OT TAWA/ QUE BEC E D ITION
COM
Liberals back
push to have
inquiry probe
allegations
of collusion
STEVEN CHASE
SENIOR PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER
OTTAWA
The minority Liberals say they
will back an opposition motion
calling for allegations about fed-
eral politicians colluding with
other countries to be turned over
to the foreign interference inqui-
ry, a move that passes the accusa-
tions to another body to handle.
Public Safety Minister Dominic
LeBlanc told reporters Monday
that the government was already
in touch with the inquiry on the
weekend. He said the Privy Coun-
cil Office, a central government
agency that also serves the Prime
Minister’s Office, had already
reached out to the Foreign Inter-
ference Commission, headed by
Justice Marie-Josée Hogue, “to see
what they suggest in terms of the
best way forward.”
The vote on the Bloc Québécois
motion to turn the matter over to
Justice Hogue is scheduled for
Tuesday, but its passage appears
assured given that the Liberals,
NDP, Bloc and Conservatives have
indicated they would support it.
Mr. LeBlanc said the govern-
ment feels the Hogue inquiry “of-
fers us an appropriate forum
whereby the allegations that sur-
faced in the National Security In-
telligence Committee of Parlia-
mentarians can be examined.”
Justice Hogue is still in the
midst of a massive public inquiry
into interference in Canadian pol-
itics by China and other states. She
released an interim report in May
but is planning another round of
public hearings in the fall with a fi-
nal report due by the end of year.
INQUIRY, A15
UN Security
Council adopts
U.S.-sponsored
resolution for
Gaza ceasefire
EDITH M. LEDERER TANZANIA
The UN Security Council on Mon-
day overwhelmingly approved its
first resolution endorsing a cease-
fire plan aimed at ending the
eight-month war between Israel
and Hamas in Gaza.
The U.S.-sponsored resolution
welcomes a ceasefire proposal an-
nounced by President Joe Biden
that the United States says Israel
has accepted. It calls on the mili-
tant Palestinian group Hamas to
accept the three-phase plan.
The resolution – which was ap-
proved with 14 of the 15 Security
Council members voting in fa-
vour and Russia abstaining – calls
on Israel and Hamas “to fully im-
plement its terms without delay
and without condition.”
Whether Israel and Hamas
agree to go forward with the plan
remains in question, but the reso-
lution’s strong support in the
UN’s most powerful body puts
added pressure on both parties to
approve the proposal.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony
Blinken was in Israel on Monday,
where he urged Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu to accept
the plan for postwar Gaza as he
pushed for more international
pressure on Hamas to agree to the
ceasefire proposal. Mr. Netanyahu
has been skeptical of the deal, say-
ing that Israel is still committed to
destroying Hamas.
Hamas said it welcomed the
adoption of the resolution and
was ready to work with mediators
in indirect negotiations with Is-
rael to implement it.
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McLachlin to retire from top Hong Kong appeals court,
but maintains confidence in members’ independence
STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA promised Hong Kong citizens would re- Irwin Cotler, a widely respected champion
main in place until 2047. of human rights, said Ms. McLachlin should
In a statement Monday, Ms. McLachlin consider resigning her seat to protest
Former Canadian Supreme Court chief noted she has reached the age of 80 and will against China’s national-security law.
justice Beverley McLachlin says she will retire as a non-permanent judge of the “I think it would be an important state-
retire from her seat on Hong Kong’s highest Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal when her ment if she did,” Mr. Cotler said at the time.
appellate court when her term ends this current term ends on July 29. Last December, the son of jailed pro-de-
summer.
Her announcement follows news that
She said she still has confidence in the
independence of the court.
mocracy newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai,
on trial in Hong Kong for allegedly publish-
two British judges also quit the same court
last week. One of them, Jonathan Sump-
“While I will continue certain profession-
al responsibilities, I intend to spend more
ing seditious material and colluding with
foreign forces, also urged her to step down.
tion, wrote a column for the Financial
Times newspaper saying Hong Kong is
time with my family,” Ms. McLachlin said.
“It has been a privilege serving the peo-
Sebastien Lai asked whether Ms. McLachlin
wanted to remain part of a legal system that
“slowly becoming a totalitarian state.” ple of Hong Kong. I continue to have confi- has 1,500 political prisoners.
Ms. McLachlin had faced repeated calls dence in the members of the Court, their At the time, Ms. McLachlin told The
to resign since China’s 2020 imposition of a independence, and their determination to Globe she was staying on because she
national-security law eroded the legal
freedoms and rule of law that Beijing
uphold the rule of law.”
In 2020, former Liberal justice minister
believes the courts are still independent.
McLACHLIN, A15
Calgarians do their part to cut water use
as pipe rupture continues to cause shortages
CARRIE TAIT CALGARY said that was the last day he and his little afternoon. “That is the reality. It is not the
brother bathed. scene out of a movie anymore.
A
“It seems like they haven’t noticed,” she “I don’t say this to scare people, but I
lexander Aubichon says the last said. “We’re probably going to have to do a think it is incredibly important for us to
time he had a bath was never. bath with just a short amount of water understand how serious the situation is
On Monday afternoon, the five- tonight. It is kind of getting to that point.” right now.”
year-old was testing his new- The Aubichon-Mahar family members Calgary and its neighbouring cities
found ability to pump himself higher on a are champion water savers, exceeding Cal- slurped up 440 million litres of water on
swing. He jumped off and landed on a bed gary Mayor Jyoti Gondek’s request that Saturday and 457 million litres on Sunday,
of pebbles in a playground at the Bowness residents trim indoor water consumption compared with the 580 million litres they
Seniors’ Centre in Calgary. by 25 per cent. The city wants to ensure it typically consume this time of year, Ms.
“A pipe burst,” Alexander explained. can distribute water to everyone in the city, Gondek said – thanking residents for using
He is doing his part to conserve water af- while keeping enough on hand for emer- water judiciously.
ter a major piece of infrastructure ruptured gencies, such as a fire. Demand on Sunday outstripped supply
in Calgary last Wednesday, and officials are “If we don’t stick to using less water, the at times, she said, but the city started
uncertain when it will be fixed – putting the reality is that we may run out of water. You Monday morning with about 620 million
city at risk of running out of treated water. could end up turning on a tap and nothing litres of treated water available.
Alexander’s mother, Rebekah Mahar, will come out,” Ms. Gondek said Monday CALGARY, A15
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MOMENT IN TIME

UNE 11, 2008 ROM THE ARCHI ES

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A E A O O I E O
E IDENTIA C OO
I
ndigenous people from across the country
packed the House of Commons visitors’ gallery,
each carrying personal, often painful memories.
On the floor below, they witnessed something
many believed they would never see a Canadian
prime minister apologizing for the government’s
role in creating the Indian residential school sys-
tem. It was a policy motivated in part “to kill the
Indian in the child,” Stephen Harper said. Children
were often forcibly removed from their homes.
Some died at the schools. A grim legacy of sexual
and physical abuse was passed on to generations
that never set foot in a residential school. “Not only
did you suffer these abuses as children,” he said,
“but as you became parents you were powerless to
protect your own children from suffering the same
experience. And for this we are sorry.”
BILL CURRY 2011

[ COLUMNISTS ]

TIMOTHY
GARTON ASH I T ROB
CARRIC

OPINION E ON OPINION

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Study finds elephants might call each other

by name, as they react to personalized calls
ILL DUNHAM

Over the years, researchers who

study elephants have noticed an
intriguing phenomenon. Some-
times when an elephant makes a
vocalization to a group of other
elephants, all of them respond.
But sometimes when that same
elephant makes a similar call to
the group, only a single individu-
al responds.
Could it be that elephants ad-
dress each other by the equiva-
lent of a name A new study in-
volving wild African savannah
elephants in Kenya lends support
to this idea.
The researchers analyzed vo-
calizations – mostly rumbles gen-
erated by elephants using their
vocal cords, similar to how peo-
ple speak – made by more than
100 elephants in Amboseli Na-
tional Park and Samburu Nation-
al Reserve.
Using a machine-learning
model, the researchers identified
what appeared to be a name-like
component in these calls identi-
fying a specific elephant as the in-
tended addressee. The research-
ers then played audio for 17 ele-
phants to test how they would re-
spond to a call apparently
addressed to them as well as to a
call apparently addressed to
some other elephant.
The elephants responded
more strongly on average to calls
apparently addressed to them.
When they heard such a call, they
tended to behave more enthusi-
astically, walk toward the audio
source and make more vocaliza-
tions than when they heard one
apparently meant for someone
else.
The study’s findings indicate
that elephants “address one an-
other with something like a
name,” according to behavioural
ecologist Mickey Pardo of Cornell
University and formerly of Col-
orado State University, lead au-
thor of the study published on
Monday in the journal Nature
cology volution.
“Certainly, in order to address
one another in this way, ele-
phants must learn to associate
particular sounds with particular
individuals and then use those
sounds to get the attention of the
individual in question, which re-
quires sophisticated learning
ability and understanding of so-
cial relationships,” Dr. Pardo said.
Elephants are seen at Amboseli National Par in April. Researchers
analy ed vocali ations made by more than 100 elephants at the par
and Samburu National Reserve. MONICAH MWANGI/REUTERS
“The fact that elephants ad-
dress one another as individuals
highlights the importance of so-
cial bonds – and specifically,
maintaining many different so-
cial bonds – for these animals,”
Dr. Pardo added.
The elephants
responded more
strongly on a erage
to calls apparently
addressed to them.
When they heard such
a call, they tended to
beha e more
enthusiastically, wal
toward the audio source
and ma e more
ocali ations than when
they heard one
apparently meant
for someone else.
lephants, arth’s largest land
animals, are highly intelligent,
known to have keen memory and
problem-solving skills and so-
phisticated communication. Pre-
vious research has shown that
they engage in complicated beha-
viour – visual, acoustic and tactile
gestures – when greeting each
other.
Why would an elephant call to
another elephant by “name
“We don’t know exhaustively,
but from our analysis it appears
commonly during contact calls
where an elephant calls to anoth-
er individual – often by name,”
said Colorado State University
conservation biologist and study
co-author George Wittemyer,
chair of the scientific board of the
conservation group Save the le-
phants.
“It was also common among a
mother’s rumbles to her calves,
often to calm them down or
check in with them. We thought
we would find it in greeting cere-
monies, but it was less common
in those types of vocalizations,”
Dr. Wittemyer added.
Using individual-specific vocal
labels – names – is rare, but not
unprecedented, in the animal
kingdom. Dolphins and parrots
have been shown to do this, too.
But when they do it, they just im-
itate vocalizations made by the
other animal. In elephants, the
vocal labels are not simply imitat-
ing the sounds made by the ad-
dressee.
“Instead, their names seem to
be arbitrary, like human names,”
Dr. Pardo said. “Addressing indi-
viduals with arbitrary names like-
ly requires a capacity for some de-
gree of abstract thought.”
“I think this work highlights
how intelligent and interesting
elephants are, and I hope that en-
genders greater interest in their
conservation and protection,” Dr.
Wittemyer added.
Might people one day be able
to “talk” with elephants
“That would be fantastic, but
we are a long way off from that,”
Dr. Wittemyer said. “We still don’t
know the syntax or basic ele-
ments by which elephant vocali-
zations encode information. We
need to figure that out before we
can make deeper progress on un-
derstanding them.”
REUTERS
T U E S DAY , U N E 11, 202 | T E GLO E AN MAIL O NEWS | A3

Europe s ar right ursts into the ainstrea

elections confirm European Parliament, outgoing vs. new and highly risky, given the sliding biggest party but actually won 10
approval ratings of both his presi- more seats 186 versus 176 in the
growth trend, as parties Number of seats
dency and his party no matter 2019 election, according to live
win nearly a uarter Outgoing New Parliament what happens in the National As- estimates from the uropean Par-
of seats in Parliament 0 seats 20 seats sembly election, he can remain liament . But the PP’s strong
President until 2027, having been showing is not necessarily great
Identity and re-elected in 2022 . oters some- news for Ms. von der Leyen, who
58 Democracy times love kicking governments is seeking a second term.
ERIC REGULY
E ROPEAN REA C IE (Far-right) when they are on the downswing, She needs the support of 61
ROME as British voters did in the Brexit parliamentarians to keep her job,
referendum, when David Cam- meaning she will probably have
European eron was prime minister. If Mr. to court the far right, notably Ms.
ANALYSIS 1 6 186 People s Party Cameron who is now Britain’s Meloni’s party. The two women
(Centre-right) Foreign Secretary were more have been working more closely

T
he centre held in the u-
ropean Union elections.
What did not hold was the
far right’s relative fringe status.
Those parties, especially the ones
in Germany, France and Italy,
surged in Sunday’s elections, to
the point that humiliated French
President mmanuel Macron dis-
solved parliament and called a
snap election to force voters to
choose who will control his coun-
try’s government – the far right or
the liberal centrists.
The uropean far right has
now gone mainstream, confirm-
ing a trend that has been evident
for some time. It is hard to say ex-
actly when it picked up momen-
tum, but 2016 would be a good
guess. That was the year of Brexit
and Donald Trump’s win over
Hillary Clinton in the U.S. elec-
tion, each an indication of con-
servative nationalism and anti-
globalism capturing the imagina-
tions of angry voters.
The propellants of that swing
to the right have been in place for
years a backlash against immi-
gration, especially of the undocu-
mented variety concerns about
the rising costs of meeting net-ze-
ro emissions goals rising infla-
tion and deindustrialization as
Asian countries replace urope
and North America as the world’s
manufacturing powerhouses
and concerns about sexuality and
gender.
While the sensational rise in
the U elections of Italian Prime
Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Broth-
popular, Brexit may not have
happened – the “Leave” cam-
European
paign’s victory margin was small.
Conser ati es
Mr. Macron’s strategy was not
6 3 and Reformists
clear. Maybe he is gambling that
(Centre-right)
voters, confronted with a love-us-
or-leave-us vote, will not lavish
102 Renew Europe more support on Ms. Le Pen’s
(Liberal/centrist) right-wing, nationalist, populist
party with uroskeptic leanings.
Another theory is that he hopes
Socialists and the centre-right Republicans will
3 Democrats join forces with his centrists to
6 (Centre-left) keep her National Rally from
gaining control of the National
Greens/E A Assembly.
53 (Left-wing) Whatever his strategy, he may
1 be wrong. oters still have bitter
36 The Left memories of the gilets jaunes
(Far-left) mass protests, triggered in 2018
3 6 by the government’s plan to raise
Non attached
members fuel prices and widespread rage
62 55 about economic inequality, and
Others last year’s unpopular pension-re-
form effort, which led to tens of
Results are as of 2 2 p.m., Central European Summer Time. thousands of hospital workers
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT and teachers walking off the job.
Collectively, the far-right par-
ers of Italy, a once-inconsequen- sia, uroskeptic and nationalist ties won almost a quarter of the
tial party with neo-fascist roots, hard-right Alternative for Germa- 720 seats in the uropean Parlia-
was fully expected, less so was ny party, or AfD. ment. While Ms. Le Pen’s victory
the utter trouncing of her coun- In France, Marine Le Pen, Lead- was the most dazzling – her party
terparts in the other two Big er of the National Rally party, won 0 of France’s 81 allotted
Three economies of urope, won about 1 per cent of the vote, seats – the far right also made
France and Germany. more than double that of Mr. Ma- gains in Spain, Austria, Hungary
xit polls and preliminary vot- cron’s Renaissance party. When and Cyprus, as well as Germany
ing data showed that, in Germa- his party’s slaughter became and Italy.
ny, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s So- known Sunday night, he immedi- arly results say the centre-
cial Democrats were on course to ately called an election, with the right uropean People’s Party
finish a chastened third behind first round on June 0 and the PP , the home of uropean
their centre-right rivals, dominat- runoff on July 7. “I cannot act as if Commission President Ursula
ed by the Christian Democrats, nothing had happened,” he said. von der Leyen, not only retained
and the scandal-ridden, pro-Rus- Mr. Macron’s strategy is bold – its status as the Parliament’s
together on the migration file
and others. Ms. Meloni’s role as
possible kingmaker will give her
a lot of leverage in the direction
of the Parliament, all the more so
since Ms. Le Pen is no supporter
of Ms. von der Leyen.
Another take-away is the
thrashing taken by the Greens,
whose seat count is expected to
fall to 5 from 71, bringing them
close to fringe-party status. Their
downfall reflects waning enthusi-
asm for the environmental
movement and net-zero commit-
ments – the U aims to be cli-
mate-neutral by 2050 – which are
seen as costly and damaging to
traditional manufacturing jobs,
such as those in the German,
French and Italian auto industri-
es. The uropean Green Deal of
2020, which was Ms. von der
Leyen’s signature policy, may be
in trouble as the net-zero back-
lash intensifies.
The rightward shift in the u-
ropean Parliament is undeniable.
But whether the parties of the far
right will actually set the Parlia-
ment on a new course, including
overhauling U policy on Uk-
raine and shutting the borders to
migrants, is an open question, for
they are divided among them-
selves the AfD is so radical that,
in May, it was kicked out of Parlia-
ment’s far-right Identity and De-
mocracy group, home to Ms. Le
Pen’s party . Mr. Macron, for one,
is gambling that their infighting
could sabotage them in the up-
coming election.

trong econo a not e a oon or iden JURORS IN HUNTER BIDEN

NATHAN VANDER LIPPE
INTERNATIONAL CORRESPON ENT
.S. President Joe Biden can point
to no shortage of good economic
news. Inflation is down 60 per
cent from its peak. For many
workers, wages are growing faster than
prices. Jobs are plentiful, in what econo-
mists have called the strongest labour
market since the 1950s. Stocks are flirting
with record highs. Meanwhile, gas prices
are down more than a quarter from their
2022 high.
It all sounds like an optimistic message
for Mr. Biden as he seeks re-election.
But when the White House tries to
make that case to voters, Kerry O’Neal Cos-
tanzo hears something different.
“They’re telling me that I’m not hurting.
And I don’t like that,” she said. For Ms.
O’Neal Costanzo and her husband, Arizo-
nans who own an online shop that sells
Irish and Celtic-themed goods, business
has not been good. Family and friends, too,
talk about their struggles.
“Our economy is lousy and it has been
for three-and-a-half years,” she said.
The gap between the country’s sunny
economic statistics and the way voters
such as Ms. O’Neal Costanzo perceive their
own situations forms one of the most con-
sequential contradictions in American
politics today.
By most measures, the U.S. is doing well.
But, according to recent opinion polls, a
majority of Americans believe the econo-
my is shrinking and has fallen into reces-
sion it has not . And nearly half think un-
employment is at a 50-year high it is near
its lowest point in decades .
Last month, a poll of six battleground
states by The New York Times, The Phila-
delphia Inquirer and Siena College found
that in all six of them – Arizona, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsyl-
vania – the economy is the single most de-
cisive issue for registered voters in all but
Wisconsin, a majority ranked the state of
the economy as “poor.”
The legions of economic doubters have
made fertile ground for Donald Trump,
who has sought to harvest support from
discontent. When he was president, “we
had no inflation,” he told a rally in Phoe-
nix this week. “And now you’re suffering
with numbers that nobody has ever seen
before.”
In 2022, U.S. inflation spiked to 8 per
cent. Annual inflation has exceeded that
tally seven times in Mr. Trump’s lifetime
alone, including the year of his birth.
But the distress of the past few years has
made for potent politics. More than half of
Americans say they were better econom-
ically under Mr. Trump than Mr. Biden.
Opinion polls show the former president
also enjoys a higher level of faith among
U.S. adults in his ability to do the right
thing for the economy.
“The Democrats have some really seri-
ous work to do on how we message some
of those issues,” said Stacy Pearson, a
Democratic strategist in Arizona.
A recent opinion poll shows that most Americans believe the economy is shrin ing and has
fallen into a recession, despite that not being true. More than half of Americans say they
were better off economically under former president Donald Trump. CLAIRE RUSH/AP
Part of the problem, she said, is that for
many people the pandemic provided a fi-
nancial lift that has made subsequent
years feel even worse. Families took in
cash transfers from the federal govern-
ment. Working from home diminished
spending on commuting and other ex-
penses. In 2020 and 2021, the U.S. personal
savings rate leaped to highs unseen in
decades.
“There’s an entire group of people that
for the first time in their adult lives had
breathing room,” Ms. Pearson said. “We in-
sult people when we tell them they’re bet-
ter off today.” Her advice remind voters
that it was Democratic leaders in Congress
who advocated for the unprecedented
spending packages that underpinned
those feelings of financial security.
“We just need to own some of the pol-
icies that led to people being better off four
years ago financially,” she said.
That may not be an easy message to
communicate. The Coronavirus Aid, Re-
lief, and conomic Security Act, which au-
thorized sending US 00-billion in trans-
fers to many individual Americans, was
signed by Mr. Trump, and much of its cash
was distributed while he was president.
Any such message is also likely to be
overshadowed by the way people are ex-
periencing the economy today – a matter
of psychology as much as politics.
“In general, people respond more
strongly to losses than to gains,” said Yoel
Inbar, director of the Morality, Affect, and
Politics Lab at the University of Toronto.
That means a more expensive grocery bill
is likely to be more keenly felt than a wage
hike.
“Think about inflation as feeling like a
loss. You are going to be more reactive to
that than you are to the financially equiv-
alent gain,” he added.
It doesn’t help that inflation is merely a
measure of a rate of change. ven if it
slows, previous increases remain in place.
GUN TRIAL BEGIN
DELIBERATIONS ON
FIREARMS CHARGES
WILMINGTON, DEL. Jurors in
Hunter Biden’s gun trial began
deliberating Monday whether
the U.S. President’s son is guilty
of federal firearms charges over
a revolver he bought in 2018
when prosecutors say he was
addicted to crack cocaine.
He’s charged with three felo-
nies in the case that has laid
bare some of the darkest mo-
ments of his drug-fuelled past.
Prosecutors have used testimony
from former romantic partners,
personal text messages and
photos of Hunter Biden with
drug paraphernalia or partially
clothed to make the case that he
broke the law.
“No one is above the law,”
prosecutor Leo Wise told jurors
in his closing argument as first
lady Jill Biden watched from the
front row of the Wilmington,
Del., courtroom.
Jurors deliberated for less
Prices may now be rising at a far more than an hour before leaving the
modest pace, but those small increases courthouse for the day. Deliber-
come on top of increases from the past few ations were to resume Tuesday
years that, in aggregate, exceed 17 per cent. morning.
People’s perspectives also tend to be Joe Biden’s son has publicly
shaped most strongly by what scholars call detailed his struggle with a crack
“salience.” cocaine addiction before getting
“It’s how much people notice stuff. And sober more than five years ago.
inflation is so noticeable. It’s every time But the defence sought to show
you go to the grocery store,” Prof. Inbar that he did not consider himself
said. an “addict” when he bought the
That feeling of malaise is driving politi- gun and checked “no” on the
cal change in many ways. For Ms. O’Neal form that asked whether he was
Costanzo, it has propelled her family fur- “an unlawful user” of drugs or
ther into politics. Her husband, Andrew addicted to them.
Costanzo, is running as a Republican for Defense lawyer Abbe Lowell
the state House of Representatives. “It’s told jurors in his closing argu-
just ridiculous, the state that our country ment that prosecutors had failed
is in,” he said. to prove their case.
conomic unhappiness is also driving Mr. Lowell said the his client
changes in self-perception. Texans, for in- may have a famous last name,
stance, long thought of themselves as eco- but he is still presumed in-
nomically exceptional – the so-called Tex- nocent until proven guilty like
as miracle. No longer. Research conducted any other defendant.
by the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Closing arguments came
Politics Project shows a majority of people shortly after the defence rested
in the state now think of themselves as its case without calling Hunter
worse off than others. Biden to the witness stand. He
In fact, Texas, which Mr. Trump won smiled as he chatted with mem-
handily in the past two elections, is one of bers of his defence team and
just five states enjoying better-than-aver- flashed a thumbs-up sign to a
age performance in jobs, income, overall supporter in the gallery after the
economic growth and gas prices, a recent final witness – an FBI agent
ABC analysis found. called by prosecutors in their
But in politics, how Texans – and many rebuttal case.
other Americans – perceive their own Joe Biden said last week that
well-being matters. he would accept the jury’s ver-
“Sentiment toward the economy is one dict and ruled out a presidential
of the fundamental features of every presi- pardon for his son.
dential election,” said Joshua Blank, direc- If convicted in the gun case,
tor of research for the Texas Politics Pro- he faces up to 25 years in prison,
ject. though first-time offenders do
“When people repeatedly tell you that not get anywhere near the maxi-
the economy is not great, you’ve just got to mum, and it’s unclear whether
believe them at some point,” he said. And the judge would give him time
at the moment, “this economy doesn’t feel behind bars.
good to a lot of people.” ASSOCIATED PRESS
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London police
investigating
alleged arson
on Muslim
family’s home
ATIMA RAZA
Police in London, Ont., are look-
ing for a suspect after the front
porch of a house was set on fire in
what investigators are treating as
a hate-motivated attack on a Mus-
lim family.
Police and fire crews respon-
ded late Saturday night after re-
ports of a fire at a two-storey
house on the northwestern edge
of the city. No one was home at the
time of the fire and there were no
injuries, said Kirk Loveland, pla-
toon chief with the London Fire
Department.
“Fortunately, the fire had been
knocked down by a neighbour
with a garden hose,” Mr. Loveland
said.
Police said the house has been
targeted multiple times in recent
months, including property dam-
age and the theft of signs that ex-
pressed support for Palestinians.
The incident occurred just two
days after a vigil marking the third
anniversary of the hate-motiva-
ted terrorist attack that killed four
members of a Muslim family in
London and orphaned the fam-
ily’s youngest son in June, 2021.
The attacker was sentenced to life
in prison earlier this year as a
judge labelled it a terrorist attack.
The owner of the home, who
has been living in Canada for
more than 0 years, said in an in-
terview that the alleged arson has
left him and his family in distress.
At the time of the incident, he said
no one was home except his cat.
The Globe and Mail agreed not to
identify the man because he fears
for his family’s safety.
“It is indeed an Islamophobic
hate crime, but it is also an anti-
Palestine hate crime,” the man
said. “It is sad to see our home in
native Canada, our country, reach
that dangerous level of taking
away our freedom of speech.”
The rise in Islamophobia
we re seeing is
extremely troubling
we must confront it at
e ery instance.
AGMEET SINGH
EDERAL NDP LEADER
Police estimated the damages
to the house to be about 0,000,
although the man said that’s not
his focus right now. “I lost a very
valuable thing, which is peace. It’s
not a matter of how many dol-
lars.”
The London police said in a
news release that an hour before
the incident, a man walked up to
the house and took items from
the front yard. Then, an hour later,
the same man returned and start-
ed the fire on the front porch be-
fore fleeing again.
Detective-Inspector Alex Kryg-
sman of the London Police Ser-
vice said in addition to the acts of
violence, a threatening note was
previously left at the home.
“I know this is a trying time for
the Muslim community,” Det.-
Insp. Krygsman said, adding that
investigators have been conduct-
ing outreach to members of the
community since the incident.
“We’ll continue to do that, not just
for the Muslim community, but
for all communities in the city.
There is no room for hate in our
community, unequivocally.”
In a post on formerly known
as Twitter on Sunday evening,
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
said the country must continue to
fight Islamophobia.
“My heart goes out to the Mus-
lim family in London whose
home was attacked last night in
an act of hate. Canadians have
seen how dangerous and ugly Is-
lamophobia is. We have to keep
confronting it – wherever and
whenever we see it,” Mr. Trudeau
said.
The National Council of Cana-
dian Muslims also took to to
share their concerns following the
incident, saying the attack was
“deeply disturbing, disappoint-
ing, and ugly.”
“It is almost impossible to find
the words to describe the anguish
and disappointment our commu-
nity feels regarding these attacks
in London,” the organization
wrote.
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet
Singh posted his support for the
family on . “ veryone deserves
to feel safe in their community.
The rise in Islamophobia we’re
seeing is extremely troubling – we
must confront it at every in-
stance.”
The fire at St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto on Sunday destroyed everything aside from the building’s fa ade
16 murals painted by members of Canada’s Group of Seven. CHRISTOPHER KATSARO /THE GLOBE AND MAIL
ector of St. nne’s says church
ill ork to ards rebuilding’
MARIYA POSTELNYA
The rector of a historic church in Toronto’s
west end that was gutted by fire says they
will rebuild, but he acknowledged the long
road ahead and the need for outside help
to make that happen.
Rev. Don Beyers addressed the future of
St. Anne’s Anglican Church on Monday
while standing in front of the rubble left by
a four-alarm fire the day before, destroying
everything aside from the building’s fa-
ade – including more than 16 murals
painted by members of Canada’s Group of
Seven and other art.
“We’re still trying to figure out next
steps, but we intend to rise again and work
towards rebuilding,” Father Beyers said.
“We are asking for people to support in any
way they can.”
The church is accepting donations
through its Canada Helps page, though ex-
perts say large-scale financing will be re-
quired to make reconstruction possible.
The fire in the city’s Little Portugal
neighbourhood gutted the building early
Sunday morning. The fire is not being in-
vestigated as suspicious because the cause
is not yet known, Toronto police said.
Father Beyers said the impact of the fire
has been felt well beyond the church com-
munity.
“People are devastated. This has been an
incredibly painful moment for us.
“This church was loved, not just by the
churchgoers but also by the community –
it’s been a beacon of hope, a place of arts,
people are feeling extraordinary pain at
this time.”
St. Anne’s was built in the early 1900s
and received heritage status from the City
The pain o losing a historic institution runs deep
MARCUS
GEE
OPINION
A
round 8 a.m. on Sunday morning,
smoke began coming from the
domed roof of St. Anne’s Anglican
Church.
I was driving into town from a day in the
country and, like many people in Toronto,
I saw the smoke rising in a great pillar into
the blue sky. As I drew closer, the news
came over my phone it was St. Anne’s. The
church is just around the corner from me.
When I went up to have a look, the roof
had already fallen in and bright flames
were leaping through, licking at the black-
ened arches of the dome.
Firefighters on soaring aerial ladders
were sending streams of water into the
gap, but it made little difference. The fire
roared on. Locals and passersby stood in
an alley and watched, shaking their heads,
taking pictures or simply staring. Within
half an hour, it was obvious that the build-
ing was doomed.
An old church is just about a perfect
breeding place for fire. Once it got a grip on
St. Anne’s, it was not about to let go. By the
time the fire crews had finally doused the
flames, only the walls were intact, leaving
the glorious interior a blackened, steaming
ruin. verything had been lost, including
the famous Group of Seven murals and the
glass mosaics that used to sparkle in the
sun that streamed into the church during
Sunday services. Gone, gone, gone.
What is it about such an event that tears
at the heart It was only a building, after all
– an inanimate confection of brick, wood
and plaster. Blessedly, no one was hurt in
the blaze, which failed to spread to the sur-
rounding houses and apartments.
And yet, the hurt ran deep. You could
see it on the faces of those who came to see
the ruins. When I met a neighbour there,
we didn’t quite know what to say to each
other “Terrible, terrible,” was all we could
manage.
St. Anne’s was an old friend of west-end
Toronto. With its yellow brick, imposing
O T E GLO E AN
of Toronto in 1996.
On Monday, smoke still clung in the air
around the gutted church fa ade, which
cradled piles of blackened beams and char-
red debris. Though the flames were gone,
fire trucks remained on site, as onlookers
stopped to take in the startling scene. One
community member folded over in tears.
Beyond serving as a place of worship, St.
Anne’s was a community hub and heritage
site. very third Sunday of the month, the
church hosted community dinners. It also
made space for concerts and farmer’s mar-
kets. Hours before the fire on Saturday af-
ternoon, the church hosted a free concert
featuring the St. Anne’s choir.
“Outside, it doesn’t look that special, but
you go inside and it’s just gorgeous,” said
Liz Frederisksen, a local resident who at-
tended several community concerts at the
venue over the years.
“The ceiling, the domes – my partner
and I were just gawking.”
Looking over the destroyed church on
Monday, she remembered the time the
parish hosted a farmer’s market during the
CO ID-19 pandemic.
“They weren’t allowed to have the mar-
ket in person, so the church gave their
space to the market to prepare the boxes
for contactless pickup. It helped farmers
from all across the GTA maintain their
business and their income.”
Rebuilding will require a large financial
outlay and private investors, said Scott
Weir, an architect specializing in heritage
site revitalization.
“Often, there needs to be a patron who
gets behind a project like this,” Mr. Weir
said. “It’s significant money to do a recon-
struction of this size.”
The first step is outlining the goals of the
Maryann Robertshaw and her son, onathan, comfort each other at the site of the burnt
St. Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto on Monday. ABHIJIT ALKA ANIL/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
dome and twin towers, it stood for well
over a century – a steady presence through
all the changes that washed over the
neighbourhood and the city.
When it went up in 1908, built to replace
an earlier, smaller church, Toronto was a
Protestant-dominated, God-fearing corner
of the British mpire. The street it stands
on, Gladstone, is named after the re-
nowned ictorian prime minister the
next street over after his arch rival, Benja-
min Disraeli, who became the earl of Bea-
consfield.
Waves of immigration from places other
than the British Isles transformed the
growing city. What had been a sleepy town
on Toronto’s outskirts became teeming
Little Portugal, its grocery stores filled with
the smell of salt cod.
The latest wave of change brought
young families to occupy and renovate the
neighbourhood’s narrow ictorian
houses. Dundas Street West, a few steps
from St. Anne’s, became one of the city’s
trendiest. On the day of the fire, it was full
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including more than
restoration, he said “Is it to build a copy of
the structure to be reproduced so people
can understand the point of the art in that
space Or is it to rebuild something that
serves the community in the same way ”
Mr. Weir said there’s plenty of archival
documentation to complete a faithful res-
toration. “It’s a great building, a really in-
teresting Neo-Byzantine piece of architec-
ture – a place that works as a cultural de-
vice.”
A rehabilitation approach would in-
volve looking at the remains, the fa ade,
the towers and understanding how to sta-
bilize those while incorporating new art
and interior. The artwork, though impossi-
ble to redeem, can be substituted by pieces
from local Canadian artists, Mr. Weir said.
He cited a number of architectural fires
in recent memory with art collections de-
stroyed, ”and in some cases they’ve been
fully reconstructed the Borsen fire in Co-
penhagen, Glasgow school of art, Notre
Dame, Windsor castle.”
But what most of those restoration ef-
forts have in common, Mr. Weir said, are
wealthy patrons.
“This is a church like many others in the
city, many of them have declining enrol-
ment, they have fewer parishioners –
there’s not a lot of money for heritage pres-
ervation outside of large donors.”
Despite the challenges ahead, the mess-
age from Father Beyers remains one of
hope.
“We will rise from the ashes stronger and
even more committed to our mission to be
a church for all people,” he wrote in a letter
to the community on Monday.
“Yesterday’s fire was not the end of the
story, but rather the beginning of a new
chapter.”
of people visiting Dundas for the food
trucks, vintage-clothing booths and live
bands of its annual street festival.
Like many churches in today’s world, St.
Anne’s struggled. Somehow, it soldiered
on, hosting concerts and holding regular
tours to show off its splendours.
Those who visited found a quirky gem.
Its Byzantine architecture, meant to mir-
ror that of the majestic Hagia Sophia in Is-
tanbul, was adventurous for the dour To-
ronto of its day. The murals up on the ceil-
ing and in the chancel were modern and
bright, with echoes to me of William Mor-
ris and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Altogether, the space had an airy, lumi-
nous feel that distinguished St. Anne’s
from many churches of old Toronto, the
“City of Churches.”
Though I lived so close, I only went once
or twice. very Christmastime I thought
We really should go up to take in a concert,
just to get off the holiday treadmill, get in
the spirit and enjoy the aura of that lovely
place. I never did. Now I never will.
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Caledon proposes gro ing housing stock
While the development
plan raises concerns
for some residents,
the mayor argues it’s a
chance for the town to
take charge of its growth
ILL MAHONEY
A town northwest of Toronto is
proposing to more than double its
housing stock over the next two
decades, far exceeding its provin-
cial growth target and fuelling
concerns from some residents
about the rapid pace of develop-
ment.
Caledon Mayor Annette Groves
says she is determined to use her
strong mayor powers to push
ahead with controversial plans to
rezone large tracts of mostly
farmland for 5,000 homes, argu-
ing the proposal would allow the
town to take charge of its growth
while meeting future housing de-
mand.
“This is just to streamline the
process. But it doesn’t mean that
developers are going to build to-
morrow. It’s going to take years,”
she said in a recent interview. “My
approach is It’s better to plan it,
it’s better to be in control of devel-
opment and not having develop-
ment controlling us.”
Under the unprecedented pro-
posal, Ms. Groves intends to fast-
track rezoning changes to allow a
range of future uses for 12 pieces
of land totalling about 2,000 hec-
tares. She delayed a vote on the
plan after angry residents packed
an April public meeting that last-
ed seven hours, wrapping up after
1 a.m., but said she is committed
to the changes.
“If I didn’t feel strongly that it’s
the right thing to do, I never
would have brought this for-
ward,” she said.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s
government gave mayors of some
municipalities, including Cale-
don, stronger powers to pass by-
laws related to the province’s goal
of building more housing with
support from just one-third of
innipeg court to decide verdict of admitted killer in uly
TEMUR DURRANI WINNIPEG
A Winnipeg superior court judge
will decide next month whether a
man who has admitted to killing
four First Nations women is crim-
inally responsible of first-degree
murder after closing arguments
in his six-week-long trial were
heard on Monday.
The verdict for Jeremy Skibicki
is scheduled to be delivered on Ju-
ly 11, Manitoba Court of King’s
Bench Justice Glenn Joyal told a
packed room filled with the wom-
en’s families, friends and rela-
tives. The large group of support-
ers followed the proceeding with
a traditional Indigenous round
dance at the downtown intersec-
tion outside the Law Courts
building, as drums echoed and a
handful of vehicle lanes were
briefly brought to a halt.
Surrounded by three sheriff’s
officers, his ankles shackled, Mr.
Skibicki, 7, left the courtroom
showing no emotion and without
making eye contact with observ-
ers. His lawyers from Legal Aid
Manitoba, who have argued he
was suffering from schizophrenia
that made him incapable of mur-
der, walked behind him.
Gaza a as leaders declare an resolution deal
ROM A1
The statement was among the
strongest from Hamas to date, but
it stressed the group would con-
tinue its struggle against Israeli
occupation and work on setting
up a “fully sovereign” Palestinian
state.
A senior Israeli diplomat did
not directly mention the resolu-
tion, telling the council Israel’s
position is unwavering “We will
continue until all of the hostages
are returned and until Hamas’s
military and governing capabili-
ties are dismantled.”
“This also means that Israel
will not engage in meaningless
and endless negotiations, which
can be exploited by Hamas as a
means to stall for time,” Minister
Counsellor Reut Shapir Ben Naf-
taly said.
U.S. Ambassador Linda Tho-
mas-Greenfield reiterated, how-
ever, that Israel has accepted the
ceasefire deal, which is supported
by countries around the world.
An aerial photo from May 30 shows a stream through a wooded area on the south side of Healey Road,
between Centreville Cree Road and The Gore Road, one of 12 pieces of land that Caledon Mayor Annette
Groves is proposing to re one for housing. PHOTOS BY NICK IWANYSHYN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
their local councils, rather than a
majority. Critics call the measures
anti-democratic.
Ms. Groves’s proposal to rezone
land for 5,000 homes is almost
triple Caledon’s provincial hous-
ing pledge of 1 ,000 new units by
20 1. However, she says growth
forecasts indicate Caledon needs
67,000 new homes for 220,000 ad-
ditional people by 2051. The town
had a population of about 76,000
and just fewer than 25,000 private
dwellings in 2021, according to
Statistics Canada.
Critics say the mayor is not act-
ing in the public interest and is
overstepping her strong mayor
powers.
“I can see the authority to bring
1 ,000 homes onto the table and
to make preparations for that, but
where’s the authority to now tri-
ple that to 5,000 homes ” said
Debbe Crandall, a local resident
who co-owns a vegetable farm
and is a spokeswoman for Democ-
racy Caledon, a citizen’s group.
“All of this is, like, holy mac. This is
very, very concerning.”
Ms. Crandall noted that Ms.
“The fact that these Indige-
nous women were killed in this
fashion is quite impactful,” de-
fence lawyer Leonard Tailleur
said in an interview after the
hearing. “But we have an entirely
sick human being who did this.
That’s what we’ve been trying to
say from the beginning.”
The Crown, however, contin-
ued to insist on Monday that Mr.
Skibicki preyed on his victims in a
calculated manner, and that he
did not suffer from – nor has he
ever been diagnosed with – any
form of schizophrenia.
The prosecutors told Justice
Joyal that Mr. Skibicki stalked the
women at shelters for vulnerable
people, inviting them back to his
home to drug them, sexually as-
sault them, then kill them before
engaging in further sexual acts on
their bodies, only to dump their
dismembered remains in garbage
bins, such that they ultimately
ended up in Winnipeg-area land-
fills.
arlier in the trial, both the de-
fence and the Crown had agreed
that Mr. Skibicki killed four wom-
en in 2022 A yet-to-be-identified
woman whom Indigenous elders
have named Mashkode Bizhiki-
’ikwe, meaning Buffalo Woman,
The resolution’s adoption, she
said, “sent a clear message to Ha-
mas to accept the ceasefire deal
on the table.”
“The fighting could stop today,
if Hamas would do the same,” Ms.
Thomas-Greenfield told the
council. “I repeat, this fighting
could stop today.”
U.S. deputy ambassador Rob-
ert Wood told reporters earlier on
Monday that the United States
sees the deal as “the best, most re-
alistic opportunity to bring at
least a temporary halt to this war.”
arlier Monday, Hamas and
Palestinian Islamic Jihad leaders
met in Qatar to discuss the pro-
posed ceasefire deal and said later
that any deal must lead to a per-
manent ceasefire, a full Israeli
withdrawal from Gaza, recon-
struction and “a serious exchange
deal” between hostages in Gaza
and Palestinians held in Israeli
jails.
Russia’s UN Ambassador assi-
ly Nebenzia said Moscow ab-
stained because details of the
Critics, including Debbe Crandall,
a spo eswoman for Democracy
Caledon, say the town’s mayor is
overstepping her powers with
plans to build 35,000 new homes
in the ne t two decades.
Groves’s proposed zoning bylaw
amendments were written by
lawyer Quinto Annibale, who has
represented a group of landown-
ers with property in one of the af-
on or about March 15 9-year-old
Morgan Harris on or about May 1
of that year 26-year-old Mar-
cedes Myran on or about May 4
and 24-year-old Rebecca Contois
on or about May 15.
But the Crown and defence
have provided the court with two
starkly different opinions from
forensic psychiatrists The de-
fence expert has said that Mr.
Skibicki was suffering from schiz-
ophrenic delusions, which com-
pelled him to kill the women
while the Crown-ordered assess-
ment showed that he killed them
because of his homicidal necro-
philia, the desire to have sex with
dead people, and was malinger-
ing about his self-reported schiz-
ophrenia.
Justice Joyal must now deter-
mine the state of Mr. Skibicki’s
mental capacity. Should the
judge find that he is not criminal-
ly responsible for the crimes, it
would not automatically consti-
tute an acquittal. Such a verdict
would lead to a court-ordered
treatment in a mental-health fa-
cility as part of the sentencing in-
stead of an imprisonment.
Summarizing the graphic evi-
dence presented in court last
month, including the video of Mr.
ust lead to per anent cease ire
three-phase plan haven’t been
disclosed and “we have a whole
host of questions.”
“Hamas is called upon to ac-
cept this so-called deal, but still
there is no clear clarity regarding
official agreement from Israel,”
Mr. Nebenzia said. “Given the
many statements from Israel on
the extension of the war until Ha-
mas is completely defeated
what specifically has Israel agreed
to ”
Algeria’s UN Ambassador
Amar Bendjama, the Arab repre-
sentative on the council, said that
while the text isn’t perfect, “it of-
fers a glimmer of hope to the Pal-
estinians, as the alternative is
the continuing killing and suf-
fering of the Palestinian people.”
“We voted for this text to give
diplomacy a chance to reach an
agreement that will end the ag-
gression against the Palestinian
people that has lasted far too
long,” Mr. Bendjama said.
The war was sparked by Ha-
mas’s surprise Oct. 7 attack in
O T E GLO E AN
fected areas.
In an e-mail, Mr. Annibale said
he has “no conflict of interest with
respect to any retainer for any” of
his clients, “including the Town of
Caledon.” Ms. Groves said she is
satisfied that Mr. Annibale does
not have a conflict.
After facing opposition at the
April 25 public meeting, Ms.
Groves backed off on her plan to
bring the rezoning proposals for a
vote at the April 0 council meet-
ing, saying residents deserved
more details. Officials arranged
four public information sessions,
the last of which was scheduled
for Monday.
In addition to local opposition,
the provincial and regional gov-
ernments have also raised con-
cerns about the mayor’s rezoning
plans.
In an April 26 letter, Minister of
Municipal Affairs and Housing
Paul Calandra said allowing de-
velopment in six of the 12 areas
“would be inconsistent and not
conform with provincial and re-
gional policy directions” because
they are within the protected fu-
Skibicki’s confession to police
and testimony from more than a
dozen witnesses, prosecutor
Christian anderhooft wrapped
up his arguments by addressing a
question that the accused himself
had looked up online after he
killed three of the women.
“To answer Mr. Skibicki’s own
question, when he did a Google
search on May 5, 2022, 5 15 a.m.,
less than 12 hours after he was
seen walking toward his apart-
ment with Ms. Myran What is the
definition of a serial killer ” Mr.
anderhooft said Monday. “The
answer, Mr. Skibicki, is you.”
Later on Monday, Grand Chief
Cathy Merrick of the Assembly of
Manitoba Chiefs renewed calls to
the federal and provincial gov-
ernments to search the Prairie
Green Landfill, a garbage dump
north of Winnipeg, where police
believe at least two of the wom-
en’s remains – that of Ms. Harris
and Ms. Myran – are located.
Winnipeg police had found
some of Ms. Contois’s remains at
the separate Brady Road landfill
in the southern outskirts of the
city in 2022. But they have not yet
found the bodies of the other
three women that Mr. Skibicki
killed that year.
southern Israel in which militants
killed about 1,200 people, mainly
Israeli civilians, and took about
250 others hostage. About 120
hostages remain, with 4 pro-
nounced dead. Israel’s military of-
fensive has killed more than
6,700 Palestinians and wounded
more than 8 ,000 others, accord-
ing to the Gaza Health Ministry. It
has also destroyed about 80 per
cent of Gaza’s buildings, accord-
ing to the UN.
Monday’s resolution under-
scores “the importance of the on-
going diplomatic efforts by gypt,
Qatar and the United States
aimed at reaching a comprehen-
sive ceasefire deal, consisting of
three phases” and says the three
countries are ready “to work to
ensure negotiations keep going
until all the agreements are reac-
hed.”
Mr. Blinken met with Mr. Neta-
nyahu and Israeli Defence Minis-
ter Yoav Gallant after talks in Cai-
ro with gyptian President Abdel
Fattah el-Sissi to push the propos-
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ture route of Highway 41 . Mr. Ca-
landra asked Ms. Groves to modify
the plans.
The Region of Peel said the pro-
posals are “premature” and not
supported by comprehensive
planning, including a secondary
plan, technical studies and infras-
tructure capacity, according to a
series of April 19 letters from chief
planner Tara Buonpensiero ob-
tained by The Pointer. She also
raised concerns about high infras-
tructure costs, saying more work
was needed to “ensure fiscal re-
sponsibility” for the town and re-
gion.
ictor Doyle, a former senior
Ontario government planner,
said Ms. Groves’s proposals are
“irresponsible” because they do
not follow the standard planning
process. He noted that the rezon-
ing changes allow for dozens of
permitted uses on the land, rang-
ing from detached homes, town-
houses and apartment buildings
to shopping centres, offices and
hotels.
“By providing all this zoning
upfront, it removes a huge lever of
control for the municipality,” he
said. “If they retain control over
zoning and the issuance of it, they
have another lever to negotiate
and ensure that their interests, fi-
nancial and otherwise, are se-
cured prior to moving to the zon-
ing stage.”
Town planning staff are work-
ing with provincial and regional
officials to address their feedback,
said ric Lucic, Caledon’s com-
missioner of planning and devel-
opment.
The Ontario government is
stripping planning authority
from several upper-tier munici-
palities, including Peel Region,
meaning Caledon will assume pri-
mary responsibility for planning
when the changes take effect July
1. It is not clear when Ms. Groves
will bring revised rezoning pro-
posals to council, although she
has said she would not do so dur-
ing the summer.
Mr. Lucic said new bylaw
amendments could be ready for a
council meeting scheduled for
late June. “I’m waiting on direc-
tion,” he said.
“A garbage dump is not a gra-
vesite. Our women do not belong
there,” Ms. Merrick, who repre-
sents 62 of the 6 First Nations in
Manitoba, said in an interview.
“We need to search the landfill for
them now.”
At the protest outside the cour-
thouse, the women’s families said
they have not yet heard from Pre-
mier Wab Kinew about any plans
to begin the Prairie Green search
since the Manitoba and federal
governments each committed
20-million in March for the ef-
fort.
“We’re demanding now that a
date be given to us,” said Ms. Myr-
an’s sister Jorden Myran, adding
that the women’s relatives have
set up a meeting with the Premier
this week.
“My mom needs to be brought
back home,” said Ms. Harris’s
daughter Cambria Harris. “I am
ready to go through this same
process over and over again until
all of our women are brought
back home, until they have got-
ten dignified funerals. We will not
be treated like we are not human
any more, no matter how many
protests it takes, no matter how
many courtrooms we have to be
in.”
al, which faces new uncertainty
after Israel’s hostage rescue oper-
ation that killed many Palesti-
nians and turmoil in Mr. Netanya-
hu’s government.
Mr. Blinken told Mr. Netanyahu
that “the United States and other
world leaders will stand behind
the comprehensive proposal out-
lined by President Biden that
would lead to an immediate cea-
sefire in Gaza, the release of all
hostages, and a significant and
sustained increase in humanitar-
ian assistance for distribution
throughout Gaza,” the State De-
partment said.
Mr. Biden’s May 1 announce-
ment of the new proposal said it
would begin with an initial six-
month ceasefire and the release
of hostages in exchange for Pales-
tinian prisoners, the withdrawal
of Israeli forces from populated
areas in Gaza and the return of
Palestinians civilians to all areas
in the territory.
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fficer defends presence at nephe ’s crash

