OTTAWA / Q U E B EC E D I T I O N
CO M
Freeland calls
for action on
N.S. cellphone
dead zones in
wake of floods
LINDSAY JONES
MOLLY HAYES BROOKLYN, N.S.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia
Freeland called for urgent action
from Canada’s telecommunica-
tions regulator, after politicians
in Nova Scotia raised concerns
that poor cellular service had
prevented residents from receiv-
ing emergency alerts in an area
of the province where four peo-
ple were swept away by cata-
strophic flooding last weekend.
“It’s really not acceptable for
people not to be able to get
emergency alerts,” Ms. Freeland
told reporters at an emergency
command centre in Brooklyn,
N.S., where the search continues
for one of the four victims, a
youth who has not been identi-
fied.
“It’s a very important issue
and I will be raising it urgently
with François-Philippe Cham-
pagne, the Minister of Industry.”
She said she will be urging Cana-
da’s telecommunication compa-
nies and the Canadian Radio-tel-
evision and Telecommunications
Commission, which regulates
the industry, to address the issue.
She also noted the increasing
rate and severity of natural disas-
ters across the country.
As Ms. Freeland toured the
site, new details emerged about
the identities of the other three
victims, whose bodies have been
located since the flash flood.
They are six-year-olds Natalie
Hazel Harnish and Colton Sisco,
and 52-year-old musician Nick
Holland.
The two children were part of
a group that fled their home in
Brooklyn in the early morning
hours on Saturday.
FLOOD, A7
July set to be
hottest month
on record –
and a ‘foretaste
of the future’
RAYMOND ZHONG
Weeks of scorching summer heat
in North America, Europe, Asia
and elsewhere are putting July
on track to be Earth’s warmest
month on record, the European
Union climate monitor said on
Thursday, the latest milestone in
what is emerging as an extraor-
dinary year for global temper-
atures.
Last month, the planet experi-
enced its hottest June since re-
cords began in 1850. July 6 was its
hottest day. And the odds are ris-
ing that 2023 will end up displac-
ing 2016 as the hottest year. At
the moment, the eight warmest
years on the books are the past
eight.
“The extreme weather, which
has affected many millions of
people in July, is unfortunately
the harsh reality of climate
change and a foretaste of the fu-
ture,” Petteri Taalas, the secreta-
ry-general of the World Meteor-
ological Organization, said in a
statement. “The need to reduce
greenhouse-gas emissions is
more urgent than ever before.”
The world has entered what
forecasters warn could be a
multiyear period of exceptional
warmth, one in which the warm-
ing effects of humankind’s
continuing emissions of heat-
trapping gases are compounded
by El Nino, the recurring climate
pattern typically associated with
hotter conditions in many
regions.
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New NATO facility planned for Polish city
that has helped move Western aid into Ukraine
MARK MacKINNON der a plan to build a new NATO facility on a plan to build a new NATO facility in
SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT the outskirts of the city, which sits less Rzeszów – although it will be more of a
LONDON than 100 kilometres from the Ukrainian repairs and logistics centre than the
border. large-scale military base Mr. Fijolek hint-
Konrad Fijolek, the city’s mayor, made ed at.
The sights and sounds of war have been local headlines last month when he told “We are going to establish a mainte-
common in the southeastern Polish city Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper nance facility in partnership with the U.S.
of Rzeszów since the first days of the Rus- that NATO was planning a new base in and the U.K. No intent to have a large
sian invasion of Ukraine. The city’s air- Rzeszów and that “American, British and Canadian presence,” said the Canadian of-
port, which is defended by a pair of U.S. Canadian troops will be permanently sta- ficial, who added that the facility’s main
Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems, tioned here.” role will be repairing Ukrainian tanks and
rumbles day and night with cargo aircraft “We are sure that this base will be here, other armoured vehicles.
delivering the latest loads of Western mil- although neither our government nor NATO has supplied Ukraine with hun-
itary support to Kyiv, and the highways NATO has officially confirmed it yet,” dreds of main battle tanks and other
east of the city are clogged with trucks Mr. Fijolek said. It wasn’t clear from the fighting vehicles, many of which have
carrying everything from bridge-building mayor’s remarks when the new facility been damaged over the course of a seven-
equipment to recently trained Ukrainian would be opened. week-old Ukrainian counteroffensive that
recruits. Canadian and Polish officials with di- has struggled to break through well-estab-
Rzeszów’s militarized feel could soon
become a permanent state of affairs un-
rect knowledge of the matter have con-
firmed to The Globe and Mail that there is
lished Russian defensive lines.
POLAND, A8
Analysis upends long-standing theories about
the origins of some of world’s most dominant languages
IVAN SEMENIUK that sits at the northern end of the Fertile was conducted while he was a senior re-
SCIENCE REPORTER Crescent. searcher in linguistics at the Max Planck In-
Now, based on a new analysis of words stitute for Evolutionary Anthropology in
that are shared across many Indo-Europe- Leipzig, Germany. “We’re in a much better
T
he origins of Proto-Indo-Europe- an languages, an international team of re- place for working out what actually hap-
an, the ancestral tongue that searchers says the linguistic evidence pened.”
diverged into hundreds of lan- points to neither of those theories but While Indo-European languages ac-
guages spoken by more than three rather a combination of the two. count for only 5 per cent of all human lan-
billion people worldwide, have long been a The team’s findings, published Thursday guages, they are spoken by 46 per cent of
matter of debate. in the journal Science, amount to a reorga- the world’s population, with the most prev-
According to the leading scenario, the nization of the multiple branchings of the alent being English, Hindi-Urdu, Spanish,
language was first spoken by pastoralists Indo-European language family over time. Bengali, French, Russian, Portuguese, Ger-
who roamed the Steppe in Ukraine and The result supports the picture of an early man and Punjabi.
southern Russia on horseback about 6,000 origin in Turkey but also points to the Dr. Heggarty, who is now affiliated with
years ago and whose descendants pushed Steppe becoming a “second homeland” the Pontifical Catholic University in Lima,
outward into Europe and the Indian sub- from which Indo-European speakers car- Peru, said a key goal of the study was to use
continent. ried the forerunners of Italic, Celtic and Ger- linguistic relationships to arrive at a more
But some have argued for an older ori- manic languages westward into Europe. reliable chronology for the emergence of
gin, as much as 9,000 years ago, among Ne- “I think it’s a big step forward,” said Paul various Indo-European languages.
olithic farmers who lived in a part of Turkey Heggarty, lead author of the study, which LANGUAGES, A15
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MOMENT IN TIME

JULY 28, 1945

Betty Lou Oliver, right, tries her hand at some of the elevator controls after leaving the hospital,
alongside her cousin, Marie Gower, who was also an elevator operator. BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES

‘ELEVATOR GIRL’
BETTY LOU OLIVER SURVIVES
FALLING 75 STOREYS
B
etty Lou Oliver survived a plane crash and a
75-storey plunge, all on the same day. The
20-year-old was working as a lift operator in
New York’s Empire State Building on this
day in 1945, when a B-25 bomber pilot took a
wrong turn on a foggy day and smashed into the
tower. The pilot, two crew members and 11 people
in the building died in the fiery crash. Ms. Oliver, at
work on the 80th floor, was thrown from her eleva-
tor and suffered a broken back and pelvis, and
severe burns. But she was alive. Rescue workers
put her on a stretcher and into an elevator on the
79th floor to be taken to the ground and rushed to
hospital. That’s when the elevator’s suspension ca-
bles, damaged in the crash, snapped. The car and
Ms. Oliver plummeted 305 metres down the shaft.
Still, she lived, the elevator’s plunge slowed by air
pressure and cushioned by the pile of damaged
cables at the bottom. After being cut from the
wreckage, Ms. Oliver would live another 54 years.
The story of her toughness and luck – both bad
and good – is preserved in the Guinness Book of
World Records as the survivor of the longest eleva-
tor fall. ERIC ATKINS

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Ruins of ancient Nero’s Theatre discovered

under planned Four Seasons Hotel near Vatican
NICOLE WINFIELD ROME

Rome’s next luxury hotel has

some very good bones: Archeol-
ogists said Wednesday that the
ruins of Nero’s Theatre, an impe-
rial theatre referred to in ancient
Roman texts but never found,
have been discovered under the
garden of a future Four Seasons
Hotel steps from the Vatican.
Archeologists have excavated
deep under the walled garden of
the Palazzo della Rovere since
2020 as part of planned renova-
tions on the frescoed Renaissance
building.
The palazzo, which takes up a
Bulthaup Toronto Inc. city block along the broad Via del- The ruins of Nero’s Theatre, an imperial theatre referred to in Roman
280 King Street East la Conciliazione leading to St. Pe- texts, were discovered while doing renovations under a walled garden
Toronto, ON M5A 1K7 ter’s Square, is home to an an- for a future Four Seasons Hotel. ANDREW MEDICHINI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
phone +1 416 361 9005 cient Vatican chivalric order that
toronto.bulthaup.com leases the space to a hotel to raise Officials hailed the findings In addition, archeologists
money for Christians in the Holy from the excavation as “excep- found marble columns and gold-
Land. tional,” given that they provide a leaf decorated plaster, leading
The governor-general of the rare look at a stratum of Roman them to conclude that the Nero’s
Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Je- history from the Roman Empire Theatre referred to in texts by Pli-
rusalem, Leonardo Visconti di through to the 15th century. ny the Elder, an ancient Roman
Modrone, confirmed during a Among the discoveries: 10th cen- author and philosopher, was in-
news conference announcing the tury glass coloured goblets and deed there, located at the site just
archeological discovery that the pottery pieces that are unusual off the Tiber River.
incoming hotel chain was the because so little is known about Officials said the portable an-
Four Seasons. this period in Rome. tiquities would be moved to a
News reports have said the ho- Marzia Di Mento, the site’s museum, while the ruins of the
tel is expected to be open in time chief archeologist, noted that pre- theatre structure itself would be
for the Vatican’s 2025 Jubilee, viously only seven glass chalices covered again after all studies are
when an estimated 30 million of the era had been found, and completed.
people and pilgrims are expected that the excavations of this one
to flock to Rome. site turned up seven more. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Schizophrenia raises risk for heat-related deaths
The 1 per cent of people
who deal with this
illness often lack insight
into their health status,
epidemiologist says
WENCY LEUNG
HEALTH REPORTER
As temperatures climb in parts of
the country, Environment Cana-
da is issuing heat warnings advis-
ing people to take precautions to
protect themselves and others,
but there’s one group that tends
to be especially vulnerable in
sweltering weather: those with
schizophrenia.
People with schizophrenia,
who make up about 1 per cent of
the population, need to be aware
of their elevated risk of heat-relat-
ed death, according to Michael
Lee, an environmental epide-
miologist at the British Columbia
Centre for Disease Control. One of
the most important things others
can do for them is to check in on
them when temperatures soar, he
said.
Dr. Lee is the lead author of a
study, published earlier this year,
that found people with schizo-
phrenia had the highest risk of
death in B.C. in the summer of
2021, during a record deadly heat
dome that enveloped western
North America. There are several
hypotheses explaining why those
with schizophrenia are at higher
risk, including social isolation,
economic marginalization and
antipsychotic medication that af-
fects the body’s ability to regulate
heat, Dr. Lee noted.
In the study, published in the
journal GeoHealth, he and his
colleagues found 134 people with
schizophrenia died, representing
about 8 per cent of all deaths in
the province, during the hottest
eight-day period of the heat
dome. They found the risk of
death for someone with schizo-
phrenia was three times higher,
or 207 per cent, than it was during
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Paramedics and firefighters place a man in an ambulance after responding to an emergency during a heat wave
in Vancouver, in June, 2021. DARRYL DYCK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
ical years.
This was greater than any of
the 25 other chronic conditions
the researchers examined. By
comparison, the risk for people
with chronic kidney disease and
ischemic heart disease increased
36 per cent and 18 per cent, re-
spectively, during the heat dome.
“That’s striking and surpris-
ing,” Dr. Lee said of the findings,
because while it’s well known
that people with chronic kidney
disease and ischemic heart dis-
ease are at greater risk of heat-re-
lated death and illness, “up until
this point, schizophrenia just
hasn’t been a well-recognized risk
factor and it really hasn’t been a
part of public health messaging
about extreme heat.”
People with schizophrenia
were also disproportionately af-
fected by a heat wave in 2018 that
killed 66 people in Montreal, ac-
cording to a 2019 report by the
city’s health authority. Of those
deaths, 17, or 28.5 per cent, were
among people with schizophre-
nia disorders, whereas the esti-
mated prevalence of schizophre-
nia in Montreal’s population is
only 0.6 per cent.
Schizophrenia is often associ-
ated with a condition called ano-
sognosia, where a person lacks in-
sight into their own health status,
Dr. Lee explained in an interview.
People with the mental
illness may also have
other chronic diseases,
such as substance use
disorder, diabetes and
hypertension, which
contribute to their risk.
So, during an extreme heat event,
people with this condition may
not recognize they’re overheating
and take measures to cool down.
People with the mental illness
may also have other chronic dis-
eases, such as substance use dis-
order, diabetes and hypertension,
which contribute to their risk.
In a separate opinion paper,
published in the BC Medical Jour-
nal last month, Dr. Lee and his
team cited pharmacy data that
showed 80 per cent of all people
with schizophrenia who died dur-
ing the 2021 heat dome had been
dispensed an antipsychotic medi-
cation – which can disrupt the
body’s ability to regulate heat – in
the 90 days prior.
It’s important to note, howev-
er, that antipsychotic medica-
tions are considered an unmodi-
fiable risk factor, since they are
critical for the management of
schizophrenia, Dr. Lee said.
Instead, the focus should be on
reducing other risk factors that
can be modified, such as social
isolation and economic margin-
alization, he said. According to a
B.C. Coroner’s Service review of
the heat-related deaths during
the 2021 heat dome, 98 per cent of
NEWS | A3
all deaths occurred indoors in a
residence, and 56 per cent were
among people living alone.
“One of the ways that we can
make a big difference moving for-
ward is to increase social connec-
tedness for people with this con-
dition,” Dr. Lee said, such as hav-
ing family, friends and health care
workers check in on them and
help find places to keep cool in
extreme heat.
Some of these factors that put
people with schizophrenia at
greater risk during heat waves
may be, in part, why they can also
be more vulnerable to other
harms. People with schizophre-
nia and other psychotic disor-
ders, for example, were five times
more likely to die from COVID-19
than people without severe men-
tal illness, according to a Univer-
sity of Manchester-led study pub-
lished in Molecular Psychiatry in
2021.
Through her research, Mi-
chelle Blumberg, a PhD student
in clinical neuropsychology at
York University, encounters a
subset of people with schizophre-
nia who are among the most mar-
ginalized in society. In a sample of
400 homeless and precariously
housed people in Vancouver, she
found a disproportionately high
amount – 56 per cent – had schiz-
ophrenia or other psychotic ill-
nesses.
A lack of adequate shelter
makes it not only more difficult
for them to cope with extreme
heat, but other disasters, such as
extreme cold weather and wild-
fire smoke, as well, she said.
Chris Summerville, chief exec-
utive officer of the Schizophrenia
Society of Canada, also empha-
sized the need for quality, affor-
dable housing with air condition-
ing, and for access to timely men-
tal health supports and services.
“The bigger issue is, how do we
respond to people with a mental
illness who need our help?” Mr.
Summerville said. “I think we just
need, as a caring and compas-
sionate society, to take care of the
more vulnerable.”
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New Justice Minister inherits challenging portfolio

Opposition expected
to target Arif Virani
amid rise in violent
crime, upset within
legal system
SEAN FINE
JUSTICE WRITER
TORONTO
He came to Canada as an infant
with his refugee family, South
Asians expelled from Uganda in
1972, and taken in during the Lib-
eral years of Pierre Trudeau.
Fifty-one years after arriving –
his initial home was at a Montreal
YMCA – Arif Virani is the first
Ismaili Muslim to become Justice
Minister and Attorney-General of
Canada, appointed this week by
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
Pierre’s son.
“You just think about what
Canada represents. There are
multiple refugees that were just
sworn into cabinet yesterday, and
it’s quite a statement,” Mr. Virani
said in an interview with The
Globe and Mail, mentioning
Soraya Martínez Ferrada, the Min-
ister of Tourism, and Gary Anan-
dasangaree, the Minister of
Crown-Indigenous Relations, as
two others.
Mr. Virani will immediately be
on the hot seat as Justice Minister.
Violent crime is on the rise, the
latest data from Statistics Canada
show. The public is especially
anxious about it – and Conserva-
Arif Virani, the first Ismaili Muslim to become Justice Minister and
Attorney-General of Canada, and his family arrive for a cabinet
swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday. ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS
tive Leader Pierre Poilievre can be
expected to go hard at Mr. Virani
on a perceived weakness of the
government.
Peter MacKay, a former Conser-
vative justice minister, said in an
interview that the public views
sentences as too light, and that
people feel more at risk on the
streets and in their homes.
“There is a vulnerability that
the Liberal government is suffer-
ing under right now, that they’re
soft on crime. This is a well-worn
path for the Conservatives,” he
said.
And the legal system is facing
enormous upset from within,
over the seeming dysfunction of
the judicial appointments sys-
tem; not only are 81 judges’ jobs
vacant on the federally appointed
courts, such as the top trial and
appeal courts of the provinces,
several of the committees that
screen candidates have ceased to
operate. Supreme Court Chief
Justice Richard Wagner voiced his
displeasure to the Prime Minister
in writing this spring.
Mr. Virani said his first briefing
as minister began with a discus-
sion of judicial appointments,
which are made by cabinet on the
advice of the Justice Minister.
“I’m going to do everything in my
power to make sure there is no
lack of effort, diligence or effi-
ciency on the part of my office,”
he said.
As for crime, he acknowledged
that rising violence is an issue.
“We can talk about violence in
Canadian society coming out of
COVID, and people’s concerns
about it, which are completely
legitimate. I think there has to be,
in part, a criminal-justice re-
sponse to that.”
As an example of what Mr.
Virani intends to do, he men-
tioned pressing forward with the
changes to bail law introduced by
his predecessor, David Lametti, in
May, but yet to be debated and
voted on in Parliament.
“We’re keen to get that across
the finish line,” he said.
The proposed law was devel-
oped after a nationwide call from
premiers for action on repeat,
violent offenders. It pulls the sys-
tem in a different direction from
that of a 2019 federal law, also
introduced by Mr. Lametti, that
instructed bail judges to give par-
ticular attention to groups over-
represented in the justice system,
such as Indigenous people, racial-
ized minorities and those with
mental illness.
Daniel Brown, president of the
Criminal Lawyers’ Association,
said the proposed law is “window
dressing” that won’t make the
public safer but will hurt the mar-
ginalized who lack legal re-
sources to make effective argu-
ments for release.
Mr. Virani disagreed, saying
the focus is on violence and
weapons. A married father of two
boys, ages 9 and 12, he said he ex-
plained to his younger son this
week about the disproportionate
numbers of Indigenous people
incarcerated, and that it is one of
the areas where he can have a
direct impact.
“Yes, it’s the fundamental
problem of any government to
keep their citizens safe. But how
you address it, and how you ad-
dress the root causes of criminal-
ity, is something I’m privileged
from this vantage point to be able
to influence. … If you’re looking
at the root causes of crime, you
can look at things such as the
health care system, housing, edu-
cation availability, rehabilitation
programs.”
He added: “It’s hard to respond
to Pierre Poilievre with a three-
word phrase, but the three-word
phrase I would use is ‘smart on
crime.’ ”
Mr. Virani, who knew Mr. Tru-
deau when they were undergrad-
uates at McGill, said concern for
human rights and equality un-
derpins everything he has done.
That has been the case as a stu-
dent – he wrote a thesis on Martin
Luther King Jr. and civil rights,
and a law-school thesis at the
University of Toronto on the caste
system in India – and in his
career.
He was a founder of a South
Asian legal aid clinic in Toronto –
the prepolitics career accom-
plishment he says he is most
proud of.
Called to the bar in 2001, he
worked for the constitutional law
branch of the Ontario Ministry of
the Attorney-General from 2003
to 2015, when he was first elected
to Parliament. During a sabbati-
cal, he worked as a prosecutor of
Rwandan war criminals. He also
went to India and worked on
police reform.

Trudeau takes aim at Poilievre while defending Liberal climate-change policies

KRISTY KIRKUP OTTAWA
LAURA STONE TORONTO
SHANNON PROUDFOOT
SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
who just unveiled a cabinet reor-
ganization that saw the majority
of his front bench assigned to
new jobs, took aim at Pierre Poi-
lievre on Thursday, saying that
the Conservative Leader is stok-
ing fear without offering solu-
tions.
While speaking in Summer-
ford, N.L., on Thursday, Mr. Tru-
deau was asked about people in
the province, particularly in rural
areas, who rely on the oil and gas
industry for their livelihoods and
who feel like their industry is
under attack by Liberal policies.
Mr. Trudeau responded by
saying climate change is a fact
that no one, except Conserva-
tives, are debating any more,
while he pointed to devastating
effects of forest fires, Hurricane
Fiona, record floods and rain-
falls.
He said Canadians are facing a
choice between “a responsible,
ambitious, forward-thinking gov-
ernment that is preparing for the
opportunities of the future and a
party that is stoking anger and
fear throwing up its hands saying
‘Everything is broken. I’ll reflect
the anxiety everyone’s feeling in-
to anger, won’t provide any solu-
tions but we’ll all get mad as hell
together.’
“That’s not how you build a
country,” he said.
Mr. Trudeau also said the po-
litical debate right now seems to
be between those who are “lying
to workers and telling them that
the world’s not going to change”
and a government that acknowl-
edges the world is changing and
Canada is well-positioned to
From left, Cottles’ Island
Lumber owner Rex
Philpott talks with Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau
along with staff members
Alwood Hawkins, Rod
Gillard and Robin Philpott
during the Prime
Minister’s visit in
Summerford, N.L.,
on Thursday.
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THE CANADIAN PRESS
address it with innovation and a
commitment to the future.
The world is taking notice on
climate change and Europe is try-
ing to accelerate the transition to
alternative, lower-carbon solu-
tions, Mr. Trudeau added, saying
Canada will be a part of that.
The Liberals have been losing
ground to Conservatives in a
number of public opinion polls.
With the revamped cabinet, the
party is promising a greater focus
on the economy and housing.
Despite ushering in a series of
changes, Mr. Trudeau left
Finance Minister Chrystia Free-
land and Industry Minister Fran-
çois-Philippe Champagne in
their roles, along with Environ-
ment Minister Steven Guilbeault.
They are among the eight cabi-
net ministers who kept an exist-
ing portfolio, although several
others saw minor changes.
On Thursday, Mr. Poilievre, on
a tour through Northwestern
Ontario, drew several hundred
enthusiastic supporters to a mid-
day rally in Sault Ste. Marie at the
Machine Shop, a former industri-
al space turned into a soaring
event venue.
Speaking to the crowd in a
largely blue-collar city, Mr. Poi-
lievre blamed government
spending and Mr. Trudeau’s car-
bon-pricing plan for ballooning
the cost of everything from gas
to groceries, calling it “a tax that
goes after people for doing
things they have no choice but to
do.”
He also drew a direct line
between the Trudeau govern-
ment’s environmental policies
and a broader worldview.
“Canada is a resource-based
economy, but that resource
economy is under attack by
hard-left woke ideologues that
are determined to destroy the
livelihoods of our workers,” he
said, painting Mr. Guilbeault as
being opposed to oil and gas, for-
estry, nuclear and even tidal
power.
“They’re against all industry in
this country. A Poilievre-led gov-
ernment would reverse this in-
sanity.”
Mr. Poilievre also spoke about
inflation and the cost of living,
which have been key to the Con-
servative message for months.
Mr. Trudeau said Thursday
that inflation has come down to
the lowest level of any country in
the G7, but that food prices are
still high, particularly for families
who have been struggling. He
pointed to a series of steps the
government has taken in
response, including a federal gro-
cery rebate.
Carlene Variyan, a former
chief of staff in the Trudeau gov-
ernment who has also held
senior roles on Liberal election
campaigns, said Mr. Trudeau’s
remarks on Thursday are a way
to define Mr. Poilievre before the
next election, particularly with
swing voters whom the Conser-
vative Leader is trying to sway
back to his party.
The associate vice-president at
Summa Strategies in Ottawa said
the Liberals have been successful
in the past by framing the choice
in election campaigns as only be-
tween them and the Conserva-
tives.
She said that not all Canadians
may be fervent supporters of the
government, but it is important
to remind them that the “alter-
native is not one that they can
credibly or seriously cast a ballot
for. And I think it’s going to be
effective.”

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obstruct a federal investigation.
The indictment includes new
counts of obstruction and will-
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F R I DAY , J U LY 2 8 , 2 0 2 3 | T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
Liberal MP calls for Ottawa to halt federal funding
to Calgary Stampede over handling of sex assaults
Condemns ‘years
of inaction’ from
officials who he says
failed to protect boys
in its youth programs
CARRIE TAIT CALGARY
A Liberal MP from Alberta is
demanding Ottawa stop funding
the Calgary Stampede after the
organization reached a settle-
ment agreement tied to allega-
tions its officials failed for dec-
ades to protect boys in one of its
marquee youth programs from a
sexual predator.
A class-action lawsuit,
launched in 2017, alleged senior
officials with the Calgary Stam-
pede did not act on multiple re-
ports that Philip Heerema, an
adult working with the Young
Canadians, the glittery song and
dance group that headlines the
festival’s Grandstand Show each
evening, had inappropriate rela-
tionships with troupe members.
Stampede has agreed to accept
“responsibility for liability” and
pay 100 per cent of damages that
are awarded or assessed, accord-
ing to the proposed agreement
announced Wednesday in court.
George Chahal, an MP from
Calgary and former city council-
lor, in a Thursday statement to
The Globe and Mail condemned
Stampede’s “years of inaction”
and argued the proposed deal is a
testament to how far the not-for-
profit was willing to go to sweep
“horrific crimes under the rug.”
He pledged to lobby his col-
leagues in the federal govern-
ment to halt support for the 10-
day annual festival, putting at
risk millions of dollars worth of
Negative views of China hit record high in Canada, report finds
JAMES GRIFFITHS
ASIA CORRESPONDENT
HONG KONG
Almost 80 per cent of Canadians
have a negative view of China,
according to a new report from
Pew Research, an increase of five
percentage points from last year’s
record high.
Only 14 per cent of Canadians
said they had a favourable view of
China, while 79 per cent said the
opposite. Only five years ago, less
than half – 45 per cent – of respon-
dents said they felt unfavourably
toward Beijing.
Such negative views are shared
in most other countries surveyed
by Pew, which has been conduct-
ing polling on this issue for two
decades. Researchers found 67
per cent of respondents across 24
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Calgary MP George Chahal has pledged to lobby to stop support for the 10-day Stampede, putting at risk
millions of dollars worth of infrastructure grants and wage subsidies. JEFF McINTOSH/THE CANADIAN PRESS
infrastructure grants and wage
subsidies that benefit Albertans.
“Not a single taxpayer dollar
should support an organization
that has shown such blatant dis-
regard for the well-being of our
youth,” Mr. Chahal said in a state-
ment. “Federal funding should
only be reconsidered when the
victims themselves feel that gen-
uine accountability and reconcil-
iation have occurred.”
Ottawa recently earmarked
$4.5-million to help Stampede
build the $44-million Sam Cen-
tre, which is under construction.
The federal government, through
the Department of Canadian Her-
itage, doled out $1.6-million to
support the project in 2022 and
$715,800 the year prior, according
to Stampede’s 2022 financial
statements. Ottawa handed
countries had a disapproving
view of China, while 28 per cent
viewed the country approvingly.
U.S. views trend even more
negatively than those of Cana-
dians, with 83 per cent of Amer-
icans saying they felt unfavoura-
bly toward China. While older
people in both countries were
more likely to be critical of Beij-
ing, large majorities of Americans
and Canadians aged 18 to 39 – 76
and 69 per cent, respectively –
also said they had a negative
view. Half of Americans named
China as the “greatest threat” to
their country – almost three
times the number – 17 per cent –
who cited Russia as an adversary.
Asked whether China inter-
feres in other countries’ affairs, 45
per cent of Canadians said Beijing
does so “a great deal,” more than
any other country surveyed. This
Stampede $24,647 through the
Canada Summer Jobs Program to
subsidize youth wages in 2022,
compared with $15,666 the year
prior. The federal government
also gave Stampede $247,228 in
2021, through the Canada Emer-
gency Wage Subsidy program.
The Calgary Stampede is one
of the most important events on
Canada’s political calendar.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
like his predecessors, has been a
mainstay despite his government
having only two seats in Alberta.
Mr. Chahal’s call to cut Stam-
pede’s funding could fuel accusa-
tions the federal Liberals have no
time for Alberta. On the other
hand, Mr. Chahal, who remains a
backbench MP after this week’s
cabinet shuffle, framed himself
as a champion for sexual-assault
follows months of allegations of
Chinese meddling in Canadian
politics, which have prompted
calls for a public inquiry.
Relations between Beijing and
Ottawa are currently in a deep
freeze, and while China has en-
deavoured in recent months to
improve ties with Washington,
the news that few Canadians or
Americans view China positively
will likely not come as a surprise.
What might alarm policy mak-
ers in Beijing, however, is the dra-
matic shift in Europe, where
record-high numbers of respon-
dents in almost every country
surveyed said they had a negative
view of China. This despite con-
certed efforts by Beijing to court
leaders across the continent and
position the European Union as a
potential counterweight to an in-
creasingly hostile Washington.
victims.
“For decades, members of The
Young Canadians entrusted the
Calgary Stampede with their
dreams, their abilities, and most
importantly, their safety,” he
said. “What they received in re-
turn was a systematic betrayal.”
Jason Coxford, a spokesperson
for Stampede, said it would not
be “appropriate” for his organiza-
tion to comment on Mr. Chahal’s
proposal or detail its potential
fallout.
Gavin Price, a lawyer repre-
senting the plaintiffs, said Mr.
Chahal’s office did not consult
him or his clients prior to calling
for the funding freeze. “The class
would welcome attention to the
matter and they would welcome
momentum toward a resolution
of damages,” Mr. Price said.
China’s support of Russia in its
war against Ukraine has massive-
ly undermined this years-long
effort, with the effects most keen-
ly felt in Eastern Europe, where
Beijing had previously enjoyed
strong support. According to Pew,
negative views in Poland, which
neighbours Ukraine, increased 12
points over last year.
The Pew findings come as Chi-
na’s foreign policy apparatus is in
partial disarray this week, with
the dismissal of foreign minister
Qin Gang after just seven months
in the job. Mr. Qin, who has not
been seen in public since June 25,
was officially removed after a spe-
cial meeting of China’s rubber-
stamp parliament, the National
People’s Congress, on Tuesday.
He has been replaced by his pred-
ecessor, Wang Yi, who also holds
a senior foreign policy role within
NEWS | A5
Lawyers for Stampede and the
plaintiffs announced their pro-
posed settlement Wednesday. It
must be approved by a judge,
and the parties still have to nego-
tiate the financial terms of the
deal.
Mr. Heerema was sentenced to
10 years in prison in 2018 for sex-
ually exploitive acts related to six
members of the Young Cana-
dians. He was convicted for inci-
dents that took place between
1992 and 2014.
The class-action lawsuit, how-
ever, alleged a Young Canadian,
in 1988, told the Grandstand
Show’s top executive that Mr.
Heerema abused him. Court doc-
uments also allege an instructor
with the Young Canadians, in
2008, filed a formal complaint
about Mr. Heerema, indicating he
was “extremely inappropriate”
with the boys. Stampede’s inac-
tion in light of such information,
the lawsuit alleged, allowed Mr.
Heerema to abuse boys for dec-
ades.
The court documents indicate
his abusive behaviour affected
more youth than previously
known. The allegations have not
been tested in court.
The Calgary Exhibition and
Stampede Ltd. and the Calgary
Stampede Foundation, in court
documents filed as recently as
June, denied wrongdoing and
argued they were not liable for
Mr. Heerema’s actions. Stam-
pede’s Mr. Coxford did not ad-
dress why the organization shift-
ed tactics.
“With this settlement agree-
ment, the Calgary Stampede has
taken responsibility in the hopes
of helping the victims to heal,” he
said in a statement. “We can’t
change the events of the past, but
we are deeply sorry for how the
victims have been affected.”
the ruling Communist Party.
Since his official dismissal, Mr.
Qin’s name has been largely
wiped from the website of China’s
Foreign Affairs Ministry and men-
tion of him has been censored
online. This includes reports of
his meetings last month with U.S.
Secretary of State Antony Blin-
ken, where both sides said pro-
gress had been made in repairing
a relationship that had become
dangerously strained.
Asked about Mr. Qin at a regu-
lar news conference Thursday,
Foreign Affairs Ministry spokes-
person Mao Ning said China
would release information in a
“timely manner,” adding that
Beijing did not appreciate the
“malicious hype” surrounding
Mr. Qin’s removal.
With a report from Reuters
A6 | NEWS
Imperial Oil cleaning up after Alberta spill
Flock of geese affected
after 900 litres of crude
were released at
facility near Cold Lake
EMMA GRANEY
ENERGY REPORTER
CALGARY
A flock of Canada geese is being
cleaned up at an Edmonton wild-
life rehabilitation centre after the
birds landed on and swam in a
lagoon at a northern Alberta Im-
perial Oil facility where 900 litres
of crude oil spilled late last week.
The 12 geese were spotted by
Imperial workers at the compa-
ny’s Mahihkan plant on Monday,
about 30 kilometres northwest of
Cold Lake, Alta.
Imperial told The Globe and
Mail in an e-mail Thursday that
A makeshift memorial, seen here in July, 2013, marks the location where Sammy Yatim was shot by police
in Toronto. An inquest into his death has been plagued by delays. KEVIN VAN PAASSEN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Sammy Yatim’s mother continues
fight for justice decade after his death
TYLER GRIFFIN TORONTO
Ten years after her son was fatally
shot on an empty Toronto street-
car, Sammy Yatim’s mother said
she’s still fighting for justice.
Eighteen-year-old Mr. Yatim
was shot multiple times by Con-
stable James Forcillo while stand-
ing alone holding a small knife on
the streetcar on July 27, 2013. Cell-
phone footage of the shooting
posted online set off a wave of
public outrage and calls for police
reform.
On the 10th anniversary of her
son’s death, Mr. Yatim’s mother
said she worries her calls for
change in policing and justice for
her son are no longer being heard.
“I wanted to do something ac-
tually to honour my son, but they
left me disabled. I feel they disap-
pointed me, the police, the gov-
ernment, the system – they
failed,” Sahar Bahadi told The
Canadian Press.
“I promised Sammy to fight for
justice for him. I want to continue
that, in spite of all the problems I
face. I miss him, I miss him a lot.”
Ms. Bahadi said her family is
still suffering because of delays to
an inquest into Mr. Yatim’s death
and insufficient progress on rec-
ommended police reforms. She is
also still awaiting the resolution
of a lawsuit she filed against To-
ronto police.
Constable Forcillo was the only
officer to open fire on Mr. Yatim,
firing three shots that caused the
teen to fall to the floor of the
streetcar, followed by a second
volley of six more shots.
In 2016, a jury acquitted Con-
stable Forcillo of the more serious
charge of second-degree murder
related to the first round of shots –
which the court heard killed the
teen – but convicted the officer of
attempted murder related to the
second volley, fired while Mr. Ya-
tim was lying on his back.
Constable Forcillo was sen-
tenced to 6½ years behind bars
and began serving prison time in
2017 after an unsuccessful appeal.
He was granted full parole in 2020.
A long-awaited inquest into Mr.
Yatim’s death was set to start last
November but continues to be de-
layed after Constable Forcillo ar-
gued in a last-minute motion that
it should examine the possibility
Mr. Yatim died by “suicide by cop”
– a theory rejected by the presid-
ing coroner.
Ms. Bahadi said her son’s death
has left her unable to work and re-
the release of oil into the waste
lagoon on July 21 was because of
“an upset with key process
equipment.”
The incident is the latest in a
series of environmental inci-
dents at Imperial sites.
The company came under fire
earlier this year for failing to no-
tify local Indigenous communi-
ties of a continuing leak from a
tailings pond at its Kearl oil
sands facility into the environ-
ment. Communities only found
out after a separate incident, in
which a drainage pond at Kearl
overflowed, spilling an estimated
5.3 million litres of industrial
wastewater laced with pollu-
tants.
Various other oil companies
have also landed in hot water
with the Alberta Energy Regula-
tor (AER) for similar issues this
year.
Almost six million litres of wa-
lying on government-assistance
payments. Her whole family, par-
ticularly her daughter, is strug-
gling, she said.
“My daughter, she’s so sad, she
even cannot improve her life, she
couldn’t forget her brother,” Ms.
Bahadi said.
A lawyer for Mr. Yatim’s young-
er sister said she is suffering from
post-traumatic stress disorder
and depression.
“She looked up to Sammy and
revered him. She has not reco-
vered from her tragic loss,” lawyer
Ed Upenieks wrote in an e-mail.
Ms. Bahadi said she is still seek-
ing changes to a policing culture
she argued is too quick to resort to
violence and lethal force.
In 2016, Ontario ombudsman
Paul Dubé made a number of rec-
ommendations to the province in
the wake of Mr. Yatim’s death, in-
cluding the creation of a standar-
dized, mandatory de-escalation
training for police forces.
At a news conference last sum-
mer, he called out the govern-
ment’s “painfully slow” progress
on implementing the recommen-
dations and said he is even con-
sidering a second investigation.
On the 10-year anniversary of
Mr. Yatim’s death, Mr. Dubé’s of-
fice said the ombudsman is “dis-
couraged” by the lack of progress
and slow pace of change.
“The Ministry of the Solicitor
General has implemented a new
use-of-force model, but there has
been no clear progress on the re-
maining recommendations to
date,” the office wrote in a state-
ment Thursday.
“He has continued to call on
the Ministry of the Solicitor Gen-
eral to specifically address de-es-
calation through a regulation that
requires officers to de-escalate sit-
uations before using force, when-
ever possible.”
The Office of Solicitor-General
Michael Kerzner said the govern-
ment has updated Ontario’s use-
of-force model and incorporated
the training aid at both recruit
and experienced officer levels. Of-
ficers must undergo use-of-force
and firearms requalification
training every 12 months, it said.
“We’ll continue to work with
our partners to refine and contin-
uously improve the framework
and enhance police training,” it
wrote in a statement.
A separate probe of Mr. Yatim’s
shooting by Justice Frank Iaco-
bucci resulted in 84 recommenda-
tions for Toronto police, including
several related to crisis training
Imperial told The Globe
and Mail in an e-mail
Thursday that the
release of oil into the
waste lagoon on July 21
was because of ‘an
upset with key process
equipment.’
and use-of-force. A police report
indicates 98 per cent of the recom-
mendations had been imple-
mented in some form by 2018.
Mr. Yatim’s death resulted in
important changes to police
training for dealing with people in
crisis, said Alok Mukherjee, who
was chair of the Toronto Police
Services Board at the time.
He pointed to a pilot project
that deploys community workers
to calls for mental-health issues or
crises as an example. But the need
for improvements remain, he
said.
“As I look back from what hap-
pened 10 years ago, I see progress
and I see new areas of potential
concern that call for constant
oversight and constant review,”
said Mr. Mukherjee.
“I’m not so sure that when it
comes to de-escalation, when it
comes to restraints on use-of-
force, that the police service has
made as much progress.”
Earlier this year, police boosted
officers’ presence on the Toronto
Transit Commission for nearly
two months in response to several
high-profile cases of violence. Mr.
Mukherjee said that brought to
mind what he said were policing
faults on the night of Mr. Yatim’s
death.
“What was apparent from the
Sammy Yatim incident was that
the police responded, but they did
not have a chain of command.
They did not have preparation,
there was no plan on how to deal
with Sammy,” he said.
“My concern was that we were
again responding in such a rapid
fashion by simply deploying po-
lice officers.”
For Mr. Yatim’s mother, the rec-
ommendations made after her
son died are still “just writing on
paper.”
“They have to do their work
properly,” she said of police.
“There is no need for violence, es-
pecially for people like kids …
Sammy or even other kids, they
were not criminal.”
Ms. Bahadi said she wanted to
mark the decade since her son’s
death simply by remembering Mr.
Yatim, who she called gentle, in-
telligent, polite, artistic, athletic
and above all, a protector of his
mother and sister.
“Still now, I cannot imagine
how that happened. There is a lot
of pain and suffering,” she said.
“It’s the same feeling as if it hap-
pened yesterday.”
THE CANADIAN PRESS
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L | F R I DAY , J U LY 2 8 , 2 0 2 3
ter with more than twice the le- been deployed to prevent the re-
gal limit of suspended solids was lease from spreading further
released from a pond at Suncor’s within the lagoon.
Fort Hills oil sands project into The 12 birds were taken to
the Athabasca River in April. The Northern Alberta Wildlife Rescue
next month, more than 30 dead and Rehabilitation, where they
birds were found at two separate are being cleaned and assessed.
oil sands tailings ponds operated Imperial said the geese are in
by the company. good physical condition.
And Cenovus Energy Inc. was The regulator said in a notice
slapped with a non-compliance on its website that AER field in-
order in June after more than spectors were onsite at the Ma-
1,000 litres of diesel spilled into a hihkan plant to oversee Imperi-
popular fishing lake and the sur- al’s response to the incident on
rounding area near one of its Monday, and visited again with
sites. federal officials from Environ-
Imperial said on Thursday ment and Climate Change Cana-
that it is continuing to recover da the next day.
the oil spilled into the lagoon at The regulator directed Imperi-
its Mahihkan plant. In the mean- al to provide daily updates on
time, it has installed additional the cleanup and preventative
noise cannons, fencing, decoys measures to ensure no more
and flags around the lagoon, and wildlife is affected.
placed the site under 24-hour The AER said it and Imperial
surveillance. have notified communities. Im-
Containment booms have also perial said it regrets the incident.
Accused in Ottawa
explosion expected to
plead guilty next month
LAURA OSMAN OTTAWA
The man charged with causing an explosion that destroyed
several new homes in Ottawa earlier this year is expected to
plead guilty next month.
Kody Troy Crosby, 35, is scheduled to appear in court on
Aug. 31 to offer his plea, and a sentencing hearing is expected
to follow.
People in the east end of Ottawa woke up to a massive
boom on Feb. 13 as a ball of fire rose into the air.
The blast destroyed four homes under construction in the
newly built Avalon Vista community in Orléans and dam-
aged many more.
Six people were sent to hospital, including two children,
and several more people were injured.
Two of those people were found buried beneath rubble,
and first responders had to use chainsaws to cut their way
through the debris to rescue them.
“Mr. Crosby is extremely remorseful for his actions and
wishes to take full responsibility for what occurred,” Mr. Cros-
by’s lawyer, Natasha Calvinho, said in a statement.
The Ottawa Police Service arson unit said in March that
two tankless water heaters were stolen from the address in-
volved in the explosion.
Court documents show Mr. Crosby has a lengthy history of
charges related to breaking and entering, though some of
those past charges have been withdrawn.
“He has always expressed his intention to take responsib-
ility; it just took the Crown and I time to work out the de-
tails,” Ms. Calvinho said of Mr. Crosby’s upcoming court date.
Mr. Crosby was charged with four counts each of criminal
negligence causing bodily harm and arson causing bodily
harm, as well as two counts of breaking and entering.
Mr. Crosby was also charged with arson with disregard for
human life and arson causing property damage.
None of the charges have yet been proven in court, and it’s
unclear which of the them Mr. Crosby plans to plead guilty to.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Four homes under construction were destroyed in an early
morning explosion in the Orléans area of Ottawa on Feb. 13.
SPENCER COLBY/THE CANADIAN PRESS
SASKATCHEWAN MAN CONVICTED OF KILLING
BROTHER OVER FARMLAND DISPUTE IN 1997
REGINA A judge has found a Saskatchewan man guilty of
second-degree murder in the death of his brother nearly 26
years ago over a farmland dispute.
Court of King’s Bench Justice Janet McMurty said Thurs-
day that Joseph Thauberger, who is now 80, killed his
brother Patrick Thauberger in September, 1997.
The judge also convicted him of offering an indignity to
human remains.
Police found the brother’s remains in a farm pond nearly
three years ago, helping officers crack what had been a cold
case.
Court heard evidence that the brothers were in the
Regina home of Joseph Thauberger when he hit his brother
on the head and strangled him.
Justice McMurty said Mr. Thauberger dismembered his
brother’s skull and limbs then disposed of the body parts,
possibly with a tractor, at a farm east of Regina.
She said Mr. Thauberger’s claims that his brother died
after accidentally falling down the stairs are “preposterous
on their face.”
“I must conclude that it would be foolhardy to rely on
anything the accused has said, in testimony, or elsewhere.”
The judge said Mr. Thauberger made it clear on various
occasions that he wanted to stop his brother from selling
the farmland.
Barbara Hayes, who was married to Mr. Thauberger at
the time of the killing, testified that she understood he did
the farm work, but Patrick Thauberger owned the land.
Another brother, James Thauberger, testified Patrick
Thauberger owned the land outright and had listed Joseph
Thauberger as the beneficiary of his pension plan.
The Crown had sought a first-degree murder conviction,
but the judge said she could not be certain the killing was
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New minister says she will stand ground on news bill
Pascale St-Onge, once
president of a Quebec
media union, is being
briefed on C-18 issues
MARIE WOOLF OTTAWA
The new Heritage Minister, Pas-
cale St-Onge, says she will stand
her ground against the tech
giants, as Facebook prepares to
push the button on its plan to
block Canadians’ access to news
in response to the Online News
Act.
Ms. St-Onge, who took over
from Pablo Rodriguez in this
week’s cabinet shuffle, steps
straight into the fray over Bill
C-18, including negotiations with
Google, which has also threat-
ened to block Canadians’ ability
to search for news.
The new minister signalled
Thursday that she is not pre-
pared to further soften the gov-
ernment’s line with the tech gi-
ants, saying she is “deeply com-
mitted to ensuring that Canada
has a free and independent press,
because it’s fundamental to our
democracy.”
“Our government is going to
keep standing our ground,” she
told The Globe and Mail. “Cana-
dians expect tech giants to pay
their fair share.”
The Online News Act, which
Flood: Girl’s father says cell service was not a factor in children’s death
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They were overcome by a storm
surge, which pushed their vehicle
off a road and into a hayfield that
suddenly flooded with about 10
feet of water, according to police.
Natalie’s father, Nick Harnish,
told The Globe and Mail that al-
though cellular service is “defi-
nitely an issue out there,” it was
not a factor in Natalie and Col-
ton’s deaths. The group fled their
home about 30 minutes before
the province issued its first emer-
gency alert, at 3:06 a.m., asking
people to shelter in place. “We
were already fighting for our lives
in the field at that point,” he said.
Ms. Freeland was responding
to concerns expressed to The
Globe on Wednesday by several
Nova Scotia politicians. Abraham
Zebian, the mayor of the munici-
pality of West Hants, which in-
cludes Brooklyn, said some resi-
dents had informed him they
had not received alerts. He said
he had previously told Nova Sco-
tia Premier Tim Houston and
Kings–Hants MP Kody Blois, in
meetings and letters, about the
unreliability of cellular service in
the area, and the resulting un-
availability of the 911 system, but
had seen no action for the past
two years.
Mr. Blois and John Lohr, Nova
Scotia’s Minister of Emergency
Measures, also said Wednesday
that they were concerned about
the issue.
Ms. Freeland got a glimpse of
the unreliable service in the area
on Thursday. Bell Canada erected
a portable cellular site at the
emergency command post she
visited, to boost the local wireless
signal.
Mr. Houston told reporters on
Thursday that he is unhappy
with the lack of progress on ad-
dressing cellular dead zones in
the province. He said he will be
seeking answers in the coming
days about how well the alert sys-
tem functioned during the
floods.
“There are definite issues with
cellphone coverage, and it’s a def-
inite focus of ours,” he said.
The use of emergency alerts,
which is overseen by the Cana-
dian Radio-television and Tele-
communications Commission,


