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the Atlantic on this day in 1932. In a bright red what would’ve been the first woman-led, around-
Lockheed Vega monoplane, she took off from Har- the-world flight. Today, she remains a role model
bour Grace in Newfoundland. Completely relying for all, as she embraced challenges no other pilot
on instruments in the cockpit to make sure she in her time would. Still, Ms. Earhart insisted that
was flying upright, the aviator dodged clouds, rain she was no crusader for women’s rights and that
and fog, while fighting ice build-up and keeping her achievement had “no significance in aviation.”
the aircraft from crashing into the sea. After 14 “I flew because I wanted to try it,” she said. “It was
hours and 56 minutes, she finally landed near only a personal satisfaction to me.”
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DeSantis vs. Trump will be a Republican

battle royal, a political spectacle for the ages
Neither candidate does consequential than the confron- first caucuses of the political sea-
tation between Sylvester Stal- son, and he signed a passel of
nuance, neither is a lone and Robert De Niro in the conservative legislative mea-
master of restraint – 2013 film comedy of that name. sures ranging from bans on mak-
hold on for a wild ride In the unfolding version a dec- ing pupils feel guilty about their
ade later, Mr. Trump is portray- race and on gender-transition
ing himself as the dishonoured medical intervention for young
DAVID SHRIBMAN mentor, with Mr. DeSantis strug- people to defunding diversity-
gling to create his own identity, and-equity programs in public
separate from his onetime pa- educational institutions and pro-
ANALYSIS tron. hibiting children from attending
How this plays out is almost drag shows.
T
he overture is ending. It precisely preordained. Mr. One of the fulcrums of the
will be followed, like Wagn- Trump will remind the country fight is over which of the two is
er’s Lohengrin, by an epic that Mr. DeSantis once begged best positioned to prevail against
struggle. for his support in a tough Florida Mr. Biden.
There is no libretto for the op- gubernatorial primary. Mr. De- Mr. Trump argues, against all
eratic struggle between Donald Santis will then think something evidence and despite rulings in
Trump and Ron DeSantis that along the lines of Samuel John- more than five dozen court
gets underway next week when son’s 1755 definition of a patron cases, that he already has beaten
the Florida Governor formally (“a wretch who supports with in- Mr. Biden and remains the most
joins the 2024 presidential race. solence, and is repaid in flat- formidable opponent against
Modern former presidents have Florida Governor Ron One other candidate could be tery”) and will call Mr. Trump a him.
not tried to reclaim the White DeSantis is expected to off-stage but ready for his star wretch without repaying him Mr. DeSantis has spoken wide-
House. Governors have not formally enter the turn in American politics: Tim with flattery. ly of the GOP’s “culture of los-
spurned their patrons, declared presidential race next Scott of South Carolina, the only The two already have sparred ing,” a riposte with real power
their contempt and mounted a week, and will face Black Republican in the Senate, over abortion. In this part of the following the party’s disappoint-
challenge for a presidential nom- former president Donald who is expected to join the race Republican horse race, Mr. De- ing performances in the 2018 and
ination. This is something new Trump for the Republican formally on Monday. Santis took the post position 2022 midterm congressional
under the sun. nomination. What looms in the months when he signed legislation ban- elections and Mr. Trump’s defeat
The fight for the right to op- ALEX BRANDON/ ahead – heck, the first elements ning abortion after the sixth in 2020.
pose Joe Biden next year will be ASSOCIATED PRESS will likely come moments after week of pregnancy. But when state Attorney Gen-
no bel canto; these two pugilists Mr. DeSantis declares his candi- Mr. Trump responded at the eral Daniel Cameron, who had
are not capable of a lyrical per- dacy, with the inevitable Trump clubhouse turn by asserting, the endorsement of the former
formance of great mastery and knock-down post on his Truth “Many people within the pro-life president, prevailed in a guber-
pleasant harmony. Neither is an Social platform – is a psychodra- movement feel that that was too natorial primary in Kentucky
accomplished practitioner of the ma unlike any in modern Amer- harsh.” Tuesday against a DeSantis-en-
soft touch. Neither does nuance ican history. There are some hints about dorsed rival, he said that “the
with any great skill. Neither is a The closest analogue may be the future trajectory of the race Trump culture of winning is
master of restraint. Neither sees the 1980 challenge that Senator in how the two men have spent alive and well in Kentucky!”
or seeks comfort in conventional Edward M. Kennedy of Massa- the last few weeks. The word “loser” is anathema
political behaviour. chusetts mounted against Presi- Mr. Trump was indicted by a to the 45th president. Mr. DeSan-
“We are entering a new phase dent Jimmy Carter. New York City grand jury and tis knows that, and all but ap-
of this campaign,” said Neil Lev- Mr. Carter, accustomed to the then was found liable in a sex- plies the word to his rival, nee-
esque, executive director of the whispery wisdom of the church ual-assault case. He denied guilt dling him while pressing for ad-
New Hampshire Institute of Poli- pulpit, nonetheless proclaimed, in both instances, soared in the vantage. “The time for excuses is
tics at Saint Anselm College. “I’ll whip his ass!” Then he did polls while Mr. DeSantis sank, over,” he said in Iowa last week,
“Once DeSantis is in the race, precisely that. and concentrated on setting out “We’ve got to demonstrate the
people will begin to make deci- Mr. Trump will say much the a fusillade of endorsements, courage to lead and the strength
sions, the poll numbers will be- same thing, perhaps even more many of them from Florida polit- to win.”
gin to change and then they will colourfully. Whether he prevails ical figures, a clear effort to mor- Beginning this month, Mr. De-
harden. The question now is the way Mr. Carter did is the tify his rival. Santis’s challenge is proving to
who has the secret sauce that great unknown. Mr. DeSantis rolled out endor- Republicans that he has both
takes a vote away from Trump This titanic confrontation sements of his own, many of that courage and that strength.
and gives it to someone else, De- gives new meaning to the term them from prominent political
Santis or another candidate.” “grudge match” and is far more figures in Iowa, the site of the Special to The Globe and Mail
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Johnston to decide whether to call public inquiry

Former governor-general tal for countering foreign interfe-
rence, but is struggling to explain
will table his report its own actions,” she said. “The
into Chinese foreign warrant was clearly a complicat-
interference on Tuesday ed case and needed special con-
sideration. Explaining the proc-
esses around such consideration
ROBERT FIFE should not be a state secret.”
STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA But human rights lawyer Paul
Champ said the leaks of this sen-
sitive information are a threat to
Former governor-general David Canadian democracy.
Johnston needs to recommend a “Blair has a duty under the
public inquiry into China’s for- CSIS Act to approve warrants. He
eign-interference operations be- should not be a rubber stamp,”
cause of mounting evidence of he said in a Tweet. “This constant
the Liberal government’s unwil- partisan leaking is itself danger-
lingness to take seriously Beij- ous.”
ing’s threat to Canadian democ- Mr. Trudeau has asked CSIS to
racy, opposition MPs say. find the whistleblowers and the
The government announced RCMP says an investigation is
Friday that Mr. Johnston, its spe- now under way into the leaks.
cial rapporteur, will table his re- The RCMP is not investigating
port into Chinese foreign interfe- China’s interference operations,
rence on Tuesday. Prime Minister which include allegations of ille-
Justin Trudeau has said the re- gal violations of Canada’s elec-
port will include Mr. Johnston’s tion laws, citing a lack of evi-
decision as to whether a public dence to stand up in court.
inquiry is necessary. Other CSIS reports viewed by
In March, Mr. Trudeau ap- The Globe warn that Beijing is
pointed Mr. Johnston, a family the “foremost perpetrator” of
friend, to investigate Chinese in- foreign interference in Canada.
terference into the past two elec- Its agents are unconcerned
tions after The Globe and Mail Police and security staff stand next to Canada’s embassy in Beijing. Classified CSIS documents seen by The about repercussions, one report
reported Feb. 17, based on Cana- Globe outline how China targeted 11 candidates in the 2019 election. HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES says, because of the lack of ob-
dian Security Intelligence Service stacles such as a foreign-influen-
documents, that Beijing employ- mat based in Shanghai. ing out this information from that it took four months to sign ce registry of the kind establish-
ed a sophisticated strategy to dis- The Globe reported Friday, cit- reading The Globe and Mail. the warrant. “No warrant applied in the United States and Aus-
rupt Canada’s democracy in the ing a national-security source, “The allegations brought for- cation ever took as long as four tralia.
2021 election campaign. that in the run-up to the 2021 ward by The Globe reinforce months for approval,” he said. The government has been eye-
Highly classified CSIS docu- election, then-public safety min- what New Democrats have been “They were signed expeditious- ing a package of measures that
ments, seen by The Globe, also ister Bill Blair delayed approval saying about the need for a pub- ly.” could be instrumental in safe-
outlined how China targeted at of an electronic and entry war- lic inquiry into foreign interfe- National-security experts, in- guarding Canadian democracy
least 11 candidates in the 2019 rant to monitor Ontario Liberal rence,” he said. cluding former CSIS director Ri- from foreign interference insti-
election. The documents said the power-broker Michael Chan. “We believe Mr. Johnston chard Fadden, say ministers usu- gated by hostile states such as
11, along with 13 members of “There is overwhelming evi- needs to heed the clear will of ally sign off on warrants after 48 China, but so far has only moved
their staffs, had direct connec- dence of Beijing’s interference in Parliament where all parties and hours to a week. ahead on one item.
tions to a “known or suspected our democracy and overwhelm- independent MPs – except the Mr. Chan told The Globe he Ottawa has held public con-
malign actor.” CSIS did not name ing evidence that the Prime Min- Liberals – voted yes on the NDP was not aware that a warrant had sultations to set up a foreign-
the actor. ister turned a blind eye to it,” motion to call a public inquiry been authorized to monitor him agent registry that would require
The Prime Minister’s Office said Conservative MP Michael into foreign interference.” clandestinely and said he is a vic- people advocating for a foreign
has said the government “will Cooper. “Canadians deserve an- Mr. Chan has for years been a tim of “shadowy allegations and state to register their activities.
comply with, and implement swers and the only way to get national-security target of the absurd conspiracy theories,” Legislation is expected later this
[Johnston’s] recommendations, those answers is through an in- spy service because of alleged simply because he has had con- year.
which could include a formal independent public inquiry.” ties to China’s Toronto consulate tact with Chinese diplomats as But the government has yet to
quiry, a judicial review, or anoth- The Prime Minister’s Office and proxies of Beijing. He has part of his work duties. move on three other significant
er independent review process.” said Friday neither Mr. Trudeau been observed by CSIS meeting He said in a statement: “CSIS measures that were presented to
Since Mr. Johnston’s appoint- nor anyone working for him had with the expelled Chinese diplo- has never discussed their con- cabinet last summer, according
ment, The Globe revealed Chi- knowledge of the warrant appli- mat, Mr. Zhao, according to a na- cerns with me but continues to to four government officials.
nese diplomat Zhao Wei was be- cation against Mr. Chan, a former tional-security source and CSIS unjustifiably harass, intimidate, The sources say these include
hind efforts to intimidate Con- Ontario cabinet minister, Liberal documents. threaten and frighten my friends changing the Criminal Code to
servative foreign affairs critic Mi- Party organizer and fundraiser The national-security source and acquaintances.” make foreign interference an of-
chael Chong and family who is now deputy mayor of the told The Globe that Mr. Blair, Stephanie Carvin, a former na- fence; modernizing the Cana-
members in Hong Kong in 2021 city of Markham. now Minister of Emergency Pre- tional-security analyst and asso- dian Security Intelligence Service
to retaliate for the MP sponsor- “This process does not involve paredness, took about four ciate professor of international Act, created in 1984, to allow the
ing a parliamentary motion crit- the Prime Minister nor his office, months to sign off on the war- relations at Carleton University’s spy agency to share more infor-
ical of Beijing human rights and neither the Prime Minister rant before it was sent to a feder- Norman Paterson School of In- mation on foreign-interference
abuses against its Uyghur minor- nor his office are informed when al judge in June, 2021, for final ternational Affairs, said the gov- activities; and revising the Secu-
ity. a warrant is with the Minister for approval. The Globe is not nam- ernment should do a better job rity of Information Act.
The government has since ex- approval,” PMO spokesperson ing the source because they risk of explaining why it took so long The Globe is not identifying
pelled Mr. Zhang over the inci- Alison Murphy said. prosecution under the Security to approve the warrant. the officials because they were
dent and China responded by NDP House Leader Peter Ju- of Information Act. “The government is being told not authorized to speak publicly
sending home a Canadian diplo- lian said MPs shouldn’t be find- On Friday, Mr. Blair denied that transparency is fundamen- on the matter.
Police given access to Hockey Canada evidence of alleged sexual assault

ROBYN DOOLITTLE thorized to speak about the deci- plete, we will update the public.” London police have investigated Robitaille’s report.
GRANT ROBERTSON sion. In a statement, Hockey Canada the allegations against the play- Hockey Canada told MPs it
Last October, London police spokesperson Jeremy Knight said ers. A 2018 probe was closed with- would turn over the report, but its
investigators filed a 94-page court the sports body is co-operating out charges. But a year ago this lawyers sent a letter to the com-
The London Police Service has document with the Ontario Court with the London police. month, TSN reported that Hock- mittee saying they were con-
been given access to evidence of Justice stating they had reason- ey Canada had quietly settled a cerned that if details were to leak,
that was collected during Hockey able grounds to believe that five multimillion-dollar lawsuit it could jeopardize aspects of the
Canada’s third-party investiga- players sexually assaulted a wom- This evidence includes brought forward by the woman. police investigation.
tion into an alleged group sexual an in a hotel room in the early The Globe reported that money “It would be most unfortunate
assault of a woman by members morning hours of June 19, 2018. interviews with coaches, for the settlement came from a if this committee’s order inter-
of the 2018 world junior hockey The application asked a judge to witnesses and accused fund built by registration fees, fered with a criminal investiga-
team after a gala fundraiser in the approve warrants and produc- players, as well as text without disclosing it to parents tion in this manner and poten-
Ontario city five years ago. tion orders, including for the messages, social-media and players. tially compromise the integrity of
This evidence includes inter- “fruits of the investigative file” The revelations ignited a fire- that investigation,” said the
views with coaches, witnesses collected by lawyer Danielle Rob- content and videos. storm against the organization, March 28 letter from Hockey Can-
and accused players, as well as itaille, who was hired by Hockey resulting in high-profile depar- ada lawyer Andrew Winton,
text messages, social-media con- Canada to investigate the inci- “As you know, Production Or- tures and the federal government which was obtained by The
tent and videos. dent. der proceedings are conducted in temporarily freezing the sports Globe.
The order to turn over the ma- London police spokesperson camera and the court’s endorse- body’s funding and conducting In light of the concerns, Con-
terials was given by Ontario Court Constable Sandasha Bough did ments and decisions are made hearings into its conduct. servative MP Kevin Waugh said
Justice Michael Carnegie, accord- not respond to questions about under seal. Therefore, it would be In March, MPs on the parlia- the committee decided to put the
ing to two sources with knowl- whether the materials had been inappropriate for us to comment mentary committee examining order on pause to give the investi-
edge of the proceedings. The turned over, saying only: “The in- on these specific proceedings, in- Hockey Canada’s handling of the gation more time.
Globe and Mail is not naming the vestigation is active and ongoing. cluding their status,” he wrote. matter passed a motion ordering “We’re in a holding pattern
sources because they are not au- When the investigation is com- This is the second time the the organization to hand over Ms. right now,” Mr. Waugh said.
Indigenous people’s deaths in Atlantic Canada

jails prompt calls for review and reform
Essence of Burgundy and Provence SARAH SMELLIE prison population in Canada. We mother has terminal cancer, so
know that’s because we have when Ms. Denny fell ill she went
Wine Cruise failed Indigenous people so badly to stay with her boyfriend, Ms.
Recent deaths of several First Na- for so long,” said Emma Halpern, Halpern said. “It’s a tragedy that
March 10 th to March 24th 2024 tions people in Atlantic Canadian who is with the Prisoner Advoca- Sarah was in jail at all,” she said.
Indulge in French flavours on an itinerary that highlights jails have prompted calls for In- cy and Transformational Hub and Mr. Paul died by suicide in Ja-
the essence of Burgundy and Provence. digenous-led inquiries and sys- the Elizabeth Fry Society of Main- nuary while in custody at the
Visiting Chalon-sur-Salone, Tournon, Macon, Villefranche-sur-Salone, temic change in the justice sys- land Nova Scotia. “We have to Cape Breton Correctional Facility.
Lyon, Vienne, Avignon, Arles, Nice and Geneva. tem. learn from this, or it’s just going The Prisoner Advocacy and
Tour highlights include: Arles, where Van Gogh once lived and painted, Groups focused on women and to keep happening.” Transformational Hub and the
Lyon once the culinary capital of Europe, visit the Papal Palace in justice in Nova Scotia are calling Ms. Halpern represents the East Coast Prison Justice Society
Avignon known as the City of Popes” and the impressive Pont du Gard. for Mi’kmaq-led inquiries into the Denny family. She said Ms. Denny wrote to the provincial justice
deaths this year of two First Na- died in hospital of pneumonia af- minister on Wednesday asking
COST FROM: $8719.00 CAN. P.P.D. FRENCH BALCONY tions people – 36-year-old Sarah ter being transferred there from that he establish a Mi’kmaq-led
Included seven day cruise, complimentary wine, beer and soft Rose Denny and 27-year-old Peter the Central Nova Scotia Correc- fatality inquiry into their deaths,
drinks with lunch and dinner on board. Free WIFI, porterage, group Paul – in the provincial justice tional Facility in the Halifax sub- with the support of their families.
transfers, port charges, shore excursions, and 6 nights in pre/post system. In New Brunswick, the urb of Dartmouth. She died less Peter McLaughlin, a spokes-
hotel accommodation in Nice and Geneva with breakfast. Wolastoqey Nation is calling for than two weeks after she was ar- person for Nova Scotia’s Justice
an Indigenous-led inquiry into rested, Ms. Halpern said in an in- Department, said Ms. Denny’s
NOT INCLUDED: Airfare, Insurance and items of a personal nature
systemic racism in the justice sys- terview Friday, adding that arrest- and Mr. Paul’s deaths are “heart-
tem after the conclusion Thurs- ing officers had been informed breaking.” The correctional ser-
Call Audrey Johnston CTC, IATM day of an inquest into the death Ms. Denny was sick. Ms. Halpern vices division has conducted in-
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Showing off his manners

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, uses Korean
‘manner legs’ – an extra-wide stance considered
a polite gesture to reduce height differences –
for a photo with Speaker of the South Korean
National Assembly Kim Jin-pyo before a meeting
on Wednesday in Seoul
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Top court defamation ruling protects counterspeech

SEAN FINE objectionable speech (in the eyes man’s request in 2019, saying the expression is counterspeech mo- ruling turned anti-SLAPP law up-
JUSTICE WRITER of some) was up against cancel need to protect public debate tivated by a desire to promote tol- side-down by siding with a pow-
TORONTO culture (in the eyes of others). outweighed any harm to Mr. Neu- erance and respect for a margin- erful teachers’ union against an
The lawsuit was brought in feld’s reputation, which he had alized group in society. His ex- individual trustee who attempt-
2018 by the trustee, Barry Neu- not proven anyway. Mr. Neufeld pression is deserving of signifi- ed to speak for the public that
The right to accuse someone of feld, of Chilliwack, B.C., against was re-elected trustee after Mr. cant protection,” Justice voted for him. “I think it’s a ter-
promoting hatred against a vul- Glen Hansman, who at the time Hansman made his comments. Andromache Karakatsanis wrote rible, terrible sign that freedom of
nerable minority group deserves was president of the BC Teachers’ (He has since lost a subsequent for the majority, joined by Chief speech is under attack by a judi-
protection from defamation law- Federation. The question for the bid for re-election.) Justice Richard Wagner, Justice ciary that’s becoming politically
suits, the Supreme Court ruled court was whether the suit The B.C. Court of Appeal over- Malcolm Rowe, Justice Sheilah and ideologically driven,” Mr.
6-1 on Friday. should be allowed to proceed, or turned the ruling 3-0 in 2021 and Martin, Justice Mahmud Jamal Jaffe said. Access to the courts is
Borrowing a term from First whether Mr. Hansman was pro- said people like Mr. Neufeld and Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin. the real issue, he said. “The com-
Amendment cases in the United tected from such legal action on would face a “chilling” effect on The court did not view Mr. Neu- peting views on the underlying
States – “counterspeech” – the free-speech grounds. It is the type their own speech if they could feld’s comments as hateful but debate ought not to be a factor.”
court stressed the value of ex- of question that has bedevilled not sue others who had poten- said Mr. Hansman’s response was Justin Safayeni, a lawyer for an
pression that seeks to defend courts since Ontario, British Co- tially defamed them. The Su- fair comment – a valid defence to intervenor group, the Centre for
these groups from criticism. lumbia and Quebec passed laws preme Court majority said Justice an accusation of defamation. In Free Expression, said it is in keep-
The vulnerable minority in over the past decade aimed at Ross got virtually everything dissent, Justice Suzanne Côté citing with the purpose of anti-
question was transgender peo- protecting free speech by block- right, and the appeal court got ed the late U.S. Supreme Court SLAPP laws to consider the de-
ple, whom the court described as ing defamation suits intended to nearly everything wrong. For one judge Louis Brandeis, who said in fence of vulnerable or marginal-
“uniquely disadvantaged.” The intimidate and silence critics. The thing, it said, anti-SLAPP laws 1927 that the answer to objection- ized groups in deciding whether
case featured, on one side, an laws are modelled on state laws and the case law on free speech in able speech is “more speech, not to dismiss a lawsuit. He said his
elected school trustee, who had in the United States, which take Canada deal with chilling effects enforced silence.” comments reflect his own views.
said in a social media post that aim at lawsuits by powerful com- on those being sued for defama- Her point, though she did not Robyn Trask, a lawyer repre-
British Columbia’s education pol- panies designed to muzzle their tion, not those bringing the suits. use the term “cancel culture,” senting the BC Teachers’ Federa-
icy would result in the teaching of opponents. But the court’s most important was that some counterspeech tion, said the ruling is important
the “biologically absurd theory” Mr. Hansman sought to use the point was that not all speech is seeks to cancel, or silence, others. because it is the first from the Su-
that gender is not determined at B.C. law (known as an anti-SLAPP equal, or equally deserving of “Counter-speech aimed at com- preme Court to describe discrimi-
birth, and that heterosexual mar- law, for strategic lawsuit against protection. Speech defending pletely removing the initial ex- nation against transgender and
riage is not the norm. On the oth- public participation) to have Mr. equal rights and “diversity in the pression from the public sphere non-binary people. “I think this is
er side, a gay union leader had la- Neufeld’s defamation suit forms of self-fulfillment and hu- appears to be inconsistent with a really important precedent for
belled the trustee hateful and a thrown out before it could be man flourishing” is closer to the the search for truth,” Justice Côté anyone who wants to speak out
homophobe, and accused him of heard. “core values” of free expression wrote. in defence of vulnerable commu-
creating an unsafe environment Justice Alan Ross of the B.C. than speech undermining them, Paul Jaffe, a lawyer for Mr. Neu- nities and marginalized groups,”
for transgender youth. In short, Supreme Court granted Mr. Hans- the court said. “Mr. Hansman’s feld, said in an interview that the she added.
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A6 QUEBEC O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L | S AT U R DAY , M AY 2 0 , 2 0 2 3
Province illegally detained hundreds, documents show

Miscalculations, son Isabelle Boily said in an e-
mail.
identification mistakes Nonetheless, an average of 51
and other clerical errors people per year were illegally de-
kept people behind bars tained for at least one day over
the past decade (excluding years
for weeks, months for which data are missing: 2014,
2015 and 2022).
The ministries of Justice and
FRÉDÉRIK -XAVIER DUHAMEL Public Security “are in favour of
MONTREAL compensating victims of illegal
detention” the government’s
website adds, linking to a printa-
Hundreds of people have been il- ble form that can be mailed to
legally detained – sometimes for claim compensation. This form
months – in Quebec detention went online on March 7, 2019.
centres over the past decade be- But few are compensated.
cause of sentence miscalcula- There were only 16 compensa-
tions, identification mistakes and tion claims with the Ministry of
other clerical errors, documents Public Security by people who
show. were illegally detained between
At least 454 people were illegal- January, 2012, and March, 2022, al-
ly detained for one day or more though this “is not necessarily ex-
between January, 2012, and haustive data,” Ms. Quintin
March, 2022, according to records wrote. Eleven claims were ap-
obtained by The Globe and Mail proved, three were closed and
through an access-to-informa- two are still being processed.
tion request to Quebec’s Ministry The Ministry of Justice re-
of Public Security. Of that group, ceived 55 claims for illegal deten-
53 spent at least one extra week A car is seen leaving the Prison de Bordeaux in Montreal in April. At least 454 people in Quebec were illegally tion between 2018 and 2022, Ms.
behind bars, the data show. detained for one day or more between January, 2012, and March, 2022. ANDREJ IVANOV/THE GLOBE AND MAIL Boily said, and did not provide in-
And the total is likely to be formation on previous years. On-
higher since information is mis- were all Inuit, a group jailed at a des droits et libertés (League of said that such errors are not rare ly 16 were approved, while 25
sing for nearly all of 2014 and four rate 15 times higher than the gen- Rights and Freedoms), a human at all. He said staff shortages were rejected or abandoned, and
months of 2015 because “the sec- eral population in Quebec. rights advocacy group. “It shows among court clerks and archaic 14 are being processed or contest-
tor concerned did not compile Ms. Huard said she and anoth- a lack of consideration for incar- paper-based systems in police ed in court.
this data,” ministry official Na- er lawyer reached out to the judge cerated people’s rights,” she said. stations, particularly in northern Documents previously re-
dine Léveillé said. Data for the and the Crown prosecutor, who The longest illegal detention Quebec, mean files are often not leased by the Ministry of Justice
2022-2023 fiscal year were not yet confirmed there were errors. But included in the data obtained by updated for months. This can show that victims who do get
available, she added. the clerk could never find time to The Globe was an 86-day stretch lead to individuals being arrested compensated can receive thou-
Administrative errors by cor- correct them, and Ms. Huard’s cli- in Quebec City’s detention centre and illegally detained for breach- sands of dollars. Three individu-
rectional services, court clerks, ents remained locked up in Amos in 2015, caused by a mistake from ing conditions that were actually als who submitted claims bet-
the police and others are to and in Saint-Jérôme, north of correctional services. Five years lifted earlier, Mr. Ménard said. ween 2019 and 2021 after being il-
blame, according to the docu- Montreal. later, another detainee spent an In an e-mail, Public Security legally held for 16 days, three days
ments, made up of 114 partly re- “It dragged on for months,” Ms. extra 59 days in the same institu- spokesperson Louise Quintin and two days received $28,000,
dacted pages listing hundreds of Huard said, until she and her col- tion, for the same reason. maintained that errors are rare, $10,000 and $4,500, respectively.
cases. The documents list people league sent a formal notice to the The highest number of cases given there were more than One obstacle to compensation
held for as little as a few minutes court in March, 2022, notifying was recorded at Bordeaux and 400,000 admissions in provincial might have been language bar-
extra to nearly three months of Quebec’s Minister of Justice and the Rivière-des-Prairies deten- detention centres over the past riers, as the online claim form ap-
lost freedom. The nature of the ombudsperson, and they were fi- tion centre, in Montreal, but ille- decade. pears to have been available in
mistakes is not compiled and nally released. gal detentions of at least one day Ms. Quintin said correctional French only, until The Globe
therefore, could not be shared, Illegal detentions in Quebec occurred in nearly all of Quebec’s services implemented measures asked about it. Fewer than 3 per
Ms. Léveillé said. were recently under the spotlight 18 provincial correctional institu- to reduce errors leading to illegal cent of incarcerated Inuit people
The individuals’ names and when Nicous D’Andre Spring, 21, tions, where people serve sen- detentions starting in 2010. These in Quebec speak French, accord-
any compensation they might died after an altercation with Bor- tences of less than two years or include a review of the admission ing to a 2018 report by the minis-
have received for serving addi- deaux guards on Dec. 24, 2022. await trial. and release processes, the addi- try of Public Security.
tional time were redacted for pri- The Ministry of Public Security “Although rare, it can happen tion of a counter-verification Ms. Quintin said the English
vacy reasons, Ms. Léveillé said. has acknowledged that Mr. that a person is detained unjustly stage prior to release, improved form was taken down from the
But The Globe spoke with lawyers Spring was supposed to be freed or for a longer period than ex- staff training and the creation of a government’s website in Novem-
who said they supported clients the day before and was illegally pected, due to an administrative specialized team to compute sen- ber, 2022, during an update, and
who were illegally detained. detained at the time of his death. error,” reads a page on the Que- tences. reinstated at an unspecified date.
Molly Huard said three of her The fact that illegal detentions bec government’s website. Errors The Ministry of Justice took She linked to a page updated on
clients lost months of freedom af- are widespread and persistent can occur while identifying detai- similar steps and created a phone April 25, one day before she sent
ter a court clerk in Amos, in shows that it “is not considered nees, calculating sentences and line in 2013 for correctional her e-mail. Ms. Boily, who answer-
northwestern Quebec, made a an important issue” by the Que- drafting or exchanging legal doc- agents and Crown prosecutors to ed a few hours after Ms. Quintin,
mistake in computing their sen- bec government, said Lynda Khe- uments, it notes. check detainee’s sentences out- said the form was only available
tences in December, 2021. They lil, a spokesperson for the Ligue Criminal lawyer Yves Ménard side business hours, spokesper- in French.
LEGAULT LAYS OUT GOVERNMENT’S PLAN TO REACH 60 PER CENT OF PROVINCE’S GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION TARGET BY 2030
MONTREAL The Quebec govern- budget. The province this year from nine. The plan focuses on billion to reduce the carbon performance of large buildings.
ment has now mapped out how added $1.4-billion for the plan, the transport and manufactur- footprint of buildings, which are Patrick Bonin, a climate and
it will achieve 60 per cent of its bringing the total to $9-billion ing sectors, which account for 40 responsible for almost 10 per energy campaigner at Green-
greenhouse gas emission reduc- over five years. per cent of emissions in the cent of the province’s green- peace Canada, said Quebec is
tion targets, Premier François Mr. Legault said Quebec al- province. house gas emissions. About coasting on the fact that most of
Legault said Friday as he an- ready has the lowest emissions Among the measures in the $215-million of that money will its electricity comes from renew-
nounced an updated green per capita in North America and plan are more than $500-million help fund projects for thermal able sources and argued the
economy plan. he wants that to remain true in to support the construction of waste treatment – methods that plan doesn’t go far enough. He
The third edition of the prov- 2030. charging stations for electric transform waste into energy that said he’d like to see more regu-
ince’s green plan details in- The province is aiming to vehicles, as the government can be used for such things as lations, instead of billions of
creased funding for greenhouse reduce greenhouse gas emis- looks to bring the number of heating. dollars in incentives.
gas reduction and climate sions to 37.5 per cent below 1990 electric vehicles on Quebec Mr. Legault said the govern- “It’s a lot of carrots and no
change adaptation first an- levels – a reduction to six tonnes roads to two million. ment plans to create a rating sticks,” he told reporters Friday.
nounced in the March provincial of carbon dioxide per resident The plan also includes $1- system to assess the energy THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Quebec Muslim groups

sue provincial government
over prayer room ban
SIDHARTHA BANERJEE MONTREAL
Quebec Muslim groups are taking the provincial govern-

ment to court over its recently enacted prayer room ban in
public schools, arguing that the order is discriminatory and
violates the Charter rights to freedom of religion and associ-
ation.
Five Muslim organizations filed their case this week in
Quebec Superior Court, seeking a judicial review of the ban
and to have it declared unconstitutional.
The groups are also seeking a judgment on how secular-
ism and the notion of religious neutrality is interpreted by
the government.
“The plaintiffs request that a declaratory judgment con-
cerning the interpretation to be given to the principles of
laicity and religious neutrality of the state be rendered so
that these principles cannot be used to order prohibitions
NDP Leader Rachel Notley, left, and United Conservative Party Leader Danielle Smith shake hands before of prayers or other religious practices in public places,” the
a debate in Edmonton on Thursday. JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS filing reads.
Education Minister Bernard
Drainville ordered the ban April The lawsuit argues
Alberta parties in dead heat 19 after reports of at least two

Montreal-area schools permit- that Quebec’s official
ting students to gather on school secularism law – Bill
with 10 days left before vote property for prayer. The court fil- 21 – applies to the
ing notes that all of the cases state, not to the
reported in the media in March
and April involved Muslim citizens it serves.
After a lacklustre turmoil for the party this week. focused is a challenge both par- youth. Other than affirming
One, Myles McDougall, apol- ties will contend with as they con- Mr. Drainville has said the the ‘laicity of the
leaders’ debate, ogized for past derogatory com- tinue to take jabs at each other’s concept of prayer rooms runs
the UCP has been ments he made about Black peo- records and candidates. counter to Quebec’s policy of
state,’ the law
embroiled in turmoil ple. Another, Jennifer Johnson, No matter the outcome, she official secularism. His directive prohibits many
expressed regret and embarrass- said, Ms. Smith faces trouble states that school space cannot public servants,
ment after an audio recording ahead. The UCP Leader was asked be used “in fact and in appear- including teachers,
ALANNA SMITH emerged of her comparing trans- after Thursday’s debate about po- ance, for the purposes of reli-
gender children in schools to tential challenges to her leader- gious practices such as open
from wearing
“poop in the cookie batch.” ship, and whether she would prayers or other similar practic- religious symbols on
An embattled United Conserva- Also clouding the Conserva- commit to serving a full term. es.” the job.
tive Party must regain control of tive campaign was a damning re- Ms. Thorogood said a UCP loss The rule applies to elementary
its messaging as its enters the fi- port from Alberta’s Ethics Com- would likely lead to a push within and high schools, as well as vocational schools and adult
nal leg of a bitter election cam- missioner, released Thursday, the party to oust Ms. Smith. education centres that fall under the public system. It does
paign focused on the qualifica- that found Ms. Smith had violat- If the UCP wins, “there’s a big not extend to private schools or Indigenous school boards.
tions of party Leader Danielle ed conflict-of-interest rules by question mark there,” Ms. Thoro- Mr. Drainville has said that he can’t ban prayer altogether
Smith and her NDP rival, Rachel trying to influence Alberta Justice good said. “I think that there will and that students who want to pray should do so discreetly
Notley, political experts say. Minister Tyler Shandro on behalf end up just being an internal and silently.
Alberta’s two main political of a street preacher. The man had reckoning that has to happen The Muslim groups noted that their faith requires mem-
parties are in a virtual dead heat been charged for his role in the around the direction of the par- bers to pray five times a day, including during school hours.
ahead of the May 29 provincial 2022 anti-pandemic-mandate ty.” “Since it is a complete ban on all forms of prayer and
vote. Polls have the New Demo- border blockade near Coutts, Al- During Thursday’s debate, the since prayer is an essential component of Muslim religious
crats and the UCP trading control ta. leaders argued over topics such as practice, this ban discriminates against one group of indi-
of battleground Calgary. Voters in Taleesha Thorogood, a con- health care, affordability and the viduals to the detriment of other groups,” the filing reads.
the city, Alberta’s largest, are seen sultant with Crestview Strategy economy. But neither Ms. Notley The lawsuit argues that Quebec’s official secularism law –
as the key to securing enough who worked on the 2019 UCP nor Ms. Smith ruptured the cred- Bill 21 – applies to the state, not to the citizens it serves.
seats to form government. election campaign, said the re- ibility of the other. Ms. Thoro- Other than affirming the “laicity of the state,” the law pro-
A lacklustre debate between port’s findings won’t make a sig- good said Ms. Notley did not ap- hibits many public servants, including teachers, from wear-
Ms. Smith and Ms. Notley on nificant difference to voters, but pear to capitalize on the issues ing religious symbols on the job.
Thursday evening appeared un- could help the NDP paint Ms. facing the UCP. “State secularism aims to ensure that the state is not
likely to move the needle for vot- Smith as a poor leader. On CTV News Friday morning, religious,” the Muslim groups say in their court filing. “The
ers. But Lars Hallstrom, a political “It does continue to feed into a Ms. Smith said Ms. Johnson could resulting obligation of state religious neutrality should not
scientist from the University of narrative that the NDP have been earn her way back into the UCP be interpreted in such a way as to favour one religion rather
Lethbridge, said scandals that trying to communicate around caucus if elected, keeping alive a than another or to target, directly or indirectly, one religion
have engulfed the UCP campaign incompetence and distrust,” she controversy that dogged her par- rather than another.”
in recent days could compel said. “I think voters, you know, ty this week. The plaintiffs say the decision to go before the courts was
some traditionally conservative they want to be able to elect A day earlier, Ms. Smith had a last resort and came after extensive consultation, adding
voters to sit out the election, or someone that they feel is compe- announced that Ms. Johnson that the Education Department was warned about their
push those who are undecided tent and trustworthy, particularly would not be allowed to sit in the lawsuit on Monday.
over the fence to the NDP. if the ballot question ends up be- legislature under the UCP banner One of the organizations, the Canadian Muslim Forum,
“It’s not going to be good in the ing on the issue of leadership.” if she won her rural riding, La- said in a statement earlier this week that the Muslim com-
Calgary context of those more Ethics Commissioner Margue- combe-Ponoka. The UCP Leader munity isn’t seeking preferential treatment but opposes
moderate or progressive conser- rite Trussler concluded in her recalled Ms. Johnson’s comments being “continuously targeted under different pretext and
vatives, who look at the world port that Ms. Smith’s actions rep- “offensive and vile,” and said they excuses.”
through a bit of a risk-manage- resented a “threat to democracy.” did not represent her party’s val- The Education Department declined to comment on the
ment lens, including economical- Ms. Smith repeatedly mischarac- ues or those of Albertans. lawsuit.
ly,” he said. “You know, where terized the findings of the report Ms. Johnson has “a lot of work When asked about the lawsuit, Premier François Legault
does this person then, as leader of during Thursday’s debate. to do,” Ms. Smith said as she back- told reporters Thursday in Quebec’s Beauce region, “We
the province, ostensibly for the Ms. Thorogood said the com- tracked on Friday. clearly think that schools are not the right place for prayer.”
next four years, land us national- pounding issues facing the UCP “I believe in redemption,” Ms. Barring a settlement, the case is expected to be presented
ly and internationally, and is that are making it difficult for Ms. Smith added. “I do believe that before a judge on June 2.
where we want to be?” Smith and her team to stay on people have the ability to have
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Parks Canada to rewrite 200 historic site plaques

