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Scheer holds
American
citizenship,
but says he’s
renouncing it
ROBERT FIFE OTTAWA
JANICE DICKSON
UPPER KINGSCLEAR, N.B.

Conservative Leader Andrew

Scheer holds dual Canadian-U.S.
citizenship but says he is in the
process of renouncing his status
as an American.
Speaking to reporters Thurs-
day in Bedford, N.S., after a cam-
paign rally at a Chinese restau-
rant, Mr. Scheer said he made the
decision to renounce his U.S. citi-
zenship after he became leader
of the party in May, 2017.
A campaign spokesman said
earlier in the day that Mr.
Scheer’s father, who was born in
the United States and holds joint
citizenship, obtained U.S. citizen-
ship and passports for his son
and two daughters when they
were born in Canada.
He said Mr. Scheer submitted
paperwork in August to re-
nounce his citizenship and is
waiting for confirmation that he
is no longer an American citizen.
Mr. Scheer, 40, has let his U.S.
passport lapse, the spokesman
said, has never voted in U.S.
elections but has regularly filed
The political is personal taxes as required of American
citizens no matter where they
live.
Chrystia Freeland’s drive to defend liberal democracy has its roots in Ukraine, When asked why he waited
until August to inform the U.S.
where her mother helped to draft the country’s constitution A10 government he was renouncing
his citizenship, Mr. Scheer said
he was focused on other things –
MELISSA TAIT/THE GLOBE AND MAIL such as rebuilding the party and
getting ready for the election,
but added that it had always
been his intention.
Mr. Scheer said he’s been
transparent on the issue.
“I was never asked about it
from Canadians. I’ve actually
Defiant Trump calls for China, Ukraine to investigate Bidens been very honest about it. My fa-
ther’s always been very open
about where he’s come from and
ADRIAN MORROW Mr. Trump asked Ukrainian President also go after the former U.S. vice-president. I haven’t been asked the ques-
U.S. CORRESPONDENT Volodymyr Zelensky in a private tele- “If they were honest about it, they’d tion.”
WASHINGTON phone call this past summer to look into start a major investigation into the Bi- SCHEER, A17
2020 Democratic presidential contender dens,” Mr. Trump said of Ukraine in the
Joe Biden in relation to the business activ- scrum with reporters.
U.S. President Donald Trump has openly ities in Ukraine of his son Hunter Biden. “And by the way, likewise, China should
called for both China and Ukraine to inves- On Thursday, he repeated the request in start an investigation into the Bidens, be-
tigate one of his chief political rivals – pub- front of reporters on the south lawn of the cause what happened in China is just Ontario
licly soliciting the kind of foreign election White House. about as bad as what happened with Uk-
interference for which he already faces an
impeachment inquiry.
Then, the President went a step further,
and said Chinese leader Xi Jinping should
raine.”
TRUMP, A17
boards plan to
close schools
if CUPE
After 60 years, Nova Scotia’s captive Sable Island horses are gone workers strike
Death of last animal in herd “It’s the end of an era,” said Tabitha Cox, how best to handle the wild horses that re- CAROLINE ALPHONSO
head nature interpreter at the Shubenaca- main on Sable Island. Some scientists ar- EDUCATION REPORTER
sparks renewed debate over die park. “He was such a unique animal to gue the animals’ constant grazing has
what to do about hundreds have.” turned the island into a desert, dramatical-
of feral equines on remote spit Almost 70 years ago, this horse’s ances- ly altering the ecosystem while pushing Several Ontario school boards
tors were targeted for removal from Sable out native seabirds and other species. plan to shut down Monday in an-
Island after biologists said they were da- “They’re an invasive species with no ticipation of a strike by a union
GREG MERCER HALIFAX maging the habitat. But the federal govern- control over their population,” said Ian representing 55,000 support
ment’s plan, which would have sent the Jones, an ecologist at Memorial University workers, forcing parents to
animals to work in coal mines or be in St. John’s. “These waves of introduced scramble for alternative arrange-

H
e was a shaggy, undersized horse slaughtered for dog food and hides, animals are basically keeping the island in ments for their children in a mat-
with no name who preferred the prompted a national letter-writing cam- this desert state.” ter of days.
company of reindeer, the last of paign from schoolchildren. Horses first arrived on Sable Island in The three largest boards – the
his wild line to know fences, en- By 1960, then-prime minister John Die- the 1750s, after they were seized from Aca- Toronto District School Board,
closures or humans. fenbaker bowed to public pressure and put dian settlers on the mainland by the Brit- the Peel District School Board
The only remaining Sable Island horse the feral animals under federal protection. ish. Over the decades, other horses were in- and the York Region District
in captivity was euthanized this week by In addition, he sent a small herd as a gift to troduced to the population, intended to be School Board – told families on
veterinarians at Shubenacadie Wildlife three wildlife sanctuaries on the mainland used as working animals for the island’s Thursday that they would not be
Park north of Halifax, triggering a renewed so that people in the province could see farms. While the humans and other live- able to operate their schools
debate about what to do with the 400 or so the animals without travelling to Sable Is- stock long ago vanished, the horses sur- safely in the event of a strike.
feral horses that still live on a remote spit land. This gift included the grandparents vived and learned to adapt to the island’s Other boards, including those in
of sand some 300 kilometres off the coast of the horse who died this week. harsh conditions. Peterborough, the Ottawa Ca-
of Nova Scotia. Today, there’s still not agreement about HORSE, A17 tholic school board, the Waterloo
Catholic board and the Toronto
Catholic board, said they would
shutter Monday if there was
ART strike action by the Canadian
FILM FRIDAY Banksy work Union of Public Employees
(CUPE), which represents custo-
depicting British MPs dians, secretaries and education-
No kidding, as chimpanzees sells al-support workers.
Whether child-care programs
for record price A2
it’s mediocre would operate during a strike va-
ries by board. Some boards said
they would cancel programs op-
Barry Hertz doesn’t EL ECTIO N 2019 erated on school property if a
understand all the Bloc twice urges Que- strike occurs. The TDSB, howev-
internet hype over beckers to elect MPs
er, says child-care centres located
in its schools would be permitted
The Joker A14 ‘who resemble you’ A3 to remain open, but that oper-
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MOMENT IN TIME

OCT. 4, 1927

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WORK BEGINS
ON MOUNT RUSHMORE
M
ount Rushmore was conceived as a way
to promote tourism to the Black Hills re-
gion of South Dakota. In the early days, a
prominent local historian almost suc-
ceeded in winning approval to carve the features of
American West heroes into the granite face. Howev-
er, the sculptor Gutzon Borglum balked, insisting
that 60-foot-tall profiles of four of the country’s
most important presidents – George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abra-
ham Lincoln – would have far broader appeal. He
was undoubtedly right. The towering images of the
men – who symbolize the country’s birth, growth,
development and preservation – took 400 workers
more than 14 years to (partly) complete. The origi-
nal plan was to carve the men from head to waist,
but lack of funds effectively cut them off at the neck.
Regardless, the monument is one of the most iconic
symbols of the United States, on par with the Statue
of Liberty. Even Alfred Hitchcock could not resist its
allure and he featured Mount Rushmore as a back-
drop in his 1959 classic, North by Northwest. Some-
times called the Shrine of Democracy, the sculpture
represents the first 130 years of the country’s history
and attracts more than 2.5 million visitors each year.
GAYLE MacDONALD

[ COLUMNISTS ]

DENISE GARY RITA

BALKISSOON MASON TRICHUR

OPINION OPINION OPINION

This election campaign, France, Germany and Rather than launch

Singh has repeatedly
demonstrated the way
marginalized Canadians
are told to act in the
face of prejudice A13
Britain are joining another study on
Canada on the list money laundering,
of major economies Ottawa should dust off
struggling to take action existing reports and
on climate change A13 enact solutions B1

British street artist Banksy’s Devolved Parliament, a 2009 piece seen in London on Sept. 27, measures four
metres long, making it his largest known canvas, according to Sotheby’s. TOLGA AKMEN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Banksy’s chimp-depicting Devolved Parliament

sells for more than $12-million at auction
MARIE-LOUISE GUMUCHIAN
LONDON
A large Banksy painting depict-
ing primates sitting in Britain’s
Parliament sold for more than
US$12-million on Thursday, a
record price at auction for a
work by the secretive British
street artist, according to
Sotheby’s.
Devolved Parliament, in which
chimpanzees replace politicians
in the House of Commons, more
than comfortably surpassed its
estimated price tag of £1.5-mil-
lion ($2.5-million) to £2-million,
with the auctioneer declaring
“history being made” at one
point during the sale, which was
streamed live.
After bidding that lasted some
13 minutes, the 2009 artwork
from a private collection sold to
loud applause for a hammer
price of £8.5-million, to which
fees are added giving a final price
of £9,879,500.
“Record price for a Banksy
painting set at auction tonight.
Shame I didn’t still own it,”
Banksy wrote on his Instagram
feed beside a post quoting art
critic Robert Hughes about the
value of artworks.
“… The price of a work of art
is now part of its function, its
new job is to sit on the wall and
get more expensive. Instead of
being the common property of
humankind the way a book is,
art becomes the particular prop-
erty of someone who can afford
it,” the Instagram post quoted
Mr. Hughes as saying.
Before Thursday’s sale, the
auction record for a Banksy work
was US$1,870,000 for Keep it Spot-
less, which sold at Sotheby’s in
New York in 2008, according to
the auction house.
Devolved Parliament measures
four metres long, making it
Banksy’s largest known canvas,
according to Sotheby’s.
Despite being painted in 2009,
many commentators had drawn
comparisons to current-day poli-
tics, namely the increasingly
brutish exchanges in the House
of Commons over Britain’s pend-
ing departure from the European
Union, or Brexit.
The Bristol-born artist, who
keeps his identity a secret, is
known for his political or social-
commentary graffiti work that
has popped up in cities around
the world.
Thursday’s sale came a year
after another Banksy canvas, Girl
with Balloon, shredded itself in
front of shocked onlookers at a
Sotheby’s auction just as it was
sold.
REUTERS
FRI DAY , OCTOBE R 4, 2019 | T HE GLO BE AN D MAI L O
Bloc Québécois urges voters to
elect MPs ‘who resemble you’
Singh denounces message
as divisive as Bloc Leader
Blanchet insists statement
was not a reference to physical
attributes of candidates
DANIEL LEBLANC
PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS REPORTER
The Bloc Québécois is calling on Quebeck-
ers to vote for candidates “who resemble
you” in the election, prompting NDP Lead-
er Jagmeet Singh to denounce the message
as unacceptable and divisive.
In his closing statement during Wednes-
day’s French-language debate, Bloc Leader
Yves-François Blanchet called on voters to
“opt for men and women who resemble
you, who share your values, who share
your concerns and who work for your inter-
ests, and only for the interests of Quebeck-
ers.” The statement was also posted on the
Bloc’s Twitter feed.
Mr. Singh regularly faces questions
about wearing a turban, including in an en-
counter with a man in Montreal who urged
him this week to take it off and “look like a
Canadian.”
“In 2019, I hope people aren’t going to
vote based on the way someone looks.
They are going to vote for someone based
on what they believe in, what they care
about and how they are going to make your
life better,” Mr. Singh told reporters on
Thursday.
In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Blan-
chet said the statement was in no way a ref-
erence to the physical attributes of candi-
dates or what they wear. He is a staunch de-
fender of Quebec’s secularism law that pre-
vents some provincial employees from
wearing religious symbols at work.
“We have a party platform and those
who recognize themselves in that platform
will vote for us,” he said in an interview.
“The Conservatives will get the votes of
those who resemble them, the Liberals will
get the votes of those who resemble them,
and so on. This is a false controversy.”
Mr. Blanchet is the target of political
attacks after holding his own in Wednesday
night’s French-language leaders’ debate,
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, seen in Toronto on Oct. 3, says he hopes in 2019 people won’t
vote for someone based on the way they look. PAUL CHIASSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS
which attracted more than one million
viewers. During the event, he accused Lib-
eral Leader Justin Trudeau and Conserva-
tive Leader Andrew Scheer of moving too
slowly on the transition to renewable
sources of energy.
The Liberals are fighting back, pointing
out that as Quebec’s environment minister
from 2012 to 2014, Mr. Blanchet supported
oil exploration on Anticosti Island. Mr.
Blanchet said he was unsure at the time
whether the exploration would move to
extraction. He said profits would have been
invested into the transition to clean energy.
At a rally in Montreal, Mr. Trudeau called
on Quebeckers to vote on Oct. 21 for a party
that will put in place measures to bring
down greenhouse gas emissions.
“It takes a government to get it done. An-
drew Scheer does not want to fight climate
change and the Bloc cannot put in place a
pan-Canadian plan to fight climate
change,” he said.
At a news conference in Kingsclear, N.B.,
Mr. Scheer pointed out Bloc MPs will neces-
sarily be in opposition after the election,
while Conservative MPs would be sitting at
the “decision-making table” if his party
forms the next government. Asked about
the Bloc’s tweet, Mr. Scheer said the party is
playing on “divisions within the Canadian
population.”
“I believe in finding the common
ground between all different types of Cana-
dians, people who have come from differ-
ent parts of the world, and celebrating
what unites us,” Mr. Scheer said.
The Bloc is hoping to prove that it can
thrive as a political force on the federal
stage even if Quebec’s sovereigntist move-
ment has waned at the provincial level.
Daniel Béland, the director of the McGill
Institute for the Study of Canada, said the
Bloc is benefiting from two factors: a dissat-
isfaction with Mr. Trudeau’s Liberal gov-
ernment among progressive voters and en-
vironmentalists in Quebec, and the Bloc’s
ability to carry the nationalist message of
the François Legault government on the
federal stage.
“Mr. Blanchet is exploiting the fact that
Quebeckers aren’t entirely satisfied with
the decisions of the Trudeau government,”
Prof. Béland said.
He added that having a provincial gov-
ernment that seeks autonomy in areas
such as immigration and culture is “manna
from heaven” for the Bloc.
NEWS | A3
Three former
St. Michael’s
students plead
guilty in sex
assault scandal
LIAM CASEY TORONTO
Three teens pleaded guilty Thurs-
day in a sexual-assault scandal at
an all-boys Catholic school that
made national headlines last year
and sparked a public conversa-
tion about hazing and bullying.
The teens, all former students at
the prestigious St. Michael’s
College School in Toronto, each
pleaded guilty to one count of sex-
ual assault with a weapon and one
count of assault with a weapon.
One of them also pleaded guilty to
making child pornography.
Crown attorney Erin McNama-
ra read out an agreed statement of
facts in youth court, saying a
member of one of the football
teams walked into the locker
room after practice on Oct. 17,
2018, and heard a “roar” of team-
mates chanting “eh.” The teen
tried to run, she said, but “a mob
… took him down.” Three teens
held down their teammate while
another assaulted him. Another
boy captured the incident on vid-
eo, which was later deleted at the
request of the victim, she said.
The three teens were originally
charged with sexual assault with a
weapon in that incident, but
pleaded guilty to the lesser charge
of assault with a weapon. On Nov.
7, a similar incident occurred after
a game, the Crown said.
The Crown also described an
earlier incident where one foot-
ball team member entered the
locker room and heard a “chant of
boys yelling ‘eh!’ ” A group
grabbed him and put him on the
floor. He was then assaulted.
Seven students were eventual-
ly charged with assault and sexual
assault relating to the three inci-
dents.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
A4 | NE WS
European panel says Johnson’s Brexit bid falls short
Committee deals British
leader a setback as
Irish PM says backstop
proposal not acceptable
PAUL WALDIE
EUROPE CORRESPONDENT
LONDON
British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson’s proposed Brexit deal
with the European Union has
been dealt a blow by a key com-
mittee in the European Parlia-
ment, which said the plan wasn’t
remotely workable.
In a statement Thursday, the
Parliament’s Brexit steering
group said Mr. Johnson’s propos-
als do not “represent a basis for
an agreement to which the Eu-
ropean Parliament could give
consent,” adding that they “do
not match even remotely what
was agreed as a sufficient com-
promise.”
The European Parliament
must approve any Brexit deal,
and the committee’s report is a
setback for Mr. Johnson, who also
faced criticism Thursday from
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varad-
kar and several business groups
in Northern Ireland. With just
weeks before Britain is set to
leave the EU, on Oct. 31, Mr. John-
son must either negotiate chang-
Scheer says he is anti-abortion but won’t reopen a debate in Parliament
JANICE DICKSON
UPPER KINGSCLEAR, N.B.
MARIEKE WALSH MONTREAL
MICHELLE ZILIO OTTAWA
Conservative Leader Andrew
Scheer clarified his personal
views on abortion Thursday after
weeks of questions, saying that
he is anti-abortion, but that a
government led by him would
not reopen a debate about the
procedure in Parliament.
Mr. Scheer made the remarks
a day after Wednesday night’s
French-language leaders’ debate,
where he side-stepped attempts
by his opponents to get him to
share his personal views on the
issue of abortion. Mr. Scheer has
committed to vote against mea-
sures that would attempt to reo-
pen the abortion debate, but has
not explicitly said whether he
would block Conservative MPs
from tabling private member’s
bills on the matter.
“I am personally pro-life but
I’ve made the commitment that
as the leader of the party, it is my
responsibility to ensure that we
do not reopen this debate, that
we focus on issues that unite our
party and unite Canadians,” Mr.
Scheer told reporters in Upper
Kingsclear, N.B., Thursday
morning.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, seen in London on Thursday, remains
adamant about leaving the EU on Oct. 31. KIRSTY WIGGLESWORTH/AP
es to his proposals or prepare to
pull the country out without a
deal. He has insisted he won’t ex-
tend the deadline – despite a new
law requiring him to do so if he
can’t get a deal by Oct. 19.
The Prime Minister hoped his
plan would resolve the thorny is-
sue of the Irish backstop, a safety
net favoured by the EU and Ire-
land as a way of keeping the Irish
border open after Brexit. Under
called out Mr. Scheer’s abortion
position Thursday, building on
his repeated attacks on the Con-
servative Leader’s personal
views.
“Mr. Scheer won’t answer a di-
rect question on whether or not
he believes that women should
have the right to choose,” Mr.
Trudeau said. “If we don’t know
who he’s willing to fight for, who
he’s willing to defend, how can
Canadians make an informed de-
cision about whether or not he
will fight for them and defend
their rights?”
While Mr. Scheer’s personal
views on abortion have not
changed, the Liberals say Mr.
Trudeau’s have. In 2011, The Can-
adian Press reported that Mr.
Trudeau is personally “very op-
posed to abortion, but still be-
lieves nobody can tell a woman
what she should do with her
body.”
Spokesperson Chantal Gag-
non said Thursday that “Mr. Tru-
deau is personally pro-choice.”
Mr. Trudeau faced questions
about his personal views on
abortion on the second day of
the election campaign. He said
his “core conviction” is based on
a woman’s right to choose. How-
ever, he didn’t address his com-
ments from 2011.
The Supreme Court of Canada
struck down laws regulating
the backstop, Northern Ireland
would remain aligned to EU regu-
lations and stay inside the bloc’s
customs union along with the
rest of the United Kingdom. The
provisions would ensure that
goods move freely between
Northern Ireland and the Repub-
lic of Ireland and would stay in
place until the EU and U.K. sign a
trade deal.
Mr. Johnson wants the U.K. out
abortion in 1988, and no federal
government since has formalized
the legalization of abortion. Mr.
Trudeau was asked in French
whether he would present a bill
on it. He responded by saying
that the Supreme Court has
“clarified” the law in Canada, and
that the Liberals would continue
to rely on medical professionals
to make the “right decisions”
when it comes to health care.
Pollster Nik Nanos said
abortion is an issue the
Liberals – not voters –
are putting on the table
in an effort to ‘define
Andrew Scheer.’ He said
abortion has an impact
on female voters and
their views of the
Conservative Leader.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
“absolutely personally supports
abortion,” party spokesperson
Melanie Richer said on Thursday.
She said that the NDP, if elected,
would enforce the Canada
Health Act to make sure that the
provinces make medical and sur-
gical abortion available across
Canada.
“But it’s not enough to say
O THE G LO B E AND M AIL
of the customs union because it
prevents member states from set-
ting their own external tariffs or
negotiating trade deals. Under
his plan, Northern Ireland would
remain tied to EU regulations for
agricultural goods and product
standards, but would leave the
customs union along with the
rest of the country. Customs
checks on goods moving be-
tween Northern Ireland and Ire-
land would be done electronical-
ly or remotely. And goods mov-
ing into Northern Ireland from
Britain would be checked to en-
sure they comply with EU regu-
lations. Mr. Johnson also plans to
give Northern Ireland’s legisla-
ture the power to consent to the
arrangement every four years.
Mr. Varadkar said Mr. John-
son’s proposals “fall short in a
number of aspects,” especially
the customs checks that would
serve as border controls. “Our ob-
jective is very clear: We don’t
want to see any customs posts be-
tween north and south, nor do
we want to see any tariffs or re-
strictions on trade between north
and south,” he told reporters.
He also criticized the consent
role for Northern Ireland’s Parlia-
ment. The legislature has been
shut down for almost three years
because of a dispute between the
two main political parties, the
Democratic Unionist Party and
Sinn Fein. “No party – not my par-
that parties won’t reopen the
abortion debate,” Ms. Richer said.
“We need leaders to take action
to improve access to services,
which Justin Trudeau and the
Liberals have failed to do in the
last four years.”
Green Party Leader Elizabeth
May said last month that she has
“always been in favour of legal
and safe abortion – otherwise
women die.”
Pollster Nik Nanos said abor-
tion is an issue the Liberals – not
voters – are putting on the table
in an effort to “define Andrew
Scheer.” He said abortion has an
impact on female voters and
their views of the Conservative
Leader.
“Liberals see this as a tactic
that worked in the past and
they’re trying to use it now to
change the current trend line
where the Conservatives are do-
ing much better than they have
been in the past,” Mr. Nanos said.
Scott Hayward, co-founder
and president of a group called
RightNow that is actively work-
ing to elect 50 anti-abortion Con-
servative candidates, said his
group views Mr. Scheer as having
a perfect voting record on anti-
abortion issues.
“We’re always happy when
politicians say that they are pro-
life,” he said. “But the most im-
portant thing to us of course is
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ty, not Sinn Fein, not the DUP –
should be in the position to veto
what will be the will of the major-
ity in Northern Ireland and Ire-
land,” he said.
Northern Ireland’s business
groups have been even more crit-
ical. “All the promises of unfet-
tered access have been aban-
doned,” said Tina McKenzie, the
head of the Federation of Small
Businesses for Northern Ireland.
The province “is a small-business
economy, and this is a death
knell for some of those business-
es.”
Glyn Roberts, the head of Re-
tail NI, said the plan would create
two borders and have “huge neg-
ative impacts” on businesses.
Mr. Johnson vowed to press
ahead, but indicated a willing-
ness to negotiate. The proposals
should “provide the basis for rap-
id negotiations towards a solu-
tion in the short time that re-
mains,” he told the House of
Commons Thursday. “I believe
this is our chance and their
chance to get a deal.”
There were signs that many
MPs welcomed the plan, and it
has won the backing of the DUP
and several hard Brexit backers
among Mr. Johnson’s fellow Con-
servatives who have been instru-
mental in thwarting previous
Brexit deals. But MPs won’t get a
say on Mr. Johnson’s plan until
the EU agrees to it.
votes in the House of Commons
on pro-life legislation.”
Mr. Hayward said his under-
standing is that Mr. Scheer will
not restrict the ability of back-
bench MPs to introduce private
member’s bills on abortion is-
sues and that his organization
aims to help gradually increase
the number of anti-abortion MPs
over time.
The latest national numbers
from Nanos Research has the
Conservatives at 35 per cent of
support from respondents, fol-
lowed by the Liberals at 33 per
cent. The NDP is at 15 per cent,
followed by the Greens at 10 per
cent, the Bloc Québécois at 6 per
cent and the People’s Party of
Canada at 1 per cent.
The poll was sponsored by The
Globe and Mail and CTV, with a
total of 1,200 Canadians surveyed
from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2. It has a
margin of error of 2.8 percentage
points, 19 times out of 20. Re-
spondents were asked: “If a fed-
eral election were held today,
could you please rank your top
two current local voting prefer-
ences?” A report on the results,
questions and methodology for
this and all surveys can be found
at tgam.ca/election-polls.
With reports from Bill Curry
in Ottawa and Justine Hunter
in Victoria
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rCMp illegally helped FBI, Meng’s defence says

Government lawyer
denies allegation police
and CBSA forwarded
crucial identifying
details about Huawei
CFO’s digital devices
LAURA KANE VANCOUVER
A lawyer for Huawei Technologies
executive Meng Wanzhou says
the RCMP illegally passed on seri-
al numbers and other crucial
identifying details of her cell-
phones, laptop and tablet to the
FBI.
Scott Fenton said Mounties
provided information that en-
ables U.S. authorities to find out
calls made and received, phone
numbers, time and duration of
calls and the physical location of
cell towers where calls were con-
nected. “This is a very serious
matter,” Mr. Fenton told a B.C. Su-
preme Court judge on Thursday.
“The provision of this techni-
cal information is a gateway to
U.S. law enforcement taking oth-
er investigative steps … to get
other information to use against
Ms. Meng.”
He said he believes the Crown
could produce evidence that the
information was not shared and
the court was expected to recon-
vene to discuss the matter.
Mr. Fenton said his assertion
was based on an RCMP officer’s
notes, which said that a staff ser-
geant had e-mailed the device de-
tails to a person the defence un-
derstood to be the FBI liaison.
He said that the defence did
not have the e-mail in question
and, given that the hearing is fo-
cused on document disclosure, a
simple way to solve the matter
would be for the Crown to pro-
duce the e-mail.
The Crown argued this week
that there is no indication of im-
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, who is out on bail after being detained last proper evidence sharing between
year at the behest of U.S. authorities, leaves her home to attend a court the FBI, RCMP and Canada Border
hearing in Vancouver on Thursday. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS Services Agency (CBSA).
Mr. Fenton disputed this claim,
Lawyers for Ms. Meng, Hua- and Huawei deny. telling the court that while the
wei’s chief financial officer, are in Ms. Meng was arrested during a devices were ultimately not
court seeking documents the say stopover at the Vancouver Inter- passed on to the FBI, the original
would prove allegations that national Airport on Dec. 1, 2018. plan was for the U.S. agency to ac-
American and Canadian officials A lawyer for the Canadian gov- quire them.
conspired to conduct a “covert ernment told the judge it’s simply Following a morning meeting
criminal investigation” at Van- not true that RCMP forwarded de- on Dec. 1 with RCMP and CBSA of-
couver’s airport. tails about the electronic devices ficers, a Mountie wrote in her
The United States is seeking to the FBI. notes that the border guards
her extradition on fraud charges “My friend says it’s a very seri- would obtain Ms. Meng’s phones
linked to alleged violations of ous allegation and we believe it’s “as per FBI request,” he said to the
sanctions against Iran, which she not a fact,” Robert Frater said. court. The Crown has said a foren-
sic examination showed that nei-
ther the CBSA nor the RCMP
searched the devices. However,
Mr. Fenton said the exam did
show that on Dec. 4, several de-
vices were turned on and at least
one was connected to internet.
That was the same day that an
RCMP officer wrote in his notes
that he photographed the devices
and removed the SIM cards, Mr.
Fenton said.
Also on Dec. 4, an officer’s
notes say that a staff sergeant e-
mailed the FBI liaison the devices’
serial numbers, SIM card num-
bers and what are known as inter-
national mobile equipment iden-
tity numbers. The identity num-
bers allow U.S. authorities to
learn significant information
about call history, the defence
said.
The RCMP violated the Extra-
dition Act and Ms. Meng’s consti-
tutional rights when it passed on
these details, Mr. Fenton argued.
The FBI has since dropped its
request for the devices, but Mr.
Fenton described that decision as
“an effort at damage control” and
added the agency may have al-
ready gleaned significant infor-
mation from the items.
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Israel swears in new parliament amid deadlock
Event was marked by
uncertainty as both
PM Netanyahu and
his chief rival, Gantz,
disagree over who
should lead the country
ARON HELLER JERUSALEM
Israel swore in its newly elected
parliament on Thursday for what
could be a very short term after
the country’s second inconclu-
sive election of the year left it with
no new government on the hori-
zon.
The typically festive event was
marked mostly by uncertainty, as
the two main candidates for
prime minister sniped at each
other over who should lead the
country.
It also came in parallel to Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
high-profile preindictment hear-
ing on corruption charges, which
have threatened to end his politi-
cal career and contributed to the
current paralysis of the country’s
political system.
Neither Mr. Netanyahu nor his
chief rival Benny Gantz has been
able to build a parliamentary ma-
jority with their natural allies.
They now depend on each other
for a unity government as the on-
ly likely alternative to an unprece-
dented third election in less than
a year.
Talks between the two sides
appear to have stalled, though,
with Mr. Netanyahu insisting on
remaining prime minister and
holding on to his ultra-Orthodox
and nationalist partners. Mr.
Gantz’s centrist Blue and White
party is sticking to its election
campaign vow not to sit with Mr.
Netanyahu because of his peril-
Iraqi protesters defy curfew as third day of unrest leaves at least 33 people dead
QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA BAGHDAD
Anti-government demonstrators
defied an around-the-clock cur-
few in Baghdad and other cities
Thursday as Iraqi security forces
used live ammunition and tear
gas during a third day of unrest
that has left at least 33 people
dead, most of them protesters.
Authorities have blocked inter-
net access in much of Iraq since
late Wednesday in a desperate
move to curb the rallies. By Thurs-
day afternoon, the curfew was ex-
tended to three other southern
provinces. The rallies have been
spurred mostly by youths want-
ing jobs, improved services such
as electricity and water, and an
end to endemic corruption in the
oil-rich country. Most of the dem-
onstrators were peaceful; many
had their faces covered with
masks or Iraqi flags.
The streets of Baghdad were lit-
tered with tear-gas canisters and
empty bullet casings. Smoke from
burned tires rose above the
streets as protesters tried to pre-
vent security forces from advanc-
ing. The forces spread barbed
wires and armoured vehicles to
block their path.
“Even with a curfew, we are not
turning back,” shouted protester
Abu Qassim.
The unrest is the most serious
challenge for Prime Minister Adel
Abdul-Mahdi’s year-old govern-
ment, which also has been caught
in the middle of increasing U.S.-
Iran tensions in the region. Iraq is
allied with both countries and
plays host to thousands of U.S.
troops, as well as powerful para-
military forces allied with Iran.
Middle East expert Jennifer Ca-
farella, with the Washington-
based Institute for the Study of
War, said the immediate and
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the swearing-in of Israel’s new parliament in Jerusalem on
Thursday. With Mr. Netanyahu facing corruption charges, his political future is in question. ARIEL SCHALIT/AP
ous legal standing.
“The right thing for the citizens
of Israel, especially at this time, is
for the prime minister to be busy
working for them and not preoc-
cupied with indictments,” Mr.
Gantz said at his party faction
meeting. “I call upon Netanyahu:
Do not barricade yourself in your
position. We will take the reins
from here and lead the country
for the good of the citizens.”
For the sake of unity, Mr.
Gantz’s deputy, Yair Lapid, an-
nounced he was forgoing a previ-
ous arrangement to share the pre-
miership should they come to
power.
“It’s far more important to me
that there’s unity in the country.
That there won’t be another elec-
tion. That this country begins a
healing process,” he said.
Protesters take over an armoured vehicle before burning it during a
demonstration in Baghdad on Thursday. HADI MIZBAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS
widespread use of force against
protesters in multiple provinces
demonstrates “that the security
forces are overwhelmed by the
volume and rate of spread” of the
rallies.
There were indications that the
regional tension is at play. Some
Baghdad demonstrators blamed
Iranian-backed groups within the
security forces for the violence.
Media affiliated with the Iranian-
backed groups have pointed fin-
gers at the United States and Sau-
di Arabia for the unrest.
One protester in Baghdad held
up an empty casing to journalists,
screaming: “Look! These are Ira-
nian bullets!”
In the past three days, at least
20 protesters and one policeman
were killed in four provinces. On
Thursday, the first death was re-
ported in Baghdad where one
protester was killed as the dem-
onstrators pushed their way to-
ward Tahrir Square in the city cen-
tre. The square has been off-limits
since Wednesday night just before
the curfew. Soon after, protesters
At his party faction, Mr. Neta-
nyahu said he had no intention of
stepping down and it was the
“will of the people” to form a uni-
ty government with him. He ac-
cused Mr. Gantz of subverting
that will.
Attorney-General Avichai
Mandelblit has recommended
that Mr. Netanyahu be indicted
on fraud, breach of trust and brib-
ery charges in three separate
cases. Under Israeli law, Mr. Neta-
nyahu is entitled to plead his case
at a hearing in a last-ditch at-
tempt to persuade prosecutors to
drop their case.
For a second day in a row, Mr.
Netanyahu’s team of lawyers held
a marathon session at the Justice
Ministry in Jerusalem trying to
get the looming charges nixed.
The first two days so far have fo-
overpowered a soldier in his ar-
moured vehicle, setting it on fire
and warning other security forces
to stay away from the square. The
protesters then marched toward
the square. There were also fires
set to parts of government build-
ings in the southern provinces of
Najaf and Dhiqar. At least five pro-
testers were shot and killed
Thursday in Zaafaraniya, a south-
ern Baghdad neighbourhood, ac-
cording to officials.
In the latest deaths, at least six
protesters were shot and killed
Thursday in the city of Nasiriyah,
about 320 kilometres south of
Baghdad, a medical official said.
The mostly leaderless protests
have been concentrated in Bagh-
dad and in predominantly Shia
areas of southern Iraq, bringing
out jobless youths and university
graduates who are suffering un-
der an economy reeling from graft
and mismanagement.
“I came here to seize back my
rights,” said Ahmed Abdul-Sattar,
a protester in his early 20s. “I can’t
get a government job or find any
O THE G LO B E AND M AIL
cused on the most damaging case
against Mr. Netanyahu: suspi-
cions that he promoted regula-
tion worth hundreds of millions
of dollars to Israel’s Bezeq tele-
com company in return for fa-
vourable coverage in Bezeq’s sub-
sidiary news site, Walla.
The other cases include suspi-
cions that he accepted hundreds
of thousands of dollars of Cham-
pagne and cigars from billionaire
friends and offered a critical pub-
lisher legislation that would
weaken his paper’s main rival in
return for softer treatment.
Mr. Netanyahu has long prom-
ised he’d clear his name in the
hearing, and his lawyers say they
will prove that no quid pro quo
was involved. If formal charges
are filed, Mr. Netanyahu, who de-
nies any wrongdoing, could come
other job. It is a corrupt govern-
ment and we came here to take
our rights.”
Two demonstrators were killed
Tuesday and at least 17 deaths
were reported Wednesday, includ-
ing a policeman, in rallies in Nasi-
riyah, Kut and Amara, according
to security officials.
Iraq’s state news agency said
parliamentary Speaker Mo-
hammed al-Halbusi invited rep-
resentatives of the protesters to
discuss their demands.
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry sum-
moned Iran’s ambassador, Iraj
Masjedi, to denounce his threat
that Tehran would retaliate to a
United States attack anywhere in
the world, including in Iraq. A
ministry statement said Iraqi offi-
cial Abdul-Karim Hashem told
him U.S. troops are in Iraq at the
request of the Iraqi government
and that Iraq will not accept be-
coming an arena for international
conflicts.
Mr. Masjedi recently told Iraq’s
Dijlah TV that if the Americans at-
tack Iran, Tehran “will strike back
anywhere, including [in] Iraq.”
Iran urged its citizens to post-
pone pilgrimages to Shiite holy
sites in Iraq amid the turmoil.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry expressed
hope the Iraqi government, polit-
ical parties and groups would
help calm the disturbances that it
said were being exploited by for-
eign elements.
The Baghdad curfew was an-
nounced early Thursday follow-
ing a meeting on the protests by
Iraq’s top leaders.
Authorities said the curfew was
meant to “protect general peace”
and protesters from “infiltrators”
who committed attacks against
security forces and public proper-
ty. It excludes travellers to and
from the Baghdad airport, and
Iraqi Airways said flights were op-
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under heavy pressure to step
down.
In the meantime, Mr. Netanya-
hu is desperately trying to stay in
power. He’s headed a caretaker
government for much of the year
after failing to build a coalition
government after the initial elec-
tions in April.
The previous Israeli parlia-
ment had the shortest stint in his-
tory, lasting more than four
months before it was dissolved.
There’s no guarantee the current
one will be any longer.
The repeat vote last month left
Mr. Netanyahu even more weak-
ened, with Mr. Gantz’s Blue and
White finishing first with 33 seats
in the 120-seat parliament, just
ahead of Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud
with 32 seats. However, Mr. Neta-
nyahu edged Mr. Gantz 55-54 in
the number of lawmakers who
recommend him as prime minis-
ter and Israeli President Reuven
Rivlin therefore tasked him first
with trying to form a coalition. A
prime minister needs the support
of 61 lawmakers to form a govern-
ment.
Mr. Netanyahu has up to six
weeks to do so, but he has indicat-
ed he will give up before then if he
feels he can’t reach a deal with Mr.
Gantz. The former military chief
would then likely be given a
chance to try so himself, although
his odds of success appear equally
slim. After that, Mr. Rivlin can ei-
ther task an alternative lawmaker
or, more likely, call new elections
again.
Both Mr. Netanyahu and Mr.
Gantz have both expressed gener-
al support for a unity government
between their parties as a way out
of the deadlock, but they remain
far apart on who should lead it
and what smaller parties would
join them.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
erating as scheduled.
Baghdad’s main streets were
largely deserted Thursday morn-
ing, except for Iraqi army vehicles.
Some side roads were blocked
with barbed wire.
When the demonstrators tried
to reach a nearby bridge leading
to the Green Zone, Iraqi security
forces started shooting automatic
rifles above the crowd. They also
fired tear gas, according to an AP
cameraman.
After dark, dozens of protesters
blocked a section of the highway
leading to the airport from Bagh-
dad, burning tires and sitting on
the ground, a police official said.
One witness reported intense
gunfire, apparently as security
forces tried to open the road.
The lanes leading away from
the airport remained open, the of-
ficial said.
Other protesters stormed mu-
nicipal offices in Baghdad’s
northern suburbs of Taji and Sa-
baa al-Bour and set them ablaze,
according to a police official and a
health worker, speaking on con-
dition of anonymity because they
were not authorized to brief re-
porters.
NetBlocks, which monitors cy-
bersecurity and internet govern-
ance, reported that web access
was cut off across much of Iraq.
Social-media and messaging
apps, used to organize the pro-
tests, also were blocked. Iraqis
abroad campaigned on social
media to spread videos and news
from inside the country, using the
hashtag #Save–the–Iraqi-People.
No political party has joined the
campaign so far.
Politicians denounced the vio-
lence and at least one, influential
Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr,
called for an investigation.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Edmonton officer recounts attack to jury

Constable says he
was trying to survive
for his children during
knife assault after being
run down by vehicle
COLETTE DERWORIZ EDMONTON
A police officer who was run
down by a car before he was
stabbed in the street told a jury
Thursday that he was thinking of
his children as he struggled with
his attacker.
Asked what was going through
his mind, an emotional Constable
Mike Chernyk said he was trying
to survive for his children.
“I’m a single parent with two
children,” Constable Chernyk
said.
He told court that he saw a ve-
hicle approaching and heard an
engine revving as he was directing
traffic outside an Edmonton Eski-
mos football game in September,
2017.
“I thought the vehicle was go-
ing to hit me, so I turned to my left
to get out of the way,” he testified.
“I thought I gave myself
enough time to move out of the
way of the vehicle, but that didn’t
happen,” he said.
“The next thing I remember, I
was going through the air and
tucking my chin to my chest.”
He then remembers someone
on top of him.
I thought I gave
myself enough time
“I could feel the top of my head
burning and my hairline was very
to move out of the wet,” he said. He didn’t realize un-
way of the vehicle, til later that it had been blood. “It
but that didn’t was at that moment that I realized
there was a black male on top of
happen. me, stabbing me with a knife.”
MIKE CHERNYK
Constable Chernyk said the
EDMONTON POLICE OFFICER man tried to grab the officer’s ser-
vice pistol, but he was able to push
the gun farther into the holster.
He was able to push the man off
him and call for emergency back-
up.
“Officer down,” Constable
Chernyk was heard saying in a re-
cording of his call that was played
for the jury.
He testified he started to run af-
ter the attacker, but realized his
fellow officers might not be able
to find him if he collapsed, so he
waited by his police vehicle for
medical help to arrive.
Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 32, has
pleaded not guilty to 11 charges,
including attempted murder and
dangerous driving. He is also
charged with aggravated assault
against Constable Chernyk.
It’s alleged that after the attack
on the officer, Mr. Sharif fled and
drove a speeding U-Haul van
through Edmonton’s downtown,
striking four pedestrians.
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Quebec won’t
appeal court ruling
that struck down
parts of medically
assisted dying law
QUEBEC

The Quebec government won’t appeal a

A crowd gathers at Queen’s Park in Toronto in April to protest Ontario’s changes to education, which include increasing class-size
averages in some elementary grades and high schools. TIJANA MARTIN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Strike: Nearly half of Toronto board’s 18,000 employees
would be on picket lines if negotiations break off
FROM A1
The potential school closings come in
the wake of an announcement by CUPE
on Wednesday that it had provided the
legally required five-day notice for a
strike after just two days into a work-to-
rule campaign. Talks are scheduled to
resume Friday between CUPE’s Ontario
School Board Council of Unions, which
negotiates centrally on behalf of the
union’s school-board employees, and
the government and trustees’ associ-
ation.
Boards typically close schools during
teacher strikes, but several said their de-
cisions were made after reviewing how
many employees would be striking and
how they would maintain the cleanli-
ness of buildings while keeping schools
running smoothly. At the Toronto
board, almost half of its employees –
about 18,000 workers, including custo-
dians and early childhood educators –
would be on the picket lines Monday if
negotiations break off on the weekend.
“This is not a decision that we made
lightly and we have explored every pos-
sible contingency plan to keep schools
open,” TDSB director of education John
Malloy and chair Robin Pilkey wrote in a
letter on Thursday to families.
“Student supervision and safety are
our top priorities and without the im-
portant services of these school-based
employees, we cannot guarantee that
our learning environments will remain
safe and clean for all students.”
All of the province’s education
unions saw their contracts end Aug. 31
amid uncertainty over the decision by
Premier Doug Ford’s government to in-
crease class-size averages in some ele-
B.C. art collector launches foundation
to promote Quebec abstractionist Riopelle
KATE TAYLOR
B.C. art collector Michael Audain
announced Thursday the establish-
ment of a foundation dedicated to ad-
vancing Quebec abstractionist Jean-
Paul Riopelle’s creative vision in the
run-up to the centenary of his birth in
2023.
Mr. Audain, who owns more than 30
of the artist’s works, said in a statement
that the foundation’s objective is to
“promote the rediscovery of Mr. Rio-
pelle’s legacy as an iconic visionary, a
symbol of freedom, creativity and ex-
perimentation.”
One of the most internationally cel-
ebrated artists Canada has ever pro-
duced, Mr. Riopelle was born in Mon-
court ruling last month that struck
down sections of the provincial law on
medically assisted dying that were
deemed unconstitutional.
Quebec Superior Court Justice Chris-
tine Baudouin ruled in favour of two
Quebeckers struck by incurable degen-
erative diseases who had argued both
the federal and provincial laws were too
restrictive.
Justice Baudouin ruled invalid the
Criminal Code requirement that a natu-
ral death be “reasonably foreseeable”
before someone can be eligible for assist-
ed death, as well as the provincial re-
quirement that people “be at the end of
life.”
The plaintiffs in the case, Nicole Gla-
du and Jean Truchon, had argued the
provisions led to their requests for an as-
sisted death under the law being denied.
Two provincial cabinet ministers told
a news conference Thursday they have
not decided whether the contested sec-
tion of the Quebec law will be redrafted,
saying the government will continue
separately to study broadening access to
the procedure.
mentary grades and in high schools. The Hamilton-Wentworth District Justice Minister Sonia LeBel said the
CUPE’s strike would take effect during School Board, meanwhile, said its province could decide to rewrite the pro-
the federal election campaign in which schools would remain open for teaching vision that has been struck down or sim-
the Liberals have been hoping that Mr. and learning during the instructional ply drop it from the legislation. She
Ford’s record in Ontario and the labour day, meaning doors would be open 15 noted the federal government will have
unrest in education will hurt Conserva- minutes before the bell and close 15 to take a position, and Quebec will work
tive Leader Andrew Scheer. minutes after the bell. The board, how- with the next party in power in Ottawa
In a news conference on Wednesday, ever, said it would cancel before- and af- to harmonize their efforts.
Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen ter-school programs, as well as autho- Justice Baudouin suspended the ap-
Lecce noted the timing of CUPE’s move. rized recreation programs in its facilities plication of her judgment for six months
His spokeswoman, Alexandra Adamo, to keep schools safe and clean. to give federal and provincial legislators
said on Thursday that all sides have a The Peel board, west of Toronto, said a chance to modify the laws, granting an
full weekend of bargaining. it cannot ensure student safety in the exemption to Ms. Gladu and Mr. Tru-
“Our mission is to reach a deal that event of a strike by CUPE members, chon to seek medical aid in dying during
keeps kids in the classroom on Mon- which includes custodial staff and food this period if they satisfy other legal con-
day,” she said. service workers. ditions.
Laura Walton, president Beginning Monday, The judge wrote that the laws in place
of CUPE’s Ontario School “please do not send your had deprived the two plaintiffs of the
Board Council of Unions, Our mission child to school … Since we right to have “a dignified and serene
said in an e-mailed state- do not know how long the death.”
ment that the decision to is to reach a deal strike will last, we recom- At the same time, Health Minister Da-
close schools is up to indi- that keeps kids mend that you begin mak- nielle McCann said the province will be-
vidual boards. She said in the classroom ing alternate plans for the gin looking at whether to expand the
that she hoped the deci- on Monday. care of your children, in Quebec law to others who don’t current-
sion of school boards the event that a strike pro- ly qualify – something it’s asked an ex-
across the province to ALEXANDRA ADAMO ceeds,” the board wrote in pert panel to look into.
close schools “puts pres- SPOKESWOMAN FOR a letter to families. “We have a time factor,” Ms. McCann
sure” on the government ONTARIO’S EDUCATION The last time CUPE explained in announcing the decision,
MINISTER
and the trustees’ associ- workers staged a job ac- noting the six-month deadline. “At the
ation to reach a deal with tion – a work-to-rule cam- same time, shortly, we’re going to have
CUPE education workers on the week- paign in 2015 – there were complaints the final report of the group of experts
end. about dirty hallways. that have looked at this question of the
The impact of a strike by CUPE mem- Elections Canada said on Thursday enlargement.”
bers will vary from one school board to that it is monitoring the potential for This week, five professional orders in
the next, as not all support staff across strike action as it prepares for the Oct. 21 Quebec called on the province and Otta-
school boards in the province are in the federal election. Many polling stations wa not to appeal the Sept. 11 judgment,
union. The elementary- and high-school are located in schools, and a spokesper- urging them instead to change the laws
teachers’ unions are not in a legal strike son said that Elections Canada has some to bring them in line with the Quebec
position. contingency plans in place for poll ruling. Others opposed to the law have
A handful of boards, including the Ot- workers who may need to access items, called for better support for those living
tawa-Carleton District School Board, re- such as desks and chairs, during a strike with disabilities to be able to live better.
main unaffected as none of their em- when school staff will not be available to On the federal election trail, Liberal
ployees are represented by CUPE. help. Leader Justin Trudeau has said his party
would look at ways to improve Canada’s
medical assistance in dying legislation.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer
said his party would favour an appeal of
the ruling so that the Supreme Court of
Canada could provide certainty.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said he
was in favour of the Quebec ruling,
which he said demonstrated the choice
treal in 1923 and educated at the École secting lines and rectangles. isn’t available for all those seeking an as-
du meuble. His teachers included the Although abstract, his works were sisted death.
abstractionist Paul-Émile Borduas, sometimes interpreted as a reflection of Despite the continuing federal cam-
who pushed him to abandon realistic a Canadian landscape of rocks and paign, Ms. McCann said Quebec can con-
styles and begin his modernist experi- trees. He spent much of his career in tinue to work on its own law.
ments. France before building a studio in Que- “Quebec has been a leader, Quebec
In 1948, Mr. Riopelle was one of the 15 bec in 1972, and settling back in Canada has influenced the federal government
Automatist painters who signed Mr. in the 1990s. He died at Île-aux-Grues in so I think we’re in a good position to pur-
Borduas’s Refus Global. He also provided 2002 at the age of 78. sue right away working on these aspects
the cover art for this provocative state- The foundation has hired Montreal of the law,” the health minister said.
ment of artistic and social freedom cultural administrator Manon Gauthier Court heard that Ms. Gladu suffers
launched in the face of conservative as an executive director and has formed from postpolio syndrome and medica-
Duplessis-era Quebec. a board of directors that includes Yseult tion no longer helps alleviate her pain.
Increasingly recognized by New York Riopelle, the artist’s daughter. Mr. Truchon has cerebral palsy. Three
and Paris dealers, Mr. Riopelle moved The foundation plans a series of na- of his four limbs were not functional at
to France around that time and adopt- tional and international initiatives over birth, and he just lost the use of the
ed what would become his signature the next four years to make Mr. Rio- fourth, although he could continue to
style. Using a palette knife, he would pelle’s work better known, support live for many more years.
build up thick layers of paint, creating young artists and encourage experi-
dense, multicoloured mosaics of inter- mentation in art making. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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From coast to coast, CALGARY CENTRE Mr. Carr’s initial victory was sub-
stantial – nearly 60 per cent, com-
pared with 28 per cent for the

21 key ridings to watch Conservative incumbent – but

The Conservatives, Liberals and NDP
are jockeying for strategic seats from B.C. to the
Maritimes. Here are the races Globe reporters are
most interested in, and what’s at stake
IAN BAILEY, JAMES KELLER, DANIEL LEBLANC, MARIEKE WALSH,
CHRIS HANNAY, GREG MERCER, JOHN IBBITSON
RIDINGS ARE COLOURED BASED ON 2015 RESULTS
LIB CON NDP BLOC
BRITISH
COLUMBIA
BURNABY NORTH-SEYMOUR
The Trans Mountain pipeline ex-
pansion is a national political is-
sue – but it’s especially tangible
here in this Greater Vancouver
riding, where a tank farm receives
bitumen from the Alberta oil
sands and pipes it into tankers for
overseas markets. Svend Robin-
son, a former high-profile New
Democrat MP, is trying to make a
political comeback after 15 years
in private life. Liberal Terry Beech,
who won the riding by six per-
centage points over the second-
place NDP in 2015, has acknowl-
edged community concerns over
the pipeline expansion, but cites
other aspects of the Liberal envi-
ronmental record such as the
oceans protection plan and car-
bon tax. This year, the Conserva-
tives are running Heather Leung,
an occupational therapist who
previously ran for Burnaby City
Council.
KAMLOOPS-THOMPSON-CARIBOO
When then-B.C. health minister
Terry Lake said in 2017 he
wouldn’t seek re-election, the as-
sumption was that he was calling
it a day in politics. Instead, he’s
running for the Liberals federally.
About three-quarters of the pop-
ulation of the Interior riding lives
in Kamloops, a city where Mr.
Lake was also once mayor and a
city councillor. He is taking on
Conservative MP Cathy McLeod,
who has held the riding since
2008. In the 2015 vote, it was a
tight race: Ms. McLeod won with
35-per-cent support, the NDP got
31 per cent and the Liberals had 30
per cent. However, the NDP has
had trouble with its candidates in
the riding: Two have resigned.
VANCOUVER-GRANVILLE
As a Liberal candidate in 2015, Jo-
dy Wilson-Raybould won 44 per
cent of the vote, compared with
27 per cent for the NDP and 26 per
cent for the Conservatives. Ms.
Wilson-Raybould was named jus-
tice minister after the Liberals
took office, but was moved to vet-
erans affairs in January, 2019. She
later resigned from cabinet and
was expelled from the Liberal
caucus over disagreements aris-
ing from the SNC-Lavalin affair.
She is running again in the riding
as an independent candidate. De-
spite the scandal, the Liberals
have been bullish about winning
the riding, and named tech entre-
preneur Taleeb Noormohamed as
their candidate. Zach Segal, a
public-affairs adviser at Canada
Mortgage and Housing Corp. in
Vancouver, is the Tory candidate.
Climate activist Yvonne Hanson
is running for the NDP.
PRAIRIES
EDMONTON-STRATHCONA
Linda Duncan, who became the
second NDP MP elected in Alber-
ta history when she won in 2008,
isn’t running this year. That
opens up the race in what is per-
haps the province’s most left-
leaning riding. The New Demo-
crats are running Heather
McPherson, an executive director
at a non-profit. She faces Conser-
vative Sam Lilly, who works for a
casino operator, and Eleanor Ols-
zewski, a lawyer running for the
Liberals. The riding underscores
the disparity between the provin-
cial NDP, which has traditionally
done well in Edmonton, and a
federal party that has been un-
able to capitalize on that. One po-
tential reason: Former NDP pre-
mier Rachel Notley, who repre-
sented part of the riding, styled
herself as a champion of pipe-
lines and the oil industry, putting
her at odds with the federal New
Democrats and essentially sever-
ing ties between the two.
there is growing dissatisfaction in
Manitoba over the federal carbon
tax, which was imposed over the
objections of the provincial gov-
ernment this past spring. In last
month’s provincial vote, which
produced a decisive re-election
for the Progressive Conservatives,
the ridings that make up Winni-
peg South Centre were split be-
tween all three major parties, in-
cluding the seat held by Premier
Kent Hehr, a lawyer and former Brian Pallister.
provincial MLA, was among four
Liberals elected in Alberta in 2015
ELMWOOD-TRANSCONA
in traditionally Conservative ter-
ritory. Like the other Alberta Lib-
erals, he squeaked in by a narrow
margin – in his case, just 750 votes
ahead of the incumbent Conser-
vative MP. The province has been
suffering from an economic
downturn that has dragged on for
years, and many residents blame
the Trudeau government for fail-
ing to get the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion built. The re-
sult has been a province that has
grown increasingly alienated
with Ottawa ahead of an election
that could very well produce a
Conservative sweep in Alberta. This east Winnipeg riding mixes
Adding to Mr. Hehr’s challenges traditional working-class neigh-
are sexual-misconduct allega- bourhoods with newer and more
tions that forced him out of cabi- affluent suburbs, with both Indig-
net last year. His main opponent enous and immigrant Canadians
is Conservative candidate Greg well represented. United Church
McLean, an investment manager. minister Bill Blaikie held Elm-
wood-Transcona and its prede-
cessors for the NDP for almost 30
REGINA-LEWVAN
years, finally retiring in 2008. His
son, Daniel, took the riding from
incumbent Conservative Law-
rence Toet in 2015 by a grand total
of 61 votes, the narrowest margin
of victory in that general election.
Mr. Blaikie and Mr. Toet, a local
entrepreneur, are facing off again.
The Liberals finished a strong
third in 2015, and Jennifer Mala-
bar, a former Crown attorney,
hopes to leapfrog to a win.
ONTARIO
The riding’s MP, Erin Weir, was
elected as a New Democrat in 2015 KENORA
but was expelled from caucus last
year after sexual-harassment alle-
gations (which he denies). He
briefly sat as an independent be-
fore declaring himself a member
of the Co-operative Common-
wealth Federation, a party that
was the precursor to the NDP and
hasn’t existed since the 1960s. Mr.
Weir isn’t running again. The rid-
ing was created before the 2015
election, taking parts of nearby
ridings that have previously
flipped between the New Demo-
crats and the Conservatives. Mr.
Weir’s victory was incredibly nar-
row, defeating the Conservative Bob Nault, a Chrétien-era cabinet
candidate by 132 votes. This year, minister, returned from a decade
the NDP will be represented by Ji- of political retirement to run and
gar Patel, a local grocery-store win the Northern Ontario riding
owner, while the Conservatives for the Liberals in a tight three-
are fielding Warren Steinley, who way race in 2015. Now he’s run-
worked in several federal minis- ning again against two new oppo-
tries before taking a job in the nents: NDP candidate Rudy Tur-
governing provincial Saskatche- tle, the chief of the Grassy Nar-
wan Party’s caucus office. rows First Nation, and Conserva-
tive candidate Eric Melillo, a
21-year-old recent graduate of La-
WINNIPEG SOUTH CENTRE
kehead University who has
worked as a political staffer. Mr.
Turtle said he is running because
he is frustrated by the federal gov-
ernment’s response to mercury
poisoning in his community.
The riding had been reliably Lib-
eral two decades until the Con-
servatives took it in 2011. Jim Carr
won it back for the Liberals in
2015 and, as International Trade
Minister, has become the most
high-profile member of Justin
Trudeau’s caucus from Manitoba.

