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PM announces measures to spur
new housing, curb cost of living
Ottawa immediately cuts sales tax on rental construction, calls on provinces to do the same
MARIEKE WALSH
SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER
LONDON, ONT.
The federal government plans to strength-
en competition laws, cut the GST from new
home rental construction and push gro-
cery chains to stabilize prices or face conse-
quences, in a wide-reaching effort to ad-
dress the rising cost of living that the Lib-
erals acknowledge has left voters angry and
frustrated.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled
the measures at the end of a three-day cau-
cus retreat in London, Ont., where the be-
Lack of co-ordination stymies response
to Libyan floods as death toll soars
Onlookers take in the aftermath of Storm Daniel and its resulting floods in Derna, Libya, on Thursday. The UN’s World Meteorological
Organization says the crisis was worsened by ‘major gaps’ in Libya’s weather observation systems. ESAM OMRAN AL-FETORI/REUTERS
RAJA ABDULRAHIM
ISABELLA KWAI
Ali Elshanti arrived in the flood-stricken
city of Derna on Wednesday afternoon, part
of an aid convoy he and his friends org-
anized that left the city of Misrata in the
west of Libya 15 hours earlier.
What he saw when he arrived looked like
something out of a Hollywood disaster
film, he said Thursday.
Efforts to respond to the devastation
resulting from the collapse of two dams in
eastern Libya and the floods that followed,
killing thousands, were unorganized and
unco-ordinated, said Mr. Elshanti, 29, a
sports broadcaster.
“The situation is still very bad – there is a
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leaguered Liberals have been regrouping in
the face of declining public opinion polls,
falling fundraising numbers and a resur-
gent Conservative Party.
The caucus began with questions about
the Prime Minister’s leadership and wheth-
er he turned a blind eye to an issue that he
now concedes is at crisis levels. Mr. Tru-
deau’s cabinet ministers and backbench
MPs arrived at the meetings anxious to see
a clear plan from the government to
address the rising cost of living – the key is-
sue that Liberals say has sent their fortunes
plummeting.
To address the housing crisis, Mr. Tru-
deau announced Thursday that the gov-
mismanagement of the crisis,” he said,
speaking from inside Derna, where he was
helping the Libyan Red Crescent search for
survivors – and bodies. “Unfortunately, in
Libya, we suffer from a lack of crisis man-
agement. There is none. The operation on
the ground is not organized.”
Over the weekend, torrential rains from
Storm Daniel burst through two dams near
Derna, on Libya’s northeastern coast, de-
stroying much of the city and carrying en-
tire neighbourhoods into the sea. The
floods damaged many roads and bridges,
impeding access to the most stricken areas.
Even before the dams broke, residents of
the worst-hit areas were getting conflicting
signals from authorities on whether they
should evacuate, some said.
On Thursday, a United Nations official
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ernment is reviving a broken Liberal prom-
ise from the 2015 election campaign to
remove the GST from new rental construc-
tion, including apartment buildings, stu-
dent housing and seniors’ residences. He
called on provinces to follow suit so that all
sales taxes would be removed from new
rental construction.
“This is something that all Canadians are
worried about,” Mr. Trudeau told reporters,
saying the move would lead to more apart-
ment construction across the country.
AFFORDABILITY, A4
Liberals take aim at high grocery prices
with sweeping changes to Competition Act
said that the scale of the crisis was also in
part the result of the lack of a functional
meteorological authority in Libya.
“At the moment we have a crisis going in
Libya with even more than 10,000
casualties,” Petteri Taalas, Secretary-Gen-
eral of the World Meteorological Org-
anization, said in a briefing to reporters in
Geneva. “And one reason for that is the
meteorological service in Libya hasn’t been
functioning, thanks to the chaotic situa-
tion of the administration in Libya.”
While the Libyan meteorological service
did issue early warnings about heavy rain
and floods, it did not address the risk posed
by “the aging dams,” the World Meteoro-
logical Organization said in a later state-
ment Thursday.
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Almost half
of all hospitals
didn’t report
drug reactions
despite law
ANNIE BURNS-PIEPER
Nearly half of the hospitals across
Canada failed to report any seri-
ous adverse drug reactions in
their facilities in the three years
after the introduction of manda-
tory reporting requirements, rais-
ing concerns about the quality of
information Health Canada uses
to assess drug safety.
In December, 2019, it became
mandatory for hospitals across the
country to report serious adverse
B1 drug reactions to Health Canada.
The Globe and Mail obtained,
through an access to information
request, the first three years of da-
ta reported to the government af-
ter the law came into force.
An analysis of the data shows
significant variances in what hos-
pitals are reporting. The explana-
tions offered by some low-report-
ing health care institutions indi-
cate that not all of them are oper-
ating by the same playbook –
raising questions about the effec-
tiveness of the law, and whether
Health Canada needs to offer
more guidance, or possibly en-
forcement, of the regulation.
The data set, which provides
the number of reports from each
hospital, showed that 401 of 867
Canadian health institutions re-
quired to report to Health Canada
have provided no reports since
the law came into force.
Of the remaining institutions
that disclosed adverse reactions,
308 reported between one and 10
incidents over the three-year peri-
od. In contrast, the highest-re-
porting hospitals had more than
1,000 reactions.
HOSPITALS, A19
B.C. modifies
policy on
illicit drugs,
banning use
near play areas
MIKE HAGER VANCOUVER
The B.C. government has received
federal approval to amend the
rules on the possession of decri-
minalized illicit drugs, allowing
the province to outlaw them
around public spaces used by
children, including any neigh-
bourhood playgrounds, splash
pads, wading pools and skate-
board parks.
Starting Monday, police across
the province can seize opioids,
cocaine, methamphetamine and
MDMA – the illegal drugs that are
most commonly associated with
overdoses – that they find on any-
one within 15 metres of these
areas and they can also arrest and
recommend charges of posses-
sion.
In January, the province began
a three-year pilot project decrimi-
nalizing possession of up to 2.5
grams of these drugs anywhere
except outside of schools and
daycares, which Health Canada
approved through a federal ex-
emption from the Controlled
Drugs and Substances Act.
Premier David Eby acknowl-
edged Thursday at an unrelated
press conference that “a number
of local governments” across the
province complained about the
public consumption of drugs
after his government made this
significant policy shift.
“While we want people to be
able to come forward and not fear
arrest for struggling with addic-
tion, we also recognize that plac-
es where kids are … are not places
where people should be using
hard drugs,” he told reporters.
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SEPT. 15, 1874

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA LIBRARY INTERNET ARCHIVE COLLECTION

TREATY FOUR
CONCLUDED
‘T
he Company have stolen our land.” That
was the complaint of Saulteaux spokes-
person The Gambler (Otahaoman)
when the Queen’s representatives met
with the Cree and Saulteaux at Fort Qu’Appelle in
present-day southeastern Saskatchewan to nego-
tiate Treaty Four in September, 1874. When Commis-
sioner Alexander Morris sought clarification, The
Gambler replied, “The earth, trees, grass, stones, all
of which I see with my eyes.” The Saulteaux angrily
refused to begin treaty talks because they resented
the sale of their lands; they wanted the £300,000
that Canada had paid to the Hudson’s Bay Compa-
ny. They also insisted that negotiations be held
away from the HBC post on their territory. And
when the meeting finally got under way after a sev-
eral-day delay, the First Nations in protest did not
hold a pipe ceremony. Despite the acrimonious
start, Treaty Four, covering 195,000 square kilo-
metres, was concluded this day in 1874. But the
forceful expression of First Nations proprietorship
to the land prompted the Crown representatives to
insert a “blanket extinguishment” clause – for the
first time in the western numbered treaties – that
stated that the First Nations surrendered “their
rights, titles and privileges … to all other lands …
within Her Majesty’s North-West Territories.”
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share Canadian co-recipient of Breakthrough Prize
in life sciences for cystic fibrosis research
IVAN SEMENIUK
SCIENCE REPORTER
A Canadian biomedical research-
er who helped to revolutionize
the treatment of cystic fibrosis is
among the latest winners of the
Breakthrough Prize, the world’s
largest award for advances in
physics, mathematics and bio-
medicine.
Fred Van Goor, who was born
and raised in Calgary, was named
a co-recipient of a Breakthrough
Prize in life sciences together with
Sabine Hadida and Paul Negules-
cu. All three are colleagues at Ver-
tex Pharmaceuticals in San Diego.
Their award, worth US$3-mil-
lion, was announced on Thursday
by the Breakthrough Prize Foun-
dation.
Starting in the early 2000s, the
trio led the development of a
combination of drugs that can re-
pair the faulty protein that causes
cystic fibrosis, providing an effec-
tive treatment to more than 90
per cent of those afflicted with
the life-threatening disease.
Bulthaup Toronto Inc. Learning of the prize “was a to-
280 King Street East tal surprise. We’re super hon-
Toronto, ON M5A 1K7 oured and humbled by it,” Dr. Van
phone +1 416 361 9005 Goor said, adding that the
toronto.bulthaup.com groundbreaking research that led
to the award was only the first
step in a long road to get the drugs
to patients.
The son of a physician, Dr. Van
Goor said his scientific journey
began when he was a student at
the University of Alberta, where
he intended to study medicine
and instead became captivated
by the world of research.
“I just fell in love with the
whole idea of figuring out how
things work that are totally un-
known to anybody,” he said.
After earning a PhD studying
how the brain regulates growth
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and reproduction in goldfish, he
moved to the U.S. National Insti-
tutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.,
where he conducted studies in-
volving hormone secretion in
rats. It was work that could have
kept him on a conventional aca-
demic track, he said, but “I won-
dered what industry would be
like. ... I wanted to try it out.”
The son of a physician,
Dr. Van Goor said his
scientific journey began
when he was a student
at the University of
Alberta, where he
intended to study
medicine and instead
became captivated by
the world of research.
It was at Vertex that he took on
the challenge of fixing CFTR, a
protein that projects through the
membrane of cells and, in
healthy individuals, helps the
body produce mucus, saliva and
sweat. Because of genetic varia-
tions, patients with cystic fibrosis
produced malformed CFTR, lead-
ing to the buildup of mucus in
various organs, including the
lungs.
At at time when other scien-
tists were looking at ways to ad-
dress the underlying genetic
cause, the Vertex team instead
decided to fix the protein and re-
store its function. The approach
was to test millions of com-
pounds in laboratory studies us-
ing high-throughput techniques
and zero in on a handful that
showed some promise.
“They were on a fishing expe-
dition,” said Igor Stagljar, a mo-
lecular biologist at the University
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approach to sanctions
enforcement B4
of Toronto who studies the inter-
action of CFTR with other pro-
teins. “Nobody knew that this
would result in drugs that act as
chaperones and basically repair
CFTR.”
By 2012, Dr. Van Goor and his
colleagues had their first success-
ful drug, known by the trade
name Kalydeco. It proved effec-
tive in a small subset of cystic fi-
brosis patients but paved the way
to further drug combinations
that address a wider variety of ge-
netic mutations found in many
more individuals with the dis-
ease.
“They really deserve it,” Dr.
Stagljar said of the team’s prize.
“This is a major breakthrough in
the treatment of a devastating
disease.”
Four other Breakthrough
Prizes were announced on Thurs-
day, including one for Carl June of
the University of Pennsylvania
and Michel Sadelain of the Me-
morial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center in New York for their de-
velopment of CAR-T immune
therapy to treat cancer. Dr. Sade-
lain, who was born in France, also
earned his PhD at the University
of Alberta.
A third life sciences prize was
awarded to Thomas Gasser of
Germany, together with Ellen Si-
dransky and Andrew Singleton,
both of whom are based in the
United States, for their work in
discovering the most common
genetic causes of Parkinson’s dis-
ease.
John Cardy and Alexander Za-
molodchikov, quantum field the-
orists from Britain and Russia, re-
spectively, were awarded the
Breakthrough Prize in physics
while German mathematician Si-
mon Brendle was the sole winner
of the Breakthrough Prize in
mathematics.
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Parents urge action from Alberta Premier
on E. coli outbreak tied to daycares
Open letter questions
whether her party’s
campaign to ‘cut the
red tape’ will lead
to similar disasters
CARRIE TAIT CALGARY
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE
HOUSTON
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith
is facing fierce political backlash
for her government’s handling of
the massive E. coli outbreak tied
to a string of Calgary daycares,
with parents demanding to know
why she has said so little about
the unfolding crisis.
The company at the centre of
the outbreak, Fueling Brains A-
cademy, and its founders have al-
so said little, as hundreds have
been infected and dozens hospi-
talized – mostly children. The
company has sought political in-
fluence, both provincially and
with the federal government, as
Ottawa formulated a national
child-care plan in recent years.
In an open letter addressed to
Ms. Smith, parents with children
enrolled in Fueling Brains’ day-
cares said the provincial govern-
ment’s response to the outbreak
has not been enough to assure
them those in charge are capable
of managing the situation. The
letter also questioned whether
the United Conservative Party’s
campaign to “cut the red tape”
will lead to similar disasters
caused by gaps in health and
safety regulations.
“We would like to know why
we have not heard from you,”
says the letter, which has gar-
nered more than 700 e-signa-
tures by Thursday afternoon.
Ms. Smith is set to participate
in a government update on the E.
coli situation Friday morning,
marking her first appearance at a
press conference on the topic
since Alberta Health Services de-
clared an outbreak Sept. 4. She
did, however, field questions
about it on the sidelines of a car-
bon capture conference on Tues-
day – the same day Health Minis-
ter Adriana LaGrange and Chil-
dren and Family Services Minis-
Ottawa to refine way it counts
non-permanent residents
MARIE WOOLF OTTAWA
Ottawa will revise the way it counts non-per-
manent residents this month and take into ac-
count delays by the immigration authorities in
processing the paperwork of international stu-
dents, foreign workers and others who want to
extend their stay in Canada.
Rather than presuming they have left the
country 30 days after their permits and visas
expire, Statistics Canada will stretch the hiatus
period, counting them as still in the country
for around four months while their paperwork
is being processed.
The changes to its methodology follow
warnings from economists that there may be
around one million more non-permanent resi-
dents living in Canada than official figures sug-
gest.
Benjamin Tal, deputy chief economist at
CIBC Capital Markets, said Statscan’s system
assumes that temporary resident visa holders
leave the country 30 days after the expiration
of their visas, even though many of them re-
main longer and apply to extend their stays.
Mr. Tal estimates that about 750,000 of the
non-permanent residents absent from the offi-
cial numbers were missed this way. Another
250,000 – mostly international students – were
missed by the census, he says.
Statscan said on Thursday it has been
counting non-permanent residents as having
left the country 30 days after their visas ex-
pired but it believed Mr. Tal’s estimate of those
missed from the figures was too high.
But it said later this month it would revise
its methodology, and count non-permanent
residents as having left the country at around
120 days after their visas expired. This would
take into account the amount of time it is ac-
tually taking Immigration, Refugees and Citi-
zenship Canada to process visas.
Laurent Martel, director, demography, at
Statistics Canada, said because there is no exit
data on the number of non-permanent resi-
dents leaving the country, it has to rely on the
date at which permits to stay in Canada expire
as an indication of when non-permanent resi-
dents are no longer here.
He said the processing times for people
wanting to renew or extend their visas and
permits fluctuate. But he said Statscan has
been in close contact with IRCC and had ad-
justed its assumptions to accurately reflect the
time it is taking officials to process the paper-
work.
“For those who are in the process of renew-
ing their permits, we have to rely on assump-
tions. Up to now the assumption, designed in
partnership with the IRCC ... it was 30 days,” he
Records show Kids U Inc., a corporate name used in conjunction with Fueling Brains Academy both in Canada and the U.S., received more than
$1.75-million from Ottawa and the Alberta government between June, 2021, and February, 2023. TODD KOROL/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
ter Searle Turton first appeared es a number of daycares in Cal-
before the press to discuss the gary. Inspectors, on Sept. 5, found
outbreak. cockroaches and the smell of
“The recent press conference sewer gas, along with other
revealed nothing to regain our health violations, in the facility.
trust in the government’s ability “How is it that a kitchen with
to respond adequately to this sit- so many violations was quietly
uation,” the open letter says. allowed to keep feeding our chil-
Ms. Smith’s office said Thurs- dren with no consequence or due
day that the E. coli outbreak is follow-up? How can we rest as-
her top priority, contrasting the sured they are safe to eat at any
parents’ criticisms in the letter. facility governed by this province
There were 13 children in hos- when consequences for unsafe
pital owing to the E. coli out- food practices do not exist?” the
break as of Thursday morning, open letter says.
according to AHS spokesperson “When did the ability of busi-
Kerry Williamson. He said 11 pa- nesses to continue running be-
tients have hemolytic uremic come the priority over the safety
syndrome, including six patients of the public, especially our chil-
receiving dialysis. In all, 37 peo- dren? Is this what we can expect
ple have been hospitalized be- as the UCP continues to ‘cut the
cause of the outbreak. red tape?’ ”
There have been 329 lab-con- Sam Blackett, a spokesperson
firmed infections linked to the for Ms. Smith, said the Premier
outbreak, AHS said. It also count- will “have more to say” at the Fri-
ed 22 secondary infections, all day press conference.
within households tied to the af- “Premier Smith has made this
fected daycares. outbreak her number one prior-
Officials believe the outbreak ity. She has heard the heartbreak-
stems from a kitchen that servic- ing stories from parents and rest
said in an interview. “What we have done re-
cently is that we have adjusted the processing
time so now we’re changing that assumption.
“It will go from 30 days to 120 days because
right now it’s a better reflection of the reality
currently with IRCC in terms of processing
times.”
He said Statistics Canada would continue to
monitor the situation and may revise its as-
sumptions again if IRCC’s processing times
change. He said the publication of the revised
figures was timely and came against a back-
drop of a very large increase in the number of
non-permanent residents in Canada.
Mr. Tal welcomed the revised methodology,
which Statistics Canada described in back-
ground briefings on Thursday.
The federal government has boosted its im-
migration targets in recent years, and is now
aiming to admit about 500,000 new perma-
nent residents a year by 2025. But that doesn’t
include foreign students on visas or people on
temporary work permits.
Statscan said it believed its figures were ro-
bust and revised figures to be produced later
this month would not show an enormous dif-
ference. Mr. Martel said because it was working
closely with IRCC, “we truly believe that our
assumptions do make sense actually.”
He said non-permanent residents whose vi-
sas and permits had expired but had not ap-
plied to renew or extend them, and were still
in Canada, were not counted in the official sta-
tistics.
A former federal economist, Henry Lotin,
who is the founder of the consulting firm In-
tegrative Trade and Economics, said he began
telling Statistics Canada six years ago that its
population forecasts for non-permanent resi-
dents fall short.
Like Mr. Tal, Mr. Lotin has estimated that at
least one million more non-permanent resi-
dents are living in Canada than are captured in
official numbers.
“They know they had to change and I appre-
ciate they have responded to re-examine how
they count non-permanent residents,” Mr. Lo-
tin said.
But he said that there were still huge back-
logs at IRCC and many non-permanent resi-
dents have waited far longer than four months
to have their papers extended or renewed.
He said if 120 days is the average time non-
permanent residents have to wait for the pa-
perwork to extend their stays to be processed,
many waiting far longer would still not be
counted as in the country.
Mr. Lotin added that non-permanent resi-
dents waiting for extensions after the expira-
tion of their visas and permits were legally in
Canada.
assured action will be taken,” he
said in a statement.
Fueling Brains’ executives
have operated their business
with the backing of considerable
government funds. Co-founder
Faisal Alimohd was registered as
a lobbyist in B.C. until earlier this
year. Records maintained by that
province show Kids U Inc., a cor-
porate name used in conjunction
with Fueling Brains both in Cana-
da and the U.S., received more
than $1.75-million from Ottawa
and the Alberta government be-
tween June, 2021, and February,
2023. That includes $1.15-million
from Alberta in wage top up
funds and affordability grant
payments. The remainder came
in the form of federal emergency
wage and rent subsidies.
Fueling Brains also operates in
the U.S., where corporate records
list co-founder Anil Karim’s ad-
dress as a house in a Houston
suburb. That house was unoccu-
pied when The Globe and Mail
visited this week. The company’s
U.S. operations are situated in-
Convoy organizer’s defence
team points to support from
former Newfoundland premier
KRISTY KIRKUP OTTAWA
The defence of Ottawa truck con-
voy organizer Chris Barber played
video of former Newfoundland
premier Brian Peckford in court
on Thursday in which the past
politician spoke about freedom
and Charter rights during demon-
strations in early 2022.
Mr. Barber’s legal team wants to
paint a more peaceful picture of
their client, who is on trial for a se-
ries of criminal charges, along
with fellow truck convoy organiz-
er Tamara Lich.
Mr. Barber and Ms. Lich have
been charged with obstruction of
police, mischief and intimidation,
as well as one charge of counsel-
ling for each of those three offenc-
es. In addition, Mr. Barber faces a
charge of counselling others to
disobey a court order.
The pair’s charges stem from
their organization of a protest
that saw big rig trucks bring traffic
in downtown Ottawa to a stand-
still at the end of January, 2022.
The vehicles remained in place for
more than three weeks despite
calls from police to vacate the ar-
ea. Ultimately, officers had to
move on protesters, in one of the
biggest police responses in Cana-
dian history.
Mr. Barber’s defence played a
video in court from Feb. 14, 2022,
in which Mr. Peckford could be
heard stating “hold the line.”
The words “hold the line” are
considered central to the trial.
The Crown has described them as
the rallying call of Mr. Barber and
Ms. Lich.
Speaking to reporters outside
of the courthouse, defence lawyer
Diane Magas said videos with Mr.
Peckford are considered “very sig-
nificant.” Mr. Peckford was in-
volved in a process in the 1980s
that lead to the Constitution Act
of 1982.
“There’s different interpreta-
tions for the words ‘hold the
line,’ ” she said.
Ms. Magas said Mr. Peckford’s
presence in Ottawa lends legiti-
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side a 12th-floor Houston co-
working space. Company staff
said on Thursday that Mr. Karim
is in Canada.
Canadian records show that
the company has sought govern-
ment influence. Between May,
2020, and August, 2021, it made
38 communications with federal
officials under Kids U Inc.
Those include communica-
tions with members of Parlia-
ment, the Privy Council Office,
the Prime Minister’s Office and
senior government figures, the
federal lobbyist registry shows. A
Kids U representative lists two
communications in 2021 with
Bardish Chagger, who the gov-
ernment leader in the House of
Commons at the time.
Ms. Chagger did not respond
to a request for comment. Terry
Duguid, a Liberal MP from Win-
nipeg who previously held a par-
liamentary secretary role related
to Western Economic Diversifica-
tion Canada, said he did not re-
call interacting with the compa-
ny.
macy to the demonstrations, as
well as showing the lawfulness of
them. She said part of the defence
of her client will include a look at
the state of mind of the demon-
strators in Ottawa.
Ms. Magas also said videos
show Mr. Barber repeatedly call-
ing for other demonstrators to re-
main peaceful.
Another lawyer representing
Mr. Barber, Marwa Younes, played
a video from Mr. Barber’s TikTok
account from Feb. 3, 2022, in
which Mr. Barber said an individ-
ual who burned the Canadian flag
can “go home” and added: “We
don’t need you here.”
TikTok videos were played in
court as part of the cross-examin-
ation of Ottawa Police Sergeant
Joanne Pilotte, a Crown witness.
Another video from Feb. 5,
2022, shows Mr. Barber walking
near Parliament Hill. In it, he
points to people making “warm
food” and states “this is love.” Mr.
Barber also said in the recording
that the crowdfunding platform
GoFundMe had “messed up.”
Millions of dollars were collect-
ed for the Ottawa truck convoy
through GoFundMe in early 2022.
The platform later cancelled the
campaign. The online fundraising
platform has since confirmed it
returned all funds to the donors.
Earlier this week, a series of vid-
eos from Mr. Barber’s TikTok ac-
count collected by Sgt. Pilotte
were played in court. Some of the
content included Mr. Barber’s and
Ms. Lich’s arrests.
At present, all of the recordings
are considered part of a voir dire –
a trial within a trial – to determine
whether they will become admis-
sible as evidence.
Throughout proceedings,
prosecutors plan to argue Mr. Bar-
ber and Ms. Lich not only told sup-
porters to “hold the line” during
demonstrations in Ottawa last
year, but that they “crossed the
line” and committed crimes.
Ms. Lich’s and Mr. Barber’s de-
fence teams reject this and say
their clients participated in peace-
ful protest.
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Not everything is awesome, Justin Trudeau concedes

CAMPBELL are upset with the way things are deau has said often, no one level responded to Mr. Harper’s all-is- substantially by withholding fed-
CLARK going. Some of it might have of government can fix. well arguments with a facetious eral money for things such as
been lifted from one of Mr. Poi- Still, there was a shift in the singing of The Lego Movie song public transit and wastewater
OPINION lievre’s speeches. sense that Mr. Trudeau seems to Everything Is Awesome. plants.
“It is an extremely difficult be finally trying to echo the anx- Now Mr. Trudeau is the veter- But that’s not all that counts.
time for almost every Canadian,” iety of Canadians, and their an incumbent. And he has been Mr. Trudeau’s bigger political

‘T
here is discontent across
the country.”
That is a phrase you
might expect to hear from Con-
servative Leader Pierre Poilievre,
whose speeches focus on the
hardships caused by the high
cost of living and the general
brokenness of Canada.
But it was Justin Trudeau,
Prime Minister of Canada for the
past seven years and 11 months,
who was talking about disgrun-
tlement in the land on Wednes-
day. Or, as he termed it in French
in response to a reporter’s ques-
tion, “la grogne.”
He was speaking on the mar-
gins of a two-day caucus retreat
where Liberal MPs’ private chat-
ter undoubtedly included talk
about the national funk and
whether this prime minister is
the person to shake it. But it was
still strange to hear the Prime
Minister conceding Canadians
he said in answer to a TVA re- sense of urgency, over the cost of forced to admit that not every- problem is underlined by the fact
porter’s question. “We are facing living and especially the housing thing is awesome. that both of the housing an-
prices that are too high for hous- crisis. What does that change? Pre- nouncements he made this week
ing, for groceries, for gas. The It’s not generally viewed as in- sumably Mr. Trudeau hopes that were obviously things he should
cost of living is causing an enor- genious political strategy for a conceding that there are deep have done long ago.
mous amount of difficulties.” long-serving incumbent leader problems, such as a housing cri- The agreement with London
But Mr. Trudeau was not ac- to tell everyone that things are sis, will allow him to move on to was the first deal under a pro-
cepting blame. Au contraire. He bad and the country is upset. talking about tackling them. gram that was announced 17
was talking about non-Trudeau But there is no secret about On Thursday, he announced months ago in the 2022 budget.
reasons for the malaise, and as the palpable public angst. Maybe that the federal government will The removal of GST from pur-
we saw Thursday, the acknowl- Mr. Trudeau feels his first step to remove the GST on purpose-built pose-built rental housing was in
edgment of tough times allowed addressing his problem is admit- rental housing, which is a good the 2015 Liberal campaign plat-
him to talk about Liberal plans ting he has a problem. Or at least move. Earlier in the week, he an- form on which Mr. Trudeau first
and rattle the cage of others who that the country has a problem. nounced a first agreement under won power. The explanation Mr.
are to blame. Or something like that. Ottawa’s housing accelerator, Trudeau gave Thursday for not
So Industry Minister François- When Mr. Trudeau was in op- with the city of London, Ont., following through sooner on
Philippe Champagne will sum- position, in plotting a campaign which includes changing munici- that GST promise was pure bunk.
mon grocery-chain executives to to dislodge then-prime minister pal rules to encourage the build- That’s part of the late-man-
rap their knuckles over food pric- Stephen Harper, his team viewed ing of more housing. date cycle Mr. Trudeau is well in-
es. Mr. Harper’s regular assertions Neither is revolutionary, but to now. He has to acknowledge
And the new housing mea- that things were good under they stand up in comparison to the public angst or look out of
sures the federal Liberals an- Conservative rule as out of touch the proposals announced Thurs- touch. But it comes attached to a
nounced were accompanied by with public sentiment – and a day by Mr. Poilievre, which question about how much re-
calls for municipalities and pro- weakness they could exploit. Mr. amounted to various kinds of sponsibility the Prime Minister
vincial governments to step up Trudeau’s senior strategist at the threats to punish big cities that bears for discontent across the
to solve a crisis that, as Mr. Tru- time, Gerald Butts, sometimes don’t increase home building country.

Drugs: Sim says Vancouver

asked province to get Health
Canada to make the change
FROM A1

He said his government will introduce a new law when the

legislature returns to Victoria this fall that will add even more
new public areas where the possession of small amounts of
these drugs will be outlawed.
Jennifer Whiteside, Minister of Mental Health and Addic-
tions, declined to say Thursday at the same press conference
when the province first approached Ottawa to amend its ex-
emptions for decriminalization.
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim said the city had asked the pro-
vincial government to get Health Canada to make the
change.
“This is a positive step forward in helping to find balance
for our communities, including families, seniors, children,
and our most vulnerable residents,” he said in a statement
released Thursday.
Victoria Mayor Marianne Alto said decriminalization is
one part of the response to the toxic drug crisis, but it’s im-
portant to take steps that specifically protect children.
The change in January was meant to lessen the stigma of
addiction and motivate people struggling with drug use to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets supporters and community members after remarks at a Rosh Hashanah
seek help – part of the response to a toxic drug crisis that is celebration at the Bernard Betel Centre in Toronto on Thursday. CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV/THE CANADIAN PRESS
killing six people in the province daily.
Earlier this week, BC United Leader Kevin Falcon said his
party would immediately end the NDP’s “reckless decrimi-
nalization of illicit drugs” if it is Affordability: Liberals’ revived plan to lift GST
elected in the next provincial
The change in election a year from now. His par- for new rental construction widely welcomed
ty would also enact a complete
January was meant ban on open drug use in parks, FROM A1 Ottawa’s plan to lift the GST Conservative Leader Pierre Poi-
to lessen the stigma playgrounds, beaches and public for new rental construction was lievre released his housing plan
of addiction and spaces. He said Thursday’s changes widely welcomed on Thursday in Vancouver. The Official Oppo-
motivate people On Thursday, federal Minister marked the beginning, not the and comes after premiers, hous- sition’s momentum in the polls
of Mental Health and Addictions end, of his government’s re- ing and construction groups and and fundraising follows months
struggling with drug Ya’ara Saks said her government sponse to the affordability crisis, other experts had called for the of Mr. Poilievre attacking the
use to seek help. granted B.C. the initial exemption adding that “Canadians are change. government over housing, the
as an innovative solution to the struggling right now.” GST charges were found to be cost of living, and the economy.
crisis of people dying from tainted illicit drugs. In response to The 100-per-cent rebate on the “one of the most significant bar- The Conservatives would also
the recent amendment, she said in a statement: “This is a key federal goods and services tax, riers” to construction in B.C., ac- remove the GST on the building
step in ensuring people feel safe in their communities, while which is effective immediately, cording to a recent report from of any new homes, but their
continuing to support some of the most vulnerable popula- will be available to all new con- the Urban Development Institute measure would apply only to
tions.” struction that begins before the in Vancouver. The group said the buildings with rental prices be-
In January, Ms. Saks’s predecessor, Carolyn Bennett, told end of 2030 and is completed be- federal tax is the largest single low market value. The party said
The Globe and Mail that B.C. will track the progress of the fore the end of 2035. The govern- tax or fee in a rental project bud- they would fund this using the
decriminalization pilot through a range of indicators. These ment estimates that the pro- get, accounting for almost 10 per money the Liberals allocated for
include “morbidity and mortality, in terms of overdoses; gram, in its first six years, will cent of an average unit’s starting the Housing Accelerator Fund,
overall rates of substance use, but also the interactions with cost the treasury $4.6-billion. monthly rent in Vancouver. which the Conservatives said is a
the criminal justice system; the people who have been Ontario has already said it CIBC deputy chief economist failed policy.
charged for simple possession, or trends in drug seizures.” would lift the provincial sales tax Benjamin Tal, who briefed the Mr. Poilievre said he will intro-
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is also funding from new rental construction “as federal government at its August duce the changes through a pri-
a separate review of the decriminalization pilot that will soon as possible.” Federal Hous- cabinet retreat, said Thursday vate member’s bill in the House
build on the B.C. data. ing Minister Sean Fraser said the change “will lead to a notable of Commons that he is calling
The production, trafficking, sharing and exportation of Newfoundland and Labrador has increase in purpose-built rental the Building Homes Not Bureau-
these drugs remain illegal, but officers who find people with also agreed to lift its sales tax. activity all over the country.” cracy Act. As part of the bill, the
small amounts can hand out resource cards with informa- In statements to The Globe “For too many years we used Conservatives would require ci-
tion on local health and social services. and Mail, Quebec and Nova Sco- demand tools to fight supply is- ties to increase the number of
Supporters say decriminalization is a critical step in over- tia said they were still reviewing sues. This is a significant move to homes built by 15 per cent each
hauling punitive drug laws that have caused more harm than the federal decision. British Co- improve supply,” he told The year or incur federal funding
good and are incompatible with government and public- lumbia does not charge provin- Globe. He said it was one of the cuts. A bonus would be given to
health messaging that addiction is a health issue. cial sales tax on the sale of pur- recommendations he made to cities that exceed the housing
pose-built rental buildings and cabinet last month. targets.
With a report from The Canadian Press Alberta does not have a provin- The 2015 Liberal promise to re- “We need a mathematical for-
cial sales tax. move GST would have also ap- mula that gives more money to
With an eye on the grocery plied to rental-building renova- cities that build more homes and
sector in particular, the govern- tions. The program announced less money to municipalities that
ment said reforms to the Compe- Thursday does not cover such block homes,” Mr. Poilievre said,

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decided not to pursue the prom-
ise when it was first made in 2015
because the government deter-
mined that “there were more ef-
fective ways than GST rebates to
encourage the construction of af-
fordable rental housing.”
Asked to explain to voters why
he had decided to act now on a
program that his government
had already promised eight years
ago and then ditched seven years
ago, Mr. Trudeau said the context
had changed because of the re-
cent rise in interest rates.
Mr. Fraser said the govern-
ment believed it could get a “bet-
as he called on the Liberals and
NDP to support his bill when it is
introduced in the House of Com-
mons.
He also proposes selling 15 per
cent of federally owned buildings
contingent on them being turn-
ed into affordable homes. As
well, Mr. Poilievre said the feder-
al housing agency should proc-
ess applications within 60 days.
The opposition parties widely
criticized the Liberals for an-
nouncing a policy that they had
previously rejected. NDP Leader
Jagmeet Singh said Canada
wouldn’t be in the current crisis
if the government hadn’t broken
past promises and had acted fas-
ter to implement the ones it did
move on.
“We’re not in this situation by
accident,” Mr. Singh said in a
statement. “Justin Trudeau made

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As Category 1 Hurricane Lee bar-

rels toward the Maritimes, some
Nova Scotians still don’t have cell
service to make emergency calls
or receive emergency alerts – an
issue politicians promised to fix
after this summer’s flash flood
that killed four people, including
two children.
Premier Tim Houston told re-
porters Thursday that “we have a
lot of work to do on the cell cov-
erage,” but despite his office
ramping up “internally on some
expertise to focus on some pos-
sible solutions,” the problem still
isn’t fixed. He said he is awaiting
help from the CRTC, Canada’s
telecommunications regulator,
which is responsible for the Na-
tional Public Alerting System.
“We understand that in 2023
people have a right to expect that
they have cell service, and they
understand the importance of it
when we’re going through a cri-
sis,” said Mr. Houston. People walk along the waterfront as rain falls in Halifax on Thursday. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are being told to prepare for strong winds and
In July, Deputy Prime Minister heavy rain as Hurricane Lee is expected to make landfall this weekend as a post-tropical storm. DARREN CALABRESE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Chrystia Freeland called on the
Canadian Radio-television and Scotia – places where there are severity of the storm.” also expected with the highest munication.
Telecommunications Commis- many fishing communities. The Environment Canada issued a ones hitting the Bay of Fundy ar- There is currently a legal fight
sion to fix cellular dead zones in watch means Hurricane Lee tropical storm watch for Saint ea. “We have to wait and see how between the federal government
Nova Scotia in the wake of the could pack near-hurricane- John County, Fundy National the storm surge will coincide and the provinces over who
deadly floods. strength winds as high as 120 Park, and Moncton and South- with the tide of the day,” said Mr. should foot the bill for its repair
François-Philippe Cham- kilometres an hour. east New Brunswick as well as Hubbard. or replacement, a cost that rang-
pagne, the federal minister re- During a press conference on much of mainland Nova Scotia Meanwhile, the Maritimes are es from $400- to $650-million.
sponsible for the CRTC, did not Thursday, New Brunswick Public stretching from Halifax to Cum- experiencing downpours indi- In response to media ques-
respond to a request for com- Safety Minister Kris Austin said berland County, Lunenburg rectly related to Lee through to tions about the isthmus poten-
ment. people should prepare for poten- County, Hants County and the Friday, which Environment Cana- tially flooding as a result of Lee,
While the storm is getting tial electrical blackouts of 72 Valley region of the province. da says is creating flood risks that Mr. Houston said: “There is a lot
weaker, it is growing in size and is hours with food, medication, Residents are being warned to could become exacerbated when of engineering work that contin-
expected to have an impact on a portable radios and water. And prepare for power outages and Lee makes landfall. ues to take place around the isth-
wide swath of both New Brun- stay away from the coastline localized flooding with the stron- Concerns have resounded re- mus and the discussion around
swick and Nova Scotia, according where waves and storm surge gest impact forecast for Saturday, cently about the Chignecto Isth- who will pay, in the fullness of
to the Canadian Hurricane Cen- could be unpredictable. the Canadian Hurricane Centre’s mus, a low-lying area of land that time, that discussion will contin-
tre. “I do want to stress the impor- meteorologist Ian Hubbard said connects New Brunswick and No- ue.”
Environment Canada issued a tance of not being complacent Thursday afternoon. va Scotia. The area is at risk of Nova Scotia said it will close its
hurricane watch on Thursday for with this storm,” said Mr. Austin. Wind is forecast to hit 100 flooding owing to the need to re- provincial parks on Friday be-
Grand Manan and coastal areas “Don’t underestimate the impact km/h along the coast along with place or repair the dike system cause of predicted heavy rain, se-
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Ontario to cover RSV vaccine for

nursing-home residents, part of fall blitz
Province’s
immunization
campaign will also
include updated shots
for flu and COVID-19
KELLY GRANT
HEALTH REPORTER
Ontario seniors living in nursing
homes will be the first in Canada
to receive public coverage for a
new vaccine against respiratory
syncytial virus, the province said
Thursday as it unveiled plans for
a fall immunization blitz that al-
so features updated shots for CO-
VID and the flu.
Until this year, there were no
approved vaccines to mitigate
the toll of RSV, a pathogen that is
most dangerous to infants and
the elderly. Health Canada ap-
proved the first RSV vaccine for
people 60 and older last month.
“I think it’s smart that we’re
prioritizing people living in long-
term care settings,” said Samir
Sinha, the director of geriatrics at
the Mount Sinai and University
Health Network hospitals. “This
would be a population that is not
only highly vulnerable but prob-
ably would be less likely to be
able to afford to pay for the vac-
cine itself.”
For now, Ontario is only plan-
ning to cover the RSV vaccine for
people living in long-term care
homes and some retirement
A senior receives a COVID-19 vaccine in February, 2022. Ontario expects to distribute 350,000 doses of a
reformulated Moderna vaccine to high-risk patients and settings this month. FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
homes for high-risk seniors, but
the shot will be available in phar-
macies across the country for
those who have private drug in-
surance or are able to pay the
$230 out-of-pocket cost, accord-
ing to GSK, the company that
makes the shot, called Arexvy.
RSV came to broad public at-
tention last year as one of the vi-
ral illnesses that, along with in-
fluenza and COVID, caused a “tri-
pledemic” that pummelled hos-
pitals.
Kieran Moore, Ontario’s Chief
Medical Officer of Health, said of-
ficials tracking hospital use last
year found that, on average, 180
seniors were in Ontario hospitals
every day with RSV during the
height of viral illness season in
December and January.
“That was almost the same
burden as influenza,” Dr. Moore
said in an interview Thursday.
“That really convinced me of the
impact of this.”
On the COVID front, Dr. Moore
said he expects 350,000 doses of a
reformulated shot from Moderna
to be distributed to high-risk pa-
tients and settings – such as nurs-
ing homes and hospitals – by the
end of September. The jabs
should be available to people at
lower risk of serious COVID ill-
ness beginning in mid-October,
Dr. Moore said.
The tweaked Moderna shot,
which targets a member of the
Omicron family called XBB.1.5.,
was approved by Health Canada
on Tuesday; the regulator is ex-
pected to approve a revised Pfiz-
er-BioNTech shot shortly.
The National Advisory Com-
mittee on Immunization (NACI)
recommends that everyone who
hasn’t had a COVID shot or infec-
tion in the last six months get a
jab with the reformulated shot
this fall.
Dr. Moore said Ontario’s goal is
to offer people their COVID and
flu shots at the same time.
The province has ordered 6.1
million doses of various types of
influenza vaccines, including a
high-dose version for seniors, as
well as 5.7 million doses of COVID
vaccines. Rapid antigen tests for
COVID will still be available
through public-health offices
and, as of this month, health care
providers such as doctors can or-
der them to share with patients
for free.
Dr. Moore said that although
the provincial health system is
girding itself for another tough
respiratory virus season, there
are reasons to believe this year
won’t be as punishing as the last.
This year’s flu vaccine, for in-
stance, looks like it will provide
good coverage, based on the ex-
perience of the southern hemi-
sphere.
“We anticipate a good match
this year for influenza and the
two strains that we anticipate cir-
culating, which is great,” Dr.
Moore said.