Cast in bronze or
lettered on a sign,
some are outdated
or ignore Indigenous
contributions to history
BOB WEBER EDMONTON
They’re affixed to old buildings

where someone important used
to live. Or they’re mounted on a
rock overlooking somewhere
where something once hap-
pened.
Cast in bronze or lettered on a
sign, they’re sometimes the only
history lesson many of us ever
get. And now Parks Canada wants
hundreds of them changed.
“The way that many of the na-
tional historic designations are
framed and positioned does not
do justice to the breadth of im-
pacts that they had on Canadian
society,” said Pat Kell, the agen-
cy’s director of heritage.
Parks is in the middle of a
three-year program to re-exam-
ine and rewrite the plaques that
the Historic Sites and Monu-
ments Board use to point out
places deemed important to un-
derstanding Canada’s past.
Sites slated for rewrite include
fur trade forts such as Fort Lan-
gley in British Columbia and Ma-
nitoba’s York Factory. Others re- Members of the 78th where the progress of western additional layers of understand- “The story still focuses on a co-
late to the War of 1812, like Queen- Highlanders train at Halifax civilization is understood as inev- ing about them and some of lonialist story,” he said. “You
ston Heights in Ontario. Citadel National Historic Site itable. those understandings are not cel- could pad it a little bit, but it’s still
Some involve historic figures in 2011. Parks Canada is “Earlier assumptions about ebratory.” going to be a plaque about the
who held beliefs at odds with cur- re-examining and rewriting Canadian history that have ex- Many of the high-priority sites building of a fur trade fort.”
rent standards. They include one more than 200 of the cluded Indigenous people, are old fur trade forts. As well, the whole idea of
of the Fathers of Confederation, plaques used to point out among others, can no longer be “Many designations associated plaques depends on written his-
John A. Macdonald; Archibald places deemed important to accepted.” with the fur trade have excluded tory.
Belaney, otherwise known as understanding the country’s Those plans have drawn accu- the essential role of Indigenous That works against Indigenous
Grey Owl; and Nicholas Flood Da- past. sations of presentism – the mis- people,” the document says. “By history, Mr. Coutts said.
vin, founder of one of the West’s ANDREW VAUGHAN/ take of judging the past by stan- … providing recognition of the “Those rules lend themselves
first newspapers. THE CANADIAN PRESS dards of the present. Such charg- necessary partnership that exist- to white, colonialist history.
The rationale for the changes, es have been levelled by Larry Os- ed between the two cultures, this Someone wrote it down.”
as well as a list of priority sites, is tola, former vice-president of gap in historical significance will What gets commemorated is
outlined in a document obtained heritage conservation at Parks begin to be rectified.” changing, said Ms. Kell.
under Freedom of Information Canada. Concerns over how Indigenous “We are actively working with
legislation. “A new woke perspective is be- perspectives are included also af- members of a variety of commu-
The document says that out of ing imposed on what was former- fects sites associated with the War nities who have not been well
2,192 historic sites, about two- ly an apolitical, fact-driven histor- of 1812, in which many First Na- served in order to ensure there
thirds of plaque texts are fine. Of ical designation process,” he tions warriors fought alongside are subjects of importance to
the remainder, more than 200 are wrote in the National Post. British troops and Canadian mili- them that are becoming part of
considered high priorities for But Ms. Kell said the changes tias. our national program of com-
change. are being partly driven by the 2015 Other plaques are trying to memoration.”
Reasons include ignoring In- report of the Truth and Reconcil- come to grips with ideas many fa- Priority areas for that effort in-
digenous contributions or using iation Commission. One of the mous and accomplished Cana- clude the history of diversity, In-
antiquated language, such as “In- calls to action recommended dians publicized that are today digenous history and environ-
dian” or “Eskimo.” Another issue Canada “develop a reconciliation considered abhorrent. mental history.
is controversial beliefs held by framework for Canadian heritage William Osler, sometimes Still, messing with history is al-
historical figures. and commemoration.” called the father of modern med- ways going to be complicated,
The most common reason for She said it’s an attempt to use icine, mocked Indigenous people said Mr. Coutts.
rewriting – covering plaques for the latest scholarship to broaden and wrote Canada “should be a “I love stories that are com-
French explorer Jacques Cartier, the stories told, not erase familiar white man’s country.” plex. That’s what history is. There
Alberta’s Bar U Ranch and Nuna- ones. But Bob Coutts, for many years isn’t a narrative that goes from A
vut’s Kekerten Island Whaling “They build on what was there the chief historian of the Historic to B.
Station – are “colonial assump- before. They take that as a start- Sites and Monuments Board, said “On the other hand, there’s
tions,” the document says. ing point and add additional lay- it’s a mug’s game trying to decolo- still a story in there somewhere
“Plaque texts can be described ers and voices. nize sites that are historic, largely that needs to be told.”
as ‘Whiggish’ in character,” it says. “It’s important to continue to because of their role in coloniza-
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Danielle Smith on the path ahead

The UCP Leader’s career has gone across party lines, and in and out of controversy.
On May 29, voters decide where the story goes
vided by anger against health restrictions

and vaccine mandates, that she contem-
plated entering politics again.
Open to espousing many outlandish
ideas about the pandemic and treatments,
she was boosted by Alberta conservatives
who didn’t trust Ottawa, the provincial
government or the media. As the pandem-
ic subsided, this group gave her the edge in
the UCP leadership contest last October
that made her premier.
And now Ms. Smith is asking main-
stream voters to look past a torrent of dis-
concerting or anti-science or ahistorical
pronouncements from her past.
But the blunders haven’t stopped. On
Thursday, just hours before the only lead-
ers debate of the campaign, the province’s
ethics commissioner found that she con-
travened the Conflicts of Interest Act – as
premier – in a conversation she had with
her Justice Minister on a high-profile crimi-
nal case related to a pandemic-mandate
blockade.
The campaign for the May 29 election
has become more about the polarizing Ms.
Smith than the UCP record. Once relegated
to the political wilderness, Ms. Smith is
back on another political quest.
She’s in the race of her political life
against Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley.
And it’s unclear what’s at the end of this
particular adventure, treasure or calamity.
Former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi tells

a story about the amazing assembly of pol-
iticos that walked the halls of the Universi-
ty of Calgary in the early 1990s. It was a time
when the “Calgary School” of conserva-
tism was in ascendancy and then-Reform
party leader Preston Manning was often on
campus. Peter Lougheed taught a political
leadership course.
Not only was Mr. Nenshi in the legend-
ary former premier’s class, but so were a
hodgepodge of others who would become
future somethings, including right-wing
MP Rob Anders, right-wing media publish-
er Ezra Levant and Liberal strategist and
lobbyist Kevin Bosch. Also in the class was
a future premier, then president of the
campus PC club. “She got along with every-
body. She was nice and she was pretty, and
all the nerdy political guys thought she was
pretty cool,” Mr. Nenshi said of Ms. Smith.
She married one of those guys, Sean
McKinsley, later a onetime executive assist-
ant to Mr. Kenney when he was a federal
politician. Though the union would end in
divorce, the couple’s home was often a
hangout for other young conservatives.
Ms. Smith’s entrance into Alberta poli-
tics came in 1998 as a trustee with the Cal-
gary public school board, which was
marred by infighting between right-and
left-leaning members. In 1999, the prov-
had as being a learning experience, and ince’s then-learning minister, Lyle Oberg,
KELLY CRYDERMAN CALGARY I’ve had a lot of blunders, which means I’ve declared the board “completely dysfunc-
learned an awful lot.” tional,” and canned them all. In an inter-
W
hen she was young, Danielle parison to her history in Alberta politics. Ms. Smith is not the first Alberta politic- view this month, Dr. Oberg, now a support-
Smith’s favourite books were Ms. Smith, 52, has had a political career that ian the Conservatives have punted, but she er of Ms. Smith’s, said he could not pick and
from the Choose Your Own Ad- has included both treasure chests and ca- didn’t shrink into obscurity. choose which board members to keep.
venture series. The classic lamity. Well before her 40th birthday, she She spent seven years in media, appear- “Danielle was not part of the reason the
1980s-era novels gave readers a way to de- was a political star – becoming the telegen- ing at conferences, and then lobbying for a board was fired,” he noted.
termine the outcome of each story. ic leader of the Wildrose Alliance. But just business group. She opened a diner in a After that came six years at the Calgary
“Have you ever read those books?” the five years after that, she appeared to be a classic train car with her husband, David Herald as an editorial board writer, and a
United Conservative Party Leader asks at a spent force. Moretta, staying in High River. job on air as host of the current-affairs pro-
campaign office on the south side of Cal- A disastrous floor-crossing by her and When Jason Kenney celebrated a UCP gram, Global Sunday, where she met Mr.
gary. It conjures an image of an adolescent eight other Wildrose MLAs to the govern- victory on election night 2019 at the Big Moretta, then a producer on the show.
Smith in her childhood home in the city’s ing Progressive Conservatives made Ms. Four Building at the Stampede grounds, They married in 2006.
suburb of Beddington Heights, turning the Smith a self-described social pariah. She Ms. Smith was in the crowd, being asked to It was a time when the policies of Pro-
pages of Survival at Sea. now calls it “probably the biggest political pose for selfies. gressive Conservative premier Ed Stel-
“As you read them, sometimes you end blunder anyone’s ever made.” She lost the Still, most politicos would have never mach were stirring unrest, especially for
up going down a path and it leads to abso- PC nomination in her Highwood riding believed a scenario where she would be Albertans with a strong connection to the
lute calamity and destruction. And then south of Calgary a few months later. back in the running for Alberta’s top politi- oil patch. Mr. Stelmach’s government roy-
sometimes you go down a path and it leads “I’ve had some wrong turns, that’s for cal job. Even she believed Mr. Kenney alty rate hikes in 2007, just before the glob-
to the treasure chest, or whatever it is at the sure,” Ms. Smith says in the interview with would be premier for a dozen years. al economy went into a tailspin, did not go
end of the pathway.” The Globe and Mail earlier this month. It wasn’t until Mr. Kenney’s approval rat- down well with many in the energy sector.
It’s a description that invites the com- “But I always look at every blunder that I’ve ings plummeted, his caucus and party di- That frustration helped cement the rise of
the Wildrose, which became a new home
for unhappy conservatives. It was often
ahead in the polls as Ms. Smith took up the
reins as leader in late 2009, winning in part
because she was seen as being more in
touch with mainstream Albertans than her
socially conservative rival.
Polling also suggested her party was
headed toward a win in the April, 2012,
election. But the PC brand was still strong,
leader Alison Redford ran a solid campaign
and Ms. Smith stoked concerns by ques-
tioning the science of climate change.
Keenly, in the days right before the vote,
two lightly vetted Wildrose candidates
stirred controversy. One made a comment
about the electoral advantages that come
with being Caucasian, and the other had
written a blog saying gays will spend eter-
nity in a “lake of fire, hell.”
Ms. Smith stood by the candidates. “We
focus on the issues on which we agree. We
don’t rip ourselves apart talking about di-
visive social issues.”
But after losing, Ms. Smith acknowl-
edged her party suffered self-inflicted
wounds. This week, it seemed she remem-
bered that lesson. Jennifer Johnson, the
UCP candidate in Lacombe-Ponoka, apol-
ogized after an audio recording emerged of
her comparing transgender students to fe-
ces in cookie dough. Ms. Johnson was told
Thursday she wouldn’t be welcome in the
UCP caucus, should she win her seat.
Like all political leaders, Ms. Smith had
moments where she struggled with what
parts of herself to reveal to the public.
Top: United Conservative Party Leader Danielle Smith, pictured earlier this month, made her entrance into Alberta politics Brandi Morin, an Alberta-based Métis jour-
in 1998 as a trustee with the Calgary public school board. Above: NDP Leader Rachel Notley, left, and Ms. Smith shake hands nalist, has criticized Ms. Smith as Premier,
before a debate in Edmonton on Thursday. TOP: TODD KOROL/THE GLOBE AND MAIL; ABOVE: JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS including a video filmed in front of the
the Alberta political world is divided into she had been “in an industry of making
two camps: Those who stand in admira- sure that you find the most outrageous
tion of Ms. Smith’s political comeback, and statements so that you can get a lot of
those who don’t like and don’t trust her. clicks.”
Some of the latter group will still vote for Mr. Nenshi – a critic of hers since their
the UCP. James Cole, the Wildrose candi- university years – asks then, does that
date in Calgary-Elbow in the 2012 election, mean she didn’t mean what she said in the
wrote an “anybody but Smith” letter dur- past and “she was always playing her lis-
ing last year’s UCP leadership race. Once a teners as chumps?” Mr. Lukaszuk, another
strong supporter, he was disillusioned by ardent detractor, has a list of reasons why
the mistakes of the 2012 campaign. He ar- Ms. Smith is unqualified to govern: “I want
gues the UCP Leader is incompetent and to talk astronomy, she talks astrology. I
untrustworthy. want to talk science, she talks quackery.”
Still, Mr. Cole will vote for the UCP. “I But the other side to the Smith story is
have more reservations about Rachel Not- the belief that she is the living personifica-
ley.” tion of Alberta being the land of second
But in key Calgary battlegrounds, there chances.
are those who might be persuaded to vote “We’re older and wiser. Danielle is a test-
for either party. The swayable voters are ament to that,” said Bruce McAllister, an-
the most important group in a contest other Wildrose MLA who crossed the floor
showing the NDP and UCP neck-and-neck. and now heads the Premier’s Calgary of-
And with them, questions about what Ms. fice.
Smith says and means keep coming up at “If you ask Danielle a question, you’re
the doors. going to get an answer,” Mr. McAllister said.
When Ms. Smith entered the leadership “I would rather somebody be frank and ex-
race last year, it was her provincial autono- plore all possibilities, and put things out
my policies that initially received the most there to be considered. That doesn’t mean
attention. Critics branded her Sovereignty that’s the direction and policy.”
Act as dangerous and unworkable. But it Ian Donovan, a former MLA, left the Wil-
was embraced by those who thought Mr. drose Party for the PCs in November, 2014 –
Kenney, for all his combativeness, had in part because of his lack of faith in Ms.
been too amicable with Ottawa. Smith’s leadership. But today, he said, he
Her Sovereignty Act law, passed last fall, has more respect for her than ever. “She’s
has been barely mentioned since. In the got skin thicker than a badger.”
election campaign, it’s her remarks on On policy, Ms. Smith says her critics
health and the pandemic that have come haven’t recognized the improvements al-
under scrutiny. There’s a lot to look back ready made to social services and health
on. After losing the PC party nomination in care, including ambulance services. She
2015, Ms. Smith was back at work as a radio talks about the recent health care agree-
show host at News Talk 770 CHQR. Her lis- ment with Ottawa, where there was a
teners, over a number of uneasy years, pledge to uphold the principles of the Can-
mostly forgave her for the floor crossing. ada Health Act, in response to critics who
After leaving talk radio in early 2021 – emphasize her past ponderings on wheth-
pointing to “the mob of political correct- er people should pay a fee to see family
ness” – she was appointed president of the doctors.
Alberta Enterprise Group, a business lob- What are her guiding principles? She de-
bying group. She also wrote newsletters clined to be sworn in as Premier on a Bible.
and had her own podcast. She is agnostic and pro-choice, and has
Top: People protest measures put in place by authorities to curb the spread of COVID-19 With her media community, she entered spoken of the importance of bodily auton-
and vaccine mandates at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton in January, 2022. the leadership race last summer as the spo- omy. She struggled to persuade members
Above: NDP Leader Rachel Notley campaigns in Calgary earlier this month. kesperson for a movement of Albertans of the Wildrose a decade ago that battling
TOP: JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS; ABOVE: TODD KOROL/THE GLOBE AND MAIL deeply opposed to government vaccine on socially conservative issues was a politi-
mandates and health restrictions – actions cal dead end. Her government has become
that society at large had decided was the particularly attached to a policy she once
best course for preventing hospitals from lobbied for – a plan to clean up old oil wells,
House of Commons in which she said In- being overwhelmed, and COVID-19 deaths. one that will give public dollars to compa-
digenous peoples and settlers “united to Most famously, in a 2021 interview, she nies that even many oil-and-gas insiders
tame an unforgiving frontier” to ensure the If you ask Danielle a compared the vast majority of COVID-19 don’t support.
“prosperity of future generations.” That vaccinated Canadians to those who fell in- She has described herself as a rural con-
characterization of history, said Ms. Morin, question, you’re going to to line under tyrants such as Hitler. She al- servative and a “libertarian populist.” In a
leaves out the land and resources grab. get an answer. I would so said the politicians of the pandemic era 2021 newsletter where she wrote about the
But Ms. Morin said she has long admired rather somebody be frank had ruined wearing Canada’s Remem- “vilification campaign against those of us
Ms. Smith’s smarts and ambition, which is and explore all possibilities, brance Day symbol, a poppy, for her that who were unvaccinated,” she described
why she took a job with the Wildrose for a November. Both Jewish and veterans herself as a “libertarian conservative.”
stint in 2014. A memory that stands out is a and put things out there to groups strongly objected. “That means I fight like hell for freedom,
legislature speech Ms. Morin wrote for Ms. be considered. That doesn’t “COVID was a really difficult and frus- but I am also a rule follower. It’s not my na-
Smith to mark a final event for the Truth mean that’s the direction trating time for everyone, including me,” ture to defy authority. Perhaps it’s my Ca-
and Reconciliation Commission. The and policy. Ms. Smith explained this month. “Some- tholic upbringing,” added Ms. Smith, who
speech focused on Theodore Fontaine of times I let my frustrations get to me during wasn’t comfortable with mRNA vaccines,
Winnipeg, who wrote a book about the BRUCE MCALLISTER that time. I clearly shouldn’t have.” but did get the Janssen vaccine during a
horrific abuse he endured as a child in resi- WILDROSE MLA WHO CROSSED While running for the leadership, Ms. U.S. trip.
dential school. Ms. Smith was forced to THE FLOOR AND NOW HEADS Smith called on cabinet ministers to apol- She has voiced esteem for controversial
DANIELLE SMITH’S CALGARY OFFICE
pause, to compose herself, as she cried tell- ogize for COVID-19 “lockdowns.” But she U.S. governors such as South Dakota’s Kris-
ing his story. didn’t offer a full apology regarding her ti Noem and Florida’s Ron DeSantis. “Any
Ms. Morin was moved by the leader’s comments on preventative health mea- time I hear a politician talking about free-
emotion in the delivery but afterward, Ms. betrayal of voters’ wishes. sures. While speaking to a naturopathic dom, then I’m going to admire that,” she
Smith told her: “Yeah, I couldn’t handle it Promises for cabinet positions for Ms. doctor on a broadcast last year, she seemed said in the interview.
and I broke.” Ms. Smith was upset with her Smith and high-profile Wildrose MLA Rob to suggest cancers were “completely with- She has also characterized the UCP as a
public display of emotion, Ms. Morin re- Anderson were soon ditched once Mr. in your control” before Stage 4. She later union of libertarians and social conserva-
calls. “When I think of her being upset be- Prentice heard the anger from within his said she was talking about there being tives. In the interview, I ask her whether
cause she cried, it’s because it’s a man’s own caucus. “Prentice walks in and says, more options with an early diagnosis. Take Back Alberta – the anti-establishment
world.” ‘they’re crossing to us.’ Everyone gets fu- Her tendency to put mainstream med- group that grew out of the pandemic,
Then there was hope the party would rious,” said former PC MLA Thomas Lukas- icine on trial can have real world effects. which has emphasized traditional roles for
pick itself up. But when Ms. Redford re- zuk, recalling that time. Jon Meddings, the past dean of the Univer- women – has undue influence on her party
signed, the leadership win of former feder- Ms. Smith acknowledged people were sity of Calgary’s Cumming School of Med- and leadership? “They wanted to end man-
al cabinet minister Jim Prentice injected disappointed. Early in the new year, she icine, is concerned about the dwindling dates. I wanted to end mandates. Mandates
new life into the PCs. The loss in four by- apologized, saying “it has angered a lot of number of medical graduates who want to are over.”
elections in October, 2014, was a crushing people.” take up residency spots in Alberta. Ms. Smith has also been effective at re-
blow. That March, she lost the nomination. “It certainly doesn’t help that we have a building some party unity, and rounding
At an AGM that fall, Ms. Smith said she She was out of politics before the May, 2015, government that openly muses about ri- up advisers from her past. Mr. Anderson
would resign as leader if she didn’t win the election that would mark the end of the PC diculous things,” said Dr. Meddings, a gas- and Ms. Smith didn’t talk much for years af-
job of premier in the next election. Right dynasty, and the rise of the NDP. troenterologist. “Having the highest levels ter the floor crossing, but were brought
afterward, two Wildrose MLAs crossed the of government call into question the value back together as friends by “frustrations
floor to the PCs, including Ms. Smith’s close of vaccination, call into question different with lockdowns and Ottawa,” according to
friend Kerry Towle. Both Ms. Smith and Ms. Notley have had types of treatment for cancer, these types Mr. Anderson.
It all led to that pivotal moment in Al- personal political losses, and both are seek- of things make a physician’s job very hard.” He considered running for the UCP lead-
berta political history. In Western democ- ing redemption. And Albertans will vote But Ms. Smith plays down her past re- ership himself when Mr. Kenney left but
racies, it’s almost unheard of for an Official based on the histories of the two parties, marks. “People forget that I was on radio decided against it, saying Ms. Smith’s years
Opposition party leader to cross the floor. the state of the economy and their con- for six years and I spent my time talking to outside of politics prepared her for the role.
But in December, 2014, for a brief moment, cerns about health care or the environ- thousands of people.” She also believes she He’s now responsible for some of the most-
it seemed like a brilliant idea – couched in ment. shouldn’t be judged by things she has said combative messaging from her office.
the name of conservative unity – before be- But for many voters, this election is a ref- as a radio host because it was said “in an Ms. Smith is asking people not to exam-
ing widely denounced as an opportunistic erendum on the UCP Leader herself. And entertainment forum.” Last fall she said ine every utterance in her life before re-en-
tering politics. But even as a leadership
candidate and Premier, there’s been a se-
ries of controversial statements and mis-
steps. Most clearly, this is shown in her de-
cision in January to speak to Artur Pawlow-
ski – a man now found guilty of mischief,
for encouraging protesters to keep going at
the border blockade in Coutts last year.
In the phone call with him early this
year, recorded by Mr. Pawlowski and post-
ed online, she sounded sympathetic.
The province’s Ethics Commissioner
Marguerite Trussler says just a few hours
after that phone call, Ms. Smith phoned Al-
berta Justice Minister Tyler Shandro to talk
about Mr. Pawlowski’s case. “She wanted
him to make it go away, although she did
not direct him to do so,” wrote Ms. Trussler,
who concluded that was a contravention of
the Conflicts of Interest Act.
In her interview with The Globe, well be-
fore the release of the report, Ms. Smith
spoke of her call with Mr. Pawlowski. “The
only way that I can make good decisions is
by being open, being willing to talk to a lot
of people and to say, ‘hey, look I’ll check in-
to that. I’ll get back to you.’ That’s just sort
of a standard line that politicians say.”
Many didn’t see it just 18 months ago,
but Ms. Smith knew she had enough of a
following from her media work that she
could unify the UCP. Now, she acknowledg-
es there’s a difference between being a
media personality – where her job was to
talk ideas – and governing, where you must
have wide support for your choices.
“That’s one of the transitions I’m going
Ms. Smith has described herself as a rural conservative and a ‘libertarian populist.’ She has also voiced esteem for controversial through right now,” she says in the inter-
U.S. governors such as South Dakota’s Kristi Noem and Florida’s Ron DeSantis. ‘Any time I hear a politician talking about freedom, view. “In the Choose Your Own Adventure
then I’m going to admire that,’ she says. TODD KOROL/THE GLOBE AND MAIL book, I’m not quite done yet.”
Stronach-owned racetrack under scrutiny

Deaths of horses at ers, are pushing for complete re-
construction of Laurel Park’s
Laurel Park last month tracks.
come as renovation plan This month, the state set up a
funded by government new agency, the Maryland Thor-
oughbred Racetrack Operating
has stalled over costs Authority, which will craft a new
renovation plan by December.
The authority also has the power
ADRIAN MORROW to take over the tracks if the Stro-
U.S. CORRESPONDENT nach Group pulls out.
WASHINGTON Bill Cole, a Baltimore consult-
ant who represents the city in ren-
ovation negotiations, said the
A Maryland racetrack owned by state is not willing to pay more.
the Stronach Group is under re- “We’ve heard from legislative
newed scrutiny over horse deaths leaders that there really is no ad-
at the same time as a govern- ditional money for the capital
ment-funded renovation plan for program,” he said. “The legisla-
the facility has stalled. ture has been very frustrated.”
Laurel Park, partway between The state and city priority has
Washington and Baltimore, long been preserving the Preak-
closed for a week last month after ness and keeping it in Baltimore.
two horses died during back-to- This could mean shutting down
back races – the third time in two Horses are seen on the track at Laurel Park earlier this month in Laurel, Md. A project to renovate the racetrack Laurel Park entirely and moving
years that horse deaths forced a and Pimlico Race Course, both owned by the Stronach Group, has failed to get off the ground because the all racing to Pimlico. Such a move
temporary shutdown. projected cost has far exceeded the public funds already committed by the state. would run counter to the Stro-
Meanwhile, a project to reno- KENNETH K. LAM/THE BALTIMORE SUN/TNS/ABACA VIA REUTERS CONNECT nach Group’s operations in recent
vate Laurel Park and Pimlico Race years; the company has held al-
Course, another Stronach-owned Laurel Park and Pimlico have mals on racing days. After the plan for Pimlico, including a most all racing at Laurel Park, us-
Maryland track, has failed to get long benefited from government number of deaths fell, the state larger clubhouse and longer ing Pimlico only for the Preak-
off the ground because the pro- help. The state directs a percent- opted not to act. track. It has also not yet finalized ness.
jected cost has far exceeded the age of casino revenues to subsi- The company also backed the the terms of its land transfer to Alan Foreman, a lobbyist for
US$375-million in public funds al- dize horse racing, with some U.S. Horse Racing Integrity and the city, in part because the com- the Maryland Thoroughbred
ready committed by the state. money funding racing purses and Safety Act in 2020, which set rules pany wants to limit how the land Horsemen’s Association, said he
The trouble is unfolding on the some used to pay for track im- for horse treatment and created can be redeveloped. understands the Stronach Group
eve of the Preakness Stakes at provements. Last year, that mon- an industry-run regulator. Adding to the price tag, the is also interested in keeping con-
Pimlico, the second jewel in the ey totalled more than US$90-mil- Ms. Steer declined to answer Stronach Group learned it will trol of the high-profile race. “They
Triple Crown of U.S. horse racing, lion. questions about the Stronach have to pay tens of millions in fed- clearly do not want to give up
and is shining a spotlight on the The two tracks have seen 321 Group’s future in Maryland, writ- eral tax if it receives public money Pimlico and the Preakness. I don’t
safety of the sport, which has horses die since 2014, according ing, “There is no point in speculat- to renovate Laurel Park. To avoid think they have that same view
been hammered by waves of to figures compiled by Horserac- ing on the final scope of the reno- the charge, the company has with respect to Laurel,” he said.
horse deaths even as the industry ing Wrongs from freedom-of-in- vation project,” since “many op- floated the possibility of selling An operating agreement be-
has continued to be propped up formation requests to Maryland’s tions need to be evaluated.” the track to a government agency. tween the Stronach Group and
by taxpayer dollars. Similar prob- racing regulator. The project began in 2020, The delays – amid higher infla- the horsemen’s association ex-
lems plagued the Kentucky Derby Tiffani Steer, a Stronach Group when the state government tion and interest rates – mean the pires next month, and the two
earlier this month at Churchill spokesperson, vowed the compa- agreed to pay for overhauls to bonds will raise less money than sides have not yet agreed on an
Downs, where seven horses died ny would “constantly monitor both tracks by raising US$375- anticipated, while construction extension. At issue in the deal, Mr.
in the two weeks leading up to the and evaluate” its racing surfaces, million via a bond issue. In ex- costs will be higher. Foreman said, is a subsidy the
race. safety and medication protocols change, the Stronach Group During this time, Laurel Park horsemen pay the Stronach
“We’re taking money that to reduce deaths at its tracks. agreed not to move the Preakness has dealt with clusters of horse Group – more than US$90-mil-
could be used for building schools “We are steadfastly committed out of Pimlico, a 153-year-old deaths. The Stronach Group re- lion since 2012, taken out of reve-
and using it to subsidize a cruel to achieving the highest level of track in Baltimore. The company built the track over four months nues from simulcasting races.
and deadly industry,” said Patrick horse care and safety standards in would also give the city control of in 2021 after two horses died in a Mr. Battuello and his group are
Battuello of Horseracing Wrongs, thoroughbred racing and train- the track for other events during single morning in April of that planning to protest at the Preak-
an animal welfare group. “How ing, and we have a proven track the rest of the year, as well as year. It was closed again that No- ness on Saturday in a bid to turn
long are we going to keep doing record of pushing those stan- some adjacent land for commer- vember after seven horses died in up the heat. Their goal is for the
this?” dards forward,” she wrote in an e- cial redevelopment. a month. This past April 20, thor- sport to go the way of greyhound
The Aurora, Ont.-based Stro- mail to The Globe and Mail. But the work never got started oughbreds Golden Pegasus and racing, which has ended in all but
nach Group, which does business The Stronach Group previous- because the projected cost bal- Bigmancan were euthanized after one U.S. state.
as 1/ST Racing & Gaming, owns ly had to make changes to its op- looned as high as US$725-million. getting injured in consecutive To Mr. Foreman, it’s imperative
six horse tracks and a casino in erations after a string of horse In a report, the Maryland Stadium races, and the Stronach Group to reduce the number of deaths to
the U.S. It is run by Belinda Stro- deaths in 2019 at another of its Authority, the state agency tasked shut and resurfaced the track avoid such a fate.
nach, a former federal cabinet racetracks, Santa Anita Park near with overseeing the renovations, once more. “Zero fatalities is not achieva-
minister, who took over the busi- Los Angeles. Amid threats of clos- said it discovered after the deal In part because of the deaths, ble … but we do the best we can,”
ness from her father, auto parts ing by state politicians, the com- was struck that Laurel Park is so the Maryland Stadium Authority he said. “Any time you see it, it
magnate and racing aficionado pany enacted new rules on horse run down it needs a total rebuild. and the Maryland Thoroughbred plays into the hands of the animal
Frank Stronach, after a family treatment, including a ban on The Stronach Group, mean- Horsemen’s Association, which rights advocates who would be
feud. drugging and whipping the ani- while, asked for changes to the represents the state’s horse own- happy to see us go away.”
Air strikes hit Khartoum as RSF chief dropped from ruling body
NAFISA ELTAHIR KHARTOUM ticipated step on Friday of real-Haj added. Generals Yasser Al-Atta and Ibra- some roads in southern Khar-
moving RSF chief Mohamed The RSF has accused the army him Jabir were each appointed toum to keep the RSF away from
Hamdan Dagalo, better known as of starting the conflict and vio- assistants to the commander. an important military base there.
Sudan’s capital Khartoum and Hemedti, from his post as his lating ceasefires. It says that Air strikes on Friday targeted Fighting also flared in the city
sister city Bahri came under re- deputy on the ruling Sovereign those who have committed districts in eastern Khartoum of Nyala, capital of the South Dar-
newed air attack on Friday as the Council. crimes are wearing stolen RSF and witnesses reported hearing fur region in the southwest, for a
war between the army and para- The two had run the council uniforms. anti-aircraft weapons used by the second day after weeks of rela-
military forces entered its fifth since 2019 when they overthrew Fighting broke out on April 15 RSF. Bahri and Sharg el-Nil across tive calm.
week, deepening a humanitarian strongman President Omar al- after disputes over plans for the the Nile river from Khartoum Heavy gunfire and artillery
crisis for trapped and displaced Bashir amid mass protests RSF to be integrated into the ar- were subjected to air strikes over- detonations went on all day in
civilians. against his rule, before staging a my and over the future chain of night and Friday morning. Nyala. A local market caught fire
Mass looting by armed men coup in 2021 as a deadline neared command under an internation- “On the road I saw about 30 and it was difficult for those in-
and civilians alike is making life to hand power to civilians for a ally backed deal to shift Sudan military trucks destroyed by [air] jured to get to hospitals, local ac-
an even greater misery for Khar- transition toward free elections. toward democracy after decades strikes. There were bodies every- tivists said. The Darfur Bar Asso-
toum residents pinned down by There has been no break- of conflict-ridden autocracy. where, some of them army and ciation, a human rights group,
fierce fighting between the regu- through in Saudi- and U.S.-spon- Gen. al-Burhan installed Malik some RSF. Some had started de- said that 27 people had been
lar military and paramilitary sored ceasefire talks in the Saudi Agar, leader of a rebel group who composing. It was really horri- killed and dozens injured so far.
Rapid Support Forces (RSF), wit- city of Jeddah. joined the council in 2020 after ble,” said Ahmed, a young man They called on the RSF, whose
nesses said. At an Arab League meeting signing a peace agreement with making his way through Bahri. movements it blamed for the fla-
The conflict has displaced an there on Friday, a statement by the government, as his new dep- The RSF is embedded in resi- reup, to recommit to a locally
estimated 843,000 people within Sudan’s envoy accused the RSF of uty, according to a second decree. dential districts of much of Khar- brokered truce.
Sudan and put around 250,000 to looting and rape, and of violating Later that day, Gen. al-Burhan toum and adjoining Bahri and Militia attacks and subsequent
flight into neighbouring coun- a succession of ceasefires. promoted other military officers Omdurman, drawing almost clashes in the West Darfur city of
tries, the United Nations refugee “We trust that you will stand who served on the council, in- continual air strikes by the regu- Geneina have claimed the lives of
agency said on Friday. by the Sudanese army and will cluding appointing General lar armed forces. hundreds.
Army chief General Abdel Fat- accompany us in the next step of Shams El-Din Kabbashi as deputy Witnesses said the army had
tah al-Burhan took the long-an- reconstruction,” envoy Dafallah commander of the armed forces. also started placing barriers on REUTERS
Surge of Saudi diplomacy brings al-Assad, Zelensky to Arab League summit

BASSEM MROUE “whatever helps in reducing the voted in favour of UN resolutions
crisis between Russia and Uk- calling on Russia to end its inva-
raine.” He added that the king- sion and opposing the annexa-
Saudi Arabia hosted an Arab dom, which brokered a prisoner tion Ukrainian territory. But it has
League summit on Friday in exchange last year, “is ready to ex- resisted U.S. pressure to increase
which Syrian President Bashar alert efforts for mediation.” oil production in order to squeeze
Assad was welcomed back after a Addressing the summit in En- Russia’s revenues.
12-year suspension and Ukrainian glish, Mr. Zelensky appeared to in- Mr. al-Assad, a close ally of both
President Volodymyr Zelensky voke the Arab world’s own trou- Russia and Iran, said he hoped the
made a surprise visit to rally sup- bled history of invasion and occu- summit would mark a “new stage
port against Russia. pation, saying Ukraine “will never of Arab solidarity” that would
Russian air strikes have left a submit to any foreigners or colo- bring peace “instead of war and
swath of destruction across both nizers.” destruction.” He added that Arab
countries, but in Syria they came He took a swipe at Iran for sup- countries should reject “external
at Mr. al-Assad’s invitation and plying attack drones to Russia and interference” in their affairs.
helped him cling to power spoke about the suffering of Mus- A collective statement issued
through years of grinding civil lim ethnic Tatars living under at the conclusion of the summit
war. Other Arab states have dee- Russian occupation in Crimea. He rejected any “illegitimate foreign
pened ties with Moscow while re- also accused some in the hall of presence” in Syria and supported
maining largely neutral on the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greets Ukraine’s President “turning a blind eye” to Russia’s the eventual return of Syrian refu-
Ukraine war. Volodymyr Zelensky, right, during the Arab League summit in Jeddah, violations. gees. It also condemned Israel’s
The odd pairing of the two Saudi Arabia, on Friday. SAUDI PRESS AGENCY/AP The visit comes amid a whirl- “crimes against the Palestinian
leaders in the same forum is the wind of international travel by the people,” called on Lebanon to
result of a recent flurry of diplo- frontation with archrival Iran. the push for Syria’s return to the Ukrainian leader, but until now overcome its political paralysis
macy by Saudi Crown Prince Mo- In recent months, Saudi Arabia 22-member Arab League. he has mostly visited allied coun- and encouraged dialogue in Su-
hammed bin Salman, who is pur- has restored diplomatic ties with The Saudi Crown Prince wel- tries. dan, where rival generals have
suing regional rapprochement Iran, is ending the kingdom’s comed both Mr. al-Assad and Mr. Saudi Arabia pledged US$400- been at war since last month.
with the same vigour he previous- years-long war against Iran- Zelensky to the Red Sea city of Jed- million ($540-million) in aid to
ly brought to the kingdom’s con- backed rebels in Yemen and led dah, expressing support for Ukraine earlier this year and has ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ukraine’s Zelensky set to take part in G7 summit

Biden endorses F-16 ther tighten the vise on Mr. Putin’s
ability to wage his barbaric inva-
fighter jet training for sion and will advance our global
Ukrainian pilots as efforts to cut off Russian attempts
administration moves to to evade sanctions.”
Canada announced more than
arm country with more 70 new sanctions. The Prime Min-
advanced weaponry ister’s Office said the sanctions are
on “17 individuals and 18 entities
linked to Russian companies that
HIROSHIMA provide military technology and
know-how to Russia’s armed
forces, family members of listed
U.S. President Joe Biden told allies persons, and members of the
Friday he was approving plans to Kremlin elite.”
train Ukrainian pilots on U.S.- Sanctions will also be applied
made F-16 fighter jets, according on 30 individuals and eight enti-
to two people familiar with the ties “involved in Russia’s ongoing
matter, as leaders of the world’s human rights violations, includ-
most powerful democracies ing the transfer and custody of
worked to toughen punishments Ukrainian children in Russia.”
on Russia for its 15-month inva-
sion of Ukraine. ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Group of Seven leaders are U.S. President Joe Biden’s backing of training Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets, pictured in Iraq in 2015,
meeting in Hiroshima, with Uk- With files from The Canadian Press serves as a precursor to sending the jets to Ukraine for the first time. THAIER AL-SUDANI/REUTERS
rainian President Volodymyr Ze-
lensky set to take part in their
summit on Sunday.
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A mortar unit near sian casualties. tions. They said their location “It’s very difficult to carry out before Russia’s full-scale invasion
A Ukrainian mortar unit near could not be disclosed. combat missions there and every nearly 15 months ago, as an im-
city of Bakhmut facing the city told Reuters it had ad- Ukraine says it has made small metre [of advance] is like 10 kilo- portant part of a campaign to
heavy fire from Kremlin vanced this week, but was facing advances this week on the flanks metres in other conditions.” capture the rest of the industrial
forces with significant heavy fire from Russian forces of the city in the industrial Don- She said the Russian forces Donbas region of eastern Uk-
who appeared to have significant bas region even as Russia’s Wagn- had made “some progress” in- raine.
stocks of ammunition strength in manpower and stocks er private army has inched closer side Bakhmut but did not say Ukrainian Defence Minister
of ammunition. to capturing the city itself. how far forward they had ad- Oleksii Reznikov told Ukrainian
“The fire was intensive this Deputy Ukrainian Defence vanced. news portal RBK that Russia had
IVAN LYUBYSH-KIRDEY KYIV week. Our forces pushed forward Minister Hanna Maliar said the The head of Russian mercena- taken up to 70,000 casualties in
a little, stopped near the canal. Russian forces had gained some ries fighting in Bakhmut said the and around Bakhmut including
It’s hard to push them [the Rus- ground inside Bakhmut in fierce city was unlikely to fall in the dead and wounded.
Ukraine said on Friday it had re- sians] out of there,” said a soldier fighting but did not control the next two days. Ukrainian sol- The assertion could not be in-
pelled attacks by Russian forces with the call sign Medvid, which city. diers, he said, were holed up in a dependently verified. Russia says
trying to recapture land they had means “bear” in Ukrainian. “The enemy is trying to regain makeshift “fortress” in the south Ukraine has sustained heavy
lost around the devastated east- The unit’s troops said they what they have lost … but our of the city. losses in the area.
ern city of Bakhmut, where Kyiv were firing around 100 mortar forces are repulsing the attacks,” Moscow regards its assault on
says it has inflicted heavy Rus- rounds a day at Russian posi- she said in televised remarks. Bakhmut, a city of about 70,000 REUTERS
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Pushing back
against violence
Tens of thousands gather in Belgrade
on Friday for an anti-government
protest after two mass shootings that
killed 18 people. They blame the
deaths on a culture of violence that
critics say authorities have allowed
to fester unchecked
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PRINCESS ANNE TO VISIT CANADA’S OLDEST REGIMENT IN NEW BRUNSWICK THIS WEEKEND
U.S. debt-limit talks halted
FREDERICTON Princess Louise,
the mare that was once the
Friday through Sunday in Monc-
ton and Sussex, N.B.
month-old injured foal circling
its dead mother. They brought
at Capitol as sides face
mascot of the 8th Canadian
Hussars, never met the calvary
James Lockyer, the regiment’s
honorary colonel, said the unit
the horse back to the unit’s
doctor, who though not a veter-
‘real differences’
regiment’s horse-loving colonel- has a record of service and inarian, treated it.
in-chief. sacrifice. “These were townsfolk, “Having a mascot during the KEVIN FREKING
But this weekend the cher- craftsmen, artisans, farmers who Second World War was prohib- LISA MASCARO
ished horse will be present in came together to defend New ited,” Mr. Lockyer said. “But the ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON
photos and in memories as the Brunswick at that time, and regiment did it anyway.”
colonel-in-chief, Princess Anne, then subsequently, Canada. We The horse travelled with the
visits to mark the 175th anni- are the oldest, continuous serv- regiment through Europe in a Debt-limit talks were halted as of late Friday at the U.S.
versary of the regiment based in ing army regiment in Canada.” modified three-ton truck with a Capitol shortly after resuming, another sudden turn of
southern New Brunswick. During the regiment’s deploy- false wall and made its way back events after negotiations had come to an abrupt standstill
Princess Anne, sister to King ment in the Second World War to Canada after the war in earlier in the day when Republican House Speaker Kevin
Charles and a former Olympic in Italy in 1944, mechanics who March, 1946. McCarthy said it’s time to “pause” negotiations, and a White
equestrian rider, was appointed were working to recover tanks The horse died in 1973, but House official acknowledged there are “real differences.”
to her role with the 8th Cana- heard a screaming sound, he Mr. Lockyer said she will be Top Republican negotiators for Mr. McCarthy exited the
dian Hussars (Princess Louise’s) said, recalling the incident that present in photos and a video to brief meeting shortly after talks restarted Friday evening.
regiment in June, 1972, when she brought Princess Louise to the celebrate the regiment’s 175th They said there were no further negotiations planned for
was just 21. regiment. year during Princess Anne’s visit Friday and they were uncertain on next steps. But a top
On this visit she is scheduled The mechanics who went to over the weekend. White House adviser to President Joe Biden said they were
to take part in events from investigate found a three- THE CANADIAN PRESS hopeful for a resolution. The negotiators are racing to strike
a budget deal to resolve the standoff.
“We re-engaged, had a very, very candid discussion, talk-
ing about where we are, talking about where things need to
be, what’s reasonably acceptable,” said Representative Gar-
ret Graves of Louisiana, a top McCarthy ally leading the talks
for his side.
Another Republican negotiator, Representative Patrick
McHenry of North Carolina, said Mr. McCarthy had left for
the night, and they would be briefing the speaker on the
latest developments.
Asked if he was confident an agreement over budget is-
sues could be reached with the White House, Mr. McHenry
said, “No.”
As the White House team left the nighttime session,
counsellor to the President Steve Ricchetti, who is leading
talks for the Democrats, said he was hopeful for an out-
come. “We’re going to keep working,” he said.
Mr. Biden’s administration is reaching for a deal with
Republicans led by Mr. McCarthy as the nation careens to-
ward a potentially catastrophic debt default if the govern-
ment fails to increase the borrowing limit, now at US$31-

trillion, to keep paying the nation’s bills.
Earlier in the day, Mr. McCarthy said resolution to the
standoff is “easy,” if only Mr. Biden’s team would agree to
some spending cuts Republicans are demanding.

