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Honda Motor Co. has announced a land-
mark $15-billion deal to make electric ve-
hicles and their batteries in Ontario,
backed by up to $5-billion in federal and
provincial subsidies.
Touted by the two governments as the
largest single investment in the history of
Canada’s auto sector, the deal also makes
Ontario the epicentre for the Japanese au-
tomaker’s North American rollout of EVs.
The bulk of Honda’s investment will be
at its existing auto-manufacturing site in
Alliston, Ont. That will include a vehicle-
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New York appeals court throws out Harvey Weinstein’s
2020 rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial
MICHAEL SISAK
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New York’s highest court on Thursday
threw out Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape
conviction with a ruling that shocked and
disappointed women who celebrated his-
toric gains during the #MeToo era and left
those who testified in the case bracing for a
retrial against the ex-movie mogul.
The court found the trial judge unfairly
allowed testimony against Mr. Weinstein
based on allegations that weren’t part of
the case.
Mr. Weinstein, 72, will remain in prison
because he was convicted in Los Angeles in
2022 of another rape. But the New York rul-
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to build 240,000 vehicles annually, and a
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er 1,000 there, the two governments and
the company say.
The investment also involves South Ko-
rea’s Posco Future M Co. Ltd. and Japan’s
Asahi Kasei Corp., both of whom are to
build joint-venture plants with Honda to
make EV battery components – cathodes
and separators – in other cities in Ontario.
Those details are to be announced at a
later date.
Both the scope of Honda’s investment
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ing reopens a painful chapter in America’s
reckoning with sexual misconduct by pow-
erful figures – an era that began in 2017 with
a flood of allegations against Mr. Weinstein.
#MeToo advocates noted that Thurs-
day’s ruling was based on legal technicali-
ties and not an exoneration of Mr. Wein-
stein’s behaviour, saying the original trial
irrevocably moved the cultural needle on
attitudes about sexual assault.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Of-
fice said it intends to retry Mr. Weinstein,
and at least one of his accusers said
through her lawyer she would testify again.
The state Court of Appeals overturned
Mr. Weinstein’s 23-year sentence in a 4-3 de-
cision, saying “the trial court erroneously
admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged
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mark a pivot in Canada’s strategy to es-
tablish itself as a major player in the glob-
al race to build EV supply chains, as the British Columbia is asking Otta-
auto sector, prodded by government wa to help the province rein in
deadlines, shifts away from making vehi- public drug use arising from its
cles powered by fossil fuels. decriminalization pilot project,
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and provincial cash for capital costs. It limits through legislation were
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Reduction Act. Ya’ara Saks, where she’ll ask the
DEAL, A17 federal Liberal government to re-
view its current exemptions to
the B.C. decriminalization pilot
that limits drug use in some
spaces.
“With respect to decrim, we’ll
be having a conversation about
how the exemptions are working
to this point,” Ms. Whiteside said
in an interview Thursday.
She also said she’ll be asking
Ottawa for more support for su-
pervised drug-consumption sites
and other resources during Fri-
day’s meeting in Vancouver.
Pressure is mounting on both
governments to find ways to
curb illicit drug use in spaces
such as beaches, parks and hos-
pitals.
Since the province’s decrimi-
nalization experiment began on
Jan. 31, 2023, adults in B.C. are
not being arrested or charged for
possessing small amounts of cer-
tain illegal drugs most common-
ly associated with overdoses.
The trial required Ottawa’s ap-
proval, as it granted an exclusion
from sections in the Criminal
Code pertaining to drug use for a
three-year period.
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ates will train to be family physi-
cians in Canada this year than ev-
er before, a development that will
help but not solve a primary-care
crisis that has left millions with-
out a family doctor.
A total of 1,627 graduates from
medical schools in Canada and
abroad will become family med-
icine residents this summer, up
from 1,529 last year, according to
the organization that matches
fledgling physicians with crucial
hands-on training positions.
prior sexual acts” and permitted questions The increase isn’t solely due to
about Mr. Weinstein’s “bad behaviour” if he provincial governments funding
had testified. It called this “highly prejudi- more residency placements in
cial” and “an abuse of judicial discretion.” family medicine, although 73
In a stinging dissent, Judge Madeline new spots in the discipline were
Singas wrote that the Court of Appeals was added nationwide this year.
continuing a “disturbing trend of overturn- It’s also a reflection of the fact
ing juries’ guilty verdicts in cases involving that fewer family medicine train-
sexual violence.” She said the ruling came ing slots went unfilled this year
at “the expense and safety of women.” than in any of the past three
In another dissent, Judge Anthony Can- years, according to the Canadian
nataro wrote that the decision was “endan- Resident Matching Service, which
gering decades of progress in this incredi- released the final results of its an-
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in 2022 and 89 in 2021.
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claimed family medicine spots –
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province that has long struggled
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MOMENT IN TIME

APRIL , 1954

Takashi Shimura, left, and Toshiro Mifune, second from right, star in Seven Samurai, a film a out samurai
who are hired to defend a farming village from andits in 1 th century Japan.

K OSA A’S SEVEN SA AI

FI E EASED IN A AN
A
kira Kurosawa, whose father had samurai
lineage, grew up wanting to be a painter.
By 1954, he’d earned a reputation as a gift-
ed transposer of genre and culture, infus-
ing hard-boiled detective noir and Soviet existen-
tialism with a deeply Japanese world view and aes-
thetic with classics such as Rashomon and Ikiru.
Seven Samurai, then, was a culmination A gor-
geous parable in black-and-white inspired by John
Ford’s westerns, about samurai who are hired to
defend a farming village from bandits in 16th-cen-
tury Japan. From the opening scene of raiders on
horseback flooding over the hillside, to the final,
long, meditative shot of a windswept row of
graves, Mr. Kurosawa’s hand-painted storyboards
come to life in front of the lens. And the movie
bleeds with his devotion to honest emotion, nat-
urally captured. “There is something that might be
called cinematic beauty,” he wrote in his memoir,
Something Like A Biography. “When it is very well
expressed, one experiences a particularly deep
emotion while watching that film.” Seven Samurai
and Mr. Kurosawa’s creative approach influenced
generations of filmmakers, including Martin Scor-
sese “Kurosawa was my master” and George Lu-
cas and his space-western Star Wars. ADRIAN LEE

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marched through Lisbon on
Thursday to celebrate the 50th an-
niversary of Portugal’s “Carnation
Revolution” that toppled the
longest fascist dictatorship in Eu-
rope and ushered in democracy.
Support for the far right has re-
vived in Portugal in recent years
but a large crowd took to the
streets of the capital, carrying car-
nations, waving national flags
and shouting “April 25 – always.
Fascism – never again ”
Ant nio Oliveira Salazar ruled
Portugal from 1932 to 1968, but the
arch-conservative, authoritarian
rule lasted a further six years un-
der his successor Marcelo Caeta-
no, crumbling only on April 25,
1974.
The almost bloodless revolu-
tion was conducted by a group of
junior army officers who wanted
democracy and to put an end to
long-running wars against inde-
pendence movements in African
colonies. The military coup by the
“Captains of April” group brought
about rapid decolonization.
Thursday’s celebrations began
in Lisbon’s Commerce Square on
the edge of the River Tagus where
two frigates sat moored as mili-
tary vehicles and more than 400
soldiers paraded by, singing the
national anthem as fighter jets
roared overhead.
Joao Marcelino, 74, said the re-
cent “very strong” rise of the pop-
ulist far right in Portugal, echoing
trends elsewhere within the 27-
nation European Union, was wor-
rying because it “does not bring
good solutions for any country.”
“I’m worried that, after 50 years
of democracy, people are not en-
lightened but the far right is ad-
vancing because the mainstream
parties are not developing our
country,” he said.
President Marcelo Rebelo de
A woman gives a ou uet of carnations to a former soldier during a
military parade to cele rate the Carnation Revolution’s 5 th anniversary
in Lis on on Thursday. PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP IA GETTY IMAGES
Sousa told parliament that every-
one “must recognize the vital
force of democracy and have the
humility and intelligence to al-
ways prefer democracy, even if
imperfect, to dictatorship.”
Though its multiparty democ-
racy has proven stable and the
country’s infrastructure has been
greatly modernized since 1974,
aided by EU membership and de-
velopment funds, Portugal re-
mains Western Europe’s poorest
state.
Discontent over a housing cri-
sis unleashed by steadily rising
rents has boosted the far right, as
have low wages, sagging health
care and cases of alleged corrup-
tion involving the mainstream
parties.
Lisbon University political sci-
entist Antonio Costa Pinto said
that while most Portuguese em-
brace liberal democracy and are
proud of the April 25 revolution,
the growing popularity of the
populist, anti-immigration Chega
was the “elephant in the room” at
this year’s Carnation Revolution
celebrations.
“Chega attracts those who have
a revisionist view of history with
the idea that colonialism and the
empire were not bad, and that the
glorious Portuguese past and its
symbols should be valued,” Costa
Pinto said.
Chega makes frequent public
use of Salazar’s motto “God, patri-
otism and family,” to which the
party has added “work.”
Chega Leader Andr Ventura
has denied that he or his party is
fascist, while being anti-establish-
ment and wanting to change Por-
tugal’s constitution.
“Fifty years ago we had a revo-
lution that gave us freedom, but
along the way our dignity was tak-
en away from us,” Mr. Ventura
told parliament on Thursday, ac-
cusing the ruling Social Demo-
crats and main opposition Social-
ists of failing to end poverty.
Founded in 2019, Chega is Por-
tugal’s third-largest party, having
quadrupled its cohort of lawmak-
ers to 50 in March’s parliamentary
election.
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. . upreme Court hears arguments
to give presidents criminal immunity
rump lawyer says
the possibility of
prosecution would
hamper e ecutive action
ADRIAN MORROW
.S. CORRESPON ENT
WASHIN TON
Conservative justices on the U.S.
Supreme Court signalled they
may rule that American presi-
dents are entitled to some form
of immunity from criminal liabil-
ity, a move that could thwart the
prosecution of Donald Trump for
trying to overturn the 2020 elec-
tion.
In three hours of oral argu-
ments Thursday, Mr. Trump’s
lawyer asked the court to find
that presidents enjoy absolute
immunity for anything they do in
office as part of their official du-
ties. Under questioning, he ac-
knowledged that this could hy-
pothetically allow a president to
order a military coup, sell nuclear
secrets to an enemy country or
assassinate a political rival.
While the court’s six-to-three
conservative majority seemed
disinclined to fully grant Mr.
Trump’s request, several justices
showed interest in a narrower
form of immunity that would
shield some presidential actions
from criminal liability.
Such a ruling could ultimately
send the federal criminal prose-
cution of Mr. Trump for his
postelection actions back to an
appeals court for further litiga-
’ A
DAVID SHRIBMAN
ANALYSIS
atergate had a “smoking
gun.” The Donald Trump
hush-money trial has
“catch and kill.” Watergate had a
telltale piece of tape on a base-
ment door. The Trump trial has a
doorman with a spurious tale
to tell. Watergate had a senator
who asked what the president
knew and when he knew it. The
Trump trial has a judge who said,
“I need to know what is true.” Wa-
tergate had a president whose
language was full of expletives
deleted. The Trump trial has a for-
mer president accused of “vit-
riol.”
American political life hasn’t
had a political spectacle like the
Trump trial since the Watergate
years.
As was the case with Watergate
and its many trials, which grew
out of a 1972 break-in at the offic-
es of the Democratic National
Committee, huge issues are now
at stake. This time, a presidential
election may hang in the balance.
There are other historical par-
allels. The Bill Clinton presidency
was tested by Mr. Clinton’s com-
portment with a White House in-
tern. Mr. Clinton suffered humili-
ation and experienced guilt, but
enjoyed political redemption.
The prospect of a future Donald
Trump presidency is now being
tested by his alleged dalliance
with a porn star. Mr. Trump may
be immune to mortification and
incapable of sentiments of guilt,
but he still may emerge trium-
phant.
At the very least, the American
political system is under domes-
tic strain and global observation
in this tawdry New York trial –
and in three other criminal prose-
cutions against Mr. Trump that
could bleed over until after the
election. Indeed, it is not only Mr.
Trump that is on trial.
Big questions – including those
surrounding Mr. Trump’s conten-
tion that presidents have virtual-
ly complete immunity from pros-
ecution, a sprawling notion that
was the subject of separate Su-
preme Court arguments Thurs-
day – are in the air. Their resolu-
tion will affect American civic life
for decades.
Mr. Trump’s supporters and
detractors are oddly in accord
about the stakes.
They agree, for example, that
the trials of Mr. Trump are about
whether the hand of justice is ap-
plied fairly. The Trump support-
ers argue that the prosecution of
the former president over a
payoff to a porn star is laced with
politics – that Mr. Trump is being
singled out less for his proclivity
for paying hush money than for
his habit of unsettling the politi-
cal establishment. The Trump
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tion. This would delay any trial
until after the November elec-
tion, where Mr. Trump is aiming
to reclaim the White House from
President Joe Biden.
It could also set a significant
precedent for future presidents
by affirming more expansive ex-
ecutive power.
Conservative Justice Samuel
Alito raised the possibility of
prosecutions of former presi-
dents becoming routine, creating
an incentive for incumbents to
stay in office illegally, in order to
avoid being indicted.
“Will that not lead us into a cy-
cle that destabilizes the function-
ing of our country as a democra-
cy ” he asked Michael Dreeben, a
lawyer for Jack Smith, the special
counsel prosecuting Mr. Trump.
Mr. Dreeben argued the oppo-
site that a lack of criminal penal-
ty would allow a president to get
away with trying to cling to pow-
er after losing an election, as Mr.
Trump did. He contended that
there are already checks in the
U.S. justice system to ensure for-
mer presidents do not face frivo-
lous prosecution. Mr. Trump is
the first former president in his-
tory to be charged criminally.
“His novel theory would im-
munize former presidents from
criminal liability for bribery, trea-
son, sedition, murder and, here,
conspiring to use fraud to over-
turn the results of an election,”
he said of Mr. Trump’s argument.
John Sauer, the former
president’s lawyer, said the possi-
bility of prosecution would ham-
per executive action. He floated,
for instance, the notion of charg-
Former U.S. president
Donald Trump speaks to
reporters on Thursday
outside the courtroom
in New York. A
uinnipiac University poll
released Wednesday
shows Mr. Trump in a tie
with President Joe Biden
at 4 per cent each and
still tied at 7 per cent if
other candidates are on
the allot.
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indi tments as
in enti es for
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ontribute to is
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is poll ratin s a e
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indi tments.
ing former president Barack Oba-
ma over a 2011 drone strike that
killed a U.S. citizen in Yemen, or
Mr. Biden for his handling of the
border with Mexico.
“Without presidential immu-
nity from criminal prosecution,
there can be no presidency as we
know it,” he said, adding that the
“looming threat” of an indict-
ment “will distort the president’s
decision making precisely when
bold and fearless action is most
needed.”
W ile t e ourt s
six to t ree onser ati e
ma orit seemed
disin lined to full rant
Donald Trump s request,
se eral usti es s o ed
interest in a narro er
form of immunit t at
ould s ield some
presidential a tions from
riminal liabilit .
Mr. Sauer said immunity
should apply to any presidential
action taken in an official, rather
than personal, capacity. The only
way to get around immunity
would be for the House of Repre-
sentatives to impeach and the
Senate to convict a president and
remove him or her from office
first, he said. Mr. Trump was
twice impeached but not convict-
ed.
Liberal justices Elena Kagan
and Sonia Sotomayor asked Mr.
Sauer about various crimes, from
critics argue that Mr. Trump is be-
ing treated not as a former presi-
dent with special privileges but as
an ordinary citizen subject to or-
dinary legal procedures.
Both sides also agree that this
trial and the three expected to fol-
low – dealing with whether he
tried to overturn the results of the
2020 election in Georgia, whether
he more broadly tried to interfere
with the 2020 election, and
whether he obstructed an investi-
gation in connection with illegal
possession of government docu-
ments – may shape the Novem-
ber election.
The political alchemy here is
complicated. Repeatedly, Mr.
Trump has transformed legal per-
il into political gold.
He has used his indictments as
incentives for supporters to con-
tribute to his campaign and, in ef-
fect, to his defence fund. Addi-
tionally, his poll ratings have
grown since his first indictments.
He glided to victories in the Iowa,
New Hampshire and South Car-
olina primaries, essentially assur-
ing his Republican renomination
with a swiftness unprecedented
in contested battles. A Quinnipiac
University poll released Wednes-
day showed Mr. Trump and Mr.
Biden in a tie at 46 per cent each –
and still tied at 37 per cent each if
other candidates, such as Robert
F. Kennedy Jr., are on the ballot.
And yet.
The first formal criminal trial
of a former American president
may hold peril for Mr. Trump.
killing a political opponent to
selling nuclear secrets, and
whether these would constitute
official actions that would be
shielded from prosecution. Mr.
Sauer replied yes.
“How about if the president
orders the military to stage a
coup ” Justice Kagan asked. Mr.
Sauer replied “That may well be
an official act.”
Chief Justice John Roberts, a
conservative, mused that this
could lead to a president selling
ambassadorships for US$1-mil-
lion bribes. But he suggested that
he was unconvinced that prose-
cutors could be trusted not to
bring questionable indictments
of presidents.
He also floated the possibility
of creating a narrow immunity
standard and then having a lower
court decide which of the allega-
tions against Mr. Trump are or
aren’t covered by it. “Why
shouldn’t we send it back to the
court of appeals ” he said.
This possibility – that the Su-
preme Court decides presidents
have immunity for some acts but
not others – would almost cer-
tainly lead to more litigation, fur-
ther pushing back any potential
trial for Mr. Trump.
The former president, who has
sought to delay all of his court
cases, is widely expected to order
the Department of Justice to stop
prosecuting him if he returns to
office. The Supreme Court has al-
ready denied Mr. Smith’s re-
quests to decide the immunity
question swiftly. It may not issue
a ruling until late June or early
July.
A third of Americans, and a
third of independents, say they
would be less likely to vote for
him if he is convicted, according
to a Politico Ipsos poll. Even so,
the separate Quinnipiac poll re-
leased this week indicated that
nearly a third of Trump voters say
they would be even more likely to
vote for him if he is found guilty.
These findings relate only to the
New York case, which in the near-
ly unanimous view of legal ex-
perts and political commentators
is the least important legal pro-
ceeding the president faces. The
timing of the other trials is uncer-
tain, though there are court dates
for them scheduled every month
from now through October.
Then there is the jail factor – an
unlikely eventuality, to be sure,
but one that Mr. Trump could
face, either in a judge’s ruling of
contempt of court or in a jury ver-
dict.
Multiple people who are close
to Mr. Trump or once were ,
have said he fears nothing more
than being sent to prison. But
even incarceration, as distasteful
as it may be to a man who prizes
his independence and recoils
from any semblance of confine-
ment, may work to his advantage.
At the very least, it could mobili-
ze and motivate his political base,
and allow him to trumpet the no-
tion that he is a political prisoner
– a term he has employed to de-
scribe many of the imprisoned
principals in the Jan. 6, 2021, in-
surrection at the Capitol.
NEWS | A
Mr. Trump spent the day at his
separate hush-money trial in
Manhattan, possibly the only one
of his four criminal prosecutions
to go ahead before the election.
The case involves actions he took
before he became president,
meaning it will likely be unaffect-
ed by the Supreme Court’s im-
munity ruling.
Another indictment, for refus-
ing to return classified docu-
ments, may also be untouched,
as it concerns events after he left
office. The judge in that case, a
Trump appointee, has held off on
scheduling key dates, making it
unlikely to come to trial soon.
The Supreme Court decided in
the 1980s that presidents, judges
and prosecutors are immune
from civil lawsuits over official
acts, in a bid to deter an ava-
lanche of frivolous litigation.
The Department of Justice,
meanwhile, has long held that it
would be too debilitating to the
government to charge a sitting
president criminally, but that a
prosecution can start once he or
she leaves office. This has never
previously been tested. “We’re
writing a rule for the ages,” said
Justice Neil Gorsuch, a conserva-
tive.
In Mr. Trump’s election-relat-
ed cases – Mr. Smith’s at the fed-
eral level and a state-level indict-
ment in Georgia – he is accused
of breaking the law through a
sweeping plan to have state offi-
cials, the Department of Justice
and then-vice-president Mike
Pence throw out election results
in swing states that went for Mr.
Biden.
The script for that might be
torn from the life of James Mi-
chael Curley, a former governor of
Massachusetts and member of
the U.S. Congress who served four
non-consecutive terms as mayor
of Boston. Mr. Curley, who had a
base of supporters with a fervour
much like that of Trump’s, was
elected mayor in 1946 after being
indicted twice, first for bribery
and then for mail fraud. He was
convicted and sentenced to pris-
on in 1947, serving five months
until president Harry Truman
commuted his six-to-18-month
sentence.
“Trump can play the role of the
martyr,” Jack Beatty, author of the
classic 1992 biography he Ras a
ing he Li e An imes ames
i hae ur ey, said in an inter-
view. “He can say he’s persecut-
ed.’ Curley did that. And Curley
played it up big, talking about po-
litical trials and seeking sympa-
thy by saying his enemies put an
old man in prison. Trump can do
that, too.”
Much of that already is part of
the Trump libretto. But the trial
in New York, and the ones to fol-
low, are not a comic opera. They
are perhaps more like Beetho-
ven’s i e io, which deals with
government officials, political ri-
valries and the legal system. Both
supporters and opponents of Mr.
Trump agree, with competing ar-
guments, that these trials ulti-
mately are about justice.
Spe ial to T e Globe and Mail
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lberta to fill
health care gaps
with nurse
practitioner plan
Program supports professionals to work
independently to address doctor shortage

ALANNA SMITH

Alberta has announced a $15-million program aimed at sup-

porting nurse practitioners to work independently, part of
the province’s plan to improve access to primary care.
More than 700,000 Albertans do not have a primary
health care provider, according to the province. Health Min-
ister Adriana LaGrange told a news conference Thursday
that the government estimates 50 nurse practitioners will
participate in the new program this year, eventually support- Independent MPP Sarah Jama speaks with the press on Thursday at ueen’s Park while she wears a keffiyeh, a
ing a minimum of 45,000 patients, which she said will go “a checkered scarf typically worn in Ara cultures that has come to sym oli e solidarity with Palestinians.
long way” to address the current shortage. LIAM CASEY/T E CANADIAN PRESS
Ms. LaGrange said nurse practitioners eligible for the pro-
gram will need to care for at least 900 patients, accept walk-
ins and operate during evenings, weekends and holidays.
Nurse practitioners can work independently in their own Ontario legislator arah ama defies order
practice or in an existing primary-care clinic.
The provincial program will provide a one-time incentive
of $75 per patient after reaching the 900 mark and $10,000 in
to remove keffiyeh at ueen’s ark
one-time mentorship funding to clinics, communities and
primary care networks that partner with nurse practitioners LIAM CASEY ticipate in any committees or ta- NDP Leader Marit Stiles has
who are entering the practice. ble motions. twice tried to get the legislature
Under the program, nurse practitioners will make about “You must leave the chamber,” to pass a unanimous consent mo-
80 per cent of what family doctors are paid. Alberta is cur- An Ontario legislator refused to Mr. Arnott said. tion to overturn the Speaker’s
rently developing a new model for compensating physicians, take off her keffiyeh at Queen’s Ms. Jama did not move. The ban on keffiyehs. But they were
and it is unclear which model the 80 per cent involves. Park on Thursday, prompting an clerk and the sergeant-at-arms shot down after a few Progressive
Provinces and territories are looking at alternative ways to order for her removal from the both spoke with Ms. Jama, but no Conservative members refused
bolster access to primary care because of Canada’s shortage legislative chamber and her sub- one tried to remove her with to consent to the motion.
of family physicians. For Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, ex- sequent refusal to budge. force. Mr. Arnott said later that he Ms. Stiles said the keffiyeh is
panding the role of nurse practitioners is part of the solution. Sarah Jama, who sits as an in- was not willing to go that far. cultural attire and once again
“We know that too many Albertans do not have access to a dependent for Hamilton-Centre called on the government “to do
primary-care practitioner and often when they are able to after being booted from the NDP the right thing.”
find a health care provider, they still need to wait weeks to caucus last year, wore a keffiyeh “People come here from all
get an appointment. That’s just unacceptable,” Ms. Smith draped over her shoulders during T e repression a ainst over the world and they bring
said. Question Period. their traditions and their culture
“Nurse practitioners are a welcome and integral part of It was the second time this Palestinians and t e with them and this place that I’m
the solution to primary care access. They are qualified health week Ms. Jama wore the scarf in- anti Palestinian ra ism in standing in right now is the peo-
care professionals whose education and training allow them side the legislature and she said t is pla e needs to ple’s house, we should be able to
to function as primary care providers and offer many of the she will continue to wear it. ontinue to be alled wear those items of clothing
same services as doctors.” A keffiyeh is a checkered scarf proudly here,” she said.
Alberta Medical Association president Paul Parks said the typically worn in Arab cultures out. Liberal parliamentary leader
“devil will be in the details.” He said the program could be that has come to symbolize soli- SARAH JAMA
John Fraser moved another mo-
“very positive” if its fosters collaboration between nurse darity with Palestinians. INDEPENDENT MPP tion on Thursday calling on the
practitioners and family-medicine physicians, but on the flip Speaker Ted Arnott banned FOR AMILTON CENTRE government to move their own
side, worrying if it drives nurse practitioners to work inde- the scarf in March after a com- motion to do away with the ban.
pendently from family doctors. plaint, saying it was being worn “There was no way for me to Again, several Conservatives
“If it plays out that nurse practitioners go work independ- to make a political statement, have her removed short of phys- refused to agree.
ently, totally siloed and on their own, we already know from contrary to the rules of the as- ical force,” Mr. Arnott said. “I Mr. Fraser said the government
many other jurisdictions, many other studies, that they’ll sembly. All four party leaders, in- wasn’t prepared to do that or or- has to bring the matter to a vote,
test more, they’ll consult more, they’ll use more resources, cluding Premier Doug Ford, have der it.” rather than opposition parties
they’ll see less patients,” he said. “All those factors, if done in called on the speaker to reverse Ms. Jama, who has Palestinian moving unanimous consent mo-
a competitive, noncollaborative way, won’t benefit Alber- the ban. family, said wearing the keffiyeh tions that will invariably fail –
tans the way we need it to.” Mr. Ford’s Progressive Conser- is the least she can do to show Progressive Conservative Robin
He added that nurse practitioners going at it alone with 80 vatives had effectively silenced solidarity. Martin has said she will continue
per cent of compensation compared with doctors would Ms. Jama in the fall when they “The repression against Pales- to support the ban.
have a hard time staying afloat, pointing to the many physi- censured her over comments she tinians and the anti-Palestinian “It needs to be brought to a
cians currently struggling to keep their clinics open. made about the Israel-Hamas racism in this place needs to con- vote on the floor of the legisla-
Jennifer Mador, president of the Nurse Practitioner Asso- war. tinue to be called out,” she said. ture,” Mr. Fraser said. “It can’t be
ciation of Alberta, welcomed the new program and said it On Thursday, Mr. Arnott “And I think it’s upon all of us to one or two or three people who
will remove obstacles. “There will be some growing pains, “named” Ms. Jama, which meant fight injustice with our feet and say no. We live in a democracy.”
but I’m excited for the potential this model provides,” she she was not allowed to vote on hands, with our tongues, with
said. matters at the legislature, or par- our words and in our hearts.” T E CANADIAN PRESS
Last month, Ontario announced $110-million to expand
team-based care, which included investment into five new
and expanded clinics led by nurse practitioners. Ontario’s
Health Minister Sylvia Jones said, however, a loophole in the
Canada Health Act could undermine this investment be- ir Canada apologi es for removal of sacred
cause it had led to a “disturbing rise” in clinics charging pa-
tients for primary care.
In a letter sent to federal Health Minister Mark Holland,
National Chief’s headdress from airline cabin
Ms. Jones said the health act does not outline what is permis-
sible for non-physicians, such as nurse practitioners, to KRISTY KIRKUP tos. The images show airline staff immediately with dismay.
charge patients for care. carrying the headdress off the Alvin Fiddler, the Grand Chief
“To this extent, I am asking for your department and your plane in a plastic bag. of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation,
government to consult and work with provinces and terri- Air Canada is reviewing its pol- In the Facebook post, the Na- said that he was so sorry that she
tories on a Canada-wide solution to close this loophole, to icies after what it called a regret- tional Chief thanked Canadians had to experience this and that it
guard against unintended consequences, and prohibit non- table incident that involved air- on the plane who stood up for was “simply unacceptable.”
physicians from charging for publicly funded services,” Ms. line staff removing the headdress her and tried to help. “I believe you owe our Nation-
Jones wrote. of the National Chief of the As- “Air Canada needs a protocol al Chief an apology,” he later
In response to the letter, Christopher Aoun, press secre- sembly of First Nations from a for First Peoples so that we are wrote on , referring to Air Cana-
tary to Mr. Holland, said Ottawa is working on its own letter, plane’s cabin. not harassed for our sacred da. “And please ensure all mem-
with input from provinces and territories, to clarify the appli- Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak, items,” she said. “Our headdress- bers of your team are aware and
cation of the act, including in relation to expanding scopes of who was elected AFN National es don’t belong in garbage bags follow all protocols on handling
practice for nurse practitioners. Chief in December, says she was by airlines.” sacred items.”
In 2018, B.C. began creating positions for nurse practitio- flying from Montreal to Freder- Air Canada said in a statement Perry Bellegarde, a former
ners to support primary-care patients as part of its team- icton on Wednesday when her Thursday evening that it had re- AFN national chief, issued a
based care system. There were 590 nurse practitioners work- headdress was taken by airline ached out directly to the Nation- statement on Thursday evening
ing in the field as of last December, an increase of 60 since staff. al Chief to “better understand saying that this never should
December, 2022. Ms. Woodhouse Nepinak de- and apologize for her experi- have happened.
tailed the incident on Facebook ence.” “If Air Canada is serious about
Thursday and also posted pho- reconciliation with First Nations,
it’s essential for the corporation
to greatly strengthen their anti-
Air Canada needs a racism training for all personnel
from the flight attendants to the
proto ol for First CEO,” he said.
Peoples so t at e are “During my time as the chief
not arassed for our of the Federation of Saskatche-
sa red items. wan Indian Nations and as na-
tional chief of the Assembly of
CINDY WOODHOUSE NEPINAK First Nations, I travelled very of-
NATIONAL C IEF OF T E ASSEMBLY ten with my eagle feather head-
OF FIRST NATIONS dress in its case and never expe-
rienced any difficulties trans-
The airline also said it is fol- porting it as carry on luggage. I’d
Discover elegance redefined lowing up on the matter inter- be pleased to advise Air Canada
with FOPE’s Flex’it stretch nally and Air Canada “under- on a good path forward.
stands the importance of accom- Former justice minister David
bracelet collection. Effortlessly
modating customers with items Lametti also responded to Ms.
slide on for a comfortable and symbols of sacred cultural Woodhouse Nepinak’s post.
and stylish ensemble, solo or significance, and in the past the “This is shameful. And ridicu-
stacked. Entirely in 18k gold. chiefs have been able to travel lous,” the former Member of Par-
while transporting their head- liament wrote.
dresses in the cabin.” In a later statement, Mr. La-
It said it will be reviewing its metti said that ceremonial head-
policies as a result of the “regret- dresses are infused with meaning
table incident to ensure special and spirituality.
items such as this, whose signif- “It can’t simply be placed in
icance we appreciate, are able to checked luggage,” he said.
travel in the cabin with the cus- “I have been on numerous
tomer consistently.” flights where larger pieces of or-
KNAR.COM After the National Chief post- dinary luggage were placed safe-
ed about what happened to her, ly in the cabin. Their refusal in
First Nations leaders responded this case is simply shocking.”
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sraeli protesters block aid to alestinians in a a

emonstration shows
how far some in the
country are willing to
go to oppose people
they see as foes
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
INTERNATIONAL CORRESPON ENT
TEL ARA , ISRAEL
The WhatsApp messages began
to circulate around 5 30 p.m. A
new aid convoy was on its way
from Jordan, filled with goods for
Gaza. The trucks would likely ar-
rive around 11 p.m. That was the
time to be ready, wrote Reut Ben
Haim, leader of a group that has
become a digital command cen-
tre for Israelis who have made it
their business to impede the
transport of help to Palestinians.
Over the next few hours, a flur-
ry of messages tracked the con-
voy’s arrival – and the operation
to halt its westward journey from
the Dead Sea.
First, cars pulled out in front of
the trucks, slowing their highway
speed to 40 kilometres an hour.
When the convoy’s chosen route
became clear, people on the
ground were directed to a dusty
intersection in the desert of
southern Israel. Within minutes,
dozens had taken position on the
road, some waving flags, some
pushing into place a barrier of
stones.
The convoy, which one person
measured at 1.4 kilometres in
length, ground to a halt a few
minutes before midnight
Wednesday. Unmoving head-
lights stretched far into the dis-
tance behind the demonstrators,
who faulted Israeli authorities for
allowing aid to cross their land.
“We are giving our enemy ox-
ygen to live,” said Roi Raphael, 27,
a civil engineering student.
The sight of dozens of aid
trucks idling in the dark – with
police, for hours, doing little to in-
tervene – offered a particularly
striking illustration of the lengths
some in Israel have been willing
Protesters gather Wednesday in Tel Arad, Israel, to lock trucks carrying aid. International agencies say more
than a million people are facing catastrophic hunger in Ga a. NAT AN ANDER LIPPE/T E GLOBE AND MAIL
to go to oppose those they see as
foes. Numerous blockades like it
have been staged since the early
days of the war Yihai Feldman, a
reservist who spent four months
in Gaza, said he had personally
been to a half-dozen.
Inside Gaza, international
agencies say, more than a million
people have fallen into cata-
strophic hunger. Famine is immi-
nent, the World Food Programme
warned in March. Gazans have de-
scribed to The Globe and Mail the
death of newborns whose moth-
ers were no longer able to pro-
duce milk, and of women too
weak to survive childbirth.
Israeli officials have disputed
famine warnings as exaggera-
tions.
But in recent weeks, the coun-
try has eased constrictions on the
flow of aid, particularly in the
wake of an April 1 drone strike
that killed seven workers for
World Central Kitchen, one of
them Canadian. Israel’s Co-ordi-
nator of Government Activities in
the Territories said this week that
150 to 200 trucks are now entering
Gaza each day.
After months with so little food
that many resorted to eating cat-
tle fodder, the aid represents a
critical lifeline. Outside of wild
herbs, local sources of sustenance
no longer exist in Gaza.
The new flows of aid are
enough that people in the north
of the strip, where shortages had
been most acute, have reported
the return of basic foodstuffs to
markets, albeit at prices high
enough that profound hunger re-
mains. Many have blamed profit-
selling groups for hoarding
goods.
A small but determined group
of Israelis, however, has sought to
choke Gaza’s new aid lifeline by
thwarting the movement of
goods.
Those who joined the late-
night blockade this week includ-
ed a middle-school principal and
his two daughters, men returning
from a soccer match, teenage
high-school students, an army re-
servist and Hadar Persoff, a 21-
year-old university student who
drove an hour and a half with her
husband and two-month-old
infant to join.
Ms. Persoff lives in Karnei
Shomron, a large Israeli settle-
ment in the West Bank. The truck
blockade marked only the second
time she had joined a political
protest, she said. The first was
against the 2013 demolition of
four homes built on Palestinian-
owned land. Canada and many
other countries consider Israel’s
settlements a violation of inter-
national law.
She believes that if people in
Gaza were given their way with a
settler like her, “they would kill
me. And if they would kill me,
why would I give them food ”
Decades of violence has
claimed lives of both Israelis and
Palestinians, although far more
Palestinians have been killed.
For those seeking to block the
trucks to Gaza, however, only one
date matters Oct. 7, when Ha-
mas-led militants killed 1,200 in
Israel and seized hundreds of
hostages – 133 of whom have not
returned.
Ms. Persoff nodded toward the
lengthy queue of trucks idling be-
hind the protesters. It was too
much she said, to countenance Is-
raeli roads being used to carry “all
this food and sugar and oil and
wood and things for construction
– for Hamas to build ”
Critics say the blockades form
part of a broader Israeli failure to
care for Palestinians. “Humani-
tarian and international law re-
quires ensuring the entry of food
and medical aid to people under
their occupation,” said Firas
Yaghi, a former senior official
with the Palestinian Legislative
Council who is now a political
analyst and expert in Israeli stud-
ies.
“The failure to hold Israel ac-
countable for the humanitarian
disasters it commits encourages
these extremists to besiege the
crossings to prevent aid from en-
tering the Gaza Strip.”
Those at the blockade howev-
er, said providing food amounts
to feeding terror.
“The trucks represent weak-
ness in front of Hamas,” said
Reem Ben David, 16, whose par-
ents dropped him off to join the
blockade. “It starts with trucks,
but it will lead to other things,” he
said, warning that it will end with
people in Gaza coming “back to
shoot us.”
Police eventually arrested sev-
eral demonstrators – but once
trucks passed through the first
blockade, a second formed down
the road. It was not until after 6
a.m., with the sun clearing the ho-
rizon, that the trucks were able to
proceed freely.
But the point had been made,
said Shira Cohen, also 16, who
came out with her 11-year-old sis-
ter and her father, David, a mid-
dle-school principal.
“It’s for the government and
the world to see that this is the
feeling in our country. This is
what we as a people oppose,” she
said. Israel is “at war,” she added.
“And when you are at war you
don’t help your enemy with your
own money.”
Mr. Cohen sees two only ac-
ceptable options for hungry Pal-
estinians. One is to turn against
Hamas, the group that has ruled
Gaza with military force.
The other is “to starve.”

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Soldiers patrol the streets outside the prime minister’s office in Port au Prince on Thursday. Ariel Henry, who
remains locked out of the country, gave his resignation in a letter from Los Angeles. RAMON ESPINOSA/AP
Haitian M resigns
making way for creation
of new government
Ariel Henry leaves office
as transitional council
sworn in, with inance
inister selected as
interim prime minister
DANICA COTO PORT A PRINCE
Ariel Henry resigned Thursday as
Prime Minister of Haiti, leaving
the way clear for a new govern-
ment to be formed in the Carib-
bean country, which has been
wracked by gang violence that
killed or injured more than 2,500
people from January to March.
Mr. Henry presented his resig-
nation in a letter signed in Los
Angeles, dated Wednesday and
released on Thursday by his of-
fice, the same day that a council
tasked with choosing a new
prime minister and cabinet for
Haiti was sworn in.
Mr. Henry’s remaining cabinet
meanwhile chose Economy and
Finance Minister Michel Patrick
Boisvert as the interim prime
minister. It was not immediately
clear when the transitional coun-
cil would select its own interim
prime minister.
Addressing a crowded and
sweaty room in the prime minis-
ter’s office, Mr. Boisvert said that
Haiti’s crisis had gone on too long
and that the country now found
itself at a crossroads. The mem-
bers of the transitional council
stood behind him, as well as the
country’s top police and military
officials.
“After two long months of de-
bate a solution has been
found,” Mr. Boisvert said. “Today
srael steps up strikes on Rafah ahead of planned invasion of southern a a city
NIDAL AL MUGHRABI CAIRO
Israel stepped up air strikes on
Rafah over Wednesday night after
saying it would evacuate civilians
from the southern Gazan city and
launch an all-out assault despite
allies’ warnings this could cause
mass casualties.
Medics in the besieged Palesti-
nian enclave reported five Israeli
air strikes on Rafah early on
Thursday that hit at least three
houses, killing at least six people
including a local journalist.
“We are afraid of what will hap-
pen in Rafah. The level of alert is
very high,” Ibrahim Khraishi, the
Palestinian ambassador to the
United Nations, told Reuters on
Thursday.
“Some are leaving, they are
afraid for their families but where
can they go They are not being
allowed to go to the north and so
are confined to a very small area.”
In the seventh month of a dev-
astating air and ground war
against the Gaza Strip’s ruling Is-
lamist group, Hamas, Israeli
forces also resumed bombarding
northern and central areas of the
enclave, as well as east of Khan
Younis in the south.
Israeli Prime Minister Benja-
min Netanyahu’s war cabinet was
holding meetings “to discuss how
to destroy the last vestiges, the
last quarter of Hamas’s battal-
ions, in Rafah and elsewhere,”
government spokesperson David
is an important day in the life of
our dear republic.”
He called the transitional
council a “Haitian solution.” Di-
recting his remarks toward them,
Mr. Boisvert wished them suc-
cess, adding, “I believe the deter-
mination is there.”
The council was installed earli-
er Thursday, more than a month
after Caribbean leaders an-
nounced its creation following an
emergency meeting to tackle Hai-
ti’s spiralling crisis. Gunfire heard
as the council was sworn in at the
National Palace prompted wor-
ried looks.
The nine-member council, of
which seven have voting powers,
is also expected to help set the
agenda of a new cabinet. It will al-
so appoint a provisional electoral
commission, a requirement be-
fore elections can take place, and
establish a national-security
council.
The council’s non-renewable
mandate expires Feb. 7, 2026, at
which date a new president is
scheduled to be sworn in.
Smith Augustin, a voting
member of the council, said that
it was unclear if the council
would decide to keep Mr. Boisvert
on as interim prime minister or
choose another. He said it would
be discussed in the coming days.
R gine Abraham, a non-voting
member of the council, recalled
the July, 2021, assassination of
president Jovenel Mo se, explain-
ing that “that violence had a dev-
astating impact.”
Ms. Abraham said that gangs
now control most of Port-au-
Prince, tens of thousands of the
capital’s residents have been dis-
placed by violence, and more
than 900 schools in the capital
Palestinian youth search Thursday through the ru le of a uilding hit
in overnight Israeli om ardment in Rafah in the southern Ga a Strip.
MO AMMED ABED/AFP IA GETTY IMAGES
Mencer said.
He declined to say when or
whether the classified forum
might give a green light for a
ground operation in Rafah.
The war has killed at least
34,305 Palestinians, Gaza health
authorities said on Thursday. The
offensive has laid to waste much
of the densely populated and
widely urbanized enclave, dis-
placing most of its 2.3 million
people and leaving many with lit-
tle food, water or medical care.
Israel has said it will eradicate
Hamas after the rampage by gun-
men from the militant group on
Oct. 7 in which 1,200 people were
killed and 253 taken hostage, ac-
have been forced to close.
Gangs launched co-ordinated
attacks that began on Feb. 29 in
the capital and surrounding ar-
eas. They burned police stations
and hospitals, opened fire on the
main international airport that
has remained closed since early
March, and stormed Haiti’s two
biggest prisons, releasing more
than 4,000 inmates. Gangs also
have severed access to Haiti’s big-
gest port.
The onslaught began while Mr.
Henry was on an official visit to
Kenya to push for a UN-backed
deployment of a police force from
the East African country. He re-
mains locked out of Haiti.
“Port-au-Prince is now almost
completely sealed off because of
air, sea and land blockades,”
Catherine Russell, UNICEF’s di-
rector, said earlier this week.
The international community
has urged the council to prioritize
Haiti’s widespread insecurity.
“It is impossible to overstate
the increase in gang activity
across Port-au-Prince and be-
yond, the deterioration of the hu-
man-rights situation and the dee-
pening of the humanitarian cri-
sis,” Maria Isabel Salvador, the UN
special envoy for Haiti, said at a
UN Security Council meeting on
Monday.
Nearly 100,000 people have
fled the capital in search of safer
cities and towns since the attacks
began. Tens of thousands of oth-
ers left homeless after gangs
torched their homes are now liv-
ing in crowded, makeshift shel-
ters across Port-au-Prince that
only have one or two toilets for
hundreds of residents.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
cording to Israeli tallies. Iranian-
backed Hamas is sworn to Israel’s
destruction.
Escalating Israeli warnings
about invading Rafah, the last ref-
uge for around a million civilians
who fled Israeli forces farther
north earlier in the war, have
nudged some families to leave for
the nearby al-Mawasi coastal area
or try to make their way to points
farther north, residents and wit-
nesses said.
But many were confused over
where they should go, saying
their experience over the past
200 days of war had taught them
that no place was genuinely safe.
Mohammad Nasser, 34, a fa-
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C cancels graduation
ceremony as . . protests
against srael-Hamas war
spread to more colleges
NICK PERRY
STEVE LEBLANC OSTON
The University of Southern California cancelled its mainstage
graduation ceremony Thursday as college officials across the
United States worried that continuing campus protests
against the Israel-Hamas war could disrupt May commence-
ment ceremonies.
Some universities called in police to break up the demon-
strations, resulting in ugly scuffles and dozens of arrests,
while others appeared content to wait out student protests as
the final days of the semester ticked down.
USC announced the cancellation of the May 10 ceremony a
day after more than 90 protesters were arrested on campus.
The university said it will still host dozens of commencement
events, including all the traditional individual school com-
mencement ceremonies where students cross a stage and re-
ceive their diplomas.
Tensions were already high after the university cancelled a
planned commencement speech by the school’s pro-Palesti-
nian valedictorian, citing safety concerns.
The Los Angeles Police Department said more than 90 peo-
ple were arrested Wednesday night for alleged trespassing
during a protest on the campus. One person was arrested for
alleged assault with a deadly weapon.
At Emerson College in Boston, 108 people were arrested
overnight at an alleyway encampment. And new encamp-
ments and protests continued to pop up at campuses across
the country.
Students are demanding schools cut financial ties to Israel
and divest from companies enabling the conflict. Some Jew-
ish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism
and made them afraid to set foot on campus.
At Emerson, video shows police first warning students in
the alleyway to leave. Students
link arms to resist officers, who
move forcefully through the T e Los An eles
crowd and throw some protesters
Poli e Department
to the ground.
“As the night progressed, it got said more t an 0
tenser and tenser. There were just people ere arrested
more cops on all sides. It felt like Wednesda ni t for
we were being slowly pushed in
and crushed,” said Ocean Muir, a alle ed trespassin
sophomore. durin a protest on
Along with other students, Ms. t e USC ampus.
Muir was charged Thursday with
trespassing and disorderly conduct.
Emerson College leaders had earlier warned students that
the alley has a public right-of-way and city authorities had
threatened to take action if the protesters didn’t leave. Emer-
son cancelled classes Thursday, and Boston police said four
officers suffered injuries that were not life-threatening.
On Wednesday, officers at the University of Texas at Austin
aggressively detained dozens of protesters. In all, 57 people
were jailed and charged with criminal trespass, according to a
spokeswoman for the Travis County Sheriff’s Office.
Dane Urquhart, a third-year Texas student, called the po-
lice presence and arrests an “overreaction,” adding that the
protest would have remained peaceful if the officers hadn’t
turned out in force. In a statement, the university’s president,
Jay Hartzell, said “Our rules matter, and they will be enforced.
Our university will not be occupied.”
At Emory University in Atlanta, local and state police swept
in to dismantle a camp, although the university said the pro-
testers weren’t students but rather outside activists. Some of-
ficers carried semi-automatic weapons, and video shows offi-
cers using a stun gun on one protester whom they had pinned
to the ground. At least 17 people were detained, handcuffed
with zip ties and loaded into a police transport van.
But many colleges, including Harvard University in Massa-
chusetts, were choosing not to take immediate action against
protesters who had set up tents, even though they were open-
ly defying campus rules. And some colleges were making new
rules, such as Northwestern University, which hastily
changed its student code of conduct Thursday morning to bar
tents on its suburban Chicago campus.
The current wave of protests was inspired by events at Co-
lumbia University in New York, where police cleared an en-
campment and arrested more than 100 people last week, only
for students to defiantly put up tents again.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ther of three, said he had left Ra- after Israeli soldiers left the com-
fah two weeks ago and now lived plex in Khan Younis. The Israeli
in a shelter in Deir Al-Balah in military said allegations by Pales-
central Gaza to avoid being tinian authorities that its forces
caught by surprise by an Israeli had buried the bodies were “base-
invasion and unable to escape. less and unfounded.”
“We escape from one trap into In the north, Israeli forces con-
another, searching for places Is- tinued to pound Beit Lahiya, Beit
rael calls safe before they bomb Hanoun, Jabalia and eitoun,
us there. It is like the rat and trap with some residents saying Ha-
game,” he told Reuters via a chat mas and Islamic Jihad militants
app. “We are trying to adapt to the were fighting Israeli ground
new reality, hoping it will become forces with anti-tank rockets,
better, but I doubt it will.” mortar bombs and sniper fire.
Shaina Low, a spokesperson The Palestine Telecommunica-
for the Norwegian Refugee Coun- tions Company said internet ser-
cil, said there appeared to be few- vices had again been cut off in
er people in Rafah, which borders central and southern Gaza on
Egypt. She said teams on the Thursday, blaming Israeli mili-
ground had said people expect an tary operations.
invasion after the Jewish Passover Such outages have compound-
holiday ends on April 30. ed the obstacles confronting ef-
A senior Israeli defence official forts to get emergency aid to
said on Wednesday that Israel stricken civilians and provide
was poised to evacuate civilians medical care at the few centres
before its attack on Rafah and had not yet shattered by fighting.
bought 40,000 tents that could After an abrupt Israeli military
house 10 to 12 people each. pullback at the start of April, Pal-
Satellite images of Mawasi be- estinians at both ends of narrow,
tween Rafah, Khan Younis and coastal Gaza were again fleeing
the sea, an area of sand beaches for their lives this week from
and fields and stretching only bombing they described as some
around five by three kilometres, of the war’s worst.
showed significant camp settle- An aid worker who was part of
ments erected over the past two Belgium’s development efforts in
weeks. Gaza died in one Israeli strike, the
Meanwhile, a Palestinian civil Belgian government said on
defence team called on the Unit- Thursday, adding it was sum-
ed Nations to investigate what it moning the Israeli ambassador
said were war crimes at a Gaza over the incident.
hospital, saying nearly 400 bodies
were recovered from mass graves REUTERS
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Writers uild of Canada votes to authori e strike