Saskatchewan considers using Parents call for better

notwithstanding clause to protect air quality in schools
school pronoun policy change to protect against viruses
NICOLE IRELAND
STEPHANIE TAYLOR OTTAWA

Kate Laing’s family managed to avoid COVID-19 for more

A “blunt instrument” like the
notwithstanding clause has no
place in the debate over what par-
ents are entitled to know from
schools about their child’s gender
identity, Canada’s Justice Minis-
ter said Thursday.
Justice Minister Arif Virani said
as a father of two, he understands
the desire for parents to be in-
volved in the big decisions their
children make.
“What I don’t appreciate is
having the insertion of a blunt in-
strument like the notwithstand-
ing clause into that equation,” he
said Thursday in a brief interview
while at the Liberal caucus retreat
in London, Ont.
“I don’t think that is appropri-
ate.”
Saskatchewan Premier Scott
Moe said in an interview Wednes-
day that he is ready to use the
notwithstanding clause to pro-
tect a new education rule in his
province. The policy, which took
effect when the school year be-
gan, requires teachers to get pa-
rental permission in order for
transgender and nonbinary stu-
dents under 16 to use different
names or pronouns at school.
After a court challenge was
launched against the new rule,
the Saskatchewan Party govern-
ment announced a plan to en-
shrine it in legislation to be intro-
duced this fall.
Mr. Moe confirmed on
Wednesday that he is considering
using the notwithstanding clause
– the provision in the Charter of
Rights and Freedoms that allows
federal, provincial and territorial
governments to pass laws that
override certain Charter rights for
up to five years – to do so.
Mr. Moe said the notwith-
standing clause is “but one of the
tools” his government could use
to keep the policy in place.
“But you can have the assur-
ance that the government will
utilize any and all tools available,
up to and including the notwith-
standing clause, should it be nec-
essary to ensure this policy is in
place for the foreseeable future in
Saskatchewan,” Mr. Moe said.
Mr. Virani said he joins others
in the Liberal government in be-
ing concerned about premiers in-
voking the clause pre-emptively,
as was done in recent years by
premiers in Quebec and Ontario,
effectively cutting off any Charter
challenges.
“We just have a policy that
hasn’t even been codified into
law,” he said of Saskatchewan’s
case.
“Let’s let those processes run
their course.”
The UR Pride Centre for Sex-
uality and Gender Diversity at the
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe, pictured at the Canadian premiers and
National Indigenous Organizations meeting in Winnipeg in July, says the
notwithstanding clause is ‘but one of the tools’ his government could use
to keep the new policy in place. JOHN WOODS/THE CANADIAN PRESS
University of Regina, which offers
services to gender-diverse indi-
viduals around the provincial
capital, is the group challenging
Saskatchewan’s policy in court.
Egale Canada, a national orga-
nization that advocates for
LGBTQ+ rights, is co-counsel in
the case. A judge recently granted
the government’s request for
more time to prepare to argue the
constitutionality of the policy but
said an injunction hearing will
proceed next week as scheduled.
Bennett Jensen, the legal direc-
tor at Egale, has said he hopes no
province invokes the notwith-
standing clause for such a policy.
“That would require a govern-
ment saying that they are using
the notwithstanding clause in or-
der to intentionally, knowingly
violate the Charter rights of chil-
dren, which strikes me as wholly
unconscionable for a govern-
ment to do,” Mr. Jensen said in a
recent interview, before Mr. Moe
confirmed the notwithstanding
clause is being considered.
Mr. Jensen said Egale Canada
may seek intervener status in the
case against the similar policy
brought in by New Brunswick
Progressive Conservative Pre-
mier Blaine Higgs. The Canadian
Civil Liberties Association is
spearheading that legal chal-
lenge.
Mr. Jensen argues the Sas-
katchewan government is violat-
ing the Charter rights to equality
as well as the “right to life, liberty
and security of the person.”
He said the main reason his or-
ganization got involved is due to
the degree of harm a young stu-
dent could face if they were “out-
ed” to their parents, “no matter
the consequences.”
A landmark 2018 study pub-
lished in the Journal of Adoles-
cent Health found transgender
youth who are able to use their
preferred names and pronouns
reported a 34-per-cent drop in su-
icidal thoughts and a 65-per-cent
decrease in suicide attempts.
“It’s really important that we
get clear court direction about
how the rights of gender-diverse
students operate in this context,
and my hope is that this guidance
can then be brought to premiers
of other provinces … who are
seeking to pursue similar poli-
cies,” Mr. Jensen said.
Mr. Moe has said the change
was made at the request of par-
ents in the province and the gov-
ernment is leaving it up to its 27
school divisions to develop im-
plementation plans. He also said
he believes that will address the
concerns that some students may
not feel safe having their parents
informed of their gender identity.
“The notwithstanding clause is
present for a reason – so that duly
elected governments can repre-
sent their constituents when nec-
essary,” he said.
Ontario has stopped short of
introducing any policy changes
but Premier Doug Ford told a
crowd last week that school
boards and teachers should not
be “indoctrinating” students, lan-
guage that has been used by anti-
LGBTQ+ groups.
She said there has been a “sea
change” in the country, with pro-
vincial leaders using the notwith-
standing clause more frequently,
even though it was designed to be
a measure of last resort.
“There seems to be a real – by
populist governments – a real
kind of hostility to the Charter in
terms of setting up courts as the
bad guys that are appointed, not
elected.”
The last time Saskatchewan in-
voked the notwithstanding
clause was in 2017 in response to a
court ruling that said it was un-
constitutional for the province to
keep paying for non-Catholic stu-
dents to attend Catholic schools.
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than two years.
When her oldest son went back to school last year, she
said it only took three days for him to become infected and
bring the virus home.
“He was masked, but he had to take his mask off to eat his
lunch,” Ms. Laing said. “He’s sitting at a table with four other
kids and one of them had COVID.”
Ms. Laing believes that’s the most likely source of her
son’s COVID-19 infection, and that cleaner air could have
helped prevent it while the kids were unmasked.
Her son, now nine, has asthma which flares up when he
gets sick. His younger brother, now almost three, also be-
came infected and got very ill.
“We had gone without family, we had gone without
friends, we had gone without everything. My youngest
wasn’t even in daycare yet,” said Ms. Laing, who lives in
Wilmot Township near Waterloo, Ont.
“I was – I think, fairly understandably – really annoyed
that this had been the situation that my family had been put
in.”
Ms. Laing found other concerned parents, including an
epidemiologist, who had formed a group called Ontario
School Safety. She volunteered to help and is now the
group’s chair.
It’s one of several grassroots groups of parents, health
care workers and teachers that have sprung up across Cana-
da to lobby for safer schools, including improved air quality.
Although protecting students and education workers
against COVID-19 was the main driver when they started,
other viruses such as flu and respiratory syncytial virus –
plus wildfire smoke and other air pollutants – have also
become key concerns in the quest for cleaner air in class-
rooms.
One of the most effective ways to protect kids and teach-
ers against the dual threat of viruses and polluted air is
better ventilation coupled with air filtration, parent groups
and air quality experts say.
“The no-brainer that works in every school is a good por-
table filter in every space that’s sized appropriately for the
space,” said Jeffrey Siegel, a civil engineering professor spe-
cializing in air quality at the University of Toronto.
In addition, schools can check to see if their HVAC (heat-
ing, ventilation and air conditioning) systems can be up-
graded with MERV 13 quality filters, Dr. Siegel said.
In response to an inquiry by The Canadian Press, the
office of Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce provided
a memo sent to all the province’s school boards on Sept. 5.
The memo said the province requires a standalone HEPA
filter “in every kindergarten class (and) in all learning
spaces in schools without mechanical ventilation and (in)
mechanically ventilated spaces that are not supported by
MERV-13 filters.”
Ontario has invested over $665-million to improve air
quality in schools and deployed over 100,000 HEPA units,
said Grace Lee, the minister’s spokesperson, in an e-mailed
statement.
The government is also investing “nearly $30-million for
the coming school year” to support measures such as in-
stalling higher-grade filters, she said.
Although both education and health fall under provincial
jurisdiction, Health Canada is “currently developing new in-
door air quality guidance for schools in Canada,” a spokes-
person said in an e-mail.
“It will provide recommendations and best practices for
improving indoor air quality in schools, including improv-
ing ventilation and filtration, based on the latest science and
information available.”
A draft of that guidance is expected to be available for
public comment next spring or summer, Health Canada
said.
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A devotee holds a picture of her late father on the banks of the Bagmati river after
performing rituals at the Gokarneshwor Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Thursday
during Kuse Aunsi, a festival where fathers, living or dead, are honoured
Engines of political mayhem cranking up in U.S.
DAVID SHRIBMAN
ANALYSIS
U
.S. House Speaker Kevin
McCarthy has authorized
an impeachment inquiry
directed at President Joe Biden.
One of the most powerful en-
gines of American political inves-
tigation is cranking up just as
four other significant factors are
in motion: legal questions sur-
rounding Hunter Biden, the Pres-
ident’s son; Mr. McCarthy’s effort
to stave off a rebellion on his
right; the real threat of a govern-
ment shutdown; and heightened
campaigning for the 2024 presi-
dential elections. Questions
abound, answers are elusive. But
here is a viewers’ guide to the po-
litical mayhem south of the bor-
der.
What has Mr. McCarthy set in
motion?
He has initiated an inquiry into
whether the House should pro-
ceed with an actual drive to im-
peach the President. The differ-
ence between an “impeachment
inquiry” and “impeachment pro-
ceedings” is subtle but signifi-
cant. This new development is an
effort to determine whether for-
mal impeachment proceedings
should be undertaken. Republi-
cans on the right believe it is a
precursor to more formal action,
but even some Republicans be-
lieve it is an investigation in
dogged search of a crime. Demo-
crats regard it as a desperate ef-
fort to match Donald Trump’s
substantial legal liability with ar-
tificial political liability for Mr.
Biden.
Is there real basis for this?
There is little question that many
Libya: WHO preparing to airlift medical supplies to help overwhelmed health facilities
FROM A1
The Libyan weather service’s
abilities were limited, the UN
agency said, by “major gaps in its
observing systems,” as well as its
information technology.
The toll of 10,000 cited by Mr.
Taalas has also been used by
some officials in Libya. Estimates
have varied, with some much
lower, but whatever the final tal-
ly, the country is devastated.
“The scale of the humanitar-
ian crisis in Libya is unpreceden-
ted,” Ahmed al-Mandhari, re-
gional director in Eastern Medi-
terranean for the World Health
Organization, said in a state-
ment.
With many health facilities
out of service and those that are
still operational overwhelmed,
Mr. al-Mandhari said, the WHO
was preparing an airlift with 28
tons of surgical and medical sup-
plies to take off from Dubai in
the next 48 hours.
Libyan authorities Wednesday
announced a joint operation
room to oversee the response –
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Honouring their fathers
NIRANJAN SHRESTHA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
elements of the activities of the
President’s son deserve legal
scrutiny. Again, it is the subtle-
ties that matter. The younger Mr.
Biden, already facing tax and
gun-possession charges, is in
danger of being accused of influ-
ence peddling – the quiet if not
overt use of his father’s political
position and influence for finan-
cial advantage. The father’s pres-
ence on the son’s business tele-
phone calls is problematic at
best, a substantial element of
jeopardy at worst. For years, the
President’s opponents have won-
dered at the comfortable if not
lavish lifestyle and real estate
holdings of a man whose résumé
includes nearly a half-century of
government service – two years
as a commissioner in Castle
County, Del., 36 in the Senate,
eight in the vice-presidency, and
three in the White House.
Why did Mr. McCarthy move so
decisively and so swiftly?
He is arguing that the cumulative
questions about Mr. Biden’s fi-
nances, his son’s business activ-
ities and the answers that the
President has given to inquiries
about Hunter Biden’s private
work bear investigation. Many
Democrats are uneasy about
those questions as well. But the
timing suggests that the Speaker
responded at least as much to
questions about his own political
survival. Facing a rebellion on
the right from the very sources
that made his election to the
leadership of the House of Repre-
sentatives an embarrassing spec-
tacle, he announced an impeach-
ment probe that those rebels
have sought for months. Thus
the inquiry is the blending of two
hopes: that it might produce the
proverbial “smoking gun” that
could lead to an actual House im-
peachment; and that the Speak-
three days after the dams broke
and sent death and destruction
through the streets of Derna and
other coastal towns. The plan
was laid out by the interior min-
ister of the government in east-
ern Libya, Essam Abu Zeriba.
“The needs are so huge – it’s
very chaotic,” said Salaheddin
Aboulgasem, a spokesperson for
Islamic Relief, an aid group.
The first trucks from the orga-
nization arrived in Derna on
Wednesday with blankets, food,
hygiene kits and mattresses, he
said, but “there is so much to do
and so little time to do it.”
Telecommunications were still
patchy, Mr. Aboulgasem said, and
there were limited opportunities
to get supplies in. “We need to
understand and appreciate that
this is an area that doesn’t have
much infrastructure and func-
tioning civil society,” he said.
Rescue efforts have been fur-
ther complicated by the fact that
Libya is ruled by rival govern-
ments, and late Wednesday, a top
Libyan official demanded an in-
vestigation into both the collapse
er’s gesture might placate the re-
bels.
What are the rebels’ complaints
with Mr. McCarthy?
Like everything else on Capitol
Hill, the answer is both simple
and complicated. The simple:
This group, known as the Free-
dom Caucus, wants to cut gov-
ernment spending, address im-
migration issues on the border
with Mexico, and end what it
calls “the left’s cancerous woke
policies in the Pentagon under-
mining our military’s core war-
fighting mission.” The complicat-
ed: The 45 members of this group
– especially a core of about two
dozen of them – are opposing a
stopgap funding measure known
as a “continuing resolution” that
would prevent a government
shutdown later this month. In
most cases, continuing resolu-
tions maintain current funding
levels – but not always. These
resolutions could include spend-
ing changes or alterations in the
rate in which appropriated dol-
lars are expended. All of that is
fodder for negotiations later this
month.
Why does the Freedom Caucus
have such influence over the
Speaker?
In the past, House speakers have
ruled with power similar to Eu-
ropean despots; speaker Thomas
Brackett Reed, who ruled the
chamber for four years beginning
in 1894, actually was known as
Czar Reed. In more recent years,
Democratic speaker Thomas
(Tip) O’Neill Jr. (ruling the House
from 1977-1987) and Republican
speaker Newt Gingrich (1995-
1999) had iron control over the
House; nothing moved without
their support. But Mr. McCarthy
barely won the Speaker’s gavel
of the dams and the response to
the floods that followed.
“We asked the attorney-gener-
al to open a comprehensive in-
vestigation into the events of the
disaster,” Mohamed al-Menfi, the
head of the Libyan Presidential
Council – which is based in the
west – said in a social-media
post. He said that “everyone who
made a mistake or neglected ei-
ther in abstaining or taking ac-
tions that resulted in the collapse
of the dams in the city of Derna”
should be held accountable.
The call by the presidential
council came as the Libyan Na-
tional Army, the main authority
in the east of the divided country,
closed entrances into Derna, al-
lowing in only rescue crews and
aid convoys. Military vehicles
were parked along streets
throughout the city.
A day earlier, the army urged
surviving residents to leave Der-
na, but aid workers say many
have chosen to stay and search
for loved ones. Convoys of food,
medicine, clothes and blankets
organized by charities, citizens,
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L
and is vulnerable in a way none
of his predecessors were to a
process called “vacating the
chair,” which essentially allows a
single lawmaker to call for a vote
to declare the Speaker’s chair
“vacant.” This little-understood
element of House rules has never
been employed. But it is a real
threat that Mr. McCarthy’s skep-
tics hold over him every day.
Is this impeachment inquiry noth-
ing more than political equity?
One of the impetuses for this in-
quiry is the double-impeach-
ment of Mr. Trump and the old
chestnut, perhaps dating to the
middle of the 18th century, about
turnabout being fair play. The
former president has been urging
his House allies to impeach Mr.
Biden as retribution for his own
impeachments. Just this week,
one of his principal allies, Repre-
sentative Marjorie Taylor Greene
of Georgia, had dinner with Mr.
Trump and said she told the for-
mer president that she hoped the
impeachment inquiry would be
“long and excruciatingly painful
for Joe Biden.”
Is Mr. Biden likely to be removed
from office?
No, at least from what is known
at this juncture. It is not even
clear that there is sufficient sup-
port among Republicans, who
hold a slim margin of power, to
proceed further. And the Senate,
where a two-thirds majority is re-
quired to remove a president, has
a Democratic majority. Mr. Biden
has relative job security, at least
until next November’s election.
Will this become part of the
presidential campaign?
Almost certainly. The Republican
candidates for president now
businessmen and clubs have
streamed into the city and other
parts of northeastern Libya.
On Thursday, the health min-
ister for the eastern government
said the official, documented
count had risen to 3,065 dead,
with 4,227 formally reported mis-
sing. Libyan authorities have pre-
viously said that the death toll
could be more than 5,000 and
that more than 10,000 people
were missing.
On Wednesday night, the may-
or of Derna, Abdulmenam al-
Ghaithi, told Al-Arabiya televi-
sion that the death toll could re-
ach 20,000, based on the number
of districts wiped out. The Libyan
Red Crescent says the number
may be closer to 10,000 or 11,000.
Libya was poorly prepared for
the storm, which displayed its
destructive power last week in
Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria,
where it killed more than a doz-
en people, before sweeping
across the Mediterranean Sea,
pummelling the coastline and
destroying poorly maintained in-
frastructure.
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HUNTER BIDEN HIT WITH
CRIMINAL GUN CHARGE IN
U.S. SPECIAL COUNSEL PROBE
WASHINGTON U.S. President Joe
Biden’s son Hunter Biden was
criminally charged on Thursday
with deceiving a gun dealer into
selling him a firearm, in the
latest sign of how the younger
Mr. Biden’s legal woes may
weigh on his father’s re-election
bid next year.
The first-ever indictment of a
sitting president’s child, filed in
U.S. District Court in Delaware,
charged Hunter Biden with three
criminal counts related to lying
about the fact he was using
illegal drugs at that time, which
would have banned him under
the law from owning a firearm.
The charges ensure that
courtroom drama will play an
outsized role in the 2024 U.S.
presidential campaign as Joe
Biden, 80, seeks re-election in a
likely rematch with his Repub-
lican predecessor Donald
Trump, 77, who faces four com-
ing criminal trials of his own.
The new charges against
Hunter Biden brought by recent-
ly elevated U.S. Special Counsel
David Weiss say nothing about
any violations of U.S. tax law. A
prior deal under which Hunter
Biden, 53, would have pleaded
guilty to two misdemeanour tax
charges and enroll in a program
to avoid prosecution on the gun
charge collapsed in a stunning
turn in a July hearing.
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routinely are asked whether they
would, if elected, pardon Mr.
Trump and some of the insurrec-
tionists in the Jan. 6, 2021, siege
of the Capitol. That question like-
ly will be paired in the GOP de-
bate later this month with
whether they support impeach-
ing Mr. Biden. In Iowa, site of the
first caucus of the 2024 political
season, Representative Randy
Feenstra already has said that it
was “evident that a further and
more thorough investigation is
warranted to protect the integri-
ty of our institutions, defend the
rule of law in our country, and
hold President Biden account-
able for his corruption.”
Is there triple danger here?
Surely there is. The first danger is
to Mr. Biden, in the event that
more damaging information
emerges about his own financial
holdings and his involvement in
his son’s business activities. The
second is to the Republicans who
are undertaking this effort; the
backlash to the 1998 impeach-
ment of Bill Clinton resulted in
the Democrats picking up five
House seats in a midterm con-
gressional election in which the
party holding the White House
generally suffers losses on Capi-
tol Hill.
But the greater danger is in the
normalization of impeachment,
which has occurred only four
times in American history – but
three times in the past quarter
century. The gap between the
first impeachment (of Andrew
Johnson, in 1868) and the next
one (Mr. Clinton) was 130 years.
The repeated employment of im-
peachment proceedings takes
the sting out of what was intend-
ed to be the ultimate sanction in
American politics.
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Mr. Taalas, the World Meteor-
ological Organization secretary-
general, said if the Libyan mete-
orological service had been able
to issue adequate warnings,
emergency management servic-
es would have been able to evac-
uate more people. “We could
have avoided most of the human
casualties,” he said.
Libya’s government had is-
sued some early warnings before
the storm, but residents said the
advice was contradictory in some
places.
The Libyan government an-
nounced a state of emergency in
the eastern regions, warning of
possible floods, and declared
Sunday and Monday as emergen-
cy holidays for all public and
educational institutions, as well
as the private sector.
But residents said there were
mixed directives. Some said
there were calls to evacuate,
which no one heeded. Others
said they were directed to stay in-
side their homes.
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Schoolchildren have lunch during a feeding program on Oct. 5, 2022, in a camp for the
internally displaced near Demoso town, Kayah state, eastern Myanmar.

Children hide in their school bomb shelter during an emergency drill in case of mortar
shelling, on Oct. 24, 2022. The children do regular emergency drills in case of an attack.

A former Karenni soldier who lost both legs after stepping on a landmine is being helped by
his friend in a rehabilitation centre on Oct. 17, 2022, in Kayah state, eastern Myanmar.

Myanmar’s media has become another victim of the countr

The country’s rulers are cracking down on journalists who stayed behind to cover the conflict and hold the military to account

A
JAMES fter the Myanmar military overthrew the
GRIFFITHS country’s democratically elected govern-
ASIA ment in February, 2021, journalists there
CORRESPONDENT braced for an inevitable crackdown. Many
had lived through an earlier period of junta rule,
when independent media were forced into exile and
dozens of reporters jailed or even killed.
Sure enough, within weeks, the military began
banning publications and arresting reporters, as it
struggled to control a country exploding into a civil
war that drags on 2½ years later.
Today, the junta only controls an estimated 50 per
cent of Myanmar, mostly major population centres,
while fighting ethnic militias and peoples’ defence
forces allied with the parallel National Unity Gov-
ernment (NUG). In areas that the military holds,
however, it has stepped up its crackdown on the
media, searching for journalists feeding stories to
exile outlets based in neighbouring Thailand.
“They’ve been picking them off one by one,” said
Shawn Crispin, senior Southeast Asia representative
for the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). “The
regime has decimated independent reporting inside
the country.”
While many journalists remained in Myanmar af-
ter the coup, determined to try and hold the military
to account and cover the growing conflict, Mr. Cris-
pin said there have been increasing numbers fleeing
to Thailand as the situation has become more and
more dangerous.
As well, foreign media have largely been forced
out of Myanmar since the coup, except for tightly
choreographed press tours, or dangerous visits to
territory held by anti-junta forces. In late 2022, pho-
tojournalist Siegfried Modola crossed over from
Thailand on assignment from The Globe and Mail,
spending four days with the rebel Karenni Army.
Last week, Mr. Modola won the prestigious Visa d’or
News award for his work, which provided a rare
glimpse into what life is like in war-racked parts of
the country.
According to CPJ and Reporters sans frontières
(RSF), more than 60 journalists are currently im-
prisoned in Myanmar. This figure is likely an under-
estimation as many outlets do not report the jailing
of their staff as they attempt to negotiate their re-
lease. Since the coup, Myanmar has plummeted to
the bottom of RSF’s 2023 World Press Freedom In-
dex, sitting at 173 out of 180, alongside countries
such as Eritrea and Syria.
This month, Myanmar Now photojournalist Sai
Zaw Thaike was sentenced to 20 years in prison on
charges including “spreading misinformation,” af-
ter he was arrested while reporting on the impact of
Cyclone Mocha. His sentence is the longest any jour-
nalist has received since the 2021 coup, and “yet an-
other indication that freedom of the press has been
completely quashed under the military junta’s
rule,” said Swe Win, editor-in-chief of Myanmar
Now.

A steady stream of recruits undergo three months of training at one of the Karenni Army’s main bases close to the border with Karenni soldiers fighting Myanmar’s military wash in a stream du
Thailand on Sept. 21, 2022, in Kayah state, eastern Myanmar. centre of Kayah state on Sept. 29, 2022, in eastern Myanmar.
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Karenni soldiers take shelter inside a drainage ditch as a mortar shell explodes close by during heavy clashes on April 16, in the village of Daw Nyay Khu, in Kayah state, eastern Myanmar.
Several mortar shells landed a few minutes apart, injuring one Karenni soldier. PHOTOS BY SIEGFRIED MODOLA FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL: INSIDE MYANMAR’S ARMED REVOLUTION

ry’s civil war

Myanmar Now is one of several larger independ-
ent media outlets continuing to cover the country
from exile, along with The Irrawaddy news group
and the Democratic Voice of Burma. Many smaller
publications that sprang up during Myanmar’s brief
period of openness have struggled to survive how-
ever, bled of funds and staff, and facing increasing
difficulties.
Most exiled journalists are based in Thailand, as
they were during the previous period of junta rule.
But while Bangkok was supportive in the past, Mr.
Crispin expressed concern that the current Thai
government has remained close to military leaders
in the capital of Naypyidaw, and may be willing to
rein in independent Myanmar media.
“My understanding is that the junta regime is
pressuring the Thais not to allow this,” he said. “You
have to wonder how viable this model is going to
be,” of being based in Thailand.
Since seizing power, the Myanmar junta has not
shied away from jailing foreigners. In May, 2021, U.S.
citizen Danny Fenster, who worked for the banned
publication Frontier Myanmar, was detained as he
was about to fly home and later sentenced to 11 years
in prison. Mr. Fenster was released in November that
year after negotiations led by the late Bill Richard-
son, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Four other foreign journalists have been detained
and subsequently released since the coup: Ameri-
can Nathan Maung; Robert Bociaga of Poland; and
Japanese reporters Toru Kubota and Yuki Kitazumi.
Mr. Kubota was freed in November as part of a
mass prisoner amnesty for Myanmar’s national day,
along with Australian academic Sean Turnell, a one-
time adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi,
and former British ambassador to Myanmar Vicky
Bowman.
The worsening situation has created “news black
holes” in Myanmar, said Mr. Crispin. “It’s an inten-
tional campaign to crush the media and scare the
rest, and make sure there are very few cameras or
witnesses to the crimes the regime is committing on
a daily basis.”
Facing international sanctions, the junta has
been seeking rehabilitation in recent months, mov-
ing Ms. Suu Kyi – who is said to be in poor health – to
house arrest, and planning for elections designed to
legitimize military rule. Voting was due to take place
in August but was postponed to February next year
after the government extended a state of emergen-
cy.
In a posted statement, Canada’s embassy to
Myanmar said it was “deeply concerned” by this,
adding the extension only prolongs “the regime’s il-
legitimate rule over Myanmar.” It said Ottawa “con-
tinues to unequivocally condemn the coup against
the democratically elected government and sup-
ports the people and their democratic aspirations in
the face of brutality and egregious international hu-
man rights and humanitarian law violations.”

ring a four-day march from the border with Thailand to the Ashes are left from the remains of homes burnt by Myanmar’s military, on April 14, in Daw Ta Ma Gyi village in Kayah state,
eastern Myanmar. Regime forces have been sending units of soldiers to burn villages, attacking resistance bases, and kill civilians.
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ANDREW SAUNDERS

EDITORIAL PRESIDENT AND CEO

DAVID WALMSLEY
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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

A safer supply
won’t end the
opioid crisis
C
anada’s opioid overdose crisis killed 36,442 people
between January, 2016, and December, 2022. The toll
continues to rise in 2023, and the country may be
headed for its worst year ever.
British Columbia and Alberta – two of the three provinces,
with Ontario, where 87 per cent of such deaths occur – are on
track to set records.
Alberta recorded 770 opioid toxicity deaths in January
through May, compared to 701 during the same period in
2022. It is the worst start to a year since the province began
keeping records in 2016.
B.C. has seen 1,455 drug deaths in the first seven months of
2023, also the most in that period since 2016. Only Ontario
has seen its numbers stay stable in 2023, to date.
This is an emergency that isn’t about to end. The illicit syn-
thetic opioids that have been implicated in at least 90 per
cent of fatal overdoses appear to be getting cheaper and
stronger, and are being mixed with other drugs that make
them more difficult for emergency responders to counteract.
And yet Canada’s efforts to save lives continue to rely on
two pillars – supervised consumption and uncontaminated
supply – that were implemented in a reactive fashion after
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
the illegal opioid crisis erupted in 2016.
EMOTIONAL WEIGHT BUILDING PLAN also a freeze on spending. We
The death tolls this year do not mean those tools aren’t can’t do both.
helpful, but they aren’t enough. Re “Pierre Poilievre says hope is a Re “It’s not that we have too many Developing the 18,000 sup-
leader’s most important job. It’s people. It’s that we have too few portive housing units required in
Supervised consumption, where people with opioid use
not” (Sept. 13): There is one thing houses” (Sept. 13): Even if it was Toronto would cost $7.2-billion.
disorders can ingest illicit drugs in a sterile and monitored that politicians use to get them- possible to remove or reduce There are more than 3,000 people
selves elected, and then that one planning road blocks, increase on the supportive housing wait
setting, appears to be a success. According to Ottawa, Can-
thing can get them into trouble: dramatically the numbers of con- list.
ada’s 38 authorized sites have had more than 4.1-million emotion. struction workers, open vast A spending freeze would en-
visits since 2017 and managed more than 47,000 overdoses Pierre Poilievre knows this, swathes of land to developers and sure they remain there.
and Justin Trudeau knows it well. pour billions of dollars into in- Steve Lurie CM; senior fellow,
without any reported fatalities on-site. After all, it was the emotion be- frastructure, affordability would Wellesley Institute; Toronto
As well, 239,000 out of 340,000 clients were referred to hind “sunny ways” that got him still elude us.
elected in 2015. When the electo- Bigger is not necessarily better. We can’t have more or improved
broader services that included medical care, mental health rate starts to see behind the ideal Stop demonizing people who social programs and practise fis-
support and/or housing services. future that “sunny ways” convey, cling to dreams of a house with a cal restraint at the same time.
we would again elect competent backyard. It doesn’t have to be a The cost of subsidized daycare
The success of uncontaminated supply programs is less governments, which run accord- mansion on an estate. Believing and drug and dental programs
clear. They involve providing addicted users with a regulated ing to reason and critical think- that we can absorb the equivalent are going to drain the public trea-
ing. of a Calgary or an Edmonton ev- sury. The cost of caring for one
supply of drugs in order to prevent them from resorting to Otherwise, we are destined for ery year, and still drive down the million new Canadians every two
the highly toxic supply on the streets. more of the same: folly. After all, price of housing, is more like a years is also significant. We don’t
emotions don’t think. pipe dream. have enough housing units.
In many cases, the consumption of the drugs is done in a Bruce Hutchison Ottawa By all means do not stop immi- We can’t keep passing on these
clinical setting, and early reports suggest that this has many gration altogether (good luck costs to our kids, who would have
with that), but be more realistic to pay these bills in the future. In-
of the same benefits as supervised consumption. DRIVE AWAY? creasing taxes and charging in-
as to how we can absorb new-
But, owing to the pandemic, some people in B.C. are now comers and give them a decent come-based user fees for some
Re “Is it time to back out of 24 Sus- shot at achieving the dreams that social programs would help us
given a day’s or week’s supply at a time to consume as they
sex Dr.?” (Editorial, Sept. 12): drew them to our shores. get to a balanced budget.
wish, in order to remain isolated. There is no doubt in my mind Colin Lowe Nanaimo, B.C. Fiscal restraint would mean
that a new residence will cost less money for education and
With the pandemic over, that needs to end. Uncontami-
more than any renovation of 24 A partial solution to a rapid in- health care.
nated supply should only be available in clinical settings to Sussex. Now it is suggested to in- crease in housing units would be Canada cannot afford a gov-
prevent misuse – a concern that one B.C. front-line doctor clude drone-proof roofs and oth- to activate Canada Mortgage and ernment that wishes to practice
er security measures. Housing Corporation as a long- fiscal restraint.
recently flagged in The Globe and Mail. If there is no proper specifica- term direct lender to universities Ken Stock
Ottawa is also experimenting with the decriminalization tion for a new construction com- and colleges, seniors, non-profit Port Hope, Ont.
pared to a renovation, there will housing organizations and low-
of the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs, a move likely be creeping costs as new or middle-income families.
FOREIGN AID
called for by police chiefs in 2020. British Columbia asked for “requirements” are defined by Such lending to the non-profit
external interests. There should sector, in particular, would direct-
and got permission for a three-year pilot program that start- be independent analysis of the ly increase multiunit housing for Re “Ottawa mulls fast-tracking in-
ed on Jan. 31. two options, taking into account students and seniors, and ease ternational study permits for
the heritage value of 24 Sussex the pressure they impose on ex- ‘trusted’ universities, colleges”
It’s a good idea, within limits (B.C. recently had to ask Otta- and providing a clear definition isting housing stock in many mu- (Sept. 12): I live near an Ontario
wa to restrict possession near parks and pools). Funnelling an of the security requirement. nicipalities. university and I welcome the di-
Make a decision and start It’s a mystery to me why the versity and vitality that foreign
addicted opioid user through the justice system makes little building so that Canada’s prime government hasn’t activated ag- students bring to the neighbour-
sense, when what they need are health and social supports. minister, whoever they are, does gressively such a direct-lending hood.
not have to be party to that deci- program and put CMHC to work There is nothing I like better
And this is precisely where Canada and the provinces have
sion. implementing it. than walking down the street and
to step up their games. While supervised consumption and Fred Pincock Oakville, Ont. Peter Green Halifax hearing so many languages being
spoken.
uncontaminated supply can save lives in an emergency, they
Re “Trudeau unveils housing The whole world is just outside
fall short of giving people what they need in the long run: THE LEGAL ANSWER IS: NO. my door.
funds for London, offers no de-
proper care. tails on broader plan” (Sept. 14): The issue, then, is not the stu-
The location of the home for Canada requires an additional dents but rather the exploitation.
Addiction is a disease, no less so than cancer or diabetes. prime ministers is specified at 3.45 million homes by 2030. Foreign students pay outsized
Like those diseases, it can be related to lifestyle and econom- Section 2 and Schedule 1 of the Of- The program for London, Ont., tuition at colleges and universi-
ficial Residences Act. It cannot be would see the government con- ties, often making up for govern-
ic opportunity, or it can be down to bad luck. And yet people relocated without an act of Parlia- tributing $37,000 each for 2,000 ment shortfalls.
with opioid use disorders are mostly required to manage ment. houses. We can only hope that Foreign students are also ex-
Furthermore, under Section 6, this level of support is not typical, ploited by landlords. Many live in
their illness outside a hospital system that welcomes smok- the government’s statutory duty since it would amount to roughly slumlike conditions in unsafe en-
ers, drinkers and consumers of fast food. is to “maintain, heat and keep in $130-billion for 3.45 million vironments, paying exploitative
repair the buildings on the lands homes. This coming from a gov- rents, because neither the city
Our hospitals need more addiction treatment wards, described … and the National ernment pledging to reduce nor the university take responsib-
where patients can hope to find the beds and the long-term Capital Commission shall main- costs. ility for their welfare.
tain and, from time to time as re- While one has to wish the gov- We should not let bureaucrats
care they require, just like any other ailing Canadian. quired, improve those lands.” ernment well, there looks to be determine the Canadian experi-
There is already a well-established body of research show- Canadians remain free to spec- no real prospect of achieving this ence for foreign students. They
ulate on the likelihood of garner- goal. have failed these students, and
ing that opioid antagonist treatments, in which patients are each of us.
ing parliamentary consensus on a John Sutherland Calgary
given controlled doses of methadone, heroin and other new statute for a different loca- Parma Yarkin Windsor, Ont.
tion. But if Canada is finally to cut
opioids in a clinical setting, can help keep people in treat- ON THE OTHER HAND
the Gordian knot, the legally ob-
ment, off the streets, out of criminal activity, able to hold vious course – not to mention the Letters to the Editor should be
most practical within any reason- Re “If Chrystia Freeland needs a exclusive to The Globe and Mail.
down a job, and even to get clean.
able time frame – would be to tool to help Canadians, she Include name, address and daytime
That’s the next step. The opioid crisis isn’t going away. To “maintain” and “improve” the should start by freezing spend- phone number. Keep letters under
continue to treat its victims with what are reactive emergen- current designated location. ing” (Editorial, Sept. 13): The 150 words. Letters may be edited for
Marc Denhez and Russell Gibson Globe has argued for action on length and clarity. E-mail:
cy services would be shortsighted and unfair. Ottawa housing and homelessness and letters@globeandmail.com

SINCLAIR STEWART ANGELA PACIENZA DENNIS CHOQUETTE NATASHA HASSAN SANDRA E. MARTIN
DEPUTY EDITOR EXECUTIVE EDITOR DEPUTY EDITOR, REPORT ON BUSINESS OPINION EDITOR STANDARDS EDITOR

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OPINION
In Ontario, the court system is on fire
Ignoring the
infrastructure of justice
has sparked crises, such
as the one engulfing
Toronto’s new major
courthouse
DAVID BUTT
OPINION
Toronto-based criminal lawyer
N
obody walks into a home
and oohs and ahhs about
the electrical wiring. It’s
stuff like the furniture and the
kitchen counters that get the ap-
plause. But the boring old wiring
can burn the place down instantly
if it’s faulty and left uninspected.
It cannot be neglected.
And now, Toronto’s brand-
spanking-new billion-dollar cour-
thouse is on fire, metaphorically
speaking.
The Globe and Mail’s Sean Fine
reports that courtrooms in the
Ontario Court of Justice are clos-
ing by the bucketful because of
Canada should designate the Wagner Group as a terrorist organization
JESSICA DAVIS
OPINION
President of Insight Threat
Intelligence and the author of
Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism
in the Twenty-First Century
T
he United Kingdom is ex-
pected to designate the
Wagner Group as a terrorist
entity, after its Home Office
stated last week it would be pre-
senting a draft order to this effect
to the British Parliament. This
follows the U.S. government’s
designation of Wagner as a trans-
national criminal organization
earlier this year, and discussions
in the European Union about
designating Wagner as well.
Canada should join forces with
its allies and list Wagner as a ter-
rorist organization – and there is
certainly some support for this
already. In January, the House of
Commons unanimously voted to
list Wagner as a terrorist entity.
However, as I noted at the time,
that vote was entirely symbolic
and symptomatic of Canada’s
unserious approach to Wagner.
In the Canadian process, a rec-
ommendation to officially desig-
nate an organization as a terror-
ist entity has to be made to the
Governor in Council by the Min-
ister of Public Safety. The minis-
ter relies on information provid-
ed by CSIS or the RCMP, and to
date, there is no public informa-
tion available to suggest that ei-
ther organization has provided
supporting information for a list-
ing. But beyond the listing, we
should also go further with
something more concrete: Cana-
da should fund investigations to
help victims’ families in bringing
Immigrants didn’t cause our failings. We did that all by ourselves
DANIEL BERNHARD
OPINION
CEO of the Institute for
Canadian Citizenship
D
espite record levels of po-
larization, it seems pun-
dits and politicians of all
stripes agree on one thing nowa-
days: no matter the problem, im-
migrants are the cause.
Housing crunch? Too many
immigrants.
Health care squeeze? Ditto.
Wages too low? International
students flooding the labour
market.
These arguments are lazy,
dangerous and, most of all, in-
correct. Yet somehow, they’re ev-
erywhere.
But even a cursory glance at
these arguments shows that the
people making these claims
haven’t given the evidence even
a cursory glance.
For example, the housing cri-
sis far predates the recent immi-
gration boom. In hot markets
like Toronto, residential home
prices more than doubled be-
| T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
staffing shortages. Trials are being
delayed, and at risk of being
thrown out altogether owing to
unreasonable delay. What was
supposed to be a criminal justice
showpiece is now fully ablaze.
And it’s because our creaky jus-
tice system – the electrical wiring
of good governance in our society
– has been left to moulder, tucked
away from view.
The processes of the justice
system – the thousands of trials
and pleas handled by the courts
every year, but also the diligent
work done by court reporters,
clerks and administrative staff –
are largely invisible, and the gen-
eral public doesn’t know much
about it or give it much thought.
Schools, roads, hospitals – the in-
frastructure we encounter regu-
larly – these are the furniture and
kitchen counters, and if they are
substandard, we notice and com-
plain. That’s important, because
politicians listen to complaints,
and direct money accordingly.
When money is scarce (and it al-
ways is), it is not usually directed
to things that don’t get much at-
tention. Thus, what appears on
the surface to be responsible de-
mocracy in action – politicians lis-
A pedestrian walks past a defaced mural of Russia’s mercenary group Wagner reading ‘Wagner Group –
Russian knights’ on the wall of an apartment block in Belgrade in January. OLIVER BUNIC/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
legal action against Wagner, and
support international efforts
against it as well.
Wagner, a Russian private mil-
itary corporation that was led by
Yevgeny Prigozhin until his pre-
sumed death last month, likely
meets the definition of a terrorist
entity under Canadian law. But
it’s much less a group than it is a
constellation of corporations,
shell companies, and logistics
firms that function as an exten-
sion of Russia’s foreign policy.
Canada has sanctioned some of
Wagner’s principal actors, but
many of the corporations that
make up the group remain un-
sanctioned, both here and
abroad.
It might be hard for some peo-
ple to conceive of Wagner as a
terrorist entity because it doesn’t
look or act like the groups we
tween 2000 and 2014. Immigra-
tion rates during that period
were more than 30 per cent lower
than they are now. The last time
immigration levels skyrocketed
like they have recently was be-
tween 1985 and 1995. House pric-
es didn’t boom in those years;
they crashed more than 25 per
cent.
Let’s put some uncomfortable
truths on the table.
Immigrants didn’t subsidize
property speculation with public
funds by exempting housing in-
vestments from capital gains tax-
es. Successive federal govern-
ments did that.
Immigrants didn’t block zon-
ing reform for decades, making it
illegal to build more housing.
City councils did that.
Immigrants didn’t remove
some 130,000 homes from the
rental market to become quasi-
legal hotels on Airbnb. Profiteer-
ing investors did that, often ille-
gally, while governments looked
the other way.
Immigrants aren’t responding
to recent housing price drops by
holding up the construction of
more than 8,000 housing units in
the Greater Toronto and Hamil-
tening to the people – actually
produces irresponsible govern-
ance. And so we routinely neglect
our essential yet mostly invisible
justice systems, until something
catches fire.
The criminal justice system’s
invisibility problem will never go
away. Very few people, as a per-
centage of the total population,
are unlucky enough to get caught
up in it. And nobody would care
much to trumpet the good news
that scarce public funds were giv-
ing fair trials to those accused of
doing terrible things: that
wouldn’t rise to the level of a brag-
ging point, much less a political
talking point. But invisibility and
irrelevance are two very different
things; without prompt and fair
trials, justice itself is at risk. And
until political actors recognize
this distinction, situations such as
the Toronto courthouse crisis will
continue to flare up with distress-
ing regularity – and with heart-
breaking outcomes for victims
and their loved ones, who are de-
nied justice.
It would be an oversimplifica-
tion to say the staffing problems
at the new Toronto Courthouse
are explained entirely by neglect,
usually associate with that label,
such as al-Qaeda or the Islamic
State. But Wagner has more in
common with these groups than
not: it is a non-state actor and
commits acts of violence for po-
litical, ideological or even, in
some cases, religious reasons. It’s
also worth remembering that
other corporate entities, includ-
ing not-for-profit organizations,
have also been designated as ter-
rorist organizations in Canada,
so there is certainly precedent.
The designation would unlock
an important piece of legislation:
the Justice for Victims of Terror-
ism Act. This act would allow
Canadians or permanent resi-
dents to bring an action to recov-
er losses or damages for acts
committed by Wagner, including
against individuals or entities
who facilitated Wagner activities
ton Area until prices go back up.
Developers are doing that.
Immigrants are not causing
the cataclysmic deterioration of
our health care system. In Onta-
rio alone, an estimated 20,000
internationally trained nurses
are sitting on the sidelines, pre-
vented from healing patients be-
cause of bureaucratic holdups to
their accreditation that prov-
inces have known about forever,
but have chosen not to resolve.
Immigrants are not suppress-
ing wages. Companies like Uber
did that, performing the world’s
greatest Pinocchio routine by
claiming, incredulously, that
their work force neither wants
nor deserves basic protections
like minimum wage or a reliable
place to pee while on shift. Even
more incredulous is the reaction
of governments across the land,
which just sat back and watched
as these American companies
boastfully broke the law and
drove down wages while paying
no corporate taxes. As with
Airbnb, governments eventually
changed the laws to fit the crime,
locking a generation of people,
disproportionately immigrants,
into low-wage servitude for Cali-
of course. Bad timing and a failure
of imagination also play a role.
The Ontario Court of Justice
was conceived as a replacement
for smaller, outdated facilities in
Scarborough, Etobicoke, North
York and a few downtown loca-
tions. But sadly, the new cour-
thouse, an architecturally striking
monument to geographical con-
solidation, was constructed dur-
ing the pandemic. The timing
couldn’t have been worse: as a
global crisis inspired us to harness
technology in the name of decen-
tralization, transforming hide-
bound concepts of geographical-
ly fixed workplaces, the Ontario
government was essentially cre-
ating a monument to the 19th-
century conception of the justice
system, which had transitioned
from in-person traditions to vir-
tual trials. Now, with people re-
quired to show up in court as they
did before the pandemic, cour-
thouse workers who once en-
joyed short commutes in Scarbo-
rough, Etobicoke or North York
have had their work-life balance
disrupted by the need to com-
mute downtown with no extra
pay or benefit – and many have
quit as a result.
through the provision of finan-
cial services or in other ways.
Wagner has committed well-doc-
umented acts of violence against
civilians in many countries –
there are almost certainly Cana-
dians and permanent residents
who have suffered losses or dam-
ages from Wagner’s activities in
Mali, Ukraine and beyond.
By designating Wagner as a
terrorist entity, Canada would ef-
fectively sanction all of the indi-
viduals and entities associated
with the group now and in the
future. This would not absolve
Canada or its allies of the contin-
uing need to identify Wagner as-
sets globally, but it would pro-
vide legal cover for criminal pros-
ecutions of anyone supporting
the group.
To make this listing meaning-
ful, and to augment Canada’s
fornia corporations.
Increasingly, this labour force
is made up of international stu-
dents, who desperately need the
money because provinces permit
rapacious colleges and universi-
ties to charge outrageous inter-
national fees for what is too often
a useless education. Why do the
students pay? Because post-
study work permits are a reliable
pathway to permanent residen-
cy, which the federal government
keeps wide open. When the fees
got to be too much, the feds lifted
work restrictions for internation-
al students. Now they study even
less while paying even more to
subsidize the rest of us.
Immigrants didn’t cause our
failings. We did that all by our-
selves.
In fact, strategic immigration
is our best chance to solve many
of these challenges.
Tens of thousands of immi-
grant health care professionals
have passed their Canadian ex-
ams and are eager to reinforce
our failing system. If we simply
let them contribute, we could re-
lieve huge pressure from the
front lines, practically overnight.
The extra 2.3 million new
NEWS | A13
There is no way back. Building
new courthouses in North York,
Etobicoke and Scarborough is a
non-starter. But there is also no
way back to blithely accepting a
rigid prepandemic conception of
justice – that it must be forever
dispensed by gathering every jus-
tice participant in the same room
for every case, all the time.
Far too many people in the jus-
tice system held their breath dur-
ing the pandemic, and saw all
those virtual trials as a stop-gap to
be endured until the old 19th-cen-
tury model could return in all of
its timeless glory. That was an
enormous failure of imagination.
We made it through the pandem-
ic, but it remade us as well. What it
means to do important things in
person, and when direct human
contact is essential and when it is
not, have become far more com-
plicated and nuanced questions
in the past three years. The justice
system, for all its vaunted impor-
tance and grand traditions, sim-
ply cannot afford to stifle those
questions with 19th-century bro-
mides about in-person trials all in
one place. Otherwise, more fires
will break out like the one burn-
ing in Toronto right now.
largely toothless sanctions
against Wagner, the government
should fund a small, independ-
ent investigative team to support
potential action by Canadians
against the group and contribute
to international efforts to coun-
ter it. Such a team could investi-
gate Wagner links in Canada and
abroad, and support families of
victims in preparing evidence
and with legal proceedings
against the group and associated
entities. Even a small team of
dedicated analysts and investiga-
tors could make a real difference
on the international stage and to
the victims of this violent group,
particularly by identifying Wagn-
er assets.
An official terrorist designa-
tion of Wagner would be in line
with Canada’s continuing sanc-
tions against the group, and
would signal to our allies that we
are willing to take every possible
action to counter it. The funding
of a small investigative team
would further demonstrate that
Canada is willing to actually com-
mit resources to this fight, and
not just produce largely symbolic
packages of sanctions.
Wagner Group is an interna-
tional scourge. It helps Russia
evade sanctions, steals resources
and wealth from other countries,
increases violence wherever it
deploys, commits atrocities
against civilians, and reinforces
the rule of autocratic govern-
ments. Listing Wagner as a terror-
ist entity in Canada won’t stop
the group’s activities worldwide,
but it will provide Canadians and
permanent residents with legal
recourse. And doing so would al-
low Canada to actually punch
above its weight in international
affairs, rather than just claiming
to.
homes we need to build by 2030
won’t build themselves, yet Can-
ada will lose 700,000 skilled
workers to retirement between
2021 and 2028. Unless you’re hop-
ing to find a few hundred thou-
sand Canadian-born tradespeo-
ple in the couch cushions, immi-
grant expertise is the only way to
get us anywhere close to meeting
our housing goals.
Blaming immigrants for our
homegrown problems is a dou-
ble defeat. It opens the door to
the horrifying mainstream xeno-
phobia that contemporary Cana-
da has so far escaped, while clos-
ing the door on the very people
who are our best chance at over-
coming these challenges, result-
ing from decades of made-in-
Canada complacency and ne-
glect.
To the many opinion leaders
now casually calling out Cana-
da’s supposed immigration ex-
cess: please do your homework.
Check the evidence. And open
your mind to the fact that while
Canada’s problems may be far-
reaching, their origins are hardly
far-flung.
GARY MASON will return
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SCREEN TIME I could (I’ll have to catch Molly
McGlynn’s Fitting In and Sophie
Dupuis’ Solo during their forth-