The biggest impasse was over the fiscal 2024 top-line bud-
get amount, according to another person briefed on the
talks and granted anonymity to discuss them. Democrats
staunchly oppose the steep reductions Republicans have
put on the table as potentially harmful to Americans.
“We’ve got to get movement by the White House and we

don’t have any movement yet,” Mr. McCarthy told reporters
at the Capitol. “So, yeah, we’ve got to pause.”
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“real differences” between the parties on the budget issues
and further “talks will be difficult.”
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Cyclone Mocha leaves devastation in Myanmar

Government control
over information,
communication woes
complicate accounting
of storm casualties
GRANT PECK BANGKOK, THAILAND
The official death toll from the

powerful cyclone that struck
Myanmar has burgeoned to at
least 145, including 117 members
of the Muslim Rohingya minority,
state television reported Friday.
It said the figure applied to the
western state of Rakhine, where
Cyclone Mocha did the most
damage, but did not say how
many storm-related deaths there
have been in other parts of the
country.
The accounting of casualties
from the cyclone has been slow,
in part due to communication
difficulties in the affected areas
and the military government’s
tight control over information.
The military government has said
that unofficial death tolls sur-
passing 400 are false, but in the
absence of independent confir- A Rohingya woman and her baby stand in the wreckage of her destroyed house at the Basara refugee camp in Sittwe, Myanmar, on Tuesday.
mation, uncertainty remains SAI AUNG MAIN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
about the actual extent of casual-
ties and destruction. from the cyclone but reported no ulated areas around the Irrawad- fare against armed resistance nal Affairs Minister Subrahmany-
Mocha made landfall near deaths. dy River delta. At least 138,000 forces opposed to military rule. am Jaishankar. Yangon is south-
Sittwe township in Rakhine state OCHA’s report did not give a people died and tens of thou- Several nations, including In- east of the cyclone-hit area and
on Sunday afternoon with winds death toll for the storm, but said sands of homes and other build- dia, Japan, the United Kingdom has a major international port.
of up to 209 kilometres an hour casualties and missing people ings were washed away. and the United States, have al- “The ships are carrying emer-
before weakening inland. The cy- were still being documented, in- State media carried extensive ready earmarked monetary or gency food items, tents, essential
clone, the nation’s most destruc- cluding internal displaced peo- coverage this week of domestic material assistance to help in re- medicines, water pumps, porta-
tive in at least a decade, brought ple. efforts to provide disaster relief covering from Sunday’s cyclone. ble generators, clothes, sanitary
widespread flash floods and pow- Theinn Shwe, a teacher from by the current military govern- On Thursday, three Indian na- and hygiene items,” Mr. Jaishan-
er outages, while high winds tore Headway Education Center for ment, which seized power in 2021 vy ships carrying relief material kar said in a message posted on
roofs off buildings and crumpled the Rohingya community in the from the elected government of reached Yangon, Myanmar’s Twitter.
cellphone towers. camps, said Friday that the bodies Aung San Suu Kyi. It is engaged largest city, and a fourth ship was
“Millions of people live in the of at least 116 people from 15 over much of the country in war- to arrive Friday, said India’s Exter- ASSOCIATED PRESS
path of the cyclone and a massive camps and villages, including 32
effort is now under way to clear children and 46 women, had been
debris and provide shelter to given burial rites. He said reports
those whose homes have been that some had declined to evac-
damaged or destroyed,” the Unit-
ed Nations Office for the Coordi-
nation of Humanitarian Affairs
said Thursday. “Coastal Rakhine
uate were correct.
Although the authorities have
provided some food and shelter
assistance, there is still the need
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A18 ARTS O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L | S AT U R DAY , M AY 2 0 , 2 0 2 3
Salman Rushdie attends PEN America gala

Writer makes first unity against authorities besot-
ted with power and greed.”
public appearance The host Thursday night was
since stabbing last Saturday Night Live head writer
August at festival Colin Jost, who inspired nervous
laughter with jokes about the
risks of being in the same room
HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK as Rushdie, likening it to sharing
a balcony section with Abraham
Lincoln. He also referred briefly
S
alman Rushdie made an to the Hollywood writers strike,
emotional and unexpected which has left Saturday Night Live
return to public life Thurs- off the air since early May, saying
day night, attending the annual it was “disorienting” to spend the
gala of PEN America and giving afternoon on a picket line and
the event’s final speech as he ac- then show up “for the museum
cepted a special prize, the PEN cocktail hour.”
Centenary Courage Award, just PEN events are familiar set-
nine months being after being tings for Rushdie, a former presi-
stabbed repeatedly and hospital- dent of PEN, the literary rights or-
ized. ganization for which freedom of
“It’s nice to be back – as op- speech is a core mission. He has
posed to not being back, which attended many times in the past
was also a possibility. I’m glad the and is a co-founder of PEN’s
dice rolled this way,” Rushdie, 75, World Voices Festival, an interna-
told hundreds gathered at the tional gathering of author panels
American Museum of Natural and interviews held around the
History, where he received a time of the PEN gala.
standing ovation. Author Salman Rushdie and his wife, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, pose for photos at the PEN Gala in New York on Rushdie’s surprise appearance
It was his first in-person ap- Thursday. In a speech at the event, Rushdie thanked people who saved him from an attacker last August, was the highlight of an eventful
pearance at a public event since saying he ‘was the target that day, but they were the heroes.’ TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES month for PEN, the literary and
he was attacked last August while free expression organization that
on stage at a literary festival in The courage, that day, was all travelling freely for years before attendees ranging from Alec has been in the middle – by
Western New York. theirs, and I thank them for sav- the stabbing. Baldwin to Senator Angus King of choice and otherwise – of various
Rushdie, whose attendance ing my life,” he said. Since then he has since grant- Maine. Other honourees Thurs- conflicts.
had not been announced before- “And I have one last thing to ed few interviews and otherwise day included Saturday Night Live On Wednesday, PEN and Pen-
hand, spoke briefly, and dedicat- add. It’s this: Terror must not ter- communicated through his Twit- producer Lorne Michaels and the guin Random House sued a Flor-
ed some of his remarks to those rorize us. Violence must not deter account and prepared re- imprisoned Iranian journalist ida school district over its remov-
who came to his help at the ter us. La lutte continue. La lutta marks. Earlier this week, he deliv- and activist Narges Mohammadi, al of books about race and
Chautauqua Institution, a non- continua. The struggle goes on.” ered a video message to the Brit- who was given the PEN/Barbey LGBTQ+ identities. Earlier in the
profit education and retreat cen- Attacks against Rushdie have ish Book Awards, where he was Freedom to Write Award. week, writer Masha Gessen dis-
tre. He cited a fellow attendee, been feared since the late 1980s given a Freedom to Publish prize. “Dear writers, thinkers, and closed she had resigned as vice-
Henry Reese of the City of Asy- and the publication of his novel Rushdie was clearly elated to sympathizers, I implore you to president of the PEN board after a
lum project in Pittsburgh, for The Satanic Verses, which Iran’s attend the gala, but his voice help the Iranian people free World Voices panel with Russian
tackling the assailant and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sounded frailer than it once did themselves from the grip of the dissidents she was scheduled to
thanked audience members who condemned as blasphemous for and the right frame of his glasses Islamic Republic, or morally moderate was called off amid ob-
also stepped in. passages referring to the Prophet was dark, concealing the eye speaking, please help end the suf- jections to their presence from
“I accept this award, therefore, Mohammad. The Ayatollah is- blinded by his attacker. fering of the Iranian people,” Mo- Ukrainians in town for a separate
on behalf of all those who came sued a decree calling for Rush- PEN galas have long been a hammadi wrote from prison in a PEN event.
to my rescue. I was the target that die’s death, forcing the author in- combination of literature, poli- letter read aloud at the ceremony.
day, but they were the heroes. to hiding, although he had been tics, activism and celebrity, with “Let us prove the magic of global ASSOCIATED PRESS
Copyright loophole should be plugged

KATE traditional exemptions as private thor of non-fiction books The Access Copyright to remit to one of those who celebrated a
TAYLOR study, research and satire. Univer- Promise of Canada and Sisters in the international partners who still 2004 court decision in favour of
sities and provincial educational Wilderness, has lost 75 per cent of collect regularly for Canadians users’ rights – to photocopy legal
OPINION ministries promised they would her annual licensing income authors and publishers copied in decisions at a law library – as a
only make “fair use” of authors’ since 2011, even though she has their countries. new standard for the internet age.
works – but defined fair unilater- published four more titles in that All of this has been through the The difficulty with such cases
D
undurn Press is a 50-year- ally. Users should feel free to copy period. Students tell her full chap- courts. In 2013, Access Copyright based on technical fields, where
old Canadian publisher as much as 10 per cent of a book or ters of her recent Canadian histo- sued York University for refusing publishers can often charge sig-
with a strong list of fiction one chapter, their guidelines de- ry books appear in university to pay tariffs the university ar- nificantly for information, is that
and non-fiction titles, plus an ex- clared. course packs, copying for which gued were not mandatory. The the decisions are then applied to
pansionary spirit. In the midst of In this newly relaxed environ- she receives no compensation. federal court found the copying the precarious work of Canadian
the pandemic, it opened its own ment, schools began copying all At Dundurn, the publisher’s exceeded anything that could be cultural industries. Enjoying the
bookshop in Toronto’s Leslieville that and a lot more. Publishers share of copyright fees made the considered fair. However, when fruits of global digital plenty,
neighbourhood. And yet, around noticed that where once schools difference between profit and loss the case finally made it to the Su- copyright skeptics often fail to un-
the same time, it stopped pub- bought a classroom pack, they on their children’s publishing preme Court in 2021, it ruled that derstand that in a small market
lishing books for middle-school bought only a single copy. Mean- program. For a Dundurn writer the act did not contain the lan- such as Canada, if you kill the
children and teens, despite a suc- while, universities refused to pay such as Sylvia McNicoll, author of guage that would make the tariffs chicken and eat if for dinner to-
cessful history releasing about a the tariffs that compensated au- more than 40 titles for tweens, the set by the Copyright Board en- night, there will not be eggs to-
dozen chapter books and young thors for the use of their work in fees represented 10 per cent of the forceable, and tossed the issue morrow.
adult titles annually. digital course packs. small annual income – around back to Parliament. And there is the tricky issue of
Dundurn’s move is just anoth- Today, Access Copyright, the $20,000 – that she makes from Two years later, nothing has federal-provincial relations, since
er loss in children’s and educa- agency that collects those fees on her books. changed. Why is it taking so long the 2012 exemption was a big gift
tional publishing in Canada, as behalf of authors and publishers The depressed sales caused by to make the obvious fix and force to provincial education minis-
both licensing income from and outside of Quebec, is operating at so much copying have also led the provincial education ministries. Access Copyright calculates
sales to schools and universities a deficit, and many in the indus- publishers to produce fewer titles, tries and the universities to stop a decade’s worth of unpaid fees at
shrivel. In 2016, Oxford University try fear it will collapse. The educa- as a downward cycle takes hold. downloading their budget-trim- $200-million, and many industry
Press stopped publishing new tion sector is estimated to copy There are no new editions of Can- ming exercises onto small Cana- observers figure the only political
Canadian school textbooks, more than 600 million pages a adian high-school texts, and no dian publishers and their writers? route for the federal government
which were all written and edited year, with losses running as high fresh chapter books targeted at Publishers get a sympathetic to change the act is also to kindly
here. as 90 per cent of licensing fees. hard-to-reach readers. hearing at the Ministry of Cana- pay the schools’ and universities’
In a small market with easy ac- Salaried university professors Meanwhile, the education ex- dian Heritage, but they know the outstanding bill.
cess to foreign material, Canadian may not care about a little extra emption is destroying Canada’s final say lies with Innovation, Sci- With the passage of the Online
book publishing is always a tough income from publishing that is cultural reputation abroad, as in- ence and Industry, where the big Streaming Act last month, Heri-
business, but the situation in the more important to their tenure ternational associations and even education lobby may outgun tage Minister Pablo Rodriquez
educational market can be direct- and promotions than their bank the U.S. trade representative com- them. If you’ve ever worked as a proved he can stand up to lobby-
ly traced to a mistake the Conser- accounts, but the financial losses plain. The International Publish- freelancer, you know that when ists and manage competing inter-
vative federal government made are painful for freelance authors ers Association calls Canada “an money is tight it is always the lit- ests to get a bill through Parlia-
in 2012 – and the eight-year-long and their publishers – as well as outlier in the global publishing tle guy who is the first to get stiff- ment. It is time for Rodriquez to
failure of the Liberal government freelance illustrators and design- ecosystem,” warning other coun- ed. tell his cabinet colleagues that the
to fix it. ers. (Full disclosure: I have several tries about how much damage The industry is also deeply sus- Copyright Act revisions need to
In 2012, as the government re- copyrights registered with Access can be done by a change as minor picious of the Cabinet-table pow- happen now. The legalized rob-
vised the Copyright Act for the in- Copyright and have lost a few as adding the words “and educa- er of Justice Minister David La- bery of Canadian authors by the
ternet age and attempted to clar- hundred dollars in annual in- tion” to the law. Some also argue metti: As a law professor special- education sector is an interna-
ify how much copying is permit- come.) Canada is now in breach of inter- izing in intellectual property be- tional embarrassment and a na-
ted, it added “education” to such Historian Charlotte Gray, au- national treaties: There is little for fore going into politics, he was tional shame.
Harrison Ford bids farewell to Indiana Jones at the Cannes Film Festival
JAKE COYLE CANNES, FRANCE in Cannes, bringing an affecting stars alongside Phoebe Waller-
coda to the franchise begun with Bridge.
1981’s Raiders of the Lost Ark. While Ford is clearly deeply pleased
A
s the Cannes Film Festival that film and the next three were with the movie. He was especially
crowd stood in rapturous all directed by Steven Spielberg complimentary of his castmates
applause, a visibly moved from a story by George Lucas, and Mangold, whom he said did
Harrison Ford stood on the stage, Ford’s final chapter is directed more than “fill the shoes that Ste-
trying to keep his emotions in and co-written by James Man- ven left for us.”
check. gold, the Ford vs. Ferrari filmmak- “Everything has come together
The warmth of the audience er. to support me in my old age,” said
and a clip reel that had just played Following the disappointment Ford with a wry grin.
had left Ford shaken. of 2008’s little-loved Indiana Jones Ford isn’t retiring from acting.
“They say that when you’re and the Crystal Skull, the possibil- He has two ongoing TV series
about to die, you see your life ities for a fifth film lingered for (Shrinking, 1923) and he said he
flash before your eyes,” he said. years and went through many remains committed to working.
“And I just saw my life flash be- iterations. Ford said he was intent “My luck has been to work with
fore my eyes – a great part of my on seeing a different, less youth- incredibly talented people and
life, but not all of my life.” Harrison Ford, seen at the Cannes Film Festival on Friday, celebrated the ful version of Jones. Dial of Destiny find my way into this crowd of ge-
If last year’s Cannes was par- premiere of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, which marks his final is set in the 1960s and finds Indi- niuses and not get my ass kicked
tially defined by its tribute to Top outing as the character. LOIC VENANCE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES ana as a retiring professor whose out,” Ford said. “And I’ve appar-
Gun Maverick star Tom Cruise, long-ago exploits no longer seem ently still got a chance to work
this year’s has belonged to Ford. It’s been a moving farewell grin. “I need to sit down and rest a so special in the age of space ex- and I want that. I need that in my
This time, it’s been far more poi- tour – most of all for Ford, who little bit. I love to work. And I love ploration. life, that challenge.”
gnant. Ford, 80, is retiring Indiana has teared up frequently along this character. And I love what it “I wanted to see the weight of Ford, like Indiana, isn’t depart-
Jones, saying goodbye to the icon- the way. Speaking to reporters brought into my life. That’s all I life on him. I wanted to see him ing without his hat. He’s kept one,
ic swashbuckling archaeologist Friday, Ford was asked: Why give can say.” require reinvention and support. Ford said, but he more prizes the
more than 40 years after he first up Indy now? Indiana Jones and the Dial of And I wanted him to have a rela- experience of making the films.
debuted, with fedora, whip and a “Is it not evident?” he replied Destiny, the fifth Indiana Jones tionship that was not a flirty mo-
modest snake phobia. with a characteristically sheepish film, premiered Thursday night vie relationship,” said Ford, who ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Move over, aquafit: These retirees are ready to lifeguard

George Knoepfler’s
solution to a staffing
shortage was obvious:
Recruit the people who
are at the pool every day
DAVE McGINN
B
rad Doley, 65, worked in the
mill in Saint John for close
to four decades before retir-
ing nine years ago. He swims at
the Canada Games Aquatic Cen-
tre in town five times a week,
8,000 metres in total.
Sue Keeley spent 33 years as
an accounting clerk at the Saint
John port authority. The 66-year-
old, who taught herself how to
swim as a child, is also a regular
at the New Brunswick facility.
So is Dave Smith, a one-time
Canada Post letter carrier, who is
almost a decade into his retire-
ment. At 67, he took up triath-
lons four years ago, a pursuit that
required him to finally learn how
to swim. Before that, he says, “I
couldn’t swim the length of a
bedroom.”
Last fall, as they were getting
out of the pool and towelling off,
George Knoepfler, the head life-
guard, asked the three swimmers
a question they were never ex- Management at the Canada Games Aquatic Centre in Saint John were having trouble recruiting the usual lifeguard candidates: students and
pecting: How would they feel swim-team members. So they turned to pool regulars Brad Doley, left, Dave Smith and Sue Keeley. STEPHEN MacGILLIVRAY/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
about training to become life-
guards? the pipeline to certify new ones a series of swimming certifica- a five-metre diving platform; and rescue.”
Mr. Knoepfler and the aquatic all but dried up. tions, then pass an emergency swim 400 metres in less than 10 It was only his 10th shift.
centre’s management were get- With the peak swimming sea- first-aid course. After that, you minutes. There were many people at the
ting desperate. Like many pools son already here, provincial and need to get your Bronze Cross Their success has convinced aquatic centre that day, includ-
across Canada, they were facing a municipal governments are des- and, finally, pass the National the pool to run another adults- ing a large school group in the
shortage of lifeguards. Almost all perate to get pools running at Lifeguard certification test. only lifeguard course in the sum- main pool. Mr. Doley saw a boy
the ones they did have were full capacity and beaches safe mer, says Ben Tremblay, the cen- jump off a diving board and in-
teenagers or university students, again – only 1 per cent of drown- tre’s aquatics manager. stantly start to panic when he hit
and the centre was at risk of hav- ings happen in lifeguard-super- The satisfactions of the job are the water.
ing to curtail its daytime pro- vised settings. We’re all on a team to even greater than Mr. Smith Mr. Doley blew his whistle as
gramming, including the Swim They are getting creative to imagined. He’s now lifeguarding he was trained to do, then dove
to Survive program for school- address the shortages. protect everybody and two days a week. in, grabbed the boy, put him on
children. Ontario is proposing to lower keep everybody safe. ... “We’re all on a team to protect his hip and brought him to safety
The solution went against the the minimum age for lifeguards It’s such a great way to everybody and keep everybody at the side of the pool.
grain but was obvious in retro- from 16 to 15. fill the time and be by safe,” he says. “We were told by our instruc-
spect: Recruit the people who The City of Vancouver this “It’s such a great way to fill the tor ‘When it happens, your train-
are at the pool every day. month launched a recruitment the pool and help the time and be by the pool and help ing will kick in,’ ” he says.
The three older swimmers drive – at job fairs and on social community. the community.” Although Mr. Knoepfler didn’t
were surprised by Mr. Knoep- media, and by reaching out to Ms. Keeley works three days a hire the three older lifeguards to
fler’s offer – and a bit apprehen- swim clubs and water polo asso- DAVE SMITH week, and helps with the Swim act as mentors to many of the
PART-TIME LIFEGUARD IN SAINT JOHN
sive, seeing as how most of the ciations. to Survive classes, which teach younger ones, they have grown
lifeguards they were used to see- “We were really working at children in Grades 3, 4 and 5 to be into that role, he says.
ing were much younger. recruiting a whole new batch of Mr. Doley, Ms. Keeley and Mr. comfortable in the water and Mr. Smith teaches them about
“What kind of physical abili- lifeguards or trying to get retirees Smith, the new recruits in Saint able to swim to safety were they how to deal with stress.
ties would they be testing me that used to lifeguard years ago John, ran through the entire to fall off a boat or otherwise find Mr. Doley tries to help them
on?” Mr. Doley wondered. to come back to the industry,” gauntlet – just them, no teenag- themselves in trouble. develop a solid work ethic.
But in the end, they all gave says Peter Fox, Vancouver’s man- ers present – in one week and “A lot of these children have Ms. Keeley gives the younger
Mr. Knoepfler a thumb’s up and ager of recreation services. two weekends in January, at their never had the opportunity to go guards advice too, although it’s
agreed to do their part to help The city needs approximately local aquatic centre, with its to a pool or facility like this, and not about work but about how to
address the staff shortages ham- 450 lifeguards for the peak sea- Olympic-sized 50-metre compe- a lot of them are terrified of the move through this life – it must
pering pools. son. Right now, it has just over tition pool and two smaller ones. water,” she says. be said – swimmingly.
The pandemic, by forcing pool 300. They had to demonstrate their The job – and the pressure of “I tell them to enjoy their life
closings in many Canadian com- It takes approximately 90 front crawl and breaststroke its responsibility – has already and have a great time and do ev-
munities for long stretches of hours of training to become a with their heads above water; had its share of heart-pounding erything,” she says. “Whatever
time, and reducing hours for lifeguard, says Stephanie Baka- swim two metres under the sur- moments, Mr. Doley says. they choose to study or do, to
even longer, wreaked havoc on lar, corporate communications face for at least 15 metres; “I really didn’t realize how follow through with their
finding lifeguards. Many left for manager for the Lifesaving Socie- retrieve a nine-kilogram brick at much of an impact it could have dreams. And don’t let nobody
other jobs, never to return, and ty of Ontario. First you must earn the bottom of the pool; jump off on you until I did my very first hold them back, ever.”
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Federal government pledges new funding

for Ontario’s Ring of Fire B2
JOHN RAPLEY G LO B E I N V E STO R F I N A N C I A L FAC E L I F T

This U.S. debt-ceiling Readers’ portfolio Small business owner
standoff isn’t like before. is trouncing The Globe hopes to retire in seven
Economic disaster in the Investing Club years on dividend
is possible B3 challenge B7 income B8
[ COVER STORY ]
Ontario to give
more money
to Stellantis as
Ottawa signals
deal is close
LAURA STONE ST. CATHARINES, ONT
ADRIAN MORROW WASHINGTON
THE GREAT
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Fri-
day that his government is prepared
to commit more money to Stellantis
NV to keep the company’s electric-
TECH
SHAKEOUT
vehicle battery plant in the province,
as Ottawa signalled that a deal with
the automaker is close.
The developments follow a week
of heavy pressure from Stellantis,
which is building the $5-billion plant
in Windsor, Ont., with LG Energy So-
As cash runs out and
lution Ltd. The companies an- profits remain elusive,
nounced on Monday that they were
halting construction on the project – many Canadian startups
a decision prompted by a funding face extinction,
dispute.
The Stellantis-LG plant was ini- Sean Silcoff reports B4
tially promised $1-billion in provin-
cial and federal support. But that
was before the United States began
offering billions of dollars in incen-
tives to battery-makers through its
Inflation Reduction Act, and before
Ottawa, in a bid to match the Amer-
ican subsidies, committed as much
as $13-billion to a second battery
plant, being built in St. Thomas,
Ont., by Volkswagen.
Stellantis and LG now want their
Canadian subsidy increased accord-
ingly. Ottawa, in turn, has said Onta-
rio needs to pay its “fair share” of the
cost of saving the Stellantis deal –
without going into specifics. The On-
tario government has said it previ-
ously committed $500-million in
capital support to the Windsor
plant, the same amount it commit-
ted to Volkswagen. Ottawa commit-
ted $700-million in capital support
to Volkswagen, along with billions in
credits tied to battery production.
“I will confirm we’re putting more
money on the table there. This is all
about saving jobs, and giving people
the quality of life they deserve in
Southwestern Ontario,” Mr. Ford
said at a transit announcement in St.
Catharines, Ont.
The Premier said he wouldn’t pro-
vide more details until an official an-
nouncement is made. “This is going
to be an opportunity [for] people to
get great paying jobs, it’s going to
bring certainty and stability within
that region,” he said.
Earlier this week, Mr. Ford said he
was disappointed in the way Ottawa
has handled the situation. He said he
wants to work with the federal gov-
ernment on auto-manufacturing
deals, but that he was not involved in
Ottawa’s talks with Stellantis and LG.
STELLANTIS, B6
ILLUSTRATION BY ROB DOBI
Eric Reguly Canada has an irresponsible
obsession with electric vehicles B3
WestJet pilots receive Bridging owners sued

large wage gains in MARKETS
for alleged roles in
four-year labour deal S&P/TSX 20,351.06 +53.97 private lender’s failure
DOW 33,426.63 -109.28
ERIC ATKINS S&P 500 4,191.98 -6.07 TIM KILADZE
TRANSPORTATION REPORTER
NASDAQ 12,657.90 -30.94
DOLLAR 74.06/1.3503 -0.02/+0.0003 Bridging Finance Inc. owners Jenny and Rocky Coco
WestJet Airlines and its pilots’ union staved off a are being sued by the private lender’s receiver and
strike at the start of the travel season with a tenta- GOLD (oz.) US$1,981.60 +21.80 its senior creditor, BlackRock Inc., for their alleged
tive four-year deal that provides significant raises roles in Bridging’s demise, marking the first instanc-
OIL (WTI) US$71.69 -0.25
and better working conditions. es in which either sibling has faced direct legal ac-
The contract, which must be ratified by WestJet GCAN (10-YR) 3.12% -0.05 tion in the two-year saga.
and Swoop’s 1,800 pilots, makes them the highest- The two separate lawsuits, filed in Ontario court,
paid crews on narrow-body aircraft in Canada, and allege negligence, fraudulent misrepresentation
provides double-digit pay increases in the first year, COM PA N I E S and breaches of fiduciary duty, among other things.
said Tim Perry, Canadian president of the Air Line The cases name multiple other Bridging officials as
Pilots Association. BAUSCH HEALTH .................................................... B8 defendants, including David and Natasha Sharpe,
Mr. Perry declined to provide details because EVGO ...................................................................... B8 the husband-and-wife duo who previously ran the
union members have yet to see the proposal. A rat- CANADA GOOSE HOLDINGS .................................. B8 lender, as well as Bridging’s former chief financial
ification vote is expected in a few weeks. KYNDRYL HOLDINGS .............................................. B8 officer, general counsel and chief compliance offi-
The settlement, reached early Friday morning at QUEBECOR .............................................................. B2 cer.
a hotel near Toronto Pearson International Airport, ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS ................................... B2 The lawsuit filed by the receiver, Pricewaterhou-
includes an additional $400-million in pilot wages STEER TECHNOLOGIES ........................................... B2 seCoopers Inc., alleges damages worth $1.7-billion,
TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE ..................... B8
over the life of the deal, and the possibility of cre- while New York-based BlackRock is seeking $75-
ating the first pension plan for members. million.
WESTJET, B6 BRIDGING, B6
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Quebecor and Rogers

head to arbitration with
CRTC over MVNO terms
ALEXANDRA POSADZKI clined to comment. A representa-
TELECOM REPORTER tive of Quebecor could not imme-
diately be reached.
Quebecor is also looking to en-
Rogers Communications Inc. ter into MVNO agreements with
and Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron BCE and Telus. Quebecor’s chief
Ltd. are heading to arbitration af- executive, Pierre Karl Péladeau,
ter failing to reach an agreement has accused BCE and Telus of us-
regarding the terms under which ing “delay tactics” to slow down
Videotron will be able to access the process and stifle competi-
Rogers’ wireless network. tion.
In 2021, after a lengthy review, BCE has said Mr. Péladeau’s
Canada’s telecom regulator ruled claims are “without merit,” while
that Rogers, BCE Inc., Telus Corp. Telus has said that CRTC policies
and SaskTel must sell wireless prohibit the company from com-
network access to eligible region- menting on continuing negotia-
al competitors who commit to tions.
building out their own infrastruc- In January, Quebecor asked the
ture. CRTC to mediate its negotiations
Lorne Segal, president of Kingswood Properties in B.C., is the long-time chair of the Courage to Come The rates are to be negotiated with BCE, but the regulator de-
Back Awards, which raise money for programs at Vancouver’s Coast Mental Health. AVI DHILLON between the parties, with final-of- nied the request after determin-
fer arbitration available if they ing that the companies had not
are unable to come to an agree- made a “good faith effort” to initi-
Awards dinner shares

ment. ate discussions.
In this case, representatives of The commission requested
Rogers and Quebecor said in a let- that Videotron and BCE negotiate
ter to the Canadian Radio-televi- for at least 30 days, meeting twice
moving mental-health
sion and Telecommunications a week, and then update the
Commission that after numerous CRTC on the state of those talks.
discussions, they have been un- “Following a 30-day period of
able to agree on commercial serious negotiations, if the par-
stories on West Coast rates.

