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B.C. vows to block Alberta

from restricting oil exports
Attorney-General describes al, said his government’s legal ex-
perts examined the legislation that
Notley’s threat as political Alberta tabled Monday and conclud-
stunt over pipeline project, ed it’s unconstitutional.
saying province would “Clearly the legislation is a bluff,”
Mr. Eby said on Tuesday. “They don’t
seek injunction intend to use it. If they did try to use
it, we would be in court immediately
JEFF LEWIS seeking an injunction to stop them
KELLY CRYDERMAN CALGARY from using it, but we would probably
OTTAWA/QUEBEC EDITION have to get in line behind oil compa-
nies that would be concerned about
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018 | GLOBEANDMAIL.COM British Columbia is vowing to seek an contracts that they have with com-
injunction if Alberta moves to curtail panies in B.C. to deliver product.”
fuel shipments even as the prov- The threat of another legal chal-
ince’s Attorney-General derides the lenge is the latest salvo in an increas-
threat as a political stunt. ingly heated dispute over the future
David Eby, B.C.’s Attorney-Gener- of the $7.4-billion Trans Mountain
National Gallery
brushes off pitch [ BARBARA BUSH 1925-2018 ]
pipeline expansion, with Alberta
and Saskatchewan now allies in the
fight to overcome B.C.’s opposition to
the project. Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau attempted to mediate that
dispute on Sunday, calling a meeting
with B.C. Premier John Horgan and
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley.
The next day, Alberta introduced
legislation giving the province
sweeping authority to curtail exports
of crude, gasoline and diesel.
Asked about the threats from Al-
berta and Saskatchewan to interfere
with energy trade, Natural Resources
Minister Jim Carr said only Ottawa
can represent the national interest.
ENERGY, A4

from museums to
share David painting An outspoken first lady
Wife and mother to U.S. presidents, Barbara Bush played down her role in her
CHRIS HANNAY OTTAWA
husband’s political success. But she was a shrewd and valuable ally, becoming
a sought-after speaker in campaigns spanning decades B20
The director of the National Gallery of Canada is dis-
missing the entreaties of two Quebec museums that
want to share ownership of a 239-year-old French
painting, saying a work of art is “not a child of a di-
vorced couple that shuttles back and forth.”
The National Gallery is selling the 1929 Marc Cha-
gall painting The Eiffel Tower at a New York auction
next month for an estimated US$6-million to US$9-
million, to buy the 1779 Jacques-Louis David piece
Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of the Last Judgment.
The gallery has valued the latter at US$5-million.
The David work is owned by the parish of Notre-
Dame de Québec and
currently hangs in the
Montreal Museum of
Fine Arts (MMFA). Que- It’s going to Ottawa,
bec City’s Musée de la
civilisation is the legal for heaven’s sake. I
guardian of the piece. don’t really
The Quebec mu- understand what the
seums say the painting big deal is.
should retain its roots in
their province, but the MARC MAYER
director of the National DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL
Gallery says those con- GALLERY OF CANADA
cerns are overblown be-
cause the National Gallery is just across the Ottawa
River from Gatineau, Que.
“We’re a five-minute walk away from the fourth-
largest city in Quebec,” Marc Mayer said in an in-
terview. “It’s not as if it’s going to Saudi Arabia or
Russia, it’s going to Ottawa, for heaven’s sake. I don’t
really understand what the big deal is.”
The David painting was brought to Canada in the
late 1800s, and stayed in Quebec City for decades
starting in 1917. It was part of a collection owned by SCOTT OLSON/GETTY IMAGES
Henriette and Geneviève Cramail.
PAINTING, A7

Comey says there is danger in shrugging off

Trump’s call for his imprisonment
ADRIAN MORROW NEW YORK about it and not become numb to it.”
Of course, Mr. Comey was not a
private citizen when Mr. Trump
Donald Trump thinks James Comey turfed him. But the notion of the U.S.
should be imprisoned. After excerpts President weighing in on what the ju-
from Mr. Comey’s book, A Higher Loy- diciary should be doing is an extraor-
alty, appeared last week, the Presi- dinary violation of the separation of
dent called for the FBI director he power between the political and ju-
fired to be jailed for disclosing details dicial branches.
NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS of his meetings with Mr. Trump to ’The President, Mr. Comey warns,
the press. is a leader completely beyond the
It might be easy to brush this off as pale: Motivated purely by a “person-
Sports more Trumpian hyperbole, but Mr. al hunger for affirmation,” Mr.
Comey says that would be a danger- Trump’s “constant lying” under-
ous mistake. mines what the former FBI director HILARY SWIFT/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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A2 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018

MOMENT IN TIME

APRIL 18, 1945

DEPT. OF NATIONAL DEFENCE/LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA

Maybe all
your pool needs BALLOON BOMB LANDS
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is a facelift. y late 1944, Japan was like a cornered ani- the ocean, with one getting as far as Minton, Sask.

B mal. After demoralizing losses to U.S. forces

at Guam, Truk, the Marshall Islands and
Leyte Island in the Philippines, the Japa-
nese fleet was severely crippled. Starting in No-
vember, Japan launched a strange, desperate coun-
terattack. The Fu-go campaign involved as many as
10,000 balloons riding high-altitude winds across
the Pacific and carrying high-explosive and incen-
diary bombs. The idea was to set ablaze the forests
of the U.S. Pacific Northwest, British Columbia and
Alaska. As many as 900 may have made it across
Its payload failed to detonate and was discovered
by two children, who promptly reported it to the
RCMP. One of the last of some 285 sightings oc-
curred off Point Roberts, B.C., on this day in 1945
(pictured above), and again the bombs were found
intact. The attacks eventually proved deadly on
May 5, 1945, when a Sunday-school teacher and five
students on a picnic in Oregon were killed after
they came across a bomb delivered by a balloon –
the only casualties of the war on the U.S. mainland.
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PM gets mixed reception in French address

Trudeau receives warm
welcome in country’s
National Assembly,
but atmosphere sours
when he brings up
Canada-EU trade deal

PAUL WALDIE PARIS

As the first Canadian Prime Min-

ister to address France’s National
Assembly, Justin Trudeau likely
expected a warm welcome and
polite applause when he rose to
speak in the ornate chamber on
Tuesday. Instead, the Prime Min-
ister ran into a smattering of
boos and some catcalls when he
mentioned the Canada-EU trade
deal, a sign of how divisive the
agreement has become in parts
of Europe.
Several MPs, including Jean-
Luc Mélenchon of the far-left La
France Insoumise, or Unbowed
France, and the far-right National
Front’s Marine Le Pen, could be
seen heckling the Prime Minister
when he talked up the benefits of
the deal, and Ms. Le Pen left the
chamber before the end of his
speech. Dozens of other MPs ap-
plauded the Prime Minister and
signalled to the others to be
quiet.
The deal, known as the Com-
prehensive Economic and Trade
Agreement, or CETA, was signed
by Canada and the European
Union in 2016 and most of its pro-
visions were put into effect last
September. However, the 28 EU
member states, plus several re-
gional legislatures, must still rat-
ify parts of the deal, including
the dispute-resolution system,
which has faced opposition
across Europe. France has yet to
ratify CETA, although it has won
strong backing from President
Emmanuel Macron. His party, La
République En Marche, also
holds 312 seats in the 577-seat as-
sembly, making ratification of
CETA almost a certainty.
Mr. Trudeau got a warm wel-
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gestures in response to applause from lawmakers at France’s National Assembly in Paris on Tuesday. Mr. Trudeau’s
appearance marks the first time a Canadian prime minister has addressed the chamber. FRANCOIS MORI/ASSOCIATED PRESS
come at the start of his speech on
Tuesday and he received several
rounds of applause from MPs
when he spoke about the strong
bonds between France and Cana-
da. But his comments about
CETA soon changed the mood in
the chamber.
“Together, we have chosen a
progressive approach to trade,”
Mr. Trudeau said, adding that the
deal will create jobs, protect the
environment and uphold work-
ers’ rights. He hailed CETA as a
new generation of trade deal,
adding that it “goes farther than
any other commercial agreement
in the world.” And he said since
most of it has come into force,
Canadian imports from France
have climbed 4 per cent and agri-
cultural trade is up 8 per cent.
Canadian investments in France
have also climbed 23 per cent, he
said. “CETA is the start of a new
era in co-operation and integra-
tion,” he said. “If France can’t rat-
ify a free-trade agreement with
Canada, what other country
could it [sign an agreement
with]?”
Those comments clearly irrita-
ted several MPs, including Mr.
Mélenchon and Ms. Le Pen, who
both ran against Mr. Macron in
the presidential election last year
on platforms that fiercely op-
posed CETA.
“At the start of his speech, he
offered words that sounded
good,” Clémentine Autain, one of
17 a La France Insoumise MPs,
said afterward. “But CETA poses a
serious problem.”
The agreement “has been in
application since September
without any validation by the
people. None,” she added. “And
the people of France were not in-
formed about what will happen
because the negotiations were
done in secret, which was terri-
ble.”
Ms. Autain said CETA will
damage environmental protec-
tion, hurt farmers and threaten
workers’ rights because it gives
too much power to multination-
al corporations. Mr. Trudeau
“presented something that is not
the reality of CETA. It’s the oppo-
site of what he said.”
She cited the dispute-resolu-
tion system in particular as a ma-
jor concern. The agreement cre-
ates a new tribunal called the In-
vestment Court System (ICS),
which consists of a panel of judg-
es that would settle disputes.
Canada and the EU have hailed
the ICS as a breakthrough in
trade relations and the EU has
hoped it would lead to the cre-
ation of an international trade
court.
However, critics say the ICS
hands too much power to foreign
companies, which can sue gov-
ernments if they change policies
that hurt company operations.
Opponents say that that limits
governments’ ability to protect
the environment, worker rights
and health care. And some argue
the ICS is a dangerous move to-
ward private courts and away
from domestic legal systems. Bel-
gium has challenged the ICS at
the European Court of Justice
and politicians in several coun-
tries, including France and Bri-
tain, have questioned the system.
Despite the rocky reception in
the National Assembly, Mr. Ma-
cron offered praise for CETA after
a meeting with Mr. Trudeau on
Monday. During a news confer-
ence after the meeting, the Presi-
dent backed CETA and Mr. Tru-
deau said he looked forward to
France ratifying the agreement.
Mr. Trudeau heads to London,
where he will meet the Queen
and British Prime Minister There-
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Commonwealth Summit, which
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UN visited Douma before weapons experts: Syria

France says it’s likely
evidence of gas attack
was disappearing before
inspectors were on site

MICHELLE NICHOLS
UNITED NATIONS
ANGUS MCDOWALL BEIRUT

Syria’s UN ambassador said a

United Nations security team
travelled to the Syrian town of
Douma ahead of a planned visit
by global chemical weapons ex-
perts on Wednesday to look into
a suspected poison gas attack
that sparked a U.S.-led retaliato-
ry strike.
Western countries say scores
of civilians sheltering from
bombs were gassed to death in
Douma on April 7. Syria and its
ally Russia deny that any chem-
ical attack took place.
“Today the UN security team
entered Douma … in order to as-
sess the security situation on the
ground and if this United Na-
tions security team decided that
the situation is sound in Douma
then the fact-finding mission will
begin its work in Douma tomor- A United Nations vehicle carrying inspectors fromthe Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is seen in Damascus on Tuesday. Experts
row,” Syrian Ambassador Bashar were dispatched to the Syrian town of Douma to look into a suspected poison gas attack that sparked U.S. retaliation. OMAR SANADIKI/REUTERS
Ja’afari told the UN Security
Council on Tuesday. Douma is now in the hands of 500,000 people and drawn in al-Assad complete control over medical aid groups operating in
Earlier on Tuesday, Syrian government forces after the last global powers and neighbouring Syria’s capital. Yarmouk, Syria’s rebel areas have dismissed as
state television reported that the rebels withdrew just hours after states. biggest camp for Palestinian ref- propaganda – saying that no
experts from the Organisation U.S., French and British forces The intervention threatened ugees, has been under the con- chemical attack took place.
for the Prohibition of Chemical fired more than 100 missiles to to escalate confrontation be- trol of Islamic State fighters for Syrian state media reported
Weapons had entered Douma. hit three suspected chemical tween the West and Russia, but years. Although most residents that missiles had again targeted
State Department spokes- weapons development or stor- has had no significant impact on have fled, the UN says several an airbase overnight, but the
woman Heather Nauert said she age sites. the ground, where Mr. al-Assad is thousand remain. commander in the regional mil-
was aware of reports from Syria Russian UN Ambassador Vas- now in his strongest position Mr. al-Assad has benefited itary alliance backing the gov-
that inspectors from the OPCW sily Nebenzia told the Security since the war’s early days and from Russian air power since ernment, speaking on condition
had been able to see the town Council on Tuesday there was no shows no sign of slowing down 2015 to regain large swaths of Sy- of anonymity, later said it was a
but “our understanding is that point establishing a new inquiry his campaign to crush the rebel- ria. The suspected poison gas at- false alarm.
the team has not entered Dou- to determine blame for chemical lion. tack creates a conundrum for The commander said the new
ma.” A diplomatic source in The weapons attacks in Syria because The Syrian army began pre- Western powers, who are deter- offensive would target Islamic
Hague, where the OPCW is Washington and its allies had al- paratory shelling on Tuesday for mined to punish Mr. al-Assad for State and Nusra Front militants
based, said the experts did not ready acted as judge and execu- an assault on the last area out- using chemical weapons but in Yarmouk camp and al-Hajar
enter Douma. tioner. side its control near Damascus, a have no strategy for the sort of al-Aswad district. Rebels in the
France said it was very likely Saturday’s air strikes were the commander in the pro-govern- sustained intervention that adjoining Beit Sahm area had
that evidence of the poison gas first co-ordinated Western strikes ment alliance said. might damage him. agreed to withdraw on buses, he
attack was disappearing before against President Bashar al-As- Recovering the Yarmouk Damascus and Moscow have said.
the inspectors could reach the sad’s government in a seven-year camp and neighbouring areas broadcast statements from hos-
town. war that has killed more than south of the city would give Mr. pital workers in Douma – which REUTERS

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to temporarily FROM A1

close 8,000 However, he gave no indication the federal

U.S. stores
for racial-bias
training
LOS ANGELES
Starbucks Corp. will close 8,000
company-owned U.S. cafés
for the afternoon on May 29 to
train nearly 175,000 on how to
prevent racial discrimination in
its stores.
The announcement from the
world’s biggest coffee company
comes as it tries to cool tensions
after the arrest of two black men
at one of its Philadelphia cafés
last week sparked accusations of
racial profiling at the chain.
Protesters have called for a
boycott of the company, in what
has become the biggest test yet
for chief executive Kevin John-
son, who took the helm about a
year ago. Mr. Johnson has apol-
ogized for the “reprehensible” ar-
rests of the two men and taken re-
sponsibility for the incident.
Lawyers for the company said
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REUTERS
government would intervene to stop them
from carrying out their plans.
“Provinces will have their own view for
their own reasons,” he said. “They’re ex-
pressing that but there’s a national interest
which goes beyond the provincial interest.
Canadians live in Alberta and British Co-
lumbia and Saskatchewan and Manitoba
and we speak on behalf of Canada’s inter-
ests. We’ve done that and we’ll continue to
do that.”
Alberta’s energy industry has greeted
Ms. Notley’s proposed legislation with a
mixture of grudging acceptance and un-
ease. Some fear that any restrictions could
harm producers already coping with pipe-
line constraints and low prices. Others
cheered the legislation as a stand on princi-
ple.
The head of the association represent-
ing oil drillers in Canada said his members
will support any action the Alberta Premier
takes to get the pipeline expansion built.
“If she believes this is going to allow the
Alberta government to exert additional
pressure to get this pipeline built, we’re ful-
ly supportive and we’re behind her,” said
Mark Scholz, president of the Canadian As-
sociation of Oilwell Drilling Contractors.
The industry endorsement of such a
contentious proposal underlines concerns
sparked by Kinder Morgan Inc.’s threat to
abandon its Trans Mountain expansion by
June 1 unless the company gets assurances
it can finish the project.
The pipeline would nearly triple the
flow of oil sands-derived crude and refined
products along an existing right-of-way to
the West Coast and is widely seen as a ba-
rometer of Canada’s ability to attract global
investment in major resource projects.
Mr. Trudeau and Ms. Notley have
pledged to provide financial backing for
the expansion, although neither has
spelled out exactly what form it would
take.
People pump gas in Vancouver on Tuesday. B.C. receives about $375-million of refined
petroleum products from Saskatchewan annually. RAFAL GERSZAK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
They argue the project is key to expand- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said
ing markets for Alberta’s landlocked oil. his province will take similar action. His
But the project faces opposition from B.C.’s government plans to introduce a bill with-
government, environmentalists and some in a matter of days that would allow it to re-
First Nations, who insist Trans Mountain strict oil shipments to B.C.
poses a threat to the coastline and will un- His office said Saskatchewan ships
dermine Canada’s ability to reduce emis- about $375-million worth of refined petro-
sions of planet-warming greenhouse gases. leum products to B.C. annually. While the
Known as Bill 12, Alberta’s legislation threat of squeezing shipments to the B.C.
would give the province has elicited praise in some
broad powers to control what corners of the energy indus-
products flow through major Alberta’s energy try, there are also concerns it
export pipelines, enabling it could have unintended con-
to throttle shipments of re- industry has greeted sequences.
fined fuels to free up space for Ms. Notley’s Major oil companies could
deliveries of crude oil, for ex- proposed legislation take a hit, said Tim McMillan,
ample. A spokeswoman for with a mixture of president of the Canadian
the Premier said it could take Association of Petroleum
up to three weeks for the leg- grudging acceptance Producers. “Nobody likes the
islation to take effect. and unease. option put on the table,” he
Speaking in Edmonton on said on Tuesday.
Tuesday, Alberta Energy Minister Margaret “But everybody believes that we need
McCuaig-Boyd said the government has re- market access, that no province can hold
ceived advice from legal experts on Bill 12, our resources hostage, and that we have to
and is confident the legislation stands on play the long game.”
firm legal ground.
“It absolutely does not target B.C. – it tar- With reports from Shawn McCarthy in Ottawa,
gets exports going in any direction out of Justine Hunter in Victoria and The Canadian
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The nerve agent used to poison former Rus-
sian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter at
his home in southern England last month
was delivered in a liquid form, British offi-
cials said on Tuesday.
Mr. Skripal, 66, who as a colonel in Rus-
sian military intelligence betrayed dozens
of agents to Britain’s foreign spy service,
was found slumped unconscious on a
bench in the city of Salisbury along with his
daughter, Yulia, on March 4.
Britain has blamed Russia for the attack
which the authorities said was carried out
using a Novichok form of nerve agent. Mos-
cow denies the accusation and says Britain
is trying to whip up anti-Russian hysteria.
In a briefing to media on Tuesday, the
Department for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs (Defra), which is handling a
clean-up operation in Salisbury, said a very
small amount of Novichok was used with
the substance delivered in a liquid form.
Police have said they believe the poison
had been applied to the front door of Mr.
Skripal’s modest home as that was where
the highest concentration of the toxin had
been detected.
After weeks of treatment, Yulia Skripal,
33, was discharged from hospital a week
ago. Her father remains in hospital, al-
though he is no longer in critical condition,
and both are still receiving treatment for
the effects of the poisoning.
Defra said nine sites, including three in
the Salisbury city centre, needed some lev-
el of specialist cleaning, but some areas
that had been sealed off since the poison-
ing were being reopened to the public.
“Thanks to detailed information gath-
ered during the police’s investigation, and
our scientific understanding of how the
agent works and is spread, we have been
able to categorize the likely level of con-
tamination at each site and are drawing up
tailored plans,” Defra’s chief scientific ad-
viser Ian Boyd said.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical Weapons has confirmed Britain’s
analysis that a highly pure type of Novi-
chok, developed by the Soviet Union in the
1970s and 80s, had been used in the attack
on the Skripals.
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‘Significant gap’ in oversight

of how political parties use
voter data: privacy watchdog
BILL CURRY scheduled to appear before the
PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER committee on Thursday. MPs
OTTAWA said the company offered the
committee a private briefing in
advance of the public meeting
Privacy Commissioner Daniel but the offer was declined.
Therrien’s long-standing call for Liberal MP and committee
more powers over internet giants member Frank Baylis, who is a
and political parties is gaining former corporate executive in
support from government and the medical-products sector, said
opposition MPs as a committee it is time for the federal govern-
examines the misuse of Face- ment to step in and regulate in-
book data for political cam- ternet companies.
paigns. “What we have right now is –
Mr. Therrien was the opening across the world, not just Canada
witness on Tuesday as the House – we have the Wild West. It’s just
of Commons committee on ac- anybody doing anything,” he
cess to information, privacy and said after the committee meet-
ethics launched an examination ing. “So we need to clamp down,
into the international controver- just like we have anywhere else
sy over Facebook’s protection of where there’s been an unregulat-
its users’ personal information. ed market that’s got out of hand,
The commissioner told MPs and this is one of them … Self-
that Canada is an outlier interna- regulation is over.”
tionally when it comes to ensur- Mr. Baylis said he also agrees
ing independent oversight of that political parties must be
Ex-FBI director James Comey, in New York on Tuesday, says he would be doing the public a disservice how political parties use the brought under federal privacy
by not disclosing what he saw in Donald Trump’s White House. HILARY SWIFT/THE GLOBE AND MAIL large amounts of data that they legislation.
gather on Canadian voters. “It makes no sense to me,” he
“This is, in my view, a signif- said. “We should be absolutely
icant gap,” Mr. Therrien told MPs covered under the same rules as
Comey: Ex-FBI director says Trump’s repeated on Tuesday. everybody else.”
The hearings were launched After the meeting, Mr. Ther-
mentions of urination video ‘stuck with me’ in response to explosive allega- rien said he has not received a
tions made by Canadian data firm commitment from the gov-
FROM A1 ‘This is what my experience was,’ ” he said. specialist Christopher Wylie, who ernment that it will respond to
Elsewhere in Mr. Comey’s book, he describes exposed how Cambridge Analyt- his concerns. However, he said
And Mr. Comey’s book details the President’s fighting with George W. Bush’s White House ica – a data firm he helped estab- federal officials have recently
fixation on Russia – particularly an unproved over the use of warrantless surveillance and the lish – collected more than 50 mil- been reaching out to his office
allegation in a dossier compiled by a former torture of prisoners. But he draws a distinction lion Facebook profiles and used with policy questions.
British spy. The Russians, the book claims, vid- between those events and the behaviour of Mr. them in unauthorized ways in an Mr. Therrien said he would
eoed Mr. Trump getting prostitutes to urinate Trump. effort to influence elections like the government to deal with
on a Moscow hotel bed in 2013 to defile it after “Leaders like President Bush and President around the world. his two main concerns separate-
then-president Barack Obama had slept there. Obama have, when they’re making hard deci- Mr. Wylie has accepted an in- ly. He said legislation is needed
On four occasions, Mr. Trump denied the alle- sions, external reference points. They think vitation to appear before MPs, to subject Canadian companies
gation to Mr. Comey without prompting – about a religious tradition or philosophy or his- committee vice-chair Nathaniel to levels of regulation and over-
something that only made the tory or the law,” he said. “My ex- Erskine-Smith confirmed to The sight that are similar to the rules
then-FBI director think the story perience with Donald Trump is Globe and Mail on Tuesday. The coming into force in the Europe-
might be true. that the only reference point is in- date of his appearance has not an Union. He said a separate leg-
“My experience as a prosecutor ternal: ‘What will give me the af- yet been scheduled. islative measure is needed to ex-
tells me that sometimes people I have a vantage firmation I crave?’ … That is dis- During the Tuesday hearing, tend privacy laws to Canadian
bring things up defensively when turbing in a leader.” Mr. Therrien said legislation is political parties.
there’s nothing to it, but very of- point, given where Polling shows Mr. Trump has required that would set clear “We have been contacted by
ten people bring it up when I’ve worked and held a solid core of support, de- rules for political parties and government in the past few
you’re not asking them about it what I’ve seen, that spite the chaos of his first 15 that his office and Elections Can- weeks, but I still do not see a ve-
because they have a sense of a I can offer a view months in office. It would seem to ada should be given the power to ry clear intent to act,” he said.
guilty conscience,” he said. “I suggest that what Mr. Comey enforce those rules. “But the channels of communi-
don’t know which it is with Presi- that I think can be fears – Americans accepting Mr. Liberal, Conservative and NDP cation exist at this point, so we’ll
dent Trump. But it was often useful to people. Trump’s behaviour – has come to MPs all expressed support on see whether that comes to frui-
enough and odd enough that it And I think if I didn’t, pass. But he argues that the up- Tuesday for the commissioner’s tion.”
stuck with me.” that would be the tick in protests and political orga- call for stronger federal oversight Mr. Kent told reporters he’s
A Higher Loyalty – in which he nizing in the Trump era belies of internet companies and politi- skeptical the Liberal government
comments on Mr. Trump’s pen- coward’s way out. this. cal parties. However, MPs also will act on either front before the
chant for overlong ties and de- “People are realizing ‘You said it is unclear whether such next election. He also said he in-
JAMES COMEY
scribes both his gravity-defying FORMER DIRECTOR know what? This is not accept- measures could be approved in tends to ask Mr. Wylie about his
haircut and the size of his hands – OF THE FBI able. This is not normal. It’s not time for the next federal election past work for the Liberal Re-
has also opened Mr. Comey up to okay,’ ” he said. “We in America – in 2019. search Bureau when he appears
accusations of sensationalism. It’s a particular- and it’s true in Canada as well – we have great Conservative MP Peter Kent before the committee. Mr. Wylie
ly easy charge to make given that much of the battles about policy issues … but there are noted that the General Data Pro- has said his 2016 contract with
book is preoccupied with Mr. Comey’s asser- things above that, that are more important.” tection Regulation takes effect the Liberal Research Bureau was
tions of the importance of values in public life Speaking of Canada: Mr. Comey chose a quo- next month in the European unrelated to the misuse of Face-
and the FBI’s distance from politics. tation from Calgary singer-songwriter Jann Ar- Union. The regulation sets rules book data.
But Mr. Comey argues he would have been den to open the first chapter of the book, in and penalties related to the use “His association with what is
doing the public a disservice by not disclosing which he describes a formative experience – and collection of data and gives now the governing political par-
what he saw in Mr. Trump’s White House. being held at gunpoint during a home invasion individuals certain rights to ac- ty in Canada does open some ve-
“I’d actually rather not be doing this. This is at the age of 16 – that helped prompt his career cess their own information. Mr. ry serious questions,” Mr. Kent
not something I’m doing for the money, not as a prosecutor. Kent asked the commissioner said. “The privacy commissioner
something I’m doing for the attention. It’s go- The quote – “To not think of dying, is to not whether it is time for Canada to has been asking for some years
ing to be a major pain for me,” he said. “But I think of living” – is widely attributed to Ms. Ar- adopt a similar approach. that political activities be
have a vantage point, given where I’ve worked den online and appears to come from an inter- “It is high time,” Mr. Therrien brought under provisions of the
and what I’ve seen, that I can offer a view that I view. But it’s somewhat unclear how Mr. replied. [Privacy] Act, and I believe that
think can be useful to people. And I think if I Comey found it. Executives from Facebook are that time has come.”
didn’t, that would be the coward’s way out.” “I was looking through, trying to find some-
And including details on the presidential thing that captured what that chapter’s about,
coiffure and hand size? and hers just nailed it,” he says. “I don’t know
“What I’m trying to do is be a good author, her songs that well, but I know who she is and
I’ve never been an author before, and bring the kind of things she sings about. … All my
people into the scene and bring them into the daughters are musical and so I think they in-
room with me. … I’m trying to tell the reader, troduced her into my life.”

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer offers $100,000

for information on man who threatened her
WASHINGTON hair and wearing a hoodie. Ms. Clifford said she
thought he looked like somebody’s husband
and described him as “sort of handsome.”
Adult-film actress Stormy Daniels on Tuesday She said she did not tell police about the
released a sketch of a man she said warned her threat at the time because she was afraid and
in 2011 to stop discussing her claims she had a did not want to reveal the alleged encounter
sexual encounter with U.S. President Donald with Mr. Trump.
Trump, while her lawyer offered a US$100,000 “I didn’t tell my husband at the time, I was
reward for information about the man. embarrassed,” she said. “I didn’t want him to
The actor, whose real name is Stephanie Clif- think I was a bad mom.”
ford, is fighting a 2016 non-disclosure agree- Mr. Trump’s lawyers are seeking at least $20-
ment arranged by Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, million in damages from Ms. Clifford for mul-
Michael Cohen, in which she got US$130,000 to tiple violations of a non-disclosure agreement.
keep quiet about her claim that she had sex Ms. Clifford’s appearance on the ABC show
with Mr. Trump a decade earlier, came a day after she attended a
something the U.S. President has hearing in Manhattan federal
denied. court where Mr. Cohen sought to
During an appearance on the I’m tired of being limit the ability of federal prose-
daytime ABC television talk show cutors to review the documents
The View, she was asked why she threatened. I’m seized in April 9 raids on his
was speaking out. done. I’m sorry, I’m home, office and hotel room.
“I’m tired of being threatened,” done being bullied. The raids stem in part from a
Ms. Clifford responded. “I’m separate probe into possible col-
done. I’m sorry, I’m done being STORMY DANIELS lusion between Mr. Trump’s pres-
bullied.” ADULT-FILM ACTOR idential campaign and Russia. A
Ms. Clifford repeated her story, source familiar with the raids said
first relayed on CBS’ 60 Minutes last month, that the FBI agents were also looking for informa-
she was on her way to a fitness class with her tion on payments to Ms. Clifford among materi-
child when an unknown man approached her als related to Mr. Cohen’s other business deal-
in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011. He warned her ings.
to “leave Trump alone. Forget the story,” she Ms. Clifford acknowledged the publicity the
said in that interview. whole episode has brought her and said that,
On Tuesday, her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, while she was making more money, her ex-
asked the public for help identifying the man penses were climbing as well. She has had to re-
and offered a US$100,000 reward for informa- tain a team of bodyguards, as well as a tutor for
tion leading to his identification. her daughter.
The picture they released shows a lightly
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PBO pegs national basic income cost at $76-billion

Report estimates Ottawa
would have to find
$43.1-billion a year were
it to seek a guaranteed
minimum income
JORDAN PRESS OTTAWA
Federal coffers would have to dole
out more than $76-billion a year
to provide every low-income
household with a guaranteed
minimum income if the govern-
ment ever embarked on such a
radical overhaul of the social safe-
ty net, Parliament’s budget
watchdog said on Tuesday.
In a new report, the Parliamen-
tary Budget Officer estimated the
federal government would have
to find about $43.1-billion to cover
the full cost of the program to top
up the $32.9-billion Ottawa al-
ready spends on support to low-
income Canadians.
A guaranteed minimum in-
come often means different
things to different people, but at
its core, it can be described as a no-
strings-attached benefit that gov-
ernments provide to citizens in-
stead of various targeted social
benefits. It can be delivered as a
universal payment, or as a means-
tested benefit that declines in val-
ue as incomes rise.
Spending $76-billion would af-
fect more than 7.5 million people,
who would receive on average
$9,421 a year, with the maximum
amount reaching $16,989 for indi-
viduals and $24,027 for couples,
before deductions for any income
earned.
A government determined to
institute the idea would have to
decide what benefit programs to
replace, the value of the benefit it-
self and how to address some of
the non-financial factors that af-
fect poverty, said Mostafa Askari,
the deputy Parliamentary Budget
Officer.
“If politicians were to imple-
ment this, then they would have
to really decide about the struc-
ture of this program,” he said.
The federal Liberals have been
lukewarm to the idea at a national
level, arguing the Canada Child
Benefit, among other measures,
amounts to a guaranteed mini-
mum income. A recurring theme
in the government’s work on a
poverty-reduction strategy has
been the need to modernize the
social safety net and the 61 federal
income-support programs in-
volving eight departments.
The Liberals are unlikely to
trade those programs for a basic
income that, given equally to
working age Canadians and se-
niors, could leave the latter group
with less money than they get
now, said David Macdonald, a se-
nior economist at the Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives.
“There is a temptation to just
clear away the table and re-set up
your own basic income that treats
everyone the same across the
board, but the danger in doing
that is you end up with losers,” Mr.
Macdonald said.
Mr. Macdonald, who has stud-
ied basic incomes, said the con-
cept isn’t a silver bullet to poverty
eradication, but it can be part of
the solution. Ontario is testing the
idea and federal officials are keep-
ing an a eye on the pilot project,
the parameters of which formed
the basis for the budget officer’s
report released on Tuesday.
Hugh Segal, a former senator
who helped design the Ontario pi-
lot, said the numbers in the bud-
get officer’s report suggest a feder-
al program wouldn’t break the
bank.
The cost of a basic-income sys-
tem is a key concern from critics,
as is worry that the money would
act as a disincentive to work.
Conservative finance critic
Pierre Poilievre, who requested
the budget estimates, tweeted
that the report doesn’t eliminate
that concern: “The welfare state
apparatus remains & the financial
penalties for working grow – the
opposite of what basic income
was supposed to do.”
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Four Humboldt Broncos

remembered at Edmonton
memorial service
CHRIS PURDY
COLETTE DERWORIZ EDMONTON

They played hockey together, they lived their lives together

Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of the Last Judgment, a 1779 painting by Jacques-Louis David, has been
valued by the National Gallery of Canada at US$5-million. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Painting: National Gallery says it is important for
Canada’s heritage to keep artwork in the country
FROM A1
Agnès Dufour, a spokeswoman
for the Musée, said the sisters do-
nated the David to fill a cultural
hole left by the destruction of oth-
er art in a fire at the cathedral. The
rest of the collection was later do-
nated to the Musée. “All of this, it’s
history, it’s heritage, it’s part of
the cultural and social fabric of
Quebec City and of Quebec,” she
said, in French. “This painting
speaks to us as much, if not more,
of Quebec civilization as of Eu-
ropean fine arts.”
The church began looking to
sell the French neoclassical paint-
ing in 2016 to pay for its activities
and approached the two Quebec
museums and the National Gal-
lery in Ottawa. A year later, with
no buyer secured, the church be-
gan to approach international in-
stitutions.
Mr. Mayer said Britain’s Nation-
al Gallery, in London, expressed
interest last year in buying the Da-
vid painting and had the funds to
do so.
Canada’s National Gallery
made a bid in December, 2017,
that is conditional on the sale of
the Chagall painting. In the mean-
time, the Musée de la civilisation –
which has right-of-first-refusal
until mid-June to match the Na-
tional Gallery’s offer – is working
with the MMFA and private do-
nors to put together the money.
“I’m always very willing to
work [together],” said Nathalie
Bondil, director-general of the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
who said her work with the Musée
was “proof” that they were willing
to find solutions with other insti-
tutions.
“There is no sense to compete
among Canadian museums if we
want to keep our heritage,” she
said. “But you have to collaborate
with someone who wants to col-
laborate, obviously.”
Mr. Mayer said he wasn’t inter-
It’s a piece of canvas ested in working on a joint bid
with other museums.
with some paint on “That doesn’t really work with
it that’s 250 years Old Master pictures,” he said. “It’s
old. It’s not a child of a piece of canvas with some paint
a divorced couple on it that’s 250 years old. It’s not a
child of a divorced couple that
that shuttles back shuttles back and forth.”
and forth. Mr. Mayer said he has not spo-
ken with the heads of the Quebec
MARC MAYER museums. He said he doesn’t
DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL
GALLERY OF CANADA know why he would have called
them before making a bid on the
David painting, and they did not
contact him. Ms. Bondil said she
tried to call Mr. Mayer last week
and he did not answer, and Mr.
Mayer says he has not received
any such calls.
The National Gallery, which
displayed the painting in Ottawa
from 1995 to 2013, says it’s impor-
tant to Canada’s heritage to keep
the artwork in the country.
The gallery says it will use any
excess money from the sale of the
Chagall work to buy other art for
its collection. The Eiffel Tower will
be sold at a Christie’s auction in
New York on May 15.
The two Quebec museums are
talking to their province’s govern-
ment about funding for a bid or
getting a special cultural designa-
tion for the David. Quebec Culture
Minister Marie Montpetit said in a
tweet that she had directed her
department to look into the des-
ignation. The federal Liberals say
they are staying out of it.
Anyone concerned “should
take their case up with the gallery,
because that’s where the decision
is made, and that’s where it be-
longs,” said Sean Casey, parlia-
mentary secretary for Canadian
Heritage.
With reports from Robert
Everett-Green in Montreal and
Laura Stone in Ottawa.
and they died together.
On Tuesday, they were also remembered together at a me-
morial service in Edmonton.
Jaxon Joseph of Edmonton, Parker Tobin of Stony Plain,
Alta., and Logan Hunter and Stephen Wack – both of St. Al-
bert, Alta. – were among 16 people with the Humboldt Bron-
cos who died after a transport truck and the Saskatchewan
junior hockey team’s bus collided on April 6.
“There’s nothing more fitting than to do more than one
funeral at once,” said Sean Brandow, the team’s pastor.
“That’s really what hockey is all about. It’s not everything
that these boys were known for –
but it showed on and off the ice
they loved each other.” The memorial at
The memorial at Rogers Place
was attended by about 3,000 peo- Rogers Place was
ple and broadcasted online. attended by about
Mourners walked by the iconic 3,000 people and
Wayne Gretzky statue into the broadcasted online.
arena, the building’s ticker sign
reading #HumboldtStrong. A
mini stick was left at the bottom of the statue, with “#until-
nexttime,” “#HumboldtStrong,” and “#NeverForgotten”
written on it. A goalie stick was placed at one of the doors.
Police cars escorted the funeral procession with four
hearses through busy downtown traffic. Teens showed up in
hockey jerseys and police, firefighters and military members
were in uniform.
Premier Rachel Notley and many other politicians attend-
ed. The names of the four players were on the score board
and ticker screen that goes around Rogers Place, home ice for
the Edmonton Oilers.
Mr. Joseph’s father, Chris Joseph, was a defenceman with
several NHL teams, including the Oilers.
“Jaxon, we miss you very much,” he said at the memorial.
“Today, we will celebrate you and Logan and Parker and Ste-
phen and try to get through that the best we can.
“I’ve found in the past few days that I have a trigger word
that makes me sad but it makes me happy and that word is
proud. We are so, so, so proud of you, Jaxon.”
Mr. Tobin, 18, was in his first season with the Broncos as a
goalie after being traded from the Spruce Grove Saints in Al-
berta. A family friend described Mr. Tobin as a wonderful,
athletic, intelligent, funny young man who took life in stride.
“His calm sensible demeanour was sprinkled with a dash
of dry humour that clearly came from his Newfie roots,” Barb
Potter said. “He loved being a part of any sports teams, espe-
cially hockey, and Parker was a goalie through and through.”
Mr. Hunter, also 18, was remembered for his love of sports,
particularly hockey. “Hockey was his passion, his dream and
his focus,” his dad, Lawrence, said.
Mr. Wack, 21, had a passion for videography and was on the
honour roll each year in high school. “Hockey was a huge part
of Stephen, but hockey never defined who he was,” his friend
Curtis Peck said. “He had many loves in his life.”
The memorial ended with a message from the siblings of
the four young men.
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northernmost peninsula in
Tuktoyaktuk, NWT. They have
spent their entire lives in the re-
mote community, and moved in-
to this one-storey house in 1994.
They would like to relocate it
across the road, or at least turn it
sideways – anything to buy more
time in the place they call home.
“It’s my ancestors’ land, they used
to stay here,” Mrs. Adam said. “It’s
special, sacred land.”
But Mr. Adam, sitting on his
porch, acknowledged his family
is one bad storm away from los-
ing everything. The sea has whit-
tled his backyard, which he esti-
mates once stretched many tens
of metres westward, to just two
metres. During storms, the Beau-
fort Sea splashes his house and
washes around its foundation of
piles. “Every year, it has moved
closer and closer,” Mr. Adam said.
Just down the road, a sea of
white and orange-brown crosses
bear the names of deceased Gru-
bens, Nasogaluaks, Capot-Blancs,
Steens and Kowanas, framed by
an archway inscribed with a re-
quest for divine intervention to
provide them eternal rest. The
Beaufort seems unlikely to hon-
our that request: It has already
claimed other graves and histor-
ical sites along the fragile coast.
Erosion has been a problem
since people first settled here; in-
creasingly violent storms, thaw-
ing permafrost and rising sea lev-
els are quickening the pace. A rib-
bon of boulders (known as rip-
rap) along the shore a couple of
metres below the cemetery and
the Adams’ home are just the lat-
est salvos in a running battle with
the Beaufort Sea for the hamlet
the locals call Tuk. Those defenc-
es have slowed, but not halted the
sea’s inexorable advance.
Stand your ground if you can,
give way if you must. It is a pre-
cept embedded in Inuit culture,
and not infrequently a practical
necessity of northern living. A re-
view of satellite imagery shows
more than half a dozen structures
have been removed from the
peninsula since the summer of
2016. Hamlet administrators say
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SEA CHANGE:
ABOUT THE SERIES
The world’s oceans have been
rising in lockstep with global
temperatures since the
mid-1800s – and the pace is
accelerating. In this occasional
five-part series, Sea Change,
The Globe and Mail examines
how Canada’s most vulnerable
coastal communities are
preparing for an inexorable force
that will reshape their coastlines
– in potentially catastrophic
ways – for generations to come.
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TUKTOYAKTUK, NWT
Population:
898
Projected sea-level
rise by 2100:
42 TO 68 CM
Coastal sensitivity
to climate change
Low
Medium
High
some homes were moved to In-
uvik, while others now sit on va-
cant lots in Tuk, awaiting future
use. Among the last holdouts, Mr.
Adam secured relocation funding
from the hamlet, found a new lot
farther inland and plans to con-
sult a carpenter to see whether
his house can withstand reloca-
tion.
A SISYPHEAN TASK
Talk of the worst-case scenario –
abandoning Tuk entirely – goes
back at least a generation. “At-
tempts to control erosion at Tuk-
toyaktuk will become increasing-
ly expensive and the site could ul-
timately become uninhabitable,”
a 1998 paper by the Geological
Survey of Canada predicted. The
hamlet is trying to draw up a for-
mal plan to avoid that fate. But
time is running out.
The Beaufort coastline is ex-
ceedingly challenging to defend.
Comprised largely of soft sedi-
ments, it has been retreating for
thousands of years: By one Geo-
logical Survey of Canada esti-
mate, about 7,000 years ago it lay
more than 100 kilometres north
of its current position. Tuk’s har-
bour is actually a flooded river
valley. “There’s no bedrock any-
where there,” said Donald Forbes,
a retired research scientist whose
career with the Geological Survey
of Canada brought him to Tuk-
toyaktuk numerous times begin-
ning in the 1970s.
Back in the 1930s, the Hudson’s
Bay Co. was looking for a Beaufort
Sea port to transfer freight
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brought down the Mackenzie
River by barge to deeper-draught
coastal vessels. It selected one of
the Beaufort’s only viable har-
bours, east of the Mackenzie del-
ta, and dubbed it Port Brabant.
(In 1950, it became Tuktoyaktuk,
the first community in Canada to
revert to a traditional Indigenous
name.) The surrounding land-
scape is dominated by pingos −
towering mounds of earth
pushed skyward by ice under-
neath − which form only in per-
mafrost environments.
The community’s geological
vulnerability was obvious from
the outset: Within a decade, HBC
had lost buildings to flooding,
and its employees had already
observed serious erosion.
By the time Tuk was incorpo-
rated as a hamlet in the 1970s, the
town’s coastline had retreated as
much as 100 metres inland in
places; the elementary school
and curling rink were in jeopardy.
But Tuk was emerging as the key
staging area for oil and gas explo-
ration across the Beaufort Sea. It
still has some political signifi-
cance as one of Canada’s north-
ernmost inhabited settlements,
bolstering Canada’s claims to its
northern regions.
So began the battle. A series of
“Longard” tubes − sausage-
shaped cylinders filled with sand
– were installed in 1976 on the
shore in front of the school to
slow the erosion. These were de-
stroyed, although the cause re-
mains disputed. (A 1982 study by
the federal Public Works depart-
ment blamed vandalism; others
pointed to driftwood and sea ice.)
The school had to be abandoned,
and the curling rink succumbed
to the sea during a 1982 storm.
In the late 1980s, the hamlet
These concrete slabs have been one of the more effective remedies
for Tuktoyaktuk’s erosion problems, but installing more of them is
difficult and expensive. MATTHEW MCCLEARN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018
added dredged sand to its beach-
es, and shored them up with
sandbags. Storms undermined
and broke the lower bags, spilling
their contents and causing those
above to collapse.
Concrete footings salvaged
from the school were placed on
the shore, but they, too, were un-
dermined by the elements and
toppled. A single storm in 1993 de-
stroyed half the shoreline defenc-
es.
In 1998, an oil company donat-
ed 40 concrete slabs, which were
installed on gravel pads along 100
metres of shore at the peninsula’s
north end. The Geological Survey
of Canada has monitored all of
the community’s coastal defenc-
es for years; Dustin Whalen, a
physical scientist, said the slabs,
which direct the waves upward
and away from the shore, have
performed well.
But concrete pads simply are
not an option to protect the rest
of the community. “It’s very cost-
ly to fabricate them here or bring
them in,” said Darrel Nasogaluak,
who served as mayor last year.
“And to locate them properly, you
need a big heavy-lift crane, which
we don’t have anywhere in the
North right now.”
So during the past 20 years, the
community installed rip-rap
brought in from Inuvik along the
peninsula. A review of historical
satellite imagery by The Globe
and Mail suggests this significant-
ly slowed erosion.
Yet it is also a Sisyphean task.
The boulders are porous: water
infiltrates and freezes, splitting
them into ever-smaller frag-
ments. The shore is littered with
scraps of geotextile fabric torn
from underneath the rip-rap by
waves, bunched up and useless.
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A FOUNDATION OF ICE little else but watch the contin-