A
s moviegoers head into the coming theatrical releases), the
final weekend of the 48th true highlights come down to
Toronto International Film M.H. Murray’s nerve-wracking I
Festival – a kind of popcorn- Don’t Know Who You Are, Christian
scented slouch toward Bethle- Sparkes’s carefully crafted The
hem – two guessing games are be- King Tide, and Atom Egoyan’s fas-
ing played on the emptying cinating if flawed Seven Veils.
streets of King West. The television sidebar Prime-
The first is which movie is going time, meanwhile, generated as
to take home the People’s Choice much warm sentiment as the
Award, a coveted Oscars bellweth- Scotiabank escalator (or maybe
er that can, and has, changed film- I’m thinking of the multiplex’s
makers’ lives. There is no clear Cinema 12, which broke down on
front-runner but rather a quartet opening day, scuttling three
of competing crowd-pleasers that Colman Domingo arrived in Toronto to promote the release of his new film Sing Sing. The prison drama screenings).
could each fit the loose criteria of premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday. JOEL C RYAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS None of these dilemmas and
a) making audiences feel warm complaints are exactly new. Al-
and fuzzy and b) arriving at the fest lot of unmistakable mistakes. there were many more duds most since its inception, TIFF has
already marketable enough to so- Going up against the many (Keaton’s film, Kristin Scott Tho- aimed to be all things to all peo-
lidify its place on, rather than high-profile titles from other fall mas’s limp drama North Star, Finn ple – a solid strategy if you’re
crash, the awards race. This year’s fests that were energizing the TOP 10 FILMS OF TIFF 2023 Wolfhard’s sloppy slasher Hell of a serving each of those different
best bets: the prison drama Sing conversation – Michael Mann’s Summer, and Chris Pine’s Pool- audiences the highest-quality of-
Sing, the romcom Hit Man, the dra- Ferrari! Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla! 1. The Zone of Interest man, the latter already christened ferings. Less so if the program-
medy The Holdovers, and the lit- Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things! 2. The Holdovers this fest’s biggest disaster). ming target seems to be leftovers
world comedy American Fiction. Way too many more to list here 3. Dream Scenario But audiences – many of for the big, fat, easy middle
(For a hot second, Next Goal Wins without blowing the word count! – 4. Sing Sing whom paid top dollar to attend ground.
had the edge, but audiences quick- TIFF was asking a lot for audiences 5. Evil Does Not Exist only to be greeted by a director, or Certainly, I’m willing to admit I
ly soured on Taika Waititi’s soccer to get pumped up for such world 6. Dicks: The Musical no one at all – encountered an simply messed up and missed the
comedy, even though it’s amusing premieres as Craig Gillespie’s 7. The Beast awful lot of second-tier offerings best of the fest, even with 30 titles
enough and hardly the next-level Dumb Money (forgettable fun), An- 8. Anatomy of a Fall no matter a film’s budget, prove- under my belt. I wish I caught Ra-
atrocity some have labelled it.) na Kendrick’s Woman of the Hour 9. Hit Man nance, or star power. With the ex- du Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much
The other and messier guess- (fine, but overpraised), Michael 10. Kill ception of the Colman Domingo- from the End of the World, Ava Du-
ing game, though, is trickier to Keaton’s Knox Goes Away (distress- led biopic Rustin, Netflix held Vernay’s Origin, Aki Kaurismäki’s
answer: Will TIFF 2023 go down as ingly dull), or Brian Helgeland’s back its big fall-season guns (Bra- Fallen Leaves, Jonathan Demme’s
a success? Like most things in- Finestkind (don’t worry if you’ve premieres, others having played dley Cooper’s Maestro, David Stop Making Sense (whose pre-
volving the film industry today, didn’t hear about it; you never other festivals prior, not that the Fincher’s Killer, Todd Haynes’s miere with Spike Lee and the
it’s complicated. will). average TIFF-goer does or even May December) and instead sent Talking Heads turned into a once-
Over the fest’s opening week- But then Monday rolled around should care – were still being out- its B-to-C-to-D-team (including in-a-lifetime dance party), or the
end, it was hard to shake the nag- and things levelled up – or perhaps numbered by fare either me- the warmly-but-cautiously re- second half of Harmony Korine’s
ging (perhaps grumpy) sense my selections, schedule and cyni- diocre or embarrassing. TIFF ceived Nyad and Sundance also- Agrro Dr1ft (I bailed for a compet-
that the programming promises cism just ironed themselves out. might have solved its quantity ran Fair Play, but also Pain Hus- ing commitment, though I saw
of this year’s edition were quickly Errol Morris’s taut John le Carré problem since the days of its 300- tlers and Reptile, whose hostile re- enough to get the edge-lord drift/
deteriorating before ticket-hold- documentary The Pigeon Tunnel, title lineups, but this year’s slate ceptions guarantee that you’ll dr1ft). Yet I doubt many other fes-
ers’ eyes. It wasn’t only the muted Bertrand Bonello’s demanding sci- made clear that there remains a never see them at the top of your tivalgoers had stronger batting
energy on the streets owing to the fi drama The Beast, Greg Kwedar’s quality-control issue. homepage queue). averages.
relative lack of stars – a problem electrifying Sing Sing, Ryusuke Ha- The festival’s accidentally pres- Apple TV+ delivered its mildly There is a guarantee, though,
out of TIFF’s control, and one that maguchi’s evocative Evil Does Not cient move to program a rash of received sci-fi romance Finger- that next year’s TIFF will be com-
organizers tried to rectify as best Exist, and Richard Linklater’s films from actors-turned-direc- nails and easy-to-love musical pletely different. Hopefully in
as they could; hello, Nickelback! smouldering Hit Man all surprised tors, for instance, revealed drama Flora and Son, but not Mar- terms of programming, but also
– but the offerings on the screen. and energized. These are movies strengths and weaknesses. For ev- tin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower everything else.
There were a lot of fine-to- that remind you why festivals are ery marquee name that organiz- Moon. Will anyone remember With – Godard willing – a new
good films premiering – includ- so essential to the cinematic eco- ers lured to the city with a genu- that Hulu/Disney+ chose Toron- lead sponsor to step in for depart-
ing the opening-night selection system, to say nothing of the pure inely interesting film and a union to to debut its comedy Quiz Lady? ing partner Bell, a new leadership
The Boy and the Heron, TIFF’s one transformative pleasure of a com- interim agreement in hand (Vig- Will anyone remember Quiz La- team to replace or perhaps re-
true 2023 coup – but too few munal cultural experience. go Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t dy? work the responsibilities of re-
must-see knockouts and a whole But the gems – some world Hurt, Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat) TIFF made much noise over cently departed executives, and
the summer about snagging the an impressive third-floor renova-
world premiere of the drama Les tion to entice new audiences,

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I Am Sirat landed in the city on
Tuesday night, having travelled
from her home in New Delhi, and
got something of a celebrity treat-
ment.
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social media messages from peo-
ple who attended advance screen-
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mother once, but it did not go
well. Her mother called up Tane-
ja’s uncles, who beat her. She went
back to a partly closeted life after
that.
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like a place where she can be her-
self, posting videos of herself
dancing and lip synching to Pun-
jabi music.
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for Taneja to be seen.
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her about the idea for the docu-
mentary after they met filming
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Netflix series in which Taneja
played a guard.
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day I found myself giving her an-
other line. She was so good,” Meh-
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tween takes, she recalled, and
chat with Mehta.
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Mehta’s regular trips to New Del-
hi, and one day while they were
spending time together, Mehta
pulled out her phone and started
filming something Taneja was
saying about her history, and Ta-
neja encouraged her to make a
film.
Ultimately, Taneja said, she
hopes her mother sees the film,
though she has no imminent
plans to show it to her. Instead,
she hopes her mother will hear
about the film’s subject matter
through the grapevine, learn
about the support Taneja has re-
ceived, and watch it herself.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Once in a lifetime is enough

for the Talking Heads
The performance in Stop
Making Sense, captured over
four nights at the Pantages
Theatre in Hollywood, shows
a band at the peak of its power

BRAD WHEELER

A
t the end of the premiere screen-
ing of the newly restored version
of the acclaimed 1984 concert film
Stop Making Sense at the Toronto
International Film Festival, it occurred to
the Talking Heads musician Jerry Harrison
that it was too short. “It went by so quickly
that I wanted to watch it again,” he says,
speaking the next day. “I thought to my-
self, ‘Is it over already?’”
It is over – has been for some time. The
Talking Heads broke up in 1991. But they
have reunited for the festival and for an in-
terview in a downtown hotel. Here they
are, sitting around a coffee table, attention
turned to their smartphones during a
break between journalists. “I have to call
my wife,” Harrison says, excusing himself.
Drummer Chris Frantz, a bit paunchy,
wears a shirt with an alligator logo. His
wife, bassist Tina Weymouth, sports dark
glasses because of a scratched cornea.
“I’m having difficulty with the light in
my eyes,” she explains.
And frontman David Byrne, who recent-
ly said he behaved like a “little tyrant” dur-
ing the band’s breakup, and whose high
cheekbones, quirky gestures and thou-
sand-mile black-eyed stare often were the
mesmerizing focus of the film. He’s a softer
figure now, with a shock of white hair, a
blue blazer and the gentle mien of a small-
town pharmacist.
Harrison’s thoughts on the fleetingness
of the Stop Making Sense screening are
apropos. The centrepiece of film directed
by the late Jonathan Demme is Once in a
Lifetime, a song about living half-awake on
autopilot and then waking up to the ques-
tion, “How did I get here?”
They got here because the film’s original
distribution deal expired, which allowed
Harrison to give the film a 4K restoration. It
releases exclusively in Imax on Sept. 22,
David Byrne performs with the Talking Heads in the concert film Stop Making Sense. The documentary, directed by Jonathan Demme, will
receive a wide release on Imax screens on Sept. 22 with a full theatrical release elsewhere a week later.
with full theatrical run elsewhere a week
later. “We took advantage of new technol-
ogy,” Harrison says. “All these things came
together.”
Watching Stop Making Sense now and
seeing themselves nearly 40 years after the
fact drew varying reactions from the four
members of the band.
“It was surreal,” Weymouth says.
Frantz was more sentimental. “When I
watch it, I’m so grateful that I was able to be
part of this.”
And Byrne, about seeing his face close-
up on a giant Imax screen: “I was thinking,
‘skin care.’ ”
What was clear to all of them was that
the music stood up and that the perform-
ance and look of the band still felt relevant.
“I’m not seeing eighties,” Byrne says.
“There are no unfortunate haircuts.”
Though Byrne once said that a Talking
Head reunion would be an “exercise in
nostalgia,” the return of the film is a fresh-
er sensation. The performance, captured
over four nights in 1983 at the Pantages
Theatre in Hollywood, represents a band at
the peak of its powers, performing bright,
kinetic pop that was the funkiest new wave
around. The film’s editing by Demme and
Lisa Day focuses on the joyous synchroni-
zation of an ensemble of four core band-
mates and five others.
The crowd is not shown much at all in
the film – it was felt the lighting needed to
shoot them would blunt the audience’s en-
ergy. So, pure performance, not rock con-
cert, on the screen. The fans at the TIFF
screening behaved as if they were at a live
show, clapping and dancing often.
On Once in a Lifetime, Byrne is in ser-
monizing form in the verses, with the bap-
tismal chorus (“Letting the days go by, let
the water hold me down”) more about re-
birth than reliving.
“It’s not nostalgia,” Weymouth says, “it’s
nowstalgia.”
The concept of the movie, which was a
typical show on the band’s 1983 tour, came
from Byrne. A director, Demme, was
brought into film it, in much the same way
Byrne brought in filmmaker Spike Lee for
his 2020 concert film American Utopia. (Lee
hosted the onstage Q&A with the four
Talking Heads this week at TIFF for Stop
Making Sense.)
As sophisticated as the 1983 concert was,
its brilliance was intimately theatrical, not
extravaganza – human, not razzle dazzle.
Byrne has seen the big shows by Beyoncé
and others, and while he admits they are a
lot of fun, “It’s not always emotionally
moving. You’re just kind of bowled over by
the spectacle.”
The Talking Heads got back together in
2002 for the band’s induction into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame, and the press has
used the word “reunited” for the TIFF pre-
miere of Stop Making Sense. A full-fledged
reunion, however, whether for a lucrative
tour or for an album, does not seem to be
in the cards for the band who once sang
“Never for money, always for love – cover
up and say goodnight.”
The fans want it, no doubt the concert
promoters want it, perhaps even one or
more of the band members want it. But?
“A wish,” Weymouth says, “is just a
wish.”
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How I changed from
a cat hater to a cat lover
FIRST PERSON
Masala and Sylvester sustained
me during my darkest days
with their comfort and love,
Navin Parekh writes
C
ats are evil. Cats bring bad luck.
Cats are sneaky. Cats harm infants.
Cats cannot be trusted. If a cat
crosses the street ahead of you,
turn back or take a different route. Walk-
ing over a cat’s path would only bring bad
luck and misery.
This is what I was taught growing up in
India. So, when I arrived in Canada, I held
a strong bias against felines. I hated cats
and didn’t want anything to do with them.
And then I married a woman who, lo
and behold, was brought up with cats. So,
it was inevitable that she would want us to
acquire one. My in-laws lived with Maggie,
a big, fat, golden-coloured cat that made
me quite uneasy. When we used to take
our infant daughter on visits to their
home, I watched Maggie closely and
whenever she went near my daughter’s
carriage, I ran to ensure that Maggie did
not harm her. Instead of supporting me,
my in-laws and even my wife laughed out
loud, and they assured me that Maggie
wouldn’t harm my daughter.
Pressure from my wife to get a cat be-
came more intense after we had two more
children. It was not for us, but a pet for the
children to play with, the argument went
on and on. Under pressure, I finally relent-
ed and agreed on two conditions: One, it
must be a small kitten, not a big, fat cat
like Maggie. And two, if things don’t turn
out well, we would return the cat.
With that understanding, we went to
the Ottawa Humane Society. That’s when
a kitten came into my life. She had a gor-
geous (I had to admit) mix of white, yel-
J’accuse! Monsieur Branagh!
BARRY HERTZ
REVIEW
A Haunting in Venice
C L A S S I F I C AT I O N : P G ; 1 03 M I N U T ES
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
Written by Michael Green, based on the
novel Hallowe’en Party by Agatha Christie
Starring Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey and
Michelle Yeoh
T
here is one great mystery at the
heart of the new Hercule Poirot
adventure that only director Ken-
neth Branagh can hope to solve:
Why is the man spending what should/
could be the prime filmmaking years of his
career rehashing detective stories with al-
most no creative or thematic flair?
The obvious answer is cold, hard, easy-
franchise cash – j’accuse, Monsieur Money-
bags! But making three Poirot adaptations
over the course of six years hints at some
kind of larger artistic ambition that keeps
the Agatha Christie cash-train movin’. So it
is a shame to report that Branagh’s latest
Poirot project, A Haunting in Venice, keeps
that particular case file closed.
Adapted from Christie’s 1969 novel Hal-
lowe’en Party, Branagh’s old-new murder-
mystery lightly slathers on a layer of super-
natural spookiness to the proceedings that
was absent from 2017’s Murder on the Orient
Express and last year’s Death on the Nile,
both of which were forgettably fine, or per-
haps finely forgettable. Not that a few claps
of thunder here, a few dark shadows there
do much to elevate what appears to be Bra-
nagh’s default adaptation mode: a ho-
| T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O NEWS | A17
Juno Awards
introduce new
AI eligibility
rules ahead
of submissions
DAVID FRIEND TORONTO
T
he Juno Awards say a con-
troversial “deepfake” song
featuring unauthorized
sound-alike vocals of Drake and
the Weeknd won’t be eligible at
next year’s celebration of Cana-
dian music.
The organization’s president
Allan Reid said that newly intro-
duced “AI eligibility” rules lay out
the basics of how artificial intelli-
gence can be used in making
songs – and the popular mashup
of the two famed Toronto singers
doesn’t meet the requirements.
“It’s ‘Drake and the Weeknd’ –
but that’s not them,” Reid told
The Canadian Press.
“That is not their voices; those
are AI-generated voices.”
Before submissions for the
ILLUSTRATION BY MARLEY ALLEN-ASH 2024 Junos open on Monday,
leadership has clarified that eligi-
ble recordings can use AI, but that
it can’t be the “sole or core com-
ponent” of the project.
Exactly what that means is still
up for some interpretation, Reid
conceded. He described this as
“very much a learning year for us”
with the established rules as “a
baseline” to work from.
low and black colours in her fur. We called third cat came into our life. “We want to make sure that we
her Bilea, the name for a cat in Gujarati, Masala resented another cat encroach- have humans being recognized,”
my native tongue. Our children loved to ing on her territory. As time went by, how- he said. “We can’t be awarding an
play with Bilea, to feed her and to have her ever, slowly but surely and begrudgingly, AI project a Juno.”
sleep with them. I found nothing more Masala came around to accepting Sylves- The new criteria come as the
fun and exciting than watching the chil- ter as a legitimate inhabitant. In fact, the music industry contends with a
dren playing with Bilea. She was like a two cats even became good friends. fast-evolving technology that’s
fourth child. Initially, I was a bit hesitant, We were happy with life, my wife and I, flooded the internet with “deep-
but gradually I started liking and even lov- and the two cats. Our children had moved fake” songs which use computer-
ing that small animal. out and found their own careers and my generated voices that mimic the
That began the process of my learning training and consulting practice was flour- real artists.
to unlearn previously held ideas about ishing. But then, fate took a cruel turn, Heart on My Sleeve, a song cre-
cats. and my wife became a victim of ovarian ated by a U.S. producer who calls
Bilea lived for close to 20 years. But, by cancer. She fought the disease for three himself Ghostwriter, rattled the
that time, she was experiencing arthritis, years before she breathed her last breath. music industry earlier this year
cataracts and stomach pain. This terrible time was also with its convincing performances
So, with heavy hearts, she when I came to know the by fake versions of Drake and the
was euthanized. It was like Our first cat was like true nature of cats. Masala Weeknd.
losing a family member, an and Sylvester stayed by her Its release led record industry gi-
extremely painful experi- a fourth child. bedside around the clock, as ant Universal Music Group, distrib-
ence for all of us. Initially, I was a bit if they were holding a vigil. utor of both Canadian artists, to is-
After a couple of years, a hesitant, but They didn’t get up even to sue takedown notices to music
friend of my daughter’s gradually I started eat. After my wife died, the streamers. They released a state-
called. She worked in a cat two cats roamed around the ment calling unauthorized AI-
hospital. She said that a cat, liking and even house for days looking for made songs “a breach of our agree-
a look-alike of our Bilea, had loving that small her. ments and a violation of copyright
been brought in to be eu- animal. Masala and Sylvester also law,” while the Grammys recently
thanized. Hearing this, my sustained me during my dar- clarified the song would not be eli-
wife and daughter jumped in the car right kest days. There was nothing more pre- gible at its awards show.
away and brought her home. She was a cious than to come home from a busy More recently, Vancouver-born
full-grown cat with the same kind of tri- workday to my two pets. Masala would musician Grimes issued voice-
coloured coat as our Bilea. My daughter jump on my lap for a rub at the first op- modelling software that allows
called her Masala, which means a mix of portunity and Sylvester would sneak onto fans to add her to their music, as
colourful spices in Gujarati. my bed at night purring. It is the sweetest long as they split the royalties
On Masala’s first evening at our home, soul-soothing sound. with her.
she jumped on my lap. And, from that Bilea, Masala and Sylvester helped me Reid says both examples could
moment on, she adopted my lap as her unlearn all my previously held prejudicial lead to different outcomes at the
own special spot. And she was not content ideas about cats. They also taught me a Junos.
to simply sit but stretched out on her back lifelong lesson: learning to unlearn preju- Heart on My Sleeve would’ve
inviting me to give her a rub. If I did not dicial ideas about people who look, com- never been eligible for the
oblige, she would nudge me with her municate and behave differently is the awards, he said, since its creator
paws. She didn’t want me to sit idly. key to fostering relationships with them. isn’t Canadian and neither vocal-
By that time, our daughter was married, ist was involved. The song also
and my sons were moving to Toronto for Navin Parekh lives in Toronto. wasn’t commercially released
better opportunities. One of them had a since it was unauthorized.
cat named Sylvester. Not knowing where First Person is a daily personal piece Submission forms do not di-
he might be living in the big city, he en- submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? rectly ask if AI technology was
trusted Sylvester to us. That’s how the See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. used in the creation, said Liz Mor-
gante, senior manager of the a-
cademy’s operations. However,
any projects that raise questions
will be reviewed by the Junos mu-
sic advisory committees.
“With the rate that things are
changing … it’s hard for us to pre-
hum procedural that places all of the re- der victims. dict where things will land in the
sponsibility to be baseline interesting on Fey is particularly ill-served by her direc- future, which is why we need to
the film’s many perp-walk-worthy co-stars. tor here, permanently stuck in fast-talk Ro- take initial steps and learn as this
Burnt out from cracking cases – and los- salind Russell mode. Reilly, meanwhile, de- evolves,” Reid said.
ing a few surprisingly murderous friends in cides to have her face frozen in seductive The Juno Awards take place
the process – the magnificently musta- shock, while Dornan (also a Belfast veter- March 24, 2024, in Halifax.
chioed Poirot (Branagh) is taking it easy in an) appears to constantly be on the verge
Venice, downing sweets and fending off of napping, having the right idea after THE CANADIAN PRESS
admirers with the help of his thuggish memorizing his dialogue from Michael
bodyguard (Riccardo Scamarcio). But then Green’s yawn-y screenplay. Yeoh is the on-
his old friend, the mystery novelist/Chris- ly one who seems to have figured out how
tie stand-in Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey), to have fun while also ensuring that her TODAY’S SUDOKU SOLUTION
comes along with a proposition: help solve audience is enjoying the proceedings, too.
a death that has stumped experts to the Yet she seems to be of little ultimate inter-
point that the only reasona- est to Branagh, or anyone
ble culprit seems to be super- else.
natural in origin, and reclaim Assembling what It is not that the director-
your world-renown glory. slash-star is being selfish or
Off our Belgian brainiac amounts to a decent malicious here by, say, focus-
goes to a séance hosted by table at the Golden ing on his own performance
the mother (Kelly Reilly) of a Globe Awards, at the expense of his cast.
beautiful and now deceased Branagh’s cast The hero is a distressingly
young woman. Joining them charmless creation, a notch
are the house doctor (Jamie seems to have been or two down in charisma
Dornan) in love with the instructed to do even from his previous two
mother, a shifty mystic (Mi- whatever their hearts Poirot films. And Branagh
chelle Yeoh), a kindly but desire. seems to know it, framing his
overprotective housekeeper character as if a passive spec- TODAY’S KENKEN SOLUTION
(Camille Cottin), and a precocious little tator to his own narrative.
boy who seems to have a regular dialogue By the time the deep dark truth about
with the dead (Jude Hill, the star of Bra- the mysterious case is revealed – in a series
nagh’s last non-Poirot film, Belfast). of twists that are more “agh” than “aha” –
Assembling what amounts to a decent even the hardest core of Christie fans won’t
table at the Golden Globe Awards, Bra- be itching for a fourth Poirot go-round
nagh’s cast seems to have been instructed from Branagh. Which will not only benefit
to do whatever their hearts desire. Each audiences but also the filmmaker himself.
performer operates as if they are in fact the The world might not need more easygo-
lead character of a different movie than ing nostalgia trips like Belfast – but we have
the one they’re actually making, with the all definitely had our fill of this particular
aggravating results only driving the audi- portrait of Poirot.
ence’s blood lust – better solve this case
quick, before the actors become the mur- A Haunting in Venice opens in theatres Friday.
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Police footage shown at London attack trial
Jurors view videos liberately hitting five members of
the Afzaal family with his truck
of the accused in while they were out for a walk in
detention cells, having London, Ont.
fingerprints taken Prosecutors have alleged his
actions on June 6, 2021, amount
following his arrest to an act of terrorism and have ar-
gued he was motivated by white
MAAN ALHMIDI nationalist beliefs.
The 22-year-old has pleaded
not guilty to four counts of first-
Jurors at the trial of a man ac- degree murder and one count of
cused of murdering four mem- attempted murder.
bers of a Muslim family in Onta- On Thursday, jurors watched a
rio are watching more footage of video of Mr. Veltman pacing
him being held at a police station around in a small detention cell
after his arrest. at London police headquarters
Nathaniel Veltman is seen pac- and sometimes briefly sitting on
ing around and occasionally sit- a concrete bench inside the cell.
ting in a detention cell, before be- The video shows him walking
ing taken to a different cell where around with his hands crossed or
he is seen walking around and in his pants pockets.
eventually lying down in the Mr. Veltman is seen in the foot-
hours after the attack. age wearing a white T-shirt with
Mr. Veltman is accused of de- what appears to be a hand-paint-
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BRIDGE 1. One notrump. When you
BY STEVE BECKER are in the balancing seat – that
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2023 is, when the opponents have
stopped bidding at a low level
and it would be over if you
You are South, both sides vul- passed – you are allowed to
nerable, and the bidding has make bids that do not meet the
gone: usual requirements for the same
bid made in a different situa-
tion. Here, the one-notrump
overcall does not promise the
What (if anything) would you normal complement of 15 to 18
bid with each of the following points, but instead indicates 11
five hands? to 14. If a player in the balancing
position actually has a stron-
ger notrump hand, he must
double first and bid notrump
later.
C H A L L E N G E C RO S S WO R D
1 2 3 4 5 6
8 9
10 11
13 14 15
17
18 19 20
21 22
24 25
CRYPTIC CLUES
ACROSS DOWN
1 Still pics or flicks (5) 1 One helping to
4 Trick examination restore taverns (7)
question (7) 2 Wife of Perseus wrongly
8 Free ride cut short (3) named Dora (9)
3 Word commonly used in
9 Very bad actor troubled
various languages (5)
with debts (9)
10 Tom’s nag is mixed 4 A truce arranged between
vicar and laity (6)
in with others (7)
5 Despoiled icon is restored
11 Wood for burning? (5)
13 He interrupts a politician to a city of Cyprus (7)
with a supposition (6) 6 Self-esteem for example
15 Prosecutor takes on a comes to nought (3)
cartel that’s brazen (6) 7 Give an oral test (5)
18 It has wings and flies (5) 12 An illumination for
19 Arrange a star part the landing (9)
in a Western (7) 14 Hemp is used in making
21 Happened to have these jackets (7)
been evicted (6,3) 16 It’s all gone wrong about
23 It’s easily slipped on (3) getting a ship (7)
24 Gets ready to eat or 17 Do some relief work? (6)
to be eaten (7) 18 Seen we hear to be lying (5)
25 Musical journal? (5) 20 A riot getting out of
proportion (5)
22 Dear-sounding eggs (3)
Solutions to today's Sudoku and Kenken can be found in the Life & Arts content
area of the A section. Crossword solutions will be with tomorrow's puzzles.
ed cross on both the front and the
back, along with dark-coloured
pants.
Jurors watched a video
of Mr. Veltman pacing
around in a small
detention cell at London
police headquarters and
sometimes briefly
sitting on a concrete
bench inside the cell.
Jurors later watched footage of
Mr. Veltman in another detention
cell, where he spent the night af-
ter the attack, pacing around and
occasionally lying down on a con-
crete bed. They also saw footage
of Mr. Veltman’s fingerprints be-
ing taken and him being photo-
graphed by police officers.
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2. Double. If you were North –
immediately behind the open-
ing bidder – you would overcall
West’s one-diamond bid with
one notrump. But since you are
in the balancing seat, you cannot
bid one notrump because part-
ner would expect you to have 11
to 14 points, as in the previous
problem. Instead, you should
double, planning to bid notrump
your next turn.
3. One spade. Even though
your hand would not qualify
for a vulnerable overcall if you
were in the North position, here
it is better to bid one spade than
to pass. Partner probably has
7
12
16
23
QUICK CLUES
ACROSS
1 Confused sound of voices (5)
4 Military interrelationship (7)
8 Piece of felled tree (3)
9 Jealous (5-4)
10 Passivity (7)
11 Subdued in tone (5)
13 Make partial changes in (6)
15 East Mediterranean island (6)
18 Senior (5)
19 Wounding (7)
21 Prepared in advance (9)
23 To swindle (3)
24 Inflexibly (7)
25 Long narrow hilltop (5)
DOWN
1 One of the Low Countries (7)
2 Conceited (3-6)
3 Easily digested (5)
4 Allowable margin of variation (6)
5 General pardon (7)
6 For example (3)
7 Lowest point (5)
12 Undisguised (9)
14 Advanced (7)
16 To gag (7)
17 Intimate (6)
18 Express willingness (5)
20 Jockey (5)
22 Fabric floor covering (3)
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L | F R I DAY , SE P T E M B E R 1 5 , 2 0 2 3
Salman Afzaal, 46, his 44-year- “From five seconds before the
old wife Madiha Salman, their 15- impact through until point of im-
year-old daughter Yumna, and pact, the brake pedal was never
her 74-year-old grandmother, Ta- depressed,” it said. “Veltman
lat Afzaal, were killed in the Lon- struck the victims with his truck
don attack. The couple’s nine- and at least one family member
year-old son was also seriously was thrown high in the air.”
hurt but survived. Crown lawyer Sarah Shaikh
An agreed statement of facts told jurors in her opening state-
presented to the jury has said Mr. ment earlier this week that Mr.
Veltman was driving his truck Veltman allegedly planned his at-
north on Hyde Park Road in Lon- tack for three months.
don when he saw the Afzaal fam- She said Mr. Veltman told de-
ily and made a U-turn to drive tectives that his intentions were
south toward them. Two women political, he’d left his home on
in the Afzaal family were wearing the day of the attack looking for
traditional Pakistani clothes at Muslims to kill and that he’d used
the time of the attack, court has a truck to send a message to oth-
heard. ers that vehicles can be used to at-
Mr. Veltman accelerated as he tack Muslims.
approached the family, and data The trial, which is taking place
from his truck show he steered to in Windsor, Ont., is expected to
the right, aiming to hit the family, last eight weeks.
just five seconds before striking
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at least 10 points, which gives for takeout.
you a good shot at making a 5. Double. Here you have val-
partscore. You’d lose this oppor- ues that are completely indepen-
tunity if you elected to pass one dent of your being in the balanc-
diamond. ing seat. If you were North, you
4. Pass. Your best chance for would double, and as South you
a significant plus score lies in should take exactly the same
letting West play the hand in action. True, your double is sus-
one diamond. The fact that you pect when you are in the bal-
have the values for an open- ancing position, but you plan
ing bid does not mean that you to take strong action at your
must take action at this point. next turn to identify your actual
West will probably go down two strength. It is much better to
or three tricks in one diamond double than to bid two spades,
– 200 or 300 points – which which is strength-showing in
could well be the best result the balancing position, but not
available. Note that you can- forcing.
not double, since this would be
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YESTERDAY'S CRYPTIC
ACROSS: 1 Permission, 8 Licit, 9 Russian, 10 Cossets, 11 Lisle, 12 Answer,
14 Prompt, 17 Delta, 19 Enthuse, 21 Erudite, 22 Pilot, 23 Signet ring.
DOWN: 2 Excises, 3 Mitre, 4 Surest, 5 Insular, 6 Nails, 7 Investment, 8 Lock and key,
13 Erasing, 15 Maudlin, 16 Severe, 18 Louts, 20 Taper.
YESTERDAY'S QUICK
ACROSS: 1 Animal Farm, 8 Tarot, 9 So-and-so, 10 Launder, 11 Overt, 12 Breach,
14 Temple, 17 Abate, 19 Address, 21 Esparto, 22 Amity, 23 End of story.
DOWN: 2 Nurture, 3 Muted, 4 Lustre, 5 A la mode, 6 Midge, 7 Dostoevsky,
8 Talebearer, 13 Cleared, 15 Premier, 16 Lay off, 18 Ample, 20 Dealt.
F R I DAY , SE P T E M B E R 1 5 , 2 0 2 3
Hospitals: Drug reactions account for 5 to 10 per cent of admissions, studies show
FROM A1
Experts in drug safety say some
of the figures are impossibly low.
“Those kinds of numbers are just
not credible,” said Joel Lexchin, a
retired emergency-room doctor
and a former professor at York
University.
Corinne Hohl, an emergency-
room doctor who studies adverse
drug events, said “adverse drug
reactions are ubiquitous if you
are treating patients with medi-
cations.”
She added that treating pa-
tients with drugs is the most
common medical intervention,
even among surgical patients.
Others say the inconsistent re-
porting across hospitals could be
a failure of the regulator to prop-
erly communicate obligations.
Lucas Chartier, vice-president
of quality and safety and chief
patient safety officer for the Uni-
versity Health Network, said
Health Canada may need to work
on clarifying what hospitals are
required to report. “It appears as
though there’s an incomplete
understanding,” Dr. Chartier said.
Dr. Hohl estimates based on
her research that around 2 per
cent of all emergency-room ad-
missions are because of drug re-
actions that would meet Health
Canada’s definition of serious.
Academic literature shows that
drug reactions, which could in-
clude ones that don’t meet the
definition of serious, can account
for anywhere between about 5
and 10 per cent of hospital ad-
missions.
Vanessa’s Law, named after
the late daughter of Terence
Young, a former Conservative
MP, made it mandatory for hos-
pitals across the country to re-
port such incidents.
The law defines a reaction as
any incident that “requires in-pa-
tient hospitalization or prolon-
gation of existing hospitaliza-
tion, that causes congenital mal-
formation, that results in persist-
ent or significant disability or
incapacity, that is life-threaten-
ing or that results in death.” Data
on incidents such as these are
used to flag potential issues with
drugs on the market and are par-
ticularly important for new treat-
ments.
“The fact that they have any
hospital that didn’t report any is
like a three-alarm fire,” said Mr.
Young. His 15-year-old daughter
died in March, 2000, after taking
a drug called Prepulsid (cisa-
pride) to help treat a mild form
of bulimia. An Ontario coroner’s
inquest found Prepulsid contrib-
uted to an arrhythmia and car-
diac arrest. The drug was later
pulled from the Canadian and
American markets because of
similar cardiac side effects.
Mr. Young’s advocacy as a pri-
vate citizen and MP helped cre-
ate the Protecting Canadians
from Unsafe Drugs Act, or Vanes-
sa’s Law, passed in 2014. It in-
cludes penalties for companies
making unsafe products. Five
years later, the government final-
ized the mandatory adverse drug
reaction reporting requirement
for hospitals.
Experts say there are serious
risks of not having the data. “The
people who are prescribing and
the people who are taking the
drug don’t have a good idea how
safe or unsafe it is,” Dr. Lexchin
said.
Health Canada uses the infor-
mation it collects through the re-
quired reports to inform deci-
sions around drug recalls and ad-
visories. Having solid informa-
tion on adverse drug reactions is
particularly important for recent-
ly approved drugs. “When new
drugs come on the market, we
actually know very little about
the safety because they’ve been
tested in a very narrow range of
people,” Dr. Lexchin said.
The data obtained by The
Globe show significant variability
in reporting between institu-
tions. While the majority of sites
listed fewer than 10 incidents
over the three-year period, the
top reporters – CHU de Québec-
UKRAINIAN MILITARY SAYS IT ATTACKED RUSSIAN AIR DEFENCES IN WESTERN CRIMEA
KYIV Ukraine struck Russian air
defence systems near the town of
Yevpatoriya in the west of occu-
pied Crimea in a long-range
overnight attack on Thursday,
the Ukrainian military said.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said
in a statement that its air defenc-
es had shot down 11 drones
overnight over the peninsula,
which Russia seized from Uk-
raine in 2014. It made no men-
tion of any damage.
A video circulated on social
media showed powerful explo-
sions and a plume of smoke
rising in the night sky illumi-
nated by a blaze. Reuters could
| T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
Dr. Corinne Hohl, above, an ER doctor at Vancouver General Hospital, estimates that around 2 per cent of all
emergency-room admissions are because of serious drug reactions. JIMMY JEONG/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Serious adverse drug reactions in the top 10 hospital
organizations ranked by bed count, 2020–2022
Ont. Que.
Hamilton Health Sciences
313
University Health Network
38
CIUSSS de la Mauricie-et-du-Centre-du-Québec
50
Trillium Health Partners
98
CHU de Québec - Laval University
CIUSSS de l'Estrie-Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke
666
The Ottawa Hospital
106
CIUSSS de l'Est-de-l'Île-de-Montréal
37
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
24
Scarborough Health Network
37
*Bed count comes from The Canadian Institute for Health Information's Hospital Beds Staffed and
In Operation, 2021–2022 dataset
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: HEALTH CANADA VIA ACCESS TO INFORMATION
AND PRIVACY REQUEST; CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INFORMATION
Serious adverse drug reactions by province, 2020–2022
Ont.
Que.
B.C.
N.S. 621
N.B. 570
Alta. 506
Man. 456
Sask. 260
N.L. 167
PEI 75
Yukon 6 tals, Health Canada has celebrat-
NWT 3 materials. A newsletter sent in
Nunavut 2
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AND PRIVACY REQUEST
Laval University and Vancouver
General Hospital – reported 1,713
and 1,149 serious reactions, re-
spectively.
Of the institutions that report-
ed zero incidents, some were
small regional facilities, such as
the Centre de santé Notre-Dame
Health Centre in Manitoba. Riz-
wan Ahmed, a director with
Southern Health-Santé Sud, the
health region responsible for the
centre, explained that the reason
it reported no incidents was like-
ly because patients with suspect-
ed serious adverse drug reactions
were transferred to a regional site
or urban centre which, he said,
would be obliged to report the
reaction.
not immediately verify the video.
A Ukrainian intelligence
source told Reuters the attack
destroyed a “Triumf” air defence
system in a joint operation of the
Security Service of Ukraine and
navy.
First, the source said, drones
blinded the air defence system
by attacking its radar and anten-
na, before two Ukrainian-made
Neptune cruise missiles were
fired at the system’s launchers.
Ukraine has modified the Nep-
tune anti-ship missile to attack
ground targets, military analysts
say.
Reuters was unable to inde-
1,713
3,814
3,567
2,704
Interior Health, a regional
health authority in British Co-
lumbia, had three hospitals re-
port no incidents. Ashley Stew-
art, a communications officer
with the health region, said em-
ployees and medical staff are en-
couraged to report adverse
events, noting that “the numbers
reported are consistent with
what we would expect to see
based on facility size and the
number of overall reports for the
Interior Health region.”
More than 200 institutions
that meet Health Canada’s regu-
latory definition for a hospital
did not appear in the data set; it
is unclear why.
The Globe’s analysis shows
pendently verify the account.
The attack comes a day after
Ukraine launched missiles at the
Crimean port of Sevastopol,
home to the Russian Navy’s
Black Sea Fleet, in an attack that
signalled Ukraine’s growing
missile capabilities.
Ukrainian President Volody-
myr Zelensky hailed the Thurs-
day attack in his nightly video
message.
“A special mention should be
made to the entire personnel of
the Security Service of Ukraine as
well as our naval forces,” Mr.
Zelensky said, adding “I thank
you for today’s triumph” – a
that six of the 10 largest hospitals
in Canada by bed count had few-
er than 100 incidents each during
the three-year time frame. For
example, Sunnybrook Health
Sciences Centre in Toronto, one
of the largest hospitals in the
country, reported only 24 inci-
dents during this time.
When questioned, some low-
reporting hospitals said they are
complying with the law. Jennifer
Palisoc, communications adviser
at Sunnybrook, said the hospital
is following the reporting re-
quirements outlined by the gov-
ernment.
Spokesperson Lisa Cipriano
said the Scarborough Health Net-
work, which reported 37 inci-
dents during the three-year peri-
od across eight sites, including
three major urban hospitals, was
also meeting its obligations.
The University Health Net-
work, which includes the Toron-
to General Hospital, Toronto
Western Hospital and the Prin-
cess Margaret Cancer Centre, re-
ported 38 incidents in the three
years. Dr. Chartier said, “I have all
the confidence in our system at
UHN where people do feel very
welcome to report.”
He said UHN’s comparatively
low numbers can be attributed to
the network moving from a pa-
per-based system that was less
streamlined, the pressures of the
pandemic, and the hospital’s in-
terpretation of the law. He said
while UHN captures all serious
incidents that are unexpected,
the hospital network may not re-
port serious incidents that in-
volve known effects of certain
drugs.
Anne Génier, senior media re-
lations adviser at Health Canada,
said in an e-mailed statement
that, according to the law, hospi-
tals must report all serious ad-
verse drug reactions, including
known effects and those that are
unexpected.
Despite the low number of re-
ports from the majority of hospi-
ed its results in communications
December said in the first 2½
months of mandatory reporting,
there was a 321-per-cent increase
in reports since before the re-
quirements were put in place.
Health Canada could not ex-
plain what accounted for the low
numbers coming from some hos-
pitals. However, after the imple-
mentation of the law, the depart-
ment expected that hospitals
would need time and resources
to ramp up reporting, adding in
an e-mailed statement that the
pandemic could have played a
role.
“With the arrival of the CO-
VID-19 pandemic in early 2020, it
is likely that the hospitals experi-
enced additional costs and dis-
ruptions,” Ms. Génier said.
Dr. Hohl believes the issue is
one of system design. The emer-
gency-room doctor at Vancouver
General Hospital said “they’re
asking people like myself who
reference to the name of the
Russian system.
Ukraine also said on Thursday
it downed 17 out of 22 Russian
drones attacking its territory
overnight, and that a child was
killed in the country’s south by
artillery shelling.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor-Gener-
al’s office said a six-year-old boy
was killed and four other people,
including his 13-year-old brother,
were wounded by Russian shell-
ing in the village of Novodmy-
trivka in the Kherson region.
“Enemy shells hit a private
house and its territory,” it said in
a statement on Telegram.
NEWS | A19
have a waiting room of patients
who’ve been sitting there for 10
hours waiting to see me to take
20 minutes to report all these de-
tails about these adverse drug re-
actions.”
The two institutions with the
most reports, CHU de Québec–
Laval University and Vancouver
General Hospital, have created
more user-friendly systems sep-
arate from Health Canada’s
mechanism to provide this data
to the regulator.
Michèle Schaffner-Junius, the
public and government affairs
adviser for CHU de Québec-Laval
University, called Health Cana-
da’s reporting form “long and
complex.” She said her network
of hospitals has created a report-
ing system that allows clinicians
to make a report in less than two
minutes. The longer Health Can-
ada form is later filled out by a
dedicated agent.
Dr. Hohl is the project lead on
a system called ActionADE with a
similar approach at Vancouver
Coastal Health, which includes
Vancouver General Hospital. She
said their platform not only
streamlines the process but also
makes note of adverse drug reac-
tions on patient files to ensure
that they are not unintentionally
re-exposed to the same drug.
Ms. Schaffner-Junius said the
network has been taking a varie-
ty of other steps to prioritize re-
porting under Vanessa’s Law. The
centre has conducted dozens of
presentations for physicians,
pharmacists and specialized
nurse practitioners and has cre-
ated a community of practice to
promote its reporting philoso-
phy and best practices. As a re-
sult, she said, health care profes-
sionals at the hospital have
“strengthened their capacity to
identify and manage ADRs [ad-
verse drug reactions], thereby
elevating the quality of care.”
Dr. Lexchin said insufficient
training in recognizing adverse
drug reactions could also be play-
ing a role in the low numbers
coming from hospitals, because
“if you don’t recognize it, you
can’t report it.” He said there are
thousands of drugs on the mar-
ket, and even for the smaller
group of drugs used by special-
ists or general practitioners regu-
larly, “maintaining and knowing
the information on all of those
drugs is not that easy.”
Furthermore, while Vanessa’s
Law made it mandatory for hos-
pitals to report any documented
serious adverse drug reaction, it
is not mandatory for doctors or
other hospital staff to document
these reactions. Dr. Lexchin said
he believes most doctors are not
aware of the law.
Mr. Young blames a lack of pe-
nalties. “You have to have some
kind of penalty or administrative
action that gets people’s atten-
tion, and obviously they are not
doing that,” he said. Mr. Young,
who now has been working on
this issue for 23 years, calls the
reporting levels across the coun-
try an embarrassment. “They
didn’t do what they were sup-
posed to do by law. They didn’t
do what they were supposed to
do for Canadian patients.”
Health Canada says its ap-
proach to the collection of ad-
verse reaction reports from hos-
pitals has been collaborative. The
department strives to “pro-ac-
tively promote hospital compli-
ance through projects aiming to
better understand hospital chal-
lenges with reporting serious
ADRs and find ways to help them
improve their compliance,” said
Ms. Génier, adding that the ap-
proach seeks to minimize re-
source impacts on hospitals.
However, the department says
it can use provisions in the Food
and Drugs Act to compel a hospi-
tal to comply with Vanessa’s Law
– for example, by seeking an in-
junction to legally oblige hospi-
tals to report this data. Ms. Gé-
nier said, “to date, the depart-
ment has not taken any enforce-
ment actions on hospitals with
respect to compliance with man-
datory ADR reporting.”
Separately, Ukraine’s air force
said it had shot down drones in
several regions in Ukraine’s
south and north.
“On the night of September 14,
2023, from 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., the
Russian invaders attacked Uk-
raine with several groups of
Shahed-136/131 type [drones]
from three directions,” it said in a
post on Telegram.
Dnipropetrovsk region Gover-
nor Serhiy Lysak said three
drones were over the region,
damaging several buildings.
Another part of the region was
hit overnight by artillery and
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Liberals target grocers with
bolstered Competition Act
Changes include ending efficiencies defence, amendment to tackle ‘collaborations’ in food sector
IRENE GALEA
JASON KIRBY
The federal government is taking aim at
high food prices with sweeping changes to
the Competition Act that target large gro-
cery chains, and is threatening them with
tax measures if food prices don’t stabilize.
The proposed changes to the Competi-
tion Act follow promises by Ottawa last fall
to overhaul Canada’s four-decade-old
competition regulations and improve
affordability amid a cost-of-living crisis.
SMALL BUSINESSES Ottawa extends final repayment deadline for Canada Emergency Business Account loans by one year
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THE RACE TO SAVE FLORIDA’S ORANGES
Thousand of growers are fighting to survive a bacterial disease
threatening to ravage one of the state’s iconic industries B5
Entrepreneur facing sex-related lawsuits
sells electronics company for $5.1-billion
NICOLAS VAN PRAET
Montreal billionaire Robert Miller is selling
his electronic components company,
Future Electronics Inc., as the reclusive en-
trepreneur prepares to defend himself in
court against accusations that he exploited
minors and young adults for sex over sev-
eral years beginning in the 1990s.
Taiwanese semiconductor components
distributor WT Microelectronics has struck
a deal to acquire closely held Future for
US$3.8-billion in cash (about $5.1-billion)
including assumed debt, the companies
said in a joint statement Thursday. Future,
based in the Montreal suburb of Pointe
Claire, will continue to operate under its
own name, with its existing management
team and all its employees, the companies
added.
“The senior management is excited
about this next step in our evolution. We
believe this gives us opportunities to ex-
pand our reach and our revenue,” Future
Electronics corporate vice-president Jamie
Singerman said in an interview.
Future has been in turmoil since the
new year, when Radio-Canada’s investiga-
tive program Enquête aired a report in
which it spoke to 10 women who claimed
they had been paid to have sex with Mr.
Miller in separate meetings spanning more
than a decade.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laid out
the proposed changes in a press confer-
ence Thursday afternoon in London, Ont.,
and took aim at grocery chains, which
have posted record earnings amid high in-
flation over the past year. Grocery stores
are frequently criticized for having low
competition and high prices.
“Businesses should be competing for
your business, not unfairly profiting from
it,” Mr. Trudeau said.
The first legislative amendment to the
Competition Act would give the Competi-
tion Bureau the power to compel compa-
[ AGRICULTURE ]
Six of them said they were under the age
of 18 when the alleged encounters oc-
curred, according to the report. One was 14,
Enquête said.
Consumer Law Group, a law firm, filed a
class-action lawsuit against Mr. Miller and
Future Electronics in February. Some 30
women have provided sworn affidavits in
that suit, alleging Mr. Miller gave them
cash, jewellery and other gifts in exchange
for sex when they were underage, accord-
ing to the firm.
The encounters allegedly took place at
downtown Montreal hotels and two resi-
dences in the city’s affluent Westmount
neighbourhood between 1992 and 2012.
Mr. Miller used the alias “Bob Adams” to
hide his identity, according to a court filing
in the case.
The class-action application, which
must still be certified by a judge, has been
amended to include two business associ-
ates of Mr. Miller as defendants. Two other
lawsuits against Mr. Miller related to al-
leged sexual exploitation of minors have
also been filed.
In the latest suit, a woman is accusing
Mr. Miller and his associates of having set
up a “network for recruiting young girls” to
perform sex work for the Future founder,
as well as “other wealthy and influential
men” in his circle, according to a CBC re-
port published earlier this month.
FUTURE, B8
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RU G BY France struggles to defeat Uruguay at World Cup
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DOLLAR GOLD (oz.) OIL (WTI) GCAN (10-YR)
73.99/1.3515 US$1,932.80 US$90.16 3.69%
+0.20/-0.0036 +0.30 +1.64 +0.01
Laurentian
Bank ends
strategic
review, won't
seek a buyer
nies to provide information for market STEFANIE MAROTTA
studies. Until now, the bureau has been ANDREW WILLIS
hampered by an inability to collect com-
plete financial information, and the inde-
pendent law enforcement agency has fre- Laurentian Bank of Canada is
quently appealed for formal subpoena faced with the challenge of
powers. rebuilding confidence among
In an interview after the Prime Minis- investors and proving that it
ter’s announcement, Industry Minister can revive its business after
François-Philippe Champagne said the ending a months-long search
Bureau’s market studies of the grocery in- for a buyer.
dustry this summer were hampered by a The Montreal-based bank con-
lack of co-operation by companies. cluded a lengthy strategic review
GROCERS, B8 on Thursday, saying that no
buyer emerged and it will con-
tinue with an accelerated version
B3
of a turnaround plan that it set
out on nearly two years ago.
The bank also shuffled its
leadership team as part of a sim-
plification strategy, with two
senior executives leaving the
lender, and said it plans to unveil
a revised strategic plan early
next year.
The sale offered rivals a rare
opportunity to buy a Canadian
bank and expand its customer
base in a highly saturated mar-
ket in which customers tend to
avoid switching lenders.
But no attractive bids materi-
alized as competing big banks fo-
cus on their own growth plans
while higher capital constraints
hinder their ability to strike
deals.
Now investors must wait until
2024 for more details on Lauren-
tian’s growth plans, while an-
alysts are critical of the path for-
ward, saying that decluttering its
operations may fall short of ex-
pectations.
“We are unsure at this stage
that focusing on efficiency and
simplification to drive growth
will be enough to placate the
market,” Barclays analyst John
Aiken said in a note to clients.
LAURENTIAN, B8
As crude oil
soars, investors
continue to
flee Canadian
energy ETFs
TIM SHUFELT
ANALYSIS
O
D ECOD E R n numbers alone, oil and
The long, slow return gas stocks are hard to
to normal for food
argue against right now.
Crude prices have topped US$90,
inflation B2 global supply is tight, demand is
strong and years of debt reduc-
tion and cost cutting at the com-
pany level has the oil patch gener-
ating plenty of cash.
EQ U I T I E S The stocks themselves are hot
U.K. chip maker Arm – up more than 20 per cent in the
past three months at the sector
rises nearly 25 per cent level on the TSX.
in year’s biggest IPO B3 But Canadian oil and gas re-
mains a tough sell for investors,
big and small. For most of the past
year, they have been pulling
money out of Canadian energy
RO B E RT M c L I ST E R ETFs, with August seeing a record
Betting the house: Your monthly outflow of more than
$500-million.
home shouldn’t be your According to some energy-
retirement plan B12 fund managers, the sector is
being widely ignored by the in-
vesting public.
There are lots of reputational
issues at play, not least of which is
the sector’s carbon footprint. In
COMPANIES the world of environmental,
ALGONQUIN POWER ........... B13 social and governance, or ESG, in-
ALLIED GOLD ....................... B13 vesting, the Alberta oil sands con-
ARM ....................................... B3 tinue to be a pariah.
CN ........................................ B13 In a summer filled with natural
CANOPY GROWTH ................ B2 disasters and alarming climate-
DOLLARAMA ....................... B13 related headlines, the urgency
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA .... B2 surrounding a global transition
TRANSAT AT .......................... B5 away from fossil fuels has only
WILDBRAIN .......................... B13 grown.
OIL, B12
B15
B15
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T
Americans are seeing sharp relief on their grocery he latest U.S. inflation report for August confirmed what American gro-
cery-store shoppers may have noticed last month in the aisles: Food
bills. When can Canadians expect the same? inflation is cooling fast.
Even though the U.S. headline inflation rate picked up last month,
Headline and grocery store food inflation in Canada and the U.S. that was largely because of surging gasoline prices, the U.S. Bureau of Labour
Annual inflation rate Statistics said Wednesday. Meanwhile food-price inflation, in particular the cost
of items bought at grocery stores, continued to slow to 3 per cent, far below the
Canada grocery store food Canada headline CPI frantic 13.5-per-cent price spike of a year ago.
U.S. grocery store food U.S. headline CPI It’s been a much slower road back to normal for food-price inflation in Cana-
da, though economists say next week’s release of consumer price index data for
August may finally show signs of a U.S.-style reprieve.
12.0%
July
Critics of Canada’s giant grocery chains insist a lack of competition and price
10.0 gouging are to blame for stubbornly higher food inflation. However pretax prof-
it margins for food and beverage stores are up just 1.3 percentage points since
8.0 2020 and explain only a small part of the 23-per-cent jump in food prices, ac-
cording to a new report by Stephen Brown, deputy chief North America econo-
6.0 August mist at Capital Economics.
4.0 Instead he points to higher costs for industrial food producers in Canada –
driven by a weakened Canadian dollar and relatively steeper diesel prices –
2.0 which continued to accelerate long after U.S. producers saw their costs fall.
The good news is Canada’s food producer price index slowed to just 2.5 per
0.0 cent in July, and that should begin to translate into lower food prices for con-
2021 2022 2023 sumers. “There is scope for inflation for food from stores to fall sharply in the
coming months,” Mr. Brown wrote. “The outlook for food price inflation should
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA, U.S. BUREAU OF LABOUR
STATISTICS help to soothe concerns about the inflation impact of higher oil prices.”
JASON KIRBY