he union representing
, 00 screenwriters
says it will use its
9 -per-cent vote result
as a bargaining tool
JOSH O’KANE
The Writers Guild of Canada has
voted to authorize a strike after
six months of negotiations with
the Canadian Media Producers
Association, as its English-lan-
guage screenwriters push for
greater pay and staffing mini-
mums, as well as protections
against generative artificial intel-
ligence models.
The 2,500-member union an-
nounced Thursday that 96.5 per
cent of its voting members were
in favour of authorizing a strike
for the first time in its 33-year his-
tory. The Writers Guild cautioned
it would not immediately strike –
instead, its leaders will use the
vote result as a bargaining tool in
negotiations.
Guild president Alex Levine
said in an interview that the writ-
ers’ top priorities are boosted
compensation from producers,
particularly for animation writ-
ers’ up-front script fees increased
minimum staffing on shows, es-
pecially once they are in produc-
tion and protections for their cre-
ative work against AI.
“Our hope is that this show of
unity will encourage them to start
to move on some of these core
issues,” said Mr. Levine, a co-exec-
utive producer on rphan B a k
who’s done writing and script
work for numerous Stargate
series.
The screen sector is facing a
critical moment as generative AI
tools evolve. The Writers Guild’s
American counterparts spent
much of 2023 striking for similar
benefits and protections along-
side U.S. actors, raising concerns
that AI-generated creative output
such as script drafts could deva-
lue their work and demean cre-
ativity.
Mr. Levine said the screenwrit-
ers were not seeking a blanket
ban on AI from producers, but
rather clearer protections
throughout the writing process,
including at the story-develop-
ment and conception phase –
plus clear disclosures when AI
models are being used.
“We do not want to strike,” he
said. “Our goal is to reach a fair
agreement and keep the industry
working and protect the liveli-
hoods of Canadian screenwrit-
ers.”
In an e-mail, Sean Porter, the
Canadian Media Producers Asso-
ciation’s vice-president of indus-
try relations, said, “Canadian pro-
ducers value the work of Cana-
dian screenwriters and sincerely
believe that future Canadian pro-
jects should be written by
humans, not AI algorithms. We
believe a labour dispute would be
extremely damaging to the
domestic Canadian film and tele-
vision production sector and we
remain focused on successfully
concluding negotiations.”
Screenwriters in Canada face
additional headwinds as they
strive to tell this country’s stories
in a U.S.-dominated sector. In a fil-
ing with the Canadian Radio-tele-
vision and Telecommunications
Commission last year amid
national broadcast reforms, the
Writers Guild warned that the
country needed to find ways to
protect and fairly finance Cana-
dian storytelling – particularly in
an era when the Canadian broad-
caster licence fees that fund
domestic programming face a
“stark decline.”
In the past five years, the guild
warned, its members saw their
aggregate earnings decline by
about 22 per cent when adjusted
for inflation.
The screenwriters are worried
about needing to do more with
fewer resources – in terms of pay,
but also other resources, such as
having fewer days to write or few-
er writers attached to a project.
These matters can be compound-
ed for screenwriters who have
long faced structural barriers in
the industry.
“These kinds of negotiations
are so critical, not just for the
growth and wellness and continu-
ity of the industry from a creative
perspective, but for Indigenous
people,” says Jennifer Podemski,
the Canadian screen veteran and
Litt e Bir showrunner, who is
from the Muscowpetung Saul-
teaux Nation in Saskatchewan.
“From an Indigenous perspective,
our opportunities are so limited
already, and our voice and per-
spectives have been so marginal-
ized if not erased over time.”
Nathalie Younglai, a children’s
TV writer, oroner co-producer
and the founder of the screen-
industry advocacy group BIPOC
TV Film, said the guild’s sticking
points are crucial to training the
next generation of writers and
showrunners. The structure of
animated-show writing, she said,
requires significant unpaid work
to bring ideas forward that might
not even be greenlit.
“It feels really unethical to be
putting new writers into the ani-
mation space when scripts are
getting shorter, which means
even less money for you to have a
career, or even sustenance,” Ms.
Younglai said. In live productions,
greater minimum staffing would
help broaden the chances for
young writers, particularly those
from diverse backgrounds, to lead
the next generation of storytell-
ing “If you don’t have those op-
portunities, we’ll be left with a
bunch of shows that people aren’t
equipped to run.”

TWO 14-YEAR-OLDS IN
lobe receives 2 nominations at igital ublishing wards HALIFAX CHARGED WITH
SECOND-DEGREE MURDER

JENNA LEGGE
The Globe and Mail has received 21 nomi-
nations for this year’s Digital Publishing
Awards, in categories ranging from best
digital journalism and editorial package to
news coverage and photo storytelling.
The Globe was also nominated for gen-
eral excellence in digital publishing, a cate-
gory that acknowledges publications that
maximize the possibilities of digital pub-
lishing and represent the highest of jour-
nalistic standards.
The best digital editorial package cate-
gory includes three nominations for teams
of Globe and Mail journalists – Secret Can-
ada, a project on freedom of information
Undercurrents, a project on the global-
migration crisis and Net zero hour, a pack-
age on clean energy that appeared in
Report on Business Magazine.
The Secret Canada team was also nomi-
nated for innovation in digital storytelling
and the Undercurrents team for best data
journalism.
As well, “Batteries required,” a project
on electric vehicles, was nominated in the
best data journalism category.
In er e en e, The Globe’s podcast
about intimate partner violence that
focused on the case of Helen Naslund, was
nominated for best podcast, current
affairs.
Health reporter Kelly Grant received
two nominations in the category of feature
writing, long for “A breath atop the moun-
tain” about Inuit health care and “22
weeks, zero days” about prematurely
born twins .
For best news coverage, The Globe’s
Robert Fife and Steven Chase and others
were nominated for their reporting on for-
eign interference, and a Globe team of
journalists were nominated for their cov-
erage of wildfires.
Johnny Tavalok wears cari ou clothing made for him y his mother efore her death
in G oa Haven, Nunavut, in Fe ruary, . Freelance photo ournalist Am er Bracken
was nominated for est topical reporting on climate change and est photo storytelling.
AMBER BRAC EN/T E GLOBE AND MAIL
In the best topical reporting climate
change category, The Globe received two
nominations Andrea Woo for “Can Tuvalu
be saved ” and freelance photojournalist
Amber Bracken for “In Gjoa Haven, a
greenhouse creates new possibilities.” The
latter by Ms. Bracken was also nominated
for The Globe in the best photo storytelling
category. Dustin Patar was also nominated
for best photo storytelling for “The Arctic
gets its annual checkup.”
The Globe’s Lara Pingue and freelance
writer Mark Kingwell were also nominated
in the best personal essay category for
“The big hurt” about living with back
pain and “Reflections on a life of
ALIFA Halifax police have
charged two 14-year-olds with
second-degree murder after the
death this week of 16-year-old
Ahmad Maher Al Marrach.
Halifax Regional Police issued
a statement Thursday saying the
accused were arrested late
Wednesday in the Sackville area,
north of Halifax. The pair, who
cannot be identified under the
Youth Criminal Justice Act, are
scheduled to appear in Halifax
youth court on Friday.
Mr. Marrach was found badly
injured Monday in a parking
garage next to the Halifax Shop-
ping Centre, and he died later in
hospital.
Police say they believe the
killing was not a random act,
but few other details were re-
leased, including the cause of
death.
On Wednesday, hundreds of
people gathered inside a Halifax-
area mosque for the boy’s funer-
al. An online fundraising cam-
paign to help his family had
drinking,” respectively. raised more than $50,000 by
In the best science and technology sto- Thursday afternoon.
rytelling category, Joe Castaldo was nomi- The family arrived in Canada
nated for “Meet the gig workers making AI after escaping the war in Syria
models smarter” and Ivan Semeniuk for several years ago. Mr. Marrach
“The new hunt for dark matter.” was a student at Citadel High
Data journalists Mahima Singh and School in Halifax, where coun-
Chen Wang were nominated for best ser- sellors, psychologists and other
vice feature for “Canada’s Most Livable staff members have been made
Cities.” available to his grieving class-
In the best lifestyle reporting category, a mates.
Globe team were nominated for “Hidden Investigators are asking any-
Canada 2023,” about destinations in Cana- one with information about
da that are hidden gems. what happened or video from
Winners will be announced at a ceremo- the area to contact police.
ny in Toronto on June 7. T E CANADIAN PRESS
A8 | N E WS
CAMPBELL
CLARK
OPINION
ark Carney might be set-
ting the stage to run for
the Liberal leadership af-
ter the next election. Or he might
be auditioning for a role as the
new blood in Justin Trudeau’s
embattled government.
Certainly, the former governor
of the Bank of Canada and Bank
of England is making it clear that
he wants to be the next leader of
the Liberal Party, and he has start-
ed giving the sort of speeches
about his political vision that
candidates use to brand their
leadership campaigns.
But Mr. Carney is getting com-
peting advice from key Liberal
supporters about when he
should take the leap into electo-
ral politics – including some ar-
guing that he should not wait un-
til next year’s general election
but seek to run in a by-election
later this year and play a part in
the Prime Minister’s attempts to
turn Liberal fortunes around.
Certainl , t ere isn t
mu time left If t ere
is no mo ement in t e
polls b summer, and
t e PM still insists on
leadin t e part in t e
next ele tion, e ill
a e to s a e t in s up.
With Mr. Trudeau’s govern-
ment running nearly 20 points
behind the Conservatives in most
polls, Mr. Carney could steer clear
of the potential car wreck of the
Liberals’ last months, run in next
year’s general election, and hope
to win the party leadership after
Mr. Trudeau is gone.
But he has been teasing Liber-
als for years with hints that he
will run – and stalwarts might
hold it against him if he waits on
the sidelines until the fight
against Pierre Poilievre’s Conser-
vatives is all but over.
So far, the question is still hy-
pothetical. A seat in the Com-
mons would have to be opened
up for him, presumably in Otta-
wa, where Mr. Carney lives. And
the critical question is whether
Mr. Trudeau wants to bring him
in to play such a role – presum-
ably as the government’s leading
economic minister.
There have been conversa-
tions about it. Mr. Trudeau tried
to recruit Mr. Carney to his cabi-
net in 2021, when Mr. Carney de-
cided to stay out of politics, publi-
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cly citing his work as a UN special
envoy on climate change as the
reason.
But at this point, Mr. Trudeau’s
team is running out of options to
turn things around.
Certainly, there isn’t much
time left If there is no movement
in the polls by summer, and the
PM still insists on leading the par-
ty in the next election, he will
have to shake things up. He’d
have to make an attempt at a re-
boot, perhaps proroguing Parlia-
ment, offering a repackaged
agenda and recruiting high-pro-
file new figures such as Mr. Car-
ney.
The speech Mr. Carney gave
Tuesday in Toronto, at an event
organized by Canada 2020, a Lib-
eral-minded think tank, might
cast doubt on whether Mr. Car-
ney would want to take on that
kind of role.
He criticized last week’s feder-
al budget for not focusing
enough on economic growth,
warned of a slide in Canada’s pro-
ductivity and stated that “govern-
ments that spend too much and
invest too little will pay a heavy
price.” But he also levelled a rhet-
orical barrage against Mr. Poi-
lievre as a politician interested
only in demolition and “Pavlo-
vian” free-market extremism,
and argued that clean energy will
be critical to growth.
It was essentially a call to re-
turn to the abandoned political
centre, along with an economic
analysis that sounded thoughtful
and adult compared with Cana-
da’s current cartoon politics.
After that speech, bringing Mr.
Carney into cabinet would look
like a shift from Liberal economic
policy under Mr. Trudeau and Fi-
nance Minister Chrystia Freeland.
But he might also offer the Liber-
als a chance to reset their eco-
nomic message.
The Liberals are plainly losing
the economic argument, and Mr.
Carney is one of the few heavy-
weight figures that the Prime
Minister could call upon who has
the potential to shift it.
If the Liberals don’t cut into
the Conservative lead by sum-
mer, Mr. Trudeau has time to im-
plement one more effort to re-
verse Liberal fortunes before next
year’s campaign.
One might think that last, des-
perate assault is something an
ambitious leadership aspirant
should avoid. But the knock on
the former central banker is that
he doesn’t have real experience
in the political trenches.
There’s only one way to dispel
that, so some are urging him to
jump in sooner. Once again, the
question about Mr. Carney is
when he will run.
Est. 1978
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Goods move on horse ack etween Sudan and Chad on Thursday. A human rights activist in El Fasher
says the Rapid Support Forces is locking the entry of food and fuel. DAN ITWOOD/GETTY IMAGES
iege tightens in arfur as
fears of mass killings rise
iplomats try to prevent an
assault on El asher, where
0,000 displaced people have
taken shelter from udan’s war
GEOFFREY YORK
A RICA REA CHIE
OHANNES R
A military siege is tightening around one of
Darfur’s biggest cities, triggering fears of starva-
tion and another wave of mass killings in a re-
gion where human-rights groups are already
reporting a genocide.
Diplomats are desperately trying to prevent
an assault on El Fasher, the capital of North Dar-
fur region in western Sudan, where an estimat-
ed 500,000 displaced people have taken shelter
from Sudan’s worsening war.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
RSF , which has been fighting Sudan’s army
for more than a year, has advanced closer to El
Fasher this month, burning villages around the
city, entering some districts and cutting off its
supply routes.
With no chance for civilians to escape, the
city has become a “kill box,” according to Nath-
aniel Raymond, head of the Humanitarian Re-
search Lab at the Yale School of Public Health,
which is monitoring satellite photos and other
data from the region.
Last week, his group warned the United Na-
tions Security Council of the rising risk of atroc-
ities in El Fasher. “The situation is grim,” he told
a media briefing on Thursday. “This is a five-
alarm fire of the highest severity.”
The camps in El Fasher where displaced peo-
ple are sheltering are now unprotected, and
ethnically targeted killings are inevitable if the
RSF enters the camps, Mr. Raymond said.
The RSF’s predecessor, known as the Janja-
weed, waged a scorched-earth campaign in
Darfur in the early 2000s, torching villages and
killing thousands, leading to genocide charges
at the International Criminal Court.
After another series of massacres in Darfur in
recent months, the Montreal-based Raoul Wal-
lenberg Centre for Human Rights reported last
week that there is “clear and convincing evi-
dence” that the RSF and its allied Arab militias
are committing genocide in the region, target-
ing non-Arab Darfuris.
“A mere twenty years after the first genocide
of the 21st century unfolded in Darfur, the same
perpetrators are committing the same atroci-
ties against the same targeted groups with im-
punity,” the report said.
In an assault on another city in Darfur last
year, the RSF and its allied militia killed an esti-
Civil liberties association seeks action after
police chief’s comments on ameer trial
Toronto’s police chief has yet to apologize for
the doubt he cast on a man’s innocence when
commenting on his acquittal, the Canadian Civ-
il Liberties Association said Thursday as it asked
the civilian body overseeing the force whether
it thinks the chief’s comments were appropri-
ate.
The CCLA said it has also asked the Toronto
Police Service Board what steps it will take to
ensure Chief Myron Demkiw and other police
force members don’t “publicly malign bail deci-
sions or criminal verdicts in the future.”
The association’s questions to the board
came after Chief Demkiw said on Sunday that
police “were hoping for a different outcome” af-
ter a jury acquitted Umar ameer in the death of
an officer.
On Tuesday, the chief then said he wanted to
be “crystal clear” he accepts and supports the
jury’s verdict, but the CCLA said he had not
“specifically repudiated or apologized” for his
initial comment.
“Chief Demkiw’s statement conveyed to the
public that despite Mr. ameer’s acquittal, he
should have been found guilty,” CCLA wrote in
its letter. “His statement cast doubt on Mr. a-
meer’s innocence, usurped the judicial system’s
responsibility to determine guilt, and under-
mined public confidence in the administration
of justice.”
Toronto’s police service board did not imme-
diately respond to a request for a comment on
the CCLA’s letter.
Asked about the letter, Toronto Police Ser-
vice spokeswoman Stephanie Sayer said the
chief “has stated numerous times that he sup-
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mated 10,000 to 15,000 people, a UN report
said.
El Fasher is the only major city in Darfur that
the RSF does not control, but the paramilitary
force has repeatedly vowed to capture it. “They
are very clear about what they want to do,” Mr.
Raymond said. “They are following their plan,
and now it appears that they will complete it.”
Taj El Deen, a human-rights activist in El
Fasher, said the RSF is blocking the entry of
food and fuel to the city, causing a doubling of
fuel prices. “This means the citizens of El Fasher
will face a lack of drinking water in the next few
days, because 95 per cent of the city’s water is
dependent on generators that rely on fuel,” he
told the media briefing on Thursday.
Dozens of traders who tried to drive into the
city this week had their goods looted by the
RSF, he said, warning of the risk of deaths from
hunger.
“The citizens of El Fasher are living their
worst days of the war since it started. There is a
lot of suffering. We ask the international com-
munity to intervene urgently, to save the lives
of the people of Darfur and El Fasher, because
we live in a very dangerous situation now.”
M decins sans fronti res Doctors without
Borders , a humanitarian group, said on Thurs-
day that it is treating several children for severe
acute malnutrition at a field hospital that it
opened this week at amzam camp, the biggest
camp in El Fasher for displaced people.
Diplomats are trying to exert pressure on the
RSF. “We are alarmed by indications of an im-
minent offensive by the Rapid Support Forces
and its affiliated militias,” U.S. State Depart-
ment spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a
statement this week.
“An offensive against El Fasher city would
subject civilians to extreme danger, including
the hundreds of thousands of displaced per-
sons who have taken refuge there,” he said.
Cameron Hudson, an Africa analyst at the
U.S.-based Center for Strategic and Internation-
al Studies, said the looming battle in El Fasher is
drawing in militias and tribal fighters from
around the region, meaning that the clashes
will probably become “the largest and blood-
iest battle of the war to date.”
An RSF victory in El Fasher would give it
complete control of nearly one-third of Sudan,
including several of the country’s international
borders, allowing the RSF to control revenue
from taxes, customs, gold trading and drug
smuggling, Mr. Hudson said in a report on
Thursday.
Sexual violence is also likely to increase. The
RSF has been implicated in large-scale abduc-
tions and gang rapes of girls and women. It al-
legedly brought abducted women and girls into
Darfur in chains in the back of trucks, according
to a UN report this week.
ports the justice system and accepts the deci-
sion of the jury.”
“He again acknowledged that we all seek clo-
sure to tragic events in different ways, but that
closure does not come at the expense of justice.
We have nothing further to add on this,” she
said.
A jury found Mr. ameer not guilty of first-de-
gree murder on Sunday afternoon in the death
of Detective Constable Jeffrey Northrup, who
was run over by a vehicle in Toronto City Hall’s
underground parking garage nearly three years
ago.
Mr. ameer told the trial he didn’t know Det.
Constable Northrup and his partner – who were
in plain clothes – were police officers and Mr.
ameer felt he, his pregnant wife and their
young son were in danger when two strangers
ran up to his car.
During trial, prosecutors alleged Mr. ameer
chose to drive dangerously even though Det.
Constable Northrup and his partner were near-
by, and alleged Mr. ameer intentionally ran
down Det. Constable Northrup.
Defence lawyers argued Mr. ameer didn’t
know they were officers and feared his family
was under attack from robbers or a gang. They
argued Mr. ameer had no reason to want to flee
police, and tried to escape as safely as he could.
On Tuesday, when pressed about his week-
end comments, Chief Demkiw said “in the con-
text of the totality of the circumstances” he was
trying to convey that he accepted the jury’s
findings.
T E CANADIAN PRESS
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FROM A1
Dr. Green, who is also head of the
department of family medicine
at Queen’s University, said that
key players from provincial poli-
ticians to medical school leaders
to doctors’ associations are final-
ly giving the shortage the atten-
tion it deserves.
“I’m very happy with these
results,” he added.
The national residency match
is garnering extra attention be-
cause of the country’s dire need
for primary care. The proportion
of Canadian adults who reported
having a doctor or a regular place
to go for medical care dropped to
86 per cent in 2023, down from 93
per cent in 2016, the Canadian In-
stitute for Health Information
CIHI said last month as it
released the findings of a 10-
country survey led by the Com-
monwealth Fund, a non-profit
health research organization in
the United States.
Canada placed last in primary
care access, behind the ninth-
place U.S.
The roots of the problem are
varied. Older doctors with large
patient rosters are retiring, while
younger doctors are shying away
from full-time, office-based pri-
mary care because of the admin-
istrative burden and compara-
tively low take-home pay.
At the same time, Canada’s
population of newcomers is surg-
ing as a rising tide of older Cana-
dians with chronic illness re-
quires more of their doctors’
time. A separate report from
CIHI last month found the aver-
age number of patients seen by a
family physician per year has
decreased, and more doctors
trained in family medicine are
choosing to work outside of pri-
mary care in places such as emer-
gency departments.
Residency is a training period
of two or more years that all doc-
tors must complete to be licens-
ed to practise independently.
CaRMS oversees a two-round
process that matches medical-
school graduates to placements
in different disciplines and loca-
tions offered by the country’s 17
faculties of medicine.
Ontario is preparing to open
two new medical schools, one in
the medically underserved city
of Brampton in 2025, and anoth-
er in Vaughan in 2028 focused on
family medicine.
After the results of the first
round of the match were re-
leased in March, some medical
school leaders expressed con-
cerns at the number of vacancies
in family medicine. In Ontario,
for example, 108 of 560 family
medicine residency slots in
Ontario were unfilled after the
first iteration, up from 100 last
year, 61 in 2022, 52 in 2021 and 30
in 2020.
But when second-round re-
sults were released on Thursday,
all but two spots reserved for mil-
itary doctors were filled in Onta-
rio, the majority of them with
graduates of international med-
ical schools.
Many of those students are
Canadians returning home after
completing a medical degree
abroad, Dr. Green said. CaRMS
matched more international
graduates to residency spaces
this year than ever before 671,
up from 555 last year and 439 in
2022.
Constance LeBlanc, president
of the Association of Faculties of
Medicine of Canada, said medi-
cal educators are keenly aware of
the primary-care crisis and have
been trying to play up the joys of
a career in family medicine.
“The undergrad deans and the
deans of medicine have worked
hard to include family medicine
in a more meaningful way across
their curriculum,” Dr. LeBlanc
said, “and to foster experiences
in family medicine that allowed
people to see that it’s an interest-
ing and a rewarding and valuable
practice.”
Those efforts don’t seem to be
bearing fruit in Quebec, where
medical schools are limited to of-
fering residency placements to
candidates who speak French.
The 70 residency placements
that went unfilled in the prov-
ince were mostly in rural areas.
“It’s a catastrophe,” said Jean-
Joseph Cond , a family doctor in
Val-d’Or and the Quebec repre-
sentative for the Canadian Med-
ical Association. “It means in-
coming doctors are turning their
back on family medicine in Que-
bec. It’s a catastrophe because
there’s already a shortage of fam-
ily physicians.”
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Ottawa has established some exceptions
where illicit drug use is still prohibited,
including at kindergarten to Grade 12
school premises, child-care facilities, air-
ports, playgrounds and skate parks.
The province’s urban mayors say they
are in crisis because of widespread public
drug use. Senior police officials testified to
a federal parliamentary committee last
week that decriminalization went ahead
without the necessary guardrails to keep
public order. And hospital workers are re-
porting a marked increase in the use of
illicit substances in patient rooms and
bathrooms – even in the maternity unit of
a large city hospital – which they say is
putting workers and patients at risk.
Last November, the province sought to
impose additional limits through the
Restricting Public Consumption of Illegal
Substances Act, which would allow police
to fine or imprison people who refuse to
comply with orders not to use drugs in
certain outdoor locations such as parks
and beaches. That law has been suspend-
ed by the B.C. Supreme Court while a
Charter challenge by the Harm Reduction
Nurses Association gets under way.
“We are looking at other options in
light of the Supreme Court’s decision with
respect to the injunction that prevents us
from implementing that legislation, and
that’s the conversation that we’re
certainly having inside government, and
that we’ll be having with the federal
Weinstein A
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The reversal of Mr. Weinstein’s conviction
is the second major #MeToo setback in the
last two years. The U.S. Supreme Court
refused to hear an appeal of a Pennsylva-
nia court decision to throw out Bill Cosby’s
sexual-assault conviction.
Mr. Weinstein has been in a New York
prison since his conviction for forcibly per-
forming oral sex on a TV and film produc-
tion assistant in 2006, and rape in the third
degree for an attack on an aspiring actress
in 2013. He was acquitted on the most seri-
ous charges – two counts of predatory sex-
ual assault and first-degree rape.
He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in
the Los Angeles case.
Mr. Weinstein’s lawyers expect Thurs-
day’s ruling to have a major impact on the
appeal of his Los Angeles rape conviction.
Their arguments are due May 20.
Jennifer Bonjean, a Weinstein lawyer,
said the California prosecution also relied
on evidence of uncharged conduct alleged
against him.
“A jury was told in California that he was
convicted in another state for rape,” Ms.
Bonjean said. “Turns out he shouldn’t have
been convicted and it wasn’t a fair convic-
tion. It interfered with his presumption of
innocence in a significant way in Califor-
nia.”
Weinstein lawyer Arthur Aidala called
the Court of Appeals ruling “a tremendous
victory for every criminal defendant in the
state of New York.”
Lawyer Douglas H. Wigdor, who has rep-
resented eight Harvey Weinstein accusers,
including two witnesses at the New York
criminal trial, called it “a major step back”
and contrary to routine rulings by judges
allowing evidence of uncharged acts to
help jurors understand the intent or pat-
terns of a defendant’s criminal behaviour.
Debra Katz, a prominent civil rights and
#MeToo lawyer who represented several
Weinstein accusers, said her clients are
“feeling gutted” by the ruling, but she be-
lieves – and is telling them – that their tes-
timony had changed the world.
“People continue to come forward, peo-
ple continue to support other victims
who’ve reported sexual assault and vio-
lence, and I truly believe there’s no going
back from that,” Ms. Katz said. She predict-
ed Mr. Weinstein will be convicted at a
government,” Ms. Whiteside said.
While she did not elaborate on the op-
tions that are under consideration, the
province’s avenues of recourse are strong-
ly constrained by the courts. In his Dec. 29
injunction ruling, B.C. Supreme Court
Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson wrote
that the limits contained in the provincial
legislation “will cause irreparable harm”
by forcing drug use back into the shad-
ows. Consumption of illicit drugs in the
open is safer, he wrote, “given a dire lack
of supervised consumption services, in-
door locations to consume drugs, and
housing.”
DJ Larkin, one of the lawyers represent-
ing the Harm Reduction Nurses Associ-
ation, said in an interview that Ms. White-
side has ignored their client’s invitation to
negotiate an out-of-court settlement.
Mx. Larkin said the province’s legisla-
tion could be redrafted to assuage the
concern that it will put drug users at grea-
ter risk. “It is so disappointing that the
government is not investing in the solu-
tions that we know will work. We’re one
year into the decriminalization pilot. We
have known this whole time that it need-
ed to be coupled with more overdose pre-
vention sites, proactive education, clear
communications, and a continued com-
mitment to helping to develop solutions
to the unregulated drug supply. B.C. has
not done that, and it’s devastating to see
that there’s no offer on the table to re-
solve this legislation that is poorly draft-
ed.”
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influence on the appeal of his Los Angeles rape conviction. SET WENIG/ASSOCIATED PRESS
retrial and said accusers such as her client
Dawn Dunning feel great comfort knowing
he will remain behind bars.
Ms. Dunning, a former actor who was a
supporting witness at the New York trial,
said in remarks to the Associated Press
conveyed through Ms. Katz that she was
“shocked” by the ruling and dealing with a
range of emotions, including asking her-
self, “Was it all for naught ”
“It took two years of my life,” Ms. Dun-
ning said. “I had to live through it every
day. But would I do it again Yes.”
Mr. Weinstein’s conviction in 2020 was
heralded by activists and advocates as a
milestone achievement, but dissected just
as quickly by his lawyers and, later, the
Court of Appeals when it heard arguments
on the matter in February.
Allegations against Mr. Weinstein, the
once powerful and feared studio boss be-
hind such Oscar winners as u p i tion and
Shakespeare in Love, ushered in the #Me-
Too movement.
Dozens of women came forward to ac-
cuse Mr. Weinstein, including famous ac-
tresses such as Ashley Judd and Uma Thur-
man. His New York trial drew intense pub-
licity, with protesters chanting “rapist”
outside the courthouse.
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Victoria Mayor Marianne Alto, a long-
time champion of decriminalization, says
communities are struggling to manage
the fallout without the resources that
should have been put in place from the
start. “What’s happening now with decri-
minalization is a really great example of
what happens when you only use one
tool at a time,” she said in an interview.
“What’s missing right now are the sup-
port services that allow people to take
that extra step – services like rehabilita-
tion and detox.”
Ms. Saks was not available for an
interview, but in a statement provided by
her office, said Ottawa is working with
B.C. to ensure the pilot project is achiev-
ing its objectives.
“We worked with B.C., at their request,
on a decriminalization pilot project and
continue to work closely with them on
making sure that it’s working right. We
have indicated from the outset that the
B.C. exemption would be rigorously mon-
itored and evaluated.”
Ms. Whiteside says it is too early to
measure whether the pilot project is suc-
ceeding in its objective – to reduce deaths
from a toxic, unregulated drug supply –
and she indicated the province is not pre-
pared to back down.
“This is a very critical intervention we
are making in the midst of an unprece-
dented public health emergency,” she
said. “It’s a novel approach and we recog-
nize it would take a considerable time to
see the positive impacts.”
“This is what it’s like to be a woman in
America, living with male entitlement to
our bodies,” Ms. Judd said Thursday.
Mr. Weinstein, incarcerated at the
Mohawk Correctional Facility, about 160
kilometres northwest of Albany, main-
tains his innocence. He contends any sex-
ual activity was consensual.
His lawyers argued on appeal that the
trial overseen by Judge James Burke was
unfair because testimony was allowed
from three women whose claims of un-
wanted sexual encounters with Mr. Wein-
stein were not part of the charges. Justice
Burke’s term expired at the end of 2022,
and he is no longer a judge.
They also appealed the judge’s ruling
that prosecutors could confront Mr. Wein-
stein over his long history of brutish beha-
viour.
In a majority opinion written by Judge
Jenny Rivera, the Court of Appeals said de-
fendants have a right to be held account-
able “only for the crime charged and, thus,
allegations of prior bad acts may not be ad-
mitted against them for the sole purpose
of establishing their propensity for crimi-
nality.”
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Electric vehicles aren’t burdening
Canada’s power grids yet
Predicting if, when and how the surge will happen is a challenge for the country’s utility companies
MATTHEW McCLEARN
I
n certain urban neighbour-
hoods, it can seem like Tesla
Model 3s, Volkswagen ID.4s
and Chevy Bolts occupy every
third driveway.
ero-emissions vehicles ac-
counted for nearly 11 per cent of
all new motor vehicles registered
last year, according to Statistics
Canada – the first time they’ve
topped one in 10. That’s more
than double the 5-per-cent sales
threshold after which some ex-
perts believe consumer prefer-
ences shift and mass-adoption
ensues.
Charging a single EV draws as
much energy as two average
households combined, according
to Toronto Hydro. Many observ-
ers have warned that rapid EV
adoption will cause demand for
electricity to surge.
So it might seem surprising
that in Canada’s most populous
province, Ontario, electricity de-
mand actually declined in 2023
relative to the previous year. And
in British Columbia, where adop-
tion has been more rapid, there’s
similarly been little impact de-
spite 146,000 EVs hitting the road.
These gains notwithstanding,
sales have lagged expectations in
recent quarters in several coun-
tries, including Canada.
Forecasting how much elec-
tricity will be required to satisfy
EVs in coming years is a difficult
and high-stakes exercise. And
while many Canadian utilities ap-
pear sanguine about it, a handful
are already becoming apprehen-
sive.
Literally billions of dollars ride
on this question. Mass electrifica-
tion has lately become the most
often-cited justification for build-
ing power infrastructure at a pace
not witnessed in decades.
Ontario plans to build nuclear
reactors, natural gas-fired plants
and wind farms to significantly
ramp up electricity production.
BC Hydro recently unveiled a
$36-billion capital plan for the
next decade that’s about 50-per-
cent larger than its predecessors.
The utility says once its massive
Site C dam is up and running, it
could power another 1.7 million
EVs. Utilities insist such invest-
ments are necessary because
power projects take many years
to plan and execute – they must
act now to avert brownouts.
But while the risk of being
caught unprepared is genuine, so
is the potential for overshooting.
In Ontario, procurements of re-
newables early this century con-
tributed to excess capacity during
the 2010s, in part because elec-
tricity demand unexpectedly fell.
Such missteps force utility cus-
tomers to pay for unnecessary in-
frastructure.
Ralph Torrie, an energy
analyst, said Ontario’s slight de-
cline in electricity consumption
last year demonstrates “there are
things going on in the electricity
system in this province that are
not being captured by the central
planners. And it’s leading them to
overestimate the growth that is
going to result from EVs and heat
pumps.”
EVS FOR NOW, AN INSIGNIFICANT
SOURCE OF DEMAND
So why did electricity demand fall
in Ontario last year According to
the province’s Independent Elec-
tricity System Operator, it had ev-
erything to do with the weather.
“If you look back to 2022, we had a
really cold winter and a really hot
summer,” said David Devereaux,
its director of resource planning.
During summer, heat and humid-
ity cause people to switch on their
air conditioners – and in winter,
those using electric heating in-
crease their loads, too. He said the
opposite was true of 2023 “It was
a pretty mild winter, and the sum-
mer wasn’t as hot.”
What about all those new Tes-
las According to IESO data, the
incremental demand from EVs
last year in Ontario was just 0.12
terawatt hours, as compared with
Despite rapidly increasing sales in Canada, EVs remain rare
EV stock share of all cars, per cent
100
80
60
40
20
2012 2014 2016
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: IEA
Tesla charging stations
are pictured at
Applewood Village Pla a
in Mississauga. According
to Ontario’s Independent
Electricity System
Operator, the incremental
demand from electric
vehicles last year in the
province was ust
.1 terawatt hours, as
compared with a total
provincewide demand of
1 TWh.
FRED LUM/
T E GLOBE AND MAIL
Everything else
Evs
2018 2020 2022
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a total provincewide demand of
133 TWh.
Curious about what was hap-
pening in neighbourhoods where
early EV adopters are clustered,
The Globe and Mail acquired new
vehicle registration data by for-
ward sortation area the first
three digits in postal codes from
the province’s transportation
ministry. The data were com-
pared with power use, with the
expectation that it would rise, but
in fact there was no notable in-
creases in consumption.
The explanation for this is
straightforward Even as sales
have increased rapidly, EVs still
represent a vanishingly small
portion of the overall stock of ve-
hicles. According to the Interna-
tional Energy Agency’s latest da-
ta, from 2022, nationally they ac-
counted for just 1.6 per cent of all
cars on Canada’s roads. There’s
simply not enough of them to
make a difference – yet.
PLUGGING IN TO TROUBLE
Utilities recognize that govern-
ment policies are pushing EVs.
Under federal targets, 20 per cent
of vehicles offered for sale by auto
manufacturers and importers
must be zero-emission beginning
in 2026 the proportion rises to
100 per cent by 2035. The City of
Toronto wants EVs to account for
30 per cent of all registered vehi-
cles by 2030.
Toronto Hydro, which serves
nearly 800,000 customers in Can-
ada’s largest city, sees trouble
ahead. According to documents
released in November as part of
an application before the Ontario
Energy Board seeking to increase
rates, its forecasts show EV adop-
tion accelerating in the 2030s,
spurring big changes in electrici-
ty-consumption patterns. One is
that peak demand, which
typically occurs on the hottest
summer days, will shift to winter.
The IESO agrees It expects that
by 2030, the summer and winter
peaks will be comparable, largely
because of overnight EV charging.
Toronto Hydro figures that
proliferating EVs will begin over-
loading pole-top transformers, so
it will have to replace or upgrade
many more than was previously
necessary. Overhead and under-
ground cables will also be
stressed. Toronto’s grid features
three different voltage levels – To-
ronto Hydro warns that neigh-
bourhoods served by the lowest-
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voltage lines will face longer wait
times for hookups, and higher
costs to connect. It also figures it
will have to hire many more tech-
nicians to connect EV chargers to
the grid.
The utility warned the Ontario
Energy Board that under the sta-
tus quo, its capital investment
plan would be underfunded by
more than one-third, or about
$1.5-billion. Customers might face
declining reliability and much
higher costs.
Most of Ontario’s utilities seem
less concerned. In late 2022, the
Ontario Energy Board surveyed 35
local distribution companies
serving the vast majority of the
province’s electricity customers
about what impact EV charging
would have on their distribution
systems. Most respondents said it
would have only a “marginal” im-
pact for at least the next few
years. Only two said it would have
a “material impact” such that
they would have to change their
internal planning processes to
adapt. A majority said they were
watching their local EV market
and taking a “wait and see” ap-
proach.
Some experts believe utilities
have little to fear from EVs. At the
country level, some studies have
found that even full deployment
might have only a modest impact
– an increase of just 5 per cent or
so in total electricity demand.
“Using information from Ger-
many as an example, EV growth
is not likely to cause large increas-
es in power demand through
2030,” a 2018 commentary by
McKinsey, the global consulting
firm, asserted. “Instead, it poten-
tially adds about 1 per cent to the
total and requires about five extra
gigawatts GW of generation ca-
pacity.” Even as late as 2050,
McKinsey estimated EVs would
add only 4 per cent to power
demand.
Notably, though, nine respon-
dents in the Ontario Energy
Board’s survey said they didn’t
have enough information to draw
conclusions about how EV charg-
ing would impact their distribu-
tion systems.
CLOUDS OF UNCERTAINTY
Even as utilities ponder the impli-
cations of future EV adoption,
they often know little about
what’s happening now.
Many respondents to the Onta-
rio Energy Board’s survey, for
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instance, said they didn’t know
where residential chargers are al-
ready installed. That’s because
there’s no requirement for cus-
tomers to inform them when
they’ve purchased an EV or char-
ger.
There are ways to infer where
customers are plugging in, of
course. Utilities can analyze data
from meters, vehicle registrations
and other sources to try to pin-
point them. BC Hydro said it’s
monitoring EV adoption through
customer surveys, enrolment in
its EV rebate program and use da-
ta from its fast-charging network.
Toronto Hydro is experiment-
ing with devices that track addi-
tional loads experienced by
transformers as more EVs plug in.
Its analytics team is also working
to develop a system that would
use machine-learning algorithms
to scour smart meter data to iden-
tify electricity-consumption pat-
terns that would likely be caused
by EV charging.
“Greater insight into charging
patterns and geographic EV
adoption rates over time will al-
low Toronto Hydro to invest more
efficiently in grid capacity and
exibility,” spokesperson Daniel
McNeil wrote in a statement.
But to forecast how EVs might
affect power consumption in the
years ahead, utilities are com-
pelled to heap assumptions on
top of assumptions.
The National Renewable Ener-
gy Laboratory, a contractor-oper-
ated lab owned by the U.S. De-
partment of Energy, has project-
ed that electrification will require
a doubling of electricity genera-
tion in all regions of the U.S. by
mid-century. Matteo Muratori,
NREL’s group manager of Trans-
portation Energy Transition
Analysis, was involved in generat-
ing those projections. It’s a tough
job, he said, owing to the many
uncertainties at play.
Among the biggest, Mr. Mura-
tori said, is that it’s difficult to pre-
dict who’ll buy EVs first. “We
think that demand is actually go-
ing to outpace supply,” he said.
“There’s going to be more people
who want EVs than the ability to
produce the vehicles and install
charging infrastructure and what-
not. It’s not clear who’s going to
win that competition.” The win-
ners determine where and how
EVs are charged – details that
could help utilities prioritize in-
vestments.
“If you ask me how many EVs
are going to be sold in California
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next year, we think we can give a Ontario plans to uild nuclear reactors, natural gas fired plants and wind farms to significantly ramp up
pretty decent projection,” Mr. electricity production as EV sales and demand increase. COLE BURSTON/REUTERS
Muratori said. “If you zoom in
and you say, Well, is it going to be
Los Angeles or San Francisco ’ it
gets harder.”
Further uncertainties concern
when EV owners charge. Some
early modelling exercises as-
sumed owners would recharge
batteries fully every night. But
other researchers report that in
the real world this often isn’t the
case. According to the Interna-
tional Energy Agency, regular
commuters may charge at home
in the evenings, but they also
might charge earlier at workplac-
es, provided chargers are availa-
ble.
“It’s not just oh, well, you con-
sumed 50 kilowatt hours,” Mr.
Muratori said. “Do you want them
in half an hour with a fast charger
at noon Do you want them over
10 hours overnight at home
That’s a very big difference from a
power system perspective.”
SHAPING THE LOAD
Changing technology presents Toronto Hydro predicts chargers that allow owners to amount of reinforcement re-
yet another wild card. that a surge in EVs will control when and how charging quired in that country’s distribu-
Today, most EVs start charging egin overloading happens could reduce this risk. tion networks.
the minute they’re plugged into a pole top transformers, so Utilities also have plenty of op- Theoretically, EVs could feed
charging station, and keep draw- it will have to replace or tions for influencing EV owners’ their stored energy back to the
ing until the battery is full. upgrade many more than behaviour. One obvious tactic is grid at moments of peak demand.
Known as “uncontrolled” charg- was previously to tweak time-of-use prices to in- Electricity grids would have to
ing, it can threaten grids if large necessary. Overhead and centivize them to charge when change considerably to facilitate
numbers of EVs plug in at the underground ca les will there’s more surplus power avail- two-way flows, but if that hap-
same time. also e stressed. able. Ontario introduced last year pens, EVs might help improve
But EVs are often plugged into NAT AN DENETTE/ a new “ultra-low overnight rate” rather than impair grid stability.
chargers for longer periods than T E CANADIAN PRESS plan of 2.4 cents per kilowatt- But EVs aren’t simply batteries
is strictly necessary, which creates hour between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., on wheels. They’re an important
opportunities for “smart” or aimed specifically at EV owners. way for people to get where they
“controlled” charging. Smart BC Hydro says it will also intro- need to go. This, for modellers
duce time-of-use rates to shift such as Mr. Muratori, is yet anoth-
Electricity consumption by EVs is negligible – for now consumption to overnight. er consideration.
Forecast electricity consumption by EVs in Ontario (TWh) Customers don’t mind. Toron- “We are always very careful to
to Hydro conducted a pilot study represent those mobility needs,”
45 on smart EV charging, and found he said. “If in the morning you
many were often willing to con- need your EV to be at an 80-per-
40
sent to allowing the utility to cent state of charge, sure, maybe
35 pause their EV charging to move that’s inconvenient for the grid.
the load off-peak, if it saved them But you bought the vehicle be-
30 money. cause you need it.”
“This is tremendously valuable Utilities still have time to figure
25 insight for us because it signals all of this out. Mr. Muratori ac-
that Torontonians who own EVs knowledges NREL’s scenarios for
20
and charge them at home are pre- EV adoption are aggressive, but
15 pared to work with us to shape even so, it expects EVs will con-
loads on the system,” Mr. McNeil tinue to account for only a small
10 wrote. portion of total electricity de-
A 2020 paper suggested that in mand in the U.S. for the remain-
5 Britain, smart charging could der of this decade.
eliminate the need for new power “Of course, we see major in-
0
plants even if EVs completely creases in electricity demand be-
2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050 supplanted internal combustion cause of EV charging” by mid-
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: IESO
engines, while at the same time century, he said. But “if you look
reducing by two-thirds the even at 2030, it’s pretty small.”
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ANDREW SAUNDERS
PRESI ENT AN CEO