“We therefore have concluded
that [final offer arbitration] be-
fore the Commission is neces-
ties have negotiated in good faith
and an impasse persists, a new
[final offer arbitration] applica-
tion may be filed,” Claude Dou-
sary,” they wrote. cet, general secretary for the
Lorne Segal is helping raise “I quickly realized that the power of these The letter was dated April 6, CRTC, wrote on Feb. 17.
stories could move anyone to tears,” he said. “I just three days after Quebecor ac- The CRTC recently finalized
$22-million for Vancouver agency was witnessing the miracles of everyday life quired Freedom Mobile, Canada’s the rules governing the MVNO
providing community supports and I was moved to tears. And I said, ‘If I feel fourth-largest wireless carrier, framework. Companies have 90
this way, I know that everyone else would feel which was being divested as part days to negotiate access agree-
this way. We need to hear these stories.’ ” of Rogers’ $20-billion takeover of ments. The regulator has vowed
PAUL WALDIE Mr. Segal stayed involved with the event’s or- Shaw Communications Inc. to ensure that deals are struck
ganizer – Vancouver’s Coast Mental Health – As part of that deal, Rogers and quickly, and has said that it ex-
and he has served as chair of the annual dinner Quebecor entered into a number pects regional competitors to
PITCHING IN for 18 years. This year’s gala will be held on June of commercial agreements grant- start selling wireless services in
9 and it will celebrate community heroes in five ing Videotron access to various their new markets soon after
The organizer: Lorne Segal categories: mental health, addiction, physical infrastructure owned by Rogers. those agreements are in place.
and medical rehabilitation, and youth. However, the two companies Under the MVNO rules, region-
The pitch: Helping raise $22-million and Since its inception, the Courage to Come have apparently not been able to al competitors can access the
climbing Back event has raised $22-million for Coast agree on the terms relating to the larger carriers’ networks for a pe-
Mental Health’s community-based services, CRTC’s mobile virtual network riod of seven years in areas where
The cause: Coast Mental Health which include housing assistance, job training operator, or MVNO, regime. they own spectrum. (Spectrum
and other support programs. The CRTC granted the compa- refers to airwaves used to trans-
W
hen Lorne Segal attended the first Mr. Segal said that even after 25 years, he still nies’ request for final offer arbi- mit wireless signals.) The seven-
Courage to Come Back Awards din- tears up when he listens to the recipients. “You tration on April 27 and asked year period is intended to allow
ner 25 years ago in Vancouver, he walk in with your heart in one place and leave them to submit their final offers the competitors to start selling
thought it would be just another with it in another,” he said of the dinner. He by May 12. Rogers has requested a services in new markets while
fundraising event; and then he noticed that ev- added that the awards ceremony is also an im- two-week extension. they build out their own infras-
ery table had a box of Kleenex. portant opportunity to reduce the stigma sur- A spokesperson for Rogers de- tructure in those areas.
“I’d never seen that before,” Mr. Segal re- rounding mental health.
called from his home in Vancouver where he is “What I think is clear is that we all struggle at
president of Kingswood Properties Ltd. He be- times,” he said. “We all have issues, we all have
came enthralled by the stories he heard during problems. It’s not just the guy on the street.
the dinner, which honours individuals who Even the name, the Courage to Come Back, has Ottawa pledges new funding
have overcome mental-health challenges and meaning. We’re all looking for that thing in life
given back to their communities. to come back from.” for Ring of Fire and proposes
working group with Ontario
Former Facedrive execs to pay fines NIALL McGEE MINING REPORTER strategic industries and facilitate
economic prosperity in partner-
after misleading news releases The federal government is pro-
ship with Indigenous Peoples,”
Mr. Wilkinson said.
posing to advance up to $40-mil- Keean Nembhard, press secre-
lion in new funding for Ontario’s tary for Mr. Wilkinson, wrote in
JOE CASTALDO Before rebranding as Steer, Facedrive began Ring of Fire, in an effort to boost an e-mail to The Globe that a sim-
as a ride-hailing company and expanded into development in one of the high- ilar letter was sent to each of the
food delivery, online retail and, as the pandemic est profile critical-minerals pro- affected First Nations communi-
Executives with the startup formerly known as took hold, contact tracing. It also touted a rela- jects in the country. ties.
Facedrive Inc. will be banned from serving as tionship with actor Will Smith. Natural Resources Minister Jo- The federal government has
public company directors and will pay financial The company’s valuation ballooned to more nathan Wilkinson, in a May 17 let- historically been less bullish on
penalties after issuing misleading news releas- than $5-billion on the TSX Venture Exchange in ter to George Pirie, Ontario’s Min- the Ring of Fire and has said that
es. 2021, surpassing Maple Leaf Foods Inc. and CI Fi- ister of Mines, said that Ottawa is various environmental studies
The Capital Markets Tribunal, a division of nancial Corp., despite minimal revenue and re- prepared to advance the funds to that are under way must be com-
the Ontario Securities Commission, approved a curring losses. Its stock price has since crashed help the province and First Na- pleted to make sure that impact
settlement agreement on Friday between the by 99 per cent and it now trades for pennies. tions conduct feasibility and sus- on the land and waterways is ac-
commission and Facedrive, which is now The OSC also singled out a consulting agree- tainability initiatives, economic ceptable. Ottawa has also made it
known as Steer Technologies Inc. ment Steer arranged with a company called analysis and other predevelop- clear that Indigenous groups
Sayan Navaratnam, the company’s former Medtronics Online Solutions Ltd. in 2020. The ment work. must be on board with develop-
chair and chief executive, is prohibited from CEO of Medtronics is the editor of a website Mr. Pirie wrote in an e-mail to ment.
acting as a director or officer of a publicly traded called OilPrice.com, which ran a series of “over- The Globe that Ontario, through While several Indigenous
company for three years, while current chair Ju- ly promotional” articles about Steer, according its pledge to fund $1-billion in groups, including Marten Falls
naid Razvi and CEO Suman Push- to the OSC. One of the pieces on costs for a proposed road into the First Nation and Webequie First
parajah are banned for two years. OilPrice.com compared Mr. Nava- Ring of Fire and other related in- Nation, are broadly in favour of
The bans do not apply to any roles The OSC released a ratnam to Elon Musk, and por- frastructure, is already exceeding development, Neskantaga First
at Steer. trayed him as a transportation vi- the federal government’s finan- Nation is opposed and has argued
Mr. Navaratnam, who remains statement of sionary. cial commitment. that it has not been adequately
the company’s largest sharehol- allegations earlier The OSC alleged the arrange- Located 550 kilometres north consulted.
der, will pay the commission this month stating ment with Medtronics is contrary of Thunder Bay, the undeveloped Since 2006, various mining
$90,000 in fines and costs, while that Steer put out to the public interest. Ring of Fire region has been tout- companies have spent hundreds
Mr. Razvi will pay $55,000. Mr. On Friday, the tribunal agreed ed by Ontario Premier Doug Ford of millions of dollars in the re-
Pushparajah will pay $15,000 in contradictory and with OSC staff that the three exec- as an essential piece of the prov- gion, but no mines have been
costs, and his lawyer noted at the misleading news utives failed to ensure the news ince’s plan to become a global built. The Ring of Fire has no
hearing Friday that he will volun- releases about releases were accurate before be- player in battery metals. roads or electricity, and it is sit-
tarily pay a fine. Steer faces a TraceSCAN, a ing published, and that Mr. Nava- In the past few years, the Ring uated in a giant swamp.
$300,000 penalty. ratnam and Mr. Razvi knew or of Fire has taken on added impor- Originally promoted for its
“The facts that give rise to the COVID-19 contact ought to have known that OilPri- tance as the Canadian and U.S. chrome deposits, in recent years
settlement agreements do in- tracing technology, ce.com was publishing biased and governments have vowed to attention has turned to the Ring
volve serious misconduct,” said overstating its promotional articles about the build up North American suppli- of Fire’s nickel deposits. Along-
OSC lawyer Rikin Morzaria at the company. es of critical minerals in an side cobalt, lithium and graphite,
hearing.
consumer-readiness As part of the settlement, an in- effort to challenge China’s dom- nickel is a key component used in
The OSC released a statement and its capabilities dependent consultant will review inance. electric-car batteries.
of allegations earlier this month Steer’s disclosure practices every Mr. Wilkinson, in the letter to The most promising mineral
stating that Steer put out contradictory and quarter for the next two years, among other re- Mr. Pirie, also proposed setting up deposits in the Ring of Fire are
misleading news releases about TraceSCAN, a medial measures. a working group between various owned by Australian private eq-
COVID-19 contact tracing technology, overstat- Vic Fedeli, Minister of Economic Develop- federal government ministers uity company Wyloo Metals Pty
ing its consumer-readiness and its capabilities. ment, Job Creation and Trade, has defended the and their Ontario counterparts to Ltd.
Some of the releases gave the impression decision to provide funding to Steer. He told The “formalize and advance dia- Perth-based Wyloo hopes to
TraceSCAN was ready for purchase, when in fact Globe earlier this month that Steer received on- logues on the feasibility and sus- put its Eagle’s Nest nickel project
the company had only developed a prototype. ly $2.1-million of the TraceSCAN grant because tainability of opportunities” in into production by the end of the
Another highlighted features that had yet to be the company stopped meeting performance the Ring of Fire. decade, but it needs both the On-
tested or developed. targets for job growth and production levels. “I recognize that the Govern- tario and federal government to
The company also failed to correct informa- “They delivered exactly what they told us ment of Ontario has identified build a $2-billion all-season road
tion about the release of certain TraceSCAN fea- they would deliver and up until the end. So we the Ring of Fire mineral region as that would connect Eagle’s Nest
tures after it was clear the timeline was inaccu- had no reason to doubt any of the numbers,” Mr. an opportunity for a corridor to to the provincial highway net-
rate, according to the OSC. Fedeli said. “But once they stopped meeting prosperity that can leverage work, some 300 kilometers to the
The releases were issued between April, their deliverables to us, we stopped writing the health, economic and social ben- south.
2020, and January, 2021. The following month, cheques.” efits, while unlocking significant While Ontario has pledged to
the Ontario government announced a $2.5-mil- The grant was delivered through the $100- economic growth. pay half the cost, Ottawa remains
lion grant for the company to help develop Tra- million Ontario Together Fund, which provided “The Government of Canada on the fence.
ceSCAN, and said the devices would be manu- money to companies and organizations for pro- also recognizes this region as Wyloo hopes to produce nickel
factured in the province. The Globe and Mail lat- jects related to pandemic response. Mr. Fedeli holding important critical-miner- to feed future electric-car battery
er reported that the company bought complet- said the government will be conducting an au- al deposits that could support the factories in the southern part of
ed hardware from China. dit of the program. development of value chains in the province.
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The ugly downsides This U.S. debt ceiling standoff isn’t like before –
economic disaster is a real possibility
of Canada’s costly
obsession with JOHN RAPLEY
electric vehicles OPINION
Political economist at the University

of Cambridge and managing director
Pumping billions into battery production of Seaford Macro
intensifies car culture when we should be
E
ven though the U.S. govern-
focusing on public-transportation solutions ment may be just weeks
away from an economic ca-
tastrophe, you’d be hard-pressed
ERIC to find anyone on Wall Street
REGULY much bothered about it. Al-
though the White House is play-
OPINION ing up the dangers of flirting with
the fast-approaching “X-date”
when the government will run
C
anada’s government is enchanted – obsessed even – out of money if the legislative With Donald Trump calling for Republicans to stand firm and force a debt
with the idea of building batteries for electric vehi- mechanism of the so-called debt default, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, pictured, may struggle to deliver
cles on home soil. Already, Volkswagen is soaking up ceiling is not raised, this is typi- a timely compromise on the debt ceiling. KEVIN DIETSCH/GETTY IMAGES
about $14-billion in public subsidies to build a bat- cally dismissed as a bit of postur-
tery factory in Southwestern Ontario, and Stellantis, owner ing to raise pressure on Congres- Democratic president faced a Re- showdown occurred, inflation
of Jeep and Fiat, and LG Energy Solution are demanding sional Republicans. Most of the publican Congress, the latter has was low and unemployment
equal treatment for their joint venture. financial sector seems to be tak- used its authority as a backdoor high, and so the Fed was able to
The mission to make Canada (well, Ontario) part of the ing a meh attitude – they’ve been way to force the government to lean on its employment mandate
global EV supply chain was inevitable and, from a purely here before, and it always gets cut spending. But even if these to loosen monetary policy. But as
industrial point of view, makes some sense, even though the sorted in the end. games of chicken make the Unit- we know all too well, with the U.S.
per-employee job creation bill may emerge as the most ex- But the current backdrop dif- ed States look increasingly dys- labour market tight and inflation
pensive in Canadian history. fers considerably from earlier epi- functional, if not downright silly, stubbornly high, it doesn’t have
But on so many other levels, the decision to lunge into sodes of debt-ceiling standoff, the matter almost always ends in that kind of leeway now. A lurch
the EV supply chain lies somewhere between irresponsible both in terms of macroeconomic some form of compromise. into recession won’t necessarily
and crazed; it locks us into an ever-expanding car culture for conditions and the fraught poli- So people can be forgiven for bring the U.S. Federal Reserve
generations when we should be downgrading the car as a tics of the moment. Ironically, saying they’ve seen this rodeo be- cavalry to the rescue, at least not
transportation tool, as some European cities are doing. this current complacency could fore. Anyhow, they know that the immediately.
EVs, and hybrid cars to a lesser extent, enjoy a global be the very thing that causes government won’t actually de- Moreover, because Republi-
image that is entirely unjustified. The pitch – buy an EV and something dangerous to happen, fault on its debt. The administra- cans have only a slender minority
save the planet – is just nonsense. with nobody making serious tion has a plan in place whereby it in the House of Representatives,
Never mind that EVs are still cars that need to be parked. preparations for the stormy seas will prioritize bond payments as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is
Their presence will still disfigure cities, pushing politicians that might lie ahead. revenue comes in. As a result, the beholden to his far-right flank,
and developers to build new parking lots, roads and high- If the June 1 deadline passes U.S.’s reputation as the world’s some of whom give the impres-
ways to gratify the endless swarms of drivers (see Ontario’s and the debt ceiling has still not safest creditor, which gives it the sion they might even welcome a
proposed Highway 413, an assault on the wetlands, water- been raised, the likely immediate benefit of low interest rates and collapse. In the worst-case scena-
ways and farmland in Southern Ontario’s Greenbelt). scenario is that government will an endless supply of willing cred- rio, with the Fed’s hands tied,
And never mind that EVs are hardly “clean,” even if they be forced to drastically cut its itors, will be safeguarded. Congress triggers another “TARP
have no tailpipe emissions. The EV supply chain is noto- spending, and in the current But that’s not to say there are moment” – a reference to the day
riously ugly and carbon-intensive. Yes, EVs can make urban economy that will likely cause a no risks. With the priority on in 2008 that, in the depths of the
air more breathable, but at what cost to the greater envi- recession. The resulting impact bond payments, government financial crisis, Congress voted
ronment? on the world could be disastrous. spending will be cut. That is what down a rescue package for the
Cleaner air in cities does not Created in 1917, ironically to Congressional Republicans want banks and markets crashed.
mean climate change will slow augment the federal govern- to happen – they’ll happily raise With Mr. Trump now calling
In some enlightened down. The EV revolution could ment’s flexibility in raising loans, the ceiling to cut taxes, as they did for Republicans to stand firm and
even accelerate global warming the debt limit places an upper under former president Donald force a debt default, Mr. McCarthy
cities, the debate is as forests in sub-Saharan Africa, bound on government borrow- Trump, but they hate doing it to may struggle to deliver a timely
not whether EVs are Indonesia and elsewhere are ing, after which the federal gov- support spending by Democratic compromise. Were a standoff to
a net benefit but razed to make way for the mines ernment must obtain the permis- governments. However, while the linger for more than a matter of
whether cars of any and smelters that produce the sion of Congress to raise it. Since government will have to trim its days, credit agencies could down-
nickel, copper, cobalt and lithi- we live in an inflationary world, outlays, Congress won’t get a say grade U.S. debt, as they did in
size, shape or power um required to build EV batter- the government’s nominal debt in how this happens. And the ef- 2011. This would then spread to all
source are. In Paris, ies. The Washington Post recently increases, even when it’s coming fects on the economy could be se- debt linked to U.S. bonds, like
Mayor Anne Hidalgo reported that the high-pressure, down as a share of spending. That vere. Because government spend- mortgage loans. Interest rates
acid-based nickel-leaching proc- means the government must re- ing acts as a stabilizer, smoothing could rise, worsening any reces-
doesn’t want her ess used in Indonesia, the world’s peatedly return to Congress for out the ebb and flow of business sion that resulted from a standoff.
streets cluttered with largest producer of the metal, permission to issue new debt. cycles, its sudden curtailment So watch this space, as they say.
fossil-fuel or generates 20 tonnes of carbon For most of the debt limit’s his- would most likely induce a reces- The U.S. economy remains funda-
battery-powered dioxide per tonne of nickel. tory, that was a relatively uncon- sion. Moody’s Analytics estimates mentally healthy, with employ-
After a slow burn, there is no troversial process. That changed that even a week-long standoff ment strong and spending hold-
cars. The city has doubt that EVs will sound the in 1995, when House Speaker could tip the American economy ing up. But with savings running
banned heavily death knell for diesel- and gaso- Newt Gingrich weaponized it in over the edge. down and confidence declining,
polluting diesel cars, line-powered cars. European his battle with the Clinton admin- This moment is different from it’s also at a delicate point. The
added bike lanes to Union law requires all new cars istration. Ever since, whenever a before. In 2011, when the last big tension will likely keep rising.
to have zero carbon emissions
most of the streets from 2035. In the United States,
in the centre, President Joe Biden wants the
eliminated most cars Environmental Protection Agen-
from a few main cy to tighten car-emission stan-

dards to the point that two-thirds

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date, backed by the lavish invest-

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rarely about the need to banish cars regardless of what pow-
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buy them initially as second cars – urban runabouts – while
they keep their longer-range fossil-fuel cars for as many
years as possible.
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to keep EVs charged up and homes running.
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countries – perhaps most – that means building coal and
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B4 COVER STORY O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L | S AT U R DAY , M AY 2 0 , 2 0 2 3
INSIDE CANADA’S
TECH MELTDOWN
Canadian startups
face extinction as cash
runs out and profits
remain elusive
SEAN SILCOFF
TECHNOLOGY REPORTER
A
ndrew Graham didn’t know it yet, slash their valuations to a fraction of previ- Venture capital investment in Canada since 2019
but the swift collapse of a bank ous levels – if they get them at all. Quarter over quarter, in millions of dollars and number of deals
4,300 kilometres away in Santa Online merchant financier CFT Clear Fi-
Clara, Calif., was about to mess nance Technology Corp. is the perfect ex- Year Investment activity No. deals
with his Toronto-based fintech, Borrowell ample: At its peak, it was valued at more 2019 Q1 125
Inc. It was early March, and the company than US$2-billion. But beset by rising inter- Q2 153
was days away from closing a $30-million est rates, economic uncertainty and a slew
financing that would help Borrowell – of management changes, it’s been trying Q3 132
which provides consumers with online this year to raise US$20-million at less than Q4 148
credit scores and then matches them with one-tenth its former valuation.
lenders – continue to expand. The legals According to the Canadian Venture Cap- 2020 Q1 111
and due diligence were done. Virtually all ital and Private Equity Association, the Q2 144
that was left were the final signatures. value of VC deals in Canada in the first
The cash infusion wasn’t a matter of life Q3 123
quarter dropped 71 per cent year-over-year
or death; Borrowell was close to breaking as deal volume fell by 24.3 per cent. And Q4 129
even, putting it in much better shape than that decline still likely has a way to go. VC
2021 Q1 177
most startups. But the funding would pro- funding took 10 quarters to bottom out
vide a cushion of financial comfort during after the dot-com bubble burst more than Q2 233
what was proving to be a prolonged tech two decades ago and nine quarters after 210
Q3
downturn with no end in sight. the Great Recession of 2008-09. We’re five
Then Silicon Valley Bank – one of the quarters into this downturn, and Crunch- Q4 206
world’s largest tech financiers – failed after base says global dollar volumes invested 2022 Q1 202
a run on deposits by the very founders and crashed by 59 per cent in the first quarter of
venture capitalists it had supported for Q2 205
2023, to US$76-billion, compared with the
decades. Its collapse rattled the entire sec- fourth quarter of 2021. Q3 151
tor. Within days, the lead investor on the So what does all this mean for Canada’s Q4 171
Borrowell funding, a U.S. private capital tech sector? It finally seemed to be on a
firm, pulled out. The deal was dead. sustained roll after significant retreats fol- 2023 Q1 154
“It was a punch to the gut” and prompt- lowing the dot-com bust and Great Reces-
ed Borrowell to scale back growth initia- sion. Well, with the economy in no hurry to 0 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 $6,000
tives and lay off some staff, says Mr. rebound, a wide swath of once-high-flyers JOHN SOPINSKI/THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: CVCA
Graham. He’s since talked to other foun- are looking more like the walking near-
ders who had recent financing deals fall dead.
apart late in the process – but few came as Many entrepreneurs – particularly
late as Borrowell’s. “I know we’re not alone those who got a taste for high valuations
out there.” and big fundraises during the pandemic –
He’s right. He’s also one of the luckier still believe that if they can hold off for a
ones. After an 18-month slump that has few months, valuations will rebound, says
seen tech companies cut more than Peter Misek, managing partner with Number of tech employees laid off globally since the onset of
360,000 jobs globally and slash costs to Framework Venture Partners. They could COVID-19
preserve cash, the tech sector is entering be entering a trap. “My belief is that north By quarter
the survival-of-the-fittest part of the cycle. of 1,000 later-stage North American com- 200,000
The grim news is likely to get grimmer for panies will be looking for financing in the
some time. Many startups won’t make it. second half,” he says. “Almost all of them
The failure of SVB (which is now owned by have put it off. If you’re not the best of the
First Citizens Bank) hasn’t helped. best, you won’t get financed.” 150,000
Already this year, VC-backed startups
including RenoRun Inc., Canada Drives
Ltd. and Tehama Inc. have filed for creditor AFTER THE BUBBLE BURST
100,000
protection. Fintechs Pillar Financial Tech-
nologies Inc. and Billi Labs Inc. have closed It’s a vastly different landscape than what
their doors. Others have sold for fire-sale existed 18 months ago, when giant inves-
prices, including small-business lender tors such as Tiger Global and Softbank 50,000
Nuula and logistics platform provider were aggressively throwing huge sums at
Swyft Technologies Inc., which raised young companies with relatively little
US$17.5-million from investors, including forethought and cheering them on to
Inovia Capital and Shopify Inc. This spring spend, spend, spend. 2020 Q1 2021 Q1 2022 Q1 2023 Q1
it was sold for $300,000. In early 2022, Andrew McLeod, chief
Financially struggling Canadian public executive of Certn (Canada) Inc., got a JOHN SOPINSKI / THE GLOBE AND MAIL , SOURCE: LAYOFFS.FYI
companies such as D-Wave Quantum Inc. term sheet from one fund that told him,
and Lifespeak Inc., meanwhile, recently “You have 18 months to spend $150-mil-
agreed to costly debt financings as their lion,” he says. Victoria-based Certn, which
stocks traded for pennies. As Lifespeak’s operates an online background-check ser-
chief financial officer, Mike McKenna – vice, is one of Canada’s fastest-growing
whose mental-health and well-being plat- companies, and the valuation was rich; it
form has $81-million in net debt, $6.5-mil- would have established the company as
lion in cash and a market capitalization of Canada’s latest “unicorn,” valued at north Valuations as a multiple of estimated revenue over next 12
$27-million – told an investor conference of US$1-billion. Nonetheless, Mr. McLeod months
in Toronto last month, “Our balance sheet said no. “There was no way we could effi- Forward revenue multiple, by quartile
needs some focus.” ciently spend $150-million in this business
And this is just the start of the Great Median Top quartile Bottom quartile
with our fundamentals in 18 months,” he
Tech Shakeout. The next year will be a says. “I live in Victoria and drive a minivan. 25
death zone for many young companies as We would have been a unicorn, but we
“you’ll see a bunch of businesses shut would also be in a position that could ar-
down or sold for next to nothing,” says 20
guably be unrecoverable.” Certn instead
Chad Bayne, co-chair of Osler, Hoskin & raised US$80-million in two tranches last
Harcourt LLP’s emerging and high-growth year at more modest terms, valuing the 15
companies practice. company at US$450-million including
As for companies in need of financing, funds received. “But I think there were cer- 10
there’s definitely still money to be had – tain founders that got caught in the uni-
but it’s going mainly to the strongest per- corn trap.”
formers, and financiers aren’t willing to RenoRun CEO Eamonn O’Rourke was 5
pay anywhere close to the vastly inflated one of them. The Montreal-based startup
prices seen during the pandemic. Those ran an online delivery service for general 0
with challenges such as tempering growth, contractors, and it was one of many backed 2014 2016 2018 2020 2022
weak unit economics or lack of product- by Tiger in Canada.
market fit are getting funding offers that SHAKEOUT, B5 THE GLOBE AND MAIL , SOURCE: BESSEMER VENTURE PARTNERS
Victoria-based Certn, shown here, is one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies. Its CEO, Sophie Forest, a partner with BrightSpark, says terms on its new $120-million fund have
Andrew McLeod, opted for a more modest approach to raising funds in 2022 instead of been tough. It had to offer investors a 7-per-cent minimum return on capital before fund
getting ‘caught in the unicorn trap.’ managers get a share of the investment upside. MICHELLE SIU/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
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From the time it received its first venture months of cash that are looking to sell. “We any share of the investment upside; usual-
cheque right up to June, 2022, Mr. O’Rourke feel quite strongly we can’t sell them – ly, funds charge a 2-per-cent management
told The Globe in March, investors and there’s too much risk for us to take,” he fee and keep 20 per cent of investment
board members kept telling him to grow says. “They don’t have options. There’s a lot profits.
faster. of junk that no one wants to buy.” Government-backed funders are also
Then the downturn hit, starting with a stepping up support for startups, including
steep drop in publicly traded tech stocks in the Business Development Bank of Cana-
IT’S A FINANCIER’S MARKET
late 2021. Soon after, it spread to private da, which launched a $150-million venture
companies as interest rates rose and de- fund last month to start investing in soft-
mand cooled. The “grow at all costs” man- Despite the sector’s woes, there’s still plen- ware companies that help improve envi-
tra went out of fashion quickly. Reaching ty of money held by risk-capital investors ronmental sustainability.
profitability – or just plain surviving – was who are keen to plow it into good tech com- Export Development Canada has
the new goal. panies. As of December, private investors poured money into globally minded later-
As companies sought to preserve cash, globally were sitting on close to US$2-tril- stage startups with export potential since
they laid off waves of employees – and the lion in “dry powder,” or undeployed capi- last summer, part of its mandate to in-
carnage has continued. So far in 2023, job tal, according to market research firm crease Canadian trade. The strategy makes
losses in the sector have topped 197,000 Preqin. more sense because liquidity for compa-
globally, compared with 164,500-plus in all But they’re pickier than ever (except, ap- nies has dried up, says EDC’s senior vice-
of 2022, according to Layoffs.fyi. A slew of parently, when it comes to buzzy genera- We always had president, Guillermo Freire, whose Crown
Canadian tech companies have also made tive AI companies such as OpenAI or Coh- corporation has made a string of recent big
senior executive changes, including Shop- ere Inc., which are still commanding valua- unwavering belief in investments in Canadian companies,
ify, Lightspeed Commerce, Hootsuite, tions in the billions of dollars despite hav- what we built and including Certn, Miovision, Attabotics,
ApplyBoard and GoodFood. ing scant revenues). Solid, growing the path we were Raven.AI, GoBolt and Sanctuary.
As for RenoRun, it tripled revenues an- companies at historically normal valua- on. I think it’s an Janet Bannister, a veteran tech executive
nually for three years before doubling them tions are what they want. and VC who recently launched Staircase
in 2022. But investors got cold feet, starting That’s what drew investors to Odaia In- absolute shame that Ventures, says there are two reasons this is
with Tiger, which retreated last year from telligence Inc. As the tech sector went side- this is how the story a great time to deploy early-stage capital.
the tech market it helped to inflate. Reno- ways last year, CEO Philip Poulidis made potentially ends. It “Valuations are down significantly, which
Run failed to attract new backers, and its sure his Toronto-based startup did the just leaves me means it’s an ideal time to be investing,”
existing ones couldn’t agree on new financ- right things: It slowed hiring, expanded she says, “and the types of entrepreneurs
ing. The company filed for bankruptcy in within existing accounts rather than chas- scratching my head. that are starting a business right now are
late March and is being carved up by cred- ing new clients and ensured customers more resilient and focused.”
EAMONN O’ROURKE
itors, and Mr. O’Rourke is bitter and disillu- were being well served. Odaia would “do RENORUN
sioned. “We always had unwavering belief more with less, with the people we had,”
BOLDNESS WHEN OTHERS TURN FEARFUL
in what we built and the path we were on,” says Mr. Poulidis. The idea of raising money
he told The Globe days before the company was a non-starter.
filed. “I think it’s an absolute shame that Then he went to the J.P. Morgan Health- Marie Chevrier has raised just $13-million
this is how the story potentially ends. It just care Conference in January and realized in venture capital during the 10 years of
leaves me scratching my head.” Odaia was thriving compared to other Sampler App Inc.’s existence. She runs a
companies. The five-year-old startup – conservative, capital-efficient business,
which uses artificial intelligence to help whose online platform matches packaged-
STRUCTURE, THE NEW DIRTY WORD
pharmaceutical companies more effective- goods giants with consumers who want to
ly target new drug sales to health care prac- receive samples by mail. Last month, To-
One thing is clear these days: The balance titioners – was producing a meaningful ronto-based Sampler bought another simi-
of power has returned to those with dollars bump in sales for clients, and its revenue lar company called Abeo from Arcade
to spend. And they’re increasingly asking jumped by 646 per cent in 2022. Mr. Pouli- Beauty, a major sample manufacturer. The
for tougher terms in exchange for their in- dis, a seasoned tech and telecom executive, deal gives Sampler access to premium
vestment. returned to Canada with a different view: beauty clients such as Dior and Chanel, and
A growing number of VCs are now pro- Now was actually the perfect time to raise expands its team to Europe. Arcade also
posing to add “structure” to financing deals money and accelerate growth. “If you’ve took a stake in the company.
– terms that ensure they get a bigger bite of got product-market fit, it’s always a great It wasn’t a big deal by size. But it’s big for
the ownership and ultimate proceeds time to build and focus on scaling a compa- a company with 45 people that has flirted
when a company is sold. That can include ny when everyone is doing the opposite,” with profitability and has been given plen-
warrants for incoming investors giving he says. ty of breathing room by friendly, patient in-
them the right to pick up extra shares, or He was right: This month, Odaia an- vestors to develop the digital sampling
“liquidation preferences” that ensure they nounced it had raised US$25-million in an space. Now, as other companies struggle,
get a higher guaranteed multiple on their oversubscribed round co-led by two new Sampler – whose revenues exceed $10-mil-
investment before others get their share. In investors, Monograph Capital and Thresh- lion – is set to break even this year. Not only
some cases, past investors who aren’t will- old Ventures, and backed by a third new- that, but Ms. Chevrier is ready to step up the
ing or able to participate in a new financing comer, the Weston family’s Wittington pace, to be brave while others are fearful.
are seeing their holdings crammed down to Ventures. The financing came 15 months af- There is capital out “This is the time where Sampler needs to
a fraction of their former stakes in what’s ter Odaia raised US$13.8-million and at a be bolder about how we grow. I think
called a “pay-to-play” deal. higher valuation – a big win for any startup there for companies through this acquisition I’m showing it
Since the end of 2022, “terms have start- in 2023. that are in control of doesn’t need to come from venture capi-
ed to tighten significantly,” says Hans “Odaia didn’t sell on sizzle – it sold on their financing tal,” she says. She’s relied on receivables fi-
Knapp, a partner with Vancouver VC firm finding product-market fit and delivering strategy. nancing to fund much of her growth, given
Yaletown Partners, while some financiers value to customers,” says Michele McBane, her clients are giants such as Unilever, Hen-
have pulled offers well into the funding managing director with StandUp Ventures, MARIE CHEVRIER kel and L’Oreal. And she’s open to taking on
process. Toronto online car seller Clutch an Odaia investor. “The company raised SAMPLER APP INC. new investors. “There is capital out there
Canada Inc. was forced to cut 65 per cent of the right amount, did the right things with for companies that are in control of their
its staff in January and retreat from several it, were very capital-efficient and delivered financing strategy,” she says.
markets after an eight-figure financing fell on what they said they’d do.” And that’s the good news in all this: Can-
through. Other Canadian companies, including ada still has lots of stable – and even grow-
It doesn’t matter that many of the com- Jobber, Miovision, E2IP, Super.com (for- ing – tech companies with market-leading
panies seeking cash raised vast sums dur- merly known as SnapCommerce), Block- products and real customers. Even if the
ing the market peak of 2020-21. Many are stream, LayerZero Labs and Kepler Com- shakeout is particularly brutal and many
finding it exceedingly difficult to find the munications, have raised nine-figure startups disappear, we’ll be left with a
capital they need at palatable terms, even if growth financings this year. Giant private much broader, deeper set of quality com-
they’ve cut staff, squelched expansion equity firms have also bought up several panies poised to grow and acquire flagging
plans and otherwise reined in their ambi- publicly traded tech companies trading at competitors than we did after the dot-com
tions. “If they don’t have the right unit eco- well below their peaks, including Waterloo, bust and the Great Recession.
nomics or sustainable business models,” Ont.-based Magnet Forensics, which was Despite the poor performance of the 20
says Laura Lenz, a partner with OMERS taken private by Thoma Bravo last month. tech companies that IPOed on the TSX
Ventures in Toronto, “investors are just Several Canadian VC firms have also early in the pandemic, several other private
turning away.” raised funds in the past year, including companies are also biding their time until
So far, Osler’s Mr. Bayne says many com- Brightspark Ventures, Kensington Capital markets open up again and they can go
panies and boards are turning down pro- Partners, Framework Venture Partners, public. This crop of bigger, more mature
posed financings with structure “because Radical Ventures, Yaletown Partners, Dia- and well-managed companies includes
the urgency is not there yet” to take money gram Ventures, Pender Ventures, The51 and Vancouver-based Clio, Trulioo and Geo-
with onerous strings attached. As valua- Staircase Ventures. Comply.
tions fell last year, many startups raised That said, fundraising is never easy in Some players that were struggling last
bridge rounds from existing investors. Canada, and it has gotten tougher in year seem to have made the turn, too. Mon-
Those inside deals were often in unpriced emerging areas such as new consumer treal-based AlayaCare, which provides soft-
convertible notes, which allowed the com- packaged goods, says Dragons’ Den star ware for home-care providers, raised $225-
panies to maintain their previous lofty val- Arlene Dickinson. She struggled this year to million near the peak of the bubble in 2021,
uations. That was supposed to buy time un- hit the first close of $65-million for the sec- with $150-million going to the balance
til things turned up so investors didn’t have ond fund of District Ventures, which in- Valuations are down sheet and the rest to early investors. But
to mark down their portfolios. But condi- vests in innovative companies in the food, then revenue growth fell short of target for
tions haven’t changed. “Everyone is trying beverage, health and wellness sectors. She significantly, which three quarters. This past August, the com-
to kick this down the road as far as they likely won’t reach the original $175-million means it’s an ideal pany laid off 13.6 per cent of staff and halted
can,” says Mr. Bayne. goal. “Every meeting with investors is a dif- time to be investing, acquisitions.
Joe Canavan, a financial-industry veter- ferent tone” than in the past, she says. “You and the types of AlayaCare, which generates $77-million
an and startup investor in Toronto, puts it can almost feel the fear on the investor side. in annual revenues in Canada, the U.S. and
bluntly: “If these companies want to sur- If it doesn’t look like something they’re fa- entrepreneurs that Australia, has since kept a lid on expenses
vive, they’ll have to do things that are un- miliar with, which in my case it doesn’t, it’s are starting a and expects to reach operating profitabili-
palatable or won’t be particularly well re- tightened even more. It’s a real struggle.” business right now ty in 2024. When the markets improve, it
ceived. It’s either you do that, or you die.” Sophie Forest, a partner with Bright- are more resilient plans to go public. “We have more than
For some it’s too late. Ed Bryant, CEO of spark – one of Canada’s oldest active VC three years of cash,” says CEO and co-foun-
Ottawa-based Sampford Advisors, a mid- firms – says terms on its new $120-million and focused. der Adrian Schauer. “For us, it’s just a phase
market tech-focused mergers and acquisi- fund have been “a bit harder for us.” That of ignoring the capital markets and grow-
JANET BANNISTER
tions advisory firm, says he’s turning away means Brightspark has had to offer inves- STAIRCASE VENTURES ing our business the old-fashioned way.
a growing number of small venture capital- tors a 7-per-cent minimum return on their The weirdness of the bubble is behind us,
backed companies with less than six capital before the fund managers can get and we’re running our business.”
Siblings Martin and Meti Basiri, who co-founded ApplyBoard, are photographed at the Sam Pillar, CEO of Jobber, is pictured in Edmonton in 2021. Jobber is one of several
University of Waterloo in Ontario in 2019. A slew of Canadian tech companies have made Canadian companies which have raised nine-figure growth financings this year.
senior executive changes in 2023, including ApplyBoard. TIJANA MARTIN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL JASON FRANSON/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Digital tip-trawling trend is getting out of hand

Instead of paying more wielding a hand-held credit-card How much do I tip if I pour my ital payment options enabled erning so-called junk fees.
reader prompting a tip or a self- own coffee, put the cream in the compliance with social-distanc- Does the practice work? Ac-
to attract workers service kiosk giving you a not-so- cup myself, stir it myself, slip the ing guidelines and buoyed no- cording to the Forbes 2023 Digital
amid a labour crunch, subtle digital squeeze, the prac- ribbed cardboard heat-protec- contact service. But it never went Tipping Culture Survey, while 95
companies are putting tice is, at the very least, annoying. tion sleeve onto the cup myself, away. And at this point, there is per cent of respondents said they
A more critical view, though, is snap the to-go sippy cap on my- no known vaccine for it. tipped at least sometimes, one in
that task on customers that this phenomenon is a reflec- self, walk to the checkout myself If anything, the practice has three said they felt pressured to
tion of the continuing labour and insert my debit card into the picked up steam. Square, the pay- tip, and 18 per cent said they felt
crunch and companies’ self-serv- machine myself? The spinning ment-processing company, says uncomfortable tipping.
GUS ing way of solving it: Instead of card reader on the counter will that for establishments with only Despite the upward trend,
CARLSON paying more to attract workers, happily help me with suggested counter service, tips have in- many consumers worry their dig-
they are off-loading that task to options – anywhere from 10 per creased 17 per cent, largely be- ital tips don’t go to the workers
OPINION their customers. cent to 30 per cent. Cue Allen cause of the use of point-of-sale who deserve them and are just
Aggressive digital tip-trawling Funt. card readers, which Square sells another way companies generate
is becoming prevalent not only in Or, if I am feeling contrarian, I by the way. revenue and keep low-wage ear-
U.S.-based columnist for full-service locations, such as res- can choose the “no tip” option, Predictably, the boom in digi- ners down.
The Globe and Mail taurants and bars, but in self-ser- which is sure to bring scornful tal tip solicitation has caught the For their part, employers say
vice or minimal-service locations looks from behind the counter attention of the U.S. Internal Rev- prompting tips digitally across a
S
ome people call it “tip-fla- such as coffee shops, corner and whispered suggestions that I enue Service, which watches em- broader spectrum of service op-
tion.” Others refer to it as stores, gas station mini-marts, am a shameful human. ployers and workers closely to tions helps employee retention.
“guilt tipping.” Still others dry cleaners and even supermar- The practice of auto-tipping ensure tips are properly account- It’s a plain acknowledgment that
consider it retail extortion. ket self-checkout areas. proliferated during the pandem- ed for and declared. Consumer customers are being guilt-tripped
Whatever the label of choice, In some cases, the exercise is ic, when employers and consum- protection groups are also watch- into solving the labour crunch for
for anyone who has been on the so absurd, you might feel you are ers were eager to support their lo- ing the uptick, warning the prac- companies. At least they are hon-
losing end of a stickup by a server part of a hidden-camera prank. cal service workers and when dig- tice may run afoul of laws gov- est.
WestJet: Labour turmoil has cost the airline fares and consumer trust, professor says
FROM B1
“It’s a big step forward for the

members, and will, in our view,
help with WestJet’s attraction
and retention issues,” Mr. Perry
said. “And it’s something that
values the pilots and their exper-
tise that they bring to the air-
line.”
Mr. Perry said union negotia-
tors achieved their goal of ensur-
ing WestJet pilots are paid in line
with their counterparts through-
out North America. “We’re not at
the high end of the range, but
we’re in the ballpark,” Mr. Perry
said by phone.
Alexis von Hoensbroech,
WestJet’s chief executive officer,
said the agreement offers “mea-
ningful improvements to job se-
curity and scope, working condi-
tions and wages.”
Calgary-based WestJet can-
celled 231 flights from Thursday
to Sunday amid uncertainty over
the state of negotiations, which
have lasted nine months. The
two sides issued strike and lock-
out notices for early Friday
morning, and the cancellations
were to reduce the number of
passengers, crews and planes
that would be stranded.
Geraint Harvey, a professor at Uncertainty over the Onex Corp. bought WestJet for “This is not a cheap settle- gm” in aviation labour talks. The
Western University, said the la- state of negotiations saw $3.5-billion months before the ment. It’s going to cost [WestJet] U.S. aviation industry, in sound
bour turmoil has cost Canada’s WestJet cancel 231 pandemic swept the globe and millions. Are those millions go- financial health, has been award-
second-largest airline fares as flights from Thursday to caused deep financial losses for ing to be recoverable in the mar- ing pay hikes at a time the Cana-
well as consumer trust. Sunday to reduce the the airline industry. ket? The answer is no. Those dian focus on low fares has kept
“These kind of actions are number of passengers, John Gradek, a former Air costs are going to have to be re- domestic wages down.
incredibly damaging for air- crews and planes that Canada manager who teaches covered somehow,” he said. The new WestJet proposal
lines,” Prof. Harvey said in an in- would be stranded. aviation leadership at McGill “WestJet might have to take out changes that, he said. Air Cana-
terview. JEFF McINTOSH/ University, said the gains the pi- its own services to pay for the bill da, expected to begin contract
The often fractious labour THE CANADIAN PRESS lots achieved will raise WestJet’s for the pilots.” talks with ALPA in the summer,
talks at WestJet came as the Can- expenses and could lead to re- Mr. Gradek said the union’s ef- could be next, he said.
adian aviation industry is trying duced services on some money- forts to push for wages that are “We have seen a preview of
to regain its footing more than losing routes amid competition comparable with the airline’s what ALPA will do with Air Cana-
three years after COVID-19 halted with discount rivals Flair Airlines North American and U.S. coun- da. That’s going to happen soon-
most air travel. and Lynx Air. terparts marked a “new paradi- er than later,” Mr. Gradek said.
Stellantis: ‘We’re going to get an Bridging: Private lender’s receiver estimates