Leaders fly over Alberta, leaving the province largely ignored

JAMES KELLER CALGARY
There’s little mystery surround-
ing the 34 federal ridings in Alber-
ta – a province where the biggest
question about the election re-
sults is whether the Conserva-
tives will win all of those seats or
almost all of them.
But that dynamic has meant
Alberta has received short shrift
from the national campaigns,
with the main party leaders only
stepping foot in Alberta a handful
of times, if at all. And it means the
issues driving voters here – a
painful economic downturn, the
Trans Mountain pipeline and a
perceived unfairness in the
equalization program – have
been largely absent from the na-
tional campaign.
The Liberals had a break-
through in Alberta when Justin
Trudeau came to power in 2015,
picking up four seats in a prov-
ince where they previously had
none. The NDP also held onto its
lone Alberta seat in Edmonton.
This year, antipathy toward the
federal government and Mr. Tru-
deau in particular has pollsters
speculating that the party could
be shut out entirely. And the
NDP’s Linda Duncan isn’t run-
ning again in Edmonton-Strath-
cona, where that party’s opposi-
tion to the Trans Mountain pipe-
line could become a major barrier
for its candidate.
Mr. Trudeau visited Edmonton
on the second day of the cam-
paign, but hasn’t been back since.
Conservative Leader Andrew
Scheer has been to Alberta twice,
with one event each in Edmonton
and Calgary. Green Party Leader
Elizabeth May attended a climate
march in Calgary last month,
while NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
hasn’t been to the province at all.
Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Scheer
have both promised to get the
Trans Mountain pipeline expan-
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PETERBOROUGH-KAWARTHA WINDSOR WEST servative candidate in the riding

located in the historic heart of the ATLANTIC
provincial capital is 30-year-old
communications specialist Bian- CANADA
ca Boutin.
FUNDY ROYAL
RIVIÈRE-DU-NORD

As goes Peterborough, so goes the Windsor West will see a battle of

nation. The mixed-urban-and-ru-
ral riding in Central Ontario has
been the most reliable bellwether
in Canada for more than 50 years:
Whichever party won this seat al-
so won government in 15 of the
past 16 elections. The seat is cur-
rently represented by Liberal cab-
inet minister Maryam Monsef,
who won in 2015 with 44 per cent
of the vote (compared with 35 per
cent for the Conservatives). The
Conservative candidate in 2015
and again this year is local entre-
preneur Michael Skinner.
MILTON
the personalities between two
well-known local politicians. New
Democrat Brian Masse won this
Southwestern Ontario riding with
51 per cent of the vote in 2015,
with the Liberals placing a distant
second at 25 per cent. This time,
though, the Grits believe they
have a candidate who will give
them a fighting chance: Sandra
Pupatello, a former provincial
Liberal cabinet minister who ran
unsuccessfully for the Ontario
Liberal leadership in 2013. The
Liberals believe that Ms. Pupatel-
lo’s name on the ballot puts the
riding on the map for the party,
but the NDP is confident it will be
able to hold on given that Mr.
Masse has won every federal elec-
tion there since 2002.
DAVENPORT
One of Quebec’s best-known ath-
letes, Olympic gold-medal win-
ning synchronized swimmer Syl-
vie Fréchette will test whether her
name recognition can help the
Conservatives make a break-
through in the Laurentians, north
of Montreal. Ms. Fréchette will try
to unseat Rhéal Fortin, who won
the seat for the Bloc Québécois in
2015 with 32 per cent of the vote.
The riding will be a test of the
Bloc’s strength in Quebec after a
rough patch in 2017 and 2018 in
which the party made more
headlines for infighting than its
role in Parliament.
Along with adjacent New Brun-
swick Southwest, this was one of
the few ridings in the Atlantic re-
gion where the race was close be-
tween the Liberals and Conserva-
tives in 2015. Former Harper-era
cabinet minister Rob Moore is
hoping to take his old seat back
from Liberal incumbent Alaina
Lockhart, who is the first woman
to be elected in the riding. It’s a
historically conservative seat,
sending just two Liberal MPs to
Ottawa since the First World War.
If Conservative Leader Andrew
Scheer hopes to regain a foothold
in the East, this has to be a win-
nable seat for the Tories.

ROSEMONT-LA-PETITE-PATRIE CAPE BRETON-CANSO

Conservative Lisa Raitt, a cabinet

minister under former prime
minister Stephen Harper, won
the riding for a third time in 2015
with 45 per cent of the vote. The
Liberals were five percentage
points behind then, but are hope-
ful they can oust Ms. Raitt this
time because their candidate is
Olympic gold medalist Adam van
Koeverden. Liberals say they
think demographic changes in
the Southwestern Ontario riding,
such as more urbanization, will
make it easier for them to win.
Conservatives say Mr. van Koe-
verden’s name on the ballot may
indeed make the race tighter.
BRAMPTON EAST
In 2011, the NDP won eight Toron-
to seats, only to be swept out of
Canada’s most populous city in a
2015 Liberal wave. The party’s tra-
ditional stronghold in the 416 is
along the Bloor subway line and
New Democrats are hoping to
claw back some of those ridings
this fall. The Liberals think the
New Democrats are staring down
long odds, but if a comeback is in
the cards it will likely be in Daven-
port, where Andrew Cash is hop-
ing for redemption. Mr. Cash and
the New Democrats lost to Liberal
Julie Dzerowicz by fewer than
three percentage points, with the
Conservative candidate trailing
far behind. Ms. Dzerowicz is run-
ning again and the Liberals are
optimistic she will be able to hold
onto the seat.
Can the NDP hold onto its safest
seat in Quebec, located in the
eastern part of Montreal? The rid-
ing is represented by one of the
party’s best-known faces in Que-
bec, Alexandre Boulerice. In the
2015 election, Mr. Boulerice won
with 49.2 per cent of the vote,
with a nearly 30-percentage point
lead over his Bloc Québécois and
Liberal rivals. The Liberals are
confident they are more compet-
itive in the riding this time
around, given their strong polling
results in Montreal. The Liberal
candidate is Geneviève Hinse,
who was chief of staff for two
ministers of health in the Tru-
deau government.
TROIS-RIVIÈRES
The Liberals lost a popular six-
term MP when Rodger Cuzner re-
tired this year; they’re hoping po-
litical newcomer Mike Kelloway
can hold off the Conservatives’
Alfie MacLeod, a well-known for-
mer provincial MLA for Sydney
River-Mira-Louisbourg. It’s one a
handful of ridings in Nova Scotia
where the Conservatives ap-
proached a sitting Progressive
Conservative member of the pro-
vincial legislature and persuaded
them to run federally. Mr. Cuzner
won by a whopping 74 per cent of
the vote in 2015, his most decisive
victory in a riding that has never
elected a Conservative candidate.
ST. JOHN’S EAST

QUEBEC
QUÉBEC

The Liberals won Brampton East

easily in 2015 with 52 per cent of
the vote compared with 24 per
cent for the Conservatives and 23
per cent for the NDP. But the Lib-
erals have a different candidate
this time around. Raj Grewal, who
won the seat for the Liberals in
2015, left caucus last year after ad-
mitting to a gambling problem
that caused him to rack up mil-
lions of dollars in debt. Their can-
didate this time is Maninder Sid-
hu. The NDP has set its sights on
the Toronto-area riding because
new Leader Jagmeet Singh held
the seat provincially and his
brother now holds the seat at
Queen’s Park. When Jagmeet
Singh ran there federally in 2011,
he lost by just one percentage
point.
Jean-Yves Duclos won the riding
for the Liberals in 2015 with just
28.9 per cent of the vote, beating
the NDP incumbent by 1,000
votes in a tight four-way race. A
professor of economics at the
time, Mr. Duclos has since in-
creased his profile in the area as
the Liberal government’s Minis-
ter of Families. Still, the Conserva-
tives are targeting the riding as
part of an effort to win all seven
seats in Quebec City, up from the
five they currently hold. The Con-
It is not a coincidence the Conser-
vatives kicked off their campaign
in this Quebec city, given they feel
they have the right candidate
(former mayor Yves Lévesque) to
win the riding for the first time
since it went Progressive Conser-
vative in 1988. After being a Bloc
Québécois stronghold, Trois-Ri-
vières turned NDP in the 2011 Or-
ange Wave. NDP MP Robert Aubin
is now trying to hold on for a third
mandate. The Liberals feel they
have a winner in Valérie Renaud-
Martin, a city councillor who Mr.
Lévesque once publicly anointed
as his potential successor when
he was still mayor.
The news has not been good for
the NDP in Atlantic Canada lately,
with senior party executives de-
fecting from the party and many
ridings without a candidate. Jack
Harris, the former MP who has
been a popular figure in New-
foundland politics since the late
1980s, may be one candidate who
can rise above his party’s recent
troubles. Mr. Harris lost to Liberal
Nick Whalen in 2015 by just 624
votes during the Grits’ sweep of
the Eastern provinces. This may
be one of the few bright spots in
the region for the New Demo-
crats.

sion built, with Mr. Scheer also
pledging to rip up recently passed
environmental legislation, repeal
the carbon tax and build national
energy corridors.
However, Duane Bratt, a politi-
cal science professor at Calgary’s
Mount Royal University, said the
leaders haven’t spent much time
talking about those issues out-
side the province.
“It’s not just the lack of leaders;
the other thing is it’s a lack of at-
tention on the issues that are gal-
vanizing Albertans,” Dr. Bratt
said. He said 2015 was unusual for
the Liberals because Mr. Trudeau
actually did spend a significant
amount of time in Alberta, al-
though he said previous leaders
such as Jean Chrétien and Paul
Martin barely made an effort in
the province.
Former Conservative prime
minister Stephen Harper would
finish his campaigns in his home-
town of Calgary but, Dr. Bratt said,
even his attention was largely fo-
cused elsewhere. Mr. Scheer’s two
Alberta stops pale in comparison
with the dozens of events he’s
held in suburban Toronto-area
ridings.
“Of course he’s taking Alberta
for granted,” he said. “But what
are you supposed to do when the
province is in the bag for one par-
ty? You go where the votes are.”
Kent Hehr, the Liberal incum-
bent in Calgary Centre, said vot-
ers should consider what the gov-
erning party has done for Alberta
– namely purchasing the Trans
Mountain pipeline – instead of
Mr. Trudeau’s travel schedule.
“Our policies show how well
we’re treating Calgary,” Mr. Hehr
said.
He couldn’t say whether Mr.
Trudeau would be back in Alberta
and the party declined to confirm
the leader’s plans.
The Conservatives didn’t re-
spond to a request for comment
about their approach to Alberta,
while NDP press secretary Nina
Amrov said the party hadn’t de-
cided whether Mr. Singh will visit
the province before election day.
Lori Williams, who also teach-
es at Mount Royal University, said
it’s a mistake for the party leaders
to ignore a province entirely, even
if they don’t believe there are
many seats in play. She said it’s al-
so important if a party wants to
grow in the future.
“It’s just being a good demo-
cratic representative, acknowl-
edging that there are a number of
people in Alberta that do support
you, and a number who could be
persuaded to support [you],
whether or not it’s enough to win
a seat,” Prof. Williams said.
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T
here are two reactions you
get when you ask around
the globe about Chrystia
Freeland and Canadian foreign
policy under her leadership.
She’s either one of the last, best
hopes of the liberal world order –
or she’s an out-of-touch idealist
who is risking trade by starting
diplomatic fights that Canada
can’t hope to win.
Not since Lester Pearson has
Canada had a foreign minister so
widely recognized on the inter-
national stage. Despite her loud
detractors, she is increasingly
viewed as Liberal Leader Justin
Trudeau’s most likely successor,
particularly should their party
lose power in the Oct. 21 federal
election.
In an effort to examine the
motivations and implications of
Ms. Freeland’s chin-out approach
– and where her policies might
lead if she retains a leadership
role after the election – The
Globe and Mail’s foreign corre-
spondents in the United States,
Asia, Africa and Europe spoke to
politicians, non-governmental
activists and business figures
about how they perceived Cana-
dian foreign policy, which has be-
come synonymous with her
name over the past 21⁄2 years.
Ms. Freeland’s admirers hail
her as a principled and effective
diplomat, someone who can turn
a room in her favour with a mix
of well-researched facts and un-
derstated charm. Her Canada is
the one that tangled with Donald
Trump’s White House over trade
and came out relatively un-
scathed, and the one that won’t
back down in its outsized sup-
port of Ukraine in its struggle
with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. It’s
her Canada that led the rescue of
Syria’s famed White Helmets and
has become a beacon for women
fleeing Saudi Arabia, as well as
LGBTQ refugees from around the
world. The Washington-based
Foreign Policy magazine named
Ms. Freeland its diplomat of the
year in 2018.
But Ms. Freeland’s critics are as
vitriolic as her supporters are ef-
fusive. She has been the target of
startlingly personal attacks from
the foreign governments that
don’t share her worldview. Male
leaders, in particular, seem to
bristle at being criticized by a fe-
male foreign affairs minister who
represents a country of just 37
million people.
“We don’t like their represen-
tative very much,” Mr. Trump fa-
mously said of Ms. Freeland amid
ing when she’s seized by a cause.
Ukraine, where her late moth-
er was a prominent intellectual
who helped draft the country’s
post-Soviet constitution, has al-
ways been close to her heart. Her
conviction that Ukraine’s strug-
gle with Russia is a front line be-
tween the forces of democracy
and the rising authoritarian men-
ace has led to a deepening of the
confrontation between Ottawa
and Moscow that began under
Mr. Harper’s Conservative gov-
ernment.
“Is it personal? Yes,” said Nata-
lie Jaresko, a long-time friend of
Ms. Freeland who served as Uk-
raine’s finance minister from
2014 to 2016. “But [Ms. Freeland’s
support for Ukraine] is based in
values, and what will happen if
we don’t defend those values in
the world that we live in today.”
Another crisis that captured
Ms. Freeland’s imagination is Ve-
nezuela, where anti-government
protests erupted shortly after she
became foreign affairs minister.
Ben Rowswell, who was Cana-
da’s ambassador to Venezuela
during the 2017 uprisings, said
Ms. Freeland understood the
gravity of the crisis – which saw
President Nicolas Maduro at-
tempt to strip the opposition-
dominated Congress of its pow-
ers amid an economic collapse
that left Venezuelans scrambling
for food and medicine – earlier
than most of her counterparts on
the world stage.
Mr. Rowswell recounted how
bureaucrats at Global Affairs
Canada warned him that Ms.
Freeland would be too focused
on U.S. relations to take briefings
on Venezuela.
To his surprise, Mr. Rowswell
received the opposite response
from Ms. Freeland.
“She was really quite clear that
she placed priority on this be-
cause she took time that she real-
ly didn’t have and invested it,”
said Mr. Rowswell, who is now
the president of the Canadian In-
ternational Council, a group of
foreign-relations experts.
Mr. Rowswell said Ms. Freeland
saw Venezuela – like Ukraine – as
a “front line in the emerging
global competition between de-
mocracy and authoritarianism,”
with Russia, China, Iran and Cuba
backing the Maduro regime.
But Ms. Freeland’s willingness
to use Canada’s diplomatic clout
in places such as Ukraine and Ve-
nezuela invites comparison with ILLUSTRATION BY HEATHER BUCHANAN
the places that she hasn’t made a
priority.

the sometimes acrimonious ne-
gotiations that resulted in a new
free-trade deal – pending ratifica-
tion – between the U.S., Canada
and Mexico.
Worse has been said about her
by the governments of China,
Russia and Saudi Arabia – re-
gimes that Ms. Freeland’s foreign
policy has put Canada into con-
flict with.
The 51-year-old journalist-
turned-politician says she’s fine
with the heat. “The notion that
the objective of foreign policy is
to be friends with everyone is to
misread very much the situation
in the world today, where some
very big principles and issues are
at stake,” she said in a telephone
interview during a campaign stop
in Vancouver this week. A candi-
date in the Toronto riding of Uni-
versity-Rosedale, it’s a sign of her
growing importance to the Liber-
al Party that she has been de-
ployed across the country in a
closely fought campaign.
While she says foreign affairs
comes up wherever she goes –
“people still like to talk to me a
lot about NAFTA, both during the
campaign and when I’m buying
groceries” – Ms. Freeland was in
British Columbia this week, using
her star power to boost local can-
didates.
In many ways, she’s acting like
the deputy prime minister that
Canada doesn’t have (both Mr.
Trudeau and his predecessor Ste-
phen Harper left the post empty
as more and more power was ac-
cumulated in the Prime Minis-
ter’s Office). But as questions
grow about Mr. Trudeau’s leader-
ship, the charismatic Foreign Af-
fairs Minister is clearly the Liberal
Party’s No. 2.
But Ms. Freeland, who served
as deputy editor of The Globe
from 1999 to 2001, remains most
passionate about foreign policy,
and specifically the need to de-
fend liberal democracy and what
she calls the “rules-based inter-
national order” in a time of rising
populism and authoritarianism
around the world. It’s also plain
from speaking to her that Cana-
da’s global direction is currently
hers to set.
While relations with the U.S.,
China and Russia have been the
defining challenges of Ms. Free-
land’s time in office, those who
have worked closely with her on
a variety of files say that she’s at
her most energetic and convinc-
Africa stands out as one region
that appears to have fallen off the
Liberal radar. Mr. Trudeau’s gov-
ernment came to office promis-
ing Canada would return to its
previous leadership role on UN
peacekeeping missions. Ms. Free-
land’s predecessor as foreign af-
fairs minister, Stéphane Dion,
had helped draft a plan for a
large-scale deployment of Cana-
dian peacekeepers and police in
the West African country of Mali.
But those ambitions were
scaled back after Ms. Freeland
took over the portfolio. Mr. Tru-
deau was “afraid of the risks,” ac-
cording to Jocelyn Coulon, a for-
mer top aide to Mr. Dion, in
memoirs published this year.
Within weeks of Ms. Freeland’s
appointment, her chief of staff
“informed me that the files I had
been working on – multilateral-
ism, peacekeeping and Africa –
would not be priorities for the
minister,” Mr. Coulon said.
Ms. Freeland has yet to make
an official visit to Africa during
her tenure as foreign affairs min-
ister. The eventual Canadian pea-
cekeeping mission in Mali, which
consisted of just 250 troops and a
handful of helicopters, was limit-
ed to barely a year in the country.
Canada’s policy toward the Is-
raeli-Palestinian conflict, mean-
while, has become less overtly
pro-Israeli than it was under the
VETERAN CANADIAN DIPLOMAT WHO
Conservatives; the Liberals re-
stored funding to the United Na-
tions agency that supports Pales-
tinian refugees after it was cut off
by Mr. Harper’s government. But
Ms. Freeland has stuck to what
she calls a “balanced” approach
toward Israel and the Palesti-
nians, rarely criticizing Israel’s
five-decade-old military occupa-
tion of the West Bank.
“On this issue there hasn’t
been any form of recalibration.
None,” said Diana Buttu, a Pales-
tinian-Canadian lawyer and for-
mer legal adviser to Palestinian
president Mahmoud Abbas. “I
wish I had the answer.”
Jeremy Kinsman, a veteran
Canadian diplomat who was a
part of Mr. Trudeau’s early for-
eign affairs team, said he believes
that on some files, it’s still the
Prime Minister’s Office that calls
the shots – and it often does so
based on domestic political con-
siderations. Support for Ukraine
plays well at home, particularly
among the million-strong Ukrai-
nian diaspora. Deploying troops
Behind the Foreign Affairs Minister’s crusad
is a shrewd politician who knows w
MARK MacKINNON LONDON, ADRIAN MORROW WASHINGTON, NATHAN VANDE
to a risky peacekeeping mission
in Africa, or taking a side on Is-
rael-Palestine, are not vote-win-
ning ideas.
Ms. Freeland, unlike Mr. Dion,
grasped these realities and built
them into her policies, he said.
And while Mr. Dion always re-
mained an outsider in the Tru-
deau cabinet, Ms. Freeland built
friendships and alliances inside
the Prime Minister’s Office. “She
has an emotional intelligence
that’s highly advanced,” Mr. Kins-
She has an emotional man said. “When Chrystia came
in [as foreign affairs minister],
intelligence that’s highly she immediately got what the
advanced. When politics were.”
Chrystia came in [as
foreign affairs minister],
she immediately got Canada’s foreign policy was a
what the politics were. muddle after the Liberals came to
office in 2015. Mr. Trudeau de-
JEREMY KINSMAN clared after the election win that
WAS PART OF JUSTIN TRUDEAU’S Canada was “back” and “here to
EARLY FOREIGN AFFAIRS TEAM help” – phrases that meant differ-
ent things to his two key foreign
policy ministers. That sparked a
contest of wills that would come
to a head over the issue of how to
deal with Mr. Putin’s Kremlin.
To Mr. Dion’s ears, those vague
terms meant that Canada would
return to its Cold War role of be-
ing a country that everyone
could get along with. A core pri-
ority was to reheat relations with
countries such as Russia and Iran
that had frosted over under Mr.
Harper. Ms. Freeland, then minis-
ter of international trade, inter-
preted Mr. Trudeau’s same phras-
es through her own prism that
Canada best stands up for itself
by standing up for principles
such as democracy and human
rights.
One of Mr. Putin’s most promi-
nent critics, financier Bill Browd-
er, recalls receiving a split recep-
tion from the new Canadian gov-
ernment. Ms. Freeland, he knew,
was a supporter of his efforts to
slap sanctions on the Russian of-
Freeland
ficials allegedly involved in the
death of Mr. Browder’s account-
ant, Sergei Magnitsky. But Mr.
Browder says he also knew that
Canada would never have sanc-
tions, in the form of a Magnitsky
Act, as long as Mr. Dion was for-
eign affairs minister and hoping
to mend relations with Moscow.
By January, 2017, Mr. Dion was
out of government, Ms. Freeland
was foreign affairs minister, ties
with Russia were on their way to
a new low and the Magnitsky Act
was headed toward becoming
law.
“In a world where there are
few truly moral leaders in the
world, Canada has now stepped
into the top spot, and a lot of that
is due to Chrystia Freeland,” said
Mr. Browder, who has known her
since the 1990s, when she was a
Moscow-based correspondent for
Britain’s Financial Times and he
was an investment banker in the
Russian capital.
The Kremlin would strongly
disagree with that statement.
Russia has had Ms. Freeland on
its list of Canadians targeted for
sanctions since 2014, when she
was an opposition MP who Mos-
cow saw as an extension of the
influential Ukrainian-Canadian
diaspora. After she rose to be-
come the country’s foreign affairs
minister, Russian diplomats in
Canada launched an astonishing-
ly undiplomatic campaign to tar-
nish her, alerting media to the
fact that Ms. Freeland’s maternal
grandfather had edited a newspa-
per in Nazi-occupied Poland dur-
ing the Second World War, and
suggesting she herself might har-
bour fascist sympathies.
Part of Moscow’s anger is born
out of the hope the Kremlin
placed in Mr. Trudeau and Mr.
Dion after the Liberal election
win. Mr. Putin, who has ruled
Russia for two decades, had got-
ten along well with the previous
two Liberal prime ministers, Jean
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e to restore ‘rules-based international order’
what plays well in her own backyard
ERKLIPPE BEIJING, GEOFFREY YORK JOHANNESBURG, MICHELLE ZILIO OTTAWA
Chrétien and Paul Martin, and
Russian state media expressed
hope in 2015 that the rise of an-
other Liberal government might
mean an end to Canada’s pro-Uk-
rainian policies.
Mr. Dion’s departure put an
end to that belief. Ms. Freeland
became the first Canadian for-
eign affairs minister to take office
while on the personal sanctions
list of a major world power.
She has similarly been singled
out for personal attacks in Chi-
na’s state-controlled media as
ties between Ottawa and Beijing
deteriorated over the arrest of
Huawei executive Meng Wanz-
hou, and more recently over Ms.
Freeland’s support for protesters
in Hong Kong.
She has also aggravated the
Saudi royal family. A tweet in Au-
gust, 2018, that called for the re-
lease of two jailed human-rights
activists sent Riyadh into a fury.
Rather than backing down, Ms.
Freeland personally intervened
five months later to clear the way
for Rahaf Mohammed – a Saudi
teenager who fled her allegedly
abusive family – to gain asylum in
Canada. The official Saudi Ga-
zette newspaper called Ms. Free-
land’s policies “childish” after she
personally welcomed Ms. Mo-
hammed when she arrived in To-
ronto.
Ms. Freeland does her best to
shrug off the attacks: “I think we
need to be honest with ourselves
and honest with Canadians that
standing up on these issues will
not always be without a cost. And
that’s okay.”
But while the barbed relation-
ships with Moscow, Beijing and
Riyadh put Ms. Freeland’s vision
for Canada into sharpest contrast
with Mr. Dion’s, it was the rise of
Mr. Trump – and his vow to tear
up the North American free-trade
agreement – that created a crisis
that necessitated the cabinet
shuffle that saw Ms. Freeland pro-
moted and Mr. Dion dispatched
to serve as Canada’s ambassador
to Germany and special envoy to
the European Union.
“The most important foreign-
policy challenge facing this gov-
ernment was managing relations
with the Trump administration
and averting his threat to termi-
nate NAFTA,” said Roland Paris, a
professor of international affairs
at the University of Ottawa who
worked as a foreign-policy advis-
er to Mr. Trudeau for a year after
the 2015 election. “Everything
else pales in comparison.”
Canada’s original NAFTA strategy
was to take a hard line at the bar-
gaining table and concede noth-
ing of substance. During the first
five months of talks, Ottawa’s ne-
gotiators were happy to tell the
Americans why their protection-
ist demands were wrong, but un-
willing to meet halfway on any-
thing the Americans wanted.
Canada’s intransigence both sur-
prised and confused the Ameri-
cans, sources told The Globe at
the time. They had expected Can-
ada to gang up with the U.S.
against Mexico; after all, both of
NAFTA’s wealthier countries had
seen manufacturing move to
their poorer southern cousin.
But Ms. Freeland was ideolog-
ically opposed to Mr. Trump’s
worldview. Rather than fighting
other countries for “stealing”
jobs, she argued that more and
freer trade would ultimately
cause higher economic growth
everywhere.
In June, 2018, with more than
$1-trillion in continental trade
hanging in the balance, she went
to Washington to deliver a speech
excoriating the President’s
“America first” ideology, includ-
ing steel and aluminum tariffs
imposed by the Trump adminis-
tration.
For all of the
human-rights advocacy
done in the kingdom of
Saudi Arabia – and I
think advocacy is
important when done in
the right way – in which
way has it had any
impact on the people
she is advocating for?
SHUVALOY MAJUMDAR
ADVISER TO THREE CONSERVATIVE
FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTERS WHILE
STEPHEN HARPER WAS PRIME MINISTER
Ms. Freeland called the tariffs
“a naked example of the United
States putting its thumb on the
scale, in violation of the very
rules it helped to write.”
To make sure the Trump ad-
ministration got the point, Ms.
Freeland handed a copy of the
speech to U.S. Trade Representa-
tive Robert Lighthizer the next
day. A source with knowledge of
the Americans’ thinking said sev-
eral White House officials were
upset by the speech, and that it
made them less inclined to make
a deal with the Canadians.
But three months later, Cana-
da got a deal.
The agreement effectively saw
the worst of Mr. Trump’s protec-
tionism taken off the table in ex-
change for Canadian concessions
on a raft of long-running trade ir-
ritants from dairy protectionism
to pharmaceutical patents.
Because of her tough public
persona, one of Ms. Freeland’s
underappreciated skills is her
ability to charm adversaries be-
hind the scenes, said people who
have watched her closely. Despite
publicly sparring with Mr. Light-
hizer, for instance, the pair were
said to actually enjoy a reasona-
bly friendly rapport in private.
In early October, 2018, the
week after closing NAFTA nego-
tiations, Mr. Lighthizer and C.J.
Mahoney, his deputy in charge of
North America, flew to Toronto
to accept an invitation to have
dinner at Ms. Freeland’s house.
She cooked the repast herself,
with a main course of roast beef.
China would top most lists of
countries that threaten Ms. Free-
land’s cherished liberal world or-
der.
But she had initially posi-
tioned herself as the successor to
a long Liberal tradition in China.
She spoke of opportunity for
partnership and profit with the
world’s second-largest economy,
a country that greeted the elec-
tion of Mr. Trudeau, son of a
prime minister who sat down
with Mao Zedong, as a chance to
build a new gilded age of co-oper-
ation.
In August, 2017, during Ms.
Freeland’s first and only trip to
China as foreign affairs minister,
she met with Chinese Foreign
Minister Wang Yi and discussed a
“shared desire for deepened +
broadened relationship,” her
ministry later tweeted.
Ms. Freeland’s optimism on
China was long-standing: In her
book, Plutocrats, she described
the 2012 downfall of Bo Xilai, a ri-
val to now-President Xi Jinping,
as “part of a wider drive to make
the Chinese economy more fair
and open.” Mr. Xi has instead
overseen a strengthening of the
state’s authoritarian hand on the
economy and society alike, and
China’s assertive foreign policy –
including the building of artificial
islands in the South China Sea –
pose an arguably larger threat to
the liberal order than Russia.
But while Ms. Freeland ex-
pelled Russian diplomats, she
went only so far as to delay visas
for some Chinese state media
journalists.
Ms. Freeland had “very little
knowledge of Asia to start with,”
said Paul Evans, a China scholar
at the University of British Co-
lumbia. The Liberals, he said,
“have been mugged by a kind of
reality which is a very nasty, hard
international environment. Chi-
na is part of that, but so is the
United States.”
Indeed, by the time Ms. Free-
land concluded negotiations to-
ward a new NAFTA deal last fall,
the U.S. had already issued a war-
rant for Ms. Meng, the Huawei ex-
ecutive. Her arrest in Vancouver
in December, 2018, would force a
harsh new reckoning toward Chi-
na, which subsequently arrested
two Canadians, Michael Kovrig
and Michael Spavor, and sen-
tenced two others to death for
drug crimes.
Ms. Freeland tends to function
either as an energetic pragmatist
or an absolutist with a “cold war-
like” view of the world: “author-
itarians versus democrats,” Prof.
Evans said. The diplomatic fight
with Beijing shifted her into that
second mode.
She spoke out publicly against
the “arbitrary” detention of Can-
adians in China and issued state-
ments of concern about Hong
Kong, where protesters, some vi-
olent, have for months demon-
strated against Chinese influen-
ce.
As with Russia, her statements
on Hong Kong have earned her
the wrath of China’s Foreign Min-
istry, which has repeatedly sin-
gled her out, condemning her
“gross” interference in Chinese
affairs and demanding that she
“think twice before speaking.”
Online, Chinese media called her
a “laughingstock” who has dam-
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aged the image of Canada.
Still, Ms. Freeland has also
courted criticism at home, where
she is sometimes accused of be-
ing too soft on China. Ottawa has
not responded in kind after Beij-
ing blocked imports of Canadian
canola and meat products. The
Trudeau government also picked
Dominic Barton as its new am-
bassador to China. A former con-
sultant who has publicly praised
Mr. Xi, his appointment has won
Canada flattery amid the contin-
uing frictions.
It was the smallest of her diplo-
matic battles – the tiff with Saudi
Arabia over a tweet – that ex-
posed how much Ms. Freeland’s
ambitions for Canada put the
country in the firing line of some
of today’s new authoritarians.
Previous Saudi rulers had tak-
en Western criticism over the
kingdom’s human-rights record,
and its repressive treatment of
women, as part of a grand pact
that saw the West buy Saudi oil,
while also defending the king-
dom from military threat. (The
Liberal government has contro-
versially continued to deliver on
an agreement to sell 742 light ar-
moured vehicles to Saudi Arabia,
some of which have since taken
part in the kingdom’s bloody mil-
itary intervention in neighbour-
ing Yemen. The $1-billion deal
has been under review since Ja-
nuary, though deliveries of the
vehicles have continued in the in-
terim.)
But the man who holds sway
in Riyadh today, Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman, had
clearly tired of Western lectures
and seemed to want to make an
example of Ms. Freeland and
Canada. A furious Saudi Arabia
recalled its ambassador to Otta-
wa, cancelled direct flights be-
tween Toronto and Riyadh and
put pressure on the thousands of
Saudi students paying university
tuition in Canada to find some-
where else to study.
Shuvaloy Majumdar, who ad-
vised three Conservative foreign
affairs ministers while Mr. Harper
was prime minister, said the epi-
sode encapsulated Ms. Freeland’s
fondness for bold gestures that
sometimes harm Canadian inter-
ests.
“It’s virtue-signalling, rather
than substantive contributions
or interventions,” said Mr. Ma-
jumdar, who is now a foreign-pol-
icy specialist at the Macdonald-
Laurier Institute, an Ottawa-
based think tank. “For all of the
human-rights advocacy done in
the kingdom of Saudi Arabia –
and I think advocacy is important
when done in the right way – in
which way has it had any impact
on the people she is advocating
for?”
The Saudi episode also re-
vealed how much the world was
shifting under the Liberals’ feet.
“The Twitter incident with the
Saudis was a wake-up call. None
of our allies spoke up in Canada’s
defence when Riyadh retaliated.
Not the U.S., not Britain, not even
Germany, which had been sub-
ject to similar treatment by the
Saudis. The lesson was that Cana-
da needs to be more deliberate
about calling out wrongdoing
and that it’s generally better to do
so as part of a group of countries
than alone,” said Prof. Paris, the
former adviser to Mr. Trudeau.
Prof. Paris said the Saudi epi-
sode seems to have influenced
Canada’s subsequent approach
on other sensitive files. Ottawa,
for instance, waited to speak in
concert with almost two dozen
other countries this summer –
rather than acting first and alone
– in criticizing China over its
mass detention of Muslims in the
Xinjiang region.
Ms. Freeland is now trying to
encourage like-minded countries
to join her in the battle to, as she
puts it, “fight for liberal democra-
cy.” Some 43 foreign ministers
met on the sidelines of the recent
UN General Assembly meeting in
New York last week to discuss
how they hold their ground
against the populist tide – and
start to push back.
“In a lot of countries right now,
I think we’re seeing the institu-
tions of liberal democracy sort of
standing up for liberal democra-
cy.
“And in authoritarian coun-
tries, we’re seeing a lot of brave
people fighting for their free-
dom,” Ms. Freeland said. Suggest-
ing that she’s learned lessons
from her early scraps, that quote
hints at, but doesn’t mention, the
impeachment proceedings
against Mr. Trump, as well as re-
cent pro-democracy protests in
Moscow and Hong Kong.
But if she has adapted her
style, she hasn’t altered her con-
viction. “I feel that we in Canada
are on the right side of history,”
she said.
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Which party
is best for
the oil patch?
O
ne of the biggest issues in the election campaign is
climate change. We looked at the relevant plat-
forms of the two parties most likely to form the
next government – the Liberals and the Conservatives – and
concluded the Liberals have the more credible plan.
But what about a related issue – the development of the
country’s massive oil and gas reserves? Which party will be
best for the industry?
It’s an issue that has to be addressed in the context of cli-
mate change. All the parties say, with varying degrees of en-
thusiasm, that they aim to meet or surpass Canada’s commit-
ment under the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions by 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.
That necessarily means imposing costs on the oil patch. In
2017, 27 per cent of Canada’s GHG emissions were produced
by the extraction and refining of fossil fuels. The combustion
of carbon for transport, in industry and for heating makes up
much of the rest of our emissions.
But the resource sector, of which energy is a main compo-
nent, is the third largest contributor to Canada’s gross do-
mestic product. It supports hundreds of thousands of direct
and indirect jobs, and is indispensable to the economies of
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Newfoundland and Labrador, Saskatchewan and Alberta.
JUDGING THE JUDGES in 1939 and place Japanese Cana- pudiation of his own two proro-
As well, oil and gas are Canada’s biggest exports, making dians in internment camps in gations of Canadian Parliament.
up 22 per cent of our global shipments. Canada sits on the Re A Look At The Supreme Court 1942. All these actions enjoyed But he also seems to believe that
Judge Canada Almost Got (Oct. widespread support. Canada and Britain should be
world’s third largest recoverable reserves of crude oil, and it
2): Professor Joel Bakan correctly If our leaders were racist, they run as executive democracies,
is unrealistic to believe that domestic or overseas demand for identifies the flaw in the original- were acting with the support of not parliamentary ones – a view
ist theory endorsed by Federal the vast majority of Canadians. that would be consistent with his
fossil fuels will suddenly disappear.
Court of Appeal Justice Marc Na- Condemn them if you choose, positive outlook on other pop-
The tension between fighting climate change and devel- don; the theory accepts that leg- but also condemn our citizen ulist movements in countries
oping one of Canada’s biggest industries can be seen in the islators make law, and judges forebears. such as the United States and
must apply the law mechanically. David Beattie Chelsea, Que. Hungary.
different parties’ platforms. But this is impossible, because As we head toward an election,
At one extreme, the Green Party would stop all pipeline choice is inevitable due to the in- The whole of Sir John A. Macdo- it would be useful to know how
herent ambiguity of language. nald’s vast legacy lately feels far much the present leaders of Can-
construction, including the Trans Mountain expansion, and In every case, a judge must too centred on one issue: Indige- ada’s political parties may agree
ban all new drilling for oil and gas, and all new mining of choose which of several compet- nous people. But that issue, ow- with Mr. Harper. Their answers
ing meanings to adopt. Put an- ing to long overdue oversight and would speak to a critical question
bitumen. Alberta’s oil sands would be phased out of produc- other way: In every case, a judge address, has now seemingly about the nature of Canadian
tion in as few as 11 years. The NDP, too, is calling for a quick has discretion to exercise which morphed into the sole raison government and their likely be-
will determine their final deci- d’être of his entire political life. haviour if they come to power.
transition to a “carbon-free economy.” sion. This becomes a problem The fact that residential Chris Levy Professor of law
At the other extreme, the Conservatives under Andrew only if judges base their choices schools were mismanaged, and (retired), University of Calgary
solely upon their own personal Indigenous children grievously
Scheer are overtly pro oil and gas. values instead of the values of the exploited by those given their
ACADEMIC HEALTH,
A Conservative government would aim to build an ambi- community. subsequent charge, care and
MENTAL HEALTH
Such arbitrary decision-mak- management, is not Macdonald’s
tious “energy corridor” to carry hydrocarbons across the fault, although it has become
ing is unacceptable but may be
country; it would end the federal carbon-pricing regime, avoided by requiring decision convenient to blame him. You Re University Of Toronto Installs
makers to expressly reveal the don’t blame the architect and Safety Barriers After Third Stu-
which is designed to curb demand for carbon products; and it
values relied upon in reaching a builder of a house for any abuse dent Suicide In 18 Months (Sept.
is against proposed fuel standards that would reduce emis- decision. Over time, the commu- that takes place by subsequent 30): Many students at the Univer-
nity itself can oversee and police tenants in that house. sity of Toronto were surprised on
sions but mean higher costs for producers and consumers.
whether a judge is principled and Macdonald seems to be an Monday when they learned that
Mr. Scheer has also vowed to scrap Bill C-69, the new envi- disciplined in applying funda- easy target because he’s standing a student had killed themselves
ronmental assessment law that the Conservatives contend is mental community values to ar- right there in bronze – as he on campus last Friday. Monday
rive at a just decision. should be. But he is not the right marked only the fifth week of
tilted against the oil sands, and to fast-track court cases The originalists, including Jus- target. Systemic racism and ex- classes for most programs. This
against pipelines through the judicial system. tice Nadon, would be more likely ploitation by the teachers, care- news immediately brought to
to escape restraint and present takers and administrators of resi- mind a series of faculty procla-
But speeding up the regulatory process is not entirely in the greatest risk of arbitrariness, dential schools over the years are mations during my graduate ori-
the hands of the government of the day. Its wish is not its because they deny having any the real culprits. entation last month, which set
choice of values to make. The real W.E. Hildreth Toronto my teeth on edge.
command – as Ottawa’s past two governments learned. basis of their decisions would Multiple faculty members
If the Trans Mountain expansion has shown us anything, therefore be concealed. Re PM Macdonald: Loving It? took turns explaining the chal-
Leo Barry Justice of the Court (Letters, Oct. 1): Many letter writ- lenges of graduate school: that
it’s that the courts will insist on extensive consultations with of Appeal of Newfoundland and ers believe that rethinking Sir this program was definitively
Indigenous peoples, and on detailed environmental assess- Labrador (retired), St. John’s John A. Macdonald’s legacy, far hard, that we could expect to
from being an effort to under- break down at least one time,
ments, before allowing projects to go forward. Those speed stand our roots as a country and that “if we think you’re doing
24-HOUR POLITICAL PEOPLE our relationship with Indigenous okay, we’ll push you even harder”
bumps exist regardless of who is in government. And in the
people, is actually a historically and “we know we’re asking too
case of Indigenous consultation, they are constitutionally
Re No Proof FBI, RCMP Ordered ignorant and revisionist act of much, but it’s because we want
entrenched. Border Guards’ Examination Of cultural imperialism, in part be- you to succeed.” The following
Meng, Crown Says (Oct. 3): One cause the actions of our forebears week during first classes, each
It means that while a Conservative government might try
solution for strained Canada-Chi- have no relationship to our cur- professor took the obligatory
to hurry through projects such as pipelines, there would be na relations would take all of 24 rent morality and thoughts. moment to point out the link in
limits on how much it could do. hours: Ease the security assigned And yet, today, I don’t exactly the syllabus that directs students
to Meng Wanzhou; remove her see settler Canada chafing under to mental-health services if they
Which brings us to the Trudeau Liberals. They have tried to GPS ankle bracelet; declare her a an Indigenous empire that has are in distress and to restate how
be both pro-oil and anti-carbon. They sketched out a grand non-risk to escape; return her tried to systematically eradicate important mental health is.
passport. their culture for centuries. The I wonder how faculty reconcil-
bargain under which carbon pricing would raise the political Within hours, I bet relations majority of Canadians are not es these two views. To advocate
capital needed to pave the way for growth in Canadian oil would be resolved. It seems, any- discriminated against like many for both concepts with equal con-
how, that the United States has Indigenous people still are today, viction seems both inappropriate
production, and the approval of new pipelines. changed political focus to its own in ways that seem eerily similar and disrespectful to students.
In our Jenga confederation, with provinces and voters lin- domestic quagmire. to some of the deprivations of Educators want to push their
Stanley Peltier Edmonton the past. charges to grow. But what if they
ing up both behind and against the oil industry, the Liberals As many Indigenous leaders push too far? What if they funda-
tried to say yes to both sides. It hasn’t been an easy balance to have said, what if we stopped ar- mentally exceed my cognitive,
SHOULD MACDONALD STAND? guing about symbols and defini- psychological and emotional lim-
strike. They bought the Trans Mountain pipeline, but in do- tions, instead putting more tangi- its – and I break?
ing so alienated many environmentalists and some Indige- Re Kingston’s History Lesson: ble effort toward fixing contin- In places of higher learning,
How To Handle Legacy Of Cana- uing inequalities? workload no longer seems to
nous leaders. At the same time, many in the oil and gas in- Conrad Sichler Hamilton function as faculty intends: as a
da’s First PM (Sept. 30): In Sir
dustry worry the Liberals’ new regulatory regime will never John A. Macdonald’s time, there mechanism to evaluate talent
was no outcry of racism against and skill. It’s clear to me that the
approve another pipeline. A QUESTION OF DEMOCRACY
his categorization of Indigenous lasting mental harm that can be
It’s hard to miss the difference between the Conservatives’ people as savages, nor his impo- caused by academic overwork
sition of a Chinese head tax. Dec- Re Johnson’s Brexit Approach Is should be a priority issue.
embrace of oil and gas and the Liberals’ more reticent rela-
ades went by, and there was still ‘Absolutely Correct,’ Harper Tells Pavlina Faltynek Toronto
tionship. However, it’s worth remembering that both parties no outcry of racism against Sir U.K. Tories (Oct. 2): Stephen Har-
tried to get projects approved while in government, and both Robert Borden’s decision to re- per has savaged the decision of Letters to the Editor should be
fuse entry to a shipload of immi- the Supreme Court of the United exclusive to The Globe and Mail.
were bogged down in judicial quicksand. That’s why it’s un- grants from Punjab, India, in Kingdom that Boris Johnson’s at- Include name, address and daytime
clear to what extent the Conservatives’ pro-oil rhetoric can 1914, nor Mackenzie King’s deci- tempt to prorogue British Parlia- phone number. Keep letters under
sion to forbid all Chinese immi- ment is illegal. That Mr. Harper 150 words. Letters may be edited for
actually deliver more returns to the industry. gration in 1923, refuse admission would do this is not surprising, length and clarity. E-mail:
to a shipload of Jewish refugees since the decision is in effect a re- letters@globeandmail.com