Richardson
Wealth ex-CEO
RBC hires executive chair
appointed
vice-chair of
for U.S. bank City National
Florida tech TIM KILADZE ue of US$19-billion. He joined the Cincin-
nati-based lender as an executive vice-
man added oversight of RBC’s U.S.-based
wealth businesses and City National to his
services firm Royal Bank of Canada is hiring an outsider
president and rose to become CEO. He took
on the executive chair role there in July,
portfolio, and the latter’s CEO reported to
him.
as executive chair for City National Bank, 2022, but retired from the bank this spring. At the time, Mr. Guzman was filling a
CLARE O’HARA its U.S.-based lender that caters to ultra- In March, Mr. Carmichael was tapped by hole created by the departure of Russell
WEALTH MANAGEMENT REPORTER high-net-worth clients. U.S. regulators to serve as a temporary CEO Goldsmith, the chair and former CEO of
Greg Carmichael, the former chief exec- of Signature Bank after it failed and was City National whose family ran the bank for
utive officer of U.S. regional lender Fifth seized. Mr. Carmichael had been recruited more than 40 years.
Former Richardson Wealth Ltd. Third Bancorp, is set to join RBC in October. to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s RBC acquired City National for $7.1-bil-
chief executive Andrew Marsh While he will technically sit on City Nation- roster of veteran bankers who could step in lion in 2015 and hired Ms. Coffey as its CEO
has been named vice-chair of al’s board of directors, he will report direct- and run bridge banks that sell off assets or in 2018. Previously, she ran JP Morgan’s pri-
Florida-based Dynasty Financial ly to RBC CEO Dave McKay. wind down after they have been taken over vate bank, which caters to high-net-worth
Partners, a technology services City National’s CEO Kelly Coffey, who by regulators. clients, and held multiple roles at the finan-
provider to more than 50 regis- was hired away from JP Morgan Chase & Co. At RBC, Mr. Carmichael is taking on a cial institution, including running the di-
tered investment advisory com- in 2018, will report to Mr. Carmichael. role similar to the one currently held by versified-industries arm of its investment
panies. Mr. Carmichael spent the past two dec- wealth management and insurance head bank, advising companies such as Ford Mo-
On Tuesday, Dynasty appoint- ades at Fifth Third, which has a market val- Doug Guzman. In January, 2022, Mr. Guz- tor Co. and United Airlines Inc.
ed Mr. Marsh as the company’s
first vice-chairman. He will report
to Dynasty chief executive and
founder Shirl Penney. [ ITALY ]
Industry veteran Mr. Marsh
first joined Dynasty this past
April as an executive-in-resi-
dence, where he worked in the
“adviser to CEO program” to help
coach registered investment ad-
visers who had transitioned into
chief executives.
RIA companies typically fol-
low an independent business
model and are not part of a larger
brokerage or bank. In addition,
RIAs have a fiduciary obligation
to act in the best interests of cli-
ents, a regulatory standard Cana-
da has not adopted.

Industry veteran
Andrew Marsh first
joined Dynasty
this past April as an
executive-in-residence.
Prior to joining Dynasty, Mr.
Marsh spent almost 20 years in
executive leadership roles at Can-
adian wealth manager Richard-
son Wealth Ltd., a subsidiary of RF
Capital Group Inc. In that time,
Venice in crisis
Mr. Marsh grew the company to
160 investment advisers who Tourists visit the Rialto bridge in Venice on Wednesday. The fragile lagoon city has been
managed about $30-billion in as-
sets.
struggling to manage a recent onslaught of tourists; the stakes are high this week as a
“Andrew is a consummate pro- UNESCO committee decides whether to add Venice to its list of endangered sites
fessional with deep experience in
the wealth management indus-
try,” Ms. Penney said in a state- LUCA BRUNO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
ment. “He has already done what
so many in our community and
the RIA space strive to – evolve
from adviser to CEO, building a
business successful enough to
monetize in a material way.”
Mr. Marsh started his career in
BioSteel files for bankruptcy protection, as parent
financial services as an adviser in
1990. In 2004, he helped launch
company Canopy says it will seek new buyer
GMP Private Client, at the age of
36. IRENE GALEA chase, Canopy has invested $366-million ri, said that BioSteel still required approxi-
In 2009, he oversaw the merger in the sports-drink company through a se- mately $15-million a month from Canopy.
of GMP Private Client with Ri- cured loan and credit facility. The CCAA filing follows an embarrass-
chardson Partners Financial, and BioSteel Sports Nutrition Inc. has filed for Canaccord Genuity analyst Matthew ing stumble last year, when Canopy was
was later appointed CEO of the bankruptcy protection in Canada and the Bottomley said that while BioSteel still forced to restate its financial statements af-
newly formed Richardson GMP. U.S., citing rapidly deteriorating liquidity represents about one-third of Canopy’s ter finding numerous material misstate-
Mr. Marsh retired from Ri- despite receiving hundreds of millions in revenue, the mounting operating losses ments related to BioSteel’s revenue.
chardson Wealth in 2021, five funding from parent company Canopy made Canopy’s move to pull the plug “an In its Thursday press release, Canopy
months after completing a three- Growth Corp. incremental positive.” BioSteel accounted said it expects associated annual cash sav-
year restructuring deal to split the In Thursday’s filing, which followed for 60 per cent of the company’s consoli- ings in excess of $100-million. In docu-
privately owned investment advi- months of going concern warnings, Onta- dated losses in the first quarter of 2023. ments filed with the U.S. Securities and Ex-
sory firm from its capital markets rio-based Canopy said it is no longer will- “We view today’s decision by Canopy as change Commission, it said it expects to
division GMP Capital, and launch ing to sink cash into BioSteel and that it likely the best of a bad situation,” Mr. Bot- incur an asset impairment charge of be-
an independent publicly traded has fired or given working notice to the tomley said. tween $100-million and $130-million in
wealth manager. sport-drink company’s 181 employees, as Earlier this year, Canopy sold its Smiths the second quarter of fiscal year 2024 in
At the time, Mr. Marsh told The part of its larger effort to cut expenses. The Falls, Ont., head office and laid off 800 conjunction with the CCAA process.
Globe and Mail that “as an entre- cannabis company said it intends to find a workers as part of its plan to reach profit- BioSteel has signed expensive sponsor-
preneur, the firm was now in new buyer for BioSteel through the Com- ability. The company’s shares on the To- ships with high-profile athletes and teams,
need of a different skill set.” panies’ Creditors Arrangement Act proc- ronto Stock Exchange are down 42 per cent and had a continuing advertising deal with
“I knew this business would ess. since the beginning of 2023. The shares the National Hockey League. The pay-
eventually get to a point where it BioSteel “does not align with Canopy closed the day up almost 9 per cent on ments for those sponsorships are coming
would have to go to the next lev- Growth’s cannabis focused asset-light Thursday after the BioSteel news was re- due in the fourth quarter of 2023 and first
el,” he said. strategy,” Canopy chief executive David leased. quarter of 2024, and would have cost the
In his new role at Dynasty, Mr. Klein said in a news release Thursday. While BioSteel had “year-over-year” rev- company $12-million. But Ms. Eskandari
Marsh will oversee strategic busi- Canopy first acquired a 72-per-cent enue growth, according to a document fil- said BioSteel does not intend to use those
ness reviews, co-ordinate corpo- stake in BioSteel in 2019 for about $50-mil- ed with U.S. securities regulators, it was sponsorship services or make the pay-
rate development opportunities, lion with the hope of developing CBD-in- still reliant on Canopy for financing. In an ments.
and assist with the expansion of fused sports drinks, and has since raised its affidavit filed as part of CCAA proceedings, KSV Restructuring Inc. has been ap-
large U.S.-based RIAs. stake to 90 per cent. Since the initial pur- BioSteel’s general counsel, Sarah Eskanda- pointed BioSteel’s court monitor.
F R I DAY , SE P T E M B E R 1 5 , 2 0 2 3
Ottawa to extend final CEBA loan repayment deadline
Businesses will have
extra year to pay back
federal loans issued
early in the pandemic
CHRIS HANNAY
INDEPENDENT BUSINESS
REPORTER
The federal government says it is
extending the final repayment
deadline for Canada Emergency
Business Account loans by one
year, though the relief has re-
ceived a mixed response from
small-enterprise groups that say
the specifics are insufficient.
CEBA was the most widely
used pandemic support program
for businesses, through which Ot-
tawa provided loans of either
$40,000 or $60,000 to nearly
900,000 enterprises in 2020 and
2021.
The first repayment deadline
was set for Dec. 31. Businesses that
repaid by then would have either
British chip designer Arm rises almost 25% in the year’s biggest IPO
ERIN GRIFFITH
DON CLARK
Call it Wall Street’s Groundhog
Day.
When shares of Arm, the Brit-
ish chip designer, began trading
on the Nasdaq stock exchange
Thursday in the year’s biggest ini-
tial public offering, investors, tech
executives, bankers and startup
founders were watching closely
for how it performed.
If Arm’s stock fell, they knew
the market for IPOs was likely to
stay frozen for longer. But a warm
welcome for the shares would
probably mean many more com-
panies going public in the coming
months, ending the cold streak.
They quickly got their answer:
It was an early spring. Arm’s
shares opened trading at
US$56.10, up 10 per cent from its
initial offering price of US$51.
Shares quickly rose above that,
hitting US$59. They closed at
US$63.59, up nearly 25 per cent.
That is positive news for list-
ings from grocery-delivery star-
tup Instacart and advertising tech
company Klaviyo, which are ex-
pected to go public next week. It
also provides a boost to the entire
tech industry, which has been
waiting for market conditions to
improve for nearly two years.
“Offerings like this are often
beacons to try to decipher what is
the sentiment, over all, of this
marketplace,” said David Hsu, a
professor of management at the
Wharton School at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Arm’s debut may encourage
other companies to tap the public
markets, he said. “If you can break
a logjam in one important corner
of this private market, that tends
to flow all the way down to the pri-
vate capital providers.”
Arm is the largest company to
brave the public markets in 2023,
a year that has been almost death-
ly quiet for IPOs. The chip design-
er, which is owned by SoftBank,
had priced its offering Wednesday
at US$51 a share, raising US$4.87-
billion and valuing the company
at US$54.5-billion.
That stands out in a year that
has been the worst for IPOs since
2009, according to an analysis by
EquityZen, a marketplace for pri-
vate company stock. So far this
year, 73 IPOs in the United States –
including Arm – have raised
US$14.8-billion, according to Re-
naissance Capital, which tracks
public offerings. That’s a fraction
of the listings during 2021, when
397 companies raised US$142-bil-
lion.
There is a backlog of roughly
200 companies that should have
gone public by now, according to
an analysis by PitchBook, which
tracks startups. Shoe company
Birkenstock, owned by private-
equity firm L Catterton, filed to go
public on the New York Stock Ex-
change this week.
“A lot of companies are explor-
ing the market right now,” said
Kyle Stanford, an analyst at Pitch-
Book. “The demand is there.”
Arm is a particularly interest-
ing test of the public market be-
cause it provides an essential
technology that is geopolitically
and strategically coveted, which
also means it faces challenges.
Founded in 1990 in Cambridge,
England, the company sells blue-
prints of a part of a chip known as
a processor core.
Its customers include many of
the world’s largest tech compa-
nies, such as Apple, Google, Sam-
sung and Nvidia.
Arm’s chip designs are primar-
ily used in smartphones, but the
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$10,000 or $20,000 of the loan
forgiven. As of Jan. 1, nothing
would be forgiven, and interest
would begin to accrue at 5 per
cent. Loans were due in full by
Dec. 31, 2025.
Those deadlines have now
been pushed to give businesses a
little bit of relief, Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau announced
Thursday in London, Ont.
The initial repayment deadline
is moving to Jan. 18, 2024, to get
businesses through the busy holi-
day season. And the final dead-
line will be extended by a full year
to Dec. 31, 2026.
The government is also setting
another deadline: If a business is
in talks with their financial insti-
tution to refinance their loan,
they can still have it partially for-
given as long as those negotia-
tions are completed by March 28,
2024.
“These are really providing
small businesses flexible options
and more time to be able to make
the arrangements they need,”
Small Business Minister Rechie
Arm executives and CEO Rene Haas, left, gather outside the Nasdaq market site as SoftBank's Arm, the British
chip-design firm, holds an initial public offering in New York on Thursday. BRENDAN McDERMID/REUTERS
company has pitched itself as able
to ride the wave of artificial intelli-
gence sweeping Silicon Valley.
Many AI companies need the
most advanced computer chips to
do the sophisticated calculations
required to develop the tech.
Arm has been the subject of
much global interest, with Japan-
based SoftBank buying the com-
pany for US$32-billion in 2016.
SoftBank, which needs a big win
after years of deals that didn’t live
up to their promise, is set to retain
a majority stake in Arm after the
IPO.
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Valdez said in an interview.
This is the second time that Ot-
tawa has pushed back the dead-
line.
These are really
providing small
businesses flexible
options and more time
to be able to make the
arrangements they
need.
RECHIE VALDEZ
SMALL BUSINESS MINISTER
Small businesses have been
putting pressure on politicians to
relax repayment terms, as many
in the hardest-hit industries are
still recovering from the econom-
ic damage wrought by the pan-
demic.
More than 256 business groups
wrote to the government this
summer asking for an extension,
In 2020, Nvidia Corp. reached a
deal to buy Arm from SoftBank
for US$40-billion. But that plan
collapsed 18 months later after
opposition from regulators and
customers.
On Thursday, Rene Haas, Arm’s
chief executive, rang the Nasdaq
opening bell at the exchange’s
studio in New York’s Times
Square, along with Yoshimitsu
Goto, SoftBank’s chief financial
officer, and other executives.
Around 2,000 Arm employees in
Cambridge joined the festivities
through a video feed.
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and Liberal members of Parlia- Perrin Beatty, president of the
ment pressed Mr. Trudeau to Canadian Chamber of Com-
make the change during the fall merce, said the announcement
caucus retreat this week. signalled the government was lis-
But there was some concern tening to small businesses and re-
from some small-business groups sponding to some of their con-
that the extensions weren’t long cerns.
enough. “The Chamber will continue to
Dan Kelly, president of the Can- closely monitor the implementa-
adian Federation of Independent tion of today’s announcement,
Business, said he was disappoint- which we hope will provide some
ed and his group would continue of the stability and certainty busi-
advocating for more relief. nesses need to get back on their
“It is helpful that the govern- feet, continue strengthening their
ment has given business owners communities, and put Canada on
an additional year to repay the a path to prosperity,” he said in a
full balance of the loan, but the statement.
plan misses the most central is- Only about a fifth of CEBA re-
sue – the loss of the forgivable cipients have repaid their loans as
portion,” he said in a statement. of June 30, according to the most
Beth Potter, president of the recent Statistics Canada data.
Tourism Industry Association of Nearly $39-billion in loans are still
Canada, said the length of the ex- outstanding.
tension was not commensurate About two-thirds of small- and
with the severity of the crisis. medium-sized businesses took
“This falls short of adequately out a CEBA loan, according to one
addressing the immense financial government study. That propor-
strain and uncertainty that our tion was higher in industries most
members are experiencing,” she affected by lockdowns, such as
said in a statement. food services, tourism and retail.
since all shares were sold by Soft-
Bank. Arm had more than US$2-
billion in cash and short-term in-
vestments to fund its activities as
of the end of June.
While Arm’s shares rose Thurs-
day, its valuation remained below
US$64-billion. That was the valu-
ation at which SoftBank bought
back Arm shares from investors a
few weeks ago.
In an interview with CNBC, Ma-
sayoshi Son, SoftBank’s CEO, said
he paid the higher price tag be-
cause of his confidence in Arm’s
future and that he expected the
stock to have “good upside” over
the long term. He added that Soft-
Bank, which needs a big win from
Arm after stumbles with other in-
vestments, was unlikely to sell
more of its roughly 90-per-cent
stake in the company. “Our intent
is to hold as much as possible as
long as possible,” he said.
Investors remain cautious to
skeptical about other tech com-
panies – such as Instacart and Kla-
viyo – that are readying to go pub-
In an interview, Mr. Haas said lic, with expectations low.
he was pleased that Arm’s offer- Instacart, which kicked off its
ing priced near the top of the pro- IPO pitch meetings this week by
posed range but was more fo- setting a price range that valued
cused on the future. the company at US$8.6-billion to
“While today is an amazing US$9.3-billion, counting all out-
day, I’m far, far more excited standing shares, is set to be valued
about the next five to 10 years,” he far below its onetime valuation of
said. Arm has been diversifying to US$39-billion in the private mar-
place its technology in myriad ket. Klaviyo started its pitch meet-
other products equipped with ings with a valuation range of
some level of computing power, US$7.7-billion to US$8.3-billion,
including cars, consumer prod- slightly below its last private valu-
ucts and data centres. ation of US$9.5-billion.
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OPINION & ANALYSIS
Biden copied Trudeau’s best economic idea
The U.S. President’s
administration
persuaded Congress
to copy a signature
Canadian anti-poverty
policy in 2021. It worked
TONY
KELLER
OPINION
I
n 1986, The New Republic held
a contest to find history’s most
boring headline. The maga-
zine’s nominee was “Worthwhile
Canadian Initiative.”
“Is it possible even to imagine a
more boring headline?” asked the
editors. “Each word taken alone is
sleep-inducing. Taken together,
they are virtually lethal.”
It’s not just Americans who
yawn at Worthwhile Canadian Ini-
tiatives. So do Canadians. So do
Canadian journalists. News gets
defined as what went excitingly
wrong yesterday, not what’s been
going monotonously right. As
such, little credit goes to the pol-
icy choices that made things go
right – or the politicians who
made them.
This country is getting a lot of
things less than right. As I’ve
harped on in recent columns,
Canada’s economic productivity
is too low, housing prices are too
high, millions of us can’t find a
family doctor, the justice system
plays catch and release with re-
peat violent offenders, and the
student visa system is broken, as
is much of the immigration sys-
tem.
Canada is not as successful as it
should be, nor as boringly un-
newsworthy as it deserves to be.
But this country still gets a lot of
things right. The best way to see it
is by looking south.
Extending CEBA pandemic-loan deadline won’t save many small businesses
SCOTT TERRIO
OPINION
Certified credit counsellor and
manager of consumer insolvency at
Hoyes, Michalos & Associates Inc
O
ften, small-business own-
ers who are in financial
distress may resort to not
remitting HST or payroll tax as a
means to sustain cash flow until
times improve. But the long du-
ration of the COVID-19 shutdown
impact made these improved
times fail to come about, and the
debts business owners incurred
to stay afloat ended up out of
control for many.
Add a dose of hefty HST debt
and perhaps payroll tax debt to
the bank credit outlay and then
the coming repayment deadline
Russia is benefiting from Canada’s lax approach to sanctions enforcement
RITA
TRICHUR
OPINION
C
anadians are getting a real-
ity check about our coun-
try’s struggle to enforce
sanctions against Russia within
our own borders.
This information, of course,
isn’t coming from Ottawa. Trans-
parency isn’t the Canadian way.
As usual, we are learning about
our domestic failings from the
U.S. government rather than our
own.
The Financial Crimes Enforce-
ment Network, or FinCEN, an arm
of the U.S. Department of the
Treasury, recently published a re-
port that provided disclosures
about suspected Russian sanc-
tions evasion by companies in-
cluding those based in Canada.
Buried in the bowels of its fi-
nancial trend analysis is the reve-
lation that Canada is a top 10
country when it comes to Russia-
related export control evasion.
That means a notable number
of Canadian companies are still
buying and then exporting pro-
hibited U.S. goods to entities in
Russia in breach of U.S. sanctions.
It is yet another example of how
Ottawa’s lax approach to sanc-
tions enforcement is embolden-
A worthwhile Canadian initiative…
Child poverty in Canada
18%
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2015 2016 2017
Canada and the U.S. use slightly different measures, which are not directly comparable.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: STATISTICS CANADA, PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE
AGE 18 AND UNDER IN LOW INCOME
A number of U.S. policy experts
have long urged the United States
to copy a signature Canadian anti-
poverty policy. In 2021, the Biden
administration persuaded Con-
gress to do exactly that.
Result: Between 2019 and 2021,
the level of child poverty was
more than halved.
The Canadian initiative that
the Americans copied is one of
the Trudeau government’s best
ideas: the Canada Child Benefit.
The Liberals ran on the CCB in
2015, and introduced it the follow-
ing year. Low-income families re-
ceive up to $7,437 for each child
under the age of 6, and a maxi-
mum of $6,275 for each child from
6 to 17. Families with incomes of
less than $34,863 receive the max-
imum amount, with payments
falling as income rises. The bene-
fit, which expanded and im-
proved on a previous program, is
indexed to inflation and paid
monthly.
According to Statistics Canada,
child poverty dropped to 9.7 per
cent in 2019 from 16.3 per cent in
2015. The CCB was a big contrib-
utor.
Statscan measures poverty ac-
of federal pandemic business
loans, and many business owners
are now feeling at the end of their
rope.
Extending the end-of-year re-
payment deadline for Canada
Emergency Business Account, or
CEBA, loans would surely help a
great many to maintain their
businesses. The federal announ-
cement on Thursday to that ef-
fect was a welcome move. But I’m
not sure the government truly
grasps the situation.
If you’re incorporated, busi-
ness debt is corporate, not per-
sonal. So theoretically you could
simply close your corporation
and walk away from the debt: It
dies with the corporation.
But it doesn’t work that way in
practice. For many small busi-
nesses, the personal and the cor-
porate are inextricably linked.
Sole proprietors, for one, can’t
ing Russia as it wages war in Uk-
raine.
Specifically, Canada ranks
eighth with a total of 30 suspected
infractions by companies and en-
tities that use Canadian address-
es, according to FinCEN’s analy-
sis.
The top seven jurisdictions
named in the report are the Unit-
ed States (976), Russia (322), Chi-
na (130), Hong Kong (126), Turkey
(49), United Arab Emirates (43)
and Britain (33). Singapore (30)
and Cyprus (17) are in 9th and
10th place, respectively.
“In some cases, the U.S.-based
companies directly transacted
with entities in Russia, and in oth-
er cases, the U.S.-based compa-
nies transacted with entities
based in other countries that
were potentially acting as inter-
mediaries on behalf of Russian
end-users,” states the report.
“These financial relationships
were usually established before
the Russian invasion of Ukraine,
but some continued after, poten-
tially violating U.S. export con-
trols.”
Of chief concern, according to
FinCEN, is that prohibited goods,
such as electronics, are eventual-
ly being used to support Russia’s
military operations in Ukraine.
FinCEN’s analysis is based on
data from Bank Secrecy Act re-
ports filed between June 28, 2022,
2018 2019 2020
cording to a market basket mea-
sure, which draws the poverty line
at the amount of money needed
for a moderate standard of living.
In 2022 in Toronto, that was
$55,262 for a family of four. In Van-
couver and Calgary, it was almost
$56,000. In rural Manitoba, it was
just over $45,000.
Canadian child poverty contin-
ued falling in 2020, thanks to tem-
porary income-support programs
unleashed by the pandemic.
There was a slight uptick in pover-
ty in 2021, and once the 2022 data
comes in, it may show another in-
crease, owing to the wind down of
pandemic income supports. But
child poverty remains well below
where it was in 2015. The CCB is a
major driver.
My usual criticism of Prime
Minister Justin Trudeau’s govern-
ment is that it’s overly focused on
comms policy rather than policy
execution, and image manage-
ment over actual management.
But the CCB is excellent policy, ex-
cellently executed.
That it’s become the humdrum
status quo may explain why the
government gets little public
credit.
simply walk away from CEBA
debts. Their business debts are
one and the same with personal
debts: There is no legal separa-
tion. For incorporated business-
es, meanwhile, owners often take
on a lot of personal debt.
There are also business debts
for which the owner is personally
liable. These include unremitted
HST and employee payroll de-
ductions for taxes and govern-
ments programs.
You can connect the dots on
that.
Working at an insolvency
trustee firm, I have an expansive
view on how insolvency unfolds
for small businesses. Most “busi-
ness” filings we do are not busi-
ness at all, really, but personal
proceedings once the person has
closed their corporation down
and still owes personal debts. Or,
in the case of a sole proprietor-
and July 12, 2023, that involve
nearly US$1-billion in suspicious
activity. The vast majority of
those reports were submitted by
financial institutions as a result of
their customer due diligence.
Although FinCEN provides
limited details about suspected
sanction evasion by Canadian
companies, its disclosures are still
a darn sight better than anything
provided by Ottawa. Perhaps
that’s because FinCEN is required
by law to publish trend informa-
tion.
Thanks to that mandatory re-
porting, Canadians are getting a
glimpse of weaknesses in our
sanctions regime and some sense
of how we stack up to other coun-
tries. Still, the true scope of the
problem remains unclear.
If our federal agencies have
comparable statistics about com-
panies caught violating Russian-
related export sanctions, they’re
not sharing them.
The RCMP, which is responsib-
le for collecting data on assets
owned by individuals sanctioned
under the Special Economic Mea-
sures Act, didn’t immediately
provide comment. Neither did
Global Affairs Canada, which is
primarily responsible for oversee-
ing sanctions programs.
Canada Border Services Agen-
cy, which assists U.S. authorities
with nabbing sanctions violators,
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L
… that the U.S. copied – for one year
Child poverty in the U.S.
18%
16
14
12
10
8
6
2021 4
2015 2016 2017 2018
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, POVERTY FOR AGE 18 AND
UNDER MEASURED BY SUPPLEMENTAL POVERTY MEASURE
However, the CCB has always
had fans in the Biden administra-
tion. In 2021, when the White
House created a basket of pan-
demic-era income support pro-
grams, one of the most important
was modelled on the CCB.
The U.S. has long had some-
thing called the Child Tax Credit.
It’s like the CCB, but far less gener-
ous. The maximum benefit is just
US$2,000 a child. It’s received an-
nually. And it’s a non-refundable
credit – so the lowest-income
families, who pay little to no in-
come tax, receive little to no bene-
fit.
In 2021, Congress transformed
the program into something like
the CCB. The benefit was raised to
as much as $3,000 for children at
the age of 6 to 17, and $3,600 for
children under 6. The credit be-
came refundable to parents with
low or no income, and it paid out
monthly. But Republicans in Con-
gress refused to make the en-
hanced program permanent. It
was a one-year experiment.
American child poverty had
been trending down since the
mid-2010s, thanks to a steady eco-
nomic recovery. And when CO-
ship, it’s essentially a personal in-
solvency through and through.
In our practice of insolvency,
we have spoken to hundreds of
small-business owners who have
struggled for the past three years
just trying to stay afloat. Many
have had to reluctantly draw on
their banks to keep the doors
open, pay staff and suppliers, and
maintain any type of competitive
edge. Thousands have drawn on
savings, as well.
In the spring and summer of
2020, we spoke to hundreds of
small-business owners whose
businesses were crushed by the
economic shutdown. They were
frantic. And when entrepreneurs,
hardened by the many challeng-
es of running a small-business
operation are worried, it’s for re-
al.
Many were forced to resort to
their various credit facilities to
said Thursday that it required
more time, possibly until early
next week, to provide responses
to queries from The Globe and
Mail.
Really?
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
began almost 19 months ago. Our
federal officials should have an-
swers at the ready about what
Canada is doing to crack down on
companies that evade export
controls including those imposed
by our closest ally and largest
trading partner.
For its part, the Financial
Transactions and Reports Analy-
sis Centre of Canada (FinTRAC),
did provide a response. It noted,
in part, that it has produced two
special bulletins to raise aware-
ness among businesses about
Russia-linked money laundering
related to sanctions evasion.
Additionally, FinTRAC is re-
sponsible for ensuring that busi-
nesses required to comply with
federal anti-money laundering
legislation have policies and pro-
cedures in place to mitigate sanc-
tions risks and report suspicious
transactions.
“The transaction reporting
that FINTRAC has received has
been critical to its work with its
closest allies, including Australia,
the United Kingdom and the
United States, as part of the Rus-
sia-Related Sanctions and Illicit
| F R I DAY , S E P T E M B E R 1 5 , 2 0 2 3
2019 2020 2021 2022
VID-19 hit in 2020, and the first
pandemic benefit programs land-
ed, child poverty dropped some
more. The arrival in 2021 of fur-
ther income supports, led by the
enriched Child Tax Credit, cut
child poverty down to just 5.2 per
cent, a record low. But with pan-
demic income supports ended in
2022, and the enhanced Child Tax
Credit gone, child poverty more
than doubled, to 12.4 per cent.
The results of the experiment
were as predicted. What happens
when you give poor people mon-
ey? They become less poor. What
happens when you take the mon-
ey away? Guess.
Republicans worry that pro-
grams like the CCB discourage
low-income people from work-
ing, but there’s little evidence of
that. Canada has higher labour
force participation than the U.S.,
including more women in the la-
bour force. There are even signs
that lifting people out of poverty,
along with the obvious benefits it
has on children, makes low-in-
come parents more likely to work.
It’s a Worthwhile Canadian –
and Trudeau government – Initia-
tive.
both stay open and to keep their
employees working.
This is what misleads so many
when it comes to insolvency for
small businesses facing the CEBA
repayment deadline.
No business insolvency stats
are going to reflect what is really
going on, necessarily, in terms of
the current struggles of small
businesses. Small-business enter-
prise corporate situations do not
end up leading to a corporate in-
solvency proceeding since simply
closing the corporation achieves
much of what is needed – but un-
derneath businesses there are
people, and through them the
debts live on.
Even if the government ex-
tends the CEBA deadline further
or grants additional relief, small-
business enterprise corporate
closures and personal insolvency
filings will certainly spike.
Finance Financial Intelligence
Units Working Group,” its state-
ment said.
God bless FinTRAC for trying.
But when it comes right down
to it, FinTRAC has been set up to
fail because of its narrow man-
date. It’s an open secret that it can
only tackle suspected sanctions
evasion if it converges with po-
tential money laundering.
“This limits the ability of FIN-
TRAC to identify sanctions eva-
sion trends, typologies and indi-
cators that could be valuable to
the financial sector and law en-
forcement,” the Department of
Finance conceded in a consulta-
tion document earlier this year.
The Trudeau government
should use its fall economic state-
ment to outline detailed plans to
combat sanctions evasion. More-
over, it should require federal
agencies and the RCMP to publish
regular enforcement statistics so
there is a measure of accountabil-
ity.
Canadians shouldn’t have to
rely on mandatory reporting by
FinCEN and other U.S. enforce-
ment agencies to learn bits and
pieces of what’s happening in our
own country.
Give us results, not talking
points. After all, what’s the point
of announcing successive Rus-
sian sanctions if those measures
cannot be enforced?
F R I DAY , SE P T E M B E R 1 5 , 2 0 2 3
A worker puts oranges in a bin at an orchard in Arcadia, Fla., in March. Thousands of growers of Florida’s quintessential fruit are fighting to
survive a bacterial disease threatening to decimate crops – on top of the damage already being done by hurricanes and freezes.
CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Race is on to save Florida’s oranges
from disease and property values
Citrus growers in the Sunshine
State are grappling with
rapidly spreading bacteria,
plus the temptation brought
by booming land prices
KATE HELMORE
T
hree-year-old James Spinosa loves
being out on his family’s farm,
among the lines of orange trees,
each 20 feet high, drooping with
golden fruit. His favourite part is sitting on
his dad’s lap and “driving” the tractor,
which his father, Christian Spinosa, always
lets him do.
Mr. Spinosa, 33, looks forward to the
days when his son can chip in. He has
1,000 acres of farmland spread across Per-
ry County, around one hour’s drive south
of Orlando. He hopes to one day leave Put-
nam Groves – which has been in the family
for five generations – to James.
“My goal is to keep this thing going,” Mr.
Spinosa said. “To make sure that we al-
ways have this greenspace here for the
next generation.”
But keeping the farm in business is no
easy task.
Mr. Spinosa is among thousands of
growers of Florida’s quintessential fruit
that are fighting to survive a bacterial dis-
ease threatening to decimate crops – on
top of the damage already being done by
hurricanes and freezes.
The disease – named huanglongbing
(HLB), but more commonly called “citrus
greening” – was first discovered in Miami
in 2005, and is now spreading uncontrol-
lably in Florida’s orange groves. It has rav-
aged the industry. In 2004, 240 million 90-
pound boxes of oranges were produced in
the state annually. This year, the state is
forecast to produce just 16 million.
The race is on to find a solution, but the
research is in its infancy. Growers, exhaust-
ed and giving into the temptation of
booming land prices, are dropping out.
And ultimately, consumers feel the pinch.
In August, orange juice prices hit an all-
time high on the Intercontinental Ex-
change (ICE), 111 per cent higher than in
August, 2013.
A GREEN WAVE
Citrus greening has existed in China for at
least a hundred years, and is carried by
Asian citrus psyllid, a bug about the size of
a seed. The disease was first detected in
Florida in 2005.
The bacteria are carried in the insect’s
saliva and passed to the tree when the bug
feeds on the leaves. The bacteria then
choke the flow of sugar and minerals in
the phloem, the vein of the tree that trans-
ports nutrients. The disease is like plaque
building up in the veins in humans and
restricting the movement of blood – and
in the case of the tree, it is effectively
starved.
At first the symptoms look like routine
nutritional deficiencies, but in eight to 10
years the tree will stop producing fruit and
die. For a mature tree this could take long-
er, up to 20 years. For a young tree it could
happen within five years. (A healthy or-
ange tree, in contrast, can live for 50
years.)
“It’s a slow, slow decline,” said Michael
Rogers, the director of the centre for citrus
research at the University of Florida.
“We’ve got this disease spreading, un-
known, for a long time before you see the
first symptoms.”
Outside of the tree, on the other hand,
the disease moves fast. The tiny psyllid can
| T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O R E P O RT O N B U S I N ES S | B5
Transat posts
first quarterly
profit since
beginning
of pandemic
ERIC ATKINS
TRANSPORTATION REPORTER
Leisure airline Transat AT Inc. on
Thursday posted its first quarter-
ly profit since the onset of the
pandemic, amid strong demand
for travel, higher air fares and
cheaper fuel costs.
The Montreal-based operator
of Air Transat made $57-million,
or $1.49 a share, in the third quar-
ter, compared with a loss of $106-
million or $2.82 a share a year ear-
lier.
For the three months ending
on July 31, revenue rose by $238-
million to $746-million, year over
year. This is 6 per cent higher than
the same period in 2019, less than
a year before COVID-19 halted
most air travel and sent the avia-
tion industry into a financial cri-
sis.
Annick Guérard, Transat’s
chief executive officer, said she
was “very pleased” with the fi-
nancial results reported before
markets opened on Thursday.
She attributed the better num-
bers to robust, pent-up demand
for leisure travel, “significantly
higher” seat prices and reduced
jet-fuel expenses.
Transat has added three Airbus
A321LR planes for the winter and
will fly a fleet of 40 aircraft, an in-
crease in capacity of 23 per cent
over the past winter. The airline is
fly more than a mile in less than two the team of over 200 researchers and staff flying new routes and will in-
weeks, and pesticides cannot keep up. In have discovered that feeding infected trees crease the frequency at which its
applying the amount needed, growers fertilizer in increments is effective. The planes fly, despite questions
found they killed more good bacteria than gradual destruction of the phloem means about the state of the economy
bad. that the tree cannot absorb all the nutri- and consumers’ response to infla-
Citrus greening is a worldwide problem. ents in one go, but it can absorb smaller tion, she said.
Brazil, the global leader in orange juice amounts over a longer period of time. “We believe demand will re-
production, is facing record-low inventory, For growers this means multiple rounds main strong,” Ms. Guérard told
according to a statement released by in- of fertilizing and watering. analysts on a conference call on
dustry group CitrusBR. The disease has al- “Think of it like spoon-feeding the trees Thursday. She highlighted other
so infected groves in Texas and California. constantly, both water and nutrients,” Dr. potential pitfalls ahead, includ-
There are some European sectors that Rogers said. ing rising fuel prices, pilot short-
have not detected it, but it is just a matter Other solutions being explored include ages, delays in parts and aircraft
of time, Dr. Rogers said. screening in citrus trees to fend off bugs, deliveries, and the chance some
Greening is particularly problematic in and whether gibberellic acid, a natural of the fleet could be grounded for
Florida, where growing is not as consoli- plant hormone, could stimulate growth engine inspections to check for
dated as it is in Brazil. The scale of produc- for citrus trees that are fighting to survive manufacturing flaws.
tion in Florida is not large enough to cover greening.
the costs from a mass outbreak. Brazil also “All that taken together we’ve been able
has a particularly large fertile land mass to limp along a little bit,” Dr. Rogers said. Annick Guérard,
for orange trees, meaning they can move “Keep production going on right now until
operations more easily to replace infected we get those long-term solutions.” Transat’s chief executive
trees with new ones. Hope for a long-term solution rests officer, attributed the
Florida is also prone to hurricanes, as mostly with CRISPR (pronounced “crisp- better numbers to
seen once again when Idalia made landfall er”), a game-changing gene-editing tech- robust, pent-up demand
on Aug. 30. So far, it seems that the dam- nology. Referred to as “molecular scis-
age from Idalia was minor; the hurricane sors,” it is a fast and precise way to find and for leisure travel,
swept up the Gulf Coast, and orange slice DNA. In essence, it allows scientists to ‘significantly higher’
groves are concentrated in the centre of transform a cell or species DNA into a dig- seat prices and reduced
the state. ital document where individual genes can jet-fuel expenses.
However, last year, growers were not so be searched out and eliminated or re-
lucky. placed. Engine maker Pratt & Whitney
In September, 2022, Hurricane Ian Dr. Nian Wang at the University of Flor- said as many as 3,000 of its en-
swept through the region, with 240-kilo- ida used CRISPR to precisely cut selected gines will have to be removed and
metre-an-hour wind ripping fruit off genes from the citrus tree DNA to make it inspected for metal defects be-
branches and uprooting trees. In some more resistant to canker, a bacterial dis- tween 2023 and 2026. Transat flies
cases, the hurricane left ease that causes trees to several Airbus A321s, 10 of which
groves three feet under wa- drop their leaves and fruit are powered by the Pratt & Whit-
ter. Growers lost between 50 ‘Citrus greening’ prematurely. They are hop- ney engines and might be
per cent and 90 per cent of ing to repeat the same proc- grounded for inspection, accord-
their crop. Mr. Spinosa lost has ravaged the ess for greening. ing to industry publication Avia-
around 60 per cent. The eco- industry. In 2004, However, the process will tion Week.
nomic loss to the citrus in- 240 million take years. Researchers do Transat spokeswoman An-
dustry came to US$247-mil- 90-pound boxes not currently know which dréan Gagné said the airline does
lion, according to the Florida genes are vulnerable to not know how many planes
Department of Citrus. of oranges were greening. Once this is dis- might be affected. “At this time,
Combined with an unchar- produced in the state covered the genes must be we are still missing too many ele-
acteristic freeze in December, annually. This year, removed, the greening-re- ments to have a true picture of
2022, and greening, Ian led to the state is forecast sistant tree grown, tested the situation,” she said in an e-
the lowest harvest in a centu- and then mass produced. mail. “We are working closely
ry. It also destroyed trees. Of to produce just Orange trees are also not with Pratt & Whitney and will be
the nearly 56 million com- 16 million. fast-growing fruit trees. in a better position to assess the
mercial trees, 11 per cent were They can take up to five situation once they issue their
lost. years to produce a decent crop. service bulletin.”
The price of land in Florida has also in- An added challenge for scientists is that Ms. Guérard said Transat air-
creased. In Orange County, for example, they cannot add any gene sequences to craft could be affected by the re-
the estimated value of properties in- the DNA, as was done with the canker-re- calls in 2025. The carrier is work-
creased from US$181.7-billion in 2022 to sistant grapefruit trees. This would war- ing on backup plans, including
US$203.8-billion in 2023, a 12-per-cent in- rant the label of “genetically modified,” using or acquiring other planes,
crease in one year alone, according to the which makes the product harder to mar- and swapping in spare engines.
Orlando Sentinel. ket (despite little evidence proving that “We have time to plan,” she said.
Growers are therefore selling their land such crops are inherently bad for health or “We have a year ahead before we
to developers, an attractive option given the environment). need to put those contingency
not just the poor conditions for farming “The ultimate test will be to see how plans in place.”
but also the soaring price for real estate. In they survive in the fields,” Dr. Rogers said. Transat has lost a total of $1.4-
2022, citrus inventory stood at 375,000 “It’ll be a few more years until we know if billion since the fiscal year of
acres of orange and grapefruit trees state- those plants actually work.” 2020, when the pandemic was de-
wide, less than half of the 800,000 acres in clared. The airline also lost mon-
1996. ey in 2019 and 2016. In 2019,
The value of the orange crop in Florida STAYING GREEN Transat shareholders voted to sell
is in free fall. It was valued at US$1-billion a the company to Air Canada for
decade ago. Now the sector is worth Mr. Spinosa says that it’s hard to be pa- $720-million. The deal fell apart
US$358-million. tient. He inherited the farm from his uncle in 2021 after the European regu-
The economic fallout to the farming 10 years ago when he was 23. Over the past lator refused to approve it.
communities is significant. The industry decade, he’s had to work harder. Spoon- To stay afloat during the pan-
employs 33,000 people and provides an feeding the trees fertilizers and nutrients demic, Transat received a tax-
annual economic impact of US$6.9-billion takes more maintenance, while erratic payer bailout of more than $800-
to the state, with US$150-million in tax weather and disease mean he has little million, laid off about 85 per cent
revenue. This is also the major industry in control over how much he gets come har- of its work force, deferred plane
large swaths of central Florida, a region vest. payments and returned several
where the tourism industry is not as devel- He says that other growers, many of aircraft to lessors.
oped. whom are dropping out of the industry, Patrick Bui, Transat’s chief fi-
don’t understand why he persists. But, de- nancial officer, said on Thursday
spite the rocketing price of his land, he’s the airline will meet its debt obli-
THE RACE
not tempted to sell. He believes there is a gations due in the coming quar-
future where his groves will be filled with ter, and is working on a refinanc-
Armed with a recent influx of US$16-mil- tolerant and resilient trees. ing plan with better borrowing
lion in grants from the U.S. Department of “I’ve been told that I’m young and terms.
Agriculture, the University of Florida has dumb,” Mr. Spinosa said. “But I love what I Transat had $571-million in
launched a statewide army of researchers do, and I still see a future. I don’t see there cash and $2-billion in debt, in-
to fight citrus greening. ever going to be a world where there’s no cluding lease liabilities, at the end
Progress has been made. For example, longer orange juice.” of the latest quarter.
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Cities driving growth
Lifestyle, affordability and opportunities for growth
factor into Regina’s appeal
anada’s cities have a lot to
C brag about, and in recent
years provinces such as Alberta
and Nova Scotia have tooted their
horns to lure new residents and
businesses to their communities.
But there’s one Canadian city
that’s been transforming qui-
etly into a global powerhouse for
homegrown and foreign business-
es – while remaining an affordable
and neighbourly place to live.
“Regina really is Canada’s best-
kept secret,” says Chris Lane, CEO
of Economic Development Regina.
“What makes this place special is
the combination of lifestyle, afford-
ability and incredible opportuni-
ties for growth. Whether you’re a
person looking to build a career or
a company looking to build and ex-
pand your business, Regina is big
enough to propel you to success
on a large and even global scale
but small enough so that you don’t
get lost in the crowd.”
Entrepreneurs and industry
certainly thrive in the Saskatch-
ewan capital city of Regina. Home
to a broad range of companies,
Regina is making a global impact in
key sectors that include agriculture
and food, renewable energy and
advanced manufacturing.
Regina is surrounded by 80
million acres of cropland, account-
ing for more than 40 per cent of
cultivated land in the country. But
the region’s agribusiness sector
goes beyond farming operations
to include innovators in renewable
and biomass fuels – from sustain-
able, homegrown sources such
as canola – sustainable, upcycled
fertilizer and automated agriculture
technology.
“Regina has built a platform for
entrepreneurship and innovation
for our key sectors that doesn’t
exist anywhere else in Canada,”
says Mr. Lane. “We’ve got a vibrant,
well-supported and well-funded
incubator and accelerator system
for startups, and we’ve got world-
class technologies to support those
startups as well as established
businesses.”
This supportive environment
for entrepreneurs and innova-
tors, combined with a young and
educated workforce, has made
Regina an attractive destination for
businesses.
They’ve arrived en masse and
are injecting huge amounts of
capital – and ambitious energy –
into the city.
A number of canola crushing
facilities are setting up shop in
and around Regina, creating the
single largest market for Canadian
canola seed producers. Across the
border in South Dakota, agtech
company Raven Industries Inc.
decided three years ago it would
build its Canadian headquarters
in the greater Regina area as part
of a five-year strategy to expand
manufacturing of its autonomous
farming solutions.
“The Regina advantage for busi-
nesses is twofold: The first part of
it is our aggressive strategy around
accelerating permitting times for
things like building infrastructures,”
says Mr. Lane. “The second part
is our well-developed, pathfind-
ing system for helping businesses
arrive and set up here – whether
that’s through Economic Develop-
ment Regina, through city admin-
istration or through the provincial
government. There’s commonality
Regina boasts a mix of powerful economic opportunities and a quality of life and
affordability that are hard to find in other big urban centres. SUPPLIED
of purpose and strategy between all
levels of government in Saskatch-
... data from Statistics ewan and in Regina in particular, and
the services that we’ve built have
Canada show that the been designed to accelerate busi-
median household ness location and growth.”
income in Regina is top
REGINA IS ALSO DRAWING
three in the country INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES
LOOKING FOR A BETTER PLACE TO
among comparable
LIVE AND WORK
cities. So when you “I didn’t really know a lot about
combine that with the Regina before we moved here,
although we used to drive through it
low cost of housing
when we travelled as a family,” says
and low cost of living, Haden Johnson, a sales consultant
what you get are with Goodon Industries Ltd., a
Manitoba-based post-frame con-
households whose
struction company with operations
discretionary or in Saskatchewan, Alberta, British
disposable incomes are Columbia and the United States. “But
higher than in almost coming here has been a very good
move for me and my family.”
any other urban centre Four years ago, when his em-
in the country. ployer offered him a role that would
require relocating to the Regina
Chris Lane
CEO of Economic Development
area, Mr. Johnson – who grew up
in a rural Manitoba community with
Regina about 3,000 residents – wondered
if he and his family would take easily
to life in an urban centre.
“It didn’t take us long to feel right
at home,” he says. “Living in Regina
We saw this two-sttorey is like being part of a close-knit
community. It’s not overwhelmingly
house on four acres
big – it’s easy to get around, with
of land with about groceries, banks and schools all
5,000 square feet of close to each other – and you get to
know people.”
living space and it was Affordability was a major factor
still quite new – just in making the decision to move to
two or three years old. Regina, says Mr. Johnson’s wife,
Victoria. With four young children
We paid about and one income – Ms. Johnson is
$650,000 for it. a stay-at-home mom – finding a
home that would not break their
Haden Johnson budget was a top priority.
Sales Consultant with Goodon They didn’t have to look too far or
Industries Ltd. too long.
“We saw this two-storey house on
four acres of land with about 5,000
square feet of living space and it was
still quite new – just two or three
years old,” recalls Ms. Johnson. “We HOMEGROWN
paid about $650,000 for it.” ADVANTAGES
A similar house would cost signifi-
cantly more in other Canadian cities. As a place for growers
Mr. Lane at Economic Development of all types, Regina’s
Regina says the average house price “homegrown” ingenuity
in Regina is $312,000 – less than half has made the city a global
the national average of $668,000 powerhouse in agtech
and a mere fraction of what real and food production
estate typically fetches in high-priced – the heartbeat of
markets like Toronto and Vancouver. North America’s new
Along with comparatively cheaper prairie economy. It’s
housing, Regina residents enjoy a also a thriving centre
cost of living that’s among the low- for business, social and
est in the country, adds Mr. Lane. creative entrepreneurs.
“On top of that, data from Statistics Regina’s population – one
Canada show that the median of the fastest growing
household income in Regina is top in Canada – is young,
three in the country among com- diverse, ambitious and
parable cities,” he says. “So when steeped in prairie
you combine that with the low cost authenticity. In Regina,
of housing and low cost of living, people don’t boast. They
what you get are households whose just get on with things
discretionary or disposable incomes in their own quietly
are higher than in almost any other audacious way.
urban centre in the country.”
What Regina grows best
Jobs are plentiful in Regina, says
Mr. Lane. On any given day, the city are people: passionate
doers, ready to solve some
has more than 4,000 job openings
across a wide spectrum of roles and of the world’s biggest
levels – from skilled trades and jour- challenges, together.
neypersons to professionals in fields Whether they have been
like engineering, financial services here a day, a decade or
their entire lives, they can
and technology.
Career tracks tend to be fast-mov- attest to the power of this
ing, with high performers advancing dynamic city’s experiences
quickly up the ranks. Of particular and energy.
note are the numerous opportunities
for Indigenous employment and BY THE NUMBERS:
engagement through such institu-
tions as the First Nations Univer-
sity of Canada – a post-secondary
$312,000
school that specializes in Indigenous average home price
knowledge – and through organiza- (single family home)
tions focused on training and hiring
Indigenous workers.
It’s no surprise that in recent $1,080
years, Regina has seen an influx average monthly rent
of Canadians migrating from other (1 bedroom)
provinces and territories.
“We see people coming to Regina
looking for a better life,” says Mr. $90,000
Lane. “But I think that when people median household income
come here, they learn quickly that
it’s not just a bit better to live in
Regina – it’s life-changingly better.” 4.5%
Life has definitely changed for the unemployment rate
better for the Johnsons. The kids, for
one, love their school – the small
classroom sizes and variety of sports 17 minutes
activities are a big plus, says Ms. average commute
Johnson. In the summer months, the
family often ventures out to the vil-
lages along the nearby lake systems,
and on “date nights,” the couple likes
38 years
to try the city’s many restaurants. median age
“I really love it here – it’s a pro- (3rd lowest in Canada)
gressive place,” says Ms. Johnson. More information at:
“It’s growing, and it’s got something economicdevelopmentregina.com
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Laurentian: With sale scuttled, bank set on accelerating three-year turnaround plan
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Laurentian’s share price slumped 13 per