agreement,’ Industry Minister says that investors will lose $1.3-billion
FROM B1 willing to spend the money neces- FROM B1 vestigating Bridging’s collapse, but no charges
sary to match the large clean-en- have been laid.
Stellantis has said the Windsor fa- ergy subsidies now being handed Both parties have also asked a judge to ap- Bridging ceased normal operations in April,
cility will employ about 2,500 peo- out by the U.S., in order to ensure prove an accounting or tracing order to track 2021, after the OSC disclosed that it had been
ple and lead to about 10,000 indi- Canada does not lose out on fu- any funds that were wrongfully diverted into investigating the company for alleged self-
rect jobs. ture electric-car plants. any type of property owned or registered by dealing and fraud, with a particular focus on
Industry Minister François- “We have always said we would the defendants. David Sharpe, who was then chief executive
Philippe Champagne suggested level the playing field with the Jenny and Rocky Coco made their names officer, and Natasha Sharpe, Bridging’s then-
Friday that a deal to keep the com- United States, with the type of IRA running Coco Paving Inc., the road paving em- chief investment officer and previous CEO. A
panies from moving their Wind- incentives,” he said. pire their father built out of Windsor, Ont., but year later the regulator laid its formal charges
sor plant to the U.S. is in the works. Stellantis spokesperson branched into financial services in 2012 by cre- – but left the Cocos out.
Mr. Champagne said he had a LouAnn Gosselin declined to ating Bridging. When the private lender was The new lawsuits bring Jenny and Rocky
two-hour dinner with LG chief ex- comment on Friday. put under the control of a court-appointed Coco into the legal fight. A major argument in
ecutive William Cho in South Ko- Almost immediately after the receiver in April, 2021, the siblings jointly own- the receiver’s lawsuit is the allegation that the
rea during a state visit earlier this Inflation Reduction Act passed in ed 58 per cent of the company. Cocos – and the Sharpes – enriched them-
week, at which they reached a August, 2022, Stellantis and LG be- Ms. Coco is already a defendant in lawsuits selves by misrepresenting the true values of
“common understanding.” Mr. gan to seek assurances from Otta- connected to Bridging, because of allegations Bridging’s loans.
Cho, he said, followed up with wa that the Windsor plant would that she may have used investor money as Between January, 2017, and December,
him by e-mail on Friday morning not be on an “uncompetitive foot- part of her business relationship with Toronto 2020, investors paid more than $52-million in
about “the track to follow.” ing” with the U.S., according to a real estate developer Sam Mizrahi, but the two management fees and more than $101-million
“I remain very confident that letter sent last month from the new cases deal directly with her alleged role in in performance fees to the fund manager. The
we will come to an agreement companies’ chief executives to the private lender’s demise. In addition to her receiver alleges Natasha Sharpe, Jenny Coco
with the company,” Mr. Cham- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ownership and board seat, Ms. Coco also sat and Rocky Coco, who co-owned it, took out
pagne said at the Canadian em- and obtained by The Globe and on Bridging’s credit committee, which ap- dividends totalling more than $28-million.
bassy in Washington, where he Mail. proved loans. “The over $28-million in dividends they
was drumming up business for The letter says Ottawa provid- Before its downfall, Bridging was one of granted themselves were improper and un-
Canada’s semiconductor indus- ed five written documents con- Canada’s best-known private lenders. Its busi- earned as they were derived from a calcula-
try. “I think we have a common firming commitments to match ness model was built on raising money from tion of the net asset value that they knew did
understanding about the way for- production incentives under the retail investors and then lending those funds not reflect the impairments of Bridging loans,”
ward.” IRA, but has failed to follow to mid-sized companies that didn’t meet the the receiver alleged.
He said Mr. Ford’s willingness through, and it warns that the credit standards of banks. At its peak, Bridging In the second lawsuit, BlackRock also
to step up Ontario’s contribution companies will be forced to make managed $2.09-billion on behalf of 26,000 in- makes a number of allegations, but takes par-
is a sign that “we’re making pro- “difficult decisions” about the vestors. ticular issue with being misled about money
gress.” He described the Premier’s project and other investments if Bridging’s receiver estimates that investors lent to Gary Ng.
comments as “reassuring.” those commitments aren’t met. will lose $1.3-billion, and to recoup as much Mr. Ng initially bought a 50-per-cent stake
Mr. Champagne did not say The exact cost to taxpayers of money as possible, PricewaterhouseCoopers is in Bridging for $50-million in mid-2019, and a
how much the federal and provin- matching the IRA is not possible now suing multiple parties, including the few months later BlackRock lent $52.5-million
cial governments will have to in- to predict, because the U.S. subsi- lender’s former auditor, KPMG LLP, for $1.4- to Bridging. As part of the loan agreement,
crease Stellantis and LG’s subsidies – provided through produc- billion. Bridging officials agreed they “had not loaned
dies to get them to continue with tion tax credits – are tied to how The receiver has also filed lawsuits against money to any shareholders or their affiliates.”
their project. many battery cells and modules Gary Ng, who once owned 50 per cent of the It has since come to light that Bridging lent
The minister tried to play down are produced by plants between private lender, and Sean McCoshen, who once Mr. Ng $32-million in June, 2019, and the mon-
the dramatic standoff. now and 2032. was Bridging’s largest borrower, among oth- ey was supposed to be used for buying small
“What you’ve seen in the last The Stellantis-LG plant, which ers. to mid-sized commercial real estate ventures.
few days, I would say, is just nor- would have lower capacity than The Ontario Securities Commission is pur- Instead, it was allegedly used to fund his pur-
mal negotiating. I wish that Cana- Volkswagen’s, but would begin suing fraud charges against David and Natasha chase of Bridging.
dians would not be too concerned operations sooner, would likely Sharpe, and against Bridging’s former chief Lawyers for Jenny and Rocky Coco did not
over that,” he said. “We’re going to get a subsidy in the same range as compliance officer, Andrew Mushore. The return requests for comment. David Sharpe’s
get to an agreement.” what was promised to Volkswa- Globe and Mail reported in November that the lawyer declined to comment, as did Natasha
He reiterated that Ottawa is gen. Royal Canadian Mounted Police are also in- Sharpe’s lawyer.
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GLOBE INVESTOR
The glow of Nutrien has faded in a cruel way
Earlier this month, the The great potash spike share (from US$93 previously) Prior to the Ukraine invasion,
but insisted they still like the Russia and Belarus produced
company reported low Potash prices soared last year as sanctions on Russian and Belarusian producers
reduced supply. But prices are now falling fast. (Muriate of potash, U.S. dollars company’s prospects and contin- about 40 per cent of the world’s
first-quarter earnings per tonne, Vancouver spot price.) ue to “see attractive relative up- potash exports. When postinva-
and dialled down its side potential.” Similarly, CIBC sion sanctions crimped those ex-
$1,200
analysts axed their share-price ports last year, potash was sud-
guidance for the rest target to US$92 (from US$105 denly in short supply and prices
of the year 1,000 previously) but reiterated their soared.
“outperformer” rating on the This year, the opposite story
800 stock. has prevailed: Potash prices have
IAN M C Gugan If the experts are shuffling slid 19 per cent since January.
600 their feet so furiously, how Some targeted producers appear
should ordinary investors ap- to have begun to find ways
OPINION 400 proach the stock? A good first around the restrictions, especial-
step is to ask yourself whether ly when it comes to meeting Chi-
MARKET FORCES you are evaluating it as a short- nese demand. “Supplies from Be-
200
term play or as a long-term posi- larus continue to arrive in China
I
f you’re searching for a Cana- tion. by rail despite sanctions that lim-
0
dian stock to sum up the chal- Buying Nutrien as a short-term it Belarusian shipment options,”
2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
lenges of this unusually murky play makes little sense – not only Bloomberg reports.
period in investing history, let me JOHN SOPINSKI / THE GLOBE AND MAIL is it suffering from negative mo- Meanwhile, North American
point you in the direction of Nu- mentum, but there is no obvious potash inventories have hit un-
trien Ltd., a big, reliable provider Bitter harvest catalyst to turn it quickly around. usual heights. Farmers aren’t
of a vital but boring product. The Corn and soybean prices have been falling this year, reducing the financial Longer term, though, Nutrien rushing to buy potash given the
share price of the giant potash incentive for farmers to invest in fertilizer. (Percentage change in price since still has appeal. It remains the slide in futures prices for corn
producer has gyrated wildly over start of year.) world’s biggest single producer of and soybeans. Those falling pric-
the past three years for reasons potash. It is also a sizable pro- es mean less financial incentive
that have little to do with the Corn Soybeans ducer of nitrogen and phosphate, to invest in nutrients that could
company’s own operations. 5% both vital agricultural inputs. boost crop yields.
Its trajectory turned erratic Right now, it is offering a de- You can construct many sce-
when COVID-19 struck the world 0
cent dividend yield – about 3.4 narios around what will come
in early 2020. Nutrien, which had per cent. It is also cheap on some next. Perhaps the Ukraine con-
been trading around $62 a share, key measures. Consider, for in- flict drags on for years and Bela-
slumped to below $40, as stock -5 stance, how its enterprise value – rusian and Russian potash pro-
markets crashed. Then, in tan- the net value of all its debt and ducers remain under a cloud. Or
dem with the broad market, it -10 equity – stacks up against its fore- maybe China turns to those
staged an impressive recovery, cast earnings before interest, tax, countries for all its potash needs
more than doubling its share -15 depreciation and amortization. as the world increasingly splits
price. Despite lowered earnings esti- into separate trading blocs. Or
Its gains went into overdrive -20 mates, Nutrien’s forward EV/ perhaps the conflict ends abrupt-
when Russia invaded Ukraine in Jan. Feb. March April May EBITDA is still under six. That is ly, the sanctions disappear, and
early 2022. The international 2023 well below its historical average, the world is suddenly awash in
community slapped sanctions on according to CIBC. This bargain potash.
Russian potash producers and JOHN SOPINSKI / THE GLOBE AND MAIL , SOURCE: BLOOMBERG valuation bodes well for future The uncertainties are high and
tightened them further on Bela- share price gains if the world re- difficult to assess with any preci-
rusian producers of the key crop guidance for the rest of the year. In the case of Nutrien, the un- turns to normal. “We see good sion. Sure, it’s possible to make
nutrient. Suddenly, Nutrien – an As of Friday afternoon, shares certainties include how the Uk- value here even if it’s a little mes- the case that Nutrien’s relatively
unglamorous, unloved stock two had slumped to around $83.60 raine war will wind up and how sy,” Joel Jackson, a Bank of Mon- low valuation makes its stock a
years earlier – was worth more each on the Toronto Stock Ex- global trade with China will treal analyst, wrote this week. He tempting value buy for patient
than $140 a share. change and US$61.85 on the New evolve. These are complex, clou- has a price target of US$90 on the investors. But with crop prices
Unfortunately for Nutrien sha- York Stock Exchange. dy issues. shares, based on the notion that languishing and the durability of
reholders, the glow has faded To my mind, the company of- The keen minds on Wall Street Nutrien’s EV/EBITDA ratio will sanctions in question, it’s not ob-
since and the past few weeks fers an interesting microcosm of and Bay Street seem just as baf- recover and settle around eight. vious the potential reward out-
have been particularly cruel. Ear- investors’ big challenge these fled as anyone else. After the first- The problem is it isn’t clear weighs the risk. As with much of
lier this month, the company re- days: How do you adjust your quarter earnings debacle, analy- that the world will return to nor- today’s stock market, waiting for
ported disappointing first-quar- portfolio to reflect a world that sts at Barclays slashed their tar- mal. For that matter, it’s not clear a better buying opportunity
ter earnings and dialled down its has become radically uncertain? get price for the stock to US$80 a what normal looks like any more. seems like a fine strategy.
Cash is king. Here’s why we should resist its allure

DAVID sold daily – can offer annualized historical tendency for stocks to investors with portfolios of stocks explore other opportunities.
BERMAN yields above 4.5 per cent, with no fall to new lows in the monetary and bonds. But cash has slipped in High-quality stocks – companies
fear of losing money. Some one- cycle after the first rate cut. “The the ranks this year. According to with strong balance sheets and re-
OPINION year guaranteed investment cer- bullish scenario of equity market BlackRock’s figures to the end of silient profit margins – look right
tificates will deliver even more. gains based solely on the end of April, it has trailed just about ev- over the next six to 12 months, giv-
Sure, these yields lose some of rate hikes does not seem plausi- erything in 2023. en that signs of an economic slow-
DEEP DIVE their appeal when you adjust for ble,” Lisa Shalett, chief invest- European, Japanese and U.S. down are emerging, Ms. Chaud-
inflation, which in Canada ment officer at Morgan Stanley’s stocks have rebounded. Even in- huri said.
C
ash is appealing when clocked in at 4.4 per cent in April, wealth-management division, vestment-grade bonds, high-yield Short-term government bonds
stocks and bonds continue from a year earlier. But the attrac- said in a note this week. Add con- bonds and real estate investment and investment-grade corporate
to be buffeted by inflation, tion may be hard to resist for in- tinuing fears of a recession to the trusts have outperformed after bonds, with durations of two to
weaker corporate profits, U.S. re- vestors still wary of stocks and mix and it’s little wonder inves- their distributions are included. three years, are also appealing. If
gional-bank failures, debt-ceiling bonds after last year’s tumult. The tors are hoarding cash. In the More specifically, the S&P 500 in- interest rates don’t move higher –
standoffs and a whole lot more. S&P 500 fell about 18 per cent in United States, total assets in mon- dex is up 9 per cent, as of Friday af- which is a reasonable outlook –
But stay parked in cash for too 2022, including dividends. Gov- ey market funds have increased ternoon. U.S. tech stocks are up 27 these bonds can deliver mid-sin-
long and there may be a risk of los- ernment bonds, which normally by 12.5 per cent since the end of per cent. And Canada’s S&P/TSX gle-digit returns on the coupons
ing out on bigger gains elsewhere. offer a buffer against a downturn 2022, according to data from the Composite Index is up 5 per cent – alone, Ms. Chaudhuri said. And if
This risk may be hard to see in the stock market, also fell Investment Company Institute. more if dividends are included – central banks cut rates, perhaps
right now, admittedly. Rising in- sharply as central banks raised in- But this might not be a healthy or about double the return of any next year if the economy slows,
terest rates have raised the re- terest rates. trend for investors with longer- cash investment over the first five bond prices will move higher, re-
turns on cash-like investments, That made cash one of the best term time horizons. “I think peo- months of the year. warding investors even more. Re-
where your money might be ways to sit out last year’s headach- ple are always reacting to the last “I understand the urge to grav- gardless of what works well this
locked in for short periods, at a es, and its appeal grew stronger as event that has scarred them,” Gar- itate to cash,” particularly in the year, though, long-term historical
time when economic clouds con- yields on money market funds gi Chaudhuri, BlackRock’s head of case of short-term investors who returns stand as a clear warning to
tinue to hang over the stock mar- and GICs steadily increased. Some iShares investment strategy for might be saving up to buy a home, investors still clinging to cash:
ket and bond prices remain in the observers expect stocks will con- the Americas, said in an interview. Ms. Chaudhuri said. But investors Over the past 10 years, the S&P 500
dumps. tinue to be volatile this year, even She’s referring to last year’s disap- with time horizons that extend has delivered a total return of
Money market funds – which if the Federal Reserve ends its pointments, which affected just beyond a couple of years might about 12 per cent a year, on aver-
hold short-term government se- rate-hiking campaign next about everyone, from sophisticat- want to check the impulse to hold age. That’s hard to beat, especially
curities and can be bought and month. That’s because there is a ed institutional investors to retail on to what worked last year and with cash.
Globe readers have an uncanny ability to pick stocks on the verge of rebounding
IAN MCGUGAN over the course of a year. (Based innovator Shopify Inc. (up 44.8 deal with the inevitable losses. If
upon total return in Canadian per cent), software titan Micro- this were a real-world portfolio,
dollars from March 13, 2023, to The Readers’ Portfolio soft Corp. (up 20.2 per cent) and those of us in Globe Investor
doesn’t face the same
T
his is getting embarrassing. March 13, 2024, for those of you chip maker Nvidia Corp. (up 21.9 would be reassessing our posi-
Two months into the keeping track at home.) challenge because, per cent). tions in Plug Power and Warner
great Investing Club chal- To add an additional dash of In contrast, those of us in Bros. Discovery.
lenge, our readers have opened drama to this experiment, we remarkably, none of its Globe Investor have demonstrat- The Readers’ Portfolio doesn’t
up an enormous lead over the fin- thought it would be interesting picks has lost money so ed the opposite talent – a remark- face the same challenge because,
est minds in The Globe’s invest- for those of us who write about far. In many ways, its able ability to step into potholes. remarkably, none of its picks has
ing section. The Readers’ Portfo- investing at The Globe to come performance has been Our losers include fuel cell inno- lost money so far. In many ways,
lio has rocketed 11 per cent higher up with our own portfolio, which vator Plug Power Inc. (down an its performance has been exem-
since March 13; the Globe Hot List we immodestly dubbed the Hot exemplary: a few big excruciating 40.4 per cent), enter- plary: a few big winners, several
has inched up a mere 1.1 per cent. List. winners, several tainment conglomerate Warner moderate gainers, no losers.
Congratulations, readers. Your Based upon the evidence so moderate gainers, no Bros. Discovery (down 11.9 per Can this charmed streak con-
choices have trounced not just far, it’s clear the Hot List is actual- losers. cent ) and credit-card giant tinue? Extrapolating the two-
the shattered egos here at Globe ly more like Team Tepid. American Express Co. (down 6.9 month performance of the Read-
Investor but the S&P/TSX Com- On the other hand, Globe read- per cent). ers’ Portfolio for a full year would
posite Index and the S&P 500 In- ers have shown themselves to be We weren’t complete dunces. result in a one-year gain of 66 per
dex as well. an unusually intelligent lot. We did score a couple of big gains cent – a level of performance that
How did this happen? As you Good-looking, too. (Yes, I’m in copper miner First Quantum not even Warren Buffett has man-
may recall, we launched the shamelessly flattering you, in the Minerals Ltd. (up 20.3 per cent ) aged to achieve on a sustained
Globe Investing Club this spring hope that you won’t be too cruel and distributor Richelieu Hard- basis. I’m not wishing bad luck on
with an invitation to readers to about the Hot List’s lacklustre ware Ltd. (up 19.5 per cent). anyone, but market history sug-
send us their top three picks for performance.) By aggregating Those wins, though, weren’t gests readers’ picks will slow their
the year ahead. We then chose the your thoughts and opinions, we enough to propel us out of the furious pace of gains over the
dozen most popular stocks appear to have tapped into a deep deep hole our losing bets had put months ahead. Maybe (and I real-
among the more than 500 sub- well of market knowledge. us in. ize I’m probably dreaming here)
missions we received and used In the early going, you have There may be a lesson here. If the Globe Hot List will experience
them to make up the Readers’ demonstrated an uncanny ability you swing for the fences with the opposite effect and see a pick-
Portfolio. to pick stocks that were on the high-risk, high-reward picks like up in its dismal record to date.
Our plan was to see how the verge of rebounding. Among many of those on the Hot List, There is, ahem, a lot of room for
Readers’ Portfolio would fare your big winners are e-commerce you have to figure out a way to improvement.
Can I make enough to retire in 7 years?

Alan, 53, wonders when es kick in. (Typically, small private
corporations pay non-eligible di-
his investment portfolio vidends to their shareholders
may provide enough from after tax profits, meaning
financial independence that the corporation would have
already paid corporate income
so he can stop working tax on that income. To avoid dou-
ble taxation, they are taxed at a
different rate than eligible divi-
DIANNE MALEY dends.)
He will stop reinvesting the di-
vidends he gets from his personal
FINANCIAL FACELIFT non-registered portfolio and be-
gin taking them in cash instead.
A
lan is 53 and runs his own The dividends from that account
small business corpora- will generate about $21,700 a year.
tion. He recently bought “His average tax rate will be 1 per
out his ex-wife’s share of the fam- cent that year, making his income
ily home so their three children, very tax-advantaged,” Ms.
all in their early 20s, “would have Thompson says.
a place to live until they are ready At age 65, the planner recom-
to launch,” he writes in an e-mail. mends that Alan convert his RRSP
Although he has no pension to a registered retirement income
plan, Alan has substantial invest- fund (RRIF) to take advantage of
ments in dividend-paying North the federal pension income-tax
American stocks. He adds about credit of $2,000 a year. He could
$40,000 a year of retained earn- also begin taking minimum RRIF
ings from his corporation to his withdrawals. Taking RRIF with-
portfolio. His house in small- DUANE COLE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL drawals earlier than age 72 would
town Ontario is valued at allow Alan to maintain a very low
$739,000 with a mortgage of average tax rate throughout re-
$288,000. “As an owner of an in- tirement and reduce the potential
corporated company, I can write for Old Age Security clawback at
off most of my expenses, and I live CLIENT SITUATION age 70, she says.
very frugally,” Alan writes. The mandatory RRIF mini-
Short term, his goal is to winter The Person: Alan, age 53, and his for a lifetime. sewer, garbage $105; property mum will generate about $10,000
outside of Canada for three three children. insurance $135; electricity $140; a year at age 65, allowing Alan to
months each year. Long term, he Monthly net income: Taken as heating $125; maintenance, reduce the non-eligible dividend
wants to increase his investment The Problem: Can he generate needed. garden $605; transportation he is taking from the corporation,
portfolio to the point where it enough dividend income to retire $1,160; groceries $400; clothing she says.
generates $65,000 a year in divi- comfortably on it at age 60? Assets: Bank account $9,000; $25; vacation, travel $415; At age 71, for example, Alan’s
dends, which are generally taxed locked-in retirement account dining, drinks, entertainment income could include CPP and
more favourably than salary or in- The Plan: Continue saving and from previous employer $305; sports, hobbies, sub- OAS benefits of about $31,350 a
terest income thanks to the divi- reinvesting the dividends until he $51,765; RRSP $118,345; TFSA scriptions $20; health, dental year, corporate dividends of
dend tax credit. retires. Then he can take divi- $186,595; non-registered in- insurance $150; life, disability $7,500 (down from $49,000),
“I want to know if my idea of dends in cash. If by some chance vestments $466,740; corporate insurance $140; communications RRIF withdrawals of $13,700 and
building up dividend-paying his dividend income doesn’t account $157,940; residence $120; TFSA $500. Total: $6,050. personal dividend income of
stocks to the point that they are grow as expected, he can tap $739,000. Total: $1.73-million. $28,000, for total pretax income
my pension payments and never into his capital. Liabilities: Mortgage $288,000; of about $80,000 a year. Factoring
selling them is a good idea,” Alan Monthly outlays: Mortgage line of credit $100,000. Total: in an estimated 2.1-per-cent infla-
writes. He hopes to achieve finan- The Payoff: Investments enough $1,370; property tax $335; water, $388,000. tion rate, his expenses will have
cial independence by age 60. He risen to $80,000 by that time, in-
might choose to work less but cluding his debt payments. His
never fully retire “because I like buys mainly Canadian and U.S. di- ary, Alan is no longer paying into taxes would still be negligible.
what I do,” he adds. With 85-per-cent of vidend-paying stocks to hold. His the Canada Pension Plan. He esti- Alan will also need to convert
“The actual stocks are a safety portfolio yields dividend income mates he’ll be eligible for CPP ben- his LIRA to a life income fund
net in case I need more money,” his portfolio in of 5.98 per cent. That generates efits of $620 a month at age 70. He (LIF) and begin making mini-
he writes. “I am hoping to find out Canadian stocks, about $55,000 a year, which he re- plans to defer his Old Age Security mum withdrawals at age 72. This
where the tipping point is that I 14-per-cent in U.S. invests. He transfers money from benefits to age 70 as well, which will increase his income by about
do not have to add new money to stocks and only his non-registered savings to his will increase his benefit by 36 per $8,000 a year, at which point he
my investments and can just tax-free savings account each cent to $935 a month. could further reduce the level of
spend all the money I make from 1.4-per-cent in year to take advantage of the con- “Based on Alan’s current divi- non-eligible dividends he is tak-
working.” ex-North American tribution room. dends, savings and dividend rein- ing from the corporation, the
Alan says he would be happy to stocks, Alan’s Alan’s corporate investment vestments, he should have no planner says. Since dividend pay-
leave money to his children, “but portfolio is worth $157,000 and he problem attaining his goal of gen- ments are flexible, there is no re-
that is not my goal. I raised them
portfolio lacks has a federal Canada Emergency erating $65,000 of passive income quirement for him to take a cer-
to look after themselves.” diversification, Ms. Business Account loan of by age 60,” Ms. Thompson says. tain amount each year. He can
At what point will his portfolio Thompson says. $40,000, which he will repay by His portfolio is estimated to have continue to use this to his advan-
produce $65,000? year end. risen to about $1.6-million by tage throughout retirement to en-
We asked Andrea Thompson, a With 85-per-cent of his portfo- then, of which about $540,000 sure his taxes are kept low and
certified financial planner and lio in Canadian stocks, 14-per- will be in his corporate account. that he maximizes any additional
founder of Modern Cents, an ad- cent in U.S. stocks and only 1.4- That assumes a rate of return – di- tax benefits available through his
vice-only financial-planning firm per-cent in ex-North American vidends and capital gains – of 6.27 corporation.
based in Mississauga, to look at stocks, Alan’s portfolio lacks di- per cent preretirement, based on While much could happen
Alan’s situation. versification, Ms. Thompson says. the Financial Planning Standards over the 40-odd years of this fore-
“He may want to consider diversi- Council guidelines. At that point, cast, if Alan manages to live on his
fying his exposure outside of Can- Alan can stop adding the earnings dividends and leave his principal
WHAT THE EXPERT SAYS
ada to more global companies, from his corporation to his stock intact, he could leave an estate of
and to do so within his RRSP and/ portfolio and start spending what $6.8-million in future dollars at
Alan lives frugally and has many or locked-in retirement account he earns instead. age 95, or about $3-million in to-
of his personal expenses paid by [LIRA],” Ms. Thompson says. He may want to retain a bal- day’s dollars, Ms. Thompson says.
the business, Ms. Thompson says. “Keeping Canadian dividend- ance in his TFSA as a health care This would be after estate taxes
The company reimburses him for paying companies in his non-reg- emergency fund. and fees of about $575,000 in fu-
about $3,500 a month in expenses istered account will allow him to From a drawdown perspective, ture dollars.
to cover such things as a home of- continue taking advantage of the if and when Alan decides he no
fice and vehicle. He also does Canadian dividend tax credit.” longer wants to work, the planner Special to The Globe and Mail
small jobs on the side occasional- She recommends he keep one recommends that he draw a divi-
ly. or two years’ worth of expenses in dend of $49,000 a year from his Some details may be changed to
Alan’s personal investment as- cash or cash equivalents to ride corporate investment account, protect the privacy of the persons
sets are spread out over registered out any upheavals in the stock known as a non-eligible dividend. profiled.
and non-registered accounts. He market after he stops working. The amount of the dividend will Want a free financial facelift?
is a do-it-yourself investor who Because he is not drawing a sal- decline as his other income sourc- E-mail finfacelift@gmail.com.
STARS AND DOGS JOHN HEINZL
STAR The problem with the STAR Can we talk about irritable DOG Business quiz! Kyndryl is DOG Money-saving tip: When DOG
world today? Not enough vio- bowel syndrome? The condition a) an antihistamine, similar to your neighbours are out of town,
lence. Thank goodness for video affects as much as one-fifth of the Benadryl, that is used primarily charge your electric vehicle at There once was a business called
games like Grand Theft Auto, in population, which explains why to sedate children who refuse to their house for free. Money-losing GOOS
which people can indulge their pharmaceutical companies are so lie down for nap time; b) the tip: Invest in electric vehicle
darkest impulses by running keen to cash in on the market for world’s largest producer of high- charging company EVgo. The Whose stock seemed to hang
down virtual pedestrians, shoot- IBS drugs. Unfortunately for Nor- temperature kilns for firing clay shares tumbled after the compa- from a noose
ing kittens and feeding hitchhik- wich Pharmaceuticals, it will into pottery; c) an information ny, which has more than 3,000
ers to a cult of cannibals. It’s all in have to wait a few more years. technology infrastructure servic- public charging stations operat- As its U.S. sales fell
good fun – especially for share- Norwich had been trying to win es company, spun out from Inter- ing or under construction across
holders of Take-Two Interactive approval for a generic version of national Business Machines in the United States, said it is selling People started to sell
Software. Shares of the video Bausch Health’s IBS treatment, 2021, whose shares sank this week US$125-million of new shares to
game developer – whose other ti- Xifaxan. But a U.S. court this week after it reported fiscal fourth- finance an expansion of its net- ‘Cause it seemed like the time to
tles include NBA 2K and Red Dead denied Norwich’s motion to mod- quarter revenue and earnings work. With the shares already cut loose
Redemption – surged after fiscal ify a judgment that prevents the well short of estimates and down sharply this year amid
fourth-quarter revenue leaped 56 U.S. Food and Drug Administra- warned that sales will fall 6 to 8 higher interest rates and weak
per cent to US$1.45-billion, top- tion from approving its applica- per cent in the current year. An- sentiment toward growth stocks,
ping Wall Street’s expectations. tion before 2029. Judging by the swer: c. the prospect of dilution evidently
With the stock at its highest in jump in Bausch Health’s stock came as a shock to investors.
more than a year, the company is price, its shareholders are any-
killin’ it, so to speak. thing but irritable.
TTWO (Nasdaq), US$137.43, BHC (TSX), $11.22, KD (NYSE), US$11.66, EVGO (Nasdaq), US$3.96, GOOS (TSX), $22.98,
up US$12.17 or 9.7% over week up $3.47 or 44.8% over week down US$2.51 or 17.7% over week down US$1.76 or 30.8% over week down $4.46 or 16.3% over week
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Reasons to start investing without fear

With three decades of Tax Free Savings Accounts.
“It’s so much easier now than
experience, this Globe it used to be,” she said.
Investing Club member Even though she has been in-
says it’s becoming easier vesting for about three decades,
Ms. Howitt is not afraid to admit
to enter the field where she lacks knowledge and
is always eager to ask for help.
Ms. Howitt said she has found
MARK RAMZY success over time by relying on
experts’ advice and choosing
tried and tested Canadian com-
In March, we invited readers to sub- panies with solid track records.
mit the names of three stocks that
they believe would be strong per- Her picks and why she picked
formers over the coming year. This them:
is the most recent installment in a
series where Globe Investing Club Ms. Howitt’s portfolio includes
members share their picks. two picks among readers’ top 12:
Bank of Nova Scotia and tele-
K
atherine Howitt is like communications giant Telus
many Canadians who have Corp.. With her third pick, Ms.
started to invest on the Howitt selected The North West
side, slowly learning over time. Co. Inc., a Canadian retailer most
The long-time registered practi- prominent in northern and rural
cal nurse is no numbers expert, communities.
she says, but through her father’s Ms. Howitt said she chose
guidance and with the help of fi- those stocks mainly because of
nancial advisers, she’s had suc- their good dividends. She said
cess with her investments over she’s been invested with Telus
the years. Katherine Howitt says Her initial introduction into How she would describe her for decades and enjoys their rela-
The key, for her, was not to investing can be fun, investing was, like many others, investing style: tive stability and the company’s
overthink it too much. provide extra income and through her father. leadership.
“I just think it’s good for peo- strengthen connections “In my 20s, he bought me Ms. Howitt is a long-term inves- With Bank of Nova Scotia, it
ple to get in there and do it,” she with family and friends. some shares in a company I was tor who buys and holds while was a company she had a good
said. “It doesn’t have to be as in- She started her journey interested in that was a penny withdrawing dividends over customer service experience
timidating as it can sometimes of investing through her stock [and] that kind of piqued time. Her main investments are with and what she called a good
feel.” father in her 20s. my interest,” she said. in telecommunications compa- deal.
Later on, her father intro- nies and banks, which she said As for The North West Co. the
Why she started investing: duced her to his brokers, who ad- are good economic bellwethers. least prominent of her three
vised her to focus on stocks. While some people may be choices, Ms. Howitt’s decision
For Ms. Howitt, there are lots of However, she still has money in too nervous to get into investing, was informed by none other
reasons to start investing. It can mutual funds, guaranteed invest- she said she believes it’s becom- than Globe writers’ investment
be fun, provide extra income and ment certificates and other in- ing simpler to enter the field, cit- advice – who she squares off
strengthen connections with vestments. ing the accessibility of discount against in the Globe Investment
family and friends. brokerages and the benefits of Club.
The case of the $51 airport lunch: Should you pay in loonies or local?
PREET BANERJEE blended into our expectations of general
purchasing power differences when trav-
elling to foreign countries and we often
OPINION struggle to distinguish one from the other.
The normal markups are not as bad as wit-
Consultant to the wealth management nessed by my wife on this particular occa-
industry with a focus on commercial sion. It’s much more common to see lower
applications of behavioural finance research dynamic currency conversion that might
appear to be competitive with allowing
your credit card to handle the conversion.
I
f you think inflation and tipping cul- I’ve seen some people online argue that us-
ture are out of control, how about vol- ing dynamic currency conversion and be-
untarily paying a 25 per cent markup ing charged in Canadian dollars might
on your spending while travelling? avoid the foreign exchange fee the card is-
That’s an extreme example of the extra suer might charge on top of the exchange
cost you might incur simply because you rate they are offering.
think being charged in Canadian dollars But when making your comparisons,
while abroad is convenient. It’s a practice you might be surprised to find out that
known as dynamic currency conversion even if you opt for dynamic currency con-
and you should steer clear of it at all costs. version, you could still be charged a for-
I nearly fell out of my chair when my eign transaction fee because you were not
wife sent me a photo of her credit card rein Canada. Even if the charge went through
ceipt from a London Heathrow airport res- in Canadian dollars. You’ll have to check
taurant, in which the £23.63 total for a plate ISTOCK with your specific card issuer. Depending
of fish and chips apparently converted to on where you travel, it might be common
$51.21. At least, that would have been the your card issuer. whether 200 pesos for a burger in Mexico is practice to list the markup over market ex-
case if she had opted to be charged in Cana- So where did the almost extra $10 come a good deal or not, but if you tell me that’s change rates in percentage terms on a bill.
dian dollars, which she did not. The restau- from if you chose to be charged in Cana- the equivalent of $15, I can figure that out Disclosure is getting better in some places,
rant’s exchange rate on the receipt was dian dollars on the spot at a Heathrow res- instantly. But there is an added wrinkle but clearly not all. Given that the costs of
$2.167 to the British pound, but unless you taurant? Instead of allowing the custom- that masks the uncompetitive exchange dynamic currency conversion could add
knew the actual market rate was closer to er’s credit card to determine the currency rate. Our expectations of whether a coun- hundreds, and potentially thousands, of
$1.67, you might not realize how ludicrous- conversion rates and fees, dynamic curren- try has a higher or lower cost of living play dollars to your next family vacation, it’s
ly capacious that markup is. Or maybe if cy conversion effectively allows the mer- a role in our perception of value. important to have a game plan for when
you’ve been in a coma for 20 years, because chant’s payment system provider to step in If we travel to a country that is generally you are presented with a bill from a foreign
that’s about the last time the pound was and offer you an exchange rate on the spot. more expensive than Canada, we expect merchant.
that strong relative to the loonie. It’s pitched to merchants as an additional higher prices and seeing a higher than nor- My recommendation is simple: Ideally,
Normally, a Canadian charging £23.63 to revenue tool as the rate offered is typically mal amount being charged in Canadian you’ll want a card that has no foreign ex-
their credit card might expect to pay closer uncompetitive. The extra cost the custom- dollars is irksome, but we swallow it. Con- change transaction fees and you should
to $40.88, based on the exchange rate at er incurs gets split between the merchant versely, if we travel to a country where we default to paying in the local currency of
the time of this transaction. The foreign ex- and their payment terminal provider. know our dollars go further, we might see a wherever you are travelling to keep your
change rates offered by Visa and Master- The deceptive attractiveness of seeing charge in Canadian dollars that is still low- currency conversion costs as reliably low
card tend to have markups under 3 per the cost of a transaction in Canadian dol- er than what we are used to even after fac- as possible.
cent above the market currency exchange lars gives us a frame of reference we are fa- toring a healthy markup. It still feels like a In other words, default to saying no to
rates. There is typically also a foreign trans- miliar with. deal. paying in Canadian dollars while travell-
action fee applied of around 2.5 per cent by I have to sit down and think about In this way, the cost of convenience is ing.
How to reinvest dividends? Let us count the ways

JOHN company-operated DRIPs was – sidual cash into a low-cost index commission – if I have a chunk of ACB by $1,000 to reflect the cost of
HEINZL and still is – that they support frac- mutual fund periodically. Mutual cash to invest in a stock that looks the new shares. Well, reinvesting
tional share purchases. That funds don’t charge commissions especially attractive. But the sim- $1,000 of dividends is essentially
OPINION means every penny of your divi- on purchases, so it’s a cost-effec- plicity and cost effectiveness of the same. It’s your money, and
dend gets reinvested. Even as elec- tive method for putting all your sweeping cash into a low-cost ETF you’re using it to buy additional
tronic record-keeping has re- money to work. What’s more, mu- is appealing. It makes the most of shares. The only difference with a
INVESTOR CLINIC placed paper share certificates at tual funds allow partial unit pur- compounding, with the added DRIP is that the purchase hap-
many companies, these DRIPs chases, and they generally rein- benefit of enhancing diversifica- pens automatically, without the
In your recent column, you recom- still operate in much the same vest their dividends by default, so tion. cash landing in your brokerage
mended that people reinvest their way. they make the most of com- account first.
dividends. What is the best way to Nowadays, investors have pounding. The disadvantage of My broker includes reinvested True, you must pay tax on divi-
do this? more convenient options for rein- this method is that mutual funds dividends in calculating the ad- dend income received in a non-
vesting dividends. typically charge relatively high justed cost base (ACB) of stocks in registered account, even if the
Reinvesting dividends is one of Most discount brokers now of- management expense ratios my non-registered account. Since money is reinvested. But by in-
the most effective ways to build fer their own in-house DRIPs. The (MERs). these dividends are declared each creasing your ACB, you will re-
wealth. It supercharges your re- advantage of these plans is that But there’s a way around that, year as investment income and I duce your future capital gain for
turns thanks to the power of com- you don’t have to register the too. A few years ago, with the ar- pay tax on them, the ACB that my tax purposes – or increase your
pound – or exponential – growth, shares in your own name – they rival of commission-free ex- broker shows on my statement is capital loss – when you eventually
which is perhaps your greatest al- stay with your broker – and you change-traded funds at many bro- not accurate. Do all brokers do this? sell the shares. So, increasing the
ly as an investor. have more control over the tim- kers, I stopped using mutual ACB is a benefit for you, because it
In the old days, reinvesting di- ing and price when you sell. funds to soak up the cash in my I don’t see a problem here. Adding prevents you from getting taxed
vidends was a cumbersome proc- The downside is that most bro- account and turned to ultralow- the value of the reinvested divi- twice.
ess. You had to enroll your shares ker-operated plans only allow you cost ETFs instead. For example, dends to your adjusted cost base I can’t say that all brokers add
in the company’s dividend rein- to purchase whole shares. So, for one of the ETFs I use is the BMO is exactly what your broker the value of reinvested dividends
vestment plan (DRIP), which re- example, if you receive $50 worth S&P/TSX Capped Composite In- should be doing. If your broker to the ACB, but they certainly
quired obtaining the shares certif- of dividends and the shares you’re dex ETF, which has an MER of just didn’t increase your ACB each should. That’s why it’s important
icates from your broker – for reinvesting in trade at $40, you’ll 0.06 per cent. There are many time you purchase shares in a di- to check your broker’s figures to
which there was a fee – and regis- acquire one additional share and low-cost ETFs out there; I suggest vidend reinvestment plan, you make sure they are correct.
tering them in your name with the remaining $10 will sit in cash. you check to see if your broker would end up paying more tax
the company’s transfer agent. That means you won’t get the full supports commission-free ETF down the road, not less E-mail your questions to
When it came time to sell, you had benefit of compounding. trades and, if so, which ETFs qual- Consider this: If you were to in- jheinzl@globeandmail.com.
to deliver the shares to a broker to The good news is that there are ify. vest, say, $1,000 of your own cash I’m not able to respond personally to
carry out the transaction. some easy workarounds. I still occasionally buy shares of to buy additional shares of a com- e-mails but I choose certain
The benefit of such traditional One solution is to sweep the re- individual companies – and pay a pany, you would increase your questions to answer in my column.
Here’s why I’m not smug about driving an EV

