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Bernier postpones book claiming Scheer won
leadership with help from ‘fake Conservatives’
LAURA STONE
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OTTAWA
Conservative MP Maxime Bernier says he
is postponing the publication of his book
“indefinitely” to preserve party unity after
excerpts accused Andrew Scheer of win-
ning the party leadership with the help of
“fake Conservatives.”
The move came as Mr. Bernier, the run-
ner-up in last year’s leadership race, faced
his own caucus on Wednesday. Many MPs
had expressed anger and frustration that
the Quebec MP had undermined Mr.
Scheer’s stewardship of the party when
his publisher released an advance chapter
of the book to The Globe and Mail last
week.
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In a series of tweets on Wednesday, Mr.
Bernier said the book wasn’t intended to
be about his leadership campaign, but
that whatever he wrote “will always be
interpreted as me creating division and
challenging our leader.”
“This book and the ideas it contains are
very important to me. But now is not the
right time to publish it. After consider-
ation, for the sake of maintaining harmo-
ny within our party, I have decided to
postpone its publication indefinitely,” Mr.
Bernier wrote.
“I only have one priority: to defeat Jus-
tin Trudeau’s government, and replace it
with a majority Conservative govern-
ment, with Andrew Scheer as prime min-
ister, in 2019.”
The book, Doing Politics Differently: My
Vision for Canada, was scheduled for re-
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legislation that will enhance federal late the movement of diluted bitu-
power to push through the Trans men through its territory.
Mountain pipeline. The case is expected to drag on
The move comes as Kinder Mor- well beyond the May 31 deadline Kin-
gan says the fight has caused “un- der Morgan has set for deciding
quantifiable risk” to its project. whether to proceed with the pipe-
“We think that federal jurisdiction line expansion, which the Trudeau
is clear; we’re looking at legislation government has ruled to be in the
to see how we can enhance that,” national interest.
federal Natural Resources Minister Kinder Morgan stated on Wednes-
Jim Carr said in an interview on day that the Trans Mountain project
Wednesday. “is now facing unquantifiable risk”
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concerns over
takeovers
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Beijing’s envoy says it is “immoral”
for Canadians to oppose takeovers
of their companies by Chinese gov-
ernment-controlled businesses and
is denouncing national security
scrutiny of these acquisitions.
Chinese ambassador Lu Shaye le-
vied these accusations earlier this
week at a symposium on his coun-
try’s $1-trillion Belt and Road Initia-
tive to build infrastructure across
Asia and Africa and Europe – an
event also featuring a senior Cana-
dian government official from the
department of Global Affairs.
Mr. Lu, speaking to an Ottawa au-
dience, urged Canada to “adjust its
mindset” and embrace the idea that
Beijing’s state-owned enterprises
are not a security threat. He added
it’s futile to “demonize” state-run
businesses – which in some cases
receive direct or indirect subsidies
from Beijing – because they com-
prise such a significant feature of
the Chinese economy.
“Some people in Canada regard
Chinese-state owned enterprises as
monsters,” Mr. Lu said. “These peo-
ple attempt to weaken the compet-
itiveness of Chinese enterprises by
defamation. These approaches are
immoral and will be in vain.”
National security agencies in
both Canada and the United States
have previously warned that com-
panies owned or partly owned by
the Chinese government are not
merely profit-seeking operations.
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Mr. Bernier, who currently serves as the
party’s innovation critic, lost by a razor-
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drug for psychiatrists to use in experiments. While
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samples for the experiments were distributed
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Ottawa, Quebec split over refugee tactics
Representative for
immigrant and refugee
groups says lack of
federal-provincial
solidarity is troubling
LES PERREAUX
The Premier of Quebec and the
federal Immigration Minister
have each accused each other’s
level of government of ducking
responsibility for an anticipated
summertime surge of asylum
seekers from the United States,
cracking the united front they
presented in last summer’s mi-
gration crisis.
The rift was exposed as offi-
cials from the provinces met with
the federal government on
Wednesday evening to discuss
their strategy for coping with an
influx of irregular border cross-
ers, particularly in Quebec.
Quebec Immigration Minister
David Heurtel said there was a
“change in tone” from Ottawa as
he emerged from the meeting
which lasted more than an hour
longer than planned. He and his
federal counterparts announced
a few measures to bridge the gap
including a plan to send asylum-
seekers to the provinces where
they intend to live while they set-
tle their refugee status instead of
keeping them all in Montreal.
Cost remains an outstanding
question, but Transport Minister
Marc Garneau, who chaired the
meeting and struck a conciliatory
tone, promised they will find
common ground on money too.
Some 25,000 asylum seekers
arrived in the province last year,
75 per cent of whom walked
across the border. Quebec nor-
mally receives about 3,500 clai-
mants.
Quebec raised the alarm this
week, saying the number of peo-
ple crossing at a makeshift bor-
der post between New York State
and Quebec is already at 6,074 for
the year – three times greater
A family who say they’re from Colombia gets set to cross the border into Canada from the United States as
asylum seekers on Wednesday near Champlain, N.Y. PAUL CHIASSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS
than last year’s pace.
The province asked Ottawa to
help cover the costs, including
$146-million Quebec spent pro-
viding extra services last year.
Refugees and asylum seekers
normally fall under federal juris-
diction, but provinces often pro-
vide emergency housing, educa-
tion, health-care and welfare pay-
ments.
Canadian Immigration Minis-
ter Ahmed Hussen sent a letter to
his Quebec counterpart accusing
him of closing nine of the 13
emergency shelters the province
opened last summer, risking an
“unacceptable humanitarian sit-
uation” if projections of higher
levels of migration prove correct.
He also said the province has
failed to provide sufficient details
for its financial demands.
Quebec Premier Philippe
Couillard fired back on Wednes-
day by pointing out that schools
and Montreal’s Olympic Stadium
were among the makeshift shel-
ters used during last summer’s
emergency.
The province, which normally
has one shelter in Montreal, has
created three additional ones,
which can house 1,850 people.
They are already at 70-per-cent
capacity and Quebec is asking for
Ottawa’s help if more are needed.
“The federal government has
to realize what’s going on on the
ground. I realize Ottawa is a bit
distant from reality. But their re-
sponse is really unacceptable,”
Mr. Couillard said. “They are
showing a complete misunder-
standing of the reality on the
ground, both what we experi-
enced last year and will experi-
ence again this year.”
Stephan Reichhold, who rep-
resents an umbrella organization
of Quebec immigrant and refu-
gee service groups, said the lack
of federal-provincial solidarity is
troubling.
“This is very concerning – that
there might be this quarrel on
the backs of a very vulnerable
population is very worrisome,”
Mr. Reichhold said. “It does seem
like the federal government
should take a greater share of the
burden, but right now they’re bu-
rying their heads in the sand. We
got through it last year. It was a
bit chaotic, but what worries us
now is that they don’t seem to be
listening to each other.”
Mr. Reichhold said service
groups are “out of breath” after
an intense year. “It’s going fairly
well, nobody is in the street, but
we need more resources,” he
said.
“Our people found 10,000 af-
fordable lodging [spots] for peo-
ple last year. It’s quite some-
thing.” But, he added, the situa-
tion remains quite manageable
at the moment.
Quebec Immigration Minister
David Heurtel said the situation
has changed from a temporary
crisis to a permanent intake that
must be dealt with by Ottawa,
particularly given that some 40
per cent of arrivals have no inten-
tion of staying in Quebec once
their immigration hearings are
settled – a process that is now
facing long delays.
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He wants Ottawa to move peo-
ple to their destination provinces
for their hearings instead of hav-
ing them wait as much as two
years in Quebec.
Mr. Hussen told the House of
Commons that the government
spent an extra $112-million on the
settlement of newcomers in Que-
bec and issued 12,000 work per-
mits in the province. “We are
working very closely with Que-
bec,” he said. “We will continue to
work closely with Quebec.”
The rush of migrants began
last year after U.S. President Do-
nald Trump took office and start-
ed cracking down on immigra-
tion.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
expressed Canada’s openness to
asylum seekers, which was inter-
preted around the world as an
open-door policy. The end of spe-
cial status in the United States for
Haitian immigrants displaced by
disaster caused many to turn
their attention to Canada.
An occasional clandestine
crossing known as Roxham
Road, south of Montreal, soon
became known as the unofficial
entrance to Canada. At the height
of last year’s migration, 250 peo-
ple were crossing every day. Now
that word has spread, Quebec
projects the numbers may peak
at 400 a day. As many as half of
asylum seekers coming to Que-
bec from around the world are
taking ground transportation to
Roxham Road as soon as they
land in the United States, accord-
ing to the province. Nigeria is a
currently among the more com-
mon countries of origin.
The others are mostly U.S. resi-
dents who have uncertain immi-
gration status under the Trump
administration.
All of this is taking place while
an unofficial Quebec election
campaign has already started –
even though the vote takes place
Oct. 1. Opposition parties have as-
sailed the Quebec Liberal govern-
ment for taking the brunt of the
migration crisis while failing to
defend the province’s interests
with Ottawa.
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Five Eyes leaders fix gaze on cybersecurity
Canada, Britain,
Australia, New Zealand
lash out at Russia for
cyberattack involvement
PAUL WALDIE LONDON
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
has joined with the leaders of
three key Western allies in con-
demning Russia’s involvement in
cyberattacks and its role in the
poisoning of a former double
agent in Britain.
Mr. Trudeau and the Prime
Ministers of Britain, Australia
and New Zealand lashed out at
Russia on Wednesday, saying it
had been “using cyberwarfare as
part of a wider effort to attack
and undermine the international
system.” Their intervention came
on the eve of the Commonwealth
leaders summit, which is expect-
ed to focus on cybersecurity as a
main topic.
“There are folks out there in
the world, countries out there in
the world who do not share our
values and our approach to free-
doms and mostly the rules-based
order,” Mr. Trudeau told the oth-
er leaders during an intelligence
briefing at the National Cyber Se-
curity Centre in London. “So the
importance of like-minded
friends and partners like us four
to stand together … provides a
response and a solidarity that is a
clear message to those around
the world who do not play by the
same rules.”
The four countries are part of
the so-called Five Eyes security al-
liance, which also includes the
United States. British Prime Min-
ister Theresa May called the alli-
ance “a unique security and intel-
ligence-sharing partnership” that
“has done much to protect our
people from a range of threats.”
Citing repeated Russian hacking,
she added: “I have been clear to
Russia that we know what it is do-
ing. And we should be in no
doubt that such cyberwarfare is
one of the great challenges of our
time.”
Families push for stacked life sentences for Quebec City mosque shooter
INGRID PERITZ
SEAN FINE QUEBEC CITY
Amir Belkacemi stood in a Que-
bec City courtroom on Wednes-
day and called Alexandre Bisson-
nette a “monster,” urging a judge
not to ever let his father’s mur-
derer walk the streets again.
Mr. Bissonnette, who pleaded
guilty to six counts of first-degree
murder in the Quebec City
mosque attack last year, faces the
possibility of a sentence unprece-
dented in Canadian history: 150
years before he is eligible for pa-
role.
That possibility, and other
multiple-murder cases in the
past five years that would leave
convicted killers in prison for
their entire lives, has touched off
a debate about the law that al-
lows for it.
Under the federal Criminal
Code, the penalty for first-degree
murder is automatic: life in pris-
on, with first chance at full parole
after 25 years. But, in 2011, the
Conservative government gave
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Ms. May has also put cyberse-
curity on the agenda for the two-
day Commonwealth meeting and
announced that Britain will com-
mit £15-million ($27-million) to
help smaller, and poorer, Com-
monwealth countries develop
computer technological capabili-
ties to tackle criminal groups and
“hostile state actors.”
In a private meeting earlier in
the day, Mr. Trudeau also offered
Ms. May Canada’s support for the
recent missile strike on Syria by
Britain, United States and France
in response to an alleged chem-
ical weapons attack by the Syrian
military with Russia’s backing.
The leaders agreed the missile
strike “was the right thing to do
and necessary to uphold the
global prohibition on chemical
weapons use,” according to a
summary of the meeting provid-
ed by Downing Street officials.
“They agreed to continue stand-
ing side by side to uphold inter-
national norms and the rules
judges the authority to add the
25-year parole waiting periods to-
gether in cases of multiple mur-
ders.
Since then, four men have
been sentenced to 75 years of pa-
role ineligibility, out of the 18 who
have received parole ineligibility
periods stacked together. One of
them, Douglas Garland, would
have to live till 132 to be eligible
for parole. The first use of the law
was in 2013, when armoured-car
driver Travis Baumgartner re-
ceived 40 years ineligibility for
one first-degree murder and two
second-degree murders. (In sec-
ond-degree murder, parole eligi-
bility ranges from 10 to 25 years.)
To the families of Mr. Bisson-
nette’s victims, jail for life is only
just. “The man behind me is a
monster,” Mr. Belkacemi said of
the convicted killer, seated in
handcuffs in a glass enclosure. “I
think that monsters have no
place among those of us who
have chosen to cherish our hu-
manity.” Mr. Belkacemi, who lost
his father in the attack, was the
latest in a succession of victims
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which keep us safe.” Relations be-
tween Russia and the West have
sunk to a low not seen since the
end of the Cold War. Allegations
of computer hacking, interfe-
rence with elections and recent
fears the Russian government
has targeted routers many people
use at home, have only increased
the mistrust. Last month’s poi-
soning of former spy Sergei Skri-
pal and his daughter, Yulia Skri-
pal, in Salisbury worsened rela-
tions further and sparked an in-
ternational diplomatic row.
British investigators said the two
were exposed to a type of nerve
agent known as Novichok that
was developed in the Soviet
Union in the 1980s. Britain’s find-
ings have been backed up in an
analysis by the UN’s Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons, although it did not
identify where the chemical
came from. Western allies, in-
cluding Canada and the United
States, have rushed to Britain’s
who spoke in court this week to
seek extended prison time for Mr.
Bissonnette.
Others say that a sentence be-
yond the natural lifespan is cruel
and unnecessary.
“A sentence of parole ineligi-
bility for 75 years takes away all
hope for the offender,” Balfour
Der, an Alberta criminal lawyer
representing Derek Saretzky, sen-
tenced to life with 75 years of in-
eligibility for parole for three Cal-
gary-area killings, said in an in-
terview. “That’s the worst thing
we can do to anybody, is take
away all hope.”
Another lawyer, Dirk Derstine
of Toronto, said that 25 years is
enough time for some people to
change. “There’s no telling what
they’re going to be like at that
time. They could be saints, they
could be monsters.”
He said the system should rely
on parole boards to decide on
whether some form of release
should be permitted. “Someone
who killed six people is going to
have to be Gandhi in order to get
out at all.”
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side and joined in the expulsion
of more than 150 Russian diplo-
mats.
Russia has denied any involve-
ment in the case and insisted that
it has never developed Novichok.
Moscow also retaliated with an
equal number of diplomatic ex-
pulsions and it has challenged
the findings of the UN watchdog,
with officials suggesting traces of
a Western-made nerve agent had
been found. That drew a sharp re-
buke on Wednesday from the
head of the OPCW, Ahmet Uzum-
cu, who said the Western nerve
agent was used in a control sam-
ple and had nothing to do with
the Skripal case.
The Skripals have miraculous-
ly survived the attack but have
become pawns in the saga. Mr.
Skripal, 66, remains in serious
condition in hospital but Ms.
Skripal, 33, has been released. She
has issued a handful of state-
ments through London police re-
questing privacy and declining
The stacking of parole ineligi-
bility periods has given Canada
an equivalent to the life-without-
parole sentence widely used in
the United States. The difference
is that in Canada, its use is limit-
ed to multiple murders. In the
United States, there are more
than 50,000 people serving a sen-
tence of life without parole.
Conservative MP Daniel Petit
said in the House of Commons
when his government intro-
duced the new legislation that
multiple murderers in Canada
were receiving “a volume dis-
count for their crimes.”
It is not mandatory for judges
to stack parole periods together.
Judges “may, having regard to the
character of the offender, the na-
ture of the offence and the cir-
cumstances surrounding its com-
mission … decide that the peri-
ods without eligibility for parole
for each murder conviction are to
be served consecutively,” Section
745.51 of the federal Criminal
Code says.
Judges have interpreted this
section to mean they could sen-
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help from the Russian embassy.
That prompted Russia’s Ambas-
sador to Britain, Alexander Yako-
venko, to allege that she was be-
ing held hostage by the British.
He has also been waging a public
relations campaign with weekly
news conferences denouncing
the British probe.
On Wednesday, Ms. May stood
by Britain’s conclusion and said
only Russia could have carried
out the poisoning. Mr. Skripal
was a potential target because he
worked as a Russian military in-
telligence officer in Moscow dur-
ing the 1990s when he also spied
for Britain’s MI6. He was arrested
in 2004 and sentenced to 13 years
in prison for treason but won re-
lease in 2010 and moved to Bri-
tain as part of a spy swap. “Recent
global events have served to un-
derline the need for nations to
stand together in the face of
those who would challenge the
rules-based international order,”
she said.
tence someone to, say, two con-
secutive periods of 25-year ineli-
gibility for six first-degree mur-
ders, if they choose. Or they
could choose just one 25-year pe-
riod, or six.
Thus far, judges have upheld
its constitutionality when it was
challenged as a form of cruel and
unusual punishment.
”There is nothing grossly dis-
proportionate about the imposi-
tion of an effective sentence of
life imprisonment, without pa-
role, for an adult offender who
has murdered at least two differ-
ent victims,” Ontario Superior
Court Justice Ken Campbell
wrote last year in the case of
Mauro Granados-Arana, convict-
ed of one count of first-degree
and one of second-degree, and
given parole ineligibility of 41
years.
Mr. Bissonnette’s lawyers say
that at a sentencing hearing in
June, they will challenge the con-
stitutionality of the parole ineli-
gibility law for multiple murders.
Mr. Bissonnette’s sentencing
hearing continues.
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[ MEMORIAL ]

Honouring
Humboldt
People lead out the casket of
Dayna Brons, athletic therapist of
the Humboldt Broncos, following a
memorial service in Humboldt, Sask.
on Wednesday.

LIAM RICHARDS/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Diaz-Canel formally backed as Cuban president

Raul Castro scheduled to
step down after 10 years
in office as island moves
to younger generation
SARAH MARSH
FRANK JACK DANIEL HAVANA
Cuba’s Raul Castro was just
hours away from retiring as Pres-
ident after parliament proposed
Miguel Diaz-Canel as his replace-
ment on Wednesday, a shift that
will usher in the island’s first
non-Castro leader since the 1959
revolution.
Mr. Castro, 86, was scheduled
to step down on Thursday after
10 years in office. He announced
his departure several years ago
and has long signalled that Mr.
Diaz-Canel, a 57-year-old Com-
munist Party stalwart, was his
likely successor, carefully ma-
naging the transition to ensure
political continuity.
The move to a younger gener-
ation of Communist leaders is
historic on an island dominated
for nearly 60 years by Fidel Cas-
tro and then his brother Raul.
But in the short term, it is un-
likely to herald major changes to
the one-party system or state-
dominated economic model.
The rubber-stamp National
Assembly voted on the proposal
to promote Mr. Diaz-Canel, who
is currently first vice-president.
His was the only name put for-
ward by a party-backed commis-
sion and was greeted with a long
ovation from lawmakers. Law-
makers will vote for 30 other
members of Cuba’s state council
as well as the president. The re-
sults will be announced and the
new president will be sworn in
on Thursday.
Although this week’s assemb-
ly is promoting younger govern-
ment leaders, Mr. Castro and
other elders of the revolution
will retain considerable power in
their roles as the top leaders of
the Communist Party at least un-
til a party congress set for 2021.
Political observers said Mr.
Diaz-Canel would be given the
job of breathing life into the
creaking economy, but would
seek Mr. Castro’s approval on
major strategic decisions such as
the relationship with the United
States.
He is expected to be cautious
at first, seeking to consolidate
support among party conserva-
tives despite desire among
young Cubans for faster develop-
ment. He is extremely unlikely to
challenge one-party rule.
Mr. Diaz-Canel should “in-
crease the speed of change in Cu-
ba while preserving the good
things,” blogger Harold Carde-
nas, 32, said, adding that resist-
ance from within the party to
Castro’s economic reforms had
held the country back.
After years climbing the ranks
of the Communist Party, the fu-
ture president is considered a
safe bet to carry the mantle of
Mr. Castro and other elderly
leaders who helped Fidel Castro
oust U.S.-backed dictator Fulgen-
cio Batista.
Trained as an electrical engi-
neer, Mr. Diaz-Canel embraces
technology and appears socially
liberal, but he is relatively un-
known to ordinary Cubans.
He faces “myriad challenges
on all fronts,” said Richard Fein-
berg, who led Latin America pol-
icy in former U.S. president Bill
Clinton’s White House.
Cuba’s economy remains
smaller per capita than it was in
1985, when it had the support of
Communist ally, the Soviet
Union, according to one study. It
is suffering from a crisis in oil
benefactor Venezuela. Relations
with the United States are
strained anew under President
Donald Trump and Cuba has few
allies in the region.
“Most Cubans, especially the
young, await an unambiguous,
decisive acceleration of market-
opening reforms,” Mr. Feinberg
said. “Strategically, Diaz-Canel
must confront renewed hostility
from the U.S. administration.”
Mr. Castro, who had served for
decades as defence minister, be-
came president in 2008 when Fi-
del Castro, his health failing, for-
mally handed over power. Fidel
Castro died in 2016, at the age of
90. Shunning the long speeches
his brother was famous for, Raul
Castro kept his low-key style
even as he reached a landmark
agreement in 2014 with former
U.S. president Barack Obama to
restore diplomatic ties with the
United States. Relations with
Washington had been hostile
since soon after Fidel Castro took
the island on a sharply leftward
path after the revolution.
While stressing he was acting
to preserve and not dismantle
socialism, Mr. Castro also intro-
duced market reforms to one of
the world’s last Soviet-style cen-
trally planned economies, per-
mitting more small businesses
and encouraging some foreign
investment.
He gave more freedoms to Cu-
bans, allowing them to travel,
visit resorts on the island previ-
ously reserved for foreigners and
gradually increasing internet ac-
cess, although opposition groups
still face official harassment.
REUTERS

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Assailants opened fire at a UN se-

curity team visiting the site of a
suspected chemical-weapons at-
tack in Syria, an official said
Wednesday, forcing it to retreat
to its base and further delaying a
fact-finding mission by outside
experts to examine the claims.
Gunmen shot at the UN team
in Douma on Tuesday and deto-
nated an explosive, leading it to
return to Damascus, Ahmet
Uzumcu, the head of the interna-
tional chemical-weapons watch-
dog, said. He did not identify the
assailants.
Inspectors from the Organiza-
tion for the Prohibition of Chem-
ical Weapons (OPCW) have been
waiting since Saturday to visit
Douma, the site of the alleged
April 7 attack. They were initially
blocked by the Syrian govern-
ment and its ally, Russia, on
Monday. Then on Tuesday, the
advance security team from the
UN came under fire, compound-
ing the delays. The OPCW inspec-
tors have not yet been able to vis-
it the site, and Mr. Uzumcu did
not say when they would deploy.
The United Nations said more
security measures were needed
before the inspectors could go in.
“There is still a lot of volatility
in the area,” UN spokesman Ste-
phane Dujarric said, adding that
the UN security team needed to
make at least another visit before
the fact-finding mission could go
ahead.
The town is under the protec-
tion of Russia’s military police.
The Russian military said a Syr-
ian security employee was slight-
ly wounded in the crossfire Tues-
day, but no Russian servicemen
were at the site of the attack.
Journalists visiting Douma on
a government-organized tour
Monday did not report any secu-
rity threats. The Associated Press
met with residents who said they
were overwhelmed by chlorine
fumes on the night of the alleged
attack and lost their loved ones.
With 11 days now having
passed, concerns are growing
that evidence could fall prey to
tampering or be otherwise com-
promised.
In response, the opposition’s
A man walks through an area in Syria where an alleged chemical-weapon
attack had occurred earlier this month on Monday. HASSAN AMMAR/AP
Syrian Civil Defence, whose first
responders were operating in
Douma on the night of the al-
leged attack, gave the chemical-
weapons watchdog the locations
of victims’ graves so it could sal-
vage evidence, the group’s chief,
Raed Saleh, told AP. The Civil De-
fence no longer has a presence in
Douma after being evacuated to
rebel-held areas of northern Sy-
ria when the government took
over the town. The government
says the Civil Defence is a terror-
ist organization.
Russia and the Syrian govern-
ment have denied responsibility
for the alleged attack, which took
place during a government as-
sault on the then rebel-held
town. The Army of Islam surren-
dered Douma two days later. The
United States, which has drawn
its own conclusions about the at-
tack on Douma, has accused the
Syrian government and Russia of
trying to cover up evidence of
their culpability.
Speaking to reporters at the
Pentagon on Wednesday, De-
fence Secretary Jim Mattis said
the evidence was at risk of being
tampered with as the delays
dragged on.
“We are very much aware of
the delay that the regime im-
posed on that delegation. But we
are also very much aware of how
they have operated in the past.
… In other words, using the
pause after a strike like that to
try to clean up the evidence be-
fore the investigation team gets
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Former Obama strategist offers advice
to Trudeau ahead of federal election
David Axelrod will be one of
the key speakers at the Liberal
national convention starting
on Thursday in Halifax
DANIEL LEBLANC
PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER
OTTAWA
Former U.S. president Barack Obama’s top
strategist is urging Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau to head into the next election
with a plan to attack his Conservative and
NDP rivals, arguing the positive politics
that won the Liberals a first term in 2015
will not be enough to hold on to power
next year.
In an interview, David Axelrod said
there are many lessons for the Liberal Par-
ty in the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign,
when Mr. Obama won a second mandate
despite being bruised by four years in gov-
ernment.
Mr. Axelrod, who was one of Mr. Oba-
ma’s top advisers throughout his political
career, will be one of the key speakers at
the Liberal national convention that starts
in Halifax on Thursday. He will be inter-
viewed on stage by Mr. Trudeau’s principal
secretary, Gerald Butts, suggesting the Lib-
erals agree with much of the advice that
Mr. Axelrod has to offer to party support-
ers.
Mr. Trudeau has often tried to channel
Mr. Obama’s winning touch since he en-
tered the Liberal leadership race in 2012
with a promise to engage in positive poli-
tics. The Prime Minister participated in a
question-and-answer session last Febru-
ary that Mr. Axelrod hosted at the Univer-
sity of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
According to Mr. Axelrod, seeking re-
election will force Mr. Trudeau to stick
Bishops float papal visit, residential-schools apology
GLORIA GALLOWAY
PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER
OTTAWA
Roman Catholic bishops are holding out
the possibility that Pope Francis may even-
tually apologize for the role that the
church played in the abuse of children at
Indian residential schools.
But, at a news conference on Wednesday
that took place just before a motion calling
on the Canadian Conference of Catholic
Bishops to press for an apology was intro-
duced in the House of Commons, two se-
nior Catholic leaders reiterated the posi-
tion that the church, as a whole, was not to
blame for the tragedy.
And they suggested, then refuted the
suggestion, that the Pope’s refusal last
month to respond to a request for an apol-
ogy may have just been a matter of timing.
“He is open to coming to Canada,” Ri-
chard Gagnon, the Archbishop of Winni-
peg and vice-president of the Canadian
Conference of Catholic Bishops, told re-
porters.
“If you place Pope Francis among Indig-
enous people and he hears these horrible
stories, what do you think he’s going to
say?”
The New Democrats introduced a mo-
tion in Parliament on Wednesday after-
noon that was supported by the governing
Liberals, as well as Green Party Leader El-
izabeth May and MPs who are former
members of the Bloc Québécois, which
asks the Canadian bishops to invite the
Pope to visit Canada and to apologize for
the abuse at residential schools.
Specifically, it asked for him to meet the
terms of Call to Action 58 of the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which
said the Pope should apologize, in Canada
in 2016 (within a year of the TRC report be-
ing issued), for the role that the Roman Ca-
tholic Church played in the spiritual, cul-
tural, emotional, physical and sexual
abuse of First Nations, Métis and Inuit chil-
dren in Catholic-run schools.
The motion also calls upon the church
to resume its efforts to raise $25-million for
Indigenous healing, as required in the Res-
idential Schools Settlement Agreement
that came into effect in 2007. That fun-
draising campaign was abandoned in 2015
and just $2.1-million in donations was giv-
en to Indigenous causes.
NDP MPs Charlie Angus and Romeo Sa-
ganash, and Carolyn Bennett, the Liberal
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Group finds
banned
pesticides on
with a highly disciplined message – in this be a unifying force for the progressive
flowers sold
case helping the middle class – all the base,” he said.
while “setting up a contrast” with his ad- About 3,000 Liberal supporters will be
in Ottawa
versaries. convening in Halifax as the government
“If the first election was a movement, goes through its roughest patch since it
the second election is more of a choice came to power, as criticism over the Prime ERIC ATKINS
about the direction of your country,” he Minister’s trip to India has dominated
said. “In 2012, we positioned our campaign headlines.
much more as a choice between what we The latest Nanos tracking poll had the An environmental group says it
were offering and what the Republican Liberals at 41-per-cent support, well ahead has found banned pesticides on
candidate was offering, more so than in of the Conservatives at 29 per cent and the flowers sold at major garden
2008 when we positioned ourselves NDP at 16 per cent. Still, Mr. Trudeau’s per- centres in Ottawa, and it has
against the entire status quo in politics.” sonal numbers have fallen while the num- asked the provincial government
Working as a senior strategist for Mr. ber of potential Conservative voters has to investigate possible violations
Obama, Mr. Axelrod played a grown after Mr. Trudeau’s di- of the Ontario Pesticides Act.
key role in developing politi- sastrous trip to India. Friends of the Earth Canada, a
cal ads in 2012 that painted “In recent weeks, the Lib- charitable group based in Otta-
Republican candidate Mitt erals have effectively crowd- wa, says garden plants pur-
Romney as an out-of-touch Trudeau’s vision will ed out the bad news with the chased at Canadian Tire, Rona
elitist whose business prac- normal business of being of and Home Depot in 2017 have
tices had hurt average Amer- be challenged and government. As a result, traces of chemicals banned for
ican workers. he has a right to ask their numbers have reco- human health concerns, includ-
“I don’t think it necessar- exactly what is the vered,” said Nik Nanos, presi- ing a neonicotinoid shown to
ily needs to be searingly per- offering on the other dent of Nanos Research. “In harm aquatic insects.
sonal, but you know, the rea- the long term, the Liberals Beatrice Olivastri, chief exec-
son there are parties is that side and what it have to be worried by the fact utive officer of Friends of the
there are competing visions would mean for the numbers are very vola- Earth, said the group bought a
of the future,” Mr. Axelrod everyday Canadians. tile.” range of common garden flowers
said. “Trudeau’s vision will The next president of the known to be favoured by native,
be challenged and he has a DAVID AXELROD Liberal Party of Canada, Su- wild bees – daisies, asters, laven-
right to ask exactly what is TOP STRATEGIST zanne Cowan, said the key der and others – from five major
TO BARACK OBAMA
the offering on the other objective of the Halifax con- retailers. The samples were sent
side and what it would mean vention is to get the electoral to the University of Guelph to
for everyday Canadians.” machine “fired up” for the vote scheduled test for neonicotinoids, a class of
As liberal democracy and progressive to occur on Oct. 21, 2019. insecticide that includes varie-
politics are under threat around the world, “Elections are won and lost on the ties whose use is banned or re-
he said, Mr. Trudeau could build a winning ground,” said Ms. Cowan, who is being ac- stricted in several jurisdictions,
coalition even though many progressive claimed as party president. including Ontario.
voters have been disappointed by the Lib- She acknowledged the pending cam- She said she was surprised to
eral record on electoral reform or the envi- paign will be different than the last one, see the results showed some
ronment. when the Liberals started in third place. plants contained traces of other
“I expect that some of the same forces “The 2019 campaign will be very differ- herbicides and insecticides
that animated [U.S. President] Donald ent, it will be harder,” she said. “We do known as Class 9 chemicals, in-
Trump’s support and some of what we are have a record to showcase for people, but cluding napropamide and spino-
seeing in Europe will visit Canada as well at the same time, it’s something you show- sad and imidacloprid, a neonico-
in this next election. So that alone could case and you defend.” tinoid. Ontario law forbids the
use of Class 9 pesticides to kill
weeds and bugs around school-
yards, parks, lawns and gardens
because of risks to human
health.
“I was testing for neonicoti-
noids and tripped across this. I
have to say I’m astonished,” Ms.
Olivastri said by phone.
Home Depot declined to be in-
terviewed. “Over the past few
years we’ve been in communica-
tion with government agencies,
the insecticide industry and our
suppliers to understand the sci-
ence, monitor research with a
complete phase out of neonicoti-
noids by the end of 2018,” the
company said in an e-mail.
“We are currently investigat-
ing the allegations that were
raised by Friends of the Earth, as
we take these matters very seri-
ously, ” said Valérie Gonzalo, a
spokeswoman for Lowe’s Cana-
da, parent company of Rona.
Ms. Olivastri said Rona and
Home Depot have shown lead-
ership in working with their
Bishops line up to greet Pope Francis during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s growers to rid their garden cen-
Basilica at the Vatican on Wednesday. GREGORIO BORGIA/ASSOCIATED PRESS tres of harmful pesticides, and
she was surprised by the results.
had expressed hope that the motion consider coming to Canada at the oppor- She said it is possible the stores
would be passed unanimously to send a tune time.” were unaware their suppliers
strong message to the Vatican. But some But when asked if that meant the apol- were using the chemicals, or that
Conservative MPs objected. So a debate ogy was just a matter of timing, since the the plants were grown in juris-
and a vote and the motion will be held at a TRC’s Call to Action asked him to apologize dictions in which the pesticides
later date. in 2016, Lionel Gendron, the Bishop of are legal.
Garnett Genius, an Alberta Tory MP who Saint-Jean-Longueuil, said: “No, it’s not “So what? They are selling
was one of those who shouted his opposi- the issue, I don’t think so.” them to me in this province.”
tion, said later on Twitter that: “Catholic As for reopening the fundraising cam- Canadian Tire did not respond
entities involved in residen- paign, the bishops argue that to interview requests.
tial schools have apologized. there is no legal entity called Plants purchased at Loblaws
The Holy See is responsib- the Catholic Church in Cana- and Lowe’s stores had either per-
le for next steps, & people da, just individual autono- mitted or zero traces of legal
are welcome to make their If you place Pope mous dioceses and it is 50 of chemicals.
own judgments. It is not for those smaller dioceses that Friends of the Earth has ap-
Parliament to call out or dic- Francis among were responsible for making plied to Ontario’s Environmental
tate to one faith communi- Indigenous people repayments under the settle- Commissioner, calling for an in-
ty.” and he hears these ment agreement with school vestigation to be launched by the
In fact, individual orders horrible stories, survivors. Environment Ministry.
of the church that ran the Archbishop Gendron reit- “Large corporations like the
schools have apologized. what do you think erated that position again on retailers have control over the
But, while Pope Benedict ex- he’s going to say? Wednesday saying that, even types of products they choose to
pressed “sorrow” in 2009 for though bishops may have sell, and have control or influen-
the abuse and “deplorable” RICHARD GAGNON been involved in the abuse, ce over the behaviour of their
ARCHBISHOP OF WINNIPEG
treatment of Indigenous stu- “it’s not the whole church.” suppliers,” reads the group’s ap-
dents at the schools, there Mr. Saganash, who attend- plication for investigation to the
has never been a full apology from the Vat- ed one of those schools, as did his 13 sib- Environmental Commissioner of
ican. lings, said he was sickened by what he Ontario.
Pope Francis “never said he wouldn’t heard from the bishops at their news con- Gary Wheeler, a spokesman
apologize. What the Holy Father did say ference. “When the Pope announced that for the Ontario Ministry of Envi-
was he would not personally respond to he wouldn’t apologize, I was, as a survivor, ronment, said in an e-mail the
Call to Action 58,” said Archbishop Gag- of course, very disappointed,” he said. government will decide within
non. “His response had to do with Call To “And, after hearing what they said today, 60 days if it will launch an in-
Action number 58 and its rather strict con- now I am disgusted. You probably noticed vestigation after being notified
fines that that call to action called for. He’s that I walked out because I wanted to go by the Environmental Commis-
open to coming to Canada, he’s open to and throw up in the bathroom.” sioner.
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Saudi Arabia launches new cinema as ban ends

STEPHEN KALIN RIYADH
Saudi Arabia launched its first
commercial movie theatre on
Wednesday, ending a nearly 40-
year ban on cinemas under a
push by the Crown Prince to
modernize the deeply conserva-
tive Muslim kingdom.
A red carpet invitation-only
gala event attracted senior gov-
ernment officials, foreign digni-
taries and select industry figures
to watch superhero movie Black
Panther on a 45-foot screen at a
converted symphony concert hall
in Riyadh. Tickets will go on sale
on Thursday for the first public
viewings on Friday, according to
Adam Aron, chief executive of
operator AMC Entertainment
Holdings. “Saudis now are going
to be able to go to a beautiful the-
atre and watch movies the way
they’re supposed to be watched:
on a big screen,” he said.
The smell of buttery popcorn
filled the air as confetti rained
down through the multistorey
atrium where Mr. Aron and Saudi
Minister of Culture and Informa-
tion Awwad al-Awwad an-
nounced the launch and proceed-
ed into the 450-seat hall.
The kingdom shuttered cine-
mas in the early 1980s under pres-
sure from Islamists as Saudi so-
ciety embraced a severe form of
Islam. Saudis have nonetheless
been avid consumers of Western
media and culture. Hollywood
films and television series are
widely watched at home and pri-
vate film screenings have been
largely tolerated for years.
A mime actor stands behind a model vintage camera at the entrance of the AMC cinema in Riyadh on
Wednesday. BANDAR AL-JALOUD/SAUDI ROYAL PALACE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES REUTERS

Canada should implement Son says widowed mother is subject of unjust

national pharmacare: probe by Iranian agency that arrested father
parliamentary committee MICHELLE ZILIO who have asked her to meet them exhausting all avenues to help ex-
PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER at Tehran’s Evin Prison, where her pedite the situation but to be hon-
KELLY GRANT OTTAWA husband died in February. est, it doesn’t sound very promis-
HEALTH REPORTER “Obviously we don’t want our ing at the moment,” Ramin said.
mom to go there. We told her un- Last month, Foreign Affairs
The son of a Canadian-Iranian der no circumstances are you go- Minister Chrystia Freeland called
Canada should replace its patchwork of private and public professor who died under suspi- ing to that horrible place,” he said. on Iran to allow Ms. Mombeini to
drug plans with a national single-payer pharmacare system, cious circumstances in an Iranian Prof. Seyed-Emami taught so- return to Canada. Ms. Freeland
according to a parliamentary committee that spent two prison says his widowed mother ciology at Imam Sadegh Universi- has also requested a one-on-one
years studying an issue that could be pivotal in the next is now being unjustly investigat- ty in Tehran and conducted envi- discussion with her Iranian coun-
federal election. ed by the country’s most powerful ronmental research as managing terpart, Javad Zarif, which has yet
In a report released Wednesday, the all-party committee security institution – the same director of the Persian Heritage to happen. The Canadian govern-
on health made 18 recommendations, including expanding agency that arrested his father Wildlife Foundation. He died in ment says it is using all diplomat-
the Canada Health Act to cover prescription drugs dispensed earlier this year. Evin Prison after he was arrested ic channels at its disposal, includ-
outside of hospitals; creating a unified list of drugs that In an interview with The Globe in January on what his family says ing the Canadian mission at the
would qualify for public coverage; and asking the provinces, and Mail Wednesday, Ramin were unsubstantiated allegations United Nations, to push for Ms.
territories and the federal government to share the cost of a Seyed-Emami said the intelli- of spying. Prof. Seyed-Emami’s ar- Mombeini’s return to Canada.
national pharmacare program. The goal, the committee gence arm of the notorious Islam- rest was part of an Iranian crack- Speaking on background, a se-
said, would be to ensure all Canadians get the medications ic Revolutionary Guard Corps has down on environmentalists. nior Canadian government offi-
they need, while also reining in the country’s per-capita drug opened a national-security case The Seyed-Emami family – all cial said Ms. Mombeini’s case is
spending and drug prices, both of which are among the against his mother, Maryam Iranian-Canadian citizens – de- the sole focus of Ottawa’s current
highest in the world. Mombeini. Ms. Mombeini was cided to flee Iran because they dealings with Iran. Canada has no
“This is step one,” said Bill Casey, the Liberal MP who barred from leaving Iran when were facing harassment, threats formal diplomatic relations with
chairs the committee. “This [report] answers the question – she tried to flee with her sons in and smear campaigns for reject- Iran, as the two countries severed
and I believe the testimony was very convincing – that a March after her husband, Kavous ing Iranian authorities’ claim that ties in 2012, when the former Con-
national pharmacare program will give us better health care Seyed-Emami, mysteriously died their husband and father died by servative government closed the
at a lower cost.” in an Iranian prison. suicide in prison. Canadian embassy in Tehran and
Pharmacare is expected to loom large in the 2019 election. “They’ve opened up a national- Iranian authorities confiscated kicked Iranian diplomats out of
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has recruit- security case against her saying Ms. Momebeini’s Iranian pass- Canada. The official said efforts to
ed former Ontario health minister Eric Hoskins to lead a that she’s complicit in the alleged port at the airport on March 8, re-establish diplomatic relations
national advisory panel on how to implement pharmacare. accusations of espionage [against moments before she was sched- are essentially on hold until Ms.
Dr. Hoskins’s final report is due next spring, setting the her husband],” Ramin said. uled to board a Vancouver-bound Mombeini is allowed to leave
Liberals up to make his recommendations a key plank in “We’re really worried that, any flight with her sons. She told her Iran.
their re-election platform. moment, she could be taken sons to board the plane without Meanwhile, the Seyed-Emami
The NDP, which has long advocated for national pharma- away.” her and has been barred from brothers continue to press for
care, is expected to campaign on the issue, too. Ramin, who now lives with leaving Iran since. their mother’s return to Canada,
The challenge for Dr. Hoskins will be figuring out how to friends in Vancouver after fleeing Ramin said his family has been launching a #BringMaryam-
turn Canada’s hodgepodge of provincial public drug plans Iran, said his mother continues to in regular contact with the Cana- Home campaign. Ramin, a musi-
and private-insurance plans into a coherent national system languish in Tehran. He said she is dian government officials work- cian, will hold two concerts in To-
that covers everyone, saves money and garners the backing facing a “bureaucratic run- ing on his mother’s consular case. ronto and Vancouver in May to
of a dizzying array of competing interests. around” from Iranian officials, “We’re … hoping that they’re raise funds for his family’s ordeal.
Dr. Hoskins said Wednesday that the committee’s report –
which is the latest in a long line of pharmacare studies –
gives him a solid start for his work.
“The members of the committee all agreed that the cur-
rent approach to provide for accessibility and affordability of
prescribed medicines is not adequate,” Dr. Hoskins told The
Globe and Mail in an interview. “It’s certainly a significant
contribution toward realizing the goal or the vision of na-
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Kinder Morgan
CEO acknowledges
pipeline plan
‘may be untenable’
JEFF LEWIS
Kinder Morgan Inc. is in talks to salvage the
Trans Mountain pipeline, but the compa-
ny’s chief executive sees no sign that fierce
opposition to the project is relenting.
Houston-based Kinder Morgan has
warned it will scrap the $7.4-billion expan-
sion by June 1 unless it gets assurances it
can complete construction without fur-
ther delays.
CEO Steve Kean told analysts on
Wednesday the company halted non-es-
sential spending on the project last week
because “it’s become clear the investment
may be untenable” for a private company.
“The events of the last 10 days have con-
firmed those views,” he said, citing signif-
icant differences between governments
that are outside the company’s control.
He said talks with Ottawa and the Alber-
ta government were under way even as the
company warned it could take a significant
financial hit should the project be termi-
nated.
The growing dispute over the pipeline
has exploded into an all-out trade war pit-
ting oil-rich Alberta against British Colum-
bia, which is opposed to the expansion on
environmental grounds.
Major oil sands producers argue the
plan to nearly triple capacity on the exist-
ing westbound pipeline would help ease
price discounts that have plagued the in-
dustry for years.
Legislation:
Ottawa isn’t picking
a fight with just
B.C., Horgan says
FROM A1
In an effort to blunt the impact of B.C.’s ref-
erence to the courts, Ottawa is preparing
legislation that would not only declare fed-
eral jurisdiction over the project, but give
it added clout to enforce it.
Mr. Carr said the government has not
yet decided the exact nature of the legisla-
tion.
“We assert the federal jurisdiction that
has been asserted by us before and it also
has been commented upon by courts in
Canada including the Supreme Court,” Mr.
Carr said.
B.C. Premier John Horgan told reporters
he will await details of the federal bill be-
fore responding, but warned that Ottawa is
not picking a fight solely with his govern-
ment.
“I know other provinces, particularly
Quebec, will be acutely interested in the
federal government trampling on provin-
cial rights − while we are trying to establish
those rights,” Mr. Horgan said in Victoria.
University of Saskatchewan law profes-
sor Dwight Newman said Ottawa has sev-
eral options, but the strongest case would
be to declare “paramountcy” over the pro-
ject, which would allow it to override any
provincial legislation that is inconsistent
with Ottawa’s approval of it.
“If the federal government said they
were going to completely regulate how this
pipeline works, then if there is a conflict
between the provincial and the federal law,
the federal law has paramountcy.”
Bruce Ryder, a law professor at York Uni-
versity’s Osgoode Hall, said Ottawa can use
the law to signal that it will not allow prov-
inces or municipalities to frustrate the
pipeline construction.
Mr. Ryder said B.C. could challenge the
legislation in court, creating more uncer-
tainty. He added, however, that solid case
law backs federal authority.
“It won’t be popular in Quebec,” Mr.
Ryder said. “It’s a rather heavy-handed as-
sertion of the primacy of federal jurisdic-
tion because it cuts against the idea of co-

