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Assisted death allows

couple of 73 years
to die together
The case of George and Shirley Brickenden raises questions about whether the
eligibility criteria in Canada’s assisted-dying law are being interpreted too broadly

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Changes to domestic
violence law send
‘profound signal’
MOLLY HAYES

Lawyers and academics are lauding new federal leg-

islation on domestic abuse that they say will streng-
then the courts’ definition and treatment of intim-
ate partner violence.
These changes − including broader parameters
around domestic violence, a higher threshold for
bail and increased sentences for repeat offenders −
come as part of Bill C-75, unveiled in Parliament last
week with the overarching goal of speeding up Cana-
da’s chronically backlogged courts.
University of Ottawa law professor Elizabeth
Sheehy says the new approach to domestic violence
“has the potential to enhance the safety of victims
and to increase their trust in the criminal-justice sys-
tem.”
In bail court, for example, a reverse onus would be
put on repeat abusers to prove why they should be
released − rather than on the Crown to make a case
for keeping them locked up.
Prof. Sheehy said re-
search has shown that
domestic-violence of-
fenders present a high
risk of breaching bail The reform …
conditions.
“The reform thus re- reflects what we
flects what we know know about this
about this group of of- group of offenders.
fenders and does not
prohibit bail, but rather ELIZABETH SHEEHY
raises the bar and de- LAW PROFESSOR,
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
mands a searching in-
quiry into the risk pre-
sented to a domestic partner by the accused person,” George and Shirley Brickenden stand in their Toronto apartment on March 22. George, 95, and Shirley, 94, told The Globe
she said. and Mail what it meant to them to die together at a time and place of their choosing. FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Another significant proposal is to modernize the
language of the Criminal Code. KELLY GRANT “I said, ‘I haven’t got time for her days later – knowing that less than
The more inclusive “intimate partner” would re- for a few days because I’ve got a few a week after the interview, they
place “spouse” and “common-law partner,” and the dates.’” would be dead.
definition would be broadened to include past part- hen George and Shirley Three of the couple’s four chil- On March 27, George and Shirley
ners − changes that Peter Jaffe, a University of West-
ern Ontario education professor and director of the
Centre for Research and Education on Violence
W Brickenden tell the story of
how they met, it’s like
watching a charming little play un-
dren, sitting nearby, groaned and
laughed. They had heard this be-
fore.
died holding hands in their own
bed in a Toronto retirement home.
Their children, who watched
against Women & Children, praises as a long-over- fold – one the couple might have Mrs. Brickenden, 94, interjected. from the foot of the bed, say the
due acknowledgement of dating violence. workshopped for seven decades. “I was engaged to somebody else!” couple drew their last breaths at al-
According to Statistics Canada, between 2005 and It was Christmas in Halifax, 1944. “He’s always saying that he had most the same moment.
2011, more than half (54 per cent) of all domestic-vio- He was in the Navy and she was in to break his dates and he never They had been married for just
lence court cases involved violence between dating the Air Force. Mr. Brickenden’s mentions that I already had a ring.” shy of 73 years.
partners. Spousal violence accounted for 46 per cent. mother had tried to set them up The Brickendens were reminis- The Brickendens are one of the
ABUSE, A5 earlier, but the timing didn’t pan cing in a recent interview with The few couples in Canada to receive a
out. Globe and Mail about their first date doctor-assisted death together, and
Mr. Brickenden, 95, grinned as he – a fairy-tale evening that led Mr. the first to speak about it publicly.
explained why. Brickenden to propose marriage six ASSISTED DYING, A8

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with disproportionate force by trig- an Union have called for an inde-
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over what happened, and why. nities. The toll would have been raeli military “did what had to be
The violence has waned in what much higher, Israel says, if the pro- done.”
was the bloodiest day in Gaza since testers had managed to break He added, “I think that all of our
BASEBALL the war of 2014, but both sides have through the security barrier. troops deserve a medal.”
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their actions. fence on Friday. of Turkey described the harsh Israeli
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Trump fuel-rule rollback affects Canada
Ottawa must now
weigh choice between
environmental and
economic effects
SHAWN McCARTHY
The Trump administration’s
move to roll back vehicle mile-
age standards threatens a key
component of the Liberal gov-
ernment’s climate strategy, and
would reduce the need for car
makers to sell electric vehicles in
North America.
Canada and the United States
jointly adopted regulations in
2014 that would dramatically in-
crease average fuel efficiency of
vehicles sold between 2022 and
2025, significantly reducing
greenhouse gas emissions from
cars and light trucks.
Now, the Trump administra-
tion has signalled its intent to
ease those standards as a result
of a review that looked at wheth-
er the regulations are appropri-
ate given current market condi-
tions. That review period expired
Sunday and the administration
has indicated it will set new
rules, a process that could take
months, if not years.
However, Environmental Pro-
tection Agency administrator
Scott Pruitt faces a fight from
California, which has the right to
set its own emissions standards
and is vowing to stick with the
tougher rules. Mr. Pruitt is ex-
pected to announce the results
of the EPA’s review and a new
standard-setting exercise this
week.
If Washington and California
can’t agree, Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau would be forced to
choose sides between looser U.S.
federal regulations, which indus-
try is demanding, and the stric-
ter state standards that would
help Canada achieve its green-
Quebec man paralyzed in mosque shooting thankful for support
MONTREAL
A man who lost the use of his
legs in last year’s Quebec City
mosque shooting is thanking
Canadians for the support
they’ve shown him in recent
months.
Aymen Derbali received the
$400,000 that was raised to buy
him a wheelchair-accessible
home in a ceremony at the
mosque on Saturday.
Mr. Derbali was paralyzed
from the waist down when a
shooter opened fire in the
mosque on Jan. 29, 2017, killing
six.
The Muslim-Canadian non-
profit DawaNet says it received
donations from more than 4,800
donors in 40 countries after it
launched an online fundraiser
for Mr. Derbali in December.
Mr. Derbali is currently living
in a rehabilitation centre, but
has said he hopes to move out by
this summer.
In a statement, he says the
thought of playing with his three
children in his new house gives
him the strength to heal.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Liberals can’t spend on infrastructure fast enough – and that’s becoming a problem
CAMPBELL
CLARK
OPINION
OTTAWA
he Liberals can’t spend
T money fast enough.
No, really. Justin Tru-
deau’s government hasn’t been
able to pump out infrastructure
projects at the rate it promised.
That’s bad for the public and bad
for the economy. It’s especially
bad politics for the Liberal Party
of Canada.
The fact that the Liberals can’t
get the infrastructure projects
going at the speed they prom-
ised is a symbol for disappoint-
ment with Mr. Trudeau’s govern-
ment. It seems to have lost the
plot on the nitty-gritty matters
that affect people’s lives.
So when Parliamentary Bud-
get Officer Jean-Denis Fréchette
reported last week that the Lib-
erals have only identified pro-
jects for half of the money in
Phase 1 of their infrastructure
program − $7.2-billion out of
$14.4-billion − that signalled a
Transportation accounts for 24 per cent of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions, with most of that coming from
light trucks and passenger vehicles, such as these in West Vancouver, B.C. RAFAL GERSZAK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
house gas emission targets in
2030. Several states − including
New York and Pennsylvania −
have allied themselves with Cali-
fornia.
Environment Minister Cathe-
rine McKenna insists the Liberal
government has a plan for Cana-
da to meet its target to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by 30
per cent from 2005 levels by
2030. Reducing gasoline con-
sumption over the next 12 years
is a big part of that effort.
“Improving the fuel efficiency
of our vehicles cuts pollution
and saves drivers money,” Ms.
McKenna’s press secretary, Car-
oline Thériault, said Sunday.
“We are paying close attention
to the U.S. mid-term review of
In a ceremony held on Saturday at the Quebec City mosque where he was shot last year, Aymen Derbali, centre, receives the $400,000 that was
raised through an online fundraiser organized by Muslim-Canadian non-profit DawaNet to buy him a wheelchair-accessible home. DAWANET
failure.
This could be a huge sleeper
issue for Mr. Trudeau’s Liberals.
For the Conservatives and the
NDP, it literally provides con-
crete examples of the gap be-
tween Liberal election promises
and reality.
Infrastructure was Mr. Tru-
deau’s central election promise.
He attacked then-PM Stephen
Harper for failing to do anything
to get the economy rolling. And
he promised to run small defi-
cits, of no more than $10-billion
a year for two years, to fund sub-
stantial infrastructure invest-
ments.
It worked on many levels. In-
frastructure spending is a moth-
erhood and apple pie issue that
all parties support. Ordinary
Canadians understand the sense
of spending on long-term assets
that make the daily lives of their
communities better, such as
wastewater projects and public
transit.
And promising more spend-
ing on infrastructure meant the
Liberals could promise environ-
mental or quality-of-life im-
provements, because a public-
transit project could reduce
vehicle fuel-efficiency stan-
dards,” she said. “Any decisions
regarding vehicle regulatory
changes will be informed by our
own midterm evaluation and by
careful considerations of envi-
ronmental and economic im-
pacts.”
Under the 2014 regulations,
auto makers are required to
roughly double the average fuel
economy of the vehicles they sell
by 2025, to 54.5 miles per gallon
(mpg) in the U.S. or the equiv-
alent of 5.2 litres per 100 kilo-
metres in Canada.
The Detroit-based industry be-
gan lobbying President Donald
Trump soon after he took office
last year to ease those rules, say-
ing they would be virtually im-
emissions and get folks out of
traffic jams.
Above all, it gave the Liberals
an economic plan that promised
to deliver, quickly pumping
money into the economy in the
first two years of their mandate.
But Mr. Fréchette’s report
notes that didn’t happen. Delays
in organizing the infrastructure
programs and their projects
made the Liberals push back the
funding.
The fact that the Liberals
can’t get the
infrastructure projects
going at the speed they
promised is a symbol for
disappointment with Mr.
Trudeau’s government.
The Liberal platform prom-
ised $10-billion in infrastructure
spending for the 2016-17 and
2017-18 fiscal years, and increased
it to $11.3-billion in Finance Min-
ister Bill Morneau’s first budget.
His latest budget reports only
$6.6-billion was spent in those
two years, and the PBO report
possible to achieve as consumers
continue to prefer trucks, SUVs
and crossovers to fuel-sipping se-
dans, hybrids or electric vehicles.
“It’s in Canadians’ best inter-
est that the federal government
join California and the dozen
other states that intend to keep
the fuel efficiency standards as
they are, as the auto sector had
agreed to before Trump assumed
office,” said Dan Woynillowicz,
policy director for the Vancouv-
er-based advocacy group Clean
Energy Canada.
“Failing to do so means that
Canadian drivers won’t benefit
from the estimated $900 per
year in fuel cost savings, and car-
bon pollution will be significant-
ly higher than it needs to be,” Mr.
says it was probably a little less.
The government argues the
same amount will be spent in
the long run, but Mr. Fréchette’s
report notes the short-term stim-
ulus effect on the economy was
far weaker than promised.
The Liberals have accelerated
infrastructure spending, but not
enough to have a real impact.
The government also argues
the PBO’s claim that the govern-
ment has only identified projects
for half the money might not be
accurate: Local work often starts
because Ottawa gets a bill and
the records government depart-
ments gave to the PBO might not
be complete.
How’s that for a good political
comeback: We really don’t know
how many billions we have
spent on our central election
promise, and we can’t really de-
tail where all the money went.
That alone is a sign that this gov-
ernment has let this priority slip.
Conservative MP Michael
Chong, the party’s infrastructure
critic, observed that the Liberals
said they’d run small, short-term
deficits so they could fund his-
toric investments in infrastruc-
ture.
NEWS | A3
Woynillowicz said Sunday. “The
technology exists, the costs to
car companies are reasonable,
and the benefits are clear.”
In an analysis of the regulato-
ry impact, released in 2014, Envi-
ronment Canada said the new
rules could add $1,829 to the cost
of a new car by 2025, but the con-
sumer would save $900 in fuel
costs.
Transportation accounts for
24 per cent of Canada’s green-
house gas emissions, with most
of that coming from passenger
vehicles and light trucks.
As it implements its 2016 fed-
eral-provincial agreement on cli-
mate change, Ottawa is looking
at a number of measures to re-
duce emissions from transporta-
tion, including support for elec-
tric-vehicle sales and clean-fuel
standards. The new measures
will be building on existing regu-
lations, including the planned
higher fuel-efficiency standards,
the government has said.
The regulations passed in 2014
provide incentives for manufac-
turers to sell hybrids and electric
vehicles in order to lower the av-
erage fuel consumption of the
fleet of vehicles they sell.
Manufacturers are also in
something of a bind. While they
have argued for a relaxation of
the fuel efficiency regulations,
they worry that they will be
faced with two sets of rules: one
governing California and the
states that follow its approach,
and another set by Washington.
Auto makers would face high-
er costs if they had to manage
fuel economy by each individual
state, Toyota Motor Corp.’s North
American head, Jim Lentz, said
last week in New York.
The average fuel efficiency of
new cars sold in the United
States fell by 0.5 mpg between its
high point in August, 2014, and
December, 2017, the University of
Michigan’s Transportation Re-
search Institute says.
“They’re not doing that at all.
They’re not only running much
bigger deficits, they’re not
spending it on infrastructure;
they’re spending it on non-es-
sential items.”
The Liberals, clearly, have
made the calculation that their
voters won’t punish them for
running bigger deficits than
promised. But the other part of
Mr. Chong’s criticism − that the
Liberals spend on non-essential
things – may be more telling. It
makes the Liberals vulnerable to
attack from the centre. Voters of
all stripes like infrastructure
spending, but the money is go-
ing elsewhere.
That sort of thing probably re-
flects the disappointment the
Liberals are facing from folks
who supported them back in
2015. Those erstwhile Liberal sup-
porters like many of the things
Mr. Trudeau has done, but some
of them probably feel he’s lost
touch with managing the nitty-
gritty things that affect their dai-
ly lives.
The PBO’s report on infras-
tructure is the kind of example
their opponents can cite, over
and over, till election day.
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Trump says DACA deal
is off, NAFTA in peril
U.S. President tweets
that the U.S.-Mexico
border is becoming
more dangerous
VALERIE VOLCOVICI WASHINGTON
DELPHINE SCHRANK
IXTEPEC, MEXICO
U.S. President Donald Trump
said on Sunday that there will be
no deal on legalizing the status
on young adult immigrants
known as “Dreamers,” declaring
on Twitter that the U.S.-Mexico
border is becoming more dan-
gerous.
After tweeting a “Happy East-
er” message, Mr. Trump followed
with: “Border Patrol Agents are
not allowed to properly do their
job at the Border because of ri-
diculous liberal (Democrat) laws
like Catch & Release. Getting
more dangerous. ‘Caravans’ com-
ing. Republicans must go to Nu-
clear Option to pass tough laws
NOW. NO MORE DACA DEAL!”
He also threatened to kill the
North American free-trade agree-
ment, which is currently being
renegotiated with Mexico and
Canada.
DACA (Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals) is the pro-
gram created in 2012 under for-
mer president Barack Obama
that Mr. Trump sought to rescind
last fall. Designed for individuals
brought to the United States as
children by parents who were
undocumented immigrants, the
program shielded the individu-
als from deportation and gave
them work permits.
Mr. Trump had said he was
How judges use ‘hypotheticals’
to strike down mandatory minimums
SEAN FINE
JUSTICE WRITER
e was 20 years old, and af-
H ter chatting up a 13-year-
old girl on Facebook – she
had randomly typed “Mike” into
Facebook, just for fun – had sex
with her in a transit-station
washroom. Caught in the act, Mi-
chael Alexander Ford of Edmon-
ton was facing a mandatory min-
imum sentence of one year in jail
for sexual interference.
But the judge struck down the
obligatory sentence as “cruel and
unusual punishment” under the
Charter of Rights. It was “grossly
disproportionate,” she said, not
for Mr. Ford but for a “reasonable
hypothetical” offender: someone
who had survived a brain tu-
mour that left him incapable of
learning from his mistakes. That
is, an imaginary person.
It’s a little-known aspect of
how cruel-and-unusual puni-
shment cases work in Canada. A
judge must look first at whether
the obligatory sentence, when
matched to the offender, would
be so extreme as to outrage Can-
adians. If the judge decides it is
not that extreme (it can be harsh
or disproportionate and still pass
muster), the judge then must
look at how the sentence would
fit a reasonable hypothetical of-
fender. This offender could be
drawn from cases in other juris-
dictions or be completely made-
up, as long as the judge deems
her creation “reasonable.” If the
judge rules the mandatory mini-
mum grossly disproportionate
and therefore constitutionally in-
valid for the hypothetical offend-
er, the judge may then sentence
the actual offender as if the mini-
mum does not exist.
In Mr. Ford’s case, Justice
Joanne Veit of the Court of
Queen’s Bench could give him a
sentence she considered fair,
once the minimum was off the
table.
Much like the hypothetical of-
fender, Mr. Ford had survived a
brain tumour at 14; and while
there was no proof of intellectual
impairment, his social and psy-
chological development had
been arrested at 14 or 15, evidence
showed. Moreover, Justice Veit
said, the relationship between
Mr. Ford and the victim appeared
to be one of “genuine affection.”
“A court must be careful not to
impose a middle-class, Romeo
and Juliet type, expectation on
what a relationship of genuine
affection is for teenagers, espe-
cially street kids,” she wrote.
She gave him six months in
jail.
Immigrants attend a DACA workshop in Stamford, Conn., in January.
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) is a program created in
2012 under former president Barack Obama. JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES
open to brokering a deal with
congressional Democrats who
want to protect DACA in ex-
change for funding to build a
U.S.-Mexico border wall, a fre-
quent campaign trail promise.
He insisted during his run for the
White House that Mexico would
pay for the wall.
Although Mr. Trump threat-
ened a veto last month of an om-
nibus spending bill because it
did not address the fate of
Dreamers and did not fully fund
his border wall, he did sign the
bill.
In the months after Mr. Trump
took office, the number of appre-
hensions of illegal crossers along
the U.S.-Mexico border dropped
dramatically, from more than
42,400 arrests in January, 2017, to
a low of about 15,700 in April, ac-
cording to data from U.S. Cus-
toms and Border Protection.
Since then, the number of arrests
It is not only Mr. Ford who
benefits from her ruling. For the
moment, at least, it appears Al-
berta has no minimum penalty
for sexual interference. A sen-
tence of house arrest is now pos-
sible.
The Ford ruling – being ap-
pealed by the Alberta Crown –
demonstrates why many mini-
mums set by Parliament, espe-
cially during the former Conser-
vative government of Stephen
Harper, have a short shelf life. In
dozens of cases reviewed by The
Globe and Mail in a national da-
tabase search, judges have ruled
these minimums invalid under
the Constitution for guns, drugs
and sex crimes against children.
In a large number of such cases,
they conjured up hypothetical
offenders to explain why.
Even some criminal defence
lawyers find the courts’ use of
reasonable hypotheticals puz-
zling. Usually in Charter of Rights
cases, it’s the context, including
the specific factual circumstanc-
es, that is vital.
Mostly, “the courts have been
pretty adamant that the alleged
unconstitutional effects of a
challenged law need to be dem-
onstrated in evidence,” Toronto
lawyer Matthew Gourlay said in
an e-mail. Still, he believes their
use is justified because mandato-
ry minimums tend to raise sen-
tences not just at the bottom end
but for more serious offences.
The first mandatory mini-
mum to run up against the “cru-
el and unusual punishment”
clause of the Charter (Section 12)
at the Supreme Court of Canada
was in a 1987 drugs case known
as R v. Smith. The federal govern-
ment had set a minimum seven-
year jail sentence for importing
drugs. The offender had import-
ed cocaine. But the court said the
penalty wouldn’t fit a hypotheti-
cal first-time offender who
brought in a single “joint of
grass.”
In other words, it was a bad
law.
“The basic justification runs
like this: the constitutionality of
a sentencing scheme cannot de-
pend on who happens to be
charged and convicted of a given
offence… . the scheme is either
constitutional for everyone who
stands to be punished for violat-
ing the offence in question, or it
is not constitutional at all,” Uni-
versity of Saskatchewan law pro-
fessor Michael Plaxton explained
in an e-mail.
Not everyone accepts the con-
cept. “In the worst case, you
could hypothesize some ridicu-
lous character for whom this
would be a bad penalty,” Grant
has risen and in the first months
of 2018 was above the levels seen
during the Obama administra-
tion.
Mr. Trump is spending the
Easter holiday at his Mar-a-Lago
resort in Palm Beach, Fla.
“Mexico has got to help us at
the border,” the President told
reporters on his way into an East-
er church service. “A lot of peo-
ple are coming in because they
want to take advantage of DACA.
They had a great chance. The
Democrats blew it.”
His DACA tweets came shortly
after a report on the Fox News
Channel’s Fox & Friends program,
one of Mr. Trump’s favourites,
that a “caravan” of mostly Hon-
duran migrants was crossing
Mexico and headed to the United
States, “either illegally or by ask-
ing for asylum.”
REUTERS
Huscroft, now an Ontario appeal
court judge, said on TVOntario’s
The Agenda, before the Conserva-
tives appointed him a judge
three years ago.
Mr. Harper’s government es-
tablished or increased mini-
mums for 60 offences, largely
those dealing with guns or drugs
or sex crimes against children.
Its position: Judges couldn’t
be trusted to hold offenders ac-
countable. Their discretion had
to be limited. Parliament’s role is
to set sentencing parameters,
and preserve public confidence.
What happened with the
mandatory minimums was a
kind of sequel to a judicial rebel-
lion over a victim surcharge.
When the Conservatives made a
financial penalty for offenders
mandatory in 2013, lower-court
judges openly sidestepped the
penalty when impoverished of-
fenders were before them – giv-
ing as much as 99 years to pay, or
setting the penalty at $1.50.
With the mandatory mini-
mums, the Supreme Court set
the tone. In 2015 and again in
2016, the top court struck down
mandatory minimums in illegal-
gun-possession and drug-traf-
ficking cases, using reasonable
hypotheticals.
“The reality is this: mandatory
minimum sentence provisions
that apply to offences that can be
committed in various ways, un-
der a broad array of circumstanc-
es and by a wide range of people
are constitutionally vulnerable,”
the chief justice Beverley McLa-
chlin wrote for a majority in R v.
Lloyd in 2016. “This is because
such provisions will almost inev-
itably include an acceptable rea-
sonable hypothetical for which
the mandatory minimum will be
found unconstitutional.”
The result: Lower-court judges
have cover to strike down the
minimums and regain their dis-
cretion. But the Crown is fighting
back. It is trying to argue that hy-
potheticals such as the one used
by Justice Veit are undermining
what Parliament tried to do in
protecting children. In its court
filing at the Alberta Court of Ap-
peal, it said Justice Veit had
blamed the victim by attributing
to her a “de facto consent” not
recognized in the law.
In sexual interference – sexual
contact between an adult and a
person under 16, the age of con-
sent – there is no such thing as
“low culpability or small offend-
ers,” the Alberta Crown argued.
It demanded 3½ years in a
federal penitentiary for Mr. Ford,
plus an additional six months for
a breach of a court order to keep
the peace.
O THE GLOBE AND MAIL . | MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2018
Zuckerberg’s hearing will be
part theatre, part prosecution
DAVID SHRIBMAN
OPINION
he congressional hearing − lawmakers leaning pur-
T posefully into microphones, witnesses roasting in
big leather chairs, a gaggle of reporters crowded
around a cherrywood table, lobbyists filling the
small chamber or pacing the marble floors outside the doors
− is a peculiarly American political institution. But few con-
gressional hearings in U.S. history will be as peculiar as the
confrontation between the United States Congress and Face-
book CEO Mark Zuckerberg that is likely to occur before long.
Mr. Zuckerberg, who is 33 years old and the personification
of 21st-century high-tech promise and threat, will be in the
spotlight in Congress, which is 229 years old and the living
but beleaguered legacy of 18th-century idealism and reform.
And in that setting, men and women with almost no techno-
logical sophistication will question a man whose tech vision
reshaped the way Americans, and the world, communicate,
share information and organize knowledge.
Given the gravitational pull of Washington and the furor
over Facebook and privacy, Mr. Zuckerberg will find it hard to
avoid the call from lawmakers to testify in a congressional
hearing. That appearance will be part spectacle, part theatre,
part seminar, part prosecution. The Facebook pioneer will be
respectful, the lawmakers relentless. The television cameras
will whir, the social-media messages will fly. In one celebrat-
ed 1991 Senate hearing, Supreme Court nominee Clarence
Thomas complained he was the victim of a “high-tech lynch-
ing.” The Zuckerberg hearing instead will be an assault on a
high-tech trailblazer.
Politics has always reflected the latest technology yet sel-
dom has it put that technology on trial. That’s part of the
fascination with this confrontation. But the high-tech hear-
ings prompted by the revelations that Facebook users’ per-
sonal information was used for manipulative political pur-
poses by Cambridge Analytica are part of a tradition of high-
stakes, high-drama and high-profile hearings that have
shaped American history.
“Oversight is one of our jobs, and I don’t think we do
enough of it,” said Republican Senator Rob Portman of Ohio,
who as chairman of the permanent subcommittee on inves-
tigations conducts these kinds of hearings but who as the
chief American trade negotiator in the George H. W. Bush
years often appeared before congressional hearings. “It’s
necessary for us to hold hearings to be able to legislate − and
we need to do more of them so we can have a substantive
basis for legislating on the Internet in general and on Face-
book in particular. These are not events to bring celebrities
before us, but to unearth information and shape our work.”
Over the years, congressional hearings have grown in im-
portance and impact. They put the spotlight on the safety of
automobiles and cigarettes. They shook the presidential ad-
ministrations of Richard Nixon (over Watergate), Ronald Re-
agan (over the Iran-Contra affair) and Bill Clinton (over his
conduct with a White House intern). And in the first tele-
vised hearings in history, they brought the political demise of
a senator (Joseph McCarthy) and ended the red-baiting stain
he placed on postwar America (McCarthyism).
During the Korean War, lawmakers used congressional
hearings such as the ones Mr. Zuckerberg and his high-tech
CEO colleagues face to excoriate
steel-company executives for ex-
cess profits and stingy payrolls The Facebook
during a national crisis.
“The steel executives were un- pioneer will be
willing to give unionized workers respectful, the
fair pay, but at the same time lawmakers
were extracting as much money
as possible because we needed
relentless. The
the steel during the war,” said television cameras
Ken Gormley, the Duquesne Uni- will whir, the
versity president who is regarded social-media
as an expert on the controversy. messages will fly.
“Congress was trying to help re-
solve a national dispute.”
During the energy crisis a half-century ago, the Senate
commerce committee summoned the chiefs of Ford, General
Motors and Chrysler to explain why they hadn’t boosted gas-
oline efficiency in their automobiles only to hear Senator Er-
nest Hollings, the blunt Democrat from South Carolina, tell
them he didn’t believe they would ever voluntarily increase
fuel efficiency. Congress eventually passed minimum fuel-
economy standards that were signed into law by a president
from the auto-producing state of Michigan, Gerald Ford.
But the most famous auto-related hearings occurred a
decade earlier just after Ralph Nader published his Unsafe at
Any Speed, a book that carried the devastating subtitle of The
Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile and took spe-
cial aim at the dangers of the Corvair, a sporty Chevrolet pop-
ular at the time. The hearings, which prompted the GM presi-
dent to apologize to Mr. Nader, led to new safety laws and the
requirement that cars carry seat belts.
The lessons from these episodes are clear and very simple
for Mr. Zuckerberg: Be clear. Be concise. Be honest. Be con-
ventionally dressed (no grey T-shirt for this appearance).
And above all: Be respectful, even reverential, of the tradi-
tion of congressional hearings, of the prerogatives of law-
makers and of the high purpose of these sessions.
“Congressional hearings are used not only to keep govern-
ment honest,” said L. Sandy Maisel, a political scientist at
Colby College in Waterville, Maine. ‘’They’re used also to
keep private citizens and business honest.” For that reason,
cigarette-company executives have been repeated witnesses
in these sessions, often receiving hostile receptions. The to-
bacco proceedings in April, 1994, opened in an ominous tone
for these business leaders, with Democratic Representative
Henry Waxman of California, chairman of a House of Repre-
sentatives health subcommittee, warning the executives:
“This hearing marks the beginning of a new relationship be-
tween Congress and the tobacco companies. The old rules
are out, the standards that apply to every other company are
in. We look forward to hearing the testimony this morning,
and to working with these companies to begin to reduce the
extraordinary public-health threat that tobacco poses.”
In those hearings, Mr. Waxman, known as an especially
imaginative and aggressive interrogator, asked the chairman
of Lorillard Tobacco Co. whether he believed his product
caused cancer. “I do not believe that,” answered Andrew
Tisch, who in the next exchange was asked if he felt that he
was in that belief isolated from the scientific consensus. Mr.
Tisch’s answer: “I do, sir.”
Soon Mr. Zuckerberg will join the congressional hearing
hot seats that were once occupied by the six other tobacco
executives who defended their industry in that 1994 hearing,
by countless telecommunications officials explaining their
anti-competitiveness activities, and by Martin Shkreli, the
Turing Pharmaceuticals executive who presided over a
5,000-per-cent increase in the price of Daraprim, an anti-par-
asitic sometimes prescribed to patients suffering from AIDS.
Mr. Shkreli chose a year ago to invoke his right to remain
silent. Besieged by privacy advocates and consumers alike,
Mr. Zuckerberg almost certainly will not be able to do the
same.
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Abuse: Justice
reform ‘only
part of the fix,’
professor says
FROM A1
The violence in almost one quar-
ter of cases occurred after a
breakup.
“There has been a tendency to
minimize [dating] violence in
the past, because people aren’t
cohabiting − they’re not trapped
by mortgage payments and chil-
dren and locks on the door,” Prof.
Jaffe said.
The update sends a “profound
signal” that these are equally se-
rious crimes.
The bill also proposes increas-
ing the maximum penalty for re-
peat domestic abusers, and
would clarify that sentencing
provisions aimed at making in-
timate-partner violence an ag-
gravating factor applies to both
current and former partners.
Toronto defence lawyer Frank
Addario, speaking for the Crimi-
nal Lawyers’ Association, said
Sunday that the legislation pro-
poses a “partial solution to the
pervasive, persistent social prob-
lem that is intimate-partner vio-
lence.”
They are progressive recom-
mendations, he said − but in
some ways are just “codifying”
what’s already happening in
most courts across the country.
“Judges are already doing
most of the things that the gov-
ernment is attempting to legisla-
te,” Mr. Addario said.
This includes, he said, the pro-
posal to recognize strangulation
as an elevated assault, alongside
assault with a weapon and as-
sault causing bodily harm.
While Mr. Addario says stran-
gulation is already seen as a seri-
ous form of violence, the on-pa-
per change “is a signal that Par-
liament regards it more serious-
ly.”
The bill also proposes
increasing the maximum
penalty for repeat
domestic abusers.
Prof. Sheehy hopes the official
amendment would mean that
prosecutors “will not have to
prove that strangulation caused
bodily harm in order to secure a
conviction that reflects the seri-
ousness of such an assault, which
is difficult because the injury
from strangulation is often not
apparent.”
Prof. Jaffe said strangulation is
a risk factor for escalating vio-
lence − citing a 2008 study out of
the United States that found
women who are victims of chok-
ing as a form of violence are four
times more likely to be killed.
Research has shown that
many femicide cases are the re-
sult of escalating, long-term vio-
lence, with the vast majority be-
ing “predictable and preventa-
ble,” Prof. Jaffe said.
Between 2003 and 2016, Onta-
rio’s Domestic Violence Death
Review Committee reviewed 289
domestic-homicide cases (in-
cluding 410 deaths).
Almost three quarters of cases
involved a couple with a past his-
tory of violence.
“The criminal-justice system is
only part of the fix,” Prof. Jaffe
cautioned. “The criminal-justice
system is only as effective as the
community in which it is embed-
ded. It still depends on friends
and family and co-workers and
mental-health and social-service
agencies to provide part of an
overall community response.”
It is a sentiment that others
echo.
“Criminal-law reform alone
cannot protect women − it is too
little, too late,” Prof. Sheehy said.
“We need police and parole offi-
cers who take this form of vio-
lence seriously and enforce the
criminal law we already have. We
need family lawyers and courts
who are prepared to ‘see’ and re-
spond to this violence in their
custody and access decisions.”
She also hopes to see more in-
vestments in counselling and
support services − ”as well as in
women’s social, economic and
political equality, in order to
make a dent in the structural in-
equalities that keep women from
safe exit and freedom from vio-
lence.”
Mr. Addario sees the legisla-
tion as “the punishment piece,
not the prevention piece.”
He hopes that will follow.
“There is a constant desire to
trick people into thinking the big
stick of punishment will solve so-
cial problems,” he said. “It
doesn’t.”
WITH A REPORT FROM
THE CANADIAN PRESS
China puts tariffs on 128 U.S. products
in response to steel, aluminum duties
BEIJING
China has slapped extra tariffs of up to 25
per cent on 128 U.S. products, including fro-
zen pork, as well as on wine and certain
fruits and nuts, in response to U.S. duties
on imports of aluminum and steel, China’s
finance ministry said.
The tariffs, to take effect on Monday,
was released late on Sunday and matches a
list of potential tariffs on up to US$3-bil-
lion in U.S. goods published by China on
March 23.
China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOF-
COM) said it was suspending its obliga-
tions to the World Trade Organization
(WTO) to reduce tariffs on 120 U.S. goods,
including fruit. The tariff on the products
Palestinians react to tear gas during clashes at a protest near the Israel-Gaza border on Sunday. MOHAMMED SALEM/REUTERS
Israel: Friday’s protest was the start of a planned six-week
campaign dubbed by Palestinians as the Great Return March
FROM A1
After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
of Israel wrote on Twitter that “the most
moral army in the world will not be
preached to on morality by someone who
for years has indiscriminately bombed a ci-
vilian population,” apparently referring to
Ankara’s battle against the Kurds, Mr. Er-
dogan called the Israeli leader a “terrorist.”
Friday’s protest was the start of a six-
week campaign dubbed the Great Return
March. The organizers said it was intended
to raise international awareness of the
long-standing blockade of the isolated and
impoverished coastal enclave, imposed by
Israel and Egypt, and to support the Pales-
tinian demand to return to homes lost in
1948, in what is now Israel.
The Israeli mainstream has largely
backed the army, though there has been
criticism.
“I categorize what happened as a fail-
ure,” said Shlomo Brom, a retired briga-
dier-general now at Israel’s Institute for
National Security Studies. “The Palestinian
aim was to raise international conscious-
ness, and to put the Palestinian issue back
on the international and Israeli agenda. It
succeeded.”
While the military probably also decid-
ed to use lethal force as a deterrent, Mr.
Brom said, “In my opinion they should
have planned from the beginning to use
minimal force and to prevent casualties.”
Mkhaimar Abusada, a professor of polit-
ical science at Al-Azhar University in Gaza,
said that from what he had heard there was
no plan to cross the border. “It was a mass
Palestinian nonviolent protest against Is-
rael, and to approach the border area,” he
said. “But when you have large crowds you
cannot control – so yes, some tried to infil-
trate the borders between Gaza and Israel.”
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will be raised to 15 per cent. China warned the United States on
Another eight products, including pork, Thursday not to open a Pandora’s box and
will now be subject to tariffs of 25 per cent, spark a flurry of protectionist practices
it said, with the measures effective from across the globe.
April 2. In a statement published on Monday
China has imposed the tariffs amid esca- morning, MOFCOM said the United States
lating trade tensions between Beijing and had “seriously violated” the principles of
Washington. non-discrimination enshrined in WTO
U.S. President Donald Trump is prepar- rules, and had also damaged China’s inter-
ing to impose tariffs of more than US$50- ests.
billion on Chinese goods intended to puni- “China’s suspension of some of its obli-
sh Beijing over U.S. accusations that China gations to the United States is its legitimate
systematically misappropriated American right as a member of the World Trade Orga-
intellectual property – allegations Beijing nization,” it said, adding that differences
denies. between the world’s two largest econo-
China has repeatedly promised to open mies should be resolved through dialogue
its economy further, but many foreign and negotiation.
companies continue to complain of unfair
treatment. REUTERS
Ahmed Abu Artema, a Gazan social- tah Abd al-Nabi, 19, is shot in the back as he
media activist who initiated the protest, runs away from the fence carrying a tire; in
said by telephone on Sunday that the idea a second, a woman is shot as she approach-
of returning to the lands lost in 1948 was a es the fence waving a Palestinian flag; in a
“strategic goal” that would “not necessar- third, a man is shot in the leg when he
ily be achieved within a month or a year,” stands up after praying by the fence.
but that the protesters along the borders Israel identified Mr. al-Nabi, who was
would determine the timing. killed, as a Hamas fighter, but Hamas’s mil-
Hamas, which quickly adopted the re- itary wing did not claim him as one of its
turn campaign, played a large role in or- members.
chestrating it. The Islamic group, which is Gaza health officials said an additional
classified by much of the Western world as 800 protesters were injured by live fire.
a terrorist organization, said five of those Brigadier-General Ronen Manelis, the
killed belonged to its mili- chief army spokesman, de-
tary wing, but said they were scribed that as “nonsense” in
participating in the protest an interview on Sunday, say-
“side by side” with their peo- I categorize ing the number of live-fire in-
ple. juries was more likely in the
“Last Friday we stopped at what happened dozens, with the rest hit by
the border,” Ismail Haniya, as a failure. rubber bullets or suffering
the group’s leader, said on the effects of tear gas.
Sunday. “Next time we don’t SHLOMO BROM Brig.-Gen. Manelis said
RETIRED
know where the limit will BRIGADIER-GENERAL that his troops had fired pre-
be.” cisely, and that there was in-
Israeli authorities named eight of those formation that Hamas was planning at-
killed as Hamas fighters or activists and tacks under the cover of the protests, like
said two more belonged to other militant the cross-border shooting. He would not
factions. detail the rules of engagement but said the
The Israeli military produced a video principle was “not to allow the sabotage of
showing what it said was one of the Hamas military infrastructure and not to allow
fighters and an accomplice shooting at Is- any mass crossing of the fence.”
raeli forces across the fence in northern Ga- He said his forces in the field had de-
za before being killed by Israeli tank- and scribed Mr. al-Nabi as one of the most ac-
gunfire. tive participants in rolling burning tires to-
Another army collection of video imag- ward the fence, but said the military would
es showed protesters hurling stones and examine each episode.
firebombs and rolling burning tires at the If the fence had burned and collapsed,
fence, apparently in an effort to set it on Brig.-Gen. Manelis said, the “nightmare
fire. scenario” of a mass influx may have been
On the other side of the divide, videos realized. “How many would have been
circulated widely on social media appear- killed then?” he asked. “We prevented a
ing to show unarmed protesters being shot bloodbath.”
by the Israelis.
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Office startup partners with restaurants
Restaurateurs turn their
dining rooms into
workspaces to garner
ancillary business
NOELLA OVID
he most expensive thing in
T a restaurant is an empty
seat, according to restaura-
teur Erik Joyal. That’s why Mr.
Joyal and co-owner John Sinopoli
are partnering their Gare de l’Est
Brasserie restaurant with Flexday
– a Toronto startup that trans-
forms restaurants into work-
spaces during their downtime.
Mr. Joyal says the rising cost of
food, labour and rent over the
past few years has independent
restaurants under a lot of finan-
cial pressure and makes it hard
for them to survive based on only
regular hours of operation.
Restaurateurs have found an-
cillary business by partnering
with companies such as Uber
EATS, SkipTheDishes and Just Eat
that deliver restaurant food.
The partnerships between res-
taurants and Flexday provide ta-
ble space for people to set up
their laptops and work: freelan-
cers and others who find home is
not a practical option, or are look-
ing for somewhere to have a busi-
ness meeting. Users pay a month-
ly membership fee to Flexday of
$49 for seven days or $95 for un-
limited days. Flexday has some-
one on-site to let them in.
Make Lemonade, Project
Spaces, East Room, Workplace
One and Verkspace are some of
the other membership-based co-
working spaces in Toronto, but
they are not in partnerships with
restaurants.
Flexday founder Justin Ray-
mond said his service has thou-
sands of members and will have
50 locations in the Greater Toron-
to and Hamilton Area by the end
B.C. vows compensation for Woodlands
survivors left out of class-action settlement
AMY SMART VANCOUVER
Speaking from the site where a
notorious school and psychiatric
facility used to stand, one of its
survivors says he finally feels a
festering wound begin to close.
Bill McArthur, who was sent to
Woodlands in New Westminster,
B.C., at the age of 5, is among
hundreds of survivors who had
been left out from official com-
pensation, because a legal loop-
hole excluded them from a 2009
class-action settlement.
That changed on Saturday,
when provincial Health Minister
Adrian Dix announced that all
survivors who lived at the facility
before 1974 – the year that it be-
came legal to sue the provincial
government – will receive
$10,000 in compensation.
“Justice has finally been done,
after so many years of suffering,”
Mr. McArthur said. “It’s finally
brought closure to a festering
sore.”
Woodlands operated from 1878
until 1996, providing care for chil-
dren and adults with develop-
mental disabilities and some in-
dividuals with both developmen-
tal disabilities and mental illness.
Abuse at the facility is well
documented and, in 2002, then-
provincial ombudsperson Dulcie
McCallum confirmed widespread
sexual, physical and psycholog-
ical abuse had occurred.
After a class-action by former
residents was certified, the then-
Liberal government won a ruling
in the B.C. Court of Appeal to ex-
clude former students who lived
at Woodlands prior to Aug. 1, 1974,
from compensation. That was
the date the Crown Proceedings
Act came into effect, making it
legal for citizens to sue the pro-
vincial government.
Mr. McArthur, who had been
the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit
but left Woodlands ten days be-
fore that cutoff date, said the ex-
clusion was one of the most
painful things he has experi-
enced in life.
“Abuse is abuse is abuse. It
doesn’t matter when it hap-
pened,” he said.
Mr. McArthur spoke on Satur-
day in front of plaques com-
memorating dozens of residents
who died at the facility. He re-
called the abuses he both wit-
nessed and experienced at
Woodlands, including rape, beat-
ings and extended periods of iso-
lation.
Children were lined up naked
in a hallway every morning “like
cattle” to use the bathroom, he
Flexday founder Justin Raymond, right, sits at Gare de l’Est Brasserie with the Toronto restaurant’s co-owner Erik Joyal. Mr. Raymond expects to
have 50 Flexday locations in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area by the end of this year. CHRIS DONOVAN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
of this year. The Gare de l’Est Bras-
serie, which is set to start working
with the service on Monday, will
be Flexday’s first in Leslieville.
In exchange for the space, Flex-
day provides its restaurant part-
ners with exposure.
Most of Flexday’s partnering
restaurants are open only for din-
ner and share their spaces when
no one else would be there. But
Gare de l’Est is open all day, and
Mr. Joyal said it will dedicate an
area to Flexday members Mon-
day through Friday while keeping
the rest of the restaurant for regu-
Bill McArthur, left, listens as British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix
speaks at Woodlands Memorial Garden in New Westminster, B.C., on
Saturday. Mr. Dix has announced that survivors who lived at the facility
before 1974 will receive compensation. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
said. If they didn’t move quickly
enough, they were beaten with
brooms or fists to the head. Mr.
McArthur described seeing resi-
dents pulled down hallways by
the hair “like a sack of potatoes,”
or forced to take icy cold showers
for no apparent reason.
“Other residents were deliber-
ately burned with scalding hot
water to the point where their
skin would peel off in strips,” Mr.
McArthur said. “This was deliber-
ate action by the people who
were charged with the responsib-
ility of caring for us in a humane
manner and who failed to do so
egregiously.”
Another resident, Luanne
Bradshaw, said she was some-
times heavily medicated or
locked in a “control room” with
no lights for up to two weeks
over the course of her 12 years at
Woodlands.
“I’m very proud of how far I’ve
come in just being a free person,
living life as I see fit and making
sure that my identity doesn’t get
forgotten,” Ms. Bradshaw said.
Mr. Dix said there are believed
to be between 900 and 1,500 sur-
vivors of Woodlands and the gov-
ernment expects to pay between
$9-million and $15-million.
More than 800 residents were
eligible for compensation follow-
ing the original class-action law-
suit, but it was a long and ardu-
ous process to establish claims
after the fact, Mr. Dix said. The
total amount already distributed
through that process, which is
complete, was between $4-mil-
lion and $5-million.
Recipients of the new com-
pensation, which the province is
lar patrons.
Mr. Joyal believes it could help
drive sales if the guests upgrade
their beverage or order food.
Since Flexday launched in the
King West area in October of 2017,
many businesses have become
more open to allowing employ-
ees to work from where they
want, Mr. Raymond said.
He added that neighbouring
spaces help people who can’t
work at home, which can be too
isolating or too busy.
“People are often distracted by
all of the things that are at home –
offering voluntarily or “ex gra-
tia,” will not have to prove abuse,
he said.
In addition to the pre-1974 resi-
dents, anyone who was eligible
for a settlement as a result of the
class-action lawsuit, but opted
against coming forward for any
reason, will also be eligible for
the $10,000. And anyone who re-
ceived less than $10,000 through
the lawsuit will have their com-
pensation topped up, Mr. Dix
said.
Mr. Dix noted that a significant
number of the pre-1974 residents
have died and their families will
not be eligible for compensation.
The province expects all mon-
ey to be paid out by March 31,
2019.
“Most of the residents of
Woodlands were the province’s
most vulnerable people. Many
were children, some were wheel-
chair bound, some had develop-
mental disabilities, others had
mental illnesses,” Mr. Dix said.
“They were placed in a govern-
ment facility with the under-
standing, for them and their fam-
ilies, that they would be cared
for. That fundamental trust was
severely breached.
“We know, and I know, that no
amount of compensation can
make amends for what people
such as [McArthur] have experi-
enced – the struggle they’ve ex-
perienced and the abuse they
suffered. But it’s important that
we acknowledge what people
went through and help, I hope,
give residents the sense of clo-
sure they deserve.”
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could be family members, could Ms. Lambert said she was used
be chores, could be the television. to working in coffee shops and li-
It’s just not really an environ- braries.
ment that is conducive to focused “I just hated the guilt that I felt
work and actually achieving high about spending $2 on a coffee
levels of productivity,” Mr. Ray- and then just sitting somewhere
mond said. for three to four hours. And also,
Deanna Lambert, a freelance it was just stressful to not know
marketing consultant, uses Flex- that you’re going to get a seat or
day’s workspaces about three to not feel like you can leave your
times a week. stuff while you go to the wash-
She pays for the unlimited room,” she said.
Flexday plan and says it is worth- Ms. Lambert said Flexday has
while because she does not have reduced that stress, and she likes
to buy a drink or snacks to sit having a variety of spaces on of-
there. fer.
Calgary scientists
limit use of rats,
mice in research
BILL GRAVELAND CALGARY
Medical scientists at the University of Calgary have taken
steps to minimize the impact on mice and rats used in their
experiments.
The university’s Cumming School of Medicine is outfitted
with a small MRI that researchers use as they test possible
treatments for cancer, strokes and multiple sclerosis.
“It’s one of the premier ones in Canada,” said Jeff Dunn,
director of the school’s Experimental Imaging Centre.
“Anything under 500 grams fits in there, so mostly rats and
mice. We use those in medical research obviously for preclin-
ical assessment, how the disease progresses and possibly
even more importantly if the treatment is functional.”
The MRI has been in use since 2004. The lab is also
equipped with a blood gas analyzer, so tests can be done us-
ing blood samples taken from the animals in much the same
way they are collected from human patients.
It’s a far cry from when scientists would use rats and mice
and have to dissect them at every test stage.
“It really reduces the use of animals in research because,
for a time-course study of treatment, we don’t have to do a
whole bunch of animals,” Dr. Dunn said.
“You can take a small number and follow them over
months to see how the treatment is working.”
Any research facility receiving government funding is sub-
ject to rules set out by the Canadian Council on Animal Care.
Spokeswoman Sandra MacInnis says the organization
wants to ensure animal-based science in Canada takes place
only when necessary and that the animals receive optimal
care.
“For example, when selecting a research model, they must
first consider all possible alternatives to animal models, such
as computer or cell-culture mod-
els,” she wrote in an e-mail.
The executive director of the
Vancouver-based Animals in Sci-
ence Policy Institute says efforts There’s not any
by the University of Calgary and
others to use the equipment are real basis to think
a matter of debate. they feel pain any
Elisabeth Ormandy, a former less than, say,
researcher, said putting a mouse a dog or a cat.
under an MRI scanner requires
sedation or anesthesia and could JEREMY BECKHAM
be considered a source of distress RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
for an animal since it could hap- WITH PETA
pen several times.
“It depends on our own personal ethics,” Dr. Ormandy
said. “For people who care about that one individual mouse,
that [MRI] might still not be okay.”
But she said some people might argue “it’s better to cause
a little bit more suffering to one mouse instead of moderate
suffering to 10 mice.”
An animal-rights organization said there’s no need to use
animals in tests at all when computer modelling can be just
as useful.
“All things else being equal, certainly hurting and killing
fewer animals is better than hurting and killing more ani-
mals,” said Jeremy Beckham, research associate with People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
But he said that loses the bigger question a little bit.
“There’s not any real basis to think they feel pain any less
than, say, a dog or a cat,” Mr. Beckham said.
“We’ve bred dogs and cats to be our companions, so we’ve
got a little bit more of an emotional attachment to them. But
the ethical issues of using rats and mice are staring us in the
face just as strongly.”
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Pope Francis calls for peace in Easter message