One reason shoreline defences
proved so ineffective is that Tuk
essentially rests on a foundation
of ice. The Arctic is warming at
twice the global average; temper-
atures across the Northwest Terri-
tories increased by three to four
degrees in just half a century. “As
air and sea temperatures rise,
that promotes more rapid reces-
sion through melting of excess
ground ice and thawing of ice-
bonded sediments,” Mr. Forbes
explained. Unlike eroding soils,
melting ice does not even con-
tribute materials toward a beach
that might buffer against future
erosion. It just melts.
Tuktoyaktuk’s thawing beach-
es offer a pitiful foundation for
coastal defences. “There were
rocks all the way down past my
house,” resident Noella Cockney,
a retired RCMP officer who lives
on the peninsula, said from the
cab of her pickup truck. “But be-
cause of the force of the waves
and the moisture, everything
sunk into the beach.”
Tuk used to be sheathed in sea
ice from October to June. The
warming climate shortened that
season, extending the period dur-
ing which Tuktoyaktuk is ex-
posed to the storms that blow in
predominantly from the north
and the west.
For these reasons, the Beaufort
Sea would eventually claim Tuk
even if it weren’t rising. But it is
rising. And the Earth’s crust is al-
so subsiding underneath. The
combined result of both forces is
stark: The Geological Survey of
Canada predicts that if human
carbon emissions continue un-
abated, sea level along the Beau-
fort coast will rise about 70 centi-
metres between now and 2100.
Even this conservative esti-
mate, if realized, would greatly
increase flood risks. Flood maps
show that if the Beaufort rose just
one metre, about 14 per cent of
the community would be flood-
ed. At two metres, more than
one-third of Tuk goes underwa-
ter. Get to three metres, and near-
ly three-quarters of the hamlet
floods. Any combination of sea
level rise, storm surge and wave
action could deliver such levels.
Tuktoyaktuk is running low on
options. With its oil and gas hey-
day a distant memory, it is all the
more difficult to attract funding
from the territorial and federal
governments to support expen-
sive new infrastructure projects
to mitigate erosion and flooding.
The opening of a permanent,
all-weather road last year that
connects Tuk to Inuvik does open
new possibilities: It should re-
duce the cost of bringing in boul-
ders and other materials, for ex-
ample. And there is hope the road
will bring in flocks of tourists to
rejuvenate the economy. But it
will not alter the fundamental
shortcomings of traditional
shoreline-protection measures.
“There’s been no real concen-
trated effort in the last decade” to
halt erosion in Tuk, said Lorie
Fyfe, a regional superintendent of
Municipal and Community Af-
fairs for the territorial govern-
ment, who visits the community
two or three times a year. The
community is instead pursuing
an informal strategy of gradual
retreat to inland locations such as
a new neighborhood called Rein-
deer Point.
Mr. Nasogaluak explained that
the peninsula, which is the site of
the northern terminus of the
Great Trail (formerly the Trans
Canada Trail), has been designat-
ed an “environmental reserve,”
and will be for day-use only. “We
can’t protect it long-term,” he
said. The hamlet will continue to
replenish the rip-rap in front of
its cemetery, Mr. Nasogaluak said,
but elsewhere the defences will
be discontinued. The community
will slowly move inland, he pre-
dicted.
But there are likely limits to
how far the community can re-
Sandy and Sarah Adams’ house, above, at 123 Beaufort Dr., is at risk of falling into the sea. Erosion has been a
problem since people first settled in Tuktoyaktuk. But Darrel Nasogaluak, below, who served as mayor of Tuk
last year, says that no matter what happens in Tuktoyaktuk with the eroding land, the community will ‘always
be on the shoreline … we’re coastal people.’ PHOTOS BY MATTHEW MCCLEARN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
treat inland and remain econom-
ically viable. Although the Hud-
son’s Bay Co. is a distant memory,
Tuk’s habour remains its raison
d’être. So far, the harbour has
been spared from the erosion
that has destroyed so much of the
peninsula, thanks to Tuktoyak-
tuk Island. It’s one of many bar-
rier islands across the Arctic −
long, sandy formations that shel-
ter the nearby coast. Tuk Island
guards the harbour from storm
surges and wave action, and
probably also prevents it from
silting up.
But the same forces that ruin-
ed the peninsula are destroying
the island. Its northern coast re-
treats at about two metres a year,
Mr. Whalen said. Digitized histor-
ical coastlines produced by the
Geological Survey of Canada us-
ing aerial and satellite photos
show it retreated around 130
metres between 1947 and 2008.
Much of the eroded material has
been deposited in the main ship-
ping channel, and Mr. Whalen
predicts the island will be
breached in 2037. Separated into
several smaller islands, it might
erode even more quickly. Once
Tuk Island breaks up, the harbour
will be exposed to “much bigger
waves than ever before,” he
warned.
RUSTING RELICS
On the island’s northeast shore
lies the remains of an old wooden
barge, which may suggest a solu-
tion. It has laid there rotting for
Mr. Nasogaluak’s entire life. As a
child, he hunted ptarmigan (a
game bird in the grouse family)
on the island’s dunes and bluffs
with a slingshot. “That old barge
is almost beat to nothing now,
but it protected that island,” Mr.
Nasogaluak said. “That is the only
spot on Tuk Island that hasn’t
seen any erosion.”
Some old steel barges recently
became available after the bank-
ruptcy of a northern company,
Mr. Nasogaluak said. The com-
munity considered sinking them
off Tuk Island to form an offshore
breakwater. “We’re not sure if we
want to put some rusting relics
out there,” he said. “But, I mean,
it may be the only way.”
Mr. Whalen believes putting
some kind of barrier in front of
Tuk Island is “inevitable.” This
year, he hopes to study how
much the seabed would sink if a
heavy barrier were placed on it −
information he thinks the hamlet
will need one day soon.
Last year, the territorial gov-
ernment helped Tuktoyaktuk se-
cure $250,000 in federal funding
to hire a coastal engineer to pre-
pare a flood and erosion mitiga-
tion plan. Part of its argument
was that Tuk’s harbour must be
preserved to support future oil
and gas exploration and produc-
tion in the Beaufort Sea. Adminis-
trators hope the plan will help
the hamlet secure much larger
sums of federal funding to exe-
cute the plan. But it could be diffi-
cult to find a consultant whose
experience exceeds that of local
leaders. “The real issue is that
there isn’t really engineering ex-
pertise to manage erosion of an
ice-rich shoreline in a setting like
that,” Mr. Forbes said.
Even if the hamlet can stabilize
its own shores, residents can do
uing disintegration of the rest of
the Beaufort coast.
Climate change is also threat-
ening the Inuit way of life, says
the head of the Inuvialuit Region-
al Corp. (IRC), which manages
more than 90,000 square kilo-
metres of land granted to the In-
uit of this region through a treaty
with the federal government in
1984.
Duane Ningaqsiq Smith, the
IRC’s chair and chief executive,
said Tuk residents depend on
hunting and fishing over a huge
area to supplement their diets.
Mr. Smith has had to replace his
own hunting cabin twice in re-
cent years because of damage
from storms that he said are be-
coming increasingly violent. “A
lot of the other areas along the
Western Arctic coastline of Cana-
da are eroding away,” he added.
“It’s significantly increased with-
in the last five years.”
“WE’RE COASTAL PEOPLE”
The implications became clear
during last summer’s Canada C3
expedition, when participants
visited Baillie Island, about 225
kilometres northeast of Tuk on
the Beaufort Coast. There, mas-
sive blocks from the island’s cliffs
slough off into the sea, bowing in-
to the surf like penitent monks.
On a smaller but accessible block
that had recently fallen, the melt-
ing permafrost that had until re-
cently bonded the cliff together
could be seen. In places, people’s
boots sank several inches into the
quicksand-like beach.
But even that pales in compar-
ison to Pelly Island, 100 kilo-
metres west of Tuk. Every year,
members of the Geological Sur-
vey of Canada visit Tuktoyaktuk
to monitor the deterioration of
the surrounding coastline. At as
much as 40 metres a year, Pelly Is-
land’s coastal retreat rate is
among the most rapid witnessed
anywhere on Earth.
Their options limited by geol-
ogy, remoteness and financial re-
sources, Tuk’s residents must live
with their deteriorating coastline.
But Mr. Nasogaluak suggested the
region’s Inuit are undaunted by
change. “My grandfather was
born in an igloo,” he said. “My
mother was born in a tent. And I
was born in a tent in a govern-
ment community. We’re an adap-
tive people; we’ve been through a
lot in the last 100 years.”
A 2014 hazard-risk assessment
published by the territorial gov-
ernment made a similar point:
People who live in isolated com-
munities such as Tuk are accus-
tomed to violent weather, power
and communications failures,
and their traditional knowledge
of local conditions leaves them
better prepared for natural disas-
ters.
“We’ll always be on the shore-
line, whether it’s where it is today,
or wherever the shoreline’s going
to be in 100 years,” Mr. Nasoga-
luak said. “We’re coastal people.”
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Ontario introduces bill to set rates for
workers under government contracts
Premier says legislation is
about preventing employers
from undercutting wages in
order to lowball on projects
SHAWN JEFFORDS TORONTO
Construction workers, building security
guards and cleaners under government
contracts would receive a “fair” wage un-
der legislation Ontario’s governing Liber-
als introduced on Tuesday and hope to
pass before the June provincial election.
The new legislation – called the Gov-
ernment Contract Wages Act – would es-
tablish minimum pay rates for workers in
those sectors and require contractors and
subcontractors hired by the government
to abide by them.
“It means that if you work on a govern-
ment project … you will be paid fairly.
Full stop,” Premier Kathleen Wynne said
as she made the announcement at a
union training facility for plumbers and
steamfitters in Toronto. “This is about
preventing employers from undercutting
workers’ wages in order to lowball on pro-
vincial projects.”
Ms. Wynne said the bill will update fair-
pay legislation that has remained un-
changed since 1996. Trade organizations
have lobbied the government for the up-
date for years and the Liberals have spent
the past 12 months consulting with stake-
holders, she said.
“We’re tabling legislation to enshrine
the principle of a fair prevailing wage in
law as well as provide the necessary sup-
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Fatal explosion forces jet to make emergency landing
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An engine on a Dallas-bound Southwest
Airlines flight with 149 people aboard ap-
parently exploded on Tuesday, forcing an
emergency landing in Philadelphia as one
passenger was killed and another one was
nearly sucked out a window of the plane,
the airline and federal officials said.
The fatality on the flight from New York
was the first in a U.S. commercial aviation
accident since 2009, according to National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) statis-
tics.
After an engine on the plane’s left side
blew, it threw off shrapnel, shattering a
window and causing cabin depressuriza-
tion that nearly pulled out a female pas-
senger, according to witness accounts and
local news media reports.
“We have a part of the aircraft missing,
so we’re going to need to slow down a bit,”
the plane’s captain, Tammy Jo Shults, told
air-traffic controllers in audio released on
NBC News. Asked by a controller if the jet
was on fire, Ms. Shults responded it was
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U.S. is in
direct talks
with N. Korea
port and enforcement to make it work,” legislation,” he said about the updates.
over summit,
she said. “They have the [regulatory] authority to
Patrick Dillon, the secretary treasurer bring the schedules up to date.”
Trump says
of the Provincial Building and Construc- Mr. Frame said the association doesn’t
tion Trades Council of Ontario, said the challenge the premise of the fair wage
legislation will not only help protect scale, but the skilled trades are so compet- STEVE HOLLAND
worker wages, but ensure safety on the itive at the moment that if a worker feels PALM BEACH, FLA.,
job. he or she isn’t receiving fair compensa-
“When contractors are bidding and one tion, they could find other more lucrative
is lowballing the other, they have to cut work in the field. U.S. President Donald Trump said
some place and generally they start to cut “They’re trying to make employers look on Tuesday the United States is
at health and safety,” he like the bad guys, like we’re engaged in direct talks at “ex-
said. “We think this is a big not paying our workers tremely high levels” with North
step in the right direction to properly,” he said. “I know of Korea to try to set up a summit be-
help with prevention.” no workers who are going to tween him and its leader, Kim
Mr. Dillon acknowledged They’re trying to be helped by this at this cur- Jong-un.
that the move may not be rent time.” Mr. Trump made the comment
popular with all contractors make employers Ms. Wynne said she was as he and Japanese Prime Minister
in the province. look like the bad optimistic the new bill Shinzo Abe opened two days of
“Some contractors may guys, like we’re not would become law before talks at the U.S. President’s Mar-a-
complain about this,” he paying our workers the election, slated for June Lago retreat in Palm Beach, Fla.,
said. “But their workers, for 7. Labour Minister Kevin meetings that are to include a
sure, will not be complain- properly. Flynn conceded, however, round of golf.
ing.” DAVID FRAME
that the co-operation of the Mr. Trump said he believed
The move comes months DIRECTOR OF GOVERNMENT opposition Progressive Con- there was a lot of good will in the
after the government passed RELATIONS AT THE ONTARIO servatives and New Demo- diplomatic push, but also said it is
major labour reforms that GENERAL CONTRACTOR’S crats would speed up pas- possible the summit – first pro-
ASSOCIATION
included minimum-wage sage of the legislation. posed in March and that the Presi-
hikes – it jumped to $14 an NDP Leader Andrea Hor- dent said could take place in late
hour on Jan. 1, and will rise again to $15 on wath said the timing of the announce- May or early June – may not hap-
Jan. 1, 2019 – and equal-pay measures for ment, weeks before an election, says more pen.
part-time and casual workers. about the government’s desire to position Efforts to arrange an unprece-
David Frame, director of government itself before the vote than it does about its dented meeting between U.S. and
relations at the Ontario General Contrac- dedication to workers. North Korean leaders have helped
tor’s Association, said his organization New Democrats may support the legis- ease tensions over Pyongyang’s
had no idea the legislation was coming lation, but want to have an opportunity to development of nuclear missiles
and the news caught them off guard on examine the bill, she said. capable of hitting the United
Tuesday. They consulted with the govern- The Tories also criticized the govern- States. Mr. Kim has agreed to dis-
ment on the wage schedules a year ago ment for the timing of their legislation. cuss denuclearization, according
and hadn’t heard anything since. to U.S. and South Korean officials.
“What surprises me is they don’t need THE CANADIAN PRESS “We have had direct talks at ve-
ry high levels … with North Korea.
I really believe there’s a lot of good
will; a lot of good things are hap-
pening. We’ll see what happens.
As I always say, we’ll see what hap-
pens, because ultimately it’s the
end result that matters, not the
fact that we’re thinking about
having a meeting or having a
meeting,” Mr. Trump said.
Mr. Trump did not identify who
on the U.S. side was talking to the
North Koreans and senior U.S. of-
ficials would not comment.
Contacts between the two sides
in recent weeks have involved U.S.
intelligence and State Depart-
ment officials, a U.S. official told
Reuters this month. The most se-
nior U.S. official known to have
visited Pyongyang in recent years
was then-U.S. intelligence chief
James Clapper in 2014.
Mr. Trump, who has exchanged
bellicose threats with Mr. Kim in
the past year, said U.S. officials are
looking at five different locations
for a meeting with Mr. Kim. Asked
whether any of those were in the
United States, Mr. Trump said
“no.”
A U.S. official said sites in
Southeast Asia and in Europe
were among those under discus-
sion. Mr. Kim has rarely left North
Korea. Speculation has centred on
a range of sites including Pyon-
gyang, the demilitarized zone be-
tween the Koreas, Stockholm, Ge-
neva and Mongolia.
Talks between Mr. Trump and
Mr. Abe are largely focused on the
passengers,” Todd Bauer, whose daughter Mr. Sumwalt said the NTSB believes prospective summit with Mr. Kim
was on the flight, told NBC’s affiliate in Phi- parts came off of the engine but it has not as Japan seeks a U.S. commitment
ladelphia. determined if it was an “uncontained en- that any denuclearization deal
NTSB chairman Robert Sumwalt told a gine failure.” the President seals with Mr. Kim
news briefing in Washington that one per- “There are protection rings around the will include not just long-range
son had been killed, but declined to elab- engine to keep shrapnel from coming out. missiles but those that could be
orate. The fatality was a pas- Even though we believe that aimed at Japan.
senger, according to South- there were parts coming out “For the North Korean issue, I’d
west chairman and chief ex- of this engine, it may not like to underscore the importance
ecutive Gary Kelly. The entire have been in that section of of achieving the complete, verifia-
“The entire Southwest Air- the engine that technically ble and irreversible denucleariza-
lines Family is devastated Southwest Airlines would qualify this as an un- tion, as well as the abandonment
and extends its deepest, Family is devastated contained engine failure,” he of missile programs of North Ko-
heartfelt sympathy to the and extends its said. rea,” Mr. Abe told Mr. Trump.
customers, employees, fam- deepest, heartfelt He said the NTSB sees Mr. Abe also obtained an agree-
ily members and loved ones about three or four uncon- ment from Mr. Trump to bring up
affected by this tragic event,” sympathy to the tained engine failures a year, the issue of Japanese nationals ab-
Southwest said in a state- customers, including non-U.S. carriers. ducted by North Korea, a highly
ment. employees, family Flight 1380 was diverted to emotive issue for the Japanese.
Flight 1380 had 144 passen- members and loved Philadelphia after crew Mr. Trump stressed that the
gers and five crew members, members reported damage two sides in this week’s talks are
Mr. Sumwalt said. ones affected by this to an engine, the fuselage unified.
One passenger was taken tragic event. and at least one window, the Mr. Trump said it was possible
to the hospital in critical con- Federal Aviation Administra- that diplomatic efforts to arrange
dition, and seven other peo- SOUTHWEST AIRLINES tion said. a Kim summit will fall short and if
ple were treated for minor in- Southwest said the aircraft it does not happen, the United
juries at the scene, Philadelphia Fire De- had been bound for Dallas Love Field in States and its allies will maintain
partment spokeswoman Kathy Matheson Texas from New York’s LaGuardia Airport pressure on Pyongyang through
said. Ms. Matheson could not confirm how before it diverted to Philadelphia. sanctions.
the passenger in critical condition sus-
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At UN event,
Boushie
supporters call
for changes
to legal system
KELLY GERALDINE MALONE

Family and supporters of a young

Indigenous man shot and killed
on a Saskatchewan farm used the
international stage of the United
Nations on Tuesday to advocate
for change in the Canadian crimi-
nal-justice system.
A side event at the United Na-
tions Permanent Forum on Indig-
enous Issues in New York focused
on the death of 22-year-old Col-
ten Boushie and his family’s ex-
perience with police and the
courts.
Farmer Gerald Stanley was ac-
quitted in Mr. Boushie’s August,
2016, death earlier this year,
sparking rallies and outrage
Bill Cosby, centre, and his spokesman Andrew Wyatt, right, proceed toward the courtroom at the Montgomery County Courthouse in across the country.
Norristown, Pa., on Tuesday, where prosecutors sought to maximize the impact of Mr. Cosby’s graphic deposition. JESSICA GRIFFIN/AP Mr. Boushie’s cousin Jade Too-
toosis said silently sitting in the
courtroom during the trial “was

Judge rules jury can hear Cosby’s
prior testimony about encounter
Comedian testified more than
a dozen years ago as part of a
civil lawsuit that chief accuser
filed against him
MICHAEL R. SISAK
CLAUDIA LAUER NORRISTOWN, PA.
Bill Cosby’s own words from 2005 might
have undercut his defence on sexual-as-
sault charges.
Prosecutors on Tuesday sought to max-
imize the impact of Mr. Cosby’s graphic
deposition, in which he testified about his
sexual encounter with chief accuser An-
drea Constand and acknowledged apol-
ogizing to her mother a year later “be-
cause I’m thinking this is a dirty old man
with a young girl.”
Mr. Cosby, 80, testified more than a
dozen years ago as part of a civil lawsuit
that Ms. Constand filed against him, and
prosecutors won the right to introduce it
at his sexual-assault retrial on charges he
drugged and molested her at his subur-
ban Philadelphia home.
In a transcript read to the jury, Mr. Cos-
by testified he believed the encounter was
in 2004, undermining his defence team’s
assertion that it had to have been earlier
and thus outside the criminal statute of
limitations. Mr. Cosby was charged in late
2015.
Mr. Cosby also testified he didn’t think
Ms. Constand had come forward to collect
a big payday. But his defence team has
called Ms. Constand a “con artist” who set
him up by levelling false accusations of
sexual assault.
Montgomery County Detective James
Reape, who has been working on the Cos-
by investigation since it was reopened in
2015, told jurors he wasn’t concerned
about inconsistencies in Ms. Constand’s
story, such as her early uncertainty over
the date of the alleged assault, because
Mr. Cosby’s testimony had filled in many
of the blanks.
“The defendant said it happened. The
defendant said it happened in 2004. The
defendant said he was present. The de-
fendant admitted to the contact that she
said happened,” Det. Reape told jurors.
“When I look at who, what, when, where,
why in 2015, I’m able to see the answers.”
Det. Reape made clear what he thinks
of Mr. Cosby: “I have strong beliefs that he
drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea
Constand.”
Mr. Cosby says the encounter with Ms.
Constand was consensual.
As prosecutors approached the end of
their case, jurors were expected to hear
more from the deposition on Wednesday,
including Mr. Cosby’s explosive testimony
about how he gave quaaludes to women
before sex.
The unsealing of the deposition, at the
request of the Associated Press, led prose-
cutors to reopen Mr. Cosby’s criminal case
and shredded his good-guy persona as
America’s Dad.
Jurors got a sense of Mr. Cosby’s view of
consent when the comedian described in
the deposition reaching an area “some-
where between permission and rejection”
during what he claims was a prior sexual
encounter with Ms. Constand.
“I’m giving Andrea time to say ‘yes’ or
‘no’ about an area that is right there in the
question zone,” Mr. Cosby testified.
He said he rubbed the skin above her
trousers and “without talking I’m asking
can I go farther.”
“I don’t hear her say anything. And I
don’t feel her say anything,” Mr. Cosby
testified in the deposition. “And so I con-
tinue, and I go into the area that is some-
where between permission and rejection.
I am not stopped.”
He then described the purported en-
counter in extremely graphic terms that
had several jurors with their hands to
their chins, some of them looking taken
aback, pained or disgusted.
Ms. Constand has testified she rejected
Mr. Cosby’s prior advances.
Judge Steven O’Neill ruled on Tuesday
that prosecutors could have The Cosby
Show star’s deposition testimony read in-
to the record, handing the prosecution a
key victory in its effort to portray the co-
median as a serial predator.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
the most traumatic thing” for the
family. When the verdict came
out, she said her “world just
crumbled.”
“Ultimately, I wanted to have
hope that something would
come of this, that Indigenous
people, that we are not just seen
as criminals like they continue
[to make] my brother out to be,”
Ms. Tootoosis said.
Mr. Boushie, who was a mem-
ber of the Red Pheasant First Na-
tion, and four other young people
drove onto Mr. Stanley’s farm
near Biggar, Sask., in 2016.
During the trial, Mr. Boushie’s
friends told court they were look-
ing for help with a flat tire. But Mr.
Stanley testified he thought the
group was trying to steal an all-
terrain vehicle. He said he fired
warning shots to scare them away
and the gun accidentally went off
again when he went to pull the
keys from their SUV. Mr. Boushie
was shot in the back of the head
as he sat in the front seat.
Ms. Tootoosis was part of a del-
egation that included Mr. Boush-
ie’s mother, Debbie Baptiste, his
uncle Alvin Baptiste, Saskatche-
wan lawyer Eleanore Sunchild,
the family’s lawyer Chris Murphy
and former Red Pheasant First
Nation chief Sheldon Wuttunee.
The group criticized the jury-
selection process, which resulted
in no visibly Indigenous jurors,
the Crown’s communication with
the family and the RCMP investi-
gation into Mr. Boushie’s death.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Judge stays assault charges

against two B.C. Mounties
NANAIMO, B.C.

A British Columbia judge has stayed assault charges against

two Mounties accused of pepper spraying a man in custody
while proceedings against a third officer are set to go ahead
in the fall.
Provincial court Justice Ronald Lamperson said in a writ-
ten ruling that the charter rights of RCMP Corporal Michelle
Lebrun and Constable Mick White were violated because
their trials were delayed for too long.
Cpl. Lebrun and Constable White, along with Constable
Scott Jones, were on duty at the Oceanside detachment in
Parksville, B.C., when the alleged incident occurred on June
10, 2013.
All the Mounties pleaded not guilty, and Justice Lam-
person said Cpl. Lebrun and Constable White applied to
have the prosecution against them stayed for the assault
with a weapon charge that was sworn in February, 2015,
though proceedings were repeatedly adjourned over issues
such as requests for disclosure.
Justice Lamperson said that after multiple delays, sep-
arate trials for Cpl. Lebrun and Constable White were sched-
uled to start next month, but 39 months and 14 days would
have lapsed to the expected end of proceedings. The trial for
Constable Jones is set for the fall.
The judge’s decision is in keeping with a Supreme Court
of Canada ruling in 2016 that imposed an 18-month time
limit for the start of provincial court trials. The top court
said a further delay is presumed to cause prejudice to the
accused.
Justice Lamperson said 16 days over four weeks were ini-
tially set for a trial starting in May, 2016, but disclosure issues
and unavailability of lawyers led to further delays and an
offer of three alternative dates for start of the trial, either in
May, August, or October, 2017.
However, he said that while Crown counsel was available,
defence lawyers were not.
He said the lawyers provided four sets of possible dates
for the trial to begin and then the court could not accom-
modate those dates.
Defence lawyers for each of the accused officers provided
various dates that would have had proceedings starting as
late as October, 2018, Justice Lamperson said, adding they
also suggested Constable Jones and Constable White be
tried separately from Cpl. Lebrun, a move to which the
Crown consented.
Justice Lamperson said defence delays in fixing the first
trial date amount to 113 days, disclosure application issues
added 212 days, but the unavailability of defence lawyers
caused even longer delays.

THE CANADIAN PRESS

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

Ontario NDP
bets on itself
ow that’s an NDP election platform.

N The Ontario NDP, struggling to compete for vot-

ers with the poll-leading Progressive Conservatives,
and threatened by the leftward drift of the Liberals, has made
the risky decision to just go ahead and be itself.
Its platform, released Monday, is not some centrist docu-
ment aimed at easing the minds of undecided voters. And it
is not the weak tea of Premier Kathleen Wynne, who has
spent the last two years doing her best impression of an NDP
leader in an effort to protect her party’s left flank.
No, this is full-on, unapologetic NDP. An Ontario govern-
ment led by Andrea Horwath would spend billions on new or
expanded social programs, most notably free dental care and
pharmacare for all, and subsidized public daycare that would
be free for families earning less that $40,000 per year.
Provincial university loans would be turned into non-re-
payable grants, and the government would forgive the inter-
est on outstanding student debts.
An NDP government would also re-nationalize Hydro One,
and fund 50 per cent of net municipal transit costs. The mini-
mum wage would rise to $15 per hour and be indexed thereaf-
ter, and employers would be obliged to give employees three
weeks of annual holiday, instead of two.
In doing all this and much more, the NDP would run def-
icits rising to $5.1-billion in 2020, but reduce the shortfall in
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
the years after. To increase revenues, it would raise taxes on
ACT LIKE ADULTS The Trans Mountain pipeline ex- ALL THE LOGANS
the rich (by one percentage point on earnings over $220,000 pansion would pump chemically
diluted bitumen in quantities
and by two points on earnings over $300,000) and increase
Re With Chagall Headed For Auc- large enough to increase tanker Re The Life-Saving Silver Lining
the corporate tax rate to 13 per cent, up from 11.5. tion, National Gallery Vies traffic through B.C. waters and After Humboldt (April 17): We try
Even if businesses benefit from healthier workers who Against Two Quebec Museums To along its ocean coastline seven- to teach our children to be kind,
Buy David Painting (April 17): fold, with the possibility of spills polite, and to share. When they
have affordable daycare, this is not a platform for Bay Street, Mindless nationalism triumphs similarly multiplied. outgrow their toys or clothes, we
or for this page. It would hurt Ontario’s competitiveness and over common sense. What is the The problem is that nobody ask them to give them to smaller
National Gallery doing by dimin- knows very much about what children. When, for whatever rea-
continue its spiral into deeper debt. ishing Canada’s treasury of world- happens when bitumen enters son, they die, the greatest gift they
But it is true to what the NDP stands for. In an election class masterpieces, the Chagall, to the ocean and sinks. can give is organ donation.
provide funds so it can scoop a We know that it will destroy all My grandson, the same age as
featuring a scandal-ridden governing party that is spending painting away from two other life it touches, but will the disaster these young hockey players, died
billions of borrowed dollars on new programs in a blatant museums in Canada? This is stop there? How will deep ocean unexpectedly last winter. His or-
sheer and utter madness – actual- currents disperse the poison? gans were donated with the Trilli-
effort to save itself, and a PC Party that was taken over in a ly, it’s worse. It’s madness com- How far will it reach? How long um Gift of Life Network in Onta-
moment of crisis by a populist sloganeer, Ms. Horwath is pounded by myopic stupidity. will it last? Let’s stop calling the rio. Five people had their lives en-
The Jacques-Louis David paint- bitumen transport “oil” tankers. hanced, or saved, by his generous
gambling that there is merit in sticking to your principles. ing appears destined to stay in They’re not. gift.
Canada, no matter what. In Al Vitols My broken heart aches for Lo-
whose museum seems of slight Sidney, B.C. gan Boulet’s family, especially for
importance compared with that his grandmother. But I am ex-
Chagall chagrin fact. So why is the National Gal-
lery in a rush to sell off a famous,
The pipeline extension is in Cana-
da’s national interest, which falls
tremely proud of both Logan and
my grandson. I hope they will be
and lovely, Chagall to raise funds under federal jurisdiction. Con- remembered as real heroes for
ven by the standards of institutions that tend to dis-

E
so that it can possibly outbid two
courage flash photography and raised voices, the on- Quebec museums? Once the Cha-
gall is gone, it is gone – lost to fu-
going scandal at the National Gallery of Canada is in- ture generations of Canadians.
credibly quaint. The powers that be for the Na-
tional Gallery need to reign in this
Let’s review. The museum announced recently that it silly endeavour and put the Cha-
planned to sell a painting by the important Russian-French gall back up on the wall.
David Kister
modernist Marc Chagall – The Eiffel Tower – in order to buy Toronto
another work with national significance that was at risk of
Why can’t these museums act like
leaving the country. adults and share, as they obvious-
On Monday, the National Gallery confirmed that the sec- ly have done in the past? We
would have both the David and
ond, mystery painting was a 1779 work by the French neoclas-
the Chagall, surely the definition
sical master Jacques-Louis David, called Saint Jerome Hears of win-win.
the Trumpet of the Last Judgment. Michael Vollmer
Burlington, Ont.
The Ottawa museum has methodically explained its logic
for the swap. It has another, better Chagall painting. Plus, this My Canada includes Quebec.
Doesn’t the National Gallery’s?
one is expected to fetch in the ballpark of $8-million at auc- Why bid against other Canadians?
tion, equal to the museum’s annual acquisitions budget. Carol Andrews
Halifax
Meanwhile, the museum doesn’t have any major works by
David, and this one in particular has a Canadian backstory,
PIPELINE SCARS
having been brought here around 1917 by a private buyer and
owned for decades by a church in Quebec City.
Re Notley Threatens To Restrict
What’s more, the gallery recently learned that a foreign Oil Exports To B.C. (April 17):
museum was interested in the David, raising the stakes. What would Alberta do if B.C. cut
off supplies of a product, so prices
So why the consternation? Some people simply prefer the in Alberta skyrocketed? Alber-
Chagall to the David, which is fair, though you can’t please tans would be angry. But their re-
solve would be strengthened, not
everybody on a budget.
weakened. Alberta Premier Ra-
There’s also much hand-wringing among museum people chel Notley and Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau have been suck-
about selling one work to buy another. One curator at a rival
ered by a wily American company
gallery called the move “very, very, very radical.” – possibly to set up a NAFTA ap-
Critics should take a deep breath. The National Gallery is peal, or at least to have Canadian
taxpayers bail Kinder Morgan out
looking to buy a painting of impeccable pedigree and artistic of a pipeline which would be ob-
merit with deep national ties the only way it can manage. solete the day it opened.
Dilbit is not economical. Asia
Of course, because this is Canada, questions of provincial doesn’t want it except at a huge
prerogative have also entered the picture. Two Quebec mu- discount. The pipeline has be-
come an emotive symbol, unteth-
seums say they want to share ownership of the David, but ered to economic reality.
National Gallery director Marc Mayer has bluntly said no. Alberta’s economy is thrum-
ming; the province’s revenues
He should think about jointly buying the David with the would be healthy if it had the guts
Quebec museums and banking some of the Chagall money. It to institute a sales tax, like other
provinces. It’s time to start acting
would be a gracious move. And it would defuse a controversy, like grown-ups.
once and for all, that never really deserved the name. Rob Garrar
Victoria
sultations with affected groups
are essential but do not confer ve-
to power to them. It’s unfortunate
that this conflict has arisen and,
no matter how it ultimately plays
out, there will be scars.
B.C. has legitimate concerns
about potential spills off its
shores and, while the federal gov-
ernment has contingency plans
to deal with such risks, further
improvements can be made
while the pipeline is being built.
B.C. should be a partner in such
a process. It will achieve better
protection against the risks of
spills by working with the federal
government than by opposing it.
This will be politically difficult
for B.C. Premier John Horgan, but
governing sometimes requires
compromises.
Tony Manera
Ottawa
LOVE TO TRAVEL? RUN
Re Running A Marathon Is A Ter-
rible Reason To Travel (Pursuits,
April 15): My experience is the op-
posite of Adam Hammond’s.
I have run marathons (and half
marathons) locally, nationally
and internationally. Memorable
among them are England (Bristol
to Bath), Manhattan and, most
notably, Paris. How many people
have run past the Louvre, Notre
Dame, the Bastille, the Eiffel Tow-
er, the Bois du Boulogne, and the
Arc de Triomphe – all in one day?
All this with 50,000 other run-
ners from around the world and
with my daughter, with whom I
can share that grand memory for-
ever. I am not a competitive run-
ner, but I always feel a sense of ac-
complishment and the thrill of
being part of a larger community
of runners. And yes, I do have en-
ergy for sightseeing after.
Travelling for a marathon can
create a once-in-a-lifetime expe-
rience. Don’t be dissuaded from a
potentially great opportunity.
Janet Durbin
Toronto
their last actions. Green ribbons
are a permanent way to remem-
ber and act.
Joy Ruttan
Gatineau, Que.
Let us all push for legislation con-
cerning presumed consent re-
garding organ donation – and call
it Logan’s Law.
Karen Kingsbury
Pointe-Claire, Que.
DOUG FORD’S ONTARIO
Re It’s Fear And Loathing Time In
Ontario (April 17): Margaret
Wente says of Doug Ford that “you
don’t have to understand the
swamp to drain it.” Actually, you
do. Without knowing how the wa-
ter gets into Ontario’s political
swamp, you’re only replacing one
problem with another. Blindly
messing around with any ecosys-
tem is never a good thing. What
about the wildlife? Where will it
go if there is no swamp?
A year from now, if you see alli-
gators crawling across Highway
401, you can be sure Doug Ford
has messed things up.
Les Bowser
Omemee, Ont.
Margaret Wente writes that Onta-
rio Progressive Conservative
Leader Doug Ford’s shtick is to re-
peatedly talk about the elites, de-
fined by Mr. Ford as people who
“look down on the common folk
drinking Champagne … with
their pinkies in the air.”
If the “common folk” can af-
ford Champagne, things must be
pretty good in Ontario these days.
Stephen Beaumont
Toronto
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OPINION
Discrimination in the name of campus diversity?
If universities want
to fight intolerance,
the last thing they
should do is offer
preferential treatment
DEBRA SOH
OPINION
Writes about the science of sex,
politics and culture, and holds a PhD
in sexual neuroscience research from
York University
he concept of “diversity”
T has such a lovely ring to it,
conjuring up romantic no-
tions of being forward-thinking
and living harmoniously in so-
ciety.
But what if diversity is being
used as a way to justify discrimi-
nation?
On April 4, documents ob-
tained by a group suing Harvard
University demonstrated that
the university’s admissions proc-
ess has been discriminating
Comey’s God complex has hindered his impact
LAWRENCE
MARTIN
OPINION
WASHINGTON
ames Comey has an image
J problem. He’s being depicted
as wearing a halo, as having a
God complex. He can’t get
enough of the limelight. He
paints Donald Trump – and who
can doubt it? – as a florid narcis-
sist. But it takes one to know one,
critics say. The comely Mr. Comey
is a mirror-lover himself.
Everything is inflated about
the former FBI director. There’s
his towering, basketball-player-
ish height. And there’s his ex-
traordinary love of microphones.
While most FBI directors tend to
stay in the background, Mr.
Comey did end-runs around his
then-attorney-general Loretta
Lynch to get before the cameras.
There’s his newly published
book, which is full of fire and fury
itself. It’s called A Higher Loyalty. A
fitting subtitle, a wag suggested,
might well be: To My Own Inter-
ests.
There’s been the Comey pas-
sion for exceeding his own man-
date. Being head of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation wasn’t
power enough. So he took to poli-
ticizing the law-enforcement
agency.
He is credited – or discredited,
depending on one’s political
stripe – with bringing down
would-be president Hillary Clin-
ton with his late campaign call for
a renewed investigation into her
e-mail usage. Ever since, he’s
been in the process of trying to
take down the actual President.
Not bad for a gumshoe.
But because he comes across
as the ultimate self-aggrandizer,
Israel’s search for peace may pass through the Gulf
RICK EKSTEIN
OPINION
Toronto-based CEO who has
travelled extensively on business in
the Gulf and Middle East
wenty-five years ago, when
T I started doing business in
the Persian Gulf, no one
could have reasonably imagined
the warming of relations now
unfolding between Israel and a
number of key regional players.
The signs of progress may not
make headlines, which are gen-
erally reserved for the worst
news from the region, but they
are important and clearly pre-
sent, if you know where to look.
To cite just one example, anal-
ysts took notice of Air India’s his-
toric announcement that it will
operate a direct route between
Tel Aviv and Delhi over Saudi air-
space – an act that was previous-
ly denied by the Gulf state.
Across the region, leaders once
hostile to Israel are increasingly
viewing Israelis as valuable
trade, technology and security
against Asian applicants for dec-
ades.
As discussed in a complaint
filed by 64 Asian-American orga-
nizations in 2015, affirmative ac-
tion requires the SAT scores of
Asian applicants to be hundreds
of points higher than applicants
from other ethnic backgrounds.
It has reached a point where
mixed-raced Asian applicants
will choose to hide their Asian
heritage when they apply to Ivy
League schools.
The case echoes discrimina-
tion documented by former You-
Tube recruiter, Arne Wilberg, in a
recent lawsuit against its parent
company, Google. In the suit, Mr.
Wilberg alleges that Google im-
plemented diversity quotas that
favoured female, Hispanic or
black applicants, and discrimi-
nated against white and Asian
men. Mr. Wilberg contends he
was fired for challenging these il-
legal practices.
Both lawsuits speak to a larger
trend of how it’s become accept-
able to promote racial discrimi-
nation in the name of equality.
The justification behind this ap-
proach stems from the theory of
Former FBI director James Comey testifies before the Senate select committee on intelligence in Washington
on June 8, 2017. J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
as so self-righteous, the effective-
ness of Mr. Comey in goring Mr.
Trump and thus realizing the
hopes of so many is limited. He
has performed a rare feat in a
country as politically tribalized as
the United States. He finds him-
self loathed by both Republicans
and Democrats. As accurate and
as warranted as his condemna-
tions of the President might be,
neither party wants to listen.
In Mr. Comey’s book and book-
promotion interviews, what is
striking is that in going after Ms.
Clinton in the campaign’s final
stage, he concedes that politics
infiltrated his thinking. “… I was
operating in a world where Hill-
partners.
It’s widely observed that these
unlikely friendships are rooted
in mutual concern toward Iran’s
growing influence in the region,
seen in the Shia theocracy’s mas-
sive expenditure of forces and
funds in terror groups across the
Middle East. Today, Iran’s aggres-
sive agenda spans much of the
map. The regime is bankrolling
Hezbollah missiles in Lebanon
and Hamas missiles in Gaza. It is
arming a brutal insurgency in Ye-
men. It is building a permanent
military presence in Syria, armed
with advanced weaponry. This is
to say nothing of Iran’s nuclear
ambitions, which generate as
much – if not more – fear in Ri-
yadh and the Gulf as it does in
Tel Aviv.
While the context may be one
of regional anxiety, the resulting
Israeli-Sunni co-operation offers
optimism for those who seek an
accord between Israel and its
neighbours. It may yet foreshad-
ow a comprehensive peace that
Israelis have always sought –
with mixed success – for their
children.
Polling data over the years
intersectionality, a term coined
by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an Amer-
ican civil-rights advocate, almost
30 years ago. At its crux is the
belief that women and minori-
ties experience systemic injus-
tice, and that those who are not
members of minorities are con-
sidered to have privilege.
This ideology has since per-
meated the mainstream, and the
area of education more specifi-
cally, through exercises such as
the “white privilege checklist.”
(In a video, Buzzfeed conducted
a similarly themed “privilege
walk.”) Questions such as “I can
turn on the television … and see
people of my race widely repre-
sented,” and “I can choose …
bandages in ‘flesh’ colour and
have them more or less match
my skin,” allow respondents to
determine the amount of socie-
tal privilege they own.
Because Asian-Americans
don’t fit into the narrative of be-
ing oppressed by virtue of one’s
skin colour (particularly in the
realms of education and in-
come), maintaining the status
quo following from this line of
reasoning requires additional
ary Clinton was going to beat Do-
nald Trump, and so I’m sure that
it was a factor.”
Mr. Comey has been criticized
for this, and in an interview with
The Globe and Mail published on
Tuesday, he shies away from such
an admission. His critical failure
was to not even bother, having
discovered the existence of new
Clinton e-mails, to check to see if
there was anything relevant in
them.
In The Globe interview, he says
maybe that would have been the
better course, one that another
FBI director may have chosen. As
it turned out, the e-mails were
checked and nothing of signifi-
consistently show most Israelis
support significant concessions
for the sake of an Israeli-Palesti-
nian peace agreement. Since the
state’s establishment – 70 years
ago this spring – Israeli leaders
have been willing to share the
land with their Arab neighbours
in two states for two peoples, as
envisioned by the UN’s 1947 par-
tition plan.
Since the Oslo Accords, Israe-
lis have offered multiple far-reac-
hing peace proposals, made ma-
jor concessions, relinquished ex-
tensive tracts of land and with-
drawn forces in an effort to
enable progress toward peace.
Tragically, the Palestinian leader-
ship is racked with dysfunction.
Palestinians are currently split
between a Gaza-based “govern-
ment” under Hamas that rejects
Israel’s very right to exist and a
West Bank Palestinian Authority
that has lost the confidence of its
people and has boycotted nego-
tiations for years.
I use the term “mixed success”
because the failure of Palestinian
leaders has not prevented excep-
tional progress with neighbour-
ing Sunni states. The peace trea-
mental gymnastics.
Instead of acknowledging that
“white privilege” doesn’t exist,
those supporting diversity initia-
tives will use terms such as “un-
derrepresented minorities” to
exclude Asians from the equa-
tion, thereby preserving the idea
that racial minorities require in-
tervention in order to be success-
ful.
These policies don’t come
without a cost, casting asper-
sions as to whether a person was
granted admission based on
competence. They don’t help to
improve underlying tensions
around race, nor do they encour-
age resilience or the belief that
an individual can overcome diffi-
cult life obstacles.
If academic institutions were
truly interested in helping un-
derrepresented groups, they
would want to understand what
is driving gaps in academic
achievement, beyond the false
notion that all differences in so-
ciety are due to oppression.
If universities are concerned
with fighting intolerance, the last
thing they should want to do is
offer preferential treatment to
cance was found. By the time he
revealed this, the damage was
done. He had sent shock waves
through the campaign, for no
good reason.
Mr. Comey had angered Re-
publicans earlier in recommend-
ing no criminal charges against
Ms. Clinton for her handling of
classified information while she
was secretary of state. What
seems apparent is that by an-
nouncing a new investigation, he
was trying to perform a political
balancing act to appease Repub-
licans accusing him of bias. Post-
campaign, given that the GOP
won, it’s as if he’s wanted to even
the score again by levelling the
ties Israel signed with both Egypt
(1979) and Jordan (1994) prove
that peace and co-operation are
possible. These agreements sur-
vived the devastating effects of
the Arab Spring, which engulfed
the Middle East in chaos. They
have also enabled Israelis to
share their tremendous knowl-
edge, technology, and resources
(now including natural gas) with
their neighbours – especially Jor-
dan.
Indeed, a region racked by so-
cio-economic, environmental
and security challenges needs
more co-operation with innova-
tors in Israel, the so-called “star-
tup nation.” This sentiment is re-
flected in my personal experi-
ence. Many of the friends I made
across the Arab world have al-
ways held Israel in great esteem
and had no problems working
with me, a Jewish businessman
from Toronto and a strong sup-
porter of Israel.
The Gulf states seem to be
quietly recognizing that those
who refuse to let go of bitter his-
toric grievances are, tragically,
captive to the past. Many Sunni
government and business lead-
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students based on qualities un-
related to merit. In fact, a 2011
study in Psychological Science
showed how prejudice-reduction
policies can actually produce
greater bias in individuals, par-
ticularly if they feel they are be-
ing pressed into changing their
attitudes. These strategies pro-
duced worse outcomes than if
no interventions had been im-
plemented at all.
What is racist is placing such
an emphasis on immutable char-
acteristics a person had no say in
obtaining. As an Asian woman,
the way I look has no bearing on
the way I think, and to assume
otherwise is close-minded and
patronizing.
Those championing diversity
mandates claim to be operating
from an honourable position,
but they are quick to knock
down a racial group the minute
it no longer furthers their char-
itable goals. The point of affirma-
tive action is no longer about
helping marginalized individu-
als, but to socially engineer an
outcome that wins points for ap-
pearing fair-minded and equita-
ble.
charges – “morally unfit for of-
fice” and the like – against Mr.
Trump, who in turn is calling him
a “slime ball,” along with some
choice adjectives.
While both parties are down
on Mr. Comey, many in the media
are turned off by his holier-than-
thou act. The news cycle, super-
charged under Mr. Trump, will
shortly move beyond the uproar
detonated by his book. Another
book that caused a sensation in
this town, Fire and Fury, had little
impact in the polls. Nor is this one
likely to.
Mr. Comey is correct to warn of
the dangers of a President who is
prepared to exceed his authority
by acting above the law. He
should know well about that kind
of thing, having politicized his of-
fice to the degree he did.
He isn’t the only law-enforce-
ment chief to do so. In Canada, we
witnessed the dangers of the na-
tional police force going that
route. In the 2006 election, the
Paul Martin Liberals were leading
in the polls about four weeks be-
fore election day when the RCMP
dropped a bombshell, announc-
ing a criminal investigation of
them in respect to a news leak of a
federal tax change for income
trusts. The momentum suddenly
turned and within days the Con-
servatives were on their way to
victory. Former Mountie commis-
sioner Giuliano Zaccardelli had
developed close relations with
Jean Chrétien but not with Mr.
Martin, Mr. Chrétien’s bitter rival.
The suspicion among many Lib-
erals was that Zack, as he was
called, was out to get Mr. Martin.
Following the election, Mr. Zac-
cardelli was forced to resign due
to his mishandling of the Maher
Arar file. He went away quietly.
Mr. Comey has chosen another
path. His halo won’t allow him to
do otherwise.
ers understand that those who
fantasize that Israel will disap-
pear – the likes of Iran, Hezbol-
lah and Hamas – are as self-de-
luded as they are self-defeating.
To the contrary, Israelis recog-
nize that their future is insepara-
ble from the future of the region,
which is one reason why Israel is
committed to the security, pros-
perity and progress of its neigh-
bours.
Nothing is a given in the Mid-
dle East. As Israeli leaders – in-
cluding current Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu – have re-
peatedly shown, historic rivals
can mend old wounds and build
a better future for the next gen-
eration.
In the face of shared threats,
there is a historic opportunity for
Sunni leaders to forge a new rela-
tionship with Israelis. To build
upon current momentum, re-
gional players should urge the
Palestinian leadership to end its
boycott of negotiations with Is-
raelis and seek a peace accord
based on two states for two peo-
ples.
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A weekend escape from the cold
MATT MELTZER