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OPINION
A reborn Bloc shakes up the battle for Quebec
The party looked to
be on its deathbed, but
Yves-François Blanchet
has made it a player
again in federal politics
KONRAD
YAKABUSKI
OPINION
T
he Bloc Québécois is back.
Perhaps not in the way
that it dominated federal
politics in Quebec for nearly two
decades between 1993 and 2011.
But the sovereigntist party that
not long ago seemed headed for
the dust heap seems to have re-
gained enough strength to play
the spoiler in the Oct. 21 election.
In a province known for
switching sides on a dime, the
Bloc’s comeback was evident
both during and after Wednes-
day’s French-language debate on
Quebec’s TVA network. Leader
Yves-François Blanchet, who had
been systematically ignored by
his rivals since he took the reins
of the nearly lifeless Bloc in Janu-
ary, was forced onto the defen-
Jagmeet Singh and the costs of being Canadian
DENISE
BALKISSOON
OPINION
J
agmeet Singh deserves a Luth-
er. A fictional character played
by the American comedian
Keegan-Michael Key, Luther
was Barack Obama’s “anger
translator,” an alter-ego that
reacted to racism in a way the first
black president of the United
States could not. In the real world,
Mr. Obama endured years of
provocation and lies about his
personal life with his trademark
calm. On the sketch show Key &
Peele, Luther yelled “I am not a
Muslim!” through a bullhorn, be-
fore staring wild-eyed into the
camera, ready for a fight.
The NDP Leader needed a
Luther most recently this week, at
Montreal’s Atwater Market.
There, as seen in a video released
by CBC, he was approached by an
older white man, who shook his
hand and leaned in, as if to tell
him a secret.
“You should cut your turban
off,” he said. “You’ll look like a
Canadian.” His soft voice belied
the violence of the words he was
aiming directly at an intimate
vulnerability: Mr. Singh’s faith,
the core beliefs that guide him as
he makes his way through the
world.
The federal election campaign
of 2019 should be remembered as
the one in which Canadian preju-
dice stepped into the spotlight –
going well beyond bozo erup-
tions and defaced signs to offer
up multiple images of Justin Tru-
deau in brown- and blackface and
a 2005 clip of Andrew Scheer
comparing same-sex marriage to
a dog’s tail.
This year’s election campaign
should also be remembered as
the one in which Mr. Singh was
Canada lags on climate action. But we’re in good (bad) company
GARY
MASON
OPINION
I
n the fight against climate
change, Europe is often held up
as a beacon of enlightenment.
German leader Angela Merkel
was nicknamed Climate Chancel-
lor early on in her tenure. France
was the driver behind the 2016 Pa-
ris agreement to slay global
warming. And Britain is often cit-
ed as a world leader in policy de-
signed to mitigate the forward
march of rising emissions.
Canada, on the other hand, is
regularly viewed as a climate lag-
gard. The Liberal government of
Justin Trudeau has received criti-
cism for not producing a plan that
will allow this country to meet its
obligations under the Paris ac-
cord.
But as it turns out, we may not
be any more a climate straggler
than those governments regard-
ed as being more serious and re-
sive for the first time during this
campaign – although he general-
ly gave better than he got.
That could be a problem for
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau
and Conservative Leader Andrew
Scheer. They are fighting for the
same swing voters as the Bloc in
dozens of Quebec’s 78 ridings. A
Bloc resurgence could deprive ei-
ther of its main rivals of the seats
needed to form a majority gov-
ernment. And it could wipe the
New Democratic Party, which
held 14 Quebec seats when Par-
liament was dissolved, off the
electoral map in the province.
Mr. Blanchet is asking for a
mandate from Quebeckers to
hold whichever of the two main
parties wins the most seats on
Oct. 21 to a minority govern-
ment. Just like in the good old
days, when the Bloc leveraged its
heft in Parliament to extract con-
cessions from former prime min-
ister Stephen Harper, who led
minority governments between
2006 and 2011.
That was when Mr. Harper’s
Tories adopted a House of Com-
mons resolution recognizing
that the “Québécois form a na-
tion within a united Canada.” Mr.
Harper also moved to settle what
was dubbed the “fiscal imbal-
In the sketch comedy
show Key & Peele,
Jordan Peele played
a calm Barack Obama,
while Keegan-Michael
Key was his ‘anger
translator,’ Luther.
CHARLES SYKES/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
formist on this front.
Last week, Germany unveiled a
new climate plan that is a mix of
subsidies and regulations and,
most notably, included a carbon
tax. Reaction to the blueprint has
been scornful. The price on car-
bon has been mocked for being
far too low to do any good, start-
ing at €10 a tonne in 2021, rising to
€35 by 2025. The government
failed to withdraw massive subsi-
dies to fossil fuel industries.
“The whole package is just a big
failure,” said Lisa Badum of the
rising Greens, the German envi-
ronmentally minded party. Ex-
cept for Ms. Merkel and members
of her coalition government, few
believe the country will meet its
goal of carbon neutrality by 2050.
It will miss its 2020 targets by a
wide margin, and most likely the
2030 marks also.
Meantime, over in France a
newly appointed independent
climate advisory council recently
issued its first report. The verdict?
France is falling way short of
meeting its climate targets as
ance” that had left Ottawa swim-
ming in budget surpluses while
Quebec struggled to balance the
books. Mr. Harper rejigged the
equalization formula in 2007, re-
sulting in hundreds of millions
more in annual federal cash
transfers to Quebec.
It’s a matter of some debate
whether Mr. Harper’s moves
were the result of pressure from
the Bloc, or simply part of his
own bid to court Quebec voters
and lend a hand to then-premier
Jean Charest, whose Liberals
faced a stiff re-election battle in
2007.
But Mr. Blanchet makes a
credible case that the Bloc’s pres-
ence in Ottawa helped to con-
centrate Mr. Harper’s mind.
The 54-year-old Mr. Blanchet,
a former music-industry agent, is
attempting to hitch his sover-
eigntist party’s wagon to that of
Premier François Legault’s Coali-
tion Avenir Québec, which is rid-
ing higher than ever in the polls
a year into its mandate. His full-
throated defence of Bill 21, the
Legault government’s secularism
law, distinguishes him from the
other federal leaders, who all op-
pose the legislation to varying
degrees. And Mr. Blanchet never
misses a chance to point out that
made to keep demonstrating the
way marginalized people in this
country are told to act in the face
of that prejudice. That is, to be
endlessly kind and forgiving, to
consider constant, casual denials
of our humanity as the price of
being, as the man said to Mr.
Singh, “Canadian.”
Mr. Singh’s grace in the face of
ugliness has been noted ever
since he entered the public eye –
during the 2017 NDP leadership
race, he shut down an Islamo-
phobic heckler by leading a chant
of “love and courage.” It’s a pur-
poseful approach. In September,
after Mr. Trudeau’s embarrass-
ment forced Mr. Singh to once
again discuss his ethnicity in-
stead of his policies, he remarked
emissions from transportation
and buildings have not dropped
nearly as much as planned. The
country would have to triple its ef-
forts to get back on track.
This will prove more difficult
than imagined. Efforts to reduce
emissions in the transportation
sector through taxation spawned
countrywide protests and the rise
of Le mouvement des gilets jaunes –
the yellow vests. Any attempt to
raise the price on gasoline to curb
driving habits would likely lead to
further protests.
French President Emmanuel
Macron is encountering a prob-
lem faced by his counterparts
around the world: While people
say they want their government
to do something about the cli-
mate emergency we face, they
don’t want to be the ones affected
economically by any of the mea-
sures taken to combat the prob-
lem.
Things aren’t much better in
Britain. Its own Committee on Cli-
mate Change issued an update re-
port this summer. Much like the
the Bloc is the only federal party
that endorses each of Mr. Le-
gault’s four main demands in
this federal election. A bigger
Bloc caucus in Ottawa would, in
Mr. Blanchet’s telling, help hold
the next federal government’s
feet to the fire.
Whether Quebeckers buy that
message in large enough num-
bers remains to be seen. Judging
by their postdebate attacks on
Mr. Blanchet, the other leaders
are worried enough about that
possibility to turn their fire on a
rival they had ignored until now.
On Thursday morning, Mr.
Trudeau reprised an attack line
from the debate with a tweet re-
minding voters that Mr. Blanchet
served as environment minister
in a short-lived Parti Québécois
government that approved oil
exploration on pristine Anticosti
Island and the construction of a
giant cement plant on the Gaspé
peninsula that is Quebec’s large-
st industrial emitter of green-
house gases.
Those decisions could haunt
Mr. Blanchet during the rest of
the campaign, undermining his
attempts to paint Mr. Trudeau as
an environmental hypocrite for
overseeing the purchase of the
Trans Mountain pipeline.
that he used to react violently
(like Luther), by confronting rac-
ism “with my fists.”
He has credited his Sikhism for
helping him develop a different
reaction. His turban symbolizes
just where he finds the generosity
that allowed him to refer to the
ever-so-gentle attacker in the
CBC video as “sir.”
“I think Canadians look like all
sorts of people,” he said, walking
away. “That’s the beauty of Cana-
da.”
His reaction was right for him,
since dismantling prejudice isn’t
the job of those who experience
it. My own inner Luther, though,
immediately clenched her teeth.
“Who do you think you’re fool-
ing? Because it’s not me,” would
report card Mr. Macron received,
the British government’s was
poor. The committee found that
just one of the 25 emissions-cut-
ting measures it insisted were
necessary in 2018 had been deliv-
ered on 100 per cent.
It found that the emissions tar-
gets the government had set for
2020 and 2030 were going to be
missed by even bigger margins
than was calculated just a year
earlier.
Britain has done many good
things. For instance, it now goes
several days at a time without
generating any electricity from
coal. This generates much back-
patting among politicians. How-
ever, the truth is the country is
still heavily reliant on fossil fuels.
Similar to many jurisdictions
around the world, not enough is
being done there to hit targets
considered essential if we, collec-
tively, are going to halt the warm-
ing of the planet.
All this is to say that Canada is
not the only major world econo-
my struggling with this issue. En-
NEWS | A13
Fluent in French, Mr. Trudeau
and Mr. Blanchet had the field
mostly to themselves on
Wednesday night, leaving Mr.
Scheer at a clear disadvantage.
The Conservative Leader often
fails to enunciate his words in
English; he outright swallows his
speech in French. His sentences
were often indecipherable dur-
ing the TVA debate.
That, however, may not be Mr.
Scheer’s biggest problem in Que-
bec. He made a potentially fatal
mistake during the debate by
failing to reassure Quebeckers
that he will not let his personal
views on abortion influence how
he governs.
Instead, he refused even to ac-
knowledge his personal opposi-
tion to abortion, allowing Mr.
Blanchet and Mr. Trudeau to
make it an issue. He tried to
course-correct on Thursday, but
the damage may have been
done.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh
was the most likeable and good-
humoured of the debaters. But
he’s not really even in this race
in Quebec. The province that
made the NDP Canada’s official
opposition in 2011 has changed
its mind again. It’s just not sure
how, yet.
have been her response, as her
eyes narrowed to slits. “Even
without a turban, or a hijab, or
dreadlocks, you wouldn’t see me
as Canadian.”
Consider that Mr. Singh’s hair
underneath his turban is very
long, as seen in a video he made
weeks ago, for all the good that it
did. And remember that cutting
off long hair, especially on boys, is
one of the oldest attempts to
make people “Canadian,” an act
of forced assimilation imposed
on thousands of Indigenous chil-
dren in residential schools.
This week, the National Centre
for Truth and Reconciliation un-
furled a banner with the names of
2,800 Indigenous little ones who
died at those schools after being
taken from their families. I don’t
doubt that many of them had
their hair cut off. And I don’t be-
lieve that if Mr. Singh did remove
his turban, his historic campaign
for Canada’s highest political of-
fice would be unencumbered by
prejudice.
Mere hours after the Atwater
incident, Bloc Québécois Leader
Yves-François Blanchet faced Mr.
Singh in a debate, and saw fit to
repeatedly mention that the
province’s voters need a leader
who “resemble[s] you.” Interpret
that how you will, keeping in
mind that Quebec’s Bill 21 prohib-
its some of those in government
jobs from wearing religious sym-
bols.
Mr. Singh has repeatedly said
that while Bill 21 – which is being
challenged in court by three
teachers – makes him “sad,” he
wouldn’t try to dismantle it as
prime minister.
I think Luther would have a
different answer. In the end,
though, both anger and decency
in the face of prejudice come at
an emotional cost, the annual,
weekly, daily price of being
Canadian.
vironmentalists can make it
sound like it’s really not that com-
plicated – all it takes to beat back
climate change is politicians with
courage. If it were only that sim-
ple.
The fact is, these politicians
have tens of millions of people to
worry about in the here and now.
The Canadian government could
take radical steps to meet its com-
mitments under the Paris agree-
ment and there would very likely
be a revolt in the streets because
of the hardship and dislocation it
could well cause.
Angela Merkel is a scientist and
a former environment minister.
She understands better than
most what is happening to our
planet and, yet, after presenting
her government’s latest climate
plan, she said this: “Politics is
what is possible.”
She knew it was not going to
make environmentalists happy.
But she also knew it was likely the
best she could do in a complex
world with many interests to
serve.
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FILM FRIDAY
BARRY
HERTZ
REVIEW
Joker
C L AS S IFICAT IO N : R; 121 M IN U T ES
Directed by Todd Phillips
Written by Todd Phillips
and Scott Silver
Starring Joaquin Phoenix,
Robert De Niro and Zazie Beetz
★★½
I
f you only know Todd Phil-
lips’s Joker from the sound and
fury of its prerelease – from its
triumph at the Venice Film Fes-
tival, where it won the Golden Li-
on award for best film, to studio
Warner Bros.’ many curious pro-
motional decisions, including
banning journalists from the
film’s red-carpet Hollywood pre-
miere this past weekend – then
you might think that the film is
an unholy world-burner, toxic
and infuriating. The movie will
spark mass violence courtesy of
societal rejects who identify with
its loner anti-hero. Wait, no: The
movie is an overdue call to arms
against an elite ruling class. Joker
is masterful, it is incendiary, it is
essential, it is dangerous. It is a
piece of cinema so outrageous
that the medium itself must be
redefined going forward. There
was the time before Joker, and the
time after.
I hate to deflate a good gag,
but: no. No to all the frantic dis-
course. No to the film being put
atop a pedestal of any sort. No to
the energy we’re collectively
wasting on it. No to an okay-but-
not-especially-good-and-ulti-
mately-nothing of a movie. No,
then, to Joker.
It gives me little pleasure to
play this card. I’m now watching
my inbox, admiring its pristine
state before it will be turned into
a raging dumpster fire of death
threats from DC Comics acolytes
and those emotionally unsuited
to encountering differing opin-
ions – a Flamin’ Hot Cheetos-
dusted middle finger from fan-
boys who have already offered a
small piece of their minds after
my short review of Phillips’s film
was published during last
month’s Toronto International
Film Festival.
Okay, here’s an admission:
Maybe I do get a little pleasure
from this. I wouldn’t exactly en-
dorse readers calling me a waste
of flesh because I didn’t like a
movie about a comic-book bad
guy, but it is also very funny that
people – many of whom have yet
to watch any Joker footage out-
side of promotional clips – will
take the time out of their day to
tell me that the world would be a
better place once a movie critic is
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Why so serious, everybody?
Arthur’s under-the-skin unease is felt in Joaquin Phoenix’s every onscreen
breath and twitch in Todd Phillips’s Joker, but the film isn’t here
for much more than to cause manufactured uproar
Joaquin Phoenix is riveting as the titular character of the Joker in Todd Phillips’s latest film,
and the actor is easily the best reason to take yet another trip into Gotham City.
dead. That’s a sicker joke than
even the Clown Prince of Crime
could come up with.
Certainly it’s a more calculated
laugh than anything offered up in
Phillips’s film, which is a fine-
enough tweak of the comic-book
movie that still struggles mightily
to locate the energy necessary to
justify its existence. If you ever
wanted to know about the ori-
gins of Batman’s most iconic
nemesis, and were not previously
satisfied by the material provided
in comics, on television, in car-
toons and in three separate fea-
ture-film franchises, then Joker is
here to … well, not quite to satis-
fy you. Honestly, I’m not sure
what Joker is here for, other than
to cause a clumsily manufactured
uproar.
Phillips’s Joker takes the form
of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoe-
nix), a stick-thin sack of sad who
stumbles through a rotting Goth-
am City, circa 1981 (no exact date
is ever given, but the presence of
Brian De Palma’s Blow Out on a
downtown marquee fits the era-
appropriate set-dressing). Arthur
lives with his ailing and dom-
ineering mother (Frances Con-
roy), works as a clown-for-hire
and suffers from a vague health
condition that causes him to
burst into fits of laughter at inap-
propriate times. He also fancies
himself a stand-up comedian,
and spends a good deal of his
days fantasizing about appearing
on a late-night talk show hosted
by Murray Franklin (Robert De
Niro). A large portion of the film
dozily follows Arthur falling
deeper into psychosis, until Phil-
lips and his co-writer Scott Silver
realize they should insert some
sort of action, at which point the
movie turns into a briefly excit-
ing, but mostly sloppy, #Occupy-
Gotham polemic.
From its set design to its
casting decisions to its
hmm-could’ve-worked
soundtrack choices,
Joker is [Todd] Phillips’s
shiny-grimy bid to prove
that he’s more a student
of capital-A Auteur
cinema than a tittering
peddler of horny
lowbrow comedies.
The filmmakers have the base
ingredients for an intriguing,
challenging character study that
just happens to be nestled inside
the DC Comics canon. But Phil-
O THE G LO B E AND M AIL
R EVIEWS
lips appears to be more interest-
ed in making a very costly Martin
Scorsese fan-film (with Scorses-
e’s implied approval, given that
he briefly flirted with producing
the project). From its set design
to its casting decisions to its
hmm-could’ve-worked sound-
track choices, Joker is Phillips’s
shiny-grimy bid to prove that he’s
more a student of capital-A Au-
teur cinema than a tittering ped-
dler of horny lowbrow comedies
(Old School, War Dogs, the Han-
gover trilogy). Occasionally, Joker
even spits up evidence to support
this argument.
Phillips’s down-and-out Goth-
am is captured with a slickly,
greasy sheen that delivers wel-
come echoes of Taxi Driver’s 42nd
Street filth. The film’s relatively
few flashes of violence are also
startling. And while the director’s
casting coup of De Niro doesn’t
work in the slightest – the actor is
on-hand to remind audiences of
both Travis Bickle and The King of
Comedy’s Rupert Pupkin, but
seems invested only in when ex-
actly his cheque will clear – Phil-
lips otherwise pits Phoenix
against worthy dramatic adver-
saries, including Zazie Beetz as
Arthur’s rightfully leery neigh-
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clerk, and character-actor super-
stars Bill Camp and Shea
Whigham as a pair of weary de-
tectives.
Phoenix himself is, not sur-
prisingly, riveting. Emaciated and
exhausted, today’s greatest work-
ing actor is easily the best reason
to take yet another trip into Goth-
am City. He doesn’t wash away
memories of Heath Ledger’s
more slippery agent of chaos, but
he does leave his own indelible
bruise. Arthur’s perpetual agita-
tion, his under-the-skin unease,
is felt in Phoenix’s every on-
screen breath and twitch.
Yet, for all of the actor’s com-
mitment and Phillips’s stylistic
aspirations, the turbulence that
the pair offer isn’t exactly fresh.
Arthur is an assemblage of five
decades’ worth of trickier charac-
ters, all more inventively and
provocatively explored before:
Bickle and Pupkin and Ledger’s
Joker, sure, but also two of Phoe-
nix’s own greatest roles, The Mas-
ter’s disaffected sailor Freddie
Quell and You Were Never Really
Here’s burly vigilante Joe. In those
latter two films, though, Phoenix
had the respective guiding artis-
tic forces of Paul Thomas Ander-
son and Lynne Ramsay, filmmak-
ers who operate on a more raw
and sincere level than Phillips.
In Joker, the Road Trip director
is appropriating the visions of his
cinematic idols to repudiate his
own filmography – “Road Trip di-
rector” would be the first sen-
tence that Phillips would hope to
scrub from his IMDb profile – but
in the filmmaker’s quest to be-
come someone new, he has made
something so very old, and famil-
iar. (I have wonderful news,
though, for whoever is itching to
see Thomas and Martha Wayne
once again get shot to death in an
alleyway.)
As for politics, Joker has none –
and I don’t mean that in some
kind of meta-contextual way. Ni-
hilism would be something. Joker
has nothing – its only philosophy
being a firm belief in the value of
shock. And weak shock at that.
By the point Arthur finally trans-
forms into the title character – a
moment set to Gary Glitter’s Rock
and Roll Part 2, a supremely weird
choice that unintentionally un-
derlines the film’s goofiness – Jok-
er reveals itself as very expensive
cosplay: effective at first glance,
but at its seams superficial, dis-
posable and dishonest.
For all the inevitable debate
that Joker will spark, I can’t help
but wonder what the fuss is all
about. Already, this film review is
nearly over, and I’m giddy at the
prospect of never thinking about
this movie again. All those out
there who are midway through
composing death-threat e-mails
would be wise to do the same.
Joker opens Oct. 4
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FIRST PERSON
Soderbergh comedy
underlines humanity’s
subservience to greed UNEASY RIDER
BARRY HERTZ

REVIEW

The Laundromat
C L AS S IFICAT IO N : R; 96 M IN U T ES

Directed by Steven Soderbergh

Written by Scott Z. Burns
Starring Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas
and Meryl Streep
★★½

G
od bless Steven Soderbergh, patron saint of
upended expectations. When word came
last year that the prolific director was mak-
ing a movie focusing on the Panama Papers
financial scandal, it seemed like Soderbergh was re-
turning to the territory of Traffic or Contagion – globe-
spanning thrillers that distill huge events into in-
tense, granular dramas. Instead, The Laundromat is
more like the raised-eyebrow comedy of The Inform-
ant!, but with Meryl Streep subbed in for Matt Da-
mon.
In 96 zippy minutes, Soderbergh presents a series
of five vignettes underlining humanity’s subser-
vience to greed, each segment introduced by the two
lawyers at the top of the scheme (played with unctu-
ous glee by Antonio Banderas and Gary Oldman, the
latter equipped with a Hogan’s Heroes-y German ac-
cent). Some of the segments work – especially one
involving an African business titan (Nonso Anozie)
who decides to teach his daughter an expensive fam-
ily lesson – and some are too thin, notably the one ILLUSTRATION BY CHELSEA O'BYRNE
focusing on Streep’s character, a strong-willed widow
who becomes an amateur sleuth after becoming the
victim of insurance fraud. (Maybe there is a downside Getting my motorcycle licence was a lot harder than I expected, especially
to that brisk 96-minute run-time after all.)
Most egregiously, there is one troubling bit toward when you end up in a class of sexist, macho dudes, Julie Crawford writes
the end where, I think, Soderbergh and screenwriter
Scott Z. Burns attempt to dissect the notion of artifice

T
– be it financial or narrative – but comes off as hokey he air was rich with exhaust fumes and Vespa, anyway? Why did Vespas need a motorcycle
at best, culturally tone-deaf at worst. If money makes sweat. I was sitting on a motorbike, the en- licence?
the world go ’round, as Oldman and Banderas’s char- gine idling, trying to ignore the persistent When I got home, my six-year-old daughter asked
acters emphasize over and over again, then The Laun- ache in my arms and legs from yesterday’s me how it went, pirouetting into my arms before I
dromat deserves at least some of your hard-laundered training. I had dropped my bike three times, twice even put my helmet down.
dollars. Just keep some bearer bonds stashed away while I was still on it. But the absurdity of losing con- “Well sweetie, it was really challenging and I need
for Soderbergh’s next experiment. trol of a 350-pound motorcycle had me so stunned I a lot more practice,” I said, trying to stay positive.
hesitated getting back on, not entirely convinced I She nodded and said, “You can do hard things,
The Laundromat opens Oct. 4 at the TIFF Lightbox in wanted to give it another go. The rest of the class was Mommy.”
Toronto, Oct. 11 in Edmonton and Vancouver and Oct. easily riding figure eights around pylons. “You can do hard things” has always been my par-
18 on Netflix. A couple of months earlier, I was driving to Costco enting mantra. Whenever the kids get frustrated
with my husband and two kids and saw a woman with learning something new, I try to encourage
with red hair riding a Vespa. She was wearing bright them with what I hope are the magic words that will
lipstick, block heels and a dress that fluttered give them the strength to persevere when life gets
around her calves. She was magnificent. She seemed tough: You can do hard things. But now that I was on
Roy Cohn documentary like a ghost from back when I was 20 and in Paris, at a the receiving end, the phrase felt less like a mantra
bistro drinking café au lait, when I looked up and saw and more like a flimsy rope bridge over a gaping
is as brash and relentless a woman removing her motorcycle helmet and chasm, strung between fantasy and reality.
shaking out a bouquet of long red hair in what felt On the second day, as I walked back onto the
as the late power broker like slow motion. She walked away with her helmet training ground, one of the younger men in the
under her arm and her hair shining in the late after- group called out to me, grinning and incredulous:
noon sun. She was the epitome of French cool – radi- “Didn’t think you’d make it back for another
BRAD WHEELER ant, decisive, unapologetic. In that in- round!”
stant, I wanted to be just like her. One of the instructors came over
I returned to Toronto, worked, trav- and asked if everything was okay. I
REVIEW elled some more, thought about get- shrugged. I had slept badly; my two-
I was driving to
ting a Vespa but never did. Years went year-old had woken in the night, and I
Where’s My Roy Cohn? by and I found myself settled with a Costco with my had a nightmare that I was in a motor-
C L AS S IFICAT IO N : P G ; 98 M IN U TES husband, a couple of kids, a mortgage husband and two cycle accident and had my leg ripped
and a membership to Costco. That kids and saw a off. But I didn’t mention the last part.
Directed by Matt Tyrnauer sighting of a red-haired woman on a woman with red hair “You have kids?” He looked star-
★★★½ motorcycle made me pine for some tled, then started to rub the back of his
unfulfilled fantasy. riding a Vespa. She neck with his hand. “Yeah, a lot of kids
was wearing bright hear about motorcycle crashes and

H
e didn’t play by the rules. He was a self-loath-
ing bully with a personality in disarray. He
had contempt for people and the law. He was
a “Teflon fraud” who understood the political
value of wrapping himself in the flag. He was a tactless,
vain, fame-chasing New Yorker with an out-of-season
tan. He never apologized, never compromised and cre-
ated phony issues to change the terms of the debate. He
viewed life and relationships purely in transactional
terms. Dude was evil, and subjected everybody around
him to potential criminal liability.
Remind you of anyone?
The above are descriptions of the bulldog lawyer and
controversial power broker Roy Cohn, the deceased
subject of Matt Tyrnauer’s jarringly topical documen-
tary Where’s My Roy Cohn? Those not of the Spy maga-
zine set or anyone out of the loop when it comes to New
York high-life lore might be asking “Who is Roy Cohn
and why does the long-dead lawyer matter now?” The
answer lies in the question posed by the film’s title.
It was Donald Trump, as President of the United
States, who asked, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?” According
to The New York Times, in a moment of West Wing ca-
lamity the President demanded someone such as
Cohn, a man from his prepolitical past who had once
served as his ruthless personal lawyer. In that sense,
“Where’s my Roy Cohn?” wasn’t so much a question as
it was a complaint.
Tyrnauer, a Vanity Fair writer and the director of the
excellent New York docs Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
(2016) and last year’s Studio 54, doesn’t hammer the
Cohn-Trump parallels. But although the Trump part of
the film takes up only 10 minutes or so, it’s clear Where’s
My Roy Cohn? is Trump’s origin story. History doesn’t re-
peat itself, but it does rhyme.
Trump declined to be interviewed for the film, but
others seem more than happy to dish on the reptilian
villain Cohn. Even the film’s surprisingly self-aware
subject, in a recording made by The New Yorker maga-
zine’s Ken Auletta, admits to being “completely tact-
less,” with a “total failure to sympathize with the emo-
tional element in life.”
Cohn’s lack of empathy, the film supposes, came
from his mother. A story about an inconveniently dead
servant is just bonkers.
A gay man who never acknowledged such, Cohn
(with the scaremongering senator Joseph McCarthy)
went after government officials and others not only for
possible Communist sympathies, but also for alleged
homosexuality – the so-called “lavender scare” of the
mid-1950s. Cohen never publicly disclosed his 1984
AIDS diagnosis, but that didn’t stop him from calling in
a favour to receive experimental clinical treatment. He
died, disbarred and apparently broke, in 1986.
Where’s My Roy Cohn? is brash and relentless, much
like the man himself. We won’t need to wait for a se-
quel. Because of the ascension of Cohn’s most eagerly
unscrupulous student, we’re watching Part II unfold as
we speak.
“You’re turning 40, a Vespa a would
be a great milestone gift,” my husband lipstick, block heels don’t want their parents riding, I total-
said. ly understand.”
and a dress that
“But I’d have to get a motorcycle li- I want to say that his patronizing,
cence, and insurance,” I countered, as fluttered around her moms-shouldn’t-ride platitudes in-
if they were impossible things. He calves. She was fused me with the righteous anger of
shrugged, but his comment sparked magnificent. proving a sexist man wrong. I want to
something in me. Why not now? say that I gunned the engine and
I was the only woman in the class. It was held in a revved off to motorcycling victory.
classroom for the first half and out in the parking lot But I didn’t. I turned off the bike, put it safely into
for the second. The instructors were all men in work the parking stance that I learned only the day before,
boots. “So when you have someone easy-on-the- and walked off the training ground. I drove home
eyes on the back of your bike …” one instructor and cried big, shoulder-shaking sobs, knowing I just
pointedly looked at me, then back at the white- proved all those sexist idiots right.
board, “you have to remember how the weight af- When I told a colleague what had happened, she
fects the balance and the turns,” he continued. insisted that I needed a different motorcycle school
After the in-class work, we were divided into – the one she went to, which was more female-
groups for on-bike training, which would take two friendly. I gave myself a week to nurse my bruises,
full days. They only had two types of bikes – a 450- both visible and ego-related, and signed up.
pound Harley Davidson Roadster and a top-heavy, She was right – it was completely different. The
350-pound Honda CBR. When I asked the instructor teachers were more safety focused and beginner
which bike he would recommend for me, given my friendly, there were more types of bikes and I could
Vespa goals, he sighed and said I should go with the find one like my longed-for Vespa. There were even
Honda. other women in the class. I had already had some
Of course, when the Honda tipped too far on ei- knowledge from the previous course and I passed
ther side, I wasn’t strong enough to stop it and would my certification on the first try, and didn’t drop the
scramble off as quickly as possible, both the bike and bike once.
me getting banged up in the process. At the end of I bought a red, second-hand Vespa about a month
the first day, I was covered in bruises, even with all after my 40th birthday. Every time I look at it, it gives
my safety gear. It was hard not to notice some of the me a quiet thrill. And when I take off my helmet and
men in the group snickering to themselves when an- shake out my hair, I don’t feel like that girl in Paris, 20
other instructor came over to try to give me more ad- years ago. I feel like myself – gorgeous, alive, confi-
vice, again and again. No one else seemed to need dent. Like I can do hard things.
the extra help like I did.
I cried on the drive home. Why did I even want a Julie Crawford lives in Toronto.
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BRIDGE 1. Three notrump. This
BY STEVE BECKER indicates a balanced hand
FRIDAY, OCT. 4, 2019 that was too good to open one
notrump with initially – about
18 or 19 points. A rebid of two
You are the dealer and open notrump would show far fewer
One Spade. Partner responds points and would therefore
Two Clubs. What would you bid grossly misrepresent your actual
now with each of the following values. There is a good chance for
five hands? slam if partner has significantly
better than a minimum two-
club response, and the most
appropriate and descriptive way
to arouse his interest in a slam is
by jumping to three notrump.
2. Four clubs. In view of your
excellent club support and
values well above a minimum
opening bid, there is a chance for
slam here also. Change the ace
of hearts to the deuce, and you’d
raise two clubs to only three.
3. Three clubs. It is more
important to show your club
support at once than to rebid
your flimsy spade suit. Further
action by partner is very likely,
in which case you plan to repeat
your spades. You lack the high-
card values for an immediate
jump-rebid in either suit.
4. Two hearts. There is a good
chance that the final contract will
be in clubs, possibly at the six-
level, but you should bid hearts
before raising clubs strongly in
order to portray the three-suited
nature of your hand. Partner
will thus be apprised of your
singleton diamond. Two hearts
is forcing because it is a new
suit named after a constructive
response on the two-level.
5. Four notrump. This is clearly
Blackwood and asks partner
how many aces he has. After he
replies, you will know exactly
how high to go.
Thus, if partner’s response to
four notrump is five clubs (no
aces), you will pass; if he bids
five diamonds (one ace), you
will carry on to six clubs; and,
if he happens to bid five hearts
(two aces), you should have no
compunctions about jumping to
seven clubs.
After partner responds
two clubs, you should not be
interested in any factor other
than the number of aces he
has. Whatever he replies will
leave you in an ideal position to
determine whether to contract
for 11, 12 or 13 tricks.

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Trump: Pence defends President’s request for Zelensky to investigate Biden

FROM A1
In 2013, Hunter Biden accompa-
nied his father on an official trip to
Beijing, during which the younger
Mr. Biden met with a business as-
sociate. Mr. Trump has presented
no basis for his assertions that the
elder Mr. Biden intervened to help
his son’s work in China.
Asked whether he has made a
request directly to Mr. Xi, Mr.
Trump said: “I haven’t, but it’s
certainly something we can start
thinking about. Because I’m sure
that President Xi does not like be-
ing under that kind of scrutiny.”
He did not explain what he
meant by “scrutiny.”
CNN reported that Mr. Trump
had in fact discussed both Mr. Bi-
den and Elizabeth Warren, anoth-
er top Democratic contender,
with Mr. Xi in a June 18 telephone
call. The network, which attribut-
ed the information to two anony-
mous sources, said records of that
conversation were hidden in the
same secure vault as the tran-
script of Mr. Trump’s call with Mr.
Zelensky.
Mr. Trump is locked in a trade
war with China after putting tar-
iffs on US$375-billion worth of
that country’s goods. And he re-
minded reporters on Thursday
that a Chinese delegation is com-
ing to Washington next week in a
bid to make a deal to end the dis-
pute. The President has previous-
ly suggested he might put non-
trade-related matters, such as the
U.S. prosecution of Huawei exec-
utive Meng Wanzhou, on the bar-
gaining table to help reach an
agreement.
Legislative committees in the
Democratic-controlled House of
Representatives launched an im-
peachment inquiry last week af-
Donald Trump arrives at an airport in Ocala, Fla., Thursday. Republican lawmakers have not broken ranks with
the U.S. President despite his appeals to foreign countries to investigate Joe Biden. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS
ter a whistle-blower revealed Mr.
Trump’s July 25 request to Mr. Ze-
lensky. The President asked Kiev
for the investigation shortly after
freezing nearly US$400-million in
military aid to the country, which
is battling a Russian-backed in-
surgency.
Mr. Trump has claimed with no
evidence that Mr. Biden’s efforts
in 2016 to have Ukrainian prose-
cutor Viktor Shokin fired were
motivated by Mr. Shokin’s at-
tempt to investigate gas company
Burisma, which employed Hunter
Biden. In fact, Mr. Shokin was re-
garded by the European Union,
other western leaders and Uk-
raine’s own parliament as too soft
on corruption, and failed to co-
operate with a British investiga-
tion of Burisma.
The President’s appeals to for-
eign governments on Thursday
were not enough for Republicans
to break ranks with Mr. Trump,
who has benefited from a con-
gressional caucus that almost
uniformly does not criticize him.
Vice-President Mike Pence said
nothing was wrong with Mr.
Trump asking Mr. Zelensky to in-
vestigate Mr. Biden.
“Anyone that looks at the Presi-
dent’s transcript will see that the
President was raising issues that
were appropriate,” he told report-
ers in Arizona. “The American
people have the right to know if
the vice-president of the United
States or his family profited from
his position.”
Democratic House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi disagreed.
“The President has confessed
to his violation of his oath of of-
fice, right then and there,” she
said.
“To ask a foreign government
to assist in our elections under-
mines the President’s oath of of-
fice and threatens the integrity of
our electoral system.”
Republican Congressman Jim
Jordan emerged from a closed
committee hearing with Kurt
Volker, the Trump administra-
tion’s former point-man on the
conflict in Ukraine, to say “not
one thing” Mr. Volker told legisla-
tors merited impeachment. Mr.
Jordan would not weigh in on Mr.
Trump’s public comments.
“We’ve been in the interview
for two hours,” he said. “We don’t
know what the President said. We
haven’t looked at it.”
In a letter to Ms. Pelosi, House
Republican leader Kevin McCar-
thy accused her of “swiftness and
recklessness” in pursuing im-
peachment.
Mr. Volker told the committee
he had warned Mr. Trump’s per-
sonal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, not to
believe information he was re-
ceiving in Ukraine that suggested
Mr. Biden had helped shut down
an investigation into Burisma,
The Washington Post reported,
citing unnamed sources. ABC
News reported that Mr. Volker al-
so disclosed text messages in
which William Taylor, the U.S.’s
top envoy in Ukraine, expressed
concern that the Trump adminis-
tration was freezing military aid
to the country in exchange for
“help with a political campaign.”
ABC said it had obtained the texts.
Jennifer Rodgers, a former fed-
eral prosecutor who teaches law
at Columbia University in New
York, said Mr. Trump’s call for Chi-
na and Ukraine to pursue one of
his 2020 challengers may be a cal-
culated move. By stating his re-
quests publicly, he appears to be
trying to make them seem less se-
rious and nefarious – just part of
the hyperbole for which the Presi-
dent is famous, she said.
“He’s allowing for the argu-
ment that ‘he just says whatever
he feels like, nobody takes it seri-
ously and it’s no big deal,’” Ms.
Rodgers said in an interview. “I
don’t think it helps in a legal
sense, but he’s fighting this in the
court of public opinion.”

Horse: Parks Canada more concerned about tourism than the animals, professor says
FROM A1
Prof. Jones is quick to say he loves
horses – he and his wife own a
Newfoundland pony – but says
something needs to be done to re-
move the animals from such an
ecologically sensitive area as Sa-
ble Island. The animals have
stripped the island of almost all
vegetation except for sea grass,
and as much as 10 per cent of the
herd dies off every year owing to
starvation, he said.
He said Parks Canada is more
concerned about the tourism dol-
lars the horses bring than doing
what’s right for the animals.
Sightseers pay more than $7,000
each to fly to Sable Island, as part
of a tightly controlled tourism at-
traction run by the federal agen-
cy.
“Parks Canada seems to be lis-
tening to those commercial inter-
ests, rather than scientists saying
you should manage the island for
nature, not abandoned farm ani-
mals,” Prof. Jones said. “This is
not about ‘horses are bad, they
should be eradicated.’ This is
about a fragile, remote ecosys-
tem. Islands are some of the most
fragile ecosystems on the planet,
especially when non-native ani-
mals are introduced.”
For the past two years, the Shu-
benacadie park’s Sable Island
horse lived alone in a hilly pad-
dock, avoiding interaction with
people and often lingering by a
fence next to the reindeer enclo-
sure, Ms. Cox said.
The animal, with its short,
thick coat and small stature, drew
a lot of attention at the park. He
didn’t look like the domestic
horses most visitors were used to,
and was often mistaken for a po-
ny.
“When people didn’t realize he
was a Sable Island horse, they’d
be like, ‘Why is your horse kind of
odd-looking?’ ” Ms. Cox said.
“We’re going to miss having such
a special creature. There’s so
much myth and mystery around
Sable Island. … He was a big draw
for us and he captured the inter-
est of so many people.”

PROSECUTOR URGES JUDGE TO FIND

Scheer: Conservative Leader criticized BOYLE GUILTY OF ASSAULTING WIFE
Michaëlle Jean when she held dual citizenship
OTTAWA Former hostage Joshua couple were seized in 2012 in
FROM A1 Ms. May has said that she would have re- Boyle used a calculated mixture Afghanistan during a back-
nounced her U.S. citizenship anyway after she of kindness and cruelty to packing trip through Asia.
The Liberal Party released a statement late became Green Leader in 2006, saying that a ensnare his wife Caitlan Cole- Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon,
Thursday night criticizing Mr. Scheer for fail- political leader has no other allegiances. man in an emotional web, a who is representing Mr. Boyle,
ing to pro-actively disclose his second citizen- “So I think it’s important when you are Crown attorney said Thursday says reasonable doubt about
ship. committed to your country, to be fully com- in urging a judge to find him his client’s guilt amounts to a
“Over a million Canadians hold dual citi- mitted to your country,” she told reporters in guilty of assault. defence against all of the crimi-
zenship – it’s part of what makes Canada Victoria on Thursday. Prosecutor Meaghan Cun- nal charges.
great. But none have hidden that fact when Mr. Scheer has faced questions this week ningham told Ontario Court Ms. Cunningham firmly
running to be Prime Minister,” party spokes- about his university degree and whether he Judge Peter Doody that Ms. disagreed Thursday, calling Ms.
person Zita Astravas said. had actually obtained his insurance licence to Coleman’s credible evidence Coleman’s testimony “coherent
“Scheer’s hidden his core personal posi- work as an agent or broker before entering against Mr. Boyle is bolstered and compelling.”
tions, he hid facts about his career and educa- public life. by other testimony and docu- Ms. Coleman has told the
tion, and now he’s been caught hiding his The Globe and Mail reported on Saturday mentation that paints him as a court her husband spanked,
American citizenship even while ridiculing that he had never received the licence re- controlling, dominant husband punched and slapped her while
others for holding dual citizenship.” quired by law to work as a broker in Saskatch- who instilled fear. they were imprisoned abroad,
Mr. Scheer had raised concerns about the ewan, even though Mr. Scheer’s official bios, Mr. Boyle, 36, has pleaded and that his violent ways re-
dual allegiance of former governor-general Mi- on Facebook and on the Conservative Party not guilty to offences against sumed shortly following their
chaëlle Jean before she gave up her French website, say that he was an insurance broker. Ms. Coleman including assault, arrival in Canada.
citizenship to assume the country’s highest Elections Canada filings also show that Mr. sexual assault and unlawful Mr. Boyle firmly held the
post. Scheer has consistently listed his occupation confinement in the period of balance of power in the rela-
In a 2005 blog, he asked his constituents as either insurance broker or agent. October to December, 2017. tionship, holding Ms. Coleman
whether it was appropriate for Mr. Scheer told reporters The incidents are alleged to in his emotional grip, Ms. Cun-
Ms. Jean to hold dual Canadian- Monday that he worked in an have taken place in Ottawa ningham said. “Mr. Boyle al-
French citizenship and asked: In the past, the insurance office for “six or sev- after he and Ms. Coleman ternated sweetness with verbal
“Would it bother you if instead en months” when he was 24 returned to Canada following abuse and demeaning com-
of French citizenship, she held Conservatives were and received accreditation un- five years as captives of Tali- ments.”
U.S. citizenship?” critical of former der the Canadian Professional ban-linked extremists. The THE CANADIAN PRESS
On Thursday, Mr. Scheer re- Liberal leader Stéphane Insurance Broker Program for
jected the idea that he has been Dion during the 2008 general insurance. Mr. Scheer
hypocritical on this issue. said he left before he obtained
When faced with questions election over his dual his licence, but received accred- TEEN SHOT BY POLICE TO BE CHARGED WITH RIOTING,
about his past criticism of Ms. Canadian-French itation for general insurance ATTACKING OFFICERS IN HONG KONG PROTESTS
Jean, he said, “I asked a ques- citizenship. In 2015, and worked in the office.
tion at the time about the fact the Tories also attacked Mr. Scheer said his tasks in-
that she held it, I asked my con- cluded “supporting the whole HONG KONG The teenager who Michael Tien confirmed the
stituents what they felt about NDP Leader Tom team … answering questions was the first victim of police meeting. Activists and some
that.” Mulcair for holding from customers and clients and gunfire in Hong Kong’s months- lawmakers warned that such
“I was just asking questions French citizenship. doing preparatory work.” long pro-democracy protests harsh measures would only
of my constituents, what they When asked again whether was charged Thursday with further alienate the people and
thought of that, at the time. I was born in he ever worked as a broker, Mr. Scheer said rioting and attacking police, as could prompt a more ferocious
Canada. My mom was born in Mississauga, my “the licensed brokers finalized all the trans- calls grew for the government to backlash.
dad was born in the United States. I grew up actions.” ban the wearing of masks to Anger against the government
my whole life in Canada,” he said. The Liberals have also pointed to newspa- subdue rising violence in the has built up since Tsang Chi-kin
Canadians with dual U.S. citizenship can sit per articles in which Mr. Scheer left the im- semi-autonomous Chinese was shot at close range after he
in Parliament as MPs and the U.S. embassy in pression that he got his Bachelor of Arts de- territory. struck a police officer with a rod.
Ottawa said that there is no requirement for gree in Regina. In 2018, his LinkedIn page and The shooting of the 18-year- Mr. Tsang and two others who
any American to give up their citizenship if Wikipedia page both highlighted the Universi- old on Tuesday during wide- were hospitalized did not appear
they lead or serve in a foreign government. ty of Regina as his primary education. spread clashes marred China’s in court. The government said
In the past, the Conservatives were critical On Thursday, Mr. Scheer clarified that while National Day celebration and Mr. Tsang’s condition is stable.
of former Liberal leader Stéphane Dion during he attended some classes at the University of marked an alarming escalation Dozens of supporters, many in
the 2008 election over his dual Canadian- Regina, he took more of his history classes at in violence in the unrest that black, sat outside the cour-
French citizenship. In 2015, the Tories also at- the University of Ottawa, which granted him a has rocked Hong Kong since thouse.
tacked NDP Leader Tom Mulcair for holding Bachelor of Arts degree. June. Earlier Thursday, more than
French citizenship. “So my degree is granted from the Universi- Local media reported that 1,000 students marched Thurs-
Then-prime minister Stephen Harper ex- ty of Ottawa. I finished it while I was in Regina, Chief Executive Carrie Lam will day at the Chinese University.
pressed disdain for political leaders holding the combination of courses from the Universi- hold a special Executive Council Many people felt that firing at
allegiance to another flag during the 2015 elec- ty of Regina and correspondence courses, I meeting on Friday to discuss a Mr. Tsang’s chest was an attempt
tion. “I’m very clear. I’m a Canadian and only a then had those credits transferred back to the ban on masks, which have to kill him.
Canadian,” he said. University of Ottawa to obtain my degree,” he helped protesters conceal their Police defended the shooting
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, who was told reporters at a campaign stop in Upper identities, and other tough as “reasonable and lawful”
born in Connecticut, also held dual citizen- Kingsclear, N.B. measures under a colonial-era because the officer had feared
ship. Her U.S. citizenship was revoked in 1978 emergency law. for his life and those of his
when she became a Canadian, as the law re- With reports from Justine Hunter in Victoria Ms. Lam’s office said it had no colleagues.
quired at that time. and Marieke Walsh in Montreal comment. Pro-Beijing legislator ASSOCIATED PRESS
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[ TRADE ]
Linamar says
GM strike costing
up to $1-million
a day in profit
ERIC ATKINS
TRANSPORTATION REPORTER