DAVID WALMSLEY
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o accuse your political opponent of being a liar is so

serious a charge that the word is banned in legisla-
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Poilievre was lying about pharmacare, he levelled a grave ac-
cusation.
But was that accusation of lying itself true
Mr. Poilievre had said he would not support the govern-
ment’s new pharmacare legislation because, he claimed, it
would require people who had prescription plans through
their workplace to move over to the government’s plan.
Except the legislation as it currently exists does not do
that. It offers contraceptive and diabetic medication through
a government plan to those who have no plan of their own.
But no one is required to abandon their existing arrange-
ment. Mr. Holland said the Conservative Leader was “spread-
ing what are out-and-out lies.”
For some political observers, Mr. Poilievre’s remarks were
symptomatic of a dangerous new trend that is being spread
by right-wing populists and personified by former U.S. presi-
dent Donald Trump peddling conspiratorial untruths to ral-
ly uninformed voters to their side. Like everything in politics,
E E S O HE EDI O
however, the reality is more complicated.
MEDICAL BILLS
Mr. Holland left out a key fact, a bit of mendacity-by-omis-
sion. While the existing pharmacare legislation does not Re “Changes to capital-gains tax
may prompt doctors to quit, CMA
compel universal public access today, it aspires to that even-
warns” Report on Business,
tual end. Bill C-64 states that it seeks to improve “the accessi- April 23 It is disappointing to
read that some well-compensat-
bility and affordability of prescription drugs with the aim
ed doctors object to paying a bit
of continuing to work toward the implementation of nation- more tax which is still less than
al universal pharmacare.” tax on interest, dividends or
earnings on the amount of cap-
So while covered workers will not lose their private plan ital gains they receive.
tomorrow, they may lose it some day. Mr. Poilievre could and I thought billing on average
more than $330,000 annually
should have made that distinction. But his words were not would be the basis for a decent
the bald-faced lie that Mr. Holland said they were. They be- income, even without benefiting
from a lower tax rate on capital
longed, instead, to the everyday prevarication, obfuscation gains.
and distortion that is the stuff of political discourse. However, if family physicians
are going to leave their practices
Such as when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, last October, because of this, then I urge the
announced that home heating oil would be exempt from the government to modify the bud-
get and exempt active practising
carbon price. The move disproportionately benefited Atlan- family physicians, and only
tic Canada, which is far more dependent than other parts of them, from the increased capital-
gains tax.
the country on heating oil.
If this incentivizes new or non-
Mr. Trudeau denied the carve-out was aimed at saving the practising physicians to open a
family practice, this alone would
Liberals’ political bacon in the Atlantic provinces. Suspend-
be worth it.
ing the tax, he said, was intended to help everyone who heats Its impact on revenues would
be minor.
their homes with oil make the switch to cleaner alternatives.
Lewis Auer ach
But the truth is that the tax was deeply unpopular in At- Retired dire tor, Offi e of t e
lantic Canada, and MPs from the region had been lobbying Auditor General of Canada Otta a
hard for the exemption. As he made the announcement, a
Re “Medical schools raise alarm
gaggle of them stood behind Mr. Trudeau, nodding happily. over declining interest in family
medicine” April 24 Justin Tru-
Lest there be any doubt about the politics of the decision, deau and Chrystia Freeland say
Rural Economic Development Minister Gudie Hutchings of- that physicians are at the “very
very top” of the income scale, and
fered a solution for those in the West who complained that so can afford to pay more taxes.
natural gas had not also been exempted “Atlantic caucus That comment is likely a reflec-
tion of looking at doctors’ gross
was vocal with what they’ve heard from their constituents, billings rather than net pay.
and perhaps they need to elect more Liberals in the Prairies Physicians were dispropor-
tionately harmed by the GST
so that we can have that conversation as well,” she told CTV. when they were deemed to be
Nothing that Mr. Trudeau said about the home heating oil “end-users” and could not claim
expenses for rent and supplies,
exemption could be described as a lie. And yet the political
unlike other businesses. Now,
calculations behind the announcement clearly contradict lumping medical corporations
into the capital-gains tax increase
the Prime Minister’s own words.
is another disproportionate fi-
Whether or not a statement is an outright lie, claims that nancial hit.
play fast and loose with the truth degrade politics. Mr. Poi- This intersects with the short-
age of family physicians, who to-
lievre could have said that he would not support a pharma- day are an aged group. Many are
care plan that could one day bring an end to private plans. Mr. still working into their 70s and
80s. Harmful changes in govern-
Holland could have said those existing plans are safe for the ment fiscal policy lead elderly
foreseeable future. Those two statements would have laid professionals to re-evaluate their
work life many physicians re-
the foundation for a proper political debate. Instead, each of tired when income caps were ap-
them distorted and misled. plied in the 1990s.
The capital-gains tax will fur-
Mr. Poilievre took political rhetoric far past the breaking ther exacerbate the health care
point recently when he visited anti-carbon tax protesters crisis, and there is no backfill
coming from younger doctors.
camped out beside a highway near the New Brunswick-Nova Harry Birman MD Toronto
Scotia boundary. “People believed his lies,” he told them, re-
In 2024, Justin Trudeau says that
ferring to Mr. Trudeau. Mr. Poilievre disagrees with his oppo-
“it’s fair to ask those who have
nent and thinks his policies are wrong-headed and damag- succeeded extraordinarily well to
be there to make sure that a lot
ing he should simply say that. Childish insults are, or should
more people have the opportuni-
be, beneath his office. ty to succeed.”
In 1875, Karl Marx said, “From
There’s a reason Parliament bans words such as “lie” and
each according to his ability, to
“liar” They coarsen and corrode discourse, and turn political each according to his needs.”
debate into trash talk. That’s true inside a legislature, and be- How did that work out for the
Soviet Union
yond its confines. Jonathan Bam erger Toronto
DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE
Re “The failure of Canada’s
health care system is a disgrace –
and a deadly one” April 19 How
do we address unacceptable wait
times in health care Doug Ford’s
solution of out-of-hospital surgi-
cal clinics is a good idea, but to
privatize them is, I think, dumb.
There are about 17,000 family
physicians in Ontario – on paper,
enough to meet the province’s
needs. But they don’t. Why
If Ontario spends about $90-
billion a year on health care,
would it not be wise to assess
how the money is spent and what
changes are needed Significant
privatization has increased costs
without addressing wait times.
Why not
A partial solution might be to
reserve 40 per cent of medical-
school places for individuals who
wish to be family physicians, with
obligations to be in general prac-
tice for a defined number of
years.
Fifty years ago, I practised as a
family physician. I and my col-
leagues felt obligated to try see-
ing urgent problems within 24 to
48 hours. Why not now
Ross McElroy
East orra Ta isto , Ont.
The ultrasound clinic recently
called to schedule three separate
appointments from the August,
2023, requisition from my family
health team doctor lucky me
one for the shoulder, one for the
elbow and one for the wrist.
Three trips on three separate
days. Loss of time, gas cost and
pollution and productivity. Oh,
and nine months after the requi-
sition. Yes, I still need the ultra-
sounds done as the symptoms
have not gone away.
On whose head should that li-
quor-store paper bag go
J.C. Olsthoorn Otta a
CANADIAN CONTENT
Re “If pension funds can’t see the
case for investing in Canada, why
should you ” Report on Busi-
ness, April 20 We have entered
an economic period that is un-
likely to mirror the past.
Globalization is fracturing, and
the global monetary system is in
the middle of its biggest transfor-
mation in 50 years. Lack of invest-
ment means physical commodity
prices are positioned to continue
rising. This is inflationary and in-
vestors should be defensive.
Canada is home to most of
these primary materials and
foodstuffs. Canadian companies
also own global mining assets.
These companies are seeing
exceptional cash-flow growth
that benefits shareholders via di-
vidends. Earnings growth is now
set to accelerate across the ener-
gy and materials sectors. Cana-
dian investors should be seeking
a selection of those companies
where management is incentiv-
ized to win.
As investment literature al-
ways remarks, “Past performance
is not indicative of the future.”
Rarely have financial market val-
uations reached such extremes.
This statement should be at
the front of Canadian investor
minds, including our pension
funds.
Avi Hooper
CFA St. Cat arines, Ont.
FAMILY FIRST
Re “New condo sales in the To-
ronto area hit 15-year low” April
23 This report inadvertently
says a lot about the sad state of
development economics.
A recent Toronto condo mon-
itor revealed that 50 per cent of
condos built in the city since 2002
are one-bedroom units. When
the bulk of new housing stock
comprises studio and one-bed-
room condos, this does little to
serve the needs of young families.
Delivering desirable housing
should be more than a numbers
game.
Glenn Miller Toronto
CLOSER LOOK
Re “The stain of Nazi science
pushed one anatomy book off
the shelves. A UBC professor has
now found another” April 20
As a surgeon, I was interested in
reading about doctors William
Seidelman and Claudia Krebs and
their work deciphering the iden-
tities of Nazi victims whose bod-
ies were used for anatomical
texts.
This was first brought to my at-
tention by the publications of
doctor Susan Mackinnon, a Cana-
dian plastic surgeon known for
her nerve reconstruction tech-
niques. She became concerned
about the ethical dilemmas of us-
ing ernkop s At as o opographi
an App ie uman Anatomy for
Jewish patients and consulted
rabbi Joseph Polak about disclo-
sure to the family and patient.
Her revelations and concerns
were widely disseminated in
2019.
Recently, medical schools in
Canada have begun teaching
about the Holocaust in terms of
ethical, moral and professional
subversions by the Nazi medical
profession in Austria and Germa-
ny, where scientific achievements
had been so prolific and impor-
tant in earlier years.
Bernard Goldman
CM, emeritus professor of sur er
ardia , Uni ersit of Toronto
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O INION
I H
A report on the N
aid agency’s neutrality
mechanisms glosses
over deeper issues
KONRAD
YAKABUSKI
OPINION
I
t took all of two sentences in a
54-page report from a United
Nations review panel on UNR-
WA, the UN organization respon-
sible for Palestinian refugees, for
its apologists to triumphantly
declare the contested relief agen-
cy exonerated on allegations that
it harbours Hamas members.
“Israel made public claims that
a significant number of UNRWA
employees are members of ter-
rorist organizations. However,
Israel has yet to provide support-
ing evidence of this,” concludes
the final report of the UN Inde-
pendent Review Group on UNR-
WA, which was tabled this week.
This hardly constitutes an ex-
oneration of UNRWA. The review
panel, led by former French for-
eign-affairs minister Catherine
Colonna, had no mandate to in-
vestigate Israel’s claims that 12
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VLADYSLAV GOLOVIN KYIV
OPINION
U rainian ournalist and former
deput editor in ief
of Forbes U raine
I
n a quaint resort town on the
shores of the Adriatic Sea in
Croatia, I stepped into a local
souvenir shop to purchase a me-
mento while on vacation with my
children. Among the array of
fridge magnets featuring land-
marks, world leaders or colourful
aphorisms, a familiar face caught
my eye Ukrainian President Vo-
lodymyr elensky, in tchotchke-
magnet form. I knew he had
become a symbol of our struggle
in Ukraine, but it was the first
time I realized he had also
become part of global popular
culture.
It’s all the more astonishing to
grasp the vast disparity between
his reputation outside Ukraine
and within it. To foreigners, our
President is one of the bravest in
the world. He etched himself into
history with just one phrase “I
need ammunition, not a ride.”
Despite the clear danger of Kyiv
being captured at the onset of
Russia’s invasion in 2022, he re-
mained at the helm of the resist-
ance and has continued to exem-
plify remarkable courage. Almost
every month he visits the front
lines, boosting the morale of sol-
diers and bestowing honours up-
on the bravest. Sometimes, these
ceremonies take place danger-
ously close to enemy positions.
At first, this display of courage
not only inspired foreigners but
also Ukrainians themselves. Mr.
elensky’s approval rating surged
sharply in the first year of the
invasion, from 37 per cent just
ANDREW
COYNE
OPINION
here is a good argument for
increasing the tax on capi-
tal gains, and it goes like
this. The foundation stone of
sound tax policy is neutrality.
The tax system should treat every
dollar of income the same, no
matter how it is earned, from
what source, or in what form
wages, interest, dividends or cap-
ital gains.
Why Because as a matter of
efficiency, we want people to
make decisions based on the real
costs and benefits of the choices
before them. Favouring one form
of income or another through the
tax system encourages them to
arrange their affairs, not in the
way that makes the most eco-
nomic sense, but that offers the
juiciest tax breaks.
As a matter of fairness, more-
over, it’s all income No matter
LO E AN AIL O
UNRWA staffers participated in
the Oct. 7 Hamas attack or look
into Israeli intelligence reports,
revealed by The Wall Street Jour-
nal, identifying hundreds of UNR-
WA’s Gaza employees as Hamas
members. Instead, the panel was
struck to examine the procedures
UNRWA has in place to ensure the
neutrality of its employees and
recommend ways to strengthen
them.
The panel was formed on Feb. 5
by UN Secretary-General Ant nio
Guterres to address concerns
expressed by some donor coun-
tries – led by the United States,
which has cut off funding for now
– that the agency had been turn-
ing a blind eye to the pro-Hamas
leanings of some employees,
including teachers in UNRWA
schools in Gaza and the West
Bank. Its creation followed years
of allegations that the agency’s
schools and other buildings had
been used by Hamas to store
weapons or had sat atop Hamas
tunnels.
UNRWA’s critics did not have
high hopes for the review. They
questioned the choice of Ms. Col-
onna to lead it, given that she
expressed unwavering support
for the agency in her previous
job, which she had lost in a Janu-
ary cabinet shuffle by French
Ukrainian President Volodymyr elensky, centre, poses with soldiers at the entrance to the Donetsk region
earlier this month. U RAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SER ICE/AFP IA GETTY IMAGES
before the war, to 90 per cent in
February, 2023, according to data
from the Kyiv International Insti-
tute of Sociology KIIS .
However, over time, there has
been a drastic shift in his percep-
tion by the public. Mr. elensky’s
popularity has steadily declined
during the war, and as of Febru-
ary of this year, KIIS found it reac-
hed just 60 per cent. Among his
supporters, those who “strongly”
did so dropped from 42 per cent
in September, 2023, to 22 per cent
as of February, according to the
International Republican Insti-
tute.
There are several reasons for
this decline that may not be
apparent from abroad, but are
how it is earned, it all contributes
to a taxpayer’s ability to pay. A
buck is a buck is a buck, as they
say.
For these sorts of comparisons,
however, it’s not just the person-
al income tax rate that counts,
but the combined rate, corporate
and personal income taxes to-
gether. That’s because corpora-
tions make distributions to indi-
viduals out of income on which
they have already paid tax.
The tax system tries to take
account of this. To make the tax
on dividends, for example, com-
parable with the tax on wages, in-
vestors can claim a dividend tax
credit, to compensate them for
the tax paid at the corporate
level.
With capital gains, it is done
through the inclusion rate. If 100
per cent of a capital gain were
taxable, without regard for the
corporate tax already paid on
that income, the effect would be
to tax capital gains more heavily
in the hands of the individual
than other sources of income.
President Emmanuel Macron.
Their fears were hardly calmed
when Ms. Colonna turned to
three organizations known for
their pro-Palestinian activism to
help conduct her review the
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of
Human Rights and Humanitarian
Law in Sweden, Norway’s Chr. Mi-
chelsen Institute, and the Danish
Institute for Human Rights.
UN Watch, a long-standing
UNRWA antagonist, had flagged
countless anti-Israel comments
made by staff members at those
organizations, including a 2016
tweet by Wallenberg executive
director Peter Lundberg that
accused Israel of “building an
oppressive system that is a com-
bination of apartheid, Indian res-
ervations, and the wall in Eastern
Europe.”
Not surprisingly, the report
goes far too easy on UNRWA,
praising the agency’s neutrality
rules and blaming any failure by
its leaders to police wayward staff
on a lack of resources or co-oper-
ation from Israeli authorities. At
best, it delivers a light rap on the
knuckles here and there.
“Neutrality-related issues
persist,” the report says. “They
include instances of staff publicly
expressing political views,
host-country textbooks with
evident to Ukrainians.
The President embodies pow-
er, and any disillusionment with
power among the people will be
personified by his figure. We still
haven’t driven the enemy from
our land we still suffer losses on
the front lines among our mili-
tary civilian casualties from daily
rocket attacks continue. This is
not solely the President’s respon-
sibility, and many other factors
are at play. However, when those
in power fail to provide the most
essential thing for citizens – secu-
rity – they tend to lose support.
The President’s courage at the
onset of the war impressed every-
one. He remained with his people
and did not flee. However, the
But at some smaller percentage,
they level out.
What is that percentage At
50 per cent, the current i.e.
prebudget rate, the effective tax
rate on capital gains is actually
lower than it is on other sources
of income. The math At a
corporate tax rate of 26 per cent,
a shareholder receives 74 cents of
every dollar of capital gain. Take
the half of that that’s taxable, ap-
ply the top personal income tax
rate of about 53 per cent, and
you’re left with 54 cents, for an
effective tax rate of 46 per cent.
But at the 66-per-cent inclu-
sion rate proposed in the budget,
they are more nearly equalized.
I’ll leave you to do the math
here. A buck is almost a buck is
appreciably closer to being a
buck. QED.
That is not, however, how the
government has sold the change.
Instead, it has relied exclusively
on two talking points soak-the-
rich “The government is asking
the wealthiest Canadians to pay
their fair share” , and we-need-
problematic content being used
in some UNRWA schools, and pol-
iticized staff unions making
threats against UNRWA manage-
ment and causing operational
disruptions.”
The report acknowledges that
“UNRWA’s facilities have some-
times been misused for political
or military gains, undermining its
neutrality.” But it adds that “UNR-
WA, as a UN agency, does not
have policing, military or wider
investigative capacities or com-
petencies required to detect such
breaches.” It recommends “closer
dialogue between UNRWA, the Is-
raeli Defence Forces and the Pal-
estinian Authority” to “remedy
some of the information gaps.”
Good luck with that.
“Hamas has infiltrated UNR-
WA so deeply that it is no longer
possible to determine where
UNRWA ends and where Hamas
begins,” Israeli Foreign Affairs
Minister Israel Katz said in
response. “The Colonna report
ignores the severity of the prob-
lem and offers cosmetic solu-
tions.”
A separate investigation into
Israel’s allegations of UNRWA’s
harbouring of Hamas members is
being conducted by the UN Office
of Internal Oversight Services
OIOS . And it could be some
’
constant repetition of this narra-
tive over the years has become
wearisome. His presence sat-
urates the country’s media
spaces. Only he informs the pop-
ulation of the consequences of
any rocket attack, even though
officials at the local level or even
rescue workers could do so. Only
he provides media updates about
what is happening on the front
lines, though many generals and
colonels would be just as capable
of doing so. One of Mr. elensky’s
newer, unofficial nicknames is
“Bone tik,” which roughly means
“because he did not run away,”
which is used more to mock him
than praise him. Ukrainian
soldiers grimly joke about the
the-money, as if the billions of
dollars in new spending in the
budget could only be financed
with new taxes – and not, say,
with cuts in other spending.
There is a good argument
against increasing the tax on cap-
ital gains, or at least against how
the government has gone about
it, and it goes like this. Raising the
inclusion rate, on its own, may
move the system closer to neu-
trality, but that’s not all it does. It
also raises taxes. At a time when
Canada needs to be doing all it
can to encourage new invest-
ment see productivity crisis , is
this really the signal we want to
send
Would it not have been better,
then, to have combined an in-
crease in the inclusion rate – tax-
ing capital gains more like other
income – with a reduction in tax
rates across the board
That is not, however, how the
tech bros and other critics of the
move have made their case. In-
stead, the public has been treated
to a lot of tone-deaf caterwauling
NEWS | A1
time before its findings are made
public. It is unclear whether its fi-
nal report will be any more sub-
stantive than the review panel’s.
Canadian International Devel-
opment Minister Ahmed Hussen
did not wait for the Colonna
report, much less the outcome of
the OIOS investigation, to an-
nounce in March that Canada was
resuming its support for UNRWA.
Ottawa, which provided almost
$40-million to the agency in 2023,
had said it would suspend fund-
ing in the wake of Israel’s allega-
tions of UNRWA staffers’ involve-
ment in the Oct. 7 attack.
Ms. Colonna’s report is right
about one thing. As the only aid
organization with the staff,
infrastructure and resources to
deliver relief to Gazans on the
scale that is needed, UNRWA
remains “irreplaceable and indis-
pensable to Palestinians’ human
and economic development.” But
its neutrality is also badly com-
promised.
And that leaves donor coun-
tries, including Canada, in the un-
tenable position of providing
funding to the organization to
ensure it can perform its human-
itarian mission, with the knowl-
edge that – willfully or not – it
also facilitates Hamas’s activities.
That must not go on indefinitely.
President’s excessive media pres-
ence, often quipping that in this
war with Russia, their country
has only two heroes – Mr. elen-
sky and Patron, the Jack Russell
terrier mascot for the State Emer-
gency Service of Ukraine.
A notable decline in Mr. elen-
sky’s popularity came after he
decided to dismiss General Valerii
aluzhnyi, the commander-in-
chief of the Ukrainian army, earli-
er this year. For many Ukrainians,
it was Gen. aluzhnyi, popular
among soldiers and officers, who
became a symbol of the struggle.
Mr. elensky, after all, is a civilian,
not a military man, and this fight
has been carried out by the army.
But Gen. aluzhnyi had also
been at odds with Mr. elensky
before his dismissal, leaving the
President with a difficult choice.
He suffered the consequences in
the aftermath – prior to Gen.
aluzhnyi’s dismissal, Mr. elen-
sky’s overall approval stood at 65
per cent, according to KIIS data.
Immediately after, it dropped five
percentage points.
This decline in the President’s
popularity does not pose any real
threat to Mr. elensky’s ability to
maintain power. According to
Ukrainian laws, elections are not
held during wartime. But even if
changes were made to the law, 67
per cent of Ukrainians do not
support holding elections during
wartime, says a survey by the In-
ternational Republican Institute.
Yes, Ukrainians have become
disillusioned with Mr. elensky.
But as long as the enemy is on our
land and as long as we continue
the fight, no one will be looking
for a new president. There are far
more important tasks at hand
for example, removing from our
lands the soldiers of the President
of a neighbouring country –
another Vladimir.
about the terrible hardship this
will impose on people with sec-
ond homes, or on professionals
who shelter their income in pri-
vate corporations.
Possibly aware of how hide-
ously self-interested they appear,
some have resorted instead to the
sort of cowboy economics that is
always trotted out in favour of
the special treatment of capital
gains seed corn of prosperity,
heroic role of the entrepreneur,
how will we ever get people to
take risks again etc.
I don’t know how much more
simply I can put this The
incentive for taking risks is the re
turn. Riskier investments, as a
rule, pay higher returns. If they
don’t – if they don’t pay a high
enough return to justify the risk,
without a special tax break – they
shouldn’t be made. There is such
a thing as an optimal level of risk-
taking, after all, and no more case
for subsidizing it than for subsi-
dizing anything else.
GARY MASON ill return.
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Caitlin Cronenberg piece antics of Arseni an

La e.
follows in the bloody Working on a tight shooting
footsteps of her father schedule of just 20 days – 17 of
and brother with the which were filmed inside a mag-
nificently gothic 140-year-old
darkly funny Humane mansion that sits atop Raven-
scliffe Avenue in Hamilton – the
director experienced what she
BARRY HERT calls a “pun-intended rash
course” in feature filmmaking.
“There were days when deci-

C
aitlin Cronenberg’s family
has a thing for blood.
Her father David possess-
es a devotion for the sticky stuff
that has become an essential part
of this country’s cultural heritage.
And her older brother Brandon
ossessor, In inity oo is well on
his way to charting his own inten-
sely gross course. But while the
39-year-old Caitlin’s feature direc-
torial debut umane is painted
with its fair share of crimson, her
own history of violence comes
with its limits.
“We had a finite supply of blood
within our budget – maybe a litre
discrepancy. It’s partially true ”
the director says with a laugh.
“But I also didn’t feel the need to
go too much into the violence, as
it doesn’t feel tonally right for this
film. I wanted there to be squea-
mish moments, like when you
stick your thumb into a wound,
but I didn’t want to take the audi-
ence out of the story. Everything
had to be self-contained, and
real.”
There is certainly a potent
smack of reality to umane’s spec-
ulative sci-fi trappings. While the
film was written by Cronenberg’s
friend and producer Michael Spa-
raga years before the COVID-19
pandemic hit, its story cannot
help but arrive in theatres this
weekend looking a distressing
peek five minutes into the future.
Taking place in a world savaged
by environmental collapse, u
mane focuses on a fascist initiative
launched by the innocuously
named Department of Citizen
Strategy to reduce overpopula-
tion, people are encouraged to be
euthanized, with their loved ones
promised compensation for the
societal deed.
At the heart of the story is one
wealthy family whose members
descend into backstabbing chaos
after their patriarch played by
Peter Gallagher decides to sacri-
fice himself to government goons
without reading the fine print of
Peter Gallagher, centre, stars in Humane as the patriarchal head of a wealthy family who chooses to give
himself up to the government for euthanasia in order to help cur the world’s overpopulation.
REVIEW
Humane
C L ASSIFICATION N/ A
4 M I NUTES
Dire ted b Caitlin Cronenber
Written b Mi ael Spara a
Starrin a Baru el, Emil
amps ire and Enri o Colantoni
ere is an a idental,
deepl unsettlin pre
s ien e to Humane, t e
feature len t dire torial debut
of Caitlin Cronenber . In t is
urrent Canadian era of medi al
assistan e in d in MAID and
pandemi re o er , a stor about
iti ens bein offered t e
oi e to ill t emsel es in
order to redu e t e burden on an
o erpopulated orld feels al
most too queas , too on t e
nose to endure.
his euthanasia contract.
“It’s meant to be a family dra-
ma taking place within a world
going crazy outside the walls of
the house,” Cronenberg says. “But
it became more relatable over the
course of time it took to actually
Yet Cronenber offers a li t
tou to t e material, spi in t e
deepl depressin d stopia it
a siblin ri alr battle ro ale t at
ea erl , if sometimes obbl ,
s ifts bet een s arp umour
and slipper sentimentalit .
If Cronenber annot ide t e
onstraints of er bud et mu
of Humane ta es pla e in a sin le
settin , and t e orld buildin
omes t rou fru all as
sembled ne sreel foota e
t en t e dire tor ompensates
b oin all in on astin . W ile
t ere are onl a andful of ar
a ters, nearl e er role is filled
b a top pla er in Canadian
entertainment, in ludin a
Baru el perfe tl despi able as
a populist easel , Emil amp
s ire as an e en more rotesque
orporate s ar and Enri o
make it.”
While umane, which co-stars
Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire
and Enrico Colantoni, has its fair
share of violence, the film’s set-
pieces are mere flesh wounds
compared to the head-splitting,
Colantoni a o ernment stoo e
it a eart of dar ness . E en
Peter Galla er, t e film s lone
Ameri an performer, slides into
t e pro eedin s it a ind of
umble Canadian ed e.
W ile Mi ael Spara a s s ript
is too timid to leap outside
expe tations its one bi narra
ti e s er e seems under ut b a
final se ond a Cronenber
displa s a flair for ma in audi
en es are about t e er orst
people ou mi t e er en oun
ter. Humane mi t not be as
uts in all senses of t e ord
as t e or of Caitlin s fat er
or brot er Brandon, but it is
po ered b a r sensibilit all
its o n. BARRY ERT
Humane opens in t eatres
Frida .
body-ripping antics of Caitlin’s
father and brother. Instead, the
horror here is more existential
than visceral, all pitched to a dis-
tinctly black-comedy wavelength.
Think the toxic-sibling drama of
Su ession meets the chamber-
sions needed to be made often
and on the fly, and they weren’t
always ones I liked making or that
felt fair, because you want to give
all the material equal time,” she
says. “We shot all the violence of
the back half of the film first. But
then I realized tackling dinner-
table dialogue scenes is so much
harder than stunts.”
Cronenberg is no stranger to
the on-set challenges of making
movies – not only because of her
lineage, but because she has spent
the past two decades as an in-de-
mand photographer, shooting ce-
lebrity portraits and production
and publicity stills for films and
TV series, including Baruchel’s
own comedy an Seeking Woman.
“It was a tight shoot, but that’s
the course of business in Cana-
dian independent film,” Baruchel
says in a separate interview. “But I
was psyched to see Caitlin blos-
soming in a feature-length medi-
um that she hadn’t worked in
before. She’s been a creature of
the ecosystem, and it was very
easy to be there with her.”
While Gallagher’s casting pro-
vides a nice bit of symmetry to
umane – the actor also played
Baruchel’s dad on an Seeking
Woman – was Caitlin tempted to
slide her own father into the role
of a man dealing with his squab-
bling children, each fighting for a
piece of his legacy David does
have a quick voice-only role in the
film fans of his increasingly fre-
quent acting work will have no
trouble pinpointing it.
“He did have an on-screen
cameo at one point, but it got cut –
though it was nothing to do with
his performance It was a pacing
issue,” says Caitlin, noting that
she’s already directed her father
before, and in similarly morbid
circumstances, in her short film
he eath o avi ronen erg.
“He did tell me he was available
if I needed him,” Caitlin says, “but
I think I’ve seen enough of my
dad’s corpse already.”

Y
BARRY
HERT
RE IEW
Challengers
C LASSIFICATION 4A M INUTES
Dire ted b Lu a Guada nino
Written b ustin urit es
Starrin enda a, Mi e Faist and os
O Connor
C R I T I C’ S P I CK
he sexiest movie of the year to fea-
ture exactly zero sex scenes, Luca
Guadagnino’s ha engers, a love-
triangle drama set amidst the
world of professional tennis, arrives like a
ball swatted straight to the solar plexus.
This is a startlingly entertaining, erotically
charged movie that hits its many targets
with a kind of ferocious and crazed accu-
racy that’ll knock the wind, among other
things, right out of you.
Bouncing back and forth in time like the
most high intensity of matches, the film
opens with tennis all-star Art Mike Faist
trying to figure out his next move after fall-
ing into a losing-streak rut. At the behest of
his demanding wife-slash-coach Tashi
endaya , Art signs up for a low-stakes
tournament in New Rochelle, N.Y., where
he just so happens to come up against the
down-on-his-luck maverick Patrick Josh
O’Connor . As increasingly complicated
flashbacks reveal, though, Art and Patrick
were once best friends – the pair so closely
bonded that they nearly scored a three-
some back in their junior doubles days
with Tashi, when she, too, was a young ten-
nis phenom.
With the story focused almost exclu-
sively on just Tashi, Art and Patrick, Gua-
dagnino creates a fevered, exhilarating ep-
ic that makes the smallest of personal dra-
mas feel magnificently epic. As the film
pushes through the paces of Art and Pa-
trick’s New Rochelle match – all sweat and
grunts, gradual victories and temporary
defeats – Guadagnino delicately and pre-
cisely peels back layer after layer of their
relationship with one another, and Tashi.
There might not be anything especially
profound about watching two men come
to the realization that they’re not fighting
over the same woman but actually wres-
tling with their feelings for each other –
briefly, it feels as if screenwriter Justin Ku-
ritzkes might have had tu mam tam i n
on repeat in the background while work-
ing – but Guadagnino a e By our
ame, A Bigger Sp ash powers it all with
such seductive brio that the film lands like
a revelation.
Powered by a heart-pounding score by
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and its
criss-cross timeline assembled with a slick
confidence by Marco Costa, ha engers is
ruthlessly enthralling.
And yes, it is completely and irresistibly
sexy – even if, or perhaps because, Guadag-
nino resists temptation to go fully under
the covers, instead edging his audience
right up the edge of sex. There might be
more full-frontal male nudity here than in
any other Hollywood film this year – to say
nothing of the buckets and buckets of
sweat that Guadagnino splashes on the
screen – but the film’s eroticism comes
purely from the potential of bodies collid-
ing.
Of course, it might be hard to go about
who gets it on with whom were it not for
the work of endaya, Faist and O’Connor –
three impossibly beautiful people, certain-
ly, but also performers who expertly click
with each other, all while riding Guadagni-
no’s very particular wavelength. Faist, best
known for his breakout work in Steven
Spielberg’s West Si e Story, burrows so
deep into the cuckolded neuroticism of Art
that it’s hard to imagine the actor ever get-
ting out the other side alive, while O’Con-
nor delivers the perfect mesh of jerk and
genius. And endaya, already dominating
screens in une art o, gets to throw
herself into an extremely complicated role
with playful abandon.
Those who pay careful attention to on-
screen credits will have an, ahem, ball
when noting that Kuritzkes – miraculously
delivering a completely original story, not
based on any novel or existing property – is
married to South Korean-Canadian film-
maker Celine Song, who just delivered last
year’s big love-triangle movie, ast Lives. To
be a fly on the wall in that couple’s bed-
room would be something worthy of its
own Guadagnino film. Some things,
though, are perhaps best left under the
covers.
Challengers opens in t eatres Frida .

A C
BARRY HERT Toronto filmmaker M.H. Murray.
While delicate in its tone and
thoughtful in its aesthetics, there
RE IEW is a nerve-rattling sense of des-
peration driving the entire en-
I Don’t Know Who You Are deavour, the anxiety slowly but
C LASSIFICATION N/A 0 M INUTES surely seeping off the screen until
it courses through the audience,
Dire ted b M. . Murra head to toe.
Written b M. . Murra , Mar Perhaps that tension is the
Clennon and i toria Lon unavoidable result of the film’s
Starrin Mar Clennon, Nat Patri ia whiplash-inducing production
Manuel and Dera Campbell process, with the microbudget
film shot over the course of just 13
C R I T I C’ S P I CK days in and around Toronto.
Sometimes utilizing locations
here is something immedi- without permission, Murray and
ately, thoroughly and even his small band of collaborators
nauseatingly electric about engaged in a sly game of cinemat-
I on t no Who ou Are, the tre- ic chicken – catch ’em if you can.
mendous feature-length debut of When you are working with
C
almost nothing, up against time-
lines that would make even the
most well-funded filmmaker
shiver, then you simply have to
embrace the chaos and trust that
your creative instincts will deliver
the goods on the other end. In
Murray’s case, the package ar-
rived safely and soundly, even if
transported by trembling hands.
Based loosely on real-life expe-
riences and borrowing a charac-
ter Murray and his star co-writer
Mark Clennon first created in
their 2020 short film host, I on t
no Who ou Are centres on
Benjamin Clennon , a struggling
musician whose career seems on
the cusp of something big. But
just as he’s preparing for a prime
club set, Benjamin is sexually
assaulted in a harrowing act of
violence.
With little money to afford the
HIV-preventive PEP treatment he
needs after being potentially
exposed to the virus, Benjamin is
sent on an intense and crushing
journey through an oft-uncaring
and cruel Toronto. Facing a
ticking clock – PEP is most effec-
tive if taken in a 72-hour window
after exposure – and an empty
bank account, Benjamin cycles
through friends both genuine
Nat Patricia Manuel and fair-
weather Deragh Campbell in a
bid to scrap together the $900,
which to some might seem like a
pittance but to so many in the city
is a nest egg.
Clennon, who wrote and
performs the songs Benjamin
plays onscreen, is simply fantas-
tic, delivering the kind of searing
and committed-on-every-level
work that should mark him as an
instant star.
On screen for nearly every sec-
ond of the film, Clennon acts as a
magnetic kind of mirror for the
film’s up-and-down turmoil He
can be soulful, beautiful, despair-
ing, devastated. But most of all
the actor feels natural, raw and
real. Even if Murray’s version of
Toronto cannot be bothered to
care about Benjamin, Clennon
ensures the young and lost man is
loved.
I Don’t Know Who You Are opens in
sele t t eatres Frida .
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A ’
FIRST PERSON

A man buckling with

the weight of the world on
his shoulders was undeterred
in his fight to save a life,
Steven Gottlieb writes

I
’ve never had occasion to wonder about
angels until I met one recently.
I swear I did.
This angel was buckling with the
weight of the world on its stooped shoul-
ders when I first encountered it. In watch-
ing it doing its work, I learned that an an-
gel’s duties can be crushing. They are not
immune to despair.
The setting for this mystical event was
outside a shawarma shop, on a street cor-
ner near Bathurst and St. Clair in midtown
Toronto. The angel took the form of a man
in his mid-40s with a bounty of blond hair
concealing a halo.
The angel gently cupped the head of a
man passed out on the sidewalk. The mor-
tal could barely breathe. He looked like he
was fighting for his life. During rare mo-
ments of lucidity, there was fear in his eyes.
The angel took great care in ensuring not
a strand of the mortal’s mane would touch ILLUSTRATION BY MARLEY ALLEN AS
the sidewalk. This dedication struck me as
heroic. The angel’s forearm shook with the “Yes, he’s breathing.” lot of reasons that man is lying on the It relented. Its ashen cheek was soaked with
strain. Try suspending a watermelon an “No, I don’t know what he’s taken. He ground. This is more than just homeless- emotion.
inch off the ground for 15 minutes. has a 40-ounce bottle in the pouch of his ness.” It was my turn to whisper in its ear. The
The angel was whispering gorgeous and hoodie.” I tried to take the wind out of her sails. angel taught me how.
munificent words. Anything to keep the The angel kept at it. It told the mortal This wasn’t the time. “Your dad was with you today. How
mortal on this earthly plain. that help was coming. The mortal tight- “You look like quite the fierce warrior proud he must be.”
“Your hair is magnificent,” the angel ened his grip on the bottle. The prospect of yourself.” This diffused her. At this, the angel collapsed to its knees,
said. “C’mon, stay with me, I need to see its loss spurred him to alertness. The paramedics arrived. They were the dusted off its wings and flitted away, disap-
your beautiful eyes.” Undeterred, the angel’s wings barely picture of calm. They have seen this scene a pearing in a gentle rain that was impossible
Instead, tears welled up in mine. This fluttered. million times. to distinguish from its tears. I never knew
utterance was so kind and so loving. “Don’t worry,” it said. “I won’t let them Seeing the responders, the angel finally its name and it was too distracted to care
The angel’s comments, sadly, had limit- take anything from you.” This calmed the released its grip, exhausted. It just walked about mine.
ed effect. But they did keep the mortal mortal. We waited. away with its shoulders sagging, making its Just who are angels I always imagined
clinging to a reality that he was presumin- A curious young woman happened on puffy jacket appear too big. them to be gift bearers, awash in the light-
gly trying to avoid. His eyes responded to the scene sporting a baseball cap with a glit- I called out “Hey, excuse me ” The angel ness of existence. I learned, however, that
the angel’s every syllable. tery gold cannabis logo. Her neck was tat- kept walking, already 25 metres away. I levity is not their currency. Burden is.
While the angel’s left hand was cupping, tooed with daisies. She was garbed in pitch jogged up and beheld a broken being. What I witnessed that day would resolve
the right hand was slapping the mortal’s black. She spoke two sentences that “That was so sad,” it murmured. Its spirit any debate in a philosophy 101 class that
face, conjuring consciousness, while being changed the alchemy entirely. was broken and its eyes drifted to another altruism is merely attention-seeking in dis-
ever so careful not to inflict pain. This “Darcy, you’re a warrior. You got this ” realm. My sense of awe got the better of me, guise. An angel needs nothing back for its
balancing act was sublime and divine, con- We had a name. Darcy perked up. So did “Just who are you ” efforts. It’s messy work to navigate the foi-
firming the angel’s status in my skeptical we. Now we knew who we were fighting for. No response. bles of humanity. It saved one soul that day
mind. Instantly, we transformed into a communi- I persisted, “Your words were beautiful and elevated mine.
“You can do this. Look at your beautiful ty, with an angel at its apex. The young and brilliant and you kept Darcy with us.”
lips. Talk to me brother. We need you.” woman seemed to be struggling herself, It ignored the kudos. But it did offer up Ste en Gottlieb li es in Toronto.
Beside me was a woman in her late 20s trying to reconcile her own compassion its pain.
already on the phone with the paramedics. and anger. “My dad died two days ago.” First Person is a dail personal pie e submitted
They’re on their way. She erupted. At this, I arced my right arm in a half-cir- b readers. a e a stor to tell See our
I started relaying info to the dispatcher. “You know,” she bellowed, “there are a cle, inviting a hug it was reticent to accept. uidelines at t am. a/essa uide.

K O C
A
SARAH TAI BLACK into effect for the first time since intentional as it is incidental.
the First World War. In these What is most refreshing about
JOHANNA SCHNELLER present years, protests emerge upie ity is its attempts at
RE IEW throughout the city as citizens studying such a history without
come together to rally for social use of archival materials, talking
RE IEW Occupied City causes, only to be met with tear heads or any of the usual tech-
C L AS S I F I C AT I O N PG 2 6 6 M I N U T ES gas, water cannons and drone sur- niques of documentary filmmak-
The King Tide veillance – the weapons of coun- ing that have patterned retellings
CLASSIFICATION PG 0 0 M INUTES Dire ted b Ste e M Queen ter-revolution utilized by the of Jewish histories of persecution
Written b Bian a Sti ter Dutch government, which sees fit onscreen over the past several
Dire ted b C ristian Spar es Featurin t e oi e of Melanie to enact a militarized response to decades. McQueen offers a film
Written b Albert S in, William Woods, e in Cou lin ams civic action. that isn’t dispassionate, but rath-
and R an Grassb It is a continuation of the film’s er, with an awareness of such a
Starrin Fran es Fis er, Aden Youn and Alix West Lefler hat there might be a limit- desire to both chronicle and sit- lengthy history of narrative repre-
ed audience for Steve uate history in time and space, sentation, likens itself to testimo-
CR I T I C’ S P I CK McQueen’s latest film, documenting loss and resistance ny rather than re-enactment.