Toronto police inspector
tells misconduct hearing
she was acting solely as
an advocate when she
attended collision scene
TOM CARDOSO
A high-ranking Toronto police of-
ficer, charged with misconduct
for allegedly intervening in a
probe into her nephew’s car
crash, told a tribunal on Monday
that she acted solely as an advo-
cate for a family member when
she attended the scene.
On Day 6 of what is expected to
be a seven-day disciplinary hear-
ing, Inspector Joyce Schertzer tes-
tified in her own defence, telling
the tribunal that she was not serv-
ing in an official capacity at the
time.
“I was going there as an aunt, to
advocate for his wellness – for no
other purpose other than to make
sure that he was okay,” she said.
A high-profile former homi-
cide detective, Insp. Schertzer was
charged with three counts of mis-
conduct in 2022 over allegations
that she involved herself in the
collision investigation. Calvin De-
jak, her nephew, drove his white
pickup truck into a light pole in
Toronto’s west end in May, 2022.
She has pleaded not guilty to all
charges.
The internal disciplinary hear-
ing, which began a week ago, is be-
ing administered by the Toronto
Police Service and adjudicated by
a retired Ontario Provincial Police
superintendent.
Mr. Dejak crashed while exiting
the upscale Boulevard Club, a la-
kefront club, around 11 20 a.m. on
May 1, 2022, according to surveil-
lance footage played during the
hearing. The video shows the
truck creeping past a lane re-
served for people running a
marathon, turning left onto the
westbound lane of Lake Shore
Boulevard before accelerating
and hitting a pole, significantly
damaging the vehicle.
The prosecution, led by lawyer
Scott Hutchison, has maintained
that Insp. Schertzer instructed the
front desk at 11 Division to dis-
patch an officer to the scene – de-
spite the crash having occurred in
the catchment area for the neigh-
bouring 14 Division.
“I thought that the Boulevard
Club was within the 11 Division
boundaries,” Insp. Schertzer told
defence lawyer Joanne Mulcahy.
“I wasn’t aware that it was in 14 Di-
vision.”
Last week, Staff Sergeant Mat-
thew Routh, who works in traffic
services, said that he’d never
heard of an officer from one divi-
sion attending a collision investi-
gation call in a different division’s
boundaries – a point Insp.
Schertzer contested.
“It’s very common,” she said.
“As the unit commander of 11 Di-
vision, I would routinely hear dur-
ing the morning meeting how
many times 11 Division went into
14 Division, 1 Division, 12 Division
and 22 Division, which are all bor-
dering divisions.”
In police body-camera footage,
Mr. Dejak tells Constable Braden
Doherty of 11 Division – Insp.
Schertzer’s subordinate officer –
that he sped up to avoid a car ap-
proaching in the eastbound lane,
but lost control and crashed. Last
week, Constable Doherty said he
had determined there was “no
criminality” in the crash, and that
he did not believe alcohol was a
factor.
The prosecution focused last
week in part on a nearly two-min-
ute gap in Constable Doherty’s
body-camera footage. Immedi-
ately before shutting it off, he asks
the inspector whether he can dis-
able the camera.
“Constable Doherty turned to
me and asked me if it would be
okay if he turned off his body-
worn camera,” Insp. Schertzer
told the hearing. “It’s his investi-
gation. I said yes. I didn’t know
why he wanted it turned off.”
Constable Doherty’s footage al-
so shows him releasing Mr. Dejak
from the scene. Mr. Dejak return-
ed only after a superintendent for
the Traffic Services unit demand-
ed Insp. Schertzer bring him back,
according to testimony heard last
week.
A traffic services officer, Con-
stable Michael Clarke, said on
Thursday that he suspected Mr.
Dejak had been consuming alco-
hol prior to the crash – but said he
could not administer a breath test
because Mr. Dejak returned to the
scene outside of the three-hour
window for a test.
On Friday, the prosecution
played roughly an hour of audio
from Insp. Schertzer’s interview
with the Toronto Police Service’s
professional standards investiga-
tors in August, 2022. Monday’s
hearing began with the remaining
45 minutes of the recording, in
which Insp. Schertzer speaks with
Inspector John Babiar, the officer
in charge of the misconduct in-
vestigation.
Neither she, nor Constable
Doherty, nor her daughter – who
is also a police officer and was also
at the scene – detected alcohol,
Insp. Schertzer says in the audio.
“This is like a ilig t ne for
me,” she says. “Are we all collud-
ing ”
“I’m not suggesting that,” Insp.
Babiar replies.
At one point, Insp. Babiar tells
Insp. Schertzer that there were “a
couple of potential witnesses”
who could have been interviewed
at the crash site, and inquires into
the questions Constable Doherty
put to Mr. Dejak at the scene.
“It’s like, You haven’t been
drinking, have you I have to ask
you.’ So he gives him a closed-end-
ed question,” Insp. Babiar says. “Is
that not problematic ”
“I’m not here to assess the in-
vestigation,” Insp. Schertzer re-
plies. “I didn’t listen half the time.
I don’t care if I was within hearing
range – I didn’t listen. I am not go-
ing to insert myself in the investi-
gation. I am not going to second-
guess Braden Doherty.”
During her testimony on Mon-
day, Insp. Schertzer insisted that
she was acting only in her capac-
ity as a family member.
“Nobody from the Boulevard
Club called the police,” she told
the hearing. “Nobody running in
the marathon that day called the
police. Nobody driving by called
the police. Nobody called the po-
lice. I called the police to the
scene. Me.”
The hearing continues
Tuesday.

[ ICELAND ]
M promises uebec
-million to address
influ of asylum seekers
MARIE OOL OTTAWA

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to pay 750-million to

Quebec to help deal with an influx of asylum seekers that the
province says has been putting pressure on housing, educa-
tion and health care.
The funding, promised during talks between Mr. Trudeau
and Quebec Premier Fran ois Legault in Quebec City on Mon-
day, fell short of the 1-billion that Mr. Legault had asked for to
cover the costs of providing for the rising numbers of refugee
claimants over the past few years.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting, Mr. Legault said
he would accept the extra cash from Ottawa but would hold
out for more. He said he had asked the Prime Minister to halve
the number of 560,000 temporary residents he says are now
living in the province, and said their influx was responsible
for the province’s housing crisis.
But Mr. Trudeau said that at least half of the province’s tem-
porary migrants, such as temporary foreign workers, are ap-
proved by the Quebec government and he wanted to see a

oiling point
n erupting volcano in southwestern celand, seen onday,
spews red lava close to the coastal town of Grindavik
MARCO DI MARCO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
i erals atte pt to weaponi e iscal polic is wrong
OHN terrible indictment of her govern-
IBBITSON ment’s legacy after eight years
and seven months in office.
OPINION Fortunately, the situation is
less fraught than that, though it’s
certainly true that things are not
inance Minister Chrystia going well. The policies of Ms.
Freeland appears to be at- Freeland and Prime Minister Jus-
tempting to embarrass Pierre tin Trudeau are partly – though by
Poilievre by forcing the Conserva- no means entirely – responsible.
tive Leader to vote against a new Over the life of three govern-
tax on the rich. This is wrong. ments, but especially over the
Fiscal policy should not be course of the past three years, the
used as a cudgel against political Liberals have greatly expanded
opponents. More important, the entitlements a national child-
tax itself is unsound. The Conser- care program, a new dental-care
vatives should not hesitate to program, the beginnings of
vote against it. pharmacare.
The tax, which raises the inclu- But revenues were never suffi-
sion rate – the proportion subject cient to justify such spending,
to tax – for individuals realizing which is why the federal govern-
more than 250,000 in capital ment ran deficits in the tens of bil-
gains annually, is part of this lions of dollars year after year
year’s budget, but Ms. Freeland in- even outside the pandemic years
troduced it separately Monday when they were necessary.
through a ways and means mo- To prevent deficits from get-
tion. ting even worse, Ms. Freeland is
This means the Conservatives increasing a tax paid by people
will either have to vote for it, con- who are better off. Or so she says.
tradicting their anti-tax princi- In reality, everyone suffers.
ples, or against it, in which case Canada’s economic perform-
the Liberals will accuse them of ance and productivity growth are
being in the pocket of the deteriorating, compared with the
wealthy. United States and other major de-
The Liberals have attached veloped nations. That weakness
enormous political significance makes it harder every year for
to the tax increase. Ms. Freeland people who are starting out to
went so far Sunday as to declare land a job that pays a decent
that, without expanded social enough wage to make it possible
programs paid for through higher to afford a car, buy a house, have
taxes on the rich, Canada faced a children.
dystopian future in which chil- The priority should be to stim-
dren arrived hungry at school and ulate growth through lower taxes.
teenage girls became pregnant Raising them will only make
because they could not afford things worse, which is why one of
contraception while the wealthy the strongest critics of the pro-
sheltered behind ever-higher posed tax increase is Bill Mor-
walls protecting them from the neau, Ms. Freeland’s predecessor
wrath of the populace. as finance minister.
If Canada were in such a pre- The move is “clearly a negative
carious state, it would offer a to our long-term goal, which is
growth in the economy, produc-
tive growth and investments,” he
said in April.
What could be more extraor-
dinary than a former finance min-
ister criticizing his immediate
successor within his own party
Ms. Freeland and Mr. Trudeau
sincerely believe in the justice of
their cause. They also think they
have found a canny way to embar-
rass the Conservatives.
“I do think this is a moment
when Canadians should be
watching closely what happens in
the House and watching closely to
see how all MPs vote on this,” Ms.
Freeland told reporters Monday.
If Mr. Poilievre and his Conserva-
tive colleagues rise in the House
to vote against the motion, expect
to see the Liberal attack ad on
your smartphone within hours.
Nonetheless, the Conserva-
tives would be right to vote
against a tax that will only make a
difficult situation worse.
A statement from a party
spokesman certainly suggests Mr.
Poilievre is trending toward a no.
“This is a tax on health care,
homebuilding, small businesses,
farmers, and people’s retire-
ments,” it read. The Conserva-
tives “will study the motion very
carefully before determining next
steps.”
The Liberal strategy for the
next election seems clear We im-
proved the quality of life for mil-
lions through expanded social
programs, which we financed by
asking the rich to pay their fair
share.
But the Liberals are far less
popular than the Conservatives,
who are calling for lower taxes,
balanced budgets, smaller gov-
ernment and fewer regulations. It
seems the people have already
made up their mind.
plan from the province itself to address the numbers.
“We know that Quebec directly controls over half of tempo-
rary migrants in this province by issuing them permits. We
wanted to know what their plan is to address and to adjust
those permits in a way that is responsible so that we can make
sure we continue to grow the economy, respond to the labour
shortages while ensuring the right absorption capacity for the
province,” the Prime Minister told journalists after the
meeting.
At the talks, Mr. Trudeau said the federal government aims
to speed up processing of asylum claims, and to do more to
distribute asylum seekers more evenly across Canada.
Quebec, together with Ontario, has seen a disproportion-
ate number of asylum seekers arrive and require accommo-
dation and access to public services, although not all those
who arrive at Quebec airports and claim asylum remain in the
province.
Speaking to journalists before the meeting, Mr. Legault said
the “explosion” in the number of temporary migrants, in-
cluding asylum seekers, in Quebec is putting pressure not just
on housing, but on health servic-
es and education, as well as
threatening the French language
as many temporary migrants are Quebec Premier
not francophones.
When the Premier met the ran ois Legault said
Prime Minister to discuss immi- he would accept the
gration in March, Mr. Legault extra cash from
asked for full jurisdiction over im- Ottawa but would
migration to the province, a de-
mand the Prime Minister refused. hold out for more.
Under the terms of the Canada-
Quebec Accord, signed in 1991, Quebec is responsible for the
selection of economic migrants destined for the province.
Last year, Mr. Legault announced that they will have to be
able to speak and write French, in a move designed to protect
the province’s francophone identity. All but economic immi-
grants with exceptional talents or a unique expertise, such as
doctors, would be subject to the language bar to entry, he said.
In January, federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller an-
nounced that the federal government would provide an extra
60-million to provinces and municipalities to house the ris-
ing number of asylum seekers, with 100-million of the funds
earmarked for Quebec.
Another 50-million for Quebec, from a previous round of
funding unveiled last year, was designed to help the province
house people fleeing persecution.
There are now about 2.5 million temporary residents in
Canada, a number that includes asylum seekers, internation-
al students and people in the country on work permits. arlier
this year, Mr. Miller announced targets to reduce the propor-
tion of temporary residents in the population to 5 per cent
from 6.2 per cent over the next three years. That would de-
crease the temporary resident population by about 19 per
cent.
Last month, talks about reducing the number of temporary
foreign residents in Canada kicked off between the federal
government and provinces, with Mr. Miller acknowledging
that there needs to be better co-ordination to shrink numbers
across Canada.
Ottawa set out measures in its omnibus budget bill to
toughen the asylum regime and speed up the processing of
refugee claims.
But last week, NDP and Bloc Québécois MPs on the House
of Commons finance committee voted to quash the proposed
asylum changes, including the suspension of refugee pro-
ceedings if the claimant is not in Canada. The government is
expected to try to revive the measures when the budget bill
returns to the full House of Commons.
A8 O IO
The Canadian flag flutters at the TD Centre in Toronto’s financial district. eeping on eye on Bay Street’s inner doings can be a challenge for ournalists and investors, who have no national
security watchdog to aid in the tas . RED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
A NATION’S PAPER
a treet in the shade
What do phony gold, a ussian godfather and a crypto
scam have in common They all illustrate how The Globe
plays an important role in exposing corporate malfeasance
RITA TRICHUR
I
t was surely one of the clumsiest attempts ever to
rewrite history.
In 1996, Calgary-based Bre- Minerals Ltd.
spent months assuring investors it owned most
of Busang, a mammoth gold deposit in Indonesia.
But the following February, C O David Walsh flipped
the script. “Some have mistakenly thought that we
somehow owned 90 per cent of this property,”
Walsh said at the time. “This was never the practical
reality, nor was it ever a basis for the valuation of
Bre- stock.”
Hogwash. Bre- ’s previous assertions that it own-
ed 90 per cent of the bonanza were exactly what
juiced its stock. And when The Globe and Mail re-
ported five months earlier that Bre- had lost its grip
on Busang, Walsh repeatedly denied the story, dou-
bling down on his majority-stake narrative. It wasn’t
until the Indonesian government forced Bre- into
a development deal that left the miner with a 45-per-
cent stake that Walsh contradicted himself. But
ownership issues were just the tip of Bre- ’s 6-bil-
lion fraud.
Business journalism is often derided as boring –
or worse, sycophantic. But an independent financial
press is fundamental to the efficient functioning of
free markets. Reporters are an important check on
corporations, analysts and regulators by ensuring a
free flow of information that enables ordinary peo-
ple to make informed investing decisions.
The role of the press in exposing corporate mal-
feasance is particularly vital in Canada, where con-
stitutional divisions of power have prevented the
creation of an effective national securities regulator.
And, in a time when many workers must manage
The Ontario Securities Commission came under increasing scrutiny in the 1
YBM affair. PHILIP CHEUNG/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
O T E G LO E A N
their own retirement investments, we need more
than ever a functioning press able to identify and
call out Ponzi schemes, deceptive practices and oth-
er forms of corporate fraud.
After all, the next time the press alerts investors to
financial wrongdoing, one of those investors could
be you.
In retrospect, it seems unfathomable that a rinky-
dink miner run by a rag-tag cast of characters fooled
so many people into believing it had the world’s big-
gest gold find.
Walsh and his wife Jeannette created Bre- in
1988, and by the following year it was trading as a
penny stock on the Alberta Stock xchange. But it
wasn’t until 199 that a chain-smoking Canadian ge-
ologist named John Felderhof helped the company
acquire its first stake in Busang, and recruited Mi-
chael de Guzman, a Filipino geologist, to join his
crew.
Bre- initially told investors that Busang could
contain one million ounces of gold. But over the
years that estimate ballooned to a whopping 200
million ounces. In 1996, the company’s stock migrat-
ed to the Toronto Stock xchange’s flagship 00 in-
dex of leading companies. And when the company
announced there was too much gold to mine on its
own, Barrick Gold and Placer Dome were among
those who competed fiercely to become its partner.
“It got adulation from Bay Street and, above all,
from Wall Street – virtually without exception,” re-
counts Douglas Goold, a former Globe journalist
who co-authored the book e e au with col-
league Andrew Willis.
Retail investors, too, became seduced by gold fe-
ver. In St. Paul, Alta., a town about 200 kilometres
northeast of dmonton with a population of 5,200 at
0s as word got out about how it had handled the
MAIL | T U E S DAY , U N E 1 1 , 2 0 2
the time, an estimated one in 50 residents owned
shares of Bre- . “I’ve got the contract to build a 20-
storey building for everyone to jump off of when
Bre- crashes,” Jack Kindermann, a local electrical
contractor, quipped to a Globe reporter in March,
1996.
In fact, people everywhere were hanging on every
twist and turn of the Bre- story. “I was stopped in
the street all the time and asked, What do you think
is going to happen ’ ” Goold says.
The Globe’s scoops – which included revelations
that Bre- no longer had a valid exploration permit
or clear title to Busang – helped the public separate
fact from corporate fiction. But not everyone appre-
ciated the newspaper’s unflinching coverage. “Your
paper is anti-Bre- ,” Felderhof told Goold in an in-
terview in Jakarta on Feb. 28, 1997.
Less than two weeks later, the Bre- fraud began
to unravel with shocking speed. U.S.-based Freeport-
McMoRan Inc., which conducted its own sampling,
couldn’t square its findings with Bre- ’s results. It
called on de Guzman, who was in Toronto, to return
to Busang to provide answers.
While travelling to the site on March 19 of that
year, de Guzman fell out of a helicopter. His badly
decomposed body was found four days later, and
conspiracy theories began to swirl online suggesting
the 41-year-old geologist had faked his own death
because he knew the jig was up.
It would later be revealed that de Guzman was
running from the truth in his personal life too, after
secretly marrying four wives. His health was also de-
teriorating because of malaria, typhus and hepatitis
B.
On March 26, Bre- finally conceded that its gold
estimates may have been overstated, tanking its
shares. But rather than scrutinizing the company’s
increasingly unsustainable claims, the Ontario Se-
curities Commission’s acting chairman, Jack Geller,
rushed to Bre- ’s defence, lashing out at the media
for creating a “feeding frenzy” that also hurt the TS .
He specifically criticized The Globe and the Finan-
cial Post, accusing them of engaging in an “orgy of
speculation, printing, and even encouraging, the
wildest surmises so as to keep the story on the front
burner.”
“I think the biggest challenge with Bre- was the
sort of home-team challenge,” says Paul Waldie, who
was one of the reporters covering the story. “Any
time you wrote something negative about Bre- at
the peak of its market cap, you were sort of dissing
Canada somehow.”
On May 4, an independent audit by Strathcona
Mineral Services Ltd. determined that Bre- ’s sam-
ples were subject to widespread tampering. A sep-
arate report would later name de Guzman and four
other Filipino workers as the culprits who salted the
samples with grains of gold. “The fraud itself was so
primitive,” explains Willis. “They were grinding
apart wedding rings and using that to salt the sam-
ples early on. Then they were buying river gold and
throwing it in the bags.”
Two days later, a Globe editorial called for the cre-
ation of a national securities commission, arguing
that junior companies like Bre- needed proper vet-
ting before being included on benchmark stock in-
dexes “The first and last line of defence for investors
is information. The more investors have, and the
quicker they have it, the better off they will be.”
Provincial governments, jealously guarding their
jurisdictional turf, refused to cede that authority to
Ottawa, though regulators did change some rules for
junior miners.
Bre- succeeded in bilking investors around the
world with its bogus claims of bullion in Busang. It
also earned Canada infamy as the Wild West of in-
vestments regulation.
The Bre- affair was by no means the first time that a
flagrant fraud caught securities regulators and the
TS flat-footed. Back in 1964, there was an embar-
rassing scandal involving Windfall Oils and Mines –
another junior company turned stock-market dar-
ling.
Windfall exaggerated claims about mineral finds,
including copper, in Northern Ontario, and then
rode a wave of market speculation. Its shares soared
from 56 cents to 5.60 on the TS , then cratered after
the company came clean.
In that sense, Bre- was simply a new spin on an
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old-fashioned mining fraud. But because Bay

Street’s minders rejected other proposed reforms to
tighten oversight, another scandal soon erupted on
their watch. YBM Magnex International Inc. – an in-
dustrial magnet maker that once had a stock market
capitalization of nearly 1-billion – collapsed in the
spring of 1998 after revelations the company had
links to Russian organized crime.
YBM started out as a Channel Islands company
with alleged ties to Sergei Mikhailov, a suspected
Russian crime godfather. After a complex series of
mergers and combinations, the company emerged
on the Alberta Stock xchange in 1995 as YBM Mag-
nex International Inc., migrating to the TS the fol-
lowing year. Former Ontario premier David Peterson
joined YBM’s board, which bolstered the company’s
credibility and helped fuel a cultish following
among institutional investors and analysts.
But it all came to an end on May 1 , 1998, when the
FBI raided YBM’s Pennsylvania head office after the
company’s auditors raised concerns about alleged
criminal activities, forcing the OSC to issue a cease-
trade order.
That same month, Globe journalists Karen How-
lett and Waldie, after digging deep into YBM’s past,
linked the company to another Russian mob boss,
Semion Mogilevitch, who owned almost one-third
of its shares, along with five of his associates. What’s
more, British police had been investigating Mogile-
vitch’s alleged mob activities since at least 1994, and
securities regulators in Alberta were aware of that
probe. “It spoke to how naive Canadian capital mar-
kets were at that time,” Waldie says. “Americans
were all over it, the British were all over it and the
Canadians did nothing.” According to Bre , the Busang fields in Indonesia, shown in 1 , held millions of ounces of metal that it could e tract with the
In December, 1998, The Globe reported details right partners. But soon The Globe began to reveal holes in those claims, including whether Bre owned Busang at all. REUTERS
about YBM’s money-laundering operation and, in
February, 1999, the paper published another bomb-
shell The OSC and TS received damning informa-
tion about YBM from the RCMP more than a year be-
fore the FBI raid. On April 18, 1997 – the very day that
YBM was added to the TS 00 index – the Mounties
warned regulators that YBM’s financial statements
appeared to be bogus. YBM’s stock continued to
trade even as the OSC received reams of corroborat-
ing information, including from a company whistle-
blower.
The OSC sat on that intelligence and kept inves-
tors in the dark for 1 months while squabbling with
the TS about who should lead the investigation.
What’s worse, regulators also gave their blessing for
YBM to raise 100-million from investors. “It was a
real black eye for our securities regulators,” Howlett
says. “They actually had information handed to
them on a platter.”
The YBM case – which should have been a wa-
tershed moment for securities-law enforcement –
ended with five of the company’s eight former direc-
tors getting a slap on the wrist. Peterson was among
those who escaped sanction.
Today, most corporate fraud remains undetected
because of relatively low levels of enforcement in
Canada, says Alexander Dyck, a professor of finance
at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of
Management. “A national securities regulator would
help,” he says. The financial press plays a critical role
in uncovering corporate fraud, he adds, noting that
the reflex of C Os, directors and even some external Top Bre ’s CEO David alsh is pictured in his Calgary
auditors is to keep misrepresentations under wraps. office in 1 6. MIKE RIDEWOOD/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Poonam Puri, research chair in corporate govern-
ance at York University, agrees that “an independent Above Geologist Michael de Gu man, right, goes with
financial press is of utmost importance” in holding colleagues to survey the gold deposits in Borneo.
corporate Canada to account. Governments and reg- GATRA MAGAZINE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
ulators have multiple obligations. Retail investors
have little time to scrutinize potential investments.
“Business reporters fill this gap,” she says. “They Left Actor ohn Gordon promotes a boo by Douglas
combine the expertise, capacity and reputational Goold and Andrew illis on the Bre fraud in 1 .
heft needed to get to the bottom of scandals.”
her cellphone number to access her online ac- December, Cotten died suddenly at age 0 from
Technological innovations are shaking up the in- counts. “People assumed maybe I had crypto as complications of Crohn’s disease while on his hon-
vestment industry. Online platforms enable retail well,” she says. “But I did not have any crypto and eymoon in India. By Feb. 5, 2019, Quadriga was no
investors to bypass go-betweens such as investment they didn’t get anything.” more.
advisers and brokers, while digital technologies Undeterred, she, Joe Castaldo and other reporters In the end, more than 76,000 former clients re-
have given rise to new asset classes, including cryp- stayed on the story as Quadriga’s financial crisis spi- ceived only a pittance of what they were owed. The
tocurrencies. But securities regulators are still strug- ralled. After bitcoin’s price crashed that November, OSC later determined that Cotten operated Quadri-
gling to catch fraudsters who hide in plain sight, as there was a full-blown run on the exchange. Then in ga like a Ponzi scheme, plundering client accounts
illustrated by the collapse of QuadrigaC – formerly to fund his posh lifestyle and fraudulent trading that
Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange. resulted in steep losses.
Launched in 201 by Gerald Cotten and Michael This time, the OSC didn’t chastise the press for ex-
Patryn, the ancouver-based exchange billed itself posing a homegrown fraud. Globe journalists broke
as an easy-to-use platform for people to buy bitcoin scoop after scoop about this made-in-Canada scam,
and other high-flying crypto assets. Quadriga at- including the fact that Patryn was a convicted crimi-
tracted customers from Canada and abroad, some nal formerly known as Omar Dhanani, who served
turning over their life savings. In 2018, Cotten boast- 18 months in a U.S. prison for his role in an online
ed to The Globe that Quadriga had 50,000 users. identity-theft ring and that Cotten flogged get-rich-
Who knows if he was telling the truth quick schemes since he was a 15-year-old high
The Globe and other media, however, had already school student in Belleville, Ont. “It was such a wild
started reporting on signs of trouble. Clients faced story because the characters were kind of larger than
lengthy delays in retrieving their money, which the life,” says Posadzki, who was one of three Globe re-
exchange initially played down. By October of that porters featured in a Netflix documentary about
year, Globe capital markets reporter Alexandra Po- Quadriga.
sadzki had the backstory The Canadian Imperial As with Bre- ’s de Guzman, there’s been no short-
Bank of Commerce had frozen several accounts be- age of online conspiracy theories suggesting that
longing to Quadriga’s payment processor, Costo- Cotten faked his own death. The Globe sent then-
dian Inc., sequestering 28-million because it was Asia correspondent Nathan anderKlippe to India
unclear who owned the money. to piece together Cotten’s final hours. He gleaned ex-
After reporting this revelation, Posadzki became Interested parties attend Nova Scotia Supreme Court in 201 as clusive details from the doctor who treated Cotten
the target of a SIM-swap scam criminals hijacked QuadrigaC see s creditor protection. ANDREW AUGHAN/CP and the police officer who ruled out foul play.

