Ottawa to limit use

of preliminary inquiries
Expected legislation in charges being dismissed because of
delays. The government will also at-
wake of 2016 Supreme tempt to cut down on the thousands
Court ruling aims to speed of Canadians each year who clog up
up justice system, avoid the courts over violations of their
bail-release conditions, according to
charges being dismissed a source who was briefed on the pro-
posed changes. In addition, it will
seek to reduce the overrepresenta-
SEAN FINE tion of Indigenous peoples and oth-
OTTAWA/QUEBEC EDITION er racial minorities being denied bail
and winding up in custody while
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 | GLOBEANDMAIL.COM The federal government is expected awaiting trial, The Globe and Mail
to introduce legislation this week to has learned.
curtail the use of preliminary inqui- The long-promised legislation
ries in criminal proceedings, as part comes in response to a Supreme
of an attempt to speed up Canada’s Court ruling in the summer of 2016,
plodding justice system and avoid which set new time limits for crimi-
Whistle-blowers
nal proceedings. The court said
criminal justice suffers from a cul-
ture of complacency and delay.
Lawyers representing accused
people brought more than 1,000 ap-
plications for judicial “stays” of pro-
ceedings in the first half-year after
that ruling, in a case called Jordan.
Judges tossed out several murder
charges, though appeal courts have
since ordered two of those cases to
go to trial. Alberta set up a “triage”
system to focus its resources on the
most serious cases and, along with
Quebec and Ontario, poured in mil-
lions of additional dollars adding
judges, prosecutors and court staff.
JUSTICE, A19

allege B.C. firm

breached rules A new generation emerges from
in Brexit campaign the shadow of U.S. gun violence
Christopher Wylie, Shahmir Sanni
says AggregateIQ violated British
spending laws ahead of vote

MARK MACKINNON LONDON

COLIN FREEZE TORONTO

The whistle-blower at the centre of an international

furor over misused Facebook data is now also alleg-
ing that the 2016 Brexit vote was tainted when U.K.
campaign funds were wrongly routed to a Canadian
consultancy he helped start.
Canadian political consultant Christopher Wylie
made these allegations in an exclusive sit-down in-
terview with The Globe and Mail in London on Sun-
day, just hours after a second whistle-blower
emerged on the front pages of the London Observ-
er.
Shahmir Sanni, a former volunteer for Vote
Leave campaign, said he had first-hand knowledge
about the alleged wrongdoing in the Brexit cam-
paign. He said a B.C. firm was paid £625,000 ($1.14-
million) as British campaign entities sought to cir-
cumvent limits on their spending.
Prior to these new allegations, Victoria-based Ag-
gregateIQ had already been under pressure. For
months, government regulators have been pursu-
ing probes to determine the Canadian consultan-
cy’s role in shaping the
Brexit vote. They also
wanted to know about
the firm’s links to a simi-
lar U.K. consultancy, [AggregateIQ has]
Cambridge Analytica.
Now, politicians on never knowingly
both sides of the Atlan- been involved in any
tic are piling on and urg- illegal activity.
ing that the Canadian
consultants involved JEFF SILVESTER
−many of them former AGGREGATEIQ CO-FOUNDER
federal Liberal Party vol-
unteers − give answers in public. “I will be asking
Parliament to call representatives from the Cana-
dian firm AggregateIQ to explain their connections
to Cambridge Analytica and the Leave Campaign,” Joseph Soriano, 12, who was a first-grader at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 when a gunman killed 26 people,
NDP MP Charlie Angus tweeted on Sunday. attended the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., with his mother on Saturday. FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
But the Victoria consultancy said it is not to be
blamed for matters related to the Brexit vote. “Ag- Students seize the glue to make a sign. to that afternoon for a play date. His
gregateIQ is a digital advertising, web and software On a sheet of white poster paper, older sister, Sophia, was in third
development company based in Canada,” co-foun- moment to tell their story Joseph pasted a photo of his young- grade and ran out of the school
der Jeff Silvester said in an email. and pressure their elected er self, cherubic and eating a cup of holding a friend’s hand.
He added that his company has “never knowing- officials for change ice cream five years ago. Next to it he “I don’t want any kid, no matter
ly been involved in any illegal activity.” placed a picture of a semi-automatic what the age, to go through that ev-
What’s not in dispute is that Mr. Wylie and Mr. assault-style rifle. “Pick one,” he er again,” Joseph, now a sixth-grad-
Silvester know each other well. A decade ago, Mr. JOANNA SLATER wrote in light blue marker. In his er, said as he headed south with his
Silvester was a mentor to a teenaged Mr. Wylie in WASHINGTON AND NEWTOWN, CONN. young life, the consequences of such sister and mother to this weekend’s
federal Liberal Party circles. Back then they volun- a choice were already real. In 2012, March for Our Lives in Washington.
teered for the same B.C. MP. They were also part of a he was a first-grader at Sandy Hook The rally and more than 800 sis-
group of young Turks in the party who tried to sell At 4 a.m. on Saturday, 12-year-old Jo- Elementary School when a gunman ter protests drew hundreds of thou-
its old guard on the notion that better access to seph Soriano tumbled out of bed in killed 26 people, including his teach- sands of people across the United
data can drive electoral outcomes. the predawn darkness. He put on a er and some of his classmates. States and beyond to rally for stric-
Considering this history while sitting in his law- baggy blue sweatshirt, black pants Joseph survived by hiding in a ter firearms laws, as a growing
yer’s office in London, Mr. Wylie told The Globe “it and brightly coloured sneakers, one bathroom with a little girl. A police movement among America’s youth
deeply pains” him to turn against a former friend. purple, one pink. For breakfast, he officer found them and carried them takes on the scourge of gun vio-
BREXIT, A6 ate a roll then rushed to get ready out, one on each shoulder, telling lence.
for the long bus ride from Connecti- them not to open their eyes. Joseph Joseph had heard about the
PLUS cut to Washington. He downloaded did. The girl he considered his best march from a friend at school and
Nearly three-quarters of Canadians plan to change Facebook episodes of The Office to watch on friend was dead. So was the boy knew immediately he wanted to go.
use after news of personal data abuse A6 the drive and took out markers and whose house he was supposed to go GUN VIOLENCE, A10

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SITTING MP TO GIVE BIRTH
t might be considered commonplace in the by her side, but it wasn’t until more than a decade

I House of Commons now, but 31 years ago, Sheila

Copps became the first sitting Canadian MP to
have a baby. Copps, then a 34-year-old Liberal
MP representing Hamilton East in Ontario, gave
birth to her daughter, Danelle Marrero, at 3:18 a.m.
on March 26, 1987, at Ottawa’s Civic Hospital. Mem-
bers from all parties applauded the announcement
made during Question Period by Liberal leader John
Turner. It was a defining moment in Canadian wom-
en’s political history. Copps, who took less than two
months off, was frequently seen with her daughter
later that NDP MP Michelle Dockrill became the first
MP to bring her baby into the House of Commons
for a vote. Today, there is a continuing discussion
about making Parliament Hill more child-friendly,
including formal rules to have babies in the Com-
mons and a bid to remove financial punishment for
parental leave. And Ottawa just added another
chapter: Liberal MP Karina Gould recently became
the first federal cabinet minister to have a baby
while in office. Gould was born in 1987 – the same
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Adult-film star says she was threatened

In new interview,
Stormy Daniels – who
says she had affair with
Trump – alleges that a
man told her to ‘forget
the story’ in 2011
JIM RUTENBERG
Adult-film star Stephanie Clif-
ford told 60 Minutes that she
struck a US$130,000 deal for her
silence about an alleged affair
with U.S. President Donald
Trump in the final days of the
2016 campaign because she was
worried about her safety and
that of her young daughter.
That concern, she told 60 Min-
utes in an interview for broadcast
Sunday night, was based on a
threat she received in 2011 from a
man who approached her in Las
Vegas. She said the threat came
after she sold her story about Mr.
Trump for US$15,000 to InTouch
magazine, which decided not to
run it after Mr. Trump’s personal
lawyer, Michael Cohen, threat-
ened to sue the publication.
“I was in a parking lot going to
a fitness class with my infant
daughter,” she told the 60 Min-
utes correspondent and CNN
host Anderson Cooper, accord-
ing to a transcript of the inter-
view. “And a guy walked up on
me and said to me, ‘Leave Trump
alone. Forget the story.’ And he
leaned round and looked at my
daughter and said, ‘That’s a
beautiful little girl, it would be a
shame if something happened to
her mom.’ ”
So when her previous lawyer
came to her with an offer broker-
ed by Mr. Cohen in the final days
of the presidential campaign, she
said, she agreed because, “I was
concerned for my family and
their safety.”
Ms. Clifford, known profes-
sionally as Stormy Daniels, was
the featured subject of what was
the most highly anticipated epi-
sode of 60 Minutes in its recent
Adult-film star
Stephanie Clifford, known
professionally as Stormy
Daniels, speaks with
Anderson Cooper for an
episode of 60 Minutes that
aired on Sunday night. In
the interview, Ms. Clifford
says she stayed silent about
her alleged affair with
U.S. President Donald
Trump out of fear for her
and her daughter’s safety.
CBS NEWS
history, turning her story about a
consensual relationship with the
president into something of a
national event, one replete with
viewing parties and “Dark and
Stormy” cocktail specials at bars.
She is one of two women who
have recently filed suit seeking
to get out of agreements they
said they entered during the last
stretch of the 2016 campaign to
give up the rights to their stories
about what they have said were
affairs with Mr. Trump. The other
woman, a former Playboy Play-
mate named Karen McDougal,
sold her rights to the company
that owns The National Enquirer,
and spoke to Mr. Cooper on CNN
Thursday.
Both cases present potentially
consequential legal challenges
for Mr. Trump, forming the basis
of complaints that have been fil-
ed with the Federal Election
Commission and the Justice De-
partment saying that the pay-
ments constituted illegal cam-
paign contributions.
Ms. Clifford’s appearance on
60 Minutes showed that the effort
to keep her story from public
view had failed spectacularly –
just as statements from Mr. Co-
hen that he would collect some
$20-million in damages from her
for violating the hush agreement
had not kept her from appearing
on what is often the highest-
rated program on television
news.
Asked by Mr. Cooper why she
was taking the legally risky route
of sitting for a nationally tele-
vised interview, she said, “I was
perfectly fine saying nothing at
all, but I’m not okay with being
made out to be a liar.”
Ms. Clifford had first threat-
ened to speak out in February,
after, she said, Mr. Cohen broke
his part of the previously secret
2016 agreement by telling The
New York Times that he had paid
the US$130,000 from his own
pocket. He has denied Mr. Trump
had an affair with Mr. Clifford.
The White House was quiet
before the airing of Mr. Clifford’s
interview, though an ally of Mr.
Trump’s, the Newsmax founder
and editor-in-chief, Christopher
Ruddy, told ABC News earlier
Sunday that Mr. Trump consid-
ered her story “a political hoax.”
Mr. Trump spent the evening be-
fore the interview dining at his
club in Palm Beach, Fla., Mar-a-
Lago, with Mr. Cohen.
Ms. Clifford said during the in-
terview that while she had seen
Mr. Trump more than once, she
had sex with him a single time,
unprotected. That happened
shortly after they met at a celeb-
rity golf tournament in Lake Ta-
hoe, Calif., in 2006. (Ms. McDou-
gal has also said that she, too,
was intimate with Mr. Trump
during that event.) Mr. Trump
was 60 at the time; Ms. Clifford
was 27.
Ms. Clifford said Mr. Trump
had invited her to his hotel suite
for dinner, and that their banter
began with him showing her a
magazine cover featuring his
photograph. “I was like, ‘Some-
one should take that magazine
and spank you with it,’ ” she said.
“So he turned around and pulled
his pants down a little – you
know, had underwear on and
stuff, and I just gave him a cou-
ple swats.”
It was done in a joking man-
ner she said, and the flirtation –
which included Mr. Trump com-
paring Ms. Clifford to his daugh-
ter – led to intercourse, though,
she said, she had not been partic-
ularly attracted to Mr. Trump.
“He said that it was great,” she
said, and told her he had “a great
evening, and it was nothing like
he expected, that I really sur-
prised him, that a lot of people
must underestimate me – that
he hoped that I would be willing
to see him again, and that we
would discuss the things we had
talked about earlier in the eve-
ning.”
Mr. Trump, she said, had
raised the possibility that he get
her onto his reality show, Celebri-
ty Apprentice, but it would not
come to be.
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Ex-CSIS director warns against Aecon sale
Former head of
intelligence agency says
the transaction with
China is not in Canada’s
strategic interests
ROBERT FIFE
STEVEN CHASE
OTTAWA
Former CSIS director Ward Elcock
says the takeover of Canadian in-
frastructure giant Aecon Group
Inc. by a Chinese state-owned
firm is not in the country’s strate-
gic interests even if a national se-
curity review approves or places
conditions on the $1.5-billion
transaction.
A decision on whether to ap-
prove the acquisition by Beijing-
owned China Communications
Construction Co. (CCCC) is ex-
pected by Friday, although the re-
view could be extended for an-
other 45 days.
Cabinet ordered a full nation-
al-security review of the takeover
bid last month under section 23.5
of the Investment Canada Act, a
measure invoked when the feder-
al government believes an invest-
ment could be “injurious to na-
tional security.”
Mr. Elcock, who was director of
the Canadian Security Intelli-
gence Service and a former depu-
ty minister of National Defence,
told The Globe and Mail that the
transaction is not in the country’s
best interest.
Nostalgia rules the night at Vancouver’s Juno awards
MARSHA LEDERMAN
VANCOUVER
Awards shows don’t always get
tributes right. But on Sunday
night, the Juno Awards nailed it
– with a gorgeous homage to
Gord Downie, and a terrific per-
formance by Barenaked Ladies
as they reunited with former
bandmate Steven Page, after a
hilarious and heartfelt induction
into the Canadian Music Hall of
Fame.
“Thanks to Steve for starting
this journey with me and to the
guys for continuing it,” said lead
singer Ed Robertson in his thank-
you speech. “For any kids who
have a dream, this can happen –
so drop out of school as soon as
possible.”
The shivers-up-the-spine mo-
ment of Sunday night’s live
broadcast had to be when Dow-
nie was named Artist of the Year,
and his brothers Patrick and
Mike walked to the stage to ac-
cept it, hand in hand, framed by
the crowd on its feet, applaud-
ing.
“All this love and support is
really helping the healing. This is
Gord’s award. … It’s artist of the
year but he was our man of a
lifetime,” said Patrick Downie.
“He wanted a country that
was equitable and inclusive and
right now we have an incredible
opportunity to do just that for
Indigenous and non-Indigenous
people to come together like
never before, change who we
think we are, create a new coun-
try and a new Canada. And I’m
telling you Gord would really like
that,” said Mike Downie.
Earlier in the show, Dallas
Use of ‘catastrophic’ drug plan surges in Ontario, study says
ANDRÉ PICARD
There are almost 130,000 Ontario
residents who have “catastroph-
ic” drug expenses and need gov-
ernment assistance to cover their
costly medications, a new study
shows.
The research, published in the
medical journal CMAJ Open,
shows that both the numbers of
users and the overall cost of the
Trillium Drug Program are soar-
ing.
(To be eligible for the program,
residents must have “catastroph-
ic” drug costs – meaning they
spend more than 3 per cent to 4
per cent of annual after-tax
household income on prescrip-
tion drugs – and be under the age
of 65.)
Dr. Mina Tadrous, a research
associate with the Ontario Drug
Policy Research Network, said the
data underscores the increasing
financial pressures Canadians
face in paying for prescription
drugs.
“Catastrophic drug programs
“Allowing a Chinese state-
owned company which is con-
trolled by the state of China, and
does what the state of China tells
it, is not something we necessar-
ily want to encourage,” Mr. Elcock
said in an recent interview. “They
represent the Chinese govern-
ment on everything they do.”
Even if the takeover is ap-
proved, Mr. Elcock said he cannot
imagine that Ottawa would allow
Aecon to work on critical infras-
tructure in sensitive sectors of the
economy that require security
clearances.
Aecon – a 140-year-old Cana-
dian firm – is heavily involved in
critical infrastructure across Can-
ada, including nuclear-energy in-
stallations, pipelines, transit and
hydroelectric projects such as the
massive Site C project in British
Columbia.
Aecon, for example, has part-
nered with SNC-Lavalin Nuclear
Inc. on a $2.75-billion contract to
refurnish Darlington Nuclear
Generating Station.
“From a security point of view,
I doubt they would ever get a job
that would require a security
clearance,” Mr. Elcock said. “If
there are security clearances
around it, my guess is that they
would then have to build – if they
want to keep the contract – they
would have to build some sort of
Chinese wall around the Darling-
ton contract that would exclude a
lot of people from the informa-
tion or knowledge that was classi-
fied.”
It is possible that the national-
security review could recom-
Green, who performs under the
name City and Colour, and Sarah
Harmer sang a stunning acoustic
version of The Tragically Hip’s
Bobcaygeon, as Downie’s unpar-
alleled stage antics played out in
video clips projected behind
them.
“He was our king,” said Kevin
Drew, introducing the tribute.
The show, which aired live on
CBC, was hosted by Michael Bu-
blé. After a stiff pre-recorded
opening skit, Bublé won the au-
dience over with a part-senti-
mental part-jokey opening
monologue about how good it
felt to be back hosting the Junos
after having to pull out of last
year’s show.
“Sometimes when you’ve
are the last line of defense for
helping protect citizens from
drug expenses that threaten their
family’s financial security,” he
said.
Researchers examined claims
to the Trillium Drug Program be-
tween 2000 and 2016. (While the
new research looks exclusively at
Ontario, most provinces have
some variation on a catastrophic
drug program and the patterns of
use and cost are likely similar.)
They found that, during this
period, the number of claimants
rose threefold to 128,166 from
37,436. The people making claims
are increasingly younger (under
35) and not hospitalized, accord-
ing to the research. (In Canada,
drugs dispensed in hospitals are
covered by medicare but drugs
taken outside the hospital – even
if they are identical – are general-
ly not covered.)
Meanwhile, total annual ex-
penditures for the Ontario pro-
gram soared to $487-million from
$51-million in that same time pe-
riod.
Dr. Tadrous, who is also a fel-
mend that Aecon must “sell cer-
tain business … but you would
still have a Chinese government-
owned construction company
working in the Canadian industry
and do you want that?” Mr. Elcock
added.
Richard Fadden, another for-
mer CSIS director and national se-
curity adviser to Stephen Harper
and Justin Trudeau, raised similar
concerns about the Aecon acqui-
sition.
“There is a significant question
about whether we should tolerate
Chinese state-owned companies
which are essentially under the
thumb of the Chinese govern-
ment, that we should tolerate
Chinese companies buying into
the Canadian market,” Mr. Fad-
den told The Globe. “That gives
me pause for concern.”
Aecon spokesperson Peter
Block said in statement on Friday
that China Communications
Construction Co. is a publicly
traded company that operates “in
other major western countries,
including Australia where a simi-
lar acquisition of a construction
company in 2015 was approved by
the Australian government fol-
lowing an extensive government
review that included national se-
curity considerations.”
Investor concern about the Ae-
con deal mounted last month be-
fore Ottawa announced its na-
tional-security review and shares
have traded below China Com-
munications Construction Co.’s
offer price of $20.37.
Chris Murray, an analyst at Al-
taCorp Capital Inc., said last week
been gone a while, you wonder if
you’ve lost whatever it is you
might have [had] in the first
place,” he said. “But honestly af-
ter standing here for forty sec-
onds, I realize that I’m even bet-
ter than I was before.”
Bublé did not refer explicitly
to the reason he had to step
down from hosting last year’s
awards – his oldest child had
been diagnosed with cancer –
but he did announce officially
that he and wife, Luisa Lupitano,
are expecting their third child.
Shawn Mendes, who won the
Junos fan choice award Sunday
night (and single of the year the
previous night), was not there to
accept it.
Presenters including Heritage
low at the Institute for Clinical
Evaluative Sciences, said the in-
creases are being driven largely
by the growing number of high-
cost drugs, particularly biologics.
In 2000, only 3 per cent of clai-
mants had drug costs greater
than $1,000 and 1.6 per cent were
dispensed high-cost biologics.
In 2015, 10.4 per cent of clai-
mants had drug costs over $1,000
and 5.5 per cent of them were tak-
ing high-cost biologics.
The most commonly used
drugs by claimants are choleste-
rol-lowering statins (rosuvastatin
and atorvastatin in particular),
antibiotics such as amoxicillin
and diabetes drugs such as met-
formin.
But the most costly drugs for
the Trillium Drug Program are bi-
ologics used to treat people with
rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn’s
disease, such as infliximab
(brand name Remicade) and the
hepatitis C drugs ledipasvir/so-
fosbuvir (brand name Harvoni.)
The research paper notes that,
in 2005, there were 20 drugs on
the Canadian market that cost
Q THE GLOBE AND MAIL .
the national-security review an-
nounced by Ottawa in February
has created additional uncertain-
ty about whether the acquisition
can be completed under existing
terms.
Mr. Murray said he believes Ae-
con’s telecom business is the pri-
mary reason for the lengthened
review of the Chinese takeover as
“the federal government is highly
sensitive to potential Chinese ac-
cess to core national infrastruc-
ture” in Canada.
Mr. Murray speculated that Ot-
tawa could order the divestiture
of Aecon’s telecom business
which generates annualized reve-
nue of $150-million.
“We believe there is a very low
probability of the transaction be-
ing approved as is, given security
concerns expressed by the federal
government and other allies
around telecom infrastructure,
particularly as Canada embarks
on a once-in-a-generation proc-
ess of replacing its fiber and wire-
less networks,” Mr. Murray wrote
in a note published on March 20.
Several of Aecon’s largest com-
petitors have asked Ottawa to
block the takeover on the
grounds that CCCC – which is one
of the world’s largest infrastruc-
ture companies – has a poor track
record when it comes to safety
and corruption, and that a state-
controlled Chinese entity is not
suited to work on projects with
security concerns.
The deal is also opposed by the
Canadian Construction Associ-
ation, which counts 20,000 mem-
ber firms and has concerns that
Sunday night’s Juno Awards
featured a posthumous
tribute to Tragically Hip
front man Gord Downie.
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more than $10,000 annually; by
2015, that number had risen to 124.
But drug costs are not the only
factor, the researchers note.
In Canada, drug insurance is
provided principally by employ-
ers as part of benefits packages
for employees, but an increasing
number of people are self-em-
ployed or have precarious work.
The study notes that employ-
ers, facing increasing costs pres-
sures, are also hiking deductibles
and reducing the number of
drugs covered and may be fob-
bing off employees who require
costly drugs on public drug pro-
grams such as Trillium.
However, the data collected
did not allow researchers to de-
termine the private insurance
status or the actual household in-
come of beneficiaries of the pro-
gram.
In Ontario, 53 per cent of resi-
dents are privately insured, while
21 per cent are uninsured and the
remaining 26 per cent depend on
public drug programs.
“With a larger number of ex-
pensive drugs currently under de-
| MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018
Aecon could undercut rivals by
having access to Chinese govern-
ment subsidies. The Conservative
Party has raised worries about
CCCC’s close ties to the Commu-
nist Party and allegations of cor-
ruption and bribery on infras-
tructure in the developing world.
Aecon, led by chief executive
officer John Beck, has played
down concerns that have been
raised about its involvement in
critical infrastructure projects,
such as nuclear facilities – con-
tracts that would pass on to CCCC
if the transaction is approved by
Ottawa.
“Aecon does not own any intel-
lectual property related to nucle-
ar energy; nor does it possess any
other sensitive proprietary tech-
nology,” the company said in a
statement last month.
The construction firm has also
pushed back at the notion that an
Aecon owned by China would re-
ceive subsidies from Beijing in
the same way that China Com-
munications Construction Co.
does. Any subsidies CCCC re-
ceives “are related to specific re-
search and development projects
in China that are available to any
company involved in those pro-
jects.” The subsidiary of CCCC
that would own Aecon, the com-
pany said, “does not receive gov-
ernment subsidies for its interna-
tional activities.”
All foreign investments are
subject to some degree of nation-
al-security screening, but the fed-
eral cabinet only infrequently is-
sues an order of the kind it has
made on Aecon.
Minister Mélanie Joly and musi-
cians Grimes and Buffy Sainte-
Marie all addressed women’s
equality in the music business.
“It’s time for change. It’s time
for women to be recognized for
our accomplishments and our
value to this industry. It’s time
for a far greater awareness of
what women have done and
what we’re capable of doing,”
said Sainte-Marie, the night after
winning Indigenous Music Al-
bum of the Year (for Medicine
Songs).
“The music industry should
ensure that artists and industry
professionals never have to
choose between a safe environ-
ment and a successful career,”
said Jasmyn Burke of the band
Weaves, before she and Joly pre-
sented the award for break-
through artist to Jessie Reyez.
Later, Reyez performed a rous-
ing version of Figures.
But nostalgia ruled the night.
After Rush frontman Geddy Lee
inducted BNL into the Canadian
Music Hall of Fame, the band
managed to make a long list of
thank-yous entertaining by sing-
ing it, and each made brief re-
marks.
“Guys, I’m not crying. You’re
crying,” said Page.
“Thanks to the guys for stick-
ing by me as I fought through
cancer twice,” said Kevin Hearn.
“I love you.”
The show closed with the
band – including Page – perform-
ing One Week and If I Had
$1,000,000, joined on stage by
performers including Jann Ar-
den, Jim Cuddy and members of
Northern Touch and The Jerry
Cans. And leaving a country
wanting more.
velopment, continued pressure
on public insurers to control
costs, and changing insurance
coverage for workers, we antici-
pate the use of catastrophic drug
programs will continue to grow,”
Dr. Tadrous said.
He noted that while there has
been much public discussion re-
cently on the need for a national
pharmacare program to cover es-
sential medications, there has
been little attention paid to the
rising cost of expensive drugs and
the burden placed on Canadians.
(The complexity here is that
while pharmacare would ensure
all Canadians have drug coverage,
it does not mean that all drugs
would be covered, meaning that
catastrophic drug programs such
as Trillium would likely still be re-
quired.)
Total prescription drug spend-
ing in Canada is roughly $30-bil-
lion a year. About $12-billion of
that total is spent in Ontario, with
just over $5-billion coming from
the public treasury and the Trilli-
um Drug Program is just one ele-
ment of public coverage.
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Donald Trump is still Donald Trump. Watchdog

blasts ‘bogus’
Now, there are few left to discourage it hydro process
While most presidents cultivate MATTHEW MCCLEARN TORONTO

a sense of order, this one

thrives in chaos, and has Ontario’s Office of the Auditor-
dissolved the Praetorian Guard General said it uncovered irregu-
lar and improper accounting dur-
whose job was to rein him in ing a special audit of the Inde-
pendent Electricity System Oper-
ator (IESO), a government body
DAVID SHRIBMAN that manages key aspects of On-
tario’s electric-power system.
Bonnie Lysyk, the Auditor-
OPINION General, informed the province’s
public accounts committee last
alf in wonder, half in horror, the week of problems uncovered

H Republican regulars who feared

Barry Goldwater would veer to
the extreme right in his 1964
presidential campaign against Lyndon
Johnson listened as the Arizona conserva-
tive delivered a blistering acceptance
speech at the party’s San Francisco con-
vention at a time of heightened Cold War
nuclear tension. “My God,” one observer in
the convention hall said in astonishment,
“he’s going to run as Barry Goldwater.”
Now − after a week of breathtaking, chaot-
ic developments, as another week of deep
uncertainty unfolds, and as the President
remains preoccupied with fights against
the Russia special counsel and a porn star
determined to reveal details of her alleged
affair with him − it is clear that Donald
Trump is governing the United States as
Donald Trump.
He is audacious, just like the Manhattan
billionaire. He is impetuous, just like the
New Jersey casino operator. He is unscript-
ed, just like the reality-television figure. He
is impulsive, just like the resort developer
who changed bargaining tactics to take ad-
vantage of his rivals’ weaknesses. Also: de-
fiant of easy characterization, of received
wisdom, of conventional behaviour − and
especially defiant of establishment advice
and of broadly accepted notions of best
practices for managers, public figures and
presidents of the United States.
A top American businessman, the CEO
of a Fortune 200 company, explained Mr.
Trump to a bewildered House Speaker
Paul Ryan of Wisconsin by referring to his
background making deals with developers
and landowners: “What do you expect −
he’s a real estate guy.” In other White
House administrations, close confidants
of the chief executive sometimes worked
to allow the president to remain true to his
inclinations and instincts. This was espe-
cially so in the Ronald Reagan years, when
loyalists from his time as California’s gov-
ernor pleaded to “let Reagan be Reagan” −
meaning allow the president to remain
true to his core conservative beliefs rather
than move to a more conventional centre.
And it was so, too, when the 40th presi-
dent’s wife, Nancy, complained that aides
“beat his head in,” or words to that effect,
while preparing the weary president for
his first debate with his 1984 Democratic
rival, former vice-president Walter Mon-
dale.
No such worries in the Trump adminis-
tration.
Last week, the President completed the
virtual elimination of the White House fig-
ures whose (self-proclaimed) job was to
rein in the inexperienced leader, to keep
him focused on a narrow set of priorities,
and − especially important north of the
border − to assure that his diplomatic and
trade-policy decisions remained consis-
tent with long-standing relationships with
traditional allies.
When national-security adviser Lieu-
tenant-General H.R. McMaster was eased
out of the White House as part of the most
recent administration purge, which began
Trudeau’s losing male voters. Can he win them back?
CAMPBELL
CLARK
OPINION
hy has the Justin Trudeau lost
during the audit, which began
late last year and is now nearly
complete. Her concerns included
incorrect accounting, deceptive
and obstructive behaviour by the
IESO’s board and management,
and poor financial controls. If the
improper accounting isn’t cor-
rected, Ms. Lysyk warned, she
might issue an adverse opinion
on Ontario’s public accounts—
Following the most recent White House purge, Chief of Staff John Kelly, standing alongside the first such opinion on any gov-
Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and others on March 8, remains one of the last major ernment’s financial statements
establishment figures in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. DOUG MILLS/NYT in Canadian history.
It’s the latest development in a
with the dismissal of secretary of state Rex izes them, of the U.S. capital. year-long showdown between
Tillerson, the presidential Praetorian Mr. Trump, however has gone a step far- the Auditor-General, the IESO
Guard of establishment figures was re- ther, once again last week ejecting estab- and the provincial government
duced to only retired general John Kelly, lishment figures from his inner circle and over the Fair Hydro Plan, which
the chief of staff, himself a replacement for eschewing advice from those who fear introduced significant, tempora-
earlier establishment figures. In recent that his comportment is inappropriate, or ry reductions to Ontarians’ elec-
days, Steve Bannon, the former chief that his priorities are misplaced, or that tricity bills. Ms. Lysyk alleged the
Trump strategist, said that if Mr. Kelly − his policies are misguided. scheme’s financial and account-
impatient and marginalized in the White “The role of people in an administra- ing structure was designed to
House − was to resign or was dismissed, tion is to speak their piece and to assure avoid reporting the costs of rate
he did “not believe there will be another that a president is seeing all sides of a pic- reductions on Ontario’s public
chief of staff.” ture so that he can make a solid decision,” accounts, thus allowing the gov-
Especially during the Trump adminis- said John Roy Price, a top domestic-policy ernment to falsely claim it had a
tration, all this shines fresh light on an in- adviser to Richard Nixon. “A strong ad- balanced budget. As of the end of
congruity in the American political sys- ministration needs to have dissenting last year, she estimated, Ontario’s
tem, where the skills required to win the voices, and presidents need that to make deficit would be understated by
presidency are far different from those re- proper decisions and to see things broadly. more than $1.3 billion — an
quired to succeed as president. Jimmy Car- The people around the president have got amount that will continue to
ter, who occupied the White House from to think more about the country than grow.
1977 to 1981, is the most vivid modern ex- about the president’s political situation.” “We think this accounting is
ample: A gifted cam- Mr. Trump himself says bogus,” Ms. Lysyk told the com-
paigner with just the he needs little outside mittee.
right aura of integrity guidance and that his Ms. Lysyk ordered the special
and instinct for the in- The new president soon instincts, developed in a audit late last year following a
formal after the searing life of business and af- breakdown in her relationship
Watergate years, Mr. confronts the necessity firmed as a successful with IESO’s management, board
Carter easily won elec- of working with other presidential candidate, and KPMG, the accounting firm
tion only to find that his players and adjusts his are sharper than any which audits the IESO’s books. In
high moralistic rhetoric campaign rhetoric to that can be provided by early 2017, KPMG did not respond
and lack of presidential outsiders. White House to her office’s inquiries about any
mien doomed him as achieve things. We’ve aides of both parties, ac- looming accounting changes at
president. had none of that complished in strategic the IESO. So she was blindsided
In most presidential adjustment in this flattery and possessed in March, 2017, when IESO pub-
cases, successful candi- presidency. of a strong sense of self- lished financial statements using
dates undertake a grad- preservation, often say radically different accounting
ual but dramatic trans- MICHAEL MCCURRY publicly that the best policies. Those new policies were
formation from plead- PRESS SECRETARY strategist in the execu- put to immediate use with the
ing (for support) to TO PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON tive mansion is the pres- Fair Hydro Plan.
leading (with strength). ident, but they seldom At issue is how much influence
“What you see on the campaign trail mean it and seldom are completely cor- the Auditor-General should have
usually isn’t what you get in the White rect. over the province’s approach to
House,” said Michael McCurry, who was And while most administrations culti- accounting. Ms. Lysyk’s office has
press secretary to Bill Clinton. “The new vate a sense of order, with established the sole authority to audit the
president soon confronts the necessity of lines of command and communication, province’s books, but the govern-
working with other players and adjusts his Mr. Trump thrives in chaos − and pro- ment itself is responsible for how
campaign rhetoric to achieve things. We’ve motes it. they’re presented. It has chosen
had none of that adjustment in this presi- “A candidate who becomes president to disregard her advice. Citing ap-
dency.” For some, like Mr. McCurry, that is soon will feel the weight of the office fall- proval from “highly qualified
a disadvantage, one that confounds for- ing pretty heavy on his shoulders,” said public servants and highly re-
eign leaders and congressional figures Mr. McCurry, the Clinton press secretary. spected accounting firms,” the
alike and that impedes the regular work- “Candidates usually become very self- Ministry of Finance stated that
ing of Washington. But for others, espe- aware of the magnitude of what they have “we know that Ontario’s financial
cially the Trump voter base, contemptu- to deal with once they become president. statements have been and con-
ous of political norms and resentful of es- That’s what is so aberrational of this Presi- tinue to be presented accurately.”
tablishment practices and policies, Mr. dent. He hasn’t ever seemed to accept the As an auditor of a government
Trump’s very resistance to change is char- burdens and the responsibilities.” body, KPMG is “accountable to us
ming − and a powerful antidote to the in terms of ensuring that we have
swamp-dwellers, as Mr. Trump character- Special to The Globe and Mail no surprises,” Ms. Lysyk told the
public accounts committee. But
the IESO’s chief financial officer,
Kimberly Marshall, saw no need
to consult or notify the Auditor-
General prior to adopting new ac-
counting policies. “We would
look to our external advisers,”
als. Last week, only about 30 per cent of Men might be a little more inclined to Ms. Marshall told the committee
men indicated they’d cast a ballot for care that the Liberals are running deficits, in February. KPMG said it had ful-
them. but that’s not as big a vote-driver as some filled its obligations by providing
It’s not really the precise poll numbers think. information to the Auditor-Gen-
that matter – they’re from smaller sam- But some Liberal MPs think the issues eral after the IESO’s books were
ples, so the results are more volatile and Mr. Trudeau’s government has focused on restated.
bop up and down. And the election cam- have struck fewer chords with male voters. The Auditor-General also ob-

W his big popularity advantage?

Because of the gender gap.
Men aren’t sticking with
the Liberal program.
The Prime Minister who trumpets that
he is a feminist and who appointed a gen-
der-balanced cabinet still leads a party
that’s most popular among women, ac-
cording to regular polling by Nanos Re-
search.
That’s not surprising: The Liberals have
long had higher support from women.
During Mr. Trudeau’s tenure, support for
the Liberals among women has remained
pretty steady.
It’s the other side of the gender gap that
is clobbering the Liberals.
That’s not what Mr. Trudeau’s team had
planned. A large chunk of the Liberals’
2015 election platform, with its focus on
middle-class economic insecurity, was
aimed at male voters. The plan to spend
big on infrastructure, which conjured im-
ages of cranes in the sky and allowed Mr.
Trudeau to swing a hammer in photo ops,
was aimed at a demographic that wasn’t
too different from the one that elected Do-
nald Trump. It worked.
But Nanos’ weekly tracking polls sug-
gest that Mr. Trudeau has lost about a
third of the men that supported the Liber-
als three weeks after the 2015 election.
Back then, Nanos polls found 44 per
cent of men said they’d vote for the Liber-
paign is 18 months away.
But the direction of the trend is clear:
down.
That seems to have started near the end
of 2016, when the Liberals started to make
some tough calls, such as approving the
Trans Mountain pipeline and ditching
their promises of electoral reform. It’s also
when Mr. Trump was elected, and events
overtook Mr. Trudeau’s agenda − partic-
ularly the threat to the North American
free-trade agreement.
The controversy over small-business
tax changes might also have hurt support
among men, or Mr. Trudeau’s February
trip to India. But it’s not just one thing.
Pollster Nik Nanos, executive chairman
of Nanos Research, said there is a kind of
“coming home.” Some male voters were
soft Liberal supporters who might have
been caught up in the desire for change in
2015, but drifted away since.
Political scientists have documented
differences in attitudes between male and
female voters – as groups, of course, since
neither gender votes monolithically.
Women tend to be bigger believers in the
value of government social programs than
men and men tend to have more faith in
market-based solutions. Men tend to be a
little more conservative.
But there’s more: Men and women had
vastly different reactions to Mr. Trudeau’s
tenure.
Voters evaluate governments on whether
they can relate to their priorities – if they
don’t, they judge their mistakes more
harshly.
The Liberals touted a feminist foreign-
aid policy and a budget with measures
aimed at shrinking the gender gap in the
work force. Women might be more likely
to see that as important. Some Liberal MPs
suggest there’s been a bit of a backlash
among men, but often among folks who
didn’t vote Liberal, anyway.
But Liberal rhetoric has been less fo-
cused on lunch-bucket economics in the
concrete terms that reach 30-to-50-year-
olds who still feel job and economic inse-
curity – talking about fishing, or industry,
or building projects. The proxy for that in
the Liberal 2015 platform – infrastructure
spending – is one area where spending is
less than planned. As an issue, it takes up
less rhetorical space.
But maybe Mr. Trudeau’s team knows
they’ve got a problem.
When Mr. Trump threatened to hit Can-
adian steel and aluminum with tariffs, the
Prime Minister didn’t just call the U.S.
President. He launched a tour of steel
plants, promising to stand up for Cana-
dian workers. That’s a photo-op aimed
more at male voters − more like the mess-
age Mr. Trudeau sent in 2015. To win re-
election, he’ll have to shrink the gender
gap.
jected to KPMG advising the gov-
ernment on how to structure the
Fair Hydro Plan, while at the
same time auditing the IESO’s
books. Randy Hillier, a Progres-
sive Conservative MPP on the
public accounts committee, said
he shared the concern. “With half
a million dollars or more in ad-
visory fees, there might be a rea-
sonable expectation, you might
say, that their ability to be impar-
tial and effective auditors had be-
come compromised,” he said.
KPMG insisted it hadn’t done
anything wrong. “The profession-
al standards for auditors clearly
contemplate and permit a part-
ner involved in providing adviso-
ry services of this nature to audit
clients to also assist with the au-
dit,” it said in a statement.
The special audit also found
the IESO’s pension liabilities for
unfunded benefits was under-
stated. Ms Lysyk said the error
would result in material mis-
statements on IESO’s financial
statements and the province’s
books.
The IESO, KPMG and members
of government asserted they’d
been co-operative and transpar-
ent with the Auditor-General.
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Facebook users vow to alter use of site

Survey shows
Canadians’ perceptions
are shifting about
social-media giant amid
breach in personal data
MICHELLE ZILIO
Nearly three-quarters of Face-
book users in Canada say they
will make some changes to how
they use the social-media net-
work after a Canadian whistle-
blower revealed a U.K.-based con-
sulting firm surreptitiously ob-
tained personal information of 50
million users, a new survey says.
The revelations have raised sig-
nificant privacy concerns among
Facebook users, including those
in Canada, according to the An-
gus Reid poll. The survey asked
1,500 Canadians what – if any – ef-
fect allegations that Cambridge
Analytica gathered data from un-
suspecting Facebook users will
have on their personal use of the
social-media platform.
Sixty-four per cent of respon-
dents said they will change their
privacy settings or use Facebook
less in the future, while 10 per cent
said they would suspend their ac-
count or delete it altogether. The
remaining respondents said they
would continue to use Facebook
as they always have.
“These are just Canadian find-
ings. Think about extrapolating
that to other Western countries or
countries around the world and it
really does have the potential for
a very significant impact,” said
Shachi Kurl, executive director at
the Angus Reid Institute.
“Something is permeating the
mindset of Facebook users.”
The Angus Reid poll was con-
ducted among a representative
randomized sample of approxi-
mately 1,500 Canadian adults.
Probability samples of this size
would carry a margin of error of
plus or minus 2.5 percentage
points, 19 times out of 20.
New opinion polls in the Unit-
ed States and Germany indicate a
similar dissatisfaction with Face-
book. Fewer than half of Ameri-
cans trust Facebook to follow U.S.
privacy laws, according to a Reu-
ters/Ipsos poll released on Sun-
day, while a survey published by
Germany newspaper Bild am
Sonntag found 60 per cent of Ger-
mans fear Facebook and other so-
cial networks are negatively im-
pacting democracy.
The polls come as Facebook
founder and chief executive Mark
Zuckerberg apologized for “a
breach of trust” in advertise-
ments placed in newspapers, in-
cluding the New York Times,
Washington Post and Wall Street
Journal, on Sunday.
“We have a responsibility to
protect your information. If we
can’t, we don’t deserve it,” the ad-
vertisement read.
The Angus Reid survey was
conducted from March 21 to 22,
days after Canadian whistle-
blower Christopher Wylie alleged
that Cambridge Analytica – a firm
he helped start in 2013 – secretly
obtained personal information
from 50 million Facebook users.
Cambridge Analytica used that
information to build profiles of
American voters that were used
to help elect U.S. President Do-
nald Trump.
The controversy appears to
have negatively affected Cana-
dians’ opinions of the social-
media giant. The Angus Reid poll
found that while 41 per of Cana-
dians said they have a favourable
view of Facebook, the number of
respondents who have an unfa-
vourable view of the social-media
platform increased to 33 per cent
in March, from 28 per cent in Feb-
ruary.
Facebook’s unfavourability
rating is considerably higher than
those of Google/Alphabet, Inc.
(10 per cent), Microsoft (11 per
cent), Amazon (12 per cent) and
Apple (20 per cent), the survey
found.
Nearly six in 10 Canadians use
Facebook every day, according to
the poll. Asked what kind of influ-
ence Facebook has had on Cana-
dian politics and government, on-
ly 10 per cent of respondents said
the social-media platform had a
positive effect, compared with 32
per cent who said it was negative.
“Canadians are more likely to
say – by a margin of three to one –
that Facebook has a more nega-
tive than positive influence on
Canadian politics and govern-
ment,” Ms. Kurl said.
“It’s not as though Canadians
are of the view that Facebook is
somehow improving the way we
government or politick in this
country, or that it’s improving the
way we talk to each other. If any-
thing, they think it’s worsening.”
With files from Reuters