I
upie ity, seems of lit- both past and present alongside It’s no doubt an interesting
first saw he ing i e last September at the Toronto tle interest to the ears A S ave the beauty and banality of the ev- choice that succeeds just as much
International Film Festival, and it’s haunted me ever and Wi o s director. A documen- eryday. Just as we hear of Jewish as it is perhaps unable to fully ac-
since. The rugged Newfoundland landscapes shot in tary whose length clocks in at just families separated and transport- count for the emotional weight of
and around the microscopic outport of Keels , the under 4 hours including a be- ed to concentration camps, resist- its subject matter. McQueen
vibrant cinematography and hypnotic score, the gothic- nevolent 15-minute intermis- ance fighters plagued by turn- seems aware of this. Here, the act
tinged story – a baby with mysterious powers washes ashore sion , upie ity is not so much coats, Dutch city officials who of sharing histories oft regarded
a remote island fishing village – combine to create a film epic as it is monumental, if not used their positions to aid their as unrepresentable is more a
both timeless and out of time. It’s written and directed by encyclopedic. Jewish comrades in attempts to study in both the demands and
contemporary Canadians – Al- Adapted from wife and fellow survive, we see contemporary limits of filmmaking rather than a
bert Shin and Christian Sparkes, filmmaker Bianca Stigter’s 560- families enjoying a sunny day problematic to be solved in and of
respectively – but could have A tra ed and a page illustrated history, At as o an tobogganing on a city slope, mid- itself.
been conceived, equally plausi- upie ity Amster am dle-aged men working out on It’s an ascetic meditation on
bly, by Charlotte Bront , Daphne surprise isitor from , the film compiles a detailed ellipticals from within the con- form and duration that would be
du Maurier or Stephen King. t e mainland for e cartography of her home city as it fines of newly built high-rise best received by arthouse audi-
Not long after the foundling, Isla to ta e matters existed under Nazi occupation. As buildings, interior scenes of ences in search of a marathon of a
dubbed Isla, is adopted by mayor and a fistful of bees McQueen shepherds his viewer to domesticity as viewed through city symphony film that – while
Bobby Clayne Crawford and his 130 different addresses through- ever-open Dutch windows. certainly enacting its own kind of
wife, Grace Lara Jean Choros- into er o n out the city, British voice actor McQueen’s impulse here is less quiet lyricism and poetics – is pat-
tecki , the film flashes forward a ands. Spar es reall Melanie Hyams narrates, offering a detailed map to scale in which terned only modestly with more
dozen years. Isla Alix West Le- sti s t e landin a reserved retelling of the history we can place each action we see or expressive visual flourishes. As
fler has grown up revered yet of each site partnered with pre- hear of, and more a collection of much as upie ity’s observa-
imprisoned. To keep the girl to
ere e ma es it sent-day footage of the quotidian moments bound, in their tional eye is rooted in a humanis-
themselves, the islanders – led ine itable, sendin goings-on of contemporary Am- geography, to speak alongside tic and cumulative approach to
by Grace’s mother Frances Fish- ou out of t e sterdam life. one another. It’s an approach history, it will, no doubt, leave
er, terrifying – cut themselves t eatre s a en et As McQueen’s film reminds us, that’s more akin to textures those in search of a less austere
off from the world. Because she while only 10 per cent of the Neth- accumulated over time the rela- approach wanting.
can summon animals, Isla has
also t rilled. erlands was designated Jewish at tions here are organic, an ap-
single-handedly kept cod-fishing the time of German occupation in proach that the British filmmaker Spe ial to T e Globe and Mail
viable because she can heal wounds and illnesses, a line of 1940, the majority of this popula- has compared to “an English gar-
supplicants petition her daily, sapping her energy. tion was systematically murdered den” – here, the rhyming of u e C t opens at t e TIFF
But like all pernicious schemes, it can’t last. The village is during the Holocaust. It is with sound, image and history is as Li tbox in Toronto Frida .
becoming insular and cult-like. The town doctor Aden the knowledge of such wretched
Young is uneasy. The kids who grew up protected from acts that the director maps out
harm have grown reckless. A tragedy and a surprise visitor Amsterdam, moving non-chron-
from the mainland force Isla to take matters – and a fistful ologically in both time and space, TODAY’S SUDOKU SOLUTION TODAY’S KENKEN SOLUTION
of bees – into her own hands. Sparkes really sticks the land- bearing witness while eschewing
ing here He makes it inevitable, sending you out of the sentimentality.
theatre shaken yet also thrilled. While the present-day footage
Gloriously, every actor and department head is making charts the beginnings of the
exactly the same movie, one that looks, feels and sounds COVID-19 pandemic in the Neth-
simultaneously spare and lush, realistic and fable-like. It’s erlands, it’s only part of a series of
also achingly urgent, besieged as we are by cult-like groups parallels that organically trace the
who think shutting out the truth and doubling down on echoes of time and space, rather
their own self-interest will protect them. It won’t. Just ask than an attempt at an obvious
the bees. and heavy-handed direct com-
parison to the Nazi occupation.
Spe ial to T e Globe and Mail We are given a view of Amster-
dam in lockdown, where a state-
he K ng e opens in t eatres Frida . mandated curfew has been put
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BY STEVE BECKER 3.The bidding has gone rather than four. Partner might learn the opponents have an rebid your hearts at this point
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2024 have any of these three hands ace, but here the missing ace is to clarify your distribution. The
probably the only trick you will three-heart bid is 100 forcing
lose. and asks partner to choose the
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lowing hand What would you bid now at least six diamonds, and A-x es to four hearts or bids three
and you would surely want to be therefore constitutes adequate notrump, you pass if he bids
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would certainly seem the most If partner shows two aces his three-diamond bid indi- four.
straightforward way to deter- by bidding ve hearts, you cates willingness to play the
mine the potential of this hand. should next check for kings via hand under game, but since
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2.The bidding has gone indicates that he has four-card a grand slam if he has one or values, including a singleton
support for that suit and the two. Otherwise, you will settle club, you should raise him to
values for an opening bid. If for six hearts. You will also bid game.
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F RI DAY , APRI L , 4 | T HE
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FROM A1
Up to $2.5-billion will come from
the federal government in tax
credits it offers to clean technol-
ogy and electric-vehicle supply
chain investments, and up to
$2.5-billion will come from Onta-
rio for the costs of construction
and servicing the site.
Other major announcements
for new EV plants and battery
factories – also with multibillion-
dollar government help – have
been made recently for Windsor,
Ont., where auto giant Stellantis
and South Korea’s LG Energy So-
lution are building a massive fa-
cility, and for St. Thomas, Ont.,
where Volkswagen was lured to
build a gigafactory battery plant.
Honda’s battery factory is pro-
jected to have a somewhat lower
production capacity than the one
being built by Stellantis, and
much lower than Volkswagen’s.
However, factoring in the three
other new facilities Honda is
planning in Ontario – for produc-
ing battery components and for
assembling EVs – its total an-
nounced investment is more
than double either Volkswagen’s
or Stellantis’s.
At the same time, the an-
nounced public subsidies for
Honda’s facility are much lower
than those for its competitors.
Stellantis will cumulatively re-
ceive up to $15-billion in produc-
tion subsidies from the federal
and Ontario governments in its
battery plant’s early years of
operation, and Volkswagen will
similarly receive up to $13.2-bil-
lion. Ontario and Ottawa had
previously put $131.6-million
each into the Alliston plant, to
help Honda retool to build new
hybrid EVs.
The investment announced
Thursday will make Ontario by
far the largest hub for Honda’s
rollout of EVs in North America.
Its only other major EV-making
on the continent is an approxi-
mately US$5-billion commitment
in Ohio, involving a battery facto-
ry being built in partnership with
LG Energy Solution, as well as a
retooling of production lines at
an existing vehicle assembly
LO E AN AIL O
Honda’s vehicle assem ly line is seen in Alliston, Ont. The company’s EV attery factory is pro ected to have
somewhat lower production capacity than the Stellantis plant. NAT AN DENETTE/T E CANADIAN PRESS
plant.
The deal was unveiled at the
existing Alliston plant by Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau and Pre-
mier Doug Ford. Mr. Trudeau
called the deal historic. Ontario’s
Premier called it a “game-chang-
er” that shows his province’s
skilled work force, green energy
grid and deposits of the minerals
needed for EV batteries have
made it the top spot for EV invest-
ment.
But the multibillion-dollar tax-
payer help for one of the world’s
largest companies also faced crit-
icism.
The federal Conservative in-
dustry critic, Rick Perkins, and
the party’s trade and labour critic,
Kyle Seeback, issued a joint state-
ment saying the Trudeau govern-
ment can’t be trusted to ensure
the subsidies won’t create jobs for
imported foreign workers – allud-
ing to a controversy that erupted
in Windsor last year, when union
leaders complained that the
Stellantis-LG joint venture was
bringing in 900 South Korean
temporary workers to set up the
new plant.
Asked whether the billions
being pumped into this new EV
plant were worth it, both Mr. Tru-
deau and Mr. Ford were combat-
ive.
ustin Trudeau alled
t e deal istori .
Dou Ford alled it a
ame an er t at
s o s is pro in e s
s illed or for e,
reen ener rid and
deposits of t e minerals
needed for E batteries
a e made it t e top
spot for E in estment.
“This is generational. This is
decades and decades down the
road. What price do you put on
that ” the Premier said, adding
C
that the deal would create more
than 28,000 spinoff jobs in the
broader economy.
Mr. Trudeau claimed federal
Conservative Leader Pierre Poi-
lievre opposes government aid to
create jobs in the EV sector – un-
like Mr. Ford.
“I’m incredibly pleased to be
able to be here with a Progressive
Conservative like Doug Ford, who
understands that investing in
workers, investing in manufac-
turing, investing in the future of
Ontario is how you build a strong
economy for today and for the
coming decades,” Mr. Trudeau
said.
In an interview with The Globe
and Mail after the announce-
ment, Honda Motor Co. president
Toshihiro Mibe said that while
growth in consumer demand for
EVs has recently flagged, he antic-
ipates a more robust market by
the time Honda’s vehicle assemb-
ly plant starts operations in 2028.
Asked why Honda was drawn
to Canada for its biggest EV-
NEWS | A17
related investment to date, de-
spite the larger subsidies on offer
in the U.S., Mr. Mibe cited access
to critical minerals, a clean elec-
tricity supply and a strong work
force with which Honda has ex-
perience over its four decades
here.
He also hinted that Honda
could attempt to grow out its own
Canadian EV supply chain be-
yond the four components an-
nounced on Thursday, including
around the mining and refining
of battery materials.
“I recognize the need for fur-
ther investment in Canada to re-
ach our vision for the natural-re-
sources value chain,” Mr. Mibe
said.
Ontario Economic Develop-
ment Minister Vic Fideli said ex-
ecutives with the three compa-
nies met with him and the Pre-
mier in March in the rear sun-
room of Mr. Ford’s home in
Toronto’s Etobicoke neighbour-
hood to seal the deal over dough-
nuts from Tim Hortons. He said
Ontario’s final offer was present-
ed at a similar meeting with Hon-
da bosses in December.
“It was very definitive from the
Premier, his big mitt comes out to
shake hands,” Mr. Fideli said.
“This was sleeves rolled up and
getting down to numbers, actual
numbers, actual offers.”
In an interview, federal Indus-
try Minister Fran ois Philippe-
Champagne traced his conversa-
tions with Honda back to a 2022
meeting with the company’s
chairman, Seiji Kuraishi. He said
Mr. Kuraishi expressed interest,
but stressed that Canada would
need to be patient as Honda plot-
ted its EV strategy.
Mr. Champagne said Canada
was able to land this investment
without matching U.S. produc-
tion subsidies because longer-
term considerations triumphed.
“Some people always focus on
these incentives, which are fairly
short-term,” he said. “But you
know, when you’re looking at
things of that magnitude, beyond
$10-billion you have to posi-
tion yourself for what it’s going to
look like 20, 30, 40 years from
now.”
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for rival miner nglo merican
nsolicited bid would create world’s largest producer of copper with 0 per cent of global market
ERIC REGULY
E ROPEAN REA CHIE
RO E
Global mining companies’ lunge for cop-
per, a critical transition metal to a low-car-
bon future, has intensified with BHP
Group Ltd.’s unsolicited proposal to buy
rival Anglo American PLC for about
US$39-billion $53-billion . Competing of-
fers are expected.
The offer marks a return to the mega-
deals that transformed the mining indus-
try in the first and second decades of this
century. If successful, it would be the big-
gest takeover since Glencore PLC’s US$90-
appeal order
to release
coal-mining
documents
billion merger with strata, which owned market share and grids are overhauled, EMMA GRANEY
Canada’s Falconbridge nickel miner, in driving up its price and creating shortages ENER Y REPORTER
2013. as fewer big mines are developed. Copper
Based in Melbourne, BHP is the world’s is up 15 per cent this year alone.
biggest mining company and is led by Mike Anglo said it is reviewing the proposal The Alberta government is ap-
Henry, who is Canadian and has been chief and made no comment about its value. pealing part of a court decision
executive officer since the start of 2020. If Under U.K. takeover rules, BHP has until that it must hand over thousands
BHP’s offer is accepted, the company May 22 to convert its proposal into a firm of documents relating to its 2019
would emerge as the world’s top producer offer. move to quietly cancel a policy
of copper, up from third-largest, according BHP said on Thursday that it had of- governing where coal mines can
to RBC Capital Markets. fered 0.7097 BHP shares for each Anglo be built in the province.
The enlarged BHP would control about share, valuing Anglo shares at 25.08 The case stems back to 2020,
10 per cent of the global supply of copper, a apiece $42.90 . when a group of Southern Alber-
metal that is essential for electric vehicles, BHP, B9 ta ranchers filed a freedom of in-
wind turbines, electrical grids and residen- formation request for records
tial and commercial-property wiring. De- B P s bid for An lo spurs tal t at Canadian opper around the government’s deci-
mand for the metal is surging as EVs gain miners ould be t e next ta eo er tar ets B9 sion to rescind the province’s
1976 Coal Policy without any con-
sultation. The decision caused
public backlash so fierce it forced
[ TRANSPORTATION ] the government to backpedal and
introduce new rules around coal
mining.
The ranchers had asked for
correspondence and briefing ma-
terials about why and how the de-
cision was made, including inter-
nal memos, reviews, reports, e-
mails and letters. But Alberta En-
ergy took years to fulfill the re-
quest and returned few records,
many of which were redacted.
The ruling earlier this month
from Alberta’s Court of King’s
Bench upheld an April, 2023, deci-
sion from the Office of the Infor-
mation and Privacy Commission-
er of Alberta that the government
release documents requested by
the ranchers.
Justice Kent Teskey dismissed
the government’s attempt to
keep the information secret, writ-
ing that the release of records had
already been “so slow as to be
practically non-existent.”
ALBERTA, B5

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Bombardier also granted e emption
from sanctions on Russian titanium
STEVEN CHASE
ROBERT FIFE
Aircraft manufacturer Bombardier Inc.
says it too has been granted an exemption
from Canadian sanctions targeting Rus-
sian titanium that could interfere with its
business in Canada.
Based in Montreal, Bombardier is the
second aerospace company to be identi-
fied as having obtained a waiver from
Canadian sanctions targeting Russian tita-
nium maker VSMPO-AVISMA Corp., one
of the world’s largest producers of the
rare metal. Airbus was the first.
Bombardier chief executive officer Eric
Martel told media Thursday that his com-
pany received an exemption from the
sanctions because some of the aerospace
company’s suppliers buy the metal. A
strategic metal prized for its strength rela-
tive to its weight, titanium is used mainly
in aircraft engines and landing gear for
large planes.
One day earlier, news broke that Eu-
rope’s Airbus, which has aircraft manu-
facturing and sales facilities in Canada,
had received an exemption from Ottawa’s
sanctions on VSMPO-AVISMA.
Two government sources told The
Globe and Mail Wednesday that such
sanction exemption permits are tempo-
rary and it is hoped Airbus would wean
itself off Russian-sourced titanium. One
had also said that the French government,
which owns part of Airbus, had lobbied
Canada to grant a waiver on Russian tita-
nium.
The Official Opposition and the Ukrai-
nian Canadian Congress both criticized
the sanctions exemptions on Thursday.
The reason for Ottawa’s about-face on
Russian titanium is the concern that the
sanctions could hurt aerospace employ-
ment in Canada, the government sources
said Thursday.
One said that the department of Global
Affairs did not anticipate the consequenc-
es of putting sanctions on VSMPO-AVIS-
MA for aerospace companies in Canada.
The supply chain for aerospace parts is
complex, they said, and aerospace com-
panies couldn’t always be certain if some-
where in the production cycle titanium
sourced from Russia was used.
One government source said other
smaller companies besides Bombardier
and Airbus have also received an exemp-
tion from the titanium sanctions but they
declined to identify them.
BOMBARDIER, B9
For sports fans, Monday night is
no longer all about football.
Rogers Communications Inc.
has sold exclusive rights to
broadcast Monday’s National
Hockey League games on Ama-
zon.com Inc.’s Prime Video ser-
vice over the next two seasons,
starting in October, 2024. The
B EVER AGES
Global wine demand deal will see Rogers, owner of TV
broadcaster Sportsnet, attempt
drops to -year low
as high prices hit
to broaden its audience by part-
nering with a leading streaming
consumers’ wallets B platform.
The NHL’s first streaming
agreement will see 26 regular
season games move from a tradi-
T ECH NO LO GY tional TV broadcaster to Prime.
Activist investor Colette Watson, president of
Rogers’ sports and media divi-
targets ye urham’s sion, said in a press release “To-
underperformance’ day’s content ecosystem is evolv-
ing, and we’re really pleased to
in shareholder letter B work with Amazon to continue
to grow the game and help hock-
ey fans watch games when and
TONY KELLER where they want.”
In 1970, the National Football
hree charts that show League revolutionized sports
why Ottawa’s promise broadcasting by introducing
of million homes Monday Night Football, drawing
a massive audience – and adver-
is ne t to impossible B4 tisers – to games traditionally
played on Sunday. In an inter-
view, Rogers chief executive offi-
cer Tony Staffieri said striking a
partnership with Amazon is part
COMPANIES of a strategy to win the loyalty of
ALP ABET ............................. B a new generation of sports fans
AMERIGO RESOURCES ........ B with programing that is “plat-
CANADIAN PACIFIC C ........ B form agnostic.”
DYE DUR AM .................... B In 2013, Rogers struck a 12-
ENBRIDGE ............................ B year, $5.2-billion broadcast deal
MICROSOFT ........................... B2 with the NHL – it expires after
TEC RESOURCES ........... B ,B the 2025-2026 season.
ROGERS, B

ORT H O C KEY

H O C KEY
Maple Leafs need to solve their Brad Marchand problem, Cathal Kelly writes
Canucks need to solve their Elias Pettersson problem, Gary Mason writes B1
B1

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[ DECODER ]

E
ven as the federal government courts foreign grocery chains in an at-
Canada’s supermarkets are losing tempt to lure more competition to Canada, there’s mounting evidence
Canadian consumers have already massively shifted their grocery shop-
the battle for your grocery bill ping away from Canada’s supermarket oligopoly.
And the big winners include foreign giants such as Walmart and Costco.
Where consumers buy their groceries is changing While Statistics Canada reported a drop in retail sales this week, one big ex-
Annual percentage change in retail food sales by type of store ception was the general merchandise category. Compared to last year, general
merchandisers saw inflation-adjusted sales climb 12 per cent, while food and
General merchandise stores Food and beverage stores beverage stores suffered a real sales decline of 0.9 per cent.
Those numbers don’t break out what items shoppers were buying. But retail
20% commodity data released earlier this month by Statscan does, and it shows that
food sales at general merchandisers are vastly outpacing those at traditional
15 grocery stores. As of the fourth quarter of 2023, real food purchases at general
10 merchandisers grew nearly 16 per cent from the year before, nearly eight times
faster than the pace at food and beverage stores.
5 In fact, for every dollar Canadians spent on food at grocery stores in the
fourth quarter of 2023, they spent 42 cents on food at a general merchandiser. In
0 2019 it was just 26 cents.
In the general merchandise space, food sales are dominated by Walmart and
-5 Costco Wholesale Corp., the two largest food retailers after the big-three domes-
tic grocery chains Loblaw Cos. Ltd., Sobeys Inc. and Metro, with roughly 17 per
2020 2021 2022 2023 cent of the market between them in 2022, according to Canadian Grocer maga-
Adjusted for inflation but not seasonally adjusted
zine. Other domestic general merchandisers, such as discounters Dollarama
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA, GLOBE AND MAIL
Inc. and Giant Tiger, have also ramped up their food offerings.
CALCULATIONS The competition is clearly helping. Food inflation cooled again in March,
with the annual price increase for food purchased from stores slowing to 1.9 per
cent in March, from 2.4 per cent in February.
ASON IRBY

Rogers A

FROM B1 mitted to driving more innova-

At the time, analysts said the
company may have overpaid to
wrest hockey broadcasts away
from rival BCE Inc. Mr. Staffieri
said sports programming – the
company also owns Major
League Baseball’s Toronto Blue
Jays and their broadcasting rights
– is boosting Rogers’ brand and
revenues.
“Our NHL agreement has been
enormously successful for Rog-
ers,” said Mr. Staffieri. He said the
company plans to bid again for
NHL broadcast rights when the
agreement comes up for renewal.
After selling Monday night games
to Amazon, Sportsnet will still
Sarah Harrold, owner of Valley Li uor in Turner Valley, ust south of Calgary, places a ottle of white broadcast more than 500 NHL
wine onto a shelf on Thursday. LOUIS OLI ER/T E GLOBE AND MAIL games each year.
Rogers and Amazon declined
to comment on how much Prime
tion for fans as we bring the NHL
into more Canadian homes and
across more devices.”
The Seattle-based tech compa-
ny has steadily built its relation-
ship with the NHL and Rogers
over the past three years. In 2021,
it began providing in-game ana-
lytics during broadcasts of all
NHL games. Last October Ama-
zon put Sportsnet on Prime’s
platform for Canadian subscrib-
ers, its first partnership with a do-
mestic sports network.
When Amazon won the right
to broadcast the NFL’s Thursday
night football in 2021 – for a re-
ported US$1-billion annually – it
hired a 10-member on-air crew
anchored by eight-time Emmy-
award winning announcer Al Mi-
chaels, along with four former
players and an ex-referee as com-

lobal wine demand

is paying for the rights to Monday mentators. The launch made Mr.
night hockey. Michaels one of the highest paid
Toronto-based Rogers an- broadcasters on TV, with a US$15-
nounced the streaming deal on million salary.

drops to 2 -year low

Thursday, a day after unveiling a The NHL positioned the move
10-year agreement with U.S. tele- to stream Monday night hockey
com giant Comcast Corp. aimed on Amazon as a way to win more

as high prices hit

International Organisation for COVID-19 restrictions and price pressures,
which tend to have a much larger effect on
Vine and ine estimates world younger markets such as China, OIE Director-
consumption in 0 down General John Barker told reporters.
from 0 , and below 0 In terms of trade, the total volume of wine
exchanges dropped 6.3 per cent to 99 mhl, but
only 4.7 per cent in value to 36-billion $52-
SYBILLE DE LA HAMAIDE PARIS billion as the average price of a litre of wine hit
a record high, OIV said.
OIV further lowered its estimate for last
Global wine consumption fell to its lowest level year’s wine production to 237 mhl from an ini-
since 1996 last year as inflation sent prices to tial mid-range estimate of 244 mhl released in
record highs, deterring consumers already fac- November, now 10 per cent below the 2022 out-
ing lower spending power, the International put and the lowest in more than 60 years.
Organisation for Vine and Wine OIV said on The sharp decline is owing to poor weather,
Thursday. including early frost, heavy rainfall and
The Paris-based OIV estimated world wine drought, coupled with widespread fungal dis-
consumption in 2023 at 221 million hectolitres eases in both the Northern and Southern Hemi-
mhl , down 2.6 per cent from 2022, and 7.5 per spheres.
cent below 2018. A hectolitre is the equivalent Italy produced its lowest wine vintage since
of 133 standard wine bottles. 1950 at 38.3 mhl, down more than 23 per cent on
Geopolitical tensions, particularly the war in the previous year, thereby losing its winemak-
Ukraine, and subsequent energy crises, along ing leadership to France.
with disruptions in the global supply chain, re- For 2024, preliminary estimates for the
sulted in higher production and distribution Southern Hemisphere pointed to a rebound in
costs, which, in turn, led to significant price in- the two largest producers – Australia and Ar-
creases for wine consumers, dampening over- gentina – after a sharp drop last year, but they
all demand, the OIV said. would remain 4 per cent and 6 per cent, respec-
The fall in demand last year was particularly tively, below the 2018 23 average.
big in China, estimated at minus 25 per cent. A cold spring and late harvesting will lead
While Chinese wine consumption had risen Chile to produce less wine for a third consec-
sharply at the start of the century in line with a utive year, down 17 per cent, on average.
growing middle class, it shed more than 60 per
cent over the past five years to 6.8 mhl due to REUTERS
at providing Canadian customers
with devices and technology
meant to simplify home viewing.
The new services, marketed
under the finity brand, will be
rolled out later this year. Mr. Staf-
fieri said the Comcast technology
will allow sports fans easy access
to games, on any platform.
Sports is the bright spot at
what is otherwise a slow-growing
media business at Rogers, which
also owns broadcaster Citytv and
a stable of more than 50 radio sta-
tions. Rogers’ media revenues
rose 3 per cent last year, to $2.3-
billion, while earnings before in-
terest, taxes, depreciation and
amortization EBITDA in-
creased 12 per cent to $77-mil-
lion.
Canadian TV ratings for Satur-
day night hockey were up 8 per
cent this year, to an average of
1.27 million viewers per game, ac-
cording to data service Nielsen.
With four Canadian teams vying
for the Stanley Cup, ratings for
the first weekend of the playoffs
soared, up 11 per cent versus the
previous season to an average au-
dience of 2.62 million viewers per
game across North America.
Amazon will build its own
broadcast team for Monday night
hockey, unveiling its play-by-play
crew and analysts later this year.
Magda Grace, head of Prime
Video in Canada, Australia and
New ealand, said “We’re com-
fans for a league buoyed by an in-
crease in U.S. TV ratings this sea-
son. “We are thrilled to collabo-
rate with Amazon and Rogers on
this project,” said David Proper,
NHL senior executive vice presi-
dent, in a press release. “We are
committed to serving hockey
fans and reaching new audienc-
es.”
TV ratings for NHL regular sea-
son games on U.S. networks
ESPN, TNT and ABC – all owned
by Walt Disney Co. – were up 8
per cent this year, to an average
of 504,000 viewers per game, ac-
cording to Nielsen.
Rogers’ partnership with Ama-
zon comes as the future owner-
ship of the country’s most valua-
ble sports property is in flux.
In 2011, Rogers and BCE ac-
quired a control stake in Maple
Leaf Sports Entertainment Ltd.,
parent to Toronto’s major league
hockey, basketball, soccer and
football teams. At the time, the
two companies negotiated the
right to purchase entrepreneur
and MLSE chair Larry Tanen-
baum’s 25 per cent interest in the
company in July, 2026.
Earlier this year, Mr. Tanen-
baum sold a stake in a family
holding company containing his
sports investments to the Onta-
rio Municipal Employees Retire-
ment System pension plan, a deal
that valued MLSE at approxi-
mately $8-billion.

TELECOM COM LAINTS UM 4 ROGERS ACCOUNTS FOR ONE- UARTER RE ORT MICROSOFT EATS UARTERLY RE ENUE ESTIMATES

The watchdog that handles grievances about or refund not received 1,942 complaints , icroso t Corp. beat Wall Street creator OpenAI and also helped
telecommunications companies in Canada quality of service 1,756 complaints , and estimates for third-quarter reve- it capture the world’s most
says complaints about phone, internet and repair issues and appointments 1,325 com- nue and profit on Thursday, valuable company crown from
television services were up 43 per cent half- plaints rounded out the top five categories. driven by gains from AI adoption Apple Inc. this year. Microsoft’s
way through its reporting year. Mr. Maker said the commission also fre- across its cloud services, and the strong profit and revenue offset
The report by the Commission for Com- quently receives complaints about increased company’s shares jumped over 4 concerns about higher-than-
plaints for Telecom-Television Services charges on consumers’ phone, internet or TV per cent in extended trade. expected AI-fuelled capital
CCTS , which measured complaints from bills. Revenue rose 17 per cent to expenditures. On Wednesday,
customers between Aug. 1, 2023, and Jan. 31, The issue came to the forefront in January US$61.9-billion in the quarter Meta’s lower-than-anticipated
2024, found an “alarming” rise in those relat- when some Rogers Communications Inc. and ended March, exceeding the revenue forecast and guidance
ed to overcharges on bills. Bell Canada customers reported receiving consensus estimate of US$60.80- for higher expenses driven by
“We know complaint numbers fluctuate notifications that their bills were set to rise. billion, according to LSEG data. surging AI costs knocked
from year to year, from period to period,” That prompted the House of Commons’ Earnings per share of US$2.94 US$200-billion off the Facebook
CCTS commissioner and chief executive industry committee to launch a study into the topped Wall Street’s target of and Instagram parent’s market
officer Howard Maker said. accessibility and affordability of wireless and US$2.82. value.
“But a 43-per-cent increase is the kind of broadband services. The rise in Microsoft shares “We’re continuing to see
increase we don’t generally see and it is a Of the 10,663 complaints accepted by the after the bell lifted the compa- customer demand grow quite a
cause for concern.” commission over the six-month period, Rog- ny’s stock market value by bit,” Brett Iversen, Microsoft’s
Incorrect charges were the top issue, as ers accounted for 26.4 per cent of the total. US$128-billion. vice-president of investor rela-
customers complained more than 3,000 times With 2,820 complaints, Rogers saw a 117.9-per- The stock has soared on Mi- tions, told Reuters. “And so we’re
about apparent inaccuracies related to their cent increase in reports to the commission crosoft shipping generative AI making sure to scale our avail-
monthly plans. from its customers compared with the same genAI tools based on its strate- able capacity in line with that.”
Disclosure issues 2,633 complaints , credit period last year. T E CANADIAN PRESS gic partnership with ChatGPT REUTERS
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ctivist investor targets ye urham

Engine Capital criticizes
oronto company’s
underperformance and
strategic misssteps’ in
letter to shareholders
SEAN SILCOFF
TECHNOLO Y REPORTER
Hedge fund Engine Capital LP has
stepped up its activist campaign
against e ur am Ltd., lay-
ing out its case for the first time
publicly Thursday after saying
that behind-the-scenes efforts to
work with the board were unsuc-
cessful.
Engine, which owns 6.6 per
cent of the Toronto company’s
stock, released a letter to share-
holders Thursday signed by ma-
naging partner Arnaud Ajdler in
which he said he was “compelled
to publicly raise our concerns
about Dye Durham’s underper-
formance and strategic missteps.”
Those include its underperform-
ance relative to the TS and Nas-
daq Composite indexes over the
past year, three years and since its
2020 initial public offering.
Mr. Ajdler accused D D of
being a poor allocator of capital,
saying it had paid too much for
acquisitions, bought back shares
and months later issued stock at a
lower price.
He also said it mismanaged the
refinancing of $345-million in
convertible debt and made “un-
necessary” expenditures totalling
$134-million related to acquisi-
tion, restructuring and other
costs over the past three years.
That “exorbitant” outlay “reflects
the frenetic pace of capital market
activity under the current board.”
D D has set “the wrong long-
term operational target” by tar-
geting $1-billion in earnings be-
fore interest, taxes, depreciation
and amortization EBITDA , he
wrote, saying that “incentivizes
acquisitions – even if they don’t
create shareholder value. There
should be no pressure on man-
agement or the board to reach an
arbitrary target.”
He said the board should
change incentives to optimize
return on invested capital, focus
on growing revenues from exist-
ing businesses “and consider
acquisitions in a measured and
disciplined way.”
D D replied in a release that
“Engine continues to display a
stunning lack of understanding of
the key value drivers” of its busi-
ness. It accused the hedge fund of
“grossly” mischaracterizing its
track record and performance,
saying the company “is perform-
ing extremely well.”
En ine s Mr. A dler said
e still opes to rea a
onstru ti e resolution
but added e orried
t at t e board ould
resort to s or ed eart
ta ti s in ludin
fri olous le al a tions.
D D has called a shareholder
meeting for Aug. 20 at the behest
of Engine, which previously
requested the removal of three
directors – Brian Derksen, Colleen
Moorehead and Leslie O’Donogh-
ue – and proposed three other
nominees instead.
After receiving Engine’s letter
this spring, D D said Mr. Derksen,
its chairman, would not stand for
re-election and that Ms. Moore-
head would take over his position
temporarily. D D has since re-
ceived notice from a second activ-
ist fund, Blacksheep Fund Man-
agement, which said it may nomi-
nate its chief investment officer to
join D D’s seven-person board.
Engine has also pushed Cal-
gary’s Parkland Corp. to take mea-
sures to improve shareholder val-
ue, while Blacksheep targeted
Toronto-based telecom company
Tucows Inc. for similar reasons.
Mr. Ajdler said he still hopes to
reach a “constructive resolution”
but added he worried that the
board would “resort to scorched-
earth tactics” including frivolous
legal actions against Engine and
other shareholders. The company
has retained Goldman Sachs as a
strategic adviser.
D D’s stock has rebounded af-
ter sinking to a historic low of
$7.46 last October – below its July,
2020, initial public offering price
of $7.50. The stock spiked to above
$17 briefly this month after it
priced a refinancing that pushes
out key repayment dates by sever-
al years and cut annual interest
costs by $20-million.
But the share price has since
fallen back, closing at $14.55
Thursday, well off its 52-week high
of $21.21, and less than one-third
peak levels in mid-2021. Mr. Ajdler
noted that the stock’s valuation
relative to EBITDA was “nearing
an all-time low and lingers at a sig-
nificant discount to peers.”
The company has specialized
in buying up legal software pro-
viders in Canada, then hiking fees
for such services as property
transfers. It has pursued acquisi-
tions in Britain and Australia,
though it was forced to divest a
company in 2023 by Britain’s com-
petition regulator.
More recently, investors have
been troubled by D D’s high debt
levels. Its ratio of debt to operat-
ing profit in the 12 months ended
Dec. 31 was 6.3, deemed “high” by
Moody’s recently, although that
was before D D raised $139.5-mil-
lion in a stock offering and refi-
nanced its debt this month.
D D has taken other measures
to lighten its financial burden by
reducing capital and operating
costs and launching a strategic re-
view of non-core assets. Its goal is
to reduce its debt-to-adjusted op-
erating earnings ratio to less than
four times.

New deep-water channel

allows first ship to pass
Baltimore bridge wreck
LEA SKENE ALTI ORE
The first cargo ship passed
through a newly opened deep-
water channel in Baltimore on
Thursday after being stuck in the
harbour since the Francis Scott
Key Bridge collapsed four weeks
ago, halting most maritime traffic
through the city’s port.
The Balsa 94, a bulk carrier sail-
ing under a Panama flag, passed
through the new 12-metre chan-
nel headed for Saint John. Two
more commercial ships came lat-
er Thursday, including a vehicle
carrier headed to Panama.
Their long-awaited voyages
marked an important step in the
ongoing cleanup and recovery
effort as crews have been working
around the clock to clear thou-
sands of tons of mangled steel
and concrete from the entrance
to Baltimore’s harbour.
Five vessels that have been
stranded for weeks are expected
to finally leave Baltimore through
the new, temporary channel. Oth-
er ships are scheduled to enter
the port, which normally process-
es more cars and farm equipment
than any other in the country.
Thousands of longshoremen,
truckers and small business own-
ers have seen their jobs impacted
by the collapse, prompting local
and state officials to prioritize
reopening the port and restoring
its traffic to normal capacity in
hopes of easing the economic rip-
ple effects of the collapse. Offi-
cials have also established vari-
ous assistance programs for un-
employed workers and others im-
pacted by the closure.
On Thursday morning, the
Balsa 94 moved through the
channel guided by two tug boats,
one in front and one behind. It
glided slowly past the fallen
bridge and grounded Dali, the
massive container ship that
caused the collapse when it
slammed into one of the bridge’s
support columns.
Pieces of the steel span are still
blocking other parts of the port’s
main channel, which has a
controlling depth of 15 metres,
enough to accommodate some of
GOOGLE ARENT COM ANY AL HA ET ANNOUNCES
FIRST-E ER DI IDEND OF CENTS A SHARE
Alp abet Inc. announced its
first-ever dividend on Thursday
and a US$70-billion stock buy-
back, cheering investors who
sent the stock surging nearly 16
per cent after the bell.
The Google Inc. parent is
returning capital while spending
billions of dollars on data centres
to catch up with rivals on gener-
ative artificial intelligence. The
dividend will be 20 US cents a
share.
Just three months ago, Al-
phabet’s Big Tech rival, Meta
Platforms Inc., announced its
own first-ever dividend, a move
that lifted the social-media
company’s stock market value by
US$196-billion the following day.
Amazon.com Inc. remains the
lone holdout among Big Tech
firms not offering a dividend.
Alphabet beat expectations
the largest cargo and cruise ships
on the water.
The Balsa 94 is expected to
arrive in Canada on Monday.
The Dali lost power and veered
off course shortly after leaving
the Port of Baltimore bound for
Sri Lanka last month.
Six members of a roadwork
crew – all Latino immigrants
from Mexico, Guatemala, El
Salvador and Honduras –
plunged to their deaths in the col-
lapse. Four bodies have been
recovered from the underwater
wreckage while two remain mis-
sing.
A memorial for the victims
near the south end of the bridge
has grown in recent weeks. It now
includes six large wooden crosses
decorated with flags from the vic-
tims’ home countries and other
personal items. A painted canvas
backdrop displays abstract
scenes from the bridge collapse
and salvage efforts as well as
handwritten notes from the
men’s loved ones.
“We want to send a message to
the world that we’re here and we
care,” said the artist, Roberto M r-
quez, who was visiting the
memorial late Thursday morn-
ing. “We will be here working
until they are all recovered.”
The new channel will remain
open until Monday or Tuesday
and then close again until rough-
ly May 10. During the closing,
crews will work to remove steel
spans from the deck of the Dali
and refloat the ship, which will
then be guided back into the port,
officials said earlier this week.
The port’s main channel is set
to reopen next month after the
Dali has been removed from the
collapse site. That will allow for a
normal flow of traffic to resume
through the port.
But for now, the 15-metre
depth is a substantial increase
over the three other temporary
channels established in recent
weeks. It puts the cleanup effort
slightly ahead of schedule, as offi-
cials previously said they hoped
to open a channel of that depth
by the end of April.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
for the quarter in sales, profit
and advertising – metrics that
are all closely watched.
“Alphabet’s announced divi-
dend payouts and buybacks on
top of the solid earnings beat are
not only a breath of fresh air for
the tech market as a whole, but
also a very intelligent strategy for
the search engine giant going
into a tough time of the year,”
said Thomas Monteiro, senior
analyst at Investing.com.
Alphabet’s after-hours share
surge of nearly 16 per cent fol-
lowing the report increased its
stock-market value by about
US$300-billion to more than
US$2-trillion.
Revenue was US$80.54-billion
for the quarter ended March 31,
compared with estimates of
US$78.59-billion, according to
LSEG data. REUTERS
People walk through a shopping mall in Arlington, Va., in Fe ruary. Low layoffs in the United States
are keeping wages high and sustaining consumer spending, which grew at a .5 per cent rate and
accounts for more than two thirds of the country’s economic activity. SAUL LOEB/AFP IA GETTY IMAGES
. . economic growth near-two-year low
in first uarter as trade deficit widens
LUCIA MUTIKANI WASHIN TON
The U.S. economy grew at its slowest pace in
nearly two years in the first quarter amid some
moderation in consumer spending and a wider
trade deficit, but an acceleration in inflation re-
inforced expectations that the Federal Reserve
would not cut interest rates before September.
The cooler-than-expected growth reported
by the Commerce Department in its snapshot
of first-quarter gross domestic product on
Thursday also reflected a slower pace of inven-
tory accumulation by businesses and a down-
shift in government spending. Still, domestic
demand remained solid, underpinned by busi-
ness investment and a recovering housing mar-
ket.
“This report comes in with mixed messages,”
said Olu Sonola, head of economic research at
Fitch. “If growth continues to slowly decelerate,
but inflation strongly takes off again in the
wrong direction, the expectation of a Fed inter-
est-rate cut in 2024 is starting to look increas-
ingly more out of reach.”
Gross domestic product increased at a 1.6-
per-cent annualized rate last quarter, the slow-
est pace since the second quarter of 2022, the
Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic
Analysis said. Economists polled by Reuters
had forecast GDP rising at a 2.4-per-cent rate,
with estimates ranging from a 1-per-cent pace
to a 3.1-per-cent rate.
The economy grew at a 3.4-per-cent rate in
the fourth quarter. The first-quarter growth’s
pace was below what U.S. central-bank officials
regard as the non-inflationary growth rate of 1.8
per cent.
Price pressures heated up by the most in a
year, with a measure of inflation in the econo-
my increasing at a 3.1-per-cent rate after rising
at a 1.9-per-cent pace in the October-December
quarter.
The Personal Consumption Expenditures
PCE Price Index excluding food and energy
surged at a 3.7-per-cent rate. That was the fas-
test rise in that measure in nearly a year and
followed a 2-per-cent pace of increase in the
fourth quarter.
The so-called core PCE Price Index is one of
the inflation measures tracked by the Fed for its
2-per-cent target. Inflation was boosted by
increases in the costs of services such as insur-
ance and housing, which offset a decline in
goods prices such as motor vehicles and parts.
The strong readings pose an upside risk to
March PCE inflation data due to be released on
Friday.
The Fed is expected to leave its policy rate
unchanged in the 5.25-per-cent to 5.5-per-cent
range next week, having hiked it by 525 basis
points since March, 2022. It has kept the bench-
mark overnight rate at this level since July.
Financial markets initially expected the first
rate cut to come in March, which then got
pushed back to June and now to September as
data on the labour market and inflation contin-
ued to surprise on the upside this year.
Stocks on Wall Street were trading lower. The
dollar rose against a basket of currencies. U.S.
Treasury yields rose.
A significant slowdown in the labour market
is not evident yet. The Labor Department’s
weekly jobless-claims report showed initial
claims for unemployment benefits fell 5,000 to
a seasonally adjusted 207,000 in the week end-
ing April 20.
The number of people receiving benefits
after an initial week of aid, a proxy for hiring,
declined 15,000 to 1.781 million during the week
ending April 13. The so-called continuing
claims data covered the period during which
the government surveyed households for
April’s unemployment rate.
Continuing claims fell between the March
and April survey periods, implying the unem-
ployment rate was likely unchanged after dip-
ping to 3.8 per cent last month from 3.9 per cent
in February.
Low layoffs are keeping wages high, sustain-
ing consumer spending, which accounts for
more than two-thirds of economic activity.
Consumer spending grew at a still-solid 2.5-per-
cent rate, slowing from the 3.3-per-cent growth
pace rate notched in the October-December
quarter. Spending was driven by health care,
financial services and insurance, which more
than offset a decline in goods, including motor
vehicles and gasoline.
Spending is likely to gradually cool this year.
Lower-income households have depleted their
pandemic savings and are largely relying on
debt to fund purchases. Recent data and com-
ments from bank executives indicated that
lower-income borrowers were increasingly
struggling to keep up with their loan payments.
Though income increased at a US$407.1-
billion rate compared with the fourth quarter’s
US$230.2-billion pace, the gains were eroded by
inflation and higher taxes. Income at the dis-
posal of households after accounting for infla-
tion and taxes rose at a 1.1-per-cent rate com-
pared with a 2-per-cent pace in the October-De-
cember quarter. That meant less saving. The
saving rate decreased to 3.6 per cent from 4 per
cent in the prior quarter.
Inventories were whittled down amid the
still-strong pace of consumer spending, rising
at a US$35.4-billion rate after increasing at a
US$54.9-billion pace in the fourth quarter. In-
ventories subtracted 0.35 percentage points
from GDP growth.
Part of the spending was satiated with im-
ports, which resulted in the trade deficit widen-
ing to US$973.2-billion from US$918.5-billion in
the October-December quarter.
REUTERS
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O INION ANA YSIS

’ EV
ASHLEY NUNES

OPINION

Senior resear asso iate at ar ard La S ool, o tea es

Ottawa faces two large
obstacles labour and
capital Neither will
be easily overcome
TONY
KELLER
OPINION
he centrepiece of last
week’s federal budget was
the Trudeau government’s
plan to build 3.87 million homes
by 2031. Canada Mortgage and
Housing Corp. CMHC estimates
that 1.87 million homes are
already going to be built – and Ot-
tawa aims to more than double
that pace.
How likely is that Not very.
There are two extremely large
obstacles labour and capital.
Canada already has a record
number of people employed in
construction. Almost 1.6 million
Canadians work in the sector, or
7.8 per cent of the labour force.
Both figures are historic highs.
Also already at all-time highs
construction. There were 773,00
housing starts between 2021 and
2023 – more than any other three-
year period in Canadian history.
Ottawa’s new housing policies
could help to somewhat lower the
cost of building. They will also
nudge provinces and cities to
make it easier to build. But dou-
bling the pace of building, quick-
ly, would almost certainly mean
finding hundreds of thousands of
new construction workers, im-
mediately. Where’s the plan for
that
“I think the government mis-
calculated the labour constraint,”
National Bank of Canada chief
economist St fane Marion told
me. I asked Mike Moffatt, an econ-
omist who has advised the gov-
ernment on housing, what he
thought of the work force chal-
lenge. “Labour shortages won’t be
the issue,” he wrote in an e-mail.
“The sector will run out of capital
before it runs out of labour.”
That’s because Canada’s econ-
omy is already heavily tilted to
residential real estate. Last year, 8
per cent of Canada’s gross domes-
tic product came from home-
building. That’s double the U.S.
level. It’s nearly double the aver-
age of countries in the Organiza-
tion for Economic Co-operation
and Development OECD .
“An extra two million homes
will require at least an additional
$1-trillion in investment,” Mr.
Moffatt wrote. “A trillion dollars
isn’t exactly easy to come by.”
An extraordinarily high share
of our national wealth is already
invested in housing rather than in
productive business assets. In
2022, 37.9 per cent of Canada’s
gross fixed capital formation –
Canada already has more construction workers than ever e onomi poli at ar ard Colle e
Percentage of labour force in construction
he largest deal in Canadian history. That’s how Pre-
8.0% mier Doug Ford has described a recently inked agree-
7.5
ment between Ontario, Ottawa and auto giant Hon-
da, officially announced Thursday.
Under the terms of the agreement, Honda will pump bil-
7.0 lions into building an electric-vehicle assembly plant. For the
automaker, the plant would be the first of its kind in Ontario
6.5 for the province, the third after automakers Stellantis and
Volkswagen inked similar agreements last year. In touting the
6.0
virtues of the agreement with Honda, the Premier said,
“everyone’s going to benefit.”
5.5
But that’s not true. Not everyone. The move saddles Cana-
dians with a product for which enthusiasm is tepid at best.
5.0
Down the line, when a lack of return forces these automak-
4.5 ers to rethink their investments, we may ask ourselves What
were the billions given to these companies actually for
1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
According to the politicians’ narrative, EVs are purportedly
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: NATIONAL BANK OF CANADA what people want. Worried about the Earth’s rising temper-
ature, and eager for change, the public demands a future that
Housing’s share of our economy is already very high is cleaner and greener. Consumers are – politicians keeps em-
Homebuilding as a share of GDP phasizing – keen on going electric. “There is clearly demand
for EVs in Canada,” proclaimed Environment Minister Steven
Canada U.S. OECD average Guilbeault late last year. Naysayers, he continued, “should get
on board.”
10%
That last comment was admittedly directed toward provin-
9 cial lawmakers. But it might as well be directed toward voters.
8
Across the world, annual EV sales have been rising over
time but sales growth is slowing and enthusiasm is waning. A
7 recent survey found that in 2024, 46 per cent of Canadians
6
were interested in buying an electric vehicle, down from 56
per cent in 2023 and 68 per cent in 2022. More worryingly, not
5 even these numbers nor those in any poll I’ve seen fully cap-
4 ture consumer hesitation toward EVs.
Take 2023, a year when new vehicle sales in Canada topped
3 more than 1.6 million. If you believe consumer surveys, EV
2 sales should have totalled more than 900,000 56 per cent of
Canadians expressed interest in going electric remember .
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
The actual number of EVs sold in 2023 Fewer than 186,000.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: OECD NATIONAL ACCOUNTS DATABASE The same goes for 2022, when just EVs accounted for just 8 per
cent of sales despite 68 per cent of Canadians reporting inter-
Our investment in housing already tops the G7 est in bolt-powered autos.
Dwellings as a per cent of gross fixed capital formation Of course, one party is certain to benefit from the Honda
deal, and that is Honda. The Liberals’ budget, which has yet to
Canada pass Parliament, offers a 10 per cent tax credit for building
plants that support EVs. Honda’s investment costs are esti-
U.S. Britain France
mated to equal more than $14-billion. You do the math.
40% For good measure, the likes of Honda are also being prom-
ised a 30-per-cent manufacturing investment tax credit. And
if that weren’t enough, Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Ford have also
and separately each committed $131-million to Honda to
20 boost domestic car production. For EV manufactures in Cana-
da, the adage seems true when it rains, it pours. One might
argue that there is justification for all these EV plants, given
the Prime Minister has promised that new gas-powered autos
1970 1995 2022
will be unavailable for sale by 2035. And by 2026, just two years
Germany Italy Japan from now, automakers must commit to ensuring that at least
40% 20 per cent of vehicles sold here are electric. For good mea-
sure, Ottawa has promised to fine manufacturers who don’t
comply. Across the world, similar policies have popped up.
I suppose that’s one way to do it. Consumers may be ret-
20 icent about EVs but give them less and eventually no choice
and – voila. But consider what such EV mandates are enforc-
ing It’s on automakers to sell people cars they don’t want,
can’t afford and barely meet the performance expectations
1970 1995 2022 think range they have grown accustomed to.
For its part, Ottawa has glossed over these concerns,
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: OECD instead emphasizing impending price parity – the idea that
EVs will soon cost the same as non EVs. Except we’ve been
investment in assets – was tied up closer to seven million. The log- hearing this talking point for years. In 2017, analysts predicted
in dwellings. That’s the highest ical conclusion is that we can’t price parity by 2025. In 2021, that forecast was revised upward
level in the OECD. And the Tru- build our way to affordability, at to 2026. Now, the Environment Minister is talking about see-
deau government’s unreachable least not any time soon. Ottawa ing price parity later this decade or in the early 2030s.
building target may aim too low. has to lean harder on the demand Forcing consumers to buy EVs won’t be a popular move.
To achieve affordability solely side of the equation. That means Luckily, and as the Prime Minister likes to remind us, his job is,
through more housing, CMHC significantly reversing the un- “not to be popular.” Neither the Canadian government’s EV
last year said the number of precedented spike in the number mandate nor those of other jurisdictions are unlikely to last in
homes needed could be almost of temporary residents. Popula- their current form – and without forcing EVs on the popula-
six million. CIBC economist Ben- tion growth has to come down – tion, there is no way uptake will be large enough to justify all
jamin Tal pegs the shortfall at way down. the billions Ottawa has been throwing at the automakers.