pring seems to be skipping 2018 in Canada. A bit disappointing for those who’d been looking forward

S to doing anything outdoors during March and April. And while it might feel like the entire world is
sitting under a shroud of overcast, believe it or not, there are places where the sun is actually shining
right now. Many of which are just a short plane ride away. Here are five spots where you can get a quick
weekend escape to sunshine and still be back to bone-chilling temperatures and grey skies by Monday.

PHOENIX, ARIZ. KEY WEST, FLA. ORANGE COUNTY, CALIF. AUSTIN, TEX. ARUBA

The Valley of the Sun hasn’t reac-
hed shut-the-airport-down hot
this time of year, which means
golf at any of the area’s nearly 200
courses or hikes up Camelback
Mountain can be downright
pleasant. You can also sip cock-
tails by the luxe pool at Mountain
Shadows, which as the name sug-
gests, sits right at the base of Cam-
elback. If you have kids, or just
enjoy splashing around like one,
Phoenix has three water parks to
hit, from River Ranch at Pointe
Hilton Squaw Peak, to the seven-
acre park at Arizona Grand Re-
sort, to simulated surfing on the
Kierland FlowRider at Westin
Kierland.
The Desert Botanical Garden is
always a calming place to spend
an afternoon and this spring, in
addition to strolling through des-
ert landscapes, you can also catch
Jun Keneko’s sculpture exhibit
and the butterfly pavilion.
There’s also outdoor baseball on
nights when the weather is cool
enough, as the Arizona Diamond-
backs celebrate their 20th season.
Sound enticing? Well you’re in
luck, as Air Canada Rouge just
started a new, non-stop route
from Montreal with three weekly
flights.
Poor little Key West had a spot of
weather this past fall, but since
around December, this quirky is-
land at the end of the Florida Keys
has been up and running at full
strength. The scenic, three-plus-
hour drive from Miami has
changed after Hurricane Irma, as
much of the vegetation by the
side of the Overseas Highway was
blown away and ocean views
abound the whole way down.
Once in Key West, you’ll want to
do the requisite drinking along
Duval Street, at famous spots
such as Captain Tony’s, Irish Ke-
vin’s and the Hemingway favou-
rite Sloppy Joe’s.
Speaking of Hemingway, his
long-time residence on the island
is open for tours, complete with
the six-toed cats descended from
the writer’s old pet. There’s plen-
ty of jet skiing, snorkelling and
scuba diving here, with the large-
st stretch of coral reef in the con-
tiguous United States just off-
shore. For a true Florida experi-
ence, head over to Dry Tortugas
National Park, where you’ll ferry
out to an old fort set on mangrove
islands and camp overnight out
in the middle of the ocean.
Albert Hammond might have
been exaggerating a little when
he sang, “It never rains in South-
ern California.” But in the spring,
your odds are pretty good you’ll
stay dry. Los Angeles and San Die-
go are the big names in SoCal, but
tucked in-between, you’ll find Or-
ange County with all the perfect
weather, wide beaches and
world-class surfing, minus most
of the traffic and crowds.
OC’s most famous beach is
Huntington Beach, dubbed Surf
City, USA and home to the Surf-
ers’ Hall of Fame. The downtown
beachfront got a major upgrade
last year, adding the award-win-
ning Lot 579 food hall to other
new retail developments and cre-
ating a vibrant, walkable city cen-
tre. Just down the Pacific Coast
Highway, you’ll find Newport
Beach, a funky beach town set on
the Balboa Peninsula.
For a real hidden gem, head in-
land to Irvine, where you can bi-
cycle through picturesque Cali-
fornia hills. If you’re not super fit,
Pedego bike tours offers electric-
bicycle tours with all the nature
and a lot less work and might
even give you beer for your effort
at the end. It’s also home to one of
Orange County’s highest rooftop
bars at the brand-new Marriott Ir-
vine Spectrum.
Summer crowds in Austin are of-
ten overwhelming, thanks to all
the live music, craft beer and in-
ventive food. Best to go in this lull
between spring break and sum-
mer holidays, when the weather
is still pleasant, school at the Uni-
versity of Texas is still in, but ev-
ery stag party in North America
hasn’t quite yet come to town.
Since you’re in Texas, barbecue
is a must. The line at Franklin’s is
famous, but if you don’t feel like
spending your precious sun time
shuffling through a queue, La
Barbecue, Stiles Switch and John
Mueller’s Black Box are just as
good with a fraction the wait.
Head out to Salt Lick Barbecue
and you can pair that smoky bris-
ket with a tasting from the on-site
winery.
To make the most of the sun,
hit Barton Springs where the
massive spring-fed pool and near-
by river won’t yet be overrun with
screaming kids. Or drive a bit
down the highway to San Marcos,
grab a cooler of beer and spend
the day floating down the San
Marcos and Guadalupe Rivers.
When you picture the Caribbean,
you might summon visions of
emerald hills cascading down in-
to blue waters, with the occasion-
al tropical storm blowing through
in the afternoon to cool everyone
off. Not the case in Aruba, where
the trade winds keep the island
nice and dry, offering sunshine
every day of the year. It’s a slice of
desertscape stuck on a Caribbean
island.
April and May are low season
in Aruba, meaning you won’t
have to ask too many people to
get out of your selfie in front of
the divi-divi tree on Eagle Beach.
You’ll also find ample space along
Palm Beach, as you enjoy the
white sand stretching into the
turquoise water. If you’re looking
to get out into nature, hit Arikok
National Park, a breathtaking
desert that takes up nearly one-
fifth of the island with limestone
bridges and swimming holes all
along the coast. Here you can take
ATVs through the desert, ride
horses on the beach, or hike to se-
cluded grottos. The landscape in
Aruba might not be what you ex-
pect, but if you’re looking for
guaranteed sun, it’s your best bet
in the Caribbean right now.
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Non-profit brings Canada to the silver screen

Reel Canada bypasses
the Hollywood-centric
distribution system,
bringing domestic
offerings straight to
the people

KATE
TAYLOR

OPINION

t was touch-and-go for a bit,

I but then a peeved librarian in

New Brunswick tipped the
balance and saved National Can-
adian Film Day.
After a boffo celebration in
2017, marked with screenings in
1,800 locations across Canada
and abroad, organizers of the
event that billed itself as “the
world’s largest film festival” were
ready to take a break.
“The 2017 sesquicentennial
was so big, we staggered out of it
with our eyes bleeding,” said Jack
Blum, who co-directs the annual
event with his wife, Sharon Cor-
der.
Blum and Corder are the foun-
ders of Reel Canada, a non-profit
group that introduces school
children and new Canadians to
Canadian films, bypassing the
Hollywood-centric distribution
system to take domestic offer-
ings straight to the people. They over,” Corder said. Then the mail pa Mehta and Alanis Obomsawin
added National Canadian Film started to come in, from librar- for a first-ever public conversa-
Day to their roster in 2014, en- ians, from nursing-home manag- tion about their careers.
couraging groups across the ers, from other film program- But the real thrust for Cana-
country, everywhere from mers. dian Film Day still comes from
schools and libraries to seniors’ Finally, it was that blunt mess- the many communities that
residences and legion halls, to age from New Brunswick, saying chose to organize their own
organize a screening of a Cana- “Oh come on, you must have de- screenings.
dian film on a day in April. cided on a date by now,” that “The grassroots thing floors
Reel Canada suggests film ti- forced Corder and Blum to recog- us,” Blum said.
tles both old and new and then nize that they have, in five short “We keep thinking it isn’t re-
provides help getting access to years, created a public event you al,” Corder added, noting how
them. But after a massive effort could no more cancel than you small communities, in particular,
in 2017, which also included could cancel Valentine’s Day. get behind the event.
screenings in Canadian embas- “We looked at each other and Blum and Corder note that the
sies and consulates everywhere said: ‘Okay, we don’t have a filmmaking industry also sup-
from Hong Kong to Kabul, the choice,’ ” Corder said. Nonethe- ports the project because it
couple thought it was time for a On Wedesday, Reel Canada’s National Canadian Film Day, when groups less, back in June, she and Blum wants to promote the idea there
break. across the country organize screenings of Canadian films, puts a special still hoped they could just orga- is a recognized body of Canadian
“We had been funded as a ses- emphasis on films by female directors, such as Sarah Polley’s Stories We nize a placeholder, get various film that stands the test of time,
quicentennial project and it was Tell, top, and Patricia Rozema’s I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing, above. broadcasters to air Canadian an identifiable Canadian cinema.
films on the day as they have in They noticed last year, for ex-
previous years and take a break ample, the pride that actor Colm
from corralling the nationwide Feore and director François Gi-
screenings. rard took in celebrating Thirty-

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The only thing

WHERE THE bigger than Netflix
SIDEWALK ENDS is the daily news
JOHN
DOYLE

OPINION

TELEVISION

he announcement on Monday was hardly

T a surprise. In the first quarter of 2018, Net-

flix added almost two million U.S. sub-
scribers and yet more in other territories,
beating its own estimates. The streaming company
also posted quarterly earnings slightly above ex-
pectations.
There followed dire warnings and auguries. The
soothsayers were extra busy.
The Guardian went on at length. “Netflix’s new
world order” was in the headline. And in due
course, the company was described as “the digital
beast.” It was noted darkly that, this year, Netflix
will spend almost five times the BBC’s annual
spending on television. The nerve of the blighters.
The nerve.
Yes, Netflix will probably have 250 million sub-
scribers around the world and will own the entire
planet of film and TV entertainment before any
other company has the time and resources to catch
up.
The BBC won’t give up. The CBC won’t give up.
The Cannes Film Festival will still be complaining
sniffily about Netflix five years from now, but Net-
flix will be dominant.
The only thing that can compete with Netflix for
entertainment value is the idiosyncratic alchemy
that is the news. The stuff that happens daily;
twisting and turning in ever-widening circles of
bizarre and preposterous events. Take Monday (go
ahead, I don’t want it back, it was a horrible day)
and what unfolded.
The world was still reeling from James Comey’s
interview on ABC on Sunday night. The show was,
in truth, a disappointment as spectacle. It was
choppy and inelegantly edited down from mul-
tiple hours of conversation.
Still, it did have Comey saying this about his first
meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump: “I did
not go into the business about, uh, people peeing
on each other. I just thought it was a weird enough
experience for me to be talking to the incoming
ILLUSTRATION BY WENTING LI president of the United States about prostitutes in
a hotel in Moscow.”
And, of course, Comey declaring, “A person who
I cannot be pushed aside. I am a person with purpose; sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville, who
talks about and treats
the right side is mine. Dianne Scott makes a case for urban politesse women like they’re
pieces of meat, who
lies constantly about When the late-night
matters big and small
or the past 30 years, I have been an avid walk- friends or tour groups. Those carrying coffee, I fear and insists the Amer- hosts struggle to

F er. In other words, for the past 30 years, I’ve not.

been shouldered into shrubbery, pushed off I am a constant. A north star. As people approach,
of curbs, pressed into fences and edged into I chug along like a self-driving car that maintains
mud puddles. speed, direction and momentum. I do not step aside
Worst of all is when the violator – the person hip- for the phone-in-hand texters weaving back and
ican people believe it,
that person’s not fit
to be President of the
United States, on
moral grounds.”
find a punch line, on
a day of stupefying,
bizarre news, the
news has won.
checking me onto someone’s front lawn – would forth across the asphalt, occasionally stopping Right, well, Mon-
bump me and I was the one who mumbled “Sorry!” dead. Like a field goal kicker keeping the posts in his day would surely be
as if it were my fault this wayward pedestrian con- line of sight, I head toward my destination; my feet routine after that. Nope. By late Monday, it
sidered walking a full-contact sport. are steady, my determination is unwavering. emerged than Don Lemon on CNN was funnier
Now, I have decided to take up my rightful space As I near, I do not make eye contact with coming than the comedians hosting the late-night talk
on the sidewalk. pedestrians. There is now no personal connection shows. And all Lemon did was recount the events
I don’t hog it like the women pushing parallel to make them think I see them, that I will make way, of the day with a knowing smile and a few well-
strollers, so engrossed in their conversation and the give way, move over or concede my ground. No timed pauses.
priority of their children’s transportation that they longer appearing malleable or accommodating, I Stormy Daniels, the noted adult-film star who
force pedestrians into the petunias. Or like the line cannot be pushed aside. I am a person with pur- alleges a sexual encounter with Trump, was in
of shoulder-to-shoulder adolescents who occupy pose; the right side of the sidewalk is my tread court in New York because Michael Cohen, one of
the span of the sidewalk like the Toronto Argos’ de- space, my temporary inheritance, my allotted urban Trump’s lawyers and the one who allegedly paid
fensive line until they spill onto the road, their loud property. her US$130,000 to keep quiet, was in court to fight
shouts and guffaws competing with the honk of car If someone wanders across the invisible line that about access to materials seized by the FBI at his
horns warning them off the street. separates the two-way pedestrian traffic, I may stop, office, home and hotel room.
Following the “rules of the road” of urban stroll- but I will not move aside. If this means a few bumps, There were no cameras in the room, but Da-
ing, I now walk solely on the right- so be it. If we collide or brush shoul- niels’s arrival was a bizarre sight, as dozens of re-
hand side of any pathway. I expect ders, I will pause for him to apologize. porters swarmed her excitedly.
those approaching me to adhere to I will give him an opportunity to That was enough to be going on with. And then
the same principle. The unspoken recognize his transgression and take came the stupefying disclosure that a mysterious
This seems an underwhelming responsibility for his crass manners, other client of Cohen’s was Sean Hannity of Fox
achievement – it is something most contract of all city self-absorption or distraction. If noth- News. Nobody saw that coming. If this saga were a
people have done since grade school, dwellers is that we ing happens, I will brush the offender TV drama, critics and viewers alike would have
when children trailed behind adults must share aside, steer him gently back into his dismissed the twist as an unfathomable breach
like goslings following a mother communal space lane and out of mine and continue on- with storytelling logic.
goose, and a parent chided: “Move ward, a soldier undeterred by the mi- In writers’ rooms across all the late-night talk
over – you’re blocking the whole side- agreeably and nor scuffles in the continuing war for shows, the typing stopped. Then gleeful giggles
walk!” equitably in order to public decorum. were heard. Alleged Russia collusion to a fired FBI
It wasn’t a moment of epiphany ensure that citizens The unspoken contract of all city director talking about prostitutes in Moscow, to
that led to me changing my passive dwellers is that we must share com- Stormy Daniels to the President’s lawyer’s offices
reach their munal space agreeably and equitably raided to, well, Trump’s biggest booster on Fox
ways – my stammered apologies or
defensive side-stepping. Over time, a destinations in order to ensure that citizens reach News being named in court! Somewhere, clenched
realization dawned that I could – and expediently and their destinations expediently and fists were raised. Somewhere else, ravens were
would – assume my democratically safely. safely. The sidewalk must be divided seen swirling in the sky.
deserved sidewalk domain. in a way that keeps urbanites moving As it happens, the late-night hosts were
I had the right to half of the real estate on any to prevent the bottlenecking abhorred by pedestri- stumped. Stephen Colbert referred to Cohen as the
given path – be it gravel, dirt or concrete. As the phi- ans, bicyclists and motorists alike. In her book The “sad neck with hair” and said, “This is crazy, Cohen
losopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau proclaimed in The Death and Life of Great American Cities, urban plan- only has two other clients and all he does for them
Social Contract, in an egalitarian society, people for- ner Jane Jacobs says that circulation is the main pur- is pay off mistresses, which raises the obvious
feit the same number of rights and impose the same pose of sidewalks. question: Who did Sean Hannity have sex with?”
duties on all. They are intended and designed to be an efficient He also quipped, “Jon Stewart, after the show I’m
It’s not that difficult a principle to understand. way to get people around on foot. And the busier going to come over and we’re just going to spoon.”
We drive on the right side of the road, ascend stairs the sidewalk, the safer the neighbourhood tends to On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah said, “You know
and escalators on the right side. Walking on the be: An informal neighbourhood watch evolves as Sean Hannity is probably on the phone with his
right side of the sidewalk is the logical corollary rule. more people stroll and business owners keep an eye wife like, ‘Hey, honey, its so weird how I used the
Doing so establishes structure for those afoot, main- out for new customers. guy who pays off mistresses to get me out of that
tains the peace and promotes a cultural norm of ci- I now take up my rightful space on a pathway. Not parking ticket.’ ”
vility. because this is a feminist issue, which maybe it is Jimmy Kimmel, so recently in a feud with Han-
When the descendants of Emily Post wrote their (women tend to be smaller and more polite than nity, couldn’t muster much. Noting Hannity’s com-
famous book on manners titled Emily Post’s Eti- men, so they probably spend more time entangled ments about sort-of using Cohen as his lawyer,
quette, they asserted that “Consideration for the in rose bushes), but because it is a community issue Kimmel said, “It’s interesting, he has a lawyer he
rights and feelings of others is not merely a rule for – a point of urban politesse. All I ask is that my fel- doesn’t pay.”
behavior in public but the very foundation upon low path walkers steer to the right to facilitate quick He also called Hannity the “chief propaganda
which social life is built.” and safe foot traffic and take their pedestrian re- guy for Trump’s legal team” and then said, gnom-
I’ve been treading my 50-per-cent allotment of sponsibilities seriously. ically, “If this is the biggest witch hunt in history,
pavement for a while. Like an Olympic relay runner If you see me walking, feel free to utter a polite the broomstick is getting pretty full.”
who must stay inside her track lane or be disqual- greeting. You will recognize me by the determined The often-forgotten Conan O’Brien had one of
ified, I judiciously stay to my side of the concrete line of my mouth and the football helmet on my the few good quips: “It’s come out today that Presi-
rectangle. Shoulders held back, eyes aimed straight head. dent Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen also repre-
ahead, I walk without hesitation or apology. I am no sents Fox News host Sean Hannity. Apparently, Co-
longer wary of approaching teenagers, clusters of Dianne Scott lives in Toronto. hen would pay women $130,000 to watch Hanni-
ty’s show.”
People, when the late-night hosts struggle to
find a punch line, on a day of stupefying, bizarre
news, the news has won.
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BRIDGE The key to good declarer play a club. Declarer ruffs and plays a difficult, since it’s unlikely East
BY STEVE BECKER is the ability to figure out how diamond to the 10, losing to the would double five diamonds un-
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018 the unseen cards are divided. If ace. Back comes a club, ruffed less he had the ace of hearts.
declarer could see all four hands by South, and after cashing the South therefore leads a heart
instead of only two, he would trump king, declarer is at the and, after West follows low, fi-
seldom fail to achieve the best critical point of the hand. nesses the nine! This works like a
possible result. His only problem is to avoid charm because West happens to
The knack of determining how losing two heart tricks. He can hold both the jack and 10, so de-
North dealer.
the defenders’ cards are divided do this easily enough, if West has clarer loses only one heart trick.
North-South vulnerable.
can be acquired by anyone will- the ace, by leading twice toward Considering the bidding, the
ing to take the trouble to assem- the K-Q. But if East has the ace, nine is clearly the right play to
The bidding: ble the necessary clues. In do- this method of play fails, since a make – even though it requires a
ing so, declarer forms a picture second heart trick would eventu- substantial measure of good luck
North East South West consistent with the bidding and ally have to be lost. to succeed. But the fact remains
1 [H] 2 [C] 2 [D] 5 [C] plays that have taken place. Before broaching the suit, that once East is credited with
Pass Pass 5 [D] Pass Today’s deal illustrates how the South must first try to decide the ace of hearts, there is no oth-
Pass Dble process works. South is in five di- which opponent is more apt to er hope of making the contract
Opening Lead – jack of clubs. amonds doubled, and West leads have the ace. This is not really than the deep finesse.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7

9 10

11 12

13 14 15

16 17

18 19 20 21

22 23
INSTRUCTIONS Fill in the grid so that each row of nine squares, each column of nine
and each section of nine (three squares by three) contains the numbers 1 through 9
in any order. There is only one solution to each puzzle.

KENKEN
24 25
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Each row and each
CRYPTIC CLUES QUICK CLUES column must contain
ACROSS DOWN ACROSS the numbers 1 through
1 Remove from high office (6)
6 without repeating.
1 Route followed by an 1 Spot the politician
Afghan tribesman (6) in a heap (6) 4 Make up for loss (6)
4 A fraction too slow 2 State needs new taxes (5) 9 Facsimile (7) 2. The numbers within
the heavily outlined
to get a medal (6) 3 Nine act in an old- 10 In the style of (5) boxes, called cages,
9 A Central American team is fashioned way (7) 11 Logically sound (5) must combine using
able to kick off with me (7) 5 Animal found near water 12 Strongly resisting change (7) the given operation (in
10 Ship could be a drifter (5) in hot territories (5) 13 Mutual concessions (4,3,4) any order) to produce
11 I sell new thread (5) 6 Apprehend how to turn 18 Unable to sleep (7) the target numbers in
20 French composer, d.1937 (5) the top-left corners.
12 Care to put in an offer property into money? (7)
for acetylene fuel (7) 7 Stroke in this boat- 22 Action (5)
Freebies: Fill in
13 Conflicting tastes in race, for example (6) 23 South-east Asian country (7) 3. single-box cages with
the plant (11) 8 Untimely error made 24 Nullify (6) the numbers in the
18 Sound, old-fashioned when chairman’s on 25 Variegated (6) top-left corner.
stuff to eat (7) an exchange (11)
20 Walk like a doctor 14 One thousand turn DOWN
in drink? (5) out better (7) 1 Obtain (6) ©2018 KENKEN Puzzle LLC. KENKEN is a registered trademark of Nextoy, LLC. Dist. by Andrews McMeel
22 Old capital of Japan 15 We get new heart 2 Schoolchild (5) www.kenken.com
changed to Tokyo (5) when it improves (7) 3 Defraud (7) YESTERDAY'S CRYPTIC
23 Fields of activity he gets 16 Points for athletes (6) 5 Rub out (5)
ACROSS: 1 Takes up, 5 First, 8 Electric organ, 9 Acorn, 10 Ottoman, 11 Fresco,
a mixed press about (7) 17 It’s knitted for a milk 6 Australian bush country (7) 12 Rodney, 15 Inhabit, 17 Teams, 19 Housebreaking, 20 Speck, 21 Sidings.
24 Wine one may be mistaken producer (6) 7 Display ostentatiously (6) DOWN: 1 Theta, 2 Keep open house, 3 Satanic, 4 Poison, 5 Float, 6 Regimentation,
to be diffident about (6) 19 There’s nothing persistent 8 In very close relationship (4,2,5) 7 Tenancy, 11 Flights, 13 Outward, 14 Stores, 16 Break, 18 Sighs.
25 Hard baked and irritable (6) in this scent (5) 14 Vague notion (7)
21 Poet is emotionally 15 Submarine weapon (7) YESTERDAY'S QUICK
excited (5) 16 North European monarchy (6) ACROSS: 1 Exclaim, 5 Point, 8 Stand to reason, 9 Eagle, 10 Ignoble, 11 Glossy,
17 Unconvincing (6) 12 Scurry, 15 Ethical, 17 Moist, 19 Again and again, 20 Entry, 21 Hothead.
19 Boxing match (5) DOWN: 1 Ensue, 2 Change of heart, 3 Address, 4 Myopic, 5 Preen, 6 Insubordinate,
Solutions to today's Sudoku and Kenken can be found in the Life & Arts content 7 Tannery, 11 Grenade, 13 Compact, 14 Clinch, 16 Canny, 18 Tuned.
area of the A section. Crossword solutions will be with tomorrow's puzzles. 21 Open to bribery (5)
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Mosque-shooting survivors urge against
leniency in sentencing of Bissonnette
Beyond personal loss,
victims grieved for
the vanished sense
of security they believed
they would find in
Canada after emigrating
INGRID PERITZ QUEBEC CITY
The widow, the wounded and the
witnesses came to court to spill
out the contents of their shat-
tered lives, and they pleaded to a
judge that killer Alexandre Bis-
sonnette should get no leniency.
Five victims of the 2017
mosque shooting in Quebec City
took turns in the witness box on
Tuesday to speak about their loss-
es, in heart-rending testimonials
that will help determine how
long the 28-year-old shooter goes
to jail.
Mohamed Khabar, shot in the
knee and foot the night of the at-
tack, still has bullet debris in his
leg and has never been able to re-
turn to work as a barber.
Said Akjour, shot in the shoul-
der, still plots a safe exit for him-
AIIB president calls for Canadian companies to bid on projects
BILL CURRY
PARLIAMENTARY REPORTER
OTTAWA
The president of the Beijing-
based Asian Infrastructure In-
vestment Bank is urging Cana-
dian companies to bid on its
growing list of big projects and
vows that the two-year-old insti-
tution will prove it is independ-
ent from the Chinese govern-
ment.
Jin Liqun said Canada and the
83 other countries that are bank
shareholders play a role in estab-
lishing clear rules so that deci-
sions are based on merit. He
spoke with The Globe and Mail
on Tuesday in Ottawa during a
brief visit to Canada, which in-
cluded a meeting with Finance
Minister Bill Morneau.
“This is an international insti-
tution and China, as the biggest
shareholder, has a huge stake in
maintaining the international,
multilateral feature of this insti-
tution,” Mr. Jin said. “I’ve never,
ever come under any pressure
[from the Chinese govern-
ment].”
China’s decision to create a
new international development
bank received a cool reception
from the United States – which
plays a leading role at the World
Bank – and Japan – which pro-
vides similar leadership for the
Asian Development Bank. Both
countries are not members of
the Beijing-based AIIB.
Mr. Jin said the bank does not
have a policy of giving preferen-
tial treatment to companies
from member countries.
“However, if the two compa-
nies are about the same in terms
of their competitiveness, certain-
ly the priority should be given to
the companies of the member
More Canadian medical-school graduates than ever fail to secure residency
KELLY GRANT
HEALTH REPORTER
More graduates of Canadian med-
ical schools were shut out of resi-
dency placements this year than
ever before, meaning the skills of
dozens of doctors-in-training
could be going to waste while
many patients in Canada struggle
to find family physicians.
The organization that matches
medical students with residency
spots revealed on Tuesday that 115
of this year’s Canadian medical-
school graduates failed to secure a
crucial training placement, up
from 99 last year and 77 the year
before.
Residency is the last leg of the
long journey to become a doctor.
If medical-school graduates do
not complete between two and
seven years of hands-on training
as resident physicians, they can-
not practice medicine.
For the students who go un-
matched, “it’s quite devastating,”
said Henry Annan, a fourth-year
medical student at Dalhousie
University and the president of
the Canadian Federation of Med-
ical Students, which has been lob-
bying provincial governments to
self when he goes to a Tim Hor-
tons, a supermarket or library.
Louiza Mohamed-Said, who
lost her husband to Mr. Bisson-
nette’s bullets, said her three
daughters fear they will also lose
their mother to a shooter.
Others are haunted by memo-
ries. Said El-Amari broke down
recalling that he didn’t come to
the aid of Azzeddine Soufiane as
the 57-year-old lay dying on the
mosque floor, while the shooter
was still active. “I should have
gone to help him. It still eats at
me,” he said through tears.
The testimonials will inform
Quebec Superior Court Justice
François Huot as he weighs Mr.
Bissonnette’s sentence for six
counts of first-degree murder.
Until now, the sentencing
hearing has heard mostly about
Mr. Bissonnette, his suicidal
thoughts, his anxiety and his
growing obsession with violence,
Muslims and weapons leading up
to the Jan. 29 rampage at the
Grand Mosque.
On Tuesday, the victims of his
crime got to tell their stories on
the second day of impact state-
ments.
They said that, beyond their
President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Jin Liqun, seen in Ottawa on Tuesday, says he’s never
faced pressure from the Chinese government while in his role. BLAIR GABLE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
country,” he said, urging Cana-
dian firms to keep an eye on the
bank’s projects.
The AIIB has approved 25 pro-
jects to date, including one pro-
ject in China to replace coal-fired
power plants. India has so far
been the largest beneficiary, se-
curing financing for a metro rail
project, an electricity transmis-
sion system and a rural roads
project.
Ottawa has parliamentary ap-
proval to contribute up to
US$375-million toward the bank.
It has also pledged US$796-mil-
lion in the event that the bank
faced serious financial difficul-
fund more residency positions.
“The stories that we hear are sto-
ries of hopelessness, of ‘Where
did I go wrong?’ ” Mr. Annan said.
“Unfortunately, it’s not really the
individual’s fault. It’s the system
failing.”
Mr. Annan’s group and the as-
sociation that represents Cana-
da’s 17 medical schools say the
problem can be traced to some
provincial governments either
cutting residency positions or fail-
ing to fund enough new spots to
keep pace with the number of
graduates.
This year, for every 100 gradu-
ates of a Canadian medical
school, there were 101 residency
spots; a decade ago, that number
was 111.
For graduates who don’t speak
French, the ratio is even tighter. Of
the 78 residency positions that
went unfilled across the country
this year, 69 were in Quebec.
Nationally, 3,308 residency po-
sitions were available. Residen-
cies are based on area of specialty,
so among the other reasons that
some went unfilled was a mis-
match between the type of resi-
dencies graduates wanted and the
positions available.
Doctors and medical students
personal loss, they grieved for the
vanished sense of security they
believed they would find in their
adopted homeland after emigrat-
ing from North Africa.
When this day comes
[when Alexandre
Bissonnette is freed on
parole], it will be a
second death for our
victims and those who
were spared.
LOUIZA MOHAMED-SAID
WIDOW WHO LOST HER HUSBAND
IN THE 2017 MOSQUE SHOOTING
“I never thought a shooting, a
terrorist act could happen in Que-
bec City,’” said Mr. El-Amari, who
was shot in the knee and abdo-
men and spent a month in a co-
ma. “We always thought the peo-
ple of Quebec were a peaceful
people. We never thought there
was someone with such a twisted
mind in Quebec society.”
Some offered a chilling recre-
ation of the moments inside the
mosque when Mr. Bissonnette
ties. Canada has never faced
such a scenario in its roughly
eight decades of participation
with other development banks.
During this year’s budget de-
bate in Parliament, Conservative
Leader Andrew Scheer singled
out Canada’s participation in the
AIIB as a source of unnecessary
spending and said Canadians
would prefer to see those dollars
spent at home.
Mr. Jin’s response is that Cana-
dians have long supported insti-
tutions such as the World Bank
that help other countries devel-
op and the AIIB should be
viewed in the same light.
would like more residencies cre-
ated so they would have more op-
portunities to get what they want
and less chance of failing to secure
a spot.
“There’s absolutely no flexibil-
ity in the system,” said Geneviève
Moineau, president of the Associ-
ation of Faculties of Medicine of
Canada (AFMC).
The problem can be
traced to some
provincial governments
either cutting residency
positions or failing to
fund enough new spots
to keep pace with the
number of graduates.
Ontario’s Liberal government,
which is facing a tough election
campaign in June, announced on
Tuesday that it would add as
many as 53 extra residency spots
to accommodate the graduates of
Ontario medical schools who
failed to garner a placement this
year.
The extra spots come with
strings: Graduates who accept
them have to agree to work in an
walked in. Mr. Akjour said the
shooter was calm. “He carried out
his crime in a cold-blooded way,
like he was playing a video
game,” he said. Most vividly, he
remembered how Mr. Bisson-
nette kept pitilessly firing at vic-
tims even once they were on the
ground.
While he and others delivered
their thoughts, Mr. Bissonnette
sat behind them in a baggy sweat-
shirt inside his glassed enclosure,
fidgety and alert but showing no
perceptible reaction to what was
being said.
Mr. Khabar recalls being shot
in the knee and toe and dragging
himself to a maintenance closet
downstairs, where he spent min-
utes in terror that the shooter
would find the hiding place and
kill him. His desperate flight left a
trail of blood on the stairs and
carpet of the prayer room. A
Globe and Mail reporter saw the
darkened patches of blood during
a visit to the mosque two days af-
ter the shooting, and was able for
the first time on Tuesday to see
the man whose body spilled it.
The impact statements are
meant to give a voice to crime vic-
tims and help evaluate the conse-
“The general public of your
country understands how im-
portant it is for Canada, as on
open country, to maintain very
good relationships with other
countries,” he said.
Mr. Jin’s career has focused on
international infrastructure pro-
jects, including in previous roles
as chairman of China Interna-
tional Capital Corp., chairman of
the International Forum of Sov-
ereign Wealth Funds and senior
positions with the Asian Devel-
opment Bank, the World Bank
and China’s Ministry of Finance.
Prime Minister Justin Tru-
deau’s government has made a
underserved part of Ontario for
two years after completing their
training. “It’s an excellent step to
deal with the here and the now,”
Dr. Moineau said of Ontario’s an-
nouncement.
“[But] this doesn’t solve the is-
sue of next year … what we want
to hear from all provinces is how
they will potentially move for-
ward with a consistent increase in
positions.”
The Canadian Resident Match-
ing Service, known as CaRMS, co-
ordinates the process of medical
students applying for their pre-
ferred residency positions and
faculties of medicine ranking
their preferred graduates for each
spot.
The matching process has two
rounds. This year, 46 students
from Canadian schools decided
not to reapply after going un-
matched in the first round, while
69 went unmatched after the sec-
ond and final round – for a total of
115 current-year, unmatched grad-
uates.
But that figure does not include
graduates from previous years
who applied again. Fifty-four pri-
or-year graduates went un-
matched in 2018, up from 46 in
2017, although the chief executive
NEWS | A19
quences of Mr. Bissonnette’s ac-
tions. Under the Criminal Code,
Mr. Bissonnette could face back-
to-back 25-year terms for each of
his six first-degree murder con-
victions, meaning he would end
his days in jail.
Mr. Bissonnette’s lawyers say
they want him to serve all six sen-
tences at once, meaning that he
would be eligible for parole in 25
years, when he is 53.
Each of the victims was asked
by Justice Huot for their input
about sentencing.
Some were adamant that Mr.
Bissonnette should not benefit
from leniency.
“I’m terrified by the idea that a
person with such a twisted mind
will be in the same society as me
in 25 years,” Mr. El-Amari said.
Ms. Mohamed-Said, whose
husband, Abdelkrim Hassane,
died in the attack, said the idea
that one day Mr. Bissonnette
would be free from jail terrified
her.
“When this day comes, it will
be a second death for our victims
and those who were spared,” she
said.
Victim impact statements con-
tinue on Wednesday.
point of seeking out large insti-
tutional investors, including
global pension funds, as poten-
tial investors in Canadian infras-
tructure projects. The govern-
ment has established a $35-bil-
lion Canada Infrastructure Bank,
which has not yet approved any
projects.
While the AIIB is focused on
projects in Asia, Mr. Jin said his
many contacts could be of use to
the Canada Infrastructure Bank
and there are opportunities to
share expertise.
A challenge for Mr. Jin is sep-
arating the activities of the bank
– which has largely avoided con-
troversy so far – with some of the
more contentious trade-corridor
projects that are currently being
advanced by the Chinese govern-
ment under a policy called One
Belt One Road.
One widely published com-
mentary by Brahma Chellaney, a
professor at the New Delhi-based
Centre for Policy Research, de-
scribed China’s infrastructure
ambitions as “creditor imperial-
ism,” pointing to Sri Lanka’s de-
cision to hand control of a key
port to a Chinese company in ex-
change for debt relief.
Mr. Jin said the AIIB makes its
decisions independently of Chi-
na’s One Belt One Road initia-
tive.
Wendy Dobson, a professor
and co-director of the Rotman
Institute for International Busi-
ness at the University of Toronto,
said Mr. Jin has a “sterling repu-
tation” and the AIIB is off to a
good start by working closely
with other international devel-
opment banks.
“We should support a new in-
ternational organization that is
truly multilateral, which AIIB
seems to be, and inclusive, which
it also seems to be,” she said.
officer of CaRMS said that figure
could include trainees hoping to
transfer from one residency
placement to another.
In a report published earlier
this year, the AFMC recommend-
ed changing the two-round proc-
ess so graduates of international
medical schools are not allowed
to snag spots in the second round
that could go to graduates of Can-
adian schools.
Of the 228 residency slots left
unfilled after the first round this
year, 42 went to students who
graduated from medical schools
outside of Canada or the United
States.
“It is Canadian taxpayers’ dol-
lars that provide [part of] the
funding for medical education,”
Dr. Moineau said. “Until every
Canadian has a family doctor, we
need to be doing everything we
can to train physicians in Canada
and enable them to complete
their training.”
About 4.5 million Canadians
say they do not have a regular
doctor, according to Statistics
Canada, despite Canada having
more doctors overall today than
ever before.
Rural and small-town areas
tend to be most in need of doctors.
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Li Ka-shing in hunt for