 
 







 


received royal assent last month,
was designed to support the Can-
adian news industry, which has
seen advertising migrate to the
Big Tech platforms. It would
make Facebook and Google ne-
gotiate deals to compensate
news outlets in Canada for post-
ing or linking to their work.
Concerns were raised Thurs-
day that the government’s posi-
tion could be weakened with the
expected departure of key politi-
cal staff – who have been nego-
tiating with Google and know the
legislation in detail – to the
Transport ministry with Mr. Ro-
driguez.
Ottawa has yet to decide
which political staff will accom-
pany ministers to their new de-
partments, including chiefs of
staff, and how long transition pe-
riods – where existing political
staff help new ministers adjust to
their new roles – will last.
Kevin Desjardins, president of
the Canadian Association of
Broadcasters, said Ms. St-Onge is
used to tough negotiations and is
unlikely to be cowed by the tech
giants’ tactics. But he warned “it
will be important for there to be
continuity in the minister’s office
and those working on this file to
ensure that the momentum isn’t
lost” in dealings with Facebook
and Google.
“I don’t think she will be in-
timidated by them. I think she
will be ready for the challenge,”
A man surveys damage at the edge of floodwater amid abandoned
vehicles after a major rain event in Halifax on Saturday.
DARREN CALABRESE/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Six-year-old Colton Sisco.
Musician Nick Holland.
has been an issue in Nova Scotia.
The RCMP were criticized for not
using the National Public Alert-
ing System – which allows au-
he said. “This has to be the hot-
test file the government has to
deal with in the last few months,
and it hasn’t crossed the finish
line yet.”
Kevin Desjardins,
president of the
Canadian Association of
Broadcasters, said Ms.
St-Onge is used to tough
negotiations and is
unlikely to be cowed by
the tech giants’ tactics.
But he warned ‘it will be
important for there to
be continuity in the
minister’s office and
those working on this
file to ensure that the
momentum isn’t lost’ in
dealings with Facebook
and Google.
Ms. St-Onge, the former sport
minister and one-time president
of Quebec’s biggest media and
cultural-sector union, is being
briefed by officials on the Online
News Act.
Among those getting her up to
speed is Owen Ripley, associate
assistant deputy minister, who
answered technical questions
from MPs and senators in mul-
Six-year-old Natalie Harnish.
thorities to issue emergency
alerts via television, radio and
cellphones – in April, 2020, to
warn residents in Portapique,
N.S., about a gunman who killed
22 people in a massacre that last-
ed 13 hours.
Chris Sisco, the father of Col-
ton, one of the two small children
whose bodies were found after
the flooding, said in an interview
that he was awakened by a phone
call from the boy’s mother at 2:28
a.m. on Saturday. She alerted him
to the heavy rain and potential
danger. By the time he got out of
bed, there was already water on
the floor of his ground-floor
apartment.
Natalie’s parents – Mr. Harnish
and his wife, Courtney – also live
in the home. Together, they gath-
ered up their children and tried
tiple parliamentary hearings
about the legislation.
“It will also be important that
she takes the time to engage with
all stakeholders, so she under-
stands the nuances of their re-
spective positions, and can en-
sure the regulations are balanced
and predictable for all,” said Paul
Deegan, president and chief ex-
ecutive of News Media Canada,
which represents the news in-
dustry.
As Sport Minister in the Heri-
tage department, Ms. St-Onge
was in charge of the govern-
ment’s response to allegations of
sexual misconduct in sport. Otta-
wa temporarily suspended feder-
al funding to Hockey Canada af-
ter it faced allegations about se-
cretive funds to settle sexual-as-
sault claims against players.
Friends of Canadian Broad-
casting said they believed the
minister, former head of Que-
bec’s Fédération nationale des
communications et de la culture,
would not be cowed by the tech
giants’ financial muscle and
threats to block news.
“When it comes to C-18, the
bullying tactics by the foreign
tech giants have left a bad taste
in a lot of people’s mouths,” said
executive director Marla Bolt-
man. “Given the wealth of cultur-
al experience that Minister St-
Onge brings to the table, partic-
ularly in the news sector, it’s hard
to imagine the minister will have
to flee the property in a truck.
They made it just past the dri-
veway, Mr. Sisco said. “And then
the water took us.”
He said he didn’t know what
difference it would have made if
the province had sent out its first
emergency alert earlier in the
morning.
“If my phone would have went
off a half hour earlier, would we
have got out? I don’t know. We
might have,” he said.
“It’s a what if. I guess we’ll nev-
er know.”
Mr. Sisco described Colton as a
child who loved to ride his bike
and play video games with his ol-
der brother Alex, whom Colton
enjoyed imitating and irritating.
Colton was also very close with
Natalie.
Recalling his daughter, Mr.
Harnish said he was struck by
how helpful she was in caring for
her brother Christian, who has
special needs and requires a lot
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much of an appetite for these an-
tics.”
Meta is expected to block Can-
adians’ ability to post and share
news on Facebook and Instagram
within the next week. Google is
in the midst of negotiations with
the government and has said it
too will block access to news un-
less a “viable” way forward is
found through regulations.
Google has complained that
the bill is vague on how much
platforms would be expected to
pay publishers overall, or how
many deals it would need to do
with them to be exempt from
regulation.
In a statement Thursday, Goo-
gle said it continues to have “sig-
nificant concerns about structur-
al issues with C-18” and is still
“uncertain they can be sufficient-
ly addressed through regula-
tions.”
“We hope that the govern-
ment will be able to outline a via-
ble path forward before the law
takes effect,” it said.
In response to the bill, both
Google and Meta have carried
out tests blocking access to Cana-
dian news sites.
Meta is also seeking clarity
from Heritage about whether al-
lowing links to news on Threads
– its newly launched rival to Twit-
ter – would mean it would be
subject to the Online News Act,
which the social-media giant
wants to avoid.
of parental attention. “Natalie
never once got jealous or spite-
ful,” he said. Christian survived
the flood.
Mr. Harnish also recalled his
daughter’s special relationship
with their dog, Molly, who also
died in the flood. “They were in-
separable,” he said. “When Nata-
lie went to bed, Molly went with
her.”
Mr. Holland, the 52-year-old
who died in the flood, was not
with the Sisco and Harnish fam-
ilies. He was a father of two and a
member of a heavy metal band
called Hogtooth. “We, his family,
are broken hearted,” his obituary
said. “The family would like to
profoundly thank all the mem-
bers of the various search and
rescue teams, the private citizens
and the members of the band
Hogtooth for their tireless efforts
to find him.”
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A man walks past destroyed buildings in Izyum in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine on Thursday. Despite gains achieved by Kyiv’s troops,
mostly in the northeast and far south late last year, Russia still holds about 20 per cent of Ukraine’s land. SERGEY BOBOK/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Ukraine needs more weapons to win
war, Nobel Peace Prize winners say
Laureates meeting with members of Biden administration and Congress to urge them to do more to defeat Putin
ADRIAN MORROW
U.S. CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON
Nobel Peace Prize laureates are
calling on the West to ramp up its
support for Ukraine with the goal
of helping Kyiv win a swift victory
and set up an international tribu-
nal to try Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin for launching the inva-
sion.
Oleksandra Matviichuk of the
Center for Civil Liberties,
Aleksandr Cherkasov of Memo-
rial and Kanstantsin Staradubets
of Viasna Human Rights Center
have spent this week in
Poland: City of Rzeszów came up during summit between Putin and Lukashenko
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The official, whom The Globe is
not naming because they were
not authorized to speak publicly
about the matter, said Mr. Fijolek
was making the facility “sound
bigger than what it is in terms of
people” and that no Canadian
troops would be stationed in
Rzeszów long-term with their
families.
The NATO media office in
Brussels responded to questions
from The Globe with a statement
that read in part “we are signif-
icantly strengthening deterrence
and defence for all Allies,
enhancing our resilience against
Russian coercion, and support-
ing our partners to counter ma-
lign interference and aggression.”
The Department of National De-
fence in Ottawa did not reply to
e-mailed questions from The
Globe by the time of publication.
Few cities have been more
rapidly transformed by Russia’s
17-month-old war against Uk-
raine than Rzeszów (pro-
nounced “Zhesh-oof”). The city
has seen its prewar population of
200,000 surge with the influx of
about 30,000 Ukrainian refugees
plus a reported 1,700 U.S. sol-
diers, who maintain a forward
base near the city’s Jasionka Air-
port.
Rzeszów has become such a
hub for Western assistance to
Washington meeting with mem-
bers of President Joe Biden’s
administration and Congress to
urge them to do more to defeat
Mr. Putin.
The Center for Civil Liberties
and Memorial, Ukrainian and
Russian human-rights groups,
respectively, and Viasna founder
Ales Bialiatski, a Belarusian
democracy activist, jointly won
last year’s Peace Prize.
Ms. Matviichuk argued that
Western leaders’ current thinking
of “let’s help Ukraine not to fail”
must be changed to “let’s help
Ukraine win fast.”
“When we say that Ukraine has
to win, it means that Russia has to
Ukraine that senior Polish offi-
cials jokingly refer to it as “Rzes-
zawar” – a reference to the Pakis-
tani city of Peshawar, which
played a similar role in the 1980s
as the United States and its allies
funnelled weapons to the muja-
hideen fighters resisting the
Soviet Union’s invasion of
Afghanistan.
Few cities have
been more rapidly
transformed by Russia’s
17-month-old war
against Ukraine than
Rzeszów. The city has
seen its prewar
population of 200,000
surge with the influx of
about 30,000 Ukrainian
refugees plus a reported
1,700 U.S. soldiers,
who maintain a forward
base near the city’s
Jasionka Airport.
The city’s role has brought vis-
its from U.S. President Joe Biden,
who met with members of the
82nd Airborne Division stationed
in the area, and Ukrainian Presi-
dent Volodymyr Zelensky, who
named Rzeszów one of four Pol-
ish “rescuer cities” that were first
lose, and we have to not be afraid
of this fact,” she said at a round
table at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, a think
tank in the U.S. capital. “If we
can’t stop Putin in Ukraine, he
will go further.”
In the 18 months since Russia
launched its full-scale invasion,
NATO has often been cautious
about the size and scope of its
military aid to Ukraine, largely
out of fear of provoking nuclear-
armed Moscow. In the U.S., some
politicians have called either for a
negotiated settlement between
Ukraine and Russia or a reduction
in the billions of dollars’ worth of
military help Washington is
and fastest in providing aid to
Ukrainian refugees fleeing the
invasion.
Rzeszów’s importance has al-
so caught the attention of the
Kremlin and its allies. In March,
Poland said it had dismantled a
network of pro-Russian spies
who were monitoring the airport
with the suspected intent of sab-
otaging the delivery of military
aid to Ukraine.
The city’s name also came up
during a Sunday summit be-
tween Russian President Vladi-
mir Putin and Belarusian leader
Alexander Lukashenko, during a
discussion of the Wagner Group
– the notorious mercenary com-
pany that staged a brief uprising
against Mr. Putin last month
before agreeing to go into exile in
Belarus.
“Maybe I shouldn’t say it, but I
will: The Wagner Group has start-
ed to stress us. ‘We want to go to
the West. Let us go,’ ” Russian
and Belarusian media quoted Mr.
Lukashenko telling Mr. Putin
during the meeting in St. Peters-
burg. “I said: ‘Why do you want
to go to the West?’ ‘Well, to go on
a tour to Warsaw, to Rzeszów.’ ”
Asked about Mr. Lukashenko’s
remarks, U.S. State Department
spokesperson Matthew Miller
said Tuesday that “Poland is a
NATO member, of course, and we
will defend, if necessary, every
inch of NATO territory.”
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current sending Kyiv. have not yet decided on a plan for
Ms. Matviichuk pointed to the training pilots or where exactly
West’s reluctance to supply the jets will come from.
Ukraine with tanks and fighter Mr. Cherkasov suggested that
jets as gaps in military aid that any hope Mr. Putin could be rea-
must be immediately closed. She soned with to end the war was
told the story of one of her friends misplaced because of the Russian
in the Ukrainian army who suf- dictator’s inherently irrational
fered the tragic consequences of a decision-making.
lack of equipment. “Putin believes in this crimi-
“Why was my friend … blown nal-world adage that real men
up by a mine in a civilian car never go back, never put the car
when so many countries have in reverse, which means you nev-
armed vehicles in storage?” she er admit your mistakes,” he said.
said. “Why are we still waiting for “In case of a mistake, in case of a
a decision on when Ukrainian crime, he is more willing to repeat
pilots will be trained on the F-16?” that mistake or crime three more
Western countries have agreed times to prove himself right.”
to send F-16 jets to Ukraine but Mr. Staradubets, meanwhile,
NATO presence in Poland
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F R I DAY , J U LY 2 8 , 2 0 2 3
urged democratic countries to
also further isolate Belarusian
President Alexander Lukashen-
ko, who has allowed Russia to put
nuclear weapons and troops in
his country. Mr. Lukashenko has
violently cracked down on dis-
sent, including by imprisoning
Mr. Bialiatski after he won the
Peace Prize.
“The majority of Belarusians
do not actually support the gov-
ernment’s policies,” Mr. Staradu-
bets said.
“When this opportunity for a
Ukrainian forces press southward, say strategic village recaptured
Ukrainian forces pressed their
counteroffensive through the
Russian-occupied southeast on
Thursday, capturing the village of
Staromaiorske in a campaign to
drive a wedge through Russian
defensive positions.
The counteroffensive has fo-
cused on securing villages on the
southward push and areas
around the eastern city of Bakh-
mut, taken by Russian forces in
May after months of battles.
Ukrainian officials have reported
slow but steady progress.
Russian President Vladimir Pu-
tin acknowledged intensified
Ukrainian attacks over the past
few days but said they had made
no headway. He told Russian tele-
vision that every Ukrainian as-
sault had been beaten back, and
that Moscow’s forces had inflicted
significant losses on their oppo-
nents.
A U.S. official, speaking on the
condition of anonymity, said
Ukraine had deployed additional
Western-trained troops to at least
one axis in the counteroffensive
but had held back some. Media
reports spoke of a new phase in
the drive.
A video posted on Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s
Telegram channel showed Ukrai-
nian soldiers celebrating the cap-
ture of Staromaiorske in the
southeast.
| T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
change comes, the system of
Lukashenko’s regime will col-
lapse just like Putin’s regime will
collapse.”
The trio met in Washington
with officials at the White House
National Security Council, the
State Department, the United
States Agency for International
Development and with members
of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
In addition to immediate help
for Ukraine, they also pushed the
U.S. to back a dedicated war
“The 35th brigade and the ‘Ariy’
territorial defence unit have ful-
filled their task and liberated the
village of Staromaiorske. Glory to
Ukraine!” said a soldier in the vid-
eo, which Reuters was unable to
immediately geolocate.
The village lies to the south of a
cluster of small settlements that
Ukraine recaptured along the
Mokri Yaly River as the counterof-
fensive began.
Mr. Zelensky has said that the
counteroffensive is proceeding
more slowly than he would like
but warned people not to expect
rapid results akin to a movie
scene.
On Thursday, he toured south-
ern and eastern regions, including
the major city of Dnipro and the
port of Odesa, where he discussed
damage to port facilities from
Russian air strikes, and the town
of Ochakiv, subject to frequent
Russian shelling.
The drive southward is aimed
at severing the land bridge Rus-
sian forces have created linking
areas occupied in the east in the
17-month-old invasion and Cri-
mea – annexed in 2014.
Despite gains achieved by
Ukrainian troops, mostly in the
northeast and far south late last
year, Russia still holds about 20
per cent of Ukraine’s land.
On Wednesday, three different
media outlets cited unidentified
crimes court to prosecute the
invasion’s human-rights abuses.
Ms. Matviichuk said such a
body is needed because current
accountability mechanisms do
not have the ability to charge Mr.
Putin with the central offence of
starting the war. An international
tribunal would also bring the
resources necessary to deal with
the enormous amount of evi-
dence.
“The main person responsible
for this leadership decision to
plan, to initiate and to start this
U.S. officials as saying Ukraine
had launched a new phase of its
ambitious counteroffensive.
Asked about these reports,
Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine’s
Defence Minister, told Reuters
that “there is nothing new” hap-
pening on the front lines. “In the
south, we are moving forward
slowly but surely,” he said.
The drive southward is
aimed at severing the
land bridge Russian
forces have created
linking areas occupied
in the east in the
17-month-old invasion
and Crimea.
Meanwhile, Mr. Putin on
Thursday told African leaders he
would gift them tens of thousands
of tonnes of grain despite Western
sanctions, which he said made it
harder for Moscow to export its
grain and fertilizers.
Speaking at a Russia-Africa
summit in St. Petersburg, Mr. Pu-
tin said Russia was ready to
replace Ukrainian grain exports
to Africa on both a commercial
and aid basis to fulfill what he said
was Moscow’s critical role in glob-
al food security.
“We will be ready to provide
war is Putin, and to create a court
on aggression that can’t prose-
cute Putin, it sounds absurd,” she
said.
Mr. Cherkasov said such ac-
countability was necessary to
stop the “chain of impunity” that
has allowed Mr. Putin to get away
with human-rights abuses
throughout his more than two
decades in power and ultimately
emboldened him to invade Uk-
raine.
He compared the West’s record
of inaction to U.S. pop culture’s
Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mali,
Somalia, Central African Republic
and Eritrea with 25 to 50,000
tonnes of free grain each in the
next three to four months,” Mr.
Putin told the summit, whose par-
ticipants applauded.
Last year, Russia exported 60
million tonnes of grain, of which
48 million was wheat, Mr. Putin
said.
United Nations Secretary-Gen-
eral António Guterres called the
promised grain “a handful of
donations.”
Many of the African countries
Mr. Putin listed already enjoy
close ties with Moscow; he omit-
ted others in need, such as Sudan
and Chad.
Zimbabwe’s President said he
was grateful, even though his
country already had enough to
ensure its own food security.
Russia held its first Africa sum-
mit in 2019 and is pushing even
harder, since sending troops into
Ukraine, for influence and busi-
ness on a continent where its
Wagner mercenary group re-
mains active despite an abortive
mutiny at home last month.
Photographs purporting to
show Wagner chief Yevgeny Pri-
gozhin meeting African officials
on the sidelines of the summit
surfaced on the Telegram app
Thursday. Reuters was unable to
immediately verify when and
NEWS | A9
A girl looks at photos of
Ukrainian soldiers killed
in the war against Russia
at the Wall of
Remembrance in Kyiv on
Thursday. A U.S. official
says Ukraine had
deployed additional
Western-trained troops
to at least one axis in its
counteroffensive but had
held back some.
JAE C. HONG/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Ukrainian serviceman
attends a training session
in the Kyiv region on
Wednesday.
SERGEI SUPINSKY/
AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Left: A woman with
flowers walks past a
building fortified with
sandbags in the Podil
neighborhood of Kyiv
on Thursday.
Right: Medics help an
injured Ukrainian
serviceman in a front-line
medical stabilization
point in the Zaporizhzhia
region on Wednesday.
RIGHT: JAE C. HONG/
ASSOCIATED PRESS;
LEFT: KATERYNA KLOCHKO/
ASSOCIATED PRESS/
most famous touchstone of
learned helplessness: Homer
Simpson.
“Some say that it might pre-
vent negotiations, it might pre-
vent the accomplishment of
peace. Here, I remember a great
American philosopher, Homer
Simpson, who said: ‘the first at-
tempt is the first step toward fail-
ure,’ ” Mr. Cherkasov said.
“I very much hope the interna-
tional community is not going to
follow the teachings of this phi-
losopher.”
where they had been taken.
Comoros President Azali As-
soumani, chair of the African
Union, said Russia’s complaints
should be listened to, the Russian
state news agency RIA reported. “I
shouldn’t say that Russia is right
or wrong. It acted for its own rea-
sons; now we need to hear them
in order to try to move forward.”
However, the collapse of the
deal, and Russia’s bombing of the
Danube river ports that Ukraine
has used as a roundabout export
route, have driven up global
wheat prices by about 10 per cent
in the past 10 days.
“When taking out of the mar-
ket millions and millions of
tonnes of grains, it is clear that …
will lead to higher prices,” Mr.
Guterres told reporters. “So it’s
not with a handful of donations to
some countries that we correct
this dramatic impact that affects
everybody, everywhere.”
Russia says 49 of Africa’s 54
states have sent representatives
to St. Petersburg, including 17
heads of state and four heads of
government.
Yet that is fewer than half the
number of leaders who attended
the 2019 summit – something the
Kremlin has blamed in part on
Western countries’ efforts to dis-
suade them from going.
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DAVID WALMSLEY
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The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures - Junius

Cabinet needs
new ideas,
not new faces
F
or many Canadians this week, the news that Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau had shuffled his cabinet was
met with a shrug. Other than a few big names such as
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and Environment Minis-
ter Steven Guilbeault, someone they had never heard of
replaced someone else they’d never heard of in a job they
didn’t know existed (minister of citizen’s services?).
And why should they care anyway. A cabinet of 39 (the PM
included) is not so much a government as it is two Australian
Rules Football teams both playing for the same side, with
nary an opponent between them and the single goal line set
by the political geniuses in the Prime Minister’s Office.
If someone did bother to explore why this person was
promoted or allowed to stay in cabinet, while that person was
excised, they might become slightly disoriented.
The sole apparent criterion for losing one’s seat at what
must be a 12-metre-long table was being selected to take the
fall for something that embarrassed the Liberal government
(hello/goodbye Marco Mendicino, former minister of not
being briefed on serial-killer transfers).
Being caught in gross violation of the Conflict of Interest
Act, on the other hand, was not weighed as a consideration.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
This is based on the continued presence in cabinet of Mary
SHUFFLE UP should not be an issue. If voters Jewish, I was not able to swear on
Ng and Ahmed Hussen, both of whom were caught giving in a national election are allotted it.
lucrative government contracts to close friends and family Re “Trudeau unveils significant three paid hours to do their duty, I asked if there was an Old
cabinet shuffle with several new the same should be the law for Testament, and there began a
members in the past 12 months.
ministers brought on board” citizenship ceremonies. good deal of searching. I was
Given Mr. Trudeau’s repeat violations of the same act, it’s (July 27): Justin Trudeau’s new How underwhelming to sit at about to stop them, I would just
cabinet brings a number of issues one’s computer, alone, after all affirm, but then a copy was
understandable that he didn’t make an issue of personal
to the fore. It is clear to me that the work entailed to pass the placed into my hands.
ethics. No doubt the only issue he really considered was his ethics and competence do not test, no one with whom to cele- With great pride and a swelled
party’s public image as it enters the second half of its current play a major role, as evidenced brate. Where is the government’s heart, I pledged my fealty to my
by Mary Ng and Harjit Sajjan still sense of occasion? new country and liege.
mandate badly trailing the Conservative Party in the polls. in cabinet. Ann Sullivan Peterborough, Ont. Michael Gilbert Toronto
That’s not unusual in politics; find us another party that The other issue arises from
what I can only describe as musi- I am appalled by the idea that
wouldn’t do the same. But that doesn’t negate the fact there RUMINATIONS
cal chairs. If all those ministers our citizenship ceremonies
is nothing in the cabinet shuffle that would matter to a were so bad, why are they still should be reduced to a click on
there? This government seems so one’s computer. Re “Don’t have a cow” (Letters,
serious person worried about the direction of the country. completely controlled by the I became a citizen at the age of July 21): Cattle and other rumi-
This is a government that doesn’t need new faces. It needs Prime Minister’s Office that it 26. It was a proud event. I was nant animals represent an excel-
really doesn’t matter who the born in a country where such lent means of converting carbo-
new ideas. ministers are. things are important and hydrate vegetation into milk and
On Thursday, Mr. Trudeau explained that the goal of his John Sutherland Calgary respected, just like the flag. meat for human consumption.
There, the flag was treated Across millennia, pastoral socie-
cabinet shuffle was to put a greater focus on the economy The same triumvirate responsib- with great respect and only hoist- ties have sustained themselves
and housing. le for economic policy – Finance ed for special days or events, without resorting to destructive
Minister Chrystia Freeland, Inno- then taken down at sundown. It land-clearing.
That’s great, on paper. Canadians are living through a cost- really bothers me to see a row of Although it makes no sense to
vation Minister François-Phi-
of-living crisis, a related housing crisis and, worst of all, a lippe Champagne and Trade faded Canadian flags at a car lot, feed cattle with protein fodder
Minister Mary Ng – remains un- a car with two flags to protest that could be better used to feed
period of scandalously low productivity that will directly
changed. whatever or a homeowner humans directly, there remains a
affect their chances of prospering in the future. Collectively, they have over- proudly hoisting a flag, but only valuable place for pasture farm-
seen policies that have resulted to see it faded and torn years lat- ing today. If we could eliminate
To date, though, the Trudeau government has been more
in more and more Canadians er. the cow and use some other
of a hindrance than a help. worrying about their ability to Another national symbol method to convert grass into
The Liberals’ economic philosophy has been built around put food on their tables or roofs going down the drain. I am a milk or meat, all well and good.
over their heads. proud Canadian. It hurts. But we have not been very suc-
higher federal spending, high taxes, more regulations, more Is it realistic to expect some Vince Devries Ladysmith, B.C. cessful so far.
government intervention, and an increase in immigration kind of paradigm shift to make Recent reports on lab-pro-
the hard economic (versus politi- I became a naturalized Canadian duced animal protein make no
that will see the country bring in 465,000 permanent resi- cal) decisions necessary to main- many decades ago. mention of what nutrients the
dents in 2023, 485,000 in 2024 and 500,000 in 2025. tain Canadian standards of liv- Because I was already a British muscle cells are fed, but I bet it is
ing? subject, I swore an oath in a not grass. Is growing sugar cane,
The result has been sluggish economic growth caused by This is still a Trudeau-centric bureaucrat’s office, signed docu- for example, to feed cells in a lab
the poor policy choices of multiple governments since 1980, government when it comes to ments and I was done. As time any better than letting cows eat
policy development and com- went on and I attended friends’ grass?
the current one included, and which is now coupled with a munication. public ceremonies, I developed a Brian Swinney Burlington, Ont.
rapidly rising population. John Gilmour Ottawa strong feeling of having been
shorted.
The country’s real gross domestic product per capita has If the Prime Minister and his ad- A public ceremony, I think, HE SAID, SHE SAID
consequently been falling compared with that of the United visers were savvy operators, they would have made me feel more
would have done one thing to Canadian more quickly. Re “C’mon Barbie, let’s go party:
States and other advanced economies, according to a recent
ensure their re-election on some R. A. Halliday Saskatoon Greta Gerwig’s wickedly smart
report by TD Bank – an outcome that threatens the standard far off day in 2025: include Jag- comedy is a perfect Ken” (July
meet Singh in the new cabinet. My memory worsens by the day. 21): “An Oscar win for Gosling”
of living of every person in Canada.
The obvious landing spot But, although it happened dec- stuck with me. After all, it is a
Fixing this will require a change of philosophy. The Liber- would have been as minister of ades ago, I will never forget my movie titled after the protago-
als need to ask themselves whether bringing the population middle-class prosperity. Really. citizenship ceremony. nist.
While he might not be able to do I recall the interesting mix of While I wasn’t blown away by
equivalent of 51⁄2 Reginas into the country over three years is anything for middle-class pros- people who were there that sun- Ryan Gosling’s performance, I
the best idea during a period of sagging labour productivity perity, he could ensure that the ny day in Vancouver. There was thought he did a good job por-
NDP has some visibility before the smile and raised eyebrow of traying Ken. But so did Margot
and a widespread housing shortage. the next election. the citizenship judge when, feel- Robbie as Barbie. She embodied
They also need to address what the TD report called It would garner some votes, ing flustered, I told her that Can- the doll perfectly, and that’s not
but still not be enough to make ada Day was July 4. Immediately just because of her blonde hair
“inefficient” regulatory and tax policies that have led to Mr. Singh the prime minister he knowing my mistake, I said sorry. and extravagant costumes.
chronically low capital investment rates and a multidecade has always hoped to be. I became a Canadian. Yet many reviews focus on
Clay Atcheson North Vancouver As a retired university teacher, Ken’s performance. This seems
decline in research and development spending – two keys to I know that nothing compares ironic given that the movie’s
a growing economy. with the in-person experience. If theme is the power imbalance
STAND ON GUARD that is true for birthdays and men benefit from in the “real
But will they ask themselves whether their policies are the weddings, it is equally true for world.”
right ones? Are they even capable of that? Or will they stick to Re “Citizenship is about more the life-changing event of This leads me to once again
than just a click, a ceremony or becoming a citizen. question the unconscious and
their guns in the hope that merely changing the avatars Richard Harris Hamilton conscious bias in society.
an oath” (July 21): As is often the
assigned to their bloated cabinet table will convince Cana- case, the bottom line is an influ- Tristan Burgoyne Vancouver
ential factor for discouraging I arrived in Canada in 1968. Im-
dians that they are on top of the current economic crises?
prospective Canadian citizens mediately after the required five
The Trudeau government has arrived at a moment where from having in-person swearing- years of residency, I applied for Letters to the Editor should be
in ceremonies, although the gov- citizenship. exclusive to The Globe and Mail.
it must show Canadians that it can shift gears and choose
ernment prefers to highlight the I remember my ceremony Include name, address and daytime
reality over Liberal dogma. speeding up of the procedure. well. In those days, we were each phone number. Keep letters under
Canadians need to hear new ideas. If they don’t, they’ll go The government also wants to given a Bible on which to swear 150 words. Letters may be edited for
spare employees from having to allegiance to the Queen. It was length and clarity. E-mail:
looking for a new government. take unpaid leave to attend. This the New Testament, and being letters@globeandmail.com