Former B.C. privacy

watchdog who led 2009
Facebook probe now
heading U.K. investigation
WENDY STUECK VANCOUVER

A decade ago, when Facebook had a mere 200 million users, a

Cambridge Analytica’s Christopher Wylie, in London on Sunday, says cheating in a referendum, such as Brexit,
is a irrevocable change in a country’s constitution. JUSTIN GRIFFITHS-WILLIAMS/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Brexit: Wylie argues AggregateIQ founders have
obligation to reveal what they know to authorities
FROM A1
Known worldwide as a whistle-
blower now, he was poised and
genial − but his knee bounced
like a piston throughout the
hour-long interview.
He now argued that the foun-
ders of AggregateIQ have a moral
obligation to reveal what they
know to authorities. “If they have
nothing to hide, they should
come here and talk to author-
ities,” Mr. Wylie said. He added
that “Brexit is not just an elec-
tion. If crimes were committed by
various parties in Vote Leave, and
if AggregateIQ facilitated cheat-
ing in a referendum, that is a real-
ly big deal because this is a per-
manent, irrevocable change in
the constitution of the a country.”
It had been a week since Mr.
Wylie emerged as front-page
news globally. The previous
weekend he announced himself
to the world by dropping another
bombshell in the Observer about
how he worked with Steve Ban-
non, a former Donald Trump
aide, as part of a plan to surrepti-
tiously acquire and misuse the
data of tens of millions Facebook
users.
But 2013 and 2014 were very bu-
sy years for Mr. Wylie. He had
gone to the London School of Ec-
onomics before joining a London
consultancy known as the SCL
Group. Then he met Mr. Bannon
as a prospective client, with
whom he says he personally
worked to spin out the Cam-
bridge Analytica unit that was lat-
er implicated in the misuse of
Facebook data.
It was in this time, Mr. Wylie
said, that he also urged former
friends in Canada to join him. He
prevailed on people with whom
he spent his formative years in
Ottawa, as a Liberal researcher,
and in Victoria, as a Liberal vol-
unteer.
“I reached out to people I had
worked with in the past on pro-
jects, who I had a lot of respect
for, who I knew were talented − a
lot of those people were in Cana-
da. So the first-generation team
at Cambridge Analytica was filled
with Canadians.”
Mr. Wylie said he especially
wanted to work with Mr. Silvester
and his business partner, Zack
Massingham. Both had young
families, and neither was willing
to move to England, so a new
company was created.
“The compromise was they
could stay in Canada, they could
set up a company, but that com-
pany would in large part, trade or
operate or fill the role of quote-
unquote SCL Canada,” Mr. Wylie
said.
He said that was an unofficial
brand only, which mostly sur-
faced in internal correspondence
− it was otherwise known as Ag-
gregate IQ.
Campaign finance records
show that AggregateIQ got
millions of pounds from
distinct groups pushing for
Britain to leave the European
Union.
AggregateIQ said in its state-
ment “it has never been and is
not a part of Cambridge Analytica
or SCL.”
Mr. Wylie now says this unit
did work as far afield as Nigeria
and Trinidad and Tobago. And
both AggregateIQ and Cambridge
Analytica were engaged by the
Ted Cruz campaign team in the
2016 Republican primaries.
U.K. campaign finance records
show that AggregateIQ got mil-
lions of pounds from distinct
groups pushing for Britain to
leave the European Union.
On Sunday, a second whistle-
blower alleged some of this was
an end run around campaign fi-
nance laws
A former volunteer, Mr. Sanni,
told the Observer he was a 22-
year-old working for one pro-
Brexit faction, known as Vote
Leave, when he was encouraged
to spin out an ostensibly distinct
entity, known as BeLeave. But the
latter entity was a powerless
shell, he told the Observer. He
provided the newspaper docu-
ments speaking to a specific
£625,000 transfer from one entity
to the other. “We had no control
over it,” he said.
The money made its way to
AggregateIQ, which had already
gotten money from other pro-
Brexit factions.
According to the New York
Times, Mr. Wylie, as he was mak-
ing his allegations about Cam-
bridge Analytica, encouraged Mr.
Sanni to go public with his claims
about Vote Leave and BeLeave as
well.
Together, these specific allega-
tions by Mr. Wylie and Mr. Sanni
lend considerable clarity to mon-
ey movements already been un-
der investigation by government
regulators in Canada and Britain.
But such probes have run into
jurisdictional roadblocks. On Fri-
day, The Globe asked acting B.C.
Information Commissioner Drew
McArthur whether he under-
stood the corporate relationship
between AggregateIQ and Cam-
bridge Analytica. “I don’t know
specifics around that as of yet,”
he said, adding that he has not
yet interviewed anyone under
oath.
As he ended the interview, Mr.
Wylie was scornful of the atten-
tion the Canadian media has fo-
cused on his past Liberal Party
ties, particularly a 2016 contract
with the party that saw him paid
$100,000 by the caucus research
bureau.
He said there was nothing
scandalous or particularly inter-
esting about it, given how he had
left the world of Cambridge Ana-
lytica by then. “Frankly, the Cana-
dian press is trying to find a scan-
dal where one doesn’t exist,” he
said.
But he alleged AggregateIQ
was part of a Brexit scandal. “Up
until 2016, this company [Aggre-
gateIQ] they were tied at the hip
with Cambridge Analytica,” he
said.
With reports from Mike Hager and
Paul Waldie
public interest group filed a complaint with Canada’s privacy
commission over how the company was collecting and shar-
ing users’ information, sometimes without their consent.
Elizabeth Denham, assistant privacy commissioner at the
time, launched an investigation that found developers had
“virtually unrestricted” access to Facebook users’ personal
information and that privacy information provided to users
was often confusing or incomplete.
Her 2009 report, which prompted the company to change
several policies, was one of the earliest regulatory probes into
how Facebook handles users’ data.
“We – social networking sites, users, employers, data pro-
tection authorities – are only beginning to develop the ap-
propriate rules of engagement in this new world,” Ms. Den-
ham wrote in the report.
Ms. Denham, a trained archivist who later spent six years
as British Columbia’s information and privacy commission-
er, is taking on the social-media giant again, only on a much
larger scale. Now Britain’s information commissioner, she is
leading the investigation into allegations that a U.K. firm,
Cambridge Analytica, illegally collected data from up to 50
million Facebook users and used those data to target voters
in the United States and elsewhere.
When she was appointed to the British position in 2016,
Ms. Denham made it clear that she believes companies
should be punished for mishandling personal information.
“I think more significant sanctions for bad actors in the
digital space is very important,” she told a U.K. parliamentary
committee at the time of her appointment. Because I think
clearing the bad actors out, or getting them to responsibly
process personal information – is healthy and necessary for
the digital economy.”
Ms. Denham’s office declined an interview request. Those
who know her say she is in exactly the right place at the right
time.
“She is totally on top of this,” Ann Cavoukian, who served
three terms as information and privacy commissioner for
Ontario, said in an interview.
Ms. Denham has already given some indication of her ap-
proach: After Facebook said it planned to search Cambridge
Analytica offices, Ms. Denham
asked Facebook to stand down
and said her office would be ap-
plying for a warrant to pursue its
own investigation. I think more
“That puts her in an ideal posi-
tion – she will have full access to significant sanctions
all the data and she will leave no for bad actors in the
stone unturned, in terms of what digital space is very
did Cambridge Analytica do with important.
this data from Facebook,” Ms. Ca-
voukian said. ELIZABETH DENHAM
In B.C., Ms. Denham earned a BRITAIN’S INFORMATION
reputation as a tough commis- COMMISSIONER
sioner who was a frequent and
vocal critic of the government, including in one investigation
that ended in a criminal charge.
The final report from that investigation, titled “Access De-
nied,” uncovered gaping failures in the provincial govern-
ment’s information practices, including the practice of “tri-
ple deleting” e-mails so that they would be expunged from
government systems. Government staffer George Gretes was
later charged with making false statements to mislead Ms.
Denham’s office. He pleaded guilty in 2016 and was ordered
to pay $2,500 in restitution.
The investigation also had a “wide, sweeping impact on
the way the government operates,” Drew McArthur, B.C.’s act-
ing information and privacy commissioner, said in an inter-
view.
“As a result of her work in the office, we say we punch well
above our weight,” he added.
Speaking to a parliamentary committee before her formal
appointment in 2016, Ms. Denham said heading the U.K. In-
formation Commissioner’s Office would be her “life’s work”
and that she was “battle-tested” as a commissioner.
In a 2013 interview, she told The Globe and Mail that her
parents ardently followed the civil-rights movements of the
1960s and 1970s and that she grew up listening to historical
and political debates at the dinner table.
In a 2017 speech, she said she was an admirer of Arthur
Doughty, an archivist who set up what is now the National
Archives of Canada, and displays a quote from him on her
wall at home. In part, that 1924 quote reads, “when all person-
al touch with that period has ceased, then these records as-
sume a startling importance, for they replace hands that
have vanished and lips that are sealed.”
At the ICO, she is dealing with a volume and type of re-
cords unimaginable in 1924. But it won’t be the first time she
has dealt with such challenges.
“She has seen this before – this is not her first time around
dealing with some of these issues,” Vincent Gogolek, the re-
cently retired executive director of B.C. Freedom of Informa-
tion and Privacy Association, an advocacy group, said.
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Former South African president Jacob Zuma, who resigned his post last month, listens as the new ANC Leader addresses delegates during
the closing of the party’s elective conference in Johannesburg in December. THEMBA HADEBE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
South Africa police may soon
issue summons for Zuma
Former president could
this week be called to
court on corruption
charges dating back
to the mid-2000s
JOHANNESBURG
South African police could this
week issue former president Ja-
cob Zuma with a court summons
relating to corruption charges
over a years-old US$2.5-billion
arms deal, a spokesman for the
Hawks investigative crime unit
said on Sunday.
The National Prosecuting Au-
thority (NPA) last week said it
would seek to prosecute Mr. Zu-
ma on 16 charges, including
With a victory for el-Sissi guaranteed,
focus of Egyptian vote centres on turnout
HAMZA HENDAWI CAIRO
This week’s presidential election
in Egypt is not about who wins –
that was settled long ago – but
about how many people bother
to cast ballots.
Authorities hope that enough
people will vote for President Ab-
del-Fattah el-Sissi to lend legiti-
macy to an election in which the
only other candidate is an ob-
scure politician who has made no
effort to challenge him.
The streets of Cairo are lined
with campaign banners and post-
ers extolling Mr. el-Sissi, most put
up by businessmen or organiza-
tions hoping to advertise their
support. Mr. el-Sissi has done lit-
tle in the way of traditional cam-
paigning, and has not publicly
mentioned his ostensive challen-
ger, Moussa Mustafa Moussa.
A number of other presidential
hopefuls stepped forward earlier
this year, including some who
might have attracted a sizable
protest vote. But they were all ei-
ther arrested or pressured to
withdraw, making this the least
competitive election since the
2011 uprising raised hopes of dem-
ocratic change.
The government nevertheless
hopes that sizable turnout
among the country’s nearly 60
million eligible voters will lend
legitimacy to the vote, and is giv-
ing Egyptians three days to cast
their ballots, starting Monday.
“This election has a distinct
populist dimension,” said Ziad
Akl, a senior researcher at the Al-
Ahram Center for Political and
Strategic Studies. “The result of
the election is already known, so
a high turnout is the real prize
here, which the regime will cap-
italize on.”
Instead of addressing any of
the scores of rallies held by his
supporters or appearing in TV
ads, Mr. el-Sissi has opted for
carefully scripted and televised
functions.
The former general has
donned his military fatigues on
recent occasions, highlighting
the war on Islamic extremists
fraud, racketeering, corruption
and money laundering.
Mr. Zuma could not be reac-
A court appearance
hed for comment on Sunday. He
would be a dramatic has repeatedly denied the allega-
development on a tions. A court appearance would
continent where be a dramatic development on a
former presidents continent where former presi-
dents rarely face their accusers in
rarely face their court.
accusers in court. “We are of the view everything
will be finalized soon. Hopefully
this week,” Hawks spokesman
Hangwani Mulaudzi told Reu-
ters.
News24, citing sources close to
the case, reported that Mr. Zuma
would be summoned to appear
in the Durban High Court on
April 6. Mr. Mulaudzi declined to
comment.
Mr. Zuma, who was forced to
resign by his ruling African Na-
tional Congress last month, was
People pass by and perhaps reminding voters
banners featuring that he led the military over-
Egyptian President throw of a divisive Islamist presi-
Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi dent in the summer of 2013.
in Cairo on Sunday amid Many Egyptians welcomed the
the run-up to this week’s overthrow of Mohammed Morsi
presidential election. and the crackdown on his Mus-
AMMAR AWAD/REUTERS lim Brotherhood, and for a time
Mr. el-Sissi enjoyed a wave of
popular support bordering on
hysteria, with downtown shops
selling chocolates with his por-
trait on them.
But that aura has faded over
the last four years, which could
explain a clampdown ahead of
the election on the media and
critics.
The insurgency in the Sinai
Peninsula, which gained strength
after Mr. Morsi’s overthrow and is
now led by the Islamic State
group, has only grown more fero-
cious, with regular attacks on se-
curity forces and deadly church
bombings. An assault on a
mosque in November killed more
than 300 people – the worst ter-
ror attack in Egypt’s modern his-
tory.
The government has mean-
while enacted a series of long-
overdue economic reforms – in-
cluding painful subsidy cuts and
the floatation of the currency.
That improved the investment
climate and earned Egypt a
US$12-billion bailout loan from
the International Monetary Fund.
But the austerity measures
sent prices soaring, exacting a
heavy toll on ordinary Egyptians,
especially the more than 25 per
cent living below the poverty
O THE GLOBE AND MAIL .
at the centre of a 1990s deal to
buy European military kit that
has cast a shadow over politics in
South Africa for years.
Mr. Zuma was deputy presi-
dent at the time of the arms deal.
Schabir Shaikh, his former finan-
cial adviser, was found guilty and
jailed in 2005 for trying to solicit
bribes for Mr. Zuma from a
French arms company.
The 16 counts were filed
against Mr. Zuma but then drop-
ped by the NPA shortly before he
successfully ran for president in
2009.
Since his election nine years
ago, his opponents have fought a
lengthy legal battle to have the
charges reinstated. Mr. Zuma
countered with his own legal
challenges.
REUTERS
line.
If there have been few public
signs of discontent, it is likely be-
cause of a massive crackdown on
dissent. Thousands of Islamists
and several leading secular activ-
ists have been jailed, and unau-
thorized protests have been out-
lawed. The media is dominated
by virulently pro-government
commentators, independent
journalists have been arrested or
deported, and hundreds of web-
sites have been blocked.
As a result, most of the local
media coverage of the election
has consisted of Mr. el-Sissi deliv-
ering televised speeches and at-
tending official functions, with
little mention of politics.
Mr. el-Sissi cultivates the im-
age of a folksy populist, going on
at length about his devotion to
God, his reverence for his late
mother, and his love for Egypt. In
a one-hour TV interview, Mr. el-
Sissi said he wished he had one or
two trillion dollars of his own
money that he could spend on
modernizing the country.
In the televised interview, Mr.
el-Sissi insisted that the lack of
candidates was “completely not
my fault.”
“Really, I swear, I wish there
were one or two or even 10 of the
best people and you would get to
choose whoever you want,” he
said. “We are just not ready.”
At a ceremony last week in
honour of Mother’s Day, celebrat-
ed at the start of spring in Egypt,
Mr. el-Sissi urged people to cast
ballots, saying it would be a
“great and respectable thing”
even if they voted “no.” It was
probably a slip of the tongue, but
pointed to the reality of the elec-
tion, which resembles the yes-or-
no referendums held by former
president Hosni Mubarak and
other Arab autocrats going back
decades.
“I need every woman, mother
and sister, please. I won’t tell you
it’s for my sake, but it’s for the
sake of our country,” he said. “I
need the whole world to see us on
the streets.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
| MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018
Criminals
keep illicit gun
sales thriving
through dark
web: RCMP
JIM BRONSKILL OTTAWA
Criminals are using the darker
corners of the internet, hard-to-
track digital currency and cre-
ative shipping techniques to sell
illicit guns to Canadians, the
RCMP warn.
The message comes as thou-
sands of young people across
North America demand an end
to gun violence and the Trudeau
government moves to tighten
laws on the licensing, sale and
tracing of firearms.
The emergence of the darknet
– the hidden depths of the inter-
net accessible only through tai-
lored software – is posing new
challenges for authorities trying
to tackle gun trafficking, said Rob
O’Reilly, interim director of fire-
arms regulatory services at the
RCMP.
While police have shut down
rogue online markets such as Silk
Road in recent years, others
quickly pop up in the deepest
realms of cyberspace, Mr. O’Reilly
recently told a national symposi-
um on gangs and guns.
He pointed to the Berlusconi
online market, which at last
count had 234 listings for weap-
ons including AR-15 rifles,
AK-47s, various handguns and
countless rounds of ammuni-
tion.
The firearms are sold along-
side opioids, heroin, cocaine,
malware, stolen data, fraud tools,
ransomware, pilfered credit cards
and even depleted uranium, ra-
dioactive Polonium-210 and
deadly poisons such as ricin.
Mr. O’Reilly displayed a photo
of an AR-15 magazine and ammu-
nition shipped from a vendor in
Montana to a Sudbury buyer who
had no firearms licence.
The seller made a number of
gun-related sales via the dark net
before being arrested, each time
wrapping the products in plastic
and then in Mylar bags before fi-
nally disguising them in food
packaging.
“Dark net vendors resort to ve-
ry ingenious means to ship fire-
arms and related components,”
Mr. O’Reilly said. “In the dark net
community, this is known as
stealth shipping, and the intent is
to disguise or hide the actual con-
tents from law enforcement and
border services.”
The digital revolution has
spawned tools that allow buyers
to visit sites such as Berlusconi
anonymously and make purchas-
es without leaving telltale signs.
The Onion Router network,
known as Tor, is often used by
government agencies, activists,
journalists and whistleblowers
who may want to shield their on-
line activities, Mr. O’Reilly noted.
However, it can also be employed
by people with less noble inten-
tions, such as illicit-firearms
buyers. Similarly, cryptocurren-
cies such as Bitcoin – the most ac-
cepted form of currency on the
darknet markets – are used to ob-
scure the transaction details
from authorities.
“Such currencies present a real
challenge for law enforcement
because it doesn’t physically re-
side somewhere, making it hard
to trace without special, very ex-
pensive software and highly
trained personnel to do the
work,” Mr. O’Reilly said.
Firearms and related materials
are more readily available than
ever before because of access to
global markets through the inter-
net, he added. Different interna-
tional laws mean some firearms
components and accessories can
be illegal in one country but
completely legal in another.
“This challenge has existed for
some time in regards to our
neighbours to the south, howev-
er it is compounded in a border-
less online market that is truly in-
ternational,” Mr. O’Reilly said.
“Once imported to Canada, these
components can be easily fin-
ished and assembled through on-
line tutorials, the results of which
are often completely untraceable
firearms, sometimes known as
ghost guns.”
At the same time, gun sales are
occurring through more visible
online vendors as well as internet
forums.
Police training needs must be
“continually updated” to reflect
the rapidly evolving online envi-
ronment, Mr. O’Reilly said. “Con-
ducting online investigations,
whether on the darknet or on the
surface web, requires a very spe-
cific skill set.”
THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL . O NEWS | A9

Burnaby won’t cover costs related to policing

protests of Trans Mountain pipeline
Mayor says he is
drawing the line at
overtime and other
RCMP costs related to
activism management
IAN BAILEY VANCOUVER
The City of Burnaby, where pro-
tests and arrests have been taking
place over work under way to ex-
pand the Trans Mountain pipe-
line, has ruled out paying policing
costs related to managing the ac-
tivism, its mayor says.
As with many B.C. communi-
ties, Burnaby is policed by the
RCMP, and is normally on the
hook for expenses, but Mayor De-
rek Corrigan – a vocal critic of the
pipeline project – says he is draw-
ing the line at overtime and other
RCMP costs related to Trans
Mountain as a project the city op-
poses.
“We’re not paying for the addi-
tional policing costs that are be-
ing accumulated as a result of the
protests at the Trans Mountain
project,” Mr. Corrigan said in an
interview. “I don’t think there is
anybody in the Western world
who doesn’t know now that Bur-
naby is not paying.”
He casts the position as a re-
flection of Burnaby’s opposition
to the project as well as the view
that the Trudeau government,
which approved the project,
should be picking up the costs to
deal with protests against it.
This isn’t the first time the is-
sue has come up. The B.C. govern-
ment says there is an outstanding
$800,000 bill for policing 2014
protests related to the project
that “remains in dispute,” accord-
ing to a statement from the pro-
vincial Ministry of Public Safety
and the Solicitor-General.
“The province is aware of Bur-
naby’s views on paying for these
policing matters and we confirm
An RCMP officer reads a court order to Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, right, and NDP MP Kennedy
Stewart, second right, before they were arrested after joining protesters outside Kinder Morgan’s facility in
Burnaby, B.C., on Friday. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
there is an outstanding non-pay-
ment with respect to 2014,” said
the provincial statement issued
by Colin Hynes for the Ministry of
Public Safety.
In their statement, the provin-
cial public safety and Solicitor-
General’s ministry said the Police
Act in B.C. compels municipal-
ities with populations of more
than 15,000 to pay for the cost of
policing within their boundaries.
“This includes the cost of policing
matters related to civil disobedi-
ence.”
However, the ministry said the
dispute will not affect policing. “It
is important to note that regard-
less of any disagreement over
funding, policing services will
continue uninterrupted and will
be unaffected by any funding dis-
agreement.” Ironically, British Co-
lumbia’s NDP government has
been sharply opposed to the ex-
pansion of the pipeline – a policy
that has pitted them against the
NDP government in Alberta,
which is a proponent for the pro-
ject.
Mr. Corrigan’s stand comes
amidst increasing protests over
the project. According to the Bur-
naby RCMP, 54 demonstrators
against the project were arrested
on Saturday for breaching a
court-ordered injunction that
prohibits protesters from coming
within five metres of a pair of ter-
minals in Burnaby operated by
project proponent Kinder Mor-
gan. Last Friday, federal Green
Party Leader Elizabeth May and
NDP MP Kennedy Stewart were
arrested in protests.
The Trans Mountain expan-
sion project, which has been ap-
proved by the federal govern-
ment, will triple the capacity of
the pipeline to about 900,000
barrels from 300,000. In recent
weeks, one protest drew more
than 5,000 people – and a police
presence to manage the gather-
ing.
Ali Hounsell, a spokesperson
for the Trans Mountain project,
said in a statement issued on Sun-
day that “Trans Mountain’s view
is that policing is a local govern-
ment cost. “
Mr. Corrigan said the Mounties
have told him they may take the
matter to dispute resolution.
While he said he has no details on
that process, an RCMP spokesper-
son in B.C. pointed out there are
provisions for working through
disputes in the service agreement
on municipal policing in B.C.
The mayor also said he is skep-
tical about RCMP assurances that
dealing with the protests won’t
distract from routine policing
needs in Burnaby.
“They’re telling me, no, they
are not diminishing any of the re-
sources that are available to the
community. But I can’t help but
think this takes a toll in being
able to deal with these issues,” Mr.
Corrigan said. “While I am being
assured that it is now, I am suspi-
cious that it is.”
In a series of e-mail responses
to Globe and Mail questions on
the issue, a spokesperson for the
RCMP E-Division covering B.C.
said the force is dealing with pro-
tests now and looking to eventu-
ally deal with costs.
“The RCMP goal for any dem-
onstrations is to ensure that they
take place in a peaceful, lawful
and safe manner. We will deploy
the resources necessary to ac-
complish this,” Sergeant Janelle
Shoihet said in an e-mail.
Sgt. Shoihet said the Burnaby
RCMP don’t have contingency
funds for their responsibilities
but, rather, respond to calls for
service and rolls salaries, expens-
es and other costs into an annual
policing budget for the detach-
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“As you can imagine, it’s diffi-
cult to predict how many calls for
service we’ll get in relation to one
specific event or a series of events
and therefore difficult to predict
how many resources we’ll need to
respond.”
Mr. Corrigan said the protests
against Trans Mountain are going
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“This is the overture to what ‘s
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tion of the protests over the next
months. This problem is only go-
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A10 FOLIO
Gun violence: ‘If people
don’t listen … we’re lost’
FROM A1
Joseph had heard about the
march from a friend at school and
knew immediately he wanted to
go. He researched the event and
told his mother, who remained
apprehensive, that he had to be
there. On the bus from Connecti-
cut, he and Sophia, 13, spoke in an
animated rush. “I’m so excited to
have our words be spoken,” Jo-
seph said. “To have our voices be
everybody’s voices.”
Joseph and Sophia are part of a
generation of American students
who are seizing this moment to
tell their story and to pressure
their elected officials for change.
Some of them, in places such as
Newtown, Conn., and in cities
around the country, have first-
hand or repeated encounters
with gun violence. But all of them
have grown up with lockdown
drills – and with the awareness
that school shootings are a re-
mote but real possibility.
Whether America is ready to
listen to this new youth move-
ment, ignited by the survivors of
last month’s mass shooting at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland, Fla., is an
open question. When 400 people
from the Newtown area boarded
eight buses for Washington in the
wee hours of Saturday, they car-
ried hopes that the U.S. gun de-
bate is at a tipping point. But they
also know that they have held
such hopes before, only to see a
push for national action founder.
Demonstrations such as Satur-
day’s marches galvanize the peo-
ple who participate in them.
Their ultimate impact, however,
depends on continued organiz-
ing and, most of all, on translat-
ing voices into votes. “The hard
part is always momentum, but I
feel these kids are not going to
stop,” said Brenda Soriano, 48, Jo-
seph and Sophia’s mother, who
had never attended a protest in
her life before Saturday. “If peo-
ple don’t listen to them, we’re
lost.”
BREAKING A BARRIER
The first sense that the Newtown
contingent was part of something
much bigger came at a rest stop
off the interstate highway in Dela-
ware. Buses crowded the parking
lot and the food court swirled
with students from further up the
East Coast. Students from a high
school in the Bronx wearing
bright green T-shirts mixed with
students from Hackensack, N.J..
in purple and blue who were ac-
companied by their city’s deputy
mayor.
When Joseph and Sophia
climbed down the steps of the
bus into Washington’s Judiciary
Square a little more than two
hours later, Ms. Soriano was nerv-
ous. She knew there would be
crowds and confusion and ho-
vered close to both children. After
the shooting, she said, they felt
afraid for a long time. They were
hyper-vigilant, upset by loud
noises or by being alone on a floor
of their house. To their mother,
the fact that both children want-
ed to be at Saturday’s march was
encouraging, a sign that they
were far stronger than in the past.
Joseph and Sophia were not
the only kids from Newtown
speaking out for the first time.
Adrianna Butler, 12, also survived
the shooting at Sandy Hook Ele-
mentary and came to the march
with her mother and aunt. “It
took five years, but my daughter
said, ‘I think I’m ready to do this
now,’” Liz Arrindell, Adrianna’s
mother, said.
Adrianna made her own sign,
which read: “I hid in the corner
during my school shooting. What
about you?”
Throughout the day, the New-
town kids and parents spoke with
fervent admiration about the Par-
kland students. Those students
“broke a barrier that people we-
ren’t able or willing to break,” said
Marian Mollin, a history professor
at Virginia Tech University who
studies social movements. They
immediately responded “politi-
cally and outwardly” to a mass
shooting.
Prof. Mollin noted the long tra-
dition of young people, including
high-school students, leading
pushes for political change in the
United States during the Civil
Rights movement and the Viet-
nam War. Today’s students “just
have to keep going,” she said. “If it
ends here, then it’s nothing. They
know that.”
At Saturday’s rally, the stu-
dents vowed to continue their
fight. But the prospects of enact-
ing any significant restrictions on
guns at the national level under
the current Congress remain slim.
Legislators passed a modest im-
provement to the background
check system as part of last
week’s spending package. Earlier
this month, they also authorized
FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
new grants to schools for safety
programs. But the measures the
students are advocating – univer-
sal background checks to pur-
chase firearms, a ban on assault
weapons, a prohibition on high-
capacity ammunition magazines
– are not under serious consider-
ation.
For groups devoted to prevent-
ing gun violence, the focus is now
on November’s midterm elec-
tions and on turning out voters to
support their agenda. “Ultimate-
ly, unless you kick some asses out
of office, you’re not going to see a
radical change,” said Tom Maus-
er, a long-time activist in Colora-
do whose son Daniel was killed at
Columbine High School in 1999.
“Some people have to pay a price
for their votes.”
Mr. Mauser still remembers the
Million Mom March in 2000, a
demonstration in favour of gun
restrictions, which drew hun-
dreds of thousands of people to
Washington and was even bigger
than Saturday’s march. But after
that display of strength, “the air
kind of went out of our balloon,”
Mr. Mauser said. For years, gun-
control activists were outnum-
bered at legislative hearings by
gun-rights advocates. That only
began to change after the New-
town shooting in 2012.
“Everything you’re seeing now
has been built in the last five
years,” said David Stowe, a foun-
der of the Newtown Action Alli-
ance, the group that organized
the buses to Washington. While
no significant gun-control legisla-
tion has passed in Congress, there
has been progress at the state lev-
el and a number of new grass-
roots organizations were formed
– groups that are assisting and
amplifying the student move-
ment.
Even in Newtown, it was a
struggle to keep students en-
gaged in the gun debate before
the Parkland shooting. Isabella
Wakeman, 16, a junior at New-
town High School, said that this
past fall, the junior arm of the
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The hard part is
always momentum,
but I feel these kids
are not going to
stop.
BRENDA SORIANO
MOTHER OF SURVIVORS IN
SANDY HOOK SHOOTING
Newtown Action Alliance was on-
ly attracting a handful of students
to its meetings. Then came the
shooting in February and the
school walkouts earlier this
month – and suddenly the group
had more than 100 students com-
ing to its meetings. Roughly 200
of them came to Washington.
Their next meeting is Monday af-
ter school, said Isabella, where
they will discuss next steps.
APOLOGIES FOR A GENERATION
As the rally began, the Sorianos
made their way toward Pennsyl-
vania Avenue under a nearly
cloudless sky. They moved slowly
through thick crowds before set-
tling in a spot near the National
Archives. They were joined by
nine more people from New-
town, including three other stu-
dents who survived the shooting
at Sandy Hook. Some fellow pro-
testers, seeing their signs and T-
shirts, stopped to thank them or
to offer hugs and words of sup-
port.
Organizers estimated the
crowd at 800,000 people while
outside experts put the figure at
around 200,000. In the throngs, came part of a national moment.
Ms. Arindell and her daughter Emma Gonzalez, a Parkland
Adrianna became separated from student, was the final speaker.
the larger Newtown group and She talked about the victims at
met people from all over the her school and what each would
country. An older man, seeing never do again. Then she stood si-
Adrianna’s sign identifying her as lently before a sea of people as six
a survivor of a school shooting, minutes passed, the length of the
approached her and asked to Florida shooter’s rampage. In the
shake her hand. “I want to apol- hush, Ms. Soriano was reliving in
ogize for my generation,” he said. her mind that day in 2012, second
“We’re working on fixing things.” by second, thinking of Joseph.
Adrianna, speechless and sur- Now, he’s running away, she
prised, simply said “Thank you.” thought. Now, he’s in the bath-
Joseph and Sophia held their room. Tears rolled down her
signs high, even when their arms cheeks and she pulled her chil-
began to hurt. They stood trans- dren close.
fixed as Matthew Soto, the broth- Back on board the bus rolling
er of Victoria Soto, a Grade 1 north to Connecticut, the Soria-
teacher killed at Sandy Hook Ele- nos were tired and exhilarated
mentary, and later two Newtown and hopeful. “I am amazed at
high schoolers took to the stage. how these kids got up and spoke
One of the Newtown survivors, and were so raw and real and
now a high-school freshman who emotional,” Ms. Soriano said. “If
declined to give her name, wept people don’t hear them, then
as their story and their town be- something is wrong with this
country.”
Sophia swore she would never
throw away the sign she had car-
ried at the march. “I’ve never ex-
perienced anything like that,” she
said. “It was really empowering. I
said what I needed to say.” Asked
Gun-reform advocatesare seen which part of the day he liked
on Saturday in Washington. best, Joseph just grinned. “Every-
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In Newtown, Conn.,
one man’s journey away
from American gun culture
JOANNA SLATER WASHINGTON

ric Milgram doesn’t exactly have the typical résumé

E for a gun-control activist.

Like millions of Americans, he grew up around
firearms. He received his first shotgun at the age of 13.
As a young man, he owned eight guns and was a member of
the National Rifle Association. After moving to Newtown,
Conn., in 2010, he set up a target behind his house and tried
to teach his children to shoot. He was even contemplating
buying an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.
“Here I was unwittingly indoctrinating the next gener-
ation of gun owners,” said Mr. Milgram, a chemist by train-
ing who spent the past week tirelessly working to get bus-
loads of protesters to this weekend’s March for Our Lives in
Washington. “We treat guns too casually in this country.”
Mr. Milgram’s journey gives him a unique perspective on
the United States’ gun culture: As someone who was steep-
ed in that culture for many years, he knows how difficult it
will be to change. But he also remains convinced that such a
change is coming.
For Mr. Milgram, 48, his attitudes began to shift as the
NRA grew more extreme and mass shootings continued. In
the mid-1990s, he let his membership with the gun group
expire after he became fed up with publications arriving in
his mailbox telling him the government was coming for his
guns and he was not safe unless he carried a weapon.
But it was not until the horror struck his town and his
daughter’s school in 2012 that Mr. Milgram renounced guns
entirely. His daughter Lauren, now 12, was in a first-grade
classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School when a gun-
man killed 26 people, most of them children. Her teacher
hid her students in a bathroom. After the massacre, “I made
the decision that I will no longer own a gun or fire a single
bullet until this immoral industry in our country changes,”
he said.
Mr. Milgram got rid of his three remaining weapons, two
break barrel air rifles and a pink Daisy-brand BB gun he
bought hoping to spark his daughter’s interest in his hobby.
Now, he serves as a spokesman for the Newtown Action
Alliance, a local group pushing for stronger gun laws. He
keeps meaning to dismantle the decaying target and back-
stop out beyond his house.
“I still get the urge to get out and shoot,” he said. “But I
won’t do it until I see a culture change in this country.”

Above: A group of activists, from Newtown,

Conn., participate in the March for Our Lives
rally in Washington on Saturday.

Middle: Laura Augenbraun writes a message in

chalk on a Washington sidewalk on Saturday.

Bottom: Eric Milgram, spokesman for the

Newtown Action Alliance, attended the rally
along with 400 people from his Connecticut
town and neighbouring areas on Saturday.

PHOTOS BY FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

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PHILLIP CRAWLEY

EDITORIAL PUBLISHER AND CEO

DAVID WALMSLEY
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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

More madness
about reefer
fter a scare, the Liberal government’s marijuana le-

A galization bill survived second reading in the Senate

last week, overcoming objections that “it doesn’t
protect people,” as one Tory senator put it.
A Liberal government moving to legalize pot, led by a man
who has smoked it, might be expected to reply that “protec-
tion” isn’t the only consideration here.
It might point out the wrongness of criminalizing a drug
that’s no more harmful than booze. It might argue that police
and prison resources are wasted on enforcing a form of pro-
hibition that doesn’t work.
But no. In his mini-standoff with the Senate, Prime Minis-
ter Justin Trudeau stuck with the Liberal Party mantra on
cannabis. This is not legalization because state coercion to
prohibit the use of weed can no longer be justified. It’s legal-
ization to keep pot out of the hands of kids and gangsters.
The political appeal of this message is obvious. It’s a savvy
way to get nervous parents and cops on board. And squeez-
ing money out of organized crime is a happy side-effect of
legalization that the government has every right to tout.
But making the message only about harm reduction has
always risked incoherence. The idea that legalization will re-
duce cannabis consumption seems wishful. A recent Deloitte
study predicted that an extra 17 per cent of adult Canadians
will use pot once it’s legalized.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
As for kids, it’s true that they shouldn’t be smoking weed
GLOOM. AND GREAT JOY ness and justice will ultimately Of course, that would mean
(it’s bad for their developing brains), but it’s hard to see how prevail. more lawyers’ letters, more mo-
Maribeth Adams tions, more hearings – and more
the minimum legal age of 18 will put any dent in high school-
Seldom has an article encapsulat- Kamloops, B.C. cost and court time. Dogs are not
ers getting high on black-market pot. ed better the host of today’s people. They are, in fact, proper-
The difficulties inherent in the government’s emphasis on frightening and sad world situa- ty, albeit special property.
tions than It’s Time To Unplug YOU PUT IT OUT THERE Give the dog to one spouse.
safety above all was visible in its recent proposal for cannabis And Escape This Nightmare We Award the other spouse enough
packaging regulations. The child-resistant plastic bag sug- Live In (March 23). money to buy a new dog they can
No day passes without news of With the revelations that data raise and love. Case closed.
gested by Health Canada looks like it contains radioactive another catastrophic tweet by held by Facebook was used for Paul Benedetti
granola. Making legal buyers feel like they’re copping nuclear our Washington neighbour. As political purposes, here’s a basic Hamilton
Gary Mason asks, does no one fact worth considering: Social
waste could push them into the arms of increasingly market- care any more? media companies have been and Professors Jodi Lazare and Peter
ing-savvy illicit dealers. The suffering of whole peoples continue to be the largest intelli- Sankoff are essentially advocat-
worldwide is unfathomable, yet gence-gathering exercises in his- ing more litigation as spouses
So could restricting the sale of pot to a clutch of austere no concrete action is forthcom- tory – and traditional intelli- fight about who loved the dog,
government-run stores, as Ontario is proposing. This is on ing. Does complacency now rule, gence-gathering agencies have cat, horse etc. more.
while the Syrian slaughter con- had nothing to do with it. Divorces are messy enough al-
the grounds, Premier Kathleen Wynne tells us, that parents tinues apace? Millions have willingly given ready. Do we really need a replay
don’t want weed sold next to candy bars in corner stores (un- Examples like Yemen abound, control of their personal details of the fights over children?
a living tragedy, a helpless pawn to these companies without con- What about the division of
like, say, cigarettes?). between warring Mideast fac- sideration of possible risks. Hap- cherished possessions that both
This kind of scare-mongering rhetoric is enabled by a fed- tions. Russia’s Vladimir Putin pily disclosing who their associ- partners enjoyed that have senti-
and China’s Xi Jinping are all but ates are, they post pictures of mental value and that can’t be
eral position that has made a fetish of safety and restricted
dictators for life, following seri- themselves, their homes and “replaced”? Like the piano from a
access, even as it legalizes the sale and use of a popular drug. ously compromised elections. their families. They constantly defunct manufacturer that they
Wringing of hands and condem- update the world about where both love to play? Or the cottage?
No wonder it’s stumbling.
nation at the UN leads nowhere. they work, their interests, politi- Shall the courts be called upon to
What will it take to prod our cal views, and their whereabouts. measure the subjective emotion-
so-called Free World leaders into Users are either truly naive or al attachment of each to these
action, and shed some light on willing to ignore the privacy haz- possessions, as well?
this “dark dystopian future”? ards of the internet, which, when The splitting of possessions,
Meanwhile in booze ... Jocelyn Shaw
Toronto
combined with the ever-rising
power of technology, allows oth-
including pets, in a divorce is dif-
ficult, but if one spouse wants
ers, including potential enemies, “ownership” of a pet, he or she
n late February, ads for the subtly named sugary alcoholic

