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Wilson-Raybould raises concerns over SNC testimony Former A-G says remaining constraints prevent her from telling all the facts at Wednesday hearing ROBERT FIFE STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA

Former attorney-general Jody Wilson-Raybould has agreed to testify in televised parliamentary hearings on Wednesday, but is expressing disappointment that a cabinet order permitting her to speak without violating solicitor-client privilege and cabinet confidentiality does not ap-

ply to conversations that took place while she was veterans affairs minister or in relation to her resignation from cabinet.

Ms. Wilson-Raybould takes centre stage Wednesday on Parliament Hill in an extraordinary session of the Commons justice committee in which MPs and the public will hear the former justice minister and attorney-general testify about pressure from her own government to abandon the criminal prosecution of

SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. In a letter on Tuesday to Liberal MP Anthony Housefather – chair of the justice committee, which is probing the matter – Ms. Wilson-Raybould said the removal of some of the constraints on what she can say is a “step in the right direction” but “falls far short of what is required” for Canadians to learn all the facts.

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PM promised change with fresh cabinet faces. He may regret it now ADAM RADWANSKI OPINION

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here are so many ways Justin Trudeau has failed to live up to his promise to change the way politics works in this country, from electoral reform to open and transparent government to decentralization of power from the Prime Minister’s Office.

But as Ottawa awaits Jody Wilson-Raybould’s testimony on the SNC-Lavalin affair, it’s evident that there is at least one change to the political culture that the Prime Minister has not been able to entirely go back on – even if he might now wish he could.

Before the last election, Mr. Trudeau made a point of recruiting a diverse array of candidates who, despite impressive professional credentials, often did not have much partisan political experience; he then immediately elevated some to cabinet without making them acclimatize to Ottawa first.

The idea was they would bring a fresh perspective rather than conforming to all of the capital’s norms.

In Ms. Wilson-Raybould, there was at least one minister who embraced that expectation and then some. And courtesy of her refusal to go with the usual flow – defer to the PM, soldier on for the good of the team even when personally affronted – she is at the centre of a political culture clash that goes beyond just these Liberals.

It’s true that Ms. Wilson-Raybould occupied a unique position in Mr. Trudeau’s cabinet because of the dual roles of justice minister and attorney-general – the latter of which is supposed to be free from political interference such as pressure from the PMO to defer SNC-Lavalin’s criminal prosecution.

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Ontario human rights commissioner calls for end to solitary in wake of Capay case PATRICK WHITE

Solitary confinement continues to be overused in Ontario correctional facilities and should be phased out entirely, says one of the central figures responsible for drawing attention to the plight of Adam Capay, the 26-year-old Indigenous man who spent more than four years in isolation.

Renu Mandhane, chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC), sent a letter to Correctional Services Minister Sylvia Jones last week

calling the details emerging from the Capay case “extremely troubling” and urging the government to end the practice of isolating prisoners for 22 or more hours a day.

“I think there are likely other people in somewhat similar circumstances,” says Ms. Mandhane, who first brought the Capay case to public attention in 2016. “I really hope this government takes this as an opportunity to start to implement the necessary changes.”

Last month, Justice John Fregeau issued a stay of proceedings in the firstdegree murder case against Mr. Capay.

On Monday, the Crown declared it would not appeal the stay decision, bringing an end to the 61⁄2-year proceeding and lifting a publication ban on details of the case.

Court records show Mr. Capay fatally stabbed 35-year-old Sherman Quisses on June 3, 2012, and then spent a total of 1,647 days in solitary confinement, much of that behind Plexiglas and beneath round-the-clock lighting.

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MOMENT IN TIME FEB. 27, 1907

Internationally recognized psychologists attend a conference at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., in 1909.

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appeared early on, arising from differences in their theories and personal insecurities. Jung grumbled about being overshadowed by the “father creator.”

Freud reportedly accused Jung of wanting him dead. Their breakup was depicted in the 2011 film, A Dangerous Method, directed by David Cronenberg.

A sexual affair portrayed in the movie between Jung and his patient Sabina Spielrein may have been the stuff of fiction, but the rift between the two men was not. In a farewell letter, the 1913 equivalent of a breakup text, Freud wrote: “I propose that we abandon our personal relations entirely.” WENCY LEUNG

t was the meeting of professional soulmates, who became famous frenemies. When Carl Gustav Jung met Sigmund Freud for the first time in Vienna, the two renowned psychoanalysts reportedly chatted for more than 13 hours.

Jung, the younger Swiss psychiatrist, said he wanted their friendship to be “not as one between equals, but as that of father and son,” while the Austrian founder of psychoanalysis referred to Jung as his “heir” and the “spirit of my spirit,” according to a New York Times article on the 1974 publication of a compilation of their letters. Yet friction in their bromance (or is it pateromance?)

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Sanctions cast shadow over N. Korea talks As the country’s poorest suffer the consequences of global pressure, few observers say they think the penalties brought Pyongyang to the table NATHAN VANDERKLIPPE ASIA CORRESPONDENT BEIJING

The stainless-steel milk cans are built to carry 20 litres of liquids, which in North Korea are sometimes moved by car, sometimes by bicycle. For First Steps, they are a valuable way of getting soy milk to the daycares, kindergartens and orphanages the Vancouverbased charity supports. In 2017, First Steps bought 300 milk cans to send to North Korea.

But nearly two years later, the cans, worth US$90 each, continue to sit at their manufacturer in Wenzhou, in Southern China, blocked by the tangle of sanctions intended to cut North Korea off from the world. Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump boasted about imposing “the heaviest sanctions ever imposed on a country” in his efforts to push North Korea to denuclearize.

Now, with Mr. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un both in Vietnam on the eve of a second major summit, those milk cans constitute a symbol of the unexpected consequences of an international campaign to force the isolated regime to abandon its nuclear weapons. While humanitarian groups, including First Steps and the World Food Programme (WFP), struggle to help the poorest members of an impoverished country, there is little sign the sanctions have pushed the regime to act. The effort to move the milk cans “amounts to a dystopian saga for us,” First Steps executive director Susan Ritchie said.

Kim Song, North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations, has distributed a letter, reported

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International sanctions imposed against North Korea have interrupted supply chains and led to siginificant food delays, an issue leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump, seen arriving at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Tuesday, are sure to discuss during denuclearization talks this week. EVAN VUCCI/AP

severe food shortages this year following severe floods and droughts – while also faulting the “barbaric and inhuman sanctions” that have interfered with the import of farm implements, fertilizer and other agricultural necessities.

That matches what Ms. Ritchie has seen – in December, she went to one part of North Korea that had, earlier, flooded with nearly a half-year’s rain in a single night, destroying 40 per cent of crops; in another place, crops were hurt when temperatures hit 39 C, shattering the previous record of 31 C. But few observers say they believe that North Korea has been brought to the table by sanctions pain. “The North Koreans have made a conscious decision to focus on economic development.

And because of that, we’re having negotiations with North Korea,” said Carl Baker, a former U.S. Air Force officer with extensive experience on the Korean Peninsula who is now executive director of Pacific Forum, a foreign-policy research institute. “It’s not that the

North Koreans said, ‘Wow these sanctions are really hurting.’ ” Indeed, rice sold in the country has shown no signs of the price instability that might suggest food shortages, noted Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein, co-editor of the North Korean Economy Watch website.

“There’s very little evidence that the economy is so squeezed, and in such an urgent, dire state, that the government has no choice but to make concessions on its nuclear weapons and missiles,” he said an interview by e-mail. “If things were that bad, we’d have reports of major shortages, a strong regime of rationing for key goods like fuel, major price hikes on the markets, and the like. And we don’t.”

It’s an indication of North Korea’s savvy in avoiding the obstacles set against it.

Sanctions are nonetheless likely to form part of talks this week, with Mr. Trump indicating a willingness to provide some relaxation, as part of a path to denuclearization. “The North Koreans

have made clear in speeches over the last few months that in their view, sanctions relief would be a demonstrable sign by the United States that we have no hostile intent toward the North Korean regime or the people,” said Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association, a think tank. Accomplishing that, too, will allow for greater economic growth, “so that they can ensure the security of the Kim regime in the absence of nuclear weapons.”

But it’s not clear any of those changes will open the door for the First Steps milk cans or other goods effectively barred from North Korea at the moment.

It took First Steps nearly eight months to secure the two permissions it needed from the Canadian government to send the cans to North Korea. By the time those were secured in February, 2018, the group’s shipping company pulled out. First Steps provides a daily cup of soy milk to 100,000 North Korean children and primarily sends soy beans and

micronutrient sprinkles to the country. Sanctions specifically exempt humanitarian goods, but the charity has nonetheless been dropped by freight forwarding companies in Canada, Germany and the United States – the latter just last week, leaving it looking for another firm to handle shipments.

The WFP has encountered similar problems, citing in its most recent country brief the “unintended impacts of sanctions.”

Those “include the breakdown of supply chains, causing delays in the transportation of vital goods into [the] country and hampering the production and distribution of fortified foods.” In particular, WFP said, “there is a sixmonth lead time for international procurement and shipping, and ship owners are reluctant to send their vessels to DPRK because of lengthy cargo inspections and fines.” (The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is the formal name for North Korea.)

The letter written by the UN ambassador also notes lengthy five-month delays for the Food and Agriculture Organization to bring mobile water pumps to North Korea. Last year, a Genevabased aid organization halted grants to North Korea for the treatment of tuberculosis patients, citing the country’s “unique operating conditions,” prompting a warning by a Harvard physician in The Lancet medical journal of a possible “humanitarian and public-health crisis.”

For First Steps, by the time it was prepared to ship the milk cans, new sanctions restricted shipments of metal products to North Korea. The milk cans required special permission from a UN sanctions committee. That didn’t come through until Jan. 18.

Then in mid-February, the charity received notice from a freight forwarder in China that Chinese customs was throwing up another obstacle, demanding documentation that has so far been impossible to secure.

“There’s so many walls that have gone up,” Ms. Ritchie said.

Singh promises ‘unique vision’ in Quebec plan, to come next week

Buhari re-elected in Nigeria, defeating business tycoon

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Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will launch a Quebec strategy next week, aimed at winning back support in a province that holds a third of the party’s seats.

Mr. Singh won a by-election in Burnaby South on Monday night, giving him a seat in the House of Commons for the first time.

But the win was dimmed by another byelection result: The New Democrats lost the Montreal riding of Outremont, the seat captured by former leader Tom Mulcair in 2007.

That Quebec win launched the first stirrings of the Orange Wave that swept the province in 2011 and helped give the party Official Opposition status in Parliament.

Now, however, the NDP has 15 of 78 Quebec seats and is concerned about whether it can even hold those.

On Tuesday, Mr. Singh said he will be going to Quebec next week with a new plan for the Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh province.

“We’re really going to tighten, sharpen what been content to remain outside the House, our offer is for Quebec,” he said in an inter- working on party matters. On Tuesday, he said that his thinking changed when the view.

He did not provide details, but said he will opportunity to run in Burnaby South arose lay out a “unique vision for Quebec” that con- with the departure of Kennedy Stewart, the tinues the dream of former NDP leader Jack riding’s NDP MP. Mr. Stewart went on to become the mayor of Layton, who was at the helm of the party at Vancouver. the time of the Orange Wave.

Now, Mr. Singh is expected to take his place Karl Bélanger, a former press secretary to Mr. Layton and principal secretary to Mr. Mul- in the House in the coming weeks.

“It gives me a new platform,” Mr. Singh said. cair, said the results in Outremont, show that “This is going to give me the opportunity to all hope is not lost for the NDP in Quebec. raise issues in the House. It’s goThe NDP got 26 per cent of the ing to give me a different profile.”

Outremont vote, compared with On the by-election campaign 40 per cent for the winning trail, Mr. Singh raised concerns Liberals. about such issues as housing and Mr. Bélanger said it’s a It gives me a new pharmacare. respectable showing. platform.

This [seat] In his victory speech on “The growth potential is still is going to give me Monday, the NDP Leader said the there for the NDP, but Jagmeet scandal around SNC-Lavalin and Singh needs to find a way to conthe opportunity to the federal government shows a nect with Quebeckers and to find raise issues in the contrast between his party’s the narrative that will appeal to House. It’s going to commitment to the interests of them,” Mr. Bélanger said. give me a different average Canadians and the “That has yet to materialize.” federal Liberals attachment to Mr. Singh won Burnaby South profile. well-connected supporters. with 39 per cent of the vote. The JAGMEET SINGH Mr. Singh has called for a pubLiberals, represented by former FEDERAL NDP LEADER lic inquiry into the affair. provincial Liberal Richard Lee, Mr. Lee said the SNC-Lavalin were second with 26 per cent.

Conservative candidate Jay Shin placed third issue was not a dominant concern expressed when he or his team met with with voters. with 23 per cent.

They were more concerned, he said, over Mr. Lee, who came late to the race when another Liberal candidate withdrew over issues such as housing and government social-media postings about Mr. Singh’s supports for families and seniors.

Mr. Bélanger said being an MP is an opporethnicity, said on Tuesday that his team suffered because of low turnout and the fact that tunity for Mr. Singh to deliver his message to they did not have adequate time to contest the Canadians, through access to news organizations covering Parliament. race.

“That’s something that is harder to do when In an interview, he said he is considering the possibility of running again in the fall federal you’re criss-crossing the country visiting ridings where the national media is not preelection campaign.

Early on in his leadership, Mr. Singh had sent to cover you.”

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been elected to a second term in office, defeating a wealthy business tycoon who had promised to liberalize the economy and privatize Nigeria’s state oil company.

With all of the country’s votes counted by Tuesday night, Mr. Buhari had won comfortably. According to official results, he captured about 56 per cent of the vote, compared with about 41 per cent for opposition candidate Atiku Abubakar.

The main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party, challenged the official results and complained of “irregularities.”

The vote on Saturday was marred by dozens of deaths in electionrelated violence, as well as low voter turnout in most regions.

The election in oil-rich Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa with about 190 million people, is being closely watched as a test of democracy in a country that emerged from military rule only two decades ago. The election results could also influence the Nigerian military’s strategy in its fight against Islamist extremism in the northeast of the country, where thousands of people have been killed by Islamist militia groups and the Nigerian military.

Mr. Buhari, a 76-year-old former military general, made history in the previous election in 2015, when he became the first Nigerian opposition leader to be elected president in a democratic transfer of power. His rival, former president Goodluck Jonathan, accepted defeat and stepped down without challenging the results.

But the Nigerian election this month has been more disputed, with the opposition alleging that millions of votes had been manipulated or even eliminated to ensure Mr. Buhari’s victory. At least 47 people have been killed in election-related violence since Saturday, according to a coalition of civil society groups monitoring the election.

Nigerian media reported on Tuesday night that Mr. Abubakar will not concede defeat, but will instead assemble a team of law-

yers to challenge the results in court.

The low voter turnout in most regions has led to suspicions of electoral manipulation and concerns about a lack of participation. In Lagos, the country’s biggest city, for example, there were about 6.3 million registered voters, but only about 1.1 million voted, according to the official results.

Election observers from Europe and the United States have expressed concern about logistical problems in the election, but have not suggested that there was any large-scale vote rigging.

Despite its oil wealth and its status as Africa’s biggest oil producer, Nigeria continues to suffer a high poverty rate. It fell into recession in 2016 as its unemployment rate soared. Nearly a quarter of the work force is jobless. Corruption remains a widespread problem, despite Mr. Buhari’s pledge to campaign against it.

Mr. Abubakar, 72, had promised to double the size of Nigeria’s economy by privatizing state companies and liberalizing the economy. But he has faced allegations of corruption, including a U.S. Senate report in 2010 that claimed that he and one of his wives had transferred US$40-million in “suspect funds” – including alleged bribery proceeds – to U.S. bank accounts. He has denied the allegations.

Analysts warned that a victory

by Mr. Buhari could hurt the Nigerian economy. “Another term for President Buhari would almost certainly result in the continuation of the growth-sapping policies he has adopted since 2015,” said a report on Tuesday by John Ashbourne, a senior economist at Capital Economics.

He said Mr. Buhari will probably continue the multitier system of foreign exchange in Nigeria, which has been widely criticized for damaging foreign investment in the country. But while Mr. Abubakar was considered to be more market-friendly than Mr. Buhari, there were few other ideological differences between them. The two politicians had been allies in the same political party until about two years ago. Both men are Muslims from northern Nigeria, reducing the regional tensions that have marked previous Nigerian elections.

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PM treads time-honoured path with TSN everyman shtick It has long been a safe play for beleaguered politicians to take refuge in sports – Trudeau may just be out of practice CATHAL KELLY OPINION

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here was a moment on Monday at the beginning of Justin Trudeau’s unusual interview on TSN’s NHL tradedeadline day coverage where you could see his alarm.

After a quick intro, host James Duthie segued immediately to a question – “You know, I’ve been lobbying for years …”

The Prime Minister’s mouth gaped, his eyes hardened and for just an instant, you could read his thoughts: “Why have I wandered out into the open like this? Why doesn’t anybody screen these questions? And why have I suddenly started putting my faith in the grubby members of the media?”

Of course, this was preamble to a bit of fun. Mr. Duthie asked about making deadline day a national holiday. Mr. Trudeau laughed mechanically. The relief was palpable.

Mr. Trudeau said something silly about lost productivity (at which point, I put a finger to my temple and tried to telepathically will Mr. Duthie to say, “On that point, you know I’ve been lobbying for years for pipelines …”).

The earnest head nodding switched on, the eyes softened.

Mr. Trudeau was grooving now.

Getting the message out there.

About hockey.

There are many things Canadians would like to see asked of the Prime Minister at the moment. So, Question No. 2: What’s a

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seen arriving for a cabinet meeting in Ottawa on Tuesday, appeared as a special guest during TSN’s NHL trade-deadline day coverage on Monday. SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS

tougher negotiation – The North American Free Trade Agreement or trading Mark Stone of the Ottawa Senators?

I’m sure a half-dozen, possibly as many as 10, of our fellow citizens were hanging on the response to that one. The answer: Both. They’re both hard.

Even on this safe ground, Mr. Trudeau began stumbling into verbal traps of his own devising: “One of the challenges on any big negotiation is that everyone’s got an opinion … and you have to listen to people and take advice …”

Everyone? Advice? You have to listen to?

The backup beeper in Mr. Trudeau’s mind kicked off – “ … Ultimately, you have to make your own decision as the decisionmaker …”

Then he wrapped it up with this bit of nonsense: “I’m sure all the trades will be good today.”

(If he brought that same ‘Everyone’s a winner!’ ethos to the North American free-trade agree-

Canada, Britain to co-host summit on press freedom this summer, sources say

ment, I look forward to retiring to a tree fort overhanging the city dump.)

We get what’s happening here.

The Prime Minister is in trouble.

His bona fides as a normal, relatable guy are in doubt. He needs to assure people that he is the sort of guy who would walk into your local drinking establishment and order a Bud, not some kombuchatinted, oak-casked, pumpkin pale ale. And especially not out of season.

What’s the solution to that problem? Tawkin’ hawkey with the boys. Just a regular, trustworthy, non-extrajudicial-influencing hockey-talking guy who likes his pucks and loves his Habs.

If Mr. Trudeau regularly made himself available like this for tougher questioning, the TSN interview might have turned out the way the Prime Minister’s Office had hoped – as something cute. But he does not, and certainly hasn’t during the Jody WilsonRaybould/SNC-Lavalin mess.

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Canada and Britain will co-host an international summit in London this summer on the increasing threats to freedom of the press and to promote better protection of journalists, The Canadian Press has learned.

Sources say Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland – a journalist before she entered politics – and her British counterpart Jeremy Hunt have been working on the idea for months. Canadian officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the conference before it was formally announced.

Sources say the talks between Ms. Freeland and Mr. Hunt have progressed to the point where they have now set a date for a two-day gathering starting July 10, which will include members of governments, civil society and journalists.

They say Ms. Freeland has been influenced by two highprofile cases: the imprisonment of two Reuters reporters who were sentenced to seven-year terms in Myanmar, formally known as Burma, for violating the country’s Official Secrets Act and the murder and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul last fall.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called the news media “the enemy of the people,” but sources denied suggestions that his anti-media rhetoric was also a factor.

“It’s a theme Minister Freeland has been thinking a lot about in general, particularly because of the cases of the two journalists in Myanmar and the Khashoggi case,” one source said.

“But also in general, the current climate is affecting journalist’s ability to do their work freely.” Ms. Freeland and Mr. Hunt “have this shared concern and that was the genesis of all of this.”

In December, the annual report by the Committee to Protect Journalists said the number of journalists killed across the world in retaliation for their work nearly doubled in 2018.

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Which made Monday’s appearance a transparent farce.

The more Mr. Trudeau pandered (“… we’ve got four great teams headed to playoffs, at least, from Canada … ) and fantasized (“… I’m going to keep my fingers crossed that [the Canadiens] get to the finals …”), the more it occurred to you that when it comes to hockey, Mr. Trudeau is no Stephen Harper. He’s just barely a Wilfrid Laurier, and Laurier ran things before there was an NHL. If Samuel Johnson were a contemporary figure, he’d have reconsidered his stand on patriotism and last refuges. If you are a political figure in need of shelter among the plebes, sports is where you hide now.

It usually backfires. If you’re at the game, people wonder who paid for your ticket. If you glom onto a winner, people will judge you as a front-runner. And if you are going to attempt to be sporty in view of cameras, God help you if you look goofy while doing so.

From Robert Stanfield appearing to catch a football with his crotch to Stockwell Day pulling up on a jet ski like some hillbilly James Bond, there is no more effective vehicle for political comedy than sports. And yet, our pols return to it again and again.

Mr. Harper wrote a hockey book while in office. I suppose he thought that made him appear accessible. You know what it actually made him look like? Someone with too much spare time on his hands. Which is not the optimal impression to create when you have a day job.

Perhaps Mr. Harper should’ve taken a sabbatical to think big thoughts about Canada’s Grand Tradition. In the end, Canada gave him one.

Aside from a bit of yoga and the tiresome ritual of performative jogging (just like every other jogger alive), Mr. Trudeau had largely avoided this trap.

But as the media cordon closes in, he could not avoid heading for the safe harbour of hockey. Then he could not avoid speaking in a gentle, lecturing tone to five of the highest-profile hockey commentators in the country.

Near the end of the interview, one of the panel rose from his seat and walked blithely in front of the camera trained on Mr. Duthie.

“And Jeff O’Neill walks right in front of the shot as we’re interviewing the Prime Minister,” Mr. Duthie said, deadpan.

In that moment, we were all Mr. O’Neill.

Mr. Duthie tried to throw Mr. Trudeau a life preserver at the end: “Get back to the more important things of running the nation.”

Mr. Trudeau slapped it away: “Oh no, this is an important day and I’m glad to be part of it.”

I suppose every day is important when you’re running a corporation with 37 million employees, many of whom are in a lather about the job you’re doing.

But the Prime Minister only wants to show up to the company picnic, and, once there, talk about nothing but the sack races.

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A Wet’suwet’en Nation chief who took over a hereditary position from an Indigenous woman because she supports the Coastal GasLink pipeline is defending the decision to strip away her title, saying he has been groomed since childhood for a leadership role.

Warner Naziel said he and other hereditary chiefs, including his uncle who recommended him, acted properly when they removed the title Smogelgem from Gloria George. Ms. George and two other Indigenous women, Theresa Tait-Day and Darlene Glaim, were stripped of their hereditary titles for backing the $6.2-billion natural gas pipeline project.

Mr. Naziel said his parents and grandparents “were preparing me far in advance” to become a hereditary chief. “From the age of three or four years old, I would sit at my mother’s feet at each feast while my grandmother sat nearby, learning what was happening and being told how things were working,” Mr. Naziel said.

He made the comments in an affidavit in B.C. Supreme Court, dated Feb. 20, to assert that Ms. George is wrong in assuming she had been entitled to automatically inherit Smogelgem from her late brother, Leonard George, under Sun House of the Laksamshu clan.

“One of his sisters, Gloria George, a member of our clan, decided she wanted the name, although she was not active in our feasts,” Mr. Naziel said in his 11-page affidavit, arguing that Ms. George did not follow protocol.

“The proper protocol for receiving a head chief’s name includes consulting with the clan to determine whether they approve of your taking the name, announcing your intention to take the name at a smoke feast and then holding a feast specifically for that purpose.”

Mr. Naziel, who is an artist and carver, filed his affidavit in response to Coastal GasLink’s court application for an interim injunction to dismantle the Unist’ot’en protest camp’s blockade in the B.C. Interior. Unist’ot’en is affiliated with Dark House, one of 13 Wet’suwet’en hereditary house groups.

The blockade on the bridge came down on Jan. 11, four days after the RCMP arrested 14 protesters at a police checkpoint along a

remote B.C. logging road that leads to the Unist’ot’en camp.

Coastal GasLink is now seeking to obtain a permanent injunction because the interim one granted by the court in December will expire in May. Coastal GasLink, owned by TransCanada Corp., names Mr. Naziel and Freda Huson as two of the defendants in the court case. Mr. Naziel and Ms. Huson lived together for a decade as a common-law couple. They separated last month.

Mr. Naziel said he and Ms. Huson, a spokeswoman for Unist’ot’en and Dark House, moved in the summer of 2010 to the site of what would become Unist’ot’en camp. “Shortly after this, Freda and I moved our main sleeping quarters out to the cabin,” Mr. Naziel said. “My role at camp was based in me being Freda’s partner.”

The male hereditary chiefs have no authority to remove any one of their names.

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He said the camp expanded and added a healing lodge in 201415: “It is traditional in Wet’suwet’en culture for someone who has experienced trauma to go and spend time on the land.”

Mr. Naziel said Ms. George crossed the line when she aligned herself with Coastal GasLink. “After we realized that she was representing herself to government and industry, including Coastal Gaslink, as both having the authority of a head chief and also the backing of the clan, our clan held a feast and formally rescinded the name Smogelgem,” said Mr. Naziel, who laid claim to the title in 2016. “All of the hereditary chiefs of my clan, including me, witnessed this and spoke.”

But Ms. George said in a recent interview with The Globe and Mail that she acted appropriately when she patiently waited several years before inheriting Smogelgem, after her brother Leonard died in 2007. “The title was my brother’s and before my brother, it was my mom’s cousin, and before that, it was my mom’s great uncle,” Ms. George said.

She pointed out that Mr. Nazi-

el’s roots are in Owl House, but the Smogelgem title is under Sun House.

Leonard George, in his hereditary role as Smogelgem, was one of the plaintiffs in the historic court case known as Delgamuukw, in which Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs claimed ownership of their unceded territories in British Columbia. In the landmark 1997 decision, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Indigenous people have valid claims to ancestral lands that were never ceded by treaty.

Ms. Glaim, who held the hereditary title Woos, and Ms. George did not return requests for comment on Tuesday.

Ms. Tait-Day said the hereditary house chiefs are the ones who overstepped their bounds and should be disciplined. “The male hereditary chiefs have no authority to remove any one of their names,” Ms. Tait-Day said.

“They should be supportive of women.”

She said she plans to rectify the situation so that the male chiefs recognize her right to hold the hereditary title of Wi’hali’yte.

The three Indigenous women said in recent interviews that they have been ostracized behind the scenes since forming the Wet’suwet’en Matrilineal Coalition and want to bring their case into the public light. The women formed WMC in 2015, believing the fledgling group could address the need for a collective decision-making body to bridge the wide gap between hereditary chiefs opposed to the pipeline and elected band councillors on reserves who support the project.

The women have felt the repercussions of being shunned and have been excluded from important gatherings.

Mr. Naziel’s uncle, Alphonse Gagnon, filed an affidavit last week to vouch for his nephew. Mr. Gagnon said that in 1998, he took over the hereditary title Kloum Khun under Owl House of the Laksamshu clan. “I suggested to the clan, as was my right, that the name Toghestiy should pass to my nephew, Warner Naziel,” Mr. Gagnon said.

Mr. Gagnon said his nephew is an expert on hereditary governance and earned the wing chief (sub-chief) title of Toghestiy under Owl House.

“Although I am now Smogelgem, I still hold the name Toghestiy,” Mr. Naziel noted.

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Ontario moves to adopt revised heath-care model Short on details, overhaul announcement centres on team-focused treatment approach KELLY GRANT HEALTH REPORTER

Ontarians will eventually see their cradle-to-grave health needs co-ordinated by teams of providers – including hospitals, doctors and home-care agencies – as the Ford government rolls out a major overhaul of the province’s health-care system.

The centrepiece of the plan that Health Minister Christine Elliott unveiled on Tuesday is the creation of between 30 and 50 “Ontario health teams” that would each be responsible for the well-being of as many as 300,000 patients.

The idea, Ms. Elliott said, is to have local organizations such as hospitals, community health centres, home-care providers and doctors voluntarily form a team, then apply to the government to be the central point of contact in a geographic area, or for specific kinds of patients such as the frail elderly or children with complex needs.

The minister’s announcement was short on details about how the teams would work and long on promises that the new arrangement would keep patients from slipping through the cracks in the system.

“The whole reason why we are doing this change is to create patient-centred care that connects patients to their health-care system throughout their lives,” Ms. Elliott said.

As expected, the minister also confirmed that a new superagency, Ontario Health, would absorb the functions of six health-care agencies, including Cancer Care Ontario, and 14 local health integration networks (LHINs), the organizations that currently oversee home care and manage the waiting lists for nursing homes.

Detractors warned that the overhaul could lead to job losses, mass confusion for patients and more for-profit delivery of care – all of which Ms. Elliott denied.

Vicki McKenna, the president of the Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA), said the government’s plan makes this a “destabilizing time” for nurses, especially for the nearly 4,000 nurses that her agency represents who work for the LHINs. Most co-ordinate home care.

Ms. Elliott, who rebuffed repeated questions about layoffs, said that care co-ordinators would not lose their jobs. They The whole reason would just report to a new emwhy we are doing ployer. this change Right now, the LHINs oversee health care for geographic areas is to create patient-centred care whose total populations range from 231,000 in the North West that connects LHIN to 1.9 million in the Central patients to their LHIN, north of Toronto.

The six agencies slated to close health-care system employ a total of more than 2,500 throughout their people, nearly 1,000 of whom lives. work for Cancer Care Ontario, according to a spokeswoman for the CHRISTINE ELLIOTT Ministry of Health and LongONTARIO HEALTH MINISTER Term Care.

Ms. Elliott refused to say how many people would lose their jobs, or how much money would be cut from provincial health spending, which is expected to be nearly $62-billion, or 42 per cent of overall spending, this fiscal year.

The transition is expected to be gradual, with the LHINs staying in place for about three years – or as long as it takes to get new health teams up and running across the province.

The government tabled proposed legislation called the People’s Health Care Act on Tuesday to enact the changes.

The government is promising to release guidance documents in March explaining how groups can apply to become early adopters of the health-team program.

Ms. Elliott said about 30 ad hoc groups have already approached her government about applying.

Kevin Smith, the president of the University Health Network in Toronto, was enthusiastic about putting local teams in charge of health care. His hospital and community partners already have a team proposal ready to go, as do at least two other Toronto hospitals.

“The announcement does what I’ve been asking government for for a long time, which is don’t tell us how to do to something that you don’t know how to do, which is deliver care,” Dr. Smith said.

“Tell us what and why and when and with how much and then hold us to account.”

Health-care restructuring has a mixed record in Canada, and some experts warn that disruptive mergers can be more trouble than they’re worth.

Kevin McNamara, Nova Scotia’s deputy health minister from 2009 to 2013, said his province’s decision to combine nine district health authorities into one in 2015 diminished local control and led to too much top-down meddling.

He saw similar problems in other provinces, including Alberta and British Columbia, where the pendulum has swung between local and centralized health-care delivery without clear improvements in patient care.

“What’s happened in health care in this country is we’ve become experts at merging and unmerging, rather than providing health care,” Mr. McNamara said.

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eeks of speculative Chicken Little-ism notwithstanding, the sky is not falling.

Turns out that the much-anticipated or dreaded overhaul of the provincial health system unveiled Tuesday by Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott is eminently reasonable.

As a long-time opposition health critic and Ontario’s first Patient Ombudsman, she knows the system’s flaws well. There are tremendous gaps in care, notably when it comes to mental-health services and long-term care; the care patients receive is excellent, but it is delivered in a manner that is siloed and fragmented, particularly when a patient transitions, for example, from hospital to home care; care is systemdriven, not patient-centred; and the bureaucracy is stifling. In short, the existing health system is not much of a system at all.

“The people of Ontario deserve a connected health-care system that puts their needs first,” Ms. Elliott said.

To achieve that goal, the government plans to create a single administrative agency, Ontario Health, that will oversee between 30 and 50 Ontario health teams, which will be responsible for care delivery.

There were a number of leaks about the superagency plans, and wild claims that the Conservative government was planning mass privatization and big cuts to public services as part of the restructuring. Ms. Elliott said that, on the contrary, the changes will “strengthen our publicly funded health-care system … and that means paying for services with your OHIP card.”

The new centralized structure takes the place of the old, decentralized model consisting of 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs), 76 sub-LHINs and six independent agencies such as Cancer Care Ontario.

A lot of people wonder why Ontario Health is needed if there is already a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The role of the ministry is to establish and enforce policy, and to dole out money.

The role of Ontario Health is to oversee the day-to-day operations of a $61-billion-a-year corporation, to ensure care is delivered in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible.

With the planned changes, Ontario becomes the fifth province to create a provincewide, in-

Minister Christine Elliott speaks with patients at Toronto’s Bridgepoint Active Healthcare on Tuesday. TIJANA MARTIN/THE CANADIAN PRESS

tegrated health system, after Alberta, Nova Scotia, PEI and Saskatchewan.

Regionalization was all the rage for a while and now centralization is in vogue. It’s a reminder that there is no perfect structure for delivering health care, but everyone is looking to balance efficiency of scale and flex-

The new Ontario Health teams will be voluntary groupings of hospitals, home-care agencies, mental-health services, community health clinics and more. ibility to meet regional needs.

The biggest change in Ontario is one that has not been much discussed. The new Ontario Health teams will be voluntary groupings of hospitals, homecare agencies, mental-health services, community health clinics and more. The OHTs will receive blocks of money and have to figure out the best mix of services to deliver value for money. That approach should be more organic and locally responsive than LHINs, some of which were painfully rigid.

What will happen to the six agencies − Cancer Care Ontario, eHealth Ontario, Trillium Gift of Life Network, Health Shared Services, Health Quality Ontario, HealthForceOntario Marketing and Recruitment Agency – being swallowed up by Ontario Health is not entirely clear.

Ms. Elliott suggested that the successful Cancer Care Ontario model could be scaled up to create a comprehensive strategy for chronic-disease management, which would be excellent.

While there is a lot of rhetoric about patient-centredness, it’s not obvious how patients and

families will have more power to shape policies and priorities under the new model.

When governments undertake big changes, the assumption is always that it is a cost-cutting exercise. Ms. Elliott insisted that is not the primary driver, but she is certainly aware that a similar centralization exercise in Alberta resulted in an estimated $600million in savings and some long-term efficiencies.

Alberta’s health-care administration costs are 27 per cent below the national average; Ontario’s are 30 per cent above the national average. Alberta’s experience is instructive. When Alberta Health Services was created 10 years ago, it was done in a slapdash, ham-fisted way, and health-care providers and patients suffered from the upheaval.

It is good to hear Ms. Elliott say that Ontario’s overhaul will be implemented gradually. It will be important, too, for the province’s political masters to keep their wits about them.

When you undertake major changes, there will be hiccups and failures, and that’s okay. In Alberta, the non-stop political second-guessing was destructive and it took a long time for AHS to find its way.

Is care better in an Alberta with a centralized health system than one with a decentralized health system? Honestly, it’s impossible to say. But a key lesson from Alberta is that what matters most is stability. Constant rejigging of structures serves no one.

Ultimately, it doesn’t matter whether a health system is centralized or decentralized, or whether the administrative agency’s name is LHIN or OHT. What matters is that there are clear lines of authority and accountability, and a system that facilitates rather than inhibits the delivery of quality care.

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May leaves opening for Brexit delay if Parliament is unable to reach deal PAUL WALDIE EUROPE CORRESPONDENT LONDON

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An Alberta judge is to rule next month whether former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr should have his eight-year sentence for war crimes declared expired.

The sentence, which was imposed in 2010 by a military commission in the United States, would have ended last October had Mr. Khadr remained in custody.

But the clock stopped when a judge freed him on bail in 2015 pending Mr. Khadr’s appeal of his military conviction – a years-long process that has no end in sight.

His lawyer, Nate Whitling, told an Edmonton court that Mr. Khadr served three years and five months in custody and has been out on bail for another three years and nine months.

He said the appeal, in the meantime, hasn’t advanced “even an inch” in the United States.

“Mr. Khadr’s sentence essentially is frozen in time,” Mr. Whitling told Chief Justice Mary Moreau on Tuesday.

Toronto-born Mr. Khadr spent years in U.S. detention at Guantanamo Bay after he was captured and accused of tossing a grenade that killed special-forces soldier Christopher Speer at a militant compound in Afghanistan in 2001.

He was later transferred to an

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Omar Khadr and his lawyer Nate Whitling speak to reporters outside a court in Edmonton on Tuesday. JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Edmonton prison and the Supreme Court of Canada ruled the punishment handed Mr. Khadr for the acts committed when he was 15 years old was to be a youth sentence.

His application in youth court Tuesday asked the judge to place him under conditional supervision for one day, then declare his sentence served.

Since his release on bail, Mr. Khadr has lived in Edmonton and Red Deer, Alta., without any issues. “He’s been an upstanding citizen since being released,” Mr. Whitling said. “There’s just nothing negative to say about Mr. Khadr.”

Another judge had eased some of his initial bail conditions, but several remain in place.

Both federal and provincial Crown lawyers said Tuesday that Mr. Khadr should serve the remainder of his eight-year sentence in the community with similar conditions.