I’m painfully aware my
car is still a menace,
with its production
spurring significant
greenhouse gases
DAVID
BERMAN
OPINION
GOING ELECTRIC
I
s my electric vehicle making
the world a better place? There
are many reasons I decided to
go electric when I bought a new
car in early 2022, but the right to
feel smug about my choice wasn’t
high up on the list.
I’m painfully aware that my car
– any car – is a menace. I’m re-
minded of this whenever I’m
merging onto a soulless eight-
lane highway, driving on a freshly
salted winter road, topping up my
windshield washer fluid or being
sneered at by a cyclist.
Don’t get me wrong: My EV’s
zero emissions are a big improve-
ment over the fumes from my
previous gasoline-burning car,
which makes me happy. GLENN HARVEY/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
In Ontario, where I live, 92 per
cent of our electricity is generated ciated with electricity generation. areas of the world, including Can- point out that EVs aren’t made articles such as this one – comes
from nuclear, hydroelectricity, I used a Houston zip code and ada and the United States. out of thin air. from people who believe the cars
wind and solar, which means that found that total emissions for my That’s why the shift to EVs is According to the International are an expensive lifestyle choice
the power I use to charge my car’s car, a Hyundai Ioniq 5 with a stan- being encouraged by govern- Energy Agency (IEA), EVs emit that is prone to hypocrisy.
battery is certainly a lot cleaner dard battery, were 130 grams a ments and even mandated with significantly more greenhouse Can EV owners claim to be
than oil-based automotive fuel. mile. That’s a lot more than zero – long-term targets for new car gases during the manufacturing green, the criticism goes, when
Even in areas where more elec- but also a lot cleaner than 410 sales: EVs get cleaner as the elec- process, because of their batter- their cars rely on batteries? For
tricity is generated from coal and grams a mile for an average new tricity grid gets cleaner. ies. EVs only look better, the IEA that matter, aren’t EV owners also
other fossil fuels, which emit gas-powered vehicle after includ- So yes, my choice of vehicle notes, when the gas consumption guilty of flying in airplanes, eat-
greenhouse gases that contribute ing emissions associated with adds to my green credentials, for of conventional vehicles is taken ing burgers and chilling in air-
to global warming, EVs still make fuel production, according to the what they’re worth, and reduces into account. Then, a typical in- conditioned homes?
a lot of sense. Energy Department. my carbon footprint from what it ternal-combustion engine vehi- That’s a heavy burden on an
The Texas power grid, for ex- And remember, that’s Texas. was when I drove a conventional cle emits three times the pollu- EV owner who simply wants to
ample, relied on natural gas and The greener a state or province’s car. But I’m under no illusion that tants of an EV over the life cycle of get to her office or load up on a
coal for more than 59 per cent of energy mix, the cleaner an EV my EV has no impact on the envi- a vehicle. weekend jaunt to Costco.
its energy use last year, according looks. ronment. I’m not being critical of EV Here’s a better way of looking
to the Electric Reliability Council In San Francisco, where coal I sold my previous gas-burning ownership in pointing out that at EVs: They’re good cars that are
of Texas. Nonetheless, EVs are an accounts for just 3 per cent of Cal- car, which means that my EV did the cars are far from being envi- cheap to operate and cool to
environmentally sound choice in ifornia’s energy mix, my car’s to- not displace an internal-combus- ronmentally pure. Instead, I’m drive. Presumably, these are qual-
the Lone Star State. tal emissions would drop to just tion engine but merely added one wondering if perhaps EVs would ities that just about anyone can
The U.S. Department of Energy 80 grams a mile, or less than 20 more car to our clogged roads. appeal to a broader group of po- embrace, without feeling the
offers an online tool to calculate per cent of an average gas-burn- And I’m pretty sure that the tential owners if the cars didn’t need to make a statement on
total greenhouse gas emissions ing vehicle. squirrel I ran over last summer come with so much environmen- whether they prefer granola or
for any vehicle in any state. While EVs will look even better as didn’t care that it met its grisly tal weight. red meat. And if EVs just happen
fully electric vehicles have no coal plants and other fossil-fuel end under the wheel of a zero- I mention this because some of to put significantly less strain on
emissions, the tool takes into ac- plants are retired in favour of re- emissions vehicle. the pushback against EVs – often the environment, that’s good,
count upstream emissions asso- newable energy sources in many As well, a number of observers in the form of comments about too.
Key affordability issues ignored by UCP and NDP in Alberta’s election

PAUL of rentals. Nor do the parties pact on people’s wallets. Still, giv-
KERSHAW promise to encourage energy-ef- en that kids have higher rates of
ficiency objectives in new hous- poverty than seniors, I can imag-
OPINION ing, so that efforts to reduce ine many Alberta families wish
housing unaffordability work they were promised the discount
hand in hand with efforts to re- too.
Policy professor at UBC and the duce the kind of extreme weath- The biggest source of savings
founder of Generation Squeeze, er that now plagues the province. for many younger people will be
Canada’s leading voice for Whereas the gap between the $10-a-day child care prom-
generational fairness. You can follow home prices in Alberta and else- ised by 2026 by the UCP. Much of
Gen Squeeze on Twitter and where represents an affordability the spending that pays for this
Facebook and subscribe to Paul’s advantage for younger residents, fee reduction comes from Otta-
Hard Truths podcast. the age gap in provincial govern- wa. Given that the Alberta Sover-
ment spending does not. A study eignty Within a United Canada
A
ffordability is a top con- of the 2023 Alberta budget (from Act was Ms. Smith’s first piece of
cern for Alberta voters. So which all parties build their plat- legislation as Premier, it’s ironic
it is surprising that the forms) shows that the province that her party platform relies on
United Conservative Party and spends approximately $16,700 investments from the federal
the NDP have blind spots on this On the issue of affordability in Alberta, Danielle Smith’s United for each of the 777,000 Albertans government to deliver the largest
issue, especially when it comes to Conservative Party plans to cut provincial income tax to 8 per cent on 65 and older – some $1,400 more savings she offers to Alberta fam-
younger Albertans. earnings under $60,000. JEFF MCINTOSH/THE CANADIAN PRESS per retiree than is budgeted in ilies with kids.
UCP Leader Danielle Smith Ontario and B.C. The Alberta NDP promise to
will tout her party’s plan to cut berta when compared with Onta- where the vast majority of resi- By comparison, the Alberta add $1-billion to the federal mon-
provincial income tax rates from rio and B.C., where the average dents find their homes. government spends just $9,900 ey to expedite the implementa-
10 per cent to 8 per cent on in- home prices are $932,000 and For example, both the UCP for each of the 2.9 million Alber- tion of $10-a-day child care over
come under $60,000. But this $996,000, respectively. and the Alberta NDP are silent tans under 45. The $6,800 spend- the next three years. This makes
maximum $760 tax cut is not the As of May 19, housing is not about proposals to discourage ing gap between an Alberta reti- the NDP financially stronger on
primary thing that will keep Al- even identified as one of the 27 foreign buyers, empty homes, ree and a younger Albertan is child care, although the party
berta more affordable. A bigger priority issues on the UCP’s cam- money laundering or short-term larger than in Ontario ($6,600) says little about how it will spend
influence will be two factors that paign website. With housing un- rentals that reallocate housing as and in B.C. ($4,800). Since this the extra money.
distinguish Alberta from B.C. and affordability soaring across the hotels for vacationers rather than large gap was also evident under The history of retail politics
Ontario: housing prices and the country, there are serious ques- preserving it primarily for those the NDP, both parties share ac- shows that an easy-to-under-
age gap in provincial spending. tions about fitness to govern who work and study in the prov- countability for why Alberta stand tax cut can be a successful
Both merit more attention dur- when a party intends to rely on ince. These policies became com- spends less per resident on ele- electoral strategy. Perhaps it will
ing this election by all parties. luck to stabilize housing prices, mon in B.C. and Ontario after mentary and high-school educa- work again for Ms. Smith. But
The average price of a home in instead of careful and deliberate they lost control of housing pric- tion than Ontario does and less promoting affordability requires
Alberta is approximately policy design. es and could be used to protect on postsecondary education more multifaceted thinking than
$447,000. It requires about 10 A new study of party plat- current levels of affordability in than B.C. a simple tax cut. Careful protec-
years of full-time work for a typ- forms shows the NDP is better on Alberta. Doubling down on this age tion of the province’s housing af-
ical young person to save a 20- housing, but not great. While rel- Both parties also overlook the gap, Ms. Smith is offering a 25- fordability advantage, and a re-
per-cent down payment, up from atively strong at offering plans to value of supporting municipal ef- per-cent seniors’ discount to view of the age gap in provincial
six years in 1976. Despite this ero- scale up non-profit housing, the forts to produce comprehensive court older voters. Since the slo- spending, will be key to protect-
sion of housing affordability, NDP largely ignores the policy housing needs assessments that gan applies to small costs such as ing affordability for younger Al-
these prices still represent a ma- levers available to address prob- revisit low-density zoning to campground reservations and bertans regardless of who wins
jor affordability advantage for Al- lems in the regular market, build more supply, including lots driving tests, it will have little im- the election.
Still got some money to invest safely? GICs look interesting again
ROB ment certificates. inflation has been falling hard The highest GIC rates current- Short-term GIC rates are usu-
CARRICK The yield on the five-year Can- since reaching 8.1 per cent in ly are for one-year terms – expect ally significantly lower than long-
ada bond, an influence on five- June, 2022. Financial markets had 4.75 per cent to 5 per cent from term rates. We’re seeing the op-
OPINION year GICs, jumped this week to expected inflation to be around 3 alternative banks and trust composite now because markets see
3.4 per cent early Friday from 3 per cent late this year and rate panies and 5 per cent or slightly potential for interest rates to rise
per cent a week earlier. This siz- cuts to start happening around more from deposit brokers. in the near term and then fall
S
tay alert if you’re an investor able move by bond market stan- that time or in early 2024. Now, Five-year GIC rates are general- back in the medium term as the
who favours the safety of dards was brought to you by the bets for a rate increase this sum- ly in the 4.4 to 4.75 per cent range. economy slows and possibly
GICs. April inflation report from Statis- mer are piling up. We could see these rates move lapses into recession.
Financial markets are revising tics Canada. It showed that the Bonds have fallen in price in higher if five-year bond yields Inflation will eventually fall to
the outlook for inflation, and in year-over-year inflation rate last reaction to this changed outlook, hold and the spring housing the preferred range around 2 to 3
turn, interest rates. Keep your month edged up to 4.4 per cent which is why yields are up for market stays hot. GIC issuers per cent. When it does, GICs that
eye on Government of Canada from 4.3 per cent in March. government and corporate sometimes juice their rates a bit lock in rates in the 4-per-cent
bond yields to follow the action Discouraging is the word to bonds. Expect GICs to follow if to attract money for mortgage range and higher will look darn
for rates on guaranteed invest- describe this change, given that bond yields hold at recent levels. lending. fine in your portfolio.
S AT U R DAY , M AY 2 0 , 2 0 2 3 | T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L O MARKETS B11
S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX S&P 500 DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE S&P GLOBAL 100 INDEX
PAST 12 MONTHS PAST 12 MONTHS PAST 12 MONTHS PAST 12 MONTHS
20351.06 | 53.97 | 0.27 % | 4.98 % YTD | 174673 VOL(000) 4191.98 | -6.07 | -0.14 % | 9.18 % YTD 2352764 33426.63 | -109.28 | -0.33 % | 0.84 % YTD | 315213 VOL(000) 2974.05 | 6.38 | 0.21 % | 14.07 % YTD
S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX STOCKS

LARGEST STOCKS BY MARKET CAPITALIZATION
CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
AAV ADVANTAGE OIL 7.87 0.09 1.16 866 -16.90 CHP-UN CHOICE PRO 13.93 -0.02 -0.14 191 -5.62 IVN IVANHOE MINES 11.24 0.04 0.36 666 5.05 REI-UN RIOCAN REA 20.17 0.05 0.25 300 -4.54
AOI AFRICA OIL CO 2.61 0.05 1.95 247 4.82 CCA COGECO COMMUN 66.27 0.48 0.73 139 -13.70 RBA RITCHIE BROS 75.61 2.38 3.25 613 -3.32
AEM AGNICO EAGLE 73.07 0.53 0.73 1122 3.85 CIGI COLLIERS INT 128.22 -0.04 -0.03 55 3.09 JWEL JAMIESON WEL 31.92 -0.13 -0.41 61 -9.03 RCI-B ROGERS COMM 65.92 0.31 0.47 500 4.02
AC AIR CANADA 21.81 -0.42 -1.89 2466 12.48 CSU CONSTELLATION 2729.36 84.36 3.19 43 29.11 RY ROYAL BANK OF 127.19 -0.71 -0.56 4389 -0.09
AGI ALAMOS GOLD I 17.17 0.06 0.35 485 25.42 CTS CONVERGE TECH 3.32 -0.07 -2.06 954 -27.67 KNT K92 MINING IN 6.15 0.11 1.82 593 -19.82 RUS RUSSEL METALS 35.89 -0.05 -0.14 178 24.70
ASTL ALGOMA STEEL 10.09 0.15 1.51 278 18.01 CPG CRESCENT POIN 9.10 0.03 0.33 2176 -5.80 KEY KEYERA CORP 31.18 -0.08 -0.26 830 5.37
AQN ALGONQUIN POW 11.44 0.05 0.44 1370 29.71 CRR-UN CROMBIE RE 15.08 -0.08 -0.53 68 -4.92 KMP-UN KILLAM APA 17.52 0.00 0.00 124 8.08 SSL SANDSTORM GOL 7.14 0.09 1.28 323 0.28
ATD ALIMENTATION 66.01 -0.05 -0.08 1232 10.94 KXS KINAXIS INC 184.65 1.77 0.97 61 21.55 SAP SAPUTO INC 36.21 0.03 0.08 275 8.03
AP-UN ALLIED PROP 22.51 -0.04 -0.18 155 -12.07 DFY DEFINITY FINA 36.62 0.04 0.11 51 -4.83 K KINROSS GOLD CO 6.97 0.07 1.01 3138 26.27 SEA SEABRIDGE GOL 18.37 -0.15 -0.81 94 8.06
ALA ALTAGAS LTD 23.42 0.24 1.04 281 0.17 DML DENISON MINES 1.43 -0.06 -4.03 606 -7.74 SES SECURE ENERGY 6.19 0.00 0.00 341 -11.95
AIF ALTUS GROUP L 41.50 0.03 0.07 55 -23.21 DSG DESCARTES SYS 105.43 0.34 0.32 76 11.70 LIF LABRADOR IRON 30.51 -0.10 -0.33 118 -9.14 SHOP SHOPIFY INC 81.31 -0.90 -1.09 2919 72.96
ARX ARC RESOURCES 17.80 0.26 1.48 1306 -2.47 DOL DOLLARAMA INC 84.51 0.95 1.14 557 6.72 LB LAURENTIAN BAN 30.65 -0.24 -0.78 83 -5.11 SIA SIENNA SENIOR 11.52 -0.02 -0.17 120 5.69
ATZ ARITZIA INC 36.96 -1.34 -3.50 464 -21.94 DIR-UN DREAM INDU 13.99 0.08 0.58 313 19.67 LSPD LIGHTSPEED C 17.94 0.44 2.51 1640 -7.29 SIL SILVERCREST M 9.17 0.01 0.11 200 13.21
ACO-X ATCO LTD CL 43.80 0.36 0.83 156 3.35 DPM DUNDEE PRECIO 9.65 0.05 0.52 414 48.23 LNR LINAMAR CORP 65.15 0.15 0.23 56 6.28 ZZZ SLEEP COUNTRY 26.26 -0.02 -0.08 46 14.27
ATH ATHABASCA OIL 2.91 -0.01 -0.34 2421 20.75 DND DYE & DURHAM 16.65 0.18 1.09 70 1.46 LAC LITHIUM AMERI 30.06 -0.86 -2.78 293 17.10 SRU-UN SMARTCENTR 25.66 0.06 0.23 164 -4.18
ATS ATS CORP 61.78 0.35 0.57 407 46.78 L LOBLAW CO 122.98 1.41 1.16 385 2.72 SNC SNC-LAVALIN S 33.47 -0.18 -0.53 92 40.28
EQB EQB INC 66.38 0.21 0.32 18 17.01 LUG LUNDIN GOLD I 17.29 0.14 0.82 405 30.69 SDE SPARTAN DELTA 15.45 0.04 0.26 478 3.34
BTO B2GOLD CORP 5.29 0.00 0.00 5222 9.98 ELD ELDORADO GOLD 14.09 -0.07 -0.49 516 24.80 LUN LUNDIN MINING 10.63 0.15 1.43 2094 27.92 TOY SPIN MASTER C 35.53 -0.39 -1.09 27 6.63
BCE BCE INC 63.43 0.28 0.44 1836 6.62 EFN ELEMENT FLEET 20.30 -0.15 -0.73 357 10.03 SII SPROTT INC 45.54 -0.58 -1.26 36 1.11
BDGI BADGER INFRA 27.27 -0.19 -0.69 19 2.29 EMA EMERA INCORPO 57.00 0.25 0.44 627 10.14 MAG MAG SILVER CO 15.93 0.19 1.21 217 -24.68 SSRM SSR MINING I 21.43 0.19 0.89 174 1.13
BLDP BALLARD POWE 5.85 -0.25 -4.10 688 -9.72 EMP-A EMPIRE COMP 35.48 0.26 0.74 237 -0.50 MG MAGNA INTERNAT 71.25 0.38 0.54 641 -6.32 STN STANTEC INC 79.43 0.61 0.77 229 22.43
BMO BANK OF MONTR 117.98 -1.06 -0.89 2146 -3.82 ENB ENBRIDGE INC 50.07 0.07 0.14 6200 -5.39 MFC MANULIFE FIN 26.14 0.12 0.46 9482 8.24 STLC STELCO HOLDI 44.55 -0.81 -1.79 131 0.59
BNS BANK OF NOVA 66.53 -0.49 -0.73 2114 0.29 EDR ENDEAVOUR SIL 4.39 -0.01 -0.23 164 0.23 MFI MAPLE LEAF FO 26.99 0.14 0.52 143 10.39 SJ STELLA JONES I 61.53 0.71 1.17 119 26.81
ABX BARRICK GOLD 24.13 0.11 0.46 3969 3.96 EFR ENERGY FUELS 8.08 -0.05 -0.62 135 -3.58 MEG MEG ENERGY CO 20.55 0.04 0.20 1448 9.02 SVI STORAGEVAULT 5.99 -0.02 -0.33 70 -0.50
BHC BAUSCH HEALTH 11.22 -0.30 -2.60 869 32.00 ERF ENERPLUS CORP 19.89 0.36 1.84 522 -16.78 MX METHANEX CORP 57.56 0.17 0.30 88 12.29 SLF SUN LIFE FINA 67.18 0.28 0.42 1901 6.89
BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 4.62 0.05 1.09 1719 -24.01 ENGH ENGHOUSE SYS 37.46 0.30 0.81 21 4.14 MRU METRO INC 75.20 0.40 0.53 634 0.31 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 38.83 0.36 0.94 4735 -9.59
BLU BELLUS HEALTH 19.46 -0.01 -0.05 8 75.63 EQX EQUINOX GOLD 6.62 0.10 1.53 855 49.44 MTY MTY FOOD GROU 59.69 -0.89 -1.47 29 4.59 SPB SUPERIOR PLUS 10.28 0.02 0.19 356 -8.46
BIR BIRCHCLIFF EN 8.22 0.26 3.27 1721 -12.83 ERO ERO COPPER CO 25.06 0.06 0.24 138 34.44 MTL MULLEN GROUP 15.70 0.17 1.09 118 7.90
BB BLACKBERRY LTD 7.26 -0.03 -0.41 690 64.63 EIF EXCHANGE INCO 54.91 -0.05 -0.09 61 4.33 TVE TAMARACK VALL 3.58 0.00 0.00 1433 -19.73
BEI-UN BOARDWALK 61.07 -0.03 -0.05 47 23.55 NA NATIONAL BANK 102.72 0.21 0.20 871 12.59 TRP TC ENERGY COR 54.36 0.28 0.52 2816 0.70
BBD-B BOMBARDIER 60.15 0.09 0.15 372 15.08 FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 969.46 -1.93 -0.20 25 20.87 NXE NEXGEN ENERGY 5.29 -0.04 -0.75 448 -11.69 TECK-B TECK RESOU 57.32 0.16 0.28 1087 12.02
BLX BORALEX INC 37.77 -0.58 -1.51 229 -5.62 FIL FILO MINING C 23.26 0.45 1.97 105 0.09 NPI NORTHLAND POW 29.80 0.23 0.78 575 -19.74 T TELUS CORP 27.38 0.06 0.22 2845 4.78
BYD BOYD GROUP SE 246.77 3.02 1.24 38 17.98 FTT FINNING INTL 37.70 0.62 1.67 328 12.00 NWH-UN NORTHWEST 7.85 -0.02 -0.25 375 -17.37 TIXT TELUS INTERN 22.16 -0.16 -0.72 75 -17.10
BAM BROOKFIELD AS 42.14 0.07 0.17 1070 8.69 FCR-UN FIRST CAPI 14.92 -0.05 -0.33 145 -11.24 NG NOVAGOLD RES I 7.25 0.07 0.97 86 -10.38 TFII TFI INTERNAT 147.22 -0.53 -0.36 157 8.56
BBU-UN BROOKFIELD 25.60 -0.76 -2.88 12 11.84 FR FIRST MAJESTIC 8.39 0.08 0.96 507 -25.62 NTR NUTRIEN LTD 83.73 0.80 0.96 1302 -15.30 NWC THE NORTH WES 38.24 0.11 0.29 50 7.51
BN BROOKFIELD COR 41.63 0.11 0.26 1819 -2.23 FM FIRST QUANTUM 31.67 0.07 0.22 1570 11.95 NVEI NUVEI CORP 43.46 -0.49 -1.11 208 26.30 TRI THOMSON REUTE 170.13 0.52 0.31 287 10.15
BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 50.09 0.25 0.50 302 19.43 FSV FIRSTSERVICE 199.43 1.00 0.50 58 20.28 NVA NUVISTA ENERG 11.62 0.12 1.04 380 -6.89 TLRY TILRAY INC 3.28 -0.02 -0.61 705 -10.63
BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 42.67 0.34 0.80 54 24.47 FTS FORTIS INC 58.65 0.68 1.17 1582 8.25 X TMX GROUP LTD 146.71 1.42 0.98 111 8.26
DOO BRP INC 100.52 -3.27 -3.15 114 -2.63 FVI FORTUNA SILVE 4.65 0.06 1.31 478 -8.64 OGC OCEANAGOLD CO 2.85 0.01 0.35 784 10.47 TPZ TOPAZ ENERGY 20.65 0.44 2.18 218 -2.27
FNV FRANCO-NEVADA 206.80 1.34 0.65 283 12.04 ONEX ONEX CORP 59.36 -0.79 -1.31 229 -9.08 TXG TOREX GOLD RE 20.19 0.43 2.18 237 29.84
CAR-UN CDN APARTM 48.63 -0.10 -0.21 189 13.94 FRU FREEHOLD ROYA 14.67 0.23 1.59 278 -7.33 OTEX OPEN TEXT CO 56.18 0.13 0.23 443 40.03 TIH TOROMONT IND 112.70 1.77 1.60 116 15.34
CWB CDN WESTERN B 24.97 0.22 0.89 195 3.78 OR OSISKO GOLD RO 21.97 0.38 1.76 437 34.62 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 82.27 0.05 0.06 3335 -6.16
GIB-A CGI GROUP I 141.61 1.00 0.71 272 21.33 GFL GFL ENVIRONME 50.37 0.10 0.20 392 27.39 OSK OSISKO MINING 3.21 0.01 0.31 353 -8.29 TOU TOURMALINE OI 60.68 1.29 2.17 10048 -11.18
CIX CI FINANCIAL 12.53 0.04 0.32 2672 -7.25 GEI GIBSON ENERGY 21.63 0.07 0.32 440 -8.50 TA TRANSALTA CORP 13.13 -0.14 -1.06 455 8.42
CRT-UN CT REAL ES 15.55 -0.10 -0.64 59 -0.26 GIL GILDAN ACTIVE 39.55 -0.19 -0.48 222 6.66 PAAS PAN AMERICAN 21.23 0.06 0.28 762 -3.94 RNW TRANSALTA REN 12.79 0.09 0.71 243 13.69
CAE CAE INC 30.10 0.39 1.31 574 14.93 GSY GOEASY LTD 107.19 -2.36 -2.15 31 0.70 POU PARAMOUNT RES 30.23 0.29 0.97 187 5.55 TCL-A TRANSCONTIN 15.10 0.18 1.21 145 -1.18
CCO CAMECO CORP 36.37 -0.46 -1.25 677 18.51 GRT-UN GRANITE RE 81.58 0.01 0.01 41 18.09 PXT PAREX RESOURC 28.06 0.40 1.45 294 39.26 TCN TRICON CAPITA 10.85 0.09 0.84 211 3.93
GOOS CANADA GOOSE 22.98 -1.70 -6.89 1557 -4.57 GWO GREAT-WEST LI 39.05 0.15 0.39 1177 24.76 PLC PARK LAWN COR 25.25 -0.27 -1.06 13 -2.32 TSU TRISURA GROUP 35.40 -0.46 -1.28 95 -21.84
CM CANADIAN IMPER 56.14 -0.43 -0.76 2060 2.50 PKI PARKLAND FUEL 34.30 -0.02 -0.06 553 15.45
CNR CANADIAN NATI 161.39 0.39 0.24 889 0.34 HR-UN H&R REAL ES 10.29 -0.04 -0.39 438 -15.03 PSI PASON SYSTEMS 11.73 0.20 1.73 161 -26.41 UNS UNI SELECT IN 46.74 -0.03 -0.06 46 9.10
CNQ CANADIAN NATU 77.06 1.37 1.81 4592 2.49 HWX HEADWATER EXP 6.23 0.07 1.14 749 5.24 PPL PEMBINA PIPEL 42.04 0.21 0.50 981 -8.53
CP CANADIAN PACIF 111.58 -0.05 -0.04 1030 10.53 HCG HOME CAPITAL 43.49 0.01 0.02 136 2.14 PET PET VALU HOLD 34.40 -0.07 -0.20 93 -12.09 VET VERMILION ENE 16.28 0.29 1.81 598 -32.08
CTC-A CANADIAN TI 169.53 0.40 0.24 95 19.81 HBM HUDBAY MINERA 6.40 0.00 0.00 700 -6.43 PEY PEYTO EXPLORA 11.77 0.18 1.55 994 -15.14
CU CANADIAN UTILI 38.02 0.25 0.66 176 3.74 H HYDRO ONE LTD 39.12 0.32 0.82 786 7.86 POW POWER CORP OF 35.68 0.07 0.20 1650 12.03 WSP WSP GLOBAL IN 174.90 1.35 0.78 244 11.34
CFP CANFOR CORP 20.86 -0.20 -0.95 96 -2.11 PSK PRAIRIESKY RO 23.13 0.27 1.18 398 6.59 WCN WASTE CONNECT 189.53 1.18 0.63 251 5.60
WEED CANOPY GROWT 1.45 0.04 2.84 1354 -53.82 IAG IA FINANCIAL 86.87 -0.08 -0.09 129 9.59 PD PRECISION DRIL 62.73 -0.85 -1.34 45 -39.51 WDO WESDOME GOLD 8.67 0.24 2.85 226 15.91
CPX CAPITAL POWER 46.33 0.07 0.15 111 0.00 IMG IAMGOLD CORP 3.76 0.07 1.90 1008 8.36 PBH PREMIUM BRAND 102.75 1.28 1.26 73 24.88 WFG WEST FRASER T 101.88 -0.79 -0.77 122 4.20
CS CAPSTONE MININ 5.76 -0.06 -1.03 823 16.60 IGM IGM FINANCIAL 39.05 -0.01 -0.03 114 3.31 PMZ-UN PRIMARIS R 12.83 0.20 1.58 200 -12.36 WN WESTON GEORGE 168.80 1.79 1.07 157 0.48
CJT CARGOJET INC 110.91 -2.21 -1.95 33 -4.68 IMO IMPERIAL OIL 63.27 0.43 0.68 926 -4.06 PRMW PRIMO WATER 18.54 -0.24 -1.28 56 -11.80 WTE WESTSHORE TER 31.14 0.28 0.91 65 38.83
CCL-B CCL INDUSTR 70.68 -0.43 -0.60 218 22.20 INE INNERGEX RENE 13.75 -0.18 -1.29 208 -15.12 WPM WHEATON PRECI 64.94 0.35 0.54 757 22.76
CLS CELESTICA INC 15.44 0.08 0.52 146 1.18 IFC INTACT FINANC 203.60 1.73 0.86 243 4.46 QBR-B QUEBECOR IN 34.67 0.16 0.46 258 14.80 WCP WHITECAP RESO 10.10 0.05 0.50 1125 -5.96
CVE CENOVUS ENERG 22.29 0.13 0.59 4004 -15.15 IFP INTERFOR CORP 22.13 -0.31 -1.38 96 5.38 WPK WINPAK LTD 46.28 0.58 1.27 44 10.03
CG CENTERRA GOLD 7.08 -0.01 -0.14 888 1.00 IPCO INTERNATIONA 11.79 -0.04 -0.34 82 -23.44 QSR RESTAURANT BR 98.97 -0.08 -0.08 391 13.02
CSH-UN CHARTWELL 9.23 -0.07 -0.75 381 9.36 IIP-UN INTERRENT 13.38 -0.13 -0.96 80 4.53 RCH RICHELIEU HAR 45.70 0.20 0.44 78 26.21
TSX GAINERS TSX LOSERS TSX 52-WEEK HIGHS

LARGEST PRICE INCREASES BY % CHANGE FROM LARGEST PRICE DECREASES BY % CHANGE FROM STOCKS WITH NEW HIGHEST SHARE PRICE OF PAST YEAR
LAST CLOSE (PRICE $1 OR MORE) LAST CLOSE (PRICE $1 OR MORE)
CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
TGO TERAGO INC 2.32 0.23 11.00 551 -20.00 NHF-UN NORTHVIEW 7.61 -1.07 -12.33 112 -25.39 DRX ADF GROUP INC 2.44 0.04 1.67 35 16.19 RCH RICHELIEU HAR 45.70 0.20 0.44 78 26.21
LGT-A LOGISTEC CO 44.50 3.68 9.02 1 10.81 ECOR ANGLO PACIFI 2.16 -0.19 -8.09 21 -10.74 ATS ATS CORP 61.78 0.35 0.57 407 46.78 SCL SHAWCOR LTD 15.02 0.32 2.18 595 9.32
OSP BROMPTON OIL 3.80 0.29 8.26 4 -22.45 IE IVANHOE ELECTR 16.88 -1.42 -7.76 2 3.18 GIB-A CGI GROUP I 141.61 1.00 0.71 272 21.33 SHLE SOURCE ENERG 5.90 0.42 7.66 31 212.17
FTU-PR-B US FINL 5.95 0.43 7.79 2 -11.06 OLY OLYMPIA FINAN 78.30 -6.14 -7.27 4 13.46 FFH FAIRFAX FINAN 969.46 -1.93 -0.20 25 20.87 SJ STELLA JONES I 61.53 0.71 1.17 119 26.81
SHLE SOURCE ENERG 5.90 0.42 7.66 31 212.17 GOOS CANADA GOOSE 22.98 -1.70 -6.89 1557 -4.57 GWO GREAT-WEST LI 39.05 0.15 0.39 1177 24.76 SIH-UN SUSTAINABL 9.92 0.04 0.40 N-A 4.97
ONC ONCOLYTICS BI 2.33 0.16 7.37 31 4.95 BRMI BOAT ROCKER 2.05 -0.15 -6.82 65 -20.54 XTRA PATRIOT ONE 1.02 0.02 2.00 176 104.00 ZYZ-A TEST SYMBOL 1.10 0.08 7.84 148 46.67
BPO-PR-X BROOKFIE 9.60 0.62 6.90 25 -13.51 BUI BUHLER IND 2.03 -0.12 -5.58 1 5.18 QSR RESTAURANT BR 98.97 -0.08 -0.08 391 13.02
RUBH RBC US BANKS 13.22 0.83 6.70 2 -25.14 TSAT TELESAT CORP 10.56 -0.61 -5.46 N-A 6.56
BR BIG ROCK BREWE 1.81 0.11 6.47 N-A -7.18 IFA IFABRIC CORP 1.25 -0.07 -5.30 26 62.34
PNE PINE CLIFF EN 1.42 0.08 5.97 1050 -15.98 ILLM ACUITYADS HO 2.33 -0.10 -4.12 76 7.87
TXF-U CI TECH GIA 8.33 0.45 5.71 2 23.59 BLDP BALLARD POWE 5.85 -0.25 -4.10 688 -9.72 TSX 52-WEEK LOWS
QFOR Q4 INC 3.47 0.18 5.47 9 8.10 ECO ECOSYNTHETIX 2.59 -0.11 -4.07 94 -37.14 STOCKS WITH NEW LOWEST SHARE PRICE OF PAST YEAR
SWP SWISS WATER D 2.81 0.14 5.24 7 21.65 XMF-PR-C M SPLIT 1.42 -0.06 -4.05 1 18.33
VCM VECIMA NETWOR 19.87 0.96 5.08 50 2.48 DML DENISON MINES 1.43 -0.06 -4.03 606 -7.74 CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD
OLA ORLA MINING L 6.21 0.29 4.90 796 13.32 MNS ROYAL CDN MIN 17.53 -0.72 -3.95 N-A -1.46 CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG
LGT-B LOGISTEC CO 43.88 2.04 4.88 2 5.81 GTE GRAN TIERRA E 7.70 -0.31 -3.87 26 -42.96
BCT BRIACELL THER 8.30 0.38 4.80 8 40.68 ATZ ARITZIA INC 36.96 -1.34 -3.50 464 -21.94 APR-UN AUTOMOTIVE 11.14 0.04 0.36 30 -14.11 JAG JAGUAR MINING 2.31 0.00 0.00 15 -14.44
HBLK BLOCKCHAIN T 9.87 0.45 4.78 4 17.22 ORA AURA MINERALS 10.44 -0.36 -3.33 26 31.65 SBC BROMPTON SPLI 10.17 -0.08 -0.78 25 -11.41 LGO LARGO RESOURC 5.24 -0.08 -1.50 29 -28.61
IDG INDIGO BOOKS 2.01 0.09 4.69 21 3.08 DNTL DENTALCORP H 7.30 -0.25 -3.31 145 -17.98 BN-PR-X BROOKFIEL 14.10 0.10 0.71 1 -13.97 LB-PR-H LAURENTIA 15.36 -0.19 -1.22 N-A -3.70
ORE OREZONE GOLD 1.35 0.06 4.65 110 7.14 PSD PULSE SEISMIC 1.77 -0.06 -3.28 7 -2.75 BN-PF-B BROOKFIEL 15.97 -0.03 -0.19 N-A -1.54 MFC-PR-N MANULIFE 16.02 -0.01 -0.06 N-A -3.55
BN-PF-F BROOKFIEL 16.19 0.17 1.06 2 -6.14 RA-UN MIDDLEFIELD 7.70 -0.01 -0.13 1 -7.67
BN-PF-G BROOKFIEL 14.64 -0.06 -0.41 N-A -4.63 ME MONETA GOLD IN 1.09 -0.01 -0.91 67 -26.35
BEP-PR-O BROOKFIE 21.64 -0.11 -0.51 N-A -9.04 NPI-PR-B NORTHLAN 17.50 -0.13 -0.74 N-A -6.22
CFX CANFOR PULP P 1.75 0.05 2.94 40 -57.73 NHF-UN NORTHVIEW 7.61 -1.07 -12.33 112 -25.39
TSX INDEXES AND SUB INDEXES TSX VOLUME CVE-PR-A CENOVUS 13.28 -0.08 -0.60 2 -5.08
COMMON MEASURES OF MARKET PERFORMANCE TOP 20 FOR STOCKS $1 OR MORE OPS OPSENS INC 1.44 -0.01 -0.69 281 -23.40
YCM-PR-B COMMERCE 5.13 -0.01 -0.19 1 4.48 OPT OPTIVA INC 10.00 -0.25 -2.44 3 -46.52
CIU-PR-C CU INC P 12.25 -0.25 -2.00 N-A -6.06 RPI-UN RICHARDS P 37.00 -0.48 -1.28 N-A -14.75
CLOSE NET % VOL YTD CLOSE NET % VOL YTD DRM DREAM UNLIMIT 21.41 -0.41 -1.88 52 -15.81
CHG CHG 000S %CHG CHG CHG 000S %CHG TD-PF-E TD BANK P 17.50 -0.18 -1.02 N-A -8.47
ECN-PR-C ECN CAPI 20.30 -0.20 -0.98 1 -12.69 TIXT TELUS INTERN 22.16 -0.16 -0.72 75 -17.10
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FSZ FIERA CAPITAL 6.85 -0.10 -1.44 166 -21.08
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TSX INDUSTRIALS C 413.92 1.39 0.34 9825 8.52 K KINROSS GOLD CO 6.97 0.07 1.01 3138 26.27
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TSX UTILITIES CAP 318.47 1.91 0.60 7519 7.90 WELL WELL HEALTH 4.60 0.09 2.00 2167 61.97
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AAV ADVANTAGE OIL 7.87 0.67 7837 12.19 6.79 9.31 -16.90 SEA SEABRIDGE GOL 18.37 -2.71 667 21.78 13.83 -12.86 8.06 TOU TOURMALINE OI 60.68 4.74 55051 84.33 52.34 8.47 -11.18
TOU TOURMALINE OI 60.68 4.74 55051 84.33 52.34 8.47 -11.18 OGC OCEANAGOLD CO 2.85 -0.30 10272 3.50 1.78 -9.52 10.47 RY ROYAL BANK OF 127.19 -2.70 50235 140.18 116.75 -2.08 -0.09
BIR BIRCHCLIFF EN 8.22 0.63 11449 12.48 7.34 8.30 -12.83 LSPD LIGHTSPEED C 17.94 -1.79 16195 35.80 17.02 -9.07 -7.29 CNQ CANADIAN NATU 77.06 1.87 44174 87.92 58.75 2.49 2.49
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CSU CONSTELLATION 2729.36 196.12 362 2782.56 1783.98 7.74 29.11 ELD ELDORADO GOLD 14.09 -1.15 3363 16.40 6.87 -7.55 24.80 CPG CRESCENT POIN 9.10 -0.03 32873 13.74 7.57 -0.33 -5.80
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BB BLACKBERRY LTD 7.26 0.46 13647 9.25 4.31 6.76 64.63 ABX BARRICK GOLD 24.13 -1.87 31833 28.19 17.88 -7.19 3.96 ABX BARRICK GOLD 24.13 -1.87 31833 28.19 17.88 -7.19 3.96
RNW TRANSALTA REN 12.79 0.80 5247 18.45 10.63 6.67 13.69 DPM DUNDEE PRECIO 9.65 -0.65 4425 10.78 5.41 -6.31 48.23 GWO GREAT-WEST LI 39.05 0.84 31634 39.12 27.99 2.20 24.76
TIH TOROMONT IND 112.70 7.04 1033 115.19 93.25 6.66 15.34 OR OSISKO GOLD RO 21.97 -1.31 3779 24.42 11.90 -5.63 34.62 ATH ATHABASCA OIL 2.91 0.16 30518 3.53 1.85 5.82 20.75
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Toornto Maple Leafs GM Kyle Dubas was near tears, talking about the toll the job took on his family, when he spoke with the media in Toronto on Monday, above.
Club president Brendan Shanahan says his opinion on bringing Dubas back started to turn after that. NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Kyle Dubas out as GM of Maple Leafs