Bombardier’s Toronto site
Two Canadian investors
also on short list for
manufacturer’s aerospace
plant in city’s northwest
JEFF GRAY
RACHELLE YOUNGLAI
GREG KEENAN
NICOLAS VAN PRAET
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018 | GLOBEANDMAIL.COM
Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing
and two Canadian investors have
made Bombardier’s short list of
In investor letter, buyers for the manufacturer’s aero-
space plant and surrounding lands
Catalyst claims in northwest Toronto, according to
sources familiar with the matter.
Bombardier is mulling bids from
it can still win three frontrunners. Mr. Li’s CK Asset
Holdings Ltd., a team-up by Toronto-
Wind Mobile suit based developers Great Gulf and
Dream Unlimited Corp., and Mon-
treal-based PSP Investments, the
federal public service’s pension
plan, are all said to be vying for the
property.
But whoever wins the competi-
tion to buy the sprawling and largely
empty 371-acre site could faces huge
hurdles. Bombardier is facing off
with its union, Unifor, which oppos-
es the sale. And any new landowner
will want to win the city’s approval
to rezone at least some of the site,
which is currently reserved only for
uses such as factories or offices.
Nevertheless, the site is accessible
by Toronto’s subway system and is
seen as prime real estate in a city
grappling with a shortage of land,
housing and office space. It became
one of the most sought-after poten-
tial development sites and attracted
the attention of multiple buyers in-
cluding an unsolicited bid from a
startup manufacturer, Avro Bour-
deau Aerospace Corp.
The Bombardier Downsview site,
which includes the plant, runway
and other land, is currently assessed
at a value of just $153.16-million for
property-tax purposes. However,
sources said bids of more than $700-
million have been offered.
Buyers on the short list are bid-
ding in the belief they will develop
the land into so-called mixed use − a
combination of office, residential
and retail spaces − which would
command high prices, the sources
said. The next round of bids is due
before the end of the month, they
said.
Dream president Michael Cooper
and PSP separately declined to com-
ment. Great Gulf’s commercial arm
known as First Gulf did not com-
ment.
BOMBARDIER, B9

ANDREW WILLIS
JEFFREY JONES

Private equity firm Catalyst Capital Group Inc. is

pressing ahead with its effort to wring money out of
its failed bid for Wind Mobile – and claims to have
evidence against a rival fund manager that may
have been gathered in a sting operation run by for-
mer Israeli spies.
In a letter sent to investors in its funds, Catalyst
says it has interviews with former employees of To-
ronto-based West Face Capital Inc. that show “in-
side information about the Wind negotiations was
improperly leaked to West Face.” The letter, marked
“privileged and confidential update”, was sent to
Catalyst unitholders in March and obtained by The
Globe and Mail.
Catalyst has filed two separate lawsuits over the
Wind case. In 2014, Catalyst was negotiating with the
owners of the wireless company to buy it, but the
deal fell apart. A group led by West Face bought
Wind for $300-million and flipped it to Shaw Com-
munications Inc. for $1.6-billion a year and a half lat-
er. The business is now called Freedom Mobile and
was recently valued by one Bay Street analyst at
$5.7-billion.
Catalyst lost the first
Now before the lawsuit, with Ontario Su-
perior Court Justice
courts is a second Frank Newbould ruling The Vancouver region is home to Canada’s most expensive gasoline and the prospect of even higher prices would cut
lawsuit in which that he “had considera- into the provincial economy, industry leaders say. RAFAL GERSZAK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Catalyst is suing a ble difficulty accepting
as reliable” much of the
number of parties,
evidence supplied by
including West Face Catalyst founder New-
and VimpelCom Ltd. ton Glassman. Catalyst
Running on empty: Foreign shipments of fuel to B.C.
lost its appeal of that de- would ease pain of Alberta cuts to energy exports
cision in February.
Now before the courts is a second lawsuit in
which Catalyst is suing a number of parties, includ- DAVID EBNER VANCOUVER are overstated. many businesses, but this would not
ing West Face and VimpelCom Ltd., a Netherlands- Mr. Ervin said an increase of trigger a sharp economic downturn
based telecom firm that used to be the major share- about 10 cents a litre was a likelier on its own.
holder in Wind. Any move by Alberta to restrict the outcome. If prices spiked by much The Alberta government on Mon-
The suit, which claims $1.3-billion, alleges that vi- supply of oil and gasoline to British more, gasoline supplies from the day introduced legislation that
tal information was leaked during negotiations that Columbia in the fight over the Trans U.S. Pacific Northwest, California would allow it to restrict or cut off
allowed the West Face consortium to win the deal. Mountain pipeline expansion would and overseas in Asia would be shipments of oil and products such
West Face has consistently denied it acted impro- have a limited effect on the price of drawn to B.C. The higher the differ- as gasoline out of the province. It
perly. In a court filing on Monday, lawyers for the gas in the province as supply would ential between B.C. and elsewhere, was a political move to put more
firm said: “This so-called ‘evidence’ consists of tran- arrive from suppliers elsewhere in the more attractive it would become pressure on B.C., which opposes the
scripts and recordings obtained illicitly by Catalyst the world, one industry expert says. to overcome costs by bringing it in pipeline expansion and where the
from ‘stings’ conducted against Justice Newbould, In the B.C. Legislature on Tuesday, via rail, truck or ship. price of gas is already high.
and current and former employees of West Face, by opposition Liberal MLA Jas Johal “There are a lot of moving pieces On Tuesday in the B.C. legislature,
former agents of the Israeli Mossad operating un- said “B.C.’s economy would come to that would come into play,” Mr. Er- Attorney-General David Eby called
lawfully in Ontario and elsewhere under the name a standstill” and cited analysts’ pre- vin said. the Alberta legislation “unconstitu-
‘Black Cube.’ ” dictions that prices would jump $2 a Jock Finlayson, economist for the tional and illegal,” and said Alberta
West Face, VimpelCom, Globalive Capital Inc. and litre. Business Council of British Colum- was “very unlikely” to make such a
UBS Securities Canada Inc. were in court on Monday However, Michael Ervin, an ana- bia, said in an e-mail on Tuesday move. He added that B.C. would
asking Ontario Superior Court Justice Glenn Hainey lyst with the Kent Group, which that a spike in gasoline prices would fight Alberta in court if it came to
to throw out the case. A ruling is expected by the tracks the petroleum market, said slightly dampen consumer spend- blows.
end of the week. predictions of a gasoline apocalypse ing and raise operating costs for ENERGY, B9
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EDC hits new hurdle in

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South African prosecutors, acting under organized-crime
laws, have placed a preservation order on a Canadian-fi-
nanced Bombardier jet, warning that they could eventually
seize it as the proceeds of crime.
In the latest twist in the saga of the much-disputed US$52-
million luxury jet, prosecutors have included it in a lengthy CAREERS
list of assets of the Gupta brothers, the business tycoons at Richard Branson explains how
the heart of South Africa’s biggest postapartheid corruption
scandal. mobile innovation led to a new
The federal government’s export agency, Export Develop- age of entrepreneurship
ment Canada, is already battling in a South African court to B13
recover the airplane after accusing the Guptas of defaulting
on the agency’s US$41-million loan. The agency has alleged
that the Guptas deliberately hid the airplane and could have
used it for criminal activities. EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS
The latest move by South African prosecutors adds anoth-
Bank of Nova Scotia prepares
er layer of complexity to the legal battles, potentially creating
a second claimant for the airplane. It means that the plane is to become the fourth Canadian
now involved in two parallel court disputes: the conflict be- bank to enter the ETF market
tween the Guptas and EDC over control of the jet, and a sep- B10
arate case in which the Guptas are accused of stealing about
US$20-million from a government farm project that was
meant to help impoverished farmers. To recover the plane,
EDC might need to wait until both cases are completed.
GUPTAS, B2
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B2 | REPORT ON BUSINESS
Interest rate vise may be closing
on home equity lines of credit
Already, TD Bank advises some
HELOC clients of rate hikes
– and BoC has plenty of
opportunity for more in 2018
ROB
CARRICK
OPINION
here are two separate interest rate
T threats facing the people who
have collectively borrowed about
$207-billion from the big banks
using a home equity line of credit.
The obvious risk is that the Bank of Can-
ada will continue a process begun last
summer of raising its benchmark over-
night lending rate.
The central bank has six more opportu-
nities to increase rates this year, including
a regularly scheduled rate announcement
on Wednesday.
The second risk was revealed recently to
some clients of Toronto-Dominion Bank
who have HELOCs. They were told in let-
ters from the bank that, effective June 3,
the rate on their credit lines will rise by an
average 0.2 of a percentage point or 0.5 of a
point, depending on the situation.
Banks were aggressive with rate adjust-
ments like TD’s as they reacted to the
shock of the global financial crisis that be-
gan roughly a decade ago. We haven’t seen
nearly as much of this type of rate change
lately, but TD’s move is a reminder to HE-
LOC holders that banks can act individual-
ly on rates.
A recent Globe and Mail story on the
dangers of credit lines said that clients of
the Big Six banks had borrowed a record
Racking up miles in style
Air Canada says it will offer new lie-flat seats for travellers who pay premium prices
on flights within North America. The move is part of an expansion of its high-fare
signature service for business and other well-heeled travellers.
Guptas: Preservation order prevents family from selling
or disposing of assets while court case continues
FROM B1
In connection with the farm case, prose-
cutors have obtained a preservation order
on dozens of Gupta assets, including the
Bombardier jet, a Rolls-Royce, a Lam-
borghini, a helicopter, several Mercedes-
Benz and Porsche cars and dozens of
farms and other properties.
The order prevents the Guptas from
selling or disposing of the assets while the
court case continues. Authorities raided
the lavish Gupta villa in an upscale Johan-
nesburg suburb on Monday to begin
marking the luxury cars and enforcing the
order.
The Bombardier jet, meanwhile, was
flown from Dubai to Johannesburg last
Friday and was placed in safekeeping at
Lanseria Airport after EDC had threatened
to pursue a contempt-of-court finding
against the Guptas for defying a court rul-
ing to ground the plane.
Phil Taylor, a spokesman for EDC, said
the agency is “working with the relevant
authorities to resolve the issues surround-
ing the asset.” Those authorities include
South Africa’s national prosecuting au-
thority, which was named in EDC’s court
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GOLDMAN OPEN TO BUYING
A TRADITIONAL LENDER
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is
likely to expand its consumer
bank through small acquisitions,
its finance chief said on Tuesday,
without ruling out the idea that it
$207-billion using HELOCs as of Oct. 31. TD on a property where there is a mortgage might buy a traditional lender,
was the dominant bank in the group – its with a different lender, says the rate will too.
HELOC balance at Oct. 31 was $73.4-billion. rise to prime plus 1.5 from prime plus 1. TD’s During a conference call to dis-
HELOCs are the smartest way to borrow prime rate as of April 17 was 3.45 per cent. cuss quarterly results, Wells Fargo
for expenses you need a little time to pay The bank says the rate increases apply analyst Mike Mayo listed the ways
off. But low interest rates have drawn some to balances that have not been locked into Goldman is trying to generate
people into a dependence on HELOC bor- a specific term with payments mixing US$5-billion more in annual reve-
rowing to sustain their lifestyle or buy ex- principal and interest. HELOCs often allow nue and asked chief financial offi-
tras they can’t otherwise afford. There’s you to do this if you want to put yourself on cer R. Martin Chavez whether it
growing concern about how people will a track to have your debt paid off by a cer- would simply buy a bricks-and-
manage all their debts, HELOCs included, tain date. Otherwise, you’re generally re- mortar bank.
as interest rates move higher. quired to pay only the interest owing on a After explaining that Goldman
Earlier this week, the insolvency and HELOC every month. has a history of building business-
consulting firm MNP released a quarterly TD said an interest rate increase of 0.5 of es internally, and a preference for
survey in which 43 per cent of participants a point on a HELOC would increase interest
said they’re feeling the ef-
fects of recent rate increases.
That’s up 5 percentage points
from three months ago. Al-
Low interest rates
costs by 42 cents on $1,000 of
outstanding balance. The
federal Financial Consumer
Agency of Canada reported
“bolt-on” acquisitions, if any, Mr.
Chavez suggested that manage-
ment routinely considers more
transformative deals.
“We are evaluating all these ac-
most half of participants in have drawn some last year that the average HE- quisitions, including things that
the latest survey said they people into a LOC balance outstanding you describe,” he said. “We are
didn’t think they’d be able to dependence on was $70,000, which means open-minded and it’s all part of
cover all their household ex- HELOC borrowing TD’s rate increase would add the consideration.”
penses in the next 12 months up to a little more than $29
without incurring more debt. to sustain their per month, or almost $350 a REUTERS
TD’s letters to clients do lifestyle or buy year.
not provide a reason for the extras they can’t This increase piles on top
bank’s rate increases. Asked of the cumulative rise of 0.75
otherwise afford.
for more detail, the bank said of a point in the Bank of Can- AURORA TO BUILD NEW
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secured by a property where there is a rest of 2018, but the overall rising rate trend quiring about 29 hectares of land
mortgage with another lender. That means appears to be holding. in Medicine Hat, Alta., to build a
TD is in “second position” to collect on the Got a hefty-size HELOC? Start paying it new high-tech cannabis facility.
debt if there’s a default, behind a compet- down now, before the Bank of Canada or The company says a memo-
itor. individual banks start pushing up rates randum of understanding with
HELOCs rates are set using the lender’s further. Coming up: Advice from Sheila the city includes a prospective 10-
prime rate as a base. A TD sample letter to Walkington, co-founder of Money Coaches year, 42-megawatt energy-supply
some of its clients with a HELOC says the Canada, on how to get your HELOC under agreement. Aurora says the new
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ates facilities in Mountain View
County, Alta., and in Pointe-Claire
on Montreal’s West Island. It is al-
so completing a facility in La-
chute, Que.
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LULULEMON NAMES
PATRICK GUIDO AS NEW CFO
Lululemon Athletica Inc. has ap-
pointed Patrick Guido as chief fi-
nancial officer as its search con-
tinues for a new chief executive.
The Vancouver-based clothing
company said Mr. Guido will re-
port to chief operating officer
Stuart Haselden.
Lululemon has been without a
CEO since early February when
Laurent Potdevin stepped down
after the company said he “fell
short” of its standards of conduct.
Executive chairman Glenn
Murphy told a March conference
call with financial analysts that
the company had met with sever-
al possible candidates, but would
be taking its time in its search.
Mr. Potdevin reached a separa-
tion agreement with Lululemon
that will see him receive $3.35-
million in cash, plus $1.65-million
paid in monthly installments
over 18 months, while agreeing
not to sue the company and co-
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CASPER TO ROLL OUT
BRICKS-AND-MORTAR STORES
Online mattress retailer Casper
application to ground the airplane earlier farm project, a senior South African pros- plans to open bricks-and-mortar
this year. ecutor cited the EDC dispute with the stores in Canada as it flips its busi-
“It is important to remember that, at Guptas over the Bombardier jet. The case ness model and goes head-to-
this point in time, the authorities have demonstrates that the Guptas have a head with traditional bed retail-
provided us with a preservation order on- “propensity to unlawfully alienate and ers. The New York-based startup,
ly, and have not seized the aircraft,” Mr. dissipate property when faced with lawful which upended the mattress in-
Taylor told The Globe and legal processes and at- dustry with its bed-in-a-box prod-
Mail on Tuesday. tempts,” the prosecutor uct that can be delivered, is open-
The Gupta brothers − said. ing the first of its retail shops
Ajay, Atul and Rajesh − were It is important to Karen Hamilton, a re- north of the border next month
business partners of family searcher at the Ottawa- in Toronto. Casper is also estab-
members of former presi- remember that, based watchdog group lishing a Canadian headquarters
dent Jacob Zuma for many at this point in Above Ground, said her in Toronto and will begin manu-
years and were alleged to time, the group was not surprised facturing some of its products in
have so much political pow- authorities have that the South African pros- Canada, creating an estimated 75
er that they influenced Mr. ecutors have placed a pres- new jobs across the country.
Zuma’s decisions on cabinet provided us with ervation order on the EDC- Casper co-founder and chief
appointments. They were a preservation financed airplane. “The case executive Philip Krim says it has
accused of siphoning off order only, and points to the need for more seen three years of triple-digit
huge sums of money from have not seized stringent oversight of EDC growth in Canada, and expanding
their insider deals with by the Canadian govern- its local presence will help the
state-owned enterprises, in- the aircraft. ment,” she said. company reach more Canadians.
cluding South Africa’s elec- “There was ample evi- The company also recently
PHIL TAYLOR
tricity monopoly and its EDC SPOKESMAN dence the Guptas were a se- teamed up with Indigo Books &
freight cargo company. The rious corruption risk well Music to allow shoppers to test
Guptas and Mr. Zuma have denied the al- before EDC approved them for a loan in out Casper’s pillows at several of
legations. 2014 – including the risk that they would the Canadian retailer’s locations.
In an affidavit released this week in use the proceeds of crime in their deal-
connection with the alleged fraud in the ings with EDC,” she said. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Manufacturing sales jump in February Regulator

warns that
The increase, boosted
by the transportation BitConnect
equipment industry, isn’t registered
comes after two
months of declines in Ontario
TORONTO
OTTAWA

The Ontario Securities Commis-

Statistics Canada says manufac-
turing sales grew 1.9 per cent to
$55.8-billion in February, boosted
by the transportation equipment
industry.
The increase in factory sales, an
indicator of strength in the econo-
my, came after two consecutive
monthly decreases.
The federal agency says sales
were up in 14 of 21 industries, rep-
resenting 72.2 per cent of the man-
ufacturing sector.
Transportation equipment in-
dustry sales increased 6.6 per cent
to $10.7-billion in February, fol-
lowing assembly plant shut-
downs in January.
The increase came as motor ve-
hicle sales gained 8.9 per cent and
motor vehicle parts sales climbed
4.8 per cent. Sales in the primary
metal manufacturing industry
rose 4.8 per cent to $4.3-billion.
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sion is asking for people to con-
tact the provincial regulator if
they’ve been approached by rep-
resentatives of BitConnect or its
affiliates, which includes an on-
line exchange platform known as
the BCC Exchange.
The OSC says websites operat-
ed by BitConnect offer multiple
investment opportunities that in-
clude “mining,” “trading” and
“staking” BitConnect coin – a type
of cryptocurrency.
The securities commission
says BitConnect isn’t registered in
the province to solicit invest-
ments or provide advice about
buying or selling securities.
A spokeswoman for the pro-
vincial regulator says it some-
times warns the public about pos-
sible harmful activity in progress,
but doesn’t disclose when or
whether it’s actively investigating
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Brookfield unit lines up financing for planned
$15-billion acquisition of U.S. mall owner
SCOTT DEVEAU
GILLIAN TAN
Brookfield Property Partners LP
has lined up a slate of heavy-
weight backers to help finance its
planned takeover of GGP Inc.
The California Public Employ-
ees’ Retirement System, a CBRE
Group Inc. unit, Future Fund and
TIAA affiliate TH Real Estate have
agreed to invest in select GGP
malls, according to people with
knowledge of the matter. The
properties weren’t identified.
When the agreement to ac-
quire GGP was announced in
March, Brookfield Property said
the cash portion of the roughly
US$15-billion deal for the second-
largest U.S. mall owner would be
funded in part by about US$4-bil-
lion from joint-venture equity
partners. Brookfield Property, the
real estate arm of Toronto-based
Brookfield Asset Management
Inc., didn’t name its partners at
Brookfield Property the time.
Representatives for Brookfield,
last month reached Calpers, CBRE and TH Real Estate
a deal to buy declined to comment on the GGP
the 66 per cent mall partnerships, and represen-
tatives for Future Fund didn’t re-
of Chicago-based
spond to a request for comment.
GGP it doesn’t Landlords have increasingly
already own. been willing to top up their coffers
by selling stakes in their best-per-
forming malls. For example, TIAA
in 2015 bought a 12.5-per-cent
stake in GGP’s Ala Moana Center
mall in Hawaii shortly after Aus-
tralianSuper acquired a 25-per-
cent stake in the same property.
The continued willingness of
large investors to increase their
holdings in retail real estate
comes as the sector finds itself
splitting into haves and have-
nots. GGP’s portfolio of Class A
malls are, by definition, better-po-
sitioned and less prone to pain –
in the form of declining rents and
occupancy – being endured by re-
tail centres elsewhere in the Unit-
ed States.
Brookfield Property last
month reached a deal to buy the
66 per cent of Chicago-based GGP
it doesn’t already own. GGP share-
holders will receive US$23.50 a
share in cash, or either one Brook-
field unit or one share of a new re-
al estate investment trust for each
share they own. The deal, in-
creased from a November propos-
al, consists of US$9.25-billion in
cash and about 254 million shares
in Brookfield Property and the
new REIT.
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The securities
commission says
BitConnect isn’t
registered in the
province to solicit
investments or provide
advice about buying
or selling securities.
There was no initial response
to requests for comment sent to
BitConnect and BCC Exchange.
The OSC warning comes after a
Texas regulator issued a cease and
desist order against BitConnect in
January, claiming BitConnect said
it would deliver annualized re-
turns of 100 per cent or more by is-
suing BitConnect coins.
The OSC said on April 6 that it is
gathering information on several
cryptocurrency trading platforms
after it received a number of com-
plaints.
OSC spokeswoman Kristen
Rose said platforms that offer this
type of trading may classify as a
marketplace and would be re-
quired to comply with the rules
governing exchanges or alterna-
tive trading systems.
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Tim Hortons franchisees

dealing with delayed deliveries
TARA DESCHAMPS TORONTO
Some Tim Hortons franchisees
are experiencing a delay in re-
ceiving supply deliveries from
the fast food giant.
The company’s president,
Alex Macedo, told the Canadian
Press on Tuesday that upgrades
and changes to its supply-chain
distribution centre were causing
trouble with shipping out prod-
ucts.
The delays are the latest irri-
tant in the relationship between
franchisees and Tim Hortons, its
parent company, Restaurant
Brands International Inc., and
subsidiary TDL Group.
In recent months, the two
sides have tussled over every-
thing from cost-cutting mea-
sures to a class-action lawsuit
over the company’s alleged im-
proper use of a $700-million na-
tional advertising fund.
Mr. Macedo said the company
recently “fell behind” on getting
products out to franchisees, but
the delays are “within the ac-
ceptable range” for a transition
of this nature. “There’s no short-
age of any of the critical items,”
he stressed. “We expect in the
next five to seven days every-
thing is back to normal.”
He was equally hopeful about
the company’s relationship with
restaurant owners, saying that
Tim Hortons has a “good” rap-
port with the franchisee advisory
board that represents all the
owners.
“We still have a lot of work to
do, but as we drive profits and
sales, we expect the relationship
to get better,” he said.
Those remarks came days af-
ter a spokesperson for Innova-
tion Minister Navdeep Bains re-
vealed the federal government
would investigate allegations
that RBI failed to live up to
promises made under the Invest-
ment Canada Act in 2014. A letter
to Mr. Bains from the Great
White North Franchisee Associ-
ation, a group representing at
least half of the Tim Hortons
franchisees, cited maintaining
franchisee relationships, the rent
and royalty structure for five
years and existing employment
levels at Tims franchises across
Canada as issues.
On Tuesday, Mr. Macedo said,
“We have responded into Ottawa
each and every year with every-
thing we have done and we are
happy to co-operate if anything
comes up.”
Earlier in the year, Mr. Macedo
and Tim Hortons faced intense
criticism after two Cobourg, Ont.,
franchises moved to offset Onta-
rio’s recent minimum-wage hike
by cutting paid breaks and forc-
ing workers to cover a bigger
share of their benefits. The move
caused some customers to vow
to boycott the brand.
Tensions flared again in late
February when GWNFA threat-
ened legal action against Tim
Hortons after some franchisees
experienced intermittent cash-
register outages that forced them
to partly or fully shut down
some stores.
In April, they were arguing
over an outspoken franchisee,
previously involved in a class-ac-
tion lawsuit over the company’s
alleged improper use of a $700-
million national advertising
fund. GWNFA accused the com-
pany of intimidation after it al-
legedly denied the franchisee a
licence renewal for one of his
two Tim Hortons locations.
Mr. Macedo didn’t directly re-
fer to any of the incidents when
asked whether Tim Hortons was
doing anything to smooth over
relations with the restaurant
owners, but he stressed that the
company “works closely” with
franchisees.
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OPINION & ANALYSIS
Why relationships matter in the gig economy
NURA JABAGI
OPINION
PhD candidate in
business-technology management
at Concordia University
hat do Tinder and the gig
W economy have in com-
mon? Both are killing
long-term monogamous relation-
ships and replacing them with ca-
sual hookups.
Over the past decade, unprece-
dented developments in informa-
tion technology have led to the
virtualization of the workplace
and driven exceptional growth in
non-traditional working arrange-
ments. A salient offshoot of this
techno-boom is the gig economy.
Hailed by many as the “new
economy,” the U.S. gig economy
saw participation rates increase
47-fold over the years between
2012-15, to 4.2 per cent of adults
from 0.1 per cent. In Canada, as
much as one-third of the Cana-
dian work force is composed of
non-traditional workers and, ac-
cording to Intuit Canada, that fig-
ure is expected to rise to nearly
Quebec’s anti-pipeline talk belies its oil addiction
KONRAD
YAKABUSKI
OPINION
erhaps it was only a coinci-
P dence that Quebec Premier
Philippe Couillard chose
Tuesday to announce his goal of
reducing oil consumption in the
province’s transportation sector
by 40 per cent below 2013 levels
by 2030. But coming just after his
Canadian Affairs Minister Jean-
Marc Fournier lambasted Ottawa
for pulling rank over British Co-
lumbia on the Trans Mountain
pipeline, it looked like just an-
other virtue-signalling assertion
by Quebec on the environment
file.
There is basically no likeli-
hood that the target set by Mr.
Couillard on Tuesday could be
met without slapping punitive
taxes on the gas-guzzling SUVs
and trucks that Quebeckers have
been buying in ever greater pro-
portion in recent years. But the
Liberal Premier has already re-
jected any such measure. In his
own forestry-dependent Rober-
val riding, Mr. Couillard noted re-
cently that “those people get
around in pickups.”
Clean tech’s next heat wave could come from Smarter Alloys
TYLER HAMILTON
OPINION
Adviser with the non-profit
MaRS Discovery District in Toronto
who works with clean-tech
companies from across Canada
hen we burn fuel to pow-
W er vehicles and machin-
ery, drive industrial proc-
esses or generate electricity, most
of the energy in this fuel is
dumped into the atmosphere as
heat.
In one 2016 study, German re-
searchers estimated that 72 per
cent of global primary energy
consumption – that is, using coal,
oil, natural gas and uranium as
fuel – is lost as waste heat. Most of
this heat is rated “low grade,”
meaning it’s less than 100 C. It in-
cludes the heat emitted from data
centre server farms and the warm
air that flows out the back of your
kitchen refrigerator or air condi-
tioner.
Recovering low-grade heat in
an economical way, particularly
to produce large amounts of pow-
er, is tremendously difficult, but a
Waterloo-based venture called
Smarter Alloys appears to have
found a novel way forward. The
company’s approach lies in a
seemingly magical alloy called
nickel-titanium, which also goes
by the names Ni-Ti or “nitinol.”
Nitinol is a shape-memory al-
loy, meaning that if a piece of niti-
nol is bent, it will return to its orig-
inal shape when heat is applied.
Scientists have been fascinated by
this unique property for decades
and, in the 1970s, aerospace com-
pany McDonnell Douglas (which
half by 2020. Although Uber and
Airbnb are generally thought to
be the poster kids of the gig econ-
omy, this digital job market
stretches well beyond the trans-
portation and accommodation
sectors.
Everyone from dog-sitters to
professional chefs and scientists
are using these digital labour plat-
forms to score a short-term “side
hustle” and the Queen is no ex-
ception.
Not surprisingly, the allure of
the “gig” is now reaching major
corporations. According to an Ac-
centure survey of more than
5,400 business and IT managers
worldwide, 85 per cent of execu-
tives said last year they planned
to increase their organization’s
use of independent workers.
Increasing participation in the
gig economy stems from a desire
for flexibility. On the one hand,
organizations view hiring on-de-
mand workers as a way to bring
agile work force scaling to their
business model. On the other, gig
workers enjoy the freedom and
empowerment to be their own
boss. While this may sound like a
match made in heaven, the at-
traction of flexibility is a double-
Indeed, almost 60 per cent of
the record 469,000 new vehicles
sold in Quebec in 2017 were in
the light-truck category that in-
cludes sports utility vehicles and
pick-ups. That is up from about
40 per cent of the 419,000 new
vehicles sold in the province in
2013.
The number of personal vehi-
cles in the province has grown at
three times the rate of the pop-
ulation since 1990 and electric
cars still amount to a rounding
error among the nearly five mil-
lion vehicles on Quebec’s roads.
Of course, this is an election
year in Quebec, so politicians of
all stripes are falling all over
themselves to 1) insist Quebec
alone should be able to decide
the fate of energy and infrastruc-
ture projects in the province; and
2) establish their green creden-
tials.
For the opposition Parti Qué-
bécois, this means insisting Que-
bec become an independent
country to prevent Ottawa from
imposing its will on the province.
For Mr. Couillard’s federalist Lib-
erals, it means demanding that
Ottawa transfer full authority to
Quebec for approving pipelines
and ports on its territory.
Still, pro-independence or not,
eventually became part of Boe-
ing) developed a prototype de-
vice that took advantage of this
heat-triggered mechanical move-
ment to produce limited amounts
of power.
Problem is, scientists back then
didn’t know why nitinol behaved
the way it did, meaning they
couldn’t really manipulate the
material in a way that explored its
full potential. The alloy was also
prohibitively expensive, killing
any economic argument for purs-
ing the concept.
But as many entrepreneurs
know well, the future has a way of
knocking down barriers that once
stood in the way of past innova-
tions. Enabling technologies are
born. Costs fall. Markets demand
change. Creative thinking and
continued experimentation can
lead to unexpected break-
throughs.
One such breakthrough came
in 2008, when Ibraheem Khan,
while working on his PhD at the
University of Waterloo, discov-
ered he could alter the behaviour
of nitinol by using high-powered
laser beams to “tune” its micros-
tructure.
“We were able to program the
alloy to make it react in a certain
way when exposed to certain tem-
peratures,” Dr. Khan explains,
adding that with the approach, he
could design a piece of nitinol to
have more than a one-shape
memory. “We can make materials
function like machines.”
To illustrate his point, Dr. Khan
hands me a piece of nitinol wire
that looks like a straightened out
paper clip. He asks me to warm it
up by rubbing the wire in my
palms, which I do. When I open
my hands, I see that the wire is
edged sword that carries pro-
found implications for how orga-
nizations manage work in this
new economy.
As with most entrepreneurs,
gig workers pay for their freedom
by relinquishing a certain degree
of security in their lives. As a re-
sult, they are more likely to have a
“what’s-in-it-for-me?” attitude to-
ward work and perhaps less likely
to be concerned with promoting
and protecting the brand of the
organization for which they work.
While this poses a significant risk
for any business, it can be the kiss
of death for organizations that re-
ly on gig workers to independent-
ly (and often without supervi-
sion) advance organizational
goals.
Adding to this risk is the fact
that gig workers are often inter-
acting directly with an organiza-
tion’s clients, making them the
“face” of the organization. Rely-
ing on an independent gig worker
to effectively serve as a “brand
ambassador” brings yet another
dimension of risk that must be
considered by organizations. Al-
though companies such as Up-
work and Uber have tried to coun-
ter these risks by adopting plat-
no party has a credible plan for
weaning Quebec off oil. Indeed,
the province’s overall consump-
tion of the commodity once
known as black gold, but now
mostly denounced for its role in
global warming, has been grow-
ing. And almost all of it arrives by
pipeline or tanker to supply the
province’s two refineries.
For the nearly two decades un-
til 2016, almost all of the oil Que-
bec consumed came from over-
seas producers. In 2010, imported
crude accounted for 85 per cent
of the oil used in the province,
and less than 1 per cent of foreign
oil came from the United States.
Domestic oil from Atlantic Cana-
da made up 15 per cent of con-
sumption. Algeria, a North Afri-
can nation hardly known as a
model of democracy, was the
main source of oil used in Que-
bec for several years running.
Everything changed last year
with the reversal of Enbridge’s 9B
pipeline. Not only did oil imports
drop 26 per cent from 2016 as the
pipeline reversal allowed Alberta
oil to flow to Montreal, but the
United States displaced Algeria
as the main source of foreign oil,
accounting for two-thirds of the
158,000 barrels a day the province
imported in 2017, according to
now in the shape of a maple leaf,
bent perfectly in more than a doz-
en places.
“We call this a Multiple Memo-
ry Material,” he says.
When Dr. Khan founded Smart-
er Alloys in 2009 to develop com-
mercial applications for the mate-
rial, generating power from waste
heating wasn’t on his radar. His
initial focus was on high-end orth-
odontics, leading to a product
called SmartArch. Made of nitinol
wire, the SmartArch can be pro-
grammed to apply the right
amount of force on each tooth.
The tooth-moving forces along
the wire are tuned to the temper-
ature in a person’s mouth.
The wires, which became com-
mercially available last year, work
faster than conventional braces
and require fewer orthodontic ap-
pointments. Treatment that
might normally take 24 months
can be reduced to as little as six
months, Dr. Khan says.
Beyond creating perfect smiles,
the applications of this technolo-
gy are almost endless. Smarter Al-
loys is currently developing pro-
DILBERT
O THE GLOBE AND MAIL .
form-surveillance software that
allows them to virtually “look
over the shoulders” of their inde-
pendent workers, or by experi-
menting with video-game tech-
niques to entice gig workers to
work more hours, the results
have been mixed.
Few would dispute
that multidecade
employer-employee
relationships are nearly
extinct. However, we
may need to admit that
with the gig economy,
monogamy might soon
be dead, too.
This is not surprising given the
abundance of research that
shows that employee monitoring
can kill morale (making employ-
ees feel detached and underval-
ued) and that short-term incen-
tives alone do little for connect-
ing people with the organiza-
tion’s mission and goals.
Seemingly, these organizations
have overlooked the fundamen-
tal importance of the employer-
National Energy Board statistics.
“With the reversal of Line 9
and more rail capacity, Quebec
refineries now process some
western Canadian crude oil and
are less exposed to international
crude oil market fluctuations,”
the NEB said in a report last
week. “U.S. imports have grown
with the reversal of Line 9B.”
The number of personal
vehicles in the province
has grown at three
times the rate of the
population since 1990
and electric cars still
amount to a rounding
error among the nearly
five million vehicles
on Quebec’s roads.
While Quebec’s refineries do
not disclose the sources of the oil
they use, most of it now consists
of conventional light crude from
Alberta and shale oil from the
United States. But Line 9B alone,
with a capacity of 300,000 b/d,
cannot supply Quebec with all of
the oil it needs. The rest comes
directly by oil tanker or via the
grammable stents for heart pa-
tients, lightweight and low-cost
actuators for vehicles and air-
planes, precision golf clubs and
heat-activated sports apparel.
But the biggest prize, by far, is
creating a heat engine that can fi-
nally take advantage of all the
low-grade heat around us – even,
one day, the latent heat that exists
in our oceans. Dr. Khan estimates
it as a trillion-dollar market op-
portunity, and in pursuit of that
prize, he has created a subsidiary
of Smarter Alloys called XtractE-
nergy.
Unlike other forms of electrici-
ty generation that depend on
high-temperature, high-pressure
steam to move a turbine, Xtract-
Energy’s heat engine – in its sim-
plest form – uses a nitinol-based
belt to turn a pulley that spins a
generator.
The belt is tuned in different
places so that it behaves a certain
way when exposed to a low-grade
heat source. When a tuned por-
tion of the belt is submerged in
warm water, it contracts, causing
the belt to pull in one direction.
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employee relationship on em-
ployee productivity, loyalty and
retention.
What next? Few would dispute
that multidecade employer-em-
ployee relationships are nearly
extinct. However, we may need to
admit that with the gig economy,
monogamy might soon be dead,
too. In a world where digital la-
bour platforms evoke a Tinder-
like market where once a worker
has completed their gig, both par-
ties swipe left and walk away
without further promise or com-
mitment, successful organiza-
tions must move quickly to reth-
ink their human resource man-
agement strategies.
Ironically, the first step in this
journey is recognizing that while
the traditional model of work has
been shelved for many, gig work-
ers are not so different from regu-
lar nine-to-fivers in what they
need to thrive: a sense of purpose
in what they do, and a feeling of
belonging and importance. While
strong employee-employer rela-
tionships can support this en-
gagement, building these rela-
tionships will undoubtedly take
some creativity in this new world
of work.
45,000-b/d Portland-Montreal
pipeline that ships Eastern Cana-
dian and foreign oil to Montreal
from the port of Portland in
Maine.
Most of the oil that would
have been shipped through the
now cancelled Energy East pipe-
line would have been destined
for the port of Saint John in New
Brunswick. But the defunct Tran-
sCanada project could also have
transported Alberta oil to Sun-
cor’s Montreal refinery and Vale-
ro’s Saint-Romuald, Que., facility
and allowed the province to
eliminate its use of foreign crude
entirely.
That’s not to say it would have
happened. Refineries typically
choose the cheapest crude avail-
able. And while Western Cana-
dian oil currently sells at a dis-
count to foreign crude, making it
attractive to Quebec refineries,
the whole point of building pipe-
lines to tidewater is to reduce if
not eliminate that differential by
easing transportation bottle-
necks and making Alberta less
dependent on the U.S. market.
Still, despite Mr. Couillard’s
ambitious goals, Quebec will still
be using a lot of oil in 2030.
Would he rather the province get
it from Algeria or Alberta?
When it leaves the water and re-
laxes, another portion is sub-
merged, causing another contrac-
tion.
This process continues as long
as one portion of the belt is always
submerged in the water. When
there is a consistent heat source,
the belt will snake itself around
the pulley, creating enough
torque to spin a generator.
It’s efficient and also clean. Ni-
tinol is non-toxic and entirely re-
cyclable – the belts can be melted
down and remade into new belts.
It’s also an economical way of pro-
ducing power with low-grade
heat, partly because the cost of ni-
tinol has fallen dramatically,
thanks to scale production in Chi-
na driven by its growing use in
medical devices.
Most importantly, Smarter Al-
loys has perfected how to pro-
gram the nitinol, turning other-
wise simple pieces of wire into
smart machines capable of great
things. This intellectual property
will give the company a big edge
in the race to develop the world’s
most efficient heat engine.
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IMF predicts
moderate Canadian
growth in 2018, 2019
ALEXANDER PANETTA WASHINGTON

The International Monetary Fund projects moderate eco-

nomic growth for Canada this year and next, albeit at a rate
lower than last year’s and significantly slower than in the
United States.
In a document generally positive about the current global
economy, but flashing warning signs of potential trouble
ahead, Tuesday’s IMF World Economic Outlook foresees
growth in Canada of 2.1 per cent this year and 2 per cent next
year.
That represents a downgrade from January’s outlook of 2.3
per cent growth forecast for this year, and it’s less than the
strong 3-per-cent growth Canada experienced in 2017.
It’s also less optimistic than the forecast for the United
States: The country is projected to grow almost 3 per cent this
year, which is a significant improvement from recent IMF
Home builders work on a new development in Fair Lawn, N.J., in February. U.S. housing starts rose 1.9 per cent outlooks.
to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.319 million units in March. SETH WENIG/ASSOCIATED PRESS “They’re very closely aligned with our forecasts,” said Brett
House, the deputy chief economist at Scotiabank, where the
prediction for Canada is one-