Bre- , YBM Magnex and Quadriga are cautionary

tales about the dangers of undetected corporate
frauds. The Globe has covered many more over the
years, including Livent, Nortel, Sino-Forest and oth-
ers. The common theme in all these scandals is that
people lose their money, but no one goes to jail or is
otherwise seriously punished for deceiving the in-
vesting public.
Although The Globe’s journalism has spurred
regulatory changes over the years, Canada still
doesn’t have a national securities regulator, which
impedes enforcement. And whistle-blowers have
insufficient incentives to report corporate malfea-
sance. Meanwhile, Canadian companies seek
growth in overseas markets and the internet is blur-
ring international borders – trends that demand bet-
ter oversight and risk management.
Against that backdrop, a retirement-savings crisis
looms. As workplace pensions become less gener-
ous, ordinary people are shouldering more respon-
sibility to manage their money, including through
investments. Retail investors in the digital age may
have a wealth of information at their fingertips, but
that hasn’t made them less susceptible to scams.
Accountability journalism is needed like never
before, even as the ranks of business reporters are
shrinking across the country. “I worry very much
about the deteriorating economics of the business
press,” Dyck says. “Our capital markets are better be-
cause you exist.”

This is an excerpt from A Nation’s Paper: The Globe and

Mail in the Life of Canada, a collection of history essays
A Cessna 00 belonging to Gerald Cotten, co founder of QuadrigaC , sits at the Truro lying Club in Debert, N.S., in mid ebruary, from Globe writers past and present, coming this fall
201 . ee s earlier, Mr. Cotten’s death led to the collapse of his cryptocurrency e change. DARREN CALABRESE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL from Signal/McClelland Stewart.
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he s b ect wh is tr l l al t the chief agistrate will neither a ise n r s b it t arbitrar eas res - ni s

ow to get
airline re or
on the runwa
T
he top complaint among air travellers in Canada has
long been obvious.
As former federal minister David merson stated
in his transportation study tabled in the House of Commons
in 2016 “Canadians continue to pay relatively high airfares,
in part due to the lack of competition on many routes.”
Little since then has changed – and the industry is once
more the focus of not one but two studies, the first in process
at the House of Commons standing committee on transport
and the second pending from the Competition Bureau.
One key foundational step, recommended by Mr. merson
and not acted on, is change in the economics of airports,
which effectively operate as unregulated monopolies. Air-
ports pile surcharges on travellers – so-called improvement
fees are much higher in Canada compared with the United
States – and airports levy such fees in part because they have
to pay high rents to the federal government.
This is where reform is first necessary, as this space argued
last year.
asing costs on these fronts could have a galvanizing ef-
fect, allowing airports to reduce fees paid by travellers and
airlines. As Mr. merson put it eight years ago “Canada is
ETTE TO T E EDITO
unique among its competitors in charging onerous rents and
ANOTHER SOLUTION arguments for this tax change, eral democratic governance is
taxes that undermine competitiveness.” but this does not sound like one “evidence-based decision-mak-
Like many key industries in Canada, air travel is dominat- Re “The time has come to think of them. ing.” Perhaps that was true at one
about what comes after the war Her comments also show me a time, but it is not the case today
ed by a few large companies. Air Canada has about half of the
in Gaza” June 10 The idea of a complete lack of responsibility when I observe policy decisions
domestic market WestJet controls about 0 per cent. Porter proposed trusteeship for the ad- from the government for the cur- increasingly made on emotional
ministration of Palestine is an ex- rent frustration held by so many grounds.
and Flair roughly split the rest.
cellent one. Constructive ideas of the “less privileged.” Furthermore, I would argue
The industry is in retreat. In February, discount carrier like this are rare and especially Colin Loc hart that this triumph of feelings over
Lynx Air filed for creditor protection and ended its oper- welcome. Carleton North, N.B. facts is the very thing that has
The issue is who should over- caused the backlash of populism.
ations. Meanwhile, after the difficult pandemic years, Air see the trusteeship. The United Re “Consider these last-minute George Par er Cobourg, Ont.
Canada has cut back in the west and WestJet has done like- Nations is proposed, however I planning ideas before capital-
am not sure if Israel trusts the UN gains tax changes arrive” Report
wise in the east. It’s hurt supply as of late last year, Air Cana- BUSINESS RATING
to fully protect its interests at this on Business, June 6 ery help-
da and WestJet had cut about a quarter of their domestic time. ful tax planning tips, but also
An alternative could be an ad some cautions to consider. Re “Who’s to blame ” Letters,
seats, compared with before the pandemic. hoc body, for example a special Another key aspect to consid- June 10 A letter-writer asks us
The Competition Bureau study is promising, as it is the council of, say, France, Canada, er, before deciding whether to to trust McKinsey to do good
Jordan and Saudi Arabia. If this trigger capital gains, is the poten- work because the consulting firm
first conducted with new powers to compel evidence, similar council also committed to main- tial impact of the Old Age Securi- hires the best business graduates.
to its peer agencies in other countries. That change is part of taining security for Israel, I can ty clawback for seniors like me, a Outside of the quest to create
see it being accepted by all sides. modest-income taxpayer with more equity for its partners, the
the overhaul of Canada’s competition laws. A grocery indus- So propose a UN trusteeship, accrued gains largely inflation question “good for whom ” gets
try study completed last year was hindered because of the but have an alternative available from several decades of owner- muddy.
if the idea founders. ship of a simple lakefront cabin Rather than simply trust
lack of such powers. or other sources. “business thinking,” public-sec-
Ed Dunnett Qualicum Beach, B.C.
But the latest effort may be circumscribed before it begins. Columnist Tim Cestnick illus- tor clients may need to provide
Kudos to contributors Lloyd Ax- trates the substantial complexi- clearer ethical guidance when
The bureau suggested it may not use the option – “remains to
worthy, Michael W. Manulak and ties in planning and compliance enlisting this type of help to ad-
be determined,” said deputy commissioner Anthony Du- Allan Rock for proposing a Unit- arising from proposed changes to dress societal issues.
ed Nations trusteeship. However, capital-gains tax for hundreds of Chris Irwin Toronto
rocher in May. That was a subdued statement from an orga-
their noble pursuit of a two-state thousands of taxpayers, particu-
nization that has mostly sounded emboldened over the past solution looks to be merely a larly in such a short time span McKinsey is indeed a top consult-
several years. pipe dream. and with limited information. ing firm, admired and used by
Oct. 7 was an atrocity perpe- These complexities should be many other firms globally for ad-
The reason Industry Minister Fran ois-Philippe Cham- trated by an acknowledged ter- ample reason for a wise govern- vice, strategy and recommenda-
pagne is looking over the bureau’s shoulder. In a letter in rorist organization. While I am ment to ditch the proposal, as is tions.
emphatically no fan of Benjamin suggested, without even consid- Having worked in manage-
May, Mr. Champagne cited a list of issues on the airlines Netanyahu’s actions in response, ering its numerous other flaws. ment consulting and its oper-
study. He noted that compulsory power “can be disruptive to it’s inescapable that there had to Charles Blac Mississauga ational implementation, I know
be a reprisal. A more clinical one there’s a popular saying “No one
businesses” under investigation. He also pointed to challeng- would have spared many of the ever got fired for hiring McKin-
HAT GOES UP
es in the industry, saying that the study should consider “the thousands of lives lost, but a re- sey.”
sponse there surely had to be. Martin il ins Calgary
long-term sustainability of the domestic airline industry for The only viable two-state solu- Re “From pensions to health ben-
Canada’s sovereignty.” tion I see is one wherein the safe- efits, the absence of inflation in-
USER GENERATED
ty and security of both Palesti- dexing is making us poorer” Re-
One can see the clash coming, after the study is published nians and Israelis is absolutely port on Business, June 8 Finally
a year from now. The bureau makes significant recommen- guaranteed. That is not possible it is proclaimed that “price levels Re “Of concern” Letters, June 7
if even one Hamas operative is are permanently higher.” Lower The Globe’s delightful history of
dations Ottawa says no.
anywhere near the area. inflation does not mean general Letters to the ditor has generat-
Consider what happened when two northern airlines, First The UN can postulate all it prices are coming down, it just ed wonderful comments from
wants. Unbiased action is re- means that they’re not going up readers and, in particular, some
Air and Canadian North, merged in 2019. The bureau said it
quired, not an endless stream of as fast. of the published and unpublish-
was a “merger-to-monopoly” that would lead to higher pric- censures against one party. I wonder what poll results ed writers. I note that one corre-
es. Ottawa approved the deal, citing a “more efficient and fi- Alan Rosenberg Toronto would be if people were asked if spondent has expressed the
prices go down when inflation opinion that it’s best not to crit-
nancially sustainable northern air carrier.” goes down icize The Globe if one wants to be
CAPITAL CALCULATIONS Louise olan o Toronto published.
It is true the business of flying isn’t easy anywhere in the
I must disagree, and refer to
world and in Canada the issue of a population scattered over Re “Freeland says broad strokes one of my critical and published
POPULAR OPINION
vast distances is prominent. But it isn’t unique. Look at Aus- of capital-gains tax hike haven’t letters dated Feb. 10, 1996 “A na-
changed, details coming Mon- tional talent pool” . I wrote “I
tralia. It also effectively has a duopoly and its airport eco- day” June 10 So professionals, Re “Canada may be headed for a wonder how many of your read-
nomics need reform. Australia just saw a discount carrier, including doctors and lawyers, populist government – but how ers have recognized the cost-cut-
“use tax strategies that turn nor- would it govern ” June 10 An ting methods you’ve recently in-
Bonza, go out of business, one backed by the same American mal income into capital gains.” interesting analysis of the pop- corporated at The Globe and
private-equity firm that invested in Flair. As a retiree, with fully taxable but ulist “anti” approach to govern- Mail. I refer to the many innova-
very limited “normal income,” ment, and a proposal to “leaven tive ways in which you’ve in-
In 2018, as recommended by Mr. merson and others, the where do I, and the other 99 per the power of populism with the duced your readers to provide
federal Liberals loosened foreign ownership limits to 49 per cent of Canadians, sign up attributes of good governance.” editorial material at no cost to
Donald Rollins ernon, B.C. I suggest the best way to antic- you.”
cent, from 25 per cent. It helped bring money to Flair – ipate the conduct of populism in It was probably a given, but I
though individual foreign investors are still restricted to 25 I believe most Canadians, no power, if the Conservatives win did mention Letters to the ditor
matter how they feel about the the next federal election, is to as well.
per cent. That could be increased to 49 per cent. A bigger
proposed capital-gains tax hike, look at the records of self-styled George Dunbar Toronto
change is much more complicated. Protectionism defines find Chrystia Freeland’s recent “populist” premiers such as On-
comments reprehensible. Ac- tario’s Mike Harris and Alberta’s Letters to the Editor should be
the airline business around the world.
cording to her, the only group Ralph Klein. exclusive to The Globe and Mail.
Change in the airline business doesn’t come easy, as past that can prevent “the wrath of Graham Taylor Include name, address and daytime
reports make clear. The first place the bureau and legislators the vast majority of their less Peterborough, Ont. phone number. Keep letters under
privileged compatriots” would 150 words. Letters may be edited for
should look now is at the airports themselves. be individuals targeted by the Contributor David McLaughlin length and clarity. E-mail:
tax. There may be good writes that the ideal model of lib- letters glo ean mail. om

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O INION
D A therap
The .S. F has
re ected a company’s bid
to use the psychedelic
as a treatment for PTS
ANDR
PICARD
OPINION
Post-traumatic stress disorder
can be a debilitating condition.
There are very few effective treat-
ments.
A lot of hope has been placed
in the psychedelic drug MDMA,
commonly known as ecstasy or
molly – a treatment whose effec-
tiveness many a PTSD sufferer
has raved about.
But last week, an advisory
committee of the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration soundly re-
jected an application to approve
the first MDMA-assisted therapy.
The final decision will come
Aug. 11, but the regulator usually
follows recommendations of ex-
pert advisers.
The question now is whether
this rejection will be a setback for
psychedelic drugs in general, or if
the findings of some unusual
Eight ears a ter D Da E Da has le t Europe in peril again
TIMOTHY GARTON ASH
OPINION
Professor of European studies at the
Uni ersity of Oxford and senior
fellow at the Hoo er Institution,
Stanford Uni ersity
A
urope that just celebrated
the 80-year-old D-Day be-
ginning of its liberation
from war, nationalism and fas-
cism now again faces fascism, na-
tionalism and war.
Please don’t be reassured by
uropean Commission President
Ursula von der Leyen’s compla-
cent statement that “the centre
held” on June 9, what we might
call -Day – when the results of 27
different national elections to the
uropean Parliament were an-
nounced. That’s true in the aggre-
gate distribution of seats between
the main party groups in the u-
ropean Parliament. But the U is
run by national governments
even more than by its directly
elected parliament, and -Day
produced hard-right successes in
core member states that range
from the significant to the shock-
ing.
None of these uroskeptic par-
ties will be so stupid as to advo-
cate following Britain’s Brexit. In-
stead, they will continue to pull
the U to the right from inside,
with an even harder line on im-
migration, determined opposi-
tion to the green measures ur-
gently needed to address the cli-
mate crisis, reduced support for
Ukraine and clawbacks on na-
tional control from Brussels.
Most dramatic is France.
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally
scored a stunning victory,
art leaders ha e the a ilit to step up and clean house o alleged colluders
STEPHANIE CARVIN
PHILIPPE LAGASS
OPINION
Stephanie Car in and Philippe
Lagass are associate professors of
international affairs at Carleton
Uni ersity.
T
he shocking report released
by the National Security
and Intelligence Commit-
tee of Parliamentarians NSICOP
last week is the stuff of democrat-
ic nightmares. In brief, the com-
mittee reported that when it
comes to foreign interference, the
call is coming from inside the
houses several parliamentarians
may be working with foreign gov-
ernments in ways that under-
mine Canada’s national security
and democratic institutions. No-
tably, these parliamentarians
may have unknowingly received
donations from foreign govern-
ments, while at least one is al-
leged to have passed confidential
information to foreign agents.
NSICOP’s report has been met
with outrage and demands that
MAIL O
research by an unusual company
are simply an outlier.
At first blush, the outcome of
the research conducted by Lykos
Therapeutics looks impressive.
Two clinical trials, involving al-
most 200 patients, showed the
combination of MDMA and psy-
chotherapy was highly effective.
Some of the study participants
were in Canada.
In the first trial, 67 per cent of
participants saw a reduction in
PTSD symptoms to the point they
no longer had a diagnosis the
second trial had similar out-
comes, with 71 per cent of partici-
pants no longer meeting PTSD
criteria after treatment.
But the FDA advisory group
expressed some serious reserva-
tions about the methodology,
which made them doubt the re-
sults. Nine out of 11 committee
members voted that the Lykos
trials did not prove MDMA’s ther-
apeutic effectiveness. In addi-
tion, 10 voted that its benefits did
not outweigh the risks of using it.
The committee’s findings are
understandable. First of all, 40
per cent of the study’s participa-
nts had previous experience us-
ing MDMA, suggesting they were
predisposed to finding the treat-
ment beneficial.
Supporters of the National Rally celebrate Sunday’s poll results in Paris. SARAH MEYSSONNIER/REUTERS
winning more than 0 per cent of
the vote and trouncing mma-
nuel Macron’s liberal centrist Re-
naissance. Then, Mr. Macron,
whose extraordinary self-confi-
dence is now visibly tipping into
hubris, announced that he was
calling fresh parliamentary elec-
tions for June 0, with a second
round on July 7. This is a huge
gamble, counting on voters in
most constituencies to prefer an-
other candidate over the National
Rally one in the system’s decisive
second round. But given the
depth of popular anger, there’s a
serious risk that just three days
after Britain almost certainly gets
a government of the pragmatic,
very cautiously pro- uropean
centre-left in its July 4 election,
the government name the parlia-
mentarians in question. We agree
that the situation is serious and
presents a clear danger to Cana-
dian democracy. Yet, calls for the
government to openly name
names ignore the risks involved.
The most obvious risk is that
disclosing too much, too soon,
would disrupt both criminal and
intelligence investigations. For-
eign agents and proxies, possibly
under surveillance as a part of
much wider national-security in-
vestigation, would learn that
their activities are being moni-
tored. These individuals could
then go dark or flee the country,
eliminating the chance for prose-
cution. Worse, having learned
they are under investigation,
these foreign agents and proxies
might be able to identify sensi-
tive sources and methods used to
gather information.
Second, simply naming the
parliamentarians would not be
enough – there would be calls to
see evidence against them. This,
too, would expose the tools used
by the intelligence agencies,
undermining not only current
investigations, but their use in
a still ha e its uses
There were worries, too, about
bias among the therapists in-
volved in the study. Some told
patients they were part of “histo-
ry-making” research. There was
also a case of sexual misconduct.
The company didn’t help its
case by failing to collect data that
the FDA had demanded about
potential harms. MDMA can
cause heart problems and, in
some cases, increase the risk of
suicide.
Finally, there is the thorny is-
sue of blinding. In typical rando-
mized clinical trials, half the par-
ticipants receive the drug being
tested, and the other half receive
a placebo. But with a psychedelic
drug like MDMA, it’s fairly obvi-
ous to the participant if they have
received a sugar pill. This is a sig-
nificant challenge for all psyche-
delics research.
Lykos Therapeutics is a phar-
maceutical company owned by
the non-profit Multidisciplinary
Association for Psychedelic Stud-
ies. MAPS’s evangelism for psy-
chedelics is well known. Its foun-
der, Rick Doblin, has for years
touted MDMA as a game-changer,
claiming it can eliminate all trau-
ma in the world and bring about
world peace.
This kind of rhetoric is
France may get a government of
the uroskeptic hard right, bind-
ing the hands of Mr. Macron, the
continent’s leading advocate of a
stronger urope. If so, this would
be France’s Brexit moment, al-
though without the resulting ex-
it.
In Germany, the centre-right
CDU-CSU was the clear winner,
but the extreme right Alternative
for Germany AfD came second,
with just less than 16 per cent of
the vote, more than was garnered
by any of the three parties in the
country’s governing coalition,
including Chancellor Olaf
Scholz’s Social Democrats. The
AfD is a party so extreme that
even Ms. Le Pen decided she did
not want to be in the same
future ones as well.
Third, although it is doubtful
NSICOP would be so bold in their
assessments if they did not trust
in the assessments they have
read, intelligence is not evidence.
Such a public denunciation with-
out clear evidence to back it up
could ruin lives and reputations.
So what can be done The an-
swer lies with party leaders, who
have the ability to address these
allegations in a way that balances
action, accountability, and the se-
curity of information.
Leaders from all parties should
agree to be briefed on the intelli-
gence about parliamentarians
who may have been compro-
mised. They could do so by being
made privy councillors if they are
not already, and then being grant-
ed a security clearance for the
purpose of reviewing the intelli-
gence in question. Once they
have reviewed the intelligence,
they should judge what actions
should be taken regarding the
parliamentarians who belong to
their parties.
The actions available to party
leaders could range from giving
those who acted unwittingly with
unhelpful.
There is no doubt that psyche-
delics such as MDMA, LSD, psilo-
cybin, ketamine, DMT and others
have the potential to be effective
treatments for various mental
health conditions.
There is no miracle drug, but
psychedelics could be at least as
efficacious as existing prescrip-
tion drugs, especially for stub-
born and common conditions
such as PTSD and treatment-re-
sistant depression.
But we need more than anec-
dotes and hype. We need solid,
by-the-books research to test the-
ories and treatments, and a nu-
anced analysis of the risks and
benefits.
We also have to make a distinc-
tion between recreational and
therapeutic use of these drugs.
MDMA has been a staple of raves
and dance parties since the mid-
eighties. As drugs go, it’s relative-
ly safe.
But if we’re going to use
MDMA as a treatment for mental
illness, it has to be done in a sys-
tematic fashion, with standar-
dized doses and proper over-
sight.
Currently, MDMA therapy is
fairly onerous. A patient takes a
125-milligram dose and remains
uropean parliamentary group
with it, after Maximilian Krah, its
charming lead candidate, said
that not all members of the SS
were criminals.
Meanwhile in Italy, the Broth-
ers of Italy of postneofascist
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
came out on top, as did the far-
right Freedom Party in Austria. In
the Netherlands, the Party for
Freedom of the Islamophobe
Geert Wilders performed only
slightly less well than the centre-
left. Most worrying of all, many of
these parties do particularly well
among young voters, especially
young men.
Yes, there are more encourag-
ing results from Poland and Hun-
gary. But if the lesson from those
a warning and resources to avoid
getting embroiled with foreign
powers in the future, to removing
them from committees, to ex-
pelling them from the party cau-
cus, thereby forcing them to sit as
independents and preventing
them from running under their
party’s banner during the next
election.
If a leader judges that a parlia-
mentarian should be expelled
from caucus, a high-level expla-
nation would be that the intelli-
gence warranted this outcome.
The expelled parliamentarian
would still be free to deny that
they have been compromised in
any way, and they may never face
any criminal charges.
This would, of course, still
damage their reputation and
likely end their parliamentary ca-
reer. But parliamentarians have
been expelled from caucus for far
less. If allegations of fraud war-
rant expulsion from caucus, as
they have in the past, then surely
concerns about colluding with
foreign powers do, too.
To put it bluntly, nobody is
owed a seat in caucus or in Parlia-
ment, and party leaders have a
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in a quiet, dark room for four to
six hours, accompanied by a
therapist who does talk therapy.
People with PTSD close them-
selves off and treatment requires
them to open up psychedelics
like MDMA can break down in-
hibitions.
In Canada, MDMA is only
available legally through
Health Canada’s special access
program. Doctors have to make a
request on behalf of a patient,
and the process isn’t easy. Just
dozens of requests have been ap-
proved, mostly on behalf of for-
mer soldiers suffering from PTSD.
Many more patients self-med-
icate without going through offi-
cial channels – which is easy
enough given that psychedelics
are sold openly in big Canadian
cities.
We need to incorporate these
individuals’ real-world experi-
ences into research – not as a sub-
stitute for proper trials, but as a
complement.
The rejection of the first
MDMA-assisted therapy need not
be a major setback for psychedel-
ics. If nothing else, it will burst
the hype bubble and serve as a
reminder that we will never get
effective drugs without high-
quality research.
countries as from Britain is that
you must actually have your pop-
ulist nationalists in power for
some years before they start to be
rejected, that’s small consolation.
These results will make it even
more difficult to make an essen-
tial upward step-change in mili-
tary support for Ukraine at a mo-
ment when that country is in seri-
ous danger of eventually losing
the largest war in urope since
1945. Although the hard-right
parties are divided over Ukraine,
with Ms. Meloni among the em-
battled country’s strong support-
ers, the net impact of -Day’s re-
sults will be negative.
All this is before we get to the
most important election for u-
rope this year. A victory for Do-
nald Trump in November would
weaken and most likely further
divide urope, as hard-right pop-
ulist nationalists, quite possibly
including Ms. Meloni, would line
up as the uropean party of Mr.
Trump.
So is it time to despair and emi-
grate Certainly not. There’s still a
large majority of uropeans who
don’t want to lose the best urope
we’ve ever had. But they need to
be mobilized, galvanized, per-
suaded that the Union really does
face existential threats.
I now await with some dread
the weeks of horse-trading in the
U Fiddling in Brussels while
Kharkiv and our planet burn.
What uropeans need is a combi-
nation of national governments
and uropean institutions that
deliver the housing young people
cannot afford, the jobs, the life
chances, the security, the green
transition, the support for Uk-
raine.
Will urope wake up before it
is too late
duty to ensure that their mem-
bers are not undermining nation-
al security or our democratic in-
stitutions for personal gain. If
nothing is done, furthermore,
compromised parliamentarians
may be emboldened, and future
politicians could fail to appre-
ciate the consequences of cozy-
ing up to foreign governments.
Dealing with senators who
may have been compromised
will be more difficult, as only one
party sits in the same caucus as
MPs. Still, allegations of foreign
interference should force the
Senate to find ways to keep its
house in order.
Relying on party leaders to
deal with potentially compro-
mised parliamentarians is not
ideal. This approach will not sat-
isfy those calling for all the intel-
ligence and allegations to be
made public, nor will it afford the
suspected parliamentarians with
due process or a fair hearing. But
if the choice is between some ac-
countability and safeguards with-
in Parliament or none at all, we
should demand that our party
leaders act, while protecting our
national-security investigations.
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I E A T OP IN ION | P UZ Z LES | EATHER

trat ord s edda is issing the spar

The portrayals of the
characters can feel aloof,
one-dimensional even,
in restrained production

. ELLY
NESTRUC

RE IEW

Hedda Gabler
AT TH E TO M PATTE RSO N TH E ATRE
IN STRAT O RD, O N T.

Written by Henri Ibsen, in a new

ersion by Patric Marber
Directed by Molly At inson
Starring Sara Topham, Gordon S.
Miller and Tom McCamus

A
ll points bulletin Hedda
Gabler, recently seen
wreaking havoc to electro-
pop in Toronto at the Coal Mine
Theatre, has next been spotted
waving her father’s pistols
around to more tasteful tinkling
on the piano a two-hour drive
away at the Stratford Festival.
Hedda, for those unfamiliar
with pioneering realist Henrik
Ibsen’s 1891 drama, is a proto-
Goth girl who likes to wear black
and speak her dark fantasies
aloud – and who, six months in-
to marriage to a scholar named
Tesman, is already bored to
death.
At the Tom Patterson Theatre
in Stratford, e a a le ’s nota-
ble features include a proper star
in the title role in Sara Topham,
recently returned from Broad-
way, and a pared-down adapta-
tion by the British playwright Pa-
trick Marber, which sharpens
some of Ibsen’s lines into spears.
Director Molly Atkinson’s pro-
duction’s strongest suit is in the
connections it makes between
the house-poor Tesmans two
turns-of-a-century ago and to-
day’s financially stretched mid-
dle class. Lorenzo Savoini’s de-
sign features rich costuming, but
a set consisting of only a single
chaise longue at one end of the
elongated thrust stage and a fire-
place at the other.
ager to please his new out-of-
his-league wife, and on the as-
sumption that he’s about to
receive a professorship, Tesman
Gordon S. Miller has taken
oella Crichton plays Thea Elvsted, left, and Sara Topham who recently returned from Broadway stars as Hedda Gabler, a proto Goth girl who li es to
dress in blac and share her dar fantasies aloud, in Hedda Gabler at the Stratford estival. DA ID HOU
Hedda on a months-long honey-
moon and purchased this mon-
ster home he can’t afford to fur-
nish.
So, the honeymoon is defi-
nitely over when the pair return
to learn Tesman’s old rival Lov-
borg Brad Hodder , a more cre-
ative scholar and old flame of
Hedda’s who had fallen into dis-
repute, has “got sober,” publish-
ed a hit book and is being con-
sidered for the same academic
position.
Tesman’s bigger mistake than
spending money he hasn’t
earned yet, however, is in ima-
gining that Hedda will ever be
satisfied.
You’ve heard of the seven-year
itch – well, Hedda’s has kicked in
at seven months, and she’s al-
ready writing off her husband to
her friend Judge Brack Tom
McCamus , a sexual schemer
who seems to want to be more
than her confidant. “It was time,”
Hedda says of her marriage,
matter-of-factly. “I was tired of
my chaotic life. I needed to set-
tle. I settled for him.
Rounding out the main char-
acters is Hedda’s old frenemy,
Thea lvsted Joella Crichton ,
who has pulled a page out of Ib-
sen’s ll s use and left her
husband and step-children to
follow Lovborg to town she has
saved him from his dissolute
ways and now collaborates with
him on his writing.
Though she claims to have
tired of chaos, Hedda is clearly
addicted to it. She hurts Tes-
man’s aunt’s feelings by dispa-
raging her new hat in the first
scene – and then proceeds to try
to harm others more seriously,
particularly those who have real
purpose or love in their lives.
While Hedda never seems to
be able to restrain her disturbing
impulses, she exists in a very re-
strained, at times to the point of
stiltedness, production. When
one character gets into a violent
fight off stage after a night of de-
bauchery, he reappears with a
delicate drop of blood on his
shirt, but an otherwise unwrin-
kled suit. Though everyone is se-
cretly lusting after everyone else,
only Miller’s Tesman seems to
display an actual sex drive.
The portrayals of the charac-
ters can feel aloof, one-dimen-
sional even – with a solely sweet
Thea and a purely predatory
Brack flattening the play.
ven Topham’s performance
has little spark – no doubt, partly
on purpose. The interpretation is
that Hedda acts the way she does
because she is deeply depressed,
signalled strongly from the start
by blank expression, slow walk
and hollow delivery of dialogue.
There’s no doubt that Hedda
is, on one level, a victim of the
patriarchy – but an overempha-
sis on this downplays the charac-
ter’s own agency, privilege and
uniquely twisted temperament.
This script by Marber was first
used for a National Theatre of
Great Britain modern-dress pro-
duction from the great Belgian
director Ivo van Hove – one that
saw Hedda staple-gunning flow-
ers to the walls, a tomato juice
shower and Joni Mitchell’s lue
as a recurring musical motif.
By contrast, there is no chore-
ography or visual flair to Atkin-
son’s production – music re-
stricted to stormy classical piano
during the scene changes. It runs
just under two hours with inter-
mission, while van Hove’s ran
two hours and 0 minutes.
Marber’s stripped down script
left room for directors and per-
formers to fill it out with move-
ment or images – or just wreak
some havoc of their own in a
show about a fascinating, de-
structive character. But Strat-
ford’s production, devoid of such
theatricality, feels simply per-
functory, and certainly not punk.
edda Gabler runs to Sept. 2

In ets and the Cit this New or et shares a e oir ull o tails
LEANNE ITALIE NEW YOR NOT YOUR AVERAGE VET their nanny or their housekeeper
PRACTICE is at home. And many of our cli-
House calls are a far different ents actually give us keys to their

A
s a city kid, Amy Attas had
big dreams of roaming the
countryside, healing ani-
mals a la James Herriot’s classic
ll eatu es eat an all.
How did it go Well, the veterin-
arian made it from Queens to
Manhattan, spending the past 2
years traversing the streets of her
hometown as a full-time house-
call doc.
And, boy, does she have stories
to tell, from escaping a massive,
ailing and territory-threatened
Rottweiler, fangs fully bared, to
three weeks on intravenous anti-
biotics after a nasty bite from a cat
patient.
Then there’s the humans be-
having badly “No dog of mine
will be neutered ” and the pam-
pered celebrity-owned pets, in-
cluding the beloved dogs of the
late Joan Rivers, whom Attas
counted as a friend. Cher once
bared all to show Attas a rash after
she adopted a dog with mange,
and Billy Joel serenaded her on pi-
ano.
“You’ll never guess what hap-
pened today,” was Attas’s nightly
refrain to her husband. Now, she’s
collected those tales into a juicy
and compassionate memoir, ets
an t e it , out June 18.
Woven among her stories are
tips and advice for animal lovers.
Forget the aster lilies, cat peo-
ple.
IN HOME PET CARE IS NO LONGER
A RARITY
The pug-loving Attas had no
grand business plan for her City
Pets practice when she first
packed up supplies and began
travelling by subway and taxi. She
had just left a tony Upper ast Side
animal hospital and some of her
clients, including Rivers, wanted
to keep using her. She assumed
the house calls would be tempo-
Dr. Amy Attas, left, tal s with Lisa Healey about her dog Cody’s health
during a house call in New Yor . At minimum, she or her practice’s two
other vets visit 12 to 15 homes daily. MARY ALTA ER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
rary. “When I started, it was a nov-
elty,” Attas said. “From Day 1 I was
busy.”
She has more company now as
concierge services in general have
grown in popularity. Other vets
around the country do it full time
like Attas, while some maintain
brick-and-mortar practices and
provide home services for end-of-
life care.
Attas, meanwhile, has gradu-
ated to a private car and driver.
She starts her days at 8 a.m., ac-
companied by one or both of her
nurses. She allowed the Associat-
ed Press to tag along on a recent
afternoon.
“I initially thought my practice
would be filled with people who
had difficulty getting to the veter-
inarian and maybe older people
who had pets, or people with
physical disabilities,” she said.
They do seek her out but, Attas
said, “what I didn’t realize was
how attractive it would be to all
kinds of other pet owners.”
Meet Puddy, the beloved 19-
year-old domestic shorthair cat of
artist Wendy Beyer. The arthritic
black-and-white feline has high
blood pressure and requires
monthly checks. Beyer found At-
tas through an online search.
“It’s life-changing,” Beyer said
of having Puddy cared for in the
comfort of his own home, a cozy
sun- and art-filled apartment in
the Hudson Yards neighbour-
hood. “He’s never liked being in a
carrier. It’s so traumatic trying to
get him in the carrier myself.”
Beyer also likes Attas’s no-pres-
sure approach to her decision to
let Puddy age naturally without
heroic measures.
“I think it’s helping to extend
his life. He’s a really relaxed, chill
kitty. He’s not being stressed out,”
Beyer said.
Hop on over to Fifth Avenue for
a check on Cody, an adorable, bar-
ky white Maltese who, at age 8, is a
bundle of fun-loving energy. He’s
at the centre of Lisa Healey’s life.
Cody has itchy allergies and a
heart murmur. Attas, who helped
the Healeys bid farewell to a previ-
ous dog, regularly sees Cody in the
couple’s spacious apartment.
“This is our child and we would
do anything for our children, so
it’s worth the cost. It’s worth every
penny. I don’t even think about
it,” Healey said.
beast for vets than regular practic-
es. There’s the travel, of course, no
small thing in Manhattan. On a re-
cent round, Attas and nurse Jea-
nine Lunz made use of their in-car
time answering phone calls,
working on scheduling and tend-
ing to the numerous other tasks
most vets deal with when they
have a few minutes between ex-
ams.
“It takes much longer than just
waiting for a patient to come in
and going from exam room to ex-
am room in a hospital,” Attas said.
The cost of her transportation
she’s Manhattan-only is includ-
ed in the fee. She charges an addi-
tional fee for seeing multiple pets
at once. It’s less than making
more than one trip to a vet’s office
or what other vets may charge for
seeing more than one pet on the
same day, she said. Attas restricts
her practice to dogs and cats.
In all, Attas said her services
can be about 0 per cent more
than brick-and-mortar practices.
She doesn’t perform surgery, but
she provides typical care, from
vaccinations to blood and urine
draws, relying on specialists for
things such as severe heart and
eye issues. She uses animal hospi-
tals when large equipment is
needed or for acute emergencies
when every second counts.
So far, Attas has seen more
than 7,000 animals in her travels,
including the pets of Joel, Wayne
Gretzky, Steve Martin and Kevin
Kline. At minimum, she or one of
the two other vets in her practice
visit 12 to 15 homes daily. Her per-
sonal best in terms of animals
seen in a day is 2 .
Attas and her human clients
point to other advantages of
house calls. Once clients are es-
tablished, the humans don’t have
to be home.
“Sometimes they have their
doorman let us in. Sometimes
apartments,” Attas said.
HOUSE CALLS AREN T UST OR
THE RICH
Attas dispels the notion that her
client list is solely filled with pets
of the wealthy.
“I go to billionaires’ homes. I go
to housing projects. I work with
not-for-profits to help seniors
continue to live with their pets,”
she said. “Some of my favorite cli-
ents through the years were peo-
ple who didn’t really have a lot,
but what they cherished most
were their pets.”
Attas never wants to be so busy
that she loses the intimate value
of home visits. “When you’re in
the home, you’re experiencing
how that pet lives,” she said. “I
can’t even think of how many
times I have been in someone’s
home where I see something that
is a complete danger for a pet.”
That includes potential killers
like open windows with no
screens, toxic plants and unse-
cured terraces. She ended one
owner’s practice of serving up
massive quantities of catnip after
the cat went seriously loopy.
She also keeps a keen eye on
humans who sometimes need
help themselves. “I ve seen se-
niors who have lost pets and lose
their will to live. In one particular
case that I talk about in the book,
a lovely woman’s elderly dog
passed away, and when I went to
check on her a week later she was
a fraction of the woman I had seen
the week before,” Attas said.
Attas brought the grieving 90-
year-old client a senior dog to
adopt under the guise of fostering.
“She immediately had a reason
to live again,” Attas said, “and
took care of that dog until the day
she passed away.”
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sons are etter athers than I e er was

IRST PERSON

s a grandparent, am more
than pleased that my children
have learned and improved
upon my behaviours,
Alex Beraskow writes

This week, readers share stories about fa-

therhood and what it means to them.