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OPINION
Manitoba shows its colours on reconciliation
If we are going to mend
our relationships,
we can’t value one life
over another, and hide
behind safety concerns
contrary to the facts
DAVID A. ROBERTSON
OPINION
Swampy Cree author and graphic
novelist based in Winnipeg
I
f you were surprised that Mani-
toba Premier Heather Stefan-
son announced that a search of
the Prairie Green landfill for the
bodies of at least two Indigenous
women would not be conducted,
you haven’t been paying atten-
tion. The Progressive Conserva-
tive government, including under
former premier Brian Pallister,
has a less-than-stellar track
record on Indigenous relations.
It was a little over a year ago
that Wab Kinew, the leader of the
Opposition NDP, questioned Ms.
Stefanson directly over the death
of Krystal Mousseau, a 31-year-old
Anishinaabe woman from Ebb
and Flow First Nation who died
Canada must rethink its friendship with Israel
THOMAS JUNEAU
OPINION
Associate professor at the University
of Ottawa’s Graduate School of
Public and International Affairs
T
his week, the Israeli parlia-
ment approved a contro-
versial law that constrains
the Supreme Court’s ability to
provide judicial oversight of gov-
ernment actions. According to
many critics, this is only the first
step in a plan by the coalition gov-
ernment led by Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu to concen-
trate power in the executive
branch. The Netanyahu govern-
ment, which includes Jewish su-
premacists and is the most ex-
treme in the country’s history,
has also taken steps, and will like-
ly take additional ones, toward
Israel’s further annexation of the
West Bank.
This raises difficult questions
for Canada: Should we stand by as
the assault on democratic norms
and Palestinian rights continues?
The easy answer would be to
muddle along, perhaps offering
timid condemnation. The status
quo, however, is increasingly un-
sustainable.
Like its allies, Canada’s posi-
tion is to support the two-state
solution, according to which
Israel and an eventual Palestinian
state would co-exist. Yet it is now
difficult to see how this outcome
can be achieved. On the Israeli
side, intransigent governments
have expanded settlements in
the West Bank, largely closing the
door on a viable Palestinian state.
The road has been further
blocked by the fragmentation of
the Palestinian leadership, with
Canadians want change. The Liberals’ cabinet shuffle won’t satisfy that
LORI TURNBULL
OPINION
Director of the School of Public
Administration and a professor
of political science at
Dalhousie University
T
he next election, whenever
it occurs, is shaping up to
be a change moment. The
incumbent government is almost
eight years old, Justin Trudeau
has been the Leader of the Liber-
als for more than a decade and
the sense of voter fatigue is pal-
pable. People across income
brackets are worried about their
financial futures. Many feel that
the country is not moving in the
right direction – or, in other
words, they are not convinced
that the Liberals have the right
economic plan, nor are they sure
that the government cares
enough about the affordability
crisis. And while Conservative
Leader Pierre Poilievre remains a
polarizing figure, his party is still
during a medical transfer. Ms.
Stefanson completely ignored Mr.
Kinew’s question, opting instead
to laud her son for winning the
provincial high-school hockey
championship with the St. Paul’s
Crusaders, a private Catholic
school. When called out for this
blatant dismissal of a young
Indigenous woman’s life, Ms. Ste-
fanson defended herself before
growing visibly angry and agitat-
ed, effectively throwing a parlia-
mentary hissy fit.
Earlier this month, Ms. Stefan-
son stated that a landfill search
wasn’t possible owing to health
risks for workers. However, Kris
Dueck, the co-chair of a commit-
tee that studied the issue, said
risks could be mitigated and the
search could be conducted safely:
“Any arguments that would
oppose those findings, in our
opinion, aren’t necessarily based
in fact.”
What is Ms. Stefanson’s reason-
ing based on, if not fact? I’ve
learned there’s a lot of truth in fic-
tion, and would suggest there’s
truth in Ms. Stefanson’s. While the
landfill issue in Winnipeg is new,
the lack of justice and considera-
tion when it comes to Indigenous
lives is not. It’s a problem we are
far from solving, and poor govern-
mental response leads to deeper
the incompetent Palestinian
Authority barely governing in the
West Bank and the extremist
Hamas ruling the Gaza Strip with
an iron fist. In the meantime, the
status quo is deeply unfair to Pal-
estinians and destabilizing for the
region.
The case can certainly be made
that maintaining the fiction of
the two-state solution is the least
bad approach given the absence
of viable alternatives. It is one
thing to recognize that the two-
state solution is dead; it is anoth-
er to come up with a better, real-
istic alternative. Moreover, pro-
ponents of the status quo argue
that Israel is and should remain a
close friend. This is partly valid:
There is no serious proposal to
jettison the partnership, which
polling well ahead of the others.
A quick read of the writing on
the wall suggests that the Liber-
als’ days in power are numbered.
A major cabinet shuffle may be
the only thing that they can do to
have a shot at surviving the accu-
mulating momentum for change.
But will it work? Can a third-term
government really show up dif-
ferently, particularly when the
Prime Minister and the Minister
of Finance – the most impactful
decision makers at the cabinet
table and the key drivers of the
government’s economic strategy
– remain in their seats?
To be fair, this shuffle is more
than just cosmetic. There are four
groups of people involved: the 12
who kept their portfolios (or re-
tained them while adding new
ones), the 20 who remain in cabi-
net but with different portfolios,
the seven who are coming in as
new ministers, and the seven
who got shuffled out entirely.
There is a sense of mea culpa in
the air as the Prime Minister fixes
past errors. For example, Pablo
Rodriguez was moved to the
issues – the empowerment of rac-
ist ideology and behaviour.
One case in point: In early July,
at a blockade of a landfill in Win-
nipeg calling for a search for the
bodies, a white man shovelled a
truckload of dirt onto a mural
painted in honour of missing and
murdered Indigenous women
and girls.
The issue of missing and
murdered Indigenous
women and girls is
something I think about
daily. If the women
believed to be in the
landfill were members
of prominent white
families, I have no doubt
that the search would
have already begun.
“Take care of your own peo-
ple!” the man said.
When a protester replied that
they were, the man asked: “Then
why are they dead?”
That man is responsible for his
actions, but Ms. Stefanson en-
abled the incident. Responsibility
is accepting that you are the cause
and the solution of the matter. If
Protesters stand
on a bridge in Jerusalem
on Monday,
demonstrating after
the Israeli parliament
approved a controversial
law that constrains
the Supreme Court’s
ability to provide
judicial oversight of
government actions.
RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS
Transport file and away from
Canadian Heritage, where he was
having fruitless fights with Big
Tech that were becoming dis-
tracting. Marco Mendicino finds
himself out of cabinet altogether
after facing sustained scrutiny for
having not been aware of plans to
move Paul Bernardo, Canada’s
most notorious serial killer, to a
medium-security prison.
Several ministers were given
new portfolios that have nothing
to do with their old ones, which
allows the Prime Minister to
maintain continuity on the front
bench while bringing new faces
to government departments.
Diane Lebouthillier, who has
been Minister of National Reve-
nue since 2015, is now the Minis-
ter for Fisheries and Oceans; it’s
hard to imagine a more drastic
change. The role of the Revenue
Minister is largely administrative,
but the Fisheries Minister is con-
stantly caught in the middle of a
storm and must manage regional
tensions while negotiating with
highly engaged stakeholders and
industry groups over scarce and
you’re fed a lie, eventually fiction
becomes fact, and we act on what
we believe is true (i.e. violence
against Indigenous women is
caused by Indigenous men;
actually, U.S. research clearly
shows the vast majority of perpe-
trators are white men, even on
reserve, so who’s not taking care
of whom, exactly?).
In October, 2019, federal NDP
Leader Jagmeet Singh promised
to end boil-water advisories in
First Nations communities. At the
time, a reporter challenged Mr.
Singh: “Are you just writing a
blank cheque for all problems for
all Indigenous communities
across the country?” Mr. Singh
asked if the reporter would ask
the same question if Toronto did
not have clean drinking water.
There are standards that we
don’t want to talk about, where
the amount we are willing to
spend on a person reflects the val-
ue we place on them. If Toronto
didn’t have clean drinking water,
the problem wouldn’t last, no
matter the price tag.
I’ve heard Mr. Singh’s rebuttal
echoed in Winnipeg, where peo-
ple are asking: If that was your
kid, would we even be talking
about the estimated $184-million
cost to search the landfill? Mani-
toba Justice Minister Kelvin
indeed is beneficial for Canada.
To their discredit, some support-
ers of the status quo far too easily
launch accusations of antisemi-
tism in response to criticism of
Israeli policies. This is dishonest
and stifles constructive and nec-
essary debate. The question here
is not to reject Israel’s right to
exist, but to criticize some of its
policies and ask whether Cana-
da’s current approach is optimal.
The broader objectives of Can-
ada’s foreign policy matter. It is
inevitable that Canada’s focus on
the Middle East will diminish.
Ottawa simply has other priori-
ties: The most important one,
and one which could come under
severe strain in the near future,
remains the management of its
relations with the United States.
lucrative resources. Meanwhile,
Mark Holland – a natural political
operative – moves from being
House Leader to Minister of
Health, a shift that will require a
much heavier policy focus and
regular interactions with the
provinces. Dominic LeBlanc will
keep Intergovernmental Affairs
and add both Democratic Institu-
tions and Public Safety. This con-
figuration of responsibilities sets
him up as the voice for the gov-
ernment on the foreign interfe-
rence issue – and keeps the Prime
Minister away from it.
The circumstances today are
similar to what happened in
2002. Former prime minister Jean
Chrétien was halfway through his
third term and facing questions
about his political future, so he
undertook a major cabinet shuf-
fle in the hopes that this would
be enough to quell the dissent. In
the end, it was he who needed to
go in order for real change to hap-
pen.
What is different between the
scenario 20 years ago and today is
that there was a clear alternative
NEWS | A11
Goertzen stated that if it were his
son, he would advocate for him,
but the government has to con-
sider all families. Mr. Goertzen’s
statement is as insulting as it is
ignorant. His son, as a white male,
is unlikely to be in the same situa-
tion as an Indigenous woman or
girl. I have three Cree/Métis
daughters. The issue of missing
and murdered Indigenous wom-
en and girls is something I think
about daily.
If the women believed to be in
the landfill were members of
prominent white families, I have
no doubt that the search would
have already begun. If we are in
the business of reconciliation, we
can’t value one life over another,
and we certainly can’t hide be-
hind safety concerns when facts
say otherwise.
Ms. Stefanson will change her
decision with applied pressure.
Get on the phone, send an e-mail,
show up to a blockade or at the
legislature and don’t stop until
the right decision is made. This is
a Canadian concern, not an Indig-
enous one. If you are Canadian,
you have a responsibility to play a
role.
This is not a guilt trip; I am not
saying that you are the cause. But I
believe you can be part of the
solution.
In addition, Canada needs to
boost its presence in Asia, while
the war in Ukraine shows the
necessity of continuing its contri-
butions to transatlantic security.
The remaining bandwidth, for
the Middle East and other areas,
will shrink.
In this context, Canada should
publicly state that it refuses to
deal with the more extremist
ministers in the Netanyahu gov-
ernment. It should vocally
express its opposition to the pro-
posed reforms and freeze or
reduce co-operation with Israel
on some issues. Ottawa should
also boost its support for Palesti-
nian civil society and increase
pressure on the Palestinian
Authority to reform itself and
organize fresh elections. More
concretely, Canada should eval-
uate whether its longstanding
mission to train Palestinian secu-
rity forces should continue since
doing so entrenches the status
quo by allowing Israel to delegate
to the Palestinian Authority the
day-to-day administration of the
occupation in the West Bank.
Ottawa should also suspend its
policy of almost systematically
voting with Israel at the United
Nations General Assembly on res-
olutions dealing with the conflict.
Given its marginal influence
when it acts alone, Canada should
also engage in serious conversa-
tions with like-minded allies and
partners, including through the
Group of Seven, about options to
change the status quo in relations
with Israel and the Palestinians.
Canada’s partnership with Israel
has been premised on shared val-
ues, and with Israel’s government
now dominated by extremist ele-
ments who are undermining the
two-state solution, we can’t keep
acting like it’s business as usual.
to the Liberals: a newly united
Conservative Party under the
leadership of Stephen Harper.
Though he was not everyone’s
favourite guy, he was an easier
pill to swallow than the leaders of
today. Both Mr. Trudeau and Mr.
Poilievre seem to repel at least as
many people as they attract, but
neither of them is going any-
where before the next election.
To remain in power, a cabinet
shuffle – even a significant one –
is not near enough. Indeed, it
might even go largely unnoticed,
especially in the summer
months. The most important
thing for the Liberals is to con-
vince enough people that Mr. Poi-
lievre and the Conservatives are
too risky to vote for. It is not
enough for people to dislike him
for the Liberals to win; they need
Canadians to fear him. If the
revised ministry proves capable
of achieving this, then the shuffle
may well meet its political objec-
tive of giving the government a
new lease on life, after all.
GARY MASON will return.
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WEEKEND WATCHING R EV I E W S | OPINION | PUZZLES | W EAT H E R

Who you gonna call? Just about anyone else

Disney has resorted to
brazen IP grave-robbing:
rebooting a movie based
on a theme-park ride

BARRY
HERTZ

REVIEW

Haunted Mansion
C L A S S I F I C AT I O N : P G ; 1 23 M I N U T ES

Directed by Justin Simien

Written by Katie Dippold
Starring LaKeith Stanfield, Rosario
Dawson and Owen Wilson

A
bout halfway into watching
Haunted Mansion, Disney’s
latest attempt to reverse-
engineer its theme-park attrac-
tions into feature films, I had a
quick and spooky epiphany: This
movie might have been just a lit-
tle more fun were it to star, say, an
energetic Eddie Murphy instead
of a sleepy LaKeith Stanfield.
Then I came to an even more terri-
fying realization, far scarier than
any of the ghosts and ghouls de-
picted on-screen: There already
was a Haunted Mansion movie
made with Murphy released in
2003. Yes, the Mouse House has fi-
nally resorted to the ultimate act
of intellectual-property grave-
robbing: a reboot of a movie
based on a Disneyland ride. I’ve
got chills, y’all.
If that corporate ouroboros of a
genesis isn’t enough to dissuade
you from watching director Justin
Simien’s new-ish effort, then per-
haps the actual film will be, given
that this Haunted Mansion is the
cinematic equivalent of a fixer-
upper staged to sell before inter-
est rates skyrocket. Its intended
audience – preteen children and
their caregivers – won’t be so
much scared as bored, while the
ostensible jokes land with as
much of an impact as a splash of
wet and sticky ectoplasm. If this is
From left: Rosario Dawson, Tiffany Haddish, LaKeith Stanfield and Owen Wilson star in Disney’s latest version of Haunted Mansion.
a movie designed to ape the heart-
stopping thrills of an amusement
park experience, then you must
be this tall to believe that anyone
would want to brave a line or
download the Genie+ app to ex-
perience it.
Fusing together elements of
both the original ride – which can
be found in Disney’s Orlando,
Anaheim and Tokyo parks – and
the 2003 movie directed by Rob
Minkoff, Simien’s Haunted Man-
sion focuses on the titular struc-
ture, a manse outside New Or-
leans that is jammed to the rafters
with the undead. This poses a par-
ticular problem for single mom
Gabbie (Rosario Dawson) and her
young son Travis (Chase W. Dil-
lon), who are trying to make a
new life for themselves inside the
house after the dissolution of
Gabbie’s marriage. Unable to sim-
ply move out, Gabbie enlists the
help of a motley crew of amateur
ghostbusters, including goofy
priest Kent (Owen Wilson), goofy
psychic Harriet (Tiffany Haddish)
and decidedly anti-goofy scientist
Ben (Stanfield). The actual Goofy
must have already been commit-
ted to some other Disney project.
If that corporate
ouroboros of a genesis
isn’t enough to dissuade
you from watching
director Justin Simien’s
new-ish effort, then
perhaps the actual film
will be.
As the disparate crew attempts
to clear the mansion of its spirits,
they also start to uncover the
home’s shady history, which cen-
tres around the malevolent Hat-
box Ghost (played by – deep shud-
der – Jared Leto). Yet Ben is hold-
ing something back from the mis-
sion, with the hero annoyingly
grumpy and unpleasantly cynical
in a movie theoretically intended
to be bouncy and fun. The eventu-
al revelation of Ben’s tragic back-
story – and why he ain’t afraid of
no ghosts – says an awful lot about
the emotional shortcuts that so
many event-sized movies are
forced to take in attempts to
ground the ungroundable. Two
very slow hours later, let’s just say
that as many traumatic pasts are
exorcised as ghosts.
Simien is no doubt a talented
storyteller – his work on Dear
White People, both the film and
Netflix series, is evidence enough.
But his vision here is clouded by
corporate obligations and a woe-
fully weak script by Katie Dippold,
who herself is much funnier in ev-
ery one of her other projects (in-
cluding Parks and Recreation, The
Heat and the 2016 Ghostbusters re-
boot). The film’s core problems
are amplified by a curiously as-
sembled cast that never gels. The
somnambulant Stanfield is the
prime offender, but Dawson, a
quick-appearing Jamie Lee Curtis
(taking over from Jennifer Tilly’s
role in the 2003 film), and even
the typically reliable Haddish are
almost just as flat. Thank good-
ness, then, for Wilson, whose per-
formance as the world’s most
stoned priest – his idea of a prayer
starts with, “God, give us a break”
– nearly saves Haunted Mansion
from foreclosure. Just as he did in
last year’s Marvel miniseries Loki,
Wilson injects every one of his
lines with a pleasantly chill air of
relaxed wit. The actor is so strong
that he almost inches the material
to the dark comic heights of Bee-
tlejuice to which the movie so ob-
viously aspires to reach – so much
so that Winona Ryder stops by for
a thankless gag.
If someone at Disney wants to
hit it out of the (theme) park, just
pair Wilson and Eddie Murphy to-
gether for an adaptation of, I dun-
no, Space Mountain. Oh, who am I
kidding – I bet 50 discontinued
Disney Dollars that such a project
is already deep in development.
Haunted Mansion opens in theatres
Friday.

Book adaptation shows what to expect Japan’s Miyazaki to open TIFF

when you’re expecting gentle parenting with animated ‘masterpiece’
RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI BARRY HERTZ

REVIEW

A
fter centring its summer programming around the
cinema of Japan, TIFF will launch its September
North of Normal festival with the latest production from one of the
C L A S S I F I C AT I O N : N / A ; 9 0 M I N U T ES country’s greatest living directors.
Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron will have its
Directed by Carly Stone international premiere as the official opening-night film of
Written by Alexandra Weir from the the 48th annual Toronto International Film Festival, pro-
book by Cea Sunrise Person grammers announced Thursday.
Starring Sarah Gadon, Amanda Fix The hand-drawn animated movie was released in Japan
and Robert Carlyle earlier this month, becoming the biggest box-office opening
in the history of Miyazaki’s famed Studio Ghibli production

C
ea Sunrise Person’s 2014
memoir North of Normal
landed like the hoser an-
swer to Jeanette Walls’s bestsell-
er The Glass Castle. Both are
about woman raised by free-spir-
ited (read: irresponsible) hippies
who justify their stripped-down
existence with soapbox idealism.
Person grew up in the Canadian
wilderness, surrounded by pot
and indiscriminate sex, until she
broke out on her own to become
a fashion model, facing a whole
new set of challenges.
North of Normal, the movie, is
a stripped-down and spare take
on Person’s story, hopping back
and forth in time between key
events from her childhood and
teen years. The film, directed by
Carly Stone, stops short of cov-
ering Person’s modelling career.
Instead, its narrative is more
contained, honing in on a
fraught mother-daughter rela-
tionship and capturing Person’s
emotional journey in mostly
broad strokes and some recog-
nizable tropes.
The familiarity here is perhaps
giving Person the very normality
that her character so desperately
seeks, despite her eccentric and
dysfunctional family. The movie
doesn’t just echo The Glass Castle
but also Captain Fantastic and the
excellent Leave No Trace – fellow
families-in-the-bush tales that
are about trauma and idealism
turning into bad parenting.
North of Normal gets going
with a haphazard opening se-
quence. Pregnant 15-year-old
Michelle (Sarah Gadon) is
whisked away in a blue-and-
white VW Beetle by her father
Papa Dick (Robert Carlyle, gar-
bling his Scottish accent), who
explains, for the audience’s sake,
that they must raise the expect-
North of Normal, based on the 2014 memoir by Cea Sunrise Person,
focuses on a fraught mother-daughter relationship.
ed child far away from this
“godforsaken capitalist society.”
Fast-forward several years, and
the family is tented up in Koote-
nay Plains, Alta. Cea, an eight-
year-old played by a precocious
River Price-Maenpaa, is largely
left to her own devices while her
family forages for nuts and Papa
Dick speaks a big game about
spreading values to passing trav-
ellers (in between or during the
spread of bodily fluids).
North of Normal,
the movie, is a
stripped-down and
spare take on Person’s
story, hopping back and
forth in time between
key events from her
childhood and teen
years.
The most frustrating thing
about Alexandra Weir’s screen-
play is that it makes no effort to
dig further into Papa Dick’s poli-
tics, however fickle they may be.
He’s a counterculture archetype,
but the movie would rather Car-
lyle exude Alan Arkin energy
while the character’s worldview
is summed up with basic rants
about tax dollars going into “cor-
rupt government officials’ pock-
ets.”
Except for a mall sequence
screaming Reaganomics, the
politics and cultural tensions
that informed Person’s abnormal
upbringing never creep into
North of Normal’s bubble.
There’s an undercurrent of in-
decision, a nagging feeling that
the material had been worked
over in ways that would aban-
don some of the more compell-
ing threads.
In the end, Stone and Weir
keep it intimate. The movie’s fo-
cus is on Cea and Michelle’s re-
union in Ontario during her
teenage years. Cea as a teen
(played by Amanda Fix) has
been living in the Yukon with
her grandparents, abandoned
several years before by flighty
flower child Michelle. The two
women carry on with a vibe
that’s less mother-daughter and
more like the guarded new girl at
school embraced by the popular
girl. Both actors are splendid as
women starved for attention:
Michelle from any man that teas-
es stability; Cea, from the moth-
er who still refuses to commit to
that role. Flashbacks to key
events and the molecular awk-
wardness between the women
slowly fill the gaps in the narra-
tive, and the trauma that consis-
tently threatens to break
Michelle’s guarded façade.
The movie takes its time to get
going, which can be frustrating
given how thin the material feels
along the way. But that patience
also works in its favour during a
lovely final act that doesn’t come
off as maudlin and forced as this
sort of melodrama usually tends
to. Stone handles big and diffi-
cult emotions on the gentlest
terms.
Special to The Globe and Mail
North of Normal opens in theatres
Friday.
company.
“We are honoured to open the 48th Toronto Internation-
al Film Festival with the work of one of cinema’s greatest
artists,” Cameron Bailey, chief executive of TIFF, said in a
statement. “Already acclaimed as a masterpiece in Japan,
Hayao Miyazaki’s new film begins as a simple story of loss
and love and rises to a staggering work of imagination.”
The director’s first feature in a decade, the fantasy follows
a young child who discovers an abandoned tower in his
new town, where he encounters a talking grey bird. Said to
be in line with Miyazaki’s best-known works – including My
Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away, both of which were pro-
grammed as part of TIFF’s POP Japan summer series – The
Boy and the Heron was released in Japan with almost no
publicity or promotion from producers in order for audi-
ences to experience the film’s surprises for themselves.
The selection of The Boy and the Heron marks the first
time that an animated feature has filled TIFF’s opening-
night programming, and could mark a critical turning point
for the notoriously difficult-to-curate slot. In 2022, TIFF
opened with the ripped-from-the-headlines drama, The
Swimmers, but the Netflix production failed to catch fire
with critics or audiences. The year before that, the festival
chose to kick off its pandemic-era hybrid edition with the
musical Dear Evan Hansen, which was almost instantly ma-
ligned.
TIFF, which runs Sept. 7-17, will continue to unveil its
2023 festival programming over the rest of the summer,
with the full schedule announced toward the middle of
August.
Hayao Miyazaki’s hand-drawn film, The Boy and the Heron,
premiered in Japan with almost no publicity so audiences
could experience its surprises. FRAZER HARRISON/GETTY IMAGES
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FIRST PERSON
You have to
hand it to them
WHY IT PAYS TO TALK – Aussie horror
TO STRANGERS flick delivers
BARRY HERTZ

REVIEW

Talk to Me
C L A S S I F I C AT I O N : 1 4 A ; 9 4 M I N U T ES

Directed by Danny Philippou and

Michael Philippou
Written by Danny Philippou and
Bill Hinzman
Starring Sophie Wilde, Alexandra
Jensen and Miranda Otto

CRITIC’S PICK

T
he summer movie season
has so far been a real horror
show – bloody financial ca-
lamities here, there and every-
where – even when it comes to
that most reliable of multiplex
staples, the horror movie. The
Boogeyman and The Blackening
both failed to find audiences. And
while the latest Insidious film
overperformed at the box office,
it didn’t exactly continue the
grand macabre tradition of the
franchise.
Which means the fate of this
sweltering spooky season rests in
the hands of the new Australian
horror flick Talk to Me – or, rather,
the single severed hand whose
supernatural powers are the focus
of the film.
Following a group of high-
schoolers who get their kicks out
of conjuring spirts using a myste-
riously embalmed hand – one kid
says it’s the appendage of a psy-
ILLUSTRATION BY MARLEY ALLEN-ASH chic – Talk to Me aims for an ele-
vated kind of hipster-horror thrill
ride, a round of high-shriek scares
I can be a tad spontaneous, so when I saw a cowboy with a Welsh name, amplified by the cynical consu-
merism of the TikTok generation.
I went for it, Lori Burke writes And damned if the movie doesn’t
pull its sick trick off, delivering a
jolt to the genre that should

I
have a habit of talking to strangers. My kids think was the real deal. hopefully turn the summer
I’m embarrassing. My husband worries. Some I pride myself in reading people on first impres- around. (It is also the most expli-
strangers think I’m loco. “You can’t just talk to sions, and I am also a friend of fate (Serendipity is one citly Australian of Aussie movies
random people on the bus,” my husband often of my favourite movies). Glynn was wearing a name to get a wide North American re-
said to me when I first moved to Calgary from small- tag because he was volunteering (huge marks for be- lease in some time – note the
town Ontario. ing a decent human) and because he was meant to presence of the dead kangaroo in
“They could be serial killers,” he’d warn. run into me – the meddling mother of his soon-to-be the film’s first few minutes fore-
“Or not,” I’d reply. soulmate. Without that name tag, without that love- shadowing the dark Down Under
Where I come from, the ability to make small talk ly name that rhymed with my daughter’s, without hijinks to come.)
is built into your DNA. Not chatting with the person his affable openness and without my tendency to Opening with a raucous house-
next to you in the grocery store line would be consid- overshare with strangers, I wouldn’t have been in- party scene, impressively cap-
ered weird, snooty and just plain rude. So, I talk to spired to chat him up. Hello, fate! tured in all its intense and ulti-
strangers. Regularly. Never has it been an issue. It His kind eyes and patience emanated goodness mately violent glory by sibling di-
typically results in a pleasant exchange that general- and convinced me in my vast experience profiling rectors Danny and Michael Philip-
ly ends with a smile and a feel-good moment of hu- serial killers that he was not one. Or maybe (as my pou (better known for their pop-
man connection. And, on occasion, like the time I at-the-time horrified daughter noted), I just “had my ular YouTube channel
randomly chatted up a young man I ran into at the beer goggles on.” Either way, all I know is, when RackaRacka), Talk to Me then set-
Calgary Stampede, it resulted in a glorious, life- Glynn stuck his name tag on that night and then ser- tles for a bit by detailing the
changing success story. endipitously encountered a Chatty home life of Mia (Sophie Wilde),
Thirteen years ago, I was attending Cathy cowgirl, little did he know he a Sydney teenager who is dealing
an outdoor event at Fort Calgary with Glynn was wearing a was about to change the course of a with the suicide of her mother.
16,000 of my closest cowboy friends. few lives. But fate knew exactly what Hanging close with her best
Alcohol and jocularity abounded. Ev- name tag because she was doing. friend Jade (Alexandra Jensen),
eryone was friendly in a Stampede “ya- he was volunteering By the end of the “interview,” which Jade’s younger brother Riley (Joe
hoo” kind of way. Howdy, stranger! and because he was he nailed by the way, he’d given my Bird), and the siblings’ relaxed
When Glynn (which I read on the meant to run into me friend his actual phone number. (So and permissive mother, Sue (Mi-
handsome young cowboy’s name tag) decent, he didn’t lie!) My friend then randa Otto), Mia seems to be cop-
bumped into my friends and me, I told – the meddling passed the number on to my mortified ing well enough. But then the
him that I knew Glynn was a Welsh mother of his daughter to do with as she pleased. three kids are invited to a house
name because my daughter is Bryn (al- soon-to-be soulmate. Note that I did not give Glynn my party.
so a Welsh name). Thinking that I was daughter’s number. I’m not that in- It turns out that the latest par-
quite witty, I said, “Hey! Bryn and Glynn! You guys sane. With her friend’s encouragement, my daugh- ty drug of choice for Australian
should date. That would be hilarious!” My friends, ter texted him to apologize for her profoundly em- teens is not MDMA but demonic
also oblivious to stranger danger, chimed in “Oh my barrassing mother. This triggered a 48-hour text ex- possession, with the kids taking
gosh, yes! You should meet Bryn. She’s the best!” change, which led to a first date, which blossomed turns clutching that aforemen-
Let me just clarify that my daughter is indeed the into a love story, which culminated in a wedding sev- tioned embalmed hand, whisper-
best and did not in any way need help meeting guys, en years later. Um … you’re welcome. ing the words “talk to me” and
nor was I ever intending at any time in her dating life It turns out Glynn means valley in the Welsh lan- then getting taken on a wild ride.
to offer unsolicited input. (I personally would have guage and Bryn means hill. I mean, come on! If that Their bodies twitch, their voices
disowned my own mother for this.) But I can be a tad doesn’t scream “meant to be,” I don’t know what deepen, their eyes roll back – and
spontaneous and the opportunity and the cowboy does. the fun is all captured on smart-
presented themselves, so I went with it. Plus, how Now nearly six years of marriage later, Bryn and phone for viral digital dissemina-
many serial-killer cowboys can you name? Glynn have a happy life, a home, a dog and a perfect tion. Well, so long as the stunt
This young cowboy, now hog-tied by good man- son. No, their son is not named Quinn, Flynn or Fred lasts under 90 seconds – any long-
ners, looked somewhat dubious. But in what I have but rather Beck, which I recently discovered means er, and whoever might be holding
come to know as his patented easygoing way, he con- mountain stream, and mountain streams – fittingly onto the hand risks opening up
genially answered my rapid-fire interrogation enough – often lie between hills and valleys. I rest my the cracks between the worlds of
regarding his age, postal code, education, relation- case. the living and the dead. Naturally,
ship status, sports preferences and hopes and I do very few things well, but I’m pretty good at it doesn’t take long for this bond
dreams. It was like speed-dating my daughter when people. And maybe matchmaking. More than ever, to be broken, with Mia using the
she was nowhere in sight. It was like an episode of I’m convinced that the stranger you opt to speak to hand to attempt a connection
the original Love is Blind Netflix show. As I was wrap- might just be a friend or maybe even a future family with her deceased mother.
ping up with, “You could have three kids and name member you haven’t yet met. Okay, they could also This is when all hell breaks
them Quinn, Flynn and Fred,” his two friends had al- be a serial killer, but I’ll take those odds every time. loose, in both metaphorical and
ready escaped several metres down the venue. Not literal form. And it is when less
my Glynn. Which convinced me even further that he Lori Burke lives in Calgary. inspired filmmakers might resort
to pulling out the usual bag of
horror tricks, including jump
scares, dark lighting and copious
gore. Yet the Philippou brothers
First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers are pushing for something differ-
ent here, employing a battery of
Have a story to tell? Please see the guidelines on our website tgam.ca/essayguide, fright moves that are slicky sick
and e-mail it to firstperson@globeandmail.com and impressively demented.
What the pair do to poor young
Riley in particular – his body be-
coming an unwitting vessel for
TODAY’S SUDOKU SOLUTION TODAY’S KENKEN SOLUTION Mia’s otherworldly transgressions
– will give horror fans the best
and most unshakable kind of
nightmares.
Although the movie’s energies
dip slightly toward its end, when
Mia’s plan to rid the world of the
cursed hand requires superhu-
man acts of strength and derring-
do, Talk to Me delivers a series of
slash-and-burn shocks that last
far longer than 90 seconds. Grab a
hold of it, and don’t dare let go.

Talk to Me opens in theatres Friday.

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and North leads the king of twice, you’re home free, so let’s 2. Win the opening heart tees at least four club tricks,
clubs. How would you play the say North was dealt this hand: lead with the king, play a low two spades, two hearts and a
hand? . club from dummy and finesse diamond. The unusual club fi-
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Niger’s president defiant in face of coup

Mohamed Bazoum says
democracy will prevail,
a day after being
detained by soldiers
SAM MEDNICK NIAMEY, NIGER
Niger’s president defiantly de-
clared Thursday that democracy
would prevail, a day after muti-
nous soldiers detained him and
announced they had seized pow-
er in a coup because of the West
African country’s deteriorating
security situation.
While many people in the cap-
ital of Niamey went about their
usual business, it remained un-
clear who was in control of the
country and which side the ma-
jority might support. A statement
tweeted by the army command’s
account declared that it would
back the coup to avoid a “murder-
ous confrontation” that could
lead to a “bloodbath.” It was not
possible to confirm that the state-
ment was genuine.
President Mohamed Bazoum –
who was elected in 2021 in Niger’s
of the “terrible effects on develop-
ment” and civilians due to “suc-
cessive unconstitutional changes
of government in the Sahel re-
gion.”
The Economic Community of
West African States sent Benin
President Patrice Talon to lead
mediation efforts.
Russia and the West have been
vying for influence in the fight
against extremism in the region.
Extremists in Niger have carried
out attacks on civilians and mili-
tary personnel, but the overall se-
curity situation is not as dire as in
neighbouring nations.
Mr. Bazoum is seen by many as
the West’s last hope for partner-
Hundreds of coup supporters gather and hold a Russian flag in front of ship in the Sahel after Mali turned
the National Assembly in the capital city of Niamey, Niger, on Thursday. away from former colonial power
SOULEYMANE AG ANARA /REUTERS France and sought support from
the Russian mercenary group
first peaceful, democratic transfer will be safeguarded. All Nigeriens Wagner. Wagner appears to be
of power since its independence who love democracy and freedom making inroads in Burkina Faso as
from France in 1960 – appeared to will see to it,” Mr. Bazoum tweeted well.
have the backing of several politi- early Thursday. Western countries have poured
cal parties. Mr. Bazoum is a key al- UN Secretary-General António aid into Niger, and U.S. Secretary
ly in the West’s efforts to battle ji- Guterres, who spoke to Mr. Ba- of State Antony Blinken visited in
hadists linked to al-Qaeda and the zoum by phone on Wednesday, March, seeking to strengthen ties.
Islamic State group in Africa’s Sa- told reporters Thursday that he American, French and Italian
hel region. was “extremely worried” about troops train the country’s sol-
“The hard-won achievements the situation in Niger and warned diers, while France also conducts
joint operations.
But the threat to Mr. Bazoum
has raised concerns that Niger
could also turn away from the
West.
On Thursday, several hundred
people gathered in the capital and
chanted support for Wagner while
waving Russian flags. Later, they
began throwing rocks at a passing
politician’s car.
“If Mohamed Bazoum resigns
from the presidency, Niger will
probably move to the top of the
list of countries where the Wagner
Group will seek to expand,” said
Flavien Baumgartner, an Africa
analyst at Dragonfly, a security
and political risk consultancy.
More than four million people
are in need of humanitarian as-
sistance and hundreds of thou-
sands are internally displaced, UN
spokesman Stéphane Dujarric
told reporters after speaking to se-
nior UN officials in Niger.
The international community
denounced the coup in Niger,
where there have been multiple
coups since independence in
1960.
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Heat: Temperatures ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change, researchers say

FROM A1
Even so, when global average
temperatures shatter records by
such large margins, as they have
been doing since early June, it
raises questions about whether
the climate is also being shaped
by other factors, said Karen A.
McKinnon, a climate scientist
and statistician at the University
of California, Los Angeles. These
elements might be less well un-
derstood than global warming
and El Nino.
“Do we expect, given those
two factors, the record to be bro-
ken by this much? Or is this a case
where we don’t expect it?” Dr.
McKinnon said. “Is there some
other factor that we’re seeing
come into play?”
Many parts of the world are
continuing to swelter this week
as July enters its final days. In the
United States, a dangerous heat
wave was taking shape on Thurs-
day in the Northeast and mid-At-
lantic, the National Weather Ser-
vice said, and high temperatures
remained a concern in the south-
west and central states. It’s been
scorching in parts of North Afri-
ca, southeastern Europe and Tur-
key. Wildfires, amplified by heat
and dryness, have raged in Cana-
da and around the Mediterrane-
an.
Researchers who analyzed this
month’s punishing heat waves in
the southwest United States,
northern Mexico and southern
Europe said this week that the
temperatures observed in those
regions, over a span of so many
days, would have been “virtually
impossible” without the influen-
ce of human-driven climate
change.
Still, scientists will need to in-
vestigate further to fully under-
People use the beach in front of a burnt forest near Gennadi village, on the Greek island of Rhodes on
Thursday after wildfires. PETROS GIANNAKOURIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
stand the “alarming” extent to
which the entire surface of the
planet has, on average, been hot-
ter than usual this summer, said
Emily Becker, a climate scientist
at the University of Miami.
Fossil-fuel emissions, which
cause heat to build up near
Earth’s surface, are certainly play-
ing a role. Since the Industrial
Revolution, humans have
pumped 1.6 trillion tons of car-
bon dioxide into the atmosphere.
This has caused the world to be
about 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer
than it was in the second half of
the 19th century.
But the way this extra heat is
distributed around the globe is
still shaped by a complex brew of
factors spanning land, sea and
air, plus a certain amount of ran-
dom chance – which is why un-
tangling the specific factors be-
hind this summer’s severe heat
will take time, Dr. Becker said.
“There’s going to need to be
quite a lot of research to under-
stand it, and understand if we’re
going to be seeing this again next
year or 10 years from now,” she
said.
One factor that probably
hasn’t been very important so far
this summer, at least not in North
America, is El Nino, Dr. Becker
said. The cyclical phenomenon
emerges when the surface of the
central tropical Pacific is hotter
than normal. Its arrival, which
this year occurred in late spring,
triggers a cascade of changes to
wind patterns and rainfall
around the globe. But its most
immediate effects are felt in the
tropical and far western Pacific,
in places such as Indonesia.
“In terms of North America,
this El Nino is really just getting
started,” said Dr. Becker, who
contributes to the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
ministration’s El Nino and La Ni-
na forecasts. Winter is when
North America experiences El Ni-
no’s most prominent effects, in-
cluding wetter conditions in the
U.S. South.
This summer’s record heat
could still affect the way this El
Nino plays out later this year and
into 2024, Dr. Becker said. Large
areas of the planet’s oceans have
been warmer than average. If this
continues into fall and winter, it
could lead to even stronger
storms, with even heavier rain, in
places that typically receive more
storms during El Nino, she said.
When it comes to factors be-
sides global warming that may al-
so be worsening heat waves, sci-
entists have been examining po-
tential changes in the jet streams,
the rivers of air that influence
weather systems around the
planet.
In the Northern Hemisphere,
the differences in temperature
between the Arctic and the equa-
tor keep the subtropical jet
stream moving. As humans
warm the planet, those temper-
ature differences are narrowing,
which could be causing the jet
stream to weaken and hot spells
to last longer.
So far, however, the evidence
for this is inconclusive, said Tim
Woollings, a professor of physical
climate science at the University
of Oxford. “It’s really not clear
that the jet has been getting
weaker,” he said.
In a study published in April,
Prof. Woollings and four other
scientists found that human-
caused warming might have
shifted the jet streams in both
hemispheres toward the poles in
recent decades. More research is
needed to understand this poten-
tial shift, he said. But if it contin-
ues, it could make subtropical re-
gions susceptible to greater heat
and drought, he said.
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

Languages: Linguist says database used in analysis will be a ‘significant resource’

FROM A1
This can now be compared to ar-
cheological evidence and the
emerging picture of ancient pop-
ulation movements based on se-
quencing human DNA.
At the heart of the analysis is a
list of 170 “reference meanings”
for words the researchers say can
be traced to a common forerun-
ner in Proto-Indo-European. The
words are generally part of each
daughter language’s core vocab-
ulary. The list includes words for
body parts (eye, hair), common
geographic features (mountain,
river) or animals that were found
everywhere Indo-European lan-
guage speakers lived (ant,
snake).
In an exercise that took years
to accomplish, language experts
on the team worked to rid the
list of borrowed words that jump
from one language to another. A
typical example is “planet,” an
English word that was taken di-
rectly from Greek rather than
tracing back to an older root in-
herited by both languages. Bor-
rowed words tend to make two
languages seem more recently
related in time than they really
are.
“We did everything we could
to make sure we weren’t assum-
ing similar words were similar
through inheritance,” said Erik
Anonby, a professor of linguistics
at Carleton University in Ottawa
who was involved in the portion
of study that considered rela-
Hybrid hypothesis
A new linguistic analysis conducted across the major branches of the Indo-European language family tree suggests
there was a mother tongue that developed and diverged in two stages. The first stage involved an initial expansion
from Stone Age farmers in eastern Turkey around 8,100 years ago. The second stage followed the migration
of pastoralists from the Eurasian Steppe into Europe about 6,000 years ago. In between, other branches moved
eastward toward China, India and Iran.
Baltic
Slavic
Germanic Northern
c. 5,000
route?
c. 7,000
Armenian From
c. 8,100
Celtic Albanian
Anatolian
Italic
Greek Southern
route?
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: PAUL HEGGARTY ET AL.
tionships between Indo-Europe- cies in a group relate to one an-
an languages in Iran. other.
Based on the word list, the re- Exactly when the first branch-
searchers then conducted a sta- es diverged is difficult to discern,
tistical analysis to show which Dr. Heggarty said, but the lin-
languages were most closely re- guistic analysis points to a “fairly
lated and projected backward to early splintering” some time dur-
their likely time of divergence – ing a two-millennium-long
usually the point at which two swath of time with a midpoint
population groups sharing a around 8,210 years ago.
common tongue become geo- By 7,000 years ago, the analy-
graphically separated. sis shows, the forerunners of
The method is similar to a Greek, Albanian and Tocharian –
phylogenetic analysis that evolu- an extinct language group in
tionary biologists might use to western China – had already split
determine how individual spe- off from the rest. This predates
Tocharian
From c. 3,500
Nuristani
Iranic
From Indic
c. 5,000
the period associated with the
theory of a Steppe origin for the
language family.
“The Steppe is certainly doing
a lot but it’s not doing every-
thing,” Dr. Heggarty said.
Instead, he said, the language
that appeared on the Steppe
could have been seeded by farm-
ers who carried their version of
Indo-European northward,
around or through the Caucasus
mountains, after which they be-
came increasingly reliant on ani-
mals instead of crops as a food
source. From there, he said,
there is a more clear-cut branch-
ing of European language groups
after about 6,000 years ago that
matches the Steppe theory. Be-
fore then, the Indo-Iranian lan-
guages were already on a sepa-
rate trek eastward, but the analy-
sis does not determine if that
was before or after the shift into
the Steppe.
The study may serve to inten-
sify debate over the early chap-
ters of the Indo-European story,
with some experts raising early
objections to the results.
“The resulting hybrid model
at important points is at odds
with the linguistic and genetic
facts,” said Guus Kroonen, a lin-
guistics researcher at the Univer-
sity of Copenhagen. “Future ge-
netic studies will have to show
whether the Steppe hypothesis
truly can be rejected.”
Andrew Garrett, a linguist at
the University of California, Ber-
keley and co-author of a 2015 pa-
per that supports a Steppe origin
for Proto-Indo-European, said
the most exciting aspect of the
new analysis is the “well-docu-
mented and reliably analyzed”
database of words and meaning
the authors created.
“It will be a significant re-
source for linguists for years to
come,” he said.
As to the conclusions of the
study, Dr. Garrett added, “the
new analysis in the paper is un-
convincing, but that’s less im-
portant than the value of the da-
tabase used.”
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Calgary’s TC Energy to split Laurentian

into two separate companies
Legacy firm will seek infrastructure opportunities while pipelines spinout focuses on capacity
EMMA GRANEY lion to help shore up its balance sheet.
ENERGY REPORTER The Columbia deal was the first in a pro-
CALGARY gram that TC Energy announced last fall to
sell off its non-core assets and minority in-
terests to help fund expansion goals with-
TC Energy Corp. says it is splitting into two out accruing large amounts of debt. That
separate companies, spinning off its liq- includes the Coastal GasLink pipeline in
uids pipelines business from its natural gas British Columbia, which has an expected
and low-carbon energy operations. cost that has surged more than 130 per cent
The Calgary-based company announced since the original 2018 estimate of $6.2-bil-
its plan late Thursday. Only days earlier, it lion.
said it would sell 40 per cent of its two mas- TC Energy said Thursday that the deci-
sive Columbia gas-transmission systems in sion to split its operations into two entities
the United States to New York-based Global comes as a result of a two-year strategic re-
Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for $5.2-bil- view. It expects the plan to be completed in
[ TRANSPORTATION ]
faces tepid
interest as
bid deadline
approaches
the second half of 2024. STEFANIE MAROTTA
Spinning off TC Energy’s liquids pipe- ANDREW WILLIS
lines business will provide both companies
“with the flexibility to pursue their own
growth objectives,” it said in a news release. As Laurentian Bank of Canada’s
TC Energy’s earnings before interest, tax- month-end deadline for finding
es, depreciation and amortization (EBIT- an acquirer nears, Bank of Nova
DA) on its liquids pipeline business was Scotia and Toronto-Dominion
$286-million in the second quarter of 2023, Bank have bowed out, shrinking
or 12 per cent of the company’s total, ac- the list of takeover suitors.
cording to a recent analyst note from CIBC. Scotiabank will not bid for
Its gas pipelines, power and storage busi- Montreal-based Laurentian, the
ness EBITDA was $2.1-billion in the same country’s ninth-largest lender,
quarter. according to two sources familiar
TC ENERGY, B6 with the matter. It made its final
decision on Wednesday, accord-
ing to one of the sources.
The decision came just days
before the deadline for first bids,
which was set for the end of the
month, according to three other
sources familiar with the matter.
Toronto-Dominion Bank is al-
so not bidding for Laurentian,
even though it has excess capital
after recently terminating its
$13.5-billion deal for Tennessee-
based First Horizon Corp., accord-
ing to three more sources.
The Globe and Mail is not nam-
ing the sources because they were
not permitted to discuss the con-
fidential sale process. Laurentian,
Scotiabank and TD all declined to
comment.
Analysts expect Laurentian to
make a final decision on an ac-
quirer before the bank reports its
financial results on Aug. 30.
LAURENTIAN, B6