Ontario auto-parts maker Linamar Corp. says it is

costing as much as $1-million a day in profit as the
economic damage mounts from a strike by 49,000
General Motors Co. workers in the United States
that is nearing the end of its third week.
The U.S. GM employees, members of the United
Auto Workers, walked off the job on Sept. 16, which
led to a halt of almost all GM’s auto production in
North America, causing thousands of layoffs in
Southern Ontario and a plunge in orders at GM sup-
pliers Linamar, Martinrea International Inc., Magna
International Inc. and others.
“The resultant decline in GM orders is currently
estimated to impact Linamar earnings at a [daily]
rate of up to $1-million,” Linamar said in a brief mar-
ket-conditions update issued late on Wednesday.
Linamar is based in Guelph, Ont., and makes
transmission, drivetrain, chassis and other compo-
nents. Its share price fell by 10 per cent on the Toron-
to Stock Exchange on Thursday.
Violence, blockades put
The company employs 28,000 people at 61 facto-
ries and 35 sales and research sites in Canada, the
United States, Mexico, China and other countries.
African free trade at risk
The automotive market accounted for 68 per cent of
its $7.6-billion sales total for 2018. Linamar also Anti-foreigner, protectionist trend threatens benefits
makes industrial and agricultural equipment.
“The strike is impacting us, of course, as long as it of agreement that seeks to build continent’s economy
continues,” chief executive officer Linda Hasenfratz
said in an e-mail on Thursday. “We hope to see some
recovery in volumes after GM gets back to work to GEOFFREY YORK threatening to undermine the potential
make up for depleted inventories.” AFRICA BUREAU CHIEF benefits of a free-trade agreement that
She declined to say how many people Linamar JOHANNESBURG seeks to unleash growth in the conti-
has laid off as a result of the strike, noting it changes nent.
as they are reassigned within the company. Other African governments – includ-
LINAMAR, B8 Just weeks after an eruption of violent at- ing those of Nigeria, Rwanda and Ugan-
tacks on African migrants and foreign- da – have closed their borders tempora-
owned businesses in its streets, the rily on some of their neighbours, seem-
South African government has an- ingly oblivious to the damage they are
nounced a plan to ban foreigners from inflicting on the African free-trade agree-
Canada needs action, specific sectors of its economy. ment, which was formally launched at a
The violence and the planned restric- July summit and is scheduled to begin
not more studies, to deal tions are the latest signs of a growing an-
ti-foreigner and protectionist trend in
taking effect across the continent next
year.
with money laundering some of Africa’s biggest economies, AFRICA, B8

RITA
TRICHUR

OPINION Foreign-owned shops were looted or destroyed when African migrants were attacked
during unrest in Johannesburg last month. MARIUS BOSCH/REUTERS

B
ack in 2016, when Manulife Bank paid a re-
cord $1.15-million penalty for breaking Cana-
da’s money-laundering rules, it cut a special
deal with the Financial Transactions and Re-
ports Analysis Centre of Canada – it was allowed to
keep its name a secret. That confidentiality agree- SoftBank’s bet on disruptive startups falters
ment raised eyebrows, especially after the lender
was outed in a media report, and its parent compa-
ny played down the breaches as “administrative re- Alibaba made billions bition stood out. tumbled more than 40 per cent from
porting violations.” His early bet on Chinese technol- their first day of trading in June.
Three years later, the federal government has fi- for Masayoshi Son, but ogy giant Alibaba Group Holding SoftBank’s critics said its invest-
nally made it mandatory for FinTRAC to publicly investors have shied away Ltd. earned a return of more than ments have poisoned the ecosystem
name all companies that pay financial penalties. from his recent ventures US$100-billion and cemented his for young companies by encourag-
Those changes aren’t retroactive, though, so Manu- reputation as a far-sighted investor. ing founders to take excessive risks
life is still not listed as a violator on FinTRAC’s web- He has outlined a 300-year plan to with little regard for building busi-
site. For that matter, it’s impossible to tell whether PETER EAVIS make SoftBank a leader in artificial nesses that can last through the ups
the watchdog has levelled any financial penalties on MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED intelligence, robotics and downs of the econ-
anyone at all since its last public notice in May, 2016. and other advanced omy. They are hoping
That lack of transparency is just one reason that technologies. the WeWork debacle
Canada has earned a reputation for being soft on Anyone who has taken an Uber, sent But this year, his I’m hoping this will force investors to
financial crime. Our federal government has been a Slack message or enjoyed a free grand designs collided be more skeptical
complacent for decades, allowing regulators to be- beer at a WeWork owes a little some- with reality. is the tipping point about fast-growing
come too cozy with banks and other industry play- thing to Masayoshi Son. In what may turn that brings more companies. Even Mr.
ers. Numerous studies have warned that we’ve be- Through his Japanese conglom- out to be a reckoning sanity into the Son has acknowledged
come a haven for money launderers. Surely it’s now erate SoftBank Group Corp. and a for Mr. Son, Wall Street capital markets. that the businesses his
time for action. US$100-billion investment fund, has started running company invests in
The fact that ordinary Canadians are riled up Mr. Son plowed huge sums into from companies LEN SHERMAN need to become finan-
about dirty money inflating home prices in cities these and other companies that aim backed by SoftBank PROFESSOR AT COLUMBIA cially sustainable more
such as Vancouver and Toronto has our federal par- to change how people work, travel and its Vision Fund. BUSINESS SCHOOL quickly.
ty leaders smelling an opportunity to score points and live. His investments enabled The chief executive of “I’m hoping this is
with voters ahead of this month’s general election. the young companies to throw cau- WeWork stepped down this week af- the tipping point that brings more
Unfortunately, they’re calling for still more study. tion to the wind and run up big loss- ter a botched initial public offering. sanity into the capital markets,” said
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer wants es as they expanded at a breakneck Uber Technolgies Inc.’s stock has fall- Len Sherman, a former senior part-
a federal inquiry into money laundering in the real pace in recent years. Even in the en nearly 30 per cent from its IPO ner at Accenture who is now an ad-
estate sector, and is proposing to spend $20-million startup world, where idealism is price in May. And shares in Slack junct professor at Columbia Busi-
over two years. abundant and losses a badge of Technologies Inc., which provides a ness School.
TRICHUR, B8 honour, Mr. Son’s approach and am- workplace messaging service, have SOFTBANK, B8

COMPANIES TRANSPO RTATIO N

CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY ............................... B11

Uber helicopter allows commuters
CANOPY GROWTH .................................................. B2 to bypass New York gridlock B5
FACEBOOK .............................................................. B3
GREAT-WEST LIFECO ............................................... B2
MANULIFE FINANCIAL ............................................ B2
MINTO APARTMENT REIT ...................................... B11 GLO BE INV ESTO R
SAPUTO ................................................................ B11
SUN LIFE FINANCIAL ............................................... B2 Securities regulators approve changes that
SUNWING ................................................................ B2 aim to put clients ahead of advisers B10
TESLA ...................................................................... B6
WESTJET ................................................................. B2
MIKE SEGAR/REUTERS

SPORTS BASK ETBAL L

Raptors set to unveil unusual
25th-anniversary marketing
TENNIS
After 17th win in a row,
Bianca Andreescu ready
RU G BY
Russia becomes first team
officially eliminated
B13-B20
campaign B13 to face Naomi Osaka B16 at World Cup B20
B2 | RE P O RT O N BUS I NES S O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL | FR IDAY , OC TOB ER 4, 2019

Insurers see opioid-intervention success

Program that limits
frequency of medication
being dispensed has led
to 22,800 fewer days’
supply in circulation,
Manulife says
CLARE O’HARA
WEALTH MANAGEMENT REPORTER
Canadian insurers are seeing
signs of success in opioid inter-
vention programs that aim to re-
duce the amount of medication
being dispensed to patients.
After launching a program last
spring, Manulife Financial Corp.
has intervened on 2,280 prescrip-
tions for opioids that were writ-
ten for an average 17-days’ supply
between the months of April and
July.
By limiting the number of
days that could be claimed at a
single time, the program was
able to reduce the amount of
medication being dispensed by
10 days.
“Fewer leftover drugs means
less chance for abuse, misuse and
addiction,” said Donna Carbell,
head of group benefits for Manu-
life Canada.
“There are now 22,800 fewer
days’ supply of opioids” in circu-
lation, she added.
With the rising number of
overdoses and deaths caused by
opioids, the federal government
declared the opioid crisis a pub-
lic-health emergency, estimating
there have been almost 13,000
apparent opioid-related deaths
in Canada since 2016.
“Most people addicted to
opioids are first introduced to
the drugs through a prescription
painkiller and it is often not the
person it was prescribed for,” Ms.
Carbell said in an interview. “Em-
ployers and insurers have a
chance, and an obligation, to
help reverse that trend.”
Manulife’s opioid manage-
ment program was introduced
for group benefit drug plans in
April.
As a result, Manulife expects
to reduce costs for “unnecessary
claims” by approximately
$300,000 in the first year. The
program encourages doctors to
consider the use of short-acting
opioids; it also intervenes on pa-
tients who are using opioids for
the first time, or patients who
have not had an opioid prescrip-
tion in the past six months. The
program does not look to disrupt
treatment programs for serious
cases, such as cancer patients.
After launching a
program last spring,
Manulife Financial Corp.
has intervened on 2,280
prescriptions for opioids
that were written for an
average 17-days’ supply
between the months of
April and July.
During the same four-month
period, there were 380 instances
in which a doctor prescribed a
long-acting opioid before a short-
acting version of the drug. But
these instances only account for
0.8 per cent of all claims for first-
time opioid patients – meaning
doctors are looking to prescribe
short-term opioids in “almost all
instances.”
There has been a hesitancy in
the insurance sector to discuss
programs that appear to inter-
vene with what a physician can
prescribe to patients; but as em-
ployers become more aware of
the risks associated with addic-
tion, they are responsive to pro-
grams that can help minimize
the misuse of opioids.
Over the past decade, Sun Life
Financial Inc. has introduced
several processes to manage the
misuse of opioids in its group
benefits business. One example
is putting a cap on the dollar
amount each patient can claim
for select drugs.
“The goal of all our plans is to
provide clients with the prescrip-
tion medicines needed while also
limiting the risk of misuse,” said
Gannon Loftus, a spokesman for
Sun Life.
Over the past four years, the
total percentage of opioid claims
for Sun Life Group clients has de-
creased, as well as the total spent
on this class of drugs. (Sun Life
would not release exact figures
on how much opioid claims have
dropped by.)
Great-West Life Co. confirmed
it has measures in place to man-
age opioid claims, but would not
comment on them.
The Canadian Life and Health
Insurance Association, which
represents 99 per cent of Cana-
da’s life and health insurance
companies, has participated in
several stakeholder round tables
on the opioid crisis since 2016.
Within its membership, the orga-
nization says it has seen several
different approaches being used
by companies.
Along with setting limits on
certain prescriptions, other
methods include pharmacist
education, encouraging appro-
priate de-prescribing (where a
pharmacist replaces the drug
with something less addictive)
and advising employers on dif-
ferent benefit plan options that
encourage alternate methods to
pain treatment, such as
physiotherapy and chiropractic
care.
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Constellation CEO
sees bright outlook
for Canopy Growth
despite big losses
ARMINA LIGAYA

Constellation Brands Inc. is “pleased” with Canopy Growth

Corp.’s progress even though the alcohol giant’s latest
quarterly results were weighed down by millions in losses.
Chief executive Bill Newlands’s positive tone is a change
from comments on Canopy made during its previous quar-
ter that preceded the ousting of Canopy co-founder and
co-chief executive Bruce Linton in July.
He told analysts Thursday that Constellation was “look-
ing forward” to the launch of next-generation cannabis
products in Canada in the coming months, “when Canopy
will unveil their portfolio of value-added higher-margin
products,” including drinks, edibles and vapes.
Mr. Newlands added that Canopy’s team in the U.S. has
been “actively developing” its range of CBD products and
related market plans, and has been working to secure the
production resources needed to have these items in the U.S.
market by the end of the cannabis company’s fiscal year on
March 31, 2020.
“New CBD product offerings include skin care and cos-
metics, therapeutic creams, beverages, edibles, oils and soft-
A WestJet Boeing 737 plane taxis to a gate at Vancouver International Airport in 2014. WestJet says 43 of its gels,” he said on a conference call.
Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft are under inspection. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS “Over all, we’re pleased with the progress of the Canopy
team and what they have done in the last few months.”
The U.S.-based producer of Corona beer reported a loss

WestJet, Sunwing inspect Boeing 737
NG aircraft after U.S. FAA directive
CALGARY any disruptions to its schedule.
The company did not say how
many of its planes require inspec-
WestJet Airlines Ltd. and tion, but it has more than 40 of
Sunwing Vacations Inc. say they the Boeing 737 NG aircraft in its
are examining their fleets of Boe- fleet.
ing 737 Next Generation aircraft Air Canada says it does not
for cracks after a United States have any of the Boeing 737 NG
regulator ordered the inspec- planes.
tions. Air Transat flies two versions of
Calgary-based WestJet says it the 737 NG plane. The company
has 43 aircraft that fall under an did not immediately respond to a
inspection directive issued by the request for comment.
U.S. Federal Aviation Administra- The FAA said in its directive
tion Thursday. that it estimates an airplane in-
The company says it has had spection for the problem would
no structural cracks in its 737 NG take about an hour.
fleet and expects minimal disrup- It said that if the cracking was
tions from the inspections. not addressed, it could lead to a
Sunwing Vacations said it had loss of control of the airplane.
received the directive from the The inspection order comes as
FAA and will be inspecting its fleet Boeing remains under scrutiny af-
as appropriate, but didn’t expect ter two deadly crashes led to a
Great-West Lifeco policyholders vote to merge
with London Life, Canada Life under one name
CLARE O’HARA while companies explore oppor-
tunities to create new streams of
revenue.
Great-West Lifeco Inc. is set to The two brands to be retired –
merge three of its well-known Great-West Life and London Life
Canadian subsidiaries under one – are renowned among insur-
roof as policyholders voted in fa- ance consumers, but in an inter-
vour of the move that retires two view earlier this year with The
brands that have been in the Globe, CEO Paul Mahon said the
market for more than 170 years. move to operate under one
More than 90 per cent of pol- brand will simplify the business
icyholders of the country’s sec- by cutting back on regulatory ex-
ond largest life insurer voted in penses and requirements, reduce
favour on Thursday to administrative and back-office
amalgamate Great-West Life As- costs while positioning the firm
surance Co., London Life Insur- for future growth.
ance Co. and The Canada Life As- “We’re pleased [policyhol-
surance Co. to operate as one ders] have recognized the many
company under the Canada Life benefits of amalgamation and
brand. The parent company will have given us a strong mandate
retain the Great-West Lifeco Inc. to proceed,” Mr. Mahon said on
name. Thursday in a statement.
The amalgamation is expect- The move involves more than
ed to occur on Jan. 1, 2020, and 13 million customers. The com-
comes at a time when consoli- pany says the amalgamation
dation continues to sweep won’t change any of the terms
through the insurance sector, and conditions of existing insur-
grounding of its Boeing 737 Max
aircraft in March.
The crashes in Ethiopia and In-
donesia killed a total of 346 peo-
ple on board, including 18 Cana-
dians.
WestJet announced in Septem-
ber that it was removing 737 Max
jets from its holiday schedule
while Air Canada warned the con-
sequences of the grounded jet on
its operations may ripple well in-
to 2021.
Sunwing said in August that its
four Max jets will be absent from
the rotation until mid-May, with
some 3,000 flights having been af-
fected during the summer alone.
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WESTJET (WJA)
CLOSE: $30.60, DOWN 4¢
ance policies issued by Great-
West Life, London Life and Cana-
da Life.
Policyholders will see a new
set of products added to existing
wealth and insurance products
in 2020 and policy renewals after
the new year will be offered un-
der the new Canada Life.
Great-West Lifeco and its com-
panies have approximately $1.4-
trillion in consolidated assets un-
der administration and are part
of Power Financial Corp. The
merger will not affect the com-
pany’s businesses in the United
States and Europe.
Great-West Lifeco’s other Can-
adian subsidiaries, such as mu-
tual fund dealer Quadras Invest-
ment Services and Freedom 55
Financial – which houses 2,375
advisers – will also not be affect-
ed by the merger.
GREAT-WEST LIFECO (GWO)
CLOSE: $30.40, DOWN 11¢
per share of US$2.77 or earnings of US$2.72 a share on an
adjusted basis for what was the second quarter of its 2020
financial year.
That surpassed the US$2.60 a share in earnings expected
by analysts, according to the fi-
nancial markets data firm Refin-
itiv.
Constellation, which is Cano- New CBD product
py’s largest shareholder, said it
earned US$2.91 per share on a offerings include skin
comparable basis, excluding the care and cosmetics,
pot producer’s equity losses. therapeutic creams,
Constellation recognized a to- beverages, edibles,
tal loss of US$484.4-million in
the quarter as its share of Cano- oils and softgels.
py Growth’s equity losses and re- Over all, we’re
lated activities, or a loss of pleased with the
US$54.7-million on a comparable progress of the
basis.
It also recognized a US$839- Canopy team and
million decrease in the fair value what they have
of its Canopy investments during done in the
the quarter ended Aug. 31. last few months.
Constellation also noted that
it has recognized a US$757-mil- BILL NEWLANDS
lion unrealized net gain on a re- CONSTELLATION BRANDS
ported basis since its initial CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Canopy investment in Novem-
ber, 2017.
Constellation’s latest financial results are the first since
the Modelo beer maker said in June that it was “not
pleased” with the pot producer’s earnings in which it re-
ported a wider-than-expected fourth-quarter net loss
attributable to shareholders despite a jump in revenue.
“However, we continue to aggressively support Canopy
on a more focused, long-term strategy to win markets and
form factors that matter while paving a clear path to profit-
ability,” Mr. Newlands told analysts in June.
In August, Canopy reported a $1.28-billion loss or $3.70 a
share for the three months ended June 30, mainly owing to
a non-cash loss of $1.18-billion on the extinguishment of
warrants held by Constellation.
Constellation says it recognizes its earnings or losses in
connection with Canopy on a two-month lag.
Mr. Newlands also said Thursday that he was “excited” to
see that the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed
the SAFE Banking Act with a wide majority.
The bill, which still requires additional approvals, would
grant legal cannabis businesses at the state level access to
banking in the U.S., where pot remains an illegal substance
at the federal level.
Canopy has struck a deal to acquire U.S. cannabis compa-
ny Acreage Holdings and enter the U.S. market, once feder-
ally permissible.
“While this bill also needs senate approval, it would de-
liver access to traditional banking services to thousands of
legal cannabis businesses in the U.S. and shows positive
momentum in the legalization debate moving forward,” Mr.
Newlands said.
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EU court rules member states can force
Facebook to remove certain content globally
Material deemed
unlawful in one country
would have to be made
inaccessible everywhere,
prompting criticism
from the tech giant
SAMUEL PETRIQUIN BRUSSELS
The European Union’s highest
court ruled Thursday that indi-
vidual member countries can
force Facebook Inc. to remove
what they regard as unlawful
material from the social network
all over the world – a decision
experts say could hinder free
speech online and put a heavy
burden on tech companies.
The European Court of Justice
ruling, which cannot be ap-
pealed, is seen as a defeat for
Facebook and other online plat-
forms and widens the divide
over how heavily Europe and the
United States seek to regulate
technology giants.
It would increase the onus on
them to monitor what appears
online.
“It really unleashes a whole
new gamut of risk and worries
for Facebook in the EU,” said
Wedbush Securities managing
director Daniel Ives.
Ruling in the case of an Aus-
trian politician who objected to
what she regarded as a libellous
news story, the European court
said internet companies can be
forced to take action worldwide
to remove objectionable materi-
al when ordered to do so by a
court in an EU country.
Facebook already removes or
otherwise restricts photos and
other posts in any given country
if the material violates that
country’s laws, such as anti-gov-
ernment comments in countries
where that is illegal.
But the new ruling means
Facebook would have to make
such material inaccessible
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the decision “undermines the
The European long-standing principle that one
country does not have the right
Court of Justice to impose its laws on speech on
ruling, which cannot another country.”
be appealed, is While lawmakers in the Unit-
seen as a defeat for ed States are considering tighter
regulation of Facebook and other
Facebook and other tech giants, politicians in Europe
online platforms. have gone much further on a
variety of fronts, including pass-
ing stricter data-privacy laws in
2018.
“This shows a sharpening di-
vide between the way the EU is
handling privacy and data con-
tent versus the U.S.,” Wedbush’s
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risks for the likes of Google and
other big tech companies as the
‘Brussels versus tech’ battle con-
tinues to take hold.”
Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, for-
mer chairwoman of Austria’s
Green Party, had sued Facebook
in her home country to remove a
news story that she considered
libellous and insulting and could
be viewed globally. An Austrian
court ruled in her favour. The
country’s top court then asked
the EU to weigh in.
The same EU court ruled last
month that the European
Union’s “right to be forgotten”
rules – which allow people to ask
search engines such as Google to
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remove outdated or embossing
links about themselves, even if
they are true – do not apply out-
side the 28-country bloc.
Thursday’s ruling is likely to
encourage internet platforms to
step up their efforts to monitor
user content.
Activists at the European Dig-
ital Rights organization said that
instead of hiring more “content
moderators,” companies such as
Facebook might have to rely on
automatic filters.
And those, they warned,
might be unable to distinguish
between legal and illegal con-
tent.
The Computer & Communica-
tions Industry Association, a lob-
bying group that includes Ama-
zon.com Inc., Facebook and Al-
phabet Inc.-owned Google, said
the ruling could infringe on the
right to free speech.
“The ruling essentially allows
one country or region to decide
what internet users around the
world can say and what informa-
tion they can access,” said CCIA
Europe senior manager Victoria
de Posson.
“What might be considered
defamatory comments about
someone in one country will
likely be considered constitu-
tional free speech in another.
Few hosting platforms, especially
startups, will have the resources
to implement elaborate monitor-
ing systems.”
David Carroll, a professor at
Parsons School of Design in New
York and a long-time critic of
Facebook’s handling of data, said
the social network could apply a
content “fingerprint” for banned
material in the same way it has
automated the detection of por-
nography, child exploitation, ter-
ror groups and other things that
violate its policies.
“It has plenty of money to
spend on infrastructure to com-
ply with international laws,” he
said.
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OPINION & ANALYSIS
Canada needs to assert its digital identity
Without a bold new
policy direction for
today’s technological
landscape, our country
risks getting left behind
ALEX BENAY
OPINION
Chief client officer at MindBridge Ai
in Ottawa and chief information
officer of Canada from 2017-19
T
he backbone plays several
crucial functions within the
human body: It protects
the spinal cord and vital organs,
gives structural support and pro-
vides overall mobility. Our back-
bones are essential to our very
existence.
In the industrial age, a coun-
try’s national economic back-
bone was composed of the scale
of its work force as well as the
abundance of its natural re-
sources. The problem is, we are
no longer in the industrial age
and haven’t been for quite some
time now.
We have been in the digital age
for more than a decade, one
when the value of atoms and tan-
gibles has increasingly been re-
placed by intellectual property,
data and intangibles. This shift
occurred years ago, yet Canada
has done very little to provide its
citizens with a digital backbone.
Meanwhile, the world around
us has made the most of this dig-
ital opportunity. For example,
Airbnb produces more wealth
than any traditional hotel chain
in the world with 90 per cent less
staff because it used the power of
the internet to change the eco-
Social responsibility and stakeholder demands define new risks for mining companies
PAUL MITCHELL
OPINION
EY global mining and metals leader,
based in Sydney, Australia, who
recently toured Canada speaking
to executives in the mining and
metals sector
C
anada’s mining and metals
sector is going through an
intense period of transfor-
mation. Digital advances aren’t
the only factors redefining the
sector’s future. Growing public
conversation and focus on social
responsibility are influencing de-
cisions at the executive table. For
the second year in a row, miners
cited licence to operate as the No.
1 risk and opportunity facing
their business.
A number of key elections and
resulting government changes or
potential ones to come – particu-
larly in Africa and Latin America –
are heightening this risk. Future
regulation around mining licenc-
es or royalties are unknown in
certain parts of the world as gov-
ernments face pressure to bal-
ance economic gains with the in-
terests of their people. End con-
sumers are increasing pressure
on the sector, demanding ethical
supply chains and a lower carbon
footprint. But it’s not just the gen-
eral public that’s increasing pres-
sure. Shareholders, and not just
ones we would traditionally de-
scribe as “activists,” are driving
many miners to reshape their
portfolios. A growing segment of
ethical investors are demanding
greater transparency around en-
vironmental, social and govern-
ance efforts.
What these trends all have in
common is a particular percep-
tion of the sector. This “brand”
problem isn’t new for miners. The
sector needs to be able to show
how it’s prioritizing sustainable
and inclusive growth to redefine
its image as a responsible source
of the world’s minerals. Minerals
that are critical not just to the dig-
ital age, but also the transforma-
tion under way to reduce carbon
emissions and achieve the goals
of the Paris Agreement. Many
companies are already making
strides toward a greener future
for commodities, and there’s an
immense opportunity for greater
collaboration around these is-
sues going forward. Creating
long-term value through licence
to operate will also set companies
up for success in addressing the
second greatest risk they face: the
future of the work force.
nomic model. Alibaba has done
the same in the retail industry,
Uber in the transportation sector,
Google in the information space,
and the list goes on.
Here in Canada, we remain a
country focused on building
roads and managing oil reserves.
We are comfortable being the
neighbour of one of the largest
economies on the planet. But be-
ing comfortable does not provide
the right conditions for innova-
tion in an age when data now
drive the economy. Don’t get me
wrong, these tangible things re-
main crucial to our economy and
the lives of Canadians, but so is
our digital infrastructure, and we
have invested very little in this.
The question therefore should
be: If our national economic
backbone is one based on indus-
trial-aged concepts, what is a dig-
ital economic backbone? Simply
put, it is a citizen’s trusted digital
identity. Countries such as Esto-
nia, Portugal and Denmark have
had digital identities for more
than a decade. India has been
providing its citizens with digital
identities for more than three
years now.
To be clear, a digital identity is
but the first step in real digital
leadership. We should also be
talking about modern-day priva-
cy laws, regulatory leadership, fa-
cilitating the controlled introduc-
tion of machines in our everyday
lives, as well as a full set of digital
rights for citizens. But the first,
easier step may be to provide
Canadians with a digital identity.
Currently we use analog iden-
tity mechanisms in a digital
world. We have driver’s licences,
health cards, passports and other
such mechanisms, but these out-
dated identity models no longer
work. We go online without any
protection; we interact with gov-
The work force’s future moved
up from seventh position in the
risks-and-opportunities ranking
last year, and executives are grap-
pling with what their future
workers will look like and how
they can attract the right skills
needed to support their business-
es. An EY study commissioned by
the Minerals Council of Australia
found that 77 per cent of occupa-
tions in the sector will be en-
hanced or redesigned by 2030 be-
cause of the introduction of tech-
nological advancements. That’s
an immense work-force shift,
made all the more difficult by in-
creased competition for in-
demand skills from the STEM dis-
ciplines. Now, layer on the declin-
ing attractiveness of the sector
among students and you have a
serious problem. Miners need to
convey their value to the next
generation in the same way they
are addressing investor concerns.
The shaping of team culture,
building trust and developing
clear learning pathways need to
be at the heart of every mining
company’s vision of the future.
Addressing the future of work-
force concerns is also a necessary
step to tackling much-needed
O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL
ernments or service providers
without assurance our identity
will be managed properly.
We need our
Perhaps now you are now ask-
leadership to ing yourself, what benefits a dig-
understand that the
ital identity could provide some-
industrial age built one? For starters, it would help to
railways to connect protect your privacy. Eventually,
in an internet of the future, you
citizens, move could even decide how and if big
goods and expand platforms commercialize your
the economy, and online identity. Contrast that
with today’s internet, where com-
that many countries panies such as Facebook and
have already Google simply commercialize
implemented their your online presence without
new digital railways your consent.
A digital identity could also
in an age of data.
permit a more secure distributed-
services environment. Imagine a
world where Expedia could re-
new your passport because both
it and the Government of Canada
abide by national digital identity
protocols? It would be a world
where you reacquire the choice
and the control of the services
you want, where you want them,
and on the platforms or devices
of your choice.
Furthermore, a digital identity
is good for our national economy.
In its report titled The Economic
Impact of Digital Identity in Can-
ada, the Digital ID and Authenti-
cation Council of Canada
(DIACC) estimates digital identi-
ty could provide $4.5-billion of
annual added value to our small
and medium-sized enterprises.
This is not an exaggerated figure;
Estonia estimates its digital socie-
ty infrastructure provides an an-
nual boost of 2 per cent to its
GDP.
Meanwhile in India, the World
Bank estimates its digital identity
could save the country more than
US$1-billion a year by thwarting
corruption. Back home, the
DIACC estimates that the conser-
vative value of digital identity to
A truck arrives at a mine digital and data optimization –
in Eritrea operated by the third most pressing risk on
Canadian company mining executives’ agendas. The
Nevsun Resources in data landscape is complex to nav-
2016. Miners cite licence igate and prioritize. Companies
to operate, the future have yet to understand fully what
of the work force and data are important and how to
tackling digital and data extract value from them. These
optimization as the top are the basics the sector needs to
three risks – and focus on. Digital transformation
opportunities – their isn’t about pushing the bounda-
businesses face. ries of innovation. It’s about rais-
THOMAS MUKOYA/REUTERS ing the visibility and perform-
ance of the business by embrac-
ing available technologies and
maximizing the value they can
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| FR IDAY , OC TOB ER 4, 2019
the Canadian economy is at least
1 per cent of GDP, or $15-billion.
Luckily for us, there is some
progress being made by a small
group of people. The CIO Strategy
Council, for example, is the only
national group with members
from every sector that is accred-
ited by the Standards Council of
Canada to develop national tech-
nology standards. It has an-
nounced its intention to create
the country’s first national stan-
dard on digital identity, creating a
framework to put everyone on
the same page and acting as the
first step toward regulation.
Within the Government of
Canada, there is a prototype na-
tional identity recognition en-
gine that has shown tremendous
promise, yet remains but a mock-
up of what could be. There are al-
so projects under way that cut
through public jurisdictions, as
well as across private and public-
sector entities to recognize one
another’s digital identities. It is
simply not enough, however.
What this country needs is a
bold new policy direction on dig-
ital nation-building. We need our
leadership to understand that the
industrial age built railways to
connect citizens, move goods
and expand the economy, and
that many countries have already
implemented their new digital
railways in an age of data.
“First to market” used to apply
to the private sector, now it ap-
plies to national economies in a
global, digitally connected world.
Canada needs a digital identity
strategy that is funded, cross sec-
tor, and that is all-encompassing
in order to protect its citizens and
guarantee continued growth in a
digital economy.
Simply put, Canada needs a
digital backbone in a new digital
age.
generate. That’s where data be-
come crucial.
Altogether, these top three
risks (and opportunities) paint a
strong picture of an industry al-
ready being disrupted and on the
path to redefining its future.
What’s known is the important
role commodities will play in en-
abling the world of tomorrow.
The greater question is how
mining companies will stay rele-
vant and ensure they’re building
a better future for everyone.
Those who answer this question
will stick around to live it.
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Passengers approach an Uber helicopter in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday. Uber flight times between
lower Manhattan and JFK airport last only about eight minutes. RICHARD DREW/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Uber expands helicopter
service in New York
Company makes private
flights, for an average
$200 or more, available
to all riders with
iPhones between lower
Manhattan and JFK
CATHY BUSSEWITZ NEW YORK
Uber Technologies Inc. is giving
riders the option to skip the traf-
fic jam and hail a helicopter to the
airport instead – provided they
can shell out the money.
The ride-hailing company ex-
panded its helicopter service on
Thursday between lower Manhat-
tan in New York and John F. Ken-
nedy International Airport, mak-
ing it available to all Uber riders
with iPhones instead of just those
in the top tiers of its rewards pro-
gram. Uber hopes to deploy it to
Android users soon.
Uber’s helicopter ride will cost
US$200-US$225 one-way a more expensive than public tran-
person on average, but the price
fluctuates depending on de-
mand. Private helicopter flights,
where customers charter an en-
tire vehicle, typically cost thou-
sands of dollars to fly to New
York-area airports.
Imperial Brands CEO to step down
amid vaping backlash, profit woes
SIDDHARTH CAVALE LONDON
Imperial Brands PLC chief exec-
utive Alison Cooper will step
down once a replacement is
found, a move that comes as the
cigarette maker grapples with a
regulatory backlash against e-cig-
arettes and declining tobacco
sales.
The departure of Ms. Cooper,
who has led the maker of Davi-
doff cigarettes for nine years,
comes days after it issued a full-
year profit warning blaming the
U.S. regulatory crackdown on
vaping.
It also follows the impending
departure of chairman Mark Wil-
liamson, who in February an-
nounced that he would step
down once a successor was
found, citing new British guide-
lines on the length of board chair
tenures.
The smallest of the four major
global tobacco players in the
world, Imperial has been slow to
react to the vaping craze in the
United States, a market where it
generates nearly 30 per cent of its
annual profit. This in part has al-
lowed rival Altria-backed Juul to
BITCOIN MINER HUT 8 TO BE FIRST CRYPTOCURRENCY COMPANY
TO LIST ON TSX THROUGH SANDBOX INITIATIVE
TORONTO Canadian bitcoin
miner Hut 8 Mining says it will
be the first cryptocurrency-
focused company listed on the
Toronto Stock Exchange thanks
to a new initiative launched by
the exchange.
The TSX Sandbox program
announced in April allows for
some exemptions to listing
requirements so that more
novel or exceptional companies
may gain access to the ex-
change.
Hut 8 chief executive An-
drew Kiguel says the company
has met all the key require-
The move comes as helicopter
use is growing in the region, with
takeoffs and landings at New
York’s three major airports in-
creasing 51 per cent from 2015-18,
according to data from the Port
Authority of New York and New
Jersey.
Some helicopter companies
are moving away from the exclu-
sivity of chartered rides, selling by
the seat instead of the entire hel-
icopter, for what is essentially
ride-sharing in the sky.
Blade Urban Air Mobility Inc.,
which offers shared helicopter
flights from Manhattan to air-
ports, the Hamptons and Nan-
tucket, among other destina-
tions, charges US$195 to the air-
ports each way. Its riders can
book shared helicopter flights
through a smartphone app less
than an hour before takeoff.
Voom, owned by plane maker
Airbus, launched shared helicop-
ter flights in San Francisco last
week.
While Uber helicopters are far
sit and twice as much as some car
services that can cost US$100 or
more during rush hour, the flight
time between lower Manhattan
and JFK is hard to beat: eight min-
utes. Uber cars will also pick up
passengers on either end of the
capture nearly three-quarters of
the new market.
At the same time, a spike in
teenage use as well as a string of
illnesses and deaths possibly
linked to the devices prompted
the U.S. administration to ban
flavoured e-cigarettes.
That has meant a double
whammy for Imperial, which cut
back on its 10-per-cent dividend
growth target earlier this year to
focus on developing its e-ciga-
rette portfolio that includes Blu
e-cigarettes.
Last week, the company said
that it was seeing a “marked
slowdown” in the growth of its e-
cigarettes category, owing to the
U.S. ban, as many wholesalers
and retailers were not ordering or
promoting their products.
This also led the company to
cut its full-year revenue forecast,
sending its shares to a nine-year
low.
“The timing of the move is cu-
rious, given that the company as
well as the sector is facing some
serious headwinds as we move
into the end of the year and look
to 2020,” said Michael Hewson,
chief market analyst at CMC Mar-
kets.
ments of a main board listing
except raising money through a
public prospectus, although it
has raised more than $100-
million through private place-
ments and debt.
The company, which is
already listed on the TSX Ven-
ture Exchange, operates data
centres in Alberta that earn
bitcoin through verifying bit-
coin transactions by crunching
complex equations.
The value of the company
has fluctuated along with the
price of bitcoin.
Hut 8 listed at $5 in March
trip. “We think that there are defi-
nitely customers for whom
there’s a high value on time,” said
Eric Allison, head of Uber Elevate.
Uber sees the helicopter rides
as a step closer to achieving its
goal to eventually deploy a much
larger network of all-electric fly-
ing taxis, Mr. Allison said.
Uber’s helicopters are owned
and operated by a company
called HeliFlite. The service is
available weekdays from about 1
p.m. to 6 p.m.
Groups such as Stop the Chop
have pushed to limit flights in
New York, citing environmental
and health effects caused by hel-
icopters, which contribute more
carbon dioxide to the atmo-
sphere than cars. Helicopter
noise complaints increased from
1,039 in 2018 to 1,589 in the first
eight months of 2019, according
to New York’s 311 complaint line.
“If we’re going to start being
more mindful of the planet, that’s
a good place to start, with heli-
copters, because 99 per cent of
the use of it is completely unnec-
essary,” said John Dellaportas,
president of Stop the Chop.
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“There’s no comment from
her about why she is leaving and
it seems like they don’t have a
succession plan in place.”
Ms. Cooper, 53, has spent two
decades at the company and is
one of just five female CEOs
among Britain’s top 100 listed
companies. Since Ms. Cooper be-
came CEO in May, 2010, Imperi-
al’s stock has fallen 2 per cent,
while sales have risen 8 per cent.
While the hunt for a new CEO
continues, Ms. Cooper’s focus
will include the asset divestment
program, from which the compa-
ny expects to realize proceeds of
up to £2-billion ($3.3-billion) by
May, 2020, Imperial said.
As part of the plan, the compa-
ny is looking to sell its premium
cigar business, that includes
brands such as Cohiba, Monte-
cristo and Romeo Y Julieta. The
company said last week said the
business had generated strong
interest from a number of poten-
tial buyers and that it remains on
track to realize its proceeds tar-
get.
Shares of the company closed
up 0.55 per cent on Thursday.
REUTERS
last year when bitcoin was
trading at more than US$10,000
and saw its shares dip to as
low as 76 cents a year later
when bitcoin was trading at
about US$3,700.
Mr. Kiguel says the listing on
the Toronto Stock Exchange
will allow the company, which
is trading at around $2 a share,
to attract a wider investor base
including institutional
investors.
Hut 8 will begin trading on
the Toronto Stock Exchange on
Oct. 8.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
R EPO RT O N BUSINESS | B5
Trump touts ‘nice victory’
over WTO decision
as EU fumes about tariffs
KATE HOLTON LONDON/WASHINGTON
U.S. President Donald Trump hailed a “nice victory” on
Thursday after the United States got the green light to place
tariffs on European Union goods in a dispute over EU aircraft
subsidies.
But Wednesday’s decision by the World Trade Organiza-
tion (WTO) left Scottish whisky makers, Spanish wine mak-
ers and French cheese makers fuming as the U.S. tariffs tar-
geted products from countries in the Airbus consortium.
Engineers in Germany worried that the dispute over sub-
sidies granted to the European plane maker was leading to “a
table-tennis match” over trans-Atlantic tariffs, and France
and Germany signalled retaliatory moves by the EU.
The WTO decision gave the United States the go-ahead to
impose tariffs on US$7.5-billion worth of EU goods annually
in the long-running case. The global trade watchdog will
hold a special meeting of its Dispute Settlement Body on Oct.
14 to formally adopt the decision.
The dispute darkens a global economic outlook that has
already been dimmed by a U.S.-China trade war now in its
second year. Washington and Beijing have imposed tariffs on
each other’s goods worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter the EU “has for many years
treated the USA very badly on Trade due to Tariffs, Trade
Barriers, and more. This case going on for years, a nice
victory!”
Washington said that, after 15 years of litigation, it would
impose 10-per-cent tariffs on Airbus planes, a move that
could hurt orders by U.S. airlines, and 25 per cent duties on
French wine, Scotch and Irish whiskies, and cheese from
across the Continent.
The size and scope of the tariffs were reduced consider-
ably from a $25-billion list floated by Washington this year
that included helicopters, major aircraft components, sea-
food and luxury goods.
The U.S. Trade Representative’s office said it would contin-
ually re-evaluate the tariffs based
on its discussions with the EU,
but could increase the tariffs “at
any time, or change the products
affected.” If the American
White House trader adviser Pe-
ter Navarro, speaking with Fox administration
Business Network on Thursday, rejects the hand
warned Europe against retaliato- that has been held
ry measures since the U.S. tariffs out by France and
were approved by the WTO.
“There’s going to be no tit-for- the European Union,
tat retaliation,” Mr. Navarro said. we are preparing
“Under the rules of the WTO, ourselves to react
which we’re complying with with sanctions.
here, we get to do this and they
should not do anything back.” BRUNO LE MAIRE
But French Finance Minister FRENCH FINANCE MINISTER
Bruno Le Maire said preparations
were under way in Europe to react with sanctions.
“If the American administration rejects the hand that has
been held out by France and the European Union, we are
preparing ourselves to react with sanctions,” he said.
His German counterpart, Olaf Scholz, told the mass-circu-
lation Bild newspaper the past few months had shown that
trade conflicts helped no one, adding, “Therefore we will re-
act to the new situation in a determined but considered way.”
Britain said it was seeking confirmation from the WTO
that it had complied with the organization’s rulings and
should not face tariffs. U.S. tariffs on European goods have
plunged Britain into a trade war between the United States
and the EU just as it plans to leave the 28-country bloc.
The Scottish Whisky Association said jobs and investment
were at risk from a 25 per cent tariff on single malt. Scotch
whisky exports to the United States, the industry’s biggest
single market, were worth £1-billion ($1.64-billion) last year.
“Despite the fact that this dispute is about aircraft sub-
sidies, our sector has been hit hard,” the association’s chief
executive, Karen Betts, said in a statement, urging restraint
from both sides.
Spanish vintners said their wine would cost too much in
U.S. stores if tariffs were confirmed.
Germany’s VDMA engineering association said it was dis-
appointed the European Commission, the EU executive, had
not defused the row. “The current situation resembles a table
tennis match,” said VDMA trade expert Ulrich Ackermann.
Spanish olives, British sweaters and woollens, and Ger-
man tools and coffee were targeted in addition to British
whisky and French wine.
Cheese from nearly every EU country will also be hit with
the 25 per cent tariffs, but Italian wine and olive oil were
spared, along with European chocolate.
Shares in European luxury goods, including British fash-
ion brand Burberry, and drinks companies, such as France’s
Rémy Cointreau, rose on Thursday, after the tariffs excluded
cognac, Champagne and leather goods.
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Las Vegas shooting victims,
MGM Resorts reach settlement
worth up to $800-million
SAN DIEGO
Lawyers for thousands of victims
of the deadliest mass shooting in
modern U.S. history said on
Thursday that they reached a set-
tlement expected to pay be-
tween US$735-million and
US$800-million to those who
sued over the Las Vegas mas-
sacre.
The amount of the settlement
with MGM Resorts International
depends on the number of plain-
tiffs who take part, according to a
statement from Las Vegas law
firm Eglet Adams, which repre-
sents nearly 2,500 victims and
made the announcement just
days after the second anniver-
sary of the massacre.
Hundreds of lawsuits have
been filed against the owner of
the Mandalay Bay resort, where
the gunman opened fire into an
outdoor concert on Oct. 1, 2017.
The casino giant also owns the
venue where 58 people died and
hundreds were injured.
“Our goal has always been to
resolve these matters so our
community and the victims and
their families can move forward
in the healing process,” said Jim
Murren, chairman and chief ex-
ecutive of MGM Resorts. “This
agreement with the plaintiffs’
counsel is a major step, and one
that we hoped for a long time
would be possible.”
An independent administra-
tor will be appointed by a court
Caisse invests $50-million
in electric scooter company Bird
SEAN SILCOFF
TECHNOLOGY REPORTER
The Caisse de dépôt et place-
ment du Québec has invested
US$50-million in electric scooter
startup Bird Rides Inc., whose
electric vehicles are now in more
than 100 cities around the world
including Calgary and Edmonton.
“Bird fits directly within our
strategy to invest in innovative
and disruptive tech sectors such
as sustainable mobility,” said Jef-
frey R. Smith, the Caisse’s senior
managing director, digital invest-
ment strategy, in a release. He
added the investment supports
the investment giant’s commit-
ment “to take part in the transi-
tion toward a less carbon-inten-
SPIRIT AEROSYSTEMS EMERGES AS FRONTRUNNER FOR
BOMBARDIER’S BELFAST, MOROCCO PLANTS, SOURCES SAY
Spirit AeroSystems Holdings
Inc. has emerged as the front-
runner to acquire Bombardier
Inc.’s aerostructures facilities in
Belfast and Morocco, two
sources familiar with the mat-
ter said.
A deal for the plants would
be strategic for U.S. aerospace
components maker Spirit,
which is diversifying its cus-
tomer base. But an agreement
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to dole out money from the set-
tlement fund, lawyers and MGM
said. They expect to wrap up the
process by late next year.
MGM’s insurers will fund a
minimum of US$735-million. De-
pending on the number of vic-
tims who participate, the compa-
ny will contribute more, up to
US$800-million, according to the
victims’ lawyers.
“Today’s agreement marks a
milestone in the recovery proc-
ess for the victims of the horrify-
ing events of 1 October,” Robert
Eglet, a lead plaintiffs’ counsel,
said in the statement.
sive global economy.”
Bird founder and chief execu-
tive Travis VanderZanden said his
company was focused on improv-
ing the revenue per scooter “in-
stead of spending to grow the
company at any cost,” echoing re-
cent concerns surrounding the
delayed initial public offering of
money losing office-sharing com-
pany We Co.
The arrival of fleets of rentable
dockless electric scooters in ur-
ban centres around the world has
attracted a lot of buzz in the past
two years, with Bird and rivals, in-
cluding Neutron Holdings Inc.’s
Lime, drawing hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars of investment
from the likes of Bain Capital, Ub-
er Technologies Inc. and Sequoia
Capital.
for the plants has not been
concluded and talks could
break off, said one of the
sources, who discussed the
private negotiations on condi-
tion of anonymity.
Bombardier said in May it
would sell off the two aero-
structures operations, including
a wing-making facility in Bel-
fast, as the Montreal-based
company sheds its commercial
“While nothing will be able to
bring back the lives lost or undo
the horrors so many suffered on
that day, this settlement will pro-
vide fair compensation for thou-
sands of victims and their fam-
ilies.”
He said the deal “represents
good corporate citizenship” by
MGM Resorts.
The statement comes as an-
other lawyer for victims planned
a news conference on “extremely
important developments” on
Thursday in San Diego.
REUTERS
But while the scooter compa-
nies tout their environmentally
friendly options for urban trans-
portation, residents in cities such
as Berlin and Milwaukee have
complained users clog bike lanes,
drive hazardously on walkways
and clutter sidewalks by leaving
machines haphazardly when
they are done their rides.
The Caisse investment adds to
the US$273-million in venture
capital Bird previously raised
since it was founded two years
ago.
The Caisse, with $327-billion in
net assets, is one of Canada’s
most active funders of technolo-
gy companies, with a particular
focus on Canadian scale-up com-
panies and startups in the artifi-
cial intelligence space.
aviation businesses to focus on
more profitable corporate jets
and passenger rail cars busi-
nesses.
Reuters could not ascertain a
value for the deal.
Spirit, which analysts have
speculated as a possible buyer
for the plants, has said publicly
its acquisition criteria includes
diversification away from Boe-
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Disappointing delivery
numbers dent Tesla shares
NOEL RANDEWICH
Tesla Inc.’s stock dropped more than 4 per cent on Thursday
after the electric-car maker’s quarterly deliveries under-
whelmed investors already concerned about slowing reve-
nue growth and continuing losses.
While Tesla delivered a record 97,000 cars, it missed Wall
Street estimates of 97,477 vehicles and – more importantly –
fell short of 100,000 deliveries that chief executive Elon
Musk said the company had “a shot” at in an e-mail leaked
last week.
Tesla has set a target to deliver 360,000 to 400,000 vehi-
cles in 2019, which means it must deliver almost 105,000
vehicles in its final quarter to meet the low end of its full-
year forecast.
While supporters view Tesla as a growth stock, analysts on
average expect the company to report a 7-per-cent drop in
revenue and a non-GAAP loss of US$82-million for the Sep-
tember quarter, according to Refinitiv data.
Full-year revenue is seen increasing 15 per cent, far less
than Tesla’s revenue growth of more than 80 per cent in
2018.
“Given the decelerating revenue growth in 2019 and ongo-
ing gross margin pressure, we expect net losses to exceed the
losses in 2018, placing more pressure on what we see as an
already expensive valuation,” Needham analyst Rajvindra
Gill wrote in a client note on Thursday.
The Model 3 sedan was meant to propel Tesla to sustain-
able profitability, but that has yet to happen during the car’s
two years on the market.
While production problems initially hampered sales,
some investors now worry about soft demand for the vehi-
cle, as well as waning sales of its higher-end vehicles that are
more profitable for Tesla.
Mr. Musk has pushed back his target for turning a profit a
number of times, most recently looking to the fourth quarter
of 2019, with the September quarter to be break-even.
Many on Wall Street have grown skeptical of Mr. Musk’s
pronouncements, such as his prediction last April that self-
driving Tesla taxis would be available in some U.S. markets
next year.
Underscoring investors’ doubts about Tesla’s progress
with autonomous-driving technology, a U.S. regulator said
on Wednesday it was looking into parking lot crashes in-
volving Tesla cars driving themselves to their owners using a
recently launched Smart Summon feature.
After slumping in early 2019, Tesla’s stock has stabilized
since June, but it remains down 31 per cent year to date.
To turn profitable, Tesla has put a lid on costs while in-
vesting in initiatives such as building a US$2-billion factory
in Shanghai, as well as planned future models, such as the
Model Y SUV and a commercial truck.
Tesla aims to start production at its China factory this
month, but it is unclear when it will meet year-end produc-
tion targets because of uncertainties around orders, labour
and suppliers, sources with knowledge of the matter said.
“The company has yet to prove it can produce its vehicles
at scale profitability, and we question management’s projec-
tions of what the steady state of demand is for the current
product lineup and roadmap,” Cowen analysts wrote in a
note to clients.
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Cybersecurity is ‘everybody’s problem’
Data-protection experts
urge vigilance in
safeguarding businesses
against cyberattacks
AUDREY CARLETON
C
ybersecurity has become
one of Canada’s biggest
business concerns in recent
years. According to Robert Gor-
don, executive director of the
Canadian Cyber Threat Ex-
change, a non-profit organiza-
tion established to help Canadian
businesses guard against data
breaches, cyberattacks are the
second most common perceived
threat among business leaders in
Canada, falling only behind busi-
ness interruptions, a product of
cyberattacks.
No matter how you look at it,
cyberattacks are on the minds of
Canadian businesses, he said dur-
ing his keynote address at Cyber-
security for Business Leaders, an
event recently held at The Globe
and Mail Centre in Toronto.
In the average office building,
Mr. Gordon said, there are “30 or
40 different control systems.
Eighty per cent of those are hook-
ed up to the internet, which
means every one of those is sub-
ject to a cyberattack by someone.
“Everything we do, everything
we are is now connected to the in-
ternet. You’re vulnerable just be-
cause you’re connected to the in-
ternet. Sometimes you’re going
to be a target because they’re
coming after you specifically.
Sometimes it’s opportunistic:
You just happen to be connected
to the internet; they just happen
to find one of your devices on-
line.”
Speakers agreed that employ-
ee education, knowledge sharing
and collaboration across teams
within a company are vital to pre-
paring for and handling the after-
math of attacks. Cybersecurity is
“everybody’s problem,” said
Serge Bertini, vice-president of
sales in Canada for cybersecurity
technology company Crowd-
SEE AND STOP CYBER THREATS
With the New Standard in Endpoint Protection
Serge Bertini, seen speaking at the Cybersecurity for Business Leaders event at The Globe and Mail Centre in
Toronto along with panelist Melissa Hathaway, centre, and moderator Dawn Calleja, says businesses need to
plan for the worst-case scenario: a hack that causes a company shutdown. GLENN LOWSON/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Strike Holdings Inc.
“People think it’s just IT. It’s
not IT. IT is here to help you.
When you look at this, it’s the re-
sponsibility of all the executives
in this room to decide, ‘How is my
business growing?’ And what
would happen if something hap-
pened to my computers and I
don’t have access to it any more?”
Mr. Bertini said during the first
panel discussion of the morning,
Executive Checklist: Top ques-
tions for business leaders to as-
sess their risk exposure.
He said business leaders need
to establish a backup plan and
budget in the event of the worst
case: a company shutdown
caused by a hack. He suggested
considering questions such as:
“How long can I go down for?
And what’s the impact to my
business?
“Simple things will go a very
long way in protecting your sys-
tem,” Mr. Bertini said, highlight-
ing the importance of basic
cyberhygiene, such as using
WWW.CROWDSTRIKE.COM
strong passwords and educating
employees so they know what a
malicious e-mail or link looks
like.
Panelist Melissa Hathaway,
president of Hathaway Global
Strategies and former White
House cybersecurity adviser, add-
ed that a strong cybersecurity
road map is one that takes into
account international cyber-reg-
ulations. This is especially impor-
tant for companies operating in
multiple jurisdictions, each of
which has different sets of cyber-
laws.
She also underscored the im-
portance of a thorough commu-
nication plan in the event of a
cyberattack. “This may be the
most important thing of how
companies handle it well and
how companies don’t handle it
well,” Ms. Hathaway said. “How
you will communicate from in-
ternally to the company, how do
you mobilize everybody to re-
store? And then externally, how
do you ensure your customers
CYBERSECURITY
and the regulators that you’ve got
things well in hand?”
But a strong plan for recovery
is not enough.
Companies must also figure
out why they’re getting hacked in
the first place in order to prevent
it from happening again. Ms.
Hathaway cited an example of a
company that was hacked repeat-
edly over the course of several
months. Each time they swiftly
cleaned up the mess, but without
understanding the root cause of
the hack, they inevitably left
themselves vulnerable to future
attacks.
It’s not a matter of whether a
cyberattack will happen, Ms.
Hathaway said, “it’s just a ques-
tion of when you’re targeted and
for what purpose.” A growing
number of companies are now
looking to hire cybersecurity pro-
fessionals to better equip them to
handle the threat of cyberattack.
According to a 2019 Deloitte re-
port (The changing faces of cy-
bersecurity: Closing the cyber
B7
risk gap), Canada has a need for
approximately 8,000 cybersecur-
ity experts today that isn’t being
met. Canadian organizations em-
ployed about 20,000 cybersecur-
ity professionals in 2016, but will
need to fill an additional 8,000
positions by 2021.
And that number is only ex-
pected to increase, said Andreas
Faruki, a partner in the enterprise
risk group at Deloitte Canada and
participant on the second panel
of the day, The Cybersecurity
Tech Crunch. Nearly three-quar-
ters of Canadian executives say
they’ll need to bolster their team
of cybersecurity staff in the com-
ing years, and Mr. Faruki argued
for approaching this talent search
a different way.
“Principally most of the skills
and talent coming into the work
force are coming out of the IT [in-
formation technology] world …
and while those are critical skills
to keep the lights on and respond
to the issues, what we discovered
was that cyber is not just an IT
problem; it’s more than likely a
business problem,” Mr. Faruki
said.
He argued that soft skills, such
as communication and creative
thinking, are just as valuable for
handling cyberattacks than tech-
nical ones. “The pool of talent
that we can go after as a commu-
nity to fill those roles, if we define
them well and truly understand
them, expands so much,” Mr. Fa-
ruki said.
Panelist Leah Nord, director of
skills and immigration policy at
the Canadian Chamber of Com-
merce, suggested Canadian busi-
nesses use professional skills
training to regularly keep their
staff up to date on preventing and
responding to data breaches.
“We have to get better at artic-
ulating what we need,” she said.
“We can say we’re not getting the
grads we need. Well, then, what
do those grads look like?
“Micro-credentialing, blended
learning, online credits: Your
training dollars could go miles
starting there.”
Special to The Globe and Mail
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Linamar: Strike has already cost GM more than $1.1-billion, analyst says
FROM B1
Most of Linamar’s Canadian pro-
duction is shipped to plants in the
United States, Ms. Hasenfratz
said, adding the company does
not serve GM’s Oshawa assembly
lines, which are slated to close in
December.
Ontario’s auto-parts makers
employ about 100,000 people
and sell $18-billion in compo-
nents to U.S. manufacturers. GM
is a major customer for the com-
panies in Ontario and elsewhere.
The U.S. strike by the UAW shut
down more than 50 factories and
warehouses in the United States.
GM’s Ontario operations soon
came after, owing to the
interconnected nature of auto-
making.
Production has halted at two
of three GM factories in Ontario.
About 2,000 hourly workers have
been laid off at the Oshawa plant,
which makes Chevrolet Impalas
and GM pickup trucks. Engine
production at the powertrain
plant in St. Catharines has stop-
ped, putting 700 workers on tem-
porary layoff.
Softbank: Prospect of sizable losses has raised doubts over Son’s investment style
FROM B1
SoftBank and the Vision Fund
now face the prospect of harsh
write-downs on some of their in-
vestments. WeWork and its advis-
ers considered selling shares in its
public offering at a valuation as
low as US$15-billion, well below
the US$47-billion valuation at
which SoftBank most recently in-
vested in the company in January.
If the stock market does value We-
Work at US$15-billion, SoftBank
could be forced to take a US$2-bil-
lion loss on its investment in the
office space business, according
to analysts at Bernstein.
The prospect of such sizable
losses has cast a cloud over Soft-
Bank and raised doubts about Mr.
Son’s investment style. And that,
in turn, could undermine his ef-
fort to raise an estimated US$108-
billion for a second Vision Fund.
SoftBank said in July that it ex-
pects Apple, Microsoft and other
companies to contribute to the
new fund, but the most impor-
tant investors in the first fund –
Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi in
the United Arab Emirates – have
yet to commit to it.
Africa: Anti-foreigner attacks in South Africa appear to have intensified in recent years
FROM B1
The agreement seeks to create
the world’s biggest free-trade
zone, covering 55 countries and
1.2 billion people. The Canadian
government, which financed an
African trade policy centre that
was instrumental in negotiating
the trade deal, has voiced strong
support for the agreement.
Studies suggest the trade deal
could boost internal African
trade by 52 per cent over the next
three years. The goal is to remove
all tariffs from 90 per cent of Afri-
can trade within the next five
years for most countries, and
within 15 years for all countries.
But the obstacles to the trade
agreement have already been ex-
posed in rising tensions between
South Africa and Nigeria, the two
biggest economies on the conti-
nent.
The tensions were fuelled by
violent attacks on African mi-
grants in Johannesburg last
month, sparking clashes in
which at least 12 people were
Trichur: FinTRAC has only penalized one domestic bank in almost 20 years
FROM B1
The NDP and Green Party have
voiced support for a national in-
quiry, while the Liberals are vow-
ing to fight financial crime, in
part, by cracking down on tax
evasion and by creating a nation-
al registry to unmask real estate
investors who use shell compa-
nies. (The NDP is also proposing a
similar database and a new $20-
million money-laundering unit
for the RCMP.)
The fact that at least three fed-
eral parties are pushing for a na-
tional inquiry at this juncture
proves just how clued-out our
politicians continue to be in 2019.
Report after report from domes-
tic and international sources have
outlined in painstaking detail nu-
merous weaknesses in Canada’s
anti-money laundering regime –
and in a lot more sectors than just
real estate. The last thing Canada
needs is another costly navel-gaz-
ing exercise that enables more
A worker operates a gun drill on an assembly line for Volvo truck parts
at the Linamar factory in Arden, N.C., in May, 2017. Linamar’s share price
fell by 10 per cent on the TSX on Thursday after it unveiled it is losing as
much as $1-million a day as a result of the GM workers’ strike.
MIKE BELLEME/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
GM’s Ingersoll plant, which
makes the Chevrolet Equinox
SUV, is closed this week for sched-
uled inventory management. The
move, announced in the summer,
has put 2,300 workers in Ingersoll
(Apple declined to comment
on the fund and a Microsoft
spokesman said the company’s
participation had not changed
since the July announcement.)
A spokeswoman for SoftBank
declined to comment.
Mr. Son, 62, built his business
empire on huge bets and an un-
shakable belief in his own convic-
tions. One frequently told story
about him is that he once threat-
ened to set himself on fire in the
offices of a Japanese telecom reg-
ulator unless policy makers gave
him what he wanted. He was one
of the first corporate moguls to
visit president-elect Donald
Trump in 2016, promising to in-
vest US$50-billion and create
50,000 jobs in the United States.
(The pledge was based on exist-
ing investments that SoftBank
had already planned to make.)
Born to a family of Korean de-
scent, he grew up in Japan and
studied computer science at the
University of California, Berkeley,
where he made his first foray into
business – creating an electronic
translator that he sold to Sharp
Corporation.
He started a computer-parts
killed. Foreign-owned shops were
looted or destroyed, and hun-
dreds of African migrants fled in-
to shelters or returned to their
home countries in fear of attack.
The violence led to reprisal at-
tacks on supermarkets and cell-
phone providers owned by South
African companies in Nigeria.
The two countries are scram-
bling to repair their frayed rela-
tions. In a state visit to South
Africa on Thursday, Nigerian
President Muhammadu Buhari
met with his South African coun-
terpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, and
the two presidents pledged to
boost the level of trade and in-
vestment between their two
countries.
But just days earlier, Mr. Ra-
maphosa’s government had an-
nounced it is drafting legislation
to prohibit foreign nationals
from operating in certain sectors
of the economy. It did not dis-
close which sectors.
“We want to strengthen the
protection for the locals,” South
Africa’s small-business minister,
parliamentary procrastination.
Before the next federal govern-
ment spends a dime of taxpayer
money on a national inquiry, it
should dust off existing reports
and enact some common-sense
solutions.
It should start with cracking
down on our regulators’ kid-glove
treatment of Canadian banks.
FinTRAC, which was established
in 2000, has only ever penalized
one domestic bank in almost 20
years. That’s shocking consider-
ing that domestic banks have a
“very high vulnerability rating”
for money laundering, according
to a 2015 threat assessment by the
Department of Finance.
Canada’s top banking regula-
tor, the Office of the Superintend-
ent of Financial Institutions, has
separately recorded 72 failures of
anti-money laundering controls
at domestic banks between 2009
and 2014 alone, according to The
Wall Street Journal. But federal
law still prohibits OSFI from dis-
and 300 transmission assemblers
in St. Catharines on layoff, said
Jennifer Wright, a spokeswoman
for GM.
Ms. Wright said the shutdowns
in Ingersoll and at the St. Cathar-
shop in Tokyo called SoftBank in
1981 and built it into a technology
and telecommunications con-
glomerate. His wealth swelled
during the dot-com boom, with-
ered in the early 2000s and slowly
recovered as SoftBank became
one of Japan’s biggest cellphone
companies.
The Vision Fund has hit some
home runs. The fund earned a
roughly US$1.5-billion return on
its 2017 investment in Flipkart, an
Indian e-commerce company,
when Walmart Inc. acquired that
business last year. Despite mis-
steps such as WeWork, the fund
might only need a few bets that
pay off big to make up for losses
elsewhere, said Tom Nicholas, a
professor at Harvard Business
School.
“That said, when you invest at
high valuations – as SoftBank is
prone to doing – it puts a lot of
pressure on the fund to generate
truly outsized returns from the
successful portfolio invest-
ments,” Prof. Nicholas said in an
e-mail.
Several of Mr. Son’s invest-
ments have been disappoint-
ments, including one of Soft-
Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, told a
Johannesburg radio station.
“Government cannot account
for the businesses done by for-
eign nationals in the country,
and the majority of the money
they make is not banked in our
banking system.”
The planned ban is a response
to vocal complaints from many
South Africans, including those
who have led violent attacks on
foreign-owned shops. They allege
that migrant shopkeepers are un-
regulated and too dominant in
the impoverished townships
where millions of South Africans
live.
Many shops in Johannesburg
are now operated by “somebody
you do not know,” Ms. Ntshavhe-
ni said. She complained that for-
eigners have taken over the
small-business sector and refuse
to employ South Africans – an al-
legation refuted by studies of the
sector.
Peter Leon, an Africa expert at
Herbert Smith Freehills law firm,
said the planned legislation is
The fact that at least
three federal parties
are pushing for a
national inquiry at
this juncture proves
just how clued-out
our politicians
continue to be
in 2019.
O TH E G LO B E AND M AIL
ines transmission line are unre-
lated to the strike, and both sites
are scheduled to be running on
Monday.
The number of temporary lay-
offs at GM suppliers is not known,
but is believed to be in the thou-
sands. Unifor, the union that rep-
resents GM workers in Ontario,
has said 1,700 members have
been sent home from the compa-
nies that serve the Oshawa plant.
The list of companies that have
laid off workers includes Lakeside
Plastics, Martin Transportation
Systems Inc., Lear Corp., Ceva Lo-
gistics, Syncreon and Oakley In-
dustries.
The UAW, which is seeking bet-
ter wages, job security and work
for idled U.S. plants, said on Tues-
day it rejected GM’s latest offer as
insufficient.
JPMorgan analyst Ryan Brink-
man said in a research note the
strike has already cost GM more
than US$1.1-billion, and the De-
troit-based automaker loses
US$82-million in profit every day
it drags on.
GM’s stock price has fallen by
about 13 per cent in New York
Bank’s biggest forays into the
United States: the 2013 acquisi-
tion of a controlling stake in
Sprint Corp., the struggling wire-
less company.
Mr. Son paid US$21.6-billion
and took on billions more in debt
to buy the company. But he pre-
dicted that SoftBank would help
Sprint overtake its bigger rivals,
Verizon Communications Inc.
and AT&T inc., in part by upgrad-
ing the company’s network to de-
liver the better services and faster
speeds. Yet, that promise remains
just that. Excluding accounting
changes that boosted Sprint’s
earnings, the company’s bottom
line has stayed roughly flat under
SoftBank, said Craig Moffett, a re-
search analyst at MoffettNathan-
son.
Analysts say one of the biggest
problems for the company is that
its enormous investments in star-
tups have pushed up valuations
for young companies to levels
that no other investors are willing
to pay. WeWork is a prime exam-
ple. Mr. Son first agreed to invest
in that company after a 2016
meeting with its founder and
CEO, Adam Neumann, which last-
“regrettable” and would violate
South Africa’s commitments un-
der the new African free-trade
agreement and existing regional
trade agreements.
In another recent example of
trade restrictions, Nigeria unilat-
erally closed its borders with Be-
nin and Niger in late August,
complaining of chronic smug-
gling. The effect on local traders,
who could no longer get their
products into the country, was
devastating. And in a third exam-
ple, Rwanda and Uganda closed
their border for about six months
this year because of political ten-
sions between the two countries.
In other African countries,
border crossings are lengthy and
time-consuming. At the border
between Kenya and Tanzania,
trucks must often wait for several
days to clear the bureaucratic
hurdles, despite a regional free-
trade agreement.
There are “massive” challeng-
es to the goal of reducing the
non-tariff barriers that impede
African trade, according to
closing the names of those finan-
cial institutions and sharing de-
tails about those infractions. And
although FinTRAC and OSFI have
started conducting concurrent
examinations, regulators still en-
gage in turf wars.
Equally troubling, FinTRAC’s
maximum criminal penalties for
noncompliance – up to $2-mil-
lion and/or five years imprison-
ment for failing to file a suspi-
cious-transaction report, for in-
stance – are a pittance for banks
that earn billions of dollars each
year. There are other glaring prob-
lems: FinTRAC has no oversight
of some professionals that assist
with real estate deals, including
lawyers. And while notaries in
British Columbia fall under the
watchdog’s purview, those in
Quebec do not. And while the Lib-
erals and the NDP are proposing
national registries to expose ben-
eficial owners, they need to en-
sure that such databases are pub-
lic, as recommended by Transpar-
| FR IDAY , OC TOB ER 4, 2019
since the strike began, compared
with a 4-per-cent drop on the
benchmark U.S. stock index, the
S&P 500.
Martinrea’s share price fell by
nearly 4 per cent on Thursday,
bringing the decline to 13 per cent
since the GM strike started.
Magna’s share price fell more
than 1 per cent on Thursday, for a
drop of about 5 per cent since the
strike began.
Linamar’s update included
warnings of slower sales in its two
other markets, construction
equipment and farm machinery,
owing to global trade uncertainty
and a decline in business spend-
ing. In the automotive market, Li-
namar noted the global vehicle
production forecast from IHS
Markit Ltd. for all manufacturers
in the third quarter has been cut
by 1.1 million units to 21.2 million.
Peter Sklar, a stock analyst at
Bank of Montreal, said investors
overreacted to Linamar’s update
on the strike impact. He said he
has cut Linamar’s expected profit
for the third quarter by 26 cents a
share, putting the strike’s impact
at 13 cents a share, or $13-million.
ed less than an hour. In January of
this year, the last time SoftBank
invested in the office-space com-
pany, the two sides agreed to val-
ue the company’s shares at
US$47-billion, up from the
US$20-billion they said the busi-
ness was worth in 2017.
Another major flaw with Soft-
Bank’s approach, critics say, is
that it imposes few constraints on
founders of the companies it in-
vests in. Corporate governance
experts were aghast when they
learned of some of the conflicts of
interests at WeWork that Mr. Son
and SoftBank tolerated. For ex-
ample, the company rented space
in buildings partly owned by Mr.
Neumann. (The stakes were later
assumed by a WeWork affiliate.)
Mr. Son’s chosen startups may
also lack discipline because he
lavished hundreds of millions or
billions of dollars on them before
they had even figured out what
customers really wanted and how
to turn a profit, said Bill Aulet, a
professor at MIT Sloan School of
Management. “Hungry dogs hunt
best,” he said.
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
Catherine Grant Makokera, a
trade policy expert at Tutwa Con-
sulting Group in Johannesburg.
The waves of anti-foreigner at-
tacks in South Africa, which date
back more than 10 years but have
seemed to intensify in recent
years, are another impediment to
African free trade. Wamkele
Mene, the chief South African ne-
gotiator for the continental trade
agreement, told a panel discus-
sion on Thursday that the anti-
foreigner violence has a “political
impact” on South Africa’s trade
negotiations, even if it doesn’t
have a legal impact.
In an attempt to defuse the
tensions, Mr. Ramaphosa has dis-
patched envoys across Africa to
apologize for the anti-foreigner
attacks and to insist that South
Africa is not xenophobic.
But South Africa has made
similar apologies in the past, and
the patience of other African
countries is waning. After the lat-
est anti-foreigner attacks, African
outrage at South Africa was
fiercer than ever.
ency International Canada.
The RCMP, meanwhile, shut-
tered its national proceeds of
crime and commercial crime sec-
tions in 2012, the very unit that
specializes in money-laundering
investigations. And when no one
in Ottawa blinked, our federal po-
lice ended up taking a five-year
break from investigating white-
collar crime altogether. Although
the Mounties are now under pres-
sure to restore their lost expertise,
a recent review in British Colum-
bia found the RCMP didn’t have a
single dedicated officer investi-
gating money laundering in the
province earlier this year.
Revelations such as these
make it hard to believe that Cana-
da is a Group of Seven country
and a member of the Five Eyes in-
telligence-sharing alliance. And
it’s even harder to believe that
politicians are calling for more
study, instead of action. Now is
time for solutions, not more tax-
payer-funded introspection.
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GLOBE INVESTOR
Regulators Stocks prices adjust lower
for slow-growth world
pass investor SCOTT
U.S. EQUITIES NO LONGER IMMUNE
protection rules BARLOW