The growing dispute over the

pipeline has exploded into an
all-out trade war pitting oil-rich
Alberta against British Columbia,
which is opposed to the
expansion on environmental
grounds.
But the project is strongly opposed by
environmentalists, municipalities and
coastal First Nations who fear consequenc-
es of a major oil spill on the West Coast.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has
sought to mediate the fracas while pledg-
ing to provide financial backing to Kinder
Morgan to ensure the project proceeds.
However, the warring NDP govern-
ments of Alberta and B.C. have shown few
signs of a détente.
B.C. Environment Minister George Hey-
man said on Wednesday that the province
would file a reference case by April 30 with
the provincial court of appeal to find out
whether it has jurisdiction to regulate
movement of diluted bitumen through its
territory. It is unclear how long that could
take.
Meanwhile, Alberta introduced legisla-
tion this week that would enable the prov-
ince to curtail fuel and oil shipments to the
coast. B.C.’s Attorney-General has called
the potential embargo a bluff and threat-
ened to sue if Alberta proceeds.
The possibility of further delays has
dimmed prospects for Trans Mountain
and prompted some financial analysts to
play down the importance of the multibil-
lion-dollar expansion to Kinder Morgan’s
outlook.
The company reiterated on Wednesday
that B.C.’s assertion of “broad jurisdiction”
to stop the project has stoked uncertainty
and warned that costs associated with ter-
minating the expansion, including finan-
cial impairments, would have a “signifi-
cant effect” on its Canadian subsidiary.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley listens during a news conference in Ottawa on Sunday. JUSTIN TANG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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operative federalism and frustrates the ex-
pression of democracy at the provincial
and municipal level.”
Environment Minister George Heyman
said B.C.’s constitutional reference case
will be filed by April 30, and his govern-
ment will pursue it regardless of the ruling
in a Federal Court of Appeal lawsuit ex-
pected in the coming weeks.
Mr. Heyman said the province
wants to know whether it can reg-
ulate the flow of oil whatever Kin-
der Morgan decides to do.
“This process is about B.C.’s
I know other
right under the constitution to
regulate against the deleterious provinces,
impacts on the environment, on particularly Quebec, Morgan is.
the economy, on provincial inter- will be acutely
ests of a project, whether it is an
interested in the
interprovincial project, or a pro-
vincial project,” he told reporters federal government strict fossil-fuel shipments out-
on Wednesday. trampling on
The case will head to B.C.’s provincial rights −
Court of Appeal, the highest op- while we are trying consumers.
tion available to a provincial gov-
ernment. A ruling could be chal- to establish those
lenged at the Supreme Court of rights.
Canada. Ottawa can file such a
case directly to the Supreme JOHN HORGAN
PREMIER OF
Court. BRITISH COLUMBIA
Mr. Heyman declined to reveal
details of what the government
will ask the court.
B.C. Attorney-General David Eby would
not speculate on how long the reference
case will take. The province will notify Ot-
tawa to give the federal government and
other provinces the opportunity to apply
for standing in the case. First Nations, in-
dustry and others may also intervene.
Then court will set dates for hearings.
“It’s up to the court when the matter is
B.C. Premier John Horgan answers a question during a media event in Vancouver in February. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
heard and how long it takes them to deter-
mine the question,” Mr. Eby said.
Alberta Energy Minister Margaret
McCuaig-Boyd said she’s not surprised the
British Columbia government continues
to “play political games” and erode inves-
tor confidence in Canada.
“We are prepared to pull the rug out
from under them,” she told reporters in
Edmonton on Wednesday.
In explanation, Ms. McCuaig-
Boyd said if Alberta and Ottawa
decide to invest in the pipeline
expansion project, they will be
much more “determined and re-
lentless” investors than Kinder
On Monday, Alberta intro-
duced legislation that would give
the province new powers to re-
side the province, which could
cause fuel prices to spike for B.C.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
who maintains the pipeline will
be built, attempted to mediate
the dispute on Sunday with Mr.
Horgan and Alberta Premier Ra-
chel Notley. But the meeting had
no effect on either side’s position.
The reference case will be
the latest court case involving the pipe-
line.
Last spring, more than a dozen cases
challenging the federal government’s ap-
proval of the pipeline filed by First Nations,
environmental groups and local govern-
ments were combined, with a trial in the
Federal Court of Appeal held in October.
B.C. and Alberta both joined as interve-
nors.
NEWS | A9
Pipeline fight
boils down to
a political contest
in appearing tough
CAMPBELL
CLARK
OPINION
OTTAWA
istorians take note: This is the
H
week when two western pre-
miers threatened to cut off oil to
a third that wouldn’t recognize
total federal jurisdiction over the flow of
oil. One of them, Saskatchewan Premier
Scott Moe, insisted a Liberal prime minis-
ter named Trudeau should be doing more
to assert federal influence over a recal-
citrant province.
The historians who chronicled Pierre
Trudeau’s long-hated National Energy
Program would not have seen that com-
ing, even if some of the emotions being
expressed now feel similar. This time,
western province is pitted against western
province, with political shots fired over
the fence.
British Columbia angered Alberta by
threatening to ask a court if it can thwart
the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion,
Alberta responded by threatening to cut
off the flow of oil, B.C. threatened to get
an injunction, and Saskatchewan an-
nounced it would join in with its own leg-
islation to turn off the taps.
It’s interprovincial mayhem. But it’s
not a constitutional crisis. The questions
at play now are not about who has juris-
diction, but who looks like they are taking
a loud, tough stand for their side. This
latest spate of tit-for-tat threats can’t do
much but make a bunch of lawyers rich.
Albertans, to be sure, are understan-
dably frustrated that an approved pipe-
line is still being threatened by a potential
B.C. legal challenge, particularly as so
many see the project as key to solidifying
a recovery from economic woes the prov-
ince has suffered since oil prices fell in
2014.
B.C.’s Environment Minister, George
Heyman, has admitted that NDP govern-
ment has known since it came to power
last summer that stopping the Trans
Mountain expansion (TMX) was beyond
its jurisdiction, but it’s still asking a court
what powers it might have. It’s a long
shot, but B.C. Premier John Horgan prom-
ised to fight TMX, his government needs
Green Party support to survive, and the
court reference will make it look like he’s
fighting.
That’s not a constitutional crisis. The
courts will eventually settle B.C.’s case. It
caused a panic only because pipeline pro-
moter Kinder Morgan said that, amid all
the other risks, it doesn’t want to shoul-
der that one – and it set a May 31 deadline
for that risk to be lifted. Alberta Premier
Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau have already said they’ll take the
only step in their power to meet the con-
dition – backstopping the company with
public money.
But this is politics, and that’s not
enough. Ms. Notley had briefly threatened
to ban B.C. wine, and given the Opposi-
tion Leader she faces, United Conserva-
tive Leader Jason Kenney, she can’t go too
far in proposing punishments for B.C.
Mr. Kenney has called on Ottawa to cut
B.C. off transfer payments, and to halt fed-
eral funding of B.C. infrastructure pro-
jects. But no matter the impact, Mr. Hor-
gan is not breaking any rules. The Prime
Minister of Canada can’t cut off money for
B.C. sewage plants because the Premier
plans to ask a court what jurisdiction he
might (but probably doesn’t) have.
That’s obviously frustrating for Alberta.
It’s not surprising somebody thought of
letting B.C. freeze in the dark. Ms. Notley,
in a bid to look tough on B.C., put forward
Bill 12 to cut off oil. Saskatchewan’s Mr.
Moe learnt from predecessor Brad Wall
that it’s popular to look like you’re stand-
ing up for resource jobs, so he’s going to
follow suit.
But it’s not going to be more than a
symbol. Such laws have to cut off all oil
“exports” from a province, not just those
to B.C. A ban would actually hurt Alber-
ta’s oil industry. If Alberta went ahead, it
would face a court challenge, and by the
time it’s settled, Kinder Morgan’s May 31
deadline would probably have passed. Mr.
Horgan would have every reason to hang
on till then.
This isn’t, for all the ugliness, an epic
battle over disputed powers: Mr. Horgan
has made it clear he will accept the court
ruling. Kinder Morgan’s deadline means
the real question is whether the company
will accept Alberta and Ottawa’s financial
deal and proceed, letting the courts even-
tually decide. In the meantime, this is a
political contest to look tough.
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EDITORIAL PUBLISHER AND CEO

DAVID WALMSLEY
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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

Privacy laws
should apply
to parties, too
n Tuesday, backbench Liberal MP Frank Baylis de-

O scribed Canada’s current legal framework govern-

ing online platforms like Facebook as the “Wild
West.” He’s right.
As we’ve seen from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and
from Facebook’s own admissions about how much data it is
collecting, even from people who don’t use its service, any-
thing goes at the moment.
But at the same time, there is also nothing to control how
Canadian political parties collect and use the vast amounts of
data they gather to target, sway and mobilize voters.
The good news is there is a simple solution to that partic-
ular problem. Both Liberal and Conservative members of the
Commons privacy committee expressed support this week
for calls to subject political parties to federal privacy laws.
That’s a good idea. Making parties play by the same data-
collection and protection rules as banks and airlines – and
subjecting them to the possibility of being investigated by
the privacy commissioner’s office – holds both practical and
symbolic value.
It won’t fix all the problems with the untamed online fron-
tier – a broader legislative reform is required for that – but it’s
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
a start. And there’s an urgent need to get moving on this.
REALITY, TETHERED AND NOT
New research from the 2016 U.S. election suggests targeted,
highly partisan messages both from political parties and out-
A letter writer, who asserts that
side organizations – particularly those that traffic in fake
the Trans Mountain extension
news – might be able to sway sufficient numbers of voters to has become “an emotive symbol,
untethered to economic reality,”
swing a close election.
delivers a stern message to Alber-
In February, researchers at Ohio State University published ta to institute a sales tax (Pipeline
a paper – it has yet to be peer-reviewed – that found that Scars – letters, April 18).
A former B.C. premier, Bill Ben-
small but significant numbers of swing voters in Democratic nett, once famously said that in
states believed it was “definitely true” or “probably true” that B.C. there is a very vocal minority
and a large silent majority. I still
Hillary Clinton was in failing health (12 per cent), or approved believe that. Many of us silently
arms sales to ISIS (20 per cent), or that Pope Francis endorsed support Alberta’s right to move
its products to market and the
Donald Trump’s candidacy (eight per cent). Constitution’s role in this. We un-
All those stories are canards, but those who believed them derstand that Canada benefits
from the safe and responsible
were more than three times as likely to flip their vote. The production and shipment of nat-
authors concluded it is “highly likely” that distorted and fake ural resources. We owe our stan-
dard of living to that very fact.
news affected the outcome. We don’t chain ourselves to
In a data memo published last month, academics at Ox- fences, but we respect the right of
others to protest civilly.
ford University found that junk news, i.e. “ideological extre- Raising taxes while shutting
mism, misinformation and the intention to persuade readers down the safe transport of re-
sources to market as a remedy for
to respect or hate a candidate or policy based on emotional
maintaining our high standard of
appeals,” outperforms real news in terms of reach when dis- living in Canada is hardly a solu-
tion. In fact, one might reasona-
seminated by so-called “bots” on social media (they specifi-
bly conclude that it is “untethered
cally examined the state of Michigan in 2016). to economic reality.”
A forthcoming study in the journal Political Communica- Christopher Ryan
Vancouver
tion, peer-reviewed this time, tracked more than five-million
targeted political ads on Facebook in the six weeks leading up Prof. Kevin Milligan says the Can-
adian middle class has, due to re-
to the 2016 U.S. election. source development, been able to
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found push back at adverse economic
pressures “better than [in] al-
122 groups that purchased and ran commercials on hot-but- most any other advanced econo-
ton subjects – guns, race, terrorism and the like – that were my on Earth” (Resource Jobs Are
Sustaining Canada’s Middle Class.
unknown to federal electoral regulators. One-sixth had links Period; April 17).
to the Russian-funded Internet Research Agency, which has In many countries, Japan, Ger-
many, France, the Benelux coun-
previously turned its sights on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tries, Austria, Denmark, Finland,
and projects like the Keystone XL pipeline. Sweden, Switzerland, the middle
class has done as well without re-
The environment in which political campaigns are fought
source developments anywhere
matters. What the American example shows is the contours near the scale of Canada’s on a per
capita basis. That then raises the
of that environment are shifting in our polarized and parti-
question of whether overreliance
san online world, and much of it is happening beyond our on resource development has
view, because fake news campaigns are only seen by relative- kept Canada from realizing more
of its potential. Holland, after sig-
ly small numbers of carefully targeted voters. nificant, but as it turned out rela-
For all we know, sub rosa online influence campaigns are tively short-lived natural gas dis-
coveries, fell into a comfort trap -
conditioning Canada’s increasingly acrimonious pipeline de- manufacturing declined - that
bate, or the provincial election campaign currently unfolding caused quite a severe economic
slump for a time. It was referred to
in Ontario. There is no way to tell. as the Dutch disease.
What Canada needs is laws governing internet companies, A further question that arises is
whether the Canadian citizenry
something the European Union has already put in place. But at large is getting adequately
that will take time. In the interim, the Trudeau government compensated by the extractors of
our resources. Should our general
should take up Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien’s sug- standard of living not be substan-
gestion to extend the Personal Information Protection and tially higher if benefits from our
resource developments were dis-
Electronic Documents Act to political parties. And it should tributed in an egalitarian man-
do it before the 2019 federal election. ner?
Hal C. Hartmann
Mr. Therrien said this week the government has made
West Vancouver
overtures, “but I still do not see a very clear intent to act.”
Let the B.C. bastards freeze in the
If this basic reform does not materialize, Canada’s political
dark probably isn’t the best open-
parties will appear to have placed their strategic interests ing line if Alberta Premier Rachel
ahead of setting an example, and of launching the broader Notley wants agreement on her
pipeline …
effort to tame the lawlessness of the online world. Eric Pelletier
Toronto
STOP THE ART RIVALRY
Re National Gallery Brushes Off
Pitch From Museums To Share
David Painting (April 18): Marc
Mayer, director of the National
Gallery of Canada, seems to re-
gard the sale of Marc Chagall’s The
Eiffel Tower and purchase of Jac-
ques-Louis David’s Saint Jerome
Hears the Trumpet of the Last Judg-
ment as his own personal transac-
tion rather than that of a major
national institution. His refusal to
consider joint ownership of the
David with two Quebec museums
betrays a remarkable insensitivi-
ty to French Canada – yes, a “five-
minute walk away” in Gatineau
across the Ottawa River – as well
as to the needs of his own institu-
tion, since joint purchase would
remove the need to deaccession
the Chagall.
Ken Dewar
Halifax
So, Marc Mayer doesn’t “really un-
derstand what the big deal is”
with the National Gallery acquir-
ing sole ownership of the David
painting? Competing with two
other galleries in Canada which
appear to have a prima facie case
for ownership, using the issue of
geography as a counterweight to
history and culture, selling off a
masterpiece of international stat-
ure, and dismissing such con-
cerns with cavalier bravado cer-
tainly raises my concerns about
his definition of the word “ na-
tional” in the institution he leads.
Jane Tudor
Ottawa
It is eminently possible that the
Quebec museums will be able to
raise sufficient funds for the Da-
vid’s purchase by mid-June. Were
that to prove to be the case, the
National Gallery’s sale of the Cha-
gall in mid-May would have been
for nothing. Canada would end
up losing a Chagall with nothing
to show in exchange.
Instead of shrugging his shoul-
ders, it is surely incumbent on MP
Sean Casey, parliamentary secre-
tary for Canadian Heritage, to in-
tervene to try to sort out this sorry
mess. Given what’s at stake, al-
lowing the various museum par-
ties to indulge in an interim game
of phone tag seems a flagrant
abrogation of responsibility. If
not this, just what is his purpose?
Alan Scrivener
Cornwall, Ont.
Marc Mayer argues that the David
is too old and fragile to be shut-
tled back and forth like the child
of divorced parents. Does he envi-
sage the painting spending the
week in Montreal and travelling
to Ottawa for the weekend?
Mr. Mayer went on to say that, if
the National Gallery acquired the
painting, he would be willing to
lend it out to other Canadian gal-
leries. Surely this would involve
exposing it to the dangers of be-
ing shuttled about just as much as
joint ownership? It strikes me
that the dismissal of joint owner-
ship involves more than simple
concern for an old and fragile
painting. It looks like institution-
al rivalry. If it is, then the refusal to
accept joint ownership is a disser-
vice to gallery-goers and to the
Canadian public.
Alan McCullough
Ottawa
PLAYERS LIKE MARCHAND
Re We Need Players Like Mar-
chand, Even If The NHL Won’t Ad-
mit It (Sports, April 18): Cathal
Kelly does a good job of character-
izing Brad Marchand’s impact
and manner, but is somewhat dis-
missive of his skill and value as a
player. Mr. Kelly says Mr. Mar-
chand is expected to “score the
odd goal,” which is a long way
from what he actually achieves.
He was the leading scorer with
the Bruins this year, only one goal
behind the team’s leading scorer.
Mr. Kelly also says Mr. Mar-
chand is a long way from the most
skilled player in this (playoff) se-
ries, even though he has scored
one goal to go with his fives assists
in three games played.
Mr. Marchand can be a differ-
ence-maker with any team he
plays on and is often compared to
players such as Doug Gilmour,
which puts him in very good com-
pany among skilled players.
Stuart Wright
Trenton, Ont.
It’s a sad day for hockey and a sad
day for hockey skills if hockey
needs violence, to say nothing of
the role models professional ath-
letes set for our youth.
Lionel Miskin
Toronto
KEEP RIGHT
Re Where The Sidewalk Ends
(First Person, April 18): Essayist
Dianne Scott totally captures the
frustration of my daily walks to
work in Toronto’s core. Don’t get
me started on the nightmare that
is the underground Path system
when you are trying to travel up-
stream against the GO Train
hordes at rush hour. I’ve been
tempted to wear a sandwich
board displaying the traffic sym-
bol for Keep Right. How ironic
that as the pendulum in our polit-
ical discourse and choices sweeps
right, everyone seems to want to
keep left. If only this were an early
sign of a reverse swing!
C.A. Taylor
Toronto
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OPINION
Why is Canada angering the Russian bear?
Provoking Putin is not
in our interests
as an Arctic nation
KONRAD
YAKABUSKI
OPINION
anada’s approach toward
C Russia and its strongman
President Vladimir Putin
has come full circle since the 2015
election. We’ve blown cold and
warm and cold again, with gov-
ernmental and ministerial chang-
es in Ottawa underscoring how
personalities and domestic poli-
tics, not longer-term strategic ob-
jectives, dictate our foreign poli-
cy.
The hostile approach taken by
former Conservative prime min-
ister Stephen Harper, who fa-
mously told Mr. Putin to “get out
of Ukraine” at a G20 meeting in
2014, has also been embraced by
Liberal Foreign Affairs Minister
Chrystia Freeland. It was Ms. Free-
land, after all, who last year lump-
ed Mr. Putin in with North Korea’s
dictator and the Islamic State as
“clear strategic threats to the lib-
eral democratic world, including
Canada.”
In between Mr. Harper and Ms.
Freeland came Stéphane Dion,
Resentment fuels the fires of political machismo
IAN BURUMA
OPINION
Editor of The New York Review
of Books
arts of the world are experi-
P encing eruptions of hyper-
masculinity. The President
of the United States presents him-
self as a kind of caveman, beating
his chest, grabbing women “by
the pussy” and roaring like a great
ape. Canadian psychology profes-
sor Jordan Peterson has attracted
countless young male followers
by telling them to stand up
straight, fight the liberal softies,
reassert their male authority and
restore the old social hierarchies
that he believes are forces of na-
ture. Mr. Peterson is a slightly
more couth version of another
male self-help guru, Julien Blanc,
who caused a scandal a few years
ago by stating that women enjoy
being taken by force.
Such eruptions have occurred
before in a more politically toxic
manner. In Italy between the two
world wars, Benito Mussolini
made himself the focus of a mas-
culine cult: the Great Leader in
riding boots, hands planted firm-
ly on his leather belt, dominating
the Italian public as though it
were his submissive mistress.
Other fascist leaders in Europe
followed Mussolini’s example.
Obsessed by a sense of national
decadence, of cultures growing
soft, they sought to invigorate
their people with shows of theat-
rical manliness. Adolf Hitler’s de-
scription of the Hitler Youth put
the manly ideal succinctly: “Fast
Make Mali about peacekeeping, not politics
LEWIS MacKENZIE
OPINION
A retired major-general and the first
commander of UN peacekeeping
forces in Sarajevo
o, the United Nations has of-
S ficially requested Canada
provide helicopter support
to its floundering “peacekeeping”
mission in Mali. Okay, but that is
not the full story – far from it. You
see, the UN never makes a formal
public request for support from a
country that is turned down. This
would be too embarrassing for
both parties.
In this case, Canada spent an
enormous amount of time and ef-
fort to study, research, liaise, trav-
el and debate internally before it
publicly promised to contribute a
modest force of some 600 souls to
help out somewhere in the multi-
tude of possibilities in Africa. The
UN was pleased with the expecta-
tion that a small battalion of our
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s
first foreign affairs minister, who
sought to reset Canada-Russia
relations before getting turfed
from cabinet.
“Canada’s severing of ties with
Russia had no positive conse-
quences for anyone: not for Cana-
dians, not for the Russian people,
not for Ukraine and not for global
security,” Mr. Dion said in early
2016. “Canada must stop being
essentially the only one practis-
ing an empty-chair policy with
Russia, because by doing so, we
are only punishing ourselves.”
It’s now clear, however, that
Mr. Dion was not speaking for Mr.
Trudeau when he gave his 2016
speech and articulated the doc-
trine labelled “responsible con-
viction” that was to guide
Canada’s foreign policy under
him.
In a new book on Canadian for-
eign policy in the Trudeau era,
former Dion adviser Jocelyn Cou-
lon describes a mid-2016 PMO
meeting attended by the Prime
Minister and Ms. Freeland in
which Mr. Dion made the case for
rapprochement in advance of a
pending meeting with Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Businesses in Quebec had been
complaining about being shut
out of the Russian market be-
cause Canada had joined other
countries to impose sanctions
after Mr. Putin’s annexation of
Crimea, while France continued
An Italian soccer fan in Rome holds a flag with a picture of Benito
Mussolini. In Italy between the two world wars, Mussolini made himself
the focus of a masculine cult. TONY GENTILE/REUTERS
as greyhounds, tough as leather
and hard as Krupp steel.”
Fascists commonly portrayed
Jews as a pernicious force that
threatened, through wicked ma-
nipulation, to undermine the
health of countries and dominate
highly capable soldiers would be
sent to one of the three major UN
missions to augment the Third
World contingents currently do-
ing the dirty work on the ground.
After months of inexplicable foot
dragging, the private negotia-
tions with the UN resulted in Can-
ada agreeing to a formal request
for some helicopters. The UN was
disappointed, but at least it was
an actual commitment some-
where on the horizon.
Once the modest pledge had fi-
nally been announced, the subse-
quent public political pronoun-
cements contributed even more
to embarrassing our country at
home and abroad. Having taken
more than a year to come up with
the commitment, we were told ad
nauseam that while Mali was the
most dangerous of the UN mis-
sions in Africa, our folks would be
safe by avoiding the IED threat
and ambushes by the insurgents.
Now I come to the crux of the
matter: risk. In any sane planning
process involving deployments
into hostile territory, the first
For Canada, which has
Russia as an Arctic
neighbour, dealing with
the Russians is not a
choice. As the North is
opened up to commerce
and travel, it will
increasingly be our
reality.
the world. This image, barely dis-
guised in the rhetoric of aspiring
strongmen, is still potent in some
parts of Europe. Extending the
hierarchy of the school play-
ground to society, they were the
natural victims of bullies.
question that needs to be answer-
ed is, “What is the aim of the mis-
sion we are about to join?” The
second question must be, “What
is the chance of success?” When
those two questions are answer-
ed in a positive, satisfactory man-
ner, then planning for the Mali
mission should continue.
However, the misleading an-
swer to the first question has
been, “to contribute to the peace
process,” which is ridiculous in
the extreme, as there is no func-
tioning peace process. With re-
gard to the second question, the
answer is “absolutely none.”
When the aim becomes clear
and is determined to be in Cana-
da’s best interests – including the
ethical issue of protecting inno-
cent victims who need our help –
then proceed. Gaza, Sinai, Cyprus,
Cambodia, Sierra Leone, Central
America and Sarajevo are but a
few examples of missions where
risk was accepted as a given.
In the case of Mali, our govern-
ment’s obsession with avoiding
risk and actually advertising such
to sign contracts with Russia.
The meeting, Mr. Coulon
writes, “went badly.” Ms. Freeland
was against any rapprochement
and Mr. Trudeau, “hesitant and
incapable of expressing his
thoughts on Canada-Russian re-
lations,” sided with her. After
that, Mr. Dion was essentially
shunned by his boss, only to be
replaced by Ms. Freeland in early
2017. Since then, Canada has
hardened its stand toward Russia,
passed its own version of the
Magnitsky Act, slapped sanctions
on more Russians and expelled
Russian diplomats.
On the face of it, Ottawa’s ac-
tions seem appropriate given
what is publicly known about re-
cent Russian mischief abroad and
Mr. Putin’s role in orchestrating it.
Global Affairs perhaps has clas-
sified information on Russia, re-
layed by allies, on which Ms. Free-
land has based her claim that
Russian diplomats here sought
“to interfere with our democra-
cy.” But all Mr. Trudeau offered
this month when pressed to pro-
vide evidence of that were the “ef-
forts by Russian propagandists to
discredit our Minister of Foreign
Affairs in various ways through
social media by sharing scurri-
lous stories about her.”
These are apparently related to
Ms. Freeland’s grandfather, who
oversaw a pro-Nazi newspaper in
occupied Poland during the Sec-
ond World War, a fact Ms. Free-
The elevation of violence and
hypervirility was not confined to
the Western world. The grotesque
forms of Japanese militarism in
the 1930s are well enough known.
But what happened in India at
roughly the same time is not. Rad-
ical Hindu nationalists founded
the Rashtriya Swayamsevak
Sangh (RSS), a voluntary Hindu
nationalist paramilitary organi-
zation that remains a strong influ-
ence on the ruling Bharatiya Jana-
ta Party today.
Although eruptions of hyper-
masculinity may occur at more or
less the same time in different
parts of the world, they come
about for a variety of reasons.
They usually stem from humili-
ation, or the fear of humiliation.
The Hindu nationalists in India
were reacting, understandably
enough, to the shame of colonial
subjugation. Many Germans, es-
pecially men who had served in
the armed forces, felt humiliated
by defeat in the First World War
and the harsh terms imposed on
their country by the allied govern-
ments. They wanted revenge, not
only on the victorious allies but
also on the liberals and Jews who
had supposedly betrayed them.
The French who started radical
right-wing movements such as
Action Française at the end of the
nineteenth century were still
smarting from defeat in the Fran-
co-Prussian War of 1871. Reaction-
ary French intellectuals dreamed
of reinvigorating the country.
Some were so tormented by the
idea of French decadence that
they welcomed the German inva-
sion in 1940 as a necessary shock
that would restore manly virtues.
So why today’s outbreak of po-
is a clear indication that the deci-
sion makers do not believe the
objective is achievable. Regarding
the chance of success, the predict-
ed end to the Canadian mission is
our own self-declared end date of
one year – no matter how serious
the situation is on the ground or
in the air at the time. Success has
nothing to do with our departure.
Mali is a classic dog’s breakfast.
In fact, it’s a dog’s breakfast dis-
covered after he’s been sick. First,
there is the on-again, off-again
civil war that’s been raging since
the coup born of NATO’s ill-
founded attack on Moammar
Gadhafi’s forces in 2011. Second,
there are competing insurgencies
and terrorist groups sometimes
fighting each other and other
times linking up to advance their
own short-term self-interests.
There are multiple international
missions operating in the coun-
try with different aims, some of
which are actually achievable:
the mission of the effective
French operation is to kill as
many of the insurgents as possi-
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land’s Russian critics have sought
to exploit, twist and amplify for
their own purposes.
Still, Mr. Coulon makes a con-
vincing case that Canada has for
too long allowed diaspora politics
and fealty toward the Americans
shape its approach toward the
Russians. Little consideration has
been made of the longer-term
consequences of inviting former
Soviet satellites to join the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Jean Chrétien proposed Ukraine’s
entry into NATO in 1994 because,
in the former Liberal prime min-
ister’s own words, “a million Can-
adians have Ukrainian roots.” The
Ukrainian diaspora in Canada, of
which Ms. Freeland is a proud
member, has only grown larger
and more electorally critical since
then.
NATO’s expansion right up to
Russia’s borders is a provocation
no Russian president could ac-
cept. It is seen in Russia, as Mr.
Coulon notes, as a betrayal of a
promise made in exchange for
Russia’s acceptance of the reuni-
fication of Germany in 1990.
For Canada, which has Russia
as an Arctic neighbour, dealing
with the Russians is not a choice.
As the North is opened up to com-
merce and travel, it will increas-
ingly be our reality. Neither Mr.
Trudeau nor Ms. Freeland, Mr.
Coulon worries, have been think-
ing ahead and Canada risks pay-
ing a heavy price for it.
litical machismo? Why in the
United States? Why in Europe?
Fear of humiliation can have
many causes. Some young men
might feel intimidated by femi-
nist demands for equality. Even
though men still occupy most
leading positions in society, this is
no longer a given. Many young
men seem to crave the reassu-
rance from self-help gurus who
tell them that it is natural for men
to lead. Another target of the ma-
cho right is multiculturalism, and
the presence of Muslims in partic-
ular. The rise of women to posi-
tions of authority in Western so-
cieties is matched by an increase
in the number of successful peo-
ple from non-European back-
grounds. Again, as with Jews in
the past, Muslims today are de-
picted as a danger to Western civi-
lization: zealots and terrorists.
Barack Hussein Obama,
though hardly a softie himself,
represented everything that
many people resent: He was high-
ly educated, liberal, had a Muslim
middle name and his father was
African. Mr. Obama’s presidency,
along with the rise of China, the
visibility of non-Western immi-
grants and the challenges of femi-
nism, showed how much the
world has changed. And so people
chose a tall, blond, swaggering,
president who promised that he
would change it all back again.
And yet, somehow, Mr.
Trump’s hypermasculinity is dis-
tinctly unconvincing. Despite his
rants and bluster, one still has the
impression that behind that
facade of pumped-up machismo
lurks a frightened little white man
who knows that he is no longer in
control.
ble. For others, it’s to protect
some isolated communities vul-
nerable to attack. Some are not
sure what the aim is, and hunker
down in their base locations. The
compelling and illustrative fact is
that none of them want or will
agree to operate under UN com-
mand and control, realizing that
the UN is experiencing serious
challenges in leading its own
force of 16,000.
Before Canada deploys to Mali,
let’s be told what the actual ob-
jective is. If it’s to support the so-
called stalled peace process,
that’s not good enough. If it was
to be the protection of a small ge-
ographical populated area under
threat, then fine, deploy Cana-
dian boots on the ground to do
so.
If it’s to win some UN brownie
points with a modest, low-risk
contribution for future consider-
ation when it comes time to seek
a non-voting seat on the Security
Council, then stay home. Soldiers
aren’t political pawns – at least
they shouldn’t be.
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Markle:
‘Networker
to her
fingertips’
A new biography of the
future royal depicts her as
ambitious and self-assured …
not that there’s anything
wrong with that
COURTNEY SHEA
s Andrew Morton makes clear in
A his new book, Meghan: A Holly-
wood Princess, the woman who is
about to marry into the world’s
most famous family business is not your
typical applicant. She may have grown up
“worshipping” Princess Diana – a nostalgic
detail that the author drops in the book’s
opening chapter. But in the revealing por-
trait that follows, the newest member of
Team Windsor is mostly notable for how
she differs from royal brides past. “In many
ways,” Morton writes, “Meghan is the
woman who Diana strived to be,” by which
the English journalist means confident
and immensely capable, with drive and
ambition that long predate her status as
the most googled woman of 2017. In an in-
terview following the royal engagement
announcement last fall, Prince Harry
whimsically noted how the “stars [had]
aligned” in bringing the couple together.
After reading Morton’s book, it feels rea-
sonable to wonder whether Meghan Mar-
kle may have reached up past the heavens
and aligned those suckers herself.
Certainly her path has always been pur-
pose-driven, and in that sense totally dif-
ferent from that of her future fiancé. An-
other recently released bio, Harry: Life,
Love, and Loss, describes how the Prince
spent his pre-Meghan years bouncing aim-
lessly from failed romance to drunken PR
disaster and back again, whereas in Holly-
wood Princess, Markle comes across as a
woman who left aimlessness behind when
she aged out of nappies. While Morton be-
came famous for getting Princess Diana to
spill first-hand accounts of royal life in se-
cretly recorded sessions, the author gets
no such co-operation from his subject this
time around. Instead, his ability to provide
a comprehensive account of Markle’s early
years comes down to being in the right
place (Pasadena, Calif., where she grew up,
and where Morton now lives for half the
year with his American wife) at the right
time (late 2016, when news of the royal ro-
mance first broke).
Casual chats turned to more formal in-
terviews with those who knew the royal
Exquisitely heart-wrenching, Tony winner Fun Home is a classic in the making
J. KELLY NESTRUCK
THEATRE REVIEW
Fun Home
AT CAA THEATRE IN TORONTO
Book and lyrics by Lisa Kron
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Directed by Robert McQueen
Starring Laura Condlln, Sara Farb
and Hannah Levinson
####
ere’s hoping Fun Home unpacks
H its bags and sticks around for the
summer.
The Musical Stage Company’s
exquisitely emotional Toronto premiere of
the Tony-winning musical adaptation of
cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s memoir
opened on Wednesday – and is somehow
only scheduled at CAA Theatre (formerly
the Panasonic Theatre) until May 6.
But this complicated double coming-
out story that was named the best musical
of 2015 in New York deserves a much longer
run with this A-team of a Canadian cast,
presented as part of the off-Mirvish season.
Told in a swirl of flashbacks to the 1970s
and 80s, playwright Lisa Kron and com-
poser Jeanine Tesori’s musical follows car-
toonist Alison (Laura Condlln) as she re-
flects on the bittersweet time in her life
when she realized she was gay – and at al-
most the exact same moment realized that
her father was gay, too.
“I leapt out of the closet and four
months later, my father killed himself by
stepping in front of a truck,” she tells us
early on.
A lack of suspense in terms of plot
doesn’t mean a lack of power in the story-
telling, however; as in an ancient Greek
tragedy, knowing the destination only
makes the journey there more heart-
wrenching.
While plays based on autobiographies
Meghan Markle, seen in Belfast
in March, is the subject of Andrew
Morton’s Meghan: A Hollywood
Princess, which reveals the ways
she has stood out throughout
her life, defending classmates
from bullies, earning praise
from teachers and vocally
championing feminist causes
even in her adolescence.
CHARLES MCQUILLAN/GETTY IMAGES
Meghan: A Hollywood Princess
BY ANDREW MORTON
GRAND CENTRAL PUBLISHING,
224 PAGES
Evan Buliung and Hannah Levinson star in Fun Home. CYLLA VON TIEDEMANN
often have an indistinct character at the
centre, Fun Home – which has the benefit of
being adapted by two outside eyes – gives
us three beautifully drawn versions of Ali-
son.
Stage veteran Condlln is the adult one,
looking back from the age her father was
when he killed himself, sitting down to
draw what will become her celebrated
graphic memoir; Stratford Festival star Sa-
ra Farb is the college-age one, embarking
on her first love affair with an activist
named Joan (Sabryn Rock) as trouble
brews back home; and 11-year-old Hannah
Levinson (Matilda: The Musical) plays the
youngest one, who only half-understands
her family, herself and the world around
her in small-town Pennsylvania.
That child-like state is where Alison’s fa-
ther, Bruce (Evan Buliung), seems stuck –
alternating between tantrums about keep-
ing the house sparkling clean and rages
fuelled by his inability to keep his own
messiness inside.
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bride “back when.” And pretty soon a pic-
ture emerged – one of an uncommonly fo-
cused self-starter who was tackling social-
justice issues while most girls her age were
picking their favourite Backstreet Boy.
Tweenage Markle organized a protest
against the Gulf War and launched a cam-
paign against the sexism in a Procter &
Gamble dish soap ad, enlisting the support
of more prominent feminists such as Glo-
ria Allred and then-first lady Hillary Clin-
ton. A few years later, she was volunteering
with homeless people at a shelter called
the Hippie Kitchen, and graduating with
awards for “intellectual, artistic and char-
itable work.” (She was also homecoming
queen).
If there are people in Markle’s early life
who recall her as unimpressive or even just
normal, Morton didn’t encounter them.
Instead she is described as “special,” “ex-
traordinary” and a “standout.” A former
classmate talks about how Markle defend-
ed her against schoolyard bullies, while
her high-school theology teacher weighs
in on whether her impressions would be
quite so rose-tinted, were it not for her for-
mer student’s fairy-tale ending. (Answer:
“Absolutely. She is one of the top five out-
standing students of my career.”)
Still, a good heart can only get you so far,
and Morton makes it clear that from early
on, Markle’s social conscience was
matched by her social ambition (or just
ambition, as it’s known in the male world).
Every goal she sets gets her complete fo-
cus, just as every achievement and new re-
lationship becomes a stepping stone to the
Unable or unwilling to face reality,
Bruce puts on a patriarchal persona as best
he can and overloads on work to avoid his
wife, Helen (Cynthia Dale) – teaching En-
glish at the local high school, fixing up her-
itage homes and running the family funer-
al home business he inherited (the “fun
home” of the title).
But Buliung’s thorny, tortured perform-
ance as Bruce goes well beyond victim-
hood – and veteran stage performer Dale
does a fine job of showing the complex col-
lateral damage caused by his (self-)decep-
tion.
Amid the often sombre tone of this sto-
ryline, there is joy in that of Alison’s com-
ing of age in a time when she will not have
to hide. The preternaturally talented Le-
vinson gives an acting master class in a
song called Ring of Keys that explores pre-
teen Alison’s inchoate inner feelings when
she sees a woman in a café (that her older
self recognizes as “an old-school butch”),
while Farb delightfully lets young-adult
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next opportunity. While she was clearly
devoted to her acting career (slugging
away for eight years before finally landing
her big break on Suits), one gets the sense
that for Markle, playing other people was
never as desirable as playing herself. Lev-
eraging her success as a TV star, she
launched her lifestyle brand, the Tig, and a
clothing line with Reitmans. And with the
raised public profile came the chance to do
the important “soul feeding” work with or-
ganizations such as the UN and World Vi-
sion Canada. Had the stars aligned differ-
ently, it’s possible we would now be talking
about Markle as the next Angelina Jolie or
Gwyneth Paltrow or possibly both. In an
anecdote from her starving artist period
(where Markle worked as a calligraphist
and a hostess to make ends meet), she
scores an audition for a bit part in an Ash-
ton Kutcher movie, but when she gets in
front of the casting director, she explains
that she has read the script and thinks she
would be perfect for a bigger role.
Now that she’s taken on her biggest-ever
role, the knives come out and there is cer-
tainly the suggestion that Markle is a self-
serving opportunist (Machiavelli in a mes-
sy bun). Morton describes her as “a net-
worker to her fingertips,” which is either a
compliment or a diss depending on how
you read it. And amidst the fawning re-
membrances, we hear from a few ex-pals
(and one pointedly axe-grinding sibling)
who say Markle’s fixation on her own ever-
brightening prospects could make her cold
and occasionally “ruthless” in relation-
ships. There is one story about how after
dumping her ex-husband (a Hollywood
producer who proved useless in terms of
career prospects), she returned his rings
via registered mail, and a former ex-soror-
ity sister said Markle could at times be “too
aggressive” in her role as recruitment offi-
cer – whatever that means. Obviously in-
cluded to bring dramatic tension to an oth-
erwise scandal-free portrait, these wicked
whispers don’t amount to much, and ulti-
mately say more about the way we view
ambitious women than they do about Mar-
kle herself. Morton doesn’t address this is-
sue explicitly, but it is his book’s unwritten
and totally fitting theme: Given his sub-
ject’s lifelong passion for feminism, how
perfect that a book about her forces the
consideration of outdated gender stereo-
types.
Readers seeking insider details on the
current state of the royal romance will be
disappointed. There is not much on that
subject that we don’t already know from
the daily headlines, save one perfectly tell-
ing tidbit about how Markle took tea les-
sons in California to prepare for her first
meeting with the Queen. Whether this
reads as charming or calculated is left to in-
terpretation. Regardless, it makes her
smart, as Her Majesty is known to be a
stickler about such things.
Given all the hoopla around Markle as
“the people’s princess,” the new Diana,
one unexpected takeaway from Morton’s
book is that she may have just as much in
common with her future granny: A wom-
an who is as shrewd and calculating as they
come, and has never felt the need to apol-
ogize.
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Alison be overcome with happiness as she
sings Changing My Major (to Joan).
As the oldest Alison, Condlln mostly
wanders around the stage remembering
what we’re watching – but when she finally
gets to insert herself into a scene for the
song Telephone Wire, she gives a crushing
rendition of Kron’s poignant pointillist
lyrics about things unsaid to a loved one, to
which anyone will be able to relate.
There are moments of just plain fun to
be had in Fun Home, too – such as the scene
in which the youngest Alison and her two
brothers (cute kids Jasper Lincoln and
Liam MacDonald) record an ad for their
family business on an old-fashioned tape
deck that sounds like a Jackson Five tune.
Tesori’s top-notch score draws omnivo-
rously from the music of the period – and
musical director Reza Jacobs commands
an unseen orchestra of five that sounds
much bigger thanks to multi-instrumen-
talists such as Merlin Williams, whose in-
quisitively butch English horn solos al-
most become a character of their own.
There are a few minor stumbles in direc-
tor Robert McQueen’s otherwise tight pro-
duction: A blindingly white set piece de-
signed by Camellia Koo that distracts at the
opening and end of the show; a fantasy
family number that only comes off as
cheesy due to confusing choreography by
Stephanie Graham; and a supporting per-
formance by Eric Morin as a succession of
young men who attract Bruce’s attention
that sticks out by signalling too much in a
show full of otherwise subtle shading.
But, in the end, with particularly memo-
rable performances by Buliung, Farb and
Condlln – all of whom will no doubt be rec-
ognized when the Dora Mavor Moore
Awards come around – the Musical Stage
Company’s biggest production to date
feels like an unmissable one. Bechdel,
Kron and Tesori’s tale of a family only part-
ly able to change with the times is a classic
in the making – this century’s best answer
so far to Tennessee Williams’s The Glass
Menagerie.
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The damsel who doesn’t do distress
Soprano’s instrument
fits like a glove with
baroque opera, which
seems to sidestep the
sexist slant of its time
JENNA SIMEONOV
or someone who spends so
F much of her time performing
opera written in the 17th and
18th centuries, one would think
that Canadian soprano Mireille
Asselin is accustomed to playing
the caricature of a fragile female.
Surely, it goes like this: The older
the opera, the more in distress the
damsel?
It is, of course, hard to escape
the fact that art written in any pe-
riod will reflect its own contem-
porary views. Yet, opera of the ba-
roque – so strongly rooted in the
stories of Virgil, Ovid and Homer –
seems to sidestep the sexist slant
of its time, telling stories of smart,
ambitious women through the
imaginary and allegorical worlds
of myth.
Although she’s not exclusively
a baroque singer – her Metropoli-
tan Opera debut in 2015 was as
Poussette in Massenet’s Manon –
Asselin’s instrument fits like a
glove with early music. She is a fa-
vourite of Toronto’s historically
informed Opera Atelier, and she
sings often with the Boston Early
Music Festival and other period
ensembles.
“I personally, as a woman, of-
ten enjoy the canon of baroque
opera,” Asselin says. “There were
goddesses and queens and inter-
esting women who take veng-
eance.”
Many sopranos vie for 19th-
century roles such as Lucia di
Lammermoor, Cio-Cio San in
Madama Butterfly or Violetta in La
traviata. These women’s stories
come out of the limitations in
their lives – a dearth of options
and the frustrating social norms
that surrounded them. They are
cornered into tragic situations,
thrust into unwanted marriages,
SP O NSO R CO NTE NT
TAKING INDIGENOUS EDUCATION
BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
children to learn on the land with the guidance of elders and traditional knowledge holders
IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
ACROSS Canada, children learn by
doing.
For example, a community garden
is one of the ways Stephanie Poole, a
member of the Lutsel K’e/Kache Dene
First Nation, teaches young people
about the world around them.
“We grow and harvest our foods
from the land together,” said Poole,
a volunteer teacher in her North-
west Territories community, which
is accessible only by plane, boat or
snowmobile. “The youth learn about
native plants and their medicines.”
Working in the garden also helps
Poole teach students about concepts
like food security and food sovereign-
ty – the need for healthy, affordable
foods in the North that are grown
based on indigenous knowledge and
values.
“And the young people see how
fresh the food is and how good it
tastes,” she said.
Poole – who is also a hide tanner
and organizes an annual camp to
teach youth the traditional skill –
shared her insights at a forum on
indigenous education held recently
in Ottawa. The National Centre for
Collaboration in Indigenous Education
(NCCIE) hosted its first national gather-
ing, with participants contributing
their perspectives on what is impor-
tant in indigenous learning and what
indigenous education means to them.
The NCCIE is an initiative of First Na-
tions University of Canada (FNUniv), a
federated college of the University of
Regina that specializes in indigenous
knowledge. The aim of the NCCIE is
to connect educators, community
members, elders and knowledge
holders, so they can share best prac-
tices for indigenous education in both
academic and land-based settings.
Created in 2017, the NCCIE’s newly-
launched website (nccie.ca) features
stories, insights and information on in-
digenous education gathered by over
120 researchers from across Canada.
Poole spoke as part of a panel of
educators and community members
at the Ottawa forum. Panel partici-
pants emphasized the importance of
experiential learning outside the
classroom with elders and other com-
munity members. While teachings
vary across regions and nations, the
pushed to suicide or stricken with
consumption as some sort of cos-
mic penance for having sex or
finding meagre amounts of inde-
pendence without the help of a
man. “That’s the thing,” Asselin
says with a laugh. “They all get
karmic tuberculosis.”
It’s in baroque opera that Asse-
lin gets to step into a parade of fe-
male roles that are brimming
with agency and strength. She rel-
ishes the chance to sing charac-
ters such as Minerva, the “warrior-
goddess, shaping destinies” in
Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulyss-
es, and Morgana, the bold young-
er sister of the sorceress in Hand-
el’s Alcina. “She’s just a sexed-up
fairy character who chases men.”
Asselin’s current baroque role
is Eurydice in Christoph Willibald
Gluck’s opera Orphée et Eurydice.
She sings opposite countertenor
Siman Chung as Orpheus in
Against the Grain Theatre’s ad-
venturous production directed by
Joel Ivany; titled Orphée+, the
“electronic, baroque burlesque
descent into hell” opens April 26
for a three-day run at Toronto’s
Harbourfront Centre.
Orphée is the 1774 French ver-
sion of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice,
written first in Italian in 1762. It’s
based on a myth that pervades
Greek mythology: Orpheus, the
famed lutenist and son of the god
Apollo, falls in love with Eurydice,
but their love is cut short when
Eurydice dies shortly before their
wedding. Orpheus descends to
the underworld and persuades
Hades to let Eurydice leave with
him and come back to life. Hades
allows it, under the condition that
on their way out of the under-
world, Orpheus may not speak to
or look at Eurydice. The pair al-
most make it out, until Orpheus
loses his resolve, turns to look at
her and Eurydice is swept back
down, gone forever.
Against the Grain’s Orphée+is a
far cry from the kind of work Asse-
lin often does with “historically
informed” companies, where the
aim is to preserve the style of the
time the opera was written. “It’s
all basically educated guesses,”
Asselin says of the interpretive
Successful approaches to indigenous education encourage
Mireille Asselin has performed in more modern roles such as Poussette
in Massenet’s Manon, but her talents – and interests – are well suited
to works from the baroque era. BO HUANG/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
spectrum, a sliding scale that
ranges from exhaustively re-
searched reconstruction to in-
spired reimagination. She loves
the grotesque, bold aesthetic of
the baroque, where expression
takes priority over beauty.
Against the Grain Theatre – a
company well known for turning
traditions on their heads – is treat-
ing Gluck’s opera with a healthy
dose of irreverence; it will likely
be the first time Orphée is per-
formed with burlesque dancers,
aerialists and electronic music.
Particularly so in Gluck’s opera,
Eurydice is a character with chal-
lenging passivity, a role less devel-
oped than Asselin’s usual pick of
baroque queens and goddesses.
Orphée begins with Eurydice’s fu-
neral; the opera follows Or-
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to have
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specialist
pheus’s harrowing trip into the
underworld, and we don’t meet
Eurydice until the final act.
“I find that fascinating, that
this libretto chooses to skip over
all of the exposition of the story,
and it goes straight to postcrisis,”
Asselin says. “That’s an interest-
ing choice, and I wonder why they
chose to do it that way.”
There’s another interpretive
choice woven into the myth of Or-
pheus and Eurydice, which has
the potential to expose one’s
deeply held biases. In some ver-
sions, such as Monteverdi’s 1609
L’Orfeo, Orpheus turns to look at
Eurydice because he doubts she is
truly following him out of the un-
derworld.
In other tellings, such as
Gluck’s Orphée, Eurydice is con-
interconnectedness of education with
language, culture and land emerged
as a strong theme.
“Our languages are so good at
explaining concepts,” said Dr. Paul
Cormier, assistant professor of aborigi-
nal education at Lakehead University
in Thunder Bay and a member of the
Lake Helen First Nations, Red Rock
Indian Band.
“The terminology that comes from
what we learn from the land is so pro-
found,” he said. “When I think about
the times spent on the trap line [while
hunting] with my uncle, that is where
I learned a lot about who I am, the
role of the clan and much more.”
Fran Rogers, head of the Traditional
Paths Society of Grande Prairie, Alta.,
said that all teaching needs to be ex-
periential. “It is touch, taste and feel. It
is looking and hearing and watching,”
she said.
Rogers noted that this kind of
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fused and hurt by Orpheus’s si-
lence and refusal to look at her,
and eventually persuades him to
turn toward her. “She doesn’t
trust that he loves her,” Asselin
adds. “He can’t speak to her, and
therefore that means that he
doesn’t love her any more.”
The Orpheus myth has shades
of meaning, depending on how
you look at it. Some will read a sto-
ry of a man worn down by his own
insecurity; for others, it’s about
how a woman’s doubts throw a
wrench in what is otherwise a
straightforward plan. For those in
search of sexism – passive or oth-
erwise – there’s bias to be found in
the facets of this story.
It’s refreshing that for all her
love for the bold women of the ba-
roque, Asselin is not put off by the
challenge of playing a woman at
the mercy of a man. Opera, for all
its years and traditions, has a his-
tory of empowering women. “I
can only imagine that the theatre
was where women could deign to
attain certain levels of power, and
prestige, and excellence in a
field.”
Indeed, Asselin follows a cen-
turies-long pedigree of women
singing opera professionally, in-
cluding the two women who first
appeared as Gluck’s Eurydice: Lu-
cia Clavereau in Italy and Rosalie
Levasseur in France.
Perhaps that freedom in the in-
dustry, and Asselin’s own inde-
pendence as a successful, sought-
after performer in her own right,
allows her to marvel not at any
thinly veiled opinions on women
in opera, but instead at what’s
true and timeless about a story
such as Orpheus and Eurydice.
“I think that it’s fundamentally
about the trust between these two
people, and their inability to com-
municate in the moment,” Asse-
lin says. “They both succumb to
their humanity, to their doubts
and their fears.”
Orphée+ runs April 26 to 28 at
Toronto’s Fleck Dance Theatre,
Harbourfront Centre
(harbourfrontcentre.com).
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teaching isn’t one-way communica-
tion from teacher to student. It is
interactive and dynamic, designed
to engage students in a way that
classroom instruction cannot.
“Who is doing the teaching is
important too,” added Rogers. “In-
digenous education is the teaching of
deep concepts by people who know
what they mean – and the commu-
nity decides who those people are.”
Successful approaches to indig-
enous education incorporating elders
and knowledge holders abound
across Canada. One example is the
Digital Lodge (digitallodge.ca) in
Thompson, Man. It’s a multi-year
digital storytelling project involving
a group of students from Grade 7
through high school. The youth learn
how to tell their stories, and those of
their community, through video and
animation. At the end of each school
year, the students build a lodge from
local tamarack trees, under the guid-
ance of an elder. The lodge is covered
with a dark cloth and serves as a
cinema for the annual viewing of the
students’ films.
Indigenous cultures, histories
and values need to be embedded
in school systems on a “day-to-day
basis,” said Tom Mugford, an indig-
enous education specialist with the
Newfoundland and Labrador English
School District (NLESD).
“It’s important to tell our stories,
to share traditional knowledge and
ways of knowing,” he said. “We want
our children to have a strong sense
of themselves, a connection with the
elders and our community.”
Jim Sanders, project director for
the Digital Lodge, pointed out that
experiential, land-based teaching can
provide value for both indigenous and
non-indigenous learners.
“This is about the future of Canada,”
said Sanders. “And it’s the number
one thing all of us should be doing:
following the lead of indigenous
people.”
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Kurdi reflects on her family life
since her nephews’ drowning
Tragedy galvanized
public awareness of the
plight of Syrian refugees
SUNNY DHILLON VANCOUVER
n August, 2015, Tima Kurdi and
I
her brother, Abdullah, were
constantly in touch. He and his
family, including two young boys,
had fled war-torn Syria and were
planning to cross the Aegean Sea
into Greece from Turkey with the
aid of smugglers. But the voyage
was not going to plan.
On Aug. 21, Abdullah texted to
say the waves had been too high
to launch. Four days later, he said
the boat had been overcrowded.
Two days after that he said a rub-
ber dinghy looked unsafe.
On Aug. 31, Kurdi woke inside
her suburban Vancouver home
expecting to read that her broth-
er had decided against the cross-
ing, but there were no new mess-
ages.
She would learn his phone was
at the bottom of the sea – the
family had attempted the voyage,
but the boat had capsized. Kurdi’s
darling nephews, two-year-old
Alan and four-year-old Ghalib,
and their mother, Rehanna, were
dead; Abdullah survived and was
rescued by a coast guard ship.
A photo of Alan’s lifeless body
on that Turkish beach would
spread around the globe, the im-
age evoking tears and heartbreak
wherever it was seen, and spur-
ring calls for action on the Syrian
refugee crisis.
In her powerful new book, The
Boy on the Beach, Kurdi shares the
story of not only the tragic voyage
but of the years-long hardship
endured by her entire family –
and other Syrians – as their
homeland descended into civil
war. She tells of horrific killings,
suicide bombings and torture,
and also sheds light on the daily
indignities and hopelessness of
refugee life. She does this while
also expressing hope for the fu-
ture, for a time when she can
again walk down the jasmine-
scented streets of Damascus.
The book traces Kurdi’s rise
from a self-described nobody – a
hairdresser who used to tune out
the news – to an advocate who
has helped launch a foundation
in her nephews’ names and given
approximately 100 speeches, in-
cluding to the United Nations
Refugee Agency.
She grapples with her guilt for
providing the money paid to the
smugglers, saying in an interview
she will carry that regret to her
grave. Kurdi’s other brother, Mo-
hammad, arrived in British Co-
lumbia with his family in Decem-
ber, 2015, after their refugee appli-
cation was finally approved by
the Canadian government, and
the book documents the frustra-
tions of the sponsorship process.
Kurdi recalls a reporter asking if
she had gotten her happy ending
once Mohammad’s family ar-
rived. She replied that her fight
was not over.
The Boy on the Beach makes
clear how that fight continues.
Kurdi vows to support refugees
around the world and implores
readers to open their hearts and
doors. Her own family’s tale re-
mains unfinished. She describes
her relatives as “seeds in the
wind, scattered across the map,”
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and struggling to survive in unfa-
miliar lands.
In an interview inside her
home, with a large picture of her
beaming nephews nearby, Kurdi
said that despite the painful
events, the book’s message is
meant to be one of love.
“My family is not different
than yours. We are one. Maybe we
speak a different language, may-
be we have a different religion,
but people are people,” she said.
Kurdi writes there isn’t a day
that goes by when she wishes she
hadn’t paid the smugglers. She
said she would never forgive her-
self.
Maybe we speak a
different language,
maybe we have a
different religion, but
people are people.
TIMA KURDI
AUTHOR
“Every single moment, every-
where I turn in this house, the
minute I wake up. It’s always,
‘Why, why did I do it?’ ”
The book opens at the family
home in Damascus where, Kurdi
writes, she had a typical middle-
class upbringing. She recalls a
steady stream of neighbourhood
guests and says the house was al-
ways filled with people, music
and laughter.
Kurdi would eventually marry
a man from Canada who had
travelled to Syria to find a wife.
She moved to B.C. in 1992, but reg-
ularly returned to visit Damascus,
and fondly remembers her first
trip back with her son.
Her 2011 visit was different.
Kurdi recalls protests against the
Syrian government and says a
Canadian official called her and
said the consulate was advising
people to leave. Kurdi says she
then believed everything would
be fine.
The book details the brutality
her family suffered in the ensuing
years. One of Mohammad’s sons
would see a friend die after being
shot and would later be struck by
shrapnel in a suicide-bomb at-
tack. Kurdi says rebels at one
point ordered the same child to
shoot his father, only relenting
when Mohammad recited a line
from the Koran.
Kurdi writes that Abdullah was
once kidnapped by a group of
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men and taken to a home where
he and others were tied up. She
says her brother was beaten and
had his teeth pulled out with pli-
ers. The captors ultimately con-
cluded they had the wrong man
and threw him out.
And Kurdi says 15 of her rela-
tives were killed by Islamic State
fighters in attacks in June, 2015,
including a cousin and her two
sons. All three were beheaded.
In 2014, Kurdi visited her
brothers in Turkey, where they’d
fled to escape the carnage and
gained a deeper understanding of
their plight. They worked difficult
jobs for very little pay and saw no
future for themselves or their
children.
“I had come to better under-
stand the difficulties my siblings
had endured for years – the feel-
ing of being stuck between a rock
and a hard place. The feeling that
the war would never end. That
they would never be able to re-
turn home. That the world was ig-
noring them,” she writes.
It was during that trip, Kurdi
says, that she realized being a ref-
ugee can feel like “you are a ghost
among the living.”
She wondered how her family
could ever have ended up in such
a situation.
“Picture your own city sudden-
ly turning into a deadly war zone.
Imagine being afraid to send your
children to school. To go to work
and back. To do even the most ba-
sic errands. Imagine what it
would be like if your friendly
neighbourhood suddenly turned
hostile,” she writes.
After the deaths of the boys
and their mother, Kurdi writes,
she was regularly invited to meet
with politicians to tell her story.
Many, she said, offered to do
more for refugees, telling her her
family’s tragedy would be the
last.
But after the events had been
held and the pictures taken, Kur-
di writes, most did not respond to
her follow-up inquiries.
When asked if she had ever felt
used, Kurdi replied: “Absolutely.”
She described that development
as immensely sad.
She said the Kurdi Foundation,
which she and Abdullah estab-
lished, aims to provide refugee
children with meals, clothing and
medicine. She said it has been dif-
ficult getting the foundation off
the ground. It held one event last
year, which raised approximately
$1,000 for children in Erbil, in the
Kurdistan region. Kurdi donated
an additional $500.
“I’m hoping, really, that we get
it started and we have people to
volunteer and help us. Because
this is really what I want to do, me
and my brother,” she said of the
foundation.
Kurdi describes the boys as
“angels watching over us.” She re-
members Alan as a happy child
who would elicit smiles from
complete strangers. She tells of
Ghalib’s fondness for sweets and
recalls the boy asking if there
would be cookies in Europe.
(Alan and Ghalib have been
widely reported as three and five
years old respectively, but Kurdi
says they were actually two and
four, with Alan born in June, 2013,
and Ghalib in July, 2011.)
The war has sent the Kurdis in
different directions. Mohammad
lives near Kurdi’s home in Co-
quitlam, B.C., while Abdullah
continues to struggle with the
tragedy and lives in Erbil, Iraq.
One of Kurdi’s sisters is in Germa-
ny, while the other two are in Tur-
key. Her father remains in Da-
mascus and Kurdi says she hopes
to visit him again.
Kurdi said many Syrian fam-
ilies have endured the same ex-
periences, and carry scars in their
hearts.
She said all she wants for Syria
is peace, and eschewed any dis-
cussion of politics.
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A cult hit
about what
FIRST PERSON
may or may
not be a cult
VANCOUVER’S
DARK SECRET JOHN
DOYLE