“We have no objection to the applicant not serving time in custody,” Alberta Crown prosecutor Doreen Mueller said in court. “The remainder of the sentence has to be served.”

Justice Moreau said she will hand down her decision March 25.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May has sown more confusion into the Brexit process by opening the door to delaying Britain’s departure from the European Union without saying how long the extension might last.

On Tuesday, Ms. May said members of Parliament would be able to vote to extend the March 29 deadline for the United Kingdom to leave the EU if she is unable to win parliamentary support for a Brexit deal with the bloc.

Ms. May has been scrambling for weeks to salvage a withdrawal agreement she struck with the EU that has met fierce opposition from within her Conservative Party caucus.

On Tuesday, she told the House of Commons that she believed a final deal was still possible before March 29, but she acknowledged that many MPs have become “genuinely worried that time is running out” and that businesses are growing uneasy about the prospect of a no-deal Brexit. The EU would have to consent to an extension and Ms. May refused to say how long it might last, indicating only that she’d like any delay to be “as short as possible.”

The announcement was a reversal for the Prime Minister who had spent months insisting that she would not delay Brexit.

That stand had rattled many business leaders who feared Britain would crash out of the EU without any arrangements for trade, banking, transportation and many other issues.

A government report released after Ms. May spoke confirmed many of those fears by pointing out how unprepared the country was for a no-deal Brexit.

According to the report, only 40,000 of 240,000 businesses have signed up for a special customs number they will need in order to trade with the EU after Brexit. The report also said that a majority of people have no idea they will face new EU customs and immigration controls after Brexit or that they will require an International Driving Permit to drive in the EU. Food imports from the EU could be disrupted, the report noted, and there will be widespread problems for financialservice companies, law firms, Let me be clear, I do chemical manufacturers, car makers and transport compa- not want to see [the deadline] extended. nies.

The government also hasn’t Our absolute focus come close to converting 40 EU should be on trade deals into U.K. agreements.

Ministers had hoped to have all working to get a 40 deals in place by the Brexit deal and leaving deadline, but so far just six have on 29 March. been signed and they don’t include large trading partners such THERESA MAY as Canada, Japan or South Korea. BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Ms. May has been under increasing pressure to rule out a no-deal Brexit and extend the March 29 deadline.

On Tuesday, three junior cabinet ministers said they would resign unless Ms. May rejected leaving without a deal and up to a dozen senior ministers are believed to have also threatened to quit. Ms. May finally bowed to the pressure and agreed to allow MPs to vote on an extension.

However, she faced criticism from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who said Ms. May had been “grotesquely reckless” in her Brexit strategy and was just trying to “run down the clock.”

In her revised timetable, Ms. May is due to present a new Brexit deal to Parliament on March 12 and, if it’s rejected, MPs will vote over the next two days on whether to leave the EU without a deal or move to extend the deadline. “Let me be clear, I do not want to see [the deadline] extended,” she told MPs. “Our absolute focus should be on working to get a deal and leaving on 29 March.”

EU officials have indicated that any delay beyond the end of June would be difficult because of elections to the European parliament.

Those elections are in May and the new parliament convenes on July 2. Britain isn’t participating in the elections because the country is supposed to be out of the EU as of March 29.

Any extension of that deadline beyond the end of June would mean the U.K. would have to field candidates for the European parliament.

“What kind of message would that send to the more than 17 million people who voted to leave the EU nearly three years ago now?” Ms. May asked MPs on Tuesday.

It’s also not clear if an extension will make it any easier for Ms. May to get her Brexit deal approved by Parliament.

The main sticking point remains the “backstop,” a provision in the withdrawal agreement that guarantees no hard border between Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K., and the Republic of Ireland by ensuring that Northern Ireland remains linked to the EU’s regulations. Many Tory MPs say the backstop will keep the U.K. tied to the EU indefinitely and they wanted it removed or restricted with a time limit.

The EU has refused to make any changes to the agreement, arguing the backstop protects assurances made in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that ended decades of sectarian violence and eliminated border controls.

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Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould says that the governing Liberals may have to require social-media giants to act when they fail to remove hate speech from their platforms.

She made the remark after Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith raised comments that were directed at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on a “Yellow Vest” Facebook page.

During a session of the House of Commons ethics committee, he said the person on the page called Mr. Trudeau a “traitor to our country” who deserves to be “hung for treasonous crimes.”

Mr. Erskine-Smith said the committee has recommended imposing a requirement on social-media platforms to remove “manifestly illegal content in a timely fashion,” which includes hate speech, harassment and dis-

information.

“That’s posted on Facebook, that’s left on Facebook. … So should we expect social-media companies to act or should we require them to act?”

Ms. Gould, who was appearing before the committee, said, “That is outside the scope of my specific mandate right now, but I think that when we have very clear evidence that they are contravening laws here in Canada, that they should be acting responsibly in that manner. I think that we are moving in a direction where we need to require social-media companies to act.”

The RCMP said on Monday that they are aware of the comments made on Facebook, and that they take all threats made against the Prime Minister very seriously.

Staff Sergeant Tania Vaughan would not say if the RCMP are investigating the comments, saying that generally the force would only confirm an investigation in the event that it results in the laying of criminal charges.

Facebook Canada, when asked about the Yellow Vest page and the comments made about Mr. Trudeau, said in a statement the company does not tolerate “harassment or credible threats of

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Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould prepares for her appearance before the House of Commons ethics committee in Ottawa on Tuesday. ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS

violence on Facebook and it’s our aim to prevent any potential realworld harm that may be related to content on our platform.

“That’s why we remove content, disable accounts, and use a combination of technology, reports from our community, and human review to enforce our policies,” said Kevin Chan, head of public policy for the company.

Mr. Erskine-Smith asked experts testifying before the committee about comments made by Michael Wernick, the Clerk of the Privy Council, who last week told the Commons justice committee that he worries about incitements to violence when people use terms such as “treason” and “traitor” in open discourse. Mr. Wernick added at the time that those words lead to “assassination” and that he fears somebody is going to be shot during the federal election campaign later this year.

Allen Sutherland, assistant secretary to the cabinet, machinery of government and democratic institutions, said Mr. Wernick was speaking from “a personal view.”

However, he said Mr. Wernick’s comments are “broadly shared by people who look at issues around social inclusion, not just in Canada but around the world.”

Alberta Election Commissioner fines campaigner in probe of UCP leadership race DEAN BENNETT EDMONTON

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Alberta’s Election Commissioner has issued penalties totalling $15,000 surrounding an investigation into the 2017 United Conservative leadership race.

Commissioner Lorne Gibson has levelled two fines of $7,500 each to Cameron Davies, the cocampaign manager of Jeff Callaway’s campaign for the leadership.

The penalties were for obstruction of an investigation but, as is customary, no details were provided.

Mr. Davies declined comment and directed questions to his lawyer, Dale Fedorchuk.

Mr. Fedorchuk, in a statement, said Mr. Davies denies the allegations and that they plan to appeal the decision to the Court of Queen’s Bench.

“I note that the findings of the

The Canadian military is reporting several victories in its four-year war on sexual misconduct in the ranks, but also some defeats along with signs of “fatigue” as some service members grow tired of the campaign.

The findings are contained in a new internal analysis released by the Canadian Forces on Tuesday, which sought to provide an update on the fight against inappropriate and criminal sexual behaviour in the military launched in 2015.

The analysis follows a report from the federal AuditorGeneral last fall that slammed senior commanders for not doing enough to support victims of such misconduct, which was undercutting efforts to eliminate it.

Despite the Auditor-General’s findings, the new report says the military has implemented several measures to help victims and prosecute perpetrators while raising awareness of sexually inappropriate behaviour across the Forces.

Yet, the military’s attempts to change its overall culture – and ensure what progress has been made isn’t reversed – have been hindered by a lack of information and “bureaucratic failure,” the report says.

That bureaucratic failure manifests itself in several ways, including the military’s attempt to concretely define what constitutes sexual harassment, misconduct and other terms.

The Forces also waited too long to consult victims and advocates and have failed to learn the lessons of the past three years, the report added, while some in the ranks have started to tire of the constant focus on misconduct.

“The Operation Honour message has been circulating within the [Canadian Armed Forces] for more than three years, however in some quarters anecdotal evidence suggests that fatigue with the content is occurring,” the report says.

Operation Honour is the name given to the effort to eliminate sexual misconduct in the Forces, which Chief of Defence Staff General Jonathan Vance launched in July, 2015.

The commander of the military’s sexual-misconduct response team acknowledged the Forces’ failures in an interview on Tuesday, particularly when it came to genuine cultural change.

“If you think about the previous nearly four years now, we’ve been dealing with the immediate response to directly address behaviours that are causing harm to people within the Canadian Armed Forces,” Commodore Rebecca Patterson said. “Cultural change is very challenging. I realize we keep saying that and we don’t have a road map.”

The Forces are now drawing up a “campaign plan” to translate the increased awareness of inappropriate sexual misconduct into a permanent change in attitudes and beliefs, Cmdre. Patterson said.

The effort includes having the military’s sexual-misconduct response centre, first established in September, 2015, as a call centre for victims, become the Forces’ central authority for all inappropriate sexual behaviour.

In 2018, questions arose over the campaign after a recording was made public in which UCP insiders discussed Mr. Callaway running a ‘kamikaze’ campaign for Mr. Kenney.

“It is important that the public not make any conclusions or draw any inferences from the commissioner’s decision until this matter has been heard by the court.”

Mr. Callaway was one of four candidates who ran in 2017 to head up the United Conservative Party, which was formed after a

merger of the Progressive Conservative and Wildrose parties.

Jason Kenney won the leadership.

In 2018, questions arose over the campaign after a recording was made public in which UCP insiders discussed Mr. Callaway running a “kamikaze” campaign for Mr. Kenney, attacking key rival candidate Brian Jean and allowing Mr. Kenney to float above the fray.

Mr. Callaway joined the race and indeed attacked Mr. Jean, who had been the leader of the Wildrose. Mr. Callaway accused Mr. Jean of poorly managing caucus funds and losing touch with the grassroots.

He then dropped out before voting day to support Mr. Kenney.

Both Mr. Kenney and Mr. Callaway have denied engaging in such a scheme.

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In Hong Kong, a ‘weaponized’ free press becomes China’s tool of surveillance Independence activists fear a chilling effect on democracy as staff from Beijing-controlled outlets follow their every move – like paparazzi

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ayne Chan is winding his way through the narrow sidewalks of Mong Kok, a drop in a stream of humanity, when he suddenly ducks to his left, into a narrow gap barely wide enough for two people to pass. He slips to the end of the passage and waits at the door to an elevator, checking over his shoulder to see if anyone has followed.

He’s not just looking for spies or gangsters – although he’s fairly certain people of those descriptions have also tailed him.

He’s also looking for journalists, the kind who sometimes follow him, photograph his meetings and then splash reports across the pages of Beijing-run newspapers in Hong Kong.

In the past few months, reports in Ta Kung Pao and Wen Wei Po have detailed allegations of his “secret” relationships and published detailed accounts of meetings he has held.

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state press. But where much of China’s official news coverage employs the staid, jargon-heavy expression of dogma, the two Hong Kong newspapers have in recent years employed a new form of statesponsored reporting: using the tools of journalism as a form of surveillance on activists and critics who have decried what they call Beijing’s increasingly tight grip on the city.

One Wen Wei Po article last summer showed the extent of such surveillance in Hong Kong, with a reporter covertly following Mr. Chan for hours.

Under the headline, “Students Independence Union Decadents Indulge Themselves With Nightclub And Women, Leading A Befuddled Life,” the newspaper provided an exhaustive account of one night in Mr. Chan’s life.

It started with a 6 p.m. rally – Mr. Chan and others shouted “Hong Kong independence!” – followed by another rally; then 8 p.m. dinner at McDonald’s; a bus trip to a bar (arrival time: 10:20 p.m.); a quick excursion to pick up other people at a metro station; a 1 a.m. diversion to McDonald’s for takeaway; a return to the bar (punctuated by “a long-haired girl vomiting”); then another trip to McDonald’s at 4 a.m., followed by a departure by taxi half an hour later.

The paparazzi-style coverage would not be out of place in the pages of the entertainment press. But Mr. Chan does not fit the normal definition of a celebrity – he convenes the Students Independence Union and has publicly called for Hong Kong to pursue independence.

“I have no career pathway, no job pathway and I tell myself every day – what is my purpose for my life? To make Hong Kong independent,” he said.

His views have made him an object of interest for local authorities, and the Chinese government overseeing Hong Kong, which has sought to stamp out local expressions of sovereignty. Observers say aggressive reporting tactics employed against people such as Mr. Chan are one facet of the response.

“The purpose is to send a message, trying to lower the credibility of the person,” said Rose Luqiu, a journalism scholar at the Hong Kong Baptist University who is a former television reporter in the city.

“The second is to intimidate, to make them fear, to create a chilling effect.”

It’s a kind of innovation with potential global ramifications, since Hong Kong is often used as a piloting area for strategies subsequently used elsewhere.

The city is “a testing area, so they can test different tactics in an open society,” Prof. Luqiu said. For Beijing, “Hong Kong is a trial for how the media and propaganda works.”

Indeed, the use of such tactics in Taiwan prompted a warning from the President’s office in January that Ta Kung Pao has been “unlawful” in its surveillance of people, and had disseminated “fake news.”

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Left: Hong Kong independence activist Wayne Chan is often followed around by journalists who write articles as a form of surveillance on his day-to-day activities.

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Above: Wayne Chan, left, chants slogans at a New Year’s Day pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong with Baggio Leung, centre.

Below: Mr. Leung, seen in Hong Kong on Feb. 20, says the attention he receives from newspapers has changed his daily life.

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In Hong Kong, meanwhile, the effort to stamp out talk of independence – which is a direct challenge to Beijing’s control of Hong Kong – prompted local officials last year to ban the Hong Kong National Party, the city’s first openly separatist political party.

“On all fronts, you can perceive that [Beijing] increasingly gives the impression that they don’t much care how their actions are perceived,” democracy activist and former Hong Kong chief secretary Anson Chan said. “They are determined to demonstrate who is the boss and determined to make people toe the line and mete out punishment to those who don’t.”

A broader effort is also under way to more closely link Hong Kong to mainland China, through new bridge and highspeed rail links, as well as a law that bans mockery of the Chinese national anthem and consideration of a new extraditionlike agreement.

Those shifts form the backdrop to the intense coverage by the city’s Beijing-controlled newspapers, whose reports can be so detailed that Baggio Leung, who was among those booted from the legislature over oath-taking, refers to them as “just like a diary. They are more accurate than my Facebook account. If you have forgotten what day you met someone or where you went, you can check it in Ta Kung Pao.” The attention he receives from news papers and others – he cites gangsters and security services as others whom he believes follow him – has changed his own life. He describes the circuitous route he took to meet The Globe and Mail at a coffee shop, using techniques to shake a tail gleaned from a local private investigator.

“This is a common skill now in Hong Kong activist circles,” he said.

“To us it is normal. But actually, it is quite strange and quite dangerous right now in Hong Kong,” he said.

That investigator is a young employee at a private security firm, who gives his name only as Mr. Lee because his employer has not sanctioned his work with people such as Mr. Leung.

Mr. Lee has trained several dozen people, but says the dangers are growing for activists as they become the object of more acute attention – including from the city’s newspapers.

Wen Wei Po coverage of activists has included accounts of purported love triangles and pointed observations of conduct considered suspicious. In one report late last year, Paladin Cheng, an independence activist, was described as walking away from a meeting while casting furtive glances in a “very sneaky” way. The reports have a real impact: When Mr. Cheng took time off after a surgery, Wen Wei Po reported that he had not been to work.

His company sent him a warning letter.

He has also encountered other more direct forms of intimidation: People whom he calls “gangsters” have come to his

house; at Christmas, he received a greeting card from an unknown sender at his friend’s house, which he took as a sign his whereabouts have been monitored.

But the intensive newspaper coverage offers its own kind of threat.

“They will expose you to the public, to let the public know that you are against the government,” said Ronald Leung, who has worked with the North District Parallel Imports Concern Group, which has protested against the smuggling of goods from Hong Kong to China.

The Globe was unable to obtain comment from either Beijing-controlled newspaper.

Australian academic Kevin Carrico has experienced the coverage firsthand. He noticed someone following him on a December trip to Hong Kong – a woman wearing an Oxford University sweatshirt whom he noticed on the subway, then at a shopping mall, even at the mall bathroom. Wen Wei Po later made him the centrepiece of a front-page report that in-

cluded photos of him at the airport – suggesting the newspaper had foreknowledge of his travel plans – and called Dr. Carrico, who lectures in Chinese studies at Macquarie University, a “supporter of Hong Kong independence” who has ridiculed the Chinese government.

Dr. Carrico had come to Hong Kong to deliver a presentation on Chinese interference operations in different parts of the world.

He marvels at “the amount of energy that went into following me on what was undoubtedly a very boring week.”

But it is indicative of China’s strengthening control over Hong Kong, he said.

“They have used the freedom of the press that exists in Hong Kong – this kind of openness and the kind of aggressive investigation media that exists – and essentially weaponized this for political goals,” he said. Doing so has turned “the freedom of the press against the very people who are trying to protect the freedom of the press.”

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The hidden messages in Monday’s vote

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o what do Monday’s federal by-election results tell us about the state of Canadian politics, eight months before a general election? That each of the major parties

has something to dream on, and much to worry about.

Start with the party with the most at stake on Monday: the New Democrats. Their leader, Jagmeet Singh, finally has a seat in the House of Commons.

Better yet for the NDP, his race in Burnaby South was not close. The party narrowly won this riding in 2015; this time, Mr. Singh triumphed by a wide margin, nearly 3,000 votes ahead of his Liberal opponent.

But Mr. Singh’s honeymoon lasted only a few minutes. As soon as he finished his victory speech, reporters moved on to peppering him with questions about his fractured party, its fundraising challenges and its declining popularity.

Not coincidentally, three time zones away, the NDP was being soundly defeated in the other by-election where it was incumbent. That the loss was expected doesn’t make it less painful. In the Montreal riding of Outremont, held since 2007 by former party leader Tom Mulcair, the NDP’s Julia Sanchez captured just 26 per cent of the vote, well behind Liberal Rachel Bendayan.

It marks the latest retreat for the Orange Wave, which in 2011 carried the NDP to Official Opposition status, largely on

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the back of 59 seats in Quebec. The high tide continues to roll out; the party now has just 15 seats in the province.

The silver lining for the NDP? They may have lost Outremont, which prior to Mr. Mulcair had been a Liberal fortress, but the New Democrats still finished far ahead of the Conservative Party, the Greens and the party from which the Orange Wave drew most of its supporters – the fast-evaporating Bloc Québécois.

The Outremont results are the latest sign that, on the island of Montreal at least, this fall is shaping up as a two-way fight between the Liberals and NDP. Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives also got a mixed report card on Monday night. First piece of good news: As expected, the party retained the Ontario riding of York-Simcoe, with Scot Davidson taking nearly 54 per cent of the vote, an increase from the 50 per cent the party captured in 2015.

Second piece of good news for the Conservatives: Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party wasn’t a factor in York-Simcoe. The conservative splinter group captured just 314 votes – in a lowturnout by-election, less than 2 per cent of ballots.

In theory, the People’s Party threatens to split the vote on the right in October; a big enough split could cost the Conservatives close races. On the left, this is precisely what the NDP and the Liberals can sometimes do to one another. On Monday night, however, Mr. Bernier’s party barely registered a pulse in York-Simcoe and Outremont.

It was a different story in Burnaby South. Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson, a former host of 700 Club Canada, a Christian television program, pulled in nearly 11 per cent of vote for the People’s Party. She didn’t come close to winning, but she did win the support of a good number of people who in the past would likely have voted Conservative.

That has to set off alarm bells for Mr. Scheer and his party.

The combined vote of the People’s Party and the Conservatives in Burnaby South was more than 33 per cent on Monday – which would have been good enough for second place, and within striking distance of Mr. Singh, who took 39 per cent of the vote.

And the Justin Trudeau Liberals? They were the incumbent in none of the three ridings on Monday, yet they captured one of them. Their Quebec base has been firmed up, and they’re well positioned for fall in that province.

Also good news for the Liberals is that polls show national support for the NDP at remarkably low levels. The prospect of losing an election thanks to vote-splitting may be a new problem for Mr. Scheer, but it’s always been a central dilem-

Re Michael Wernick’s Alarmist Words Are The Politics Of Fear (Feb. 26): Wesley Wark claims that Chief of the Privy Council Michael Wernick’s concerns about the decline in Canadian political discourse are “alarmist.”

But Prof. Wark’s point is directly undermined by another article in the same day’s Globe and Mail: RCMP ‘Aware’ Of Remarks Made About Trudeau On Yellow Vest Facebook Page. This article reports posted comments using language such as “traitor” and “treason,” and suggesting that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be hanged. One wants to ask Mr. Wark what level of rhetoric it would require for him to begin worrying.

It is a shame that those using this aggressive rhetoric – language that mimics the dangerous hyperbole of the Trump approach to politics – will miss the irony that it is they who are turning their backs on the more traditional Canadian values of civility and reasoned discourse.

Sascha Maicher Ottawa The timing of the Clerk of the Privy Council’s comments on the state of Canada’s discourse may be debatable, but classifying the substance of his remarks as “the politics of fear” is at best naive, and at worst, sophist analysis.

That violent rhetoric has established a presence in Canada is indisputable. The Canadian AntiHate Network has already exposed multiple examples of dangerous, far-right groups. The RCMP recently revealed calls made on a Facebook page for the death of the Prime Minister. The investigation into Alexandre Bissonnette’s attack on a Quebec mosque discovered he was motivated by information he was consuming online.

Canada has a long tradition of civil discourse, but angry voices have coalesced on noxious social media platforms, influenced by Twitter-identified foreign trolls, and afforded credibility by reckless partisans.

Sounding the alarm is not instilling fear, it is demonstrating courage and common sense.

Christopher Holcroft Montreal

ma for the Liberals. Polls suggest it is less of a problem than ever – at least for the moment.

The problem for the Liberal government is that there’s al-

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ways another cloud on the horizon. Being the government means you never know what tomorrow will bring. For the Liberals, that saying is very real, with Jody Wilson-Raybould scheduled to appear before the Commons justice committee on Wednesday to testify about the SNC-Lavalin affair.

By the time she’s done, Monday may be a very long time ago indeed.

Re Anti-Bribery Rules Need To Get Smarter (editorial, Feb. 26): Indeed, the rules should be smarter, and they need to be effectively enforced, as you suggest.

But the process itself is seriously flawed. Massive punishments against corporations cause misery for employees and shareholders, who are completely inno-

cent. Instead, the focus should be on the individuals who instigated, approved or acquiesced in the practices concerned.

Not only would that be more just, it would be a more effective deterrent. To get a deferred prosecution agreement, a corporation should normally be required to fire the CEO and, if it is a financial crime, the CFO as well, together with any other employees who are directly involved.

In the SNC-Lavalin case, the Prime Minister would have been negligent if he had not intervened to point out that it would be a bad thing if thousands of employees were to lose their jobs as a result of a criminal conviction.

David Selley Toronto

CARING OR CAREGI ERS Re Who Will Care For Canada’s Caregivers? (Feb. 25): Canada is an aging country where seniors, in large part, must rely on their own family members to provide the necessary care and support.

Benjamin Tal asks a vital question: Who will help those who help their loved ones?

As a former co-caregiver for both parents (mom had Parkinson’s and leukemia, dad had Alzheimer’s), I consider myself fortunate that they were financially savvy. Their joint nest egg helped cover many of the costs associated with their care in their later years, but not all seniors and/or families are this practical, or through no fault of theirs, can save this much.

Mr. Tal points out that “close to two million Canadians, or 14 per cent of those with parents older than 65, incur care-related out-ofpocket costs.” Those pockets must be deep, as care costs average $3,300 annually.

Should Canada’s family-caregivers continue to pay the steep price? No. There are steps being taken, but they are only baby steps. We need far more substantial strides.

Just one example: More employers could offer workers who act as caregivers paid leave, flexible work schedules, or workfrom-home options.

Rick Lauber Author, Caregiver’s Guide for Canadians; Edmonton It is caregivers (women) like me who are paying a far higher and longer-term financial cost than Benjamin Tal suggests. For six years, I was the primary caregiver for my widowed mother (she moved in with me to access health care and have day-to-day support).

Although she had a terminal, debilitating form of cancer, personal support in the GTA community where she lived was limited to 1.5 hours per week. We supplemented with private, in-home

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care, but it wasn’t nearly enough.

We considered a live-in caregiver at some $30,000 per year, but most don’t drive and they need time off. We looked at assisted living, but encountered long wait lists and costs of at least $5,500 monthly, while still facing large gaps in meeting her evolving needs, plus most facilities we saw were awful environments.

So I gave up most of my selfemployed consulting work during what should have been peak earning years (44-50) to care for her 24/7. I was also a single parent and the primary caregiver of an adolescent. Aside from the emotional and physical drain, there were costs for everything from food and gas to hospital parking.

But it was the loss of income, the ability to save for retirement and my child’s postsecondary education, which kept me up at night.

My parents are both gone now; I am recovering and restarting my career (not easy at 50). My mom agonized over all of this. She and my sibling recognized the value of what I did, and have ensured I am financially secure. For that I am grateful; I know I am one of the lucky ones.

Kirsten Mogg Toronto

BARGAIN C IE E ECUTI ES The Ford government has put the board of directors of Hydro One in a difficult position by significantly limiting their CEO’s compensation (Ontario Orders Hydro One To Cap CEO Compensation At $1.5-Million – Feb. 22).

How can they find someone who will take on this enormous job at well below the market rate of pay? I have a solution. I nominate Patrick Brown for the CEO’s role. I’m sure Premier Doug Ford would approve …

Mark Verlinden Oakville, Ont. Like letter writer Renton Stevenson, I, too, am a retiree who knows little about electrical transmission and distribution, but am willing to meet the “overriding criterion” of working for $1.5-million a year (Waiting By The Phone, Feb. 26).

While my retirement has brought me free time, I wouldn’t wish to return to a 9-to-5 existence. However, this is 2019, and the working world is changing.

Might I suggest to Mr. Stevenson we job-share? Getting two for the price of one is surely a bargain the Premier cannot pass up.

Michael Sidford Toronto Letters to the Editor should be exclusive to The Globe and Mail.

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OPINION Donald Trump, the ultimate political survivor Michael Cohen’s testimony and the Mueller report are unlikely to bring down the Teflon President LAWRENCE MARTIN OPINION

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emember all the blistering headlines about Donald Trump losing the government-shutdown fight? How he was embarrassed by the Democrats, and how he was outfoxed

by Speaker Nancy Pelosi?

Recall how, in recent days, he’s been pilloried for invoking a national emergency to build his Mexican wall when no such emergency exists. Illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border are at their lowest in nearly 50 years.

Given all the nasty news, the punditocracy thought Mr. Trump would surely take a fall in the

polls. But they were wrong again: In fact, he appears to have benefited from the adversity. He’s edging up into the mid-40-per-cent range in approval ratings, close to where he needs to be to win another election.

How many times have we seen this depressing, logic-defying movie before? Mr. Trump suffers multiple embarrassments, but his support holds – or even improves. There’s no trap door. Bad publicity doesn’t hurt him. The Access Hollywood tape that came to light just weeks before the 2016 election – in which he brags about groping and kissing women without their consent – would have knocked over any other political leader. Not the ever-resilient Mr. Trump, though.

Throughout his career, he’s done the unthinkable but remained unsinkable. A fellow scribe tells me he’s researching a book on him; the Hemingway-esque working title is The Scum Also Rises.

But now comes the biggest test. Testimony on Capitol Hill this week by the man who knows his secrets – his long-time confidant and fixer, Michael Cohen.

This, to be followed by the tabling of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller. Revelations are sure to be damning, whether they be on Russian collusion, obstruction of justice, hush-money payments to women or money-laundering offences.

If he survives them – and given his history, it won’t be all that shocking if he does – he’s in the clear. He’ll be free to engage in demagoguery and self-glorification all the way to the election campaign, one in which he may well have policy accomplishments to take to the voters.

Mr. Trump appears to be getting close to a trade deal with China. That could have broad and beneficial ramifications both economically and geopolitically. He’s engaged in another summit with the leader of North Korea this week. In Afghanistan, there are peace talks with the Taliban. He has his high-flying economy. Conservatives are delighted with his appointments to the courts.

The Democrats, meanwhile, are entering into a long and likely divisive campaign to select a nominee. The party is split along left and moderate lines. It is open-

ing itself up to charges of becoming anti-capitalist.

Mr. Trump is a raging bull on the counterattack. He and his defenders will deny all charges from Mr. Cohen, saying he is a tainted, discredited source who has lied on the witness stand and who sought a sweetheart deal with prosecutors. Democrats will believe Mr. Cohen. Republicans won’t.

It could well be the same with the Mueller report. The first question is how much of it will see the light of day. Deputy attorneygeneral Rod Rosenstein warned on Monday not to expect full transparency. He indicated his department will be hesitant to give out incriminating information on someone who is not facing charges, as happened in the case of Hillary Clinton over the e-mail server controversy. The fact that the Justice Department has a policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted will be a comfort to Mr. Trump.

Congress will likely issue subpoenas to get the full Mueller report and try to compel testimony from Mr. Mueller himself. A tugof-war between the executive

branch and Congress could lead to a long-running court battle.

If a highly incriminatory report does make it into the public domain, the national divide between two politically warring camps will only deepen. Mr. Trump has already done much to sell his base on the notion that he is the victim of an egregiously biased, deep-state smear campaign, and that it is the Democrats who should be investigated.

On hush-money payments, the story of Mr. Trump’s dalliances has already been aired, and it didn’t hurt him. On the question of obstruction of justice, legal experts say it will be very difficult to prove. As for impeachment proceedings, Democrats aren’t keen on pulling that lever so close to a general election, especially given the Republican majority in the Senate.

For Mr. Trump to be irreparably damaged, the Mueller report will have to contain unassailable, documented evidence of his involvement in high crimes, so much so that even Republicans are prepared to desert him.

That’s a high bar. Probably too high.

Singh has won a House seat. Now, the hard part begins GARY MASON OPINION

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job.

His big win Monday night in the Burnaby South by-election will quell, for now, the doubts and speculation about the future of his leadership. Despite insisting that he would have remained in charge even if he’d lost, the reality is he wouldn’t have. The federal caucus of the party would have insisted on change at the top.

He would have been toast.

But he won a contest where the stakes couldn’t have been higher. He is the first racialized leader of a federal political party to take a seat in the House of Commons, so there is also a historic element to this victory which shouldn’t be overlooked.

Still, in many ways, the hard part now begins for Mr. Singh.

He has so many priorities it’s hard to know where to begin. But the first is likely altering the narrative that has developed around him since becoming leader in October, 2017. And part of that narrative is that he is often poorly informed and ill-prepared.

He won’t be able to turn to aides and ask what the party’s policy is on a particular issue, as he once did, to the embarrassment of NDP MPs. He will need to be thoroughly briefed on major national and international developments. There will be no excuse, for instance, for being unaware China’s ambassador said

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh – seen celebrating his by-election win in B.C.’s Burnaby South riding on Monday night – will need to quickly develop a commanding presence during Parliament’s Question Period.

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“white supremacy” was a factor in Canada’s detention of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, as happened when Mr. Singh was asked about the remark on CTV’s Question Period, taped a day after the comments made international headlines.

“It wasn’t the first year [as leader] that I think he would have wanted, but now he has a chance to change that,” veteran NDP MP Nathan Cullen told me.

“He will need to get better at the type of complicated and hard questions that we face as national politicians.”

Mr. Cullen is one of the people in the NDP caucus Mr. Singh is going to have to rely on in the

early going. He will need to maintain the backing of the party’s most influential MPs, if for no other reason than to maintain control of a caucus he does not know like a leader would if they already had a seat in the House of Commons. He will need to cultivate a relationship with this group or risk the internal backstabbing and sniping for which the NDP has sometimes been known.

Mr. Singh will also need to develop a presence in Parliament during Question Period. That is harder than it looks.

It’s not easy to get up in front of 337 fellow parliamentarians and, in a cogent and forceful

manner, demand answers from the Prime Minister. It can often take new MPs one election cycle or more to feel comfortable on their feet in the maelstrom of QP. Mr. Singh does not have that luxury; he needs to be good, and noticeable, in a hurry.

Then, there is the problem of Quebec. The NDP is in deep trouble in the crucial province – they lost another seat there in Monday’s by-elections, one once held

by Mr. Singh’s predecessor, Tom Mulcair – where disdain in some quarters for religious symbols and clothing make for a difficult fit with a federal leader who wears a turban and kirpan as a practising Sikh.

“I think Jagmeet has to be able to demonstrate how his faith enhances, rather than gets in the way of, his politics,” Mr. Cullen said. “I think he needs to make the distinction between one’s personal faith and public work.

It’s an issue not to be ignored. My advice would be to speak right to it.”

Finally, Mr. Singh needs to demonstrate that his party is still an attractive political vehicle for Canadians of a progressive bent.

Convincing a group of high-profile Canadians to run for the party in the next election would help immensely. In the past several months, all we’ve heard about are NDP MPs deciding not to seek re-election, fuelling a developing narrative that people are fleeing a sinking ship.

Mr. Cullen doesn’t underestimate the enormity of the task ahead of Mr. Singh, but nor does he believe Mr. Singh’s not up to it.

“I think a lot of people have written Jagmeet off far too quickly,” he said. “While it’s been a difficult year, there is nothing but opportunity ahead of him.”

Adam Capay case shows Ontario must eliminate the inhumane practice of segregation RENU MANDHANE OPINION

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he Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) was sounding the alarm on the inhumane practice of solitary confinement well before I met Adam Capay in a segregation cell in the Thunder Bay jail in October, 2016. In total, Mr. Capay spent 1,647 days in isolation. We had long been calling on the previous government to eliminate the use of segregation, which can have serious implications on a person’s health and well-being.

In the interim, we called on the government to “make segregation placement decisions and health-care assessments subject to external and independent review and oversight, including judicial review.”

On Monday, the publication ban in the Capay segregation case was lifted, and reading the 126-page decision is harrowing.

Justice John Fregeau found that Mr. Capay’s isolation for more than four years had a “serious, profound” effect on his “psychological integrity” and violated his Charter rights. As a result, Mr. Capay will not be tried for first-degree murder and the victim’s family has been robbed of the opportunity to seek justice.

There are no winners here.

After obtaining segregation statistics from the government, the OHRC cautioned that nearly 1,400 of Ontario’s segregation placements were long enough that they could amount to cruel and inhumane treatment based on United Nations standards. We noted that internal procedural safeguards were “wholly insufficient to address a problem of this magnitude.”

Despite the seriousness of the harm to prisoners in segregation, in R. v Capay, the court found the government’s internal segregation reviews “meaningless.”

Many of the reviews never took place, and those that did were supported by sloppy and erroneous paperwork. The government’s regional reviewer testified

that he had never removed a prisoner from segregation and questioned whether he was authorized to do so. This falls far short of the “robust duty of procedural fairness” that Ontario courts have held should be applied in these types of cases.

While giving evidence in R v.

Capay, prison expert Michael Jackson reflected on the Kafkaesque quality of Mr. Capay’s segregation reviews: “When you look at these reviews and you see from month to month, from year to year, they’re exactly the same.

He was kind of trapped in a place and space that never changed. …

People are filling out forms.

They’re checking boxes, but it’s as if Adam Capay’s disappeared.”

Relying on evidence about the OHRC’s work, Justice Fregeau found that “The state misconduct in this case is not isolated,” and that the “the inadequacy and ineffectiveness of the segregation review process in Ontario has been a long standing and ongoing problem.”

Indeed, since Mr. Capay’s admission into segregation in 2012, too little has changed. Data from

May, 2018, show there were 778 segregation placements exceeding the accepted limit of 15 days, with eight prisoners being held in segregation for more than a year. Based on this data, judges may very well be asked to stay other criminal charges based on rights violations associated with Ontario’s use of solitary confinement.

It is now abundantly clear that Ontario’s continued use of segregation undermines both human rights and the administration of justice.

Earlier this year, in R. v Prystay, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench remarked on the evolving societal views of what is acceptable treatment or punishment: “Forced sterilization, residential schools, lobotomies to treat mental disorders, corporal punishment in schools and the death penalty are all examples of treatment once considered acceptable. Segregation ravages the mind. There is growing discomfort over its continued use as a quick solution to complex problems.”

In light of the emerging con-

sensus, Ontario should heed the OHRC’s early warnings about the danger of this inhumane practice and commit to eliminating segregation. At the very least, requiring external and independent oversight, including judicial review of segregation decisions, would assure the public that vulnerable people held in segregation will not “disappear,” swallowed up by a vast and ineffective bureaucracy. After all, what was business as usual for corrections officials was cruel and unusual treatment to Justice Fregeau.

In the wake of the Capay case, the OHRC has written to the government and offered to work with its legislators to tackle the immediate challenges. The problems are complex, but the solutions have been well documented – from the Ashley Smith inquest to recent reports on corrections reform in Ontario. With leadership and appropriate investment, the government now has a unique chance to make our prisons more humane, our communities safer and our justice system stronger.

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In partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Vancouver Airport Authority launched Fly Calm, a stress-relief program for travellers that includes adult colouring books. VANCOUVER AIRPORT AUTHORITY

Airports are aiming to put travellers at ease Programs and services are being launched in Canada and around the world to help manage the stress that comes with flying DAVE MCGINN

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oing to an airport makes Arlene Werenich so nervous that the 56-year-old can’t sleep the night before a flight. Trying to find the airline check-in desk, worrying whether she is in the right line and fretting that she may not make her flight because of long lineups at security all make her anxious, she explains.

“It’s so stressful,” says the retiree, who lives in Mississauga.