OPINION
30%
S&P 500 year-over-year % chg. ISM Manufacturing New Orders Index
70

25
INSIDE THE MARKET 65
Reforms require advisers to put clients’ 20
interests first when considering investments,
G
lobal equity markets were 15 60
but advocates say changes aren’t enough treading water for much of
September as signs of a 10
slowdown in worldwide econom- 55
CLARE O’HARA WEALTH MANAGEMENT REPORTER ic growth continued to mount. 5
Then came October, and that 0 50
complacent tone changed.

C
anadian securities regulators have approved a set of An extremely weak reading on -5
investor protection rules that aims to hold advisers U.S. manufacturing activity on 45
-10
accountable for the investment decisions they make Tuesday sent equities into a two-
for clients, but investor advocates say the changes fall day tailspin that saw the S&P 500 -15 40
short. drop 3 per cent and the S&P/TSX ‘14 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Known as client-focused reforms, the set of rules requires Composite decline by 2.1 per cent.
financial advisers to put clients’ interests first when deciding On Thursday morning, the S&P MSCI World Index year-over-year % chg. JPM Global Manufacturing PMI index
on which investments best suit their needs and do more to 500 quickly dropped another 1 30% 55
clarify what investors should expect from their advisers. per cent as traders reacted to
“Taken together, these changes mean better protection for news that the services sector was 25
54
retail investors across Canada, and a high and uniform stan- starting to deteriorate as well, be- 20
dard of conduct for all registrants,” said Louis Morisset, chair fore mounting a recovery and fin- 53
of the Canadian Securities Administrators. ishing up 0.8 per cent on the day. 15
Part of the changes expand requirements on the type of The Institute for Supply Man- 10
52
information advisers need to collect before assessing what is agement’s U.S. Non-manufactur-
5
a suitable investment recommendation for a client. Docu- ing Index slipped in September to
0 51
ments known as “know your client” and “know your prod- a lower than expected 52.6, from
uct” will add more questions on an investor’s profile, includ- 56.4 in August, the lowest reading -5 50
ing personal circumstances not limited to financial circum- since August, 2016, and signalling
stances, a client’s investment knowledge, a client’s risk toler- that slower global growth, rising -10
49
ance and the investment time horizon. trade tensions and persistent un- -15
However, investor advocates say the changes are too wa- certainties may now be spilling
-20 48
tered down, without any real checklist of what can and can- into services industries.
not be done by investment advisers. “Obviously, it’s good for The U.S. economy had been re- ‘14 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
a client to have a sense of what they are getting relative to silient through most of this year JOHN SOPINSKI/THE GLOBE AND MAIL SOURCE: SCOTT BARLOW; BLOOMBERG
what they are paying,” said John De Goey, a portfolio manag- despite flagging growth overseas.
er with Wellington-Altus Private Wealth. “If an ounce of pre- This week’s negative data surpris- Wednesday. “We stay cautious on JPMorgan Global Manufacturing
vention is worth a pound of cure, then what I’d like to see is es were widely interpreted as a risk assets, maintaining an un- Purchasing Manager Index (also
something that forces [advisers] to comply with directives sign the American economy and derweight in global equities and updated this week). In the past,
and gives investor clients an unambiguous ‘smoking gun’ the S&P 500 are no longer im- global credit, and an overweight I’ve shown the strong connection
checklist of things to demand – with teeth.” mune from the global slowdown. in cash.” between this index and base met-
The rule amendments have taken several years of industry The focal point of the market’s Even before Tuesday’s data als prices. In this case, the close
discussions, which included two consultation papers and concern this week was Tuesday’s were released, Ms. Low’s col- relationship between global
public round tables. At the same time, the CSA proposed ISM U.S. Manufacturing Purchas- league Mike Wilson argued that manufacturing activity and the
changes in 2018 to ban certain investment fees charged to ing Managers Index (PMI), a com- the stock-market rally stage of the performance of global equities is
investors when they withdrew their funds early, known as pilation of survey results from business cycle is almost at an end. highlighted.
deferred sales charges, and curtail some commissions col- prominent U.S. goods providers In a research note Monday, he rec- It’s clear at this point that stock
lected by discount brokerages − or do-it-yourself investing who report monthly on business ommended going long on defen- prices are adjusting lower to re-
services. The proposal to ban certain fees was later opposed activity, hiring and new orders for sive investments while shorting flect the slower growth environ-
by the Ontario government and put on hold. products. high valuation, growth-oriented ment.
“These amendments don’t mean squat if the CSA contin- The ISM index level of 47.8 rep- stocks. So, what now?
ues to allow discount brokers to receive trailing commission resented a significant contraction It’s always dangerous to extra-
or advisers to sell DSC funds,” says Ken Kivenko, an investor- in U.S. business activity and, polate economic trends too far in-
rights advocate. “It’s hard to see how either of these can co- alarmingly, the worst result since The U.S. economy had to the future – in this case that
exist with these provisions as lightweight as they are.” late 2009. A reading above 50 in- would involve assuming eco-
The CSA says it will continue to review the proposal to ban dicates business growth. been resilient through nomic data would continue to get
certain fees and commissions. Investment fees continue to The importance of the ISM most of this year worse deep into 2020.
be under scrutiny for being some of the most expensive in manufacturing data to equity in- despite flagging growth In my view, Mr. Wilson’s obser-
the world. A recent Morningstar report showed Canada still vestors can be seen in the first ac- overseas. This week’s vation that the outperformance
scored below average in an international ranking of how companying chart. The blue line of defensive market sectors sig-
much mutual-fund investors pay in fees. It’s common for plots the most forward-looking negative data surprises nals the end of the business cycle
Canadian investors to pay about 2 per cent annually to hold component of the broader PMI – were widely interpreted provides investors with a key
mutual funds sold by advisers. new orders for goods. as a sign the American trend to watch closely. The longer
Fees need to be factored in when looking at what is in the The chart, showing monthly economy and the S&P consumer staples, utilities and re-
best interest for a client, but it is not the ultimate factor, said data to Sept. 30, underscores the al estate stocks lead the market,
Mr. Morisset, who is also the president of Autorité des mar- consistent and strong correlation 500 are no longer the more portfolio derisking – re-
chés financiers. “You can definitely put your clients’ interests between the S&P 500 and PMI immune from the global ducing high valuation, volatile
first in recommending a product that has some fees that are new orders. While latest reading slowdown. stocks and adding to cash posi-
higher than another product, but the features of the product of the ISM Manufacturing New tions, for example – will be re-
may be more convenient or suitable for the client. Orders Index latest is up – by a Defensive sectors such as util- quired to sidestep an impending
“[Advisers] will need to consider the fees but also all other blip – it remains in contraction- ities, consumer staples and high- bear market.
aspects to recommend the most suitable products available.” ary territory and explains why quality real estate usually outper- A resumption in global growth
The rules will come into effect at the end of 2019 and apply stock prices reacted so harshly to form in the market cycle’s late – possibly as a result of success in
to all advisers, investment companies and representatives, the broader negative data sur- stages. Mr. Wilson’s reference to U.S.-China trade negotiations –
including those who are members of the Investment Indus- prise and why many strategists shorting high valuation stocks is would see defensive sector re-
try Regulatory Organization of Canada and the Mutual Fund are signalling caution. an allusion to expensively valued turns fall back relative to the
Dealers Association of Canada. The CSA says the changes will The PMI number “reaffirms technology companies. overall market. That would signal
be transitioned in phases over a two-year period and it in- our expectation of a weaker The second accompanying an extension in the post-finan-
tends to develop additional reforms to address other indus- growth outlook,” commented chart emphasizes the global na- cial-crisis market rally and a far
try standards, including reviewing proficiency standards, re- Morgan Stanley strategist Want- ture of the economic slowdown. more positive investing back-
ferral arrangements and professional titles and designations. ing Low in a research report on The blue line represents the drop.

Canadian tax law isn’t always kind to spouses and common-law partners
TIM THE FACTORS
CESTNICK Two individuals are CLPs if they
have been living together in a con-
OPINION jugal relationship 12 continuous
months or longer. What, exactly,
is a conjugal relationship? The an-
TAX MATTERS swer to this question matters, be-
cause it can affect which tax rules
FCPA, FCA, CPA(IL), CFP, TEP, author, will apply to you. There is no
and co-founder and CEO of Our shortage of folks who try to gain
Family Office Inc. tax advantages by claiming to be
CLPs – or not – as it suits their tax
ping, household maintenance
and other domestic tasks?
Social: Do you participate to-
gether or separately in neighbour-
hood or community activities?
What is your relationship and
conduct with members of your re-
spective families?
Societal: What is the attitude
and conduct of the community
toward each of you as a couple?
Economics: What are the fi-
spouse or CLP, or any unmarried
children under age 18. Single adult
folks are entitled to their own ex-
emptions.
Private company rules: If you
own a private company, having a
spouse or CLP who also owns
their own corporation could re-
sult in the companies being asso-
ciated if either of you also owns 25
per cent or more of the other’s
corporation. Associated corpora-
Canada Child Benefit (CCB):
This benefit is available to Cana-
dian families with children, but is
reduced by adjusted family net in-
come and so could be reduced if
you have a spouse or CLP who
earns income.
Child-care expenses: Gener-
ally, these expenses must be
claimed on the tax return of the
lower-income spouse or CLP,
which can reduce the benefit of

A
couple we know are having
some marriage problems.
To improve their marriage,
they talked about doing more
things together, so they agreed
that exercising would be good for
them. “How’s that going?” I asked
the wife. “Well, if jumping to con-
clusions, stretching the truth and
running up bills can be called ex-
ercise, then everything is fine,”
she said to me.
As if marriage isn’t hard
enough, the taxman may not
help. Last week I shared some of
the tax benefits of having a
spouse. This week, I want to share
some of the tax challenges. You
may recall that both married
spouses and common-law part-
ners (CLPs) are treated the same
under our tax law. Let me first
make a few comments about who
is a CLP.
situation.
There are certain factors that
have been established by the
courts to be relevant in determin-
ing whether you’re a CLP. These
factors get very personal, as you’ll
see, but if the taxman has con-
cerns about your status, a discus-
sion about some of these factors
with the taxman is a very real pos-
sibility.
Shelter: Do you live under the
same roof? What are the sleeping
arrangements? Does anyone else
occupy the dwelling?
Personal behaviour: Do you
have sexual relations? Do you
maintain an attitude of fidelity to
each other? Do you communicate
on a personal level, eat together,
assist each other during problems
or illness and buy gifts for each
other on special occasions?
Services: What is your con-
duct in relation to preparation of
meals, washing clothes, shop-
nancial arrangements between
you regarding payment for the ne-
cessities of life (food, clothing,
shelter, etc.)? What are the ar-
rangements around the acquisi-
tion and ownership of property?
Children: What is your atti-
tude and conduct regarding any
children?
In reality, the above factors may
be present in varying degrees. Not
all of these need to be present for a
relationship to be considered con-
jugal and for you to be considered
a CLP by the taxman.
THE BAD
If you’re a married spouse or a
CLP, here are a few rules in our tax
law that may leave you worse off
from a tax perspective.
Principal residence exemp-
tion: Sorry, but there’s only one
exemption allowed per family
unit, which includes you, your
tions have to share the $500,000
small business limit normally
available to reduce the tax rate on
the first $500,000 of active busi-
ness income. Further, if you re-
ceive dividends, interest or bene-
fits from a corporation in which
your spouse or CLP has a signifi-
cant interest (more than 10 per
cent) or is actively engaged, the
income could be taxed at the
highest rate under the “tax on
split income” rules. Next, if you’re
working for a business that your
spouse or CLP controls, your earn-
ings may not be insurable, which
means you may not be able to
make employment insurance
claims. Finally, if your corporation
does business with another cor-
poration in which your spouse or
CLP has an ownership interest,
the earnings from the inter-cor-
porate revenues may not be eligi-
ble for the small-business deduc-
tion.
the deduction.
Home Buyer’s Plan: As a first-
time home buyer, you may not
qualify to make withdrawals from
your registered retirement sav-
ings plan (RRSP) under the Home
Buyer’s Plan if your spouse or CLP
has owned a home, in which you
lived, in the four preceding years.
Guaranteed Income Supple-
ment (GIS): The benefit could be
paid to you if your income is low.
The GIS, however, is reduced by
family income and the benefit for
each person is less for couples
than for a single person.
GST/HST credit: This credit is
lower for spouses and CLPs com-
bined than for two single individ-
uals.
Social assistance payments:
These assistance payments are in-
cluded in the income of the higher
income spouse, resulting in more
tax and could affect income-test-
ed benefits.
FRI DAY , OCTOBE R 4, 2019 | T HE GLO BE AN D MAI L O
Neglected stocks are
not always bargains
ROBERT TATTERSALL
OPINION
CFA, co-founder of the Saxon family
of mutual funds and the retired chief
investment officer of Mackenzie
Investments
A
s a small cap value investor,
I recognize that many of
the stocks in my portfolio
have little or no sell-side research
coverage. In fact, I often argue
that this neglect creates the value
opportunity that will be correct-
ed as analyst coverage emerges to
fill the void. As further evidence, I
would point out that back in 1985,
Avner Arbel, a professor at Cor-
nell University, wrote a book that
asserted that both small cap and
value stocks were highly correlat-
ed with analyst neglect. Neglect is
in fact a bigger contributor to val-
ue added than either a small cap
or value strategy alone.
Now, a recent article in Bri-
tain’s Sunday Times by reporter
Sabah Meddings suggests that
there may be a different outcome
from a dearth of analyst coverage
– and it will not be positive.
At the beginning of 2018, Brit-
ish regulators introduced the
Markets in Financial Instruments
Directive II (MiFID II), which re-
quires fund managers to pay sep-
arately for investment research
produced by brokerage firms.
Previously, this sell-side research
was provided “free”: It was bun-
dled into the commissions
charged for trading shares on the
assumption that institutions fa-
vour brokers that provide contin-
uing research coverage of their
holdings. Now that clients have
to pay for research coverage with
hard cash, there has been a dra-
matic reappraisal of its value and
budgets have been cut by be-
tween 20 per cent and 30 per cent.
The intent of MiFID II was to
increase transparency and re-
duce costs for investors and this
goal has apparently been
achieved: Last year, British inves-
tors saw a reduction in charges
Here’s how dividend investors can tap into global infrastructure
SCOTT CLAYTON
NUMBER CRUNCHER
MBA, senior analyst for TSI Network
and associate editor of TSI Dividend
Advisor
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Sustainable dividends from glob-
al infrastructure spending.
THE SCREEN
Retail investors on the hunt for
high yields have company – deep-
pocketed company – that in-
cludes pension, sovereign and
private-equity funds. Those top
players, in fact, have a big edge
given their access to private in-
frastructure projects such as air-
ports and toll roads.
Those holdings can be highly
profitable – SNC-Lavalin Group
Inc. has, for example, won great
returns from its stake in Ontario’s
407 toll highway. On top of that,
private infrastructure is relatively
EYE ON EQUITIES DAVID LEEDER
CANADIAN PACIFIC (CP-NYSE)
CLOSE US$213.49, UP US$1.00
North American railways are fac-
ing significant near-term volume
headwinds, according to Citi-
group analyst Christian Wether-
bee, who lowered his earnings per
share estimates for Canadian Pa-
cific Railway Ltd. for 2019 and
2020 by 2 per cent and 5 per cent,
respectively. “We now expect the
company to face volume slug-
gishness through early 2020,” he
said.
Target: Keeping a “buy” rating,
his target fell to US$255 from
US$275. The consensus is US$257.
from this source of about £180-
million ($296-million) according
to the Financial Conduct Author-
ity.
The collateral damage is that
fewer analysts are now covering
companies and more of those
analysts are “cheaper” junior
analysts. As a result, financial
shenanigans are less likely to be
spotted before they blow up and
destroy investor value in the mar-
ket. The article lists several recent
British financial train wrecks in-
cluding long-haul trucker Eddie
Stobart Logistics PLC, pastry shop
chain Patisserie Valerie and in-
frastructure builder Carillion
PLC, which also had repercus-
sions for its Canadian division.
All of these had suspect account-
ing statements that could have
been identified by sharp-eyed
analysts – according to several fo-
rensic accounting firms that have
set up to fill the vacuum created
by this hollowing out of the ana-
lyst community. These firms are
providing seminars and mini-
courses on financial-statement
analysis for large buy-side clients
such as pension funds and hedge
funds.
At this point, I part company
with the thesis of the article for
two reasons.
First, I cannot recall many ex-
amples in which sell-side an-
alysts blew the whistle on ac-
counting excesses in the Cana-
dian market. Most of the time,
they are cheerleaders for their
corporate clients and are reluc-
tant to rain on the parade. The re-
cent uptick in British financial di-
sasters may coincide with re-
duced analyst coverage, but as we
all know, correlation does not
prove causation.
Second, if companies are truly
exploiting this lack of scrutiny of
their financial statements, then
the solution is not to reinstate
conflicted brokerage research,
but to pursue the business model
that is apparently evolving: Buy-
side investors either do their own
research in-house or they pay for
it from independent research
houses. The cost to investors will
Select dividend-paying, global-infrastructure securities
RANKING* COMPANY
1 Macquarie Infrastructure Corp.
2 Brookfield Infrastructure Partners LP
3 Invesco S&P High Income Infra. ETF
4 iShares Global Infrastructure ETF
5 SPDR S&P Global Infrastructure ETF
*Ranking is determined by TSI Dividend Sustainability Score. Where overall points are the same, analysts considered P/E, dividend yield
and industry outlook to decide final placements. **BIP-UN share price and market cap are in Canadian currency. Source: Dividend Advisor
low risk, with governments often
ensuring they run smoothly with
revenue-supporting guarantees.
Retail investors can’t typically
buy into infrastructure directly –
but they can piggyback on some
big investors.
Our search started with divi-
dend-paying companies and ex-
change-traded funds focused on
top infrastructure. We then ap-
plied our TSI Dividend Sustaina-
bility Rating System, which
awards points based on key fac-
tors:
One point for five years of
continual dividend payments –
two points for more than five;
MINTO APARTMENT (MI.UN-TSX)
CLOSE $23.14, UP 27¢
Minto Apartment Real Estate In-
vestment Trust appears poised
to benefit from taking a “data-dri-
ven approach to maximize its
embedded rent growth prospec-
ts,” according to Industrial Alli-
ance Securities analyst Brad
Sturges. He says that strategy as
well as the execution of long-term
value creations plans will help
augment embedded rent growth
prospects.
Target: With a “strong buy” rat-
ing, Mr. Sturges raised his target
by a dollar to $26. Consensus is
$24.28.
go up, but transparency and val-
ue for money will have been
achieved.
Canadian regulators have been
monitoring developments sur-
rounding the introduction of Mi-
FID II and, at this stage, have seen
no reason to change the current
policy that permits the bundling
of research and order execution
into a single commission. As a re-
sult, there is no reason to fear a
wholesale eradication of sell-side
research in this country from a
similar regulatory intervention.
But the trend toward low-fee ex-
change-trade funds and index
funds will reduce the supply of
funding available for investment
research on both sides of the
Street, so the end result may very
well be the same.
Although I may not agree with
the logic sequence set out in the
Sunday Times article – MiFID II
equals fewer sell-side analysts
equals more corporate fraud
equals more investor losses – I
will concede that not all neglect-
ed stocks are hidden bargains
waiting to be discovered.
As I have learned from experi-
ence, some of them will decide
that the cost of remaining a pub-
lic company is simply not worth
the benefit: They will go private
at a modest price because there
are no other bidders. Others may
leverage up the balance sheet in
an effort to grow to a size that
merits wider investor attention
and self-destruct a few years
down the road. A final group of
value traps will always be on the
cusp of a breakthrough that will
vault them into a new phase of
growth and profitability, only to
lapse into the comatose state that
characterizes their industry envi-
ronment.
Whether value trap or not, all
of these companies look the
same at the time of purchase. In
the years ahead, an investor with
a focus on neglected stocks,
whether large or small cap, will
need to rely heavily on internally
generated research and run a
widely diversified portfolio to be
sure of success.
DIV.
SUSTAINABILITY
TICKER RATING
MIC-N Above Average
BIP-UN-T Above Average
GHII-N Above Average
IGF-Q Above Average
GII-N Above Average
Two points if it has raised the
payment in the past five years;
One point for management’s
commitment to dividends;
One point for operating in
non-cyclical industries;
One point for limited expo-
sure to foreign currency rates and
freedom from political interfe-
rence;
Two points for a strong bal-
ance sheet, including manage-
able debt and adequate cash;
Two points for a long-term re-
cord of positive earnings and cash
flow sufficient to cover dividend
payments;
One point if the company is
METHANEX (MEOH-NASDAQ)
CLOSE US$34.40, UP 18¢
Although methanol prices are
“still scraping” near multiyear
lows, Raymond James analyst
Steve Hansen is maintaining a
long-term constructive view on
both the market and Methanex
Corp.’s “strong” associated free-
cash-flow profile. “We believe the
market is setting up for a staged
recovery in the coming months,”
he said.
Target: Maintaining an “out-
perform” rating, he lowered his
target to US$50 from US$62. Con-
sensus is US$42.80.
R E PO RT ON BUSINESS | B 11
Markets summary
CANADIAN STOCKS
North American stock markets bounced back from a weak
start to the quarter even though U.S. services data further sig-
nalled a slowing economy.
The Toronto Stock Exchange’s TSX rose 0.36 per cent to
16,369.03
Leading the index were Aurora Cannabis Inc., up 8.1 per
cent, Canopy Growth Corp., up 6.2 per cent, and Shopify Inc.,
higher by 5.2 per cent.
The most heavily traded shares by volume were Encana
Corp., Aurora Cannabis and Toronto-Dominion Bank.
U.S. STOCKS
Wall Street stocks climbed after data showing U.S. services-
sector activity at a three-year low fuelled expectations that
the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates to stem a wider
economic downturn.
Microsoft Corp. rose 1.2 per cent and Facebook Inc. added
2.7 per cent, with the two contributing more than any other
companies to the S&P 500’s gain.
A pivotal jobs report on Friday
may contribute more evidence of A pivotal jobs report
whether the U.S.-China trade war
is pushing the world’s largest on Friday may
economy toward a recession. contribute more
The Dow Jones Industrial Aver- evidence of whether
age rose 0.47 per cent, while the
S&P 500 gained 0.8 per cent. The
the U.S.-China trade
Nasdaq Composite added 1.12 per war is pushing the
cent. Over the past 12 months, the world’s largest
S&P 500 is down about 0.5 per economy toward a
cent. PepsiCo Inc. rose 3 per cent
after beating quarterly expecta-
recession.
tions as higher advertising and
new low-calorie versions of Gatorade boosted demand for its
beverages in North America.
COMMODITIES
U.S. crude futures were slightly lower, drawing some support
from the stock market after earlier touching nearly two-
month lows on weak economic data.
FOREX AND BONDS
The Canadian dollar was little changed against the greenback
on Thursday, hovering near an earlier one-month low, as da-
ta showing weaker U.S. services sector activity supported
bets for Fed interest rate cuts.
The U.S. dollar fell to a four-week low against the yen and a
one-week trough against the euro, as investors fretted that
weakness in both the U.S. manufacturing and service sectors
signals a slowdown in the world’s largest economy.
Canadian government bond prices were higher across the
yield curve, with the two-year up 13 cents to yield 1.416 per
cent and the 10-year rising 59 cents to yield 1.244 per cent. The
10-year yield touched its lowest intraday level since Sept. 5 at
1.236 per cent.
U.S. bonds rallied for the sixth straight session, leaving the
two-year Treasury yield at its lowest since September, 2017, as
signs of a slowdown in U.S. manufacturing and services
fanned recession fears.
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SAPUTO (SAP-TSX) JAMIESON WELLNESS (JWEL-TSX)
CLOSE $40.06, DOWN 12¢ CLOSE $23.21, UP 46¢
Saputo Inc. “has the assets and Pointing to a “solid, economically
the balance sheet that position it resilient base” in Canada and
for success,” said Desjardins Secu- “strong” growth internationally,
rities analyst Keith Howlett, who CIBC World Markets analyst Matt
says the Montreal-based compa- Bank initiated coverage of Jamie-
ny is “well-positioned” to benefit son Wellness Inc. with an “out-
from improved dairy market con- performer” rating. “Consumer
ditions when they arrive. staples have become in-favour
Target: Although he maintained stocks in an uncertain macro en-
a “hold” rating, Mr. Howlett re- vironment,” he said.
duced his risk qualifier to “aver- Target: He set a $27 target. Con-
age” from “above average” with a sensus is $24.33.
$43 target, which falls short of the
$44.06 consensus.
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16369.03 | 58.06 | 0.36 % | 14.29 % YTD | 238188 VOL(000) 2910.63 | 23.02 | 0.80 % | 16.11 % YTD 26201.04 | 122.42 | 0.47 % | 12.32 % YTD | 249021 VOL(000) 1947.72 | 9.40 | 0.48 % | 12.78 % YTD

TSX INDEXES AND SUB INDEXES TSX VOLUME TSX 52-WEEK HIGHS
TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE STOCKS $1 OR MORE