VATICAN CITY
On Christianity’s most joyful day,
Pope Francis called for peace in a
world marked by war and con-
flict, “beginning with the beloved
and long-suffering land of Syria”
and extending to Israel, where 15
Palestinians were killed on the Is-
raeli-Gaza border two days be-
fore Easter Sunday.
Francis reflected on the power
of Christianity’s core belief – that
Jesus rose from the dead follow-
ing crucifixion – in his formal Ur-
bi et Orbi Easter message deliver-
ed from the balcony of St. Peter’s
Basilica to a packed square of
some 80,000 faithful below.
The pontiff said the message
of the resurrection offers hope in
a world “marked by so many acts
of injustice and violence,” includ-
ing parts of Africa affected by
Pope Francis
“hunger, endemic conflicts and
terrorism.”
“It bears fruits of hope and dig-
nity where there are deprivation
and exclusion, hunger and un-
employment; where there are
migrants and refugees, so often
rejected by today’s culture of
waste, and victims of the drug
trade, human trafficking and
contemporary forms of slavery,”
the pope said.
Francis called for a “swift end”
to the seven years of carnage in
Syria, demanding that aid be de-
livered to the war-torn country’s
needy and calling for “fitting con-
ditions for the returned and the
displaced.”
The Pope also urged reconcil-
iation in Israel, a place “experi-
encing in these days the wounds
of ongoing conflict that do not
spare the defenceless.” His re-
marks followed the Friday deaths
of Palestinian protesters who
charged toward Gaza’s border
with Israel, the area’s deadliest
violence in four years.
Turning to Asia, Francis ex-
pressed hope that talks under-
way could bring peace to the Ko-
rean peninsula, urging “those
who are directly responsible act
with wisdom and discernment to
promote the good of the Korean
people.”
The Pope also urged more
steps to bring harmony to divid-
ed Ukraine, called for peace in
South Sudan and the Democratic
Republic of Congo and appealed
for the world not to forget vic-
tims of conflict, especially chil-
dren.
“May there be no lack of soli-
darity with all those forced to
leave their native lands and lack-
ing the bare essentials for living,”
said Francis, who has often
championed the cause of mi-
grants and refugees.
The church’s first pontiff from
Latin America cited in particular
the problems in Venezuela. He
said he hoped the country would
“find a just, peaceful and hu-
mane way to surmount quickly
the political and humanitarian
crises that grip it.”
Earlier, tens of thousands of
faithful underwent heavy securi-
ty checks to enter St. Peter’s
Square to participate in Easter
Sunday Mass celebrated by the
pope, followed by his Urbi et Orbi
message (“to the city and the
world”).
Security precautions included
bag checks and metal-detector
wands for everyone entering the
square, while the main avenue
leading to the Vatican, as well as
smaller adjoining streets, were
closed to traffic.
Francis opened Easter festivi-
ties with a tweet to his global
flock: “Our faith is born on Easter
morning: Jesus is alive! The ex-
perience is at the heart of the
Christian message.”
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Assisted dying:
‘The final articulation of the love that
they’ve had for each other for nearly 73 years’
FROM A1
They wanted to explain what it meant to
them to die at a time and place of their
choosing, as at least 2,149 Canadians and
likely hundreds more have done since as-
sisted dying became legal in this country.
The Brickendens are at the vanguard of
patients and families who are creating
new rituals around dying in Canada – the
kind of rituals that are only possible when
death comes at a previously appointed
hour.
But cases such as theirs also raise un-
comfortable questions about whether the
vague eligibility criteria in Canada’s assist-
ed-dying law are sometimes being inter-
preted more broadly than the govern-
ment intended.
One of the most controversial stipula-
tions in the law is that a patient’s natural
death must be “reasonably foreseeable,” –
something that could plausibly be said of
every nonagenarian. The law dictates oth-
er requirements, including intolerable suf-
fering and irreversible decline, but those
concepts can be elastic, too.
When I met the Brickendens on March
22, the plans for their predeath parties
were already in full swing. Their conversa-
tions were full of gratitude, gentle teasing
and gallows humour, much of it provided
by Pamela, 71, Saxe, 60, and Angela, 54,
three of the couple’s four children.
The couple’s other son, Dal, 69, was on
his way to Toronto from Vancouver.
Grandchildren and other relatives were
coming home from as far away as Viet-
nam, Norway, Switzerland and Scotland to
say goodbye.
A family reunion was taking shape in
anticipation of the Brickendens “flying
away,” as they had always put it, when
they told their children that they did not
want to linger if their health eventually
failed.
“We witnessed, many years ago, some-
one we loved very much, a family mem-
ber, who lived for several years and turned
from being a magnificent human being
into somebody you couldn’t recognize,
that lay in bed and made noises,” Mrs.
Brickenden said.
“We thought then, ‘Well, I don’t care
what happens when we get to zero. When
we know it’s the end, we’re not going to
do that.’ ”
When the federal government, in re-
sponse to a Supreme Court of Canada de-
cision, passed a law in June, 2016, that per-
mitted medically assisted dying for people
who were suffering intolerably from a
grievous and irremediable condition and
whose deaths were reasonably foreseea-
ble, the Brickendens decided to find out if
they qualified.
Mrs. Brickenden’s body was wracked by
rheumatoid arthritis, an inflammatory
condition that turned her hands into
swollen purple claws.
Her heart was failing. She nearly died
during an operation after she suffered a
heart attack in 2016.
That was enough for two doctors – as
required by the law – to conclude in early
2017 that Mrs. Brickenden was eligible for
an assisted death.
Around the same time, two different
physicians assessed Mr. Brickenden. The
first felt that Mr. Brickenden’s advanced
age and frailty made him a candidate for
an assisted death, but the second dis-
agreed because Mr. Brickenden did not
have a specific underlying illness that
made his death reasonably foreseeable,
the standard set out in the legislation.
The couple had no intention of dying
separately. “Of course I wouldn’t go with-
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out him and they knew I wouldn’t. We had
to wait and wait,” Mrs. Brickenden said.
“Then, miraculously, he started to go
downhill,” she added, laughing.
Mr. Brickenden began fainting. He
passed out repeatedly; his daughter found
him unconscious in the bathroom on the
day of his 95th birthday. His heart was fal-
tering. In the meantime, Mrs. Brickenden
broke her hip in two places, and Mr. Brick-
enden was also in and out of the hospital
with infections and a life-threatening bout
of the flu.
How often, during this period, did they
worry one would die before the other?
“It’s every day,” Mrs. Brickenden said.
Then she paused. “Oh, this is going to
sound so mournful. I’m glad I’m not going
to be here to read it.”
“I’m dying to read it,” Mr. Brickenden
deadpanned.
Making light of things is a natural cop-
ing mechanism for the Brickenden family,
they all agree.
Pamela, Saxe and Angela all remember
raucous laughter floating upstairs from
their parents’ parties at the family’s town-
house in Westmount, the posh Anglo sec-
tion of Montreal where the Brickendens
moved after spending the first years of
their marriage in London, Ont.
They lived in Montreal for 21 years,
through the excitement of Expo 67 and
the terror of the FLQ crisis, before joining
the Anglophone exodus to Toronto in the
early 1980s.
Mr. Brickenden was the co-founder of
an insurance company and an accom-
plished show jumper whose family bred
horses. Mrs. Brickenden was a renowned
artist whose water colours and acrylics
were sold through Montreal galleries and
the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Above all else, George and Shirley were
romantic partners, deeply in love.
“They’ve done everything together,” Saxe
said. “If Mom goes shopping for stockings,
Dad’s with her. Being that they’re kind of
one entity and they support each other so
thoroughly, [dying together] seems only
fitting.”
As certain as they are about their
choice, the Brickendens decided not to
tell most of their friends or their neigh-
bours at the retirement home, people
they cherish.
“Many of our friends have flown away
already,” Mrs. Brickenden said, “and the
The Brickendens spent
the first years of their
marriage in London, Ont.,
before moving to
Montreal. They lived
there for 21 years,
through the excitement
of Expo 67 and the terror
of the FLQ crisis, before
joining the Anglophone
exodus to Toronto
in the early 1980s.
Humour was always a
key part of the family.
| MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2018
George and Shirley Brickenden
are seen at their wedding in 1945.
The couple had met in Halifax the
year before – he was in the Navy
and she was in the Air Force.
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ones that are left are very precious. It’s
very, very hard not to tell them. But you
have to make a rule. You’re either going to
tell quite a few people or you can’t tell.”
How does it feel to know they only have
five days left on Earth?
“Well, I’m startled,” Mrs. Brickenden
said, turning to her husband. “How does it
feel to you, darling?”
“Good,” he said, provoking another
burst of laughter from his children.
“What I’m surprised at is there’s no fear
involved at all,” Mrs. Brickenden said.
As I left my interview with the Bricken-
dens I couldn’t help feeling slightly per-
plexed by their decision to die now.
They still appeared sharp, vibrant and
elegant. He wore a dress shirt and tie with
a sweater knotted over his shoulders like a
prep-school student. She wore a simple
black turtleneck and lipstick, her nails
freshly manicured.
They seemed so happy in the company
of their children, who were taking full ad-
vantage of the time they had left to thank
their parents for a lifetime of joy. (”I’ve
never heard so many kind words,” Mrs.
Brickenden joked. “Perhaps we should
stay.”)
Two days later, Mrs. Brickenden called
me at home. She had been up all night,
unable to sleep through rheumatoid ar-
thritis pain that was like “some kind of
awful animal” gnawing at her joints.
“As I was awake, I was thinking, ‘Oh
gosh, I’m so miserable,’ ” she told me.
“And I guess we really didn’t put that
across to the paper because we tried to
pull ourselves together, stupidly. In our
family, we always protect ourselves, un-
fortunately, by trying to make a joke of
things. And I just felt it was an unfair pic-
ture of what we’re dealing with. I don’t
like being quoted nagging and complain-
ing. It’s just totally against how I was
brought up. I thought I would like to
check in and tell you we did sort of gloss
over the situation and it was a stupid
thing to do.”
The doctor who first assessed Mr. Brick-
enden for his eligibility in January, 2017 –
the same doctor who would ultimately in-
ject the lethal medications on the evening
of his death – said that kind of stoicism
and the fact that Mr. Brickenden still
looked good at the time of his appoint-
ment may have played a role in his being
turned down for an assisted death the first
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time.
More than a year later, after Mr. Brick-
enden’s fainting and heart problems sur-
faced, a different, second doctor assessed
Mr. Brickenden and found him eligible.
The first doctor, who asked that his
name not be used because his family is
religious and does not know he provides
medical aid in dying, read me a few lines
from the new second assessor’s conclu-
sion about Mr. Brickenden: “The patient
has a serious and incurable illness, which
is age-related frailty. It is end stage.”
The first doctor, who is a committed
supporter of assisted dying, said he and
other providers talk often about the co-
nundrum of whether extremely elderly
patients who want to hasten their deaths
can qualify by virtue of their age alone.
“I think there is a significant disagree-
ment about that,” the doctor said. But in
Mr. Brickenden’s case, he clarified, “it’s
not just age-related. A lot of these [health
problems] do come as we get older, but
you don’t necessarily develop his heart
rhythm problems when you’re 95.”
Trudo Lemmens, a professor of law and
bioethics at the University of Toronto,
said that even though he doesn’t know if
this is the case here, he is generally con-
cerned about the fragility associated with
old age becoming a reason for people to
legally end their lives with the help of a
doctor.
“From a societal perspective, this
would be problematic,” he said by e-mail.
“Both the [Supreme Court of Canada] de-
cision and the legislation treat active life-
ending measures by physicians as an ex-
ceptional procedure, an exception to a
still existing criminal law prohibition. We
should be very careful not to normalize it
as if it is the solution to all end-of-life
planning, even when we may have sympa-
thy for the idea that a couple prefers not
to leave each other behind.”
The other question that arose in the
Brickendens’ case was whether George
and Shirley could die at the same time
without running afoul of the legislation.
In January, 2017, a long-married British
Columbia couple was forced to have their
assisted deaths four days apart, despite
their wish to die together, because of con-
cerns expressed by the Canadian Medical
Protective Association, the legal advisory
group for physicians.
The doctor in that case decided to fol-
low the advice of the lawyers, who feared
a joint death would raise questions about
whether one spouse had unduly influen-
ced the other, which could violate the re-
quirement that requests for assisted death
be entirely voluntarily.
The Brickendens’ doctors elected not to
consult the CMPA.
“They met all the criteria,” said Chantal
Perrot, who was the first doctor to assess
Mrs. Brickenden and the one to preside
over her death. “They were so clear and so
consistent, independently, over an ex-
tended period of time that I just don’t see
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any of evidence or suggestion of coercion
at all.”
Shanaaz Gokool, the chief executive of-
Of course ficer of the advocacy group Dying with
Dignity, which helped guide the Bricken-
I wouldn’t go dens through the process of qualifying for
an assisted death, said she is aware of only
without him one other instance in which a couple in
Canada has received an assisted death to-
and they knew gether.
Qualifying for a joint assisted death is
I wouldn’t. not automatic and it shouldn’t be, Ms. Go-
SHIRLEY BRICKENDEN kool said. “The safeguards are there for a
reason. The thing that’s most important
here is that the clinicians who are doing
this work are doing their job correctly.
Each case has to be assessed on its own,
individual merits.”
In the Brickendens’ case, she added, dy-
ing together, “is the final articulation of
the love that they’ve had for each other
for nearly 73 years.”
Two nights before their death, the
Brickendens went out for one last date at
Opus, their favourite restaurant in Toron-
to’s Yorkville neighbourhood.
The next night, they bid farewell to
more than 20 members of their immedi-
ate family at a bon voyage dinner at their
daughter Pamela’s apartment.
The evening of their deaths was more
intimate, Pamela, Angela and Saxe told
me two days later.
“It couldn’t have been a better way to
go. Totally peaceful,” Angela said. “It al-
lowed them to bow out gracefully togeth-
er, as they lived.”
Present were Pamela, Saxe and Angela,
their spouses, the two doctors and An-
drew Asbil, the Dean of Toronto’s St.
James Cathedral, who later told me he had
“without hesitation” supported the cou-
ple’s wish for their funeral to be held at
the Anglican church.
Mr. and Mrs. Brickenden, dressed in caf-
tans, drank Champagne and nibbled on a
last supper of hors d’oeuvre of lobster,
salmon and filet.
Shortly before 7 p.m., Mrs. Brickenden
turned to her husband. “Are you ready?”
“Ready when you are,” he replied.
They walked into their bedroom and
lay down together, holding hands. The
two doctors, one for each patient, inserted
intravenous lines into their arms.
Dean Asbil prayed, while Mozart, Bach
and Scottish folk songs wafted through
the room. Saxe, at his mother’s request,
had assembled a playlist. He called it “fly
away music.”
George and Shirley died Angela rubbed her mom’s feet. Pame-
in a Toronto retirement la’s rubbed her dad’s. “They smiled, they
home on March 27, looked at each other,” Pamela said. Then
days after describing Mr. Brickenden looked at his children,
their plans to The Globe standing at the end of the bed.
and Mail. “I love you all,” he said.
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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

A welcoming
country needs
a tight border
merican politics are so lurid and extreme right now