But next time she flies out of Toronto Pearson International Airport, she might be able to relax a little with the help of a new fourlegged friend.

On Feb. 20, Canada’s busiest airport launched a program in partnership with St. John Ambulance that has volunteers walking 13 therapy dogs throughout terminals 1 and 3. The pooches are there to be petted, played with, photographed if you’d like to and generally help take the edge off for travellers.

“We know that dogs really do bring enjoyment and also relieve stress and anxiety,” says Suzanne Gayle, manager of the Welcome Team Volunteer Program.

Airports can be trying environments. With so much out of a passenger’s control – whether it is a long lineup or a last-minute gate change while dealing with pressure of catching a flight on time – it is easy to see why air travel makes many people harried and nervous. In response, airports across Canada and around the world have begun launching programs and services to help put travellers at ease.

“Airports are becoming more attuned to travellers with hidden challenges,” says Daniel-Robert Gooch, president of the Canadian Airports Council, an industry association. “In terms of travellers with anxiety issues and disabilities that maybe you can’t see, airports are being much more sensitive to that.”

In Calgary, a busy holiday season showed how effective furry companions can be at bringing a sense of calm to a tense atmosphere.

A few days before Christmas, hundreds of passengers who had cleared security and were waiting at their gates were told that, because of a security issue, they would have to gather their belongings and go through screening a second time.

To help deal with people’s frustrations and potential anxiety, airport staff handed out water and snacks, gave frequent updates – and deployed some cuteness.

“There were YYC [Calgary aiport] preboard pet dogs for anyone to come up and play with,”

Many support services for passengers involve the use of therapy dogs, such as those from the St. John Ambulance program, for calming and stress-relief purposes. RAFAL GERSZAK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

one of the passengers gushed on Facebook.

Launched in 2016, the airport’s Pre-Board Pals program currently features 52 therapy animals – all dogs except for one cat – that walk around (with volunteers) wearing vests that say “pet me.”

“There’s a lot of stress and anxiety associated with travel,” says Debbie Stahl, director of customer care at the Calgary Airport Authority. “We thought, if there’s something we can do to help reduce that stress, why not try it?”

Similar programs can be found at airports across Canada – including in Montreal, Halifax, Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Fort McMurray – and more than 40 in the United States.

But therapy dogs are just one tool airports are using to try to soothe passengers.

Last fall, the Vancouver Airport Authority launched a program in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association called Fly Calm.

The program includes a website that features advice on how to manage stress and anxiety – through breathing techniques, for example – and the importance of staying hydrated. Another component is an adult colouring book that can be downloaded and printed at home, or picked up along with a pack of coloured pencils at presecurity customer information centres at the airport.

“There’s a lot that’s out of our control when we travel, but there are pieces that are within our control as travellers and so at least we can make sure everyone is aware of those,” says Maya Russell, the community engagement director for the Canadian Mental Health Association’s British Columbia division.

Most of the tips are common sense, but are worth reminding people of because they are proven ways to mitigate stress, Russell says.

The colouring books, which depict destinations around the world, are a playful component of the initiative but also an effective one, she says. “It’s actually true that colouring really does force your mind to focus and it can help as a distraction.”

One seemingly unavoidable

cause of airport stress is noise pollution. On top of the general hubbub of waiting passengers, travellers are subjected to constant announcements, cacophonous food courts and boisterous children.

Many airports have acknowledged the issue and are making efforts to limit the clamour by adopting “silent” policies; these limit terminal-wide broadcasts in order to create a more relaxed atmosphere. As of last year, for example, Singapore’s Changi Airport stopped making final call announcements for people to go to their boarding gates. It’s the same at Hong Kong International Airport.

Other airports taking such measures include London City Airport, which only makes announcements in the event of a flight disruption or emergency, and Helsinki Airport, where the public-address system is used only in gate areas.

The desire to reduce traveller unease comes after years of industry changes that have only added to the hassle of air travel – self check-in at automated stations, ever-changing security rules, the tightening of baggage restrictions.

“The processes and everything else have changed, which really has increased the stress level for people travelling,” Stahl says. It’s why volunteers at the Calgary airport are asked to take the therapy animals to high-aggravation areas, such as slow-moving security queues.

But now, the seriousness of the issue has begun to influence the way architects design airports. A new terminal set to open at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in four years will feature uninterrupted space and large glass façades amongst other aspects intended to create a calming rhythm.

The trend toward more peaceful airports has been prompted in part by several well-publicized incidents of air rage in recent years, says Brian Sumers, senior airline business editor at Skift, a U.S.based company that provides news, marketing and research services for the travel industry.

It’s not just passengers who can be on edge, he notes, but also airline employees and airport staff.

“It’s in everybody’s best interests to get people to calm down.”

ranco Boni, the long-time artistic director of Toronto’s Theatre Centre, has been named the next artistic and executive director of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival in Vancouver. The move follows the departure of PuSh co-founder Norman Armour last year. Boni takes over from interim artistic director Joyce Rosario on June 1.

In Toronto, Boni has been the Theatre Centre’s artistic director since 2003, where he led the development and construction of its new space, including the $6-million capital campaign to redevelop the historic Carnegie Library building that is now its home. He developed the Residency Program, designed to support artists in developing new work over two years; established the Free Fall Festival for boundary-testing work as a biennial; and co-founded Progress Festival, an international festival of performance and ideas.

Boni, 48, was born in Toronto, and attended York University for theatre and religious studies. He took over the Rhubarb Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre when he was 28, then moved to SummerWorks Performance Festival, where, as artistic producer, he brought in a major change moving the festival from a lottery to a juried event.

He was the inaugural recipient of the Ken McDougall Award for emerging directors in 1996, and received the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Rita Davies Cultural Leadership Award in 2007, recognizing his outstanding leadership of arts and culture in the city. He received the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts’ George Luscombe Award for Mentorship in The PuSh Festival Theatre in 2013.

Boni has been attending Van- really has propelled couver’s PuSh Festival, which those Vancouver marked its 15th anniversary this artists on the year, since its early days and calls international stage, himself “a huge, huge fan” of Armour’s and what he has done unlike Toronto. with the festival.

FRANCO BONI In particular, he says he ad- NEWLY APPOINTED mires the programming of local ARTISTIC, EXECUTIVE works alongside international DIRECTOR FOR companies. “I was always so im- PUSH FESTIVAL pressed,” he says. “The PuSh Festival really has propelled those Vancouver artists on the international stage, unlike Toronto. That hasn’t happened in Toronto. It’s really unique. There’s a platform that has been given for those Vancouver artists internationally that’s very exciting and that I want to continue to support.”

He says his first order of business is to meet with as many people as possible to discuss PuSh and how the festival serves the theatre and arts community as well as the greater population of Vancouver. He is very interested in the idea of the role of civic engagement in theatre.

“The question that has really driven me over the last five years at the Theatre Centre [is] what can a theatre be? And it can’t just be for plays; it can’t just be for entertainment.

What is it for a community, a neighbourhood, a city?”

He points out that the Theatre Centre – a live arts incubator that serves as a cultural research and development hub, as well as a performance space – is open to the public from the morning until late at night, with free WiFi. It hosts community events and people are encouraged to hang out.

“You’re welcome here. And you’re welcome at any time, [which] is a huge shift because most people associate theatres as places … where you have to buy a ticket to come in and that’s how you access theatre. But I think we have to turn that around.”

Boni says he is unsure of succession plans for the Theatre Centre, but he’s confident. “There’s an incredible board of directors and an amazing staff, so they’re going to get it right. I trust them,” he says. “It’s going to be just fine.”

Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group spotlights the defiant resolve of filmmakers BRAD WHEELER FILM REVIEW

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ounded in 1974, the Winnipeg Film Group is responsible for such strange films as John Paizs’s Crime Wave and Death By Popcorn: The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets.

Isolated from the traditional Canadian centres of power, the artist-run organization found success not by breaking the rules, but by not knowing the rules in the first place. That the Winnipeg Film Group survived all these years is, says one of the spotlighted directors, Guy Maddin, “a testimony to the foolhardy dream almost everybody has of being a filmmaker.”

For their lively documentary Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group, directors Kevin Nikkel and Dave Barber spoke to a legion of filmmakers, staffers and board members – some still with the group, but many more not. Although we learn about the influential surrealist Paizs and the group’s former funky headquarters on Adelaide Street, the film’s charisma has less to do with history and more to do with the hows and whys of the group’s quixotic ethos and defiant resolve.

It comes down to a shared experience and a bunker mentality. About the group’s darkly humoured handmade films, the term “little cinematic attacks” is employed. Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group is just one more of those.

Tales from the Winnipeg Film Group screens Feb. 27 at the TIFF Lightbox in Toronto (tiff.net).

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Canadian comics decry JFL’s takeover of radio channel As the festival takes control of programming for the Canada Laughs station on SiriusXM, some fear their content, and income, will be cut MARSHA LEDERMAN

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id you hear the one about the Canadian comedy satellite-radio channel that changed its format, dropping “Canada” from its name, and then promised it would strengthen the reach of Canadian comedy? The punchline, according to many Canadian comedians, is not at all funny.

The controversy involves a satellite-radio station on SiriusXM Canada that airs comedy routines. Canada Laughs was marketed as “uncensored Canadian stand-up, sketch, improv and music.” But last week, some listeners noticed a change. Suddenly, the station was playing a great deal of material from Just For Laughs (JFL) festivals.

When word got out in the comedy community that JFL would be programming the station, some Canadian comedians became frantic with concern. The station has been a consistent venue for Canadian stand-up material, and playing JFL content would mean less room for their work.

“Let’s be honest,” Quebec comedian Derek Seguin said.

“They’re not going to play me as much now that they can play Jerry Seinfeld and Tim Allen.”

Ottawa-based comedian Jen Grant fears she could lose 40 per cent to 50 per cent of her income as a result of the changes. “People are devastated.”

On Monday, after a storm of controversy on social media from comedians concerned about the future of independent Canadian content on the station, JFL and SiriusXM released a joint statement, officially announcing Just For Laughs Radio, an “all-new

Comedian Howie Mandel, co-owner of Just for Laughs, released a Facebook video on Sunday promising the festival’s controversial takeover of the Canada Laughs radio station would ‘strengthen the reach of Canadian comedy’ and that ‘independent comedians will still be involved.’ RYAN REMIORZ/THE CANADIAN PRESS

24/7 comedy channel.”

The release said the station will offer a mix of stand-up recorded at JFL events and “premium content from independent comedy albums.” In an interview on Monday, JFL president Bruce Hills and John Lewis, SiriusXM Canada’s senior vice-president of programming and operations, told The Globe and Mail most of the material on the channel will be Canadian. They were not able to say how much of the content would come from JFL events and how much would be independent.

“The content that will be played will fluctuate based on the quality of what’s available,” Mr. Hills said in a conference call with Mr. Lewis.

They confirmed that JFL was asked to partner with SiriusXM to draw a larger audience, and attract and retain subscribers.

“We thought this was a good news story. We were endeavouring to create a fantastic new

channel,” Mr. Hills said, adding that he was sorry the information got out the wrong way and upset people.

Some Canadian comedians worry that the royalties they receive when their material is played on the channel through SoundExchange, a collective rights management organization, will decline.

“For some people, it’s their primary source of income,” said Sandra Battaglini, a comic who founded the Canadian Association of Stand-up Comedians (CASC) a year ago. Since last week, she has been hearing from comics who are concerned they will not be able to make ends meet. CASC is holding a town hall about the issue in Toronto on Tuesday.

“That revenue is the difference between paying their rent and not, and possibly having to stop comedy to wait tables or work in the mines,” Mr. Seguin said. “We tell jokes; what are we qualified

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Jonathan Simkin, whose Vancouver-based label 604 Records has a comedy division that includes artists Charlie Demers, Kevin Banner and Yumi Nagashima, called the development “absolutely devastating” to the Canadian comedy community.

“For many up-and-coming and mid-level Canadian comedians, Canada Laughs was both their primary source of income and primary source of exposure,” Mr. Simkin said. “Where is that infrastructure for development going to come from now? Canada Laughs was such a supporter of Canadian comedy and up-andcoming Canadian talent. …

Where are those people going to have an opportunity to be heard and to earn some revenue?”

But comedian Howie Mandel, who acquired the Montrealbased JFL last year in partnership with an L.A.-based talent agency, ICM Partners, promised good things for the Canadian comedy

scene as a result of the new format.

“If anything, this is going to strengthen the reach of Canadian comedy,” he said in a Facebook Live video posted late Sunday.

Mr. Mandel said SiriusXM asked JFL to come in.

“They approached us because they wanted to retool that station … and when networks want to retool things, it means they’re not totally satisfied with how their customers are receiving it,” said Mr. Mandel, who is from Canada, his voice echoing through what appeared to be a large home, with a large spiral staircase and a baby grand piano.

“Canadians will still be involved and independent comedians will still be involved. And everybody and everything that is programmed on that station will be receiving a royalty,” he said.

He seemed to imply the station might not have continued to air comedy had JFL not stepped in.

“This is an asset to every Canadian comic because I promise you this was going away,” he said.

Mr. Lewis said no decision was ever made to eliminate the channel. “We wouldn’t have approached Just For Laughs if that were the case,” he said. “We wanted to attract a larger audience and we feel like we’re going to be able to do that with JFL.” But some comedians don’t like what they’re hearing. “Ancient stuff picked from the dustbin of history,” said comedian Ron James, who heard from others that the channel was playing some of his older routines. “A comedian grows. You grow as an artist,” he continued. “I’m two television series and nine onehour comedy specials away from that.”

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When you’re fishing, Tony Aspler writes, you become oblivious to everything else, a process that clears the soul as well as the mind

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ishing is a life lesson. You learn more about and Acacia Pinot Noir Reserve 1991 in magnum yourself in an afternoon sitting at the end of ($300, 1,500 millilitres) out of plastic glasses with a boat in the rain than you would from three little plastic fish in the stems.

Guides are special people. Over the years, we’ve years of lying on a psychiatrist’s couch.

Fishing is good for the soul. You have to relax come to know a few. Bob is a gamekeeper turned because you can only catch fish when your mind is poacher – a former Ministry of the Environment empty. Will a fish on the line and it won’t happen. inspector who gave up a safe civil-service job to You must purge your mind of all piscatorial run canoe trips and guide fishermen. (In his forthoughts, which is hard to do. In a state of tran- mer life, he once trailed Ike.) Brian took early rescendental meditation you can be sure you’ll get a tirement from his bank-manager job after sufferbite that will jerk you out of your reverie. Then all ing a minor heart attack so that he could fish withhell breaks loose. That mystical moment when the out stress. While they appear to have given up the fish hits is as much a surprise to you as it is to the rat race, they are highly competitive among themselves. Bragging rights go to the boat with the most fish that took your lure.

I am reminded of this every year on a weeklong fish and the largest fish.

Guides also have to know how to talk to the fishing trip in Northwestern Ontario. I also relearn that you cannot choose a lure that will attract fish paying customers, and offer reasons as to why you are failing to catch fish. “Too much sunshine.” “Too to your line. You can have a tackle box filled with Wally Divers, Dardevles, Pixees, Rapala Tail Danc- overcast.” “You should have come last week.” “You ers, Jigs of all sizes, Mrs. Simpson flies, Woolly Bug- should have come next week.” “We got a 24-pound gers, whatever, and the fish won’t give them the lake trout right here yesterday.” “The wind’s blowtime of day. What looks attractive to you – the ing from the east.” “The wind roiled up the water – bright colours, the flash of silver, the streamers, the fish can’t see the lures.” “This is the season the the feathers – means nothing to a fish. If the fish pickerel shed their teeth.”

Usually, the guides will not fish are not biting, you’d have as much themselves but sometimes they have luck dangling a diaper pin in the wato if it looks as if your boat is coming ter. Changing lures is merely an exerback empty-handed. That’s when we cise in relieving boredom and it What I’ve come to resort to using the fish finders, sonic makes you look professional. But it understand about devices that purport to mark where does not impress your fishing guides. this hobby is that a the fish are and at what depth they They’re happy as long as you catch something for shore lunch. fisherman is never sit. These are reverse polygraph maThe shore lunch is not a meal for satisfied. … You drop chines. They lie. The more expensive models actually do work: They show the faint of heart. It is taken rather your line in the you the precise position where the later than one would lunch in town since it involves catching something water just wanting a fish were before the sound of your first. Everything is fried in a half- strike. When you get engine scared them off.

But what I’ve come to understand gallon of vegetable oil – potatoes, on- a strike, you want a about this hobby is that a fisherman ion, fish – and cooked in large carfish.

When you land is never satisfied. Casanova must bon-caked frying pans set on metal the fish, you want have been a fisherman. At least, he grids over an open fire. To find out if the frying pan is at the right temper- more fish. Then you had the instincts of a fisherman. His quest for perfection led him from ature for cooking, Ike, one of our want bigger fish. woman to woman with an escalating guides, has a favourite trick: He When you get bigger sense of expectation. So it is with plunges a match head into the oil unfishermen. You drop your line in the fish, you want the til it touches the metal. The oil has water just wanting a strike. When you reached the requisite temperature Trophy Fish. get a strike, you want a fish. When when the match explodes. Cans of beans and other vegetables are opened and placed you land the fish, you want more fish. Then you directly on the grid to heat. Emeril, please take want bigger fish. When you get bigger fish, you want the Trophy Fish. note.

But what I really love about the sport is that To pass the time, while the guides gut and the fish and prepare them for the pan, it is mandatory when you are catching fish, you are oblivious to to drink. Most fishermen will down beer from the rain and cold.

Back at shore, a plague of locusts might be decan. My group, however – six guys who have been fishing together for years – drinks wine. Copious vouring the landscape; overhead, there could be a total eclipse of the sun but nothing will break your quantities of wine.

In fact, we have a tradition called the Three Bot- concentration in that magical moment when there tle Lunch. And not just any wine: A few years ago, is a tug on your line.

It is worth all the backache, the numb fingers, the cellar we flew up with us to Sanford Lake, Atikokan (four hours from the Manitoba border), the cold feet, the damp clothes, the mosquitoes included Dauvissat Chablis Les Clos 1995 ($380), and the black flies … the expense of flying in all Etienne Sauzet Puligny-Montrachet ‘Les Referts’ those bottles of great wine.

It is a good thing that both fish and fishermen 1992 ($150) and Latour Meursault-Genevrières 1997 ($100). Neither are we averse to serving red wine have short memories. with fried walleye, since we happily consumed Acacia Pinot Noir Beckstoffer Vineyard 1996 ($60) Tony Aspler lives in Port Dalhousie, Ont.

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t is nearly impossible now to understand the hysteria that surrounded Michael Jackson in the mid-eighties. Before social media and before smartphones, there existed a feverish intensity of interest in him. He was the biggest star.

He was a genius. He was worshipped.

A hint of the old hysteria was in the air when it was made known there would be extra security at the Sundance Festival for a screening of a documentary, not about Jackson, but about two men who say Jackson sexually abused them for years.

He was worshipped back in the day, the worshippers are still alive and might be prepared to protest. As it happened, any attempted protest fizzled out.

Leaving Neverland (Sunday, Monday, Crave/HB0, 10 p.m.) is grim viewing. It is deeply unsettling and you are left shocked and exhausted by it. (It should be said that the program is best avoided by anyone triggered or perturbed by discussions of sexual abuse.) You are asked to judge the veracity of the story told and you must remember that the Michael Jackson estate denies all of it.

The two-part documentary is neither luridly made nor lascivious. It is essentially a collection of interviews, so it amounts to talking heads relating what happened. At the same time, if you are of a certain age, it is filled with history and landscape.

You are transported back to the period when Jackson’s Thriller album was the biggest thing in the history of pop music. The whole world moved to its beat, and Jackson’s videos were ubiquitous on TV. He was inescapable and his concerts and personal appearances created delirium.

That was the context in which Jackson toured Australia in that period. Wade Robson was five years old, a shy kid, and after watching a show about the making of the Thriller video, he became obsessed.

He mimicked Jackson’s dance moves with uncanny ability and that led to him winning a dance competition at a mall and an invitation to join Jackson onstage. Jackson was smitten. The kid was adorable and a genuine dancing talent. Robson’s parents were impressed, too. The documentary opens with the adult Robson saying, “Michael was one of the kindest, most gentle, loving, caring people I knew. And he also sexually abused me for seven years.”

In the United States The two-part at around the same time, nine-year-old Jim- documentary is my Safechuck wasn’t neither luridly that interested in pop made nor lascivious. music. But people told It is essentially a his mom he was adorable and he could make collection of money in TV commer- interviews, so it cials. One of his first amounts to talking gigs was a role in a Pepsi heads relating what ad featuring Jackson.

Jimmy is the kid who happened. At the enters Jackson’s dress- same time, if you are ing room and tries on of a certain age, it is his jackets. Then, Jackfilled with history son enters the room and says, “Looking for and landscape. me?” and the kid beams and Jackson beams back. Jackson wasn’t acting, according to Safechuck now. He was truly infatuated.

A film crew sent by Jackson went to the Safechuck house and filmed him gushing about Jackson. Today, Safechuck says that little film was “like an audition.”

In the following months, Jackson would visit the boy’s home often, staying over. Jimmy’s mom says Jackson became part of the family and she’d do his laundry if he stayed over.

Everybody was way-happy with Jackson’s attention, gifts and money. It was just surreal to have this god in your house.

It is 40 minutes into the documentary when sex is mentioned.

Jimmy and his family joined Jackson’s tour of Europe. He liked having them around.

In a hotel room in Paris, Safechuck says, “Michael introduced me to masturbation. That’s how it started. That tour was the start of a sexual, couple relationship.”

There follows yet more sobering accounts of the two boys separately spending time at Neverland, Jackson’s lavish theme-park home. The fondling, the sex, the tactics used to make sure Jackson and a boy weren’t disturbed or caught. It’s all very matter-of-fact and chilling. How did the parents of these boys allow things to happen? Well, they also speak extensively.

And here’s the thing – both Safechuk and Robson, at one time, denied that Jackson had abused them. One did it twice in court.

They explain how this happened, as they see it.

Jackson would tell them, repeatedly, that they had to keep the secret. That was vital to their friendship and well-being.

He convinced them that both the victim and abuser would go to jail for life if the truth was known. So they lied. Later, they would lie to their parents, friends and their partners. It was only after Jackson died that they came to terms with what had actually happened.

There is a lot to absorb in this, the grimmest of grim tales: The power-dynamic, the sense that Jackson was, at one time, the most powerful celebrity in the world; the grooming of the boys and manipulation of their families. And the intensity of the original denials by the victims, with their compulsion to lie and lie again.

Jackson is, in truth, largely absent from the fourhour program.

He’s there in photos and concert footage and in the context of now, and what the two victims say, it is unnerving to recall the hysteria that surrounded him.

If you believe these men, and that is up to you, the hysteria was a fundamentally corrupt transaction.

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He began by ruffing the club in dummy and led a heart to the queen. When the queen held, he ruffed the king of clubs and finessed the jack of hearts. He then cashed the ace of hearts and ruffed his last club, the ace.

Now he led dummy’s established heart.

If East had trumped with the ace, South would have discarded a diamond and made the contract without further ceremony.

But East made the more natural play of discarding the eight of diamonds, whereupon South discarded a diamond and West ruffed with the three.

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A fine declarer makes not only the contracts he’s supposed to make, but also some that appear impossible to make. There may be no solution in some cases, but declarer is duty-bound to look for one.

Consider this hand played many years ago. South was in four spades, and West led the queen of clubs. It appeared that two spades, two diamonds and possibly a heart had to be lost. But declarer made the contract, despite the bleak outlook, by adopting a line of play that at least gave him a chance.

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West then led the king of diamonds, followed by the jack. Declarer ruffed and returned a spade, felling the ace and king together. That was the third and last trick for the defence.

Of course, had West led a diamond initially, South would have had no chance. And even after the opening club lead, he had to be lucky to find East with the king of hearts and the hearts divided 3-3, and to get a favourable trump division besides.

But if you don’t play for miracles in such hands, they won’t happen.

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23 CRYPTIC CLUES ACROSS 1 A watch and a clock that can’t be relied on? (3-6) 8 Crown jewels? (5) 9 Rise to show appreciation (5,2) 10 Put down a whisky (6) 11 Up-to-date concerning money (6) 12 Could be nine seas in tumult (2,1,5) 15 Stay well away from work (8) 18 The lowest form of birds (6) 20 Fresh topics for lightminded scientists (6) 21 Sorting out and putting away (7) 22 Dash off for an away match (5) 23 Female forger was surrounded in South Africa (9)

QUICK CLUES DOWN 2 A question of ownership (5) 3 Present causing pain (6) 4 Getting on one’s high horse about a painting (8) 5 Bloomers are oldfashioned wear (6) 6 A result of splitting hairs? (7) 7 Discredited conditions? (4,5) 11 A sign of free accommodation (4,2,3) 13 Dilatory perhaps, but performed with skill (8) 14 Excess weight?

It’s his danger (7) 16 Metal of little value in America (6) 17 A wall-painting that’s put up is arousing (6) 19 The up-and-down principle (5)

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.

ACROSS 1 Easily ignited (9) 8 Stern look (5) 9 Clique (7) 10 Confident (6) 11 Threaten (6) 12 Hard to understand (8) 15 Melt (8) 18 Opportunity (6) 20 Wrap up (6) 21 Large coarse fern (7) 22 Surrounded by (5) 23 Serving as a model (9) DOWN 2 Permission (5) 3 Reciprocal (6) 4 Most importantly (5,3) 5 Bring about (6) 6 Facetious (7) 7 Hushed voice (9) 11 Intermediary (9) 13 Wide range (8) 14 From this time (2,2,3) 16 Do a favour for (6) 17 Revoke (6) 19 Encourage (5)

INSTRUCTIONS 1. Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating.

2. The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

Freebies: Fill in 3. single-box cages with the numbers in the top-left corner.

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YESTERDAY'S CRYPTIC ACROSS: 1 Express, 4 Miser, 7 Oath, 8 Thank you, 10 Experiment, 12 Cloche, 13 Twinge, 15 Yield fruit, 18 Coachmen, 19 Late, 20 Let up, 21 Torment.

DOWN: 1 Elope, 2 Put-up job, 3 Scheme, 4 Man and wife, 5 Skye, 6 Routine, 9 Archbishop, 11 Insulate, 12 Chancel, 14 Albert, 16 Treat, 17 Rapt.

YESTERDAY'S QUICK ACROSS: 1 Pending, 4 Berth, 7 Tack, 8 Straight, 10 Hanky-panky, 12 Gamble, 13 Desist, 15 Embittered, 18 Amicable, 19 Fizz, 20 Tagus, 21 Rickety.

DOWN: 1 Pitch, 2 Nickname, 3 Gateau, 4 Black Death, 5 Rage, 6 Hotfoot, 9 By all means, 11 Migraine, 12 Gallant, 14 Pillar, 16 Dizzy, 17 Ring.

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The cabinet order “addresses only my time as attorney-general of Canada and therefore does nothing to release me from any restrictions that apply to communications while I served as minister of veterans affairs and in relation to my resignation from that post or my presentation to cabinet after I had resigned,” she wrote.

Ms. Wilson-Raybould noted she is in fact being restricted from speaking about “communications on topics that some members of the committee have explored with other witnesses and about which there have been public statements by others.”

SNC-Lavalin faces one charge of corruption under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act and one charge of fraud under the Criminal Code. It is alleged that SNC paid millions of dollars in bribes to public officials in Libya between 2001 and 2011 to secure government contracts.

The engineering company says executives who were responsible for the wrongdoing have left the company, and it has reformed ethics and compliance rules.

If convicted, SNC-Lavalin could be banned from bidding on federal contracts for up to 10 years.

Michael Wernick, the Clerk of the Privy Council and Canada’s top bureaucrat, told the justice committee last week that Ms. Wilson-Raybould was warned several times about the economic consequences of a criminal conviction of SNC-Lavalin, but he denied she was subjected to “inappropriate pressure” to shelve the prosecution. The Prime Minister has also said there was no political interference in

Jody Wilson-Raybould walks to Parliament Hill on Tuesday, a day before she’s set to testify about pressure from the government to abandon the criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin. SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS

the SNC-Lavalin case and that he was puzzled by Ms. Wilson-Raybould’s resignation.

In her letter on Tuesday, the former minister said she was grateful the justice committee granted her request for 30 minutes to deliver an opening statement on Wednesday afternoon, but added that even this is not sufficient to provide a “full complete version of events.”

Wednesday will be the first time Ms. Wilson-Raybould has spoken about what transpired behind the scenes since The Globe and Mail reported on Feb. 7 that the Prime Minister’s Office put pressure on her to drop the case against SNC-Lavalin in exchange for fines and an admission of wrongdoing known as a

deferred prosecution agreement.

Since the Globe report, Ms. Wilson-Raybould resigned from cabinet and Gerald Butts stepped down as Mr. Trudeau’s principal secretary. Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion has launched an inquiry.

After three weeks of political controversy, the Trudeau cabinet issued an order-in-council late Monday evening waiving some constraints that would have prevented the B.C. MP from speaking more freely. She is still prevented from discussing her conversations with Kathleen Roussel, the director of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, regarding the SNC-Lavalin prosecution.

On Tuesday, the Prime Minister said Ms. Wilson-Raybould

deserves an opportunity to speak to the justice committee.

“It is important that people get an opportunity to testify or share their point of view with the committee. As we said, waiving privilege, waiving cabinet confidentiality is something that we had to take very seriously,” Mr. Trudeau told reporters on his way into a cabinet meeting.

The order-in-council also frees anyone else in government who discussed this matter with Ms. Wilson-Raybould to speak to the committee. This would allow others, including Mr. Trudeau’s chief of staff, Katie Telford, and Mr. Butts, to respond to her testimony.

Mr. Housefather said no decision has been made on whether

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It’s also true that Mr. Trudeau’s shop has spectacularly bungled everything that came after she did not submit to that pressure: first by demoting her in January, and then by clumsily shifting from one message to another, alternately poking and praising her, after The Globe and Mail broke the SNC-Lavalin story earlier this month.

But ministers in recent federal governments – those of Jean Chrétien and Stephen Harper – have put up with arguably worse. Even the rare ones who have quit on points of principle, such as Michael Chong from Mr. Harper’s cabinet, have tended to do so in relatively quiet ways without seeming as intent on really holding the PM to account.

So to spend time in Ottawa last week, as Ms. Wilson-Raybould was expressing her wish to speak “my truth” before the committee, was to encounter eyebrow-raising about what she is up to. Now, drawing from just about the only huffy ministerial exits anyone can remember (most famously Paul Martin’s), there is an undercurrent of speculation: Is she making some kind of play for Mr. Trudeau’s job?

Why else would anyone be so willing, while still a Liberal MP, to jeopardize her party’s re-election chances with the next

sponse was to release a 2,000-word letter campaign months away?

In other words: Some people who have defending her record at Justice and emwalked the corridors of power are unpre- phasizing her willingness to “speak truth pared for the prospect that someone to power” – and that was before she quit might not be all that interested in being cabinet altogether.

Ms. Wilson-Raybould may very well be there just for its own sake.

By appearances, Ms. Wilson-Raybould an anomaly. No other Liberal minister displayed unwillingness to go along to get seems to have come close to her level of pushback, so if the party is along even before the curre-elected in the fall, it might rent mess. Complaints about be business as usual. For all her being “difficult” were circulating before SNC-Lavalin Some people who the Conservatives’ newfound opposition to central blew up. In particular, she have walked the control, their recent history seems to have done little to corridors of power in government hardly sughide her frustration over the pace of improvements to are unprepared for gests they would usher in a new era of independentIndigenous rights – work to the prospect that mindedness whenever they which she has devoted most someone might not return there. of her adult life and which be all that interested It is also possible that may have been more imporwhen Ms. Wilson-Raybould tant to her than how high in being there just appears before the commitshe climbed in Ottawa’s for its own sake. tee, she will deliver unsensapecking order.

And yet, assumptions about how minis- tional testimony that fails to match the anticipation of her truth-telling. ters will behave die hard.

But so far, she has at least compelled Having had a chance to work with Ms. Wilson-Raybould for more than three Ottawa to reconsider what the role of a years, Mr. Trudeau evidently thought she cabinet minister is exactly, and she might would stick to the usual script for minis- have given pause to the current and future ters shuffled from jobs they wanted to stay prime ministers about being too presumin: gamely acting humbled by any oppor- ptuous on that front. That would be real tunity to serve and mindful of ways she change, even if Mr. Trudeau was long past could improve. Instead, her initial re- the point of wanting it.

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His deterioration became public knowledge after Ms. Mandhane visited him during a tour of Thunder Bay District Jail and disclosed the grim details of her encounter to the media.

Mr. Capay told her his prolonged segregation had impaired his ability to speak and discern day from night. The Globe and Mail published the first in a series of stories about Mr. Capay and the officials responsible for his prolonged isolation on Oct. 18, 2016. Ministry officials would keep him in confinement for another seven weeks, after which a court ordered his transfer to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

Justice Fregeau’s 126-page decision outlined how the Thunder Bay jail failed to hold legally mandated reviews of Mr. Capay’s segregation status, advised staff to avoid talking to the inmate and neglected his declining mental health – among other misconducts that amounted to “prolonged, abhorrent, egregious and intolerable” breaches of his Charter rights.

“We respect the court’s decision,” Ms. Jones said in an e-mailed statement. “This

situation began in 2012. We must prevent a of crime and the administration of justice.”

While solitary confinement of inmates similar case from happening again. Today our thoughts are with the family of Sher- in the federal corrections system has dropman Quisses. Ensuring justice for the vic- ped significantly in recent years, figures in tims of crime underlies our government’s Ontario remain largely unchanged since Mr. Capay’s story came to light. Numbers approach to community safety.”

In her letter to Ms. Jones, Ms. Mandhane released last year show that between 6 per cent and 8 per cent of the recommends the governprovincial system’s total ment launch an urgent acpopulation of around 7,000 tion plan consisting of fiveinmates are segregated at day limits on segregation We must prevent a any one time. Around 20 per placements, judicial reviews cent of segregated inmates of isolation decisions and similar case from are held in isolation beyond bans on the segregation of happening again.

15 days. pregnant, suicidal, mentally The previous Liberal govill and physically disabled inSYLVIA JONES ernment passed a bill incormates. In addition, she says ONTARIO CORRECTIONAL SERVICES MINISTER porating a number of Ms. the Capay case justifies calls Mandhane’s recommendato end the practice of solitary tions shortly before last year’s election. It confinement in Ontario altogether.

“For many years, the OHRC warned the has yet to be proclaimed by the Lieutenprevious government that it was not plac- ant-Governor and the new Progressive ing sufficient emphasis on protecting the Conservative government has given little human rights of prisoners,” Ms. Manhane indication of their plans for the legislation.

“Not a lot has changed since Adam states in her letter. “Adam Capay’s treatment shows starkly that the failure to heed Capay was admitted to segregation,” Ms. the OHRC’s repeated warnings has had a Mandhane said. “The legislative regime redevastating impact on prisoners, victims mains largely the same.”

INDIA STRIKES ALLEGED TERRORIST BASE, RAISING TENSIONS WITH PAKISTAN IN DISPUTED TERRITORY BALAKOT, PAKISTAN Tensions escalated sharply on the Asian subcontinent on Tuesday with nuclear-armed neighbours Pakistan and India trading accusations and warnings after a predawn air strike

by India that New Delhi said targeted a terrorist training camp.

Pakistan said there were no casualties, while New Delhi called the attack a preemptive strike that hit a terrorist training

camp and killed “a very large number” of militants. The air strike followed a suicide bombing in India’s section of the disputed territory of Kashmir on Feb. 14 that killed more than 40 Indian soldiers.

Pakistan has denied involvement in the attack, but vowed to respond to any Indian military operation against it.

Pakistan’s military spokesman, MajorGeneral Asif Ghafoor, said Indian planes

crossed into the Muzafarabad sector of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. He said Pakistan scrambled its warplanes and the Indian jets released their payload “in haste” near Balakot.

India’s Foreign Secretary, Vijay Gokhale, said that Indian fighter jets targeted Jaish-e-Mohammad camps after intelligence indicated another attack was being planned. ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mr. Butts or Ms. Telford would be called.

Ms. Roussel told SNC-Lavalin on Sept. 4, 2018, that she had turned down its request for a negotiated settlement without trial.

Ms. Wilson-Raybould later declined to override that decision and direct the prosecution service to stay the court proceedings. It is not known why Ms. Roussel rejected a negotiated settlement.

Mr. Wernick testified last week that the former attorney-general may have felt pressure to “get it right” regarding SNC-Lavalin, but denied that anything he or others said was “inappropriate pressure.”

The Privy Council Clerk listed three high-level conversations about which he believed Ms. Wilson-Raybould had concerns, including a Sept. 17 meeting with himself and Mr. Trudeau. When Ms. Wilson-Raybould said she would not intervene in the case, Ms. Wernick said the Prime Minister told her she was the “decisionmaker.”

Ms. Telford and Mr. Butts discussed the SNC-Lavalin prosecution on Dec. 18 with the justice minister’s chief of staff, Jessica Prince. The next day, Dec. 19, Mr. Wernick called Ms. Wilson-Raybould to say the Prime Minister was “anxious” about the company’s fate.

On Jan. 14, Ms. Wilson-Raybould was demoted to veterans affairs in a cabinet shuffle.

“They tried to get the former attorney-general to change her mind. She said no. She said no on multiple occasions,” Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer told the Commons Question Period on Tuesday. “Apparently, people in the Prime Minister’s Office would not take no for an answer.”

U.S. HOUSE VOTES TO BLOCK EMERGENCY DECLARATION FOR TRUMP’S BORDER WALL WASHINGTON Democrats ignored a veto threat and rammed legislation through the House Tuesday that would stymie U.S. President Donald Trump’s bid for billions of extra dollars for his border wall, escalating a clash over whether he was abusing his powers to advance his paramount campaign pledge.