A
s I watch my four boys work at be-
ing parents – two sons and two
sons-in-law – I realize how much
better they are at it than I ever was.
I rejoice in that and take great comfort.
Looking back, I think I was a better father
than my own father was. That is the way it
should be.
I find no fault with my own father and
applaud him for what he was able to do. Af-
ter escaping from Stalinist USSR, my par-
ents made their way through urope – Po-
land, Germany and finally Belgium – as dis-
placed persons. My brother was born in a
barn in Germany, and I was born in a refu-
gee camp in Belgium.
When my family arrived in Canada as
refugees, we were welcomed warmly at
Pier 21. My parents worked hard, went to
church, made sure that their children un-
derstood the importance of a solid educa-
tion and to always be frugal. They built
their own house in Montreal working with ILLUSTRATION BY CATHERINE CHAN
family friends and were mortgage-free by
the time they were 40 years old. What val- names they would feel more secure. to “make her mad go away.” She struggles care for his infant son, taking on all shifts
ues, what a lesson But aside from provid- They have taken those lessons and im- with the concept of self-discipline as all with his wife. That also includes all the req-
ing the basics, there was not much room proved them. And I revel in how they are kids do but she is on the right path. How uisite diaper changes.
left to develop and nurture their children. raising their kids. They are wonderful em- marvellous is that Izzie, precocious as ev- I doubt that my father ever changed a
We were free-range kids. My parents paths. er, challenges her dad with an innocent diaper. He learned his behaviours and roles
were always working, during the day and at Talking to a three-year-old to explain question – “Why do I have to listen to you ” from his parents as I learned and adapted
home in the evenings, so that left no time “boundaries” is not easy, nor is playing To his credit, Michel painstakingly ex- from mine. Thankfully, things change. All
for play, no toys, nor spare money. No one with someone who may not understand plains the chain of command, including spouses pitch in as needed, working as full-
was available to read a bedtime story and rules. Stimulating a child’s imagination as the role of teachers. Michael’s children time partners, fully engaged.
tuck me in everyone was exhausted. I part of the developmental process, allow- challenge him routinely and he rises to the Now as a grandparent, I am more than
knew I was loved although no one ever said ing and encouraging synapses to connect, occasion. pleased that my children have learned and
that. Discipline consisted of the “stink eye” is not easy. Sean, with two girls who soon will be improved upon my behaviours, drawing
or worse should that “eye” be tested. Jamie sets the gold standard for being a teenagers, gets full marks for never having on the same values that my parents
I learned to be a parent from my parents, father as he knows how to talk to his bright raised his voice in anger, calmly explaining showed and taught me. I am pleased that
so I focused on education and building the six-year-old, who no doubt will be a C O the rules and expectations of the home my grandchildren – all eight – are well set
physical comforts of home. I had to learn to one day. Talking to a preschooler and being and school, and sticking to them. Athletic, up to be successful, however, they define
buy stuffed animals for my sons, to read a able to play with them is an incredible tal- he works with them as a parent and coach success and regardless of gender. I applaud
bedtime story every night while tucking ent. When Oona challenges Jamie, he in cycling, skiing, gymnastics and basket- their fathers as I also applaud their moth-
them in, to give them a kiss and tell each knows how to reason with her and even to ball. Sean’s girls are strong and independ- ers.
one that I loved him. When one felt ma- talk her off the ledge. He also knows how to ent, as they should be.
ligned and mistreated by the world, we play with her, as a peer, whether it be in her James is a newly minted parent. I marvel Alex Beras ow li es in Ottawa.
would play the game of “Who loves you ” sandbox or in the park, making up stories at how easily the two prime tasks – looking
And each boy began recounting the names on the fly. after the wee one and supporting his wife – irst Person is a daily personal piece
of their immediate family and extended I watch Michael handle six-year-old come naturally to him. He is there through- submitted by readers. Ha e a story to tell See
relatives. After reciting more than a dozen die’s occasional meltdown, as he asks her out the night, hauling bottles of milk to our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide.

Toronto Theatre Critics Awards sings praises or Natasha and ierre

. ELLY NESTRUC named the best international play to have
its Toronto premiere this season, while

N
atas a ie e an t e eat et
was a hit with Toronto
theatre audiences this season –
and has hit home with the city’s
stable of theatre critics as well.
The much-extended production of the
electro-pop musical based on a snippet of
Leo Tolstoy’s a an ea e was named
best production of a musical in the 202 -
2024 season by the Toronto Theatre Crit-
ics’ Awards, announced Tuesday.
Cast members George Krissa and Heey-
un Park also received awards recognizing
their outstanding supporting performanc-
es in the show, produced by Crow’s Theat-
re and Musical Stage Company.
Together, the three awards make direc-
tor Chris Abraham’s production – which
will return in upsized form at the Royal
Alexandra theatre in July, 2025 as part of
the Mirvish subscription season – the
most-lauded play or musical of the just-
concluded season by the TTCAs.
“Tolstoy’s timeless insights into the hu-
man heart, given a contemporary musical
sheen by composer-librettist Dave Malloy,
burned brightly in this splendid Cana-
dian-premiere production, which was
movingly acted, cleverly staged and alto-
gether as exhilarating as one of Balaga’s
troika rides,” wrote Globe and Mail con-
tributor Martin Morrow, one of the three
1 local reviewers who voted on this year’s
awards, in a citation.
The TTCAs were resurrected this spring
after a three-year hiatus precipitated by
the CO ID-19 pandemic. The Toronto crit-
ics participating in the awards, who con-
tribute to a mix of print and online publi-
cations including myself , also felt it was
a strong season for productions of origi-
nal Canadian musicals.
e un is s a il e in ail, a new
work inspired by the Irish playwright’s
time in prison that premiered at Soulpep-
per in February, received two awards one
Marcus Nance, left, and Hailey Gillis star in Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet at the
Crow s Theatre. The electro pop musical, based on a snippet of Leo Tolstoy’s ar and
Peace, was named best production of a musical in the 2023 202 season. DAHLIA KATZ
for Damien Atkins’s lead performance as Stratford Festival ahead of a run at Soul-
Wilde, and another for Gregory Prest’s as- pepper.
sured direction of the musical fantasy. Sean Arbuckle, who played a patient
Meanwhile, the cast of ell s ell , an patiently awaiting a visit from Princess
exciting new musical inspired by a 1915 Diana, received an award for his lead per-
court case by Britta Johnson and Sara Farb formance in the latter, while the entire
that Musical Stage Company premiered cast of e aste lan was named best
with Canadian Stage last June, was named ensemble of a play.
the best ensemble of a musical. Both plays will return to the GTA swift-
In the play categories, a highly compet- ly. Crow’s production of e aste lan
itive year for new dramas led to two will be at Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton
“best” Canadian play awards being hand- from Oct. 0 to Nov. 16 ahead of an encore
ed out. Toronto run at Soulpepper from Nov. 24
The first went to e aste lan, Mi- to Dec. 29. ase an iana will run at
chael Healey’s play based on Globe and Theatre Aquarius from Feb. 18 to March 8,
Mail reporter Josh O’Kane’s book i e 2025 then travel to the Royal Manitoba
a s e it gle ul n t u that Theatre Centre in Winnipeg from March
opened the Crow’s Theatre season in the 19 to April 12 .
fall. The second went to ase an iana, a a s, a 2017 play by Ukrainian
Nick Green’s play set in a Toronto AIDS playwright Natal’ya orozhbit translated
hospice in 1991 that premiered at the into nglish by Sasha Dugdale , was
Andrew Kushnir, who staged the brutal
wartime drama at Crow’s in the fall, was
given an award for his direction of it.
The TTCAs, unlike many other theatre
awards, do not announce nominations,
only winners – and, in recent editions,
have allowed one to three winners in each
category. As such, Leora Morris was also
lauded as “best” director of a play for her
next-level work on e un nsi e late
last spring at Coal Mine Theatre.
The best production of a play award,
meanwhile, went to Canadian Stage artis-
tic director Brendan Healy’s marathon of
Matthew L pez’s e n e itan e a con-
temporary two-part reimagining of .M.
Forster’s a s n set among gay men
in New York.
Other acting awards went to Amaka
Umeh lead, in Soulpepper’s i e an i
is ea , Jadyn Nasato supporting, in Stu-
dio 180’s production of u inutes
el e e n s and Oyin Oladejo sup-
porting, Soulpepper and Obsidian’s pro-
duction of ee iste s .
Best design of a play or musical went to
the team behind Outside the March and
Soulpepper’s production of u li ea
ing an n ue een la ut t e
eat alt isne Nick Blais lighting ,
Heidi Chan sound , Anahita Dehbonehie
set and Niloufar iaee costumes .
Last but not least, Daniel MacIvor –
who gave a haunting, stand-out perform-
ance in e n e itan e – received a special
citation “in recognition of exceptional art-
istic achievement” for a season that also
saw his solo shows, nste and e e ies
en , with new creative teams and stars
at Factory Theatre.
“The 202 -24 season was a showcase for
Daniel MacIvor’s momentous past, pre-
sent, and future contributions to Toronto
and Canadian theatre,” wrote Karen Frick-
er, a Toronto Star contributor and Inter-
mission Magazine editorial adviser, in a
citation.

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comic Katherine Ryan.
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Stratus will return to judge the
fourth season.
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BRIDGE There is often more than one three. Declarer took ast’s eight have guaranteed at least nine
BY STEVE BECKER story in a bridge hand. For exam- with the jack and had no al- tricks – four diamonds, four
tUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2024 ple, take this case where South ternative but to tackle hearts. hearts and a club – no matter
was in three notrump and West ast won the rst heart with how the defenders’ cards were
led the nine of clubs. Declarer the ace and returned the three divided.
played the ve from dummy, of spades, allowing West, who The lesson to be learned from
North dealer. losing to ast’s king, where- had the A-7 over South’s Q-4, South’s play at trick one is that
North-South vulnerable. upon ast shifted to the nine of to score two spade tricks for a nesse should not be taken
spades, covered by South with down one. just because it’s there. While
the 10. There is no question that ast- J-10-x facing A-Q-x is an ideal
the bidding: West won the 10 with the king West defended perfectly. Nev- holding for nessing purposes,
and concluded that there was ertheless, the fact remains that the overriding consideration
North East South West very little chance of defeating South could and should have is that here, taking the nesse
1 [H] Pass 1 [S] Pass the contract unless ast had made the contract. jeopardizes the contract. That
2 [H] Pass 2 Nt Pass both the eight of spades and ace All he had to do was to put being the case, declarer has
3 Nt of hearts. up dummy’s ace of clubs at no choice but to decline the
Opening Lead – nine of clubs. Accordingly, West returned trick one and play the king of nesse.
the deuce of spades at trick hearts at trick two. This would

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shows restraint (7) Cuba and Burma (5) 4 To defeat (5)
4 Some of the men 2 Our mail’s about building 7 Essence of a matter (4) 2. The numbers wiThin
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don’t improve (5) a new sunroom (8) 8 Employed in public capacity (8) boxes, called cages,
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on one foot (4) cause a stir (6) 12 Courage (6) The given operaTion (in
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in a city business (8) 5 Tie up about ten 15 There’s nothing more The TargeT numbers in
10 She may provide and depart (4) to be said (3,2,5) The Top-lefT corners.
flying courses (3,7) 6 Tide may change between 18 Impudence (8)
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so arrested (6) 9 I’d rather not express it 20 Old hat (5) The numbers in The
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to have them (5) 5 To rant (4) 16 Launch, 18 Rebelled, 19 Able, 22 Edict, 23 Topical, 24 Wedding ring.
20 He believes he comes 17 He’s stupid to continue (4) 6 High chest of drawers (7) DOWN: 2 Great, 3 Rues, 4 Voters, 5 Talisman, 6 Ortolan, 7 Ready for bed,
from behind us (5) 9 Long Russian-front 8 Church bells, 13 Deflated, 15 Sublime, 17 Sexton, 20 Bacon, 21 Spar.
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T U E S DAY , U N E 11, 202 | T E GLO E AN MAIL O NEWS | A15

nquiry or er C I Average potable water use by province and territory, 2011 2021
Litres per person per day
anager sa s ederal Calgary Canada a erage

go ern ent has to 00

British Columbia Alberta Manitoba Sas atchewan Ontario

ta e ownership o this 400

ROM A1
200
The Hogue inquiry declined Monday to comment on the ex-
tra work that appears headed its way. “The Commission will
0
await the outcome of the vote on the Bloc Québécois motion
that was debated in the House of Commons today before 2011 2021
determining whether to comment on it,” spokesman Mi-
chael Tansey said. Newfoundland
A national-security watchdog report last week revealed Quebec New Brunswic Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island and Labrador
that some parliamentarians are collaborating with foreign 00
governments for their own benefit. On June , the National
Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians 400
NSICOP , an oversight body set up by Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau, said in a special report that politicians are “witting- 200
ly” helping foreign governments such as China and India
meddle in Canadian politics.
The Official Opposition led by Pierre Poilievre had chal- 0
lenged the government to name the politicians. The govern- 2011 2021
ment had instead urged all party leaders to request classified
briefings on the NSICOP report to see the unredacted ver- Northwest
sion. The Globe and Mail reported last week the uncensored Yu on Territories Nunavut
report identifies some of the alleged collaborators. 00
This new solution likely takes the pressure off party lead-
ers who can now leave it to Justice Hogue to decide what to 400
do. “The Hogue Commission obviously has the appropriate
security clearances, has the ap-
200
propriate security in terms of
documentary handling, the
Hogue Commission will have ac- Justin Trudeau has 0
cess to all of the information, of
course that the National Security nown for 11 wee s 2011 2021
and Intelligence Committee of and has not done THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE STATISTICS CANADA CITY O CALGARY
Parliamentarians had and the anything.
Hogue commission can request
any other documentation that AGMEET SINGH
they would require,” Mr. LeBlanc NDP LEADER
told reporters. Calgary ro en pipe nor all ser ices water
or o the cit and surrounding unicipalities
Dan Stanton, a former manager at the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service and now director of the national-securi-
ty program at the University of Ottawa’s Professional Devel-
opment Institute, said he does not believe handing off the ROM A1 Typical home water use in Calgary
alleged collusion to the foreign interference inquiry will re- In litres
solve the matter, or result in Canadians learning their Nancy Mackay, Calgary’s water
names. “It would require a significant retooling of their man- services director, on Monday said Watering lawn per hour 50
date.” the city was still “assessing the
He noted one of the cases documented by NSICOP talked condition of the pipe and remov- Washing machine top load 180
about a former MP and their relationship with a foreign in- ing the damage.”
telligence service a case Mr. Stanton said sounds like espion- Ms. Gondek on Sunday said Typical bathtub per use 80
age. To examine this would likely require more intelligence she and the city could have done
Washing machine front load 65
from CSIS – information it may not want to share, he said. a better job of providing informa-
“I don’t think they would be able to identify the names, tion in the early days of the emer- Regular showerhead minutes 60
because then that will impact on the sources and methods of gency. She resolved to update res-
CSIS,” Mr. Stanton said. idents twice daily and has provid- Low flow showerhead minutes 0
He said responsibility for handling this should fall on the ed concrete examples of how citi-
federal government and it should work to bring all parties zens can cut down on water use. Dishwasher per load 35
together so they can deal with the parliamentarians in ques- The busted pipe, known as the
tion on a case-by-case basis with each party. Bearspaw South Feedermain, Non low flow toilet per flush 25
“I think the federal government has to take ownership of normally services water for 60 per
this,” he said. cent of the city, as well as resi- Low flow toilet per flush 6
NSICOP, which is composed of MPs from all major parties dents in Airdrie, Chestermere and THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE CITY O CALGARY
as well as senators, declined to identify the parliamentar- Strathmore. Its diameter varies
ians, saying it was constrained from doing so by restrictions from 1.5 metres to about 1.95
built into its mandate. The government has refused to iden- metres. The broken feedermain is the Bowmont Community Pre-
tify the federal politicians publicly, saying revealing classi- in Bowness, a community in Cal- school, where pupils now spend
fied information is irresponsible, and won’t say how many gary’s northwest, which was un- The emergency their entire day outside to limit
are accused or whether any sit in cabinet. der a boil water advisory until prompted Stage 4 the temptation to use water. The
The Prime Minister’s Office has had the classified version Monday. restrictions, meaning school, which is in Bowness,
of the report since March including the names of parliamen- Ms. Mahar said that a layer of asked parents to pack bottles of
tarians identified. sediment remained after the boil-
residents and drinking water for their kids, she
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has said he would seek a classi- ing water cooled, so her family businesses must not use said. One of Ms. St. Martin’s col-
fied briefing on the matter. On Monday, he said he would used it for dishes and washing water for outdoor use. leagues brings a jug of water for
expel any NDP MPs if the report says they are knowingly their hands and faces. The family Officials suggest handwashing.
working with a foreign government. Mr. Singh said he also used a bike trailer and a 20-litre About 19 kids attended the pre-
wrote a letter to Mr. LeBlanc urging that he ensure the Hogue container to haul potable water residents limit showers school Monday morning, and 11
inquiry look into allegations in the NSICOP report that China from a filling station back to their to three minutes, flush went in the afternoon. The water
and India interfered in Conservative Party leadership races. home. Roughly 10,770 people live the toilet fewer times, restrictions means the kids are
He noted the Prime Minister has had access to the names in Bowness, compared with and only turn on unable to care for their garden
in the report since March. about 1. million across Calgary, boxes and the outdoor mud
“Justin Trudeau has known for 11 weeks and has not done according to the 2021 census. dishwashers and kitchen is closed until further no-
anything,” Mr. Singh said. Alberta Health Services lifted washing machines tice.
The NSICOP report said some politicians are accepting the boil water advisory Monday when they are fully At home, Ms. St. Martin’s two
money from foreign governments and are communicating evening. loaded. stepchildren, both teenagers,
frequently with foreign governments to obtain support from The emergency prompted have to choose between shower-
community groups or businesses that foreign diplomats Stage 4 restrictions, meaning resi- ing or laundry.
have promised to mobilize to help their campaigns. dents and businesses must not Calgary on Saturday said the Ms. Mahar, Alexander’s mom,
Others are allegedly providing foreign diplomats with use water for outdoor use. Offi- repairs could take five to seven is still holding out on washing
privileged information on fellow parliamentarians knowing cials suggest residents limit days. clothes “I have five loads of laun-
that this information will be used to put pressure on these showers to three minutes, flush On Monday, Ms. Mackay said dry waiting,” she said in the park.
colleagues to change their positions. Some are lobbying col- the toilet fewer times, and only officials do not have an updated And Alexander has plans for
leagues or influencing parliamentary business to help a for- turn on dishwashers and washing timeline because they are still when he can finally take a proper
eign state or leaking confidential information to known in- machines when they are fully analyzing the situation. bath again, too “We have bath
telligence officers of foreign states, the report said. loaded. Sarah St. Martin is a teacher at bombs,” he said.

McLachlin udge was irst Canadian appointed to ong ong Court o inal Appeal
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“The court is doing a terrific job
of helping maintain rights for
people, insofar as the law permits
it, in Hong Kong. Which is as
much as our courts do,” she said.
She mentioned a ruling from the
Court of Final Appeal in October,
202 , that upheld a lower court’s
decision to grant equal inher-
itance rights to same-sex couples
over the government’s objec-
tions.
Ms. McLachlin became the first
Canadian appointed to the Hong
Kong Court of Final Appeal in
2018, just months after retiring
from a 28-year career on the Su-
preme Court, including 18 as
chief justice.
When she joined the Hong
Kong court as one of its 10 for-
eign, temporary members, the
city still had a free press and al-
lowed freedom of expression and
protest.
But two years later, China es-
tablished a national-security law
criminalizing subversion in Hong
Kong. Mr. Lai, publisher of Apple
Daily, a pro-democracy tabloid
and the city’s most popular
newspaper, was arrested and has
been in jail since December,
2020. His trial began last Decem-
ber, and he is facing a minimum
hen former Canadian
Supreme Court chief
ustice Beverley
McLachlin, pictured in
201 , oined the Hong
ong court, the city still
had a free press and
freedom of e pression
and protest.
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10-year sentence if convicted. The
newspaper closed in June, 2021.
After bringing in the legisla-
tion, authorities in Hong Kong
conducted sweeping arrests of
most of the city’s remaining op-
position figures and activists. In
2021, the People’s Congress in
Beijing finalized an overhaul of
Hong Kong’s electoral system
that drastically curbed democrat-
ic representation in the city as
authorities sought to ensure “pa-
triots” ruled the global financial
hub.
Two British judges quit the
court this month – about a week
after a landmark verdict that con-
victed 14 prominent democratic
activists of subversion amid a na-
tional-security crackdown on dis-
sent in the financial hub.
In a June 7 statement, the
Hong Kong judiciary said two
prominent British judges, Law-
rence Collins and Mr. Sumption,
had tendered their resignations
from the city’s Court of Final Ap-
peal, where they served as non-
permanent judges.
“I have resigned from the
Court of Final Appeal because of
the political situation in Hong
Kong, but I continue to have the
fullest confidence in the court
and the total independence of its
members,” Mr. Collins told the Fi-
nancial Times.
In a Financial Times column
published on Monday, Mr. Sump-
tion wrote that he had remained
on the court “in the hope that the
presence of overseas judges
would help sustain the rule of
law.”
“I fear that this is no longer re-
alistic,” he said, adding that oth-
ers are less pessimistic. “I hope
that they are proved right.”
Mr. Sumption wrote of a
“growing malaise” among the ju-
diciary in Hong Kong, whom he
said “have to operate in an im-
possible political environment
created by China.”
“The rule of law is profoundly
compromised in any area about
which the government feels
strongly,” he wrote.
Conservative foreign affairs
critic Michael Chong, asked for
comment on Ms. McLachlin’s de-
cision to step down, said Hong
Kong’s judicial system is compro-
mised.
“The recent conviction of 14
pro-democracy activists guilty
for conspiracy to subvert state
power’ simply for exercising their
democratic and free-speech
rights demonstrates that Hong
Kong’s judicial system is no long-
er impartial and independent,”
Mr. Chong said.
“These convictions under the
national-security law imposed by
Beijing, along with the new Arti-
cle 2 law and other changes,
demonstrate that Hong Kong’s
judicial system is no longer pro-
tecting the rights and freedoms
guaranteed to the people of Hong
Kong in the Sino-British Joint
Declaration, an international
treaty, but is upholding the very
laws that are in violation of that
international treaty.”
With reports from Reuters
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more in lieu of
capital-gains
climbdo n,
reeland says
BILL CURRY OTTAWA
RACHELLE YOUNGLAI TORONTO

Finance Minister Chrystia Free-

land is pushing back on criticism
from doctors who oppose Otta-
wa’s capital-gains tax increases,
saying it will also raise billions in
new provincial revenue that
could boost health spending.
Ms. Freeland made the com-
ments to reporters Monday after
she tabled a ways and means
motion outlining changes to cap-
ital gains that were first an-
nounced in the government’s
April budget.
She also urged all MPs to sup-
port the motion when it comes
up for a vote as soon as Tuesday.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poi-
lievre has not said where his party Attendees at the Apple orldwide Developers Conference Monday in Cupertino, Calif., watch as Apple unveils its AI strategy.
stands on the capital-gains tax Announcements included a partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to iPhone. JUSTIN SULLI AN/GETTY IMAGES
change. A spokesperson for Mr.
Poilievre sharply criticized the in-
crease to the capital-gains tax in-

AI EET IVAC CONCE N

clusion rate on Monday, but said
the party will carefully study the
motion before making a decision.
The budget said the changes
will raise 19.4-billion over five
years for Ottawa and a further pple plans to integrate pple ntelligence’ into its devices
11.6-billion for the provinces and and apps, but promises to protect user privacy B2
territories.
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o what i Until no , provinces outside ntario never shared

in lation is hen companies made corrections to securities filings
alling The DAVID MILSTEAD subject to the purview of the OSC, how- the end of 202 . Of those, 1 0 are on the
da age to our ever, are named and shamed.
In short, there’s no national refilings
OSC’s previously published list. The vast
majority are previously undisclosed. If
inances is done More than two decades ago, the folks at the
Ontario Securities Commission had an
and errors list. So I’ve decided to make one.
After some coaxing and pleading – and
you’re reading our print edition, see the list
at tgam.ca refilings.
idea for a new form of disclosure Any time one open-records act request – I have now Let’s be clear what this is not In most
ROB CARRIC a company had to make a correction in its received some level of co-operation from cases, these companies have not formally
PERSONAL INANCE COL MNIST securities filings, its name would go on the every provincial securities commission restated their financials, which is a very se-
regulator’s website, with an explanation of large enough to perform reviews of the fi- rious matter instead, there are plenty clar-
the problem. The OSC hoped its Refilings nancial statements of public companies ifying existing disclosures or fixing omis-
OPINION and rrors List would be replicated across they regulate. A number of small prov- sions. There are many mining companies
the country, with other provincial securi- inces don’t do that – there simply aren’t on the list that failed to file a technical re-
ou were force-fed 10 years ties regulators producing their own. enough public companies there to justify port on one of their projects, for example.
worth of inflation in a short Almost 22 years later, none has followed having staff reading filings. And while some had their errors caught
period of time – that’s why the OSC’s lead. That’s created a bifurcated The result is a list, posted on The Globe by folks at the provincial commissions,
you feel your life is unaffordable system Companies that goof in Quebec, and Mail’s website, of nearly 500 compa- many companies caught their errors
right now. Alberta or British Columbia, as examples, nies that have had to correct more than themselves and decided to refile.
Last week’s interest-rate cut by are slipping under the radar companies 800 filings from the beginning of 2020 to RE ILINGS, B3
the Bank of Canada signals that
inflation has fallen to acceptable
levels. But in getting to that point,
the cost of living has been perma-
nently altered in a way that nder the intense co petiti e pressure o the AI race
shakes people’s faith in economic
prosperity. We need to better un-
derstand what’s happened so we
tech giants are content to turn users into ree eta testers
can adjust both financially and
emotionally because prices aren’t OE CASTALDO prone and unreliable. A wave of negative Indeed, some companies appear com-
coming down. media coverage ensues, occasionally fol- fortable releasing high-profile but half-
Inflation’s impact can be seen lowed by an explanation or apology from baked generative AI products amid in-
clearly in three kinds of pur- ANALYSIS the offending company. tense competitive pressure, even if that

chases – new vehicles, housing
and food. Prices in each category
have surged to levels that seem
disconnected from what seems
realistic.
The overall inflation rate in-
creased by an average annual rate
of 4.6 per cent from 2021 to 2024,
Bank of Canada numbers show. A
lot of pandemic-driven disrup-
tion happened during this period
– interest rates were low and
many people had money to
spend after lockdowns were
lifted. Strong demand for some
goods overwhelmed supply,
pushing prices higher.
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In Google’s case, the company started means risking embarrassment. The con-
he uneven rollout of Google’s AI- appending AI Overviews on top of tradi- cept of a minimum viable product,
generated search summaries in tional search results, a huge change to its wherein a company releases a bare-bones
mid-May was, in a way, entirely core product. application to test customer needs and
predictable. And it’s likely to hap- On social media, users quickly started demand before developing a full-featured
pen again. sharing screenshots of the more bizarre version, is a long-standing one in the tech
There is a pattern when it comes to the results erroneous information about world. But generative AI companies are
splashy launches of generative artificial Barack Obama being the first Muslim pushing that concept to the limit. De-
intelligence applications from big tech president of the United States nonsensi- pending on whom you ask, the approach
companies. Once these products are in cal answers about adding glue to pizza is either reckless or a sign that we need to
the hands of users, hype quickly gives way and potentially harmful advice about eat- reset our expectations of generative AI.
to reality, as the apps are found to be error ing mushrooms. AI, B6
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With goal to Sexual-assault Seeking ways
reduce energy use charges threaten to invest in the
in large buildings, Frank Stronach’s growing demand
Parity raises considerable for agricultural
new capital B3 legacy B2 land B
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elehouse
launches three
oronto data
centres
SAMMY HUDES

Data centre service provider Te-

lehouse is expanding to Canada
with the launch of three loca-
tions in downtown Toronto that
will act as central meeting points
for internet traffic flow.
The company acquired the
three sites, located at 151 Front St.
W., 250 Front St. W. and 905 King
St. W., last year for 1. 5-billion.
The data centres will allow
hundreds of internet carriers and
service providers, cloud provid-
ers and content providers to con-
nect by establishing a hand-off
location within Telehouse’s
buildings, the company said
Monday.
Andy Fenton, director of sales
and marketing for Telehouse
Canada, said it chose to operate
in downtown buildings to make
it more efficient and cost-effec-
tive for companies relying on
People attend the annual orldwide Developers Conference event, where new artificial intelligence features were announced, at Apple s high-speed connections to link
head uarters in Cupertino, Calif., on Monday. CARLOS BARRIA/REUTERS up with a provider’s network.
“If you’re a startup gaming
company that resides in the

pple unveils strategy,

Greater Toronto Area, you have
options of where you want to
put your compute resources. If
you locate them in the north

seeks to reassure its investors

ew pple ntelligence’
technology will be integrated
across apps, while partnership
with Open will bring
ChatGPT to devices
ADITYA SONI
STEPHEN NELLIS
e n . unveiled a long-awaited AI
strategy on Monday, integrating its new
“Apple Intelligence” technology across its
suite of apps including Siri and partnering
with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its de-
vices.
With these moves, the iPhone maker is
seeking to reassure investors that it has not
lost the AI battle to Microsoft, even though
it may have forfeited a few rounds.
But shares of the iPhone maker were
down 2 per cent in afternoon trading as in-
vestors sought more AI announcements.
The stock has trailed those of other Big
Tech companies this year.
The AI features were announced at its
Worldwide Developers Conference and
will come with the latest operating system
for its devices, which were also demon-
strated at the event.
The features will allow users to summa-
rize text and generate other content, such
as personalized animations to wish a
friend happy birthday.
Apple also said that the ChatGPT inte-
gration would be available later this year
and that other AI features will follow, add-
ing that the chatbot could be accessed for
free and that users’ information will not be
logged.
Apple executive Craig Federighi, intro-
part of the city, it’s unlikely that
you’d be able to establish the
connectivity required to the rest
of the planet,” Mr. Fenton said
during a virtual news conference
ducing the ChatGPT integration, said, “We protect sensitive information. Users can on Monday.
want you to be able to use these external opt to lock specific apps and keep data “You would have to somehow
models without having to jump between more tightly controlled in the OS. make arrangements to meet
different tools.” Apple also said it would group messages those carriers in the building
The company also revamped Siri with in its e-mail client starting later this year, that you chose in the northern
generative AI technology to give the long- categorizing them in a primary folder, a part of the city.”
lagging voice assistant the ability to con- transactions folder, a promotions folder Telehouse Canada said its data
trol individual app features. That means and other more specific groupings, for in- centres are carrier-neutral and
Siri can now delete e-mails and edit pic- stance communications by an airline. The provide more than 0 megawatts
tures for iPhone users – powers that had high-level categorizations are similar to a of IT load. More than half of all
proven tricky in the past as the assistant now-old feature in competitor Google’s Canadian carriers, service pro-
needs to understand the user’s exact inten- Gmail. viders and content providers al-
tions as well as how the app works. The company is also making its mixed- ready have a presence at Tele-
Siri will also tap in to reality headset ision Pro house Canada’s data centres.
ChatGPT’s expertise and available in eight more coun- “We don’t pick favourites,”
seek permission from users Shares of the iPhone tries including China and Ja- said Mr. Fenton.
before querying the OpenAI pan. The new isionOS 2 “We operate completely inde-
service. ma er were down software for the headset will pendent of all the carriers. We es-
Known for its focus on 2 per cent in use machine learning to cre- tablish the framework and the
safety of user data, Apple afternoon trading as ate natural depth photos and rules around how they intercon-
said it had built AI with pri- in estors sought come with new gestures. nect within our building and we
vacy “at the core” and that it Apple uses the developer facilitate those interconnec-
would use a combination of more AI conference at its Cupertino, tions.”
on-device processing and announcements. Calif., headquarters each The company said the expan-
cloud computing to power its year to showcase updates to sion to Canada is based on grow-
AI features. its own apps and operating systems as well ing demand for connectivity ser-
To make that happen, Apple plans to as to show developers new tools they will vices in the country as it transi-
use its own chips to help power AI features be able to use in their apps. tions to 5G, along with the
on its devices. It also unveiled “Private Apple has been using AI behind the spread of Internet of Things
Cloud Compute,” saying its AI could draw scenes for years to power features on its de- technology.
on larger server-based models while pro- vices, such as the ability of its watches to It also noted the federal gov-
tecting users’ privacy. detect crashes and falls. But it has been re- ernment’s plan to extend high-
While its AI rivals are targeting enter- luctant to tout how this technology boosts speed internet access to 98 per
prises, Apple plans to stand out by making functionality in its devices, as Microsoft cent of Canadians by 2026 and
the technology relevant to its more than has done with the help of its early bet on the entire population by 20 0.
one billion users – most of whom are not OpenAI. Microsoft overtook Apple as the “As more devices come online
tech aficionados. world’s biggest company by market capi- and data volumes continue to
Apple said iOS 18, the software powering talization in January. explode, that connectivity data
its flagship device, makes the iPhone AI chip giant Nvidia briefly overtook Ap- centre services that we are pro-
home screen more customizable and in- ple last week as the world’s second-most viding will be more essential,”
cludes improved versions of its in-house valuable company, underscoring for some said Telehouse Canada president
apps. investors a shift in power in the tech world. and C O Satoshi Adachi.
The new software will also come with a
“lock an app” feature that will help people REUTERS THE CANADIAN PRESS

nstitutions eigh rank Stronach affiliation amid criminal charges

ERIC AT INS
COLIN REEZE
Public institutions bearing the
name of Frank Stronach are con-
sidering their next steps after the
auto parts magnate was accused
of sexual-assault offences.
Peel Regional Police arrested
and charged Mr. Stronach, 91, on
Friday with five offences, includ-
ing rape, indecent assault on a fe-
male, forcible confinement and
two counts of sexual assault.
Police say the offences are al-
leged to have taken place from
the 1980s to 202 . He is scheduled
to appear at a Brampton, Ont.,
court at a later date. Peel Region-
al Police Constable Mandeep
Khatra said there is more than
one victim but declined to pro-
vide details.
The charges threaten the lega-
cy of a man who is one of Cana-
da’s foremost industrialists. He
arrived in Canada from Austria at
the age of 21 in 1954. He soon
started his own tool and die shop
in a rented garage, and built what
became one of the world’s largest
auto parts companies, Magna In-
ternational of Aurora, Ont. Mag-
na today employs 179,000 people
in 28 countries.
Mr. Stronach, who left Magna’s
board in 2012 after selling his
controlling shares for US 86 -
million, has his name on a few
public institutions in Ontario,
including a recreation centre and
a hospital ward.
University of Toronto last year
named him an executive in resi-
dence at its Scarborough school
of management. The role in-
volves “teaching, mentorship
and expertise,” the school said at
the time. The U of T said in a
statement on Monday the one-
year term expires this month and
Mr. Stronach has fulfilled his
commitment.
Mr. Stronach wrote a regular
column in the National Post,
which is halted “pending the out-
come of the charges,” said Rob
Roberts, the Post’s editor-in-
chief.
In Aurora, the Stronach Auro-
ra Recreation Complex houses an
ice rink, pools and other sports
facilities. “The Town of Aurora is
aware of the serious charges re-
cently brought against Frank
Stronach,” Aurora spokeswoman
Carley Smith said. “As this matter
is now before the courts, we’ll be
monitoring closely to determine
appropriate action in the future.”
A spokesman for Newmarket’s
Southlake Regional Health Cen-
tre declined to say whether there
were plans to change the name of
the Stronach Regional Cancer
Centre. The ward was founded in
2010 with an 8-million donation
from Mr. Stronach, who made
the largest private contribution.
Magna donated 2.5-million in
2022.
Criminal defence lawyer Brian
Greenspan said he is represent-
ing Mr. Stronach, who “categor-
ically denies the allegations of
impropriety which have been
brought against him.”
“He looks forward to the op-
portunity to fully respond to the
charges and to maintain his lega-
cy, both as a philanthropist and
as an icon of the Canadian busi-
ness community,” Mr. Greenspan
said in a statement.