Teck will only

sell coal unit
if investor
benefits are
The Réseau express métropolitain (REM) will eventually span 67 kilometres and include a link to Montreal’s Pierre
Elliott Trudeau International Airport. The project’s price tag is expected to exceed $7-billion. ANDREJ IVANOV/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
clear, CEO says
NIALL McGEE
MINING REPORTER

Design, build, operate: Caisse’s new Teck Resources Ltd. chief execu-

infrastructure model gets its first test tive officer Jonathan Price says
he’s pleased with the progress the
Canadian miner has made in
talks with parties interested in
NICOLAS VAN PRAET Two other sections are slated to carry their buying its coal business, but he
first passengers by the end of next year, while has made it clear a transaction
the final leg to Trudeau International Airport is will only be consummated under
ANALYSIS expected to open in 2027. certain circumstances.
Not since Montreal’s rubber-wheeled metro In April, Vancouver-based Teck

M
ontreal’s biggest public transit pro- system launched 57 years ago has Quebec seen called off a planned split of the
ject in more than half a century is a transit project of this size and novelty: a net- company into standalone metals
about to open – a monumental mo- work spanning 67-kilometres in length, all elec- and coal units after failing to ob-
ment for its financier and builder, tric and driverless, operating 20 hours a day, ev- tain sufficient support from
the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. ery day. With a price tag well above $7-billion, it shareholders. Since then, the
Now, the pension fund giant will have to prove will be, as Caisse chief executive Charles Emond company has been entertaining
it can continue to lure people out of their cars if has proudly touted, among the longest auto- M&A opportunities for the coal
it wants a crack at winning future projects. mated light rail lines in the world. business. Several bidders are al-
The first 17-kilometre branch of the Caisse’s “This is a historic project,” Mr. Emond said in ready known, including Glencore
Réseau express métropolitain (REM) light rail April on popular talk show Tout le monde en par- PLC of Switzerland, Japan’s Nip-
line will welcome dignitaries and media Friday le. “It’s going to change the city and the rela- pon Steel and a consortium led by
and its first paying customers Monday, ferrying tionship we have with the city,” he said, acting mining veteran Pierre Lassonde.
them between Montreal’s south-shore suburbs as a catalyst for economic and real estate devel- In a conference call with analy-
and central station at a speed three times faster opment. sts Thursday, after the release of
than by automobile. REM, B5 the company’s second-quarter
earnings, Mr. Price said there has
been “a lot of interest” in the coal
business – both for all or just a
part of it – and that Teck is keep-
ing an open mind.
However, given the vast profit-
ability of the coal business, he
said Teck will only do a deal if the
stars align.
“We will transact only if the
T R A N S P O RTATI O N benefits to our shareholders and
Canadian Pacific Kansas other stakeholders are clear,” he
said.
G LO B E I N V E STO R City reports $1.3-billion TECK, B4
Food inflation: in earnings amid dip
Pasta prices in rail demand B2
keep rising,
but prawns COMPANIES
stay stable B8 AECON .................................. B9
ECO N O M Y CANADIAN PACIFIC KANSAS
U.S. defies recession CITY ....................................... B2
CENOVUS ENERGY ................ B3
fears with strong CGI ........................................ B9
GAVIN JOHN/ GDP performance LOBLAW ............................... B9
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in second quarter B3

SPORTS S O CC E R Canada finds itself in a logjam at Women’s World Cup B11

B11-B15 GOLF Paula Reto charges to two-shot lead at Evian Championship B12
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W
ar rages in Europe, China’s economy is faltering and the U.S. Federal
After spiking above 30 in March, Reserve may yet have more rate hikes up its sleeve. But for inves-
tors, all is Zen.
the CBOE Volatility Index sits just above 13 The past few months have brought a stretch of remarkable calm
for stocks, with shares of tech companies soaring and pulling the S&P 500 index
with them. So far this year there have been just 16 days on which the U.S. bench-
CBOE Volatility Index in 2023 vs. historical daily average mark index traded down more than 1 per cent, and the last time was back in
Index level (vertical axis) and number of trading days since start of year mid-May, the longest such stretch since 2019.
(horizontal axis) The most-watched measure of investor chillness is the CBOE Volatility Index,
or VIX. It’s also known as the “fear gauge” and reflects the implied volatility of
2023 (5-day moving average) Daily average for 1990 to 2022 the S&P 500 by tracking demand from investors for financial instruments that
protect them against market losses. In other words, when uncertainty reigns
24 and the VIX rises, stocks sell off – vice versa in periods of optimism.
After spiking above 30 in March amid the U.S. banking crisis, the VIX now sits
22 just above 13, close to its lowest level since the pandemic began and well below
the long-term average of 20.
20 One big explanation for the calm is that recession talk has once again given
way to predictions of a soft landing for the economy. Corporate earnings in the
second quarter have so far beaten expectations. Most of all, investors are con-
18
vinced central banks are done raising rates now that inflation has eased.
But how long will the calm continue? There’s no such thing as a crystal ball
16 when it comes to stocks, but the history of the VIX does hint at bumpier times
ahead. Over the past three decades daily volatility has, on average, fallen to
14 annual lows in July before climbing in August and peaking in October.
There are caveats. A handful of ultra-volatile years such as 2001, 2008-09 and
0 50 100 150 200 250
2020 pull up average volatility in the fall; however, even after those years are
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: CBOE stripped out, the VIX daily average still begins to climb in August. On the other
hand, there are also plenty of years in which the VIX stays flat all year.
For now, investors seem content to enjoy the calm while it lasts, however
long that might be.
JASON KIRBY

ECB eyes September pause after CPKC rail

interest rates hit 23-year high
Central bank has now lifted
borrowing costs by a combined
425 basis points since last July
BALAZS KORANYI
FRANCESCO CANEPA FRANKFURT
The European Central Bank raised interest
rates for the ninth consecutive time on
Thursday, but raised the possibility of a
pause in September as inflation pressures
show tentative signs of easing and reces-
sion worries mount.
Fighting off a historic surge in prices, the
ECB has now lifted borrowing costs by a
combined 425 basis points since last July,
worried that price growth could be perpet-
uated by both rising costs and wages in an
exceptionally tight jobs market.
With Thursday’s 25-basis-point move,
the ECB’s deposit rate stands at 3.75 per
cent, its highest level since 2000 – before
euro notes and coins were even in circula-
tion. The main refinancing rate was set at
4.25 per cent.
ECB president Christine Lagarde
ditched her practice of guiding markets for
the next decision and said what would
come next was in the balance, even if the
central bank was determined to “break the
back” of inflation.
She had responded to most of the ques-
tions at a news conference by saying all op-
tions remained on the table but sent the
euro tumbling with a dovish flourish near
the end.
“Do we have more ground to cover? At
this point in time I wouldn’t say so,” Ms.
Lagarde said, almost unprompted, while
stressing that the ECB’s decisions would
depend on the data.
“There is the possibility of a hike [next
time]. There is the possibility of a pause.
It’s a decisive maybe,” Ms. Lagarde said,
adding that policy makers were “open-
minded” and unified.
Ryan Djajasaputra at Investec said that
Ms. Lagarde’s tone hinted at a pause. “Our
Canada Goose launches preloved program in Canada
TARA DESCHAMPS TORONTO
Your next Canada Goose coat might be on
its second life by the time it gets to you.
The Toronto-based, luxury apparel com-
pany announced Thursday that it is bring-
ing Generations, a platform allowing con-
sumers to shop for and trade in preloved
pieces from the brand, to Canada.
Pieces available for trade-in or purchase
through Generations will range from the
company’s popular parkas and outdoor
vests to snowsuits, snow pants, trench
coats and even fleece and knitwear.
The program is being launched to fur-
ther Canada Goose’s commitment to sus-
tainability but also cater to the growing
number of people seeking second-hand
goods, Carrie Baker, the company’s presi-
dent, said.
“The resale market is growing like crazy,
even faster than just regular commerce,
and for us, it really taps into our target de-
mographic,” she said.
Ms. Baker has seen statistics suggesting
80 per cent of consumers under the age of
30 shop for preloved goods, but interest in
purchasing second-hand items stretches
beyond the youngest cohort of shoppers.
Online consignment store ThredUp pre-
dicts the global market for second-hand
goods will double by 2027, reaching $350-
billion. It also found the number of retailers
with branded resale programs tripled be-
tween 2021 and 2022 alone.
Branded resale programs cropping up
recently include one from Hudson’s Bay
main takeaway from today’s news confer-
ence was that it strengthened our existing
view that this is the peak in rates.”
Two sources with direct knowledge of
the discussion also described a shift in the
mood on the Governing Council, with
more policy makers than before now wor-
ried about a softening of the economy after
a year in which concerns about inflation
dominated.
Some policy makers currently favour a
pause in September, expecting the euro
zone to be heading into a recession, while
others would prefer to raise borrowing
costs again.
An ECB spokesperson declined to com-
ment.
The ECB’s earlier policy statement said
rates would be set at “sufficiently restric-
tive levels for as long as necessary,” but
dropped a reference to the rates having to
be “brought” to a level that would cut
inflation quickly enough to its 2-per-cent
target.
Ms. Lagarde explained the tweak was
“not random or irrelevant.”
The problem is that inflation is coming
down slowly and could take until 2025 to
fall back to 2 per cent, as a price surge ini-
tially driven by energy has seeped into the
broader economy via large markups and is
fuelling the cost of services.
While overall inflation has halved from
October, underlying price growth is hover-
ing near historic highs and may have even
accelerated this month.
Ms. Lagarde said the risks of so-called
“second-round” effects had not worsened
since last month.
But record-low unemployment has
raised fears that wages will jump as work-
ers seek to recoup real incomes lost to in-
flation, which is why many investors and
analysts had been expecting the ECB to
hike again in September pending fall wage
data.
“Because we expect a significant decline
in inflation and a recession in the second
half of the year, we continue to not forecast
a rate hike in September. On the other
hand, we doubt the market’s view that the
and baby gear startup Rebelstork and an-
other from Canadian department store
chain Simons and resellers LXRandCO and
VSP Consignment.
Canada Goose is also no stranger to the
circular economy – it has been making fab-
ric and material donations to remote com-
munities and Indigenous sewers since
2009 – but has never offered a trade-in pro-
gram before.
It moved in that direction in part be-
cause the number of searches for second-
hand Canada Goose goods online grew by
50 per cent between 2021 and 2022, Ms. Bak-
er said.
Though many Canada Goose customers
hang onto their apparel for years, such
numbers convinced the company there
was an opportunity to give people a chance
to resell their items.
The Generations program works by al-
lowing those wanting to trade in pieces to
search Canada Goose’s catalogue using
their item’s style number to get a sense of
how much the company may give them in
gift cards.
Trade-in customers can expect up to 60
per cent of the current retail price, Ms. Bak-
er said. A men’s Crofton vest in black camo
was selling on the company’s website for
US$650 this month. The Generations
search tool showed someone hoping to
trade it in could receive between US$357
and US$250. Meanwhile, a women’s PBI Ex-
pedition parka retailing for US$1,825 in July
would make between US$1,047 and
US$733, depending on its condition, when
traded in.
ECB will cut rates as early as 2024,” said
Joerg Kraemer, chief economist at Com-
merzbank.
The euro tumbled as Ms. Lagarde spoke
and briefly dipped under US$1.10, having
risen 0.5 per cent to touch US$1.1149 be-
forehand.
Markets had fully priced in another rate
hike just a few weeks ago, but few now see
a move in September and markets only are
pricing 17 basis points of hikes over the rest
of the year.
“The bar for another hike in September
is now dependent on upward surprises to
inflation numbers, at a time when strong
disinflationary forces are in play – so the
default position is to keep rates constant
for a sustained period,” said Neil Mehta,
portfolio manager at RBC BlueBay Asset
Management.
More tightening would, however, be
consistent with comments from policy
makers including ECB board member Isa-
bel Schnabel that raising rates too far
would be less costly than not enough.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Federal Reserve
raised borrowing costs and kept the door
open to more rate hikes, though Fed chair
Jerome Powell gave few hints about the
September meeting.
Indicators of business, investor and con-
sumer sentiment and bank lending sur-
veys point to a continued deterioration af-
ter the euro zone skirted a recession last
winter.
And with manufacturing in a deep re-
cession and the previously resilient servic-
es sector showing signs of softening de-
spite what is likely to be a superb summer
holiday season, it is hard to see where any
rebound would come from.
Such weakness, exacerbated by a loss of
purchasing power after inflation eroded
real incomes, could push inflation down
faster than some expect, leaving less work
for the ECB.
“We know we are getting closer,” Ms. La-
garde said, referring the end of the ECB’s
rate-hike run.
REUTERS
Canada Goose hats, gloves, mittens,
scarves, face masks, hood trims, home ac-
cessories and footwear are not eligible for
the program, but Ms. Baker said the compa-
ny is open to easing up on exclusions even-
tually.
If a customer decides to go ahead with a
trade-in, Canada Goose will send them a
prepaid shipping label and once the com-
pany receives the item, verify the product is
not a knock-off and then assess its condi-
tion.
Items deemed to be in excellent condi-
tion have no visible flaws and will earn cus-
tomers the most credit. Canada Goose will
also accept trade-in’s in for items it consid-
ers in “very good,” “good” or “fair” condi-
tion, which could have varying degrees of
discoloration, scuffs, pilling and even tears.
Following the item’s review, trade-in
customers will receive a Canada Goose gift
card. The company will make any repairs it
can to the preloved item and list it on the
Generations website with a reduced price.
When it launched Generations in the
U.S. at the end of January, Ms. Baker said
about 60 per cent of the trade-ins it re-
ceived were parkas and about 53 per cent
were deemed to be in excellent condition.
But the 66-year-old company founded in
Toronto by immigrant Sam Tick under the
name Metro Sportswear Ltd. bets its home
country will bring out even more interest-
ing trends.
Ms. Baker said, “I think Canada will be
the treasure trove.”
THE CANADIAN PRESS
reports
$1.3-billion
in earnings
ERIC ATKINS
TRANSPORTATION REPORTER
Canadian Pacific Kansas City
Ltd. reported its first financial re-
sults as a combined railway on
Thursday, with revenues of $3.2-
billion and profit of $1.3-billion,
but signalled that its increased
heft is no bulwark against eco-
nomic uncertainty.
Keith Creel, CPKC’s chief exec-
utive officer, said he is sticking
with an earlier forecast for mid-
single-digit growth in profit, de-
spite a “challenging quarter”
amid softer demand and wider
economic uncertainty.
“This is about the long game,
it’s not about the first quarter of a
new company,” Mr. Creel said on a
conference call with analysts on
Thursday.
Declining shipments of grain,
potash and crude oil helped re-
duce CPKC’s revenues in the sec-
ond quarter by 2 per cent, mea-
sured on a combined basis, from
the year-ago quarter. The adjust-
ed per-share profit of 83 cents fell
short of analyst expectations.
A 13-day strike by 7,500 work-
ers at B.C.’s ports – including Van-
couver and Prince Rupert – halted
shipments of consumer goods
and other imports. The strike has
ended but its impact is still rip-
pling through the economy.
John Brooks, chief marketing
officer, said the port strike cost
CPKC $80-million in revenue,
much of which he hopes to claw
back in the coming quarters.
CP completed its US$27-billion
takeover of Kansas City Southern
on April 14, two weeks into the
second quarter. The deal, which
CP won after a bidding war with
Canadian National Railway Co.,
created the first single-line rail
network that connects Canada,
the United States and Mexico.
The 32,000-kilometre railway
links a cross-Canada railway with
a north-south line that reaches
agricultural and industrial re-
gions of the U.S. and Mexico, as
well as ocean ports.
“We’re just 105 days old but I’m
extremely proud of the combina-
tion so far,” Mr. Creel said.
The U.S. economy grew at a 2.4-
per-cent clip in the first half of
2023, exceeding expectations and
calming fears of a recession. The
Canadian economy is expected to
underperform that of the U.S., al-
though concerns of a major slow-
down here have also dimmed.
Still, the dip in demand for rail
freight is being felt across the in-
dustry.
The number of rail cars hauled
by major North American carriers
fell by 4.2 per cent in the first 29
weeks of the year, compared with
the same period a year ago, ac-
cording to the Association of
American Railroads. Rail traffic
has been weighed down by de-
clines in containerized ship-
ments, which fell in number by
6.3 per cent in the week ending on
June 22, from the same week in
2022. On Tuesday, Montreal-
based CN posted a profit of $1.16-
billion, a 12-per-cent drop it
blamed on reduced demand for
freight because of Canadian wild-
fires and economic conditions.
CPKC’s stock price has risen by
7 per cent on the Toronto Stock
exchange this year. CN’s share
price has fallen by 3 per cent.
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Cenovus CEO: Ottawa’s plan to cut subsidies is rhetoric

Jon McKenzie tells
investors he isn’t aware
of any subsidies that are
direct and unique to the
oil and gas sector
EMMA GRANEY
ENERGY REPORTER
CALGARY
The chief executive of Cenovus
Energy Inc. says the federal gov-
ernment’s plans to eliminate fu-
ture fossil fuel subsidies are little
more than political rhetoric.
Environment Minister Steven
Guilbeault on Monday released
conditions under which it will al-
low subsidies to the oil and gas in-
dustry. He couldn’t say how much
financing would be affected, but
officials said government pro-
grams that could be affected by
the guidelines control about $1-
billion in public money.
Cenovus CEO Jon McKenzie
told an investor call Thursday
when asked about Ottawa’s plans
that he’s not aware of any subsi-
dies that are direct and unique to
the sector.
“I’ve been in this industry for a
lot of years, and many of those
years have been spent in finance.
And I certainly remember writing
a lot of cheques to the provincial
and federal governments, but I
don’t remember receiving a lot of
cheques in return,” Mr. McKenzie
said.
Cenovus spent almost $4.5-bil-
lion on royalties and taxes in 2022,
he added – the company’s single
largest expense, far outweighing
Cenovus has pledged to bring its production emissions to net zero by 2050 through a project to capture carbon
emissions and build a pipeline to sequester them underground. Pipelines run through the forest at the Cenovus
Foster Creek SAGD oil sands near Cold Lake, Alta., in this 2012 photo. TODD KOROL/REUTERS
capital expenses and shareholder
returns.
“We certainly hear political
rhetoric with regard to oil and gas
subsidies, we’re just really not
sure what it means because,
again, we’re not really aware of
any oil and gas subsidies for the
industry.”
Green groups counter that the
sector can access cash that flows
through Crown corporations
such as Export Development Can-
ada. Environmental Defence, for
example, says that about $19-bil-
lion in financing for fossil fuels
flowed through EDC in 2022, com-
pared with about $2-billion that
came from other sources.
The federal government is de-
veloping the final regulations of a
plan to cap greenhouse-gas emis-
sions from the oil and gas sector,
which it says will likely be pub-
lished by mid-2024.
Cenovus, along with the other
major players in Alberta’s oil
sands, has pledged to bring its
production emissions to net-zero
by 2050. Central to that plan is a
massive project to capture carbon
emissions from various oper-
ations and build a pipeline to se-
quester them underground at a
hub near Cold Lake, Alta.
While the company beat its
quarterly profit estimates, helped
along by better-than-expected
production margins, its net in-
come for the April-June, 2023,
quarter fell 66 per cent from a year
earlier to $866-million, mainly
because of a sharp fall in crude
prices.
The wildfires that ravaged Al-
berta in May and June forced Cen-
ovus and other companies to shut
down production. As a result,
Cenovus lowered its 2023 produc-
tion outlook to between 775,000
and 795,000 barrels per day (bpd).
Like many oil and gas compa-
nies, Cenovus is also focused on
paying down its net debt so it can
increase shareholder rewards.
Mr. McKenzie said that could
happen some time between
November and January, depend-
ing on oil prices, at which point
100 per cent of free cash flow will
be paid back to shareholders.
But not all of them love that
plan.
Cole Smead, CEO of U.S.-based
Smead Capital Management and
an enthusiastic holder of Cenovus
shares, told The Globe and Mail on
Thursday that increasing divi-
dends is “money you can’t get
back.”
Instead, he would prefer that
Cenovus become a force of con-
solidation in the Canadian oil and
gas sector by buying marginal as-
sets to “take advantage of the fool-
ishness in the energy equity mar-
kets” and increase returns.
“I think everyone’s afraid to
look stupid, that’s the real truth.
Nobody wants to go do a deal and
wake up six months later and
have to be asked by the media or
investors, ‘Why in the hell did you
do that?’ ” he said.
“The only way to get fabulously
wealthy in this life is the willing-
ness to look stupid. Because it
doesn’t mean you’re right, but
you’re doing something unique
when others aren’t.”
His wish is unlikely to become
true, however. Mr. McKenzie told
investors on Thursday’s call that
Cenovus plans to stick to its knit-
ting with its asset portfolio for the
time being.
“Over the next few quarters, it’s
really about demonstrating the
earnings and cash flow capability
of these assets, running them in a
safe and reliable condition, and
demonstrating the profitability of
what we’ve built,” he said.
“Don’t expect us to do anything
different.”

U.S. economy defies

recession fears with LOMBARD REALTY LIMITED
strong second quarter
LUCIA MUTIKANI WASHINGTON

The U.S. economy grew faster than expected in the second

quarter as a resilient labour market supported consumer
Hartley T. Richardson, Executive Chair, President & Chief Executive Officer of James Richardson
spending, while businesses boosted investment in equip-
& Sons, Limited, is pleased to announce the election of Aidan W. Richardson and Sprague K.
ment and built more factories, potentially keeping a much-
Richardson to the Board of Directors of Lombard Realty Limited. Mr. Aidan Richardson and Mr.
feared recession at bay.
Sprague Richardson are both members of the sixth generation of the Richardson family.
Despite the broad-based acceleration in growth reported
by the Commerce Department on Thursday, inflation subsid-
ed considerably last quarter, with one of the key measures
tracked by the Federal Reserve for its 2-per-cent target post-
ing its slowest increase in more than two years.
Economists believed the U.S. central bank’s fastest inter-
est-rate hiking cycle since the 1980s was drawing to a close,
though strong domestic demand could see it keeping bor-
rowing costs higher and for longer.
The Fed on Wednesday raised its policy rate by 25 basis
points to the 5.25-per-cent to 5.50-per-cent range.
“Despite the Fed’s campaign to slow growth and snuff out
inflation, no recession is in sight,” said Sung Won Sohn, a fi-
nance and economics professor at Loyola Marymount Uni-
versity in Los Angeles. “Stop raising rates for now.”
Gross domestic product increased at a 2.4-per-cent an-
nualized rate last quarter, the government said in its advance
estimate of second-quarter GDP. The economy grew at a 2.0-
per-cent pace in the January-March quarter. Economists
polled by Reuters had forecast GDP would rise at a 1.8-per-
cent rate in the April-June period.
The government’s measure of inflation in the economy, Aidan W. Richardson
the price index for gross domestic purchases, rose at a 1.9-
per-cent rate, the slowest in three years. This followed a 3.8- Aidan Richardson specializes in business development at Kingston Midstream, a Canadian
per-cent pace of increase in the first quarter. midstream infrastructure company with pipeline operations and petroleum marketing activities
Even more encouraging, the personal consumption ex- in Western Canada. Prior to joining Kingston Midstream, Mr. Richardson was Vice President of
penditures price index (PCE), excluding food and energy, Engineering at Katal Energy Inc., having begun his career as a production engineer at Birchcliff
advanced at a 3.8-per-cent rate. That was the smallest gain Energy. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Sciences (BASc) degree in Geological Engineering from
since the first quarter of 2021 and was a slowdown from the Queen’s University, is a registered Professional Engineer and a member of the Association of
4.9-per-cent pace logged in the January-March quarter. The Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA), and holds a Master of Business
Fed watches the PCE price indexes for monetary policy. Administration from the University of Oxford. Mr. Richardson currently serves on the boards of
“It may be too soon to talk about Goldilocks, but there Valent Low-Carbon Technologies Corp. and the Trans Canada Trail Foundation.
have been some favourable supply-side developments lately
that could have legs,” said Michael Feroli, chief U.S. econo-
mist at JPMorgan in New York.
Outside housing and manufacturing, the economy has
largely weathered the 525 basis points in rate hikes from the
Fed since March, 2022. Most economists are now confident
the “soft landing” scenario – in which inflation falls, unem-
ployment remains relatively low and a recession is avoided –
is feasible. President Joe Biden said the GDP report was evi-
dence his economic plan was working. “We’re just getting
started,” he said in a statement.
Stocks on Wall Street were trading higher. The dollar rose
against a basket of currencies. U.S. Treasury prices fell.
Consumer spending, which accounts for more than two-
thirds of U.S. economic activity, increased at a 1.6-per-cent
pace in the second quarter. Though the pace slowed from the
first quarter’s robust 4.2-per-cent rate, it was enough to add
more than a full percentage point to GDP growth.
Households stepped up purchases of recreational goods
and vehicles, but cut back on automobiles and clothing. They
spent more on housing and utilities, airline travel as well as
motor vehicle maintenance and repair services. Sprague K. Richardson
Spending is being propped up by excess savings accumu-
lated during the pandemic and debt. While job growth has Sprague Richardson is President of Western Canadian Aerial (WCA), an aerial application
cooled from last year’s rapid pace, wage gains remain strong. business currently operating 17 aircraft across Canada supporting the agriculture and forestry
Income at the disposal of households after adjusting for sectors. Prior to this role and after earning his commercial pilot’s license, he worked as an
inflation rose at a 2.5-per-cent rate after surging at an 8.5-per- aerial applicator. Mr. Richardson obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of
cent pace in the first quarter. The saving rate rose to 4.4 per Manitoba with a double major in Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics. Currently, he serves
cent from 4.3 per cent. on the boards of Western Canadian Aerial, Kingston Midstream, Delta Waterfowl Foundation,
Labour market tightness persisted early in the third quar- the Siobhan Richardson Foundation, and the Fort Whyte Alive capital campaign.
ter as companies hoard workers after struggling to find la-
bour during the pandemic.
But headwinds remain. Wage growth is slowing as the em-
ployment gains cool. Higher borrowing costs could eventu- About Lombard Realty Limited
ally make it harder for consumers to fund spending with Lombard Realty Limited oversees the real estate interests and investments of James Richardson
debt. & Sons, Limited. This portfolio includes ownership of Richardson Centre in Winnipeg, as well as
“We still expect the economy to slow and enter a mild re- investments in third-party managed real estate located across Canada. Lombard Realty Limited
cession at the turn of the year,” said Daniel Vernazza, chief is a wholly-owned subsidiary of James Richardson & Sons, Limited.
international economist at UniCredit in London.
Richardsoncentrelimited.com
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OPINION & ANALYSIS
It’s time for a serious discussion of immigration
Many newcomers to
Canada are being
lured here mainly so
they can fill low-skill,
low-productivity roles
TONY
KELLER
OPINION
T
he guy who cut my hair
last week taught me some-
thing about the Temporary
Foreign Worker program: It’s
even looser than I thought.
Fixing that, and a number of
other things that aren’t quite
right about the immigration sys-
tem, comes down to the Trudeau
government. So, don’t hold your
breath.
After Sean Fraser was shuffled
from Immigration Minister to
Housing Minister on Wednesday,
he said Canada can’t “close the
door on newcomers.” As if that’s
what the government’s critics are
calling for. Is it possible for Cana-
dians to discuss a serious eco-
nomic issue, seriously? Or is po-
larizing name-calling all that our
politics has left?
The Liberals have a habit of
crafting marketing strategies be-
fore policies, and then having
policies become hostage to the
talking points.
Immigration is such a case.
We’re about to find out whether
the Liberals can make a course
correction, or whether they’ll
double down on the polarizing
This summer of strikes is actually good for the economy
STEPHANIE ROSS
OPINION
Associate professor at the School of
Labour Studies, McMaster University
A
round the world, dock-
workers, Starbucks baris-
tas, and Hollywood writers
and actors have been on strike.
Conditions for a strike wave are
ripe in 2023 – and have been
building since last year.
The typical attitude of busi-
ness leaders and politicians to-
ward most strikes is to fear and
repress them. Strikes are unde-
niably disruptive.
However, strike activity should
be welcomed, even with its short-
term disruptive effects. Most Can-
adians – whether they’re in
unions or not – benefit from
strikes in the long term.
That’s because strikes are one
of the few tools workers have to
redistribute wealth and reba-
lance an economy whose rewards
have become utterly out of bal-
ance. And that is good for the
economy as a whole.
Profits these days mostly sit in
offshore bank accounts or gener-
ate investment returns for those
that already possess unthinkable
wealth. When workers get higher
wages, corporate profits make
their way to people who will
spend it on goods and services in
our communities.
Strikes, and the unions who or-
ganize them, get more money in
the hands of people who will
drive economic activity and job
Teck: CEO says it won’t be rushed into a transaction or pinned down to any timeline
FROM B1
Teck’s share price has been con-
sistently weighed down by its
heavy exposure to environmen-
tally unfriendly coal. Earlier in the
year, the company announced its
intention to spin off the coal divi-
sion, but the metals business
would have retained about 90 per
cent of the new coal company’s
cash flow for about a decade. Af-
ter cancelling a shareholder vote
on the initiative, Teck said it
would concentrate on pursuing a
simpler and more direct separa-
tion of its operations.
While the company has been
actively speaking with would-be
buyers, Mr. Price said it won’t be
rushed into a transaction and re-
fused to be pinned down to any
timeline.
“There’s a detailed data room
An enduring increase in temporary immigration
At end of each year, in thousands
Total Study permit International Mobility program
Temporary Foreign Worker Program
1,500
1,000
500
0 overseas, at low cost, rather than
2000 2005 2010
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: IRCC
talking points, attacking suggest-
ions for reform as so much xe-
nophobia.
The Liberals have raised Cana-
da’s immigration targets, year af-
ter year, while also making it ev-
er easier for businesses to recruit
low-wage, not-so-temporary
temporary foreign workers, and
schools to enroll hundreds of
thousands of overseas students –
many of whom sought student
visas in part for the chance to
become low-wage, not-so-tem-
porary temporary foreign work-
ers.
One of the negative conse-
quences is that the national
housing squeeze has been made
worse, with a big jump in post-
pandemic arrivals pushing high
prices higher and low vacancy
rates lower. It’s not political. It’s
just arithmetic.
The Liberals could fix things –
not by stopping immigration but
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Los Angeles on Wednesday. MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS
creation. They are the real force
for improving the economy, not
the misguided policies that gov-
ernments have long pursued in
one way or another.
Since the late 1970s, as taxes on
corporations and the wealthy
have been repeatedly cut, we’ve
been told to have faith in their
role as job creators as their
wealth would eventually trickle
down.
Four decades of an ever-grow-
and due diligence process that’s
working its way through, which
we will run to its conclusion,” he
said.
“We’re not sort of sitting on our
hands here. We’re taking a very
active, diligent approach that’s
moving this forward as quickly as
we can – but also ensuring that we
take time to deliver the best out-
come here for shareholders and
stakeholders.”
The dollar value of a potential
transaction is far from the only
consideration for Teck. The com-
pany will also consider the im-
pact on its employees and its In-
digenous stakeholders, Mr. Price
said.
The only known bid for the
whole of Teck’s coal business is
the one tabled by Glencore,
which is worth as much as
US$8.2-billion.
2015 2020
by scaling it back, and making it
more targeted to highly skilled
economic immigrants. The latter
is supposed to be the core mis-
sion of our immigration system.
Returning to that common-sense
approach would benefit Cana-
dians and the economy.
And now, back to my neigh-
bourhood barbershop. The place
was empty when I walked in on a
Friday afternoon, so I dropped
into a chair and started chatting
with the barber. He spoke excel-
lent English with a Spanish ac-
cent, and I asked where he was
from.
“Mexico,” he said.
How long had he been in Can-
ada?
“One year and seven months.”
Why did he come to Canada?
“I looked online for jobs,
found one I wanted and applied.”
Temporary Foreign Worker
program?
ing wealth and income gap puts
the lie to that theory. That is in
part why this is yet another hot
summer – and we’re not just talk-
ing about the record-high tem-
peratures.
Bargaining has been under
way in other key sectors such as
shipping and retail grocery in
Central and Eastern Canada.
We’ve seen WestJet pilots, Metro
grocery store workers in the Grea-
ter Toronto Area and now UPS de-
The dollar value of a
potential transaction
is far from the only
consideration for
Teck. The company
will also consider the
impact on its
employees and its
Indigenous
stakeholders.
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“Yes.”
He gave me a good haircut (as
good as can be when the subject
has little more than half a head
of hair) and a better insight into
one part of the immigration sys-
tem.
It’s perfectly reasonable for
Canada to have a system for fill-
ing temporary gaps for highly
skilled labour. That’s what the
TFW program is supposed to do.
But that’s mostly not what it’s
doing. Instead, it’s offering low-
pay, low-skill and low-productiv-
ity employers a way to recruit
having to search harder at home,
or offer higher wages, or invest
in technology and training to in-
crease efficiency.
The government of Canada’s
TFW Job Bank has around 10,000
postings from employers search-
ing for a temporary foreign work-
er. Most jobs offer a salary of less
than $40,000. Nearly all pay less
than $60,000, which is below the
Canadian average.
There are, for example, 17 em-
ployers looking for barbers, from
Edmonton to Hamilton to Mon-
treal, with pay starting at $15 an
hour.
There are also some high-
wage jobs. A Vancouver health
care provider is looking for five
family physicians, at a salary of
$300,000 to $350,000. A veterin-
ary clinic is offering up to
$190,000 for an emergency vet.
eBay Canada in Toronto is seek-
ing a software engineer, at a sala-
ry of $160,000 to $180,000.
But the TFW database is most-
ly low-wage work.
Home Hardware in Wood-
livery workers go right to the
eleventh hour to get deals, with
very strong strike mandates in
hand.
Negotiations are soon to begin
at the Detroit Big Three automak-
ers (General Motors, Ford Motor
Company and Chrysler Stellantis
North America) in both Canada
and the U.S., taking place simul-
taneously for the first time in dec-
ades. Even more collective agree-
ments are set to expire before the
But that bid has garnered a
less-than-enthusiastic reception
from some stakeholders, includ-
ing British Columbia Premier Da-
vid Eby, who said he’s concerned
about Glencore’s corporate re-
cord, referring to the company’s
various regulatory offences relat-
ed to bribery and corruption.
While Mr. Eby doesn’t have the
authority to block a Glencore bid
for Teck, he has indicated he
would petition Ottawa to do so.
On Thursday Teck cut its cop-
per forecast for the year by about
15 per cent to between 330,000
and 375,000 tonnes, owing main-
ly to delays in construction and
commissioning of its QB2 copper
mine in Chile. The giant mine
started commercial production
in the quarter and cost US$8.1-bil-
lion to build.
Harry (Red) Conger, Teck’s
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stock, Ont., is seeking two cash-
iers at $16.55 an hour. A Mac’s
Convenience in Edmonton is
looking for one cashier at $15 an
hour. City Avenue Market in Port
Coquitlam, B.C., needs a cashier,
at $17 an hour.
A Tim Hortons in Sherbrooke,
Que., wants seven “assistant
waiter/waitress,” at $15.25 an
hour. Western Pizza in Regina
has four vacancies for servers, at
$14 an hour.
All of those low-wage jobs,
along with most others I looked
at, were listed as full-time and
permanent. These aren’t tempo-
rary positions, even though
that’s what the TFW program is
notionally about.
And I haven’t touched on the
larger but more opaque group of
foreign workers: those who
come on a student visa, work at
low-wage service jobs, and then
use Canadian educational cre-
dentials plus Canadian work ex-
perience in hopes of landing per-
manent residency in the country.
If everyone on that path was a
graduate in engineering, com-
puter science or other highly
paid fields, the system would
make sense. But a large share of
the visa students are not.
As I wrote earlier this week,
our plans to use the various im-
migration streams to raise GDP
per capita are being undermined
by too heavy a focus on filling
low-wage, low-skill jobs.
We can make our immigration
system better. But first, we need
an honest conversation about
what our immigration system
aims to do. And what’s not work-
ing.
end of the year. After years of a
falling strike rate, it feels like the
labour movement has redisco-
vered the power of the strike.
In the face of that, it is indeed
in the short-term interest of busi-
nesses to repress strikes and
workers’ wages. If effective and
well-organized, strikes interrupt
production, the delivery of im-
portant services and the genera-
tion of profits.
Moreover, strikes are polariz-
ing and require people to take
sides, sometimes creating long-
lasting rifts amongst families and
communities. Many people who
are not directly involved in a
strike either pay little attention
or think only about how their
own lives are disrupted.
But if we do not have strikes,
the alternative is worse. It’s deep-
ly dysfunctional for the economy
to see an ever-widening income
gap.
We see signs of this dysfunc-
tion every day, whether in the
form of increased food bank use,
an inability to afford housing or
the long-term destruction of
hope in the future. It’s not ratio-
nal for the business community
to degrade the situation of work-
ers to the point where they are
unable to participate meaning-
fully in the economy.
These were lessons learned af-
ter the Great Depression and the
Second World War – economies
don’t thrive when workers are
unable to benefit from their work
and the social wealth they’re part
of creating. Until business leaders
relearn this lesson, strikes will
continue to heat up.
chief operating officer, said in the
conference call that various ad-
justments and modifications that
led to the production cut are now
in the rearview mirror, and he ex-
pressed confidence the mine will
be at its full production potential
by the end of the year.
QB2 is Teck’s cornerstone asset
as it attempts to shift more of its
revenue mix toward copper and
away from coal.
Teck also announced Thursday
that a worker was killed at QB2
during the quarter. The death oc-
curred at a part of the mine that
had been decommissioned and
was non-operational, Teck spo-
kesperson Chris Stannell wrote in
an e-mail to The Globe and Mail.
“Learnings from the investiga-
tion are being shared across Teck
and with industry peers to pre-
vent future incidents,” he said.
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REM: Governments to provide operating subsidies so Caisse can earn required return
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For Montreal, a town plagued by
chronic transportation issues, the
REM can’t come soon enough.
Aside from the metro, which gen-
erally works well, aging infras-
tructure on major highways and
bridges causes traffic snarls. In
addition, commuter rail lines
have to share tracks with freight
rail and, unlike other major cities
globally, there’s no reliable transit
link between the city core and the
airport.
Senior leaders of the Caisse rec-
ognized that Canada’s second big-
gest city was in danger of falling
badly behind on infrastructure
development if nothing was
done. In 2015, then Caisse CEO
Michael Sabia persuaded the Que-
bec government that the Mon-
treal-based pension fund manag-
er could build and operate a new
light rail network.
The idea was an innovative one
in theory. The Quebec govern-
ment could get a new transit sys-
tem without assuming public lia-
bility for cost overruns that often
come with such projects, while
the pension fund gets a stable
return and develops expertise it
can then pitch to other govern-
ments for future work. A deal was
struck soon after and construc-
tion started in 2018.
Under the pact, the Caisse’s in-
frastructure arm is assuming $3.5-
billion of the project’s $6.9-billion
construction cost while Quebec is
committing $1.28-billion and the
Canada Infrastructure Bank is
providing a $1.28-billion loan. The
balance consists of a $295-million
payment from Hydro-Québec for
the line’s electrification, while the
Autorité régionale de transport
métropolitain, the transit author-
ity for the Montreal region, is
pledging $512-million.
When the Caisse announced
the start of construction on the
REM, it pegged the project cost at
$6.3-billion, an amount that has
since climbed and now tops the
latest official $6.9-billion projec-
tion. It has promised to update
the financial information in the
days to come.
Provincial and local govern-
The Réseau express métropolitain (REM) passes through Griffintown
in Montreal on Thursday. The first piece of the REM is set to open
five years after construction started. ANDREJ IVANOV/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
ments will provide continuing
operating subsidies for the REM to
make sure the Caisse earns its
required return on the project,
currently pegged at 8 per cent to 9
per cent. The pension fund man-
ager will get 72 cents for each pas-
senger-kilometre travelled on the
light rail system. Without such a
subsidy, fares would climb to a
level few passengers could afford.
That the first piece of the REM
is opening now, five years after
construction started, is a victory
of sorts for the Caisse and its part-
ners – even if it comes roughly two
years late. There have been a myr-
iad of issues to deal with for those
working on the project, including
an unexpected detonation of cen-
tury-old explosives inside the
Mount Royal Tunnel, new worker
protocols caused by the pandem-
ic and the rapid rise in inflation.
Other transit projects around
the world have been scrapped in
recent months over concerns
about ballooning costs such as
plans for a rail link connecting
New York City’s subway and com-
muter rail systems to LaGuardia
Airport. But the REM is forging
ahead in its own imperfect way,
drawing both hope for its eco-
nomic and environmental bene-
fit, and criticism for how the pro-
ject has been conceived and han-
dled.
“What annoys me is that there
was almost an arrogance when
this process started by the Caisse
that ‘We know what we’re doing,
we’re going to be better than oth-
ers, we’re going to do it on time
and on budget.’ Today it’s clear
that’s not the case,” said Jacques
Roy, a transportation specialist at
Montreal’s HEC business school.
“We could see another project like
this again but I’m not sure we
should,” referring to the Caisse’s
leadership.
That the REM is seeing the light
of day is due in no small part to the
wide berth the Quebec govern-
ment offered to the Caisse, includ-
ing expropriation rights and po-
litical backing despite a negative
assessment of the project from
the province’s environmental re-
view board, Mr. Roy said. The tran-
sit line was also launched without
worrying too much about how it
will connect with the rest of the
public transport network, he said.
Nathalie Drouin, a professor
who studies project management
at the University of Quebec at
Montreal, said giving the Caisse a
mandate for the REM wasn’t nec-
essarily a bad thing. But the pen-
sion fund manager could have,
and should have, done things dif-
ferently in engaging stakeholders
and stickhandling the project as
an asset for the public good, she
said.
Montrealers living near the
REM tracks are voicing concerns
that the trains – which have been
undergoing testing for months –
are too loud. And the design of the
infrastructure itself, featuring
massive concrete columns erect-
ed to support the elevated tracks,
leaves much to be desired, Ms.
Drouin said.
“Could we have done better?
Yes,” she said.
In sum, the Caisse handled the
financial and technical risks for
the project well but mishandled
the social risk, Ms. Drouin said.
“By using the REM, people might
come to appreciate it. But the
question is would I hire the Caisse
again to do another similar pro-
ject? … I don’t know.”
The federal government might
soon face that choice. Ottawa last
week released a short list of pri-
vate-sector bidders to build a
high-frequency passenger rail
line between Quebec City and
Toronto, and a consortium in-
cluding the Caisse is one of three
finalists for what would be one of
the largest infrastructure projects
in Canadian history.
The federal government is pay-
ing close attention to the lessons
learned from the REM as it pur-
sues its own project, said Ehren
Cory, CEO of the Canada Infras-
tructure Bank. Other cities are
keeping tabs on the REM as well as
they think about the long-term
economic value of transit and the
value it creates, he said.
The REM alone has contributed
to $5-billion worth of real estate
development on Montreal’s
south shore over the past three
years, three times the pace the
Caisse had predicted. Mr. Emond
calls it “a spinal cord” anchoring
the region’s suburbs.
“Hopefully when we get to the
light at the end of this tunnel and
people see a train and a system
running, it is an example for other
municipalities, provinces, to see
how we can get more infrastruc-
ture built,” Mr. Cory said in an in-
terview.
“We’ve got to get more built fas-
ter than we are. And the reason
we’re not isn’t for lack of effort. It’s
partly because we can’t afford it
all unless we think differently
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about how we pay for stuff,” he
said.
The Caisse has said it wants to
expand its infrastructure arm and
build more projects like the REM
from scratch, eking out a reputa-
tion as a go-to partner for govern-
ments. But as it opens the next
arms of the transit line, it will have
to overcome another hurdle:
unknowns related to ridership.
The pandemic has changed the
habits of Montreal’s white-collar
professionals, who continue to
work from home in great num-
bers. Although workers are slowly
coming back, nearly one in three
told the city’s chamber of com-
merce in recent polling that they
do not want to come downtown
to work, a desertion of the city
centre that could yet wreak havoc
on REM revenues.
The Transportation Research
at McGill group has been studying
the impacts of the REM on mobil-
ity, health and equity. Among its
key findings from surveys in a
report published in June, it says
people’s stated intentions to use
the REM fell by 7 per cent between
2019 and 2022. In terms of travel
behaviour, car-use frequency
increased by 59 per cent over the
same time, its research found.
“Any transit system construc-
tion right now is good because
you want people to be using it,”
said Hisham Negm, a doctoral stu-
dent working on the research.
“But is it the right time to be build-
ing a system that should be carry-
ing 60,000 or 80,000 people a day
and you’re not sure whether
you’re going to get this ridership
or not? It’s questionable.”
Mr. Emond says the system will
prove its worth. And he says addi-
tional testing of the Alstom SA-
made Metropolis trains over the
past winter in Montreal, where it
was exposed to freezing rain and
-40 C cold, should ensure the sys-
tem doesn’t experience the fre-
quent breakdowns seen in other
places like Ottawa.
“This is Metropolis on ste-
roids,” Mr. Emond said. “There’s
never been a train run like this in a
rigorous climate with such tem-
perature extremes. We’re confi-
dent it’ll react well.”