The House’s 245-182 vote to block Mr. Trump’s nationalemergency declaration fell well below the two-thirds majority that would be needed to override his promised veto. Top Republicans worked to keep defections as low as possible – 13 backed the Democrats’ resolution – underscoring their desire to avoid a tally suggesting that Mr. Trump’s hold on lawmakers was weakening.

The vote also throws the political hot potato to the Republican-run Senate, where there were already enough GOP defections to edge it to the cusp of passage. Vice-President Mike Pence used a lunch with Republican senators at the Capitol to try keeping them aboard, citing a dangerous crisis at the border, but there were no signs he’d succeeded.

“I personally couldn’t handicap the outcome at this point,” said Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who’s planning a vote within the next three weeks. He even said Republicans remained uncertain about the legality of Mr. Trump’s move.

Senate passage would force Mr. Trump’s first veto, which the House vote demonstrated that Congress would surely fail to overturn. But the showdown was forcing Republicans to cast uncomfortable votes pitting their support for a President wildly popular with GOP voters against fears that his expansive use of emergency powers would invite future Democratic presidents to do likewise for their own pet policies.

House Republicans who joined all voting Democrats to support the resolution included moderates from competitive districts, such as Fred Upton of Michigan, and libertarian-leaning conservatives such as Thomas Massie from Kentucky.

The White House wrote to lawmakers formally threatening to veto the legislation. The letter said blocking the emergency declaration would “undermine the administration’s ability to respond effectively to the ongoing crisis at the Southern Border.”

Republicans said Democrats were driven by politics and a desire to oppose Mr. Trump at every turn, and said the President had authority to declare an emergency. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Canada turns up the heat on U.S. over steel tariffs Ottawa officials threaten not to ratify USMCA unless punitive duties scrapped

Edmonton’s Bri-Steel Manufacturing makes and distributes large-diameter seamless steel pipes. The U.S. imposed tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum on June 1, 2018. CANDACE ELLIOTT/REUTERS ADRIAN MORROW U.S. CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON

Canada is threatening not to ratify the renegotiated North American free-trade pact if U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t first remove steel and aluminum tariffs, in a bid to restart serious talks over the punitive duties.

Canadian officials have been privately delivering this warning to

their U.S. counterparts and members of Congress for several weeks, said government sources with knowledge of the discussions, before Transport Minister Marc Garneau went public with a version of the message on Sunday.

The move is designed to use Canada’s last opportunity to leverage the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) – one of Mr. Trump’s priority policies – to press the White House into ending its trade war with Ottawa.

Gold investors have little to gain from a Barrick takeover of Newmont

Mr. Trump on Monday seemed to acknowledge Canadian ratification of the USMCA was on his mind. “They have to get it approved also. We have to get it approved. Let’s see what happens,” he said at the White House.

The United States offered to lift the steel and aluminum tariffs last fall if Canada agreed to quotas on the metals that would have cut exports by as much as 20 per cent, Canadian government and U.S. industry sources said. Canada balked.

International banking helps BMO, Scotiabank push through a turbulent quarter JAMES BRADSHAW BANKING REPORTER

Robust expansion in international banking helped two of Canada’s largest banks battle through volatility in financial markets in the first fiscal quarter, offsetting difficult conditions for capital markets and wealth management.

In a challenging quarter, Bank of Nova Scotia posted a 17-per-cent rise in profit from international banking, compared with a year earlier. But a 4-percent decline in overall year-over-year profit still disappointed investors as the bank grapples with higher expenses while juggling a string of recent acquisitions and divestitures across a number of countries.

By contrast, Bank of Montreal impressed Bay Street, boosting adjusted profit for the quarter that ended Jan. 31 by 8 per cent. The results were driven by a 43-per-cent jump in profit from its U.S. personal and commercial banking division, helped by U.S. tax reform as well as rapid growth in commercial banking.

Scotiabank and BMO are the second and third banks to report first-quarter earnings, following Royal Bank of Canada, which reported stronger earnings growth last Friday despite weakness in some businesses. All three banks have made cautious assumptions about potential loan losses, accounting for a more uncertain domestic economic forecast. But the outlook for the rest of 2019 still looks positive for the banks, even if it’s more muted than it was a year ago.

“With the more dovish tone coming out of central banks on a global basis, markets have settled down, and we’re in kind of an equilibrium state with people expecting somewhat lower economic growth, but against that a lesser prospect of higher interest rates,” Tom Flynn, BMO’s chief financial officer, said in an interview.

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any people have described Barrick Gold Corp.’s hostile takeover offer for Newmont Mining Corp. as audacious. A better word might be “unnecessary.”

Unnecessary, that is, from an investor’s perspective. A successful bid would no doubt do wonders for the compensation of Barrick executives, who would wind up running the biggest gold company in the world by far. However, a tie-up between Barrick and Newmont would do relatively little for gold lovers, who can already target all the precious-metals exposure they want through other channels.

How exactly? If you’re someone who likes the long-term economic case for gold, you can invest in an exchange-traded fund (ETF) such as the SPDR Gold Shares Fund, which holds physical gold. You get a pure play on the precious metal, with all the messy uncertainties of investing in a mine operator stripped away.

Prefer to bet on gold production instead? Then load up on one of the streaming companies, such as Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. or Franco-Nevada Corp., that have negotiated rights to continuing flows of mine output from diversified portfolios of producers.

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Ottawa says it plans to direct the federal telecom regulator to put more emphasis on different forms of competition, lower prices and the protection of consumer rights.

Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED), said Tuesday that the government has tabled a proposed policy direction that would provide new guidelines for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to consider when it makes regulatory decisions.

The policy directive sets out a list of factors for the CRTC to consider, including “all forms of competition,” affordability, consumer protection, reducing barriers to entry for new and smaller service providers and encouraging the use of new technologies.

This is in contrast to a policy direction passed under the previous government, in 2006, which directed the CRTC to take into account “market forces,” and encourage telecom companies to make investments in building their own networks (which is known as “facilities-based investment”).

Both affordability and promoting reliance on market forces are already listed as general objectives of Canadian telecom legislation.

But the 2006 policy direction tends to carry additional weight, with the CRTC explaining in every decision it makes how it took the directive into account.

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The proportion of women appointed to Canadian corporate boards in 2018 fell sharply to the lowest figure in five years, raising the question of whether the drive to increase gender diversity at the director level has stalled.

The numbers come from the annual Spencer Stuart analysis of the boards of Canada’s 100 largest companies by revenue. Spencer Stuart, an executive-search and advisory firm, found that just 30 per cent of appointments of new directors in 2018 were women.

That figure had topped 40 per cent every year from 2014 to 2017.

With the rate of new female directors in the 40-per-cent range for several years, the proportion of all corporate directors had steadily climbed to reach 27 per cent in 2017. The overall number stayed at 27 per cent in 2018. “I think it would be [a] mistake to lose sight of the fact that the overall stock of women serving on boards has gone up and will continue to go up,� said Peter Simon, Canada leader for the firm.

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on boards, and the age of current board members (an average of 62) means there will be a continued refreshing at the top.

There are other bits of good news: For the first time in the

study’s history, there were no allmale boards in the 2018 group of 100 large companies. Boards where women made up at least 30 per cent of the directors rose to 41 per cent of the group, versus 14

per cent in 2013. And there were 111 positions of board chair or committee chair held by women, more than double the 2013 level. “I sincerely believe the faucet is open and the flow will continue ‌ we should pick up this conversation in 12 months time, and if 2019 proves to be another 30-percent year, I’m going to be a little bit annoyed and that’s going to feel more like a stall,â€? Mr. Simon said. “After two data points, that would feel like a thesis.â€?

Board diversity has been a focus for securities regulators and major institutional investors for some time. The securities regulators have been pressing companies to offer better disclosure of how they choose directors and how diversity plays a role, with the Ontario Securities Commission introducing a “comply or explain� disclosure policy in 2014.

But there’s been concern that disclosure policies aren’t enough, as OSC chair Maureen Jensen has observed that at current appointment rates, it could take three decades for women to achieve board parity with men.

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), an umbrella group for the provincial regulatory bodies, issued its latest report last fall on women in the board and executive ranks. In a group of 648 public companies, just 15 per cent of board seats were held by women. While 66 per cent of companies had at least one woman on their board, 218 companies had none. The CSA said the numbers of women on boards tended to increase with the size of the company, which is consistent with Spencer Stuart’s observations.

Meanwhile, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board said in December that for 2019, it would take global its Canadian policy to vote against the chairman of a company’s director-nominating committee if the board has no female members.

CPPIB spokesman Michel Leduc said the pension fund established its Canadian policy in 2017 and cast votes against committee chairmen at the shareholder meetings of 45 companies with no female directors. CPPIB then tried to engage with those companies. “A year later, nearly half of those companies had appointed a female director ‌ . Gender diversity strengthens the board’s stewardship function, helping a company’s drive to achieve superior financial performance over time,â€?

Mr. Leduc said.

Pamela Jeffrey, founder of the Canadian Board Diversity Council and now a KPMG partner who’s the National Lead for its Inclusion and Diversity Strategy practice, says the Spencer Stuart numbers indeed concern her. “I think it has hit a stalling point – I don’t think this is an aberration.�

Ms. Jeffrey said that numbers increased in the CSA annual reports as regulators applied pressure, but the fall report showed a slowing – and made her wonder about what the next steps are. Only half the companies in the Spencer Stuart report have created any kind of target number for board gender balance, she says, and the CSA noted more than 200 companies in the larger group have none. “We’re not going to see the pace increase until we get some good governance.�

McGugan: History shows Big Gold doesn’t guarantee big results FROM B1

Want to own a direct stake in a broad mix of gold mines? Then put your money into an ETF such as the iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF that holds a basket of the world’s major producers.

All of these options look like reasonable alternatives to making a big gamble on one giant miner, with all the management and operational risks that inevitably go along with investing in a single company. If you recall Barrick’s disastrous foray into copper mining at the peak of the last mining cycle in 2011, when it acquired Equinox Minerals Ltd., you can appreciate the merits of not

betting everything on the judgment of a single executive team.

To be sure, a combined BarrickNewmont would tower over the rest of the sector. It would define Big Gold. But history shows that Big Gold doesn’t always produce big results.

Over the past five years, the two North American giants, Newmont and Barrick, have gone in opposite directions, with Newmont producing a total return of 81.6 per cent (in Canadian dollars) and Barrick saddling its shareholders with an 18-per-cent loss. But even Newmont hasn’t matched the payoff of some smaller miners, such as Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd., Wesdome Gold

Mines Ltd. and Endeavour Mining Corp.

As these examples demonstrate, the size of a gold producer has only a limited amount to do it with its investment appeal. Once a miner reaches a certain volume, becoming even bigger by acquiring other mines doesn’t automatically reduce its risk or improve returns. What does matter to a company’s bottom line is its ability to produce gold at the lowest possible cost, and that usually has more to do with the geology of its mines than its corporate scale.

To be fair, there are exceptions.

Barrick’s case to Newmont investors rests on its assumption that it can save billions of dollars by

combining the two companies’ operations in Nevada. This may be so, but questions abound.

If the potential savings are so large and certain, why isn’t Barrick offering a premium to Newmont shareholders to persuade them to do the deal? And why don’t the two companies simply set up a joint venture to harvest the apparent synergies instead of merging all their operations? One hurdle seems to be that neither company trusts the other. That has to make investors wonder how many of those supposed synergies would survive a messy takeover.

An even deeper question is whether building a gigantic gold

miner still makes sense. A couple of decades ago, investors had limited ways to invest in precious metals and therefore had a clear rationale for preferring a big gold producer. A company that owned several mines in several different regions offered a simple, useful way to diversify one’s holdings.

Today, that doesn’t make as much sense. Anyone who wants exposure to a diversified set of mines can just buy an ETF or invest in a streaming company. Oddly enough, the gold industry seems to be consumed by the desire to build bigger and bigger producers at the same time as the rationale for that size is diminishing.

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Currently, there are no detailed negotiations happening on the tariffs, Canadian officials with knowledge of the file said. In the limited discussions that have occurred, Canada has stuck to its position that it will not agree to quotas, the sources said.

Privately, however, both sides are evincing more willingness to compromise.

One Canadian source said Ottawa would accept quotas if they were set far higher than current exports, leaving enough room to grow until a less protectionist U.S. administration replaces Mr. Trump’s. That strategy was used last year to lift the U.S. threat of tariffs on autos imported from Canada.

A U.S. industry source, meanwhile, said American officials have accepted that they will not get Canada to agree to a quota level that would cut exports, and are instead willing to consider a quota either at or slightly above current export levels.

The Globe and Mail granted the sources anonymity to speak freely on sensitive details of the confidential discussions.

In an effort to get talks going, Canadians have been quietly telling U.S. officials and members of Congress – including U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Chuck Grassley, chair of the Senate committee that oversees trade – since January that the Trudeau government might not table the deal for ratification in Parliament if the metals tariffs are still in place, because it would be too politically unpopular.

Mr. Garneau used a Sunday panel with Larry Kudlow, Mr. Trump’s chief economic adviser, at a Washington meeting of state governors to deliver the warning openly. “This will present us with real challenges as we begin the process of ratification in Canada, and I don’t know if we’re going to get there,� he said.

Mr. Kudlow said he “got the

message loud and clear� and that the two countries were “in heavy negotiations� on the tariffs. David MacNaughton, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, said three days earlier that he believed the two sides would reach a deal “in the next few weeks.�

Sources in Canadian government and industry, however, said subsequently that recent tariff discussions have been fairly broad and have not reached the point of detailed negotiations.

It is also unclear how serious Canada is about enforcing its threat. Last fall, Canadian officials warned the United States that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would refuse to attend the November USMCA signing ceremony if the tariffs remained in place – instead dispatching a lower-ranking official to sign on Canada’s behalf and deny Mr. Trump his photo opportunity – but Mr. Trudeau ultimately ended up signing anyway.

Trade lawyer Daniel Ujczo said ratification is Canada’s last opportunity to put pressure on Mr. Trump. “If Canada’s going to use its only piece of leverage, it’s now ‌ you have to know when to play your cards,â€? said Mr. Ujczo of Dickinson Wright.

Some trade-supporting congressional Republicans are helping Canada’s case. Both Mr. Grassley and Representative Kevin Brady, the top GOP member of the House committee that covers trade, have said Congress will not consider USMCA ratification if the tariffs remain.

Whether they will enforce this threat is an open question. Congressional Republicans have tried to rein in Mr. Trump’s protectionist impulses before, only to back down. Last spring, for instance, GOP leaders refused to allow a vote on a Republican bill that would have curbed Mr. Trump’s ability to levy tariffs. “I’m pretty pessimistic about this,� said Inu Manak, a trade expert at the libertarian Cato Institute. “I don’t really think this is the hill they’re going to die on.�

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Bill C-69 has provoked a storm of opposition from oil-industry supporters and spurred a protest that brought a truck convoy from Western Canada to Ottawa on Feb. 19. LARS HAGBERG/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Bill C-69’s emphasis on economic development is insufficient, Ontario says Provincial Energy Minister tells Senate committee Ottawa’s environmental assessment legislation could potentially result in lengthier review process SHAWN MCCARTHY GLOBAL ENERGY REPORTER OTTAWA

The federal government’s environmental assessment legislation falls far short of achieving a proper balance between economic development and protection for the environment, Ontario Energy Minister Greg Rickford told a Senate committee.

Mr. Rickford appeared late on Tuesday before the Senate committee that is reviewing the Liberal government’s Bill C-69, which overhauls how Ottawa reviews major resource and other development projects.

“We’re concerned with an omnibus type of environmental legislation that has the potential to significantly increase the amount of time these processes take, and we think … [is not] weighted sufficiently in favour of the economic productivity and activity that can arise from these projects,” Mr. Rickford said in an interview. “To the extent that Bill C-69 imposes lengthier processes, that’s not an appealing option for us. We don’t support it.”

The legislation has provoked a storm of opposition from oil-industry supporters in Western Canada who argue it will chase investment out of the country. Protesters recently brought a truck convoy to Parliament Hill to support the energy sector and oppose Bill C-69, which Opposition MPs have dubbed the “no pipeline bill.”

Liberal ministers are defending the bill, saying it will ensure major resource developments are properly assessed for their environmental, social and economic effects, while allowing good projects to be approved in an efficient manner. Environmental groups and Indigenous leaders say the new act is an upgrade over the existing version, which, they ar-

gue, gave short shrift to their interests.

In a submission to the committee, Mr. Rickford raised concerns about how the federal legislation would affect the nuclear industry and the mining sector in the province.

He said the broad scope of the legislation would create a platform for anti-nuclear groups to debate Ontario’s energy policy while diminishing the effectiveness of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s (CNSC) oversight. The CNSC currently assesses proposed reactor projects, but under the new legislation, a new Impact Assessment Agency would take the lead in reviewing projects that could have major environmental effects; the commission would play a supporting role in that effort.

Ontario’s written submission urged senators to amend the bill to exclude consideration of projects to refurbish existing nuclear reactors, new reactor construction at existing sites and construction of next-generation small reactors that have improved safety and lower environmental effects than existing technology.

While the oil industry has condemned Bill C-69 and called for fundamental changes, the Mining Association of Canada said on Tuesday the bill represents an improvement over the existing regime for most of its members, although it, too, requested some amendments.

Both the mining association and the Ontario government want an increased emphasis on economic development in the bill.

Mining association president Pierre Gratton warned against making changes that would undercut progress from the existing rules. Under legislation passed by the former Conservative government in 2012, most mining projects are evaluated by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), while pipelines are reviewed by the National Energy Board.

Mr. Gratton said the 2012 change created a massive headache for the mining sector, as federal-provincial co-ordination broke down.

“Mining investment in Canada is in crisis, and while CEAA 2012 is not the only reason for this, it is a factor,” he said.

He added, however, that Ontario has its own problems with environmental assessment, saying that a cumbersome provincial system has discouraged investment.

The financial services regulator in Canada’s biggest province failed to make planned checks on mortgage brokers it had identified as risky because its resources were stretched, according to documents obtained by Reuters under Freedom of Information laws and information provided by the regulator.

The Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) planned to complete five on-site examinations of mortgage brokerages identified as risky this fiscal year, which ends March 31. But as of Dec. 31, 2018, nine months into the year, it had not finished any of them, according to data provided to Reuters.

During the same period, FSCO staff carried out only four of 50 planned “desk reviews,” which are similar to on-site examinations but less detailed.

The findings call into question whether mortgage brokers, which originate 30 per cent to 40 per cent of new loans in Canada’s $1.5-trillion mortgage market, are being adequately supervised as record household debt and rising interest rates make it harder for borrowers to make repayments.

Mortgage-underwriting standards came under scrutiny in Canada after the country’s biggest non-bank lender, Home Capital Group Inc., accepted responsibility for misleading investors about problems with its procedures in 2017.

The FSCO plays a particularly important role because it supervises brokerages in Toronto, Canada’s biggest housing market. It is due to be replaced by a new regulatory body, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), in the spring of this year but it is currently unclear whether FSRA will have significantly more resources than its predecessor.

In a statement, FSCO said it conducts a thorough investigation where individuals or entities are identified as presenting an elevated risk.

“This investigative process, which makes the best use of finite resources to address the most sig-

nificant risks, may include, but does not require, a site visit,” it said. “As a result, planned examinations may not take place, but other regulatory and supervisory activities would occur, based on the resources available.”

The on-site examinations involve FSCO staff visiting mortgage brokerages that initial reviews have flagged as having “elevated risk levels,” warranting further investigation, according to a June, 2018, government audit of FSCO’s market regulation branch which Reuters obtained through a freedom of information request. They are meant to catch problems early, before they escalate, the report said.

The checks can stop problems such as mortgage brokers failing to make proper checks to prevent borrowers’ lying about their income in order to obtain a loan. According to credit bureau Equifax, suspected fraudulent mortgage applications have increased by 52 per cent in Canada since 2013, with Ontario seeing the majority.

Other types of fraud include brokers charging unlawful fees, FSCO says on its website.

The audit stated FSCO was “operating in a challenging regulatory environment with limited resource to carry out its supervisory activities.”

Asked if FSCO’s successor will have more resources, Ontario’s Finance Ministry said FSRA is consulting with the department over its planned budget and business plan for 2019-20 and is also working on establishing a fee rule enabling it to recover some costs from the sectors it regulates, potentially enhancing its overall budget.

According to its 2017-18 annual report, FSCO had 382 staff and an annual budget of $56.5-million. Its annual budget has declined by 40 per cent since 2015-16, partly reflecting the transfer of its dispute resolution services activities to another Ontario government department.

The data from FSCO shows that the regulator completed fewer reviews in the first three quarters of this fiscal year than it did last year, when it also missed its targets.

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Alberta’s crude-by-rail plan resulted from production curtailments, Husky says shipments as economics would likely improve over time.

The province announced last month it would The Alberta government’s decision to spend increase production quotas in February and $3.7-billion to move more crude by rail was March by 75,000 b/d because of declining stormade necessary by its poorly considered move age levels. But Husky chief operating officer Rob to impose production curtailments, executives Symonds said on the call Husky is actually being hit harder now than it was in January. with Husky Energy Inc. charged on Tuesday.

“In February and March … the province has The Calgary-based company, which has opposed curtailments as unwelcome interference said the curtailment is being reduced, but our in the market, raised its level of criticism on a quota went down,” he said. “So our curtailment conference call to discuss its fourth-quarter re- went up when the provincial number went sults. Husky maintains that its integrated up- down. That’s why I’m a little confused as to how stream and downstream operations and pipe- the math works.”

He wouldn’t give Husky’s acline contracts had allowed it to tual quota number, but said the continue to make profits even company has shut in some conwhen discounts on Western Canaventional heavy-oil wells that will dian crude reached record levels The province likely be too badly damaged to be last November.

“For Husky, it’s absolutely a net imposed production started up again when curtailquotas as of Jan. 1 ment ends. negative because we were comShares in Husky Energy Inc. fell pletely capturing the full value of on larger producers Tuesday after it reported fourththe value chain prior to curtaildesigned to keep quarter net income that missed ment and all that’s happened is 325,000 barrels expectations. Its results were hit we’re producing less barrels now,” a day of crude by suspended production followchief executive officer Rob Peaboing an oil spill at its White Rose oil dy said. off the market. field off the coast of St. John’s, a The province imposed production quotas as of Jan. 1 on larger producers de- longer-than-expected maintenance shutdown signed to keep 325,000 barrels a day of crude off at its refinery in Lima, Ohio, and lower oil prices.

The Calgary-based company’s stock fell by as the market, supporting prices by opening space on full export pipelines and drawing down much as 7 per cent on the Toronto Stock Exchange to $14.86 in early afternoon trading on overflowing storage.

Discounts quickly evaporated, leading to crit- Tuesday and closed at $14.77. The company reicism from companies with refining and retail ported $216-million in net earnings in the past assets such as Suncor Energy Inc. and Imperial three months of 2018, compared with analyst Oil Ltd. – who had opposed the production cuts expectations of $257-million, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon.

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OPINION & ANALYSIS Canadian and U.S. regulators are asleep at the switch as monopolies thrive DENISE HEARN OPINION

Co-author of The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and endorsed by two Nobel Prize-winning economists

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urope made a bold proclamation earlier this month that North American regulators should heed: Consumers precede corporate profits.

In a landmark decision, the EU Competition authorities blocked a proposed megamerger that would have created a rail-transport monopoly in Europe. French and German companies Alstom SA and Siemens AG claimed that impending competition from China’s equivalent company, CRRC Corp., was a threat to their business and necessitated the merger. Ultimately, European regulators chose consumer protection over perceived threats from globalized trade.

What’s remarkable about this decision is that, although modern anti-monopoly convention arose in North America during the first Gilded Age, today’s European regulators are far more protective of free markets and consumer benefit than our own antitrust agencies this side of the Atlantic.

The argument in favour of fostering homegrown monopolies to compete globally is likely to resonate with some Canadian firms. Small market sizes are often blamed for Canada’s need to enshrine oligopolies into the national economy. But regulators have silently looked on as waves of mergers in each subsequent decade since the 1980s have left some industries consolidated to a point never before seen in history. The Competition Bureau (and the Federal Trade Commission [FTC] and Department of Justice in the United States) have been asleep at the switch.

Today, we live in the second Gilded Age in which a few players dominate key industries. Most Canadians are aware of the major oligopolies: the airline duopoly of WestJet and Air Canada, which together control more than 80 per cent of the market; the banking industry, controlled by the Big Five (TorontoDominion Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce); and the wireless industry, in which the three biggest companies (Rogers, Bell and Telus) collectively capture nearly 89 per cent of the market.

But fewer are aware of how industrial concentration has seeped into nearly all areas of the economy: eyeglasses, pharmacies, grocers and even funeral services. The net effect of this concentration is that as Canadians go about their daily lives, they transfer a bit of their paycheque to monopolists and oligopolists. And despite the “efficiencies” that should be gleaned from having relatively few major players within industries, Canadians continue to pay Taken together, some of the highest global rates all of this means a for international travel, cellphone packages and banking services. dangerous cocktail This consolidation is, in part, has emerged: why inequality has proliferated to Corporate power is such high levels in recent decades. more concentrated As corporate power has concentrated, the labour force has bethan before, while come increasingly isolated and the mechanisms to dispersed. Unionization rates for reverse this trend private-sector workers have deare defanged clined and, most concerningly, studies now show a correlation and ineffectual. between highly concentrated emThis produces ployment zones (often in rural dire consequences towns) and a 15-per-cent to 25-perfor the economy. cent decline in wages when compared with very competitive job markets. When corporations gain what’s known as monopsony power (one buyer), they can dictate employment terms.

The story of how we got here begins in the 1980s, when then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan relaxed the merger guidelines and ushered in a wave of deregulation. Reaganomics pushed a free-market agenda and an intentional intellectual capture of regulators began. As long as companies claimed that a merger would reduce prices for consumers, it was allowed. Efficiencies and economic gains would “trickle down” to consumers.

Last year saw a global all-time high in merger-and-acquisition activity, with deal after deal featuring similar arguments about low prices and proposed “synergies” from proponents.

In most cases, prices actually rose following a merger as enlarged firms become price setters.

Simultaneously, antitrust enforcement has languished and is at all-time lows in the United States and Canada. Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft have collectively acquired more than 436 companies and startups in the past 10 years, and regulators have not challenged any of them. Although the techlash is burgeoning, regulators are still playing catch up.

The digital disruptors of our modern era have ushered in this new age of monopoly: Google has 92-per-cent market share in internet search and Facebook controls more than 70 per cent of social networking. The internet was meant to be a decentralized platform dedicated to free exchange. Regulators have silently conceded as the decentralized, democratized internet transformed into a choke-point marketplace of two power brokers.

It is difficult to overstate the threat to our democracy that the tech giants now embody.

Taken together, all of this means a dangerous cocktail has emerged: Corporate power is more concentrated than before, while the mechanisms to reverse this trend are defanged and ineffectual. This produces dire consequences for the economy. Canada and the United States have been plagued by declining entrepreneurship rates and weak business dynamism since the 1980s. Canadian firms also spend less on research and development than many of their developed-country counterparts. One can only assume that when large incumbents lack competition, there is less need to innovate or selfdisrupt.

Lack of competition hurts startups, consumers and workers. Competition is an integral part of sustaining a thriving ecosystem of innovation and economic dynamism in Canada.

Although the situation is critical, it is not irreversible. We have been here before, and took collective action politically to limit aggregated economic power.

To reverse the most pernicious effects of concentration, we need a return to rigorous antitrust enforcement and merger review from the Competition Bureau, the U.S. Justice Department and the FTC. Simultaneously, we need relaxed regulatory burdens on smaller firms, as regulation often strengthens dominant firms that have the resources to comply.

Millennials don’t want to be stuck in condos Bill Morneau will have to weigh the evidence that people still want to live in single-family housing for his budget KONRAD YAKABUSKI OPINION

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ore Canadians than ever are driving to work, proof that efforts to promote mass transit and densification have not succeeded in killing the dream of a house in the suburbs.

As Statistics Canada reported on Monday, the number of Canadians commuting to work by car increased by 3 per cent between 2011 and 2016. Public-transit use was flat, while the number of people driving to work alone rose.

Fully 80 per cent of Canadians got to work by car in 2016, either as drivers (74 per cent) or as passengers (6 per cent).

What this indicates, more than anything, is that policy-makers seem to have systematically underestimated how much ordinary people are willing to sacrifice for the space of a detached singlefamily house, preferably with a big yard for their kids, while having a little left over to spend on travel or to sock away in a retirement savings account.

If it means having to endure longer commutes to work in their cars, so be it.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau needs to consider the evidence as he weighs demands from the real estate industry to ease mortgage rules for first-time buyers in his March 19 budget. The real estate industry may be complaining about a slowdown in the condo

market, but is stoking condo sales really the smartest move in 2019, after years of trying to guide the country’s most overheated real estate markets to a soft landing?

Extending the amortization period on insured mortgages, easing the stress test introduced last year or increasing the $750 tax credit for first-time buyers might encourage more millennials to purchase a condo, the only type of property within financial reach. But since most millennials ultimately aspire to purchase of a single-family home, it’s worthwhile asking whether Canada needs any more condos right now.

“In terms of housing preferences – including tenure, types and location – millennials are not that different from the generations that preceded them,” according to a 2018 study by the Centre for Urban Research and Land Development at Ryerson University. “The bulk are expected to want home ownership and ground-related (singles, semis and townhouses) housing with a back yard.”

Given the overconstruction of condos, the study estimated that the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area could be short an additional 70,000 ground-related housing units from millennial demand alone over the next decade.

Thus, if policy-makers are really concerned about housing affordability for millennials, they need to encourage the construction of more single-family homes in existing suburbs and inner suburbs.

With so much emphasis on densification in recent years, policy-makers may have unwittingly encouraged urban sprawl by forcing more Canadians to look further to the exurbs to realize their dream of a owning a detached, single-family home with a yard.

Indeed, the fastest-growing

municipalities in Canada between 2011 and 2016 were largely exurban communities, where a single-family home could be purchased for much less than a similar property closer to the core.

This trend was particularly striking in Greater Montreal, as offisland communities drew more young families.

Indeed, in the decade to 2016, the population of “auto suburbs” off the Island of Montreal surged by more than 20 per cent, while the on-island population grew by 4.7 per cent. Immigration accounted for almost all net population growth on the island.

Data released last week by the Quebec statistics agency showed the exodus from the island accelerated in 2018. Montreal suffered a net loss of almost 24,000 residents to other regions of the province last year, the largest drop since 2010. Almost all those who left the city moved to the suburbs or exurbs around Montreal.

Those who left told a similar story to local reporters. While living close to the core was great in their early 20s, they began to sour on it as soon as they started a family. Finding an affordable house on the island that met their needs was near impossible.

A Léger Marketing poll also released last week showed that twothirds of millennials considering property ownership within the next five years would prefer to buy a single-family home. And most expect they will have to look to the suburbs to find one.

Attempts by urban planners and policy-makers to condition Canadians into accepting condo living as a permanent state in life have not stopped millennials from dreaming the suburban dream. After all, Mr. Moreau, that 500-square-foot box in the sky gets tired after a while.

Larry Kudlow is Canada’s new best friend BARRIE McKENNA OPINION

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o top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow likes us, again. Phew. He had us all worried there for a bit.

Mr. Kudlow says he’s “proud” of Canada and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for “hanging tough” against Huawei, the Chinese telecom giant.

Thanks, Uncle Larry. That’s so kind of you.

By hanging tough, we presume the former television personality means inviting Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou to spend the winter nestled in her $5.6-million Vancouver pied-à-terre, pending the outcome of a U.S. extradition request on charges related to sanctions against Iran.

And here we thought it was all about Mr. Trudeau and the federal government simply following the rule of law − abiding by extradition treaties and all that legal stuff.

Never mind. If Mr. Kudlow say it’s really about Canada bravely staring down the Chinese bully, then surely that’s what it is.

The kind words are notable because Mr. Kudlow hasn’t exactly been a reliable friend to Canada since he joined the White House last year.

Some readers might remember that last October, Mr. Kudlow called our Prime Minister “that little punk kid running Canada” at an invitation-only dinner in Washington hosted by the American Spectator, a conservative magazine. He suggested, without evidence, that Mr. Trudeau’s be-

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haviour had nearly sabotaged the negotiations that produced the tentative U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Then there was last June’s contentious Group of Seven summit in beautiful Charlevoix, Que., where U.S. President Donald Trump showed up late, left early and insulted just about everyone there.

Mr. Kudlow had quite a different take on what went down on the bluffs of Charlevoix, high above the St. Lawrence River. Mr. Trudeau, he said, had betrayed the United States by publicly rebuking Mr. Trump for invoking national security to hit its neighbour and ally with tariffs on steel and aluminum.

“POTUS,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper, using the acronym for the president of the United States, “is not gonna let a Canadian prime minister push him around.”

Bygones. That was so 2018.

Now, he’s proud of Mr. Trudeau.

Like the kindly uncle, congratulating his young nephew who just got into a good college, he’s slapping Mr. Trudeau on the back for a job well done. Mr. Trudeau is a nice young man now, not the punk he was back in high school.

Of course, it’s hard to take Mr. Kudlow too seriously. He’s become one of the forgotten ones in the chaotic frat house that is the Trump administration. He is chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), an in-house agency that produces economic forecasts and policy analysis. But it’s not clear what he actually does, beyond an occasional appearance on cable news as a Trump apologist.

Before Mr. Trump came along, the CEA was typically headed by a

respected PhD economist (think Larry Summers). Mr. Kudlow, a long-time CNBC business-show host, also spent several years as an economist on Wall Street, eventually rising to chief economist of now-defunct Bear Stearns.

And yet, Mr. Kudlow isn’t what most of us would think of as an economist. His only university degree is in history (not that there is anything wrong with that).

As a TV talking head, Mr. Kudlow was a dependable advocate for free markets and free trade. Before joining the White House, he was critical of Mr. Trump’s aggressive use of tariffs.

Now, he’s become an enabler for his protectionist boss.

And while Mr. Kudlow was always consistent in his pro-market views, his record as a prognosticator is less reliable. During his years on Wall Street, Mr. Kudlow had a history of making “shockingly wrong financial predictions,” as Money Magazine put it. Among them: a 1993 call that then-president Bill Clinton’s tax hikes would kill the economy. Instead, the economy and the markets boomed for most of the decade.

In 2002, he said the “decisive” war in Iraq would send the stock market soaring. The markets dropped sharply, and nearly two decades later, it’s not clear what the U.S.-led war accomplished strategically.

Then, there was his bold prediction in December, 2007, of an enduring “Goldilocks economy” and no imminent recession. It turns out the U.S. economy was already in recession.

So while it’s certainly a relief that Mr. Kudlow has stopped trashing us, we’ll take the praise with a grain of salt.

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Banking: Mortgage lending increased steadily at both banks

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At BMO, whose Toronto headquarters are seen in December, 2017, profit from Canadian retail banking was essentially flat at $647-million, despite a 14-per-cent increase in commercial lending. FRED LUM/ THE GLOBE AND MAIL

And profit from capital markets was hit hard, falling 26 per cent from the same period a year ago, partly because of lower trading revenues.

Scotiabank reported profit of $2.25-billion, or $1.71 a share, compared with $2.34-billion, or $1.86, a year ago.

Adjusted to exclude certain items, including acquisition costs, Scotiabank said it earned $1.75 a share, well shy of analysts’ consensus expectation of $1.82 a share.

The bank also raised its dividend by 2 cents to 87 cents a share.

Mortgage lending increased slowly but steadily at both banks, compared with a year earlier – by 3 per cent at Scotiabank and the same rate at BMO’s in-house channels – as Canadian housing markets continue to adjust to stricter rules on some borrowers.

“It does look like we’ve had the soft landing that people have

hoped for,” Mr. Flynn said. “And from our perspective, the market tone feels good, feels solid.”

At BMO, profit from Canadian retail banking was essentially flat at $647-million, despite a 14-percent increase in commercial lending. Its capital markets arm fared better than its peers, with profit down only 6 per cent in a difficult market, thanks to higher investment and corporate banking revenue. But wealth-management profits fell 10 per cent.

BMO reported profit of $1.51billion, or $2.28 a share, compared with $973-million, or $1.43, a year earlier. In the same period last year, BMO’s results were dragged down by a one-time, non-cash charge of $425-million related to U.S. tax reform. Excluding that charge and certain other items, BMO said profit of $1.54billion was up 8 per cent, and the bank earned $2.32 a share ahead of the consensus expectations of $2.25 a share.

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If finalized, the new policy direction could influence decisions such as an impending CRTC review of the wireless market that could see the regulator support a mobile reseller business model, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist said in an interview Tuesday. Under such a model, large carriers could be required to resell cellular service to smaller players who have not built their own networks; those players would then sell the data or voice services directly to consumers and could offer lower prices or different service models to stand out.

“This is a government saying we think competition is good, not just facilities-based competition,” Mr. Geist said. “This is a dramatic shift from the CRTC’s seemingly preferred approach of facilities-based competition approach.”

“I think we should not underestimate the implications of this,” he said, pointing to the wireless market review, which is planned for later this year, as well as the influence the new policy direction could have on proposals such as a tax on internet services to support Canadian content, which could increase prices for consumers. “The government is saying to the CRTC that it needs a change in

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On Tuesday, BMO’s share price rose $2.48, or 2.5 per cent, to close at $101.66 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, while Scotiabank shares fell $2.25, or 3 per cent, to $73.17.

Scotiabank has undertaken major changes over the past year, spending more than $7-billion on acquisitions to bolster its businesses in Chile and in wealth management, while selling a number of international operations in the Caribbean and El Salvador. The bank has also entered a non-binding memorandum of understanding to significantly reduce its stake in Thailand-based Thanachart Bank Public Company Limited, or TBank, which is pursuing a merger with TMB Bank Public Company Limited.