Nokia C makes orld’s first phone call using immersive audio and video’
SUPANTHA MU HER EE
STOC OLM
okia C O Pekka Lundmark
made a phone call using a new
technology called “immersive au-
dio and video” that improves the
quality of a call with three-di-
mensional sound, making inter-
actions more lifelike, the compa-
ny said on Monday.
“We have demonstrated the fu-
ture of voice calls,” said Mr. Lund-
mark, who was also present in the
room when the first 2G call was
made in 1991.
Current smartphone calls are
monophonic which compresses
audio elements together and
sound flatter and less detailed,
but the new technology will bring
-D audio where a caller will hear
everything as if they were there
with the other person.
“It is the biggest leap forward
in the live voice calling experi-
ence since the introduction of
monophonic telephony audio
used in smartphones and PCs to-
day,” said Jenni Lukander, presi-
dent of Nokia Technologies.
The call was held with Stefan
Lindstr m, Finland’s Ambassa-
dor of Digitalisation and New
Technologies.
It is the biggest “This is now becoming stan-
dardized so the network pro-
leap forward in viders, chipset manufacturers,
the li e oice calling handset manufacturers can begin
experience since to implement it in their prod-
the introduction ucts,” Ms. Lukander said in an in-
terview.
of monophonic Nokia made the call using a
telephony audio regular smartphone over a public
used in smartphones 5G network. Apart from person to
and PCs today. person immersive calls, this can
be used in conference calls where
ENNI LU ANDER voices of participants can be sep-
PRESIDENT O NOKIA arated based on their spatial loca-
TECHNOLOGIES tions, said Jyri Huopaniemi, head
of audio research at Nokia Tech-
nologies.
A vast majority of smart-
phones have at least two micro-
phones with which this technol-
ogy can be implemented by
transmitting in real time the spa-
tial characteristics of a call, the ex-
ecutives said. The technology is
part of the coming 5G Advanced
standard and Nokia aims to get li-
censing opportunities with the
technology which would likely
take a few years to be available
widely.
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efilings as atchewan
and No a cotia will consider
a ing in or ation pu lic
ROM B1
The bottom line, however, is that
the first take wasn’t good enough.
When it introduced its list in
2002, the OSC said companies
that amend documents or retro-
actively implement an account-
ing change to fix an error are ac-
knowledging they haven’t met
Ontario Securities Act regula-
tions. “Accordingly, it is our view
that these are significant events
that should be generally dis-
closed to the market.” The OSC
declined to provide anyone for an
interview for this column its
communications staff sent state-
ments drawn from previously
Brad Pilgrim, co founder and CEO of Parity Inc., says with the new funding from Idealist Capital, published OSC documents.
the business will loo will to e pand into such mar ets as California, lorida, Colorado and Illinois. The errors can sometimes lead
CHRISTOPHER KATSARO /THE GLOBE AND MAIL to more serious matters. The Brit-
ish Columbia Securities Commis-
Instead of taking this tack, the
provincial regulators set to work.
British Columbia responded
quickly with a lengthy and thor-
ough list. Other provinces fol-
lowed, some faster than others,
some with more robust informa-
tion. Only Quebec required a for-
mal records request, but it re-
sponded in a little over a month
with a thorough list. A follow-up
request for additional informa-
tion took just 20 days.
If you peruse the database,
you’ll see which provinces, aside
from Ontario, provided the best
data. Some provinces could only
narrow down the dates of the re-
filings to a month or a fiscal year.
Alberta was unable to provide
any dates at all, or any reasons for
refilings, for the 90 companies on
its list.

arity raises millions

sion BCSC , in responding to my The Alberta Securities Com-
queries, pointed out public en- mission “does not track the de-
forcement actions it took in 2021 tails of the errors identified and
and 2022 that came out of its re- as a result we are unable to pro-

for its technology

views of company filings. The vide dates or reasons for refilings
BCSC also has a pending action to accompany the names on the
against a mining company that it list,” spokesperson Tanja McMor-

to cut energy costs

alleges filed a technical report ris said. She recommended inves-
with the signature of someone tors and others interested in
who did not review, sign or con- refilings search for amended or
sent to the filing of that report. restated documents in the new
Most of the companies on this S DAR database maintained by
new nationwide list are small, but the provincial regulators.
Company says Canadian utilities more flexibility to move power where not all. Several companies in the Other provinces had very little
it is needed at times of high demand. S P TS 60 index refiled for vari- to report. Manitoba Securities
impact investor dealist Capital The spark came from attending a meeting of ous reasons. One overstated the Commission spokesperson Ain-
has contributed -million his tobicoke condominium in 2016, where the assets of subsidiaries guarantee- sley Cunningham said no issuers
for expansion in nited States topic under discussion was surging costs at the ing a debt offering. Another left in the province had corrected
building that were forcing a jump in monthly out disclosure in five of its certifi- their disclosure in the four years
condo fees. cations of financial statements. from 2020 to 202 . “Refiling of
E REY ONES He studied where to reduce costs for owners, And yet another left gross profit continuous disclosure has not
ESG AN S STAINA LE INANCE REPORTER and energy stood out as one of the only items out of a table. Turquoise Hill Re- been an issue in Manitoba,” she
that could be controlled by making the build- sources Ltd., acquired by Rio Tin- said.
ing’s systems more efficient, he said. to Group in 2022, managed to do New Brunswick had one refil-
A Toronto-based company with technology “It looked like a problem that I wanted to three refilings in a little over a ing. Saskatchewan had two com-
that promises to lower energy costs and green- dedicate a lot of time to,” Mr. Pilgrim said. He month in late 2021 because it panies, one of which had to refile
house gas emissions from buildings has raised founded the company in 2016 with fellow ener- omitted auditor’s letters and de- twice. Nova Scotia had six.
25-million from a Canadian impact investor to gy-industry expert Brian MacLeod. tails in a technical report. When you learn how few pub-
expand in the United States. It’s not just about costs. The real estate sector You can dismiss these as unim- lic companies these provinces
Parity Inc. said on Tuesday Idealist Capital is a crucial target in the fight against climate portant, excusable administra- regulate, it makes more sense
contributed to its Series B financing. Idealist, of change. missions from buildings account for tive errors. Or you can consider The Nova Scotia Securities
Montreal, joins the eight-year-old company’s about 7 per cent of global greenhouse gas them sloppy and wonder why Commission is the primary regu-
existing backers ArcTern en- emissions, according the UN n- some companies don’t have a lator for 4 public companies, and
tures, Wyse Meter Solutions Inc. vironment Programme. Half better handle on the finer details. four of its 19 employees work on
and R T entures. those emissions are from ineffi- But unless you’re religiously continuous-disclosure reviews.
Parity uses machine-learning The energy intensity cient H AC systems, according to checking companies’ S DAR fil- The Financial and Consumer
technology to reduce consump- Parity, and its systems are aimed ings each day, you might miss Affairs Authority of Saskatche-
tion of electricity and natural gas in the Northeast and at reducing energy consumption them, absent a regulator’s list. wan oversees 1 companies, in-
at hotels and multifamily dwell- in the West play into from buildings by 25 to 40 per There are also companies that cluding two investment funds,
ings through automation and high utility rates, cent. have refiled more than once. Can- that submit filings four of its 21
monitoring of their heating, ven- and decarboni ation Meanwhile, electricity grids nabis company H O Corp., ac- securities division employees re-
tilation and air-conditioning-sys- are becoming more complicated quired by competitor Tilray view them.
tems. It also provides regular re- of buildings and as wind, solar and other renew- Brands Inc. in 202 , had to make New Brunswick monitors sev-
ports that itemize energy savings, ser ices li e ours ables add to generation capacity, three sets of revisions in the first en active public companies, re-
reductions in CO2 emissions and are now being Mr. Pilgrim said. four months of 2020 – and the re- viewing the filings of one or two
other data. demanded, and “We’re doing things like auto- vised disclosure showed the OSC per year – meaning they can re-
The company currently offers mated demand response curtail- found the company’s manage- view 100 per cent of companies
its services in Toronto, New York, in some places ment right now with a view that ment discussion and analysis se- on a four- to five-year cycle.
Boston, Philadelphia and Wash- being required. every building in the future will verely wanting. Manitoba is the principal reg-
ington. need to interact with a grid in a A Quebec company called D- ulator for 42 companies.
With the new funding, Parity is BRAD PILGRIM much more complex way. That’s BO Technologies Inc. revised By contrast, the BCSC has 287
PARITY CO OUNDER AND
looking to expand into such mar- CHIE E ECUTI E O ICER what the grid is demanding,” he documents five times from 2020 regular and temporary full- and
kets as California, Florida, Colora- said. to 202 . The issues included a fil- part-time staff, including the
do and Illinois, while improving the technolo- The investment in Parity meets the goals of ed management discussion and equivalent of 10 full-time corpo-
gy, said Brad Pilgrim, Parity’s co-founder and Idealist Capital, which seeks opportunities in analysis that was not in final rate disclosure staff, plus three
chief executive officer. The United States has power-supply decarbonization, electrification form, clerical errors in a table in more who work for a dedicated
been tightening building performance and of transportation, carbon reduction from in- an annual report for operating re- mining team. The BCSC is the
benchmarking standards over the past decade, dustrial activity and advancement of the circu- sults and a reclassification of an principal regulator for more than
and the sheer size of the market offers consid- lar economy, said Pierre Larochelle, its co-ma- expense that, once fixed, reduced 2,000 companies, representing
erable expansion potential, he said. naging partner. the company’s gross margin. more than 45 per cent of all the
“The energy intensity in the Northeast and “As Parity will scale and grow, the overall en- Josh Chandler, who became the companies listed on Canadian ex-
in the West play into high utility rates, and de- ergy-saving impact through the integration of company’s chief financial officer changes.
carbonization of buildings and services like Parity software solutions will be very material,” earlier this year, declined to com- After receiving all the lists, I
ours are now being demanded, and in some Mr. Larochelle said in an e-mail. Consumers ment. asked all the commissions, quite
places being required,” Mr. Pilgrim said in an will benefit through cost savings, utilities The story of The Globe’s brand- simply Why do you not publish
interview. through shaving peak consumption, while the new national refilings and errors an errors and refilings list on your
The company currently has 26 employees technology also produces environmental gains list wouldn’t be complete without website, as Ontario does
and expects to hire more as it expands into oth- by cutting carbon emissions, he said. the tale of how it came together. Many said they consider their
er regions, he said. Idealist made headlines in March, when the Some time ago, I e-mailed the current methods – which include
Mr. Pilgrim came into the energy-efficiency federal government’s Canada Growth Fund in- communications staffs at all the no names, but top-level data on
business from a career in solar electricity, vested 50-million in it, hoping to attract more provincial securities regulators. their disclosure reviews – satis-
where he became convinced managing con- private investors seeking growth-stage green- The only provinces that maintain factory. Others, such as Alberta
sumption at the building level was key to giving technology opportunities. a corporate finance division, oth- and Nova Scotia, note that the
er than Ontario, are Quebec, Brit- companies themselves file
ish Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, amended documents, available
Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and to all investors, and issue news re-
New Brunswick. Companies in leases to announce they’ve done
nergy company ordered to abandon the smaller provinces select a so.
principal regulator based on a “This all provides transparency
hundreds of ells over maintenance issues number of factors, including the
location of the stock exchange.
to the markets,” said David Harri-
son, a spokesperson for the Nova
Citing the Ontario list as an ex- Scotia Securities Commission.
CALGARY – although some experts consider that figure ample, I asked for the names of Mr. Harrison, however, added a
low. Still, that figure would put the cost of companies that had made correc- comment that makes his prov-
remediating Tallahassee’s wells at nearly tive disclosure to their filings ince one of only two, along with
A Calgary energy company has been ordered to 64-million, not including the pipelines or oth- since Jan. 1, 2020. The universal Saskatchewan, that told The
abandon close to 2,000 wells, pipeline sections er facilities. response We do not maintain Globe they would consider pub-
and other facilities over concerns about care The regulator first issued an order in Sep- such a list. lishing the information “We will
and maintenance of the sites. tember for the company to clean up its sites. I had a rebuttal, however The consider internally whether it
But questions remain about whether Talla- Another order was issued in November, de- Canadian Securities Administra- would add to investor protection
hassee xploration Inc. will be able to pay for manding the company provide financial infor- tors, the umbrella group for the to duplicate this information on
the multimillion-dollar reclamation plan the mation and forbidding company officials from provincial regulators, puts out a our website.”
provincial regulator has ordered the company being on its site without approval from the Or- semi-annual report that quanti- xcept it’s not a duplication.
to submit. Phone numbers for the Calgary com- phan Well Association. fies how many financial state- The provinces compile this infor-
pany’s office were not in operation Monday. The association is an industry-funded group ment reviews the provinces do, in mation every year or so for public
In a release issued Monday, the Alberta ner- that cleans up wells for which no solvent owner the aggregate, and how many of reports. Aside from Ontario, how-
gy Regulator told the company it has 60 days to can be found. As of June 1, it had 2,647 sites in its those reviews result in a refiling. ever, they’re not taking the sim-
complete the first stage of cleanup for 817 wells, inventory, which didn’t include Tallahassee as- If you don’t maintain a list, I re- ple and transparent step of plac-
964 pipeline segments and 77 facilities. sets. plied, how do you give the CSA ing it online, in one easy-to-find
“Abandonment work, including surface Tallahassee will remain the owner of those any of those numbers Shouldn’t place.
abandonment and removal of cement pads, de- assets although the Orphan Well Association you know the names Instead, investors interested in
bris and produced liquids associated with the will take control of their care and custody. What happened next is a tri- learning which Canadian compa-
wells, must be completed in accordance with Tallahassee has a long history of regulatory umph for open records in this nies have erred with their public
regulatory requirements,” the order says. and financial problems. country. With their Secret Canada filings must go on a lengthy and
The company also has 0 days to submit a In 2019, the Alberta nergy Regulator rated project, my colleagues docu- onerous treasure hunt through a
detailed plan for how it will complete remedia- its liability-to-asset ratio at less than half of mented many cases of aggressive vast database.
tion. what it considered stable. and obstinate non-compliance The other provincial securities
“Tallahassee has not demonstrated it is ca- Tallahassee failed to pay its regulatory levy with the laws that were written to commissions should have fol-
pable of providing reasonable care and mea- and its orphan well levy in 2020, payments re- give Canadians access to public lowed Ontario’s lead two decades
sures to protect public safety and the environ- quired of all energy operators in Alberta. Also, documents. The attitude of far ago. But in this case, it’s never too
ment and is unable to meet its regulatory and it did not meet the mandatory reclamation too many public servants – if they late to do the right thing for inves-
end-of-life obligations,” Monday’s order says. spending targets the regulator set in 2022. can be called that – is that the av- tors. It’s time to see every Cana-
The Parliamentary Budget Office estimates erage Canadian has no right to dian refiling as it happens, in one
the average cost of cleaning up a well at 78,000 THE CANADIAN PRESS know. place.
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O INION ANA I
Co ercial real estate is in a growing crisis
ixed-use arrangements ginning of 202 . Since construction of new
office space has ground to a halt, this sug-
may provide a slice of gests the increase represents loan exten-
relief as office spaces sions.
sit unused in ma or cities The prospect of a crash or at least a hard
landing is so chilling there are whispers in
the United States that one possible solu-
GUS tion will be government intervention to
CARLSON bail out the sector, including incentives
such as massive infusions of cash, subsi-
OPINION dized financing at giveaway rates and pub-
lic-private partnerships.
That may solve the short-term financial
U.S. based columnist for The Globe and Mail crisis, but it doesn’t solve the long-term is-

I
n some respects, solving the puzzle of
the looming office space crisis is a bit
like being tasked with designing a plan
to save the dinosaurs.
There has been a catastrophic event –
the pandemic – that along with technol-
ogy have changed the environment and
the behaviours that shape it. Despite ef-
forts by companies to cajole and compel
people back to offices, vacancy rates in the
U.S. and Canada remain around 20 per
cent.
The hangover, exacerbated by stub-
bornly high interest rates, is just the tip of
the iceberg. The longer-term problem is
what to do with all that unused, underval-
ued office space, much of it in core down-
town areas of major cities around the
world. Can it be repurposed, as many re-
tailers have been forced to do with their
brick-and-mortar operations as online
sales have grown Is it a potential mixed-
use solution to the current housing crisis
across North America hiding in plain
sight
It may not be a case of extinction – yet –
but it isn’t a pretty picture. Over the past
year, there has been a sharp rise in loan
extensions and delinquencies in office
space, and it is expected to worsen in 2024.
In simple terms, tenants have been asking
lenders to extend leases in hopes that in-
terest rates will come down at some point,
but that prospect is being pushed out fur-
Despite efforts by companies to bring staff bac to offices, vacancy rates in the U.S. and
Canada remain around 20 per cent. TIJANA MARTIN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
ther in time.
You don’t need an MBA to understand
that a tenant moving from a loan rate of 2
or per cent to one that is 7 per cent or
higher for a commodity that is losing val-
ue as the environment changes is not a ro-
sy prospect. xtensions aren’t cheap – if
you have a home mortgage, you know the
fees of refinancing can be backbreaking –
but they are a lesser evil than a long-term
lease with a rate in the high single-digits.
Since hope is not a strategy, as the man-
agement gurus say, the wave of extensions
with fingers crossed that rates will ease –
what the industry calls “extend and pre-
tend” – is part of a gathering storm that
goes well beyond the financials.
How bad is it A recent report from
Trepp, the commercial real estate data and
analytics firm, says office loan modifica-
tions in the U.S. reached US 1.42-billion in
the first quarter of this year, 12 times the
US 117-million in the first quarter of 202 .
Delinquencies in April reached the highest
level in two years.
The cracks have been visible for some
time. About US 1 .6-billion in loans were
modified in 202 , double the amount of
2022, according to CR D IQ, a data and
analytics platform. Moody’s Analytics pre-
dicts that roughly 80 per cent of the
US 15.2-billion of commercial mortgage-
backed securities CMBS office loans ex-
pected to mature this year are at risk of
failing to refinance.
The Mortgage Bankers Association is
tracking US 929-billion in maturities in
2024, a rise of US 270-billion from the be-
sue of the value of the asset. As more lend-
ers take back the keys when loans default
or aren’t renegotiated, the question is this
What is the real value of office space in a
world where remote work has been
proved as a viable option for the future
and, especially for the next generations, is
preferred It is a somewhat pyrrhic victory
if a lender cuts ties to a deadbeat tenant
only to be left with an asset whose value is
declining.
One potential solution is the repurpos-
ing of space. It’s not a new idea but its re-
cord of success is spotty. Just ask anyone in
the retail sector, as online sales have shift-
ed consumer preferences and devalued
the real estate holdings of stores. Some
have looked at everything from turning
stores into childhood educational centres
or warehouses and even assisted living fa-
cilities.
It may be a stretch, but to the layman,
connecting the dots between millions of
square feet of unused office space with the
highly publicized housing crisis in the U.S.
and Canada might raise the question Is
there an opportunity to kill two birds with
one stone through some sort of mixed-use
arrangement
Perhaps not a silver bullet, but it may be
a slice of immediate relief as governments
explore developing so-called urban lazy
spaces for new housing. And it may extend
the lives of the dinosaurs called offices, or
at least help them evolve.

raising capital gains ta Ottawa gores the wealth and
ANDERSON CHARTERS corporation to plan their retire-
ment are not entitled to that ex-
emption.
OPINION One might think that our
Prime Minister and Finance Min-
Li es near Orillia, Ont. ister ended up regretting that
He has been an entrepreneur they somehow lost sight of these
for more than 40 years. facts when they came up with
these changes.
people with annual capital gains
of more than 250,000 have likely
established holding companies
holdcos and or trusts to mini-
mize taxes, if they haven’t moved
their liquid assets offshore. These
holdcos and trusts will now see
their capital gains taxed at the
higher rate from the first dollar of
see this planning upended.
To be sure, any political party
or government can decide that it
doesn’t like holdcos or profes-
sional corporations. But if that’s
the case, what would be fair as a
matter of trust between a govern-
ment and its citizens would be for
our current Liberal government
iddle class
entrepreneur with the burning
dream of starting her own busi-
ness. But it does matter to Canada
in the aggregate if the govern-
ment leaves only cents tax-free
for every dollar of capital gains in
the collective pockets of the
country’s entrepreneurs rather
than 50 cents.

T
he increase in the tax rate
on capital gains in the re-
cent federal budget has
been widely deplored in many
quarters. Deservedly so.
Commentators have pointed
out how it will reduce the incen-
tive to invest in the productive as-
sets that Canada needs. Also, it
will throw into question many
decisions that middle-class Cana-
dians have made over the years
regarding their retirement plan-
ning via incorporation.
The new policy increases the
portion of capital gains that are
taxed to two-thirds from the cur-
rent one-half. There’s an exemp-
tion only for individuals on gains
below 250,000. And these mid-
dle-class Canadians who use in-
But it appears that our leaders
have no such regrets. On Sunday,
Finance Minister Chrystia Free-
land said the broad strokes of the
capital-gains tax inclusion hike
won’t be changed. That was con-
firmed on Monday when the gov-
ernment tabled a motion laying
out the specifics of the policy.
In a less-than-obvious manner,
the wealthy and the middle class
are both having their ox gored.
This is because the inclusion
rate for all corporations, as well as
for non-primary-residence real
estate, rises to two-thirds after
June 25 from 50 per cent for any
capital gain, not just for gains
above 250,000 annually.
The government frames this as
targeting only the wealthy Most
capital-gains income.
But similarly, the long list of
Canadian professionals who have
set up professional corporations
using such legitimate tax plan-
ning strategies, often to save for
retirement, will be facing the
same increase in taxes. What’s
the beef, you might ask. It goes
beyond the fact that middle-class
people are being lumped in with
the wealthy.
It’s also one of fairness, and not
the fairness blather in the budget
about the wealthy paying their
fair share of taxes. What the Lib-
eral government is doing is
changing the rules mid-stream.
Anyone in the past who used tax
rules legitimately to minimize
taxes including this writer will
to announce that policy would
not come into effect until a much
later date, say Jan. 1, 2025. ven
better, if less realistic, set these
proposals aside and make them a
policy plank in the next federal
election campaign. As it stands,
the new rules will be in place in
just a few weeks.
If this is too much of a climb-
down for the government, here is
another modest suggestion Set
the same floor for corporations as
it is proposing for individuals.
Leave the capital-gains inclusion
rate at 50 per cent for corpora-
tions for annual capital gains up
to 250,000.
I subscribe fully to the notion
that the rate of taxation on cap-
ital gains matters not a whit to the
Let’s remember that most new
businesses are started with after-
tax dollars. More importantly,
let’s consider the dream factor,
the emotions involved to leave a
steady paycheque working for
someone else and to take on the
risk that one’s new business will
not provide steady income. Then
comes the heartache when, after
months or years, the business
fails, as do most startups, wheth-
er they are high-tech or Main
Street.
As Canadians we have a choice.
We can be a nation of dreamers,
driven to build lives and commu-
nities by taking risks, or we can
continue our slide toward less in-
novation, declining productivity
and a lower standard of living.

The i eral go ern ent s response to oreign inter erence is ltra asic
TONY at s t e ne ese allegati ns a e ents t at s ut it and non-committal, but it’s been get e t e i e al g e n ent
ELLER s ing n e ensi le n ea ing inan ial gain ele t a long day. So I’ll just say No, not
e e ente nt a e t e s al a antage llu ing it really. Not if we can avoid it. We hadn’t really thought about
OPINION at a e u g ing t a ut it t e n i t e e e t e e ul that last bit. So maybe our atti-
e li e u n nse uen es n use sn t t e g al gat tude will change. But our starting
I can assure you that we are do- a t st t e et ing n e ing intelligen e t gain n le ge point is that police should han-
e s ite est et int u es an ing everything we can to make t ing s as t a t n it dle it. If time passes and nobody
lt a asi a e a n ills t a el life better for the middle class is charged, maybe we’ll all just
ti n eatu ing n esti a and those working hard to join it. That’s an excellent idea sir. You But if we use the intelligence we move on. We also announced on
ns n anges n e un s n should call the RCMP. have on foreign interference in Monday that we’re willing to sup-
l alt ints a eassigne seat at at our politics, that will reveal to port an opposition move to refer
t e a t e lane an a ing at our enemies what we know, and the matter to the inquiry probing
last lt a asi ill all ana Sorry, wrong talking points. What how we know it. foreign interference. Just so long
ians t t a el it ut a ing I meant to say is that we take This whole matter is really out of as it doesn’t name names.
a iti nal se i es t e n t al these serious allegations serious- our hands. That’s why even gain n t ll ing u n es
ue ly and are treating them with the though our government received tigati n an se uti n ill ta e n t get it t ug t u sai u
utmost seriousness. But before the NSICOP report in March ea s an a l an t e ne ante t ta e t is se i usl
ello and welcome to Air we go any further, I see that you it ut e ealing all t at se et in
Liberal I hope you’re hav- are flying on our UltraBasic De- a u e n n a ut t is telligen e Look, even if some unnamed pol-
ing a wonderful day. How mocracy fare. sin e a a en t u ne ean ile ig t n e a ea iticians are trading favours with a
can I make it better an t ing e t ag u a lia en foreign power, they’re probably
at ta ians ai e a i e al just backbench MPs and sen-
i a e a uesti n a ut eign We are acting deliberately. That it t at e en in t e e a te e ators. They have almost no pow-
inte e en e sa t e ne s t at It’s the minimal democratic ser- looks like we are not acting at all lease t t e u li sa s a nu e er and they don’t know much.
ana a s intelligen e se i es a e vice. For voters who really don’t is proof of our maturity and seri- unna e liti ians a ea t e
in ati n t at s e e e al li care, and politicians who can’t re- ousness. n t e ta e eign g e n at
ti ians a e lla ate it ally be bothered. ents
eign g e n ents t as in t at e an u s a e na e Sorry, did I say that out loud
t a ittee a lia t
ug t as n t e ana a s in t e e t s t e a We don’t want to spark a witch
enta ians e all a t g u e e l s eatest e a ties iniste s hunt. u i an t u tell e e
lie es t at s e ana ian ae a ut u es se t ag
liti ians a e ing We can’t say. ut unless e in estigate t ese un g essi el u sing t ese allega
unt ies su as n ia an ina Oh no, sir. That’s no longer avail- e e ente allegati ns an a t n ti ns
an t at t se eign g e n ents able. u lan n ing an t ing it at is un u le s ste
a e ing t e t e intelligen e gat e e u in g e n ent an e e liti ian in No. Not on the
just ing t at u an telligen e se i es it ill e un e a l u sus i i n
Yes sir, you’re referring to the re- tell e at u e lanning n sn t a l ss ait in ana ian in ea n t e lt a asi e
port from NSICOP, the National ing t ensu e t at t e e le e e My talking points say I’m sup- stituti ns e a tl at s e u a ae
Security and Intelligence Com- senting us a e n t se i itting posed to give an answer that is ene ies ant n i t e e s ising
mittee of Parliamentarians. itting agents eign g e n simultaneously positive, obtuse u li ni is n t its ain ta njoy your flight.
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Wh so e usinesses re ain open during reno ations

enefits include
maintaining the flow of
goods and services and
retaining valued staff