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CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
TSX COMPOSITE IND 16369.03 58.06 0.36 238188 14.29 ECA ENCANA CORP 5.91 0.22 3.87 10582 -25.00 ACO-Y ATCO LTD CL 49.00 0.60 1.24 N-A 27.11 DIR-UN DREAM INDU 13.29 0.14 1.06 408 39.60
TSX 60 INDEX 978.16 2.82 0.29 123412 13.83 ACB AURORA CANNAB 6.01 0.45 8.09 9638 -11.36 ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 48.95 0.25 0.51 235 26.78 FTN-PR-A FINANCIA 10.08 0.01 0.10 17 3.07
TSX COMPLETION IN 989.84 5.87 0.60 114775 15.76 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 73.27 -0.17 -0.23 9515 7.97 BEP-PR-O BROOKFIE 25.00 -0.05 -0.20 4 1.58 FTS FORTIS INC 56.48 0.43 0.77 1357 24.10
TSX SMALLCAP INDE 552.29 2.57 0.47 60158 4.66 BBD-B BOMBARDIER 1.57 0.01 0.64 7680 -22.66 BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 55.18 0.70 1.28 213 56.10 HGI-UN GLOBAL TEL 9.00 0.31 3.57 5 10.84
TSX VENTURE COMPO 557.78 2.94 0.53 44204 0.10 FM FIRST QUANTUM 9.81 -0.15 -1.51 5795 -11.14 CAR-UN CDN APARTM 55.67 1.00 1.83 545 25.67 NPI-R NORTHLAND P 25.40 0.15 0.59 128 5.26
TSX CONSUMER DISC 205.33 -0.32 -0.16 8513 15.96 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 45.84 0.35 0.77 5057 8.09 BK-PR-A CANADIAN 10.68 0.10 0.95 4 6.80 PLZ-UN PLAZA RETA 4.45 0.07 1.60 124 14.69
TSX CONSUMER STAP 655.79 4.78 0.73 6735 17.95 HOU BETAPRO CRUDE 4.92 -0.06 -1.20 4994 8.61 CGI-PR-D CANADIAN 25.14 -0.26 -1.02 4 1.58 POW-PR-F POWER CO 49.90 1.90 3.96 N-A 8.48
TSX ENERGY CAPPED 129.35 0.49 0.38 50425 -6.19 CNQ CDN NATURAL R 33.70 0.10 0.30 4736 2.31 DF-PR-A DIVIDEND 10.14 0.00 0.00 27 2.42 PWF-PR-G POWER FI 25.85 -0.08 -0.31 26 1.93
TSX FINANCIALS CA 305.62 -0.34 -0.11 38980 13.25 ABX BARRICK GOLD 23.00 -0.12 -0.52 4733 24.80 DRG-UN DREAM GLOB 16.67 0.02 0.12 882 40.08
TSX HEALTH CARE C 80.81 3.59 4.65 19286 -6.06 PEY PEYTO EXPLORA 2.94 -0.05 -1.67 4634 -58.47
TSX INDUSTRIALS C 263.41 1.51 0.58 17489 14.82 BNS BANK OF NOVA 73.80 -0.13 -0.18 4403 8.45
TSX INFORMATION T 108.89 1.65 1.54 4599 47.95 MFC MANULIFE FIN 23.17 0.16 0.70 4126 19.62
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STOCKS $1 OR MORE
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TSX REAL ESTATE C 356.65 3.32 0.94 12826 20.90 YRI YAMANA GOLD I 4.50 0.05 1.12 3575 40.19
CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD
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CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
TSX GLOBAL MINING 73.69 0.12 0.16 139745 8.74 LUN LUNDIN MINING 6.11 0.02 0.33 3493 8.33
TSX INCOME TRUST 233.18 1.85 0.80 11558 24.50 BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 1.79 0.00 0.00 3447 -25.73 AEZS AETERNA ZENT 1.34 0.00 0.00 11 -67.00 IDG INDIGO BOOKS 5.50 0.00 0.00 N-A -51.24
TSX PREFERRED SHA 592.88 -1.82 -0.31 2283 -5.72 ERF ENERPLUS CORP 9.23 -0.01 -0.11 3417 -13.09 AFN AG GROWTH INT 40.08 -0.78 -1.91 98 -14.36 INE-PR-A INNERGEX 13.40 -0.12 -0.89 6 -9.46
TSX TELECOM SERVI 177.11 1.10 0.62 7503 6.35 WCP WHITECAP RESO 4.12 0.00 0.00 3296 -5.29 AUP AURINIA PHARM 7.03 0.10 1.44 37 -24.25 IPLP IPL PLASTICS 7.83 0.24 3.16 393 -21.70
TSX UTILITIES CAP 286.49 1.23 0.43 9391 30.54 BCE BCE INC 64.33 0.32 0.50 3219 19.28 ACQ AUTOCANADA IN 7.49 -0.15 -1.96 70 -34.01 LNR LINAMAR CORP 36.74 -4.23 -10.32 765 -18.90
BCE-PR-O BCE INC 18.60 -0.10 -0.53 1 -12.51 LUC LUCARA DIAMON 1.02 -0.02 -1.92 97 -31.08
BB BLACKBERRY LIM 6.81 0.12 1.79 1844 -29.87 MLD-UN MONEDA LAT 9.65 -0.07 -0.72 N-A -2.53
BBD-B BOMBARDIER 1.57 0.01 0.64 7680 -22.66 MTL MULLEN GROUP 8.15 -0.01 -0.12 177 -33.25
BBD-PR-D BOMBARDI 10.00 -0.25 -2.44 18 -8.68 OBE OBSIDIAN ENER 1.03 0.01 0.98 107 -71.15
BNE BONTERRA ENER 3.93 0.07 1.81 52 -39.16 PSI PASON SYSTEMS 15.31 0.18 1.19 77 -16.29
TSX GAINERS TSX LOSERS CFW CALFRAC WELL 1.35 0.08 6.30 138 -44.67 PEY PEYTO EXPLORA 2.94 -0.05 -1.67 4634 -58.47
TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE TRST CANNTRUST HO 1.48 0.04 2.78 554 -77.47 PL PINNACLE RENEW 7.08 0.33 4.89 79 -41.00
CERV CERVUS EQUIP 8.05 0.05 0.63 4 -36.86 SES SECURE ENERGY 4.83 -0.21 -4.17 1283 -31.10
CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CGG CHINA GOLD IN 1.15 0.00 0.00 75 -27.22 SOY SUNOPTA INC 2.07 -0.06 -2.82 47 -60.80
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CSW-A CORBY SPIRI 17.12 0.22 1.30 9 -7.71 TECK-A TECK RESOU 20.81 0.66 3.28 2 -29.31
IMV IMMUNOVACCINE 3.71 0.51 15.94 52 -46.00 RVX RESVERLOGIX C 1.04 -0.21 -16.80 516 -68.39 DII-A DOREL INDUS 6.02 -0.78 -11.47 N-A -61.73 TECK-B TECK RESOU 20.67 0.52 2.58 1673 -29.67
LABS MEDIPHARM LA 4.08 0.50 13.97 1709 134.48 DII-B DOREL INDUS 5.10 -0.93 -15.42 359 -71.09 DII-B DOREL INDUS 5.10 -0.93 -15.42 359 -71.09 TOU TOURMALINE OI 12.05 0.29 2.47 1362 -29.03
TWM TIDEWATER MID 1.12 0.10 9.80 270 -13.85 KOR CORVUS GOLD I 1.99 -0.28 -12.33 560 -24.33 EFX ENERFLEX LTD 11.08 0.19 1.74 171 -30.66 TGL TRANSGLOBE EN 1.70 0.00 0.00 13 -33.07
MDNA MEDICENNA TH 1.28 0.11 9.40 84 82.86 DII-A DOREL INDUS 6.02 -0.78 -11.47 N-A -61.73 FAH-U FAIRFAX AFR 6.59 -0.01 -0.15 1 -18.74 TSL TREE ISLAND S 1.86 -0.04 -2.11 3 -12.68
BU BURCON NUTRASC 1.54 0.12 8.45 344 805.88 LNR LINAMAR CORP 36.74 -4.23 -10.32 765 -18.90 GTE GRAN TIERRA E 1.52 -0.02 -1.30 419 -48.99 UNS UNI SELECT IN 10.33 -0.13 -1.24 41 -46.78
ACB AURORA CANNAB 6.01 0.45 8.09 9638 -11.36 OSP BROMPTON OIL 1.23 -0.14 -10.22 11 -48.54 HSM HELIUS MEDICA 2.16 -0.09 -4.00 8 -83.13 VB-PR-A VERSABANK 10.00 -0.05 -0.50 6 0.00
DHX DHX MEDIA LTD 2.12 0.14 7.07 117 -5.36 PNC-B POSTMEDIA N 2.05 -0.20 -8.89 1 72.27
HNU BETAPRO NAT G 9.33 0.61 7.00 2425 -46.53 CEE CENTAMIN PLC 1.86 -0.17 -8.37 34 -3.63
HMJU BETAPRO MARI 6.12 0.40 6.99 26 -70.38 VGZ VISTA GOLD CO 1.11 -0.10 -8.26 19 54.17
FRX FENNEC PHARMA 6.02 0.37 6.55 N-A -29.59 HND BETAPRO NAT G 8.07 -0.59 -6.81 2429 23.21
VFF VILLAGE FARMS 12.39 0.75 6.44 456 180.32 PTM PLATINUM GROU 2.00 -0.12 -5.66 28 -2.44
CFW CALFRAC WELL 1.35 0.08 6.30 138 -44.67 AVCN AVICANNA INC 2.20 -0.12 -5.17 36 -64.69
WEED CANOPY GROWT 31.14 1.81 6.17 2416 -14.94 APS APTOSE BIOSCI 2.79 -0.15 -5.10 17 7.31
BLU BELLUS HEALTH 9.30 0.53 6.04 35 203.92 CPH CIPHER PHARMA 1.35 -0.07 -4.93 3 -21.05
PNP PINETREE CAPI 1.40 0.07 5.26 7 11.11 TRP-PR-H TRANSCAN 10.30 -0.51 -4.72 3 -26.06
SHOP SHOPIFY INC 434.16 21.29 5.16 227 129.97 ZVC BMO MSCI CDA 19.44 -0.86 -4.24 1 -0.41
HNL HORIZON NORTH 1.02 0.05 5.15 281 -43.33 SES SECURE ENERGY 4.83 -0.21 -4.17 1283 -31.10
YGR YANGARRA RESO 1.43 0.07 5.15 180 -45.42 CFX CANFOR PULP P 8.98 -0.38 -4.06 60 -44.60
HEXO HEXO CORP 5.27 0.25 4.98 1944 11.89 BDI BLACK DIAMOND 1.68 -0.07 -4.00 28 -19.62
PD PRECISION DRIL 1.50 0.07 4.90 867 -36.71 HSM HELIUS MEDICA 2.16 -0.09 -4.00 8 -83.13

S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX STOCKS

LARGEST STOCKS BY MARKET CAPITALIZATION

CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
ARE AECON GROUP I 17.61 -0.08 -0.45 295 0.00 CHE-UN CHEMTRADE 10.46 0.10 0.97 387 -0.19 IGM IGM FINANCIAL 36.16 -0.46 -1.26 230 16.53 RCH RICHELIEU HAR 25.14 -0.07 -0.28 116 10.80
AFN AG GROWTH INT 40.08 -0.78 -1.91 98 -14.36 CHP-UN CHOICE PRO 14.39 0.03 0.21 2599 24.91 IMO IMPERIAL OIL 32.92 -0.43 -1.29 895 -4.83 REI-UN RIOCAN REA 26.52 0.21 0.80 704 11.43
AEM AGNICO EAGLE 71.28 0.07 0.10 773 29.36 CHR CHORUS AVIATI 7.52 0.01 0.13 356 33.33 IAG INDUSTRIAL AL 58.64 0.19 0.33 319 34.59 RBA RITCHIE BROS 52.16 0.15 0.29 118 16.79
AC AIR CANADA 43.10 0.56 1.32 1001 66.02 CGX CINEPLEX INC 24.22 0.37 1.55 367 -4.80 INE INNERGEX RENE 15.35 0.05 0.33 354 22.41 RCI-B ROGERS COMM 64.96 0.23 0.36 1713 -7.15
ASR ALACER GOLD C 5.54 0.03 0.54 539 119.84 CCA COGECO COMMUN 108.00 1.32 1.24 86 64.18 IFC INTACT FINANC 133.47 0.48 0.36 162 34.56 RY ROYAL BANK OF 105.18 -0.13 -0.12 3666 12.56
AGI ALAMOS GOLD I 7.74 -0.05 -0.64 830 57.64 CIGI COLLIERS INT 94.50 1.07 1.15 74 25.51 IPL INTER PIPELIN 22.48 -0.18 -0.79 2525 16.24 RUS RUSSEL METALS 20.45 0.13 0.64 181 -4.13
AD ALARIS ROYALTY 19.05 0.05 0.26 171 12.12 CUF-UN COMINAR R 13.23 0.25 1.93 518 18.12 IFP INTERFOR CORP 12.86 0.10 0.78 244 -10.82
AQN ALGONQUIN POW 18.32 0.31 1.72 1615 33.43 CSU CONSTELLATION 1323.56 12.60 0.96 45 51.46 IIP-UN INTERRENT 16.26 0.29 1.82 232 24.60 SMF SEMAFO J 4.38 -0.18 -3.95 1127 48.47
ATD-B ALIMENTATIO 41.22 0.82 2.03 3018 21.40 BCB COTT CORP 16.91 0.44 2.67 125 -11.05 ITP INTERTAPE POL 16.47 -0.13 -0.78 113 -2.66 SSL SANDSTORM GOL 7.59 -0.01 -0.13 304 20.09
AP-UN ALLIED PROP 53.31 0.68 1.29 185 20.28 CPG CRESCENT POIN 5.45 0.07 1.30 2817 31.64 IVN IVANHOE MINES 3.56 0.08 2.30 496 50.21 SAP SAPUTO INC 40.06 -0.12 -0.30 370 2.22
ALA ALTAGAS LTD 18.93 -0.29 -1.51 552 36.19 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE 15.97 0.22 1.40 162 27.56 SEA SEABRIDGE GOL 17.01 0.00 0.00 67 -5.60
AIF ALTUS GROUP L 39.35 -0.12 -0.30 60 66.24 CRON CRONOS GROUP 12.38 0.57 4.83 560 -13.91 KEY KEYERA CORP 31.25 0.33 1.07 581 21.08 SES SECURE ENERGY 4.83 -0.21 -4.17 1283 -31.10
APHA APHRIA INC 7.16 0.30 4.37 2939 -8.79 KMP-UN KILLAM APA 20.50 0.64 3.22 376 28.61 VII SEVEN GENERAT 7.67 0.06 0.79 1544 -31.15
ARX ARC RESOURCES 5.81 0.00 0.00 2988 -28.27 DSG DESCARTES SYS 52.14 0.38 0.73 129 44.71 KXS KINAXIS INC 80.79 -0.45 -0.55 93 22.59 SJR-B SHAW COMMUN 26.22 0.31 1.20 969 6.11
ATZ ARITZIA INC 16.20 -0.19 -1.16 509 -1.22 DGC DETOUR GOLD C 20.67 0.11 0.54 713 79.27 K KINROSS GOLD CO 6.41 -0.02 -0.31 2982 45.68 SCL SHAWCOR LTD 14.79 -0.03 -0.20 60 -10.80
AX-UN ARTIS REAL 12.37 0.14 1.14 234 33.87 DOL DOLLARAMA INC 47.71 0.06 0.13 1073 46.94 KL KIRKLAND LAKE 61.27 -0.57 -0.92 698 72.11 SHOP SHOPIFY INC 434.16 21.29 5.16 227 129.97
ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 48.95 0.25 0.51 235 26.78 DRG-UN DREAM GLOB 16.67 0.02 0.12 882 40.08 GUD KNIGHT THERAP 7.40 -0.02 -0.27 186 -3.77 SIA SIENNA SENIOR 19.25 0.30 1.58 211 22.30
ATA ATS AUTOMATIO 17.71 0.08 0.45 107 23.07 DIR-UN DREAM INDU 13.29 0.14 1.06 408 39.60 SVM SILVERCORP ME 5.37 0.07 1.32 614 88.42
ACB AURORA CANNAB 6.01 0.45 8.09 9638 -11.36 D-UN DREAM OFFICE 29.82 0.33 1.12 161 33.78 LIF LABRADOR IRON 22.70 0.19 0.84 397 -6.35 ZZZ SLEEP COUNTRY 20.44 0.04 0.20 41 2.35
LB LAURENTIAN BAN 44.23 -0.04 -0.09 170 16.18 SRU-UN SMARTCENTR 32.66 0.18 0.55 344 5.94
BTO B2GOLD CORP 4.44 -0.02 -0.45 3503 11.28 ECN ECN CAPITAL C 4.30 0.01 0.23 306 24.64 LNR LINAMAR CORP 36.74 -4.23 -10.32 765 -18.90 SNC SNC-LAVALIN S 16.98 -0.24 -1.39 1217 -63.02
BCE BCE INC 64.33 0.32 0.50 3219 19.28 ELD ELDORADO GOLD 10.39 0.00 0.00 738 159.75 L LOBLAW CO 75.20 0.32 0.43 474 23.06 TOY SPIN MASTER C 40.92 0.04 0.10 494 6.59
BAD BADGER DAYLIG 39.49 -0.11 -0.28 112 22.45 EFN ELEMENT FLEET 10.45 0.02 0.19 674 51.23 LUN LUNDIN MINING 6.11 0.02 0.33 3493 8.33 SSRM SSR MINING I 20.23 0.40 2.02 289 22.61
BLDP BALLARD POWE 6.38 0.04 0.63 156 94.51 EMA EMERA INCORPO 57.97 0.19 0.33 1574 32.62 STN STANTEC INC 28.37 -0.32 -1.12 282 -5.15
BMO BANK OF MONTR 95.51 -0.33 -0.34 3024 7.09 EMP-A EMPIRE COMP 36.80 0.54 1.49 1192 27.64 MAG MAG SILVER CO 14.17 -0.03 -0.21 216 41.70 SJ STELLA JONES I 38.19 0.19 0.50 182 -3.58
BNS BANK OF NOVA 73.80 -0.13 -0.18 4403 8.45 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 45.84 0.35 0.77 5057 8.09 MG MAGNA INTERNAT 66.56 -0.82 -1.22 683 7.41 SMU-UN SUMMIT IND 13.15 0.19 1.47 170 37.55
ABX BARRICK GOLD 23.00 -0.12 -0.52 4733 24.80 ECA ENCANA CORP 5.91 0.22 3.87 10582 -25.00 MFC MANULIFE FIN 23.17 0.16 0.70 4126 19.62 SLF SUN LIFE FINA 57.43 -0.20 -0.35 1159 26.81
BHC BAUSCH HEALTH 26.00 0.81 3.22 800 2.97 EDV ENDEAVOUR MIN 24.50 -0.93 -3.66 611 9.67 MFI MAPLE LEAF FO 29.42 -0.30 -1.01 253 7.65 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 39.81 -0.08 -0.20 3121 4.41
BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 1.79 0.00 0.00 3447 -25.73 EFX ENERFLEX LTD 11.08 0.19 1.74 171 -30.66 MRE MARTINREA INT 10.20 -0.39 -3.68 365 -6.08 SPB SUPERIOR PLUS 11.74 -0.02 -0.17 226 21.28
BB BLACKBERRY LIM 6.81 0.12 1.79 1844 -29.87 ERF ENERPLUS CORP 9.23 -0.01 -0.11 3417 -13.09 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 5.35 -0.15 -2.73 1939 -30.61
BEI-UN BOARDWALK 44.24 0.50 1.14 89 17.01 ENGH ENGHOUSE SYS 35.44 -0.43 -1.20 86 6.73 MX METHANEX CORP 45.84 0.19 0.42 197 -30.19 TRP TC ENERGY COR 67.77 0.20 0.30 2384 39.02
BBD-B BOMBARDIER 1.57 0.01 0.64 7680 -22.66 EQB EQUITABLE GRO 104.00 0.72 0.70 35 75.91 MRU METRO INC 58.00 -0.05 -0.09 976 22.52 TECK-B TECK RESOU 20.67 0.52 2.58 1673 -29.67
BLX BORALEX INC 22.57 0.19 0.85 252 34.03 ERO ERO COPPER CO 18.46 0.21 1.15 130 88.18 MSI MORNEAU SHEPE 32.64 -0.10 -0.31 57 30.35 T TELUS CORP 47.45 0.21 0.44 664 4.86
BYD-UN BOYD GROUP 175.70 3.38 1.96 32 55.56 EIF EXCHANGE INCO 38.29 -0.23 -0.60 99 35.49 MTY MTY FOOD GROU 63.49 0.84 1.34 43 4.70 TFII TFI INTERNAT 38.70 -0.18 -0.46 263 9.63
BAM-A BROOKFIELD 67.79 -0.21 -0.31 1560 29.57 EXE EXTENDICARE I 8.71 0.19 2.23 226 37.17 MTL MULLEN GROUP 8.15 -0.01 -0.12 177 -33.25 NWC THE NORTH WES 28.39 0.14 0.50 98 -9.64
BBU-UN BROOKFIELD 51.21 0.27 0.53 57 23.16 TSGI THE STARS GR 27.03 0.54 2.04 1951 19.92
BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 64.47 -0.20 -0.31 310 36.73 FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 572.96 7.70 1.36 27 -4.66 NA NATIONAL BANK 65.15 -0.12 -0.18 1342 16.24 TRI THOMSON REUTE 88.64 0.94 1.07 308 34.45
BPY-UN BROOKFIELD 25.33 -0.10 -0.39 328 15.03 FTT FINNING INTL 21.99 -0.47 -2.09 332 -7.61 NFI NEW FLYER IND 27.10 0.97 3.71 410 -20.39 X TMX GROUP LIMIT 115.22 1.05 0.92 112 62.90
BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 55.18 0.70 1.28 213 56.10 FCR FIRST CAPITAL 22.20 0.12 0.54 359 17.77 OSB NORBORD INC 30.20 -0.36 -1.18 273 -16.80 TXG TOREX GOLD RE 17.21 0.66 3.99 928 32.49
DOO BRP INC 50.92 1.07 2.15 454 44.09 FR FIRST MAJESTIC 12.64 0.01 0.08 659 57.61 NPI NORTHLAND POW 25.71 0.23 0.90 815 18.48 TIH TOROMONT IND 63.42 0.14 0.22 117 16.88
FM FIRST QUANTUM 9.81 -0.15 -1.51 5795 -11.14 NVU-UN NORTHVIEW 29.15 0.29 1.00 119 19.08 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 73.27 -0.17 -0.23 9515 7.97
CAR-UN CDN APARTM 55.67 1.00 1.83 545 25.67 FSV FIRSTSERVICE 133.77 2.35 1.79 45 42.78 NWH-UN NORTHWEST 11.72 0.13 1.12 216 23.63 TOU TOURMALINE OI 12.05 0.29 2.47 1362 -29.03
CNQ CDN NATURAL R 33.70 0.10 0.30 4736 2.31 FTS FORTIS INC 56.48 0.43 0.77 1357 24.10 NG NOVAGOLD RES I 8.45 0.04 0.48 308 55.90 TA TRANSALTA CORP 8.75 0.04 0.46 291 56.53
CWB CDN WESTERN B 32.63 0.07 0.21 121 25.31 FNV FRANCO-NEVADA 123.68 0.58 0.47 741 29.20 NTR NUTRIEN LTD 64.77 -0.79 -1.21 1177 1.01 RNW TRANSALTA REN 13.89 0.10 0.73 413 33.94
GIB-A CGI GROUP I 101.64 -0.32 -0.31 630 21.72 FRU FREEHOLD ROYA 7.05 0.00 0.00 331 -14.75 TCL-A TRANSCONTIN 15.16 -0.04 -0.26 199 -21.45
CIX CI FINANCIAL 18.53 -0.15 -0.80 403 7.23 FEC FRONTERA ENER 11.69 -0.17 -1.43 127 -12.63 OGC OCEANAGOLD CO 3.54 -0.03 -0.84 1140 -28.92 TCN TRICON CAPITA 9.98 -0.09 -0.89 2090 2.99
CAE CAE INC 32.46 0.06 0.19 507 29.37 ONEX ONEX CORP 79.02 0.28 0.36 371 6.28
CCO CAMECO CORP 12.48 0.11 0.89 468 -19.38 MIC GENWORTH MI C 52.07 -0.06 -0.12 95 29.53 OTEX OPEN TEXT CO 53.32 0.58 1.10 737 19.82 VET VERMILION ENE 20.67 0.46 2.28 2349 -28.13
GOOS CANADA GOOSE 52.44 0.47 0.90 416 -12.13 GEI GIBSON ENERGY 22.30 -0.01 -0.04 447 19.38 OR OSISKO GOLD RO 12.67 -0.06 -0.47 697 5.85
CM CANADIAN IMPER 106.72 -0.51 -0.48 2984 4.96 GIL GILDAN ACTIVE 46.71 0.28 0.60 316 12.72 WSP WSP GLOBAL IN 75.85 0.01 0.01 143 29.28
CNR CANADIAN NATI 113.52 0.51 0.45 1848 12.27 GTE GRAN TIERRA E 1.52 -0.02 -1.30 419 -48.99 PAAS PAN AMERICAN 21.23 0.08 0.38 444 6.52 WCN WASTE CONNECT 122.07 1.75 1.45 201 20.47
CP CANADIAN PACIF 284.79 1.64 0.58 240 17.57 GRT-UN GRANITE RE 64.56 1.07 1.69 178 21.33 PXT PAREX RESOURC 19.22 0.06 0.31 684 17.55 WDO WESDOME GOLD 6.21 -0.01 -0.16 400 40.18
CTC-A CANADIAN TI 143.19 -3.95 -2.68 502 0.32 GC GREAT CANADIAN 40.56 -0.26 -0.64 234 -15.27 PKI PARKLAND FUEL 43.30 0.89 2.10 224 22.52 WFT WEST FRASER T 51.42 0.41 0.80 291 -23.75
CU CANADIAN UTILI 39.15 0.14 0.36 308 25.00 GWO GREAT-WEST LI 30.40 -0.11 -0.36 449 7.88 PSI PASON SYSTEMS 15.31 0.18 1.19 77 -16.29 WJA WESTJET AIRLI 30.60 -0.04 -0.13 430 70.00
CFP CANFOR CORP 15.42 0.02 0.13 108 -6.72 PPL PEMBINA PIPEL 47.55 0.13 0.27 919 17.38 WN WESTON GEORGE 111.07 0.34 0.31 183 23.34
WEED CANOPY GROWT 31.14 1.81 6.17 2416 -14.94 HR-UN H&R REAL ES 23.10 0.16 0.70 1736 11.86 POW POWER CORPORA 29.64 -0.02 -0.07 2082 20.83 WTE WESTSHORE TER 19.30 0.01 0.05 281 -6.22
CPX CAPITAL POWER 30.79 0.28 0.92 435 15.80 HEXO HEXO CORP 5.27 0.25 4.98 1944 11.89 PWF POWER FINANCI 29.72 -0.04 -0.13 1307 15.06 WPM WHEATON PRECI 35.41 -0.52 -1.45 1347 32.87
CJT CARGOJET INC 92.25 1.24 1.36 56 30.32 HCG HOME CAPITAL 24.97 0.35 1.42 153 73.40 PSK PRAIRIESKY RO 17.15 -0.31 -1.78 423 -2.94 WCP WHITECAP RESO 4.12 0.00 0.00 3296 -5.29
CAS CASCADES INC 11.13 -0.01 -0.09 158 8.80 HBM HUDBAY MINERA 4.38 -0.02 -0.45 845 -32.20 PBH PREMIUM BRAND 93.03 0.59 0.64 41 24.27 WPK WINPAK LTD 45.98 -0.71 -1.52 49 -3.71
CCL-B CCL INDUSTR 54.77 0.15 0.27 307 9.41 HBC HUDSONS BAY C 9.93 0.00 0.00 192 36.21 PVG PRETIUM RESOU 15.68 -0.11 -0.70 529 35.52
CLS CELESTICA INC 8.81 -0.33 -3.61 215 -26.34 HSE HUSKY ENERGY 9.05 0.35 4.02 1797 -35.86 YRI YAMANA GOLD I 4.50 0.05 1.12 3575 40.19
CVE CENOVUS ENERG 11.71 0.08 0.69 2550 21.98 H HYDRO ONE LIMIT 24.80 0.01 0.04 432 22.47 QBR-B QUEBECOR IN 30.36 0.33 1.10 482 5.64
CG CENTERRA GOLD 11.78 0.09 0.77 988 101.02
CSH-UN CHARTWELL 14.63 0.23 1.60 362 7.02 IMG IAMGOLD CORP 4.71 -0.06 -1.26 2404 -5.99 QSR RESTAURANT BR 95.21 1.08 1.15 469 33.50

ETFS BONDS CURRENCIES

STOCKS $1 OR MORE CANADA FOREIGN EXCHANGE CROSS RATES

CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD TERM YIELD CHG CAD USD AUD EUR GBP JPY CHF
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
2-YEAR 1.49 -0.04 CAD - 0.7496 1.1115 0.6832 0.6076 80.112 0.7482
HGD BETAPRO CDN G 4.26 0.01 0.24 910 -51.81 HZU BETAPRO SILVE 13.00 0.06 0.46 260 16.28 5-YEAR 1.34 -0.03 USD 1.3334 - 1.4827 0.9115 0.8106 106.88 0.9981
HGU BETAPRO CDN G 17.07 -0.13 -0.76 947 67.03 XEG ISHARES S&P T 8.29 0.03 0.36 1042 -5.80 10-YEAR 1.32 -0.03 AUD 0.8988 0.6740 - 0.6145 0.5464 72.049 0.6731
HMMJ HORIZONS MAR 12.12 0.42 3.59 620 -15.54 XFN ISHARES S&P T 38.32 -0.04 -0.10 683 13.37 30-YEAR 1.49 -0.02 EUR 1.4620 1.0965 1.6257 - 0.8886 117.19 1.0947
HND BETAPRO NAT G 8.07 -0.59 -6.81 2429 23.21 XGD ISHARES S&P/T 15.03 0.00 0.00 771 28.46 GBP 1.6443 1.2333 1.8285 1.1241 - 131.81 1.2310
HNU BETAPRO NAT G 9.33 0.61 7.00 2425 -46.53 XIC ISHARES CORE 26.04 0.08 0.31 699 14.26 JPY 0.0125 0.0094 0.0139 0.0085 0.0076 - 0.9334
HOD BETAPRO CRUDE 5.29 0.07 1.34 2496 -40.02 XIU ISHARES S&P T 24.64 0.09 0.37 2312 13.97 RATES RATE CHG CHF 1.3347 1.0006 1.4840 0.9123 0.8112 106.94 -
HOU BETAPRO CRUDE 4.92 -0.06 -1.20 4994 8.61 XRE ISHARES S&P T 20.13 0.24 1.21 235 19.89
HQD BETAPRO NASDA 5.37 -0.11 -2.01 522 -34.91 XSP ISHARES CORE 32.32 0.26 0.81 1024 15.43 BOFC OVERNIGHT TARGET 1.75 UNCH
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SPORTS
In the ALDS, two heavyweights – the Yankees and
the Twins – will face off in a matchup set to be one
for the books. Meanwhile, the Astros aren’t holding
anything back as they prepare to face the Rays B14

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Jets fail to take off

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Art installation, retro nights in store for Raptors’ 25th anniversary

RACHEL BRADY TORONTO themed art installation will holds up five fingers. to be revealed at Nuit Blanche at
come to life during Toronto’s all- “We pride ourselves on being the corner of Queen and Bay
night contemporary-art show- different,” said Jerry Ferguson, Streets, in front of Toronto’s Old

W
hat do you get when the
Raptors’ NBA cham-
pionship celebration in-
tersects with its 25th anniversary
season? An unprecedented occa-
sion for the club’s marketing de-
partment to dial up its imagina-
tion.
Plans for this distinctive sea-
son include a pop-up museum of
its 2019 championship memora-
bilia inside Scotiabank Arena’s
Galleria, and replica champion-
ship rings for the fans inside. A
series of 95-Rewind nights will
refashion the original hardwood
court from the team’s first
season, as well as the white dino-
saur jersey. An 18-foot Raptors-
case Nuit Blanche this weekend,
before moving to fan-filled Juras-
sic Park for opening night.
The club eschewed the tradi-
tional idea of a 25th-anniversary
logo.
It wanted to break from what
it calls a “sea of same,” NBA
teams that have commemorated
milestone seasons with conven-
tional logos featuring block
numbers, roman numerals or
flowing banners.
Instead of a logo, the Raptors
will promote a simple gesture
they hope fans across Canada
will flash with their two hands –
a 25. One hand holds up two fin-
gers, like a peace sign; the other
We pride ourselves
on being different.
We wanted to find a
way for it to be
participatory for our
fans, and not just
give them a logo
that they can get
on a T-shirt or hat.
JERRY FERGUSON
SENIOR DIRECTOR
OF MARKETING AT MLSE
senior director of marketing at
Maple Leaf Sports and Entertain-
ment, as he stood beside a row of
posters in a suite at Scotiabank
Arena, to unveil the creative di-
rection for the Raptors season.
“We wanted to find a way for it to
be participatory for our fans, and
not just give them a logo that
they can get on a T-shirt or hat.”
MLSE’s marketing team hopes
that fans, who embraced the We
The North battle cry, find their
own unique ways to adopt the
two-handed gesture – using it in
selfies, making it with anything
from emojis to foam fingers.
The 2-5 gesture is the inspira-
tion for the giant art installation
City Hall.
The Raptors commissioned
Toronto artists Esmaa Moha-
moud and Bryan Espiritu to cre-
ate two hands that stand 18-feet
tall, modelling that gesture. One
giant hand shows an intricate
canvas that illustrates the first 25
years of the franchise, while
another five-fingered hand fea-
tures chevrons on an open palm
to illustrate that the future is
within reach.
The giant hands will move to
Jurassic Park, outside Scotiabank
Arena, in time for the Raptors’
home opener against the New
Orleans Pelicans on Oct. 22.
RAPTORS, B16
B 14 BASEBALL O THE G LO B E AND M AIL | FR IDAY , OC TOB ER 4, 2019

Cardinals score four in ninth to take NLDS opener

PAUL NEWBERRY ATLANTA
Marcell Ozuna and Kolten Wong
each hit two-run doubles in the
ninth inning as the St. Louis Cardi-
nals overcame shaky defence and
a wild finish to extend Atlanta’s
postseason misery, holding off
the Braves 7-6 in Game 1 of the Na-
tional League Division Series on
Thursday night.
The Cardinals, back in the play-
offs for the first time since 2015,
fell behind 3-1 – hurt by their nor-
mally reliable defence.
But Paul Goldschmidt home-
red in the eighth, sparking a two-
run outburst that tied it 3. In the
ninth, the Cardinals blew it open
against Braves closer Mark Melan-
con.
Dexter Fowler and Tommy Ed-
man singled before Goldschmidt
walked on four pitches to load the
bases with one out. Melancon got
ahead of Ozuna with two quick
strikes, only to give up a liner just
inside the third-base line that put
St. Louis ahead for the first time.
Wong finished off Melancon
with another two-run double, this
one down the right-field line.
The Braves didn’t go quietly in
their half of the ninth.
Ronald Acuna Jr. hit a two-run
homer off Carlos Martinez, and
Freddie Freeman added a solo
shot. But Martinez got the final
two outs to claim a shaky win and
put the Cardinals ahead in the
best-of-five series going into
Game 2 Friday. Jack Flaherty starts
for the Cardinals against Mike Fol-
tynewicz.
It was a familiar scenario for
the Braves, who have lost nine
straight postseason series and are
just one away from tying the Chi-
cago Cubs’ record for postseason
futility – 10 straight playoff losses.
Atlanta has not won a postseason
series since 2001.
The Braves snapped a 1-1 tie in
the sixth when Dansby Swanson
slashed a one-hopper that
bounced off the chest of third
baseman Edman. The ball deflect-
ed to shortstop Paul DeJong, who
had a chance to get a force at sec-
ond base for the third out. But the
throw to Wong was a bouncer, the
ball shooting off his glove to allow
a second run to score on the play.
Both Edman and DeJong were
charged with errors initially,
which would have been the Cardi-
nals’ first three-error game of the
season. The official scorer
changed his ruling, giving Swan-
son a hit on his wicked shot.
Wong also messed up an at-
tempted backhanded toss for an
error in the first, helping the
Braves grab a 1-0 lead.
In the end, it didn’t matter.
Yadier Molina of the St. Louis Cardinals tries to avoid a tag from Freddie Freeman of the Braves during Game 1
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of their National League Division Series in Atlanta on Thursday. KEVIN C. COX/GETTY IMAGES

ASTROS BRINGING TEAM’S

Twins versus Yankees promises to be an epic slugfest BEST LINEUP TO FACE RAYS
IN AL DIVISION SERIES

RONALD BLUM NEW YORK

HOUSTON In an era when open-
ers are in vogue and they’re

T
he Bronx Bombers and the Bomba
Squad, matchup of the big-league
heavyweights: Given the peerless
power of the New York Yankees
and Minnesota Twins, their American
League Division Series seems as much a
bout as baseball.
“It’s cool what both our teams were able
to do with the home run,” Yankees slugger
Giancarlo Stanton said Thursday. “Big
punches thrown.”
AL Central champion Minnesota set a
big-league record with 307 home runs and
the AL East-winning Yankees were just be-
hind at 306, both blowing by the previous
mark of 267 set by New York last year. The
Twins were third in the major leagues with
51.2 per cent of their runs crossing the plate
on dingers and the Yankees fourth at 51.1
per cent.
“There have been some wonderful
teams that have played throughout the
course of baseball history, but we’ve never
seen more home runs than we’ve seen this
year between these two teams,” Minnesota
manager Rocco Baldelli said. “The ability to
change the game with one swing – I think
this is going to be a fun series in that way
because the two teams that are playing
probably have that quality, unlike any two
teams maybe that have ever played the
game.”
Nelson Cruz (41 homers), Max Kepler
(36), Miguel Sano (34), Eddie Rosario (32)
and Mitch Garver (31) lead the Twins Cities
Thrashers, hoping to reach the AL Cham-
pionship Series for the first time since 2002.
Gleyber Torres (38), Gary Sanchez (34),
Brett Gardner (28), Aaron Judge (27) and DJ
LeMahieu (26) top the Yankees, still smart-
ing from losses to Boston in last year’s Divi-
sion Series and Houston in the 2017 ALCS.
In a season with a record 6,776 homers,
the playoffs already have been high volt-
age. Batters went deep on the seventh pitch
of the NL wild-card game and the fifth of
the AL matchup.
Now, the Twins and Yankees are ready to
tee off in Game 1 on Friday.
“I feel like there’s so many shifts and so
many different things going on in the
game, why would I want to put the ball on
the ground for the most part? Ninety-nine
per cent of the time it’s on the ground, it’s
an out,” Judge said. “I’ve got three strikes.
Why not take three chances to get one out
of the park?”
New York beat Minnesota in the 2003,
2004, 2009 and 2010 Division Series, then in
the 2017 wild-card game after falling be-
hind 3-0. The Yankees are 100-37 against
the Twins since 2002, including 13-2 in the
playoffs.
Cruz, styling in a shiny Phillip Plein skull
and lightning bolt T-shirt, pointed out
these Twins have high octane bats that
make a difference: hence the Bomba Squad
nickname coined by Rosario. An example
was New York’s 14-12, 10-inning win on July
facing the team who started
the trend, everything’s coming
up aces for the Houston Astros
this postseason.
Houston will start Justin
Verlander in Game 1 of the
American League Division
Series against Tampa Bay on
Friday, then Gerrit Cole on
Saturday night in Game 2 and
Zack Greinke in Monday’s
Game 3.
It’s a group of pitchers that
are arguably the best in base-
ball and some believe to be the
finest collection of arms on
one team in the majors in
years.
“As long as I’ve got the type
of top-end rotation, then I
certainly firmly believe in the
starting pitcher setting the tone
Nelson Cruz of the Twins settles for a run-scoring single in this plate appearance against the and doing all the things that a
Tigers in Detroit last week, but he led Minnesota in home runs this season and his team hit normal, traditional starting
more homers than any other in major-league history. GREGORY SHAMUS/GETTY IMAGES pitcher would do … I love the
three at the top of our rota-
23 at Target Field that included blown leads going to announce a ton roster-wise today,” tion, and I’ll take that model
in the top and bottom of the eighth and Baldelli told reporters. every day,” Houston manager
ninth innings. Yankees manager Aaron Boone picked A.J. Hinch said.
“Anyone in the lineup can do damage Masahiro Tanaka (11-9, 4.45) to start Game 2 Hinch and Rays manager
and turn the game around. Even the games on Saturday and Luis Severino (1-1, 1.50) for Kevin Cash have been friends
that we’re behind, we can find a way to Game 3 at Minnesota on Monday. Lefty J.A. for years, and before the Astros
come back or make it interesting,” Cruz Happ (12-8, 4.91) will open the series in the played Tampa Bay in late Au-
said. “I see the other teams being afraid of bullpen but could be an option to start gust he thought about texting
us, because anywhere we go they all talk Game 4. Cash to needle him a little
about it.” Baldelli, speaking as rain forced work- about their different philoso-
Left-hander James Paxton (15-6, 3.82 outs indoors, did not announce a Game 2 phies on starting pitchers.
ERA) starts the opener for the Yankees in starter, though Jake Odorizzi (15-7, 3.51) is “[What] I wanted to do in
his postseason debut. He struggled in first the most likely candidate. August was text him and say: ‘I
innings this year, allowing 12 Boone dropped CC Sa- don’t know if you’re going with
of his 23 home runs, but he bathia from the roster be- an opener, but I’m going with
gave up just six homers over cause the 39-year-old lefty Verlander, Greinke and Cole,’ ”
all in his final 11 starts. There have been has a sore pitching shoulder. Hinch said. “And the same goes
“I threw a few more pitches Sabathia hopes to be availa- for this series.”
in the bullpen second half of some wonderful ble for the ALCS. Despite their penchant for
the season,” Paxton said, “so I teams that have “I didn’t want to put the openers, the Rays will go with
could kind of get the first few played throughout team in jeopardy,” Sabathia three true starters in the first
hitters out of the way in the the course of said. three games of this series.
bullpen just so to try and “I didn’t want to be selfish Tyler Glasnow will start
sharpen myself up.” baseball history, but and go out there hurt and put Game 1, 2018 AL Cy Young
Righty Jose Berrios (14-8, we’ve never seen the team in a bad spot.” Award winner Blake Snell gets
3.82) goes for Minnesota. He more home runs Edwin Encarnacion, who Game 2 and Charlie Morton,
entered the 2017 wild-card than we’ve seen this hasn’t played since Sept. 12 who got the win in their wild-
game with the score 4-4 and because of a strained left card game against Oakland
gave up Greg Bird’s go-ahead year between these oblique, is likely to be on the Wednesday night, will start
single and Judge’s two-run two teams. Yankees roster after hitting Game 3.
homer. in a pair of simulated games Though all three are starters,
“I’ve grown a lot as a player, ROCCO BALDELLI this week. it’s unclear how long Glasnow
MINNESOTA TWINS
inning by inning, game by MANAGER “I feel 100 per cent, ready and Snell will be able to go
game,” Berrios said. to go,” he said. after both missed huge chunks
Berrios was told with a week to go in the Judge, like most Yankees fans, views Fri- of the season with injuries.
regular season that he would start Game 1. day as the real opening day. Glasnow sat out from May
Baldelli didn’t make the announcement “They can say that 162 is the regular sea- 11-Sept. 8 with a right forearm
until Thursday; the manager appears to son, but that’s spring training,” he said. strain and pitched just 41⁄3
have two classifications of information: se- “This is when it counts. This is when it all innings in his last start. Cash
cret and top secret. counts. This is when it matters. The first said he thinks it’s “reasonable”
“I can save everybody some time and en- one to 11.” to expect Glasnow to be able to
ergy. Maybe I can come up with something pitch six innings on Friday.
interesting to say, but we’re probably not THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK METS FIRE MANAGER CALLAWAY AFTER TWO SEASONS

NEW YORK Mickey Callaway went
11-1 in his first 12 games as man-
ager of the New York Mets. After
that, nothing ever seemed to go
smoothly for him again.
After more than a year of
near-constant speculation about
his job security, Callaway was
fired Thursday by the Mets after
missing the playoffs in both his
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nine-win improvement over his
2018 debut. But a strong second
half wasn’t enough to save the
beleaguered Callaway, who had
one year remaining on his con-
tract.
New York went 46-26 after the
all-star break and made an
unlikely charge into the Nation-
al League wild-card race, only to
be eliminated during the final
week.
“I feel unfulfilled. I feel we left
some games on the field that we
should have won, and we didn’t
fulfill what we really had as a
goal, which was get to the post-
season,” chief operating officer
Jeff Wilpon said on a 30-minute
conference call with reporters.
“We’re not playing October
baseball, and that’s what it’s
about.”
The Mets became the seventh
team seeking a new manager
this off-season, joining the
Angels, Cubs, Giants, Padres,
Pirates and Royals.
Joe Girardi, the former Yan-
kees and Marlins manager, and
Houston Astros bench coach Joe
Espada have been mentioned as
potential replacements for
Callaway. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Barrie content to avoid spotlight Blue Jackets

look to Swedish
While the Maple Leafs have players for
had no end of media coverage
recently, the new defenceman
scoring punch
has flown under the radar –
and that’s fine by him MITCH STACY COLUMBUS

T
JOSHUA CLIPPERTON TORONTO he Columbus Blue Jackets
are looking to Sweden to
help fill the scoring void left

I
n most cities and on most teams, ac-
quiring a dynamic offensive defence-
man in a blockbuster trade would
dominate training camp chatter and
make waves on opening night.
Tyson Barrie has been on the cusp of
hitting 60 points the past two seasons and
figures to play an important role in driv-
ing the offence for a franchise with Stan-
ley Cup aspirations.
He’s also now a member of the Toronto
Maple Leafs, and for anyone not paying
attention, the team has produced its fair
share of news over the past month.
Mitch Marner’s contract impasse and
resolution, the fallout from the charge
against Auston Matthews in Arizona and
the captaincy soap opera have, quite
frankly, sucked up most of the oxygen.
It’s pushed Barrie to the periphery of
the conversation – at least for now – and
that suits him just fine.
“You hear so much about the fan base
and the media in Toronto,” the 29-year-
old said. “It’s obviously there, but I think
it is a little nice to fly under the radar with
everything that was going on.
“It’s made it easier, but now it’s time
for me to deliver and play well.”
Barrie did that with two assists in
Wednesday’s 5-3 victory over the Ottawa
Senators in the season opener, including a
spin-o-rama at the blue line before feed-
ing Ilya Mikheyev for the rookie’s first
NHL goal.
“He’s very calm with the puck at the
point,” Toronto’s Jake Muzzin said of his
defence partner. “You saw some moves …
which not a lot of guys do.”
A third-round pick in the 2009 NHL
draft by the Colorado Avalanche, Barrie
put up a career-high 59 points last season
(14 goals, 45 assists) in 78 games after reg-
istering 57 points (14 goals, 43 assists) in
10 fewer outings during the 2017-18 cam-
paign.
The Victoria native was a key contrib-
utor for the Avalanche, but found himself
on the move this summer along with for-
ward Alexander Kerfoot in a trade with
the Leafs that saw centre Nazem Kadri
head the other way.
“One of the best in the league,” Kerfoot
said of Barrie. “He just makes things hap-
pen.”
Part of the reason for the swap from a
Colorado perspective was a deep prospect
pool and the fact Barrie has only the 2019-
20 campaign remaining on his current
contract, which carries a US$5.5-million
salary cap hit before the possibility of test-
ing unrestricted free agency next summer.
The way high-end defenceman are get-
ting paid these days, Barrie could be in for
a big windfall July 1 if he doesn’t re-sign
with Toronto, but that’s not something
the Leafs are worried about right now.
“He’s got a real good skill set with the
puck, a real good understanding of the
Czech Kubalik has dream debut with ’Hawks in Prague
KAREL JANICEK PRAGUE
by departed star forward Artemi
Panarin.
More specifically, the Blue Jack-
ets are relying on a quartet of
Swedes – two of them rookies
who haven’t played in North
America before – for some scoring
punch as they open the season
Friday night against the Toronto
Maple Leafs at Nationwide Arena.
Twenty-year-old Emil Bem-
strom and 26-year-old Jakob Lilja
played together on the same
Swedish elite league team last
year, and both made the Blue
Jackets’ opening night roster out
of coach John Tortorella’s noto-
riously rigorous training camp.
Bemstrom was a scoring ma-
chine in Sweden. Lilja was signed
as a free agent and impressed the
Blue Jackets in the prospects tour-
nament in Michigan. Both could
end up skating together on the
fourth line on either side of veter-
an Riley Nash.
“It’s a really different game,”
Lilja said. “Smaller ice, so like if
Tyson Barrie, battling with the Ottawa Senators’ Brady Tkachuk during their season opener you lose the puck in the wrong
in Toronto on Wednesday, has been on the cusp of hitting 60 points the past two seasons places it’s creating scoring chanc-
and figures to play an important role in the Leafs’ offence. VAUGHN RIDLEY/GETTY IMAGES es right away. The players are real-
ly skilled, so you don’t want to
game,” head coach Mike Babcock said. Barrie had a boatload of talent up front lose the puck to them. Over all, it’s
“He’s just scratching the surface. We think in Colorado with Nathan MacKinnon, like a high-speed game. Even at
he can take a huge step this year.” Mikko Rantanen and Gabriel Landeskog. the pro level in Sweden it’s really
But while there was plenty of attention He means no disrespect, but a stable of defensive. So just better players
after the trade, that died down quickly in forwards that includes Matthews, Marner and smaller ice, so everything
a Toronto summer that was dominated by and Tavares – just to name a few – pre- goes a little bit faster.”
the negotiations between the Leafs and sents even more avenues for him to con- The other two members of the
Marner – a restricted free agent at the tribute. Swedish coalition will be expect-
time – on a new deal. “It’s a lot of fun to be able to jump in ed to bear more of the burden as
Then after the star winger signed his the play and having these guys looking the Blue Jackets try to return to
big-money extension at the start of camp, for you,” Barrie said. “It’s been a lot of fun the playoffs for the fourth straight
news broke that Matthews is so far and it’s one game in.” season.
facing a charge of disorderly Muzzin, who battled Bar- Centre Alexander Wennberg,
conduct and disruptive be- rie in the Western Confer- 25, will try to fulfill the great prom-
haviour stemming from an One of the best in ence with the Los Angeles ise he showed three seasons ago
alleged incident, which he Kings, was partnered with when he put up 59 points for Co-
failed to disclose to the the league. He just his now-NHL teammate for lumbus and seemed poised to
team, in his hometown of makes things Canada at the 2015 world break out. Veteran Gustav Nyquist
Scottsdale, Ariz., back in happen. championship and is eager is a solid top-six forward who was
May. None of the allegations to see what this season signed as a free agent after regis-
have been proved in court. ALEXANDER KERFOOT brings the complementary tering 60 points last season with
To top it all off, there was MAPLE LEAFS FORWARD, ON pair. Detroit and San Jose. The two are
TEAMMATE TYSON BARRIE
the near-constant talk swir- “I was excited,” Muzzin, slated to skate together on the
ling around who the Leafs who is more likely to hang second line. Rookie Alexandre
would name as their captain before John back and let Barrie push the pace offen- Texier is expected to take Pana-
Tavares was finally unveiled before sively, said of his initial reaction to the rin’s place on the top line with
Wednesday’s game. trade. “It was a nice addition for me and centre Pierre-Luc Dubois and win-
Then on the ice, Matthews scored two the team.” ger Cam Atkinson. Team veterans
goals to steal the postgame headlines But Leafs goaltender Frederik Ander- including captain Nick Foligno,
along with Tavares, and overshadow Bar- sen might have put it best in terms of Oliver Bjorkstrand, Boone Jenner
rie’s two-point night in his blue-and- where Barrie currently stands and where and Josh Anderson all will have to
white debut. he could soon find himself – in the spot- step it up to compensate for the
“He flies under the radar a little bit, just light. loss of Panarin’s team-leading 87
because of everything that’s going on,” “He’s a guy you’ll notice more and points a season ago.
Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly said. more.” No worries about the blueline,
“He’s going to be a big part of what we’re though. Zach Werenski and Seth
doing.” THE CANADIAN PRESS Jones still make up one of the best
defensive pairings in the NHL,
and there is depth behind them.
Last season was filled with dra-
ma surrounding the pending de-
partures of Panarin and Bobrov-
sky. Tortorella said none of that is
hanging in the air any more.
“I think as the season begins
here and all the questions start
coming our way, I think there’s an