Scotiabank has been looking to sell its Thanachart stake for some time and, if the deal is approved, Scotiabank would give up much of the $250-million in annual profit it currently generates, but would also boost its common equity Tier 1 capital ratio by one quarter of a percentage point.

“The pace of change will slow,” said Brian Porter, Scotiabank’s chief executive officer, on a conference call with analysts. “We’ve dealt with our geographic footprint.”

The changing face of Scotiabank’s business has come at a short-term cost, however, as acquisition costs and other onetime items accounted for the lion’s share of a 19-per-cent rise in expenses. The bank is also investing heavily in technology and defences against cybercrime and money laundering.

Profit in the core Canadian banking unit fell 3 per cent in the first quarter despite rising revenue and growing loan portfolios.

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For more than a decade, governments under both the Liberals and Conservatives have made wireless competition a priority and while Freedom and Videotron have both increased their market share, the Big Three continue to control about 90 per cent of the market.

direction, one that prioritizes all forms of competition, better affordability and consumer rights.”

Canada’s three national carriers, BCE Inc., Telus Corp. and Rogers Communications Inc., as well as regional operators such as Shaw Communications Inc.’s Freedom Mobile and Quebecor Inc.’s Vidéotron, are opposed to a mobile reseller model, saying it would reduce their incentives to invest in building high-quality networks.

For more than a decade, governments under both the Liberals and Conservatives have made wireless competition a priority and while Freedom and Videotron have both increased their market share, the Big Three continue to control about 90 per cent of the market. Wireless prices have declined in some cases, but a CRTC report last year showed Canadians still pay higher prices for many services than people in other Group of Seven countries.

In response to a request by the CRTC last year, the Big Three agreed to offer certain low-cost data packages. The Competition Bureau, which has previously highlighted the “market power” the incumbent operators hold, warned in a filing made after the CRTC request that setting low prices through such plans is “not a substitute for true competition in this industry.”

In a news release on Tuesday, Mr. Bains called the move a “clear direction to the CRTC that Canadian consumers must be at the forefront of all future decisions.”

“We are ensuring that telecommunications policy will be made through a consumer-first lens to ensure Canadians have access to quality services at more affordable prices,” he said.

There are several steps the government must take to make the policy change through an order under the Telecommunications Act. These include publishing the proposed direction in the Canada Gazette, consulting with the CRTC as well as the provinces and territories, and allowing the passage of 40 sitting days of Parliament.

Dani Keenan, press secretary for Mr. Bains, said the Minister has been in touch with his provincial and territorial counterparts and that a notice will be published in the Canada Gazette in March. She said the government tabled the proposed policy direction now so that an order could be finalized before the end of this sitting of Parliament, in about mid-June.

Patricia Valladao, spokeswoman for the CRTC, commented, “The CRTC takes note of the government’s proposed policy direction and will implement it once it comes into force.”

Toronto, Queen’s Park and Ottawa all support naming veteran real estate developer Stephen Diamond as the next chair of Waterfront Toronto – and he says he wants the tripartite government agency to take a greater leadership role in its proposed smart-city partnership with Google affiliate Sidewalk Labs as key decisions approach in the coming months.

On Tuesday, Toronto City Council unanimously approved appointing the president and chief executive of commercialreal-estate developer Diamond Corp. as chair of the tripartite development agency; The Globe and Mail reported last week that he was the top contender for the role.

Federal Infrastructure Minister François-Philippe Champagne and Ontario Infrastructure Minister Monte McNaughton submitted letters to council supporting his nomination for a three-year term beginning March 15.

“It’s my hope that Waterfront Toronto will take a leadership role in the discussions in a very public and transparent way,” Mr. Diamond said in an interview Tuesday.

In an e-mailed statement, Mayor John Tory said that “I believe that Mr. Diamond has the necessary skills, qualifications and experience required to lead the revitalization of Toronto’s waterfront. … City Council’s unanimous vote today is a further sign of that confidence.”

Each of the three levels of government can appoint four directors to the Waterfront Toronto board. Mr. Diamond is already a city-appointed director, although his three-year term is set to expire next month.

His official appointment to chair is expected within weeks, and marks the first time since Waterfront Toronto enacted its current governance structure that all three levels of government agreed to appoint an independent chair separate from their allotted directors.

Mr. Diamond had planned to resign from his board position in December to focus on work commitments, but changed his mind after Mr. Tory asked him to stay to provide stability as the board’s ranks dwindled.

“The fact that this is the first time all three levels of government have agreed on a Chair is telling,” Mr. McNaughton said in a statement. Infrastructure Canada spokesperson Lama Khodr confirmed Ottawa’s support of Mr. Diamond, and in an e-mail, called him “an experienced member of the local business community, trusted civic leader and has already made important contributions to the Waterfront Toronto board.”

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It also said the outlook contrasted with guidance that Tesla had given on Jan. 30 that it would deliver about 400,000 vehicles in 2019.

The settlement resolved an SEC lawsuit over another Twitter post in which Mr. Musk said he had “funding secured” to take his Palo Alto, Calif.-based company private at US$420 a share.

Mr. Musk agreed to step down as Tesla’s VIBHUTI SHARMA chairman, and both he and Tesla agreed to pay JONATHAN STEMPEL NEW YORK US$20-million civil fines.

Four hours after his Feb. 19 tweet, Mr. Musk A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Tesla Inc. corrected himself, saying annualized producchief executive Elon Musk to explain by March tion would probably be around 500,000 by year 11 why he should not be held in contempt for end, with full-year deliveries totalling 400,000.

Bradley Bondi, a lawyer for Tesla, had told violating his fraud settlement with the U.S. Sethe SEC in a Feb. 22 letter that Mr. Musk thought curities and Exchange Commission.

The order by U.S. District Judge Alison Nath- the substance of his first tweet had been “apan in Manhattan came hours after the billio- propriately vetted, pre-approved, and publicly naire criticized SEC oversight as “broken,” in disseminated.”

It is not clear what punishment the SEC will the wake of the regulator’s request on Monday seek. night that he be held in contempt.

The regulator could seek a Lawyers for Tesla and Mr. higher fine, further restrictions Musk did not immediately reon Mr. Musk’s activities, or respond to requests for comment. moval of him from Tesla’s Tesla did not immediately reboard. spond to similar requests. The Tesla will make 500,000 Alternatively, it could seek to SEC declined to comment. vehicles in 2019, according ban Mr. Musk from being a pubAnalysts said the renewal of to a tweet from CEO lic company officer, which the public battle between Mr. Elon Musk that the U.S. would force him to step down as Musk and the top U.S. securities Securities and Exchange Tesla’s CEO. regulator will be an overhang on Commission says is in It also is not clear how Mr. Tesla’s stock, which has lost contempt for violating an Musk’s public criticism of the about one-quarter of its value earlier fraud settlement.

SEC might weigh on his fate.

It’s also in contrast with since peaking in August. guidance Tesla had The criticism continued on “Another boxing match with given on Jan. 30 that said Tuesday, when Mr. Musk tweetthe SEC is the last thing investhe electric-car maker ed in the early morning: “Sometors wanted to see,” wrote Dawould deliver about thing is broken with SEC overniel Ives, an analyst at Wedbush 400,000 vehicles in 2019. sight.”

Securities who has an “outperThat came after his Monday form” rating on Tesla.

He called the latest incident “a wild card that night tweet, after the contempt motion was filcould potentially bring this tornado of uncer- ed, that the “SEC forgot to read Tesla earnings tainty back into the Tesla story until resolved.” transcript, which clearly states 350k to 500k,” Tesla shares closed down 0.3 per cent on and added: “How embarrassing.”

Mr. Musk appeared to be referring to his Jan. Tuesday at US$297.86 on the Nasdaq. They had 30 comment to analysts that Tesla would profallen as much as 3.3 per cent earlier.

The SEC contempt motion came after Mr. duce “maybe on the order of 350,000 to 500,000 Musk’s tweet to his more than 24 million Twit- Model 3s, something like that this year.”

Criticizing the SEC is nothing new for Mr. ter followers on Feb. 19: “Tesla made 0 cars in 2011, but will make around 500k in 2019,” mean- Musk. He has called the regulator the “Shortseller Enrichment Commission,” recalling his ing 500,000 vehicles.

According to the SEC, Mr. Musk violated his attacks against hedge funds and other investors October, 2018, settlement agreement by send- who sell Tesla stock short, hoping it will fall. ing that tweet without first seeking approval from Tesla’s lawyers.

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Thomson Reuters Corp. reported better-than-expected earnings on Tuesday, helping push its shares to a record high, and said it is continuing to look for acquisitions to bolster its legal and tax and accounting units, where demand is up in part because of U.S. tax reforms.

Shares in the news and information provider rose 5 per cent in early trading to $73.24, marking a record high, before receding to close at $71.77. They have benefited from the company buying back US$10-billion worth of shares since August.

Thomson Reuters reported fourth-quarter revenue of US$1.52-billion, compared with US$1.41-billion a year ago. Earnings excluding special items were 20 US cents a share, down from 22 US cents a share a year ago, but significantly above the average analyst forecast of 6 US cents a share, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

Thomson Reuters sold a 55per-cent stake in its financial and risk (F&R) unit to private-equity firm Blackstone Group LP last October in a deal that valued the unit, now a stand-alone business called Refinitiv, at about US$20billion.

The company has set aside US$2-billion of the US$17-billion proceeds from the Blackstone deal to make purchases to help develop its legal, tax and accounting and corporates businesses.

“We have a number of potential targets,” chief executive Jim Smith told analysts on a conference call. “We’re in the process of prioritizing those targets and, in some cases, beginning some discussions, but we’re not on the verge of pulling the trigger on something big right now.

“We have to make certain we find not only the right strategic fit, but the fit that makes finan-

cial sense as well. It’s a pretty frothy [mergers and acquisitions] market at the moment,” he said.

Mr. Smith said U.S. tax reforms were helping to stimulate demand for the company’s tax and accounting products.

Legal, corporates and tax and accounting are the company’s three biggest units following the F&R deal. Excluding exchange rates, legal revenue rose 4 per cent during the quarter to US$599-million. Tax and accounting sales rose by 8 per cent to US$248-million. Sales to corporate clients rose by 7 per cent to US$315-million.

For 2019, the company forecast adjusted earnings of US$1.4-billion to US$1.5-billion, up from US$1.4-billion in the current year.

The company has retained a 45-per-cent stake in Refinitiv, which sells data and news primarily to financial customers.

Under the agreement with Blackstone, Refinitiv will make minimum annual payments of US$325-million to Reuters over 30 years, adjusted for inflation, to secure access to its news service, equal to almost US$10-billion in all. Refinitiv revenue increased by 3 per cent, excluding currency movements, to US$1.55-billion during the quarter, Thomson Reuters said.

For 2018 as a whole, Thomson Reuters reported overall revenue growth of 4 per cent. Revenues excluding the effect of the Blackstone deal rose by 2.5 per cent.

For 2019, the company is forecasting organic revenue growth of 3 per cent to 3.5 per cent. For 2020, it expects revenue growth of 3.5 per cent to 4.5 per cent, in line with December guidance.

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hen the broadest index of Canada’s biggest stocks changes its membership next month, there may no longer be room for Canada’s oldest company.

Three emerging cannabis sellers may join the club, however.

The S&P/TSX Composite Index is poised to do a “reconstitution,” a process it does every quarter to remove companies that have become too small and add companies that have grown in value.

And Hudson’s Bay Co., thanks to its shrinking share price, is now small enough to lose its spot.

S&P won’t announce its decisions until early March, and the firm’s index committee has some discretion in making the changes.

But HBC is among the companies flagged by Chris Murray, the managing director of institutional research at AltaCorp Capital, in a recent study of potential additions and deletions to the index.

Potential new composite members include pot stocks HEXO Corp., CannTrust Holdings Inc. and the Green Organic Dutchman Holdings Ltd., which would double the number of cannabis companies in the 239-member composite. (Canopy Growth Corp., Aurora Cannabis Inc. and Aphria Inc. are already members.)

With the growth of index funds and other passive investing strategies, whether a stock is in or out of a major index can have a meaningful impact on share prices, Mr. Murray said, because many fund managers who track an in-

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dex need to hold shares in the companies. “Index inclusion has been an important factor in total return for stocks in the last decade,” he said.

That’s more bad news for HBC, which has seen its value erode as

investors have lost faith in the company’s turnaround. The company, founded in 1670, struggled over the past several decades with heavy debt and changing shopping habits. Current chairman Richard Baker acquired it in 2008

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and sold shares to the public in 2012. Mr. Baker’s plan has been to combine Hudson’s Bay with several other department-store chains and take advantage of the underlying real estate. A combination of successful property

sales and optimism about the retail sector saw the shares peak above $21 in 2013, but the company’s underwhelming results and investor fears about retail in general have driven the shares down to the single digits, bottoming out at $6.80 in December. They closed at $8.11 on Tuesday.

The company did not reply to a request for comment for this story. Late Tuesday, it said president Alison Coville is stepping down, effective Friday, and the company will look for a permanent successor.

HBC still has a market capitalization of about $1.5-billion. But that’s not how S&P and many other index creators select membership. Instead, they look at the value of shares that aren’t held by insiders and are easily available to the public. This is called the “float.”

With Mr. Baker holding almost 12 million shares, and other major investors and hedge funds holding huge blocks, only about a third of HBC’s 235 million shares are in the float. So the company’s “float-adjusted market capitalization” is just more than $500-million, Mr. Murray calculates.

To stay in the composite, a company’s float-adjusted market capitalization must be 0.025 per cent, or 2.5 hundredths of a percentage point, of the total value of the index. Mr. Murray says recent HBC trades put it below the threshold.

While the potential departure of HBC and the addition of the cannabis companies represent a symbolic changing of the guard, S&P quietly made an important methodology change that could expand membership in the composite over time. Until this quarter, a company’s float-adjusted market capitalization needed to be at least 0.05 per cent, or five hundredths of a percentage point.

Starting in March, the new minimum is 0.04 per cent effectively cutting the minimum size of floatadjusted market cap for inclusion by more than $200-million, to just more than $900-million.

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ver the past two years, the bullish thesis underpinning Home Capital Group Inc. could be summarized in two words: Warren Buffett. But since Mr. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. sold its 16 million shares in the Toronto-based alternative mortgage lender in mid-December, is there still a compelling reason to buy the stock?

There’s no momentum here.

The shares have been stuck in a trading range that tends to top out slightly more than $17 – which is, perhaps not coincidentally, close to Mr. Buffett’s exit price of $16.50 a share.

There’s little sign of confidence in the health of the company’s assets either. On Tuesday, the shares closed at $17.15, down 31 cents, meaning that they trade at just 65 per cent of the company’s book value of $26.43 a share. Among the seven analysts who cover the stock, all of them have lukewarm “hold” recommendations, suggesting they see little value here.

Yet, Home Capital, which specializes in underwriting mortgages to home buyers who can’t get mortgages from banks because of weak credit histories, has been showing improving financial strength since emerging from a liquidity crisis in 2017 that had raised questions about the company’s survival.

The shares collapsed to a low of $5.85 on May 5, 2017, down from highs above $50 a share in 2014.

Depositors withdrew money from their Home Capital high-interest saving accounts on news that Ontario’s securities regulator had accused the lender of misleading investors.

To avoid insolvency, the company arranged a $2-billion credit line syndicated by the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan. In June, 2017, Berkshire Hathaway stepped in with its own line of credit and bought nearly a 20-percent stake in equity (at a discount). Mr. Buffett later tried to buy even more shares (also at a

discount) but was rebuffed by shareholders.

With Berkshire Hathaway making a rare foray into a Canadian company amid bullish enthusiasm from Mr. Buffett, one of the world’s shrewdest investors, Home Capital shareholders now had some assurance that the company wasn’t going to disappear.

When Mr. Buffett sold his shares in December, he had made a profit of $111-million, in addition to millions of dollars in fees from the line of credit. Remaining shareholders could point to a couple of reasons to staying put: Mr. Buffett sold his shares because his stake in the company was too small to move the needle on Berkshire’s profits; and Mr. Buffett said good things about Home Capital on his way out.

You have to wonder how much upside is left in the stock. Regulators are tightening lending conditions and mortgage rates have been climbing – two challenges that have been weighing on most lenders, including the big banks.

And the housing market in Toronto, where Home Capital does much of its business with recent immigrants and self-employed Canadians, is showing signs of exhaustion after years of frenetic sales activity and price increases.

Home Capital’s fourth-quarter financial results, released last week, suggested that the company has been navigating these challenges successfully, though. The company reported a profit of $35.8-million, or 46 cents a share, up from 38 cents a share in the

fourth quarter of 2017.

Return-on-equity (ROE), a measure of profitability, expanded to 8.1 per cent – up from 6.8 per cent last year, though still below many other financial firms. Royal Bank of Canada’s ROE, for example, is 16.7 per cent.

So why are the shares still mired at levels well below where they were a few years ago? Jaeme Gloyn, an analyst at National Bank Financial, argued that there are still a number of unknowns.

“We continue to recommend investors await better visibility on macro-related risks as well as Home Capital’s deposit-gathering capabilities, profitability, growth and credit performance,” Mr. Gloyn said in a note. He added that ROE is below 10 per cent at a time when the company is struggling to expand margins on its loans (owing to rising funding costs) and is embarking upon an expensive plan to revamp its technology infrastructure.

On a conference call with analysts last week, management had little to add to its performance numbers. Asked how it planned to improve its ROE to a mid-teens target, Yousry Bissada, chief executive officer, said: “That’s going to be through a combination of earnings and the strategy of returning capital to shareholders.”

The answer may have been worth something when Mr. Buffett was an investor. Without him, though, investors are going to need significantly more assurance that this company is back on its feet.

Palladium broke past US$1,550 for the first time on Tuesday on the back of intensifying supply deficit, while gold steadied after U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell reiterated patience in further rate hikes.

Spot palladium soared to US$1,565.09 an ounce earlier in the day, and was up 1.6 percent at US$1,564.84 as of 11:41 am EST. “Palladium is up based on the fact that there are 15 mining firms in South Africa, that could go on strike this week,” Bob Haberkorn, senior market strategist at RJO Futures.

The news of South African mining firms receiving notices of strikes to be held next week aggravated supply concerns in an already tight market, with prices soaring about 24 per cent so far this year.

The world’s largest palladium producer, Norilsk Nickel, on Tuesday said tighter emissions regulations in all major markets and flattish primary supply would widen the autocatalyst metal’s deficit in 2019.

“There are increased talks that There are increased palladium is entering into the bubble territory because of the re- talks that palladium lentless rally that we have seen,” is entering into the Saxo Bank analyst Ole Hansen bubble territory said. “Those who are long are because of the tempted to take profits while we potentially may see a few at- relentless rally that tempts to sell some shorts in the we have seen. Those market.” who are long are Elsewhere, spot gold and U.S. tempted to take gold futures were steady at US$1,327.20 an ounce and at profits while we potentially may see US$1,329 an ounce, respectively.

While Mr. Powell reiterated the a few attempts to rhetoric of “patience” about the sell some shorts in future of interest rate hikes in a prepared testimony released in the market. advance of a hearing before the OLE HANSEN U.S. Senate Banking Committee, SAXO BANK ANALYST stronger than expected consumer confidence data have kept gold pressured, analysts said.

On the other hand “the U.S. housing data is a bit of a concern, it proves that the Fed may have overtightened,” said Phil Streible, senior commodities strategist at RJO Futures in Chicago.

U.S. homebuilding tumbled to a more than two-year low in December as construction of both single and multifamily housing declined, the latest indication that the economy lost momentum in the fourth quarter.

“However, there is not going to be any other occasion that the Fed is going to be more dovish than it already is, so gold futures have not reacted to Powell’s speech at all,” Mr. Streible added.

Silver, meanwhile, fell 0.1 per cent to US$15.88 an ounce, while platinum was up 1 per cent at US$857.53, having touched US$858, its highest since early November.

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North American markets were flat as gains from cannabis stocks and consumer staples offset losses from technology, financial, industrials and materials sectors.

The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX rose 10.88 points, or 0.07 per cent, to 16,067.91.

Leading the index were Cronos Group, up 6.7 per cent, Baytex Energy Corp., up 6.6 per cent, and Aurora Cannabis Inc., higher by 6.4 per cent.

Beyond the product you invest in, you must have a plan for mixing assets – and stick to it

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Wall Street’s three major indexes fell slightly after a choppy session as investors eyed mixed U.S. economic data and corporate news and waited for clarity on issues such as the U.S.China trade talks.

Weaker-than-expected housing data contrasted with a rosy consumer confidence report, while Home Depot was among the biggest drags on the benchmark S&P 500 index after the home-improvement retailer blamed bad weather for missed Wall Street forecasts.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 33.97 points, or 0.13 per cent, to 26,057.98, the S&P 500 lost 2.21 points, or 0.08 per cent, to 2,793.9 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 5.16 points, or 0.07 per cent, to 7,549.30.

The S&P’s biggest losing stock was JPMorgan Chase, which closed down 0.8 per cent after it warned of rising costs for deposits, a key part of its business, and slowing global economic growth.

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f you own overpriced, do-nothing mutual funds, then ETFs are definitely a smarter way to invest.

But the product you invest in is just half the battle in achieving good results for your portfolio.

You also need a proper blueprint for mixing stocks, bonds and maybe cash, and you need the discipline to stick to your plan as the markets rise and fall. The latest stats on ETF asset flows suggest some people are having trouble with the discipline part of the equation.

As you may recall, December was a rotten month for stocks.

The S&P/TSX composite index fell 5.4 per cent on total return basis, which means changes in share price plus dividends. If ETF investors were truly smart, they would have added new money to their holdings as stocks plunged. Instead, they kind of panicked.

Stats from ETFGI.com show there was a net $28-million net outflow of money from ETFs that hold stocks in January, 2019, compared with net inflows of $761million 12 months earlier. We could fall back on investing clichés to highlight the mistake made by people selling equity ETFs in December – buy low, sell high; be greedy when others are fearful; the time of greatest pessimism is the best time to buy. A better way to make the point about fleeing markets after a nasty decline is to simply look at

ISTOCK

The quick market turnaround this year still offers a lesson.

Smart investors don’t exit the market when stocks fall – they use the opportunity to add to their holdings at reduced prices.

what happened in the stock market in January.

The S&P/TSX composite index surged by 8.7 per cent during the month on a total return basis, and February has been solid so far.

From today’s vantage point, the stock-market decline last fall turned out to be a buying opportunity. If you bailed out, you lost out.

The stock market could well plunge again sometime soon as a result of global trade tensions, weakening economic growth or something we haven’t yet considered. But the quick market turnaround this year still offers a lesson. Smart investors don’t exit the market when stocks fall – they use the opportunity to add to their holdings at reduced prices.

You can automate the process of buying low by using dollar-cost averaging, which means regular purchases of funds on a monthly or quarterly basis. Or you can use a strategy of adding money to your funds on days when the market is down sharply, say 1 per cent to 2 per cent or more. No one expects you to enjoy a down market, but you can turn it to your advantage.

COMMODITIES

Oil futures inched up after news that OPEC would continue production cuts despite comments from U.S. President Donald Trump, who criticized the producer group for rising crude prices a day earlier.

FOREX AND BONDS

The Canadian dollar edged higher against its U.S. counterpart, reversing an early decline as oil prices rose and U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell signalled patience on raising interest rates further.

The U.S. dollar fell to a three-week low in choppy trading as Mr. Powell repeated that the U.S. central bank would remain patient on monetary policy, suggesting it was unlikely to raise interest rates anytime soon.

Canadian government bond prices were higher across the yield curve in sympathy with U.S. Treasuries. The two-year rose 4.5 cents to yield 1.759 per cent and the 10-year climbed 23 cents to yield 1.868 per cent.

U.S. Treasury yields fell as Mr. Powell stood by the central bank’s “patient” position on interest rates, even as he expected solid economic growth in 2019.

The decline in bond yields was also driven by strong investor demand for US$32-billion of U.S. seven-year government debt, the final part of this week’s US$113-billion in coupon-bearing Treasury supply.

REUTERS AND THE CANADIAN PRESS

Why gold is starting to regain its shine Select gold miners

(portfolio managers are paying for the privilege of parking their money in yen- or franc-denoted money-market securities), which only adds to the relative appeal of the precious metal. And according to The Economist, central banks’ level of net gold buying in 2018 was at the highest level since 1971, when then-U.S. president Richard Nixon broke the U.S. dollar’s peg to the price of gold.

There are a number of exchange-traded funds, the largest being State Street’s SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), that provide direct exposure to the value of gold, but investors might also want to look for gold miners that might benefit from investors piling into the yellow metal and the corresponding price rally.

First, we look for companies that are forecast to increase their gold production from last year’s level, and screen for at least a 50per-cent increase.

Next, we try to identify companies that will be able to mine the increased levels of gold in a cost-effective way. We consider both the forecast mining cash cost – how much it will cost to produce one ounce of gold at the site level – and all in production cost, which includes all costs, per ounce of gold, required to sustain production over the life cycle of a mine.

We screen for less than US$650 and US$900, respectively.

MORE ABOUT REFINITIV

The screen yields five companies.

Operations for Toronto-based Dundee Precious Metals Inc. are diversified both in terms of geog-

raphy and the maturity of its production facilities. Its Chelopech mine in Bulgaria has been in production for more than 50 years while its Tsumeb smelter in Namibia produced positive cash flow for the first time in the previous quarter.

Australia’s Newcrest Mining Ltd. (which also mines for silver) could be the most affected name on our list by current goldmerger speculation. Colorado’s Newmont Mining Corp. is near to closing an acquisition of Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. However, Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corp., the world’s largest gold miner after acquiring South Africa’s Randgold Resources Ltd., has recently confirmed it has targeted Newmont for acquisition. (Notably, neither Barrick nor Newmont made our list.) There is speculation that should Barrick acquire Newmont, which has mines in Colorado and Africa close to Barrick assets, Newmont’s Australian assets could be sold to Newcrest.

Investors are advised to do their own research before trading in any of the securities shown here.

GOLDCORP (GG-NYSE) CLOSE US$10.80, DOWN 26¢

CATERPILLAR (CAT-NYSE) CLOSE US$137.98, DOWN US$3.43

SNC-LAVALIN GROUP (SNC-TSX) CLOSE $36.81, DOWN 14¢

TARGET (TGT-NYSE) CLOSE US$72.29, DOWN 81¢

TREVALI MINING (TV-TSX) CLOSE 36¢, DOWN 1¢

Goldcorp Inc. shareholders are likely to face an “uncertain future” if Newmont Mining Corp. decides not to pursue its US$10billion friendly transaction to acquire the miner, according to RBC Dominion Securities analyst Stephen Walker, emphasizing management’s decision to sell the company rather than pursue its turnaround strategy.

Target: Mr. Walker lowered his rating to “sector perform” from “outperform” with a US$13 target, down from US$15. The current consensus is US$12.38.

Expecting more than half of its end markets to “peak” in 2019, UBS analyst Steven Fisher downgraded Caterpillar Inc. by two levels to “sell” from “buy,” expecting increase pressure on revenue and margins in 2020 with diminishing demand. “We expect 2020 EPS to decline 8 per cent yearover-year,” he said.

Target: His target fell to US$125 from US$154. Consensus is currently US$148.61.

Raymond James analyst Frederic Bastien said SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is writing “a script with Oscar potential,” however he’ll “consider buying the movie rights instead.” “We believe SNC-Lavalin will struggle to win projects and attract new fundamental investors for as long as its legal troubles persist,” he said.

Target: Mr. Bastien kept a “market perform” rating, but his target fell to $43 from $45. Consensus is $45.08.

Target Corp. is “saying and doing the right things to stay relevant to the consumer” and pick up market share in a struggling retail sector, Citigroup analyst Paul Lejuez said upon assuming coverage.

“But staying relevant comes at a price that we believe is likely to continue to weigh on margins for the foreseeable future,” he said.

Target: With a “neutral” rating, Mr. Lejuez has a US$78 target.

Consensus is US$81.05.

Citing execution concerns after “weak” fourth-quarter financial results, CIBC World Markets analyst Oscar Cabrera downgraded Trevali Mining Corp. to “neutral” from “outperform.” “We are concerned with TV’s operating execution under a challenging macro environment,” he said.

Target: Mr. Cabrera’s target moved to 50 cents from $1, and now sits below the consensus of 72 cents.

HUGH SMITH NUMBER CRUNCHER

CFA, MBA, investment management specialist at Refinitiv WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Growing, miners.

cost-efficient

COMPANY

TICKER

COUNTRY

MARKET CAP. (US$MIL)

RECENT PRICE (NATIVE $)

Alacer Gold Corp.

Dundee Precious Metals Newcrest Mining Ltd. B2Gold Corp.

Northern Star Resources Source: Refinitiv

ASR-T DPM-T NCMGY-OTC BTO-T NESRF-OTC

USA Canada Australia Canada Australia

820 640 13,728 3,228 4,279

3.68 4.73 24.94 4.28 9.34

GOLD PRODUCTION INCREASE

MINING CASH COST (US$)

113% 70% 53% 52% 80%

517.57 537.00 575.00 575.26 633.13

DIV. ALL-IN 1YR. PRODUCTION YIELD COST (US$) (NTM) RETURN

722.14 767.50 860.80 805.50 802.66

0.6% 67.3% 0.0% 53.6% 1.2% 17.5% 0.0% 7.5% 1.7% 48.2%

gold

THE SCREEN

We are currently experiencing the longest equity bull run in history amid a lot of geopolitical uncertainty. After a very strong January and February, the S&P 500 is close to the record highs set in 2018, against a backdrop of a potential trade war with China, a fast-approaching Brexit deadline with no Brexit plan and an economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. Those who are long the stock market might, understandably, be looking for a hedge.

Gold is a classic haven asset despite the fact its yield is zero. Currently, the yields on other haven assets such as the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen are negative

Refinitiv, formerly the financial and risk business of Thomson Reuters, is one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, serving more than 40,000 institutions worldwide. With a dynamic combination of data, insights, technology and news from Reuters, our customers can access solutions for every challenge, including a breadth of applications, tools and content – all supported by human expertise.

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MARKETS

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S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX

S&P 500

DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE

S&P GLOBAL 100 INDEX

PAST 12 MONTHS

PAST 12 MONTHS

PAST 12 MONTHS

PAST 12 MONTHS

16067.91 |

10.88 |

0.07 % |

2.25 % 1-YR | 266318 VOL(000)

TSX INDEXES AND SUB INDEXES

2793.90 |

-2.21 | -0.08 % |

0.51 % 1-YR

26057.98 | -33.97 |

TSX GAINERS

TSX LOSERS

TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE

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NET CHG

% CHG

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG

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TSX COMPOSITE IND 16067.91 TSX 60 INDEX 957.44 TSX COMPLETION IN 980.55 TSX SMALLCAP INDE 592.78 TSX VENTURE COMPO 623.95 TSX CONSUMER DISC 197.52 TSX CONSUMER STAP 594.24 TSX ENERGY CAPPED 157.34 TSX FINANCIALS CA 301.05 TSX HEALTH CARE C 125.30 TSX INDUSTRIALS C 255.86 TSX INFORMATION T 87.40 TSX MATERIALS CAP 237.81 TSX REAL ESTATE C 330.22 TSX GLOBAL GOLD I 193.70 TSX GLOBAL MINING 75.30 TSX INCOME TRUST 208.70 TSX PREFERRED SHA 629.31 TSX TELECOM SERVI 177.96 TSX UTILITIES CAP 239.93

10.88 -0.05 2.93 1.60 0.22 0.39 4.60 0.16 -0.29 4.54 -0.30 -0.60 -1.33 0.28 -1.07 0.07 0.15 0.44 -0.13 1.55

0.07 -0.01 0.30 0.27 0.04 0.20 0.78 0.10 -0.10 3.76 -0.12 -0.68 -0.56 0.08 -0.55 0.09 0.07 0.07 -0.07 0.65

266318 2.25 133552 2.84 132766 0.46 66637 -5.64 81384 -24.54 5381 -5.85 5239 13.38 56820 -11.92 38096 -0.49 31007 42.97 23195 5.15 3672 19.87 52261 -0.79 7273 10.18 63723 4.95 137908 1.89 7520 7.25 2392 -11.87 8034 10.37 7976 4.41

PNC-B POSTMEDIA N 1.50 NXJ NEXJ SYSTEMS 1.75 SXP SUPREMEX INC 3.38 ORL OROCOBRE LIMI 3.60 PTS POINTS INTERN 15.56 NOA NORTH AMERICA 16.28 CFW CALFRAC WELL 3.46 CRON CRONOS GROUP 28.48 BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 2.44 ACB AURORA CANNAB 10.20 MAXR MAXAR TECHNO 9.74 TEV TERVITA CORPO 6.48 PTG PIVOT TECHNOL 1.21 APHA APHRIA INC 13.51 EXF EXFO INC 5.04 CPG CRESCENT POIN 4.22 EDR ENDEAVOUR SIL 3.55 MXG MAXIM POWER C 2.16 VMD VIEMED HEALTH 6.15 TGOD THE GREEN OR 4.04

NET CHG

% CHG

0.40 36.36 0.25 16.67 0.29 9.39 0.29 8.76 1.23 8.58 1.26 8.39 0.23 7.12 1.78 6.67 0.15 6.55 0.61 6.36 0.58 6.33 0.38 6.23 0.07 6.14 0.78 6.13 0.29 6.11 0.24 6.03 0.20 5.97 0.12 5.88 0.33 5.67 0.21 5.48

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG N-A 16 67 114 11 308 563 3104 5863 17669 597 82 110 5462 25 7795 273 N-A 76 5293

50.00 -41.47 -25.06 -45.70 15.69 154.38 -44.90 189.14 -63.36 0.39 -83.70 -36.78 -46.70 4.57 -12.35 -57.03 20.34 -16.92 116.55 3.86

TSX 52-WEEK HIGHS

1887.17 |

3.66 |

0.19 % |

-2.16 % 1-YR

TSX VOLUME CLOSE

SOY SUNOPTA INC CFP CANFOR CORP IFP INTERFOR CORP HSE HUSKY ENERGY LGO LARGO RESOURC PATH COUNTERPATH OSB NORBORD INC CFX CANFOR PULP P GUY GUYANA GOLDFI BEK-B BECKER MILK PNC-A POSTMEDIA N NIF-UN NORANDA IN IMV IMMUNOVACCINE CRDL CARDIOL THER NRI NUVO PHARMACE BR BIG ROCK BREWE SEC SENVEST CAPIT OLA ORLA MINING L LAC LITHIUM AMERI PXT PAREX RESOURC

1.36 % 1-YR | 257003 VOL(000)

2.99 14.33 15.02 14.77 2.23 2.00 33.97 16.13 1.51 12.12 1.26 1.63 6.80 7.10 2.40 5.65 180.00 1.23 4.73 20.24

TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE NET CHG

% CHG

-2.29 -43.37 -1.49 -9.42 -1.24 -7.63 -1.20 -7.51 -0.17 -7.08 -0.15 -6.98 -2.53 -6.93 -1.19 -6.87 -0.11 -6.79 -0.88 -6.77 -0.09 -6.67 -0.10 -5.78 -0.40 -5.56 -0.40 -5.33 -0.13 -5.14 -0.30 -5.04 -8.90 -4.71 -0.06 -4.65 -0.22 -4.44 -0.93 -4.39

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG 921 1175 838 3952 1531 N-A 759 206 760 N-A 1 55 56 86 4 24 N-A 292 147 873

-64.74 -53.49 -41.33 -14.43 79.84 -59.92 -23.77 7.68 -68.80 -23.05 26.00 16.43 11.84 71.08 -29.62 0.89 -23.40 -10.87 -43.76 7.09

CLOSE ACB AURORA CANNAB NXE NEXGEN ENERGY BBD-B BOMBARDIER ECA ENCANA CORP MFC MANULIFE FIN CPG CRESCENT POIN BNS BANK OF NOVA BTE BAYTEX ENERGY APHA APHRIA INC TGOD THE GREEN OR ABX BARRICK GOLD ENB ENBRIDGE INC G GOLDCORP INC SU SUNCOR ENERGY TD TORONTO-DOMINI CVE CENOVUS ENERG BCE BCE INC HSE HUSKY ENERGY TRP TRANSCANADA C K KINROSS GOLD CO

10.20 2.20 2.68 9.18 22.52 4.22 73.17 2.44 13.51 4.04 16.59 49.01 14.20 44.91 76.72 12.11 58.43 14.77 59.18 4.55

NET CHG

% CHG

0.61 6.36 -0.07 -3.08 -0.11 -3.94 -0.11 -1.18 -0.24 -1.05 0.24 6.03 -2.25 -2.98 0.15 6.55 0.78 6.13 0.21 5.48 -0.01 -0.06 0.36 0.74 -0.41 -2.81 0.12 0.27 0.15 0.20 0.31 2.63 0.07 0.12 -1.20 -7.51 0.27 0.46 -0.11 -2.36

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG 17669 14581 13166 9845 7948 7795 7766 5863 5462 5293 4839 4813 4714 4474 4146 4027 3980 3952 3728 3674

0.39 -18.52 -34.15 -34.80 -8.68 -57.03 -7.13 -63.36 4.57 3.86 7.17 14.06 -12.35 1.86 2.90 24.33 3.03 -14.43 1.51 -0.66

TSX 52-WEEK LOWS STOCKS $1 OR MORE

STOCKS $1 OR MORE

AIM-PR-C AIMIA IN AC AIR CANADA AQY-A ALIGNVEST A ATD-A ALIMENTATIO ATD-B ALIMENTATIO BCE BCE INC BAD BADGER DAYLIG BNS-PR-Y BANK OF BNS-PR-D BNS PREF BAM-A BROOKFIELD CWB-PR-D CANADIAN CDAY CERIDIAN HCM CIA CHAMPION IRON CHP-UN CHOICE PRO CRR-UN CROMBIE RE DRT DIRTT ENVIRON DIR-UN DREAM INDU ECN ECN CAPITAL C EMA EMERA INCORPO