I
Please ask Gary Mason to let me
beverage FCKDUP appeared on bus shelters near several know when he is leaving for the
country. I want to go with him.
Quebec high schools, proclaiming “One can = 4 drinks.” I will bring my dog.
Days later, 14-year-old Athena Gervais drank one or more Maria Walsh
Surrey, B.C.
cans behind her Laval, Que., high school at lunchtime. What
happened next isn’t clear, but four days later her body was After having read Gary Mason’s
gloomy outlook on the world, I
found at the bottom of an adjacent ravine. turned to reading about the Rez
Under extreme public pressure, the drink’s Quebec-based Girls 64 Wolves hockey team
(How A Girls Hockey Team That
makers ceased production and the province ordered existing Had Virtually Nothing Is Now
stocks removed from shelves. That’s called too little, too late. Competing In The Nation’s Cap-
ital – Folio, March 23). What a
Public health officials in the United States and Canada
wonderful, uplifting story.
raised the alarm as far back as 2010 about teenagers’ exces- Douwe Smid
sive consumption of “blackout in a can” drinks. Medicine Hat, Alta.
The federal government shamefully and inexplicably By the time I finished reading
failed to heed the warning signs. It has belatedly launched a this marvelous article about the
Rez Girls hockey team, I – much
45-day consultation to look at regulating the alcohol and sug- like assistant coach Candi Chin-
ar content of these products, which is better than nothing but Sang – was crying “tears of joy
and sadness” at the heartwarm-
doesn’t fully address the “alcopop” problem. ing journey of these young wom-
Studies conducted in Australia, the United States and else- en.
We should all be angered that
where show young people are drawn in by high-test booze blatant racism stared them down
and sweetness, yes, but also by edgy branding, especially in during their first season’s big trip,
but the kindness shown them
combination with low prices. A previous ad for FCKDUP tout- since is evidence of a growing
ed the product as “zero to party in a few sips”; it could be collective willingness to change
the course of history for Indige-
purchased for as little as three for $10. nous peoples after so much cru-
Most adults understand the dangers of quickly knocking elty and evil perpetrated against
them.
back four shots of alcohol. Kids don’t. To ignore this is to be
This article, along with several
sickeningly indifferent to their welfare. It is deeply irrespon- others featuring the new Indige-
nous law program at the Univer-
sible to allow such products to be aimed at inexperienced
sity of Victoria, will grace my
teenage drinkers, but that’s exactly what is happening. classroom wall as part of an on-
But while Ottawa is obsessed with protecting teenagers going display celebrating Indige-
nous triumph over adversity
from the risks of marijuana, it has not brought the same vi- (University Of Victoria To Launch
gour to alcopops. It’s an oversight that speaks volumes about First-Of-Its-Kind Indigenous Law
Program, March 22).
our society’s relationship with alcohol. So many of our First Nations
students need to see that good-
to generate useful intelligence
(Hello, Huawei).
Wayne Stangle
Ottawa
PLAYING THE GUN CARD
As an avid shooter for six dec-
ades, I congratulate you on your
(pretty) fair and balanced edito-
rial, When Legal Gun Owner’s
Play The Victim (March 23).
We shooters are not an endan-
gered species and frankly I think
Canada has pretty much
achieved a “happy medium” fire-
arms position.
I say “pretty fair,” because in
fairness you should have pointed
out the statistical subterfuge of
using 2013 as a baseline for crime
rate comparison. Naturally cur-
rent crime rates are higher – that
was the all-time low and every-
thing is therefore higher than
that. Overall, rates are way down.
Politicians are playing the
“gun card,” as well as the femi-
nism and cannabis cards as we
approach elections. ’Twas ever
thus. We do not need another
ombudsman. We need calm and
reason – plus the recognition
that only the military and the po-
lice “need” AR15s.
Jock Williams
Toronto
FOR THE LOVE OF A DOG
Re The Law Doesn’t Understand
A Dog Isn’t A Sofa (March 23):
The authors, both law professors,
come close to suggesting “custo-
dy and access” hearings for pets.
can give it greater value in the
equalization of assets.
Richard E. Austin
Toronto
In 1997, I spontaneously paid $125
for a nine-week-old puppy that
needed a home. When I called
my fiancé to tell him what I’d
done, he was not impressed as he
had wanted a different dog.
However, within minutes of
meeting her, he, too, fell in love
with her. When we broke up a
year and a half later, I never
doubted he had a meaningful re-
lationship with her despite the
rocky start and the fact I had paid
for her. She was most definitely
our dog. He kept the couch but
we shared custody of that little
dog for more than 16 years! (She
died in 2015, just shy of her 18th
birthday).
She went back and forth from
his house to mine every four days
(he is a first responder) for the
rest of her life. We both married
other people and had children
and everyone loved that little
dog. The upsides were we never
paid a penny to kennels and the
vet bills were halved!
Joint custody can work: Per-
haps more judges could consid-
ering treating dogs like children
rather than couches.
Julie Case
Port Coquitlam, B.C.
P.S. He has custody of her ashes.
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OPINION
How AI can improve Canadian health care
Technology has the
potential to liberate
physicians from the
tedious paperwork that
has come to plague the
profession
ADAM KASSAM
NAILA KASSAM
OPINION
Adam Kassam is chief resident
physician in the department of
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at
Western University in London, Ont.
Naila Kassam is a family physician
and adjunct professor in the
department of Family Medicine at
Western University
anada has emerged as a
C world leader in artificial in-
telligence, thanks in large
part to the life’s work of Geoffrey
Hinton, the Google Engineering
Fellow and University of Toronto
cognitive-psychologist-cum-
Singapore’s housing mix could offer solutions for Toronto and Vancouver
NG WENG HOONG
OPINION
Vancouver-based journalist originally
from Singapore. He writes on energy
and economic issues in Asia and the
Middle East
ould Canada, with the right
C approach and rules, turn
the “problem” of global
capital seeking safe havens into a
solution for the housing and in-
frastructure needs of its rapidly
growing cities?
Since 2008, the world has
been hit by a tsunami of money
created out of nothing by the
U.S. Federal Reserve Board and
other major central banks. Their
quantitative easing (QE) pro-
grams pumped trillions of dol-
lars into the global economy to
prevent its collapse from the
combined weight of the U.S. sub-
prime mortgage crisis and for-
mer U.S. president George Bush’s
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. QE
has also created a legacy of ex-
treme wealth inequality, inflated
stock prices and out-of-whack
housing costs in the world’s
most desirable cities.
Canadians have reacted with
justifiable anger that some of
this “funny money” has washed
into Vancouver and Toronto. But
the growing anger, increasingly
and unfairly aimed at Chinese
immigrants and foreign capital,
is clouding policy-making to the
detriment of Canada’s own inter-
est.
Consider the case of Singa-
pore, which has been dealing
with both the offshore-money
and affordable-housing challeng-
es since independence in 1965.
It is not without its problems,
and the centralized system of
government is unsuited for Can-
ada. Nevertheless, it offers useful
lessons for Vancouver and To-
ronto as the three cities share
common challenges in an in-
After 154 years, a new narrative for the Tsilhqot’in and Canada
SHAWN ATLEO
HEATHER ATLEO
OPINION
Shawn Ah-up-wa-eek Atleo is former
national chief of the Assembly of
First Nations and hereditary chief of
the Ahousaht First Nation
Heather Atleo is a long-time
strategic adviser, negotiator and
facilitator working with and for
First Nations’ leaders and Nations
hey are just beginning to
‘T see us,” my late grand-
mother said to me
through tears as we sat holding
hands in the House of Commons
in the summer of 2008. She was
87. We had just listened to Prime
Minister Stephen Harper express
an apology on behalf of Canada to
her and all of us impacted by the
residential schools.
When I was in my early 20s, I
had written in my journal that we
computer-scientist who is con-
sidered the godfather of deep
learning. By honing the incredi-
ble potential of neural nets — the
assembly of computer networks
— in a way that mirrors the archi-
tecture of the human brain, Dr.
Hinton has unlocked the learning
power of machines. In so doing,
he has become the darling of a
burgeoning area of computing
that has the ability to completely
revolutionize the practice of
medicine and the delivery of
health care.
As AI begins to take off, will the
health-care industry be
receptive to technological disrup-
tion despite its notorious aver-
sion to change? What is clear is
that it will be crucial for the med-
ical community to use
its clinical expertise to help lever-
age technology and AI to
improve the delivery of health
care. Indeed, this has already be-
gun.
Machine learning, for exam-
ple, can help identify patterns of
relevant signs and symptoms in
patients to improve diagnostic
accuracy. In the area of medical
imaging, the utilization of which
The successful mix of private and public housing in Singapore has created a dual-track market, which has been able
to provide affordable housing for locals and attract investments from foreigners. ROSLAN RAHMANR/GETTY IMAGES
creasingly globalized, urbanized
world.
Singapore operates a public-
housing system exclusively for
citizens and permanent resi-
dents and while New Zealand’s
recent ban on foreigners buying
existing homes has captured
headlines, Singapore has been
practising “locals only” for dec-
ades with great success and little
fanfare.
Balancing this nativist policy,
Singapore courts foreign capital
for its private housing. Develop-
ers market expensive projects to
both wealthy foreign and local
buyers. For most citizens, a mea-
sure of their success in life is a
move out from public into pri-
vate housing.
Today, 80 per cent of 3.8 mil-
would “have to reach millions” if
we were to change the relation-
ship between our people and the
state. We would need a full shift in
public consciousness. This time
has arrived.
Now, I return to Ottawa having
served close to 15 years in First Na-
tions elected roles. This time,
Heather and I are travelling as co-
chairs for the Tsilhqot’in Nation’s
negotiations. We come with our
friends and colleagues, the chiefs
of the Tsilhqot’in National Gov-
ernment, to enter into the House
of Commons on March 26 to hear
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ex-
onerate six Tsilhqot’in chiefs who
were unjustly hanged 154 years
ago.
It is well chronicled that under
the guise of a truce and diplomat-
ic mission, the six chiefs were in-
vited to “peace talks.” They had
been steadfastly defending their
territories against unwanted en-
croachment. The invitation was
false. Instead, they were tricked,
imprisoned and hanged as crimi-
has expanded due to growing pa-
tient volume, algorithms are
teaching computers to better re-
fine, improve and interpret radio-
logic studies. Intelligent pro-
grams are helping to predict the
type of patients that would most
benefit from rehabilitation ser-
vices, thereby aiding in the imple-
mentation of specific personal-
ized therapies. Other AI technol-
ogies are also being created to
augment the care of the elderly,
which, for the aging Canadian so-
ciety, will be a welcome addition
to the landscape of home and
nursing care for years to come.
Importantly, technology has
the potential to liberate physi-
cians from the tedious paperwork
that has come to plague the pro-
fession. This would
enable doctors to ultimately
spend more time with their pa-
tients. Imagine, for instance, an
intelligent voice recognition soft-
ware that would automatically
create a note for a patient en-
counter in the electronic medical
record.
This would significantly re-
duce the need that doctors have
for looking at a screen instead of
lion Singaporean citizens and
permanent residents live in
more than one million public
Housing and Development
Board apartments. HDB flats, as
they are called, are affordable,
safe, modern and well served by
amenities. The country’s 1.8 mil-
lion non-citizens and wealthier
Singaporeans occupy private
housing that are among Asia’s
most expensive. In 2016, a single-
family house on a 25,741-square-
foot. plot in a prime area sold for
145 million Singapore dollars
($141.7-million), according to
StreetSine Technology Group.
Thanks to this dual-track
housing market, Singapore has
been able to both provide affor-
dable housing for locals and at-
tract investments from wealthy
nals – never to return home. This
story is one that is all too familiar
for Indigenous peoples, who were
seen to be “in the way of pro-
gress.”
Understandably, this pain has
cut deep into the memory of the
Tsilhqot’in for generations. This
week, the people have sent their
chiefs to Ottawa, this time in
hopes they return with the spirit
of diplomatic friendship they
were promised in 1864.
In 2014, a new era was ushered
in when the Tsilhqot’in won a Su-
preme Court case that recognized
1,900 square kilometres as Abo-
riginal title land. Rightfully called
a “game changer,” the case re-
mains the standard bearer.
Like the residential-school
apology and Supreme Court deci-
sion, this moment of exoneration
matters. The truth is surfacing in
Canada about the way this land
was settled, and it is often painful
and difficult. Most will agree that,
whether as an individual, a fam-
ily, a community or indeed a Na-
interacting with the individual in
their clinic. In order for AI to have
a positive impact on patients,
health-care institutions and lead-
ers need to become invested as
important stakeholders in the
conversation by championing
the advantages that technology
confers.
They could start by encourag-
ing collaboration between the
medical and engineering facul-
ties at universities. Medical
schools and residency training
programs should create opportu-
nities in their curricula for expo-
sure to AI. This could take the
form of electives, dual-degree or
fellowship programs that could
combine areas of expertise. As
physicians develop a deeper un-
derstanding of AI, they can help
to curate synergies to ameliorate
the patient experience.
Similarly, governments can
help by creating the right ecosys-
tem for growth. Recent invest-
ments in the development of AI
infrastructures should be viewed
as a positive first step. This, how-
ever, should be supported by fed-
eral and provincial policies that
harness the success of the Toron-
foreigners into its 400 billion
Singapore dollar ($390.9-billion)
economy. Of the country’s hous-
ing market valued at 914 billion
($893.3-billion) Singapore dol-
lars, the private segment is
worth 490 billion Singapore dol-
lars ($478.9-billion), StreetSine
said.
“Foreign capital is generally
good for the economy,” said Co-
lin Lauw, a senior manager at the
Urban Redevelopment Authority
(URA), which manages the
country’s scarce land resources.
Singaporeans don’t have
sleepless nights worrying about
foreigners parking their surplus
money in empty downtown con-
dominiums. Far from provoking
local anger or envy, these passive
investments are seen as an in-
tion, it is necessary to first under-
stand, then embrace and share
the pain to make room for healing
and moving forward. The Tsilh-
qot’in are to be recognized and
lauded for their resilience, their
tenacity and their ferocious fight-
ing spirit. They have made it clear
that they will only enter negotia-
tions after exoneration. We feel
hopeful about this moment in In-
digenous–Crown relations, and
we will continue to support the
Tsilhqot’in chiefs.
We accepted the invitation
from the Tsilhqot’in to help im-
plement their title case, recogniz-
ing the tremendous significance
for each and every one of us. And
we encourage others to consider
how can we better stand together
and support each other, as Na-
tions, as communities and as peo-
ples, Indigenous and Canadian
alike. We need each other. As we
say in our Ahousaht language, we
must ha-hope-stulth (teach one
another), isaak-stulth (respect
one another), ya-ak-stulth (love
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to-Waterloo Region Corridor and
the Montreal AI environment,
through streamlined immigra-
tion policies to attract tech talent
from around the world, and im-
proved high-speed transporta-
tion services to shuttle people be-
tween locales.
One concern that AI raises is
the spectre of job loss. However,
the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
reported that health care was the
largest source of jobs in 2017 and
is predicted to be the largest con-
tributor to job growth in the next
decade. This is relevant to Canada
given our similar demographics
and the projection that the public
will experience a worsening doc-
tor shortage, requiring more, not
fewer, providers. Additionally,
technology will actually help to
alleviate the burden on health-
care providers, not replace them.
Ultimately, every industry will
have to evolve with emerging
technology, and medicine is no
different. By strengthening its
partnerships, the health care
community would ensure that
Canada continues its AI excel-
lence by also enhancing patient
care and improving outcomes.
ternational vote of confidence in
the Singapore economy. Also,
most Singaporeans prefer to live
in the suburbs where they have
community, and access to affor-
dable housing, schools, transit
and services.
Rather, it’s the government
that frets about an under-lived
downtown core, Mr. Lauw said in
an interview in Singapore.
“Empty condos don’t fit well
with the image of a vibrant city,”
he said.
This situation sharply con-
trasts with British Columbia,
which voted in the NDP govern-
ment last year partly on its
promise to declare war against
offshore money in the housing
market. Cheered on by the
media, and backed by the Green
Party, the government has con-
troversially expanded and ex-
tended B.C.’s foreign-buyers tax
in its maiden budget. The main-
stream narrative increasingly
lumps foreign buyers with mon-
ey launderers, drug dealers,
gangsters, and tax evaders as the
cause of Vancouver’s housing
problems.
While criminals undoubtedly
abound in the world of interna-
tional finance, B.C.’s prolonged
and exaggerated fears of offshore
money hampers Metro Vancouv-
er’s ability to plan clearly for its
long-term economic future. To
popular applause, the Green Par-
ty recently released its report
calling for the usual slew of ban
and taxes to punish foreign in-
vestment in B.C.’s housing. Yet, if
anything, the province needs
global capital – lots of it – to de-
liver the housing and infrastruc-
ture to maintain the high living
standards that its heavily-indebt-
ed people are used to.
There’s no precedent for what
B.C. faces, but studying Singa-
pore’s pragmatic attitude and
calmer approach in tapping
global capital to serve its own
self-interest would be a good
start.
one another).
We have both personally been
able to arrive at a place of healing
and of real forgiveness for the
horrors we experienced as a re-
sult of intergenerational trauma
and hurt. I was inspired, after I left
the office of National Chief four
years ago, to “drop the hot burn-
ing coal of anger” that I was grasp-
ing so tightly. As a result, we expe-
rience more days of feeling free-
dom, joy, love, calm and peace in
our hearts.
This is our wish for our Tsilhqo-
t’in friends. We know it won’t be
easy. On March 26, the pain will be
touched on, and we invite Cana-
dians to experience it with them.
It is hard to re-build or restart re-
lationships. It starts with seeing
each other. It starts with acknowl-
edging what needs to be repaired.
Through moments such as
this, built on mutual respect and
trust and, we suggest, love, we will
find our shared path forward to
health and prosperity as people
and as a country.
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insight into psychiatric diseases,
at the psychiatric hospital
in Duffel, Belgium, in 2017.
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Author Lauren Slater speaks
with The Globe about what it’s
being bound to a potentially
toxic cocktail of psychiatric
drugs and the haphazard
nature of new discoveries
WENCY LEUNG
ver the past 35 years, Lauren Slat-
ploration of psychedelic drugs, such as psi-
locybin, the compound found in “magic
mushrooms,” and MDMA, also known as
ecstasy.
The quest to understand the biology of
mental illnesses is critical for creating tar-
geted drugs, Slater says. At the same time,
she argues psychiatry needs to unshackle
itself from profit-seeking pharmaceutical
interests.
Slater spoke with The Globe and Mail
about what it’s like to be bound to a poten-
tially toxic cocktail of drugs, the origins of
which are fluky, and the true function, un-
whether or not we know how the drug
works? It would be awfully nice to know
how the drug worked because it might ac-
tually point us to the etiologies of mental
illness.
You write: “Perhaps better than any other
drug, lithium reveals the extent to which
psychiatry is tightly tied to capitalistic
corporate interests.” Can you explain?
Lithium is a drug that no one had an in-
terest in producing because it was a salt, it
was a naturally occurring
qualifying for a diagnosis of depression.
But when physicians or psychiatrists stray
from that criteria and are willing to diag-
nose pretty much anybody who’s not in a
good mood with a depressive disorder,
you then have taken mood and patholo-
gized it. Suddenly, a bad mood becomes an
illness.
You mentioned psychiatry must “take a step
back from its neurological love affair, and
recall its roots, which were biopsychosocial
in origin.” What would that look like?

O er has been on 12 different kinds

of psychiatric drugs, including
antidepressants, antipsychotics,
an anti-anxiety drug and a stimulant.
They’ve not all worked for her, but the
clear.

You discuss the physical toll of being on

ones that have she credits for allowing her
to function and take plea-
sure in life. Their efficacy
comes at a steep price, how-
ever. At the age of 54, Slater,
the Fitchburg, Mass.-based
writer who authored Prozac
Diary and Opening Skinner’s
Box, describes herself as hav-
ing the body of an ailing oc-
togenarian. She has diabetes
and failing kidneys, both
side effects of the antide-
pressant and antipsychotic
Zyprexa. She also has memo-
ry issues and is overweight.
The drugs she’s come to
count on, she says, are short-
ening her life.
Yet, Slater fears going off them. Not only
are the withdrawal effects unbearable, she
risks the chance they’d fail to work if she
were to take them again later. “No one
knows why that is,” Slater explains.
Indeed, no one really knows how or
why any of the medications she takes work
in the first place. Unlike diseases such as
diabetes or cancer, which can be identified
with blood tests or tissue samples, bio-
markers for mental illnesses such as de-
pression and anxiety remain elusive, and
the process of determining which drugs
work for individual patients is still one of
trial and error.
In her new book Blue Dreams: The Sci-
ence and the Story of the Drugs That Changed
Our Minds, Slater, who has a doctorate in
psychology, explores the haphazard na-
ture of the discovery of major psychiatric
drugs. She delves into the history of medi-
cation, from Thorazine and lithium to se-
lective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
(SSRIs). She follows psychiatry’s develop-
ments all the way to its current revived ex-
multiple psychiatric drugs. What’s it like
when you’re not taking them?
The withdrawal is so severe,
and you get a depression
that’s even more severe than
the one that caused you to go
on the medications. It be-
comes really scary and I
think I’m going to lose my
mind and not be able to get it
back again.
So I’ll grab onto my bottles
of psychiatric medications
and I take them again. But
it’s hard to know whether
the despair I feel when I go
off the medications is true
despair or whether it’s de-
spair borne of withdrawal
symptoms that would recede if I could get
through to the other side.
How has learning about the history of
antidepressants and antipsychotics affected
the way you feel about taking them?
The serendipitous way they’re developed
first and attached to a syndrome later,
rather than someone saying, “I’m going to
develop a drug for depression,” makes me
wonder to what degree my response is a
placebo response. I mean, I feel hugely
helped by the drugs, but I also know that
in clinical trials, the drugs didn’t really out-
perform the placebo most of the time.
Learning that has been the most disorient-
ing and distressing fact for me.
Some would point out that we may not
know how psychiatric drugs work, but we
also didn’t know how Aspirin worked until
quite recently.
It’s an apt comparison. We see that SSRIs
work. I guess the question is does it matter
chemical. You couldn’t put a
patent on it, so there wasn’t
really any money to be made
in the marketing of lithium.
In the same way, there are
You wouldn’t be seeing
nearly as many 15-minute
“med check” appointments
[where a professional re-
views a patients’ medica-
drugs that no one is interest- tions]. To go back to a biop-
ed in developing, but there’s sychosocial model, it would
plenty of evidence they work need to investigate the dif-
amazingly well. In the pur- ferent facets of a person’s
suit of patent-able drugs, life and help the patient to
they are missing a lot – herbs amplify the ones that are go-
like St. John’s Wort and other ing right and reduce the
medications. ones going wrong.
How then might psychiatry Why do you believe psy-
untie itself from corporate in- I think psychiatry chedelic drugs are the future
terests? of psychiatry?
can untangle
I think drug companies itself from Because there’s nothing re-
should have no participa- capitalistic ally new in the pipeline right
tion or even knowledge of concerns, but now in psychiatry. Some-
any of the trials that are oc- thing new could come
curring. There shouldn’t be only by putting along, and there’s new drugs
any more papers written by distance between that are developed, but
drug companies that look itself and they’re very much similar to
like they’re written by a sin- pharmaceutical the drugs that are already in
gle doctor. And there existence. But psychedelics,
shouldn’t be doctors writing companies. which are old drugs that are
these papers if they work for now being dusted off and
LAUREN SLATER
a drug company in any ca- AUTHOR taken down from the shelf,
pacity because the bias is too they have a huge effect on
dangerous. the human mind. Often beneficial effects,
I think psychiatry can untangle itself but not always.
from capitalistic concerns, but only by
putting distance between itself and phar- You mentioned you’ve looked into psy-
maceutical companies. chedelic drugs for yourself. Are you any
closer to finding somebody who will help
You explored a few possible reasons for you get that treatment?
why rates of depression have risen, coinci-
ding with the introduction of Prozac. What I don’t think so. I met with a psychologist
do you think is the strongest explanation? who gives psychedelics to patients, but she
said there was no use in my taking a psy-
I think it’s because the criteria for diagnos- chedelic as long as I’m on these psychiatric
ing depression have gotten looser and medications because the psychiatric medi-
looser. cations would block any response. It’s
In the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical pretty demoralizing to hear.
Manual of Mental Disorders, which is a
widely used standard for identifying men- This interview has been
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This Les Mis skips the songs, but keeps the melodrama
Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s
adaptation of the Hugo
classic pares back the
pageantry, but offers
little in its place
J. KELLY
NESTRUCK
THEATRE REVIEW
Les Misérables
THE THEATRE CENTRE IN TORONTO
Written by Michele Smith and Dean
Gilmour in collaboration with the
Theatre Smith-Gilmour company,
from the novel by Victor Hugo
Directed by Michele Smith
Starring Mac Fyfe, Dean Gilmour,
Nina Gilmour, Benjamin Muir,
Daniel Roberts and Diana Tso
##½
o you hear the people sing?
D Not in a new stage adapta-
tion of Les Misérables by
Theatre Smith-Gilmour, the To-
ronto-based physical theatre
company
To most, that two-word title no
longer brings to mind the book by
Victor Hugo that conquered the
world in the 1860s, but rather the
Boubil/Schonberg musical based
on Hugo’s work that did the same
in the 1980s.
So bringing Jean Valjean, pris-
oner number 24601, to the stage
anew is either brave – or fool-
hardy.
Director Michele Smith’s spare,
six-performer Les Misérables that
opened at Toronto’s Theatre Cen-
tre begins intriguingly with the
actor and the show’s co-writer
Dean Gilmour taking the stage so-
lo.
Gilmour narrates and partly
acts out the origin story of Val-
jean, who, of course, spends nine-
teen years in jail for stealing a loaf
of bread.
The charismatic and chamele-
onic actor quickly captures our
attention, twirling back and forth
between the brutalized Valjean
and the saintly Bishop Myriel,
who takes the convict in for a
night after his release – and then
saves him from being sent back to
prison by telling the police the sil-
Should I switch to high-protein bread?
LESLIE
BECK
OPINION
Is “protein bread” a better choice
than regular whole grain bread?
What’s in it? Is it a good way to get
more protein?
We’ve become a protein-obsessed
bunch. The must-have nutrient is
sought after to help build muscle,
lose excess body fat, ward off
hunger and bolster our immune
system.
And food manufacturers have
taken notice. Beyond the foods
that protein is naturally found in
– such as meat, fish, dairy, eggs,
beans, soy, nuts and seeds – it’s
now added to breads, breakfast
cereals, snack foods and even wa-
ter.
It’s unlikely you really need the
protein added to processed foods,
but if you do want (or need) a
protein boost from bread, you’ll
need to read labels to know which
ingredients you’re getting and
which ones you’re not. Protein
breads differ in the quantity of
protein per serving and where
that protein comes from.
Keep in mind that all whole-
grain breads are already a source
of protein, most offering any-
where from 3 to 6 grams a slice.
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Nina Gilmour stars as Cosette – and her single mother, Fantine – in Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s production of
Les Misérables, which uses magical stage tricks to enliven the telling of the classically depressing tale.
Co-writer Dean Gilmour, left, also partly acts in the play as the brutalized
Jean Valjean, while Mac Fyfe plays the relentless Inspector Javert.
verware he stole was a gift.
While this brief one-man Les
Mis prologue feels original, soon
Smith’s production segues into a
succession of more standard
scenes, albeit staged with lots of
mimed actions and accompany-
ing vocalized sound effects.
Actress Nina Gilmour – like
this theatre company, the prod-
uct of the union of Smith and Gil-
mour – is at the centre of the next
section as Fantine, the single
mother who sends her child, Co-
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sette, away and sells her hair, her
teeth and then her body to sup-
port her.
A few simple, but magical stage
tricks enliven the telling of this
depressing decline.
You probably know the rest of
what happens next: Valjean’s
constant string of pseudonyms as
he goes back on the run to save
Cosette.
The relentless Inspector Javert
(Mac Fyfe). The cruel and prag-
matic Thenardiers (Daniel Ro-
DO YOU NEED
EXTRA PROTEIN IN BREAD?
Most of us already do a good job
of getting the protein we need –
and more – from our diet. And
that’s before factoring in protein
powder added to smoothies or
protein bars eaten as snacks.
According to the 2015 Canadian
Community Health Survey, we’re
consuming protein within rec-
ommended ranges. In fact, the
survey found that adults and kids
are consuming more calories
from protein than they did a dec-
ade ago.
Even so, some people may ben-
efit from eating more than the
amount recommended by Health
Canada. A higher protein intake
can help preserve muscle
strength in older adults and en-
hance the performance of ath-
letes in training.
But most of us are probably do-
ing just fine on the protein front
without eating protein-enhanced
foods. It’s not just foods like meat,
dairy, beans and soy that add pro-
tein to your diet. Grains (such as
oatmeal, pasta and rice) and veg-
etables have protein, too.
CHANGE THE FOCUS TO FIBRE
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berts and Diana Tso). The love tri-
angle of Cosette (Nina Gilmour
again); Marius (Benjamin Muir),
a young revolutionary who loves
her; and Éponine (Tso again), the
Thenardier daughter who loves
him.
While the melodramatic mate-
rial reliably pulls the heartstrings,
there’s no fresh take on it here –
no new read on the story, its poli-
tics or the place of religion within
it.
The simple script is essentially
collectively created. Curiously,
though they worked from Hugo’s
sweeping 1900-page novel itself
(in its original French), Smith,
Gilmour and company follow the
tale along its most well-worn ruts,
the characters and most of the
plot points familiar from the mu-
sical.
Only occasionally does an un-
expected scene appear. The sec-
ond act, for instance, begins with
a debate of sorts between Marius,
a republican like his late father,
and his grandfather M. Gillenor-
mand (Dean Gilmour again), a
royalist – and it’s an enjoyably
lively bit.
The context and causes of the
Paris uprising of 1832 that is back-
drop to the climax of Les Miséra-
bles, alas, are not really examined
much further after that.
on eating more fibre.
A high-fibre diet is tied to a re-
duced risk of heart disease, type 2
diabetes, diverticulosis and con-
stipation.
Eating more fibre can help low-
er LDL (bad) blood cholesterol,
improve how the body uses insu-
lin and quell inflammation. And
importantly, it’s fibre that feeds
our microbiota, the beneficial mi-
crobes in our gut that influence
our immune system, digestion,
metabolism, mood and cognitive
function.
And yet, most Canadians get
only one-half of the fibre they
need each day. Adults need 25 g
(for women) and 38 g (for men)
of fibre each day; older women
and men require 21 g and 30 g, re-
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Perhaps I’m the only one
who’d like to see a stage version
that tried to incorporate Hugo’s
voice a bit more, his chatty histor-
ical digressions about the Battle
of Waterloo, his wonky fascina-
tion with the sewers of Paris. But
clocking in at 2 hours 45 minutes
with no songs, you’d at least still
expect this Les Misérables to de-
pict Marius’s revolutionary co-
horts with more clarity than the
musical, not less.
Of course, Theatre-Smith Gil-
mour is known for its emphasis
on the physical side of theatre.
There are a few lovely bits of stag-
ing, such as Fantine’s courtship
and abandonment transformed
into a short, dreamy dance, but
other scenes, such as the storm-
ing of the barricades, are disap-
pointingly drab.
There’s something definitely
retro to the overall aesthetic –
where movement largely exists in
service of storytelling, as a re-
placement for sets and props or
to essentialize character, rather
than poetically or to add extra di-
mensions.
(Only stand-out Muir’s fren-
zied physicality makes the often
bland Marius into a more com-
plex character).
English-Canadian theatre is
much richer in visual approaches
to theatre than it was when The-
atre Smith-Gilmour started. In-
deed, directors these days seem
to have mostly come to the con-
clusion that stage images are as
important as words.
In Les Misérables, however, the
physical style is not one tool in a
larger arsenal, but almost fetish-
ized as end in itself. It certainly
seems reactionary the lengths to
which its creators go to avoid in-
cluding any singing in the show –
Cosette, for instance, is nick-
named “the Lark” and her beauti-
ful voice is mentioned multiple
times, but we never hear her sing.
Hugo’s novel was turned into
stage plays innumerable times
before producer Cameron Mack-
intosh’s juggernaut version came
along, and perhaps it is about
time that theatre companies
once again started to bring us
new takes on it. But I hope future
ones bring something more or
different, not less of the same.
Les Misérables runs until April 1
spectively. In my opinion, eating
more fibre-rich foods such as
whole grains, fruits, vegetables,
beans, lentils, nuts and seeds can
have a much bigger impact on
our health than eating more pro-
tein than we need.
So, back to bread. Read labels,
and look for 100-per-cent whole-
grain loaves. Choose brands that
contain at least 3 g of fibre in ev-
ery slice, and consider trying a
bread made with added beans
and lentils.
Then, if you do want extra pro-
tein, compare nutrition facts la-
bels for protein content.
Leslie Beck, a Toronto-based private
practice dietitian, is Director of Food
and Nutrition at Medcan.
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FIRST PERSON
Why treating
runner’s knee can
HOW DID be a simple fix
YOU SLEEP? ALEX
HUTCHINSON

OPINION

JOCKOLOGY

t was supposed to be a head-to-head match-

I up between the two main approaches to

ILLUSTRATION BY WENTING LI
Every morning, Susanne Fletcher and her husband
ask each other this question – it’s never a good answer
nightmare about the end of the world
began to understand people who wore pyjamas to
treating painful cases of runner’s knee, the
most common injury among recreational
runners. Researchers wanted to know whether it
was a better treatment to strengthen your leg
muscles, or modify your running stride.
But as the data from the university study trick-
led in, it was soon clear that neither approach
was getting better results than the control group,
who received no treatment. Instead, they were
simply given some straightforward advice about
how to minimize the load on their knees and
safely adjust their training, with similar results.
These surprise findings kicked off a debate,
the latest salvo of which was published in the
British Journal of Sports Medicine earlier this
month. Jean-François Esculier and his colleagues
at Laval University in Quebec, whose original
study appeared in the same journal last year, re-
sponded to critics who argue that it didn’t fully
capture the benefits of well-designed exercise
and gait-retraining programs. Esculier maintains
that the results are a powerful reminder that
teaching runners to avoid “training errors,” such
as running too fast or increasing distance too
quickly, should be the first priority in dealing
with running injuries of all types.
“It turned out – and we realized it early on –
that our ‘control’ group wasn’t a control at all,”
says Esculier, a physiotherapist and researcher
who is now a postdoctoral associate at the Uni-
versity of British Columbia. “It was actually a
powerful intervention.”
The study involved 69 runners in Quebec City
who had all been struggling with patellofemoral
pain, one of several conditions commonly re-
ferred to as runner’s knee, for at least three
months. Over an eight-week period, each runner
attended five physiotherapy sessions in which
they received education about how to allow their
knee to recover and safely return to training.
Participants were taught to run more fre-
quently but for shorter durations and at a slower
pace; avoid downhills and stair running; stop
running if pain exceeds 2 on a scale of 1to 10 or if it
remains painful for more than an hour after run-
ning; and to increase distance gradually before
adding speed and
hills.
In addition to the
educational compo- The results are a
nent, a third of the
runners were as- powerful reminder

‘A
fore bed.”
woke me.”
“Topical,” my husband said.
“I have to stop reading the news be-
Walmart during the day.
Gradually, the children grew less anxious and
they learned to sleep and we recovered our sleep
mojo. Then, the eldest learned to drive. We feigned
We begin each day with the same question: confidence and went to bed before her curfew. We
signed an exercise that teaching
program to strength- runners to avoid
en their legs, to be “training errors,”
performed three
times a week. Anoth- such as running too
“How did you sleep?” It has preoccupied us since turned on the porch light, left a living-room lamp er third of the run- fast or increasing
the children arrived with their nocturnal needs su- on and closed our bedroom door. But I lay awake ners were assigned to distance too quickly,
perimposed on our requirement to function at listening to the night noises of the house – the a gait-retraining pro-
work the next day. gurgle in the toilet tank, the dishwasher churning gram, which in-
should be the first
As a toddler, our oldest daughter slept as lightly in the kitchen, the dog snoring under the bed. The volved increasing priority in dealing
as a hungry coyote in winter. At the end of a long digital clock burned the passing hours until the car their step rate by 7.5 with running injuries
story-time ritual comprised of a minimum of three turned into the driveway and I heard her footsteps per cent to 10 per cent of all types.
stories, I would nod off and be woken by her poin- thump up the stairs, the dog harrumph and woof by taking shorter,
ty elbow jabbing me in the ribs. Eventually, she as the front door slammed and the lock clacked quicker steps (which has been shown to reduce
dozed and I would slither off her bed and crawl behind her. potentially injurious forces on the knee), and in
toward the door, avoiding the known squeaky In the past few years, my husband has devel- some cases trying to “run softer” or avoid landing
spots in the floor. oped sleep apnea and restless legs. Simultaneously, on their heels.
“Where you going?” she would call and back I’d I entered menopause. We thrashed, sweated and The good news was that the treatments
go to sing an album-length repertoire of show panted in bed – but not from sex. The bed tortured worked. At the beginning of the study, the run-
tunes, nursery rhymes and folk songs. us. We changed mattresses, installed blackout ners had reported typical pain ratings of between
None of our three daughters, all adopted from shades, covered the glowing phone and clock with 5 and 7 out of 10 while running. By the end of the
China as infants, slept well for their first few years. tea cozies to render the room dark as a tomb. It eight-week study, the average scores for all three
Undoubtedly, this related to the upheaval in their didn’t help. groups had dropped below 3 out of 10. And they
young lives, the change in language, food, smells, With all beds occupied by our three teenagers, were still low 12 weeks after the study ended, in-
sounds and the sudden onset of constant, devoted and the couch a sway-backed, sciatic nerve crush- dicating a lasting improvement.
attention. We were all hyper-vigilant. er, I retrieved the camping mat from The surprise was that all three groups saw es-
Their anxiety and need for reassu- the garage and slept on the floor with sentially identical progress – contrary to the re-
rance that we wouldn’t disappear The coffee pot the dog. My husband twitched like searchers’ expectations.
manifested itself in sleep disruption. Elvis all night, his vibrations reaching “We were pretty sure that the addition of exer-
They checked in constantly. They de- became the me like earthquake aftershocks. I lay cise or gait training would provide better out-
manded proof we were permanent sleep-o-meter, the alert and waiting between long paus- comes,” Esculier says. “But none of that hap-
and consistent. aroma of fresh brew es in his breathing, ready to shake pened.”
From their arrivals between 1995 at all hours of the him awake. The unexpected non-result has left other re-
and 2001, and through their toddler “Did you sleep?” I asked every searchers in the field looking for possible expla-
years, we demonstrated our commit- day an indicator of morning. “No.” Anxiety about his not nations. Irene Davis, a professor at Harvard Med-
ment by showing up at their bedsides events the night sleeping grew. Heart disease and ical School and the director of the Spaulding Na-
whenever hailed. Our youngest before. stroke run in his genes and the seed- tional Running Center, published a response sug-
daughter, a determined and athletic ling of worry sprouted into a stout gesting that the gait retraining program might
child, began hurling herself out of her crib at 18 shrub, its branches slapping my nerves. I was hyp- have been insufficiently personalized to each
months when we didn’t come fast enough. By er-vigilant again. runner’s needs.
child No. 3, we understood the importance of re- Finally, he acquired a physician-approved CPAP It’s also possible that the runners in the exer-
sponding to their cries but, having lived six years machine for the apnea. After living in the same rut cise or gait-retraining groups ratcheted up their
as severely sleep-deprived adults, we weren’t so for 37 years, we changed sides in the bed to accom- training too rapidly, “perhaps because they felt
quick any more. Sometimes we debated for a min- modate his new device, which sits like a Star Wars buoyed by the fact that they were actually getting
ute. sex toy on his bedside table. Curiously, my perspec- a more concrete intervention,” says Chris Napier,
“Is it your turn?” tive has shifted with my new sleep location. a physiotherapist and running researcher at the
“No, I went the last two times.” Though he sounds like Darth Vader when he ap- University of British Columbia who works with
Thump. Pad, pad, pad. plies his breathing mask – which has a long, ele- the Canadian national track and field and cross-
Her head would appear in the doorway haloed phant-like hose connected to his machine – and he country running teams.
by the hall nightlight. looks like a member of the Fukushima clean-up To Napier, the key take-away from the study is
Soon, she didn’t bother calling us. She would crew, I think it’s sexy. That’s what a return to good that you need to minimize the stresses on the
stand on my side of the bed and I’d wake with that sleep does to your thinking. joint that caused the injury in the first place. “You
feeling of being watched. Eventually she aban- Sometimes, I still wake up with a wad of worry have to educate the patient that it isn’t just the
doned her crib and slept on a camping mat beside in my gut, especially since our eldest daughter left sports-related activity that causes load on the
us on the floor, her small hand nested in mine. My home in September. Is she okay? When will she knee,” he says. “It’s the stairs they climb every
arm numbed from dangling over our bed, and come home? Is she eating well, and, most impor- day, the prolonged sitting with knees flexed and
woke me with pins and needles an hour later. tantly, is she getting enough sleep? so on.”
“How did you sleep?” became “Did you sleep?” The sleep report, which I associated for years Neither Napier nor Esculier is abandoning ap-
or “How much did you sleep?” with parenting, is now a conversation opener and proaches such as strengthening or gait retrain-
The coffee pot became the sleep-o-meter, the connector. Every morning, swaddled in our flannel ing. Other studies, after all, have found positive
aroma of fresh brew at all hours of the day an pyjamas, I pour my husband a hot shot of espresso effects from both approaches, Esculier says. But
indicator of events the night before. The coffee – a liquid defibrillator. We stand together, cups before you embark on a time-consuming ther-
budget increased as the diaper budget decreased. I poised in our fingers taking quick sips that jolt us apy routine, you should make sure that you’re
created a new wardrobe called nap wear – mostly awake. We mumble, “How did you sleep?” training safely and not aggravating your injury –
flannel pyjamas worn on days off, perpetually and that’s a conclusion, he adds, that applies not
primed for sleeping should the opportunity arise. I Susanne Fletcher lives in Ottawa. just to patellofemoral pain, but to all running in-
juries.
When pain strikes, in other words, the first
question to ask is: Did I do too much, too soon?
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MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL . O NEWS | A19

Justice: Preliminary inquiry ‘has been on some political hit lists’ for years, lawyer says
FROM A1
Nova Scotia experimented with
speedy resolution of minor crimi-
nal charges.
Preliminary inquiries have
been a staple of criminal justice
since Canada’s first written Crimi-
nal Code took effect in 1892. They
are pretrial hearings whose main
purpose is to test whether there is
enough evidence to proceed to
trial.
Ontario Attorney-General Ya-
sir Naqvi had urged the federal
government to scrap preliminary
hearings from all but serious of-
fences such as murder and trea-
son, and the source said the fed-
eral government will move in
that direction.
A spokesman for federal Jus-
tice Minister Jody Wilson-Ray-
bould declined to comment over
the weekend.
Ontario was not alone in call-
ing for the curtailment of prelimi-
nary inquiries. Alberta and Que-
bec also said they contribute to
delay and called for changes. Ma-
nitoba, in an unprecedented col-
laboration of its three chief justic-
es and its Justice Minister, had
asked Ottawa for a Criminal Code
amendment allowing it to launch
a four-year experiment, scrap-
ping all preliminary inquiries.
The proposals to reduce delays
related to preliminary inquiries,
administration of justice offences
and bail came out of emergency
talks nearly a year ago between
Ms. Wilson-Raybould and the
provincial and territorial attor-
criminal-justice system contin-
ues to function effectively,” Al-
berta Justice Minister Kathleen
Ganley said. “If your system isn’t
working efficiently, you’re begin-
ning to see safety be compro-
mised, because people are being
let back out on the street who
could otherwise have been con-
victed.”
In Alberta, lawyers made 167
applications for stays from late
2016 until March 18, 2018. Twelve
have been granted, prosecutors
stayed another 17 proactively and
another 12 remain to be resolved.
(Others were rejected by judges
or withdrawn by the defence.) At
least 200 more charges in Alberta,
including some involving vio-
lence, were dropped because of a
shortage of prosecutors, before
an outcry prompted the province
to hire dozens more. The Cana-
dian Bar Association, represent-
ing 36,000 lawyers, says the prov-
inces, which handle most of the
country’s prosecutions, are being
“opportunistic,” in using delay to
weaken an important protection
for accused people.
“The preliminary inquiry has
been on some political hit lists for
more than a decade,” said Eric
Gottardi, a Vancouver criminal
lawyer authorized to speak on the
CBA’s behalf. (He spoke without
advance knowledge of the gov-
ernment’s legislative response
expected this week.)
“The idea that preliminary in-
quiries are contributing to delay
problems in any of the provinces
is a red herring. There’s just no
evidence on that.”
More people are in
custody in provincial
jails while awaiting trial
than those who have
been found guilty of an
offence, government
statistics show.
In Jordan, the Supreme Court
was asked to clarify the constitu-
tional right of an accused person
to a trial within a reasonable time.
It set 18 months as the limit in
Provincial Court, from the laying
of a charge until the completion
of a trial. It set a maximum of 30
months in Superior Court. Cases
already underway followed
somewhat more lax, “transition-
al” rules. But the 18 months are
now up in Provincial Court, and
cases reaching Superior Court to-
day are also being judged under
the stricter new standards.
In 2014-15, more than 9,000
preliminary inquiries were held,
involving just under 3 per cent of
the 328,000 criminal trials com-
pleted that year in Canada. In
trials with preliminary inquiries,
1,747 ran longer than today’s Su-
preme Court deadline of 30
months for proceedings in Supe-
rior Court.
Mr. Naqvi, Ontario’s Attorney-
General, said that, in cases in his
province that have preliminary
inquiries and go on to trial, the
average time to complete pro-
ceedings is more than 30 months.
He also said that, long ago, pre-
liminary inquiries were necessary
to disclose the prosecution’s case
to the defence before trial. But
since 1991, when a Supreme Court
ruling made disclosure of the
state’s case mandatory, that justi-
fication for preliminary inquiries
no longer exists, he said.
Last April, Ms. Wilson-Ray-
bould promised legislative action
in five areas, of which four are
deeply contentious. Reducing the
role played by preliminary inqui-
ries was one. Another was elimi-
nating some mandatory-mini-
mum sentences for crimes in-
volving drugs, guns and sexual of-
fences against children, or giving
judges discretion to opt out in ex-
ceptional cases.
She also promised changes to
Canada’s bail system, without be-
ing specific. More people are in
custody in provincial jails while
awaiting trial than those who
have been found guilty of an of-
fence, government statistics
show.
Administration of justice of-
fences was another area of prom-
ised change. These offences in-
volve a breach of a release condi-
tion set by a court, breach of pro-
bation, being unlawfully at large
or failure to show up in court.
More than one in five cases com-
pleted in criminal court in 2014-15
was an administration of justice
offence, according to Statistics
Canada.
A fifth area involved making
more crimes “hybrid offences:”
that is, punishable either as a less
serious summary offence, or as
an indictable offence. The hope is
that dealing with more offences
as summary offences would al-
low for more plea bargains and
shorter trials. Ontario proposed
stiffer maximum penalties than
currently exist for summary of-
fences, making it easier for prose-
cutors to choose the summary
approach in a hybrid offence.
Quebec says the government
has moved slowly on delay. “The
bill was expected to be tabled
during the parliamentary session
last fall (the ministers’ meeting
was even advanced to September
to leave the federal minister more
time to prepare the bill after the
meeting),” Justice Minister Sté-
phanie Vallée said in an e-mail to
The Globe.