NANCY LANTHIER

C
rowds of shoppers at CF To-
ronto aton Centre have
doubtless marvelled at the
giant scaffolding – multitiered
like a wedding cake – that climbs
to the centre’s iconic skylight
roof.
It’s been two years since the
scaffolding was built and the con-
struction crew is now working on
the second phase of the skylight’s
glass replacement. Yet even now
as Sheila Jennings, the centre’s
general manager, walks around
it, the enormity of it still impress-
es.
“It’s probably the largest scaf-
fold structure I’ve ever seen,” she
says.
ach tier of the eight-storey
scaffold has an enclosed floor, Ms.
Jennings explains. “So, if a ham-
mer drops it’s going to hit the
scaffolding floor and not some-
body walking through the shop-
ping centre.”
The decision to keep a business
running rather than closing down Above An eight storey
shop while a building undergoes scaffold was constructed
a major capital improvement is a at C Toronto Eaton
strategic choice laden with varia- Centre two years ago for
bles. wor that is currently
Sometimes a retrofit is so inva- being done to the
sive it’s more efficient and cost ef- s ylight roof. Despite the
fective to complete the work in an disruption, the centre has
unoccupied building. remained open for
ancouver’s massive Oakridge business.
Centre redevelopment closed SHAY CONROY/
down earlier than planned when CADILLAC AIR IEW
mall landlord QuadReal Property
Group decided to fast-track the
construction timeline by about
two years, for a 2025 grand open-
ing.
Also in ancouver, Pacific Re-
ach Properties, owners of the Ro- Above left A rendering
sewood Hotel Georgia, closed the of the Royal Ontario
luxury hotel rather than risk sub- Museum’s main floor
par hospitality during this year’s design shows an oculus
five-month refurbishment. opening up to the
But for businesses that stay dinosaur gallery. The
open, benefits include maintain- museum’s renovation
ing the flow of goods and services planning team decided to
and retaining valued employees. install a temporary
In addition, many enterprises can viewing platform into the
even boost revenue, according to closed off space so that
retail-design giant CBSF, whose visitors will still be able
clients include Canadian Tire, Lo- to see the ancient
blaw and Pet alu. specimens.
“As counterintuitive as it may
be, keeping your store open dur- Left The ROM’s
ing a renovation is shown to in- 130 million renovation
crease sales,” the company states to its entire main floor
in an article on its website. “Time includes a ma or rema e
and time again, a mix of curios- of the entrance to the
ity” and potential to score “dis- building.
counted goods” draw increased RENDERINGS BY
traffic to its projects. HARIRI PONTARINI
At the aton Centre, where ARCHITECTS/ROYAL
vast lengths of hoarding wrap ONTARIO MUSEUM
around Cadillac Fairview’s 77-
million upgrade, which also in- remake of the entire main floor construction areas,” he adds. upgraded it’s part of maintaining softening demand, but even new
cludes staircase, elevator and and major changes to the mu- At the same time, Mr. Bassech- operational excellence. Whether builds for the thriving industrial
parking improvements, Ms. Jen- seum’s controversial Crystal. The es needed to ensure that guests to landlords who stay open will go sector have fallen 0 per cent
nings says, “we have not seen any light-filled new design, by Hariri the country’s most visited mu- to the same lengths as the ROM to since peaking in Q 202 . As for
sales erosion whatsoever.” Pontarini Architects, will com- seum could enjoy as close to the maintain a great visitor experi- new malls “I can’t see any more
But cash flow wasn’t a main pletely open up the space to ac- full-museum experience as possi- ence remains to be seen. But one ever being built,” Ms. Jennings
reason to remain open amid the commodate large public events. ble – especially when it comes to thing looks clear Canadians are predicts.
disruption, she adds. “ ibration monitoring was top dinosaurs. But with parts of the set to experience more renova- With fewer new builds on the
“If we were to close the centre, of mind, as vibration could dam- ancient mammal galleries in di- tions. horizon, property owners are fo-
it would just become this huge age fragile artifacts and speci- rect vertical path of construction, Hefty costs and environmental cusing on upgrading existing as-
non-functioning entity a detri- mens,” says Josh Basseches, the they needed to be closed off. effects of ground-up construction sets, says Bri-Ann Stuart, vice-
ment, whereas if you can leverage museum’s director and chief ex- nter a temporary viewing have pushed Canadian construc- president, portfolio management
the work in a respectful, safe way, ecutive officer. “That’s why we’ve platform offering fantastic sight tion starts for some types of and national retail at Colliers Real
then it’s a win-win.” installed sensitive, vibration- lines to the mastodon and Tyran- buildings to the lowest levels in state Management Services.
A strong communications plan detecting equipment that is con- nosaurus rex. years. “We’re going to see a huge
was key to the success, Ms. Jen- stantly monitored. “The platform allows visitors For example, the number of amount of transformation,” she
nings says. “This meant getting in “To further safeguard our col- to see over and into the inacces- office buildings that broke says.
front of our clients, walking them lections, we also removed some sible space,” Mr. Basseches says. ground in Q1 2024 was zero, CBR
through what was going to hap- objects from galleries next to the Buildings are always being reports. That asset class has seen Special to The Globe and Mail
pen, and showing them the be-
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grades – totalling 1.6-billion
OF THE CITY OF TORONTO, IN THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
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Meghan Roach, president and CEO of Roots, said the company e pects to have a healthy inventory’
of core fleece products by the start of its third uarter. RED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
leece shortage partly
responsible for oots
quarterly loss C
pparel retailer has resorted
to offering fewer discounts,
which may have weighed on sales
TARA DESCHAMPS
oots or . says it lost 8.9-million in its latest
quarter as it missed out on some sales because
it didn’t have enough of its fleece products to
keep up with demand and is still seeing shop-
pers grapple with economic headwinds.
The Toronto-based apparel retailer’s first-
quarter result announced Monday compared
with a loss of 8.0-million a year earlier.
The loss amounted to 22 cents a share for the
quarter ended May 4, compared with a loss of 19
cents a share a year earlier, while sales totalled
7.5-million for the most recent quarter, down
from 41.5-million in the same quarter last year.
Meghan Roach, chief executive of Roots, at-
tributed much of the decline to a fall in the
company’s corporate retail store and e-com-
merce sales, which amounted to 1.4-million,
down from 5.4-million a year ago.
Some of the decline may have come from
consumers rethinking purchases because of
high inflation and interest rates. Meanwhile,
Roots held lower amounts of inventory than it
has in the past and resorted to fewer discounts,
which may also have weighed on sales.
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“That’s a lot of additional money for provinces
and territories. I would invite Canadians who
feel that our doctors should be paid more to
suggest that provinces and territories should be
using some of that revenue to increase the
actual salaries, the rate of compensation of
doctors,” Ms. Freeland said.
A ways and means motion is a precursor to a
government bill that implements a financial
measure, such as changes to taxation rules.
Tax experts say the details released Monday
do not appear to be significantly different from
what was initially announced in the budget.
The government’s plan to increase taxes
through changes to capital-gains rules was one
of the most significant elements of Ms. Free-
land’s April 16 budget.
A capital gain is the profit an individual or
business earns when they sell an asset, such as
stocks or property.
The budget said that as of June 25, the inclu-
sion rate – the portion on which tax is paid – will
rise to two-thirds from one-half on capital gains
realized by companies. The increase will also
apply to individuals, but only on capital gains
above 250,000.
The Canadian Medical Association had
strongly urged the federal government to grant
incorporated doctors a similar carveout for the
first 250,000 in capital gains that applies to in-
dividuals, if not a complete exemption.
CMA president Kathleen Ross said in an in-
terview Monday that her organization is deeply
disappointed that Ottawa did not agree to any
of the suggestions from doctors. She said incor-
porated doctors are unlike other businesses as
the corporation is primarily used as a vehicle for
retirement savings or parental and sick leaves.
“There seems to be a continued misunder-
standing of what makes Canadian medical
professional corporations unique in this
situation,” she said.
As for Ms. Freeland’s comments about pro-
vincial governments, she said, “We do support
remunerating physicians according to their ex-
pertise,” but also said that pushing the issue on-
to other governments is not the right approach.
Hannah Jensen, a spokesperson for Ontario
Health Minister Sylvia Jones, responded to Ms.
Freeland’s comments with a statement that
said Ottawa “continues to underfund key
health services across the country,” while Onta-
rio is making “historic investments” to expand
its physician work force.
The capital-gains provisions were not includ-
ed in Bill C-69, a government bill introduced on
May 2 to implement part of the budget.
The decision appeared by some to be politi-
cally motivated so that the Conservatives, who
currently enjoy a substantial lead in the polls,
Ms. Roach said parsing out which had the
biggest impact is “difficult.”
“We did see a decline in markdown sales, so
obviously the consumer discretionary spend-
ing is more pressured,” Ms. Roach said on a
Monday call with analysts.
“If we had more inventory to put on mark-
down, obviously we think that could have po-
tentially risen sales a bit more.”
Roots has spent the past few quarters paring
down its markdowns, a strategy that can wean
shoppers off waiting to make purchases in
hopes of finding a deal later.
Supply also factored into the lower sales
Roots saw in its last quarter.
“We faced some inventory challenges in our
Cooper fleece category, which performed very
well in Q4, but left us with insufficient supply to
satisfy demand,” Ms. Roach said.
In a statement to The Canadian Press after
Monday’s call, Ms. Roach said Roots expects to
have a “healthy inventory” of core fleece prod-
ucts by the start of its third quarter.
She is also optimistic about the company’s
recent growth in its adult activewear division
and recent renovations at two of its larger
stores, including its aton Centre flagship loca-
tion in Toronto. The space’s fa ade has now
been refreshed with its layout revamped to bet-
ter showcase its merchandise and digital
screens added.
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will see lower rate
would be forced to take a clear position on the
issue.
Ms. Freeland has portrayed the change as one
that requires Canada’s wealthiest to contribute
more toward federal programs such as health
and dental care and said Canadians should
watch closely how all MPs vote.
Mr. Poilievre’s press secretary, Sam Lilly, said
in an e-mail that the Trudeau government is
scrambling to find ways to cover the cost of bil-
lions of dollars in new spending.
“This is a tax on health care, homebuilding,
small businesses, farmers, and people’s retire-
ments. Doctors, small business owners, and
Canadians saving for their retirements have all
raised opposition to Trudeau’s next tax hike,”
he said.
Ottawa has said the higher tax rate will only
apply to 0.1 per cent of Canadians in any given
year. But some experts say it will likely capture a
wider swath of the population.
For example, homeowners who have sec-
ondary properties such as a cottage or a rental
property will be on the hook for the higher tax
rate if their capital gain is more than 250,000.
“There are very, very few people that have an
annual realization of 250,000 of capital gains
every year. And if you do, you are in the wealthy
for sure,” said Jamie Golombek, tax expert with
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce’s private
wealth unit. However, he said, “there are many
more Canadians that could have a one-time
capital gain over 250,000,” such as through the
sale of a vacation property or sale of an income
property.
The Finance Department said in a press re-
lease that a couple selling their cottage with a
capital gain of 500,000 would not pay more
tax. But that only applies if the couple jointly
owns the property and they can each use the
250,000 exemption.
Canadians must complete their deals by June
25 if they want their capital gain to be taxed at
the lower rate, according to the ways and means
motion.
Chartered Professional Accountants of Cana-
da, which represents the profession at the na-
tional level, welcomed the release of more de-
tails on the upcoming tax change. But John
Oakey, vice-president of taxation at CPA Cana-
da, said a lead time of just two weeks before the
new rules take hold will make it very difficult for
many affected taxpayers to rearrange their af-
fairs in time.
Brian rnewein, a senior adviser at KPMG
and a former senior Finance Department tax of-
ficial, agreed the situation creates a tight win-
dow for affected Canadians to make decisions.
“People will be scrambling. I think there’s no
question,” he said.
With reports from Erica Alini in Toronto
O T E GLO E AN
olding new technolog to
a standard o per ection is the
wrong approach acade ic sa s
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The release of ChatGPT by
OpenAI in November, 2022, tou-
ched off an arms race among tech
companies. A few months later,
Microsoft set the template for jan-
ky AI debuts. The tech giant,
which has invested heavily in
OpenAI, integrated the ChatGPT
maker’s technology into its Bing
search engine, with lacklustre re-
sults. Users widely shared some of
the delirious and unhinged re-
sponses from the Bing chatbot,
which professed love to a New
York Times reporter.
Microsoft quickly made chang-
es, but a fundamental problem
with the large language models
LLMs that underlie chatbots is a
propensity for making stuff up.
The technology has no capacity
for reason or ability to distinguish
truth from fiction.
The problems are not limited
to text. arlier this year, Google
paused the image-generation fea-
ture on its Gemini model after us-
ers found the system produced
historically inaccurate pictures.
Prompted to generate illustra-
tions of a German soldier in 194 ,
for example, the model returned
what appeared to be an Asian
woman and Black man in Nazi-
like uniforms.
Some companies integrating
AI into hardware haven’t fared
that well, either. Startups Hu-
mane and Rabbit released wear-
able AI-powered devices this year
that were meant to supplant
smartphones, but both were
widely panned in reviews as slow,
clunky and severely limited. ven
the performance of GPT-4o,
which OpenAI released in May, is
not a big improvement over its
predecessor, according to some
reviewers.
“They feel like it’s a huge PR
advantage to be first. Or not to be
last,” said Melanie Mitchell, a
computer scientist and professor
at the Santa Fe Institute. That
may be especially true of Google,
which has invested heavily in AI
research for years but was seen as
slow-moving and cautious after
ChatGPT took off. “They’re over-
reacting in the opposite direction
now,” Prof. Mitchell said.
There is another dynamic at
play. Sure, it might be embarrass-
ing when the general public plas-
ters social media with examples
of misbehaving AI, but it’s also a
free form of beta testing. Compa-
nies want to better understand
how people are using the technol-
ogy in order to continue to im-
prove it. This is despite the fact
that large AI developers have in-
ternal safety teams that are sup-
posed to ensure applications will
not go off the rails before launch.
Google said as much in a recent
blog post explaining what went
wrong with its AI-generated
search summaries. “We tested the
feature extensively before
launch,” Google Search head Liz
Reid wrote. “But there’s nothing
quite like having millions of peo-
ple using the feature with many
novel searches.” The post added
that Google has since made more
than a dozen technical improve-
ments to its AI overviews.
than Mollick, an associate
professor at the Wharton School
of the University of Pennsylvania,
suggested another factor that is
contributing to the rush to re-
lease imperfect products. Some
AI developers believe the capabil-
ities of the technology are going
to progress very rapidly, so the
glitches today are seen as “just an
CANADIAN, BRITISH PRI AC OFFICIALS LAUNCH
JOINT IN ESTIGATION INTO ANDME DATA BREACH
OTTAWA Canada’s privacy com-
missioner is teaming up with his
British counterpart to investi-
gate a data breach discovered
last year at 2 andMe.
Philippe Dufresne’s office said
the joint investigation with
British Information Commis-
sioner John dwards will aim to
determine the scope of the
October, 202 , breach at the
direct-to-consumer genetic
testing company.
They will also look into
whether 2 andMe had proper
safeguards to protect the highly
sensitive information it handled
and whether the company ade-
quately notified regulators and
affected individuals about the
breach.
Mr. Dufresne’s office said it
will work closely with counter-
parts in Quebec, B.C. and Alber-
ta to carry out the Canadian
portion of the investigation and
will not be commenting further.
2 andMe is best known for
selling testing kits that take a
small saliva sample to uncover
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interim step,” he said.
Progress has indeed been quite
rapid. Just a few years ago, LLMs
were far more likely to ramble
and spout nonsensical answers
than today’s models. Seen
through that lens, it’s understan-
dable why developers might not
stress too much about an AI sum-
mary advising you to eat rocks for
the nutritional benefits. It will
soon be yesterday’s problem, the
thinking goes.
That doesn’t mean progress
will continue at the same rate or
that the reliability issues with AI
are easily fixable. Issues around
cost, computing capacity and the
availability of data to train new
large AI models could constrain
development, and there are al-
ready signs that the pace of pro-
gress is slowing down. A report re-
leased earlier this year by Stan-
ford University noted that pro-
gress on various benchmarks
used to assess the proficiency of
AI has “stagnated in recent years,
indicating either a plateau in AI
capabilities or a shift among re-
searchers toward more complex
research challenges.”
xpecting perfection from AI,
however, is the wrong approach,
according to Dr. Mollick. It’s also
not a standard we apply to col-
leagues or ourselves. “AI, even
with errors, often beats humans,”
he said. On his Substack, Dr. Mol-
lick has suggested a more appro-
priate measurement is what he
dubs the Best Available Human.
“Would the best available AI in a
particular moment, in a particu-
lar place, do a better job solving a
problem than the best available
human that is actually able to
help in a particular situation ” he
wrote. There are situations in
which that might be the case.
Last fall, Dr. Mollick and his
colleagues worked on a study
with the Boston Consulting
Group to gauge how OpenAI’s
GPT-4 could help – or hinder –
consultants with various tasks.
Over all, people equipped with AI
were significantly more produc-
tive and produced higher-quality
results when it came to creative
tasks, such as proposing ideas for
a new type of shoe, and writing
and marketing tasks, such as
drafting news releases.
But on a task that was designed
to be beyond the capabilities of AI
a business analysis involving
spreadsheet data and interview
notes , consultants who relied on
GPT-4 performed worse and had
less accurate answers. “Outside
the frontier, AI output is inaccu-
rate, less useful and degrades hu-
man performance,” according to
the study.
One take-away is that people
can be led astray by generative AI
without a thorough understand-
ing of its capabilities and limita-
tions, which is why the rush to re-
lease new applications is con-
cerning for some experts.
Prof. Mitchell said there could
be a paradoxical outcome from
how we use applications such as
ChatGPT. If the error rate is in the
ballpark of 50 per cent, we will be
less likely to trust these systems
and double-check the output. If
the error rate is more like 5 per
cent, we might not even think
twice, allowing inaccuracies to
slip through. “That better system
is in some ways more dangerous
than the worst system,” she said.
Until the accuracy and reliabil-
ity issues are fundamentally fixed
– a big if – we can expect to see
many more rocky AI debuts in the
future.
genetic information about cus-
tomers, including details about
their health, ethnicity and bi-
ological relationships.
In a statement, 2 andMe
spokesman Andy Kill said the
company is aware of the joint
investigation.
“We intend to co-operate with
these regulators’ reasonable
requests relating to the creden-
tial stuffing attack discovered in
October 202 ,” he said.
The company told media
outlets last December that
roughly 6.9 million 2 andMe
customers had their data com-
promised in a breach.
“In the wrong hands, an
individual’s genetic information
could be misused for surveil-
lance or discrimination,” Mr.
Dufresne said in a news release.
“ nsuring that personal in-
formation is adequately protect-
ed against attacks by malicious
actors is an important focus for
privacy authorities in Canada
and around the world.”
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In estors see a har est o pro its in ar land
While land values are lected farm dispositions on assets
with a less favorable long-term
on the rise, .S. firms in outlook for water availability
the sector have reaped and or crop pricing.”
weak results as of late The company had total debt
outstanding of US 8 -million as
of March 1, compared with
GORDON US 6 .1-million at Dec. 1, 202 .
PAPE FPI pays a quarterly cash
dividend of 6 US cents a share 24
OPINION US cents a year to yield 2.2 per
cent at Friday’s closing price of
US 10.81.
Editor and publisher FPI’s recent performance is
of the Internet Wealth Builder mediocre at best. The shares are
and Income In estor newsletters down about 11 per cent over the
past year. That’s not a surprise as
stone. “We continue to work
through issues with a few of our
tenants. We currently have five
properties encompassing 15 of
our 168 farms that are either va-
cant or being direct-operated via
agreements with third-party
management groups. We contin-
ue to be in discussions with vari-
ous groups to either buy or lease
these farms, and we hope to have
these situations resolved by the
end of the year.
“Our balance sheet remains
strong, with nearly 100 per cent of
our borrowings at fixed rates, sig-
nificantly limiting the impact of

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here are thousands of ways
to invest money, but people
are always looking for new
ideas. Here’s a recent e-mail I re-
ceived.
“I am doing my homework on
investing in farming agriculture
from a land ownership point of
view, both in Canada and the U.S.
Are there companies TFs that
focus on this It is my hunch that
the same thing that has happened
to housing will likely happen to
farmland if it hasn’t already , i.e.,
the land will become more expen-
sive. I have read reports that indi-
cate that institutional investors
are interested in acquiring more
agricultural land. How can a retail
investor like me participate in this
price appreciation ” – Kamal G.
Interesting question. Prime
agricultural land in Canada has
indeed seen significant price ap-
preciation in recent years. A farm-
er friend told me that a half-sec-
tion of second-rate Saskatchewan
wheat-growing land that sold in
2014 for 60,000 is now worth
450,000 a decade later
But is there an investment op-
portunity here if you’re not a
farmer
There is at least one Canadian
company that operates in this
space. Bonnefield Investments
has about 1-billion in assets un-
der management, which includes
approximately 1 4,000 agricultu-
ral acres across six provinces. It
acquires the land through lease-
back arrangements with farmers.
The company is not publicly trad-
A farm wor er harvests wheat near Sas atoon late last summer.
Prime agricultural land in Canada has seen significant price appreciation
in recent years. LIAM RICHARDS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
ed but it is open to subscriptions
from accredited institutions and
private investors.
I could not find any public
company in Canada that fits the
profile our reader is looking for,
but there are at least two R IT-
type companies in the United
States that do. Here are the de-
tails.
ARMLAND PARTNERS INC. PI N
FPI is the largest farmland R IT in
the U.S. by acreage. The Denver-
based firm is an internally man-
aged real estate company that
owns and seeks to acquire high-
quality North American farmland
and makes loans to farmers se-
cured by farm real estate.
As of March 1, FPI owned and
or managed approximately
177,400 acres in 17 states. In addi-
tion, it owns land and buildings
for four agriculture equipment
dealerships in Ohio leased to Ag
Pro under the John Deere brand.
FPI has approximately 26 crop
types and more than 100 tenants.
The company recently released
first-quarter results. Net income
was US 1.4-million 1 US cent a
share , compared with US 1.7-
million 2 US cents a share for the
same period in 202 . Adjusted
funds from operations AFFO to-
talled US 2.8-million 6 US cents
a share , up from US 1.6-million
US cents a share last year.
Average gross book value of re-
al estate was US 1-billion com-
pared with US 1.14-billion for the
same period in 202 , a decrease of
12.2 per cent. This was because of
dispositions that occurred during
202 .
FPI increased the bottom and
top end of its 2024 AFFO guidance
range to 19 US cents to 26 US cents,
from 15 U.S. cents to 2 US cents
previously.
During the quarter, the compa-
ny completed acquisitions of
three properties for a cost of
US 16. -million.
Chief executive officer Luca
Fabbri said the first-quarter AFFO
was the highest ever recorded in
the company’s history. “After the
overall portfolio improvements
and very strong rent increases of
202 , we have begun 2024 with a
focus on continuing the reduc-
tion in overhead expenses, lower-
ing senior executive compensa-
tion and shrinking our board of
directors,” he said.
“While we completed a large
number of asset dispositions in
202 , which we do not expect to
repeat in 2024, we continue to
pursue opportunities to further
enhance our farm portfolio, by ac-
quiring complementary assets in
strong regions and evaluating se-
most real estate companies were
money-losers during that period
as high rates pushed interest costs
higher.
GLADSTONE LAND CORP. LAND Q
Gladstone is a irginia-based
company that owns 168 farms in
15 states, with a fair value of ap-
proximately US 1.5-billion. Total
acreage is about 112,000. Its farms
are leased to 9 different, unrelat-
ed third-party tenants growing
more than 60 different types of
crops.
Gladstone Land acquires farm-
land that it rents to corporate and
independent farmers on a triple-
net lease basis, an arrangement
under which the farmer main-
tains the property while paying
rent to Gladstone.
The company reported first-
quarter net income attributable
to common stockholders of
US 7.4-million 21 US cents a
share , compared with a net loss
of US 4. -million a loss of 12 US
cents a share in the prior-year
quarter.
AFFO for the quarter was
US 5.1-million 14 US cents a
share . That was down from
US 5.9-million 17 US cents a
share the year before.
“Results for the quarter were
largely as expected but were
slightly down from last year due
to the lost revenue from a large
farm in Florida that we sold dur-
ing the quarter for a gain of 10.4-
million,” said C O David Glad-
increased interest rates. However,
the high borrowing costs contin-
ue to impact our ability to pur-
chase new farms and lease them
at high enough rates. As such, we
have continued to focus our ef-
forts on securing additional water
rights for our farms in California
by taking advantage of surplus
water supplies and storing water
for future use on our farms.”
Gladstone increased its month-
ly cash distributions by 0.22 per
cent to 4.66 US cents a share 55.92
US cents a year , effective in April.
It was the 4th distribution in-
crease over the past 7 quarters,
during which time the company
increased the distribution run
rate by 55. per cent. The shares
yield 4.2 per cent at Friday’s clos-
ing price of US 1 .26.
The shares are down 22 per
cent year-to-date and are trading
at about the same level as they
were five years ago.
Although both these compa-
nies have been weak performers
lately, we could see gains if U.S. in-
terest rates are cut. In April, 2022,
just prior to the start of the rising
interest-rate cycle, LAND shares
were trading in the US 6 range.
FPI stock was trading at about
US 15.
Anyone who is interested in
this type of investment might
consider taking a small position
in Gladstone. The 4.2-per-cent
yield ensures decent cash flow
while you wait for falling interest
rates to push the share price high-
er.

These online ro ers

roll out the welco e
at or oung clients
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CARRIC

OPINION

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nline brokers need a steady flow of new cli-
ents to build their businesses, but not every-
one is exactly welcomed.
Young investors and others just starting
out are subtly discouraged from opening accounts
with annual maintenance or administration fees of
100 a year, and there can also be minimum account-
size requirements.
The independent online broker Questrade recently
lowered its minimum to 250 from 1,000 for most
registered and non-registered accounts. First home
savings accounts and youth accounts for people un-
der 25 were already set at 250.
Another broker with a 1,000 account minimum is
Desjardins Online Brokerage, a notable choice be-
cause it has no commission for trading stocks or ex-
change-traded funds. While most other brokers don’t
have account minimums, their account maintenance
or admin fees are just as much a deterrent to new
clients. If you start with 1,000, a 100 admin fee eats
up 10 per cent of your capital.
Questrade, Wealthsimple and the TD asy Trade
app have no maintenance fees, and the latter two
have no account minimums. ach offers a way to get
into investing without losing money to admin fees.
Trading is a different matter. Wealthsimple offers
commission-free trades, while TD asy Trade offers 50
free stock trades a year and unlimited free trading of
TD-brand exchange-traded funds. Questrade has a
minimum commission of 4.95 for stock trades,
which is half what most of the big banks charge.
Questrade also offers commission-free purchases of
TFs, but you pay the usual commission when you
sell.
If you plan to buy U.S. stocks in a registered ac-
count, watch out for yet another set of costs. All bro-
kers offer U.S. dollar versions of registered accounts,
where you can receive U.S. dollar dividends and pro-
ceeds from the sale of U.S. stocks without a costly
automatic conversion back to Canadian dollars. A few
brokers charge a quarterly fee of US 15 for this, in-
cluding Qtrade Direct Investing and CI Direct Trading.
Wealthsimple charges a 10-a-month subscription
fee for a service where you get access to U.S. dollar
accounts. Clients with 100,000 or more in assets get
U.S. dollar accounts at no cost.
Though they don’t publicize it much, a few brokers
have low-cost programs for young investors. For ex-
ample, Qtrade offers a somewhat reduced 7.75 com-
mission with no admin fees for investors ages 18 to 0
who set up a preauthorized plan to add 50 or more
per month to their account. CIBC Investor’s dge has
special pricing for clients with a youth banking pack-
age, while Scotia iTrade waives admin and mainte-
nance fees for clients aged 26 and under.
Statistics Canada data show food inflation averaged 6. per cent annually over the past three years. ood inflation
was down to 2.3 per cent in April, but past price increases remain. CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Carrick Declining in lation rate will ring good things
ROM B1
Normal inflation used to look something like the aver-
age 1.6 per cent from 2010 to 2020. In a sense, the
revved-up inflation of the past three years gave us close
to a decade’s worth of price increases.
Inflation was down to 2.7 per cent in April on a year-
over-year basis, which suggests a lot of progress in con-
taining the rising cost of living. And yet, we remain in a
state of disbelief about the value we get for the money
we spend.
If you haven’t looked at new vehicle prices in a
while, prepare to be shocked. J.D. Power reports that
the average price of new cars, SU s and light trucks in-
creased to 48, 00 over the past five years from
5,400, an annualized gain of 6.4 per cent. Average
monthly payments are up as well – to a staggering 870
from 650.
Driver preferences are part of the story of rising vehi-
cle prices. Because they’re so popular, SU s command
a price premium over cars. Light trucks are among the
bestselling vehicles, but they’re even more expensive.
Also, pandemic-driven parts shortages squeezed the
supply of new vehicles and stoked demand in a way
that gave dealers massive pricing power.
But the bottom line here is that the new vehicles
people want to drive cost 48, 00 on average right now,
which is a hefty number. The same applies to what’s
happened with rents.
The three-year average rent increase was 9.1 per
cent, according to the latest numbers from Rentals.ca
and Urbanation. Rents actually declined early in the
pandemic, but they’ve rebounded with a vengeance.
The average rent for all types of property in May was
2,202, a number that undersells the cost in cities such
as Toronto and ancouver. A Toronto one-bedroom av-
eraged 2,479 in May, and nine other cities in Ontario
and B.C. were above 2,000.
The cost of buying a house has increased sharply as
well. The average resale home price increased to
70 ,446 in April from 495,000 in the same month of
2019, which works out to annual average growth of
7. per cent.
And then there’s the edible aspect of inflation – gro-
ceries and restaurant meals. Statistics Canada data
show food inflation averaged 6.4 per cent annually
over the past three years.
There were points in 2022 when food prices surged
by close to 10 per cent on a year-over-year basis. Food
inflation was down to 2. per cent in April, but past
price increases are baked in. There are still boxes of ce-
real going for more than 10 in your local grocery store
– “jumbo” boxes, but still.
The declining inflation rate will bring good things
such as lower interest rates and more stability for busi-
nesses and individuals in managing their finances go-
ing forward. Another positive for households in today’s
economy is that wage increases are resisting the down-
ward drift in inflation. The most recent numbers from
Statistics Canada show average hourly wages for em-
ployees increased 5.1 per cent in May compared with
the same time last year.
Provided we avoid a sharp recession, we could be
moving into a more settled period for the economy and
household finances than we’ve had since 2019. But a lot
of people are looking backward right now and not lik-
ing what they see. Having a decade’s worth of inflation
dumped on you in a few short years will do that.
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ow one d s orphia nergy lifts S , hile

can distort inancial thin ing
YUMNA I TI HAR
spread to everyone on social
media.
“When you’re making your
U.S. investors ait for ne s
The S P 500 and Nasdaq eked out record closing highs on
Monday, although investors were cautious ahead of this
week’s consumer prices report, a Federal Reserve policy an-
IT’S ALL IN THE NE S nouncement and Apple Inc.’s developer conference.
An increased cost of living, a wors- Canada’s main stock index also rose, boosted by a jump
ening housing crisis and food in- in oil prices. The Toronto Stock xchange’s S P TS Com-

I
s constant scrolling through
online information and on so-
cial media distorting your view
of what it means to be financially
stable Are you questioning your
own financial health, even
though you’re doing just fine Are
you making bad financial deci-
sions
According to a recent U.S. poll,
you could be one of the growing
number of millennials and Gen s
who are suffering from money
dysmorphia.
Natasha Knox, a financial plan-
ner with Alaphia Financial Well-
ness in ancouver, describes
money dysmorphia as a discre-
pancy between how someone
perceives their financial circum-
stances and the reality of those
circumstances. It’s something she
sees among some of her clients.
This distorted understanding
of one’s own personal finances is
amplified when they compare
themselves with others, as people
do routinely online and on so-
cial media. That comparison can
have a negative impact on peo-
ple’s finances by triggering poor
decision making.
A January, 2024, report by Cred-
it Karma found that 4 per cent of
Gen and 41 per cent of millen-
nials in the United States have ex-
perienced money dysmorphia.
And while the term might be new-
er, the phenomenon is not.
Kerry Taylor, a B.C.-based mon-
ey expert, podcaster and the cre-
ator of personal-finance website
squawkfox.com, says people used
to compare themselves with their
immediate circle of neighbours
and friends. Thanks to the inter-
net, that comparison circle has
spending choices based on what
you’re seeing online, you’re not
making choices based on your
own reality. And so, your spend-
ing should be a function of your
own income and your own situa-
tion,” she says.
Preet Banerjee, a London-
based wealth management con-
sultant, says people should un-
derstand what is shared online is
not someone’s everyday life.
“When you see people posting
about going on vacation and
spending a lot of money, you
might subconsciously think that’s
how they’re living their life day to
day when, in fact, it’s just the high-
lights that are being posted,” he
says.
David Freeman is an associate
professor of economics at Simon
Fraser University. Although he
hadn’t heard the term “money
dysmorphia,” the principle is sim-
ilar to other concepts he studies as
a behavioural economist. His own
research has shown that people
often don’t think about all of their
options when making a decision.
For example, if someone want-
ed to buy shoes online, he says,
they should consider many
things Do they really need the
shoes What other things could
they spend that money on How
much money do they have avail-
able And could they buy it later at
a better price
“In an online environment,
where the combination of ex-
tremely attractive targeted adver-
tising and two-click shopping just
makes it really easy to buy – it
makes money less salient,” Dr.
Freeman says. “This is a recipe for
disaster.”
flation are genuine problems that
affect Canadians and have an im-
pact on their mental health, and
Mr. Banerjee believes that con-
stant access to news does not
help.
“When you’re bombarded with
so many more signals of bad news
it can really weigh on your
mind. And, when you are stressed
out, when you’re feeling over-
loaded, it can have an impact on
your ability to make decisions as
well,” he says.
That can trigger a need to
spend money in order to feel
good. “ It might be a short-term
relief, but might lead to long-term
pain,” he adds.
BAC TO BASICS
Although social-media consump-
tion is increasing money dysmor-
phia, some online content cre-
ators are trying to show a more re-
alistic and responsible side to
spending, Mr. Banerjee says.
“They kind of hold themselves ac-
countable, saying, here is the oth-
er side of the story, here is how
much money I have. And I cannot
afford to do this.”
iewers should curate what
they see on their social-media
page – and be cautious of the
message.
In terms of positive financial
steps, Ms. Taylor says putting 100
in a TFSA regularly might not be
flashy or sexy, but saving isn’t
supposed to be.
“It should be steady. It should
be considerate, it should be delib-
erate and it should be automatic,
because that’s what contributes
to success.”
posite Index was up 62.76 points, or 0. per cent, at
22,069.76.
Providing some support to the Nasdaq and S P 500, Nvi-
dia Corp. shares ended up 0.7 per cent, the session after a
10-for-1 stock split. Some investors now believe the chip
maker might be included in the blue-chip Dow.
The U.S. Consumer Price Index report for May is due
Wednesday along with the conclusion of the Fed’s two-day
policy meeting.
The central bank, which will release updated economic
and policy projections, is expected to hold interest rates
steady. Investors will look for clues on when the U.S. central
bank may begin to cut interest rates.
“This is an important week for the market in terms of
comments and messaging from the Federal Reserve,” said
Quincy Krosby, chief global strategist at LPL Financial in
Charlotte, N.C.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 69.05 points, or
0.18 per cent, to 8,868.04 the S P 500 gained 1 .8 points, or
0.26 per cent, to 5, 60.79 and the Nasdaq Composite added
59.40 points, or 0. 5 per cent, to 17,192.5 .
Traders dialled back expectations for rate cuts in Septem-
ber after Friday’s stronger-than-expected jobs data for May,
with the odds of a reduction at 50 per cent.
“I feel like it’s going to be pretty muted as people try to
hedge themselves for what they might see on Wednesday,”
said Alex McGrath, private wealth adviser at North nd Pri-
vate Wealth.
Apple shares dipped 1.9 per cent ahead of the iPhone
maker’s annual developer conference. Investors are eager
for updates on how it is integrating artificial intelligence
into its offerings.
Oil prices climbed about per cent to a one-week high
buoyed by hopes of rising fuel demand this summer.
The high oil prices boosted Toronto’s energy index up 1.4
per cent.
“Over the last several weeks we have seen a sizable pull-
back in oil prices. The theory is that pullback was likely
overdone, and now we’re seeing oil prices go back to about
the average price that has been trading over the past 12
months,” said Angelo Kourkafas, senior investment strate-
gist at dward Jones.
Meanwhile, Canada’s manufacturing sales data and
wholesale trade numbers for the month of April are sched-
uled for release on Friday.
REUTERS, GLOBE STA

Oil prices downward trend puts spotlight on the co odit s outloo

BRIAN DONOVAN
ON COMMODITIES
CB , president of a Canadian fintech
based in Miramichi, N.B
INTRODUCTION
The price of West Texas Interme-
diate WTI oil fell from a recent
high of US 86.91 a barrel in early
April to where it currently sits at
around US 76. Closer to home,
Western Canadian Select WCS
has dropped from a high of
US 72.99 in early April and now
sits at about US 62. What is be-
hind this price drop and what is
the outlook for the commodity
OPEC COMMENTS IN A TIME
O RECESSION EARS
Oil prices started falling on June
after the OP C conference,
where the eight member coun-
tries agreed to extend cuts into
2025. At the same time, they
opened the door for production
increases starting in October by
phasing out the voluntary cuts to
which producers have largely
been adhering. The increases will
see an OP C target of 6.27 mil-
lion barrels a day b d , rising by
more than two million b d from
current output. The UA was also
given a higher quota target of up
TSX Energy Capped Index vs. West Texas Intermediate
Price, in U.S. dollars
WTI TSX Energy Capped Index
$300
250
200
150
100
50
0
2018 2019 2020
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to 00,000 b d once the OP C
changes are fully implemented.
These combined announcements
drove the price of WTI down to
US 7 .25 last week. On Thursday,
Saudi Arabia and Russia indicated
they could maintain or reverse
output depending on prevailing
conditions, causing prices to turn
up again. In conjunction with
this, a strong U.S. jobs data report
on Friday firmed up the U.S. dollar
on the expectation rate cuts
would be pushed out further.
How important is this to our
energy companies’ stock prices I
ran a regression for the TS ner-
gy Capped Index against the price
of West Texas Intermediate for the
2021 2022 2023 2024
past seven years starting three
years prior to CO ID, to under-
stand transition through that pe-
riod and found a correlation co-
efficient of 0.8, implying 80 per
cent of the movement in that in-
dex is explained by movement in
the price of WTI.
Over that time period the price
of WTI has been between US 4. 4
and US 45.9 higher than the
price of WCS. The average spread
between WTI and WCS for the past
five years is US 15.85 a barrel. Both
transportation costs and grade
light oil is easier to refine ac-
count for the majority of the price
difference. According to Deloitte,
prices for Canadian producers are
expected to rise with the comple-
tion of the Trans Mountain x-
pansion pipeline project.
OIL CONSUMPTION
A QUIC BAC GROUND
Two-thirds 67 per cent of global
oil production is consumed in
transportation with another 27
per cent used for industrial heat
or power generation. The balance
is used in residential or commer-
cial heating. Gasoline accounts for
41 of the 67 per cent, distillates
diesel fuel and heating oil 15 per
cent, jet fuel 8 per cent, and as-
phalts, lubricants and petro-
chemicals per cent.
From their most recent figures
in May, the International nergy
Agency I A shows global oil de-
mand is set to rise by 1.1 million
b d in 2024. The outlook for 2025
is expected to be 1.2 million b d
higher than 2024.
World oil supply is projected by
the I A to increase by 580,000 b d
in 2024 to a record 102.7 million
b d as non-OP C output rises by
1.4 million b d while OP C pro-
duction falls 840,000 b d, assum-
ing that voluntary cuts are main-
tained. Gains of 1.8 million b d are
expected in 2025 as non-OP C
adds a further 1.4 million b d.
HAT ABOUT THE EV S ITCH
Gasoline vehicles account for
41 per cent of global oil consump-
tion. The I A expects to see 17 mil-
lion electric vehicles sold in 2024
or 20 per cent of total car sales for
the year. Sales in the first quarter
of 2024 were up 25 per cent from
the same period a year ago. With a
projected switch of four million
vehicles from gasoline to electric
in 2024, the demand for gasoline
should drop 1.9 billion U.S. gallons
or 45 million barrels of oil equiv-
alent a year. However, that com-
pares with oil production of 100
million barrels daily, so it is a
small – yet growing – change in
demand.
OIL TARGET PRICES
Oil prices are projected to move
up over the summer months with
more transportation activity and
seasonal drawdowns of supply.
Looking further out, according to
information provided on the Rig-
one website, over the next two to
three years there are mixed views
on the price of oil, with some such
as oil and gas research company
BMI, Bloomberg consensus, the
U.S. nergy Information Adminis-
tration and J.P. Morgan seeing oil
prices dropping, whereas others,
including Standard Chartered
Bank, have higher target prices.
The current consensus seems to
indicate oil prices will be moving
down to the low US 70 level by
2026.