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RITA companies make – and some- U.S. Federal Trade Commission, is average of a thousand in their market share of a combined enti-
TRICHUR times break – to get deals done. a Biden appointee who has cases. So, they wouldn’t dare ty exceeds a certain threshold –
Unfortunately, wimping out is earned the respect of many GOP bring a case where there’s any likely 30 per cent. In such cases,
OPINION the Canadian way. members. possibility of losing,” Mr. Wu said. the onus would be on the merging
Canada has never successfully North of the border, mean- That brings us to Canada’s parties to rebut that presumption.
blocked a merger – at least not while, antitrust is shaping up to be Competition Commissioner, Mat- “This is not a novel idea. The

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anada needs to learn how to
block harmful corporate
mergers. That advice comes
from Tim Wu, a Columbia Univer-
sity law school professor who
served as special assistant to U.S.
President Joe Biden for technolo-
gy and competition policy from
2021 to 2023.
Tech heads likely know him
best for coining the phrase “net
neutrality” more than two dec-
ades ago. But in legal circles, he is
credited for being the architect of
the Biden administration’s com-
petition and antitrust policies.
Mr. Wu is offering his words of
wisdom to Canadians at a pivotal
moment. The federal government
is updating the Competition Act
for the third time since 2022, and
remains at risk of not getting it
quite right.
“Get away from consent de-
crees and start blocking mergers,”
Mr. Wu said in an interview at the
recent Democracy Change sum-
mit in Toronto. “This whole thing
where they make a bunch of
promises I think that those are
just too wimpy,” he added,
referring to the concessions
through the court process – be-
cause our legislators lack the
gumption to give the Competi-
tion Bureau a big enough stick.
It is a decades-long problem
that is coming back to bite us
because of inflation and a produc-
tivity crisis that is making us col-
lectively poorer.
The United States, meanwhile,
has spent years shaking up its
competition policies. Mr. Wu, for
instance, played a key role in
crafting Mr. Biden’s executive
order calling for an administra-
tion-wide approach to antitrust
back in 2021.
But even before Mr. Biden came
to power, former president Do-
nald Trump was changing the
mindset in Washington. Specifi-
cally, he honed in on waning com-
petition in the tech sector, a shift
that paved the way for former
attorney-general Bill Barr to sue
Google.
These days, antitrust has be-
come a rare area of bipartisan
agreement between Democrats
and Republicans. As The Wall
Street Journal reported last
month, Lina Khan, chair of the
an election issue. The Liberal gov-
ernment is making all kinds of
noises about stimulating compe-
tition, especially in the grocery,
telecom and banking sectors.
Conservatives are talking a blue
streak about “Canada’s monopoly
problem.”
Mr. Wu has some firsthand ex-
perience with corporate con-
tempt for the consumer on this
side of the border, too. He grew up
in Toronto and his alma mater is
McGill University in Montreal.
“There is a certain kind of ease
with a small oligopoly or monop-
oly in Canada – an unwillingness
to hold companies’ feet to the fire
and force them to compete hard,”
he said. “Sometimes it happens
through trade and, you know, tol-
erance of mergers that seem to be
highly suspect.”
Oh, we know. Canada has many
lessons to learn from the U.S.
experience.
“One thing we were deter-
mined to change was the problem
of what we call chicken-shit law-
yers, which is to mean govern-
ment enforcers who were so
determined to have a batting
thew Boswell, who has proven
that he isn’t afraid to take on a
case that he might lose. Despite
being hamstrung by outdated leg-
islation, Mr. Boswell sought a full
block of Rogers Communications
Inc.’s $20-billion takeover of Shaw
Communications Inc., a block-
buster deal that closed last year.
Just this week, under his lead-
ership, the Competition Bureau
opposed U.S. grain dealer Bunge
Ltd.’s proposed US$8.2-billion
acquisition of agriculture giant
Viterra.
For his part, Mr. Boswell is urg-
ing the government to consider
additional amendments to Bill
C-59, which is proposed legisla-
tion to implement provisions of
the fall economic statement in-
cluding changes to the Competi-
tion Act. The goal would be to bet-
ter harmonize the Canadian act
with U.S. legislation, including
recommendations relating to
merger reviews.
First, he wants Canada to adopt
a “structural presumption sys-
tem.” That means a merger would
automatically be considered anti-
competitive if the postmerger
U.S. has taken this common-sense
approach for over 60 years,” Mr.
Boswell told legislators on April
18.
At present, the Competition
Bureau will not generally chal-
lenge a merger if the postmerger
market share of the combined en-
tity is less than 35 per cent.
Second, Mr. Boswell also wants
more powers to remedy anti-
competitive mergers, noting the
U.S. only allows merger remedies
that fully maintain competition
to prevent consumers from “bear-
ing the cost of a risky remedy.”
He rightly argues that such
changes would improve co-oper-
ation for cross-border merger
reviews and provide regulatory
certainty to companies.
Mr. Boswell is also encouraging
our legislators to emulate Mr.
Biden’s administration-wide ap-
proach to antitrust.
As for Mr. Wu, he frames the
issue as one of economic democ-
racy, stressing that governments
that ignore public pressure will
fall. “Capitalism without compe-
tition, it’s not capitalism,” he said.
“It’s exploitation.”
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E coal-fired plant rule would
re uire emissions capture
New measures part of
Biden’s attempt to a e
carbon pollution from
electricity sector
MATTHEW DALY WASHIN TON
Coal-fired power plants would be
forced to capture smokestack
emissions or shut down under a
rule issued Thursday by the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency.
New limits on greenhouse gas
emissions from fossil fuel-fired
electric plants are the Biden ad-
ministration’s most ambitious
effort yet to roll back planet-
warming pollution from the
power sector, the nation’s sec-
ond-largest contributor to cli-
mate change. The rules are a key
part of U.S. President Joe Biden’s
pledge to eliminate carbon pol-
lution from the electricity sector
by 2035 and economy-wide by
2050.
The rule was among four mea-
sures targeting coal and natural
gas plants that the EPA said
would provide “regulatory cer-
tainty” to the power industry
and encourage them to make in-
vestments to transition “to a
clean energy economy.” The
measures include requirements
to reduce toxic waste water pol-
lutants from coal-fired plants
and to safely manage coal ash in
unlined storage ponds.
EPA administrator Michael
Regan said the rules will reduce
pollution and improve public
health while supporting the re-
liable, long-term supply of elec-
tricity that America needs.
“One of the biggest environ-
mental challenges facing our na-
tion is man-made pollution that
damages our air, our water and
our land,” Mr. Regan said in a
speech at Howard University.
“Not only is this pollution a ma-
jor threat to public health – it’s
pushing our planet to the brink.”
Mr. Regan called the power
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plant rules “a defining moment”
for his agency as it works to
“build a cleaner and healthier fu-
ture for all of us.”
The plan is likely to be chal-
lenged by industry groups and
Republican-leaning states. They
have repeatedly accused the
Democratic administration of
overreach on environmental reg-
ulations and have warned of a
looming reliability crisis for the
electric grid. The rules issued
Thursday are among at least a
half-dozen EPA rules limiting
power plant emissions and waste
water pollution.
Environmental groups hailed
the EPA’s latest action as urgent-
ly needed to protect against the
devastating harms of climate
change.
The power plant rule marks
the first time the federal govern-
ment has restricted carbon diox-
ide emissions from existing coal-
fired power plants. The rule also
would force future electric plants
fuelled by coal or gas to control
up to 90 per cent of their carbon
pollution. The new standards
will avoid 1.38 billion tonnes of
carbon pollution through 2047,
equivalent to the annual emis-
sions of 328 million gas cars, the
EPA said, and will provide hun-
dreds of billions of dollars in cli-
mate and health benefits, mea-
sured in fewer premature deaths,
asthma cases and lost work or
school days.
Coal plants that plan to stay
open beyond 2039 would have to
cut or capture 90 per cent of
their carbon-dioxide emissions
by 2032, the EPA said. Plants that
expect to retire by 2039 would
face a less stringent standard but
still would have to capture some
emissions. Coal plants that are
set to retire by 2032 would not be
subject to the new rules.
The proposal relies on tech-
nologies to limit carbon pollu-
tion that the industry itself has
said are viable and available, Mr.
Regan said. “Multiple power
companies have indicated that
carbon capture and storage is a
viable technology for the power
sector today, and they are cur-
rently pursuing those CCS pro-
jects,” he told reporters Wednes-
day.
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A judicial review would only exacerbate the delay, the judge
added.
One of the ranchers is Laura Laing, a vocal opponent of
coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
She’s disappointed that – after four years – the fight to get
all of the documents continues. She said it further reflects the
government’s repeated pushback on open and transparent
communication. “Rather than supporting generational Al-
bertans and their understanding, they’re defending foreign
coal companies,” Ms. Laing said in an interview Thursday.
“It must be really bad if they’re fighting to prevent Alber-
tans from seeing it.”
Energy Minister Brian Jean accepts that mistakes were
made in the original redactions, and said the government
will be releasing uncensored documents. “What I feel like, is
somebody bought a box of black markers and decided to sit
down in a room and have some doughnuts and some coffee
and went to town, and got a little excited about all the oppor-
tunities to block out a whole bunch of words that didn’t
mean anything in substance,” he said in an interview.
The appeal will be limited to technical grounds for some
elements of the decision, but the government would release
all the unredacted portions for the documents that are not
covered by that limited appeal, he said.
Mr. Jean said the case would be something of a learning
moment for government departments about the need for
transparency, and properly applying freedom of information
laws. “Transparency and accountability is our motto, and
we’re going to make sure that our departments and the gov-
ernment in all sectors and departments right through the
whole process are focused on that because it’s important that
Albertans know that the government is actually working for
them,” he said.
Asked about the decision in Question Period last week,
Premier Danielle Smith said her government would abide by
the decision of the court.
“We obviously have had a change in leadership in this file,
and we will make whatever documents available that the
court requires,” she said.
On Thursday, Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley called the
United Conservative government’s decision to appeal the
legal ruling “shameful.”
“They’re continuing to keep stuff hidden, and they’re now
appealing for their right to keep things hidden and to essen-
tially eliminate Albertans’ freedom of access to their own
information,” she told media in Calgary.
The government had argued that some of the records in
question should be kept secret because they would reveal the
deliberations of cabinet one reason that information can be
legally redacted . But Justice Teskey said that cabinet confi-
dence does not apply to the records at hand.
Ms. Notley said while cabinet confidence is important, the
government is overswinging. “Stamping Cabinet document’
on 5,000 documents and saying that people don’t have
access to them as a result is ridiculous. Nobody in cabinet
reads 5,000 pages before a cabinet meeting,” she said.
“It is just a gross overuse of an exemption. And that’s of
course what the court said. The court said there’s no rational
connection between these documents and this particular ex-
emption, and I agree.”
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On the London Stock Exchange,
Anglo shares closed up 16 per
cent, to 25.60, giving the compa-
ny a market value of 30-billion
$51.3-billion and reversing a
losing year on the stock market.
BHP shares closed down less
than 1 per cent.
Ben Cleary, portfolio manager
at Australia’s Tribeca Investment
Partners, which holds stakes in
BHP and Anglo, said competing
bids could emerge for Anglo, giv-
en the high demand for copper.
“I think it’s a good deal for BHP.
Anglo is obviously very much in
play now and there’s probably
room for others to interlope,” he
told Reuters, “This is going to set
the whole sector on fire.”
In a separate interview with
The Globe and Mail, Mr. Cleary
said that demand for copper was
also being driven by the rise of
artificial intelligence, whose inte-
grated circuits require copper.
“There is not just one catalyst for
the price rise,” he said.
BHP said its goal was to boost
its “exposure to future facing
commodities through Anglo
American’s world class copper
assets.” Copper produces about
40 per cent of Anglo’s profits the
company has substantial owner-
ship or joint ventures in five big
copper mines in Chile and Peru.
Collectively, they give Anglo
about 760,000 tonnes of copper
production a year. But BHP’s bid
is complicated and has been
compared to buying a six-bed-
room house in order to get the
garage. Mr. Henry does not want
all of Anglo, whose conglomerate
structure includes diamonds,
through its De Beers subsidiary,
as well as nickel, platinum, iron
ore, manganese and crop nutri-
ents through its troubled Wood-
smith potash mine in England.
BHP’s offer is conditional on
Anglo demerging its entire hold-
ings in Anglo American Platinum
known as Amplats and Kumba
Iron Ore, two divisions that BHP
does not want. Were the spinoffs
to happen, Anglo would be fo-
cused largely on copper and dia-
monds. BHP said De Beers, along
with other assets, such as Anglo’s
nickel business in Brazil, would
be subject to a “strategic review
post-completion,” suggesting
they might be put on the auction
block. Anglo reportedly has been
holding discussions for some
time with potential buyers of De
Beers.
Analysts said they doubted
that BHP’s opening proposal
would succeed. In a note, Jeffer-
ies Co. of New York said a
“price of at least 28 per share
would be necessary for serious
discussions to take place, and a
takeout price of well above 30
per share would be the outcome
if other bidders were to get in-
volved.”
Most of the big mining compa-
nies are trying to bulk up in cop-
per. Last year, Glencore made a
hostile, US$22.5-billion takeover
offer for copper-heavy Teck Re-
sources Ltd. of Vancouver. The
bid was rejected, but Teck later
agreed to sell its metallurgical
coal operations to Glencore. A
year earlier, Rio Tinto Ltd. com-
pleted its purchase of Canada’s
Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. for
US$3.1-billion, giving it 66 per
cent of the enormous Oyu Tolgoi
copper project in Mongolia.
BHP did not make a rival bid
for Teck but has expressed inter-
est in buying Glencore’s copper
assets in recent years, specifically
the Collahuasi copper mine in
northern Chile, which is a joint
venture with Anglo, and the An-
tamina mine in Peru, a joint ven-
ture with BHP and Teck.
Glencore has always been ag-
gressive and opportunistic on the
mergers and acquisitions front.
But given its agreement to buy 77
per cent of Teck’s coal division for
almost US$7-billion – a deal that
has yet to receive Canadian regu-
latory approval – it may decide
that it cannot take on another big
acquisition so soon. Rio Tinto
seems better placed to mount a
rival offer, or a Chinese company.
Political dimensions make any
bid for Anglo complicated. The
company’s biggest shareholder is
South Africa’s state-owned Pub-
lic Investment Corp. While PIC
did not comment on BHP’s offer
price, it did say that the mining
sector “remains a critical part of
the South African economy, im-
pacting a wide variety of stake-
holders, therefore, new opportu-
nities that may arise in the sector
need to take these factors and
long-term sustainability into ac-
count.”
Later on Thursday, South Afri-
ca’s Mineral Resources Minister,
Gwede Mantashe, told the Finan-
cial Times that he was not in fa-
vour of the BHP proposal be-
cause the country’s previous ex-
perience with the company was
“not positive.”
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Talk of Canadian copper mining M&A
spurred by BHP’s bid for Anglo American
NIALL McGEE owing to their elevated valuations. high in the mountains of northern Chile,
ININ REPORTER Mr. Wowkodaw is even less bullish on the project has been rocked by massive ex-
the prospects of ec Resources Ltd. get- pense overruns. The capital cost is estimat-
ting acquired, pointing out that although ed to come in at roughly US$8.7-billion, or
BHP Group Ltd. s blockbuster proposal to the Vancouver-based miner has very at- about two-thirds higher than initially esti-
buy Anglo American PLC is igniting spec- tractive copper assets, Canadian regulato- mated. QB2 is currently losing money, but
ulation that several Canadian copper min- ry concerns mean there is likely to be less Mr. Price said that as production continues
ers could be snapped up as large-scale interest from potential buyers in the near to increase, the situation should improve.
merger and acquisitions activity takes off term. Shares in Teck rose by 8.7 per cent on the
once again. Teck is currently working to close a ma- Toronto Stock Exchange on Thursday to
Melbourne-based BHP on Thursday jor M A deal that has not yet been ap- close at $67.65 apiece, the best-performing
went public with a proposal to buy Anglo, proved by Canada’s federal government. stock in the TS Capped Materials Index.
which is based in London for US$39- Late last year, Teck agreed to sell its metal- Shares in Capstone, Hudbay, Ivanhoe
billion. If the deal is successful, BHP would lurgical coal business for US$8.9-billion to and Lundin Mining Corp. rose by 6.4 per
become the world’s biggest copper pro- Glencore PLC of Switzerland, Japan’s Nip- cent, 4.7 per cent, 4.9 per cent and 1.8 per
ducer, bypassing Chile’s Codelco. pon Steel Corp. and South Korea’s POSCO. cent, respectively.
Since falling to US$3.25 a pound in the While the transactions with POSCO and The price of copper has rallied in recent
summer of 2022, the price of copper has Nippon have already closed, the 77 per months in part because of fears over po-
rallied by 40 per cent to US$4.53 a pound, cent of the business Teck wants to sell to tential supply issues. Late last year, Cobre
to trade only about 40 US cents below its Glencore is still being scrutinized under Panama, one of the world’s biggest copper
all-time high. the Investment Canada Act for national se- mines, was shut down by Panama after the
Orest Wowkodaw, analyst with Scotia curity and net benefit. country’s Supreme Court said that Cana-
Capital Inc., said in a note to clients on Teck on Thursday reaffirmed that it ex- dian miner First Quantum Minerals Ltd.’s
Thursday that given the extreme challenge pects the Glencore deal to close no later contract was unconstitutional. Cobre Pan-
in building new copper mines and growing than the third quarter of this year. During a ama accounted for about 1.5 per cent of
demand for metals used in low-carbon en- conference call with analysts following the global output.
ergy sources, the resumption of major release of Teck’s first-quarter earnings, It has been almost two decades since
M A in the copper industry makes sense. chief executive Jonathan Price said that the last major round of M A in the Cana-
He identified Capstone Mining Corp. BHP’s move on Anglo showcases the at- dian industrial metals sector. During the
and HudBay Minerals Inc. as his top acqui- tractiveness of copper, but “doesn’t mid-2000s, Rio Tinto Ltd. paid US$38-bil-
sition targets. change anything” in terms of his compa- lion for Quebec’s Alcan Inc., Vale SA
Freeport-McMoRan Inc., Ivanhoe Mines ny’s own strategy. bought Inco Ltd. for $19.4-billion and Fal-
Ltd. and Lundin Mining Corp., he said, are Teck is in the midst of ramping up its conbridge Ltd. was acquired by strata
also potential targets, but less attractive newly-constructed QB2 mine. Located PLC for US$18-billion.
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The Globe is not identifying the sources,
who were not authorized to publicly dis-
cuss the matter.
Canada has steadily been ramping up
sanctions on Russian officials, oligarchs
and companies in response to Moscow’s
all-out military assault on Ukraine that be-
gan in February, 2022.
The war has killed more than 10,000 ci-
vilians and wounded more than 18,500 ac-
cording to a United Nations monitoring
body. Millions of Ukrainians have been
forced to flee their homes, often for other
countries, and Russia’s war has caused
hundreds of billions of dollars of damage to
Ukraine.
Canada first announced sanctions on
Russia’s VSMPO-AVISMA in February. Wil-
liam Pellerin, a partner with McMillan Bom ardier is the second aerospace company after Air us to e identified as having
LLP’s international trade group, said that to o tained a waiver from Canadian sanctions targeting Russian titanium. RYAN REMIOR /CP
his knowledge no other Western country
has applied full sanctions on VSMPO-AVIS- um suppliers.” the people of Ukraine,” he said in a state-
MA, although some measures by the Unit- The Ukrainian Canadian Congress ment.
ed States affect exports to the Russian com- UCC condemned the waiver Thursday. He criticized Mr. Trudeau for alleged fail-
pany. “There is no point in issuing sanctions and ures on Ukraine, including allowing Russia
Mr. Pellerin said that while imports of ti- then granting wide-ranging exemptions to to circumvent Canadian sanctions to ob-
tanium from VSMPO-AVISMA were those sanctions,” UCC chief executive offi- tain more than 190,000 electric detonators
banned as of February, what likely exacer- cer Ihor Michalchyshyn said in a statement. in 2022, according to research released last
bated the matter is sanctions guidance is- “The Canadian government is, in effect, year by Brussels-headquartered Open Dia-
sued by the Department of Global Affairs in sending a message to Russia that the Cana- logue Foundation.
March meant to help people understand dian government will cave to corporate Mr. Seeback also cited the Liberal gov-
how measures apply. The implications pressure,” he said. ernment’s much criticized decision to al-
from this government guidance, when ap- “Russia’s genocidal war of aggression low natural-gas turbines for a Russian pipe-
plied to VSMPO, would be that importing against Ukraine is in its third year. That line to be repaired in Canada and sent back
parts or aircraft containing this Russian ti- Canadian companies still do business with – a decision Ottawa reversed in December,
tanium would run afoul of the sanctions, Russia, thereby funding Russia’s war ma- 2022.
he said. chine and providing Russia the means with The Ukrainian embassy did not immedi-
Individual waivers from sanctions are which to murder Ukrainians, is appalling.” ately respond to requests for comment
rare, Mr. Pellerin noted. The Kremlin said on Thursday that Can- Thursday.
The “willingness to provide these sanc- ada’s decision to grant Airbus a waiver for The Department of Global Affairs de-
tions waivers to individual companies sug- titanium showed that European compa- clined to comment, citing commercial con-
gests that Global Affairs Canada may not nies would struggle to remain competitive fidentiality. The department “respects pri-
have fully understood the ramifications of if they stopped using Russian products. vacy and commercial confidentiality and
its recently issued sanctions guidance,” he Conservative international trade critic cannot comment on whether applications
said. “The effects of this guidance are par- Kyle Seeback said the waiver runs contrary have been made, or whether permits have
ticularly severe given the government’s pri- to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s tough been granted,” spokesman John Babcock
or decision to act in a manner that is differ- talk on Ukraine. said in a statement.
ent from our allies and to sanction VSMPO- “Russia will now use the profits from
AVISMA, one of the world’s leading titani- these titanium sales to fund its war against Wit reports from Reuters.
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DAVID 20 per cent more than Mr. McKay,

MILSTEAD who received $16.13-million last
year from RBC. Mr. Gori’s total pay
OPINION compared with Mr. McKay ranged
from 1 per cent to 9 per cent more
in the past four years.

I
t may surprise you to learn the
best-paid chief executive offi-
cer in Canada’s financial-ser-
vices industry is not the leader of
one of our behemoth banks, but
instead Rocco Roy Gori of Man-
ulife Financial Corp.
It may really surprise you to
learn just how big a lead he’s tak-
en in this particular compensa-
tion competition – particularly
given how Manulife stock has per-
formed over his tenure.
Manulife paid Mr. Gori $19.38-
million in 2023. The package in-
cluded a salary of $1.73-million, an
ISTOC annual bonus of $5.15-million,
stock awards Manulife valued at
$11.55-million and other benefits.
I asked Manulife to comment
on Mr. Gori’s paycheque, relative
to Mr. McKay’s. Spokesperson
Luke Shane said Manulife won’t
comment “on the comparison of
our executives’ compensation to
that of other specific companies,”
but he sent a lengthy statement
about the company’s pay philoso-
phy and its recent results.
He called Manulife “a pay for
performance culture that rewards
global executives” for contribut-
ing to long-term growth, execut-
ing strategy and delivering “sig-
nificant value for our sharehol-
ders and customers.” He also said
78 per cent of Manulife’s earnings
come from outside Canada, so

C
hile cuts may ease the blow,
a higher rate reality awaits most
e isting fi ed-rate holders
JAMES LAIRD
PENELOPE GRAHAM
OPINION
ames Laird is t e o founder of Rate ub. a and
president of CanWise Finan ial mort a e lender.
Penelope Gra am is t e dire tor of ontent at
Rate ub. a.
rowing costs since the Bank of Canada in-
creased rates 10 times between March, 2022,
and July, 2023. Borrowers who’ve stuck it out
with variable mortgages have had their pay-
ments rise roughly 70 per cent since the start
of those rate hikes – they’re already coping
with these new-world rates.
But for the majority who have a five-year
fixed rate, their terms come due between 2025
and 2027 – and the impact of those renewals
will be more deeply felt by borrowers and the
economy as a whole.
Consider that there is approximately $2-tril-
lion in outstanding mortgage debt. Only 5 per
cent of that came up for renewal in 2023, ac-
cording to Canada Mortgage and Housing
Corp., with 13 per cent slated for this year. That
It’s a 13-per-cent increase from
the prior year, when he made
$17.08-million. The incumbent
bank CEOs could only dream of
such a raise in 2023 only Cana-
dian Imperial Bank of Commerc-
e’s Victor Dodig received more
pay in 2023 than the year before,
and that was a 2-per-cent in-
crease.
Manulife paid Ro o Gori
. million in 202 .
T e pa a e in luded a
salar of . million,
an annual bonus of
. million, sto
a ards Manulife alued
at . million and
ot er benefits.
Mr. Gori’s 2023 pay package is
also much bigger than insurance-
industry peers. Charles Brinda-
mour made $15.21-million at In-
tact Financial Corp., Jeffrey Orr
made $14.07-million at Power
Manulife “competes for talent”
globally.
He said since 2018, “when we
started our journey to transform
Manulife, we have radically re-
shaped the company,” citing
more than $10-billion of addition-
al capital, improvements in prof-
itability and “a historic reinsu-
rance transaction” that trans-
ferred the risk on $6-billion of in-
surance reserves. There was a lot
more on his list, so this was a se-
lection. By me.
And he notes Manulife was the
top performer in its compensa-
tion peer group in 2023. And its
five-year total shareholder return
of 95.7 per cent is in the first quar-
tile versus its compensation peer
group, Mr. Shane says.
I had a slightly different idea of
the time period to examine. I
picked Oct. 1, 2017, the day Manu-
life promoted Mr. Gori to the CEO
job, to start, and I picked Dec. 31,
2023, the last day of the year
where Mr. Gori received his indus-
try-topping compensation.
For comparison, I used two of

I
n Canada’s mortgage market, sentiment
can shift on a dime.
That’s especially evident these days, as
the Bank of Canada prepares to start cut-
ting interest rates. As a result, the mortgage-
rate discussion is dominated by anticipated
rate relief, which could come as early as this
summer. It seems like just last year, the dis-
cussion was dominated by talk of “renewal
shock” – when a great many Canadian mort-
gage holders will need to renew their terms, at
a much higher rate than what they currently
have.
But this shock still lies ahead, and while rate
cuts may ease the blow, a higher rate reality
awaits most of today’s current fixed-rate mort-
gage holders.
This comes down to timing. While mort-
gage rates are expected to start lowering with-
in the next few months, the vast majority of
existing mortgage borrowers – roughly 70 per
cent – have fixed rates that remain at the re-
cord low prices available during the pandemic.
For example, the lowest discounted five-year
fixed mortgage rate was 1.39 per cent, com-
pared to 4.79 per cent today.
Let’s assume the Bank of Canada cuts rates
three times by the end of this year, totalling a
decrease of 0.75 percentage points. This will
immediately lower rates for variable mortgage
holders, as those rates are directly tied to the
central bank’s rate movement. Fixed mortgage
rates, which lenders price based on Canadian
bond yields, are also expected to lower slightly
in response. However, this decrease won’t be
enough even if rates fall from current levels
over the coming few years, they’ll still be dra-
matically higher than what many Canadians
are paying today.
While variable mortgage rates surged in
popularity during the height of the pandemic,
fixed mortgage rates have always been king of
the three million mortgage loans Canadians
took out in 2020, 77 per cent chose a fixed rate,
according to Mortgage Professionals Canada.
Many Canadians with mortgages have al-
ready had to contend with much higher bor-
spikes to 23 per cent in 2025, a whopping 31 per
cent in 2026 and 21 per cent in 2027.
According to a December, 2023, note from
the central bank, monthly payments for fixed-
rate borrowers with a term of five years or
longer will increase by 25 per cent by 2027 to a
median of $1,444, up from $1,152 as of Febru-
ary, 2022, immediately before the start of the
recent rate hike cycle .
However, the CMHC says that much of the
rate pain will be concentrated this year and
next, with 2.2 million mortgages – 45 per cent
of all outstanding mortgages – poised for “in-
terest rate shock.”
“Most of these borrowers contracted their
fixed-rate mortgages at record-low interest
rates and, most likely, at or near the peak of
housing prices around 2020-2021.
“This holds true for both households who
took out a mortgage when buying their new
home. It also applies to the numerous existing
homeowners that used the increased equity
on their property by refinancing and taking
cash out for consumption,” Tania Bourassa-
Ochoa, CMHC’s senior specialist of housing re-
search, said in a note from November, 2023,
adding that the total amount of renewing
mortgage loans over this period represents
$675-billion – or nearly 40 per cent – of the
Canadian economy.
While Canadian borrowers have a proven
track record of making their mortgage pay-
ments, even under duress, the CMHC points
out that cracks are starting to show. Despite
mortgage arrears stabilizing around 0.15 per
cent, defaulting payments are on the rise for
other products such as auto loans, credit cards
and lines of credit.
And the mortgage industry is bracing for
increased fallout, which is likely to materialize
as an increase in home downsizing, mortgage
refinancing or outright defaulted payments.
Don’t let the headlines fool you. The bottom
line is that even if the Bank of Canada cuts
rates, the majority of Canadians will be paying
a higher mortgage rate then they are today,
when their mortgage renewal comes up over
the next few years.
Corp. of Canada and Kevin Strain
made $10.65-million in his second
full year at Sun Life Financial Inc.
All packages were a mix of cash,
stock and benefits.
Mr. Gori’s pay had been roughly
50-per-cent more than previous
Sun Life chief executive officer
Dean Connor, and is now 80-per-
cent more than Mr. Strain’s.
Perhaps we can justify this by
noting that Manulife is the biggest
insurer in Canada by market val-
ue, at least 25 per cent larger than
any other.
But the banks Manulife isn’t
bigger than any of the Big Five
Canadian banks – Royal Bank of
Canada, the Toronto-Dominion
Bank, Bank of Montreal, Bank of
Nova Scotia and Canadian Impe-
rial Bank of Commerce. It’s less
than half the value of TD and less
than a third of the value of RBC.
Mr. Gori’s first full year of pay, in
2018, was in line with Canada’s big
bankers, even if Manulife’s mar-
ket capitalization lagged the Big
Five. At $12.99-million, he made
less than RBC’s Dave McKay’s
$14.49-million. By my calcula-
tions, he made about 3 per cent
more than the average chief exec-
utive pay at the five big banks.
Now, Mr. Gori made 55 per cent
more than the big-bank average
in 2023. That number is inflated by
a few percentage points because
Scotia’s Scott Thomson made
$9.38-million in 2023 in his 11
months on the job, a number
slightly less than his target com-
pensation for 2024. But it’s the ex-
pansion of a trend Mr. Gori has
made 20 to 29 per cent more than
the big-bank CEO average since
2019, I calculate.
More strikingly, Mr. Gori made
Manulife’s own comparator
groups from 2017. One Manulife
used for setting compensation –
and yes, it includes RBC, TD, BMO
and Scotia. Another is a “perform-
ance” group made up solely of
global insurers, chosen by Manu-
life for purposes of awarding long-
term pay.
Using S P Global Market Intel-
ligence, I figure Manulife’s total
return, including dividends, at
56.5 per cent. That’s nearly double
the performance of the S P TS
Composite Index. But there were
plenty of outperformers in finan-
cial services, so Manulife was a
couple slots below the median of
the combined groups or 11th out
of 17. TD is just ahead of it, and
BMO and RBC returned 80.8 per
cent and 77.7 per cent, respective-
ly. Among just the insurers in the
“performance” group, it’s eighth
of 13.
To be fair, Manulife awarded
the stock that makes up the bulk
of Mr. Gori’s compensation on
March 7, 2023, so the board had no
way of knowing how the rest of
the year would turn out. Then
again, Manulife’s relative stock
performance is even worse if we
close the measurement period on
Feb. 28, 2023.
So, I’m at a bit of a loss here as to
what Manulife’s board of direc-
tors is thinking. Manulife is nei-
ther bigger than the banks, nor
consistently outperforming
them. But Mr. Gori’s compensa-
tion is bigger, and growing faster,
than pay for the banks’ CEOs.
Manulife may or may not have
“radically reshaped” itself as a
company, but in the last five years,
it’s certainly radically reshaped
Mr. Gori’s paycheque.

H ’ I
ROB ings account and stashed your rather than in a savings account. some people also like to have
CARRICK money at home. eep some as at The answer is yes. Keep some cash for the underground econo-
Today, you can get as much as cash at home, for sure. But bulk my, which means being a tax
OPINION 4 per cent in a savings account ome, for sure. But savings belong in a bank paying evader by paying for services un-
protected by Canada Deposit In- bul sa in s belon reasonable interest. der the table.
surance Corp. The account is of- in a ban pa in A thought on the amount to The problem with keeping

I
n an unpredictable world,
keeping cash on hand is basic
personal finance. But, how
much
I asked readers how much
cash they kept around and the
average amount was a surpris-
ingly high $5,069. But that was a
couple of years ago, when the
pandemic was constantly in the
news and interest rates were ul-
tra low. You weren’t giving up
much if you took a pass on a sav-
fered by Motive Financial, which
I evaluated in a recent edition of
the Carrick on Money newsletter.
With inflation-beating returns
like that, are people still keen to
keep cash at home
A recent reader question sug-
gests the answer is yes in some
cases. This individual keeps “a
cash reserve of a few thousand
crisp new bills” at home for use
in an emergency. He wonders if
this is too much to keep at home
reasonable interest.
keep on hand is to calculate how
much cash you’d need to cover
household spending for a few
days or a week or two, maxi-
mum. If you’re a prepper who be-
lieves disaster is lurking, fill your
boots.
Cash is a hedge against black-
outs that can affect electronic
banking systems and sundry oth-
er catastrophes that upend the
economy and business. The re-
sults of my reader survey show
cash at home is that it’s not risk-
free. Unless you have a safe or a
great hiding spot, money can be
stolen in a robbery. You can lose
track of where you stashed your
cash, and there’s also the remote
risk of fire.
The chances that you’ll use
cash you have at home are mini-
mal.
But if it makes you feel better
to have a few hundred dollars
around, go for it.
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Latest estimate is based
on results from 90 of
the P 00 companies
and forecasts for the rest
NEW YORK
The U.S. first-quarter earnings
growth estimate has gained in re-
cent days after mostly stronger-
than-expected results, but disap-
pointing forecasts from key
names such as Meta Platforms
have offset some of the opti-
mism.
Year-over-year S P 500 earn-
ings growth for the first quarter of
2024 is now seen at 4.3 per cent,
according to LSEG data on Thurs-
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SCOTT CLAYTON
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WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR
Sustainable dividends from cop-
per stocks as demand – and pric-
es – for that metal rise.
THE SCREEN
Gold’s recent jump to new highs
may have outshone another
metal’s steady rise toward its
own all-time high.
Still, copper and copper stocks
reclaimed that spotlight this
week with BHP Group Ltd. s un-
solicited US$39-billion bid for ri-
val copper miner Anglo Ameri-
can PLC. The possibility of the
deal, which would create the in-
dustry’s single-largest player, lift-
ed the share price of most copper
miners on speculation the move
will set off a round of industry
consolidation.
Regardless, things are looking
up for copper. Unlike gold whose
EYE ON E UITIES DAVID LEEDER
ROGERS COMM. RCI.B TS
CLOSE 2.00, DOWN 0
RBC Dominion Securities analyst
Drew McReynolds sees upside in
shares of Rogers Communica-
tions Inc. as the integration of
Shaw Communications takes fur-
ther shape. “With an eye on our
2025 estimated NAV net asset
value of $67 per share as a next
phase in the Rogers-Shaw era be-
gins, we believe current share
price levels represent an attrac-
tive entry point,” he said.
arget Mr. McReynolds lowered
his target by $1 to $67, keeping an
“outperform” recommendation.
Consensus is $71.03.
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day. That is up from 3.3 per cent
the day before.
The latest estimate is based on
results from 190 of the S P 500
companies and forecasts for the
rest, with about 78 per cent of re-
ports beating analysts’ earnings
expectations.
Sto s ere do n on
T ursda , o e er,
despite t e impro ed
outloo for quarterl
earnin s.
LSEG noted that the forecast
has been impacted heavily by an
adjustment for Bristol Myers
Squibb because of a US$12-billion
one-time charge related to its ac-
Copper stocks with relia le dividends
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demand waxes and wanes with
inflation and interest rates, cop-
per prices tend to rise with the
economy and the resulting in-
crease in construction projects,
including electrical installations.
The long-term shift to copper-
hungry electric vehicles EVs
from gas-powered cars should
keep prices elevated. Note EVs
contain about 80 per cent more
copper than gasoline-powered
vehicles. The projected build-
out of power-intensive AI data
centres will also bolster copper
demand.
Meanwhile, the lack of new
copper mines will continue to
constrain supply in the near
term.
From a list of copper stocks,
CANADIAN PACIFIC K.C. CP TS
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National Bank Financial analyst
Cameron Doerksen remains
“highly positive” on the growth
potential for Canadian Paci ic
ansas Cit Ltd. following its
largely in-line first-quarter finan-
cial report. However, he contin-
ues to wait for a better entry point
into its shares, seeing its valua-
tion “already baking in sizable
growth.”
arget Mr. Doerksen trimmed
his target to $119 from $121, reaf-
firming a “sector perform” rec-
ommendation. Consensus is
$124.29.
quisition of Karuna Therapeutics.
Without that one-time item,
S P 500 earnings are expected to
have risen 7.4 per cent year-over-
year, based on LSEG estimates.
Stocks were down on Thurs-
day, however, despite the im-
proved outlook for quarterly
earnings. Among the biggest
drags, Meta Platforms shares
plunged after the Facebook-par-
ent late Wednesday forecast high-
er expenses and lighter-than-ex-
pected revenue.
Honeywell International early
on Thursday reported results that
beat Wall Street estimates, while
General Motors also this week re-
ported better-than-expected
quarterly results.
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we identified leaders that pay di-
vidends. We then applied our TSI
Dividend Sustainability Rating
System. It awards points to a
stock based on key factors
One point for five years of
continuous dividend payments –
two points for more than five
Two points if it has raised the
payment in the past five years
One point for management’s
commitment to dividends
One point for operating in
non-cyclical industries
One point for limited expo-
sure to foreign currency rates
and freedom from political inter-
ference
Two points for a strong bal-
ance sheet, including managea-
ble debt and adequate cash
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Desjardins Securities analyst
Chris Li thinks etro Inc. s “solid
execution” continued in its sec-
ond quarter, seeing its transition
to two new automated distribu-
tion centres on track as it main-
tained its full-year guidance. “We
believe MRU is well-positioned
for 8–10-per-cent EPS earnings
per share growth longer-term,”
he said.
arget Maintaining his “hold”
recommendation, Mr. Li raised
his target by $1 to $75. Consensus
is $77.22.
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. . stocks fall report
spreads rate-cut gloom
Wall Street stocks closed lower on Thursday as traders were
surprised by data showing slower-than-expected U.S.
economic growth and persistent inflation. Canada’s main
stock index managed to close slightly higher thanks to a rally
in the gold sector, though a spike in North American bond
yields kept interest rate sensitives on the defensive.
Data on Thursday showed that the U.S. economy grew at
its slowest pace in nearly two years in the first quarter while
inflation accelerated, dampening hopes that the Federal Re-
serve would begin cutting interest rates this year.
Disappointing results from Meta Platforms Inc., whose
shares plunged nearly 11 per cent, also weighed on market
sentiment. Three other Magnificent Seven stocks, including
Alphabet Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp., fin-
ished lower. However, shares of Alphabet and Microsoft were
advancing in extended hours trading after both companies
reported quarterly results that beat Wall Street estimates. Al-
phabet also declared its first-ever dividend, helping to propel
its shares up 15 per cent by 5 p.m. ET.
Intel forecast second-quarter revenue and profit below
market estimates, sending its shares down 8 per cent in ex-
tended hours trading.
“The GDP numbers definitely puts a ding in the paradigm
that markets were hanging onto for equities in terms of high
growth and if you don’t have high growth that will translate
to lower-than-expected earnings,” said James St. Aubin, chief
investment officer at Sierra Mutual Funds in California.
“The double whammy was also the inflation number in
the GDP data that came in stronger than expected so there
wasn’t really a silver lining in that report it’s still positive in
absolute terms but relative to high expectations it was dis-
appointing,” Mr. St. Aubin added.
The hot inflation reading also sent bond yields climbing.
The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield rose to its highest level since
Nov. 1. Canada’s five-year yield was up about 10 basis points to
also its highest level since last fall.
In other data, the number of Americans filing new claims
for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week,
pointing to still tight labour market conditions.
The March Personal Consumption expenditures PCE in-
dex, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, is due on Friday.
Money markets are pricing in just about 36 basis points of
rate cuts from the Fed this year, down from about 150 bps
seen at the start of the year.
The S P 500 lost 0.46 per cent.
The S P TS composite index ended up 11.66 points, re-
covering after it was down more than 1 per cent earlier in the
session.
The materials group rallied 2.2 per cent as gold and copper
prices climbed.
Teck Resources Ltd. reported a 74-per-cent rise in quarterly
copper production, sending its shares up 8.7 per cent.
Shares of Bombardier climbed 8.3 per cent after obtaining
an exemption from recent Canadian sanctions on Russian
titanium
Shares of Mullen Group sank 9.1 per cent after the logistics
provider’s first-quarter results missed analysts’ estimates.
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S P/TS COMPOSITE INDE S P 500 DO ONES INDUSTRIA A ERAGE S P G OBA 100 INDE
PAST MONTHS PAST MONTHS PAST MONTHS PAST MONTHS

885. 8 . 0.05 . YTD 5 05 VOL 000 50 8. - . -0. 5.8 YTD 8085.80 - 5. -0. 8 .05 YTD 0 VOL 000 5 .0 - . -0. 5 . YTD

TS INDE ES AND SUB INDE ES TS O UME TS 52- EE IG S

TOP 0 FOR STOCKS $ OR MORE STOCKS $ OR MORE

CLOSE NET VOL YTD CLOSE NET VOL YTD CLOSE NET VOL YTD CLOSE NET VOL YTD
CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG
TS COMPOSITE IND 885. 8 . 0.05 5 05 . CM CANADIAN IMPER . -0. 0 -0. 0 5 .50 AEM AGNICO EAGLE 88. . . . NT K MINING IN . 0. 5 . 8.
TS 0 INDE . -0. -0.0 5 8 . 0 R ROYAL BANK OF . 0. 0. 80 -0. 0 A A ALTAGAS LTD 0. 0.0 0.0 5 8 8. M C-PR- MANULIFE . 0.5 . . 8
TS COMPLETION IN 8. 0 .0 0. 8 8 .55 ENB ENBRIDGE INC .5 0. . 5 0 0 .8 ARIS ARIS GOLD CO 5. 5 0.0 . 0 . M C-PR- MANULIFE .0 0. .8 . 8
TS SMALLCAP INDE 55. . 0. . 5 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 80. 0. 0. 8 8 -5. 8 BMO-PR-S BMO CL B 5. 0.0 0.0 . M C-PR-M MANULIFE . 0. . .88
TS VENTURE COMPO 5 8. . 8 0. 050 . 0 BNS BANK OF NOVA .5 -0. - .5 - .0 BMO-PR- BMO PREF 5. 0.0 0.08 . 5 M C-PR-N MANULIFE 0.55 0. 5 0. 5 .
TS CONSUMER DISC .0 -. -0.50 00 . TRP TC ENERGY COR . 0. 0. 0 - . BN-P -G BROOKFIEL 8. 5 0. . . M METHANE CORP 5. -0. -0. 85 .08
TS CONSUMER STAP . 0.5 0.0 5. M C MANULIFE FIN . -0. -0. 5 .08 CM COMMERCE SPLI .50 0. 0 . . RU S RBC TARGET . -0.0 -0. 5
TS ENERGY CAPPED 00.50 . 0. 0 . NU BETAPRO NAT G . 0.0 0. 0 55 - 8. DO DOLLARAMA INC .00 . . .5 SI SILVERCREST M .5 0. . 0 5 .
TS FINANCIALS CA 8 . -. -0. 0 5 88 0.88 M FIRST UANTUM . 0. 0 .88 . 8 G GAMEHOST INC 0. 0 -0. -. 5 .5 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 5 .88 0.0 0. .
TS HEALTH CARE C .50 -0. -0.8 50 . AB BARRICK GOLD . 0. 0 .0 8 - .55 GDC GENESIS LAND .5 -0. 0 - .08 . TD-P -B TD BANK P . 0. 0 0.8 5 . 5
TS INDUSTRIALS C . 8 -0. -0.0 0 5. 8 KINROSS GOLD CO . 0 0. . 55 . MDS-UN HEALTHCARE . 0 0.05 0. 0 . TRP-PR- TRANSCAN . 0. 8 .0 .
TS INFORMATION T . - .88 - . 8 0 0.8 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 5 .88 0.0 0. 0 . BM HUDBAY MINERA .0 0.50 . 8 5 . TCN TRICON CAPITA 5. 0. .5 .
TS MATERIALS CAP 5 . .80 . 8 . BTE BAYTE ENERGY 5. 0. 0 . 8 . I C-PR-C INTACT F .00 0.58 .8 .0
TS REAL ESTATE C . 5 - . -0.80 08 -5.5 C E CENOVUS ENERG .0 -0.0 -0.0 . 5
TS GLOBAL GOLD I . .55 .0 0 0 . 0 UN LUNDIN MINING 5. 0 0. 8 .8 .
TS GLOBAL MINING . 5 . . 5. AT ATHABASCA OIL 5.0 0.05 .00 0.
TS INCOME TRUST 8 . -. -0. 0 5 -8.8 CP WHITECAP RESO 0.8 0. . 0 .55
TS PREFERRED SHA 58 . 0 .0 0. 8 .5 BMO BANK OF MONTR . -0.55 -0. 8 0 - .
TS COMMUNICATION 5 .8 -0.8 -0.58 5 - . BTO B GOLD CORP .5 0.05 . 5 - 5.
TS UTILITIES CAP 5. - .5 -0.5 80 - .0 IU ISHARES S&P T . 0.0 0.0 8 .8

TS GAINERS TS OSERS TS 52- EE O S

TOP 0 FOR STOCKS $ OR MORE TOP 0 FOR STOCKS $ OR MORE STOCKS $ OR MORE

CLOSE NET VOL YTD CLOSE NET VOL YTD CLOSE NET VOL YTD CLOSE NET VOL YTD
CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG
III IMPERIAL META . 0. .0 0 . BR BIG ROCK BREWE . 5 -0. - . 8 - . APS APTOSE BIOSCI . -0.0 - . -5 . E LION ELECTRIC . -0.0 - .08 50 - .
NGT NEWMONT CORP 5 . . .0 5 8.0 ICE CANLAN ICE SP . -0. - . - . B DP BALLARD POWE . -0. - . - . RU RBC TARGET .8 -0.0 -0. 5
MU MCEWEN MINING . . 5 .0 00 . CDR CONDOR ENERGI . 0 -0. - .0 . CAS CASCADES INC . -0. -.8 - .8 RU S RBC TARGET . -0.0 -0. 5
BBD-A BOMBARDIER . 5.0 8. 5.5 MT MULLEN GROUP . -. - .08 - .55 DCBC DESJARDINS C . -0.0 -0. 5 RC RICHELIEU HAR 8. -0. 5 -0. - . 0
TEC -B TECK RESOU . 5 5. 8. 0. 8 I D WILDBRAIN LT .0 -0. 0 -8. - . 5
TEC -A TECK RESOU . 0 5. 0 8. 8 5 0. SBN S SPLIT CORP . -0. 8 - . 0 - . 5
OPT OPTIVA INC .50 0.50 8. . ACB AURORA CANNAB . -0. - . 80 0.
BBD-B BOMBARDIER . . 8. 5 .0 S I STORAGEVAULT . -0. - . 8 -8.
ECN ECN CAPITAL C . 8 0. .88 - 0. DTO D L INC 8. 5 -0.5 -5. 0 - .
S S SOLARIS RESOU . 8 0. . 0.58 TB TAIGA BUILDIN . 0 -0. 0 -5.88 . 8
OM FORAN MINING . 0 0. .0 .8 PC-U HELIOS FAI . -0. -5.8 - .
MAG MAG SILVER CO . 0 .5 . 5 8. 5 CURA CURALEAF HOL . -0. -5. .
MDP MEDE US PHARM .8 0. . 0 - . 0 NO C NOVA CANNABI . -0.0 - . 50.5
CS CAPSTONE MININ . 0.58 . 5 .5 AD -B ANDREW PELL . -0. - .80 - .
AAUC ALLIED GOLD .8 0. . . 0 TD TDB SPLIT COR . 0 -0. - . - . 5
DC-A DUNDEE CORP . 5 0.08 . 0 . IPT UIPT HOME M 5.0 -0. 5 - . 5 0 - 5. 8
ASM AVINO SILVER .0 0.0 . 5 . 8 NB NIOCORP DEVELO . -0. - . 0 - .
N LEONS FURNITU .5 . 5. 8 5 .0 ESP BROMPTON ENER 5. 0 -0. 5 - . 5 .
PME SENTRY SELECT . 0. 5. 0 . 8 T R TILRAY INC . -0. - . 5 - .
PTM PLATINUM GROU .8 0. 0 5. 5 0 . PPTA PERPETUA RES .8 -0. 5 - . 8 . 0