A WORLD OF
neys-general in Quebec. The fed-
eral minister’s office said depart-
mental officials worked over the
summer to develop proposals for
legislative action. The ministers
convened again in Vancouver in

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September.
The Globe spoke to several at-
torneys-general in advance of the
expected legislation. Each spoke
without knowledge of its con-
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When Gerald Stanley testified in a

Saskatchewan court last month,
he told a jury his version of what
happened on the summer day in
2016 when Colten Boushie, a
young Indigenous man, was fatal-
ly shot. People heard Mr. Stanley’s
story in court or followed it across
Canada in news reports.
Mr. Boushie’s cousin, Jade Too-
toosis, says the 22-year-old from
Red Pheasant First Nation will
never get that same opportunity.
Ms. Tootoosis says she was dis-
gusted to learn that the law firm
representing Mr. Stanley has been
reaching out to different publish-
ing companies.
“It feels like he is further ex-
ploiting the death by trying to
make a profit of it,” Ms. Tootoosis
said in an interview.
Mr. Boushie died after being
shot in the back of the head as he
sat in an SUV on the farm near
Biggar, Sask. Mr. Stanley was ac-
quitted of second-degree murder
after testifying the gun went off
accidentally.
Mr. Boushie’s family members
have found support in one anoth-
er and people across the country
as they try to move forward and
advocate for changes to the jus-
tice system, Mr. Tootoosis said.
When they heard that publish-
ing companies had been contact-
ed on Mr. Stanley’s behalf, they
were appalled because “the entire
court process gave Gerald Stanley
the full platform,” she said.
“He is alive here to be able to
tell his story and he did. That was
what the court process was
about,” she said. “I just can barely
comprehend this individual and
his motives and what he is trying
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upsetting.”
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Aphria insiders held shares in

takeover target, didn’t disclose
Four executives, three
directors had stake in
cannabis deal without
revealing ownership
to shareholders
CHRISTINA PELLEGRINI
CAPITAL MARKETS REPORTER
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 | GLOBEANDMAIL.COM
Four executives and three other
directors of Aphria Inc. personally
owned shares in Nuuvera Inc. at the
time they orchestrated a takeover
Glassman faces deal for the cannabis firm, but
didn’t disclose their holdings to
questions about investors and later voted to approve
the transaction at a board meeting.
lawsuits, assets as The executives included Aphria
chair and chief executive officer Vic
Neufeld, as well as the company’s
chief financial officer, Carl Merton,
Mr. Neufeld said. The company says
the investments were not large
enough to require disclosure.
Aphria agreed to buy Nuuvera for
$826-million in late January, only
three weeks after Nuuvera went
public on the TSX Venture
Exchange.
Aphria offered $8.50 per Nuuvera
share it didn’t already own in most-
ly stock and some cash. In February,
as marijuana stocks fell after a rally
and Aphria took a closer look at
Nuuvera’s assets, Aphria slashed
the cash portion of the deal to 60
cents a share from $1.
The pair revised the terms again
last week, hiking the cash offer to 62
cents. The deal for about $425-mil-
lion closed Friday.
The transaction left the seven
Aphria insiders with a multimillion-
dollar windfall.
Last August, they acquired a total
of 900,000 shares in Nuuvera for $1
each, The Globe and Mail has
learned. Nuuvera, which was still
private at the time , sold 4 million
shares in that round of financing.
Aphria itself also participated in
the offering, buying 2 million
shares, according to regulatory fil-
ings. (Last November, Aphria said it
upped its stake in Nuuvera by an-
other 2 million shares for $2.50
apiece.)
At Friday’s closing price, the deal
turned that $900,000 investment
into about $4.75-million for the
Aphria insiders in the space of
about seven months.
APHRIA, B7

Callidus shares slide

[ RIDE HAILING ]
JEFFREY JONES
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS REPORTER
Uber heads for the off ramp
ANALYSIS
in Southeast Asia
It was already shaping up to be a busy week for
Newton Glassman. Now, he has more explaining to
do. Company to sell its business to Singapore-based rival Grab, marking
Bay Street’s attention has been fixed on Callidus the first big consolidation in the industry in the region B2
Capital Corp., the publicly traded lending arm of
Mr. Glassman’s private-equity firm, Catalyst Capital
Group Inc. Callidus is expected to report results for
the fourth-quarter of 2017 later in the week and,
more importantly, to provide an update on a sale
process for the company that has dragged on a
year and a half.
The market’s view of Callidus’s prospects is get-
ting ugly. Callidus shares have dropped sharply of
late, sinking another 6 per cent to an all-time low
of $6.65 on Friday. That makes a previous target of
$18 to $22 in a takeover look increasingly out of
reach. Investors will be focused on the value the
company places on its assets – mostly debt and
equity of financially distressed or restructuring
companies.
There is also speculation that Catalyst-owned
Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Ltd. could file
for an initial public offering soon, following a
recent debt restructuring that included a sale and
leaseback of Vancouver-area real estate properties
that generated proceeds of $483-million. Catalyst
declined to comment on the IPO possibility.
These would be enough agenda items for most
chief executives for one week. But, for the famous-
ly pugnacious Mr. Glassman, who is frequently at
the centre of financial and legal fights, this activity
comes amid increasing questions about the value
of some of Catalyst’s investments.
CALLIDUS, B6

BuildDirect exits CCAA

with new funds and
plan for home SAMRANG PRING/REUTERS

improvement market
SEAN SILCOFF
As Canada, U.S. roll along deficit track, concerns emerge
Vancouver’s BuildDirect.com Technologies Inc.
has emerged from creditor protection with a clean
about ability to steer through next recession
balance sheet and US$28-million in fresh financing
to take a second crack at building the Amazon.com TIM SHUFELT restraint under the principles of Meanwhile, deep tax cuts in the
Inc. of the home-improvement market. INVESTMENT REPORTER sound fiscal policy: Be conservative United States combined with new
“We find ourselves in fantastic shape,” said Suz- during periods of strength, saving up spending has blown a hole in Wash-
anne Mercier, the company’s chief legal and people resources that will be needed when ington’s budget at a time when the
officer and corporate secretary. “We have virtually ANALYSIS the next recession hits. domestic economy is operating at
no debt, we have no liabilities and we have a signif- And yet, governments are still close to full employment.
icant amount of runway ahead of us to execute Across North America, guardians of resorting to the kind of spending Central bankers seem to get that,
against our operating plan.” the public purse are on a war footing meant to fight economic foes that as they gradually increase interest
The company overwhelmingly won creditor in peacetime. are nowhere in sight. Deficits remain rates to stave off inflation and pre-
approval on March 12 for a “plan of compromise, ar- The world economy hasn’t looked the order of the day. Finance minis- vent economies from overheating.
rangement and reorganization” that would reduce this good since before the global ters are still choosing stimulus over All of this new fiscal stimulus is
its debt to US$4-million from US$58-million and financial crisis. A synchronized swell discipline, adding to public debt pushing in the opposite direction at
pay unsecured creditors about 5 cents on the dollar of growth is creating jobs and fuel- loads in the process. a time when the bustling economy
for their claims, representing a roughly US$1-mil- ling consumer spending the world Last month’s federal budget pro- doesn’t really need the help.
lion outlay. But the court’s endorsement of the plan over, leaving virtually no major jects an $18.1-billion deficit for the “If they can’t balance the books
was subject to the company completing an equity economy behind. In the United coming fiscal year and another now, at this very strong stage of the
financing. States, unemployment is at its low- $60.5-billion in red ink in the four cycle, they may never be able to,”
That happened last Thursday, Ms. Mercier said, est in nearly two decades. And Cana- years after that. And the Ontario pro- said Doug Porter, chief economist at
when BuildDirect closed a deal brokered by Cana- da is fresh off a year in which it vincial government, having spent a the Bank of Montreal. “And as
ccord Genuity to raise US$28-million of shares led topped all Group of Seven countries decade balancing the books after its governments purposely weaken
by past investor Mohr Davidow Ventures, the Cana- in growth. post-financial-crisis spending blitz, their finances now, it gives them less
dian arm of fund-management giant Fidelity Invest- Both here and in the United said it plans to return to deficit when manoeuvring room and less fire-
ments and lenders Pelecanus Investments, Lyra States, the economy appears healthy it tables its budget on Wednesday power in the next downturn.”
Growth Partners and Beedie Capital. In addition, enough to warrant some measure of with a shortfall of up to $8-billion. DEBT, B7
the lenders, who provided US$15-million in debtor-
in-possession financing to keep the company going
under court protection, agreed to convert that fund-
ing into equity.
BUILDDIRECT, B7 THE LADDER LABOUR LEGISLATION
SVAcademy co-founder Ontario’s upcoming equal-
Rahim Fazal talks about pay rules are causing
how getting fired from his confusion, both employers
COMPANIES
first job at McDonald’s and labour advocates say
ALPHABET .............................................................. B5 changed his life B3
AMAZON.COM ........................................................ B5 B10
BLACKBERRY ........................................................... B2 OIL STOCKS LANGUISH
CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL ........................... B5 Investors avoid shares
FACEBOOK ........................................................ B2,B5
NETFLIX .................................................................. B5 in the oil patch despite
UBER ....................................................................... B2 brighter prospects
B9
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Potential, peril and the ‘Zucker punch’

BlackBerry shareholders
get an update while
tech sector faces further
uncertainty as Facebook
shares stay in spotlight
MICHAEL BABAD
ANALYSIS
THE WEEK AHEAD
This is a week of promise and
threat: Promise if you’re a Black-
Berry Inc. shareholder, and
threats to the tech sector and On-
tario’s credit rating.
Last week was ugly, with the
S&P 500 slumping 6 per cent and
the S&P/TSX Composite about 3
per cent amid the start of a U.S.-
China tariff war and what Bank of
Montreal senior economist Rob-
ert Kavcic calls the “Zucker
punch” to Facebook Inc.
“All sectors were down on the
week, with technology slumping
nearly 8 per cent – the Facebook
data breach fiasco didn’t help the
mood in the sector,” Mr. Kavcic
said, referring to U.S. stocks.
Watch Facebook shares this
week because the controversy
over Cambridge Analytica and
the misuse of data isn’t likely to
fade any time soon, regardless of
founder Mark Zuckerberg’s apol-
ogy and pledge to make good.
“This revelation does not bode
well for the social-media giant,
and the negative publicity is like-
ly to hit its revenue stream,” CMC
Markets analyst David Madden
warned last week.
Nor is the U.S.-China trade spat
going away. It’s more likely to
escalate.
And the “unfortunate truth” of
that, Mr. Kavcic said, is that it’s
eroding a good climate for corpo-
rate earnings.
“In a nutshell, earnings growth
usually accelerates because of
share buybacks and cost cutting,
or because of top-line demand
growth – recently we’ve been wit-
nessing the latter,” Mr. Kavcic
said.
“While it’s true that buybacks
are a steady source of support for
per-share earnings, they have not
accelerated meaningfully yet,
running steadily around US$125-
billion per quarter for the S&P
500,” he added.
Facebook shares will be worth watching in the week ahead because the controversy over Cambridge Analytica
and the misuse of data isn’t likely to fade any time soon, regardless of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s
apology and pledge to make good last week. MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
“That said, tax cuts and repa-
triation will likely increase buy-
back activity this year, but that
would only build on the econo-
my-driven strength seen to date.”
There’s more at play for tech
stocks, of course.
“At the beginning of the
month, President Trump indicat-
ed that he would implement tar-
iffs in a ‘loving way,’ maybe in an
attempt to suggest that he didn’t
want to spook equity investors,”
CMC Markets chief analyst
Michael Hewson said.
“If recent price action is any
guide, markets are clearly not
‘loving’ what is happening right
now, which is being exacerbated
by rising concerns that the tech
sector, which has driven most of
the gains in U.S. equity markets,
could be on the cusp of being
clobbered by increasing regula-
tion, as well as possible taxation
changes.”
This week also brings three
budgets, from Ontario and Que-
bec, where pre-election spending
should shower us with goodies, to
Newfoundland and Labrador.
MONDAY: CRUMBS
Other than watching Facebook’s
stock performance, there are
pretty much only crumbs for
markets today.
Spotify, the Swedish music-
streaming service, gives a corpo-
rate update in advance of going
public in early April.
TUESDAY: PLUMS
Quebec just may have some
when it unveils its budget later in
the day.
The province “continues to
lean toward surpluses, debt
reduction and tax relief,” stand-
ing in “stark contrast” to Ontario,
noted Bank of Montreal.
In fact, Quebec “will be tabling
a fifth straight year in the black,
with some modest further tax re-
lief likely on the business side
(recall that personal income tax-
es were reduced last year),”
BMO’s Canadian rates and macro
strategist, Benjamin Reitzes, and
Mr. Kavcic said in a lookahead.
“Most notably, the province
has already announced that it in-
tends to use $10-billion of
Generations Fund savings (much
of which has been amassed dur-
ing recent surplus years) to pay
down debt over the coming five
years – this is positive from a
spread perspective as it should
lower the borrowing trajectory.”
Newfoundland and Labrador
also releases its budget, which
“comes amidst still-tough times,
both fiscally and economically,”
said CIBC World Markets chief
economist Avery Shenfeld.
Also on tap are quarterly
results from Lululemon Athletica
Inc.
WEDNESDAY: THUMBS
(AND MORE PLUMS)
Remember before the iPhone
when you used to see everyone
typing with their thumbs on a
BlackBerry?
Well, BlackBerry doesn’t make
its own BlackBerrys any longer,
amid a focus on security and soft-
ware.
CIBC analysts Todd Coupland
and Amy Dyck have a 12- to 18-
month price target on the stock of
US$15, expecting to see quarterly
revenue of US$246-million and
adjusted earnings per share of 7
US cents.
They noted, too, BlackBerry’s
recent partnership with Micro-
soft Corp., secure mobile access to
the latter’s apps.
“We view this announcement
as positive for BlackBerry’s core
enterprise mobility business,” the
CIBC analysts said.
And the day’s biggie:
Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner
Eating a Christmas pie
He put in his thumb
And pulled out a plum
And said, “What a good boy am I!”
Ontario Finance Minister
Charles Sousa delivers a pre-elec-
tion budget expected to be ripe
with plums, having already
warned of a shortfall of about
1 per cent of gross domestic prod-
uct, or $8-billion.
“Assuming revenue continues
to expand alongside solid nomi-
nal GDP growth, that would open
the door for a heavy slate of new
spending promises – early indica-
tions are that health care, pharma
and childcare costs will be major
focuses,” BMO’s Mr. Reitzes and
Mr. Kavcic said.
“And, if recent Liberal messag-
ing is any guide, look for the prov-
ince to focus on how this deficit
doesn’t cause a deterioration in
the net debt-to-GDP ratio,” they
added. “At any rate, this will be a
spending-heavy, pre-election
budget that likely won’t do any
favour from a credit perspective
at this later stage of the cycle.”
THURSDAY: GLUM
Statistics Canada is expected to
report that the Canadian econo-
my almost flatlined in January,
kicking off a year of slower
growth than we saw in 2017.
Economists forecast the report
will show GDP expanded by a tiny
0.1 per cent from December, with
the possibility of no growth at all,
amid slumping manufacturing
sales and a housing market hit by
new mortgage qualification rules
that came into effect at the begin-
ning of the year.
“Very marginal growth would
reaffirm our point that even with
some reduction in trade uncer-
tainties, the Bank of Canada will
be in no rush to raise interest
rates again,” CIBC’s Andrew Gran-
tham said.
“Indeed, the 0.1-per-cent read-
ing for January would have us
requiring stronger growth in the
remainder of the quarter to meet
our 2.2-per-cent forecast for Q1,
let alone get up to the BoC’s 2.5-
per-cent projection.”
FRIDAY: DONE
Many of the world’s major mar-
kets are closed for Good Friday.

‘Human skills’ will help prepare Uber to sell Southeast Asia

workers for automation, study says business to rival Grab
ANSHUMAN DAGA SINGAPORE year and is facing fierce competi-
ANDY BLATCHFORD OTTAWA ers and employers don’t do more to start pre- tion at home and in Asia, as well
paring now, then Canada could run into a lot of as a regulatory crackdown in
challenges – from competitiveness obstacles to Ride-hailing firm Uber Technol- Europe.
A year into its effort to help equip youth for the social-cohesion issues. ogies Inc. has agreed to sell its It is also recovering from a
rapidly evolving work force, one of the coun- “We believe there’s a national dialogue Southeast Asian business to big- year of scandals that saw co-
try’s largest banks says enhancing young Cana- that’s lacking around this issue,” said Mr. ger regional rival Grab, sources founder Travis Kalanick forced
dians’ human skills will be critical in navigat- McKay, who noted the study estimated more with knowledge of the matter out as chief executive in June
ing the machine-led disruption that lies ahead. than 25 per cent of Canadian jobs will be heavi- said on Sunday, in what would amid U.S. criminal inquiries and
In a new study, the Royal Bank of Canada is ly disrupted in the next decade and half will be the U.S. company’s second a workplace marred by sexual-
calling for a national review of postsecondary require far different skills than they do now. retreat from Asia. harassment allegations.
programs to ensure they place more of a focus He said Canada currently spends a lot of The deal, which could be SoftBank gained two seats on
on “human skills” – including active listening, money as a society to train people in skills and announced as early as Monday, Uber’s board of directors
critical thinking and social perceptiveness. roles that won’t be needed down the road or, at marks the industry’s first big through its investment and has
The research argues these foundational the very least, will be a significant mismatch. consolidation in Southeast Asia, said it wants the company to
skills will help future workers remain nimble “It won’t be good enough if we keep training home to about 640 million peo- focus on growing in the United
and position them to complement increasing- ourselves on the same old, same old going for- ple, and puts pressure on rivals States, Europe, Latin America
ly pervasive technologies such as robots and ward – machines can do a lot of what we’re such as Indonesia’s Go-Jek, and Australia, but not in Asia,
machines, rather than compete with them. training students for,” Mr. McKay said. backed by Alphabet Inc.’s Google because of the lack of profitabili-
It warns that, without action, Canadians will Canada, as with many countries, suffers and China’s Tencent Holdings ty.
not be ready for inevitable changes over the from a shortage in skills in their young people, Ltd. Uber’s CEO Dara Khosrowsha-
next decade or two. such as leadership, decision-making, commu- As part of the transaction, hi said at a conference in New
Many say the transformation is already un- nication and emotional intelligence, he said. Uber would get a stake of as York in November that the com-
der way. The report also recommends a national tar- much as 30 per cent in the com- pany’s Asia operations were not
Governments have poured energy and fund- get to provide work-integrated learning, such bined business, said a source going to be “profitable any time
ing into efforts to prepare work- as internships and apprentice- with direct knowledge of the soon,” particularly because of
ers for a significantly altered ships, for 100 per cent of under- matter who did not want to be how heavily Uber was subsidiz-
labour force, which will be driven graduate students. identified as the deal is not yet ing rides there.
by technological advances such The report also The federal government has public. “The economics of that mar-
as automation and artificial intel- committed funds to work-integ- Another source familiar with ket are not what we want them
ligence. recommends a rated learning. the deal said Uber would acquire to be,” he said at the time.
For example, the federal national target Last year, for example, it a 25-per-cent to 30-per-cent stake Mr. Khosrowshahi, who took
government has emphasized the to provide announced a program to help in Grab, valuing the entire busi- over the top job at Uber in
importance of promoting the work-integrated create work placements for ness at US$6-billion, the same August, has been working to
fields of STEM – science, technol- 60,000 students over the next valuation it commanded in its clean up the company’s finan-
ogy, engineering and mathemat- learning, such as five years. most recent capital raising. cials ahead taking it public.
ics – to help youth prepare for the internships and Asked about federal efforts to Uber and Singapore-based Still, during a visit to India in
future work force. In its recent apprenticeships, for prepare the next generation, Mr. Grab, Southeast Asia’s biggest February, he pledged to continue
budget, Ottawa also noted that McKay said it’s not enough, so he ride-hailing firm, declined to investing aggressively in South-
one million students will learn
100 per cent of wants to work with Ottawa. comment. east Asia.
coding and digital skills through undergraduate “They seem to be small and I Expectations of consolidation Now that Uber is pulling out
its CanCode program. students. don’t have the actual execution in Asia’s fiercely competitive of Southeast Asia, attention may
But the RBC study found that plans, so yes, there’s money that ride-hailing industry were stoked turn to the company’s opera-
while digital literacy is increasingly critical for they put aside, but to do exactly what?” Mr. earlier this year when Japan’s tions in India, which accounts
all workers, it won’t be as crucial for everyone McKay said of Ottawa’s promises. SoftBank Group Corp. made a for more than 10 per cent of
to learn a specific expertise such as coding. “We have a plan and a vision of what success multibillion-dollar investment in Uber’s trips globally, but is not
Foundational human skills, on the other looks like. We hope the two will come togeth- Uber. making money yet.
hand, can truly improve a worker’s opportuni- er.” SoftBank is also one of the Uber’s deal with Grab would
ties and mobility. The report is part of RBC’s 10-year, $500-mil- main investors in several of be similar to the one struck in
“To help Canada’s next generation do the lion commitment toward helping young peo- Uber’s rivals, including Grab, Chi- China in 2016, when a bruising
disrupting instead of being disrupted, we need ple prepare for the future work force. na’s Didi Chuxing, and India’s price war ended in Didi Chuxing
to start with 21st century skills – skills they can The hunt for solutions to impending skills Ola. buying out Uber’s China busi-
use to grasp new opportunities and surf the challenges have been preoccupying govern- Ride-hailing companies ness in return for a stake in the
waves of technology and innovation that are ments and business leaders for several years. throughout Asia have relied on company.
changing the world,” said the report titled Later this week, several federal cabinet min- discounts and promotions to Grab raised about US$2.5-bill-
Humans Wanted, to be released Monday. isters will host a Group of Seven meeting in attract both riders and drivers in ion last July from Didi, SoftBank
“We need to stop telling them that work Montreal to explore how best to prepare for the fast-growing market, driving and others in a deal valuing
revolves only around degrees, qualifications jobs of the future with their counterparts from down profit margins. the company at around US$6-
and jobs.” other member countries. Uber, which is preparing for a billion.
RBC president and chief executive Dave potential initial public offering
McKay said in an interview that if policy mak- THE CANADIAN PRESS in 2019, lost US$4.5-billion last REUTERS
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL O
Ontario’s equal-pay rules spur ‘ripple’ concerns
Attempt to boost parity
among employees has
employers fearful of
increased labour costs
BRENDA BOUW
ompanies across Ontario
C are readying for new rules
that require them to pay ca-
sual, part-time, temporary and
seasonal staff the same as full-
time, permanent employees – but
both employers and labour advo-
cates are concerned that the regu-
lations are too broad and are caus-
ing confusion.
While the changes benefit
employees who do the same work
as their full-time colleagues, busi-
ness owners worry about the in-
crease in labour costs and admin-
istration that comes with the
changes taking effect April 1,
alongside other rising expenses.
“This will no doubt be an im-
mediate challenge for
employers,” says Craig Stehr, a
labour and employment lawyer
and partner at Gowling WLG’s
Ottawa office who advises
employers. And while the legisla-
tion appears aimed partly at tem-
porary staffing agencies, Mr.
Stehr, who advises employers,
says “the consequences will rip-
ple through all sectors of the
economy in Ontario.”
Another concern is that pieces
of the legislation will be open to
interpretation, which could lead
to disputes. “Employers have
been left to sort this out on their
own,” Mr. Stehr says.
The new rules, as part of Bill
148, make it mandatory for
employers in Ontario to pay casu-
al, part-time, temporary and sea-
sonal employees doing “substan-
tially the same work” the same as
full-time, permanent staff. The
province says it will be the first
jurisdiction in North America to
make it law as part of its Fair Work-
places, Better Jobs Act – the same
legislation behind Ontario’s
recent minimum-wage hikes. Ex-
perts say the equal pay, equal
work changes aim to crack down
on so-called “perma-temping,”
where workers are provided
repeat contracts at lower pay with
no benefits or job security. The act
is a key plank in Liberal Leader
Kathleen Wynn’s re-election stra-
tegy; Progressive Conservative ri-
val Doug Ford has said he will
freeze the minimum wage but
hasn’t yet weighed in on the
labour law reforms.
Under the new rules, part-time
and casual workers, including
those working for temporary
staffing agencies, will have the
right to ask their employer to
review their rate of pay compared
with full-time, permanent staff.
Employers will have to respond
“by either adjusting the
employee’s pay or giving the
employee a written explanation,”
the law states. There are excep-
tions to the new rules, including if
the wage difference is based on a
seniority or merit system or based
on quantity or quality of produc-
tion. “Sex and employment status
will not qualify as an exception,”
the law states.
Why a mobile strategy should be your only strategy
AVERY SWARTZ
OPINION
Founder of tech-training company
Camp Tech
ore and more people are
M using mobile devices to
browse and search the in-
ternet and small business owners
must ensure their websites are
attracting these potential cus-
tomers.
Recently I asked eight small
business owners to draw the
homepage of their website. All
eight drew their website’s home-
page as if it was being viewed on a
desktop or laptop computer. Not
one of them drew their site as if it
was being viewed on a smart-
phone. My point was proven –
many small business owners are
not “mobile first” in their think-
ing about their website or their
business’s digital presence.
The amount of web traffic
coming from mobile devices
(smartphones, tablets and “pha-
blets”) is on the rise, while the
amount of traffic coming from
desktop and laptop computers is
declining. In Canada, mobile
share of total digital minutes is at
62 per cent, according to a com-
Score report released in March,
2017.
People are turning to their
Massi Abdollahian sits outside Seneca College in Toronto on Friday. Ms. Abdollahian has been working part-time as a library technician at the college
for 16 years and makes $18.25 an hour, while full-time, permanent staff make about $35 an hour in similar roles. CHRIS YOUNG/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Julie Kwiecinski, director of
provincial affairs for Ontario at
We are concerned the Canadian Federation of Inde-
pendent Business, says many
that corporations business owners are confused by
aren’t going to take the changes, including what “sub-
this seriously and stantially the same work” means
are going to use and how the exceptions are
applied.
loopholes to avoid “The government has failed to
their responsibilities. effectively communicate the
equal-pay provisions and what
DEENA LADD they will mean to businesses,” Ms.
CO-ORDINATOR AT THE
WORKERS’ ACTION CENTRE Kwiecinski says. “In practice, they
could mean higher legal bills and
more red tape for employers as
they grapple with many grey areas
and administrative require-
ments.”
Ray Gonder, executive vice-
president of the Staffing Edge, a
support agency that handles
issues such as legal and comp-
liance matters for temp agencies
across Canada, says his industry
supports equal pay for equal
work.
However, he says it’s rare for
temporary staff to work at the
same job for more than six to
eight months, which means the
full-time worker’s tenure will
always be greater.
Mr. Gonder says the new rules
will be particularly challenging
for small businesses with fewer
resources and broader job des-
criptions. “When you have 10
employees that do 10 different
things, there’s no easy way to do a
comparison,” he says.
Employment consultants such
as Mr. Gonder are advising
employers with part-time and ca-
sual workers to develop detailed
job descriptions and put in place
formal policies that will set out
smartphones first for e-mail,
social media, local maps, and
We have to stop Google searches. We have to stop
thinking about “the mobile inter-
thinking about “the net” as being different than “the
mobile internet” as normal internet.” It’s all the inter-
being different than net, and it’s becoming more and
“the normal more mobile.
Google is in the midst of a large
internet.” It’s all the
internet, and it’s
becoming more and
transition to mobile-first index-
ing and has told website owners
to get ready. Google crawls the in-
more mobile. ternet and adds websites to its
directory, ranking the sites for
many factors. Previously Google’s
indexing and ranking was based
on an evaluation of the desktop
version of a website. That’s chang-
ing – Google is now crawling the
mobile version of websites, in-
dexing and ranking the content
and structure of the mobile site
first.
This is big for website owners
who rely on Google to drive traffic
to their websites. Responsive
websites (that have the same con-
tent regardless of the size of the
screen it’s viewed on) are fine.
But, if you have a non-responsive
website, or if there’s missing con-
tent when your site loads on a
smartphone, you could be in
trouble.
Furthermore, having a website
that displays well on a mobile de-
vice isn’t enough. It has to per-
form well, too. There are many
factors that determine a website’s
mobile performance, but the
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
clear seniority, merit and produc-
tivity systems, to ensure they are
abiding by the new law.
Deena Ladd, co-ordinator at
the Workers’ Action Centre in
Toronto, also believes the legisla-
tion is too broad and worries
employers will find ways to use
the exceptions to their advantage.
“We are concerned that corpora-
tions aren’t going to take this seri-
ously and are going to use loop-
holes to avoid their responsibili-
ties,” Ms. Ladd says.
She’s also concerned the law
relies on workers to make com-
plaints to get equal pay, which
could put them at risk of losing
their position. “An individual
worker shouldn’t have to jeopard-
ize their job,” Ms. Ladd says.
Masoumeh (Massi) Abdolla-
hian has been working part-time
as a library technician at Seneca
College for 16 years and currently
makes $18.25 an hour, while full-
time, permanent staff make
about $35 an hour in similar roles.
“I do almost the same job,” says
Ms. Abdollahian, who works
about 24 hours a week without
paid breaks or benefits. The duties
are slightly different because she
works in the evenings, but says
she has the same qualifications as
her full-time peers.
Tracy MacMaster, Ms. Adbolla-
hian’s union representative and a
full-time library technician at
Seneca, believes her part-time
colleagues will be entitled to the
full $35 when the new law kicks in.
However, that doesn’t mean
they’ll be paid it right away.
Ms. MacMaster expects there
will be some negotiating, espe-
cially since their union – the On-
most important one is speed and
page load time. Google has stated
that starting in July, 2018, they
will take page performance into
account when indexing sites.
What all this means for small
business: If your website isn’t
optimized for a phone, both in
content, display and speed,
you’re going to take an SEO hit.
What can small business own-
ers do to keep up in a mobile-first
world? Start with the computer in
your pocket – your own smart-
phone. Load your organization’s
website on your phone. What’s
your experience like as a website
visitor? Notice where you have
moments of frustration, or
moments where you wish you
were on a desktop or laptop com-
puter instead. Those are the
jumping-off points for mobile-
first thinking.
If you have an e-commerce
website, go through the entire
process of browsing for an item,
adding it to your shopping cart,
and checking out. Is your website
accepting mobile payment
options such as Apple Pay and
Google Pay, or do you have to
enter your credit card informa-
tion manually? If you’re noticing
friction in the online payment
process, you can be sure your cus-
tomers are too. Make it as easy as
possible for them to give you
money.
For website performance tune-
B3
tario Public Service Employees
Union (OPSEU) – is in the midst of
collective bargaining. “There’s
been no discussion with the
employer yet, but knowing the
two jobs intimately, I certainly be-
lieve the pay would be appropri-
ate,” Ms. MacMaster says.
About 10 per cent of the 66,000
public service workers in Ontario
are seasonal or fixed-term
employees, according to the Trea-
sury Board Secretariat. In an
e-mail to The Globe, the depart-
ment said the employment terms
and conditions for the majority of
those workers are covered by col-
lective agreements “that already
meet – and in many cases exceed –
the provisions in the Employ-
ment Standards Act (ESA).”
The department added that the
government “is currently moni-
toring potential impacts of equal
pay for equal work but does not
anticipate changes to the overall
makeup of its work force as a
result of the new legislation.”
A Ministry of Labour spokes-
person said the ESA doesn’t apply
to independent contractors.
“However, the fact that a person is
called an independent contractor
does not determine whether or
not they have rights under the
ESA,” the spokesperson said in an
e-mail. “An employment stan-
dards officer would look at all of
the facts and make a decision
about whether or not the person
is an ‘employee’ under the ESA.”
They said the act prohibits
employers from misclassifying
employees as “independent con-
tractors.”
Special to The Globe and Mail
ups, run your website through
Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test,
Mobile Speed Test, and PageS-
peed Insights. If your results are
poor, the solutions are likely tech-
nical. Talk to your web developer
about why and see what can be
optimized.
To help Google understand
your business better (and opti-
mize your “local SEO” for inclu-
sion in local search results and
Google maps), sign up for a free
Google My Business account. Fill
your listing with as much infor-
mation as you can, including your
address, interior and exterior
photos, operating hours, and spe-
cial announcements such as
sales.
Business owners and market-
ers can no longer afford to think
of the mobile web as an after-
thought. You need to be where
your customers and clients are,
and where they’re more likely to
be in the future. Optimizing your
website and digital strategy for
mobile and embracing mobile-
first thinking now will continue
to pay off as smartphone usage
continues to grow.
Avery Swartz is speaking at the
2018 Globe and Mail Small Business
Summit, where Canada’s top
entrepreneurs share their strategies
for success. Full lineup and early
bird tickets available at
tgam.ca/SBS18.
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OPINION & ANALYSIS

Canada needs bolstered internet sovereignty
ANDREW CLEMENT
OPINION
Professor Emeritus and surveillance
researcher in the faculty of
information at the University
of Toronto
anadians are rightfully
urgency to the calls of Canada’s
Privacy Commissioner for addi-
tional powers to make data cus-
todians more transparent and ac-
countable in their activities.
Even long overdue strengthen-
ing of domestic privacy protec-
tions will be partial at best, how-
ever, given that an estimated 90
per cent of Canadians’ internet
communications pass through
because Canada lacks adequate
access to trans-oceanic fibre-
optic cables.
The current heavy reliance of
Canadian internet operations on
U.S. facilities puts personal and
corporate data at risk while
impairing the efficiency and
quality of Canadian internet
services. This one-sided depend-
ence on the United States for a
more cohesive whole, especially
in the face of forces pulling Cana-
da into the U.S. orbit. Canada’s
Telecommunications Act reflects
this historic tradition, mandating
internet sovereignty in its decla-
ration that “telecommunications
performs an essential role in the
maintenance of Canada’s identi-
ty and sovereignty.” It further
seeks “to contribute to the pro-
ising first step toward data-rout-
ing localization. IXPs enable local
networks to reach users on other
networks without having to leave
the region for local delivery. This
improves performance, reduces
transit cost and delay, and can
often avoid boomerang routing
through the United States and
the risks this poses. A further
step is to expand access to Cana-

C troubled by recent news of

Cambridge Analytica’s
abuse of Facebook data for psy-
chographic profiling and political
manipulation. The threats to per-
sonal privacy and democratic
governance exposed in this case
are not an isolated phenomenon,
but rather the tip of an iceberg.
Alarming as they are, the revela-
tions of Christopher Wylie, the
28-year-old Canadian who
helped found Cambridge Analyt-
ica, pale in comparison with
those of another young, brave,
conscientious whistleblower.
In 2013, Edward Snowden re-
vealed the mass secret surveil-
lance of domestic populations by
the National Security Agency
(NSA) and its Five Eyes partners,
including Canada. These exposés
open our eyes to the perils of
globe-spanning organizations
with insatiable appetites for per-
sonal information operating
largely unfettered by weak priva-
cy-protection regimes. They lend
the United States. Once across
the border, personal information
loses Canadian legal and consti-
tutional protections and
becomes subject to surveillance
by the NSA and other organiza-
tions without the safeguards
afforded to U.S. citizens.
Exposure to U.S. risks comes in
several ways. The internet serv-
ices most popular among Cana-
dians – including Facebook, Goo-
gle and Twitter – all store users’
data in the United States. But
even a significant portion of Ca-
nadian domestic internet com-
munication, including Canadians
exchanging e-mail with each oth-
er or accessing a website located
in Canada, will have their person-
al data routed through the Unit-
ed States. Surprisingly, this
“boomerang routing” is common
when both parties are in the
same city, even across the street
from each other. And nearly all
international communications
pass through the United States
major part of critical national in-
frastructure also weakens bilater-
al bargaining power. These chal-
lenges point to the central, over-
arching issue, which is weak Ca-
nadian sovereignty in the
internet realm.
Any strategy aiming to protect
Canadians’ privacy must actively
pursue national sovereignty in
the domain of network infra-
structures. To advance the public
interest, a country needs to exer-
cise effective control over the
communication networks upon
which the social and economic
life of the country depend. While
a new term, the concept of net-
work sovereignty is old. Indeed,
public investment in and over-
sight of national transportation
and communication infrastruc-
ture has been central to the Cana-
dian nation-building project
from the early 19th century. The
twin imperatives have been to
foster development and to knit
disparate communities into a
tection of the privacy of persons.”
“Localization” is the most
obvious approach to achieving
network sovereignty in the case
of the internet. This means keep-
ing data within the region of
their creation and use whenever
feasible; that is, storing and rout-
ing the personal data of Cana-
dians within Canadian jurisdic-
tion. As a promising first step in
this direction, Microsoft has
recently established data centres
in Toronto and Montreal for stor-
ing Canadians’ personal informa-
tion as much as possible under
Canadian legal protection. Other
major service providers, notably
Facebook and Google, should be
required to do likewise.
Keeping Canadian domestic
internet data flows within Cana-
dian jurisdiction involves devel-
oping greater technical capacity
to route traffic efficiently
through domestic facilities. Pub-
lic internet exchange points
(IXPs) represent the most prom-
da’s long-haul internet back-
bone, especially for linking IXPs.
Finally, whatever success is
achieved in strengthening Cana-
dian privacy protections and
advancing network sovereignty,
there will remain a vital public
interest in ensuring safe, free,
open global internet communi-
cation. Doing so will require de-
veloping a robust international
internet governance regime that
meets human rights standards
and strengthens democracy.
Helping to forge such an interna-
tional regime will be integral to
achieving national sovereignty
and public-interest goals in rela-
tion to the internet.
This article draws on Canadian
Network Sovereignty: A Strategy
for Twenty-first-Century National
Infrastructure Building, a
forthcoming essay in the Centre
for International Governance
Innovation (CIGI)’s series on Data
Governance in the Digital Age.