cent Thursday to $31.40 on news the re-
view had concluded without the bank
striking a deal. In July, when The Globe
and Mail first reported the bank had
launched a strategic review, Laurentian
stock soared to $43.
When the news about the sale broke in
July, Laurentian Bank was at the halfway
point of a three-year strategic plan to re-
vamp its business launched by new chief
executive officer Rania Llewellyn, who
took the helm in 2020, becoming the first
woman to lead a major Canadian bank.
Her appointment came after the bank
posted years of lacklustre stock perform-
ance and weak financial results that
prompted it to slash its dividend.
While the lender has bolstered its dig-
ital banking operations and pared back its
businesses to focus on specialized niches,
it had yet to prove its new strategy could
help it compete with larger rivals. With a
weak deposit base and dampened loan
growth, Laurentian has posted stunted
profits over the past year.
With a sale scuttled, Laurentian is turn-
ing its focus to accelerating its three-year
turnaround plan with a revised strategy
expected early next year.
“Having now completed this review of
our strategic options, we are more confi-
dent than ever in Laurentian Bank’s The appointment of Rania Llewellyn as Laurentian Bank’s new CEO in 2020 came after the bank posted years of lacklustre stock
strong positioning in the market and performance and weak financial results that prompted it to slash its dividend. AARON VINCENT ELKAIM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
unique offering for our customers,” Ms.
Llewellyn said in a statement. segments such as conventional mortgages mercial banking. Chief human resources Quebec to Laurentian for $35-million.
“As we continue to evolve our bank, given their higher-cost funding mix.” officer Sébastien Bélair will add the job of Laurentian had a unionized branch work
our executive management team and all Laurentian’s return on equity – an in- chief administrative officer. force for many years, which analysts said
employees will build on our proven track dustry metric that measures profitability Laurentian launched a strategic review was a barrier to a takeover, but decertified
record of executing against our plan and – has been stuck below 10 per cent, signif- in the spring of 2022, hiring investment the union two years ago.
delivering meaningful results for our cus- icantly lower than its rivals. In the third bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. as its adviser. Meanwhile, Royal Bank of Canada is
tomers, shareholders, and stakeholders.” quarter, ROE slipped to 6.9 per cent from Initially, Laurentian focused on expand- tied up with approvals for its proposed
During the bank’s third-quarter earn- 8.4 per cent in that same quarter a year ing by buying a niche finance business in $13.5-billion takeover of HSBC Canada, the
ings call in late August, Ms. Llewellyn said prior as Laurentian spent more on pro- sectors such as commercial lending, or country’s seventh-largest lender. Cana-
that since the launch of its turnaround jects in an attempt to grow its business. potentially merging with another finan- dian Imperial Bank of Commerce has said
plan, Laurentian has exceeded all of its That could weigh on the bank’s valuation. cial institution, according to two sources its priority is expanding its existing busi-
financial targets “against the backdrop of The lender also took a charge of $2.7- familiar with the process. The Globe is not ness as it builds its capital reserves, and
an increasingly challenging macroeco- million related to the strategic review, as identifying these sources because they are National Bank is focused on expanding
nomic environment and market volatil- well as $5.5-million in restructuring costs not authorized to speak for the bank. outside of its base in Quebec. Bank of
ity.” to trim its capital markets business. Anal- When Laurentian’s stock price dropped Montreal has been integrating its pur-
But the broader banking industry is ysts expect Laurentian to make more earlier this year, after the release of fi- chase of California-based Bank of the
facing slowing growth while Laurentian costly cuts to rein in expenses over the nancial results that fell short of analysts’ West.
grapples with key issues. Dampening loan long term. expectations, JPMorgan’s mandate ex- On Thursday, 1.6 million shares in Lau-
demand and rising costs are squeezing “We expect the bank to record a large panded to include the potential sale of rentian traded on the Toronto Stock Ex-
profits across the industry, while Canada’s restructuring charge to facilitate its path the bank. change, more than seven times the aver-
banking regulator has been raising capital forward,” National Bank analyst Gabriel The country’s ninth-largest bank had age volume. An investment banking
requirements, forcing the banks to hold Dechaine said in a note to clients. He an- launched the review seeking to bolster source said the spike partly reflected sell-
onto billions of dollars as a cushion in ticipates a $100-million pretax charge in shareholder returns and had said at the ing by individual shareholders who spec-
case the economy turns sour. the second quarter of 2024. time it was “exceeding” its financial tar- ulated on a potential takeover, while
In the current phase of its overhaul, On Thursday, Laurentian also an- gets in an increasingly challenging macro- buyers included value-focused fund man-
Laurentian is also seeking to grow its nounced head of personal banking Karine economic environment. agers.
weaker core deposit base, which is a Abgrall-Teslyk and executive vice-presi- However, in mid-July, The Globe report- Laurentian’s stock price is currently ap-
cheaper source of funding for loans. dent of operations Yves Denommé have ed that Laurentian was struggling to find proximately 60 per cent of the bank’s
“Following completion of the review, stepped down after less than three years an acquirer. Toronto-Dominion Bank, book value. If a buyer had stepped for-
investors will be looking for solutions to at the bank. Laurentian will operate with with billions of dollars in excess capital, ward, analysts predicted the bank would
the current challenges facing the bank,” a slimmer leadership team as it expands and Bank of Nova Scotia, whose execu- fetch its book value of about $2-billion.
Raymond James analyst Stephen Boland the mandates of two executives to fill the tives had previously signalled interest in “We believe a bid close to this level
said in a note to clients. “In the current vacancies. expanding in Quebec, were initially would have been a requisite for Lauren-
higher rate environment, we believe it has Éric Provost, currently head of com- thought to be the top contenders until tian board approval,” Mr. Boland said.
become increasingly challenging for Lau- mercial banking, will take on the role of both bowed out that month. “Evidently, it may have been simply too
rentian to compete with the big banks in group head overseeing personal and com- In 2000, Scotiabank sold 43 branches in high a price to pay.”

Grocers: Threat of tax measures to stabilize prices echoes approach taken by France
FROM B1
“Companies did not necessarily
voluntarily provide that informa-
tion. This will fix that,” Mr. Cham-
pagne said.
In its June report, the bureau
said the level of co-operation
from grocers varied but was not
fulsome, and noted that its inabil-
ity to compel information “high-
lighted the need for formal infor-
mation-gathering powers.”
A second amendment would
eliminate the use of the efficien-
cies defence, a legal tool that al-
lows company mergers to go for-
ward if they create significant cost
savings for the Canadian econo-
my, even if they lessen competi-
tion, lead to job losses or reduce
choice for consumers.
Mr. Champagne called the de-
fence “outdated” and said it has
been used to allow some mergers
that did “nothing good for the
consumer.” The efficiencies de-
fence dates back to a 1969 report
that suggested the goal of compe-
tition policy should be to defend
the economy, not the public.
In the past, the efficiencies de-
fence has been used in a handful
of mergers that created monopo-
lies, notably in the 1998 acquisi-
tion of ICG Propane Inc. by Superi-
or Propane Inc. that created pro-
pane distribution monopolies in
16 communities across Canada.
More recently, the efficiencies
defence gained broader attention
during the merger trials for Rog-
ers Communications Inc.’s $20-
billion acquisition of Shaw Com-
munications Inc. While the Com-
petition Tribunal’s decision to al-
low the merger, finding it would
result in greater competition, did
not eventually take Rogers’s effi-
ciencies defence into considera-
tion, the possible use of the de-
fence drew ire from consumer ad-
vocates.
However, it doesn’t appear the
defence has been used in any sig-
nificant grocery chain mergers. In
an April paper for Competition
Policy International, Michael Cal-
decott, a partner at the McCarthy
Tetrault law firm, wrote that the
largest grocery merger of the past
two decades – Sobeys Inc.’s acqui-
sition in 2013 of Canada Safeway
for $5.8-billion – was given the go-
ahead by the Competition Bureau
after Sobeys agreed to sell stores
in certain markets. “Efficiencies
were not considered, at least pub-
licly,” he wrote.
The federal government said it
would also introduce a third legis-
lative amendment that would
give the Competition Bureau
more power to target “collabora-
tions” that stifle competition in
the grocery sector, in particular
situations where large grocers
make it difficult for smaller com-
petitors to open shop nearby.
In the Competition Bureau’s
grocery market study, it said inde-
pendent grocers face several bar-
riers to opening, including finding
access to real estate since, it ar-
gued, many suitable locations are
already controlled by big grocers.
In the past the Canadian Feder-
ation of Independent Grocers has
warned that some food suppliers
have refused to deal with small in-
dependents to focus their busi-
ness instead on large grocery
chains.
Keldon Bester, executive direc-
tor of the Canadian Anti-Monopo-
ly Project, called the proposed
amendments “a great start to
modernizing Canada’s competi-
tion laws.”
But Michael Osborne, chair of
law firm Cozen O’Connor’s Cana-
dian competition practice, said
the three changes amount only to
“window dressing.” He suggested
the changes would do little to fix
the underlying cause of price in-
creases.
“Competition helps lower pric-
es, but it is not a fix for inflation,”
Mr. Osborne said.
In addition to the changes to
the Competition Act, Mr. Trudeau
said the federal government has
once again summoned the lead-
ers of Canada’s largest grocery
chains to Ottawa, asking them to
make a plan to lower food prices
by Thanksgiving or risk facing fi-
nancial consequences.
Ottawa has asked the leaders of
Loblaw Companies Limited, Met-
ro Inc., Sobeys Inc., Costco Whole-
sale Canada and Walmart Canada
to find a way to stabilize and lower
food prices. If they can’t come to a
solution, he said, the government
will take further action, possibly
including tax measures.
This threat to use unspecified
tax measures to compel grocers to
stabilize prices echoes an ap-
proach taken by France’s govern-
ment earlier this year, though in
that case the target was food man-
ufacturers.
In May, French Finance Minis-
ter Bruno LeMaire threatened to
impose tax measures on food pro-
ducers that would claw back
“profits unfairly made on the
back of consumers.” Talks with in-
dustry soon followed, and in June
Mr. LeMaire said the government
had reached a deal with 75 food
manufacturers that would bring
down prices starting in July.
Food-price inflation in France
has eased since, but remains high.
In August, the inflation rate for
food was still 11.1 per cent, nearly
twice the pace of overall inflation.
When called to testify before a
House of Commons committee in
March, the leaders of Loblaw, Met-
ro and Sobeys denied suggestions
that grocers were profiteering
from inflation, and said the ma-
jority of the price increases were
the result of higher prices from
suppliers.
“Any conversation that doesn’t
include the vendors, whose costs
make up more than 70 per cent of
the price to customers, will not
provide meaningful outcomes,”
said Michelle Wasylyshen, spo-
kesperson for the Retail Council
of Canada, in a statement on
Thursday.
The trade association suggest-
ed the government temporarily
remove the carbon tax from farm-
ers, food processors and distribu-
tors, and cancel the government’s
planned plastic packaging tar-
gets.
Metro and Loblaw referred The
Globe to the Retail Council of Can-
ada’s statement.
In a statement, spokesperson
Stephanie Fusco said Walmart
looks forward to the opportunity
to advocate for customers. “We’re
doing everything we can to fight
inflation and keep prices low, but
we also need the government’s
help. All stakeholders must do
their part to control costs, from
processors to suppliers to retail-
ers.”
The Globe could not reach the
other two grocers for comment.
With files from Marieke Walsh
in London, Ont.

Future: Forbes pegged Miller’s fortune at $1.8-billion in its latest billionaires list
FROM B1
Montreal police have investigat-
ed the allegations against Mr.
Miller in the past. No charges
were ever laid.
Future announced on Feb. 3
that Mr. Miller would step down
as chief executive and chairman
of the company in order to focus
on “very serious health issues”
and devote his attention to pro-
tecting his reputation. He “ada-
mantly and vehemently denies”
the allegations and says the
claims arose as a result of a bitter
divorce, the electronics distribu-
tor said in a statement at the
time.
“The decision at that point
was to separate Mr. Miller from
the company,” Mr. Singerman
said. This included the launch of
a formal sale process. The foun-
der made that call “in the best
interest of the employees and
the business model that’s been
built over 55 years,” Mr. Singer-
man added.
Mr. Miller did not respond to a
request for comment made
through the company on Thurs-
day. His lawyer, Karim Renno,
declined to comment on the
sale, but said of the allegations
made in the lawsuits that “Mr.
Miller refuted them as soon as
they were released.”
Mr. Miller founded Future
Electronics in 1968 and has kept
a low profile since, refusing most
interview requests from journal-
ists even as the company bal-
looned in size. The business pub-
lication Forbes pegged his for-
tune at US$1.8-billion in this
year’s edition of its World’s Bil-
lionaires List, which featured
one of the few known published
photographs of the media-shy
businessman.
Future, a distributor of elec-
tronic components such as mi-
croprocessors and capacitors,
now has some 5,200 employees
working in 47 countries.
Through the first six months of
the year, it generated revenues of
US$2.9-billion, operating income
of US$228-million and net in-
come of US$184-million, accord-
ing to the companies’ statement.
Quebec public records show
that Mr. Miller’s holding compa-
ny, Alonim Investments, controls
Future as majority shareholder.
Mr. Miller owns all of Future, Mr.
Singerman said. Neither Alonim
nor Mr. Miller were mentioned in
the joint statement from Future
and WT Microelectronics.
In a brief profile of Mr. Miller
published in 2014, Forbes said
myths about Future’s founder
circulate in the industry, largely
because he has shunned the
spotlight. The publication said
he believes in cryonics, the sci-
ence of freezing bodies to restore
life to them later on, and sup-
ports the cryonics-focused Alcor
Life Extension Foundation.
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from the Canadian Press
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GLOBE INVESTOR
Your home shouldn’t be your retirement plan
Don’t put all of your
eggs in one, or even
most of your eggs,
for that matter
ROBERT
McLISTER
OPINION
COST OF LIVING
Interest rate analyst, mortgage
strategist and editor of
MortgageLogic.news. You can follow
him on Twitter at @RobMcLister
T
hink you can sit tight in
your home, watch its value
skyrocket, and then retire
to live the Canadian dream? How
very 2021 of you.
But who can blame Canadians
for thinking this way?
They witness:
A 53-per-cent surge in infla-
tion-adjusted home values since
2013;
insufficient disposable in-
come for retirement saving;
constant warnings about
housing undersupply and over-
immigration; and
capital gains tax advantages
on primary residences.
These facts compel all too
many Canadians to simply rely on
home appreciation to get them
through their golden years.
The adage, “Don’t put all your
eggs in one basket,” should be
Canadianized to, “Don’t put all
your eggs in one home.” Or even
most of your eggs, for that matter.
If you’ve got a decade-plus be-
fore you retire, much can tran-
spire between now and then to al-
ter the real estate supply-demand
curve.
Credit-card balance transfers a fantastic deal, but not a solution
SALMAAN FAROOQUI
Increasingly common deals on
credit-card balance transfers,
which offer interest-free promo-
tional periods for new customers
who shift over their debt, offer a
good option for consumers facing
large bills as interest rates rise.
Danyal Aslam, a card rewards
expert at Ratesdotca, said he’s no-
ticed a recent uptick in advertis-
ing around balance transfers as
companies look to attract new
customers during a period of eco-
nomic difficulty.
Companies often provide a
promotional interest rate of 0 per
cent or 0.99 per cent for a set time
period, usually between three
and 12 months.
As a caveat, they charge an up-
front one-time fee, often between
1 and 5 per cent of the amount be-
ing transferred.
“It’s a great way to lock in a cus-
tomer in their time of need,” said
Mr. Aslam, who said institutions
hope that new credit-card cus-
tomers could become long-term
clients who eventually sign up for
Oil: The sector emerged from the worst of the pandemic leaner and more disciplined
FROM B1
“On the institutional side, there’s
a recognition of the fact that ESG
pressures are not going away,”
said David Sherlock, chief invest-
ment officer at SAGE Connected
Investing in Calgary.
“As an investor, you’ve always
got that stacked against you. And
it makes you think there are eas-
ier ways to make money.”
Years of poor stock perform-
ance did a good job of souring
many investors on the oil patch.
In the span between the global
financial crisis and the COVID-19
pandemic, the Canadian energy
sector was a great place to lose
money. The commodity supercy-
cle came to an end, the U.S. shale
oil boom pushed the global
crude market into a state of in-
definite oversupply and a short-
age of pipeline capacity in Cana-
da crushed domestic oil prices.
The pandemic then generated
the bizarre spectacle of negative
oil prices for the first time in his-
tory.
The Canadian oil and gas sec-
tor emerged from the worst of
the pandemic leaner and more
disciplined. Gone was the ram-
pant drilling and excessive
growth of the boom years, re-
Lowest nationally available mortgage rates
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1-year fixed 6.79
2-year fixed 6.54
3-year fixed 6.29
4-year fixed 6.09
5-year fixed 5.94
10-year fixed 6.28
Variable 6.40
5-year hybrid 6.17
HELOC * 7.20
* Home equity line of credit.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: ROBERT MCLISTER; DATA AS OF SEP. 14.
Here are three such things:
1) Brace for a construction
boom (eventually).
More homes equals slower
price growth, and governments
are already getting the hint.
Canadians are so fed up that a
majority say they’d support lower
home prices, according to a
Bloomberg/Nanos poll. And it’s
almost universally agreed that
building more homes is neces-
sary to achieve that.
That’s why multiple levels of
government are pushing policies
to spur construction. It’s far too
early to say it’s working, but a re-
cord 340,000 units are now under
construction and we’ve seen the
highest two years of housing
starts on record, according to
BMO chief economist Doug Por-
ter. And that’s critical as we need
more housing starts relative to
new household formation, he
says.
As a result, governments are
scrambling to prioritize pro-
building policies like densifica-
tion (policy jargon for “building
more condos”), expanding devel-
other products, such as mortgag-
es or daily banking accounts.
The proliferation of these deals
comes as the average consumer
credit-card balance grew from
$3,825 to $4,185 between the sec-
ond quarter of 2022 to the second
quarter of 2023, according to a re-
cent report by TransUnion. The
rise in balances also led to the av-
erage minimum monthly pay-
ment increasing by 11 per cent in
the same period to $104.
Credit counsellors and Mr. As-
lam say balance transfers can be
an effective first step in tackling
your debt, but only if consumers
use their interest-free periods to
aggressively pay back what they
owe.
Experts emphasize that bal-
ance transfers only offer relief
from interest – you’ll have to
change your spending and debt
repayment behaviour to climb
out of debt.
“Unless you put a plan in place
to deal with the root cause, it
doesn’t address the issue to live
within your means,” said Becky
Western-Macfadyen, financial
coaching manager at Credit
Canada-listed energy ETF flows
In millions of dollars
$200
-200
-400
-600
Oct.
2022
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: NBF ETF RESEARCH; BLOOMBERG
placed by paying down debt and
returning money to sharehol-
ders.
In this incarnation, some pro-
ducers could be profitable even if
West Texas Intermediate fell to as
low as US$50 a barrel. Over the
past year, that benchmark has
rarely dipped below US$70, and
currently sits at more than
US$90.
“I don’t think people appre-
ciate the quantum of free cash
flow being generated,” said Eric
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opment near transportation
hubs, incentivizing people to go
into construction trades and con-
verting commercial buildings to
residential.
All of this will eventually cre-
ate additional supply. And by
eventually, I’m not talking 30
years from now when robots will
be hammering nails instead of
framers. (Come to think of it,
there’s another reason to be bul-
lish on supply.)
2) Expect a drop in immigra-
tion in 2026.
Population growth is soaring 3
per cent a year while homebuild-
ing is lagging like your old com-
puter. Not sustainable.
The federal government sud-
denly seems more willing to ad-
just immigration policy because
of political pressure and a realiza-
tion the current policy is broken.
But, complete alignment of im-
migration and homebuilding
may not happen until 2026, when
the current policy ends or a new
government takes over.
In the meantime, policy mak-
ers say they’ll become choosier
Canada.
Rob Johnson, a licensed insol-
vency trustee for BDO Canada,
based in Fredericton, said con-
sumers who opt for a balance
transfer should also close their
previous credit-card account to
avoid the lure of spending even
further into debt.
There are other caveats, too:
Balance transfers often require a
decent credit score, so consumers
with a history of missed pay-
ments may not qualify.
Balance transfers can also be
detrimental to your credit score in
the short term. That’s because
credit-card companies will do a
what is known as a hard inquiry,
which is a detailed look into your
credit score and can negatively
affect it.
And while closing another
credit-card account may help you
avoid spending, it, too, can affect
your score.
But for people carrying heavy
credit-card debt and who qualify,
a balance transfer could offer
enormous savings.
One calculation by Ratesdotca
found that someone carrying a
Jan. April July
2023
Nuttall, a partner and senior
portfolio manager at Ninepoint
Partners. “We do not need a high-
er oil price for these companies
to do unbelievably well.”
Energy has been one of the
best performing sectors of the
pandemic era. The iShares S&P/
TSX Capped Energy Index ETF is
up by 283 per cent over the past
three years – more than 10 times
the return posted by the S&P/
TSX Composite Index.
Over that time, the Ninepoint
O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L
about who they let in. Immi-
grants who solve our problems,
like homebuilders and trades
workers, will get priority. That’ll
help because a labour shortage of
80,000 construction workers is a
key reason we can’t build enough
homes.
One way or another, the poli-
ticians who run the show will fi-
nally have a wake-up moment.
They’ll realize there’s no choice
but to balance population growth
with homebuilding. When they
do, it’ll take considerable pres-
sure off demand. Other things
equal, price gains should slow.
3) Canadians can and do get
tapped out.
Who can afford an average
home in Canada? Not your aver-
age first-time buyer, that’s for
sure.
For the middle class (those few
of you who are left), an extreme
cost of living, high tax burden
and towering home prices even-
tually put enough straw on the
camel’s back to break it. Or, at
least, break it for enough margin-
al working-class homebuyers to
weigh on prices.
That’s on top of the fact that
family incomes could slide if we
run into a low-growth spell, thus
further limiting purchase de-
mand.
But apart from a recession de-
pressing demand, our rulers like-
ly won’t solve Canada’s housing
crisis for years.
On Wednesday, CMHC estimat-
ed we need 3.5 million new homes
by 2030 to accommodate existing
demand and two million new
households. Housing takes
“many years to adjust” to unan-
ticipated demand, it says.
Moreover, not all regions per-
form the same. High-demand re-
gions where net migration is con-
stantly positive could continue to
$5,000 credit-card balance who
can only afford to pay $200 a
month could save more than a
$1,000 by switching to a low-inter-
est credit card that offers a 12-
month, interest-free period and a
3-per-cent fee on transferred debt.
On the other hand, Mr. Aslam
said clients who don’t chip away
at their debt soon enough stand
to lose money, since they’ll have
paid the balance transfer fee and
will eventually continue to pay in-
terest on their new card.
Mr. Aslam noted MBNA as a
bank with one of the best deals for
balance transfers because of their
lengthy interest-free period, and
because of its extremely low in-
terest rate of 12.99 per cent (cred-
it-card interest rates are often
more than 19 per cent).
Mr. Aslam also pointed to BMO
and CIBC as major banks that of-
fered good balance transfer deals.
Mr. Johnson said people who
are looking to take advantage of
balance transfers should also try
negotiating with financial institu-
tions, many of which are fighting
with each other to attract new
customers.
Energy Fund has been the coun-
try’s top-performing mutual
fund, according to Morningstar
data up to the end of August.
“You would think perform-
ance alone would be enough to
attract people,” Mr. Nuttall said.
“ESG and divestment and the
government’s anti-sector stance
has created so much noise, that it
hasn’t allowed as many people to
see what we see.”
The calls to withdraw financial
support for fossil fuels are getting
louder. This week, a group of
Hollywood A-listers urged the
Toronto International Film Fes-
tival to cut ties with the Royal
Bank of Canada over support for
the oil and gas industry.
Earlier this year, a group of en-
vironmental organizations iden-
tified Royal Bank as the world’s
largest financier of fossil fuels,
with US$42.5-billion in funding
for oil and gas projects last year.
The big banks are also facing
pressure from some of their own
investors.
“We’ve engaged the banks on
what they are doing around their
net-zero targets and how they in-
vest or lend in the fossil-fuel
community,” said Joe Reid, vice-
president of wealth management
and impact investing at Van-
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outperform – as may more covet-
ed non-urban properties, like wa-
terfront recreational homes near
activity areas (ski resorts, beach-
es, attractive small towns, etc.).
And Canada’s leading nation-
ally advertised mortgage rates
didn’t budge an inch this week.
Government yields, which
drive fixed mortgage rates, have
been zig-zagging sideways since
July. Bond traders have no idea
what’ll happen in the next few
quarters. Will inflation surprise
higher? Or will we charge head-
first into that slowdown/reces-
sion the economists project? Or
both?
Looking forward to the far-off
lands of 2024, most bets are on
the latter. Markets are almost
pricing in one Bank of Canada
rate cut of 25 basis points by the
end of next year and more than
three such Fed cuts. That’s curi-
ous, given Canada is much more
sensitive to high interest rates
than stateside.
Either way, if we end this year
without a big oil- or crisis-driven
inflation spike, rate-cut expecta-
tions will start to percolate. At
that point, mortgage shoppers
may rekindle their affection for
the flexibility of variable rates.
Rates were sourced from the
MortgageLogic.news Canadian
Mortgage Rate Survey on Sept. 14,
2023. We include only providers
who advertise rates online and lend
in at least nine provinces. 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.
One of the negotiable terms is
the upfront fee charged on the
transferred balance. If an institu-
tion is offering a 3-per-cent fee,
people can often get a better deal
if they demonstrate that they
have a history of making on-time
payments and if they can point
out better deals being offered by
other institutions. It could lead to
hundreds of dollars saved for peo-
ple with five-figure credit bal-
ances.
“The worst they can do is say
no,” Mr. Johnson said.
He also warned that some cred-
it cards tack extra charges on for
consumers who don’t pay off
their entire transferred balance
before the interest-free period.
This often appears as a “deferred”
or “retroactive” interest charge,
and will appear on the card’s
terms and conditions.
He said consumers should
avoid cards that carry this fee if
they aren’t able to pay off their en-
tire balance in the interest-free
period, as they might face charges
on the entire transferred balance
when their promotional period is
done.
couver City Savings Credit Union,
a member-owned co-operative.
As of 2019, all investment
funds managed by Vancity be-
came fossil-fuel free.
Investors have lots of reasons
beyond the principled to divest
of fossil fuels, said Mike Thies-
sen, co-CIO and chief sustainabil-
ity officer at Genus Capital Man-
agement. The oil and gas indus-
try’s fortunes are highly volatile,
and subject to a potent cocktail
of risks, Mr. Thiessen said.
“Do you really want to take on
all the legal and geopolitical risks
with oil and gas? A lot of our in-
vestors are saying ‘no.’ ”
And yet, when energy stocks
are sizzling, it can be difficult for
many investors to pass up those
returns. To that end, Mr. Thiessen
said that alternative energy
names can help fill the gap.
“They are often correlated with
oil and gas. When energy prices
are really high, people invest
more in energy efficiency.”
But it’s not a perfect solution.
The iShares Global Clean Energy
ETF, which serves as a proxy for
renewables, is down by about 5
per cent over the past three years
– the same time frame that has
seen the Canadian energy sector
nearly quadruple.
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Why invest in stocks
when you can get better
interest with HISA?
The probability of losing
purchasing power is
about 37 per cent with
HISA ETFs, long term
BENJAMIN FELIX
OPINION
Portfolio manager and head of
research at PWL Capital, co-host of
the Rational Reminder podcast, has a
YouTube channel, is a CFP®
professional and a CFA®
charterholder
B
ased on the response to my
recent video, plenty of peo-
ple seem to be wondering
why they would bother with risky
stocks for their long-term invest-
ments when they can earn 5 per
cent on their cash with a high-in-
terest savings account (HISA)
ETF?
People feel good about the
nominal – unadjusted for infla-
tion – stability of HISAs, but HISA
exchange-traded funds are coun-
terintuitively risky for long-term
investors, even at a 5-per-cent
yield.
(It’s important to be clear that
I’m talking about long-term in-
vestments. Holding cash in a HISA
for emergencies or a planned pur-
chase makes sense.)
It’s common for investors to re-
duce their exposure to risky as-
sets, such as stocks, when interest
rates are high. And while the idea
of getting a “safe” 5-per-cent re-
turn is compelling, the nature of
risk changes over time.
One of the big problems with
HISAs for long-term investors is
U.S. and Canadian dividend-payers with exposure to 5G chips
SCOTT CLAYTON
NUMBER CRUNCHER
MBA, senior analyst for TSI Network
and associate editor of TSI Dividend
Advisor
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Sustainable dividends from mak-
ers of the specialized chips driv-
ing 5G smartphones, such as the
new iPhone 15.
THE SCREEN
Apple has commanded news
headlines this week – and not
just because of the launch of its
new iPhone 15. The company al-
so extended its 5G modem chip
contract with Qualcomm Inc. un-
til 2026 – so far, it has been un-
able to develop those chips on its
own for its 5G-enabled iPhones.
The deal highlights the diffi-
culties of developing 5G-specific
chips such as Qualcomm’s.
Those challenges only boost the
prospects of that company and
other 5G chip makers. It also
shores up the cash flow needed
for research and development,
and dividends.
Our search started with a list
of U.S. and Canadian stocks with
EYE ON EQUITIES DAVID LEEDER
DOLLARAMA (DOL-TSX)
CLOSE $96.29, UP $1.63
Following Wednesday’s release of
better-than-expected second-
quarter fiscal 2024 financial re-
sults and guidance raise, Stifel
analyst Martin Landry thinks
Dollarama Inc.’s market share
gains “still have a runway,” reiter-
ating his view of the discount re-
tailer as “an appealing invest-
ment proposition for investors
navigating these volatile times.”
Target: Maintaining a “buy” rat-
ing, he hiked his target for Dolla-
rama shares to $104 from $96.
The consensus target on the
Street is $97.65.
| T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O
that HISA rates are not guaran-
teed. A 5-per-cent HISA yield to-
day tells you little about the HISA
rate that you will earn in the fu-
ture.
A common response to this is
that you can collect the 5-per-cent
yield while it’s available and
switch to other investments if
rates decline, but this misses an
important property of longer-
term assets.
As a long-term investor, falling
interest rates are a major risk.
They mean that you need to save
more or spend less to meet your
long-term goals, all else being
equal.
Stocks and bonds hedge some
of this risk since their prices are
sensitive to changes in interest
rates. When rates fall, stock and
bond prices tend to increase, off-
setting some of the effect of the
fall in rates.
Prices on HISA ETFs, on the
other hand, will not respond to
changes in rates. This is one of the
reasons their value is stable. That
stability is great for short-term in-
vestors – you want to make sure
your savings are available when
you need them – but counterin-
tuitively risky for long-term inves-
tors.
HISA ETFs also have lower ex-
pected returns than stocks, even
when HISA rates are high. If we
take a global sample of five-year
rolling real stock returns from
1900 through 2022, we see that
when short-term rates have been
high, stock returns have followed
suit.
Low expected returns increase
the risk of inflation eroding the
purchasing power of cash. This is
especially problematic at long ho-
rizons.
Dividend-paying chip makers for 5G smartphones
RANKING* COMPANY
1 Texas Instruments Inc.
2 Qualcomm Inc.
3 Broadcom Inc.
4 Intel Corp.
5 Nvidia Corp.
6 Nokia Corp. (ADR)
7 Analog Devices Inc.
8 Marvell Technology Inc.
Source: Dividend Advisor. *Ranking is determined by TSI Dividend Sustainability Score. Where overall points are the same, analysts
considered P/E, dividend yield and industry outlook to decide final placements.
significant exposure to 5G chips
and the financial strength to pay
sustainable dividends.
We then applied our TSI Divi-
dend Sustainability Rating Sys-
tem. It awards points to a stock
based on key factors:
One point for five years of
continuous dividend payments,
two points for more than five;
two points if it has raised the
payment in the past five years;
one point for management’s
commitment to dividends;
one point for operating in
non-cyclical industries;
one point for limited expo-
sure to foreign currency rates
and freedom from political inter-
ference;
two points for a strong bal-
ance sheet, including managea-
CDN NAT'L RAILWAY (CNR-TSX)
CLOSE $156.16, UP $5.30
While he sees Canadian railways
as “stressed and strained” owing
to the impact of a weaker crop
outlook, Raymond James analyst
Steve Hansen upgraded Cana-
dian National Railway Co. to
“outperform” from “market per-
form.” He believes the “recent
share price pullback [provides]
an attractive entry point.”
Target: Touting its “outstanding
network, attractive growth op-
portunities, and historical track
record,” Mr. Hansen kept a $180
target, exceeding the $164.08 con-
sensus.
Between exposing long-term
investors to the risk of falling ex-
pected returns, and lower expect-
ed returns than stocks in all envi-
ronments, it should not be a sur-
prise that the long-term track re-
cord of HISA ETFs leaves a lot to be
desired.
Looking at historical data from
around the world for 38 countries,
the estimated probability of los-
ing purchasing power in invest-
ments such as HISA funds is about
37 per cent at a 30-year horizon
compared with 13 per cent for do-
mestic stocks and 4 per cent for in-
ternational stocks.
HISA yields are high right now,
and I know this has a lot of people
wondering why they would both-
er investing in stocks. But a HISA
has low and unpredictable ex-
pected return, leaves you exposed
to the risk of falling interest rates
over the longer term and it has a
lower expected return than stocks
in all rate environments.
I know some people will read
this and think they will hold HISA
ETFs until stocks drop in value
and then seize the opportunity to
buy in; they will “buy the dip.” We
looked at this strategy in a 2021
paper and found it underper-
forms a simple buy-and-hold
strategy around 60 per cent of the
time, and by a wide margin on av-
erage.
Taken together, HISAs are ar-
guably a riskier long-term invest-
ment than stocks even when rates
are high – a statement strongly
supported by historical data from
around the world. Long-term in-
vestors are best served maintain-
ing exposure to their target long-
term asset allocation rather than
being enticed by current HISA
rates to make tactical changes.
TICKER DIV. SUSTAIN. RATING POINTS
TXN-Q Above Average
QCOM-Q Above Average
AVGO-Q Above Average
INTC-Q Above Average
NVDA-Q Above Average
NOK-N Above Average
ADI-Q Above Average
MRVL-Q Above Average
ble debt and adequate cash;
two points for a long-term re-
cord of positive earnings and
cash flow to cover dividends;
one point if the company is
an industry leader.
Companies with 10 to 12
points have the most secure divi-
dends, or the highest sustainabil-
ity. Those with seven to nine
points have above-average sus-
tainability; four to six points for
average sustainability; and one
to three points for those with be-
low-average sustainability.
MORE ABOUT TSI NETWORK
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of The Successful Investor Inc. –
the group of widely followed
Canadian investment newslet-
WILDBRAIN (WILD-TSX)
CLOSE $1.69, UP 6¢
Pointing to “positive” comments
from WildBrain Ltd.’s manage-
ment about its continuing shift in
strategic direction as well as a re-
cent decline in share price, Canac-
cord Genuity analyst Aravinda
Galappatthige upgraded its
shares to “speculative buy” from
“hold.” “We believe that the level
of success of the asset sale proc-
ess would be catalytic for the
stock,” he said.
Target: Mr. Galappatthige reaf-
firmed a target of $2.50. Consen-
sus is $3.08.
R E P O RT O N BU S I N ES S | B13
TSX posts big gain
in broad-based rally
U.S. and Canadian stocks ended higher on Thursday as hot-
ter-than-expected economic data eased worries about a re-
cession without raising fears of a Federal Reserve interest-
rate hike next week, while Arm Holdings soared in its stock
market debut. It was the S&P/TSX Composite Index’s biggest
advance since June 2 and its highest closing level since July 31.
SoftBank’s Arm was valued at nearly US$60-billion in a
strong Nasdaq debut, with the chip designer’s shares soaring
nearly 25 per cent in their first day of trading. The chip de-
signer’s American Depositary Shares opened at $56.1 apiece
compared with the initial public offering price of $51, in a
sign of confidence for other companies planning to list their
shares.
“The game is back on. Capital markets are open for busi-
ness,” said Thomas Hayes, chairman at Great Hill Capital LLC.
“You’re going to see so many IPOs in the next 12 weeks your
head is going to spin.”
U.S. retail sales rose more than expected in August on
higher gasoline prices, while initial claims for state unem-
ployment benefits climbed to a seasonally adjusted 220,000
for the week ended Sept. 9 from 217,000 the week before.
Monthly producer prices for final demand rose 0.7 per
cent last month, against expectations of a 0.4-per-cent in-
crease. On an annual basis, they increased 1.6 per cent com-
pared with estimates of a 1.2-per-cent rise.
“Today’s economic data confirms the path toward a soft
landing, but without being so hot that the Fed thinks they
might need to do a couple more rate hikes,” said Ross May-
field, Investment Strategy Analyst at Baird. “All together, it’s
pretty bullish.”
Traders see a 97-per-cent chance of the Federal Reserve
holding rates steady in its Sept. 20 policy meeting and a near
67-per-cent likelihood of a further pause in November, ac-
cording to the CME FedWatch Tool.
Citigroup now expects the Fed to hike interest rates by 25
basis points in November, compared with its previous fore-
cast of a September hike.
The TSX ended up 1.4 per cent at 20,567.84. The energy
sector rose 1 per cent as U.S. crude futures moved above
US$90 a barrel for the first time since November last year.
“Oil is so bullish that even a strong U.S. dollar can’t derail
the rally,” Edward Moya, senior market analyst at OANDA,
said in a note. “The risks of a significant supply shortfall
should have many traders eyeing the $100 level over the next
couple of months.”
The TSX materials group added 1.7 per cent as gold and
copper prices rose after China took measures to support eco-
nomic recovery.
All 10 of the TSX’s major sectors gained ground.
Laurentian Bank of Canada shares fell 12.5 per cent after
the bank failed to find a buyer during a strategic review.
Another laggard was Dye & Durham Ltd. Its shares fell 19
per cent after the company reported quarterly results.
The S&P 500 climbed 0.84 per cent.
REUTERS, GLOBE STAFF
gear maker Ericsson to make a
custom chip for Ericsson’s 5G
RECENT networking gear. Nvidia Corp.,
DIV. YLD. MKT. CAP. 1Y TTL. RTN. PRICE
also headquartered in Santa Cla-
(%) ($ BIL.) (%) ($)
8 3.0 148.4 1.1 164.36 ra, is a leader in graphics and
8 2.8 124.1 -9.8 112.64 multimedia chips, including
8 2.2 348.6 69.4 852.93 chips that handle 5G workloads.
8 1.3 162.8 32.2 38.71 Marvell Technology Inc., head-
8 0.04 1,108.3 246.4 454.85 quartered in Delaware, produces
7 2.7 22.8 -19.2 4.01 chips for a range of 5G applica-
tions, including for 5G base sta-
7 2.0 87.2 18.8 176.17
7 0.4 48.0 15.8 55.60 tions. (Note: like Nvidia, Marvel-
l’s dividend yield is low, reflect-
ing its heavy reinvestment in
R&D to stay ahead of competi-
tors.) Texas Instruments Inc.,
ters by editor and publisher Pat based in Dallas, sells chips used
McKeough. They include our in a variety of industries, includ-
award-winning flagship newslet- ing 5G telecommunications. San
ter, The Successful Investor, and Jose, Calif.-based Broadcom Inc.
the TSI Dividend Advisor. TSI is a major 5G chip maker and just
Network is also affiliated with signed a multiyear, multibillion-
Successful Investor Wealth Man- dollar deal with Apple to develop
agement. 5G components and other wire-
less connectivity parts. Apple al-
ready partners with Broadcom to
WHAT WE FOUND
make WiFi and Bluetooth tech
Our TSI Dividend Sustainability for its iPhones. Finland’s Nokia
Rating System generated eight Corp. works closely with compa-
stocks. San Diego-based Qual- nies such as Broadcom on 5G
comm Inc. focuses on chips and chip development. It also just
software for wireless devices, in- signed a long-term patent agree-
cluding 5G. Intel Corp., based in ment with Apple covering No-
Santa Clara, Calif., which is one
kia’s 5G and other inventions. Fi-
of the world’s biggest makers of nally, Analog Devices Inc., head-
chips for PCs and servers. It re- quartered in Massachusetts,
cently agreed to collaborate with makes a range of chips for 5G
Swedish telecommunications networking gear.
ALGONQUIN POWER (AQN-NYSE) ALLIED GOLD (AAUC-TSX)
CLOSE $9.72, UP 7¢ CLOSE $5.45, DOWN 5¢
RBC Dominion Securities analyst Touting it as a “new growth name
Nelson Ng thinks shares of Al- in the gold space,” Stifel analyst
gonquin Power & Utilities Corp. Ingrid Rico initiated coverage of
are likely to remain rangebound Allied Gold Corp. with a “buy”
until greater clarity on the sale of recommendation. “Coming out
its renewable energy business ap- of a go-public transaction and
pears. “Transitioning to a utility boosting management bench
pureplay feels like the right strat- strength, Allied Gold is well set to
egy to pursue, but the timing is become an emerging intermedi-
not ideal due to the unfavourable ate Africa gold producer,” she
environment for renewable valu- said.
ations,” he said. Target: Ms. Rico set a target for its
Target: His target declined to shares, which made their TSX de-
US$8 from US$9 with a “sector but on Monday, with an $8 target.
perform” rating. Consensus is Consensus is $8.25.
US$9.15.
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TSX COMPLETION IN 1229.62 15.49 1.28 102565 7.99 ACB AURORA CANNAB 1.14 0.07 6.54 9538 -8.80 ATH ATHABASCA OIL 4.02 0.14 3.61 4340 66.80 XCHP ISHARES SEMI 3.87 0.00 0.00 N-A
TSX SMALLCAP INDE 703.33 9.16 1.32 102735 2.30 TRP TC ENERGY COR 50.65 1.25 2.53 9463 -6.17 BYD BOYD GROUP SE 256.06 6.96 2.79 52 22.42 LBS-PR-A LIFE & B 10.07 0.00 0.00 14 1.61
TSX VENTURE COMPO 588.08 5.18 0.89 31047 3.12 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 83.93 1.16 1.40 8356 -4.27 CAE CAE INC 33.66 0.52 1.57 665 28.52 MDA MDA LTD 12.08 0.30 2.55 241 88.75
TSX CONSUMER DISC 265.72 3.20 1.22 5843 5.43 CNQ CANADIAN NATU 87.42 0.27 0.31 8332 16.27 CCO CAMECO CORP 53.90 1.12 2.12 1707 75.63 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 26.18 0.80 3.15 1372 38.89
TSX CONSUMER STAP 851.28 7.35 0.87 4603 3.43 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 47.72 1.23 2.65 8128 -9.83 CTF-UN CITADEL IN 3.29 0.20 6.47 107 40.00 MRT-UN MORGUARD U 5.64 0.02 0.36 4 6.42
TSX ENERGY CAPPED 270.17 2.67 1.00 56783 11.18 MFC MANULIFE FIN 26.00 0.47 1.84 7147 7.66 GCL COLABOR GROUP 1.13 0.00 0.00 15 52.70 NXE NEXGEN ENERGY 8.35 0.15 1.83 4815 39.40
TSX FINANCIALS CA 360.39 4.44 1.25 48519 2.38 BNS BANK OF NOVA 65.18 0.37 0.57 4927 -1.75 DML DENISON MINES 2.13 0.05 2.40 3581 37.42 U-UN SPROTT PHYSI 21.90 0.64 3.01 2373 38.34
TSX HEALTH CARE C 24.62 0.33 1.36 3252 26.78 CVE CENOVUS ENERG 28.15 0.38 1.37 4840 7.16 DOL DOLLARAMA INC 96.29 1.63 1.72 1071 21.59 U-U SPROTT PHYSIC 16.20 0.49 3.12 67 38.46
TSX INDUSTRIALS C 415.72 7.46 1.83 12568 8.99 NXE NEXGEN ENERGY 8.35 0.15 1.83 4815 39.40 EFR ENERGY FUELS 10.88 0.25 2.35 552 29.83 URE UR-ENERGY INC 2.11 0.06 2.93 143 34.39
TSX INFORMATION T 192.45 2.48 1.31 11449 41.09 POW POWER CORP OF 38.16 0.57 1.52 4640 19.81 FSV FIRSTSERVICE 213.60 6.72 3.25 106 28.82 URB URBANA CORP 4.74 0.14 3.04 59 11.27
TSX MATERIALS CAP 331.46 5.61 1.72 34478 1.15 TVE TAMARACK VALL 4.07 0.17 4.36 4391 -8.74 HMM-A HAMMOND MAN 9.40 0.16 1.73 5 128.16 WSP WSP GLOBAL IN 195.30 4.17 2.18 248 24.32
TSX REAL ESTATE C 311.92 8.28 2.73 7763 3.67 ATH ATHABASCA OIL 4.02 0.14 3.61 4340 66.80 HFPC-U HELIOS FAI 3.50 0.21 6.38 64 22.81
TSX GLOBAL GOLD I 271.55 2.11 0.78 49785 -2.26 PPL PEMBINA PIPEL 41.95 0.12 0.29 4137 -8.72
TSX GLOBAL MINING 108.27 2.77 2.63 155255 -0.52 BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 5.94 0.12 2.06 3827 -2.30
TSX INCOME TRUST 211.46 5.45 2.65 7642 1.59 T TELUS CORP 23.38 0.54 2.36 3742 -10.52
TSX PREFERRED SHA 507.61 0.27 0.05 1377 -6.75 DML DENISON MINES 2.13 0.05 2.40 3581 37.42
TSX COMMUNICATION 168.36 1.52 0.91 9501 -9.51 K KINROSS GOLD CO 6.78 0.09 1.35 3580 22.83
TSX UTILITIES CAP 291.10 4.41 1.54 14664 -1.38 AQN ALGONQUIN POW 9.72 0.07 0.73 3551 10.20