U.S. housing starts rise, tenth of a percentage point high-

but single-family segment falls
A survey of builders
says lumber tariffs
are pushing up prices,
hurting affordability
LUCIA MUTIKANI WASHINGTON
U.S. home building increased
more than expected in March
amid a rebound in the construc-
tion of multifamily housing units,
but weakness in the single-family
segment suggested the housing
market was slowing.
Housing starts rose 1.9 per cent
to a seasonally adjusted annual
rate of 1.319 million units, the
Commerce Department said on
Tuesday. Data for February was
revised up to show groundbreak-
ing declining to a 1.295-million-
unit pace instead of the previous-
ly reported 1.236 million units.
Economists polled by Reuters
had forecast housing starts rising
to a pace of 1.262 million units last
month. Permits for future home
building rose 2.5 per cent to a rate
of 1.354 million units in March.
U.S. financial markets were lit-
tle moved by the data.
Despite the rebound in home
building last month, activity ap-
pears to be slowing. Single-family
home building, which accounts
for the largest share of the hous-
ing market, fell 3.7 per cent to a
rate of 867,000 units in March.
A survey on Monday showed
confidence among home build-
ers fell in April for a fourth
straight month. Builders com-
plained about a lack of buildable
lots and increasing construction
material costs. According to the
survey, tariffs imposed by the
Trump administration on Cana-
dian lumber and other imported
products were “pushing up prices
and hurting housing affordabili-
ty.”
Confronted with these supply
constraints, home building will
probably not increase significant-
ly to eradicate an acute shortage
of houses on the market, which is
pushing up prices and sidelining
some first-time home buyers.
Demand for housing is being
driven by a robust labour market,
which is underpinning the econ-
omy. Despite strength in the jobs
market, wage inflation has re-
mained moderate.
Single-family home construc-
tion fell in the northeast, south
and west, but rose in the midwest.
Permits to build single-family
homes dropped 5.5 per cent in
March to an 840,000 unit-pace,
the lowest level since September,
2017.
With permits lagging starts,
single-family home construction
could slow further.
Starts for the volatile multifa-
mily housing segment surged 14.4
per cent to a rate of 452,000 units
in March.
REUTERS
er than what the IMF projects.
“Very, very close to our num- Tuesday’s IMF World
bers.”
The broader document is gen- Economic Outlook
erally optimistic about this year’s foresees growth
global prospects, with worldwide in Canada of 2.1 per
growth being on an upswing and
cent this year and
a larger-than-previous forecast of
a 3.9-per-cent increase for 2018. 2 per cent next year.
Yet it warns of looming worries
– potential trade wars; rising interest rates; heavy spending
in certain countries, including the United States, which could
leave little fiscal space for the next downturn; and insuffi-
cient worker skills to deal with technological changes.
“Favourable conditions will not last forever,” IMF econom-
ic counsellor Maurice Obstfeld wrote.
“Now is the moment to get ready for leaner times.”
He also expressed concern about the longer-term effect of
American policies, after the near-term growth spurt.
The United States is increasing government spending at
the very peak of the economic cycle, even as it cuts taxes, and
the deficit is projected to balloon. He suggested this might
add to inflation risks; accelerate the need for interest-rate
hikes; strain mortgages; and ultimately widen the import-
export trade deficit, which is the source of trade tensions.
He also pointed to the trade tensions that already exist,
with skirmishes over steel tariffs and the U.S.-China punitive
threats over intellectual property theft: “The first shots in a
potential trade war have now been fired,” Mr. Obstfeld
warned.
But in the short term, analysts agree the United States is
poised for a good economic year.
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Clockwise from above left: A drone from Drone Delivery Canada Corp.; call centre efficiency could be boosted
by Mattersight Corp.’s software; a lab working on EEStor Corp.’s energy storage technology; an incinerator
made by Questor Technology. ISTOCKPHOTO, JAY CONLON
Feeling adventurous?
Six disruptive tech stocks
These companies
are poised to leave
competitors in the dust.
They could also become
takeover targets
SHIRLEY WON
nvesting in disruptive technol-
I ogy stocks can be enticing be-
cause of their huge profit po-
tential, but it’s not easy to pick
winners.
These young companies are
challenging the playbook of
larger businesses or inventing
new markets. They can experi-
ence high growth, such as Ama-
zon.com, which has become the
poster child for e-commerce dis-
ruption. Or they could become
takeover targets.
But their technologies could
also experience hiccups or have
limited appeal. Some might not
even have a proven practical ap-
plication yet. And there is always
risk that a competitor will come
along with a better mousetrap.
Given the recent stock-market
pullbacks, which provide a
cheaper entry point for inves-
tors, we asked three portfolio
managers for their top picks
among tech upstarts.
DAVID BARR, PRESIDENT AND
PORTFOLIO MANAGER
OF PENDERFUND CAPITAL
MANAGEMENT LTD., VANCOUVER
The pick: Mattersight Corp.
(MATR-Nasdaq)
52-week range: US$1.92 to
US$3.55 a share
Mattersight has developed soft-
ware that helps cut costs and
boost sales at call centres, but its
data collection is key to applying
artificial intelligence in the sec-
tor, says Mr. Barr. The Chicago-
based company has amassed 1.5
billion recorded calls and more
than 100 million phone numbers.
Its technology creates profiles of
customers based on speech pat-
terns that enable callers to be
routed to the best-suited agents.
“It has created at least a 12-per-
cent cost savings because
[matching] can reduce customer
call time,” he says, and increase
revenue from upsell opportuni-
ties. “This speaks to the custom-
ization of customer service. We
have seen it with Netflix and
Amazon.” Formerly called
eLoyalty Corp., the company has
about US$50-million in annual
sales and is now breaking even,
Mr. Barr said. “It would be pretty
challenging for someone to repli-
cate what they do.”
The pick: Questor Technology
Inc. (QST-X)
52-week range: 63 cents to $3.50
a share
Calgary-based Questor has devel-
oped a clean-air technology that
can help the energy sector deal
with stricter environmental reg-
ulations, says Mr. Barr. The burn-
ing of waste gas at oil-and-gas
production facilities, also known
as “flaring,” is bad for health and
the environment, he says. “Ques-
tor has developed an incinerator
technology, which is 99.9 per
cent efficient and removes the
bad stuff that goes into the air.”
Its proprietary technology has
been embraced in Colorado,
which has tough air-quality regu-
lations, he says. “We see a lot of
other states moving to this tech-
nology down the road … but the
timing is incredibly uncertain.”
Questor, which is a profitable
company, rents or sells its incin-
erators. Key risks are a slowdown
in the oil and gas sector in the
United States or the easing of en-
vironmental-protection regula-
tions by politicians, he notes.
“Regulation certainly provides a
tailwind.”
GREG TAYLOR, PORTFOLIO
MANAGER AT REDWOOD ASSET
MANAGEMENT INC., TORONTO
The pick: Drone Delivery Cana-
da Corp. (FLT-X)
52-week range: 88 cents to $2.26
a share
Drone Delivery’s pilot project to
fly supplies between the North-
ern Ontario communities of
Moosonee and Moose Factory is
an important step toward devel-
oping a commercial delivery ser-
vice using unmanned aerial vehi-
cles, says Mr. Taylor. The Toron-
to-based company recently ob-
tained federal approval to fly its
drones without having to be in
the line of sight of a ground-
based operator. The drone tech-
nology is disruptive to tradition-
al shipping methods, including
helicopters and couriers, and
could open new markets in
northern communities that have
“super high cost of goods,” he
notes. The company doesn’t
have direct rivals, but “Amazon
will probably be a longer-term
competitor,” he says. Drone De-
livery will have revenue this year
but won’t be profitable yet, he
says. “You are buying into the fu-
ture.”
The pick: Nubeva Technologies
Ltd. (NBVA-X)
52-week range: 72 cents to $1.90
a share
Nubeva, based in San Jose, Calif.,
has developed security software
that protects businesses that are
migrating the management of
their data to public cloud plat-
forms, says Mr. Taylor. Major
cloud players include Amazon
Web Services and Microsoft
Azure. Given recent high-profile
data breaches, Nubeva’s block-
chain-based cybersecurity ser-
vice addresses a major concern,
he says. Chevron Corp. is a client,
and the company is talking to
other Fortune 500 firms, he adds.
Nubeva has a solid management
team, including chief executive
officer Randy Chou, who has
been involved in tech startups
and successfully exited them
through sales or going public,
Mr. Taylor says. “Even if competi-
tion comes on, there should be
room for a lot of companies to
grow and disrupt the current
standard of practice [of relying
on cloud providers for security].”
STEVEN PALMER, PRESIDENT
OF ALPHANORTH ASSET
MANAGEMENT INC., TORONTO
The pick: Venzee Technologies
Inc. (VENZ-X)
52-week range: 22 cents to $1.85 a
share
Vancouver-based Venzee has de-
veloped software that allows
suppliers to share product infor-
mation easily with online retail-
ers, says Mr. Palmer. Its technol-
ogy lets suppliers avoid the la-
bour-intensive job of filling in
spreadsheets about product de-
tails to match retailers’ require-
ments. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is
the first major retailer to come
on board, and others are in dis-
cussions, he says. Venzee’s tech-
nology is potentially disruptive
because it dramatically lowers la-
bour costs for suppliers. The
company, which had nominal
revenue last year, is expecting to
make US$5-million to US$10-mil-
lion this year, he says. Venzee
was founded in 2014 by its presi-
dent, Kate Hiscox, who has had
success as a serial entrepreneur,
he notes. Salsify Inc. and Shot-
farm LLC are competitors in the
space, but Venzee seems to be
gaining more traction with re-
tailers, he said.
The pick: EEStor Corp. (ESU-X)
52-week range: 25 to 68 cents a
share
Toronto-based EEStor owns a
majority stake in a Texas devel-
oper of energy storage technol-
ogy that has the potential to be
disruptive to the battery indus-
try, says Mr. Palmer. EEStor was
formerly known as ZENN Motor
Co., which once built low-speed
electric cars in Canada but
changed its business to focus on
electricity storage devices known
as ultracapacitors. The technol-
ogy is designed to boost power
density and reduce the cost for
energy storage, he says. “They
have had independent tests
done to show that it works. … I
expect it will be announcing
some more technical achieve-
ments over the next few
months.” EEStor will need to
partner with a big player to ad-
vance to the next level of testing,
and then commercialize its tech-
nology, he says. “There is risk be-
cause it’s an early-stage compa-
ny, but the [potential] upside is
massive,” he says.
Special to The Globe and Mail
O THE GLOBE AND MAIL . | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2018
Where not to seek
investing advice
Clichés and speculation from talking heads
abound in the 24-hour financial news cycle
KIRA VERMOND
sk Dan Solin, author of the Smartest series of invest-
A ment books, to talk about bad advice coming from tel-
evision’s financial pundits and he gives a short laugh.
“How much time do you have?” he asks.
As it turns out, much of what emerges from today’s 24-
hour financial news cycle, especially in the United States,
drives him bonkers. Opinions about stock picking, trading
manoeuvres and market predictions are a dime a dozen, but
solid, balanced information is usually in short supply.
“The [advice givers] are well dressed. They’re very artic-
ulate. They’re often well credentialed – and everything
they’re saying is complete nonsense,” says Mr. Solin, who is
based in Naples, Fla.
While Canada’s business and finance programs tend to be
lower key and host fewer talking heads, average investors
flipping channels or watching online are likely influenced by
the sound bites and investment clichés that proliferate on
either side of the border, says Noel D’Souza, a fee-only money
coach and financial planner in Toronto.
“The problem is that oftentimes these junk things that
come out have an element of truth to them,” he explains.
“But they’re taking that element of truth and then over-gen-
eralizing it.”
It’s easy to understand why investors’ ears are tuned for
chestnuts. A few weeks ago, Adrian Mastracci, a fee-only se-
nior portfolio manager with Lycos Asset Management Inc. in
Vancouver, counted the number of major economic data re-
leases out of the United States – about jobs, factory orders
and consumer credit, for instance – and he came up with 19 in
seven days.
“You have an avalanche of stuff coming your way every
day of the week,” he says. “There are quite a few investors
who keep track of it and follow it. Heaven only knows what
they get out of it.”
Against this backdrop of economic noise, here are a few
maxims, platitudes and just plain worthless bits of advice
that pop up in the media.
‘IT’S DIFFERENT THIS TIME’
Dot-com bubbles, overinflated housing markets and run-
away bull markets might seem like different beasts on the
outside, but their trajectories show similar patterns of over-
optimism and panic. Booms and busts just happen to involve
different timelines and people.
Mr. Mastracci points out similarities between the financial
shockwaves felt in 2001 and then again 2008. “The same kind
of thing keeps happening over and over. We make the same
mistakes,” he says.
‘HIGH FEES DON’T MATTER AS LONG AS THE INVESTMENT IS
MAKING MONEY’
Making money for whom, exactly? “Fees always matter,” says
Mr. D’Souza. “No matter what the investment is, you would
be better off with more money in your pocket if the fees were
lower.”
Consider the ramifications of being charged a high mu-
tual-fund fee over many years. A $100 investment that makes
a strong 13 per cent and compounds annually would be worth
more than $3,900 in 30 years. But if you strip away 3 per cent
of those earnings in order to pay fees, even without a one-
time sales or redemption fee, the 30-year amount would be
about $1,560.
Is that investment manager’s work worth giving up such a
substantial portion of your retirement?
‘DON’T WORRY, THE STOCK MARKET WILL COME BACK’
Historically, we know this to be true. The real question is how
long it will take.
What if the timing doesn’t align with your financial goals,
Mr. D’Souza asks. “If the market really crashes the year before
you retire and you have to start drawing on your portfolio, do
you have that time for it to come back?”
He also points out that this same general advice for indi-
vidual stocks is even more irresponsible. “Oh, stocks go up
and down? Well, you know, Nortel won’t and Sears Canada
won’t.”
‘IT WAS OBVIOUS THIS WAS COMING’
The housing market correction in Toronto? It has been pre-
dicted for years. The inevitable cooling of the stock market?
Hindsight is everything. So when financial experts prophe-
size the next recession or investment plunge and are correct,
what does that actually mean? Probably not much; even a
broken clock is right twice a day.
“Really, what actionable advice can an investor take just
knowing that something is coming? They really need to
know when – and nobody knows that,” says Mr. D’Souza.
‘THE MARKETS ARE BOUND TO …’
Investment predictions might be Mr. Solin’s biggest irrita-
tion. Studies have shown that people – even those with cre-
dentials – do a poor job of buying low and selling high. “Mar-
kets are basically random, right? We know this.”
Instead of paying attention to these talking heads, step
back and consider Mr. Solin’s own investment guidance and
focus on what you actually have power over. Buy low-fee
funds, minimize and defer taxes to the extent you can, and
diversify your holdings to alleviate risk.
“These are all things we can control,” he says. “The rest of it
is just noise.”
Special to The Globe and Mail
Consumers of financial media face ‘an avalanche’ of data, says
Adrian Mastracci. DARRYL DYCK/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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Can you really prepare for a market crash?

It’s not what you do
now, but what you
should have been doing
all along, advisors say
TERRY CAIN
nvestors can’t be blamed for
Mr. Mastracci says fretting and
worrying about volatility does
not help. “Market mayhem is a
normal occurrence, in all direc-
tions. Investors will often have
little time, if any, to react,” he
says.
One tool he finds helpful is to
sketch out what clients may do
when markets significantly fall
back or advance. “A few what-if
delivering results. “That is why I
make it my focus,” he says.
A key part of an asset alloca-
tion plan is to periodically reba-
lance portfolios so they return to
their designated weightings. In-
vestors who have been following
this strategy have been selling
some of their stocks and equity-
based funds from time to time
over the past few years as mar-
protect themselves against major
market drops.
Among them is holding cash
and bonds in your portfolio and
owning investments that gener-
ate income (such as dividends)
so the portfolio’s return isn’t
solely dependent on equity pric-
es going up. Mr. Newman is also a
fan of dividend reinvestment
plans (DRIPs) that automatically
number of things to protect
themselves against major market
drops, says Allan Meyer, a direc-
tor and portfolio manager at
Wickham Investment Counsel in
Hamilton. They can sell some po-
sitions and increase their cash
holdings, buy bonds, or just stay
in high-quality stocks and “ride
through the drops,” he says. More
exotic techniques such as op-

I feeling nervous about the

market’s recent volatility. The
violent ups and downs have
many people wondering whether
they should take action with
their investments to prepare for a
sustained drop in stock prices.
The message from investment
advisors, however, seems to be: If
you plan ahead, and periodically
rebalance your portfolio, you
won’t be stressed out and make
unfortunate panic moves.
“I don’t know where the mar-
kets are heading. I don’t fret
about it and neither should in-
vestors,” says Adrian Mastracci,
senior portfolio manager at Lycos
Asset Management in Vancouver.
His view is that being fully pre-
pared for any outcome is wise in-
vesting strategy, regardless of
when a market crash becomes re-
ality – and how long it lasts.
scenarios should help navigate
the elements of surprise.”
These scenarios are part of an
overall long-term investment
strategy, which Mr. Mastracci sees
as the key to effective financial
planning – and investor peace of
mind.
The central focus of the invest-
ment strategy should be on asset
allocation. Studies have shown
that asset allocation has by far
the greatest impact on portfolios
– not stock selection or market
timing. Asset allocation is the rel-
ative weighting of asset classes,
such as cash, bonds and stocks.
Mr. Mastracci calls market tim-
ing – that is, selling stocks before
an anticipated drop, with the ex-
pectation they can be bought
back later, more cheaply – a “low
percentage strategy.” Asset allo-
cation has a far higher chance of
kets rose, and putting the pro-
ceeds into underperforming as-
set classes such as bonds.
This process has insulated
them from overexposure to one
sector, which can hurt when mar-
ket volatility strikes. It also be-
comes a natural (and automatic)
way to sell high and buy low.
“Learning to take some occa-
sional profits is sound strategy,”
says Mr. Mastracci. “The flaw is
that the majority of investors
have not set the initial asset allo-
cation targets. Hence there is no
yardstick to measure up to.”
The importance of asset allo-
cation and rebalancing is a theme
for other advisors as well.
Greg Newman, a senior wealth
advisor, director and portfolio
manager at Scotia Wealth Man-
agement in Toronto, suggests a
number of ways investors can
use dividend payouts to purchase
more of the same security.
More sophisticated investors
use advanced techniques to pro-
tect investments. These include
options instruments such as puts
and calls to guard against market
drops, though these can be ex-
pensive and complicated for
most people.
Mr. Newman illustrates how
portfolio rebalancing can help
protect investors. He uses a sim-
ple example – say a portfolio be-
gins with a planned 50/50 mix
between equities and fixed in-
come. As the stock market rises,
and if the investor regularly reba-
lances, when the inevitable mar-
ket correction comes she or he
will take a direct hit on just half
the portfolio, rather than a po-
tentially greater share.
Individual investors can do a
tions, inverse exchange-traded
funds (ETFs) and taking short po-
sitions in stocks “should be left to
the pros,” he says.
Mr. Meyer believes portfolio
rebalancing is a key way to help
investors at all times, including
reducing losses in market down-
turns. “Rebalancing forces you to
do some selling at the highs and
enforces a discipline that is mis-
sing in most portfolios,” he says.
Portfolio rebalancing is impor-
tant, but it really only works if
you have an overall investment
plan. “It’s hard to move the yard-
sticks if they are not set,” says Mr.
Mastracci.
But he believes setting those
targets, and sticking to them, will
see them through the market’s
ups and downs.
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Woodfibre LNG blames Ottawa for stalled project

Energy firm says
government’s
‘uncertainty’ is behind
delays on new terminal
BRENT JANG VANCOUVER
Woodfibre LNG is warning that
its B.C. proposal to start con-
structing an energy terminal in
2018 is at risk of being delayed
indefinitely, blaming what it calls
“uncertainty” from Ottawa’s in-
decision on whether to grant tar-
iff relief.
The company cautions that its
plans to build a liquefied natural
gas terminal near Squamish, 65
kilometres north of Vancouver,
are stalled because of federal du-
ties against imports of fabricated
industrial steel components.
The situation highlights the
role reversal on Canada’s energy
stage when it comes to LNG. The
BC NDP government backs LNG
exports to Asia while Ottawa
faces pressure from the resource
industry to help fulfill British Co-
lumbia’s LNG dreams. That is in
sharp contrast to British Colum-
bia’s opposition to and Ottawa’s
support for Kinder Morgan’s
Trans Mountain oil pipeline ex-
pansion from the Edmonton ar-
ea to Burrard Inlet in the Port of
Vancouver.
Last month, B.C. Premier John
Horgan’s NDP minority govern-
ment unveiled measures de-
signed to reduce risks for LNG
proponents in the province, no-
tably by providing sales-tax relief
for construction and eliminating
specific income tax on the indus-
try.
But Woodfibre’s $1.6-billion
venture and a much-larger B.C.
project, LNG Canada’s $40-bil-
lion proposal, have been waiting
at least seven months for Ottawa
to rule on tariff relief in the form
of exemptions to duties on im-
ported steel components. LNG
Canada filed its “duty remission”
application in August with the
federal Finance Department, and
Woodfibre followed one month
later.
Woodfibre had initially hoped
to award a contract for engineer-
ing, procurement and construc-
tion (EPC) last year, but revised
its timeline in hopes of starting
to build in 2018.
“The uncertainty over what, if
any, anti-dumping or counter-
vailing duties will be applied to
our project makes it difficult to
award an EPC contract like we
plan in 2018,” said Jennifer Sid-
don, associate vice-president of
corporate communications at
Woodfibre, which is privately
owned by Singapore-based RGE
Pte. Ltd. “It would be difficult to
make that award without having
a pretty clear understanding of
what the project costs are.”
The Canada Border Services
Agency ruled in the spring of
2017 that steel components from
South Korea and Spain are being
dumped in Canada at below
market value, while China is
both subsidizing and dumping
its industrial steel goods.
Most of the foreign products
being targeted pertain to China
and South Korea, with anti-
dumping duties of up to 45.8 per
cent on imports from those two
countries, and countervailing
duties of up to 70.2 per cent
against China.
“Finance Canada continues to
carefully monitor this issue, and
we are conducting normal due
diligence and consultation with
implicated stakeholders as we do
when considering all remission
requests,” a Finance Department
spokesman said in a statement.
LNG Canada, which wants to
build an export terminal in Kiti-
mat in northern B.C., is taking
court action in addition to ask-
ing the Finance Department for
duty exemptions. Lawyers ap-
peared on behalf of LNG Canada
last week in the Federal Court of
Appeal. The consortium, led by
Royal Dutch Shell PLC, is seeking
a judicial review of the Canadian
International Trade Tribunal’s
decision in 2017 to deny the
Shell-led group’s request to be
exempted from the new federal
tariffs.
“LNG Canada continues to
seek the earliest trade remedies
available to the project,” said Su-
sannah Pierce, LNG Canada’s di-
rector of external relations.
She expects the appeal court
to rule in mid-September on ap-
plications filed by LNG Canada,
oil and gas producer Suncor En-
ergy Inc. and engineering firm
Fluor Canada Ltd.
If the court rules in favour of
LNG Canada, Suncor and Fluor,
then the case will be referred to
the trade tribunal to “decide
whether the fabricated industrial
steel components in large com-
plex modules are subject to du-
ties or whether to grant exemp-
tions,” Ms. Pierce said.
LNG Canada plans to name its
prime contractor by the end of
April, though industry observers
emphasize that it will be up to
Shell and its three Asian partners
to make the final investment de-
cision.
Analysts believe the Canadian
tariffs could inflate LNG Cana-
da’s costs by at least $1-billion for
its first phase and increase
Woodfibre’s costs by more than
$100-million, depending on how
the duties are applied to specific
imports. The steel portion typi-
cally accounts for about 20 per
cent of the value of an LNG mod-
ule.
“There aren’t any module fab-
rication and assembly yards with
proven LNG experience in B.C.
and Alberta that are big
enough,” Ms. Siddon said.

Bombardier: Sale of Toronto site likely to be the first stage in battle at city hall
FROM B1
CK Asset Holdings could not im-
mediately be reached for com-
ment. Avro Bourdeau said its
$800-million bid − the only one
that includes preserving the air-
plane manufacturing business on
the site − was rejected.
Bombardier wants to sell the
Toronto property as a way to gen-
erate cash from an asset that’s
not being used to its full poten-
tial. The company says it only us-
es about a tenth of the site and
shoulders the full cost of using
the two-kilometre-long runway.
“It’s an amazing piece of land,”
Bombardier chief executive Alain
Bellemare told analysts on the
company’s earnings call in Febru-
ary. “We can do the same type of
work somewhere else and really
unlock huge value.”
Bombardier currently builds
Global luxury jets and Q400 tur-
boprop planes at the Downsview
site. The Montreal-based compa-
ny has raised the option of mov-
ing these manufacturing oper-
ations to Toronto’s Pearson inter-
national airport.
Proceeds from a Downsview
deal and those of a recent share
sale could contribute as much as
US$1-billion of cash to shore up
Bombardier’s balance sheet or to
help buy back a minority stake in
its train business from the Caisse
de dépôt et placement du Qué-
bec, JP Morgan analyst Seth Seif-
man said in an April 13 note.
Although the land is for sale,
Bombardier management has
never expressed any intention
publicly to sell the Q400 business
Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, chair of CK Asset Holdings, peers
down at the city during an interview in 2016. JUSTIN CHIN/BLOOMBERG
itself. The unit was once consid-
ered a shaky part of Bombardier’s
commercial aircraft lineup, but in
recent months it has begun to see
the fruits of a bolstered market-
ing and sales effort implemented
two years ago, winning new or-
ders from India’s SpiceJet among
others.
Still, history suggests Bombar-
dier would entertain offers for the
turboprop business if they were
reasonable, AltaCorp Capital ana-
lyst Chris Murray said. “You have
to be realistic and remember
Bombardier has sold other pro-
grams in the past as they reached
maturity,” he said, including de
Havilland Canada assets now
owned by Viking Air Ltd. and its
water-bomber business.
Avro Bourdeau also made an
offer to purchase Bombardier’s
regional jet business. The as-
sembly of those jets is now done
in Mirabel, Que., but Avro Bour-
deau’s plan would shift that work
to Downsview.
Bombardier’s rejection letter
said Avro Bourdeau had no expe-
rience manufacturing airplanes
and questioned the company’s
ability to obtain financing. But
the company’s CEO Marc Bour-
deau said he interpreted the re-
jection letter as a negotiating tac-
tic.
“We don’t believe that Bom-
bardier is going to send [Q400
production] over to Pearson,”
said Mr. Bourdeau, citing the
costs of purchasing real estate,
shifting tooling to another plant
and halting production of the
planes for up to a year while the
assembly line is transferred out of
Downsview.
Mr. Bourdeau acknowledged
that his plan would require pub-
lic and government support, but
noted that it conforms with To-
ronto’s requirement that the land
retain its current industrial zon-
ing.
A Bombardier spokesman de-
clined to answer questions about
options for the Downsview site
and the company’s intentions for
the planes built there. “We have
nothing to announce,” said Si-
mon Letendre.
The sale of the Toronto site will
likely be the first stage of a poten-
tially long battle at city hall. The
entire area, much of which is tak-
en up by Bombardier’s test run-
way or is vacant, is zoned for em-
ployment use: factories or offices.
“The employment lands, once
they are gone they are gone forev-
er,” long-time local Councillor
Maria Augimeri said. “You can’t
buy them back, you can’t manu-
facture them. And they create the
base for Toronto’s economy. ”
In addition to the loss of the
3,600 aerospace manufacturing
jobs, a sale could also see a new
buyer scrap Bombardier’s run-
way, which would loosen flight-
path-related building-height re-
strictions.
Unifor is in the midst of nego-
tiations on a new contract, but
has received no answers to its
questions to the company about
the future of the site and the
Q400 and Global programs, Uni-
for president Jerry Dias said.
The current contract has a so-
called work ownership clause
that requires approval of the
union before major changes can
be made, such as Bombardier’s
plan two years ago to outsource
cockpit and wing assembly of the
Q400.
Toronto Mayor John Tory told
reporters recently that preserving
the employment lands was his
“going-in position” in any talks
over the property, and that keep-
ing that zoning must be the city’s
“principle focus.”
Mr. Tory also said there was
plenty of residential land nearby:
“I don’t accept the notion that ev-
ery single piece of land without
exception … should be just allo-
cated because we just decide we
are going to have condo towers
and apartment buildings every-
where. We need places for people
to work.”
Employment lands are also
taxed at a much higher rate, and
they need fewer services than res-
idential zones, making keeping
them in the city important to the
municipal government’s bottom
line.
However, lobbying is already
under way. Bombardier has hired
Toronto-Dominion Bank to han-
dle the sale. Ashley Martis, a di-
rector with TD’s real estate arm,
registered as a lobbyist earlier
this month and met with senior
officials in the mayor’s office, se-
nior city officials and Toronto
chief planner Gregg Lintern, ac-
cording to the city’s lobbyist reg-
istry.
Mr. Lintern said he outlined in
his meeting with TD how com-
plex any potential rezoning
would be.
With a file from
reporter Jacqueline Nelson.

Catalyst: In a letter to investors, firm Energy: B.C. depends on Alberta for gas
doesn’t detail how it got the interviews FROM B1 rently $1.55 a litre, the highest in Canada,
according to the Kent Group. The Cana-
The Vancouver region is already home to dian average is $1.35, which is also the
FROM B1 whether it came from Black Cube. He Canada’s most expensive gasoline, and price in Toronto. In Calgary, it is $1.29. A
said: “The confidential communication the prospect of even higher prices would year ago, the situation was the same,
In its letter to fund investors, Catalyst to our LPs reflects our strong belief that cut into the provincial economy, accord- with prices somewhat lower, but Van-
does not detail how it went about getting Catalyst’s rights were violated on the ing to industry leaders. couverites still paying the most of any-
the interviews or when and where they Wind transaction. This confidential let- Greg D’Avignon, CEO of the B.C. busi- where in Canada.
were conducted. Nor does it describe ter outlined some of the reasons for this ness council, said the economies of Al- One reason is taxes, which are about 10
who conducted the questioning. belief and Catalyst’s intention to explore berta and B.C. are more integrated than cents a litre more in Vancouver than on
Black Cube, a private investigation and pursue all appropriate legal reme- any other two provinces, and the cost of average in Canada – accounting for half
firm founded by veterans of Israel’s intel- dies in order to protect our investor’s Alberta reducing the flow of energy to the price gap between Vancouver and
ligence service, allegedly had operatives rights.” B.C. could reverberate widely. the national average. A second factor is
pose as recruiters for a global private eq- The push to introduce new evidence “There’s always unintended conse- the already tight supply situation on the
uity firm who approached West Face em- to second Wind lawsuit, which Catalyst quences when you have a trade war,” Mr. Trans Mountain pipeline, which has no
ployees with potential job offers to get first filed in May, 2016, comes as ques- D’Avignon said of the impact that could room to move additional gasoline, Mr.
them talking. Black Cube has also done tions mount about the value of several be felt in both B.C. and Alberta. “There’s Ervin said.
work for disgraced movie businesses owned by Cata- the increased price of goods, everything Karl Gillies, president of Surrey-based
producer Harvey Wein- lyst and its ability to cash from produce to clothing over the course Diamond Delivery, which delivers an ar-
stein, an assignment that out at attractive prices. of time.” ray of goods in a fleet of more than 180 ve-
executives in the firm sub- The confidential Litigation may be part The GDP impact of higher prices is hicles, said higher trucking costs would
sequently apologized for of Catalyst’s strategy to try hard to exactly quantify, Mr. D’Avignon hurt consumers, dampen spending and
taking on. West Face filed a communication to boost its investment re- said, and the business council has not radiate negatively through the economy.
suit against Catalyst and to our LPs turns. In fact, the Wind done the analysis yet. But Mr. D’Avignon “We supply everything to anybody,”
Mr. Glassman in December reflects our lawsuit was given a value said an array of negative factors could in- Mr. Gillies said. “We deal with thousands
alleging the use of the firm strong belief of US$447-million in Catal- clude a decline in the Canadian dollar as of customers. Without fuel, the trucks
against its employees. yst’s 2016 annual report to foreign investors sidestep Canada be- don’t move.”
The Catalyst investor that Catalyst’s investors of two of its cause of the political fights and per- Pipeline politics are frustrating Mr.
document purports to con- rights were largest funds. ceived instability. “It just doesn’t make a Gillies, given that Kinder Morgan Canada
tain short excerpts from in- violated on the Some other Catalyst in- lot of sense,” Mr. D’Avignon said of the Ltd. has the federal green light to expand
terviews with a former Wind vestments are performing escalating tensions between B.C. and Al- Trans Mountain. “It’s already approved,
West Face portfolio manag- poorly. The firm sold a mi- berta. is what I understand.”
er and a second ex-staffer – transaction. nority stake in distressed B.C. depends on Alberta for gasoline, One vulnerable group of customers
both unnamed – that Cata- lender Callidus Capital most of which comes on the Trans that have been working for a more se-
DAN GAGNIER
lyst says show that West CATALYST SPOKESMAN Corp. for $14 a share in Mountain pipeline, according to the Na- cure supply link is a consortium of 25 air-
Face received leaked de- 2014, and the stock closed tional Energy Board. The pipeline is able lines that use the Vancouver Interna-
tails about Catalyst’s Wind discussions, Tuesday at $4.91. Catalyst and its funds to deliver raw and refined products, gas- tional Airport.
allowing it to structure a bid for the wire- own over 70 per cent of Callidus and have oline, diesel and jet fuel, along with oil About 40 per cent of the jet fuel the
less carrier with fewer conditions. loaned the firm more than $300-million. and diluted bitumen. B.C. produces airlines use comes from Parkland Fuel
“Accordingly Catalyst will use its best Catalyst has said it aims to take public some gasoline in two refineries, one in Corp. refinery in Burnaby and the rest ar-
efforts to ensure that all of the relevant two of its funds’ major holdings – Gate- Burnaby at the pipeline terminus and a rives from the Cherry Point Refinery in
facts and documents come to light, and way Casinos & Entertainment Ltd. and a small facility in Prince George. Less than Washington State, by barge and tanker
to pursue all available remedies to obtain unit of biotech company Therapure Bio- 10 per cent of B.C.’s gasoline currently ar- truck. The consortium’s Vancouver Air-
redress for the benefit of the investors in pharma Inc. – in hopes of realizing value rives by ship or barge from the Pacific port Fuel Facilities Corp. is building a
the funds,” the document said. for the assets. It also disclosed that it is Northwest of the United States. new marine terminal on the Fraser River
Catalyst spokesman Dan Gagnier de- exploring sales of Advantage Rent A Car “The Kinder Morgan pipeline is not an that will be able to take jet fuel off tank-
clined to answer specific questions about and Sonar Entertainment in documents inexhaustible supply,” Mr. Ervin said. ers from Asia. A 15-kilometre pipeline
the information in the document and that it sent to financial backers. Regular gasoline in Vancouver is cur- would connect it with the airport.
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Scotiabank plans
to enter the ETF race
CLARE O’HARA
Another Canadian bank is pre-
paring to enter the exchange-
traded fund industry, with Bank
of Nova Scotia planning the
launch of a suite of its own Sco-
tia-branded ETFs.
The bank’s asset-management
division – 1832 Asset Manage-
ment LP – has filed a preliminary
prospectus with regulators for
four ETFs: Scotia Strategic Fixed
Income ETF Portfolio (SFIX), Sco-
tia Strategic Canadian Equity ETF
Portfolio (SCAD), Scotia Strategic
U.S. Equity ETF Portfolio (SUSA)
and Scotia Strategic International
Equity ETF Portfolio (SINT).
Management fees for the
funds range from 0.50 per cent to
0.65 per cent. All four ETFs would
follow a “fund of fund” invest-
ment strategy, whereby each ETF
will consist of a portfolio made
up of one or more underlying
ETFs.
Scotiabank, in the filing made
on Friday, did not disclose which
underlying ETFs will be included.
The fund of funds could incor-
porate a number of BlackRock or
Dynamic-branded ETFs. Black-
Rock Asset Management Canada
has been named a sub-adviser to
the Scotia ETFs, a partnership
that first came to fruition last
year when Dynamic Funds, a sub-
sidiary of Scotiabank, entered the
ETF industry with five active
funds in January, 2017.
Over the past year, Dynamic
launched three more funds for a
total of eight ETFs with $715-mil-
The secret to Premium Brands’ premium returns
JOHN
HEINZL
OPINION
YIELD HOG
ungry for dividends? Pre-
H mium Brands Holdings
Corp. (PBH) won’t make
you rich on its modest yield
alone, but the food company’s
soaring share price and growing
payout have hit the spot for in-
vestors.
Since I first profiled the fast-
growing food manufacturer and
distributor in March, 2017, the
shares have produced a total re-
turn, including dividends, of
about 53 per cent, crushing the
total return of about 3.1 per cent
for the S&P/TSX Composite In-
dex.
For Premium Brands, such
outperformance is nothing new.
If you’d invested $10,000 in the
company five years ago and rein-
vested all of your dividends, you
shares would now be worth
$78,600 – equivalent to an an-
nualized return of about 51 per
cent.
Now, let’s get real. Such a
scorching performance can’t go
on forever. But if the company
can continue to execute on its
growth strategy, the shares could
still deliver some tasty returns
for investors seeking capital and
dividend growth over the long
run.
The secret to Premium
Brands’ stellar returns? Acquisi-
tions. From 2005 through the
end of 2017, the Vancouver-based
company invested nearly $1-bil-
lion in more than 40 deals, focus-
ing on regional food businesses
with strong entrepreneurial
management teams that can
benefit from the capital, exper-
tise and economies of scale that
Premium Brands provides.
Last year, Premium Brands
generated revenue of nearly $2.2-
billion – up 18 per cent from 2016
– selling packaged deli meats,
prepared sandwiches, seafood,
baked goods, beef jerky and oth-
lion in assets under manage-
ment.
The partnership was a first of
its kind for BlackRock, which
dominates the ETF market with
$58-billion in assets as of March
31. The Dynamic iShares ETFs
have a similar strategy to the pro-
posed Scotia ETFs, as they invest
in “underlying” Dynamic mutual
funds that are only available to
iShares and are not accessible to
the general public.
Upon regulatory
approval, Scotiabank
will be the fourth
Canadian bank to enter
the ETF market.
Scotiabank declined to com-
ment on its entrance into the ETF
marketplace. But in an interview
last December with The Globe
and Mail, Scotiabank’s head of as-
set management Glen Gowland
said the bank was actively look-
ing to enter the ETF space under
the Scotiabank brand and want-
ed to continue to leverage their
partnership with BlackRock.
“When looking at the ETF
space, one of the things you have
to be thoughtful about is how
you go to market,” Mr. Gowland
said.
“Cost and offering are impor-
tant but right now there are al-
ready a huge number of zombie
ETFs with very little assets and
flows and just sitting on the shelf.
That is something we would cer-
tainly like to avoid. When we en-
be our busiest year yet. We still
have a very robust acquisition
pipeline and we think that it will
continue well into 2019.”
In addition to announcing
four more acquisitions for a total
of $227-million – two meat pro-
ducers in Ontario, one in British
Columbia and a seafood distrib-
utor in Quebec – Premium
Brands boosted its dividend by
13.1 per cent to $1.90 annually, the
fifth increase since 2013. Based
on the closing price of $120.80 on
Tuesday, the shares yield almost
1.6 per cent.
I would expect
to see more
dividend hikes ahead.
With the dividend payout ra-
tio comfortably below 50 per
cent of earnings and Premium
Brand’s business still expanding
rapidly, I would expect to see
more dividend hikes ahead.
Not including the four most
recent acquisitions, the company
projected 2018 revenue of be-
tween $2.65-billion and $2.73-bil-
lion and adjusted EBITDA (earn-
ings before interest, taxes, depre-
ter, we want to make sure we en-
ter in an area that meets our cus-
tomers’ needs. Similar to the Dy-
namic ETF launch – we want to
make sure we are very clear with
our offering and not just simply
entering the ETF business to say
we are in the business.”
Upon regulatory approval,
Scotiabank will be the fourth
Canadian bank to enter the ETF
market. Currently, Bank of Mon-
treal, Royal Bank of Canada and
Toronto-Dominion Bank offer
ETF products through their asset-
management divisions.
“Scotia’s entrance is another
vote of confidence for the viabil-
ity and continued growth of ex-
change-traded funds,” said Kevin
Gopaul, chair of the Canadian
ETF Association.
Offering fund-of-funds ETFs
has been a popular strategy
among several of the larger asset
managers with substantial distri-
bution networks and prominent
brands. Mackenzie Investments,
BMO and TD have all launched
ETF products in a mutual fund
wrapper to sell through different
networks – although these tend
to come with a higher price tag.
Both Mackenzie and BMO As-
set Management packaged their
ETF products in a mutual fund
wrapper to sell through their mu-
tual fund channels, while TD As-
set Management packaged their
ETF products into a D-series mu-
tual fund, which are targeted to-
ward do-it-yourself investors.
SCOTIABANK (BNS)
CLOSE: $76.40, DOWN 7¢
jor customer could all hurt the
company. What’s more, because
the stock trades at a hefty mul-
tiple of more than 27 times esti-
mated earnings for 2018 – imply-
ing strong growth expectations –
any signs of a slowdown could
deal a blow to the share price.
Those risks notwithstanding,
analysts remain upbeat on the
company. According to Thomson
Reuters, there are seven buys,
two holds on no sells. Keep in
mind, however, that the shares –
which have surged about 15 per
cent since the fourth-quarter re-
sults were released – are already
closing in on the average analyst
12-month price target of $126,
which suggests short-term re-
turns could be muted.
Even the company has ex-
pressed reservations about the
rocket-like performance of the
share price in recent years.
“While we are pleased to see
the value inherent in our compa-
ny being recognized and our
long-term shareholders reward-
ed, we do view the recent sharp
increases with some caution,”
Mr. Paleologou wrote in his 2016
message to shareholders, after
the stock had appreciated by
about 80 per cent that year
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How delaying CPP can help
leave less money on the table
FREDERICK VETTESE
OPINION
Partner at Morneau Shepell. He is also the author of Retirement
Income for Life: Getting More without Saving More.
ost retirees say their biggest fear is outliving their
M money. One wouldn’t know it, though, from the
way they convert their savings into income. Reti-
rees are loath to take advantage of certain strate-
gies that would guarantee substantial income for life. In par-
ticular, few people like the idea of buying an annuity and few-
er still wait until 70 to begin collecting their Canada Pension
Plan benefits.
So what is going on? Of all the possible explanations for
why people don’t act in their best interests, the most likely
perhaps is that an even greater fear lurks beneath the surface:
the fear that they will leave money on the table in the event of
early death.
Unfortunately, acting on that second fear doesn’t always
lead to the best outcome. Consider Carl and Hanna, who are
both turning 65. Like most new retirees, they want to scoop
up as much government money as they can in case one of
them dies early. Their goal is to maximize the value of Carl’s
CPP entitlement. That value is the sum of all the CPP pension
cheques Carl actually gets during his lifetime plus the value of
the survivor pension that CPP would pay to Hanna. (For the
sake of simplicity, I’m assuming Hanna will outlive Carl.)
Let’s say Carl’s CPP pension starting at 65 is $1,000 a month
and Hanna’s is $700. If Carl dies a year after retiring, he will
have received 12 CPP cheques for a total of $12,000. In addi-
tion, he is passing along a survivor pension to Hanna equal to
60 per cent of his CPP pension or $600 a month (plus infla-
tion).
The trouble is that this survivor pension plus Hanna’s own
CPP pension exceeds the maximum annual amount that CPP
will pay to any individual. Some complicated CPP combina-
tion rules come into play that end
up reducing Hanna’s overall pen-
sion entitlement. In spite of that,
we still find that the value of Carl’s Studies have shown
entitlement is greater if CPP starts
at 65 rather than 70 assuming Carl that people routinely
dies a year after retirement. In overestimate the
fact, starting CPP early is the bet- probability of dying
ter choice if Carl dies at any time
up to age 80.
young, which is why
This of course is exactly why they tend to favour
people don’t like to start their CPP starting CPP early.
late, but we’re not finished yet. If
Carl dies after 80, then the better strategy is to have started
CPP at 70 instead of 65 and the gain from doing so grows with
every succeeding year. The gain or loss due to starting CPP at
70 rather than 65 is shown in Figure 1.
Based on Figure 1, the question of whether to take CPP
early or late seems to be practically a tossup. We can expect
that if this chart were the only information to go on, then peo-
ple who are predisposed to take CPP early will do so.
Figure 1, however, is incomplete. The gain or loss at any age
is useful information only if one knows the probability of that
gain or loss materializing. We therefore have to weight each
gain or loss by the probability of it happening.
To understand this concept, consider a simple example.
Let’s say you win $100 if you can correctly name the winner of
the Stanley Cup. You can choose the Maple Leafs who have
maybe a 10-per-cent chance of winning it or you can choose
the Nashville Predators whose chances of winning are closer
to 30 per cent. The prize is the same $100 in each case but as
much as you might like the Leafs, the Predators are the smart-
er choice. In mathematical terms, the expected value of your
Leafs bet is $10 (10 per cent of $100) whereas the bet on the
Predators has an expected value of $30.
We can do the same thing with choosing whether to start
CPP early or late. We can multiply the possible gain or loss at
each age by the probability of death at that age. When we do
that, we see the expected losses due to starting CPP at 70 are
much smaller than the expected gains. This is shown in Fig-
ure 2.
Figure 2 also tells us is that there is always the possibility of
leaving money on the table no matter what you do. It can
happen if you delay CPP until 70 and die young and it can also
happen if you take CPP early and die much later on. Just re-
member that the odds of dying young could be smaller than
you might think. The probability that a man age 65 will die by
80 is just about one in five. For a woman, it is even lower.
Of course, Carl might have had a heart condition, which
would have increased his chances of dying before 80. But this
is not the typical situation. Studies have shown that people
routinely overestimate the probability of dying young, which
is why they tend to favour starting CPP early.
Unless you have very good reason to think your own sit-
uation is special, it is probably better to start your CPP at 70. If
you start CPP early and live an average lifetime, you’re leav-
ing more money on the table than you think.
Figure 1: Gain or loss due to starting CPP at 70
By age at which Carl dies
$80,000
60,000
40,000
20,000
0
-20,000
-40,000
-60,000
65 68 71 74 77 80 83 86 89 92 95 98
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er products to customers across ciation and amortization) of alone.