-0.13 % |

B9

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NET CHG

% CHG

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG

25.34 33.92 10.07 75.25 75.04 58.43 38.08 24.40 24.35 58.95 25.25 64.48 1.69 13.60 13.93 7.72 11.06 4.10 46.51

0.34 0.52 -0.01 2.00 1.95 0.07 0.28 0.10 0.01 0.47 0.00 0.27 0.01 0.03 0.11 0.10 0.06 0.11 0.09

1.36 1.56 -0.10 2.73 2.67 0.12 0.74 0.41 0.04 0.80 0.00 0.42 0.60 0.22 0.80 1.31 0.55 2.76 0.19

11 138.16 1266 25.77 28 3.71 4 21.20 879 20.86 3980 3.03 118 51.89 2 4.63 N-A 3.93 975 15.18 19 1.69 3 59.13 648 32.03 440 15.25 190 6.58 57 46.21 588 18.29 611 20.59 646 10.92

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ERO ERO COPPER CO FLCD FRANKLIN FTS FLAM FRANKLIN FTS GIL GILDAN ACTIVE BL-UN GLOBAL INNO NOA NORTH AMERICA PDL NORTH AMERICA OSK OSISKO MINING PVS-PR-G PARTNERS RCI-A ROGERS COMM RCI-B ROGERS COMM SES SECURE ENERGY SMU-UN SUMMIT IND TVK TERRAVEST CAP TRI THOMSON REUTE TA TRANSALTA CORP TRP TRANSCANADA C W-PR-J WESTCOAST

16.62 20.93 20.57 47.16 10.03 16.28 20.44 3.64 24.95 73.90 72.85 8.86 11.13 12.40 71.77 7.76 59.18 25.23

NET CHG

% CHG

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG

0.52 3.23 0.03 0.14 0.17 0.83 0.50 1.07 -0.02 -0.20 1.26 8.39 0.49 2.46 0.10 2.82 0.00 0.00 1.35 1.86 -0.22 -0.30 0.10 1.14 0.13 1.18 0.00 0.00 2.06 2.96 0.24 3.19 0.27 0.46 0.03 0.12

312 110.38 N-A 0.14 N-A 0.78 385 24.66 21 2.24 308 154.38 103 100.20 505 26.83 7 1.01 N-A 25.59 727 23.94 386 5.85 428 38.43 3 25.25 854 28.07 834 15.99 3728 1.51 5 2.23

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NET CHG

% CHG

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG

11.60 14.33 1.50 7.55 26.34

-0.23 -1.49 0.00 0.00 -0.13

-1.94 -9.42 0.00 0.00 -0.49

2 -27.50 1175 -53.49 120 -28.91 403 -3.58 N-A -0.49

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NET CHG

% CHG

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG

IFC INTACT FINANC IPL INTER PIPELIN IFP INTERFOR CORP IIP-UN INTERRENT ITP INTERTAPE POL IVN IVANHOE MINES

110.50 21.10 15.02 14.10 18.60 3.51

-0.39 -0.07 -1.24 0.37 -0.06 0.05

-0.35 -0.33 -7.63 2.69 -0.32 1.45

284 1393 838 517 120 1170

KEL KELT EXPLORAT KEY KEYERA CORP KMP-UN KILLAM APA KXS KINAXIS INC KML KINDER MORGAN K KINROSS GOLD CO KL KIRKLAND LAKE GUD KNIGHT THERAP

5.47 31.69 17.63 82.55 15.27 4.55 48.02 7.55

0.01 -0.33 -0.05 -1.16 -0.05 -0.11 0.28 0.00

0.18 -1.03 -0.28 -1.39 -0.33 -2.36 0.59 0.00

1109 -25.17 731 -5.49 298 28.97 86 -3.90 237 -73.61 3674 -0.66 827 136.32 403 -3.58

LIF LABRADOR IRON LB LAURENTIAN BAN LNR LINAMAR CORP L LOBLAW CO LUC LUCARA DIAMON LUN LUNDIN MINING

32.12 46.06 51.99 65.41 1.65 6.93

-0.03 -0.09 0.44 0.96 -0.25 -0.48 0.46 0.71 0.02 1.23 -0.05 -0.72

173 22.78 302 -13.87 156 -26.90 625 24.53 468 -33.73 2498 -20.07

MAG MAG SILVER CO MG MAGNA INTERNAT MFC MANULIFE FIN MFI MAPLE LEAF FO MRE MARTINREA INT MEG MEG ENERGY CO MX METHANEX CORP MRU METRO INC MSI MORNEAU SHEPE MTY MTY FOOD GROU MTL MULLEN GROUP

13.19 70.03 22.52 29.02 12.34 5.27 74.74 49.77 27.41 59.69 12.57

0.03 0.23 -0.52 -0.74 -0.24 -1.05 0.16 0.55 -0.08 -0.64 -0.09 -1.68 -1.84 -2.40 0.59 1.20 0.01 0.04 0.16 0.27 0.12 0.96

196 771 7948 145 186 2065 236 624 138 136 252

NA NATIONAL BANK NFI NEW FLYER IND NGD NEW GOLD INC NXE NEXGEN ENERGY OSB NORBORD INC NPI NORTHLAND POW NVU-UN NORTHVIEW NG NOVAGOLD RES I NTR NUTRIEN LTD NVA NUVISTA ENERG

62.53 35.62 1.22 2.20 33.97 24.52 27.10 5.18 72.42 4.48

0.01 -0.24 -0.01 -0.07 -2.53 0.13 0.15 0.07 0.05 -0.03

0.02 -0.67 -0.81 -3.08 -6.93 0.53 0.56 1.37 0.07 -0.67

858 -2.42 184 -38.17 590 -63.69 14581 -18.52 759 -23.77 496 9.32 128 11.52 301 0.58 1027 14.05 1034 -45.70

OGC OCEANAGOLD CO ONEX ONEX CORP OTEX OPEN TEXT CO OR OSISKO GOLD RO

4.33 79.48 50.30 15.10

-0.17 0.52 0.06 0.27

-3.78 0.66 0.12 1.82

1234 157 434 562

UNS UNI SELECT IN

13.33

PAAS PAN AMERICAN PXT PAREX RESOURC PKI PARKLAND FUEL PSI PASON SYSTEMS PPL PEMBINA PIPEL PEY PEYTO EXPLORA POW POWER CORPORA PWF POWER FINANCI PSK PRAIRIESKY RO PD PRECISION DRIL PBH PREMIUM BRAND PVG PRETIUM RESOU

18.48 20.24 37.60 19.83 48.12 7.81 27.84 29.07 19.72 3.39 77.23 10.72

-0.01 -0.93 0.18 -0.33 0.29 0.09 0.24 0.57 -0.63 0.00 1.25 0.14

-0.05 -4.39 0.48 -1.64 0.61 1.17 0.87 2.00 -3.10 0.00 1.65 1.32

523 -6.34 873 7.09 514 25.96 114 13.77 1187 12.64 402 -33.81 972 -8.39 841 -13.40 300 -33.13 946 -22.60 114 -25.62 349 31.37

VET VERMILION ENE

33.29

WSP WSP GLOBAL IN 70.36 WCN WASTE CONNECT 108.85 WFT WEST FRASER T 67.04 WEF WESTERN FORES 1.83 WJA WESTJET AIRLI 20.99 WN WESTON GEORGE 92.31 WTE WESTSHORE TER 22.22 WPM WHEATON PRECI 29.36 WCP WHITECAP RESO 4.93 WPK WINPAK LTD 45.57

-0.31 -0.44 -0.48 -0.44 -1.17 -1.72 -0.05 -2.66 0.49 2.39 -3.06 -3.21 -0.29 -1.29 -0.29 -0.98 0.10 2.07 -1.96 -4.12

142 19.66 263 19.18 433 -28.09 676 -34.88 746 -20.58 956 -11.22 126 -9.34 955 18.05 1445 -39.51 123 -9.06

31.32

-0.67

-2.09

623

YRI YAMANA GOLD I

-0.06

2911

BPO-PR-Y BROOKFIE CFP CANFOR CORP GSV GOLD STANDARD GUD KNIGHT THERAP MEME-B MANULIFE M

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LS MIDDLEFIELD HE NXE NEXGEN ENERGY RIB-UN RIDGEWOOD SOY SUNOPTA INC TBL TAIGA BUILDIN

10.55 2.20 14.75 2.99 1.05

NET CHG

% CHG

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG

-0.02 -0.19 -0.07 -3.08 -0.05 -0.34 -2.29 -43.37 0.00 0.00

19 -1.22 14581 -18.52 N-A -1.67 921 -64.74 11 -27.08

S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX STOCKS LARGEST STOCKS BY MARKET CAPITALIZATION CLOSE ARE AECON GROUP I 18.19 AEM AGNICO EAGLE 56.95 AC AIR CANADA 33.92 ASR ALACER GOLD C 3.64 AGI ALAMOS GOLD I 6.47 AD ALARIS ROYALTY 20.20 AQN ALGONQUIN POW 14.62 ATD-B ALIMENTATIO 75.04 AP-UN ALLIED PROP 47.89 ALA ALTAGAS LTD 16.20 AIF ALTUS GROUP L 25.87 APHA APHRIA INC 13.51 ARX ARC RESOURCES 10.36 ATZ ARITZIA INC 16.35 AX-UN ARTIS REAL 10.66 ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 42.55 ATA ATS AUTOMATIO 18.71 ACB AURORA CANNAB 10.20

NET CHG

% CHG

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG

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-0.50 -2.68 -0.09 -0.16 0.52 1.56 -0.04 -1.09 0.04 0.62 -0.01 -0.05 0.18 1.25 1.95 2.67 -0.03 -0.06 -0.19 -1.16 0.95 3.81 0.78 6.13 -0.02 -0.19 -0.15 -0.91 0.06 0.57 0.33 0.78 -0.04 -0.21 0.61 6.36

283 -5.85 666 11.08 1266 25.77 384 65.45 1211 -1.82 156 4.07 993 14.40 879 20.86 138 14.65 1106 -39.23 173 -19.23 5462 4.57 899 -22.80 258 30.38 296 -22.59 106 0.95 194 9.10 17668 0.39

CIX CI FINANCIAL 18.66 CGX CINEPLEX INC 25.40 CCA COGECO COMMUN 75.05 CIGI COLLIERS INT 89.65 CUF-UN COMINAR R 11.97 CMG COMPUTER MODE 6.14 CSU CONSTELLATION 1112.15 BCB COTT CORP 19.46 CPG CRESCENT POIN 4.22 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE 13.93 CRON CRONOS GROUP 28.48

-0.13 -0.69 0.49 1.97 -0.28 -0.37 -1.83 -2.00 0.18 1.53 0.01 0.16 -11.20 -1.00 0.41 2.15 0.24 6.03 0.11 0.80 1.78 6.67

DSG DESCARTES SYS DGC DETOUR GOLD C DOL DOLLARAMA INC DRG-UN DREAM GLOB D-UN DREAM OFFICE

45.53 13.59 36.48 13.47 24.24

0.17 -0.13 0.17 -0.10 0.12

0.37 -0.95 0.47 -0.74 0.50

113 35.79 636 8.29 817 -28.09 472 8.11 114 11.40

ECN ECN CAPITAL C ELD ELDORADO GOLD EFN ELEMENT FLEET EMA EMERA INCORPO EMP-A EMPIRE COMP ENB ENBRIDGE INC ECA ENCANA CORP EDV ENDEAVOUR MIN EFX ENERFLEX LTD ERF ENERPLUS CORP ENGH ENGHOUSE SYS ESI ENSIGN ENERGY EIF EXCHANGE INCO EXE EXTENDICARE I

4.10 5.68 7.57 46.51 30.38 49.01 9.18 21.87 19.34 11.94 38.18 5.38 33.71 7.65

0.11 0.00 0.15 0.09 -0.38 0.36 -0.11 0.30 -0.10 0.14 -0.07 0.05 0.39 0.10

2.76 0.00 2.02 0.19 -1.24 0.74 -1.18 1.39 -0.51 1.19 -0.18 0.94 1.17 1.32

611 20.59 976 -18.86 462 54.49 646 10.92 513 30.78 4813 14.06 9845 -34.80 142 -8.68 207 18.07 1320 -18.78 48 16.69 190 -22.03 125 -4.07 213 -7.50

BTO B2GOLD CORP 4.35 BCE BCE INC 58.43 BAD BADGER DAYLIG 38.08 BMO BANK OF MONTR 101.66 BNS BANK OF NOVA 73.17 ABX BARRICK GOLD 16.59 BHC BAUSCH HEALTH 30.48 BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 2.44 BIR BIRCHCLIFF EN 3.58 BB BLACKBERRY LIM 11.41 BEI-UN BOARDWALK 40.98 BBD-B BOMBARDIER 2.68 BLX BORALEX INC 18.72 BYD-UN BOYD GROUP 123.84 BAM-A BROOKFIELD 58.95 BBU-UN BROOKFIELD 48.36 BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 53.80 BPY-UN BROOKFIELD 26.05 BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 39.98 DOO BRP INC 39.39

0.07 1.64 0.07 0.12 0.28 0.74 2.48 2.50 -2.25 -2.98 -0.01 -0.06 -0.36 -1.17 0.15 6.55 -0.02 -0.56 -0.11 -0.95 -0.56 -1.35 -0.11 -3.94 0.25 1.35 0.15 0.12 0.47 0.80 -0.41 -0.84 -0.14 -0.26 -0.27 -1.03 0.28 0.71 -1.10 -2.72

2980 3980 118 2937 7766 4839 904 5863 438 1047 213 13166 183 30 975 43 219 560 269 324

9.30 3.03 51.89 2.09 -7.13 7.17 27.42 -63.36 6.55 -28.37 -10.39 -34.15 -20.75 18.96 15.18 7.47 5.02 -0.57 -1.41 -13.49

CAR-UN CDN APARTM CNQ CDN NATURAL R CWB CDN WESTERN B GIB-A CGI GROUP I CAE CAE INC CCO CAMECO CORP GOOS CANADA GOOSE CM CANADIAN IMPER CNR CANADIAN NATI CP CANADIAN PACIF CTC-A CANADIAN TI CU CANADIAN UTILI CFP CANFOR CORP WEED CANOPY GROWT CPX CAPITAL POWER CAS CASCADES INC CCL-B CCL INDUSTR CLS CELESTICA INC CVE CENOVUS ENERG CG CENTERRA GOLD CEU CES ENERGY SO CSH-UN CHARTWELL CHE-UN CHEMTRADE CHP-UN CHOICE PRO CHR CHORUS AVIATI

0.30 0.62 0.23 0.62 -0.16 -0.52 -0.27 -0.30 -0.09 -0.32 -0.26 -1.63 0.34 0.46 -1.10 -0.96 0.03 0.03 -1.79 -0.65 -0.15 -0.10 0.20 0.59 -1.49 -9.42 3.00 5.19 0.46 1.56 -0.43 -4.19 -0.25 -0.45 0.11 0.89 0.31 2.63 -0.09 -1.34 0.00 0.00 0.02 0.13 0.07 0.75 0.03 0.22 0.15 1.94

266 2790 156 426 345 729 379 3069 784 204 263 290 1175 2661 274 482 325 345 4027 451 356 214 643 440 802

36.71 -9.59 -21.18 19.02 18.37 33.53 73.52 -4.57 13.67 14.61 -16.71 0.86 -53.49 122.87 23.82 -38.81 -14.38 -9.14 24.33 -2.49 -43.77 -0.92 -43.87 15.25 -9.54

48.82 37.24 30.74 88.53 27.90 15.73 73.80 113.51 113.72 273.31 146.23 33.84 14.33 60.80 29.99 9.84 55.48 12.52 12.11 6.65 3.25 15.14 9.43 13.60 7.87

NET CHG

% CHG

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG 613 351 46 95 408 104 70 746 7795 190 3104

-35.19 -24.38 5.99 8.54 -14.99 -33.12 33.35 3.62 -57.03 6.58 189.14

FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 658.22 FTT FINNING INTL 24.28 FCR FIRST CAPITAL 21.45 FR FIRST MAJESTIC 9.26 FM FIRST QUANTUM 15.90 FSV FIRSTSERVICE 115.63 FTS FORTIS INC 47.18 FVI FORTUNA SILVE 5.05 FNV FRANCO-NEVADA 100.70 FRU FREEHOLD ROYA 9.25

-2.67 -0.40 -0.65 -2.61 -0.04 -0.19 0.18 1.98 -0.26 -1.61 0.58 0.50 0.46 0.98 -0.03 -0.59 0.32 0.32 0.03 0.33

30 761 634 885 2198 51 1027 230 408 315

1.73 -29.50 6.88 30.98 -25.84 28.43 11.88 -14.70 7.56 -28.96

MIC GENWORTH MI C GEI GIBSON ENERGY GIL GILDAN ACTIVE G GOLDCORP INC GTE GRAN TIERRA E GRT-UN GRANITE RE GC GREAT CANADIAN GWO GREAT-WEST LI

43.95 21.05 47.16 14.20 3.00 60.99 54.52 30.52

-0.10 -0.07 0.50 -0.41 -0.02 -0.44 0.05 0.26

-0.23 -0.33 1.07 -2.81 -0.66 -0.72 0.09 0.86

115 189 385 4714 433 255 101 591

10.01 21.89 24.66 -12.35 -12.54 21.35 60.26 -11.54

HR-UN H&R REAL ES HCG HOME CAPITAL HBM HUDBAY MINERA HBC HUDSONS BAY C HSE HUSKY ENERGY H HYDRO ONE LIMIT

22.75 17.15 9.07 8.11 14.77 20.54

0.21 -0.31 0.16 0.02 -1.20 0.29

0.93 -1.78 1.80 0.25 -7.51 1.43

779 12.07 453 8.20 1669 -15.71 162 -18.57 3952 -14.43 757 -1.91

IMG IAMGOLD CORP IGM IGM FINANCIAL IMO IMPERIAL OIL IAG INDUSTRIAL AL INE INNERGEX RENE

4.62 34.38 35.59 51.22 14.59

-0.11 0.18 -0.29 0.27 0.14

-2.33 0.53 -0.81 0.53 0.97

2233 -32.65 258 -13.14 857 1.37 243 -7.89 147 8.80

QBR-B QUEBECOR IN

ETFS

BONDS

STOCKS $1 OR MORE

CANADA CLOSE

DLR-U HORIZONS US DLR HORIZONS US D HGD BETAPRO CDN G HGU BETAPRO CDN G HMMJ HORIZONS MAR HND BETAPRO NAT G HNU BETAPRO NAT G HOD BETAPRO CRUDE HOU BETAPRO CRUDE HQD BETAPRO NASDA HSD BETAPRO SP500 HSU BETAPRO SP500

10.07 13.26 7.99 11.01 21.79 6.19 3.12 5.90 6.37 6.38 3.75 53.25

NET CHG

% CHG

0.01 0.10 -0.01 -0.08 0.05 0.63 -0.09 -0.81 0.65 3.07 0.17 2.82 -0.09 -2.80 -0.06 -1.01 0.06 0.95 -0.02 -0.31 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG 241 570 451 602 539 919 2190 1822 2901 173 234 148

1.21 4.99 -26.97 4.96 22.35 -58.68 -15.90 -4.99 -32.52 -15.61 -8.98 -3.22

CLOSE HXD BETAPRO S&P T HXT HORIZONS S&P HXU BETAPRO S&P T XEG ISHARES S&P T XFN ISHARES S&P T XGD ISHARES S&P/T XIC ISHARES CORE XIU ISHARES S&P T XSP ISHARES CORE XWD ISHARES MSCI ZEB BMO S&P TSX E ZPR BMO LADDERED

5.34 34.58 37.00 10.03 37.71 12.13 25.62 24.00 31.17 50.08 29.08 10.19

NET CHG

% CHG

-0.01 0.00 0.03 -0.01 -0.01 -0.07 0.01 0.00 -0.01 -0.05 -0.13 0.00

-0.19 0.00 0.08 -0.10 -0.03 -0.57 0.04 0.00 -0.03 -0.10 -0.45 0.00

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG 217 206 188 870 375 1289 198 2123 345 226 475 204

-11.88 6.17 6.97 -11.63 -0.45 5.39 2.44 2.87 -1.14 0.14 -1.36 -13.42

TERM

13.01 -7.17 -41.33 44.91 -11.55 7.01

0.61 -3.67 -8.68 -9.31 -18.01 -6.73 -0.17 23.56 15.90 14.97 -16.97

22.66 -14.81 11.16 18.43

30.61

CLOSE

% CHG

VOL 1-YR 000S %CHG

-0.05 -0.06 0.18 0.76 0.03 0.12 0.09 0.19 -0.22 -0.30 0.22 0.21 -0.66 -2.66

571 10.17 133 -23.87 629 6.09 197 15.13 727 23.94 2538 0.24 281 -21.71

SMF SEMAFO J 3.57 SSL SANDSTORM GOL 7.64 SAP SAPUTO INC 42.74 SES SECURE ENERGY 8.86 VII SEVEN GENERAT 10.42 SJR-B SHAW COMMUN 27.09 SCL SHAWCOR LTD 20.75 SHOP SHOPIFY INC 244.14 SIA SIENNA SENIOR 18.01 SW SIERRA WIRELES 16.96 ZZZ SLEEP COUNTRY 22.10 SRU-UN SMARTCENTR 33.64 SNC SNC-LAVALIN S 36.81 TOY SPIN MASTER C 45.01 SSRM SSR MINING I 18.78 32.77 STN STANTEC INC SJ STELLA JONES I 42.15 SLF SUN LIFE FINA 50.58 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 44.91 SPB SUPERIOR PLUS 11.47

0.05 0.13 -0.05 0.10 0.15 -0.03 0.11 -3.59 0.08 0.00 0.05 0.01 -0.14 0.67 -0.15 0.60 -0.13 0.15 0.12 0.10

1.42 1.73 -0.12 1.14 1.46 -0.11 0.53 -1.45 0.45 0.00 0.23 0.03 -0.38 1.51 -0.79 1.87 -0.31 0.30 0.27 0.88

551 572 524 386 836 782 96 227 374 126 97 388 1178 64 302 157 103 1495 4474 404

TECK-B TECK RESOU T TELUS CORP TFII TFI INTERNAT NWC THE NORTH WES TSGI THE STARS GR TRI THOMSON REUTE X TMX GROUP LIMIT TOG TORC OIL AND TXG TOREX GOLD RE TIH TOROMONT IND TD TORONTO-DOMINI TOU TOURMALINE OI TA TRANSALTA CORP RNW TRANSALTA REN TRP TRANSCANADA C TCL-A TRANSCONTIN TCN TRICON CAPITA TRQ TURQUOISE HIL

-0.19 0.21 -0.42 0.71 1.00 2.06 1.18 0.13 0.15 -0.27 0.15 0.15 0.24 0.16 0.27 0.05 -0.02 0.02

-0.62 0.44 -1.03 2.24 4.56 2.96 1.43 2.75 0.94 -0.39 0.20 0.72 3.19 1.33 0.46 0.24 -0.19 0.72

1097 -18.73 1522 2.63 235 22.12 109 15.68 427 -32.48 854 28.07 106 7.21 1332 -24.57 223 53.28 187 22.95 4146 2.90 811 5.78 834 15.99 219 4.09 3728 1.51 242 -12.65 219 0.94 1499 -23.42

0.55

4.30

276 -43.20

-0.02 -0.06

939 -24.03

QSR RESTAURANT BR RCH RICHELIEU HAR REI-UN RIOCAN REA RBA RITCHIE BROS RCI-B ROGERS COMM RY ROYAL BANK OF RUS RUSSEL METALS

CHG

1.78 1.80 1.89 2.14

0.00 0.01 0.00 0.00

RATES

RATE

BOFC OVERNIGHT TARGET CANADIAN PRIME

CHG

CAD USD AUD EUR GBP JPY CHF

GOLD SILVER NATURAL GAS CRUDE OIL WTI CRUDE OIL BRENT HIGH GRADE COPPER

PRICE

NET CHG

1328.50 15.93 2.86 55.50 65.21 2.95

-1.00 0.00 0.02 0.02 0.45 0.00

PRICE

LEAD ZINC ALUMINUM HKFE NICKEL MINI WHEAT LUMBER

NET CHG

2348.50 0.00 2603.50 0.00 2225.00 0.00 87230.0 -120.0 466.75 -20.00 388.70 -7.20

PRICE

NET CHG

CORN 366.25 -4.25 SOYBEAN 903.75 -8.00 CANOLA 474.80 -3.10 S&P 500 COMM SRVS 241.35 0.10 FEED WHEAT 148.35 -1.65 BITCOIN CME FUTURES 3775.00 -45.00

Gold, Silver (USD/oz), Nat gas (USD/mmbtu), Oil (USD/barrel), Copper (USD/lb), Bitcoin (USD) Lead, Zinc and Aluminum (USD/tonne), HKFE Nickel (in Renminbi-Yuan/tonne), Lumber (USD/1000 board ft), Wheat, Corn and Soybeans (in U.S. cents/bushel), Canola and Barley (in Cdn dollars/tonne), Feed Wheat (in Br. pounds/tonne)

RATES FED TARGET RATE U.S. PRIME

-1.69

-5.18

CAD

USD

AUD

EUR

GBP

JPY

CHF

1.3170 0.9457 1.5001 1.7455 0.0119 1.3172

0.7591 0.7180 1.1390 1.3254 0.0090 1.0000

1.0568 1.3923 1.5859 1.8454 0.0126 1.3924

0.6662 0.8777 0.6302 1.1632 0.0079 0.8778

0.5726 0.7544 0.5416 0.8593 0.0068 0.7544

83.911 110.55 79.372 125.91 146.51 110.55

0.7587 0.9993 0.7177 1.1382 1.3245 0.9038 -

1.75 UNCH 3.95 UNCH

Source: wires

2-YEAR TREASURY 5-YEAR TREASURY 10-YEAR TREASURY 30-YEAR TREASURY

3.48

FOREIGN EXCHANGE CROSS RATES YIELD

2-YEAR 5-YEAR 10-YEAR 30-YEAR

TERM

30.60 47.96 40.47 32.38 22.93 71.77 83.68 4.85 16.11 68.99 76.72 20.87 7.76 12.21 59.18 21.27 10.75 2.78

3.48 25.25 4.47 5.85 -35.60 7.97 -22.81 41.49 3.21 -18.15 -33.05 12.55 -35.07 -19.31 68.43 1.55 -11.89 -6.63 1.86 -10.04

CURRENCIES

U.S.

COMMODITIES

82.41 23.95 25.09 48.62 72.85 102.64 24.12

NET CHG

YIELD

CHG

2.48 2.45 2.64 3.01

-0.03 -0.03 -0.03 -0.02

RATE

CHG

2.25-2.50 UNCH 5.50 UNCH

Source: wires

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Stuck in a rut? It may be time to refine your game plan To keep moving in the right career direction, a focused, time-specific plan can be helpful ROY OSING LEADERSHIP LAB

Former executive vice-president of Telus, educator, adviser and author of Be Different or Be Dead

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productive career – one that advances steadily – has a certain signature; it has clarity around the specific position an individual is targeting.

And it is time-specific, with a 24month period to achieve the objective.

For example: “I intend to be director of marketing for my company by March 1, 2021,” is a focused career-plan objective, which can inform a course of action that will help see the goal come to fruition. When this clarity of purpose is missing, the actions that individuals take are confused; they are not measured toward a goal, and their intentions are often vague and inconsistent.

People are busy, but they can’t get the meaningful traction they need to make progress.

To keep moving forward relentlessly, your career game plan needs to be focused on your desired outcome. It’s the only way your actions will have purpose and can be measured for their effectiveness.

YOU’RE NOT ALIGNED WITH THE ORGANIZATION’S STRATEGY

In a perfect world, every employee in an organization is aligned with the organization’s game plan.

Each person delivers results that contribute to moving the organization forward on its chosen path and behaves in a manner consistent with values the organization uses to define how people work together to achieve those results.

People who excel in achieving the strategic objectives of the organization typically have a successful career; those who are out of alignment with them do not.

So, if you sense you’re in the

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stall mode, check to ensure that your priorities are directly aligned with leadership’s strategic intent. Take the initiative to ask management whether you are working on the right projects and revise your work plan accordingly.

Finally, tell leadership what you’ve done; they will be impressed, and you will be climbing the ladder again sooner than you think.

YOUR COMPETITIVE STRATEGY IS INEFFECTIVE

The competition for jobs in every organization is more intense than ever before; less opportunities and more people hunting for those opportunities often results in raging battles to determine a winner.

Winners have a specific strategy to stand out from the crowd.

They have perfected their career game plan and have created a unique value proposition that separates them from everyone else. Their focus is on being the only one who does what they do;

they resist claims such as “best” or “better” to describe their capabilities.

If your career is stalling, it may be that you either don’t have a personal “only” statement, or you have one that doesn’t work – it doesn’t make you stand out from others in a way that is relevant to the needs of the organization.

Work on your “only” as your No. 1 priority. Get it right, and use it to answer the tough question, “Why should I hire you and not the 100 other people who have applied for this position?”

your career slowdown could be related to the amount of time you are spending with your mentors.

When the rate of change around you is extreme, it is essential that you be around them constantly.

They need to hear the latest version of your career plan, the competition you face and the setbacks you have experienced. Ask for their comments and insights on actions you could take.

Check your calendar. If you are not setting time aside to meet a mentor at least once a week, get on it and book some appointments for the next three months.

YOU’RE NOT SPENDING ENOUGH TIME WITH YOUR MENTORS

YOUR NETWORK IS OUT OF DATE

In times of uncertainty and change, it is critical to stay close to people who have been through it before – people you trust and whose advice and guidance you listen to.

Successful careers are built on the back of a stable of mentors who help mitigate the risks and obstacles people face.

One of the possible causes of

Data are important; information is power. And information enables speed. In fact, whoever possesses the most reliable information is in the best position to outdo everyone around them – they do the right thing quicker. And success usually follows.

Where does information originate? People own the information that is critically important to

the first mover in the career market. Someone knows someone and something that you can use to advance your agenda. If you’re stalling, perhaps your network is failing you and it needs to be refreshed. Make an inventory of your connections: Do you have people connected with areas critical to your career plan? How many of your LinkedIn connections actually relate to your target position?

Are they acquaintances or proven advocates? How many of them called you and referred you to others?

Have they told you anything interesting lately?

Purge your list down to the critical few people who can provide you with helpful information and who are willing to do so.

And add to that list if you have vacant spots.

If your career has taken a timeout, chances are you’ve not been paying attention to the vital factors that govern its success.

Be attentive to what you’ve just read, and you’ll be on the way up again soon.

President & CEO

The Presidency of Centennial College is an exciting opportunity for an influential leader on the cutting edge of educational innovation. Be the strong steward of Centennial’s strategic plan and resources. Sustain the significant success already achieved by the College. Advance global citizenship, internationalization, and indigenization.

Are you an exceptional communicator who enjoys thoughtful dialogue with students and colleagues, building relationships with stakeholders, and being an advocate for your organization with diverse audiences? Are you a champion of innovation who understands the demands of economic change? Do you inspire a climate of good will, transparency and accessibility? Are you an emotionally intelligent leader with a reputation for empathy, respect and cross-cultural competency?

Centennial College prepares people to excel in the careers they want and the everchanging world they face. This is Centennial’s promise to students and it is kept every day. How is this accomplished? Through exemplary teaching, leadership and innovative programming that emphasizes new skills and blurs the line between work and learning. Centennial students graduate as global citizens aware of social justice and equity issues, capable of contributing anywhere in the world.

With the upcoming retirement of the current President & CEO, whose 15 years of service ushered in comprehensive change, the College is seeking a dynamic, highenergy, relational leader to create an ethos of global citizenship. Delivering on the College’s vision, you will be accountable for the overall management of this large, complex academic enterprise, working closely with the Board of Governors and Executive Team to promote academic integrity and quality, student achievement and wellbeing, and engagement of employees in all operations.

Reporting to the Board of Governors, the new President & CEO will play a fundamental role in Centennial’s continual transformation as a learning-centred organization through a focus on excellence and equity in the academic program and administrative services for its students and community of stakeholders. Harnessing an aligned vision, you will guide the institution’s strategic direction and lead the Executive Team in the execution of plans and initiatives, coordination of efforts, resolution of issues and innovation. With deep self-awareness and an understanding of the changing environment for learning, teaching and leading, you will leverage the expertise of the Executive Team to gain a comprehensive understanding of Centennial College’s history and complement this with inventiveness as well as resilience, to lead the College into the future.

As Centennial’s new President & CEO, you are an exceptional “thinker” who executes on strategy and has a sophisticated grasp of data and analytics. You will champion market research to inform decisions and tap into data about market share, new and existing competition, demographic forecasts, employment demand, and population shifts. Taking a long-term perspective as President and CEO, you will anticipate the outcomes of academic, economic and social trends affecting the institution, and leverage your ability to define the College’s needs and capitalize on opportunities that benefit the institution.

Your track record of success as an effective, positive leader is well supported by a Master’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Business Administration or Education, complemented by no fewer than 10 years of progressive, relevant experience. Your professional background attests to your ability to lead all aspects of the management of a complex institution like Centennial, from major operational directions and decisions, to the deployment of human, financial and physical resources to effectively deliver on the College’s educational mandate and services.

As such an individual, you have the expertise and confidence to be a visible, engaging leader across Centennial College, ensure and enhance its financial stability and performance, strengthen a proud culture of intersectional inclusion, and champion openness, transparency and ethical practices as central to Centennial’s culture. Above all, you will be an inspiring catalyst for continuous improvement at the College, capable of building strong, productive relationships with key industry leaders and diverse stakeholders, internally and externally. You will direct and foster significant change initiatives, and ultimately, ensure that Centennial College meets its commitments to learners, communities, partners and employees.

To be considered for this pivotal executive role in education, submit your application to Phelpsgroup at CentennialPresident@phelpsgroup.ca. Application deadline: March 6, 2019.

Centennial College and its Board of Governors value and embrace diversity, equity and inclusion as fundamental to our mission to educate students for career success within a context of global citizenship and social justice.

We recognize that historical and persistent inequities and barriers to equitable participation exist and are well documented in society and within the college.

We believe individual and systemic biases contribute to the marginalization of designated groups. These biases include race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, ancestry, nationality, place of origin, colour, ethnicity, culture, linguistic origin, citizenship, creed (religion, faith), marital status, socio-economic class, family status, receipt of public assistance or record of offence. We acknowledge that resolving First Nations sovereignty issues is fundamental to pursuing equity and social justice within Canada.

We acknowledge the richness and diversity of the community we serve. As our community has evolved, and our staff and student population have changed, we have implemented policies and practices to address issues of inclusion. In moving forward, we will build on this work to embed commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in every aspect of what we do.

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Slip slidin’ away TFC defender Justin Morrow gets tripped up by Club Atletico Independiente forward Omar Browne during their CONCACAF Champions League match in Toronto on Tuesday. The players had to contend with frigid conditions on the pitch, with the low for Tuesday night said to feel like -16 degrees. The final score was 1-1, 5-1 for Independiente on aggregate.

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No extension to be granted for Sens arena deal as cutoff approaches OTTAWA

second in the Atlantic Division heading into Tuesday’s action, while the Oilers, who have two of the NHL’s top-7 scorers in McDavid and Leon Draisaitl (38 goals, 38 assists) were seven adrift of the second wildcard spot in the Western Conference.

Edmonton has registered six of a possible eight points in its past four games, but is just 3-8-4 over its past 15.

“Connor, being from this area, is going to be fresh,” said Toronto head coach Mike Babcock, whose team visits Edmonton on March 9. “McDavid’s got that higher octane of speed. It’s going to be a challenge for us.

“We’ll have to be above the puck and try not to turn it over when he’s on the ice.”

Nazem Kadri has been assigned to frustrate McDavid in the past – he still has eight points in five career games against Toronto – but the Leafs centre is out with a concussion, meaning that responsibility will fall to either Matthews or Tavares.

“You’re playing against stars every night,” said Matthews, who scored his 30th goal of the season Monday. “You could be against Sidney Crosby, the next night Patrice Bergeron.

“There’s good players on every team.

There’s superstars on pretty much every team.”

But there’s only one Connor McDavid.

Canada’s Heritage Minister says there will be no extension of a Thursday deadline to resolve a dispute over a plan to build a community featuring a new downtown arena for the Ottawa Senators.

Pablo Rodriguez told reporters on Tuesday that the National Capital Commission’s deadline for the LeBreton Flats file is firm.

“The NCC was very clear,” Rodriguez said. “There’s a deadline for February 28th and there will be no extension.”

Justice Warren Winkler has been presiding over mediation between partners in the RendezVous LeBreton Group: Senators owner Eugene Melnyk, Trinity Development Group founder John Ruddy and GBA Development and Project Management president Graham Bird.

On Jan. 14, an original deadline of Jan. 19 was extended until Thursday by the NCC – a crown corporation that controls the LeBreton Flats land.

“It’s between them. Now they have to come to an agreement,” Rodriguez said. “There’s a few days left. It ends February 28th, no extension.”

When asked what happens if no agreement is reached, Rodriguez said, “I invite you to speak directly to the NCC, but this is an absolute priority for them [and] for us also as a government because it’s a priority for the region.”

Melnyk’s Capital Sports Management Inc. filed a $700-million lawsuit against Ruddy and Bird in November. Ruddy – also a member of the ownership group of the CFL’s Ottawa Redblacks, the United Soccer League’s Ottawa Fury and the Ontario Hockey League’s Ottawa 67’s – responded with a $1-billion counterclaim.

While filing a statement of defence against Melnyk’s lawsuit, Bird got the three parties to agree to mediation in early January.