As private sector builds profit, On trade with China, Trump gets it right
the public sector builds trust ANDREI SULZENKO Canada has also had some ex- while the current action in large
perience with China’s unrelent- measure is legitimate. It’s also
BRUCE MacLELLAN ing thirst for access to advanced about narrow national self-inter-
OPINION technologies. As a result, the pre- est.
vious federal government put in While on the subject of self-
OPINION Former trade negotiator and place special provisions designed interest, depending on how the
currently an executive fellow to limit investment access to U.S.-China confrontation shakes
CEO of Proof Inc., a Canadian-headquartered at the School of Public Policy, Canada by state-owned or con- out, there is potential opportuni-
communications marketing firm University of Calgary trolled firms, much to the relief ty for other countries to exploit
of our security community. restrictions by the United States
anadians casually observing public reaction toward ven though Donald Trump Despite the fact that China’s and China against each other to

C politicians may be tempted to say that trust in the

public sector is at an all-time low. However, upon clos-
er examination, when it comes to who Canadians
trust, the public sector still has the upper hand.
It’s fair to say that trust in the public sector is in our DNA. In
E is widely criticized as being
impulsive and unhinged, he
clearly has some smart advisers
who occasionally succeed in
channelling his aggressive
behaviour has often been against
both the spirit and laws of open
and fair market-based dealing,
the international community
has been reluctant to confront
capture increased market share.
For example, Canadian agricultu-
ral exports could displace U.S.
exports to China. “Free-riders”
are probably hoping for a pro-
survey after survey, we find that trust among Canadians for instincts into productive long- that behaviour for fear of retal- longed dust-up, so long as it
government and public-sector services runs well ahead of the term directions. The jury is still iation through arbitrarily stays bilateral.
private sector. In many cases, it’s not even close. Furthermore, out on North Korea, but the reduced access to its huge mar- What will not be clear for
these higher trust levels have been holding during the same recent announcement of the in- ket. No country was brave some time is whether the United
recent years in which other countries have been experiencing tention to apply punitive tariffs enough to lead the charge and States and China will take this
a crisis of trust. on Chinese imports in response then lose ground to competitors confrontation as an opportunity
Canada’s political culture blends individual liberty with a to chronic trade and investment who kept quiet – until now. to negotiate a necessary recali-
strong commitment to equitable access to important serv- transgressions is a strategically bration of their economic rela-
ices, and this combination is globally known to be part of our important milestone for interna- tionship, or to spiral into a trade
national identity. Sometimes traced to the Constitution’s tional economic relations. war that hurts both parties. Cer-
“peace, order and good government” clause, these values Here’s why Canada and other tainly, the usual knee-jerk reac-
manifest in our healthy and active public sector. Group of Seven countries should tion of financial markets has
Many private corporations encounter this active public be quietly applauding. What will not be clear been driven by fear of the latter.
sector every day, through regulations, legislation, overlap or A major step in China’s push It is obvious which path
other manifestations. They need to remember that trust is to modernize and become a full for some time is should be taken – calm, consid-
often the foundation for approval, participant in globalization was whether the United ered negotiation. The United
and in almost every situation the its accession to membership in States and China will States process actually hits the
Canadian public sector has more the World Trade Organization. take this confrontation pause button for long enough to
For those companies of it in the bank. This was achieved in 2001 after a
as an opportunity to
do that. However, this process
The AmericasBarometer found 15-year negotiation. It took that does not control the risks posed
setting up shop in 2017 that Canadians express long because the price of entry negotiate a necessary by the egos of a President
in Canada, higher levels of trust in most involved significant policy recalibration of their anxious about being able to fin-
understanding our major public institutions versus changes toward a market-based ish out his first term and a newly
Americans. Furthermore, these economy.
economic relationship,
society’s mindset minted President-for-life.
levels have been steady during Despite some misgivings or to spiral into a trade Hopefully the technocrats will
and knowing how recent years, where other coun- about readiness for WTO acces- war that hurts both take over. Besides, Mr. Trump
to earn our trust tries have experienced populist sion, China had become too parties. Certainly, the now has another triumphant
is important to turbulence. Our company’s 2017 important to ignore and was al- tick mark beside an election
usual knee-jerk reaction
operating alongside CanTrust Study also supports this.
Public health care is seen as a
ready enjoying many of the ben-
efits of membership without any of financial markets has
promise. The details of what
actually happens do not matter
a strong public distinct feature of Canada, and Ca- of the obligations. been driven by fear so much for purposes of the
sector. nadians like it. Our 2017 survey of In retrospect, however, China of the latter. Twitter feed.
trust levels showed that trust in has been able to have its cake In any event, the U.S. threat of
hospitals ranked at 63 per cent, one of the highest scores for and eat it too – in practice, this trade action against China will be
any sector. Trust in government over all among Canadians has meant having relatively looked back upon as a seminal
was 43 per cent, compared with trust in large corporations at unfettered access to global mar- event in 21st century internation-
31 per cent. Pharmaceutical companies came in at 26 per cent. kets while maintaining its sys- It is ironic that an avowedly al economic relations, with long-
The public-sector preference is also evident in media trust. tem of state-owned or controlled protectionist U.S. administration term implications for the global
The trust level in the news media over all among Canadians in capitalism. That system has been is leading on a strategic issue community. The possibility of
2018 is healthy at 53 per cent, but for the public broadcaster, used to dictate the terms of for- critical for all Western countries. those relations becoming fairer
CBC/Radio Canada, that trust jumps substantially to 72 per eign access to the Chinese mar- Although most countries proba- and freer compared with the sta-
cent. ket and to seek out leading-edge bly support the thrust of the U.S. tus quo is worth the effort.
These differing trust levels can be a shock to multinational technologies by all available initiative, they would rather not From Canada’s perspective,
companies when they come to Canada. Any private business means through its international say so for fear of Chinese retribu- we can stay interested by-
needs to be aware of it. Their question then becomes: What is entities. tion. Notice the lack of public standers, for the time being at
my private enterprise’s trust-building strategy? Here are three The ensuing tilting of the play- outcry about the current U.S. least. Isn’t it fortunate, though,
steps they can take, as a start. ing field is most evident in Chi- trade volley targeted against Chi- that we did not take the Chinese
First, trust by association: Businesses need to know the na’s shabby treatment of foreign na compared with the recent bait to enter into bilateral free-
right company to keep. Not-for-profits are trust leaders in intellectual property rights, espe- much broader steel and alumi- trade negotiations? Otherwise,
Canada at 62 per cent, double that of large corporations. Part- cially with respect to advanced num tariff threat. That’s in part we would be in an uncomforta-
nerships and collaboration can work favourably for private technologies, the lightning rod because the steel and aluminum ble position right now. In this
companies looking to lay down a baseline of trust. for Mr. Trump’s recent announ- action was overtly protectionist case, traditional Canadian cau-
Secondly, trust by communication: Trust is built by posi- cement. with a national security fig leaf, tion helped us dodge a bullet.
tive experiences that are supported by word of mouth from
your ideal customer’s friends and family. If you have good
products or services, make sure you are generating awareness
through the right channels. DILBERT
Finally, trust by leadership: People tell us that a driver of
trust is chief executive visibility and regular communications,
both in person and through social media. The days of ivory-
tower leadership are long gone. Take that old approach, and
you’ll simply communicate to Canadians how out of touch
you are.
For those companies setting up shop in Canada, under-
standing our society’s mindset and knowing how to earn our
trust is important to operating alongside a strong public sec-
tor.
Trust and success go hand in hand – and building trust is as
important as building profits. The result will be stronger
brands and corporate reputations – what shareholder
wouldn’t like that?
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Wall Street’s FANG quartet may be losing its sharp edge

Amid potential security
regulations, investors
may be forced to choose
between the technology
stocks that are leading
the new economy

NOEL RANDEWICH
SAN FRANCISCO

he quartet of technology

T stocks that has driven Wall

Street indexes to record
highs in recent years may be
breaking up, possibly undermin-
ing one of the best growth stories
in a nine-year bull market.
Facebook Inc. and Google-par-
ent Alphabet Inc. tumbled this
week as the benchmark S&P 500
index fell back toward lows seen
in February, when the index gave
back more than 10 per cent in 10
days after reaching a record high
in January.
Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com
Inc., which along with Facebook
and Alphabet make up the so-
called “FANG” stocks, did not do
as badly as the S&P 500 index this
week, falling 4.0 per cent, com-
pared with the index’s 6.0-per-
cent fall.
But increasing concerns about
potential government regulation
in the United States and Europe
in response to privacy issues have
investors assessing whether they
may be forced to choose between
those technology stocks leading
the new economy.
“The big, consumer-facing
tech companies have been stock
market leaders for years, and this
could be the beginning of the end
of that leadership. However, the
long-term tech growth story is far
from over,” Guild Investment
Management Executive vice-
president Tim Shirata wrote in a
note this week.
The outcry over Facebook’s
handling of users’ data this week
has bled US$75-billion from the
social-media company’s stock
market value, with concerns
about potential regulation of in-
ternet companies also hurting
Alphabet.
Facebook fell 13 per cent for the
week and is down nearly 20 per
cent from its record high, while
Alphabet lost nearly 10 per cent
this week and is 14 per cent off its
record high.
Amazon lost nearly 10 per cent
also for the week but is only 8 per
cent off its record, while Netflix
A car passes Facebook’s offices in California on Wednesday. Growing divergence in views on the four Wall Street powerhouses – Facebook, Amazon,
Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet – comes as investors more broadly reduce their appetite for the tech stocks. JOSH EDELSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
lost 5.4 per cent and is nearly 10
per cent from its high.
Apple, which became a stock
portfolio cornerstone following
the iPhone’s debut in 2007, is also
about 10 per cent off its record
high.
Amazon this week overtook
Alphabet as the world’s second-
largest company by market capi-
talization at around US$747-bill-
ion compared with US$730-bill-
ion for Alphabet, but is still
behind the largest company
Apple worth US$860-billion,
according to Reuters data.
“The FANG complex needs to
go away,” said Joel Kulina, senior
vice-president of institutional
cash equities at Wedbush. “You
can’t compare Facebook and
Google to Amazon any more
because they’re going in different
directions and disrupting differ-
ent parts of the world.”
Illustrative of the consumer
and political backlash against
Facebook, the world’s largest
social-media network, the veri-
fied Facebook page of rocket
company SpaceX disappeared on
Friday, minutes after its founder
and Silicon Valley billionaire Elon
Musk promised on Twitter to take
down the page when challenged
by a user.
Since February, 2013, when
CNBC television host Jim Cramer
popularized the term FANG to
describe the four must-own
stocks, each has provided mas-
sive rewards to investors, with
Facebook and Amazon gaining
more than 400 per cent, Netflix
climbing more than 1,000 per
cent and Alphabet nearly tripling
its stock price.
Criticism about the misuse of
Facebook and Alphabet’s plat-
forms during the 2016 U.S. presi-
dential campaign has worried
investors for several months.
European governments are al-
ready taking action to deal with
risks to the privacy of user data, as
well to limit what is seen as unfair
competition in a move reminis-
cent of regulatory action against
Microsoft nearly 20 years ago.
Regulatory risk became a big-
ger issue this week after the reve-
lation that Facebook mistakenly
let 50 million users’ data get into
the hands of political consultancy
Cambridge Analytica.
Longer term though, investors
remain mostly bulllish on all four
stocks and this week’s privacy
scandal has not led analysts to
meaningfully change their expec-
tations for Facebook or Alpha-
bet’s stocks.
Investors disagree about which
FANG stocks will lead in the
future.
Gullane Capital Partners, a
hedge fund in Memphis, Tenn.,
owns Amazon and Alphabet and
has occasionally shorted Netflix
in recent years, betting the
streaming company’s meteoric
rise would be followed by a steep
pullback.
“I want to own Amazon for the
next 25 years. It’s the most power-
ful business since Walmart or Mi-
crosoft in their heydays,” Gullane
Capital Managing Partner Trip
Miller said.
Mr. Miller attributed recent
selling in Facebook, which his
fund does not own, more to prof-
it-taking than to a seismic change
in how the company is viewed on
Wall Street.
The growing divergence in
views on the four Wall Street pow-
erhouses comes as investors
more broadly reduce their appe-
tite for the technology stocks
which have led Wall Street’s rally
in recent years.
The Philadelphia Semicon-
ductor Index on Friday slumped
3.3 per cent, hammered by fears
of a trade war with China after
U.S. President Donald Trump on
Thursday unveiled tariffs on up to
US$60-billion of Chinese goods.
In the latest week ended March
21, U.S.-based technology sector
funds attracted just US$158-mil-
lion of net new cash, down sharp-
ly from inflows of US$1.95-billion
the previous week, according to
Lipper data on Thursday.
Guild Investment Manage-
ment’s Shirata recommends buy-
ing technology stocks less likely
to catch the eye of government
regulators and he pointed to net-
working, video games and cloud-
computing companies.
“In all these areas, prospects
for long-term growth still look
stunningly good.” he wrote.
REUTERS

Venezuela divides currency China’s Sinopec to pay record dividend

amid hyperinflation crisis
DEISY BUITRAGO CARACAS
Venezuelans said on Friday they
lacked confidence in President
Nicolas Maduro’s decision to
knock three digits off the coun-
try’s ailing bolivar currency amid
soaring hyperinflation.
The measure to divide the boli-
var by 1,000 will take effect as of
June 4, the leader announced on
Thursday. New notes will be
issued, although there will be no
change in the bolivar’s value.
Critics said the move would
have no impact on the crisis-
wrecked economy and just covers
up soaring prices and a collapsing
currency.
Millions in Venezuela earn just
a dollar or two a month at black-
market rates and suffer food and
medicine shortages. Prices rose
more than 2,600 per cent in the
past year, according to the
Tiny Iceland signs giant deal
to help China go geothermal
RAGNHILDUR SIGURDARDOTTIR
A tiny North Atlantic island
known best for icebergs, geysers
and volcanoes is helping China
fight pollution.
Iceland just signed the biggest
deal in its history to provide the
world’s second-largest economy
with the technology it needs to
deliver clean, geothermal heat.
The agreement affects up to 15
million people in Xiong’an, a new
economic area near Beijing estab-
lished by President Xi Jinping.
With more than 100 volcanoes,
Iceland has become a world lead-
er in geothermal technology. The
heat produced from the Earth’s
core not only doesn’t pollute, but
is also cheap. So cheap, in fact,
that Iceland can afford to heat
sidewalks in its biggest cities.
on higher profit from refining operations
National Assembly. There is a se- AIBING GUO es in production and exploration, its refining
vere cash crisis. and chemicals units have helped it ride out the
“An authoritarian government volatility of oil’s earlier crash as margins from
does anything it wants. This is not China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., the making fuels and petrochemicals improve.
going to stop inflation,” said Jose world’s biggest refiner, will pay a record-high “It just shows how difficult it was for Sinopec
Vasquez, 46, selling coffee at the dividend as its massive fuels and chemical seg- to make a profit in oil and gas production, even
exit of a subway station in the ments helped it post a nearly 10-per-cent in- as oil prices were edging toward US$60 a bar-
eastern part of Caracas. crease in full-year profit. rel,” said Anna Yu, a Hong Kong-based analyst
The bolivar has fallen 99.99 per Net income climbed to 51.2-billion yuan at ICBC International Research Ltd. “Refining
cent against the U.S. dollar on the ($10.5-billion), the company known as Sinopec and chemicals are the backbone of Sinopec’s
black market since Mr. Maduro said in a statement to the Shanghai stock assets and those sectors will continue to benefit
came to power in April, 2013. exchange Sunday. The company proposed a 0.5 from China’s growing fuel demand.”
If inflation continues as it has yuan per share total dividend payout for 2017, The company has also shifted its upstream
over the past year, another rede- the most since its Hong Kong listing in 2000 focus toward producing more natural gas, seek-
nomination will be required in 20 and above a forecast for 0.17 yuan in data com- ing to support President Xi Jinping’s drive of
months. piled by Bloomberg. The company also flagged using more of the fuel instead of coal.
“It’s a cosmetic measure, 22-billion yuan in impairments.
which does not impact the bot- While oil’s rally has helped Sinopec cut loss- BLOOMBERG NEWS
tom line,” local economist Asdru-
bal Oliveros said. “After a few
months you will have to continue
issuing new bills or decide to
remove more zeros [from] the
currency,” Mr. Oliveros added.
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The China deal – a joint ven-
ture between Arctic Green Energy
and Sinopec Green Energy that
comes with $322-million in loans
from the Asian Development
Bank – shows that technology
produced in “small communities
can be scaled up in the largest
countries in the world,” said Ola-
fur Ragnar Grimsson, a former Mark Watson Mike Pedersen Mark Prasuhn Andrew Dyke,
Icelandic president who in 2002 to President to Chair of the Board to President OAA, MRAIC
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Bit by bit
Mining rigs of a supercomputer operate inside a Genesis Farming bitcoin-mining facility near Reykjavik on March 16.
At the heart of Iceland’s breathtaking lava fields stands one of the world’s largest bitcoin factories at a secret location
that is rich in renewable energy, used to run the machines creating the virtual currency.

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Callidus: Catalyst funds have a lot riding on the performance of publicly traded firm
FROM B1
A lengthy Reuters news report
on Friday quoted a hedge fund
manager and others questioning
the valuation of Catalyst’s hold-
ings, its ability to cash out of
some investments at advertised
prices and its extensions to the
lives of its funds, which allow it
to hold on to investor capital for
longer.
The report said some of those
holdings include litigation
claims – money that Catalyst be-
lieves it will gain in the future
from lawsuits, but which are far
from certain.
Financial documents for some
Catalyst funds, obtained by The
Globe and Mail, show that the
firm put a value on nearly
US$450-million (as of Dec. 31,
2016) on litigation related to the
firm’s unsuccessful attempt in
2014 to take over wireless carrier
Wind Mobile.
A fund known as Catalyst
Fund Limited Partnership III
placed a value of US$148.9-mil-
lion on Wind litigation as of that
date, according to the docu-
ments. Another fund, Catalyst
Fund Limited Partnership IV &
IV-PP, valued Wind litigation at
US$297.9-million. (The financial
review presents numbers both
with and without the litigation
winnings.)
Legal actions are part and par-
cel of Mr. Glassman’s operation
and there are a number stem-
ming from Catalyst’s failure to
acquire Wind Mobile following
talks with its previous owners. A
rival investment firm, West Face
Capital Inc., acquired the cell-
phone company for $300-million
and sold it to Shaw Communica-
tions Inc. about a year and a half
later for $1.6-billion.
In one high-profile case, Cata-
lyst accused one of its former an-
alysts who was subsequently
hired by West Face Capital of
passing on proprietary and con-
fidential information. The suit
was unsuccessful, with the trial
judge ruling that Mr. Glassman’s
testimony was difficult to rely
on. “He was aggressive, argu-
mentative, refused to make con-
cessions that should have been
made and contradicted his own
statements made contempora-
neously in e-mails,” the judge
stated in his decision. In Febru-
ary, Catalyst lost an appeal of the
decision.
In a second lawsuit filed in
May, 2016, Mr. Glassman sued
former Wind Mobile owners
VimpelCom Ltd. and Globalive
Capital Inc., as well as UBS Secur-
ities Canada, West Face and a
bunch of others, alleging breach
of contract. The case has yet to
be heard. It is this case that ap-
parently gives rise to the US$450-
million in hoped-for litigation
awards for Catalyst.
The Reuters report quoted an
Oxford University private-equity
expert as saying the estimated
return on the litigation was
“extraordinarily” high.
Catalyst spokesman Dan Gag-
nier declined to say if the same
Wind Mobile-related litigation
figures would also be included in
2017 materials to investors, or if
they had changed to reflect any
new view of the firm’s chances in
court.
[Newton Glassman]
contends that Callidus
was the target in a
‘wolf-pack conspiracy’
of short-sellers to drive
down the stock price.
But in a statement late on Fri-
day casting aspersions on the
Reuters article, Catalyst said it
was “incomprehensible” that the
news agency would portray in-
formational disclosure to inves-
tors as being part of audited
financial statements. (The story
said the figures were from “a pre-
sentation to investors.”)
Catalyst said it considers any
notion that it overvalues assets
or is unable to achieve targeted
returns by stated deadlines to be
pure effrontery. “Our funds are
structured to be long-lived to
maximize value for our inves-
tors. Our process for valuing cur-
rent investments is rigid, conser-
vative and has been proven out
repeatedly,” the statement said.
The documents obtained by
The Globe also show that Cata-
lyst funds have a lot riding on
the performance of publicly
traded Callidus. The documents
for Fund III say that the fund had
invested US$404.6-million in
shares and debt of Callidus or
related entities, as of the end of
2016. Fund IV & IV-PP had invest-
ed US$530.1-million.
It is not known how much
those figures changed in 2017.
But Catalyst’s ownership of Call-
idus equity, at least, has been
growing. Catalyst and funds
managed by it owned about 70
per cent of Callidus as of Sept. 30,
up from 66.7 per cent at the end
of 2016.
That suggests Callidus is a
drag on the performance of Mr.
Glassman’s Catalyst funds. Prior
to Friday’s selloff, Callidus stock
had fallen 60 per cent in a year.
Analysts had tied the drop to a
dearth of new lending announ-
cements and fears about concen-
tration of investments in two
companies – Oklahoma-based
Horizontal Well Drillers and C&C
Wood Products of Quesnel, B.C.
Recall that Mr. Glassman had
previously helped raise investor
expectations that Callidus could
be worth $18 to $22 a share in a
privatization, based on a 2016
National Bank Financial valua-
tion. More than a year ago he
suggested that as many as 17
potential bidders were consider-
ing offers in that neighbour-
hood.
But the process appears to
have bogged down. A few
months later, Callidus floated
the possibility of an alternative
to a sale – that is, the absorption
of Callidus by a private debt
fund.
It was all further complicated
by legal action brought by Mr.
Glassman following a Wall Street
Journal story last August about
whistle-blower complaints to the
Ontario Securities Commission,
accusing Catalyst and Callidus of
fraud. The suit names several
defendants, including Mr. Glass-
man’s nemesis, Greg Boland of
West Face, as well as a Journal
reporter and several others.
Mr. Glassman contends that
Callidus was the target in a
“wolf-pack conspiracy” of short-
sellers to drive down the stock
price. Mr. Boland countersued,
stating that he and West Face
were not involved in any con-
spiracy, and that he closed out
his short position in Callidus a
couple years earlier.
Amid this week’s flurry, inves-
tors will look to Callidus’s finan-
cial and deal progress to see how
that’s all playing out.

BuildDirect: More than 99% of firm’s suppliers

BUSINESS CLASSIFIED stuck with it through restructuring, company says
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AND IN THE MATTER OF A PLAN OF COMPROMISE OR PricewaterhouseCoopers. “This
ARRANGEMENT OF DISCOVERY AIR INC. capital call allows the company
to ensure it is adequately capital-
NOTICE PURSUANT TO THE CCAA (Section 23 (1)(a)) ized to execute against its oper-
NOTICE is hereby given that on March 21, 2018, the Ontario Superior ating plan without having to run
another financing process,” the
Court of Justice issued an initial order (“Initial Order”) pursuant to
the CCAA in respect of Discovery Air Inc. (the “Applicant”) declaring monitor stated.
the Applicant to be a company to which the CCAA applies (the “CCAA BuildDirect had been one of
Proceedings”). Vancouver’s most prominent pri-
vate technology firms, raising
KSV Kofman Inc. (“KSV”) has been appointed as the Monitor in the CCAA
more than $100-million in ven-
Proceedings. Information regarding the CCAA Proceedings is available
on the Monitor’s website at www.ksvadvisory.com/insolvency-cases/ ture financing since its start in
discovery-air and may also be obtained from Shelby Draper of KSV at 1999. Co-founder and long-time
sdraper@ksvadvisory.com or 416-932-6232. chief executive Jeff Booth hoped
to turn BuildDirect into the Ama-
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The company continued to lose
money and struggled to raise
needed venture funding last year
before Mr. Booth resigned days
before it filed for creditor protec-
tion in late October.
We are very bullish on
the shift towards
professional contractors.
BuildDirect is pursuing a
very large market
opportunity and we
believe that the
company’s assets,
capabilities and
executive leadership
uniquely position the
company to be
extremely successful
moving forward.
KATHERINE BARR
MOHR DAVIDOW’S GENERAL PARTNER
However, Silicon Valley ven-
ture fund Mohr Davidow, a past
backer, agreed to lead the refin-
ancing after the firm performed
better than expected during its
court protection period under
the leadership of Dan Park, a for-
mer Amazon executive who
replaced Mr. Booth just weeks
after joining the company as
chief operating officer. On Mr.
Park’s watch, cash sales, net cash
receipts and net cash flows in the
company’s first 15 weeks under
court protection exceeded initial
management forecasts, while op-
erating costs were 20 per cent
lower than the US$13-million
forecast. The company is still not
profitable.
The company also said more
than 99 per cent of suppliers re-
mained through the restructur-
ing process.
“Today marks a defining
moment for BuildDirect and I am
confident customers and sellers
alike will soon recognize the
signs of a newly energized and
well-capitalized business poised
for success,” Mr. Park said. The
new CEO also shifted the com-
pany’s focus to serving contract-
ors rather than do-it-yourselfers,
hoping to generate larger orders
and repeat business from profes-
sionals rather than rare, one-
time orders from consumers that
were its mainstay customer base.
Contractors now account for
more than one-third of company
revenue.
“We are very bullish on the
shift towards professional con-
tractors,” said Katherine Barr,
Mohr Davidow’s Canadian-born
general partner. “BuildDirect is
pursuing a very large market op-
portunity and we believe that the
company’s assets, capabilities
and executive leadership unique-
ly position the company to be
extremely successful moving for-
ward.”
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Debt: Federal deficit an extension of fiscal support designed to combat oil-price crash
FROM B1
Already, Canada appears less pre-
pared for an economic shock
than it was a decade ago. Debt
has increased materially on all
fronts – government, household
and corporate. And perpetual
deficits will only further weaken
the national balance sheet, mak-
ing it unlikely that Canada will
weather the next recession as
well as it did the last.
These days, there is little trace
of what was once a national fixa-
tion on balanced public finances
in Canada. Through the
mid-1990s and most of the
2000s, a campaign of “fiscal con-
solidation” slayed the federal
deficit and ultimately cut the
country’s debt-to-GDP ratio in
half from what had become an
unsustainable debt load.
Starting in 1997-98, federal
governments posted 11 straight
annual budget surpluses, a streak
only ended by the global finan-
cial crisis. Even then, balance was
relinquished grudgingly. As late
as November, 2008, more than
two months after Lehman Broth-
ers went bankrupt, and a finan-
cial calamity of historic propor-
tions was taking shape, then-
prime minister Stephen Harper
was still clinging to the ideal of
avoiding deficits. He finally
relented after an attempt by the
opposition parties to form a coa-
lition government.
“Canada had a culture of car-
ing about the fiscal position, not
just about goodies and tax cuts. I
worry that’s being eroded,” said
Eric Lascelles, chief economist at
RBC Global Asset Management.
U.S. politicians, including
many self-declared fiscal conser-
vatives, have offered up little
resistance to a budget that seems
designed to contend with a non-
existent downturn. Next year’s
U.S. deficit is projected to be
about US$1-trillion, or more than
5 per cent of forecast GDP. That’s
not quite approaching the crisis-
era high of nearly 10 per cent, but
it’s still “enormous,” Mr. Las-
celles said. And it’s not just taxes
behind the U.S. budget crunch. A
US$1.3-trillion spending bill pro-
poses new funding for virtually
every federal department and
agency over two fiscal years.
“It goes against everything you
learned in Economics 101,” writes
Avery Shenfeld, chief economist
at CIBC World Markets. “But a
case is being made these days for
fiscal stimulus at the top of the
business cycle.” The rationale is
that jolting the economy with sti-
mulus makes room for central
banks to hike rates as a counter-
measure. Higher rates, in turn,
allow for more dramatic mone-
tary intervention when the next
downturn hits.
Best, instead, to let central
banks hike rates at their own
pace, rather than risk putting too
much strain on indebted con-
sumers, Mr. Shenfeld said. The
Bank of Canada, for its part,
seems inclined to take a gradual
approach for that very reason.
“The case for turning Keynes
on his head is shaky on several
grounds,” Mr. Shenfeld said. And
yet, the curious application of
Government debt prices were trading below US$40
Net debt per capita, provincially and federally a barrel amid a global oversup-
2016-17 fiscal year 2006-07 fiscal year ply, taking a heavy toll on Cana-
da’s resource-dependent econo-
Newfoundland and $25,641 my.
Labrador 22,637
“There was a reasonable case
22,234
to be made at the time,” Mr. Por-
Quebec ter said. Unemployment had
16,287 begun to creep higher, growth
21,583 was vanishing and long-term
Ontario bond yields were at record lows.
12,142
“A lot of those conditions just
18,256 aren’t there any more,” he said.
New Brunswick
9,005 The kinds of conditions calling
for deficits don’t seem to be ap-
17,425 parent in Ontario, either. The
Federal
14,346 provincial economy has outper-
17,216 formed even Canada’s over the
Manitoba past three years, Finance Minister
9,125 Charles Sousa said in a speech
15,765 earlier this month. He also used
Nova Scotia the occasion to suggest the prov-
13,176
ince will be tabling a deficit budg-
14,530 et on Wednesday. “Even though I
Prince Edward Island
9,517 have fought long and hard to slay
the deficit and balance the books
8,874 … I will not leave people
Saskatchewan
7,488 behind,” Mr. Sousa said.
7,944 Ontario’s shortfall will be less
British Columbia than 1 per cent of provincial GDP,
5,779 Mr. Sousa said, and the budget
2,101 will set out a path back to
Alberta balance. But as the Canadian fis-
-10,536
cal experience has made clear
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: RBC ECONOMICS through the years, the deficit
track is a difficult one from
Household debt which to get off.
Credit market debt to disposable income ratio, on quarterly basis “There is nothing so perma-
180% nent as a temporary program,”
said Eveline Adomait, an assis-
tant economics professor at the
160 University of Guelph, quoting
economist Milton Friedman.
With the start of a provincial
140 election campaign just a month
away, Ontario Premier Kathleen
Wynne has, in recent days, prom-
120 ised to dole out billions in new
spending on health care, child
care, dental care and pharma-
100 care. “Look at pharmacare. Once
that’s in place, you don’t get rid
of that,” Ms. Adomait said. While
80 she’s not necessarily opposed to
1991 1997 2003 2009 2015 deficits, they should at least be
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: STATSCAN directed toward long-term
growth, such as transportation
Corporate debt infrastructure projects.
Debt service ratio for Canada's private non-financial sector, on quarterly basis “There is a clear lesson here:
25% how easy it is to get into debt,
how difficult it is to get out of it
24 and how important it is to stay
out of it,” said Perrin Beatty, pres-
23 ident of the Canadian Chamber
of Commerce, and a former fed-
22 eral cabinet minister under the
Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney and
21 Kim Campbell governments.
That’s a lesson that seems to
20 have been forgotten over the
past decade, Mr. Beatty said.
19 In the fiscal year before the
financial crisis began to unfold,
18 every single province, in addition
2000 2004 2008 2012 to the federal government,
THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS turned in a surplus, helping to
stockpile financial ammunition
Keynesian stimulus at the top of ability. When we do tip over, it that would soon be needed.
the business cycle seems to be will be a long drop and a terrible “That helped, I think, ensure we
part of a continental trend. climb out of it.” were slower going into the reces-
In Ottawa’s budget, there was The continuing federal deficit sion, that it was shallower and
little evidence of preparation for is largely an extension of fiscal that we got out of it earlier,” Mr.
an eventual downturn, said Cath- support designed to combat the Beatty said.
erine Swift, president of Working crash in oil prices. Back in 2015, The Canadian economy was
Canadians, a taxpayer advocacy as a sputtering domestic econo- clearly in contraction for only
group. Frivolous spending now my became the dominant elec- three quarters, while the reces-
ignores the damage that will be tion issue, Justin Trudeau cam- sion in other G7 countries lasted
wrought when a recession coin- paigned on a platform that in- between four and six quarters.
cides with household debt levels, cluded modest deficit spending Most postcrisis analyses gave at
Ms. Swift said. “We’re putting before rebalancing the budget by least some credit for that to the
ourselves in a position of vulner- 2019. At that time, U.S. crude oil federal government’s aggressive
intervention. The budget tabled
in early 2009 included a stimulus
package worth $47-billion over
two years. That was on top of
other measures, including the
auto bailout, tens of billions in li-
quidity support for Canada’s
banks and the slashing of the
Bank of Canada’s key overnight
lending rate from 4.5 per cent in
late 2007 to near zero by the
spring of 2009.
There was one big reason that
stimulus helped stabilize the
economy – the Canadian con-
sumer. “The household sector
could respond in a big way
because [it] had the ability to
take on debt,” Mr. Porter said. In
2010 – the first full year of eco-
nomic recovery, real consumer
spending rose by 3.7 per cent,
which alone contributed more
than two percentage points to
GDP growth that year, the econo-
mist said.
But that spending binge, com-
bined with the swift rebound in
the housing market, which large-
ly continues to this day, has the
average household now carrying
a record level of debt. At more
than 170 per cent of household
income, credit market debt has
been cited by the Bank of Canada
as among the biggest risks to the
domestic economy.
“I don’t think we can count on
the consumer to pull us out of
the next downturn,” Mr. Porter
said.
Neither are many of the prov-
inces on as sound a footing as a
decade ago. Ontario’s provincial
debt has swelled, now at 38 per
cent of GDP, compared with 26
per cent 10 years ago. At 46 per
cent, Quebec’s debt is still the
highest in the country. And the
crash in energy prices has left its
mark on the fiscal position of
much of Western Canada. Corpo-
rate debt, too, has crept up in the
years since the Great Recession,
as the era of cheap money has
encouraged borrowing across the
board.
Canada’s Finance Minister Bill
Morneau has been quick to point
out that federal indebtedness is
actually declining as a share of
the domestic economy, despite
the deficits. By that measure,
Canada’s debt load, at a little
higher than 30 per cent of GDP, is
the envy of the G7. “It provides
us the opportunity to be resilient
in case of a challenge,” Mr. Mor-
neau said in a speech in New
York on March 9.
Federal debt ratios are indeed
at a similar level today as what
they were a decade ago, leaving
plenty of fiscal room for stimulus
spending when the business
cycle eventually does take a
negative turn.
But with so much debt built
up elsewhere in the economy, it’s
far less clear that fiscal interven-
tion would be as successful in
stimulating aggregate demand as
the last time around. That’s rea-
son enough for governments in
Canada to exercise restraint now,
to build up as much a buffer as
possible for when the next big
one hits, Mr. Beatty said.
“That’s the advantage of get-
ting your house in order in good
times.”

Aphria: Personal investments weren’t previously disclosed in regulatory filings

FROM B1
The 900,000 shares in Nuuvera
are owned by Mr. Neufeld, Mr.
Merton, Aphria director and
vice-president of infrastructure
and technology John Cervini,
director and vice-president of
growing operations Cole Caccia-
villani, and three other directors,
an Aphria spokesperson con-
firmed on Friday. Their holdings
represented 0.9 per cent of
Nuuvera stock on a fully diluted
basis.
Aphria is one of Canada’s larg-
est legal pot producers, with a
market cap of $2.3-billion. Nuuv-
era, in contrast, is much smaller
and less developed.
An earlier partnership with
Aphria helped fuel the growth in
Nuuvera’s valuation and raise its
profile. Last August, in addition
to investing in Nuuvera, Aphria
said that it agreed to supply the
company with 17,000 kilograms
of marijuana a year. Aphria also
announced a deal to sell Nuuv-
era some of its land in Leaming-
ton, Ont., where it is based, as
well as agreed to help design,
build and run the facility Nuuv-
era planned to construct on that
land. In January, Aphria said it
would supply Nuuvera with an-
other 60,000 kg of cannabis
annually.
In addition, Nuuvera owns an-
other company that has applied
for a licence to grow cannabis in
Canada and is pushing into new
markets such as Germany. It also
owns another business that is
Medical marijuana plants licensed to handle and test con-
grow in Aphria’s trolled substances on behalf of
greenhouse in third parties.
Leamington, Ont., The personal investments of
in 2014. Aphria insiders in Nuuvera
GEOFF ROBINS/ weren’t previously disclosed in
THE GLOBE AND MAIL regulatory filings or on Canada’s
System for Electronic Disclosure
by Insiders (SEDI), which tracks
the trading activity of company
insiders. Whether Aphria should
have informed its investors
depends on how material the in-
formation is – and companies
have a lot of latitude in deter-
mining materiality.
“There is no requirement to
disclose this information,”
Andrew Schwartz, a spokesper-
son for Aphria, said on Friday.
“The investments are immaterial
to Nuuvera and to the individu-
als who made the investments.”
This news comes days after a
U.S. short-seller raised questions
about the deal in a research
report, writing that Nuuvera’s
business doesn’t really amount
to much and that Aphria paid a
hefty amount for it.
Mr. Schwartz said that the
Aphria insiders have held their
Nuuvera stock in escrow, adding
that they were restricted from
selling their shares in the mar-
ket. As part of the acquisition,
that Nuuvera stock will be con-
verted into Aphria shares, which
will boost the insiders’ holdings
in the marijuana grower. The
new Aphria shares will be dis-
closed and subject to blackout
trading restrictions. “The board
was aware of the shareholding of
certain directors and manage-
ment members,” Mr. Schwartz
said. Aphria has seven board
members, according to its web-
site – and six directors personally
owned shares in Nuuvera.
Mr. Schwartz added that in
considering the Nuuvera deal,
the board appointed a special
committee of independent direc-
tors, and management pitched
the rationale for the purchase to
them.
The special committee
received a fairness opinion from
Cormark Securities Inc. and
financial advice from Stoic Ad-
visory Inc. Legal advice came
from Stikeman Elliott LLP.
The special committee unani-
mously approved a recommen-
dation to proceed with the trans-
action to the board for a final
vote, according to Mr. Schwartz.
“The board received the spe-
cial committee’s unanimous rec-
ommendation and approved the
deal while aware of the immate-
rial investments, which did not
warrant any recusal,” Mr.
Schwartz added.
Even though the four Aphria
executives have much larger
stakes in Aphria than they did
Nuuvera, their undisclosed per-
sonal stakes in Nuuvera raise
questions around the potential
for conflicts of interest.
Conflicts arise when a director
or officer has a material interest
in another company entering
into a material transaction with
their company, per the Ontario
Business Corporation Act. It says
that these conflicted company
insiders should neither attend
any part of a board meeting
when the transaction is being
discussed nor should they vote
on the deal.
An e-mail on Sunday to Mr.
Neufeld, Mr. Cervini, Mr. Caccia-
villani and Mr. Merton request-
ing comment wasn’t immediate-
ly returned.
During a coincidental encoun-
ter on Friday morning in the lob-
by of the Shangri-la Hotel in
Toronto, Mr. Neufeld told The
Globe and Mail that he didn’t
think it was necessary to inform
investors that he and other
Aphria insiders personally own
Nuuvera stock. “Totally immate-
rial,” he said. “It’s not a story. It’s
nothing.”
B8 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
What kind of AI future do we want?
As technology
races on, humans must
manage and instill it
with basic ethical
goodness, MIT physicist
Max Tegmark says
GUY DIXON
he proponents of artificial
T intelligence make it clear
that as the technology
speeds ahead, a much larger dia-
logue outside of the immediate
community of technologists,
engineers and tech theorists must
take place, so that all of society
can reap its apparent benefits.
But, how?
How can we assure that wide
swaths of society will be heard?
Who is to determine the path that
artificial intelligence, or AI, and
machine learning ultimately will
take? When proponents ask such
major questions publicly, they in-
evitably agree that the course of
AI shouldn’t be set simply by
those who directly profit from it
(or the machines themselves!),
but that the course of AI should be
set by all of society.
But, again, how? The need for
an answer is now very much upon
us, AI proponents say.
“What will the role of humans
be, if machines can do everything
better and cheaper than us?”
asked Max Tegmark, a professor
of physics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and the
author of Life 3.0: Being Human in
the Age of Artificial Intelligence. He
was speaking at the Beyond
Impact summit on artificial intel-
ligence Friday at The Globe and
Mail in Toronto, presented in con-
junction with the University of
Waterloo.
The assumption in such ques-
tions is that artificial intelligence
is trying to progress to AGI, or arti-
ficial general intelligence, in
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complacent is a cop out, he
argued. “I think we should be
more ambitious. I think we
should ask ourselves, ‘What kind
of inspiring high-tech future
would we like to have?’ And then
steer toward that.”
He suggested that we are in a
race of both the growing power of
technology and the wisdom with
which we manage it. But in an age
of powerful and potentially dev-
astating technology, such as
nuclear weapons and AI, the stra-
tegy must not be to implement
new technology and then learn
from our mistakes, he argued.
“Learning from our mistakes is
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ethics, that we all agree about,
and start figuring out how we can
put that in our machines.” In oth-
er words, we need to input a kind
of basic ethical goodness into
software and machines, allowing
them to build upon those ethics
as they learn.
Pearl Sullivan, dean of engi-
neering at the University of Wa-
terloo, also noted that digital and
machine intelligence is galloping
faster than the human response
to AI. She cited a report by MIT
and Boston Consulting Group
which found that among 3,000 ex-
ecutives, 85 per cent believed that
AI would provide a competitive
advantage, but only 20 per cent
had extensively implemented AI
into their business. Less than 39
per cent had any AI strategy at all.
“Questions are more impor-
tant than answers,” she said. “Suc-
cessful implementation of AI will
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knowledge and the information
fed to them into proper context.
“In my view, Canada’s long-term
AI leadership will depend on how
we create a deep and diverse pool
of translator talent.”
Steve Irvine, a former execu-
tive at Facebook and now chief ex-
ecutive of Toronto-based Integra-
te.ai, said that because software
runs the world’s data, and
because AI is fundamentally soft-
ware, the idea now is to evolve the
software’s function from doing a
task to dealing with probabilities,
or making predictions from am-
biguous situations. The technolo-
gy can then help people make
judgment calls based on a better
understanding of the probability
of certain outcomes, Mr. Irvine
said.
Yet, again, it all comes back to
the human questions. “There is
an equal amount of more human-
ities-based, philosophical ques-
tions that need to be answered.”
He noted, for instance, that the
debate over “fake news” arguably
isn’t so much a problem of algo-
rithms, although they might exa-
cerbate the problem, but a debate
of human judgment over what is
true and fair. It’s therefore man-
datory for people to participate in
the conversation on how technol-
ogy is being used.
“It’s not a technological voice
that we need. It’s a voice of com-
mon sense, rationality, more
human perspective,” he argued.
The technology can have unin-
tended biases, such as facial rec-
ognition software that works best
on white men, because the data
used to develop the technology
mainly consisted of white men.
“And so my concern is that these
biases and issues are going to
creep into some of these sys-
tems,” added Kate Larson, profes-
sor at University of Waterloo’s
Cheriton School of Computer Sci-
ence.
And so, the input and inclusion
of wider society is essential. “We
need people who can think hard
and carefully about what should
our preferences be,” she said. It
should not be up to the technolo-
gists solely to decide.
*
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GLOBE INVESTOR
Oil stocks shunned despite positive signs for industry
DAN HEALING CALGARY Energy Inc. for $940-million and, and gas. Analysts are left shrug-
based on the predicted increase ging their shoulders.
in revenue, would raise its divi- “It feels like a complete sense
rospects are looking bright- dend by 5 per cent. of apathy among investors – espe-