OPINION

TELEVISION

eople of a certain age will re-

P member the era. During the

ILLUSTRATION BY DREW SHANNON
When the city speaks, it can often feel as if you’re not included in
the conversation. That doesn’t happen at night, Colm O’Flaherty writes
ne of the first things to hit you upon leav-
What do you see of Vancouver’s beauty at night?
1970s, there was a huge appe-
tite for alternatives to the usual re-
sources that might deal with de-
pression, loneliness and general,
common-or-garden, unhappiness.
Before there were all the medica-
tions that exist today and the array
of therapies that can be utilized, a
lot of people sought succour in
Eastern religions, mysticism and a
plethora of notions. They’re still
doing it today. But back then, vast
numbers of people were drawn to
the teachings of the Indian guru
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
Nothing unusual there. An older
guru, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, had
attracted the attention and devo-
tion of celebrities, including the
Beatles, before that.
What became unusual about this
particular instance is that Rajneesh
and his followers, the orange-clad
Rajneeshees, upped sticks in India
and created a commune-city in re-
mote Oregon. The Rajneeshpuram
existed in Oregon between 1981 and
1985 and, boy, did all sorts of trou-
ble ensue.
Wild Wild Country (now stream-
ing on Netflix) is a multipart docu-
mentary account of what hap-
pened. It has become one of Net-
flix’s big cult hits this year. And lit-
tle wonder – it’s a rich tale,
incredibly affecting, sad, funny and
wise. Yes, that good.
Directed by Chapman and Ma-
clain Way, the series starts with a
delicate, rather charming picture of
Antelope, Ore., just before the Raj-
neeshpuram existed.
Elderly locals recall the pristine
landscape and deep quiet. “A
sleepy little ol’ town comprised of
about 50 people,” one woman says.
An elderly man then describes the
first hint of change. He was mosey-
ing out to mail a letter and encoun-
tered a man, a stranger in town.
“He was not an American. You can
spot a European by the shoes.”

O ing a Gastown bar is a big red W, spinning One route home takes in the downtown skyline, gaz-
through the air. I don’t know what the W ing at itself in the giant mirror that is False Creek,
stands for, who put it there or why it’s spin- with Science World and BC Place perched proudly on
ning where it is. I could find out, no doubt, but in a the shore like an orb and a crown, a boast to the rich-
way it seems more appropriate that a big revolving es of the Milky Way above. Another route takes in the
It’s a fascinating way to open the
series. And it matters, too. Because
this six-part series is not simply
about a near-forgotten episode in
recent American history. The series
W should raise more questions than answers. I’ve harbour and the glittering slopes of the North Shore, is a rigorous exploration of religion,
only ever seen it stationary once, when, fuelled by an where houses flow down like liquid gold. Above faith and Americans’ judgment of
unquantified concoction of whisky and whatever them, three floodlit ski resorts cushion themselves immigrants.
sort of ale the bar was selling for under $7 that night, within the clouds, each its own modern Olympus. At the same time, it gets lurid. As
my head happened to be spinning at the exact same These lights might please the eye, but don’t say one episode follows another, taking
rate as the W and we aligned in perfect symmetry. It much for the soul of the city, if such a thing exists. the twisted path of Rajneesh and
was a transcendental moment of chemical and me- But there are other lights. Sometimes, I see them on his followers from India to Oregon,
chanical harmony, and I might have had an epipha- a late-night ramble home, when I’ve left behind the the story is about sex, free love,
ny if I hadn’t fallen over in a gutter. dazzling skyscrapers and passed the old-time globes jealousy, an attempted mass poi-
Thus, like a giant, ruddy-faced bouncer, the big W of Gastown, and find myself walking down along soning and more.
slings you out into the night and leaves you to find Main Street by the magenta haze of Chinatown’s lan- It has vivid, arresting characters,
your bearings. And just as sailors in their tall ships terns. There, in the distance of the 12th Avenue inter- none more compelling than Ma
sought guidance from the stars above, the meander- section, is a flickering holy candle in the shape of a Anand Sheela, the personal secre-
ing late-night drunks of Vancouver Celtic cross, topping the spire of St. Pa- tary to Rajneesh, but the real mas-
look to the lights around them to try to trick’s Church. And like an echo on termind behind so much of what
navigate their way home. But our stars Clark Drive, the heart of East Van is happened – an absolute love-her or
are nailed to brick walls and welded to Just as sailors nailed to a neon crucifix – a monu- loathe-her figure.
steel frames. They’re stars of halogen ment of suffering and hope affixed to What happened in Oregon de-
and neon, pixellated constellations of in their tall ships the night sky. scended into mayhem eventually.
perambulating men and halting red sought guidance Holiest of all is Pacific Central Sta- But you can sense the mayhem is
hands. We also have comets and mete- from the stars tion, whose neon sign doesn’t hum, coming from the moment Sheela
orites, but they run on gasoline, rat- above, the but sings from dusk until dawn. There describes her first meeting with the
tling out petrol fumes and blasting out is something in those gentle yet bold guru in India. She is awed by some-
their discontented horns. meandering letters, charged like copper wire, sus- thing, but you’re not sure what.
Rarest of all are the shooting stars late-night drunks pended above the stone: “PACIFIC Certainly, there is a pulses-racing
that whiz by with a TAXI sign on their of Vancouver look CENTRAL” sexual attraction.
roofs. This being so, I tend to walk It is an announcement. “Here is The same sense of foreboding is
to the lights around Vancouver,” the letters say; caught be- there when an Australian woman
home most nights, and as my body
staggers forward, thoughts stumble them to try to tween land and sea, between its ambi- recounts how, depressed and angry,
back to the night just past. The city be- navigate their tions and its failures, between its kind- she happened upon the form of
comes full of glimmering apparitions: way home. ness and its greed, glowing with the meditation espoused by Bhagwan
the bright hum of conversation in big amber heat of friction. In the light of Rajneesh; a dynamic meditation
bold letters; the glowing bursts of laughter; the flick- those letters is the light of all the Yaletown pent- that included rigorous breathing
ering sparks of connection; the tall, shimmering houses, of all the high cranes in the harbour ship- and hyperventilation. She was nev-
girls of downtown, winking at each other with those yard and of every needle that gleams on a cold con- er the same after that. Something
dazzling eyes, eyes that make you feel dizzy and crete slab. It is the embers of something beginning fierce and possibly dangerous had
small. When the city speaks, it can often feel like and something dying; the embers of something been released.
you’re not included in the conversation. Sometimes, struggling to catch fire. I don’t know if Vancouver has The series is at pains to be care-
it even feels as if it’s whispering behind your back, a soul, but if it does, I think it must be in those letters. ful about the accepted definitions
noting your lack of luminosity, the lack of shine in Upon reaching such an epiphany, I’ll typically slip of “cult” and “religion.” And it is
your own skin. And when the apparitions fade and on the goose crap of Thornton Park and fall into a not a simple-minded exposé. In a
fizzle out, you find yourself alone, moving along gutter. But by then, I’m almost back home, back to way, it’s about intolerance and in a
some unknown street like a wisp of ashes and curl- the crooked house in Strathcona, a long walk in the way it’s about how tolerance inside
ing embers, the remains of something that struggled rain from the lights of downtown. If the keys don’t a group unleashes a selfishness
to catch fire. Somewhere along the walk home is a prove too much of a hassle and the stairs don’t pro- that can have terrible repercus-
sign that says “Everything is going to be all right,” but vide too many obstacles, I’ll crash on to the sofa bed, sions.
it can be hard to see sometimes. with one shoe on, the other gone a-wandering, and It is also thriller and a mind-
In such ways, the city reveals something of itself at watch as the shadow of a tree plays tricks upon the bending journey inside what the
night, something that isn’t as apparent in the light of bedroom wall, white in the daytime, but at night media at the time considered a “sex
day. Vancouver is, of course, beautiful in the day- bathed in the soft pink glow of a street lamp. The cult” that was an attack on the fab-
time, cradled in crystal waters and crowned by dia- light of the sun will wake me up, but the lights of ric of American life. Was it? Well,
mond-topped mountains. But there is a quality of Vancouver let me sleep. things got violent, out of control
beauty that can’t be seen in the light upon a surface, and bewildering – on both sides of
but rather in the lights that are borne up in darkness. Colm O’Flaherty lives in Vancouver. the fence that separated the follow-
ers of Rajneesh from the locals.
That non-American who ap-
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they all that different from the first
pilgrims who came to America?
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BRIDGE The Rule of Eleven is a marvel- ner would have the 10-9-8-7 On balance, the odds favour
BY STEVE BECKER ous device, but, like any other and would have led the 10, playing the ace followed by
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018 rule, it must be applied with not the seven. Declarer there- the jack. In the actual case, this
discretion. fore has the 10, nine or eight defence succeeds when West
Let’s say you’re East in – and your partner has the overtakes the jack with the
today’s deal and partner leads queen. queen and forces out the king.
the seven of hearts, which you However, this does not mean Eventually, South, who can-
have every reason to believe is that you should play the jack not make nine tricks without
East dealer.
his fourth-best card. Dummy merely because you know it first conceding a trick to part-
East-West vulnerable.
follows low, and you have to de- will win the trick. This would ner’s ace of diamonds, goes
cide whether to play the jack or be a shortsighted view to down one.
the ace. take. Note that if you play the jack
The bidding: By applying the Rule of Eleven, Instead, you weigh the advan- at trick one – paying blind obei-
you know that South has one tage of winning with the jack sance to the Rule of Eleven – de-
East South West North card higher than the seven. against the advantage of win- clarer easily makes the contract
Pass 1 NT Pass 3 NT South’s heart higher than the ning with the ace and returning after forcing out the diamond
Opening Lead – seven of hearts. seven cannot be the queen. If the jack in order to establish ace. You win the battle, but you
declarer had that card, part- partner’s suit. lose the war.

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INSTRUCTIONS Fill in the grid so that each row of nine squares, each column of nine
and each section of nine (three squares by three) contains the numbers 1 through 9
in any order. There is only one solution to each puzzle.

KENKEN
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INSTRUCTIONS
1. Each row and each
CRYPTIC CLUES QUICK CLUES column must contain
ACROSS DOWN ACROSS the numbers 1 through
6 without repeating.
1 Bans professional 2 The music has rock 1 Without preparation (3,3,4)
writers (10) rhythm (7) 8 Unsuitable (5)
8 Grew agitated about a 3 A good time going 2. The numbers within
9 Russian government (7) the heavily outlined
gambling venture (5) through Berlin (5) 10 Childish fit of rage (7) boxes, called cages,
9 Anti-labour act? (7) 4 Tell a story concerning 11 U.S. stock farm (5) must combine using
10 Intend to let out apparel (7) the dead? (6)
12 Praise (6) the given operation (in
11 Revival meeting (5) 5 Two animals bound any order) to produce
14 Herb of onion family (6) the target numbers in
12 Not a musical score (6) into cover (7)
17 Lawful (5) the top-left corners.
14 It’s nothing to me to allow 6 What the film’s about (5)
19 In general (2,5)
the making of a dish (6) 7 He’s unlikely to be
21 Unyielding (7) Freebies: Fill in
17 Not a subject needed found abroad (4-2-4) 3. single-box cages with
8 Strive to regulate 22 Small light boat (5)
by schoolchildren (5) the numbers in the
23 Relevant (2,3,5)
19 Storm ruined a party (7) restrictive practice (4,2,4) top-left corner.
21 Hit without restraint, 13 It’s disturbing having the
the French cry (4,3) wrong spirit in work (7) DOWN
22 Begin drunken spree (5) 15 Erudite composer shown 2 A soft worsted fabric (7) ©2018 KENKEN Puzzle LLC. KENKEN is a registered trademark of Nextoy, LLC. Dist. by Andrews McMeel
23 Anxiety of many in a
the way out (7) 3 Private teacher (5) www.kenken.com
16 Still, it could be 4 Inuit (6)
lonely state (10) YESTERDAY'S CRYPTIC
interference (6) 5 Bring to light (7) ACROSS: 1 Pathan, 4 Fourth, 9 Mexican, 10 Tramp, 11 Lisle, 12 Carbide,
18 Turns the tables (5) 6 Criminal (5) 13 Bittersweet, 18 Popcorn, 20 Amble, 22 Kyoto, 23 Spheres, 24 Sherry, 25 Crusty.
20 Man of many parts, 7 Put aside as done with (2,3,5) DOWN: 1 Pimple, 2 Texas, 3 Ancient, 5 Otter, 6 Realise, 7 Hyphen, 8 Anachronism,
perhaps (5) 8 Free of suspicion (2,3,5) 14 Improve, 15 Weather, 16 Spikes, 17 Jersey, 19 Odour, 21 Burns.
13 Chivalrous (7) YESTERDAY'S QUICK
15 Translation (7) ACROSS: 1 Depose, 4 Recoup, 9 Replica, 10 After, 11 Valid, 12 Diehard, 13 Give and
16 To fluster (6) take, 18 Wakeful, 20 Ravel, 22 Doing, 23 Vietnam, 24 Negate, 25 Motley.
18 Concede (5) DOWN: 1 Derive, 2 Pupil, 3 Swindle, 5 Erase, 6 Outback, 7 Parade, 8 Hand in glove,
Solutions to today's Sudoku and Kenken can be found in the Life & Arts content 20 Lariat (5) 14 Inkling, 15 Torpedo, 16 Sweden, 17 Flimsy, 19 Fight, 21 Venal.
area of the A section. Crossword solutions will be with tomorrow's puzzles.
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Bernier: Tory MPs say shelving book was the right move
FROM A1
In his book, Mr. Bernier said the dairy lob-
by worked to oppose him in the leadership
race, claiming the number of Conservative
members in Quebec rose to more than
16,000 from 6,000, but has since dwindled
back down to 6,000.
“Andrew, along with several other can-
didates, was then busy touring Quebec’s
agricultural belt, including my own riding
of Beauce, to pick up support from these
fake Conservatives, only interested in
blocking my candidacy and protecting
their privileges,” Mr. Bernier wrote.
Mr. Bernier said he has no legitimacy to
question Mr. Scheer as leader. “But I will
never again say the opposite of what I be-
lieve in and pretend this is a good system
just for the sake of party unity,” he wrote.
On Wednesday, Conservative MPs said
Mr. Bernier made the right decision.
“Memoirs usually come at the end of a
political career,” said Tory foreign affairs
critic Erin O’Toole, who finished third in
the leadership race.
“Everyone grumbles after a leadership,
Look, it was frustrating for me to lose. But
Andrew’s been doing a spectacular job,
and I think Max sees that first-hand.”
Hydro One board discloses severance increases for executives
JANET MCFARLAND
JUSTIN GIOVANNETTI
The board of directors of Hydro One Inc. ap-
proved changes to the company’s execu-
tive compensation policies last year, mak-
ing it much costlier for the government to
intervene in the utility.
The revisions would increase the
amount of severance paid to the chief exec-
utive if he is fired after the board is re-
placed, or after the government passes any
legislation aimed at either capping execu-
tive pay or that negatively affects Hydro
One’s ability to meet its corporate perform-
ance objectives. The changes were dis-
closed in March in the company’s latest
shareholder proxy circular, but were given
the green light by the board last November.
The board’s move comes after a year in
which Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals
intervened heavily in the province’s energy
market. The government cut Hydro bills by
25 per cent in an attempt to defuse anger
over high prices; similar reductions were
made for small businesses and farms. In ru-
ral areas, a number of fees were cancelled
and bills were lowered even further. The
government’s intervention didn’t directly
affect Hydro One or its governance. The
province’s two opposition parties have put
forward proposals to make further changes
in the energy market, some of which could
impact Hydro One’s profitability.
The company said its recent decision
was made after it launched a review of its
governance policies early last year and that
some of the changes addressed Hydro
One’s “unique ownership structure” after it
was partly privatized in November, 2015.
The Ontario government still owns 47 per
cent of the company.
Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford vowed last
week to replace Hydro One’s board and fire
CEO Mayo Schmidt, who earned $6.2-mil-
lion in compensation last year, if Mr. Ford
becomes premier after June’s election. He
said the company has been badly misman-
aged. Mr. Ford’s threat to fire the board and
replace Mr. Schmidt would be more costly
to the company under the latest severance
China: Canadians mustn’t create barriers for investment, Lu says
FROM A1
The agencies say these companies are al-
so prone to passing on information or
technology to Beijing and taking business
decisions that could conflict with Cana-
dian interests and serve the agenda of the
ruling Communist Party of China.
More than 30 Chinese state-owned en-
terprises listed on the Hong Kong stock
exchange have added the Communist
Party to their corporate structures over
the past year, giving a formal governance
role to the entity that heads China’s au-
thoritarian state as President Xi Jinping
seeks more influence over these firms.
Sarah Taylor, director-general of North
Asia and Oceania at Global Affairs, shared
the stage with Mr. Lu on Tuesday night in
Ottawa, but did not challenge or address
the envoy’s toughly worded criticism.
Conservative foreign affairs critic Erin
O’Toole said Ms. Taylor’s silence was remi-
niscent of what happened in 2016, when
China’s visiting foreign minister publicly
berated a Canadian journalist in front of
then-foreign affairs minister Stéphane
Dion.
Mr. O’Toole said he strongly objects to
the ambassador’s criticism of Canadians
who raise legitimate concerns about the
activities of Chinese state-owned enter-
prises.
“These are not your typical multina-
tional, large corporations. These are arms,
in some cases, of the Chinese state and
not only have they not been reforming
them, they have actually been making
Communist party members more of an
integrated part of these enterprises,” he
said.
A spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minis-
ter Chrystia Freeland declined to com-
ment on Ms. Taylor’s conduct but defend-
ed Canada’s right to scrutinize foreign in-
vestment.
Maxime Bernier, left, congratulates election rival Andrew Scheer after the latter is voted
federal Conservative Party Leader in May, 2017. FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu said her
party continues to support supply man-
agement and Mr. Bernier was “offside”
with the Tory platform.
policy changes.
Asked about the changes to the sever-
ance provisions Wednesday, Mr. Ford criti-
cized executive pay practices at Hydro One.
“While people across Ontario are forced
to choose between heating and eating,
Kathleen Wynne’s insider friends at Hydro
One are getting rich on the backs of hard-
working folks. It’s unbelievable,” he said in
an e-mailed statement.
A spokesman for the Energy Ministry re-
sponded to news of the changes in execu-
tive compensation policies by saying that
the government “recognizes executive sal-
aries are high compared to the vast major-
ity of Ontario salaries and we remain com-
mitted to Hydro One’s regulation, account-
ability and transparency through our gov-
ernment’s involvement as a majority
shareholder.
“That said, Hydro One is now a publicly
traded company, not a government entity.
Decisions made regarding executive com-
pensation are made by the Board of Hydro
One,” Colin Nekolaichuk said.
The Hydro One revisions expanded the
definition of what would constitute a
“change of control” of the company to in-
clude a change in a majority of directors
over a two-year period, as well as a move by
the Ontario government to replace the en-
tire board, except for the CEO, which is per-
mitted under the terms of its governance
agreement.
The new definition is significant because
Hydro One has different severance terms
when executives are fired after a change of
control, compared with being fired with-
out cause under other circumstances.
Mr. Schmidt, for example, would be eli-
gible to receive $10.7-million if he were ter-
minated after a change of control of the
company, based on his compensation lev-
els as of Dec. 31, 2017, according to the latest
company disclosures.
He would receive just $5.04-million −
less than half as much − if he were termi-
nated under other circumstances without a
change of control, however.
The main difference in the payouts is
how executives’ share units are treated un-
der the two scenarios.
“Canada encourages investment in
Canada, which provides good, well-paying
jobs for the middle class and those work-
ing hard to join it,” press secretary Adam
Austen said. “Of course, we take our na-
tional security very seriously and we will
continue to conduct national security re-
views of potential foreign investment to
ensure that our interests are protected.”
Two former directors of the Canadian
Security Intelligence Service, Richard Fad-
den and Ward Elcock, as well as former
Canadian ambassador to China David
Mulroney, are among prominent Cana-
dians who have questioned takeovers by
state-owned companies answerable to
Beijing.
The Canadian government is currently
conducting a national security review of
the $1.5-billion acquisition of Toronto-
based infrastructure firm Aecon Group by
China Communications Construction
Company, which is 63 per cent owned by
the Chinese government.
Mr. Lu did not mention Aecon by
name, but he said Canadians “need to ad-
just their mindset” and avoid creating
barriers to Chinese investment in Canada.
He argued that China can be trusted
and would only act in the best interests of
Canada.
“China is not that formidable and we
never think about doing anything harm-
ful to Canada,” Mr. Lu said. “We hope Can-
ada could adjust its mindset and do not
always see China through tinted glasses,
nor create barriers for two countries’ co-
operation at the excuse of national securi-
ty.”
The ambassador also criticized the
media for reporting on Canadian parlia-
mentarians who have accepted free trips
to China paid for by Chinese government
or Beijing-friendly groups and meeting
with agents of the Communist Party.
The Globe and Mail reported in early
“Will he continue to have his own per-
sonal opinions? Yes. But when he speaks
on behalf of the Conservative Party I would
expect him to fall into line,” she said.
If a Hydro One executive is fired without
cause, his or her share units will expire
without being paid out. But if an executive
is fired within two years of a majority of the
board being replaced, the share units vest
and become payable, and any performance
goals attached to the share units are
deemed to have been met at 100 per cent of
the targets.
The board also added new provisions to
the severance rules in November, saying a
change of control would be triggered if any
provincial legislation is passed that impos-
es limits on the amount of compensation
that can be paid to Hydro One executives,
or if any new legislation adversely affects
the ability of Hydro One to meet its corpo-
rate performance objectives tied to com-
pensation awards.
Hydro One board chair David Denison
said in an e-mailed statement that the
board did a review of its compensation
practices in early 2017 and concluded that
its change-of-control provisions at that
time “were not directly applicable to Hydro
One’s circumstances.”
“The revision to the change-in-control
terms that we identified was adopted to ad-
dress Hydro One’s unique ownership struc-
ture and the provisions of the governance
agreement with the province of Ontario,”
Mr. Denison said.
York University associate professor Ri-
chard Leblanc, a specialist in corporate-
governance issues, said there was a public-
policy reason that the Ontario government
negotiated a governance agreement when
Hydro One became a publicly traded com-
pany in 2015. The deal gave it the right to re-
place the Hydro One board if there was
poor management or scandal at a company
that is still almost half publicly owned.
Prof. Leblanc said the recent severance
policy changes undermine the impact of
the governance agreement if replacing the
board would now be deemed a change of
control that triggers prohibitively expen-
sive severance payments for the CEO.
“It’s almost like a poison pill, which
makes it so prohibitive that you essentially
insulate an excessively paid CEO − or that’s
the effect it could have,” Prof. Leblanc said.
December that parliamentarians have
taken 36 trips to China sponsored by Chi-
na or business groups seeking closer ties
and trade with the one-party state.
A senior Canadian official said these
Globe stories were repeatedly raised by
Chinese officials during Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau’s official visit to Beijing in
late December.
Chinese officials scolded the Trudeau
government for not stopping The Globe
from reporting on these Chinese-funded
parliamentary junkets. The Canadian offi-
cial said Chinese authorities did not seem
to understand that the government can’t
limit media reporting the way it can be
controlled in China.
Ms. Taylor, who spoke after the ambas-
sador’s speech and later sat on a panel
with Mr. Lu, did not defend Canada’s na-
tional security review process or chal-
lenge the ambassador’s view that Chinese
state-owned enterprises were being de-
monized.
She used her speech to pitch the bene-
fits of having Canadian companies benefit
from China’s Belt and Road Initiative,
which has been criticized by Western
countries. Germany’s Handelsblatt report-
ed this week that 27 European Union-
country ambassadors to Beijing have
compiled a report that sharply criticizes
China’s “Silk Road” project, denouncing it
as designed to hamper free trade and put
Chinese companies at an advantage.
Beijing is pouring US$1-trillion into
building railways, ports and pipelines in
what many experts regard as a state-di-
rected effort to bolster Chinese political
influence and extend its military reach
from Asia to Africa.
Although Canada has not officially en-
dorsed the Chinese plan, Ms. Taylor said
Canadian companies have the skills to
work on many of these infrastructure pro-
jects.
NEWS | A17
Ottawa won’t
interfere in
art dispute,
Joly says
CHRIS HANNAY OTTAWA
Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly
says the Canadian museums
locked in a dispute over a 1779 Jac-
ques-Louis David painting should
try to get along – but the federal
government will not interfere in
the conflict.
“We are not into politicizing
our funding or operations of mu-
seums,” Ms. Joly told reporters in
Ottawa on Wednesday.
“That being said, for the art
piece relating to the David we be-
lieve that this important art piece
should be kept here in the coun-
try and also we really hope that
our museums will be able to work
together to find a solution.”
The 1779 Saint Jerome Hears The
Trumpet Of The Last Judgment can-
vas is the subject of competing in-
terest between the National Gal-
lery of Canada and two Quebec
museums: the Montreal Museum
of Fine Arts and the Musée de la
civilisation. The two Quebec mu-
seums have said they are open to
partnering with the National Gal-
lery, but the Ottawa institution
shot down that idea this week.
Notre-Dame de Quebec, a Que-
bec City cathedral that owns the
painting, said it has to sell the Da-
vid to pay for its activities. The
church began to approach inter-
national buyers last year when no
domestic ones came through
with the cash.
“The National Gallery, London,
was approached and was told
that the picture was available for
purchase,” David Edghill, spokes-
man for the British gallery, said.
He said it was against gallery pol-
icy to comment on whether it ac-
tually wanted to buy the painting.
Marc Mayer, director of the Na-
tional Gallery of Canada, said he
was told by the British institution
last year that it was surprised the
painting might be available and it
was interested in having it.
All the Canadian institutions
say that the piece should be kept
in Canada because of its history in
the country, but the Quebec insti-
tutions say the art should stay in
their province’s hands. It has
been in Quebec City for most of
the past century.
Canada’s National Gallery is
selling a Marc Chagall painting at
a New York auction next month
to raise the funds to buy the David
work. The Quebec museums have
until mid-June to match the Otta-
wa gallery’s bid of US$5-million.
A British museum director
now working in Canada says Bri-
tain’s National Gallery could nev-
er sell a masterpiece under simi-
lar circumstances.
“It is undeniably infinitely
more difficult [in Britain],” said
Ian Dejardin, executive director
of the McMichael Canadian Art
Collection north of Toronto.
“There is a very powerful ethical
consideration against it.”
Mr. Dejardin said the restric-
tions in Britain would only allow
a museum to sell a work that
could be shown to be a misfit in
its collection and it would then be
forced to offer it free to other mu-
seums in the country.
“Any deaccessioning is some-
thing you do not rush into and
the National Gallery of Canada
will not have rushed into this,”
Mr. Dejardin said.
The Quebec government is
looking into whether the paint-
ing should be given a special cul-
tural designation that would
make exportation more difficult.
Under federal law, owners of
certain valuable art who wish to
export it have to apply for a per-
mit from the Canada Border Ser-
vices Agency. An expert examiner
must decide whether the art is of
“outstanding significance and na-
tional importance” to Canada. If a
permit is denied, the art’s owner
can then appeal to a review board
that, if it agrees with the original
examiner, may delay the export
for two to six months. If after that
time no fair Canadian offers are
made, then the CBSA may issue
an export permit.
“[The law] only postpones
things from leaving,” Mr. Mayer
said. “No one would ever bring
any major treasures of art like this
to Canada if they couldn’t leave
the country with it. That’s not ve-
ry smart.”
The National Gallery of Canada
did receive an export permit –
without any notice of delay – for
Chagall’s The Eiffel Tower when it
sent the artwork to the Christie’s
auction house. That painting is
touring Christie’s international
locations to drum up interest
ahead of a May 15 sale.
With a report from Kate Taylor
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Bombardier shareholders
to seek disclosure on lobbying
Advocates hope proposal
will win enough support
at annual meeting despite
company opposition
GEOFFREY YORK JOHANNESBURG
NICOLAS VAN PRAET MONTREAL
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018 | GLOBEANDMAIL.COM
After years of paying controversial
fees to foreign agents to help it win
contracts around the world, Bom-
bardier Inc. will face pressure to dis-
close such spending if a new share-
Catalyst suffers holder proposal gains support at its
annual meeting next month.
another setback The proposal, filed by OceanRock
Investments Inc. and endorsed by
proxy firms Glass Lewis and ISS,
as court dismisses
Wind Mobile suit
ANDREW WILLIS
would ask Bombardier to disclose its
direct and indirect lobbying activ-
ities in Canada and abroad. Bombar-
dier’s board would be requested to
prepare an annual report on pay-
ments made for such lobbying.
The scheme could have implica-
tions for Bombardier’s work in coun-
tries such as South Africa, where it
paid millions of dollars to a Tunisian
middleman as a “success fee” for a
multibillion-dollar rail contract.
Bombardier also developed a docu-
ment called a “capture plan” that list-
ed personal information about key
officials involved in awarding the
contract, including their interests in
wine, cigars and automobiles.
The shareholder proposal, op-
posed by Bombardier, will be voted
upon at Bombardier’s annual meet-
ing on May 3.
Although it has little hope of win-
ning a majority of the vote because of
the company’s objections, its advo-
cates hope it will win enough sup-
port to persuade the company to act.
Bombardier is controlled by the
Beaudoin-Bombardier family
through a class of super-voting stock.
The proposed rules are intended
to cover not only traditional lobby-
ing on government policies and reg-
ulations, but also lobbying for con-
tracts from foreign governments or
state-owned enterprises.
The plan is backed by Shareholder
Association for Research and Educa-
tion (SHARE), a Canadian organiza-
tion that works with investors to de-
velop ethical investment policies.
BOMBARDIER, B9