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Elon Musk’s quixotic quest
to turn X into an ‘everything app’
Promises app will add
‘the ability to conduct
your entire financial world’
in the coming months
RYAN MAC LOS ANGELES
F
our years ago, a billionaire tech exec-
utive leading one of the world’s pre-
eminent social platforms laid out a
vision to transform it into an app
that could do it all. In an online manifesto,
he wrote that the app would not only be
central to written communications but
have audio, video, payments, commerce
and more.
The idea was akin to that of an “every-
thing app” espoused recently by Elon
Musk, the owner of Twitter. But the dream
belonged to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder
and CEO of Meta, which owns Facebook, In-
stagram and WhatsApp. In a 2019 blog post,
Mr. Zuckerberg outlined how he would
turn WhatsApp into an app that could be a
platform for many “kinds of private servic-
es.”
In Silicon Valley, the pursuit of an every-
thing app has come up time and again as
tech leaders have strained to expand their
digital empires. Mr. Zuckerberg tried it. So
did Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber.
Evan Spiegel, the head of Snap, said he
wanted to go for it, too.
Yet those efforts fell short, with the tech
executives unable to replicate the magic
that has abounded in Asia with “super
apps” such as China’s WeChat, Japan’s Line
and South Korea’s KakaoTalk. U.S. tech gi-
ants have instead run into cultural differ-
ences, regulatory scrutiny and a splintered
financial system that has made the quest to
build such apps more difficult.
And now Mr. Musk, who this week
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changed Twitter’s name to X, the moniker
for his everything app, is chasing the same
goal – and is likely to face the same chal-
lenges.
In the United States, people are “accus-
tomed to single-service apps, which makes
moving to a multiservice app a bit disori-
enting,” said Dan Prud’homme, an assist-
ant professor of business at Florida Inter-
national University. “To some extent, U.S.
customers don’t like feeling that they are
too beholden to a single firm for their ev-
eryday needs.”
Mr. Musk has been enamoured with an
everything app since at least last year.
Weeks before closing his US$44-billion ac-
quisition of Twitter in October, he tweeted
that his purchase would be “an accelerant
to creating X, the everything app.”
On Monday, he tweeted about Twitter’s
rebranding to X, writing: “In the months to
come, we will add comprehensive commu-
nications and the ability to conduct your
entire financial world. The Twitter name
does not make sense in that context, so we
must bid adieu to the bird.”
Yet Mr. Musk has said little publicly
about what his everything app would look
like, how it would function or why people
would want to use it. In November, Twitter
filed paperwork with the Treasury Depart-
ment’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Net-
work to become a payments processor, and
employees have been building a payments
service.
Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for
comment.
His plan faces many doubters. He has
“taken a wrecking ball to Twitter” and un-
dermined how people use the platform,
said Chris Messina, a tech entrepreneur
and the creator of the hashtag. “It seems as
if he’s going to build a grab bag of different
functions and ram it through the user
base.”
Much of the desire to create an every-
Laurentian: Among the potential bidders, few seem set to buy
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Scotiabank was considered a potential
buyer because its executives have identi-
fied Quebec and British Columbia as
growth opportunities, particularly in
commercial banking, a specialty of Lau-
rentian’s.
But Scotiabank is in the midst of its
own overhaul. Its chief executive officer,
Scott Thomson, who formally took on the
role in February, is conducting a strategic
“refresh” aimed at acquiring more cus-
tomer deposits and retooling the bank’s
operations in Latin America.
Scotiabank has also acknowledged its
dependence on wholesale funding – that
is, raising money in markets to fund lend-
ing activity – which is a costlier source of
capital than core deposits. Laurentian is
in the middle of its own three-year turn-
around plan and has been addressing a
similar funding issue.
On July 11, Laurentian confirmed that it
is “conducting a review of strategic op-
tions” after The Globe reported that the
bank was exploring a sale.
Laurentian launched the process more
than a year ago, according to two of the
sources. Its chief executive officer, Rania
Llewellyn, engaged JP Morgan Chase &
Co. in late spring of 2022 to advise the
bank on potential growth opportunities,
after it posted strong second-quarter re-
sults. Its share price was trading between
$40 and $45, a relatively small discount to
its book value.
JP Morgan’s mandate included scout-
ing for potential acquisitions that could
bolster Laurentian Bank’s retail, commer-
cial and technology platforms, according
to the sources. Laurentian also considered
mergers with mid-sized financial services
rivals, in which the bank would have been
the dominant partner.
JP Morgan’s mandate shifted later in
the year, after Laurentian’s financial re-
sults came in below analysts’ expecta-
tions in the third quarter of 2022. The
bank’s stock sunk, wavering around the
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thing app is rooted in Asia, where such
apps have flourished for more than a dec-
ade. In Japan, people use Line, the coun-
try’s dominant messaging platform, to
store vaccination cards and shop for
clothes. In South Korea, people turn to Ka-
kaoTalk, which started as a messaging ser-
vice, to send money and request taxi rides.
None have been as successful as Ten-
cent’s WeChat, a messaging, social media
and payments app used by more than 1 bil-
lion people, mostly in China. WeChat dom-
inates the mobile internet and is a one-stop
shop to read news, talk with friends, order
pizza or pay the landlord.
Many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have
long considered WeChat the gold standard
for mobile apps. “If you go to China, you see
how much easier everything is, and you
say, ‘I wish I had that for myself,’ ” said Ted
Livingston, the founder of the messaging
platform Kik, which is backed by Tencent.
In November, Mr. Musk was asked at a
companywide meeting at Twitter about his
everything app idea, two people who at-
tended the event said. An employee noted
that there were fundamental differences
between Twitter and Tencent, the people
said. Mr. Musk responded that the ques-
tioner didn’t know what he was talking
about, before asking for the next question.
Mr. Musk has not held back on his pre-
dictions for X. “If done right,” he said in a
recent podcast interview, X could become
“half of the global financial system.”
Linda Yaccarino, Twitter’s CEO, has also
appeared enthusiastic about X.
“X is the future state of unlimited inter-
activity – centred in audio, video, messag-
ing, payments/banking – creating a global
marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and
opportunities,” she tweeted on Sunday.
“Powered by AI, X will connect us all in
ways we’re just beginning to imagine.”
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Laurentian Bank is in the middle of a
three-year turnaround plan. Its leadership
team is conducting a review of the
company’s strategic options, a process the
bank launched more than a year ago.
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$30 mark, or less than 60 per cent of book
value, compared with Laurentian’s histor-
ic average of 90 per cent and the large
Canadian banks’ median of 126 per cent.
At these valuations, it became difficult for
Laurentian to raise capital for acquisi-
tions.
In the months that followed, the valua-
tions of regional lenders such as Lauren-
tian were impacted by the failure of Cali-
fornia’s Silicon Valley Bank and other
mid-tier U.S. lenders.
At this point, two of the sources said,
the Laurentian board asked JP Morgan to
consider all options for increasing share-
holder value, including the sale of the
bank.
Laurentian’s share price jumped above
$40 in mid-July after the bank confirmed
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TC Energy:
Company
to focus on
natural gas
infrastructure
after the split
FROM B1
Calling the plan a “transforma-
tive announcement,” TC Energy
president and chief executive of-
ficer François Poirier said in a
statement that the spinoff “sup-
ports our 2023 priorities by maxi-
mizing the value of our assets.”
“We have determined that as
two separate companies we can
better execute on these distinct
opportunity sets to unlock share-
holder value,” he said.
The plan is for TC Energy to fo-
cus on natural gas infrastructure
after the split. It will morph into
an increasingly utility-weighted
business, and focus on new pow-
er and energy opportunities such
as nuclear and pumped hydro
storage.
The new liquids pipelines
company will focus on increasing
capacity on underutilized por-
tions of TC Energy’s current trans-
port system, and increasing con-
nectivity to more LNG receipt and
delivery points.
We have determined
that as two separate
companies we can
better execute on these
distinct opportunity sets
to unlock shareholder
value.
FRANÇOIS POIRIER
TC ENERGY PRESIDENT AND
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Mr. Poirier said the fact TC En-
ergy’s liquids pipelines are al-
ready highly contracted means
the new entity will start off with
stable, robust cash flows. After
the spinoff, he said, it can use its
financial flexibility to grow.
The announcement comes
with only minor changes of TC
Energy’s top brass.
Mr. Poirier will remain as presi-
dent and CEO of TC Energy and Si-
im A. Vanaselja as chair of the
board. Stan G. Chapman will be-
come executive vice-president
and chief operating officer of nat-
ural gas pipelines, tasked with in-
tegrating TC Energy’s current ge-
ographically dispersed natural
gas business units into a single,
unified pipelines business.
The new liquids pipelines
company will be led by Bevin
Wirzba as president and CEO. It
will be publicly traded, with its
headquarters in Calgary and an
office in Houston. The new enti-
ty’s board will be announced in
the coming months.
it was in the midst of a strategic review.
A takeover of the lender would offer
the purchaser expansion opportunities in
retail and commercial banking in Quebec
and Ontario. Laurentian also operates a
U.S. commercial financing business,
Northpoint Commercial Finance, which
has been its fastest-growing division and
has been the target of previous expres-
sions of interest from acquirers.
But among the pool of potential bid-
ders for Laurentian, few seem set to buy.
In contrast to the Canadian arm of
HSBC Holdings plc, which attracted inter-
est from all the major banks when it went
up for sale this past fall, Laurentian has
relatively few wealthy retail clients and
major corporate relationships – the kinds
of customers other banks covet.
In a report that looked at all possible
bidders, Scotiabank analyst Meny Grau-
man said, “We believe the strategic ratio-
nale for acquiring Laurentian is not very
strong.”
Laurentian Bank’s return on equity –
an industry metric that measures profit-
ability – has been stuck below 10 per cent,
far lower than its competitors. At a time
when share price valuations are already
under pressure, with rising regulatory
scrutiny and narrower profit margins, tak-
ing on a business in need of a revamp is a
tall order.
Royal Bank of Canada is focused on its
proposed $13.5-billion acquisition of
HSBC Canada, making it an unlikely suit-
or. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
is working on building its capital reserves
and has little flexibility to spend money
on acquisitions.
Quebec-based lenders National Bank of
Canada and Desjardins Group could strike
a deal, but National Bank executives have
said they plan to invest in growing their
operations outside of Quebec.
While Bank of Montreal has been grow-
ing its commercial business and U.S. oper-
ations, it is focused on integrating its
US$16.3-billion takeover of California-
based Bank of the West.
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GLOBE INVESTOR
Cut out the middleman in private mortgages
Short-term financing
products now account
for one in 10
Canadian mortgages
ROBERT
McLISTER
OPINION
Robert McLister is an interest rate
analyst, mortgage strategist and
editor of MortgageLogic.news. You
can follow him on Twitter at
@RobMcLister.
T
o say demand for private
mortgages has risen would
be the mortgage under-
statement of 2023. The higher in-
terest rates go, the more desper-
ate some Canadians are to get fi-
nanced or refinanced.
In just 10 quarters through
September, 2022 – the latest na-
tional data from Canada Mort-
gage and Housing Corp. – private
mortgage market share surged 45
per cent. It now accounts for
more than one in 10 Canadian
mortgages.
Private mortgages are short-
term financing products for peo-
ple who can’t qualify for tradi-
tional mortgages. They’re offered
by smaller companies and in-
volve higher rates and fees in ex-
change for more flexibility com-
pared with traditional banks.
These loans are usually pro-
vided by mortgage investment
corporations and individual pri-
vate lenders. Traditional mort-
gage brokers have owned this
market for decades. But that’s
changing, thanks to the internet
and automation.
One company on the van-
guard of that change is Lender-
Bidding. It’s disintermediating
traditional private mortgage
sources and saving private bor-
rowers a wad of money. Here’s
how.
AUTOMATED MORTGAGE BIDDING
Banks, credit unions, trust com-
panies and mortgage finance
companies provide 90 per cent
Looking to minimize inflation on your grocery bill? Try buying seafood
ERICA ALINI
F
ew Canadians would think of
loading their grocery carts
with shellfish in times of
high inflation. But seafood has
seen some of the smallest price
increases over the past several
years.
As of last month, the price of
shrimps and prawns was up just
10 per cent compared with June,
2017, according to Statistics Cana-
da. By contrast, low-cost food like
pasta is more than 30 per cent
pricier than six years ago.
Of course, it’s still cheaper to
eat pasta than prawns. But pasta
fans likely have seen their groce-
ry bills increase – or their pasta
boxes shrink – much more than
seafood aficionados.
Why price hikes have hit mod-
est pantry staples such as macar-
oni, while largely sparing some
fancy delicacies such as crusta-
ceans, is a mystery emblematic of
the trends that have some
experts scratching their heads
over food inflation in general.
Arguably, the most urgent puz-
zle is why the decline in food in-
flation is so stubbornly lagging
the overall Consumer Price Index
(CPI).
While Canada’s annual rate of
inflation fell to 2.8 per cent in
June, the price of food bought in
stores was still 9.1 per cent above
what it was a year earlier.
Food, like gasoline, is a noto-
riously volatile component of the
CPI. Severe weather such as
floods or droughts can cause
sharp, short-term variations in
the prices of certain foods that
make it harder to detect longer-
term inflation trends.
But food inflation matters: It’s
one of the areas where consum-
ers, especially lower-income
households, feel the sting of
higher prices the most. And the
end of sharp price increases at
the grocery store may be key to
restoring Canadians’ expecta-
tions of stable prices.
So why is food inflation still so
high?
There has been much atten-
tion lately on concentration in
the retail grocery industry. A
Lowest nationally available mortgage rates
TERM UNINSURED PROVIDER
1-year
6.59% Alterna Bank
fixed
2-year
6.44% HSBC
fixed
3-year
5.96% Ratehub
fixed
4-year
fixed
5.84% Alterna Bank
5-year
5.69% QuestMortgage
fixed
10-year
5.99% Ratehub
fixed
Variable 6.40% HSBC
5-year
6.10% HSBC
hybrid
HELOC* 7.20% HSBC
HELOC=Home Equity Line Of Credit
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: ROBERT MCLISTER, AS OF JULY 27
of mortgages in this country. But
if you can’t get approved
through them, and you have 20-
per-cent equity or more, private
lenders can be a last resort.
The problem with private
lenders is cost. They sell mainly
one-year interest-only loans, and
in return for looser approval gui-
delines, their rates can be much
more than 300 basis points
above bank rates for uninsured
mortgages.
And then there are the fees.
You’ll typically pay at least 200
bps to the lender and another
150-plus bps to the mortgage
broker to get private financing.
These days, it’s not uncommon
for private borrowers to cough
up four to five percentage points
in total fees. That’s on top of
marked-up closing and legal fees.
LENDERBIDDING IS TRYING TO
CHANGE ALL THAT
It’s an auction platform for pri-
vate mortgages. In exchange for
a 0.99-per-cent fee, it’ll present
your private mortgage applica-
tion to dozens of competing pri-
recent study by the Competition
Bureau of Canada found that
more competition in sector could
lead to lower prices. But high
food inflation is a widespread
problem well beyond Canada’s
borders.
Another possible explanation
is that higher interest rates don’t
affect consumer demand at the
grocery store as much as they
impact other kinds of buying
decisions, says Michael von Mas-
sow, a professor in the depart-
ment of food, agricultural and
resource economics at the Uni-
versity of Guelph.
The Bank of Canada has in-
creased its trendsetting interest
rate from 0.25 per cent to 5 per
cent since March, 2022. Higher
borrowing costs put pressure on
both households and businesses
to trim spending.
But when it comes to consum-
ers, “you can put off the purchase
of a new TV or a new computer or
a lot of things,” Dr. von Massow
said, but “you can’t put off the
purchase of food.”
Another question is how much
of the current bout of food infla-
tion can be chalked up to supply.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a
war that affects two of the world’s
major suppliers of wheat, has
contributed to higher food prices
globally.
It also created knock-on ef-
fects, with countries such as India
and Malaysia limiting their own
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L
costs and value are two different
things.
Brokers can and do add value
INSURED PROVIDER
in complex transactions – such
as non-prime lending, in which
6.39% QuestMortgage there are underwriting excep-
tions and pitfalls galore.
Unlike regular brokers, Lend-
6.09% QuestMortgage
erBidding sticks mainly to mort-
gage investment corporations. It
doesn’t deal with all the biggest
5.74% Nesto
institutional non-prime lenders
(which offer lower costs, assum-
5.49% QuestMortgage ing you qualify) and hard-money
individual private lenders
(which often offer more flexibil-
5.14% Nesto
ity than MICs). But the company
says it’s working to ramp up its
5.99% Ratehub ability to recommend such lend-
ers in cases where they’re more
suited to the borrower.
5.95% Nesto
“Private or MIC lenders are al-
ways a last resort,” Mr. Geall says.
6.31% Scotia eHOME “You don’t want to be stuck with
a private forever because, at that
N/A N/A point, you’re just burning
through equity. Eventually, the
music stops, and no chairs are
left for the borrower.”
That’s why, if you get turned
down by a mainstream lender
vate lenders, mostly mortgage and want to try an online provid-
investment corporations. er, the best bet is to shop a regu-
The borrower remains anony- lar mortgage broker for a second
mous to lenders, and within opinion.
hours, those lenders bid on the Focus on brokers who special-
mortgage. LenderBidding then ize in private financing, have
helps you choose between their years of experience and have a
bids, and your lawyer closes the favourable Better Business Bu-
mortgage. reau rating and/or solid online
There are no fees to the bor- reviews.
rower unless and until the mort- Non-prime lending is a differ-
gage closes, all lenders are licens- ent animal than your vanilla
ed and vetted, and on average, bank mortgage, so you don’t
borrowers get around seven to want a greenhorn working on
eight bids an application. your application.
The entire transaction hap- And no matter how good a
pens online, but borrowers can deal you get on a private mort-
call or message non-commis- gage, get one only if you’ve got
sioned LenderBidding agents for an exit strategy. That means hav-
help. ing a plan to remediate your
“Brokers don’t like us because credit, improve your income sit-
we’re charging less and offer uation or reduce your debt load.
something they don’t have,” Because, with effective borrow-
LenderBidding chief executive ing costs near or above the dou-
officer and co-founder Jason ble digits, privates should never
Geall says. “Our goal is to cut the be more than a six- to 24-month
middleman out.” solution.
All that said, LenderBidding is
shaking up a space that needed a
ONE DOWNSIDE OF THAT
shakeup. The online disinterme-
Middlemen and middlewomen diation of the mortgage market
can certainly inflate costs. But continues.
The food price gap: food Consumer Price Index
minus all-items CPI
Monthly index readings. The gap is a measure of the cumulative difference in
inflation for food versus overall prices
25
20
15
10
5
0
2005 2010
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA; PROFESSOR JAMES
VERCAMMEN
ISTOCK/GETTY IMAGES
exports of certain agricultural
Food, like gasoline, goods to protect domestic con-
sumers from food inflation, Dr.
is a notoriously von Massow said.
volatile component In Canada, grocery shoppers
of the CPI. Severe will probably enjoy a brief
weather such as reprieve from food inflation in
the summer and the fall, as local-
floods or droughts ly grown produce hits the super-
can cause sharp, market shelves, he said. However,
short-term variations Russia’s recent withdrawal from
a deal that let Ukraine ship grain
in the prices of exports through the Black Sea
certain foods that likely spells further price
make it harder to increases, he added.
detect longer-term But a deeper look at the data
shows that food inflation has out-
inflation trends. stripped overall inflation in Can-
ada for the past 20 years. The gap
between food CPI and the com-
prehensive measure of CPI
opened up around 2006 and
2007, a period that saw a price
boom for a variety of agricultural
commodities, from cereals to oil-
seed.
What British magazine The
Economist dubbed “the end of
cheap food” has been attributed
to rising food demand from in-
creasingly richer consumers in
Asia, as well as high oil and fertil-
izer prices, among other factors.
Curiously, though, the food
price gap kept getting gradually
wider in the decade that fol-
lowed. The trend persisted
despite fluctuations in agricultu-
ral commodity prices, said James
Vercammen, a professor of food
economics at the University of
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MORTGAGE RATES STAY LOFTY
AS THE ECONOMY KEEPS
DEFYING CENTRAL BANKS
The mortgage market always has
its eyes on the five-year govern-
ment bond yield, which guides
fixed rates. That yield zoomed to
a new high since the global fi-
nancial crisis on Thursday.
The catalyst was U.S. rates.
They rocketed higher as infla-
tion-unfriendly data raised the
prospect of another Federal Re-
serve interest-rate hike in Sep-
tember.
We haven’t seen fixed and var-
iable mortgage rates this high in
more than two decades. That’s
widening cracks in the Canadian
economy as more and more bor-
rowers run out of credit and sav-
ings.
Insolvency risk and depleted
discretionary income are precise-
ly why the Bank of Canada can’t
afford much more interest-rate
tightening.
In the mortgage rate depart-
ment, leading insured and unin-
sured five-year fixed rates rose 10
bps this week. The lowest nation-
ally available insured variable
climbed five bps. Apart from
that, it was a quiet week among
the rate leaders.
Next week may not be so
quiet, given the new highs in
government bond yields. The
Canadian bond market is mak-
ing its demands clear.
Investors want the Bank of
Canada and the Fed to provide a
clear bias toward pausing before
they’ll give us meaningful rate
improvement.
Rates were sourced from the
MortgageLogic.news Canadian
Mortgage Rate Survey on
Thursday. Only providers
advertising rates online and
lending in at least nine provinces
are included. Insured rates apply to
those buying with less than a
20-per-cent down payment or
switching a pre-existing insured
mortgage to a new lender.
Uninsured rates apply to refinances
and purchases over $1-million and
may include applicable lender rate
premiums. For providers whose
rates vary by province, their
highest rate is shown.
2015 2020
British Columbia.
The past few years have seen
another sharp widening in the
gap, starting with the run-up in
food prices during the pandemic,
a trend that’s also on display in
U.S., Europe and as far away as
Australia, according to Prof. Ver-
cammen.
What’s behind it is still “a bit of
a mystery,” he said.
Among the factors Prof. Ver-
cammen points to are increasing-
ly complex food supply chains,
which may have led to a domino
of higher costs during the pan-
demic being passed on to con-
sumers.
The pricing power of food
manufacturing giants may also
be linked to steep food cost
increases, he said.
What happened with the price
of shrimp and prawns points in
that direction as well. Inflation
for seafood, in general, has been
remarkably tame over the past 20
years. It lagged overall inflation
for most of the period between
2000 and 2015 and has staged
only a modest acceleration since
then.
Seafood doesn’t require much
processing, which means simpler
supply chains. And production
and distribution isn’t dominated
by large multinationals, Prof. Ver-
cammen said.
“It tends to be smaller firms
that are managing it rather than
big guys.”
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Stocks lower
as Japan
jolts credit
markets
U.S. and Canadian stocks ended
lower on Thursday after news
that the Bank of Japan will allow
long-term interest rates to rise
sent bond yields higher, snapping
the longest winning streak for the
Dow since 1987.
The Nikkei newspaper report-
ed the central bank will maintain
its 0.5-per-cent cap for the 10-year
government bond yield, but dis-
cuss allowing long-term interest
rates to rise above that level by a
certain degree. Higher rates in
Japan – which would increase the
appeal of the country’s debt to
investors relative to other devel-
oped nations – pushed the U.S. 10-
year yield over 4 per cent and
reduced the attractiveness of
stocks.
Canadian stock and credit mar-
kets largely tracked U.S. moves,
which included sharp gains in
bond yields across the curve. The
five-year Canadian government
A display shows stock indexes after a COVID-19 outbreak in Shanghai, China, in October, 2022. Refinitiv data show China-focused mutual bond yield – key to the setting of
funds suffered a net outflow of US$674-million in the second quarter of this year. ALY SONG/REUTERS fixed mortgage rates of that ten-
ure, as well as guaranteed invest-
ment certificates – reached 4.058
per cent, its highest in 16 years.

Investors bypass China, turn to That was up more than 17 basis

points – a large move for one day
in the bond market.

other emerging markets instead “This important yield has rock-

Analysis shows a bump in
the assets of emerging market
mutual funds and ETFs
that exclude the country
SUMMER ZHEN
PATTURAJA MURUGABOOPATHY
Global investors are increasingly choosing
to bypass China’s markets in favour of oth-
er emerging countries that are either gain-
ing from the geopolitical and growth risks
stalking the world’s second-biggest econo-
my or are far removed from them.
Reuters analysis shows a massive jump
in the assets of emerging market (EM) mu-
tual funds and exchange-traded funds
(ETFs) that exclude China as U.S. and
European investors turn more wary of
being exposed to the Asian giant.
Investor aversion to China has intensi-
fied this year following a faltering post-
COVID economic rebound, disappoint-
ment over the absence of robust policy
response and renewed Sino-U.S. tensions
over trade, tech and geopolitics.
Some of the money is being diverted
into markets directly benefiting from Chi-
na’s economic pain such as Mexico, India,
Vietnam and other locations that are
replacing it across global manufacturing
supply chains. Other investors are simply
moving to markets with better growth pro-
spects such as Brazil.
“China’s export dominance is ebbing,
creating opportunities for other emerging
market countries to fill the gap, including
Mexico, India, and Southeast Asian
nations,” said Malcolm Dorson, a New
York-based senior portfolio manager at
ETF manager Global X.
The scale of change needed in global
supply chains could drive such capital
flows for the next decade, he said.
Refinitiv data show China-focused mu-
tual funds suffered a net outflow of
US$674-million in the second quarter of
this year, while, in contrast, nearly US$1-
billion went into EM ex-China mutual
funds.
The iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ex-
China ETF, the world’s largest emerging
market ex-China ETF whose biggest hold-
ings are firms in Taiwan, South Korea and
India, attracted a record US$1-billion net
inflow in the first half of 2023, the data
showed.
With China comprising nearly a third of
the EM MSCI index, such ETFs and funds
also offer alternatives to tracking that
index.
“China is the one major country that
investors are most concerned about in
EM,” said John Lau, portfolio manager for
Asia Pacific and emerging market equities
at SEI.
The favourable growth and valuations
in Latin American markets, the tech-dri-
ven tailwinds for companies in South Ko-
rea and Taiwan, and the supply chain
changes were offering investors better
opportunities than China, he said.
Data from Goldman Sachs showed that
as of mid-July, foreign buying of emerging
market Asia ex-China equities amounted
to US$39-billion over 12 months, the first
time since 2017 that this buying exceeded
inflows into mainland Chinese equities via
the Stock Connect scheme.
The size of the Top 10 China-focused
mutual funds tracked by Morningstar has
slumped over 40 per cent from its peak in
2021.
The well-known UBS China Opportuni-
ty Equity Fund saw assets shrink to $4.5-bil-
lion by the end of June, a fourth of levels in
January, 2021.
Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC’s
CIO Jeffrey Jaensubhakij said it has “incre-
mentally” moved its capital to sectors and
countries benefiting from shifts in the
global supply chain and most of it “has
been basically out of China into countries
such as Mexico, India, Indonesia and Viet-
nam.”
Fund managers and advisers are strug-
gling to attract investment into China-
focused products.
“In the last six to 12 months, there have
been almost no queries for a China-
focused mandate,” said Benjamin Low, a
senior investment director at Boston-
based advisory firm Cambridge Associates.
Some of his clients are instead looking at
ex-China exposures within Asia such as
Japan, he said.
China’s CSI 300 Index is flat for the year,
whereas Japan’s Nikkei Index is up 25 per
cent and the S&P 500 nearly 19 per cent.
Investors who had turned shy since the
Donald Trump administration barred U.S.
investments into Chinese military compa-
nies have become more so after President
Joe Biden’s government expanded the
banned list to include sectors such as chips
and quantum computing.
While many of those restrictions apply
to exports and venture capital, portfolio in-
vestors are wary of running afoul of invest-
ment limits or being caught in sanctions.
“The situation is even worse than last
year when investors still had something
[i.e. reopening] to look forward to,” said a
business development manager at a Hong
Kong-based hedge fund, who is not autho-
rized to talk to media.
The fund has managed to make profits
in a challenging market in the first half,
and yet has been struggling to raise new
money from foreign investors in the past
few months, he said.
China’s pledge this week to step up stim-
ulus measures to shore up the economy
provides some hope for investors, but it’s
too early to say what impact it could have
on foreign money inflows.
REUTERS
eted up by more than 100 basis
points just since early May, with
the Bank of Canada kicking back
into tightening gear, and the eco-
nomic news generally stronger
than expected,” Douglas Porter,
Bank of Montreal’s chief econo-
mist, said in a note.
“The back-up in five-year
yields, along with recent BoC rate
hikes, will throw a wet blanket on
the nascent recovery in home
sales and prices,” he added.
On Thursday, a Commerce
Department report showed the
U.S. economy grew faster than
expected in the latest quarter,
with an advance gross domestic
product reading of 2.4 per cent,
above the 1.8 per cent forecast by
economists polled by Reuters.
Kim Rupert, managing director
of global fixed income at Action
Economics in San Francisco, said
the strong economic data earlier
in the day also made the market
reassess its positioning after the
Federal Reserve slightly upgraded
its growth outlook on Wednes-
day.
“The markets are looking at
the increased potential for anoth-
er Fed rate hike that had largely
been priced out. Now it’s being
priced back in,” said Ms. Rupert,
who expects a Fed rate hike in
September.
The S&P/TSX Composite In-
dex ended down 176.17 points, or
0.9 per cent, at 20,385.47, its big-
gest decline since July 6.
“I don’t think that [it] is any
reason to panic. If this pullback
[in stocks] were to persist for a lit-
tle while I think it would be a buy-
ing opportunity,” said Allan
Small, senior investment advisor
of the Allan Small Financial
Group with iA Private Wealth.
REUTERS, GLOBE STAFF

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Ltd.’s $395-million acquisition of
MacKellar Group, an Australia-
based provider of heavy equip-
ment earthwork solutions to the
mining and civil sectors.
“Solid asset at attractive valu-
ation materially increases foot-
print in Australia,” summed up
National Bank analyst Maxim
Sytchev. The acquisition will add
40-per-cent to 50-per-cent incre-
mental revenue, EBITDA and EPS
to the Street’s 2024 estimates for
the company, he said.
Target: National Bank raised its
price target to $42 from $33. The
average price target is $33.60.
Analysts’ reaction to the latest
earnings from Aecon Group
Inc.? Yuck.
“EBITDA fell 57 per cent year-
over-year to $17-million, materi-
ally below our $52-million esti-
mate and the FactSet consensus
of $55-million,” pointed out
Canaccord analyst Yuri Lynk,
noting that costs for some key
projects were revised higher by
the engineering firm.
“ARE’s Q2/23 results once
again highlighted the [very
sticky] tail risks created by prob-
lematic large-scale projects,” said
National Bank Financial analyst
Maxim Sytchev.
Targets: The average analyst
price target is $15.83, down from
$16 a month ago.
The market overreacted Wednes-
day to CGI Inc. earnings, given
that the IT consulting company
still has strong bookings, said
Desjardins Securities analyst
Jerome Dubreuil.
CGI shares fell nearly 5 per
cent after the firm said its orga-
nic growth was 5 per cent in its
fiscal third quarter, slowing from
9-per-cent growth a quarter ear-
lier.
“While clients’ assessment of
AI and macro uncertainty could
lead to softer near-term demand
in the IT market, we believe CGI’s
focus on Return on Investment-
generating solutions and strong
exposure to the government ver-
tical … will help bridge over the
near-term uncertainty,” Mr.
Dubreuil said.
Target: The analyst reiterated a
“buy” rating but trimmed his
price target by $1 to $154. The
average target is $148.69.
Several analysts nudged up their
price targets on Loblaw Compa-
nies Ltd. after the grocer report-
ed quarterly results that pointed
to continued earnings per share
growth throughout this year.
One who didn’t was Desjar-
dins Securities analyst Chris Li,
who urged investors to be cau-
tious.
“While L is well-positioned to
capitalize on current industry
trends, we believe slowing food
inflation, tougher comparisons
in the second half of the year and
potential for sector rotation
would limit valuation expan-
sion,” Mr. Li said.
Target: Mr. Li has a $133 price
target and “hold” rating on the
stock. The average analyst price
target is $141.22, up from $140.72
a month ago.
At least 22 analysts raised their
price target on Meta Platforms
Inc. in the wake of the compa-
ny’s quarterly earnings report
late Wednesday – and most were
quite hefty.
RBC analyst Brad Erickson
said structural ad platform im-
provements are being seen at a
time when year-over-year com-
parisons are more favourable
and business strength is being
seen in China and at e-com-
merce and gaming products.
“On top of a slight Q2 revenue
beat, META guided Q3 nearly 7
per cent ahead of Street at the
midpoint,” he noted.
Target: RBC’s target went to
US$400 from US$330. The aver-
age analyst target is now
US$338.25, up from US$283.12 a
month ago.
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TSX INDEXES AND SUB INDEXES TSX VOLUME TSX 52-WEEK HIGHS
TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE STOCKS $1 OR MORE

CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
TSX COMPOSITE IND 20385.47 -176.17 -0.86 200253 5.16 CVE CENOVUS ENERG 24.46 0.65 2.73 9086 -6.89 DRX ADF GROUP INC 4.30 0.10 2.38 36 104.76 FM FIRST QUANTUM 37.49 0.66 1.79 3001 32.52
TSX 60 INDEX 1224.08 -9.21 -0.75 104765 4.72 TRP TC ENERGY COR 47.30 -1.64 -3.35 8517 -12.37 BLN BLACKLINE SAF 3.80 0.03 0.80 35 109.94 GWO GREAT-WEST LI 40.33 0.19 0.47 432 28.85
TSX COMPLETION IN 1218.67 -16.33 -1.32 95487 7.03 CPG CRESCENT POIN 10.30 -0.45 -4.19 6495 6.63 LCS BROMPTON LIFE 6.42 -0.04 -0.62 22 44.92 GCTB GUARDIAN ULT 50.12 0.00 0.00 9 0.16
TSX SMALLCAP INDE 700.47 -13.29 -1.86 87741 1.88 RY ROYAL BANK OF 130.16 -0.01 -0.01 6247 2.25 DOO BRP INC 119.31 -0.69 -0.58 248 15.58 GUTB-U GUARDIAN U 50.13 0.01 0.02 2 0.18
TSX VENTURE COMPO 611.57 -8.68 -1.40 19398 7.24 MFC MANULIFE FIN 26.30 0.07 0.27 5325 8.90 CCO CAMECO CORP 43.67 -0.86 -1.93 923 42.29 HPS-A HAMMOND POW 56.50 -1.57 -2.70 46 180.82
TSX CONSUMER DISC 279.55 -1.71 -0.61 5211 10.92 BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 4.87 -0.01 -0.20 4900 -19.90 CTC-A CANADIAN TI 185.29 -2.76 -1.47 193 30.95 IVN IVANHOE MINES 13.51 0.13 0.97 2985 26.26
TSX CONSUMER STAP 820.04 -2.20 -0.27 2836 -0.37 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 39.78 -0.36 -0.90 4739 -7.38 CLS CELESTICA INC 23.77 2.02 9.29 1471 55.77 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 23.35 -0.44 -1.85 1672 23.87
TSX ENERGY CAPPED 239.34 -1.49 -0.62 53408 -1.51 ATH ATHABASCA OIL 3.32 -0.17 -4.87 4455 37.76 GCL COLABOR GROUP 1.01 0.00 0.00 85 36.49 NOA NORTH AMERICA 32.90 8.00 32.13 455 81.97
TSX FINANCIALS CA 366.93 -1.06 -0.29 33022 4.24 TLRY TILRAY INC 2.82 0.27 10.59 4222 -23.16 CVO COVEO SOLUTIO 10.95 0.09 0.83 174 20.59 ONEX ONEX CORP 80.15 -0.23 -0.29 130 22.76
TSX HEALTH CARE C 22.50 0.33 1.49 5011 15.86 CNQ CANADIAN NATU 78.34 -0.81 -1.02 4042 4.19 CARE DIALOGUE HEA 5.08 -0.01 -0.20 437 118.97 PKI PARKLAND FUEL 36.53 -0.30 -0.81 348 22.96
TSX INDUSTRIALS C 412.47 -3.08 -0.74 11122 8.14 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 85.90 -0.10 -0.12 4040 -2.02 DHT-UN DRI HEALTH 12.13 0.23 1.93 58 53.74 RUS RUSSEL METALS 38.36 -0.40 -1.03 137 33.29
TSX INFORMATION T 186.78 -1.03 -0.55 13814 36.94 SHOP SHOPIFY INC 84.66 -0.74 -0.87 4036 80.09 EQB EQB INC 77.08 0.70 0.92 57 35.87 TOT TOTAL ENERGY 9.96 0.34 3.53 90 15.68
TSX MATERIALS CAP 337.52 -6.24 -1.82 35629 3.00 TVE TAMARACK VALL 3.48 -0.18 -4.92 3671 -21.97 EFX ENERFLEX LTD 10.35 -0.05 -0.48 453 21.19 UNS UNI SELECT IN 47.88 0.81 1.72 1716 11.76
TSX REAL ESTATE C 308.10 -7.26 -2.30 7692 2.40 HNU BETAPRO NAT G 14.45 -0.96 -6.23 3361 -82.58 FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 1045.54 18.90 1.84 20 30.36
TSX GLOBAL GOLD I 279.87 -9.61 -3.32 51736 0.84 CM CANADIAN IMPER 57.53 -0.08 -0.14 3352 5.04
TSX GLOBAL MINING 109.88 -2.34 -2.09 132926 1.15 RCI-B ROGERS COMM 57.48 -3.34 -5.49 3306 -9.29
TSX INCOME TRUST 217.95 -3.80 -1.71 6051 4.70 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 48.65 -0.68 -1.38 3208 -8.07
TSX PREFERRED SHA 530.64 -0.45 -0.08 1480 -2.52 BMO BANK OF MONTR 121.60 -1.81 -1.47 3147 -0.86
TSX COMMUNICATION 174.84 -3.66 -2.05 8216 -6.03 GLO GLOBAL ATOMIC 2.07 -0.61 -22.76 3097 -41.03 TSX 52-WEEK LOWS
TSX UTILITIES CAP 301.48 -3.31 -1.09 10654 2.14 FM FIRST QUANTUM 37.49 0.66 1.79 3001 32.52 STOCKS $1 OR MORE

CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD

CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
AND ANDLAUER HEAL 42.70 -1.05 -2.40 11 -9.82 NB NIOCORP DEVELO 5.81 -0.27 -4.44 14 -41.90
TSX GAINERS TSX LOSERS APS APTOSE BIOSCI 5.20 -0.14 -2.62 1 -55.56 PGI-UN PIMCO GLOB 6.99 0.00 0.00 6 -5.80
TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 37.83 -0.93 -2.40 264 -10.74 SAP SAPUTO INC 27.51 -0.15 -0.54 569 -17.93
ACO-Y ATCO LTD CL 38.50 -0.50 -1.28 N-A -4.82 SOT-UN SLATE OFFI 1.89 -0.03 -1.56 103 -56.25
CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD GLO GLOBAL ATOMIC 2.07 -0.61 -22.76 3097 -41.03 SDE SPARTAN DELTA 4.27 -0.12 -2.73 497 -71.44
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG AUMN GOLDEN MINER 1.74 0.07 4.19 11 -80.93 SVI STORAGEVAULT 4.95 -0.51 -9.34 1653 -17.77
INE-PR-C INNERGEX 19.25 0.15 0.79 N-A -8.51 TRP TC ENERGY COR 47.30 -1.64 -3.35 8517 -12.37
NOA NORTH AMERICA 32.90 8.00 32.13 455 81.97 GLO GLOBAL ATOMIC 2.07 -0.61 -22.76 3097 -41.03
JAG JAGUAR MINING 1.60 -0.05 -3.03 42 -40.74 TIXT TELUS INTERN 12.47 -0.37 -2.88 230 -53.35
WFS WORLD FINANCI 1.40 0.27 23.89 1 -23.91 ARE AECON GROUP I 10.44 -2.01 -16.14 2241 14.60
NPK VERDE AGRITEC 3.34 0.60 21.90 604 -32.53 NGD NEW GOLD INC 1.43 -0.21 -12.80 2085 7.52
TLRY TILRAY INC 2.82 0.27 10.59 4222 -23.16 MUX MCEWEN MINING 10.86 -1.13 -9.42 26 36.43
CLS CELESTICA INC 23.77 2.02 9.29 1471 55.77 SVI STORAGEVAULT 4.95 -0.51 -9.34 1653 -17.77
PD PRECISION DRIL 83.70 5.51 7.05 187 -19.29 III IMPERIAL META 2.41 -0.24 -9.06 42 33.15
HZD BETAPRO SILVE 14.14 0.92 6.96 73 -6.11 EDR ENDEAVOUR SIL 4.36 -0.42 -8.79 338 -0.46
HGD BETAPRO CDN G 6.26 0.38 6.46 212 2.79 DTOL D2L INC 8.67 -0.83 -8.74 7 33.80
HND BETAPRO NAT G 55.25 3.19 6.13 291 89.21 AYA AYA GOLD AND 8.08 -0.69 -7.87 249 -10.42
IDG INDIGO BOOKS 1.73 0.10 6.13 N-A -11.28 SIL SILVERCREST M 6.99 -0.57 -7.54 463 -13.70
HUV BETAPRO SP500 16.87 0.78 4.85 74 -57.97 MAG MAG SILVER CO 15.16 -1.22 -7.45 409 -28.32
THNC THINKIFIC LA 1.95 0.09 4.84 10 3.72 HUT HUT 8 MINING 4.37 -0.34 -7.22 2779 276.72
BRAG BRAGG GAMING 6.45 0.29 4.71 117 22.86 HBKD BETAPRO EQL 19.74 -1.53 -7.19 N-A -8.61
CVE-PR-B CENOVUS 15.75 0.70 4.65 11 5.00 FR FIRST MAJESTIC 8.33 -0.64 -7.13 776 -26.15
DLCG DOMINION LEN 2.32 0.10 4.50 1 -27.50 NUAG NEW PACIFIC 3.09 -0.23 -6.93 50 3.00
MXG MAXIM POWER C 4.89 0.21 4.49 9 43.82 SVM SILVERCORP ME 3.90 -0.29 -6.92 204 -2.01
CVG CLAIRVEST GRO 85.94 3.60 4.37 N-A 18.87 HZU BETAPRO SILVE 22.09 -1.62 -6.83 60 -6.95
AUMN GOLDEN MINER 1.74 0.07 4.19 11 -80.93 CFX CANFOR PULP P 2.10 -0.15 -6.67 78 -49.28
AMC ARIZONA METAL 3.04 0.12 4.11 190 -29.47 CIGI COLLIERS INT 132.59 -9.44 -6.65 194 6.60
GH GAMEHOST INC 9.41 0.36 3.98 14 15.32 IMG IAMGOLD CORP 3.44 -0.24 -6.52 806 -0.86

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
AAV ADVANTAGE OIL 9.20 0.00 0.00 308 -2.85 CCA COGECO COMMUN 66.00 -0.35 -0.53 73 -14.05 REI-UN RIOCAN REA 20.07 -0.21 -1.04 550 -5.02
AOI AFRICA OIL CO 3.03 0.00 0.00 399 21.69 CIGI COLLIERS INT 132.59 -9.44 -6.65 194 6.60 JWEL JAMIESON WEL 30.05 0.36 1.21 74 -14.36 RCI-B ROGERS COMM 57.48 -3.34 -5.49 3306 -9.29
AEM AGNICO EAGLE 66.94 -1.95 -2.83 1210 -4.86 CSU CONSTELLATION 2748.26 -20.58 -0.74 19 30.01 RY ROYAL BANK OF 130.16 -0.01 -0.01 6247 2.25
AC AIR CANADA 23.95 -0.61 -2.48 2495 23.52 CPG CRESCENT POIN 10.30 -0.45 -4.19 6495 6.63 KNT K92 MINING IN 5.91 -0.27 -4.37 534 -22.95 RUS RUSSEL METALS 38.36 -0.40 -1.03 137 33.29
AGI ALAMOS GOLD I 15.63 -0.53 -3.28 624 14.17 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE 14.06 -0.21 -1.47 230 -11.35 KEY KEYERA CORP 32.47 -0.09 -0.28 690 9.73
ASTL ALGOMA STEEL 9.44 -0.16 -1.67 59 10.41 KMP-UN KILLAM APA 18.02 -0.25 -1.37 171 11.17 SSL SANDSTORM GOL 6.95 -0.36 -4.92 386 -2.39
AQN ALGONQUIN POW 10.81 -0.15 -1.37 1607 22.56 DFY DEFINITY FINA 35.03 -0.88 -2.45 75 -8.97 KXS KINAXIS INC 175.03 -5.13 -2.85 59 15.22 SAP SAPUTO INC 27.51 -0.15 -0.54 569 -17.93
ATD ALIMENTATION 66.95 -0.20 -0.30 531 12.52 DML DENISON MINES 1.59 -0.08 -4.79 1380 2.58 K KINROSS GOLD CO 6.31 -0.20 -3.07 2282 14.31 SEA SEABRIDGE GOL 15.93 -1.10 -6.46 69 -6.29
AP-UN ALLIED PROP 21.65 -0.77 -3.43 828 -15.43 DSG DESCARTES SYS 101.31 -1.74 -1.69 78 7.33 SES SECURE ENERGY 6.52 -0.24 -3.55 818 -7.25
ALA ALTAGAS LTD 24.89 0.01 0.04 612 6.46 DOL DOLLARAMA INC 87.52 -1.86 -2.08 789 10.52 LIF LABRADOR IRON 31.38 -0.41 -1.29 89 -6.55 SHOP SHOPIFY INC 84.66 -0.74 -0.87 4036 80.09
AIF ALTUS GROUP L 43.49 -0.29 -0.66 170 -19.52 DIR-UN DREAM INDU 14.14 -0.26 -1.81 328 20.96 LB LAURENTIAN BAN 43.67 -0.08 -0.18 216 35.20 SIA SIENNA SENIOR 11.54 -0.24 -2.04 240 5.87
ARX ARC RESOURCES 19.54 -0.08 -0.41 1994 7.07 DPM DUNDEE PRECIO 8.86 -0.58 -6.14 524 36.10 LSPD LIGHTSPEED C 22.23 -0.32 -1.42 552 14.88 SIL SILVERCREST M 6.99 -0.57 -7.54 463 -13.70
ATZ ARITZIA INC 24.87 -0.92 -3.57 694 -47.48 DND DYE & DURHAM 19.14 0.53 2.85 89 16.64 LNR LINAMAR CORP 75.64 -0.52 -0.68 110 23.39 ZZZ SLEEP COUNTRY 28.58 -0.19 -0.66 16 24.37
ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 37.83 -0.93 -2.40 264 -10.74 LAC LITHIUM AMERI 25.27 -0.49 -1.90 331 -1.56 SRU-UN SMARTCENTR 24.96 -0.26 -1.03 164 -6.80
ATH ATHABASCA OIL 3.32 -0.17 -4.87 4455 37.76 EQB EQB INC 77.08 0.70 0.92 57 35.87 L LOBLAW CO 116.69 -0.13 -0.11 392 -2.53 SNC SNC-LAVALIN S 37.93 -0.07 -0.18 260 58.97
ATS ATS CORP 59.09 -1.29 -2.14 147 40.39 ELD ELDORADO GOLD 13.42 -0.90 -6.28 324 18.87 LUG LUNDIN GOLD I 17.30 -1.08 -5.88 178 30.76 SDE SPARTAN DELTA 4.27 -0.12 -2.73 497 -71.44
EFN ELEMENT FLEET 21.26 -0.12 -0.56 414 15.23 LUN LUNDIN MINING 11.60 0.01 0.09 1294 39.59 TOY SPIN MASTER C 33.32 -0.72 -2.12 49 0.00
BTO B2GOLD CORP 4.61 -0.18 -3.76 2812 -4.16 EMA EMERA INCORPO 54.67 -0.73 -1.32 2413 5.64 SII SPROTT INC 42.42 -0.03 -0.07 21 -5.82
BCE BCE INC 57.10 -0.42 -0.73 1582 -4.02 EMP-A EMPIRE COMP 36.01 -0.20 -0.55 318 0.98 MAG MAG SILVER CO 15.16 -1.22 -7.45 409 -28.32 SSRM SSR MINING I 18.75 -0.73 -3.75 348 -11.51
BDGI BADGER INFRA 31.30 0.30 0.97 43 17.40 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 48.65 -0.68 -1.38 3208 -8.07 MG MAGNA INTERNAT 83.58 0.62 0.75 458 9.89 STN STANTEC INC 88.61 -0.11 -0.12 174 36.58
BLDP BALLARD POWE 5.88 -0.16 -2.65 541 -9.26 EDR ENDEAVOUR SIL 4.36 -0.42 -8.79 338 -0.46 MFC MANULIFE FIN 26.30 0.07 0.27 5325 8.90 STLC STELCO HOLDI 46.18 0.12 0.26 66 4.27
BMO BANK OF MONTR 121.60 -1.81 -1.47 3147 -0.86 EFR ENERGY FUELS 7.77 -0.24 -3.00 186 -7.28 MFI MAPLE LEAF FO 27.12 -0.15 -0.55 127 10.92 SJ STELLA JONES I 66.91 -1.50 -2.19 129 37.90
BNS BANK OF NOVA 65.81 0.10 0.15 2187 -0.80 ERF ENERPLUS CORP 21.31 -0.20 -0.93 295 -10.84 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 23.35 -0.44 -1.85 1672 23.87 SVI STORAGEVAULT 4.95 -0.51 -9.34 1653 -17.77
ABX BARRICK GOLD 22.21 -0.55 -2.42 2604 -4.31 ENGH ENGHOUSE SYS 30.22 -0.16 -0.53 32 -15.99 MX METHANEX CORP 55.73 -2.35 -4.05 191 8.72 SLF SUN LIFE FINA 69.48 -0.15 -0.22 1507 10.55
BHC BAUSCH HEALTH 12.35 -0.15 -1.20 244 45.29 EQX EQUINOX GOLD 6.40 -0.38 -5.60 683 44.47 MRU METRO INC 72.05 -0.30 -0.41 446 -3.89 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 39.78 -0.36 -0.90 4739 -7.38
BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 4.87 -0.01 -0.20 4900 -19.90 ERO ERO COPPER CO 30.00 0.15 0.50 282 60.94 MTY MTY FOOD GROU 67.58 -0.02 -0.03 28 18.42 SPB SUPERIOR PLUS 9.79 -0.16 -1.61 535 -12.82
BIR BIRCHCLIFF EN 7.62 -0.06 -0.78 708 -19.19 EIF EXCHANGE INCO 51.39 -0.33 -0.64 81 -2.36 MTL MULLEN GROUP 15.68 -0.13 -0.82 102 7.77
BB BLACKBERRY LTD 6.13 -0.04 -0.65 639 39.00 TVE TAMARACK VALL 3.48 -0.18 -4.92 3671 -21.97
BEI-UN BOARDWALK 66.46 -2.30 -3.34 82 34.45 FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 1045.54 18.90 1.84 20 30.36 NA NATIONAL BANK 102.45 0.05 0.05 954 12.30 TRP TC ENERGY COR 47.30 -1.64 -3.35 8517 -12.37
BBD-B BOMBARDIER 62.50 -0.16 -0.26 693 19.57 FIL FILO MINING C 23.86 -0.75 -3.05 97 2.67 NXE NEXGEN ENERGY 6.06 -0.13 -2.10 1457 1.17 TECK-B TECK RESOU 55.81 0.14 0.25 1136 9.07
BLX BORALEX INC 35.05 -0.02 -0.06 516 -12.42 FTT FINNING INTL 44.16 -0.34 -0.76 484 31.19 NPI NORTHLAND POW 26.30 -0.44 -1.65 572 -29.17 T TELUS CORP 23.88 -0.21 -0.87 2822 -8.61
BYD BOYD GROUP SE 240.75 -0.13 -0.05 44 15.10 FCR-UN FIRST CAPI 14.84 -0.31 -2.05 244 -11.72 NWH-UN NORTHWEST 7.15 -0.04 -0.56 1156 -24.74 TIXT TELUS INTERN 12.47 -0.37 -2.88 230 -53.35
BAM BROOKFIELD AS 44.44 -0.64 -1.42 461 14.62 FR FIRST MAJESTIC 8.33 -0.64 -7.13 776 -26.15 NG NOVAGOLD RES I 5.65 -0.26 -4.40 119 -30.16 TFII TFI INTERNAT 166.00 -3.57 -2.11 279 22.41
BBU-UN BROOKFIELD 22.81 -0.48 -2.06 63 -0.35 FM FIRST QUANTUM 37.49 0.66 1.79 3001 32.52 NTR NUTRIEN LTD 89.03 0.14 0.16 840 -9.93 NWC THE NORTH WES 32.25 -0.33 -1.01 121 -9.33
BN BROOKFIELD COR 46.08 -0.66 -1.41 864 8.22 FSV FIRSTSERVICE 206.26 -0.84 -0.41 82 24.40 NVEI NUVEI CORP 43.29 -1.03 -2.32 245 25.81 TRI THOMSON REUTE 175.23 0.22 0.13 195 13.45
BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 46.95 -0.62 -1.30 212 11.95 FTS FORTIS INC 56.68 -0.65 -1.13 812 4.61 NVA NUVISTA ENERG 10.71 -0.08 -0.74 369 -14.18 TLRY TILRAY INC 2.82 0.27 10.59 4222 -23.16
BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 39.20 -0.34 -0.86 200 14.35 FVI FORTUNA SILVE 4.56 -0.28 -5.79 442 -10.41 X TMX GROUP LTD 29.32 -0.07 -0.24 632 8.18
DOO BRP INC 119.31 -0.69 -0.57 248 15.58 FNV FRANCO-NEVADA 189.25 -5.35 -2.75 305 2.54 OGC OCEANAGOLD CO 2.64 -0.08 -2.94 1041 2.33 TPZ TOPAZ ENERGY 21.22 -0.09 -0.42 201 0.43
FRU FREEHOLD ROYA 14.19 -0.11 -0.77 558 -10.36 ONEX ONEX CORP 80.15 -0.23 -0.29 130 22.76 TXG TOREX GOLD RE 17.73 -0.87 -4.68 292 14.02
CAR-UN CDN APARTM 51.13 -1.49 -2.83 233 19.80 OTEX OPEN TEXT CO 54.98 -0.56 -1.01 266 37.04 TIH TOROMONT IND 107.20 -0.60 -0.56 745 9.71
CWB CDN WESTERN B 26.62 0.02 0.08 139 10.64 GFL GFL ENVIRONME 46.00 -1.83 -3.83 1115 16.34 OR OSISKO GOLD RO 18.82 -0.68 -3.49 255 15.32 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 85.90 -0.10 -0.12 4040 -2.02
GIB-A CGI GROUP I 130.28 0.92 0.71 503 11.63 GEI GIBSON ENERGY 21.05 -0.17 -0.80 481 -10.96 OSK OSISKO MINING 2.83 -0.02 -0.70 1089 -19.14 TOU TOURMALINE OI 67.11 -0.99 -1.45 2569 -1.77
CIX CI FINANCIAL 16.49 -0.14 -0.84 447 22.06 GIL GILDAN ACTIVE 40.79 0.07 0.17 276 10.01 TA TRANSALTA CORP 13.16 -0.12 -0.90 565 8.67
CRT-UN CT REAL ES 15.41 -0.17 -1.09 84 -1.15 GSY GOEASY LTD 123.91 -1.53 -1.22 20 16.40 PAAS PAN AMERICAN 20.59 -0.82 -3.83 651 -6.83 RNW TRANSALTA REN 13.27 -0.12 -0.90 447 17.96
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SPORTS
DeGrasse getting back CFL coaches doing more
to form ahead than one job struggling
of national trials B14 during 2023 season B14

[ SWIMMING ]

Canada’s Summer McIntosh celebrates during the medals ceremony for the women’s 200-metre butterfly event during the World Aquatics Championships
in Fukuoka, Japan on Thursday. McIntosh became just the second Canadian swimmer to repeat as a world champion. PHILIP FONG/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

McIntosh dominates en route

to 200-metre butterfly gold
Canadian teen’s winning time set a world junior record, Canadian record and Americas record

FUKUOKA, JAPAN time here at worlds,” McIntosh said. world record. “It was really nice to see them,”
“That was a really special moment for McIntosh rebounded Wednesday McIntosh said. “I hadn’t seen them in
me, so to repeat it again that meant with bronze in her world champion- a while with being away for so long
This was the dominant performance the world. I’m just really ship debut in the 200 with staging camp and things like
Summer McIntosh was looking for at overly happy with the freestyle, a good result that.
this year’s World Aquatics Champion- result.” in a fast race that fea- “To share that moment with them
ships. Australia’s Elizabeth It was really nice to tured a world-record plus my sister cheering me on back
The 16-year-old from Toronto de- Dekkers (2:05.46) and swim from Australian home in addition to all my friends
fended her world title in the women’s American Regan Smith see [my parents. I Mollie O’Callaghan. and family, really means the world to
200-metre butterfly in spectacular (2:06.58) rounded out hadn’t seen them in On Thursday, she was have their support.”
fashion on Thursday. McIntosh led the podium. a while with being fully in the form that Also Thursday, Masse, of LaSalle,
the race at every split and set world After starting the away for so long saw her win four med- Ont., finished fourth in the 50m back-
junior, Canadian and Americas re- world championships als in her world cham- stroke in 27.28. Australia’s Kaylee
cords with her time of 2 minutes 4.06 with a disappointing re- with staging camp pionships debut last McKeown won gold (27.08) ahead of
seconds. sult, by her standards at and things like that. year in Budapest, Hun- Smith (27.11) and Britain’s Lauren Cox
McIntosh is only the second Cana- least, McIntosh is round- gary. She will look to (27.20).
dian to repeat as world champion, ing into elite form in Fu- SUMMER MCINTOSH channel that momen- Calgary’s Ingrid Wilm (27.41) fin-
WORLD CHAMPION
joining Kylie Masse. McIntosh and kuoka. SWIMMER tum when she attempts ished sixth.
Masse are also the only Canadians The Canadian fin- to defend her 400m in- Australia set a world record in the
with three career gold medals at the ished off just off the podium in her dividual medley title on Sunday. women’s 4x200 freestyle relay in
long-course world championships. first race, the 400m freestyle on Sun- McIntosh got a hug from her par- 7:37.50. The Americans followed in
“Going into the final I was really day, while Australian star Ariarne Tit- ents over the railing as she did her vic- 7:41.38 and China was third in 7:44.40.
pumped up for it as I got gold last mus won gold and broke McIntosh’s tory lap with the gold medal. MCINTOSH, B14

Canada finds itself in a Group B logjam at Women’s World Cup

NEIL DAVIDSON
PERTH, AUSTRALIA
After a wild night in Perth, the
Canadian women’s soccer team
returned to its training base in
Melbourne on Thursday to pre-
pare for what is now a do-or-die
match against Australia at the FI-
FA Women’s World Cup.
Hours after landing, seventh-
ranked Canada found itself in a
Group B logjam thanks to No. 40
Nigeria’s 3-2 upset win over No.
10 Australia in the final game of
the day.
With one round of games re-
maining, it’s all up for grabs in
Group B. Olympic champion
Canada could finish first or sec-
ond, booking its ticket to the
round of 16, or place third and
head home early.
Thursday’s upset victory
moved the Super Falcons over
Canada atop the group on supe-
rior goals scored, with both
Australia has to beat Canada
to move on. The Canadians can
advance with a draw or win.
Canada could still move on
with a defeat – as long as Nigeria
also loses and the final goal dif-
ference favours the Canadians.
The team that finishes atop
Group B will avoid the winner of
Group D, expected to be either
No. 4 England or No. 13 Denmark,
in the round of 16. The Group B
runner-up faces the Group D
winner.
But just surviving the opening
round is the immediate task at
hand.
Canada is coming off a 2-1
comeback win over Ireland on a
Canada’s Sophie Schmidt, left, battles for the ball during Wednesday’s wet miserable evening Wednes-
match against Ireland in Perth, Australia. Schmidt says the Canadian day. The Canadians rebounded
team is resilient. JAMES WORSFOLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS from a subpar performance in
the first half, looking shell-
teams on four points. The co- fourth. shocked after conceding a
host Matildas are third with In the final group games Mon- fourth-minute Olimpico goal by
three points while No. 22 Ireland, day, it’s Canada versus Australia Irish star Katie McCabe off a cor-
with no points, is out of the in Melbourne and Nigeria versus ner.
knockout-round picture in Ireland in Brisbane. Canada coach Bev Priestman
sent on Christine Sinclair and
Sophie Schmidt along with de-
fender Shelina Zadorsky to open
the second half, a trio that en-
tered the game with a combined
635 international caps under
their belt.
Sinclair and Schmidt showed
that experience with their com-
posure on the ball, completing
passes that allowed the Cana-
dians to connect again.
“Our team MO [modus op-
erandi] is that we’re resilient. We
do not break. We bend,” said
Schmidt, whose perfect pass set
up Adriana Leon for the winning
goal in the 53rd minute. “And we
came back in the second half
stronger.
“Sinc [Sinclair] just came in at
halftime and was like ‘Welcome
to the World Cup. This is what
it’s all about.’ ” But Schmidt ac-
knowledged the Canadians will
have to take it up a notch against
Australia.
CANADA, B13
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Paula Reto surprise leader

STUDY SHOWS SOCCER MOST
POPULAR SPORT AMONG
CHILDREN POSTPANDEMIC

at Evian Championship Canadian kids are back playing

their favourite sports at rates
higher than prepandemic partic-
ipation levels.
The South African had one Soccer is the most popular
sport for young Canadians to
blemish with a bogey on the play, according to a recent study,
11th hole but hangs onto a but across all organized physical
two-shot lead over four others activities participation is up.
Kaan Yigit, the study director on
the 2023 Canadian Youth Sports
EVIAN-LES-BAINS, FRANCE Report, said that the 67 per cent
of children that are getting
active is likely in response to
Paula Reto had eight birdies as she carded years of stringent COVID-19
a seven-under 64 to take a surprise first- measures.
round lead at the Evian Championship on “What I saw in these numbers
Thursday. is what appears to be a healthy
The 33-year-old South African holds a bounce back and almost like a
two-shot lead over 2015 champion Lydia new dynamism,” said Yigit, who
Ko of New Zealand and three other play- said his organization did a simi-
ers locked on 66: Frenchwoman Celine lar study in 2014 that had partic-
Boutier, American Alison Lee, and Thai ipation numbers in Canada
golfer Wichanee Meechai – who recovered closer to 60 per cent. “So when I
from a bogey and a double bogey early saw that we’re at 67 per cent,
on. that’s a really great bounce back
“I had so much fun,” Reto said. “The despite the costs and everything
views and everything, it’s just awesome to else.”
be here. I hit some good quality shots be- The data comes from 2,996
ginning of the round and just gave myself detailed interviews conducted in
opportunities.” south Africa’s Paula reto plays a shot on the eighth hole during the first round of the English and French with parents
Reto’s stellar round was perhaps sur- Amundi Evian Championship at Evian resort Golf Club in France on Thursday. reto has won who had at least one child in the
prising because she has only won one only one tournament on the LPGA Tour and never placed higher than 18th in a major. 3-17 age group in the home in
tournament on the LPGA Tour and has STUART FRANKLIN/GETTY IMAGES January 2023.
never placed higher than 18th at a major It is an independent syn-
championship. She had a mixed round with four bird- LEE HODGES HAS FIRST-ROUND dicated study published by
“You never know out here with this ies and two bogeys. LEAD IN 3M OPEN Solutions Research Group in late
golf course. Anything is possible,” Reto American Angela Stanford, the 2018 BLAINE, MINN. Lee Hodges got off to a June.
said. “You’ve just got to give yourself the champion, and Australian Minjee Lee, good start in his bid to make the FedEx Researchers found that 16 per
best opportunity to make par and birdie.” who won the 2021 tournament in a sud- Cup playoffs, shooting an eight-under 63 cent of all Canadian youth be-
Her only blemish was a bogey on the den-death playoff, joined Henderson on Thursday for a one-stroke lead in the tween the ages of three and 17
11th hole at the Evian Resort Golf Club, amid a big group all on 69. first round of the 3M. Kevin Streelman participate in organized soccer,
which celebrated its 10th anniversary as a That put them one stroke ahead of had the best of the afternoon rounds with or approximately one million of
major. World No. 1 Jin Young Ko – one of three a 64, matching Hideki Matsuyama, Brandt the 6.1 million children in the
American Angel Yin, who mixed seven South Koreans to win the tournament Snedeker and Tyler Duncan. Emiliano country.
birdies with four bogeys, was in a group of since it became a major in 2013 – and one Grillo, Nick Hardy and Justin Suh were The study found that a big
nine players who are three shots behind also clear of American Nelly Korda, the another shot back. Adam Svensson of factor for youth participation in
Reto after posting a four-under 67. Olympic champion, and Ireland’s Leona Surrey, B.C., was at five under in a tie for sports was how much it would
Defending champion Brooke Hender- Maguire, the Meijer LPGA Classic winner. ninth. Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont., cost the family, especially as
son of Smiths Falls, Ont., who won in a Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa, who is at two under. inflation continues to impact
wild finale last year for her second career won the ShopRite LPGA Classic last the cost of living.
major, carded a two-under month, could only manage a one-over 72. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS

MLB FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP CEBL MLS-LIGA MX LPGA

AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE GROUP STAGE EASTERN CONFERENCE LEAGUES CUP THE AMUNDI EVIAN
At SiteS in AuStRalia and New Zealand GP W L Pct GB CHAMPIONSHIP
EAST DIVISION EAST DIVISION
All TimeS EaSteRn Ottawa 19 12 7 .632 — ThuRSday
W L Pct GB W L Pct GB
Niagara 18 11 7 .611 1
/ 2 Guadalajara (Liga MX) vs. Cincinnati ThuRSday
Baltimore 62 40 .608 — Atlanta 64 36 .640 —
GROUP A Scarborough 18 10 8 .556 1/
1
2 Minnesota vs. Chicago At Evian-leS-BainS, FRance
Tampa Bay 62 43 .590 1/
1
2 Philadelphia 55 47 .539 10 Nashville vs. Toluca (Liga MX)
Sunday Brampton 18 8 10 .444 3/
1
2 PuRSe: $6.5 million
Toronto 57 46 .553 5/
1
2 Miami 55 48 .534 10 /
1
2
Montreal 19 7 12 .368 5 America (Liga MX) vs. St. Louis YaRdage: 6,527; PaR: 71
Boston 55 47 .539 7 New York 47 54 .465 17 /
1 Switzerland vs. New Zealand, 3 a.m.
2
Norway vs. Philippines, 3 a.m. FiRSt Round
New York 54 48 .529 8 Washington 43 59 .422 22 WESTERN CONFERENCE WedneSday Paula Reto 30-34—64
CENTRAL DIVISION CENTRAL DIVISION New England 5 San Luis (Liga MX) 1 Celine Boutier 32-34—66
GROUP B GP W L Pct GB
W L Pct GB W L Pct GB D.C. 1 Montreal 0 Lydia Ko 31-35—66
MP W D L GF GA Pt Winnipeg 19 12 7 .632 —
Minnesota 54 50 .519 — Milwaukee 57 46 .553 — New York City F.C. 5 Toronto 0 Alison Lee 31-35—66
Nigeria 2 1 1 0 3 2 4 Calgary 19 11 8 .579 1
Cleveland 51 51 .500 2 Cincinnati 56 48 .538 1 /
1
2
Philadelphia 5 Queretaro (Liga MX) 1 Wichanee Meechai 36-30—66
Canada 2 1 1 0 2 1 4 Edmonton 19 8 11 .421 4
Detroit 46 57 .447 7/
1
2 Chicago 50 51 .495 6 Australia 2 1 0 1 3 3 3 Monterrey (Liga MX) 3 Salt Lake 0 Celine Borge 35-32—67
Saskatchewan 19 8 11 .421 4
Chicago 41 62 .398 12 /
1
2 St. Louis 46 57 .447 11 Ireland 2 0 0 2 1 3 0 Leon (Liga MX) 1 L.A. Galaxy 0 Ally Ewing 32-35—67
Vancouver 18 6 12 .333 5 / 1
2
Kansas City 29 75 .279 25 Pittsburgh 45 57 .441 11 /
1
2
ThuRSday ThuRSday Tigres UANL (Liga MX) 2 Portland 1 Esther Henseleit 33-34—67
WEST DIVISION WEST DIVISION Nigeria 3 Australia 2 Vancouver at Ottawa Eun-Hee Ji 34-33—67
W L Pct GB W L Pct GB WedneSday SatuRday — All TimeS EaSteRn A Lim Kim 34-33—67
Texas 60 43 .583 — Los Angeles 58 43 .574 — Canada 2 Ireland 1 WedneSday Cruz Azul (Liga MX) vs. Atlanta, 7 p.m. Su Ji Kim 34-33—67
Houston 58 45 .563 2 San Francisco 56 47 .544 3 Brampton 103 Scarborough 86 Necaxa (Liga MX) vs. Charlotte, 730 p.m. Hae-Ran Ryu 34-33—67
Monday Calgary 85 Edmonton 67
Los Angeles 54 49 .524 6 Arizona 55 48 .534 4 Canada vs. Australia, 6 a.m. SantosLaguna(LigaMX)vs.Orlando,730p.m. Yuka Saso 32-35—67
Seattle 52 50 .510 7/
1
2 San Diego 49 54 .476 10 Ireland vs. Nigeria, 6 a.m. FRiday — All TimeS EaSteRn Austin vs. Juarez (Liga MX), 8:30 p.m. Angel Yin 34-33—67
Oakland 28 76 .269 32 /
1
2 Colorado 40 62 .392 18 /1
2 Montreal at Niagara, 7 p.m. Pumas (Liga MX) vs. D.C., 9 p.m. BRooke HendeRSon 35-34—69
ThuRSday ThuRSday GROUP C Brampton at Scarborough, 7:30 p.m. L.A. Galaxy vs. Vancouver, 10:30 p.m. Maddie SzeRyk 37-34—71
L.A. Angels 6, Detroit 0, 1st game Washington at N.Y. Mets Calgary at Saskatchewan, 9:30 p.m.
WedneSday
Sunday
TELEVISION
L.A. Angels 11, Detroit 4, 2nd game Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Spain 5. Zambia 0
Cleveland at Chicago White Sox
CPL Atlas (Liga MX) vs. Toronto, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY (ALL TIMES EASTERN)
Japan 2 Costa Rica 0
WedneSday Monday N.Y.RedBullsvs.SanLuis(LigaMX),7:30p.m. AUTO SPORTS
GP W L T GF GA Pt
WedneSday Miami 7, Tampa Bay 1 Japan vs. Spain, 3 a.m. Tijuana (Liga MX) vs. Queretaro (Liga F1: Belgium Grand Prix, Qualifying,
Calgary 16 7 3 6 26 18 27
Miami 7, Tampa Bay 1 Washington 5, Colorado 4 Costa Rica vs. Zambia, 3 a.m. MX), 7:30 p.m. 10:55 a.m., TSN 4, 5
Victoria 16 7 4 5 25 17 26
Seattle 8, Minnesota 7 Milwaukee 3, Cincinnati 0 Monterrey (Liga MX) vs. Seattle, 9 p.m. BASEBALL
Hamilton 17 7 5 5 23 19 26
Cleveland 8, Kansas City 3 Pittsburgh 3, San Diego 2 GROUP D TigresUANL(LigaMX) vs. San Jose, 11 p.m. MLB: Detroit at Miami, 6:30 p.m., SN 1
York 17 7 7 3 19 23 24
Toronto 8, L.A. Dodgers 1 St. Louis 11, Arizona 7 FRiday Halifax 16 5 4 7 19 19 22 MLB: N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7 p.m.,
Philadelphia 6, Baltimore 4 Toronto 8, L.A. Dodgers 1 England vs. Denmark, 4:30 a.m. Monday SN O, E, W, P
Ottawa 16 6 7 3 24 20 21
N.Y. Yankees 3, N.Y. Mets 1 Philadelphia 6, Baltimore 4 China vs. Haiti, 7 a.m. America (Liga MX) vs. Columbus, 8 p.m. MLB: Tampa Bay at Houston, 8 p.m., TSN 3
Winnipeg 16 3 6 7 13 17 16
Boston 5, Atlanta 3 N.Y. Yankees 3, N.Y. Mets 1 TueSday Puebla (Liga MX) vs. Chicago, 8:30 p.m. MLB: Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 10 p.m.,
Vancouver 16 3 9 4 13 30 13
Texas 13, Houston 5 Boston 5, Atlanta 3 China vs. England, 7 a.m. FRiday — All TimeS EaSteRn Toluca (Liga MX) vs. Colorado, 9:30 p.m. SN 1
Chicago Cubs 10, Chicago White Sox 7 Chicago Cubs 10, Chicago White Sox 7 Haiti vs. Denmark, 7 a.m. Vancouver at Hamilton, 7 p.m. Chivas (Liga MX) vs. Kansas City, 10 p.m. MLB: Boston at San Francisco, 10 p.m.,
San Francisco 8, Oakland 3 San Francisco 8, Oakland 3 SN O, E, W, P
L.A. Angels at Detroit, ppd. GROUP E SatuRday END OF GROUP STAGE SOFTBALL
FRiday ThuRSday Victoria at Winnipeg, 4 p.m. Athletes Unlimited: Team McCleney (Blue)
FRiday All TimeS EaSteRn Portugal 2 Vietnam 0 Calgary at Ottawa, 7 p.m. WNBA vs. Team Denham (Orange), 7 p.m., TSN 2
All TimeS EaSteRn Detroit (Olson 1-4) at Miami (Garrett 5- WedneSday FOOTBALL
Detroit (Olson 1-4) at Miami (Garrett 5- 3), 6:40 p.m. United States 1 Netherlands 1 Sunday EASTERN CONFERENCE CFL:HamiltonatOttawa,7:30p.m.,TSN1,4
3), 6:40 p.m. Philadelphia (Wheeler 7-5) at TueSday Halifax at York, 2 p.m.
W L Pct GB GOLF
N.Y. Yankees (Cole 9-2) at Baltimore Pittsburgh (Keller 9-6), 7:05 p.m.
(Rodriguez 2-2), 7:05 p.m.
Portugal vs. United States, 3 a.m. CFL New York 18 5 .783 — LPGA: Evian Championship, Second
Washington (Gore 6-7) at N.Y. Mets Vietnam vs. Netherlands, 3 a.m. Connecticut 18 6 .750 / 1
2 Round, 9:30 a.m., GOLF; Third Round,
L.A. Angels (Giolito 6-6) at Toronto (Scherzer 8-4), 7:10 p.m.
(Gausman 7-5), 7:07 p.m.
WEEK EIGHT Atlanta 13 11 .542 5 / 1
2 5:30 a.m., GOLF
Milwaukee (Houser 3-2) at Atlanta GROUP F Washington 12 11 .522 6 Senior Open Championship, Second
Cleveland (TBD) at Chicago White Sox (Chirinos 4-4), 7:20 p.m. SatuRday EAST DIVISION Chicago 9 14 .391 9 Round, 7 a.m., GOLF; 11:30 a.m., GOLF
(TBD), 7:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (TBD) at St. Louis France vs. Brazil, 6 a.m. GP W L T PF PA Pt Indiana 6 18 .250 12 / 1
2 U.S. Junior Amateur, Semifinals, 2 p.m.,
Minnesota (Gray 4-4) at Kansas City (Montgomery 6-8), 8:15 p.m. Panama vs. Jamaica, 8:30 a.m. Toronto 5 5 0 0 186 111 10 WESTERN CONFERENCE TSN 4
(Singer 6-8), 8:10 p.m. Oakland (Sears 1-7) at Colorado WedneSday, Aug. 2 Ottawa 6 3 3 0 140 142 6 PGA: 3M Open, Second Round, 3 p.m.
Tampa Bay (McClanahan 11-1) at (Freeland 4-10), 8:40 p.m. W L Pct GB
France vs. Panama, 6 a.m. Montreal 5 2 3 0 106 111 4 GOLF
Houston (Javier 7-2), 8:10 p.m. Seattle (Gilbert 8-5) at Arizona (Henry Las Vegas 22 2 .917 —
Jamaica vs. Brazil, 6 a.m. Hamilton 6 2 4 0 130 195 4 RUGBY
Oakland (Sears 1-7) at Colorado 5-3), 9:40 p.m. Dallas 13 10 .565 8 / 1
2

(Freeland 4-10), 8:40 p.m. WEST DIVISION Super League: St. Helens vs. Leeds Rhi-
Texas (Dunning 8-3) at San Diego Minnesota 11 13 .458 11
Seattle (Gilbert 8-5) at Arizona (Henry GROUP G GP W L T PF PA Pt nos, 3 P.M., SN WL
(Musgrove 9-3), 9:40 p.m. Los Angeles 9 15 .375 13
5-3), 9:40 p.m. ThuRSday British Columbia 6 5 1 0 155 94 10 SOCCER
Cincinnati (Williamson 2-2) at L.A. Phoenix 6 17 .261 15 / 1
2

Texas (Dunning 8-3) at San Diego Argentina vs. South Africa Winnipeg 7 5 2 0 190 147 10 FIFA Women’s World Cup: China vs.
Dodgers (Miller 6-1), 10:10 p.m. Seattle 4 19 .174 17 / 1
2

(Musgrove 9-3), 9:40 p.m.
Boston (Crawford 4-5) at San Francisco
(Webb 8-8), 10:15 p.m.
SatuRday
L.A. Angels at Toronto, 3:07 p.m.
Detroit at Miami, 4:10 p.m.
Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.
Minnesota at Kansas City, 7:10 p.m.
Boston at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 7:15 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Houston, 7:15 p.m.
Oakland at Colorado, 8:10 p.m.
Seattle at Arizona, 8:10 p.m.
Texas at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.
SatuRday Saskatchewan 6 3 3 0 125 147 6 Haiti, 6:45 a.m., TSN 1, 4, 5
Boston (Crawford 4-5) at San Francisco ThuRSday
Sweden vs. Italy, 3:30 a.m. Calgary 6 2 4 0 152 167 4 2. Bundesliga: Hamburg vs. Schalke, 2
(Webb 8-8), 10:15 p.m. WedneSday, Aug. 2 Edmonton 7 0 7 0 105 185 0 p.m., DAZN
Los Angeles 81 Indiana 68
Argentina vs. Sweden, 3 a.m. Bye: Winnipeg Jupiler Pro League: Union Saint-Gilloise
SatuRday New York 95 Atlanta 84
South Africa vs. Italy, 3 a.m. vs. Anderlecht, 2:45 p.m., DAZN
Detroit at Miami, 4:10 p.m. FRiday — All TimeS EaSteRn CPL: Vancouver at Hamilton, 7 p.m.,
WedneSday
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. GROUP H Hamilton at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m. OneSoccer
Washington at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m. Sunday FIFA Women’s World Cup: Sweden vs.
Boston at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m. SatuRday Minnesota 97 Washington 92
South Korea vs. Morocco, 12:30 a.m. Italy, 3:30 a.m., TSN 1, 4 (Saturday)
Chicago Cubs at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m. Germany vs. Colombia, 5:30 a.m. British Columbia at Edmonton, 7 p.m. TENNIS
TOUCHDOWN ATLANTIC FRiday — All TimeS EaSteRn
Milwaukee at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m. ThuRSday, Aug. 3 ATP: Hamburg European Open, Quarter-
Oakland at Colorado, 8:10 p.m. South Korea vs. Germany, 6 a.m. At Halifax finals, TSN 2, 7 a.m.
Saskatchewan vs. Toronto, 4 p.m. Minnesota at New York, 8 p.m.
Seattle at Arizona, 8:10 p.m. Morocco vs. Colombia, 6 a.m.
Seattle at Chicago, 8 p.m. All TimeS EaSteRn
Texas at San Diego, 8:40 p.m.
Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m. END OF GROUP STAGE
Sunday Washington at Dallas, 8 p.m. RESULTS AS OF
Calgary at Montreal, 7 p.m. THURSDAY, JULY 27 9:00 P.M.