P er in the Canadian oil patch

as commodity price in-
creases drive higher profits and
afford companies room to offer
dividend hikes and share buy-
backs – but slumping stock prices
show that the oil and gas sector
remains in the penalty box with
investors.
It’s getting so bad that not even
Canadian institutional investors
can be persuaded to buy Cana-
dian energy company shares, says
Grant Fagerheim, chief executive
of Calgary-based Whitecap
Resources Inc.
“We want to get Canada back,
to be proud Canadians, to be
proud producers of our own
products and not be penalized for
it,” Mr. Fagerheim said in an inter-
view after returning from disap-
pointing meetings with investors
in New York last week.
“The question we are continu-
ally asked, whenever I’m on the
road, is, ‘Why would we invest in
Canada right now, when there
isn’t a consistent policy on energy
or the economy?’ … Even the Ca-
nadian institutional investors are
skeptical about investing in Cana-
da.”
Investors have been turned off
by the lack of export pipeline
space for oil and gas, Canada’s
failure to match U.S. reductions in
corporate taxes, higher personal
taxes north of the border and nu-
merous unresolved reviews and
changes to provincial and federal
regulatory systems that create
uncertainty, he said.
The pipeline-capacity issue has
grown worse since the Energy
East pipeline to Eastern Canada
The pipeline-capacity was cancelled last year after the
National Energy Board said it
issue has grown would use a tougher review pro-
worse since the cess that would include looking at
Energy East pipeline indirect emissions related to the
to Eastern Canada pipeline, from production to end-
use of the oil.
was cancelled last Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
year. approved Kinder Morgan’s Trans
Mountain pipeline expansion to
the West Coast in 2016, but reject-
ed Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gate-
way pipeline to Kitimat, B.C. Since
then, the NDP government in B.C.
and protesters have been trying
to disrupt Trans Mountain con-
struction.
Whitecap’s story is typical of a
sector that just can’t seem to do
anything right these days.
In November, it announced it
would buy a stake in the Wey-
burn, Sask., CO2 enhanced recov-
ery light oil project from Cenovus
Its shares, which closed at $9.11
that day, fell as low as $7.48 in ear-
ly March and closed at $7.99 on
Friday – although the majority of
financial analysts currently rate it
as a “strong buy.”
So far this year, the S&P/TSX
Capped Energy Index has fallen
by almost 10 per cent, despite div-
idend increases and share buy-
backs by several of its 38 constitu-
ents, who represent the cream of
the Canadian energy sector.
The reward for dividend in-
creases has been hit and miss.
Shares in heavy oil giant Husky
Energy Inc. and liquids-rich gas
producer Tourmaline Oil Corp.
have risen since they announced
higher payouts to shareholders in
early March.
But shares in oil sands and re-
fining company Suncor Energy
Inc. have been little changed
since it raised its dividend by 12.5
per cent on Feb. 7.
The companies announcing
share buybacks, which return
cash to shareholders both directly
by providing a buyer for their
shares and indirectly by giving
each remaining share a bigger eq-
uity stake in the company, have
included Suncor, Canadian Natu-
ral Resources Ltd., Encana Corp.,
Birchcliff Energy Ltd. and Para-
mount Resources Ltd., among
others.
They say their shares are so in-
expensive it’s cheaper to buy back
their stock to improve perform-
ance a share than it is to grow the
business by investing in finding
and developing new sources of oil
cially in Canada – and I have no
doubt that a large portion of that
is due to the pipeline issues,”
AltaCorp Capital analyst Nick
Lupick said.
“So some are taking the stance
of, ‘Forget it, why bother? I’ll go
elsewhere until they figure it
out.’ ” He said the cheap stock
prices will likely result in more
mergers and acquisitions in the
next 12 to 18 months.
A report by analysts at CIBC
concluded that “Canadian energy
looks cheap, both from a histori-
cal and relative perspective,” add-
ing that Canadian producers are
trading at cash flow multiples far
below U.S. rivals despite having
generally better debt positions.
“I think it is a report card on
Canada,” said Tim McMillan, CEO
of the Canadian Association of
Petroleum Producers, which has
launched a campaign calling for
lower taxes and fewer regulatory
hurdles to restore competitive-
ness with the United States and
other global producers.
“I certainly hear back anecdo-
tally from a very wide range of
companies that are out trying to
raise capital and the Canadian
brand today is one where inves-
tors don’t see certainty, where
they see layered-on costs, where
they don’t see a clear path to mar-
ket access and they’re voting with
their dollars.
“That’s why we see Canadian
investments continually being
downgraded.”
THE CANADIAN PRESS

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onstrating yet again his ignorance mining companies. The compos-

of both history and economics.
The last time we embarked on this
disastrous path was in 1930, and
we all know how that ended up.
Most people hoped that cooler
heads would prevail in the White
House, but now it seems there are
no cooler heads left. Protectionist
advocates are in control and the
end result will not be pretty. The
stock market recognized the dan-
ger of the President’s actions, with
the Dow plunging more than 1,100
points on Thursday and Friday.
There’s likely more downside to
come.
Given this background, I sug-
gest it’s a good idea to hold some
cash and have at least a little
exposure to gold in your portfolio.
There are already signs that the
safe haven of gold is becoming
more appealing to investors as
economic and geopolitical risks
rise; last week, the precious metal
advanced 3.3 per cent – its best
week since April, 2016.
If you want to buy an individual
stock, my personal favourite is
Franco-Nevada (TSX, NYSE:
FNV), which is closed Friday at
$89.37 (disclosure: I own shares in
this company). That’s well down
from its 52-week high of $110.18,
which was reached last Novem-
ber. The shares appear to be good
value at the current level.
These days, however, many
people prefer the diversification
of ETFs rather than individual
stocks. Some ETFs invest in the
gold miners while others are pure
plays on the metal itself. The dif-
ference in returns can be dramat-
ic.
Here are some examples.
ISHARES S&P/TSX GLOBAL GOLD
INDEX ETF (TSX: XGD)
This ETF invests in gold miners
and related companies. It owns
shares in 42 companies, most of
which are in Canada and the Unit-
ed States. Top holdings include
Newmont Mining, Barrick Gold,
Franco-Nevada, Goldcorp, and
Agnico Eagle. Those five stocks
account for about 52 per cent of
the total portfolio. The fund has
net assets of $737-million, which
means a lot of Canadians have put
their confidence in it. They have
not been well-rewarded. The fund
lost 13.4 per cent in the year to Feb.
28 and shows an average annual-
ition is somewhat different from
XGD, with 34 holdings that are
more or less equally weighted.
However, the bottom-line result is
similar. The ETF lost 15.9 per cent
in the year to Feb. 28. Since incep-
tion in November, 2012, the fund
has produced an average annual-
ized loss of 9.4 per cent a year.
ISHARES GOLD BULLION ETF
(TSX: CGL)
This fund tracks the price of gold
itself, hedged to the Canadian dol-
lar. So, what you’re buying is a
stake in gold bullion, not a collec-
tion of miners. The unit price will
rise or fall depending on the
movement in the value of the
commodity itself. This fund is less
than half the size of XGD, but it
has been a much better perform-
er. It gained 3.7 per cent in the year
to Feb. 28, which was more than 17
percentage points better than its
stablemate. There is also an
unhedged version of this ETF that
trades under the symbol CGL.C.
SPDR GOLD TRUST ETF
S(NYSE: GLD)
This is the largest gold ETF in the
world with assets of $36-billion.
It’s a pure play on the price of
gold, with the initial price set at
the value of 1/10 of an ounce of the
metal. The current net-asset value
is one share equals about .095
ounces. The fund owns 850
tonnes of gold. This fund has
generated better returns than
CGL. The one-year gain to Feb. 28
ETRACS CMCI GOLD TOTAL RETURN MONDAY
ETN (NYSE: UBG)
Canacol Energy Ltd.;
Rather than tracking the spot Paychex Inc.; Storno-
price of gold, this ETN focuses on way Diamond Corp.
gold futures. (An exchange-trad-
ed note, or ETN, trades on a stock
exchange like an ETF but is a debt TUESDAY
note issued by a bank. The payout
fluctuates based on the price of Badger Daylighting Ltd.;
the underlying security, in this IHS Markit Ltd.; Lulule-
case, gold.) mon Athletica Inc.; Pre-
This security tracks the per- mier Gold Mines Ltd.
formance of a basket of gold
futures contracts, ranging from
three months to three years. So, WEDNESDAY
while you are still investing in
gold, in this case, you have some AGF Management Ltd.;
time diversification built into BlackBerry Ltd.; Hud-
your portfolio. This was the top son’s Bay Co.; Mosaic
performer in this group of gold Capital Corp.; Partners
funds over the past year, with a Real Estate Investment
gain of 5.4 per cent. Unfortunately, Trust; Roxgold Inc.;
it’s very small. Walgreens Boots Alli-
Assets are less than $4-million ance Inc.
and the average trading volume is
only 164 units a day. Some days,
there are no trades at all, which THURSDAY
makes this fund impractical for all
but small, patient investors. All CannaRoyalty Corp.;
things considered, my advice is to Constellation Brands
avoid funds based on mining Inc.; Diversified Royalty
companies and invest directly in Corp.; Dollarama Inc.;
the commodity itself. The best MAG Silver Corp.; Stor-
choice is GLD on the New York age Vault Canada Inc.
Stock Exchange. The units closed
on Friday at US$127.61. Ask your
financial advisor if it is suitable for
your account.
Gordon Pape is editor and publisher
of the Internet Wealth Builder and
Income Investor newsletters. For
more information and details on
how to subscribe, go to
buildingwealth.ca

MEETING DATES
DATA SUPPLIED BY ISSUING COMPANIES THROUGH THE SERVICE OF CDS CLEARING AND DEPOSITORY SERVICES INC.
* = CHANGE IN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED INFORMATION % = CANCELLED MEETING; @ = ADJOURNED MEETING; A = ANNUAL; S = SPECIAL; G = GENERAL; X = EXTRA; E = EXTRAORDINARY
RECORD MEETING TYPE RECORD MEETING TYPE RECORD MEETING TYPE RECORD MEETING TYPE RECORD MEETING TYPE
DATE DATE DATE DATE DATE DATE DATE DATE DATE DATE
eShippers Management Ltd. Apr 12 May 17 AG CannTrust Holdings Inc Apr 12 May 22 A Goldsource Mines Inc. Apr 11 May 31 AG NewNorth Projects Ltd. Apr 12 May 17 AG Tabu Equity Investments Inc. %Mar 02 May 01 AGS
Alexandria Minerals Corp. May 28 Jul 24 S Canstar Resources Inc Apr 12 May 22 S Great Panther Silver Limited Apr 17 Jun 07 AG Northern Superior Resources In Apr 19 May 23 AG TerrAscend Corp Apr 10 May 16 A
Alexco Resource Corp Apr 20 Jun 07 AG Canvass Ventures Ltd. Apr 09 May 17 AS Information Services Corp Apr 10 May 16 A Northland Power Inc. Apr 16 May 23 AG Theratechnologies Inc. Apr 11 May 16 A
Alopex Gold Inc. Apr 19 May 24 AGS Cobra Venture Corporation Apr 12 May 17 AG Invesque Inc *Apr 06 May 16 AS NGEx Resources Inc. May 04 Jun 12 AG Timia Capital Corp. Apr 05 May 10 AG
Altura Energy Inc. Apr 12 May 17 AGS Cominar REIT Apr 11 May 16 A InPlay Oil Corp. Apr 10 May 15 AG Open Source Health Inc. Apr 09 May 14 AGS Titanium Transportation Group Apr 13 May 22 AS
Amex Exploration Inc. Apr 12 May 15 AS Condor Gold PLC *Mar 27 May 10 AGS IMAX Corporation Apr 11 Jun 05 AG Oracle Energy Corp. May 08 Jun 12 AGS TitanStar Properties Inc Apr 16 Jun 01 A
Arcland Resources Inc Apr 10 May 15 AG Corporate Catalyst Acquisition Apr 06 May 08 AGS Journey Energy Inc Apr 13 May 23 AGS Pine Cliff Energy Ltd. Apr 10 May 15 AS TomaGold Corporation %Mar 16 Apr 18 AS
Atlas Financial Holdings, Inc Apr 13 May 22 AG Crew Energy Inc Apr 09 May 24 AGS Kane Biotech Inc. Apr 12 May 17 AS Pinetree Capital Ltd Apr 10 May 28 A Total Energy Services Inc. Apr 09 May 17 AG
Aurania Resources Ltd. *Mar 19 May 10 AGS Critical Elements Corporation Apr 11 May 16 AG Karnalyte Resources Inc. May 01 Jun 07 AS Prize Mining Corporation Apr 09 May 11 AGS TJR Coatings Inc. Apr 16 May 21 AG
Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. May 04 Jun 21 AG CMX Gold & Silver Corp Apr 11 May 24 AG Keg Royalties Income Fund(Cdn) Apr 05 May 15 A Rathdowney Resources Ltd May 10 Jun 14 AG TMAC Resources Inc May 08 Jun 20 AG
ADF Group inc Apr 16 Jun 13 A CRH Medical Corporation Apr 27 Jun 12 AG Kelso Technologies Inc Apr 25 Jun 07 AG Razor Energy Corp. Apr 09 May 23 AG Uravan Minerals Inc. Apr 11 May 18 AGS
Ballard Power Systems Inc. Apr 09 Jun 05 A Desert Gold Ventures Inc. May 01 Jun 08 AG King George Financial Corpn Apr 20 May 25 AG Reliq Health Technologies Inc. Apr 10 May 15 AG Wall Financial Corporation Apr 13 Jun 12 AG
Bear Creek Mining Corporation Apr 19 Jun 06 AG Dorel Industries Inc. Apr 09 May 22 A KMT-Hansa Corp. Apr 17 May 22 A Riwi Corp. Apr 18 May 24 AG Western Copper & Gold Corp Apr 16 May 30 AG
Blackline Safety Corp. Apr 18 May 23 AGS Dundee Corporation Apr 10 Jun 04 AG Ladera Ventures Corp. Apr 10 May 15 AGS Rubicon Minerals Corporation May 01 Jun 12 AG WesternOne Inc. Apr 11 May 17 AS
Block X Capital Corp Apr 12 May 18 AS Easy Technologies Inc. *May 01 Jun 05 AGS Leo Resources Inc. Apr 17 May 22 AG RTG Mining Inc. Apr 16 May 23 AG Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. Apr 09 Jun 04 A
Bonterra Energy Corp. Apr 10 May 15 A EcoSynthetix Inc Apr 13 May 23 A Macro Enterprises Inc. Apr 16 May 25 AG Sierra Wireless Inc Apr 10 May 17 AG
BMO Monthly Dividend Fund Ltd. Apr 12 May 25 A Electrameccanica Vehicles Apr 10 May 17 AG Metron Capital Corp. Apr 11 May 16 AG Silver Pursuit Resources Ltd. Apr 13 May 23 AS
BRP Inc. Apr 11 May 31 AG Gensource Potash Corporation Apr 13 Jun 01 AGS Mosaic Capital Corporation *Apr 03 May 23 AGS SunOpta Inc Apr 03 May 31 AG
Canadian Apartment Prop REIT May 02 Jun 06 AGS GobiMin Inc. Apr 12 May 31 AG MDC Partners Inc. Apr 16 Jun 06 A SDX Energy Inc Apr 06 May 17 AGS
B10 | REPORT ON BUSINESS O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018

CAREERS
Workplace meetings:
The good, the bad
and the boring
VIRGINIA GALT

uman resources executive Mardi Walker had to

H laugh when she read a recent blog on the unspoken

CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
thoughts of people trapped in excruciating, unpro-
ductive work meetings. It resonated.
“If you are the one running the meeting, you should be
thinking about that,” said Ms. Walker, vice-president of
human resources at Senators Sports & Entertainment in Otta-
wa.
“You don’t want to be that person” known for wasting
everyone’s time.
At various points in her career, Ms. Walker said, she “expe-
rienced every one of the thought bubbles” articulated in a
February, 2018, blog posted by New York-based organizational
psychologist Steven Madenberg, a partner with management
consulting firm RHR International.
Among those thought bubbles: “Make the call and let’s get
on to other things, boss; I had no idea we were going to talk
about this; An actual agenda would be nice; We are only tell-
ing you what you want to hear; Please tell me why those two
are even in this meeting; I guess we are moving on to the next
topic, but no one knows where we landed on the last one; No,
no one read the supporting documents because we just got
them this morning; If you really do want our input, you’re
going to have to stop talking; Go ahead, keep adding priori-
ties, we can do it all (internal eye roll).”

Rahim Fazal: “The skill set associated with leading productive senior
team meetings is not something people are born with and,
judging by the many flavours of ineffective that I’ve observed,

‘I take pride in having a

not a requirement for promotion,” Dr. Madenberg wrote.
Some organizations, hyperaware of the criticism that
meetings are a waste of time, go to the other extreme of hold-
ing no meetings at all, so nobody knows what’s going on, Ms.

small, high-powered team’ Walker said.

SVAcademy co-founder
and startup initiator
launched his first
company on a lark and
sold it while still in high
school for $1.5-million
CYNTHIA MARTIN
Rahim Fazal, 36, an initiator of
startups and co-founder of SVA-
cademy in San Francisco, clarifies
how getting fired from his first
job at McDonald’s changed his
life.
I think of Canada as a mosaic
and the U.S. as a melting pot. I
don’t know if that was still rele-
vant when I moved to the U.S. in
2006, but that was in my mind. I
tried to fit in more than stand out.
My name is ‘F-A-Zed-A-L.’ People
have no idea what you’re talking
about so immediately you stand
out; it’s pronounced ‘ZEE.’
I was born in Vancouver, have
wonderful parents. They came to
Canada through the expulsion of
the Asians in East Africa. That’s a
big part of my identity, Canadian
and Ismaili. You see the immi-
grant work ethic everywhere in
the world. I see it here daily. My
parents organized their lives
around my sister and I; how they
spent their time, I don’t know if I
would make those trade-offs.
At 16, I was fired from my part-
time job. If you want a job, but
were fired from McDonald’s,
who’ll hire you? I decided I’d nev-
er work in fast food again.
My best friend Husein Kaba and I
had the same curiosity which led
to complementary roles in the
business we started in 2000.
When we were young, our par-
ents would drop us to school ear-
ly because they had to get to
work. There were Commodore
64s, so because we were bored, we
developed a love for computers,
how they work, programming,
creating something.
We started the company on a
lark, almost led double lives.
Because we didn’t know any bet-
ter, nothing deterred us; like play-
ing hockey, if I won a game or
didn’t, it wasn’t end of the world.
We were watching the news –
people not more than five years
older than us had companies,
IPOs. Successful people didn’t
look, sound, have names or back-
grounds like us. We were just
going through capers building
our business – MailBC, a website
hosting and design platform – a
secret to our parents. It was such a
shock to them. We had 25,000
customers, selling the business
while we were in high school [for
$1.5-million].
When creating companies, you
had to appear bigger. Now, it’s
almost the opposite – I take pride
in having a small, high-powered
team versus growing up, when I
was trying to appear 10 times big-
ger.
During the business, Husein and
I shared experiences, learning
skills like how to work with
adults, selling, branding, under-
standing finances, how to inter-
act with customers, conflict reso-
lution, on and on. Skills devel-
oped supplemental to education
are in high demand, but the mar-
ket doesn’t have an easy way of
teaching these to young people.
SVAcademy provides that same
employer-driven training, help-
ing young people transition into
entry-level full-time opportuni-
ties that otherwise would require
years of work experience, and not
just where they can start with a
high salary but get high-quality
skills, closing that gap between
school and work.
My perception of Silicon Valley
is rooted in reality, one reason
we started SVAcademy; its mind-
set, lifestyle, opportunity and
entrepreneurial ideals rather
than geography.
Half our team is Canadian. I con-
nected with a Canadian from
Montreal, who had been in the
U.S. maybe 25 years. Joel Scott and
I got to know each other on differ-
ent sides of the table and realized
we had so much commonality
and wonderful energy, rooted in
shared values and experiences.
There’s a lot of homogeneity
here, which is viewed as the gold
standard; Ivy League schools, a
particular background, knowing
particular people, particular in-
ternships or work experiences –
why there’s a movement now in
diversity, including gender, race,
culture and other differences. I
think Canada sees these differ-
ences as opportunities, strengths.
Being Canadian is part of the way
we’ll solve elitism in Silicon Val-
ley.
I’m a big believer in network in-
telligence and resourcefulness,
my advice is to see people as allies
in your life and career. With in-
creased automation, the real val-
ue in human-to-human connec-
tions will increase because co-op-
erating with others will be the
areas machines can’t help.
One of my favourite books is
Sapiens [A Brief History of
Humankind] by Yuval Noah
Harari – life-changing, phenome-
nal – about the history of our spe-
cies, world events that in those
moments might have been seen
as failures. Now I have this view,
failure or success is defined by the
period of time you’re reflecting
on.
This interview has been edited and
condensed.
Special to The Globe and Mail
She also once had a boss “who had read somewhere that
having a stand-up meeting would be better because it would
encourage people not to talk as much, or to be more concise.
“So he removed all the chairs from the meeting room and I
think we managed to do that twice before he said, ‘Enough of
this, I need to sit down.’ ”
There is “a whole rigour … behind running an effective
meeting,” Toronto-based consult-
ant Michael Goldman said, whose
firm, Facilitation First Inc., has
been advising organizations on The reason most
how to foster collaboration and
conduct productive meetings for meetings are terrible
almost three decades. is people feel totally
“The reason most meetings are underutilized.
terrible is people feel totally un-
derutilized. They are sitting there MICHAEL GOLDMAN
and not engaged,” Mr. Goldman TORONTO-BASED
CONSULTANT
said in an interview.
Unless the convener has a clear
idea of the purpose of the meeting, the desired outcome and a
disciplined process for managing the meeting – and advises
participants of those guidelines in advance – there is an in-
creased risk of being derailed by posturing, tangents, person-
al agendas or a few people monopolizing the conversation.
Corporations invite Mr. Goldman’s firm in to conduct
meetings – on how to conduct meetings. A well-run meeting
creates clarity and can motivate a group to action, he said,
while a poorly managed meeting can lead to frustration and
disengagement.
While organizations might understand that they are wast-
ing valuable time and resources, Mr. Goldman said, “they
don’t always understand engagement strategies – how do I
leverage the intelligence in the room? How do I ensure every-
one is involved and I don’t have one person just rambling
with 12 other people sitting around going: ‘Oh my God, get me
out of here?’ ”
At the Senators organization, Ms. Walker holds regular staff
meetings once a month and tries to conduct essential busi-
ness in half an hour or less. “You need to be a tough timekeep-
er” so that everyone in the room has an opportunity to partic-
ipate. While communication is crucial, more routine matters
can be conveyed in writing, Dr. Madenberg wrote.
“When you bring expensive people together, it should be to
generate additional value. … That value can be on the tangi-
ble end of the spectrum, such as the value associated with
making better decisions, or on the intangible end of the spec-
trum, such as the value associated with improving team
chemistry and connectivity.”
The onus should be on the meeting leader to ensure that
the benefits of the meeting are worth the cost, he said.
“Huddles are okay, because you actually make decisions in
huddles,” Mr. Goldman added. “But if you have a status-
update meeting, I would say eliminate it. Just create a tem-
plate where everyone updates their status and we can access it
on the internet.
“I don’t want to be sitting in a meeting for an hour and a half
listening to all these other departments and all these other
people who have nothing to do with me give their status
updates. It’s a waste of time.”
Special to The Globe and Mail

In the #MeToo era, ethics training gains new sense of urgency

ERIK HEINRICH MacDonald, associate professor ness schools for decades, but in allegations of harassment by vant. “A compelling example is
and director of the Ted Rogers the past year that conversation entertainment bosses such as our focus on leader character as a
Leadership Centre at Ryerson has taken on a new urgency and Hollywood’s Harvey Weinstein, result of the global financial crisis
22-year-old woman in her University in Toronto, and intensity, fired up by social the list is long. of 2008,” says Gerard Seijts, exec-

A first real job is dealing with

a drunk boss’s overt
advances at a corporate retreat.
What sort of leadership challenge
does this present for her direct su-
pervisor, a 28-year-old man who
is stuck in between?
A female programmer likes to
wear earbuds while working. A
senior executive interprets this
behaviour as a possible sign of
isolation and lack of fit with co-
workers. At the same time, he’s
worried that his organization
may have a “bro culture” that will
drive away talented women, so he
avoids discussing his concerns
with the new programmer. Is this
the right decision?
Both of the above are case
studies being developed by Chris
Leanne Nicolle, former executive
director of the Canadian Olympic
Foundation. Her allegations of
sexual harassment two years ago
led to the resignation of Canadian
Olympic Committee president
Marcel Aubut.
“The point of these case stud-
ies is to open eyes and to stimu-
late discussion,” says Dr. MacDon-
ald, a former philosophy profes-
sor who is also chair of the depart-
ment of law and business at the
Ted Rogers School of Manage-
ment.
“I think business schools need
to be talking about how you fos-
ter a culture of respect in the
workplace.”
Questions of ethics and moral-
ity have been discussed at busi-
media.
Some business schools, such as
Ryerson, are using this as an op-
portunity to reshape their curric-
ulums. This can mean taking case
studies straight from the head-
lines and dropping them into the
classroom, including #MeToo
and the bro culture that continu-
es to dominate some industries,
such as Silicon Valley’s tech sec-
tor.
Will the result of these curricu-
lum changes be more ethical
leaders and a meaningful reduc-
tion in the number of scandals
that dominate the news? Wheth-
er it’s revelations about the sub-
prime mortgage crisis that nearly
bankrupted Wall Street, the liste-
riosis crisis at Maple Leaf Foods or
“I’m optimistic that there will
be meaningful change in the
workplace, though I’m afraid it
will be spotty and will take dec-
ades,” Ryerson’s Dr. MacDonald
says.
“A lot will happen with the co-
curricular stuff business schools
do, including guest speakers and
workshops.”
Students are also taking an
active role, with clubs organizing
seminars on topics ranging from
gender equality to working better
with First Nations communities,
Dr. MacDonald adds.
At Ivey Business School at the
University of Western Ontario in
London, Ont., professors and stu-
dents react in real time to issues
that are current and socially rele-
utive director of Ivey’s Ian O.
Ihnatowycz Institute for Leader-
ship.
“Character was least talked
about and understood, both in
organizations and business
schools.”
Will an emphasis on character
and ethics come at the expense of
core business skills traditionally
taught at business schools, like
finance and marketing? And
more broadly at the expense of
the bottom line and shareholder
return?
“I believe character-related
issues should be embedded or
discussed in all courses,” Dr. Seijts
says.
Special to The Globe and Mail
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL O REPORT ON BUSINESS | B11

Five tips for transforming the insurance industry

MARK DUFFEY

OPINION

LEADERSHIP LAB

Co-founder and president of Everest

Funeral Package LLC, previously
co-founder and president of Carriage
Services and director and officer
with Sovereign Holdings Inc.
and RTO Enterprises Inc.

he insurance industry is

T caught in a paradox. While

effort is being made to inno-
vate, stark realities are getting in
the way of advancing the industry
in the best interests of the con-
sumer. Antiquated legacy sys-
tems that don’t have the ability to
produce high-quality data
insights and actuarial-led deci-
sion-making processes are im-
peding companies’ ability to
evolve into the digital age and lev-
erage that data to better meet
and, ultimately exceed, consum-
ers’ expectations.
Even with increasing invest-
ments in internal capabilities, a
recent PricewaterhouseCoopers
study of insurance company chief
executives noted that the areas
they would still most like to
strengthen are digital and techno-
logical capabilities, followed by
customer experience.
While both require changing
the current way the insurance
industry works, which is the big-
gest challenge, you cannot
achieve one without the other.
As business leaders and man-
agers within the industry, there
are some key areas that we must
focus on to ensure we are continu-
ally innovating and evolving how
we deliver solutions for our cli-
ents.
The millennial generation
should be a key target audience
for us. It is currently the largest
living generation. We constantly
hear how they were raised with
technology at their fingertips and
that they are looking for more
from the brands and organiza-
tions they choose to interact with.
So what can next-generation in-
surance industry leaders and
managers do to evolve to meet
the growing expectations of
today’s consumer?
1. BUILD FOR THE CONSUMER,
NOT THE INDUSTRY
“We’ve always done it that way,” is
all too often the answer to ques-
tions impeding change relating to
archaic legacy systems, paper-
driven processes and lack of digi-
tal advancement, particularly in
the insurance field. Savvy busi-
ness leaders recognize that
today’s consumer has different
needs, wants and goals than the
consumer of 10, five or even one
year ago. Technology has changed
the way they interact with busi-
nesses and for the insurance
industry to truly win tomorrow’s
consumer, it must build products
and capabilities that focus on the
consumer.
People today aren’t looking
for companies to plan their
lives; they want tools that
help simplify their lives in
a world of complexity.
That means leveraging big
data, analytics and AI to inform
companies on consumer behav-
iours, not just actuarial analysis
and help to deliver better prod-
ucts based on their wants, needs
and habits.
2. DELIVER SERVICES,
NOT PRODUCTS
The single, most-important factor
is that millennials don’t want a
product, they want a service.
Wealthsimple is a great exam-
ple of a company that took a con-
sumer-centric approach to the
millennial market. The company
recognized that millennials want
easy, technology-based solutions
that take the time and complexity
out of the investment equation.
Wealthsimple delivered a service
and millennials bought into it.
At Everest, when we rolled a
funeral planning and concierge
service into a life-insurance plan,
we had the consumer at the
centre of our thinking. We knew
that if we could offer them a serv-
ice, they would be more likely to
buy our product.
3. GIVE THEM THE TOOLS
People today aren’t looking for
companies to plan their lives;
they want tools that help simplify
their lives in a world of complex-
ity. For example, they want the
freedom to plan their own trips
and curate their own experi-
ences; virtual solutions like
Airbnb help them do that.
Consumers want to be able to
access the insurance industry
with the same ease and simplicity
as everything else in our lives
today – hailing a ride with Uber or
using Waze to help navigate traf-
fic.
As we look at how we serve our
clients, we need to ask ourselves a
question: “How is what I am offer-
ing my clients making their lives
better?”
4. KEEP IT SIMPLE
There is a misconception in our
industry that if something is sim-
ple, it must be cheap, and if some-
thing is complicated, it must be
sophisticated and better.
The reality is just the opposite.
People want simplicity, especially
millennials.
And this is what we in the
industry need to be constantly
weighing ourselves against.
If it’s simple to use and makes
their lives easier, they will adopt
it.
For the insurance industry, it
comes down to one critical en-
abler: technology. If you want to
provide insurance as a service,
not a product, you need the right
technology in place and be willing
to adopt new practices to deliver
on it.
5. BUILD PARTNERSHIPS
The 2017 World Industry Report
conducted by Capgemini and
Efma found that 75 per cent of
senior insurance executives be-
lieve developing insurtech (insur-
ance technology) would help
ISTOCK
them meet their demands.
Yet, P&C Insurance Transfor-
mation found that many carriers
who are looking to modernize
their core systems are discovering
that their on-premise hosting
environment is insufficient to
support new technology being
brought in, as well as customers’
and agents’ real-time “always-on”
expectations.
To transform customer offer-
ings, the key for insurance indus-
try leaders is to partner with tech-
nology companies. Technological
innovation will enable our indus-
try to be more responsive to con-
sumer demands and to more
quickly deliver creative solutions
to meet their needs. For example,
MasterCard recently teamed up
with Toronto-based tech com-
pany Dream Payments to speed
up the process for insurance
claims.
As next-gen business leaders
and managers, we need to con-
front these historical imped-
iments to change and work pro-
actively to make lives better for
our customers. When companies
put consumer-centricity at their
core, there is no limit to what they
can do.
Executives, educators and human
resources experts contribute to the
ongoing Leadership Lab series. Find
more stories at tgam.ca/careers.

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Discordant Raptors slip Leafs putting in work
against Clippers 117-106, as playoffs approach,
Rachel Brady writes David Shoalts writes
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[ PHOTO OF THE DAY ]

Karolina Urban and her Markham Thunder teammates celebrate winning the Clarkson Cup in Toronto on Sunday. CHRIS DONOVAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Thunder roars to Clarkson Cup

Ontario-based team beats Chinese expansion Kunlun Red Star 2-1
on overtime goal from former Olympian Stacey

RACHEL BRADY TORONTO

Canadian Olympian Laura Stacey scored the over-
time winner as the Markham Thunder beat the
Kunlun Red Star 2-1, claiming the Clarkson Cup as
champions of the Canadian Women’s Hockey
League on Sunday.
Hoisting the Clarkson Cup, often called the Stan-
ley Cup of women’s hockey, eased a little of the pain
for Stacey and Markham teammates Laura Fortino
and Jocelyne Larocque, also members of the Cana-
dian women’s team that lost the Olympic gold-med-
al game to the United States in Pyeongchang.
Stacey, like many Olympians who missed most of
the CWHL season to train for and play in the Olym-
pics, struggled to decide whether she wanted to
return to the league this year after coming home
from South Korea. Saying “yes” landed her in front
of the net at Toronto’s Ricoh Coliseum on Sunday
afternoon, one-timing a pass from Nicole Kosta into
the top corner of the KRS net with 2:11 left in four-
on-four overtime. Jubilant Markham players spilled
onto the ice to celebrate with her.
“At first, I was kind of done, really upset about the
Olympics and exhausted. But I went to watch Mark-
ham play and was surrounded by all the girls, and it
was really hard to say no to such an amazing group
of girls,” Stacey said. “I knew we had a chance to
chase that Clarkson Cup and to be able to put a
smile on my face with this group.”
Markham won its last seven games of the regular
season and then swept Les Canadiennes de Montre-
al – reigning Clarkson Cup champions – in last
week’s best-of-three semi-final playoff series. It was
the team’s first season in Markham after relocating
from Brampton.
Sunday, the Thunder topped KRS, one of two
expansion teams the CWHL added in China this sea-
son. Based in Shenzhen, China, KRS joined the
CWHL in an effort to boost that country’s women’s
hockey programs before Beijing holds the 2022 Win-
ter Olympics.
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Raptors lose focus in loss to Clippers

Boston a step closer to
top spot in the east after
Los Angeles erases
Toronto’s halftime lead

RACHEL BRADY TORONTO

A concerning trend continued

Sunday night as the Toronto Rap-
tors looked out of sync in a 117-106
loss to the LA Clippers. And that
allowed the Boston Celtics to inch
a little closer to the top of the
NBA’s Eastern Conference.
Jonas Valanciunas topped
Toronto’s stats sheet with 16
points and 10 rebounds, while
Pascal Siakam had 15 points.
Kyle Lowry, playing on his 32nd
birthday Sunday, had a mediocre
11 points on 4-of-9 shooting, while
fellow all-star DeMar DeRozan
had just 11 on a dim 3-of-12.
Former Raptor Lou Williams
was the biggest weapon for the
Clippers, leading the way with 26
points, while Tobias Harris put up
20 on the Raptors. DeAndre Jor-
dan made his trouble on the
boards, nabbing 14 rebounds.
The loss makes the cushion a
little less comfy atop the East for
the first-place Raptors (54-20), as
the Celtics now sit just 31⁄2 games
back.
“We’ve got to make sure to do Toronto Raptors centre Jonas Valanciunas, left, leans into Los Angeles Clippers centre DeAndre Jordan during the first half of their game in Toronto
the little things, and they’ve on Sunday. Valanciunas led scoring for the Raptors with 16 points and 10 rebounds. FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
slipped,” Toronto coach Dwane
Casey said. “Our defence, our “This year stands out because didn’t look like the sharp-shoot- serves who temporarily broke the It was a rare night when the
offensive execution, passing, and [Casey] had to sell [the players] ing, smooth ball-moving team chill. Siakam and C.J. Miles pro- Raps bench was outscored by an
all of that affects our rhythm.” on changes and that’s not easy to Rivers had described. vided some flashy buckets that opposing reserve unit – 53-49 this
The Raptors were trying to do. Listen, I’ve been places and it The Raps jumped to a 35-28 knotted the game and injected time.
bounce back from an unfocused works for a while and then when lead after the first quarter, as some much-needed life into Air “We’re playing for something,
showing on Friday night, during you start struggling you tend to go Valanciunas banged in 12 points Canada Centre. The fourth quar- we’re playing for home-court
which they had to rely on a fourth- back to what you’re used to, but while Clippers star big man Jor- ter began 80-80. advantage. Everybody is fighting
quarter comeback to beat the they’ve maintained it,” Rivers dan was kept off the scoresheet. But the Raps collapsed early in for those spots and it’s on us. Our
Brooklyn Nets, the 13th-place said. By halftime, Toronto had held the last quarter, letting the Clips destiny is in our own hands,”
team in the Eastern Conference. “We played them in [pre- Los Angeles to 40-per-cent shoot- go on a 16-2 run – one sparked by a Casey said. “In a crazy way it’s
The Clippers came to Toronto season] and they were playing ing and was winning the battle of scoring spree from that ex-Raptor good for us, that we’re not cake-
sitting just a few games back of that style. I remember after the the benches, so it remained in Williams and the total dominance walking through these last eight,
the final playoff spot in the West. first game I was like, ‘yeah, that’s command, 60-53. around the rim of 7-foot-3 Serbian nine games. But at the same time
Before the game, Clippers coach going to last’. I didn’t think they The Clippers took over imme- big man Boban Marjanovic. we’ve got to improve and get bet-
Doc Rivers provided an interest- would stay with it. I thought Case diately in the third quarter. Austin The Raps teased the crowd with ter.”
ing view on the Raptors soaring to would stay with it but it’s a sell to Rivers got loose for seven early a couple of exciting three-poin- Toronto wraps up this three-
the top of the East this season your players … they’ve bought points, spurring his team on a 19-9 ters from Serge Ibaka and Fred game home-stand on Tuesday
after changing their offence to into it, and it’s pretty impressive run as the Raptors’ shooters went VanVleet down the stretch, but against the Denver Nuggets. It’s
one heavy on ball movement and to watch.” cold. the Raps didn’t gain much trac- one of eight games left on their
three-point shooting. Somehow, though, the Raptors It was a couple of Toronto re- tion from it. regular-season schedule.

‘You’ve just got to believe’

is mantra of NCAA’s
bracket-busting Loyola
PAUL NEWBERRY ATLANTA
orter Moser stood in front
around backward, just to show
she’s hip to the kids – and gave a
gleeful thumbs-up.
She’s already looking forward

P of the scarf-clad Loyola

cheering section, a bit daz-
ed but beaming from ear to ear.
“Are you kidding me! Are you
kidding me!” the Ramblers
coach screamed over and over.
No kidding.
Loyola is headed to the Final
Four.
An improbable NCAA Tourna-
ment took its craziest turn yet on
Phil Booth, left, and Jalen Brunson of the Villanova Wildcats celebrate defeating the Texas Tech Red Saturday night, when Ben Rich-
Raiders 71-59 at TD Garden in Boston on Sunday. ELSA/GETTY IMAGES ardson scored a career-high 23
points and the 11th-seeded Ram-
blers romped to a 78-62 victory
over Kansas State to cap off a
After wild start to NCAA Tournament, stunning run through the brack-
et-busting South Regional.
Final Four looks awful familiar The Ramblers (32-5) matched
the lowest-seeded team ever to
reach the Final Four, joining LSU
EDDIE PELLS The Wildcats outrebounded the Red Raiders (1986), George Mason (2006)
51-33, including grabbing 31 defensive and VCU (2011). Those other
rebounds. They also had six steals. three all lost in the national
he Final Four will feature three teams Keenan Evans led Texas Tech with 12 points. semi-finals.
to a bigger game next weekend.
“I’m going to San Antonio,”
she said. “That’s going to be
great.”
Also joining the celebration
were several players from the
Ramblers’ 1963 national champi-
onship team, which played one
of the most socially significant
games in college basketball his-
tory on its way to the title. It was
known as the “Game of Change,”
matching the Ramblers and their
mostly black roster against an
all-white Mississippi State team
at the height of the civil rights
movement, setting up an even
more noteworthy contest three
years later when Texas Western,
with five African-American star-
ters, defeated Kentucky in the
national championship game.
Les Hunter, a member of that
1963 team, said these Ramblers
are capable of bringing home an-

T that need no introduction and one

from out of nowhere.
Although this year’s NCAA Tourna-
ment produced the biggest upset in the history
of the event along with a seemingly endless
Villanova led 36-23 at the half, holding the
Red Raiders to a season-low for first half points.
The Red Raiders (27-10) were playing in
their first Elite Eight and came out on fire,
notching and early 9-1 lead. They got as close as
Don’t bet against Loyola,
which emerged from a regional
that produced a staggering array
of upsets.
The South became the first
other title.
“I think they’re the best right
now,” Hunter said. “They work
so well together. They can play
with anybody – anybody – right
string of unexpected results, the season’s last 56-51 with less than five minutes to play, but regional in tournament history now.”
weekend will look a lot like it has over the past Villanova closed the game on a 15-8 run. to have the top four seeds – in- Even with a title on its résu-
handful of years. cluding overall No. 1 Virginia – mé, this Loyola performance
In one of Saturday’s semi-finals, it’s a barn- knocked out on the opening came out of nowhere.
burner of a matchup between top-seeded pro- KANSAS 85, DUKE 81 (OT) weekend. The Ramblers had not made
grams with rich histories: Villanova vs. Kansas. OMAHA, NEB. Malik Newman and top-seeded In the end, it was the Ram- the tournament since 1985 until
In the other, it’s an upstart vs. Kansas got past their Elite Eight blers cutting down the nets. they broke the drought by win-
another school that knows this road block on Sunday, knocking After three close calls, this one ning the Missouri Valley Confer-
road: No. 11 Loyola-Chicago vs. Wildcats will have a off second-seeded Duke 85-81 in was downright easy. ence.
No. 3 Michigan. overtime in a thrilling Midwest “We believed that we could do Then, as if benefiting from
Remarkable as Loyola’s run chance at their Region finale that clinched the something like this – do some- some sort of divine intervention,
has been, this will mark the fifth second national Jayhawks’ first trip to the Final thing really special – because we the Ramblers won their first
time in the past six seasons that championship in Four since 2012. knew we had such good chem- three tournament games by a
three teams seeded 1 through 4 Newman scored all 13 of the istry and we’ve got such a good total of four points.
three seasons … Jayhawks’ points in overtime and
have been joined by another group,” said Richardson, who Finally, with the Final Four on
seeded 7 or higher. finished with a career-high 32 to was named MVP of the regional. the line, they turned in a thor-
lead Kansas (31-7). The Jayhawks will face fel- “Everyone would say we were oughly dominating performance
low top seed Villanova in San Antonio on Sat- crazy. If we said this was going to against the ninth-seeded Wild-
VILLANOVA 71, TEXAS TECH 59 urday after snapping a two-game losing skid in happen, people would call us cats (25-12), the other half of the
BOSTON The Wildcats will have a chance at the regional finals. crazy, but you’ve just got to be- first 9-vs-11 matchup in tourna-
their second national championship in three This was college basketball at its best – two lieve.” ment history.
seasons, courtesy of a 71-59 win over Texas Tech blue bloods trading blows for 45 minutes in No one believes more than The Ramblers will meet West
in Sunday’s East regional final. what was arguably the best game of the tourna- their 98-year-old team chaplain, Regional winner Michigan next
Jalen Brunson led the Wildcats (34-4) with 15 ment so far, one that featured 18 lead changes Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, who Saturday in San Antonio.
points. Eric Paschall finished with 12 points and and 11 ties. But Newman drilled his fifth and led a prayer in the locker room The Wolverines beat Florida
a career-high 14 rebounds. final three from the corner to make it 81-78 before the game. State 58-54. Loyola has a shot at
Donte DiVincenzo and Mikal Bridges each with 1:49 left. Newman followed with four When it was done, she was becoming the lowest-seeded
added 12 points. straight free throws, and the Jayhawks defence pushed onto the confetti-cov- team to win a national champi-
Villanova came into the game with 44 three- stiffened enough to knock the favoured Blue ered court in her wheelchair to onship, a distinction held by No.
pointers for the tournament. It had four threes Devils out of the tournament. join the celebration. 8 seed Villanova since 1985.
in Sunday’s win, but it was their defence that Sister Jean donned a Final
stood out in this one. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Four cap – she even turned it THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Leafs firing on all four cylinders in run-up to playoffs

DAVID SHOALTS TORONTO line after the game. As for the
fourth line, the coach said, “I
thought the three of them, I
OPINION thought they were really fast. I
played them against anybody, I
he Toronto Maple Leafs are didn’t really match as much as I

T
season.
poised for more than just a
record in wins over one NHL
They are also preparing to go
into the playoffs with all four lines
on the scoring side of the hockey
equation. That is of much more
significance in the big picture.
Despite the NHL’s push for fast-
er, high-scoring games, the lineup
formula for success in the playoffs
generally remains two scoring
lines, one shutdown line and a
fourth line that still provides
some hitting, as in the regular sea-
son, but mostly checks as well.
And everybody works a lot harder
on their defensive game.
That is part of the reason why
the hockey often gets worse as the
playoffs progress. Not only do the
stars get shut down as often as
not, making those infrequent
goals pounded out by the third
and fourth lines far more impor-
tant, but the intense checking can
turn late-round games into a slog,
with the winners being those with
the most perseverance or simply
the least injuries.
But the Leafs, who can set a
franchise record for wins in a sea-
son against the Buffalo Sabres on
Monday night, are headed toward
the playoffs with scoring poten-
tial on all four lines. The top four
in points on the team – Mitch Mar-
ner, Auston Matthews, William
Nylander and James van Riems-
dyk – are spread among three
lines, with the recent additions of
Tomas Plekanec and Andreas
Johnsson making the fourth line
Red Wings can only watch as Leaf Nazem Kadri scores the winning goal on Wings goalie Jimmy Howard when
Toronto beat Detroit 4-3 at the Air Canada Centre on Saturday night. DAN HAMILTON/USA TODAY SPORTS
capable of playing against any
line on the opposition.
Even when Leo Komarov, out
with a leg injury, displaces Johns-
son in the lineup as soon as
Wednesday’s game against the
Florida Panthers, the Leafs will
still have scoring threats on all
four lines. And Johnsson will be
the first one called if anyone gets
hurt.
“I think you look around the
league and the top teams all have
a lot of depth,” said Tyler Bozak,
the centre on the third line with
van Riemsdyk and Connor
Brown. “Look at Pittsburgh the
last couple years. They’ve got a lot
of talent and guys that can score,
they won [the Stanley Cup] the
last two years. It helps us a lot on
the road having the ability to
throw whatever line out there and
know they can play with who-
mever.”
Having four lines that can score
gives a head coach maximum
flexibility. The opposition can put
its shutdown line on his first line
all night, but if you can send out
three other lines that can score, it
means nothing but headaches for
the opponent. At the same time, if
your top line grows cold, then
there are three other lines able to
take up the slack.
That is exactly what happened
on Saturday night when the Leafs
came back against the Detroit Red
Wings for their 45th win of the sea-
son. The win matched them with
Leafs teams coached by Pat
Quinn, who hit the 45-mark three
times. The win over Detroit also
set a franchise record as it was the
Leafs’ 13th consecutive win at
home.
Nazem Kadri and linemates
Marner and Patrick Marleau may
be simultaneously Toronto’s
shutdown line and its top offen-
sive unit right now, but until Kadri
scored the winning goal in the
third period, the line was not hav-
ing a great night. So Babcock
leaned on his fourth line of Pleka-
nec and speedsters Kasperi Kapa-
nen and Johnsson.
“It wasn’t their night, let’s clear
that up,” Babcock said of Kadri’s
normally do, I just let them roll
out the door there. I thought
those guys were really effective.”
After Sunday’s practice, Bab-
cock said the plan always was to
build something different than
the conventional NHL team of
years past: “To say do I have one
line that’s going to play against
the other team’s best, and nor-
mally we use [Kadri] for that, but
do I have three guys that never
score another goal and play
against the other team’s [best
line]? We don’t want to have that
here. We want to have everybody
score goals. That’s our focus, but
that doesn’t mean we can’t be
good defensively.”
Of course, this approach in the
playoffs means the referees have
to play ball. The conventional
approach for years in the NHL was
tackling and other forms of ob-
struction were often winked at in
the playoffs, although in its latest
vow to maintain the free-flowing
standard of the regular season,
those overseeing the referees
insist the standards have remain-
ed the same in the playoffs for the
past couple of years. That is the
subject of some debate, although
van Riemsdyk is willing to con-
cede the point.
“Yeah, I think so,” he said, “al-
though to some degree maybe
they let a little bit more go in the
playoffs. You’d like to think they
call it the same. That’s why we
have the rules in place, to play a
game we want to play and people
want to watch.”