A that they can overshadow their Canadian equivalent

– even in the eyes of Canadians.
Take the issue of border security. Donald Trump’s flailing
attempts to get funding for his beloved “wall” along the bor-
der with Mexico seem to be in the news every week. Stopping
illegal immigration, particularly by the Mexican people he
has so maligned, is a touchstone of Mr. Trump’s presidency.
By contrast, the revolution taking place in Canadian bor-
der policy has received much less notice. That’s too bad. Re-
cent events suggest Canadians should be paying much closer
attention to their own southern frontier.
To start, more than 20,000 people crossed illegally from
the U.S. into Canada in the past year, according to Reuters.
Reread that sentence if you must. Illegal crossings have
been so rare in the past that Ottawa didn’t keep track of them.
Now migrants are jumping the world’s longest undefended
border at an average of more than four dozen a day.
This is not yet a crisis. Contrary to Mr. Trump’s imputa-
tions of violence and vice, the overwhelmingly majority of
illegal border crossers are simply hoping to make a better life
for themselves and their families.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
In fact, many if not most of the new wave of U.S.-Canada
A FRIGHTENING EPIDEMIC,
border jumpers appear to be fleeing the climate of xenopho- A MUTED RESPONSE
bia that Mr. Trump has stirred up in his country. In the case of
the many Haitians and Salvadorans making the crossing,
In 2003, a new and frightening
they are fleeing likely deportation in the wake of Mr. Trump’s epidemic struck Canada, mostly
capricious and arguably racially motivated decision to repeal
in Toronto; 44 people died from
SARS and the seriousness of the
temporary legal status for migrants from their countries. situation led the World Health Or-
But if the current situation is not quite a crisis, it is a dra- ganization to issue a travel advi-
sory. The provincial and federal
matic development that, it not properly managed, could governments reacted powerfully
have serious consequences for Canada’s historically success- with reviews that led to signifi-
cant changes in how we, as a so-
ful model of immigration. ciety, prevent and mitigate such
The number of migrants walking across our southern bor- challenges. Dr. David Naylor led
the inquiry at the national level; I
der is expected to rise again when the weather improves, and was privileged to lead the provin-
it probably won’t abate as long as America’s anti-immigra- cial process.
Fifteen years later, opioid ad-
tion wave continues to crest. diction, another new and fright-
To their credit, the Liberals seem to recognize the serious- ening epidemic, is striking Cana-
da. More than 4,000 people will
ness of the moment. Their 2018 budget includes $173-million die in a single year, 100 times that
for greater security along the Canada-U.S. border and for the of SARS and more than the num-
ber of deaths on our roads.
quicker processing of asylum claimants so that they can be There are causes aplenty, and
deported in a timely fashion if need be. The money is badly much can be done. One wonders,
however, why our collective re-
needed: According to Reuters, nearly nine in 10 refugee hear-
sponse is, relatively, so muted. Is
ings were not held within the required 60-day time frame last it because we value those who are
dying less? Is this the “caring” so-
December, because of a backlog.
ciety we are becoming?
If these measures seem mean-spirited from a government David Walker
and country that pride themselves on being open to immi- Chair, Ontario’s Expert Panel on
SARS and Infectious Disease Control
gration, it shouldn’t. Rather, firm measures to regulate and (2003-4); Inaugural chair, Public
process the flow of illegal border crossings are essential to Health Ontario
keeping Canada an open-door country. You report that “stigma prevents
Canadians shouldn’t fool themselves into thinking they people from seeking treatment”
for opioid addiction (Opioids
are by nature more generous and less xenophobic than the Claim More Lives Than Road
people of other Western countries. Crashes, March 29). It’s lack of
treatment beds that is preventing
Our unique geography – surrounded by three oceans and a people from seeking treatment.
land border with one of the most prosperous countries in If an addict could get into med-
ically supervised detox (if war-
history – has given us a rare level of control over who enters ranted) and residential treatment
the country. We’ve used that control to institute a neutral the moment they make the deci-
sion to start their recovery, more
points system and a high overall entry target that are envied
people would make that choice.
around the world and fuel our happy experiment in multi- Instead, what folks are faced
with is the choice of paying
culturalism. Consider what a blessing it is that there is no
$20,000 or more for a bed in a re-
federal party whose single issue is anti-immigration. habilitation facility (frequently
Large-scale, uncontrolled migration through our southern following the detox period) or a
six-month or more wait for a bed
border could change that. Across the West – Germany, France paid for by OHIP (Ontario’s gov-
and the United Kingdom, just to name a few countries – the ernment-run health insurance
plan) somewhere in the province.
refugee flood has turned liberal societies into hotbeds of an- Part of the Purdue pharma set-
ti-immigrant politics in recent years. tlement (which is insufficient as
it stands) should fund an exten-
It will go against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s instincts sive network of rehab facilities
to crack down on illegal border crossings. Openness is his across the country to help repair
the destruction it has wrought.
brand and his inclination. But that might make him the right Bruce Dust
leader to ensure we don’t lose control of the only real border London, Ont.
we have. It won’t be possible to accuse him of prejudice in It’s unfortunate that opioid vic-
doing so – he and his Somalia-born immigration minister tims don’t use firearms to shoot
themselves up with drugs, maybe
have raised annual immigration levels in their mandate. then politicians would take an in-
Benjamin Disraeli believed that sound conservative gov- terest and try to do something
about it. Then again, maybe we
ernment consists of “Tory men and Whig measures” – that is,
don’t want to involve politicians.
leaders with right-wing instincts pursuing liberal policies. We might just end up with yet an-
other feel-good, but totally point-
In Mr. Trudeau’s approach to the border, we hope he in-
less piece of legislation.
verts the formula. To preserve Canada’s successful strategy of And by now we all know that
generous, colour-blind and controlled immigration, our vulnerable individuals need help,
not paperwork.
Whig man must yield to Tory measures. How about we all do our part to
educate our youths that there are
good reasons why some illegal
drugs are illegal?
Michel Trahan
Maria, Que.
BITING BACK
Re Restaurateur Bites Back
Against Animal-Rights Protesters
(March 28): Marni Ugar, who runs
a dog-walking business, objects to
humans eating meat and feels
justified in her continuing harass-
ment of Antler Kitchen & Bar.
“The goal is for a restaurant to
go fully vegan,” she says. “To re-
duce the animals they kill, for me,
isn’t good enough.” One must ask
then, since she is so morally supe-
rior, whether her business (A
Bark in the Park) only accepts ve-
gan dogs as clients?
Anita Krumins
Toronto
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
Re Ottawa Muddies The Environ-
mental Waters (March 29): In de-
ciding matters such as pipeline
policy, why should Indigenous
knowledge be considered any dif-
ferent from science?
Knowledge is knowledge, and
good science takes into account
all available knowledge, regard-
less of the source. Making distinc-
tions drives a wedge between
facts learned by Indigenous peo-
ple over generations, and facts
drawn from more recent theories
and observations. Canada doesn’t
need facts and alternative facts.
Norman Paterson
Collingwood, Ont.
Environment Minister Catherine
McKenna’s vow to “make it man-
datory to consider Indigenous
traditional knowledge alongside
science” when reviewing the im-
pact of new energy projects
should be good news for the Lax
Kw’alaams First Nation, which
has filed a civil claim in the Su-
preme Court of British Columbia
against the federal and provincial
governments.
The claim seeks to declare Jus-
tin Trudeau’s tanker ban on the
northern coast of British Colum-
bia to be “an unjustified infringe-
ment on the plaintiffs’ aboriginal
rights and title.”
The Lax Kw’alaams seek to bal-
ance energy development with
environmental stewardship and
a road out of poverty.
Their goals are clearly at odds
with those who profess to pro-
mote Indigenous traditional
knowledge.
Richard Zylka
Calgary
Konrad Yakabuski’s writing is so
pleasant and conciliatory, it
would be easy to miss the mild
dismissiveness inherent in West-
ern culture’s ongoing notions of
scientific superiority to Indige-
nous cultures and their knowl-
edge.
Scientists only “found” the
Franklin expedition’s HMS Terror
after an Inuit friend told them
where he had seen it; biologists
only “found” the spawning
grounds of an important native
fish in the Yukon after a hunter
guided them to the place he had
known 50 years earlier; and ar-
cheologists only “found” a 14,000-
year-old archaeological site on
traditional Heiltsuk land when
the people who lived there told
them where to dig.
It would appear that some-
times Indigenous knowledge
may actually be out in front of sci-
entific knowledge after all.
Conrad Sichler
Hamilton
IT IS/ISN’T CRICKET
Thank you for Mr. Kelly’s funny-
as-heck piece: Australia’s Current
Cricket Commotion Is A Warning
To All Of Us (Sports, March 28).
However, Cathal Kelly – sounds
vaguely Irish that – disses cricket,
then goes out wimpily, waffily,
mildly, rather like March in To-
ronto. Cricket has a code of fair
play, a spirit and, ahem, laws.
Plus, it has introduced into gener-
alized usage colourful expres-
sions such as “sticky wicket”
(think: Donald Trump being
“outed” by Stormy Daniels),
“caught out” (think: much the
same thing but this time after a
scintillating 60 Minutes episode)
and, “It’s just not cricket!”
Life, like business big and
small, is often unfair, so not crick-
et. Mr. Kelly wimps out by writing,
at last, “From a Canadian per-
spective, it makes you wonder …
what it would take for us to have
the same moment of [gross na-
tional self-examination] …”
But we did have that moment
in 1972 – when Flin Flon-tough
R.E. “Bobby” Clarke slashed the
sublime Soviet hockey player Val-
eri Kharlamov and broke his an-
kle. But because Mr. Clarke’s sav-
age slash finally turned that stu-
pendous inaugural Summit Se-
ries our way, it has passed into the
forgotten history zone.
“Just part of the game” – the
rough ‘n’ tough Canadian version
especially – one would have said
then. Now, though, we are prob-
ably only months away from yet
another of Justin Trudeau’s great
apologies in Parliament!
Rob Bredin
Head Coach, Vikings Cricket of
Canada Super Elite Division XI;
co-champions, Toronto & District
Cricket Association, 2017
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OPINION
Has Trudeau given up on Atlantic Canada?
The Prime Minister
may very well have
concluded it’s not
worth the effort
DONALD SAVOIE
OPINION
Canada Research Chair in Public
Administration and Governance at
University of Moncton
rime Minister Justin Tru-
P deau accomplished what no
political leader was ever able
to do. His party won all 32 seats in
Atlantic Canada in the 2015 gener-
al election. The Conservative Par-
ty was at least able to win one seat
in the three Maritime provinces
in 1935, when Mackenzie King de-
feated R. B. Bennett in a landslide
victory in the immediate after-
math of the Great Depression.
Mr. Trudeau has his work cut
out if he wishes to pull off the
same victory in 2019. At this point,
at least, it seems unlikely. It may
well be that the Prime Minister
and his most trusted political ad-
Instead of defriending social media, we need new rules for the Internet
TAYLOR OWEN
BEN SCOTT
OPINION
Assistant professor at UBC
Senior Advisor at New America
hile being pessimistic
W about the depressing
tableau of Silicon Valley
malfeasance is easy, let us not for-
get that the internet has brought
tremendous value to our society.
Therefore, the answer is not to
lock down the open internet or
even to delete Facebook (howev-
er satisfying that might feel, with
2.2-billion users it is embedded in
our society). Instead, we urgently
need new democratic rules for
the internet that enhance the
rights of citizens, protect the in-
tegrity of our public sphere and
tackle the structural problems of
our current digital economy.
Here are seven ideas:
DATA RIGHTS
Much of the internet economy is
built on trading personal data for
free services with limited con-
sumer protection. This model
has metastasized into a vast com-
plex of data brokers and A.I.-dri-
ven micro-targeting with mo-
nopolists such as Google and
Facebook at the centre. With the
curtain pulled back, there may at
last be political will to build a
rights-based framework for pri-
vacy that adapts as technologies
change. For starters, we need ma-
jor new restrictions on the politi-
cal exploitation of personal data
(including by political parties
themselves, who remain exempt
from our privacy law) and much
greater user control over how da-
ta is collected and used. Europe’s
new General Data Protection Reg-
Why expatriates should be able to vote
FRÉDÉRIC MÉGRET
OPINION
Associate professor of law at
McGill University
ast week, the Supreme Court
L heard arguments on the bar-
ring of expatriates who have
resided away from Canada more
than five years from voting in
Canadian elections. The Ontario
Court of Appeal had earlier found
the restrictions democratically
justifiable because they pre-
served the “social contract” be-
tween voters and lawmakers.
Whether it is the case that the so-
cial contract depends on denying
voting rights to non-resident citi-
zens is highly dubious. More im-
portantly, often overlooked in the
debate is the broader issue of how
Canada – and other countries –
should relate to their diasporas in
an age when significant numbers
chose to live abroad while retain-
ing deep emotional and political
visers have concluded that it is
simply not worth the effort, given
that the region only has 32 MPs in
a 338-member House of Com-
mons.
Consider the following: For the
first time since the Atlantic Cana-
da Opportunities Agency was es-
tablished in 1987, a minister from
outside the region is responsible
for the the ACOA. The minister is
from Mississauga and is also re-
sponsible for the two federal re-
gional development agencies in
Ontario, one in Quebec, one in
Western Canada and another for
the North.
It is not lost on Atlantic Cana-
dians that the federal govern-
ment now has a regional develop-
ment agency for every postal
code in Canada. Best to focus on
regions with heavily populated
postal codes when the goal is to
win power. The recently tabled
budget committed $920-million
over six years to one of two feder-
al regional development bodies
for Ontario. When this agency
was established in 2009, it was
given a time-limited budget. No
more. It now has core funding like
all the other federal regional
agencies.
Let us not forget the internet has brought tremendous value to our society. Therefore, the answer is not to lock
down the open internet or even to delete Facebook (however satisfying that might feel, with 2.2-billion users it
is embedded in our society). DADO RUVIC/REUTERS
ulation sets a high standard, al-
though since it took 10 years to
legislate, it was of date before it
was implemented. We must
evolve it to the next level.
MODERNIZE AND ENFORCE
ELECTION LAW
Few dispute that citizens deserve
to know who is trying to sway
them during elections, but our
laws were designed for TV and ra-
dio. We need to update them for
the internet era, where ads can be
purchased from anywhere, dis-
guised as normal social-media
posts, micro-targeted to polarize
voters and loaded up with sensa-
tional and divisive messages. All
online ads should carry a clearly
bonds to their country of citizen-
ship.
The argument against long-
term expatriate voting often por-
trays non-residents as essentially
free riders, voting on laws that
will not affect them. The reality is
considerably more complex.
First, long-term expatriates may
decide to come back and so argua-
bly continue to have a vested in-
terest in their country of citizen-
ship. To the extent that they do
not have voting rights in their
country of residency, they are de-
prived of their only opportunity
to exercise political rights. Sec-
ond, long-term expatriates are, in
fact, affected by the laws and pol-
icies of Canada, especially to the
extent they have international
ramifications. They are often the
only point of contact that foreign-
ers will have with Canadians. All
expatriates share the experience
of having been called upon to ac-
count, informally at least, for the
policies of their home country.
They may be targeted as Cana-
dians. Third, many expatriates,
even though they do not reside in
The minister is also responsib-
le for an important line depart-
ment – Innovation, Science and
Economic Development Canada
and several other agencies be-
sides the six regional develop-
ment agencies. It is difficult to
imagine that he can have more
than a passing interest in Atlantic
Canada’s economic circumstanc-
es and opportunities. This may
well explain why the Atlantic
Growth Strategy, unveiled with
great fanfare a few months after
the 2015 election, petered out be-
fore it even got off the ground.
Mr. Trudeau explained when
he was in the region that he ap-
pointed an Ontario minister to
head all the regional agencies “to
reduce the kind of politics that
have plagued regional develop-
ment agencies.” This is a bit too
rich and paternalistic for Atlantic
and Western Canadians to take.
One only has to remember Tony
Clement, an Ontario minister
who directed millions in federal
government spending to host a
G8 meeting in his riding, includ-
ing $100,000 for a gazebo. This is
hardly an isolated case.
It will be recalled that Mr. Tru-
deau, at one point, seriously con-
visible cache of information that
states who bought them, the
source of the funds, how much
they spent, who saw them and
the specific targeting parameters
they selected.
AUDIT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Facebook and Google monetize
billions of data points a day using
powerful A.I. to target and influ-
ence specific audiences. The so-
cial and ethical implications of
A.I. are a blinking red light as this
technology advances, and we
need to lay some ground-rules
for accountability. Just as we re-
quire drug manufacturers and
car makers to submit to rigorous
public-safety checks, we need to
Canada, do a considerable
amount for Canada, directly or in-
directly. It goes without saying
that Canada is very well repre-
sented by its expatriates, many of
whom do great honour to our
country.
The prioritizing of residency
over citizenship, in this context, is
problematic in several respects.
Although the nation state may be
a primarily territorial concept, ci-
tizenship is not. Citizenship is
measured not by how long one
spends on the territory of one’s
state, but how committed one is
to its ideals, how ready to give
back, and to invest in its political
life. The idea that long-term expa-
triates are distant and disconnect-
ed citizens is belied by their vot-
ing record and the intensity by
which some of them have, pre-
cisely, been willing to protest, in-
cluding before the courts, against
the denial of their rights, invoking
their “deep and abiding” connec-
tion to Canada. Moreover, citizen-
ship is what you make of it: Treat-
ing the diaspora as if it had no
connection to Canada is surely to
templated taking away the one
seat Atlantic Canada has on the
Supreme Court. When tasked
with replacing Thomas Cromwell
from Nova Scotia on the court, Mr.
Trudeau announced that the se-
lection process would be open to
“any qualified judge” from across
the country. Atlantic Canadians
believe that he would never do
the same if it came to Quebec (the
Constitution guarantees Quebec
three seats) or Ontario and West-
ern Canada (because here, the po-
litical cost would be too high).
The Prime Minister had a
change of mind in the face of stiff
opposition from Atlantic Canada
and elsewhere including the offi-
cial opposition in Parliament. In
the end, Mr. Trudeau appointed
Malcolm Rowe from Newfoun-
dland and Labrador to the bench.
Many Atlantic Canadians re-
main unconvinced by Ottawa’s
argument that the Energy East
pipeline failed because of market
conditions. Ottawa gave, at best,
lukewarm support for the pipe-
line which was viewed by many in
Western and Atlantic Canada as
an important national unity pro-
ject. They saw Ottawa changing
the rules of the approval process
develop a parallel system for al-
gorithms.
TAX SILICON VALLEY FAIRLY
The titans of technology dom-
inate the list of the most valuable
companies on the planet. And
yet, they are still coddled by tax
law as if they were an emerging
industry. It is time for Silicon Val-
ley to pay unto Caesar, not least
so that we plebeians can use the
tax revenue to fix the things they
keep breaking, such as journal-
ism, for example.
AGGRESSIVE COMPETITION
POLICY
Before we start a decade-long
contribute to severing that link.
One is also a citizen because one is
provided with meaningful oppor-
tunities to exercise one’s rights as
such. Finally, one should be wary
of attempts at fragmenting citi-
zenship, part of a worrying trend
that includes fighting less hard for
dual citizens abroad or threaten-
ing to withdraw citizenship from
those convicted of certain offenc-
es. Attacks on the indivisibility of
citizenship suggest that some
Canadian citizens are less citizens
than others and are therefore at-
tacks on the citizenship of all.
The debate deserves to be put
in its global context, where it
clearly transcends the particulars
of any theoretical social contract.
How to deal with expatriate pop-
ulations has become a defining is-
sue of our globalized age, whether
it comes to voting rights or how
aggressively countries protect
their nationals abroad when they
are, for example, threatened or
prosecuted. Canada has not al-
ways made the right choices. To-
day, however, many countries
positively court their diasporas,
NEWS | A11
on the fly, adding new require-
ments with some retroactively.
Mr. Trudeau told supporters of
Energy East to accept the decision
and avoid “stoking regional divi-
sions.” He said nothing to Mon-
treal and Quebec politicians who
labelled the decision “a great vic-
tory for Quebeckers.” It made the
point once again that when it
comes to national unity, it is a
one-way street.
The federal government’s deci-
sion to tax passive income inside
private corporations – however
watered down from what was first
envisaged – has wide implica-
tions for Atlantic Canada, more so
than for other regions. As is well
known, the bulk of the region’s
private sector consists of family
businesses and private corpora-
tions. One can easily identify all
publicly held corporations in At-
lantic Canada.
Thirty-two seats seem modest
in the grand scheme of Canadian
politics where representation by
population decides who holds
power in Ottawa. The governing
party should remember, howev-
er, that the day after the 2015 elec-
tion, it only held a 29-seat major-
ity.
trust-busting crusade, let’s begin
with a competition policy agenda
that delivers immediate, tangible
value. This might include restric-
tions on acquisition of up-and-
coming competitors, structural
separation of behavior tracking
and ad targeting businesses and
consumer data portability from
one service provider to another.
IMPROVE DIGITAL SECURITY
What the Russians did in 2016 to
exploit digital media should be a
wake-up call. Without unleash-
ing a surveillance dragnet, we
need effective capabilities to
counter foreign disinformation
operations using measures such
as “know your customer” rules
for ad buyers and closing down
the armies of fake accounts.
TRANSFORM CIVIC LITERACY AND
SCALE CIVIC JOURNALISM
As social-media users, we all own
part of this problem. It is our ap-
petite for sensationalism, out-
rage and conspiracy that creates
the audience for disinformation.
Instead of relying on tech-funded
literacy campaigns, the govern-
ment needs to rebuild our civic
literacy from the ground up and
couple these efforts with serious
investments and policy changes
to reinvigorate public service and
accountability journalism.
Ironically, Facebook’s own
conduct has awoken its vast user
base to the need for a new gener-
ation of internet regulation. And
with the United States mired in
the politics of Donald Trump and
the European Union slowed by a
complex bureaucracy, there is an
opportunity for Canada to pre-
sent this new vision. But we will
only be effective if the rigor and
scale our response is commensu-
rate with the threat posed to our
democracy.
and for good reason, not only as a
source of remittance, but as a
source of soft power, and as part
of a deep commitment to the free
flow of people and ideas. Many
countries not only allow, but posi-
tively encourage, their diasporas
to vote back at home. Although
the Harper government once ob-
jected to this, Canada is actually
part of a variety of French, Italian
or Tunisian electoral constituen-
cies.
It may not come as a surprise
that Canada, a country that tradi-
tionally conceived itself as a place
of immigration rather than emi-
gration, has given relatively less
thought to this question than oth-
er countries. The absence of spe-
cific constitutional arrangements
for the representation of its dias-
pora, for example, sets it apart
from others that have thought
more creatively about this issue.
In an age where people are in-
creasingly on the move, making
residency a condition of citizen-
ship may not only be unfair to
those affected; it may fail to do
justice to Canada’s diversity.
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LIFE & ARTS HEALTH | OPINION | PUZZLES | WEATHER

Gyms must do more

to accommodate
people with disabilities
PAUL
LANDINI

OPINION

PHYS ED

dvances in modern medicine have led doctors

A to a better understanding of the benefits of ex-

ercise in managing a broad range of chronic
conditions, from multiple sclerosis and cere-
bral palsy to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and
epilepsy. Unfortunately, traditional gyms aren’t de-
signed with this end use in mind. Sure, there’s bound to
be an automatic door opener for people with mobility
issues, maybe even a wheelchair lift or a ramp, but that
tends to be the extent of the services provided to make
fitness accessible to all.
Irony of ironies: Where most gyms fail is in serving
people with physical disabilities or chronic medical
ISTOCK conditions – in other words, people who, in many
cases, literally need to work out to save their lives.
I work for a not-for-profit facility that prides itself on

Are calcium supplements inclusiveness and diversity. Forgive me if I sound a lit-

helping or harming your health?
There’s a controversy brewing among without vitamin D, had a twofold increased risk of de-
veloping more of these growths within six to 10 years,
scientists about whether the chalky compared with those who took no calcium supple-
tablets are good for you – or cause ments, or vitamin D alone.
more damage than they’re worth The adverse effects of calcium supplements remain
controversial, but so are the potential benefits.
In a 2006 study in the New England Journal of Med-
ADRIANA BARTON icine, women 50 to 79 who took a 1,000-milligram cal-
cium supplement with vitamin D had about the same
hip fracture risk after seven years as those who took a
alcium is Canada’s go-to strategy for prevent- placebo. Supplement users in this large clinical trial,
tle too Hands Across America, but I love the fact that
my gym – our gym – can serve as a home away from
home for everyone, regardless of their race, gender,
sexuality or income.
But of course, even idealistic wonderlands have
their blind spots.
A couple of months ago, I had a conversation with a
member of our gym that left me feeling like an igno-
rant fool. This young woman told me about her med-
ical condition, explained how basic movement is pain-
ful and how she often has to rely on mobility assistance
devices. Her doctor recommended yoga as a gentle
means of managing this condition, but our yoga studio
is on the second floor of the building, and the elevator
doesn’t allow for direct access. She would have to take
the stairs in order to participate, which, given her con-
dition, is not an option.

C ing bone loss and osteoporosis. It’s in dairy involving 36,282 American women, showed just a 1-
products, canned fish, beans, broccoli and per-cent increase in hip-bone density – and more kid-
kale. It’s pumped into soy beverages, mixed in- ney stones.
to multivitamins and added to orange juice, breakfast On the flip side, a 2016 review in Osteoporosis In-
cereals and energy bars. Then there are the calcium ternational found that calcium supplementation plus
Many physical disabilities are easily identifiable for
fitness professionals, as are the solutions to the chal-
lenges they pose. Some, however, are harder to identi-
fy. Take, for example, the guest that dropped by our
gym with an unmarked service dog trained to detect
supplements that many of us take, often on doctors’ vitamin D lowered the risk of total fractures by 15 per seizures. In Ontario, it’s not required for these sorts of
orders, just to be safe. The more, the better, right? cent and hip fractures by 30 per cent. This study came service animals to wear identifying harnesses or vests;
Not quite. The safety of calcium supplements has from the U.S. National Osteoporosis Foundation, one if a person has a doctor’s
become the subject of heated debate over the past 10 of the organizations Bolland has described as “com- note recommending the
years, as researchers have produced evidence of side promised” by the influence of companies that market use of the animal, and that But of course,
effects ranging from kidney stones to cardiovascular supplements and nutrition-related laboratory tests. animal is well-behaved, it’s
disease. Earlier this month, a study linking calcium Calcium has made headlines since 1984, when the a violation of their rights to even idealistic
supplements to precancerous colon growths added U.S. National Institutes of Health declared osteoporo- deny them access to servic- wonderlands have
another potential health risk to the list. And while at sis “a major public health problem.” Newspapers es and facilities. Of course, their blind spots.
least 40 per cent of Americans take calcium supple- warned about osteoporosis, and the supplement in- when our members saw
ments, clinical trials have cast doubt on the effective- dustry stepped in to solve the country’s “calcium defi- someone jogging on our indoor track, furry friend in
ness of these chalky tablets in preventing bone frac- ciency.” tow, they assumed this dog was simply a pet. Our staff
tures. The theory that porous bones signalled a need for was equally confused.
So should Canadians ditch their calcium pills? No more calcium made sense, since calcium is the major Granted, this sort of thing isn’t a common occur-
one disputes the importance of calcium for healthy mineral in bone, said Aileen Burford-Mason, a Toron- rence, but it does illustrate how ill-informed – and ill-
bones. But the pros and cons of supple- to-based immunologist, cell biologist prepared – businesses are when it comes to addressing
mentary calcium may depend on your and author of Eat Well, Age Better. But, non-physical disabilities.
health status, the amount of supplemen- she added, “that story was wrong.” Calci- Thankfully, we have people like Dr. Darren Ezer, co-
tation – and which scientists you choose The adverse effects um is just part of the picture, since it is owner, along with his wife, Lianne, of the Live Well Ex-
to believe. poorly absorbed without vitamin D, and ercise Clinic in Toronto. Live Well is a medicinal fitness
Dr. Mark Bolland, associate professor of calcium requires vitamin K2 to help bind it to franchise that specializes in small group fitness classes
of medicine at the University of Auck- supplements remain bone. Magnesium, too, plays a crucial for people with chronic diseases, physical disabilities
land, was among the first to sound the controversial, role in bone health. In fact, “there is no and mental illnesses.
alarm about calcium supplements, in a but so are the essential nutrient that isn’t involved in With 14 locations across British Columbia and Onta-
2010 BMJ report linking them to an in- keeping bones strong.” rio, Live Well is striving to meet the needs of those who
creased risk of heart attack. potential benefits. In 2010, Health Canada lowered its rec- may not feel welcome at commercial gyms by deliver-
Various studies have confirmed his ommended dietary allowance of calcium ing evidence-based exercise programs specific to each
findings, but others, including a 2016 review in the An- to 1,000 mg a day for adults under the age of 51, 1,200 individual’s condition in a fun and positive environ-
nals of Internal Medicine, have shown no increased mg for men over 51 and 1,200 for all adults over 70. The ment.
cardiovascular risk. According to Bolland, these re- agency recommends vitamin D supplementation, and “We’re very different from places like GoodLife,” Ez-
assuring reports have either chosen to measure differ- cautions that long-term intakes of calcium more than er said. “Our members find gyms filled with young, fit
ent cardiovascular outcomes, or “did not include all 2,500 mg a day for adults under 51, and 2,000 mg for people intimidating. We offer a huge service by provid-
the data from all the studies.” One explanation for this, those over 51, “increase the risk of adverse health ef- ing group-based exercise with a peer group that looks
he wrote in an e-mail, involves “tight links between fects, such as kidney stones.” familiar and specialized equipment that’s truly acces-
industry, academics and special societies in this area.” Nevertheless, many physicians may be unaware of sible.”
Dr. Erin Michos, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins the current guidelines, said Dr. Angela Cheung, former A new Live Well location is scheduled to open in
Medicine, agrees. Michos and colleagues scanned the chair of Osteoporosis Canada’s scientific advisory Oakville, Ont., this year. It’s my hope that more fitness
coronary arteries of 5,448 adults from different ethnic council and professor of medicine at the University of pros and gym owners will take after this example and
backgrounds to confirm they had no calcium deposits, Toronto. Back in 2001, when guidelines recommended begin offering a broad range of programs and services
in a study published in 2016 in the Journal of the Amer- a daily calcium intake of 1,000 mg to 1,500 mg for older for everyone, not just the young, jacked and tanned.
ican Heart Association. Ten years later, those who took adults, “a lot of physicians interpreted that as three Otherwise, unifying ideals such as diversity and social
calcium supplements had a 22-per-cent increased risk [tablets] of 500 mg [per day],” she said, without con- inclusion lose their power and become nothing more
of developing calcification in their heart arteries, com- sidering the calcium patients were getting from food. than buzz words for virtue-signalling poseurs.
pared to non-supplement users. “We didn’t see this Since Canadian adults tend to be low on calcium, As for my gym, I’m happy to report that steps are
with dietary calcium,” she said, adding that supple- Cheung encourages people to increase their intake being taken to ensure the next noble service animal
ments are “a billion-dollar industry.” from dietary sources, if possible. Adults can start by that pays us a visit will be welcomed with open and
Earlier this month, other researchers linked calcium tracking their current dietary intake using Osteoporo- understanding arms.
supplements to serrated polyps, a less common type sis Canada’s calcium calculator.
of colon growth that can become cancerous. In a study Calcium supplements can be useful for patients Paul Landini is a personal trainer and health educator
published in the journal Gut, patients with a history of with specific health conditions, she added, but “for at the Toronto West End College Street YMCA.
these polyps who took calcium supplements, with or most people, I don’t think they need a supplement.” You can follow him on Twitter @mrpaullandini.

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The radiant escapism of Tony winner hits Toronto

Christopher Wheeldon
stage show rectifies
some of the problems
with 1951 film on which
play is based, but also
exacerbates other issues

MARTHA SCHABAS

THEATRE REVIEW

An American in Paris
PRINCESS OF WALES THEATRE
IN TORONTO

Directed and choreographed by

Christopher Wheeldon
###
he finest part of Vincente

T Minnelli’s campy 1951 movie

An American in Paris is the
dancing – it culminates in an elab-
orate and unabashedly weird bal-
let that unfurls onscreen just as
the narrative action is wrapping
up. Imagine that ballet reconcep-
tualized by one of world’s most
esteemed classical choreogra-
phers and you’ll get a sense of
what Christopher Wheeldon’s
stage adaptation of the movie,
which opened at the Princess of
Wales Theatre in Toronto on
Thursday night, can do at its best.
Wheeldon’s production pre-
miered in Paris in 2015 before win-
ning four Tony Awards on Broad-
way and garnering fairly consis-
tent critical acclaim. You have to
speculate that the first-rate ballet
dancers who stood in for Gene
Kelly (Robert Fairchild) and Les-
lie Caron (Leanne Cope) were real
triple-threats, able to sing beauti-
fully while bringing passion and
humanity to this postwar tale of
American-boy-meets-French-girl
love. The touring cast is also led
by two accomplished classical
dancers – former National Ballet
of Canada principal McGee Mad-
dox as Jerry Mulligan and former
Joffrey Ballet soloist Allison
Walsh as Lise Dassin. But their in-
consistency with song and text
takes us some distance from mid-
town Manhattan’s best.
Forties and fifties humour,
with its oh-so-droll retorts and
banal escapism, can get hokey
quickly, and playwright Craig Lu-
cas’s new script alternates be-
tween rectifying and exacerbat-
ing the problem. There’s an unin-
spired motif of words lost in
translation, along with pun-
chlines that fall flat, but there’s al-
so greater emotional depth. The
spectre of war and occupation
hangs more heavily in this pro-
duction – Nazi insignia flash
across the cityscape and an early
tableau shows Parisians attacking
a collaborator on the street.
Accomplished ballet dancers McGee Maddox, left, and Allison Walsh star in the stage adaptation of the 1951 film An American in Paris.
The Tony Award-winning play, starring McGee Maddox, tells a postwar
love story of an American boy and French girl, complete with hokey
humour and banal escapism. PHOTOS BY MATTHEW MURPHY
Moreover, the character of Lise
is vastly improved. In the film, the
dancer-cum-shop girl is some-
what unbearable as a naive and
pouty blank slate. Lucas has given
the character more agency and
backstory. She’s Jewish and longs
to honour the memory of her par-
ents’ love (who may or may not
have been killed in the camps)
and marry the American soldier-
cum-aspiring painter who has
won her heart. However, she
grapples with her duty to the fam-
ily who hid her throughout the
war and the consequent obliga-
tion to marry their son, the textile
baron Henri Baurel (played and
sung dynamically by tenor Ben
Michael).
The tension between art, love
and honour comes together more
cohesively in Lucas’s version by
having the whole story centre on
the ballet. Jerry’s benefactress,
the American Milo Davenport
(played with stylish confidence
by Kirsten Scott) isn’t an art pa-
tron, but a wealthy donor in the
dance world. This means she can
secure Jerry the job of set designer
for Lise’s debut as prima balleri-
na, which is slated as the big event
of the season. The grand premiere
also happens to be composed by
Jerry’s buddy Adam Hochberg
(Matthew Scott). While this adds
structural tidiness, other tweaks
to the plot feel more strained.
Henri secretly longs to be a caba-
ret singer himself and Adam,
somewhat inexplicably, is also in
love with Lise. But then Scott’s
performance is among the most
naturalistic and contemporary in
the production and having him a
bit more front and centre – he al-
so functions as a narrator – gives
the show a compelling anchor.
In the film, Gene Kelly’s persist-
ence in the face of Leslie Caron’s
repeated resistance looks down-
right creepy from the perspective
of 2018 – at several points during
their first date, he grips her by the
arms and physically restrains her
from leaving. McGee’s Jerry is
more respectful and subdued, but
there’s an uncomfortable overlap
between his shyness as a charac-
ter and his shyness as a perform-
er. His lines are delivered self-con-
sciously, an inhibition that evap-
orates as soon as he’s expressing
himself through movement.
McGee is the kind of physically
powerful dancer who devours
space as he performs, throwing in
maybe five extra pirouettes by ac-
cident. As Lise, Walsh is a little
more confident as a singer; her
soprano has musicality and
sweetness, if not much force.
She’s a competent classical danc-
er and, as the story evolves, she
becomes increasingly animated
and engaged.
Fans of George and Ira Gersh-
win will relish the 17 hits packed
into the score. Indeed, the pro-
duction is at its best when the or-
chestra is swelling, Bob Crowley’s
sets of Paris are whirring by, and
the very competent cast of classi-
cally trained dancers soar via at-
tractive lifts and kicks. As a chore-
ographer, I always find Wheeldon
is very good at giving his audience
the best version of what they’re
expecting. His choreography is
energetic and musical – he’s con-
fident with form, transition and
speed – but I’d be hard-pressed to
call it inventive. I’m very rarely
surprised.
The climactic ballet – the show
within the show – might have
been the only exception. Against
a backdrop of floating shapes in
bold colours, Wheeldon creates
an invigorating neo-classical se-
quence that echoes with the big
dance names of the era – George
Balanchine and Jerome Robbins.
The dancers wear leotards that
look like Mondrian paintings
(with many of the women en
pointe) and showcase imagina-
tive choreographic detail through
their upper bodies. The lead char-
acters are suddenly radiant, in-
habiting the emotional space
they’ve previously just been cir-
cling around. In its penultimate
chapter, the musical lands more
firmly on its feet.
Special to The Globe and Mail
An American in Paris continues
at the Princess of Wales Theatre
through to April 29.