C
zech winger Dominik Kubalik has
waited six years for a chance to play
in the NHL. He never expected his
debut would take place at home.
The 24-year-old Kubalik is set to play his
first game for the Chicago Blackhawks
against the Philadelphia Flyers in Prague
on Friday in the teams’ season-opener, as
part of the NHL’s 2019 Global Series.
Having been drafted by the Los Angeles
Kings in 2013, Kubalik has had to wait until
now for a chance to actually play in the
North American league and spent last sea-
son playing in Switzerland. The Kings ship-
ped him to Chicago for a fifth-round pick in
January, setting up a surreal homecoming
this week.
“It’s going to be a great experience, espe-
cially for my family,” Kubalik said. “A
dream come true. It’s something very spe-
cial.”
For Chicago coach Jeremy Colliton,
though, there were no sentimental reasons
for including Kubalik in the opening-night
roster.
“The thing I’ve been impressed with is
his work ethic,” Colliton said. “He’s not a
passenger out there. We think he can pro-
duce offensively, but he can also play on a
defensive line and give the line some
punch, so that’s a good sign for him and he
[has] shown he can be valuable in different
ways.”
It’s the third straight year – and eighth
over all – that the NHL returns to Europe as
part of its efforts to grow the local fan base
in hockey-mad countries such as the Czech
Republic, Sweden, Finland and others.
The interest remains huge. Even the
training sessions for the teams on Thurs-
day were sold out – as is Friday’s game at
Prague’s O2 Arena. Kubalik won’t be the
only Czech player on the ice, with Philadel-
phia winger Jakub Voracek also excited
about playing in front of a home crowd.
Voracek played two season-opening
games in Stockholm with the Columbus
Blue Jackets in 2010 against the San Jose
Dominik Kubalik, seen warming up before a preseason game in Chicago on Sept. 25, was
drafted in 2013, but will make his NHL debut on Friday. JONATHAN DANIEL/GETTY IMAGES
Sharks, but said this trip was more special.
“When I started to play [in the NHL] I
never expected I’m going to get a chance to
play here,” Voracek said. “It’s a once in a
lifetime opportunity.”
For the Flyers, it’s their first trip to Eu-
rope for a game. Chicago came in 2009 to
open the season with a couple of games
against the Florida Panthers in the Finnish
capital of Helsinki, before going on to lift
the Stanley Cup at the end of the season.
Chicago also lifted the Cup in 2013 and
2015 but missed the playoffs last season.
For Colliton, the trip also represents a good
team-building exercise as the Blackhawks
try to get the season off to a good start.
“I think that’s one of the reasons why
you go for this trip is for the guys to have
some time together,” Colliton said. “We’re
going to learn way more in the first game
than probably we learned the whole three
weeks of preseason. I’m excited about that
and we’ll react accordingly. So that’s excit-
ing.”
The Flyers haven’t won the Stanley Cup
since 1975, the fourth-longest drought in
the NHL. The Flyers also missed the play-
offs for the fourth time in seven seasons.
Alain Vigneault was hired as coach to fix
that.
“Obviously, right now we’re in the pro-
cess of making the evaluation that we need
for this team to be successful,” Vigneault
said.
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inner camaraderie about the defi-
nition of guys wanting to be here,”
he said.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CALGARY FLAMES EXTEND
CONTRACT OF GM TRELIVING
CALGARY The Calgary Flames
announced a multiyear contract
extension for general manager
Brad Treliving just hours before
the team played its season
opener Thursday.
The 50-year-old from Pentic-
ton, B.C., enters his sixth sea-
son as Calgary’s GM.
Calgary has made the play-
offs three times and posted a
record of 212-163-35 for a win-
ning percentage of .560 during
his tenure.
Treliving was hired April 28,
2014, by then-president Brian
Burke, who was also serving as
interim GM at the time.
Treliving spent seven seasons
with the Arizona Coyotes as
assistant general manager and
vice-president of hockey oper-
ations before joining the
Flames.
The team’s longest playoff
run under Treliving was reac-
hing the second round in 2015.
The Flames earned their
second-highest point total in
franchise history last season
with 107 points to top the
Western Conference at 50-25-3-4.
Calgary quickly exited the
playoffs, however, falling in five
games to the Colorado Ava-
lanche. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Andreescu sets up showdown with Osaka

World No. 6 Canadian
wins 17th straight match
and will next face the
world No. 4 Japanese
player at China Open for
their first career meeting
BEIJING
Bianca Andreescu’s next test fig-
ures to be one of her biggest chal-
lenges of the year.
The Canadian tennis star set up
a quarter-final showdown with
Japan’s Naomi Osaka on Friday by
winning her WTA Tour season-
high 17th match in a row – down-
ing American Jennifer Brady 6-1,
6-3 in the third round of the China
Open on Thursday.
Andreescu, ranked sixth in the
world, and No. 4 Osaka have com-
bined to win the past three Grand
Slams on hard courts. The 19-year-
old from Mississauga won this
year’s U.S. Open last month in
New York, while Osaka prevailed
at this year’s Australian Open and
last year’s U.S. Open.
It will be their first career meet-
ing.
“Ever since she started doing
well at the U.S. Open, Australian
Open, I’ve really wanted to play
her,” said Andreescu, who is 8-0
SHAPOVALOV LOSES CLOSE MATCH TO BELGIUM’S
GOFFIN IN SECOND ROUND OF JAPAN OPEN
TOKYO When it comes to the
Japan Open, David Goffin is
impressive. And that bodes well
for his chances at next year’s
Olympics.
The third-seeded Belgian, who
reached the final in both of his
previous appearances at the
tournament in Tokyo, advanced
to the quarter-finals Thursday by
beating Canada ‘s Denis Shapo-
valov 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2).
Goffin is the only former
champion in the draw. He lost to
Nick Kyrgios in the 2016 final
before defeating Adrian Mannari-
no for the title in 2017.
Goffin won 77 per cent of his
first serves and saved both break
against top-10 players this year,
with all the matches coming on
hard courts.
“I’m glad I have the opportuni-
ty now. I think it’s going to be a
really tough match. She’s an in-
credible athlete and player. If I just
go out there and play my game,
hopefully I can do good things.”
Osaka has not lost any of her 14
sets during the current Asian
swing, highlighted by a tourna-
points he faced. He is now 11-1
in Tokyo and said he feels right
at home at the venue that will be
used for next year’s Olympics.
“I’m happy the Olympics are
here in Tokyo because it’s a city
that I like,” Goffin said.
The 32nd-ranked Shapovalov,
a 20-year-old from Richmond
Hill, Ont., is now 8-4 in his past
12 matches after a rocky stretch
for a large chunk of the season.
He is currently projected to drop
four spots to No. 36 in next
week’s rankings. Goffin will next
face Hyeon Chung.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
WITH A REPORT FROM
THE CANADIAN PRESS
ment win last week in Osaka,
Japan. The 21-year-old Osaka beat
American Alison Riske 6-4, 6-0 on
Thursday in the third round of the
US$8.285-million Premier-
Mandatory event. Osaka fired sev-
en aces and stretched her winning
streak to seven matches.
“I feel like she’s doing better
than I was last year, so it’s all cool,”
Osaka said. “I have to learn from
her, too.”
The Osaka-Andreescu clash
could have a significant effect on
the world rankings. Currently, An-
dreescu is projected to jump to
No. 4 in the rankings next week,
while Osaka would fall to No. 6.
But that could change if Osaka
prevails.
Six of the top eight players are
in the China Open quarter-finals,
which could result in more shuf-
fling as the week progresses.
Andreescu was much happier
with her performance against the
66th-ranked Brady than her pre-
vious win over Elise Mertens of
Belgium.
“I think today was a very solid
match from my end,” she said. “I
executed the right tactics, I stayed
as positive as I could because yes-
terday wasn’t so [good] on the at-
titude aspect of things.
“Today, I’m really proud with
my attitude. I think that was the
main thing today, and my serve.”
Andreescu saved all four of Bra-
dy’s four break points and im-
proved with her serve.
The Canadian put 63 per cent of
her first serves in and won 78 per
cent of first-serve points. She also
had five aces and just one double
fault.
“She’s a very good server, so I
had to make sure my serve went
well today,” Andreescu said. “I
think when I do play big servers,
my serve kind of levels up with
them unconsciously. I don’t know
how but it does, which is a good
thing. I’m really pleased with
that.”
Top-ranked Ashleigh Barty of
Australia will face No. 7 seed Petra
Kvitova of the Czech Republic, No.
3 seed Elina Svitolina will meet
No. 8 seed Kiki Bertens of the
Netherlands and No. 16 seed/de-
fending champion Caroline Woz-
niacki of Denmark will square off
with unseeded Daria Kasatkina of
Russia in the other quarter-finals.
On the men’s side, Montreal’s
Félix Auger-Aliassime was elimi-
nated in the second round, falling
6-3, 6-1 to No. 2 seed Alexander
Zverev of Germany.
Zverev was outstanding with
his first serve, winning 93 per cent
of points when he got it in. Auger-
Aliassime didn’t have one break-
point opportunity.
The 19-year-old Auger-Alias-
sime, ranked 20th in the world,
has lost five of his past six match-
es.
Meanwhile, John Isner hit 21 ac-
es in a 7-6 (3), 7-5 victory over Dan
Evans. The American will next
face Stefanos Tsitsipas in the
quarter-finals.
Top-seeded Dominic Thiem
will play Andy Murray on Friday.
THE CANADIAN PRESS,
WITH REPORTS FROM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Raptors: Rewind nights

include games against
Leonard’s Clippers,
Carter’s Hawks
FROM B13

As the Raptors receive their championship rings, and the

20,000 fans inside get replicas, one of the 18-foot hands
outside will be unveiled to show its own giant replica ring.
In co-operation with creative agency Sid Lee, the Raps
marketing team had begun conceptualizing its 25th-anni-
versary season long before last year’s playoffs extended into
a championship. They came up with the 2-5 gesture, and
wrote a marketing slogan that could trace back to the
team’s humble and rocky beginnings: “Twenty-five years
ago, we were a basketball team, playing in a baseball stadi-
um in a hockey town.”
After the Raps stunned the defending champion Golden
State Warriors in mid-June to win the club’s first NBA title,
the marketing team added an additional line to that slogan:
“Today we’re world champs.”
“So how perfect that we would have envisioned two
hands in a 25, like they were standing ready for us to drop a
ring on one of those fingers,” said Shannon Hosford, MLSE’s
chief marketing officer.
Raptors all-star point guard
Kyle Lowry gave input on the de-
sign of both the championship The team also plans
banner to be unfurled from Sco-
tiabank Arena’s rafters, and the more Welcome
diamond championship ring Toronto games
made by Canadian company Bar- this season, in
on. partnership with
Damian Warner of London, Ont., performs the discus throw in the men’s decathlon at the world athletics The arena’s museum will dis-
championships in Doha on Thursday. He finished with a score of 8,529. DAVID J. PHILLIP/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS play items from the team’s run to Drake’s OVO.
the NBA title, such as game-worn
jerseys and shoes. The Larry O’Brien Trophy will also be

Canada’s Warner wins bronze
in decathlon at world championships
DOHA
Canada’s Damian Warner is back
on the podium for a third time at
the world track and field cham-
pionships after a dramatic finish-
ing day of the decathlon.
The native of London, Ont.,
won bronze on Thursday, just
hours after leader and world-re-
cord holder Kevin Mayer of
France withdrew in tears in the
eighth event, the pole vault, with
injuries to his hamstring and
Achilles tendon.
Warner, who took silver in
2015 and bronze in 2013, was
leading after the first day and
was second when Mayer pulled
out. But the 2016 Rio Olympic
bronze medalist was 15th in the
pole vault, fifth in the javelin
and ninth in the event-ending
1,500 metres, falling back after
racing into the lead at 400
metres.
Niklas Kaul of Germany won
the 1,500-metre finale by almost
seven seconds to take first over-
all with 8,691 points.
Estonia’s Maicel Uibo was sec-
ond with 8,604, while Warner
had 8,529.
Toronto’s Pierce LePage, who
led after the pole vault, was fifth
with 8,445 points. He was 14th in
the javelin and 15th in the 1,500.
Canada now has five medals –
one silver and four bronze – at
the worlds with three days to go.
Canada’s top showing at the
worlds came in 2015 when the
country won eight medals in
Beijing (two gold, three silver,
three bronze).
Also Thursday, two Canadians
qualified for finals.
Toronto’s Gabriela DeBues-
Stafford was second over all in
the women’s 1,500-metre semi-fi-
nals with a time of 4 minutes 1.04
seconds, while Tim Nedow of
Brockville, Ont., was 10th over all
in men’s shot put heats with a
throw of 20.94 metres.
Toronto’s Brittany Crew fin-
ished eighth in the women’s shot
put final with a top throw of 18.55
metres. She was sixth at the last
worlds in 2017.
Toronto’s Gabriela
DeBues-Stafford was
second over all in the
women’s 1,500-metre
semi-finals with a time
of 4 minutes 1.04
seconds, while Tim
Nedow of Brockville,
Ont., was 10th over all
in men’s shot put heats
with a throw of 20.94
metres.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
swept to the gold medal in the
heptathlon, capping a steady rise
to the top for the British compet-
itor. Johnson-Thompson failed
to reach the medals at the 2017
world championships and was
second to Olympic champion
Nafi Thiam at last year’s Europe-
an championships. Over seven
events Wednesday and Thursday,
however, she built enough of a
points advantage to have a 10-
second advantage over Thiam
ahead of the final event, the 800
metres. Johnson-Thompson fin-
ished in dominant style, beating
Thiam by 11 seconds in the 800.
Thiam already looked to have
given up the fight for gold when
she opted not to take a third
throw in the javelin, the penulti-
mate event. Johnson-Thomp-
son’s points total of 6,981 was far
ahead of Thiam’s 6,677 and the
6,560 scored by bronze medalist
Verena Preiner of Austria.
Bahrain’s Salwa Eid Naser won
the women’s 400 metres in the
third-fastest time in history, leav-
ing Shaunae Miller-Uibo still
without a world championship
gold medal. Naser, who was born
in Nigeria as Ebelechukwu Agba-
puonwu and later switched alle-
giance to Bahrain, took the lead
on the second turn and held off
Miller-Uibo on the last stretch to
win in 48.14 seconds. That’s the
fastest anyone has run in the 34
years since Marita Koch of East
Germany set the world record at
47.60. Shericka Jackson won
bronze for Jamaica in 49.47. Mill-
er-Uibo is the Olympic champion
and won 400 silver in 2015 and
200 bronze in 2017. Naser is com-
peting in Doha while Bahrain is
part of a regional diplomatic and
economic boycott of Qatar that
has been in place since 2017.
On Friday, Canadians Michael
Mason (men’s high jump), Sage
Watson (women’s 400-metre
hurdles), Matthew Hughes
(men’s 3,000-metre steeple-
chase) and Evan Dunfee (men’s
20-kilometre race walk) are in fi-
nals.
The Canadian men’s 4x100-
metre relay team, a medal con-
tender, also begins its competi-
tion on Friday.
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there, and journey out to Jurassic Park for fan selfies.
After the championship is celebrated on opening night,
the franchise will turn its focus to commemorating its 25
years. There will be six ‘95-Rewind’ themed home games,
when the Raps will wear the original white dino jerseys and
play on a purple-accented hardwood floor like that of their
debut season inside the SkyDome.
Those rewind nights include games against the Orlando
Magic, Milwaukee Bucks and Memphis Grizzlies (who plan
to wear original Vancouver Grizzlies jerseys for a classic
Canadian matchup). Another will be the return visit of Rap-
tors NBA Finals MVP Kawhi Leonard as a new member of
the Los Angeles Clippers (Dec. 11). The last will be the final
visit of Vince Carter as a player (April 10 with the Atlanta
Hawks).
The team also plans more Welcome Toronto games this
season, in partnership with Drake’s OVO. That’s when the
Raptors will wear a yet-to-be revealed new OVO City edition
jersey.
MLSE says its research shows an interest from its fans in
revisiting the team’s many eras, from NBA startup, through
lean years, the playoff strides and finally to a championship
team.
One example, it says, was a black long-sleeved shirt that
OVO gave to fans at one of the home playoff games, which
featured a variety of logos from Raptors history. MLSE no-
ticed fans buying them online, on sites such as Kijiji, for
hundreds of dollars.
“We had already talked about wanting to be authentic to
our journey as we celebrated our 25 years,” Hosford said.
“That was just one of the indications to us that we were
going in the right direction.”
MLSE chief marketing officer Shannon Hosford says it’s perfect
that, long before Toronto won the NBA title, her team
envisioned the Raptors’ 25th-anniversary logo as two hands,
‘like they were standing ready for us to drop a ring on one of
those fingers.’ JENNIFER ROBERTS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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Calgary-born Tomori gets first England call-up for Euro qualifiers

NEIL DAVIDSON
England has beaten Canada to the
punch in enlisting Fikayo Tomori,
Chelsea’s Calgary-born centre
back.
England coach Gareth South-
gate has called up the 21-year-old
for Euro qualifying matches
against the Czech Republic and
Bulgaria later this month.
“What an honour to get my
first England call-up. Can’t wait to
link up with the squad,” Tomori
tweeted Thursday.
Tomori’s choice of country is
not unexpected. Eligible to play
for Canada, England and Nigeria,
he represented both Canada and
England at the youth level, but set
his sights on the Three Lions.
“Since his evolution now in the
Chelsea first team, he and his rep-
resentatives have made it very
clear that their primary goal is to
make the England national team
in the foreseeable future,” Cana-
da coach John Herdman said pri-
or to the English call-up.
“The stars align for him, maybe
not for us, if that makes sense,” he
added, citing Tomori’s rise in the
Chelsea ranks under new manag-
er Frank Lampard. “But what a
prospect.”
While born in Calgary, Tomori
was less than a year old when his
family left for London, England. “He’s a hidden gem, really,” viously was loaned out to Bright-
He joined Chelsea as an under- Rob Gale, then the Canadian un- on and Derby County, where he
eight player. der-20 coach and now Valour FC played for Lampard.
Tomori turned heads when he head coach, said after bringing Tomori is not the first Calgary-
attended Canadian youth camps Tomori in for the November, 2015, born player to opt for England
in 2015 and ’16 in Mexico and En- camp in Mexico. over Canada. Owen Hargreaves
gland, respectively. Canada has He did not remain hidden for did the same, choosing the Three
kept tabs on the young defender long. Tomori went on to play for Lions over Canada and Wales.
ever since, with regular contact England at the under-20 and -21 Tomori joins Chelsea team-
with the Tomori camp. levels. Appearing in a Euro qual- mates Tammy Abraham, Ross
In March, 2016, the 18-year-old ifying game would tie his interna- Barkley and Mason Mount on the
Tomori captained a Canadian un- tional allegiance to England. England roster.
der-20 team that included a 15- Tomori has flourished at Chel- England leads Euro qualifying
year old Alphonso Davies and 16- sea this season under Lampard, group A with a 4-0-0 record and
year-old Ballou Tabla in a memo- appearing in seven games includ- can seal qualification for Euro
rable 2-1 win over an England un- ing Champions League play and 2020 with a victory in Prague on
der-20 side that featured Man- scoring against Wolves last Oct. 11.
chester United striker Marcus month.
Rashford. The 6-foot-1 172-pounder pre- THE CANADIAN PRESS

MLB POSTSEASON OHL NFL CFL MLS

WILD CARD EASTERN CONFERENCE AMERICAN CONFERENCE WEEK 17 GP W L T GF GA Pts
Team GP W L OL SLGF GA Pts W L T Pct PF PA EASTERN CONFERENCE
Team GP W L T PF PA Pt
AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST y-N.York City 33 17 6 10 61 41 61
EAST DIVISION EAST DIVISION
Wednesday L.A. DODGERS VS. WASHINGTON New England 4 0 0 1.000 122 27 x-Atlanta 33 17 12 4 55 42 55
Oshawa 4 4 0 0 0 18 10 8 x-Hamilton 14 11 3 0 417 276 22
Tampa Bay 5 Oakland 1 (Series tied 0-0) Buffalo 3 1 0 .750 76 63 x-Philadelphia 33 16 10 7 57 48 55
Ottawa 4 3 1 0 0 12 10 6 Montreal 13 7 6 0 339 339 14
Thursday N.Y. Jets 0 3 0 .000 33 70 x-D.C. 33 13 10 10 42 38 49
Peterborough 2 2 1 0 0 15 15 4 Ottawa 14 3 11 0 238 422 6
NATIONAL LEAGUE Washington at L.A. Dodgers Miami 0 4 0 .000 26 163 x-NY Red Bulls 33 14 13 6 53 48 48
Hamilton 4 1 3 0 0 13 20 2 Toronto 13 2 11 0 256 429 4
Tuesday Friday SOUTH x-Toronto 33 12 10 11 56 52 47
Kingston 3 0 2 1 0 4 11 1 WEST DIVISION
Washington 4 Milwaukee 3 Washington at L.A. Dodgers, 9:37 p.m. Houston 2 2 0 .500 78 78 x-N.England 33 11 10 12 49 54 45
CENTRAL DIVISION x-Calgary 13 9 4 0 349 280 18
Sunday Indianapolis 2 2 0 .500 94 102 Chicago 33 9 12 12 50 45 39
Barrie 4 3 1 0 0 16 15 6 x-Saskatchewan 13 9 4 0 361 294 18
Jacksonville 2 2 0 .500 84 84 Montreal 33 11 17 5 44 60 38
DIVISION SERIES L.A. Dodgers at Washington, 7:45 p.m. Sudbury 5 3 2 0 0 24 19 6 x-Winnipeg 14 9 5 0 405 299 18
Monday Tennessee 2 2 0 .500 91 62 Columbus 33 10 15 8 39 46 38
(Best-of-5) Niagara 5 2 1 1 1 14 14 6 Edmonton 14 7 7 0 338 302 14
x-L.A. Dodgers at Washington, TBD NORTH Orlando 33 9 14 10 42 47 37
AMERICAN LEAGUE North Bay 4 1 3 0 0 10 22 2 B.C. 14 4 10 0 315 377 8
Wednesday, Oct. 9 Cleveland 2 2 0 .500 89 91 x — clinched playoff berth Cincinnati 33 6 22 5 31 75 23
HOUSTON VS. TAMPA BAY Mississauga 4 0 4 0 0 10 19 0
x-Washington at L.A. Dodgers, TBD Baltimore 2 2 0 .500 135 100 Note: 2 pts for a win, 1 for a tie. WESTERN CONFERENCE
(Series tied 0-0) Pittsburgh 1 3 0 .250 76 88 y-L.Angeles FC 33 20 4 9 81 35 69
Friday WESTERN CONFERENCE Bye: Ottawa
ATLANTA VS. ST. LOUIS Cincinnati 0 4 0 .000 57 110 x-Minnesota 33 15 10 8 51 41 53
All Times Eastern Team GP W L OL SLGF GA Pts WEST x-Seattle 33 15 10 8 51 49 53
(St. Louis leads series 1-0) Friday
Tampa Bay at Houston, 2:05 p.m. MIDWEST DIVISION Kansas City 4 0 0 1.000 135 94 All Times Eastern x-LA Galaxy 33 16 14 3 53 51 51
Saturday Thursday
St. Louis 7 Atlanta 6 Erie 5 3 2 0 0 22 18 6 Oakland 2 2 0 .500 79 102 Salt Lake 33 15 13 5 43 40 50
Tampa Bay at Houston, 9:07 p.m. O. Sound 4 2 1 0 1 16 10 5 L.A. Chargers 2 2 0 .500 90 74 Edmonton at Hamilton, 7 p.m. Portland 33 13 13 7 47 46 46
Monday Friday
St, Louis at Atlanta, 4:37 p.m. London 4 2 2 0 0 19 17 4 Denver 0 4 0 .000 70 93 Dallas 33 12 12 9 48 46 45
Houston at Tampa Bay, TBD Kitchener 4 1 1 1 1 13 17 4 NATIONAL CONFERENCE Saturday San Jose 33 13 15 5 51 52 44
Tuesday Sunday
Atlanta at St. Louis, , 4:10 p.m. Guelph 3 1 1 0 1 8 6 3 W L T Pct PF PA Colorado 33 12 15 6 57 60 42
x-Houston at Tampa Bay, TBD WEST DIVISION EAST Calgary at Montreal, 4 p.m. Kansas City 33 10 15 8 47 59 38
Thursday, Oct. 10 Monday Winnipeg at Saskatchewan, 7 p.m.
x-Atlanta at St. Louis, TBD S.S. Marie 4 4 0 0 0 23 13 8 Dallas 3 1 0 .750 107 56 Houston 33 11 18 4 44 55 37
x-Tampa Bay at Houston, TBD Flint 4 3 1 0 0 18 14 6 Philadelphia 2 2 0 .500 110 105 Toronto at British Columbia, 10 p.m. Vancouver 33 8 15 10 33 55 34
Wednesday, Oct. 9
x-St. Louis at Atlanta, TBD Windsor 4 3 1 0 0 16 14 6 N.Y. Giants 2 2 0 .500 87 97 CFL x — clinched playoff berth; y —
N.Y. YANKEES VS. MINNESOTA Saginaw 5 2 2 1 0 21 18 5 Washington 0 4 0 .000 66 118 clinched top seed in conference
(Series tied 0-0) Sarnia 3 0 3 0 0 11 21 0 SOUTH PLAYERS OF THE WEEK Note: 3 pts for a win, 1 for a tie.
Friday x — played if necessary
Note: Two points for a team winning in New Orleans 3 1 0 .750 84 92 Week 16 — 1. Simoni Lawrence, LB,
Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees, 7:07 p.m. overtime or shootout; the team losing in Tampa Bay 2 2 0 .500 123 117 Hamilton Tiger-Cats; 2. Cody Fajardo, QB, Sunday
Saturday NHL overtime or shootout receives one which Carolina 2 2 0 .500 95 80 Saskatchewan Roughriders; 3. Dane Evans, All Times Eastern
Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees, 5:07 p.m. is registered in the OL or SL columns. Atlanta 1 3 0 .250 70 99 QB, Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
Monday REGULAR SEASON NORTH Week 15 — 1. Vernon Adams Jr., QB, New England at Atlanta, 4 p.m.
Thursday
N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota, TBD Green Bay 3 1 0 .750 85 69 Montreal Alouettes; 2. Jake Wieneke, WR, Kansas City at Dallas, 4 p.m.
Tuesday Thursday Peterborough at North Bay Chicago 3 1 0 .750 66 45 Montreal Alouettes; 3. Andrew Harris, RB, Cincinnati at D.C., 4 p.m.
x-N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota, TBD Saginaw at Niagara Detroit 2 1 1 .625 97 95 Winnipeg Blue Bombers. L.A. Galaxy at Houston, 4 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 10 Montreal at Carolina Ottawa at Windsor Minnesota 2 2 0 .500 84 63 Colorado at Los Angeles F.C., 4 p.m.
x-Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees, TBD Buffalo at Pittsburgh WEST NCAA N.Y. Red Bulls at Montreal, 4 p.m.
Florida at Tampa Bay Friday San Francisco 3 0 0 1.000 96 54 Chicago at Orlando, 4 p.m.
ST. LOUIS 7, ATLANTA 6 Winnipeg at N.Y. Rangers TOP 25 SCHEDULE
All Times Eastern Seattle 3 1 0 .750 103 89 New York City at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.
St. Louis ab r h bi Atlanta ab r h bi Minnesota at Nashville L.A. Rams 3 1 0 .750 117 104 San Jose at Portland, 4 p.m.
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How far can Evans and the Ticats go?

Friday’s game against they want to talk about him
throwing for 130 yards and we
Edmonton is a chance win, write about it. If he has to
for Hamilton to nab the throw for 500 [yards] and throw
East Division’s top spot 50 times, then he has to be able to
do that also.”
– and its quarterback Veteran cornerback Delvin
just may get it there Breaux returns for Hamilton.
Quarterback Logan Kilgore starts
again for Edmonton with incum-
DAN RALPH HAMILTON bent Trevor Harris (upper-body
injury) on the six-game injured
list.

D
ane Evans has the Hamil-
ton Tiger-Cats on quite a
roll.
The second-year quarterback
is 6-2 since replacing starter Jere-
miah Masoli (season-ending
knee injury). Hamilton (11-3)
plays host to the Edmonton Eski-
mos (7-7) on Friday night with a
chance to cement top spot in the
East Division.
Hamilton can clinch first – and
home-field advantage for the East
final – with a win over Edmonton
and loss or tie by second-place
Montreal (7-6) on Saturday
against the Calgary Stampeders
(8-4). Edmonton can also cement
a playoff berth with a victory.
Hamilton’s situation is indeed
impressive given Evans was its
short-yardage quarterback and
hadn’t started a CFL game prior to
Masoli’s injury.
“Yeah, I’m feeling more com-
fortable,” Evans said after Hamil-
ton’s walkthrough Thursday. “I
like our game plan, I like what we
do during the week, I like how
open everything is.
“Each week [I’m] just trying to
get a little better at one thing, just
trying to keep my footwork con-
sistent and leaning on the guys
up front to give me the protection
and allow our receivers to get
downfield and make the plays be-
Hamilton quarterback Dane Evans throws against the Blue Bombers in Winnipeg on Sept. 27. He has completed
213-of-304 passes for 2,646 yards with 14 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. JOHN WOODS/THE CANADIAN PRESS
cause we have a lot of weapons. I
think everyone realizes that and
[I] just have to keep feeding them
the ball.”
Evans has thrown for 300 or
more yards in four straight starts
and five over all this season. That
includes a career-best 442-yard
performance with two touch-
downs in a 38-27 win over Toron-
to on Sept. 2 – Hamilton’s last
game at Tim Hortons Field – and
336 yards and three TDs to lead
the Ticats past Edmonton 30-27 at
Commonwealth Stadium on
Sept. 20.
Evans has completed 213-
of-304 passes (70.1 per cent) for
2,646 yards with 14 TDs and 11 in-
terceptions. The 25-year-old for-
mer Tulsa star has added 139
yards rushing and three TDs on 32
carries.
When asked what boxes Evans
has checked off this season, Ha-
milton coach Orlondo Steinauer
said there’s been only one.
“We’re winning, that’s the
box,” Steinauer said. “He’s matur-
ing as a quarterback … he’s going
through his reads, he’s checking
the ball down a little bit.
“He’s made more strides in
practice, the things that people
don’t see, which is why we were
so optimistic with Dane.”
Steinauer said that optimism
came last season when Evans led
Hamilton’s scout team against
the Ticats defence in practice.
“You saw the physical throws
he made and you knew there was
something possibly special
there,” he said. “Obviously, you
have to do it with the lights on
and he’ll be the first to tell you
he’s nowhere near where he
wants or needs to be.
“There is no goal of where he
needs to be, the goal is the win. If
he hands the ball off 30 times and
Kilgore was 19-of-28 passing for
223 yards and a TD in last week’s
21-16 win over Ottawa while rush-
ing for 17 yards and a touchdown.
Steinauer said Evans’s demea-
nour and persona haven’t
changed since becoming the
starter.
“The one thing is he’s been au-
thentic, he hasn’t wavered one
bit,” Steinauer said. “He’s the
same supportive teammate, easy-
to-follow guy that he was as a
backup.”
Evans agreed.
“I think I act the same way, I’m
just being me,” he said. “When I
was the backup, I never got to say
anything before drives on the
field.
“I guess that’s a new aspect,
just trying to get the guys going a
little bit in the huddle. But, really,
other than that, it’s the same
stuff.”
But Evans said he’s had to
sometimes curb his desire for the
big play.
“Sometimes it’s okay to check
it down because we have play-
makers everywhere,” he said.
“Those guys are lethal with the
ball in their hands and some-
times you have to take the short
one and let them run with it.”
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Young guns
are snapping up
starting QB jobs
at a record pace

L
ook out, Tom Brady and the
rest of the old heads. The
young guns are moving in.
Every NFL game in Week 4 fea-
tured at least one starting quar-
terback 26 or younger. There has
already been a total of 52 such
games, the most ever through
four weeks of a season. The previ-
ous high was 48 in 1987.
Brady (42), Philip Rivers (37),
Aaron Rodgers (35), Matt Ryan
(34), Joe Flacco (34), Matthew
Stafford (31), Kirk Cousins (31),
Andy Dalton (31) and Russell Wil-
son (30) are the older starters,
and Chase Daniel (32) is filling in
for the injured Mitchell Trubisky.
Drew Brees (40), Ben Roethlis-
berger (37) and Cam Newton (30)
are injured. Eli Manning (38),
Ryan Fitzpatrick (36) and Case
Keenum (31) were benched. The
NFL is in good hands moving for-
ward with Patrick Mahomes, Car-
son Wentz, Dak Prescott, Baker
Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes, right, seen during a game in Detroit on Sunday, has earned kind words from other teams’ Mayfield and Jared Goff.
players and coaches alike. Colts coach Frank Reich, for example, called him a ‘unique talent.’ LEON HALIP/GETTY IMAGES Impressive Allen: Carolina’s Kyle
Allen has joined Wentz as the on-
ly quarterbacks to go 3-0 with ze-

Kansas City quarterback Mahomes has ro interceptions in their first

plenty of fans – in the stands and on the field
DAVE SKRETTA KANSAS CITY
three career starts.
Pick it: Patriots defensive back
Devin McCourty is the first player
in franchise history and the first
in the NFL since Minnesota’s
Brian Russell in 2003 to record an
field. And he can extend plays with his legs. Then there was Walter Payton, who was interception in each of his team’s
He’s an elite quarterback.” so popular among fans and rivals alike that first four games of a season. Rus-
Raiders cornerback Lamarcus Joyner the Man of the Year award carries his name. sell’s record streak was six.

T
he popularity of Chiefs quarter-
back Patrick Mahomes has soared
into the stratosphere in a little
more than one season as the start-
er, each no-look or left-handed passes
drawing a fresh chorus of acclaim.
It’s not just the fans that are the fans, ei-
ther.
“It’s kind of cool to see some of the stuff
he does,” said Colts counterpart Jacoby
Brissett, who will get to see Mahomes first-
hand when his team heads to Arrowhead
Stadium on Sunday night. “Hopefully he
doesn’t do it this week, but the things he
can do with the ball, it’s very impressive.”
So impressive that Brissett even said,
rather sheepishly: “You just watch and
you’re like, ‘Yeah, I can’t do that.’ But it’s fun
to see somebody else.”
Brissett isn’t alone, either.
It seems just about every coach tasked
with slowing down the league MVP, or de-
fensive guy forced to make a play against
him, is simultaneously challenged and in
awe by what Mahomes can do.
That’s not exactly common in a league
predicated on one-upsmanship, where
players by their very competitive nature
are often unwilling to admit that some-
body else is better than them.
“He’s legit,” said Ravens defensive back
Brandon Carr, who had just watched him
slice up the Baltimore secondary. “He leads
the team. He can make all the throws. He’s
confident. He gets the ball up and down the
was just as blunt – and effusive – in his ap- Sure, he was the record-setting running The 300 club: Mahomes and
praisal after watching Mahomes lead the back of the Chicago Bears, but he also ex- Ryan have thrown for at least 300
Chiefs to a victory in Oakland. hibited such “sweetness” that even Packers yards in each of their four games.
“He’s a hell of a quarterback,” Joyner and Vikings fans usually respected him. Only Peyton Manning (five),
said. “He’s arguably the No. 1 quarterback Mahomes is following the same road to- Steve Young (six) and Kurt War-
in the league. He got a little Tom Brady to ward popularity. ner (six) have had longer streaks
him, a little Drew Brees look, Philip Rivers. He’s doing it faster than usual, too. to start a season.
He’ll challenge you. He can make the The other thing that Namath and Co. Dual threat: Baltimore’s Lamar
throws, he can scramble around, so I mean, had in their favour was longevity. They Jackson is tied for the league lead
you have to cover guys a little plied their trade at the high- with 10 touchdown passes and al-
bit longer.” est levels for years on end, so leads all quarterbacks with 238
There have been guys like and Mahomes has only been yards rushing yards.
Mahomes over the years that He’s legit. He leads in the NFL crosshairs for 18 Larry leaps to No. 2: Arizona’s
have garnered such respect months. Larry Fitzgerald moved ahead of
from their play on the field the team. He can “He’s a unique talent,” Tony Gonzalez into second spot
and persona off it that even make all the throws. Colts coach Frank Reich said. on the career receptions list with
their biggest rivals can’t help He’s confident. “He’s fun to watch, I’m not 1,326. Only Hall of Famer Jerry
but applaud. They tend to go going to lie. Last week when Rice has more with 1,549.
down in history as larger- BRANDON CARR we were playing the Raiders, I Select company: Panthers run-
than-life characters, a unique RAVENS DEFENSIVE BACK was watching a lot of Kansas ning back Christian McCaffrey
combination of talent and City’s offence against them has joined Hall of Famer Jim
personality. and he made a couple throws that you just Brown as the only players in
Joe Namath was that way back in the shake your head and you say, ‘How do you league history with three games
1960s and 70s, when Broadway Joe brashly do that?’ So we respect that. And like I’ve of at least 175 scrimmage yards
predicted a Super Bowl triumph for the said before, I also respect who he is off the and one TD in their team’s first
Jets, briefly owned a New York nightclub field. I think it’s great for the league when four games of a season.
and made so many ladies swoon. you’ve got players that are that good but al- Gore is one of four: Buffalo’s
Steelers defensive star Joe Greene was so are really pros on and off the field.” Frank Gore last week became the
that way in the late seventies, too. His nick- Reich paused before adding: “But make fourth player in league history to
name Mean Joe was contrasted by that no mistake, everybody can be beat in this rush for 15,000 yards, joining Hall
broad smile in his famous Coca-Cola com- league. Everybody can be beat – I don’t care of Famers Emmitt Smith (18,355),
mercial, making him thousands of fans far how good you are. He’s great, but this is a Walter Payton (16,726) and Barry
beyond Pittsburgh. And with four Super team game.” Sanders (15,269).
Bowl rings, there was no disputing his suc-
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IN MEMORIAM
PAUL GEZA HARASTI
Architect, died October 4, 2018.
Darling, a year ago today you
had to go, and you are loved,
missed, and forever in my
heart. Diana
DEATHS
MI CHE L RO LAND CO ME TTE
Nove m be r 26, 193 9
Se pte m be r 29, 2019
Supported by loving family, Michel
passed away peacefully at Trillium
Health Partners in Mississauga on
Sunday, September 29th, after
suffering a massive stroke just
three days prior.
Born in Baie-Comeau, QC in 1939 to
Bernadette and Romeo Comette,
Michel spent most of his youth in
St. Catharines, ON. He went on
to lead Mergers and Acquisitions
at McLeod Young Weir and would
eventually distinguish himself as
the VP Finance at BP Mining in
Toronto. After his business career,
he discovered a love of golf and
was the first President of the
Lake Joseph Golf Club. Michel
and Maureen lived an active life
in retirement entertaining friends
and family in Etobicoke, Muskoka
and Naples, Florida.
Michel is survived by his beloved
wife, Maureen; his three
children, Penelope (Cameron
Uganec), Melissa (Doug Gibson),
Amanda (Harry Amaral); his four
grandchildren Sebastian, Natasha,
Madeline and Bennet, as well as
his great-grandson, Jasper.
Though saddened at the loss of
our husband and father, we are
comforted that he lived fully and
joyfully right until the end of
his life.
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B RAD FISH
It is with great sadness that the
family of Bradley James Fish
announce his sudden passing on
Saturday, September 28, 2019 at
the age of 53. Beloved husband
of Lucie Poirier, loving father of
Michael and Victoria, devoted
son of Alice and Jim Fish and
cherished brother of Michelle.
Brad obtained his Bachelor of
Administrative and Commercial
Studies at Western University and
worked in the family business for
years before starting his own leasing
company. He enjoyed boating in
the summer, snowmobiling in the
winter, Go-Karting with his children
and trips to Florida with family and
friends. Brad will be deeply missed
by all who knew him.
Friends may call at the Turner
& Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357
Bloor St. W., at Windermere, on
Friday from 2 - 4 and 6 - 8 p.m. A
Celebration of Brad’s Life will be
held in the Chapel on Saturday,
October 5, 2019 at 10:30 a.m.
In Brad’s memory, memorial donations
may be made CAMH, Bell Let’s Talk or
to the Mackenzie Health Foundation.
Online condolences may be sent
through www.turnerporter.ca
DR. JOHN ROBERT
ANDREW MAYER
(de Berncastle)
86, passed away peacefully of
heart failure surrounded by
family at Welland General
Hospital on October 1, 2019.
Whether as Brock professor,
Unitarian chaplain, advisor,
mentor, neighbour, or friend,
John was known to many in
the Niagara Region for his
wisdom, generosity,
principles, and compassion.
Born in Budapest, Hungary in
1932, he immigrated to
Toronto as a child. After
teaching at McMaster
University, he became the
Founding Chair of the
Philosophy Department of
Brock University in 1965. His
chaplaincy at the Unitarian
Fellowship of St. Catharines
allowed him to bring together
his philosophical views with
ties to community service. He
served in countless
organizations over the years.
His impact in all these areas
leaves a legacy.
He is survived by his wife,
Elizabeth, living in Pelham,
ON; his children, Lisa,
Michael, Nicholas, and Sita;
and his brother, Charles. He
leaves behind his eight
grandchildren, Jeff and Kyle,
Takuma and Mariko, Eric,
Lucas, Razia, and Adrian.
A memorial service will be
held the at Unitarian
Congregation of Niagara, 223
Church Street, St. Catharines,
Ontario at 2:00 p.m. Sunday,
October 6. In lieu of flowers,
donations to the John Mayer
Scholarship Fund at Brock
University or to the Unitarian
Congregation of Niagara
would be meaningful to all.
Online condolences available
at www.cudneyfuneralhome
.com.
MAR ION
CHR ISTI N A WILKE NS
Octob er 5 , 1930
S eptemb er 18, 2019
Lived a full life and passed away
peacefully. Predeceased by
her beloved husband C. Henry
Wilkens and her eldest son
Alexander. She is greatly loved
and will be sorely missed by
her children and their spouses,
Melanie, Richard and Michelle,
Elsa and Jeff, her grandchildren
Phillip, Antoine, Tess, Alyssa,
and Willa. She also leaves behind
great-grandchildren Lhassa and
Alexandre.
She will also be missed by her
many very good friends and
relatives to whom she gave and
received much love. Marion was
a generous, kind, and loving soul.
She was a music lover and gifted
pianist, junior choir leader, piano
teacher, gardener, teacher, a
gourmet cook, a lover of travel, a
voracious reader, a writer, and so
much more.
If desired, Marion requested
donations to either The Yonge
Street Mission or the Sick
Kids Hospital.
DEATHS
COLIN WA RNER
Passed away peacefully
September 22, 2019 at the age of
84. Born in Grays, Essex March 28,
1935. Survived by his loving wife,
best friend, and lover of 33 years,
Jane (Gunn); son, David (Teresa);
stepchildren, Sarah, Jenni, and
Derek; “Gramps” to 10 grands,
and two great-grands.
Colin moved to Canada in May
1957, embarking on a new life in
Vancouver. He initially worked for
the Federal Tax Department, and
in 1963 joined Western Plywood,
retiring 30 years later as Senior
VP Finance and Distribution at
Weldwood of Canada Ltd.
Colin was an accomplished
businessman and philanthropist.
His community involvement
included Board member and
President of the Vancouver Opera,
where he met his future wife
Jane. He was also on the Boards
of the Vancouver Playhouse, Bard
on the Beach, the Vancouver
Bach Choir, and VanDusen
Botanical Garden.
Colin’s many interests included
tennis, soccer, travelling the
world (especially spending
winters in Maui), tending to his
beautiful garden, and assisting
Jane’s activities as a FOG at the
University of British Columbia
Botanical Garden.
He will be greatly missed by family
and friends. We will particularly
remember those happy times
together spent at the Vancouver
Lawn Tennis & Badminton Club,
as well as the Terminal City Club
where he was a life member.
A special thank you to his
caregiver Monica Fletcher, as well
as the team from Pacific Spirit
Health for the care provided over
the last few years.
In light of Colin’s passion for dogs,
and in lieu of flowers, donations
will be gladly accepted by the BC
Guide Dogs, 7061 Ladner Trunk
Road, Delta, BC V4K 3N3.
Cremation has taken place and no
service will be held at his request.
A Celebration of Life will follow at
a later date.
Visit www.mbfuneralsbc.com to
send a personal condolence.
VERA THEODOSIA WITER
Passed away peacefully,
surrounded by family on October
1, 2019 in Toronto at the age of 71,
after a long illness. Beloved wife
and best friend of Andrew Witer,
dear sister to Ihor Kowalsky, Vera
will be lovingly remembered by
her entire family, nieces,
nephews, and friends.
Friends may call at the Turner &
Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor
St. W., on Sunday from 5-9 p.m.
Panachyda service at 7:30 p.m.
Funeral to be held at St.
Demetrius Ukrainian Catholic
Church, 135 La Rose Ave.,
Etobicoke, on Monday, October
7, 2019 at 10 a.m. followed by
interment at Park Lawn Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations to
the Ukrainian Canadian Care
Centre in Vera’s memory would
be appreciated. Online
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O THE G LO B E AND M AIL | FR IDAY , OC TOB ER 4, 2019
Russia’s German Davydov and Ireland’s Keith Earls clash midair
during their Rugby World Cup match in Japan on Thursday.
Ireland won 35-0. ADAM PRETTY/GETTY IMAGES
Zero points, but
lots of smiles for
Russian rugby team
KOBE, JAPAN
T
hey didn’t score a point and they were the first team
officially eliminated from title contention at the Rug-
by World Cup, yet the Russians still had smiles on
their faces.
After watching his Russia team lose to Ireland 35-0 on
Thursday in Kobe’s Misaki Stadium, coach Lyn Jones was jubi-
lant. “It’s a big day for Russian rugby and we came through
with five stars.”
The Bears were tipped for a thrashing. Ireland was only
Russia’s second Tier One opponent in eight years since the
2011 Rugby World Cup, where it lost to the Irish 62-12. Just two
months ago, Russia lost to Italy 85-15.
Ireland was on the rebound on Thursday after being
stunned by Japan, while Russia conceded 30 to Japan and 34 to
Samoa in defeats. And yet, in their third pool match, the Rus-
sians gave their best performance yet, despite playing 20 min-
utes with 14 men. They made Ireland, which came to the tour-
nament ranked No. 1, grind for all 35 points. Ireland commit-
ted 28 turnovers.
“We came here with an understanding, we’re not stupid
people,” said Jones, Russia’s coach for 14 months. “We knew
we had .001 per cent of a chance of winning. Tonight was just
enormous for our players. The whole occasion, and the fact
we were playing against Ireland, brought the best out of
them.”
Ireland coach Joe Schmidt paid them tribute.
“The Russians certainly had a bit to offer. They gave up
nothing,” he said. “We felt we made some good line breaks,
but they fought really hard to make it difficult for us to get any-
thing off the back of them.”
Ireland made an ominous 14-0 start in 14 minutes, then was
limited to one try in the next 50 minutes, and while a Russian
was in the sin bin. Ireland didn’t score the fourth bonus-point
try they desperately sought until the game was more than an
hour old, and finished with a late try when Russia tired.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It’s do-or-die for Argentina
against England at World Cup
FOSTER NIUMATA TOKYO
A
rgentina doesn’t have a choice.
The team either beats England on Saturday, or it
makes its earliest exit from a Rugby World Cup in 16
years.
This was always going to be a crunch match in Pool C:
Three Tier One sides can’t fit into two quarter-final slots.
The stakes deepened for the Pumas after losing to France
23-21 on the opening weekend. France still has to play En-
gland, too, but having already got past Argentina, the
French may not need – yet – to beat England to advance.
“This is our World Cup final,” Pumas coach Mario Ledes-
ma says. “That’s how important it is for us. It’s a really good
opportunity to get into the history books of Argentine rug-
by.”
England can make history in Tokyo, too. A win qualifies it
for the quarter-finals after embarrassingly missing out in
2015 in its home tournament.
This isn’t a World Cup final to England because Eddie
Jones’s squad came to Japan to play in the real one. It has
every reason to be confident on Saturday.
England has beaten up Argentina for the past decade,
winning nine straight tests. The English won their only pre-
vious two World Cup matchups, although both had to be
toughed out. England prevailed 24-18 in 1995 in Durban, and
needed a Ben Youngs converted try in the 67th minute to
win 13-9 in 2011 at Dunedin.
England’s confidence is high after winning its opening
two pool matches against Tonga and the United States, scor-
ing 80 points and conceding 10. And it has had two extra
days of preparation for its first Tier One opponent.
And for the first time in ages, coach Jones was excited to
have a fully fit squad of 31 to choose from. He reverted to the
lineup that dispatched Tonga with only one change: George
Kruis was in the second row with Maro Itoje and Courtney
Lawes has dropped to the reserves.
The reserves also feature prop Mako Vunipola and winger
Jack Nowell. Vunipola tore his hamstring from the bone in
May, and tore the scar tissue after 17 minutes against Ireland
in August. Nowell has been nursing an ankle ligament prob-
lem since June.
“It’s a credit to our strength and conditioning staff and
medical staff what a great condition we’re in,” Jones en-
thused.
The Pumas are also in good shape. They made only one
change to the starting lineup, recalling No. 8 Javier Ortega
Desio, who played against France, for Tomas Lezana from
the win over Tonga last Saturday.
“They’re a pretty good team, if they can get Creevy to
come off the bench,” Jones says.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRI DAY , OCTOBE R 4, 2019 | T HE GLO BE AN D MAI L O OBITUARIES B 21

SHUPING WANG I REMEMBER

DOCTOR, 59 JESSYE NORMAN

DOCTOR HELPED J
essye Norman was the 12th laureate of
the Glenn Gould Prize, awarded to her
in Toronto last February. She was both
a commanding and demanding

EXPOSE AIDS CRISIS individual and while she was here, her
demeanour exemplified both of those
things.
During the masterclass she gave at the

IN RURAL CHINA University of Toronto’s Walter Hall, stu-

dents witnessed and benefited from her
tips on pronunciation and breathing. She
held us spellbound during her interview
with Eleanor Wachtel at the Toronto Pub-
lic Library, and when she sang Somewhere
with Cécile McLorin Salvant at the finale
of the tribute to her at the Four Seasons
Centre for the Performing Arts, well, it
was an evening never to be forgotten.
How fortunate for all of us in the audi-
ence to have borne witness to this re-
markable woman.