OXFORD BEATS CAMBRIDGE

Clarkson: Local girls’ teams pack the ice before anthems IN 100TH ANNUAL MATCH

FROM B12 anthems of both Canada and China. 2018 U.S. Olympic roster, scored the lone
Roughly half of the 7,779 seats in Ricoh goal for KRS in the final minute of the Oxford University won the 100th
Markham matched up well with KRS, a Coliseum were full. There were a few second period, deflecting a shot by fellow varsity hockey match against
roster made up of Chinese national team hundred fans clustered in one section American Zoe Hickel. Stack had been the arch-rival Cambridge University,
players, former U.S. Olympians, Finnish waving tiny Chinese flags as members of pre-eminent star of this CWHL season, claiming a 4-3 victory in overtime
Olympic bronze-medal-winning goalten- the Chinese media fixed their cameras on becoming the league scoring champion on Saturday.
der Noora Raty and North American them. with 49 points (26 goals, 23 assists). “The rivalry lived up to its bill-
players of Chinese herit- The game was broadcast on Markham goalie Erica Howe, who ing,” said Oxford captain Joey
age who may qualify to a couple of secondary chan- made 17 saves, was chosen as the Clar- Wenig, a law student from Calga-
play for China at the 2022 nels in China – despite it being kson Cup MVP. ry. Oxford’s winning goal was
Games. very late at night – as well as KRS awkwardly waited around and scored by Canadian Chris Byrne,
“I’m really proud of my I’m really proud of streamed online. Journalists then left the ice as Markham got distract- from Windsor, Ont.
team; probably not a lot of from many major Chinese out- ed in celebrating and taking team photos Oxford and Cambridge have
people thought we’d make my team; probably lets were in the house. and did not take a moment to first do a been battling each other on the
it to the final,” said Raty, not a lot of people “I think definitely this is in- handshake line. Then, in the back hall- ice for more than 130 years, mak-
who saved 37 of 39 shots thought we’d make spiring kids in China to play ways of the arena, the CWHL had to rush ing it what many consider to be
on Sunday, a week after it to the final. hockey. We have high hopes its players through interviews as Ricoh the oldest hockey rivalry in the
her 66-save shutout in tri- and we still have four years to Coliseum staff hurried fans, players and world. The 100th varsity match
ple overtime helped KRS NOORA RATY go until the Olympics,” said media out of the building. The Toronto was played in St. Moritz, Switzer-
win its semi-final series KUNLUN RED STAR GOALIE Billy Ngok, the founder of Marlies and Springfield Thunderbirds land, the site of the first match in
over the Calgary Inferno. KRS, who also founded China were trying to prepare for their 4:30 p.m. 1885. Hundreds of alumni flew in
“This was their first time in the league, Environmental Energy Holdings, an ener- AHL game. from around the world and com-
and until the last week these Chinese gy-trading firm based in Hong Kong. “Also Stacey, for one, was glad this game peted in two alumni games. The
women hadn’t been in a championship we have a program to track all the North didn’t go into a shootout, as was the case universities’ development teams,
game. So hopefully this shows them to American Chinese players to play for the with the Olympic gold-medal game. the Oxford Vikings and Cam-
dream big and get in these championship country, and I think they are strong, and “It definitely was a sting at the Olym- bridge Eskimos, also faced off
games, and some day be able to win these this is very positive.” pics. It’s never great to come home with a (the women’s teams were invited
games.” Nicole Brown opened the scoring for silver,” Stacey said. “I don’t know if it but couldn’t attend because of
Before the game, the ice was jam- the Thunder in the first period. necessarily eases that pain but it’s a really scheduling conflicts).
packed with local girls’ hockey teams lin- Kelli Stack, a two-time Olympic silver special moment and I’m so happy to be “We won the two alumni
ing each faceoff circle to stand for the medalist from Ohio who didn’t make the part of it.” games and the Eskimos game,
but nothing makes up for the
heartbreak of a sudden-death
loss in the main event, especially
as the momentum was in our
Kane, Fehr boost Sharks for final road trip favour,” said Bill Harris, a Cam-
bridge anatomy professor who
plays for the Eskimos and serves
JOSH DUBOW SAN JOSE, CALIF. During this streak, they have managed first-place Vegas in the Pacific Division as a volunteer coach. “It was an
to win wide-open games as well as tight with seven games remaining, giving them amazing game.”
checking ones and have managed to ne- an outside shot at a division title. But per- The weekend boat races were
he San Jose Sharks head back to the gate the speed of teams such as Vegas as haps more importantly, they entered Sun- pretty amazing for Cambridge,

T Midwest for their final road trip of

the season looking like a far differ-
ent team than the one that stumbled its
way through a tour of the Central Division
just last month. They have the midseason
additions of Evander Kane and Eric Fehr
to thank for that. With Kane provide a
scoring threat and physical play as a top-
line wing and Fehr solidifying the fourth
line and penalty kill, the Sharks are play-
ing as well as anyone in the NHL down
the stretch with a seven-game winning
streak that is the team’s longest in five
years.
well as deal with more physical play like
they had Saturday in a 5-1 win over Calga-
ry.
“I think that’s something we’re trying
to pride ourselves on,” defenceman Bren-
den Dillon said. “Playoffs, you’re going to
meet all sorts of teams, speed teams,
teams that can play hard down low. I
think we’ve got the personnel that we’re
able to match up with those. We’re doing
things in practice to prepare for them.”
The Sharks are in prime position with
just two weeks left in the regular season.
They have moved within six points of
day six points ahead of Anaheim and Los
Angeles in the race for home-ice advan-
tage in the first round.
too. The Light Blues comfortably
beat the Oxford Dark Blues to
win the 164th men’s varsity boat
“We’re a desperate team,” Kane said. race on a gloomy River Thames
“We need all the points we can get. We on Saturday. Cambridge also won
haven’t clinched a playoff spot yet. The the earlier women’s race by an
teams that are right behind us keep win- even larger margin while both
ning. We have to keep pushing forward Cambridge reserve crews won
and keep picking up points as we close their races on a day of complete
out the season in order to secure a spot. domination. Oxford won four of
It’s good to get in that playoff mindset the previous five men’s races.
right now.”
PAUL WALDIE,
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WITH A REPORT FROM REUTERS

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Jones tops Sweden to win worlds
‘I can’t say enough
about my team,’ skip
says as Canada takes
home gold in 7-6 victory
over Pyeongchang
champions
GREGORY STRONG
NORTH BAY, ONT.
Canada’s Jennifer Jones defeated
Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg 7-6 to
win the gold medal at the wom-
en’s curling world championship
on Sunday.
Jones scored a single in an
extra end for the victory. Hassel-
borg tried to pick out a stone on
the four-foot ring with her last
throw, but missed it completely.
The win capped a perfect 14-0
run for the Winnipeg team of
Jones, Kaitlyn Lawes, Jill Officer,
Dawn McEwen and alternate
Shannon Birchard.
“Unbelievable, I’m so happy,”
Jones said. “I can’t say enough
about my team. We had a great
week. We soaked up the atmos-
phere in the crowd and had fun
in that final.
“I’m just so thrilled to be able
to stand on top of the podium
with these girls one more time.”
Canada ran the table in the 12-
game round-robin and edged
American Jamie Sinclair in the
semi-final.
With the game tied 4-4 in the
ninth end and two stones close to
the pin, Jones threw a runback to
score two for the lead. But Has-
selborg responded with a run
double for a pair to force an extra
end.
“I’d rather lose a final when
you’re playing great,” Hasselborg
said. “I’m so proud of my team
for battling through it.”
Hasselborg won Olympic gold
last month at the Pyeongchang
Games. Jones, who is a whisker
ahead of No. 2 Hasselborg in the
world rankings, won the 2014
Olympic title in Sochi.
The teams felt each other out
over three blank ends at the start.
Hasselborg missed a freeze
attempt in the fourth and Jones
drew the four-foot ring for a 2-0
lead.
Canada rubbed guards on two
occasions in the fifth end and
Sweden took advantage.
Hasselborg made a short run-
back to sit three and Jones could
only clear one stone out.
The Swedish skip drew the
eight-foot to take the lead.
Watson breezes to easy title in Austin
DOUG FERGUSON AUSTIN, TEX.
Bubba Watson made the final of
the Dell Technologies Match Play
look as though he were on vaca-
tion all along.
Watson won his second World
Golf Championships title on Sun-
day with the biggest blowout
since the championship match
switched to 18 holes in 2011, a
7-and-6 victory over Kevin Kisner.
Watson wasn’t as sharp as he
had been in the semi-finals
against Justin Thomas, whom he
beat in 16 holes to deny Thomas
going to No. 1 in the world rank-
ing. He didn’t have to be in the
final. If not for missing a four-foot
birdie putt on the par-five sixth,
Watson would have won the first
seven holes.
Kisner had a lot to do with that.
After escaping in 19 holes against
Alex Noren in his semi-final
match, Kisner didn’t put up much
of a fight. He made four straight
bogeys and only twice on the
front nine was putting for birdie.
Watson had scheduled a family
vacation out of the country on
Sunday, which he had to post-
pone. Watson figured he hardly
ever makes it this far in golf’s
most fickle format, so it was a
good problem to have.
There was nothing fickle about
his game, especially on the final
day.
Watson never trailed in the 28
holes he played on Sunday, and
he was never seriously threaten-
ed.
The tougher match was against
Thomas, the PGA champion who
needed only to reach the champi-
onship match to replace Dustin
Johnson at No. 1 in the world. Wat-
son went out to a 3-up lead on the
front nine, and when Thomas
closed to 1 down at the turn with
his first birdie putt, Watson won
two of the next three holes to
regain control. Thomas didn’t
make another birdie until the
par-five 16th. By then it was too
late. Watson made his birdie from
three feet for a 3-and-2 victory.
Canada skip Jennifer Sweden kept the pressure on
Jones watches a shot in the sixth end as Canada had
against Sweden during hammer. However, Hasselborg’s
the gold medal game at final stone appeared to pick half-
the world women’s way down the sheet and Jones
curling championship on followed with a takeout for a 4-3
Sunday in North Bay. lead.
PAUL CHIASSON/ The lively sellout crowd of
THE CANADIAN PRESS 3,919 did its best to provide a
boost for the host side. The Cana-
dians built on their momentum
by forcing Sweden to a single in
the seventh end and a blank fol-
lowed in the eighth.
Earlier in the day, Victoria Moi-
seeva won bronze after making a
game-winning draw for two to
give Russia a 6-5 win over the
United States.
Sinclair was a touch heavy
with her final draw and Russia
used hammer to its advantage.
Moiseeva went for the win know-
ing that she’d force an extra end
if she missed.
“Every skip wants to finish
with that kind of shot,” Moiseeva
said. “If you make it.”
Sinclair, a dual citizen who
grew up in Manotick, Ont., had
great draw weight through the
Bubba Watson, right, is all smiles on his way to winning the Dell Match
Play title in Austin, Tex., on Sunday. GREGORY SHAMUS/GETTY IMAGES
Thomas said he was too con- lery on the weekend, and they
sumed with what was at stake in shared a warm embrace after he
the semi-finals. made a seven-foot birdie putt on
“I haven’t had such a hard time the 12th hole to win the match.
not thinking about something so “It’s crazy to think about it,”
much. And that really sucked,” Watson said. “I’ve got two World
Thomas said. “I couldn’t stop Golf Championships and two
thinking about it, to be perfectly majors. It’s unbelievable to think
honest. And I think you’re con- about that, giving my mom a hug.
stantly getting questions about it Six years old, having one golf club
with the media. But I need to be for a year, no lessons. I can sit here
mentally stronger than that, and and make up stories all day, but
understand that it’s just a match.” it’s absolutely remarkable that
Noren beat Thomas in the con- I’m able to lift a trophy like this.”
solation match, 5 and 3.
One year after Watson disap-
GARNETT TAKES PGA TOUR EVENT
peared from among the elite in
golf, he has won twice in his past PUNTA CANA, DOMINICAN REPUB-
four starts. He was No. 117 in the LIC Brice Garnett completed a
world when he arrived at Riviera, wire-to-wire victory Sunday in
where he won for the third time the Corales Puntacana Resort and
in his career. With his 11th victory Club Championship for his first
on the PGA Tour, he now is back PGA Tour title.
up to No. 21. Two strokes ahead after three
And the two-time Masters late, wind-blown bogeys Satur-
champion added his name to the day, Garnett closed with a two-
growing list of contenders at under 70 in windy and rainy con-
Augusta National. ditions for a four-stroke victory
“I’m looking forward to it, and over Keith Mitchell. The 34-year-
hopefully I can get this focus and old Garnett, a two-time winner
my putter rolling like it is,” Wat- last year on the Web.com Tour,
son said. finished at 18-under 270.
Even in a final match that Kelly Kraft was third at 13 un-
lacked any drama, Watson still der.
managed to shed a few tears. His
mother was with him in the gal- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
REPORT ON BUSINESS | B15
competition and was confident reach the podium.
settling into the hack for her last Jones defeated Hasselborg 8-4
stone. earlier in the week.
“I thought I threw it pretty Sweden went 10-2 in round-
well,” she said. “I thought it was a robin play to earn the second
touch heavy out of hand, but I seed. Hasselborg beat Russia in
knew I could be back four-foot. the semi-finals.
But it just kept gliding.” Sweden’s Anette Norberg is
After a tentative first half, Moi- the only women’s skip to win
seeva was light on her draw in Olympic and world titles in the
the sixth end to give the Ameri- same season. She accomplished
cans a steal and a 3-2 lead. A the double in 2006.
blank was followed by a Russian Jones, who won her first world
pair in the eighth end and Sin- title in 2008, has played in this
clair answered with a deuce in event on six occasions. She won
the ninth. silver in 2015 and bronze in 2010.
Overall attendance at the Canada has won a leading 17
nine-day competition was 69,391. gold medals since the inaugural
A 13th team was added to the world women’s championship in
field this year and a six-team 1979. Sweden is next with eight
playoff format was used. titles.
Officer recently announced The 2019 world playdowns will
she is stepping away from com- be held next March in Silkeborg,
petitive curling at the end of the Denmark.
season. She’ll be replaced next Brad Gushue of St. John’s,
season by Jocelyn Peterman. Nfld., will represent Canada at
Ottawa’s Rachel Homan ran the world men’s curling champi-
the table en route to winning onship starting Saturday in Las
gold last year in Beijing. Homan Vegas.
represented Canada at the Pye-
ongchang Games but did not THE CANADIAN PRESS
Venus rebounds from
shaky start to advance
at Miami Open
STEVEN WINE KEY BISCAYNE, FLA.
When Venus Williams slammed a forehand winner on the
final point to win a seesaw marathon on Sunday, she had
enough energy left to spin in delight at the net, a trium-
phant fist leading the way.
Some 21 years after her Key Biscayne debut, wins at the
Miami Open remain something to celebrate.
Williams squandered an early lead, fell behind late and
then overcame three match points to rally past Kiki Bertens
in the third round, 5-7, 6-3, 7-5.
Williams blew a 5-0 lead in the first set and was down 5-3
in the third set. But she swept the final four games, holding
serve at love for the victory.
“It didn’t look good sometimes,” Williams told the sup-
portive crowd. “But that’s why you keep playing until the
last point. And that’s why I love this game.”
The match took nearly
three hours on the hottest day
of the tournament so far, and
the 37-year-old Williams now
must recover quickly to next It didn’t look
play defending champion
Johanna Konta. The No. 11- good sometimes.
seeded Konta advanced with But that’s why you
much less drama, beating No. keep playing until
22 Elise Mertens 6-2, 6-1. the last point.
In men’s play, No. 5 Juan
Martin del Potro extended his VENUS WILLIAMS
winning streak to 13 matches NO. 8 SEED AT
by eliminating No. 26 Kei Nish- THE MIAMI OPEN
ikori 6-2, 6-2. Del Potro won
his first Masters 1000 title last week at Indian Wells. No. 2
Marin Cilic swept Canada’s Vasek Pospisil 7-5, 7-6 (4).
Williams regrouped after a disastrous opening set, which
she was four times a single point from winning. In the final
set she erased two match points at 5-3, and another in the
next game.
The stadium was nearly full by the finish. Williams, who
lives in South Florida and has long been a favourite with
Key Biscayne fans, said they kept her going.
“I felt everybody behind me,” she told them. “My oppo-
nent played well. I had a lot of chances; she had a lot of
chances. I hope it was really entertaining for you all.”
Williams, who is seeded No. 8, won the tournament way
back in 1998, 1999 and 2001. Last year she reached the semi-
final, and this year she outlasted her sister, eight-time
champion Serena Williams, who was upset in the first
round.
“I love it here,” Venus said. “This was my first big win. I
have a lot of great memories. I hope I can get another win
this year. You never know.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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THIRD PERIOD SHOTS ON GOAL BY (Series tied 1-1)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
7. Washington, Kuznetsov 23 Tampa Bay 14 10 12—36 Sunday Sunday
GP W L OTL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 Strk
(Backstrom, Carlson) 1:10 (pp). New Jersey 11 13 7—31 Quebec 3 Charlottetown 0
ATLANTIC DIVISION 8. Washington, Oshie 17 (Jerabek, Goal — Tampa Bay: Vasilevskiy (L, 42- Saturday Cleveland 121, Brooklyn 114
x-Tampa Bay 75 51 20 2 2 272 213 106 27-8-2-024-12-0-2 7-3-0-0 L-1 Burakovsky) 4:52. 15-3). New Jersey: Kinkaid (W, 21-10-2). Charlottetown 6 Quebec 2 Milwaukee 106, San Antonio 103
x-Boston 73 46 17 8 2 243 188 102 25-7-5-021-10-3-2 6-2-2-0 W-1 9. Montreal, Hudon 10 (Reilly, Shaw) Power plays (goals-chances) — Tampa Indiana 113, Miami 107, OT
Toronto 75 45 23 5 2 255 213 97 26-8-2-019-15-3-2 6-3-1-0 W-2 9:28. Bay: 1-2; New Jersey: 0-1. WHL PLAYOFFS Boston 104, Sacramento 93
METROPOLITAN DIVISION 10. Montreal, Gallagher 28 (Drouin, Attendance — 16,514 at New Jersey. L.A. Clippers 117, Toronto 106
Washington 75 44 24 6 1 236 221 95 26-9-2-018-15-4-1 7-3-0-0 W-3 Petry) 18:03 (pp). FIRST ROUND New York 101, Washington 97
Pittsburgh 76 43 27 4 2 251 233 92 28-8-2-015-19-2-2 6-2-2-0 W-1 Penalties — Drouin Mtl (hooking) 1:00; AHL All Times Local Portland 108, Oklahoma City 105
Columbus 76 42 29 1 4 215 208 89 25-12-1-117-17-0-39-1-0-0 L-1 Wilson Wash (high-sticking) 5:19; DIVISION SEMIFINALS Atlanta at Houston
WILD CARD Ovechkin Wash (slashing) 17:05. Sunday (Best-of-7) Utah at Golden State
Philadelphia 76 38 25 6 7 230 228 89 19-13-3-319-12-3-44-4-1-1 L-1 SHOTS ON GOAL BY EASTERN CONFERENCE
New Jersey 75 39 28 4 4 225 225 86 19-14-2-120-14-2-36-4-0-0 W-2 Washington 10 10 10—30 San Diego 2 Cleveland 1 EAST DIVISION Saturday
Montreal 9 5 7—21 Belleville 8 Laval 2 MOOSE JAW (1) VS. P. ALBERT (WC2)
Florida 73 38 28 4 3 223 224 83 23-11-1-215-17-3-16-3-1-0 W-1 Goal — Washington: Grubauer (W, 13-9- Bridgeport 6 W-B/Scranton 3 (Series tied 1-1) Philadelphia 120, Minnesota 108
Carolina 75 33 31 8 3 208 239 77 17-15-5-116-16-3-24-6-0-0 W-2 3). Montreal: Price (L, 15-24-6). Toronto 2 Springfield 0 Saturday Detroit 117, Chicago 95
NY Rangers 75 33 34 3 5 219 241 74 21-14-2-212-20-1-3 4-4-1-1 W-1 Power plays (goals-chances) — Hartford 4 Hershey 2 Moose Jaw 3 Prince Albert 2 (OT) Orlando 105, Phoenix 99
NY Islanders 75 31 34 7 3 242 273 72 17-16-3-114-18-4-2 2-5-2-1 L-2 Washington: 2-3; Montreal: 1-3. Utica 4 Binghamton 3 Friday Houston 114, New Orleans 91
Montreal 76 27 37 6 6 192 243 66 17-13-4-410-24-2-2 2-7-0-1 L-1 Attendance — 21,302 at Montreal. San Jose 3 Tucson 3 Prince Albert 5 Moose Jaw 3 L.A. Lakers 100, Memphis 93
Detroit 75 27 37 10 1 192 233 65 14-15-7-113-22-3-01-8-1-0 L-2 Milwaukee 7 Iowa 2 Charlotte 102, Dallas 98
EDMONTON 3, LOS ANGELES 2
Ottawa 74 26 37 4 7 203 262 63 15-17-2-411-20-2-34-5-0-1 L-4 Chicago 3 Grand Rapids 2 (SO) SWIFT CURRENT (2) VS. REGINA (3)
FIRST PERIOD
Buffalo 75 23 40 10 2 174 248 58 11-23-3-212-17-7-03-6-0-1 L-4 1. Edmonton, Aberg 4 (unassisted) 0:45. (Series tied 1-1) Friday
Monday
2. Edmonton, McDavid 37 (Rattie, Saturday
WESTERN CONFERENCE Larsson) 15:32.
All Times Eastern
Regina 2 Swift Current 1 Denver 108, Washington 100
GP W L OTL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 Strk Rockford at Manitoba, 8 p.m. Indiana 109, L.A. Clippers 104
3. Los Angeles, Muzzin 8 (Pearson, Friday
Carter) 16:00. Swift Current 3 Regina 0 Cleveland 120, Phoenix 95
CENTRAL DIVISION OHL PLAYOFFS Minnesota 108, New York 104
x-Nashville 74 48 16 4 6 239 187 106 25-8-1-3 23-8-3-3 7-2-0-1 L-2 Penalties — Bear Edm (slashing) 18:39. Monday
SECOND PERIOD Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m. Toronto 116, Brooklyn 112
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Minnesota 74 42 24 6 2 231 211 92 25-6-6-117-18-0-1 6-3-1-0 W-1 4. Edmonton, McDavid 38 (Slepyshev, All Times Eastern
Sekera) 4:08. CENTRAL DIVISION Oklahoma City 105, Miami 99
PACIFIC DIVISION CONFERENCE QUARTER-FINALS
5. Los Angeles, Carter 9 (Rieder, Pearson) MED. HAT (1) VS. BRANDON (WC1) San Antonio 124, Utah 120, OT
Vegas 75 47 21 4 3 250 204 101 26-9-1-121-12-3-2 5-3-1-1 L-2 (Best-of-7)
6:19. (Medicine Hat leads series 1-0) Boston 105, Portland 100
San Jose 75 43 23 6 3 232 203 95 24-11-2-119-12-4-2 8-2-0-0 W-7
Penalties — Toffoli LA (tripping) 19:51. Sunday Golden State 106, Atlanta 94
Anaheim 75 38 24 6 7 212 200 89 22-10-3-216-14-3-56-3-1-0 L-1 EASTERN CONFERENCE
WILD CARD THIRD PERIOD Brandon at Medicine Hat
HAMILTON (1) VS. OTTAWA (8) Friday Monday
Colorado 75 41 26 7 1 239 218 90 26-10-2-015-16-5-16-2-2-0 W-1 No Scoring.
(Hamilton leads series 1-0) All Times Eastern
St. Louis 75 42 28 5 0 209 196 89 23-15-0-019-13-5-07-2-1-0 W-5 Penalties — Lewis LA (slashing) 3:33. Medicine Hat 7 Brandon 2
Sunday
SHOTS ON GOAL BY Ottawa at Hamilton
LETHBRIDGE (2) VS. RED DEER (3) Denver at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles 76 41 28 6 1 221 190 89 19-14-3-022-14-3-15-3-1-1 L-1 Los Angeles 9 16 4—29 Tuesday
(Lethbridge leads series 2-0) L.A. Lakers at Detroit, 7 p.m.
Dallas 76 38 30 5 3 215 208 84 24-12-3-014-18-2-31-7-1-1 L-8 Edmonton 11 7 9—27 Hamilton at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
Saturday New York at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Calgary 76 35 31 5 5 205 231 80 15-18-3-120-13-2-43-6-1-0 L-5 Goal — Los Angeles: Quick (L, 30-27-2).
Lethbridge 8 Red Deer 3 Memphis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Edmonton 75 34 36 4 1 217 238 73 17-17-3-017-19-1-1 7-2-1-0 W-3 Edmonton: Talbot (W, 29-27-2). BARRIE (2) VS. MISSISSAUGA (7)
Friday Boston at Phoenix, 10 p.m.
Chicago 76 31 36 8 1 214 234 71 17-17-4-014-19-4-1 3-6-1-0 W-1 Power plays (goals-chances) — Los (Mississauga leads series 1-0)
Vancouver 76 27 40 6 3 197 247 63 12-18-5-115-22-1-22-8-0-0 W-1 Angeles: 0-1; Edmonton: 0-2. Lethbridge 6 Red Deer 0
Monday SUNDAY
Arizona 75 25 39 6 5 186 241 61 15-20-1-310-19-5-25-5-0-0 L-2 Attendance — 18,347 at Edmonton. Mississauga at Barrie, 7:30 p.m.
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Note: x — clinched playoff berth. The top three teams per division and the two next- FIRST PERIOD B.C. DIVISION L.A. CLIPPERS 117, TORONTO 106
Barrie at Mississauga, 7 p.m.
best records in the conference qualify for the playoffs; a winning team is credited with 1. Colorado, Soderberg 16 (Compher, KELOWNA (1) VS. TRI-CITY (WC1) L.A. CLIPPERS (117)
two points and a victory in the W column; a team losing in overtime or shootout Kerfoot) 13:52 (pp). (Tri-City leads series 2-0) Johnson 3-7 0-0 9, Harris 7-15 4-5 20,
KINGSTON (3) VS. NORTH BAY (6) Jordan 2-5 5-9 9, Rivers 5-14 0-0 11,
receives one point, which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column. Penalties — Merrill VGK (holding) 9:01; Saturday
(Series tied 1-1) Teodosic 5-13 4-4 15, Dekker 0-0 0-0 0,
Sunday 4. Toronto, Brown 14 (Dermott, Rielly) Haula VGK (tripping) 12:21; Comeau Col Sunday Tri-City 9 Kelowna 7
(slashing) 16:34. Wednesday Harrell 9-12 1-2 19, Marjanovic 2-3 0-0 4,
14:19. Kingston 4 North Bay 3
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Pittsburgh 5 Philadelphia 4 (OT) Penalties — Zetterberg Det (high- Friday
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Vancouver 4 Dallas 1 sticking) 17:24. North Bay 5 Kingston 2
Penalties — Marchessault VGK VICTORIA (2) VS. VANCOUVER (3) TORONTO (106)
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Valanciunas 7-11 1-1 16, Lowry 4-9 0-0
Anaheim at Edmonton Kronwall) 4:58. THIRD PERIOD (Niagara leads series 2-0) Victoria 5 Vancouver 4
Friday 11, DeRozan 3-12 5-5 11, Miles 4-12 0-0
6. Toronto, Nylander 17 (Matthews) 7:27. 2. Vegas, Marchessault 24 (Theodore) Sunday
Vancouver 2 Victoria 1 11, Siakam 6-8 1-2 15, Poeltl 2-6 1-4 5,
Saturday 7. Toronto, Kadri 29 (Marleau, Marner) 1:15. Niagara 6 Oshawa 1
Wright 1-5 0-0 2, VanVleet 6-9 0-0 16.
12:34. Penalties — Carpenter VGK (tripping) Friday
U.S. DIVISION Totals 41-92 8-14 106.
Colorado 2 Vegas 1 (SO) Penalties — Daley Det (holding) 9:47. 2:27. Niagara 4 Oshawa 2
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Toronto 35 25 20 26—106
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NY Rangers 5 Buffalo 1 Toronto 15 8 6—29 Shootout — Colorado wins 1-0 SS. MARIE (1) VS. SAGINAW (8) Saturday
(Johnson 3-3, Harris 2-3, Rivers 1-3,
Chicago 3 NY Islanders 1 Goal — Detroit: Howard (L, 19-27-8). Vegas: Perron miss, Haula miss, (Sault Ste. Marie leads series 2-0) Seattle 5 Everett 4 (OT)
L.Williams 1-4, Teodosic 1-5), Toronto 16-
New Jersey 2 Tampa Bay 1 Toronto: Andersen (W, 35-19-5). Marchessault miss. Sunday Friday
36 (VanVleet 4-6, Lowry 3-7, Miles 3-10,
Florida 4 Arizona 2 Power plays (goals-chances) — Detroit: Colorado: MacKinnon miss, Rantanen Sault Ste. Marie 8 Saginaw 0 Everett 4 Seattle 1
Siakam 2-2, Ibaka 2-5, Valanciunas 1-1,
Carolina 5 Ottawa 2 0-1; Toronto: 0-4. miss, Landeskog goal. Friday Anunoby 1-3, Wright 0-1, DeRozan 0-1).
Washington 6 Montreal 4 Attendance — 19,154 at Toronto. SHOTS ON GOAL BY Sault Ste. Marie 5 Saginaw 2 PORTLAND (2) VS. SPOKANE (3) Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A.
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Clippers 44 (Jordan 14), Toronto 48
Minnesota 4 Nashville 1 FIRST PERIOD Colorado 13 9 6 2— 30 Sault Ste. Marie at Saginaw, 7:05 p.m. Sunday
(Valanciunas 10). Assists—L.A. Clippers
Edmonton 3 Los Angeles 2 1. Carolina, Di Giuseppe 4 (Zykov) 7:34. Goal — Vegas: Fleury (SOL, 27-11-4). Spokane at Portland
17 (L.Williams 7), Toronto 24 (Lowry 8).
2. Ottawa, Ryan 9 (Dzingel, Karlsson) Colorado: Varlamov (W, 23-15-6). KITCHENER (2) VS. GUELPH (7) Saturday
Total Fouls—L.A. Clippers 16, Toronto
Friday 9:38. Power plays (goals-chances) — Vegas: ( Kitchener leads series 2-0) Spokane 4 Portland 3 (OT)
23. Technicals—Jordan, Lowry.
Penalties — Staal Car (tripping) 13:38. 0-1; Colorado: 1-4. Sunday A—19,800 (19,800).
New Jersey 4 Pittsburgh 3 (OT) SECOND PERIOD Attendance — 18,042 at Colorado. Kitchener 2 Guelph 1 MLB
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Winnipeg 3 Anaheim 2 (OT) 17:19. FIRST PERIOD Kitchener 7 Guelph 2 SPRING TRAINING PGA TOUR
St. Louis 4 Vancouver 1 1. NY Rangers, Kreider 15 (Zibanejad, Sunday
Penalties — van Riemsdyk Car CORALES PUNTACANA
Boston 3 Dallas 2 (tripping) 7:32; Ottawa bench (delay of Fast) 16:29. SARNIA (3) VS. WINDSOR (6)
2. NY Rangers, Vesey 16 (Zuccarello) N.Y. Mets 4, Miami (ss) 3 RESORT & CLUB
game, served by Chlapik) 17:19. (Series tied 1-1) CHAMPIONSHIP
Monday 18:02. Saturday Detroit 10, Atlanta 3
THIRD PERIOD At Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
All Times Eastern Penalties — None. Sarnia 4 Windsor 1 Baltimore 6, Philadelphia 5
4. Carolina, Hanifin 9 (Aho, Zykov) 8:29. FINAL ROUND — PAR 72
SECOND PERIOD Friday Boston 6, Minnesota 1
5. Carolina, Skinner 23 (Di Giuseppe) Brice Garnett, $540,000 63-68-69-70—270
Ottawa at Carolina, 7 p.m. 3. NY Rangers, Pionk 1 (Vesey, Hayes) Windsor 6 Sarnia 2 Houston 6, Miami (ss) 2
9:37. Keith Mitchell, $324,000 66-66-75-67—274
Florida at NY Islanders, 7 p.m. 3:59. Tampa Bay 11, N.Y. Yankees 1
6. Ottawa, Chabot 7 (Hoffman, Paajarvi) Kelly Kraft, $204,000 68-69-71-67—275
Buffalo at Toronto, 7 p.m. 4. NY Rangers, Zibanejad 27 (Kreider, OWEN SOUND (4) VS. LONDON (5) Washington 4, St. Louis 2
16:34. Denny McCarthy, $144,000 66-69-71-70—276
Arizona at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Pionk) 8:45 (pp). (Owen Sound leads series 2-0) Pittsburgh 7, Toronto 4
7. Carolina, Staal 17 (Williams, Lindholm) K.J. Choi, $91,688 71-68-72-66—277
Detroit at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. 5. NY Rangers, Vesey 17 (Spooner, Saturday Chicago Cubs 5, Kansas City 3
19:25 (en). Paul Dunne, $91,688 67-70-71-69—277
Washington at NY Rangers, 7:30 p.m. Hayes) 14:47 (pp). Owen Sound 4 London 3 (OT) Cleveland 6, Cincinnati 4
Penalties — None. Harris English, $91,688 71-69-67-70—277
San Jose at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Penalties — Nolan Buf (holding) 8:23; Monday Chicago White Sox 16, Milwaukee 1
SHOTS ON GOAL BY Seattle 11, San Diego 7 Seungsu Han, $91,688 67-67-72-71—277
Colorado at Vegas, 10 p.m. Scandella Buf, Holland NYR (fighting) Owen Sound at London, 7 p.m.
Carolina 5 8 11—24 San Francisco 5, Oakland 1 Tom Lovelady, $91,688 69-68-68-72—277
Calgary at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. 9:17; Kreider NYR (holding) 10:25; Eichel
Ottawa 12 8 16—36 Seamus Power, $91,688 68-67-71-71—277
Goal — Carolina: Ward (W, 21-13-4). Buf (slashing) 13:28. QMJHL PLAYOFFS Arizona 8, Colorado 3
Andrew Putnam, $91,688 70-68-70-69—277
SUNDAY THIRD PERIOD L.A. Dodgers vs. L.A. Angels
Ottawa: Condon (L, 5-15-5). FIRST ROUND Xinjun Zhang, $91,688 66-68-74-69—277
Power plays (goals-chances) — 6. Buffalo, Reinhart 20 (Okposo, O’Reilly) Abraham Ancer, $53,000 71-67-73-67—278
PITTSBURGH 5, PHILADELPHIA 4 (OT) 15:26 (pp). All Times Eastern Monday
Carolina: 0-1; Ottawa: 0-2. All Times Eastern Corey Conners, $53,000 64-71-67-76—278
FIRST PERIOD Penalties — Sproul NYR (hooking) 4:50; (Best-of-7)
Attendance — 16,555 at Ottawa Joel Dahmen, $53,000 71-66-74-67—278
1. Philadelphia, Sanheim 2 (Weal, Zibanejad NYR (tripping) 14:13; Nolan ROUND OF 16
Simmonds) 5:03. SAN JOSE 5, CALGARY 1 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh, 1:05 p.m. Martin Flores, $53,000 68-71-68-71—278
Buf (hooking) 15:33. B-BOISBRIAND (1) VS. VAL-D’OR (16)
2. Pittsburgh, Brassard 21 (Sheary, FIRST PERIOD Tampa Bay vs. Detroit, 1:05 p.m. George McNeill, $53,000 67-71-69-71—278
SHOTS ON GOAL BY (Blainville-Boisbriand leads series 2-0)
Kessel) 9:38. 1. San Jose, Dillon 4 (Tierney, Meier) Baltimore vs. Norfolk, 3:05 p.m. Shawn Stefani, $53,000 68-72-70-68—278
Buffalo 21 9 14—44 Friday
3. Philadelphia, Manning 7 (Weal, 7:52. Chicago Cubs vs. Boston, 6:05 p.m. Troy Matteson, $39,000 66-73-68-72—279
New York 10 7 6—23 Blainville-Boisbriand 5 Val-d’Or 1
Filppula) 11:07. 2. San Jose, Hansen 2 (Burns, Goodrow) Chi. White Sox vs. Charlotte, 6:05 p.m. Tyler McCumber, $39,000 67-70-67-75—279
Goal — Buffalo: Lehner (L, 14-26-9), Tuesday
Penalties — Dumoulin Pgh (hooking) 9:06. Milwaukee vs. Houston, 7:05 p.m. J.T. Poston, $39,000 72-71-69-67—279
Ullmark (11 shots, 10 saves). NY Blainville-Boisbriand at Val-d’Or, 7:30 p.m.
15:09; Couturier Pha (hooking) 17:25; 3. Calgary, Stone 3 (Ferland, Stewart) Kansas City vs. Omaha, 7:05 p.m. Matt Atkins, $27,850 69-67-72-72—280
12:17. Rangers: Georgiev (W, 4-3-1). Tommy Gainey, $27,850 70-68-72-70—280
Voracek Pha (cross-checking) 19:48. Power plays (goals-chances) — Buffalo: A-BATHURST (2) VS. CHICOUTIMI (15) St. Louis vs. Toronto at Montreal,
Penalties — None. 7:07 p.m. Fabian Gomez, $27,850 69-70-70-71—280
SECOND PERIOD 1-3; New York: 2-3. (Series tied 1-1)
SECOND PERIOD N.Y. Yankees vs. Atlanta, 7:35 p.m. Trey Mullinax, $27,850 69-66-76-69—280
4. Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 24 (Kessel, Attendance — 18,006 at NY Rangers. Saturday
4. San Jose, Kane 26 (Tierney) 8:26 (sh). Cincinnati vs. Texas, 8:05 p.m. Geoff Ogilvy, $27,850 69-67-71-73—280
Schultz) 0:37 (pp). Chicoutimi 4 Acadie-Bathurst 0
Penalties — Dillon SJ (slashing) 1:59; Chicago 3, NY Islanders 1 San Diego vs. El Paso, 8:05 p.m. Patrick Rodgers, $27,850 74-65-72-69—280
5. Pittsburgh, Malkin 42 (Schultz, Friday
Andersson Cgy (holding) 6:14; Labanc Cleveland vs. Arizona, 9:40 p.m. Lanto Griffin, $19,521 69-68-75-69—281
Dumoulin) 2:37. FIRST PERIOD Acadie-Bathurst 3 Chicoutimi 1
SJ (hooking) 6:59; Goodrow SJ (high- L.A. Angels vs. L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. Matt Jones, $19,521 72-67-73-69—281
6. Philadelphia, Weal 8 (Gostisbehere, No Scoring.
sticking) 10:17; Hamilton Cgy (high- Oakland vs. San Francisco, 10:15 p.m. Nate Lashley, $19,521 70-70-70-71—281
Lindblom) 17:10 (pp). Penalties — Anisimov Chi (tripping) RIMOUSKI (3) VS. MONCTON (14)
Penalties — Brassard Pgh (high- sticking) 17:26; Backlund Cgy, Kane SJ (Series tied 1-1)
14:51.
sticking) 15:40; Dumoulin Pgh (cross- (roughing) 18:00.
SECOND PERIOD Saturday MLS TELEVISION
checking) 17:28. THIRD PERIOD 1. Chicago, Kane 26 (Sharp, Gustafsson) Rimouski 2 Moncton 1 (OT) MONDAY (EASTERN TIME)
THIRD PERIOD 5. San Jose, Braun 4 (Couture, Karlsson) Friday Saturday
2:36 (pp).
7. Pittsburgh, Crosby 26 (Schultz, 10:09. Moncton 4 Rimouski 1 AUTO RACING
2. Chicago, Saad 17 (Oesterle, Rutta)
Guentzel) 0:17. 6. San Jose, Kane 27 (Pavelski, Dillon) Columbus 3 D.C. 1
4:25.
8. Philadelphia, Couturier 31 12:10. HALIFAX (4) VS. BAIE-COMEAU (13) Kansas City 2 Colorado 2 NASCAR Monster Energy Cup: STP 500,
Penalties — Hickey NYI (tripping) 2:03.
(Gostisbehere, Giroux) 19:17. Penalties — Hamonic Cgy, Kane SJ (Halifax leads series 2-0) L.A. Galaxy 0 Vancouver 0 TSN 1, 2 p.m.
THIRD PERIOD New York City 2 New England 2
Penalties — None. (unsportsmanlike conduct) 3:15; Saturday
3. NY Islanders, Tavares 33 (Lee, Hickey)
Hamonic Cgy, Kane SJ (fighting) 3:15; N.Y. Red Bulls 3 Minnesota 0 BASEBALL
OVERTIME 17:18. Halifax 5 Baie-Comeau 3
Giordano Cgy (cross-checking) 4:13; Friday Portland 1 Dallas 1
9. Pittsburgh, Rust 13 (Crosby, Letang) 4. Chicago, Seabrook 6 (unassisted)
2:25. Hathaway Cgy, Dillon SJ (fighting) 15:02. Halifax 5 Baie-Comeau 2 St. Louis Cardinals at Toronto Blue Jays,
18:46.
SHOTS ON GOAL BY SN Ontario, Pacific, West, East, 7 p.m.
Penalties — None.
Calgary 11 17 10—38
Penalties — Lee NYI (holding) 1:55; 2018 WORLD WOMEN’S
SHOTS ON GOAL BY Anisimov Chi (tripping) 11:48. DRMMNDVLLE (5) VS. C. BRETON (12)
Philadelphia 14 18 13 0— 45 San Jose 9 14 10—33 (Series tied 1-1)
CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP BASKETBALL
SHOTS ON GOAL BY
Pittsburgh 6 14 8 4— 32 Goal — Calgary: Rittich (L, 8-6-3). San Saturday
Chicago 9 10 6—25 At North Bay, Ont.
Goal — Philadelphia: Lyon (11 shots, 8 Jose: Jones (W, 28-18-6). Cape Breton 5 Drummondville 4 (3OT) NCAA: Women’s Basketball
New York 10 8 14—32 PLAYOFFS
saves), Mrazek (L, 13-12-5). Pittsburgh: Power plays (goals-chances) — Friday Championship, Elite Eight, South
Goal — Chicago: Forsberg (W, 10-16-3). Sunday
Murray (W, 24-14-3). Calgary: 0-4; San Jose: 0-3. Drummondville 5 Cape Breton 2 Carolina vs. UConn, TSN 1, 7 p.m.
NY Islanders: Halak (L, 18-26-6).
Power plays (goals-chances) — Attendance — 17,562 at San Jose. Monday Denver Nuggets at Philadelphia 76ers,
Power plays (goals-chances) — Championship
Philadelphia: 1-3; Pittsburgh: 1-2. WASHINGTON 6, MONTREAL 4 Chicago: 1-2; New York: 0-2. Drummondville at Cape Breton, 8 p.m. SN 1, 7 p.m.
FIRST PERIOD Canada (Jones)7 Sweden (Hasselborg) 6 NCAA: Women’s Basketball
Attendance — 18,655 at Pittsburgh. Attendance — 13,091 at New York. (extra end)
1. Montreal, Galchenyuk 17 (De La Rose) VICTORIAVILLE (6) VS. GATINEAU (11) Championship, Elite Eight, Oregon vs.
NEW JERSEY 2, TAMPA BAY 1 Sweden 000 030 100 20 — 6
SATURDAY 8:35. (Victoriaville leads series 2-0) Notre Dame, TSN 1, 9 p.m.
FIRST PERIOD Canada 000 202 002 01 — 7
2. Washington, Kuznetsov 22 (Carlson, Saturday
1. New Jersey, Hischier 18 (Butcher,
Backstrom) 11:11 (pp). Victoriaville 3 Gatineau 2 HOCKEY
TORONTO 4, DETROIT 3 Mueller) 17:51. Third Place
3. Washington, Wilson 12 (Backstrom) Friday
FIRST PERIOD Penalties — Moore NJ (holding) 18:36; Russia (Moiseeva) 6 United States
14:49. Victoriaville 7 Gatineau 2 Buffalo Sabres at Toronto Maple Leafs,
1. Toronto, Kapanen 7 (Bozak, van Hedman TB (hooking) 19:50. (Sinclair) 5
4. Washington, Wilson 13 (Backstrom, TSN 4, 7 p.m.
Riemsdyk) 14:30. Burakovsky) 18:11. SECOND PERIOD Ottawa Senators at Carolina Hurricanes,
Penalties — Helm Det, Hyman Tor 2. New Jersey, Palmieri 21 (Zacha, Hall) R-NORANDA (7) VS. SHERBROOKE (10) Saturday
Penalties — Shaw Mtl (high-sticking) (Series tied 1-1) TSN 5, 7 p.m.
(fighting) 3:50; Brown Tor (hooking) 10:59. Qualification Bracket
10:35. Saturday Detroit Red Wings at Montreal
6:14; Bertuzzi Det (interference) 8:02; Penalties — Gibbons NJ (hooking) United States 10 South Korea 3
SECOND PERIOD Rouyn-Noranda 6 Sherbrooke 2 Canadiens, TSN 2, 7:30 p.m.
Helm Det (delay of game) 9:26. 18:19; Miller TB (face-off violation) Russia 7 Czech Republic 3
5. Washington, Beagle 7 (Orlov, Friday Colorado Avalanche at Vegas Golden
SECOND PERIOD 18:19. Knights, SN 1, SN Ontario, Pacific, East,
Chiasson) 4:52. Sherbrooke 2 Rouyn-Noranda 1 Semifinals
2. Detroit, Larkin 12 (Mantha) 4:32. 6. Montreal, Hudon 9 (Jo.Benn, Shaw) THIRD PERIOD 10 p.m.
3. Detroit, Bertuzzi 3 (DeKeyser, 3. Tampa Bay, Palat 9 (Sergachev, Point) Tuesday Canada 9 United States 7
19:58. Rouyn-Noranda at Sherbrooke, 8 p.m. Calgary Flames at L.A. Kings, SN West,
Zetterberg) 9:37. 4:22 (pp). Sweden 7 Russia 6
Penalties — Scherbak Mtl (hooking) 10:30 p.m.