The bare-knuckle legal battle between two private

equity funds reached a one-sided finish on Wednes-
day after an Ontario judge tossed out a $1.3-billion
lawsuit from Catalyst Capital Group Inc. against ri-
val West Face Capital Inc.
Justice Glenn Hainey of the Ontario Superior
Court ruled that Catalyst engaged in “an abuse of
process” by launching the suit over its failed bid for
wireless company Wind Mobile. The decision
marked the latest in a series of legal and business
setbacks for Catalyst, which has been under
increasing scrutiny over both its legal tactics
and the valuation of some of its privately held as-
sets.
Catalyst and founder Newton Glassman have
now lost two civil cases over the sale of Wind in the
fall of 2014. The wireless company was acquired for
$300-million by a consortium led by West Face and
subsequently sold 18 months later to Shaw Commu-
nications Inc. for $1.6-billion.
West Face chief executive Greg Boland said: “This
decision is yet another independent confirmation
of lack of merit to the se-
rial litigation being pur-
Catalyst and founder sued by Catalyst against
West Face for almost
Newton Glassman four years.”
have now lost two Catalyst spokesman RBI, which 3G created by merging Tim Hortons with Burger King, has seen its shares drop nearly 20 per cent since
civil cases over the Dan Gagnier said the October, while Kraft Heinz’s stock price has slid by a third over the past year. DANIEL BECERRIL/REUTERS
company was “disap-
sale of Wind in the
pointed” by the decision
fall of 2014. and plans to appeal.
The heart of Catalyst’s
legal claim was an allegation that confidential de-
A bitter result: 3G’s rigorous cost-cutting
tails of its own negotiations to acquire Wind were
leaked during the summer of 2014, allowing the
diet weighs down RBI, Kraft Heinz
West Face group to win the deal. However, the courts
found that Catalyst was the author of its own mis- IAN McGUGAN tors. RBI shares have lost nearly 20 that managers who focus on
fortune: Mr. Glassman and his colleagues walked per cent of their value since Octo- streamlining existing operations
away from Wind after refusing to agree to a so-called ber, while Kraft Heinz’s stock price can create a temporary bump in
break fee of $5-million to $20-million they would INSIDE THE MARKET has slid by a third over the past earnings, but have less time to
pay to Wind’s owners if the deal did not close. year. spend on product development,
Catalyst’s first lawsuit, known as the Moyse case, here’s no doubt about it: It wasn’t supposed to be this way. corporate innovation and brand
accused one of its former analysts of giving West
Face confidential information when he took a new
job there. A judge ruled in favour of West Face and
T Tough, cost-conscious man-
agement is a vital ingredient
at any good company. But right
3G Capital, the famed and feared
Brazilian investment firm, was a
driving force behind the assembly
building. The danger, skeptics say, is
that efficiency increases but sales
and earnings per share don’t.
the analyst in 2016 and Catalyst lost its appeal this now, shareholders in Restaurant of both companies. Only a couple of “We harbor serious doubts about
February. Brands International Inc. and Kraft years ago, the guys from Rio were the management team’s ability to
The second case – the one dismissed on Wednes- Heinz Co. should be asking whether being lauded by analysts for their generate sufficient product innova-
day – again accused West Face and a number of oth- a lean and mean operating style is ability to slash costs and trim cor- tion to grow its collection of ‘retro’
ers, including UBS Securities, former Wind owners hitting its limits when it comes to porate fat − precisely what was brands in highly commoditized cat-
VimpelCom Ltd. and a three private investment peddling doughnuts and ketchup. needed to squeeze new profits from egories,” Robert Moskow of Credit
firms, of leaking or using vital information about In recent months, RBI, the parent aging consumer brands, according Suisse wrote this week in a report
Catalyst’s bid. of Tim Hortons, and Kraft Heinz, to Wall Street. that downgraded Kraft Heinz to
CATALYST, B9 maker of your favourite burger con- But the 3G approach is beginning “underperform” status.
diment, have disappointed inves- to show some flaws. Critics argue McGUGAN, B9

Business investment will steer the

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ducing when running full-out – ac-
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That implies an economy with a
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ALGONQUIN POWER & UTILITIES .......................... B11 rates further, on top of its three Bank of Canada generally worries scramble to secure
AURORA CANNABIS ............................................... B11 quarter-percentage-point increases most about. supply
BOMBARDIER ........................................................... B1 in the past nine months. The ques- The main reason the output gap
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY .................................. B9 B11
tion is not if, but when – and that’s widened, the Bank of Canada said,
CINEPLEX ................................................................ B11 anyone’s guess. Including, it ap- was because businesses have been
EBAY ....................................................................... B11 pears, the central bank’s. investing more than previously be- INVESTING
FACEBOOK ............................................................. B11 “The pace is a significant ques- lieved in expanding their capacity.
GENERAL MOTORS OF CANADA ............................. B7 Tim Shufelt
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HOME CAPITAL GROUP ........................................... B3
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IBM ........................................................................ B10
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KRAFT HEINZ .......................................................... B1 rate decision and quarterly Mone- means the economy should be able when recession
NORBORD .............................................................. B10 tary Policy Report. “We can’t be de- to grow a little faster and further
RBI ............................................................................ B1 finitive about when, or at what without sending inflation skyward – risks loom
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UNITED CO. RUSAL ................................................ B11 business investment has become brakes.
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Bank of Canada cautiously holds steady on rates

Key rate stays at 1.25%
as Poloz warns that,
despite strong economy,
‘all is not quite normal’

BARRIE McKENNA OTTAWA

The Bank of Canada is contin-

uing to build a case for higher in-
terest rates – just not yet.
The central bank kept its key
rate unchanged at 1.25 per cent
on Wednesday, citing an eco-
nomic slowdown early this year
plus weakness in housing, trade
and investment.
Even though many of the es-
sential ingredients for higher
rates are falling into place, the
bank said it remains “cautious”
about future rate hikes, accord-
ing to a statement accompanying
its rate decision.
The bank has raised its key
rate three times since last June
and many economists expect at
least one or two more hikes this
year, with the first possibly in Ju-
ly.
On the one hand, the econo-
my is near full-capacity, unem-
ployment is at its lowest level
since the 1970s and inflation has
climbed back to the Bank of Can-
ada’s 2-per-cent target. Bank of Canada Governor and the provinces, he explained. growth by two to four percentage occupied with factors holding
But a host of other factors are Stephen Poloz walks to a The central bank is still deter- points in each of 2018, 2019 and back the economy than all the
still weighing on the economy, news conference in mined to raise its key interest 2020, according to its latest fore- things going right.
including uncertainty over the Ottawa on Wednesday. rate. But it’s not making any cast. The median is now expect- “Both exports and investment
North American free-trade agree- While the central bank is promises about how fast the rate ed to be 1.8 per cent in each of are being held back by ongoing
ment, loss of market share by ex- still determined to raise will get back to a neutral level of those years. competitiveness challenges and
porters in the vital U.S. market its key interest rate, it’s 2.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent – If the bank is right, more ca- uncertainty about trade poli-
and the record debt levels of Can- not making any promises where the economy is growing pacity will allow the economy to cies,” the bank said.
adians, Bank of Canada Governor about how quickly that steadily and inflation is stable. grow at a faster clip without Particularly worrying is the
Stephen Poloz said. will happen. ‘The pace is “The pace is a significant ques- sparking inflation. fact that Canada is still losing its
“The economy is in a good a significant question tion mark for us,” Mr. Poloz said. The economy is now expected share of non-energy imports in
place,” Mr. Poloz told reporters in mark for us,’ Mr. Poloz The prospect of a slower pace to grow at an annual rate of 1.3 the vital U.S. market, even as the
Ottawa following the rate an- said. of rate hikes helped send the dol- per cent in the first three months Canadian dollar has depreciated
nouncement. “However, all is not CHRIS WATTIE/REUTERS lar down almost half a cent on of this year, down from the 2.5 in recent years, the bank pointed
quite normal. Interest rates are Wednesday, to 79.28 US cents. per cent it forecast in January, the out. It blamed the problem on
still very low.” “The core message … appears central bank said. competition from China, protec-
So, yes, the economy is grow- to be that Poloz and company re- The bank also downgraded its tionism as well as a contraction
ing – at a 1.3-per-cent annual rate main set on further hikes, but are forecast for the year as a whole – of the auto sector, triggered by
in the first quarter and 2 per cent in no rush to get there,” Toronto- to 2 per cent, from a previous es- the failure of car plants in Cana-
for the year as a whole, according Dominion Bank economist Brian timate of 2.2 per cent. But growth da to get work on new lines of
to the latest Monetary Policy Re- DePratto said in a research note. will be a bit stronger than expect- vehicles.
port, released Wednesday. But Part of the bank’s go-slow ed in 2019 and 2020, at 2.1 per Meanwhile, tighter federal
conditions wouldn’t be this good stand on rate hikes is because the cent and 1.8 per cent, respective- mortgage rules, introduced in Ja-
without hefty doses of low inter- economy’s capacity to grow is al- ly, according to the bank. nuary, are weighing on housing
est rates from the central bank so expanding. The bank boosted For now, at least, Mr. Poloz and activity, particularly in the once-
and fiscal spending by Ottawa its estimate of potential output his top officials seem more pre- booming Toronto market.

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Parkinson: The path of inflation will speak volumes
about how much strain there is on capacity
FROM B1
The central bank still believes that the
economy will generally grow a bit faster
than potential output, which is why it is
pretty adamant that it will continue to
raise rates. But the biggest fly in the oint-
ment is where business investment is
headed.
Two key issues surrounding Canada’s
competitiveness as an investment desti-
nation – the North American free-trade
negotiations and the U.S. corporate tax
cuts – have seriously clouded major
spending decisions in corporate Canada.
As the central bank’s thinking surround-
ing these risks has evolved, it has zeroed
in on the implications for holding back
spending on new capacity for exports,
which have struggled in recent months. It
estimated that the two factors could re-
duce business investment by 3 per cent by
the end of 2020.
It also estimated that the two elements
could restrain exports by 1.4 per cent over
the same time.
Mr. Poloz said this “investment/export
nexus,” as he called it, is at the heart of the
interest-rate question for the Bank of Can-
ada.
“[Businesses] are hesitant to invest as
much as they otherwise would. What that
does is it prevents the economy from add-
Fed sees U.S. economy on track, plays down tariff fears
HOWARD SCHNEIDER WASHINGTON
“Robust” business borrowing, rising con-
sumer spending and tight labour markets
indicate the U.S. economy remains on
track for continued growth, the Federal
Reserve reported on Wednesday, with the
risks of a global trade war the one big out-
lier.
In its periodic “Beige Book” summary
of contacts with businesses in its 12 re-
gional districts, the Fed said the overall
outlook among businesses “remained
positive,” but that many were worried
about the Trump administration’s use of
tariffs.
“Contacts in various sectors including
manufacturing, agriculture, and transpor-
tation expressed concern about the newly
imposed and/or proposed tariffs,” the
central bank said in its report, which cov-
ered the period from March to early April.
But otherwise the economy appeared
to be motoring along, with some evidence
that the tax cuts approved in December
may have begun filtering through to busi-
ness spending and investment.
ing as much capacity as we would hope. It umes about how much strain there is on
also prevents exports from growing as fast capacity, and whether businesses are
as we expected,” he said. opening their wallets to give the economy
Any resolution of these issues, while more room to grow. The central bank will
certainly a good thing, would be a double- spend the next few months assessing how
edged sword from a rate-pol- the competing factors influ-
icy perspective. If we saw encing investment and ca-
some clarity in the next few pacity growth are affecting
months on NAFTA, and/or [Businesses] are inflation, and let that signal
some policy response from the appropriate course for
the Canadian government to hesitant to invest as rate hikes.
the U.S. tax cuts, it would much as they Importantly, Mr. Poloz
open the door for businesses otherwise would. took pains to remind every-
to accelerate their spending What that does is it one that the Bank of Cana-
on new capacity. That would da’s 2-per-cent inflation tar-
increase Canada’s ability to prevents the get is the mid-point of the
cultivate its exports, which economy from bank’s target band of 1 per
would probably mean more adding as much cent to 3 per cent – and that
economic growth – and fas- inflation had resided below
capacity as we
ter growth would typically that mid-point for a very
suggest earlier/more rate in- would hope. It also long time. The unspoken
creases. However, the ex- prevents exports message was that the central
panded capacity would also from growing as fast bank could live with infla-
mean the economy would tion above the mid-point for
have more room to grow
as we expected. a while, too, without feeling
without fuelling inflation – compelled to raise interest
STEPHEN POLOZ
meaning less pressure to GOVERNOR OF THE BANK OF rates sooner, or faster. The
raise rates. CANADA mere fact that the Bank of
Ultimately, the tie-breaker Canada now sees inflation
will be how it all plays out in inflation. nudging above 2 per cent for the next cou-
“The net effect on the inflation outlook ple of years does not, on its face, imply
will be our guide,” Mr. Poloz said. that the bank will be more aggressive on
The path of inflation will speak vol- rate.
Several Fed districts reported a jump in Trump administration’s announcement
commercial and industrial lending, from a of tariffs on imports of the metal.
“robust” 17 per cent year-over-year in- Businesses repeated recent frustrations
crease in St. Louis to “solid” growth in At- with labour shortages across a variety of
lanta and “healthy” demand in Cleveland. sectors including high-skilled jobs in engi-
“Markedly stronger growth in loan vol- neering, information technology and
umes was seen in commercial and indus- health care. There were also shortages
trial, and commercial real estate,” the Dal- seen in construction and transportation.
las Fed reported. In some cases, that is
The jump in business bor- leading to long-anticipated
rowing could be a precursor The jump in business wage increases, though
to the sort of investment overall wage growth re-
boom that Fed officials hope borrowing could be mained “only modest.”
would follow from the re- a precursor to the “Businesses were respon-
cent steep cut in corporate sort of investment ding to labour shortages in a
taxes. variety of ways, from raising
boom that Fed
That would likely support pay to enhancing training to
the core view among Fed officials hope would increasing their use of over-
policy makers for at least follow from the time and/or automation,”
two and perhaps three more recent steep cut in the Fed reported.
interest rate increases this \ “Upward wage pressures
corporate taxes.
year. persisted but generally did
The Fed raised rates at its March policy not escalate.”
meeting, but is not expected to do so The Beige Book was prepared by the
when it meets again in about two weeks. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas based on
Price increases nationally were described information collected on or before April 9.
as “moderate,” with steel costs rising “dra-
matically” in some areas due to the REUTERS
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Home Capital corrects error in data sent to OSFI

Mortgage lender calls
flub ‘isolated and
inadvertent’ as it tries
to rebuild trust after
last year’s crisis
JAMES BRADSHAW
BANKING REPORTER
Recovering mortgage lender
Home Capital Group Inc. has re-
stated data on its residential
home loan balances after detect-
ing an error in a monthly filing
with Canada’s banking regulator.
Data for February submitted by
the company initially made it ap-
pear that the balance of insured
residential mortgages at subsidi-
ary Home Trust Co. had increased
by roughly $1-billion, while its un-
insured portfolio suffered a pro-
portionate decline.
Home Capital discovered its
mistake after fielding questions
from analysts who follow the
company about the erroneous
swings in mortgage balances. The
problem arose from a change to
the internal process for reporting
the figures, the company said on
Wednesday, and some mortgages
were classified incorrectly. The re-
vised figures show only minor
changes in the balance of each
portfolio, while the combined
balance remains unchanged at
$13.26-billion, as initially report-
ed.
The restated February totals
are much closer to the company’s
January filing, as reported to OSFI:
Insured residential mortgage bal-
ances fell by about $89-million −
a decline of about 0.7 per cent −
Signage for Home Trust Co., a subsidiary of Home Capital Group, is seen in 017. Home Capital discovered a
mistake in data filed to OSFI after fielding questions from analysts who follow the company about the
erroneous swings in mortgage balances. COLE BURSTON/BLOOMBERG
while the balance of uninsured
residential loans rose by $11-mil-
lion.
Home Capital’s slip-up comes
as it continues to rebuild trust and
restore its lending volumes after
suffering a run on deposits and a
liquidity crisis a year ago, drawing
added scrutiny from regulators.
Since then, a revamped leader-
ship team has been making fun-
damental changes to staffing and
processes. After slashing 10 per
cent of employees to control costs
last fall, the company sold “non-
core” businesses early this year
and began hiring again, while in-
creasing the pace at which it is-
sues new mortgages. And it has
worked to tighten underwriting,
revamp core technology systems
and rebuild key relationships
with mortgage brokers.
“This was an isolated and inad-
vertent reclassification error,”
said Laura Lepore, Home Capital’s
assistant vice-president of inves-
tor relations, in an e-mail. “We
worked quickly to correct the
numbers and refiled our report to
our regulator the next day.”
All federally regulated finan-
cial institutions must file raw ag-
gregate data monthly to the regu-
lator and are responsible for its ac-
curacy. “We have since revisited
the process to reduce the the pos-
sibility of any future occurrence,”
Ms. Lepore said.
A spokesperson for OSFI de-
clined to comment.
Last April, Home Capital was
thrown into crisis after Ontario’s
securities regulator published al-
legations that the lender and
three top executives had misled
shareholders about fraud the
company had discovered in its
mortgage broker channel. Inves-
tors rapidly lost confidence and
pulled deposits from Home Cap-
ital and by the end of April, 2017,
the firm was critically low on
funds.
But a major equity investment
by famed investor Warren Buffett
last June helped steady confi-
dence in the company. Under new
chief executive officer Yousry Bis-
sada and a revamped board of di-
rectors, Home Capital has shown
signs of recovering, though it re-
mains a diminished business
when compared with its precrisis
stature.
After generating a modest prof-
it of $31-million in the final three
months of 2017, Home Capital will
report first-quarter financial re-
sults on May 8. And the alterna-
tive mortgage lender, which spe-
cializes in home loans to prospec-
tive homeowners who have diffi-
culty qualifying at large banks −
such as new immigrants and self-
employed people − now has ex-
cess capital to spend, giving it
flexibility to grow its loan books,
make acquisitions or buy back
shares.
Yet Mr. Bissada has stressed
that the company intends to
“grow responsibly.” The mortgage
industry is grappling with a slow-
down in activity in major housing
markets since OSFI introduced
tougher stress testing for unin-
sured mortgages at the start of Ja-
nuary. Most lenders have said it is
too early to tell what the full im-
pact of new rules will be.
Home Capital’s share price fell
as much as 1.5 per cent in early
trading on the Toronto Stock Ex-
change on Wednesday, but reco-
vered to close 1.2-per-cent higher,
at $13.72.
HOME CAPITAL (HCG)
CLOSE: $13.72, UP 16¢

Ottawa urged to address Trump changes his tune, slams TPP once again
$7-billion shortfall needed U.S. President Donald Trump has not South Korea, was known as
to supply rural broadband again said that he does not like
the landmark Trans-Pacific Part-
the TPP. It was a signature trade
policy of president Barack Oba-
Bilateral deals are far
nership deal. ma, but he was unable to secure
CHRISTINE DOBBY “While Japan and South Korea more efficient, congressional support for the
TELECOM REPORTER would like us to go back into TPP, profitable and better deal.
I don’t like the deal for the United for OUR workers. It was thrown into limbo when
States,” he said on Twitter on Mr. Trump withdrew from the
A cross-party parliamentary committee is unanimously call- Tuesday. “Too many contingen- DONALD TRUMP deal three days after his inaugu-
ing on the federal government to take more action to address cies and no way to get out if it PRESIDENT OF ration in January, 2017, a move he
THE UNITED STATES
the roughly $7-billion problem of connecting rural and doesn’t work. said was aimed at protecting U.S.
northern residents to high-speed internet. Bilateral deals are far more effi- jobs.
In a report published Tuesday, the committee urged Otta- cient, profitable and better for Following the U.S. withdrawal,
wa to introduce regulatory and funding changes to help OUR workers. Look how bad WTO the remaining 11 countries rene-
smaller telecom operators provide “last-mile” internet solu- is to U.S.” gotiated parts of the TPP.
tions in rural communities. It suggested changes such as The original 12-member agree-
making it easier for small players to access spectrum − the ment, which included Japan but REUTERS
airwaves that carry telecommunications signals − and sim-
plifying the process to apply for funding.
The committee heard “it’s a dog’s breakfast out there”
when it comes to projects to improve the state of the last mile
(which means connecting homes and businesses to the
broader, backbone network of the internet), Dan Ruimy, a
Liberal MP and chair of the standing committee on industry,
science and technology, said in a news conference.
“You’ll have everything from interesting co-ops and mu-
nicipalities that are partnering with exciting opportunities
and some innovation that’s taking place, but there still is no
real pattern that you can find out there.”
The report recommended that the Department of Innova-
tion, Science and Economic Development develop a “com-
prehensive rural broadband strategy” that would work with
all levels of government across the country and key players,
such as internet providers, First Nations communities and
non-profit groups.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications
Commission has ruled that high-speed internet is a “basic
telecom service” that should be available to everyone. But by
the end of 2016, only 39 per cent of rural households had the
option to subscribe to a service offering the regulator’s target
of download speeds of 50 mega-
bits per second and upload
speeds of 10 Mbps.
The comprehensive The CRTC is in the midst of roll-
ing out a $750-million fund to ex-
strategy is really pand broadband access while the
important but it’s federal government has already
not necessarily started funding projects under its
about ‘here, we’re own five-year, $500-million Con-
nect to Innovate fund, and nu-
going to give you merous funds of a similar nature
more money.’ exist at the provincial level.
But the standing committee’s
DAN RUIMY report notes that one CRTC esti-
CHAIR OF THE STANDING
COMMITTEE ON INDUSTRY, mate suggested it could cost
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY about $5-billion to connect rural
Canada and a further $2-billion
for the North. The CRTC witness who provided those num-
bers emphasized they are rough and said detailed costing is
difficult, but the figures give a sense of the scale of the chal-
lenge.
Mr. Ruimy said the intent of the report is not to call for
more funding, but rather to recommend specific changes
that could make a difference, particularly for smaller oper-
ators.
“The comprehensive strategy is really important but it’s
not necessarily about ‘here, we’re going to give you more
money,’ ” he said in an interview Wednesday.
“One of the things we heard was the larger telecom players
might say, ‘well, it’s not necessarily profitable to go into a
small town.’ But when you’re looking at a small provider, the
conditions could be right for that small provider to be profit-
able.”
Mr. Ruimy said a range of changes could help, including
keeping better statistics on internet speeds and service across
the country and helping operators gain access to utility poles,
railway corridors or roads already under construction.
A spokesman for Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains said
Wednesday he appreciates the work of the committee and
will look into the report’s recommendations further.
The report was the result of almost two years of study that
included a trip to Washington, D.C., to consider U.S. struggles
with rural internet access as well as the review of 50 oral and
written submissions.
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OPINION & ANALYSIS
Loosely tossing around allegations of
tax dodging could imperil your credibility
Activists dirty their
hands by throwing mud
at a Canadian mining
company that has been
following the rules
STEVE SUAREZ
OPINION
Toronto tax lawyer
axes are a hot topic these
T days. Those who cheat the
system cost the rest of us
who pay what we owe, which un-
dermines an income-tax system
such as Canada’s that relies on
honesty and transparency. Yet
some would throw around the
term “tax avoidance” a little too
freely.
Recently the Dutch organiza-
tion SOMO issued a report saying
that Canadian miner Turquoise
Hill Resources (THR) “avoided
nearly $470-million in Canadian
taxes” by using European subsid-
iaries. The accompanying media
release says “[THR] reports that
this arrangement was approved
by Canadian authorities,” and
quotes allied anti-mining activist
Mining Watch Canada that “The
public needs to know how and
why this approval was granted.”
The subsequent Globe and Mail
story quotes the same Mining
Watch spokesman as saying “CRA
has deemed [THR’s arrange-
ment] to be legal, and it’s depriv-
ing Canada of millions in revenue
and it’s not at all clear why they
would do that.”
While I can’t speak to the tax
laws of the other countries men-
tioned in the report, having prac-
tised Canadian tax law for more
than 25 years I can address
whether Canadian taxes were
“dodged.” Full disclosure: While I
have advised many mining com-
panies (including THR and Rio
Tinto), I was not involved in
whatever planning implemented
the arrangement described in the
SOMO report (assuming it to be
accurate), which is common for
Canadian corporations with op-
erations outside Canada. I repre-
sent no one in expressing the fol-
lowing views, which are entirely
my own and have not been ap-
proved by anyone else.
The SOMO report says THR
raised capital to finance develop-
ment of a mine in Mongolia be-
longing to a majority-owned
Mongolian subsidiary (OTL), and
The risk of ceding online content monitoring to internet giants
MICHAEL GEIST
OPINION
Holds the Canada Research Chair in
Internet and E-commerce Law at the
University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
s elected officials place in-
A ternet giants such as Goo-
gle and Facebook under an
increasingly intense microscope,
the pressure mounts on those
companies to play more pro-
active roles in policing content on
their networks. In recent weeks,
the demands have come from
seemingly every direction: priva-
cy commissioners seeking rules
on the removal of search results,
politicians calling for increased
efforts to address fake news on in-
ternet platforms and internet us-
ers wondering why the compa-
nies are slow to take down alleg-
edly defamatory or harmful post-
ings.
Internet companies can un-
doubtedly do more, but laying the
responsibility primarily at their
feet poses its own risks as govern-
ments and regulators effectively
cede responsibility for content
moderation and policing to pri-
vate, for-profit companies. In do-
ing so, there is a real chance that
the internet giants will become
even more powerful, limiting fu-
ture competition and entrench-
ing an uncomfortable reliance on
private organizations for activ-
ities that are traditionally con-
ducted by courts and regulators.
Contrary to some claims, there
has never been a fully hands-off
approach to internet regulation.
All internet companies – like any
other company – respond to court
Workers bag copper-gold concentrate in Mongolia in 2016 at a mine partly owned by Turquoise Hill Resources,
a Canadian company targeted by activists who say it has been dodging taxes. TAYLOR WEIDMAN/BLOOMBERG
used that money to fund a Lux-
embourg subsidiary (Movele),
which then loaned the money to
OTL. According to SOMO, what
THR “should” have done is loan
the money directly to OTL, result-
ing in THR earning interest in-
come (not Movele) and incurring
Canadian tax: not doing so
“dodged” US$470-million of Can-
adian tax.
While reasonable people can
differ about what someone’s “fair
share” should be, Parliament
(elected democratically by Cana-
dians) decides – the Income Tax
Act (ITA) sets out how much tax
each person owes, no more and
no less. The Canada Revenue
Agency audits taxpayers and
reassesses when it believes more
is owing. The courts ultimately
resolve any differences. Where
someone has technically com-
plied with rules but in a way that
is not what the law intends, the
CRA can apply a “general anti-
avoidance rule” (GAAR).
First of all, structuring one’s af-
fairs within the rules so as to min-
imize taxes is demonstrably fair
game: The Supreme Court of
Canada has stated clearly that (1)
orders to take down content or to
disclose the identity of their sub-
scribers or users. The major com-
panies such as Google, Facebook,
Microsoft and Twitter also regu-
larly release detailed transparen-
cy reports that provide insights
into lawful requests and take-
down efforts.
Some companies have proac-
tively attempted to block or mute
certain content. Facebook chief
executive Mark Zuckerberg em-
phasized his company’s success
in combatting terrorist materials
last week in his U.S. congressional
appearance, noting that the tech-
nology is sufficiently effective to
ensure that the vast majority of
posts are never viewed by anyone.
Similarly, YouTube, the world’s
largest video site, automatically
flags copyright-infringing content
identified by rights holders,
which is then muted, taken down
or used to generate revenues for
the rights holder through adver-
tising. These efforts at content
moderation require significant
resources with hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars invested in em-
ployees and technologies that can
use automation to help facilitate
content identification.
Before politicians or regulators
mandate additional require-
ments, we should recognize the
risks associated with outsourcing
responsibility for content moder-
ation to internet companies.
First, mandating broader con-
tent moderation and take-downs
virtually ensures that the big play-
ers will only get bigger given the
technology, research and person-
nel costs that will be out of the re-
ach of smaller companies. At a
time when some of the internet
companies already seem too big,
“taxpayers have the right to order
their affairs to minimize tax
payable” (Jean Coutu Group Inc.
v. Canada, 2016); and (2) “Unless
the Act provides otherwise, a tax-
payer is entitled to be taxed
based on what it actually did, not
based on what it could have
done, and certainly not based on
what a less sophisticated tax-
payer might have done.” (Shell
Canada Ltd. v. Canada, 1999).
Someone making an
RRSP contribution is not
a “tax dodger” just
because they could
have made the same
investment outside their
RRSP without the tax
savings.
Right away then, the SOMO/
Mining Watch tax-avoidance alle-
gation rings hollow. Someone
making an RRSP contribution is
not a “tax dodger” just because
they could have made the same
investment outside their RRSP
without the tax savings.
content moderation of billions of
posts or videos would reaffirm
their power, rendering it virtually
impossible for upstart players to
compete.
Internet companies can
undoubtedly do more,
but laying the
responsibility primarily
at their feet poses
its own risks …
In fact, we are already perilous-
ly close to entrenching the large
internet players. At a conference
on large-scale content modera-
tion held earlier this year in Cali-
fornia, there was a wide gap be-
tween companies such as Google
and Facebook (which deploy
thousands of people to the task)
and smaller companies such as
Medium, Reddit and Dropbox,
which have hundreds of millions
of users, but have only a handful
of people focused on content
moderation issues.
DILBERT
O THE GLOBE AND MAIL .
Why would the CRA deem this
type of planning to be legal,
Mining Watch asks? Because the
CRA’s job is to determine wheth-
er a taxpayer has computed taxes
owing under the laws enacted by
Parliament, not to make the val-
ue judgments that are Parlia-
ment’s alone to make.
What about the GAAR that ap-
plies when a taxpayer’s planning
meets the letter of the law but
not the object and spirit? Well,
the ITA specifically exempts from
Canadian tax repatriated earn-
ings from active businesses (such
as mining) carried on by foreign
subsidiaries in countries that
have a tax treaty or similar agree-
ment with Canada: This is for-
eign-source income that Canada
doesn’t tax in the first place.
Moreover, the ITA has specific
provisions that deliberately facil-
itate using a foreign subsidiary to
make loans to foreign-operating
subsidiaries rather than making
such loans directly, which is what
thousands of Canadian corpora-
tions with foreign businesses do.
That being so, the CRA could
hardly have concluded otherwise
than as they did, and THR or any
Second, there remains consid-
erable uncertainty with what pol-
iticians actually want. Last week,
members of Congress alternately
took turns criticizing Facebook
for not doing enough to take
down content or for doing too
much. For example, Representa-
tive David McKinley wanted to
know why Facebook was slow to
remove posts promoting opioids,
while Representative Joe Barton
raised concerns about Facebook
taking down conservative con-
tent.
Similar issues arise in other
countries. For example, Facebook
faces potential liability in the mil-
lions of dollars for failing to re-
move hate content in Germany,
but earlier this month a German
court ordered the company to re-
store comments the company
deemed offensive.
Third, supporters of shifting
more responsibility to internet
companies argue that our court
systems or other administrative
mechanisms were never designed
to adjudicate content-related is-
sues on the internet’s massive
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similarly situated Canadian cor-
poration can’t fairly be accused
of “dodging” taxes that Canada
has consciously chosen not to
levy.
Does Canada have the right tax
policy in this instance? Mining
Watch is quoted in a Toronto Star
article as asking, “What’s the in-
centive for Canada? If that’s con-
sidered a legitimate tax policy,
then the policy needs to change.”
Well, Canada does have the
right tax policy for several rea-
sons (including putting Canadian
companies on the same tax foot-
ing as their foreign competitors),
and there are many benefits for
Canada. For example, THR ap-
pears to have no mines or any
other income-generating oper-
ations in Canada, just money-
spending corporate offices that
could be located anywhere.
Whatever taxes (income and oth-
erwise) they pay in Canada, and
whatever they spend on TSX list-
ing fees and on Canadian em-
ployees and Canadian service
providers (accountants, bankers,
lawyers, etc.) who themselves
pay Canadian taxes, is all found
money for Canada. That’s the in-
centive for Canada, and that’s
why Australia, Britain and many
other countries aggressively pur-
sue these companies. They want
to attract high-value-added eco-
nomic activity and all of the in-
direct benefits (including tax rev-
enues) that go with it, not be-
cause these companies are ex-
pected to structure foreign
operations to maximize taxes in
the head-office jurisdiction,
where there are no income-pro-
ducing assets. Every time one of
these companies leaves Canada
(or simply sets up elsewhere),
the Canadian economy loses, and
all of us have to pay more.
So then: A company that does
exactly what the ITA provides for,
in full compliance with the letter
and the spirit of the law and with
“in advance” transparent disclo-
sure to all relevant tax author-
ities, gets smeared as a “tax
avoider.” Reasonable people may
differ, but in this case Parliament,
the Supreme Court of Canada
and the CRA are all on the same
side.
SOMO, Mining Watch and oth-
er activists with their own agen-
das are welcome to their opin-
ions, but spurious claims of “tax
avoidance” unfairly tarnish oth-
ers while eroding the attackers’
credibility the next time they cry
wolf. As the saying goes, “When
you throw mud, you get your
hands dirty.”
scale. Many internet companies
were never designed for it either,
but we should at least recognize
the cost associated with turning
public adjudication over to pri-
vate entities.
Leaving it to search engines,
rather than the courts, to deter-
mine what is harmful and should
therefore be removed from search
indexes ultimately empowers
Google and weakens our system
of due process. Similarly, requir-
ing hosting providers to identify
instances of copyright infringe-
ment removes much of the nu-
ance in copyright analysis, creat-
ing real risks to freedom of ex-
pression.
Advocates of increased regula-
tion are quick to point out that the
internet is not a no-law land. Yet if
the determination of the legality
of online content is left largely to
private internet companies, we
may be consigning courts and reg-
ulators to a diminished role while
strengthening the Googles and
Facebooks, as concern grows over
excessive power in the hands of a
few internet giants.
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Ottawa debuts data-breach reporting rules
JOSH O’KANE
Ottawa has unveiled the final reg-
ulations for Canadian organiza-
tions who discover data breaches,
offering a checklist of steps for
those affected, but stopping short
of enforcing strict timelines com-
ing into effect next month in Eu-
rope.
The federal government has
been mulling data-breach regula-
tions for three years, and has
rolled out drafts and incremental
final details for months. Slated to
come into effect Nov. 1., the regu-
lations announced Wednesday
outline the minimum reporting
requirements for organizations
whose security safeguards have
been compromised, affecting in-
dividuals’ private data.
“While digitization has empo-
wered critical innovation, it has
also presented us with new and
uncharted opportunities and
challenges. The new regulations
will make companies more ac-
countable and empower Cana-
dian consumers,” said Navdeep
Bains, Minister of Innovation, Sci-
ence and Economic Develop-
ment, in a news release. His office
said he was not available for an
interview.
Compromises of customer in-
formation have become practi-
cally commonplace, and critics
have accused Ottawa of dragging
its feet on such legislation. In the
past 18 months alone, data
breaches at companies such as
BCE Inc., Loblaw Cos. Ltd., Cana-
dian Tire Corp. affected millions
of Canadians. And delays in re-
vealing such breaches have in
some cases been as arduous as
the incidents themselves. Yahoo
once waited more than three
years to disclose a massive priva-
cy breach; Uber only began in-
forming hundreds of thousands
of Canadian customers that they
might have been affected by its
2016 breach after a recent deci-
sion from the Alberta Privacy
Commissioner.
Canada’s new reporting re-
quirements include an assess-
ment of whether a breach has a
SP O NSO R CO NTE NT
FIND YOUR PASSION AT C2 MONTREAL
Up for something completely different? The connections you make at this unconventional conference could change your mindset, or even your life
FOR AMAL GAYED, THE PATH
TO VOLUNTEERING at an
emergency camp for Syrian refugees
came through her experiences at
C2 Montreal, a very unconventional
business conference.
“I was looking for a good organi-
zation to work with as a volunteer,”
explains Gayed, a client solutions
manager at Facebook Canada in
Montreal. With this in mind, she
took part in a workshop about
refugee aid at last year’s C2.
“It wasn’t just presentations. It
was all about how can we help,” she
says of the workshop. “We worked in
teams, brainstorming from day one
to day three. We had great presenters
[and] people talking about their ex-
periences. Yet it was more than just
us listening to people speak. It was
interactive and practical.”
C2’s impact on Gayed lasted long
after it concluded. Following up on
contacts she made while attending
C2, Gayed connected with
Emergency Response Centre
International (ERCI), a not-for-profit
organization that works with Syrian
refugees at a camp on the island of
Lesbos. After two weeks of volunteer-
ing, she is determined to continue
her involvement with ERCI and other
refugee support organizations.
“C2 gave an opportunity for
someone like me, who doesn’t usu-
ally work in the development world,
to participate,” she says.
Jeff Day was also inspired by
his experiences at C2. The CEO
of BlueWater Technologies, an IT
consulting firm based in Detroit, took
part in a two-day strategy workshop
that featured “out-of-the-box thinking
exercises” and activities, including
sculpture, invention and storytelling.
His participation prompted him
to write a thoughtful article about
“meaningful playfulness” – discussing
the positive effects of unconventional
creative activity on thinking and deci-
sion-making. It’s a concept that Day
says created a “mind shift” for him.
“C2 puts you in a conversation
that is so unfamiliar that it can’t help
Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, speaks on Dec. 12. A spokesperson
for Mr. Bains’s office said not putting a strict timeline on data-breach reporting ‘provides some degree of
flexibility to allow organizations to confirm that a breach has taken place.’ SEAN KILPATRICK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
“real risk of significant harm” to
individuals and disclosures to
both them and the Office of the
Privacy Commissioner. They in-
clude the circumstances and
timeframe of the breach; the type
of personal information that has
been accessed; how the organiza-
tion is minimizing harm from the
incident, as well as what individu-
als can do to minimize risk; and
contact details the Commission-
er’s office or affected individual
can use to ask questions about
what happened. A deliberate fail-
ure to notify the Commissioner
or an affected individual, or to
keep a record of a breach, will be
greeted with a fine of up to
$100,000 for each offence. And af-
fected organizations must also
outline how they will notify con-
sumers – but the new regulations
do not lay out any minimum
timelines to do so.
but teach you,” Day says. He was also
struck by the diversity of people he
interacted with during the workshop.
“We broke up into groups of 10, all
from different places – Canada, the
United States, Europe – and debated
a complex topic with thought leaders
guiding us,” he says. “I could not
have imagined being broken up into
a group with people from completely
different backgrounds who are inter-
ested in the same topic.”
That’s an integral feature of C2.
The event brings together a diverse
range of speakers and attendees
to participate in events that people
would not normally expect to find at
an ordinary business conference.
Taking place between May 23
and 25 this year in Montreal’s hip
and historic Griffintown district, C2
stands out because of its “obsession
with every detail of the experience,”
says Génifère Legrand, C2’s chief
Risk takers wanted
For all the specificity the regu-
lations offer, their final language
arrives just over a month before
the European Union’s strict Gen-
eral Data Protection Regulation,
or GDPR, comes into effect, bring-
ing with it more stringent privacy
regulations. They come when
sensitivity over data security has
reached a historic high. Cyberse-
curity experts say the rules leave
lingering questions about com-
pliance for Canadian businesses
that harness consumer data, par-
ticularly with multinational oper-
ations or partners.
GDPR requires a company’s
controller to report a data breach
to the proper authority within 72
hours after becoming aware of it,
and for infringements levels fines
of up to €20-million ($31.3 -mil-
lion) or 4 per cent of global reve-
nue – whichever is higher. In Can-
ada’s language, which says com-
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creative officer.
“We are obsessed with touching
people on a personal, emotional
level, as well as on an intellectual,
learning level,” she says.
At C2 you won’t find any trade
floors or exhibitors booths –
rather, it’s about experiencing the
unexpected, taking a step back,
leaving your own comfort zone and
becoming energized and recharged
by the experience.
“That mix of the personal and the
professional, along with the fact that
we borrow from [ways of operating]
in show business, theatre, hotels,
and even theme parks in some
cases, is all part of what we think
makes us stand apart,” Legrand says.
C2 participants come from more
than 50 countries and 24 industries,
taking part with a mixture of deep
experience in their own fields and
wide-eyed enthusiasm for some-
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panies must report “as soon as
feasible,” “there’s a lot of wiggle
room,” said Mark Nunnikhoven,
the Canadian-based vice-presi-
dent of cloud research at Trend
Micro, a global enterprise cyber-
security company. “I think the
regulations would be much
stronger with a specific timeline.”
A spokesperson for Minister
Bains’s office said that not put-
ting a strict timeline on Canadian
data-breach reporting “provides
some degree of flexibility to allow
organizations to confirm that a
breach has taken place, conduct a
risk assessment and put in place
measures to contain the breach, if
necessary, before notifying indi-
viduals.” However, he noted that
the regulations’ language “makes
it clear that the notification must
be made quickly and without un-
reasonable delay.”
The European regulations are
thing completely different.
It’s a format that seems to be
working. According to C2 organiz-
ers, one in four organizations with
people attending the conference
reported making business deals as a
direct result of being there.
“My experience at C2 was
really eye-opening,” says Nadine
Renaud-Tinker, president, Quebec
Headquarters for RBC, a C2 partner.
Renaud-Tinker was particularly
intrigued by the focus on artificial
intelligence (AI) at the event, which
is a big priority for her industry.
“Spending time at C2 permitted
me to explore different kinds of
environments and possibilities,”
Renaud-Tinker says. “It also remind-
ed me how important technology
is and how we leverage it – how
we’re in more than a financial
business. Our business is service,
building relationships and advice.”
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“raising the bar when it comes to
privacy requirements,” said Im-
ran Ahmad, a partner at Miller
Thomson LLP specializing in cy-
bersecurity and privacy. So the
pressure is already on Canadian
companies working globally, he
said. “European business part-
ners are saying, ‘Because we need
to be compliant with GDPR, you
need to be compliant with GDPR.’
So there’s a general rush to make
sure we’re meeting that compli-
ance requirement.”
(Asked to comment on the
pressure some businesses face
over the discrepancy in Canadian
and European regulations, a gov-
ernment spokesperson said that “
Canada continues to work closely
with the European Union to en-
sure the uninterrupted flow of da-
ta between the two economies.”)
David Elder, a lawyer with Sti-
keman Elliott LLP who focuses on
privacy law, said that companies
with operations outside of Cana-
da - or Alberta, which has re-
quired privacy-breach notifica-
tions since 2010 - should already
have protocols in place to re-
spond to potential compromises
of personal data. “Maybe for
smaller entities, this may provide
some added incentive,” he said.
Many privacy experts applaud-
ed the clarity of the final lan-
guage, especially for smaller orga-
nizations, who now have until
Nov. 1 need to create frameworks
to deal with such issues. “It gives
much more structure, and the
goal is to take away doubt,” Mr.
Nunnikhoven said.
One piece of regulation that
struck Mr. Elder is a requirement
that organizations must keep re-
cords of any breach of security
safeguards, for 24 months, even if
they are not so significant as to re-
quire the individuals whose in-
formation was accessed. He said
this could be subject to extremely
broad interpretation that could
put significant hardship on some
companies. If a store clerk holler-
ed a customer’s shoe size across
the room to double-check it, for
example, it would be considered
a breach of their personal infor-
mation worth recording.
Another way C2 connects people
is through ‘braindates’ – a network-
ing feature that the conference is
known for.
Braindates are guided connec-
tions, curated by facilitators, that con-
nect C2 participants to share ideas,
insights and inspiration. Before the
conference, participants can request
braindates to meet with others and
talk about anything, from how to
set up an experiential marketing cam-
paign to how to do a handstand.
Gayed says that the braindates
were another highlight of her expe-
rience at C2.
“[C2] has so many different ways
to help you connect,” she says of
the conference. “It’s a great way to
follow your passion, whether it’s
your business or a personal one.”
To learn more about
C2 Montreal (May 23-25), go to
www.c2.biz.
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ROOTS SHARES JUMP TO HIGHEST LEVEL