How to raise an activist to be like the U.S. TODAY’S SUDOKU SOLUTION TODAY’S KENKEN SOLUTION

students protesting against gun violence

DAVE McGINN Joining a group that is already groups have done in the past are
working on whatever cause a all part of the job.
young person is passionate about Be a guide, not the driver:
n the aftermath of a mass may seem as though the logical Youth activism works best when

I shooting at their school in Par-

kland, Fla., Emma Gonzalez
and her classmates at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School
are being hailed as proof that
young people can change the
world. While the anti-gun pro-
tests are led by youth, parents,
teachers and other adults can
help children hone their sense of
social justice and fight for causes
they are passionate about, ex-
perts say. Here are a few ways to
do it:
Teach them what activism is,
and start early: “These conversa-
tions are impossible to avoid if
you’re out in the world at all, so
you want to have your kids not
just hear snippets of it or not real-
ly know what’s going on,” says In-
nosanto Nagara, author of the
children’s book A Is For Activist,
one of many books available to
parents who want to start a con-
versation with their children
about concepts of social justice,
such as how race and gender af-
fect people’s lives.
For young people in their
tweens and teens, help them un-
derstand the critical-thinking
skills activism requires, says Bea-
trice Fennimore, a professor at In-
diana University of Pennsylvania
and youth social justice expert.
“When we think about a move-
ment, then we think about help-
ing young people to critically and
ethically analyze an issue and
take a stand,” she says. “If we say,
‘This is an affront to justice, to
equality and to human rights,’
then we can help young people to
think, ‘Okay, what is the good and
appropriate and ethical way to
confront this for the common
good?’ ”
next step when it comes to taking
action. Too often, however, young
people will be given meaningless
task work, such as checking peo-
ple in at a conference, says Wendy
Lesko, co-president of the Youth
Activism Project, a U.S.-based
non-profit organization.
“They view young people as
sort of unpaid helpers rather than
really being a source of ideas,” she
says. Instead, find out what local
and provincial advocacy organi-
zations are out there and what
they are doing on the issue, Lesko
says. As well, find models that are
working in other provinces. That
way, she says, “You actually pos-
sess information that often even
local groups may not be aware
of.”
Make them do their home-
work: Whatever issue a young
person has decided to take on, it’s
a parent’s job to make sure they
know every side of it, both to en-
sure they understand the matter
and to give them the best chance
of being taken seriously by
whomever they make their case
to, whether it be school boards,
policy makers or other organiza-
tions. Ask young people what the
other side thinks and what their
demands are, Lesko says. “At least
have a question that really tries to
not necessarily embrace the oth-
er side but at least acknowledge
that it exists,” she says. “You often
need those arguments so that
you aren’t dismissed routinely
because you’re a kid.”
Be up front with young people
about the research work they’ll
have to put in to be heard, Fenni-
more says. Reading newspaper
articles, studies, government re-
ports and examining what other
it is “youth-led, adult-supported,”
Fennimore says. It is perfectly fine
to suggest possible problems
young people might encounter as
they pursue a specific goal. And,
of course, go ahead and help your
children find resources. Sites such
as Sparkmovement.org and
Youthradio.org offer budding
young activists a range of tuto-
rials on how to use valuable tools
that are often necessary when it
comes to changing hearts and
minds, Lesko says. “You will see
young people themselves who
have created short videos or short
blog posts on how to do an online
petition, how to communicate
and advocate via social media,
how to do a podcast, how to do
effective posters,” she says.
Just make sure you act as a
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make sure to counsel them in the
realities of doing so. Not every ef-
fort will result in a win. “Expect
that you will not succeed the first
time,” Lesko says. “Talk about
how it’s [a matter of] experimen-
tation and persistence.”
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THEATRE REVIEW

bloom
BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES, TORONTO

Written by Guillermo Verdecchia

Directed by Soheil Parsa
Starring Peter Farbridge,
Liz Peterson, Kim Nelson
#½
s Guillermo Verdecchia’s

A play bloom begins, a man

and a boy are found in a
bunker of some sort, in a future
where nothing grows and fighter
jets drop fire from above. “There’s
nothing to be done, except to
wait,” says the man, whose name
is Gerontion, and calls their sur-
roundings “rat’s alley.”
The bunker is lined with over-
flowing bookshelves – and these
literary surroundings seem to
have seeped into the very blood
of Verdecchia’s play.
Gerontion gets his name from
the T.S. Eliot poem of the same
name, and “rat’s alley” comes
from Eliot’s The Waste Land. Many
nods to other titans of modern-
ism are still to come – whether
references to Yeats’s The Second
Coming, or dialogue and situa-
tions ripped from Samuel Beck-
ett’s Waiting for Godot and End-
game. The title bloom itself brings
to mind Joyce’s Ulysses protago-
nist and, in its irritating lack of
capitalization, e.e. cummings.
Verdecchia’s play comes by its
derivativeness honestly, at least.
Premiered in 2006 by Modern
ILLUSTRATION BY SANDI FALCONER Times Stage Company, bloom –
which is now being revived by the
same company in Toronto – was
Toilet paper is an environmental nightmare. originally intended to be an adap-
tation of The Waste Land, but per-
As a culture, we are addicted to the too-good-to-be-true breeziness mission was withheld and in-
of using things only once, Jon Sufrin writes stead the playwright wrote a play
inspired by it.
And so, like Eliot’s poem,
like to imagine that several decades from now, this country always comes up, to which I say: they bloom is dense with allusions –

I we will look back on the absurdities of Modern are quite obviously best avoided, but in an emer-
Western civilization and find one towering gency, water can be brought into the stall without
above the rest: toilet paper.
In today’s supposed age of carbon-footprint
much difficulty.
Then comes the inevitable counterattack. “You
awareness, the mere idea of toilet paper should be are wasting water,” everyone says, as if creating
here’s Beowulf, there’s Hamlet,
now let’s sing the Highland Fairy
Lullaby. Scholar Ric Knowles has
found “quotations, citations and
purposeful distortions” in Ver-
offensive. We chop down trees, mash them up, toilet paper does not consume resources. It is, in decchia’s play from a vast array of
bleach them, press them into sheets, roll them fact, an environmental nightmare. texts – from Buddha’s Fire Sermon
onto cardboard, wrap them in plastic, place them A report in Scientific American indicates that and Dante’s Inferno, to Richard
onto trucks, drive them to supermarkets and then producing a single roll of toilet paper requires 37 Dawkins and reports from pilots
pay money – actual money – for them. gallons of water, 1.3 kilowatt hours of electricity in the 1991 Gulf War.
I am well aware of the irony of raising such a and 1.5 pounds of wood. Bleaching toilet paper uses These mostly bubble up in Ge-
complaint in a newspaper. But consider: toilet pa- high amounts of chlorine, the article continues, rontion’s over-articulated ram-
per is not even close to being effective at what it is while flushing toilet paper “adds a significant load blings and rages, which take up
meant to do. We wouldn’t wipe any other part of onto city sewer systems and water treatment most of this hour-and-a-half play.
our body with dry paper and deem ourselves plants.” Peter Farbridge’s performance as
clean, yet somehow this is what we expect from Creating toilet paper also destroys trees – 27,000 this postapocalyptic professor is
toilet paper. (And no, sewer-clogging wet wipes – a day, as reported by National Geographic. In 2006, impressive in its own affected
which were labelled “the biggest villain of 2015” by Greenpeace reported that some types of toilet pa- way. With a scarf jauntily wrap-
The Guardian, are not a more desirable alterna- per and other tissue products are a “serious factor ped around his neck, he looks
tive.) in the destruction of Canada’s ancient forests.” and sounds astonishingly like a
This is why four months ago I decided to re- Shortly after quitting toilet paper, feeling smug, dystopian version of Darren Ni-
move toilet paper from my life completely. I now I found myself needing to blow my nose. I reached chols, the pretentious theatre di-
step into the shower after using the toilet and use for a tissue and then stopped. Surely, I do not need rector that Don McKellar played
nothing but water (a miraculous cleaning agent) to gift-wrap my nasal fluid before throwing it on Slings and Arrows. It’s not clear,
and my own hand, which I wash af- away? Now, when I am alone, I hunch however, to what point we are
terward with soap. The process adds down over a sink and employ the supposed to view Gerontion as an
maybe 10 seconds to my shower. When I tell people centuries-old technique known as irritating pseud who, if you met at
Since making the decision to quit, I “the snot rocket.” Certainly a hand- a party rather than in the theatre,
have not used a square of toilet paper about my decision, kerchief would be classier, but I’d you’d be desperately trying to get
on my body, and I have never been I become an rather just use nothing to compen- out of a conversation with.
more clean. immediate joke. sate for so many years of using too Opposite Farbridge, Liz Peter-
What has been a relatively simple Everyone within much. son has very little to play with as
decision for me has traditionally not Thus began a journey into hyper- the unnamed amnesiac boy who
been so simple for humans through- earshot wants awareness of my own waste. It has keeps imploring Gerontion to tell
out history. Since forever, we have nothing more than become clear to me that toilet paper the story of how he arrived wher-
found wiping to be as perplexing as to convince me that is merely a symptom of a much larger ever they are. For unclear reasons,
our deepest existential quandaries. problem, one that has been popular- he speaks in sentence fragments
I am insane. ly dubbed the “throw-away society.” like an unfrozen caveman or the
We have variously used fur, sand,
shells and stones. According to the book The Porce- As a culture, we are addicted to the too-good-to-be- garbage people on The Walking
lain God: A Social History of the Toilet, the ancient true breeziness of using things only once. Dead. Kim Nelson rounds out the
Romans used sticks with sea sponges attached. This manifests itself in countless ways: in the cast playing Marie, a woman who
Medieval monks used cloth from old clerical robes, continent of garbage that is the result of every appears to Gerontion in halluci-
and French royalty used necks of geese. Until fairly single takeout meal, in our ludicrous reliance on nations and memories.
recently, in many parts of rural United States peo- bottled water, in the inexplicable fact that plastic Soheil Parsa’s production, his
ple used corn cobs. straws exist at all, in the crinkly collection of plas- second kick at the play, is often
The ancient Chinese did use paper for bathroom tic bags that we all hope will somehow disappear striking visually – and Anahita
hygiene, but most sources attribute modern-day from our cupboards one day and in the fact that Dehbonehie’s design has plenty
toilet paper to Joseph Gayetty, who in 1857 devel- we buy corn on the cob set atop Styrofoam and of surprises that are slowly un-
oped Gayetty’s Medicated Paper in the United wrapped in cellophane. veiled. There’s little to grab on to
States. In An Irreverent and Almost Complete Social We all seem to know that we have gone too far, as a viewer in the relationships
History of the Bathroom, author Frank Muir astutely but none of us know what to do about it. Least of between Gerontion and a charac-
labels the development of toilet paper as “an ex- all me. ter who doesn’t know who he is,
cellent example of a go-ahead company creating My strange journey into a world without toilet or Gerontion and a character who
public demand for a product for which there was paper has been mostly an experiment, one that I doesn’t really seem to exist. Ge-
no need.” don’t expect anyone to follow, but one that I have rontion himself is a pain in the
Many cultures have realized that the simplest found useful. neck (albeit a poetic one). What-
answer – in this case, water – is usually the best I am convinced that a simple pause, a moment ever the play is trying to say about
one. In Islam, water must always be used after of consideration, is all we really need to become war obviously speaks deeply to
going to the bathroom; this is usually done with a more self-aware in our habits of consumption. Do I Parsa, but it was too vague and ar-
pot known as a lota. In bathrooms across India, need to use this thing right now? Will I need to tificial to mean much to me. (Al-
water and a bucket are often the only provided throw this thing away? Am I able to use less of this though occasionally, Verdecchia
cleaning tools. In Japan, bidet-style toilet seats are thing? suddenly goes specific – name-
a common household item (these highly efficient We would do well to question our attachment to dropping Kandahar or, particu-
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sane. The question of using public bathrooms in Jon Sufrin lives in Toronto. dustbin of modernism to bring
something new to the stage. But
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BRIDGE One of the most dramatic deals would allow declarer to discard led a club instead of a diamond.
BY STEVE BECKER in the history of the Vanderbilt all three losing diamonds from Declarer ruffed in dummy, drew
MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2018 Knockout Teams occurred in Dal- his hand. trumps and tried the spade fi-
las in 1997. As fate would have it, Woolsey, of course, had no nesse. But since a diamond had
the hand was the last of a 64-deal way of knowing the state of the not been led, South was able to
quarterfinal-round match be- match at that point, or what had escape for down one.
tween two top-flight teams. happened at the other table. But, The net difference in the score
The deal involved teams cap- he reasoned, it could not be good at the two tables – 400 points –
South dealer.
tained by Richard Schwartz and to go down in a doubled grand translated to nine IMPs, giving
North-South vulnerable.
Kit Woolsey. With Woolsey sit- slam. So, after taking the dia- the Schwartz team a one-IMP
ting South, the auction went as mond ace and drawing trumps, victory. Schwartz’s group then
shown. he tried the spade finesse. East went on to win the title.
The bidding: West led a diamond, and won with the queen and cashed Woolsey was left to reflect on
Woolsey could see that his only a diamond for down two – 500 the irony that if he had simply
South West North East legitimate chance to make the points. conceded down one instead
1 [H] Pass 4 [C] 5 [C] contract was to find West with At the other table, North-South of trying to make the doubled
5 [D] 6 [C] 7 [H] Dble the Q-x-x of spades. In that case, also bid seven hearts, but here grand slam, his team would have
Opening Lead – jack of diamonds. a successful finesse in the suit there was no double, and West won the match by five IMPs!

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and each section of nine (three squares by three) contains the numbers 1 through 9
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KENKEN
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CRYPTIC CLUES QUICK CLUES column must contain
ACROSS DOWN ACROSS the numbers 1 through
1 Expert (5) 6 without repeating.
1 Asians start taking 2 and 6 Down: What a judge
heart as Italians sing should do to assess the 8 Racing test of stamina (8)
Massenet opera (5) whole record (4,4,5) 9 Distort (5) 2. The numbers within
the heavily outlined
8 and 20 Down: They 3 Conceivably isn’t acne 10 Contest of physical strength (3,2,3)
boxes, called cages,
normally complete in this case (8) 11 Detest (5) must combine using
written enquiries (8,5) 4 Footsore group of workers 12 A corded cloth (3) the given operation (in
9 Falls short of a pound led by a blockhead (6) 16 Merrymaking (6) any order) to produce
note – forged perhaps (5) 5 We hear a sighed 17 Nervous (2,4) the target numbers in
10 Place of fancy? (5,3) utterance (5) 18 Conclusion (3) the top-left corners.
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decreasing numbers (3) articles appear below (5) 26 To curb (8) the numbers in the
16 Cuts back half the 12 Proceed to a port in India (3) 27 Customary (5) top-left corner.
corn plaster (6) 13 Spend that American
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secure strings of pearls (5) won’t fatigue everyone (8)
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24 A bit over-developed and 19 Being affectionate, yearn
7 A trap for animals (5) 15 Cruise, 17 Bewilder, 18 Perk, 21 Tea, 22 Erstwhile, 24 Niece, 25 Without.
not at all successful (8) to hold a number (6)
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25 Stick no label on backward (5) 20 See 8 Across whale, 13 Bull’s-eye, 14 Tibetan, 16 Seesaw, 19 Knelt, 20 Twit, 23 Ibo.
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19 Stupid person (6) 15 Kuwait, 17 Forsaken, 18 Pest, 21 Oil, 22 Tolerable, 24 Foyer, 25 Habitat.
left to right in the bar (5) may lie in public (5)
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SPORTS
BASEBALL
Justin Smoak is the Blue
Jays’ newest hero, Cathal
Kelly reports B9
MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2018 | GLOBEANDMAIL.COM
Only after Trump
will Canada and U.S.
improve trade relations
BARRIE
McKENNA
OPINION
ost trade disputes follow a predictable
M pattern. Tempers flare, opposing sides
make war-like threats and then officials
quietly broker a deal. End of story.
Investors are apparently betting that’s the case
now. Stock markets rallied in recent days on opti-
mism that Donald Trump may not be hell-bent on
starting a global trade war after all.
There is some evidence the U.S. President may
be softening his tough-guy stand on trade. He’s
exempted Canada and several other countries
from planned tariffs on steel and aluminum and
reworked a trade pact with South Korea. Chinese
and U.S. officials are apparently talking in an effort
to defuse tensions over Washington’s move to put
a 25-per-cent tariff on a
wide swath of Chinese
imports. And, finally, [Donald] Trump
Washington has tem-
pered its demand for a and his top trade
strict 50 per cent U.S. advisers have not
content requirement in budged from their
autos as part of the re- America First
negotiation of the North
American free-trade agenda.
agreement.
So does that mean Canada and the rest of the
world can relax, confidant that the familiar trade-
war-looms, trade-war-averted scenario is taking
shape?
Hardly. Mr. Trump and his top trade advisers
have not budged from their America First agenda.
Their objective remains to tilt the global trade bal-
ance in the favour of the United States through
tariffs, threats and bullying.
The suspension of planned tariffs on Canadian
steel and aluminum is a case in point. The Trump
administration has made it clear that the reprieve
is temporary – to May 1 – and that Canada will be
hit with tariffs if the United States doesn’t get a
NAFTA deal it likes.
MCKENNA, B5
Shell maps out first
phase of LNG Canada
project in B.C.
BRENT JANG VANCOUVER
Shell Canada Ltd. has mapped out plans to tap into
its vast reserves of natural gas in northeast British
Columbia to help supply a proposed terminal on
the West Coast for exports.
The company’s Groundbirch joint venture with
PetroChina Co. Ltd. is positioned to play the lead-
ing role in supplying the Shell-led liquefied natural
gas project, LNG Canada, envisaged for Kitimat in
northwest B.C.
“We can expand Groundbirch to some degree if
necessary to help us provide even more gas,” Mi-
chael Crothers, president of Calgary-based Shell
Canada, said in an interview.
Shell owns an 80-per-cent stake in the Ground-
birch natural-gas play while the remaining 20 per
cent is held by PetroChina, which acquired its in-
terest in 2012.
The Groundbirch reserves in northeast B.C. are
massive, with industry estimates saying they will
last more than 35 years based on existing produc-
tion levels.
Shell also holds 50 per cent of LNG Canada.
South Korea’s Kogas and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp.
each have a 15-per-cent stake, while PetroChina
owns a 20-per-cent interest in the LNG consortium.
Another important source of natural gas will be
the Cutbank Ridge play in northeast British Co-
lumbia. Encana Corp. holds a 60-per-cent stake in
the Cutbank Ridge joint venture, with Mitsubishi
owning 40 per cent.
At Groundbirch and Cutbank Ridge, producers
fracture rock in a high-pressure process to free the
“tight gas.”
Mr. Crothers said LNG Canada’s first phase will
rely primarily on natural gas from Groundbirch
and Cutbank Ridge, plus smaller contributions
from Kogas. Phase one in Kitimat will have two
“trains,” or separate LNG cooling processes.
Each train is being designed to handle 6.5 mil-
lion tonnes a year of LNG exports to Asia, for a
total of 13 million tonnes annually in the first
phase.
SHELL, B5
TENNIS
John Isner, Sloane
Stephens win Miami Open
finals B13
HBC hit by data breach
at Saks, Lord & Taylor
Gemini Advisory says information was stolen from 83 Saks Fifth Avenue or Saks Off Fifth stores and from all Lord &
Taylor locations in North America. RICHARD DREW/AP
Customer payment
information may have
been stolen at three
Canadian Saks locations
SALMAAN FAROOQUI TORONTO
Hudson’s Bay Co. is the latest Cana-
dian company to be hit with a data
breach, saying that customer pay-
ment card information may have
been stolen from shoppers at cer-
tain Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off
Fifth and Lord & Taylor stores in
North America.
A spokesperson for retailer
would not comment on whether
any specific Canadian locations
were affected, but did say there is
no indication the breach affects any
of HBC’s other digital platforms,
Alternative mortgage lenders struggling
to cash in on new stress-testing rules
JANET MCFARLAND
JAMES BRADSHAW
Canada’s alternative mortgage lend-
ers are not getting the anticipated
boost to business from the introduc-
tion of tougher mortgage qualifica-
tion rules that took effect three
months ago.
Credit unions and other non-bank
lenders were expected to see a bump
in business after Canada’s banking
regulator, the Office of the Superin-
tendent of Financial Institutions
(OSFI), imposed new rules on Jan. 1
requiring banks and other regulated
institutions to ensure borrowers can
afford their mortgages even if inter-
est rates were significantly higher
than the negotiated rate.
In Friday’s jobs report, look at
the underbelly of the market
MICHAEL BABAD
ANALYSIS
THE WEEK AHEAD
Look beneath the top-line num-
bers, and study the underbelly of
the labour market, when Statis-
tics Canada releases its monthly
jobs report Friday.
While Canada has been strong
on the jobs front, with unemploy-
ment now at a four-decade low of
5.8 per cent, that underbelly tells
a deeper story in these tradition-
ally volatile reports.
Economists expect the federal
statistics agency to report that the
economy created between 10,000
and 20,000 jobs in March, with
unemployment holding steady or
possibly even dipping to 5.7 per
cent.
This follows what Statistics
Canada says was a massive loss of
88,000 jobs in January and then a
BASKETBALL
Michigan to face Villanova
in NCAA men’s final B10
Hudson’s Bay stores or Home Out-
fitters locations.
HBC released little information
on the breach itself on Sunday, but
a New York-based cybersecurity
firm said it had analyzed the avail-
able data and found that informa-
tion from five-million credit cards
had been compromised.
Gemini Advisory LLC said in a re-
port that the information was sto-
len from 83 Saks Fifth Avenue or
Saks Off Fifth stores and from all
Lord & Taylor locations.
The firm found that three Cana-
dian Saks locations were exposed to
the breach: Sherway Gardens in To-
ronto, Bramalea City Centre in
Brampton, Ont. and Pickering Town
Centre in Pickering, Ont.
Dmitry Chorine, the co-founder
of Gemini Advisory, said his firm
works to improve response to data
breaches by analyzing stolen data
The stress-test rule does not apply
to lenders that are not OSFI regulat-
ed, including provincially regulated
institutions such as credit unions,
which were expected to lure custom-
ers who were turned away from the
banks by the tougher new standards.
But home buyers have so far not
moved in droves to alternative lend-
ers, in part because real estate sales
remain slow in major markets such
as Vancouver and Toronto, cooling
mortgage demand in the first quarter
of 2018.
Banks are also working hard to
keep clients, while many credit
unions say they are taking a conser-
vative approach to wooing custom-
ers who do not qualify for loans else-
where.
Rob Paterson, chief executive offi-
gain of about 15,000 one month
later.
Here’s where things stand as of
the last report:
February employment was up
1.5 per cent from a year earlier, or
by almost 285,000 positions, and
all of them because of full-time
work, so it’s hard to argue with
that.
At the same time, the unem-
ployment rate was down a nice
0.8 of a percentage point from the
same period of 2017.
But here are other numbers
worth considering, some not sea-
sonally adjusted, and where anal-
ysts believe the jobs market is
headed:
The number of people without
work stood at 1.14 million, down
from 1.15 million in January and
marking a strong 11-per-cent drop
from a year earlier.
Still, at times we can gloss over
the fact that well over a million of
us can’t find a job.
LOOKAHEAD, B2
that appears on the so-called dark
web. Mr. Chorine said the firm start-
ed looking into the breach when
they noticed an influx of stolen
credit- and debit-card information
being offered for sale on the dark
web last week.
Upon analyzing the data, Mr.
Chorine said they were able to de-
termine that shoppers at all Lord &
Taylor and at certain Saks Fifth Ave-
nue locations were at risk of having
their information stolen.
“On March 28, we saw a signif-
icant spike of stolen credit cards of-
fered for sale on one of the market-
places,” Mr. Chorine said.
“When we checked, we saw there
was an advertisement stating that
more than five-million credit and
debit cards will be offered for sale
and that’s when we decided to re-
search this particular breach.”
BREACH, B6
cer of Ottawa-based Alterna Savings
& Credit Union Ltd., said busi-
ness has been slower because of
weak buyer demand for house pur-
chases in Ontario.
“We’re really seeing a softening in
the market,” he said. “The volumes
would be slightly lower on a year-
over-year basis than we’ve experi-
enced before, so we’re actually hav-
ing to spend more time out there in
the market.”
He said he is hearing that major
banks are also working more with cli-
ents to counsel them on how to qual-
ify for mortgages, rather than seeing
clients move on to other lenders.
“What the Big Five are trying to do
is talk to them about ways that they
can meet the higher hurdle,” he said.
MORTGAGES, B5
TECHNOLOGY
OMERS Ventures
startup OneEleven
is expanding to Ottawa
and Vancouver B3
GLOBE INVESTOR
Why the fixed-income
ETF market is expected
to get more crowded
this year B6
CAREERS
It’s time for employers
to embrace the reskilling
revolution spawned by
robots B7
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Lookahead: Economists expect labour market to slow along with economic growth
FROM B1
Another measure we often gloss
over is Statistics Canada’s R8, a
reading that includes “discour-
aged” job seekers, those waiting
to be recalled or awaiting replies,
and “involuntary part-timers.”
That number stood at 9 per
cent in February. So for many
Canadians, a 40-year low in the
official unemployment rate is of
little solace.
Economists expect the labour
market to slow along with eco-
nomic growth, but that doesn’t
mean it won’t still be growing.
“January got 2018 off on the
wrong foot in terms of job cre-
ation, but February’s modest re-
bound, coupled with a similar
gain in March, should represent
nascent signs of a decent, if not
spectacular, year for job cre-
ation,” said Royce Mendes of
CIBC World Markets.
Then there are wages.
“While this is likely the least
meaningful of the four wage se-
ries that are available in Canada, a
further deceleration from its pre-
vious peak would be in line with
our view that the recent hot read-
ings were more a product of vola-
tility in the data,” Mr. Mendes
said.
Bank of Montreal expects Fri-
day’s report to show annual wage
increases rose in March to 3.3 per
cent from February’s 3.1 per cent.
That, in turn, marked a dip from
January’s 3.3 per cent, but these
recent readings have been up
markedly from last year.
“The large minimum wage
hike in Ontario in January prob-
ably explains some of the recent
strength, but wages were also up
2.9 per cent year-over-year out-
side of Ontario in February,” Roy-
al Bank of Canada added in a loo-
kahead.
David Madani, senior Canada
economist at Capital Economics,
looked at the issue by including
other measures, and found that
we’re basically getting nowhere.
“As things now stand, we esti-
mate that nominal wages and sal-
aries growth likely slowed to
around 4 cent per quarter over
quarter, annualized, in the first
U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell speaks during a news
conference on March 21. ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES
quarter of this year,” Mr. Madani
said. “If the above is accurate,
then the reported increases in
consumer prices, especially ener-
gy prices, means that real wages
were largely unchanged in [the
first quarter].”
MONDAY: PULL IN YOUR FANGS
European markets are out of
commission again, but we’ll see
how North America fares after
the tumult of last week closed out
a loser of a quarter.
London’s FTSE 100, Germany’s
DAX and the Paris CAC 40 lost be-
tween 2.7 per cent and 8.2 per
cent in the first three months,
and Tokyo’s Nikkei about 7 per
cent.
The S&P 500 shed more
than 1 per cent, the Dow Jones In-
dustrial Average 2.5 per cent, and
the S&P/TSX Composite about 5
per cent.
The Nasdaq actually rose in the
quarter, though the past couple
of weeks have been ugly amid
Facebook Inc.’s mounting trou-
bles and market fears over how
the tech sector will be regulated.
Investors have watched as the
so-called FANG stocks of Face-
book, Amazon.com, Netflix and
Google parent Alphabet Inc. have
suffered.
“Despite sliding over the past
two weeks, technology is still
among the top performers on a
relative basis this year, with the
Nasdaq clinging to positive terri-
tory; the sector is outperforming
in both the S&P 500 and TSX; and
tech is still up more than 20 per
cent from a year ago on both sides
of the border,” said BMO senior
economist Robert Kavcic.
“But the temperature is falling
quickly.”
We’ll also see several manufac-
turing purchasing managers in-
dex readings from around the
world today.
Watch, too, for results from
Callidus Capital Corp.
TUESDAY: SECOND VERSE
Watch as Spotify makes its New
York Stock Exchange debut,
which reports say could value the
Swedish streaming service com-
pany at more than US$20-billion.
“After the success of the Drop-
box IPO earlier in March, markets
are now gearing up for [Spotify],”
said CMC Markets chief analyst
Michael Hewson.
“In normal circumstances
when companies embark on an
initial public offering (IPO), the
process involves the issuing of
new shares in the company in or-
der to raise extra funds to either
fund an expansion program, or to
pay down debt.”
On the economic front, Europe
catches up with manufacturing
readings.
“The recent underperform-
ance in European equity markets
appears to speak to some concern
that PMI data since the beginning
of the year, as well as other indica-
tors, has shown signs of softness,
raising questions as to whether
the best of the economic recovery
in Europe could well be in the
rear-view mirror,” Mr. Hewson
said.
“This week’s March manufac-
turing and services PMIs in China,
Japan and Europe could well rein-
force these concerns and keep in-
vestors cautious about the out-
look, given how poorly markets
in Europe and Japan have per-
formed relative to their U.S. coun-
terparts in recent weeks.”
Down under, the Reserve Bank
of Australia is expected to hold its
key rate steady at 1.5 per cent
while “the policy statement will
surely hint again that a rate hike
is not around the corner,” Capital
Economics said.
India’s central bank is also ex-
pected to hold rates steady, but
“we think that elevated core infla-
tion and looser fiscal policy will
prompt the central bank to raise
interest rates before too long,”
Shilan Shah of Capital Economics
said.
WEDNESDAY: HUMP DAY
What better for a mellow Hump
Day than the latest quarterly re-
sults from CannaRoyalty Corp.
Markets will also be watching
for the ADP jobs report that pre-
cedes the government labour
market release in the United
States, along with U.S. factory or-
ders for February, expected to
show a jump of 1.7 per cent from
January.
Europe’s statistics agency also
releases the latest look at infla-
tion and jobs.
THURSDAY: TRUMP DAY
President Donald Trump will no
doubt be watching the latest
trade numbers closely. Analysts
forecast today’s report will show a
slight easing of America’s trade
deficit to a still-hefty US$56-bil-
lion in February, which could get
the President tweeting again.
Statistics Canada will, at the
same time, release our version of
that report, which economists ex-
pect to show a fatter trade gap of
$2.2-billion in January.
“Exports will benefit from a
weaker [Canadian dollar] after
peaking in late January,” said
economists at Toronto-Domin-
ion Bank. “Elsewhere, a partial re-
bound in motor vehicles should
help support headline exports af-
ter plant shutdowns led to a 13.1-
per-cent decline in January,” they
added.
“Real energy exports should
rebound from a sharp decline in
January but further declines in
crude oil prices will weigh on
nominal exports. Meanwhile, im-
ports should see a broad rebound
after falling over 4 per cent in Ja-
nuary.”
FRIDAY: JOBS
Watch how the loonie reacts to
the Canadian jobs report as mar-
kets speculate on when the Bank
of Canada will next raise interest
rates. The currency bounced
higher on the last inflation re-
port, but then mellowed.
Along with Statistics Canada’s
labour report comes the widely
watched U.S. version, which is
forecast to show job creation of
about 185,000 in March and a dip
in unemployment to just 4 per
cent.
“In our forecast, we project the
unemployment rate to fall to 3.4
per cent by year-end, which
should result in more noticeable
wage pressures as the labour mar-
ket tightens well below full em-
ployment,” Deutsche Bank econ-
omists said in a lookahead.
Monsanto Co. also reports re-
sults, and Federal Reserve chief
Jerome Powell closes out the
week with an afternoon speech
on the economy.
“In general, we expect Powell
to reiterate the upbeat outlook he
presented at the March 21 [Fed]
meeting,” Deutsche Bank econo-
mists said.

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Startup accelerator OneEleven scaling up
OMERS Ventures’
tech-incubator arm is
expanding to Ottawa
and Vancouver, with
Boston, London and
Berlin also being eyed
DAVID EBNER VANCOUVER
OneEleven, the Toronto-based
technology startup accelerator
backed by OMERS Ventures, is ex-
panding to Ottawa and Vancouv-
er this year, and aims to open in
Boston and in Europe soon after.
OneEleven provides services
and office space to small technol-
ogy companies that have several
million dollars in revenue or
funding and are poised to grow. It
was created in 2013 by OMERS
Ventures, the venture-capital arm
of the pension fund for Ontario
municipal employees; the pro-
vincial government’s Ontario
Centres of Excellence; and Ryer-
son University.
OneEleven currently houses 34
companies at its 325 Front St. W.
office, five of which joined in the
past month.
Over the past several months,
the backers of OneEleven started
to see an opportunity to grow, like
the small companies they are
helping.
“We really zeroed in on One-
Eleven being a scale-up commu-
nity, but how do you have real
credibility saying that when we
aren’t doing that ourselves?” said
John Ruffolo, chief executive of
OMERS Ventures, and a director
of OneEleven. “There is a desire
for a scale-up community all over
the place.”
The board has signed on Cana-
dian technology veteran Dean
Hopkins as an adviser. “I saw a
huge opportunity immediately,”
Mr. Hopkins said of the potential
to expand OneEleven to other ci-
ties. “We’re being ambitious. We
want to show scaling companies
what it is like to scale, too.” Mr.
Hopkins will soon take on a more
formal role with OneEleven and
has been a tech adviser for Thom-
son Reuters since 2002 and previ-
ously founded Cyberplex Inc. in
the mid-1990s.
OneEleven’s expansion in Can-
ada comes amid a surge of ven-
ture-capital investments in the
country. In 2017, VC firms invested
$3.5-billion, the eighth successive
year of growth. The number is up
about 10 per cent from $3.2-billion
in 2016 and about 50 per cent
higher than the $2.3-billion of
venture financing in 2015.
Startups at OneEleven pay for
Flower growers benefit from cannabis boom
BRENDA BOUW
rin Nathanielsen had heard
E about a number of fellow
flower growers across Cana-
da selling or switching their busi-
nesses over to marijuana produc-
tion, hoping to cash in when the
drug is fully legalized.
However, it wasn’t until a few
months ago that she started not-
icing that the reduced number of
competitors was having a positive
impact on her family business
that grows potted kalanchoes, ka-
lanchoe cut flowers, geraniums
and begonias.
“We are starting to find de-
mand is going up,” alongside
some prices, says Ms. Nathaniel-
sen, who co-owns McIntosh
Greenhouses in Surrey, B.C., with
her husband, Eric.
To meet that new demand, the
Nathanielsens have increased
production by an average of
about 20 per cent this season. Still,
they’re being careful not to over-
extend themselves by expanding
capacity or overhiring. “We’re just
working harder,” Ms. Nathaniel-
sen says.
Greenhouse property values
have also gone up as marijuana
growers shift into rapid expan-
sion mode. “It has made us feel a
bit safer,” she says of the family
operation. “Business has been
quite tough in the last five years …
and has been good the last little
while, so we’re hoping it stays that
way.”
McIntosh Greenhouses is one
of many floriculture operations
across Canada seeing an increase
in business – either from new cus-
tomers or existing ones – as for-
mer competitors move into can-
nabis production, says Andrew
Morse, executive director of Flow-
ers Canada Growers Inc. and Flow-
ers Canada (Ontario) Inc. But it’s
far from a windfall, Mr. Morse
says, due to rising costs and com-
petition from other countries that
Tech incubator OneEleven space and services, rather than
has already reached hand over equity. Companies
capacity at its 325 Front range in size from a few workers
St. W. premises in to several dozen and generally
Toronto, providing office stay at OneEleven for a year or
space and services to 34 two.
tech startups employing OneEleven alumni include To-
more than 500 people. ronto-based Tulip Retail, which
The company is now makes mobile software for store
planning to increase its clerks and raised US$40-million
Toronto operation, while in venture financing last summer
also expanding to Ottawa from Kleiner Perkins Caufield &
and Vancouver this year. Byers, one of Silicon Valley’s top
FRED LUM/ financiers. Borrowell, which pro-
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ing advice, and Big Viking Games,
a mobile game developer, are also
veterans.
The first step in OneEleven’s
expansion will be establishing an
office in Ottawa, where it has
space downtown at 66 Slater St., a
block away from the headquar-
ters of Shopify Inc., the capital’s
hot tech company. OneEleven will
open there in July and has one
floor in the building with an op-
tion to expand.
Alongside OMERS Ventures,
Oxford Properties, the real estate
arm of OMERS, works with One-
Eleven. In Toronto, Oxford Prop-
erties owns OneEleven’s space,
and in Ottawa, the Slater office
was found through an Oxford
Properties connection. In Van-
couver, where OneEleven plans to
open later this year, it is looking at
a possible initial office in the Ma-
McIntosh Greenhouses affects how high prices can go.
owners Erin “This is a trade-exposed indus-
Nathanielsen, left, and try. We have competitors on the
her husband, Eric, work other side of the border who don’t
in one of their Surrey,
B.C., greenhouses on
have the same increasing price
pressures that we do,” Mr. Morse
March 9. The
Nathanielsens have
says. “As a result, there’s a limita-
tion to how much you can push
increased production by the price up or else you run the
about 20 per cent this risk of losing business to a com-
season to meet rising petitor.”
demand for their potted The boost in business is com-
kalanchoes and other ing largely from existing custom-
flowers. ers looking for more products.
DARRYL DYCK/ One supplier told Ms. Nathaniel-
THE GLOBE AND MAIL sen at least five kalanchoe pro-
ducers in Canada sold to investors
looking to start marijuana oper-
ations.
Growers are also facing higher
prices for greenhouse supplies
due to the surge in demand from
the marijuana industry, Mr. Morse
says. “It’s to the point where cer-
tain products are cheaper to buy
from a hardware store than they
are from a wholesaler,” he says,
such as hoses, for example.
The cost of labour is also in-
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
rine Building, owned by Oxford
Properties. It is the same blue-
print for Boston, where OneEle-
ven is also looking to establish it-
self by the end of this year, Mr.
Hopkins said. The plan is again
likewise for London and Berlin,
where Oxford Properties does
business. OneEleven could open
in those cities early next year.
“I said to John [Ruffolo] and
the board, ‘Why don’t we take this
show on the road?’ ” Mr. Hopkins
said. He named a dozen or so ci-
ties in the world that have a vi-
brant market of startups, places
OneEleven is now scouting, such
as Boston, London and Berlin,
and other cities such as Austin,
Singapore and Beijing.
“Let’s get as many of the top
startup ecosystems in the world
to have a OneEleven in them,” Mr.
Hopkins said. “We’re taking this
to global markets.”
As it expands elsewhere, OneE-
leven is also looking to grow in To-
ronto, where it is at capacity at 325
Front St. W. It moved there in
early 2017. It has one big floor,
with 50,000 square feet, some 500
people over its 34 companies.
OneEleven wants to double its To-
ronto size. “We’re bursting at the
seams,” Mr. Hopkins said.
Oxford Properties had renovat-
ed the Front Street building for
tech companies – Vancouver’s
Hootsuite Media Inc. has about 90
creasing, due to the higher mini-
mum wage in provinces such as
Ontario and the shortage of
tradespeople working on green-
house expansion projects.
“If you’re already positioned
for it, good for you, but if you’re
not, you may have to wait,” Mr.
Morse says.
Many growers are being cau-
tious with their expansion plans,
worried in part about a potential
oversupply of cannabis that could
send some growers back to flow-
ers or other greenhouse crops.
“The real issue here is that we
don’t know what this will look
like in the next few years,” Mr.
Morse says. “It’s hard to tell where
it will balance out because no-
body really knows how successful
the marijuana industry will be
and what long-lasting impact that
has.”
George Scott, co-owner of
Scott’s Nursery Ltd., a third-gen-
eration business based in Lincoln,
N.B., has noticed costs of supplies
that come from other provinces,
B3
people there – and Oxford plans
to eventually redevelop the site
and other land it has in the area,
all of it near Rogers Centre. OneE-
leven isn’t sure if it will expand
where it is or move nearby.
In Vancouver, a long-term loca-
tion is also a question. Oxford
Properties is opening a new build-
ing downtown in 2020 that Ama-
zon.com Inc. is taking for its sec-
ond Vancouver location. Oxford
Properties is also looking at an
unusual idea for a new building
by the convention centre on the
water.
The Vancouver tech industry is
dispersed, with various oper-
ations dotting downtown, Yale-
town, Gastown and Mount Pleas-
ant. One option for OneEleven is
the downtown nexus where Ox-
ford and Amazon are.
A second option is Mount
Pleasant, where Hootsuite is
based. Hootsuite CEO Ryan
Holmes and developer Ian Gilles-
pie have purchased land there
and have submitted a proposal to
the city to establish a tech hub,
several new buildings as well as
some redevelopment. The tech
hub would house Hootsuite and
others. OMERS Ventures is a ma-
jor Hootsuite financier and One-
Eleven has talked with Mr.
Holmes about possible space in
the tech hub. The facility is slated
to open in 2020.
such as cardboard boxes, have in-
creased. Mr. Scott hasn’t seen a
noticeable boost in demand that
he would contribute to growers
going to cannabis, “but I do hope
that’s part of a spinoff from it,” he
says.
Other greenhouse operations
aren’t seeing a meaningful boost
in business – at least not yet, ac-
cording to Joseph Sbrocchi, gen-
eral manager of the Ontario
Greenhouse Vegetable Growers
association. But Mr. Sbrocchi
notes capacity expansion across
the sector has slowed significantly
this year. His organization, which
represents growers of greenhouse
tomatoes, cucumbers and pep-
pers in Ontario, is expecting
greenhouse acreage to grow by
about 1.5 per cent this year. That’s
below an average of about 7 per
cent a year over the past six years.
“We are still increasing, but by a
much more modest percentage,”
he says.
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OPINION & ANALYSIS