S P/TS COMPOSITE INDE STOC S

LARGEST STOCKS BY MARKET CAPITALIZATION

CLOSE NET VOL YTD CLOSE NET VOL YTD CLOSE NET VOL YTD CLOSE NET VOL YTD
CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG
AA ADVANTAGE OIL 0. 0. . 5. CIGI COLLIERS INT . - .58 -. 5 - . E KELT E PLORAT . 0.0 0. 0 0. R ROYAL BANK OF . 0. 0. 80 -0. 0
AOI AFRICA OIL CO . 0.08 . 8 - . CSU CONSTELLATION 55.0 - . 5 -. 8 . 5 E KEYERA CORP 5. -0. -0. 0. 5 RUS RUSSEL METALS . -0. -. - .
AEM AGNICO EAGLE 88. . . . CPG CRESCENT POIN . 0. 8 . 8 . 5 MP-UN KILLAM APA . -0.0 -0. 5 - .
AC AIR CANADA . 8 0.05 0. 5 5 . 0 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE .8 -0. 5 -. 8 - .0 S KINA IS INC .5 - .5 -. 8 0.5 SS SANDSTORM GOL . 0. . 8 .
AGI ALAMOS GOLD I 0.50 -0. 0 - . 5 5.0 KINROSS GOLD CO . 0 0. . 55 . SAP SAPUTO INC . 8 -0.58 - . - .05
AST ALGOMA STEEL 0. 0.0 0. 8 - 0.08 D DEFINITY FINA 5. 8 0. 0.5 0.88 SEA SEABRIDGE GOL . 0.50 . .
A N ALGON UIN POW 8. -0.0 -0. 5 0. DM DENISON MINES . 0.0 0. .8 I LABRADOR IRON 0. 0. . - . 8 SES SECURE ENERGY .5 0. . .5
ATD ALIMENTATION . 8 -0. -0. 00 -0.8 DSG DESCARTES SYS .0 -0. -0. 5. B LAURENTIAN BAN 5.80 -0. -0. 5 - . S OP SHOPIFY INC . - . 8 - . 0 - .
AP-UN ALLIED PROP .0 -0. -0. 58 - 5. DO DOLLARAMA INC .00 . . .5 SPD LIGHTSPEED C 8.08 -0.5 - . 0 8 - 5.0 SIA SIENNA SENIOR . 0.00 0.00 .0
A A ALTAGAS LTD 0. 0.0 0.0 5 8 8. DIR-UN DREAM INDU . 5 -0. 8 -. - .5 NR LINAMAR CORP 5. 0 -0. 5 -0.5 5 . SI SILVERCREST M .5 0. . 0 5 .
AI ALTUS GROUP L 50.5 -0. -0. 8 . DPM DUNDEE PRECIO 0. 0. .8 88 .0 LOBLAW CO 5 . 0. 0. 8.8 SLEEP COUNTRY . -0. -0. 8 8.
AR ARC RESOURCES 5.8 0.5 . 08 . UG LUNDIN GOLD I . 5 0. 8 .5 . SRU-UN SMARTCENTR . 0 -0.0 -0. 0 - 0.00
AT ARITZIA INC . 0 -0. - .80 .0 E B E B INC 88.80 -0. 0 -0. .80 UN LUNDIN MINING 5. 0 0. 8 .8 . ATR SNC-LAVALIN 55.5 -0. -0.5 0. 5
ACO- ATCO LTD CL . 0. 0 . 5 - . E D ELDORADO GOLD 0. 0 0.55 .80 . TO SPIN MASTER C . -0. -0.5 5 - 0.
AT ATHABASCA OIL 5.0 0.05 .00 0. E N ELEMENT FLEET . -0. 0 - .85 5 -. MAG MAG SILVER CO . 0 .5 . 5 8. 5 SII SPROTT INC 5 . 0 . . .88
ATS ATS CORP .85 -0.8 -. 5 - . EMA EMERA INCORPO . -0. -0. 5 -8. MG MAGNA INTERNAT .5 -0.88 -. 0 - 5.0 SSRM SSR MINING I .5 0.0 0.5 - .
EMP-A EMPIRE COMP . 8 0. 8 0.8 50 - . M C MANULIFE FIN . -0. -0. 5 .08 STN STANTEC INC . 0. 0. 8 . 8
BTO B GOLD CORP .5 0.05 . 5 - 5. ENB ENBRIDGE INC .5 0. . 5 0 0 .8 M I MAPLE LEAF FO . -0. -. -5. ST C STELCO HOLDI . -0. -0. - 0.
BCE BCE INC . -0. -0.8 - . 0 E R ENERGY FUELS . -0.0 -0. 8 - . MATR MATTR CORP . -0. 0 -.8 0. S STELLA JONES I 80. 0.0 0.0 .
BDGI BADGER INFRA . 0. 0 0. 5 5. ER ENERPLUS CORP . 0.0 0. 0 . MDA MDA LTD . 0.0 0. 0 .5 S I STORAGEVAULT . -0. - . 8 -8.
B DP BALLARD POWE . -0. - . - . ENG ENGHOUSE SYS . 8 -0. 5 - . 5 - .5 MEG MEG ENERGY CO . 8 0. . 5 5 . 8 S SUN LIFE FINA 0. -0. - .0 .0
BMO BANK OF MONTR . -0.55 -0. 8 0 - . E E UINO GOLD . -0.05 -0. 05 .8 M METHANE CORP 5. -0. -0. 85 .08 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 5 .88 0.0 0. 0 .
BNS BANK OF NOVA .5 -0. - .5 - .0 ERO ERO COPPER CO .0 0.5 . 0 . MRU METRO INC 0. 5 0. 0. 5 5 . SPB SUPERIOR PLUS . -0.05 -0.5 - .5
AB BARRICK GOLD . 0. 0 .0 8 - .55 EI E CHANGE INCO . -0. -0. 0 . 5 MT MTY FOOD GROU 8. 0 0.0 0. - . 5
B C BAUSCH HEALTH . 0.0 0.5 0. MT MULLEN GROUP . -. - .08 - .55 TRP TC ENERGY COR . 0. 0. 0 - .
BTE BAYTE ENERGY 5. 0. 0 . 80 . FAIRFA FINAN 8 .5 . 8 0. 8 . 0 TM GROUP LTD .0 -0.05 -0. 58 . 5
BIR BIRCHCLIFF EN 5. -0.0 -0. 5 0 -. 0 I FILO MINING C . 0.00 0.00 . 8 NA NATIONAL BANK .0 0. 0. 5
0. 5 T E TAMARACK VALL . 0.05 . 8 .
BB BLACKBERRY LTD .80 -0. 5 - .80 5 8 - .5 TT FINNING INTL . 0 -0.0 -0. 5 0. NGD NEW GOLD INC . 8 0. 5.08 0 . TEC -B TECK RESOU . 5 5. 8. 0. 8
BEI-UN BOARDWALK . 5 -0.08 -0. . 8 CR-UN FIRST CAPI 5.0 0.0 0. 0 - .0 N E NE GEN ENERGY 0.5 -0. -. 0
.5 T TELUS CORP .00 -0.0 -0.05 58 - . 0
BBD-B BOMBARDIER . . 8. 5 .0 R FIRST MAJESTIC . 0. . 00 . 8 NPI NORTHLAND POW 0. -0. - . 8 5
- . T II TFI INTERNAT . -0.0 -0.05 5 .
B BORALE INC . -0. -. 8 - . M FIRST UANTUM . 0. 0 .88 . 8 N -UN NORTHWEST .8 0.0 0. - . 0 N C THE NORTH WES . -0.0 -0. 8 -0.08
B D BOYD GROUP SE 58.5 - . -. 8 80 - . S FIRSTSERVICE 0 . 0 - . - . 8 - . NG NOVAGOLD RES I . 0.08 .0 8 - .80 TRI THOMSON REUTE 08. 5 -0. -0. 5 0 .55
BAM BROOKFIELD AS 5 . -0. -0. 8 5 0.0 TS FORTIS INC 5 . 0.0 0. -. 5 NTR NUTRIEN LTD . -0.5 -0. - . T R TILRAY INC . -0. - . 5 - .
BBU-UN BROOKFIELD .0 -0. 8 - . - .8 I FORTUNA SILVE .5 0. . 5 8. N EI NUVEI CORP .0 -0.0 -0.05 88 . TP TOPAZ ENERGY .50 0. . .0
BN BROOKFIELD COR 5 . -0.5 - .0 5 . N FRANCO-NEVADA . . . 5 .8 N A NUVISTA ENERG .80 -0.0 -0. 5 5. T G TORE GOLD RE . 0. .5 5.
BIP-UN BROOKFIELD . 0 -0.58 - .5 00 - 0. RU FREEHOLD ROYA . 8 0.0 0. 8 0 . TI TOROMONT IND .8 -0. -0. .
BEP-UN BROOKFIELD .0 -0. - .0 - . OGC OCEANAGOLD CO . 0. 0 . 0 5 . TD TORONTO-DOMINI 80. 0. 0. 8 8 -5. 8
DOO BRP INC . 8 -0. -0.8 58 -0. N GEORGE WESTON 8 .8 . 5 0. 8 . 5 ONE ONE CORP 8. -0.5 -0.5 . TOU TOURMALINE OI 8. 8 . . 8 .
G GFL ENVIRONME . -0.88 -. 0 - . 8 OTE OPEN TE T CO 8.85 -0. 8 -0. - . 8 TA TRANSALTA CORP . 0. . 58 - 5.
CAR-UN CDN APARTM .8 -0. -0. 0 - . GEI GIBSON ENERGY . -0.0 -0. .8 O A ORLA MINING L 5.58 0. . . TC -A TRANSCONTIN . 0. .5 8 .
C B CDN WESTERN B . 0 -0. -0.5 - .5 GI GILDAN ACTIVE . -0. -. 0 8 . OR OSISKO GOLD RO . 8 0. . 5. 8 TCN TRICON CAPITA 5. 0. .5 .
GIB-A CGI GROUP I 0.8 - .8 - .0 58 -0. 8 GS GOEASY LTD .00 .0 0. . 5 OS OSISKO MINING .0 0.0 . 5 .0 TSU TRISURA GROUP .50 0. .0 .
CI CI FINANCIAL . -0. -. 5 0 . GRT-UN GRANITE RE 8. 8 -0.5 -0.8 00 - .
CRT-UN CT REAL ES .5 0. 0. - . G O GREAT-WEST LI 0. -0. -0.5 -8. PAAS PAN AMERICAN 5. 0. .5 8 8 . ET VERMILION ENE . 5 0. . 8 .0
CAE CAE INC 5.58 -0. - . 508 - 0.5 POU PARAMOUNT RES .58 0. 8 .5 5 .
CCO CAMECO CORP . 0. 5 0.5 8 .5 R-UN H&R REAL ES .0 -0. -. 8 -8. 8 P T PARE RESOURC . 0. 0 0. - . 8 SP WSP GLOBAL IN . 5 -0.58 -0. 0 5.0
GOOS CANADA GOOSE 5. -0.5 - . 8 - .8 HEADWATER E P . 0.0 0.5 0 . P I PARKLAND FUEL .5 0. 0. 0 .0 CN WASTE CONNECT 5. 5 - .0 -0.88 08 .05
CM CANADIAN IMPER . -0. 0 -0. 0 5 .50 BM HUDBAY MINERA .0 0.50 . 8 5 . PSI PASON SYSTEMS . 5 0. . 0. DO WESDOME GOLD 0.8 0. .50 0 0.
CNR CANADIAN NATI 0. 0 .05 . 58 . HYDRO ONE LTD .8 -0.0 -0.0 - . PP PEMBINA PIPEL 8. 8 0. 5 0. 0 . G WEST FRASER T 0 .88 0.0 0.0 5 - .8
CN CANADIAN NATU 05. 8 0. 5 0. 5 . PET PET VALU HOLD .0 -0. 0 - .8 . TE WESTSHORE TER 5.80 0. 0 .5 -5.
CP CANADIAN PACIF . -0.0 -0.08 . IAG IA FINANCIAL 8 .58 -0. 8 -0. 8 - . PE PEYTO E PLORA 5. -0.08 -0.5 8. 5 PM WHEATON PRECI . . . 5 . 0
CTC-A CANADIAN TI 5.0 -0. -0. - .0 IMG IAMGOLD CORP 5.0 0. . 5 .80 PO POWER CORP OF . -0. -. - . 0 CP WHITECAP RESO 0.8 0. . 0 .55
CU CANADIAN UTILI 0. 0. 0 0. 0 - . IGM IGM FINANCIAL . -0. -0. - . PS PRAIRIESKY RO .85 -0. -0.8 58 5. P WINPAK LTD . 8 -0. - .5 8 .
C P CANFOR CORP . -0.0 -0. - 0. IMO IMPERIAL OIL . 0. 5 0. 5 8. PD PRECISION DRIL . .0 .8 0. 8
CP CAPITAL POWER 5. -0. -0. 55 - . INE INNERGE RENE . -0. - . - . 8 PB PREMIUM BRAND 8 . 0.0 0.0 - .
CS CAPSTONE MININ . 0.58 . 5 .5 I C INTACT FINANC .0 0. 0.08 8. PM -UN PRIMARIS R . -0. 0 - . - .
C T CARGOJET INC . 0 .08 . 5 -. I P INTERFOR CORP .8 0. 0. 08 - . PRM PRIMO WATER 5. -0. -0. 8.
CC -B CCL INDUSTR 0. 5 0. 5 0. 8. IPCO INTERNATIONA . 0. 8 .0 .05
C S CELESTICA INC 5 . -. 0 - .5 5 5 . IIP-UN INTERRENT . -0.0 -0. -8. BR-B UEBECOR IN 8. -0. -0. 0 0 - . 8
C E CENOVUS ENERG .0 -0.0 -0.0 . 5 I N IVANHOE MINES . 0.8 .8 .5
CG CENTERRA GOLD 8.58 0.0 0. 0 0 8. SR RESTAURANT BR .8 - .0 - .0 - .5
CS -UN CHARTWELL . -0.0 -0. . E JAMIESON WEL .5 -0.0 -0.08 - .5 RC RICHELIEU HAR 8. -0. 5 -0. - . 0
C P-UN CHOICE PRO .0 0. 0.85 - . 8 REI-UN RIOCAN REA .5 -0. -0. 0 0 -5.80
CCA COGECO COMMUN 5 . -0. -0. 5 0 -8. NT K MINING IN . 0. 5 . 8. RCI-B ROGERS COMM 5 .00 -0. 0 -0.5 - .

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CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG
2- EAR . 0.0 CAD - 0. . 0 0. 8 0.585 . 0. 80
BAN EVOLVE CDN B .8 -0.0 -0.8 8 - .0 D BETAPRO NASDA 5. 0. . 8 8 -5. 5- EAR .8 0.0 USD . 58 - .5 8 0. 0 0. 55. 0.
BTCC-B PURPOSE BI . 0.0 0. 585 5 .8 U BETAPRO NASDA . -0. 0 -. . 10- EAR .8 0.05 AUD 0.8 0 0. 5 0 - 0. 0 0.5 0. 5 0.5
BTCC PURPOSE BITC . 0. 5 . 00 5 . SD BETAPRO SP500 0. 0 0. .0 5 -8. 30- EAR . 0 0.0 EUR . 5 .0 . 58 - 0.85 . 0. 88
BTC -B CI GALA Y .0 0. 0. 05 5 .85 SU BETAPRO SP500 .88 -0. -0. 5 8 . 5 GBP . 088 . 5 . 0 . - . 0 .
D R-U HORIZONS US 0. -0.0 -0. 0 58 0. 0 EG ISHARES S&P T . 0. 0. . P 0.0088 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0.005 - 0.58
D R HORIZONS US D .8 -0.0 -0. . GD ISHARES S&P T 0.0 0. 8 .05 .5 RATES RATE CHG C . .0 . 8 .0 0.8 0. -
ET -B CI GALA Y 5.5 0. 0. 8 5 0. IC ISHARES CORE . 0.0 0.0 5 .
GD BETAPRO CDN G .0 -0. - . - . IU ISHARES S&P T . 0.0 0.0 8 .8 BOFC OVERNIGHT TARGET 5.00 UNCH
GU BETAPRO CDN G . 0.5 .5 0 8. RE ISHARES S&P T . -0.0 -0. 0 -8.50 CANADIAN PRIME . 0 UNCH
NU BETAPRO NAT G . 0.0 0. 0 55 - 8. SP ISHARES CORE 5 . 8 -0. -0. .0 Source: ires
OD BETAPRO CRUDE . 5 -0. - .88 85 - .58 EB BMO S&P TS E 5. -0.0 -0. 5 5 0.
OU BETAPRO CRUDE 5.8 0. .8 0 8.5 SP BMO S&P 500 I 5. -0.55 -0. 5 .

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GARY as a continuation of the indiffer-

MASON ent play that has marked his
game since the all-star break. Be-
OPINION fore that, Pettersson had 64
points in 49 games. He had 14
goals in the team’s 13 games in

F
or a good part of the regular
season, discussions centring
on Canucks star Elias Pet-
tersson often had to do with his
future with the organization.
Pettersson would become a re-
stricted free agent when the sea-
son ended. When asked about a
new contract, he was often coy,
saying he was happy to wait until
the year was over to focus on a
new deal. This made the team’s
followers and new management
nervous. No one was sure what
the quiet, stoic Swede was truly
thinking.
Many interpreted his coolness
toward his contract situation as a
reflection of how he viewed his
team and city indifferently. The
idea of trading him in the off-sea-
son if the team couldn’t get his
name on a new contract seemed
a real possibility.
But then March 3 came, and
Pettersson was sitting at a news
conference with general manag-
er Patrik Allvin announcing an
eight-year deal worth US$92.8-
January. But then he had just sev-
en through February, March and
April. After the all-star break he
managed just 25 points in the re-
maining 33 games of the regular
season. He finished 19th in
league scoring with 89 points, 14
behind teammate J.T. Miller. De-
fenceman Quinn Hughes had
three more points than Petters-
son.
In other words, Pettersson’s
play had tailed off before the
playoffs began. What we’re see-
ing is a player who is not compet- Maple Leafs forward Matthew Knies attles with Bruins captain Brad Marchand on Wednesday during
ing with full confidence. Some- Game of their first round playoff series in Toronto. O N E. SO OLOWS I/USA TODAY SPORTS
thing is amiss.
Pla in in front of t e
rabid, pla off star ed
insanit t at is Ro ers H
Arena in an ou er is
anot er t in entirel . CATHAL butt-end about a million times in slow motion.
KELLY Marchand swinging backward like a logger
Pettersson seems to Bertuzzi catching it straight in the nose the
be iltin under OPINION nearest official picked and rolled out of the line
t e intensit of of sight.

million. He was now one of the
essential cogs around which this
team would be built for future
success. Teammates all said the
uncertainty around his contract
had been weighing on Petters-
son. Now behind him, he seemed
like a changed man, they said,
skating with a smile on his face
once again.
Pettersson is certainly not
playing with a smile on his face
these days. The Canucks are tied
with the Nashville Predators one
game each in their first-round
playoff series. While the injury to
all-star goalie Thatcher Demko
was the big storyline before the
second game, the play of Petters-
son following a 4-1 loss was all
anyone was talking about after it
was over.
In some respects, his desultory
effort should not be a huge sur-
prise. Rather, it could be viewed
t e moment.
Coach Rick Tocchet believes
it’s just the pressure of the play-
offs.
“He’s a young kid,” said Toc-
chet of his 25-year-old star. “This
is his first kind of taste of the
pressure-playoff thing and, you
know, this is good for him. He’s
got to learn. He’s got to dust him-
self off and be ready for Game 3.”
Of course, this isn’t Petters-
son’s first taste of playoff hockey.
He played in “the bubble” during
the 2020 postseason, racking up
18 points in 17 games. But that
was to empty stands. Playing in
front of the rabid, playoff-starved
insanity that is Rogers Arena in
Vancouver is another thing en-
tirely. Pettersson seems to be
wilting under the intensity of the
moment.
MASON, B15
I
t took three games for Brad Marchand and
Tyler Bertuzzi to get past the awkwardness
of a long separation. Once they did, they
couldn’t keep their hands off each other.
They had played together for a bit. They are
friends. Marchand said on Wednesday that they
are “similar people” who share “similar inter-
ests.”
Like putting the butt end of a stick into an-
other person’s face at speed. That’s one of their
shared pastimes. Marchand likes doing it, and
Bertuzzi can’t figure out how to stop it.
Or can-opener’ing a guy at centre ice where
all four officials plus 19,000 people can see it
happening. The two of them do that so natural-
ly that the Boston Bruins scored a goal in the
middle of one of their embraces and no one no-
ticed.
Marchand and Bertuzzi had several run-ins
in Game 3. Marchand came out the better in all
of them. By the end of the game, Bertuzzi was
steaming around like Wile E. Coyote deter-
mined to drop an anvil on his own head.
The TV broadcast went over the uncalled
Then they switched to a live close-up of Mar-
chand sitting on the bench. Somehow, he knew.
He did something you never see an NHLer do
midgame – he smiled. That’s how much he was
enjoying himself.
Marchand is a dirty player, if by dirty’ you
mean smart and good. He’s able to turn his ani-
mus on and off so that it doesn’t get in the way
of doing his job. He’d make an excellent sub-
marine commander or newspaper columnist –
he hurts people, but it’s never personal.
There is a lot of talk around this time of year
about what makes Marchand special. He isn’t
the most skilled Bruin, or the most cultured
player full-stop. He isn’t big or fast. He scores
important goals, but he doesn’t score often.
Toronto Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe
put it down to Marchand’s “art.”
“He gets calls,” Keefe said. “It’s unbelievable,
actually, how it goes.”
At the best of times, Keefe speaks like he’s
reading off a teleprompter only he can see. This
was a rare moment of genuine wonder from
him. His admiration shone through.
KELLY, B15
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D ROYALS EAT AYS IN GAME

CALLED AFTER FI E INNINGS

S ANSAS CITY Salvador Perez hit a

two-run homer in the first in-
ning, Cole Ragans held Toronto
urant says team has got in check long enough for the rain
to arrive, and the Kansas City
to go out there and e ecute’ Royals beat the Blue Jays 2-1 on
Thursday in a game called after
five innings and a long weather
DAVID BRANDT PHOENI delay.
Ragans 1-2 allowed the lone
Toronto run on three hits and
he Phoenix Suns and their so- three walks while striking out
called Big Three return home to four.
the desert in a big pickle. Jose Berrios 4-1 had his
Kevin Durant, Devin Booker, streak of 221 3 runless innings
Bradley Beal and the Suns are in a 2-0 hole snapped when Perez, following
heading into Friday’s Game 3 of their West- Vinnie Pasquantino’s two-out
ern Conference first-round playoff series walk, deposited the first pitch he
against the Minnesota Timberwolves, who saw into the left-field bullpen to
looked mostly dominant in a pair of dou- give Kansas City the lead in the
ble-digit wins in the first two games. first inning.
There are two more Game 3s on Friday, When the fifth ended, and an
including Bucks at Pacers and Clippers at early drizzle had turned to steady
Mavericks. Both of those series are tied at rain, umpire chief Chris Guc-
1-1. cione called for the tarp to cover
Durant has been on a team that reco- the infield. Blue Jays manager
vered from a 2-0 deficit to win a series – the Kevin Durant of the Suns, left, dri les against Karl Anthony Towns of the Tim erwolves John Schneider came out to
2012 Oklahoma City Thunder – but said during Game 1 of their first round playoff series. PATRIC MCDERMOTT/GETTY IMAGES argue, wanting another opportu-
there’s no advice he or anyone else can nity to tie or take the lead, and
give to pull the Suns out of their current B C A PAC R big part of that effort. Doncic is scoring apparently he convinced Guc-
predicament. Series tied 1-1. Game 3, 5 30 p.m. EDT 32.5 points a game after leading the NBA cione to have the grounds crew
Instead, they just have to play better. at 33.9 in the regular season but struggling roll the tarp back and attempt to
“You can talk all you want, but if you Two days after snapping a franchise-record a bit from long range 9 of 26 on three- get the field in shape.
don’t execute what you just talked about, 10-game playoff losing streak, the Indiana pointers . James Harden’s three game After about 10 minutes, Guc-
it does you no good,” Durant said. “Talking Pacers can take their first series lead in sev- could be a key factor for the Clippers. He cione again summoned the tarp.
and rah-rah speeches are cool to a certain en seasons. The last time it happened, In- was 6 of 11 in Game 1 but just 2 of 10 in The field was covered for about
point, but you’ve got to go out there and diana took a 2-1 advantage over Cleveland Game 2 loss. two hours, and when the rain
execute. in 2018 before losing the series in seven stopped, the grounds crew spent
“We haven’t done that. We’ve done it in games. Milwaukee, meanwhile, has lost I B R L A another hour-plus working on it.
spurts, don’t get me wrong, but it’s not five of seven. Minnesota leads 2-0. Game 3, At that point, the game was
good enough doing it in spurts.” 10 30 p.m. EDT called after a delay of 3 hours, 38
The Suns hoped to be one of the NBA’s CLIPP R at A RIC minutes.
best teams this year after acquiring Beal in Series tied 1-1. Game 3, 8 p.m. EDT The Timberwolves dominated a big chunk Ragans had to work around
an off-season trade, adding the three-time of the first two games, defending home plenty of trouble early, including
all-star to a roster that already included The Clippers ceded home-court advantage court with a pair of double-digit wins. An- a runner-on-the-corners sit-
Durant and Booker. But Beal’s myriad of for now with a 96-93 loss in Game 2. The thony Edwards scored 33 points in Game 1 uation in the second, when he
injuries early in the season kept him out of bright side for L.A. was Kawhi Leonard ap- while Jaden McDaniels had a playoff-best got Alejandro Kirk to fly out. In
the lineup for long stretches, and the group pearing to come through Game 2 in good 25 points in Game 2. Phoenix’s star trio of the fourth, the Blue Jays book-
never quite found consistent cohesion. shape physically. The star forward missed Durant, Booker and Beal shot just 18 of 45 ended Davis Schneider’s walk
A 10-4 record to close the regular season the final eight games of the regular season from the field in Game 2 and if the group with hits by Justin Turner and
was encouraging, but the first two games and the series opener with right knee in- doesn’t find its rhythm soon, it’ll be a short Ernie Clement to cut the Royals’
of the playoffs were not. Now there are on- flammation. The Mavericks played great trip to the postseason. lead in half, but Daulton Varsho
ly a few more chances to get it right, or the defence to even the series, and offensive and Kirk could not get across the
season ends in disappointment. gurus Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving were a T E ASSOCIATED PRESS tying run. T E ASSOCIATED PRESS

NHL PLAYOFFS PWHL MLB NBA PLAYOFFS ENGLAND

DIVISIONAL SEMIFINALS GP W OW OL L GF GA Pt AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE CONFERENCE QUARTERFINALS PREMIER LEAGUE
x-Toronto 21 10 4 0 7 54 45 38
x-Montreal 22 9 3 5 5 55 53 38 EAST DIVISION EAST DIVISION (Best-of-7) — All TImes Eastern Thursday
(Best-of-7) W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Brighton 0 Man City 4
All Times Eastern Minnesota 21 8 4 3 6 50 43 35 EASTERN CONFERENCE
Ottawa 21 8 1 6 6 57 52 32 Baltimore 16 8 .667 — Atlanta 17 6 .739 — BOSTON (1) VS. MIAMI (8) Saturday, April 27 — All TImes Eastern
Boston 22 6 4 3 9 44 53 29 New York 17 9 .654 — Philadelphia 16 10 .615 2/
1
(Series tied 1-1) West Ham vs. Liverpool, 7:30 a.m.
EASTERN CONFERENCE
2

New York 21 3 4 3 11 42 56 20 Boston 14 12 .538 3 New York 13 11 .542 4/

1
2 Wednesday Fulham vs. Crystal Palace, 10 a.m.
ATLANTIC DIVISION x — clinched playoff berth Tampa Bay 13 13 .500 4 Washington 10 14 .417 7/
1
2 Miami 111 Boston 101 Man United vs. Burnley, 10 a.m.
FLORIDA (1) VS. TAMPA BAY (WC1) Wednesday Toronto 13 13 .500 4 Miami 6 20 .231 12 /
1
2 Saturday Newcastle vs. Sheffield United, 10 a.m.
(Florida leads series 2-0) Montreal 5 New York 2 CENTRAL DIVISION CENTRAL DIVISION Boston at Miami, 6 p.m. Wolverhampton vs. Luton Town, 10 a.m.
Ottawa 3 Boston 2 (SO) W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Everton vs. Brentford, 12:30 p.m.
Thursday Aston Villa vs. Chelsea, 3 p.m.
Cleveland 18 7 .720 — Milwaukee 16 8 .667 — NEW YORK (2) VS. PHILADELPHIA (7)
Florida at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Saturday — All Times Eastern (New York leads series 2-0)
Saturday Kansas City 16 10 .615 2/ Chicago 16 9 .640 /
CPL
1 1
Montreal at Ottawa, 12:30 p.m. 2 2
Thursday
Florida at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m. Boston at Minnesota, 2 p.m. Detroit 14 11 .560 4 Cincinnati 14 11 .560 2/
1

New York at Philadelphia

2

Minnesota 11 13 .458 6/1

2 Pittsburgh 13 13 .500 4 Sunday, Apr. 28 Friday — All Times Eastern
BOSTON (2) VS. TORONTO (3) Chicago 3 22 .120 15 St. Louis 11 14 .440 5/
1

AHL PLAYOFFS New York at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Vancouver at York, 7 p.m.

2

(Boston leads series 2-1) WEST DIVISION WEST DIVISION

Wednesday
Thursday W L Pct GB W L Pct GB MILWAUKEE (3) VS. INDIANA (6) MLS
Boston 4 Toronto 2 Hartford at Charlotte Seattle 13 12 .520 — Los Angeles 16 11 .593 — (Series tied 1-1)
Saturday, Apr. 27 Manitoba at Texas Texas 13 13 .500 /1
2 San Diego 14 14 .500 2/
1
2 Friday Saturday — All Times Eastern
Boston at Toronto, 8 p.m. Los Angeles 10 15 .400 3 Arizona 12 14 .462 3/
1
2 Milwaukee at Indiana, 5:30 p.m. L.A. Galaxy at Austin, 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday Oakland 10 16 .385 3/1
2 San Francisco 12 14 .462 3/
1
2
Sunday Charlotte at New York City F.C., 7:30 p.m.
METROPOLITAN DIVISION Belleville 3, Toronto 1 Houston 7 19 .269 6/1
2 Colorado 7 19 .269 8/
1
2
Milwaukee at Indiana, 7 p.m. Colorado at Cincinnati, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. RANGERS (1) VS. Lehigh Valley 2, WB/Scranton 1 Thursday Thursday Miami at New England, 7:30 p.m.
WASHINGTON (WC2) Calgary 2, Tucson 0 CLEVELAND (4) VS. ORLANDO (5)
Minnesota 6, Chicago White Sox 3 Milwaukee 7, Pittsburgh 5 Montreal at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.
(N.Y. Rangers lead series 2-0) Abbotsford 4, Colorado 2 (Cleveland leads series 2-1)
Kansas City 2, Toronto 1, 5 innings Philadelphia 5, Cincinnati 0 Seattle at D.C., 7:30 p.m.
Friday Ontario 5, Bakersfield 1 Thursday
Cleveland 6, Boston 4 Chicago Cubs 3, Houston 1 Salt Lake at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Washington, 7 p.m. Orlando 121 Cleveland 83
Friday — All TImes Eastern Seattle 4, Texas 3 Colorado 10, San Diego 9 Toronto at Orlando, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday Saturday, Apr. 27
Belleville at Toronto, 7 p.m. Chicago Cubs 3, Houston 1 L.A. Dodgers 2, Washington 1 Cleveland at Orlando, 1 p.m. Vancouver at N.Y. Red Bulls, 7:30 p.m.
N.Y. Rangers at Washington, 8 p.m. Oakland 3 N.Y. Yankees 1
Syracuse at Rochester, 7:05 p.m. Atlanta at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
WB/Scranton at Lehigh Valley, 7:05 p.m. Wednesday WESTERN CONFERENCE Houston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.
CAROLINA (2) VS. N.Y. ISLANDERS (3) Wednesday
Calgary at Tucson, 9 p.m. St. Louis 5, Arizona 1 OKLA. CITY (1) VS. NEW ORLEANS (8) Kansas City at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.
(Carolina leads series 2-0) Baltimore 6, L.A. Angels 5
Abbotsford at Colorado, 9:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets 8, San Francisco 2 (Oklahoma City leads series 2-0) San Jose at Nashville, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday Boston 8, Cleveland 0 Wednesday
Milwaukee 3, Pittsburgh 2 Portland at Los Angeles F.C., 10:30 p.m.
Carolina at N.Y. Islanders Tampa Bay 7, Detroit 5 Oklahoma City 124 New Orleans 92
Saturday, Apr. 27 OHL PLAYOFFS L.A. Dodgers 11, Washington 2
Carolina at N.Y. Islanders, 2 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees 7, Oakland 3 Cincinnati 7, Philadelphia 4 Saturday TELEVISION
Friday — All Times Eastern Minnesota 6, Chicago White Sox 3 Oklahoma City at New Orleans, 3:30 p.m.
Atlanta 4, Miami 3, 10 innings FRIDAY (ALL TIMES EASTERN)
WESTERN CONFERENCE Saginaw at London, 7 p.m. Kansas City 3, Toronto 2 Chicago Cubs 4, Houston 3
Chicago Cubs 4, Houston 3 DENVER (2) VS. L.A. LAKERS (7)
North Bay at Oshawa, 7:35 p.m. San Diego 5, Colorado 2 (Denver leads series 2-0) BASEBALL
CENTRAL DIVISION Texas 5, Seattle 1 MLB: L.A. Dodgers vs. Toronto, SN 1, 7 p.m.
DALLAS (1) VS. VEGAS (WC2) Thursday
QMJHL PLAYOFFS Friday Denver at L.A. Lakers
(Vegas leads series 2-0) Friday BASKETBALL
All Times Eastern Saturday, Apr. 27
Wednesday Thursday All Times Eastern Denver at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m. NBA: Milwaukee vs. Indiana, TSN 4, 5:30 p.m.
Vegas 3 Dallas 1 Kansas City (Lugo 3-1) at Detroit (Olson L.A. Dodgers (Stone 1-1) at Toronto (Bas- NBA:L.A.Clippersvs.Dallas,TSN4,5,8p.m.
Baie-Comeau 4 Cape Breton 0
Saturday, Apr. 27 0-3), 1:10 p.m. sitt 2-3), 7:07 p.m. MINNESOTA (3) VS. PHOENIX (6) NBA: Minnesota vs. Phoenix, TSN 4, 5,
Dallas at Vegas, 10:30 p.m. Oakland (Stripling 0-5) at Baltimore Chicago Cubs (Imanaga 3-0) at Boston (Minnesota leads series 2-0) 10:30 p.m.
Friday — All Times Eastern Friday
(Burnes 3-0), 7:05 p.m. (Crawford 1-0), 7:10 p.m.
Cape Breton at Baie-Comeau, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Phoenix, 10:30 p.m.
WINNIPEG (2) VS. COLORADO (3) L.A. Dodgers (Stone 1-1) at Toronto (Bas- St. Louis (Mikolas 1-3) at N.Y. Mets (Buttó FOOTBALL
Victoriaville at Drummondville, 7 p.m. Sunday NFL Draft, ABC, TSN 1, 3, 7 p.m.
(Series tied 1-1) sitt 2-3), 7:07 p.m. 0-0), 7:10 p.m.
Minnesota at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.
Friday IIHF U-18 CHAMPIONSHIPS Chicago Cubs (Imanaga 3-0) at Boston Washington (Williams 2-0) at Miami (Lu-
zardo 0-2), 7:10 p.m. L.A. CLIPPERS (4) VS. DALLAS (5) GOLF
Winnipeg at Colorado, 10 p.m. (Crawford 1-0), 7:10 p.m. (Series tied 1-1) Champions Tour: Mitsubishi Electric Clas-
Sunday At Sites in Espoo and Vantaa, Finland Cleveland (Allen 3-0) at Atlanta (Sale 2- Cleveland (Allen 3-0) at Atlanta (Sale 2- sic, Golf, 12 p.m.
Friday
Winnipeg at Colorado, 2:30 p.m. Thursday 1), 7:20 p.m. 1), 7:20 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Dallas, 8 p.m. PGA Tour: Zurich Classic, Golf, 3:30 p.m.
Canada 6 Sweden 3 Tampa Bay (Eflin 1-2) at Chicago White Cincinnati (Ashcraft 3-1) at Texas (Eovaldi Sunday LPGA: LA Championship, Golf, 6:30 p.m.
PACIFIC DIVISION Finland 3 Latvia 1 Sox (Flexen 0-3), 7:40 p.m. 1-2), 8:05 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Dallas, 3:30 p.m. DP World Tour: ISPS Handa Champion-
VANCOUVER (1) VS. NASHVILLE (WC1) United States 9 Slovakia 0 Cincinnati (Ashcraft 3-1) at Texas (Eovaldi N.Y. Yankees (Gil 1-1) at Milwaukee (Rea ship, Golf Channel, 11 p.m.
(Series tied 1-1) Czechia 3 Switzerland 0 1-2), 8:05 p.m. 2-0), 8:10 p.m. NFL DRAFT
Friday N.Y. Yankees (Gil 1-1) at Milwaukee (Rea Arizona (Gallen 3-1) at Seattle (Kirby 2-2), HOCKEY
2-0), 8:10 p.m. IIHF U-18 Championships: Canada vs.
Vancouver at Nashville, 7:30 p.m. Friday — All Times Eastern 9:40 p.m. FIRST OVERALL SELECTIONS Czechia, TSN 4, 12 p.m.
Sunday Latvia vs. Slovakia, 7 a.m. Minnesota (Ober 1-1) at L.A. Angels Philadelphia (Nola 3-1) at San Diego NHL: N.Y. Rangers vs. Washington, SN
Vancouver at Nashville, 5 p.m. Kazakhstan vs. Switzerland, 8 a.m. (Sandoval 1-3), 9:38 p.m. (Musgrove 3-2), 9:40 p.m. 360, 7 p.m.
2024 — Caleb Williams, QB, Southern Cal.
Norway vs. Finland, 11 a.m. Arizona (Gallen 3-1) at Seattle (Kirby 2-2), Pittsburgh (Priester 0-1) at San Francisco NHL: Vancouver vs. Nashville, SN On-
2023 — Bryce Young, Carolina, QB, Alabama.
EDMONTON (2) VS. LOS ANGELES (3) Czechia vs. Canada, 12 p.m. 9:40 p.m. (Harrison 2-1), 10:15 p.m. tario, East, West, Pacific, 7:30 p.m.
2022 — Travon Walker, DE, Georgia.
(Series tied 1-1) NHL: Winnipeg vs. Colorado, CBC, 10 p.m.
Wednesday ESSO CUP Wednesday NHL: Edmonton vs. L.A. Kings, SN On-
Los Angeles 5 Edmonton 4 (OT) Outaouais 5 North York 3 TELUS CUP Wednesday tario, East, West, Pacific, 10:30 p.m.
CANADIAN WOMEN’S U-18 Regina 6 Thompson-Okanagan 2 Brandon 2 Kensington 1
Friday, Apr. 26
Edmonton at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP Northern Selects vs. Edmonton CANADIAN MEN'S U-18 CLUB Markham 5 Calgary 4 (OT) RUGBY
CHAMPIONSHIP Magog 9 Sydney 5 Premiership: Bath vs. Saracens, SN
World, 2:30 p.m.
At Vernon, B.C. Friday
WHL PLAYOFFS Thursday
At Membertou, N.S. Friday
All TImes Eastern Thursday All Times Eastern TENNIS
Friday — All Times Eastern Edmonton 4 North York 1 SEMIFINALS Calgary 3 Brandon 1 Calgary vs. Magog, 10 a.m. ATP/WTA: Madrid Open, TSN 3, 5, 5 a.m.
Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 9 p.m. Regina 4 Northern Selects 3 First vs. Fourth Places, 6 or 10 p.m. Magog 3 Kensington 2 Markham vs. Brandon, 2 p.m. RESULTS AS OF THURSDAY,
Portland at Prince George, 10 p.m. Thompson-Okanagan vs. Outaouais Second vs. Third Places, 6 or 10 p.m. Markham 9 Sydney 2 Sydney vs. Kensington, 6 p.m. APRIL 25, 9:40 P.M.

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NHL community and
beyond pay tribute
to the announcer
who brought passion
to every game he called
embers of the NHL com-
munity and beyond paid
tribute Bob Cole on
Thursday after the legendary
broadcaster died at the age of 90.
He died Wednesday night in St.
John’s.
Cole, an influential voice in
broadcasting for more than half a
century, brought life to some of
hockey’s biggest games.
TNT hockey broadcaster Ed
Olczyk, a former Winnipeg Jets
and Toronto Maple Leafs forward,
reminisced about admiring Bob
Cole’s big-game presence during
his time playing in Canada.
“Just a super genuine hockey
lover,” Olczyk said Thursday in
Denver, where the Colorado Ava-
lanche and the Jets were prepar-
ing to continue a first-round se-
ries on Friday.
“Obviously his call is so con-
nected to o key ight in ana a.
Having played six years in Winni-
peg and three years in Toronto,
any time that he would walk into
the room, you knew it was a big
game. Just a great man.”
Avalanche star defenceman
Cale Makar was a rookie when
Cole called his last games during
the 2018-19 season, but he strong-
ly admired Cole’s legacy.
“He was such a legendary an-
nouncer and such an awesome
human being,” Makar said.
“That’s a tough loss for the hock-
ey world.”
Avalanche superstar forward
Nathan MacKinnon remembers
Cole as “an amazing person.”
“Super funny and just a great
C ’
A young fan holds up a sign thanking play y play announcer and St. John’s native Bo Cole on April ,
his final game with Hockey Night in Canada in Montreal. MINAS PANAGIOTA IS/GETTY IMAGES
guy,” MacKinnon said. “Some of
the best calls of all time.”
Winnipeg Jets coach Rick Bow-
ness said the hockey world has
lost a legend.
“We lost a wonderful human
being. I spent a lot of time with
Bob over the years. There’s not
necessarily a specific story, but
the most important thing is that
all the coaches around the league
and all the hockey people, they
trusted him,” Bowness said. “He
was a true pro. You could tell him
anything and he called a great
game.”
Jets forward Tyler Toffoli called
it a sad day for hockey.
“Seeing that this morning,
waking up was pretty disheart-
ening. Real unfortunate. The ca-
reer he had affected so many peo-
ple, and so many guys’ careers as
well,” Toffoli said.
Toronto Maple Leafs head
coach Sheldon Keefe called Cole
an “icon.”
“Someone who touched the
game in so many ways,” Keefe
said in Toronto, where the Maple
Leafs were preparing for Game 4
of their series with the Boston
Bruins on Saturday. “The voice of
hockey not just in Toronto, but in
our country.”
Vancouver Canucks coach Rick
Tocchet, a veteran of more than
1,000 games as a player, is thank-
ful for the time he spent with Cole
away from the rink.
“I went to his golf tournament
a couple of times in the Maritimes
and spent a lot of time there. You
know, he’s a legend,” Tocchet said
Thursday as the Canucks prac-
tised ahead of Game 3 of their se-
19
ries with the Nashville Predators.
“Just hanging out with him at
those golf tournaments was spe-
cial for me.”
Tocchet said it was always spe-
cial to hear Cole call his name
during a broadcast.
“I think I had a really good
fight with former Maple Leaf
Wendel Clark, and I think it might
have been him and Harry Neale
on the call. So I remember that,”
he said.
NHL commissioner Gary Be-
ttman said in a statement that
Cole’s voice was “the iconic and
incomparable soundtrack of
hockey across Canada for more
than 50 years.
“From countless winter Satur-
day nights on o key ight in an
a a to the 1972 Summit Series to
multiple Olympic Games to doz-
ens of Stanley Cup finals, his dis-
tinctive, infectious play-by-play
made every game he called sound
bigger,” Bettman said.
TSN hockey broadcaster Gord
Miller called Cole a fantastic men-
tor and wonderful friend.
“Everyone who ever did play-
by-play of a hockey game and
anyone who ever does in the fu-
ture will stand in the shadow of
Bob Cole,” Miller wrote on , the
social-media service formerly
known as Twitter.
Fellow broadcaster John Shan-
non, a former executive producer
of o key ight in ana a at CBC,
wrote on that his heart was bro-
ken after hearing news of Cole’s
death.
“He had a passion that every
hockey fan felt every time he an-
nounced a game. There will only
be one Bob Cole. And now he’s
gone,” he said.
Cole’s reach extended beyond
hockey. He skipped Newfoun-
dland at the 1971 Brier and 1975
Canadian men’s curling cham-
pionship, served as quiz master
on Rea h or the op and worked
for the Newfoundland govern-
ment.
Newfoundland and Labrador
Premier Andrew Furey echoed
Gushue’s sentiments, saying his
death was a loss for all hockey
fans, but especially poignant for
those in his home province.
“He was an incredible man
with an incredible voice. Hearing
him call games played by our he-
roes allowed us to dream and to
realize that we could achieve
great heights in any endeavour
and on any stage,” Furey said in a
statement.
“While his impact on the world
of hockey was immense, he was
something extra special for this
province.”
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In Game 2 after a very quiet Game 1 he
tried a few times to make less-than-opti-
mum passes when he had great chances
to score. On another occasion he
whiffed on a one-timer when he had
half an open net. His teammate, Miller,
might have been talking about Petters-
son when he said after Game 2 “We just
can’t waiver, can’t start trying to make
pretty plays, pretty passes.”
Other times Pettersson sent blind
passes to opposition players. He failed to
get the puck out of his end when he
should have, leading to a Predators goal.
His body language during and after the
game was not great. He looks like a
young player who is down on himself,
not one who is raring to get back into
the action to prove himself. But he
needs to. Unless Pettersson starts play-
ing better, a lot better, Vancouver won’t
go far in these playoffs. He didn’t hit the
net once in nine attempts on Tuesday
and was a minus-three.
Now, it’s not as though the Canucks
have played terrible. Far from it. They
just need to do a better job of getting the
puck to the net. Remarkably, Vancouver
threw 84 shots a franchise postseason
record in the direction of Nashville goa-
lie Juuse Saros in Game 2, yet he was on-
ly forced to make 18 saves. Some missed
the net completely while an incredible
34 shots were blocked by Preds players.
It increasingly looks as though Dem-
ko will not play in this series, which
means the team’s fate rests on the
shoulders of backup Casey DeSmith,
who played well this season and in his
playoff start on Tuesday. He’s certainly a
good enough goalie to win in the post-
season.
The Stanley Cup playoffs are all about
overcoming adversity. The Canucks are
facing it now. So is Elias Pettersson. We’ll
soon see what they’re made of.
pay for it.
That line got a lot of play, but one buried But with Marchand, you could tell he
after it was more revealing of the danger wasn’t trying to sell a version of himself.
the Leafs are now in. He was just talking. Nobody in sports
“We have to manage our way through just talks any more, as they would to a
Marchand’s provocations , avoid situa- neighbour. That’s a gift, too.
tions where he can put us in those You went from Marchand getting out-
spots.” How exactly By sitting in the side himself to see that we all have this
stands instead of going out on the ice one, short run at life and you should
There is no managing Marchand, and have the sense to recognize good luck
certainly no avoiding him. Once you put when you’ve got it, to the Leafs dressing
him at the forefront of your plans, he’s room. Not a lot philosophy going on in
winning. there.
Lots of athletes are genial sociopaths. Given the opportunity to fire back at
Plenty of them can snow referees. There Marchand, to have a little fun with the
is nothing Marchand knows or has that rivalry, or to show he’s grateful, Bertuzzi
a hundred other hockey players don’t. could not. He looked ashen.
So what is it that makes him so effective “That stuff is going to happen with
at being bad anyone,” he said about
It is, I suspect, gratitude. Marchand’s shenanigans.
Everyone in sports talks Gi en t e “It’s normal.”
about being in the mo- If I can stoop to analy-
opportunit to fire
ment, but think back to sis, this is the Leafs most
when you were just com- ba at Mar and, to obvious problem – they
a e a little fun it
ing up. Everything you can only enjoy themselves
worried about was the t e ri alr , or to when they’re winning,
wrong thing to worry and not even then. There
about. s o e s rateful, is no joy in battle for this
That universal moral af- Bertu i ould not. group. There is only pass
fliction is amplified in ath- e loo ed as en. or fail.
letes, for whom the next The Leafs always talk
achievement is the only one that mat- about building a culture, as though
ters. It’s how they’ve got this far. Thank- that’s something you get at Home De-
ful people are rarely great at what they pot. Culture is people. It’s an attitude
do. You have to work alongside a few that flows from the top. Boston has Brad
highly successful psychos before you Marchand – a guy who merrily tries to
can accept that. take an eye out and then tells you
At 35 years old – ancient by hockey straight-faced how happy that makes
standards – Marchand is an exception. him – and Toronto has a bunch of guys
He can see the beauty all around him, who are so clenched up, it’s amazing
while still enjoying the idea of putting they haven’t turned inside-out.
someone in hospital. Nothing serious. No wonder things go the way they do.
Just for overnight observation. However this series turns out, it’s a
“It’s not a given that you get the op- lesson the Leafs might want to carry in-
portunity to play in the Stanley Cup to summer. Instead of looking for right-
playoffs. I just kind of woke up on handed defencemen who charge less
Wednesday with that gratitude of un- than five million and don’t have a trade
derstanding it’s a gift to play in this exemption, maybe try to get at least one
league.” Usually, when someone starts guy who feels genuinely lucky to go to
going on like this, I get the awful feeling work every day, and wants everyone
they’re about to tell me they’ve always around him to feel the same way.