SINCE IPO AS EARNINGS BEAT EXPECTATIONS

Roots Corp. shares jumped on Wednesday to their highest

levels since they were listed publicly last year, after the Cana-
dian clothing company’s sales and adjusted earnings topped
analyst estimates in its latest quarter.
The shares traded as high as $12.62 after the announce-
ment, up as much as 10 per cent from Tuesday’s closing price.
In later trading, the stock was up 9.8 per cent at $12.60, up
$1.13.
The Toronto-based company’s shares have seldom traded
above the $12 set for its initial public offering in October.
Roots announced its net income was $20.8-million or 50
cents a share for the fiscal fourth quarter ended on Feb. 3, up
from $17.2-million or 41 cents a share in the same quarter a
last year.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

SNC-LAVALIN WINS ‘MULTIMILLION’-DOLLAR

SAUDI ARAMCO CONTRACT

Construction and engineering firm SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.

says it hass signed a deal with Saudi Aramco to install added
Students from Hilltop Middle School in Etobicoke, Ont., participate in the Money Fair National Showcase in facilities for a major gas processing plant in Saudi Arabia.
Toronto as part of Talk With Our Kids About Money Day on Wednesday. GALIT RODAN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL SNC said it would construct a handling facility and a sour
water disposal project at the Wasit gas plant, which is located
north of Jubail Industrial City. SNC, which has been working

Students across Canada learn with Aramco for the past 40 years, did not give out deal de-
tails but said it is a “multimillion”-dollar transaction.
REUTERS

financial skills for their future IVANHOÉ TO INCREASE ASSETS

BY 33 PER CENT WITH BET ON WAREHOUSES

Money fair in Toronto More than 7,000 schools across
the country participated from
on Wednesday aims to their own areas, while projects
teach students to think from Hilltop Middle School in
differently about money Etobicoke were featured at the
showcase.
Gary Rabbior, president of
HANNAH DALEY TORONTO CFEE, said the foundation’s goal
for the day is to teach students to
think differently about areas of fi-
any adults know how ex- nance they want to know more
family. Alexandra Currie and Kiki
Drozd’s project on the cost of be-
ing female won first place, Rhya-
na Martin and Jennah Hossny
took second with their project on
money problems and how to
avoid them and Leticja Bingelite
and Kristen Hodder won third for
researching modern-day budget
stability.
One more serious topic was the
Ivanhoé Cambridge Inc., the real estate arm of one of Cana-
da’s biggest pension funds, plans to increase its assets by a
third with a bet on the booming warehouse space.
The unit of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec aims
to expand its assets under management to $80-billion over
the next five years by adding apartments, offices and indus-
trial space, president Nathalie Palladitcheff said.
Ivanhoé plans to double its industrial portfolio to more
than $4-billion by the end of the year, Ms. Palladitcheff said.
BLOOMBERG NEWS

M pensive holidays are and

how alluring the market-
ing can be, but Alexandria Alika-
kos and Gabriela Babineau, both
13, were inspired to find out for
themselves.
“Holidays should be about
spending time with family, not
just about the presents. We
learned that companies do try to
tempt you,” Gabriela said while
explaining their project at the
Canadian Foundation for Eco-
nomic Education’s (CFEE) money
fair in Toronto for Talk With Our
Kids About Money Day on
Wednesday.
about and how to carry that
knowledge into their futures.
“Helping kids have financial
skills isn’t just about the numbers
and which is the right credit card,
but empowers them to build a
healthier, happier life in general,”
he said.
“It helped us understand mon-
ey and how it will help us in the
future,” Alexandria said.
Other projects highlighted at
the showcase, which was hosted
by Bank of Nova Scotia at its To-
ronto headquarters, included
topics such as the cost of climate
change, gaming and having a
cost of addiction, researched by
Caitlin Graham, 12, and Nicole Sa-
bac, 13.
They looked into addictions
such as drugs, drinking and gam-
bling.
“We thought it would be a cool
topic because Canada’s legalizing
marijuana and it’s something
that’s really going to affect us as
we get older,” Caitlin said.
“It’s really about encouraging
kids to start to think seriously
about the value of money,” said
Phillip Crawley, publisher and
chief executive of The Globe and
Mail and MC for the event.
OTTAWA UNVEILS FINAL BAIL-IN BANKING RULES
TO AVOID TAXPAYER-FUNDED BAILOUTS
Ottawa has laid out its final regulations for banks aimed at
avoiding the use of taxpayer dollars to bail out financial in-
stitutions in the unlikely event of a failure.
Under the so-called bail-in regime, authorities could con-
vert certain kinds of unsecured, long-term debt of a failing
lender into shares to stabilize the financial institution, rather
than asking taxpayers to fund a government bailout.
The new regulations, published in the Canada Gazette and
which take effect in September, are part of a raft of measures
put in place by regulators globally to prevent a recurrence of
the government bailouts needed during the 2008 financial
crisis.
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GM Canada head leaving to run Cadillac unit

GREG KEENAN makers. Sales rose to 302,826 last hiring 750 engineers. siers said. Mr. de Nysschen leaves works. “Looking forward, the
AUTO, STEEL AND year from 263,335 in 2015, his first His time was also marked, after leading Cadillac to the sec- world is changing rapidly and be-
AIRLINE INDUSTRY REPORTER full year on the job. however, by a strike at the Cami ond-best sales year on record ginning with the launch of the
Market share stood at 13.5 per plant last year. globally last year, but an 8-per- new XT4, it is paramount that we
cent when he became president There are also lingering wor- cent decline in U.S. sales − the capitalize immediately on the
Stephen Carlisle is departing as of GM Canada and rose to 15.1 per ries about the future of the Osha- second straight drop in a market opportunities that arise from
president of General Motors of cent in the first quarter of this wa operations, although Mr. Car- where the brand’s name was this rate of change,” Dan Am-
Canada Co. to take on the job of year. lisle presided over the return of once synonymous with luxury. mann, GM president, said in a
president of the Cadillac division Getting GM Canada back to pickup truck assembly to that Worldwide sales rose 15 per statement on Mr. de Nysschen’s
of General Motors Co. after the leadership in the sales race as of city. cent last year with sales in China departure.
abrupt departure of Cadillac March was one of the highlights He also smoothed relations soaring 51 per cent. The change at the top “will
head Johan de Nysschen. of Mr. Carlisle’s tenure, said Da- with GM Canada dealers by set- But in the United States, such further accelerate our efforts in
Mr. Carlisle, who was on the vid Paterson, GM Canada’s vice- tling some lawsuits launched in offshore-based companies as Au- that regard,” the statement quot-
job at GM Canada for 3½ years, president of corporate and envi- the wake of the 2008-09 auto cri- di, Land Rover and the Infiniti ed Mr. Ammann as saying.
will be replaced by Travis Hester, ronmental affairs. Mr. Carlisle sis and the parent company’s de- division of Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Mr. Carlisle said the potential
who will leave his job as vice- was not available on Wednesday scent into Chapter 11 bankruptcy which Mr. de Nysschen left to for Cadillac globally is “incredi-
president of global product pro- for interviews. protection in the United States. join GM, have picked up market ble.”
grams for GM. Mr. Paterson also noted that Settling some of those battles share in recent years. Mr. de Nysschen shifted Cadil-
GM offered no explanation for Mr. Carlisle oversaw $1.5-billion was among his biggest accom- Cadillac has been hamstrung lac’s headquarters to New York
the exit of Mr. de Nysschen, say- in new investments made at plishments, said Canadian in- by a portfolio full of passenger from Detroit in 2015.
ing that he is leaving the compa- GM’s Cami assembly plant in In- dustry analyst Dennis DesRo- cars amid a shift in consumer Mr. Carlisle decided to shift
ny “effective immediately.” gersoll, Ont., and its assembly siers, president of DesRosiers Au- tastes to crossover vehicles. the headquarters of the Cadillac
The move by Mr. Carlisle complex in Oshawa, Ont., since tomotive Consultants Inc. The brand rolled out a new Canada unit from Oshawa to a
comes after an eventful tenure at 2015, as well as the opening of a “He made GM visible again [in crossover, the XT4 at the New new campus the company is
the Canadian operations of the new research and development Canada], which is important for York auto show last month and scheduled to build east of down-
largest of the Detroit Three auto centre in Markham, Ont., that is a vehicle company,” Mr. DesRo- has two other crossovers in the town Toronto.

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CP Rail profit slumps 18% in first quarter

Volumes and expenses
increase as railway
faces possible strike
ERIC ATKINS
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.’s
profit fell 18 per cent in the first
quarter, as expenses rose amid a
winter that tested the resiliency of
the North American rail network.
CP said first-quarter net profit
fell to $348-million, or $2.41 a
share, from $431-million ($2.93)
in the same period a year ago.
Revenue rose 4 per cent to $1.66-
billion for the three months end-
ing March 31, CP said in its earn-
ings release after markets closed
Wednesday.
On an adjusted basis, per-share
profit rose 8 per cent to $2.70 a
share. Analysts expected adjusted
per-share profit of $2.76.
Chief executive Keith Creel
said in a conference call with anal-
ysts that the results reflect “chal-
lenging” winter conditions and
an unexpected rise in demand.
CP issued its results ahead of a
potential strike by two of its
union as of midnight Friday.
Teamsters Canada Rail Confer-
ence, which represents about
3,000 locomotive crews, and the
International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, representing
365 signal workers, have issued
strike notices.
Freight carloads rose by almost
4 per cent in the first quarter com-
pared with a year ago, exceeding
the North American industry av-
erage of just more than 2 per cent.
CP’s rise in traffic was led by a
19-per-cent increase in potash and
an 11-per-cent jump in energy and
chemicals. Grain carloads fell 8
per cent, and automotive freight
was down 6 per cent.
A harsh winter and an increase
in freight volumes caused conges-
tion for all railways, driving up op-
erating costs while drawing the
unwanted attention of regulators
in Canada and the United States.
Industry groups complained
that poor rail service from CP,
Canadian National Railway Co.
and large U.S. carriers is causing
lost sales and production.
The railways say new locomo-
tives and crews are helping to
move the freight backlog as win-
ter recedes. But analysts expect all
carriers to post higher expenses
in the first quarter. CP’s expenses
rose 12 per cent. Currency fluctu-
ations led to a $49-million non-
cash loss related to the company’s
U.S. dollar denominated debt.
“Nevertheless, we are increas-
ing our full-year forecast to in-
clude recent contract wins and
now expect adjusted fully diluted
[earnings per share] of $13 in 2018
(up from $12.76) and $14.50 in 2019
(up from C$14.27),” Desjardins Se-
curities analyst Benoit Poirier
said in a note to clients.
Meanwhile, CP and its custom-
ers face a possible work stoppage
by the end of the week. The Team-
sters said it hoped talks this week
will yield an agreement its mem-
bers can support, but the union
cited a lack of progress as it issued
a strike notice.
“Systematically bullying work-
ers, while pushing them to work
well beyond their point of ex-
haustion, is part of the reason
why workers at CP have been
forced to risk strike action for the
third time in six years,” the union
said.
“It’s beginning to look more
and more like a strike will take
place,” said Bob Ballantyne, head
of the Freight Management Asso-
ciation of Canada, which repre-
sents 90 companies in a range of
industries, including agriculture,
retail and mining. “It would have
a major effect. Strikes by either
CN or CP have major effects on
large segments of the economy.”
Mr. Ballantyne said resource
companies that rely on railways
to move large quantities of low-
value goods will be negatively af-
fected because trucks cannot re-
place the convenience and cost-
effectiveness of railcars over Can-
ada’s vast distances. And industri-
es producing high-value goods
such as steel and chemicals risk
losing a steady supply of the raw
materials vital to their contin-
uous manufacturing processes.
This could require costly shut-
downs. “It could have a negative
impact on retailers as well,” he
said.
CP RAIL (CP)
CLOSE: $226.29, UP 75¢

Bombardier
FROM B1

It cites the South African rail con-

Pastries are displayed at a Tim Hortons during a media event in Mexico in October, 2017. While its parent company has generated a
nearly 32-per-cent return on equity, the reality on the ground appears to be shifting against the Tims brand. DANIEL BECERRIL/REUTERS
McGugan: 3G business model may cause investor heartburn
FROM B1
For its part, RBI is battling a group of Tim
Hortons franchisees who claim the compa-
ny is waging its war on costs at the expense
of restaurant owners’ profit. It’s also being
investigated by the federal government for
alleged breaches of the promises it made
when it acquired the doughnut chain in
2014.
To be sure, most analysts continue to of-
fer glowing appraisals of both RBI and Kraft
Heinz, in large part because of the success
of the 3G model in cutting costs. After the
company teamed up with Warren Buffett to
buy Heinz in 2013, profit margins rocketed
over the next two years. At RBI, which 3G
created by merging Tim Hortons with Burg-
er King, it has managed to propel return on
equity to nearly 32 per cent, a remarkably
high level by fast-food standards.
But softer measures suggest the profit is
coming at a cost. Consider a survey of 1,501
Canadian adults published this week by
Angus Reid Institute.
Thirty five per cent of respondents said
their opinion of Tim Hortons had wors-
ened in recent years. While Tim Hortons’
advertising campaigns have tirelessly pro-
moted the chain’s deep roots in Canadian
Catalyst: Company has invested approximately $5-billion on
behalf of institutional investors including pension plan at U of T
FROM B1
In dismissing the claim, Justice Hainey
wrote that Catalyst was attempting to stage
a new trial on issues that had already been
decided in court.
“Re-litigation of this issue in this pro-
ceeding would impeach the integrity of the
judicial system. It should not be permit-
ted,” Justice Hainey said in a 32-page deci-
sion. He wrote: “Catalyst’s current action is
dismissed against all of the defendants as
an abuse of process.”
Catalyst has invested approximately $5-
billion on behalf of institutional investors,
including pension plans at the University
of Toronto and McGill University. The firm
is under some pressure to cash in on hold-
ings, which were made over the past nine
years, in order to return capital to investors
in some of its funds.
Catalyst and Mr. Glassman are known for
using aggressive legal strategies, and in
some cases they have suggested to inves-
tors that litigation can bring in large finan-
cial rewards. For instance, in a presentation
to investors in two of its largest funds last
April, Catalyst placed a US$447-million po-
tential value on Wind Mobile litigation – a
valuation that is now likely worth zero now
tract as an example of the con-
cerns that led to the shareholder
proposal to seek disclosure of
Bombardier’s lobbying activities.
“For a company as active as
Bombardier, with as many con-
troversies thrown at it as Bombar-
dier, there should be more than
just a report to the board that the
company hasn’t broken the law
in its lobbying activities in that
quarter,” said Kevin Thomas, di-
rector of shareholder engage-
ment at SHARE.
“We’d like to see, at the board
level, some serious attention to
the scope, the content and the
purpose of the lobbying activity,
to make sure it’s meeting their
ethical standards,” Mr. Thomas
told The Globe and Mail in an in-
terview.
Similar proposals are being
made by shareholders at dozens
of other North American corpora-
tions, including SNC-Lavalin
Group Inc., where a vote will also
be held next month.
An investigation by The Globe
last year found that Bombardier
had won hundreds of millions of
dollars worth of international
contracts after making success-
fee payments to agents in foreign
countries.
A former employee of Bombar-
communities, the reality on the ground ap- pals of 3G were instrumental in building. dier’s rail unit, who had worked
pears to be shifting. The beer giant assumed its current in its bid-preparation team, said
At Kraft Heinz, signs of stress are also be- shape in 2008, after InBev, a Brazilian-Bel- he helped prepare bids for foreign
coming apparent, according to Mr. Mos- gian brewer, took over the U.S. firm An- contracts that included success-
kow. The company’s Oscar Mayer cold cuts heuser-Busch. fee payments in South Africa, Ma-
and Kraft natural cheese brands are losing A rigorous diet of cost cutting produced laysia and South Korea.
market share to private labels, while Cana- great results for investors over the next few A Tunisian middleman, Yous-
dian retailers recently reduced their inven- years. Since 2013, however, the stock has sef Zarrouk, told The Globe that
tories, he said. lagged the S&P 500 by about 9 percentage he received US$3.5-million in suc-
Employees may not be all that happy, ei- points a year of total return and the compa- cess-fee payments from Bombar-
ther. Mr. Moskow said industry sources ny has turned to acquisitions to drive reve- dier in 2005 in exchange for help-
have expressed concern nue growth. ing a Bombardier-led consortium
about growing turnover rates For now, wary investors win a contract for the 80-kilo-
among Kraft Heinz staffers. Most analysts may want to keep their dis- metre high-speed Gautrain pro-
“We find it quite telling that tance from RBI and Kraft ject, which links Johannesburg
the company chose not to continue to offer Heinz. and Pretoria.
publish its turnover rate in its glowing appraisals “The 3G business model is South Africa’s public protector,
February 2018 presentation of both RBI and very good at cutting non-es- an ombudsman’s office with the
called Recruit, Develop and Kraft Heinz. sential overhead, focusing on power to investigate corruption,
Align our People,” he wrote. price realization, and run- opened an investigation into the
When asked for comment, a company ning an efficient plant and distribution net- Gautrain contract in 2015.
spokesman said, “At Kraft Heinz, we are a work,” Mr. Moskow said. “However, its abil- Bombardier has said that it
company of owners that thrive in a per- ity to drive sales growth through market- hired Mr. Zarrouk as a “sales rep-
formance-driven environment − and we ing, new products, and strategic invest- resentative” on the Gautrain con-
invest heavily to develop our employees.” ment has yet to be proven.” tract. It said the payments to him
Of course, the recent weakness in RBI were “within the norms of the in-
and Kraft Heinz shares could be transient. RESTAURANT BRANDS (QSR) dustry practice at the time.”
But investors who want to take a long-term CLOSE: $69.53, UP $1.27 But the payments only became
view should consider the case of Anheuser- KRAFT HEINZ (KHC) public because of a dispute be-
Busch InBev SA, which some of the princi- CLOSE: US$60.79, DOWN 90¢ tween Mr. Zarrouk and a South
African lobbyist, who went to
court in 2012 to seek a bigger pay-
ment from Mr. Zarrouk.
Under the new shareholder
proposal, Bombardier would
have to disclose these kinds of
payments.
“It’s difficult for shareholders
after Wednesday’s court decision. (Catalyst in a news release that if litigation contin- to have a fine lens on what the
has said it does not include future litigation ues, “the full scope of conduct by Catalyst company does, so our first goal is
awards in its official financial statements, and its agents will be publicly revealed.” to make sure the company itself
and gave the US$447-million figure only to In Wednesday’s decision, Justice Hainey has a fine-tuned lens on this and
provide additional disclosure to investors.) relied in part on Justice Newbould’s ruling, is paying attention at the deepest
In a court hearing on Monday, Catalyst’s which said: “This lawsuit was driven by Mr. levels, and that there’s enough
lawyers said they had new Glassman. He was not able to disclosure to shareholders that
evidence in the Wind case, accept that he lost his chance we are reassured that this situa-
should it move forward. Law- Catalyst and Mr. to acquire Wind by being out- tion is under control,” Mr. Tho-
yers for West Face said as part smarted by someone else.” mas said. “That’s the key. We can’t
of Monday’s court session Glassman are known Catalyst’s investments al- manage the company but we do
that the new information was for using aggressive so include distressed lender need to know that somebody is
gathered in a Black Cube legal strategies, and Callidus Capital Corp. Cata- minding the store.”
sting operation run against in some cases they lyst sold a minority interest Bombardier has urged share-
West Face employees. in the company in 2014 for $14 holders to vote against the pro-
Operatives for Black Cube, have suggested to a share; the stock closed at posal. It said it already files re-
founded by ex-Mossad investors that $4.96 on Wednesday. In 2017, ports on its lobbying activities to
agents, allegedly posed as litigation can bring in Callidus reported $217-mil- the Canadian commissioner on
recruiters for a rival private lion of loan losses, including lobbying, the Quebec registry of
large financial lobbyists and the U.S. govern-
equity fund to get current a particularly large loss to an
and former West Face em- rewards. oil-services company operat- ment.
ployees to talk about their ing in Venezuela. Bombardier said the sharehol-
firm. Catalyst declined to comment on the Catalyst and Callidus jointly filed as der proposal “would impose an
source of its new evidence. $450-million lawsuit last November that al- unnecessary administrative bur-
West Face’s lawyers, from law firm Da- leges West Face and a number of journal- den and costs on the corporation
vies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, said ists, bankers and hedge funds were “wolf- when sufficient public disclosure
Black Cube also ran a sting operation on Ca- pack conspirators” engaged in a scheme to already exists.” It said the compa-
talyst’s behalf that attempted to discredit drive down Callidus’s stock price. West Face ny is already committed to “the
the judge in the Moyse case, Justice Frank filed a $500-million counterclaim against highest ethical standards” in its
Newbould. On Wednesday, West Face said the two businesses. government relationships.
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B10 | REPORT ON BUSINESS
GLOBE INVESTOR
Timing an exit from equities is a tricky matter
Turn cautious too
quickly and you risk
missing out on the best
days of a bull market
TIM SHUFELT
INSIDE THE MARKET
tock markets have a knack
S for detecting recessions be-
fore they begin.
Historically, the months lead-
ing up to an economic downturn
have proven to be among the
worst times to hold equities.
But turn cautious too early
and you risk missing out on
what are typically some of the
best days of a bull market – the
last leg skyward before the ap-
proach of recession establishes a
peak in equities.
That makes timing the market
largely an exercise in estimating
how much time separates us
from the next recession.
“Unless you think a recession
is around the corner, you should
overweight stocks. It’s as simple
as that,” Peter Berezin, chief
global strategist at Montreal-
based BCA Research, wrote in a
recent report. That, he said, is
“the most useful lesson I have
learned over the past 25 years
studying macro[economics] and
markets.”
This Toronto-based company looks like
a buy – for those who can handle the risk
DAVID
BERMAN
OPINION
INSIDE THE MARKET
hese are good days for Nor-
T bord Inc.: Profit is surging
amid strong demand for its
building materials.
But even after impressive gains
this year, Norbord’s stock has a
curiously low valuation that ap-
pears to be reflecting concerns
ahead – and that’s good news for
investors, because these concerns
are probably unwarranted.
The Toronto-based company
produces oriented strand board,
or OSB, a type of wood-based pan-
el similar to plywood and ideally
suited to home construction.
Given that single-family
houses have been springing up at
a brisk pace in the United States, a
key market for Norbord, North
American OSB prices have risen
30 per cent amid tight supplies
over the past year alone.
Yes, OSB is a hot commodity,
and you can see it reflected in Nor-
bord’s financial results. In 2017,
profit increased 138 per cent year
over year to US$434-million or
US$4.49 a share after adjust-
ments; cash from operating activ-
ities doubled, to US$609-million;
and return on equity rose to 47
per cent from 30 per cent in 2016.
What’s more, the company re-
duced its long-term debt by about
US$200-million last year and re-
warded investors with a big boost
to its quarterly dividend: Norbord
raised its payout three times dur-
ing the year, to 60 cents a share in
the fourth quarter. The indicated
yield is now an attractive 4.5 per
cent based on the current quar-
terly payout.
Yet despite these encouraging
Patience ‘wearing thin’ as IBM sales disappoint
GERRIT DE VYNCK
IBM Corp. shares fell the most in
more than two years after its
earnings report put a budding
growth spurt in doubt.
Shares of the technology com-
pany fell 7.5 per cent on Wednes-
day, the most since January, 2016,
to US$148.79. IBM released its
first-quarter results on Tuesday
evening, showing narrower prof-
it margins and no revenue
growth, excluding help from a
weak U.S. dollar.
The report cast a shadow over
an effort to sell more profitable
cloud-based software to revive
growth after five years of revenue
declines.
Although heading in the right
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: RICHARDSON GMP
The balance of economic in-
dicators suggests that the dark
side of the business cycle is still
far enough in the distance to jus-
tify a healthy exposure to stocks,
Mr. Berezin said.
“Equities typically do well in
the second-to-last year of busi-
ness-cycle expansions,” he said.
“We are probably in that window
now.”
The relationship between the
real economy and the stock mar-
ket is not always so well-defined.
Canadian investors can attest to
that, having just experienced a
year boasting of the best econo-
my among the Group of Seven
countries, combined with one of
the worst-performing national
numbers, the shares trade at just
10.5 times trailing earnings, a
cheap valuation that suggests the
outlook is far from clear. Well, it
isn’t – but for anyone who can
handle the risk, Norbord looks
like a buying opportunity.
First, let’s explore why the mar-
ket isn’t rewarding Norbord with
a higher valuation. This is a classic
cyclical stock: It does well when
home-building activity is improv-
ing, demand for OSB is strong and
building supplies are tight.
But if any of these factors dete-
riorate, Norbord can be hit hard:
The shares fell more than 90 per
cent a decade ago when the U.S.
housing bubble popped.
OSB is a hot
commodity, and you
can see it reflected in
Norbord’s financial
results.
Today, OSB producers are in-
creasing supply to meet demand.
Worrywarts know what could
happen next: If the supply of
building materials exceeds de-
mand, perhaps as the U.S. econo-
my sputters following nine years
of expansion, OSB prices will fall.
Under this gloomy scenario,
even Norbord’s dividend is at risk.
While many dividend-paying
companies aim for a steady quar-
terly payout, Norbord has a varia-
ble dividend policy: The quarterly
payout rises and falls with cash
flow, capital requirements and
other factors.
Agreed, this isn’t a hold-forever
utility stock. But there is a com-
pelling case for investing in Nor-
bord here.
First, demand for OSB should
hold up with continuing expan-
sion in U.S. home-building activ-
ity. Housing starts, key to OSB
direction, the rebirth of Interna-
tional Business Machines has yet
to materialize, Daniel Ives, an
analyst with GBH Insights LLC,
said in a note to clients. “Pa-
tience is wearing thin on the
Street around the IBM turn-
around story, which continues to
be elusive.”
First-quarter revenue came in
at US$19.1-billion, beating the av-
erage analyst estimate of
US$18.8-billion. That’s 5 per cent
higher than a year earlier, but flat
without currency fluctuations.
Margins slipped 0.6 percentage
points to 43.2 per cent. Earlier
this year, chief financial officer
James Kavanaugh said margins
would stabilize “immediately” in
the first quarter.
Growth in the cloud business
1987 1997 2007 2017
indexes in the developed world.
But nothing puts stocks in
sync with the economy quite like
a recession.
“The stock market is not a fan
of recessions,” said Craig Basin-
ger, chief investment officer at
Richardson GMP.
“Lower economic activity,
credit risk, multiple compres-
sions – the list of recession
symptoms is long, and the vast
majority are not good for equi-
ties.”
There have been 11 U.S. reces-
sions since the late 1940s, almost
all of them closely coinciding
with bear markets in U.S. stocks.
But the bulk of the pain for
investors, at least, is inflicted in
consumption, has been improv-
ing steadily since bottoming out
in 2009, but they are still below
the 50-year historical average.
Barring an economic down-
turn or a particularly sharp rise in
borrowing costs, home-building
activity should continue to im-
prove.
Paul Quinn, an analyst at RBC
Dominion Securities, believes
that the outlook for U.S. housing
construction is stronger than it
has been in years.
“The ‘stars are aligning’ with
strong demand for both new and
existing homes, low inventory,
strong employment/economic
conditions, and a favourable de-
mographic tide as the bulk of the
‘millennials’ generation shifts in-
to the key 25-35 home-buying age
category,” Mr. Quinn said in a note
earlier this month.
That takes care of the demand
issue. As for supply, which is the
second part of the bullish case for
Norbord, OSB producers are in-
deed expanding their capacity.
But Raymond James analyst Daryl
Swetlishoff points out that even
the announced capacity expan-
sion of 12 per cent, about double
the expected increase in demand,
should leave the market relatively
balanced given the current short-
ages of OSB.
Mr. Swetlishoff expects OSB
prices will remain strong, at
US$330 per thousand square feet
in 2018 – good enough to deliver to
Norbord an estimated profit of
$4.80 a share in 2018 and, presum-
ably, continuing dividend pay-
ments.
Norbord shares are up about 26
per cent this year as investors
start to catch on. Expect more
gains ahead because the good
times aren’t over yet.
NORBORD (OSB)
CLOSE: $52.79, DOWN 88¢
was 14 per cent, lower than the
2017 average of 24 per cent,
Bloomberg Intelligence analyst
Anurag Rana said. That “puts a
question mark on IBM’s hybrid
cloud strategy,” he added.
On average, analysts expected
IBM to lift its full-year profit fore-
cast, but the company kept it at
US$13.80 a share.
Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM said
adjusted earnings per share were
US$2.45 in the quarter, up 4 per
cent from a year earlier. Analysts
were expecting US$2.42 a share
on average, according to data
compiled by Bloomberg.
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IBM (IBM)
CLOSE: US$148.79, DOWN US$12.13
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advance. The six months prior to but are still highly accommoda-
those recessions produced an av- tive, while fiscal policy is still
erage annualized loss of 7.8 per stimulative, particularly in the
cent in the S&P 500, according to United States.
BCA data. It will likely not be until 2020
that rising interest rates will
The same pattern is apparent
in Canadian stock history, with a bring about the next recession,
couple of caveats. With so much Mr. Berezin said.
commodity-cycle influence and The consensus seems to be
with the Canadian market being that the immediate recession
more volatile in general than the risk is low. According to the lat-
United States, “the TSX is a bit of est Merrill Lynch global fund
a basket case,” Mr. Basinger said. managers’ survey, which can-
The S&P/TSX Composite In-
dex sunk into a bear market ab-
sent a recession in 2011-12, for ex-
vasses the views of about 200 in-
stitutional-, mutual- and hedge-
fund managers, just 13 per cent of
ample. But Canadian returns al- respondents believe a recession
so tend to turn negative in the 12 is likely within the next year.
months prior to a recession, For the Canadian economy
while the year before that histor- specifically, “the risk of recession
ically produces lucrative equity remains effectively zero,” HSBC
returns. Global Asset Management said in
It’s been nearly a decade since a report.
the previous recession, which is Acknowledging the fallibility
enough time to get people won- of any single economic indicator,
dering whether we’re overdue Richardson GMP combines 30
for the next one. such metrics to help gauge eco-
At the same time as global nomic momentum. When 10 or
growth is slowing down, the fewer of them are bullish, it’s
threat of inflation has re- considered a recession risk, the
emerged from a long hiberna- report said. Currently, 21 of the 30
tion. Add to that cocktail the indicators are in bullish territory.
threat of a global trade war and Set against the recent down-
the world economy suddenly ap- slide in most global stock index-
pears on less stable footing. es, the economic outlook still
But the recent decline in a looks supportive, Mr. Basinger
number of leading economic in- said.
dicators is likely to be temporary, “If there’s market weakness
Mr. Berezin writes. “Another re- and there isn’t a recession com-
cession is not around the cor- ing, it’s usually a buying oppor-
ner.” Interest rates may be rising, tunity.”
Bitcoin miners face
shakeout as profitability
becomes more elusive
OLGA KHARIF
itcoin is at an inflection point.
B Even with the price back above US$8,000, many of
the so-called miners that perform the complex calcu-
lations to generate the digital currency are at risk of
turning unprofitable. If prices drop below that threshold
again for an extended period, there will likely be a swifter con-
solidation to industrial-scale mining. That could knock out
the last guy-in-a-dorm-room operations and leave holders of
the currency vulnerable to the dictates of the big miners.
“It’s totally different this year than last year,” Silicon Valley
venture capitalist Bill Tai said in an interview. “The bitcoin
mining industry was this mysterious dark cottage industry,
and it’s about to grow up and about to have elements of in-
stitutional scalability at all levels.”
Smaller miners will drop out, and only five to 10 of the large-
st will survive and be profitable, said Mr. Tai, who serves as
chairman of Hut 8 Mining Corp., the capital financing arm in
North America for Amsterdam-based Bitfury Group Ltd., one
of the biggest makers of crypto-mining equipment. When the
price of bitcoin approached US$19,000 last year, Bitfury had to
turn some customers away as US$1.9-billion of orders
streamed in, he said. More concentration could also hold a lot
of sway over bitcoin’s price. Miners hold between 20 per cent
and 30 per cent of all bitcoins, according to Lucas Nuzzi, a se-
nior analyst at Digital Asset Research. Bitfury alone has mined
more than one million bitcoins, Mr. Tai said. The company has
already sold coins to defray operating expenses. If miners are
forced to sell more, that could depress bitcoin’s price.
With mining power aggregated in fewer hands, that also in-
creases the risk that a few miners could band together to exe-
cute a so-called 51-per-cent attack
– in which they would control
enough of the transactions to dic-
tate changes in the development
of the blockchain to suit their The bitcoin mining
preferences.
The largest miners are getting industry was this
bigger. Industry leader Bitmain, mysterious dark
which runs China’s two largest cottage industry,
bitcoin-mining collectives, has and it’s about to
opened offices in Switzerland and
the United States and is exploring grow up and about
expansion opportunities world- to have elements
wide. Bitfury will be raising more of institutional
than US$100-million in the next scalability at all
six months to produce and sell
portable mining server farms, levels.
each costing at least US$2-mil-
BILL TAI
lion, Mr. Tai said. It’s also opening SILICON VALLEY
up its own additional farms in the VENTURE CAPITALIST
Middle East and Africa, and ex-
panding in Canada. Bitfury is profitable at current prices
largely because of its economies of scale, Mr. Tai said.
Unlike smaller miners, which buy hardware from other
manufacturers, Bitmain and Bitfury design and make their
own chips and machines. The large players also can place
huge orders for parts and even buy electricity at a discount.
“We can buy and source orders of magnitude more,” Mr. Tai
said. “We can buy silicon in large quantities and commit to the
electricity grid in chunk sizes. We have the cash to make the
deposits and set them up.” The company is in discussions to
connect to a nuclear power plant that’s going online in about
18 months, he said.
Many smaller miners are trying to cut costs by relocating to
locations such as Springfield, Mo., where buildings – aban-
doned factories and car dealerships – can be had for as little as
US$1 a square foot. Electricity can cost between US$3,224 and
more than US$9,000 to mine a single bitcoin, depending on
the state, according to Crescent Electric Supply Co.’s esti-
mates.
At current prices, though, all that may not help the smaller
bitcoin miners that much. Take startup Bcause, which hosts
some 11,000 mining machines belonging to clients in Virginia
Beach, Va. Its clients likely only make a return on their capital
investments with bitcoin above US$9,000 to US$10,000, foun-
der Tom Flack said.
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Metals in turmoil Markets summary

CANADIAN STOCKS

amid sanctions on Rusal
Consumers,
manufacturers and
traders are scrambling
to secure supply
MARK BURTON
The U.S. sanctions against Unit-
ed Co. Rusal are having major
repercussions across global met-
als markets.
Consumers, manufacturers
and traders are scrambling to se-
cure supply cut off by Rusal, the
largest aluminum producer out-
side China.
sAluminum reached a six-year
high and nickel jumped the
most intraday since 2009. Alumi-
na, a raw material needed to
make aluminum, notched a
fresh record.
“It really is unprecedented in
terms of the turmoil it’s un-
leashed,” Robin Bhar, a metals
analyst at Société Générale SA,
said from London. “It’s amazing
to watch.”
The U.S. sanctions are threat-
ening to upend the global supply
chain for aluminum, which is
used in planes made by Boeing
Co. and Ford Motor Co.’s F-150
pickup trucks. Rusal produces
about 6 per cent of the world’s
aluminum and operates mines,
smelters and refineries across
the world from Guinea to Ire-
land, Russia to Jamaica.
An index of 32 mining and
metals companies is heading for
a fourth weekly gain. The Bloom-
berg Americas Mining Index rose
2.3 per cent Wednesday, with
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. and
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. among
the biggest gainers, and Alcoa
Corp. reaching the highest since
2008.
ALUMINUM
The metal climbed 5.5 per cent to
settle at US$2,537 a tonne at 5:51
Pure aluminum ingots sit in storage at a facility in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, in
2017. Goldman Sachs says aluminum prices could spike to US$3,000 in
the near term. ILYA NAYMUSHIN/REUTERS
p.m. in London. It earlier ad-
vanced as much as 6.4 per cent
to US$2,559, the highest since
August, 2011. Goldman Sachs
Group Inc. said prices could
spike to US$3,000 in the near
term.
Rio Tinto Group flagged it
may need to cut production in
the wake of sanctions. The com-
pany is working with customers
to minimize disruption and re-
mains in the process of declaring
force majeure on some con-
tracts, it said on Wednesday.
ALUMINA
Alumina is being particularly af-
fected because Rusal is a key pro-
ducer, with plants in places such
as Ireland and Jamaica. Before
the sanctions, supply was al-
ready constrained by output cuts
at Norsk Hydro ASA’s Alunorte
refinery in Brazil, the world’s big-
gest. A 30,000-tonne cargo of
alumina, the crushed ore feed-
Canada’s main stock index rose for the fifth straight day on
Wednesday to reach a four-week high, as energy and metal
and mining companies led broad-based gains, boosted by
higher commodity prices.
The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index
closed up 1.15 per cent, at 15,529.97.
The energy group surged 3.6 per cent, as oil prices
climbed after sources signaled top exporter Saudi Arabia
wanted to see prices closer to $100 a barrel.
Shares of Suncor Energy rose 2.3 per cent and oil and gas
producer Canadian Natural Resources was up 3.3 per cent.
Shares of Kinder Morgan Canada rose 2.8 per cent. After
the close, the company reported a 5.1 per cent drop in first-
quarter profit, hurt by a fall in volumes of crude oil and
refined products transports.
The largest percentage gainer on the TSX was Torc Oil &
Gas, which rose 9.9 per cent, while the largest decliner was
Alaris Royalty, down 6.7 per cent.
Among the most active Canadian stocks by volume were
Bombardier, up 4 per cent, Athabasca Oil, up 9.1 per cent
and Aurora Cannabis, up 2.3 per cent.
U.S. STOCKS
Wall Street edged higher in a volatile trading session, with
strong gains in the energy index partly offset by weakness
in industry sectors such as technology and financials.
A 7.6 per cent slump in shares of IBM was the biggest
single drag on the benchmark S&P 500 index, after the
company reported profit margins that missed Wall Street
expectations.
No. 3 U.S. railway operator CSX Corp. jumped 6.3 per cent
after topping profit estimates. The news lifted shares other
stock that smelters use to pro- railroads and powered a 2.3 percent jump in the Dow Jones
duce aluminum, fetched US$800 Transport index.
a tonne, according to CRU Group
analyst Anthony Everiss. The
COMMODITIES
previous record for CRU’s index
of alumina prices was US$610 a Oil futures jumped nearly 3 per cent on a decline in U.S.
tonne in 2006. crude inventories and after sources signalled top exporter
Saudi Arabia wants to see the crude price closer to US$100 a
barrel.
NICKEL Gold prices rose to a one-week high on technical trading
Nickel surged as traders specu- and some safe-haven demand even as the U.S. dollar held
lated that other Russian compa- on to gains and stocks rose on risk appetite.
nies could be targeted by U.S.
sanctions.
FOREX AND BONDS
Bullish sentiment was also
boosted after production The Canadian dollar weakened to a one-week low against
slumped 18 per cent at Vale SA, its U.S. counterpart, pressured by a more cautious message
while BHP Billiton Ltd. forecast on trade than some investors had expected from the Bank
higher demand for electric vehi- of Canada.
cles. The U.S. dollar held steady versus a basket of major cur-
The metal jumped 7.5 per cent rencies as solid company results and fading concerns about
to settle at US$15,275 a tonne in a trade war helped keep a lid on safe-haven demand for the
London. It earlier climbed as greenback.
much as 12 per cent to US$15,875, Canadian government bond prices were mixed across the
the highest since December, yield curve, with the two-year flat to yield 1.885 per cent and
2014. the 10-year falling 28 cents to yield 2.282 per cent.
U.S. two-year Treasury yield hit 2.431 per cent on Wednes-
BLOOMBERG NEWS day, its highest since September, 2008, Reuters data showed.