Data can make
our lives better,
but proceed with caution
JAN KESTLE

OPINION

Founder, president and CEO of Environics Analytics

vidence-based and data-driven are the new buzz-

E words for decision making in business, government

and social-service organizations. Who could dis-
agree? What else would responsible leaders use to
make their decisions? Gut feel and intuition are definitely
out of fashion.
The volume, velocity and variety of data available to
organizations are unprecedented. Computing power and
storage capacity make it possible to analyze data like never
before. And the continued automation and tracking of al-
most everything – from seeing who is at the front door and
monitoring a household’s electricity usage, to following our
digital and mobile breadcrumbs – mean that the volume of
data will continue to grow exponentially.
So when the questionable practices of Cambridge Analyt-
ica came to light recently, there was an immediate reaction
sparking widespread discussion about the collection and
use of data. Some see having access to vast amounts of data
as an opportunity, while others feel it leaves them exposed.
Consumers are nervous, but so are businesses – or at least
they should be.
Having access to consumer data raises the stakes for or-
ganizations that have to carefully consider what they can
and should do with information they collect.
For companies such as ours that specialize in providing
data and analytics, addressing issues of privacy, consumer
protection and transparency, along with ensuring delivery
of expert methodology, appropriate technology and useful
storytelling, are always top of mind.
Environics Analytics is the leading provider of data on
demographics, lifestyle, mindset, behaviour and media
preferences of Canadians to businesses, governments and
not-for-profits.
Integrating data from hundreds of authoritative sources, Ballard Power produces fuel cells that convert hydrogen into clean electricity and nearly half of the company’s
our geek team (which includes more than 100 qualified sales now come from China, as the country adds electric buses to its roads. JAMES MACDONALD/BLOOMBERG
modellers and statisticians) annually creates privacy-com-
pliant databases, which collectively contain approximately
40,000 variables for one million postal codes. These data
are used by more than 2,000 organizations, who combine
them with data they collect, to answer their key business
As energy systems transform,
questions.
What should not be forgotten in this discussion is how
data-driven decision making, when done legally, ethically
are Canadian companies ready?
and responsibly, makes the lives of Canadians better. We’ve
helped municipalities develop more efficient delivery of
emergency services such as fire, ambulance and policing. While some firms started reaping these rewards. Yet Canadian oil companies
We also provide critical information that planners at all Both companies produce fuel lag their global peers. Among
levels of government need to fund social services, stream- are finding success cells that convert hydrogen into Canadian oil and gas producers,
line health care, conserve energy, deliver education and in clean solutions, clean electricity and nearly half only Suncor has begun seriously
more. others are at risk of Ballard’s sales now come from diversifying into renewable ener-
Good analytics benefit con- China, as the country adds hy- gy (and it sold off wind-power
sumers as well. All of us are busy. of falling behind drogen-fuelled electric buses to assets in the last year).
Does the news We want to receive messages and its roads. Ballard cited a record This is cause for concern. As a
offers about things that are of in- US$121–million in annual reve- recent report from Wood Mack-
about the Facebook terest to us, that make our days MERRAN SMITH nue for 2017. enzie put it, oil and gas compa-
and Cambridge simpler, more efficient and help Meanwhile, Canada had a re- nies that adopt renewables early
Analytica breach us find products and services cord 13 companies on the Global will gain a competitive advan-
easily – while filtering out those OPINION Cleantech 100 unveiled in Janu- tage. As for slow adopters: “They
hurt the analytics that do not. ary, an impressive showing con- could find themselves at a struc-
industry? We say no. We don’t want to receive tar- Executive director of Clean Energy sidering our population. Seven tural disadvantage.”
It highlights the geted ads for the next month in Canada, a think tank at Simon Fraser were in B.C. alone (the province, And lastly, Canadian business-
differences between our web searches for a product University it should be noted, that intro- es should look to some of the
we bought yesterday. And we duced North America’s first car- world’s largest corporations for
firms collecting or want our local merchants to hange happens, with or bon tax). inspiration, at least when it
providing data and
analytics in a
responsible way and
stock products that are tailored
to our lifestyle.
When businesses and organi-
C without us.
Just as social media up-
ended communications, the
comes to clean energy. As of Ja-
nuary, 122 multinational compa-
nies had committed to sourcing
zations do good analytics, every- transition to clean energy is rap- Canada should look to 100-per-cent renewable electrici-
those who are not one benefits. So what are “good” idly undoing century-old expec- ty as RE100 members.
obeying the laws or data and analytics practices? tations around electricity, trans- where the world is If those 122 companies were a
employing best Here are five principles from portation and oil – and it’s hap- headed. In key areas, country, its electricity demand
practices. which we never deviate: pening in market-shifting, often our country has room to would be the 24th-highest in the
1. Personal data must only be surprising ways. grow and innovate. At world. And while we can cele-
used for the purposes to which the provider consented. But while some Canadian brate Toronto-Dominion Bank’s
2. Personal data must not be shared with a third party companies are finding success in the same time, there are participation, it’s unfortunately
under any circumstances, unless there was explicit consent clean solutions, others – notably numerous Canadian the only Canadian member on
to the sharing. in Canada’s oil patch – are at risk companies that are the list – compared with 41 com-
3. The consent to opt in or opt out as appropriate under of falling behind. thriving and showing us panies in the United States and
the law must be easy to understand and accessible to the Canada should look to where 25 in Britain.
provider. the world is headed. In key areas, the way forward. Those American companies
4. Survey responders have a right to expect their indi- our country has room to grow aren’t exceptions to the rule, ei-
vidual responses to be confidential. and innovate. At the same time, Elsewhere, however, Canada ther. Roughly half of the United
5. Sharing personal data for “academic research” should there are numerous Canadian needs to catch up with global en- States’ 500 largest corporations
be governed by licensing agreements and subject to the companies that are thriving and ergy trends – or risk falling be- now have renewable-energy tar-
standards that apply for any other purpose. showing us the way forward. hind. While our country saw a gets and that percentage is even
Do the known facts in the Facebook and Cambridge Ana- Consider the scale of what 68-per-cent increase in electric- higher among the top 100.
lytica story suggest that these principles were adhered to? we’re talking about. The increas- car sales in 2017, we’re still trail- What does all this boil down
Obviously not. It’s no surprise that investors, employees ing global market for low-carbon ing other leading countries in to for Canada? In some cases,
and users are upset. goods and services is now worth terms of electric-vehicle adop- pressure to catch up.
We are fortunate that Canada has some of the strictest US$5.8-trillion – with a t – and is tion. But these energy-disrupting
privacy laws in the world, but organizations like ours can expected to keep increasing by 3 China, France, Germany, Bri- trends are also creating opportu-
and should do more to earn business and consumer trust. per cent a year. tain and others have all an- nities, as more and more Cana-
For instance, data should be modelled down based on ac- The Clean200, a ranking of the nounced they will ban the sale of dian companies know firsthand.
cepted statistical processes, not aggregated from personal world’s biggest publicly traded gasoline and diesel-fuelled cars. Canada is home to a number
data. Businesses shouldn’t keep, compile or use e-mail ad- companies earning significant It’s a strong signal to auto mak- of world-leading cleantech com-
dresses for any data development or client work. And it revenue from clean energy, was ers and the oil sector that they panies that prove we have the
almost goes without saying, but in this day and age, person- launched in 2016 and updated need to innovate and evolve – talent to succeed. Our large cor-
al information should be kept in secured data centres. this February; over that year- and it’s a message the Canadian porations and oil sector, on the
We are committed to all of these practices, but this is just and-a-half period, Clean200 re- government has yet to send. other hand, need to come up
the beginning. turns outperformed fossil-fuel Such a signal might also en- with game plans to manage the
We believe organizations like ours must be transparent ones by a factor of two. courage Canada’s oil sector to risks and seize the opportunities
and willing to submit to regular external audits to back up In short: It pays to stay cur- follow in the footsteps of the that lie ahead.
that commitment. rent. world’s largest oil majors, which After all, the global energy
We are connected with industry associations and interna- Vancouver’s Ballard Power are increasingly investing in transition is happening – with or
tional bodies who are committed to an ethical code of con- and Toronto’s Hydrogenics have clean energy. without us.
duct and share best practices.
And while regulations governing data privacy change by
jurisdiction, we believe it’s important to apply the same
practices, reflecting the strictest regulations globally, across DILBERT
all of our business offerings, regardless of where they are.
Does the news about the Facebook and Cambridge Ana-
lytica breach hurt the analytics industry?
We say no. It highlights the differences between firms
collecting or providing data and analytics in a responsible
way and those who are not obeying the laws or employing
best practices.
Data and analytics are the fuel of good service provision
and a competitive economy. Citizens and consumers have a
right to expect organizations will ensure their data will be
kept private and used responsibly to their benefit and for
the intended purpose. Despite the unfortunate situation
leading to it, this is a public discussion that is welcome – in
fact, overdue.
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Shell: Company is a ‘very big gas trader’
FROM B1
A relatively small amount of nat-
ural gas would be accessed
through the open market.
“Shell is a very big gas trader.
Our people are able to access all
manner of contracts from indi-
vidual producers or from the
market broadly,” Mr. Crothers
said. “Our trading team would
construct the most effective
sourcing strategy for the remain-
ing small amount of volume that
we would need.”
In total, LNG Canada’s con-
struction costs would be up to
$40-billion, including the Kiti-
mat export terminal and Tran-
sCanada Corp.’s proposed $4.7-
billion Coastal GasLink pipeline
from northeastern British Co-
lumbia to Kitimat.
Shell Canada, wholly owned
by Anglo-Dutch energy giant
Shell, and the three Asian co-
owners of LNG Canada could
make a final investment decision
by the end of 2018, aiming to
Mortgages: Balances growing quicker at banks
FROM B1
Bank of Canada data show that
mortgage balances grew three
times faster at banks than at cred-
it unions between the end of De-
cember and the end of February,
which suggests credit unions are
not taking mortgage business
away from the big banks, accord-
ing to Ben Rabidoux, president of
North Cove Advisors, a market re-
search firm focusing on Canadian
credit trends.
The data show outstanding res-
idential mortgage credit climbed
by 1 per cent at credit unions and
by 3.2 per cent at banks during the
two-month period, based on sea-
sonally adjusted numbers on an
annualized basis.
Martha Durdin, CEO of the Can-
adian Credit Union Association,
said many of Canada’s credit
unions are not rushing to take all
the new business that comes
through the door.
complete construction of the
first phase in late 2023. If LNG
Canada opens new export mar-
kets in Asia, it would lift de-
pressed prices for natural gas in
Western Canada while reducing
dependence on U.S. buyers, said
Jeff Tonken, chief executive offi-
cer at Birchcliff Energy Ltd.
LNG Canada officials wel-
comed the BC NDP government’s
proposals unveiled on March 22 –
including sales-tax relief for con-
struction and the elimination of
specific income tax on the indus-
try – designed to bolster LNG
prospects in British Columbia.
But a major hurdle remains
for LNG Canada, which has asked
the federal Finance Department
to exempt the B.C. project from
anti-dumping duties of up to 45.8
per cent on imports of fabricated
industrial steel components.
LNG Canada, which would as-
semble made-in-China modules
in Kitimat, is seeking tariff relief
by applying for a “remission or-
der” from Ottawa.
“Brokers may be pushing ap-
plicants our way, but that doesn’t
mean we are writing more busi-
ness,” she said.
She said many credit unions
are “inherently conservative” and
do not want to take on higher
risks.
And many also don’t have the
capacity to write a lot more mort-
gages, because they are limited by
their ability to raise capital to
backstop new mortgages.
Vancouver City Savings Credit
Union, Canada’s largest credit
union commonly referred to as
Vancity, decided to be careful
about taking on new risk in the
wake of the rule change, said Rick
Sielski, senior vice-president of
enterprise risk.
Vancity has been applying a
new stress test of its own on mort-
gage applications, although one
that is less strict than the OSFI
standard, he said.
“For sure we’re not seeing any
The Canadian Institute of
Steel Construction is worried
about unfair foreign competi-
tion. But the Canadian Associ-
ation of Petroleum Producers is
urging Ottawa to remove the du-
ties, arguing that Canada’s steel
sector stands to be helped and
not harmed by B.C.’s fledgling
LNG industry.
“Thousands of tonnes of do-
mestically sourced reinforcing
steel would be needed for the
concrete in Canadian LNG facil-
ities,” according to a March letter
sent by CAPP to federal Finance
Minister Bill Morneau.
The letter, obtained by The
Globe and Mail, is signed by
CAPP CEO Tim McMillan and 15
executives of energy companies,
including Mr. Crothers and Mr.
Tonken.
“By working together, we be-
lieve we can develop a solution
that addresses our concerns to
the mutual benefit of Canada’s
steel, and oil and natural gas sec-
tors,” they told Mr. Morneau.
heyday, and our strategy also
wasn’t to build market share with
a lower stress test or by being
more lenient,” he said.
While many credit unions have
not seen soaring demand from
the OSFI changes, Mr. Sielski said
there is no information available
on how much business is going to
private lenders and “shadow”
lenders who are unregulated and
do not provide data on their busi-
ness.
Robert Goodall, CEO of Atrium
Mortgage Investment Corp., said
he thought he’d see more mort-
gage business from the rule
change than has emerged, al-
though he hadn’t anticipated a
huge leap in demand.
Mr. Goodall said Atrium charg-
es higher rates than mainstream
banks because of the riskier pro-
file of its borrowers, who are
largely entrepreneurs and new
immigrants, which deters many
other buyers seeking a mortgage.
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FROM B1
Far from a reprieve, the exemption is like negotiating with a
gun to the head.
“I can assure you, if we don’t get a better deal within the
context of NAFTA from Canada and Mexico and refigure this,
we’re going to have something happen,” White House trade
adviser Peter Navarro told CNN recently.
And while the United States may have dropped its de-
mand on auto content, a number of other deal-breakers for
Canada remain on the table. These include reopening NAFTA
every five years, dismantling the tariff wall that protects Can-
ada’s supply-management system in dairy and poultry and
scrapping Chapter 19, which allows Ottawa to appeal U.S. an-
ti-dumping and subsidy cases.
The jeopardy for Canada remains high in the NAFTA talks.
RBC Asset Management chief economist Eric Lascelles says
the probability of a NAFTA deal has increased in recent
weeks, but it may not be to Canada’s liking.
“A deal of some sort is becoming more likely, though with
no guarantee that it is a good one,” he says in a research re-
port. Mr. Lascelles puts the odds of a bad outcome for Canada
at 40 per cent; 60 per cent for something more benign.
Beyond the NAFTA talks, Canada is also embroiled in dis-
putes with the United States over newsprint, softwood lum-
ber and solar panels. The Trump administration has imposed
steep tariffs on all three products – moves Ottawa says are
unjustified.
What is most troubling in all this is that Canada and the
Trump administration are at odds over how trade works. Mr.
Trump sees imports of anything
as an economic loss to the United
States. He has repeatedly − and
wrongly − claimed that the Unit- The jeopardy for
ed States imports more from Can-
ada than vice versa, even though Canada remains high
the two countries have been in in the NAFTA talks.
near perfect trade balance for the
past three years.
Canada, on the other hand, sees two economies that are
deeply integrated, mutually dependent and stronger as a re-
sult. In industries such as autos and steel, products often
cross the border numerous times before reaching customers,
with value added along the way. The result is that it’s often
difficult to tell what an import even is.
Consider a quintessentially American vehicle such as Gen-
eral Motors’ Chevrolet Bolt EV. It’s assembled in Michigan,
with 26 per cent of its content manufactured in Canada or the
United States. More than half the vehicle, including its engine
and transmission, comes from South Korea.
Canadian-made pipes or coated steel are often made with
U.S. primary steel and then shipped back to American cus-
tomers by steelmakers with operations in both countries.
In other sectors, Canada is a reliable supplier of things the
United States does not produce in sufficient quantities to sus-
tain its growing economy. Lumber, newsprint and aluminum
are classic examples.
Unless the U.S. government abandons its hard line and
embraces economics 101, it is hard to envision a good out-
come for Canada in the NAFTA talks, or any of the other cost-
ly continuing disputes.
Only a post-Trump era can fix that.
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GLOBE INVESTOR
It’s about to get more crowded in the bond ETF world
CLARE O’HARA (shorter-term bonds have less aged strategy within fixed in- to look at strategies to mitigate
vulnerability to rising rates). come actually makes a lot of that potential decrease in value
In the eight or so past years of sense,” Raj Lala, chief executive in the fixed-income side.”
OPINION FIXED-INCOME ETFS the postcrisis era, bond investing of Evolve, said in an interview. Mark Raes, head of ETF busi-
LAUNCHED IN 2018 was continually challenging giv- “You can exploit some of the dis- ness development at BMO Global
early a dozen new fixed-in- en the near-zero interest rates locations in the market and you Asset Management, says active

N come exchange-traded
funds have been launched
in Canada this year, as anxious
investors look for new alterna-
tives for their bond holdings in a
climate of rising interest rates.
The fixed-income market – in-
cluding preferred shares – ac-
counts for almost one-third of
the money flowing into ETFs,
with a total of $36.8-billion in as-
sets under management (AUM)
as of Feb. 28, according to Nation-
al Bank Financial, and was the
fastest-growing asset class in 2017.
Already this year, fixed-in-
come ETFs have seen approxi-
mately $1.3-billion in net flows,
according to Bloomberg data.
As interest rates rise, bond
prices move inversely, potentially
limiting the returns for fixed-in-
come investors. As a result, inves-
tors are increasingly seeking out
actively managed funds that use
strategies aimed at improving
overall returns beyond just an in-
dex, or are shortening the dura-
tion of their bond exposure
FIXD Evolve Active Core
Fixed Income ETF
DXV Dynamic iShares Active
that were on offer,” says Daniel
Straus, an ETF research analyst
with NBF. “Now that rates are
can pivot in terms of your dura-
tion and in the holdings that you
have.”
fixed income is an area he is cur-
rently exploring, specifically in
the global fixed-income space.
Investment Grade Floating Rate moving up, bond prices them- BlackRock Asset Management “As people look more to global
ETF selves are set to suffer, and many Canada Ltd. is the largest fixed- fixed-income exposures, I think
ZSB BMO Short-Term Bond investors are turning to ETFs to income provider in the country having active ETFs is going to be a
Index ETF simultaneously cut costs and po- (excluding fund of fund prod- valuable part of the market
ZGB BMO Government Bond sition themselves for the coming ucts) with $15.8-billion in AUM, place,” Mr. Raes says. “A lot of
Index ETF turbulence.” just slightly ahead of BMO Asset people and institutions feel more
ZCB BMO Corporate Bond Evolve Funds recently added a Management with $13.4-billion. comfortable making allocation
Index ETF third actively managed fixed-in- Under a partnership with Dy- decisions within the domestic or
QBB Mackenzie Canadian come fund to its lineup. With a namic Funds, BlackRock has ex- the North American market, but
Aggregate Bond Index ETF management fee of 0.4 per cent panded its actively managed once you branch out to global
QSB Mackenzie Canadian and a ticker of FIXD, the Evolve fixed-income shelf with the fixed income, you are starting to
Short-Term Bond Index ETF Active Core Fixed Income ETF be- launch of the Dynamic iShares step outside some people’s area
QCB Mackenzie Canadian All gan trading last Thursday on the Active Investment Grade Float- of comfort or expertise, and
Corporate Bond Index ETF NEO Exchange. With subadviser ing Rate ETF (DXV), which began therefore having an active man-
QUIG Mackenzie US In- Foyston, Gordon & Payne Inc., trading on the Toronto Stock Ex- ager can help with those deci-
vestment Grade Corporate Bond the fund provides investors with change on Wednesday with a sions.”
Index ETF CAD-Hedged a total investment return management fee of 0.3 per cent. Last month, the bank added
QHY Mackenzie US High through income and long-term “We’re seeing significant up- three passive ETFs to its already
Yield Bond Index ETF CAD- capital appreciation primarily take in actively managed ETFs, robust fixed-income shelf – in-
Hedged through investments in debt particularly for fixed income,” cluding BMO Short-Term Bond
QTIP Mackenzie US TIPS obligations of Canadian, U.S. and said Pat Chiefalo, head of iShares Index ETF (ZSB), BMO Corporate
Index ETF CAD-Hedged international issuers. Canada at BlackRock. “After Bond Index ETF (ZCB,) and BMO
“This is a sector that is going to many years of expectations of the Government Bond Index ETF
continue to see a lot of growth as potential rising rates, I think this (ZGB). Management fees range
more advisers and investors are year we are actually seeing it hap- from 0.09 per cent to 0.15 per
realizing that an actively man- pen. Now, investors are starting cent.

Why the back-to-basics Sprott could be a buy Breach: Stores

using chip
BRENDA BOUW
machines likely
OPINION
not exposed
return to its roots as a pre- FROM B1

A cious-metals focused asset

manager and a foray into
financial technology has sent
shares of Sprott Inc. soaring in
recent months − which has led
some analysts to suggest inves-
tors take some profits.
Shares of Toronto-based
Sprott, founded by well-known
resource investor Eric Sprott,
have surged by about 40 per cent
over the past year to around
$3.10, its highest level since
mid-2014 and ahead of analysts’
consensus 12-month price target
of $2.95. The stock has pulled
back from a 52-week high of $3.55
on March 3, amid some analyst
downgrades. The company mis-
sed some of the analysts’ fourth-
quarter financial expectations,
but the larger concern appears to
be the stock’s recent run-up.
Among five analysts who cov-
er the stock, three have a “sell”
and two have a “hold” recom-
mendation.
RBC Dominion Securities ana-
lyst Geoffrey Kwan recently cut
his rating to “underperform”
(similar to “sell”) from “sector
perform” (similar to “hold”).
“Our underperform rating does
not reflect a view that there is sig-
nificant valuation downside in
Sprott’s share price, but rather
that the share price appreciation
year-to-date reflects the signifi-
cant growth potential from the
company’s re-positioning,” Mr.
Kwan said in a March 2 note.
Meantime, he increased his tar-
get price to $3.25 from $2.75.
BMO Nesbit Burns analyst Nik
Priebe also downgraded Sprott to
“underperform,” but stuck with
his $2.75 price target. “While we
recognize recent efforts to ex-
pand business lines, divest un-
derperforming assets, and shift
toward passive strategies have
been constructive changes, we
are concerned that recent enthu-
siasm might have caused inves-
tors to get out over their skis on
Sprott,” Mr. Priebe said in a
March 5 note. “Sprott remains
one of the most active asset man-
agers with respect to new prod-
uct launches and business devel-
opment efforts,” he added. “How-
Shares of Toronto-based ever, we await growth in net
asset manager Sprott sales, a more fulsome draw-down
have surged over of committed capital in the lend-
the past year to around ing LP, and more attractive valua-
$3.10, its highest level tion before revisiting our thesis.”
since mid-2014 and Analysts at Desjardins have a
ahead of analysts’ “hold,” calling the shares “fairly
consensus 12-month valued,” according to a March 2
price target of note. They bumped their target
$2.95. BLOOMBERG price to $3 from $2.50.
Sprott chief executive officer
Peter Grosskopf sees stock’s re-
cent rise as investors giving the
company credit for its recent
transformation, which included
moves such as selling its Cana-
dian diversified mutual fund as-
sets for $46-million, acquiring
Central Fund of Canada to add
$4.3-billion in assets to its phys-
ical bullion and raising $640-mil-
lion for its resource lending vehi-
cle, Private Resource Lending
LPs. It also launched a resource-
focused merchant bank.
“When you talk to our share-
holders,” who include Mr. Sprott,
who stepped down as chairman
of the gold-focused asset man-
agement firm last year but still
owns about 10 per cent, “they are
looking for exposure to a recov-
ery in the sector without the ex-
treme volatility that an underly-
ing gold stock might have,” Mr.
Grosskopf said in a recent inter-
view.
He also believes investors are
pricing in the potential of the
company’s move into digital gold
businesses, including its 20-per-
cent interest in TradeWind Mar-
kets Inc., a digital gold trading
The data that Mr. Chorine and his
team found were being offered
on a dark web marketplace oper-
ated by a hacking group called Jo-
kerStash, which Mr. Chorine says
has been active in hacking retail
and hospitality companies for
the past three years.
Gemini Advisory said on Sun-
day that it had found data that
had been stolen from as early as
March, 2017, and as late as March,
2018. He said that only certain
Saks Fifth Avenue locations were
affected because the outlet was
in the process of switching from
card-swipe technology to EMV
and settlement platform backed chip technology, which is already
by physical bars. Sprott will also commonly used in Canada.
be a dealer in the platform. Stores that had already imple-
“The analysts are right, we’ve mented chip machines would
come a long way,” said Mr. Gross- likely not be exposed to the data
kopf of the company’s comeback. breach, Mr. Chorine said.
“But our shareholders are va-
luing things higher than that.
They’re pricing in some potential HBC is asking clients to
here,” with both digital gold and
a bet on a rebound in precious review their account
metals, in particular, gold as a statements for activity
storage of wealth. or transactions they
Anish Chopra, managing di- don’t recognize.
rector at Portfolio Management
Corp., doesn’t own the stock giv- Mr. Chorine urged any con-
en his firm’s focus on large-cap sumers who had shopped at Saks
stocks, but said it could appeal to Fifth Avenue or Lord & Taylor
investors comfortable with small stores in the past year to take pre-
caps, resources and asset man- ventative measures against
agement firms. fraud.
Kash Pashootan, chief invest- “They should probably call
ment officer at First Avenue In- their banks and replace their
vestment Counsel Inc., doesn’t cards,” Mr. Chorine said. “That
own Sprott either, choosing in- would probably be the best pre-
stead to get his precious metal ventative action they could take,
exposure through the gold bul- instead of just waiting.”
lion-backed SPDR Gold Shares For now, HBC is asking clients
ETF. However, he said Sprott to review their account state-
looks more attractive today than ments for activity or transactions
in previous years. “It’s a much they don’t recognize.
more focused offering,” Mr. Pash- The company said it’s investi-
ootan said, suggesting investors gating and taking steps to con-
interested in Sprott could consid- tain the attack and clients will
er taking a partial position at this not be responsible for any fraud-
point. “You need to exercise ulent charges as a result of the
some patience with entry point breach.
when it comes to Sprott, strictly It said it will offer free identity-
based on the fact that the shares protection services to those af-
have had a meaningful run,” he fected once they learn more
said. about the breach.
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CAREERS
Robots are spawning
a reskilling revolution
NAOMI TITLEMAN COLLA

OPINION

Founder and principal Collaborativity Leadership Advisory

ne of the many images conjured by the words “fu-

O ture of work” is one of robots taking over the

DARREN CALABRESE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
world. Studies show a wide range of numbers of
jobs that will be automated in the next several
years, but is this number what matters most? The conversa-
tion seems to be at a tipping point – from panic about how
many of us will be overthrown by robots to what we can
actually do to prepare for the reality that many tasks we
perform today will and should be performed by robots. Wel-
come to the reskilling revolution.
Imagine the power of knowing which jobs in your orga-
nization are most susceptible to automation now and in the
future, who is currently in those jobs, what the next-best-fit
jobs are for those people and the likelihood of the best-fit
jobs being automated. Organizations could then create tar-
geted plans to develop and transition people effectively, at
scale, into jobs that are a good fit for their skill sets.
Too good to be true? This capability already exists and is
being deployed in organizations around the world.
Rather than worrying about how many of us will end up
jobless and at the mercy of robots, “ignore the impending
apocalypse” was the advice given recently to a full house of
Future of Work enthusiasts at a talk at Toronto’s MaRS Dis-
covery District by Michael Priddis of faethm.ai.
The company’s technology uses Bureau of Labour and
organizational data to first assess which jobs are most likely
to be highly automated and then provide meaningful in-
sights such as job neighbourhoods, which map jobs to each
other based on the similarity of skills required. Companies
are using these insights to create action plans to upskill,

Roberto Menendez: cross skill and move individuals into new roles that are less
likely to be automated, at least in the short term.
According to Towards a Reskilling Revolution, a report

‘My outlook was different’

CYNTHIA MARTIN
THE LADDER
Roberto Menendez, 59, is direc-
tor of design at WM Fares Group
and the developer of a complex
of affordable housing and artists’
studios in Halifax.
When I came to Canada from El
Salvador, I was confronted with
the painful reality the poor are
surrounded by wealth. In addi-
tion, there’s winter – at least in
Latin America, you have nice
weather. On the other hand, you
don’t have earthquakes and
landslides that take out commu-
nities. Canadians like Latinos, so
being accepted was a little easier.
People pick up our accents, lower
their guard.
I worked on a coffee plantation
from my early years. At 15, I re-
corded counts, working beside
the man who measured beans. I
used to look at those structures;
my dream was to design housing.
I graduated with a master in ar-
chitecture in 1985, married in
1986, came to Canada in March,
1987, and our son was born six
months later.
El Salvador had a very brutal
civil war – it’s complex because
poverty is an effect of bigger
problems. Because I grew up fac-
ing poverty, my outlook was dif-
ferent. I thank God I was exposed
to a reality that gave me tools to
become who I became, with [a
sense of] social justice. I always
like to be a better person – that’s
the “catchy phrase.”
When we’re open to learning, we
develop experience. I got a mas-
ters in international develop-
ment at Saint Mary’s University
because of my deep passion for
development. We have enough
resources to solve the problems
of the world but it’s purely greed
in the world’s structures. Then I
taught for a year. I love to teach
critical thinking and problem
solving – not to panic!
I have two hats. I’m doing won-
derful development in support
and design but financing my per-
sonal social project. My wife and
I got a property, designed it and
created affordable housing; 24
residences and 11 studios.
To design, build and manage it
fulfilled my life goal, fills my
heart and makes me happy. I
couldn’t have done it without my
job because I had to pay bills; we
had to mortgage everything. Put-
ting affordable housing into this
market isn’t easy, I swear to God.
My wife was 100-per-cent sup-
portive. She’s pragmatic, as most
women are, because women are
the ones who carry the load. I’m
pro-women because I grew up
with a single mother.
When you’re single, you’re fear-
less; when you have a family, you
have responsibilities. My wife
had a financial background, went
to community college here, then
worked in information technol-
ogy. My philosophy is God has
given me one day to live; I
choose to live it in a relationship
with myself, my wife, people in
the office.
I’m a pragmatic idealist, defined
by faith and values as a person,
husband, professional and by lib-
eration theology – which is big in
Latin America. I did an Atlantic
School of Theology diploma, ran
a development and peace group,
helped reconstruction programs
for El Salvador, helped a poverty
group. We helped create commu-
nity enterprises where people
could have dignity, work and
have ownership, like Street Feat
newspaper [closed in 2014 after 17
years].
I try to create an environment of
peace and harmony – and have
fun. We’re a team of nine; they’re
experienced with computers, but
if the lights go out, I continue
working because I use my hands.
I’m a minimalist in design be-
cause it’s simple economically. I
came from a tiny country, so by
nature, I make the best use of re-
sources and place. I hate waste.
I’m guided by functionality and
rationality.
Millennials want to sit in the
kitchen, have a drink, tapas.
When I came here, there were
dining rooms people used two
times a year. Open-concept kitch-
ens? Islands? Phenomenal. That
was Cape Breton 100 years ago –
they gathered in the kitchen be-
cause it was warm.
I don’t look typical Salvadorian,
like a guy people think is an ar-
chitect. My office is my cave. I
know where everything is. I’m ef-
ficient and practical; it’s easier to
have my files here because I get
calls every day from developers.
I like to bring tranquillity and
peace to projects, use organic
landscaping like rocks. Art, paint-
ings are important. We’re too bu-
sy and don’t need busy environ-
ments. If I had the opportunity to
study more architecture, I’d
spend a year in Japan.
Special to The Globe and Mail
This interview has been
edited and condensed.
recently published by the World Economic Forum and the
Boston Consulting Group (based on U.S. data), the future
looks rather positive: about 96 per cent of jobs anticipated
to be affected by technology in the medium term have
“good fit” job transition matches for workers.
What do we need to do as individuals, organizations and
as a society to put these findings into practice? Interestingly,
according to the same report, 70 per cent of good-fit match-
es require workers to move outside of their current job fam-
ily, meaning we need to look at careers, career paths and
development through a completely different lens.
RETHINK CAREER PATHS AND TALENT POOLS
Organizations need to be aware of good-fit job matches for
their talent and open to broader/more diverse talent pools.
Governments and employment agencies also need to arm
individuals with knowledge about what good-fit matches
exist for their jobs and pathways to upskill and cross skill.
Future candidates may not have the same experience and
background as what would typically have been required for
given roles. For example, traditionally, an office clerk would
not be an obvious candidate for a first-line supervisor role;
however, thanks to analytics, knowing there is a decent job-
fit match, we can assume that with some moderate upskill-
ing, an office clerk, whose job has a high likelihood of being
affected, could become a strong candidate for such a role.
What happens if good-fit job matches don’t exist within
your organization? Inter-organizational transparency can
enable workers to openly seek opportunities outside of
their current companies, in cases where good-fit transition
opportunities are more prevalent elsewhere. So, organiza-
tions that are proactive in identifying these scenarios and
plan accordingly will be able to better manage the transi-
tion.
COMMIT TO LIFE-LONG LEARNING
In this new world of work, we all need to commit to life-long
learning or risk becoming irrelevant. Even for those who are
not highly affected by technology today, it is critical to stay
curious and to develop transferable human and technical
skills required to be employable as the world continues to
evolve.
LEAD THE CHANGE
Theoretically, identifying good-fit job matches only goes so
far. A reskilling revolution is not possible at scale without a
commitment to change among all stakeholders. Executives,
human resources teams and employees must work hand-in-
hand to create and embrace policies, practices, processes
and cultures that enable this new way of thinking about
careers and talent pools.
For chief human resources officers interested in this topic,
please visit futurefoHRward.com and join us at our third annual
conference in October.