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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Marco Estrada throws a pitch during the first inning of a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Florida
Auto Exchange Stadium on Sunday. AARON DOSTER/USA TODAY SPORTS
Estrada says he’s happy to get
rough game ‘out of the way’
Pitcher allows five runs against
the Pirates, including four runs
in the third inning alone
MELISSA COUTO DUNEDIN, FLA.
Marco Estrada didn’t mind capping his pre-
season with a rough outing.
As he sees it, it’s better to have a bad start
now than next week.
The 34-year-old right-hander threw 22⁄3
innings, allowing five runs – four in the
third inning alone – in the Blue Jays’ 7-4 ex-
hibition loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on
Sunday.
He gave up five hits, walked two and
struck out two batters while throwing 63
pitches, 39 for strikes.
“I think my pitch count was supposed to
be about 50 or 60 pitches or so, basically got
them all in in one inning,” Estrada said with
a laugh. “But it was good. I was out there
MLB teams wage secret battles over pitch-tipping
JAY COHEN MESA, ARIZ.
higher glove. A grip change. A sub-
A tle shift on the mound.
One subconscious move turns
into a dugout whisper. A percep-
tive hitter tells his friends, and his friends
tell their friends, and a seemingly innoc-
uous habit – practically undetectable for
most of the world – quickly becomes a
major problem.
Even for the mighty Clayton Kershaw.
It’s hard to tell how often it happens, but
pitch tipping pops up enough that it’s on
the radar of managers and coaches around
the big leagues.
“We try to keep a hand on that a lot – like,
‘Are our guys giving away pitches?’ ” Cleve-
land manager Terry Francona said. “For
sure, we always keep track of that.”
The issue of pitch tipping – a physical in-
dication of some sort that reveals what
pitch is coming up next – stepped to the
forefront when Yu Darvish was rocked by
the Houston Astros in the World Series.
Then it travelled to Chicago when Darvish
finalized a $126-million, six-year contract
with the Cubs last month in one of the big-
gest deals of this round of free agency.
The 31-year-old Darvish, who can throw
seven different pitches, reportedly had
issues with pitch tipping a couple times last
year. After his final start with Texas, when
he was charged with 10 runs in 32⁄3 innings
in a 22-10 loss to Miami, Darvish told repor-
ters he was pausing before throwing his
fastball and was faster with his delivery for
breaking balls.
The Japanese right-hander was traded to
Los Angeles on July 31 and helped the Dodg-
Players get cut as teams hit roster deadline
Washington pitcher Jeremy Hellickson,
Cincinnati outfielder Ben Revere and St.
Louis reliever Jason Motte were among the
latest cuts as big-league teams reached a
deadline to make roster decisions.
Kansas City pitcher Ricky Nolasco, Min-
nesota infielder Erick Aybar and Cubs out-
fielder Peter Bourjos also were released on
Sunday, four days before all 30 clubs play
their openers.
It was the last day for teams to choose
what to do with players who chose to
become free agents after the World Series
and later signed minor-league contracts.
Clubs could either opt to add them to the
25-man roster for opening day, release
them or pay a US$100,000 retention bonus
if they agreed to begin the season in the
minors.
Toronto reliever Tyler Clippard, who
BASEBALL B17
Braden Halladay
draws ovation
on the mound
for Canada
MELISSA COUTO
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.
raden Halladay didn’t fully
B realize the ovation he
received in his Canadian
team debut until he watched the
highlights after the game.
He doesn’t let much break his
concentration while he’s pitching
– much like his father in that
regard.
The 17-year-old son of the late
Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay spent
parts of the last week with Cana-
da’s junior team in Florida, high-
lighted by his debut against the
Blue Jays in Dunedin on Saturday.
He threw a three-up, three-down
inning and left the mound to a
hearty applause from the crowd
and both dugouts.
“Honestly, I was kind of
focused on pitching so I didn’t
really think about it until after-
wards,” the lanky teenager said on
Saturday before Canada’s final
game of the week at Walter Fuller
Sports Complex.
“It was one of those things
where I was just in the zone in that
moment and I didn’t really think
about it then. But looking back on
kind of fighting, so it was a nice little experi- honest. It could be an All-Star game and I’m video, it was crazy.”
ence before I leave, get it out of the way. still going to treat it the same way. Opening Braden first realized he was eli-
“Mentally, physically, I’m in a good place. day, playoff game, nothing ever really gible to play on Canada’s team
I’m ready to go. I’m tired of this spring train- changes so for me it doesn’t matter who I’m during a trip to St. Marys, Ont., for
ing stuff.” facing.” Roy Halladay’s induction into the
Estrada was 10-9 with a 4.98 earned-run Canadian reliever John Axford followed Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
average over 186 innings for the Blue Jays Estrada with 11⁄3 innings, striking out three Braden thought it would be a nice
last season. batters. The 34-year-old from way to remind people of his con-
He is scheduled to pitch the Port Dover, Ont., who signed a nection to Toronto. The right-
third game of the opening Canadian reliever minor league deal with Toron- hander was born there and spent
series against the New York to in the off-season, is expected nearly 10 years there before his fa-
Yankees on Saturday in Toron- John Axford to crack the Blue Jays big- ther was traded to Philadelphia in
to. followed Estrada league bullpen. December, 2009.
The Yankees, who added to with 1 ⁄3 innings,
1 Manager John Gibbons said “In the States, people don’t
an already potent lineup by striking out three before the game that the final really realize this is where I’m
signing NL MVP Giancarlo roster would be announced from, so it’s kind of cool to show
Stanton in the off-season, are batters. over the next couple of days. people this side of me,” Braden
considered the favourites to Toronto closes its preseason said. “Like ‘hey, this is where I’m
win the AL East this year. with a two-game series against the St. Louis from, this is who I am.’ ” Braden
Estrada said he wasn’t fazed by any of Cardinals at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium only pitched that one inning for
that, though. before opening the regular season on Canada over the week – he still
“I don’t care who I’m facing; I treat ev- Thursday afternoon at home against the had his high school pitching
erybody the same,” Estrada said. “I go out New York Yankees. duties at Calvary Christian in
there and I try to make pitches and locate as Clearwater, where his Warriors
much as possible. Nothing changes, to be THE CANADIAN PRESS team is ranked No. 2 in the coun-
try – but he’s expressed interest in
playing for Canada again. The un-
der-18 team reconvenes next
month for an extended spring
camp in Palm Beach, Fla., then
goes to the Dominican Republic
for 10 days in May.
ers win the NL pennant for the first time Maddon said. “But we have our own inter- Roy Halladay died last Novem-
since 1988. He won each of his first two play- nal methods to try to fix things.” ber when the small sport plane he
offs starts, allowing two runs in 111⁄3 innings. Darvish has some company. Kershaw, a was piloting crashed into the Gulf
But Darvish flopped in the World Series. three-time NL Cy Young Award winner of Mexico. Now, Braden pays
He lasted just five outs in each of his two ap- with the Dodgers, said he worked through
pearances, taking the loss in Game 7. Sports some pitch-tipping issues early in his
Illustrated reported in December that he career, and Maddon said almost every
was tipping his pitches, citing
an unnamed Astros player.
game someone thinks they
picked up something with the
homage to his father whenever he
steps on the mound, scribbling
“dad” in the dirt before he throws
his first pitch.
“I do it every time, in my high-
“Obviously, the Astros are a opposing pitcher – to varying school games and everything,” he
great, strong team. So I don’t We try to keep a degrees of success. Kershaw said. “It’s become a ritual.”
really know, to be honest, if said the best defence is the peo- While Braden, with his light
they knew my pitches,” Darvish hand on that a lot ple around you. blonde hair and tall frame, shares
said through an interpreter – like, ‘Are our “I think guys are really good physical similarities to his father,
after his first spring start with guys giving away at picking that stuff up, so really he doesn’t quite match the veloc-
the Cubs. “They could simply pitches?’ you just need to have good ity Roy Halladay had when the
be a good, strong team. And teammates or good coaches Blue Jays selected him in the first
then I think part of it was me TERRY FRANCONA that can pick that stuff up that round of the 1995 draft.
not being at the top level in the CLEVELAND INDIANS can help you fix it if you need Braden tops out around 83
World Series.” MANAGER it,” he said. miles an hour, far from the 95 his
But Darvish worked on From a hitter’s perspective, father would often clock in high
being more deceptive over the winter. pitch tipping is sometimes found in pres- school. But Braden, still a high-
“I’ve tried various things to keep consis- eries scouting. It also comes up in the dug- school junior who’s not eligible
tency and mix up pitches and throw from out during the game, and some players for the MLB draft for another year,
the same slot,” he said. “I’ve tried many have reputations for their ability to pick up doesn’t feel pressure to live up
things throughout this off-season to make the subtle differences. Maddon singled out those standards.
adjustments for that.” former players Eddie Perez and Jim “Other people always put those
No one around Chicago seems too con- Edmonds for their expertise. expectations on you, like: ‘You’re
cerned so far. With pitching coach Jim Hick- Sometimes hitters get it wrong, leading Roy Halladay’s son, you should be
ey, special assistant to baseball operations to some foolish swings at the plate. And the best pitcher at your age no
Jim Benedict, hitting coach Chili Davis and sometimes it doesn’t matter. matter where you are,’ things like
manager Joe Maddon, the Cubs have plen- “There’s times where we’ll see it, but that. But there was never any
ty of experienced eyes on Darvish. we’re not too sure the opponent does,” pressure from him,” Braden said.
Hickey had a successful run under Mad- Francona said. “Then you kind of are like is “He didn’t even make me play
don as the pitching coach in Tampa Bay, it worth, guy’s out there throwing a shu- baseball and he never put any
Benedict spent the previous two seasons as tout. It’s a balance, but we try to keep track pressure on me to live up to him.”
the vice-president for pitching develop- of it because some of these teams are really Toronto’s big leaguers were im-
ment for Miami, and Davis played in the good at it and if they know what’s coming pressed not only with Braden’s
majors for 19 years. they’re going to be much better hitters.” outing in Dunedin, but with his
“I don’t even know to what extent that mature demeanour.
was overblown. We’re going to find out,” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS “It’s amazing to see his com-
posure out there on the mound,”
Canadian reliever John Axford
said. “Getting a three-up, three
down inning and walking off
hearing the crowd and seeing
guys from the Blue Jays and Team
Canada standing up and clapping,
recently signed after working out at a BRANTLEY TO START SEASON ON DL he seems so composed and I’m
camp for free agents in Florida, will begin sure that’s something that has
with the Blue Jays. Outfielder Colby Ras- GOODYEAR, ARIZ. Cleveland outfielder been passed on from his father.”
mus, who left the game last summer, Michael Brantley will start the season on Braden and his family will be in
returns with Baltimore. Milwaukee starter the disabled list as he slowly recovers from Toronto for Opening Day when
Wade Miley and Nationals pitcher Edwin ankle surgery. Brantley has been limited to the Blue Jays retire Roy Halladay’s
Jackson got the retention bonus. 101 games the past two seasons because of No. 32 before playing the Yankees
injuries. on Thursday afternoon.
He said that will be a special
HERNANDEZ TO START 10TH STRAIGHT
moment, and a touching tribute.
OPENER VAZQUEZ, RED SOX REACH DEAL
“It’s cool, especially having
that jersey in my house, to know
PEORIA, ARIZ. Seattle Mariners ace Felix FORT MYERS, FLA. Catcher Christian Vaz- he’ll be the last person who wore
Hernandez is set to start on opening day quez and the Boston Red Sox have reached [the number],” Braden said. “It
for the 10th straight year. Manager Scott agreement on a new contract that takes shows the level of respect for a
Servais made the announcement on Sun- him through the 2021 season. The deal player from the organization.
day. Hernandez will make his 11th opening announced on Saturday includes a team “And it shows how much peo-
day start overall when the Mariners play option for 2022. ple really cared about my dad.”
host to the Cleveland Indians on Thursday
night. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS
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G EO FFRE Y MI CHAE L CAMP
P. Eng.
July 25, 1928 - March 23, 2018
Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex,
England, to Stanley and Gladys
Camp. He came with them as a
small boy to Montreal. Geoff was
born to be an engineer, graduating
from McGill in 1951. He enjoyed
the challenges, the travel and the
colleagues of his profession.
He was married to Margot
(Lusby) in 1953. They moved
from Montreal to several cities in
Ontario and Quebec and settled
in Oakville in 1981 where they
retired. In retirement he was a
keen gardener, a Friday morning
coffee devotee, an enthusiastic
bridge player at the Oakville Golf
Club and a founding member of
the Probus Club of Old Oakville.
He was a loving husband, a very
proud father of his daughters,
Susan Simpson of Victoria, B.C.
and Lynne Cordy also of Victoria
and a delighted grandfather of
Charlotte Cordy of Victoria.
He will be remembered by his dear
sister and brother-in-law, Evelyn
and Lorne Walker of Montreal as
well as cousins in England.
A private family service will be
held at St. Jude’s Church in
Oakville. For those who wish, a
donation in Geoff’s memory to
the Salvation Army, whose work
he admired, would be appreciated
by the family.
ELLEN SHIRLEY COLE
On Friday, March 23, 2018,
Ellen Shirley Cole, beloved
wife of the late Albert
(Tubby), Cole departed at
peace with the world she
made a lovelier place. Loving
mother of Karen Cole (Cary
Galler), Barbara Cole (Steve
Levitan), Jonathon Cole
(Laurie Sheff); and devoted
sister of Lionel Robins
(Helaine Robins) and the late
Toby Robins (Bill Freedman).
Ellen will be fondly
remembered and dearly
missed by grandchildren,
Samantha, Lindsay and Jon
Banack (Gail Livermore),
Charley Levitan (David
Gardos), Michael Jane Levitan,
Matthew, Thomas and Ezra
Cole; and great-grandchildren,
Rachel, Ethan and Aaron
Banack.
Special thanks to Dr. Kennedy
and the expert and caring
team on the 14th floor of Mt.
Sinai Hospital. Funeral, shiva,
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TC passed peacefully, surrounded
by his family on March 23, 2018,
with a big smile on his face
knowing his Leafs had won the
night before. Husband and best
friend of 32 years this Thursday
to Jeanne Aymar. Proud father of
his 3 rose petals, Stephanie, Kato,
and Alison. Dear brother of Jim
and his wife, Brenda. Predeceased
by his parents, Millard Stephen
and Jean (nee Dilworth) and
his aunt, Marion.
Tom was “lucky” enough to marry
into the Aymar family, and will be
sadly missed by his father-in-law,
Johnny (the late Madeline); sister-
in-law, Mary Chessman (Tom); and
brothers-in-law, Bob (Nicolene),
Dave, Tom (Sharon), Bill, Phil (the
late Jeanna) and Jay. Loved uncle
of Julie, Chuck, Rebecca, Kelly,
Jack, Stephen, Matthew, Phil,
Jamie, Brendan, Mark, and John.
Tom will be remembered for his
sense of humour, love of sports,
fishing, betting and travel, and
will be greatly missed by his many
close friends.
The family would like to say
thank you to friends and family
for their love, support and
kindness, especially over the last
couple of years.
Visitation will be held at the R.S.
Kane Funeral Home, 6150 Yonge
St. (at Goulding, south of Steeles)
on Tuesday, March 27 from
6-8 p.m. A Celebration for Tom
will be held in the Kane chapel on
Wednesday, March 28 at 11a.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the
Chemo Clinic at Mackenzie Health
in appreciation of the amazing care
they gave to Tom over the last
few years would be appreciated.
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JOHN EMMETT HALL, M.D.
Passed away on March 22,
2018 at the age of 92. He was
predeceased by the love of
his life, his wife, Frankie, by
only a few weeks.
Dr. Hall was a pioneering
giant in Orthopaedic Surgery,
leading departments at the
Hospital for Sick Children in
Toronto and at Children’s
Hospital in Boston.
A native of Wadena,
Saskatchewan, John was a
devoted father, grandfather,
mentor and friend.
A Celebration of Life will be
held at Mount Pleasant
Funeral Centre, 375 Mount
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Ontario (east gate entrance)
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J ANET WYLIE KANE
(nee Perkins)
Janet passed away peacefully at
home on Wednesday, March 21,
2018 at the age of 83, surrounded
by family. Predeceased by her
husband, the Honourable Justice
Joseph Charles Kane (2005); son-
in-law, Bruno Benedetti (2005);
and parents, Peggy and Ernest
Perkins (1995). Janet is survived
by her children, Dianne, Terry
(Helen), Wendy, John, Steve and
Chris (Jennifer); grandchildren,
David (Mina), Lisa (Moe), Kiah,
Sage, Sara, Violet and Joe; great-
grandchildren, Leila, Selma,
Kaden, Kaleb and Saira.
Janet was born and raised in
Leaside, attending Bessborough
Drive Elementary and Middle
School and Leaside High School.
Her father was one of the men that
helped build Bessborough School.
While at Leaside High she was
selected to represent Canada on a
7-week tour of the British Isles. The
trip included travelling by ocean
liner and meeting the Queen at
Buckingham Palace. In her youth,
she studied ballet, played tennis
and was a playground supervisor
at Trace Manes Park.
At 18 and just having completed
Teachers College, Janet was
blessed to secure a full-time
position teaching Grade 2 at Dublin
Public School in North York. She
and Joe met on the tennis courts
in Leaside and were married in
1956 at Leaside United Church.
Janet loved skating and joined the
Leaside Skating Club in 1959. A few
years later, she joined the Toronto
Cricket Skating and Curling Club
and skated several days a week
until she was 70. In the 60’s
and 70’s, Janet spent endless
hours driving kids, attending
her children’s hockey game
and skating lessons and sewing
costumes for skating carnivals.
She was always on the go and
never slowed down.
Janet instilled wisdom, compassion,
morals, ethics and the importance of
family in her children. Her children
have always felt privileged and
honored to have such a terrific
mother. The two names she
cherished more than any other were
“Mom” and “Nana Jan”.
The family wishes to thank Mary
Haliman, the staff at Toronto
General Hospital, Princess Margaret
Hospital, Temmy Latner Centre
for Palliative Care, the Local
Health Integration Network and
Spectrum Healthcare.
A Celebration of Life will be held
at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and
Curling Club (141 Wilson Avenue)
on Saturday, March 31st, from
2:00 to 4:30 p.m.
If desired, donations made to the
War Amps of Canada, Salvation
Army Maxwell Meighen Centre
or Covenant House, would be
greatly appreciated. Condolences,
photographs and memories may
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GEORGE WRIGHT LEE
Born in North Bay, Ontario on
November 26, 1938 and
passed away peacefully at the
age of 79 on Wednesday,
March 21, 2018 at Joseph
Brant Hospital in Burlington,
Ontario after a long and
courageous battle with
multiple myeloma. Beloved
husband of Margaret (nee
Fountain); loving father of
Cathy (Blair) and Karin; and
proud grandfather of Jordan,
Caitlin and Georgina. He is
survived by his sister, Lundy
Gosselin (Moe); and brother,
Bob (Carol). Predeceased by
his parents, Robert and
Georgina; and his sister,
Elizabeth. He will be
remembered by his many
colleagues in the re-insurance
industry and his friends at
Weston Golf & Country Club.
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GERALD BERTON MOORE
Gerald (Gerry) was born
September 28, 1928 in
Wiarton, Ontario. He passed
away on March 24, 2018 at
Scarborough General
Hospital. Son of Berton and
Hazel Moore of Wiarton.
Gerry will be greatly missed
by his wife, Jean (Dahl),
residing at The Courtyards on
Eagleson in Ottawa; his sister,
Keitha Zimmer of Wiarton;
and his children, Dennis (wife,
Julia) of Kingston, Wendy
Moore (Daniels) (partner, John
Miller) of Ottawa; son,
Andrew (deceased October
2017); and grandchildren,
Austin, Jocelyn, Ava and
Shelby.
Gerry enjoyed a 54 year long
career for McNamara Marine
Construction, eventually
becoming Vice President.
Decades were spent in the
Maritimes building bridges,
causeways and docks. Gerry
loved time spent near the
water whether working or
simply fishing.
Gerry’s amazing memory for
detail made him a fascinating
story teller. He was genuine,
generous, optimistic, modest,
true to his word and loved
music, art, nature, his family
and all of our pets dearly.
The family will receive friends
at the Ogden Funeral Home,
4164 Sheppard Ave. E.,
Agincourt (East of Kennedy
Rd.) on Wednesday from
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. A
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Michael Rumack, loving father and
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Evan Brooker, Naomi Rumack.
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of Leeyat and Lior, and Noah and
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Avenue West (3 lights West of
Dufferin) for service on Tuesday,
March 27, 2018 at 10:00 a.m.
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| MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018
Vettel wins
Aussie GP for
his hundredth
podium finish
JUSTIN BERGMAN
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel
captured his third Australian
Grand Prix on Sunday, taking
advantage of a well-timed, mid-
race safety car to take the lead
and holding off his hard-charging
Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton in
a dramatic start to the new For-
mula One season.
It was the 100th podium of
Vettel’s career and it came in his
200th Formula One race. The
German becomes the fourth driv-
er to claim 100 podium finishes,
joining Hamilton, Michael Schu-
macher and Alain Prost.
Vettel finished the race a full
five seconds ahead of Hamilton,
who started from pole and had
made several late attempts to
catch the Ferrari, but couldn’t
manage to pass on the narrow
Albert Park circuit and fell just
short of the victory.
“We’re not yet where we want
to be. The feeling is good, but I
think we can improve and then
we should be able to race our
game in qualifying and also for
the race,” Vettel said.
Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen fin-
ished third, denying Red Bull’s
Daniel Ricciardo a chance to
become the first Australian driv-
er to secure a podium place at
the Australian GP. Canadian
Lance Stroll did not finish.
A resurgent Fernando Alonso
of McLaren made a bold run to
finish in fifth place, holding off a
spirited challenge by Red Bull’s
Max Verstappen, who was sixth.
Hamilton looked comfortable
up front for the first 20 laps
before deciding to pit, giving up
the lead to Vettel. The race then
took a dramatic turn when Haas
drivers Kevin Magnussen and
Romain Grosjean suffered cala-
mitous back-to-back pit stops
midway through the race. Both
drivers had been running strong-
ly in fourth and fifth places, re-
spectively, but saw their cars im-
mediately fail after coming out of
pit lane within two laps of one
another.
The virtual safety car emerged
as race marshals removed Gros-
jean’s car from the circuit and
Vettel took advantage of the
slowdown to pit and change tires.
He came out of the pit lane just
ahead of a confused Hamilton,
who got on the radio to ask his
team what had just happened.
“Why did you not tell me Vet-
tel was in the pits?” Hamilton
asked.
“We thought we were safe, but
there’s obviously something
wrong,” his team responded.
When racing resumed, Hamil-
ton stayed close to Vettel’s Ferra-
ri, trailing by less than a second
for more than 10 laps, but was
unable to find space on the tight
circuit to pass the German. With
victory looking increasingly out
of reach, Hamilton then eased up
toward the end to conserve his
engine for the next race.
“Needless to say, we got a bit
lucky with the timing of the safe-
ty car,” Vettel said. “It was our key
to win, no doubt.”
Hamilton said after the race
that he still wasn’t clear exactly
what happened.
“I did everything I believed I
was supposed to do,” he said. “I
think just disbelief was really
from that moment until the end.
Just disbelief.”
Vettel’s victory comes a day
after Hamilton set a blistering
track record to capture pole posi-
tion nearly 0.7 seconds ahead of
the rest of the field, a massive
margin that raised concerns
among some teams that Mer-
cedes had the speed to dominate
yet another Formula One season.
But Vettel said he believed Fer-
rari would fare better in race con-
ditions – and he was right.
“They didn’t do anything spe-
cial, not more than they did last
year,” he said of Hamilton’s spee-
dy qualifying lap. “It was clear
that he just a very good lap and
he drove well.”
Ricciardo also pushed Raikko-
nen hard for the entire second
half of the race for a chance at a
podium spot, but the Ferrari driv-
er put in a masterful drive to hold
him off and maintain third.
Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg fin-
ished in seventh place, just
ahead of the other Mercedes
driver, Valtteri Bottas, who
crashed in qualifying and ended
up starting in 15th place on the
grid after incurring a penalty for
switching out his damaged gear-
box.
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MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL O OBITUARIES B19

RONNIE PROPHET CHARLES LAZARUS

PERFORMER, 80 ENTREPRENEUR, 94

COUNTRY MUSIC STAR Founder

of bankrupt
WAS A SUPERB SHOWMAN Toys “R” Us chain
MICHAEL CORKERY

harles P. Lazarus, who founded Toys

C “R” Us, the toy-store chain that for

decades captured the hearts of Amer-
ican consumers but that eventually
faded and succumbed to bankruptcy, died
Thursday. He was 94.
His family said Mr. Lazarus, who lived in
Manhattan, died of respiratory failure at
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
Mr. Lazarus’s death came one week after
Toys “R” Us announced that it would start liq-
uidating its stores in the United States. Load-
ed down by debt and unable to attract new
investment, the chain could no longer com-
pete with more nimble toy sellers such as
Amazon and Walmart, and in September it
filed for bankruptcy.
In the months since, company executives
were unable to convince lenders they had a
viable plan to turn around the flagging busi-
ness, and a dismal holiday sales season sig-
nalled that Toys “R” Us was nearing the end.
The closings announced last week could
result in more than 30,000 employees losing
their jobs.
It was a painful denouement for a com-
pany that Mr. Lazarus founded 70 years ago in
Washington, and that grew into a global toy
Ronnie Prophet plays in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 1980. Mr. Prophet’s shows were legendary; seller with thousands of stores in locations
for many years, he performed daily with his wife in Branson, Mo. ROB VERHORST/REDFERNS stretching from Britain to Asia.
An aggressive entrepreneur, Mr. Lazarus
steered his company through decades of
A Juno Award-winning vocalist, he was also a charismatic TV personality, growth and several years of financial turmoil,
including a previous bankruptcy. The com-
hosting several variety shows in the 1970s and 80s pany’s ultimate success came down to Mr.
Lazarus’s ability to master a basic question:
What do children want to play with?
DIANE PETERS Ronnie apparently was a skinny little thing who ate “When you look at what the creativity of
mainly oatmeal. He started singing at the age of 7 – his the toy market is, you have to have imagina-
father died when he was that age as well – and picked tion, you have to
onnie Prophet, dubbed “the entertainer’s up the guitar at 10. By 15, he was playing on the coun- think like a child,”

R entertainer” had a nearly lifelong career in try-music show The Happy Wanderers on Ottawa radio
country music as a guitar player, singer and station CRFA. Two years later, he moved to Montreal to
television host. Mr. Prophet, who died on play in clubs.
March 2 at the age of 80, performed with some of the While still building his career, he married young, in
biggest names in country music – Chet Atkins, Glen 1958. He and his wife, Jeanne (née Lalonde), had a son
he told a docu-
mentary filmmak-
er in a 2016 inter-
view.
Mr. Lazarus
Campbell, Andy Williams, the Oak Ridge Boys – and named Tony that same year – he also went on to be a opened his first
deftly held his own. professional musician – and another son, Jimmy, was store, Children’s
“He could do it all,” says country musician Jim Staf- born in 1964. Bargain Town,
ford, a long-time friend, of Mr. Prophet’s numerous He also began releasing albums, including an which sold furni-
skills. instrumental record in 1963. By the seventies, he had ture, in 1948, seek-
He was a prolific recording artist with numerous charting hits in Canada and the United States, includ- ing to cash in on
hits in Canada and the United States, including Sanctu- ing San Diego, Sanctuary and It Ain’t Easy Loving Me. the baby boom.
ary, No Holiday in L.A. and The Phantom of the Opry. He Mr. Prophet spent a lot of time in the United States Within a few years,
also collaborated on several duets, including If This is in those years and in 1969 set up a home in Nashville. he began selling
Love and I’m Glad We’re Bad at Something, with Glory- He later bought a club and renamed it Ronnie Proph- toys along with Charles Lazarus
Anne Carriere, whom he later married. et’s Carousel Club. He played there frequently. cribs and strollers.
He received four Juno nominations for Country In 1973, he hosted CBC-TVs Country Roads, a short- In toys, Mr. Lazarus discovered a more
Male Vocalist of the Year, winning the prize in 1978 and lived variety show that had Mr. Prophet, among other lucrative business: Because toys and stuffed
1979. The Canadian Country Music Association tasks, doing the voices for a puppet frog and duck. The animals quickly fell out of favour with chil-
named him both Entertainer of the Year and Country Ronnie Prophet Show then had a stint in 1974, also on dren, parents had to make frequent trips to
Music Duo of the year (with Ms. Prophet) in 1984, and CBC. the store to keep up with the latest fads.
he was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall He got a record deal with RCA in 1975 and moved He opened his first store dedicated exclu-
of Fame in 1999. over to CTV to host Grand Old Country, sively to toys in 1957 and called it Toys “R” Us
He hosted various country-music which had a long and successful run. (although he turned the R around to face the
variety shows on television in Canada In its final season in 1980-81, it was other way to make it look like a child had
in the 1970s and 80s. Even when he Ronnie was so full renamed The Ronnie Prophet Show. In written it).
wasn’t performing on stage, he was the later eighties, he hosted Rocky The company went on to open up cavern-
performing. of mischief mixed Mountain Inn and Ronnie ’n The Browns. ous big-box stores across the North American
“When Ronnie walked into a room, with a little bit of The early eighties proved a difficult suburbs, dominating toys sales with deep dis-
he made everybody laugh,” long-time fairy dust. He time for Mr. Prophet. His first marriage counts and a huge selection, and squeezing
friend Dave Bancroft says. “He made could get away ended and, in January, 1981, his long- out smaller toy shops.
sure everybody was okay.” That time collaborator Cecil (Cy) True, a TV Along the way Mr. Lazarus’s company
approach earned him the nickname with anything. producer and director, died in a fire at endeared itself to generations of children,
“the country Don Rickles.”
JIM STAFFORD
Toronto’s Inn on the Park hotel. with a lovable mascot in Geoffrey the Giraffe
He was so devoted to performing COUNTRY MUSICIAN, Mr. Prophet had visited Mr. True at and a hummable jingle: “I don’t want to grow
that in 2010, on one of his last tours in LONG-TIME FRIEND OF the office he’d set up in the hotel, and up, I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us kid.”
Canada, he had not been feeling well RONNIE PROPHET said: “It’s lovely, but if there’s a fire, Toys “R” Us became a retailing power-
for days, with chest pain and short- you’re dead.” Glory-Anne Prophet says house internationally with stores in Spain,
ness of breath. A doctor with him on tour suggested her husband remembered saying that and “it haunted Canada and Singapore.
Mr. Prophet may have had a heart attack and should him for many years.” “He was a pioneer in big-box movement,”
go to the hospital. She met her future husband that same year, when said Gerald Storch, who was chief executive
This was before Mr. Prophet was to go onstage in she joined one of his tours. He was friendly, but also of Toys “R” Us from 2006 to 2013. “His busi-
Peterborough, Ont. “I feel fine,” he announced to his quite focused. When they ran into each other back- ness concept was as innovative as e-com-
crew. “I’m going to do the show.” stage the night before she joined the tour, he gave her merce is today.”
While his team wrung their hands backstage, Mr. a hug and welcomed her. “And if you’re not ready by 8 Mr. Storch said he regularly reminded his
Prophet delivered what he wife recalls as “the best a.m. you have to find your way to the next city.” staff of the founder’s key business principles:
show he did on the whole tour.” A year later, the two recorded their first song “Having more toys than anyone else, having
After he left the stage, he got into an ambulance together, and released several more before their mar- great prices and being in stock when no one
and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was diag- riage in 1986. else is in stock.”
nosed as having had a major heart attack. He was then In 1997, the couple moved to Branson. For a time, Born on Oct. 4, 1923, in Washington and
sent by ambulance to Toronto for further treatment. they did daily shows there from 9:30 a.m. to noon. raised there, Charles Philip Lazarus was in-
Mr. Prophet’s dynamic performances were legend- They performed live regularly in Branson for 10 years. spired to open his own retail business after
ary. For many years, he did daily shows with his wife in In 2015, they retired and moved to Tavares, Fla. helping his parents, Frank and Phoebe, run a
Branson, Mo., a hub of country-music live shows. Although he lived most of his adult life in the Unit- bicycle shop. He decided to go into baby fur-
He’d do silly things like dress up with a mask and ed States, Mr. Prophet always stayed connected to niture after watching servicemen return from
cape for The Phantom of the Opry. He even made him- Canada. He and his wife would often spend their the Second World War, marry and start hav-
self a horse costume out of wire (a crew member limited vacation time near Calumet. “He loved the ing children.
helped with the sewing) and he’d get right inside it for Laurentians,” Ms. Prophet says. He is buried at a ceme- Toys, he learned, can be a more fickle busi-
the song Horses Scare the Hell Out of Me. He’d use a tery near the family farm. ness. “If you come to us to buy a toy, nobody
crutch and put a boot on it to dress up like a three- Mr. Prophet was a high-energy person who once makes you buy a toy,” he told the documen-
legged man for another song. jumped off his tour bus in Quebec to hunt for four-leaf tary filmmaker. “Although over the years, I
While he had a basic show and set list, he’d often ad clovers with his nieces and nephews. One of his hob- have taught children to say, ‘I need, rather
lib and come up with something new – which catered bies in later adult life was lawn care: He adored his rid- than I want it.’ ”
to the many fans who would see multiple shows. ing mower. His understanding of a child’s mindset
“There was always room for him to be silly,” Ms. Ms. Prophet says the best description of her hus- helped him amass a considerable fortune; he
Prophet recalls. Frequently, a crew member would go band of 37 years came from Mr. Stafford in a recent owned a Fifth Avenue duplex in Manhattan,
backstage in the middle of the show, laughing his phone call: “Ronnie was so full of mischief mixed with which was sold for US$21-million in 2013.
head off. “What did he do this time?” the rest of the a little bit of fairy dust. He could get away with any- Mr. Lazarus stepped down as chief execu-
crew would ask. thing.” tive and chairman in March, 1994. But he re-
Ronald Lawrence Vincent Prophet was born on Before his death, Mr. Prophet was suffering from mained involved in the company as chair-
Dec. 26, 1937, in Hawkesbury, Ont., as there was no hos- numerous health concerns, including heart prob- man emeritus, making a visit to the Toys “R”
pital nearer to the Prophet family farm in Calumet, lems, and had also contracted a serious flu. He leaves Us headquarters in Wayne, N.J., as recently as
Que. Parents Victor and Elsie (née Gauley) had two his wife, two sons, three step-children and 12 grand- last year.
much older children, eldest Elvin and daughter Joy. children. He leaves his wife, Joan Lazarus, and two
(Ronnie was the second cousin of country musician daughters, Diane and Ruth.
Orval Prophet, who also grew up in Calumet.) Special to The Globe and Mail By the early 2000s, the company’s busi-
ness model was under pressure, and Toys “R”
Us was purchased by a group of private-equi-
ty investors in a leveraged buyout in 2005.
The new owners loaded the company with
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