 



North America including super-
markets, convenience stores, air-
lines, restaurant chains and as-
sorted food-service operators.
Even as Premium Brands’
fourth-quarter results came in
below expectations, reflecting la-
bour shortages and supply-chain
disruptions, it said 2018 is shap-
ing up as a strong year.
“We are extremely busy,” chief
executive officer and president
George Paleologou said on the
fourth-quarter conference call in
$244-million to $256-million, up
from $190.2-million in 2017.
Driving the expected growth
this year are a new sandwich
plant in Phoenix that came on-
line last June, a meat-cutting and
distribution facility in the Toron-
to area that is scheduled for com-
pletion in 2018 and and cost sav-
ings and sales growth from ac-
quisitions in recent years.
Premium Brands’ stock isn’t
without risks. Rising raw materi-
al costs, a soft economy, food-
“Our long-term objective is to 
generate a compounded annual
return for our shareholders of 15
per cent by investing in stable, 
well-run specialty food business-
es with solid growth opportuni-
ties and attractive risk profiles.” 
So before you load up on this
fast-growing food stock, you
might want to temper your ex-

pectations – and indulge in mod-
eration.
PREMIUM BRANDS (PBH) 
           
March. “We believe that 2018 will safety recalls or the loss of a ma- CLOSE: $120.80, DOWN 61¢ !"#$%&
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A Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive travels past tanker rail cars in Medicine Hat in August, 2016.
Crude by rail made up 2.4 per cent of CP Rail’s freight revenue in 2017. BAYNE STANLEY/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Amid pipeline spat,
Fidelity bets on CP Rail
Fund manager says
he sees opportunity for
company to capitalize
on growing demand for
alternative methods of
getting crude to market
KRISTINE OWRAM
$6.9-billion Fidelity Invest-
A ments fund is adding to its
position in Canadian Pacif-
ic Railway Ltd. as a pipeline spat
increases the likelihood that en-
ergy companies will need rail to
get their oil to market.
“I don’t think that the current
consensus captures the opportu-
nity and revenue and profits of
crude by rail,” said Darren Lek-
kerkerker, who manages the eq-
uity portion of the Fidelity Cana-
dian Balanced Fund.
The fund returned 3.8 per cent
in the past year and posted an an-
nualized return of 6.7 per cent
over the past 10 years. It has out-
performed its category in eight of
the past 10 years, according to
Morningstar data.
Looking for companies poised to surprise on the upside
HUGH SMITH
NUMBER CRUNCHER
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Medical-marijuana producer
Aphria Inc. on Monday reported
its third-quarter earnings of 8
cents a share – handily beating
the consensus Street estimate of 1
cent – and its shares rose more
than 8 per cent after the market
opened.
Today, we look for companies
reporting next week that are like-
ly to have this kind of positive
earnings surprise.
THE SCREEN
The consensus Street estimate
gives all equity analysts’ esti-
mates equal weight, but, as with
most other professions, not all
analysts are equally accurate. The
SmartEstimate improves upon
the Street estimate by taking into
account how accurate the analyst
has been in covering the stock in
question in the past, as well as
how timely the estimate is (an
EYE ON EQUITIES DAVID LEEDER
NETFLIX (NFLX-NASDAQ)
CLOSE US$335.95, UP US$28.28
This year is an inflection year for
Netflix Inc., RBC Dominion Secu-
rities analyst Mark Mahaney said
after the release of “very strong”
first-quarter financial results fol-
lowing market close on Monday.
“We believe secular demand for
Internet TV is ramping rapidly
globally, and Netflix has posi-
tioned itself extremely well to
benefit from this,” he said.
Target: With an “outperform”
rating, Mr. Mahaney increased his
target to US$360 from US$350.
The consensus is US$322.85.
Although Mr. Lekkerkerker de-
scribes himself as “very cautious
on energy,” and doesn’t expect
crude prices to rise much above
current levels, he sees plenty of
opportunity for CP Rail to capital-
ize on growing demand for alter-
native ways to get crude to mar-
ket as Canadian pipeline projects
languish amid legal and political
uncertainty.
I don’t think that the
current consensus
captures the
opportunity and
revenue and profits
of crude by rail.
DARREN LEKKERKERKER
MANAGER OF THE EQUITY PORTION
OF THE FIDELITY CANADIAN
BALANCED FUND
Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd.
halted work on its Trans Moun-
tain expansion this month and
set a May 31 deadline to reach an
agreement that will allow it to
build the pipeline without the
threat of new conditions or re-
Companies with an EPS 'predicted surprise' greater than consensus estimate
COMPANY SYMBOL
Methanex Corp. MX-T
Lundin Mining Corp. LUN-T
Husky Energy Inc. HSE-T
Imperial Oil Ltd. IMO-T
Bombardier Inc. BBD.B-T
Source: Thomson Reuters Eikon
estimate made yesterday, with all
currently available information,
is more valuable than one made
200 days ago).
SmartEstimate furthers im-
proves upon the Street estimate
by looking at clusters of revi-
sions. If a number of analysts re-
vise their estimates in the same
direction at the same time, it
stands to reason that a new piece
of information has emerged that
they are all taking into account.
Any estimate that hasn’t been re-
vised since this time is consid-
ered stale (based on old informa-
tion) and omitted from our cal-
culation. These modifications
make the result a more predic-
tive number; in the past, when
the SmartEstimate has diverged
ALARIS ROYALTY (AD-TSX)
CLOSE $18.49, UP $1.63
Alaris Royalty Corp. now pos-
sesses a “compelling” risk-reward
profile and valuation for inves-
tors, according to Desjardins Se-
curities analyst Gary Ho, leading
him to raise his rating to “buy”
from “hold.” “AD has a diverse
portfolio, strong capital deploy-
ment since inception and a solid
track record of growing divi-
dends,” the analyst said.
Target: Mr. Ho maintained a tar-
get of $20.50. Consensus is $22.21.
quirements. The British Colum-
bia government plans to chal-
lenge the project in court, but
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
has said the government will start
talks with the company to find
ways to backstop it.
“In the past, crude by rail was
looked at as low-quality revenue
because it was very cyclical, but
given the lack of market access, I
think it makes sense for the ener-
gy producers to sign up to longer-
term take-or-pay contracts,
which is great for Canadian Pacif-
ic,” Mr. Lekkerkerker said.
CP’s main competitor, Mon-
treal-based Canadian National
Railway Co., has been struggling
with service issues and the ouster
last month of chief executive offi-
cer Luc Jobin, giving CP an oppor-
tunity to take market share, he
said.
Crude by rail made up a small
percentage of both railways’ total
freight revenue in 2017, with CN
slightly ahead at 2.7 per cent ver-
sus 2.4 per cent at CP.
BLOOMBERG NEWS
CP RAIL (CP)
CLOSE: $225.54, DOWN 84¢
EXPECTED EPS Combined
REPORT PREDICTED Alpha
DATE SURPRISE Model
24/04/2018 2.7% 98
25/04/2018 2.0% 97
26/04/2018 10.6% 89
27/04/2018 7.2% 85
26/04/2018 2.1% 72
from the Street consensus by
more than 2 per cent, this has
predicted the direction of earn-
ings surprise with an accuracy of
70 per cent.
Our universe for the screen is
the S&P/TSX Composite Index.
Among companies reporting
earnings next week we look for
companies where the earnings
per share (EPS) SmartEstimate is
at least 2-per-cent greater than
the Street estimate.
Next, we consider the longer-
term quality of the stock using
the Thomson Reuters Combined
Alpha Model. This is a model that
considers valuation (both rela-
tive and intrinsic), price momen-
tum (short-, medium-, long-term
and industrywide), analyst senti-
BLACK DIAMOND GROUP (BDI-TSX)
CLOSE $2.46, DOWN 7¢
Black Diamond Group Ltd.’s new
plan for its Sunset Prairie Lodge
camp is “a good outcome in a less
than ideal situation,” Raymond
James analyst Andrew Bradford
said. However, expecting earn-
ings to decline, Mr. Bradford
downgraded it to “market per-
form” from “outperform.”
Target: His target for Black Dia-
mond shares fell to $2.40 from
$2.45, which is below the consen-
sus of $2.72.
REPORT ON BUSINESS | B11
Markets summary
CANADIAN STOCKS
Canada’s main stock index rose to a 12-day high on Tuesday
as technology and energy shares climbed and domestic da-
ta showed a stronger-than-expected gain for manufacturing
sales.
The Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX Composite Index
ended up 0.35 per cent, at 15,353.30, its highest close since
April 5. It was the fourth straight day of gains for the TSX.
The TSX’s technology group rallied 2.7 per cent, led by a
7.7-per-cent gain for Shopify to $158.04.
Also helping was Open Text’s 3.5-per-cent rise after activ-
ist hedge fund Blue Harbour Group LP’s chief executive said
the business information management software company
could be acquired.
U.S. STOCKS
U.S. stock indexes rallied on broad-based gains while Netflix
and UnitedHealth earnings impressed investors and boost-
ed optimism about the U.S. corporate reporting season.
Shares in Netflix, the first of Wall Street’s leading mo-
mentum stocks to report earnings, rose 9 per cent to close
at a record high after the video-streaming pioneer smashed
analysts’ quarterly subscriber estimates.
Amazon.com was the S&P’s biggest boost with a 4-per-
cent jump, helped by Netflix results but also by signs the
U.S. Supreme Court is hesitant to let states force out-of-state
online retailers to collect sales taxes on purchases.
COMMODITIES
Oil prices rose, as support from the possibility of supply
disruptions and a strong equities market offset the effects
of profit-taking after last week’s rally above three-year
highs.
Brent crude oil futures gained 16 cents to settle at
US$71.58 a barrel, while U.S. crude futures rose 30 cents to
settle at US$66.52.
Gold turned positive as some investors held onto posi-
tions, while a sharper risk appetite benefited cyclical assets
at bullion’s expense as the U.S. dollar’s recovery from three-
week lows versus the euro added pressure on the metal.
FOREX AND BONDS
The Canadian dollar strengthened to an eight-week high
against its U.S. counterpart as stocks and oil prices rose,
while investors digested stronger-than-expected domestic
data ahead of a Bank of Canada interest rate decision on
Wednesday.
The U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback
against six other major currencies, rose 0.06 per cent,
strengthened by the weaker euro and sterling and by stron-
ger-than-expected U.S. housing starts in March and a posi-
tive reading on industrial production.
Canadian government bond prices were mixed across a
flatter yield curve, with the two-year down 1 cent to yield
1.884 per cent and the 10-year rising 24 cents to yield 2.243
per cent.
The U.S. yield curve was at its flattest in more than a
decade, driven by rising short-dated Treasury yields and a
fall at the long end, even as geopolitical and trade risks
eased.
analytics, charting and screening
for every asset class.
DIV. YIELD
1Y (NEXT 12M, RECENT
RTN. SMARTESTIMATE) CLOSE ($) WHAT DID WE FIND?
39.0% 2.0% 85.01
8.5% 1.6% 7.96 The company passing the 2-per-
cent Predicted Surprise threshold
16.8% 1.6% 18.32
-7.4% 1.7% 36.96 with highest Combined Alpha
58.8% 0.1% 3.70 score is Methanex, which is ex-
pected to report quarterly earn-
ings next Tuesday. The Street EPS
estimate is $2.19 a share. This av-
ment and earnings quality. We erage is pulled down by the low-
assign companies a percentile est estimate of $1.87, by an ana-
score, with all Canadian stocks as lyst that happens to be the least
the peer group, and require a accurate, according to Thomson
score of at least 70. Reuters. The most accurate ana-
lyst, Benoit Laprade from Scotia-
bank, has the most optimistic
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VERMILION ENERGY (VET-TSX) SLATE OFFIC REIT (SOT.UN-TSX)
CLOSE $43.36, UP 61¢ CLOSE $7.65, UP 5¢
In reaction to its proposed acqui- Echelon Wealth Partners analyst
sition of Spartan Energy Corp., Stéphane Boire initiated coverage
BMO Nesbitt Burns analyst Ray of Slate Office REIT with a “buy”
Kwan downgraded Vermilion En- rating. “Although we believe
ergy Inc. to “market perform” SOT’s management is taking the
from “outperform.” “Although we right steps while taking SOT to its
still consider Vermilion to be a critical mass, at this time we
premium multiple name, with would look for improvements
the increased Canadian expo- and better consistency of same-
sure, we think this multiple property metrics,” he said.
should move closer in line with Target: Mr. Boire set an $8 target,
its Canadian peers.” which is 43 cents less than the
Target: His target fell to $47 from consensus.
$50, versus the consensus of
$53.27.
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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

15353.30 | 52.92 | 0.35 % | -2.11 % 1-YR | 172630 VOL(000) 2706.39 | 28.55 | 1.07 % | 15.21 % 1-YR 24786.63 | 213.59 | 0.87 % | 20.11 % 1-YR | 342409 VOL(000) 1896.34 | 16.11 | 0.86 % | 15.96 % 1-YR

TSX INDEXES AND SUB INDEXES TSX GAINERS TSX LOSERS TSX VOLUME
TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE

CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
TSX COMPOSITE IND 15353.30 52.92 0.35 172630 -2.11 HYG HYDROGENICS C 11.25 1.02 9.97 1 21.36 RVX RESVERLOGIX C 1.35 -0.43 -24.16 327 -38.91 ACB AURORA CANNAB 8.44 -0.49 -5.49 11112 212.59
TSX 60 INDEX 904.19 2.32 0.26 69216 -2.15 AD ALARIS ROYALTY 18.49 1.63 9.67 516 -17.79 SCU THE SECOND CU 3.55 -0.50 -12.35 336 144.83 ATH ATHABASCA OIL 1.43 0.07 5.15 7756 -0.69
TSX COMPLETION IN 971.22 5.97 0.62 103413 -2.00 DCM DATA COMMUNIC 1.88 0.15 8.67 109 -21.67 HVU BETAPRO SP500 22.19 -2.47 -10.02 288 -75.23 APH APHRIA INC 11.34 -0.90 -7.35 5483 65.79
TSX SMALLCAP INDE 627.85 5.10 0.82 59805 -6.34 TRIL TRILLIUM THE 9.31 0.71 8.26 2 16.23 TMQ TRILOGY METAL 1.43 -0.14 -8.92 30 52.13 CVE CENOVUS ENERG 12.25 -0.22 -1.76 4831 -15.52
TSX VENTURE COMPO 797.55 -4.41 -0.55 64242 -3.87 SHOP SHOPIFY INC 158.04 11.26 7.67 373 65.49 XDC XTREME DRILLI 1.85 -0.15 -7.50 34 -19.91 SPE SPARTAN ENERG 6.32 0.15 2.43 4205 -18.66
TSX CONSUMER DISC 208.04 -0.17 -0.08 7438 8.37 NXE NEXGEN ENERGY 2.67 0.19 7.66 1124 -16.56 APH APHRIA INC 11.34 -0.90 -7.35 5483 65.79 ECA ENCANA CORP 15.37 0.13 0.85 4089 -1.41
TSX CONSUMER STAP 508.36 -1.42 -0.28 3673 -6.33 OSK OSISKO MINING 2.89 0.20 7.43 857 -47.17 PNP PINETREE CAPI 2.00 -0.15 -6.98 15 -25.37 BBD-B BOMBARDIER 3.77 0.07 1.89 3850 61.80
TSX ENERGY CAPPED 190.01 1.26 0.67 44866 -5.72 USA AMERICAS SILV 4.88 0.31 6.78 27 20.20 DF DIVIDEND 15 SP 5.41 -0.39 -6.72 176 -32.12 BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 4.44 0.19 4.47 3804 -1.11
TSX FINANCIALS CA 287.33 0.01 0.00 19471 0.16 TI TITAN MINING C 1.28 0.08 6.67 40 -3.76 HUV BETAPRO SP500 7.08 -0.49 -6.47 7 -42.63 WEED CANOPY GROWT 29.86 -1.04 -3.37 3543 210.72
TSX HEALTH CARE C 82.93 -1.90 -2.24 22853 29.13 ESM EURO SUN MINI 1.45 0.09 6.62 12 104.23 TRST CANNTRUST HO 6.44 -0.43 -6.26 301 -29.69 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 41.38 0.38 0.93 3326 -27.11
TSX INDUSTRIALS C 236.11 0.68 0.29 9782 10.92 MOGO MOGO FINANCE 4.22 0.26 6.57 265 6.84 ACB AURORA CANNAB 8.44 -0.49 -5.49 11112 212.59 LUN LUNDIN MINING 8.03 0.07 0.88 3016 7.79
TSX INFORMATION T 71.75 1.91 2.73 4802 19.11 KEW KEW MEDIA GRO 6.75 0.40 6.30 26 -36.62 PCY PROPHECY DEVE 2.56 -0.14 -5.19 5 -27.89 EFN ELEMENT FLEET 4.84 0.21 4.54 2750 -60.78
TSX MATERIALS CAP 238.11 1.78 0.75 37323 -5.88 SPPP SPROTT PHYSI 11.25 0.65 6.13 N-A -7.02 AIM-PR-B AIMIA IN 9.50 -0.50 -5.00 N-A -31.16 MFC MANULIFE FIN 23.42 -0.04 -0.17 2729 1.69
TSX REAL ESTATE C 300.51 0.73 0.24 4680 -0.53 RRX RAGING RIVER 6.52 0.36 5.84 2132 -24.62 CLQ CLEAN TEQ HOL 1.01 -0.05 -4.72 119 -38.41 BTO B2GOLD CORP 3.65 0.05 1.39 2478 -1.88
TSX GLOBAL GOLD I 189.59 0.23 0.12 44788 -13.86 CFP CANFOR CORP 31.71 1.74 5.81 718 68.49 HQD BETAPRO NASDA 7.75 -0.36 -4.44 82 -42.76 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 69.94 0.18 0.26 2468 5.65
TSX GLOBAL MINING 71.65 0.54 0.76 105515 6.81 EDR ENDEAVOUR SIL 3.73 0.20 5.67 392 -12.85 SRX STORM RESOURC 2.38 -0.11 -4.42 79 580.00 TVE TAMARACK VALL 3.17 0.09 2.92 2434 10.84
TSX INCOME TRUST 194.66 0.21 0.11 4828 -2.89 TGZ TERANGA GOLD 4.74 0.25 5.57 266 28.11 LFX LEADFX INC 1.30 -0.06 -4.41 14 52.94 HOD BETAPRO CRUDE 5.57 -0.03 -0.54 2192 -43.16
TSX PREFERRED SHA 705.02 0.51 0.07 1767 -0.77 HTA-U TECH ACHIEV 10.33 0.53 5.41 1 13.64 PG PREMIER GOLD M 2.66 -0.12 -4.32 324 -13.92 XIU ISHARES SP TS 22.76 0.06 0.26 2169 -2.11
TSX TELECOM SERVI 154.27 -0.67 -0.43 2868 -6.36 ATH ATHABASCA OIL 1.43 0.07 5.15 7756 -0.69 CGG CHINA GOLD IN 2.51 -0.11 -4.20 144 12.56 RRX RAGING RIVER 6.52 0.36 5.84 2132 -24.62
TSX UTILITIES CAP 229.17 0.17 0.07 4448 -9.02 YGR YANGARRA RESO 5.99 0.29 5.09 1618 117.82 MFI MAPLE LEAF FO 30.80 -1.28 -3.99 200 -4.23 WCP WHITECAP RESO 8.65 0.14 1.65 2111 -14.53

TSX 52-WEEK HIGHS TSX 52-WEEK LOWS

STOCKS $1 OR MORE STOCKS $1 OR MORE

CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG

AX-PR-I ARTIS REI 25.64 0.06 0.23 10 2.68 DIR-UN DREAM INDU 10.06 0.12 1.21 351 20.33 DRX ADF GROUP INC 1.65 0.00 0.00 6 -37.26 DHX-B DHX MEDIA L 3.65 -0.04 -1.08 89 -37.07
ATH ATHABASCA OIL 1.43 0.07 5.15 7756 -0.69 FVI FORTUNA SILVE 7.25 0.17 2.40 397 6.15 ATD-A ALIMENTATIO 54.38 0.18 0.33 5 -14.35 DF DIVIDEND 15 SP 5.41 -0.39 -6.72 176 -32.12
ASO AVESORO RESOU 5.01 0.05 1.01 7 25.25 MG MAGNA INTERNAT 76.21 -0.39 -0.51 819 42.90 ATD-B ALIMENTATIO 53.20 -0.32 -0.60 1316 -13.82 ERM ECLIPSE RESID 9.60 0.10 1.05 3 -3.71
BIP-PR-E BROOKFIE 25.17 -0.08 -0.32 5 0.88 MX METHANEX CORP 86.00 0.99 1.16 400 37.29 ALA-PR-I ALTAGAS 25.24 -0.01 -0.04 54 -3.33 MXG MAXIM POWER C 2.50 0.00 0.00 2 -9.42
DOO BRP INC 54.32 1.49 2.82 275 68.07 NSU NEVSUN RES J 3.43 0.07 2.08 1008 3.94 ALA-PR-K ALTAGAS 24.97 -0.01 -0.04 2 -3.74 MPVD MOUNTAIN PRO 2.99 -0.11 -3.55 560 -33.70
CAR-UN CDN APARTM 37.73 0.06 0.16 245 9.87 OSB NORBORD INC 53.67 2.22 4.31 377 34.14 BSD-PR-A BROOKFIE 9.80 0.10 1.03 2 -2.97 PDV-PR-A PRIME DI 10.10 -0.01 -0.10 N-A -1.46
CAE CAE INC 24.79 0.29 1.18 673 21.58 PBH PREMIUM BRAND 120.80 -0.61 -0.50 71 41.98 CCI-UN CANADIAN C 5.60 -0.05 -0.88 10 -4.92 QSR RESTAURANT BR 68.26 -0.50 -0.73 626 -9.46
CAL CALEDONIA MIN 11.16 0.06 0.54 8 12369.3 TVE TAMARACK VALL 3.17 0.09 2.92 2434 10.84 CLQ CLEAN TEQ HOL 1.01 -0.05 -4.72 119 -38.41 RCH RICHELIEU HAR 27.16 -0.34 -1.24 231 -5.20
CFP CANFOR CORP 31.71 1.74 5.81 718 68.49 WFT WEST FRASER T 94.42 2.91 3.18 238 63.81 CSW-A CORBY SPIRI 19.20 -0.09 -0.47 6 -14.40 TRL TRILOGY INTER 4.75 0.00 0.00 9 -51.03
CXI CURRENCY EXCH 29.79 0.09 0.30 6 34.80 YGR YANGARRA RESO 5.99 0.29 5.09 1618 117.82 DHX-A DHX MEDIA L 3.63 -0.07 -1.89 8 -38.16 URB-A URBANA CORP 3.08 0.03 0.98 7 -7.23
DRG-UN DREAM GLOB 14.10 0.25 1.81 958 43.73

S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX STOCKS

LARGEST STOCKS BY MARKET CAPITALIZATION

CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
AAV ADVANTAGE OIL 3.99 0.08 2.05 732 -55.12 CUF-UN COMINAR R 12.55 0.03 0.24 278 -14.57 ITP INTERTAPE POL 19.93 -0.02 -0.10 84 -15.59 RRX RAGING RIVER 6.52 0.36 5.84 2132 -24.62
ARE AECON GROUP I 18.22 0.04 0.22 48 9.50 CMG COMPUTER MODE 9.69 0.03 0.31 41 -9.35 IVN IVANHOE MINES 2.64 -0.07 -2.58 1568 -49.91 QSR RESTAURANT BR 68.26 -0.50 -0.73 626 -9.46
AEM AGNICO EAGLE 56.57 -0.22 -0.39 696 -8.95 CSU CONSTELLATION 891.29 12.70 1.45 34 41.25 REI-UN RIOCAN REA 23.36 -0.08 -0.34 512 -11.35
AC AIR CANADA 25.82 0.63 2.50 864 93.99 CJR-B CORUS ENTER 6.62 -0.02 -0.30 273 -48.56 PJC-A JEAN COUTU 24.69 0.08 0.33 213 15.81 RBA RITCHIE BROS 41.83 0.03 0.07 86 1.88
ASR ALACER GOLD C 2.10 0.02 0.96 286 -16.00 BCB COTT CORP 18.03 -0.30 -1.64 160 5.93 RCI-B ROGERS COMM 56.79 -0.44 -0.77 694 -6.89
AGI ALAMOS GOLD I 7.10 0.00 0.00 459 -33.95 CPG CRESCENT POIN 9.84 0.09 0.92 2007 -31.09 KEL KELT EXPLORAT 7.87 0.17 2.21 958 3.83 RY ROYAL BANK OF 96.22 -0.17 -0.18 1410 0.31
AD ALARIS ROYALTY 18.49 1.63 9.67 516 -17.79 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE 12.45 0.00 0.00 224 -14.43 KEY KEYERA CORP 35.45 0.28 0.80 292 -8.85 RUS RUSSEL METALS 28.11 0.26 0.93 54 8.87
AQN ALGONQUIN POW 12.52 0.19 1.54 1254 -3.17 KMP-UN KILLAM APA 13.89 0.09 0.65 151 7.09
ATD-B ALIMENTATIO 53.20 -0.32 -0.60 1316 -13.82 DSG DESCARTES SYS 37.20 0.29 0.79 76 22.57 KXS KINAXIS INC 84.14 1.37 1.66 24 9.83 SMF SEMAFO J 3.84 0.01 0.26 344 -4.95
AP-UN ALLIED PROP 41.85 -0.25 -0.59 153 11.10 DGC DETOUR GOLD C 14.85 0.05 0.34 719 -15.96 KML KINDER MORGAN 17.50 0.13 0.75 394 7.76 SSL SANDSTORM GOL 5.91 -0.02 -0.34 129 -1.50
ALA ALTAGAS LTD 25.23 0.19 0.76 311 -18.59 DOL DOLLARAMA INC 149.24 0.14 0.09 163 26.72 K KINROSS GOLD CO 4.87 0.06 1.25 1732 -5.07 SAP SAPUTO INC 41.08 -0.12 -0.29 288 -11.90
AIF ALTUS GROUP L 32.13 0.06 0.19 33 6.29 DII-B DOREL INDUS 29.06 -0.63 -2.12 31 -9.78 KL KIRKLAND LAKE 21.44 0.12 0.56 426 105.17 SES SECURE ENERGY 7.75 0.06 0.78 229 -23.80
APH APHRIA INC 11.34 -0.90 -7.35 5483 65.79 DRG-UN DREAM GLOB 14.10 0.25 1.81 958 43.73 GUD KNIGHT THERAP 7.84 0.05 0.64 80 -24.62 VII SEVEN GENERAT 16.60 0.17 1.03 646 -34.41
ARX ARC RESOURCES 13.92 -0.01 -0.07 1357 -25.36 D-UN DREAM OFFICE 23.76 0.01 0.04 136 18.86 SJR-B SHAW COMMUN 26.41 0.08 0.30 887 -7.53
AX-UN ARTIS REAL 13.67 0.04 0.29 143 0.89 LIF LABRADOR IRON 23.07 0.51 2.26 342 37.32 SCL SHAWCOR LTD 25.37 0.37 1.48 43 -33.93
ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 41.12 -0.14 -0.34 96 -18.10 ECN ECN CAPITAL C 3.55 0.01 0.28 336 -6.82 LB LAURENTIAN BAN 47.70 0.35 0.74 72 -18.24 SHOP SHOPIFY INC 158.04 11.26 7.67 373 65.49
ATA ATS AUTOMATIO 17.29 0.00 0.00 261 36.03 ELD ELDORADO GOLD 1.22 0.01 0.83 1194 -75.15 LNR LINAMAR CORP 72.82 0.43 0.59 65 31.78 SIA SIENNA SENIOR 18.00 -0.03 -0.17 116 2.33
ACB AURORA CANNAB 8.44 -0.49 -5.49 11112 212.59 EFN ELEMENT FLEET 4.84 0.21 4.54 2750 -60.78 L LOBLAW CO 63.60 0.16 0.25 383 -12.40 SW SIERRA WIRELES 21.26 0.32 1.53 75 -36.76
EMA EMERA INCORPO 40.44 -0.01 -0.02 443 -14.76 LUC LUCARA DIAMON 1.98 -0.02 -1.00 598 -36.94 ZZZ SLEEP COUNTRY 33.92 -0.83 -2.39 73 -4.93
BTO B2GOLD CORP 3.65 0.05 1.39 2478 -1.88 EMP-A EMPIRE COMP 23.92 -0.28 -1.16 528 16.17 LUN LUNDIN MINING 8.03 0.07 0.88 3016 7.79 SRU-UN SMARTCENTR 28.85 -0.09 -0.31 227 -11.72
BCE BCE INC 53.82 -0.36 -0.66 1673 -12.19 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 41.38 0.38 0.93 3326 -27.11 SNC SNC-LAVALIN S 55.35 0.27 0.49 295 2.56
BAD BADGER DAYLIG 26.88 0.66 2.52 135 -23.85 ENF ENBRIDGE INCO 28.42 0.40 1.43 352 -16.17 MAG MAG SILVER CO 13.94 0.13 0.94 310 -20.75 SPE SPARTAN ENERG 6.32 0.15 2.43 4205 -18.66
BMO BANK OF MONTR 94.75 -0.42 -0.44 974 -3.83 ECA ENCANA CORP 15.37 0.13 0.85 4089 -1.41 MG MAGNA INTERNAT 76.21 -0.39 -0.51 819 42.90 TOY SPIN MASTER C 47.24 0.51 1.09 108 22.13
BNS BANK OF NOVA 76.40 -0.07 -0.09 984 -0.96 EDV ENDEAVOUR MIN 21.69 -0.36 -1.63 333 -14.17 MFC MANULIFE FIN 23.42 -0.04 -0.17 2729 1.69 SSRM SSR MINING I 12.88 0.16 1.26 164 -9.55
ABX BARRICK GOLD 16.39 0.02 0.12 1702 -37.89 ECI ENERCARE INC 17.44 -0.21 -1.19 593 -16.52 MFI MAPLE LEAF FO 30.80 -1.28 -3.99 200 -4.23 STN STANTEC INC 31.57 0.07 0.22 113 -10.82
BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 4.44 0.19 4.47 3804 -1.11 EFX ENERFLEX LTD 15.76 0.28 1.81 220 -22.52 MRE MARTINREA INT 15.99 0.19 1.20 156 70.47 SJ STELLA JONES I 45.01 -0.19 -0.42 59 5.16
BIR BIRCHCLIFF EN 4.20 0.08 1.94 1475 -44.44 ERF ENERPLUS CORP 14.69 0.30 2.08 1157 40.17 MAXR MAXAR TECHNO 56.72 0.63 1.12 211 -21.56 SLF SUN LIFE FINA 50.96 -0.24 -0.47 792 7.92
BB BLACKBERRY LIM 13.53 0.31 2.34 1691 15.84 ENGH ENGHOUSE SYS 67.45 0.60 0.90 47 17.94 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 6.13 0.14 2.34 1311 -9.85 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 47.53 0.37 0.78 1770 15.20
BEI-UN BOARDWALK 44.50 0.33 0.75 124 -5.40 ESI ENSIGN ENERGY 5.90 0.02 0.34 90 -25.13 MX METHANEX CORP 86.00 0.99 1.16 400 37.29 SPB SUPERIOR PLUS 12.98 -0.07 -0.54 160 -0.08
BBD-B BOMBARDIER 3.77 0.07 1.89 3850 61.80 EIF EXCHANGE INCO 31.65 0.31 0.99 21 -19.45 MRU METRO INC 42.04 0.42 1.01 361 0.33
BLX BORALEX INC 22.31 0.02 0.09 100 5.43 EXE EXTENDICARE I 8.69 -0.06 -0.69 149 -15.63 MNW MITEL NETWORK 12.56 0.46 3.80 249 37.57 THO TAHOE RESOURC 6.58 0.15 2.33 482 -45.17
BYD-UN BOYD GROUP 110.00 -0.13 -0.12 7 31.75 MSI MORNEAU SHEPE 25.29 -0.19 -0.75 82 25.26 TECK-B TECK RESOU 33.01 0.16 0.49 1573 10.77
BAM-A BROOKFIELD 48.98 -0.25 -0.51 781 -0.69 FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 668.61 -4.39 -0.65 38 8.54 MTL MULLEN GROUP 15.28 0.16 1.06 51 -9.96 T TELUS CORP 44.64 0.06 0.13 500 -0.07
BBU-UN BROOKFIELD 48.34 0.22 0.46 73 48.83 FTT FINNING INTL 31.59 0.31 0.99 170 30.38 TFII TFI INTERNAT 34.12 0.23 0.68 67 14.42
BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 51.53 -0.32 -0.62 132 -1.79 FCR FIRST CAPITAL 20.37 -0.04 -0.20 212 0.54 NA NATIONAL BANK 59.22 0.03 0.05 1152 7.59 NWC THE NORTH WES 27.41 -0.30 -1.08 54 -13.07
BPY-UN BROOKFIELD 24.37 0.51 2.14 280 -20.10 FR FIRST MAJESTIC 8.40 0.13 1.57 441 -31.60 NSU NEVSUN RES J 3.43 0.07 2.08 1008 3.94 TSGI THE STARS GR 35.37 0.14 0.40 1614 54.93
BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 39.21 0.20 0.51 90 -5.65 FM FIRST QUANTUM 17.43 0.70 4.18 1968 24.06 NFI NEW FLYER IND 58.60 -0.91 -1.53 134 16.83 TRI THOMSON REUTE 50.43 0.93 1.88 640 -12.34
DOO BRP INC 54.32 1.49 2.82 275 68.07 FSV FIRSTSERVICE 88.80 -0.34 -0.38 29 11.94 NGD NEW GOLD INC 3.07 0.02 0.66 710 -30.39 X TMX GROUP LIMIT 77.98 1.27 1.66 93 5.72
FTS FORTIS INC 42.59 0.32 0.76 629 -5.31 NXE NEXGEN ENERGY 2.67 0.19 7.66 1124 -16.56 TOG TORC OIL AND 6.70 -0.03 -0.45 664 2.60
CAR-UN CDN APARTM 37.73 0.06 0.16 245 9.87 FVI FORTUNA SILVE 7.25 0.17 2.40 397 6.15 OSB NORBORD INC 53.67 2.22 4.31 377 34.14 TXG TOREX GOLD RE 13.68 0.55 4.19 422 -47.79
CNQ CDN NATURAL R 43.70 0.15 0.34 1599 -2.72 FNV FRANCO-NEVADA 90.85 1.03 1.15 491 -2.10 NPI NORTHLAND POW 22.90 -0.02 -0.09 146 -6.53 TIH TOROMONT IND 55.15 -0.51 -0.92 46 19.17
REF-UN CDN REAL E 50.78 -0.02 -0.04 129 2.15 FRU FREEHOLD ROYA 12.86 -0.11 -0.85 240 -8.21 NVU-UN NORTHVIEW 25.63 -0.21 -0.81 103 13.11 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 69.94 0.18 0.26 2468 5.65
CWB CDN WESTERN B 33.03 0.07 0.21 195 14.85 NG NOVAGOLD RES I 5.80 -0.06 -1.02 87 -3.33 TOU TOURMALINE OI 22.59 0.26 1.16 512 -22.05
GIB-A CGI GROUP I 73.60 0.69 0.95 501 17.50 MIC GENWORTH MI C 38.51 -0.16 -0.41 112 8.48 NTR NUTRIEN LTD 59.07 0.20 0.34 587 -14.39 TA TRANSALTA CORP 6.86 -0.02 -0.29 365 -8.29
CAE CAE INC 24.79 0.29 1.18 673 21.58 GEI GIBSON ENERGY 17.11 0.12 0.71 159 -12.17 NVA NUVISTA ENERG 7.80 0.06 0.78 261 14.04 RNW TRANSALTA REN 11.69 0.01 0.09 89 -27.66
CCO CAMECO CORP 13.05 0.17 1.32 1238 -11.88 GIL GILDAN ACTIVE 37.32 0.14 0.38 455 1.97 TRP TRANSCANADA C 54.88 0.81 1.50 1552 -13.90
GOOS CANADA GOOSE 43.29 0.22 0.51 137 103.14 G GOLDCORP INC 18.00 -0.05 -0.28 1091 -12.07 OGC OCEANAGOLD CO 3.47 -0.04 -1.14 1298 -21.49 TCL-A TRANSCONTIN 26.52 0.13 0.49 192 9.77
CM CANADIAN IMPER 110.54 0.02 0.02 688 -2.07 GTE GRAN TIERRA E 3.82 0.04 1.06 346 9.14 ONEX ONEX CORP 93.78 1.22 1.32 81 -3.32 TCW TRICAN WELL 3.08 -0.03 -0.96 1429 -28.21
CNR CANADIAN NATI 94.83 0.09 0.09 997 -3.84 GRT-UN GRANITE RE 50.55 0.11 0.22 44 4.27 OTEX OPEN TEXT CO 45.00 1.53 3.52 856 0.13 TCN TRICON CAPITA 10.14 -0.09 -0.88 315 -8.57
CP CANADIAN PACIF 225.54 -0.84 -0.37 356 11.59 GC GREAT CANADIAN 35.99 1.15 3.30 246 44.19 OR OSISKO GOLD RO 12.66 -0.03 -0.24 300 -15.32 TRQ TURQUOISE HIL 3.84 0.00 0.00 584 0.52
CTC-A CANADIAN TI 167.11 -0.94 -0.56 125 1.22 GWO GREAT-WEST LI 33.38 0.44 1.34 543 -8.12
CU CANADIAN UTILI 34.75 -0.03 -0.09 147 -10.60 GUY GUYANA GOLDFI 5.19 0.14 2.77 344 -29.58 PAAS PAN AMERICAN 21.09 0.17 0.81 140 -16.01 UNS UNI SELECT IN 19.86 0.02 0.10 88 -43.45
CFP CANFOR CORP 31.71 1.74 5.81 718 68.49 POU PARAMOUNT RES 15.88 0.42 2.72 383 -14.30
WEED CANOPY GROWT 29.86 -1.04 -3.37 3543 210.72 HR-UN H&R REAL ES 20.63 0.02 0.10 339 -11.57 PXT PAREX RESOURC 19.91 0.11 0.56 510 11.98 VRX VALEANT PHARM 21.71 0.08 0.37 1045 71.76
CPX CAPITAL POWER 24.36 -0.20 -0.81 115 -0.94 HCG HOME CAPITAL 13.56 -0.17 -1.24 232 -38.70 PKI PARKLAND FUEL 29.32 0.19 0.65 150 0.86 VET VERMILION ENE 43.36 0.61 1.43 1549 -13.25
CAS CASCADES INC 13.65 -0.16 -1.16 127 -11.25 HBM HUDBAY MINERA 8.91 -0.05 -0.56 1681 8.92 PSI PASON SYSTEMS 18.03 0.11 0.61 30 -8.38
CCL-B CCL INDUSTR 64.62 -0.05 -0.08 151 8.71 HBC HUDSONS BAY C 8.93 -0.05 -0.56 121 -26.56 PPL PEMBINA PIPEL 41.88 0.90 2.20 1557 -5.53 WSP WSP GLOBAL IN 61.45 0.14 0.23 264 27.30
CLS CELESTICA INC 13.08 0.11 0.85 103 -32.47 HSE HUSKY ENERGY 19.04 0.72 3.93 1714 20.89 PEY PEYTO EXPLORA 11.01 0.01 0.09 544 -58.79 WCN WASTE CONNECT 92.40 0.17 0.18 216 18.00
CVE CENOVUS ENERG 12.25 -0.22 -1.76 4831 -15.52 H HYDRO ONE LIMIT 20.78 -0.14 -0.67 448 -14.87 POW POWER CORPORA 29.18 0.17 0.59 430 -5.75 WFT WEST FRASER T 94.42 2.91 3.18 238 63.81
CG CENTERRA GOLD 7.92 0.18 2.33 616 7.17 PWF POWER FINANCI 31.89 0.11 0.35 427 -6.75 WEF WESTERN FORES 2.81 0.08 2.93 746 31.92
CEU CES ENERGY SO 6.14 -0.11 -1.76 378 -15.54 IMG IAMGOLD CORP 6.96 -0.07 -1.00 835 18.77 PSK PRAIRIESKY RO 29.58 -0.05 -0.17 267 1.16 WJA WESTJET AIRLI 22.96 0.13 0.57 232 -1.03
CSH-UN CHARTWELL 15.26 -0.01 -0.07 325 -2.74 IGM IGM FINANCIAL 36.98 0.09 0.24 214 -7.57 PD PRECISION DRIL 3.91 0.12 3.17 689 -36.63 WN WESTON GEORGE 102.77 0.35 0.34 94 -12.60
CHE-UN CHEMTRADE 15.28 0.19 1.26 145 -18.90 IMO IMPERIAL OIL 36.89 -0.07 -0.19 512 -9.18 PBH PREMIUM BRAND 120.80 -0.61 -0.50 71 41.98 WTE WESTSHORE TER 23.80 0.17 0.72 127 -7.93
CHR CHORUS AVIATI 8.21 -0.02 -0.24 194 10.35 IAG INDUSTRIAL AL 51.38 -0.03 -0.06 128 -7.11 PVG PRETIUM RESOU 8.96 0.22 2.52 522 -37.30 WPM WHEATON PRECI 26.99 0.19 0.71 611 -7.92
CIX CI FINANCIAL 26.85 0.13 0.49 495 0.71 INE INNERGEX RENE 13.78 -0.01 -0.07 228 -6.51 AAR-UN PURE INDUS 8.08 0.01 0.12 640 27.65 WCP WHITECAP RESO 8.65 0.14 1.65 2111 -14.53
CGX CINEPLEX INC 30.89 0.22 0.72 88 -40.22 IFC INTACT FINANC 96.33 0.52 0.54 176 1.36 WPK WINPAK LTD 48.04 0.01 0.02 23 -10.02
CCA COGECO COMMUN 67.22 0.70 1.05 105 -11.55 IPL INTER PIPELIN 23.94 0.26 1.10 687 -15.35 QBR-B QUEBECOR IN 24.11 -0.07 -0.29 377 16.50
CIGI COLLIERS INT 89.69 1.54 1.75 36 39.44 IFP INTERFOR CORP 25.39 0.76 3.09 323 31.35 YRI YAMANA GOLD I 3.70 0.01 0.27 1223 -11.48