TSX GAINERS TSX LOSERS TSX 52-WEEK LOWS

TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE 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
NANO NANO ONE MAT 2.74 0.35 14.64 193 12.30 DND DYE & DURHAM 16.45 -3.86 -19.01 724 0.24 AIM-PR-C AIMIA IN 19.04 -0.95 -4.75 N-A -13.06 EMA-PR-F EMERA IN 16.25 -0.13 -0.79 9 -4.75
TH THERATECHNOLOG 3.16 0.35 12.46 91 -34.17 IE IVANHOE ELECTR 18.24 -2.84 -13.47 11 11.49 AAUC ALLIED GOLD 5.45 -0.05 -0.91 23 3.81 ENB-PR-B ENBRIDGE 14.94 -0.04 -0.27 5 -13.29
TKO TASEKO MINES 2.00 0.22 12.36 1654 1.01 LB LAURENTIAN BAN 31.40 -4.47 -12.46 1613 -2.79 ATZ ARITZIA INC 23.00 -0.10 -0.43 523 -51.43 ENB-PF-C ENBRIDGE 14.13 0.13 0.93 4 -5.93
MND MANDALAY RESO 2.19 0.24 12.31 72 -27.72 ECN-PR-C ECN CAPI 17.51 -0.99 -5.35 6 -24.69 BCE-PR-E BCE 1ST 17.24 -0.09 -0.52 6 -4.96 ENB-PF-G ENBRIDGE 13.30 -0.02 -0.15 3 -7.06
ELO ELORO RESOURC 2.27 0.24 11.82 179 -41.65 BRMI BOAT ROCKER 1.70 -0.09 -5.03 8 -34.11 BCE-PR-I BCE 1ST 14.22 0.13 0.92 3 -6.45 ENB-PR-D ENBRIDGE 15.19 0.09 0.60 12 -12.55
CMGG-U 20.63 2.10 11.33 1 HRED BETAPRO EQL 15.70 -0.79 -4.79 N-A 3.49 BCE-PR-T BCE INC 16.63 -0.02 -0.12 12 -5.19 ENB-PR-F ENBRIDGE 15.59 0.17 1.10 16 -9.31
SHLE SOURCE ENERG 5.53 0.55 11.04 43 192.59 AIM-PR-C AIMIA IN 19.04 -0.95 -4.75 N-A -13.06 BCE-PR-C BCE INC 15.54 0.01 0.06 N-A -14.57 ENB-PR-A ENBRIDGE 20.20 -0.39 -1.89 5 -5.25
WEED CANOPY GROWT 1.70 0.14 8.97 22683 -45.86 SXP SUPREMEX INC 4.67 -0.23 -4.69 17 -19.48 BCE-PR-K BCE INC 13.46 0.06 0.45 11 -4.13 GWO-PR-H GREAT-WE 17.51 0.01 0.06 2 -5.50
CGG CHINA GOLD IN 6.29 0.51 8.82 41 60.87 HZM HORIZONTE MIN 2.24 -0.11 -4.68 6 -7.05 BCE-PR-Z BCE INC 16.45 0.00 0.00 N-A -11.08 IFC-PR-A INTACT F 15.64 -0.34 -2.13 4 -9.80
VLE VALEURA ENERG 2.59 0.21 8.82 1276 23.92 BPO-PR-T BROOKFIE 12.74 -0.60 -4.50 3 -19.62 BN-PR-K BROOKFIEL 11.11 -0.34 -2.97 2 -12.86 IFC-PR-I INTACT F 19.87 -0.08 -0.40 2 -9.68
TRZ TRANSAT AT IN 4.48 0.35 8.47 113 52.38 AIM-PR-A AIMIA IN 15.65 -0.65 -3.99 N-A -20.72 BN-PR-M BROOKFIEL 16.30 -0.50 -2.98 5 -10.68 XCHP ISHARES SEMI 3.87 0.00 0.00 N-A
CIA CHAMPION IRON 5.67 0.42 8.00 796 -16.00 GDC GENESIS LAND 2.20 -0.09 -3.93 11 8.37 BN-PR-X BROOKFIEL 13.14 -0.28 -2.09 5 -19.83 PPL-PF-A PEMBINA 19.46 0.12 0.62 9 -15.79
DGS DIVIDEND GROW 4.96 0.36 7.83 170 -13.59 HOD BETAPRO CRUDE 6.79 -0.27 -3.82 1247 -34.65 BIP-PR-F BROOKFIE 18.38 -0.07 -0.38 5 -4.22 PPL-PR-O PEMBINA 18.14 -0.35 -1.89 6 -8.06
BLDP BALLARD POWE 5.82 0.42 7.78 665 -10.19 HWO HIGH ARCTIC E 1.31 -0.05 -3.68 39 -15.48 BPO-PR-A BROOKFIE 9.79 -0.32 -3.17 12 -30.12 PPL-PF-E PEMBINA 20.28 0.08 0.40 1 -16.85
RUP RUPERT RESOUR 3.71 0.25 7.23 27 -25.50 CNL COLLECTIVE MI 5.72 -0.21 -3.54 11 124.31 BPO-PR-E BROOKFIE 11.15 -0.21 -1.85 25 -35.36 RIB-UN RIDGEWOOD 13.84 -0.14 -1.00 5 -7.11
CTC CANADIAN TIRE 294.44 18.89 6.86 N-A 17.78 PRM-PR-A BIG PHAR 9.70 -0.35 -3.48 2 -1.92 BPO-PR-G BROOKFIE 13.04 -0.40 -2.98 3 -32.22 TD-PF-I TD BANK P 22.72 0.52 2.34 6 -8.20
GGD GOGOLD RESOUR 1.41 0.09 6.82 984 -35.02 BPO-PR-I BROOKFIE 12.84 -0.45 -3.39 7 -31.15 BPO-PR-I BROOKFIE 12.84 -0.45 -3.39 7 -31.15 TA-PR-J TRANSALTA 18.67 0.04 0.21 3 -8.70
NPK VERDE AGRITEC 2.88 0.18 6.67 34 -41.82 FFH-PR-F FAIRFAX 16.12 -0.54 -3.24 3 0.19 BPO-PR-N BROOKFIE 8.78 -0.18 -2.01 7 -31.19 TRP-PR-I TRANSCAN 13.49 -0.01 -0.07 1 -5.07
ACB AURORA CANNAB 1.14 0.07 6.54 9538 -8.80 HHRS HAMMERHEAD E 15.52 -0.52 -3.24 99 -18.53 BPO-PR-P BROOKFIE 9.00 -0.25 -2.70 8 -33.63 MUSD-U US PREMIUM 100.21 -0.24 -0.24 N-A -0.08
MAG MAG SILVER CO 15.31 0.94 6.54 424 -27.61 HXD BETAPRO S&P T 6.70 -0.22 -3.18 537 -7.97 BPO-PR-R BROOKFIE 9.25 -0.22 -2.32 4 -32.43
ENS-PR-A E SPLIT 9.65 -0.05 -0.52 31 -3.02

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 9.76 0.30 3.17 317 3.06 CPG CRESCENT POIN 11.55 0.12 1.05 2339 19.57 K KINROSS GOLD CO 6.78 0.09 1.35 3580 22.83 SIA SIENNA SENIOR 11.37 0.32 2.90 308 4.31
AOI AFRICA OIL CO 3.31 0.02 0.61 310 32.93 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE 13.78 0.41 3.07 216 -13.11 SIL SILVERCREST M 6.46 0.14 2.22 182 -20.25
AEM AGNICO EAGLE 65.01 0.85 1.32 1555 -7.60 LIF LABRADOR IRON 32.87 1.06 3.33 200 -2.11 ZZZ SLEEP COUNTRY 24.12 0.20 0.84 27 4.96
AC AIR CANADA 20.41 -0.23 -1.11 3170 5.26 DFY DEFINITY FINA 37.75 0.33 0.88 80 -1.90 LB LAURENTIAN BAN 31.40 -4.47 -12.46 1613 -2.79 SRU-UN SMARTCENTR 24.84 0.67 2.77 364 -7.24
AGI ALAMOS GOLD I 16.33 0.07 0.43 759 19.28 DML DENISON MINES 2.13 0.05 2.40 3581 37.42 LSPD LIGHTSPEED C 21.32 0.42 2.01 680 10.18 SNC SNC-LAVALIN S 43.98 0.70 1.62 694 84.33
ASTL ALGOMA STEEL 9.45 0.10 1.07 33 10.53 DSG DESCARTES SYS 101.21 0.02 0.02 90 7.23 LNR LINAMAR CORP 66.62 -0.28 -0.42 120 8.68 SDE SPARTAN DELTA 4.17 0.10 2.46 237 -72.11
AQN ALGONQUIN POW 9.72 0.07 0.73 3551 10.20 DOL DOLLARAMA INC 96.29 1.63 1.72 1071 21.59 LAC LITHIUM AMERI 26.84 0.90 3.47 312 4.56 TOY SPIN MASTER C 35.15 0.45 1.30 53 5.49
ATD ALIMENTATION 73.81 0.80 1.10 1942 24.05 DIR-UN DREAM INDU 14.10 0.42 3.07 550 20.62 L LOBLAW CO 117.68 0.09 0.08 562 -1.70 SII SPROTT INC 45.01 1.05 2.39 18 -0.07
AP-UN ALLIED PROP 20.89 0.72 3.57 363 -18.40 DPM DUNDEE PRECIO 8.12 -0.04 -0.49 744 24.73 LUG LUNDIN GOLD I 15.13 0.11 0.73 142 14.36 SSRM SSR MINING I 20.08 0.11 0.55 136 -5.24
ALA ALTAGAS LTD 26.74 0.06 0.22 643 14.37 DND DYE & DURHAM 16.45 -3.86 -19.01 724 0.24 LUN LUNDIN MINING 10.47 0.27 2.65 1518 25.99 STN STANTEC INC 91.59 2.14 2.39 433 41.17
AIF ALTUS GROUP L 53.18 0.75 1.43 53 -1.59 STLC STELCO HOLDI 36.79 -0.13 -0.35 173 -16.93
ARX ARC RESOURCES 21.57 0.42 1.99 1974 18.19 ELD ELDORADO GOLD 13.16 0.10 0.77 200 16.56 MAG MAG SILVER CO 15.31 0.94 6.54 424 -27.61 SJ STELLA JONES I 66.50 2.07 3.21 183 37.06
ATZ ARITZIA INC 23.00 -0.10 -0.43 523 -51.43 EFN ELEMENT FLEET 20.13 0.13 0.65 1464 9.11 MG MAGNA INTERNAT 76.33 0.79 1.05 932 0.35 SVI STORAGEVAULT 4.83 0.08 1.68 436 -19.77
ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 36.84 0.40 1.10 281 -13.07 EMA EMERA INCORPO 51.86 0.82 1.61 698 0.21 MFC MANULIFE FIN 26.00 0.47 1.84 7147 7.66 SLF SUN LIFE FINA 68.06 1.17 1.75 1628 8.29
ATH ATHABASCA OIL 4.02 0.14 3.61 4340 66.80 EMP-A EMPIRE COMP 36.27 0.99 2.81 368 1.71 MFI MAPLE LEAF FO 28.19 0.36 1.29 142 15.30 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 46.96 0.34 0.73 11160 9.34
ATS ATS CORP 59.11 0.74 1.27 158 40.44 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 47.72 1.23 2.65 8128 -9.83 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 26.18 0.80 3.15 1372 38.89 SPB SUPERIOR PLUS 10.83 0.22 2.07 1572 -3.56
EDR ENDEAVOUR SIL 3.58 0.09 2.58 214 -18.26 MX METHANEX CORP 55.96 0.82 1.49 79 9.17
BTO B2GOLD CORP 4.25 0.05 1.19 2479 -11.64 EFR ENERGY FUELS 10.88 0.25 2.35 552 29.83 MRU METRO INC 72.75 0.50 0.69 457 -2.96 TVE TAMARACK VALL 4.07 0.17 4.36 4391 -8.74
BCE BCE INC 55.40 -0.49 -0.88 2860 -6.88 ERF ENERPLUS CORP 24.02 0.09 0.38 663 0.50 MTY MTY FOOD GROU 61.33 -0.11 -0.18 23 7.46 TRP TC ENERGY COR 50.65 1.25 2.53 9463 -6.17
BDGI BADGER INFRA 34.61 0.10 0.29 27 29.82 ENGH ENGHOUSE SYS 31.63 0.35 1.12 43 -12.07 MTL MULLEN GROUP 13.68 0.00 0.00 477 -5.98 TECK-B TECK RESOU 59.17 1.90 3.32 1338 15.63
BLDP BALLARD POWE 5.82 0.42 7.78 665 -10.19 EQB EQB INC 75.17 -0.36 -0.48 50 32.50 T TELUS CORP 23.38 0.54 2.36 3742 -10.52
BMO BANK OF MONTR 119.05 1.42 1.21 1618 -2.94 EQX EQUINOX GOLD 6.71 0.14 2.13 243 51.47 NA NATIONAL BANK 93.93 0.05 0.05 2647 2.96 TIXT TELUS INTERN 11.62 0.10 0.87 105 -56.53
BNS BANK OF NOVA 65.18 0.37 0.57 4927 -1.75 ERO ERO COPPER CO 25.04 0.16 0.64 295 34.33 NXE NEXGEN ENERGY 8.35 0.15 1.83 4815 39.40 TFII TFI INTERNAT 176.25 -1.19 -0.67 262 29.97
ABX BARRICK GOLD 22.06 0.23 1.05 3396 -4.95 EIF EXCHANGE INCO 46.81 0.40 0.86 135 -11.06 NPI NORTHLAND POW 24.51 0.41 1.70 972 -33.99 NWC THE NORTH WES 35.39 0.74 2.14 285 -0.51
BHC BAUSCH HEALTH 11.73 0.02 0.17 206 38.00 NWH-UN NORTHWEST 6.96 0.20 2.96 880 -26.74 TRI THOMSON REUTE 176.04 1.39 0.80 249 13.97
BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 5.94 0.12 2.06 3827 -2.30 FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 1135.62 5.88 0.52 23 41.59 NG NOVAGOLD RES I 5.41 0.07 1.31 91 -33.13 TLRY TILRAY INC 4.04 0.05 1.25 2479 10.08
BIR BIRCHCLIFF EN 8.14 0.02 0.25 1765 -13.68 FIL FILO MINING C 20.76 0.89 4.48 174 -10.67 NTR NUTRIEN LTD 87.03 1.70 1.99 1009 -11.96 X TMX GROUP LTD 29.52 0.00 0.00 540 8.91
BB BLACKBERRY LTD 7.28 -0.19 -2.54 1517 65.08 FTT FINNING INTL 43.53 0.66 1.54 265 29.32 NVEI NUVEI CORP 22.89 -0.36 -1.55 376 -33.48 TPZ TOPAZ ENERGY 22.08 0.00 0.00 150 4.50
BEI-UN BOARDWALK 70.07 0.88 1.27 133 41.76 FCR-UN FIRST CAPI 14.60 0.53 3.77 568 -13.15 NVA NUVISTA ENERG 13.50 0.24 1.81 385 8.17 TXG TOREX GOLD RE 14.11 -0.23 -1.60 478 -9.26
BBD-B BOMBARDIER 50.64 0.76 1.52 510 -3.12 FR FIRST MAJESTIC 7.58 0.08 1.07 351 -32.80 TIH TOROMONT IND 113.34 2.16 1.94 78 16.00
BLX BORALEX INC 32.98 0.49 1.51 172 -17.59 FM FIRST QUANTUM 35.46 1.39 4.08 1979 25.34 OGC OCEANAGOLD CO 2.88 0.06 2.13 1388 11.63 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 83.93 1.16 1.40 8356 -4.27
BYD BOYD GROUP SE 256.06 6.96 2.79 52 22.42 FSV FIRSTSERVICE 213.60 6.72 3.25 106 28.82 ONEX ONEX CORP 84.42 1.30 1.56 146 29.30 TOU TOURMALINE OI 70.05 0.43 0.62 1692 2.53
BAM BROOKFIELD AS 48.44 1.07 2.26 915 24.94 FTS FORTIS INC 56.07 0.89 1.61 1549 3.49 OTEX OPEN TEXT CO 53.14 0.87 1.66 388 32.45 TA TRANSALTA CORP 12.72 0.09 0.71 861 5.04
BBU-UN BROOKFIELD 21.54 0.11 0.51 20 -5.90 FVI FORTUNA SILVE 3.97 0.07 1.79 349 -22.00 OR OSISKO GOLD RO 17.20 0.10 0.58 271 5.39 RNW TRANSALTA REN 13.00 0.03 0.23 1182 15.56
BN BROOKFIELD COR 48.78 1.05 2.20 2205 14.56 FNV FRANCO-NEVADA 191.98 1.23 0.64 310 4.01 OSK OSISKO MINING 2.71 0.02 0.74 1668 -22.57 TCL-A TRANSCONTIN 12.37 0.03 0.24 172 -19.04
BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 44.31 0.87 2.00 558 5.65 FRU FREEHOLD ROYA 14.96 0.32 2.19 269 -5.50 TCN TRICON CAPITA 11.54 0.40 3.59 467 10.54
BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 35.11 1.22 3.60 195 2.42 PAAS PAN AMERICAN 21.90 0.36 1.67 431 -0.90 TSU TRISURA GROUP 32.13 -0.30 -0.93 96 -29.06
DOO BRP INC 102.82 1.61 1.59 183 -0.40 GFL GFL ENVIRONME 45.63 0.05 0.11 176 15.40 POU PARAMOUNT RES 33.52 0.77 2.35 121 17.04
GEI GIBSON ENERGY 20.82 0.46 2.26 1306 -11.93 PXT PAREX RESOURC 24.92 0.05 0.20 638 23.67 VET VERMILION ENE 21.10 0.04 0.19 1005 -11.97
CAR-UN CDN APARTM 49.79 1.30 2.68 297 16.66 GIL GILDAN ACTIVE 38.04 -0.35 -0.91 790 2.59 PLC PARK LAWN COR 21.08 -0.28 -1.31 88 -18.45
CWB CDN WESTERN B 28.86 0.07 0.24 342 19.95 GSY GOEASY LTD 119.58 1.44 1.22 32 12.33 PKI PARKLAND FUEL 39.80 0.10 0.25 685 33.96 WSP WSP GLOBAL IN 195.30 4.17 2.18 248 24.32
GIB-A CGI GROUP I 140.87 1.23 0.88 283 20.70 GRT-UN GRANITE RE 76.51 2.40 3.24 22 10.76 PSI PASON SYSTEMS 14.45 0.15 1.05 254 -9.35 WCN WASTE CONNECT 192.15 -0.19 -0.10 298 7.06
CIX CI FINANCIAL 17.14 0.28 1.66 749 26.87 GWO GREAT-WEST LI 40.27 0.34 0.85 2705 28.66 PPL PEMBINA PIPEL 41.95 0.12 0.29 4137 -8.72 WDO WESDOME GOLD 7.90 0.00 0.00 210 5.61
CRT-UN CT REAL ES 14.95 0.32 2.19 167 -4.11 PET PET VALU HOLD 25.93 0.18 0.70 82 -33.73 WFG WEST FRASER T 100.02 3.35 3.47 274 2.30
CAE CAE INC 33.66 0.52 1.57 665 28.52 HR-UN H&R REAL ES 10.40 0.30 2.97 619 -14.12 PEY PEYTO EXPLORA 13.11 0.16 1.24 777 -5.48 WN WESTON GEORGE 155.87 1.29 0.83 147 -7.21
CCO CAMECO CORP 53.90 1.12 2.12 1707 75.63 HWX HEADWATER EXP 7.38 0.09 1.23 662 24.66 POW POWER CORP OF 38.16 0.57 1.52 4640 19.81 WTE WESTSHORE TER 29.04 0.78 2.76 64 29.47
GOOS CANADA GOOSE 20.98 0.37 1.80 403 -12.87 HBM HUDBAY MINERA 6.79 0.25 3.82 1280 -0.73 PSK PRAIRIESKY RO 25.13 0.02 0.08 369 15.81 WPM WHEATON PRECI 58.06 0.49 0.85 761 9.75
CM CANADIAN IMPER 55.02 0.46 0.84 2735 0.46 H HYDRO ONE LTD 36.90 0.64 1.77 1111 1.74 PD PRECISION DRIL 97.27 -0.24 -0.25 54 -6.21 WCP WHITECAP RESO 11.79 0.16 1.38 2429 9.78
CNR CANADIAN NATI 156.16 5.30 3.51 2082 -2.91 PBH PREMIUM BRAND 104.10 1.10 1.07 28 26.52 WPK WINPAK LTD 40.64 0.49 1.22 62 -3.38
CNQ CANADIAN NATU 87.42 0.27 0.31 8332 16.27 IAG IA FINANCIAL 86.79 1.51 1.77 235 9.49 PMZ-UN PRIMARIS R 13.91 0.26 1.90 115 -4.99
CP CANADIAN PACIF 107.99 2.29 2.17 1503 6.97 IMG IAMGOLD CORP 3.23 0.14 4.53 819 -6.92 PRMW PRIMO WATER 20.02 0.02 0.10 48 -4.76
CTC-A CANADIAN TI 156.24 1.84 1.19 125 10.42 IGM IGM FINANCIAL 38.14 0.75 2.01 269 0.90
CU CANADIAN UTILI 31.48 0.32 1.03 324 -14.11 IMO IMPERIAL OIL 80.78 2.07 2.63 1231 22.49 QBR-B QUEBECOR IN 29.71 0.59 2.03 1006 -1.62
CFP CANFOR CORP 18.48 0.28 1.54 182 -13.28 INE INNERGEX RENE 12.55 0.13 1.05 386 -22.53
CPX CAPITAL POWER 41.75 -0.04 -0.10 600 -9.89 IFC INTACT FINANC 198.70 3.63 1.86 496 1.94 QSR RESTAURANT BR 93.31 1.70 1.86 1417 6.55
CS CAPSTONE MININ 6.18 0.33 5.64 1329 25.10 IFP INTERFOR CORP 21.41 0.34 1.61 156 1.95 RCH RICHELIEU HAR 41.35 0.55 1.35 28 14.19
CJT CARGOJET INC 101.24 1.27 1.27 34 -12.99 IPCO INTERNATIONA 13.33 0.25 1.91 66 -13.44 REI-UN RIOCAN REA 19.83 0.54 2.80 900 -6.15
CCL-B CCL INDUSTR 57.61 0.61 1.07 376 -0.40 IIP-UN INTERRENT 13.29 0.49 3.83 644 3.83 RCI-B ROGERS COMM 55.98 0.31 0.56 1802 -11.66
CLS CELESTICA INC 31.75 0.06 0.19 260 108.06 IVN IVANHOE MINES 12.09 0.26 2.20 1016 12.99 RY ROYAL BANK OF 123.46 1.50 1.23 2455 -3.02
CVE CENOVUS ENERG 28.15 0.38 1.37 4840 7.16 RUS RUSSEL METALS 38.26 0.74 1.97 156 32.94
CG CENTERRA GOLD 7.70 0.04 0.52 336 9.84 JWEL JAMIESON WEL 26.13 -0.33 -1.25 122 -25.53
CSH-UN CHARTWELL 10.16 0.11 1.09 257 20.38 SSL SANDSTORM GOL 7.02 0.02 0.29 157 -1.40
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[ DAVIS CUP ]

Canada’s Vasek Pospisil reacts during his Davis Cup group-stage tennis against Sweden’s Leo Borg at the Unipol Arena in Bologna, Italy, on Thursday.
Pospisil won the singles match 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-2. Pospisil also partnered with Alexis Galarneau to win a doubles match. MASSIMO PAOLONE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Canada downs Sweden in

Davis Cup to stay undefeated
Despite missing its big names, the defending champion is off to a strong start in the group stage

BOLOGNA, ITALY
Canada extended its undefeated run in
the group stage of Davis Cup finals
with a second win in as many days
Thursday.
Vasek Pospisil and Gabriel Diallo
won singles matches followed by a
doubles victory by Pospisil and Alexis
Galarneau to sweep Sweden.
Defending champion Canada
opened with a 3-0 win Wednesday over
host Italy in Bologna.
“We go match by match and to go
3-0 a second day is amazing for us,”
Canadian captain Frank Dancevic said.
“It’s huge for our team. So many
emotions today in the matches. The
guys [played] their hearts out. An in-
credible day by the boys.”
The Canadians cap the 16-country
group round Saturday versus Chile.
The top two countries in each of the
four groups advance to November’s fi-
nal eight in Malaga, Spain.
Canada defeated Australia in last
year’s final to win the biggest team
event in men’s tennis for the first time.
Both countries earned byes to the
group stage of this year’s finals.
Pospisil’s 25 service aces spurred the
33-year-old from Vernon, B.C., to a 7-6
(5), 5-7, 6-2 victory over Leo Borg, the
son of tennis great Bjorn Borg, to start
Thursday’s tie.
Montreal’s Diallo assured Canada
the win over Sweden with a 6-4, 6-3 win
over Elias Ymer.
“Vasek led the way with an unbe-
lievable win,” Diallo said. “He faced ad-
versity during his match, but showed
some great mental resilience.
“That freed me up to play my game,
to play aggressive, and take it to my op-
ponent. I’m happy that I was able to get
it done.”
Diallo, 21, has yet to face a break
point in Bologna.
Galarneau of Laval, Que., and Pospi-
sil finished out the day with a 7-6(9),
7-6(3) victory over Filip Bergevi and
Andre Goransson.
“The last couple days we’ve played
amazing tennis,” Pospisil said.
“We’re great competitors. We get on
the court and we hate losing or we love
winning. We don’t go down without a
fight and we showed that the last cou-
ple days too.”
He took a break from tennis for
more than two months, between Feb-
ruary and April, to recover from inju-
ries.
Pospisil hit 26 forehand winners to
Borg’s nine at Unipol Arena.
“I haven’t played a lot of matches
this year,” Pospisil said postmatch.
“This was one of the few healthy
matches I’ve played. The U.S. Open was
the first time I played a match with no
pain this year.
“After a long break, it felt great to be
able to play at a really good level.”
THE CANADIAN PRESS

France struggles to beat feisty Uruguay at Rugby World Cup

SAMUEL PETREQUIN
LILLE, FRANCE
A week after France was lionized
for dispatching New Zealand, its
second string was whistled and
booed after a second-rate win
against Uruguay on Thursday.
The French won 27-12 to move
closer to the Rugby World Cup
quarter-finals, but they appeared
to take a step backward in the
face of a spirited Uruguay which
fought magnificently.
The 49,000 spectators at Stade
Pierre Mauroy, more accustomed
to soccer than rugby in this
northern part of France, made
their displeasure at France’s per-
formance heard.
Coach Fabien Galthie made 12
changes to the starting 15 that de-
feated three-time champion New
Zealand in Paris, but the replace-
ments did not rise to the occa-
sion.
The backline was cramped by
Uruguay’s defence, the maul was
ineffective and the scrum won
penalties at the start but were
conceding them by the finish.
France gave away only five penal-
ties to New Zealand but 15 to Los
Teros.
“It’s unacceptable at interna-
tional level. We showed that we
were an undisciplined team,”
lock Cameron Woki said. “There’s
a lot of frustration, we would
have liked to do better. We re-
spected them, but we weren’t
able to play our game.”
Uruguay’s second try had it
trailing France only 13-12 after 53
minutes, and France went ahead
thanks only to a large slice of
luck. Uruguay fly-half Felipe Etch-
everry clearance-kicked into a
teammate and France replace-
ment Peato Mauvaka collected
the ball and scored.
France’s third and last try by
wing Louis Bielle-Biarrey, who
became the youngest Frenchman
to play at a World Cup, sealed the
result, but Los Teros fought to the
end and France finished under a
yellow card warning.
This was the first ever test be-
tween the teams and Uruguay –
which qualified as Americas 1 –
fielded one of its most experi-
enced sides, with 11 starters from
the 2019 World Cup and five who
play for clubs in France. They
were not intimidated, and were
inspired by the presence of Presi-
dent Luis Lacalle Pou.
“We are really proud of what
we’ve done against one of the
best teams, which is among the
favourites for the title,” Uruguay
coach Esteban Meneses said. “We
fought toe to toe, we brought pas-
sion.”
Melvyn Jaminet booted the
first points from a scrum penalty,
but he was caught cold three
minutes later when he couldn’t
reach an Etcheverry cross-field
kick and wing Nicolas Freitas col-
lected the ball to score the open-
ing try and silence the stadium.
France regrouped quickly. Yo-
France’s Sekou Macalou, top, catches the ball during the Rugby World ram Moefana’s dummy run from
Cup Pool A match between France and Uruguay in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, a scrum hesitated the Uru-
near Lille, France, on Thursday. THIBAULT CAMUS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS guayans long enough for fly-half
Antoine Hastoy to angle in for
10-5.
France looked like it would en-
joy a comfortable evening. It mo-
nopolized the ball and deployed
attacks at ease. Jaminet’s second
penalty made it 13-5 after 16 min-
utes.
But then France lock Romain
Taofifenua was sin-binned for a
shoulder-led hit on Santiago Ara-
ta’s head. He appeared fortunate
to be carded only a yellow, but it
changed the momentum.
France mistakes compounded
and Etcheverry scored beside the
posts. But the try was cancelled
because of obstruction.
Uruguay was emboldened,
though.
More set-piece errors by
France seemed to be compensat-
ed when Gabin Villiere scored,
but it was cancelled by a knock
on.
Uruguay made no mistake
though when fullback Baltazar
Amaya stepped Arthur Vincent
and slipped Jaminet to score and
Etcheverry converted from the
sideline.
Uruguay trailed by one point,
and the French crowd was boo-
ing.
But Mauvaka got a lucky re-
bound to settle the crowd some-
what and Bielle-Biarrey gave the
crowd breathe a lot easier with
his 72nd-minute try.
France next faces Namibia,
while Uruguay gave Italy fair
warning of what’s next.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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[ BLUE JAYS VS. RANGERS ] CHAPMAN RETURNS