The impact coaching skills can have on employee mental health

BILL HOWATT representing approximately 45
per cent of their waking hours. It
only makes sense that this much
OPINION time and focus on work can have
both a positive and negative im-
LEADERSHIP LAB pact on their overall mental
health.
ow many employees miss One factor that influences em-
checks in with employees to see
how they’re doing and what they
need; is always open and happy
to see team members; and is ap-
proachable to address employ-
ees’ questions and needs.
tive leaders is coaching. The
study authors reinforced the ben-
efits of coaching and its impact
on employees in their roles, be-
cause it was found that 70 per
cent of learning happens on the
job.
How true are the following two
tions, one approach to remove
any assumptions and to help
leaders develop their people and
coaching skills to support em-
ployees’ mental health, engage-
ment and productivity is to pro-
vide those who have gaps an op-
portunity to learn how to devel-

H work each week in Canada

because of a mental-
health issue?
The correct answer is approxi-
mately 500,000. A mental-health
issue doesn’t mean a person has
a mental illness. They can miss
work because of life stressors
such as financial troubles, rela-
tionship difficulties and work-re-
lated stress. Mental health can be
defined by a person’s general
sense of well-being and happi-
ness.
The typical full-time employee
sleeps an average of eight hours a
night. Including commuting and
work time, in a typical week they
spend 50 hours focused on work,
ployees’ mental health is their
workplace experience with their
direct manager, whose words
and actions can affect their men-
tal well-being.
Negative examples: Setting
unreasonable work-demand ex-
pectations; creating uncertainty
through lack of feedback; and fa-
cilitating distrust by a lack of in-
teraction, rapport-building and
conversations. An employee’s
risk of being negatively affected
is increased exponentially when
they’re unable to self-advocate
and lack coping skills.
Positive examples: A leader
makes an effort to get to know
each employee; constantly
USING COACHING SKILLS TO
FACILITATE MENTAL HEALTH IN
THE WORKPLACE
Coaching skills provide leaders
with tools to facilitate safe and
productive two-way conversa-
tions for achieving targeted goals
and desired results. Some of the
core skills that support leaders
include: empathy, finding em-
ployee strengths, asking open
questions, building trusted rela-
tionships, giving meaningful
feedback and improving commu-
nication skills.
In fact, one research study
found the single most important
core competency for highly effec-
assertions for your organization
today?
Many leaders were promoted
to manager because of their sub-
ject matter expertise, tenure, op-
erational and financial excel-
lence, or some combination of
these.
Seldom were leaders evaluat-
ed, or even asked, if they like
working, interacting and com-
municating with people, and
supporting employees’ develop-
ment, learning and success. Why?
Either it’s assumed, not thought
of, or perhaps people skills are
not valued as being critical for
success.
If you agree with these asser-
op their coaching skills.
Do you agree that one of the
most important factors for every
employee is their direct relation-
ship with their manager?
Leaders who agree with this
statement and are aware of and
take responsibility for their
words and actions are the ones
who are more likely interested
and motivated to do all they can
to support employees and under-
stand how their words and ac-
tions can support employees’ job
fulfillment and mental health.
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resources experts contribute to the
ongoing Leadership Lab series.
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The danger of striving for the ‘inner ring’

Narnia author C.S. Lewis bigger, a new inner ring will assert
itself, and many of those present
noted long ago how at the start will suddenly feel less
chasing insider status important – outsiders, perhaps
can work against even outcasts.
In 1944, C.S. Lewis, author of the
our more noble goals Narnia series as well as a professor
of medieval and Renaissance En-
glish, gave the Memorial Lecture
HARVEY SCHACHTER at King’s College, University of
London, in which he challenged
the notion that sex is the stron-
OPINION gest of human drives and instead
argued for the desire to join the in-
here are inner rings in the ner ring.
others should just deal with their
envy or lust.
But thinking about this subtle
interplay, and how to invite others
to feel less apart from the inner
ring, might make sense if you
want more support for your ef-
forts. Slowing down and talking to
others is a simple act, even if it is
hard to do.
Until you conquer
department or organization.
Lewis warned that inner rings
can be hazardous for us: “A thing
may be morally neutral and yet
the desire for that thing may be
dangerous.” Indeed, he goes fur-
ther: “Of all the passions, the pas-
sion for the Inner Ring is most
skillful in making a man who is
not yet a very bad man do very
bad things.” Ouch!
In regard to whether you will
one day attain the inner ring that
haunts you, Lewis was more jaun-
diced, because he was dealing
just a gateway for those noble im-
pulses. It pays, of course, to exam-
ine those desires, to ensure they
are noble, however.
I referred to power and ambi-
tion, motives that are not always
positive. Indeed, you may believe
some of the current inner ring are
only out for themselves. Are you
more selfless? But as well, will
your ambition just lead to frustra-
tion since, even if you become an
insider, “until you conquer the
fear of being an outsider, an out-
sider you will remain”?

T places we work and the vol-

untary groups we immerse
ourselves in – small groups with
influence and power. They can
mesmerize us with their rituals
and practices, as they parade into
the boardroom or come laughing
out of the leader’s office. They can
haunt us or taunt us, not through
anything they intend, but because
of something within ourselves.
In many startups, the people
who come together initially form
that inner ring. Everyone feels vi-
tal and powerful. However, as the
organization becomes bigger and
“This desire is one of the great
permanent mainsprings of hu-
man action,” he wrote. “Unless
you take measures to prevent it,
this desire is going to be one of the
chief motives of your life, from
the first day on which you enter
your profession until the day
when you are too old to care.”
Many of us belong to inner
rings. We probably have not
thought about its impact on oth-
ers. And if we have, our attitude
might be of scorn, since the inner
ring is not a beach party but a
place of dedicated hard work;
the fear of being an
outsider, an outsider
you will remain.
C.S. LEWIS
NARNIA AUTHOR
For those of us outside the in-
ner ring – and we are probably
part of some inner rings and out-
side others in our organizations –
we should deal with our feelings.
Or, if it’s so disconcerting, move
physically so the inner group’s
presence is less obvious, even if
that means switching to another
with your psyche: “As long as you
are governed by that desire, you
will never get what you want. You
are trying to peel an onion: If you
succeed, there will be nothing left.
Until you conquer the fear of be-
ing an outsider, an outsider you
will remain.”
This is, of course, about power
and ambition. It’s about making a
mark, helping to improve your or-
ganization. You probably don’t
want to be in the inner ring for sta-
tus and prestige or to lollygag, but
to be able to make things happen
in a better way. The inner ring is
Jess Whittlestone, a writer and
researcher whose blog brought
the Lewis speech to my attention,
writes, “It seriously worries me
how much of the time most of us
spend chasing things like achieve-
ment, status, recognition – and
how little we spend thinking
about what we actually value:
What we would find rewarding in
a job, what kinds of people make
us feel good.” So think about the
inner ring but, mostly, think
about yourself.
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What learning judo taught me about being a leader

JEFF ELEMENT tween success and failure.
OPINION TIMING
LEADERSHIP LAB The phrase “timing is every-
thing” is applicable in almost all
President of The Travel aspects of life, but it’s one of the
Corporation Canada most important lessons in judo.
An early thing I learned was that
it’s very hard, near impossible, to
n my early teenage years, like move an opponent who’s stand-
been set way before my time. To
be seen as a worthy opponent or
partner, you have to act like one,
and nothing could be truer about
the business world. If I want to be
taken seriously and respected as
the president of a company, I
need to present myself in a re-
spectable light and extend that to
everyone I encounter. That’s a
philosophy I try to impart in ev-
ery aspect of my day-to-day life.

I every good Canadian kid, I

played hockey. My days were
busy with practices, while my
nights are remembered fondly as
filled with streetlight-illuminated
games of pickup in front of my
house. I had always thought that
hockey was the sport that would
carry me through adulthood, un-
til my high-school principal hired
a judo instructor to come teach a
few after-school lessons to the
brave students who signed up. At
15, I was just curious, and possibly
competitive, enough to join in.
Less than two years later, I quit
hockey and have never looked
back.
Throughout the years, as I’ve
worked toward a second-degree
black belt, judo has taught me
many things that apply in every-
day life as well as in my role as
president for The Travel Corpora-
tion in Canada. Judo isn’t about
being the strongest in the class,
but about timing and being intel-
Jeff Element says that judo, as with being in the boardroom, is all about
your timing and being intelligent in your actions.
ligent in your actions. In its most sion), it takes practice to become
basic translation, judo means proficient and comfortable in
gentle way, and the craft of the your abilities. Most people will
sport is intended to focus your at- lump judo into a broad range of
tention on letting your opponent
fighting techniques that mostly
make an ill-fated decision, which just translate to kicking and
will allow you to maintain con- punching, but it’s much more
trol and ultimately prevail. composed than that. Judo is
What follows are four major about self-control and maintain-
practices in judo that take form, ing a sense of calm in all situa-
whether it’s in the dojo or the tions. You can’t go into a match
boardroom. with your adrenalin pumping,
hoping to see some blood – that
will be your own downfall. With
DISCIPLINE
any situation that arises on the
mat or in the office, a loss of con-
As with every sport (and profes- trol can be the difference be-
ing still; it can be like trying to
move a mountain. You need to
wait for them to move on their
own – a quick step to the side or
an advance on you – to be able to
use that momentum against
them and knock them down.
When it comes to business, even
the best-laid plans need to wait
for the perfect moment to be in-
troduced or can run the risk of
falling by the wayside.
RESPECT
Regardless of whether you’re
dealing with a partner, an associ-
ate, an assistant, an intern or an
opponent, respect is monumen-
tal. From the time I was a teenag-
er, it was drilled into me that by
respecting myself, I would learn
to respect others, which translat-
ed into always competing in a
clean suit, arriving on time and
following the customs that had
COMMUNITY
It’s funny to think that judo,
which really isn’t much of a team
sport, can be so ingrained within
its own community, but it’s true.
Once you get to a certain level in
the practice, it’s expected that
you will turn around and teach it
right back to the next generation,
something I quite enjoyed.
You’re given the opportunity to
pass on your experience to peo-
ple of all ages who are new to ju-
do. That same sense of commu-
nity is vital in an office where ex-
pertise, ideas and solutions need
to be shared and passed through
the ranks to have a continuous
learning and cohesive environ-
ment.
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resources experts contribute to the
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Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health

The University of Toronto invites nominations and
applications for the positions of Dean, Dalla Lana School of
Public Health and Dean, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy.
Dean, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
The Dalla Lana School of Public Health is the largest school
of public health in Canada, and is ranked by Shanghai
Rankings as one of the top 5 schools of public health in the
world. The scope and breadth of the School’s programming
provides unparalleled opportunities for scholars, learners,
decision-makers, practitioners, and communities to work
together on initiatives that span the full range of critical
issues in public health and health systems. Dalla Lana
has collaborations with a number of health institutes
and associations, including the Toronto Academic Health
Science Network, Public Health Ontario, and Toronto Public
Health; six disciplinary-based divisions that serve as home
units for faculty; three additional major trans-disciplinary
academic units, including the Institute for Global Health
Equity and Innovation, the Joint Centre for Bioethics, and the
Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health; and, a
range of other interdisciplinary centres that focus on areas
such as public health policy, HIV, tobacco control, qualitative
methods, health economics, and health equity. The School
holds Indigenous reconciliation as a foundation to public
health training, teaching, and research. Approximately 1,000
graduate students are enrolled in doctoral and master’s
programs, and more than 70 faculty members (six of whom
hold Canada Research Chairs) hold appointments in the
Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
Dean, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy is a world leader in
pharmacy education and research—ranked the number
one Pharmacy school in Canada and top 25 worldwide
by QS World University Rankings. Research conducted at
the Faculty of Pharmacy reflects the breadth and depth
of issues relevant to modern drug therapy, including the
Dean, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
mechanism of action of novel compounds, drug discovery
and delivery, and the role of pharmacists in the health care
system. Educational programming, which is at the heart of
the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, includes cutting-edge
professional offerings, such as the Doctor of Pharmacy
(PharmD) degree program, and research-intensive graduate
programs, leading to the Master of Science and Doctor of
Philosophy degrees. In addition to providing an excellent
student experience, the Faculty is committed to lifelong
learning through its Office of Continuous Professional
Development, which delivers leading-edge educational
programs that improve and expand the competency of
pharmacy professionals, researchers, scientists, and allied
professionals involved in pharmacy policy and practice. Its
International Pharmacy Graduate program is a unique best-
practice bridging program designed to assist pharmacists
educated and trained in countries outside Canada to meet
Canadian entry-to-practice standards, and its relationship
with theToronto Academic Health Science Network has
advanced the Faculty’s vision to improve health through
pharmaceutical care.
Reporting to the Vice-President and Provost, the Deans
will be distinguished academics appointable at the rank
of Full Professor, who will have a broad understanding
of, and appreciation for, the range of scholarship found
within their respective units. Among other responsibilities,
the Deans will effectively manage resources, advance
world-leading research, promote pedagogical and scholarly
excellence, and nurture mutually beneficial relationships
with internal and external stakeholders. The Deans will also
provide visionary and innovative leadership, encourage
collegiality and collaboration, and empower faculty,
staff, and students. The successful candidates will have
track records of consultative but decisive leadership, be
excellent communicators and motivators, and be people of
unassailable integrity and character.
Fully committed to teaching and research as complementary
facets of scholastic achievement, U ofT is consistently ranked
among the top 25 universities in the world for teaching,
research, and innovation. In 2017, U ofT was ranked 13th
in the world for the employability of its graduates. U ofT
alumni are major economic drivers, having founded 190,000
ventures across all major industries, generating hundreds of
billions in annual revenues and employing millions of people
globally. U ofT graduates also include many thousands of
distinguished researchers, teachers, creative artists, decision-
makers, and persons of influence. President Meric Gertler has
identified enhancing undergraduate education, deepening
international collaboration, and leveraging the University’s
position in the GreaterToronto Area — one of the world’s
most diverse urban regions — as the University’s top three
strategic priorities.
Regularly named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers and
one of Canada’s Best Diversity Employers, the University
of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its
community and especially welcomes applications from
racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous
/ Aboriginal People of North America, persons with
disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute
to the further diversification of ideas. Please note that
all qualified candidates are encouraged to apply, but
applications from Canadians and permanent residents
will be given priority. In accordance with the AODA,
accommodation will be provided to individuals with
disabilities throughout the recruitment process.
The new Deans take office July 1, 2018 or as
mutually agreed, with consideration of candidates
beginning April 2018. Inquiries and/or applications
should be directed to Gerri Woodford or Jason
Murray at uoftdlsph@odgersberndtson.com and
uoftpharm@odgersberndtson.com respectively.

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SPORTS
Justin Smoak, back, of the Toronto Blue Jays celebrates his grand slam against the New York Yankees at Rogers Centre on Sunday. TOM SZCZERBOWSKI/GETTY IMAGES
Where there’s Smoak, there’s fire
Once derided by fans, the first baseman is slowly transforming from scrub
to next-gen Bautista … and one of the Jays’ few offensive hopes
CATHAL
KELLY
OPINION
TORONTO
hen the Toronto Blue
W Jays re-signed Justin
Smoak a couple of years
ago, reactions varied between in-
difference and open mockery.
Smoak didn’t help matters by
making it sound as though he’d
hit a lottery number rather than
won something on his merits.
“I know I can be a better
player,” the Jays’ occasional first
[ PHOTO OF THE DAY ]
baseman said at the time. “I
want to play every day … but if
that’s not the case, that’s not the
case.”
“The bench is real comfy” is
not the sort of will-to-power talk
you want to hear from anyone
working at a pro franchise. And
yet, right now, with all the high-
er-priced outfield talent in some
stage of injury- or age-related
decline, Smoak is the franchise.
On the basis of one year plus a
very little bit, he is becoming
Toronto’s next-gen Jose Bautista
– an anonymous drone who goes
into a phone booth around his
30th birthday and comes out in a
cape disguised as Hank Aaron.
Notre Dame women
beat Mississippi State
61-58 to win NCAA title
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The Blue Jays came from
behind twice over the weekend
to split their opening four-game
series with the Yankees. They
won 7-4 on Sunday.
It doesn’t sound like much –
and it wouldn’t be in June or July
– but this was a massive save.
If the Jays had lost four here,
they’d need to hire a fire warden
to oversee the orderly emptying
of the bandwagon. Given how
quickly things went wrong last
year, this team could not afford
another 0-for-whatever start.
Josh Donaldson and his won-
ky shoulder didn’t contribute
much in that regard. Troy Tulo-
witzki can’t because he’s getting
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Leafs, Jets follow their
own postseason paths,
David Shoalts writes
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prepped for surgery. It’s starting
to feel like a small, personal vic-
tory every time Russell Martin
gets a hit, never mind a mea-
ningful one. That’s US$63-mil-
lion worth of capital expenditure
that is, right in this precise
moment, dead money.
The starting pitching we’d all
talked so much about was a little
wobbly. Aaron Sanchez got
knocked around. Based on Sun-
day’s pilot of The Stroshow, it
will need small rewrites as we get
further into Season 4.
So it was left to Smoak, a tiny
line item on the salary roll, to do
the lifting.
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Notre Dame wins with 0.1 seconds left

Fighting Irish top
Mississippi, win first
NCAA title since 2001

Arike Ogunbowale drained a rain-

bow three-pointer from the right
corner with 0.1 seconds to play,
lifting Notre Dame to a dramatic
61-58 win in the women’s NCAA
Tournament championship
game on Sunday at Nationwide
Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
Taking an inbounds pass in a
tie game with three seconds left,
Ogunbowale drove into the right
corner before firing up a high-arc-
ing three-pointer that was pure to
give the Fighting Irish their first
national championship since
2001.
“On Easter Sunday, all the Cath-
olics were out there praying for
us,” Notre Dame coach Muffet
McGraw said in a postgame inter-
view. “We needed all of it.”
Mississippi State held Notre
Dame to three points in the sec-
ond quarter. The Bulldogs led by
15 in the third quarter and were up
five with 2:01 to play, but they
weren’t able to put away the resil-
ient Fighting Irish.
“It’s my job to bring them
home,” Mississippi State coach
Vic Schaefer said. “I didn’t do that.
I’ll wear that, maybe for the rest of
my career.”
In the final minutes, Notre
Dame’s Marina Mabrey hit a
three-pointer and Jackie Young Notre Dame’s Arike Ogunbowale is congratulated by teammate Jessica Shepard after sinking a three-point basket to defeat Mississippi State 61-58 in
knocked down a jumper to tie the the final of the women’s NCAA college basketball tournament on Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. TONY DEJAK/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
score 58-58 and set up Ogunbo-
wale’s heroics. and 17 rebounds for the Bulldogs came up short against South Car- fewest in a period in Final Four in the first half,” McGraw said. “We
Jessica Shepard finished with (37-2). Mississippi State lost in the olina in the championship game. history. just came out [of halftime] with a
19 points for Notre Dame (35-3). national championship game for Notre Dame outlasted the Hus- McCowan had a big hand in new belief, a new motivation.”
Ogunbowale had 18, and Mabrey the second straight season. kies in overtime on Friday, with Notre Dame’s offensive woes. She Notre Dame stormed back in
added 10. McCowan recorded her 29th Ogunbowale hitting the game- had nine points, eight rebounds the third quarter. Ogunbowale
“I work for this in practice,” double-double of the season. The winner in the semi-final as well. and two authoritative blocks in converted a three-point play with
Ogunbowale said. “I practice late- 6-foot-7 junior finished the tour- Notre Dame averaged 92.4 the first half. During one stretch a driving layup and free throw to
game [shots] all the time. I just nament with a record 109 points in its previous five tourna- midway through the second, she trim Mississippi State’s lead to 41-
ran to Jackie [Young] and said, rebounds in the Bulldogs’ six- ment wins, but struggled to estab- hit a jumper on one end and then 38 late in the third quarter. The
‘Throw it to me, throw it to me.’ ” game run to the final. lish any rhythm against Mississip- blocked an attempted layup from Irish closed out the quarter with a
Victoria Vivians scored 21 The game featured the last two pi State’s pestering man-to-man Mabrey that led to a turnover. Mis- 16-1 run, tying the score 41-41 on a
points and Teaira McCowan teams to knock off the Connecti- defense. The Fighting Irish trailed sissippi State forced 12 first-half put-back by Shepard.
capped a record-setting women’s cut dynasty. Mississippi State beat 30-17 at halftime, as their three turnovers.
NCAA Tournament with 18 points UConn in last year’s Final Four but second-quarter points were the “We did so many things wrong REUTERS

Has massive talent drain robbed Michigan relies on defence and

college basketball of its majesty? a big man to thwart Villanova
JOHN MARSHALL SAN ANTONIO (33-7) had a bit more trouble
JOE DRAPE SAN ANTONIO lect at least 15 rebounds in a national semi-final. against the bracket’s favourite
“Wow,” Wagner said with a tickled smile. underdogs, overcoming a fright-
Villanova coach Jay Wright has abandoned Michigan’s game plan used to ful first half to send nun-turned-
OPINION the pursuit of All-Americans who want to revolve around offence, hitting motivator Sister Jean Delores
spend the obligatory year (or, more often, a enough shots to outscore teams. Schmidt headed to the exits ear-
n 1999, I was courtside when Duke played matter of months) in college before seeking Sometimes it worked. Many ly.

I Connecticut in the national title game. On fortune in the NBA.