Best of both worlds: Seeking growth stocks that also pay a dividend
SEAN PUGLIESE Stocks with positive revenue growth, earnings momentum four quarters) over the past quar-
ter. The list is limited to compa-
MARKET ANN. nies with positive earnings mo-
RECENT CAP. 3Y REV DIV. D/E EARNS. 52WK TOTAL
NUMBER CRUNCHER COMPANY TICKER PRICE ($) ($BIL) GROWTH (%) YIELD (%) (%) P/E MOMENTUM RETURN (%) mentum. You would expect reve-
Sleep Country Canada Holdings Inc. ZZZ-T 34.75 1.3 76.7 1.9 40.4 18.3 7.1 1.5 nue growth also to lead to earn-
Cara Operations Ltd. CARA-T 27.80 1.7 71.9 1.5 66.6 15.8 13.0 6.1 ings growth and capital
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? appreciation over time.
Hydro One Ltd. H-T 20.95 12.6 61.5 4.2 112.8 16.0 6.4 -10.8
My associate Allan Meyer and I Winpak Ltd. WPK-T 47.42 3.1 49.6 0.3 0.0 21.4 9.2 -10.3 Lastly, we included the 52-
thought we would take a closer Tourmaline Oil Corp. TOU-T 23.05 6.2 46.1 1.4 21.4 20.3 7.5 -19.1 week total return to track per-
look at Canadian growth stocks Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc. ENF-T 27.56 4.8 43.7 8.2 0.0 11.4 0.5 -12.2 formance over the past year.
using our investment philosophy FirstService Corp. FSV-T 88.70 3.1 39.9 0.8 132.7 26.1 5.1 12.1
focused on safety and value. Emera Inc. EMA-T 40.11 9.2 28.4 5.6 213.3 14.4 5.6 -11.3
WHAT DID WE FIND?
Brookfield Asset Management Inc. BAM.A-T 49.84 49.4 25.8 1.5 285.5 31.7 190.9 4.4
Alamos Gold Inc. AGI-T 6.90 2.7 25.5 0.4 0.3 25.3 169.2 -37.0 Enbridge Income Fund Holdings
THE SCREEN Inc. has the highest yield, no debt
Restaurant Brands International Inc. QSR-T 70.69 33.3 25.2 3.3 544.5 20.7 10.4 -3.8
We screened for growth by look- TransAlta Renewables Inc. RNW-T 11.56 2.9 23.5 8.1 48.3 13.4 14.0 -23.2 and scores well on most of the
ing at Canadian-listed equities Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. AQN-T 12.29 5.3 23.5 4.9 113.9 16.1 2.8 0.1 other safety and value metrics.
with positive annualized revenue Tricon Capital Group Inc. TCN-T 9.85 1.3 21.5 2.8 41.8 10.1 28.5 -9.4 Norbord Inc. is the deepest value
growth of 15 per cent or better Hudbay Minerals Inc. HBM-T 8.97 2.3 21.1 0.2 50.6 9.5 37.3 7.8 play and scores well across the
over the past three years. The list Norbord Inc. OSB-T 51.15 4.4 17.2 3.9 53.8 9.3 19.2 34.1 board, while TransAlta Renew-
is sorted from highest to lowest West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. WFT-T 90.94 6.9 16.7 0.7 23.3 10.3 18.3 57.7 ables Inc., Tricon Capital Group
on this measure. We narrowed it CCL Industries Inc. CCL.B-T 64.22 11.4 16.3 0.8 108.0 22.8 9.9 9.6 Inc., Hudbay Minerals Inc. and
down further by limiting the list Birchcliff Energy Ltd. BIR-T 4.32 1.1 15.9 2.3 34.6 15.2 16.1 -40.9 West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. are
to companies with a market cap- Whitecap Resources Inc. WCP-T 8.45 3.5 15.3 3.6 38.5 21.0 93.5 -13.2 also attractive on most measures.
italization of $1-billion or more. Source: Thomson Reuters and Wickham Investment Counsel Inc. Investors should contact an in-
We view market capitalization as vestment professional or con-
a safety factor. We like large, sta- Mr. Meyer and I love dividends business than returning cash to when they are “cheap.” Price-to- duct further research before buy-
ble businesses that can grow as and as we like to tell clients, “we shareholders. We like the best of earnings is the share price divid- ing any of the securities listed
that should increase the value of like to get paid while we wait for both worlds – companies that ed by the projected earnings per here.
the company and its resulting appreciation.” Dividends general- can grow and pay dividends. All share. It is a valuation metric; the
share price in the long term. ly reflect safer and more consis- companies on our list are project- lower the number, the better the Sean Pugliese, CFA, is an
We also look at leverage or tent earnings profiles, but often ed to pay a dividend over the value. investment portfolio manager at
debt-to-equity as a safety factor. aren’t quite as apparent in next year. Earnings momentum is the Wickham Investment Counsel,
A lower number is preferred and growth companies, which tend to As value investors, Mr. Meyer change in annualized earnings helping individuals, families and
zero is best. spend more reinvesting in the and I like to buy investments (an estimate of total income over other investors.

EYE ON EQUITIES DAVID LEEDER

AURORA CANNABIS (ACB-TSX) EBAY (EBAY-NASDAQ) FACEBOOK (FB-NASDAQ) CINEPLEX (CGX-TSX) ALGONQUIN POWER (AQN-TSX)
CLOSE $8.63, UP 19¢ CLOSE US$41.75, UP US$1.14 CLOSE US$166.42, DOWN US$2.31 CLOSE $30.69, DOWN 20¢ CLOSE $12.65, UP 13¢

Aurora Cannabis Inc.’s move to
build a 1.2-million-square-foot
greenhouse in Medicine Hat goes
a long way toward de-risking its
international strategy, according
to Canaccord Genuity analyst
Neil Maruoka, who upgraded its
stock to “speculative buy” from
“hold. “We believe Aurora has po-
sitioned itself as a leading global
supplier of cannabis,” he said.
Target: Mr. Maruoka’s target rose
to $11 from $10.50. The consensus
target is $12.17.
Expressing confidence in its plan
to start intermediating its own
payments and seeing the poten-
tial for significant advertising
growth, Morgan Stanley analyst
Brian Nowak upgraded eBay Inc.
by two levels to “overweight”
from “underweight.”
Target: He raised his target price
to a Street-high US$58 from
US$36, versus the consensus of
US$49.21.
OTR Global downgraded Face-
book Inc. in reaction to a moder-
ation in advertisement spending
growth year-over-year. The firm
said first-quarter ad spending has
risen 19 per cent to 24 per cent
year-over-year, compared with
growth of 25 per cent to 30 per
cent in the fourth quarter.
Target: The firm lowered its rat-
ing to “mixed” from “positive”
without a specified target.
Cineplex Inc. could be seen as an
“attractive” takeover target for ei-
ther a Canadian telecom provider
or private equity firm, Echelon
Wealth Partners analyst Rob Goff
said. “Potential buyers would ar-
guably look at its FCF [free cash
flow] generation, where mainte-
nance capex is sub 3 per cent of
revenues,” Mr. Goff said.
Target: Maintaining a “buy” rat-
ing, Mr. Goff lowered his target to
$40 from $42. Consensus is
$38.65.
Algonquin Power & Utilities
Corp.’s decision to increase its
stake in Atlantica Yield PLC is a
“solid idea,” according to Desjar-
dins Securities analyst Bill Cabel,
expecting cash flow and divi-
dends to grow. “Over all, we re-
main big fans of AQN’s interna-
tional development strategy,” he
said.
Target: With a “buy” rating, Mr.
Cabel raised his target to $15.75
from $15.50. Consensus is $15.16.
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TSX CONSUMER STAP 513.02 4.66 0.92 3090 -5.21 S SHERRITT INTL R 1.32 0.11 9.09 3264 45.05 FOOD GOODFOOD MA 2.52 -0.16 -5.97 56 7.23 CVE CENOVUS ENERG 12.96 0.71 5.80 5877 -9.43
TSX ENERGY CAPPED 196.80 6.79 3.57 74532 -1.45 CET CATHEDRAL ENE 1.60 0.12 8.11 160 60.00 SCU THE SECOND CU 3.37 -0.18 -5.07 105 123.18 CPG CRESCENT POIN 10.49 0.65 6.61 5847 -25.28
TSX FINANCIALS CA 288.83 1.50 0.52 24890 1.17 XDC XTREME DRILLI 2.00 0.15 8.11 1 -13.42 NXE NEXGEN ENERGY 2.54 -0.13 -4.87 1500 -20.63 ECA ENCANA CORP 16.01 0.64 4.16 5505 4.03
TSX HEALTH CARE C 83.97 1.04 1.25 17536 31.66 NDM NORTHERN DYNA 1.22 0.09 7.96 160 -40.20 HZD BETAPRO SILVE 5.82 -0.29 -4.75 67 7.38 SPE SPARTAN ENERG 6.68 0.36 5.70 5434 -13.36
TSX INDUSTRIALS C 238.88 2.77 1.17 19954 12.11 SPPP-U SPROTT PHY 9.17 0.67 7.88 1 17.41 DHX-B DHX MEDIA L 3.48 -0.17 -4.66 207 -41.51 APH APHRIA INC 11.14 -0.20 -1.76 4331 67.02
TSX INFORMATION T 72.34 0.59 0.82 3356 19.99 CJ CARDINAL ENERG 5.09 0.35 7.38 1858 -26.76 BYL BAYLIN TECHNO 3.53 -0.17 -4.59 7 53.48 EFN ELEMENT FLEET 5.00 0.16 3.31 4193 -59.08
TSX MATERIALS CAP 242.52 4.41 1.85 55219 -3.70 HEU BETAPRO SP TS 10.06 0.68 7.25 34 -6.33 HTO-UN GLOBAL WAT 9.37 -0.44 -4.49 4 7.45 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 48.61 1.08 2.27 4157 18.65
TSX REAL ESTATE C 301.07 0.56 0.19 4494 -1.03 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 6.57 0.44 7.18 2461 -1.94 SFD NXT ENERGY SO 1.08 -0.05 -4.42 2 -10.74 HOD BETAPRO CRUDE 5.20 -0.37 -6.64 4049 -47.05
TSX GLOBAL GOLD I 191.32 1.73 0.91 67904 -13.45 LAC LITHIUM AMERI 7.09 0.47 7.10 456 47.71 DCM DATA COMMUNIC 1.80 -0.08 -4.26 37 -25.00 BTO B2GOLD CORP 3.69 0.04 1.10 4000 -2.12
TSX GLOBAL MINING 73.62 1.97 2.75 163943 10.28 HBM HUDBAY MINERA 9.54 0.63 7.07 2389 17.63 HPS-A HAMMOND POW 9.38 -0.40 -4.09 N-A 50.08 MFC MANULIFE FIN 23.64 0.22 0.94 3602 3.28
TSX INCOME TRUST 195.01 0.35 0.18 4900 -3.33 SHLE SOURCE ENERG 5.51 0.36 6.99 82 -46.24 URB URBANA CORPOR 3.20 -0.13 -3.90 5 -8.05 XIU ISHARES SP TS 23.03 0.27 1.19 3325 -0.43
TSX PREFERRED SHA 706.40 1.38 0.20 1588 0.46 HOU BETAPRO CRUDE 10.75 0.69 6.86 1848 40.34 POM POLYMET MININ 1.07 -0.04 -3.60 122 13.83 TVE TAMARACK VALL 3.32 0.15 4.73 3317 16.49
TSX TELECOM SERVI 155.07 0.80 0.52 3309 -5.61 FM FIRST QUANTUM 18.59 1.16 6.66 3014 38.01 DHX-A DHX MEDIA L 3.50 -0.13 -3.58 8 -40.37 CNQ CDN NATURAL R 45.12 1.42 3.25 3309 2.06
TSX UTILITIES CAP 230.31 1.14 0.50 4579 -8.28 CPG CRESCENT POIN 10.49 0.65 6.61 5847 -25.28 CF CANACCORD GENU 6.10 -0.22 -3.48 149 27.35 S SHERRITT INTL R 1.32 0.11 9.09 3264 45.05

TSX 52-WEEK HIGHS TSX 52-WEEK LOWS

STOCKS $1 OR MORE STOCKS $1 OR MORE

CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG

AX-PR-I ARTIS REI 25.70 0.06 0.23 6 2.92 GTE GRAN TIERRA E 4.01 0.19 4.97 784 15.23 DRX ADF GROUP INC 1.66 0.01 0.61 2 -36.64 MXG MAXIM POWER C 2.46 -0.04 -1.60 9 -10.55
ATH ATHABASCA OIL 1.56 0.13 9.09 8189 9.09 GTX GRAN TIERRA E 3.85 0.11 2.94 N-A 10.00 LFE CANADIAN LIFE 4.57 0.05 1.11 46 -20.93 OPT OPTIVA INC 49.30 -4.20 -7.85 10 -5.65
ASM AVINO SILVER 1.95 0.22 12.72 66 926.32 HSE HUSKY ENERGY 19.78 0.74 3.89 1506 26.71 DHX-A DHX MEDIA L 3.50 -0.13 -3.58 8 -40.37 PNP PINETREE CAPI 2.05 0.05 2.50 61 -17.67
BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 4.71 0.27 6.08 6467 7.05 KEL KELT EXPLORAT 8.09 0.22 2.80 1315 8.30 DHX-B DHX MEDIA L 3.48 -0.17 -4.66 207 -41.51 QSR RESTAURANT BR 69.53 1.27 1.86 829 -8.32
BIP-PR-E BROOKFIE 25.35 0.18 0.72 5 1.60 KL KIRKLAND LAKE 21.65 0.21 0.98 828 108.78 DF DIVIDEND 15 SP 5.28 -0.13 -2.40 202 -33.58 TRL TRILOGY INTER 4.70 -0.05 -1.05 27 -51.55
DOO BRP INC 52.58 -1.74 -3.20 308 62.18 MX METHANEX CORP 86.33 0.33 0.38 351 38.73 DS DIVIDEND SELEC 8.39 0.14 1.70 30 -4.55
CAR-UN CDN APARTM 38.00 0.27 0.72 232 10.14 MNW MITEL NETWORK 12.75 0.19 1.51 178 40.11
CAE CAE INC 24.90 0.11 0.44 263 22.42 NSU NEVSUN RES J 3.47 0.04 1.17 802 6.44
CAL CALEDONIA MIN 11.40 0.24 2.15 812359.01 PXT PAREX RESOURC 20.67 0.76 3.82 520 16.78
PBY-UN CANSO CRED 11.65 0.08 0.69 28 7.37 ROOT ROOTS CORPOR 12.60 1.13 9.85 759 26.00
CXI CURRENCY EXCH 30.00 0.21 0.70 3 35.69 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 48.61 1.08 2.27 4157 18.65
CYB CYMBRIA CORPO 57.41 -0.09 -0.16 7 34.77 TVE TAMARACK VALL 3.32 0.15 4.73 3317 16.49
DRG-UN DREAM GLOB 14.13 0.03 0.21 431 44.18 TFII TFI INTERNAT 34.77 0.65 1.91 173 16.99
DIR-UN DREAM INDU 10.17 0.11 1.09 395 20.21 WSP WSP GLOBAL IN 63.75 2.30 3.74 270 32.26
DRM DREAM UNLIMIT 9.52 0.22 2.37 71 42.30 YGR YANGARRA RESO 5.87 -0.12 -2.00 970 113.45
FVI FORTUNA SILVE 7.43 0.18 2.48 763 7.84

S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX STOCKS

LARGEST STOCKS BY MARKET CAPITALIZATION

CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
AAV ADVANTAGE OIL 4.16 0.17 4.26 1300 -52.78 CUF-UN COMINAR R 12.62 0.07 0.56 352 -14.32 ITP INTERTAPE POL 20.03 0.10 0.50 72 -14.91 RRX RAGING RIVER 6.75 0.23 3.53 1546 -21.14
ARE AECON GROUP I 18.18 -0.04 -0.22 26 8.67 CMG COMPUTER MODE 9.91 0.22 2.27 48 -7.73 IVN IVANHOE MINES 2.77 0.13 4.92 2158 -44.60 QSR RESTAURANT BR 69.53 1.27 1.86 829 -8.32
AEM AGNICO EAGLE 57.45 0.88 1.56 911 -7.58 CSU CONSTELLATION 896.01 4.72 0.53 27 42.22 REI-UN RIOCAN REA 23.39 0.03 0.13 635 -11.74
AC AIR CANADA 26.24 0.42 1.63 1652 96.55 CJR-B CORUS ENTER 6.68 0.06 0.91 409 -48.30 PJC-A JEAN COUTU 24.83 0.14 0.57 350 14.95 RBA RITCHIE BROS 42.23 0.40 0.96 126 2.08
ASR ALACER GOLD C 2.13 0.03 1.43 479 -11.62 BCB COTT CORP 18.00 -0.03 -0.17 211 4.71 RCI-B ROGERS COMM 57.24 0.45 0.79 843 -6.81
AGI ALAMOS GOLD I 7.20 0.10 1.41 1104 -32.52 CPG CRESCENT POIN 10.49 0.65 6.61 5847 -25.28 KEL KELT EXPLORAT 8.09 0.22 2.80 1315 8.30 RY ROYAL BANK OF 97.00 0.78 0.81 1817 1.65
AD ALARIS ROYALTY 17.25 -1.24 -6.71 491 -23.57 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE 12.46 0.01 0.08 136 -15.30 KEY KEYERA CORP 36.15 0.70 1.97 449 -6.59 RUS RUSSEL METALS 28.74 0.63 2.24 93 13.82
AQN ALGONQUIN POW 12.65 0.13 1.04 912 -2.92 KMP-UN KILLAM APA 14.18 0.29 2.09 244 7.91
ATD-B ALIMENTATIO 53.63 0.43 0.81 718 -12.27 DSG DESCARTES SYS 37.35 0.15 0.40 51 21.86 KXS KINAXIS INC 85.08 0.94 1.12 32 10.94 SMF SEMAFO J 3.82 -0.02 -0.52 959 -5.91
AP-UN ALLIED PROP 41.36 -0.49 -1.17 170 9.33 DGC DETOUR GOLD C 15.22 0.37 2.49 871 -15.16 KML KINDER MORGAN 17.99 0.49 2.80 481 10.78 SSL SANDSTORM GOL 6.06 0.15 2.54 310 -0.33
ALA ALTAGAS LTD 25.57 0.34 1.35 439 -17.44 DOL DOLLARAMA INC 149.18 -0.06 -0.04 207 26.41 K KINROSS GOLD CO 4.94 0.07 1.44 2928 -4.08 SAP SAPUTO INC 41.31 0.23 0.56 268 -10.23
AIF ALTUS GROUP L 31.98 -0.15 -0.47 26 4.31 DII-B DOREL INDUS 29.11 0.05 0.17 32 -9.29 KL KIRKLAND LAKE 21.65 0.21 0.98 828 108.78 SES SECURE ENERGY 8.11 0.36 4.65 572 -19.46
APH APHRIA INC 11.14 -0.20 -1.76 4331 67.02 DRG-UN DREAM GLOB 14.13 0.03 0.21 431 44.18 GUD KNIGHT THERAP 7.76 -0.08 -1.02 124 -24.44 VII SEVEN GENERAT 17.25 0.65 3.92 1114 -31.85
ARX ARC RESOURCES 14.44 0.52 3.74 1013 -22.41 D-UN DREAM OFFICE 23.67 -0.09 -0.38 99 17.53 SJR-B SHAW COMMUN 26.60 0.19 0.72 1176 -6.47
AX-UN ARTIS REAL 13.74 0.07 0.51 161 0.51 LIF LABRADOR IRON 22.28 -0.79 -3.42 387 34.14 SCL SHAWCOR LTD 25.98 0.61 2.40 63 -31.76
ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 41.27 0.15 0.36 64 -18.76 ECN ECN CAPITAL C 3.50 -0.05 -1.41 999 -6.91 LB LAURENTIAN BAN 47.91 0.21 0.44 154 -18.56 SHOP SHOPIFY INC 161.12 3.08 1.95 267 68.17
ATA ATS AUTOMATIO 17.83 0.54 3.12 382 40.50 ELD ELDORADO GOLD 1.24 0.02 1.64 2089 -75.05 LNR LINAMAR CORP 73.05 0.23 0.32 102 31.98 SIA SIENNA SENIOR 17.99 -0.01 -0.06 119 1.93
ACB AURORA CANNAB 8.63 0.19 2.25 7378 230.65 EFN ELEMENT FLEET 5.00 0.16 3.31 4192 -59.08 L LOBLAW CO 64.74 1.14 1.79 353 -11.22 SW SIERRA WIRELES 21.96 0.70 3.29 100 -34.37
EMA EMERA INCORPO 40.72 0.28 0.69 653 -14.15 LUC LUCARA DIAMON 2.03 0.05 2.53 276 -35.14 ZZZ SLEEP COUNTRY 34.00 0.08 0.24 91 -4.82
BTO B2GOLD CORP 3.69 0.04 1.10 4000 -2.12 EMP-A EMPIRE COMP 23.75 -0.17 -0.71 387 15.46 LUN LUNDIN MINING 8.38 0.35 4.36 2590 18.19 SRU-UN SMARTCENTR 28.78 -0.07 -0.24 170 -11.88
BCE BCE INC 53.89 0.07 0.13 1819 -11.51 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 41.80 0.42 1.01 3206 -25.91 SNC SNC-LAVALIN S 56.56 1.21 2.19 341 5.66
BAD BADGER DAYLIG 26.79 -0.09 -0.33 153 -24.60 ENF ENBRIDGE INCO 28.60 0.18 0.63 296 -15.18 MAG MAG SILVER CO 14.53 0.59 4.23 411 -17.68 SPE SPARTAN ENERG 6.68 0.36 5.70 5434 -13.36
BMO BANK OF MONTR 94.99 0.24 0.25 1142 -3.17 ECA ENCANA CORP 16.01 0.64 4.16 5505 4.03 MG MAGNA INTERNAT 75.63 -0.58 -0.76 771 42.81 TOY SPIN MASTER C 46.49 -0.75 -1.59 120 19.76
BNS BANK OF NOVA 76.80 0.40 0.52 1506 0.25 EDV ENDEAVOUR MIN 21.86 0.17 0.78 299 -13.05 MFC MANULIFE FIN 23.64 0.22 0.94 3602 3.28 SSRM SSR MINING I 12.78 -0.10 -0.78 349 -11.37
ABX BARRICK GOLD 16.74 0.35 2.14 3029 -36.52 ECI ENERCARE INC 17.51 0.07 0.40 199 -16.66 MFI MAPLE LEAF FO 31.34 0.54 1.75 208 -2.67 STN STANTEC INC 31.75 0.18 0.57 111 -9.93
BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 4.71 0.27 6.08 6467 7.05 EFX ENERFLEX LTD 15.88 0.12 0.76 245 -21.46 MRE MARTINREA INT 15.77 -0.22 -1.38 149 66.88 SJ STELLA JONES I 45.32 0.31 0.69 124 4.26
BIR BIRCHCLIFF EN 4.33 0.13 3.10 2382 -42.50 ERF ENERPLUS CORP 15.25 0.56 3.81 1523 42.66 MAXR MAXAR TECHNO 56.41 -0.31 -0.55 310 -21.99 SLF SUN LIFE FINA 51.34 0.38 0.75 832 9.35
BB BLACKBERRY LIM 13.62 0.09 0.67 1130 16.61 ENGH ENGHOUSE SYS 67.77 0.32 0.47 30 18.58 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 6.57 0.44 7.18 2461 -1.94 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 48.61 1.08 2.27 4157 18.65
BEI-UN BOARDWALK 44.85 0.35 0.79 152 -5.94 ESI ENSIGN ENERGY 6.29 0.39 6.61 375 -20.48 MX METHANEX CORP 86.33 0.33 0.38 351 38.73 SPB SUPERIOR PLUS 13.05 0.07 0.54 303 0.38
BBD-B BOMBARDIER 3.92 0.15 3.98 12146 66.81 EIF EXCHANGE INCO 31.94 0.29 0.92 35 -17.68 MRU METRO INC 42.59 0.55 1.31 362 2.04
BLX BORALEX INC 22.37 0.06 0.27 91 5.72 EXE EXTENDICARE I 8.65 -0.04 -0.46 151 -15.94 MNW MITEL NETWORK 12.75 0.19 1.51 178 40.11 THO TAHOE RESOURC 6.83 0.25 3.80 1310 -43.37
BYD-UN BOYD GROUP 110.07 0.07 0.06 10 31.16 MSI MORNEAU SHEPE 25.30 0.01 0.04 97 25.19 TECK-B TECK RESOU 34.02 1.01 3.06 1973 18.13
BAM-A BROOKFIELD 49.51 0.53 1.08 824 0.57 FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 671.54 2.93 0.44 37 10.01 MTL MULLEN GROUP 15.55 0.27 1.77 57 -7.66 T TELUS CORP 44.92 0.28 0.63 645 1.49
BBU-UN BROOKFIELD 47.88 -0.46 -0.95 36 47.96 FTT FINNING INTL 31.92 0.33 1.04 133 32.23 TFII TFI INTERNAT 34.77 0.65 1.91 173 16.99
BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 51.77 0.24 0.47 130 -0.21 FCR FIRST CAPITAL 20.40 0.03 0.15 243 0.25 NA NATIONAL BANK 59.42 0.20 0.34 1128 9.05 NWC THE NORTH WES 27.57 0.16 0.58 89 -12.36
BPY-UN BROOKFIELD 24.70 0.33 1.35 380 -19.47 FR FIRST MAJESTIC 8.65 0.25 2.98 1200 -29.67 NSU NEVSUN RES J 3.47 0.04 1.17 802 6.44 TSGI THE STARS GR 35.82 0.45 1.27 189 56.90
BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 39.14 -0.07 -0.18 75 -6.56 FM FIRST QUANTUM 18.59 1.16 6.66 3014 38.01 NFI NEW FLYER IND 59.39 0.79 1.35 90 18.66 TRI THOMSON REUTE 50.61 0.18 0.36 484 -12.65
DOO BRP INC 52.58 -1.74 -3.20 308 62.18 FSV FIRSTSERVICE 89.35 0.55 0.62 30 10.99 NGD NEW GOLD INC 3.08 0.01 0.33 1151 -29.20 X TMX GROUP LIMIT 77.16 -0.82 -1.05 96 4.16
FTS FORTIS INC 42.79 0.20 0.47 714 -3.45 NXE NEXGEN ENERGY 2.54 -0.13 -4.87 1500 -20.63 TOG TORC OIL AND 7.36 0.66 9.85 1530 14.46
CAR-UN CDN APARTM 38.00 0.27 0.72 232 10.14 FVI FORTUNA SILVE 7.43 0.18 2.48 763 7.84 OSB NORBORD INC 52.79 -0.88 -1.64 270 33.81 TXG TOREX GOLD RE 13.45 -0.23 -1.68 417 -49.47
CNQ CDN NATURAL R 45.12 1.42 3.25 3309 2.06 FNV FRANCO-NEVADA 91.36 0.51 0.56 504 -2.08 NPI NORTHLAND POW 23.02 0.12 0.52 238 -5.69 TIH TOROMONT IND 55.67 0.52 0.94 79 20.21
REF-UN CDN REAL E 50.81 0.03 0.06 123 1.13 FRU FREEHOLD ROYA 13.22 0.36 2.80 438 -5.44 NVU-UN NORTHVIEW 25.66 0.03 0.12 71 12.10 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 69.97 0.03 0.04 3025 6.13
CWB CDN WESTERN B 33.25 0.22 0.67 222 17.00 NG NOVAGOLD RES I 5.83 0.03 0.52 127 -2.18 TOU TOURMALINE OI 23.71 1.12 4.96 929 -17.65
GIB-A CGI GROUP I 73.89 0.29 0.39 359 17.66 MIC GENWORTH MI C 38.63 0.12 0.31 279 10.25 NTR NUTRIEN LTD 60.90 1.83 3.10 892 -11.74 TA TRANSALTA CORP 6.93 0.07 1.02 345 -5.97
CAE CAE INC 24.90 0.11 0.44 263 22.42 GEI GIBSON ENERGY 16.99 -0.12 -0.70 354 -12.92 NVA NUVISTA ENERG 8.06 0.26 3.33 699 15.97 RNW TRANSALTA REN 11.67 -0.02 -0.17 121 -27.29
CCO CAMECO CORP 13.30 0.25 1.92 1157 -8.65 GIL GILDAN ACTIVE 37.24 -0.08 -0.21 464 0.89 TRP TRANSCANADA C 56.06 1.18 2.15 3259 -11.79
GOOS CANADA GOOSE 44.15 0.86 1.99 128 102.43 G GOLDCORP INC 18.15 0.15 0.83 2183 -11.72 OGC OCEANAGOLD CO 3.46 -0.01 -0.29 2443 -21.18 TCL-A TRANSCONTIN 26.74 0.22 0.83 238 11.98
CM CANADIAN IMPER 110.82 0.28 0.25 790 -1.20 GTE GRAN TIERRA E 4.01 0.19 4.97 784 15.23 ONEX ONEX CORP 94.16 0.38 0.41 72 -3.41 TCW TRICAN WELL 3.27 0.19 6.17 7039 -24.48
CNR CANADIAN NATI 96.16 1.33 1.40 1164 -2.32 GRT-UN GRANITE RE 50.15 -0.40 -0.79 47 2.49 OTEX OPEN TEXT CO 45.19 0.19 0.42 464 0.09 TCN TRICON CAPITA 10.35 0.21 2.07 385 -6.76
CP CANADIAN PACIF 226.29 0.75 0.33 1023 11.63 GC GREAT CANADIAN 35.05 -0.94 -2.61 182 41.50 OR OSISKO GOLD RO 12.64 -0.02 -0.16 397 -17.60 TRQ TURQUOISE HIL 3.91 0.07 1.82 1074 5.11
CTC-A CANADIAN TI 168.23 1.12 0.67 157 1.98 GWO GREAT-WEST LI 33.38 0.00 0.00 827 -7.92
CU CANADIAN UTILI 34.88 0.13 0.37 115 -10.31 GUY GUYANA GOLDFI 5.12 -0.07 -1.35 607 -29.28 PAAS PAN AMERICAN 21.71 0.62 2.94 350 -13.47 UNS UNI SELECT IN 19.86 0.00 0.00 73 -43.60
CFP CANFOR CORP 30.75 -0.96 -3.03 391 63.91 POU PARAMOUNT RES 16.64 0.76 4.79 614 -11.35
WEED CANOPY GROWT 30.60 0.74 2.48 3139 216.44 HR-UN H&R REAL ES 20.57 -0.06 -0.29 357 -12.58 PXT PAREX RESOURC 20.67 0.76 3.82 520 16.78 VRX VALEANT PHARM 22.04 0.33 1.52 812 83.82
CPX CAPITAL POWER 24.54 0.18 0.74 166 0.33 HCG HOME CAPITAL 13.72 0.16 1.18 341 -38.06 PKI PARKLAND FUEL 29.78 0.46 1.57 344 3.19 VET VERMILION ENE 46.14 2.78 6.41 1402 -6.81
CAS CASCADES INC 13.48 -0.17 -1.25 164 -13.59 HBM HUDBAY MINERA 9.54 0.63 7.07 2389 17.63 PSI PASON SYSTEMS 18.26 0.23 1.28 34 -8.52
CCL-B CCL INDUSTR 64.79 0.17 0.26 161 8.95 HBC HUDSONS BAY C 9.09 0.16 1.79 173 -25.12 PPL PEMBINA PIPEL 42.59 0.71 1.70 1715 -3.27 WSP WSP GLOBAL IN 63.75 2.30 3.74 270 32.26
CLS CELESTICA INC 13.38 0.30 2.29 161 -29.95 HSE HUSKY ENERGY 19.78 0.74 3.89 1506 26.71 PEY PEYTO EXPLORA 11.43 0.42 3.81 655 -56.70 WCN WASTE CONNECT 93.30 0.90 0.97 221 17.82
CVE CENOVUS ENERG 12.96 0.71 5.80 5877 -9.43 H HYDRO ONE LIMIT 20.93 0.15 0.72 503 -13.76 POW POWER CORPORA 29.59 0.41 1.41 592 -3.74 WFT WEST FRASER T 93.51 -0.91 -0.96 307 60.67
CG CENTERRA GOLD 7.88 -0.04 -0.51 624 4.51 PWF POWER FINANCI 32.43 0.54 1.69 446 -4.62 WEF WESTERN FORES 2.85 0.04 1.42 1421 38.35
CEU CES ENERGY SO 6.35 0.21 3.42 1591 -12.53 IMG IAMGOLD CORP 7.02 0.06 0.86 1133 17.20 PSK PRAIRIESKY RO 30.47 0.89 3.01 240 5.07 WJA WESTJET AIRLI 23.10 0.14 0.61 305 -0.35
CSH-UN CHARTWELL 15.30 0.04 0.26 719 -2.80 IGM IGM FINANCIAL 37.35 0.37 1.00 158 -5.94 PD PRECISION DRIL 4.15 0.24 6.14 2228 -31.97 WN WESTON GEORGE 103.99 1.22 1.19 76 -11.60
CHE-UN CHEMTRADE 15.33 0.05 0.33 160 -18.89 IMO IMPERIAL OIL 37.58 0.69 1.87 551 -7.05 PBH PREMIUM BRAND 120.74 -0.06 -0.05 63 40.33 WTE WESTSHORE TER 23.81 0.01 0.04 138 -7.21
CHR CHORUS AVIATI 8.20 -0.01 -0.12 325 10.96 IAG INDUSTRIAL AL 52.12 0.74 1.44 377 -5.70 PVG PRETIUM RESOU 9.23 0.27 3.01 623 -36.34 WPM WHEATON PRECI 27.39 0.40 1.48 1407 -6.55
CIX CI FINANCIAL 26.97 0.12 0.45 304 1.43 INE INNERGEX RENE 13.71 -0.07 -0.51 141 -6.80 AAR-UN PURE INDUS 8.07 -0.01 -0.12 501 25.12 WCP WHITECAP RESO 9.18 0.53 6.13 3190 -9.11
CGX CINEPLEX INC 30.69 -0.20 -0.65 92 -40.49 IFC INTACT FINANC 96.47 0.14 0.15 140 1.87 WPK WINPAK LTD 48.71 0.67 1.39 28 -8.41
CCA COGECO COMMUN 67.57 0.35 0.52 86 -11.14 IPL INTER PIPELIN 24.33 0.39 1.63 844 -12.98 QBR-B QUEBECOR IN 24.06 -0.05 -0.21 479 16.65
CIGI COLLIERS INT 89.24 -0.45 -0.50 38 37.57 IFP INTERFOR CORP 25.17 -0.22 -0.87 174 30.89 YRI YAMANA GOLD I 3.74 0.04 1.08 2209 -11.16