ETFS BONDS CURRENCIES

STOCKS $1 OR MORE CANADA FOREIGN EXCHANGE CROSS RATES

CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR CLOSE NET % VOL 1-YR TERM YIELD CHG CAD USD AUD EUR GBP JPY CHF
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
2-YEAR TREASURY 1.87 0.01 CAD - 0.7965 1.0247 0.6438 0.5573 85.240 0.7696
CCX CANADIAN CRUD 10.89 -0.08 -0.73 105 19.41 HVI BETAPRO SP500 2.20 0.06 2.80 196 -80.92 5-YEAR TREASURY 2.12 0.03 USD 1.2552 - 1.2865 0.8083 0.6997 107.02 0.9662
DLR HORIZONS US D 12.51 -0.02 -0.16 105 -5.44 HVU BETAPRO SP500 22.19 -2.47 -10.02 288 -75.23 10-YEAR TREASURY 2.27 0.04 AUD 0.9752 0.7770 - 0.6281 0.5437 83.153 0.7507
FIE ISHARES CDN F 7.23 0.01 0.14 102 -2.69 HXT HORIZONS SP T 31.81 0.10 0.32 628 0.86 30-YEAR TREASURY 2.37 0.03 EUR 1.5525 1.2369 1.5914 - 0.8654 132.37 1.1950
HAF HORIZONS ACTI 8.03 0.01 0.12 100 -0.99 XEF ISHARES CORE 31.16 0.09 0.29 96 9.95 GBP 1.7934 1.4288 1.8384 1.1550 - 152.90 1.3805
HGD BETAPRO CDN G 9.69 -0.11 -1.12 151 27.84 XEG ISHARES SP TS 12.08 0.07 0.58 1482 -5.70 JPY 0.0117 0.0093 0.0120 0.0076 0.0065 - 0.9027
HGU BETAPRO CDN G 11.48 0.10 0.88 244 -38.08 XIC ISHARES CORE 24.41 0.11 0.45 243 -1.73 RATES RATE CHG CHF 1.2987 1.0346 1.3308 0.8364 0.7240 110.73 -
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CAREERS
How mobile innovation led to a new age of entrepreneurship
RICHARD BRANSON bile Canada. When the business trepreneurship and innovation in roads that are stronger, cheaper
started, flip phones were all the mobility. We have run competi- and longer-lasting than current
rage and all they were used for tions in Britain, the United States alternatives.
OPINION was calls and texts. Now, there is and Mexico to find young inspir- I’m sure Canadians will em-
more cutting-edge technology in ing entrepreneurs. Our most re- brace the challenge of submitting
LEADERSHIP LAB your pocket than in the biggest cent competition in Britain al- a short elevator pitch for their
supercomputers of a decade ago. lowed us to unearth some really mobile-related businesses. I’m
Founder, the Virgin Group The internet has changed the strong businesses with a couple expecting great ideas from young
world, but it is phones that have trends emerging. entrepreneurs who look at the
woke up early on Necker Is- brought the web into our every- The first was the power of mo- world with fresh eyes and think

I land in the British Virgin Is-

lands and was greeted by a
beautiful, windy day. Immediate-
ly, I wanted to get out on to the
waves and go kite-surfing.
But over in Britain, my son,
Sam, and daughter-in-law Bellie
were eagerly waiting for the birth
of their second child. Rather than
pacing the floor worrying, I knew
I would be better off out in the
ocean. But, halfway around the
island, a boat rushed up to me
and I raced back to land. I grabbed
my phone and called Sam from
the beach, and was soon in tears
as I learned I was the proud
grand-dude to a fourth grand-
child: Bluey Rafe Richard Bran-
son. The first gorgeous photo of
Bluey arrived via WhatsApp mo-
ments later.
I share this story not just be-
cause I love talking about my
wonderful grandchildren, but be-
cause of the parallels with my
son’s birth. When my wife, Joan,
went into labour with Sam in the
mid-1980s, I was halfway around
the world on a ballooning adven-
ture. The first photo I saw of my
son was on the front page of Bri-
tain’s The Sun newspaper! If we
had mobile phones then, my in-
box would have been overflowing
with messages and photos. This is
a particularly personal example
of how mobile innovation has
changed the way we live, the way
we interact and the way we work.
The mobile phone has
changed my life more than any
other innovation.
In the sixties, I started my life
as an entrepreneur standing in a
red phone box outside of my
school, calling advertisers to sup-
port Student magazine. In 1985, I
tried my first mobile phone; it
weighed five pounds and was at-
tached by a cord to a massive bat-
tery inside a big leather briefcase.
Five decades later and we have
Virgin Mobile companies around
the world, including Virgin Mo-
day lives. Now entrepreneurs
have access to global markets at
the swipe of a screen, wherever
we are. As somebody who likes to
move around a lot, this is invalu-
able. I have never had an office
and hate being tied to a desk. I
conduct as many meetings as
possible while walking and talk-
ing, and mobiles make this pos-
sible.
I now have an instant office in
my phone. I can self-publish, I can
do sums, I can share ideas with
creatives and results with ac-
countants. We can do anything
we can think of – and lots of
things we haven’t dreamed of yet
– with our phones.
I used to just ask the people I
knew what they thought of my
ideas, which was the most valua-
ble customer researcher I could
get. While that is still extremely
useful, the advent of social media
now allows entrepreneurs to can-
vass opinion and gain feedback at
every step of the business-devel-
opment journey – from the origi-
nal idea through to the launch
strategy. Plus, you can get visual
feedback on your mobile, rather
than waiting for people to fill in a
lifeless form and tick some boxes.
In recent years, I have seen the
rise of a new wave of entrepre-
neurs who have created valuable
businesses on the back of mobile
technology and disrupted their
respective markets to great effect.
Ride-hailing services Uber and
Lyft, video-doorbell Ring and
communications service Whats-
App – to name a few – have all be-
come billion-dollar businesses in
the past few years on the back of
mobile technology. I expect
many more to spring up over the
next decade, powered by their di-
rect connection to their custom-
ers and the ability to cross mar-
kets and borders.
This month, Virgin Mobile
Canada is launching a Pitch To
Rich competition to inspire en-
bile-related businesses to solve
historic problems in more tradi-
tional industries, with Vibe Tick-
about technology intuitively, and
I can’t wait to sit down and chat
with the competition winner.
ets being a great example of this. When I think about what
The mobile app gives music fans makes a great and innovative
Richard Branson an easy and ethical way to resell business idea, I ask myself four
unwanted concert tickets, while simple questions: Is it easy to un-
tackling the age-old problem of derstand? Is there a consumer
ticket scalpers exploiting music need being fulfilled? Can the idea
We can do anything lovers. easily be brought to market? And,
The second trend of note was most important, will it make peo-
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SPORTS
It was doubleheader day The Maple Leafs seem
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Jays and the Royals, their swagger back,
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Extending the lead

Raptors big man Jonas Valanciunas dunks on the Washington Wizards in Toronto on Tuesday.
After emerging victorious from their first game of the series on Saturday – and winning a playoff series opener
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It’s time for the G man to step up

Flyers captain and Hart that Game 4 and that’s all we can
do.”
Trophy candidate
Giroux only has one SPIRITED PRACTICE
assist in the team’s
first-round matchup Nashville turned up the intensity
against the Penguins in practice on Tuesday, complete
with some light hitting and vigor-
ous battles for the puck in front of
DAN GELSTON PHILADELPHIA goaltender Pekka Rinne.
This is a reason for the
stepped-up pace: Being out-
laude Giroux carried the scored by a 5-0 margin by Colora-

C Philadelphia Flyers into the

playoffs.
The Hart Trophy candidate
might be the reason they get
knocked out in the first round if
he can’t become the force the
Flyers need to have a chance
against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Only six years ago, Giroux was
dubbed “best in the world” by
former coach Peter Laviolette af-
ter he posted six goals and eight
assists in six games and a rare
playoff series win over the Pen-
guins. Playing in a major market,
Giroux was on his way toward
NHL superstardom.
Six years later, the Penguins
have won two Stanley Cups, the
Flyers haven’t advanced out of
the first round and Giroux’s
standing as one of the NHL’s best
has wildly fluctuated: The 30-
year-old followed two mediocre
seasons with a career year this
season, reaching personal highs
in goals (34), assists (68) and
points (102). He added a hat trick
on the final day.
His production has again van-
ished in the playoffs.
The Flyers captain has no goals
and one assist in three games –
the Penguins hold a 2-1 series lead
headed into Game 4 (7 p.m. EST
on Wednesday) – in a postseason
slump that dates to 2014. He again
had no goals and one assist in six
games against Washington in
2016 and scored two goals in sev-
en games in 2014 against the New
York Rangers. Giroux’s last play-
off goal came on April 29, 2014.
In the Game 3 loss to Pitts-
burgh, Giroux took four shots on
goal and led the Flyers with 10
shot attempts – four on goal, one
that was blocked and five that
missed.
“There’s a lot of hockey left to
play here,” Giroux said. “I have no
doubt that we’re going to come
Philadelphia Flyers captain Claude Giroux, seen in a game in January against the Red Wings, had 32 goals in
the regular season, but has yet to score a goal in the first three games of the first round. PAUL SANCYA /AP
out strong in Game 4.”
Jake Voracek and Wayne Sim-
monds (who dropped from 31
goals in 2017 to 24 this season) are
also scoreless for the Flyers.
“Our team’s got to elevate our
play over all,” coach Dave Hakstol
said. “There’s nothing drastic that
needs to be done.”
That didn’t stop Hakstol from
mixing up his lines at practice on
Tuesday, when Sean Couturier
was injured. There was no imme-
diate word on his status.
The Flyers have hit these rough
patches before, losing 10 straight
games over November and De-
cember before bouncing back to
land in the postseason.
“Our guys have been through
similar situations,” Hakstol said.
“This one’s just a little bit more
elevated.”
The Penguins will play Game 4
without Patric Hornqvist, who
has a goal and two assists in the
series and is out with an undis-
closed injury. He was on the top
line with Sidney Crosby in Game 3
and was third in the league in
power-play goals this season.
Hornqvist was checked from be-
hind into the boards by Philadel-
phia’s Andrew MacDonald in
Game 3.
CLOSE IT OUT
Only four NHL teams have taken
a 3-0 series lead such as the one
San Jose has over Anaheim and
lost a best-of-seven series. The
Sharks just happen to be one of
them, having collapsed against
the Los Angeles Kings four years
ago in the first round. That’s one
reason why the Sharks head into
Game 4 at home against the
Ducks (10:30 p.m. EST on Wednes-
day) with a sense of urgency to
close out this series.
“Enough has happened in this
room where I think we under-
stand the challenges that still lie
ahead of us,” captain Joe Pavelski
said. “We want a good start, we
want to come out and put it on
the line. We’re going to have to
earn this next game for sure.”
The Sharks have controlled the
series, outscoring Anaheim 14-3
following an 8-1 victory in Game 3.
Anaheim allowed four power-
play goals as the Ducks lost their
composure as well as the game.
“I mean, we’ve got to win a
game,” captain Ryan Getzlaf said.
“Our focus has got to be to win
do in the first period of the series.
“Today was a perfect practice
for that. It wasn’t about easing in-
to practice,” said Predators defen-
ceman Ryan Ellis, whose team
leads the Avalanche 2-1 heading
into Game 4 (10 p.m. EST on
Wednesday). “It was about going
full speed into practice right
away. We need that to translate
into the game.”
Colorado went through an op-
tional practice and had defence-
man Samuel Girard on the ice
wearing a non-contact sweater.
He has missed the past two
games with an upper-body inju-
ry.
TRUST THE … PROGRESS?
Tampa Bay holds a 2-1 series lead
over New Jersey headed into
Game 4 (7:30 p.m. EST on
Wednesday). But New Jersey’s 5-2
win over the Lightning on Mon-
day was at least a sign that the
Devils should trust the … pro-
gress?
The Devils are owned by Harris
Blitzer Sports & Entertainment,
the same company that also
owns the NBA’s Philadelphia
76ers. Team owner Josh Harris at-
tended the 76ers’ Game 2 loss in
Philadelphia on Monday.
Under Harris’s watch, his
teams can orchestrate a turn-
around. The 76ers, accompanied
by the now-familiar “Trust The
Process” slogan, went from 10
wins two seasons ago to 53 and
the No. 3 seed in the Eastern Con-
ference this year, while the Devils
made a stunning run from the
worst team in the East to the post-
season in a year.
All the Devils need is a catch-
phrase.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

With Leonard, it’s the Spurs who need answers Cavs’ Korver
TIM REYNOLDS
walking an
emotional
awhi Leonard has a new team and balance beam
K Gregg Popovich isn’t the coach.
This is where the San Antonio
Spurs are at right now, as this im-
passe between the franchise and its best
player continues even as the season is al-
TOM WITHERS
INDEPENDENCE, OHIO

most certainly winding down. There are

only questions, no answers.
How is Leonard doing? The Spurs act as
if they don’t know. Leonard isn’t saying,
either. He hasn’t been around the Spurs so
far in these playoffs, rehabbing in New
York, and Popovich is deferring questions
to “Kawhi and his group.”
That’s ironic. Unwillingness to answer
certain questions is part of the Spurs’ mys-
tique. Popovich can be an interviewer’s
dream or an interviewer’s nightmare, but
now, it’s the Spurs who are the ones seem-
ingly frustrated by the lack of answers.
Their best player was barely around this
season and with the Spurs looking almost
certain to be knocked out of the playoffs
soon by Golden State, an off-season of
what’s next is looming.
Leonard won’t be on the floor for the
Spurs in Game 3, when their first-round
series against the Warriors resumes on
Thursday in San Antonio. We can also say
how unlikely it is he will not be in Game 4
on Sunday or in Game 5 if San Antonio
finds a way to extend this series. The offi-
cial reason remains “return from injury
management” from what began as right
quadriceps tendinopathy.
That’s why when Popovich lauds an-
other player – in this case, LaMarcus Al-
dridge, who has been the first option in
San Antonio with Leonard gone – the nar-
rative immediately turns to whether the
Spurs coach is throwing shade.
“LaMarcus has been a monster all year
long,” Popovich said on Monday after the
Spurs fell into a 2-0 series hole against the
Warriors. “He’s led our team at both ends
of the floor. He doesn’t complain about a
darned thing out on the court. He just
plays through everything. I can’t imagine
being more proud of a player as far as
playing through adversity and being there
for his teammates night after night after
night.”
It’s entirely possible Popovich was
merely complimenting Aldridge.
It’s entirely possible Popovich was
throwing a subtle jab at Leonard, too.
Aldridge was asked by USA Today
Sports about Leonard postgame and de-
clined to comment, other than saying “he
has to do what’s best for him.” And that’s
most understandable.
Leonard – who is under contract for
next season already and has a player op-
Kawhi Leonard won’t be on the floor for the Spurs in Game 3, when their first-round series
against the Warriors resumes on Thursday. ERIC GAY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
tion that he can exercise in 2019 – will be
eligible to be offered the supermax con-
tract this summer, a five-year deal worth
around US$220-million. It’s unknown if
that offer is coming. It’s unknown if Leo-
nard would accept, anyway. He may just
want to start over elsewhere.
His caution in coming back to playing is
understandable. There are two oft-cited
parallels that Leonard needs to avoid.
Grant Hill shortened his career by trying
to come back too soon from injury, and
Isaiah Thomas – once certain he would
get a max deal – faces a very uncertain
future because of hip issues exacerbated
by playing when he was hurt.
Aldridge is right. Leonard has to do
what’s best.
That means it’s entirely possible the
next time Popovich gets to use Leonard in
a game will be in 2019 – when USA Basket-
ball heads to the FIBA World Cup. Pop-
ovich has taken over for Mike Krzyzewski
as U.S. national coach and Leonard is one
of the 35 players under consideration for
that team. There’s a minicamp for the U.S.
squad in Las Vegas this summer, and if
Leonard is there, his dynamic with Pop-
ovich will be a huge storyline.
The Spurs have themselves to blame for
at least part of this mystery.
There’s always been a secretive air to
them. Answers are not easy to get from
the Spurs, which sometimes gets con-
strued as arrogance. David Robinson was
engaging, but hardly an open book. Tim
Duncan prided himself on revealing as lit-
tle as possible. Popovich gives incredibly
deep and thoughtful answers on many
topics, but that list rarely includes his own
team.
Leonard, who appeared in nine games
in the regular season, has been the same
way.
He doesn’t drop hints on Twitter,
doesn’t vent on Snapchat, isn’t one for
long-winded answers. Among the few
times he really lets himself loose in the
public eye is when the Spurs tape their
annual commercials for the grocery chain
H-E-B, one spot sillier and funnier than
the next – such as the one where Tony
Parker and Manu Ginobili, using horrible
British accents in an effort to seem fancy,
ask Leonard if he wants some steak and
he replies, “indubitably.”
Happy times such as those seem so
long ago. It’s close to impossible to envi-
sion this having a happy ending.
Indubitably.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
yle Korver is getting daily
K treatment on his bruised
right foot and taking medi-
cation to fight off a “nasty little
bug” that has made its way
through Cleveland’s roster.
Only time can heal his broken
heart.
As he begins chasing an NBA
championship, Korver is wres-
tling with the recent death of his
younger brother, Kirk, who died
at 27 from complications follow-
ing a sudden illness.
Following Tuesday’s practice,
Korver paused several times
while discussing a “very compli-
cated month” that has changed
his life and split him in two. He’s
walking an emotional balance
beam. “You come back from deal-
ing with death and the family and
you hold that in one hand and you
hold the playoffs here in another
hand and it’s interesting to kind of
balance both of those at the same
time and try to get yourself ready
to play basketball,” he said.
Korver was on the floor for just
four minutes in the 98-80 loss to
Indiana in Game 1, but he’s feeling
better and expects to have more
of an impact as the Cavaliers try to
even the series on Wednesday
night.
The 37-year-old swingman has
been comforted by his wife, Juliet,
his family and an outpouring of
support from the NBA communi-
ty, but he remains conflicted on
how to mourn, how to express his
grief. “You know that you don’t
cry when you think about your
brother? Is that good? I don’t
think that’s good,” he said. “I feel
like I’m trying to go through all
the emotions and stages and
waves that people tell me about. I
understand that this is part of life
and when you go through some-
thing like this, it’s amazing how
many people come up to you and
talk about their own stories that
they’ve had.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Flames fire head coach Gulutzan, assistant coaches

DONNA SPENCER CALGARY
Glen Gulutzan bore the brunt of
the Calgary Flames’ shortcomings
this season with his dismissal on
Tuesday.
With a year remaining on his
contract as head coach, Gulutzan
was sacked along with assistant
Dave Cameron and Paul Jerrard
less than two years after they
were hired.
A weak home record, a
wretched power play and a late-
season swan dive contributed to
Calgary finishing out of the play-
offs with a 37-35-10 record.
“Accountability lies with all of
us,” Flames general manager
Brad Treliving said at a hastily
called news conference at Scotia-
bank Saddledome.
“As a manager, I lead that
charge. Our hockey staff leads
that charge and also our players.
When you make a decision [like]
I made today, there is lots of
blame to go around.”
Gulutzan coached Calgary to
the playoffs in his first season, but
the Flames were dispatched in
four straight games by the Ana-
heim Ducks in 2017.
The addition of veteran goal-
tender Mike Smith and blue-chip
defenceman Travis Hamonic
were considered to be the pieces
of the puzzle that would get the
Flames further into the playoffs.
Riding a seven-game win
streak and sitting second in the
Pacific Division in January, the
Flames lost six in a row coming
out of their bye week and contin-
ued to fray coming down the
stretch.
The team held down the West-
ern Conference’s final wild-card
spot on Feb. 25, but managed just
two victories in its final 11 games
of the regular season.
Smith’s performance dropped
late in the season after missing a
month with a lower-body injury.
Top-line centre Sean Monahan
played through multiple injuries
that required surgeries when he brought Gulutzan on board.
was shut down for the season Hartley had a reputation for
March 21. being hard on players, while Gu-
“We relied too much on too lutzan was considered more ap-
few,” Treliving said. “Certainly the proachable.
lack of depth, or the lack of con- “Personality didn’t have a
tributions by many, was a big part whole lot to do with this deci-
of the problem we had. ” sion,” Treliving said. “I don’t nec-
A 17-20-4 record at the Saddle- essarily think our group is a diffi-
dome and a power play that cult group to coach. There’s chal-
ranked 29th in the league at 16 per lenges with every group.
cent were a drag on Calgary’s “By no means is today’s deci-
playoff aspirations. sion letting anyone off the hook.
Gulutzan, 46, was Treliving’s Ultimately, you have success
first head-coaching hire. when your players perform well. I
Treliving extended the con- felt in order to get us to that level,
tract of Gulutzan’s predecessor, we had to make this decision.”
Bob Hartley, in December, 2014,
but fired him 17 months later and THE CANADIAN PRESS

NHL AHL Thursday, Apr. 26 MLB NBA PLAYOFFS

x-Kingston at Hamilton, 7 p.m.
2018 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS CALDER CUP PLAYOFFS Saturday, Apr. 28 AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE FIRST ROUND
x-Hamilton at Kingston, 7 p.m.
Monday, Apr. 30 W L Pct GB W L Pct GB All Times Eastern
FIRST ROUND FIRST ROUND EAST DIVISION EAST DIVISION
x-Kingston at Hamilton, 7 p.m. CONFERENCE QUARTER-FINALS
All Times Eastern All Times Eastern Boston 13 2 .867 — New York 12 3 .800 — (Best-of-7)
DIVISION SEMIFINALS DIVISION SEMIFINALS Toronto 10 5 .667 3 Atlanta 9 6 .600 3
(Best-of-7) (Best-of-5)
WESTERN CONFERNCE New York 8 7 .533 5 Philadelphia 9 6 .600 3
SAULT STE-MARIE (1) VS. Baltimore 5 12 .294 9 Washington 8 9 .471 5 EASTERN CONFERENCE
EASTERN CONFERENCE EASTERN CONFERENCE KITCHENER (2) Tampa Bay 4 12 .250 91/2 Miami 4 12 .250 81/2 TORONTO (1) VS. WASHINGTON (8)
ATLANTIC DIVISION NORTH DIVISION Schedule TBD CENTRAL DIVISION CENTRAL DIVISION (Toronto leads series 2-0)
x — played only if necessary. Minnesota 7 4 .636 — Pittsburgh 11 5 .688 — Tuesday
TAMPA BAY (1) VS. NEW JERSEY (WC2) TORONTO (1) VS. UTICA (4) Cleveland 8 6 .571 1/2 St. Louis 9 7 .563 2
(Tampa Bay leads series 2-1) Saturday Toronto 130 Washington 119
Detroit 5 9 .357 31/2 Chicago 7 7 .500 3 Friday
Monday Utica at Toronto, 4 p.m. QMJHL PLAYOFFS Chicago 4 9 .308 4 Milwaukee 8 9 .471 31/2
New Jersey 5 Tampa Bay 2 Sunday Cincinnati 3 13 .188 8
Toronto at Washington, 8 p.m.
Kansas City 3 11 .214 51/2
Wednesday Utica at Toronto, 4 p.m. THIRD ROUND WEST DIVISION Sunday
WEST DIVISION
Tampa Bay at New Jersey, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 25 All Times Eastern Los Angeles 13 3 .813 — Arizona 11 4 .733 — Toronto at Washington, 8 p.m.
Saturday Toronto at Utica, 7 p.m. SEMIFINALS Seattle 9 5 .643 3 Colorado 10 8 .556 21/2 Wednesday, Apr. 25
x-New Jersey at Tampa Bay, TBD (Best-of-7) Houston 10 7 .588 31/2 Los Angeles 6 9 .400 5 x-Washington at Toronto, TBA
Monday, Apr. 23 Oakland 7 10 .412 61/2 San Francisco 6 9 .400 5 Friday, Apr. 27
SYRACUSE (2) VS. ROCHESTER (3)
x-Tampa Bay at New Jersey, TBD Texas 6 12 .333 8 San Diego 7 11 .389 51/2 x-Toronto at Washington, TBA
Friday B-BOISBRIAND (1) VS. CHARLOTTETOWN (9)
Wednesday, Apr. 25 Sunday, Apr. 29
Rochester at Syracuse, 7 p.m. Friday Tuesday Tuesday
x-New Jersey at Tampa Bay, TBD x-Washington at Toronto, TBA
Saturday Charlottetown at B-Boisbriand, 7:30 p.m.
Rochester at Syracuse, 7 p.m. Saturday Toronto 11, Kansas City 3, 1st game Miami at N.Y. Yankees
BOSTON (2) VS. TORONTO (3) BOSTON (2) VS. MILWAUKEE (7)
Wednesday, Apr. 25 Charlottetown at B-Boisbriand, 7 p.m. Miami at N.Y. Yankees Colorado at Pittsburgh
(Boston leads series 2-1) (Boston leads series 1-0)
Syracuse at Rochester, 7:05 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 24 Detroit 4 Baltimore 2 Washington at N.Y. Mets
Monday Tuesday
Toronto 4 Boston 2 B-Boisbriand at Charlottetown, 6 p.m. Kansas City at Toronto, 2nd game Philadelphia at Atlanta
ATLANTIC DIVISION Wednesday, Apr. 25 Milwaukee at Boston
Thursday Cleveland vs. Minnesota Cincinnati at Milwaukee
LEHIGH VALLEY (1) VS. PROVIDENCE (4) B-Boisbriand at Charlottetown, 6 p.m. Friday
Boston at Toronto, 7 p.m. Texas at Tampa Bay St. Louis at Chicago Cubs
Friday Friday, Apr. 27 Boston at Milwaukee, 9:30 p.m.
Saturday Chicago White Sox at Oakland San Francisco at Arizona
Lehigh Valley at Providence, 7:05 p.m. x-Charlottetown at B-Boisbriand, 7:30 p.m. Sunday
x-Toronto at Boston, TBD Boston at L.A. Angels L.A. Dodgers at San Diego
Saturday Sunday, Apr. 29 Boston at Milwaukee, 1 p.m.
Monday, Apr. 23 Houston at Seattle
x-Boston at Toronto, TBD Lehigh Valley at Providence, 7:05 p.m. x-B-Boisbriand at Charlottetown, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 24
Monday
Wednesday, Apr. 25 Friday, Apr. 27 Tuesday, May 1 x-Milwaukee at Boston, TBA
Monday
x-Toronto at Boston, TBD Providence at Lehigh Valley, 7:05 p.m. x-Charlottetown at B-Boisbriand, 7 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 26
St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, ppd.
x-Boston at Milwaukee, TBA
Baltimore at Boston, ppd. N.Y. Yankees 12, Miami 1
METROPOLITAN DIVISION W-B/SCRANTON (2) VS. CHARLOTTE (3) A-BATHURST (2) VS. VICTORIAVILLE (6) Saturday, Apr. 28
Kansas City at Toronto, ppd. Colorado 6, Pittsburgh 2
WASHINGTON (1) VS. COLUMBUS (WC1) Friday Friday x-Milwaukee at Boston, TBA
N.Y. Yankees 12, Miami 1 Washington 8, N.Y. Mets 6
(Columbus leads series 2-0) Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Victoriaville at Acadie-Bathurst, 6 p.m. Tampa Bay 8, Texas 4 Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 1
Tuesday Saturday Saturday Oakland 8, Chicago White Sox 1 Cincinnati 10, Milwaukee 4 PHILADELPHIA (3) VS. MIAMI (6)
Washington at Columbus Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Charlotte, 6 p.m. Victoriaville at Acadie-Bathurst, 6 p.m. Seattle 2, Houston 1 L.A. Dodgers 10, San Diego 3 (Series tied 1-1)
Thursday Thursday, Apr. 26 Tuesday, Apr. 24 Monday
Washington at Columbus, 7:30 p.m. Charlotte at W-Barre/Scranton, 7:05 p.m. Acadie-Bathurst at Victoriaville, 7 p.m. Wednesday Wednesday Miami 113 Philadelphia 103
Saturday Wednesday, Apr. 25 All Times Eastern All Times Eastern Thursday
x-Columbus at Washington, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Acadie-Bathurst at Victoriaville, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at Miami, 7 p.m.
Monday, Apr. 23 Friday, Apr. 27 Saturday
CENTRAL DIVISION Baltimore (Gausman 1-1) at Detroit Colorado (Freeland 0-2) at Pittsburgh
x-Washington at Columbus, TBD x-Victoriaville at Acadie-Bathurst, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at Miami, 2:30 p.m.
CHICAGO (1) VS. ROCKFORD (4) (Boyd 0-1), 1:10 p.m. (Kuhl 1-1), 12:35 p.m.
Wednesday, Apr. 25 Sunday, Apr. 29 Tuesday, Apr. 24
x-Columbus at Washington, TBD Saturday Texas (Hamels 1-2) at Tampa Bay (Faria Cincinnati (Mahle 1-2) at Milwaukee
x-Acadie-Bathurst at Victoriaville, 4 p.m. 0-1), 1:10 p.m. (Davies 0-2), 1:40 p.m. x-Miami at Philadelphia, TBA
Rockford at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, May 1 Chicago White Sox (Fulmer 0-1) at St. Louis (Weaver 2-0) at Chicago Cubs Thursday, Apr. 26
PITTSBURGH (2) VS. PHILADELPHIA (3) Sunday
x-Victoriaville at Acadie-Bathurst, 6 p.m. Oakland (Triggs 1-0), 3:35 p.m. (Hendricks 0-1), 2:20 p.m. x-Philadelphia at Miami, TBA
(Pittsburgh leads series 2-1) Chicago at Rockford, 5 p.m.
x — played only if necessary. Kansas City (Kennedy 1-1) at Toronto Washington (Roark 1-1) at N.Y. Mets Saturday, Apr. 28
Wednesday Thursday, Apr. 26
(Happ 2-1), 4:07 p.m. (Matz 1-1), 7:10 p.m. x-Miami at Philadelphia, TBA
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Rockford at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Friday WHL PLAYOFFS Cleveland (Carrasco 3-0) vs. Minnesota Philadelphia (Velasquez 1-1) at Atlanta
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, TBD GRAND RAPIDS (2) VS. MANITOBA (3) (Berrios 2-1) 7:10 p.m. (McCarthy 2-0), 7:35 p.m. CLEVELAND (4) VS. INDIANA (5)
Sunday, Apr. 22 Saturday SECOND ROUND Boston (Porcello 3-0) at L.A. Angels San Francisco (Stratton 1-1) at Arizona (Indiana leads series 1-0)
x-Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, TBD Grand Rapids at Manitoba, 3 p.m. All Times Eastern (Skaggs 2-0), 10:07 p.m. (Ray 2-0), 9:40 p.m. Wednesday
Tuesday, Apr. 24 Sunday DIVISION FINALS Houston (Cole 1-0) at Seattle (Leake 2- L.A. Dodgers (Maeda 1-1) at San Diego Indiana at Cleveland, 7 p.m.
x-Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, TBD Grand Rapids at Manitoba, 3 p.m. 0), 10:10 p.m. (Ross 2-1), 10:10 p.m. Friday
(Best-of-7)
Wednesday, Apr. 25 Cleveland at Indiana, 7 p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCE PGA Sunday
Manitoba at Grand Rapids, 7 p.m. EASTERN CONFERENCE CONCACAF CHAMPIONS Cleveland at Indiana, 8:30 p.m.
CENTRAL DIVISION EAST DIVISION LEAGUE
PACIFIC DIVISION FEDEX CUP LEADERS Wednesday, Apr. 25
NASHVILLE (1) VS. COLORADO (WC2) M. JAW (1) VS. SWIFT CURRENT (2) x-Indiana at Cleveland, TBA
(Nashville leads series 2-1) TUCSON (1) VS. SAN JOSE (4) (Swift Current wins series 4-3) FINAL Through April 15
Points Money Friday, Apr. 27
Monday Thursday Monday (home-and-home, total-goals series)
Colorado 5 Nashville 3 1. Justin Thomas 1,769 $5,221,300 x-Cleveland at Indiana, TBA
Tucson at San Jose, 10 p.m. Swift Current 6 Moose Jaw 0 GUADALAJARA (MEXICO) VS.
Wednesday 2. Patton Kizzire 1,329 $3,177,988 Sunday, Apr. 29
Saturday TORONTO FC
Nashville at Colorado, 10 p.m. 3. Bubba Watson 1,281 $3,674,254 x-Indiana at Cleveland, TBA
Tucson at San Jose, 10 p.m. CENTRAL DIVISION
Friday Wednesday, Apr. 25 4. Phil Mickelson 1,248 $3,366,551
LETHBRIDGE (2) VS. BRANDON (WC1) Tuesday (First Leg)
x-Colorado at Nashville, TBD San Jose at Tucson, 10:05 p.m. (Lethbridge wins series 4-1) Guadalajara at Toronto FC 5. Dustin Johnson 1,176 $3,209,658 WESTERN CONFERENCE
Sunday, Apr. 22 6. Patrick Reed 1,161 $3,453,052 HOUSTON (1) VS. MINNESOTA (8)
x-Nashville at Colorado, TBD TEXAS (2) VS. ONTARIO (3) 7. Jon Rahm 1,139 $2,787,698 (Houston leads series 1-0)
Tuesday, Apr. 24 WESTERN CONFERENCE MLS
Thursday 8. Justin Rose 1,014 $3,025,483 Wednesday
x-Colorado at Nashville, TBD B.C. DIVISION
Ontario at Texas, 8 p.m. 9. Tony Finau 1,006 $2,430,435 Minnesota at Houston, 9:30 p.m.
Friday
VICTORIA (2) VS. TRI-CITY (WC1) EASTERN CONFERENCE 10. Paul Casey 947 $2,288,135 Saturday
WINNIPEG (2) VS. MINNESOTA (3) (Tri-City wins series 4-0) GP W L T GF GA Pt
Ontario at Texas, 8 p.m. Houston at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.
(Winnipeg leads series 2-1) New York City 7 5 0 2 16 6 17
Tuesday
Sunday
U.S. DIVISION Atlanta 6 4 1 1 15 8 13
TELEVISION Monday
Texas at Ontario, 6 p.m. WEDNESDAY (EASTERN TIME) Houston at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Winnipeg at Minnesota EVERETT (1) VS. PORTLAND(2) New England 6 3 2 1 10 6 10
x — played only if necessary. Wednesday, Apr. 25
Friday (Everett wins series 4-1) Orlando 6 3 2 1 11 10 10
Minnesota at Winnipeg, TBD BASEBALL x-Minnesota at Houston, TBA
Columbus 7 3 3 1 9 7 10 Friday, Apr. 27
Sunday, Apr. 22 OHL PLAYOFFS THIRD ROUND NY Red Bulls 5 3 2 0 13 6 9
x-Winnipeg at Minnesota, TBD MLB: St. Louis vs. Chicago Cubs, SN x-Houston at Minnesota, TBA
CONFERENCE FINALS Montreal 6 2 4 0 6 12 6 Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 2 p.m.
Wednesday, Apr. 25 SECOND ROUND Philadelphia 5 1 2 2 3 6 5
x-Minnesota at Winnipeg, TBD (Best-of-7) MLB: Cleveland vs. Minnesota, TSN 2, 7 p.m. GOLDEN STATE (2) VS. SAN ANTONIO (7)
All Times Eastern D.C. 6 1 3 2 6 10 5
CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS (Golden State leads series 2-0)
EASTERN CONFERENCE Chicago 5 1 3 1 7 9 4 BASKETBALL
PACIFIC DIVISION (Best-of-7) Monday
Toronto 4 1 3 0 3 6 3
VEGAS (1) VS. LOS ANGELES (WC1) LETHBRIDGE (C2) VS. SCURRENT (E2) Golden State 116 San Antonio 101
(Vegas leads series 3-0) Friday NBA Playoffs: Indiana vs. Cleveland, Thursday
EASTERN CONFERENCE WESTERN CONFERENCE
Tuesday Lethbridge at Swift Current, 9 p.m. Eastern Conference quarterfinal, TSN 1, 3, Golden State at San Antonio, 9:30 p.m.
HAMILTON (1) VS.NIAGARA (4) Saturday GP W L T GF GA Pt 4, 5, 7 p.m. Sunday
Vegas at Los Angeles
(Hamilton wins series 4-1) Lethbridge at Swift Current, 9 p.m. Kansas City 7 4 1 2 14 11 14 NBA Playoffs: Utah vs. Oklahoma City,
Thursday Golden State at San Antonio, 3:30 p.m.
x-Los Angeles at Vegas, 10 p.m. Tuesday, Apr. 24 LA Galaxy 6 3 2 1 8 8 10 Western Conference quarterfinal, NBA TV Tuesday, Apr. 24
Saturday BARRIE (2) VS.KINGSTON (3) Swift Current at Lethbridge, 9 p.m. Vancouver 7 3 3 1 8 11 10 Canada, 8 p.m. x-San Antonio at Golden State, TBA
x-Vegas at Los Angeles, TBD (Kingston wins series 4-2) Wednesday, Apr. 25 Los Angeles FC 5 3 2 0 11 10 9 NBA Playoffs: Minnesota vs. Houston, Thursday, Apr. 26
Monday, Apr. 23 Swift Current at Lethbridge, 9 p.m. Dallas 5 2 0 3 7 3 9 Western Conference quarterfinal, TSN 1, x-Golden State at San Antonio, TBA
x-Los Angeles at Vegas, TBD WESTERN CONFERENCE Saturday, Apr. 28 Colorado 5 2 1 2 9 5 8 3, 9:30 p.m.
S.S. MARIE (1) VS.OWEN SOUND (4) x-Lethbridge at Swift Current, 9 p.m. Salt Lake 6 2 3 1 6 14 7 PORTLAND (3) VS. NEW ORLEANS (6)
ANAHEIM (2) VS. SAN JOSE (3) (Sault Ste. Marie wins series 4-3) Monday, Apr. 30 Minnesota 6 2 4 0 8 12 6 HOCKEY (New Orleans leads series 1-0)
(San Jose leads series 3-0) Tuesday x-Swift Current at Lethbridge, 9 p.m. Houston 5 1 2 2 9 8 5 Tuesday
Monday Sault Ste. Marie 9 Owen Sound 7 Tuesday, May 1 San Jose 5 1 2 2 9 10 5 NHL Playoffs: Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia, New Orleans at Portland
San Jose 8 Anaheim 1 x-Lethbridge at Swift Current, 9 p.m. Portland 6 1 3 2 9 14 5 Eastern Conference quarterfinal, CBC, 7 p.m. Thursday
Wednesday KITCHENER (2) VS.SARNIA (3) Seattle 4 0 3 1 2 7 1 NHL Playoffs: Tampa Bay vs. New Jersey, Portland at New Orleans, 9 p.m.
Anaheim at San Jose, 10:30 p.m. (Kitchener wins series 4-2) WESTERN CONFERENCE Note: Three points awarded for a win, Eastern Conference quarterfinal, SN Saturday
Friday one for a tie. Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 7:30 p.m. Portland at New Orleans, 5 p.m.
x-San Jose at Anaheim, TBD EVERETT (US1) VS. TRI-CITY (WC1)
THIRD ROUND Friday NHL Playoffs: Nashville vs. Colorado, Tuesday, Apr. 24
Sunday, Apr. 22 Friday
All Times Eastern Western Conference quarterfinal, SN x-New Orleans at Portland, TBA
x-Anaheim at San Jose, TBD CONFERENCE FINALS Tri-City at Everett, 10:35 p.m.
(Best-of-7) Saturday Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 360, 9:45 p.m. Thursday, Apr. 26
Tuesday, Apr. 24 Vancouver at Kansas City, 9 p.m. NHL Playoffs: Anaheim vs. San Jose,
x-San Jose at Anaheim, TBD Tri-City at Everett, 10:05 p.m. x-Portland at New Orleans, TBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE Monday, Apr. 23 Western Conference quarterfinal, SN 1,
x — played only if necessary. Saturday
Everett at Tri-City, 10:05 p.m. 10:30 p.m. OKLAHOMA CITY (4) VS. UTAH (5)
HAMILTON (1) VS.KINGSTON (3)
SCORING LEADERS Wednesday Thursday, Apr. 26 (Oklahoma City leads series 1-0)
Everett at Tri-City, 10:05 p.m. Los Angeles F.C. at Montreal, 1 p.m. SOCCER
G A Pts Kingston at Hamilton, 7 p.m. Wednesday
Saturday, Apr. 28 Toronto at Houston, 3 p.m. Utah at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
David Pastrnak, Bos 4 5 9 Friday Chicago at N.Y. Red Bulls, 3:30 p.m.
Sidney Crosby, Pgh 4 3 7 x-Tri-City at Everett, 10:05 p.m. EPL: AFC Bournemouth vs. Manchester Saturday
Kingston at Hamilton, 7 p.m. New England at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.
Nikita Kucherov, TB 2 4 6 Monday, Apr. 30 United, SN World, 2 p.m. Oklahoma City at Utah, 10 p.m.
Sunday San Jose at Orlando, 7:30 p.m.
Brad Marchand, Bos 1 5 6 Hamilton at Kingston, 6 p.m. x-Everett at Tri-City, 10:05 p.m. Monday
John Carlson, Wash 0 6 6 Tuesday, May 1 Philadelphia at Dallas, 8 p.m. TENNIS Oklahoma City at Utah, 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday, Apr. 24 Colorado at Salt Lake, 9 p.m.
Alex Killorn, TB 4 1 5 x-Tri-City at Everett, 10:05 p.m. Wednesday, Apr. 25
Hamilton at Kingston, 7 p.m. Atlanta at L.A. Galaxy, 10:30 p.m. ATP Tour: Monte Carlo, TSN 1, 5 a.m.
Not including last night’s games x — played only if necessary. x-Utah at Oklahoma City, TBA