The Senators currently play at Canadian Tire Centre in suburban Kanata.

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With the Leafs’ Nazem Kadri out with a concussion, the responsibility of frustrating Oilers captain Connor McDavid, centre, could fall on Auston Matthews, right, when the teams face off in Toronto on Wednesday. CODIE MCLACHLAN/GETTY IMAGES

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eaning up against a screen in the locker room at the Maple Leafs’ practice facility, Auston Matthews looked slightly annoyed by one particular query.

“What, for you, stands out about [Connor] McDavid?” Toronto’s star centre was asked.

“I don’t think I need to answer that question,” Matthews responded, rubbing the side of his face and forehead. “You guys all know.”

And so do the Leafs.

The Edmonton Oilers are expected to have their all-world captain back in the lineup Wednesday after a two-game suspension for an illegal check to the head on New York Islanders defenceman Nick Leddy when they visit Toronto.

So how do you try to slow down the fastest, arguably most skilled player on the planet?

“That’s a great question,” Leafs centre John Tavares said with a smile following Tuesday’s on-ice session. “You’ve just got to make it as difficult as possible for him. It’s a lot easier said than done.

“He’s missed the last couple games. We expect him to be shot out of a cannon.”

The 22-year-old McDavid, who cheered

for the Leafs as a kid growing up in nearby Richmond Hill, Ont., sits third in the NHL with 85 points (32 goals, 53 assists).

Put another way, he’s been in on exactly half of the Oilers’ 170 goals this season.

Tavares, who like McDavid was granted exceptional status to play junior in the Ontario Hockey League at the age of 15, said Edmonton’s superstar is more than just blinding speed – it’s his awareness and vision coupled with those wheels that separate him.

“His ability to read the play, anticipate is arguably the best in the league,” said Tavares, who has a team-high 35 goals. “And then his ability to keep his speed and maintain it for as long as he can, and doing it with the puck and then being able to make plays at that top-end speed and really be able to see the play two, three steps ahead.”

Toronto will be looking for a better first period against Edmonton after falling behind 3-0 to Montreal on Saturday and 1-0 to Buffalo before flicking a switch and storming back for consecutive come-from-behind wins.

“We never really lost our cool,” Matthews said. “Everybody had faith in one another.

“We should be able to take control of the game early on instead of letting the other team dictate.”

The Leafs sat a point back of Boston for

Quebec hockey league confronts racism after black player Diaby taunted FRÉDÉRIC DAIGLE MONTREAL

The commissioner of a Quebecbased semi-professional hockey league has apologized after a player for the Jonquière Marquis and family members in attendance were subjected to racist taunts from the stands in St-Jérôme Saturday night.

Jonathan-Ismael Diaby, a third-round draft choice for the NHL’s Nashville Predators in 2013 who is black, left the Ligue NordAméricaine de Hockey game during the second period as a result of the verbal abuse.

“I want to apologize to Jonathan Diaby and his family,” league commissioner Jean-François Laplante said in a video posted to Facebook after the incident.

“Racist, sexist, homophobic comments are completely unacceptable and cannot be tolerated, whether it’s in everyday life or in our arenas.”

He said that the spectators

who hurled abuse at Diaby and his family represent “a tiny part” of the league’s fan base, but he nonetheless appealed for good behaviour as the playoffs approach. “Cheer on your teams in a civilized way and always show respect,” Laplante said. “Intolerance of differences is based on ignorance, and to combat it, it must be denounced and spoken about.”

He ended the video by declaring, “Je suis Diaby” – I am Diaby.

Video of the game on the league’s website shows a fan harassing Diaby, 24, as he entered the penalty box. The fan can be seen making racist gestures and pointing to an image on his cellphone, which Diaby has said was a baboon. A few minutes later, an altercation broke out in the stands where Diaby’s friends and family were seated.

Diaby has said they were also subjected to racist taunts from fans of the home-team Les Pétroliers du Nord, whose St-Jérôme

Jonathan-Ismael Diaby

base is about 45 kilometres north of Montreal. His father was told to go back to where he came from, Diaby said. When he learned what was going on, the 6-foot-5, 218-pound defenceman decided not to return to the ice.

“My family was not safe. That’s when I decided to leave,” Diaby

told Radio-Canada. “The security guards did not do much.” He said that instead of kicking out the troublemakers, security asked his family to move to a different section. The fan who confronted Diaby at the penalty box was simply told to take his seat.

Georges Laraque, a former NHL player who experienced racism during his playing career, said he cannot believe the situation was allowed to degenerate to the point where even Diaby’s family was targeted.

“There is still a long way to go in society to achieve equality,” said Laraque, who played junior hockey in Quebec and finished his NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens. “In the arenas, hockey is considered to be a white sport, and racism in hockey is too easy. I was a victim of it throughout my career in minor hockey.”

The six-team Ligue NordAméricaine de Hockey long had a reputation for goon hockey, which it has recently worked to

clean up. Laraque said it now needs to address behaviour in the stands.

He said league commissioner Laplante should institute rules making teams responsible for the behaviour of their fans. “The game should have been stopped until these people were kicked out,” Laraque said of the racist fans. “They didn’t do that.”

Pétroliers du Nord management declined to comment on the incident but said “the necessary measures will be taken” to ensure such behaviour is not repeated.

Francis Desrosiers, the captain of the Pétroliers du Nord, was one of a number of players denouncing racism in a video produced by the league on Sunday. Incidents such as those in St-Jérôme on Saturday “have no place in the big family of hockey,” he said.

“Please, continue to cheer us on, but with respect.”

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n tracing the triumphant but ultimately tragic life of goalie great Terry Sawchuk, screenwriter-director Adriana Maggs had plenty of clippings and statistics to help her depict his stellar on-ice record.

Harder to parse was the inner turmoil of the taciturn Winnipegger, whose remarkable run with the National Hockey League included a career record of 103 regularseason shutouts but also left him physically and emotionally shattered.

Sawchuk’s off-ice exploits were infamously punctuated by bouts of rage, depression and heavy drinking, and Maggs says she wanted to make sure Goalie captured his personal struggles with unflinching honesty.

For that, she turned to the poems of her father, Randall Maggs, whose 2007 book Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems portrayed the hockey hero in very human terms.

“I started to understand hockey in a different way after I read his book, because there was the hero and then there was the human being. All of a sudden you realize, ‘Okay, this goalie, he was a goaltender and he was alone,“’ says Maggs, who co-wrote the script with her sister Jane Maggs, co-creator of the CBC mystery series Bellevue.

“Everyone else was scoring and had the luxury of getting lost in the frenzy and he was just at the other end of the ice waiting to either make the save or to fail. It’s just a horrific way of looking at it … if he made the save he was a hero and if he didn’t then the fans would turn on him. I think that he suffered a lot because of that.”

Goalie also leans heavily on David Dupuis’s 1998 biography Sawchuk: The Troubles and Triumphs of the World’s Greatest Goalie in depicting a tumultuous NHL run for the young phenom, who begins an injury-plagued career in Detroit in 1950, and later moves on to Boston, Toronto, Los Angeles and New York, where he died in 1970.

Newfoundland-born actor Mark O’Brien stars as Sawchuk, and despite being a lifelong hockey fan and player, the former Halt and Catch Fire actor says he was stunned to learn how brutal and unforgiving the sport was before hockey masks shielded players from 100-kilometre-an-hour pucks.

Even star athletes were under intense pressure to play entire seasons with broken bones, fearing they would be either traded

Above: Terry Sawchuk, seen in the 1960s, had a remarkable run with the NHL, including a career record 103 regular-season shutouts.

Left: Mark O’Brien stars as Sawchuk in the film Goalie. ‘It’s not just a sports movie,’ he says of the production, ‘it’s not just a biopic, it’s not just about a guy who battled alcoholism. It’s about a life under so much pressure.’

ABOVE: JOHN MAIOLA/THE GLOBE AND MAIL LEFT: CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Beckie looks to keep adding to her trophy case in 2019 NEIL DAVIDSON TORONTO

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anine Beckie has already lifted one trophy this week. Plenty more await this year.

On Wednesday, the 24-year-old striker is set to celebrate her 50th cap as fifthranked Canada opens Algarve Cup play against No. 22 Iceland in Parchal, Portugal.

On Saturday, Beckie converted the decisive spot kick in a penalty shootout as Manchester City beat Arsenal to claim the FA Women’s Continental League Cup at Sheffield’s Bramall Lane. A day later, the Man City men edged Chelsea in another penalty shootout to win the Carabao Cup. Beckie played down her role in the cup win, deflecting praise to England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley, who made two saves in the shootout.

“It was to win the game, it wasn’t to stay in the game and I think the pressure is really different,” Beckie said of her winning penalty.

“She definitely won the game for us. It doesn’t feel like I did. She was fantastic, she made my job easy.”

The game finished scoreless after extra time. Beckie, who had come off the bench in the 65th minute, had hit the woodwork earlier in the match.

Man City is looking for the treble this year. It leads the FA Women’s Super League at 11-0-5 and will face Liverpool in the quarterfinals of the SSE Women’s FA Cup on March 17.

The trophy that matters most, however, is the Women’s World Cup. The Algarve Cup is seen as a valuable warm-up for the world showcase, which starts in June in France.

Other Algarve Cup participants headed to the World Cup are the seventh-ranked Netherlands, No. 9 Sweden, No. 12 Spain, No. 13 Norway, No. 15 China and No. 20 Scotland. The other five participating teams are No. 17 Denmark, No. 18 Switzerland, No. 22 Iceland, No. 32 Portugal and No. 34 Poland.

Canada has been drawn with No. 46 Cameroon, No. 19 New Zealand and the seventh-ranked Netherlands at the World Cup. Born in Colorado to parents from Saskatchewan, Beckie was 20 when she made her debut for Canada in November, 2014.

A star at Texas Tech, where she became the Red Raiders’ career-leading scorer with 57 goals, Beckie was taken by the Houston Dash in the first round (eighth over all) in the 2016 NWSL college draft.

New Jersey-based Sky Blue acquired her in a trade in January in a three-way trade with Houston and the Chicago Red Stars.

Beckie joined Manchester City in August from Sky Blue FC.

or shunted to the minors, he noted.

O’Brien saw parallels to continuing issues that plague the NHL today, including the need for mental-health support, and better acknowledgment of the physical risks, especially when it comes to head injuries.

“It’s not just a sports movie, it’s not just a biopic, it’s not just about a guy who battled alcoholism,” says O’Brien, now based in Los Angeles and currently shooting the upcoming Showtime series City on a Hill.

“It’s about a life under so much pressure.”

Much of that is depicted in the film through demanding tirades of Detroit Red Wings general manager Jack Adams, portrayed by veteran U.S. actor and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel co-star Kevin Pollak.

But getting direct insight from players who knew Sawchuk was tough, says O’Brien, who spoke with several who could share little apart from the Hall of Famer’s on-ice prowess. Sawchuk largely kept his personal trials to himself, O’Brien says – except when he learned Adams dumped him to Boston.

“When he was traded, it destroyed him.

It broke him down completely,” O’Brien says. “He doesn’t talk about his emotions, doesn’t really talk about himself, but when he’s traded, he cried immediately.”

O’Brien worked with a coach to perfect Sawchuk’s crouch between the posts, but says he got invaluable insight when the icon’s son Jerry Sawchuk visited the set and actually adjusted O’Brien’s stance.

At another point, Maggs says the younger Sawchuk called out a potential inaccuracy in a scene when he saw the actor playing Gordie Howe holding a cigarette.

“He said: ‘Gordie didn’t smoke!’ ” chuckles Maggs, whose uncle is former NHL player Darryl Maggs. “So it was good to have him around.”

The story is very much a family affair, Maggs acknowledges. In addition to the involvement of her father and sister, her son Owen Maggs plays Sawchuk’s older brother Mitch in scenes depicting a troubled childhood, and her young niece and nephew play two of Sawchuk’s children.

Then there’s O’Brien’s wife, actress Georgina Reilly, who plays his onscreen wife, Pat Sawchuk. The mother of the couple’s seven children, Pat was key to supporting the battered athlete emotionally and psychologically, says Reilly, who believes the film’s glimpse into Sawchuk’s home life offers crucial insight into the impact the sport had on family members.

Goalie opens in Toronto and Vancouver on March 1 before heading to other cities.

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match. Canada, second to Sweden in Group B with a 2-1-0 record, was consigned to the fifth-place game after finishing as the second-best runner-up behind Portugal (2-0-1).

The championship game between Sweden and the Netherlands was cancelled because of heavy rain. Both teams were awarded first place.

Canada won the tournament in 2016 and was runner-up in 2017.

“We’ve had good memories of the tournament – in 2016 obviously we won and it helped us go on to win bronze [at the Rio Olympics],” Beckie said. “It would be nice if we started off 2019 with the championship trophy from here and on to bigger things this summer.”

After the Algarve Cup, Canada will play a friendly against England on April 5 at Manchester’s Academy Stadium, which is home to the Man City women’s team.

Canada opened its 2019 schedule with a 1-0 victory over Norway in January in Spain.

Captain Christine Sinclair, who has 275 caps, scored her 178th international goal to dispatch Norway. The 35-year-old from Burnaby, B.C., is just six goals off retired American Abby Wambach’s world record of 184.

Just a few minutes after being hired as Leicester’s manager, Brendan Rodgers took a seat in the stands at King Power Stadium to have a first good look at his new team. He must have been fairly satisfied with what he saw.

Leicester ended a winless run stretching back to Jan. 1 by beating Brighton 2-1 in the Premier League on Tuesday, its players perhaps motivated by impressing their new coach after his arrival from Scottish club Celtic.

With Leicester moving 11 points clear of the bottom three, it is unlikely that Rodgers will be fighting a relegation battle in the final three months of the season.

Instead, when his tenure starts for good on Wednesday, his task will be to get a talented group of players back on track after losing their way under predecessor Claude Puel in recent months.

Maybe even getting the team challenging the heavyweights of the league again – as they did in famously winning the title at preseason odds of 5,000-1 in 2015-16.

The prolific output of Jamie Vardy was integral that season and the striker showed Rodgers he still has an eye for goal by scoring what proved to be the winner, taking a pass from James Maddison in his stride and shooting low into the net in the 63rd minute.

That made it 2-0 after Demarai Gray’s 10th-minute strike, and Brighton’s only reply was through Davy Propper in the 66th – even though the visitors had plenty of chances in an open game. The result meant Leicester avoided a fifth straight home league loss, which last happened in 1959.

In other matches at the start of the 28th round in the Premier League, Everton nabbed a 3-0 win at Cardiff, Newcastle beat Burnley 2-0 and Huddersfield bested Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0.

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“I’m really enjoying it,” she said. “It’s a lot different, it’s a lot more technical.

There’s more focus on the tactical [side] of the game. … I’ve really enjoyed that part of it. It’s definitely challenged me and made me be more consistent and better every single day. So it’s been everything I’d hoped it would be.”

Eight members of the 23-woman Canadian roster play their club football in Europe with teenager Jordyn Huitema expected to join them soon at Paris SaintGermain.

Beckie has scored 24 goals and added four assists for Canada. Just missing out on the 2015 World Cup roster, she was assigned to the Pan-American Games, where she excelled.

She had three goals in the Canadian women’s bronze-medal campaign at the 2016 Rio Olympics, setting a Games record for fastest goal just 20 seconds into Canada’s opening contest against Australia.

Canada beat Iceland the only other time they played, on a 42nd-minute goal

by Beckie at the 2016 Algarve Cup. After Iceland, the Canadian women face No. 20 Scotland on Friday in Lagos.

Canada is 6-1-0 all-time against Scotland.

A third ranking match will be played March 6.

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Sharp’s new life balance paying dividends on the LPGA Tour during which she battled with depression.

“It’s not all about golf,” Sharp said. “I was practising too much and really wore out. Then not getting the results. This is a humbling game. It can be tough mentally and bring you down. When it’s going well, it’s amazing, but when it’s not going well, it’s tough.

“So working with my therapist and having a good work-life balance along with a strong finish last season, it helped me feel like I was coming out of the downward spiral from last season.”

The big change for Sharp in the off-season was to never really stop playing golf. In previous years she

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ost golfers look for balance in their swing. Hamilton’s Alena Sharp found it in her life and is now reaping the benefits on the LPGA Tour.

Sharp was named Golf Canada’s player of the week on Feb. 18 after tying for sixth at the Women’s Australian Open and tying for 17th at the Victoria Open to start the LPGA Tour’s season. Sharp credits a more measured approach to training and a better work-life balance to help her stay focused after a frustrating 2018

AHL

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W

L OTL SL GF GA Pts

ATLANTIC DIVISION Tampa Bay 63 48 11 3 Boston 63 37 17 6 Toronto 62 38 20 4 METROPOLITAN DIVISION NY Islanders 62 36 19 2 Washington 63 35 21 6 Carolina 63 34 23 4 WILD CARD Pittsburgh 63 33 22 6 Columbus 62 35 24 2 Montreal Buffalo Philadelphia Florida NY Rangers New Jersey Detroit Ottawa

63 62 62 61 62 63 63 62

33 29 29 28 27 25 23 22

23 25 26 25 26 30 31 35

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1 248 166 100 26-5-1-1 22-6-2-0 9-0-1-0 W-9 3 189 160 83 22-7-2-1 15-10-4-2 8-0-0-2 W-1 0 221 176 80 19-12-1-0 19-8-3-0 6-3-1-0 W-2 5 179 149 79 18-8-1-3 18-11-1-2 6-3-1-0 L-1 1 213 203 77 18-9-4-1 17-12-2-0 6-3-1-0 W-2 2 187 171 74 17-10-2-2 17-13-2-0 8-2-0-0 W-3 2 218 197 74 17-12-2-0 16-10-4-2 5-3-2-0 W-1 1 197 185 73 16-14-1-1 19-10-1-0 6-4-0-0 L-1 0 2 1 4 2 3 5 0

188 179 183 194 183 184 177 187

185 194 209 207 207 214 212 228

73 66 65 64 63 58 55 49

19-10-4-0 18-9-4-0 16-12-3-1 16-11-4-1 16-10-4-2 17-10-4-1 12-16-2-3 14-14-4-0

14-13-3-0 4-5-1-0 L-2 11-16-2-2 3-5-1-1 L-1 13-14-3-0 6-3-0-1 W-1 12-14-0-3 7-3-0-0 W-2 11-16-3-0 5-4-1-0 L-1 8-20-1-2 5-5-0-0 W-1 11-15-2-2 2-6-2-0 L-5 8-21-1-0 3-7-0-0 L-5

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WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W CENTRAL DIVISION Nashville 65 37 Winnipeg 62 37 St. Louis 62 33 PACIFIC DIVISION Calgary 63 40 San Jose 64 37 Vegas 63 32 WILD CARD Dallas 62 31 Minnesota 63 30 Colorado Arizona Vancouver Chicago Edmonton Anaheim Los Angeles

would take a few weeks off, then accelerate an intense training regime featuring long days of up to six hours of practice and strength training.

This year, Sharp has aimed for quantity of practice, rather than intensity.

“I didn’t put down the clubs, I did light practice,” said Sharp, who conceived of her new training program with coach Brent Saunders last June. “Just a couple of hours of practice a day, nothing crazy. Get in, do [your] work, get out and rest. Got in the gym and got stronger and I’m hitting it further.

“Just mentally I’m really fresh.

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L OTL SL GF GA Pts 23 4 21 3 23 5

1 196 171 79 21-12-1-0 16-11-3-1 5-4-1-0 W-1 1 210 185 78 21-7-3-1 16-14-0-0 3-5-2-0 L-1 1 182 172 72 16-13-1-1 17-10-4-0 8-1-1-0 L-1

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4 228 181 87 20-5-3-2 20-11-0-2 6-2-0-2 W-6 3 229 201 82 19-5-3-2 18-14-2-1 6-3-1-0 L-1 2 185 181 69 17-10-2-2 15-16-1-0 3-6-0-1 L-3

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200 177 195 236 205 195 200

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15-12-5-1 5-2-3-0 L-1 17-14-2-0 6-4-0-0 W-3 13-16-2-2 3-5-2-0 W-1 12-15-3-0 6-4-0-0 L-2 12-14-4-1 3-5-0-2 L-1 12-21-1-0 3-7-0-0 L-3 11-18-3-2 1-6-1-2 L-9

Note: the top three teams per division and the two next-best records in the conference qualify for the playoffs; a winning team is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; a team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point, which is registered in the respective OTL or SL column.

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Pittsburgh 5 Columbus 2 Los Angeles at Carolina Ottawa at Washington Buffalo at Philadelphia Calgary at NY Islanders San Jose at Boston Montreal at Detroit Minnesota at Winnipeg Nashville at St. Louis Florida at Arizona Dallas at Vegas

Wednesday All Times Eastern Calgary at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at NY Rangers, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.

Chicago at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

SCORING LEADERS G Nikita Kucherov, TB 30 Patrick Kane, Chi 39 Connor McDavid, Edm 32 Nathan MacKinnon, Col 32 Mikko Rantanen, Col 26 Brayden Point, TB 36 Johnny Gaudreau, Cgy 30 Leon Draisaitl, Edm 38 Steven Stamkos, TB 33 Sidney Crosby, Pgh 26 Alex Ovechkin, Wash 44 Blake Wheeler, Wpg 12 Brad Marchand, Bos 24 Mitch Marner, Tor 21 Brent Burns, SJ 13 Elias Lindholm, Cgy 25 Sebastian Aho, Car 24 Mark Scheifele, Wpg 30 Artemi Panarin, Clb 24 Jack Eichel, Buf 21 Sean Monahan, Cgy 29 John Tavares, Tor 35 David Pastrnak, Bos 31 Aleksander Barkov, Fla 25 Gabriel Landeskog, Col 33 Jonathan Toews, Chi 29 Ryan O’Reilly, StL 24 Phil Kessel, Pgh 21 Evgeni Malkin, Pgh 19 Claude Giroux, Pha 18 Alex DeBrincat, Chi 34 Mark Stone, Ott 28 Mika Zibanejad, NYR 26 Dylan Larkin, Det 26 Not including Tuesday’s games

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A Pts 71 101 54 93 53 85 48 80 54 80 43 79 49 79 38 76 42 75 49 75 28 72 60 72 47 71 50 71 57 70 44 69 45 69 38 68 44 68 47 68 38 67 31 66 35 66 40 65 31 64 35 64 39 63 42 63 44 63 45 63 28 62 34 62 36 62 35 61

A Pts 66 103 57 99 43 98 50 98 43 94 46 93 54 90 55 86 49 85 56 83 39 80 43 78 47 78 57 77 42 74 47 74

2 189 137 2 181 159 3 192 186 2 181 191 4 188 186 1 169 192 4 148 163 0 157 199

71 71 67 65 64 59 55 53

6 5 0 7 3 5 6 6

1 182 159 2 188 179 3 149 163 1 172 157 3 178 173 2 176 164 5 182 186 3 163 197

79 73 65 64 60 59 55 55

Syracuse 4 Binghamton 0 Rockford at Chicago San Antonio at Colorado Iowa at San Jose

Bakersfield 3 Tucson 1

G M. Frost, SSM 37 J. Robertson, NIAG 42 T. Felhaber, OTT 55 K. Hancock, LDN 48 J. Brazeau, NB 51 A. Kaliyev, HAM 47 B. Jones, NIAG 36 A. Thomas, NIAG 31 B. Saigeon, OSH 36 N. Schnarr, GUE 27 A. Salinitri, OSH 41 K. Maksimovich, OTT 35 G. Meireles, KIT 31 A. Keating, OTT 20 S. Noel, OSH 32 M. Strome, HAM 27 Not including Tuesday’s game

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GP W L OL SL GF GA Pts PACIFIC DIVISION Bakersfield 51 33 15 2 1 178 134 69 San Jose 49 29 14 2 4 160 134 64 San Diego 51 29 16 3 3 187 170 64 Tucson 50 25 19 4 2 153 151 56 Colorado 50 24 22 3 1 144 162 52 Stockton 52 22 25 4 1 183 203 49 Ontario 49 17 25 5 2 151 199 41 CENTRAL DIVISION Grand Rapids 56 31 17 4 4 165 156 70 Chicago 54 31 17 5 1 186 152 68 Iowa 55 28 16 6 5 179 159 67 Rockford 57 26 22 3 6 139 159 61 Texas 55 26 23 3 3 169 165 58 Milwaukee 56 23 21 11 1 150 160 58 San Antonio 54 25 24 5 0 143 159 55 Manitoba 55 25 25 3 2 140 168 55 Note: Two points for a team winning in overtime or shootout; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns.

Tuesday

Guelph 7 London 3

Kitchener at Mississauga, 11 a.m.

Guelph at Erie, 7 p.m.

Saginaw at Sault Ste. Marie, 7:07 p.m.

OL SL GF GA Pts

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Tuesday

Wednesday All Times Eastern

Monday

GP W L NORTH DIVISION Syracuse 54 34 16 Rochester 55 33 17 Toronto 56 29 18 Utica 56 29 20 Belleville 58 29 23 Cleveland 56 26 23 Laval 56 23 24 Binghamton 58 24 29 ATLANTIC DIVISION Charlotte 57 36 14 Bridgeport 58 33 18 Hershey 55 31 21 Providence 56 28 20 Lehigh Valley 55 27 22 WB/Scranton 55 26 22 Springfield 56 22 23 Hartford 57 23 25

Monday

No Games Scheduled

Toronto 5 Buffalo 3 New Jersey 2 Montreal 1 Tampa Bay 4 Los Angeles 3 (SO) Nashville 3 Edmonton 2 (SO) Florida 4 Colorado 3 (OT) Vancouver 4 Anaheim 0

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Tuesday

Drummondville 4 Québec 1

Edmonton 11 Swift Current 1 Vancouver at Portland Lethbridge at Saskatoon Red Deer at Moose Jaw Spokane at Prince George

Monday

A 40 36 40 30 31 27 32 26 32 26 31 21 22 27 23 23

Pts 69 59 55 52 52 51 51 50 50 49 49 48 48 48 47 47

G J. Blichfeld, POR 51 T. Langan, MJ 45 S. Mattheos, BDN 40 T. Fix-Wolansky, EDM 30 J. Almeida, MJ 25 B. Hagel, RD 34 Not including Tuesday’s games

BLIS S

A Pts 52 103 51 96 50 90 59 89 62 87 51 85

END OF REGULAR SEASON

NCAA BASKETBALL TOP 25 SCHEDULE Tuesday

Monday No. 15 Kansas vs. No. 16 Kansas State No. 18 Florida State 68 Notre Dame 61

A 56 62 69 55 46 44 36 43 45 46 36 41 42

Pts 96 96 95 93 87 82 80 80 80 79 76 74 74

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WESTERN CONFERENCE

Milwaukee Toronto Indiana Philadelphia Boston Brooklyn Detroit Charlotte

W 46 44 40 39 37 32 29 28

L 14 17 21 22 23 30 30 32

Pct GB .767 — .721 2 / .656 6 / .639 7 / .617 9 .516 15 .492 16 / .467 18

Orlando Miami Washington Atlanta Chicago Cleveland New York

28 26 24 20 16 14 12

33 33 36 41 45 47 48

.459 .441 .400 .328 .262 .230 .200

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1

2 2 2

2

18 / 19 / 22 26 / 30 / 32 / 34 1 1

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2 2

2 2 2

Tuesday

No. 2 Virginia vs. Georgia Tech, 7 p.m.

No. 7 Tennessee at Mississippi, 7 p.m.

No. 8 Houston at East Carolina, 7 p.m.

No. 10 Marquette at Villanova, 9 p.m.

No.11TexasTechvs.OklahomaState,7p.m.

No. 12 Nevada vs. UNLV, 11 p.m.

No. 14 Purdue vs. Illinois, 8:30 p.m.

No. 17 Maryland at Penn State, 6:30 p.m.

No. 23 Cincinnati at SMU, 9 p.m.

Money $3,530,861 $3,031,933 $2,741,403 $2,235,349 $2,391,391 $2,336,965 $2,070,480 $2,323,352 $1,894,795 $1,794,288 $1,788,641 $1,826,473 $1,764,888 $2,035,396 $1,468,218 $1,569,277 $1,989,000 $1,515,091 $1,349,344 $1,559,882 $1,314,417 $1,352,834 $1,075,568 $1,139,506 $1,195,770 $1,200,831 $1,154,950 $1,253,883 $936,240 $1,023,293

Detroit 113, Indiana 109 Golden State 121, Charlotte 110 Portland 123, Cleveland 110 Brooklyn 101, San Antonio 85 Phoenix 124, Miami 121 Houston 119, Atlanta 111 Memphis 110, L.A. Lakers 105 Milwaukee 117, Chicago 106 Minnesota 112, Sacramento 105

FIBA

AMERICAS QUA ALIIFIERS S SECOND ROUND (Top three teams advance to World Cup from both groups) Team GP W L Pts GROUP E x-U.S. 12 10 2 22 x-Argentina 12 9 3 21 x-Puerto Rico 12 8 4 20 Uruguay 12 6 6 18 Mexico 12 5 7 17 Panama 12 4 8 16 GROUP F x-Canada 12 10 2 22 x-Venezuela 12 9 3 21 x-Brazil 12 9 3 21 x-Dominican Rep. 12 7 5 19 Virgin Islands 12 3 9 14 Chile 12 2 10 14 x — clinched berth in 2019 World Cup. Note: Two points for a win, one for a loss; records carried over from first-round play.

Monday At Greensboro, N.C. United States 84 Argentina 83 At San Juan, Puerto Rico Puerto Rico 65 Uruguay 61 At Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Brazil 71 Dominican Republic 63 At Monterrey, Mexico Mexico 78 Panama 61

END OF AMERICAS QUALIFYING

MLB SPRING TRAINING Tuesday Miami 3, Houston 0 St. Louis 6, Washington 1 Tampa Bay 11, Baltimore 5 Atlanta 4, N.Y. Mets (ss) 3 Minnesota 6, Pittsburgh 5 Philadelphia at N.Y. Yankees, cancelled Boston at Toronto, cancelled Detroit 14, N.Y. Mets (ss) 4 San Francisco 4, Cincinnati 3 Arizona 5, Chicago Cubs 4 Chicago White Sox 9, Kansas City (ss) 7 San Diego 3, Milwaukee 1 L.A. Angels 17, Oakland 5 Kansas City (ss) 8, L.A. Dodgers 2 Cleveland 5, Colorado 3 Texas 4, Seattle 4

ENGLAND PREMIER LEAGUE Tuesday

MOVES MLB American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Signed INF Hanley Ramirez to a minor league contract.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Announced the retirement of infield coach Bobby Knoop.

TEXAS RANGERS — Signed INF Logan Forsythe to a minor league contract.

S P E E D BU M P

Golden State Denver Oklahoma City Portland Houston Utah L.A. Clippers San Antonio

W 43 41 38 37 35 33 34 33

L 17 18 21 23 25 26 28 29

Pct .717 .695 .644 .617 .583 .559 .548 .532

GB — 1/ 4/ 6 8 9/ 10 11

Sacramento L.A. Lakers Minnesota New Orleans Dallas Memphis Phoenix

31 29 29 27 26 24 12

29 31 31 35 34 38 50

.517 .483 .483 .435 .433 .387 .194

12 14 14 17 17 20 32

1 1

1

2 2

2

Philadelphia 111, New Orleans 110 L.A. Clippers 121, Dallas 112

Orlando at New York Boston at Toronto Oklahoma City at Denver

WORLD CUP AMERICAS QUALIFYING

Wednesday All Times Eastern

Points 1. X. Schauffele 1,298 2. Matt Kuchar 1,239 3. Gary Woodland 984 4. Charles Howell III 956 5. Marc Leishman 931 6. Justin Thomas 924 7. Phil Mickelson 821 8. Dustin Johnson 770 9. Justin Rose 720 10. B. DeChambeau 712 11. J.B. Holmes 707 12. Paul Casey 693 13. Rickie Fowler 689 14. Rory McIlroy 659 15. Kevin Tway 651 16. Patrick Cantlay 648 17. Brooks Koepka 626 18. Cameron Champ 619 19. Andrew Putnam 551 20. Tony Finau 536 21. Si Woo Kim 535 22. Adam Scott 511 23. Adam Long 504 24. Adam Hadwin 470 25. Chez Reavie 466 26. Scott Piercy 466 27. Jon Rahm 466 28. Jason Day 457 29. Patrick Rodgers 418 30. Danny Lee 413

much, practising five or six hours every day. It really wore me out.”

Sharp has another week off with Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., the only Canadian competing at the HSBC Women’s World Championship in Singapore starting on Thursday.

Instead, Sharp is using the downtime to focus on her next two events, the Bank of Hope Founders Cup in Phoenix (March 21) and the Kia Classic in Carlsbad, Calif. (March 28).

“I just feel like I have a really good recipe for success,” Sharp said.

Monday

No. 20 Virginia Tech 77 No. 3 Duke 72 No. 21 Buffalo 77 Akron 64 Ohio State 90 No. 22 Iowa 70 No. 4 Kentucky vs. Arkansas No. 5 North Carolina vs. Syracuse No. 13 LSU vs. Texas A&M No. 19 Wisconsin at Indiana

Houston vs. Guastatoya (Houston leads 1-0 on aggregate) Toronto vs. Atletico Independiente (Independiente leads 4-0) U.A.N.L Tigres vs. Saprissa (Saprissa leads 1-0)

SCORING LEADERS

SCORING LEADERS

No Games Scheduled.

Second Leg

Acadie-Bathurst at Halifax, 6 p.m.

Rouyn-Noranda at Val-d’Or, 7 p.m.

Sherbrooke at Rimouski, 7:30 p.m.

Shawinigan at Chicoutimi, 7:30 p.m.

G J. Veleno, Dru 40 A. Lafreniere, Rim 34 P. Abbandonato, Rou 26 I. Chekhovich, BaC 38 J. McKenna, Mon 41 J. Huntington, Rim 38 S. Asselin, Hal 44 N. Guay, Dru 37 J. Pelletier, Mon 35 G. MacLeod, Dru 33 N. Legare, BaC 40 R. Harvey-Pinard, Rou 33 G. Fortier, BaC 32 Not including Tuesday’s game

Monday

FIRST ROUND

Monday

Swift Current at Calgary, 1 p.m.

Red Deer at Regina, 8 p.m.

Lethbridge at Prince Albert, 8 p.m.

Spokane at Prince George, 10 p.m.

Tri-City at Kamloops, 10 p.m.

Markham at Toronto

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

Wednesday All Times Eastern

Wednesday All Times Eastern

EASTERN CONFERENCE

CONCACAF

No Games Scheduled.

No Games Scheduled.

GP W L OL SL GF GA Pt x-Calgary 28 23 4 0 1 111 54 47 x-Montreal 28 21 6 0 1 118 45 43 Markham 27 13 10 3 1 84 77 30 Shenzhen 28 13 13 2 0 79 68 28 Toronto 27 13 14 0 0 61 76 26 Worcester 28 0 28 0 0 22 155 0 x — clinched playoff berth. Note: Two points awarded for a win, one for an overtime/shootout loss.

Tuesday

Through Feb. 24

QMJHL Tuesday

NBA

FEDEX CUP LEADERS

SCORING LEADERS

WHL

CWHL

PGA TOUR

Manitoba at Toronto, 11 a.m.

Rochester at Utica, 7 p.m.

Hershey at Hartford, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Texas, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Colorado, 9:05 p.m.

G D. Carr, CHI 29 C. Verhaeghe, SYR 23 J. Bracco, TOR 15 B. Macek, CHI 22 P. Holland, RFD 21 C. Mueller, TOR 24 A. Poturalski, CHA 19 R. Boucher, UTI 24 C. Conacher, SYR 18 G. Carey, LV 23 D. Batherson, BEL 18 S. Carrick, SD 27 A. Barre-Boulet, SYR 26 T. Kero, UTI 21 R. Barber, HER 24 C. Terry, GR 24 Not including Tuesday’s games

Just good practice habits have translated into the results I had in Australia.”

Now that the LPGA Tour season has begun, Sharp plans to continue putting an emphasis on working every day, rather than increasing the intensity of her training to prepare for an event and risk burnout or injury.

“I think I might have a little bit more quantity on certain days but I’m not really going to change much,” Sharp said. “What I’ve been doing obviously is working and it’s a long season and there’s a lot of travel.

“I know last year that I was pretty tired in August. I ran around too

Leicester 2 Brighton 1 Everton 3 Cardiff 0 Huddersfield 1 Wolverhampton Newcastle 2 Burnley Wednesday All Times Eastern Arsenal vs. Bournemouth, 2:45 p.m.

Southampton vs. Fulham, 2:45 p.m.

Manchester City vs. West Ham, 3 p.m.

Chelsea vs. Tottenham, 3 p.m.

Crystal Palace vs. Manchester United, 3 p.m.

Liverpool vs. Watford, 3 p.m.

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Wednesday All Times Eastern Houston at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Golden State at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Portland at Boston, 8 p.m.

Detroit at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Indiana at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Utah, 9 p.m.

Milwaukee at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

NATIONAL BASKETBALL LEAGUE OF CANADA GP W L x-Moncton 30 20 10 Halifax 30 18 12 Windsor 30 16 14 St. John’s 32 17 15 London 34 18 16 Sudbury 33 17 16 Cape Breton 30 15 15 K-Waterloo 29 14 15 Saint John 31 13 18 Island 27 5 22 x — clinched playoff berth.

Tuesday

Pct GB .667 — .600 2 .533 4 .531 4 .529 4 .515 4 / .500 5 .483 5 / .419 7 / .185 13 / 1

1 1 1

2

2 2 2

No Games Scheduled.

Monday Sudbury 116 St. John’s 111 Wednesday All Times Eastern Halifax at Saint John, 6 p.m.

Kitchener-Waterloo at Cape Breton, 6 p.m.

