoenix. She was rais-
ing three sons when she became
active in state politics. She was ap-
pointed to fill the unexpired term
of a state senator in 1969 and then
ran successfully to hold the seat.
Ms. O’Connor became Arizona
Senate majority leader in 1973,
the first woman in the country to
lead a state senate. She was elect-
ed as a state trial judge in 1974 and
in 1979 was named to a state ap-
peals court.
Ms. O’Connor met Warren
Burger, then chief justice of the
United States, in 1979 through
mutual friends. He was impressed
and soon made sure Ms. O’Con-
nor was invited to national legal
conferences.
In 1980, Mr. Reagan vowed to
appoint a woman to the high
court as he was challenging Dem-
ocratic incumbent Jimmy Carter.
Soon after Mr. Reagan took office,
Justice Potter Stewart announced
his retirement and Mr. Reagan’s
short list of women included Ms.
O’Connor.
Mr. Reagan was captivated
when he met her. They talked lit-
tle about law and largely about
horses and life in the West. The
Senate confirmed Ms. O’Connor
by a 99-0 vote and she was sworn
in Sept. 25, 1981.
“I think the important fact
about my appointment is not that
I will decide cases as a woman but
that I am a woman who will get to
decide cases,” she told the Ladies’
Home Journal after her confirma-
tion.
She raised awareness of breast
cancer, which she survived in
1988 after a mastectomy, and the
importance of research into Alz-
heimer’s disease, which afflicted
her husband. She retired in Janu-
ary of 2006 to take care of him un-
til his death in 2009.
After leaving the bench, Ms.
O’Connor dedicated herself to im-
proving civics education, starting
a group called iCivics that provid-
ed free online resources for mid-
dle and high school students. In
2009, Democratic former presi-
dent Barack Obama presented
her at the White House with the
Presidential Medal of Freedom,
the highest civilian honour a
president can give.
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ture and history.”
The height of the Pogues suc-
cess came in 1987 with Fairytale of
ew ork, which Mr. MacGowan
sang in a duet with Kirsty MacColl
to create an instant Christmas
classic, despite radio unfriendly
lyrics in which the estranged cou-
ple exchange insults.
After a series of hallucinogenic
benders, including one night in
New ealand when he stripped
naked and painted himself blue,
the Pogues fired Mr. MacGowan
during a 1991 tour of Japan.
After a decade with a new
band, the Popes, Mr. MacGowan
and the Pogues reunited and
toured regularly until 2014.
In 2018 singers Bono, Nick Cave
and Sinead O’Connor, Sex Pistols
bassist Glen Matlock and actor
Johnny Depp joined Mr. MacGo-
wan on stage in the refined sur-
roundings of Dublin’s National
Concert Hall for a show to cele-
brate his 60th birthday.
Mr. Higgins bowed his head in
admiration of the wheelchair-
bound Mr. MacGowan as he pre-
sented him with the venue’s life-
time achievement award at that
event.
Mr. MacGowan was “a true
friend and the greatest songwrit-
er of his generation,” Mr. Cave
said on Thursday. “A very sad
day.”
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