after five success-starved seasons
Club president Brendan Shanahan announced a split with his GM
to end Toronto’s stunning, roller-coaster week
CATHAL agent and start working things out. Shanahan does also sure you don’t usually hear about it in real
KELLY that. The framework for a new deal is created. Du- time.
bas has no direct part in the making of it. For a sports organization that is always going on
OPINION The night the Leafs get knocked out, on Friday, about how collaborative and inclusive it is, this
May 12, Shanahan tells Dubas he wants to get this sounds like the least collaborative and inclusive
thing done. He doesn’t hear anything about it from dialogue in business history.
T
he usual way of clipping a sports executive him over the weekend. Why was an agent required as a cutout? Dubas
is the ‘Up in the Air’ model. Talk about how On Monday, against Shanahan’s advice, Dubas does deals for a living. He can’t settle the basics of
great he was, how much he meant to every- addresses the media. His presentation is erratic. He his own with the guy who is his rabbi in the NHL?
one and say you’re regretfully parting ways. mentions several times how hard his job is on his This is a team that keeps a vice lock on all com-
Years later, we may learn the ugly truth in some- family. At one point, he is near tears. munications. Did no one in the organization have
one’s memoir, but by then no one will care. Exec- “For me to commit without having a fuller un- any idea what Dubas intended to say to the media in
utives are designed to be forgotten. derstanding of what this year took on [my family] is his exit interview? Did no one bother to ask?
Then there’s the way the Toronto Maple Leafs probably unfair of me to answer,” Dubas says. And why would Dubas sabotage the back-and-
just did it. It’s not a good way, but it is a lot more Watching this happen on a screen, Shanahan forth with an 11th-hour demand for more money
interesting. starts to turn: “At that moment, there was a dramat- after his own agent had already settled that issue?
The Leafs parted ways with general manager Kyle ical shift in my thinking.” What this sounds like is an organization in which
Dubas on Friday morning. This wasn’t a huge sur- On Tuesday, the two men don’t talk. On Wednes- people are constantly speaking, but never really
prise. After five years of on-ice mediocrity, Dubas day, they meet again. On Thursday, Dubas’s agent talking to each other.
was out of contract. There was no compelling rea- calls and “basically, a new financial package was It also feels as though there is another side of this
son to keep him. presented to me.” On Thursday night, Dubas e- we have yet to hear. In Shanahan’s telling, Dubas
Leafs president Brendan Shanahan did the usual mails Shanahan. Now he’s sure. He definitely wants comes off like a flake. Dubas has no choice but to
presser to announce the split. That’s when things to be Leafs GM. fight back on that narrative. This thing could get
got weird. Shanahan, after reading that e-mail: “I had got- ugly long before the memoir stage.
Shanahan doesn’t talk much in public. When he ten to a different place about how I felt about the The immediate effect of this decision is to end an
does, he doesn’t say much. Few people in all of sport future of the Toronto Maple Leafs and what was era.
keep their thoughts under tighter wraps. best.” If the Core Four define the Leafs as a team, Dubas
Until Friday. On Friday morning, Shanahan wakes up, drives was their Brian Epstein. He didn’t discover them,
Shanahan began with a minutely detailed, 10- to the Leafs’ practice facility in west-end Toronto, but he made them the centrepiece of the team.
minute chronological retelling of his effort to re- goes into Dubas’s office and fires him. Though that hasn’t worked, Dubas seemed in-
sign Dubas. It sounded more like the dissolution of A few hours later, he’s up on a podium at the clined to stick with them. Will the next GM confine
a marriage than a failed contract negotiation. Scotiabank Arena making sure that his version of himself to adding small strokes to a painting made
According to Shanahan, it goes something like events is the first one out. by someone else?
this. In March, Shanahan decides that he wants to I’m sure that high-profile staff negotiations are If not, things will have to start happening quickly.
give Dubas a new deal. Dubas tells him to call his sometimes this disconnected and amateurish. I’m KELLY, B21
Kia Nurse regrets lacking confidence in her game when she was younger
The Canadian basketball is one of the most decorated focus on a lot of the tactical X’s
players this country has ever and O’s stuff of basketball, be-
star and broadcaster produced, with two NCAA na- cause that’s kind of the stuff that
enjoys reading murder tional championships with the I know from our game. And from
mysteries, and doesn’t University of Connecticut in ad- the offences we run because es-
dition to winning Pan Am gold sentially the WNBA runs very
discuss what goes on for Canada. similar offences to the NBA.
in the locker room The 2019 WNBA all-star is no
stranger to viewers of either the What is your greatest
men’s March Madness or the extravagance?
PAUL ATTFIELD NBA, having made regular ap-
pearances on TSN’s basketball I’m pretty cheap on everything.
panel since 2019. But this week- One thing I got from my dad was
WEEKEND WITH ... end, she’ll be the subject of anal- never cheap out on toilet paper.
ysis, rather than giving her own So I will pay for a good toilet pa-
T
he Women’s National Bas- opinion, with the game being per. Which is funny, but my
ketball Association’s Cana- screened live on TSN. house is the one thing that gets
da experiment may be most of my money because it
over – for the time being, anyway As a frequent broadcaster, ends up either needing furniture
– but with the preseason now in ILLUSTRATION BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL what words or phrases or just paying bills. So that’s kind
the rear-view mirror, attention SOURCE PHOTO: KELLY DEFINA/GETTY IMAGES do you most overuse? of like my baby.
turns to the WNBA regular sea-
son. Aces and reigning WNBA MVP One of four Canadians in the I don’t really have any catch- So triple ply all the way?
In what is arguably the mar- A’ja Wilson visiting Seattle to WNBA – although Minnesota phrases yet like my friend [and
quee matchup of the opening play the Storm, led by Canada’s Lynx forward Natalie Achonwa is fellow TSN analyst] Jack Arm- Two ply, but it’s got to be really
weekend, Saturday features the Kia Nurse, in a rematch of last currently on maternity leave – strong. I’m trying to get to his soft.
defending champion Las Vegas season’s semi-final. the 27-year-old Hamilton native level. But yeah, I mean, I mainly NURSE, B22
Conners tied for PGA Championship lead

At the event’s halfway
mark, the Canadian is
vying for first against
Hovland and Scheffler
PITTSFORD, N.Y.
Scottie Scheffler, Corey Conners

and Viktor Hovland are heading
into the weekend tied for the lead
at the PGA Championship.
All three players are at five-un-
der 135 through two rounds at
rainy Oak Hill.
Hovland is on a hot streak at
the major championships. He’s
been among the top 10 after 10
consecutive rounds at majors,
the longest such active streak.
First-round leader Bryson De-
Chambeau and Justin Suh are two
shots back. DeChambeau shot a
one-over 71 in the second round.
The 25-year-old Suh made just
one bogey on his way to a two-un-
der 68 to make a cut at a major for
the first time.
Brooks Koepka’s four-under 66
was the best round of the day,
moving him to two under for the
tournament, three behind the
leaders.
Only nine of the 156 players in
the field were under par after two
rounds. The group at even par Canada’s Corey Conners plays his shot from the 17th tee during the second round of the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford,
through 36 holes includes major N.Y., on Friday. Conners, Scottie Scheffler and Viktor Hovland are at five-under 135 through two rounds. MICHAEL REAVES/GETTY IMAGES
champions Rory McIlroy, Shane
Lowry and Keegan Bradley. Also Weir won the Masters to become Canada were among the top 20 at the cut. world No. 2 Scheffler and No. 11
at even was club professional Mi- Canada’s first male major cham- the conclusion of any round at “There’s so much support. Viktor Hovland for the lead. The
chael Block. pion but the impact of his any major championship. Tons of Canadians here, with the only blemish on his scorecard
Oak Hill Country Club is prov- achievement, which grew the After the second round, Con- border being so close,” said Pen- was a bogey at the par-four sev-
ing close enough for the Cana- game in his home country, has ners, Pendrith and Svensson were drith, who is in a share of eighth enth where his tee shot found the
dians playing this week. been evident on the game’s big- among the top 10, which marks place and four shots back of Con- rough.
A record six Canadians were in gest stages. the first time in majors history ners. Should Conners or one of his
the 156-player starting field at The Canadian contingent at that three players representing “Feel very comfortable here, compatriots remain in the mix af-
Oak Hill, which is about a 90-min- Oak Hill includes three players Canada are among the top 10 after but we’re always rooting for each ter the third round of the year’s
ute drive from the Canadian bor- who have already recorded wins either 36, 54 or 72 holes. other, trying to beat each other. second major it could very well
der, and they are relishing in the on the PGA Tour this season in Pendrith of Richmond Hill, It’s always nice to see a couple of spark a Canadian convoy into
support from their many compa- Conners, Adam Svensson and Ont., shot a second-round 69 and flags on the leaderboard. It’s nice motion for Oak Hill.
triots who have turned up in Mackenzie Hughes. Taylor Pen- is tied for eighth at one under. to see so far.” “It puts a smile on my face. I
droves this week. drith, Adam Hadwin and Nick Svensson of Surrey, B.C., shot his Svensson was in a share of 10th mean, I’m not a super fiery guy.
“It’s been a pretty special week Taylor make up the other half. second consecutive par 70 and is after the second round, Hadwin Try not to get too high or low, but
so far,” said Conners, of Listowel, Conners, Pendrith, Hadwin even, tied for 10th. Hadwin of Ab- slipped into a share of 35th place yeah, puts a smile on my face.
Ont. “I think being so close to and Svensson finished among the botsford, B.C., shot a 73 and is while Taylor and Hughes missed Nice to know people are cheering
Canada there’s a lot of Canadian top 20 through the opening three over, tied for 35th. Taylor, of the cut. for me.”
fans out here.” round, marking the first time ev- Abbotsford and Mackenzie Conners shot a two-under-par
It has been 20 years since Mike er that four players representing Hughes, of Dundas, Ont., missed 68 on Friday and sits tied with THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS
NFL great and social activist Jim Brown was one of the game’s first superstars
TOM WITHERS CLEVELAND Brown was the sixth-overall pick of the
1957 draft, joining a team that routinely
played for the title. He was the Offensive
P
ro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown, Rookie of the Year that season.
the unstoppable running back who Running behind an offensive line featur-
retired at the peak of his brilliant ca- ing Hall of Fame tackles Lou Groza and
reer to become an actor as well as a promi- Mike McCormack, Brown set a league mark
nent civil-rights advocate during the 1960s, with 1,527 yards and scored 17 TDs on his
has died. He was 87. way to the league’s most outstanding play-
A spokeswoman for Brown’s family said er award – a precursor to the MVP – in 1958.
he died peacefully in his Los Angeles home Over the next three seasons, he never ran
on Thursday night with his wife, Monique, for less than 1,257 yards before picking up
by his side. just 996 in 1962.
One of the greatest players in football He led the NFL in rushing eight times,
history and one of the game’s first super- gaining a career-best 1,863 yards in 1963. He
stars, Brown was chosen the NFL’s most averaged 104 yards per game, scored 106
valuable player in 1965 and shattered the rushing touchdowns and averaged an as-
league’s record books in a short career tonishing 5.2 yards per carry. A dangerous
spanning 1957-65. receiver as well, Brown finished with 262
Brown led the Cleveland Browns to their catches for 2,499 yards and another 20 TDs.
last NFL title in 1964 before retiring in his “I’ve said many times, and I will always
prime after the ’65 season to become an ac- say, Jim Brown is the best,” Hall of Fame
tor. He appeared in more than 30 films, in- running back Gale Sayers once said, “and
cluding Any Given Sunday and The Dirty he will still be the best long after all his re-
Dozen. cords are broken.”
An unstoppable runner with power, Packers great Paul Hornung felt Brown
speed and endurance, Brown’s arrival was unstoppable.
sparked the game’s burgeoning popularity “Give me Jim Brown over anybody – at
on television. anything,” he said.
As Black Americans fought for equality, Brown’s No. 32 was retired by the Browns
Brown used his platform and voice to ad- in 1971, the same year he entered the Hall of
vance their cause. Fame. But he rarely visited Cleveland dur-
In 1967, Brown organized a meeting in American football player Jim Brown sits on the bench during a game, wearing the Cleveland ing the 1970s and 80s. He and Cleveland
Cleveland of the country’s top Black ath- Browns uniform, circa 1960. Brown was chosen as the NFL’s most valuable player in 1965. In owner Art Modell were at odds over his sud-
letes, including Bill Russell and Lew Alcin- later years he worked to curb gang violence in Los Angeles. HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES den retirement; the two later patched up
dor, who later became Kareem Abdul-Jab- their differences and remained good
bar, to support boxer Muhammad Ali’s ly on charges of hitting women. served as an adviser to owner Randy Lerner friends.
fight against the war in Vietnam. In June, 1999, Brown’s wife, Monique, and was hired to counsel the team’s young- Brown supported Modell’s decision to
In later years, he worked to curb gang vi- called 911, saying Brown had smashed her er players. However, in 2010, Brown parted move Cleveland’s franchise to Baltimore in
olence in L.A. and founded Amer-I-Can, a car with a shovel and threatened to kill her. ways with the team after having his role re- 1995. It was both a reflection of his loyalty to
program to help disadvantaged inner-city During the trial, Monique Brown recanted. duced by incoming team president Mike Modell and another sign of his fierce inde-
youth and ex-convicts. Jim Brown was acquitted of a charge of do- Holmgren. Brown felt slighted by the per- pendence. Brown was one of the few for-
On the field, there was no one like mestic threats but convicted of misde- ceived demotion – when the club unveiled mer Browns players not angry with Modell
Brown, who would blast through would-be meanour vandalism. The Los Angeles a “Ring of Honor” inside its downtown sta- for moving the team.
tacklers, refusing to let one man take him judge sentenced Brown to six months in dium, Brown didn’t attend the ceremony in Many of the modern players couldn’t ap-
down before sprinting away from lineback- jail when he refused to attend protest. preciate Brown or his impact on American
ers and defensive backs. He was also fa- domestic-violence counsel- Brown was an eight-time sports.
mous for using a stiff arm to shed defenders ing. All-Pro and went to the Pro “They have grown up in a different era,”
in the open field or push them away as if He also feuded with I don’t know that Bowl in each of his nine years former Browns coach Romeo Crennel said.
they were rag dolls. Browns coach Paul Brown in the league. When Brown “He’s one of the greatest players in NFL his-
“My arms were like my protectors and and later with the team’s anybody could do walked away from the game tory and what he was able to accomplish in
weapons,” Brown said during an interview management, although he what he did, the at the age of 30, he held the his time was tremendous. I don’t know that
with NFL Films. played his entire career with way he did it, under league’s records for yards anybody could do what he did, the way he
Indeed, Brown was unlike any back be- Cleveland. the circumstances (12,312) and touchdowns did it, under the circumstances that he had
fore him, and some feel there has never When his playing days (126). to operate and the things that he had to en-
been anyone better than Cleveland’s in- ended, Brown set off for Hol- that he had to And despite his bruising dure. And for him to go out on top, that’s
comparable No. 32. At 6-foot-2, 230 pounds, lywood and eventually set- operate and the style, Browns never missed a something that not many guys are able to
he was dominant, relentless and without tled there. Brown advised things that he had game, playing in 118 in a row. appreciate either.”
mercy, his highlight reels featuring runs Cleveland coach Blanton Col- to endure. “He told me, ‘Make sure Born on Feb. 17, 1936, in St. Simons, Ga.,
around and right through opponents, lier of his retirement while when anyone tackles you he Brown was a multisport star at Manhasset
fighting for every yard, dragging multiple the team was in training ROMEO CRENNEL remembers how much it High School on Long Island. He averaged
defenders along or finding holes where camp and he was on the set of FORMER BROWNS COACH hurts,’ ” said Hall of Fame 14.9 yards per carry in football and once
none seemed to exist. The Dirty Dozen in England. tight end John Mackey. “He scored 55 points in a game.
After Brown was tackled, he’d slowly rise Among his films were 100 Rifles, Mars At- lived by that philosophy and I always fol- Brown later took up golf, and while play-
and walk even more slowly back to the tacks! Spike Lee’s He Got Game, Oliver lowed that advice.” ing with Jack Nicklaus in the 1963 Cleveland
huddle – then dominate the defence when Stone’s Any Given Sunday, and the satire I’m A two-sport star at Syracuse – some say Pro-Am, he shot a 79.
he got the ball again. Gonna Git You Sucka, in which he parodied he is the best lacrosse player in NCAA histo- Brown is survived by his second wife,
Off the field, Brown was a contentious the blaxploitation genre. In 2002, Brown ry – Brown endured countless racist taunts Monique, and their child. He was divorced
character. was the subject of Lee’s HBO documentary while playing at the virtually all-white after 13 years of marriage from Sue Brown,
While he had a soft spot for those in Jim Brown: All-American. school at the time. Still, he was an All- with whom he had three children.
need, and his generosity changed lives, he In recent years, Brown’s relationship American in both sports, leading the coun-
also was arrested a half-dozen times, most- with the Browns was inconsistent. He try in scoring, and lettered in basketball. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baffert returns to Triple Crown racing after two years

Trainer is back with lowed on race day.
Medina Spirit was allowed to
National Treasure, his run in the Preakness with addi-
first horse at Preakness tional testing procedures and fin-
since Medina Spirit’s ished third.
Baffert-trained Authentic fin-
failed drug test in 2021 ished second in the Preakness
run in October with no fans in
2020 after winning the Derby. He
STEPHEN WHYNO BALTIMORE most recently won the Preakness
in 2018 with Justify, who went on
to become horse racing’s 13th Tri-
B
ob Baffert is back at the ple Crown champion.
Preakness for his first Triple This time, he said Mage – who
Crown race in two years, re- won the Derby at odds of 15 to 1 –
turning from a suspension and is the horse to beat. Baffert’s just
looking for a record-breaking win happy to be here.
with National Treasure. “We’re just here to be a part of
The white-haired Hall of Fame it and hopefully get a piece of it or
trainer and one of the faces of all of it or whatever,” he said. “We
horse racing was in a familiar love Pimlico. It’s basically the on-
spot outside the stakes barn at ly time I eat crabcakes all year.”
Pimlico Race Course on Friday
morning.
FIRST MISSION SCRATCHED
National Treasure is his first
BY VETERINARIAN
horse at the Preakness since 2021
with Medina Spirit, whose dis-
qualification that year after win- Brad Cox-trained First Mission
ning the Kentucky Derby for fail- has been scratched from the
ing a drug test caused Baffert to Preakness on the advice of veter-
be barred from the sport’s best- inarians, taking one of the top
known race since. National Treasure is considered to be Kentucky Derby champion Mage’s top challenger in the Preakness contenders out of the Triple
“We love it here: It’s very low at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. PATRICK SMITH/GETTY IMAGES Crown race 36 hours before post
key, and they treat you really time. Owner Godolphin and the
well,” Baffert said. “It’s laid-back, ty of winning this weekend. Na- The biggest race of the week- Maryland Jockey Club an-
chill, you’ve got a Derby winner, tional Treasure is Derby cham- end is the US$1.65-million Preak- nounced the scratch early Friday,
so everybody’s excited about the pion Mage’s top challenger in the We’re just here to be ness, which Baffert and 19th-cen- saying vets identified an issue
Derby winner. The Preakness is Preakness, and Baffert has three tury trainer R. Wyndham Walden with First Mission’s left hind an-
about coming here, having fun favorites in two other big races: a part of it and each have won seven times. Baff- kle.
and they want to see the Derby Havnameltdown in the hopefully get a piece ert said he has “never been one to The withdrawal comes in the
winner run.” US$200,000 Chick Lang and Ara- of it or all of it or think about records. I just like to aftermath of five scratches for the
Baffert was not eligible to enter bian Lion in the US$100,000 Sir whatever. We love enjoy it and have good horses Kentucky Derby and one horse
a horse in the Preakness or Bel- Barton. Filly Faiza was third in the and compete.” who was scheduled to run being
mont last year because of a 90- US$300,000 Black-Eyed Susan Pimlico. It’s basically Baffert has brought a lot of among the seven who died of var-
day suspension in Kentucky that Stakes on Friday. the only time I eat good horses to Baltimore during ious causes at Churchill Downs
Maryland and New York hon- “You bring ’em, you hope they crabcakes all year. his career. over a 10-day span.
oured. win,” Baffert said. “It’s good to be He did not come to Pimlico The removal of First Mission
“We just keep on moving for- involved in these races. Our BOB BAFFERT two years ago, leaving long-time leaves seven horses in the field
ward,” Baffert said of his return whole operation is to play at the HALL OF FAME TRAINER assistant Jimmy Barnes to saddle for the race. He was the early sec-
from suspension. “We have other top level – to play at this level. All Medina Spirit in an effort not to ond choice at odds of 5 to 2 be-
horses to worry about. A lot of it is my clients like to play at this level be a distraction after word hind only 8-to-5 favourite Mage,
noise, so you keep the noise out so if you can come here and win emerged that the horse had test- who won the Kentucky Derby.
and continue working, stay busy.” those races, they’re exciting to ed positive at Churchill Downs for
Staying busy could mean plen- win on the big days.” a medication that was not al- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Sports in briEf
DONOVAN BAILEY JOINS war-torn country. The half-filled
NEKO SPARKS BID TO Campo Centrale supported
PURCHASE SENATORS Kalinina, whose family home
Former Canadian Olympic was destroyed in a Russian attack
sprinter Donovan Bailey is join- last year. Some fans held up
ing the bid led by Los Angeles- Ukrainian flags. “It’s really im-
based producer Neko Sparks to portant to win every match,
buy the NHL’s Ottawa Senators, because of what Ukraine goes
the 55-year-old announced on through,” Kalinina told the
Twitter. Bailey won gold medals crowd. “I really hope that I give a
in the men’s 100-metre dash and tiny, small light, maybe some
the 4x100-metre relay at the 1996 positive emotions for my coun-
Olympic Games in Atlanta. He try. I really hope that Ukraine a
joins rapper Snoop Dogg on the little bit enjoys [this].” She and
list of high-profile names to join Kudermetova did not shake
Sparks’s bid, which is aiming to hands after the semi-final, which
be the first Black-led ownership lasted nearly three hours. In
group in the NHL. On Wednes- Saturday’s final, Kalinina will
day, Quebec First Nation com- face Wimbledon champion Elena
munity Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Rybakina or 2017 French Open
confirmed it was endorsing winner Jelena Ostapenko, whose
Sparks’s bid. The community has match was suspended on Friday
a land claim on LeBreton Flats, with Rybakina leading 6-2, 2-4.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola celebrates his squad’s first goal, scored by Bernardo Silva, one of the locations where the The men’s semi-finals on Sat-
during Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final match against Real Madrid at Etihad Stadium. Senators are considering build- urday feature Holger Rune
MOLLY DARLINGTON/REUTERS ing a new arena. against Casper Ruud, and Stefa-
THE CANADIAN PRESS nos Tsitsipas against Daniil
Medvedev.
Guardiola prefers Man City BOUCHARD RETIRES FROM

FIRENZE OPEN QUARTERS
FLORENCE, ITALY Canadian tennis
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NHLPA PROMOTES HAINSEY
to win EPL title at home player Eugenie Bouchard is out