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Don’t mess with Lindsey: U.S. ekes out

1-1 draw in after Horan revenge goal
Coach Andonovski is
pleased with the way
young team came on
strong in second half
ANNE M. PETERSON WELLINGTON
When the United States was des-
perate for a spark, Lindsey Horan
channelled her anger into a
much-needed goal to keep the
Americans unbeaten at the
Women’s World Cup.
Horan was fuming after she
was knocked over by Danielle
van de Donk in the second half
of Thursday’s rematch of the
2019 women’s final, when the
United States beat the Nether-
lands to win their second consec-
utive World Cup title.
She got her revenge minutes
after the tackle in a sequence
that included Horan cursing
about van de Donk before shov-
ing her, as well. The two trash-
talked and were separated by a
referee before Horan scored the
game-saving goal for the United
States.
Horan scored on a well-timed
header off a corner kick from
Rose Lavelle in the 62nd minute
to give the Americans the goal
they needed to sneak out a 1-1
draw with the Netherlands. The
United States remained unbea-
ten in 19 consecutive matches.
“I don’t think you ever want
to get me mad because I don’t
react in a good way,” Horan said.
“I just want something more. I
want to win more, I want to
score more and I want more for
my team.”
Horan and van de Donk were
smiling after the game – van de
Donk was wearing a swimming
cap because of a cut to her head
from a later collision – but al-
most anything goes in the World
Cup. The two are professional
Lindsey Horan of the United States celebrates her goal during a Women’s World Cup gane against
the Netherlands on Thursday in Wellington, New Zealand. ALYSA RUBIN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
teammates for French club Lyon.
“Dan is that type of player
that, when she’s on my team, it’s
incredible because she’s going to
fight to the last second to win
the game, and go into that last
tackle, and that’s what she did,”
Horan said. “Unfortunately, I did
not take it in a good way, I got a
little heated, and she got to hear
it.”
Horan already has one yellow
card from the opening win over
Vietnam, and she had to be
calmed by American defender
Julie Ertz.
“She was like, ‘Linds, don’t get
another yellow card, just score
this goal to shut everyone up,’ ”
Horan said.
She did just that, scoring her
29th career goal for the U.S. team
and fourth in a World Cup. Ho-
ran knew her shot was good be-
fore it even crossed the goal line.
Her expression gave her away.
Van de Donk knew she had lit
a fire in Horan.
“She got a bit feisty and she
came over, we just had a little
talk,” van de Donk said. “The ref-
eree came in between, it wasn’t
very necessary. I mean, we just
played football again after that.”
The draw meant neither team
earned a spot in the knockout
round yet. The United States and
the Netherlands are tied atop the
Group E standings, but the
Americans have the edge, 4-2 in
goals scored so far this tourna-
ment.
Portugal defeated Vietnam 2-0
Thursday in the late Group E
match in Hamilton. The United
States plays Portugal in its group
finale on Tuesday in Auckland,
and the Netherlands plays Viet-
nam the same day in Dunedin.
The game was a rematch from
four years ago when the Amer-
icans beat the Dutch 2-0 in the
final at Lyon to clinch back-to-
back titles, and fourth overall.
Jill Roord helped the Nether-
lands pounce first on a strike
from atop the box that went
though Horan’s legs in the 17th
minute. They held that 1-0 lead
at halftime – just the sixth time
the United States had trailed at
the half in 52 World Cup match-
es, and first time since 2011
against Sweden.
Lavelle, who scored four years
ago in the final but has been
hampered by injury, subbed in
and gave the United States in-
stant energy. Then came the
tackle on Horan, and the United
States was back in the game.
“I think the first half, we feel a
little bit disappointed in how we
played, but I think we fixed
things right away, the pressure
that we got on, and the amount
of chances and opportunities
that came from it,” Horan said.
The U.S. roster has 14 World
Cup newcomers this year, and
coach Vlatko Andonovski was
pleased with how the team
found its way in the second half.
“I thought it was a very good
match for our team, especially
for a group of young players,” he
said. “They grew throughout the
game individually, but also as a
team we grew throughout.”
Megan Rapinoe, the American
star who came in as a substitute
in the opening game against
Vietnam for her 200th appear-
ance with the team, was not
used in Thursday’s match. Rapi-
noe has announced that this is
her final World Cup and she will
retire at the end of the season.
The Dutch were without for-
ward Lineth Beerensteyn, who
was hurt early in her team’s 1-0
victory over Portugal to open the
tournament, and leading scorer
Vivianne Miedema, who rup-
tured her ACL while playing for
Arsenal in December.
Secretary of State Antony Blin-
ken met with the U.S. team at
their hotel on the eve of the
match and was at the game. Blin-
ken was in Wellington for a for-
mal bilateral meeting with New
Zealand Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs Nanaia Mahuta, and he will
also meet with Prime Minister
Chris Hipkins.
The top finisher in the group
opens the knockout round in
Sydney against the second-place
finisher in Group G, which in-
cludes Sweden, South Africa, Ita-
ly and Argentina. The second-
place finisher heads to Mel-
bourne against the top Group G
team.
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Oshoala seals Nigeria’s upset win Canada: Coach awaiting

over Australia at Women’s World Cup
JOHN PYE BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA
Barcelona forward Asisat Oshoala
came on as a second-half substi-
tute and inspired Nigeria’s 3-2 up-
set win over co-host Australia on
Thursday with her extra edge in
attack and a goal that sealed the
victory and sparked a jersey-
shedding celebration.
The win moved Nigeria into a
share of first place in Group B
with Canada, both with four
points, one more than Australia.
It means Australia, struggling
with injuries in attack with striker
Sam Kerr and Mary Fowler mis-
sing the game in Brisbane, needs
to beat Olympic champion Cana-
da in Melbourne on Monday to
control its own fate for a spot in
the round of 16.
Oshoala swooped on a defen-
sive mixup in the 72nd minute
and beat three Australians to the
ball, sneaking a right-foot inside
the near post from a tight angle.
She peeled off her jersey and ran
to the sideline to celebrate, get-
ting a yellow card in the process.
After controlling much of the
game, Australia was stunned in a
two goal, nine-minute burst from
Nigeria, which held Canada to a
0-0 draw on its opening game.
The Australians had more
shots on goal (28-10) and more on
target (8-5) but missed the clini-
Portugal occasionally dazzling in shutout
to eliminate Vietnam in group stage
LUKE VARGAS
HAMILTON, NEW ZEALAND
Telma Encarnacao scored one
goal and assisted on another as
Portugal defeated Vietnam 2-0 on
Thursday in the Women’s World
Cup, a win that ensured Vietnam
will not advance to the knockout
stage.
Portugal jumped ahead in the
seventh minute following a quick
series of decisive passes through
the Vietnamese defence.
Lucia Alves dropped in a per-
fect cross to Encarnacao at the top
of the six-yard box for a simple
finish.
Portugal still has a shot to ad-
vance out of the group stage but
will need to win or draw against
the United States, with a Nether-
Asisat Oshoala, top, and Gift Monday of Nigeria celebrate their team’s
3-2 victory in a FIFA Women’s World Cup game against Australia on
Thursday in Brisbane, Australia. JUSTIN SETTERFIELD/GETTY IMAGES
cal finish of its world-class strike-
rs and was rarely able to breach
Nigeria’s disciplined defense.
“This was a massive opportu-
nity that we let slide,” Steph Cat-
ley, who is leading the Matildas in
the absence of Kerr, said in a TV
interview. “We created a lot of op-
portunities that we couldn’t fin-
ish. We weren’t patient enough,
and we weren’t clinical.”
Oshoala replaced Uchenna Ka-
nu, who scored Nigeria’s equaliz-
er seconds before halftime, in the
63rd minute in a double switch
for the Nigerian attack swung the
lands loss next Tuesday against
Vietnam.
In the 21st minute, Portugal
turned a goal kick from Vietnam
into a chance, taking possession
and moving downfield. Encarna-
cao slipped the ball to Kika Naza-
reth as she raced through defend-
ers, and the 20-year-old forward
slotted the second goal of the
night to the left of goalkeeper
Tran Thi Kim Thanh.
Portugal coach Francisco Neto
held out seven starters from the
team’s 1-0 loss to the Nether-
lands, including 31-year-old cap-
tain Dolores Silva and goalkeeper
Ines Pereira. Both Encarnacao
and Nazareth came off the bench
in the loss to the Dutch; both
started in the win over Vietnam.
About 6,650 fans turned out to
Waikato Stadium, which has a ca-
momentum of the game.
Two minutes after she went on,
Nigeria scored from a corner with
three players heading the ball in
sequence, starting with Michelle
Alozie and going to the blue-
haired Rasheedat Ajibade, who
angled it across for veteran
Uchiobe Ohale to connect beside
the post.
Ohale nodded it in and took
the brunt of Alanna Kennedy’s at-
tempted clearance kick simulta-
neously.
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pacity of 18,009. The crowd was
mostly Vietnamese fans, but it
was the Portuguese contingent
that made all the noise.
Nguyen Thi Bich Thuy was the
lone bright spot for Vietnam. The
right winger looked threatening
the few times the Golden Star
Women Warriors found them-
selves on the attack but couldn’t
produce a goal.
In its second Women’s World
Cup match, Portugal got its very
first Women’s World Cup goal.
It stemmed from a dazzling se-
quence that moved Portuguese
players into the final third of the
pitch with time and space. Alves
teed up Encarnacao with an inch-
perfect cross, and the forward
easily delivered the goal.
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to see if Sinclair can play
FROM B11
“It’s an exciting game. Home team. Lots of fans,” Schmidt said.
“It’s going to be rocking in that stadium. I think we match up
well against Australia. Similar playing styles. But yeah, I fancy
our chances. We just need to continue and grow and build be-
cause the performance we had out there tonight [against Ire-
land] is not going to cut it against Australia.”
The pro-Irish crowd in Perth gave the Canadians a taste of
what is to come Monday at the Melbourne Rectangular Stadi-
um where Canada played Nigeria to a scoreless draw in its
tournament opener. Priestman called the Irish game “basical-
ly a rehearsal” for the Australia matchup.
Also evidence of what the Olympic champions can accom-
plish when they hit top gear.
“It’s a great experience for us to move forward from. When
we play brave, we can be unstoppable,” Priestman said.
The Canadians played the Matildas twice on Australia soil
last September so knows what awaits them.
Canada is 8-7-3 all-time against Australia and has won the
last three meetings, including last year’s 1-0 and 2-1 victories
in Brisbane and Sydney, respectively. The Canadians are 6-2-2
against the Matildas this century.
Leon scored all three goals in the two most recent victories.
Despite her team’s recent success against Australia, Priest-
man warned a tough challenge awaits.
“Australia are a world-class side. And I feel like since we
played them [in September] they’ve got better, so we’ve got to
be prepared for that,” she said.
There is a question-mark over Sinclair, who did not speak
to the media immediately after the Ireland win so she could
be checked out following an impactful second half off the
bench. “She looked like she was limping at the end there,”
Priestman, awaiting a full medical report, said after the Ire-
land game.
The Australians are also hurting at the tournament with
striker Sam Kerr yet to play because of a calf injury. The Ma-
tildas were forced into damage control mode when midfiel-
der Kyra Cooney-Cross told a media availability Monday that
Kerr had torn her calf. A Football Australia spokesman sub-
sequently denied that but would not confirm the extent of the
injury or a timeline for the Chelsea star’s return.
Priestman noted the Canadians had faced Kerr during the
two September meetings.
“She’s a world-class player, of course. But what I do know is
Australia, yes, Sam Kerr’s a big part of them but not the only
part of them,” said Priestman. “They do have threats across
probably the front four, [like Arsenal striker] Caitlin Foord.
They’ve got some real pace in that front forward line.”
Kerr isn’t the only walking wounded in the Australia camp,
however. Mary Fowler, who was set to start for Kerr, and de-
fender Aivi Luik are both dealing with concussions suffered in
training. Veteran forward Kyah Simon is still working her way
back to full fitness in the wake of knee surgery.
Midfielder Quinn, who goes by one name, said the Cana-
dians are feeling good going into the matchup with the tour-
nament co-hosts. “I think we’re just getting the World Cup jit-
ters out,” they said. “We’re ready to go.”
By the numbers: Canada’s win over Ireland represented the
50th for CONCACAF teams at the tournament, with the four-
time champion Americans responsible for 41 of those and
Canada accounting for the other nine. … The Canadians be-
came just the second team at the current competition to
come from behind to win, joining Sweden which overturned a
1-0 deficit to defeat South Africa 2-1. … The Ireland contest al-
so marked the first time Canada has scored twice against Eu-
ropean opposition at the Women’s World Cup since its first
match at the tournament, a 3-2 loss to England in 1995 in
which Helen Stoumbos and Geri Donnelly scored for Canada.
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Wearing many hats in the CFL

has its perks but also challenges
Ticats, Elks and Stamps
all reached the Grey Cup
when Steinauer, Jones
and Dickenson were
head coaches

DAN RALPH

C
hris Jones wears multiple
hats with the Edmonton
Elks, and before that made
the football-related decisions for
the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
But Jones is only following the
advice given to him by none other
than Bill Parcells, the Pro Football
Hall of Famer who won two Super
Bowls as the New York Giants’
head coach.
“He said, ‘You can’t be success-
ful as a head coach if you don’t
have the ability to set your ros-
ter,’ ” Jones said. “He told me,
‘Make sure you start working to-
ward getting that opportunity to
be able to make your own team
and you’re not playing with other
peoples’ players.’ ”
Jones is in his second season as
Edmonton’s head coach, general
manager and defensive co-ordi-
nator. He joined the Elks after
serving as Saskatchewan’s GM/
head coach (2016-18).
Jones is one of three CFL head
coaches who also hold prominent
front-office jobs with their teams.
Orlondo Steinauer is in his sec-
ond season as Hamilton’s head
coach/president of football oper-
ations while Dave Dickenson is in
his seventh campaign as Calgary’s
head coach but first as its GM.
Hamilton, Edmonton and Cal-
gary all either reached the Grey
Cup with Steinauer, Jones and
Dickenson as head coach or won
titles outright (the Elks in 2015 un-
der Jones, the Stamps in 2018 un-
der Dickenson). And all three
have won the CFL’s coach-of-the-
year honour (Dickenson in 2016,
Jones in 2018 and Steinauer in
2019).
But it’s been a tough start to the
season for the trio. Hamilton (2-4)
visits the Ottawa Redblacks (3-3)
on Friday night while Edmonton
(0-7) plays host to the B.C. Lions
(5-1) on Saturday having lost a
CFL-record 20 straight home
games and finishing fifth in the
West last year (4-14).
Calgary (2-4) is in Montreal on
Sunday night to face the
Alouettes (2-3).
Rick Campbell and Neil McE-
voy both have two jobs with B.C.
Campbell is head coach but
shares GM duties with McEvoy, a
native of Surrey, B.C., who’s also
the Lions’ president, football op-
erations.
The Elks’, Ticats’ and Stamps’
early struggles have prompted
suggestions that maybe Jones,
Steinauer and Dickenson have
too much on their respective
plates. However, after Saskatche-
wan was 5-13 in 2016, it went 10-8
Edmonton Elks head
coach Chris Jones directs
players during a training
camp in Edmonton in
May. Jones is in his
second season as head
coach for the Elks while
also operating as general
manager and defensive
co-ordinator.
JASON FRANSON/
THE CANADIAN PRESS
This isn’t something
I haven’t been doing
for a long, long time.
I get [into the office]
about 4 a.m. and
usually leave around
7, 8 p.m. and try to
get into bed before
10 p.m.
CHRIS JONES
EDMONTON ELKS
HEAD COACH
and 12-6 the next two years under
Jones, a four-time Grey Cup
champion.
Steinauer has won three Grey
Cups (two as a player, one as
coach) while Dickenson has been
part of five CFL championship
teams (three as a player, two
coaching).
Jones said his progression to
the GM role with Saskatchewan
was seamless because he’d served
as Calgary’s player-personnel as-
sistant (2010-11) and Toronto’s as-
sistant GM (2012-13). He was also
the defensive co-ordinator and
assistant head coach with both
franchises.
“This isn’t something I haven’t
been doing for a long, long time,”
Jones said. “I get [into the office]
about 4 a.m. and usually leave
around 7, 8 p.m. and try to get into
bed before 10 p.m.”
But Jones said delegating du-
ties to trusted personnel is also a
key element of his job. His front
office includes Hall of Fame re-
ceiver Geroy Simon, who’s in his
second season as Edmonton’s as-
sistant GM.
“There’s no doubt … you must
have good people around you,”
he said. “Huf [Calgary president
John Hufnagel] is a great coach
but he also had great guys to help
him.
“Dave Dickenson is a very good
coach that Huf’s had on staff for a
while and [assistant head coach]
Mark Kilam was young at the time
but he’s a pretty damn good
coach.”
Something not lost upon ei-
ther Dickenson or Steinauer.
Brendan Mahoney is in his first
season as assistant GM but 17th
with Calgary. This also marks Nick
Bojda’s fifth year as football oper-
ations manager.
Hamilton’s front office in-
cludes Drew Allemang, Spencer
Zimmerman and Ed Hervey, who
all have significant CFL experi-
ence.
Having a head coach/GM is
nothing new for Calgary as Huf-
nagel held both jobs from 2008-
15. After being named president in
2016, Hufnagel continued as gen-
eral manager until Dickenson as-
sumed the role.
And before Hufnagel, Wally Bu-
ono served as Calgary’s head
coach/GM from 1992-02 before
going to B.C.
“We’ve always worked collabo-
ratively, our scouts and coaches
are intertwined on personnel,”
Dickenson said. “There still must
be a hierarchy where if there’s a
decision that needs to be made,
someone’s got to make it.
“I haven’t been as involved in
the Xs and Os as I maybe have in
other years but I’m still in the
meetings and I want to make my
coaches better. The only way to do
that is give them more responsib-
ility and help them develop but
also give them time to grow be-
cause I was nowhere near as good
a playcaller and coach my first
year as I was my third year.”
But the head coach/GM role
isn’t for everyone.
Jim Barker did both jobs with
Toronto in 2011 after being named
the CFL’s top coach in 2010. After
one year, Barker opted to become
GM full-time.
Barker hired Scott Milanovich
as head coach and acquired veter-
an quarterback Ricky Ray from
Edmonton. The moves paid off as
Toronto won the 2012 Grey Cup
and Milanovich earned CFL top
coach honours.
“I felt we were never going to be
as good if I was doing both jobs,”
Barker said. “I knew it was the di-
rection our organization needed
to go in to win.”
One advantage of a head coach
also holding a major manage-
ment position is a franchise hav-
ing one true voice. But when a
team struggles, fans can publicly
second-guess organizational de-
cisions and demand change.
“It’s kind of what you sign up
for,” Steinauer said. “You can’t
please everybody and when
you’re in front of the camera ev-
ery day and your job is critiqued
every day, people are going to
have opinions.
“People don’t know the inside
out, they just know the result and
that’s okay because it’s a results-
driven business. Everything takes
time and the best of the best lose
games.”
Jones said he knows of only
one way for a team to improve:
Continue working and trusting
the process.
“We just have to keep grinding
and good things are going to hap-
pen because they [Elks players]
work too hard,” Jones said. “If
there was [a magic formula], I be-
lieve we would’ve found a little.”
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De Grasse needs to do well at nationals McIntosh

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Mary-Sophie Harvey of Trois-Ri-
ABDULHAMID IBRAHIM the track. The program covers an athlete’s “That’s a great feeling just to know that vieres, Que., McIntosh, Emma
annual club fees, provides a $500 travel I’m able to be such a great help to these ath- O’Croinin of Edmonton and
grant, funding for training and competi- letes. They are the future, they are the next Brooklyn Douthwright of River-

A
ndre De Grasse is keeping patient
in search of his old form.
The six-time Olympic medalist
and reigning 200-metre Olympic
champion entered this year coming off a
trying 2022 season dealing with a foot inju-
ry.
Having not yet run a qualifying time for
August’s world championships in both the
100 and 200 and the qualifying window
closing Sunday, he looks to bring his best at
this week’s national trials when it counts
most – as he’s built himself a reputation for
doing.
“That was tough coming back from that
[injury], trying to just get back into that
form,” he said. “Right now, it might take a
while but got to keep being patient and per-
severing and telling myself that I’m gonna
get through this hump.
“Of course I’m back healthy now but just
trying to find those gears again. I’m feeling
good mentally, so my body just has to get
back to physical form.”
“Just hoping the weather co-operates
and trying to put down a good time to get
myself into the world champs with that,”
added De Grasse, who will don the Kids
Help Phone logo on his uniform and have
its staff and volunteers rooting for him in
the stands.
While he works his way back, however,
something he started years back has taken
on a form of its own.
The Andre De Grasse Future Champions
Scholarship Program launched in 2018
with the goal of helping high-school stu-
dent-athletes find success both on and off
tion gear, financial support to their person-
al coach ($500) and also invites them to at-
tend a speaker series with professionals in
sport nutrition, university recruiting and
scholarships and mental performance.
It also includes coaching and mentor-
ship from former Canadian Olympic
sprinter Tony Sharpe, who was a finalist in
the men’s 100 and won bronze in the 4x100
relay at the 1984 Olympics.
Sharpe, who is also a two-time Athletics
Canada development coach of the year
winner, uses the program to teach athletes
key information.
“I created a program based on what I
view as pitfalls in my career,” he said. “So
trying to fill some of those voids in terms of
mentorship that I didn’t get or anything
that could be more beneficial than what I
got.
“It’s sort of like a redemption, almost, for
me to have this opportunity a training pro-
gram with outside resources in terms of
education, whether it be medical or psy-
chological, sports med or nutrition. Some
things that were lacking in my day, right?”
The program consisted of 16 athletes
during the 2022-23 school year and has had
seven athletes receive NCAA scholarships,
including two (Jennessa Wolfe, Savannah
Blair) from this past year.
Another six from the 2022-23 class will
be at this week’s national championships:
Bolu Ariyo (under-20 long jump, triple
jump), Faziki Musanganya (U20 triple
jump), Jaffar Phudjo (U20 400), Marilou
Djida (U20 long jump, triple jump), and Iyi-
mi Fagbamiye (U20 110 hurdles).
generation,” De Grasse said. view, N.B.
“I just want to continue to pay it forward, The medalists qualify for the
I was fortunate enough to have that same Paris 2024 Olympic Games, while
support and look where it got me out of all the remaining 13 spots will be de-
those athletes, you might find the next cided by ranking Fukuoka times
Andre De Grasse.” against the times from the Doha
Wolfe of Valley, N.S., recently committed 2024 worlds.
to the University of Maryland for the up- McIntosh said she was well
coming fall. The 17-year-old is also among prepared to swim two finals on
the 20 athletes – including Blair – set to rep- the same night.
resent Canada at the U20 Pan American “Obviously it’s tough but I’ve
Championships in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico done it before at last worlds and
from Aug. 4-6, competing in the women’s it worked out pretty well,” she
high jump. said. “I just kind of have to trust
For Wolfe, the program helped most in my training on that back end of
learning about nutrition and gaining rec- the 200 free and recover as much
ognition. as possible in between those two
“I think it helped me greatly. I really events.” In the women’s 200
wanted to apply to a scholarship to have breaststroke semi-final, Kelsey
better opportunities since I’m so far in No- Wog of Winnipeg qualified
va Scotia,” she said. “I feel like it’s hard to eighth for Friday’s final in a time
get recognized over here. 2:24.16.
“The coaches there were able to help me “There’s definitely a few
out and talk to other coaches for school things that I know I can fix,” Wog
next year and I think they’ve done a great said. “It didn’t go quite as I want-
job of getting me to where I would like to ed to in that race, but it’s a sea-
be.” son’s best this year. It’s been a
From Sharpe’s end, it’s mainly about tough year so I can’t complain
helping them get free schooling. about that.” Hugh McNeill of
“There truly is no professional track if Langley, B.C., was 15th overall in
you really think about it, and truly only a the men’s 200 backstroke semi
very tiny per cent of kids who’ll ever make a in 1:58.86.
living running,” he said. Brayden Taivassalo of New-
“So for me, the greatest value is utilizing market, Ont., was 30th in the
that athletic ability to gain a free educa- men’s 200 breaststroke prelims
tion.” in 2:13.81.
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Ohtani not pitching in
Toronto disappoints Jays fans
Angels two-way player
will not start in Friday’s
game after pitching
in doubleheader
on Thursday
JOHN CHIDLEY-HILL
For months Cory Gosselin was
looking forward to seeing Shohei
Ohtani, a generational baseball
talent, pitch in person.
But the quirks of the Los An-
geles Angels schedule saw Ohta-
ni pitch in the day game of a
doubleheader in Detroit on
Thursday, meaning he won’t
take the mound on Friday at To-
ronto’s Rogers Centre and might
not play at all in the first game of
their three-game set.
“I’ve tried to get tickets to see
Shohei for the last few years and
for whatever reason, couldn’t
make it,” said Gosselin, who
bought tickets for Friday’s game
months ago after learning that a
friend’s father would be visiting
Canada from France for the first
time.
Gosselin had told his friend
that with the schedule lining up
to have Ohtani pitch it was the
best-case scenario for the father’s
first-ever Major League Baseball
game.
“It was pretty, pretty exciting
that it worked out, or it was go-
ing to work out, but it sucks now
that he might not even play,” he
said.
Ohtani signed with the Angels
in December, 2017, jumping from
Japan’s Nippon Professional
Baseball. The 29-year-old is
unique in the modern sport of
baseball because he can pitch
and hit at the highest levels, a
talent not seen since all-time
great Babe Ruth.
The 2021 American League
Blue Jays unveil detailed plans for
Phase 2 of Rogers Centre renovations
TORONTO
A new look at Rogers Centre will
give fans in the 100 level a new
view.
The Toronto Blue Jays un-
veiled detailed plans for Phase 2
of its Rogers Centre renovations
on Thursday, detailing how the
current 100-level seating bowl
and structure will be fully de-
molished at the end of the 2023
season.
The new seats will be installed
from foul pole to foul pole, ori-
ented toward the infield for im-
proved viewing specifically for
baseball.
“Our goal from the onset of
renovations was to transform
Sports in brief
BRONNY JAMES DISCHARGED
FROM HOSPITAL AS LEBRON
SENDS THANKS
LOS ANGELES Bronny James has
been discharged from Cedars-
Sinai Medical Center and is
resting at home, three days after
the 18-year-old son of LeBron
James went into cardiac arrest.
Dr. Merije Chukumerije, a con-
sulting cardiologist for Bronny
James, said in a statement issued
by the hospital Thursday that
James was “successfully treated
for a sudden cardiac arrest”
thanks to “the swift and effec-
tive response by the USC athlet-
ics’ medical staff” after the
incident Monday at the Uni-
versity of Southern California’s
Galen Center, where James was
participating in basketball prac-
tice. “He arrived at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center fully conscious,
neurologically intact and stable.
Mr. James was cared for prompt-
ly by highly trained staff and has
been discharged home, where
he is resting. Although his work-
up will be ongoing, we are hope-
ful for his continued progress
and are encouraged by his re-
sponse, resilience, and his family
and community support.” Earlier
Thursday, LeBron James said his
family is “safe and healthy” in a
message of thanks posted on
social media. The words were
the Los Angeles Lakers super-
star’s first public comments
since Bronny, his 18-year-old
son, was hospitalized Monday
morning. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Most Valuable Player pitched a
complete game, one-hit shutout
with eight strikeouts on Thurs-
day afternoon as Los Angeles
beat the Tigers 6-0. He then had
a home run in the evening game
of the doubleheader.
Ohtani has a 9-5 record with a
3.43 earned-run average so far
this season with 156 strikeouts.
At the plate, Ohtani is a .297 hit-
ter with 37 home runs, 79 runs
batted in and 12 stolen bases.
Because Ohtani plays so much
he only pitches every six games.
It was pretty, pretty
exciting that it worked
out, or it was going to
work out, but it sucks
now that [Shohei
Ohtani] might not even
play.
CORY GOSSELIN
BASEBALL FAN
Originally scheduled to play in
Toronto on Friday, a rainout on
Wednesday at Detroit’s Comerica
Park forced the Tigers and An-
gels to play a doubleheader on
Thursday, moving Ohtani’s start
up a day. Playing twice in one
day also makes it more likely
that Ohtani will get a day off on
Friday.
“I had checked a couple of
weeks ago, you know, counted
ahead, and he was going to be
pitching tomorrow and that was
very exciting,” said Gosselin on
Thursday afternoon.
“And then I saw last night that
he was pitching in the double-
header instead.”
Gosselin was not alone in his
disappointment.
“Wow. I heard that secondary
market tickets were selling for
high prices for his start on Friday.
Rogers Centre from a stadium to
a ballpark,” said team president
Mark Shapiro. “By completely re-
building the 100 level seating
bowl, we are introducing an au-
thentic ballpark viewing experi-
ence, with sightlines designed
specifically for fans to enjoy Blue
Jays baseball.”
The new 100-level seats will
have additional legroom, slats
on the back that provide more
airflow, wider seats between the
dugouts, cupholders throughout,
adaptable raisable armrest op-
tions and handrails in every ais-
le.
Designed specifically for base-
ball viewing, the renovations will
have all the seats oriented to-
ward the infield, improved sight-
ENGLAND BOWLED OUT FOR
283 ON THE FIRST DAY OF
THE FINAL ASHES TEST
AGAINST AUSTRALIA
LONDON Australia inched to
61-1 after bowling England out
for 283 with Mitchell Starc taking
four wickets on the opening
day of the final Ashes test on
Thursday. Harry Brook propelled
England’s “Bazball” brigade
with an 85 at The Oval, where
the Aussies – having already
retained the Ashes – hope to
win the series outright. There
were 31 fours and five sixes for
the hosts though they lost wick-
ets in costly clusters to be bow-
led out inside 55 overs. Australia,
which has a 2-1 series lead,
reached 61 for one in response
to trail by 222 runs at stumps as
the visitors try to become the
first Australian team to win
outright on English soil since
2001.
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CANADIAN CURLERS CAN
PARTICIPATE IN MULTIPLE
EVENTS AT 2026 OLYMPICS
Canadian curlers will be able to
compete in both mixed doubles
and four-player teams at the
2026 Winter Olympics. Curling
Canada announced changes to
its mixed-doubles qualification
process on Thursday. The dou-
bles team will be determined 14
months in advance of the Games
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Hopefully someone didn’t spend
a fortune on them. Still get to see
him hit though but damn!!” said
one Twitter user when Sports-
net’s Ben Nicholson-Smith an-
nounced that Ohtani would not
take the mound at Rogers Cen-
tre.
Another poster said he spent
$140 to watch Ohtani pitch.
“I have row four tickets and I
couldn’t be more bummed,” said
another.
Ohtani had been rumoured
to be on the trade market – with
the Blue Jays a potential
destination – as Major League
Baseball’s deadline on Aug. 1 ap-
proached. But the Angels sig-
nalled on Wednesday that they’d
be pushing for the playoffs when
they traded for right-handed
pitchers Lucas Giolito and Rey-
naldo Lopez from the Chicago
White Sox.
That made Gosselin question
the decision to start Ohtani in
Detroit instead of Toronto even
more as the Tigers are well out of
the post-season hunt. The Blue
Jays hold the third and final
wild-card spot in the American
League, a berth Los Angeles is
trying to earn its way into, mak-
ing the series in Toronto more
significant for the AL’s post-sea-
son picture.
“What blows my mind is that
they are keeping him to make a
playoff run so why switch it so
that he doesn’t play the better
team?” said Gosselin. “Let’s face
it, Detroit’s probably an easy
win, right? Or they should be an
easy win.
“So why not have Shohei go
tomorrow against the better
team and get an important win.”
Instead, Giolito (6-6) will
make his Angels debut in Rogers
Centre against Blue Jays ace Ke-
vin Gausman (7-5). Toronto had
Thursday off.
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lines with less obstruction, and
new seats closer to the field as a
result of the remodelled bowl
structure.
Major renovations on the 34-
year-old stadium in downtown
Toronto began after the 2022 sea-
son. Originally designed as a
multipurpose venue that has
previously also been home to the
NBA’s Toronto Raptors and CFL’s
Toronto Argonauts, the renova-
tions are designed to make the
venue baseball-specific.
As part of Phase 1 of the reno-
vations, all of the seats in the 500
level were replaced, with new
patios and gathering areas added
to the outfield.
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in Milan and Cortina, Italy, to
give flexibility to curlers looking
to qualify for multiple events.
The 16-team Olympic mixed-
doubles trials will begin in later
December, 2024 at a location yet
to be determined.
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UKRAINE’S KHARLAN
DISQUALIFIED AFTER
REFUSAL TO SHAKE HANDS
WITH RUSSIAN OPPONENT
Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan
has been disqualified after refus-
ing to shake hands with Russian
Anna Smirnova at the World
Championships in Milan, Italy
on Thursday. Kharlan, a four-
time Olympic medalist and
world champion, won the indi-
vidual sabre bout 15-7 and then
refused to shake hands with her
opponent. Smirnova remained
on the piste for over half an
hour after the incident, speaking
with a number of officials before
leaving. Ukrainian athletes in
other sports – including tennis
players Elina Svitolina and Marta
Kostyuk – have also refused to
shake hands with Russian and
Belarusian opponents following
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,
with Moscow using Belarus as a
staging ground for what it calls a
“special military operation.” In
fencing’s rules, shaking an oppo-
nent’s hand is mandatory and
failure to do so results in a black
card.
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REFUGEES, DOMESTIC-VIOLENCE VICTIMS
She was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2004 and received Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee medal in 2012

SUSAN FERRIER MacKAY teenaged years, Margaret tore through

books as fast as her mother could bring
them home from the library. She would re-

M
argaret Newall walked the path
of her life with a powerful in-
tent: to mitigate the hardships
of those in need. At five-foot-
two, she was tiny in stature but mighty in
determination; no social issue, unfairness
or need was too trivial for her attention.
From assisting Syrian and Afghan refugees,
to helping victims of domestic violence,
the people and causes that benefitted from
Ms. Newall’s skill at fundraising constitu-
ted her life’s work. Ms. Newall died from
cancer on July 8 at her home in Toronto.
She was 86. Her work continues through
the Newall Family Foundation Trust, which
supports, amongst other causes, access to
higher education and research into pre-
venting family violence.
Ms. Newall became a member of the Or-
der of Canada in 2004, and in 2012, received
Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee Med-
al. Honorary degrees were bestowed upon
her from universities in Western Canada; in
2022 she was named as a YWCA “Woman of
Distinction.” Such recognition was gratify-
ing to Ms. Newall but far less important to
her than the reasons it was bestowed.
Ms. Newall was greatly affected by the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(TRC), a federally funded investigation in-
to institutional abuse of Indigenous peo-
ples. Ms. Newall embraced this issue
through her membership in the First Uni-
tarian Congregation in Toronto. The Con-
gregation’s Truth, Healing and Reconcilia-
tion Initiative was one of many that took
place in communities across the country as
people sought to amend wrongs of the
past. Always keen to learn, Ms. Newall’s
eyes were opened to cruelties imposed on
Indigenous people, including the Sixties
Scoop, in which children were forcibly re-
moved from their family and placed into
the welfare system.
“Mom brought the full TRC report to the
cottage and read the entire thing. I don’t
know any other Canadian who did that,”
her son Ian said. “That summer, Mom
bounced between anger and sadness at the
injustices that were suffered by indigenous
peoples … then swept under the historical
carpet.”
To Ms. Newall, the report, plus other
emerging issues, such as indifference to
missing Indigenous women and the dis-
covery of mass graves of Indigenous chil-
dren, represented an unacceptable blot of
shame on the Canadian flag, a symbol of
which Ms. Newall was otherwise fiercely
proud. It was a natural fit for her Unitarian
congregation to support the Thunder
Woman Healing Lodge Society, an organi-
Margaret Newall, who earned the title ‘Woman of Distinction’ from the YWCA in 2022,
co-founded RESOLVE, a program to help students suffering from abuse at home, while she
was an elementary school teacher in Montreal. YWCA TORONTO
zation formed to help incarcerated Indige-
nous women reintegrate into society. Hav-
ing met at the YWCA Women of the Year
Awards, Ms. Newall developed a close
friendship with founder and executive di-
rector of the Society, Patti Pettigrew. Ms.
Newall raised the profile of the society
through her Unitarian network as well as
raising significant funds, some of which
she contributed personally.
“She was a humble person, and very
smart,” Ms. Pettigrew said. “My experience
as an Aboriginal woman has left me not ve-
ry trusting. Margaret actually restored my
faith in humanity.”
Margaret Elizabeth Newall (nee Lick)
was a prairie girl, born in Davidson, Sask.,
on June 10, 1937. She was the third of four
daughters born to Cecil Lick and his wife
Ona. The Licks were farmers who instilled
in their brood a sense of responsibility for
other people. Margaret’s sister Alison said
their father kept them in line with a simple
glower from his dark eyes. Even when
times were hard during the tail end of the
Great Depression in the thirties, anyone
passing through, or whose car broke down
nearby, would be invited to share a meal.
Before eating, Mrs. Lick would quietly in-
tone the letters F.H.B. The children under-
stood it meant “Family Hold Back” It was
one of many reminders that others came
first.
As soon as she could read, and into her
read them until new ones arrived. After a
hailstorm destroyed the family crop, along
with the means to fund Margaret’s univer-
sity tuition, she turned childhood piano
lessons to advantage by teaching the in-
strument to pay for her education, a B.A. in
English from the University of Saskatche-
wan. The piano remained forever in her life
as a source of joy. Another source of joy was
a tall, handsome man named James Ed-
ward (Ted) Newall, who was studying com-
merce at the same university. The two mar-
ried in 1959 and relocated to Montreal,
where they raised their three children. Mar-
garet got a teaching certificate from McGill
while Ted Newall went on to become an ex-
tremely successful corporate executive. He
died in 2012 of cancer.
As an elementary school teacher in Mon-
treal, Ms. Newall noticed that one of her pu-
pils put his hands over his head, as if to
ward off blows, when she approached from
behind. She was horrified that home, a
place of supposed safety, should be a place
of fear. It prompted her to later co-found
RESOLVE, Research and Education for So-
lutions to Violence and Abuse, as well as
the Prairie Action Foundation to support
research into family violence and identify
community-led solutions.
When it came to squeezing money out of
corporations, Ms. Newall was fearless.
She’d assume a trademark posture that
clearly stated she meant business. With
shoulders squared and an upward tilt to
her head, she’d quietly state her case. The
most cocky and unresponsive of CEOs
would inevitably cave. “Dad might occa-
sionally offer some tactical advice like,
‘You’re not asking for a big enough contri-
bution. You should ask for double that
amount.’ ” Mr. Newall said. “But the cour-
age, determination and tenacity were all
Mom.”
Mr. Newall said the last piece of music
his mother played on her Bösendorfer pi-
ano, just three weeks before she died, was
the Ukrainian national anthem. She taught
herself to play it in solidarity with the coun-
try after it was invaded by Russia in 2022.
Ukrainian and other refugees continue to
receive support through the family trust.
“I’m going to put a plaque up for Marga-
ret in our sacred circle as an honour.” Ms.
Pettigrew said. “You could say Margaret
walked her talk.”
Ms. Newall leaves her three children, Ali-
son, Ian and Malcolm, sisters Roberta and
Alison, eight grandchildren, and many
nieces and nephews.
Special to The Globe and Mail

REEVES CALLAWAY

MECHANIC, 75

Racer and designer modified cars to challenge manufacturers

NEIL GENZLINGER added about US$20,000 to the In late 1988, Mr. Callaway and
price, putting the starting price his engineers tweaked the Cor-
that year at about US$51,000 (the vette some more, taking aim at

R
eeves Callaway, who started
out driving fast cars and
then focused on creating
them, including one that set a
speed record of 254.76 mph in
1988, died July 11 at his home in
Newport Beach, Calif. He was 75.
His company, Callaway Cars,
said the cause was injuries from a
fall.
Mr. Callaway and his company
were well known in the world of
high-performance automobiles
custom-made for deep-pocketed
clients. He began by modifying
cars out of his garage, then estab-
lished his company in Old Lyme,
Conn., with the goal of challeng-
ing European manufacturers
such as Porsche and Ferrari that
were then making the world’s
fastest vehicles.
Soon the modified cars com-
ing out of his small shop were
drawing attention in motor mag-
azines and in speed competi-
tions. A key moment came in the
mid-1980s when Alfa Romeo, an
Italian auto company, sought
him out.
“They came to us,” he told the
Truck Show Podcast in 2021, “and
they said, ‘Look, could you, with-
in one year’s time, develop an Al-
equivalent of about US$140,000
today).
Automobile journalists were
impressed.
“The awesome power of the
turbos is revealed in three ways,”
Brock Yates wrote in Playboy in
1989, “a faint shriek of impellers
as they pump gobs of fuel into
the combustion chambers, the
whisk of the gauge on the dash
toward maximum boost and,
most vivid of all, the G-force that
seems to want to compress the
driver and the passenger into the
luggage compartment behind
Reeves Callaway, a self-taught tinkerer, started out racing dune buggies the seats.”
and other vehicles he modified with some success on the Formula Vee In the podcast, Mr. Callaway
circuit. VIA ERCIII TRUST/THE NEW YORK TIMES said Chevrolet had estimated
that demand worldwide for the
fa twin-turbo system for us that to become associated with Cor- Callaway Corvette would be
we could use to compete against vette,” Mr. Callaway said. about 25 cars. In 1988, the second
the Maserati?’ ” The result was an unusual year of production, The New York
He did, making about three agreement that made Mr. Call- Times reported that output that
dozen modified vehicles, but away’s company an authorized year could reach 400 vehicles.
then Alfa Romeo lost interest in “aftermarket tuner,” as news ac- “People who buy these cars
the project. Yet somehow one of counts put it at the time. Custom- don’t go that fast,” Mr. Callaway
those modified Alfas found its ers could order a limited-edition told the Times in 1988. “What
way to General Motors’ Black Callaway-modified Corvette at they’re buying is a configuration
Lake testing ground in Michigan, select Chevrolet dealers, and the capable of doing that. Why do
and soon GM was asking if he car would be shipped to Old people buy a 400-watt stereo
could do the same thing to its Lyme and outfitted with turbo- when 99 per cent of the time
Chevrolet Corvette. chargers and other modifica- they’re listening to music at
“This was a huge opportunity, tions. The first version, in 1987, much lower levels?”
250 mph (402 km/h) with a ver-
sion of the car that they called
the Sledgehammer.
Ely Reeves Callaway III was
born Nov. 22, 1947, in Bryn Mawr,
Penn. His father, Ely Reeves Call-
away Jr., was a textile executive
who in the 1980s founded Call-
away Golf Co., a maker of golf
equipment, and his mother,
Jeanne Delaplaine (Wiler) Call-
away, was a homemaker.
He grew up in the Philadelphia
area and in Connecticut, where
he graduated from New Canaan
High School in 1966. In 1970, he
earned a fine arts degree at Am-
herst College; for his senior pro-
ject he restored a Ferrari that had
won the 24 Hours of Le Mans race
in France in 1954.
Mr. Callaway, a self-taught tin-
kerer, started out racing dune
buggies and other vehicles he
had modified, having some suc-
cess, including on the Formula
Vee circuit. But it wasn’t a lucra-
tive profession.
“I decided I couldn’t earn a liv-
ing as a driver,” he told the Times
in 1994. Instead, he turned to
making souped-up vehicles.
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Chris Bowman, left, and Cass Goulding with dogs Summit, left, and Sushi step outside their Guelph, Ont. home, which was designed by Richard (Dick) Pagani in 1959 and built in 1960.
PHOTOS BY DAVE LEBLANC/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Green shag and modernist stylings

bring retro aesthetic to Guelph home
Goulding-Bowman
abode is well-suited
to its owners’ love
of 1950s-60s breezy
California graphic
design and architecture

DAVE
LeBLANC

ARCHITOURIST

GUELPH, ONT.