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We need players like Marchand, Plekanec proves

himself with
even if the NHL won’t admit it his ‘best game’
since the trade
Like the best sort of salesman,
KYLE CICERELLA
the perennial pest has
identified a commodity hockey
orward Tomas Plekanec was
needs, and his uncontrollable
id is the product F waiting for a chance to show
Maple Leafs head coach Mike
Babcock he was more than just a
depth guy. He picked the right
CATHAL moment to prove himself.
KELLY Looking to avoid an 0-3 series
deficit against Boston, Plekanec
OPINION had his best outing as a Leaf on
Monday in Toronto’s Game 3 vic-
tory over the Bruins, much to Bab-
TORONTO cock’s satisfaction. He played 17
minutes 58 seconds – the most ice
n any given night, the NHL Play- time he’s had in 20 games with To-

O er Safety cops could form a spe-

cial task force to probe the felo-
nies of Brad Marchand.
Somebody would borrow a pushcart
from building maintenance to carry in all
the bankers boxes containing Marchand’s
files out of storage. They could all stand
around going over his previous convic-
tions; stick a few victim headshots up on
the board.
The NHL has many perps, but Mar-
chand is its most successful career crimi-
nal. He doesn’t always get away with it,
but so often slips the arm of the law that
he has become a frontier hero. He’s like
Billy the Kid, but with a bigger body
count.
Marchand had a quiet evening on Mon-
day – a sprawling judo move on the Leafs’
Andreas Johnsson that left the Swede
crawling back to the bench; butt-ending
Frederik Andersen in the head after pre-
tending to be pushed into the goal; crack-
ing his stick across the knees of anyone
who came near him, like a junkyard dog
on too long a leash.
Once the Boston loss was certain, Mar-
chand decided to do his postgame calis-
thenics on the ice using Leafs players as
Bosu balls.
He caber-tossed Mitch Marner before a
faceoff and took a woodsman’s swing at
Morgan Rielly. Somehow, Marchand was
not involved in the angry player-only
meeting that followed. It was David
Backes – 6 foot 3 to Marchand’s 5 foot 9 –
who handled the handshakes (mostly
hand to face).
I guess the going wisdom here is that
Marchand was “sending a message,” but
since he does this sort of stuff so com-
pulsively, a message to whom exactly?
I imagine Marchand’s the sort of person
who announces himself at the doctor’s of-
fice by flipping over the receptionist’s
desk. The only message he ever sends: “I
exist and I hate you.”
With just about any other hockey play-
er, all the next morning’s talk would be
about this Marchand problem. What do
you do with a wild animal like this?
But since it’s Marchand and since he
didn’t actually kill anyone, no one bothers
any more.
A great deal has been written and
broadcast about why Marchand is like
this. When he chooses to be, he is a gifted
player. He could make a good living by
doing stick work rather than his side hus-
tle in people carving.
A lot of people have asked him about it
and got unsatisfactory answers – he’s al-
ways been this way or he’s excitable, or he
has little-man syndrome. Like the Irish,
Marchand is apparently impervious to
psychoanalysis.
Part of his malign brilliance is that he
enjoys engaging the idea that there is
ronto since being acquired from
Montreal at the trade deadline –
in a top-six role alongside Mitch
Marner and Patrick Marleau.
He hit the scoresheet with an
assist on Marleau’s third-period
goal to seal the 4-2 win, but, more
important, won the matchup
against Boston’s top line by keep-
ing it off the scoresheet for the
first time in the series.
“Yeah, I felt better. Every player
says that when you’re in the game
Brad Marchand had a quiet evening during the Bruins-Leafs game on Monday: he only more, you feel much better about
butt-ended Frederik Andersen, caber-tossed Mitch Marner, took a woodsman’s swing at yourself, you’re more confident,
Morgan Rielly and pulled a judo move on Andreas Johnsson. CLAUS ANDERSEN/GETTY IMAGES and the key to that as at the begin-
ning of the game we had a good
something, well, wrong with him. After he couldn’t figure out how to explain it. couple shifts, gets you going, and
was suspended five games earlier this year “I don’t know if [Komarov] has a thing you can shake off that rust from
for using his elbow to turn Marcus Johans- for me or what,” Marchand said. “He’s previous games,” Plekanec said.
son’s head into a backrest, Marchand was cute.” Plekanec had been used to
contrite. “It was kind of weird,” the Leafs own ice playing a significant role with
He apologized to Johansson in a seem- pest, Nazem Kadri, said. “I know it was Montreal for the majority of his 11-
ingly sincere way. uncomfortable to watch.” year career, and having to adapt to
“I have to be better, there’s no ques- Which was rather the point. a lesser one with Toronto has
tion,” Marchand said. Though a long way from the most come with some challenges.
By “better,” he meant “pretty much the skilled player in this series, Marchand is The 35-year-old averaged close
same.” the one who draws the eye: prowling to 20 minutes of ice time a night in
Out in public, Marchand will not play to around in his hunched, simian skating 87 career playoff games with the
either stereotype we have for the role of posture, heat-seeking for targets. Canadiens, but only played a
Rat: insufferable whiner or frothing ma- You can see opponents twisting this combined 21:25 in the first two
niac. In person, he comes off way and that, trying to figure games against Boston. With cen-
as fun in a dim way, the sort out where he is at all times. tre Nazem Kadri serving the sec-
of friend all your other He changes the game with- ond of his three-game suspension
friends would say things I imagine Marchand’s out doing anything. on Monday and Toronto having
such as, “You remember Like the best sort of sales- last change with home-ice advan-
that time when Brad did [in- the sort of person man, Marchand has identi- tage, Babcock felt the need to
sert stupid thing]” about. who announces fied a commodity that hock- move Plekanec up in the lineup
What cannot be said out himself at the ey needs, but will not admit with the hope of maximizing
loud any more in the newly doctor’s office by wanting. His uncontrollable what he could get out of the veter-
safety-conscious, lawsuit- id is the product. an centre.
averse NHL is that there will flipping over the Hockey needs objects of “He played his best game since
always be a place for a player receptionist’s desk. hate, as long as they are he’s been here, maybe just the fact
such as Marchand in the The only message more ruthlessly charismatic he maybe didn’t feel as important
league – one who plays as if than genuinely frightening. as he should have when he got
he has a loose bolt rattling
he ever sends: here affected his play, but I
Most of the time, Mar-
around up there, but does ‘I exist and chand’s routine is more thought he was really good and a
not act that way in civilian I hate you.’ comic than grotesque. huge factor in our win,” Babcock
clothes. It needs people who flout said.
As long as he cleaves to the off-ice be- the rules. Otherwise, how would anyone Plekanec joined Toronto as an
havioural norms of hockey – doesn’t poor in the game navigate the wide, grey swath accomplished two-way player
mouth his teammates, show up his bosses between what is penalizable and what is and penalty killer, even if his of-
or find himself in a police lineup – he will forbidden? fensive statistics have dropped
be more than tolerated. Among a certain Marchand occasionally crosses the in- since his prime years.
segment of fandom, he will be celebrated. visible line, and then pulls himself (and When the Leafs traded for Ple-
And that segment will always be far larger everyone else) back over it. kanec, the expectation was that
than anyone acknowledges. Mostly, hockey needs personalities. he would give Toronto depth
All Marchand has to do is maintain a They are thin on the ground these days. down the middle. Babcock wasn’t
little wiggle in his game – score the odd The uniform blankness of the league’s concerned that Plekanec only
goal, do charitable good works, be part of youngest stars suggests they will get thin- produced two assists in 17 regular-
a winner – and people will find a way to ner in years to come. season games after the deal and
praise him in the highest terms that exist Marchand instinctively understands his said he was thrilled to have him
for a spiteful non-superstar – “Don’t like role in all of this. It isn’t to hurt people for the playoffs because: “You can
that guy, but love to have him on my (though he does that). It’s that there is a trust him. You can trust him with-
team.” rule about breaking the rules. out the puck, you can trust him to
After licking Leo Komarov’s neck dur- In his way, Marchand is proof that the play against good players.”
ing a clinch in game one of this series, old NHL is dead. If it weren’t, he wouldn’t
Marchand so unsettled the Leafs that they be so interesting. THE CANADIAN PRESS

With their Game 3 win, the Leafs get their groove back
DAVID SHOALTS TORONTO “Plus, we’re pumped to have
the day [off] and then we’ll have
a real good practice pace and we
here was certainly an ele- can get the tempo of our game,”
breakaway. But his puck luck in
this series continued and he lost
control of it at the Bruins’ net.
However, the Leafs persisted

T ment of luck involved

when the Toronto Maple
Leafs pulled themselves back
from the brink against the Bos-
ton Bruins.
This time, though, mistakes
such as fat passes across the mid-
dle in their own end did not turn
into Boston goals on Monday
night. Also, a borderline penalty
call went the Leafs’ way for the
early lead on a power-play goal.
But the biggest part of getting
themselves back in the NHL
playoff series, which the Bruins
still lead 2-1, was getting their
confidence back. The most strik-
ing thing about the Leafs after
getting blown out by the Bruins
twice was the shell-shocked air
about them. There was no trace
of the usual swagger from the
players who fancy themselves
the leading young guns of the
NHL.
Leafs head coach Mike Bab-
cock is often at his most honest
24 hours after the fact. He admit-
ted Tuesday during a media con-
ference call, with both the Leafs
and Bruins players taking the
day off, he was afraid the magni-
tude of the first two losses was
too much for his team to handle.
“Depending on how you’re
playing, I think some series get
out of hand,” Babcock said. “It’s
out of hand, there’s nothing you
Leafs centre Auston Matthews and goalie Frederik Andersen celebrate
after defeating the Bruins on Monday. FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
could do. I thought [Monday]
night for us – I mean, if we didn’t
have success [Monday] night, I
thought we were probably going
to be done.
“But, I think this now gets us
back to playing. So, to me, we
have a game at home, that’s all
that really matters and that’s
what I talked about [Monday].
I’m a big believer in the National
Hockey League, you win today
and everything’s okay. That’s the
same approach you take into to-
morrow. You win tomorrow,
you’re in a best-of-three and I
think we’re set up real good that
way.”
This does not mean the Leafs
have the Bruins down on the
mat. They were still dangerous
through to the final minute of
Monday’s 4-2 Leafs win and the
Leafs desperately need to win
Game 4 on Thursday. Pulling
even in the series is vital in order
to keep that shot of confidence
alive.
That is why, Babcock thinks,
the Leafs were fortunate to have
a two-day break in the series.
Now they could take a day off on
Tuesday feeling good about
themselves before getting back
to practice on Wednesday. It
makes the rest more meaningful
because they did not spend the
day fretting about their situation.
Babcock said. “Ideally, our confi-
dence will get back and we can
play the way we’ve played all
year.
“People would find it hard to
believe, it’s easy to lose your con-
fidence very quickly at playoff
time, but I think we’re in a great
spot to get it back. I really felt it
helped Freddie [Andersen] last
night. It helped Auston [Mat-
thews] last night. A lot of our
guys will be feeling better about
themselves, which is positive.”
Andersen and Matthews were
among a long list of Leafs who
were much better in Monday’s
win than they were in the first
two games. The list included al-
most all of their best players –
William Nylander, Mitch Marner,
Patrick Marleau and, notably,
their best defenceman, Morgan
Rielly.
As the game went on, there
were two indicators the Leafs
had their mojo working again.
The first was their skating. For
the first time in the series, the
Leafs were using their speed to
open spots in the offensive zone
and get the Bruins chasing them.
The other was the appearance
of the stretch pass, a Leafs trade-
mark over the past two seasons.
The first notable one was con-
nected late in the first period, to
Kasperi Kapanen for a partial
and early in the second period, a
bomb from Rielly found Marner,
who set up Marleau for his first
goal. Later in the period, shortly
before Matthews scored his first
goal of the series, another stretch
pass sent Kapanen off on a rush
and again his luck held – he hit
the post for the second time in
two games.
Bad luck aside, the Leafs were
making the Bruins nervous for
the first time. The only downside
was too often the Leafs defence-
men could not resist making that
long pass horizontally across
their zone, and not vertically.
Those often wound up on Boston
sticks, but the Leafs’ good luck
also held and not much came of
them.
“Well, I just think that any
time you can transition from de-
fence to offence fast, you have a
better chance to have success, for
sure,” Babcock said of the stretch
passes. “In saying that, the
Bruins have done a pretty good
job against us and we haven’t
had as much success at that as
we normally have.
“The other thing about it is,
the harder you come back and
defend quickly, the better chance
you have to have success in that
transition. We have to do a better
job in that area if we’re going to
continue to have success.”
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Raptors continue their playoff magic

Toronto produces
biggest-scoring
postseason effort yet
to take 2-0 series lead
over the Wizards
RACHEL BRADY TORONTO
The Toronto Raptors have jump-
ed out to a 2-0 lead in a playoff se-
ries for the first time in franchise
history, rollicking to the club’s
highest-scoring postseason
game, 130-119 over the Washing-
ton Wizards.
After Toronto’s all-star back-
court was double-teamed and
limited in Game 1, DeMar DeRo-
zan led the Raptors with 37 points
on Tuesday, while Kyle Lowry had
13 points and 12 assists. Jonas Va-
lanciunas contributed 19 points
and grabbed 14 rebounds.
The Raptors held Bradley Beal
to nine points, but had to over-
came a 29-point, nine-assist per-
formance from his fellow all-star
teammate John Wall, while Mi-
chael Scott had 20 points.
Toronto coach Dwane Casey
had been preaching for three days
that he didn’t want his team bask-
ing in all the compliments com-
ing their way since winning their
opening playoff game for the first
time. “We can’t fall for it,” said
Casey, who marked his 61st birth-
day on Tuesday.
“Look what [sixth-seeded]
Miami did to [third-seeded Philly
[Monday night], just went and
beat them out. We can’t let [the
Wizards] come into our building
and let them do that to us. We’ve
got to come out with a sense of ur-
gency like they will.”
Sure enough, the Raptors
jumped out to a hefty lead right
away.
DeRozan exploded for 13 fast
points. OG Anunoby was sticking
Washington Wizards guard Ty Lawson hits Toronto Raptors forward C.J. Miles during their matchup in Toronto
on Tuesday. Lawson made his first appearance of the series for Washington. FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
to Beal like glue, and then pro-
Toronto coach ducing on the other end too. Va-
lanciunas was all over the floor –
Dwane Casey had finger rolls, blocked shots and
been preaching for yes, his first playoff three-pointer.
three days that he Wall picked up two early fouls
– including a big charge into Low-
didn’t want his team ry – and went to the bench to boos
basking in all the from the ACC crowd.
compliments coming By the end of the first quarter,
their way since the rout was on between the top-
seeded Raptors and No. 8-seeded
winning their Wizards. The Raps rolled to a 44-
opening playoff 27 lead after their highest-scoring
game for the first quarter in franchise playoff histo-
time. ry.
The Wizards had vowed to bet-
ter defend the Raptors beyond
the arc on Tuesday after allowing
the home team to drain a fran-
chise-high 16 of them in Game 1.
Yet just 12 minutes into the game,
the Raps had already hit seven of
them. Instead of looking like a
team desperate to even the series,
the Wiz looked in the first half
like a squad already booking va-
cation plans.
There were a couple of bright
lights for Washington. Ty Lawson
made his first appearance of the
series for Washington off the
bench was providing some defen-
sive energy and dishing out a boat
load of assists. Scott came in and
contributed some desperately
needed scoring.
But Valanciunas had a double-
double by halftime, DeRozan and
C.J. Miles had already each hit a
trio of three-pointers, Lowry had
already dished out seven assists
and the Raps had held Wall and
Beal to a combined 13 points on
4-of-11 shooting.
So the Raptors’ next milestone
was notched by halftime – their
highest-scoring half in club play-
off history at 76 points. That
crushed the Raptors’ previous re-
cord of 63 they’d scored in the
second half of Game 7 against the
Miami Heat back in 2016.
The Raps took an 18-point lead
into the locker room, and they’d
already used 12 players in the
game – including Fred VanVleet,
easing back into action after mis-
sing Game 1 due to an injured
shoulder.
The second half began with
Washington’s stars looking deter-
mined to end the embarrass-
ment. Wall, Beal and Otto Porter
Jr. spearheaded an 8-2 run. Wall
was showing the blow-by speed
and creative scoring that have
made him an all-star.
Meanwhile, Toronto missed all
seven three-point attempts of the
third quarter, and looked out of
sorts. They were outscored 32-24,
as the Wiz narrowed the Raps’
lead to 10 going into the fourth.
The loud and festive atmo-
sphere inside the Air Canada Cen-
tre began to get quiet and tense as
the Wiz kept storming. Suddenly
a game Toronto once led by 23
had become an unnervingly close
five-point contest. Then Toronto
turned it up again with six min-
utes left.
Toronto finished with 13 three-
pointers and used all 13 men on
the roster. They surpassed the 118-
point record set last year in Game
5 against Milwaukee.
The series now shifts to Wash-
ington for Games 3 and 4, sched-
uled for Friday and Sunday.

Formula One
approves
fuel-limit
increase
ALAN BALDWIN

The governing FIA said the rise

from 105 kilograms to 110 kg of
fuel was among a number of is-
sues agreed by the Strategy
Group, which includes the top
teams, and Formula One Com-
mission in Paris on Tuesday.
The fuel increase, it said in a
statement, would be sufficient to
allow drivers “to use the engine
at full power at all times.”
Under current regulations,
with the cars heavier and thirst-
ier due to aerodynamic changes
and the addition of the “halo”
head protection system, some
fuel saving is necessary to the
frustration of fans and drivers.
Engines, however, are also lim-
ited at present to three a driver
per season, with teams also con-
cerned about putting too much
stress on them.
Other measures for 2019 were
for the weight of the car to be sep-
arated from that of the driver in Yangervis Solarte of the Blue Jays celebrates after hitting a two-run home run during the first game of their doubleheader against the
future and for all drivers to wear Kansas City Royals at Rogers Centre on Tuesday. Toronto won the first game 11-3. TOM SZCZERBOWSKI/GETTY IMAGES
biometric gloves to increase safe-
ty and facilitate medical rescue.
The gloves contain sensors to
gather personal data, such as
heart rate, to help assess a driv-
Double the fun for Blue Jays and Royals
er’s condition in the event of a
crash. JAMIE ROSS TORONTO start, were treated to an 11-3 Blue three starts this year despite a
The minimum weight of driv- Jays beating of the Royals, which shaking outing.
ers is expected to be set at 80 kg, handed Kansas City its sixth loss It’s an “It wasn’t my best stuff, and I
with ballast required for anyone Playing in a city with multiple in a row. really wasn’t sharp at all,” he
weighing less. At present, taller teams in the midst of playoff or Toronto batters combined for understatement said.
drivers are at a weight disadvan- championship runs, the Toronto 13 hits in the team’s fifth win in saying [Randal Garcia’s counterpart, Royals
tage. Blue Jays were hardly top billing its past six games. After trailing Grichuk] needed lefty Eric Skoglund, threw five
The FIA said discussions Tuesday as they took on the Kan- 3-2 through four frames, the Jays that. He’s been frames as well. He allowed five
would continue about aerody- sas City Royals at Rogers Centre. scored nine runs in the fifth and runs on eight hits with six strike-
namics, with the aim of making a While the Maple Leafs rested sixth innings to complete the pressing big time, outs and took the loss, his sec-
decision by the end of April once following their win Monday over come-from-behind victory. grinding. That’s ond in two starts.
research carried out by the gov- the Boston Bruins in their first- Randal Grichuk and Yangervis huge. Solarte put the Jays on the
erning body with help from the round NHL postseason series, Solarte homered for the Blue board in the first inning with his
teams had been concluded. down the street at the Air Cana- Jays, picking up a pair of hits JOHN GIBBONS third homer. With a full count,
Formula One’s commercial da Centre, the Raptors were set each. It marked Grichuk’s first BLUE JAYS MANAGER he sent a two-run shot to the sec-
rights-holder, Liberty Media, to face the Washington Wizards multihit game of the season. En- ond deck over the left-field wall
wants to see increased overtaking in the second game of their NBA tering Tuesday, the right fielder, to spot Toronto a 2-0 lead.
with more teams having a chance playoff matchup. acquired by Toronto in an off- The Royals threatened in the
of winning races. Over at BMO Field, mean- season trade with the St. Louis top of the second when they
The FIA also presented its pro- while, Toronto FC was playing Cardinals, was hitting only .071 loaded the bases with none out.
posed engine regulations for 2021, host to Guadalajara in the first (3-for-42). Garcia escaped after conceding
with current deals expiring at the leg of the CONCACAF Champions “It’s an understatement saying only one run to keep Toronto in
end of 2020, and beyond. League final. he needed that. He’s been press- front, but an inning later, Mike
They were for a 1.6-litre V-6 tur- That left the Blue Jays to bring ing big time, grinding. That’s Moustakas evened the game
bo hybrid engine, as is currently up the rear on an unusually busy huge,” Blue Jays manager John with a solo homer before Lucas
used, but without the MGU-H ex- day on the city sports scene as Gibbons said. Duda launched a torpedo over
haust energy-recovery system. they held a doubleheader against Toronto’s Jaime Garcia, the the right field wall to put the
The governing body said it Kansas City, one day after falling left-hander, pitched five innings Royals ahead 3-2.
would meet current and poten- ice from the CN Tower tore and gave up three runs on eight Toronto rallied for three runs
tial power-unit manufacturers to through the Rogers Centre roof hits with five strikeouts to earn in the fifth and jumped back in
discuss the proposals in more de- and forced the postponement of the win. front by a pair. Then Grichuk tore
tail and hoped to reach an agree- the opener of their three-game Garcia, who signed a one-year the game open with a three-run
ment by the end of May. series. deal with the Blue Jays in Febru- shot in the bottom of the sixth.
Toronto fans who turned out ary after pitching for three teams The Blue Jays cruised the rest of
REUTERS for the first game, an afternoon last season, improved to 2-0 in the way.
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TANI A BATTE N
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De ce m be r 20, 1929
A p ri l 9, 2018
I’ve gone to see what’s on the
other side...
RO MEO DE G ASPE RI S
It is with deep sorrow that we
have to announce the passing of
Romeo De Gasperis on Monday,
April 16, 2018 at 4:12 p.m. After
a long and courageous journey
over the past eighteen years,
Romeo passed away peacefully
surrounded by his caring family
at Toronto General Hospital. He
is survived by his devoted and
loving wife, Marialisa of 25 years;
his loving daughter, Natalie;
and cherished sons, Justyn and
Giordano. He is survived by his
adoring parents, Angelo and
Lorenza De Gasperis. He will
be sadly missed by his brother,
Tony and fiancé, Janet; his late
brother, Frankie (the late Rosa);
with niece, Laura (Mike); with
great-nephew, Giuseppe; and
nephew, Frankie Jr.; his twin
sister, Julie; and brother-in-law,
Claudio; with nieces, Jessica and
Valerie; and nephews, Marco and
Angelo; his sister, Nancy and
brother-in-law, Peter; with niece,
Nicole; his mother-in-law, Silvana
(the late Giovanni); sister-in-law,
Enza (Fabien); with nephew,
Éli and niece, Léa; brother-in-
law, Giancarmen; (Daniella) with
nephew, Gio; and niece, Ariella; his
many aunts, uncles and cousins,
and several very special friends.
Romeo leaves a legacy of
profound kindness, generosity, a
great admiration and unwavering
devotion to his beautiful family,
his parents and loving support to
his extended family and simply
anyone that he touched. Romeo
will always be remembered in
the community as an honourable
man with such strength and
determination in everything that
he did and an incredible aptitude
for business; all while holding
true to his humble self and
charismatic personality. He was a
very special man and will always
be remembered with great pride,
true joy and most of all; loving and
unforgettable memories. He now
joins his beloved brother, Frankie.
Visitation will be held at St. Clare
of Assisi Parish, 150 Saint Francis
Ave. in Woodbridge on Thursday,
April 19th from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. and
5 p.m. - 8 p.m. Mass of Christian
Burial will be celebrated at St.
Clare of Assisi Parish on Friday,
April 20, 2018 at 10 a.m. Private
Entombment to follow at Holy
Cross Catholic Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations to
the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre at
the Toronto General & Western
Hospital Foundation in honour
of Romeo De Gasperis would
be appreciated by the family,
please call 416-603-5300 or visit
www.tgwhf.ca/tribute.
God Bless and may Romeo De
Gasperis Rest In Eternal Peace.
Funeral arrangements entrusted
to Vescio Funeral Home
Woodbridge Chapel, (8101 Weston
Rd., 905-850-3332).
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LOUIS FLOM
On Monday, April 16, 2018, at
North York General Hospital.
Beloved husband of the late
Dorothy Flom. Loving father and
father-in-law of Gaye and the late
Stan Newman, Randy and Nina
Flom, Joye Labow, and Daniel
Flom. Dear brother and brother-
in-law of Gert and the late Sam
Truster, Dorothy and Cyril Davis,
Barbara and Norman Gilbert,
Beatrice and the late David Flom,
and the late Anne and Ben
Langer, Albert and Sadie Flom,
Bessie and Saul Glass, Lily and
Mac Weltman, Art and Shirley
Flom, Morris and Lila Flom, and
Solly Flom. Devoted grandfather
of Jessica Newman and Mark
O’Brien, Mara and Robbie
Schachter, Michael and Hailey
Flom, Shainie and Jordan Blum,
and Jake Labow; and great-
grandfather of Nate, Coby, Lily,
Brooke, Zack, and Kayla. A
graveside service will take place in
the Anshei Poland Section of
Roselawn Cemetery on
Wednesday, April 18, 2018, at
11:00 a.m. Shiva 616 Avenue
Road, #201. Memorial donations
may be made to Cystic Fibrosis
Canada 1-800-378-2233.
ANDR EW INGLIS GR IER SON
Peacefully, and with family by
his side, at age 95, Andy passed
away in the Sunnybrook Veterans
Centre, Toronto on April 13, 2018.
Eldest son of Andrew and Chrissy
Grierson, born in Winnipeg, he
spent the majority of his life there
until his move to Toronto five
years ago to be closer to his three
daughters and their families.
Predeceased by his sister, Agnes
Grant (Alex); brother, Alex
Grierson; and his first wife, Mary
Stewart (Hepburn); with whom he
had four children, Bob, (Shirley),
Marilyn Rhind (Bob), Joanne
Ackland (Geoff) and Nancy
Occhipinti (Roberto).
He will be sadly missed and
lovingly remembered by a
large extended family including
his brother, Charles and wife,
Marjorie in Vancouver, along
with many nieces and nephews,
11 grandchildren and 14 great-
grandchildren. Dad also had three
step-children with second wife,
Eleanor: Angela Lamboo, (Tom)
Granddaughter Chantel Gerrits,
(Trevor) Bill Prokop and Rick
Prokop (Denise).
A Canadian Veteran, Andy served
as an RCAF pilot in WWII and
was a long time member of the
Wartime Pilots Association. Andy’s
professional career was spent
at Investors Group in Sales and
as a Division Manager until his
retirement. During his many years
at Investors, he was a mentor to
many Rookie salesmen which
gave him an added sense of pride
and accomplishment.
Over many years in Winnipeg,
Andy was very active in the
community. He was a long time
member and past President of the
Winnipeg Kiwanis Club, strong
supporter of the Winnipeg Blue
Bombers Football Association,
avid Curler at the Granite Club
and member of the Shriners
organization. As a young man
he was a fine athlete excelling
in gymnastics, track and field,
hockey and swimming. He was
also a frequent golfer at the
Wildwood Club with many of his
long time friends.
In his youth Andy spent many
summers at the family cottage at
Victoria Beach and then later with
his own family. He had a passion to
restore old cars and became very
accomplished at it. But the one
passion Andy enjoyed most was
music. Self taught on the clarinet,
he loved to listen and play the
music of the Big Band era.
The family is so appreciative and
would like to thank all the staff
at Sunnybrook Veterans Centre
for their compassionate care and
support while he was there.
In keeping with Dad’s wishes,
cremation has taken place. There
will be a celebration of his life for
family and friends at a later date.
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donations to the Sunnybrook
Foundation Veterans Centre, 2075
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B RUCE MCDOUGALL
January 2, 1930 -
April 15, 2018
Father to Janice (Gervais
Goodman) of Millarville, Alberta,
Craig (Lynn) of Toronto; and
grandchildren, Kim, Blair, Erin and
Grant McDougall. Predeceased in
2013 by his loving wife of 59 years,
Beth McDougall; his daughter,
Cynthia; siblings, Lorna (Ness),
Wanda (Harris), Keith, and Joyce
(Bill and Sue Amos); and niece,
Susan Ness Anderson (Ross).
Bruce was a dear uncle to Judy
Ness, Arlene Harris-Tanner, Greg,
Ian, and Eric Amos, Rick, Bill and
Diane Henwood (Plitz); and great-
uncle to David Anderson, and
Katherine and James Scrivener.
Born in Toronto, Bruce made
lifelong friends and stayed close
to his fellow Upper Canada
College and University of Western
Ontario classmates. He valued the
friendly competition and support
of his skeet shooting buddies at
the Uxbridge Shooting Club, and
was a longtime member of the
Granite and Caledon Mountain
Trout Clubs.
Bruce enjoyed a long and
successful career with Shell
Canada. Upon retirement from
Shell he was Assistant VP of
Administration at the University
of Toronto. He spent many
years volunteering his business
and financial skills as a CA with
the Access Centre, Meals on
Wheels, Living and Learning
in Retirement, and other
charitable organizations.
He enjoyed his apartment at Living
Life on the Avenue, and made
several good friends, including his
special companion Eleanor Siegel,
with whom he enjoyed travel to
the cottage, Alberta and Florida,
and many family gatherings.
The family wishes to thank the
staff at LLoA; Dr. Sibai’s excellent
team and the caring staff in
the blood transfusion unit at
Princess Margaret Hospital; staff
and services of LHIN, including
the stellar palliative team; staff at
Sunnybrook and Toronto General
Hospitals; his neighbours in
Toronto and at the cottage; the
many people behind the scenes
who made things “happen;” and
his caregivers Junite, Maxine and
Osa for their kindness, humour,
caring and compassion.
A reception in Bruce’s memory
will be held later this spring. If you
are so moved, please donate to
your favourite charity, or become
a blood donor. Condolences,
photographs and memories
may be forwarded through
humphreymilesnewbigging.com.
Lovingly remembered by Sheila,
Noel & Beverly, Julian, Donovan,
Roya, his many nieces &
nephews & family friends.
FUNERAL SERVICES
TUESDAY
MENCELES, Lily - 2:30 Chapel.
WEDNESDAY
WEBBER, David - Private Family Service.
FINGOLD, Lee Edward - 10:00 Chapel.
FLOM, Louis - 11:00 Roselawn
Avenue Cemetery.
SINGER, Percy - 11:30 Chapel.
CORNFIELD, Abraham (Al) - 1:00 Chapel.
THURSDAY
HIMELFARB, Samuel - 1:00 Chapel.
FRIDAY
WELDON, Kurt - 10:00 Chapel.
SHIVA
DAVIDSON, Mannie - 2522 Folkway Drive,
Mississauga, Ontario.
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cottage at Whitefish Lake, which
he and Nan built and enjoyed
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lifelong friends and family. He
made his own wine for a short
time, a hobby he mercifully gave
up after a few years. He and Mom
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life together and were active
participants in the LLR program at
Glendon College, always staying
interested in life.
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BARBARA BUSH LIVES LIVED

WIFE AND MOTHER OF U.S. PRESIDENTS, 92 JEAN COPEMAN

FORMER FIRST LADY Artist.

Mother.
HAD THE COMMON TOUCH Warrior.
Rebel.
Born Dec. 13, 1933, in Lethbridge,
Alta.; died Feb. 6, 2018, in Campbell
River, B.C., of natural causes; aged
84.

hen my mother was 79

W years old, I walked into

her hospital room where
she lay dying and said: “Mom, I
have amazing news. You aren’t
crazy after all.”
“I knew it!” She snorted.
We laughed and then we cried.
New tests had come in, which re-
vealed she had been born with-
out a parathyroid gland. At the
bottom of the long list of symp-
toms caused by this condition are
depression, anxiety and delusion.
And for 79 years, she had been
battling these demons, first on
her own, then with prescription
drugs and then, when those
wouldn’t work, she drank. All be-
cause no one thought to check
her parathyroid.
As a child she was bright and
beautiful. She did well at school
and loved basketball and swim-
ming. She trained hard for weeks
and then her body would col-
lapse. After that she would sleep
for days and claimed she had
trouble seeing. There was vio-
Former first lady Barbara Bush died Tuesday evening after deciding not to seek additional medical treatment, and instead focus lence at home and drinking and
on ‘comfort care,’ according to a family spokesman. KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS no one noticed her predicament.
They thought she was crazy, that
she was making it up. She fought
She enjoyed a favourable public image through her many years in the public eye, back. Things got worse.
She married my father young,
and in some ways benefited from comparisons to her predecessor, Nancy Reagan just 20 years old, and had her first
child the year after. Having a child
ENID NEMY The comments, coming at a time when her son’s adminis- to love like she had not been
tration was being roundly criticized over its response to the loved was a dream come true. She
storm, were widely heard as insensitive and condescending. taught me how to read and when
arbara Bush, the widely admired wife of one president Two years earlier, shortly before President George W. Bush I was 4 told me that the freckles I

B and the fiercely loyal mother of another, died Tuesday ordered the invasion of Iraq, she said in a television interview
evening. She was 92. that she had not been watching coverage of the prelude to war.
Jim McGrath, a family spokesman, announced the death in a “Why should we hear about body bags and deaths, and how
had on my nose were from the
fairies that walked on me at night
with muddy feet. It was the 1950s
statement posted to Twitter. many, what day it’s going to happen?” she asked. “Why would I and 60s and women kept the
On Sunday, the office of her husband, former President Ge- waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” house nice, and learned how to
orge Bush, issued a statement saying that after consulting her She was similarly outspoken in 2013 when she was asked, on make escargot and Caesar salad
family and her doctors, Ms. Bush had “decided not to seek addi- the Today show, if she thought her son Jeb should run for presi- to impress their husband’s bosses
tional medical treatment and will instead focus on comfort dent in 2016. “I really don’t,” she replied, adding, “There are when they came for dinner at the
care.” other people out there that are very qualified, and we’ve had drop of a hat. My mother did this
The Bushes had celebrated their 73rd wedding anniversary enough Bushes.” with ease. She appeared to be the
in January, making them the longest-married couple in presi- She later changed her mind. In an e-mail to potential sup- perfect corporate-executive wife.
dential history. porters in March, 2015, she acknowledged, “When the idea of She was adored, kind and gener-
Ms. Bush had been hospitalized with pneumonia in Decem- Jeb running for president first came up, I was hesitant.” But she ous to a fault. But she never slept
ber 2013. She underwent surgery for a perforated ulcer in 2008 said she was starting a “Run Jeb Run Fund” because “Jeb is our at night. She was scared all the
and had heart surgery four months later. best chance of taking back the White House in 2016.” time and when she wasn’t crying,
As the wife of the 41st president and the mother of the 43rd, She went on to campaign for him in New Hampshire, but he she was angry – spitting, illogical-
George W. Bush, Ms. Bush was only the second woman in U.S. finished fourth in the Republican primary there in February ly angry.
history to see a son of hers follow his father to the White House. and suspended his campaign a few days later. After miscarriages and a still-
(Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams and mother of John Quin- Barbara Bush enjoyed a favourable public image through- birth, Jean had two boys. She
cy Adams, was the first.) out her years as first lady. In one respect, she benefited from planted rose bushes for each lost
Another son, Jeb, the governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007, comparisons with her predecessor, Nancy Reagan, whom child and I would often find her in
was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential many perceived, rightly or wrongly, as remote, icy and overly the garden, tending and talking to
nomination in 2016. style conscious. each one.
During that campaign, he was repeatedly derided in person- By contrast, Ms. Bush was regarded as unpretentious, a The 1970s brought happier
al terms by the eventual nominee and now president, Donald woman who could wear fake pearls, enjoy takeout tacos, walk times. She found she could paint
Trump, prompting Ms. Bush, who was never shy about ex- the dog in her bathrobe and make fun of herself. Perhaps add- and she loved it. She still stayed
pressing her views, to lash back, suggesting in tel- ing to her appeal, she conformed to the popular awake all night, but instead of
evision interviews that Mr. Trump was a misogy- view of an old-fashioned grandmother, with her fearful thoughts she played with
nist and a hatemonger. Ms. Bush was white hair and matronly figure; although she oil paints and made beauty. The
“He’s said terrible things about women, terri- was almost a year younger than her husband, early 1990s were trying. Arthritis
ble things about the military,” Ms. Bush told regarded as many thought she looked much older. had set in hard. Drinking became
CNN. “I don’t understand why people are for unpretentious, a “What not everyone always understood is that a problem until she sought ther-
him.” woman who could Barbara revealed as much as she wanted to but apy and found a close friend.
Dedicated to her family and largely indifferent wear fake pearls, seldom more,” Donnie Radcliffe wrote in a 1989 Though she was smart and
to glamour, Ms. Bush played down her role in her biography, Simply Barbara Bush: A Portrait of worked hard on her recovery, ev-
husband’s political success. But she was a shrewd enjoy takeout tacos, America’s Candid First Lady. “She came into the eryone disowned her except her
and valuable ally, becoming a sought-after walk the dog in her White House with a dexterity at manipulating children. Somehow, we knew be-
speaker in at least four national campaigns: in bathrobe and make her image, and she wasn’t above playing off her yond the chaos she loved us and
1980, when George Bush was chosen to be Ronald own outspoken style against Nancy Reagan’s re- just needed help.
fun of herself. Then, in 2012, doctors found
Reagan’s running mate; in 1984, when the two luctance and often inability to express herself.”
ran for re-election; in 1988, when Mr. Bush campaigned for “A less popular political wife,” Mr. Radcliffe added, “might the problem. I think she decided
president; and in 1992, when he sought re-election. have seemed calculating.” right then and there not to die.
She stepped into another presidential campaign in 2000, Part of Ms. Bush’s popularity stemmed from her penchant She told me she wanted to heal
that of her son George W., then the governor of Texas. She ap- for self-deprecation. Soon after moving into the White House, whatever wounds she had caused
peared at fundraisers and met voters in New Hampshire and she said, “My mail tells me a lot of fat, white-haired, wrinkled our family through her illness.
other states on his behalf as he rolled to the Republican presi- ladies are tickled pink.” And over the five years she had
dential nomination. She would do anything asked of her to help the Bush admin- left, she did. As I slept beside her
She was clearly a political asset. A 1999 poll found that 63 per istration, she said, but she drew a line: “I won’t dye my hair, the night she died, I felt proud to
cent of Americans had a favourable opinion of her and that change my wardrobe or lose weight.” Even so, as first lady she be the daughter of such a warrior.
only 3 per cent had an unfavourable one. was known to wear designer clothes and have her hair styled. I will miss her forever.
While first lady, from January, 1989, to January, 1993, Ms. Bush She was born Barbara Pierce on June 8, 1925, at a maternity
generally refused to talk publicly about contentious issues, hospital in New York run by the Salvation Army principally for Lauri Copeman is Jean’s daughter.
particularly when her opinion was said to differ from her hus- unwed mothers. The family obstetrician practised there one
band’s. month a year, and that month happened to be June. She was
“I’m not against it or for it,” she said of the Equal Rights the third child of the former Pauline Robinson and Marvin
Amendment in 1989. “I’m not talking about it. I want equal Pierce. Her father was in the publishing business and eventu-
rights for women, men, everybody.” ally became president of the McCall publishing company. Her
There were rumours that she favoured abortion rights, but mother, the daughter of an Ohio Supreme Court justice, was
she made it clear that she supported her husband and would active in civic affairs. One of Ms. Bush’s ancestors was Franklin
not say whether she was comfortable with his anti-abortion Pierce, the 14th president of the United States.
stand. She met George Bush in 1941 at a Christmas dance at the
She was vocal, however, in championing causes of her Round Hill Country Club in Greenwich, Conn. George had
choosing. Literacy was one, and so was civil rights; she had grown up in Greenwich, a son of Prescott S. Bush, a Wall Street
been an early supporter of the movement. executive and a future U.S. senator from Connecticut, and the
And she could be combative in news interviews, sometimes former Dorothy Walker. At the time, he was a senior at Phillips
yanking off her glasses and tartly chastising reporters when she Academy in Andover, Mass. They began corresponding.
thought they were being overly aggressive. She and Mr. Bush, on leave from the Navy, married in Rye on
Her candour occasionally got her into trouble. In 2005, while Jan. 6, 1945; the bride, not yet 20, had dropped out of Smith at
visiting victims of Hurricane Katrina at the Houston Astro- the beginning of her sophomore year. “The truth is, I just
dome, where they were being temporarily housed, she re- wasn’t interested,” she said in interviews. “I was just interested
marked that many of them “were underprivileged anyway” in George.”
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