ETFS BONDS CURRENCIES

STOCKS $1 OR MORE CANADA FOREIGN EXCHANGE CROSS RATES

CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR TERM YIELD CHG CAD USD AUD EUR GBP JPY CHF
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
2-YEAR TREASURY 1.88 0.01 CAD - 0.7917 1.0170 0.6397 0.5574 84.892 0.7667
CGL-C ISHARES GOL 14.94 0.15 1.01 124 -1.84 HXD BETAPRO SP TS 6.19 -0.15 -2.37 310 -5.93 5-YEAR TREASURY 2.10 -0.02 USD 1.2627 - 1.2844 0.8079 0.7040 107.22 0.9683
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The Blue Jays shellack Leafs defenceman
the Royals to continue Rielly was back in
their win streak, fine form for Game 3,
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Bats are red-hot as Jays
head off to the Bronx
Contributions come from
up and down the lineup as
Toronto completes three-game
sweep of the lowly Royals
JAMIE ROSS TORONTO
It’s hard to pinpoint who had the best day
for the Toronto Blue Jays in their 15-5 shel-
lacking of the Kansas City Royals on
Wednesday at Rogers Centre.
Was it Curtis Granderson, who smashed
a grand slam and scored three runs, or Te-
oscar Hernandez, whose mammoth after-
noon included a home run, a triple and
two singles?
Or perhaps it was Luke Maile, whose
fingerprints were all over the Jays’ three-
game sweep of the lowly Royals. He col-
lected a pair of hits and knocked home
one run in his third successive multihit
outing.
Whoever it was, the Jays scored a sea-
son-high in runs on 15 hits as they won
their fourth game in a row heading into a
key four-game series in New York against
the Yankees starting Thursday.
“So many different guys have come up
on different days, in different occasions.
Defensive, offensive, on the basepaths,”
Granderson said. “That’s a good thing. You
want to have that flexibility and that abil-
ity for anybody to be able to pass the ba-
ton, get it to the next guy in the lineup so
they can come up with an opportunity.”
Granderson’s slam, the ninth of his ca-
reer, came after the game was already far
At 20, Henderson is already closing on the win totals
of the biggest names in Canadian golf history
ADAM STANLEY
rooke Henderson is just three wins
B away from becoming the most dec-
orated professional golfer in Cana-
dian history – and she’s only 20
years old.
After her sixth career LPGA Tour victory
Sunday at the Lotte Championship in Ha-
waii, the native of Smiths Falls, Ont., is on
track to eclipse the Canadian-high mark of
eight wins, held jointly by Sandra Post,
Mike Weir and George Knudson.
“It’s actually amazing, when I think
about it, that I’m this close already,” said
Henderson from Los Angeles, where she is
competing this week. “I’d love to get a cou-
ple more wins this season and go from
there.”
Post, a Canadian Golf Hall of Famer who
was 31 when she notched her sixth victory,
said Henderson has adapted well to the life-
style of the LPGA Tour. “I’m really not that
surprised,” Post said by phone. “She’s al-
ways had a tremendous amount of talent
and she loves to compete.”
Henderson is in just her third season as a
pro, but said it’s becoming increasingly dif-
ficult to win on the LPGA Tour. There have
been no two-time LPGA winners yet this
season, while on the PGA Tour three golfers
have already won twice.
“I feel like every week, coming down the
stretch on Sunday, there are six people
within a shot of the lead,” she said. “Last
week was a little different, which was nice
for me, but every other week I feel like any-
body can win.”
Henderson dedicated her win to the
community of Humboldt, Sask., and will be
playing with the Humboldt Broncos in her
thoughts through the rest of the season af-
ter a deadly crash involving the hockey
team’s bus led to 16 deaths and 13 injuries.
Smiths Falls is approximately the same
size as Humboldt, and she said she has a
special connection to a small town that
out of reach, with the Blue Jays ahead 11-5.
Hernandez and Yangervis Solarte added
a home run each to pace the 12-5 Blue Jays,
whose offence scored 31 runs in three
games against the Royals. Both those din-
gers came against Royals starter Ian Ken-
nedy, who took the loss. He gave up six
runs, four earned, over five innings.
Hernandez has made his presence felt
since being recalled to the club after Josh
Donaldson was placed on the 10-day dis-
abled list with right shoulder inflamma-
tion last week. In four games since, he has
eight hits, and finished a double shy of the
cycle Wednesday.
Despite that impressive output, his
place on the roster could be in jeopardy.
As a player with minor-league options, it’s
possible Hernandez could get caught up in
a numbers game when injured infielder
Kendrys Morales returns from the dis-
abled list.
Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said
Morales (strained right hamstring) will be
activated for Friday’s game, meaning
someone from the Blue Jays overstaffed
outfield is likely heading back to Triple-A
Buffalo.
“It’s not gonna be an easy decision,
whatever we chose to do,” Gibbons said.
“Like I said, [Hernandez] couldn’t be play-
ing any better.”
The 25-year-old Hernandez, who had 28
hits and a .908 OPS in 27 games last year,
said he’s doing his best to ignore the roster
situation.
“Right now I feel really great,” he said. “I
get that confidence from last year when I
got the opportunity. I got the chance to
show what I got and it makes me feel bet-
Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., celebrates a four-shot victory in the LPGA Tour’s
Lotte Championship last Sunday in Kapolei, Hawaii. HARRY HOW/GETTY IMAGES
supports its hockey team.
“Hockey is so important to almost every
Canadian, I would say, and definitely
Smiths Falls is a hockey town,” she said. “I
think it gave me that little extra motivation
and extra mental strength to keep pushing
and try to get that win not only for me but
for them as well.”
Although Henderson has four top-10 fin-
ishes this year, she sits 13th in the world
rankings.
She is a bit of a victim of how many tour-
naments she plays, as standings in the
world rankings are determined by dividing
total points earned by the number of
events a golfer plays. But she is eager to get
into the LPGA’s elite group.
She said getting into the top 10 of the
world rankings along with getting into the
top six of the season-long Race to the CME
Globe are her two goals for the near future.
Post said Henderson will likely focus her
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ter every day when I get the chance to be
in the lineup.”
Maile, meanwhile, has also been a
pleasant surprise. The backup catcher is
enjoying the longest hitting streak of his
career. He has at least one in each of his six
games this season. He drove in his eighth
run of 2018 Wednesday, surpassing his RBI
total from 2017, when he had seven in 46
games (130 at-bats). His double in the sev-
enth inning gave him four multihit games
on the year.
Viewership for the game, which was
broadcast exclusively on Facebook be-
cause of the social-media giant’s partner-
ship with Major League Baseball, hovered
around 75,000 as the game entered the
eighth inning. Paid attendance was 28,803.
After their series against the Yankees,
the Blue Jays return home for three games
against the Boston Red Sox next week. J.A.
Happ, who earned the win for the Blue
Jays with a six-inning outing, said he
hopes the Toronto hit parade continues.
“I don’t know what I expected, but it’s
fun to watch,” said Happ, who improved to
3-1 with a five-hit, four-run, eight-strikeout
performance. “It’s tough to sweep any-
body. Hopefully we’re able to get some
momentum out of it.”
Aaron Sanchez, who had a no-hitter
through seven innings in his previous
start, will get the ball for the Jays in the
opener against the Yankees.
While the team is expecting the return
of Morales during the series, Gibbons said
star third-baseman Donaldson, who’s eli-
gible to come off the 10-day disabled list
Saturday, will not be ready. Donaldson has
been out since April 13.
attention on trying to win majors, as she’s
already proven she can compete week in
and week out on the LPGA Tour. The big
events will have special meaning for her
moving forward.
“There will be certain tournaments, like
the CP Women’s Open, that she’ll aim at a
little bit more,” Post said. “The big thing is
to keep her enthusiasm and keep that fire
lit as long as she can, and stay healthy.”
After this week in Los Angeles, Hender-
son will play the next two weeks, in San
Francisco and Dallas, before the LPGA Tour
has a week off that she’ll use to return to
Smiths Falls and participate in a charity
event in Ottawa.
Henderson said she would likely take
the week off prior to the U.S. Women’s
Open, the next major on the LPGA Tour
schedule, to prepare.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
| THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018
Bautista signs
minor-league
deal with
the Braves
CHARLES ODUM ATLANTA
Even with their Ryan Flaherty
leading the NL in hitting, the At-
lanta Braves couldn’t resist the
low-risk opportunity to add Jose
Bautista.
The six-time all-star agreed to
a minor-league contract with the
Braves on Wednesday after im-
pressing team officials at a work-
out, and he will try to earn play-
ing time at third base.
Bautista, 37, would receive a
US$1-million, one-year deal if
added to the 40-man major-
league roster. He will report to
the Braves extended spring
training complex in Kissimmee,
Fla., to work himself into game
condition while playing third
base.
“He’s a good player who if and
when he gets here can lengthen
our lineup,” Braves manager
Brian Snitker said of the former
Toronto Blue Jays favourite.
“He’s somebody the opposition
has got to be aware of because
he’s that kind of player.”
Bautista played nine full sea-
sons for the Blue Jays and is one
of the most popular players in
franchise history. He had 288
home runs and 766 runs batted
in over 1,235 regular-season ap-
pearances with Toronto while
being named an American
League all-star six times and a
silver slugger twice.
He added six homers and 16
RBIs in 20 playoff games as he
helped the Blue Jays make back-
to-back American League Cham-
pionship Series appearances in
2015 and 2016.
His most iconic homer came
during Game 5 of the 2015 AL Di-
vision Series against the Texas
Rangers, a three-run tiebreaking
shot followed by a dramatic bat
flip that helped Toronto advance
to the ALCS.
Flaherty took a NL-leading
.354 batting average into Wednes-
day night’s game against the Phi-
ladelphia Phillies, but his career
average is .221.
The team added another op-
tion at third base on Wednesday
when Johan Camargo was activa-
ted from the disabled list. Ca-
margo was expected to be the
starter before suffering a right
oblique injury.
Braves general manager Alex
Anthopoulos, who was the GM
in Toronto during much of Bau-
tista’s run with the Blue Jays,
said he had talks with the slug-
ger in the off-season that never
gained momentum.
“I just think where we were
going to be financially just
wasn’t going to make sense for
him at the time,” Anthopoulos
said.
Even so, Anthopoulos re-
mained interested and said Bau-
tista liked what he had seen of
the Braves this season.
Anthopoulos said Bautista
turned down more money from
another team to sign with the
Braves. Bautista has not seen
much time at third base since
2011.
“A guy chooses to come to
here rather than somewhere
else, it’s a good thing,” he said.
“He leaves money on the table,
it’s a good thing. It’s flattering.”
Anthopoulos said Bautista has
been hitting and taking ground
balls. Still there is no timetable
for when Bautista can be expect-
ed to be ready to play in the mi-
nor leagues or Atlanta.
Bautista earned US$18-million
under a one-year deal with To-
ronto last season, but put up
subpar numbers for the second
straight year, hitting .203 with 23
homers and 65 RBIs in 157 games.
He batted .240 with 40 homers,
114 RBIs and 110 walks in 2015,
then dropped to .234 with 22
homers and 69 RBIs in 116 games
the following year.
Bautista became a free agent
and was among several promi-
nent players who remained un-
signed over the winter.
He has hit at least 22 homers
the past eight seasons, including
a career-best 54 for the Blue Jays
in 2010.
He has four seasons with at
least 100 RBIs.
Snitker was excited about the
scouting report from Wednes-
day’s workout.
“I’ve talked to the guys down
there today who said the guy is
in phenomenal shape,” Snitker
said.
“A big workout. I’m sure he’s
going to be excited about getting
back and playing.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Rielly bounces back Caps fans know

it’s hard, even
from bad playoff start if Vegas makes
it look easy
The defenceman
VICTOR MATHER
returned to being his
commanding self in
onsider Washington Capi-
Toronto’s Game 3 win

DAVID SHOALTS TORONTO

C tals fans: Presented with an
NHL expansion franchise in
1974, they looked forward to build-
ing a successful team and perhaps
someday winning a Stanley Cup.
organ Rielly was in no It hasn’t worked out that way.

M mood Wednesday to dis-

cuss his own fortunes in
this year’s NHL playoffs but his
Oh, the Capitals have had some
good teams over the years. There
have been 11 division titles and 10
answers about Auston Matthews 100-point seasons. In recent years,
were just as revealing. they have been even better: Three
“Yeah he puts a lot of pressure times in the past decade the team
on himself to be great,” Rielly has had the best record in hockey,
said after the Toronto Maple and Alex Ovechkin has won the
Leafs finished practising and Hart Memorial Trophy as the
media types wanted to know if league’s most-valuable player
Matthews’s big goal in Monday’s three times over that span.
win over the Boston Bruins re- But somehow it always goes
lieved the self-imposed pressure sour in the playoffs. The Capitals
enough for him to get back to have made just one Stanley Cup
being his star self. final in their 44 years of existence,
“I think that’s a common having been swept by the Detroit
theme when you look at the best Red Wings in 1998. Worse, they
players in the league, so I think have made a conference final only
for him to go out there, play a one other time, and were swept by
great game and score a big goal the Boston Bruins in 1990.
for us, it’s a good feeling,” Rielly That leaves a lot of early exits
said. “Moving forward, I think he for a lot of good teams: 14 in the
can just go out there and be him- first round and 11 in the second.
self. I think that’s good for us.” “Oh, yeah, they’ll win the Stan-
The same could be said about ley Cup someday,” Renee Calda-
Rielly, whose play on defence for relli, a season-ticket holder from
the Leafs in their lopsided losses Manassas, Va., said last year.
in the first two games was shock- The Leafs’ Morgan Rielly ner Hainsey installed as the top town, gave him a little bit of a “When I’m dead and buried.”
ing. The 23-year-old who was so was a bit of a shocker in pair. That plus a regular spot tightening.” How Caps fans must look on
composed all season in taking Games 1 and 2 of the back on the power play saw Riel- When this was put to Rielly, with envy at the nascent hockey
over the role as the top defence- team’s series against the ly finish with 52 points, the best the only response was an exas- fans of Las Vegas. Their Golden
man on the Maple Leafs looked Bruins, looking mark of his career and almost perated eye roll and a glare at the Knights are the most successful
overwhelmed. overwhelmed on the ice. double last season’s 27. Not bad offending media wisenheimer. expansion team ever, in any ma-
Rielly and partner Ron Hain- However, in Game 3, he for someone at the ripe old age The conversation quickly jor North American sport. Defy-
sey were overmatched in Game 1 was back to clearing the of 23. turned to the Bruins’ big line, ing the history of new teams
of the first-round series against defensive zone quickly But the first two games of the which was blanked in Game 3, struggling, Vegas wound up with
the Bruins’ big line of Patrice and firing stretch passes Bruins series were a slap in the and what needs to be done to en- the fifth-best record in all of hock-
Bergeron, Brad Marchand and up the ice. face. Not so for Game 3, which sure that continues. ey this past regular season. Fiveth-
David Pastrnak. In Game 2, they CLAUS ANDERSEN/ the Leafs won 4-2 to cut Boston’s “Be hard on them, be compet- irtyeight.com crunched the num-
saw less of the line as the de- GETTY IMAGES series lead to 2-1. itive, don’t give them too much bers and found Vegas’s season far
fence pair of Jake Gardiner and Rielly may have been third time and space,” Rielly said. “In outshone such expansion suc-
Nikita Zaitsev were put into that among the Leafs defencemen in my opinion, they’re one of the cesses as the 1961 Los Angeles An-
meat-grinder, but there was still ice time at 20 minutes 10 sec- best lines in hockey for a number gels, the 1967 Chicago Bulls, the
lots of embarrassment to go onds, but he was back to his of reasons, so it’s important we 1995 Carolina Panthers and the
around. commanding self on the ice, stay on them. Don’t give them 1994 Florida Panthers.
Rielly’s minus-three plus-mi- clearing the defensive zone chances to score in the power And there has been no playoff
nus rating after the first two quickly and not being shy about play. You’ve got to be hard on swoon. On Tuesday, the Golden
games was flattering, consider- firing stretch passes up the ice. those guys.” Knights completed a four-game
ing the Bergeron line collectively One of those passes connected Then someone asked if Mar- sweep of the Los Angeles Kings,
ran up 20 points in the first two with Mitch Marner and led to Pa- chand – whose antics, from kiss- winning every game by a single
games. trick Marleau’s first goal of the ing to jabbing his stick into any goal and holding the Kings to
None of this was supposed to His mom came game early in the second period. soft spot on an opponent, could three goals in the entire series.
happen to the Leafs’ best defen- That tied the score 2-2 after goal- turn Mr. Rogers into a homicidal “When you think back to early
ceman. After a four-year appren- to town, gave him tender Frederik Andersen (who maniac – was the most annoying October when the season started,
ticeship, during which the fans a little bit of a also righted himself in that player he ever came across. Riel- we were thinking about compet-
and media debated whether he tightening. game) let in the second of two ly showed he’s now been around ing and playing hard and seeing
would ever be a No. 1 defence- soft goals. Rielly also had an as- the block enough to know better what we could do,” coach Gerard
man, the 2017 playoffs were Riel- MIKE BABOCK sist on a first-period power-play than to poke any hornet’s nest. Gallant told the Las Vegas Review-
ly’s coming-out party. LEAFS COACH, ON RIELLY’S goal. “Ah, no,” came the reply. “He’s Journal. “Now all of a sudden,
IMPROVED PLAY IN GAME 3
In those six games against the Rielly declined to speak about a good player and has been for a we’re moving on to the second
Washington Capitals, Rielly took the resurgence on an individual long time. That’s the toughest round of the playoffs.”
a significant step forward from basis, but it was clear his pride thing about him, his speed and Earlier Tuesday night, the Cap-
the regular season, where he and was stung in the first two games. skill.” itals were also involved in a play-
former partner Matt Hunwick “It was a group thing,” he said. The Leafs lineup on Thursday off game, against the Columbus
were often the second pairing be- “You look at the score of the night will be the same as it was Blue Jackets. The omens for this
cause head coach Mike Babcock games, we all were not happy in Monday’s game. Dominic series finally seemed good for the
wanted Rielly to get better at kill- with it. You took that personally. Moore will remain as the fourth- Caps: The Blue Jackets have not
ing penalties and playing in his When 20 guys take that person- line centre and Tomas Plekanec won a playoff series in their 18-
own end. The Leafs lost the se- ally that can make a difference.” will stay between Marner and year history. The Capitals had lost
ries in six games but five went to Babcock joked Rielly’s mother Marleau as centre Nazem Kadri Games 1 and 2 of the series at
overtime and Rielly was a central descended on Toronto from their serves the last of his three-game home in overtime. Game 3 in Co-
figure in most of them thanks to native West Vancouver to get her suspension. Forward Leo Koma- lumbus on Tuesday went OT as
his play at both ends of the ice. son straightened out. rov can’t play due to a leg injury, well, then a second overtime. That
The progress continued this “He was outstanding,” Bab- so Andreas Johnsson will get his unsettling feeling must have re-
season, with Rielly and new part- cock said. “His mom came to second playoff game. turned for many Caps fans. But lo
and behold, it was Washington
that scored the game winner, by
Lars Eller after 89 minutes of
hockey. Braden Holtby, returned
Chara and his long reach have a lengthy from a benching, made 33 saves.
“We got a break; it’s what we
postseason history against the Maple Leafs needed,” Capitals forward John
Connolly said.
The Caps are still down two
games to one. But perhaps Tues-
KYLE CICERELLA TORONTO belt, 19 of those against the Leafs. day’s game may be the start of a
He made his NHL debut with the New new day for the team: an end to
York Islanders on Nov. 19, 1997, only five the jinx and the first step toward a
Boston’s thrilling come-from-behind PENGUINS LEAD SERIES 3-1 months after Marner was born. banner hoisted to the rafters of
Game 7 win against Toronto in 2013 stands Marner says it’s hard to believe that the the Capital One Arena. The more
out as one of the good times for Bruins de- PHILADELPHIA Sidney Crosby scored his Slovak is still dominant today after 1,423 pessimistic Capitals fan – is there
fenceman Zdeno Chara in his 20-year ca- fifth goal of the series and became the regular-season games in the NHL. any other kind? – is probably ex-
reer. However, his earliest memories of fac- Pittsburgh Penguins’ career postseason “It’s very impressive,” Marner said. “Still pecting another false dawn.
ing the Maple Leafs in the postseason bring points leader in a 5-0 win over the Phila- to this day he’s still one of the top defence-
back heartache rather than smiles. delphia Flyers on Wednesday night. men in the league. His size and how he us- NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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B16 HOCKEY
Bucky and the Jets: they’re wonderful
Winnipeg is on the
verge of clinching its
series with the Wild,
with lots of credit
to its tremendous
goaltender Hellebuyck
ROBERT MacLEOD WINNIPEG
his is our ice,” the Xcel
‘T Energy Center public-ad-
dress announcer bel-
lowed as the Winnipeg Jets and
the Minnesota Wild neared the
start of their NHL playoff game
in St. Paul, Minn., on Tuesday
night.
That may be the case under
normal circumstances, as the
Wild can boast to having one of
the best home records in the
league this season.
But for the next 60 minutes of
Game 4 of this ornery matchup,
it was Winnipeg’s Connor Helle-
buyck who felt the most at home
playing in what is usually a hos-
tile environment for the opposi-
tion.
The Jets goaltender was tre-
mendous in kicking out 30 shots
to earn the shutout in a 2-0 win
that has pushed Winnipeg to the
brink of victory in the opening-
round playoff series.
With Mark Scheifele providing
both of the Winnipeg goals, in-
cluding an empty-netter with 11
seconds left in the game, the Jets
have staked their claim to a 3-1
lead in the best-of-seven affair.
The Jets can clinch their first
playoff-series victory in franchise
history with one more win, pos-
sibly Friday night at Bell MTS
Place in downtown Winnipeg in
Game 5.
But the Jets will have to ac-
complish that without rearguard
Josh Morrissey. He was suspend-
ed by the NHL for one game for
cross-checking Minnesota Wild
forward Eric Staal. The cross-
check to the side of Staal’s face
happened in the first period of
Winnipeg’s 2-0 victory Tuesday.
Morrissey had a hearing with the
league’s department of player
Top picks are unfazed
by playoff pressure
STEPHEN WHYNO
uston Matthews got a taste
A of playoff hockey last sea-
son. Patrik Laine has been
waiting two years for this.
The third pick in the 2016
draft? Well, Pierre-Luc Dubois is
taking a surprising star turn in
the spotlight of the NHL playoffs,
too.
Matthews, Laine, Dubois and
2017 top picks Nico Hischier and
Nolan Patrick all look unfazed as
they handle significant respon-
sibilities in the postseason. All
are in top-six forward roles and
have combined for five goals and
six assists.
“These guys are young guys,”
Toronto coach Mike Babcock said
after Matthews’s Game 3 winner
against Boston was the 20-year-
old centre’s first point of the se-
ries. “They’re playing against real
players and they’re young guys.
You’ve got to go through some of
these slappings in your life to
kind of respond and learn how to
respond and do things right.”
These five budding superstars
have been doing a lot of things
right all season. Matthews’s 34
goals led the Maple Leafs; Laine’s
43 for Winnipeg were second in
the NHL; Hischier’s 48 points
were second on the Devils; and
Patrick’s 30 and gradual improve-
ment earned him a promotion to
the Flyers’ second-line centre
spot.
Dubois was a bit of a surprise
pick by Columbus behind Mat-
thews and Laine at the 2016 draft,
and he didn’t break into the NHL
right away. Dubois wasn’t expect-
ed to mature this quickly and
doesn’t get the kind of attention
as last season’s top finishers for
rookie of the year, but he’s used
to that by now.
“I’ve always been the guy kind
of under the radar,” said Dubois,
whose 48 points were third on
the Blue Jackets. “All my life it’s
been pretty much like that. I
don’t really look to impress other
people. I just want to play well.
I’ve never been the guy that ev-
erybody talked about, so it never
really fazed me.”
Dubois most impressively has
earned the trust of old-school
coach John Tortorella enough to
be the Blue Jackets’ No. 1 centre at
the age of 19. Tortorella uses Du-
Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck was tremendous in Game 4 against the Wild on Tuesday, kicking out 30 shots to earn the shutout in a 2-0 win that has
pushed Winnipeg to the brink of victory in the series. HANNAH FOSLIEN/GETTY IMAGES
safety on Wednesday.
The suspension will further
deplete an already injury-rav-
aged Winnipeg defensive core.
“It’s warranted,” Minnesota
coach Bruce Boudreau told re-
porters in St. Paul on Wednesday,
referring to the league’s decision
to take a closer look at the play.
“I’m not up here trying to be
gamesmanship to get the league
to call extra stuff,” Boudreau
continued. “It is what it is,
though. It was a vicious cross-
check to the face.”
The controversy erupted late
in the first period while the Wild
were already enjoying the man
advantage in what to that point
was a goalless hockey game.
Morrissey clobbered Staal
with a cross-check across the
side of his face in the slot in front
of the Winnipeg net and the Min-
nesota forward crumpled to a
heap on the ice.
bois as an example to show older
players how to handle situations,
an ultimate sign of respect from a
Stanley Cup-winning coach who
doesn’t hesitate to put him on
the ice against opposing stars.
“He accepted it, he excelled,”
Tortorella said. “He has a mental
toughness for a 19-year-old kid, to
accept that type of responsibility
and want more. It’s a different
guy. You’ve got to be careful with
young kids, but he has showed
me tremendous progress and in-
stant mental toughness as I’ve
gotten to know him as the sea-
son’s gone on.”
Laine isn’t tracking the stats of
the other players in his draft
class, but he knows how they are
doing. Similarly, Dubois enjoys
watching Matthews and Laine
while trying not to compare him-
self with them.
“They’re obviously really great
players,” said Dubois, who picked
up two assists in his first playoff
game. “I know my game and peo-
ple that know my game know
that we’re all different players.”
Production ties them together
with Hischier and Patrick, who
also don’t look out of place at all
in their first playoffs at 19.
New Jersey coach John Hynes
said Hischier has been one of the
Devils’ best players, which is the
continuation of a season of learn-
ing for the first Swiss No. 1 pick.
“I’ve seen every city, every rink
and just for me it was a lot of ex-
perience this year, and guys
helped me a lot,” said Hischier,
who scored in Game 2 against
Tampa Bay and played more
than 17 minutes in the Devils’
Game 3 win.
Patrick wasn’t putting up a lot
of points in the first half of the
season but still felt he was play-
ing well. Philadelphia coach Dave
Hakstol felt good enough about
Patrick’s game that he promoted
him and has reaped the benefits
for the past couple of months
and in the first round against
Pittsburgh.
“Obviously I’m more confi-
dent in my game,” Patrick said.
“It’s nice for the confidence. I
think I worked my way up and
earned that spot. I think it’s eas-
ier to get into games and get in
the flow of it more playing a little
more.”
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No penalty was called on the hard as you could, so I don’t It was only the second time
play. have any problem with that.” this season that Hellebuyck had
Winnipeg would go on to kill After gaining the lead, the Jets been yanked during a game, and
off Minnesota’s man advantage utilized a disciplined, kitty-bar- perhaps he felt he had some-
before Scheifele connected with the-door defensive scheme that thing to prove.
the game’s first goal with 28 sec- made it difficult for the Wild to Just before the start of Tues-
onds left in the period to put the claim any space in the middle of day’s game, the 24-year-old
Jets ahead 1-0. To add insult to the Winnipeg end. learned that he was one of three
injury, Morrissey assisted on the Most of the time the Minneso- contenders for the Vézina Tro-
goal. ta puck handlers were funnelled phy, awarded each season to the
Before the suspension was an- toward the side boards, which NHL’s top goaltender.
nounced, Winnipeg coach Paul made it difficult to mount many In a final ballot that is bound
Maurice said that, at the most, serious goal-scoring opportuni- to keep spell checkers delightful-
Morrissey’s action deserved only ties. ly engaged, Hellebuyck will con-
a fine. The odd time the Wild were test the award against Pekka
“There’s no intent on this,” able to break through the choke Rinne of the Nashville Predators
Maurice told reporters in Winni- hold and muster a foray toward and Andrei Vasilevskiy of the
peg on Wednesday. “It got the net, Hellebuyck was there to Tampa Bay Lightning.
played. You’ve got a real smart turn them away. “It’s exciting and I’m looking
coach on the other bench who For Winnipeg, it was a timely forward to it,” Hellebuyck said of
has all the focus on that and not return to form for the third-year the Vézina nomination. “But I’ve
on the game now. Why wouldn’t goaltender, who was given the got to dial it back in.
you? hook in Game 3 on Sunday for “We’re here to do a job and
“Morrissey is a great defence- the start of the third period after we’re here to win a Stanley Cup
man for us. If you had a chance allowing all six Minnesota goals and we’ve got to worry about
to get him out, you’d play it as in a 6-2 Wild victory. that first.”
The Vegas Golden Knights made history by becoming the first expansion team in league history to
sweep its first playoff series. KIRBY LEE/USA TODAY SPORTS
Vegas’ luck continues with a sweep of L.A.
BETH HARRIS LOS ANGELES McNabb scored from the right circle, beating
Jonathan Quick’s glove, at 4 minutes 4 seconds
of the second period for his first career playoff
he Golden Knights want a Stanley Cup goal. The Kings left the defenceman exposed in
T title to conclude their already amazing last year’s expansion draft and the Knights
inaugural season in the NHL.
Vegas is on its way, beating the Los
snapped him up.
“It was crazy in the final minute of the game.
Angeles Kings 1-0 on Tuesday night and becom- They were buzzing around,” Fleury said. “We
ing the first expansion team in league history to had to keep pushing to the very end.”
sweep its first playoff series. Facing elimination, the Kings
“All season long, I didn’t know came out aggressively and out-
any records about expansion shot the Knights 14-8 in the open-
teams,” goalie Marc-André Fleury We just do what ing period. Quick stopped two
said. “We just do what a regular shots on goal during the only
team would, we just play the a regular team power play in the period when
game and try to win. That’s it.” would, we just Adrian Kempe was sent off for
Brayden McNabb scored play the game hooking.
against his former team in the sec- and try to win. “I thought our hockey team got
ond period and Fleury stopped 31 better through the series,” first-
shots as the Knights finished off That’s it. year Kings coach John Stevens
their fourth one-goal victory of MARC-ANDRÉ FLEURY
said. “Tonight was our best game
the series. It was the goalie’s sec- GOLDEN KNIGHTS GOALIE and created the most quality
ond shutout of the playoffs. chances, just didn’t finish off.”
“I didn’t picture this happening, me scoring a Quick made 20 saves and allowed seven goals
goal against the Kings,” McNabb said, “but it in the series, but he and the Kings couldn’t du-
feels real good to get this win and finish this se- plicate the rally they pulled off in 2014. Los An-
ries.” geles lost its first three games to the Sharks in
The Knights poured into the net to hug Fleu- the first round that year and went on to win the
ry at the final horn. Vegas fans in the crowd series and eventually the Stanley Cup.
chanted the goalie’s name in celebration. Vegas, the third expansion team since 1968-
“We knew we were getting a superstar when 69 to clinch a playoff berth, awaits the winner of
we got him,” Vegas coach Gerard Gallant said. the series between Anaheim and San Jose,
“He has playoff experience and he’s been a part which the Sharks lead 3-0.
of three Cups and he makes us better. L.A. put on Fleury earned his 66th playoff victory, break-
the pressure on him, but he was huge for us.” ing a tie with Dominik Hasek for 11th on the
The Knights became the second team to win NHL’s all-time list among goaltenders.
their first four playoff games, joining the 1970
Pittsburgh Penguins. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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For the Raptors, silence could be golden
Toronto is playing
like it expects to win,
but talking like it
expects to lose
CATHAL
KELLY
OPINION
TORONTO
acking any competition on
L the court, the Toronto Rap-
tors continue their unabat-
ed war with expectations.
This team has suffered for
years under the weight of ill
omens – always needing to fall
back before attempting to move
ahead; always reverting to the
bad, old, the-rim-is-as-wide-
around-as-a-tea-cup Raptors at
some point. It became an awful
tick.
That’s getting harder to do
now, up two games to none
against a Washington team that
played Tuesday night as though
they have booked vacations that
begin in a week.
The Wizards haven’t entirely
rolled over yet, but they’ve shift-
ed their collective weight onto
one hip and are swinging round.
If John Wall goes motivationally
AWOL – a serious possibility –
this thing could get ugly.
That leaves the Raptors with a
philosophic question: If they
aren’t underdogs, what are they?
On Wednesday, coach Dwane
Casey talked about a team meet-
ing held in “the middle of the
season” when the Raptors were
informed they had a new goal. It
was to win the Eastern Confer-
ence.
“That’s when the messaging
changed somewhat,” Casey said.
Having achieved it and more,
they now want to take a rheto-
rical step back.
Example No. 1 is the Raptors’
unresolved cold war with ESPN.
No matter where the World-
wide Leader in Sports schedules
their games, the Raptors know it
is their duty to take offence.
Their tipoff could pre-empt the
State of the Union, and the Rap-
tors would complain that it’s not
their job to set U.S. foreign policy.
No scrum may pass without
some mention of the way in
which the United States fails to
rate this basketball club. Usually,
it’s a jokey aside that is meant to
be taken for serious and may, by
this point, have come all the way
back round to being a joke.
Casey talked up the team de-
veloping the “mental toughness
you have to have to be the favou-
rite,” but you could tell his heart
It’s happy Holiday for the
Pelicans in the playoffs
BRETT MARTEL NEW ORLEANS
rue Holiday’s postseason pro-
J duction is providing Pelicans
all-star Anthony Davis with a
smore comfortable margin for
error – and has left Portland with
precious little.
Holiday’s 54 points, 16 assists
and slew of defensive successes in
the first two games are big reasons
why the sixth-seeded Pelicans
hold a surprising 2-0 series lead
over the third-seeded Trail Blaz-
ers as they prepare for Game 3 on
Thursday night in New Orleans.
“Playoff Jrue, I guess,” Davis
quipped after Holiday scored 33 –
including a late, deep three-point-
er – in the Pelicans’ Game 2 tri-
umph in Portland on Tuesday
night. “He’s in a different mode.”
Philadelphia visits Miami in
one of two other Game 3s on
Thursday night, while the Spurs
return to San Antonio after a pair
of double-digit losses at defend-
ing champion Golden State.
Pelicans general manager Dell
Demps bet big on Holiday on the
first day of free agency last sum-
mer, giving the 27-year-old guard
a five-year contract worth about
US$126-million. But if the postsea-
son is where players really earn
their money, then the Pelicans’
Holiday spending could very well
be worth it.
Holiday helped preserve New
Orleans’ Game 1 victory with a
leaping steal in transition during
the final minutes, followed by a
block in the final seconds. Those
plays were prime examples of
why Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry
has asserted Holiday is one of the
best two-way players in the NBA.
“We ask him to guard the best
perimeter player and we ask him
to do it while we’re also wanting
BASKETBALL B17
The Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry drives to the basket during Game 2 against the Washington Wizards on Tuesday. The Raptors’ decisive start to the
series has left the team with a philosophic question: If they aren’t underdogs, what are they? CLAUS ANDERSEN/GETTY IMAGES
wasn’t in it. nents. It’s not so much that it encouraging video from his hos- More so than the “We are go-
Later, he tried to backtrack as might provoke a better showing, pital bed. ing to win now” midseason
best he could. but that it will be used post-facto “It brought tears to my eyes,” speech, this will have been the
“I don’t know how many as a cudgel with which to beat Casey said. If he is not yet willing moment the Raptors flipped
games we’re going to walk in, if the coach if things go wrong. to endorse the whole unreserv- their internal script.
you’re watching the Las Vegas There’s a word for people who edly, Casey’s not shy about prais- Because it was only after De-
line – I’m not a bettor – where talk big and fail to deliver in the ing the most important part. Rozan decided he no longer
we’re the favourite.” NBA – unemployed. DeRozan has gone from “a wanted to hero-ball it whenever
He’s right there. Vegas has But some teams find a way to snotty-nosed kid” to “the man he things got tight that the supple-
Washington as narrow favourites deliver the message in a way that is today.” Largely, that was about mentary players would have
on Friday night. Apparently, no- skirts insult, without indulging DeRozan’s willingness to accept room to breathe. It’s a straight
body working on the Strip sub- false modesty. this year that his approach would line from there to the 12-man
scribes to League Pass. The players seem to have got alter entirely. No more low-per- bench that is currently swamp-
Then Casey doubled down. there by themselves. No more centage, mid-range jumpers – ing the Wizards.
“[Friday’s game] is probably head-hanging, no more post- DeRozan’s incurable tick. He’d This change happened quietly.
going to be even tougher than game thousand-yard stares. learn to shoot the three, and pass DeRozan didn’t bring it up. His
Game 1, to get over that Game 1 DeMar DeRozan is the tip of whenever he ran into obstacles stat line remained the same. The
jinx.” that spear. There was a point in on his way to the basket rather team had a better record, but the
The Game 1 jinx lasted a quar- Game 1 where it felt like he was than try to tunnel through them. swing wasn’t remarkable. The
ter century. It was buried so deep tipping over sideways, going in DeRozan’s conversion appar- only evidence of what was hap-
in the team psyche, you could for another one of his two-for- ently happened after an early pening was out on the court.
quite literally see them seizing whatever playoff shooting season game in Utah (a good That trend has carried over to
up in games. And beating a games. place for that sort of thing). the playoffs – same messaging,
Washington team that’s already But DeRozan continued to dis- “I implored him,” Casey said. “ same clichés – but everything
had their will broken will be har- tribute the ball and eventually ‘Let’s give this a chance.’ ” feels this different. This Raptors
der than that? found his space. He was as good This implies DeRozan was a team plays like a team that
We’re at the point where you as he’s ever been in Game 2. reluctant adopter of a revamped knows it will win.
wonder how much of this is per- Throughout the season, DeRo- offensive model the Raptors As long as that continues,
formance, how much is habit zan has been flying back and promised way back in May, 2017. maybe it’s okay if they never find
and how much is useful. forth to his home in Los Angeles It wasn’t until six months later, the mental gear to stop talking
Coaches everywhere have a to visit his father, who is gravely and whatever it was that hap- like a team that expects to lose.
deep fear of providing bulletin- ill. Casey said that the elder De- pened in Utah, that he changed And maybe it’s better still if they
board material for their oppo- Rozan recently sent the team an his mind. just say nothing at all.
him to get 20 points,” Gentry said,
observing that Holiday has had to
take turns guarding both mem-
bers of Portland’s prolific starting
backcourt, guards Damian Lillard
and C.J. McCollum.
“He can get to the basket
against just about anybody that
there is. His outside shot has real-
ly improved,” Gentry added. “He’s
very confident in what he’s doing
and the way he’s playing.”
76ERS AT HEAT
The 76ers say all-star centre Joel
Embiid, who has missed 10 games
with a broken orbital bone, is
doubtful in Game 3, with the se-
ries tied 1-1. The Heat ended Phila-
delphia’s franchise-record 17-
game winning streak on Monday,
winning with physical defence. To
further ratchet up tension, some
76ers were miffed by Miami’s Go-
ran Dragic’s late layup to pad the
Heat’s 113-103 victory.
WARRIORS AT SPURS
San Antonio is 30-8 at home this
season, but coach Gregg Popovich
stressed playing on the road isn’t
why the Spurs dropped the first
two games. San Antonio is shoot-
ing 26 per cent on three-pointers
in the series after averaging 35 per
cent during the regular season.
San Antonio was 4-for-28 on
threes in Game 2. “We know it’s
just like hitting in baseball – the
ability to make shots,” Popovich
said. “I’m more concerned about
the nuts and bolts of the game
and the attitude and the fibre and
the grunt and all that sort of
thing.”
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Nadal stays sharp in Monte Carlo opening-round win

The world No. 1 recently
returned to the court
after suffering a hip
injury in January
MONACO
Top-seeded Rafael Nadal soared
through his opening match in the
Rolex Monte Carlo Masters, dis-
patching Slovenia’s Aljaz Bedene
6-1, 6-3 on Wednesday in Monaco.
The world No. 1 and 10-time
champion of the event recently
returned to the court after suffer-
ing a hip injury during the Aus-
tralian Open quarter-final in Ja-
nuary.
“It was a positive start. That’s
all,” Nadal said after the victory.
“It’s important for me to win
matches, of course. I need days on
court. Since Shanghai last year, I
have spent not enough time on
court competing.
“Every match that I have the
chance to win is a great news, be-
cause it [helps my] confidence
and is a chance to play another
day. That’s what I need.”
Nadal was hardly tested by Be-
dene while improving to 64-4 all-
time at the event. Nadal needs to
win the tournament for the 11th
time to remain as world No. 1.
Otherwise, Roger Federer would
take over the top spot.
Nadal next faces Russian Ka-
ren Khachanov, who recorded a
6-2, 6-2 victory over French wild
card Gilles Simon.
“[Karen] is a tough opponent,
of course,” Nadal said. “No doubt
about that. He’s a player that
serves big and has big shots from
the baseline. I need to play ag-
gressive. I can’t let him play in
comfortable positions because
then it will be impossible. … I
know it’s going to be an impor-
tant test for me.”
Meanwhile, ninth-seeded No-
vak Djokovic needed 10 match
points to finish off Croatia’s Bor-
na Coric 7-6 (2), 7-5 as he contin-
ues his comeback from an elbow
injury.
The Serbian came through on
the 10th try when Coric sent a
backhand long to end the match.
“I could have won the match
earlier, definitely, but it was great
to deal with these kinds of emo-
tions again,” Dkojovic told report-
ers.
The two-time Monte Carlo
champion next faces fifth-seeded
Dominic Thiem of Austria.
Second-seeded Marin Cilic of
Croatia also advanced with a 6-3,
7-6 (4) win over Fernando Verdas-
co of Spain. Cilic had to fight off
Verdasco in a second-set tiebreak-
er to close it out.
Cilic next faces 14th-seeded
Canadian Milos Raonic, who reg-
istered 16 aces while posting a 7-6
(5), 6-2 victory over Italy’s Marco
Cecchinato.
Three seeded players were sec-
ond-round upset victims. Franc-
e’s Richard Gasquet rolled past
Argentina’s 10th-seeded Diego
Schwartzman 6-2, 6-1, Germany’s
Jan-Lennard Struff swept through
13th-seeded Italian Fabio Fognini
6-4, 6-2, while Germany’s Philipp
Kohlschreiber was a 6-4, 6-2 win-
ner over 15th-seeded Spaniard Al-
bert Ramos-Vinolas.
REUTERS