the floor before me were four first-round He said that he prefers players who actually
NBA draft picks and five others who would want to attend college – to become a better stu-
go on to solid-to-spectacular professional dent, a better person, a better player – and are
careers. Guys like Elton Brand and Richard willing to stay for however long it takes.
times, often on the biggest stag-
es, it didn’t.
The Wolverines have made a
shift in recent years, transform-
ing into one of the country’s best
The Wolverines trailed the
bracket-rambling Ramblers by
seven at halftime, found the right
gear in the second and have a ti-
tle-game appearance no one out-
Hamilton and Shane Battier. “That’s what we call our culture,” he said. defensive teams. If shots aren’t side of Ann Arbor saw coming
When Villanova meets Michigan here on “We’re more interested in maintaining our cul- falling, they can always win with when they were middling in the
Monday, the pro pickings are going to be much ture than we are getting guys to the NBA or win- defence. Big Ten just a month ago. Now
slimmer. The Wildcats’ Mikal Bridges is a likely ning national championships. We feel like that It’s gotten them to the nation- that they’re done playing the fav-
lottery pick next year and his fits our university and it will al title game for the first time ourite for a night, it’s back to the
teammate Jalen Brunson is pro- serve every player the best in the since 1989. Now Michigan faces underdog role against Villanova.
jected to go late in the first round. end.” its biggest challenge yet: trying to “The whole villain thing, you
The Wolverines’ Moritz Wagner The culture has been mostly a stop Villanova’s horde of long- guys love to write about it, talk
should go in the second round The kids are making winning one of late; the Wildcats range shooters in Monday night’s about it, but at the end of the day
and might grow into a solid NBA are seeking their second national national title game. Good luck. it’s just basketball, you know?”
player. adult decisions title in three years. “That’s as good a team as Michigan big man Moe Wagner
So what happened to college faster. Some adults And no player embodies it bet- we’ve played that I can remem- said. “And we just try to win.
basketball? are acting like kids, ter than Villanova’s point guard ber,” Kansas coach Bill Self said That’s all we do.”
Yes, the upsets in the early making selfish Jalen Brunson. He gives no quar- after Villanova crushed his Jay- Their next task: find some way
rounds of the NCAA tournament ter on the court; he came out of hawks with a barrage of three- to slow Villanova’s three-ball roll.
were entertaining and the evolu- decisions without high school on the same McDon- pointers in the national semi- The Wildcats were one of the
tion of Loyola-Chicago from lov- thinking through the ald’s All-American roster as one- finals on Saturday night. most proficient three-point-
able underdogs to genuine con- consequences. Yet and-dones such as Ben Simmons Michigan (33-7) reached the ti- shooting teams during the regu-
tenders captured the imagina- and Brandon Ingram, and he has tle game by taking away Cinde- lar season and upped the three
tion of the country. But wasn’t
despite all of that, collected nearly every player-of- rella’s slipper, sending Loyola- ante in the NCAA Tournament,
this just more evidence of a mas- we follow the NCAA the-year honour available to him. Chicago and Sister Jean home a knocking down a record 65 and
sive talent drain in the collegiate tournament. It’s But he also was named the Big game short of completing their counting. Villanova broke the
ranks? easier when you East’s Scholar Athlete this season, divine run. Final Four record with 13 in the
Have one-and-doners robbed and he will graduate after only Villanova bombed its way past first half and literally shot the
the game of its majesty? Have
remember that three years, a fact that makes a blue blood to get there. lights out by the second, when
slick coaches who have treated college basketball is Wright just as proud as his play The Wildcats (35-4) turned a some scoreboards and upper-lev-
them like mercenaries, and the about kids playing a does. Final Four showdown with fellow el lights briefly went out and
assistant coaches that have been game. “I knew the NBA could wait,” No. 1 seed Kansas into a laugher, darkened the upper decks.
linked to a vast federal investiga- Brunson said. dropping in three-pointers like The Wolverines may have an
tion into recruiting impropri- “I needed to be a better player they were playing pop-a-shot in answer in Wagner.
eties, drained any honour out of and person. I had enough confi- the 95-79 rout. Villanova made a The German big man finished
the label student-athlete? Has the NBA and its dence in myself knowing it’s nothing magical. Final Four-record 18 threes in a with 24 points and 15 rebound to
rosters stocked with international stars appro- It’s all in the work.” record-matching 40 attempts, its join Hakeem Olajuwon and Larry
priated America’s game as its own and trans- While Brunson worked, even more one-and- second trip in three seasons to Bird as the only players to have
formed it into a global entertainment product? dones came and went in college basketball. An- the title game never in doubt. at least 20 points and 15
Yes, yes and, well, yes. other group arrived last fall – Deandre Ayton at That’s an NCAA record 442 rebounds in a national semi-final
But after a month of watching heart-stop- Arizona, Marvin Bagley III at Duke, Michael from the arc this season – and game.
ping finishes, and returning to college locker Porter Jr. at Missouri – and now they, too, are at they’re still counting.
rooms, I was reminded that all this hand-wring- home preparing for the draft. The third-seeded Wolverines THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ing and discussion is still over teenagers. And, In fact, take a look at nearly any NBA mock
no matter how many ways the adults find to draft and you’ll find a majority of the projected
spoil it, they cannot. There’s too much magic. top-10 picks are one-and-dones.
You saw it moments after Michigan ended It’s nothing new. Shortly after UConn beat CELTICS 110, RAPTORS 99
Loyola’s fairy tale run on Saturday and the Wol- Duke all those years ago, Brand, William Avery
verines’ Jordan Poole, an 18-year-old freshman, and Corey Maggette – all underclassmen – did
sought out Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the what was then considered unthinkable: They BOSTON Marcus Morris had 25 time on Wednesday in Toronto.
Ramblers’ 98-year-old chaplain and inspira- left the Blue Devils early for the NBA. points and nine rebounds before Things got heated in the final
tion, for a word. What did he say to her? So what has happened to college basketball? getting ejected in the closing seconds when four technical
“I told her I was a big fan,” Poole explained. Everything. And nothing. seconds and Boston to beat the fouls were assessed between the
“Everything that she brought to the table, and The kids are making adult decisions faster. Eastern Conference-leading teams.
being able to have such a big impact on the Some adults are acting like kids, making selfish Toronto Raptors on Saturday Morris was hit with two and
team, being in a situation like this, I thought it decisions without thinking through the conse- night. was tossed. Toronto’s C.J. Miles
was amazing. Kids don’t really get to live in op- quences. Jayson Tatum added 24 and Serge Ibaka received one
portunities like this, so having those guys being Yet despite all of that, we follow the NCAA points, six rebounds and four each.
able to do it and her being behind their back, I tournament. assists as Boston posted its sixth DeMar DeRozan led Toronto
thought that was pretty cool.” It’s easier when you remember that college straight win and moved to with- with 32 points, seven rebounds
You felt it when Wagner was told after his 24- basketball is about kids playing a game. in two games of Toronto for the and seven assists. Ibaka added 15
point, 15-rebound performance that he had It brings us as much joy as it does them. top seed in the East. points and 10 rebounds.
joined Hakeem Olajuwon and Larry Bird as the Both teams have six games re-
only players to score at least 20 points and col- NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE maining. They meet for the final THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Leafs, Jets follow different routes to playoffs
Rest is key for both,
but Saturday’s game
between the two gave
few insights into their
postseason chances
DAVID SHOALTS TORONTO
OPINION
anada’s only representa-
C tives in the NHL playoffs
squared off as the regular
season winds down, but no easy
conclusions could be drawn
about their chances.
The Winnipeg Jets, who will
finish second in the Western Con-
ference’s Central Division,
ground out a 3-1 win over the
Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday
by using their size and speed. But
the Leafs could argue their own
celebrated speed and skill was
blunted by playing a road game
the night before and, besides, the
game had no effect on either
team’s place in the league stand-
ings.
As with the Jets, the Leafs’ reg-
ular-season finish has been
known for weeks. Despite a fran-
chise-record 47 wins so far, the
Leafs will remain third in the
Eastern Conference’s Atlantic
Division.
They will open the NHL play-
offs on the road against either
the Boston Bruins or the Tampa
Bay Lightning, as those two
teams will fight for first place in
the division and the right to play
the second wild-card finisher
rather than the Maple Leafs.
Barring a miracle run by the St.
Louis Blues, four points behind
the second-place Minnesota Wild
with four games to play for both
teams, the Jets are destined to
meet the Wild at home to start
the postseason. Both the Leafs
and the Jets will use the last week
of the regular season to make
sure their key players get some
rest before the playoff grind.
The Leafs do have one injury
problem, as promising rookie de-
fenceman Travis Dermott left
Saturday’s game after he was hit
on the right foot by a Jets shot
from the point.
The exact nature of the injury
Kelly: Smoak is a throwback, but unlike many
of his colleagues he isn’t demystifying the game
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He had six hits over two games,
with two home runs and eight
RBIs. He currently represents
more than 50 per cent of the
Jays’ total offensive output this
season.
His final at-bat of the series
against Yankees’ David Robert-
son was a minor-note master
class. To hear Robertson – one of
the most cunning relievers in
baseball – tell it, he ran out of
ideas after eight pitches. Smoak
put the ninth one over the
centre-field wall. It was a grand
slam and the game winner.
When someone asked Smoak
if he was thinking curveball on
that ninth pitch, he said, “Maybe.
Maybe not. I’m just glad I was
thinking the way I was thinking.”
That is not actually an answer.
Smoak is a throwback in a lot
of ways, but none so pleasing as
the fact that, unlike many of his
colleagues, he isn’t demystifying
the game. He’s mystifying it.
His manager, John Gibbons,
called him “a late bloomer”
afterward, signalling that we’re
passing the point where we
think of Smoak’s transformation
from schlub to all-star as a one-
year anomaly. He’s arrived.
Bautista was 29-and-a-half
when he began the 2009 season
– the one that turned him from a
nobody to a somebody. The year
after that was the best of his
career. He continued to produce
at an elite level for journeyman
prices for four more years.
Smoak was 30-and-a-bit when
he had his own modest version
of a 2009. Last year, he doubled
or tripled everything in his out-
put – hits, extra-base hits, home
runs, walks.
Smoak’s emergence wasn’t as
loud as Bautista’s. The South
Carolinian is, at the moment, a
very good everyday player rather
than what Bautista became – a
generational star. But every bit
helps.
If you’d like to compare
Smoak to Bautista on some basis
other than vintages, you’re going
to have problems. It would be
hard for two ballplayers to be
more different from one anoth-
er. Bautista was (it feels odd
using the past tense) a huge per-
Leafs coach Mike Babcock, seen during a January game in Toronto, says he will give a few players extra rest in the final games of the regular season,
but he wants most players pushing hard because the team will probably have four days off before the playoffs. NATHAN DENETTE/CANADIAN PRESS
is unclear, as Dermott actually
favoured his left leg as he limped
off the ice.
Leafs head coach Mike Bab-
cock said he will not make any
immediate decisions about
replacing Dermott.
“We have [defence], we’ll take
a look at it,” Babcock said after
the game. “I don’t know if he is
out for a bit, I don’t know any-
thing about it to be honest with
you.
“He had X-rays and there was
nothing and he’ll have whatever
scans they do next and see how
he’s feeling [Sunday]. We’ll make
a decision on it.”
However, the Leafs had Sun-
day off and more information on
Dermott’s injury will not be avail-
able until Monday, when the
Leafs play the Buffalo Sabres.
If Dermott cannot play Mon-
day, Connor Carrick is the likely
replacement for him and the
RED-HOT RED SOX
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. Rafael
Devers delivered a go-ahead
run-scoring single in the sixth
inning as the Boston Red Sox
claimed their third straight vic-
tory with a 2-1 win against the
Tampa Bay Rays in the series
finale on Sunday. Devers (1-
for-4, walk) drove in four runs
in the series for the Red Sox
(3-1), who won the remainder
of the season’s inaugural series
after blowing a 4-0 lead in
Tampa Bay’s 6-4 victory in
Thursday’s opener. Brad Miller
(1-for-3, walk) clubbed a solo
blast for the Rays (1-3), who
pushed across only three runs
over the final three games of
the series. Red Sox starter Hec-
tor Velazquez (1-0) pitched 52⁄3
one-run innings while allowing
five hits and a walk and strik-
ing out five. Boston’s starters
sonality. Not loud, but smoulder-
ing. He was fuelled almost
entirely by resentment. Though
he pretended otherwise, Bautista
loved being the centre of atten-
tion or, put more precisely, the
centre of animus.
Smoak has a personality, but
he prefers not to take it out of
the house in case it gets wet. He
has never seemed to care much
about where he plays, or when,
or how long. He just likes being
on a baseball team.
Smoak has never attracted
any attention of any sort, which
may be why he’s making US$4-
million a year when someone
such as Steve Pearce – Pearce
being the old English word for
“healthy scratch” – is making six.
Given the chance, Bautista
would make chippy comments
about how much he’d signed for
and how much he thought he
was worth. No one’s asked
Smoak that question because
you already know he’s not going
to give you what you’re hoping
for. It’ll be some version of ‘just
happy to be here’.
After hitting Sunday’s homer,
Smoak did not dance around or
Leafs may call up one of Andreas
Borgman, Calle Rosen or Martin
Marincin from their Toronto
Marlies farm team as insurance.
Even though Dermott, 21, is a
rookie, losing him for even a
short while in the playoffs is not
a pleasant prospect. After he was
promoted in January, Dermott
proved to be a big upgrade on the
defence, which was the Leafs’
weakest unit at the time. His
speed, skill and confidence in
handling the puck under pres-
sure give the Leafs mobility and
puck-movement on all three
pairs when everyone is healthy.
Rest will be the priority for at
least some players this week as
the Leafs finish with three games,
the latter two coming Thursday
in New Jersey against the Devils
with the regular-season finale at
home against the Montreal Cana-
diens on Saturday. Goaltender
Frederik Andersen was the only
allowed just two runs and
struck out 23 batters over 242⁄3
innings in the series. It was the
first time in the Red Sox’s 118-
year history that the team’s
starters permitted one or fewer
runs in each of the season’s
first four games.
Berrios throws three-hitter
BALITMORE Brian Dozier
homered twice, and Jose Ber-
rios threw a three-hitter as the
Minnesota Twins defeated the
Baltimore Orioles 7-0 on Sun-
day afternoon. Dozier’s homers
were half of the Twins’ four-
homer barrage that let Minne-
sota (2-1) win the three-game
series. The Twins hit three
homers in a 6-2 win over Balti-
more (1-2) on Saturday night.
REUTERS
give people flying chest bumps.
The closest he got to an emo-
tional reaction was a look of
mild irritation when he realized
they’d showed him on the score-
board jamming a plug of chew-
ing tobacco into his mouth.
After the game, starter Marcus
Stroman – who has much better
understanding of what all the
buttons on the hype machine do
– described Smoak’s nine-pitch
encounter in breathless terms.
“It’s hard to put into words
how incredible that at-bat is,”
Stroman said, and then did that.
Smoak had almost nothing to
say for himself. He could not be
roused beyond a monotone on
the topic of the at-bat itself, or
the home run, or the win. He
refused to be riled by the fact
that, in order to get to him, Rob-
ertson had intentionally walked
Josh Donaldson.
The only thing that seemed to
penetrate was being told he is
six-for-his-last-eight.
“Thanks for that,” Smoak said,
like he’d just been cursed.
Not much a talker, this guy.
When you hit like he’s hitting,
other people will do that for you.
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player identified as getting a sure hang around. We’ve got lots of
night off, which means a rare sec- that, so let’s keep playing hard.”
ond consecutive start on Monday Rest will get a little more focus
for backup Curtis McElhinney. with the Jets, as they have back-
Other candidates for at least one to-back home games on Monday
game off are veterans Patrick and Tuesday against the Ottawa
Marleau, 38, and Ron Hainsey, 37. Senators and the Canadiens, re-
“I know [McElhinney] is start- spectively. They finish up on the
ing again the next game and then road against the Calgary Flames
what we’ll do is get [Andersen] a and Chicago Blackhawks on
couple going in,” Babcock said. Thursday and Saturday.
“We haven’t talked about the rest Jets head coach Paul Maurice
of the crew.” was just happy his team showed
Babcock may not give out any its true colours against the Leafs
more nights off aside from the after a sloppy loss to the Black-
above trio, as his young charges hawks last Thursday. It was reas-
will probably get four days off suring that once again the
when the regular season ends on players corrected themselves
Saturday for them. The Leafs’ rather than letting the poor play
playoff series is not likely to linger.
begin before Thursday, April 12. “We were much better than we
“These games are important were [against Chicago], so we
for us because the reality is we’re corrected the things we needed
probably not starting until to,” Maurice said. “It was a grin-
Thursday after we finish,” Bab- der out there. I thought we built
cock said. “There’s lots of time to as the game went on, got better.”
Golden Knights make
NHL history by clinching
division title in first year
The Vegas Golden Knights have made history as an expan-
sion franchise, clinching the Pacific Division title with a 3-2
victory over the San Jose Sharks in their final regular season
game at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday night.
The Golden Knights also held a surprise ceremony before
the game to honor the 58 people killed in a mass shooting at
an outdoor country music concert in October.
The team showed a short video and projected the names
of all 58 victims onto the ice, before raising a banner featuring
58 stars, the 58 names and the words “Vegas Strong” to the
rafters. The Golden Knights also announced they had retired
the No. 58 in honour of the victims.
Golden Knights owner Bill Foley and general manager
George McPhee were joined by the family of Neysa Tonks,
one of the victims of the shooting, as representatives for all
those lost in the Oct. 1 tragedy.
“It just really shows the community how dedicated we are
and how involved the team is in the community,” Foley said,
according to NHL.com. “The 58 stars are going to be there
forever. You can see there were people crying in the stands, a
few tears in my eyes as that banner got raised.”
“It makes me feel great that our team is involved and is
helping out in any way it can. It really does. Because our fans
are so dedicated to this team, they’re so into this team. And
we want to give back to them. That was our goal, to make
hockey in the desert a reality and it is. We’ve been fortunate
that our team has been playing great. The guys have been
playing well together but the fans have been behind us the
whole way.”
Vegas (50-22-7, 107 points) finished 29-10-2 at T-Mobile
Arena during the regular season. The team has set a bevy of
records for an expansion team, including home wins, road
wins, total wins and points.
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A banner with 58 stars was hung in T-Mobile Arena Saturday to
honour Las Vegas shooting victims. ETHAN MILLER/GETTY IMAGES
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NHL Goal — Edmonton: Montoya (13 shots, 17:18 (pp). WHL PLAYOFFS NBA
13 saves), Talbot (L, 29-30-3). Calgary: 10. Buffalo, Okposo 13 (Ristolainen,
EASTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND
GP W L OTL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 Strk Smith (W, 25-22-6). Eichel) 19:00 (pp). EASTERN CONFERENCE
Power plays (goals-chances) — Penalties — Turris Nash (hooking) 4:37; DIVISION SEMIFINALS W L Pct GB
ATLANTIC DIVISION Edmonton: 0-5; Calgary: 0-3. Hartnell Nash (game misconduct) 14:09; x — if necessary
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Attendance — 19,289 at Calgary. Hartnell Nash (boarding major, served (Best-of-7) 23 .697 2
x-Tampa Bay 79 52 23 2 2 283 228 10827-10-2-0 25-13-0-2 4-6-0-0 L-1 x-Boston 53
VANCOUVER 5, COLUMBUS 4 (OT) by Fiala) 14:09. EASTERN CONFERENCE x-Cleveland 47 30 .610 81/2
x-Toronto 79 47 25 5 2 267 226 10127-10-2-0 20-15-3-2 7-3-0-0 L-1 FIRST PERIOD THIRD PERIOD x-Philadelphia 46 30 .605 9
METROPOLITAN DIVISION 1. Columbus, Jones 16 (Atkinson, 11. Buffalo, Reinhart 23 (O’Reilly) 8:17. MOOSE JAW (1) VS. PRINCE ALBERT x-Indiana 46 31 .597 91/2
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Columbus 79 44 29 2 4 231 217 94 25-12-1-1 19-17-1-3 8-1-1-0 L-1 13:48. Fiala Nash (high-sticking) 5:58; Fisher Miami 41 36 .532 141/2
WILD CARD Nash (tripping) 9:24; Guhle Buf Sunday
SECOND PERIOD Detroit 37 40 .481 181/2
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Montreal 78 28 38 6 6 198 250 68 18-13-4-4 10-25-2-2 3-7-0-0 L-1 Monday W L Pct GB
Horvat) 5:14. Nashville: Rinne (L, 41-12-4), Saros (7
Ottawa 78 27 40 4 7 210 274 65 16-18-2-4 11-22-2-3 3-7-0-0 L-1 Regina at Swift Current, 9 p.m.
5. Vancouver, Horvat 21 (Jokinen, shots, 6 saves). z-Houston 62 15 .805 —
Buffalo 78 25 41 10 2 187 260 62 11-24-3-2 14-17-7-0 3-6-0-1 W-1
Pouliot) 14:03. Power plays (goals-chances) — Buffalo: y-Golden State 55 21 .724 61/2
4-9; Nashville: 1-4. MEDICINE HAT (1) VS. Portland 47 29 .618 141/2
WESTERN CONFERENCE 6. Columbus, Dubois 19 (Panarin, Jones)
Attendance — 17,551 at Nashville. BRANDON (WC1) San Antonio 45 32 .584 17
16:02 (pp).
GP W L OTL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 Strk (Brandon leads series 3-2) Oklahoma City 45 33 .577 171/2
7. Columbus, Werenski 15 (Panarin, Utah 44 33 .571 18
CENTRAL DIVISION Jones) 18:23. AHL Minnesota 44 34 .564 181/2
Sunday
x-Nashville 79 51 17 4 7 258 204 113 27-9-1-3 24-8-3-4 6-3-0-1 W-1 8. Columbus, Atkinson 21 (Jones, New Orleans 43 34 .558 19
Medicine Hat at Brandon
x-Winnipeg 78 48 20 8 2 260 207 106 30-7-2-0 18-13-6-2 7-2-1-0 W-1 Panarin) 18:39. Saturday
Minnesota 78 43 25 7 3 239 221 96 26-6-7-1 17-19-0-2 4-3-2-1 L-1 Penalties — Biega Vcr (tripping) 15:15. Denver 41 35 .539 201/2
LETHBRIDGE (2) VS. RED DEER (3) L.A. Clippers 41 36 .532 21
PACIFIC DIVISION OVERTIME Toronto 5 Manitoba 4 (Lethbridge wins series 4-1) L.A. Lakers 33 42 .440 28
y-Vegas 79 50 22 4 3 263 213 10729-10-1-1 21-12-3-2 5-3-1-1 W-2 9. Vancouver, Edler 6 (Sutter) 1:21. Charlotte 4 Syracuse 1
San Jose 79 44 25 7 3 243 217 98 24-11-2-1 20-14-5-2 7-2-1-0 L-3 Sacramento 24 53 .312 38
Penalties — None. Rockford 5 San Jose 3 Saturday Dallas 23 54 .299 39
Los Angeles 79 43 28 7 1 229 194 94 21-14-3-0 22-14-4-1 5-2-2-1 L-1 SHOTS ON GOAL BY Grand Rapids 6 Milwaukee 2 Lethbridge 6 Red Deer 4 Memphis 21 55 .276 401/2
WILD CARD Columbus 7 10 12 1 —30 Tucson 4 Iowa 3 Phoenix 19 58 .247 43
Anaheim 78 40 25 6 7 220 209 93 23-10-3-2 17-15-3-5 6-3-1-0 W-1 Vancouver 12 11 5 1 —29 Hershey 6 Laval 3 x-clinched playoff spot
WESTERN CONFERENCE
St. Louis 78 43 29 6 0 215 208 92 24-15-0-0 19-14-6-0 7-2-1-0 L-2 Goal — Columbus: Korpisalo (L, 8-7-1). Bridgeport 5 Hartford 1 y-clinched division
Vancouver: Demko (W, 1-0-0). Providence 3 W-B/Scranton 1 KELOWNA (1) VS. TRI-CITY (WC1) z-clinched conference
Colorado 78 42 28 7 1 246 224 92 27-11-2-0 15-17-5-1 6-4-0-0 W-1 Power plays (goals-chances) — Utica 6 Springfield 5 (Tri-City wins series 4-0)
Dallas 79 40 31 5 3 224 216 88 26-12-3-0 14-19-2-3 2-6-1-1 W-1 Columbus: 2-3; Vancouver: 0-1. Lehigh Valley 4 Belleville 2 Sunday
Calgary 79 36 33 5 5 209 241 82 16-19-3-1 20-14-2-4 2-8-0-0 W-1 Attendance — 18,865 at Vancouver. Rochester 5 Binghamton 3 VICTORIA (2) VS. VANCOUVER (3)
Edmonton 79 34 39 5 1 227 255 74 17-18-4-0 17-21-1-1 4-4-2-0 L-4 NY RANGERS 2, CAROLINA 1 Stockton 4 San Antonio 1 Philadelphia 119, Charlotte 102
(Vancouver leads series 3-2)
Chicago 79 32 37 8 2 223 245 74 18-17-4-1 14-20-4-1 3-5-1-1 L-1 FIRST PERIOD — No Scoring. Texas 2 Chicago 1 (SO) Chicago 113, Washington 94
Vancouver 79 30 40 6 3 208 253 69 15-18-5-1 15-22-1-2 5-5-0-0 W-4 Penalties — Gilmour NYR (high- Ontario 5 Cleveland 3 Indiana 111, L.A. Clippers 104
Saturday
Arizona 79 28 40 6 5 201 248 67 16-20-1-3 12-20-5-2 5-5-0-0 W-1 sticking) 4:02; Di Giuseppe Car (hooking) Bakersfield 2 San Diego 1 San Antonio 100, Houston 83
Vancouver 5 Victoria 3
14:56. Atlanta 94, Orlando 88
x — clinched playoff berth; Note: the top three teams per division and the two next-
Cleveland 98, Dallas 87
best records in the conference qualify for the playoffs; a winning team is credited with SECOND PERIOD OHL PLAYOFFS Monday
Detroit 108, Brooklyn 96
two points and a victory in the W column; a team losing in overtime or shootout 1. NY Rangers, Sproul 1 (Carey, FIRST ROUND Victoria at Vancouver, 11 a.m.
Namestnikov) 3:01. Oklahoma City 109, New Orleans 104
receives one point, which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column. CONFERENCE QUARTER-FINALS
2. NY Rangers, Hayes 23 (Fast) 13:23 Utah 121, Minnesota 97
Tor (holding) 18:53. EVERETT (1) VS. SEATTLE (WC2)
(Best-of-7) Milwaukee at Denver
Sunday SHOTS ON GOAL BY (sh). (Everett wins series 4-1)
EASTERN CONFERENCE Phoenix at Golden State
Winnipeg 10 12 7—29 Penalties — Zibanejad NYR (tripping)
Memphis at Portland
Philadelphia 4 Boston 3 (OT) Toronto 10 9 10—29 13:13. Saturday
HAMILTON (1) VS. OTTAWA (8) Sacramento at L.A. Lakers
Nashville 4 Tampa Bay 1 Goal — Winnipeg: Hellebuyck (W, 41- THIRD PERIOD Everett 4 Seattle 0
(Hamilton wins series 4-1)
New Jersey at Montrea 11-9). Toronto: McElhinney (L, 10-5-1). 3. Carolina, Skinner 24 (Ryan, Dahlbeck)
Saturday
Washington at Pittsburgh Power plays (goals-chances) — 8:07. PORTLAND (2) VS. SPOKANE (3)
Friday
Colorado at Anaheim Winnipeg: 1-3; Toronto: 1-4. Penalties — Hayes NYR (slashing) (Portland leads series 3-2)
Hamilton 4 Ottawa 1 Washington 107, Charlotte 93
Attendance — 19,101 at Toronto. 18:46. Saturday
Detroit 115, New York 109
Saturday PITTSBURGH 5, MONTREAL 2 SHOTS ON GOAL BY BARRIE (2) VS. MISSISSAUGA (7)
Spokane 5 Portland 4 (OT)
Boston 110, Toronto 99
FIRST PERIOD New York 11 5 4—20 (Barrie wins series 4-2) Brooklyn 110, Miami 109, OT
Boston 5 Florida 1 1. Montreal, Petry 11 (Gallagher, Byron) Carolina 13 12 16—41 Monday
Golden State 112, Sacramento 96
Detroit 2 Ottawa 0 8:42. Goal — NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 26- Portland at Spokane, 4 p.m.
Sunday
Vancouver 5 Columbus 4 (OT) 2. Pittsburgh, Sheary 17 (Sheahan, 24-7). Carolina: Ward (L, 22-14-4). Barrie 8 Mississauga 2 Friday
NY Rangers 2 Carolina 1 Hunwick) 9:41. Power plays (goals-chances) — New MLB
Pittsburgh 5 Montreal 2 3. Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 26 (Schultz, York: 0-1; Carolina: 0-3. Saturday Chicago 90, Orlando 82
New Jersey 4 NY Islanders 3 Kessel) 10:18 (pp). Attendance — 14,993 at Carolina. Barrie 5 Mississauga 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia 101, Atlanta 91
Winnipeg 3 Toronto 1 4. Pittsburgh, Hagelin 10 (Malkin) 14:36. NEW JERSEY 4, NY ISLANDERS 3 Cleveland 107, New Orleans 102
Dallas 4 Minnesota 1 5. Montreal, Drouin 13 (Galchenyuk, FIRST PERIOD KINGSTON (3) VS. NORTH BAY (6) Sunday Denver 126, Oklahoma City 125, (OT)
Buffalo 7 Nashville 4 Gallagher) 19:49 (pp). 1. NY Islanders, Fritz 3 (Davidson, (Kingston wins series 4-1) Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, ppd. Houston 104, Phoenix 103
Arizona 6 St. Louis 0 Penalties — McCarron Mtl (hooking) Tavares) 1:15. Minnesota 7, Baltimore 0 Minnesota 93, Dallas 92
Calgary 3 Edmonton 2 9:57; Jo.Benn Mtl (slashing) 11:33; 2. New Jersey, Noesen 13 (Coleman, Saturday Toronto 7, N.Y. Yankees 4 Utah 107, Memphis 97
Vegas 3 San Jose 2 Guentzel Pgh (cross-checking) 19:05. Butcher) 7:54. Kingston 6 North Bay 5 (3OT) Boston 2, Tampa Bay 1 Milwaukee 124, L.A. Lakers 122, (OT)
SECOND PERIOD Penalties — Lee NYI (tripping) 19:11. Pittsburgh 1, Detroit 0, 1st game Portland 105, L.A. Clippers 96
Friday No Scoring. SECOND PERIOD NIAGARA (4) VS. OSHAWA (5) Houston 8, Texas 2
Penalties — Carr Mtl (holding) 3:36. 3. New Jersey, Hall 35 (Butcher, Palmieri) (Niagara wins series 4-1) L.A. Angels 7, Oakland 4 Monday
Carolina 4 Washington 1 THIRD PERIOD 0:41 (pp). Saturday Seattle 5, Cleveland 4 No games scheduled.
Tampa Bay 7 NY Rangers 3 6. Pittsburgh, Kessel 31 (Crosby, Malkin) 4. New Jersey, Hall 36 (Noesen) 9:08. Niagara 5 Oshawa 2 Pittsburgh at Detroit, ( 2nd game)
Toronto 5 NY Islanders 4 7:18 (pp). 5. NY Islanders, Beauvillier 19 (Barzal, MLS
Colorado 5 Chicago 0 Nelson) 13:19 (pp). WESTERN CONFERENCE Saturday
7. Pittsburgh, Sheahan 11 (Maatta,
Anaheim 2 Los Angeles 1 (OT) 6. New Jersey, Coleman 13 (Mueller, SAULT STE. MARIE (1) VS. SAGINAW (8) Saturday
Letang) 9:07 (pp).
Vegas 4 St. Louis 3 (OT) Grabner) 18:58 (sh). (Sault Ste. Marie wins series 4-0) Pittsburgh at Detroit, ppd.
Penalties — Drouin Mtl (hooking) 6:26;
Penalties — New Jersey bench Houston 9, Texas 3 Orlando 4 N.Y. Red Bulls 3
Galchenyuk Mtl (slashing) 7:32.
Monday (tripping, served by ) 11:22; Severson NJ KITCHENER (2) VS. GUELPH (7) L.A. Angels 8, Oakland 3 L.A. Galaxy 4 Los Angeles F.C. 3
SHOTS ON GOAL BY
All Times Eastern (holding) 18:27. (Kitchener wins series 4-2) Toronto 5, N.Y. Yankees 3 Vancouver 2 Columbus 1
Montreal 11 4 11—26
THIRD PERIOD Sunday Cleveland 6, Seattle 5 Portland 2 Chicago 2
Pittsburgh 16 7 10—33
Buffalo at Toronto, 7 p.m. 7. NY Islanders, Wagner 7 (Boychuk, Kitchener 5 Guelph 2 Boston 3, Tampa Bay 2 Atlanta 1 Minnesota 0
Goal — Montreal: Niemi (L, 6-9-4).
Carolina at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Leddy) 16:21. Minnesota 6, Baltimore 2 New York City 2 San Jose 1
Pittsburgh: Murray (W, 26-15-3). Chicago White Sox 4, Kansas City 3
Winnipeg at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. Penalties — Leddy NYI (hooking) 5:28. SARNIA (3) VS. WINDSOR (6) New England 2 Houston 0
Power plays (goals-chances) — Kansas City 1 D.C. 0
Edmonton at Minnesota, 8 p.m. SHOTS ON GOAL BY (Sarnia wins series 4-2)
Montreal: 1-1; Pittsburgh: 3-5. Friday Colorado 3 Philadelphia 0
Washington at St. Louis, 8 p.m. New York 12 11 7—30
Attendance — 18,636 at Pittsburgh. Montreal 1 Seattle 0
Colorado at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. New Jersey 15 10 10—35 Sunday
DETROIT 2, OTTAWA 0 Pittsburgh 13, Detroit 10, 13 innings
Goal — NY Islanders: Greiss (L, 11-8-2). Sarnia 5 Windsor 2
SUNDAY FIRST PERIOD — No Scoring. N.Y. Yankees 4, Toronto 2 Friday
Penalties — Hoffman Ott (holding) New Jersey: Kinkaid (W, 23-10-3).
Power plays (goals-chances) — New OWEN SOUND (4) VS. LONDON (5) Boston 1, Tampa Bay 0
PHILADELPHIA 4, BOSTON 3 (OT) 2:36; Athanasiou Det (hooking) 5:40; Texas 5, Houston 1 Toronto 3 Salt Lake 1
York: 1-2; New Jersey: 1-2. (Owen Sound wins series 4-0)
FIRST PERIOD Jensen Det (interference) 11:10. L.A. Angels 2, Oakland 1
SECOND PERIOD Attendance — 16,514 at New Jersey. PGA
1. Philadelphia, Giroux 28 (Konecny, QMJHL PLAYOFFS
1. Detroit, Larkin 14 (Mantha, Jensen) BOSTON 5, FLORIDA 1
Provorov) 9:38. Monday
4:10. FIRST PERIOD FIRST ROUND HOUSTON OPEN
Penalties — None. All Times Eastern
Penalties — Pageau Ott (high-sticking) 1. Florida, McGinn 13 (Yandle, Trocheck) At Houston
SECOND PERIOD 4:59. All Times Eastern
2. Philadelphia, Konecny 24 (Provorov) 0:43; Hicketts Det (slashing) 14:25. Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 1:05 p.m. Final— Par: 72 ( 36-36 )
THIRD PERIOD 2. Boston, Holden 4 (Krejci, DeBrusk) ROUND OF 16 (x-won on first playoff hole)
0:25. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees , 1:05 p.m.
2. Detroit, Athanasiou 16 (Svechnikov, 11:15. x — if necessary x-Ian Poulter, $1,260,000 73-64-65-67—269
3. Boston, Acciari 9 (Backes, Heinen) Kansas City at Detroit, 1:10 p.m.
Kronwall) 4:29. 3. Boston, DeBrusk 15 (Donato, Krejci) Beau Hossler, $756,000 65-68-69-67—269
14:25. Chicago White Sox at Toronto, 7:07 p.m.
Penalties — Athanasiou Det (delay of 14:06. BLAINVILLE-BOISBRIAND (1) VS. Emiliano Grillo, $406,000 69-68-67-68—272
Penalties — Sanheim Pha (interference) Baltimore at Houston, 7:10 p.m.
game) 1:55; Svechnikov Det (slashing) Penalties — None. VAL-D’OR (16) Jordan Spieth, $406,000 68-67-71-66—272
2:01; Krug Bos (slashing) 9:13; Filppula Boston at Miami , 7:10 p.m.
7:48; Borowiecki Ott (holding) 10:41; SECOND PERIOD (Blainville-Boisbriand wins series 4-0) Sam Ryder, $280,000 66-68-71-68—273
Pha (tripping) 17:26; Marchand Bos Texas at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.
Ryan Ott (slashing) 18:19. 4. Boston, Donato 4 (Krejci) 1:32. Cleveland at L.A. Angels, 10:07 p.m. Keith Mitchell, $243,250 67-71-67-69—274
(cross-checking) 19:07. ACADIE-BATHURST (2) VS.
SHOTS ON GOAL BY 5. Boston, Bergeron 29 (Backes, Henrik Stenson, $243,250 68-68-69-69—274
THIRD PERIOD Pastrnak) 13:40 (pp). CHICOUTIMI (15)
Ottawa 10 9 12—31 NATIONAL LEAGUE Abraham Ancer, $182,000 68-66-72-69—275
4. Philadelphia, Patrick 11 (Lindblom, (Acadie-Bathurst wins series 4-2)
Detroit 5 11 11—27 6. Boston, DeBrusk 16 (Miller, Grzelcyk) Paul Dunne, $182,000 64-71-69-71—275
Voracek) 5:31.
Goal — Ottawa: Condon (L, 5-17-5). 16:32. Sunday Matt Every, $182,000 67-70-72-66—275
5. Boston, Pastrnak 33 (unassisted) 6:54. Sunday
Detroit: Howard (W, 22-27-8). Penalties — Haley Fla, McQuaid Bos Miami 6, Chicago Cubs 0 Russell Henley, $182,000 69-71-70-65—275
6. Boston, Bergeron 30 (Backes) 19:56. Acadie-Bathurst 5 Chicoutimi 1
Power plays (goals-chances) — Ottawa: (fighting) 1:57; Trocheck Fla, Marchand Pittsburgh 1, Detroit 0, 1st game Matt Kuchar, $182,000 68-68-69-70—275
Penalties — Lindblom Pha (hooking)
0-5; Detroit: 0-4. Bos (roughing) 10:29; Haley Fla St. Louis 5, N.Y. Mets 1 Julian Suri, $182,000 66-69-73-67—275
5:59. RIMOUSKI (3) VS. MONCTON (14)
Attendance — 19,515 at Detroit. (holding) 12:50. Washington 6, Cincinnati 5 N. Lindheim, $122,500 68-66-73-69—276
OVERTIME THIRD PERIOD (Series tied 3-3)
7. Philadelphia, Giroux 29 (Voracek) 3:39. CALGARY 3, EDMONTON 2 Pittsburgh 8, Detroit 6, 2nd game TELEVISION
FIRST PERIOD No Scoring. San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers
Penalties — None. Sunday MONDAY(EASTERN TIME)
1. Edmonton, Slepyshev 6 (Kassian) Penalties — Grzelcyk Bos (hooking)
SHOTS ON GOAL BY 3:53; Acciari Bos, Weegar Fla (fighting) Moncton 2 Rimouski 1
Boston 12 17 10 0—39 2:41. Saturday BASEBALL
2. Calgary, Hamilton 17 (Backlund, 12:38.
Philadelphia 7 8 8 1—24 HALIFAX (4) VS. BAIE-COMEAU (13)
Frolik) 6:43. SHOTS ON GOAL BY Pittsburgh at Detroit, ppd. St. Louis Cardinals at Milwaukee
Goal — Boston: Khudobin (L, 15-6-7). (Halifax wins series 4-1)
3. Calgary, Hathaway 3 (unassisted) Florida 7 9 15—31 N.Y. Mets 6, St. Louis 2 Brewers, SNO, 2 p.m.
Philadelphia: Mrazek (W, 14-12-6).
11:54. Boston 12 12 9—33 Washington 13, Cincinnati 7 Tampa Bay Rays at New York Yankees,
Power plays (goals-chances) — Boston: Friday
4. Calgary, Backlund 14 (Stone, Frolik) Goal — Florida: Luongo (9 shots, 9 Chicago Cubs 10, Miami 6, 10 innings TSN2, 1 p.m.
1-3; Philadelphia: 0-2. Halifax 4 Baie-Comeau 0
15:28. saves), Reimer (L, 20-14-6). Boston: Rask Atlanta 15, Philadelphia 2 Chicago White Sox at Toronto Blue
Attendance — 19,904 at Philadelphia.
Penalties — Calgary bench (delay of (W, 34-11-5). Colorado 2, Arizona 1 Jays, SN1, SNO, 7 p.m.
Drummondville (5) vs. Cape Breton (12)
game, served by Foo) 2:41; Brouwer Power plays (goals-chances) — Florida: Milwaukee 7, San Diego 3 Baltimore Orioles at Houston Astros,
(Drummondville wins series 4-1)
SATURDAY Cgy (slashing) 10:08; Strome Edm 0-2; Boston: 1-1. L.A. Dodgers 5, San Francisco 0 TSN2, 7 p.m.
(hooking) 17:07. Attendance — 17,565 at Boston. Cleveland Indians at Los Angeles
VICTORIAVILLE (6) VS. GATINEAU (11)
WINNIPEG 3, TORONTO 1 SECOND PERIOD BUFFALO 7, NASHVILLE 4 Friday Angels, TSN2, 10 p.m.
(Victoriaville wins series 4-1)
FIRST PERIOD — No Scoring. 5. Edmonton, Cammalleri 6 (Sekera, FIRST PERIOD
Penalties — Kapanen Tor (hooking) Kassian) 12:41. 1. Buffalo, Pominville 13 (Girgensons, Pittsburgh 13, Detroit 10, 13 innings BASKETBALL
Friday
4:31; Wheeler Wpg (high-sticking) 5:01. Penalties — Caggiula Edm (hooking) Eichel) 0:43. Washington 2, Cincinnati 0
Victoriaville 4 Gatineau 2
SECOND PERIOD 1:19; Backlund Cgy, Draisaitl Edm 2. Nashville, Subban 16 (Josi, Johansen) Miami 2, Chicago Cubs 1, 17 innings NCAA: Championship: Teams TBA,
1. Toronto, Marleau 26 (Matthews, (roughing) 19:46. 2:59 (pp). Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 4, 11 innings TSN4, 9:30 p.m.
ROUYN-NORANDA (7) VS.
Gardiner) 2:02 (pp). THIRD PERIOD 3. Nashville, Watson 13 (Ekholm, Arizona 9, Colorado 8
SHERBROOKE (10)
2. Winnipeg, Morrissey 6 (Ehlers, No Scoring. Bonino) 17:00. Milwaukee 8, San Diego 6 HOCKEY
(Series tied 3-3)
Trouba) 8:30. Penalties — Jankowski Cgy (cross- Penalties — Okposo Buf (tripping) 2:07; San Francisco 1, L.A. Dodgers 0
3. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 7 (Wheeler, checking, served by Foo) 5:22; Johansen Nash (slashing) 13:41. Buffalo Sabres at Toronto Maple Leafs,
Sunday
Stastny) 9:40 (pp). Jankowski Cgy, Caggiula Edm (fighting) SECOND PERIOD Monday TSN4, 7 p.m.
Sherbrooke 4 Rouyn-Noranda 3 (OT)
4. Winnipeg, Copp 6 (Lowry, Tanev) 4. Nashville, Turris 16 (Smith, Fiala) 2:00. All Times Eastern Colorado Avalanche at Los Angeles
5:22; Lucic Edm, Smith Cgy (roughing)
17:24. 5. Buffalo, O’Reilly 22 (Eichel, Kings, SN1, 10:30 p.m.
5:57; Lucic Edm (slashing, served by QUEBEC (8) VS. CHARLOTTETOWN (9)
Penalties — Chiarot Wpg (holding) 1:42; Ristolainen) 5:45 (pp). Minnesota at Pittsburgh, 1:05 p.m.
Slepyshev) 5:57; Shore Cgy (slashing) (Charlottetown leads series 3-2)
Gardiner Tor (cross-checking) 8:57; 6. Buffalo, Okposo 12 (Rodrigues, St. Louis at Milwaukee, 2:10 p.m. RUGBY
7:18; Lucic Edm, Glass Cgy (fighting)
Perreault Wpg (hooking) 12:03. Mittelstadt) 7:20. Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m.
10:50; Khaira Edm (roughing) 11:59; Saturday
7. Nashville, Bonino 12 (Ellis, Watson) Boston at Miami, 7:10 p.m. Super League:
THIRD PERIOD Frolik Cgy (high-sticking) 14:16. Charlottetown 3 Quebec 1
12:50. Philadelphia at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m. Widnes Vikings vs. St. Helens R.F.C.
No Scoring. SHOTS ON GOAL BY
8. Buffalo, Reinhart 21 (Ristolainen, Washington at Atlanta, 7:35 p.m. SNWL, 10 a.m.
Penalties — Winnipeg bench (too many Edmonton 9 12 15—36 Monday
Eichel) 15:04 (pp). L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. Catalans Dragons vs. Huddersfield
men, served by Perreault) 9:48; Hainsey Calgary 7 5 8—20 Charlottetown at Quebec, 7 p.m.
9. Buffalo, Reinhart 22 (O’Reilly, Eichel) Colorado at San Diego, 10:10 p.m. Giants, SNWL, 12 p.m.