TO JAYS LINEUP

Matt Chapman is back in the

Toronto Blue Jays’ lineup.
Chapman was activated from
Toronto’s 10-day injured list and
was sixth in the Blue Jays lineup
when they played host to the
Texas Rangers on Thursday.
Chapman went on the injured
list Aug. 28 with a right middle
finger sprain after he got it
caught between a dumbbell and
a weight rack.
“He’s a big part of our team,
obviously, and we’re excited to
have him back,” said Toronto
manager John Schneider. “I
think just his overall energy is a
good thing for the entire group.
“We’re looking forward to
having him out there every day.”
The third baseman’s batting
average was .248 with 15 home
runs before his injury. His 36
doubles lead the team, even
after the lengthy time away.
Chapman is renowned for his
defence, having earned three
Gold Glove Awards (2018, 2019,
2021) and two Platinum Glove
Awards (2018, 2019). His ability
in the field has given him a 4.0
wins above replacement, a
statistic that measures a player’s
value by deciphering how many
more wins he’s worth than a
replacement-level player at his
same position. His 4.0 WAR is
the best on the Blue Jays this
season, slightly ahead of All-Star
shortstop Bo Bichette’s 3.9.
Heading into Thursday’s
game, Toronto (80-66) trailed
Making the turn the Seattle Mariners by a game
for the American League’s third
and final wild-card spot. The
Rangers have the second wild-
Texas Rangers shortstop Corey Seager, left, forces out Blue Jays third baseman card spot, half a game up on
Seattle.
Matt Chapman at second base as he throws to first during the second inning Outfielder Nathan Lukes was
of Thursday’s game in Toronto. For the game story go to GLOBESPORTS.COM optioned to the Blue Jays’ tri-
ple-A affiliate in Buffalo, to
make space for Chapman on
NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto’s roster.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Miami 1 0 0 1.000 36 34 GP W L T PF PA Pt Wolverhampton vs. Liverpool, 7:30 a.m.
Baltimore 91 54 .628 — x-Atlanta 96 50 .658 — Orlando 27 13 6 8 41 31 47
N.Y. Jets 1 0 0 1.000 22 16 x-Toronto 11 10 1 0 387 244 20 Aston Villa vs. Crystal Palace, 10 a.m.
Tampa Bay 90 57 .612 2 Philadelphia 79 67 .541 17 Buffalo 0 1 0 .000 16 22 Philadelphia 26 14 8 4 47 31 46 Fulham vs. Luton Town, 10 a.m.
Montreal 12 6 6 0 276 299 12
Toronto 80 66 .548 11 /
1
2 Miami 75 72 .510 21 /1
2
New England 0 1 0 .000 20 25 Columbus 27 13 8 6 54 37 45 Hamilton 12 5 7 0 255 326 10 Man United vs. Brighton, 10 a.m.
Boston 74 72 .507 17 /
1
2 New York 68 78 .466 28 SOUTH Atlanta 28 11 8 9 51 43 42 Ottawa 12 3 9 0 275 310 6 Tottenham vs. Sheffield United, 10 a.m.
New York 73 73 .500 18 /
1
2 Washington 65 82 .442 31 /1
2
Jacksonville 1 0 0 1.000 31 21 Nashville 27 11 9 7 32 27 40 WEST DIVISION West Ham vs. Man City, 10 a.m.
CENTRAL DIVISION CENTRAL DIVISION Houston 0 1 0 .000 9 25 Montreal 27 11 14 2 28 40 35 GP W L T PF PA Pt Newcastle vs. Brentford, 12:30 p.m.
W L Pct GB W L Pct GB Indianapolis 0 1 0 .000 21 31 D.C. 28 9 12 7 37 38 34 x-Winnipeg 13 10 3 0 425 263 20
Minnesota 76 70 .521 — Milwaukee 82 64 .562 —
WHL
Tennessee 0 1 0 .000 15 16 Chicago 27 8 11 8 32 42 32 British Columbia 12 8 4 0 309 242 16
Cleveland 69 78 .469 7/
1
2 Chicago 78 69 .531 4 / 1
2
NORTH Charlotte 26 7 9 10 34 43 31 Saskatchewan 12 6 6 0 248 353 12 PRESEASON
Detroit 67 79 .459 9 Cincinnati 76 72 .514 7 Baltimore 1 0 0 1.000 25 9 N.Y. City F.C. 28 6 10 12 28 36 30 Calgary 13 4 9 0 306 350 8
Chicago 56 90 .384 20 Pittsburgh 69 78 .469 13 /1
2 Cleveland 1 0 0 1.000 24 3 N.Y. Red Bulls 27 7 12 8 24 33 29 Edmonton 13 3 10 0 244 338 6 Thursday
Kansas City 46 101 .313 30 /
1
2 St. Louis 65 81 .445 17 Cincinnati 0 1 0 .000 3 24 Miami 26 8 14 4 30 39 28 x — clinched playoff berth. Lethbridge at Calgary
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Houston 83 64 .565 — Los Angeles 88 57 .607 — Las Vegas 1 0 0 1.000 17 16 GP W L T GF GA Pt Friday — All Times Eastern TELEVISION
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Denver 0 1 0 .000 16 17 St. Louis 28 15 10 3 55 37 48 Toronto at Montreal, 7 p.m.
2
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Seattle 81 65 .555 1/
1
2 San Francisco 75 71 .514 13 /1
2 Kansas City 0 1 0 .000 20 21 Seattle 28 11 9 8 34 29 41 Edmonton at Saskatchewan, 9:30 p.m.
Los Angeles 68 79 .463 15 San Diego 69 78 .469 20 L.A. Chargers 0 1 0 .000 34 36 L.A. F.C. 27 11 9 7 40 32 40 AUTO SPORTS
Oakland 46 100 .315 36 /
1
2 Colorado 53 92 .366 35 Salt Lake 27 11 9 7 38 39 40 Saturday F1: Singapore Grand Prix, Practice,
NATIONAL CONFERENCE Houston 27 11 10 6 36 31 39 Winnipeg at Hamilton, 4 p.m. 8 :45 a.m., TSN 2
x — clinched division
W L T Pct PF PA Vancouver 26 10 8 8 43 36 38 Ottawa at British Columbia. 7 p.m. NASCAR Xfinity: Food City 300,
Thursday Thursday 7:30 p.m., TSN 5
Detroit 8, Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 2, Washington 0 EAST Minnesota 27 9 8 10 34 33 37 DAVIS CUP BASEBALL
Boston 5, N.Y. Yankees 0, 1st game Detroit 8, Cincinnati 2 Dallas 1 0 0 1.000 40 0 San Jose 29 9 9 10 32 36 37
MLB:BostonatToronto,7p.m.,SNO,E,W,P
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MLB: L.A. Dodgers at Seattle, 10 p.m., SN 1;
Tampa Bay at Baltimore San Francisco at Colorado, ppd. N.Y. Giants 0 1 0 .000 0 40 Portland 28 8 11 9 34 44 33 Wednesday 11 p.m., SN O, E, W, P
Minnesota at Chicago White Sox SOUTH Kansas City 28 8 12 8 38 40 32 CANADA 3, ITALY 0 BASKETBALL
Wednesday Atlanta 1 0 0 1.000 24 10 L.A. Galaxy 26 7 10 9 33 41 30
WNBA: Washington at New York,
Wednesday Colorado 7, Chicago Cubs 3 New Orleans 1 0 0 1.000 16 15 Colorado 26 3 13 10 16 39 19 Alexis Galarneau, Laval, Que., def. 7:30 p.m., NBATVC
Tampa Bay 5, Minnesota 4 San Francisco 6, Cleveland 5, 10 innings Tampa Bay 1 0 0 1.000 20 17 x — clinched playoff berth. Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, 7-6 (8), 6-4. WNBA:Atlanta at Dallas, 9:30p.m., NBATVC
Seattle 3, L.A. Angels 2 Atlanta 4, Philadelphia 1 Carolina 0 1 0 .000 10 24 Saturday — All Times Eastern Gabriel Diallo, Montreal, def. Lorenzo BOXING
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St. Louis 1, Baltimore 0 St. Louis 1, Baltimore 0 Detroit 1 0 0 1.000 21 20 Miami at Atlanta, 5 p.m. Alexis Galarneau, Laval, Que., and 10:30 p.m., TSN 2
Texas 10, Toronto 0 Cincinnati 4, Detroit 3 Green Bay 1 0 0 1.000 38 20 Chicago at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Vasek Pospisil, Vancouver, def. Simone FOOTBALL
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Houston 6, Oakland 2 Miami 2, Milwaukee 0 Minnesota 0 1 0 .000 17 20 Columbus at Orlando, 7:30 p.m. 6-4, 7-6 (3). NCAA: Army at Texas-San Antonio,
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San Francisco 1 0 0 1.000 30 7 Kansas City at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m. WNBA PLAYOFFS CFL:Edmonton at Saskatchewan,9:30p.m.
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Tampa Bay (Eflin 14-8) at Baltimore 4), 6:40 p.m. ship, 7 a.m., GOLF
Salt Lake at San Jose, 10:30 p.m. (Best-of-3)
(Flaherty 8-8), 7:05 p.m. Cincinnati (Greene 4-6) at N.Y. Mets Korn Ferry Tour: Simmons Bank Open
Boston (Bello 12-8) at Toronto (Berríos (Peterson 3-8), 7:10 p.m. Thursday for the Snedeker Foundation, Second
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Minnesota (López 10-7) at Chicago (Thompson 5-5), 8:15 p.m. Sunday Las Vegas 87 Chicago 59 PGA: Fortinet Championship, Second
White Sox (Scholtens 1-8), 7:40 p.m. San Francisco (Webb 10-12) at All Times Eastern CPL Sunday Round, 6 p.m., GOLF
Houston (Javier 9-3) at Kansas City Colorado (TBD), 8:40 p.m. Chicago at Las Vegas, 3 p.m. RUGBY
(Greinke 1-15), 8:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Steele 16-3) at Arizona Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. GP W L T GF GA Pt RSL:Warringtonvs. St.Helens,3p.m.,SN WL
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(Canning 7-6), 9:38 p.m. San Diego (Lugo 6-7) at Oakland Green Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m. Victoria 24 10 7 7 36 26 37 Friday Namibia, 3 p.m., TSN 3, 5
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L.A. Dodgers (Miller 9-3) at Seattle (Kirby 10-9), 10:10 p.m. L.A. Chargers at Tennessee, 1 p.m. Halifax 24 8 7 9 32 27 33 Washington at New York, 7 p.m. Munich, 12:15 p.m., DAZN
(Kirby 10-9), 10:10 p.m. Las Vegas at Buffalo, 1 p.m. York 24 9 10 5 31 38 32 2. Bundesliga: Nurnberg vs. Greuther
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Boston at Toronto, 3:07 p.m. San Diego at Oakland, 4:07 p.m. San Francisco at L.A. Rams, 4:05 p.m. Wednesday Wednesday Bundesliga: Bayern Munich vs. Leverku-
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Senators defenceman Jake Sanderson, right, had four goals and 32 points in 2022-23 as part of a defensive setup in Ottawa that also
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Senators’ Tkachuk confident
Sanderson will live up to contract
Ottawa captain says ‘sky’s
the limit’ for defenceman who
shocked some after signing
eight-year, $64.4-million deal
JOSHUA CLIPPERTON HENDERSON, NEV.
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rady Tkachuk knows eyebrows
were raised.
The Ottawa Senators signed de-
fenceman Jake Sanderson – a play-
er with just 77 games of NHL experience –
earlier this month to an eight-year,
US$64.4-million contract that ties him to
the organization through 2031-32.
The dollars and term for a player with
less than a season of professional hockey
under his belt comes with a level of risk.
Tkachuk also expects any doubters will
soon understand management’s thinking.
“For the people that don’t know, they’ll
know soon enough,” the Ottawa captain
said of Sanderson with a smirk at this
week’s NHL/NHLPA player media tour in
suburban Las Vegas.
That sounded like a warning. Tkachuk
agreed.
“People don’t know how special a player
he is,” added the 23-year-old forward. “The
77 games he played for us, [Sanderson]
changed the complexion of our team.
“I’m really excited for what’s to come
with him.”
A 21-year-old from Whitefish, Mont.,
Sanderson had four goals and 32 points in
2022-23 as part of a defensive setup in Otta-
wa that also featured veterans Thomas
Chabot and Jakob Chychrun.
Tkachuk said there was never a ques-
tion about the blueliner’s offensive pedi-
gree after two seasons at the University of
North Dakota, but added the son of former
NHL forward Geoff Sanderson’s defensive
game was even more impressive.
“Very shocked,” Tkachuk said. “Coming
out of college, some guys can’t handle that
speed, size, toughness and a lot of skill. He
handled it so well. I didn’t realize how fast
he was, how good of a skater.
“He never seems to be out of position.”
Tkachuk spent the spring supporting ol-
der brother Matthew as his Florida Pan-
thers made it all the way to the Stanley Cup
final.
The younger Tkachuk is desperate to get
to the playoffs for the first time in his ca-
Roughriders prepare to face Elks’ rushing QB Ford
JEFF DEDEKKER REGINA
T
re Ford believes there might be an
element of surprise when he leads
the Edmonton Elks onto the field
Friday against the Saskatchewan
Roughriders.
Ford, who will make his sixth straight
start at quarterback for the Elks, faces the
Roughriders for the first time in his career.
Although Saskatchewan has enough
film of Ford to game plan for him, he feels
they could be in for a bit of a shock once
the game begins.
“It’s the first time that they’re going to
see me actually play live, which I feel like
is a slight advantage for me,” Ford ex-
plained Thursday.
“Watching it on film and actually being
on the field, they’re kind of two different
things, especially the speed of the game.
It’s not that I look slow on film, but I feel
like it’s a lot faster in person.”
Ford is 68 for 97 in passing for 990 yards,
six touchdowns and three interceptions so
far this season.
The 25-year-old has a 4-4 record in eight
NHLPA EXECUTIVES MEETING WITH BLUE JACKETS
PLAYERS OVER BABCOCK REPORTS
The NHL Players’ Association says its
executive director and assistant executive
director are in Columbus to investigate
reports of Blue Jackets head coach Mike
Babcock invading players’ privacy.
Marty Walsh and Ron Hainsey were
meeting with some Blue Jackets players
on Thursday as part of the investigation.
Babcock said Tuesday he had done
nothing wrong by asking players to show
him family photos from their phones,
clarifying he was trying to get to know
them.
Ex-NHLer Paul Bissonnette said on the
reer – and drag Ottawa back into the post-
season for the first time since 2017 as the
leader of a core that also features star cen-
tre Tim Stutzle.
“Our group has experienced the lows,”
Tkachuk said. “Each year we’re getting
closer to where we want to get to. That’s
what’s gonna make it special. When we do
accomplish what we want to accomplish,
we faced that adversity, faced the tough
times, and got better because of it.”
Tkachuk believes Sanderson will be a
huge factor.
“Sky’s the limit for him, excited to see
the potential,” he said. “And even more ex-
cited for the people that don’t know and
are shocked at his contract to see what he’s
all about.”
DEBRINCAT’S DEPARTURE
Tkachuk was asked about the trade of for-
ward Alex DeBrincat to the Detroit Red
Wings in July after just one season in the
nation’s capital.
The high-scoring winger was a restricted
free agent after getting dealt to Ottawa
from the Chicago Blackhawks in the sum-
mer of 2022, but made it clear he wasn’t go-
ing to sign long-term. The Senators got
back a package from Detroit that included
forward Dominik Kubalik and a condition-
al first-round pick.
“Big part of our team last year,” Tkachuk
said of DeBrincat. “Somebody I got close
with, sucks to see him go. Excited for the
future division battles.”
career CFL starts. He’s thrown a touch-
down pass in each of the five games he has
started in 2023.
Since taking over from Taylor Cornelius
in August as starter, Ford has given Ed-
monton some spark. The Elks started the
season 0-9-0, but are 3-1-0 in their past
four games.
They’ve also won twice at home with
Ford as starter after a 22-game losing
streak at Commonwealth Stadium.
Roughriders head coach Craig Dicken-
son was clear about his biggest concern in
containing Ford, who has rushed for 401
yards on 39 carries this season.
“Keeping him in the pocket,” Dicken-
son said. “He can really move, and I know
he’s going to escape a few times and when
he does escape, he can beat you with his
legs or he can extend the play and beat
you downfield.
“I want to keep him in the pocket as
best we can. That’s easier said than done.”
The Elks (3-10-0) rank fifth in the West
Division one game behind the fourth-
place Calgary Stampeders (4-9-0), and
with the Roughriders (6-6-0) still in Ed-
monton’s sights in third.
Spittin’ Chiclets podcast he was told by an
unidentified player that Babcock asked
players to see photos on their phones and
would then stream them on his television.
Babcock and Columbus captain Boone
Jenner said in a joint statement released
by the Blue Jackets that the report is “a
gross misrepresentation of those meetings
and extremely offensive.”
Babcock has spent nearly four years out
of the league after being fired by the
Toronto Maple Leafs.
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HUGHES ON HUGHES
The Vancouver Canucks named defence-
man Quinn Hughes as their captain this
week, much to his younger brother’s de-
light.
“Really well-deserving,” New Jersey
Devils centre Jack Hughes said. “He’s only
going to continue to get better and better.
Everyone knows how big of a part he is to
the Canucks. Probably the pillar of that or-
ganization. He’s gonna be a great captain.”
KADRI SETTLED IN COWTOWN
Calgary Flames centre Nazem Kadri was
one of the new guys last year after signing
on in free agency.
Heading into his second training camp
in southern Alberta, he’s already on his
second head coach and second general
manager.
Darryl Sutter was fired in May, while
Brad Treliving, now with the Toronto Ma-
ple Leafs, left the organization following
nine years as GM. Craig Conroy was pro-
moted to the top job before hiring Ryan
Huska as the team’s new coach.
But that’s really where the major chang-
es end, which Kadri sees as a positive for a
group that played well below expectations
in 2022-23.
“We’re a little further along, which is
nice,” Kadri said. “Very similar dressing
room. It’s nice to be familiar with everybo-
dy.”
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Elks head coach Chris Jones attributes
the recent stretch of success to the growth
of his roster, which includes a number of
CFL newcomers.
“You’d like to think they’ve developed
and the more they play, you would hope
that they’ll make fewer and fewer mis-
takes,” Jones said.
“I think we’ve got 12 or 13 rookies with
us this time and another seven or eight
second-year players. Tre himself is a sec-
ond-year player.
“We’ve got a lot of young kids on our
team and sometimes it’s frustrating and
then other times it’s fun to see them make
a play and develop,”
The Elks came from behind to beat the
Stampeders 25-23 and the Roughriders
were drubbed 51-6 by the Winnipeg Blue
Bombers on Sept. 9.
Saskatchewan can eliminate Edmon-
ton’s chances of finishing third in the West
with a victory Friday. A Roughrider win al-
so gets Saskatchewan a three-win lead
over the Stampeders currently on a bye
week.
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Helligkilde
leads after
first round
at BMW PGA
Championship
VIRGINIA WATER, ENGLAND
Europe’s 12 Ryder Cup players de-
livered a mixed bag of scores in
the first round of the BMW PGA
Championship.
None of them were better than
Marcus Helligkilde.
The No. 232-ranked Dane
made seven birdies in a nine-
hole stretch then closed with
three in a row to shoot an eight-
under 64 and take a two-stroke
lead at the European tour’s flag-
ship event on Thursday.
Of the Europeans heading to
Rome for the Ryder Cup in two
weeks, Matt Fitzpatrick (66),
Ludvig Aberg (68) and Tyrrell
Hatton (68) posted the best
rounds at Wentworth.
Nicolai Hojgaard, who earned
the final pick of captain Luke Do-
nald ahead of Adrian Meronk,
was at the other end of the scale
in shooting 76.
Then there were Europe’s two
big guns, No. 2-ranked Rory McIl-
roy and No. 3-ranked Jon Rahm,
who laboured their way around
the West Course and shot 72 and
71, respectively, on a glorious day
at the European tour’s headquar-
ters where the coming Ryder Cup
remained a glaring subplot.
“I think we are all a little bit in
the Ryder Cup mindset,” said No.
4-ranked Viktor Hovland, who
will be one of Donald’s key play-
ers at the Marco Simone club
from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 and shot
69 in his first round at Went-
worth.
“It is a little bit weird to have
to have two thoughts going at
the same time.”
Hovland played in a heavy-
weight group containing McIlroy
and Aberg, mixing two establish-
ed stars with another with the
golfing world at his feet.
The youngster took the lead
role.
Aberg, a 23-year-old Swede
who turned pro in June and has
already won on the European
tour, showed once again that the
hype around him is justified
heading into his coming debut
appearance in the Ryder Cup.
One bad swing cost Aberg the
chance of a really low round. He
pulled his tee shot out-of-bounds
at the par-five 17th hole, which
he had reached on five under af-
ter rolling in five straight birdies
from No. 11.
A double-bogey at No. 17
didn’t derail Aberg, who made
amends by playing the par-five
18th perfectly to tap in for a sev-
enth birdie of the day.
Hovland had a front-row seat
to watch the guy many believe is
golf’s next big thing.
“Ludvig was certainly on a
heater mid-round and the crowd
was loving it,” Hovland said.
“He has not been a pro very
long, but he certainly doesn’t
look scared of the moment.”
Aberg, Hovland and McIlroy
comprised one of the four groups
made up entirely of Ryder Cup
players as Donald looks to build
some team chemistry.
In another setting out in the
morning, Shane Lowry and Tom-
my Fleetwood both shot 69
alongside Sepp Straka (70).
Fitzpatrick, who went out with
Robert MacIntyre and Justin
Rose (both 72), played the best of
the Ryder Cup squad after start-
ing with four birdies in his first
six holes. He curled in a birdie
putt at the last from 18 feet to
join Richie Ramsay in a tie for
second place.
“I’m here to try to win this
week,” Fitzpatrick said. “I’ll start
focusing on the Ryder Cup once
Sunday finishes.”
They are all chasing the 26-
year-old Helligkilde, who is com-
ing to the end of his second sea-
son on the European tour.
His hot streak of early birdies
began on the fourth hole, with
two of them – on Nos. 5 and 7 –
being tap-ins from inside two
feet.
He made birdie putts from 10
and 12 feet on Nos. 16 and 17, be-
fore getting up-and-down from
just off the back of the 18th for a
10th birdie.
Helligkilde said he was hitting
it “terrible” on the range.
“I asked [my coach], ‘What
should I do?’ ” he said, “and he’s
like, ‘Yeah, you’re probably going
to play great.’ So that was what
happened.”
Aaron Cockerill, from Stony
Mountain, Man., is the lone Can-
adian competing in the event
and sits tied for 12th after firing
an opening-round 68.
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EAN A BA IN ER A ASDAIR CHAR ES

July 1, 1928 - May 16, 2023 STE ART CA E

Peacefully, at Sunnybrook Passed away peacefully, on

Health Sciences Centre,
Toronto. Predeceased by her
husband, Frank S. Ballinger;
and her parents, Edna and
Russell Whitehead. Sister of
Donna Ballinger (the late
John) and Russ Turk
Whitehead (Judy). Mother of
Jim (Deborah) and Keith
(Lisa); and grandmother of
Karen Ballinger and Sarah Ojo
(Toye). Aunt of Lynn Morrison
and Steve Whitehead;
predeceased by nephews,
John G. Ballinger and Todd
Whitehead.
Born in Niagara Falls, Jean
grew up in the Hydro
community of Cameron Falls,
north of Port Arthur. When
the family was transferred to
F i t z r o y Ha r b o u r , J e a n
completed her education in
Etobicoke and began working
at Ontario Hydro. There, she
met an engineer, Frank
Ballinger, and they were
married in 1950. They bought
a house on Roehampton
Avenue, moving to Divadale
Drive in north Leaside in 1961.
South Leaside called them in
1997. Jean has been an active
member of Manor Road
United Church since 1950, and
was involved in the wider
church. She also volunteered
with numerous charitable
organizations. She was
thrilled when her
granddaughters were born
and followed their
accomplishments with great
pride. She had many lifelong
friends who she treasured.
Jean loved knitting, sewing,
flowers, books and travel, but
was happiest with a nice cup
of tea, a home-baked biscuit,
and someone with whom to
chat, even if only by phone.
The family wishes to thank
the staff of Ewart Angus
SPRINT Home and Dr. Jocelyn
Charles for their excellent
care. In lieu of flowers,
donations are invited to
Manor Road United Church or
the Abiona Centre for Infant
and Early Mental Health.
A memorial service will be
held at 11:00 a.m. on
September 18, 2023, in the
Funeral Centre at Mount
Pleasant Cemetery, 375
Mount Pleasant Road,
Toronto.
SANDRA CA BE
(née Higgins, formerly
McKenna and Mathews)
Sandra Campbell (“the Duchess”)
passed away suddenly on
September 11, 2023, at the age
of 82.
She was the loving daughter
to Paul Sr. and Evelyn Higgins.
Sandra liked to remind people
September 3, 2023, with his
family by his side. Cremation
has already taken place, to be
followed by a private family
ceremony.
Alasdair is survived by his
wife, Margie Henderson; his
children, Mair Cayley (Megan)
and David Cayley (Sachiko);
and his three grandchildren.
Alasdair was predeceased by
his sister, Briony, and her
wife, Gail Hartshorn. He was
always welcomed as family
by the Hartshorn clan, for
which he was grateful.
Alasdair was born in Toronto
on June 2, 1952, to parents
Frank and Doreen. He fondly
remembered his time at
Lakefield College School in
Ontario, and the peers and
teachers with whom he
formed strong bonds during
his time there. Golf was
always a central feature of
Alasdair’s life, from his youth
up until his latter years. He
played from coast to coast in
Canada, and also played the
width and breadth of
Scotland, among other
places. Alasdair was a
longtime member of Toronto
Golf Club, and also the Royal
and Ancient Golf Club of St.
Andrew’s. Alasdair’s love for
golf was second only to his
love for his wife, Margie. After
meeting in 2004, they were
inseparable. On June 16,
2006, they exchanged vows
in the ancient cathedral ruins
of St. Andrews, Scotland. Not
only did they share a love of
golf, but also a love of mirth,
wine and good company.
Their close friends included
Rosemary and Graham Haley,
Margie’s business partners;
and Joyce and Steve
Crawford, who they met at
their winter home in Fort
Myers, Florida. Even in their
later years, the love between
Alasdair and Margie was pure
and unextinguishable.
Alasdair spent his final days
surrounded by family in
British Columbia.
His family is grateful for the
unparalleled care he received
from the staff at Juravinski
Cancer Centre and at
Vancouver General Hospital,
and for all the help and
support he received from care
workers and friends.
ETER CHAR TON
CPA, CA
April 15, 1955
September 3, 2023
Long-term survivor,
world traveller
Peter died peacefully after a
short illness. As someone who
lived with HIV for over 40 years,
Peter lived his life out loud,
proud and to the fullest – as an
O C E HI DA DOSSA
(née Ro oke)
July 22, 1926
September 11, 2 023
Peacefully after a brief illness, at
Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto.
Joyce is reunited with her beloved
husband, Pyar, who predeceased
her in 2014. She is survived by her
loving daughters, Linda Dossal
and Carolyn Dossal; her adored
and adoring grandchildren, Adam
Hicks, Madeleine Lapierre (Chris),
Jennifer De Lio (Anthony) and
Jonathan Hicks; as well as dear
great-grandchildren, Jaxon Galan-
De Lio and Colton De Lio. Deeply
saddened by her passing are her
sister, Shirley Sandys and brother,
Gerald Rooke (Diana), both in
England.
Joyce was a Leading Air Woman
in the WAAF during WWII and was
always proud of her contribution
to the war effort. Post war,
Joyce worked at Atlas Assurance
Company in London where she
met and married a handsome and
charming actuarial student.
Pyar’s career eventually led them
to settle in Toronto where they
began a long and very happy life.
Joyce was an avid gardener and
flower arranger and devoted
many years to membership and
ultimately leadership of the Milne
House Garden Club.
She was rarely found without a
needlework project or knitting
needles in her hands and was an
enthusiastic member of the Toronto
Guild of Stitchery. Her beautiful
needlework projects adorned her
walls throughout her life.
Joyce struggled with the pain and
disability of arthritis but, true to her
British stoicism, she continued to
enjoy her life, lovingly supported
by Pyar. In their later years, the
two were often to be found in their
sunroom at Golfdale Road, doing
the cryptic crossword together
or discussing new projects
for their beloved garden.
Joyce missed Pyar greatly after his
passing but carried on and spent
her later years avidly watching
golf and tennis, as they always
had, fuelled by Smarties.
The family would like to thank the
staff of the Briton House who took
great care of Joyce for the last few
years.
We are grateful that she is at peace.
Visitation will be held at the Mount
Pleasant Cemetery Funeral Centre
on September 18th from 4-8 p.m.
A short visitation at 10:30 a.m. will
be followed by a memorial service
on September 19th, at 11:00 a.m.,
followed by a reception from 12-2
p.m. The memorial will be live-
streamed, and the link will be
posted in the notice attached.
https://mountpleasantgroup.
permavita.com/site/JoyceDossal.
html
O AT D N A
B.A., Hon. LL.D.
Moffat Dunlap, born March 30, 1941, in Toronto, Canada, passed away
peacefully at home on September 11, 2023. Son of the late David Moffat
Dunlap and Margaret Alice Crang; brother to David (Pamela) and sister,
Donalda (Richard); father to Louise (Ellen), John (Raphaela), Daphne and
Allie (Anton); and grandfather to Oliver, Alexandra, Philip, Anna and Emily.
A graduate of Upper Canada College, Western University, and awarded an
Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University of Toronto for his
community service and philanthropy, Moff’s true passion was the world of
horses, which he discovered at a young age at Don-Alda Farms. He was a
twenty-year member of the Canadian Equestrian Team (Team Gold Medal
winner at the 1970 World Championships in France, and Team Bronze Medal
winner at the 1967 Pan-American Games) and was an integral part of the
equestrian community alongside Jim Elder, his pal of over seven decades.
His contributions to show jumping extended far beyond the ring through
many roles, including Director and Jumping Team Chairman for the Canadian
Equestrian team at the Los Angeles Olympics; Director of the Canadian Pony
Club, the Canadian Horse Council, the Canadian Horse Shows Association,
among others, and Advisor for the Equine Research Centre at the University
of Guelph. Moffat was twice inducted into the Jump Canada Hall of Fame,
as both a team member and as an Individual. In his various roles at the
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair (Director, Royal Horse Show Chairman, and
President), he proudly continued his family’s legacy of supporting Canadian
agriculture and equestrian sport.
Moffat was also a successful businessman, and in 1972 formed Moffat Dunlap
Real Estate Limited, specializing in country properties in the Greater Toronto
Area as well as exceptional Georgian Bay retreats. In addition to the firm’s
countryside property transactions, special projects he worked on included
the purchase of the land for Canada’s Wonderland, the sale of Eaton Hall to
become Seneca College’s King Campus, serving on the “Windsor” Advisory
Committee in Vero Beach, Florida, and acting as advisor and agent when the
Joker’s Hill property was donated to the University of Toronto.
Moffat was also a co-founder of The Country Day School, an independent
school in King City, Ontario, that all four of his children attended. Moffat
was a generous and active supporter of the Princess Margaret Hospital, the
Southlake Regional Health Centre Foundation, and co-chairman of The York
Region Police Appreciation Committee. The establishment of the Dunlap
Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto was
also a point of great pride. Moffat was a member of the Toronto Club for
fifty-eight years and was a past president of the Nicholson’s Island Club.
The stories of his adventures and kindness are those of legend; from going
to Moscow for the ’72 Summit Series, to parties at his favourite island in
Georgian Bay, to cheering on his cherished Maple Leafs with his pals. Moffat
was a true gentleman who could easily converse with anyone and lived his
years with deep integrity. We shall all miss his modesty, his huge heart, and
his gentle sense of humour.
The family wants to thank Dr Paul Cantarutti, truly the most exceptional and
kind doctor, for his years of care and guidance. They also wish to thank
Moffat’s incredible caregivers: Edwin, Doreen, Marjorie, Karen, Orlando,
Rico and Noel, who were instrumental in fulfilling his wish to remain on
his beloved farm. Deepest thanks to Ann Atkinson, Bruce Carman, Melanie
Isbister, Peggie Tsai and Susan Jones for their years of loyal support. At
Moffat’s request, the family will welcome friends to a celebration of life
in October at his farm. Moffat was a strong believer in supporting the
community, so if you would like to honour him, please make a donation
to the organization of your choice. The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair will be
establishing an endowment in his name.
NERA SER ICES
Benjamin’s
Park
Memorial
CATHERINE HO ARD
Chapel
NIC EATON
(née Martin)
August 24, 1940
September 11, 2 023


YEARS

that she was her “father’s eldest
daughter,” and she is survived by
her wonderful siblings, Paddy Ann
(Mark McCarty), Shelagh (David
Wilson), Paul Jr. (Ursula Glackin)
and Michael (Bruce McCartney).
Sandra was predeceased by her
husbands, David McKenna, Don
Campbell and Hank Mathews.
Sandra had three daughters that
she loved dearly. She will be
greatly missed by Colleen (Bill
Pocock), Shelagh (Max Gundy)
and Emily (Scott Gamble);
by grandchildren, Ali (Nick),
Evelyn, Maddie (Liam), Cam,
Charlie, Jocelyn, Jaiden and
Mike; and by great-grandchildren,
Rosie, and Jack.
She lived a wonderful life,
growing up in Toronto and
Jackson’s Point, before settling in
Florida. Her final few years were
spent in Beaverton, where she
played golf and spent time with
her family and friends. Sandra had
a love for travel that was lavish.
She experienced the world on
the many cruises that she took
over the years with her husband,
Hank, and her family. Where ever
she was - skiing, boating, golfing
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entrepreneur, competitive athlete
and philanthropist.
Peter was married to the love
of his life, Ken Lomas, who was
always patient, generous and
kind. And he was stepdad to two
beautiful, intelligent and strong
daughters, Claire and Ava, who
filled his heart with love, pride
and joy.
Peter grew up in Montreal and
moved to Toronto in his 20s.
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years with his childhood friend,
Heather Seeger, and was an
extended family member of
the Leech clan. Peter had many
friends in Toronto, Montreal, Fort
Lauderdale and around the world.
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family. Thanks for Dr. Ken Logue
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LO IS WINIFRED ANNE POHLMAN
M
anchester United has
January 28, 1 936 – S eptember 7, 2023 been beset with prob-
lems on and off the field,
Surrounded by her four loving and devoted children, Lois Winifred Anne
Pohlman (née Lachance) passed away, just before midnight on September and the Premier League season is
7, 2023, after a courageous, two-year battle with breast cancer. only four games old.
After already losing twice, re-
Lois was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on the day of King George V’s state funeral.
She was the second child and only daughter of Joseph Edgar Lachance and
sults and performances have
Winifred Maria Fitzpatrick. Lois spent her childhood in ringlets and a big head been disappointing; particularly
bow until grade 7, when she rebelled by removing the bow and brushing when manager Erik ten Hag was
out the ringlets, as soon as she left the house for school. expected to mount more of a
Lois excelled academically, especially in math and science. She was also a challenge to defending cham-
gifted young musician. In 1946, at the age of 10, she won the prestigious E.R. pion Manchester City in his sec-
Fisher Award for the open piano competition at the Ottawa Music Festival ond year in charge.
by playing Mozart’s Sonata No. 16. Throughout school, she participated in Off the field, it has been even
numerous sports and received the Fisher Park High School Girls Athletic more turbulent.
Association Award in her final year of high school. Typical of her humble Amid a backlash from fans,
nature, she said it was her enthusiasm rather than her athletic abilities that United eventually decided to part
earned her the award. ways with Mason Greenwood, six
At the age of 17, Lois headed to Kingston to attend Queen’s University and months after a criminal investi-
ultimately study nursing at Kingston General Hospital (KGH). She was the gation of attempted rape was
Gold Medalist for the KGH nursing class of 1957 and received the Surgery closed by prosecutors.
Award for her outstanding surgical nursing skills and patient care. The club then had to contend
In Kingston, in 1953, she met her future husband, the late (Ernest) Ralph with allegations of domestic
Pohlman of Melville, Saskatchewan, whom she married in 1957. After abuse made against Brazil winger
graduation from KGH, Lois worked at KGH for one year, until Ralph completed Antony, who has been given a
medical school. Together they moved to Chicago, where she worked at
leave of absence to address the
Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital until they returned to Ontario, Canada, in
1963. They lived in Kingston for one year, then relocated to Toronto. claims.
Meanwhile, United said on
From 1963 until 1973 Lois focused on raising her children. Summers were Thursday that Jadon Sancho
magical and full of adventure, creativity, fun, games, reading and music at
the family’s Lac Bernard cottage in Quebec’s Gatineau Hills, which was a
would train away from the first
special place to Lois, as her late father and late brother Keith (9 years her team over a disciplinary issue.
senior) built it when she was only 12 years old. She was a dedicated Brownie Sancho used social media to
leader and an avid crafter. She instilled in her family the love of crafting, such air his grievances by saying he
as knitting, crocheting, sewing and embroidering. She read her children’s had been made a “scapegoat” af-
textbooks so she could be prepared to help them when necessary. She ter being cut from United’s squad
listened with enthusiasm as they recounted events of their days and their for its last game before the inter-
thoughts, both big and small. She unwaveringly provided unconditional national break, a 3-1 loss to Arse-
love, support, encouragement and guidance throughout their lives. The nal.
exceptional commitment her children had to caring for her in her times of
need attests to the amazing mother that she was. All of that comes at the same
time as uncertainty continues to
In 1973, Lois enrolled at York University’s Glendon College and completed surround the ownership of the
an honors BA, majoring in economics and minoring in mathematics.
club, 10 months after it was put
After graduation, she was the unofficial office manager of her husband’s
dermatology laboratories until 1979, when she enrolled at Humber College, on the market.
majoring in computer science. After graduation, in 1982, she worked for Regarding the on-field mat-
Scotia Bank as a computer programmer and analyst. She stayed there until ters, Ten Hag is also dealing with
her retirement in 1989. a spate of injuries to key players
With the nest empty, Lois and Ralph moved to an old farmhouse in including Mason Mount, Luke
Stouffville, Ontario, in 1988. For 19 years, Lois drove the tractor to cut the Shaw and Raphael Varane.
grass, tended the beautiful flower and vegetable gardens, and maintained In that sense, a two-week
the fishpond. She was an involved community member, participating in the pause for international soccer
Stouffville United Church choir and the annual Music Mania production. might have been a welcome re-
After Ralph’s retirement, they spent winters in Florida and ultimately lief to the Dutch coach. The visit
purchased a home in Homosassa, where she volunteered for Meals on of Brighton to Old Trafford on
Wheels and tutored local students in math. Saturday, however, represents
To be closer to some of their children and grandchildren, Lois and Ralph the potential of another setback
moved to Belleville, Ontario, in 2007. As with everywhere else she lived, for a United team that has looked
Lois nurtured connections and developed many important friendships and vulnerable so far this season.
interests in the community. Lois especially loved being an active member of After all, Brighton beat United
local Bridge groups. home and away last season and
Lois enjoyed the friendly competition of games. She spent many happy inflicted a first defeat on Ten Hag
hours playing scrabble with her father at the cottage, and then later, with in his opening game as manager.
her son. Euchre was a family favorite and all her children wanted her as a The south coast club seems se-
partner, as that would usually result in winning. rene in comparison to the trou-
Lois embodied patience, forgiveness, kindness and selflessness. She was bles at United, but has had to
quick-witted, with a tremendous memory and interest in the lives of her handle its own upheaval over the
family and friends, always sending cards to commemorate special occasions.
This unwavering selflessness continued through her last days.
Lois will be greatly missed by her children, Dell (Lauren), Anne (Jeff), Julie
(John) and Lisa (David); her nine grandchildren, Leah (Nolan), Adie (Danny),
Neil, Chris (Christianne), Nic (Emma), Avery (Rob), Paul (Kathleen), Mike
and Karen; her godchildren, Karey Shuhendler (née Raybould) and Bronté
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Anderson; her many nieces, nephews, cousins and close friends; and of
course, her 19-year-old cat, “Nuisance.”
THREE REAL MADRID YOUTH
In lieu of flowers, donations in honour of Lois Pohlman can be sent to PLAYERS ARRESTED OVER
Indspire: Indigenous Education is Canada’s Future (indspire.ca/ways-to- SEXUAL VIDEO WITH MINOR
give/donate/), United Way Hastings and Prince Edward (unitedwayhpe.ca/
MADRID Spanish police arrested
donate/), Salvation Army Canada (salvationarmy.ca/donations/), or Kingston
Health Sciences Centre Thoracic Team (www.uhkf.ca/Ways-To-Give/Tribute- on Thursday three Real Madrid
Giving). The KGH Thoracic Team provided exceptional, compassionate care youth players for allegedly dis-
to Lois during her recent hospital stays. tributing a sexual video featur-
Visitation will be held at the Burke Funeral Home, (613) 968-6968, 150 Church ing a minor, with the arrests
Street, Belleville, Ontario, on Wednesday, September 20th from 6:00 p.m. heightening the furor about
to 8:00 p.m. The funeral will take place on Thursday, September 21st at sexism and macho behaviour in
12:00 p.m. in the funeral home chapel. Livestream of the funeral service is Spanish soccer. The players, who
available from the Burke Funeral Home website. Online condolences can be are not minors, were later re-
made at: www.burkefuneral.ca leased following a court decision
and after the data on their mo-
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REACH DEAL FOR HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE
MADRID The players in Spain’s
women’s soccer league have
called off a strike after reaching
a deal to increase minimum
wage, the league and unions
said Thursday.
The first set of games was not
played last weekend because of
the strike, but the second block
of matches will now go ahead as
scheduled.
The minimum salary for the
women’s league until now was
€16,000 (US$23,000), compared
with €182,000 (US$261,600) for
the men’s league.
The new deal will increase the
minimum wage for the women’s
league to €21,000 (US$30,200)
this season, with that sum rising
past year after losing star players,
its manager and a key executive.
Still, the club has continued to
overperform, qualifying for this
season’s Europa League and un-
earthing more talent in highly
rated striker Evan Ferguson.
Brighton has become a bench-
mark of how to run a soccer club
well, with an outstanding recruit-
ment set up and savvy, imagina-
tive managerial hires.
In the last transfer window it
brought in about US$204-million
in sales, with midfielders Moises
Caicedo and Alexis Mac Allister
the big departures. Last season, it
made sales worth about US$148-
million, with Marc Cucurella,
Yves Bissouma and Leandro
Trossard making moves to Pre-
mier League rivals.
Manager Graham Potter was
lured away by Chelsea, as well as
recruitment chief Paul Winstan-
ley. Yet Brighton secured its high-
est top-flight position, finishing
sixth under Potter’s replacement,
Roberto De Zerbi, advanced to
the semi-finals of the FA Cup and
qualified for Europe.
“We are always prepared for a
head coach suddenly leaving for
whatever reason,” Brighton own-
er Tony Bloom said this week.
“But until you bring one in and
see how they settle, you really
don’t know how they are going to
work out. We were extremely for-
tunate that we got someone of
such high quality as Roberto to
come in.”
Brighton’s preparation for up-
heaval appears to be the secret to
its success, six years after it was
promoted to the top flight. There
is an expectation that the
league’s biggest clubs will try to
tine player allegedly used a false
name in order to play three
games in the amateur indoor
league, which is a violation of
his MLS contract. Miljevic, who
is earning more than
US$500,000 this season, has
struggled to break into CF Mon-
treal’s starting lineup. He has
one assist in 184 minutes of play.
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WHITECAPS SIGN HOILETT
VANCOUVER For the third time
this season, the Vancouver
Whitecaps have signed a Cana-
dian national-team player to
boost their roster. Attacking
midfielder Junior Hoilett is the
latest addition, with the Bramp-
ton, Ont., native agreeing to a
deal that runs through the end
of the 2023 season. The signing
was announced on Thursday,
one day ahead of Major League
Soccer’s roster freeze on Friday.
Hoilett, who previously played
in the English Premier League
with Cardiff City FC, Blackburn
Rovers and Queens Park Rang-
ers, was most recently with
Reading FC who were relegated
to the third tier of English soccer
at the end of the last season.
He’s the joint all-time leader in
assists for the Canadian national
team with 16 and has scored 15
goals for his country. The 33-
year-old Hoilett appeared in all
three of Canada’s games at the
2022 FIFA World Cup. He joins
fellow international teammates
Sam Adekugbe and Richie La-
ryea, who both signed for Van-
couver in August.
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RED SOX BEAT YANKEES
AFTER FIRING CHIEF
BASEBALL OFFICER BLOOM
BOSTON Trevor Story hit a three-
run homer, Tanner Houck
pitched six effective innings and
Boston climbed out of the AL
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to €23,500 (US$33,800) by
2025. It could go even higher
depending on revenue.
Last season, of 334 players,
80 players made less than
€20,000 (US$28,700) a year,
while the average salary was
about €40,000 (US$57,500),
according to the league.
The strike, which was an-
nounced last week by the play-
ers, coincided with the scandal
caused by Spanish soccer feder-
ation president Luis Rubiales
when he kissed a national-team
player on the lips without her
consent during the Women’s
World Cup awards ceremony.
Rubiales resigned on Sunday.
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lure its best talent, as was the
case when Chelsea signed Caice-
do and Mac Allister joined Liver-
pool.
“It was not unexpected that
Alexis and Moises have left the
club in the summer,” Bloom said.
“But we’ve been prepared for a
number of months.
“I prefer to be in the situation
where lots of clubs and lots of the
media are talking about our play-
ers, which means we’re doing
something right as a club and ob-
viously those players are per-
forming really well on the pitch.”
Ferguson, who scored a hat
trick in Brighton’s 3-1 win against
Newcastle before the interna-
tional break, has already been
linked with a move to United.
It’s a measure of Brighton’s
growing ambition that it has
signed highly rated Barcelona
forward Ansu Fati on a season-
long loan.
United is still trying to recover
from a series of mistakes made in
the transfer market since Alex
Ferguson retired as manager in
2013. It has been 10 years since
the storied club won its last
league title, but there is encour-
agement Ten Hag is moving it in
the right direction after finishing
third last year, qualifying for the
Champions League and winning
the League Cup.
The former Ajax coach’s im-
pressive first year in charge gave
rise to hope he could mount a
credible title challenge this sea-
son.
That could yet materialize, but
it has been far from the start he
would have wanted.
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East basement with a 5-0 victory
over the New York Yankees on
Thursday in the opener of a
doubleheader after the Red Sox
fired chief baseball officer Chaim
Bloom. Bloom was dismissed
after nearly four seasons. He was
hired from the Tampa Bay Rays
to help revive the farm system
and bring financial stability to a
team that was one of baseball’s
biggest spenders. “It’s not easy,”
Red Sox manager Alex Cora said
of the move. “I’ve been through
this twice already. Obviously, it’s
a decision that ownership decid-
ed to go this route. We worked
together all these years. It’s
never easy to hear that.” The
game was a makeup of Wednes-
day night’s rainout. Houck (5-9)
allowed four hits, struck out
seven and walked three. Garrett
Whitlock retired all six batters
he faced, and Chris Martin fin-
ished a six-hitter.
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through the 2029 season, the
league said Thursday. The deal
with the Premier League soccer
club is a two-year extension on
their original long-term agree-
ment to play regular-season
games at Tottenham’s US$1.6-
billion facility. Tottenham’s
stadium was custom built with
an NFL field below the Premier
League team’s moveable soccer
pitch. The grass soccer field
splits into three sections before
it’s moved to make way for the
AstroTurf underneath. The
stadium, which features desig-
nated NFL locker rooms and
capacity seating of nearly
63,000, has held six games so far.
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GLORIA COATES I REMEMBER

SYMPHONIST, 89 JIMMY BUFFETT

COMPOSER WAS KNOWN FOR T

he first time I saw Jimmy Buffett
was in 1978 at Maple Leaf Gardens.
A concert of his was always a party
and no one seemed to have a better

HER USE OF GLISSANDOS time than Jimmy himself.