TELEVISION WEDNESDAY (EASTERN TIME) HOCKEY NHL: Calgary Flames vs. New Jersey Devils, Sportsnet 1, 7 p.m.

Edmonton Oilers vs. Toronto Maple Leafs, Sportsnet Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 360, 7 p.m.

Vancouver Canucks vs. Colorado Avalanche, Sportsnet Pacific, 9:30 p.m., 1, Ontario, East, West, 360, 10:30 p.m., AHL: Manitoba Moose vs. Toronto Marlies, TSN 2, 11 a.m.

BASKETBALL NBA: Portland Trail Blazers vs. Boston Celtics, TSN 5, 8 p.m., TSN 1, 8:30 p.m.

New Orleans Pelicans vs. Los Angeles Lakers, TSN 1, 10:30 p.m.

SOCCER Premier League: Manchester City FC vs.

West Ham United FC, Sportsnet 1, 2:30 p.m.

Liverpool FC vs. Watford FC, Sportsnet Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 2:30 p.m.

Crystal Palace FC vs. Manchester United FC, TSN 4, 5, 2:45 p.m.

Arsenal vs. AFC Bournemouth, Sportsnet World, 2:30 p.m.

Chelsea FC vs. Tottenham Hotspurs, TSN 1, 3 p.m.

Southampton FC vs. Fulham FC, TSN 3, 2:45 p.m.

TENNIS ATP: Dubai Tennis Championship, Early Round, Day 3, TSN 3, 5 a.m., 10 a.m.

Abietro Mexicano Telcel, Early Round, Day 3, TSN 2, 5 p.m.

GOLF LPGA: HSBC World Championship, First Round, Golf Channel, 10:30 p.m.

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Reina Iizuka, a 5-foot-7, 160-pound defensive back, is entering her third year at the University of Manitoba. She was a red-shirted player on the Bisons, the school’s football team, last year. REINA IIZUKA/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Iizuka looks to make Canadian football history The 19-year-old is believed to be the first woman to appear on a gridiron team under U Sports governance DAN RALPH

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eina Iizuka is Canadian university football’s best-kept secret.

The 5-foot-7, 160-pound defensive back is entering her third year at the University of Manitoba, having been a red-shirted player on the Bisons in 2018.

Red-shirted players, who practise but do not dress for games, usually aren’t in the spotlight.

However, it’s a different story for the 19-year-old Iizuka, who is believed to be the first woman to appear on a U Sports football roster.

The Mississauga native applied to Manitoba in 2017, but wasn’t on the roster her first year, working out with the team while she recovered from a knee injury.

Iizuka sees herself as a football player first, but understands how others can consider her a trailblazer and a pioneer in her chosen sport.

“I’m someone who plays the game, but I also realize with that will be responsibility,” she said during a telephone interview.

“I’m just a player but at the same time I’m that [pioneer] as well.

“It’s something I aspire to be. I don’t think I’m mentally there yet, but I’m working hard to become that.”

Iizuka will be part of the CFL contingent participating in the NFL Women’s Careers in Football Forum this week in Indianapolis.

Joining her will be Christina Litz, the CFL’s chief marketing officer, Ryan Janzen, the league’s senior director of football operations, Erin Craig (strength and conditioning director for the Saint Mary’s University football program), Andrea Eccleston (equipment/team administrator, University of Saskatchewan) and Kristine Walker (associate head strength and conditioning coach, University Western Ontario).

“Honestly, it’s really humbling because I feel like I’m the baby in the room,” Iizuka said with a chuckle. “There are just so many qualified professional women … and to be in the same place as them, hopefully I can learn a lot.”

Bisons head coach Brian Dobie made it clear Iizuka had earned her spot in his program. That’s quite a statement from the winningest football coach in school history (92-90-1), who is entering his 24th season at Manitoba.

“I didn’t do this to make a political statement that I’m going to be the coach or we’re going to be the program that’s going to give this young woman a chance and be a breakthrough,” Dobie said. “I brought her here because of her drive, passion and determination and she had the skill level and experience to back it up.

“Winning in my job is really important, but more important is the student-athlete experience.

We’ve certainly done our share of winning at Manitoba, but I’m proud of the student-athlete experience.”

Dobie, 66, fondly remembers watching Iizuka for the first time while serving as a guest coach at a summer football camp in the Toronto area. Her rapport with Dobie was a key reason she chose Manitoba.

She works really hard and does all the right things. She sits at the very front of our classroom every meeting, she’s literally in the front row and taking notes. I wish all of our guys would be in the front row taking notes, honestly.

BRIAN DOBIE MANITOBA BISONS HEAD COACH

“I was at a tackling drill and there was a player who made two or three impressive tackles in a row,” Dobie said. “I literally turned to one of the coaches I was standing beside and said, ‘Wow, he’s a really good tackler.’ And he replied, ‘Yeah coach, that guy is a girl.’ So she went to the back of the line and I went over and gave her a coaching tip and we had a brief chat. We talked again at lunch and I was immediately struck by her passion and drive for being the best player she could and taking it as far as she could. She was really impressive.”

Iizuka immediately reminded Dobie of another passionate athlete – his daughter, Caleigh, who was a member of the Manitoba women’s volleyball team that won a Canadian university championship in 2014.

“I’m a coach but also the proud father of a daughter who did everything she could to be the best she could be in her chosen sport,” Dobie said. “I see Reina as a young person who’s trying to do the best she can to be the best she can in her chosen sport.

“The difference? She faces a

huge uphill battle because her sport is literally loaded from top to bottom with men.”

The biggest challenges Iizuka faces are physical, given many of her male counterparts are bigger, stronger and faster. But Dobie said Iizuka easily matches her teammates’ work ethic, football intellect and heart.

“She works really hard and does all the right things,” he said.

“She sits at the very front of our classroom every meeting, she’s literally in the front row and taking notes. I wish all of our guys would be in the front row taking notes, honestly.”

Dobie said the majority of Bisons players are good with having Iizuka aboard. And he has a simple message for the few who might not be.

“She has earned her position to this point as much as anything because of her attitude,” said Dobie, whose program has produced NFLers Israel Idonije and David Onyemata. “Not everyone in our program is a first-team all-Canadian and going to the NFL or CFL. “We have players who’ll be challenged as they go through their university career to ever start but they’re here because they’re workaholics and have great attitudes. Reina can stand in that room and certainly say, ‘Look, the role I play here is an important role.’ ” Iizuka played minor football with boys in both Mississauga and Toronto growing up and said she’s never had an issue gaining acceptance from her male counterparts. However, Iizuka often felt she had more to prove on the field.

“Just because I’m a girl, I think some people are going to test you differently,” she said. “I’m tenacious and I think I have a strong mentality … yes, it’s been difficult, but at the same time I’ve really enjoyed the process. I love training, I love studying film and I really love the connections I’ve been able to make with people in the community.”

As for the biggest challenge she’s faced, Iizuka said that’s come from within.

“It was realizing at a young age I could only control what I could control and within that, try to optimize all the potential and opportunity in front of me,” she said. “The physical is a given, biologically it’s what it is. I realize you have to maximize your gifts and being a female I think I have a different perspective on things.

I’m pretty agile and quick but I think liking to learn the game is the strength I have and it’s important to capitalize on that.”

yan Hunter is thankful he’s spending his off-season in Kansas City and not the upstart American Alliance of Football.

The AAF began its inaugural season earlier this month, its rosters full of players looking to earn another NFL opportunity. After spending his rookie campaign on the Kansas City Chiefs’ practice roster, the AAF would’ve been a definite option for Hunter as practice-roster players immediately become free agents at season’s end.

But the Chiefs etched Hunter’s off-season plans in stone by re-signing the 23-year-old North Bay native following their AFC championship loss to the New England Patriots.

“That’s definitely 100-per-cent positive,” Hunter said during a recent telephone interview. “Throughout the year they were very adamant about telling me I’d been doing a good job and to continue to progress and get better.

“The fact they wanted to re-sign me again, I think, relays that even more. I’m continuing to work this off-season to try and perfect my craft and become a better football player so when training camp rolls around there’s no doubt I deserve to be on the 53-man roster.”

The 6-foot-5, 322-pound offensive lineman joined the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent out of Bowling Green. He was among their final cuts but returned on the practice roster and remained there for the entire 2018 campaign.

Hunter said his first NFL season was one of adjustment.

He practised with the Chiefs – earning no less than US$7,600 weekly – but didn’t attend road games and watched home contests from the press box at Arrowhead Stadium.

“That [being on practice roster] was, I think, definitely the biggest adjustment for me,” he said. “It kind of makes you feel like a redshirt freshman in college when you’re doing what you can through the week but when the lights come on and it’s time to play you’re not there to help your team.

“That’s very tough because I’m The playbook here is a very competitive person and that kind of takes away the com- much more dense petition aspect of it. Over all, for and coaches expect the whole year it was treating you to know more Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday as pro athletes. and Friday practices like they’re your game.”

RYAN HUNTER And making sure to keep ON THE TRANSITION FROM COLLEGE PLAY TO THE NFL learning along the way.

“I learned more this season than I did my entire football career to that point combined,” he said. “Although you’re not playing Sunday, you’re in meetings with the vets, you’re at the practice and learning from coaches.

“Everything this year was a first so you’re not used to anything. With a year under my belt, I’ll already know the system, the offence, the coaches and playbook. Instead of having to worry about trying to figure out what play we’re running or what I have to do on this play, I’ll already have that ingrained in my mind so I can just focus on the details of technique, becoming a better player overall and having a better football mind.”

But Hunter hardly feels relaxed heading into his second NFL season.

“You never really want to feel comfortable because that’s when someone will snatch your spot and you’ll be sitting on your couch instead of in a meeting room,” he said. “Just comfort knowing I understand things and can anticipate what to expect at different points of the season … a lot less nervous energy coming out of the facility every day just because there’ll be some familiarity.”

It didn’t take long for Hunter to realize life in the NFL was drastically different than in college.

“The playbook here is much more dense and coaches expect you to know more as pro athletes,” Hunter said. “In college if you didn’t know something your coach would say, ‘That’s okay,’ but there might not be a next time here so mentally it puts more pressure on you to learn things quicker.

“Physically I thought I was ready for the season and early in training camp I felt pretty good. But camp is six weeks long and you’re playing four [exhibition] games on top of that and there’s no slowing down.”

This off-season, Hunter has added mixed martial arts to his training regiment.

“It’s to add extra cardio and hand-eye co-ordination to help propel me past some of the guys I’ll be competing against for spots,” he said.

Spending his first NFL season on the practice roster hasn’t diminished Hunter’s belief that he can play at this level.

“Getting cut last year was definitely a bummer and stung for a while,” he said. “But [general manager Brett Veach], scouts and coaches made it clear I was one of the last cuts and it wasn’t an easy decision and as long as I continue to progress and get better they can foresee me having a long, successful career in this league.

“You learn from your mistakes and your losses mean more than your victories so I try to use that as my motivation.”

When team workouts begin, Hunter and fellow Canuck offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardiff will have another French-speaking teammate. Last week, the Chiefs signed offensive lineman Justin Senior, a Montreal native and 2017 Seattle Seahawks draft pick.

“The Americans better watch out,” Hunter chuckled.

“They might not want [to] build that wall down south, they might have to do it up north.

“We’re taking over the state and city.”

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FORMER CFL STAR OWENS ARRESTED, CHARGED WITH ONE COUNT OF ASSAULT TORONTO Former CFL star Chad Owens has been arrested and charged with one count of assault.

Peel Regional Police said Tuesday that Owens’s arrest occurred Monday. No further details were immediately available.

The 36-year-old Honolulu native is a 10-year CFL veteran, having spent time with the Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats

and Saskatchewan Roughriders, but didn’t play in the league last season.

The 5-foot-8, 180-pound Owens was the CFL’s outstanding player in 2012 with Toronto after registering a record 3,863 all-purpose yards.

He also led the league in receiving with 94 catches for 1,328 yards and six touchdowns and became the first player in pro football history to accumulate at least 3,000 combined

yards in consecutive seasons.

Owens capped his 2012 campaign by helping Toronto beat Calgary 35-22 to capture the 100th Grey Cup title at Rogers Centre. In the off-season, Owens decided to pursue mixed martial arts as a form of training and was set to make his MMA debut April 6 in Honolulu.

Owens has 521 career catches for 6,217 yards and 27 TDs and three times was a league all-star.

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Offensive tackle Ryan Hunter joined the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent, but remained on the practice roster for the entirety of last season. CHARLIE RIEDEL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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DEATHS ANNE LENA DEMBECK April 21, 1925 - February 17, 2019 Anne Dembeck (née Drake) was for many years a member of the keyboard faculty of the Royal Conservatory of Music. Born in Stratford, Ontario, she was a consistent winner of medals and scholarships at music festivals during her student years. After graduating from the Conservatory with the Associateship and Licentiate Diplomas, Anne studied with Margaret Miller Brown.

Additional studies were taken with Jean Casadesus, Claudio Arran, and Rosina Lhevinne.

Since her concert debut at Eaton Auditorium, Anne appeared in numerous solo recitals in Toronto, and throughout Ontario, and also performed with her late husband, violinist John Dembeck. Anne wanted to express her appreciation to: Beverly Samuels and her team of caregivers, Dr. Debbie Selby and the staff on the palliative floor of the veterans’ wing at Sunnybrook Hospital, her many friends, especially Mary Susanne Lamont and Clayton Scott, and Mary Stokes, John Legge and the staff of Legge & Legge.

In keeping with Anne’s wishes, there will be no funeral or memorial service.

Cremation has taken place.

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THE HONOUR AB LE J. TREVOR EYTON, OC July 12, 1934 – February 24, 2019 Passed away at Toronto General Hospital on Sunday, February 24, 2019 after a brief illness, with all five of his children by his side.

Predeceased in November, 2014 by his dear wife, Jane (Montgomery) Eyton, whom he missed immensely. Beloved father of Debbie (Paul Edmonds), Susie (Greg Belton), Adam, Christopher and Sarah (Jason Gould). Interested, inspiring, proud and loving grandfather of Kate (Robert Scobie), Trevor (Steph Findlay), John and Hayley Findlay; Scott, James and Victoria Belton; Lindsay and Nigel Eyton; and Bronwyn and Rory Gould. Devoted and thrilled “Great Papa” of Ella and Beatrice Scobie.

Son of the late John (Jack) and Dorothy (Drysdale) Eyton, Trevor is the dear brother of Marion Hall (late Bill), and Anthony (Tony) Eyton and his wife, June. His friendship with cousin, Rhys Eyton and his wife Lynn was also important to him. He had many wonderful memories of time spent over many years with Jane and her family, including her devoted older brother, Don Montgomery and his wife Molly, and sister Mary de Haas, all of whom predeceased Dad. Remembered with great affection by his nieces and nephews who, like us and his friends, have many stories to tell about “Treasure”, and his love of pranks, inspired by his dry humour, and ability to laugh at himself.

Dad’s distinguished career in law and business, and as the champion for many charitable endeavours, earned him the respect and affection of many. He was passionate about so many things, and although we learned that taking an opposing view on politics was not worth the subsequent re-education he felt was required, he was a generous and thoughtful mentor and advocate for the projects and people to which, and whom, he was committed.

Growing up, nothing was more effective than being told you had disappointed him. He seldom raised his voice, and in fact was known for his constant mumble. We all listened carefully. Dad and Mom moved to Caledon in 1974 and that was his principal residence for the rest of his life. He often described it as God’s Country, and it was respite from the demands of his busy career and myriad other commitments.

His legacy as a consummate deal maker, and business icon to many, was balanced by his enjoyment of so many aspects of his life. Dad loved games and could make any event a competition. Much to his happiness, he successfully instilled in all of us his highly competitive nature. He loved hosting friends and family and pulling out all the stops, but had many simple tastes too, especially evident in his favourite foods. No matter the occasion, chips and a bowl of Heluva Good Dip were within easy reach. One scoop of vanilla ice cream was his favourite dessert (he’d send it back if it came with more than one, and expected all dining establishments to have it) and he loved both chocolate chip cookies and egg salad sandwiches. He was also a devoted Blue Jays fan and used to love floating in the pool with the game blasting from the radio perched on the pool deck.

We were and are so proud of him.

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After graduating from the University of Toronto Law School in 1960 he joined the law firm of Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington (now Torys) as an associate and later, partner. He left the practice of law in 1979 to become President and Chief Executive Officer of Brascan Limited (now Brookfield Asset Management) a post he held for 12 years. He remained with Brascan as Chairman and Senior Chairman until 1997 and continued to serve as a Board Member until 2014, and as an Advisor to Brookfield Real Estate Services Inc. till his death. He was appointed to the Senate in 1991 by former Prime Minster of Canada Brian Mulroney.

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He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1986 and was awarded Honorary Doctors of Laws by both the University of Waterloo and the University of King’s College at Dalhousie where he was Chancellor from 1996 to 2001. In 2000 he was awarded Mexico’s Order of the Aztec Eagle - the highest award given to foreigners by the government of Mexico. He retired from the Canadian Senate on July 12, 2009.

Trevor was kind, loving, full of life, big-hearted, thoughtful and family oriented. He told great stories, hosted great parties, and always supported ‘the more, the merrier’. He lived life fully and had a profound and lasting impact on each of us and so many others. We will miss him greatly but are already reveling in the stories being shared that we hadn’t heard before.

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He died peacefully. Andrew was a down to earth jovial man with a great sense of humour. His passion was to make everyone around him excel and become the best they can be. Andrew was the Past-President of the Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board, British Columbia Real Estate Board, and Canadian Real Estate Board. He was also General Manager and Managing Broker for Royal Pacific Real Estate. He loved playing the bagpipes, and was the founding manager of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band, participating in many trips abroad (including World Championships) with his friends from the band.

Andrew was also the first President of the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra. He also loved show-tunes, going often on trips to London and New York to see the shows. He loved his friends and family above all else.

Andrew leaves behind his many friends around the world, his husband, Paul Croes; their son, Marshall Faragher; his sisters, Janet Ortis (Olie, Emily and Sarah) and Nancy Peck (Colin, Katie and Laurel); and close friends, Margaret Fitzpatrick, Paul Friesen, MarieClaude Leonard and Jim Marriott, Robert Martins and Wade Menard, and his Royal Pacific family.

In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the BC Cancer Foundation in Andew’s honour. A Celebration of Life will be held at the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club at 3811 Point Grey Road in Vancouver Saturday March 2nd from noon until 16:00 (4 p.m.).

Over the course of his career he served as a board member of a number of corporations, including Coca-Cola Enterprises (Atlanta), General Motors of Canada, Noranda and Nestle Canada, John Labatt Inc., Barrick Gold Corporation, and Magna International. He was involved in amateur sport and philanthropic organizations including Junior Achievement, the Canadian Olympic Foundation and as Chairman of Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame. It should be mentioned that Dad’s love of sport was lifelong. While at U of T he played for and was, ultimately, Captain of the U of T Varsity Blues Football team. He was drafted by the Saskatchewan Roughriders, traded to the Toronto Argonauts, and after attending training camp for one day decided law was indeed where his future lay.

The family will receive friends at the Humphrey Funeral Home A.W. Miles - Newbigging Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Davisville Avenue) from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, February 28th.

A celebration of Trevor’s life will be held in Rosedale United Church, 159 Roxborough Drive, Toronto on Friday, March 1st at 2:00 p.m. Please wear bright colours in honour of Trevor’s zest for life.

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AN DREW ROBE RT P ECK Andrew has passed away January 15, 2019 in the arms of his husband Paul Croes in the presence of Andrew’s sister Janet at her home in Seattle.

Passed away peacefully at home on February 13, 2019. Predeceased by his parents Dick and Joy Kwan and by his brother Eddie (Joyce).

He will be fondly missed by his sister June (Marvin) and niece Rita (Duane), nephews Alex (Shirley), Howard (Minely), Tony, Donald, Ronald (Diana) and Douglas (Alison). Beloved great- uncle to Joel (Elizabeth), Daniel (Darlene), Katie, Kevin, Julian, Valerie, Jeffrey and Victoria. Stanley was born in Toronto on August 24, 1951.

He graduated from Lawrence Park Collegiate and Ryerson Polytechnical. His career spanned forty-three years as a computer systems analyst at Ryerson University. Stanley was the joint secretary of the Toronto Chapter of the Kwan’s Association and an active member of the Lung Kong Association. A memorial service and burial ceremony will take place at the York Funeral Centre and York Cemetery respectively at 160 Beecroft Road on Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 2 p.m. General visitation on site from 1 to 2 p.m.

Retired Vice President, Burndy Canada. Passed in peace surrounded by family on Monday, February 18, 2019 at the age of 91. Preceded in death by his wife, Ann. Beloved father of Jaren (Eero Nirk), Katherine (Gordon Fitzgerald) and Kirk (Anita Giacomini). Proud grandfather of Allison Blyth, Jamie and Mary McLeod. Further survived by sister-in-law Mary Obenour, nieces, nephews and friends. Don will be fondly remembered as a drummer, woodcarver, Big Band era music fan and an incorrigible tool-hoarder. His love of laughter - both giving and receiving will be missed.

Private family service was held. Thank you to staff of Rayoak Place for their kindness and care. Donations to Canadian Cancer Society or charity of choice.

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JANE A LICE RUM BLE (née Denho l m) June 20, 1947 - Feb. 23, 2019 Sorrowfully, we announce the peaceful passing of Jane Rumble at the Simcoe Hospice on February 23, 2019 after a gallant battle with cancer, diagnosed in 2000. Born in Hamilton in 1947, to parents, Norman John (Jack) Denholm and Catherine Denholm (Galbraith.) Survived by brother John Denholm (Cathy), and predeceased by sisters Ann Denholm Crosby (David) and Susan Denholm (John.) Loving wife of Bruce, mother to Michael Curry (Mary), stepmother to Darren (Jennifer) and Carrie (Jason Tricker), and amazing grandma to Jordan, Sean, Carson, Chris, Brandon, Alexa and Graeson.

Nieces and nephews, Andrew (Kim, Holly and Jack), Peter (Leaha and Emily) and Kate (Susi and Owen) will miss their spirited aunt.

We will all miss you, Jane, but we will never forget your spirit.

Cremation has taken place and interment will be private.

A Celebration of Life will follow in the Spring. Date to be announced.

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PETER ALEXANDER THEIMER On February 25, 2019 at his home surrounded by family in his 93rd year. Beloved husband of Nancy Theimer. Loving father and fatherin-law of Paul and Leah Theimer, Lisa Theimer, Brian Theimer and Mireille Mouscardy, and Karen Theimer. Dear cousin to Dr. Paul and Stella Richter. Devoted grandfather of Jillian, Jeremy, and Monique. At Benjamin’s Park Memorial Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West, Toronto (3 lights west of Dufferin) for service on Friday, March 1,2019 at 11:30 a.m.

Interment in Holy Blossom Memorial Park. Shiva at 33 Empress Avenue, Toronto.

Memorial donations may be made to Beit Halochem Canada, Aid To Disabled Veterans of Israel 905-695-0611 or Doctors Without Borders 416-964-0619.

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Harry John Waterman passed away peacefully at Toronto General Hospital on February 23, 2019. He is mourned by his wife of 65 years Elizabeth, and their three children: Geoff (Adrienne), Richard (Shelley), and Janet (Alan). He leaves behind 6 grandchildren: Wilson, Luke, Saunder, Caprice, Rhys, and Joseph. Predeceased by his sister, Sally. He was in his 90th year.

Harry was born in Toronto in 1929 to Harry George and Gertrude Isabelle. He was a proud Mason and Rotarian. A successful businessman, he ran his own company for over 20 years. He most enjoyed spending his summers on Georgian Bay surrounded by his family. Harry was a private man with a curious mind who cared deeply for his family. He will be greatly missed.

Visitation is on March 4th at Morley Bedford Funeral Services 159 Eglinton Ave W., Toronto, from 5-8 p.m. A private family service will occur March 5th.

S A RAH ELI ZABETH WILLIAMS “Sally” ( BA, Uni versity of Toronto) Peacefully, surrounded by her family, Sally passed away at Bethell House Hospice, Inglewood, Ontario on February 26, 2019. She was in her 97th year; born in Toronto on July 28, 1922, to Casey and Marianetta (Etta) (McLean) Watt. Growing up during the Depression, she learned from them how small acts of kindness could impact others’ lives. It was a lesson she practiced for the rest of her life. Beloved wife and best friend of Bill (Howard Aubrey Williams). Devoted mother of David (Dianne nee Correia), and Wendy Peyer (Danny). Much loved Nana of Robyn, Lindsey and Kirby Peyer, and Donovan McLeod-Williams and cherished Aunt to her nephew, Duncan Kerr, of England.

Sally studied at John Ross Robinson Elementary School, Bishop Strachan School and graduated from the University of Toronto, University College, in 1944. Sally was a member of the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women and University Women’s Club of Toronto. During her youth, she skated at the Toronto Skating Club and was a long standing member of the Granite Club. During WWII, she served for 2 years with the “WRENS” (Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS)) in HMCS Cornwallis, Nova Scotia where she was the Base Captain’s driver. Following WWII, Sally worked in the hematology department at the Toronto General Hospital and then at St. George’s Hospital, High Park Corner, London, England. Sally met Bill in England, married and settled there for a few years before returning to Canada to raise their family. Sally volunteered with the West End Creche, Humewood House, McMillan Bloorview Children’s Hospital, St. George’s College Ladies Guide and was a founding member of the board for Casey House, Canada’s first and only stand-alone hospital for people with HIV/AIDS. As a member of St. Paul’s Anglican Church for over 60 years, Sally was a devoted member of the Anglican Church Women, Chancel Guild team and the Winchester Group (formerly Hunter Group).

Friends may call at the Mount Pleasant Funeral Centre, 375 Mount Pleasant Road, Toronto, on Thursday February 28th from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service in St. Paul’s Anglican Church, 227 Bloor St. E. (west of Jarvis St.) on Friday, March 1, 2019 at 2 p.m. Reception to follow the service. Cremation.

In lieu of flowers, and if desired, the family would appreciate donations to St. Paul’s Anglican Church Heritage Fund, 227 Bloor St. E., Toronto, ON M4W 1C8, Bethell Hospice Foundation, P.O. Box 75, Inglewood, Ontario L7C 3L6 (www.bethellhospice.org) or a charity of your choice.

The family would like to thank everyone at North York General Hospital, the Central and Central West LHIN Palliative Support Teams; and especially everyone at the Bethell House Hospice for their care and support during Sally’s final journey “home.”

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STANLEY DONEN FILMMAKER, 94

‘MASTER OF THE MUSICAL’ CAPTURED LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD MOMENTS

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Stanley Donen, left, holds up the final clapperboard as stars Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman celebrate the completion of the the romantic comedy Indiscreet in 1958. Although he specialized in musicals early in his career, Mr. Donen found success in other genres after moving to England. FOX PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGES

Director was behind the camera when Fred Astaire defied gravity in Royal Wedding and long-time collaborator Gene Kelly defied the weather in Singin’ in the Rain making Royal Wedding for MGM, Mr. Donen teamed up again with Mr. Kelly at the same studio to make Singin’ in the Rain, widely regarded as one of the best movie musitanley Donen, who directed Fred Astaire dancing cals ever made.

Although they shared directing tasks throughout the on the ceiling, Gene Kelly singing in the rain and a host of other sparkling moments from some of movie – a story of the early days of talking pictures starHollywood’s greatest musicals, died Thursday in ring Mr. Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor and Jean Hagen, with a screenplay by the writing team of Manhattan. He was 94.

Comden and Green and songs from the 1920s and 30s – His son, Mark, confirmed the death.

Mr. Donen brought a certain charm and elegance to there was no question who was behind the camera when the silver screen in the late 1940s through the 50s, at a a thoroughly soaked Mr. Kelly bounded ecstatically time when Hollywood was soaked in glamour and the down a backlot street in a torrential downpour singing the title song, his dancing partner an umbrella that he big-studio movies were polished to a sheen.

“For a time, Donen epitomized Hollywood style,” Tad ultimately thrust into the hands of a grateful passerby.

Friend wrote in The New Yorker in 2003. Mr. Donen, he Critic Roger Ebert called it “probably the most joyous wrote, “made the world of Champagne fountains and musical sequence ever filmed.”

Stanley Donen was born on April 13, 1924, in Columpillbox hats look enchanting, which is much harder than bia, S.C., the son of Mordecai Moses Donen, manager of a it sounds.”

Mr. Donen’s filmography is studded with some of Hol- chain store that sold mid-range dresses, and the former lywood’s most loved and admired musicals. Royal Wed- Helen Cohen. He did not much like living in the South, ding (1951), in which Mr. Astaire defied gravity, and where he often encountered anti-Semitism. “It was Singin’ in the Rain (1952), in which Mr. Kelly defied the sleepy, it was awful, I hated growing up there and I couldn’t wait to get out,” he is quoted as saying in Mr. weather, were just two of his crowd-pleasers.

Among many others were the Leonard Bernstein- Silverman’s book.

As a boy he experimented with cameras his parents Betty Comden-Adolph Green collaboration On the Town (1949) – which, like Singin’ in the Rain, Mr. Donen co-di- gave him. “The camera was like a constant companion,” rected with Mr. Kelly – as well as Seven Brides for Seven he once said. “It allowed me to withdraw into myself.”

Mr. Donen moved to New York as soon as he could Brothers (1954), with Jane Powell; Funny Face (1957), with Ms. Hepburn and Mr. Astaire; and Damn Yankees (1958), after spending a semester at the University of South Carolina studying psychology, a subject he with Tab Hunter and Gwen Verdon. had taken up to please his father. He The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences acknowledged his mastery The Academy of Motion paid US$15 a week as a lodger in a couple’s apartment on West 55th Street and by honouring Mr. Donen in 1998 with a lifetime achievement award for “a body Picture Arts and Sciences landed a job in Pal Joey. acknowledged his In 1942, Mr. Donen, not yet 19, went to of work marked by grace, elegance, wit Hollywood, where he was hired as a and visual innovation.” Many saw the mastery by honouring award as Hollywood’s way of making Mr. Donen in 1998 with a US$65-a-week dancer at MGM and appeared in the movie version of Best Foot amends because Mr. Donen had never lifetime achievement Forward (1943), which he also helped been nominated for an Oscar, much less award. … Many saw the choreograph. won one.

In 1944, Columbia Pictures borrowed Mr. Donen also directed thrillers such award as Hollywood’s as 1963’s Charade, wild comedies such as way of making amends both Mr. Donen and Mr. Kelly from MGM for Cover Girl. Although neither man re1967’s Bedazzled and rueful romances because Mr. Donen had ceived screen credit for it, they both consuch as Two for the Road (also 1967). But never been nominated tributed to the film’s choreography, with musicals were his specialty, and fellow Mr. Donen handling the famous “Alter director Jean-Luc Godard – although it for an Oscar, much Ego” scene, a double-exposure number could be said that his French New Wave less won one. in which Kelly appears to be dancing films borrowed virtually nothing from with himself.

Mr. Donen’s work – spoke for many Mr. Donen shifted his focus from musicals after movwhen he called Mr. Donen “the master of the musical.”

He began his career in Mr. Kelly’s shadow. The two ing to England in 1958. He won critical praise for the rofirst worked together in 1940, in the original Broadway mantic comedy Indiscreet (1958), starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant; the Hitchcockian comic thriller production of Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey.

Mr. Donen, who had graduated from a South Carolina Charade, with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn; the high school that June at 16, was a member of the chorus; manic Bedazzled, starring and written by Peter Cook and Mr. Kelly was the star. They were together again the next Dudley Moore; and Two for the Road, a romantic comedy year on Broadway in Best Foot Forward, Mr. Kelly as written by Frederic Raphael, which starred Ms. Hepburn choreographer and Mr. Donen as dancer. Film critic An- and Albert Finney.

He had few artistic or financial triumphs after returndrew Sarris wrote in his book The American Cinema that Mr. Donen was “dismissed for a time as Gene Kelly’s in- ing to the United States in 1975 to direct the problemplagued Burt Reynolds-Liza Minnelli vehicle Lucky Lady, visible partner.”

But there was no dismissing the quality, or the impact, which failed at the box office and damaged his career. He of his solo directorial debut, Royal Wedding. With a score made a modest comeback in 1978 with the parody Movie

by Alan Jay Lerner (who also wrote the screenplay) and Movie, written by Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller, but Burton Lane, it starred Mr. Astaire as an American danc- never directed another movie after the indifferently reer who is in London to do a show with his sister (Ms. ceived 1984 comedy Blame It on Rio. He remained intermittently active into the 21st centuPowell) during the same period as the wedding of Prinry. In 1993, he returned to Broadway to direct a theatrical cess Elizabeth and Prince Philip.

Mr. Astaire’s character falls in love with a dancer in his version of the classic dance film The Red Shoes. But the show, played by Sarah Churchill. One evening, he comes production closed after just five performances.

All five of Mr. Donen’s marriages – to dancer and chohome to his flat and, inspired by her photograph, begins to dance – first on the floor and then, in cheerful vio- reographer Jeanne Coyne, actor Marion Marshall, Adelle Beatty, actor Yvette Mimieux and Pamari Braden – endlation of the laws of physics, on the walls and ceiling.

The sequence, famous in Hollywood lore, took place ed in divorce. But he did not like living alone. For a time, in a chamber that revolved depending on where weight he had a cushion in his living room embroidered with was applied. Mr. Astaire called it the iron lung. (Both he the words “Eat, drink and remarry.”

Director and performer Elaine May was his companand Mr. Lerner took credit for coming up with the idea.)

In his book Dancing on the Ceiling: Stanley Donen and ion of many years. He leaves his sons, Mark and Joshua His Movies (1996), Stephen M. Silverman wrote that the Donen, and a sister, Carla Davis. Another son, Peter, preroom’s draperies were made of wood and the coat Mr. ceded him in death.

Astaire took off was sewn to the chair where he left it, which in turn was screwed to the floor. The year after NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE RICHARD SEVERO

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.E.B. Griffin, who depicted the swashbuckling lives of soldiers, spies and cops in almost 60 novels, dozens of which became bestsellers, died Feb. 12 at his home in Daphne, Ala. He was 89.

The cause was colorectal cancer, said his son William E. Butterworth IV, who was also his writing partner.

Mr. Griffin estimated that he had published more than 150 books, many of which appeared on the bestseller lists of The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and other publications. His output included fiction for young adults and children’s books.

According to his website, there are more than 50 million copies of his books in print in more than 10 languages.

Determining the exact number of books he wrote is not so easily done, however: He was a ghostwriter for many, and many others were published under a variety of pseudonyms, including Webb Beech, Edmund O. Scholefield, Allison Mitchell and Blakely St. James. Even the name W.E.B. Griffin was a pseudonym; his real name was William E. Butterworth III. His best-known books are under the Griffin name.

The first was The Lieutenants (1982), which became the first installment in The Brotherhood of War, a nine-novel series that followed soldiers in the U.S. Army from the Second World War through the Vietnam War. Among his other series were Badge of Honor, about the Philadelphia Police Department, and Clandestine Operations, about the birth of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mr. Griffin’s writing was straightforward and a bit wry. In an early scene in Top Secret (2014) – the first book in the Clandestine Operations – Lieutenant James Cronley is seated in a car with the young woman he will soon marry. “She turned to face him,” Mr. Griffin wrote. “Their eyes met. ‘Jimmy, you sound like my mother trying to reason with me. …’ Their conversation was interrupted when the proximity of their faces caused a mutual involuntary act on both their parts. A minute or so later, Jimmy said, ‘Jesus H. Christ!’ and Marjorie said, a little breathlessly, ‘Don’t let this go to your head, but as kissers go, you’re not too bad.’ ” His fast-paced novels, rooted in history and chockablock with technical details, combined action, sex and patriotism and had a devoted readership. A profile in The Washington Post in 1997 described Mr. Griffin as “the grizzled griot of the warrior breed” and “the troubadour of the American serviceman.”

Mr. Griffin saw himself in simpler terms. “Basically, I’m a storyteller,” he said. “I like to think I’m a competent craftsman, as writers go, but I am wholly devoid of literary ambitions or illusions.”

His relentless pace – early in his career, he sometimes completed four books a year – slowed somewhat in recent years.

His son William became his full-time writing partner in 2006. William IV said he intended to keep writing in the style Mr. Griffin’s fans enjoy; a new book in the Badge of Honor series, The Attack, is to be published in August, with more novels, in that and other series, to follow.

William Edmund Butterworth III was born on Nov. 10, 1929, in Newark, N.J. His father, William II, was a travelling shoe salesman. His mother, Gladys (Schnabel) Butterworth, was a saleswoman in a department store.

His parents divorced when he was a teenager, and William attended several East Coast preparatory schools before enlisting in the army.

He served in Germany just after the end of the Second World War, becoming a clerk and typist for General Isaac Davis White. After a stint in college in Germany, he re-enlisted and again worked for Gen. White during the Korean War. He published his first book, Comfort Me With Love, about a young soldier’s adventures in Europe after the Second World War, in 1959. Two years later, he left his job to write novels and other books full-time.

Beginning in the mid-seventies, he wrote several sequels to MASH, the 1968 novel by former military surgeon H. Richard Hornberger and writer W.C. Heinz (under the pseudonym Richard Hooker), that inspired the movie and TV show of the same name.

Although many were optioned, Mr. Griffin’s own books have never been turned into movies, his son said. One reason was that studios balked when Mr. Griffin insisted on maintaining creative control.

His first marriage, to Emma Macalik, ended in divorce. He later married Maria del Pilar Menendez, whom he had met on a hunting trip in Argentina.

They had a home in Pilar, a suburb of Buenos Aires, and split their time between there and Alabama. She died in 2018.

In addition to his son William, he leaves another son, John; a daughter, Patricia Black; many stepchildren; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and many step-grandchildren.

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W.E.B. Griffin, seen at his home in Alabama in 2014, estimated he had published more than 150 books, although the exact number remains difficult to determine, given his work under many pen names.

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