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Tottenham’s Harry Kane, centre, is challenged by Chelsea’s N'Golo Kanté, left, and Andreas Christensen, but Spurs won 3-1 at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. CATHERINE IVILL/GETTY IMAGES

Tottenham ends 28-year Chelsea jinx

Long-awaited victory
strengthens Spurs’ hold
on last EPL qualifying
spot in lucrative
Champions League
ROB HARRIS LONDON
Tottenham’s 28-year wait for a vic-
tory at Chelsea is over.
By coming from behind to win
3-1 at Stamford Bridge on Sunday,
Tottenham shook off a curse
that’s been a burden for the north
London club throughout the
entire English Premier League
era.
But it’s about more than sym-
bolism or a day’s bragging rights.
The triumph – secured by
Christian Eriksen’s powerful,
long-range equalizer and Dele
Alli’s double – has more immedi-
ate consequences for both Lon-
don rivals.
Chelsea won’t only be surren-
dering the Premier League trophy
to Manchester City, but facing a
season out of Europe’s elite com-
petition.
Tottenham, in the fourth and
final Champions League place,
widened its lead over fifth-place
Chelsea to eight points. Arsenal,
which beat Stoke 3-0 in Sunday’s
other game, is five points further
back.
After waiting 22 years to finish
above Arsenal, Tottenham is
almost certain to finish above its
north London rival for a second
successive season.
Qualifying for the lucrative
Champions League for a third suc-
cessive season is more significant
for a team that had only contested
the European Cup twice in its his-
tory before Mauricio Pochettino
took charge in 2014.
“To create a winning mentality
you have to get good results in big
stadiums like Bernabeu or Stam-
ford Bridge,” Pochettino said,
reflecting on the draw at Real
Madrid earlier in the season and
Sunday’s success. “Four years ago
… the idea was to reduce the dis-
tance to the top four. That was the
first target and we’ve done that.”
While Pochettino could even-
tually savour the praise in west
London, it initially looked like he
would be facing questions about
his goalkeeper. In the end, Pochet-
tino didn’t face a single question
after the match about Hugo Llo-
ris’s early blunder that allowed
Chelsea to take the lead after 30
minutes.
Lloris came off his line to meet
WHITECAPS 2, CREW 1
COLUMBUS, OHIO Kei Kamara
scored the go-ahead goal on a
diving header in the 78th minute
for Vancouver on Saturday. Brek
Shea smashed home a deflec-
tion off Crew goalkeeper Zack
Steffen in the 51st minute to tie
it for the Whitecaps (3-1-1). Gyasi
Zardes pounced on a rebound in
the 29th minute to open the
scoring for the Crew (3-1-1), who
had their four-game unbeaten
streak snapped.
IMPACT 1, SOUNDERS 0
SEATTLE Jeisson Vargas scored
on a point-blank shot in the 60th
minute to lead Montreal past
short-handed Seattle. Montreal
won its second straight after an
0-2-0 start. The Sounders are
0-3-0 for the second time in club
history. They also dropped three
in a row to start the 2016 season
that ultimately ended with them
winning MLS Cup. Seattle has
yet to score this season.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
a cross from Victor Moses but
missed the punch, allowing Alva-
ro Morata to head in his first
league goal in more than three
months.
Tottenham didn’t capitulate.
And the planned route to goal was
clear when Eriksen tried his luck
from distance five minutes before
halftime.
The Dane did find the net in
stoppage time and Willy Caballe-
ro will be wondering just how.
Receiving the ball from Alli 25
yards from goal, Eriksen
unleashed a thunderous strike
that appeared to be heading to the
center of the net before swerving
to the right.
Chelsea was hit by a double-
punch by Alli in a four-minute
spell in the second half.
Alli brought down Eric Dier’s
high ball with one touch and used
his second to lift the ball past Ca-
ballero in the 62nd minute.
Alli exploited defensive dither-
ing for the second. While Caballe-
ro twice blocked Son Heung-min,
Andreas Christensen failed to ad-
equately clear and Alli pounced
for his eighth goal of the season.
At Chelsea, it is manager Anto-
nio Conte who might need help-
ing. The Italian, who won the title
in his first season, is facing the risk
of being dismissed at the end of
his second campaign after an
alarming slump to fifth.
“I don’t know, you have to ask
the club, not me,” Conte said.
“The club has to take the decision.
But I repeat. I am not worried
about this.”
LACAZETTE’S RETURN
Alexandre Lacazette made a scor-
ing return to the Arsenal side after
a seven-week injury layoff.
With fourth place increasingly
out of sight for Arsenal, beating
Stoke was just about being in the
right shape for the Europa League
quarter-finals. The first leg is on
Thursday against CSKA Moscow
in the competition that provides
Arsenal’s only route into the
Champions League if the trophy is
collected.
The deadlock was broken in
the 75th minute by Pierre-Emer-
ick Aubameyang from the penal-
ty spot after Bruno Martins Indi
was penalized for fouling Mesut
Ozil despite appearing to win the
ball. Aubameyang grabbed a sec-
ond but was denied a hat trick
when Lacazette took the second
penalty after being fouled by
Badou Ndiaye.
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Americans sweep the Miami Open, with Isner Norway and

taking the first Masters 1000 title of his career
STEVEN WINE KEY BISCAYNE, FLA.
John Isner punctuated his unexpected
run to the Miami Open title with a surpris-
ing display of agility, dancing across the
court while basking in a breakthrough.
The 6-foot-10 Isner looked twice as tall
skipping about with a grin brighter than
the Florida sunshine.
He had just won the biggest title of his
14-year career, holding every service game
and rallying past Alexander Zverev 6-7
(4), 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday.
Isner, who turns 33 this month, pre-
viously had been 0-3 in ATP Masters 1000
finals.
“You can’t replicate moments like this,”
Isner said during the trophy ceremony.
“I’m toward the latter part of my career;
this is the best moment of my career.”
Isner’s win came in the last singles
match on Key Biscayne before the Miami
Open moves next year to the NFL Miami
Dolphins’ stadium.
Seeded 14th, Isner became the first
American man to win the tournament
since Andy Roddick in 2010. Isner joined
Sloane Stephens, who won the women’s
title Saturday, for the first U.S. sweep in
the event since 2004, when the champi-
ons were Roddick and Serena Williams.
U.S. Open champion Stephens won her
hometown tournament, beating Jelena
Ostapenko 7-6 (5), 6-1.
Stephens, a South Florida native who
lives in Fort Lauderdale, won the last
women’s final on Key Biscayne.
Seeded 13th, Stephens won with
defence, repeatedly extending rallies until
Ostapenko would make a mistake. Osta-
penko had a 25-6 advantage in winners
but had 48 unforced errors to 21 by Ste-
phens.
Stephens was the surprise champion at
S. Korea join
Sweden atop
the U.S. Open last September and then game of the second set, he whirled his
endured a long slump, which she ended index finger as he looked around at the
men’s world
at Key Biscayne. roaring crowd, coaxing the decibel level
The start of Isner’s last game was still higher.
curling table
delayed by the crowd’s chants of “U-S-A!” Two points later, when Zverev won a
Isner then held at love, and on the final wild exchange with both players at the
three points, he smacked aces, giving him net, he waved both arms toward the LAS VEGAS
18 for the match and 79 for the tourna- stands, inspiring another crescendo from
ment. the fans.
“I was just ready for this moment,” he Isner’s serve allowed him to overcome Norway’s Steffen Walstad, Swe-
said. “I’ve been here three other times, inconsistent returning, a succession of den’s Niklas Edin and South
and I’ve lost three times on this stage. I botched volleys and shaky play at crunch Korea’s Chang-min Kim won their
was just ready for it.” time. He converted only two third successive games on Sunday
Isner is best known as ten- of 12 break-point chances at the men’s world curling cham-
nis’ marathon man thanks to and lost his final three serv- pionship.
his 70-68 fifth-set victory You can’t replicate ice points in the tiebreaker. All three were tied at 3-0 atop
over Nicolas Mahut at Wim- But he gave Zverev only the table following Sunday after-
bledon in 2010. moments like this. three break-point chances, noon’s draw.
He possesses perhaps the I’m toward the latter and Isner’s serve was at its Defending champion Brad
game’s biggest serve, but has part of my career; best down the stretch. He Gushue of Canada (1-1) was idle
never reached a Grand Slam this is the best made 83 per cent of his first until the evening when he faced
semi-final, largely because a serves in the final set. Switzerland’s Marc Pfister (0-2).
lack of mobility makes it dif- moment of my Meanwhile, baseline Scotland’s Bruce Mouat was
ficult for him to stay in ral- career. errors by Zverev mounted. 2-0. China’s Dejia Zou and Russia’s
lies. “I think I missed more Alexey Timofeev were tied with
The string of victories on JOHN ISNER shots today than I did in the Canada at 1-1. American Greg Pers-
MIAMI OPEN CHAMPION
Key Biscayne surprised even whole tournament,” the inger and Jaap van Dorp of the
him because he arrived with young German said. Netherlands were 1-2.
a record of 1-6 this year, including losses “I played bad from the baseline, but it’s South Korea beat the United
to players with rankings of 60, 62, 78 and not easy against John. You always feel the States 7-5, the Scots defeated the
91. pressure that if you get broken, you might Italians 6-4, Sweden downed the
“I couldn’t have scripted this,” Isner lose the set.” Netherlands 5-2 and Norway dou-
said. “I was playing very poorly. But that’s Mindful of that small margin for error bled Japan 8-4 in the afternoon
the way tennis goes. You gain a little con- when he lost serve to fall behind 5-4 in the draw. Russia edged China 7-6,
fidence, and things start to roll your way.” final set, Zverev let his frustration boil Norway downed Germany 8-2,
He played an almost flawless semi-final over. South Korea thumped Japan 9-2
to beat Juan Martin del Potro, and was He slammed his racket to the concrete, and the Dutch defeated the Amer-
just good enough against the fourth-seed- picked it up and slammed it again, and icans 6-4 in the morning draw.
ed Zverev, a precocious 20-year-old Ger- then tossed it gently to the stands as a Italy’s Joel Retornaz, Ger-
man who was bidding for his third Mas- mangled souvenir. many’s Alexander Baumann,
ters 1000 title in the past 12 months. When Isner sealed the victory four Japan’s Go Aoki and the Swiss
The Key Biscayne finale drew a near- points later, he also tossed his racket – but were still looking for their first
capacity crowd, and the atmosphere was in celebration. Then it was time to dance. wins of the tournament.
electrifying at times. When Isner hit a
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Toronto’s Vanessa Borovilos poses for a photo with Trevor Immelman, left, and Gary Player after winning the Drive, Chip
and Putt Championship in the girls 10-11 age group at Augusta National Golf Club on Sunday. The tournament, a free junior
golf-development competition, is aimed at growing the game by focusing on the three fundamental skills employed in golf.
The Masters, a reprieve from the hecklers
While golf has gained
its share of rowdy fans,
Augusta offers a course
where the decorum
of old remains in effect
MARK LONG
elcome to Augusta
W National, a Baba Booey-
free zone.
For one week, the Masters
brings a measure of civility back
to a game that has grown more
obnoxious outside the ropes in
recent years.
For these four days in April, the
odds of TV mics picking up the
calls of the overserved – “Baba
Booey,” “get in the hole,” “mashed
potatoes” and worse – are virtual-
ly nil because, to put it simply, the
green jackets who run the club do
not allow it.
It is, in the eyes of many pro
players, a welcome reprieve from
what has become an increasingly
uncivilized game – filled with
more volume, more raucous be-
haviour, more people there to get
heard on TV than to watch golf. In
only a few events this year, high-
profile players Sergio Garcia, Rory
McIlroy and Justin Thomas have
dealt with out-of-line comments.
Garcia and Thomas even ended
up getting hecklers ejected.
“Everybody seems to want to
say something,” Steve Stricker
Poulter secures berth with dramatic win in Texas
HUMBLE, TEX.
Ian Poulter delivered another big
moment on Sunday, this one for
himself.
Down to his last putt, Poulter
made a 20-foot birdie on the 18th
hole to force a playoff with Beau
Hossler, and then he won the
Houston Open with a par on the
first extra hole to earn the last
spot in the Masters.
One week after Poulter was
mistakenly told he had locked up
a spot at Augusta National
through the world ranking, he
left no doubt by winning with a
clutch moment reminiscent of
his Ryder Cup heroics from Medi-
nah in 2012.
“I had to dig deep today,” said
Poulter, who closed with a five-
under 67.
Green grass and high drives
said. “The fans all want to voice
their opinion, and they feel like
they paid to get in so they’re going
to yell a few things out there at
you.
“We have to think about it and
worry about it a little bit, but we’re
not over that line yet. It’s on the
verge. It seems like we’re at a tip-
ping point.”
The Masters is different. This is
the course where a fan – make
that patron – can place a lawn
chair to reserve a spot near the
18th green, or any green, leave for
four hours, then come back and
see all his or her belongings there,
undisturbed.
Running across the hallowed
grounds is verboten.
And when the PGA Tour finally
relaxed its rules regarding cell-
phones, Augusta National did
not. The home of the season’s first
major meticulously tracks its tick-
ets – and does not hesitate to pull
them from people who do not fol-
low the rules.
“It’s quite simple: At Augusta,
people know if you shout the
wrong thing, you’re out of there
within 10 seconds,” Garcia said.
There’s a lot more leniency at
regular PGA Tour events. Shouts,
screams and some irreverence are
a growing trend.
“It’s a good problem to have,”
commissioner Jay Monahan said.
“You have more people, young
people, coming to our events than
we’ve ever seen. Some of these
people are new, and we’re trying
to bring new people into our
Hossler, who also shot 67,
overcame a three-shot deficit
with four straight birdies on the
back nine. He had a chance to win
on the 18th in regulation with a
30-foot birdie putt that trickled
over the right edge of the cup.
That set the stage for Poulter,
and the 42-year-old from England
lived up to his nickname as “The
Postman” by delivering his big-
gest putt in years. Poulter pound-
ed his chest five times when the
putt dropped, and all Hossler
could do was smile.
In the sudden-death playoff on
the 18th, one of the more daunt-
ing finishing holes off the tee
with water down the left side and
a bunker to the right, Hossler
found the bunker for the second
time. He hit into a greenside
bunker and his third shot caught
way too much ball and went over
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sport. … This issue is going to
come when you have outdoor
events with the number of people
we have.
“We’ve got a significant num-
ber of people and resources to
make sure the right behaviour is
happening on the golf course.
We’ve had some high-profile inci-
dents the last few weeks. We’re
monitoring it and we’ll get it right.
I think a lot of that behaviour will
be self-policing.”
The mute button has been diffi-
cult to find, especially in an era
when people often share every
thought on social media.
There might be other factors,
too.
McIlroy suggested limiting
alcohol sales at events after a
spectator kept yelling his wife’s
name during the Arnold Palmer
Invitational in Orlando a few
weeks ago.
“I was going to go over and have
a chat with him,” McIlroy said. “I
think it’s gotten a little much, to
be honest. … They need to do
something, because every week it
seems like guys are complaining
about it more and more.”
No longer are there only quaint
groups watching golf in utter
silence and then responding with
restrained applause. Decency and
decorum are, for the most part,
going the way of wooden drivers.
Rowdy crowds have become
the norm, with many fans starting
to treat the game like any other
sporting event. They jeer unpopu-
lar golfers. They cheer balls hit
the green and into the water.
Poulter was safely on the green
as Hossler took his penalty drop,
chipped onto the green and took
two putts for a triple bogey.
They finished at 19-under 269.
Poulter won for the third time
on the PGA Tour, and his first
time in the United States since
the Match Play in 2010 at Arizona.
This was his first stroke-play vic-
tory in the United States and the
timing could not have been bet-
ter.
When he reached the quarter-
finals of the Dell Technologies
Match Play last weekend in Aus-
tin, Tex., he was told that it was
enough to get him into the top 50
in the world ranking by the end
of the weekend, the cutoff for
qualifying for the Masters.
It turned out he needed to win
his quarter-final match and Poul-
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into the water. They fear nothing.
It’s Phoenix Open fervour every-
where. It’s Ryder Cup passion at
every stop. It’s courtside cackles
and sideline taunts instead of
greenside graciousness.
“It’s great for the tournament.
It’s great for us. But golf is differ-
ent than a football game, and
there’s etiquette involved and
you don’t want people to be put
off from bringing their kids when
people are shouting stuff out,”
McIlroy said.
Thomas had a fan ejected for
yelling what he called “unaccep-
table things” at the Genesis Open
in Los Angeles in February. The
following week at the Honda Clas-
sic, he had another person
removed for saying, “Get in the
bunker.”
“I guess it’s a part of it now,
unfortunately,” Thomas said. “I
wish it wasn’t. I wish people didn’t
think it was so amusing to yell and
all that stuff while we’re trying to
hit shots and play.”
At the Dell Technologies Match
Play last week, Garcia pointed out
a guy who “was shouting not very
nice things at me.” Security
removed him.
“The crowds in our game have
gotten bigger, so obviously it’s not
just golf crowds that you get now,”
the defending Masters champion
said. “And sometimes, unfortu-
nately, you get one or two guys
that are probably having too
much fun and a little bit too much
liquid and unfortunately it hap-
pens. That’s the way it is.”
ter was informed of the mistake
before he teed off. Kevin Kisner
beat him, 8 and 6.
Poulter was so disappointed
that he contemplated not even
going to Houston, and when he
opened with a 73 in a first round
of low scoring, he packed his bags
and prepared to go home to Flori-
da the next day. Instead, he
bounced back with a 64 and shot
65-67 on the weekend.
“Last week was painful,” he
said. “To come here this week, I
was tired. I was frustrated on
Thursday … I was patient. I wait-
ed my time. And this is amazing.”
It was his first victory since the
HSBC Champions, a World Golf
Championship event at Mission
Hills in China in 2012. That was a
month after Poulter led Europe to
a stunning turnaround in the
Ryder Cup by making five
| MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2018
Tiger Woods’s return from a
fourth back surgery has boosted
golf galleries, but recent fan mis-
behaviour can’t be blamed solely
on the “Tiger Effect.”
Facebook, Instagram, Snap-
chat and Twitter – and Howard
Stern’s satellite radio show, where
the host gleefully shares clips of
the “Baba Booey” shoutouts – are
partly responsible for tempting
fans with a chance at 15 seconds of
fame.
Golfers might be the ones who
have to adjust, at least at most
events.
“Guys on the tour are bit too
sensitive right now,” Adam Scott
said. “We might need to just find a
way to block it out because it’s
only going to get worse. We’ve
come from playing in silence to
something new. It’s how it’s going
to evolve. I think it’s generally a
good thing. I don’t think we
should be turning people away,
but we should be pointing them
in the right spot.
“It’s a delicate balance because
you want some atmosphere out
there. This is sport. I think we’re
just seeing the evolution of the
game. It’s gone from a gentle-
man’s game, let’s say, to – on pur-
pose – the tour is taking it more
mainstream and this is what we’re
going to get: more sports crowds.”
And more “Baba Booey” and
“mashed potatoes” shouts.
Just not this week. Not at the
Masters.
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straight birdies to win a four-balls
match and give Europe momen-
tum to overcome a four-point
deficit.
Along with going to the Mas-
ters, Poulter cracks the top 30 in
the world and now is in good
shape to be eligible for the rest of
the majors. He also has a two-
year exemption, critical because
he nearly lost his card a year ago
until he was spared by a clerical
error by the tour.
Jordan Spieth closed with a 66
and tied for third with Emiliano
Grillo (68), giving Spieth momen-
tum for the Masters. It was
Spieth’s best finish against a full
field since he tied for second in
the Dell Technologies Champion-
ship outside Boston in Septem-
ber.
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GUNTER BARTH
Gunter Barth died at home
March 28, 2018 in his 96th
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life characterized by the love
of his family and friends, and
an undying positive attitude
and sense of gratitude to
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Stephen passed away peacefully,
on Good Friday, March 30, 2018
at his home in Toronto with
his devoted family at his side.
Dedicated Family Doctor for over
35 years and a true Renaissance
man. He is survived by his loving
wife Patricia and his beloved
and cherished children and
grandchildren, Dr. Andrea (Shayne
Murphy), Olivia, Marlon, Vivian,
and Amelia Murphy, Emily (Craig
Endicott), Luke and Charlotte
Endicott, Sarah (Ryan Morris),
Russell, Dalia and Archie Morris,
Patrick (Dr. Kimberly Blom).
Catholic Funeral Mass to be
celebrated at Blessed Sacrament
Church, 24 Cheritan Ave. on
Wednesday, April 4th at 11:30 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, please donate to
the Canadian Cancer Society.
“Let no one weep for me,
or celebrate my funeral with
mourning; for I still live as
I pass to and fro through the
mouths of men.”
EMMA ELIZABETH MANNING
(nee Peggy Rust)
Born November 20, 1939,
Doncaster, Yorkshire,
immigrated to Canada 1962;
died March 28, 2018, Oakville,
Ontario. Survived by her
husband of 51 years, James;
her son, David (Linnea); and
grandsons, William and
Spencer. Also survived by her
sister, Helen Mettham,
London; and brother, Robert
Rust, Doncaster, Yorkshire.
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CHR ISTINE MAX WELL
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With her family by her side,
Christine passed away suddenly
on Thursday, March 29, 2018 at
Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Centre. Beloved wife of Robert for
47 years. She was a loving mother
to Andra (Dennis), Ian (Adriana)
and grandmother to Charlotte,
Hannah and Eleanor. Christine is
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April 5th. Service will take place
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"Bill"
Bill died on Sunday, March 25,
2018 in Victoria, BC, the city
he retired to. He was born in
Manitou, Manitoba on June
21, 1936, was raised in
Manitoba and northern
Ontario and was based for
most of his life in Ottawa. He
is survived by his sister,
Arlene Southern; brother,
Don; and his long-time
partner, Robert Sterling.
In 1964, Bill joined CUSO and
found his calling in
international development.
Assigned as a volunteer to a
teaching position in Nigeria,
he was soon appointed to
work for CUSO and led the
programme during the
tumultuous civil war period.
On return to Canada he went
to work for CUSO taking on
increasingly responsible
positions until 1974 when he
was chosen to become the
Executive Director of WUSC,
the World University Service
of Canada, where he
remained until his retirement
in 1991. He played a critical
role in building WUSC into the
organization it is today,
reviving the WUSC
International Seminar
programme, establishing the
WUSC Student Refugee
Programme and leading the
organization in taking on a
major role in the government
of Canada’s programmes in
more than 20 developing
countries. Bill was committed
to supporting Canada’s role
abroad and committed to
expanding opportunities for
Canadians to contribute to
and take part in the lives of
people in developing
countries who were striving
for improvement and success.
He was noted for his cooking
skills and hospitality and was
renowned for the dinners and
receptions he hosted for
foreign visitors of all walks of
life and for the quality of his
friendships with colleagues,
Canadian and international.
A Memorial Service will be
held at St. Barnabas Church at
the corner of Belmont and
Begbie in Victoria, BC on
Friday, April 6, 2018 at 3:00
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GEORGE SCIUK
With deep sadness we announce
the peaceful passing of Dr. George
Theodore Sciuk on March 24,
2018 in his Naples, Florida home.
George was beloved husband of
Rosemary for nearly 60 years;
father of David (Michele), Richard,
Rita (Yves) and Carl (Joane); and
very proud grandfather of Ally,
Nick, Julien, Selena, Justin, Derek,
Mirella, and Colin; son of John
and Stella; he is survived by his
brother, Richard (Shirley).
George was born on May 30, 1933
in Oshawa. He graduated from
Central Collegiate High School
where he had a distinguished
athletic career especially in
football and baseball. George
attended the University of Toronto
and graduated from the Faculty of
Dentistry in 1958. George opened
his dental practice on Simcoe
Street in Oshawa where he built
incredibly deep relationships with
so many patients over the 50
years he practiced dentistry.
Throughout his life George
was involved with the Oshawa
community. He served as a trustee
of the Oshawa Separate School
Board and as the first Chairman
of the Durham Regional Separate
School Board.
Somehow he and Rosemary
found the time between having
their four children over the next
five years to join the Oshawa
Golf & Country Club, where they
built many lifelong friendships
and pretty decent golf games.
When George retired from
Dentistry, he and Rosemary split
their time between Oshawa and
Naples, Florida, where they were
members of Imperial Golf Club
and built many new friendships.
George enjoyed fine food and
cooking. He shared his passion
for food with friends and family
- we have never wanted for
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remember his deep love of family
and friends, his sense of loyalty
and caring for those around him.
Memorial visitation will be held
at the Armstrong Funeral Home,
124 King Street East, Oshawa on
Tuesday, April 3rd from 2-4 and 7-9
p.m. Evening prayers will be held
at 7:30 p.m.
A memorial Mass of Christian
Burial will be held at St. John the
Evangelist Catholic Church (903
Gifford St, Whitby) on Wednesday,
April 4th at 10:30 a.m.
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Canadian alpinist was among
the world’s best
Twenty-five-year-old mountain climber Marc-André Leclerc climbed hundreds of routes from Baffin Island to Patagonia. PAUL MCSORLEY
Although he was largely self-taught and still in his 20s, he earned the respect
of fellow mountaineers because of his impressive skills and natural ability
STEVEN THRENDYLE
arc-André Leclerc, who is pre-
M
sumed to have died during a
climb in the Mendenhall Tow-
ers region west of Juneau, Alas-
ka, was one of the most daring and skillful
mountain climbers that Canada has ever
produced.
Mr. Leclerc and his climbing partner
Ryan Johnson posted a series of summit
photos on Instagram on March 5 and have
not been heard from since. The Juneau
Mountain Rescue team began scouring the
region two days later, but the searchers
were hampered by bad weather. On March
13, they discovered ropes at the bottom of
the climbers’ planned descent route, which
suggests that the pair were swept to their
deaths by either an avalanche or cornice
collapse. On Facebook later that day, Mr. Le-
clerc’s father, Serge, wrote: “Marc-André
was an amazing, loving man and he has
touched many lives in so many ways. He
will be remembered and loved forever.”
Mr. Leclerc’s final ascent was but one
chapter in the frenetic career of this 25-
year-old alpinist from Agassiz, B.C. He
climbed hundreds of routes all the way
from Baffin Island to Patagonia – often
choosing perilous, previously unclimbed
routes that he would ascend by himself.
Born on Oct. 10, 1992, in Nanaimo, B.C.,
Mr. Leclerc and his family moved to the
Vancouver suburb of Pitt Meadows just be-
fore he turned four. At the age of nine, he
was introduced to climbing at a Coquitlam
shopping mall. His mother, Michelle Kuip-
ers, recalls: “An outdoor store had a climb-
ing wall that was open to the public to try
for free.
“Marc-André loved it, and a store em-
ployee told me, ‘Your kid is pretty good at
this.’ ” So for his 10th birthday, she enrolled
him in a safe-climbing course at a nearby
gym.
The boy progressed quickly, winning
age-group competitions including the Can-
adian Nationals in 2005. By this time, the
family had relocated to Agassiz, close to the
towering Cascade Range peaks.
Remarkably, Mr. Leclerc mostly taught
himself how to mountain climb. He would
ride his bike out to the Harrison Bluffs and
scurry to the top, often spending the night
there by himself. At 15, he joined the British
Columbia Mountaineering Club and par-
ticipated in a trip to Mount Rexford, a mod-
erately difficult peak. “Most of his fellow
climbers were in their 40s and 50s. They
were happy because he lead-climbed every
pitch,” fellow climber Drew Brayshaw re-
calls.
His energetic ascents caught the eye of
Vancouver Sun columnist Pete McMartin,
who wrote how Mr. Leclerc solo-climbed
the daunting north face of B.C.’s Mount
Cheam on the day of his high school gradu-
ation in 2009.
“I remember making a difficult and con-
scious decision to allow him to pursue
climbing,” his mother says, “knowing it
was well beyond my ability to participate
and supervise and I had to give him the
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MARC-ANDRÉ LECLERC DICK WILMARTH
MOUNTAIN CLIMBER, 25 MINER, LOGGER, ADVENTURER
75
Musher
became the
first Iditarod
champion
MARK THIESSEN
ick Wilmarth, a miner who
D won the first-ever Iditarod
Trail Sled Dog Race and
then walked away from the sport,
has died. He was 75.
Mr. Wilmarth died of compli-
cations from cancer on March 21,
his daughter, Rebecca Wilmarth,
said.
“He was our first champion,
and he will be dearly missed,” Id-
itarod spokesperson Chas St. Ge-
orge said.
After winning the first Iditarod
in 1973, Mr. Wilmarth never took
part in the race again.
He was once asked why he nev-
er raced again. “His response was
very quick, and with a big smile,
he said, ‘Cause I won,’ ” Mr. St.
George said.
“He moved on to doing new
things and different things,” Mr.
Wilmarth’s daughter added. “He
liked to stay busy, and I think he
figured one time was enough for
him.”
Mr. Wilmarth was a 17-year-old
Idaho logger who came to Alaska
with his older brother, Larry, to
fish out of Kodiak Island, Ms. Wil-
marth said.
“Somebody recommended he
head out west, there’s a lot of un-
discovered territory out there,”
she said.
He settled in Red Devil, Alaska,
about 400 kilometres west of An-
chorage, where he worked for a
freedom to assess each new venture and Mr. Leclerc once told Gripped magazine mine and learned how to fly
use his own judgment.” editor Brandon Pullan that he kept repeat- planes. He also did some trapping
Liberated from academics, Mr. Leclerc ing, “I feel like a cat, I feel like a ninja, I feel as a younger man, and became in-
focused on climbing full-time. He was like a ninja cat, an alpine ninja cat” as he
terested in mushing dogs.
known to couch surf with fellow climbers climbed Mount Slesse – one of Canada’s Mr. Wilmarth was 29 when he
in Canmore and bivouacked under boul- most challenging peaks – via three differ- and his friend, Bob Vanderpool,
ders tucked beneath the face of the massive ent routes in a single day. Mr. Pullan says, first heard about plans for a 1,000-
Squamish Chief, whose Grand Wall he free- “He was humble and unassuming and I mile (1,609-kilometre) sled dog
soloed in 2013. would go so far to say that his climbs were race from Anchorage to Nome.
Over the years, fellow climber and out- more of a spiritual journey than an adrena- “We thought that would be a
door store owner Sam Waddington helped lin rush. He was very focused on climbing pretty neat thing,” Mr. Wilmarth
Mr. Leclerc by supplying gear that his spon- and staying in the zone to accomplish what told The Associated Press in 2001.
sors didn’t cover. “It’s one thing to get a he did. At the end of the day, he always had He put a dog team together a
couple of free jackets and ropes and anoth- a big smile.” few months before the race,
er to get an expense account to travel and Mr. Leclerc articulated this sensation on swapping goods for dogs in Alas-
climb. As Marc-André’s ambitions grew his blog after successfully climbing a verti- ka Native villages along the Kus-
larger, he began writing and taking photo- cal kilometre up Mount Robson’s Emperor kokwim River. He traded a .22-cal-
graphs to prove his worth to potential Face in 2016. He wrote: “I was deeply con- ibre rifle for a snowmobile, and
sponsors. To my knowledge, he never did tent that I had not carried a watch with me then swapped that for five of his
make what you would call a proper salary.” to keep time, as the obsession with time 12 dogs on the team.
It was in Patagonia where Mr. Leclerc and speed is in fact one of the greatest de- The 1973 race began with 34
would burnish his reputation as one of the tractors from the alpine experience. I was teams, and more than one-third
world’s top climbers. Located at the tip of happy that my entire experience had been of them never finished the race.
South America on the border between onsight [without prior knowledge of the Along the trail, there was al-
Chile and Argentina, the granitic spires and route], on my first visit to the mountain, most a mass exodus when the
columns of ice attract the best climbers in and that the route had been in completely temperature dropped to minus
the world, such as Red Bull-sponsored ath- virgin condition.” 45.56 degrees. Some other mush-
lete David Lama, who often travels with a After that he stopped blogging, devoting ers came to him during the night
film crew, and American Alex Honnold, subsequent Instagram posts to praising the to talk about turning back. They
whose free solo of Yosemite’s El Capitan climbing prowess of his girlfriend, Brette wanted the decision to be unani-
last year was sponsored by National Geo- Harrington. They climbed as equals in Cali- mous, he said.
graphic and made main- fornia, Baffin Island and on Mr. Wilmarth didn’t even let
stream news headlines. (Up- Mr. Leclerc’s beloved walls them finish: “I told them, ‘I’m go-
on learning of Mr. Leclerc’s looming above his Fraser Val- ing to go to Nome.“’ Today, mush-
death in Alaska, Mr. Honnold Marc moved over ley hometown, including a ers pack food and it’s flown to
tweeted: “I couldn’t believe frigid first ascent near Mount checkpoints along the trail, but
that he felt comfortable in rock like someone Slesse during a cold snap in
that didn’t happen during the
such enormous mountains. who was born February of this year. first Iditarod. Mr. Wilmarth told
But it seemed like he was just to do it. Ms. Harrington told Alpi- the Associated Press that to fight
out having a good time.) nist magazine online editor off hunger, he snared beaver for
Mr. Leclerc soon proved WILL STANHOPE Derek Franz, “Marc loved be- food and nearly fell into the Yu-
that he belonged. On his first MOUNTAIN CLIMBER ing in the mountains, but he kon River while trying to steal fish
Patagonian foray, in 2014, he especially loved being in the from a trap.
teamed up with fellow climbers Paul mountains with me. I feel so privileged to He pocketed US$12,000 for be-
McSorley, Will Stanhope and Matthew Van have had such an amazing, wonderful, gen- ing the first musher to win the
Biene to make the first ascent of a route on tle and truly inspiring person in my life for rugged race across Alaska. It took
the remote Cerro Mariposa. On a risky lead so long. He made a positive impact on ev- him 20 days and 49 minutes,
near the summit – one that none of his eryone he met, giving them 100 per cent of more than twice as long as it takes
more-experienced partners wanted to take his energy.” for Iditarod mushers to complete
– Mr. Leclerc shifted his body weight onto a Off the peaks and crags, Mr. Leclerc al- the trek across the Alaska wilder-
precariously placed piton. Mr. Stanhope ways made time for other climbers. Squam- ness today.
wrote in the American Alpine Journal: “We ish-based climber/photographer Leigh “It was a little bit of a different
all held our breath, but the youngster McClurg recalls meeting him in a Canmore deal back then,” Mr. Wilmarth
showed us his repertoire of skills and led us bagel shop. said. “Things were a little rough-
safely to the rim.” “He gestured for me and my wife to sit er.”
Mr. Leclerc returned to the region in 2015 down and then he started asking about
and solo-climbed the Corkscrew, which Pa- some recent ice climbs we’d done nearby
tagonia guidebook/website writer Rolan- that he’d seen us post about on social
do Garibotti called “an ascent of earth- media. Here, he’d just soloed three huge
shifting proportions, by far the hardest mixed routes on the Stanley Headwall [in
route ever soloed on Cerro Torre.” During the Rockies] and he wanted to talk about
the antipodean winter of 2016, he was the our routes. He then said that it’s all just per-
only climber left in all of Patagonia as he so- spective, and how the media would never
lo-climbed three peaks in one concerted 21- hear about the preparation he did before
hour solo push, the so-called Winter Link- starting his climbs. He only committed
Up. when he thought it was reasonable, just
On these stunningly exposed routes, like we did for our climbs.”
which allow no margin for error, Mr. Leclerc As they departed, Mr. Leclerc told the
would enter what climbers call the “flow McClurgs, “You’re climbing, having fun. So
state,” combining intense concentration am I. It’s all the same.”
and physical stamina. “Marc moved over Marc-André Leclerc leaves his father,
rock like someone who was born to do it,” Serge; mother, Michelle Kuipers; brother, Dick Wilmarth is seen in 1973 on
Mr. Stanhope says. “He was a big guy, but Elijah; and sister, Bridgid-Anne Dunning. Bering Sea ice on the trail to
his footwork was impeccable – really Nome, Alaska. HENRY PECK VIA AP
smooth and in control.” Special to The Globe and Mail
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