NHL AHL Monday, April 30 MLB NBA PLAYOFFS

x-Kitchener at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m.
2018 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS CALDER CUP PLAYOFFS x - played only if necessary. AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE FIRST ROUND
x — played only if necessary.
W L Pct GB W L Pct GB All Times Eastern
FIRST ROUND FIRST ROUND EAST DIVISION EAST DIVISION
QMJHL PLAYOFFS CONFERENCE QUARTER-FINALS
All Times Eastern All Times Eastern Boston 14 2 .875 — New York 12 4 .750 — (Best-of-7)
DIVISION SEMIFINALS DIVISION SEMIFINALS Toronto 12 5 .706 21/2 Philadelphia 10 6 .625 2
(Best-of-7) (Best-of-5) THIRD ROUND New York 8 8 .500 6 Atlanta 9 7 .563 3
All Times Eastern Baltimore 5 13 .278 10 Washington 9 9 .500 4 EASTERN CONFERENCE
EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS Tampa Bay 5 13 .278 10 Miami 5 12 .294 71/2 TORONTO (1) VS. WASHINGTON (8)
ATLANTIC DIVISION NORTH DIVISION (Best-of-7) CENTRAL DIVISION CENTRAL DIVISION (Toronto leads series 2-0)
Cleveland 9 6 .600 — Pittsburgh 12 6 .667 — Tuesday
TAMPA BAY (1) VS. NEW JERSEY (WC2) TORONTO (1) VS. UTICA (4) Minnesota 7 5 .583 1/2 St. Louis 10 7 .588 11/2
(Tampa Bay leads series 2-1) Saturday B-BOISBRIAND (1) VS. CHARLOTTETOWN (9) Toronto 130 Washington 119
Detroit 6 9 .400 3 Milwaukee 10 9 .526 21/2 Friday
Wednesday Utica at Toronto, 4 p.m. Friday
Chicago 4 11 .267 5 Chicago 7 8 .467 31/2
Tampa Bay at New Jersey Sunday Charlottetown at B-Boisbriand, 7:30 p.m. Cincinnati 3 15 .167 9
Toronto at Washington, 8 p.m.
Kansas City 3 13 .188 61/2
Saturday Utica at Toronto, 4 p.m. Saturday WEST DIVISION Sunday
WEST DIVISION
x-New Jersey at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 25 Charlottetown at B-Boisbriand, 7 p.m. Los Angeles 13 4 .765 — Arizona 12 4 .750 — Toronto at Washington, 8 p.m.
Monday, Apr. 23 Toronto at Utica, 7 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 24 Houston 11 7 .611 21/2 Colorado 11 9 .550 3 Wednesday, Apr. 25
x-Tampa Bay at New Jersey, TBD B-Boisbriand at Charlottetown, 6 p.m. Seattle 9 6 .600 3 Los Angeles 7 9 .438 5 x-Washington at Toronto, TBA
Wednesday, Apr. 25 Wednesday, Apr. 25 Oakland 9 10 .474 5 San Francisco 6 10 .375 6 Friday, Apr. 27
SYRACUSE (2) VS. ROCHESTER (3)
x-New Jersey at Tampa Bay, TBD B-Boisbriand at Charlottetown, 6 p.m. Texas 7 13 .350 71/2 San Diego 7 12 .368 61/2 x-Toronto at Washington, TBA
Friday
Friday, Apr. 27 Sunday, Apr. 29
Rochester at Syracuse, 7 p.m. Wednesday Wednesday
BOSTON (2) VS. TORONTO (3) Saturday x-Charlottetown at B-Boisbriand, 7:30 p.m. x-Washington at Toronto, TBA
(Boston leads series 2-1) Rochester at Syracuse, 7 p.m. Sunday, Apr. 29
Thursday x-B-Boisbriand at Charlottetown, 6 p.m. Detroit 6, Baltimore 5 Pittsburgh 10, Colorado 2
Wednesday, Apr. 25 BOSTON (2) VS. MILWAUKEE (7)
Boston at Toronto, 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 1 Tampa Bay 4, Texas 2 Milwaukee 2, Cincinnati 0
Syracuse at Rochester, 7:05 p.m. (Boston leads series 2-0)
Saturday x-Charlottetown at B-Boisbriand, 7 p.m. Oakland 12, Chi. White Sox 11, 14 innings Washington at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.
Tuesday
x-Toronto at Boston, 8 p.m. Toronto 15, Kansas City 5 Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m.
ATLANTIC DIVISION Boston 120 Milwaukee 106
Monday, Apr. 23 Cleveland vs. Minnesota San Francisco at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.
LEHIGH VALLEY (1) VS. PROVIDENCE (4) A-BATHURST (2) VS. VICTORIAVILLE (6) Friday
x-Boston at Toronto, TBD Boston at L.A. Angels L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.
Friday Friday Boston at Milwaukee, 9:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Apr. 25 Houston at Seattle St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, ppd.
Lehigh Valley at Providence, 7:05 p.m. Victoriaville at Acadie-Bathurst, 6 p.m. Sunday
x-Toronto at Boston, TBD
Saturday Saturday Boston at Milwaukee, 1 p.m.
Tuesday Tuesday
Lehigh Valley at Providence, 7:05 p.m. Victoriaville at Acadie-Bathurst, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 24
METROPOLITAN DIVISION Miami 9, N.Y. Yankees 1
Friday, Apr. 27 Tuesday, Apr. 24 x-Milwaukee at Boston, TBA
WASHINGTON (1) VS. COLUMBUS (WC1) Acadie-Bathurst at Victoriaville, 7 p.m.
Toronto 11, Kansas City 3, 1st game Colorado 2, Pittsburgh 0
Thursday, Apr. 26
(Columbus leads series 2-1) Providence at Lehigh Valley, 7:05 p.m. Miami 9, N.Y. Yankees 1 Washington 5, N.Y. Mets 2
Wednesday, Apr. 25 x-Boston at Milwaukee, TBA
Tuesday Toronto 5, Kansas City 4, 2nd game, 10 Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 1, 10 innings
W-B/SCRANTON (2) VS. CHARLOTTE (3) Acadie-Bathurst at Victoriaville, 7 p.m. Saturday, Apr. 28
Washington 3 Columbus 2 (2OT) innings Milwaukee 2, Cincinnati 0
Thursday Friday Friday, Apr. 27 x-Milwaukee at Boston, TBA
Detroit 4, Baltimore 2 St. Louis 5, Chicago Cubs 3
Washington at Columbus, 7:30 p.m. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Charlotte, 7 p.m. x-Victoriaville at Acadie-Bathurst, 6 p.m.
Cleveland 6, Minnesota 1 Arizona 1, San Francisco 0
Saturday Saturday Sunday, Apr. 29 PHILADELPHIA (3) VS. MIAMI (6)
Texas 7, Tampa Bay 2 L.A. Dodgers 7, San Diego 3, 12 innings
x-Columbus at Washington, 3 p.m. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Charlotte, 6 p.m. x-Acadie-Bathurst at Victoriaville, 4 p.m. (Series tied 1-1)
Oakland 10, Chicago White Sox 2
Monday, Apr. 23 Thursday, Apr. 26 Tuesday, May 1 Monday
Boston 10, L.A. Angels 1 Thursday
x-Washington at Columbus, TBD Charlotte at W-Barre/Scranton, 7:05 p.m. x-Victoriaville at Acadie-Bathurst, 6 p.m. Miami 113 Philadelphia 103
Houston 4, Seattle 1 All Times Eastern
Wednesday, Apr. 25 x — played only if necessary. Thursday
x-Columbus at Washington, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Thursday St. Louis (TBD) at Chicago Cubs (TBD), Philadelphia at Miami, 7 p.m.
CENTRAL DIVISION WHL PLAYOFFS All Times Eastern 2:20 p.m. Saturday
PITTSBURGH (2) VS. PHILADELPHIA (3) Pittsburgh (Taillon 2-0) at Philadelphia Philadelphia at Miami, 2:30 p.m.
CHICAGO (1) VS. ROCKFORD (4)
(Pittsburgh leads series 3-1) All Times Eastern Baltimore (Cobb 0-1) at Detroit (Arrieta 1-0), 7:05 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 24
Saturday
Wednesday (Zimmermann 0-0), 1:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Harvey 0-1) at Atlanta x-Miami at Philadelphia, TBA
Rockford at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Pittsburgh 5 Philadelphia 1
Sunday
THIRD ROUND Houston (Morton 2-0) at Seattle (Sanchez 1-0), 7:35 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 26
Friday CONFERENCE FINALS x-Philadelphia at Miami, TBA
Chicago at Rockford, 5 p.m. (Gonzales 1-1), 3:40 p.m. Miami (Peters 2-1) at Milwaukee
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. (Best-of-7) Saturday, Apr. 28
Sunday Thursday, Apr. 26 Toronto (Sanchez 1-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Anderson 1-1), 8:10 p.m.
(Sabathia 0-0), 6:35 p.m. San Francisco (Blach 1-2) at Arizona x-Miami at Philadelphia, TBA
x-Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, TBD Rockford at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Apr. 24 EASTERN CONFERENCE Boston (Rodriguez 1-0) at L.A. Angels (Greinke 1-1), 9:40 p.m.
x-Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, TBD GRAND RAPIDS (2) VS. MANITOBA (3) LETHBRIDGE (C2) VS. SCURRENT (E2) (Tropeano 1-0), 10:07 p.m. CLEVELAND (4) VS. INDIANA (5)
Saturday Friday CONCACAF CHAMPIONS (Series tied 1-1)
WESTERN CONFERENCE Grand Rapids at Manitoba, 3 p.m. Lethbridge at Swift Current, 9 p.m. MLS LEAGUE Wednesday
Sunday Saturday Cleveland 100 Indiana 97
CENTRAL DIVISION EASTERN CONFERENCE Friday
NASHVILLE (1) VS. COLORADO (WC2) Grand Rapids at Manitoba, 3 p.m. Lethbridge at Swift Current, 9 p.m. FINAL
Wednesday, Apr. 25 Tuesday, Apr. 24 GP W L T GF GA Pt (home-and-home, total-goals series) Cleveland at Indiana, 7 p.m.
(Nashville leads series 2-1) Sunday
Manitoba at Grand Rapids, 7 p.m. Swift Current at Lethbridge, 9 p.m. New York City 7 5 0 2 16 6 17 GUADALAJARA (MEXICO) VS.
Wednesday Cleveland at Indiana, 8:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Apr. 25 Atlanta 6 4 1 1 15 8 13
Nashville at Colorado TORONTO FC Wednesday, Apr. 25
Monday PACIFIC DIVISION Swift Current at Lethbridge, 9 p.m. New England 6 3 2 1 10 6 10
Saturday, Apr. 28 Orlando 6 3 2 1 11 10 10 x-Indiana at Cleveland, TBA
Colorado 5 Nashville 3 TUCSON (1) VS. SAN JOSE (4) Tuesday (First Leg)
x-Lethbridge at Swift Current, 9 p.m. Columbus 7 3 3 1 9 7 10 Friday, Apr. 27
Friday Thursday Guadalajara 2 Toronto FC 1
Colorado at Nashville, 9:30 p.m. Monday, Apr. 30 NY Red Bulls 5 3 2 0 13 6 9 x-Cleveland at Indiana, TBA
Tucson at San Jose, 10 p.m.
Sunday x-Swift Current at Lethbridge, 9 p.m. Montreal 6 2 4 0 6 12 6 Sunday, Apr. 29
Saturday Wednesday, April 25 (Second Leg)
x-Nashville at Colorado, TBD Tuesday, May 1 Philadelphia 5 1 2 2 3 6 5 x-Indiana at Cleveland, TBA
Tucson at San Jose, 10 p.m. All Times Eastern
Tuesday, Apr. 24 Wednesday, Apr. 25 x-Lethbridge at Swift Current, 9 p.m. D.C. 6 1 3 2 6 10 5
Toronto FC at Guadalajara, 10:30 p.m.
x-Colorado at Nashville, TBD San Jose at Tucson, 10:05 p.m. Chicago 5 1 3 1 7 9 4 WESTERN CONFERENCE
WESTERN CONFERENCE Toronto 4 1 3 0 3 6 3 TELEVISION HOUSTON (1) VS. MINNESOTA (8)
WINNIPEG (2) VS. MINNESOTA (3) TEXAS (2) VS. ONTARIO (3) EVERETT (US1) VS. TRI-CITY (WC1) THURSDAY (EASTERN TIME) (Houston leads series 1-0)
(Winnipeg leads series 3-1) Thursday Friday WESTERN CONFERENCE Wednesday
Tuesday Ontario at Texas, 8 p.m. Tri-City at Everett, 10:35 p.m. GP W L T GF GA Pt Minnesota at Houston
Winnipeg 2 Minnesota 0 Kansas City 7 4 1 2 14 11 14 BASEBALL
Friday Saturday Saturday
Friday Ontario at Texas, 8 p.m. Tri-City at Everett, 10:05 p.m. LA Galaxy 6 3 2 1 8 8 10 Houston at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.
Minnesota at Winnipeg, 7:30 p.m. Vancouver 7 3 3 1 8 11 10 MLB: Baltimore vs. Detroit, SN Ontario,
Sunday Monday, Apr. 23 Monday
Sunday Los Angeles FC 5 3 2 0 11 10 9 East, West, Pacific, 1 p.m.
Texas at Ontario, 6 p.m. Everett at Tri-City, 10:05 p.m. MLB: Toronto vs. N.Y. Yankees, SN 1, 6:30 Houston at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
x-Winnipeg at Minnesota, TBD Dallas 5 2 0 3 7 3 9
x — played only if necessary. Thursday, Apr. 26 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 25
Wednesday, Apr. 25 Colorado 5 2 1 2 9 5 8
Everett at Tri-City, 10:05 p.m. x-Minnesota at Houston, TBA
x-Minnesota at Winnipeg, TBD Salt Lake 6 2 3 1 6 14 7
OHL PLAYOFFS Saturday, Apr. 28 BASKETBALL Friday, Apr. 27
x-Tri-City at Everett, 10:05 p.m. Minnesota 6 2 4 0 8 12 6 x-Houston at Minnesota, TBA
PACIFIC DIVISION Houston 5 1 2 2 9 8 5
THIRD ROUND Monday, Apr. 30 NBA Playoffs: Philadelphia vs. Miami,
VEGAS (1) VS. LOS ANGELES (WC1) x-Everett at Tri-City, 10:05 p.m. San Jose 5 1 2 2 9 10 5
(Vegas wins series 4-0) All Times Eastern Eastern Conference quarterfinal, TSN 1, 3, GOLDEN STATE (2) VS. SAN ANTONIO (7)
Tuesday, May 1 Portland 6 1 3 2 9 14 5 4, 5, 7 p.m. (Golden State leads series 2-0)
Tuesday CONFERENCE FINALS Seattle 4 0 3 1 2 7 1
x-Tri-City at Everett, 10:05 p.m. NBA Playoffs: Portland vs. New Orleans, Monday
Vegas 1 Los Angeles 0 (Best-of-7)
x — played only if necessary. Note: Three points awarded for a win, Western Conference quarterfinal, NBA TV Golden State 116 San Antonio 101
ANAHEIM (2) VS. SAN JOSE (3) one for a tie. Canada, 9 p.m. Thursday
(San Jose leads series 3-0) EASTERN CONFERENCE
Wednesday HAMILTON (1) VS.KINGSTON (3)
TENNIS Friday NBA Playoffs: Golden State vs. San Golden State at San Antonio, 9:30 p.m.
All Times Eastern Antonio, TSN 1, 3, 5, 9:30 p.m. Sunday
Anaheim at San Jose Wednesday
Friday MONTE CARLO MASTERS Golden State at San Antonio, 3:30 p.m.
Kingston at Hamilton Vancouver at Kansas City, 9 p.m. GOLF
x-San Jose at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 24
Friday At Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France
Sunday Second Round — Singles x-San Antonio at Golden State, TBA
Kingston at Hamilton, 7 p.m. European PGA: Trophee Hassan II, Golf
x-Anaheim at San Jose, TBD Saturday Thursday, Apr. 26
Sunday Channel, 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday, Apr. 24 x-Golden State at San Antonio, TBA
x-San Jose at Anaheim, TBD Hamilton at Kingston, 6 p.m. Milos Raonic (14), Canada, def. Marco PGA Tour: Valero Texas Open, Golf
Tuesday, Apr. 24 Los Angeles F.C. at Montreal, 1 p.m. Channel, 3:30 p.m.
x — played only if necessary. Cecchinato, Italy, 7-6 (5), 6-2.
Toronto at Houston, 3 p.m. LPGA Tour: Hugel — JTBC L.A. Open, PORTLAND (3) VS. NEW ORLEANS (6)
Hamilton at Kingston, 7 p.m. Kei Nishikori, Japan, def. Daniil
Chicago at N.Y. Red Bulls, 3:30 p.m. Golf Channel, 6:30 p.m. (New Orleans leads series 1-0)
Thursday, Apr. 26 Medvedev, Russia, 7-5, 6-2.
SCORING LEADERS New England at Columbus, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
x-Kingston at Hamilton, 7 p.m. Karen Khachanov, Russia, def. Gilles
Not including last night’s games San Jose at Orlando, 7:30 p.m. HOCKEY New Orleans 111 Portland 102
Saturday, Apr. 28 Simon, France, 6-2, 6-2.
G A Pts Philadelphia at Dallas, 8 p.m. Thursday
David Pastrnak, Bos 4 5 9 x-Hamilton at Kingston, 7 p.m. Roberto Bautista Agut (11), Spain, def.
Colorado at Salt Lake, 9 p.m. IIHF U18 World Championship: Canada Portland at New Orleans, 9 p.m.
Sidney Crosby, Pgh 4 3 7 Monday, Apr. 30 Feliciano Lopez, Spain, 6-3, 7-6 (5).
Atlanta at L.A. Galaxy, 10:30 p.m. vs. U.S., TSN 1, 3, 4, 5, 10:30 a.m. Saturday
Artemi Panarin, Clb 2 5 7 x-Kingston at Hamilton, 7 p.m. Novak Djokovic (9), Serbia, def. Borna NHL Playoffs: Boston vs. Toronto, Eastern Portland at New Orleans, 5 p.m.
John Carlson, Wash 1 6 7 Coric, Croatia, 7-6 (2), 7-5. Tuesday, Apr. 24
Conference quarterfinal, CBC, 7 p.m.
Nikita Kucherov, TB 2 4 6 WESTERN CONFERNCE Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, def. MOVES NHL Playoffs: Washington vs. Columbus, x-New Orleans at Portland, TBA
Brad Marchand, Bos 1 5 6 Sault Ste-Marie (1) VS. Kitchener (2) Fabio Fognini (13), Italy, 6-4, 6-2.
Alex Killorn, TB 4 1 5 Eastern Conference quarterfinal, SN Thursday, Apr. 26
Friday Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany, def. MLB Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 7:30 p.m. x-Portland at New Orleans, TBA
Nathan MacKinnon, Col 3 2 5
Kitchener at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m. Albert Ramos-Vinolas (15), Spain, 6-4, National League
Logan Couture, SJ 2 3 5
Taylor Hall, NJ 2 3 5 Saturday 6-2. SOCCER OKLAHOMA CITY (4) VS. UTAH (5)
Gabriel Landeskog, Col 2 3 5 Kitchener at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m. Richard Gasquet, France, def. Diego ATLANTA BRAVES — Assigned RHP (Oklahoma City leads series 1-0)
Brian Dumoulin, Pgh 1 4 5 Monday Schwartzman, Argentina, 6-2, 6-1. EPL: Burnley FC vs. Chelsea FC, SN World, Wednesday
Jake Guentzel, Pgh 1 4 5 Sault Ste. Marie at Kitchener, 7 p.m. Luke Jackson outright to Gwinnett
Rafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. Aljaz 2 p.m. Utah at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
Joe Pavelski, SJ 1 4 5 Wednesday, April 25 (IL). Agreed to terms with 3B Jose
Bedene, Slovenia, 6-1, 6-3. Saturday
Nicklas Backstrom, Wash 0 5 5 Sault Ste. Marie at Kitchener, 7 p.m. Bautista on a minor league contract TENNIS
Andreas Seppi, Italy, def. Guillermo Oklahoma City at Utah, 10 p.m.
Torey Krug, Bos 0 5 5 Friday, April 27 and assigned him to extended spring
Patrice Bergeron, Bos 0 5 5 Garcia-Lopez, Spain, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. Monday
x-Kitchener at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m. ATP Tour: Monte Carlo Masters, round of Oklahoma City at Utah, 10:30 p.m.
Evander Kane, SJ 3 1 4 Marin Cilic (2), Croatia, def. Fernando training. Placed RHP Anibal Sanchez
Sunday, April 29 16, TSN 2, 5 a.m. Wednesday, Apr. 25
Austin Watson, Nash 3 1 4 Verdasco, Spain, 6-3, 7-6 (4). on the 10-day DL.
x-Sault Ste. Marie at Kitchener, 2 p.m. x-Utah at Oklahoma City, TBA

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World Cup to explain VAR decisions
Video-assistant referees’
choices will be followed
by written explanation
on giant screen,
as well as replays
ANDREW DAMPF FLORENCE, ITALY
Fans attending World Cup match-
es in Russia won’t be left wonder-
ing about the reasons behind de-
cisions of the video-assistant ref-
eree.
After the VAR’s decision is
made, replays will be shown on
giant screens inside the stadiums
accompanied by a written expla-
nation.
It’s all part of the VAR informa-
tion system that FIFA unveiled on
Wednesday.
FIFA will place someone in the
VOR (video operations room)
who will listen in to the VAR’s de-
cisions and communicate them
to both TV commentators and
stadium staff operating the giant
screens.
“So we will have graphics on
the giant screens, we will have re-
plays after the decision on the gi-
ant screens and we will also in-
form the fans about the outcome
of a VAR incident and review,”
said Sebastian Runge, group lead-
er of soccer innovation at FIFA.
With the VAR making its tour-
nament debut during the June 14-
July 15 World Cup, FIFA is holding
its final training camp this month
for the 99 match officials – 36 ref-
erees and 63 assistants – who
have been selected to go to Russia.
Thirteen VARs have been pre-
selected and are being trained at
Italy’s Coverciano complex, and
FIFA referees chief Pierluigi Colli-
na said more VARs and VAR as-
sistants will be chosen from the
99 match officials.
Three of the 13 VARs come from
Italy’s Serie A and two from Ger-
many’s Bundesliga – elite compe-
titions that already use video as-
sistants.
The VAR can support the refer-
ee in four game-changing situa-
tions: goals and offences leading
up to a goal; penalty decisions
and offences leading up to a pen-
alty; direct red card incidents;
and cases of mistaken identity.
Still, VARs in both Italy and
Germany have received vehe-
ment criticism for long delays and
bungled decisions this season.
On Monday, Mainz was award-
ed a penalty during halftime
against a rival Freiburg side that
had already left the pitch for the
break – prompting the unusual
scene of a team returning from
the changing room to defend a
penalty.
“Yesterday we had already dis-
cussed this incident here and
gave match officials and VARs
FIFA Council member arrested for corruption
SALEH MWANAMILONGO
KINSHASA
FIFA Council member Constant
Omari was arrested on suspicion
of corruption and held for 24
hours in a public prosecutor’s of-
fice in his home country of Con-
go while being questioned for al-
leged involvement in embezzle-
ment, officials said.
Omari, who is also a vice-pres-
ident of the Confederation of
African Football, was arrested on
Tuesday night on the orders of
Luzolo Bambi, Congo President
Joseph Kabila’s special adviser
on corruption, a statement from
Bambi’s office said. Omari was re-
leased late on Wednesday, but
was ordered to return for further
questioning on Thursday, prose-
cutors said.
Omari, the president of the
Congo soccer federation, was ar-
rested along with two other fed-
eration officials and a govern-
ment Sports Ministry official. The
three other officials were still be-
ing detained on Wednesday at
the public prosecutor’s office at a
court building in Kinshasa.
The four were questioned on
suspicion of embezzling money
given to the federation by the
government to fund the Congo
national team and various Con-
golese clubs playing in competi-
tions across Africa, according to
the statement from Bambi’s of-
fice.
It added that a fifth person
wanted for questioning, the pres-
ident of the Congo Olympic com-
mittee, is on the run. Bambi’s of-
fice asked the Congolese public
“to kindly lend a hand to justice”
by helping to catch the missing
Olympic committee official.
An investigation was opened
FIFA referees chief Pierluigi Collina, left, is flanked by FIFA head of refereeing Massimo Busacca during a meeting to explain how the video-assistant
referees will be used at the World Cup at the Coverciano sports centre near Florence, Italy, on Wednesday. MAURIZIO DEGL’INNOCENTI/ANSA VIA AP
clear indication about what
should be done if something sim-
ilar in FIFA competition – specifi-
cally the World Cup – happens,”
Collina said without providing
further detail.
Collina added that the VAR
should not be overused, adding
that ideally it would intervene at
all in a match.
“The goal of VAR is to avoid
major mistakes,” Collina said.
“The objective is not to have clear
and obvious mistakes committed
on the field of play. This is the tar-
get, the goal is not to re-referee
the match using technology.
“There will continue to be inci-
dents when a final answer will not
be given and there will be differ-
ent opinions,” Collina added.
Among other items involving
the VAR:
MOSCOW CONTROL CENTRE
FIFA will follow the Bundesliga
model of a central control centre
for the VAR rather than using
trucks outside stadiums.
“We will have all of the referees
based in Moscow so there won’t
be any stress in terms of travel,”
Collina said.
For each match, Collina will se-
FIFA Council member Constant Omari was elected to the FIFA Council in 2015; he was promoted to become one
of two vice-presidents of the African confederation last year. YURI KADOBNOV/GETTY IMAGES
into Omari and the others on
April 2 and they had been ques-
tioned regularly since then. By
Tuesday, prosecutors felt there
was enough evidence against the
four for them to be arrested.
The arrests of Omari, federa-
tion vice-president Theobald Bi-
namungu, federation chief finan-
cial officer Roger Bondembe,
who is also a vice-president, and
Sports Ministry secretary-general
Barthelemy Okito came weeks af-
ter a public disagreement be-
tween the federation and the
government over US$1-million
the federation asked for to fund
teams and set up matches. The
lect one VAR and three assistant
VARs.
Training operation rooms pre-
sented to media included six
monitors for the VARs and two
more for technical assistants en-
abling the VARs to see requested
replays.
There could be up to four tech-
nical assistants in the room for
World Cup matches.
OFFSIDE CAMERAS
FIFA will install two extra cam-
eras at matches to monitor off-
side decisions. The cameras will
be in addition to the 33 cameras
used for broadcasters and they
will be installed under stadium
roofs.
Broadcasters will not have di-
rect access to the cameras, but if
they are used by the VAR then
broadcasters can show the video.
Runge added that three-di-
mensional technology – consid-
ered the ultimate strategy for de-
termining offside – is not ready
for real-time access yet.
SWEAT AND STRESS
VARs will not officiate more than
government said the amount
was exorbitant.
The 60-year-old Omari was
elected to the FIFA Council in
2015, one of seven Africans on the
37-member board headed by FI-
FA president Gianni Infantino.
Already a member of CAF’s exec-
utive committee, he was promot-
ed to become one of two vice-
presidents of the African confed-
eration last year.
“Following the arrest of FIFA
Council member and CAF Vice-
President Constant Omari along
with the two FECOFA Vice-Presi-
dents by the authorities … FIFA
is closely following the matter
one match aday.
“It’s not like watching a match
on the sofa sipping coffee,” Colli-
na said.
Collina, who officiated Brazil’s
2-0 win over Germany in the 2002
World Cup final, explained why
the VARs will wear track suits sim-
ilar to referees’ on-pitch attire.
“The reason is at the end they
sweat as much as someone on the
field, because the tension is very
high,” Collina said. “They can’t do
two matches per day – it’s too
stressful.”
COMMS AND HACKING
The Moscow control centre will
be connected to match officials
via a fibre-optic network.
If the network fails, the backup
plan includes an old-fashioned
land telephone line and a tele-
phone stationed near the fourth
referee for emergency use.
“Worst-case scenario includes
a backup plan on site. That’s
when the IBC is down – no power,
no fibre network,” Runge said.
“Then we have a plan in place
where the fourth official would
become the VAR and the fourth
official would be replaced by the
reserve referee.
and gathering additional infor-
mation but has no further state-
ment to make at this stage,” FIFA
said.
“More information could be
released as the situation un-
folds.”
The Congolese league sus-
pended all games until further
notice in reaction to the arrests
and in a show of “solidarity” with
Omari and the two other feder-
ation officials. The league said
they had been “humiliated and
unjustly deprived of their liber-
ty.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SOCCER B19
“We have a cabin in the broad-
cast compound from where we
send all of the feeds to the IBC
anyway. That cabin can be turned
into a smaller, light version of the
VOR.”
Hacking has also been consid-
ered.
“We are aware that there might
be something, but our IT depart-
ment put measurements in place
that will protect us from that,”
Runge said.
POSTMATCH BRIEFINGS
In extraordinary circumstances,
FIFA will hold postmatch brief-
ings to explain decisions in grea-
ter detail.
“If something should happen
that we think should properly
and accurately be explained – and
it doesn’t matter if it’s related to
VAR or something different – if it
is a matter to explain the back-
ground of a decision, as an excep-
tion certainly we will do it,” Colli-
na said.
“But it won’t be a postmatch
press conference for every match,
explaining every single decision
taken during every single match.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOURNEMOUTH 0,
MANCHESTER UNITED 2
BOURNEMOUTH Manchester
United tightened its grip on
second place in the Premier
League after goals in each half
by defender Chris Smalling and
substitute Romelu Lukaku gave
them a clinical 2-0 win at
Bournemouth on Wednesday.
The result left United, who
suffered a shock 1-0 home
defeat by bottom team West
Bromwich Albion on Sunday,
second on 74 points from 34
games, 13 behind champions
Manchester City and four ahead
of third-placed Liverpool.
With one eye on Saturday’s
FA Cup semi-final against
Tottenham Hotspur at Wem-
bley, United manager Jose
Mourinho made seven changes
to the side beaten by West
Brom and his reshuffled team
delivered at Vitality stadium.
Smalling fired the visitors
ahead with a close-range finish
in the 28th minute and Lukaku
sealed the win with a superb
strike in the 70th, burying his
shot over advancing keeper
Asmir Begovic after he was put
through by Paul Pogba.
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RO MEO DE G ASPE RI S
It is with deep sorrow that we
have to announce the passing of
Romeo De Gasperis on Monday,
April 16, 2018 at 4:12 p.m. After
a long and courageous journey
over the past eighteen years,
Romeo passed away peacefully
surrounded by his caring family
at Toronto General Hospital. He
is survived by his devoted and
loving wife, Marialisa of 25 years;
his loving daughter, Natalie;
and cherished sons, Justyn and
Giordano. He is survived by his
adoring parents, Angelo and
Lorenza De Gasperis. He will
be sadly missed by his brother,
Tony and fiancé, Janet; his late
brother, Frankie (the late Rosa);
with niece, Laura (Mike); with
great-nephew, Giuseppe; and
nephew, Frankie Jr.; his twin
sister, Julie; and brother-in-law,
Claudio; with nieces, Jessica and
Valerie; and nephews, Marco and
Angelo; his sister, Nancy and
brother-in-law, Peter; with niece,
Nicole; his mother-in-law, Silvana
(the late Giovanni); sister-in-law,
Enza (Fabien); with nephew,
Éli and niece, Léa; brother-in-
law, Giancarmen; (Daniella) with
nephew, Gio; and niece, Ariella; his
many aunts, uncles and cousins,
and several very special friends.
Romeo leaves a legacy of
profound kindness, generosity, a
great admiration and unwavering
devotion to his beautiful family,
his parents and loving support to
his extended family and simply
anyone that he touched. Romeo
will always be remembered in
the community as an honourable
man with such strength and
determination in everything that
he did and an incredible aptitude
for business; all while holding
true to his humble self and
charismatic personality. He was a
very special man and will always
be remembered with great pride,
true joy and most of all; loving and
unforgettable memories. He now
joins his beloved brother, Frankie.
Visitation will be held at St. Clare
of Assisi Parish, 150 Saint Francis
Ave. in Woodbridge on Thursday,
April 19th from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. and
5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Mass of Christian
Burial will be celebrated at St.
Clare of Assisi Parish on Friday,
April 20, 2018 at 10 a.m. Private
Entombment to follow at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations to
the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at
the Toronto General & Western
Hospital Foundation in honour
of Romeo De Gasperis would
be appreciated by the family,
please call 416-603-5300 or visit
www.tgwhf.ca/tribute.
God Bless and may Romeo De
Gasperis Rest In Eternal Peace.
Funeral arrangements entrusted
to Vescio Funeral Home
Woodbridge Chapel, (8101 Weston
Rd., 905-850-3332).
NEIL SINCLAIR McKECHNIE
1923-2018
Passed away peacefully at
North York General Hospital
on April 10, 2018 at age 94.
Lovingly remembered by his
partner, Vivian Scott. Beloved
husband of the late
Marguerite McKechnie. Loving
father of Jeffrey (Patricia),
Burton (Pat), Alison (Randy),
Grace (Alex) and the late
Rosalie (Richard). Fondly
remembered by his 11
grandchildren and 15 great-
grandchildren. Predeceased
by his brothers, Duncan and
Bill, and sister, Charlotte.
Neil rose to the rank of Lt.
Colonel in the army, and after
retirement in 1978 worked for
a number of years in the
federal government.
According to Neil’s wishes
there will be no service. Neil
will be buried beside his late
wife at the Boston Mills
Cemetery at a later date.
DEATHS
ELLICE PAMELA MITCHELL
Of London, Ontario died
Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 99
years of age. Her family had
hoped for a one hundred year
birthday celebration but it
was not to be.Pamela
Mitchell, nee Daly, was born
and raised in London in the
family home at 300 Princess
Ave., but spent the majority
of her adult years in Bermuda.
Pam was engaged twice
during the Second World War
and both of her fiancés were
killed in the war. At war’s end,
Pam vacationed in Bermuda
where she met and married
both of her husbands. Pam
came back to Canada in her
mid sixties and returned to
live in London. Pam leaves
behind four nieces, Daphne
Hood of Guelph, Janice
Mollenhaure and Susan
Wallace of Toronto, and
Virginia Head of Australia.
Pam loved to travel and
especially enjoyed her trips to
visit her niece, Virginia, in
Australia. Pam had grown
very close to the family of her
niece, Susan Wallace, and at
the age of 92, took her last
big trip sailing to England
with them on the Queen Mary
2 to attend Wimbledon. In her
declining years, Pam
particularly enjoyed the visits
of Susan’s granddaughters,
Georgia and Ivy Wallace.
Following her wishes Pam’s
cremation is being handled by
the Harris Funeral Home.
There will be no visitation
or memorial service.
www.HarrisFuneralHome.ca
KEVAN THOMAS
O’CONNOR
Funny, irreverent, the purveyor
of bad jokes and the life of every
party, Kevan passed suddenly,
being as spontaneous as ever!
Kevan had many names - Honey,
Daddio, Kevy, Uncle Kev, UK,
gentleman farmer and real
estate mogul. Everybody loved
his superhero personas and we
never knew what to expect next
from him. Through his 40 plus
years as a realtor, he guided
many newcomers to our town,
befriending each and every one.
His love for his family shone like
a beacon and he was generous
to a fault. Kevan’s life cannot be
described by mere words, but
it can be seen in the fabric of
Niagara-On-The-Lake, the people
that loved him and the way he
celebrated life every day.
He leaves his adoring wife, Lynn;
sons, Andrew (Nikki) and James.
Predeceased by his parents,
Thomas and Ellen O’Connor. Also
survived by his siblings, Barry
(Deby), Donald (Martha), Carlyn,
Edward, Kelly; in-laws, Danny
and Nellie Masaro, Larry (Ginette)
Masaro, Joanne (Vince) Di Carlo;
and many nieces and nephews.
Family will receive friends at
Morgan Funeral Home, 415
Regent St., Niagara-On-The-Lake
on Friday, April, 20th from 12-3
p.m. and 5-7 p.m. A celebration
of life will be held at the Niagara-
On-The-Lake Golf Course, 143
Front St, Niagara-on-the-Lake on
Sunday, April 22nd at 2 p.m.
Donations may be made to Lynn
and Kevan’s Niagara Charities
Fund at The Niagara Community
Foundation or The Red Roof
Retreat. Memories, photos and
condolences can be shared online
at www.morganfuneral.com
RICHARD ANDREW
MILES OUTERBRIDGE
1956 - 2018
Richard (RAMO) Outerbridge
passed away in Toronto on
April 6, 2018. Father of
Romana Astra; son of Miles;
predeceased by his mother,
Christina; partner of Gazelle;
nephew of Andrew; cousin of
Diana and Suzanne. An
accomplished educator, he
touched many hearts.
DAVID WEBBER
On Monday, April 16, 2018, at
Toronto Grace Hospital. David
Webber, loving father of Evan.
Dear brother and brother-in-law
of Mark Webber, Debbie and
Michael Shapiro and Ellen
Webber. Son of the late Murray
and Myrna Webber. Loving uncle
of Zak and Kyle Shapiro. Shiva at
1603 Bathurst St., #505,
beginning Wednesday, April 18,
with visits Wednesday and
Thursday from 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
and on Friday from 2:00 - 6:00
p.m. Condolences may be sent to
1603 Bathurst St, #505. Donations
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Stamps’ QB
dumps Twitter
and throws
himself fully
into 2018
DONNA SPENCER CALGARY
o Levi Mitchell added a base-
B ball throwing coach and
ditched Twitter as part of his
off-season preparation.
The Calgary Stampeders quar-
terback has worked with Jeff
Peach, a former Canadian base-
ball player turned athletic ther-
apist, on his throwing mechanics
in recent weeks. While that might
seem somewhat unconventional,
Mitchell points out that Tom Bra-
dy, a five-time Super Bowl cham-
pion with the New England Patri-
ots, has tabbed baseball person-
nel to enhance his throwing me-
chanics.
“They understand the shoul-
der,” Mitchell said during a con-
ference call on Wednesday. “[Jeff]
knows so much mechanically
about the shoulder, about the
preservation of it.
“I’m not changing my mechan-
ics at all. I’m still going to throw
the exact same. It was about
spending the proper amount of
time during the off-season on
strengthening my shoulder and
the small muscles in my shoulder
and not spending so much time
on your bigger muscles like your
abs, your biceps. It’s really just
diving in and committing myself
to the health of my shoulder and
making sure it was strong.”
The health of Mitchell’s shoul-
der was an issue last year. After
the season, it was revealed he
played most of 2017 with small
tears in the shoulder and also had
elbow issues that forced the
Stampeders to reduce his practice
reps and conserve his throwing
arm for games.
Despite that, Mitchell threw for
4,700 yards with 23 touchdowns
and led Calgary to a CFL-best 13-4-1
record. Fortunately for the Stam-
peders, Mitchell, the league’s top
player in 2016, didn’t require off-
season surgery.
Entering the final year of his
contract, Mitchell has been
throwing pain-free indoors. He’s
ready to take it outside whenever
the snow finally disappears from
Calgary.
“I was able to get out there and
kind of push it in rehab,” Mitchell
said. “Things are definitely mov-
ing in the right direction.”
The 28-year-old from Katy,
Tex., also got rid of his Twitter ac-
count, much to the delight of Cal-
gary president/general manager-
John Hufnagel.
Mitchell routinely bantered
with opposing players and fans
and last year was fined by the
league for violating its social-
media policy. Mitchell has no
plans to reactivate his Twitter ac-
count.
“I just wanted to kind of rein in
the focus and make sure I’m giv-
ing myself and my team every-
thing I have,” he said. “I’m already
doing a radio show so anything I
need to talk about or say can be
put out there.
“I felt with the negativity and
whatnot trending towards social
media these days, I thought it
would be a good time to get off
and I thought Huff would like
that too.”
“Amen,” said Hufnagel, who
then joked: “If Bo completes the
12-month non-Twitter, I’ll start
getting into [contract] negotia-
tions with him.”
Mitchell boasts an impressive
56-10-2 record as a CFL starter. En-
tering his fifth season as No. 1
quarterback, he needs less than
1,000 yards to hit the 20,000-yard
plateau.
Mitchell has led Calgary to the
Grey Cup game in three of the
past four years. He was named the
MVP of the club’s 20-16 win over
Hamilton in 2014 but the Stam-
peders have been upset by the Ot-
tawa Redblacks and Toronto Ar-
gonauts the past two seasons.
Earlier this week, running
back/returner Roy Finch was ar-
rested in Oklahoma for allegedly
assaulting a police officer. Finch,
the CFL’s top special-teams player
last season, signed a two-year
contract with Calgary in February
prior to the start of free agency.
The 5-foot-7, 165-pound Finch,
of Niceville, Fla., appeared in 13
games with Calgary in 2017. He
registered career highs in rushing
yards (114), receiving yards (133)
and punt return yards (1,200)
while returning three punts for
TDs. He also added 696 kickoff re-
turn yards.
Hufnagel didn’t have more in-
formation on Wednesday regard-
ing whether Finch will report to
training camp May 20.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL . O OBITUARIES B21

IAN JORDAN BRUNO SAMMARTINO

LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, 66 PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER, 82

VICTORIA OFFICER WAS Wrestling

great was
IN A VEGETATIVE STATE a ‘Living
FOR 30 YEARS Legend’
DAN GELSTON

e was professional wres-

H tling’s ultimate good guy.

The son of Italian immi-
grants, Bruno Sammartino fled
the Nazis as a child and built a ca-
reer beating a string of bad guys,
thrilling fans as he reigned as the
conscientious champ for more
than a decade.
Before the flash of the Hulks-
ter, the electricity of the Rock and
the foul mouth of Stone Cold, all
Mr. Sammartino required to be-
come wrestling’s biggest box of-
fice draw was a pair of tights,
boots and an honest promo that
made fans believe in the most il-
legitimate of sports.
Mr. Sammartino, professional
wrestling’s “Living Legend” and
one of its longest-reigning cham-
pions, has died. He was 82.
“One of the finest men I knew,
in life and in business,” WWE
chairman Vince McMahon said.
“Bruno Sammartino proved that
hard work can overcome even the
most difficult of circumstances.
He will be missed.”
Family friend and former wres-
tling announcer Christopher
Cruise said Mr. Sammartino died
Wednesday morning and had
been in hospital for two months.
Mr. Sammartino’s name on the
marquee about guaranteed a
squared-circle sellout in the 1960s
and 1970s and he held the World
Wide Wrestling Federation cham-
pionship for more than 11 years
(4,040 days) over two title runs.
Constable Ian Jordan spent six weeks in intensive care after he was hit by a fellow police officer’s car while His Italian heritage, brute
responding to a call in 1984. He spent the rest of his life in a vegetative state. VICTORIA POLICE DEPARTMENT strength and good-guy charisma
helped make him an instant star
in the U.S. northeast. He had rival-
On the day when he was severely injured on the job, ries with Killer Kowalski, Gorilla
Monsoon and George (The Ani-
Nelson Mandela was still in jail and the Berlin Wall still stood mal) Steele during his title runs
and later wrestled famous grudge
TOM HAWTHORN unkempt appearance. matches at Shea Stadium against
Earlier on what would be his final shift, Mr. Jordan Pedro Morales, Stan Hansen and
suffered a knee injury in a scuffle when pushed down Larry Zbyszko.
onstable Ian Jordan was working a night shift stairs at a nightclub. He was completing paperwork He was born in Italy and was a

C when a burglar alarm sounded at a stereo and preparing to call it an early night when the alarm
shop in downtown Victoria. sounded. He knew his friend Constable Ole Jorgen-
The officer jumped into a squad car alone sen, with whom he had coffee earlier in the evening,
and sped toward the break-in only to be T-boned at would be responding with a police dog, so he, too,
the first intersection by another patrol car answering decided to answer the call. He left the police station
child when his family immigrated
to Pittsburgh, where he became a
champion power lifter and work-
out fanatic before learning the
ropes of pro wrestling. Mr. Sam-
the same call. on Fisgard Street in Chinatown and had driven only martino defeated Buddy Rogers
The 35-year-old officer suffered a traumatic brain 100 metres eastbound from the underground garage in just 48 seconds to become the
injury when his head struck the car’s interior roll bar. before a southbound car driven by Mr. Jorgensen second-ever WWE champion in
He was knocked unconscious and rendered coma- slammed into him at the intersection of Douglas front of nearly 20,000 fans on
tose at 2:48 a.m. on Sept. 22, 1987, a moment when Street. May 17, 1963, at the old Madison
Ronald Reagan was completing his second term as “We were both going about 70 kilometres an Square Garden. He held the title
U.S. president and Brian Mulroney his first as prime hour,” recalled Mr. Jorgensen, who retired from the until 1971 and his second reign be-
minister; Nelson Mandela remained jailed and the force in 2005 as a sergeant. “I don’t think he expected gan in 1973 with a win over Stan
Berlin Wall still stood; there was not yet e-mail, Face- me there, and I never expected him.” Stasiak. That one lasted until he
book, or even a World Wide Web. Mr. Jordan never Mr. Jorgensen slammed on the brakes, suffering a was pinned by “Superstar” Billy
regained consciousness and so missed all those de- fracture to his outstretched right leg when the vehi- Graham in 1977.
velopments before his death in hospital on April 11. cles collided. He also had soft-tissue injuries from He became a broadcaster on
He was 66. straining against the shoulder harness and missed WWE’s weekend morning shows
He spent more than 30 years – 11,160 six months of work. His police dog, Ra- before his frustration over the
days, to be precise – in a vegetative dar, a four-year-old male German shep- company’s direction into cam-
state. His family visited daily. It became For years, a police herd, was uninjured. Mr. Jordan was pier storylines and an outrage
a ritual for each new police chief to left a paraplegic in critical condition. over the drug culture he said had
make a pilgrimage to Mr. Jordan’s bed- scanner squawked “I got that infamous knock on the permeated the industry led to a
side. Fellow officers stopped by regular- in his room, a tribute door at 3 a.m.,” Hilary Jordan said. She bitter, two-decade split with Mr.
ly even as the passing years brought ci- from fellow officers remembers one of the officers holding McMahon. He eventually made
tations, promotions and, eventually, to a well-regarded a flashlight below his chin so she could peace with WWE and accepted his
retirement. A plaque was placed in his see his familiar face in the darkness. “I induction into the Hall of Fame in
hospital room to mark his own retire- comrade. knew right away. I asked, ‘Is he dead?’ 2013. He was inducted by Arnold
ment as a constable after 22 years and They said no, but you’d better come to Schwarzenegger.
five months with the department. the hospital. It was a long ride.” WWE said Mr. Sammartino
Over the years, Mr. Jordan missed the landmarks Her husband spent six weeks in intensive care. He sold out Madison Square Garden,
of ordinary life. A son, who was 16 months old on the needed a breathing tube and received nourishment known as the mecca of profes-
night of the crash, graduated in turn from high through a feeding tube. After six months, she was sional wrestling, hundreds times
school, university and, finally, law school. A wife, the told by doctors there would be no improvement to over his career.
former Hilary Lemon, his high-school sweetheart, his condition. Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto
marked wedding anniversaries in solitude. Holidays “That’s when the grieving started,” she said. said Mr. Sammartino was one of
were spent in hospital. Over time, the breathing tube was removed and he the city’s greatest ambassadors.
“We tried to include him as best we could,” she seemed to undergo wake and sleep cycles with “Through his uncommon
said. opened eyes. Family members believed he respon- strength and surprising grace he
Ian Douglas Jordan was born in Arcola, a farming ded to voices and such other stimuli as a squeeze of embodied the spirit of Pittsburgh
town in southeast Saskatchewan, on March 5, 1952, to the hand. Mr. Jordan received care at Victoria General on the world stage,” he said.
the former Marion Doris McLeod and Henry Lucius Hospital and Gorge Road Hospital before being “Some of the fondest memories
(Harry) Jordan, an RCMP officer who moved his fam- moved to Glengarry Hospital, an extended-care facil- of my childhood are of sitting in
ily of four sons to postings in Carlyle, Kamsack and ity that would be his final address. the basement with my grandfa-
Regina, Sask.; Markham, Ont.; Ottawa, and Vancouv- For years, a police scanner squawked in his room, ther on Saturday mornings and
er. a tribute from fellow officers to a well-regarded com- watching Bruno wrestle.”
A peripatetic childhood ended when the family rade.
settled in Victoria. As a teenager, Mr. Jordan got a Mr. Jordan leaves Hilary Jordan, of Victoria, his ASSOCIATED PRESS
summer job working on an RCMP boat and later got a wife of 45 years, and a son, Mark Jordan, of Edmon-
civilian job handling explosives for the Canadian ton, a criminal-defence lawyer. He also leaves an ol-
Forces at the Rocky Point Ammunition Depot, west der brother, Patrick Jordan, of Vancouver.
of the city. He enrolled in political science at the Uni- Mr. Jordan’s name will now be added to the B.C.
versity of Victoria, completing his degree in two years Law Enforcement Memorial on the grounds of the
as a mature student. He then earned a law degree at B.C. Legislature.
the university, graduating in 1983. In Victoria, the flag at City Hall was lowered to
He was sworn into the Victoria Police Department half-mast on news of the death. On Thursday after-
on Oct. 22, 1984, joining Canada’s oldest police force noon at Christ Church Cathedral, the police will hold
west of the Great Lakes. The young officer, who a formal funeral with military-style honours for the
planned on a future career in foreign service, kept fallen officer, a final public ritual to mark a life, as
scrapbooks of his cases, including some plainclothes well as a death, interrupted for more than three dec-
assignments during which he adopted an atypically ades.

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