T
he green shag carpet has got
to go. Which is ironic, since
if there ever were green shag
kind of people, thirtysomething
couple Cass Goulding and Chris
Bowman would fit the bill. It’s just
that, well, their dogs, Summit and
Sushi: They think it’s a lawn.
“It’s gorgeous,” Ms. Goulding
says of the ruggy relic, “but it has a
musk now.”
“We essentially want it to be a
lounge down here,” adds her hus-
band. Eventually, what is now just
a yawningly large room with a
smattering of bowling alley seat-
ing and a few chairs will sport a
pool table, more furniture, and ar-
ea rugs.
“And we are paying homage to
the green, because I want lots of
green everywhere,” she finishes.
But a tour of the 1960 Goulding-
Bowman home in Guelph, Ont. –
located a 10-minute drive from a
heritage-designated, barrel vault
roofed home by the same archi-
tect, Richard (Dick) Pagani (1930-
2004) – reveals a greater concen-
tration of goldenrod and oranges,
since those are Ms. Goulding’s fa-
vourite colours. There is also
much that’s painted white, since
that keeps the focus on the archi-
tecture, which is what attracted
the couple to relocate from Osha-
wa, Ont., in 2019.
Bathed in light from the wall of
glass in the double-height foyer,
Ms. Goulding, a social-media The home is filled with mid-century modern design pieces. The basement bar has shag carpet, left, and the bathroom has a turquoise bathtub, right.
manager who also wields a mean
artist’s brush (several of the worked for almost a year. Pagani’s 2018). And while there was one Barcelona chair, there are con- the tub tile.
paintings on the walls are by her father, Dario, a Guelph-area con- owner after Ms. Campbell, Ms. temporary pieces of furniture It’s a good thing there are now
hand) says that the entryway was tractor-builder, also played a huge Goulding says some of their re- combined with “retro surrealism” niche manufacturers that make
the big selling point. The other role. modelling choices, and even collage art – Pam Am jets landing MCM-style tile and even ‘big bath-
was that Pearson International Working in Guelph until the some of their decor, was close on the moon by Thom Easton and room,’ in recent years, has re-
Airport is less than an hour’s drive mid-sixties, the work of Huget, Se- enough to their aesthetic that 1960s executives surrounded by leased colour sinks and tubs
for Mr. Bowman, who serves as cord and Pagani can be found all they’ve kept it. rocket ships by Frank Moth – again.
first officer on big cargo flights. over; the “praying hands” church The small kitchen, for instance, which keeps the house from look- Besides the bathrooms, future
And fittingly, the first thing a vis- at 206 Victoria Rd. N., the now al- had been moved over so it could ing like a museum. projects include the possible res-
itor will notice is the vintage Unit- tered police station on Wyndham drink in views of the backyard, “I like a good blend of styles,” toration of the foyer’s original
ed Air Lines travel poster, which is Street S., the Guelph Community and the dining area was put in its Mr. Bowman says. “Modernism in floor, more window replacement
also a nod to the couple’s love of Christian School (complete with a place. While Ms. Goulding and Mr. general is what I like … [but] (using original muntin place-
1950s-60s breezy California butterfly roof), the Pagani family Bowman wouldn’t have chosen there’s Scandinavian, there’s Ja- ment where possible), replacing
graphic design and architecture. home (with the barrel-vault) at 13 Shaker style cabinets – “I wish it panese, there’s American, there’s the traditional door of the en suite
After that big transparent wall, Evergreen Dr., and many other was a wall of fake walnut,” Ms. brutalism, there’re so many bits with pocket doors to gain more
the other star attraction is the buildings. In fact, many folks in Goulding says – and a plain white that I love that I just can’t dedicate space, and stripping some paint-
wide staircase of open treads, ul- the Royal City credit Pagani and backsplash, they enjoy having a myself to one section.” ed-over closet doors to reveal the
trathin balusters and wide hori- his firm for bringing modernism 21st-century kitchen with a Wolf This lack of dogma or purism mahogany underneath.
zontal boards. Its modernist, to the area. stove. And, obviously, the previ- will serve the couple well when it But it won’t be work, it’ll be fun:
sculptural form speaks to the in- The house, now owned by Ms. ous owner’s black-and-white pop comes to the (mostly) original “There was a station on TV called
fluence of two towering figures on Goulding and Mr. Bowman, was art wallpaper and George Nelson bathrooms. While the turquoise Deja View, so I watched Bewitched
the Guelph-born Dick Pagani: designed in 1959 and built in 1960 bubble lamp were welcome to tub and basket-weave tile under- and I Dream of Jeannie and Happy
Massachusetts Institute of Tech- for Gordon and Rita Campbell. keep the vintage teak dining table foot is wonderful, these, like the Days,” Ms. Goulding says about
nology architecture school Dean Ms. Campbell, in particular, was company. green shag, might have to go. The her childhood. “Since then I have
Pietro Belluschi, where Mr. Pagani well known in Guelph since she In addition to some solid and floor tile “is coming up in certain been obsessed with those set de-
received his degree, and, after worked, for 66 years, as an usher sober mid-century pieces such as places, and the other issue is the signs … and when we got to this
graduation, Gio Ponti in Milan, at the Memorial Gardens and the a George Nelson platform bench mould here that we can’t get rid house, I just think of it as if I’m de-
where the young architect Sleeman Centre (she died in and a Mies van der Rohe of,” Ms. Goulding says, pointing to signing for a movie or TV show.”
F R I DAY , J U LY 2 8 , 2 0 2 3 | T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
Real estate market still tilted in sellers’ favour
Home sales were up
1.5 per cent across
Canada, but were down
1.3 per cent in Ontario
CAROLYN
IRELAND
NEXT MOVE
TORONTO
T
he spring buying spurt in
Canada’s real estate market
has likely run its course but
sellers continue to hold sway in
many cities.
Robert Hogue, assistant chief
economist at Royal Bank of Cana-
da, believes the slower pace of
sales growth in recent weeks
marks a shift in the Canadian
housing market’s recovery.
National sales edged up 1.5 per
cent in June from May, while On-
tario diverged from the trend
with a 1.3-per-cent dip in the same
period.
Mr. Hogue points to the Bank
of Canada’s resumption of its rate
hike campaign and the unexpect-
edly solid price gains in some
markets in the spring as two rea-
sons for diminished buyers’ en-
thusiasm.
In June, new listings grew fas-
ter than sales for the second
straight month in Canada, but
much more supply is needed to
bulk up historically low invento-
ries, he adds.
“Buyers still face a scarcity of
options in the majority of mar-
kets, tilting the scale in favour of
sellers,” Mr. Hogue says in a note
to clients.
For now, prices continue to ap-
preciate at a rapid clip, Mr. Hogue
says, pointing to the 2-per-cent
jump in the aggregate composite
MLS home price index in June
from May. He expects that pace to
moderate through the remainder
of 2023 as higher interest rates
trim the purchasing budget of
many buyers.
Faisal Susiwala, broker at Re/
Max Twin City, says buyers in the
Ontario cities of Kitchener-
Waterloo and Cambridge are hes-
itant.
“Right now people have re-
tracted. They’re on the sidelines
waiting to see what happens.”
In addition to the uncertainty
surrounding rate hikes, the mar-
ket typically becomes somnolent
in July, he adds.
Bungalow near ski slopes finds buyer after trimming price
DONE DEAL
516670 7th Line, Blue
Mountain, Ont.
B LU E M O U N TA I N
Asking price: $1,998,000 (May,
2023)
Previous asking price: $2,190,000
(April, 2023)
Selling price: $1,998,000 (June,
2023)
Previous selling price: $835,000
(April, 2019); $540,000 (September,
2006)
Taxes: $3,813 (2023)
Property days on market: 39
Listing agent: Belinda Lelli, Royal
LePage Real Estate Services Ltd.
This house at 24 Winston
Cres., in Guelph, Ont.,
was recently listed by
agent Aimee Puthon of
Coldwell Banker
Neumann Real Estate
with an asking price of
$1,150,000.
PHOTOS BY
COLDWELL BANKER
NEUMANN REAL ESTATE
Ultimately they
show up and you’re
out. We’ve seen
some really nasty
things happening.
FAISAL SUSIWALA
BROKER AT RE/MAX TWIN
CITY ABOUT LENDERS
FORCING HOME SALES
THE ACTION In the Georgian Bay
countryside surrounding the
Blue Mountain ski resort, proper-
ties can spend two months on the
market without selling. But after
five weeks with no serious offers,
agent Belinda Lelli decided to
slash the asking price on this five-
bedroom bungalow by $192,000.
Within two days, her clients had a
firm deal for $1.998-million, in-
cluding furnishings, linens and
dishes.
“My clients were over the
moon, because some local agents
“These two weeks of July are
virtually non-existent when it
comes to sales.”
Even in a slow market, some
sellers are continuing to receive
multiple offers, but the ferocity of
the bidding has calmed down
since April and May.
Mr. Susiwala says sellers are
disappointed when showings and
sales slow to a trickle but he ad-
vises against signalling despera-
tion by cutting the price after two
weeks.
The area west of Toronto saw
new listings increase in June from
May, while sales remained at
about the same level.
In Guelph, Ont., the action
feels less chaotic as supply rises
and days on market stretch out,
says Aimee Puthon, real estate
agent with Coldwell Banker Neu-
mann Real Estate.
said we could get $1.7-million
or $1.75-million max,” Ms. Lelli
said.
“As soon as we got that offer,
don’t I get another full asking of-
fer … but by then, it was too late.”
WHAT THEY GOT This ranch-style
bungalow on a roughly one-acre
lot was extensively redesigned in
2019, inside and out.
It has about 2,500 square feet
of living space and three sets of
sliding doors to a wraparound
deck, hot tub, firepit and gardens.
“It feels like people have taken
their foot off the gas and they’re
sitting in their Muskoka chairs.”
She is seeing more conditional
offers, including some buyers
making the deal conditional on
the sale of their existing property.
Ms. Puthon is urging sellers to
remain patient.
“When a property doesn’t sell
in three days with five offers, peo-
ple tend to freak out a bit,” she
says. But Ms. Puthon reminds
homeowners that midsummer is
typically a quiet time.
She has heard from a few
homeowners planning to list af-
ter Labour Day but she says it’s
too soon to tell how the supply
will compare with previous years.
“People who really had to sell
or wanted to sell came on in the
spring.”
Mr. Susiwala is seeing home-
There are custom Italian fin-
ishes in the kitchen and a gas fire-
place in the living room. Plus,
there are four bathrooms, a sauna
and a car charger in the garage.
THE AGENT’S TAKE “You’re very close
to all the hills, Craigleigh [Provin-
cial Park], golf courses, and pri-
vate resorts, in addition to Blue
Mountain, so you have a lot of
amenities at your doorstep,” Ms.
Lelli said.
“We had end users in addition
to families who wanted to rent
R E A L ES TAT E | H3
owners increasingly stretched by
the higher rates and strongly ad-
vises people who are struggling to
pay their mortgage to work with
the lender before the sheriff ar-
rives and locks are changed.
Lenders send many letters and
try to work out a plan with home-
owners before they force a sale,
he notes, but borrowers need to
face the problem head on.
“Ultimately they show up and
you’re out.”
Mr. Susiwa has sold three prop-
erties under power of sale in the
past four months.
“We’ve seen some really nasty
things happening.”
The problem stems from the
fact that homeowners who pur-
chased in the spring of 2018 have
been seeing their mortgages
come up for renewal if they
signed up for a five-year term, he
explains.
Rates at the time were between
2.8 and 3.2 per cent, he says, but
today those homeowners will be
facing a rate of around 6.25 per
cent.
The homeowners who paid
down the mortgage each month
are not likely to be in trouble, he
says.
The crisis he sees today is
among those homeowners who
took out a home equity line of
credit (HELOC) in 2021, after their
property value had soared, to pay
for expensive items such as reno-
vations, swimming pools and
cars.
Mr. Susiwala is seeing dis-
tressed homeowners now that
the interest rate on a HELOC is 7.5
per cent instead of the 1.25 to 1.5
per cent they were paying in 2021.
If they need to renew or refi-
nance, they grapple with mort-
gage rates around 6 per cent to-
day and may not be financially
stable enough to pass the stress
test at a rate 2-per-cent higher.
Mr. Susiwala expects to see
more such cases and an increase
in listings as a result.
“That is the sad reality of what
we are going to face going into
September.”
An added pressure is that peo-
ple who have no choice but to sell
are moving to the rental market
and sending prices higher in that
segment.
Mr. Susiwala urges homeown-
ers to try to weather the storm if
they can, including borrowing
money from family members if
possible.
“This is not a time to panic and
sell at a loss,” he says.
it out for the ski season because
it has a high ROI [return on
investment]. I leased their prop-
erty last year for $40,000 for
less than three months, plus util-
ities.”
This property’s size was also a
draw. “Two families could go up
there and not run into one anoth-
er,” said Ms. Lelli.
“[And] that whimsical, tile pat-
tern in the kitchen just makes it
very different, so it has a very Eu-
ro look.”
– SYDNIA YU
H4 | REAL ESTATE
Searching for a slice of cowboy heaven
Escalating values
and TV hit Yellowstone
have led to growing
interest in ranches
KERRY
GOLD
OPINION
VANCOUVER
I
n his New Westminster, B.C.,
office, Rudy Nielsen has a Bo-
wie knife stuck in his desk and
a cow skull on the wall next to a
photograph of John Wayne.
The knife embedded in the
$140 desk is a reminder that a
mere desk is nowhere near as im-
portant as real estate.
The former rancher, at one
time the largest individual prop-
erty owner in B.C., continues to
sell ranch land and run a real es-
tate analysis company after five
decades in the business. The
world’s wealthy are driving the
market for ranches, and as a con-
sequence, he’s never seen so
much demand for ranch land in
B.C. They’re motivated by escalat-
ing values, and also by the Yellow-
stone TV show phenomenon,
about rich guys and their cattle.
“There are countries where
you can’t by that much land, but
that’s why they are all buying
here,” says Mr. Nielsen, who owns
LandQuest realty firm and who
keeps a database of all the prov-
ince’s ranches. He bought his first
ranch in 1972 and has personally
owned six more working ranch-
es.
“The prices ranches are going
for are nuts – the highest I’ve
seen in 50 years.”
A major driver, he says is glob-
al water shortages, and major
amounts of water are needed to
grow hay and alfalfa to feed cat-
tle. He says it takes two tons of
hay to feed a cow throughout the
winter, which requires consider-
able land and water.
He believes the world’s wealth-
iest are circling their wagons
around that land and water.
“The big boys with all that
money, I think they see some-
where down the road, 20 or 30
years from now, we are going to
have food shortages and we
won’t have enough water to feed
everybody.
“I’ve been saying for years that
our land here in B.C. is very valua-
ble because of our water.”
And even if the buyer turns
out to be a lousy rancher, the
land appreciates, so it’s a sound
long-term investment. A billio-
naire can pick up a deal in B.C.
“If you are a wealthy American
looking to have a Yellowstone
spread in Montana you will pay
double or maybe three times as
much for a ranch there than
here,” says farm, ranch and resort
broker Sam Hodson, who works
at LandQuest. “We are seen as
good value.”
It’s not easy to find out who
controls B.C.’s ranches because
they are sold as shares in a com-
pany, but everyone knows that
American billionaire Stan
Kroenke owns Canada’s biggest
ranch, the Douglas Lake Ranch
near Merritt, B.C. – complete with
private lakes. Mr. Kroenke is mar-
ried to Walmart heiress Ann Wal-
ton. His cattle company owns
271,000 deeded acres and a
licence to more than one million
acres of Crown land for grazing,
according to its website. He has
also bought other B.C. ranches.
It’s standard to have crown
land for grazing included in the
deal, as well as water rights, says
Mr. Nielsen, who’s also an
appraiser.
Unlike Alberta, Manitoba and
Saskatchewan, B.C. doesn’t limit
Co-op unit in prime location sells under asking
DONE DEAL
2015 Haro St., No. 106,
Vancouver
W ES T E N D
Asking price: $515,000 (April 17,
2023)
Selling price: $507,500 (May 9,
2023)
Days on the market: 22
Taxes: $1,389.75
Monthly maintenance fee: $296.35
Listing agent: Krystian Thomas,
Sutton Group West Coast Realty
THE ACTION The seller of this co-op
unit in the West End was relocat-
ing, and the buyers had been
looking to downsize in the area.
The seller received the one offer
and had a standby buyer who
This 670-acre ranch property outside of Kelowna, B.C., features a
5,156-square-foot log house. CLHBID.COM
what foreigners can purchase,
which makes B.C. a draw. Some
come looking for water to grow
hay and alfalfa. Others are look-
ing to cosplay the ranch lifestyle,
even if it’s only for a couple
months of the year.
“One guy flew up [from the
states] on his private jet. We had
a ranch for sale in Chilcotin,” says
Mr. Nielsen. “My salesman met
him and his wife, and the first
thing she said is, ‘Can our jet land
on the ranch?’ My salesman said,
‘No, you can’t land a jet that size
there.’ So they didn’t buy it.
“There are players out there
with a hell of a pile of money,”
says Mr. Nielsen, who knows
many of them, both sides of the
border. “There’s status for a guy
to own a ranch once they’re rich.
It’s prestige.”
Another time he met with a
Chinese buyer and his entourage
who needed land to grow hay to
ship back to a massive sheep
farm in Mongolia. He ended up
buying somewhere else.
On Aug. 14, a ranch an hour
outside of Kelowna goes to auc-
tion, held online by Alberta com-
pany, CLHbid.com, a group of
lawyers and chartered account-
ants who specialize in farms and
ranches. The property includes
670 deeded acres, a licence for
73,000 acres of Crown land for
grazing and a lovely 5,156-square-
foot custom built log home that
easily cost about $9-million to
build, according to Mr. Hodson,
who sold the property three years
ago. The property is now being
marketed as “Yellowstone North
of 49,” a nod to the TV show star-
ring Kevin Costner that has
spurred so much real estate
ranch action. The starting bid is
$5.9-million, and it will likely go
for much more.
“In B.C., we see foreign buyers,
but for the most part we are
seeing the investment communi-
ty parking money in farmland, a
hedge against inflation,” says
CLH co-founder Roy Carter, a
lawyer and former farmer. His
work focuses on working farms,
but there’s a new kind of buyer
who’s clearly been watching Yel-
lowstone.
“The world has changed,” he
says. “We have sold land to a lot
of people that have never walked
on it.”
Most people who sell ranches
and farms have also worked on
them, so unlike some of their
new buyers, they know the terri-
tory.
“COVID seemed to accelerate
things in the world, including the
philosophy that I should have my
portfolio diversified out of the
stock market and put it in real es-
tate,” Mr. Carter says.
Selling through an auction of-
fers transparency and a way for
“the market to find itself,” the
way that residential is sold in
New Zealand and Australia, he
says.
Tyler Ruttan, the company’s
director of sales, says buyers can
bid on properties over a two-
hour window from their desks, so
the process is interactive. He ex-
pects the buyer for Yellowstone
North of 49 to be a wealthy per-
son living in West Vancouver who
wants a family legacy property.
Global real estate firm Engel &
Volkers formed a ranch and farm
division in the last couple of
years, setting up shop as far away
as Jackson Hole, Wyo. – which is
said to be crawling with billio-
naires – and B.C.’s Okanagan,
aiming to service urbanites look-
ing for the cowboy lifestyle.
Okanagan realtor Richard
Deacon is part of that division,
and he had his own slice of cow-
boy heaven in searing hot Merritt
for 10 years – a manageable
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L
“ranchette” of 20 acres with a log
house where he wrote country
music and breathed in the smell
of sagebrush each morning.
A couple of years ago he listed
a property for an American seller,
around 300 acres in size near
Golden, raw land with an old
homestead and some barns. The
Yellowstone TV show was just
gaining in popularity and inqui-
ries came from all over the world.
“Most were pretend, or enthu-
siastically wanting to be in that
Yellowstone cowboy lifestyle,” he
says.
He estimates about one-third
of buyers are looking for a bolth-
ole, something self-sustaining
with water rights such as creeks,
lakes and ponds.
He remembers showing the
ranch with a private lake to a
wealthy buyer from Vancouver
who pulled up in a BMW on a rut-
ted dirt road.
“I thought, ‘Wow, this guy is in
over his head. Often people really
do have this romantic notion of
buying a property like this, and
maybe they don’t care how they
will even use it. It’s a lifestyle
meets trophy asset scenario in
many cases.”
was willing to make an offer if
the first deal fell through, says
listing agent Krystian Thomas.
The deal completed July 25.
WHAT THEY GOT The 734-square-
foot apartment is in a 19-unit
building called The Arniston,
next to Stanley Park in the West
End.
Built in 1948, the unit fea-
tures original oak hardwood
floors throughout, a retro 1950s
galley kitchen with new ap-
pliances, a bedroom big enough
for a king-size bed, storage, park-
ing with permit, shared laundry
room and a workshop in the
building.
It’s next to Lost Lagoon, and
steps to the seawall and shop-
ping. Because it is an equity
co-op building, there was a
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Like most rules in real estate,
the ranch trend is largely a mat-
ter of following the big money.
During the pandemic, the value
of ranches went up 50 per cent,
says Mr. Hodson.
“You see the Walmarts and Bill
Gates investing in farmland all
across North America. There is
the Yellowstone aspect to it, but
it’s also about parking some of
their money in real estate and
agricultural land. It’s a good place
to put it.”
While most buyers are from
Canada, he estimates that about
15 per cent of buyers are foreign,
including Americans, Europeans
and, more recently, buyers from
China.
“We are starting to see Chinese
investment just in the last five
years or so. The Chinese investors
are usually more focused on
downtown Vancouver, buying
office buildings.
“And now they have started to
get the idea that rural property in
B.C., specifically if it’s income
producing like a farm or a ranch,
is a good deal, and a good place to
park some money. So we are see-
ing them filter into our world
more and more.”
35-per-cent minimum down pay-
ment required, as well as restric-
tions, including no pets, no rent-
als and no smoking.
THE AGENT’S TAKE Equity co-op
buildings are the precursor to
strata condos, and most of them
were built in the forties, fifties
and sixties, says Mr. Thomas,
who specializes in co-ops. Buyers
are purchasing a share of a com-
pany that owns the building and
the land, as opposed to a strata
condo, in which the buyer only
owns their unit.
“This one didn’t have a view,
but it is a very nice unit, with
good flow,” says Mr. Thomas.
“The buyers wanted to be next to
Lost Lagoon and in the West End.
It is a prime location.”
– KERRY GOLD
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Growing pains for garden suites

Toronto’s expansion
of multiplex zoning
brings hope, but there
have been painful
experiences of plans
to densify the city

JOHN LORINC TORONTO

K
athy Wainburg, a renovator,
decided to take advantage
of the City of Toronto’s new
garden suites bylaw with a home
she owns in the St. Clair West ar-
ea, but her project had a bit of a
twist. Council moved to allow gar-
den suites – also known as acces-
sory dwelling units (ADUs) – last
year, with a bylaw that allows
homeowners to erect a freestand-
ing structure in their backyards –
a move ostensibly meant to add
“gentle density” to house neigh-
bourhoods that have seen steady
population declines in recent
decades.
The new rules theoretically
permit garden suites to be up to
60 square metres (about 650
square feet), subject to certain de-
sign restrictions, including set-
backs, angular planes on the sec-
ond floor and unimpeded access
to the street. But if these boxes
could be checked, these projects
would be approved “as of right,”
meaning no re-zonings or leng-
thy committee of adjustment ap-
peals.
Ms. Wainburg wanted to build
a structure adjacent to a new
backyard pool, with a cabana on
the main floor and a one-bed-
room apartment on the second.
Her architect, Matt Hagen, includ-
ed a cantilevered canopy off the
side to provide a shady area next
to the pool.
But that canopy – a feature that
wouldn’t normally attract any at-
tention from planners – turned
out to be, if not a show stopper,
then certainly a source of bureau-
cratic friction that has held up an
approvals process that was sup-
posed to be much more seamless.
The reason: the planning exam-
iner decided to count the area un-
der the overhang as part of the al-
lowable floor space for the entire
garden suite, which means reduc-
ing the interior area.
“I’ve dealt with the city be-
fore,” Ms. Wainburg says with a
sigh, “so I know what it’s like.”
As Mayor Olivia Chow takes of-
fice with a clear mandate to accel-
erate approvals for all forms of
housing, such experiences –
which are entirely commonplace
– may receive more scrutiny from
owners and investors aiming to
add rental units ranging from
modest garden suites to the new-
ly approved multiplex buildings
to high-rises on public land.
Over the past four years, coun-
cil has voted to allow the devel-
opment of laneway suites, garden
suites, rooming houses, duplex-
es, triplexes and fourplexes any-
where in the city “as of right,”
subject to specific conditions set
out in the bylaws.
In California, similar reforms
have triggered an ADU building
boom in recent years. “The num-
ber of ADU permits issued across
California increased from almost
9,000 in 2018 to 12,392 in 2020,” a
2021 University of California Ber-
keley study found. “From 2018 to
2020, Californian jurisdictions
permitted 33,881 ADUs and 22,695
Kathy Wainburg wanted to build a structure adjacent to her new pool that had a cabana on the main floor and a one-bedroom apartment on the
second floor. A city planning official decided to count the cantilevered canopy off the side as part of the allowable floor space. MATT HAGEN
This rendering shows how overhangs can count against the maximum
floor space allowed by city bylaws. FABRICATION STUDIO
ADUs were added to the state’s
housing supply.” Most, the study
goes on to say, were in transit-ori-
ented and relatively affluent
neighbourhoods with a large pro-
portion of new homeowners or
owners carrying a mortgage.
Toronto’s progress over the
same time frame has been halting
by comparison. To date, the city
says it has issued building per-
mits for 423 laneway houses. The
planning department has re-
ceived 149 applications for gar-
den suites, with 55 permits issued.
As for multiplexes, the city in
2022 received 402 applications for
duplexes and triplexes. And so far
this year, another 313 applications
for projects up to four units have
come over the transom. (The
planning department will moni-
tor the use of the garden suites
bylaw until next year or the 200th
application, whichever comes
first.)
While city officials have
worked out most of the bugs from
the laneway suite bylaw – e.g., al-
lowing the use of sprinkler sys-
tems as an alternative form of fire
safety for units further away from
hydrants than the bylaw specifies
– the garden suites regulations
are still forcing homeowners and
their consultants to spend
months haggling over seemingly
trivial details.
Mr. Hagen, an architect with
Lanescape, says he’s encountered
several projects where planning
staff have insisted that exterior
features such as planter boxes
and overhangs above the main
door are counted against the
maximum overall floor space,
which is already constrained due
to regulations that require garden
suites to have second-floor rooms
with sloped walls to satisfy angu-
lar plane rules. “Every square inch
counts,” he says, adding that a
strict application of the bylaw will
produce boxy structures that lack
external adornments considered
entirely commonplace in any
other residential dwelling. “It’s
another road block.”
And not the only one. Accord-
ing to Mr. Hagen, other projects
have gotten tangled up in obscure
rules around rights-of-way be-
tween adjacent properties that
share, for example, a driveway. In
FAST-TRACKING ADUS
In 2021, the Los Angeles Depart-
ment of Building and Safety
(LADBS) glommed on to a new
way to manage the torrent of
applications for accessory dwell-
ing units (ADUs), as garden
suites are known in the U.S. The
boom began in the late 2010s,
when state legislators passed a
series of laws meant to prevent
municipalities from blocking
ADUs. These included a manda-
tory two-month turn-around on
applications – a time-line that
remains something of a fantasy
here.
To circumnavigate the cum-
bersome work of processing
individual applications, LADBS
officials set to work preapprov-
ing standardized designs pro-
duced by local architecture firms.
According to the department’s
website, homeowners can
choose from 72 models, in
various shapes and sizes. These
are itemized in a kind of online
catalogue, complete with floor
plans and renderings, not unlike
the “pattern books” that Canada
Mortgage and Housing created
in the 1940s and 1950s to
hasten new home construction.
some cases, the right-of-way only
exists on a survey – the shared
drive is open – but planning ex-
aminers insist that access to the
garden suite in the rear yard
must, in such cases, be entirely on
the owner’s property – a provi-
sion that can be a deal-breaker
because of fire-access standards.
“It’s just another layer of uncer-
tainty.”
Architect Francois Abbott cites
other instances where redundant
or antiquated rules have forced
clients to spend thousands of dol-
lars and months waiting for ap-
The designs are the intellectual
property of the firm that created
them. LADPS also publishes
approvals metrics.
California is by no means
alone in expediting ADUs as a
means of battling the urban
housing crisis. For example, in
Portland, widely seen as ground
zero of the American ADU
revolution, turn-around times
run from two to four months.
Not all California cities have
embraced the new rules. A
recent study by the Pacific Legal
Foundation found that the city
of San Diego, for example, saw
its application-turnaround times
lengthen in the past few years in
response to opposition from
local politicians and homeown-
ers. Still, as Toronto architect
Francoise Abbott points out,
Toronto’s planning department
should set up a dedicated team
of planners that only processes
ADUs, as is done in some U.S.
cities. “That’s so smart,” he
says. “Because the amount of
the knowledge you need to
approve one or to understand
what’s happening is so simple.
It’s so simple.”
provals. He mentions a garden
suite project in Toronto’s High
Park neighbourhood where the
owner wants to replace an old ga-
rage, but the piece of land sits
within six metres of a corner,
which, according to old zoning
rules, is off limits. In that case, his
client had to wait for eight weeks
to get a new survey, only to be told
by the examiner that the project
had to go to committee of adjust-
ment, which cost another $8,000.
“It’s a long and expensive dance,”
he says. “[The approval] should
be very quick.”

Bloor West house sells for $501,000 over asking

DONE DEAL

13 Mayfield Ave., Toronto

S WA N S E A

Asking price: $1,399,000 (May,

2023)
Selling price: $1.9-million (May,
2023)
Previous selling prices: $716,000
(August, 2007); $475,000
(November, 2004); $285,000
(November, 1997)
Taxes: $6,768 (2022)
Days on the market: One
Listing agent: Motria Dzulynsky,
Re/Max Professionals Inc.

THE ACTION Agent Motria Dzulyn-
sky put out word early that this
four-bedroom house situated
just two blocks south of Bloor
Street and 750 metres west
of High Park was coming to mar-
ket.
As soon as the listing went live
on a weekday afternoon, five
parties made a beeline for the
home for walkthrough tours
and, within hours, two offers
were on the table. The sellers
agreed to an offer $501,000 more
than the list price.
“There wasn’t a lot on the
market at the time,” Ms. Dzulyn-
sky said.
“So, we knew people were
waiting for it to come out.”
WHAT THEY GOT This two-storey
house has a contemporary de-
sign with open living and dining
rooms, a separate kitchen and
family room, as well as a rear
mudroom and powder room
with laundry facilities.
The basement has its own
entrance off the back deck, along
with a kitchen, bathroom, guest
bedroom and recreation areas.
There is also a parking pad
on the 25- by 115-foot lot.
THE AGENT’S TAKE “It’s a great
street, not far from Bloor, and it
was quiet,” Ms. Dzulynsky said.
“It has a nice, south-facing
yard and the house was probably
bigger than average in the area
with four bedrooms, three bath-
rooms and a walkout from the
lower level.”
– SYDNIA YU
H6 HOME OF THE WEEK
The house at 7 Freeman Rd. was finished in 2016 and has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, a three-car garage and 6,000 square feet of interior space. PHOTOS BY ALEXANDER ROTHE
Modern infill
in a Toronto
neighbourhood
with a friendly vibe
Open-concept home has individual ‘pocket’ spaces that allow
a family to be together, while also having their own space
JOY SPEARCHIEF-MORRIS TORONTO
7 Freeman Rd.
TO R O N TO
Asking Price: $2,695,000
Taxes: $12,575 (2023)
Lot size: 145- by 120-feet
Agents: Kelly Fulton,
Royal Lepage/J & D Division
THE BACKSTORY
Tucked away among the tree-lined streets
and large family homes of Beechborough-
Greenbrook in northwest Toronto, rests a
modern take on the warm and welcoming
contemporary home.
A corner lot consisting of two lots, 7
Freeman Rd., was built from the partial
foundation of the original home and fin-
ished in 2016. The previous owners only
lived in the house for four years before it
was bought by business owner Lyne Guil-
lon at the beginning of the COVID-19 pan-
demic in 2020.
Having lived in Toronto for 25 years and
most recently near Yonge Street, Ms. Guil-
lon was looking to get away from the busy-
ness of Toronto when she found a peaceful
escape with a friendly group of neigh-
bours, ready to welcome her and her fam-
ily.
“I’m originally from Montreal and I’ve
never had just neighbours come at my
door and bring me some cookies or wel-
come me in my neighbourhood. People
are not friendly like that in Toronto,” Ms.
Guillon said.
“I could go knock at my neighbour’s and
ask them for some salt, like in the old
time.”
The location proved ideal for Ms. Guil-
lon as it is perfectly centred between the
east and west side of the city and has direct
access to the highway, giving her smooth
travel to her cottage in Blue Mountain,
where she is now hoping to move to full
time.
THE HOUSE TODAY
As a new build, Ms. Guillon was attracted to
the modern design of the house. The bal-
ance of textures, natural stone, wood and
glass gives the home a warmer feel, she
said, especially given its size.
With a substantial 6,000 square feet of
living space with five bedrooms, five bath-
rooms and a three-car garage, 7 Freeman
Rd. is perfect for Ms. Guillon and her three
sons, who are all between the ages of 19
and 23 years old.
Designed as an open-concept house
with individual “pocket” spaces, Ms. Guil-
lon found the home ideal during the
height of the pandemic, when she could
still be together with her family while giv-
ing everyone their own space.
Yet, what impressed Ms. Guillon the
most about the house is the ample amount
of light that comes through the windows.
“The builder did a beautiful job,” she
said. “Every angle of the room you have a
view, which is spectacular.”
The large windows provide an excellent
view of the idyllic neighbourhood with
southwest exposure. Yet, the number of
windows don’t provide less privacy as the
streets are lined with many mature trees
amongst the other large family homes.
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The house also sits on slightly higher
ground than the homes around it, allow-
ing the view of the city to remain mainly
unobstructed.
“The streets sort of sloped down so I
have the view all the way to almost Lake
Ontario. I don’t see the water unfortunate-
ly, but I could see all the way to the lake
shore,” Ms. Guillon said.
Ms. Guillon did do some renovations to
make the house “pretty” and better suit
her and her family’s needs. To create more
space for her adult sons, Ms. Guillon reno-
vated the basement to add a bedroom,
redo a bathroom, rip out the carpet for
hardwood floors and add glass railings.
“It’s more comfy for my boys, since
they’re older. They want to watch movies
at night, so they had their own space – the
boys’ room with their friends and all that.
So it worked perfect for us,” she said.
Ms. Guillon also did all the landscaping
in the background, where little work had
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been done previously, adding perennial
garden beds equipped with built-in irriga-
tion, to create a space that better suited en-
tertaining family and friends with barbe-
cues on the large exterior deck.
THE BEST FEATURE
Two large sliding doors open the exterior
deck up from the kitchen. The kitchen,
with its granite centre island and wall-to-
wall windows that provide natural light
while overlooking the backyard, is one of
Ms. Guillon’s favourite areas of the house.
The other is the main entranceway; a
feature that epitomizes the design ele-
ments of the house. The grand foyer fea-
tures exposed steel beams, modern glass
railings, glass windows lining the stairwell,
up to the 20-foot ceilings and rich hard-
wood floors.
“It’s magnificent,” Ms. Guillon said.
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The kitchen has a granite centre island and two large sliding doors that open up to the back deck, while also bringing light into the house. PHOTOS BY ALEXANDER ROTHE