The last time I saw him in concert was at
the Molson Amphitheatre in Toronto, in
1996. He had come in a day early, flying his
She composed 17 symphonies and first came to wide attention when her own little seaplane and taking video of the
skyline and the city that was broadcast on
Music on Open Strings was performed by the Polish Chamber Orchestra in 1978 the big screens during the show.
He made people feel that their city was
the most important place to be the night he
NEIL GENZLINGER was there. At one point he and a band
member walked up the hill to about six
metres from the lawn seats where I was sit-

G
loria Coates, an adventurous
composer who wrote sym-
phonies – she was one of the
few women to do so – as well
as other works, pieces that were sel-
dom performed in her home country,
the United States, but found audiences
in Europe, where she lived much of her
professional life, died Aug. 19 in Mun-
ich. She was 89.
Her daughter, Alexandra Coates,
said the cause was pancreatic cancer.
Gloria Coates composed 17 sympho-
nies, along with numerous works for
small ensembles and voice. In 1999,
when she was working on her 11th
symphony, composer and critic Kyle
Gann wrote in The New York Times
that “Ms. Coates’s symphonies are dark
and sensuous, and distinguished by an
imaginative use of orchestral glissan-
dos (gradual rather than stepwise
changes of pitch, like slow sirens),
which culminate powerfully in drawn-
out crescendos.”
The glissando continued to be her
calling card, Mr. Gann said this week by
e-mail.
“Gloria owned the orchestral glis-
sando the way van Gogh said he own-
ed the sunflower,” he said. “The slow
pitch slides that run across the surfaces
of her symphonies and string quartets
can be difficult for the performers to
co-ordinate, which has probably made
musicians less willing to present her
music. But they make it absolutely dis-
tinctive and recognizable. And under-
neath those glissandos there is often a
clear discipline of canons, palindromes
and other simple musical structures.”
“The effect,” he added, “is often like
a painting of a beautiful edifice on
which rain has impressionistically
smeared the surface.”
Ms. Coates first came to wide atten-
tion when her Music on Open Strings
was performed by the Polish Chamber
Orchestra at the Warsaw Autumn In-
ternational Festival of Contemporary
Music in 1978. Her work has since re-
ceived only occasional bursts of atten-
tion in the United States – as in 1989,
when her Music on Abstract Lines was
given its world premiere at the New
Music America festival in New York;
and in 2002, when New World Records
released the first recording of her
works on an American label; and in
2019, when Music on Open Strings was
performed at Zankel Hall in New York
by the American Composers Orchestra.
In 2021, Edition Peters announced
that it would begin publishing her
works.
Ms. Coates said her music “some-
times is melodic, but often derived
from structures of microtones melted
together.”
“It is a way of thinking of music not
as separate tones on a scale, as we have
ting and got on a small wooden stage. We
lawn people loved it, as they played a few
tunes just for us.
The last time I saw him in person was the
only time I ever met him. It was at a Gordon
Lightfoot concert at Massey Hall on Nov. 17,
2012. It was Gordon’s 74th birthday. The au-
dience sang Happy Birthday to him.
After intermission, Gordon announced
that Jimmy Buffett was in the audience,
and he was also quite chuffed to tell us that
Jimmy was “one of us.” His grandfather,
James Delaney Buffett, was a sailor who
had Newfoundland and Cape Breton roots.
He was the inspiration behind Son of a Son
of a Sailor and The Captain and the Kid.
“Canada holds a special place in my
heart,” Mr. Buffett said in a 2004 interview.
Over the years he often visited Newfoun-
dland and Nova Scotia to fish and visit fam-
Gloria Coates, pictured in 1999, said her music ‘sometimes is melodic, but often ily.
derived from structures of microtones melted together.’ FRED R. CONRAD/NYT At Massey Hall, I was sitting in the front
row a few seats from the centre aisle and
for centuries,” she told the Wausau tions, including the Cooper Union in when the concert was over, Jimmy walked
Daily Herald of Wisconsin, her home- New York and Louisiana State Univer- by. I put out my hand and said, “Hello, Mr.
town newspaper, in 2021, “but as sity, which she attended after marrying Buffett.” When he stopped and said hello
sounds gliding through time and space Francis Mitchell Coates Jr. in 1959 and back, I told him I was a long-time fan and
which have their own laws and still settling for a time in Baton Rouge, La. Parrothead going back to the early 1970s,
have roots in the historical musical tra- She earned a master’s degree in com- and that I was a Parrothead before I was a
dition.” position there. Lighthead.
Gloria Ann Kannenberg was born She continued her studies in New He leaned back and asked, “What’s a
Oct. 10, 1933, in Wausau, Wis. Her fa- York, but after her marriage ended in Lighthead?”
ther, Roland, was a state senator, and divorce in 1969, she, her daughter and I told him that is what long-time Light-
her mother, Natalina (Corso) Kannen- their dachshund boarded a ship for Eu- foot fans called themselves, like the Grate-
berg, worked in weapons manufactur- rope. Ms. Coates, who had studied ful Dead’s Deadheads. He gave me a big
ing during the Second World War and voice as well as composition, settled in smile and with that southern drawl and
was later a nurse’s assistant. Munich and for a time pursued a ca- twinkling blue eyes declared, “Well, then,
Gloria showed musical inclinations reer singing opera. But fate intervened. I’m a Lighthead too.”
early. “When I was 7,” Alexandra Coates He loved, respected and admired Light-
“The children in the 5- said by e-mail, “she was foot, who also loved to sail. In his tune Rue
year-old kindergarten hit by another skiing stu- de la Guitare, he namechecks Lightfoot and
have a rhythm band,” the dent and was paralyzed in his Martin D-18 acoustic guitar: “A toast to
Wausau Daily Herald re- Gloria owned the the upper back.” those who love to hear a D-18 played Light-
ported in early 1939. Gloria Coates gave up foot clear.”
“Thomas Evenson, Jack orchestral glissando singing and focused on The respect ran deep.
Luedtke and Gloria Kan- the way van Gogh painting, another interest, We well know that their lives were dedi-
nenberg brought drums said he owned the along with music. She cated to their craft of making music and be-
from home.” sunflower. told The Irish Times that ing onstage for their fans year after year.
By then she was also in the early 1970s, amid Their songs and memories are forever in
proficient on the toy pi- KYLE GANN the terrorist attacks at the our DNA as we will always be thankful that
ano. By 12 she was cre- COMPOSER AND CRITIC Olympics in Munich and we were on this earth at the same time as
ating her own often un- the violence of the Baad- Gordon and Jimmy.
conventional music. In 1951, a compo- er-Meinhof Gang, the Munich building
sition of hers won an “excellent” rating where she was living was thought to be Charlene Westbrook, Whitby, Ont.
in a national junior composers’ com- a possible terrorist target. She moved
petition. But teachers and contest her music manuscripts out of the
judges sometimes discouraged her building but continued to live there.
more audacious departures from tradi- (Her daughter was living with her fa-
tion. ther in the United States.) She was, she
She told The Irish Times in 2005 that said, sending a sort of subliminal mess-
a key moment in her development age to herself.
came when, as a teenager, she attend- “It was not until several months lat-
ed a Q-and-A with Russian composer er that I realized that that music was so
Alexander Tcherepnin, who would be- important, it was more important than
come a mentor. He told her that it was my life,” she said.
more important to follow her instincts In addition to her daughter, Ms.
than to follow predetermined rules. Coates leaves a brother, Philip Kannen-
After graduating from high school in berg; a sister, Natalie Tackett; and a
Wausau, she studied music and drama grandson.
for a time at Monticello College in Illi- Jimmy Buffett performs in Toronto in 2009.
nois. She later studied at other institu- NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE FERNANDO MORALES/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

EVA FAHIDI-PUSZTAI

AUTHOR, 97

Holocaust survivor warned of re-emergence of far-right populism

KIRSTEN GRIESHABER BERLIN, GERMANY and her existence as a slave labourer,”
Christoph Heubner, executive vice-presi-
dent of the International Auschwitz Com-

E
va Fahidi-Pusztai, a Holocaust sur-
vivor who spent the late years of her
life warning of the re-emergence of
far-right populism and discrimina-
tion against minorities across Europe, has
died. She was 97.
The International Auschwitz Commit-
tee said Ms. Fahidi-Pusztai died in Budap-
est on Monday. A cause of death was not
given.
“Auschwitz survivors all over the world
bid farewell to their fellow sufferer, friend
and companion with deep sadness, grati-
tude and respect,” the group said in a state-
ment on its website.
Ms. Fahidi-Pusztai was born in 1925 in
Debrecen, Hungary, into an upper middle-
class Jewish family. Her family converted
to Catholicism in 1936, but that did not
shield them from persecution.
After the occupation of Hungary by the
German Wehrmacht in early 1944, the fam-
ily was forced to move to a ghetto.
In June, 1944, the Jewish population was
rounded up in a brick factory and deported
to the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp in sev-
eral transports.
Ms. Fahidi-Pusztai was 18 years old when
she and her family were deported in the
last transport to Auschwitz, on June 27,
1944. Her mother and little sister Gilike
were murdered immediately after their ar-
rival. Her father succumbed to the inhu-
Auschwitz survivor Eva Fahidi-Pusztai, pictured in Berlin in January, 2015, shared her
experiences in two books and through school visits. MARKUS SCHREIBER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
mane camp conditions a few months later,
the Auschwitz Committee said on its
homepage.
Six million European Jews were mur-
dered by Nazi Germany and its henchmen
across Europe during the Holocaust – in-
cluding 49 members of Ms. Fahidi-Pusztai’s
family, Germany’s news agency dpa report-
ed. She was the only one who survived.
Ms. Fahidi-Pusztai was deported from
Auschwitz to a subcamp of the Buchen-
wald concentration camp in the town of
Allendorf, in Hesse province. For 12 hours a
day, she had to work as a slave labourer in
an explosives factory at the Munchmuhle
concentration camp there.
In March, 1945, only weeks before the
end of the Second World War, she man-
aged to escape on a so-called death march
taking concentration camp inmates to the
west as Soviet soldiers approached from
the east. It was then that she was freed by
American soldiers.
“It was only many years after her liber-
ation that Eva Fahidi began to speak about
her memories of the murder of her family
mittee, said in Berlin.
“Her life remained marked by the loss of
her family, but nevertheless, with an infi-
nitely big heart, she persisted in her joy of
life and trusted in the power of memory,”
Mr. Heubner added.
After the war, Ms. Fahidi-Pusztai moved
back to Hungary. She later wrote two
books about her experiences and visited
schools in Germany to share her traumatic
experiences from the Holocaust with stu-
dents and warn of the re-emergence of far-
right populism in Europe.
Ms. Fahidi-Pusztai also worked closely
together with the Buchenwald Memorial
at the former camp site near the city of
Weimar in eastern Germany, to ensure that
especially the fate of Jewish women is not
forgotten, the memorial wrote on its web-
site.
“Eva Fahidi’s books, which show her to
be a great stylist and clear-sighted story-
teller, will remain as will her fears and
warnings in the face of populist tirades and
right-wing extremist violence against Jew-
ish people and Sinti and Roma not only in
her native Hungary but in many European
countries,” the International Auschwitz
Committee wrote in its farewell message.
Sinti and Roma minorities were also
persecuted during the Nazi era.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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[ HOME OF THE WEEK ]

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At their Toronto home perched on the edge of a ravine, Laura Mendes and John Loerchner
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For a few homeowners, the end of the road is a power of sale

SHANE DINGMAN lenders are doing what they can to make
REAL ESTATE REPORTER arrangements where the borrower will not
TORONTO go into default,” Mr. DeLuca said. “There
could come a time where there’s nothing
more that can be done, but I don’t think
THE LISTING we are there yet.”
The vast majority of the properties

R
eal estate industry watchers are
growing increasingly nervous
about the number of power-of-
sale properties popping up on
multiple listing services.
Rising interest rates are putting pres-
sure on lenders and borrowers. The Bank
of Canada has raised the benchmark rate
from 0.25 per cent to 5 per cent over 17
months. That is a staggering rise in the
cost of ownership for those who took out
loans to buy homes at peak prices.
“I get tons of phone calls from people in
these positions. I spoke with an [owner]
yesterday; they paid $1.2-million for a
house and it’s down $300,000 in value,”
said Daniel Foch, director of economic
research with RARE Real Estate Inc. The
same owners have seen their monthly
interest payments go from $2,000 to
$6,000. Mr. Foch says many distressed
owners are facing the prospect of losing
their homes to lenders enforcing their
power of sale in a foreclosure. “If [the
owners] go power of sale, they lose their
entire down payment.”
“I think it’s just a ticking clock: Most of
the people I speak with on the phone I ask
what’s their number and they’ll say like,
‘We can do this for another 6 months,’ ” he
said. “It’s really sad stuff to see. I’ve never
Real estate broker Michael DeLuca says in early September, 2023, there are more than
140 active power-of-sale listings in his database. EVAN BUHLER/THE CANADIAN PRESS
felt as emotionally damaged by this indus-
try.”
In a power of sale, if the home is sold for
more money than is needed to cover the
debt to the lender, the owner will be given
the difference. But the owner will be evic-
ted and their home sold without their say-
so.
Michael DeLuca, a real estate broker
with Royal LePage Signature Realty and a
mortgage agent with Pineapple Financial,
specializes in connecting buyers with
power-of-sale opportunities. He has devel-
oped search techniques to identify listings
that, while not clearly labelled “power of
sale” often turn out to be just that after a
little digging.
Mr. DeLuca said that, back in 2017, the
last significant down period of Ontario re-
al estate, he could usually identify about
25 to 50 power-of-sale properties at a given
moment. Now, in early September, 2023,
there are more than 140 active power-of-
sale listings in Mr. DeLuca’s database. In
his view, it’s a market that has more dis-
tressed sellers, though he would not yet
call it an active disaster zone.
“From what I understand, banks and
identified by Mr. DeLuca are not the kind
of nightmare-scenario bank sales seen in
the U.S. after the subprime mortgage bub-
ble popped in 2009.
Most of the properties marketed under
power of sale come from either failed busi-
nesses or land speculators who lost their
bet on the market.
“A lot of what you’re seeing is overzeal-
ous flippers; people who bought into the
BRRRR method,” said Jason Geall, a for-
mer private lender. The Buy, Rehab, Rent,
Refinance, Repeat model boomed in the
low-interest-rate environment pre-2022.
“It’s amazing that was a strategy that
worked for quite a while, and at some
point the music stops and you can’t get
refinancing.”
There are dozens of examples of prop-
erties such as those Mr. Geall describes on
Mr. DeLuca’s list: condos that were leased
until recently and now sit empty; triplexes
that are half-rented with a history of in-
creasingly large asking-rents for remain-
ing units before the power of sale; homes
in mid-renovation that have had a half-
dozen ever-falling price changes; finished
renovations that once had high-end furni-
ture staging but now feature just an exte-
rior photo.
LISTING, H6

A RC H I TO U R I ST B R I T I S H COLU M B I A N E X T M OV E
Lifelong friendship leads After another summer of wildfires, Homebuyers in the Greater Toronto Area
to a home that fits well into a Toronto the insurance rates of B.C. homeowners should expect to see a rush of
area that blends residential and industrial are going up to match the risk new listings coming to the market
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This house in Toronto was designed by Brad Netkin, who heads up Stamp Architecture. The exterior is a mixture of corrugated metal, standing seam metal and concrete.
The two-storey-tall arches that screen the front door work both to add privacy and keep the sun out. PHOTOS BY CHRIS MEIORIN
Black-clad house on
a hardscrabble street
In a niche Toronto neighbourhood between
the Stockyards and the Junction, Brad Netkin
designed a second home for friend Chris Meiorin
DAVE
LeBLANC
ARCHITOURIST
TORONTO
T
he year is 1985, and two young men
are working in “production hous-
ing” at separate sites in what is now
called the 905 region. A much older
site supervisor decided it might be nice if
the two met.
“I looked like I was 12,” Brad Netkin,
who, today, heads up Stamp Architecture,
says with a laugh “and it was pretty rough.”
“I said something like, ‘I’m brand new
here, I don’t know what the heck I’m do-
ing,’ ” says Chris Meiorin, who founded Eu-
ro Vinyl Windows in 1986, “and he said,
‘Well I don’t know what I’m doing either.’ ”
“Anyway, we became friends that sum-
mer,” Mr. Netkin says.
When Mr. Netkin purchased his first
house in Hamilton in 1986 (for $44,000),
Mr. Meiorin would make the drive over ev-
ery weekend to help renovate. In the early
1990s, when Mr. Netkin was studying archi-
tecture at the University of British Colum-
bia, the pals would vacation in Tofino, or
visit Powell River, where Mr. Meiorin’s fa-
ther was born.
Despite marriage and children and run-
ning businesses, the two men kept in
touch. After cutting his architectural teeth
with Joseph Bogdan (now BNKC Archi-
tects), Montgomery Sisam Architects and
Ventin Group Ltd., Mr. Netkin would hang
out his own shingle. Among other things,
he’d design a cottage on Drag Lake in Hali-
burton, Ont., christened “Blackbirch,” for
Mr. Meiorin in 2013. Clad in all black, the
2,400-square-foot building was described
as “a lesson in contemporary cottage liv-
ing” by Will Jones in an article in the Globe
in 2014.
Today, the two pals are standing in front
of another black-clad home, this one a
study in how to engage with a half-industri-
al, half-residential street wedged between
Toronto’s Stockyards and Junction neigh-
bourhoods.
A street with no discernable architectu-
ral style – tiny 1930s worker’s cottages next
to 1950s bungalows beside 1980s “Toronto
Specials” – that is sonically bombarded by
both children’s shouts from a park and the
thunderous shunting of assembling trains
in a rail yard to the south.
The lessons are as follows: the neigh-
bours don’t really care about architectural
style provided you seem to be a good guy
(as Mr. Meiorin is) who is investing in the
neighbourhood; and there are ways to
both engage with that lovely view of the
park while still maintaining privacy.
“It’s a privacy screen, it’s also a sun-
screen‚” says Mr. Netkin as he points to ele-
gant, two-storey-tall arches that form a
screen to partially shield the front door and
all but two of the south-facing façade’s
windows. “It contains the space and creates
some sort of intermediate space that you
can sit [in] and enjoy the show.” In keeping
with the hardscrabble nature of the area,
everything else that’s visible to the passer-
by is either corrugated metal, standing
seam metal, or concrete (so well poured
and finished it almost looks like marble).
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Inside, while a certain hardness remains
via concrete floors and the wire mesh
guard around the open-tread stair, creamy-
white walls and the use of natural wood
create an unexpected coziness. Natural
light abounds due to the extra windows
that were achieved by setting the front
door back so that the front room’s west wall
is further away from the neighbouring
house (if it were closer it couldn’t be fully
glazed), and by installing an almost fully
glazed side door with a tall transom. Light
also rains down from a skylight over the
staircase (the only window not supplied by
Euro Vinyl).
Unlike most contemporary homes, the
living area is situated at the front, the din-
ing area in the middle – diners get to gaze
upon an amazing piece of salvaged neon
signage as they eat – and the kitchen is at
the back. Kind of old school, but “the floor
plan really came out of knowing Chris and
[wife] Susan’s lifestyle.
“And also, it was a collaboration,” con-
tinues Mr. Netkin. “All the stuff in terms of
the details and the materiality have to do
with Chris and his talent and experience.”
“It was also your distinct guidance,” Mr.
Meiorin interjects. “Our conversations
could morph from professional to person-
al.” Sometimes over beer, they add with a
laugh. It helped, too, that Mr. Meiorin grew
up with a father in the precast concrete
business and a grandfather “who was re-
sponsible for, probably, the vast majority of
the terrazzo that went into Toronto.”
In the dining area, brick veneer has been
applied to one wall. It’s so authentic that it
looks as if it were a century-old exterior
wall uncovered during a renovation. When
it was first applied, however, it was “too
nice,” says Mr. Meiorin, so he asked the in-
stallers to come back and be more ham-
fisted with the mortar.
The large kitchen, which is mostly hid-
den from view from the front door, is large,
logical and square-shaped, and contains
the first set of European cabinets a col-
league was considering importing (Mike
Carty of Drors Studio in Barrie, Ont.) that
he got for cost.
The staircase, although meant to carry
the homeowners up to the second and
third floors, can also be viewed as a piece of
industrial art; the steel is raw, the welds vis-
ible and the bolts massive. “It has to be a
100 hours,” Mr. Meiorin says of the time he
spent on it. “The finishing, the prep, and
then we lacquered this whole thing in a
night. … We’d build treads as we went, it
was kind of crazy.”
On the second floor are two equal-sized
bedrooms, each with its own tiny ensuite
(his daughters were teenagers when the
house was completed in 2017), and the
principal bedroom, which faces the park.
And despite the triple-glazed windows, Mr.
Meiorin says he can still hear the train
shunting.
The top floor is a family room/loft with a
balcony overlooking the park. This feature,
and all others, were “as-of-right” with re-
gards to zoning, so no delays in getting the
building permit, says the architect.
Overall, it’s a house of quiet elegance on
a quirky street that speaks loudly of the
friendship, trust, and understanding be-
tween two old friends.
“Chris and Susan are the ideal clients,”
Mr. Netkin says with a smile. The top floor of the house is a family room/loft that has a balcony overlooking a park.
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Climate change is having a direct impact
on home insurance premiums
A rise in disasters, such
as wildfires, and the
soaring price of building
lead to rising costs
KERRY
GOLD
OPINION
VANCOUVER
L
ast weekend in B.C.’s Kelow-
na region, the air was still
strong with wildfire smoke
after a summer of seemingly end-
less fires, including the fire that
destroyed nearly 200 homes in
West Kelowna.
In the past seven years, the
province has experienced “four
of the most severe wildfire sea-
sons of the last century,” accord-
ing to a paper in Nature, written
by Canadian academics.
Fires across Canada are pre-
dicted to increase in frequency
and severity, according to Health
Canada. As well, there is an ongo-
ing risk of floods, landslides and
earthquakes, depending on the
region.
In the meantime, homeown-
ers and developers can expect in-
surance premiums to increase,
which will have an impact on an
already beleaguered housing
supply. In turn, that will impact
the affordability of housing,
which is already a crisis.
Craig Stewart, who is the vice-
president of climate change and
federal issues for the Insurance
Bureau of Canada, the associ-
ation for property, automobiles
and business insurance, Stewart
said insurance premiums have
gone up on average 5 to 10 per
cent in the last year, according to
Statistics Canada figures. That’s
the biggest bump he’s seen in
premiums for property insur-
ance. And we can blame that on
climate change, he says.
Insurers buy their coverage
from global reinsurance compa-
nies that are raising their premi-
ums because they see higher risk.
As a result, so too have a lot of
local insurers. Some expect those
reinsurance premiums to contin-
ue to rise, he says.
“Global reinsurers price risk for
countries and regions around the
world. So if you live in a place of
high risk, such as California or
Louisiana – and now Western
Canada – we are seeing reinsu-
rance prices are going up in those
areas,” he says. Mr. Stewart is
based in Nova Scotia, which expe-
rienced catastrophic wildfires
and flooding this summer.
The risks are so high that some
Vancouver Island mansion finds a buyer after 14 years on the market
DONE DEAL
249 King George Terrace,
Victoria
O A K B AY
Asking price: $7.5-million
(May, 2023)
Previous asking prices:
$11.5-million (2009), $9.750-million
(2016), $13.5-million (2017),
$12.5-million (February, 2022),
$7.999-million (February, 2023)
Selling price: $7.5 million
(May, 2023)
Days on the market: 14 years
Taxes: $82,494 (2022)
Listing agents: Scott Piercy &
James LeBlanc, Engel & Völkers
Victoria
THE ACTION This mansion, with
14,430 square feet of living space,
is in Oak Bay, a small municipal-
ity within Greater Victoria, on
Vancouver Island.
The home had been on the
market since 2009 with different
agents. More recently, it had been
viewed online by thousands, said
listing agent Scott Piercy. He and
James LeBlanc took over the list-
ing in 2022. A year later, they
dropped the price twice and it fi-
nally sold in May. They only re-
ceived one offer and the buyer
was from Vancouver. Built in
2002, the extensive wood trims,
dark interiors and granite coun-
tertops were opulent at the time,
but they may no longer be to ev-
eryone’s taste, said Mr. Piercy. But
the biggest complaint from po-
tential buyers was its sheer size.
“It was like a mini Four Seasons
Hotel. … Even doing a reno that
size is massive. Somewhere like
L.A. or Miami, there is the scale
there, because there’s a lot more
money. But not Victoria.”
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A wildfire destroyed nearly 200 homes in West Kelowna, B.C., this summer. DARREN HULL/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
homes no longer qualify for in-
surance. Mr. Stewart said there
are about 1.5 million homes in
Canada that cannot get flood in-
surance, although the IBC is
working with the federal govern-
ment to address the issue.
Insurers are extremely con-
cerned about the potential for an
earthquake disaster in B.C., says
Mr. Stewart. That, combined with
higher reinsurer premiums are
largely the reasons behind in-
creased premiums in the Lower
Mainland.
In Richmond and Surrey, there
are areas where soil subsidence is
a potential issue, so there are
some homes that do not have in-
surance if they were to suddenly
sink into the ground because of
an earthquake, he said.
“There is some overall cross-
subsidization, but most of [the
increased cost] is location specif-
ic. You are typically paying for
your own risk. Earthquake premi-
ums have gone up because in
2019 the federal government real-
ized the impacts from a signifi-
cant quake in B.C. were double
than what was previously under-
stood.”
The strain on the housing sys-
tem is compacted by the high cost
of rebuilding housing lost in nat-
ural disasters.
“When you add rebuilding to
the mix, it can be very expensive
to rebuild a home, in the present
labour market,” said Mr. Stewart.
“When insurers are pricing
policies, they take a look at what
it would cost in a particular mar-
ket at this point in time to rebuild
that house,” he says. “And what
we are seeing is, it’s often costing
The original owner hadn’t fully
completed the house when he
sold it as a court-ordered sale in
2002.
WHAT THEY GOT The house has a
grand staircase, five fireplaces,
three kitchens, five bedrooms, 10
bathrooms, a billiards room, mo-
vie theatre, gym, wine cellar, sau-
na and changing room and an ele-
vator that connects all three lev-
els.
much more to rebuild a house
than the value of the house it-
self.”
As well, between B.C. and Nova
Scotia alone, there might be 1,000
homes that need to be rebuilt due
to disaster.
“That takes away from labour
available to build new homes,” he
says.
The real estate community is
becoming increasingly aware of
climate change as an ongoing
challenge.
“[Climate change] will become
increasingly important and get
focus,” says Andrew Lis, director
of economics and data analytics
for the Real Estate Board of Grea-
ter Vancouver.
“But with things climate-relat-
ed, history has shown people pre-
fer to kick the can as far down the
road [as possible],” he adds.
“As we move into the future
with climate change, the risks are
hard to forecast. [They] can
seemingly come out of the blue,
with furious consequences.
“Already, some condo and stra-
ta insurance premiums are rising
dramatically, and some buildings
are not even insurable. If it gets
bad enough, the government
might have to step in and become
insurer.”
Vancouver resident and devel-
oper Michael Geller said he was
shocked to find the insurance
coverage for his own home had
reached $8,000 this year. After
surveying neighbours and
friends, he found premiums that
were “all over the map” in terms
of cost. Developers, he says, are
also facing steep hikes, which will
add to the cost of housing.
Dubbed Muir Haven, it sits on
nearly an acre of land, with a pool
and private beach access. It’s a
few minutes from downtown Vic-
toria.
The lot alone is worth about
$5.5-million, said Mr. Piercy.
“It’s also built like a commer-
cial building, at around $1,000 a
foot, so it would be impossible to
replace.”
The concrete structure in-
cludes geothermal heating for the
“It used to be that insurance
was a line item in a pro forma, but
it wasn’t a major cost. But just as
property taxes [have increased],
now we have property insurance
adding significantly to the cost.”
The financial implications of
climate change include the im-
pact it has on affordable housing,
says Lindsay Brugger, vice-presi-
dent of urban resilience for the
Urban Land Institute in Washing-
ton.
Ms. Brugger recalled Hurricane
Sandy, the deadly storm that hit
the New York area in 2012. “When
a disaster of that scale hits New
York City and you consider the
amount of GDP that comes out of
that specific region, it was a huge
wake up call for a lot of people
across the industry.”
“Climate change is a threat
multiplier, so it makes everything
worse,” says Ms. Brugger.
“When we think about all the
housing we already need before a
disaster even strikes, and then af-
ter a disaster, that housing is even
further dwindling. We want to ad-
dress shocks and stresses. Shocks
are acute disasters; stresses are
the chronic issues, like lack of af-
fordable housing already plagu-
ing our communities that are
made all the worse when a disas-
ter does happen.”
She says that for every dollar
spent on developing resilient
buildings, more than $6 is saved
in recovery.
“When consumers start asking
questions like, ‘Is my home ele-
vated?’ and ‘Is my home ember
resistant?’ I think then there will
be more motivation for home
builders and others in the real
house and pool, which helps with
the utility bills, which are only
around $3,000 a month, said Mr.
Piercy.
THE AGENT’S TAKE In the time they
had the listing, said Mr. Piercy,
they showed it to about one party
a month, so it had considerable
exposure.
The market has slowed down
recently, so the timing was good,
he said.
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estate pipeline to design for that
consumer demand.
“I anticipate that consumer
demand for resilience will only
increase. The market indicators
are there. We are already seeing it
in some leading developers,
some leading master-planned
communities.”
Kelowna realtor Richard Dea-
con says in terms of sales it was a
slower summer than last year. A
couple of his buyers decided to
pause their home search because
of the wildfires. It’s becoming
part of a realtor’s job to educate
buyers on neighbourhoods that
are safer than others, such as
places that only have one road in
and out, or are distant from a fire-
hall.
He predicts that in the Kelow-
na neighbourhood where 200
homes were lost, all will be re-
built in the next two years. The
question will become how they
get rebuilt.
“This is when insurance com-
panies and lenders, hopefully, the
building code, and builders come
into play so that everyone under-
stands you shouldn’t just slap up
the same home.
“You get your $1-million insur-
ance cheque, and you want to
build the same dream home you
had before. But shouldn’t we be
looking at sprinkler systems, fire-
proof materials and landscaping
design that can mitigate fire?”
Melissa Hamer lives on the top
floor of a Vancouver apartment
building that becomes uncom-
fortably hot during the summer.
She also works with the construc-
tion industry as part of a B.C. In-
stitute of Technology program,
helping to implement the new ze-
ro carbon step code for energy ef-
ficiency. Reducing carbon emis-
sions and resiliency to climate
change go hand in hand, she says.
The industry is increasingly
discussing airtight homes, fil-
tered home ventilation systems
to protect occupants from smoke,
using fireproof exterior materi-
als, and even houses that are
light-coloured instead of heat-ab-
sorbing dark colours, she says.
“A big thing is getting a general
understanding, having public
awareness, about what impact
our buildings have on our envi-
ronment,” she says.
Mr. Stewart said the insurance
industry is advocating for a feder-
al system that would rate the re-
siliency of a home in the face of
disaster, much the way that ener-
gy efficiency programs operate.
The insurance companies could
base premium costs on how resil-
ient the home is and realtors
could use the rating system as a
marketing and educational tool
to help buyers.
“It’s just making sure we had
the right exposure so the owner
could make an educated decision
to bring the price down,” he said.
“It was a deal for the new owner
with the square footage, and he
saw that.”
Victoria has only seen 23 sales
worth more than $4-million in
the last two years, said Mr. Piercy.
The sale was completed on
Aug. 21.
– KERRY GOLD
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Family-friendly home comes

with a hand-built backyard office
House in a corner
of East York is close
to nature and backs
onto a ravine

MAHDIS HABIBINIA
TORONTO

378 Lumsden Ave.

TO R O N TO

Asking Price: $1,650,000

Taxes: $4,145 (2022)
Lot Size: 25 by 200 feet
Agent: Tony Mendes, Century 21
Heritage Group

THE BACKSTORY

When business owners Laura

Mendes and John Loerchner went
searching for a property in 2016,
along with their one-year-old
daughter Ava, they were looking
for their first family home. A two-
storey detached residential house
in Toronto’s East York neighbour-
hood caught their eye. Ms.
Mendes says they fell in love with
the place right away. The couple
had contemplated moving out-
side of Toronto, looking at prop-
erties in Caledon and Orangeville,
but the lack of amenities in those
areas made them reassess. This three-bedroom, two-bathroom home at 378 Lumsden Ave. in Toronto was renovated by the current owners. They transformed the formerly
“For us, most importantly, we divided kitchen and living room into an open-concept space so it was more interactive and social. PHOTOS BY VISION 360 TOURS INC.
wanted to be close to nature,” Ms.
Mendes said, who met her hus-
band when they both attended
the University of Toronto. “When
we looked at all of these homes
outside of the city, we realized
they’re great, but we have to drive
everywhere. There was no ‘walk
factor.’”
Then they saw 378 Lumsden
Ave., a three-bedroom, two-bath-
room property hugging the edge
of Taylor Creek Park near Toron-
to’s Danforth Village. Its selling
point for the couple? A backyard
cozying up to the tree canopy be-
longing to Taylor Creek Park,
home to a major Don River trib-
utary. It is about 220 feet, or a one-
minute walk, from the entrance
to Taylor Creek Trail.
“You get all the wildlife, all the
birds. Coming from the house,
you’ve got the running or moun-
tain biking trails, the paved as-
phalt trails,” said Mr. Loerchner,
an avid runner and cyclist. “You
can do a half-marathon run com-
ing from the house and you only concept space with a nine-foot hugs the home, mature trees ac-
cross one street.” ceiling. “It became much more in- cessorize it and perennial gar-
The potential was huge, but teractive and social,” Ms. Mendes dens are sprinkled across the
they weren’t the only ones enrap- said. “John is the chef in the fam- backyard including plantain li-
tured by the property as they ily. Now when he’s cooking, he’s lies, rose of sharon, rhododen-
found themselves in a bidding also part of the action when I’m drons and hydrangeas, to name a
war with another couple who bid hanging out with the kids.” few. Mr. Loerchner also created
higher, but with conditions on Carpeted floors were trans- lattices and suspended ivy to cre-
the offer. “They contacted us after formed into hardwood and all the ate more privacy for their family.
we got the house to offer money windows were replaced. The They added stepping stones onto
so that they could get it,” Ms. kitchen was gifted with a new the backyard lawn and spruced 2020 with a build process of up to
Caesarstone countertop and up the pond including redoing all four months. The backyard offic- THE BEST FEATURE
Mendes said.
The previous homeowners open shelving, including a live of the edging, trim work, stone e’s style was inspired by the aes-
were also a family and had lived edge for their coffee maker. They work and foliage. The couple add- thetic of their company’s cabins, The shining star is the backyard
in the house for about 30 years. also added air conditioning. ed goldfish to the once-dilapidat- including the interior pine boards in conjunction with the office. Al-
Ms. Mendes envisioned raising The kids’ playroom on the ed pond when it became func- and wood trim. The sliding garage though manicured, Ms. Mendes
Ava, now eight years old, and ground floor, a back room that tional, which Ava and Kai feed ev- door over what seems like a win- says there is still a sense that it is a
their eventual second child there. heads out into the backyard, once ery day. The dual Muskoka chairs dow but also poses as an indoor- woodland oasis. The multilevel
She handwrote a letter to the sell- had a storage closet inside that overseeing the pond are meant to outdoor tiki bar is a signature of deck, lounge spaces and even the
ers, delivered through her father Mr. Loerchner turned into a feel like you’re on a lake and Cabinscape’s designs. While the open tiki bar allow for different
who was also their real estate powder room – “a practical, smart evoke a sense of calm, especially office is mainly Mr. Loerchner’s areas to gather and socialize. “The
agent, explaining they wanted to thing to do,” he said, “especially when paired with the trickling workspace and Ms. Mendes amount of nature at our finger-
start their family in that home – when you’re potty training kids sounds of the pond’s running wa- works from inside the house, tips is really unrivalled,” she said.
and they did just that. The couple or if you’re entertaining. It can be ter. when he is not home she will use Every year for the last few
welcomed their son Kai, who’s accessible from the outside or if The husband-and-wife duo co- the office space for work or yoga. years, the family is even visited by
now five, a couple of years after the kids are an absolute disaster.” own Cabinscape, a company that “It was a good project to keep two frogs that have found a home
moving in. In keeping with their love of designs, builds and rents small yourself sane when everything in their backyard’s ecosystem. Al-
woodland accessories, Mr. off-grid cabins across Ontario. was kind of suspended and up in though Ms. Mendes is not certain
Loerchner also installed a glazed “Our other child,” Ms. Mendes the air,” he said. Mr. Loerchner if they are the same frogs every
THE HOUSE TODAY wooden shelf in the sunroom calls it, adding that they run the took on many projects through- year, Ava and Kai have named
lounge area, ideal for showcasing company from the comfort of out the pandemic, another being them Ribby and Robby.
Over the years, the house has plants, which is one of Ms. Men- their backyard office. Once a Ava and Kai’s play structure “For me, being in nature is in-
seen plenty of upgrades and ren- des’s favourite rooms inside the small garden shed is now the which Mr. Loerchner built out of credibly grounding. I’m able to
ovations, including almost im- house where she drinks her headquarters from which they the scrap material lying around hear my thoughts in this busy life
mediately from when they morning coffee and watches the run their business. It was an early the backyard. Ms. Mendes equa- in the city. Being able to just walk
moved in. Inside, what was once a sunrise paint the sky. pandemic project hand-built by tes it to the 1960 film Swiss Family into the forest is so calming and
divided living room and kitchen Outside, they replaced the Mr. Loerchner, who does the de- Robinson. The kids call it Camp grounding, and I wanted that for
because of a wall is now an open- deck and the roof. Lush ivy now sign work for their business, in COVID-19. my children,” Ms. Mendes said.

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A small garden shed in

the backyard was turned
into an office space for
the current owners’
company that designs,
builds and rents small
off-grid cabins across
Ontario. The office’s style
was inspired by the look
of their company’s
cabins.
PHOTOS BY VISION 360
TOURS INC.
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New tactics being used in an unsettled market

Home sales varied
widely across different
pockets of the Greater
Toronto Area

CAROLYN
IRELAND

NEXT MOVE

TORONTO

B
uyers lamenting a shortage
of inventory in the Toronto-
area real estate market will
have a rush of fresh listings to
sort through this month.
But the added supply is com-
ing into an unsettled market
where agents say some retro
practices are making a comeback
and new tactics are emerging.
Sales in the Greater Toronto
Area dropped 5.2 per cent in Au-
gust compared with the same
month last year, according to the
Toronto Regional Real Estate
Board.
New listings, meanwhile,
jumped 16.2 per cent in August
compared with August, 2022,
while the average price of
$1,082,496 last month was nearly
flat.
In an uncertain market, Ro-
chelle DeClute, broker with De-
Clute Union Realty, is seeing an
increasing number of home and
condo owners decide to sell their
existing property before they buy
a new one. That’s a shift in the
trend of recent years.
She adds that sales last month
varied within different pockets of
the GTA.
The Beaches neighbourhood,
where Ms. DeClute does much of
her business, saw a stronger Au-
gust than last year. In that area,
38 properties changed hands last
month compared with 26 sales in
August, 2022.
Ms. DeClute believes buyers
were willing to make a move be-
cause competition for properties
was less intense than in the
spring. In many years, August is
the month when buyers try to
find a deal on a property that has
been sitting on the market.
“There are typically fewer
houses on the market but better
deals,” she says.
The average price in the
Beaches dipped to $1.4-million at
the end of August from $1.5-mil-
lion one year earlier, she says.
Increasingly, sellers are wrap-
ping their minds around the cur-
rent landscape, she says.
“We’re seeing the price change
happen in a couple of weeks,”
she says of the more pragmatic
This house at 79 Dawlish Ave., in Toronto’s Lawrence Park was listed after Labour Day with an asking price slightly less than $6-million.
It had more than 10 appointments booked within the first three days.
sellers.
In an added twist, sellers are
sometimes chasing buyers these
days.
“Strategically, if a buyer is in-
terested, there’s no reason the
seller can’t write an offer to the
buyer,” Ms. DeClute says.
Her office launched such a bid
recently just as interest rates
were on the rise.
A house with an asking price
around the $2.5-million mark
was listed with a plan for the sell-
ers to review offers on a sched-
uled date.
The first prospective buyers to
look at the property quickly
moved to pre-empt the bidding
process with an offer of $2.68-
million. The buyers made clear
they would not return on the
scheduled offer night if their
“bully” offer wasn’t accepted.
The sellers wanted to give
more people the opportunity to
see the property so they turned
down the offer.
On offer night, the bullies
stayed away and no buyers came
to the table.
The sellers then revived nego-
tiations by writing an offer to the
first bidders at $30,000 less than
their original bid.
They accepted and both sides
were very satisfied with the final
price of $2.65-million, Ms. De-
Clute says.
Agents need to be creative and
ensure that both sides feel they
ended with a win, she adds.
Ms. DeClute says the current
environment remains a sellers’
market but she is also seeing an
increase in motivated sellers.
Many homeowners are
shocked, for example, when the
time comes to renew a mortgage
and they see payments double.
Some are deciding to step out of
home ownership as a result.
In her experience in the east
end, the number of days between
signing an agreement and closing
the deal has also lengthened, she
says.
Ms. DeClute says buyers with
an existing property want to en-
sure they have the time to sell it
before the closing on a new one.
Legal text known as a “flexible
closing clause” is making a re-
turn, she says, as buyers ask for
the option to extend or advance
the closing date by a specified
amount of time.
Ms. DeClute has also seen
cases where buyers do not have
any flexibility written into their
sales agreement but they ask to
move up the closing date so that
they can take advantage of a fa-
vourable interest rate for a pre-
approved mortgage. Sellers
sometimes refuse because they
have made their own plans
around the agreed-upon closing
date.
The buyers may choose to ac-
cept the closing without vacant
possession so that the funds are
transferred while the sellers still
live in the house. Lawyers often
balk at the arrangement, Ms. De-
Clute says, but the compromise
has saved many interest rate
holds for buyers.
Cheri McCann, broker with
McCann Realty Group, says some
properties are moving quickly in
the early days of the fall market
but competition is less intense
than it was earlier this year.
In the core, houses in neigh-
bourhoods such as the Junction
and Leslieville were still drawing
multiple offers in the quieter
summer months, Ms. McCann
says, but she has noticed a drop-
off in activity in areas north of
Highway 401.
Above the $3-million level,
sales are slower, she adds, but
buyers with deep pockets are still
booking showings.
In the week after Labour Day,
she listed a four-bedroom house
in Lawrence Park with an asking
price slightly less than $6-mil-
lion. The house at 79 Dawlish
Ave. had more than 10 appoint-
ments booked within the first
three days, she says.
The combination of high inter-
est rates, prices and taxes is
weighing on many potential
buyers, she says.
In midtown Toronto, proper-
ties that were changing hands for
$2.1-million or $2.2-million are
now more likely to fetch $1.9-mil-
lion or $1.95-million.
Victor Tran, mortgage special-
ist with rates.ca., says 90 per cent
of the calls he received in July
and August were from existing
homeowners and investors who
were looking for advice on re-
newing or renegotiating an exist-
ing mortgage.
Many first-time and move-up
buyers appear to be waiting for
rates to come down, he says.
“Purchase transactions have
been down the drain.”
The Bank of Canada’s decision
to hold its trend-setting interest
rate steady in September came as
a relief for many homeowners
with a variable rate mortgage or a
line of credit, he adds.
Most of the people he sees
struggling are holding invest-
ment properties, Mr. Tran says,
adding that he has not yet had
clients who are giving up a princi-
pal residence.
Mr. Tran predicts an uptick in
inventory in the coming weeks as
sellers enter the traditional fall
market. But he adds that some
owners are also buckling under
the financial pressure and feel
they have no choice but to sell.
“A lot of people are on edge.”

Four buyers bid on condo near Parliament Hill

DONE DEAL

255 Bay St., No. 811, Ottawa

D O W N TO W N

Asking price: $469,900 (July, 2023)

Selling price: $475,000 (July, 2023)
Previous selling prices: $455,000
(July, 2021); $362,700 (June, 2018)
Taxes: $3,907 (2023)
Days on the market: Nine
Listing agent: Eddie Harnick,
Coldwell Banker R.M.R. Real Estate

THE ACTION This one-bedroom

condo is within walking distance
of Parliament Hill and has a rarity
for the 18-storey building – an en-
closed den. The sellers were
pleasantly surprised to receive
four bids on the date set aside to
review offers and accepted a bid
that added $5,100 to the asking
price, with a closing date of Oct.
25. full-height windows and a balco- young professionals starting their
“It’s a one-[bedroom] plus den ny off the living room. careers with the government,
unit, and they come up for sale There is a four-piece bath- since it’s close to government of-
few and far between in that build- room and stacked laundry ma- fices [or] parents trying to get
ing,” agent Eddie Harnick said. chines. The kitchen has an island their kids situated for schooling,”
“The unit showed to perfec- and stainless steel appliances. Ms. Harnick said.
tion. It’s a really great location, The unit comes with a storage “The walkability of the proper-
and the building offers fantastic locker and parking. Monthly fees ty is fantastic for everything you
amenities as well.” of $495 cover water, heating and want to do, like get to the Byward
use of a gym and indoor pool. Market, LeBreton Flats, or the
WHAT THEY GOT This west-facing Parliament buildings, or con-
unit is less than 10 years old and THE AGENT’S TAKE “Most buyers certs.”
has hardwood and tile flooring, were from out of town, either – SYDNIA YU

Listing: It’s not just investors who are struggling to hold on to their properties
FROM H1
One example is 86 Northdale Rd.
in Toronto, which sold for $2.125-
million in 2018. It underwent an
extensive renovation, after which
the new owners tried to sell it for
$3.188-million in 2020. Now un-
der power of sale, the lender re-
cently listed it for $2.399-million.
Cam Cassidy, a realtor with
Right at Home Realty who advis-
es investors in the Oshawa area,
says that, while not all flippers are
flopping and not all investors are
cash-flow negative, he recently
spoke to a firefighter who ap-
proached him for advice on how
to deleverage his 11-home rental
portfolio.
“That was one of those eye-
opening moments. Like, wow,
how did you get 11 properties?”
Mr. Cassidy said. He often sees
rookie investors who bought
properties where rents were un-
able to cover the costs of the loans
when rates were low, let alone
now. “They would keep their
properties if they were cash-flow
neutral. The firefighter, he’s not
firesale-ing everything: he’s try-
ing to hang on and not admit ‘I
messed up.’ ”
Mr. Geall is increasingly spot-
ting properties under power of
sale that appear to be a family
home where the owner ran out of
money. “I think there’s a lot of
people that are starting to feel it,”
he said. “I would argue it’s prob-
ably 50-50 between investors and
people who are struggling.”
A search of Mr. DeLuca’s list
found more than a dozen homes
purchased in recent years, often
on the edges of the Greater Toron-
to Area that saw the wildest price
swings between 2019 and 2023,
that are sold “as is, where is” – a
sure sign of a recent eviction.
For owners facing that possibil-
ity, Mr. Foch has empathy, but not
a lot of advice.
“Call your lender … your lend-
er is the only person who can fix
this for you,” he said. “A lot of
people call me a fear monger, but
the truth is just pretty scary right
now.”
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Semi-detached house near waterfront

in Toronto’s Long Branch gets four offers
62 Thirty Third St., Toronto
LO N G B R A N C H

Asking price: $1,249,000

(June, 2023)
Selling price: $1,420,000
(June, 2023)
Previous selling prices: $599,000
(June, 2011); $535,000 (September,
2009); $490,000 (July, 2005);
$419,900 (January, 2004); $386,200
(April, 2002)
Taxes: $5,103 (2023)
Days on the market: Eight
Listing agents: Irene Kaushansky and
Philip Brown, Keller Williams
Portfolio Realty

THE ACTION This two-bedroom

house is smaller than most prop-
erties between Marie Curtis Park
and Colonel Samuel Smith Park,
but the seller calculated that
newly added pot lights and refin-
ished flooring justified an asking
price of $1,249,000. On the offer
date, four bids were submitted,
with the 20-year-old home going
for $1,420,000.
“There are very few newer
homes that have two bedrooms,
usually it’s three or sometimes
four, so it was difficult to figure
out what the right price would
be,” said agent Irene Kaushan-
sky.
“The seller spent a good
amount of time and energy to
paint, do fix ups and make sure
it was attractive for today’s
buyers.”

WHAT THEY GOT This semi-de-

tached house has 1,835 square
feet of living space, a deck off the
kitchen and Juliet balconies in
two entertaining areas. The one
at the rear also has a three-sided,
gas fireplace.
On the second floor, the
largest bedroom has cathedral
ceilings, his-and-her closets and
one of four bathrooms.
The basement has two en-
trances, recreation and cooking
quarters, one guest bedroom and
an ensuite.
For parking, there is a private
driveway and a garage on the 25-
by 88-foot lot.
THE AGENT’S TAKE “The low main-
tenance aspect of the house was
very attractive because although
it was a house, there was not a
huge yard and it was in good
condition,” Ms. Kaushansky said.
“South of Lake Shore [Boule-
vard] is always nice in that pock-
et because you’re a little closer to
the lake, and you still have easy
access to shops and restaurants
on Lake Shore, and fast access up
to the Gardiner [Expressway]
and the airport.
“And there are lots of parks in
the area as well.”
– SYDNIA YU

Cemetery a wild card in sale of high-end home in Toronto’s York Mills area
189 Old Yonge St., Toronto
S T. A N D R E W-WI N D F I E L D S

Asking price: $6,999,000 (July, 2023)

Previous asking price: $4,999,000
(June, 2023)
Selling price: $6.15-million
(July, 2023)
Taxes: not available
Days on the market: 22
Property days on market: 30
Listing agent: Bill Thom, Re/Max
Realtron Realty Inc.

THE ACTION This new five-bedroom

house was recently completed on
a 101- by 150-foot lot in a high-end
neighbourhood north of York
Mills Road. The sellers were con-
cerned that its location across the
street from a small cemetery
might scare away some bidders,
so it was initially posted for sale at
$1,000 under $5-million. Even at
that price, the first few offers were
inadequate for the seller. They
then reset the price at $1,000 shy
of $7-million. A new bidder came
forward, with negotiations set-
tling at a selling price of $6.15-mil-
lion.
“If the same house, not facing
the cemetery, in the neighbour-
hood was $7-million, and I sell
this one to you for $6-million,
would you consider it?” said
agent Bill Thom.
“Some people won’t and some
people will, even though it’s the
same house, same quality, same
neighbourhood, same school
[district], and same transit [ac-
cess], but it’s $1-million less.”
WHAT THEY GOT This two-storey
house was built with numerous
upmarket finishes, including a
triple garage, an elevator and an
in-law suite with a private stair-
case.
The office, dining room, two
entertaining areas have herring-
bone hardwood flooring and 11-
foot ceilings.
There’s an eat-in kitchen
on the main floor and a wet
bar in the recreation area
downstairs. The home has a
total of nine bathrooms, includ-
ing a primary ensuite with a sau-
na.
THE AGENT’S TAKE “This home has a
lot of attributes, like the second
floor has a self-contained, almost
900-square-foot, in-law apart-
ment with its own laundry room,
kitchen, washroom, living room,
and elevator access,” said Mr.
Thom.
“There are not too many
houses with this arrangement.”
“It has a heated driveway and
front patio, and heated flooring
in the basement and main-floor
kitchen area and hallway,” Mr.
Thom said.
“It’s even heated under the
wood in some sections.”
– SYDNIA YU

Calgary home prepped for two years sells in two days

8 Aspen Ridge Manor SW,
Calgary
ASPEN WOODS

Asking price: $1,998,000 (July, 2023)

Selling price: $1.95-million
(July, 2023)
Taxes: $13,472 (2023)
Days on the market: Two
Listing agent: Steven Hill, Sotheby’s
International Realty Canada

THE ACTION The owners of this

three-bedroom house slowly
prepared it for sale over a period
of two years.
Personal circumstances and
market conditions aligned this
summer, and it was put up for
sale after the end of the Stam-
pede in July.
“It’s a stunning home, but the
sellers did a wonderful job on
the presentation of it,” said agent
Steven Hill. it roped in an offer within 48 WHAT THEY GOT This 10-year-old and high-end Miele appliances. after areas with gorgeous, exec-
“For 10 days, the city is very hours just shy of the asking house has a triple garage, 3,701 There are five bathrooms, a utive, high-quality homes,” said
focused on the Calgary Stam- price. square feet of living space and formal study and dining room, Mr. Hill.
pede, so we waited until it was “It sold to the first person who multiple decks overlooking the plus heated concrete flooring in “This was done to such a high
over, and the city was more or came in the door,” said Mr. Hill. 60- by 131-foot grounds. the basement. level, like every bedroom had a
less back to normal, which “There was a house across the The living room has wood- Annual homeowner associ- walk-in closet with tube sky-
proved to be critical when we en- street for sale – a similar, two- beamed ceilings and a fireplace – ation fees are $500. lights, and the oversized garage
tered the market.” storey house – but it had been on one of three in the home. The had epoxy floors with a heating
There were few comparable the market for a while at $2.2- eat-in kitchen has with granite THE AGENT’S TAKE “This area in Cal- system in it.”
properties at its price point and million.” countertops, a butler’s pantry gary is one of the most sought-* – SYDNIA YU