A ALANCHE GOALIE GEORGIE HO ING CONFIDENCE OOST CARRIES INTO GAME AGAINST ETS

DEN ER Alexandar Georgiev got
out of his own way in order to get
out of his own head.
The Colorado goaltender
began imagining winning and all
the feelings that went along with
it. By kicking out the negative
thoughts, Georgiev snapped out
of his shot-stopping doldrums
and helped the Avalanche split
games in Winnipeg.
Georgiev’s confident he has
regained his confidence heading
into Game 3 on Friday night in
the Mile High City.
“Have a short memory,” said
Georgiev, who allowed two goals
in Game 2 after surrendering
seven in the series opener
against the Jets. “Just try to come
with a fresh mind.”
That sort of approach can be
applied to Vezina Trophy favou-
rites, too. Winnipeg goaltender
Connor Hellebuyck has surren-
dered 10 goals in the series.
“I never worry about his confi-
dence,” Jets coach Rick Bowness
said. “He’s very confident in
himself. He knows he’s an elite
goalie. He wants the ball. He
loves being in there in these big
moments.”
Georgiev struggled down the
stretch of the regular season and
it followed him into Game 1.
There was some thought that
backup Justus Annunen, had he
not been under the weather,
might have appeared in net for
Game 2. Georgiev quieted that by
turning back 28 shots. He left the
ice with a smile amid congrat-
ulations.
“There’s been a lot of belief
from our room that he’s got that
within him,” Avalanche coach
Jared Bednar said. “That’s the
thing You’ve got to find a way to
turn it back around. He did in
that game and our team did.”
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Series tied 1-1, 10 p.m. ET
The Jets could move defenceman
Nate Schmidt back into the
lineup in an effort to contain the
speed of Nathan MacKinnon and
the rest of the Avalanche. “If we
can get MacKinnon in the
corner and keep him there, we’re
a lot happier,” Bowness said.
CA C at PR A R
Series tied 1-1, 7 30 p.m. EDT
Nashville goalie Juuse Saros gave
up three goals on 20 shots in a
Game 1 loss to Vancouver. But
the 29-year-old goalie shook off
the shaky performance by allow-
ing one goal in a Game 2 win.
Saros is looking for the first
playoff series victory of his career
after replacing Predators legend
Pekka Rinne, who almost single-
handedly took Nashville to the
2017 Stanley Cup final. Vancouv-
er coach Rick Tocchet isn’t overly
worried about how his Canucks
have been playing.
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Series tied 1-1, 10 30 p.m. EDT
This is the straight season the
series between the two that has
been tied 1-1 heading back to Los
Angeles. The Oilers have gone 4
of 7 on the power play in the first
two games. Edmonton has the
second-most power play goals in
the postseason so far second
only to the Boston Bruins, with
five. Kings centre Anze Kopitar
will play in his 95th career play-
off game, passing Luc Robitaille
for most in franchise history.
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I Y
All-star graduated from
the anhattan chool
of usic, earned a Latin
Grammy nomination
RONALD BLUM NEW YORK
ernie Williams was in the
centre, just like the old days
at Yankee Stadium. Only
this time he was at Lincoln Center
alongside conductor Gustavo Du-
damel and making his New York
Philharmonic debut.
After spending 16 years gaining
fame while roaming the grass
where Joe DiMaggio and Mickey
Mantle once trod, Williams was
on the stage made famous by Leo-
nard Bernstein and where guitar
great Andres Segovia once
played.
Williams performed oving
or ar , a jazz-infused work he
composed in 2009 that was newly
arranged by Jeff Tyzik as part of
the orchestra’s spring gala on
Wednesday night at David Geffen
Hall, a public exclamation of the
former all-star outfielder’s sec-
ond career as a classical guitarist.
A day before the performance,
he recalled going to the Manhat-
tan School of Music from 2012-16
to learn his new trade and earn a
bachelor’s degree.
“A lot of these people were run-
ning laps around me and I had to
come to the realization that I had
to work as hard as have I ever
worked upon anything, including
being a Major League Baseball
player,” he said. “I had to put in
the work, and none of that stuff
that I did prior was going to help
me here. I really had to reinvent
myself. In learning all of the stuff
that I learned being a profession-
al baseball player, some of the
stuff really helped me in perform-
ing under pressure, putting in the
I’
In this e cerpt from
her new book,
b dives
into Ben Johnson’s
legacy, continued fame
A ter inning the metre ina at
the Seou ympi s no re
mem ere as “ he irtiest ra e in
history ana ian sprinter Ben
ohnson ai e his rug test an as
strippe o his go me a . e ater
a mitte to steroi use an has ive
in ignominy sin e. In her ne ook
World’s Fastest Man The Incred-
ible Life of Ben Johnson author
ary rms y raises serious ues
tions a out the s ien e pro e ures
an pre u i es that e to ohnsons
is ua i i ation. his is the ast o
three e erpts
en Johnson is not finished
trying to clear his name and
restore his reputation. Since
2019, he’s been working with an
experienced sports lawyer to re-
search his legal options. These in-
clude possibly filing a claim
against World Athletics, formerly
called the IAAF. Details are not
clear, but it’s likely any litigation
would involve restraint-of-trade
and due-process allegations.
Johnson doesn’t have a win-
ning record in seeking redress
through the courts, but he be-
lieves this attempt, unlike the
others, is solid. His energy to keep
fighting is rooted in his belief that
he was set up in Seoul and that his
“enemies” expected he would go
away quietly.
“Over the years, when I reflect
on what happened in Seoul,
sometimes I use it as a great posi-
tive,” he said of his motivation.
“All the sacrifice I made since I
was 14 years old and all the hard
work I put in over that 12-year
span, the pain, the suffering, the
anxiety, and the depression, it was
all for my mother, to give her
something back in this world.
And my father, who saw his
youngest son become the best
athlete to ever run the 100
metres.”
He often refers to his mother’s
prediction of his redemption. “I
won’t live to see the day, but you
will get your gold medal back,”
Gloria Johnson told her son.
Johnson remains angry with
sports officials, especially in Can-
ada, who didn’t run interference
for him in Seoul. “All those people
who screw me over the years, go
on to have better paycheques, bet-
ter job opportunities, and make a
name for themselves.” They had
Former New York Yankees ase all star Bernie Williams, standing left alongside conductor Gustavo Dudamel,
makes his New York Philharmonic de ut in New York on Wednesday. BRANDON PATOC/T E ASSOCIATED PRESS
work in and being relentless.”
Dudamel, who becomes music
director in 2026-27, gave Williams
a glowing introduction that was
repeatedly interrupted by ap-
plause as he recounted Williams’s
background at an event to raise
money for music education.
“Bernie grew up in Puerto Rico
and I think that maybe he had
some other opportunities outside
music,” Dudamel said.
Wearing a dark suit and tie with
patent leather loafers, Williams
played his 41 2-minute composi-
tion backed by the Philharmonic,
joined by student musicians.
Now 55, Williams signed with
the Yankees on his 17th birthday
in 1985, made it to the major
leagues six years later and be-
came a four-time World Series
champion, five-time All-Star and
the 1998 AL batting champion. He
’
Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson remains angry at sports officials,
especially the Canadian ones who did not support him after his positive
doping test during the 1988 Olympics. TONY DUFFY/GETTY IMAGES
the power to advocate for him,
“but they put me on the chopping
block.”
He is also angry about what he
perceives as a double standard in
1988 “None of the American ath-
letes ever tested positive. It’s a no-
no, it can’t happen.”
Does Johnson have any re-
morse for having used steroids
Not at all. That five other run-
ners in that 100-metre-medal fi-
nal in Seoul were later linked to
doping infractions tends to sup-
port Charlie Francis’s argument
that many were using, and in the
decades since, countless athletes
across many sports have been
caught up in drug violations. It’s
hard to keep the body count
straight. Johnson’s head-on-a-
pike was supposed to clean up
doping in sport forever, but it nev-
er came close.
“If that is my destiny, I’d do it
again,” Johnson said of doping. “I
wasn’t the only one out there us-
ing steroids.”
He wears his defiance on a van-
ity licence plate affixed to his Ca-
dillac SUV Ben979. Pedestrians
call out or wave to him when he
motors past. Drivers stop at traffic
lights and roll down windows to
shout the familiar, “Hey, world’s
fastest man ”
Johnson revels in it. “It makes
me feel good in a lot of ways be-
cause people respect me. They
know what track and field is all
about and what athletes need to
do to get to the elite level or
even win the gold medal.
“It’s nice when people come up
and say, I remember where I was,
I saw the race, you are still the best
and the fastest man on Earth.’
That makes me feel good, to have
great fans out there who believe
in what I accomplished.”
hit .297 with 287 homers, 1,257
RBIs and 147 stolen bases for the
Yankees from 1991-2006.
He began playing guitar when
he was 6 or 7 in Puerto Rico, learn-
ing from his mother’s friends, and
listened to the guitar work of his
dad, Bernabe. Bernie brought his
guitar to the ballpark and played
in the clubhouse lounge to MTV
tunes picked by teammate Derek
Jeter.
“When you’re on the road,
there’s a certain amount of time
that you spend in the room,” Wil-
liams said. “A lot of people play
video games, a lot of people just
watch TV. So I used to kind of like
split time between watching TV,
ordering room service and play-
ing guitar between.”
He used to play in a paint room
under the right-field stands at the
old Yankee Stadium, where Ron
That said, he wants a fresh
start. And it won’t be in Canada.
Johnson is planning to make Ja-
maica his home base and visit To-
ronto periodically. The move isn’t
solely to escape cold winters, al-
though the glorious Caribbean
weather is a factor. Toronto holds
less appeal for a man deciding
where he’d be happiest when he
retires.
Estrangement is part of the is-
sue. Johnson is not as close as he’d
like to be with family members –
many relationships are strained
or broken – and often he spends
holidays or birthdays alone. In re-
flective moments, he’ll admit
how much this hurts him. John-
son still has plenty of friends in
Canada and abroad, and he’s big
into social-media chatting. Some
people from his competition days
keep in touch. Others have moved
on without looking back.
Two of the most cherished peo-
ple in his life in Canada are gone
his mother, Gloria, and Charlie
Francis. In recent years, more
have followed. Former Optimist
club and Olympic teammate De-
sai Williams has passed, as has To-
ronto lawyer Terry O’Sullivan, one
of Johnson’s fiercest supporters.
Johnson counts off other contem-
poraries who have died, including
American Olympian Harvey
Glance and Canadian Olympians
Angela Bailey and Marv Nash, and
is alarmed by their relative youth,
too many jolting reminders of his
own mortality.
After the pandemic, which
shuttered gyms and arenas for
many months, Johnson got his
personal-training business back
on track. When travel was still re-
stricted, he was unable to get to
his paid overseas gigs, which be-
came a bigger problem for him
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Guidry had left a drum set that
Paul O’Neill took over. Williams
brought an amplifier, and they
jammed after batting practice
and during rain delays.
A particular thrill occurred be-
fore a game against Minnesota in
1998, when Bruce Springsteen
walked into the clubhouse, spoke
with some of the Yankees players
and signed Williams’s guitar, writ-
ing “To Bernie, If you ever get
tired of baseball ” The two
joined to play ory ays at Joe
Torre’s Safe at Home Foundation
gala in 2007.
By 2003, Williams released his
first recording, he ourney With
in. His second, oving or ar ,
earned a Latin Grammy nomina-
tion in 2009 for best instrumental
album, and he’s contemplating
his third, which he hopes will
have more daring playing and
than most because he refused to
get a COVID vaccination. He
didn’t believe in the vaccination
science or the government’s rea-
sons for shutting down borders.
Now that he can travel freely
again, getaway flights to Jamaica
have also become reconnaissance
missions to study floor plans,
check out beachfront properties,
and ponder business ventures on
the island.
He understands that Jamaica is
transitioning too. The harbour in
Falmouth, once the domain of
sugar freighters, now docks cruise
liners. Tourists can spend their
money in the large new malls on
the edge of town, bypassing the
British-engineered streets where,
long ago, young Ben Johnson
raced his friends for pennies.
Ben Johnson’s story has staying
power. Love him or hate him, he
remains a compelling historical
sports figure whose downfall re-
tains a stubborn wisp of mystery.
His post-Seoul decades are
peppered with documentaries,
essays, and books that feature his
fall from grace.’ Most media offer-
ings have news hooks, meaning
they are tied to an event or a spe-
cial date, like the 25th anniversary
of his 1988 Olympic win and dis-
qualification. But some projects
break that mould.
One that veers sharply from
tradition is a Canadian-based tel-
evision series called ate the ay
er, which began development in
2023. It’s the brainchild of Toron-
to’s New Metric Media founder,
Mark Montefiore, and it’s written
by showrunner Anthony Q. Far-
rell, who has writing credits with
the NBC sitcom he i e. The
twist in ate the ayer is that it us-
es humour to tell Johnson’s tale
but is anchored to the facts of his
dramatic history.
“ We are obsessed with the
outrageous scandal-behind-the-
scandal of Ben’s story that we
have no choice but to convey it as
a comedic series, or we will be for-
ever lost in the one-sided tragedy
that we think we know,” Monte-
fiore said. “He went from hero to
zero in 9.79 seconds’, and we as a
country disowned him even fas-
ter without truly knowing the cir-
cumstances surrounding the
event. The series aims to bring a
bit of shine back to Ben’s name
and shed more light on the dirt-
iest race in history.’”
Sangster International Airport
in Montego Bay was jammed.
Lines snaked through the check-
in area, with passengers pushing
massive luggage sets or jauntily
holding a single carry-on bag over
a shoulder. Ben Johnson was in
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writing.
“Anybody can enjoy a good
piece of music and some of that
music is able to move people in
ways that nothing else can,” Wil-
liams said. “So understanding
those emotions that come with
being a musician I think has tak-
en me in a great journey and it’s
just such an awesome process to
have in contrast to what I used to
do in sports. It’s great to have an
opportunity to do both things in
one lifetime.”
His mother was adamant
about him going to college. Wil-
liams received a degree in 2016 af-
ter the four-year undergraduate
program. He studied guitar with
Christopher Rosenberg, harmo-
ny, composition and improvisa-
tion with Garry Dial and writing
with John Pagano. Williams now
serves on the school’s board of
trustees.
Ahead of this week’s perform-
ance, Williams spent from April
9-13 performing at the Caf Car-
lyle, the celebrated Upper East
Side nightspot where Bobby
Short entertained New York’s
high society from 1968-2004.
“Everybody’s so close and you
hear a pin drop and everybody’s
so attentive,” he said. “It’s such a
unique experience, at least for
me. I’m used to playing in front of
50,000 people, everybody yelling
and screaming their hearts out.
So it’s, yeah, quite a contrast.”
Philharmonic CEO Gary Ginst-
ling said after Wednesday morn-
ing’s rehearsal that 30 orchestra
musicians lined up to get balls,
caps and shirts autographed by
Williams as he posed for photos.
Cellist Patrick Jee rehearsed in a
Yankees jersey already signed by
Torre and Jeter.
“I’ve never seen them all so
giddy about one of our artists,”
Ginstling said.
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the Toronto-bound queue. Fellow
passengers had spotted him walk-
ing in, giving nuanced head nods
or sometimes a hearty backslap
and an arm-pumping handshake.
He juggled two passports and a
couple of cell phones, like an
amateur James Bond, and tried to
remember which passport, Jamai-
can or Canadian, to use at the
counter.
Directly behind him in line, a
good-looking, sharply dressed
woman about his age cheerfully
asked “Ben, do you remember
me ”
Johnson spun and gazed at her
with a deer-in-the-headlights
look, an awkward pause. “You
look familiar,” he ventured polite-
ly.
Bored people in the slow-mov-
ing line began listening. The
woman was a good sport and gave
him major hints, like her first
name, and where they used to
spend time together in Toronto.
He clued in they dated in the
late 1980s, and yes, of course, he
remembers her. The people in
line were now deeply engaged in
the scene, watching the world’s
fastest man backpedal as chival-
rously as he could, while the
woman was equally courteous,
filling in the blanks. The two
shared a few laughs and parted
ways on good terms.
In the departure lounge, John-
son is again recognized. He gets
fist bumps, finger points, high
fives, and “Hey, Ben ” One chap
buttonholes him about a business
venture, and they talk for a while.
When it’s time to board, John-
son hangs back. His seat is at the
front of the economy section, and
there’s no need to rush while peo-
ple are cramming bags into the
overhead storage.
When he gets to the jetway, he
teases two beautiful young wom-
en ahead of him. They are carry-
ing boxes of duty-free rum – may-
be they could spare a bottle The
women laughed and chatted with
him for a few minutes. One asks,
rather earnestly “Does it ever get
old being recognized all the
time ”
At that moment, a man from
Vancouver has his arm around
Johnson’s shoulders and his cell
phone in front of their faces.
“No,” Johnson answered, as the
Vancouver man snapped a selfie
of the two smiling into the cam-
era.
“It never gets old.”
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back Chicago has sought for
decades. The Bears selected
Williams with the No. 1 overall
pick in the NFL draft on Thurs-
day night after deciding weeks
ago to bank on the 2022 Heis-
man Trophy winner from USC.
The Washington Commanders
followed up by taking 2023 Heis-
man Trophy winner Jayden
Daniels from LSU. The New
England Patriots chose selected
North Carolina quarterback
Drake Maye with the No. 3 pick.
An estimated crowd of 150,000
filled the streets surrounding the
draft theatre and turned the
NFL’s biggest off-season event
into a giant party.
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WIN IN MADRID
MADRID Leylah Fernandez ad-
vanced to the women’s third
round at the Madrid Open tennis
tournament Thursday, while
fellow Canadian F lix Auger-
Aliassime won his opening-
round match in the men’s com-
petition. Fernandez, who had a
bye in the first round as the 32nd
seed, defeated Russia’s Anastasia
Potapova 7-5, 6-3 in 91 minutes.
Fernandez will next face eighth
seed Ons Jabeur of Tunisia.
Montreal’s Auger-Aliassime
rallied to defeat Japan’s Yoshihi-
to Nishioka 4-6, 6-1, 6-4. Auger-
Aliassime will face 19th-seeded
Adrian Mannarino of France in
the second round. Also in Ma-
drid, Rafael Nadal cruised to a
6-1, 6-0 victory over American
Darwin Blanch on Thursday.
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek had a
comfortable 6-1, 6-4 win over
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MIXED CURLING WORLDS
STERSUND, SWEDEN Canada’s
Kadriana and Colton Lott won
their final two group-stage
games Thursday and advanced
into the playoffs at the world
mixed doubles curling cham-
pionship. The husband-and-wife
team from Gimli, Man., needed
just one win to clinch a spot,
which they did with an 11-4 win
over Australia in Thursday’s
early draw. The Lotts followed
with a 12-6 win over the United
States in the final preliminary
round draw. The Canadians will
face Estonia’s Marie Kaldvee and
Harri Lill 6-3 in Friday’s qual-
ification round. The winner
plays Kristin Skaslien and Mag-
nus Nedregotten of Group A
winner Norway 7-2 in the
semi-finals later that day.
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WRE AM, WALES Ryan Reynolds
and Rob McElhenney are taking
Wrexham back to the United
States this summer. Details were
announced in an online video on
Thursday, confirming two games
in California and another in
Vancouver as part of the Welsh
club’s preparations for the En-
glish third tier next season.
Wrexham shot to global fame
after being bought by Hollywood
actors Reynolds and McElhenney
in 2021. Under their stewardship,
Wrexham has earned promotion
in two successive seasons. Wrex-
ham will play Bournemouth in
Santa Barbara on July 20, Chel-
sea in Santa Clara on July 24 and
the Vancouver Whitecaps on July
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M ILROY LOWRY MA E
11 IRDIES FOR SHARE
OF URICH LEAD
Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry
are enjoying their first taste of
the Big Easy. The friends and
former Ryder Cup teammates are
tied for first after one round of
the urich Classic of New Or-
leans on Thursday in Avondale,
La. McIlroy and Lowry shot an
11-under 61 in Thursday’s four-
ball best ball action, racking up
11 birdies without a bogey.
They’re tied with the teams of
Ryan Brehm and Mark Hubbard,
Ben Kohles and Patton Kizzire,
and David Lipsky and English-
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CANADA EATS SWEDEN
AT U1 WORLDS
ANTAA, FINLAND Gavin McKen-
na scored twice in the span of
one minute and 45 seconds in
the first period as Canada
opened with a 6-3 win over
Sweden on Thursday at the
world men’s under-18 hockey
championship. Canada next
faces Czechia on Friday.
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EDMUND
ROS S ALE XAN D E R
“Ted”
Passed away peacefully, at
North York General Hospital on
Saturday, April 13, 2024, at 93
years. Predeceased by his wife,
Barbara (2021); and survived
by son, Steven; daughter-in-
law, Lisa; daughter, Sandra;
granddaughters, Emily (Andrew)
and Olivia; sister, Penny; and
niece, Renee (Dave); as well as
many cousins.
Ted grew up in Toronto and
spent summers at Lake Simcoe,
where he developed a passion
for fishing. It’s also where he
met Barb, his beloved wife of 65
years. He attended University
of Toronto, where he studied
commerce and law. After a brief
stint teaching in Ottawa, he
returned to Toronto and spent 25
years teaching at the Faculty of
Law. Ted was a passionate and
dedicated professor, leaving a
legacy of kindness and generosity
to students and colleagues alike.
He had this same devotion for his
family and friends.
Once retired, Ted and Barb spent
many happy years at their cottage
in the Algonquin Highlands.
Whether canoeing, fishing, bird-
watching or enjoying Barb’s
superb culinary creations, they
never lost their appreciation
for the sheer beauty that
surrounded them.
Ted’s other great passion was
baseball. The night he proposed
to Barb, he took her to a game
at the old Maple Leaf Stadium
to celebrate. He followed the
Toronto Blue Jays to the end of
his life and was always optimistic
that “this year” would be the one.
There will be no service in
accordance with Ted’s wishes. In
lieu of flowers, donations in his
memory may be made to Save
Me Dog Rescue (donations@
savemedogrescue.ca) or the
University of Toronto Faculty of
Law (law.utoronto.ca/giving/
ways-give).
E ERLY A LE AUM
December 23, 1928
April 18, 2024
Passed away peacefully, in
hospital on April 18, 2024.
Beloved wife of Sydney
Applebaum (deceased 1984),
daughter, mother, grandmother,
great-grandmother, cousin and
aunt.
Beverly was a cherished relative
and friend to many in Canada and
abroad, and her love of travel,
fine food, music, literature and
the arts inspired many to pursue
these things and enhanced their
experiences with her stories,
guidance and knowledge.
Beverly had travelled to the four
corners of the earth, sought
tranquility and beauty, and never
lost that desire for new experience
throughout her life.
She will be missed by many.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial
donation may be made to the
Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation,
as Mount Sinai was associated
with many milestones in
Beverly’s life.
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MICHAEL M GREGOR
ARMSTRONG
Michael McGregor Armstrong
passed away April 1, 2024, at
the Lakeshore General Hospital
in Pointe Claire, Quebec, at the
age of 86. He was born May 3,
1937, in Vancouver, the son of
Etta Armstrong (Hunter) and
Nevin Armstrong. He spent his
teenage years in Penticton, where
he became an avid water skier,
accomplished baseball player and
overall fantastic athlete. He helped
his father run the Royal Anne Hotel
in Kelowna between semesters at
UBC, where he was studying to
be a chartered accountant. It was
in Kelowna where he met Diana
Dore, the love of his life. They
were married in September 1962.
During his career, he spent many
years at Wood Gundy in Toronto,
and later worked at several other
brokerage firms. He came out
of retirement to assist his son,
Daniel, cofounder of Beanfield
Metroconnect. When he retired
for the second time, he and Diana
moved to Port Hope, Ontario, and
eventually to Baie d’Urfé, outside
of Montreal, to be closer to their
children. He is survived by his
beloved wife, Diana Armstrong
(Dore); his children, Daniel (Jay
Fernandes), Jane and Mary-Anne
(Karl Wockner); his grandchildren,
Hannah and Oliver Wockner;
his sister, Patricia Armstrong;
niece, Nancy Johnston (Horner);
and nephew, David Horner. An
informal reception will be held
at the family home on June 8th
at 3:00 p.m.
LOUIS ALLEN DE CRU E
July 10, 1928
April 21, 2024
Born in Calcutta, India, on July
10, 1928, passed away peacefully,
on Sunday, April 21, 2024, at St.
Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto.
He will be missed by his daughter
by choice, Claudia Diebel; sister-
in-law, Pat Begg and son, Andrew
Begg and family; stepson, Brian
Artin; and his many friends all over
the world. He was predeceased
by his loving wife, Katie.
Special thanks to the wonderful
caregivers at St. Joseph’s.
He survived the partition of
India, moved to London in his
early twenties, and immigrated
to Toronto in 1967. He started a
successful business, importing
juice, where his customers
knew him as “His Highness the
Maharajah of Magador.” He and
Kate travelled the world, even
flying in the Concord. He loved
his cottage, where he spent lots
of time fishing at Pigeon Lake and
cooking for his many guests. He
was a gentleman, always helping
others and generously giving to
many charities. He cared deeply
for the Anglo-Indian community
who remained in India. We will
miss his laughter and jokes.
Friends may call at Turner & Porter
- Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor Street
West (East of the Jane Subway
Station), Etobicoke, for visitation
on Sunday, April 28, 2024, from
3 – 5 p.m. Chapel Service will be
held Monday, April 29, 2024, at
11 a.m. Interment at Assumption
Catholic Cemetery, 6933 Tomken
Road (at Derry Road), Mississauga.
If desired, memorial donations can
be made to St. Joseph’s Health
Centre Foundation, the Kaylou
Foundation, or any charity of
your choice. Online condolences
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M I C H A E L E M I L E FA R L E Y
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This would have been Mike Farley’s 84th birthday on April 26th, but
unfortunately, he passed on September 10, 2023, after a short illness. He
was predeceased by his beloved wife, Judi Matthews; and leaves behind his
daughter, Jeanette; and son, Christian (wife, Rebecca); his sisters, Maureen
(Gert) and Dianne (Larry); and brother, Ted (Marcia). Mike will be missed
by his many cousins, nephews and nieces, his business associates, golf
buddies, and many friends he made along the way. May he rest in peace.
Mike, armed with his International MBA from University of Toronto, Western,
and University of Vienna, learned full fluency in German, French and English.
He enjoyed a rewarding career as a President, marketing executive, leader,
mentor and entrepreneur in the International Pharmaceutical Industry,
which had him travelling much of the globe and experiencing many different
cultures, making friendships wherever he went.
He was an accomplished athlete, playing hockey for the Toronto Marlies,
but his lifetime passion was golf, passed down from his father, Phil Farley, a
Canadian Golf Hall of Fame member, and from his mother, Ruth. Mike was
happiest on the links with his many golf pals in almost any conditions.
Mike’s travels and love for reading and learning led to a fascination with
all the similarities he observed among different cultures around the globe.
This became a passion and led to his authoring a book, “Street Wisdom,” in
which he attempted to define a list of human nature fundamentals shared by
all humans across the planet.
His motivation was to provide a guide for young adults on how to better
understand human motivations and reactions, be better prepared to enter
the workforce and learn to build healthy relationships and successful careers.
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MARY HEARN HENDELA
Peacefully, with her devoted
FUNERAL SER ICES
family by her side, on Sunday,
April 14, 2024, at the age of 79.
Beloved wife and partner of the
late George Hendela. Loving and
dedicated mother to daughters,
Malaka (David) and Tara.
Cherished grandmother to Garan
Reble and Sky Hunter Jackson.
Dear sister of Jim (Linda), Joseph
(Wanda) and the late Edward
(Grace-Ann). Fondly remembered
by her extended family and many
nieces and nephews.
Mary devoted herself to a long,
accomplished and dedicated
career in nursing and healthcare,
where she endeavoured to
improve access and quality of
care for all. She believed strongly
in giving back, taking significant
roles on numerous charitable
boards. Mary also had a lifelong
passion for learning, proudly
completing her Executive MBA
later in her career. She enjoyed
her well-earned retirement,
passing her time reading,
gardening and volunteering with
community organizations, as well
as spending quality time with her
daughters, grandchildren, friends
and family. She fondly looked
forward to summer visits “home”
in Brigus, Newfoundland, which
held a special place in her heart.
Friends may pay respects at Saint
Patrick’s Basilica, Ottawa (Kent at
Nepean St.), on Saturday, May
4, 2024, after 10 a.m. A Mass in
Memory of Mary will follow at 11
a.m. In lieu of flowers, memoriam
donations may be directed to the
Council on Aging of Ottawa.
Arrangements for future interment
of ashes in Newfoundland will be
made in the coming months.
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he t John’s native called some of hockey’s most iconic games and was known for
NEIL DAVIDSON
ob Cole, a welcome voice for
Canadian hockey fans for a
half-century, has died at the
age of 90.
Mr. Cole died Wednesday night
in St. John’s surrounded by his
family, his daughter, Megan Cole,
told the CBC.
Born June 24, 1933, the St. John’s
native provided a distinctive
soundtrack to Canada’s game. He
was known for his signature “Oh
baby” call, an expression that was
not restricted to hockey arenas.
“He’s been saying that around
the house as long as I can remem-
ber,” Megan said in Mr. Cole’s 2016
autobiography o I m at hing
n y Li e n an the Air.
Mr. Cole first remembers using
it to describe some memorable
Mario Lemieux stickhandling in
Game 2 of the 1991 Stanley Cup fi-
nal against Minnesota.
“Look at Lemieux. Oh my heav-
ens. What a goal. What a move. Le-
mieux. Oh baby,” Mr. Cole said ex-
citedly after Mr. Lemieux went the
length of the ice, skated through
the defence pair of Shawn Cham-
bers and Neil Wilkinson and deked
goalie Jon Casey.
“I don’t know when it’s going to
come out. No idea I don’t plan it.
It’s spontaneous,” he wrote in his
autobiography. “I don’t script the
thing. It’s ad-libbed and that’s
what broadcasting’s all about.”
Ron MacLean, the host of CBC’s
o key ight in ana a, said Mr.
Cole’s distinctive play-by-play
style “comes on you like smoke
from a campfire.”
Fellow broadcaster Greg Millen,
a former NHL goaltender, said Mr.
Cole’s voice was “almost like a
symphony.”
“Bob had an unbelievable abil-
ity of bringing the game up and
down depending on what was
happening on the ice.”
In typical Mr. Cole fashion, he
initially wondered ahead of doing
the autobiography who would be
interested in reading his story,
“just because I do hockey games.”
But what games. He did the 1972
Summit Series on radio. On TV,
there was the 1976 game in Phila-
delphia when the Soviet Red Army
players left the ice in protest at the
DANICA KIRKA LON ON
ritish army veteran Bill
Gladden, who survived a
glider landing on D-Day and
a bullet that tore through his
ankle a few days later, wanted to
return to France for the 80th an-
niversary of the invasion so he
could honour the men who didn’t
come home.
It was not to be.
Mr. Gladden, one of the dwin-
dling number of veterans who
took part in the landings that
kicked off the campaign to liber-
ate Western Europe from the
Nazis during the Second World
War, died Wednesday, his family
said. He was 100.
Although weakened by cancer,
Mr. Gladden had been deter-
mined to make it back to Nor-
mandy to take part in this year’s
D-Day commemorations. With
fewer and fewer veterans taking
part each year, the ceremony may
be one of the last big events mark-
ing the assault that began on June
6, 1944.
“If I could do that this year, I
should be happy,” he told the As-
sociated Press from his home in
Haverhill, England, in January,
even as he celebrated his birthday
with family and friends. “Well, I
am happy now, but I should be
more happy.”
Born Jan. 13, 1924, Mr. Gladden
his Oh baby ’ catchphrase used throughout nearly 0 years on the air
Bo Cole was the voice for many hockey moments, including the 199 Stanley Cup win y the Montreal
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Flyers take-no-prisoners tactics.
“They’re going home,” said an in-
credulous Mr. Cole.
He was there for the 2002 Olym-
pic final in Salt Lake City when
Canada ended its 50-year Olympic
gold-medal drought with a win
over the United States in the final.
“Joe Sakic scores and that
makes it 5-2 Canada. Surely that’s
got to be it ” said Cole.
Not to mention a string of Stan-
ley Cup finals.
But Mr. Cole was more than
hockey.
He called Bob Beamon’s world-
record long jump at the 1968
Olympics, curled in the Brier,
served as quiz master on Rea h or
the op and worked for the New-
foundland government.
Mr. Cole’s o key ight in ana
a swansong came April 6, 2019,
the regular-season finale in Mon-
treal between the Canadiens and
Toronto Maple Leafs. Players,
coaches and fans stood in appre-
ciation to honour Mr. Cole in the
second period as his four children,
Christian, Hilary, Megan and Rob-
bie, watched in the gondola at the
Bell Centre.
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Second World War veteran Bill Gladden attends a ceremony in Normandy
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was raised in the Woolwich area
of southeast London. His mother
worked at the nearby Royal Arse-
nal during the First World War
and his father was a soldier.
He joined the army at 18 and
was ultimately assigned to the
6th Airborne Reconnaissance Re-
giment as a motorcycle dispatch
rider.
On D-Day, Mr. Gladden landed
behind the front lines in a wood-
en glider loaded with six motor-
cycles and a 7,700-kilogram tank.
His unit was part of an operation
charged with securing bridges
over the River Orne and Caen Ca-
nal so they could be used by
Allied forces moving inland from
the beaches.
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“Thank you so much Montreal
and Canada,” he said to viewers,
looking down from his perch. “It’s
been a pleasure. I’m going to miss
this.”
Don Cherry praised Mr. Cole
during his Coach’s Corner segment
that night.
“Foster Hewitt was good, Dan-
ny Gallivan was good,” Mr. Cher-
ry said of Mr. Cole’s I prede-
cessors. “But the best of all, I think,
and I’ve seen them all, is Bob Cole.”
NHL greats from Wayne Gretzky
to Mark Messier and current stars
Sidney Crosby and Connor McDa-
vid as well as Mr. MacLean and
Harry Neale, his former colour
man, all feted Mr. Cole.
“Mr. Cole, congratulations on 50
great years of hockey. You were an
inspiration to all of us in Canada,”
said Mr. Gretzky, adding “Oh baby.”
In his later years, Mr. Cole’s
broadcasting schedule was re-
duced by Rogers, which took over
national TV rights via Sportsnet
ahead of the 2014-15 season. He did
16 games his final season, up from
the 10 originally planned.
“I wish it were more, but they’ve
got a lot of guys in place,” he said.
BILL GLADDEN
Based in an orchard outside
the village of Ranville, Mr. Glad-
den spent 12 days making forays
into the surrounding countryside
to check out reports of enemy ac-
tivity.
On June 16, he carried two
wounded soldiers into a barn that
was being used as a makeshift
field hospital. Two days later, he
found himself at the same hospi-
tal after machine gunfire from a
German tank shattered his right
ankle.
Lying on the grass outside the
hospital, he read the treatment
label pinned to his tunic
“Amputation considered.
Large deep wound in right ankle.
Compound fracture of both tibia
O THE LO E AN
“They’ve got my phone number.
“I answer every time that it
rings,” he added dryly.
Mr. Cole counted family, flying,
dogs, Broadway shows and fly-
fishing among his loves.
His love for hockey started at a
young age. At 11, he was bedridden
for almost six months owing to a
knee injury suffered playing soc-
cer.
The neighbourhood helped
him collect Quaker Oats box tops
for a promotion that involved pho-
tos of NHL players. With the pho-
tos spread out on his bed in line
formations, he’d listen to the
VONF radio broadcasts of games.
He listened to Hewitt bring the
game alive. “It was heaven for me,”
he told the CBC in a 2019 interview.
Years later, he still had his own
system for writing down the lines
for use in the broadcast booth.
His first job in radio came in
1954 at VOCM in St. John’s as a part-
time news reader and DJ.
His life took a turn in 1956 when,
on the way back from a trip to New
York, the aspiring broadcaster de-
cided to drop off a five-minute au-
dition tape at Mr. Hewitt’s Toronto
and fibula. All extension tendons
destroyed. Evacuate.”
Mr. Gladden didn’t lose his leg,
but he spent the next three years
in the hospital as doctors per-
formed a series of surgeries, in-
cluding tendon transplants and
skin and bone grafts.
After the war, he married Marie
Warne, an army driver he met in
1943, and spent 40 years working
for Siemens and Pearl Insurance.
He leaves their daughter, Linda
Durrant, and her husband,
Kenny.
Over the years, Mr. Gladden
had regularly joined other old
soldiers on trips to battlefields in
Normandy and the Netherlands
organized by the Taxi Charity for
Military veterans.
“He had a wonderful gentle
voice and loved nothing more
than singing some of his favourite
wartime songs,’’ said Dick Good-
win, the group’s honorary secre-
tary. “Earlier this year, we had the
joy of celebrating his 100 birthday
in Haverhill and, testament to the
man he was, the hall was packed
with all those who knew and
loved him.’’
Though he was happier talking
about his family than reminiscing
about the war, Mr. Gladden
chronicled his wartime story in a
scrapbook that includes a news-
paper clipping about “the tanks
that were built to fly,” drawings of
the glider landings and other
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radio station.
To Mr. Cole’s surprise, Mr. He-
witt made time for him and lis-
tened to the tape right there and
then. They spent some two hours
together.
Mr. Hewitt’s advice Save the
big call for the big play, use differ-
ent voice levels and feel the flow of
the game. It served Mr. Cole well.
Beginning on radio, Mr. Cole
looked to paint a picture with his
calls.
“You’ve got to take over some-
body’s mind, try to get them into
the building,” he said.
Starting in April, 1969, doing an
NHL playoff semi-final game in
Boston on radio – Jean Beliveau
scored in double overtime to elim-
inate the Bruins – Mr. Cole moved
to TV in 1973.
His work routine never
changed. For Saturday games, he
flew in Friday and returned Sun-
day. He met the coaches the morn-
ing of the game to go over their li-
neups, had a nap in the afternoon,
then returned to the rink to go to
work.
Fifty years on, he said he still got
goosebumps walking into the are-
na.
Mr. Cole was old-school. He talk-
ed while the action was on, leaving
his colour analyst to chime in
when play halted.
Mr. Neale was one of his favou-
rite broadcast partners. “He loves
the game and that showed up
through every broadcast he ever
made,” said Neale. “We had a pret-
ty good chemistry in the booth,”
Mr. Cole said.
Mr. Cole’s signature calls, such
as “Desjardins And the Canadiens
win in overtime,” in the 1993 Stan-
ley Cup final, remain in demand.
“I’ve had guys in NHL dressing
rooms come up with something
like that. Give us that Eric Des-
jardins goal C’mon Bob ’ ” Mr.
Cole recalled.
Mr. Cole was honoured by the
Hockey Hall of Fame in 1996 when
he won the Foster Hewitt Memo-
rial Award for outstanding contri-
butions as a hockey broadcaster. In
2016, he was invested as a Member
of the Order of Canada during a
ceremony at Rideau Hall in Otta-
wa.
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memorabilia.
There’s also a scrap of para-
chute silk left behind by one of
the paratroopers who landed in
the orchard at Ranville. As he lay
in the hospital recovering from
his wounds, Mr. Gladden pains-
takingly stitched his unit’s shoul-
der insignia into the fabric.
The edges are frayed and dis-
coloured after eight decades, but
“Royal Armoured Corps” still
stands out in an arc of red letter-
ing on a yellow background. Un-
derneath is a silhouette of Pega-
sus, the flying horse, over the
word “Airborne.”
“These are the flashes we wore
on our battledress blouses,” reads
the caption in Mr. Gladden’s neat
block letters.
The same insignia decorated
the top of his birthday cake in Ja-
nuary as family and other guests
belted out a round of appy Birth
ay to ou.
But even then, Mr. Gladden
was thinking about travelling
back to Normandy to honour his
comrades, especially the two sol-
diers he carried into that barn 80
years ago. They didn’t make it.
“He wanted to go to pay his re-
spects,” his niece Kaye Thorpe’s
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65 66 67 68 69
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In the race for talent, Canada’s best
companies are creating values-based
cultures in which employees benefit
from supportive work environments
that offer opportunities for growth
and rewarding career journeys. At
Colliers, understanding and meeting
the ever-changing needs of employ-
ees is paying off. The company has
an enviable track record of attracting
and retaining top talent across the
country, earning it a spot on the
2024 list of Best Workplaces™ in
Canada.
Brian Rosen, Colliers Canada
president and chief executive officer,
attributes the recognition to the
company’s people and its unique
business model. “Our enterpris-
ing leaders and diverse business
platform give us the operational
strength to act quickly, create
change and move forward,” Rosen
says.
Daniel Holmes, president of bro-
kerage at Colliers Canada, says being
part of a global organization, with a
culture that values entrepreneurial
thinking, helps the company recruit
and retain the best of the best.
“We have a global brand, along
with the resources and infrastruc-
ture of a global company, and that
is very attractive,” Holmes says.
“We also have a culture that offers
people autonomy while being part
of a team working toward a com-
mon vision. We help our people do
extraordinary things.”
Tracing its roots back to British
Columbia in 1898, Colliers recently
marked its 125th anniversary and
continues to uphold its position as
one of Canada's leading commercial
real estate services firms. While the
real estate industry, in general, has
experienced some challenges and
volatility over the past few years, the
longevity and diversity of Colliers’
service lines, nationally and globally,
make it possible for the company to
weather the storms, and continue to
grow and outperform its competitors.
In a recent episode of the firm’s
podcast, Colliers Talks, “Colliers’
125 Years: Taking Risks and Making
Moves,” Rosen and Chris McLer-
non, global chief executive officer
for real estate services, describe
the company’s success over the
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decades and its entrepreneurial
ethos, which involves taking risks
and seeking opportunities. Colliers
has implemented a flat hierarchy to
encourage employees’ autonomy
and enterprising spirit. This decen-
tralized model allows Colliers to be
agile, and puts decisions at the local,
regional, and national levels, where
employees are closer to clients and
partners, and are better equipped to
move quickly with little bureaucracy.
As employees become more
selective about where they want to
go to work every day, many compa-
nies are grappling to meet evolving
expectations. Colliers has come up
with the secret recipe to keep its
professionals engaged, empowering
them to make an impact.
The company offers a compre-
hensive suite of talent development
opportunities to help its people fulfill
their career goals from within. “Ca-
reer confidence is important,” Rosen
says. “It’s okay to take reasonable
risks and fail sometimes. This is part
of how we all grow.”
Colliers’ programming includes an
eight-month Mentorship Program,
an Acceleration Program to help
new-to-industry Brokers succeed in
the Commercial Real Estate industry,
tailored programing to give leaders
the knowledge and skills they need
to be successful, and more.
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At Colliers, leaders leverage a
culture in which professionals are
recognized for their work. “Ours is a
dynamic industry, so it is important
for our leaders to support their
teams to constantly prioritize finan-
cial and time capital,” Rosen says.
It is also important for Colliers to
continuously look ahead, mon-
itoring changes in the business
landscape and a growing interest
among clients to work with organi-
zations that model ethical business
practices, invest in their employees,
and empower them to be creative,
collaborative, and innovative.
Collaboration is one of Colliers’
principal ingredients to creating
a healthy and happy workplace
culture. “The word on the street is
that Colliers is a collaborative place
to work. That’s when you know you
have something special,” Holmes
says.
Employees are encouraged
to work across service lines and
geographies to give the best service
and deliver the most successful
results for their clients. Teams across
the business, including brokerage,
property management, project man-
agement, workplace advisory, and
more, work collaboratively to tackle
challenges and identify opportuni-
ties for Colliers’ clients.
Collaboration is embedded into
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every part of the organization, ex-
tending to the design of its offices.
In the company’s new Vancouver
office, the footprint of offices is
equal, with open concept floorplans,
highlighting Colliers’ commitment to
democratizing the workplace.
“Our approach responds to the
needs of our team and the new
offices are reflective of the reality of
how they work,” Rosen says. “There
are spaces for private meetings and
others that are open, designed for
collaboration. It’s not a one-size-
fits-all.”
The changes have been well-re-
ceived. “It’s a great feeling as a lead-
er when employees respond with
positive feedback. We have annual
employee engagement surveys to
garner our people’s feedback and
we try to action as much as we can,”
Rosen says.
Another priority for Colliers is
building a diverse and inclusive
workplace where its people can
thrive and do their best work.
“We recognize that diversity,
equity and inclusion is key to foster-
ing a culture where differences are
valued, people feel they belong and
authenticity thrives,” says Becky Fin-
ley, global chief brand and people
officer. “We set a global goal in 2021
to achieve 40 per cent female repre-
sentation across our total workforce
by 2025 and in management roles
by 2030.” As of Jan. 2024, women
account for almost 43 per cent of
the firm’s Canadian workforce,
with women holding 43 per cent of
management roles as well.
Those who are in leadership roles
are also invested. “Our leaders
are our strongest shareholders
with more than 30 per cent inside
ownership, which means they have
more skin in the game and act like
owners,” Finley says.
Beyond achieving excellence
within the company and delivering
it to clients, connecting with and
contributing to communities is
also central to Colliers’ philosophy.
Employees are encouraged to share
their time and skills and raise funds
for causes they care about. In 2022,
Gives, a global volunteering pro-
gram meant to unite local efforts. In
its first year, employees around the
world volunteered 5,819 days.
Finley says Colliers elevates inclu-
siveness by nurturing employee-led
resource groups, offering mentor-
ship programs designed to develop
leadership skills and confidence
among women and people from
diverse demographics, as well as
fostering external partnerships
to learn best practices and better
support underrepresented groups.
Last year, close to 300 professionals
across Colliers participated in men-
torship programs.
“We recruit talent without bias,
conducting engagement surveys
to hear from our professionals on
the issues that matter to them, and
take the time to celebrate diversity,”
Finley says.
While Colliers continues to be a
global leader in the industry with a
proven track record of success, it’s
an accolade the firm never takes for
granted. The company is committed
to learning what matters most to its
people, and taking action according-
ly. In Colliers’ most recent engage-
ment survey, it surpassed global
external benchmarks, underscoring
its dedication to fostering a work-
place where teams feel engaged
and valued and enabling the firm
to move from strength to further
strength.
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F
he Canadian Real
Estate Association
reports a ump in
inventory in the
first week of April
CAROLYN
IRELAND
NE T MO E
A
fresh supply of listings has
arrived on the Toronto-ar-
ea real estate market in
April, but aspiring buyers are not
in the mood to rush.
Paul Maranger and Christian
Vermast, real estate agents at
Sotheby’s International Realty
Canada, say sales are slower than
usual for a month that is typically
one of the busiest.
“We’re seeing a very, very late
start to the spring market,” Mr.
Maranger says.
He adds that any house hun-
ters seem to move in herds as
they listen to the tales of their
friends, family members and
neighbours.
“A lot of people are a bit leery
of being first in,” he says. “For
some reason, when the market
picks up, they’re very happy to
pay $100,000 over asking.”
Farah Omran, senior econo-
mist at Bank of Nova Scotia, says
the flat performance of the na-
tional housing market so far this
spring suggests buyers across the
country are “treading lightly.”
But a swell in new listings after
the Easter long weekend may
point to a pickup in sales ahead as
buyers absorb the new supply,
she adds.
The Canadian Real Estate Asso-
ciation, which tracks listings on a
weekly basis, reports inventory
jumped in the first week of April.
Ms. Omran notes that the rise
comes after seasonally adjusted
sales edged up a slight 0.5 per cent
in March from February.
Months of inventory, which
measures how long it would take
to sell available properties at the
current pace of sales, also held
steady at 3.8.
According to Ms. Omran, the
Canadian housing market is in
balanced territory, but the trends
vary by market. Sales increased in
March in more than half of the 31
markets she tracks. At the same
time there was a fairly even split
between cities where listings in-
creased and where they declined.
Another factor clouding the
picture in March this year was
that the Easter long weekend fell
within the month, instead of the
more typical timing in April.
“Let’s face it – everyone seems
unsure,” Ms. Omran says, point-
ing to vacillating sales from one
month to another and economic
growth forecasts which are fre-
quently revised.
Mr. Maranger and Mr. Vermast
C ’
SHANE DINGMAN
REAL ESTATE REPORTER
T E LISTING
A
property manager who
transferred $500,000 in
condominium reserve
funds to an alleged cryptocurren-
cy investment company known
as Pink Piggy Investment Group
Inc. has had his licence to man-
age condominiums in Ontario re-
voked.
While the ruling provides a
strong signal about the financial
and legal accountability required
to manage a condominium com-
munity, some are urging the
Condominium Management
Regulatory Authority of Ontario
CMRAO to use the example to
keep its focus on serious issues.
“We got rid of a bad apple, fan-
tastic, that’s what we should be
doing, let’s only look at things of
that type of issue,” said Robert
Weinberg, chief executive officer
of condo management company
Percel Inc. “There are others out
there and they will eventually
get caught.”
The initial notice to revoke
Norbert Bert Berger’s licence
came with a suspension by the
CMRAO on Oct. 12, 2023, follow-
ing its investigation after a Sept.
20 Globe and Mail story de-
scribed the allegations against
the long-time condo manager
and his company L H Property
Management Inc.
The April 5 ruling by Colin Os-
terberg, vice-chair of Ontario’s Li-
cence Appeal Tribunal LAT ,
was unequivocal in weighing the
evidence against Mr. Berger
say sales under the $2.5-million
mark remain brisk but homes
above that level sometimes sit.
Prospective buyers in all price
ranges are keeping an eye on the
Bank of Canada and the outlook
for interest rates, they add.
Mr. Maranger says homes be-
tween $1-million and $2-million
are considered entry-level in To-
ronto, and buyers in that segment
are willing to live with the rela-
tively high level of interest rates
at the moment.
“Those buyers have contem-
plated interest rates and have ac-
cepted them,” he says.
Properties in that bracket fre-
quently have an attention-grab-
bing asking price and a deadline
for submitting offers. Sellers of-
ten receive between two and five
offers, Mr. Maranger says, com-
pared with the 20 or 30 they may
have fielded in years past.
Homes are not selling wildly
above the asking price, says Mr.
Vermast, who explains that
buyers are more cautious now
that they understand every
$100,000 added to the sale price
will have a significant impact on a
monthly mortgage payment.
When rates sat at historic lows,
buyers were more willing to pay
hefty premiums.
Mr. Maranger says those first-
time buyers also want a house
that is move-in ready.
“They just don’t have that ex-
tra money to do renovations.”
“The Tribunal can have no confi-
dence that he is prepared to act
in accordance with the law or
with honesty and integrity in the
future.”
The grounds cited by the LAT
for revoking the licence include
violations of The Condominium
Act relating to conflicts of inter-
est and notice and approval. Mr.
Osterberg found Mr. Berger con-
travened Section 52 of the act,
which requires a manager to pro-
vide written notice to a client if
they have an interest in a con-
tract or transaction. Also
breached was Section 32 of the
act’s regulations that bar a licens-
ed manager from completing a
transaction they have an interest
in without written approval.
Mr. Berger is the chairman of
the board of Pink Piggy and a
shareholder, but told the LAT
that he had no “financial inter-
est” in the transfer of $500,000,
and that he gets no compensa-
tion or benefit from the compa-
ny.
Mr. Osterberg rejected that
contention.
“It is not believable that the
appellant would take on the re-
sponsibilities of being a member
of Pink Piggy’s board of directors
and be issued shares in the com-
pany without some expectation
of a benefit, financial and other-
wise,” he said.
The question of whether Mr.
Berger notified the board of his
client building, York Condomini-
um Corporation No. 25, and re-
ceived approval for the transac-
tion was also contentious.
Two board members testified
that they were never informed of
Mr. Berger’s connection to Pink
The Toronto Regional
Real Estate Board
reported a 1 .4 per cent
increase in sales of
semi detached houses
and a .1 per cent dip in
sales of detached houses
in the core 41 area code
in March compared with
the same month last
year.
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I uess t at s t e
si n of a balan ed
mar et bu ers an
be more oos .
CHRISTIAN VERMAST
REAL ESTATE AGENT AT
SOT EBY S INTERNATIONAL
REALTY CANADA
Piggy, and Mr. Osterberg con-
cluded that only some members
of the board one of whom sub-
sequently died ahead of the LAT
hearings knew in advance that
Pink Piggy would be getting
$500,000 of the condo’s money.
Mana ers are er
s ared of dealin it
people, t e are orried
about iolen e, t e are
ettin burned out, and
orried about losin
t eir li en e.
BRADLEY CHAPLICK
PARTNER WIT LE ITT DI LELLA
DUGGAN AND C APLIC LLP
Mr. Berger argued the lack of
approval from the board was
commonplace “The appellant
says that YCC No. 25 operates on
silence’ and that if he waited for
approval from the board, noth-
ing would ever get done. He testi-
fied that, for him, silence is ap-
proval,’ ” Mr. Osterberg said.
“To be clear, I find that silence
is not approval. I do not ac-
cept the appellant’s evidence
that this is the way things are al-
ways done.”
Mr. Berger didn’t respond to
requests for comment regarding
the LAT ruling. When he spoke to
The Globe for the Sept. 20 story
he suggested the allegations
against him were a matter of
opinion.
“So there’s a violation of the
act Let’s just assume that. You
say it’s a violation of the act. I’ve
had other people look at it and
O THE LO E AN
In higher price brackets, Mr.
Vermast says the increase in sup-
ply allows buyers to be more se-
lective. Fully renovated proper-
ties in prime locations sell quick-
ly, but a house that has a less-
than-ideal setting, floor plan or
condition will languish.
“I guess that’s the sign of a bal-
anced market – buyers can be
more choosy,” he says.
Mr. Maranger says buyers also
feel less of a sense of urgency
when they see new listings land-
ing on the market.
“They say, If 123 Main St. sells,
that’s fine – we’ll find 456 Main
St.’ ”
The condo market, mean-
while, is very sluggish compared
with the demand for single-fam-
ily homes, the agents say.
According to the Toronto Re-
gional Real Estate Board, condo
sales in the core 416 area code
dropped 15.5 per cent in March
compared with the same month
last year. That compares with a
10.4-per-cent increase in sales of
semi-detached houses and a 2.1-
per-cent dip in sales of detached
houses in the 416 in the same pe-
riod.
Mr. Maranger and Mr. Vermast
say some homeowners appear
to be delaying downsizing and
holding onto their houses in-
stead. As a result, prices for larger
condos in older buildings have
softened.
Five years ago, homeowners
they don’t necessarily agree,” Mr.
Berger said. “Just because it says
something in the act doesn’t
mean that the act can’t be
changed or interpreted in a dif-
ferent way.”
Mr. Osterberg also found that
the cryptocurrency plan failed to
meet the definitions in the law of
an eligible condo reserve fund
investment.
According to the ruling, while
Mr. Berger agrees now that the
Pink Piggy investment was not
allowable, he claimed at the time
“he was under the honest, but
mistaken, understanding that
the investment was compli-
ant.” Also the package submitted
to YCC No. 25’s board made sev-
eral “demonstrably false and cer-
tainly deceptive” claims about
the compliance of Pink Piggy,
ruled Mr. Osterberg, concluding
“I also find that the appellant
likely knew the information was
false.”
Mr. Berger has said the money
has since been paid back in full,
but Mr. Osterberg ruled that the
condo “lost the opportunity to
earn investment income during
the better part of a year that the
money was allegedly in the pos-
session of Pink Piggy.”
“The results of this case send a
clear message that the CMRAO
will not tolerate advising or solic-
iting condominiums to make il-
legal investments of this nature,
which put owners at serious
risk,” said Tsehaie Makonnen, di-
rector of communications and
outreach for the CMRAO. “This
case serves as a strong deterrent
and going forward the CMRAO
will be issuing additional guide-
lines and conducting more in-
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who wanted to sell their house
and buy a smaller condo with
some money left over were sur-
prised to learn they actually
might need to visit their bank in
order to afford the condo, Mr. Ma-
ranger says.
But that dynamic has shifted.
“Now there’s definitely going
to be that delta where they can
take money off the table.”
The agents believe the spring
market may linger into the sum-
mer of 2024. With all eyes on the
Bank of Canada, an interest-rate
cut could spark a busy July and
August, they say.
Ms. Omran at Scotiabank adds
that the outlook for interest rates
also keeps changing based on
such factors as the performance
of the U.S. economy, wage growth
in this country and the housing
market itself, she adds.
Ms. Omran also notes the con-
tradiction in seeing home sales
below long-term averages while
population growth is at record
highs.
The economist says it’s cer-
tainly not a surprise that people
are not jumping into the housing
market en masse right now, and
some small swings are to be ex-
pected.
It’s not an easy economic envi-
ronment in which to make a very,
very big financial and emotion-
al decision, Ms. Omran says.
“It’s stressful on a normal day
in regular times.”
spections in this area.”
Yet there are some in the con-
do management industry who
warn that condo managers are
under growing strain.
“Managers are very scared of
dealing with people, they are
worried about violence, they are
getting burned out, and worried
about losing their licence,” said
Bradley Chaplick, a partner with
Levitt Di Lella Duggan and Chap-
lick LLP who handles legal mat-
ters for several condominium
corporation clients. He worries
that the CMRAO requires condo
managers to respond to too
many complaints, many of them
frivolous, at the risk of profes-
sional sanction.
“A condo owner with a grudge
has the ability to make the effi-
cient management of the condo-
minium totally impossible for
condo boards and property man-
agers,” he said. “You used to be
able to just ignore the trouble-
makers, but now you can’t be-
cause they can file a complaint at
the CMRAO.”
Mr. Chaplick and others say
they’ve even seen CMRAO com-
plaints where managers are re-
quired to respond to claims that
they were rude to a condo resi-
dent.
“For every good complaint
that needs to be handled, there’s
probably 100 they should leave
people alone,” said Mr. Weinberg,
who said he’s frustrated by com-
plaints that appear to be person-
al beefs.
“I don’t have any confidence
in the CMRAO they spend most
of its time trying to persecute
managers for not talking nicely
to people.”
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evelopers, designers,
community activists
and regular residents
are pushing for
multidwelling homes
that promote
social connection
FRANCES BULA VANCO VER
hen developer Hesam
Deihimi was thinking
about what he wanted
for a big development in the Van-
couver suburb of Port Moody – al-
most 200 apartments in that
city’s old downtown, incorporat-
ing a heritage building – he knew
he wanted to help create a com-
munity, not just a bunch of boxes.
“I think people are longing for
a sense of belonging,” says the
Iran-born Mr. Deihimi, who has
been interested in the topic of be-
longing himself since he was a
child trying to figure out how he
fit into Canada. There’s a reason
his company is named Placemak-
er Communities.
So when the team he’d hired to
design the project, GBL Architects
Inc., came up with a plan that in-
cluded a mews in the middle of
the two buildings, with shops and
caf s and places to gather and sit
– places to connect – he was all in.
As it turned out, local residents
and council felt the same way.
The proposal for Mary Ann’s
Place, named after a beloved
community activist, Mary Anne
Cooper, who died in 2021, saw 15
people come out to support the
project and a unanimous approv-
al vote from council last Septem-
ber.
Mr. Deihimi’s project is an ex-
ample of the growing interest
from a pioneering group of Van-
couver developers and architects,
community activists, urban de-
signers, psychology professors
and regular residents in the possi-
bility of designing new buildings
that help promote social connec-
tion – a topic of considerable in-
terest in a city famously known
for its high reported levels of
loneliness.
And it’s getting even more at-
tention as Canadian cities, due to
new policies emanating from civ-
ic, provincial and federal govern-
ments panicking about how to
grapple with the country’s hous-
ing crisis, are promoting massive
new density of all kinds.
Among those trying to ensure
that social connection gets built
into this transformation is the ur-
ban-planning group Happy Ci-
ties, which consulted for Mr. Dei-
hemi on the Port Moody project
as part of its ongoing work on re-
searching ways to create more so-
cially connected new housing.
Another Vancouver organiza-
tion, Hey Neighbour Collective,
is also dedicated to understand-
ing and fostering connections
among tenants as a way of creat-
ing more resilient social net-
works. That group, co-led by Mi-
chelle Hoar, has been working
with Happy Cities in recent
months on holding workshops
for city planners on how to incor-
porate more of those ideas into
formal design rules and incen-
tives.
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Tower House’s design featured seductive outdoor courtyards with picnic ta les and play areas, all accessi le to the general pu lic.
A non-profit group, also in
Vancouver, called Urbanarium
which focuses on better planning
and design in cities, recently ran
an architecture competition that
asked entrants to focus on social
connection, along with green de-
sign and affordability. That pro-
duced a raft of entries that aimed
to increase social interactions
among both residents inside a
building and in the general
neighbourhood.
One of the winning entries,
Tower House, by the New York
firm Studio Oh Song, featured se-
ductive outdoor courtyards with
picnic tables and play areas, all
accessible to the general public.
Vancouver’s Team Switch includ-
ed a caf and other commercial
space in the ground floor of their
imaginary development that had
two six-storey buildings with 16
apartments on a single lot. Others
proposed having meeting rooms
or gyms in the apartment build-
ing that could be used by other
residents in the area. Many fea-
tured outside walkways on all
floors, where residents could see
each other as they travelled to
their front doors
And, out on a new frontier that
combines psychology with archi-
tecture and technology, Vancouv-
er architect Bruce Haden, founder
of FLUID Architecture, is working
with TED-talk-famous University
of B.C. psychology professor Eli-
zabeth Dunn to develop a new
kind of software to predict how
architecture and design affect hu-
man interaction.
“We’re trying to build an evi-
dence library,” says Mr. Haden.
He got interested in the topic
almost a decade ago when he
tried to design a different kind of
social housing building for single
mothers but couldn’t convince
the funders that it was worth
spending the needed 30 per cent
more on exterior walls to support
a design with outdoor walkways
where the women would be more
likely to see and subsequently so-
cialize with each other.
“We had a hard piece of mea-
surable data going up against a
soft social intention,” he remem-
bers ruefully. “So now we’re try-
ing to bring some degree of evi-
dence about sociability, like what
happened with green design dec-
ades ago.”
The software he is developing,
with the help of Ms. Dunn and
tech specialists, aims to produce
usable data to calculate how peo-
ple move through the stages of
connecting with neighbours –
from simply encountering them,
to proceeding to the “hello”
phase, to forming enough of a
bond that they can count on a
neighbour for help. That could be
anything from borrowing a tool
to letting them know their pet
has escaped to the street to check-
ing up to see how they’re doing in
a heat wave or power failure.
To that end, they model differ-
ent kinds of designs with differ-
ent “characters” people who
work outside the home, others
who don’t, for example to figure
out what kinds of layouts create
more of those encounters that
help people gradually come to
recognize familiar faces and be
more inclined to start communi-
cating.
“We’re trying to understand
who are you crossing paths with,”
he says.
That means looking carefully
at the different types of areas in
buildings where people might en-
counter each other “pause
spaces” – the places where people
are 100-per-cent going to go as
they conduct their regular lives,
like garbage areas, parking, lob-
bies.
One scenario they modelled
for a proposed Indigenous hous-
ing project on Vancouver Island
showed that, under one kind of
layout, the number of crossings
increased more than 10 times,
compared to another.
But space for connection can’t
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be just any random room or pub-
lic area. At Happy Cities, senior
housing researcher Madeleine
Hebert says that one kind of
space that developers often like
to include – big, fancy, perfectly
designed lounge spaces or out-
door areas with a couple of
benches but nothing in particular
to do there – don’t work. People
need a reason to go a playspace,
a community garden, a space for
a party or a yoga class , not just a
photo opp.
“Where we see really lively
spaces is where it’s used as an ex-
tension of their homes,” she said.
Ms. Dunn, whose research got
a lot of attention during the
height of COVID-19 isolation as
everyone was trying to under-
stand its effects, emphasizes that
this area of research is so unex-
plored yet that she and her team
end up having to do new studies
just to figure out what to program
into the software.
An established body of re-
search shows that the more times
a person sees someone else, the
more likely they are to have a pos-
itive association. But she said a
lot of other supposed research
about social connections is “con-
jecture that doesn’t rise to the
level of evidence.”
So she’s fascinated with the
idea of breaking new ground. “I
think this is a really exciting ar-
ea.”
That kind of connection isn’t
just a nice, feel-good thing, as any
one of the people interested in
this issue will tell you.
Backing them up, the U.S. Sur-
geon General has included a rec-
ommendation to “design the
built environment to promote so-
cial connection” as one of six re-
medies to combat what his office
has described as a catastrophe of
loneliness in modern society that
is affecting people’s mental and
physical health.
Still and all, design only goes so
far, they also emphasize.
Says Ms. Hoar “It doesn’t mat-
ter how pretty the buildings are if
you can’t afford them” or if you’re
constantly anxious that you’re
going to be evicted.
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ontreal tenant issues