EYE ON EQUITIES DAVID LEEDER

ADVENTUS MINING ADZN TS V CORUS ENTERTAINMENT C R B TS SAPUTO SAP TS TELUS T TS OUNDERS METALS DR TS V
CLOSE 0.4 , UP 2 CLOSE 0. 4, DOWN 1 CLOSE 2 . 1, DOWN CLOSE 22.1 , DOWN 1 CLOSE 1. , UP

National Bank analyst Rabi Niza-
mi moved d entus inin
or . to “tender” from “outper-
form” in response to its deal to be
acquired by i er or eta s
n . “AD N shares have traded up
since the announcement date,
lifted partly by easing of the fi-
nancing overhang private place-
ment and the share price lifting
further with market exposure to
silver, lead and zinc operations
within Silvercorp,” he said.
Tar et His target fell to 55 cents
from 65 cents, below the 76-cent
consensus.
Scotia Capital analyst Maher
Yaghi thinks orus ntertain-
ment n . s likely loss of five
trademark channels from Warner
Bros. Discovery “leads to a mate-
rial equity value reduction.” “As-
suming that Corus could lose 50
per cent of the subs and advertis-
ing revenues, we believe the com-
pany’s valuation would be mate-
rially affected,” he added.
Tar et Mr. Yaghi downgraded
Corus to “sector underperform”
from “sector perform” with a 7-
cent target, down from 90 cents.
Consensus is 6 cents.
Despite acknowledging “persist- After recently hosting investor Hannam Partners analyst Jo-
ent market factor volatility,” Des- meetings with its management in nathan Guy expects shares of
jardins Securities analyst Chris Li urope, RBC Dominion Securities ounders eta s n . to outper-
still thinks a uto n . is poised analyst Drew McReynolds reaf- form as it demonstrates the
for an inflection point for earn- firmed his investment thesis on growth potential of the highly
ings and free cash flow, “support- Te us or ., calling it “the growth prospective Antino project and
ed by factors largely within SAP’s and capital return leader.” “We advances it through the explora-
control, including network opti- continue to see an attractive and tion and development process.
mization benefits, operational improving growth and risk pro- He thinks “the potential scale of
improvements, meaningfully file for the company,” he added. the project should make Foun-
lower Australian farm gate milk Tar et He maintained his “out- ders an attractive acquisition tar-
prices and cycling past high-cost perform” recommendation and get for top and mid-tier gold pro-
inventory in urope.” 26 target for Telus shares. Con- ducers.”
Tar et His target rose to 5 sensus is 25.50. Tar et Without a specified rat-
from with a “buy” recommen- ing, Mr. Guy initiated coverage
dation. Consensus is . with a . 1 target. Consensus is
.44.
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TS INDE ES AND SUB INDE ES TS O UME TS 2- EE IG S

TOP 0 FOR STOCKS $ OR MORE STOCKS $ OR MORE

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CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG
TS COMPOSITE IND 0 . . 0. 5 5. 0 CN CANADIAN NATU . 0.8 0. 0 5 . NP 5N PLUS INC . 0. .5 00 . R HEROU -DEVTEK .00 -0. 8 - .5 5 .8
TS 0 INDE 8. 8 . 0 0. 0 . SU SUNCOR ENERGY 5 .5 0. 0.50 . 0 PRM-PR-A BIG PHAR 0.05 0.00 0.00 . ITS KITS EYECARE 8. 0. .0 8.
TS COMPLETION IN . . 8 0.8 80 8 .8 M C MANULIFE FIN . 0.5 . 88 . SBC-PR-A BROMPTON 0. 5 -0.0 -0. 0 . 8 DR MEDICAL FACILI . 0. 5 . 5 .8
TS SMALLCAP INDE 5. .08 . 0 8 . ENB ENBRIDGE INC .08 -0. -0. .8 NGU BROMPTON US . -0.0 -0. 0 -0. 0 N I NFI GROUP INC .5 0. 8 .0 0. 5
TS VENTURE COMPO 58 . -. -0. 5 . NU BETAPRO NAT G 5.80 -0.0 -0.5 0 - . BEP-PR-G BROOKFIE .05 -0. 5 -0. . NRR-UN NORTHVIEW .5 0. 8 .0 . 5
TS CONSUMER DISC 8. 8 -. -0.5 8 .0 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 5. 5 -0.50 -0. 5 58 - . C -PR-A CANACCORD . -0.08 -0.5 0. N A NUVISTA ENERG . 0. . 8 5 5 .
TS CONSUMER STAP 5 .8 - . -.5 5 0.58 C E CENOVUS ENERG . 0. .5 5 0.88 CP -PR-E CAPITAL . -0. -0. 0 .8 P S-PR- PARTNERS . 0. 0. 5.
TS ENERGY CAPPED 8 . .8 . 5 8. 0 AB BARRICK GOLD . 0. 0 .80 50 -5. CRD CARDIOL THER . 0. 8. 5 5 . PSI PASON SYSTEMS . 0 0. 5 0.8 .
TS FINANCIALS CA .5 -0. 0 -0.08 5 . T TELUS CORP .8 -0.58 - .55 50 -5. CSU CONSTELLATION 8 . 8 8. 0. .80 PP PEMBINA PIPEL 5. 0 0. 0. 5 . 5
TS HEALTH CARE C . 0.08 0. 5 -0. BNS BANK OF NOVA .8 -0. -. -0. 8 CP COPPERLEAF T 0. 5 0. .0 05 8.05 P -PR- POWER FI . 0.00 0.00 .
TS INDUSTRIALS C .55 0.85 0. 0 0 . 0 TRP TC ENERGY COR 5 . -0. 5 -0.8 .8 DII-B DOREL INDUS . 0.0 . 0 5.0 PD -PR-A PRIME DI 0.5 0.08 0. .8
TS INFORMATION T . 0 . 8 . -0. 8 BCE BCE INC . -0. 5 -0. 5 - 0. 0 E N ELEMENT FLEET 5. 0. 0. . 0 RBA RB GLOBAL INC 08. 0 8. 0 8. 0 .8
TS MATERIALS CAP . .8 . 0 .58 RCI-B ROGERS COMM 5 .5 -. - . 5 0 - 5. 0 E N-PR-C ELEMENT 5. 0 -0.0 -0.0 . R -PR- ROYAL BAN . 0. 5 . 8 5. 5
TS REAL ESTATE C . 0. 0. 85 -5.8 CM CANADIAN IMPER . -0. 8 -0. 5. G GALA Y DIGIT . 8 . .5 . SES SECURE ENERGY .88 -0. - .5 0 5. 8
TS GLOBAL GOLD I . 5.5 .80 5 05 .5 BTE BAYTE ENERGY . 0. .05 8 . GI GILDAN ACTIVE 5 .50 -0. -0.5 .8 S STELLA JONES I 8 .00 0. 0 0. .5
TS GLOBAL MINING 0. .50 . 80 . PO POWER CORP OF 0. 5 0. 0. 0 80 5. GD -PR-A GLOBAL D 0.05 0.05 0.50 .58 TP TOPAZ ENERGY . 0. . 0 .5
TS INCOME TRUST 5.5 0. 0.0 55 -5.80 TOU TOURMALINE OI . 0.85 . 8 . E CC GLOBAL ALL 0. 0.0 0. 0 . UNI UNISYNC CORP . 0.0 0.58 .
TS PREFERRED SHA 588. 8 .5 0. 8 8. KINROSS GOLD CO 0. 0. .8 . 0 GS GOEASY LTD .0 - .00 -0.5 5 . 8 UNC UNITED CORP L 0. 5 . 0. 8.0
TS COMMUNICATION 55. - . 5 -. - 0.0 BTO B GOLD CORP . 8 0. 0 . - . GTE GRAN TIERRA E . 0 0. 5. 8 8 .80 TG TRA GOLD RES . 8 -0.0 -0. .
TS UTILITIES CAP 8 . -0.0 -0.0 000 0. R ROYAL BANK OF . -0. -0. 0 . AID HEALWELL AI . 0. . 05 .

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CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG
AID HEALWELL AI . 0. . 05 . TGO TERAGO INC . -0. - . 5. ACD ACCORD FINANC .8 -0. 5 - . - .05 MGD MACKENZIE GL 0.08 -0.0 -0.05
CRD CARDIOL THER . 0. 8. 5 5 . GDC GENESIS LAND . -0. - . 5. AIM-PR-A AIMIA IN . 5 -0. 0 - . - 0. MG MAGNA INTERNAT 0.0 -0. -0. 0 8 - .
IE IVANHOE ELECTR .8 . 8 8. 8 0.5 MPC-C MADISON PAC .80 -0. - . 8 - 5. APS APTOSE BIOSCI . -0.0 - . 8 8 - . 8 TP -B MOLSON COOR .50 -0. 0 -0. - 0.
RBA RB GLOBAL INC 08. 0 8. 0 8. 0 .8 OD BETAPRO CRUDE . -0. 8 - . 5 5 - . AG FIRST MAJESTIC 8. 5 0.0 0. 8 - .88 COP-U SPROTT PHYS .50 0. .5 -5.00
G GALA Y DIGIT . 8 . .5 . ET -U ETHER FUND 5 . 8 - .5 - . 5. AU GOLDMONEY INC .55 -0.0 -0. - . TR TRANSAT AT IN . -0.0 - . 8 - 5. 0
E WELL HEALTH . 0. 8 . 0 8.05 MDP MEDE US PHARM . 8 -0. 0 -5. 0 - . 8 B LAURENTIAN BAN . -0. - .0 5 - .
CP COPPERLEAF T 0. 5 0. .0 05 8.05 NPI-PR-A NORTHLAN .8 -0. -5. .5
OU BETAPRO CRUDE .85 0.85 .5 0 . 8 C CANFOR PULP P . -0.0 - . - 0.5
DR ADF GROUP INC .85 .0 . 88 5 . 5 NGE NGE MINERAL .0 -0. - . 80 .5
RN WESTERN COPPE . 0. 0 . - . TSAT TELESAT CORP . 8 -0. 0 - . - 0.
PRN PROFOUND MEDI . 0. . .8 CM-A WILMINGTON . 8 -0. - . - 5.5
GTE GRAN TIERRA E . 0 0. 5. 8 8 .80 MDNA MEDICENNA TH . -0. 0 - . 85 5 .
ESI ENSIGN ENERGY . 0. 5.88 5 .8 III IMPERIAL META . -0.0 - .0 - .
O JOURNEY ENERG . 0. 8 5. 5 - . OM FORAN MINING .0 -0. - .0 08 .0
NEO NEO PERFORMAN . 0. 5. 8 - . ACD ACCORD FINANC .8 -0. 5 - . - .05
PNE PINE CLIFF EN . 0.0 5. 8 - .0 MPC MADISON PAC C 5.50 -0. - . 8 - 8.88
CR CREW ENERGY IN .5 0. 5. 0 8 0. MPCT-UN DREAM IMP . -0. - . - 0.00
ERO ERO COPPER CO 8. . 5. 0 8 5. 0 BIT BITFARMS LTD .8 -0. - . 0 - . 0
GLOBAL ENH 0. .0 5. 0 .5 BIP-PR- BROOKFIE . -0. - .5 .
GAU GALIANO GOLD . 0. 5. 0 8 . D BETAPRO SILVE 8.5 -0. - . 8 0 - . 5

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LARGEST STOCKS BY MARKET CAPITALIZATION

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CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG CHG CHG 000S CHG
AA ADVANTAGE OIL .5 0.0 0. 8 50 5.5 CIGI COLLIERS INT 50. 0 . .5 - 0.08 MP-UN KILLAM APA . 0 -0.0 -0. - .
AOI AFRICA OIL CO . 0.0 . 0.00 CSU CONSTELLATION 8 . 8 8. 0. .80 S KINA IS INC . . .5 0 0. 5 SS SANDSTORM GOL . 0.0 0. 5 .
AEM AGNICO EAGLE 8 . 8 .0 . 0 .58 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE . -0.0 -0. 0 -8. KINROSS GOLD CO 0. 0. .8 . 0 SAP SAPUTO INC .5 -0. -. 55 .
AC AIR CANADA . 0 -0. - .0 005 -5.8 SEA SEABRIDGE GOL 0. 8 0. 5 0. 5 5 5. 5
AGI ALAMOS GOLD I . 0. .05 8 . D DEFINITY FINA .5 -0. -0. 8 5. 0 I LABRADOR IRON 8. -0. -0.8 - . 8 SES SECURE ENERGY .88 -0. - .5 0 5. 8
AST ALGOMA STEEL 0. 0.0 0.8 - . 5 DM DENISON MINES . 0.0 . 5.8 B LAURENTIAN BAN . -0. - .0 5- . S OP SHOPIFY INC 8 .8 .08 . 5 - 5.8
A N ALGON UIN POW 8. 5 -0.0 -0. 5 - .5 DSG DESCARTES SYS . .5 . 8 .0 SPD LIGHTSPEED C 0. 0. . - 5. 8 SIA SIENNA SENIOR .5 0.00 0.00 58 .
ATD ALIMENTATION . - . 0 - . 5 0 5 -0. DO DOLLARAMA INC . 5 -0. -0. 5 . NR LINAMAR CORP . 0 0.5 0. 8 8 8.8 SI SILVERCREST M . 0. .8 8 .
AP-UN ALLIED PROP .50 -0. 0 -. 0 05 - 8. DIR-UN DREAM INDU .5 0.08 0. - 0.0 LOBLAW CO 5 . -. -0. . SLEEP COUNTRY .0 0. 0.8 5.
A A ALTAGAS LTD 0. 0 -0. -0. 8 .0 DPM DUNDEE PRECIO 0. 0. 8 . 8 0 8. UG LUNDIN GOLD I .5 0. . 08 8.08 SRU-UN SMARTCENTR . -0. 0 -0. 5 0 - 0.
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O T
Oilers defenceman Philip roberg skates with the puck during the first period of Game of the Stanley Cup final
at merant ank rena in Sunrise, Fla., on onday. For ar
Canada cric et captain sa s an thing is possi le s winless a istan
NEIL DAVIDSON
C
anada can expect a motiva-
ted Pakistan when they
meet Tuesday at the ICC
Men’s T20 World Cup in suburban
New York.
Winless after two games at the
20-country cricket tournament,
the sixth-ranked Pakistanis need
to beat No. 2 Canada and No. 11
Ireland and get help elsewhere if
they are to progress to the Su-
per-8 stage.
Canada, meanwhile, is buoyed
by its first-ever T20 World Cup
win – a 12-run victory over Ireland
on Friday that followed a seven-
wicket loss to the 18th-ranked
United States in the tournament
opener June 1.
“ verybody’s in a positive
mood. Our last game went re-
ally well,” Canada captain Saad
Bin afar said. “It instilled a belief
in us that if we play good cricket
on the day, we can take down any
opponent.
“I know that we are coming up
against quite a high-ranked and
As Oilers search or tanle Cup rings or er pla er Ti
DONNA SPENCER
everal dmonton Oilers are
trying to win the first Stan-
ley Cup rings of their ca-
reers. sa Tikkanen is getting rid
of his.
The 59-year-old from Helsinki
won four Stanley Cups with the
dmonton Oilers between 1985
and 1990, and another with the
New York Rangers in 1994.
The current Oilers are trying
to win the Stanley Cup for the
franchise’s first time since Tikka-
nen, Mark Messier, Jari Kurri and
company hoisted Lord Stanley’s
trophy in 1990.
Wayne Gretzky was Tikka-
ust out o reach
l ke er s game story go to GLOBESPORTS.COM
resh off Canada’s first ever T20 orld Cup win, captain Saad Bin Zafar
will lead Canada into Tuesday’s match in New Yor against Pa istan,
which is winless through two games. JULIO CORTEZ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
well-experienced team in Pakis-
tan but the reality is lately they
haven’t been playing the good
brand of cricket that they’re
known for. They are under the
pump. They have lost two games.
So if we’re able to play good crick-
nen’s teammate on Cup-winning
teams in 1985, 1987 and 1988 be-
fore Gretzky was traded to Los
Angeles.
Tikkanen has put three of his
four Oilers championship rings
up for sale, as well as his New
York ring.
He’s hanging onto his first
championship ring with the 1985
Oilers, but the rest are on the
auction block.
“The first one, I gave it to my
dad because I said when I started
in the NHL if I win the Stanley
Cup, you’re going to get the first
one’ and I’m never going to sell
that one,” Tikkanen said on
Monday from Finland.
dmonton is duelling the Flor-
[ OILERS VS. PANTHERS ]
JIM RASSOL/REUTERS
et on the day and we’re able to
put some good pressure early on
in the game, anything is possi-
ble.”
The emotions are far different
in cricket-crazy Pakistan.
Pakistan, which won the T20
This is probably the
most significant set of
rings e er to be offered
from the ery important
Oilers dynasty.
MARC UTEAU
CLASSIC AUCTIONS PRESIDENT
O T E GLO E AN
Canadian national team
player Fillier goes o.
in PWH draft B11
World Cup in 2009 and was run-
ner-up to ngland in 2022, is get-
ting roasted back home in the
wake of losses to the U.S. by five
runs in a Super Over and No. 1
India by six runs Sunday .
Pakistan “choked” in the loss
to India was the assessment of
Dawn, a Pakistani nglish-lan-
guage newspaper that has called
it “a horrendous T20 World Cup
for Pakistan.”
“I think I should have a tem-
plate text Disappointed hurt’
automatically set to be posted,”
Shoaib Akhtar, a former Pakistani
international bowler and current
commentator, said in a social-
media post after the India defeat.
The vitriol started after the up-
set loss to the U.S.
“This is not just a defeat, it is a
sorry statement on the mental
strength of our players,” said
Mohsin Khan, a former Pakistan
batsman, selector and interim
coach.
The India-Pakistan game drew
a crowd of 4,028 to Nassau Coun-
ty International Cricket Stadium
in suburban New York and a mas-
anen is selling o so e o his
ida Panthers in the 2024 Cup fi-
nal. Tikkanen says he’s been
pulling late hours in Helsinki
watching his former team chase
hockey glory he knows well.
“ dmonton has to be ready
and score the goals when they
have a chance,” Tikkanen said.
Former Oilers owner Peter
Pocklington and Oilers players
Petr Klima, who died last year,
and Willy Lidstrom have sold
Stanley Cup rings.
Tikkanen’s Rangers ring has
drawn attention as the first from
that 1994 team to be offered for
public sale, said Classic Auctions
president Marc Juteau.
The bidding, which closes
June 25, was up to almost
M AIL | TUESDAY , UN E 11, 202
Holiday rewarding
Celtics for trading for
him in off-season B15
sive worldwide audience. The last
meeting between the two cricket
rivals last fall drew a reported
global audience of 98 million in
India alone.
The Canada-Ireland game
drew an announced crowd of
5,15 to the same venue. With the
temporary Nassau County stadi-
um lacking floodlights, the Cana-
da-Pakistan game there will be
another 10 0 a.m. T start
which is 7 0 p.m. in Karachi .
For the Canadians, who are
staying in Brooklyn, just getting
to the stadium takes 90 minutes
to two hours. afar says the team
will leave the hotel around 7 a.m.
Tuesday.
It’s a journey they have long
waited for, however. Canada-Pa-
kistan games are rare and usually
restricted to world champion-
ships.
“One of the reasons why we so
dearly wanted to qualify for the
World Cup was so that we get an
opportunity to play against some
of these top-tier teams,” afar
said.
CRIC ET, B15
US 28,000 for the Rangers ring
and ranged between US 11,000
and almost US 16,000 for the
Oilers’ versions Monday.
“This is probably the most sig-
nificant set of rings ever to be of-
fered from the very important
Oilers’ dynasty,” Juteau said. “It’s
from a guy that used to play on
the same line as Wayne Gretzky.”
Pocklington’s 1990 Stanley
Cup ring sold for almost
US 85,000, according to Classic
Auctions’ website.
Tikkanen’s been storing his
rings in his shaving kit, and says
his children aren’t interested in
them. Tikkanen says selling four
of five made sense to him.
RINGS, B13
T U E S DAY , U N E 11, 202 | T E GLO E AN
Ne ork takes Canada’s illier
first overall in HL draft
Princeton graduate
described as a
generational player’
OHN A RO
New York filled a necessary need
on offence by selecting Princeton
and Canadian national team for-
ward Sarah Fillier with the first
pick in the Professional Women’s
Hockey League draft on Monday
night.
Regarded by PWHL scouts as a
“generational player,” Fillier is a
three-time Patty Kazmaier col-
lege player of the year finalist. She
graduated with a degree in psychi-
atry and completed her four-year
career at Princeton ranking sixth
on the school list with 9 goals
and fourth with 19 points in 120
games.
Fillier also won gold at the 2022
Beijing Games, where she fin-
ished second in the tournament
with eight goals, and was also a
member of three Canadian world
championship teams.
Fillier, who turned 24 on Sun-
day, was projected to be the No. 1
pick and joins a New York fran-
chise in flux, with Colgate Univer-
sity’s Greg Fargo taking over as
coach after the team went 9-12-
to finish last. Fargo replaces Ho-
wie Draper, who reached a mutual
agreement to stay on as a special
adviser while returning to coach
at the University of Alberta.
“It’s an amazing sports city and
the fans have been amazing this
whole season,” Fillier said. “I went
to school just down the road, so it
feels like a bit of a homecoming to
me and so many friends and
teammates in the New York area.
So it’ll be really exciting to play in
front of them.”
The six-team, seven-round
draft is being held in St. Paul,
Minn., with league co-founder
and tennis icon Billie Jean King
announcing and greeting the se-
lections on stage.
“It’s hard to find words,” Fillier
said of meeting King. “When you
lorida s Verhaeghe eeps scoring goals in tanle Cup inal
STEPHEN HYNO S NRISE LA
ure, Corey Perry is in the
Stanley Cup final for a fourth
time in five years, but he lost
his three previous trips.
Florida’s Carter erhaeghe is
there for a third time in that span
and has a ring to show for it,
from 2020 as a rookie with Tam-
pa Bay.
It’s no coincidence he keeps
scoring big goals for the Panthers
and he appreciates each one be-
cause of his long road to even re-
ach the NHL.
“I always had the drive to kind
of get better, and I knew I had
the talent and I think it just took
a little longer for me,” erhaeghe
said.
“It took a long time to get
here. I think no path is straight,
and I think for me it definitely
hasn’t been straight. I’ve definite-
Ed onton Oilers e er rings
MIC EY D URIC OTTAWA
T
hey’re not all on the same
political team, but mem-
bers of Parliament have
caught the same fever.
Support for the dmonton Oil-
ers in the Stanley Cup final has
swept across the country, includ-
ing on Parliament Hill, where MPs
have put their political differenc-
es aside long enough to reminisce
about the team’s glory days – and
pray for another win.
To accommodate MPs who are
working late, House Speaker Greg
Fergus agreed to open up his of-
fice for a playoff watch party, with
popcorn and refreshments pro-
vided at puck drop.
“Speaker Fergus is cheering for
the Oilers all the way,” said his
spokesman, Mathieu Gravel.
He’s fulfilling a time-honoured
tradition from Speakers who
make sure “the game” is on for
politicians who don’t want to
miss a playoff match – in whatev-
er sport – but are stuck working
late. A few weeks ago, Fergus’s of-
fice also hosted a hockey night for
MPs to watch the Toronto Maple
Leafs in the first round of the NHL
playoffs.
MAIL O
Sarah illier, of Georgetown, Ont., was selected first overall in Monday’s P HL draft by New Yor . illier said she is e cited to play in the New Yor
area, which is close to where she went to school and is home to many friends and teammates. NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS
think of someone like that and of her title on Saturday.
being up on stage and getting to The first Americans to be se-
shake her hand and give her a hug lected were forward Hannah Bil-
was a surreal moment and some- ka, who went fourth to Boston,
thing I’ll remember forever.” followed by defenceman Cayla
Ottawa followed New York by Barnes, picked by Montreal. Bilka,
selecting Colgate and Canadian who is from Texas, and Barnes,
national team forward Danielle from California, were teammates
Serdachny. The 2 -year-old is re- in helping Ohio State win a na-
united with Ottawa coach Carla tional championship in March.
MacLeod who is also from Alberta Toronto capped the first round
and coached the dmonton-born with Canadian national team for-
Serdachny as a youngster. ward Julia Gosling being reunited
Defending champion Minne- with Team Canada GM Gina
sota selected blueliner Claire Kingsbury and coach Troy Ryan.
Thompson with the third pick. New York opened the second
Thompson is a Canadian national round by trading its pick to Bos-
team player who took last season ton, which used the No. 7 selec-
off to focus on her second year at- tion to choose the first uropean –
tending medical school at NYU. Czech Republic defenceman Da-
The pick was made by coach niela Pejsova.
Ken Klee, who is overseeing the “It’s an honour to be even here
draft after the PWHL stripped and experience this in real life.
general manager Natalie Darwitz Yeah, having a good time,” said
Panthers forward Carter Verhaeghe reacts after scoring a goal during
Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final against the Oilers at Amerant Ban
Arena on Saturday in Sunrise, ld. BRUCE BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES
ly been to a lot of different plac- kind of learn from my experi-
es, and everywhere I went I tried ence of where I’ve been and try
to take from that experience and to get better.”
s together in Ottawa
Conservative MP Jeremy Patz-
er, who hails from Saskatchewan,
said he’s cheering for the Oilers to
ALBERTA PREMIER AND take it all the way.
LORIDA GOVERNOR But he’s supposed to be sitting
PLACE AGER ON in the House of Commons on
STANLEY CUP INAL Monday evening – so rather than
duck out to the Speaker’s office,
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith he said he’ll be following game
and lorida Go ernor Ron De updates on his phone.
Santis ha e made a friendly A few weeks ago, the NDP’s
wager on the Stanley Cup final. Heather McPherson found her-
Smith says in a social media self at Toronto Pearson Airport
post that if the lorida Panthers watching the Oilers clinch their
win the hoc ey series, she ll spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs
send some Alberta made whis y as she waited to board her plane
down to lorida. to Ottawa with Conservative MPs.
DeSantis replies that if the “It was kind of funny when we
Edmonton Oilers win, he ll send did win the game and gave the
some lorida rum up to Alberta. high-fives and hugs to members
And, he says, he ll throw in a across the floor,” said McPherson,
ey lime pie, the official state whose family have been long-
pie. time season ticket holders for the
The Oilers are loo ing to e en Oilers.
the best of se en series Monday She said she hoped her late-
night in lorida. night parliamentary committee
The Panthers beat the Oilers on Monday would wrap up early
0 in Saturday s opening game. so she could watch Game 2 of the
THE CANADIAN PRESS final playoff round.
McPherson has painted her
nails orange and blue for the oc-
casion – a colour combination
rarely seen together in the House
of Commons.
Hockey is an important sport
the 21-year-old Pejsova, who has
been playing professionally in
Sweden. “It feels amazing. I can’t
believe that it’s true.”
A PWHL Hockey Operations
scouting report praised Fillier for
her speed and playmaking ability,
while saying “Her game sense
makes her a threat to create scor-
ing in a variety of ways, and will
upgrade a team’s power play im-
mediately.”
New York lacked an offensive
presence beyond U.S. national
team member Alex Carpenter,
who finished tied for second in
the league with 2 points eight
goals, 15 assists . Defenceman lla
Shelton was New York’s only oth-
er player to top 15 points in finish-
ing with 21, including seven goals.
New York was also over reliant
on goaltender of the year finalist
Corinne Schroeder, who finished
erhaeghe seems to be at his
best when it matters most. He
scored the first and eventual
winning goal in Game 1 against
the dmonton Oilers on Satur-
day night, his team-leading 10th
of the playoffs.
“He is definitely an elite play-
er, he has elite speed and goal-
scoring ability and he works on it
every single day,” captain Alek-
sander Barkov said.
“He has a goal-scoring mind-
set where he wants to shoot the
puck, and he knows how to
shoot it. He’s been working on it
every single day. That’s why he’s
had success.”
Coach Paul Maurice, whose
1,849 regular-season games are
the second only to Hall of Famer
Scotty Bowman, admires the dif-
ficult path it took erhaeghe to
get here. A 201 third-round pick
of his hometown Toronto Maple
Leafs, he spent four seasons
in Canada, and it has the power to
bring together even the most bit-
ter of political enemies, McPher-
son said.
“I think it’s an opportunity for
us all to remember that we’re all
people doing a job, and working
hard, and even if we’re not on the
same political team, we can be on
the same sports team,” McPher-
son said.
mployment Minister Randy
Boissonnault represents the rid-
ing at the heart of Oiler Nation
dmonton Centre.
“ dmonton is a special place.
It’s even more special when the
dmonton Oilers are in a Stanley
Cup final,” Boissonnault said.
Walking into the House on
Monday, he donned an Oilers pin
from the 1980s that belonged to
his father.
He said his dad wore it when
the team won five Stanley Cups
between 1984 and 1990, thanks to
stars including Wayne Gretzky,
Mark Messier, Jari Kurri, Glenn
Anderson and Grant Fuhr.
“I was watching as a teenager
during the eighties,” said Boisso-
nault, who recounted the city
coming alive whenever the Oilers
made it to the final.
This year, the minister said he
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7-7 while facing 511 shots – the
third-most in the league.
The franchise also had difficul-
ty making a dent in the New York
market, in part because of split-
ting its home games between
three sites – Bridgeport, Conn.
Long Island and Newark, N.J.
“If you look at the talent New
York has, I think they’ve built a re-
ally solid foundation,” Fillier said.
“I’m excited to help build that sol-
id foundation. And Greg Fargo’s
been a tremendous coach. I’ve
played against him for four years
in the CAC, and he’s always a
tough coach to play against.”
Fillier is coming off a career-
best 0-goal season in which she
adapted her style to be more of a
shooting threat to lead a young Ti-
gers team in transition.
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bouncing around the minors be-
tween the American Hockey
League and the CHL.
Skating was an issue, so he
worked on that and took it from
a weakness to a strength. er-
haeghe improved it to the point
that he made his NHL debut with
the Lightning in 2019.
Since then, he has 169 points
in 0 regular-season games and
52 in 6 in the playoffs.
“He is an unusual performer,
that man,” Maurice said. “He is
so good in the most intense and
almost chaotic play. He can raise
that level.”
It did not come naturally. er-
haeghe was drafted as a play-
making centre and is now a scor-
ing winger.
“I had to figure out my game a
little bit,” he said. “I had to
evolve.”
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subscribed to Sportsnet to ensure
he doesn’t miss a minute of the
game while he’s in Ottawa.
And everywhere he goes, so
does his custom dmonton Oilers
jersey.
“It’ll be with me until the Cup
comes back to Canada,” he said
Monday, noting his Liberal cau-
cus has rallied around Team d-
monton.
“Oilers in six,” he said, before
walking into the Commons for
Question Period.
Seeing the Oilers in the final al-
so brought nostalgia to Deputy
Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.
She said her aunt got the entire
family Oilers jerseys.
While her riding is in Toronto,
Freeland left no doubt as to what
team she’s rooting for.
“I’m definitely cheering for the
Oilers. My whole family is cheer-
ing for the Oilers,” she said Mon-
day, leaving a news conference.
“As a proud daughter, not just
of Alberta, but Northern Alberta,
and as a woman who grew up in
the heyday of Wayne Gretzky’s
Oilers and cried when he left Go
Oilers You are truly Canada’s
team.”
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CANADA SOCCER RE EALS [ BLUE AYS VS. BRE ERS ]

CANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIP
SEMI FINAL DATES

Fans will have to wait to see who

makes it to the final of the Cana-
dian Championship.
That’s because there will be an
almost seven-week delay be-
tween the first and second legs of
the soccer cup semi-finals.
The semi-final draw was held
May 29 at halftime of Pacific FC’s
2-1 aggregate win over Atletico
Ottawa in the second leg of their
quarter-final in Langford, B.C.
But the dates for the semi-finals
– July 10 and Aug. 27 – were not
released until Monday.
Forge FC will host the opening
leg of its series with Toronto FC
on July 10 at Tim Hortons Field
with the return leg Aug. 27 at
BMO Field. The dates remain the
same for the other semi-final
with Pacific FC entertaining the
defending champion ancouver
Whitecaps in the first leg at
Starlight Stadium with the re-
match at BC Place Stadium.
The Pacific-Whitecaps winner
will host the one-game final in
late September.
Pacific and ancouver have
met in the cup competition twice
before. Pacific defeated the
Whitecaps 4- in the preliminary
round of the 2021 tournament.
ancouver won -0 when they
met in last year’s semi-final.
Toronto defeated Forge by a
penalty shootout in the pandem-
ic-delayed 2020 championship
game, which was actually played
in June, 2022.
The winner of the 14-team
Canadian Championship hoists ringing the heat
the oyageurs Cup, collects
50,000 from Canada Soccer in
prize money and qualifies for the lue ays starter os err os throws a pitch in the first inning against the rewers at
CONCACAF Champions Cup, the
confederation’s elite men’s club
merican Family Field on onday in ilwaukee. For the game story go to GLOBESPORTS.COM
competition. Toronto has won
the competition eight times with
five cup wins for ancouver and
three for CF Montreal. JOHN ISHER/GETTY IMAGES
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(Best-of-7) — All Times Eastern EAST DIVISION EAST DIVISION Selections Monday from the 2024 Pro- Miami 18 10 3 5 42 27 35
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Edmonton at Florida Minnesota 83 Seattle 64 Boston 33 33 .500 12 / 1
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2 FIRST ROUND Toronto 17 7 7 3 26 26 25
Florida at Edmonton, 8 p.m. Tampa Bay 31 35 .470 14 / 1
2 Miami 22 43 .338 23 1. New York, Sarah Fillier, F, Princeton Columbus 14 6 2 6 21 13 24
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gate University (NCAA) D.C. 17 4 6 7 25 31 19
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3. Minnesota, Claire Thompson, D, Orlando 16 4 7 5 16 24 17
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NBA PLAYOFFS Oakland 26 41 .388 11 Arizona 31 35 .470 9/