Louise Levitt, Glenn Gould Foundation board

member

I have known Jessye Norman since 1973,

when she and I shared a picnic lunch in a
box at the Hollywood Bowl, where Zubin
Mehta was conducting the Los Angeles
Philharmonic. We were not best friends
by any means, but fond acquaintances.
Over the years when we would bump into
one another we would reconnect with
brief accounts of our lives.
The last time I saw her was in February
at a masterclass at the University of To-
ronto’s Walter Hall. The audience was
packed with people who lined up for
hours for this free event and awaited her
entrance in an atmosphere of electric an-
ticipation. They exploded into a pro-
longed standing ovation as Ms. Norman
was wheeled onto the stage in a wheel-
chair that seemed more like a chariot. She
was dressed in a red silk jacket and black
turban, and her regal face lit up with a
generous smile.
When Shuping Wang’s superiors scoffed at her claims that HIV could be spreading through the blood business Ms. Norman positioned herself at a ta-
in China, she bought HIV test kits with her own money. HAMPSTEAD THEATRE/THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE ble at stage right with scores for the arias
six vocal students would perform while
they stood next to the concert grand pi-
Activist stood up to Chinese officials in the nineties when they tried ano at stage left.
She sipped tea as she guided the stu-
to hide the spread of HIV due to unsafe commercial blood facilities dents, who presented themselves as if
supplicants to an empress. Her authorita-
CHRIS BUCKLEY cle. She took his family name, Wang, as her own. tive but gentle and down-to-earth man-
In 1991, after medical school, Dr. Wang began work- ner alleviated whatever nerves they had.
ing in a plasma collection centre in Henan. Her odys- As lovely as the students’ voices were,

S
huping Wang, a Chinese doctor who braved the sey into AIDS activism began through her interest in the true focus was, of course, on Ms. Nor-
loss of her job as well as ostracism, assault and hepatitis, another infectious disease spread through man. With each incisive comment she
the destruction of her first marriage to expose blood and other body fluids. made, the students and the audience
the spread of AIDS in rural China, died on Sept. Henan had nurtured a boom in commercial blood gleaned invaluable information on how
21 in Salt Lake City. She was 59. harvesting, recruiting hundreds of thousands of poor to interpret and perform the text and the
She died while hiking in a canyon with her hus- farmers to sell blood for a bit of money. Dr. Wang composer’s intention.
band, Gary Christensen. A preliminary autopsy indi- found alarming levels of hepatitis C among the peo- As each singer finished to applause,
cated that the cause was a heart attack, he said. She ple selling blood, and she worried that HIV might also their sense of accomplishment and ap-
had lived in Salt Lake City in recent years after settling be spreading through the blood business. preciation of her tutelage was evident.
in the United States. Her death came a little more Her bosses scoffed. Chinese officials saw AIDS as a They beamed.
than two weeks after a stage play based on her experi- foreign affliction and were unwilling to accept that At the end of the three hours, Ms. Nor-
ence as a whistle-blower opened in London. HIV could spread among farmers selling blood. Be- man welcomed questions from the audi-
Dr. Wang worked for nearly two decades in relative sides, they said, comprehensive testing for HIV would ence. To one who asked her about a sing-
quiet as a medical researcher in her adopted home- be too expensive, hobbling the lucrative business in er being vocally categorized, her response
land, most recently at the University of Utah. Col- plasma and other blood products. was swift. “Do not allow someone else to
leagues, she said, sometimes did not know of her dra- Dr. Wang persisted. She used her savings to buy place your voice. Know your voice and
matic past. In the 1990s, she stood up to Chinese offi- three HIV test kits and randomly tested 408 samples where it is most comfortable. You are a
cials who had tried to conceal an AIDS epidemic in for the virus. What she found stunned her: Thirteen singer, not a category.” To a question
rural China. There, the spread of HIV, the virus that per cent of the samples collected from blood sellers about her favourite musical genre, she
causes the blood-borne disease, had had the virus, an alarmingly high rate smiled and her intelligent eyes widened
been attributed to shoddy facilities that of infection. with a twinkle. She said it was impossible
bought blood from poor farmers. Dr. Wang was one of The commercial blood stations to answer, as she cherished them all, from
Dr. Wang was one of a group of Chi- worked cheaply. They took blood, ex- gospel to opera.
nese doctors, researchers, activists and a group of Chinese tracted the valuable plasma and, It has been my good fortune to have
journalists who took great risks to doctors, researchers, through transfusions, gave the sellers witnessed Ms. Norman over the decades
spread information about the hidden activists and leftover blood parts so that the stations in several live performances from Paris to
epidemic in Henan province and other journalists who took could pay them less and the sellers New York, Tanglewood to Toronto. Most
regions. She was the whistle-blower could recover more quickly to sell memorably, I saw her sing Poulenc’s La
who marshalled evidence of it. great risks to spread again. The stations’ equipment was of- Voix Humaine with the New York Philhar-
“Wang Shuping was the earliest information about ten dirty. Worse, they often mixed left- monic at Lincoln Center in February, 1988.
medical worker to enter the fray in the the hidden epidemic over blood in tubs, then transfused it The singular beauty of her voice and nat-
war against AIDS,” Gao Yaojie, a doctor into groups of blood sellers, greatly in- ural gifts as an actor imbued that vulner-
in Henan province
from Henan who become the public creasing the risks of cross-infection. able character with a humanity I shall
face of efforts to expose and treat the and other regions. A local official at first praised Dr. never forget.
spread of AIDS there, wrote in a tribute Wang for her detective work, but soon The afternoon at Walter Hall ended
to Ms. Wang. “For this, she suffered the most grievous retreated and accused her of lacking proof. She took with members of the audience lining up
attacks and pain of her life.” 55 samples to Beijing for more tests. A virology insti- once again, to get Ms. Norman’s auto-
Eventually – far too late, in Dr. Wang’s view – the tute refused to test them unless she paid an exorbi- graph, to say something they may have
Chinese authorities shuttered the commercial blood tant amount. But Dr. Wang ran into a researcher who rehearsed, or to proffer a hand, which
stations that had spread HIV and offered medical grasped the urgency of the issue and had 16 samples would invariably be clasped warmly by
help to villagers who had become infected, usually af- tested: 13 were definitely HIV positive, three possibly both of hers. I overheard people as they
ter they or family members sold blood. positive. left saying it was one of the most inspir-
Dr. Wang’s pride in what she accomplished was “She had the courage to keep collecting and shar- ing music events of their lives. No argu-
tempered by what she and her family endured. After ing evidence even when officials didn’t want informa- ment there.
she took evidence of the HIV infections to officials tion revealed,” said Zhang Jicheng, a former Henan
and researchers in Beijing, her superiors in Henan as- journalist who helped uncover the spread of AIDS Carol Ann Davidson, Toronto
sailed her. A former medical official, she said, used a there. “She had no official support; this was her per-
club to smash Dr. Wang’s testing lab and beat her. The sonal choice, and she suffered for it.”
local government shut the lab, leaving her without Dr. Wang moved to Beijing in 1997, where she
pay. Her marriage to an official who worked in the found some protection working for a senior medical
medical administration cracked under the pressure. researcher. She was not the only one alarmed about
The play based on Dr. Wang’s story, The King of the spread of AIDS in rural Henan.
Hell’s Palace, by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, recently had Dr. Gao, a gynecologist from the province, took up
its premiere at the Hampstead Theatre in London. the issue and became the most prominent face of the
“Speaking out cost me my job, my marriage and campaign to expose and end the epidemic. She won
my happiness at the time, but it also helped save the many honours and later moved to safety in New York.
lives of thousands and thousands of people,” Dr. Dr. Wang was the quiet insider, channelling informa-
Wang said in a question-and-answer exchange on the tion to experts, officials, diplomats and journalists,
theatre’s website. “I wanted to prevent disease, I and returning to Henan to help stricken villagers.
didn’t care about power and position.” In addition to her husband, she leaves three chil-
Shuping Wang was born Zou Shuping on Oct. 20, dren in the United States – Sami Geng, Julie Zou and
1959, in Fugou County, Henan. Her mother, Huang David Zou – and a brother in China, Zou Tiancheng.
Yunling, was a village doctor; her father, Zou Ban- Even as her life was celebrated onstage, Dr. Wang
gyan, was a math teacher who had been a soldier in could not escape intimidation. Chinese state-security
the Nationalist forces that were defeated by Mao Ze- officials confronted her family and former colleagues
dong’s Communists. in Henan to press her to cancel the London produc-
After Mao began the Cultural Revolution in 1966 to tion of the play about her, she said. She refused, and
purge China of purported enemies, Dr. Wang’s par- received a standing ovation at a performance. She
ents were attacked because of her father’s back- told the theatre in a statement, “I will still not be si- Jessye Norman
ground, and her education was cut short when she lenced.”
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Buyers and sellers out of whack in Toronto
Realtor says he’s seeing
supply crunch amid
increasing demand
CAROLYN
IRELAND
NEXT MOVE
TORONTO
A
recent run of stronger sales
in the Toronto-area hous-
ing market seems to be
contributing to a lack of syn-
chronicity between buyers and
sellers: Just as some house hun-
ters are motivated to jump in
before a strong upswing, many
would-be sellers want to hold out
for that exactly scenario.
The strange disconnect is mak-
ing a supply crunch even more
noticeable, says real estate agent
Ira Jelinek of Harvey Kalles Real
Estate Ltd.
Mr. Jelinek says he sees short
supply and strong demand in
every segment of the market.
“A lot of people that were skep-
tics are now back in the market or
want to be in the market. They’re
not skeptics any more.”
During two years of soggy sales
after prices in the Toronto market
peaked in 2017, many people sat
on the sidelines, Mr. Jelinek says,
as they tried to figure out wheth-
er prices had farther to fall.
In September, in neighbour-
hoods crowded with high-priced,
newly built houses, some proper-
ties that had been sitting on the
market finally found buyers.
“I know that some of them are
getting knocked off,” he says.
But Mr. Jelinek cautions that
sellers still need to be realistic
about the asking price. Mr. Jeli-
nek says that well-priced listings
will move, but sellers who want
to test the waters with a higher
price risk having a listing that ap-
pears stale.
He points to one recent sale,
for example, where the home-
owners sat with an unsold prop-
erty for months then took a hit
on the deal.
The couple moved to Canada
from the United States when one
of them took a new job in 2017.
At that time, they paid $3.73-
million for a newly built house
near Avenue Road and Lawrence
Avenue West. Earlier this year, the
pair decided to return south of
the border.
They listed the house for sale
in the late spring with an asking
price of $3.78-million, or $50,000
more than they paid for it.
Mr. Jelinek says the house lan-
guished through the summer,
but the owners never lowered
their asking price.
Eventually, they accepted an
offer of $3.5-million, or $230,000
Efficient home sells after price reduction
DONE DEAL
10A Chauncey Ave., Toronto
I S L IN GTO N - CIT Y CE N T RE W ES T
Asking price: $1,599,900
Selling price: $1,600,000
Taxes: $5,157 (2018)
Days on the market: 90
Listing agent: Mary Jo Vradis,
Re/Max Hallmark Realty Ltd.
THE ACTION Agent Mary Jo Vradis
spent months educating buyers
on the environmental and ener-
gy-saving benefits of this new
home on a 25-foot-by-187-foot
lot. Though some shoppers said
they were considering making
offers when it was priced at $1.75-
million this spring and then at
Houses sit for sale in
Toronto in July. Many
summer listings finally
found buyers in
September, often with a
reduced price.
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A lot of people that
were skeptics are
now back in the
market or want to be
in the market.
They’re not skeptics
any more.
IRA JELINEK
AGENT WITH HARVEY
KALLES REAL ESTATE
$1.6-million this summer, actual
bids on paper only appeared just
before it was due to be relisted in
the fall.
“It was very common at the
time we listed for homes in the
$1.6- to $1.8-million [range] to be
sitting for 60 to 90 days or long-
er, especially since the stress test
came into effect,” Ms. Vradis said.
“Because it was so unique in
its features, everyone wanted to
see what it would go for. When I
took it off the market, we had
three offers with a week.”
WHAT THEY GOT This 2,193-square-
foot house is one of two built
side by side by builder Hauswork
Ltd., incorporating sustainable
finishes and energy-efficient
technology, such as an energy-
less than they paid.
By trying to make a profit, the
pair had to wait months for a sale,
he explains. He estimates they’re
down about $300,000 after real
estate commissions, land-trans-
fer taxes and legal fees.
In many cases, the sellers of
properties that sat were investors
trying to make a profit on a newly
built house. Now, some of those
investors are letting their listings
expire and are quietly planning
to hold off until the spring in an-
ticipation of an upturn.
“Some people who were
burned by overpricing or didn’t
have good product are now say-
ing forget it.”
But Mr. Jelinek cautions
against trying to time the market
because it’s difficult to predict
where prices will go or which
events might affect the outlook.
“I don’t think it’s the right po-
sition to take.”
Mr. Jelinek says buyers and
sellers should make a move when
it suits their lifestyle and their
finances.
Nicole Wells, vice-president of
home equity finance at Royal
Bank of Canada, also says she
senses a fast tempo in the Cana-
dian market this fall.
Ms. Wells urges potential
buyers to take a steely-eyed look
at their life and finances before
they even begin to shop for
recovery ventilator system;
doors and trims fabricated from
recycled materials; and heated
floors in the 854-square-foot
basement.
For a modern look, large
glass panes line the decks off two
entertaining areas and the stair-
well to three upper bedrooms, all
of which have vaulted ceilings. A
wall of flush-mounted cabinetry
in the dining area also hides a
wet bar and a powder room.
THE AGENT’S TAKE “Typically,
homes built with these types of
features are well over $2-million
dollars and found in more exclu-
sive neighbourhoods,” Ms. Vra-
dis said.
“The builder is leading the
pack in … showing, as a builder,
O THE G LO B E AND M AIL
houses, condo units and mort-
gages. The bank’s research shows
affordability continues to be a top
concern for potential buyers.
“Canadians really do feel that
pinch. They feel house poor,” Ms.
Wells says.
She advises first-time buyers to
“test drive” a mortgage before
they even start to hunt for a prop-
erty, adding they need to look not
only at the amount of future
mortgage payments, but all of the
other expenses that come with
owning real estate and paying for
all of the expenses of day-to-day
life.
Ms. Wells says some first-time
buyers feel financial pain when
they make the transition from
paying rent to owning real estate.
Where once they had disposable
income to spend on things such
as travel and gifts, they find that
money left over after paying the
mortgage is eaten up by all of the
other expenses of home owner-
ship.
“It’s a shock,” she says. “They
start to feel that they’re not in
control.”
Ms. Wells reminds first-time
buyers that there’s so much more
to home ownership than just
making mortgage payments.
Property taxes, utilities and
maintenance fees are all recur-
ring expenses, for example.
“Condo fees don’t stay stag-
you can build a visually pleasing,
quality product while being
mindful of your environmental
impact, without it costing signif-
icantly more than a typical cus-
tom build.”
In fact, its green features will
reduce utility costs and replace-
ment of components, such as the
metal roof, “which has a much
longer life expectancy than a
| FR IDAY , OC TOB ER 4, 2019
nant,” she point outs.
In addition, many first-time
buyers purchase a small condo or
townhouse in order to get into
the market, but may soon out-
grow it.
“How long does that fit your
lifestyle?” she asks.
Ms. Wells adds that people of-
ten buy first, then face the ex-
pense of raising a child or a med-
ical emergency.
Ms. Wells says surveys con-
ducted on behalf of RBC have
found that respondents are strug-
gling to make headway with their
finances and saving for the fu-
ture.
In addition, she says, many
more established homeowners
are helping their younger chil-
dren to buy their first home. That
can be an ill-advised strategy if
those folks then neglect their
own retirement goals.
“They feel the pressure to sup-
port their children,” she says.
“Parents are helping with more
than down payments.”
These days, even young par-
ents are thinking about saving for
their child’s education while also
expecting to help with a home
purchase in the future.
With a clear-eyed look at their
goals for the future, buyers will
end up being less stressed about
money once they’ve purchased
real estate, Ms. Wells says.
standard shingled roof, Ms. Vra-
dis said. The builder, strenuous
in his efforts to support local
suppliers, sourced the roof pan-
els from a Mennonite communi-
ty in Fenelon Falls, Ont.
– SYDNIA YU
Want more? A video of this Done
Deal can be seen at
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The strange and wonderful tale of Silo City

In Buffalo, a graveyard
of former grain elevators
along the waterfront
is being transformed

DAVE
LeBLANC

ARCHITOURIST

BUFFALO

T
he wind whips Lake Ontario
– on this cool fall day it’s a
dark olive colour – into fat,
frothy saw-teeth. The few bun-
dled folks walking toward Ireland
Park barely notice the monolithic
1920s Canada Malting silos tower-
ing over them, perhaps because
they’re fenced in … and that fence
is covered with intimidating “Be-
ware of Falling Objects” signs ev-
ery few feet. Likely, they’re here to
contemplate Rowan Gillespie’s
haunting bronze figures (which
mark the arrival of Irish immi-
grants fleeing the Great Famine in
1847), or to watch planes fly in
and out of Billy Bishop airport.
Three-and-a-half kilometres
away, the old Victory Mills silos
are simply a brief curiosity as
folks park SUVs to bring little
ones to the immersive theatre at
Pirate Life, or hop onboard a din- Kevin Cain, seen exploring the bottom floor of a silo, runs resto-bar Duende at Silo City, the first permanent business in the Buffalo complex.
ner cruise. Ironically, here, in this
immense dirt-and-gravel parking
lot at the foot of Parliament Street
the decaying 1940s structure isn’t
fully fenced in: One can walk
right up to the concrete bellies
and plant a kiss on any one of
them or, more likely, a spray-
painted tag.
Although some writers have
dubbed these two ruins Toronto’s
“bookends” (when they’ve no-
ticed them at all) if something
isn’t done soon, a more appropri-
ate moniker might be tomb-
stones.
In nearby Buffalo, so many
grain elevators line the serpen-
tine Buffalo River it could’ve be-
come a full graveyard were it not
for the strange and wonderful
stewardship of Cleveland-born
Rick Smith III, who purchased a
number of silos, mills, ware-
houses and office buildings on
what was then Childs Street – now
renamed Silo City Row – from
ConAgra back in 2006 with the in-
tention of creating ethanol indus-
try jobs.
Shifting gears when the market
crashed two years later, Mr.
Smith, owner of third-generation
steel fabricator Rigidized Metals,
began to envision other uses. But,
since new housing wasn’t the
competitive sport it is in the Grea-
ter Toronto Area, he turned to art-
ists and musicians to animate the
spaces – inside the tall silos and Shauntelle LeBlanc, left, views some of the art installations in the Marine A silo. Mr. Cain, right, has organized recording sessions and poetry readings
out in the slowly renaturalizing in the silo, which he says boasts a ‘beautiful eight-second natural reverb.’ PHOTOS BY DAVE LEBLANC/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
fields surrounding them – with
art installations and concerts. the space at the beginning was mately, they shaped lives. The ers came out of the woodwork. tried to treat the concrete, the ele-
“There were very few people in the point where nature’s reclama- American Malting silos in partic- However, unlike the zip-lines, vators, as kind of sacred; we don’t
the city that really paid attention tion of man’s endeavour met,” he ular are noteworthy since the brewpubs and escape rooms of want to go poking holes in the ele-
to the waterfront,” Mr. Smith re- says, “and it really highlighted a original section, from 1906, was “Riverworks” less than a mile vators themselves, I mean, you
members, “and we have a pretty thing I dubbed ‘the tranquility of the first in Buffalo to be built of away, Mr. Smith waited until he could put housing above and
unique network of waterways; resilience.’ ” steel reinforced concrete and the inked a deal. Not only did he want housing on the first floor.”
you know, bombing around we’ve On an unseasonably warm day first in the United States to use a to avoid beer logos on the sides of And what, I asked, should be-
got a ship canal, we’ve got a Buffa- a few weeks ago, Mr. Cain took me slip-form to enable a continuous his elevators, he wanted a compa- come of Toronto’s forgotten silos?
lo River, we’ve got a Great Lake, on a tour of these “cathedrals of pour. It’s rumoured members of ny that shared his respect for the “Get the right bunch of clever
we’ve got the Niagara River.” contemplation and meditation.” the early-20th-century Bauhaus history of the site. people … and give them all the
Eventually, Buffalonians did Walking slowly around the site, it School came to study them. Earlier this year, a partnership breaks that they can acquire –
pay attention and, now, Silo City was easy to meditate on why Mr. Fast-forward six decades to the with Miami-based Generation meaning tax and everything else
has become a place. A weird Smith has spent a decade decid- late-20th century, however, and Development Group was an- – and let them activate the site,”
place, yes, but a place nonethe- ing on what permanent uses even these giants had become an nounced, along with a vision for Mr. Smith finishes.
less. these structures should ultimate- eyesore. As with much of Toron- 200 housing units and an artist’s “It’s 13 years and we’re just be-
One of the creative people at- ly have. to’s abandoned brownfields, the gallery. And that’s just Phase 1. Fu- ginning to have a restaurant
tracted in those early years, back Going far beyond the immedi- whole area south of Buffalo’s hip ture phases, he says, might in- where people can wash their
when things were “flying under ate titillation of “ruin porn,” there Allentown neighbourhood was clude a “European-style hostel” hands,” he says with a laugh.
the radar,” was Kevin Cain. Orga- is a sense of majesty here. One can now a place to avoid. and retail spaces. So, who’s clever enough? Any-
nizer of recording sessions in the feel the weight of these buildings, But things started to change “I needed some youth,” the 58- one? Or do we just wash our
Marine A silo (which he says both physically and psycholog- drastically a few years ago. After year-old says about his new part- hands of the whole thing and call
boasts a “beautiful eight-second ically; powerhouses of industry, receiving considerable press from ners. “They really bought into the in the wrecking crew?
natural reverb”) and poetry read- commerce and trade, these form- newspapers outside of the region vision of what Silo City can be-
ings, he currently runs the first follows-function grain elevators on both the artistic goings on and come.” Tours of Silo City run until the end
permanent new business onsite, and no-nonsense warehouses the efforts of Rigidized Metals’ di- But don’t expect windows to of October. For information:
Duende at Silo City, a resto-bar. shaped the waterfront and how rector of ecology to “heal” the be punched into the silos, Mr. explorebuffalo.org/tours/
“The big thing that drew me to people interacted with it. Ulti- land and the riverbanks, develop- Smith cautioned: “We’ve always silo-city-tours.

Buffalo isn’t the only city with abandoned silos on its waterfront. Toronto has the monolithic 1920s Canada Malting silos, left, near Bathurst Street and Queens Quay West, and the
decaying 1940s Victory Mills silos, right, at the foot of Parliament Street.
H4 | RE AL ES TAT E
Contractor Vahid Derakhshan hired architect Reza Aliabadi to redesign a 1950s bungalow in Toronto. PHOTOS BY BORZU TALAIE
Good taste can still
make good money
While most investment projects don’t use bespoke architects,
a creative design for a Scarborough house shows
that some contractors are willing to go the extra mile
SIMON LEWSEN TORONTO
W
hen he began an investment
project – a renovation of a
postwar house in Scarborough
– the contractor Vahid De-
rakhshan did something too few people in
his line of work do: He hired a bespoke ar-
chitect. “Sometimes, in your life, you want
to try something different,” he says. Con-
ventional wisdom has it that this a bad
idea. The real estate business is all about
making money and architects cost money.
Plus, they tend to impose good taste –
which is a virtue, sure, but one with limited
market utility. Buyers, apparently, want
houses with massive garages and as many
bedrooms as possible. Architects think
such features are gauche.
What’s more, the specific architect Mr.
Derakhshan hired – Reza Aliabadi, princi-
pal of the Toronto firm Atelier Rzlbd – has
what you might call strong opinions. He is
very much a 20th-century modernist. His
heroes include Peter Zumthor and Louis
Kahn, men who specialized in austere
buildings with large voids and heavy mass-
ing. Is such a vision compatible with the
economic diktats of the Toronto resale
market? Mr. Derakhshan’s project suggests
that it is – and that, even from a cold-
blooded, business-minded perspective
(which, by the way, isn’t his perspective),
there’s a case to be made for investing in
architecture.
The unit he bought was a 1950s bunga-
low on a 5,520-square-foot lot. To avoid
cost overruns and lengthy bouts with the
committee of adjustments, Mr. Derakh-
shan insisted on maintaining the original
footprint of the unit and keeping the win-
dows where they were. In response to
these constraints, Mr. Aliabadi decided to
simply remove the cap of the house and
build upwards, adding a second level.
His design program has two distinctive
features. The first is a rethink of your typ-
ical domestic layout. Most houses have a
bottom-to-top arrangement, with the pub-
lic areas on the downstairs and the sleep-
ing quarters above. Instead, Mr. Aliabadi’s
design runs front to back. The first half of
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the house is a kind of stacked living room –
two levels of interconnected public space.
The second half has closed-off bedroom
suites, one on each floor. This unusual ar-
rangements “offers possibilities,” Mr. Alia-
badi says, “and encourages people to live
differently.” When your space changes, the
way you relate to it changes, too.
The other noteworthy design feature is
the expansive lightwells, which are in the
front section, albeit near the threshold
where the two regions meet. The public (or
front) part of the house has a ground level
with a kitchen and living room and then,
above it, a T-shaped configuration of
bridges. These bridges are large enough to
contain common areas, including a fire-
side roost, but they also leave two gaps,
which are topped with skylights.
To accentuate these lightwells, Mr. Alia-
badi adorned the adjacent walls and ceil-
ings with slats of knotty cedar. This warm
feature offsets the otherwise demur interi-
or palette, which mainly consists of white-
oak floors, white walls and touches of grey
porcelain tile. Among its neighbours, the
house stands out: It is a stark, capacious
dwelling with an irregular spatial arrange-
ment. But can such a thing find a tenant?
Or is the Toronto market really as hide-
bound as real estate agents make it out to
be?
As Mr. Derakhshan was applying the fin-
ishes, Louise Abbott and Philip Brown, a
couple approaching retirement, were
scouring Toronto for a new place to live.
They were looking to sell their home in the foot was so high you’d think the place was ors seem bigger than they are – the photog-
Beaches neighbourhood and contemplat- gilded in silver leaf. Ms. Abbott recalls one rapher had shot the home with an honest,
ing an eventual move to Costa Rica, where unit that looked like something out of The one-point perspective. When morning
they own an investment property. “We Amityville Horror. It was dirty and old, with came, Ms. Abbott called her real estate
said, in the meantime, let’s rent a place, dark carpets and a hidden office in the agent. Within a few days, the couple had
but it has to be better than what we’re in,” basement, suggesting some kind of illicit signed the lease.
Mr. Brown says. The Toronto market, he business. “I said out loud that I hate this To the question of whether experimen-
discovered, has a way of grinding people house,” Ms. Abbott recalls, “and at that ex- tal architecture is a safe investment in To-
down. The couple’s experience was com- act moment, the lights started flickering.” ronto, the answer is a resounding yes. Ms.
ically absurd and also brutal – Don Quixote A few nights later, during a spell of 4 a.m. Abbott and Mr. Brown’s story shows that,
meets the Book of Job. insomnia, she went online in a desperate, right now, you can rent out pretty much
They saw upwards of 40 places. Some impulsive search to see if there’d been any anything. Even the grubbiest, smallest or
were mouldy; others had rotted floors and new openings. That’s when she found the most unkempt unit will eventually find a
cardboard walls. They saw “charming” old place in Scarborough. The listing had a tenant. And if renters will tolerate squalor,
homes with impossibly steep stairways, kind of integrity to it: The pictures were surely they’ll tolerate thoughtful design,
like a grisly death waiting to happen, and sparse and simple, and instead of using de- too.
shoebox condos where the price a square ceptive angles – the kind that make interi- In fact, they might even love it. “There is
nothing as special out there as this house,”
Ms. Abbott says. She likes the roominess,
the sense of geometric precision that
makes the space seem ordered even when
it’s cluttered and the lightwells that draw
your eyes toward the sky and away from
the minutiae of daily life. The couple’s
daughter, an art student at George Brown
College, occupies the bedroom suite at the
bottom and her parents have the suite up
top. The double-height public space not
only connects the two regions; it also knits
them together. It is an architecture of inde-
pendence – and interdependence, too.
While the home may be a rental, that
hasn’t stopped the couple from contem-
plating a more permanent arrangement.
“This house would be great for somebody
to get old in,” Ms. Abbott muses. “We could
live downstairs. There’d be plenty of space
on this level for the two of us.” Her hus-
band nods. “Now we have to win the lot-
tery and buy it,” he says.
Special to The Globe and Mail
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The design of the home involves a

rethink of the typical layout.
Rather than separate the public
areas and the living quarters of the
house in a bottom-to-top
arrangement, Mr. Aliabadi’s design
has two levels of interconnected
public space in the front and
closed-off bedroom suites on each
floor at the back.
H6 HOME OF THE WEEK
When home is a political hotbed
Political strategy and
communications power
couple Bruce Anderson
and Nancy Jamieson
list their stately Ottawa
five-bedroom house
SHANE DINGMAN
REAL ESTATE REPORTER
OTTAWA
229 Clemow Ave.
OT TAWA
Asking Price: $2.09-million
Taxes: $20,873 (2019)
Lot Size: 50 feet by 100 feet
Agents: Josh Eyking, Broker,
Re/Max Hallmark Realty Group
A POLITICAL SALON
A fixture of Ottawa’s political and
media social scene is on the
block, as the long-time home of
political strategy and communi-
cations power couple Bruce An-
derson and Nancy Jamieson is for
sale.
“Yeah, some of our friends
aren’t thrilled with us, that’s fair
to say,” said Ms. Jamieson, who
has hosted many events and
gatherings at the couple’s Glebe
neighbourhood home over the
past 24 years. “We have friends
and family that cross the political
spectrum, members of parlia-
ment, cabinet ministers, the odd
prime minister, lots who are jour-
nalists. They are all pretty sad.
‘Why are you selling it?’ Because
it’s very big, and it’s just two of us
and the dog now.”
Mr. Anderson, who has in the
past been a regular columnist
contributor to The Globe and
Mail and was a familiar face on
CBC Evening News’ At Issue pan-
el, has a résumé that reads like
the index to a history of modern
political research. The former
president of Decima Research,
founding partner of Earnscliffe
Strategy Group and owner of
boutique research and advertis-
ing firms admits that many a po-
litical brainstorm has taken place
under his roof.
“We’ve definitely over the
years had people come to our
house in the middle of election
campaigns and sat around over a
bottle of wine and a piece of piz-
za and talked about what was go-
ing on, and talked about strategy,
polling, advertising, debate
prep.”
But like any good political con-
sultant, the couple keeps mum
on exactly what was
discussed.
“I can remember some specif-
ics, but since the bodies are still
warm and above ground, it’s
probably better if I don’t recount
exact details,” Ms. Jamieson said.
“I sometimes think that our
neighbours ended up hearing
some fairly frank political stories
because they drifted up into the
ether,” Mr. Anderson said.
THE HOUSE TODAY
“The Glebe itself is the most de-
sirable downtown location,” said
listing agent Josh Eyking, describ-
ing the leafy precinct of mainly
century-old homes mere minutes
from Parliament Hill and min-
utes away from the Rideau Canal
and Lansdowne. “Clemow itself is
known for larger lots, larger
homes … there’s a lot of presti-
gious people there: some politic-
ians, CEOs, people that own ac-
counting firms, law firms. A fixer-
upper on Clemow gets high one
to two [million dollars]; some-
thing in good condition [can] get
anything between $2-million to
$4-million.”
The two pools of potential
buyers highlight the tension be-
tween Ottawa as a company town
and a budding tech capital: Mr.
Eyking thinks the size and loca-
tion might make it ideal for an
embassy, or as the stately home
of one of the many newly minted
Shopify Inc. millionaires.
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Bruce Anderson and
Nancy Jamieson’s home
in Ottawa still sports a
traditional layout,
although some rooms
have been modernized.
Its size and location make
listing agent Josh Eyking
think the home could
serve either as an
embassy or as an abode
for one of the city’s tech
millionaires.
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the upper floors has five bed-
rooms, five bathrooms and a
two-car garage. Through the
front door into the square foyer is
a trip back to 1910 (when the
house was built) with dark oak
floors, dark trim, doors on every
wall and a set of stairs up to the
second level. The house has some
modernized rooms, but the lay-
out has been kept more tradi-
tional with many segments,
small-ish rooms and multiple
paths open to your destination.
To the right is Ms. Jamieson’s
favourite space, a long library
with red walls, a tiled fireplace
and built-in bookshelves that
travels from the front of the
house to the rear. “It is filled with
my hundreds of books. It is prob-
ably my favourite place to sit on a
Saturday afternoon with a book
curled up on a couch with a cup
of tea,” she said.
On the other side of the foyer
is a formal dining room, this one
has a blue theme and another
tiled fireplace, and a small powd-
er room and phone cubby just off
the back of the room. Passing
through here takes you past the
“servant’s” staircase to the upper
level, and into the updated kitch-
en, done in a “Tuscan” style with
Travertine-style tile floor, and
warm yellow walls and tan-and-
rust granite counters with dark
wood cabinetry and stainless
steel appliances. It’s dominated
by a beefy butcher-block-topped
island in pale green, and there’s a
side door to the driveway as well
as an eat-in seating area with a
windowed wall and a door that
opens onto the back patio.
This level’s best room is tucked
away behind the library and the
stairs, the impressive 20-foot-
by-26-foot great room with a 13-
foot vaulted ceiling. “A truly
unique feature … a room I can
only compare to something you
would see in Parliament,” Mr.
Eyking said.
“When we stuck our heads in
that room, we said we’re going to
want to live here,” Mr. Anderson
said. “We’ve watched a lot of foot-
ball games on a big screen there,
we’ve entertained a lot of politi-
cal discussions there.
“One of my fondest memories,
is having a Christmas party here
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many years ago – a big sit-down
dinner, there were 75 people, mu-
sic and everything else. About
halfway through dinner, one of
my daughters came downstairs
and in her hand was a bloody
tooth … and she’s showing it to
me and the person who I was sit-
ting beside, who happened to be
Paul Martin, the minister of fi-
nance at the time.”
Much to her surprise, the fa-
mously penny-pinching finance
whiz offered a little fiscal stimu-
lus to the young girl. “I said,
‘You’ll have to skip right back up-
stairs and put that under your
pillow, and the tooth fairy will
come.’ And Paul, who is a lovely
man, is basically going, ‘So, how
much does the tooth fairy pay?’
And I was like, I think it’s only
like a quarter, maybe 50 cents.
And he’s like ‘No, I’m sure the
tooth fairy pays at least a loo-
nie.’ ”
The second floor has four
charm-filled bedrooms, includ-
ing the master with the same
vaulting ceiling and plaster deco-
rations as the great room. There
are little sitting areas and office
nooks scattered about, too. The
third floor attic rooms could be
used for storage (there’s also a ce-
dar closet) or hobby rooms, and
there’s a three-piece bath and the
final bedroom (currently an of-
fice). The basement has been re-
furbished to host a home gym
and a spacious laundry room.
ONE MORE STORY
The great room happens also to
be an excellent concert space. “I
think it was built by a judge, if I’m
not mistaken, and I believe it was
from the days of those débutent
events and he wanted something
with a little bit of grandeur to it,”
Mr. Anderson said.
“One of the things we do to
raise money [for an internship
the family maintains] is an event
at the Blacksheep Inn in Wake-
field [up the Gatineau River, in
Quebec]. It’s country music
themed, and we cajole politicians
and media figures to agree to sing
a country song with professional
musician. We usually have had
rehearsal nights at our house,” he
said. “So we had [former Liberal
cabinet minister] Scott Brison
over rehearsing his Conway Twit-
ty song. He’s an aficionado, and
he probably thought he was go-
ing to be one of the strongest MPs
rehearsing that night. Little did
he know that Megan Leslie [pres-
ident and chief executive officer
of World Wildlife Fund Canada
and former NDP MP for Halifax]
had been taking singing lessons. I
remember she went first, re-
hearsed her Patsy Cline song, and
blew us all away. He looked at
me, and I knew he was thinking
‘I’m going to have to up my game
a little bit.’ That’s one of the me-
mories that I’ll always cherish.”
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Critics question mandatory arbitration clauses

The legal caveat is becoming standard in
new-home contracts, and arbitrators themselves
are raising concerns over the unregulated practice

SHANE DINGMAN when parties have equal bargain-

REAL ESTATE REPORTER ing power, a condition he ac-
TORONTO knowledges is not always present
in the preconstruction home-
sales market. “The idea that

A
recent ruling by an Ontario
court blocking a joint law-
suit by a group of consum-
ers who signed contracts for pre-
construction homes highlights
the ways the ancient Latin legal
advice caveat emptor (“let the
buyer beware”) remains all too
relevant in 2019.
At particular issue are just a
few dozen words in the 40-page
Agreement of Purchase and Sale
contracts that informed the hope-
ful purchasers that, if there is any
dispute between vendor and
buyer, private arbitration is the
only legal route open to either
party.
In recent years, mandatory ar-
bitration clauses have gained
traction in the United States and
Canada as a speedier way to re-
solve disputes in commercial con-
tracts, and the clauses have in-
creasingly turned up in consumer
service contracts, too. In Ontario,
consumer legislation has banned
the clauses for most services, but
some transactions – real estate,
mortgages and insurance among
them – have long been exempted
from the ban.
But now, even some of the ar-
bitrators hired to adjudicate these
disputes wonder whether the sys-
tem is such a good fit for consum-
er-corporation conflicts, and are
raising concerns over what is es-
sentially an unregulated space.
Unlike the public courts, there are
no data gathered on the outcome
of arbitration hearings, nor are
there agreed-upon rules for how
parties should conduct the proc-
ess.
“My main concern is people
having to participate without a
choice,” said Colm Brannigan, an
arbitrator for 20 years who says he
believes it can be a great system
you’re compelled into it, it goes
against the idea of arbitration.
Once you’re in an arbitration
process, you can’t get out of it ex-
cept on very narrow grounds …
and it’s virtually impossible to ap-
peal an arbitration award if it’s
written properly.”
A recent attempt to invalidate
an arbitration clause came from
15 Ontario plaintiffs in Evans v.
Mattamy Homes Ltd. The buyers
said they had lined up on a cold
February day in 2017 to get a
chance to buy a home from the
property development giant’s ex-
clusive Oakville, Ont.-area project
called The Preserve, but later had
trouble closing, because of crash-
ing values of their existing homes.
They argued that a high-pressure
sales environment robbed them
of the opportunity to get legal ad-
vice on the contracts, thus mak-
ing the arbitration clauses invalid.
“Their evidence was the arbi-
tration clause was not pointed
out to them,” said plaintiff coun-
sel Jameel Madhany of Lerners
LLP. “Actually part of our argu-
ment was that given how onerous
the clause was, Mattamy should
have an obligation to point that
out.”
The plaintiffs allege the com-
pany gave out 400 tickets to the
sales event –“far more than the
amount of lots available” – and
starting at 9 a.m., “brought 10 to 15
people into the sales centre at any
given time. There were not
enough sales representatives to
assist all of them simultaneously.”
Once inside, the claim alleges,
“If a prospective purchaser asked
a sales representative for more in-
formation about a lot they wished
to purchase, the sales representa-
tive pointed at the people waiting
… and told the purchaser that
Townhouses are seen under construction in Toronto. An Ontario court recently blocked a joint lawsuit by a
group of consumers who signed contracts for preconstruction homes, in which the issue was a mandatory
arbitration clause. FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
there was no time to answer ques-
tions … a decision needed to be
made immediately.” When it
came time to review contracts,
the plaintiffs claim they were giv-
en at most 15 minutes to read the
lengthy legal document, and were
told “that they did not need to
read the APS because it was stan-
dard form, it was similar to APSes
for other developments, and that
in any event, amendments were
not permitted.”
In a statement, Mattamy reject-
ed the claims. “Mattamy provides
an abundance of information to
its prospective purchasers before
a sales launch. In this instance,
the court found that every plain-
tiff was advised ‘numerous times’
before the sales event that the
agreements were firm and bind-
ing. If any of the plaintiffs had
brought a lawyer with them to re-
view the agreement on the day of
purchase, Mattamy would of
course allow that.”
Mattamy sought and won a
stay and in a July decision, Onta-
rio Superior Court of Justice Mas-
ter Karen Jolley rejected claims
that the arbitration clause was
unfair or “unconscionable.”
Mattamy’s representatives
have argued in news reports that
anyone capable of putting down
several hundred thousand dollars
in deposits for a $1-million to $1.6-
million house is de facto a sophis-
ticated buyer.
The arbitration clause has be-
come standard in new home con-
tracts, but it’s not clear how often
homebuyers end up in private ar-
bitration. By its nature, arbitra-
tion is not public, and even indus-
try leaders aren’t sure how preva-
lent the practice is and how bal-
anced the outcomes are.
“I would say most arbitrators
are content at the moment that it
is not regulated,” said Janet
McKay, executive director of the
Alternative Dispute Resolution
(ADR) Institute of Canada, “and
[I] can’t really say whether I
would want it regulated or not.”
The ADR Institute provides train-
ing and professional guidance to
arbitrators and recently began a
research project to study arbitra-
tions in Canada to test the long-
held theory that the process is
better value for money than the
public court system. Even though
she has no hard evidence, Ms.
McKay says that, based on anec-
dotal information, she believes
arbitrations are on the rise. “I get
more and more calls from the
public asking about it. … I do
think it’s definitely in a growth
mode; there are just no num-
bers.”
Arbitrator William G. Horton
has written articles criticizing
mandatory arbitration for real es-
tate consumers, but accepts that
there can be good uses of the
process.
“The use of [arbitration] to
block access to justice is not a
good use,” Mr. Horton said. “I
would like to see [the real estate
exemption] struck down, if not
by the courts then by the legisla-
ture.”

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Seattle developers look to woo
spurned Vancouver investors
Builders hope overseas
buyers will look further
south for real estate
KERRY
GOLD
OPINION
VANCOUVER
A
n American developer is
looking to attract the inter-
national buyers who would
have previously looked to Van-
couver.
“There are a lot of internation-
al buyers that were buying in Van-
couver until they couldn’t really
do it any more, so we want to cap-
ture those buyers,” says long-time
developer Bob Kagan, senior
vice-president of California-
based Laconia Development. “We
want to capture that market.”
Mr. Kagan has been building in
Seattle for more than three dec-
ades and his latest project there,
in central Belltown, is a 41-storey
condo project called Spire. The
tower, which is near the land-
mark Space Needle, is being built
in partnership with China’s big-
gest residential developer, Vanke.
Mr. Kagan will be in Vancouver
in October and November to
meet with Vancouver brokers
from Nu Stream Realty, who will
help him entice buyers to his pro-
ject. About one-quarter of the
building has sold since it
launched in May. He’s not the on-
ly one looking to drum up buyers
in Vancouver. Last weekend, Con-
cord Pacific, which has a condo
project in Seattle, was co-sponsor
of a Vancouver event that billed
itself “an in-depth understanding
of top tier educational opportuni-
ties, future job market in Seattle
and the Real Estate Boom!,” fea-
turing expert speakers from Seat-
tle, with seminars for English-
and Chinese-speaking attendees.
They see an opportunity in
Vancouver buyers, now that the
city’s housing market has slowed.
In May, 2017, Greater Vancouver
detached house prices peaked at
an average of $1.8-million and
have been declining since. House
prices on Vancouver’s tony west
side – once popular with satellite
families and foreign buyers –
have fallen by 30 per cent since
the peak. Experts say a host of
taxes deliberately aimed at for-
eign and speculative buying ac-
tivity are responsible for the slow-
down, along with tighter mort-
gage rules.
Mr. Kagan says that as a result,
he’s seeing more Vancouver de-
velopers in Seattle and basically,
Flipper’s timing was off in New Westminster deal
DONE DEAL
518 13th St., No. 103, New
Westminster, B.C.
UP TO W N
Asking price: $499,000
Selling price: $492,500
Previous selling prices: $389,000
(2018); $108,000 (2002)
Days on market: 7
Taxes: $1,704.14 (2019)
Maintenance fees: $445.81 monthly
Listing agent: Steve Saretsky,
Sutton Group West Coast Realty
THE ACTION The seller was in the
business of flipping properties,
but his timing was off with this
one, listing agent Steve Saretsky
The Spire was originally going to be a rental building, but was switched
to a condo tower with units priced at US$1,200 a square foot.
he’d like to beat them at their
own game.
“They are all coming down
here because your [market] is
drying up and we are going to
have to compete with them.
“And they come with buyers
who’d otherwise like to buy in
Vancouver, but for one reason or
another they can’t, so they buy in
Seattle.”
The Spire was originally going
to be a rental tower, which has
been the trend for years in Seattle.
But the developer switched to
condos last year, pricing the units
at US$1,200 a square foot.
“Everybody was doing rental,”
Mr. Kagan says. “The condo mar-
ket dried up around the recession
and is just now coming back. In
real estate timing is everything.
We call it the real estate casino –
that’s really what it is.”
Vanke is a publicly traded com-
pany and Mr. Kagan says they are
moving into markets outside of
China.
“[Vanke] have been here [in
the United States] for awhile, and
what they do is provide capital to
U.S. developers,” Mr. Kagan says,
“and they form partnerships with
developers like us and we do the
work and split the profits.
“So they are doing it because
they see the company’s future
eventually [moving] out of Chi-
na. They are in London, Singa-
pore, the U.S., and they want to
learn how it’s done here. The way
to learn is through partnering
O THE G LO B E AND M AIL
with domestic builders like our-
selves.” He says the arrangement
includes direct sales to China. He
is not concerned about Vanke’s
ties to the Chinese government.
“We’re so used to it, it doesn’t
bother us. But they are a private
company and they are expected
to make earnings for share, just
like we do,” he says. “Their name
in China is gold; they carry a big
marketing punch in China. So
they have taken some units to
China and we have had some
sales from them because of that.
They have sold a good number of
units for us in Spire.
“Spire is three blocks away
from Amazon’s world headquar-
ters and the Chinese investors
know that. That’s a big deal.”
Dean Jones left Vancouver 25
years ago to settle in Seattle,
where he is president of Realogics
Sotheby’s International. He has
travelled to China to market Seat-
tle properties to buyers. Mr. Jones
says he has closely watched the
transformation of Vancouver’s
housing market in the past cou-
ple of decades.
“There’s a part of me that re-
grets leaving my hometown right
at the flashpoint of the market,”
Mr. Jones says, “but I now feel
well-positioned – and I benefited
from viewing those trends up
north, that are following a similar
trajectory here in the Seattle mar-
ket just 20 years later.”
He says foreign nationals are
arriving in the region for work, to
send their kids to school or to in-
vest in a secondary property.
“That’s just part of being a
global citizen. If you have got a
multientry visa program and you
can afford it, why not pick up a
place in the Seattle area? You can
have a second home, or your
fourth home or your 10th home,”
Mr. Jones says. “It’s no different
than what Los Angeles, San Fran-
cisco, New York and perhaps Van-
couver has been for years – a great
place to have a home and also
portfolio diversification.”
Mr. Jones says every major de-
veloper from Vancouver is work-
ing in Seattle, as well as many Chi-
nese and Hong Kong developers.
Concord Pacific, Westbank, Onni,
Cressey, Bosa and others have all
made their mark on Seattle, he
says. Because the region suffers
from some of the worst traffic
congestion in North America,
there is a huge push for urban
density, to avoid commutes.
He says that Vancouver devel-
opers have an advantage because
of their experience in building
towers. “It seems like those who
have it figured out are coming
from experienced urban density
markets, like Vancouver and Asia.
I would say we are working with
said. He’d tried to sell it for a year
with a previous broker for
$569,000. Mr. Saretsky tried to
sell it at $549,000. Within 10 days
at a reduced price, they sold to
first-time buyers who’d been
renting. The deal closed on Sept.
10.
“He bought well, but despite all
the upgrades, at the end of the
day, the market went soft,” Mr. Sa-
retsky said.
“But he made out really well on
other house flips in the last cou-
ple of years.”
WHAT THEY GOT This ground-floor
corner unit was completely reno-
vated last year and the 30-year-
old building has also been com-
pletely updated with new siding,
| FR IDAY , OC TOB ER 4, 2019
more international developers
than we are with local ones.”
The difference between Van-
couver and Seattle is that Van-
couver’s residential market has
been largely driven by wealth; in
Seattle, the majority of the mar-
ket is driven by jobs. The tech in-
dustry is flourishing in Seattle be-
cause companies don’t pay a state
tax, as they do in California, and
housing costs are still lower. Mr.
Kagan says those lower costs
combined with a thriving jobs
market makes it a less riskier in-
vestment than Vancouver, where
wealth can come and go. The
rental market especially benefits
from a strong jobs economy.
Daryl Simpson, senior vice-
president of Bosa Properties, says
his company is developing rental
units in Seattle, along with other
Canadian developers who are di-
versifying during Vancouver’s
market slowdown. He agrees that
Vancouver’s development frenzy
has given them the know-how to
do the same in Seattle.
“There are very few other plac-
es other than New York that have
developed the sheer number of
buildings we have developed in
the last few decades, so the talent
pool is quite deep in Vancouver
and the number of projects is
pretty significant,” he says. “The
U.S. has incredibly good home
builders, but in high-rise, wheth-
er condo or more affordable rent-
al in an urban context, there is an
experience in Vancouver that cre-
ates a culture of competency.”
And while Asian buyers who
otherwise might have bought in
Vancouver might be eyeing Seat-
tle, he says they’re looking at oth-
er cities, too. Mr. Simpson says his
company will stick with rental
projects in the United States.
However, Bosa Development,
which is a separate company, has
built condos in Seattle.
“The reality is, there is oppor-
tunity there now,” Mr. Simpson
says. “The rental market is incred-
ibly strong.”
It’s easier to build rental in
Seattle than Vancouver, he says,
for a few reasons. The permit
process is more straightforward
and land economics make it
more feasible in certain areas of
Seattle. Those lower land costs
combined with high local salaries
make it worthwhile to build luxu-
ry rental.
“It’s far easier to live in Seattle
and pay rent on a brand new lux-
ury rental suite than Vancouver,
because incomes are so much
greater there.
“The average employee in the
Amazon campus earns around
US$120,000, and that is the aver-
age – so the math works out bet-
ter,” he says.
balconies, windows and roof.
The condo has two bedrooms
and two bathrooms, laminate
floors and high-end fixtures in
the bathroom. There is a 185-
square-foot patio and fully fenced
side yard. It includes two parking
stalls and is close to shopping and
transit.
THE AGENT’S TAKE Buyers are find-
ing deals in this market, Mr. Saret-
sky says.
“Where can you get a two-bed-
room in large parts of the Lower
Mainland for under $500,000
that is fully renovated, in a rain-
screened building? I think those
buyers got really good value,” Mr.
Saretsky says.
– KERRY GOLD