warning after being held
liable for ta es that
went unpaid by his
apartment’s owner

KERRY
GOLD

OPINION

D
avid Siscoe has some ad-
vice for fellow renters
across the country get
proof that your landlord is pay-
ing their taxes, or at least make
sure you’ve got a property man-
ager who’s responsible.
Mr. Siscoe is the Montreal ten-
ant who was audited and as-
sessed by Canada Revenue Agen-
cy in 2018 and ordered to pay six
years worth of his non-resident
landlord’s withholding taxes, as
reported recently by the Globe
and Mail. Mr. Siscoe says he did
not know his landlady was a
non-resident.
He also didn’t know that ten-
ants renting from a non-resident
are required to withhold and re-
mit 25 per cent of their rent to
CRA each month, unless they
have a property manager doing it
for them, or if the non-resident
has made alternate arrange-
ments to pay their taxes.
“How is there no onus on the
CRA to make sure that tenants
are aware of this ” he asks. “I
didn’t have a clue.”
The CRA had been unable to
collect from his overseas land-
lord. He was then assessed for
the unpaid withholding taxes, as
well as compounded interest and
penalties that added up to about
$80,000, he says. In March, 2023,
he took the Minister of National
Revenue to tax court and lost.
The only break he was given
was a reduction in the number of
years he owed for, from six to
three. He says he now owes
around $43,000, although he be-
lieves more interest and penal-
ties have since accrued. And he’s
already paid nearly double that
amount in accounting and legal
fees.
Mr. Siscoe and his wife were
paying nearly $3,000 a month in
rent at 501-4175 Rue Sainte Cathe-
rine Ouest, in Westmount, Que.,
an enclave of Montreal. Mr. Sis-
coe is a 1988 Canadian Olympic
athlete and two-time taekwondo
world champion who owns a
gym.
The 61-year-old said he still
hasn’t settled his debt with CRA,
and his lawyer told him that it’s
unlikely they’ll be willing to ne-
gotiate.
“They were acting like a dog
on a bone,” he says of his initial
communications with the tax
agency. “They proceeded to sug-
gest that we were knowingly pay-
ing a non-Canadian resident
money, and I was a little flabber-
gasted.”
David Siscoe says he owes the Canada Revenue Agency around 4 ,
that the CRA was una le to collect from his overseas landlord. ROGER LEMOYNE/T E GLOBE AND MAIL
“I said, You are trying to sug-
gest I knowingly paid her 100 per
cent of the rent because I wanted
to be burdened with her tax im-
plications Is that what you are
trying to suggest ’ I felt like this is
a joke somehow.”
Mr. Siscoe explained that he
had rented unit 501 for more
than 20 years, going back to 1996.
He says that in 2010, the landlord
told him to start making the rent
payments to his sister. The new
lease agreement had a Montreal
address on it, and he hadn’t paid
attention to the fact that the new
landlady had signed the docu-
ment in Italy, he says. Mr. Siscoe
said she visited the apartment a
few times over the years, and it
was only after he got audited that
he discovered she was living in
Italy. After he realized he was on
the hook for her tax bill, he and
his wife and their kids moved out
of the unit a few months later.
Mr. Siscoe did not want to
share his landlady’s contact in-
formation for this story, on ad-
vice of counsel.
After the Siscoe family moved
out, they learned that the former
landlady had put the condo on
the market, and Mr. Siscoe noti-
fied the CRA that they had an op-
portunity to collect the taxes she
owed. He never found out if they
tried.
In court documents, Mr. Siscoe
argued that his landlord had giv-
en a Canadian address on the
deed of sale when she purchased
the unit she had a Canadian so-
cial insurance number and his
rent cheques were going to a TD
after eing ordered to pay three years worth of withholding ta es
Canada account in Montreal.
Also in court documents, the
CRA provided evidence that
showed the landlord hadn’t filed
income tax returns she didn’t
have any links to property in
Canada other than the rental
unit her phone number on the
lease was an Italian phone num-
ber she had used an Italian e-
mail address to correspond with
Mr. Siscoe and she had told the
CRA auditor she lived in Italy.
The withholding tax has been
around for decades. The problem
for tenants arises when a non-
resident landlord doesn’t pay it.
And non-resident owned proper-
ties represent a substantial share
of the secondary rental market in
Canada.
Considering the risk to tenants
– amid a housing crisis – Mr. Sis-
coe wonders why CRA didn’t put
a lien against the rental property,
or at least act to collect on the
debt when the property sold.
Mr. Siscoe’s lawyer, Mr. Luu,
says that all the CRA must do is
establish liability to collect on
the debt, and he said there
doesn’t appear to be a guideline
on how they do that.
“Whether the CRA could have
collected the rent in some other
way does not impact his liability
under the law. The CRA and the
tax court have to apply the law as
it is written.
“That’s why if we want any
meaningful change, we need to
change the law and it’s for the
Department of Finance to inter-
vene.”
In an e-mail response,
Caroline Th riault, deputy spo-
kesperson and media relations
manager for the Department of
Finance, said that the require-
ment for renters helps to ensure
that CRA obtains information on
rental income non-residents
might be earning in Canada. It al-
so “helps facilitate collection of
the resulting tax,” she said.
“This does not cost renters
anything,” Ms. Th riault said,
adding that it is standard prac-
tice.
A CRA spokesperson said in
an e-mail that they encourage
non-resident landlords to hire
property managers. Otherwise,
tenants are required to withhold
the amount and fill out a Form
NR4.
“If the non-resident fails to re-
mit, the tenant is responsible for
the full amount,” the statement
said.
CRA’s practice is to “make ev-
ery effort” to assess the non-resi-
dent owner rather than the indi-
vidual tenant.
The agency pointed to a legal
website that offered tips on ways
renters can protect themselves,
including a land title search on
the landlord, asking the landlord
for a certificate of residency, writ-
ing an indemnity clause into the
lease agreement, and being on
the lookout for any requests to
redirect rent payment to some-
one else.
Adam Chambers, Conserva-
tive shadow minister for national
revenue, which oversees the
CRA, took issue with the policy
and called the CRA’s reaction
“cruel measures in the tax code
that unfairly punish renters who
have done no wrong.”
Real estate lawyer Ron Usher,
who is general counsel for the
Society of Notaries Public of B.C.,
where a non-resident owns one
in 10 new condos, says that for
every sale by a non-tax resident,
a clearance certificate from CRA
must be obtained.
“Until CRA provides it, the no-
tary will retain the amount in
trust.”
To prevent Mr. Siscoe’s situa-
tion, he suggests a system where-
by CRA is notified of any non-
tax-resident real estate purchas-
es. At that point, CRA would send
the purchaser notice of tax obli-
gations and issue an individual
tax number if they don’t qualify
for a social insurance number.
Mr. Siscoe said he is doing his
best not to dwell on the situa-
tion. But he wants Canadian rent-
ers to beware.
“Don’t get me wrong. If me be-
ing angry could change the out-
come, yes, I would be angry. But
I’m not going to let them take
more from me than they’ve tak-
en,” he says.
“As an athlete, I spent my ca-
reer travelling around the world,
holding my country’s flag but
your own country can say, Let’s
screw him over.’ ”
He and his wife are renting an-
other place, but it’s different this
time.
“Right away I said to the land-
lord , I need to know you are
paying your Canadian taxes, and
I need it in writing.’ ”

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DONE DEAL

71 Jamieson Court, No. ,

New Westminster, B.C.
N E W W ESTM IN STE R

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Listin a ent C er l Da ie, ill
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W AT T EY GOT This ground-level

condo is in the 33-year-old Palace
Quay concrete tower near the
Fraser River. In addition to the
view, the building has a gym, pool
and hot tub. The 1,163-square-foot
suite has two bedrooms, two full
bathrooms, an open-concept lay-
out with a separate dining area,
and fireplace.
There’s a partly covered large
patio for gardening. The building
allows pets and rentals and the
unit comes with parking.

T E ACTION The sellers, who re-

ceived the one offer, had wanted
to move closer to work. The
buyers plan on living in the unit.
“The sellers’ timing worked
perfectly with the market speed-
ing up, and the perfect buyer was
waiting for something like this to
pop up,” said listing agent Cheryl T E AGENT S TA E “For a lot of entry- market because most people an- been widely expected to be when increase in new buyer approvals,
Davie. “The buyer was in touch type product, we’re seeing com- ticipated a hold, Ms. Davie said. we could see an initial drop but it’s and that tends to lead to increased
hours after the listing came on petition and multiple offers,” Ms. The spring market is already pick- going to be a long slow road down sales for us three to four months
and wrote an offer after our first Davie said. “Anything under $1.4- ing up compared with the fall 2023 to more reasonable rates, and I later. There are a lot of buyers out
showing. We also priced ourselves million is busy. Above that mark market, but she calls it “muted” doubt we’ll ever see 1.5 per cent there wanting to do something,
right at market value which is key and product is sitting.” compared with past spring mar- lending on a five-year fixed rate they just aren’t quite ready to
in attaining a good sale.” The recent Bank of Canada rate kets. mortgage again,” Ms. Davie said. jump in with both feet yet.”
The sale completed March 25. hold won’t affect the spring “The third quarter this year has “Mortgage brokers are seeing an ERR GOLD
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1 4 Westmount Blvd., N.W.,
Calgary
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T E ACTION This two-storey house

has newly renovated interiors
and a scenic view of the Bow Riv-
er, but its location near a busy
road was a dealbreaker for many
buyers. Two visitors made over-
tures but fell short of a written of-
fer a third came through with a
solid offer $20,000 below the ask-
ing price, which was accepted.
“Had this home been a block in
towards the community, it prob-
ably would have sold for a quar-
ter-million dollars more,” agent
Kamil Lalji said. “ Plus , it only
had two bedrooms upstairs and
there’s no garage.
“It sold for a decent amount of
money,” Mr. Lalji said. “That ties
back to it being a really well-built,
quality home with really nice aes-
thetics.”
W AT T EY GOT This 112-year-old
house marries Scandinavian and
Japanese design elements
throughout, from its gated front
garden to a minimalist kitchen
inside with walnut cabinetry and
stainless steel countertops.
Upstairs, the primary bed-
room has a vaulted ceiling, a dou-
ble-sided, gas fireplace and a bal-
cony, as well as a walk-in closet
and an open-concept, five-piece
bathroom with a freestanding
tub.
There are living and dining
spaces on the main floor, and
open areas for leisure on the oth-
er levels. The basement also has
heated flooring, a guest bedroom
and one of the home’s four bath-
rooms.
A private backyard and park-
ing pad fill out the 25- by 139-foot
lot.
T E AGENT S TA E “The Japandi’
style is an aesthetic the owners
liked, which is a mix of Scandina-
vian and Japanese design that has
more masculine colours to it with
darker woods,” Mr. Lalji said.
“All of the upgrades are super
high quality.”
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1 Rosedale Rd., No. 819,
Toronto
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Williams Referred Urban Realt

T E ACTION About 20 buyers

toured this 1,166-square-foot
suite, undeterred by the extra
steps and special financing re-
quired to purchase a unit in a
co-op building.
With few other options in the
low-rise buildings hugging the
Rosedale Ravine, it received two
bids and sold $17,000 shy of the
list price.
“It was a time when there
wasn’t really anything for sale, so
we capitalized on that,” agent
Andrew Ipekian said.
“The nice thing about a co-op
is you get a lot more space
than you would in a traditional
condo. But financing is a lot
more challenging than a tradi-
tional condo. As well, you need to
go through an interview process
to be accepted into the building.”
W AT T EY GOT This two-bedroom
unit has parquet flooring, pot
lights and a wood-burning fire-
place in the living room. The gal-
ley kitchen has been updated
with tile flooring and stainless-
steel appliances.
The primary bedroom has
two closets and one of the unit’s
two bathrooms.
Monthly fees of $1,758 cover
water, heating, cable and taxes,
plus 24-hour concierge and use of
a gym and outdoor pool.
The unit comes with a storage
locker but not an assigned park-
ing spot. Rental parking spots
range from $50 to $90 a month.
Subway stations on Bloor and
Yonge streets are about half a
kilometre away, along with a
variety of restaurants and shops.
T E AGENT S TA E “A lot of people
visiting live in Rosedale already
or were familiar with living in
such a great neighbourhood and
wanted to stay,” Mr. Ipekian said.
“Compared to newer condos
being built today, this gives them
a generous amount of space and
feeling like their current home
they were transitioning out of.
S DN A

O OF
5 Hanna Ave., No. 41, Toronto price. um, like a wide, west-facing bal-
LIBE RTY IL L AG E “We viewed lots of cookie-cut- cony.
ter condos and he fell in love The unit has two bathrooms,
As in pri e , Februar , with a two-storey, soft loft six appliances, a storage locker
2024 with 17-foot ceilings, floor-to- and one parking spot. Monthly
Sellin pri e ,000 Februar , ceiling windows and a view of fees of $708 cover water, 24-hour
2024 the BMO Field where he’s look- concierge and use of building
Pre ious sellin pri e 0 ,000 ing forward to watching the FI- amenities, from a dog wash sta-
De ember, 20 , 0 Mar , FA World Cup in 2026,” said Mr. tion to a basketball court.
20 Ramsay.
Taxes , 44 202 “It was easier to negotiate be- T E AGENT S TA E “It’s unique be-
Da s on t e mar et cause there were no other offers, cause there aren’t a lot of soft
Bu ers a ents en and aime and at that time, there weren’t a lofts in Liberty Village,” said Mr.
Ramsa , ar e alles Real Estate lot of multiple offers on condos Ramsay.
Ltd. in that price range.” “Our client was specifically
looking in Liberty Village be-
T E ACTION Agents Ken and Jaime W AT T EY GOT This roughly 10- cause he likes the amenities that
Ramsay escorted their client year-old unit was designed with Liberty Village has to offer, along
through more than ten two-bed- elements of an authentic loft, with its close vicinity to work
room suites in Liberty Village suite at Liberty Market Lofts was fortunate that no other of- such as double-height ceilings in and the lakeshore where he en-
and the neighbouring King West stood out, though it was at the fers emerged and finalized a deal the living and dining area, and joys cycling.”
community. This two-storey top of their budget. The buyer about $5,000 under the asking luxuries of a modern condomini- S DN A
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This house at 9 Meadowcliffe Dr. in Toronto has a kitchen with a large Thermador range facing the windows, with sink ehind it on an island. The ca inetry, fridge and wall mounted
ovens form the ack two sides of the triangle shaped area. The kitchen has an e it to the deck, which runs the length of the house. P OTOS BY MEDIARAMA STUDIOS
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his two-storey mid-century modern near the carborough
Bluffs perches on the slope of the Cudia Park ravine
SHANE DINGMAN
REAL ESTATE REPORTER
9 Meadowcliffe Dr.
TO RO NTO
As in Pri e ,4 ,000
Taxes 6, 2024
Lot Si e b 60 feet
A ent In rid Furtado, bro er, Real Estate
ome ard
oronto is a city of skyscrapers and
subways and stadiums and street-
cars, but away from the urban core
there are still spots that might as
well be 150 kilometres away on a lonely
lake.
“I used to live in The Beach and we
found it was very busy and hard to find
parking. All that stuff was an issue,” said
Mary Opper, a retired creative director for
book publishers. Over the years she moved
further east, to Scarborough’s bluffs com-
munities, and then about 18 years ago she
and her husband stumbled across their
next house. “We lived two streets over in a
more traditional home, and we were walk-
ing by when we saw the For Sale’ sign.”
Within two weeks, they owned the house.
“It was the biggest impulse buy we’d ever
done.”
The house at 90 Meadowcliffe Dr. is easy
to miss if you’re driving. It hides below the
curve of the road as it climbs down from
Kingston Road through the hills that end
at the lake’s edge. The house perches on
the slope of the Cudia Park ravine, nestling
EEK
into a section of wooded privacy rarely
seen even in a city full of ravines.
“This feels like Muskoka in the city,” Ms.
Opper said. “When the leaves are in you
see nothing, you’re in a forest.”
According to Ms. Opper, even the engi-
neers she had in to help shore up her prop-
erty after major storms washed away part
of the grounds were full of compliments
“They said this is the best ravine property
they’ve ever seen.”
THE HOUSE TODAY
A long driveway good for about six cars
switches back from Meadowcliffe leading
to the house.
From the drive, you can see the land
drop away so that what looks like a one-
storey bungalow is revealed as a two-
storey mid-century modern structure with
walls of windows facing the ravine.
There are three ways to access the home
from the drive through the garage via a
glassed-in breezeway a later addition by a
previous owner down the terraced steps
to the lower-level patio or over a timber
bridge that spans a stone-filled waterfall
feature.
A pergola angles across this face of the
house, providing partial cover from the
sun between the second-floor deck
straight across to the garage, providing
shade for indoor and outdoor spaces along
the way.
The contemporary foyer opens to the
kitchen on the left, on the window side of
the house, and to a cedar-lined hallway on
O THE
the right leading to living spaces and stairs
to the lower level. The ceiling vaults up to
the roofline, with large windows above the
doorways to pour light into this side of the
house.
The kitchen has an eat-in area next to a
large plate of glass looking onto the bridge
and waterfall. The kitchen work spaces are
a true triangle, with a large Thermador
range facing the windows, with sink be-
hind it on an island. Cabinetry, fridge and
wall-mounted ovens also Thermador
form the back two sides of the triangle with
a server and bar sink at the edge of the
transition into the dining living room.
There are pass-throughs to the hallway
and dining room to keep the space open
and unsegregated, and there’s also an exit
to the deck, which runs the length of the
house.
The upper level has a large open living
space that the front hallway and kitchen
both open into. Two-thirds of the way
down is a fireplace on exterior wall that
provides a separation to a sitting area also
panelled in cedar . On the side of the
house that wedges into the slope are doors
to the two upper-level bedrooms, which
have more mid-century features like floor-
to-ceiling windows in the corners that
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bring the outside in without sacrificing pri-
vacy.
The lower level has more of Ms. Opper’s
personal stamp. She replaced the stairs
leading down with a dramatic open steel
and limestone structure and the under-
floor heating on this level keeps it cozy. A
large tiled space in the middle leads to an
exercise room yoga studio and as you fol-
low the wall of windows past the fireplace
there is a den and media-watching space
with light wood built-ins.
Off the TV room is the door to the third
bedroom, the at-grade bedroom looks out
onto the side yard, the largest piece of flat
greenspace on the property. The only
neighbours you’re likely to see out these
windows are deer.
“We get a lot of wildlife here, there are
herds of deer coming through I had
some yesterday morning, two of them
were staring back at me,” said Ms. Opper,
who has a collection of deer photos on her
phone. She recommends keeping extra
plant matter in the garden as a buffet for
peckish deer.
Through sliding doors there’s a large
stone patio that extends to the new 2022
retaining wall, and runs along the back of
the house, perfect for entertaining friends
and family.
THE NEW WING
Extending the house over the waterfall to
the garage created two new indoor-out-
door spaces that Ms. Opper makes the
most use of. A courtyard where the water
feature starts now nestles between the
glass hallway and the slope of the ravine,
and on the opposite side facing the drive-
way is an all-glass room that Ms. Opper us-
es as an office and studio.
Ms. Opper started her career in the art
department of popular magazines such as
Saturday Night at the time Canada’s ol-
dest general interest magazine, before it
closed in 2005 , and Quest Magazine, ed-
ited by Michael Enright, better known as a
long-time CBC Radio host. She worked as
an art director with Pearson Publishing
and through several mergers at Penguin
Canada. “One of my favourite persons to
work with was Stuart Maclean we had
quite a good relationship, I really liked
working on his covers,” she said.
She retired about 10 years ago and took
up painting, and through the past few dec-
ades she’s spent many hours in the bright
space sandwiched between nature and ar-
chitecture, experiencing all the seasons
and their unique joys.
And no, she doesn’t have a favourite.
Sure, spring’s green’s are vivid and fall’s
colours are a riot. Even winter has its place
when the leaves drop and clear the sight-
lines to the lake “I get to have magnificent
sunrises in the winter, the whole sky goes
orange.”
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tudents’ wishes
came to fruition in a
five-storey, metal-clad
building so porous
that they feel
interconnected no
matter how they use it

DAVE
LeBLANC

ARC ITOURIST

MISSISSAUGA

hen it comes to postsec-

ondary student union
buildings, they’re usual-
ly crummy, ill-fitting hand-me-
downs “Hey, SU, it’s the Faculty
of here, we just built ourselves
a sexy new building, so you can
have the one we deemed unfit for
human habitation, okay ”
Not so at Sheridan College’s
Hazel McCallion Campus in Mis-
sissauga, where a big, white non-
elephant of a building has sprung
up where a parking lot used to be.
“We bring all the student
unions here to tour,” says Jamie
King, Sheridan Student Union di-
rector, “and they can’t believe
what we’ve got, because some
student union buildings are a lit-
tle more, uh, rustic, I’ll say.”
The five-storey, metal-clad
building is anything but a cabin
in the woods An almost fully
glazed two-storey atrium filled
with food services, a pub and
other hang-out areas tucks into a
small, grassy knoll while, above,
three more storeys containing
club meeting spaces, quiet
rooms, a massive fitness facility
with an indoor running track,
and a large, tech-filled space suit-
able for lectures seem to float ef-
fortlessly above. Materials are ro-
bust yet still elegant, and there is
so much porosity students feel
interconnected no matter how
they use the building.
“You can see it’s kind of like a
jigsaw puzzle,” says architect Da-
niel Ling, a principal at Mont-
gomery Sisam Architects Inc. “It’s
not like one level is all lounges,
one level it’s all the study spaces
we wanted to mix and match
them in a way to find comple-
mentary uses so that certain
spaces can have an overlap.
The idea is to create opportunity
for accidental interaction.”
It’s not unlike urbanist Jane Ja-
cobs’s theory that dense, colour-
ful, pokey high streets cause pe-
destrians to linger and, in so do-
ing, promote chance interactions
between locals that eventually The new student union
turn into friendships. And the uilding at Sheridan
more people know one another, College’s Ha el McCallion
the safer a community will be. Campus in Mississauga was
Except, at Sheridan, all of this Ja- designed y Montgomery
cobification is happening in- Sisam Architects Inc. and
doors. That may have something Moriyama Teshima
to do with Mississauga’s incred- Architects. One of the
ibly rapid growth from Toronto architects said the su ur an
bedroom community to vibrant, conte t around the uilding
stand-alone city Wide suburban inspired the look.
roads and windswept parking P OTOS BY
lots still dominate in certain ar- DOUBLESPACE P OTOGRAP Y
eas.
That, however, influenced the
design of the building, Mr. Ling
says “This is a suburban context
there’s Cineplex across the way,
Square One shopping centre
over there, all kinds of big-box
retail, we’ve got condos – so a lot
of visual noise. When we looked
at this building we thought
that it needed some quiet re-
straint, kind of an understated
look from the outside, you get
glimpses of the programming in-
side, but not everything is visible,
so to draw you in.”
He’s right. The building is es-
pecially magnetic at night, when
the base glows, lantern-like, and
light spills onto the lawn and zig-
zagging pathways. Even a look
upward to the fourth floor re-
wards the eye with a peek of at- ing was paid for by students – fi- ing the boundaries between in- Montgomery Sisam Moriyama
tractive high ceilings and a “float- nal construction cost was a very side and outside. Teshima – filled with a complete-
ing” running track trimmed with W en e loo ed at reasonable $31-million – through And because the space was so ly different set of requirements
LED lighting. fees paid to the incorporated stu- incredibly busy, our little group classrooms yet still look to be
It’s hard not to be a moth t is buildin e dent union organization the had to make use of one of the “of a piece.” This was achieved by
drawn to this flame. t ou t t at it SSU has about 300 paid positions building’s quiet spaces – the club the use of similar white cladding,
A flame that began, in 2016, as needed some quiet and is assisted by a full-time staff meeting space on the second whether that be in the form of
kindling in the form of little yel- restraint, ind of an of 20 . And while silly things such floor – to get some serious archi- raised mullions, shading fins or
low pieces of paper, Mr. King as slides didn’t make the cut, the tectural conversation going She- the ribbed panels between win-
jokes “We started out with about understated loo students held strong on certain ridan has 120 clubs, which range dows.
a thousand sticky notes on walls, from t e outside, premium items, such as the from a tea drinking club to the “When you get it at the right
and ideas about slides from the ou et limpses of wood-strip ceilings, when it was Muslim Students Association . light, the shadows work with the
fifth floor to the third floor and t e pro rammin suggested that aluminum would It’s difficult to take a building different angles,” Mr. Klassen
rock walls and all of this, and save them considerable money. as large and multipurpose as this says. “And that’s exactly what we
then we pared it back a little bit. inside, but not On a walk-through with Mr. and find ways to make it warm were hoping would happen.”
“And that got to a document e er t in is isible, King, Mr. Ling and Will Klassen, and homey it’s also no mean feat And Sheridan’s Mississauga
that became, ultimately, the pro- so to dra ou in. an associate at Moriyama Teshi- to create isolation spaces that students, who knew exactly what
gram,” Mr. Ling finishes. A 2010 ma Architects, it’s clear the extra don’t feel like prison cells, or big they needed in a big new build-
Sheridan architectural technolo- DANIEL LING money was worth it. The fir ceil- communal areas that don’t feel ing, got what they were hoping
gy graduate, Lucas Laurenssen, PRINCIPAL AT MONTGOMERY ing not only adds warmth, it like a cacophonous shopping for as well.
SISAM ARC ITECTS INC.
became project manager to en- helps absorb sound, and, because mall. And because of the way the “The college knows that we’ve
sure the students’ wishes came to it slides past the glass walls to be- mechanical system was planned, set a standard here that they
fruition. come the soffit, it performs the the building also had to join with can’t ignore,” Mr. King finishes
Why Because the entire build- classic modernist trick of dissolv- an existing building – also by with a smile.
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