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7. Boston (from New York), Daniela Pe-
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Calgary 110 Winnipeg 78 8. Ottawa, Ronja Savolainen, D, Lulea L.A. Galaxy 17 7 3 7 31 25 28
(Best-of-7) — All Times Eastern Baltimore 5, Tampa Bay 2
Niagara 100 Edmonton 79 Colorado at Minnesota HF (Sweden) Vancouver 16 7 5 4 24 19 25
BOSTON (E1) VS. DALLAS (W5) Colorado at Minnesota Toronto at Milwaukee Austin 17 6 6 5 21 25 23
9. Minnesota, Britta Curl, F, University
(Boston leads series 2-0) Tuesday N.Y. Yankees at Kansas City Oakland at San Diego Houston 16 6 6 4 18 18 22
of Wisconsin (NCAA)
Sunday All Times Eastern Toronto at Milwaukee Houston at San Francisco Colorado 17 6 7 4 29 31 22
10. New York (from Boston), Maja
Boston 105 Dallas 98 Montreal at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Seattle Portland 18 5 7 6 32 32 21
Nylen Persson, D, Brynas IF (Sweden)
Wednesday Oakland at San Diego Sunday St. Louis 16 3 4 9 23 25 18
11. Montreal, Jennifer Gardiner, F, Ohio
Boston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Wednesday Houston at San Francisco Seattle 17 4 7 6 20 21 18
State University (NCAA)
Friday, June 14 Brampton at Saskatchewan, 9:30 p.m. Dallas 16 3 8 5 18 25 14
N.Y. Mets 6, Philadelphia 5 12. Toronto, Megan Carter, D, North-
Boston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Sunday Kansas City 17 3 9 5 25 32 14
Texas 7, San Francisco 2 eastern University (NCAA)
Monday, June 17 Thursday San Jose 16 3 11 2 24 39 11
Detroit 10, Milwaukee 2 THIRD ROUND
x-Dallas at Boston, 8:30 p.m. Niagara at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Texas 7, San Francisco 2 Friday
Cleveland 6, Miami 3 13. New York, Noora Tulus, F, Lulea HF
x — played only if necessary Ottawa at Scarborough, 8 p.m. Detroit 10, Milwaukee 2 All Times Eastern
Washington 8, Atlanta 5 (Sweden)
Winnipeg at Vancouver, 10:30 p.m. Cleveland 6, Miami 3 Columbus at New York City F.C., 7:30
Chicago Cubs 4, Cincinnati 2 14. Ottawa, Gwyneth Philips, G, North-
Baltimore 9, Tampa Bay 2 p.m.
CFL ATP WORLD TOUR Minnesota 11, Pittsburgh 5, 10 innings St. Louis 5, Colorado 1 eastern University (NCAA)
Minnesota 11, Pittsburgh 5, 10 innings 15. Minnesota, Klara Hymlarova, F, St.
Seattle 6, Kansas City 5, 10 innings
WEEK ONE BOSS OPEN Boston 6, Chicago White Sox 4, 10 in- Arizona 9, San Diego 3 Cloud University (NCAA) CPL
16. New York (from Boston), Allyson
nings N.Y. Yankees 6, L.A. Dodgers 4 GP W L T GF GA Pt
Bye: Ottawa Simpson, D, Colgate University (NCAA)
Monday Toronto 6, Oakland 4, 10 innings Ottawa 9 6 0 3 17 6 21
Sunday 17. Montreal, Abigail Boreen, F, Minne-
At Stuttgart, Germany L.A. Angels 9, Houston 7 Tuesday Vancouver 9 4 3 2 14 14 14
Toronto 35 British Columbia 27 sota (PWHL)
SINGLES — ROUND OF 32 N.Y. Yankees 6, L.A. Dodgers 4 All TImes Eastern Hamilton 8 4 3 1 11 8 13
18. Toronto, Izzy Daniel, F, Cornell Uni-
Jack Draper (6), Britain, def. Sebastian versity (NCAA) Victoria 9 3 2 4 7 4 13
Saturday Tuesday Atlanta (Fried 6-2) at Baltimore (TBD),
Ofner, Austria, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5). FOURTH ROUND Calgary 9 2 1 6 11 9 12
Saskatchewan 29 Edmonton 21 All Times Eastern 6:35 p.m.
Dominik Koepfer, Germany, def. Zhang 19. New York, Gabby Rosenthal, F, York 9 3 4 2 13 16 11
Zhizhen, China, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6). Washington (Parker 4-3) at Detroit Ohio State University (NCAA) Winnipeg 9 2 6 1 8 17 7
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20. Ottawa, Stephanie Markowski, D,
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Winnipeg at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Taillon 3-2) at Tampa Bay Ottawa 2 Winnipeg 0
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Friday, June 14 Sadio Doumbia and Theo Arribage, Cleveland (McKenzie 2-3) at Cincinnati
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Montreal at Edmonton, 9 p.m. France, def. Marcos Giron, United States, (TBD), 7:10 p.m.
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Veteran Care starts strong as an Argonaut
unning back’s
yards from
scrimmage included
a touchdown catch in
Week win over ions
DAN RALPH TORONTO
I
t didn’t take Ka’Deem Carey
long to fit into the Toronto Ar-
gonauts’ offence.
The veteran running back ac-
cumulated 105 yards from scrim-
mage Sunday night in Toronto’s
season-opening 5-27 home win
over B.C. Carey rushed for 65
yards on 16 carries 4.1-yard aver-
age and added four catches for
40 yards and a touchdown as the
Argos ran for 120 yards overall on
26 carries.
It was a solid debut for Carey,
who signed with Toronto this off-
season after being released by the
Calgary Stampeders.
“That’s why we brought him
in,” said head coach Ryan Dinwid-
die, who is also Toronto’s offen-
sive co-ordinator. “A lot of people
bet against Ka’Deem.
“Our running game is going to
be exactly what it was last year.
He’s a good player.”
Toronto averaged 11 .7 yards
rushing a game in 202 , fourth-
best in the CFL. A.J. Ouellette
1,009 yards, eight TDs anchored
that ground attack but signed
with the Saskatchewan Roughrid-
ers in free agency.
Carey led the CFL in rushing
yards 1,088 and TDs 10 in 2022
while adding 28 catches for 248
inner loo s ahead to su er o success
a ter o ing up to No in AT ran ings
HO ARD ENDRICH PARIS
A
s pleased as Jannik Sinner
was to make his debut at
No. 1 in the ATP rankings
on Monday, he already was look-
ing ahead to what comes next.
So no big party to mark the sig-
nificance of the occasion
“Look, not really,” Sinner said
with a chuckle in a video inter-
view with the Associated Press
from his home base of Monte Car-
lo. “I am in the middle of the sea-
son. There are very important
tournaments coming up – there is
Wimbledon. It’s a great achieve-
ment, which I am going to cele-
brate with my loved ones, for
sure, at some point. Obviously ve-
ry happy it’s a dream come true.
But in other ways, now new chal-
lenges are coming up.”
The 22-year-old Sinner, who re-
placed the injured Novak Djokov-
ic atop the ATP, is the first player
from Italy to reach No. 1 since
computerized rankings began in
197 . Sinner will be the top-seed-
ed man at the All ngland Club,
where play begins July 1.
He figures his new status,
along with his first Grand Slam
trophy – from the Australian
Open in January – mean oppo-
nents view him differently.
“They don’t have nothing to
lose anymore against me, and I
have everything to lose, but this is
the exciting part. And I like that.
You have to work on having
new solutions on the court, and
this is going to be hopefully my
next step,” Sinner said. “Trying to
prepare myself in a way of being
more unpredictable on court.
This is what I want to learn in the
next months.”
He is - in 2024 with three ti-
tles.
“In the beginning of the year,
we said, We are going hunting,
and then we’ll see what we can
catch.’ And this now is still the
same,” Sinner said. “ very tour-
nament is a great opportunity to
show something new and to
show, also, the will to win as
much as we can. But you don’t
forget, also, the process. If you
ings Eighties Oilers won i e Cups in se en ears
ROM B10
“They are special, but everybody
knows I won five Stanley Cups.
The rest of the rings have been
sitting 0 years in my bag and
never fitting my fingers any
more,” he explained. “Why not
So many players have been
selling theirs already. They’re
wasting time in my bag. Hopeful-
ly somebody, an dmonton
Oilers or Rangers fan, buys
them.”
The former forward denies the
sale of the rings is related to re-
MAIL O
Running bac a’Deem Carey celebrates after scoring a touchdown during the Argonauts’ 35 2 victory
over the B.C. Lions on Sunday night in Toronto. KE IN SOUSA/USA TODAY SPORTS
yards in 14 regular-season games.
Injuries limited Carey to nine
contests last season as he ran for
476 yards on 89 carries 5. -yard
average with 21 receptions for
156 yards.
Carey’s seamless transition
shouldn’t come as a big surprise.
The 5-foot-9, 206-pound Carey is
cut from the same cloth as Ouel-
lette 5 foot 9, 210 pounds and a
Toronto offensive line that al-
lowed a CFL-low 19 sacks last year
anni Sinner plays a forehand during his loss to Carlos Alcara in the
rench Open semi final in Paris on riday. Two of Sinner’s three losses
in 202 have been at the hands of Alcara . DAN ISTITENE/GETTY IMAGES
want to become a better tennis
player, sometimes you have to
miss. Sometimes you have to
lose.”
Two of his three defeats came
against Carlos Alcaraz, the 21-
year-old from Spain with whom
Sinner is developing quite a rival-
ry. One loss came Friday in five
sets in the semi-finals at the
French Open, which Alcaraz went
on to win by beating Alexander
verev on Sunday.
“I hope he and I keep playing
each other for the next 10 years,”
Alcaraz said about Sinner. “He
makes me a better player. He
makes me wake up in the morn-
ing and try to improve.”
Alcaraz’s third major title
moved him up one place to No. 2,
with Djokovic and verev next.
Djokovic was the defending
champion in Paris and needed to
return to the final to stay at No. 1
because of a lack of play this year
and failure to reach a title match
anywhere. He tore the meniscus
in his right knee during a victory
last week, withdrew before the
quarter-finals and had surgery.
It’s unclear how long the 24-time
major champion will be side-
lined.
“I hope that Novak comes back
as soon as possible. Hopefully he
can, somehow, play Wimbledon,”
ports in Finnish media last year
of his tax dispute with the Finn-
ish government.
“No, no, nothing. I was talking
to Marc about selling my rings
before that,” Tikkanen said.
NHL teams have won back-to-
back Stanley Cups in the past 4
years, but no team has been as
dynastic since the Oilers claimed
five in seven years between 1984
and 1990.
“I played there eight years and
won four Stanley Cups with
them,” Tikkanen said. “We had
great teams with the dmonton
has returned intact.
“I’ve always believed in my-
self,” Carey said. “This opportuni-
ty playing behind this line, the
talent I’ve got around me, it’s easy
to show my talent and shine a lit-
tle bit.
“I took some hits now, but I feel
excellent. It felt great to see how
big those holes were. They gave
me so much room that I can show
my abilities and make people
miss. I’m excited to keep running
said Sinner, eliminated by Djo-
kovic there each of the past two
years, “because it would be a
tough loss for Wimbledon not
having him.”
Iga Swiatek’s third consecutive
championship at Roland Garros –
her fourth in five years in Paris
and fifth major overall – in-
creased what already was a large
lead as the WTA’s No. 1.
Coco Gauff climbed to a career-
high No. 2. The 20-year-old Amer-
ican, last year’s U.S. Open cham-
pion, reached the French Open
singles semi-finals before losing
to Swiatek and won her first Slam
doubles title, teaming with Kate-
rina Siniakova.
Aryna Sabalenka swapped
places with Gauff and is No. , fol-
lowed by 2022 Wimbledon win-
ner lena Rybakina.
Jasmine Paolini, a 28-year-old
Italian who lost to Swiatek on Sat-
urday in her first major final,
jumped to a career-best No. 7, her
first time in the top 10. Paolini
was No. 15 before the French
Open.
Paolini and Sinner gave Italy a
semi-finalist in both women’s
and men’s singles during the
same Grand Slam tournament for
the first time.
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Oilers with Wayne Gretzky, Jari
Kurri, myself, Mark Messier,
Glenn Anderson, Paul Coffey,
Grant Fuhr, Kevin Lowe and Ran-
dy Gregg, we had a great team all
around.”
Tikkanen made his NHL debut
during the 1985 playoffs. He re-
tired in 1999 after 14 seasons.
He was also a prolific playoff
producer. Tikkanen’s 72 career
postseason goals is tied for 16th
all time with current Washington
Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin.
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R EPORT ON SINESS | B 13
show everybody who I can be.”
Carey appeared in 44 regular-
season games with Calgary 2018-
19, 2021-2 , running for 2,855
yards and 19 TDs. He also regis-
tered 90 receptions for 7 2 yards
and one touchdown.
Carey was a 2014 fourth-round
pick of the Chicago after his col-
lege career at Arizona. He ap-
peared in 7 regular-season
games over three NFL seasons,
rushing for 44 yards four-yard
average and two TDs while add-
ing 1 catches for 1 1 yards and a
touchdown.
Carey was a two-time all-
American 2012-1 and the
Pac-12’s top player 201 at Arizo-
na. He ran for 4,2 9 yards and 48
TDs in 6 collegiate games.
Carey’s touchdown Sunday
was his first since 2022. It was the
second receiving touchdown in
Carey’s CFL career and first since
2019.
“I got the monkey off my back,
we can say that,” he said. “It was
already a different start, a differ-
ent vibe out here, just a different
me.
“I’m just excited to be on this
team and just keep winning. It
feels good to win.”
behind those men.” And that will be the focus June
After being released, Carey 22 when Toronto resumes action
expectedly said he has something hosting the dmonton lks and
to prove this year. But the 1-year- former Argos quarterback McLe-
old from Arizona added he al- od Bethel-Thompson.
ways feels that way. “That’s the attitude,” he said.
“ very day I step out here I’ve “We’ve got one down and we’re
got a lot to prove,” he said. “I don’t looking at 17 more to go.
really care about the media too “This team was real close last
much. year and I’m just trying to be that
“I didn’t hear too much this off- finishing piece.”
season about me but we can keep
it that way. I’m just excited to THE CANADIAN PRESS
Sports in brief
ALENCIA FANS GI EN EIGHT MONTH SENTENCES
AFTER RACIST INSULTS AGAINST IN CIUS J NIOR
MADRID Three alencia fans have been handed eight-month
prison sentences after pleading guilty to racially insulting
Real Madrid forward in cius J nior in the first conviction
for racism-related cases in professional soccer in Spain. The
fans won’t be allowed to enter soccer stadiums for two years
and will have to pay for all the court proceedings. The fans
were detained after a Spanish league match between Real
Madrid and alencia at Mestalla Stadium in May of 202 .
The match was briefly stopped after in cius was insulted.
alencia had already banned the fans from Mestalla.
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HURLE TURNS DO N OFFER TO JOIN LA ERS
AS HEAD COACH, ILL RETURN TO UCONN
Dan Hurley is staying at Connecticut and has decided to
turn down an offer to take over the Los Angeles Lakers,
ending several days of speculation about his future and
meaning he will try to guide the Huskies to a third consec-
utive NCAA championship. “Our M P Coach is staying in
CT,” Governor Ned Lamont posted on social media. SPN
first reported Hurley’s decision on Monday, plus was first to
report last week that he had emerged as a serious candidate
for the Lakers’ job. Hurley met with Lakers officials on
Friday, then spent the weekend weighing his options.
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SHANIA T AIN, OUR LAD PEACE TO PERFORM
IN EDMONTON AHEAD OF STANLE CUP GAMES
EDMONTON Two of the biggest musical acts in Canadian
history will be backing the dmonton Oilers and entertain-
ing their fans during the Stanley Cup final. Five-time Gram-
my winner Shania Twain and four-time Juno Award-win-
ning rock band Our Lady Peace will headline free musical
performances as part of the Rogers Festival at the Final
outside dmonton’s Rogers Place for Games and 4. Our
Lady Peace will perform for fans before the series’ third
game on Thursday. Twain will be the featured performer
before Game 4 on Saturday. THE CANADIAN PRESS
STEELERS SIGN COACH TOMLIN TO THREE EAR DEAL
PITTSBURGH The NFL’s longest-tenured head coach isn’t
leaving Pittsburgh any time soon. The Steelers signed Mike
Tomlin to a three-year extension on Monday that will carry
through at least the 2027 season. Tomlin was about to enter
the final year of the deal he agreed to in April of 2021. The
52-year-old Tomlin is 17 -100-2 since taking over for Hall of
Famer Bill Cowher in 2007. Pittsburgh is coming off an
eventful 10-7 season that ended with a first-round playoff
loss to Buffalo.
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SALT LA E CIT OL MPIC BID PROJECTS BILLION
IN TOTAL COSTS TO STAGE INTER GAMES
Organizers for the proposed 20 4 Winter Olympics in Salt
Lake City released their first budget estimate Monday,
projecting total costs of just under US 4-billion, with
US 2.84-billion of that slated for operational costs. The
committee said even though there will be 40 per cent more
events than the last time Salt Lake City hosted the Olym-
pics, the number for operational costs for 20 4 is 1 per cent
lower than that for 2002 when adjusted for inflation. The
IOC will study the numbers later this month and is expected
to officially award the 20 4 Games to Utah’s capital at a
meeting on July 24 in the lead-up to the Paris Olympics.
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SCOTT IN POSITION TO GET INTO U.S. OPEN THROUGH
ORLD RAN ING, E TEND MAJORS STREA TO
PINEHURST, N.C. Adam Scott is going to make the U.S. Open
field after all, keeping his major championship streak alive.
Days after losing a playoff in a qualifier Monday in Colum-
bus, Ohio, Scott was in position Sunday to get a spot from
the world ranking to play at Pinehurst No. 2 and extend his
major streak to 92. The top 60 in the ranking get spots at
Pinehurst in the major that begins Thursday. Although
Scott was expected to drop from 60th to 61st in the ranking
Monday, he would still get in at No. 61 because the late
Grayson Murray is still ranked. Murray, who died by suicide
May 25, was No. 61, and given the rolling two-year formula,
he could climb back into the top 60. Scott has played in
every major since the 2001 British Open. The 4 -year-old
Australian won the 201 Masters.
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olida ul illing e pectations as
Celtics close in on cha pionship
ersatile veteran
point guard proving
vital in Finals after
oining oston as part of
bold off-season revamp
YLE HIGHTO ER BOSTON
T
his moment is exactly why
the Boston Celtics went out
and got Jrue Holiday.
When president of basketball
operations Brad Stevens and the
rest of the front office sat down
after last season to piece together
their next steps after Boston’s
astern Conference finals loss to
Miami, a question hovered over
them.
How much were they willing to
shake up the core of a team that
had lost in the NBA Finals in 2022
and then came up a game short of
returning the following season
In the end they opted to swing
big, trading long-time point
guard Marcus Smart as part of the
deal that netted seven-footer
Kristaps Porzingis. Then, after
Milwaukee traded Holiday to Por-
tland to get Damian Lillard, the
Celtics pounced, dealing former
NBA Sixth Man of the Year Mal-
colm Brogdon and big man Rob-
ert Williams III to get Holiday.
The bold moves have proven
to be exactly what the Celtics
needed, helping produce a 64-
win regular season, a romp
through the first three rounds of
the playoffs and a 2-0 lead over
the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA
Finals.
For the defensive-minded Ho-
liday, whose defence limited Ky-
rie Irving, combined with a 26-
point, 11-rebound effort helped
Boston salvage its 105-98 Game 2
victory, it’s the latest example
that Holiday is where he is meant
to be.
“I think that this is what was
supposed to happen. And I’m
glad that I’m here and I’m glad
that I’m in this moment,” Holiday
said prior to the start of the Finals.
“ Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla
has talked about that a lot, espe-
cially this season is being in the
moment, and that’s what I’ve
tried to do.”
Part of what’s made Holiday so
effective for the Celtics is the -
year-old’s willingness to adapt his
eteran orld champion Simoneau named to
Canada’s artistic s im team for aris lympics
MONTREAL
World champion Jacqueline Si-
moneau will lead Canada’s artis-
tic swim team into this summer’s
Paris Games as it seeks its first
Olympic medal in 24 years.
The 27-year-old from Saint-
Laurent, Que., was named to Can-
ada Artistic Swimming’s nine-
athlete roster on Monday.
Simoneau will head into her
third Olympic Games on a roll.
She helped Canada qualify for the
Olympic team and duet events in
February at the world aquatic
championships in Doha, Qatar.
She also won gold in the wom-
en’s solo free and silver in the
technical in Doha. Solo competi-
tions are not included in the 2024
Olympic program.
Montreal’s Audrey Lamothe,
who teamed with Simoneau at
the world championships, was al-
Cricket a ar sa s attention at
World Cup has een a a ing
ROM B10
In 50-over play, Canada lost to Pa-
kistan by 46 runs at the 2011 ICC
World Cup and eight wickets at
the 1979 World Cup. Pakistan
won by 5 runs when they met in
2008 in a T20 match in King City,
Ont.
And while afar has Pakistan
heritage, the 7-year-old from
Brampton, Ont., says Tuesday’s
match is all about wearing Cana-
dian colours.
“I was born in Pakistan so that
element is there but at the end of
the day I’m Canadian and I’m
proud to represent Canada and
proud to lead Canada,” said afar,
who came to Canada at 17.
“I just want to go and beat
them as I badly as I would want to
go and beat any other opponents
playing for Canada,” he added.
afar and Canada head to Flor-
ida after Tuesday’s match to face
rue Holiday gets to the rim during Game 2 of the NBA inals on Sunday
in Boston. Holiday had 26 points as the Celtics too a 2 0 series lead with
a 105 8 win over the Dallas Maveric s. PETER CASEY/USA TODAY SPORTS
game to fill whatever his team has
needed this season.
A No. scoring option in Mil-
waukee behind Giannis Anteto-
kounmpo and Khris Middleton
during the Bucks’ 2020-21 cham-
pionship season, Holiday has ac-
cepted being the fourth or fifth
option in Boston. His 12.5-points-
per-game average this regular
season was the lowest since his
rookie season.
But there have been times,
such as in Game 2, when Dallas
doubled up on all-star Jayson Ta-
tum, put more pressure on Jaylen
Brown or Porzingis struggled,
when Holiday had to increase his
output.
He’s done it, while maintain-
ing intensity on the defensive end
this season. He was selected to
the NBA All-Defensive second
team. It was the sixth time he was
picked for the first or second
team in his career.
Holiday believes it’s a byprod-
uct of the collective unity the
team has been building through-
out the season.
“I think when you sacrifice to-
gether and you do something to-
gether, it brings you closer,” he
said. “I think being able to go
through wins and losses and to
build something, it means a lot.
From roster spots one to 15,
somebody’s sacrificed some-
thing.”
Part of what’s helped ease Holi-
day’s transition to Boston has
been the familiarity he already
had with Tatum, with whom he
played alongside on the 2020 U.S.
Olympic basketball team that
so named to the team.
The other members are Toron-
to’s Scarlett Finn, Calgary’s Jonnie
Newman, Raphaelle Plante of
Quebec City, Regina’s Kenzie Prid-
dell, Claire Scheffel of Brantford,
Ont., and Florence Tremblay of Ri-
mouski, Que. Regina’s Sydney
Carroll was named a travelling al-
ternate.
“Competing in Paris, a city with
such rich sporting history, will be
incredibly inspiring,” Simoneau
said in a statement. “As I approach
my third Olympic Games, I am fil-
led with gratitude for everyone
who has supported me along this
journey and for the opportunity
to share this experience with an
incredible, unified team.”
Simoneau returned to compe-
tition in 202 after a brief retire-
ment to follow the Tokyo Olym-
pics in 2021.
She has formed a successful
tandem with Lamothe, who will
India at Central Broward Park
Broward County Stadium in Lau-
derhill.
afar, who made his Canadian
debut in 2008, says the attention
Canada has already garnered on
the world stage has been gratify-
ing.
“It’s been watched by a mas-
sive audience from all over the
world. There are legends of the
game who are now doing techni-
cal analysis and reviews of the
game. And then you see them
speaking about Canadian cricket
and how well we’ve played in the
past two games. It’s a surreal feel-
ing for some of us that some of
our heroes are talking and com-
menting about our games.
“It has been an amazing, joyful
experience so far. And we hope to
make more memories in the next
two games as well.”
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captured the gold medal during
the Olympics in Tokyo.
It’s allowed Holiday to play to
his strengths, most notably his
ability to bring a measure of calm
to the court in Mazzulla’s con-
trolled chaos.
Holiday’s also been able to pro-
vide stability in crunch time for a
team that in recent playoff runs
sometimes wilted in those mo-
ments, often trying to lean on
one-on-one play or committing
turnovers.
And while a player such as
Smart was a dominant alpha on
the court, Holiday knows what
it’s like to play alongside a star
such as Antetokounmpo.
Asked to imagine what posi-
tion the Celtics might be in with-
out Holiday on the roster, Tatum
didn’t want to entertain the
thought.
“Good thing we don’t have to
find out,” he said.
No matter what happens over
the remainder of the Finals, this
won’t be a one season-and-done
stop for Holiday, who signed a
four-year extension in April.
“From here on it’s like – I’m
supposed to be here,” Holiday
said. “And I’m supposed to be
with my teammates. And we’re
supposed to do this together.”
But there’s only one way he’ll
feel as if his arrival in Boston can
be deemed a success.
“It’s been great and the jour-
ney’s been awesome, but at the
end of the day, the job is not
done,” he said.
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make her Olympic debut. this
summer They won bronze in both
the duet technical and duet free
programs at the Paris World Cup,
and followed that up with two sil-
ver medals at a World Cup stop in
Markham, Ont.
Canada also won silver in the
team free routine in Markham
with the highest degree of difficul-
ty in the field.
Also Monday, Swimming Cana-
da announced the artistic swim-
ming team has been granted a
bursary of 80,000 to be split
among the athletes from the Can-
adian Olympic Foundation’s
“Great to Gold” initiative.
Canada has won eight Olympic
medals three gold, four silver,
one bronze in artistic swimming,
with the most recent a bronze in
the team event at the 2000 Sydney
Games.
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BrennAn. PApA, As we cAlled him, wAs the center of our world, As we were of
his. FAmily wAs everything to our dAd And we enjoyed the love And wArmth
of being very close. He would cAll us every dAy to get the lAtest news, And
most importAntly, to tell us All how proud he wAs of us And how much he
loved us. After the loss of our mother, his beloved wife, KAren, we were
All so AmAzed by how he continued to hAve A positive outlook on life. He
AlwAys hAd A smile on his fAce And A twinkle in his eye. He wAs An AmAzing
husbAnd, fAther, grAndfAther And friend. There wAs nothing he wouldn’t do
for the people he loved.
PApA pAssed AwAy unexpectedly on ThursdAy, June 6th, At the Age of 86.
He wAs surrounded by his fAmily And listening to his fAvorite music, As he
took his lAst breAth. We will miss him forever but find comfort in knowing
thAt he And our mother Are reunited in heAven, together AgAin As they were
meAnt to be.
JAck is survived by his dAughters, TrAcy (Eric) And HeAther (Pierre); his
grAndchildren, TAylor, Kelly, GrAce And JAck; And his siblings, Peter, MArgAret
And ThomAs.
JAck wAs born in New York City on August 27, 1937, to Anne And John
BrennAn, And wAs the eldest of nine children. He mArried the love of his
life, KAren (Fick), in ChicAgo in 1966, And they enjoyed 57 hAppy yeArs of
mArriAge until her deAth in 2021. They moved to MontreAl in 1967, where
he enjoyed A successful cAreer As An entrepreneur. He wAs known for his
business Acumen, negotiAtion skills And most importAntly, his ethics.
JAck And his fAmily enjoyed over 40 yeArs At his beloved LAc MArois in St.
Anne des LAcs, Quebec, where he mAde A number of lifelong friends. He
spent summers supporting the LAc MArois Country Club, where he wAs often
seen with his tool belt mAking repAirs Around the club. After his retirement,
JAck And KAren spent their summers At the lAke And their winters in FloridA
At the QuAil Ridge Country Club. JAck wAs Actively involved At QuAil Ridge,
serving As A resident governor for his community for more thAn A decAde.
VisitAtion will be held At the Mount RoyAl FunerAl Complex, 1297 Foret Rd.,
Outremont, on MondAy, June 24th, from 4:00-6:30 p.m. A funerAl service
will be held At St. PAtrick’s BAsilicA, 460 Rene Levesque BoulevArd West, on
TuesdAy, June 25th, At 1:30 p.m., followed by A 4:00 p.m. reception At The
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her sons, MAtthew (Monique),
And Miles (Emily); And the
grAndchildren whom she Adored,
MAx, Theodore And BeAtrice.
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worker, And vocAtionAl And school
psychologist, she wAs industrious,
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her mAny friends, generous And
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void thAt cAn never be filled.
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SIGMUND ROLAT

BUSINESS PERSON, 3

O OCA T VIVO ED WEA T

TO O OTE EWI I TO IN O AND
He donated millions of dollars to pro ects in his homeland including the Polin useum of the History of Polish ews in Warsaw

RICHARD SANDOMIR a ghetto in Czestochowa.

igmund Rolat, a Polish Holo-
caust survivor who tapped
the wealth he accumulated
as a business person in the Unit-
ed States to support cultural pro-
jects in his homeland, most no-
tably a museum devoted to the
history of Jews in Poland that
stands on the grounds of the
Warsaw Ghetto, died May 19 at
his home in Alpine, N.J. He was
9 .
His son, Geoffrey, confirmed
the death.
Mr. Rolat believed that except
for the dark chapter of the Sec-
ond World War, with Nazi atroc-
ities at concentration camps
such as Auschwitz and Treblinka
in occupied Poland, the history
of Polish Jewry was a mystery to
most Jews, and most Americans.
He donated millions of dollars to
help build the interior and other
elements of the Polin Museum of
the History of Polish Jews, which
opened in 2014, and he became a
major fundraiser and an influen-
tial voice on its board.
“I want the gate of our mu-
seum, and not the eit a t
ei’ gate, to be the first gate that
will be seen by Jews visiting Po-
land,” Mr. Rolat told Forbes mag-
azine in 2014, referring to the
cynical inscription “Work sets
you free” that greeted inmates
when they entered the main
Auschwitz concentration camp.
“The Jews should first learn
our shared history,” he added.
“And then, of course, they should
see Auschwitz, but with a better
understanding of what hap-
pened there.”
The main exhibition at the
museum tells the story of Po-
land’s Jews over 1,000 years, from
the Middle Ages to the present,
using artifacts, paintings, replicas
and interactive installations.
“It is not another museum of
the Holocaust,” Mr. Rolat told
McClatchy Newspapers in 201 .
“It is a museum of life.”
wa Junczyk- iomecka was
the director of development for
the museum when she first met
Mr. Rolat at his office in Warsaw
in 2004. When he learned that
she wasn’t Jewish, he asked her
why she was involved with a mu-
seum about Polish Jews.
“I told him, There is no com-
plete history of Poland without
the history of Polish Jews,’ ” she
recalled in a phone interview.
“ Because I’m Polish, I’m in-
volved.’ He was surprised and
said, Oh, God, if you’re involved
in this, how about me, a Polish
Jew, standing by you ’ ”
Mr. Rolat used his money to
support arts events in Poland,
such as the Jewish Culture Festiv-
al in Krakow and Singer’s War-
saw Festival, named for Isaac
Bashevis Singer, a Polish-born
writer and recipient of the Nobel
Prize in literature.
He also focused on Czestocho-
wa, his hometown in southern
Poland, where Jews were one-
third of the population before
the Second World War. He paid
for a memorial statue at the local
railway station – where the Nazis
selected about 40,000 Jews for
deportation to Treblinka – and a
plaque at the slave-labour camp
where he and his mother were
imprisoned. And he helped sup-
port the restoration of parts of
the Jewish cemetery in Czesto-
chowa where his mother and ol-
der brother were executed.
One of his most poignant ef-
forts was producing a concert in
2009 at an orchestra hall in Czes-
tochowa on the site of a syn-
agogue where he had wor-
shipped, and which the Nazis de-
stroyed.
At that concert, violinist Josh-
ua Bell performed with the same
Stradivarius that for decades had
been owned by Bronislaw Huber-
man, a virtuoso from Czestocho-
wa who later founded the Pales-
tine Symphony Orchestra now
the Israel Philharmonic Orches-
tra . The Stradivarius, which was
made in 171 , was stolen from
Huberman in 19 6 and did not
resurface until 1987.
Mr. Bell played Johannes
Brahms’s iolin Concerto in D
minor, which Huberman had
played as a teenager for an audi-
ence that included Brahms him-
self.
Sigmund Rolat, left, who
was a ma or fundraiser
and an influential voice
on the board of the Polin
Museum of the History of
Polish ews, above, said
he wanted the museum
to shed light on ewry in
Poland beyond the
concentration camps and
atrocities of the Second
orld ar. It is not
another museum of the
Holocaust,’ he said. It is
a museum of life.’
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“The Germans burned this
synagogue down in 19 9,” Mr. Ro-
lat said before the concert, which
was documented in Haim
Hecht’s film e etu n t e i
lin 2012 . “But this place, so full
of glory, will always remain
ours.”
He called the concert “one of
the grand moments of my life.”
ygmunt Rozenblat was born
July 1, 19 0. His father, Henryk,
was an accountant. His mother,
yska Mariana Szydlowska Ro-
zenblat, managed the house-
hold.
After Germany imposed puni-
tive antisemitic laws, ygmunt’s
childhood education ended in
the fourth grade. Two years later,
he, his parents and his older
brother, Jerzyk, were forced into
His parents and brother died
in 194 . His father, deported to
Treblinka, died in an inmate up-
rising that ended the camp’s op-
erations. His brother, a Resist-
ance fighter, was executed with
five other partisans in the same
cemetery where his mother was
killed. ygmunt was freed from
the Hasag Pelcery slave-labour
camp when the Soviet Red Army
liberated it in January of 1945.
ygmunt stayed in Poland for
a short time before moving to
Munich, where an aunt arranged
for him to be tutored for six
hours a day by a German profes-
sor, which enabled him to pass
his secondary-school equivalen-
cy test.
In 1948, he immigrated to New
York with a group of other or-
phaned refugees. With the help
of a Jewish service organization,
he received a scholarship to the
University of Cincinnati and
graduated in 1952 with a bache-
lor’s degree in political science.
Around that time, he changed
his name to Sigmund Rolat.
After working in a shipping
company, Mr. Rolat started his
own, Skyline Shipping, in Man-
hattan, in 1959. Three years later,
he started an export-finance
company, Oxford International.
“I went to Poland with him in
the 1980s,” his daughter Saman-
tha Asulin said in a phone inter-
view, “and he realized he still felt
a connection to his birthplace
and he saw business opportuni-
ties.”
One opportunity arose after
Mr. Rolat saw a picture of teenag-
ers in jeans sitting on the ruins of
the Berlin Wall after it fell in 1989.
He started a business in the early
1990s that exported denim to Po-
land.
Mr. Rolat’s honours include
the Commander’s Cross of the
Order of Merit of the Republic of
Poland, which he received in
2008 from president Lech Kac-
zynski, and the Commander’s
Cross With Star of the Order of
Poland, from a subsequent Pol-
ish president, Bronislaw Komo-
rowski, in 201 .
Mr. Rolat married Jacqueline
Cantor in 1952 that marriage
ended in divorce. His marriage to
Ingrid Busse in 1966 ended with
her death in 1967, and his mar-
riage six years later to Jacqueline
Spencer ended with her death as
well, in 201 .
In addition to his son, from his
first marriage, and his daughter
Asulin, from his third, Mr. Rolat
leaves another daughter, Aman-
da Rolat, also from his third mar-
riage, and four grandchildren.
Another daughter, Jane Rolat,
from his first marriage, died in
200 .
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SER ICE

CHRISTOPHE DELOIRE

OURNALIST, 53

eporters Without orders head dedicated his li e to press reedo

PARIS Mr. Deloire helped Russian broadcast
journalist Marina Ovsiannikova flee Russia

C
hristophe Deloire, who negotiated
to free imprisoned journalists
around the world and offered ref-
uge to reporters under threat as the
head of media-freedom group Reporters
Without Borders, died Saturday. He was 5 .
Mr. Deloire had been battling sudden
and aggressive cancer and died in Paris sur-
rounded by loved ones, according to board
members of Reporters Without Borders, al-
so known by its French acronym RSF.
Mr. Deloire was “a tireless defender, on
every continent, of the freedom, inde-
pendence and pluralism of journalism, in a
context of information chaos,” RSF said in
a statement.
“Journalism was his life’s struggle,
which he fought with unshakable convic-
tion,” it added.
With boundless energy and a ready
smile even when dishing out trenchant
criticism, Mr. Deloire travelled constantly,
to Ukraine, Turkey, Africa and beyond to
lobby governments and defend journalists
behind bars or under threat. Press-free-
dom activists from many countries shared
tributes to his work and mourned his pass-
ing.
in a secret operation in 2022 after she came
under fire for denouncing the war in Uk-
raine on live television. RSF also launched
a program to provide protective equip-
ment and training to Ukrainian journalists
after Russia’s invasion.
Publicly and behind the scenes, Mr. De-
loire worked for the release of journalist
Olivier Dubois, held by Islamic extremists
in Mali for two years and freed in 202 , and
for other jailed reporters.
In his 12 years at the helm of RSF, he ex-
panded the group’s reach and activism and
raised its profile with governments. RSF,
under his watch, launched the Journalism
Trust Initiative, a program to certify media
organizations to restore public trust in the
news, and a program called Forum for De-
mocracy aimed at heading off threats to
democratic thought and freedoms.
Born May 22, 1971 in Paray-le-Monial in
Burgundy, Mr. Deloire worked as an inves-
tigative reporter and led a prominent
French journalism school, CFJ, before be-
coming director of RSF.
He leaves his wife Perrine and his son
Nathan.
Christophe Deloire travelled the world to lobby governments and defend ournalists
under threat during his 12 years at the helm of Reporters ithout Borders.*LEWIS JOLY/AP ASSOCIATED PRESS