of the Firenze Ladies Open after
she retired from her quarter-final
TO ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR POSITION
The NHL Players’ Association
match against Italy’s Sara Errani. promoted Ron Hainsey to assist-
If second-place Arsenal loses at it surrender the Premier League title, but Bouchard, took three medical ant executive director on Friday,
Guardiola said he would leave nothing to timeouts during the match putting him in a prominent
Nottingham Forest, a fifth league chance against a Chelsea with fragile confi- before retiring with Errani lead- position on new leader Marty
title in six seasons will be dence. ing 6-3, 1-0. The reason for Bou- Walsh’s staff. Hainsey, a retired
confirmed for Manchester City in “The last one [match] is the most difficult chard’s decision not to continue defenceman who played over
one because there are a lot of emotions and was not immediately clear, but 1,000 NHL games, joined the
its three-pronged trophy pursuit many things,” he added. the 29-year-old from Westmount, union two years ago and was
Chelsea has endured one of its worst seasons Que., has been beset by injuries assigned to work on special
in recent memory despite spending around over the past couple of years. Her projects and development initia-
JAMES ROBSON MANCHESTER, ENGLAND US$630-million on new players. latest setback comes a week tives. He joins special assistant to
In a chaotic first year under new owners before the French Open. the executive director Mathieu
Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, the London THE CANADIAN PRESS Schneider as the top ex-players
T
he first phase of Manchester City’s club has fired two managers in a bid to turn its in the organization. Now 42,
three-pronged trophy pursuit could be fortunes and will not qualify for European com- FOUR CANADIANS TIP OFF Hainsey was part of the players’
secured before Pep Guardiola’s team petition next season. WITH WNBA collective bargaining negotiating
even takes the field against Chelsea on Interim manager Frank Lampard said he There were four Canadians slated committees in 2012-13 and 2020
Sunday. tried to sign City striker Erling Haaland when to be on WNBA rosters as the and spent several years on the
A fifth English Premier League title in six sea- he was first in charge at Stamford Bridge from regular season got under way on NHLPA executive board.
sons will be confirmed on Saturday if second- 2019-21. Friday. Alongside Kia Nurse of THE CANADIAN PRESS
placed Arsenal loses at Nottingham Forest. “I was really keen to get him here but obvi- Hamilton, with the Seattle
Not that Guardiola wants to be crowned ously that couldn’t happen,” Lampard said on Storm, will be Minnesota Lynx VFL WOLFSBURG WOMEN
champion in those circumstances. Friday. “He’s special. I thought he’d adapt forwards Bridget Carleton of CLAIM NINTH CONSECUTIVE
“If we can win [Sunday] and celebrate in the straight away just [because of] his level. Chatham, Ont., and Natalie GERMAN CUP TITLE
stadium with our people, that will be the best Whether he would have come I don’t know, but Achonwa of Guelph, Ont. Laet- COLOGNE VfL Wolfsburg Women
celebration,” he said on Friday. I was pushing big, and for a couple of other icia Amihere of Mississauga joins secured their ninth consecutive
In his position, he can afford to be choosy players as well. But he was the outstanding the group as a rookie for the Women’s German Cup title by
about how he wants the title party to go. one.” Atlanta Dream. defeating SC Freiburg 4-1 in
City’s dominance of the league was under se- Lampard has two more games left of his in- THE CANADIAN PRESS Cologne on Thursday. Wolfsburg
rious threat from an Arsenal team that led the terim spell, with Mauricio Pochettino widely has now won 10 German Cup
table for much of the campaign and held an expected to be hired as Chelsea’s next perma- UKRAINE’S KALININA titles overall, surpassing FFC
eight-point advantage over the defending nent manager. Lampard’s return to the club DEDICATES ITALIAN OPEN Frankfurt, who held nine Cup
champion at the start of April. where he was an icon as a player has not gone WIN TO HOMELAND victories before they started to
But a combination of the Gunners’ late-sea- well. He has won only one of his eight games in ROME Ukraine’s Anhelina Kalini- play as Eintracht Frankfurt. Some
son swoon and City’s run of 11 straight wins has charge and lost six. na beat Russia’s Veronika Kuder- 44,808 enthusiastic fans flooded
all but ensured the title will remain at Etihad “You want to always get results, but you have metova 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 at the Italian Cologne’s RheinEnergie Stadium,
Stadium for a third year in a row. to be realistic in football,” Lampard said. Open on Friday to reach the surpassing the previous attend-
“In the Premier League,” Guardiola said, “it’s After running City so close for so long, Arse- biggest final of her career – and ance record of 26,682 set 13 years
a question of not being far away from the top of nal’s only hope is to prolong the title race by dedicated the victory to her ago. REUTERS
the league; don’t give up, never ever; and wait.” beating relegation-threatened Forest.
He openly questioned if his players had lost Mikel Arteta’s side has exceeded expecta-
their edge this season after winning four tions by challenging for the title, but two wins
leagues in his seven years at the club. He de- from its last seven league games has effectively
scribed the players as “happy flowers” and handed the title to City.
warned that Arsenal would “destroy” them if
they didn’t improve.
The Arsenal manager, however, was in de-
fiant mood on Friday.
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A u g u s t 8, 1 93 2 Yard l e y G o b i o n , U K – M a y 8, 2 023 Toro n to, O N
DR. RICHARD BERRY PENNY ANNE CO GHLAN THOMAS CUMMING
“Dick” 1 9 47 – 2 023 October 14, 1937 Wing Commander (Ret’d) Royal Air Force
Toronto, Ontario
Ma y 11, 2 023 Thus ends the life of a wonderful husband (Ruth Nee Brudenell, died
The world said a fond farewell Penny died peacefully at home in September 25, 2021); father to Nigel and Adrian (Tracey); grandfather to Liam
to one of its most talented, Calgary, A lberta
Ottawa with her family by her side (Sarah) and Owen (Lex) and all around fun-loving, over-achieving gentleman.
adventurous and compassionate on April 28, 2023, after a 20 month
people this Mother’s Day. Dr. Tom Cumming, much-loved Eldest of eight, he was nicknamed “Doc” from an early age as he was
battle with pancreatic cancer. She
Richard Edwin Berry, known to husband, father, and granddad, always studying with his nose in a book and a desire to know more, do
is survived by her husband Wally,
most as “Dick” or “Dr. Berry”, passed away peacefully on more and go further afield. His father died when Geoff was in his early 20’s
sons Christopher (Louise) and
passed away on Sunday, May 14 Thursday, May 11, 2023, at the age and he took on the role of stand-in father to his seven younger siblings,
Andrew (Alex), her three adored
in Brampton, ON in his 81st year. of 85. He was predeceased by his breadwinner and role model. His six remaining brothers and sisters and their
and adoring granddaughters
He was predeceased by his wife, wife Mary in 2020. ever expanding families were always a source of love, fun and merriment
Bronte, Gemma and Lyla, her
Carole Berry (nee Brighton); and sister Martha (John) and her Tom was born in Toronto, the for him over his many years.
survived by his three sisters, Coghlan sisters and brothers - middle of three boys, to Al and Geoff never stood still, always on the move. He had a stellar career in the
Imrie, Jean and Kathy; and his two Cathy, Elizabeth, Neil, Margaret, Anne Cumming. After graduating R.A.F. travelling the world with the love of his life and two small boys and
brothers, Jim and Fred; his two Mary, Helen, Gerry, Richard and from the University of Toronto gained the rank of Wing Commander at a young age. In 1975, he made the
daughters, Andrea and Susan; Sharon, and many cousins, nieces Schools, Tom continued his difficult choice to emigrate to Canada for new adventures and became a
and his four grandchildren, Alison, and nephews. education at the University of stalwart Canadian, loving the country and the diversity. His engineering
Edwin, Ruby and Garrett. Toronto, receiving his Bachelor background took him through positions at Motorola, The Ontario Ministry
Born in Halifax on January 20,
On March 8, 1942, International of Applied Science in Engineering of Energy and the Toronto and York Boards of Education, making lifelong
1947 to Gloria (nee Clarke) and
Women’s Day, Dick was born in and Business. In 1964 Tom met friends along the way.
Charles Nicoll. Predeceased by
Madsen, Ontario, way up north his future wife Mary, with whom
her parents, brother Charles and Ruth and he travelled around the world and spent many fondly remembered
where the roads did not reach he shared the next 55 years.
Coghlan sister Eileen. years at their winter home in Port Charlotte, Florida. Laughter was never far
and travel was only by bush Together they raised three
Fondly remembered her daughters, Jennifer, Allison, and away in our family. Parkinson’s Disease (“that wretched thing”) took much
plane, skidoo or canoe. From from him, but there remained a twinkle in his eye and a doggedness of
early childhood, he was a rascal: childhood in the Maritimes, Kate, with Tom’s career taking
especially being close to the sea, them overseas to Dublin and purpose to wring everything out of every moment.
getting into mischief, seeking
adventure, and entering into the having many friends, doing well in London before making Calgary Private family service to take place. For online condolences please visit:
hearts of many. Dick left the north school and piano. She was always their home in 1975. www.etouch.ca
and went to Toronto to study a proud “Blue Noser”. In 1960 the The family would like to sincerely thank the tireless, kind and respectful
Tom immersed himself in
accounting at Ryerson. There family moved to Ottawa. After caregivers that helped Geoff in his last years. The care and empathy at
Calgary’s business community,
he met his life-long love, Carole, graduation from Immaculata High Chester Village was truly remarkable.
first as Senior Vice President with
claiming he knew the moment School, worked for a few years as
the Bank of Nova Scotia, then as Please make donations in the name of Ruth and Geoffrey Brown to NYGH
he saw her that she would be a secretary, and in 1968 enrolled
President and CEO of the Alberta Foundation (nyghfoundation.ca)
the one he would marry. They at St. Patrick’s College, where she
Stock Exchange. During that time,
married on August 24, 1968, and met Wally - it was love at first sight This has to end with one of his favourite Midlands expressions:
he served as President of the
welcomed their daughters, Susan and they married on October 25,
Calgary Chamber of Commerce “And there he was....gone”
(1973) and Andrea (1976) to their 1969. It’s been a wonderful 53
and led several delegations
home in Malton. years. They welcomed two sons
with Canadian Economic
Christopher (1972) and Andrew
Dick returned to school, studying Development. Tom retired in 1999
(1976), and Penny gave to them
psychology at York University, but remained busy serving as
without reservation. Showing
earning his PhD, while also Chairman of Alberta’s Electricity
determination and perseverance,
perfecting his squash game Balancing Pool, and Director
she proudly completed her
(much to the dismay of Carole of the Alberta Capital Market
degree BA Psychology in 1980.
who spent her spare time typing Foundation. He also served
out his thesis!) Dr. Berry spent As a banker, Wally was transferred on various boards including
his professional career as a several times between Ottawa Pengrowth, Predator Drilling, and
Clinical Forensic Psychologist, and Toronto, with the family living was a founding member of the
a pioneer in his field in many in Burlington for many years. YMCA Heritage Club.
ways. He spearheaded a team to Penny enjoyed working in sales
Tom’s most valued role was
develop the SAFETY program at with Bell, and later in fundraising
that of husband, father, and
Thistletown Regional Centre for with the Burlington Arts Center.
granddad to his girls. He adored
Adolescents, and then conducted With Wally’s retirement in 2012, B A R RY D E N T
his granddaughters Maya, Sasha,
many forensic psychological they moved back to Ottawa.
Haiden, Jamile, and Katiuzca, March 29, 1 939 – M ay 12, 2023
assessments for victims of Penny was delighted to be especially when they visited the
institutional abuse, including Nana to her three gorgeous family cottage on the Severn It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of our beloved Barry
residents of the Mount Cashel granddaughters who have River. Here you’d find Dad on Friday, May 12, 2023.
Orphanage and First Nation brought her endless joy. enjoying a walk in the woods, a
communities such as Sheshatshui Barry was an exceedingly smart and capable man who harboured a quiet
Other interests included travel peaceful kayak, or a ride in the tin
in Labrador. Dr. Berry continued yet deep love for his small family. He was born in Toronto to Lottie and Les
to Europe, curling, bridge, and boat. He shared a love of travel
his private practice until 2015, Dent. Les had built the family home just within the boundaries of Forest Hill
hiking along wooded trails. with his wife Mary, exploring
when he (finally!) retired. Village, where Barry and his sister Joy grew up in very modest circumstances.
Worked in a group sponsoring a Europe, the Middle East, and
Barry was a focused and disciplined student. He attended the Engineering
Dick enjoyed the cottage in Syrian refugees. An avid reader, Central America. As an adopted
Program at the University of Toronto on scholarship. It was after a U of T
Minden on Horseshoe Lake belonged to two book clubs, Calgarian, Tom loved long drives
versus Queens football game that Barry met Lois Anglin, the love of his life.
for many years, windsurfing, setting a high standard with her in the mountains, a great day on
They were married in 1960 as Barry was going into his final year of university.
canoeing, photographing the insightful comments. Like her the ski hill, or an afternoon at a
In 1961 Barry obtained the Chartered Accountant designation and combined
wildlife, trying to golf and mother and sister, Penny was Stampeders game.
his engineering and accounting expertise to become a recognized resource
puttering in the boathouse. a very good cook who loved If friends so desire, memorial tax adviser, first with Clarkson Gordon (Ernst & Young) and later with KPMG.
He was a marathon runner, to entertain family and friends tributes may be made directly to He worked with many of the largest mining companies as well as junior
participating in dozens of Toronto, gatherings. Through it all Penny the YMCA Calgary Endowment explorers, presented at tax conferences and wrote for the Northern Miner
Mississauga and Brampton races, developed deep long-lasting Fund https://www.ymcacalgary. and the Canadian Tax Journal. He was a member of the Prospectors and
even realizing a life goal to run the relationships with many as they org/endowment. Condolences, Developers and the Canadian Institute of Mining, and made many friends in
New York City Marathon in 1999. A laughed, danced, sang, shared memories, and photos may the mining and tax communities with his wry sense of humour.
couple of weeks each winter was sorrows and celebrations. This be shared and viewed at
spent at the timeshare condo blanket of love, caring and Barry and Lois were delighted to become parents with the arrival of their
www.MHFH.com.
in Puerto Vallarta with family, a compassion helped Penny daughter Lisa and later their son John. As a family they enjoyed the
In living memory of Tom outdoors, camping coast to coast, canoeing, fishing, windsurfing, and cross-
sunny beachfront reprieve from through very difficult times over
Cumming, a tree will be planted country skiing. Lois and Barry created a happy, quiet and contented home
the work at the office. the last year.
in the Ann & Sandy Cross life for over 60 years. They weathered the premature death of Lisa (2002)
Dick was a fantastic husband, The family is also most Conservation Area by McInnis and grew even closer together through their shared loss.
father and grandfather. His appreciative to the many palliative & Holloway Funeral Homes,
unending love for Carole was nurses and doctors for their In retirement, Lois and Barry travelled extensively, trekking in New Zealand,
Park Memorial, 5008 Elbow
evident in the way his gaze always competence and compassion in exploring family lineage in England and Ireland and river cruising in Europe.
Drive SW, Calgary, AB T2S 2L5,
followed her around the room, dealing with her illness. Summers were spent at the family cottage compound on Georgian Bay.
Telephone: 403-243-8200.
and his unquestioning support Barry could frequently be found on the cottage porch enjoying his pipe and
Cremation has taken place. a crossword puzzle, when he wasn’t busy acting as the resident handyman
for her work and community
A celebration of Penny’s Life will and maintenance guru.
endeavours. He had an uncanny
be held on Sunday, May 28th at
sense of knowing when the kids Barry was fortunate to remain healthy and active throughout his eighties. His
the Capital Memorial Gardens
needed a listening ear, a bit of exceptional passion for recreational hockey, despite his modest skill level,
3700 Prince of Wales Drive
loving advice, and his fabulous kept him on the ice until a few weeks before his surprising death from an
in Ottawa. The ceremony will
“Berry hugs”. As a grandfather, he undiagnosed brain cancer.
commence at 12:00 noon with
found no greater delight than to
live streaming, followed by a We are at a loss without Barry. He will be missed terribly by his wife Lois, his
play with his four grandchildren,
reception. In lieu of flowers, please son John, sister Joy Rogers, daughter-in-law Anne Ruetz, and by his adoring
making sure they had orange
consider donating to a charity granddaughters Anglin and Eliza.
juice at every breakfast and read
stories together.
of your choice. Condolences, Have The We would like to thank Dr. Victoria McCredie, Dr. Andrew Steel, Sandra
sharing memories and livestream
It was an absolute tragedy to see link at www.arbormemorial.ca/ Globe and Mail Duntin, Maggie Ho and the 6th floor nursing staff at Toronto Western
Hospital, whose compassionate and extraordinary care provided us great
Dick decline in his last years to
Vascular Dementia. Though his
en/kelly-barrhaven
delivered to comfort during this devastating time.
brain and body became crippled,
even with dementia, his heart
your door A celebration of Barry’s life will be held on June 12th at Massey College
(University of Toronto). The service will begin at 11 a.m. and will be followed
stayed wide open. In his final by a light luncheon. If desired, donations can be made to the Nature
days, he continued to recognize Conservancy of Canada, or the Canadian Cancer Society.
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LU CIEN DELEAN Died peacefully at home in Ottawa, Ontario surrounded by his family on ALEXANDER WILLIAM
LAURISA SUZANNE DILL ELLIOT
September 11, 1 967 May 8, 2023 at the age of 86. He had been pushing back cancer for over 12
It was as if he finally felt his job years and although the last four months were difficult he was still trudging
here was done. The day after May 7, 2023 It is with deep sorrow and
through snow in early April to help his sons remove downed trees from
clearing out his office, 92-year-old the back trail at his country place in Lanark. This grit and determination is much love that we mourn the
architect Lucien Delean went to Laurisa Dill died on May 7, 2023, unexpected passing of Alexander
with her husband, Jim Marrelli, what helped him, along with his talent, to achieve success in the competitive
a hospital in North Bay and was commercial photography business of Toronto and later in filmmaking and William Elliot at St. Michael’s
diagnosed with terminal illness. by her side. During her final Hospital on Tuesday May 16, 2023,
days, her family and loved ones multimedia productions.
He died less than a month later, at the age of 82.
on May 11, 2023, family at his gathered around her to read her Bill leaves his wife of 45 years, Linda, who has lost her best friend and partner
stories, play her favourite music, in life and in work; and six children: Anthony (Shan) of Calgary, Paula of Proud father of Steve (Alison)
side. With his passing, Northern Elliot and Judy (David) Atherton,
Ontario has lost one of its leading and share memories of her full Ottawa, and Mike (Susan Murumets) of Toronto from his first marriage; and
life. A real-life Wonder Woman, twins Emily and Laura of Ottawa, and Sebastian (Carolyn) of Perth, Ontario cherished grandfather of Elliot,
lights. Over the course of a career Natalie, and James. Dear brother
of almost 70 years, Lucien and the Laurisa scuba-dived with sharks, from his marriage to Linda. He adored his grandchildren Claire McGee
snowboarded the continent’s (Ottawa), Octavia Dunn-Murumets (Toronto), Bradley Thompson (Ottawa) of Lena (the late Ian) Colville. Alex
architectural firm he co-founded was the loving partner of Ruth
in North Bay with the late Norm highest mountains, paddled the and Will Dunn (Perth) and great grandchildren Lola and Milano (Ottawa). He
longest rivers, and once rode in will also be missed by his sister, Anne Meredith of Toronto; and his nieces Wilton and will be missed by her
Critchley created and reimagined children Matthew (Jamie) and
thousands of buildings over a a jet with a fighter pilot doing and nephews. Bill was born in Toronto on February 22, 1937 to William
aerial barrel rolls. Laurisa was Richard Dunn and Ada Dunn (nee Pearson). The family moved several times Stephen and their families.
vast territory that extended as
far west as Rainy River, south to always on the move. She was a from city to country and back, making ends meet through the Depression Family and friends will be
Huntsville, north to Moosonee four-time marathon runner who and war years. His sister Anne taught him how to read before he went to received for visitation at Fawcett
and east to the Quebec border. trained for countless races while school and he read voraciously all his life. Funeral Home – Collingwood
They included 400 elementary raising her two daughters, Megan Chapel on Wednesday May 24,
When he became interested in photography his mother bought him his
and secondary schools, almost and Carolyn. 2023, from 2-4 p.m. A service
first camera, a box Brownie. Home and family, especially Anne, were his
200 hospitals (among them As an expert and advocate of early subjects as he practised the art of “seeing the light.” In high school he of remembrance will be held in
the North Bay Regional Health incorporating the science of combined photography with a knack for business by taking class pictures the chapel on Thursday, May 25,
Centre) and dozens of seniors’ compassion and mindfulness into and selling the prints. 2023, at 1 p.m. The service will
residences. Pick a town - any mental health practice in Toronto, be available by livestream. To
His first job was with the well-known Toronto portrait studio, Ashley & view the service friends may visit
town - on a map of the north, Laurisa helped hundreds of people
Crippen. He worked in the darkroom there with Percy, who taught him a Alex’s online Book of Memories at
and there’s a good chance it has cultivate kindness to themselves
lot about the arts of developing and printing. He also worked for Robert www.fawcettfuneralhomes.com
one or more of their buildings. and others through her work as
and Signe McMichael, founders of the McMichael Gallery, and society
Born in Iroquois Falls and raised a psychotherapist, clinic director,
photographer M. Russell Reid.
there and in Kirkland Lake, Lucien group facilitator, and teacher. She
was the fourth of eight children was fond of continued learning – With his independent spirit, he soon embarked on his own self-directed career
of Georgette and Albert Delean. which brought her to Stanford, which took him on fashion shoots to London, Paris and Rome, and all over
He first got interested in design Berkeley, the Mind & Life Canada doing a wide variety of assignments from annual reports to advertising
as a teenager, doing mechanical Institute and other institutions. and commercial work. Bill was among the first in Toronto to liberate the
drawings for the machine shop During recent summers she camera by using handheld 35mm for fashion. He refused to limit himself to one
in Kirkland Lake that his father took to on-the-ground outreach, genre and could work equally well on location or in the studio. It was a time
co-owned. He studied at the spending her days on her bicycle when photography was a dark art and you didn’t know if you’d succeeded
University of Toronto School of delivering groceries to people until the images appeared in the darkroom or came back from the lab.
Architecture, earning the Gold in need through Toronto’s Bike In his late thirties Bill decided to try a new challenge - filmmaking. He
Medal as top student of a Brigade program. made several shorts and then made a half-hour documentary, “Normandy
graduating class that included Laurisa was predeceased by her Dream,” to tell the story of his friend and neighbour Jack Fleger who had
architecture icon Raymond mother, Marilyn Dill, in 2015; been a corporal in World War II. That film sold to CBC-TV and was followed by
Moriyama, and returned to the and leaves behind her husband, “Spitfire Pilot,” another CBC prime time documentary. Later he and his wife,
north in 1954 to work initially for a Jim; daughters, Megan (Joe) Linda West, made a feature-length documentary called “Hoodwinked: The
firm in Sudbury, then in North Bay. and Carolyn; siblings, Chris and Myth of Free Trade.” He was also an early adopter of computer technology HUGH GRIGHTMIRE
He and Critchley, an acquaintance Maggie; father, John; stepmother, and while the family was living for a period in Victoria, B.C., they began Fe bruary 25, 1922
who’d played alongside him in his Janet; extended family, and developing a digital Canadian history resource, “A Country by Consent.” Bill May 19, 2 023
father Albert’s chamber orchestra numerous friends. She is already was fiercely Canadian and identified with working people and outsiders.
in Kirkland Lake, teamed up to missed dearly by her loving Even in grade school he befriended Ralph, a developmentally challenged Grightmire, Hugh entered into
launch their own firm in 1955, family, friends and the many boy who was ostracized by the others. They defended each other against rest on Friday, May 19, 2023, at the
after each received a $5 bill as people whose lives she touched the bullies and Bill lived the rest of his life that way. He never minced words Brockville General Hospital. Hugh
Christmas bonus from their then- in her time on earth. and no one could be in doubt about where he stood on subjects of politics was born in Greensville, Ontario,
employer. “We had no money or economics – and it was never on the side of The Establishment. in 1922. He enjoyed a full life with
or clients, but we felt we could In lieu of flowers, please consider
Bill loved historic properties and construction which led to many projects his wife, Hilda (deceased 2004),
do at least as well on our own a donation to Toronto’s Bike
restoring old houses and commercial buildings he used as studios. He hired celebrating his 101st birthday in
as we had working for someone Brigade https://www.bikebrigade.
good professionals, but also worked on the jobs himself, never afraid to Florida this past winter.
else,” he said. “It worked out ca/donate.
better than I ever imagined. I get his hands dirty. He was a visionary and could foresee the potential of Hugh was a talented businessman
never worked for anyone else neighbourhoods like Cabbagetown and Queen Street West in Toronto, and highlights of his career
again.” From an office of two, before others did. He loved tractors and vegetable gardens and gooseberry include his role as Chairman and
with drafting tables made of old
doors and a front desk set on Precious jam made from his own berries. The bushes came from heritage cuttings he
started at the much loved home of his mother in Beaverton, Ontario.
CEO of Standard Industries Ltd.
Hugh was also a founding partner
of the group that started Northern
concrete blocks, it gradually grew When the physical projects slowed down, Bill turned to digitizing and
into one of Northern Ontario’s
most successful and enduring
memories restoring his large collection of old 78s in the log barn in Lanark that he
managed to “winterize” against all the odds. Many of these songs were
Cables Inc. in Brockville, Ontario.
He served as Chairman of the
firms. The torch was passed to played for him during his last days. He deeply loved what he called his free- Board of Directors in the early
younger partners when Norm Memorialize and range children, still offering advice, whether asked for or not, knowing they years and played a key role in
Critchley retired in 2007, but celebrate a loved one in would listen, but ultimately decide for themselves as he would have done. Bill its growth.
Lucien continued to work full-time was always willing to take that unknown fork in the road, just to see where it Hugh enjoyed the outdoors.
until just weeks before his death. The Globe and Mail. could lead. He wasn’t afraid of risk and had belief in himself. He approached Sailing, golfing, and upland
“I just always enjoyed the creative life with a positive outlook and lived doing what he loved. Bill always saw hunting were some of his
experience, starting with nothing the big picture, in every sense. The family is very grateful for the attentive favourite pastimes. He will be
and ending up with something that nursing care of daughter-in-law Carolyn and her sister, Katie Kirkwood, who missed by his family and his
will last 50 years, hopefully, and made it possible for Bill to stay in the comfort of his own bed at home. many friends.
provide functional and aesthetic
qualities people will like.” A celebration of Bill’s life will be held at his country property in Lanark later Loving father to David (Donna),
this spring. Kathy Corbett (bob), Leslie
A true Renaissance man, he was Grightmire and Tracey Griesbach
fluently bilingual, painted and (Peter). Cherished grandfather to
sketched, played the cello and Scott Corbett, Ryan Grightmire and
was proficient at sports, including IN MEMORIAM IN MEMORIAM
Benjamin Griesbach and seven
golf and tennis. He loved fine great-grandchildren. Predeceased
art, jazz and classical music, and In Loving Memory In Loving Memory by his granddaughter, Dr.
the Montreal Canadiens. Nothing Shannon Corbett.
made him prouder than his Franco-
Ontarian heritage and the families Arrangements are entrusted to
he was born into and created. Irvine Funeral Home, 4 James
Despite a demanding professional Street East, Brockville, Ontario.
schedule that had him “working As an expression of sympathy,
almost every night for 30-40 donations to the Brockville and
years,” he also was active in the District Hospital Foundation
community, taking a leading role will be greatly appreciated by
with organizations such as the the family.
North Bay Arts Centre, Kiwanis Send a condolence, share a
Music Festival and North Bay memory of Hugh or make a
YMCA, where he was a volunteer donation online at
French teacher in the 1970s and www.irvinememorial.com
still played squash well into his
80s. He was a fellow of the Royal JOSEPH BARNICKE PATRICK T. MCGEE
Architectural Institute of Canada, September 9, 1932
sat on the Ontario Arts Council We miss ya dad, May 16, 2 022
and Ontario Economic Council, We miss ya grampa,
and received the University of We miss you uncle Joe. A True southern gentleman
Toronto’s Arbor Award for service Love is what you taught us, who taught us the importance
to that institution. Love is what keeps us strong. of balance, love, and the magic
Predeceased by siblings Therese, Grateful every day. of music.
Miss you every day,
Celebrate
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Leslie Elizabeth Egger (née Fenton), born October 24, 1946 passed away ELIZABETH ANN HART ISABELLE M. JOHNSTON RALPH
(née Murray) WILLIAM MacDONALD
prematurely albeit peacefully at home on December 30, 2022, at the age 1957 – 2 023
of 76 years young, surrounded by her beloved family. Leslie was born to May 4, 1928 September 27, 1 945
parents, Elizabeth and Edgar Robert Fenton, the eldest of three children and On May 3, Elizabeth Hart, aged Ma y 11, 2 023 M ay 11, 2 023
sister to Chris and D’Arcy Fenton. 65, died unexpectedly due to the
unlikely complications of surgery. Isabelle MacMillan Johnston died Ralph passed away on Wednesday,
Leslie was an excellent student and graduated valedictorian of her class at peacefully at Sunrise of Erin Mills May 11, following a 7 year bout
Gordon Perdue High School, where she met her future husband of 55 years, The improbability of this blunt fact
is not lost on her family, many in Mississauga on Thursday, May with Alzheimer’s disease.
Gian. 11, 2023 having just turned 95 a
friends, students, and colleagues His memory will be forever
After graduating from Queen’s University with an Honours degree in Math who have long marvelled at her week earlier. Born an only child cherished by his wife, Carolyn;
and Physics in 1969, Leslie was recruited for and accepted a position as a energy and vigour. A lover of in Saskatoon on May 4, 1928 to his daughter, Joanna (Francois);
software analyst for DuPont in Kingston. life in the extreme – the adoring Dr. F.S. Murray (Clinical Director his son, Scott (Mandy); his
matriarch of her own family, of Saskatoon Hospital) and his darling grandchildren, Evelyn and
In 1973, Leslie and Gian relocated to Geneva, Switzerland with their first wife Olivia MacMillan Murray,
son, Marc (1967), where Leslie fell in love with the country, embracing perpetual fluffer of the pillows of Bennett; and of course his grand
friendship, delighter in the beauty she was a precocious, much- dog, Frankie. Ralph leaves his
its culture and beauty, immediately acquired citizenship and went on to adored baby. Predeceased by her
effortlessly master two of the national languages, French and Swiss German. of the natural world – she lived sister, Barbara Dixon (Denny); and
more in her lifetime than many of husband, Donald Johnston L.L.B., his brother, Thomas MacDonald
Her family often remarked that Leslie was in fact more Swiss than the Swiss. who held an executive post at
During their time in Switzerland, Leslie pursued her career in software us could hope to in several. To sit (Mary Lou).
with her on a chairlift at Whistler, Trans Canada Pipeline and died
analysis while working for DuPont and then the World Trade Organization, suddenly in 1984. A Celebration of Life and a
supporting her family while Gian completed his medical degree at the or in front of the fire at Point Reception will be held at the
University of Geneva. Roberts, was to be in the very Isabelle lived most of her life Mount Pleasant Funeral Centre,
best of company – reveling in the in Port Credit where she taught 375 Mount Pleasant Road on
Prior to returning to Canada, Leslie and Gian suffered the devastating and radiance of the day, telling tales English as a Second Language
unimaginable loss of their son, Marc, at the age of 11 years, due to complex Wednesday, May 24 at 11 a.m.
of work and home, bonding over and did sundry volunteer work.
congenital heart disease, a tragedy that Leslie carried with her for the stories of her beloved children, She was actively involved with For celebration details, please
remainder of her days. Wilson, Foster, Sally and Thomas; both The Canadian Federation visit Ralph’s memorial page at
Leslie and her husband were rescued by the arrival of their daughter the latter two with their respective of University Women (local and www.etouch.ca
Micaela, in 1980, in Geneva, and their son Jesse, in 1983, shortly after their spouses, Jordan Ardanaz and provincial) and the Women’s Art Our family will be forever
return to Oakville. Rianna Wise; whose newborn, Association of Canada and was grateful for the outstanding
Francesca, was the light of Lize’s President of both at one time. care Ralph received at Dorothy
The years accelerated as Leslie became immersed in caring for her family.
last months on this earth. Isabelle was a firecracker ball of Macham Home and LSSE,
When the children were toddlers, the family acquired their first of 5 Bernese
Mountain Dogs, who became members of the family. Leslie instilled in her Giving was what she was good energy and no one who met her Sunnybrook Hospital.
children the importance of education and the value of hard work and she at, putting generosity into daily could forget her. She was full of
was instrumental in their future success. professional practice in her role fun, kind, exceedingly bright,
as Montessori teacher at Maple and often said she never met
In the midst of great joy, Leslie also endured the tragic and premature loss of anyone who didn’t interest her.
Grove Elementary – having spent
her cherished brother, Chris, at the age of 20 years; and her beloved mother An experienced world traveller
1996 to 2014 teaching at Boundary
at the age of 62 years. and voracious reader of books,
Bay Montessori House. Stories
In spite of, and very probably because of these immense life-altering of the classroom sometimes she collected many friends from
losses, Leslie lived in a near constant state of what can only be described made their way home, names far and wide. In her own words,
as gratitude. She truly loved each and every single day. Leslie lived with withheld, and her respect for her Isabelle enjoyed, and she knew
a boundless enthusiasm and passion for everything she did and everyone colleagues, particularly those she it, many of the blessings of the
she loved. was mentoring, was obvious to all world: wonderful parents, a fine
who knew her. Her compassion husband and Really Great Friends.
She was a devoted and loving mother to her children, Marc, Micaela and For all of these she is grateful and
Jesse; and daughter-in-law Sandy. Leslie was overjoyed by the arrival of her always lead her to single out the
child, or the families, who needed thanks you all. Her generous love
three granddaughters, and delighted in her role as the most wonderful and of life was contagious and her
adoring Nana to Fiona (6), Elise (3) and Sienna (2), who all miss her dearly. her most. Sometimes she would
tell those stories too. friends will Greatly Miss her.
She found great joy and meaning in the small everyday moments of life. A private service will be held for
Leslie was an animal lover, an avid gardener and an enthusiastic bird When the subject of conversation
her. RAINER KLAUS EMMERICH
watcher. Leslie never failed to appreciate a beautiful spring, fall, winter or was serious, Lize fully engaged, JOSEF MACHOLD
summer day, she would always remark upon the colour of the lake, the way but she was never far from a Donations can be made to
sense of divine silliness, infectious December 23, 193 1
the sun reflected off the water, a beautiful garden, a lovely dog walking by. the Princess Margaret Cancer May 8, 2023
spontaneity, or of communion Foundation or to the Ontario
She was unfailingly kind and polite, even relentlessly so, and was determined in life’s pleasures. No one could SPCA/Humane Society.
to win over even the grumpiest of those she encountered, who would all Rainer died peacefully at home
better enjoy a slice of fresh bread
eventually succumb to her stubborn cheeriness. on May 8, 2023, in his 92nd year.
with homemade Apricot jam (that
He was born into a German-
And for us, Leslie truly was the centre around which our family revolved. was the Milroy in her) or a plunge
speaking community in the town
She was the sun, full of light and energy. into the ice-cold ocean of Crystal
of Troppau, within what was
Water Beach on a hot summer’s
Leslie is survived by her cherished husband of over 55 years, their marriage then Czechoslovakia (present day
day. She loved the simple
an example of true partnership; two people who were wholly committed Czech Republic) on December
things best. Blossoms against
to spending their lives together. In a final act of love for her husband, Leslie 23, 1931, to Wilhelm and Paula
the spectacle of mountains and
made him promise to continue caring for her last dog, Thumper, who is now Machold. A WWII survivor, he
snowfields, an afternoon of work
actively saving Gian. lived a full, interesting life taking
in the garden at Point Roberts, a
up many amazing opportunities
We remain heartbroken and devastated to have to go on without her and we nap with her most unlikely dog-
as they presented themselves.
always remember what a very full life Leslie led, right up until her final days. friend Fred, anything with hearts
At the end of the war, he and his
Let her memory serve to remind us to live joyfully and to wholeheartedly on it, a freshly groomed ski run
family moved to Goetzis, Austria.
embrace our lives and those we love. awaiting her fresh tracks, or the
He subsequently immigrated
folds of fat on a baby’s wrists –
A celebration of Leslie’s life will be held on June 24, in Oakville, at 2 p.m. to Syracuse, New York in his
a sight that would send her into
Please contact leslie.egger@gmail.com for details. In lieu of flowers, twenties and then to Creemore,
rapture. Moving through her days,
we invite you to make a donation in Leslie’s name to The Hospital for Sick Ontario. He took great pride in his
Lize was exultant.
Children or Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto. careers in farming and insurance.
She was a remarkably strong He loved nature and the outdoors,
person – in her teenage athletic ELEANOR NELLIS KERR
especially skiing, snowshoeing,
endeavours in track, in her (née Blake) hiking, walking and camping.
perseverance as she faced life’s 1928 – 2 023 Rainer was a long-time member
curve balls, but also in her certainty of the Taoist Tai Chi Society in
about how to care for the people Eleanor passed away in Toronto Collingwood. He also enjoyed
around her. If she was firm, it on May 13, 2023, after a long and painting and traveling. There was
was because she was unfailingly healthy life. Much beloved wife no better man.
practical, her thoughts centred and best friend of the late Harry
Kerr QC, survived by their five great Rainer is survived by his beloved
on maximizing care. This was a
and loving kids; Andrew Henry wife, Rita; children, Marc, Tanya,
woman born to be in charge.
of Toronto, Gordon Matthew Clea and Rhys; granddaughters,
Lize’s primary devotion was to her (Barbara Klose) of Hamilton, Sascha, Heidi and Finnley; sister,
own family, and to her husband Katherine Eleanor (Vaughan Hoy) Gretlis; brothers, Dieter, Manfred
of 43 years, Andrew Hart, who of Edmonton, Elizabeth Nellis and Eric; sons-in-law, David
she invariably referred to as (Nick Godfrey) and Stephen and Eddy; and daughter-in-law,
J A N E T D OW N I N G EVA N S her rock, her partner in all her Edward (Maryann) of Oakville. Malene. He will be missed by his
undertakings. Like her parents, She will be lovingly remembered sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law,
Janet Evans, a cherished wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, gracefully Barbara Ann Milroy and the late by her grandchildren, Alexandra, nieces and nephews and their
concluded her journey on May 17, 2023 at the age of 94, after a brief illness. John Alexander Milroy, she saw Kimberley, Miro, Kaitlyn, and families and many dear friends.
Predeceased by her loving husband, Charles Waldron Evans, her departure family as an arena of trusted, Harrison; her niece, Lynne Blake- Predeceased by his grandparents;
leaves us with profound sorrow, but also an immense appreciation for the unconditional support but also as Dickson, (Kirk); great-niece Sarah parents; older brother, Wilhelm
love, wisdom, and joy she brought into our lives. As we bid farewell to this a collective primed to serve. Her Steeves (Jamie); great-nephew (Willi); aunt and uncles. The
extraordinary woman, we take solace in the countless memories and the family will surely carry that warm David Blake (Ciara Fragomeno); family would like to extend a
enduring legacy she leaves behind. mission forward as they honour her nephew, Jim Blake, (Myra special thank you to Rainer’s
her memory in the years ahead. Stephen); and nieces, Elizabeth personal support workers, Irene,
Born on April 4, 1929 in Coronation, Alberta, Janet was a beacon of strength Kate, Sheila, Antan, Christine
Along with her husband, children, Aberdeen (David), Susan Alford,
and compassion from the very beginning. Her unwavering love for her and Princess, his nurse, Kim
and grandchildren, she is survived and Jane Sutherland (Cam); and
family and her unwavering commitment to kindness defined her character. and his family doctors, Scott
by her brothers and sisters, great-nieces, Emma and Grace.
Throughout her 94 years, she touched the hearts of all who had the Houston and Alex Pearce for their
Allison, Thomas (Sarah), Stephen Eleanor is predeceased by her
privilege of knowing her, leaving an indelible impact that will resonate for compassionate care that allowed
and Sarah Jane Milroy; and by her brother, Ted Blake of London, Bob
generations to come. him to fulfill his wish to die at
nieces and nephews, Gabriela, Blake of Kitchener-Waterloo; his
Janet was a nurturing and devoted mother who showered her six sons and Roberto, Victoria, Elizabeth, wife, Noreen; by her sister-in-law, home. Family and friends are
their families with unwavering affection. Her guidance and unconditional Jonathan, Nellie, Sutherland, Mary Alford; and her husband, Bill invited to a memorial service and
support helped shape their lives, instilling in them a sense of resilience and Anna, Henry, Tara, Sarah, and Julia. of Toronto. reception on Saturday, May 20,
integrity. She embraced her role as a grandmother with delight, bestowing 2023, at 1 p.m. at 2374 Riverside
A Celebration of Life will be held A service of celebration will be Drive, Creemore. Memorial
warmth, laughter, and endless love upon her grandchildren. They will
at St. Mary’s Kerrisdale, 2490 West held at 1 p.m. on Monday, June Donations to Collingwood
forever cherish the memories of her gentle hugs, sage advice, and the love
37th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, on 5, at Manor Rd. United Church, General & Marine Hospital or
she effortlessly radiated.
May 25, 2023 at 1:00 p.m. 240 Manor Road East, Toronto. planting a memorial tree would
Janet’s passions were as vibrant as her spirit as she traveled the world with Reception to follow. A private be appreciated as expressions
an insatiable curiosity and an infectious zest for life. An avid golfer, she loved Walkey & Company family interment will be held at
Funeral Directors of sympathy.
to trade stories and share the joy of the game with friends, and especially Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.
her children, who shared the passion. (604) 738-0006
Eleanor graduated from the
In this time of sorrow, we find strength in the beautiful memories we shared University of Toronto Victoria
with Janet. We honour her legacy by emulating the values she held dear: College in 1950. Until recently,
love, compassion, and unwavering strength. Though she may no longer she was active in her church,
walk beside us, her spirit will forever reside in our hearts, guiding us along the University Women’s Club
life’s winding path.
Janet is survived by her loving sons, Drew (Colleen), Jeff (Vel), Kirby (Julie),
Have The of Toronto, the Toronto Guild
of Stitchery and book club. She
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with her presence. As we gather to celebrate her life, let us remember the
cottage. Eleanor’s immediate
profound impact she had on us all and the immeasurable love she bestowed
upon us.
your door and extended family were her
greatest joy. Her family has been
In honouring her memory, we invite you to join us in celebrating the loved, cherished, nurtured and
beautiful life of Janet Downing Evans at the Humphrey Funeral Home A.W. sustained by this dedicated,
Miles - Newbigging Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue in Toronto on Thursday, caring, gentle woman. Her loss to
May 25, at 2:00 p.m. us is immeasurable. We will miss
May her soul find eternal peace and may her light continue to shine brightly her profoundly.
in our hearts. Donations in Eleanor’s memory
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FRANCESCO M ANGIARDI RON M ULCHEY
Francesco Mangiardi of Toronto, Ontario, passed away on May 17, 2023, one RUDOLF MATHON Ron Mulchey, beloved and loving husband, father, grandfather, and
day shy of his 88th birthday, at Toronto General Hospital, after a courageous respected member of the community, passed away peacefully, with his
battle with lung cancer. Rudolf Mathon, University of family by his side at the Southampton Hospital on Tuesday, May 16, 2023
Toronto professor emeritus, at the age of 85.
He was born in Serra San Bruno, Calabria, Italy, on May 18, 1935, son of the late passed on May 17, 2022, after a
Giuseppe and Giuseppina Mangiardi. Francesco is survived by his wife, Maria. Ron was the greatly loved and loving husband to Heather (nee Spence),
sudden illness.
and much-loved and adored father to Elizabeth (Jamie) Filman, and to Ian
He is also predeceased by his sisters, Teresa and Caterina; his father-in-law, His thirst for new discoveries (Kimberley) Mulchey. He was also the devoted and loved grandfather to Eric,
Domenico; his mother-in-law, Rosa; his brothers-in-law, Saverio (USA) and in his field of mathematics and Brady, and Bennett Mulchey. Ron is also deeply cherished by his sister, Carol
Domenico (Italy); and his sisters-in-law, Anna (Italy) and Caterina (Italy). his research findings led to Mulchey; his brother-in-law, James (Kathie) Spence, and by many beloved
Francesco is also survived by his brothers, Vincenzo (Francesca), Antonio innumerable citations. Stars, nieces, nephews and cousins. Predeceased by his parents, William and Rena
(Maria) and Maria (Bruno). He is also lovingly remembered by his nieces planets, galaxies and nature Mulchey; sister, Audrey Livernois and her husband, Curt Davis; and by his
and nephews, Joe (Angela), Anna (Eddie), Sam (Stephanie), Louie (Emma), were also an important part of sister, Carol’s, partner, Bruce Burns.
Giuseppe, Assunta (Andre), Angelo (Fatima), Pina (Andrew) and many other Rudi’s world seen through the
Ron was also blessed with a large number of very close lifelong friends in
nieces and nephews in both the United States and Italy; and a large group of thousands of photos he left
Southampton, Toronto, Winnipeg, Vancouver and in Hawaii, who will all
great-nieces and nephews. behind in his unfinished life at
remember his wit, down-to-earth nature and his smile that could light up
age 82. He is remembered with
He married Maria, the love of his life, on February 4, 1962, and they both a room. He is in particular remembered by precious friends, Ken and Jane
tremendous admiration, a deep
immigrated to Canada in October, 1966, in search of a better life together Harlock and their family, who have shared a lifetime of treasured times
sorrow, and unending love by his
along with family. together since the early days of University.
wife, Helen; and son, Erik.
From his first days in Canada, Francesco embodied the typical immigrant He leaves behind a legacy of love, compassion, and dedication that will be
values of hard work and entrepreneurship. cherished by all who knew him. Ron touched the lives of many through
his roles as a Presbyterian minister, hospital administrator, and as an active
Initially, he worked for a variety of grocery and construction companies in
participant in a wide variety of community groups.
progressively senior roles.
Born August 11, 1937 in Toronto, Ontario, Ron grew up with a strong sense
In 1979, he fulfilled his dream of starting his own construction company,
of faith and a passion for serving others, which led him to pursue a career
Melrose Paving. Over the next few years, his brothers, Vincenzo and
in ministry. After completing his theological studies, receiving his Master of
Antonio, joined him as the company continued to grow.
Divinity from Knox College, Ron dedicated himself to spreading kindness
From its humble beginnings of four employees and a handful of equipment, and spiritual guidance as a minister.
Melrose Paving grew over the years to become one of the Greater
During his theological education at Knox College, Ron met the love of his
Toronto Area’s largest asphalt, concrete, site work and municipal snow
life. They built a strong and loving marriage, filled with support, laughter,
plowing contractors.
and shared values. Ron and Heather were inseparable partners, always
Along with the company’s continued growth, Francesco was very proud standing by each other’s side.
to see the next generation of family join the business and take over its
In addition to his family, Ron found fulfillment in his professional pursuits.
leadership (Joe, Louie and Angelo).
After serving as a minister for many years, he completed a Diploma in
Although Francesco and Maria were not blessed with children of their own, ERIC PATRICK MCCORMACK Hospital Administration from the University of Toronto, and embarked on
they were surrounded by eight nieces and nephews that they treated as a new chapter in his career as a hospital administrator. Ron’s exceptional
their very own. Author, critic and longtime leadership skills and genuine compassion made a positive impact on the
While Francesco worked tirelessly to make Melrose Paving successful, when professor of English at St. lives of patients and healthcare professionals. Upon his retirement from
he wasn’t working, he was known by friends, family and associates as a Jerome’s College, University of the healthcare industry, Ron’s true calling eventually led him back to the
vivacious, smiling and friendly man who was always ready with a story. Waterloo, passed away at age ministry, where he continued to touch lives with his wisdom, empathy, and
84 after a brief illness on 9 May spiritual guidance.
If he wasn’t at work, you would most likely find him sitting in the stands at 2023 at Kingston General Hospital.
Woodbine Racetrack, near the finish line. Upon entering the seating area, Ron’s commitment to his community extended beyond his professional
An academic emigrant from roles. He worked tirelessly to improve the lives of those around them. He
he would let out his famous unique whistle, both signifying his arrival and Bellshill, Scotland, he arrived at
calling out to the friends or family that may have already been there. had a great sense of integrity and was committed to serving and caring
the University of Manitoba in for those in need. He was involved in community in various capacities,
It wasn’t uncommon for Francesco to befriend a complete stranger at the August 1966 to earn a doctorate including his church, Tolmie Memorial Presbyterian Church, as well as the
track who may have been sitting or standing near him. Within five minutes, analysing a work that influenced Southampton Rotary Club, the Bluewater Association for Life Long Learning,
they would be comparing racing notes, exchanging stories of work and his writings and teaching for the and several local hospital boards.
family, and enjoying each other’s company. By the end of the afternoon, rest of his life: Robert Burton’s
they would have felt as if they had known Francesco for years. “Anatomy of Melancholy.” There Ron’s family is grateful to the Trillium Gift of Life Network and the donor
he formed the first of many family whose gift made it possible for Ron to enjoy an additional 20 years of
The family would like to thank his family physician, Dr. Michael Panturescu, a rich life post-transplant that included the birth of three grandchildren and
deeply intertwined personal and
for his countless years of compassionate care, as well as his surgeon, Dr. the opportunity to officiate and witness his daughter’s marriage. The family
professional relationships that
Kazuhiro Yasufuku; his oncologist, Dr. Penelope Bradbury; his palliative is also grateful for the compassionate care that Ron received at Saugeen
would last through his career.
physician, Dr. Keith Johnstone; and all the staff and nurses at both Princess Memorial Hospital.
Margaret Hospital and 6 Eaton South at Toronto General Hospital. In 1970, he and his young family
moved to Waterloo, Ontario, Ron will be deeply missed by his loving family, friends, and all those who
Of special note, the family is eternally grateful for the round-the-clock had the privilege of knowing him. His memory will be cherished and his
where he would spend the rest
care provided by family member Nancy Halupa, during the final weeks of legacy of kindness and service will live on through the countless lives
of the millennium as a popular
Francesco’s life. A registered nurse, Nancy’s supportive care helped bring a he touched.
and entertaining lecturer and
sense of calm and understanding to the challenges Francesco, and his wife
occasional department chair, Ron departure leaves a void in our hearts, but his spirit will continue to guide
Maria, were facing.
known as much for his gently and inspire us. May he rest in eternal peace, knowing that his impact on this
Funeral services will be held Saturday, May 20, at 10 a.m. at Holy Angels mocking humour and soft touch world will forever be remembered and cherished.
Catholic Church in Etobicoke. Visitations will be held on Friday, May 19 at in marking undergraduate work
3-5 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. at G.H. Hogle Funeral Home in Etobicoke. as for his many contributions to In lieu of flowers, the family kindly requests that donations be made to
a variety of literary journals as one of Ron’s favorite charities including the Saugeen Memorial Hospital
Donations can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society. Foundation or Presbyterian World Service & Development.
writer and editor. A wider public
was introduced to his work with A Memorial Service to Celebrate the Life of Ron Mulchey will be held on
the publication of “Inspecting Saturday, June 3, 2023, at 1 p.m. at the Tolmie Memorial Presbyterian Church,
the Vaults,” a collection of his 699 Goderich St., Port Elgin. A time of fellowship and refreshment will follow
short stories, in 1987 and, two at the Saugeen Golf Club. Arrangements entrusted to the Eagleson Funeral
years later, his debut novel Home, Southampton.
“The Paradise Motel.” Both won
prizes in Canada and abroad,
while the novel was on more
than one judge’s longlist for that
year’s Booker Prize. His uniquely
disturbing prose style, full of
dread, coincidence and searches
Honour a
for resolution, remains popular
with readers of literary horror, as
were his subsequent four novels
loved one
The Honourable and occasional book reviews. As
an editor and tastemaker, he did Memorialize and
ELIZABETH ANN MCFADYEN
August 31, 1 940 – M ay 12, 2023 much to create a wider audience celebrate a loved one in
in Canada and abroad for his two The Globe and Mail.
The family of Elizabeth Ann McFadyen are deeply saddened to announce her lifelong interests, Commonwealth
passing on May 12, 2023 in Victoria, British Columbia. fiction and magical realism.
Elizabeth was a renowned Judge with an illustrious and ground-breaking He remarried in his fifties and
career that spanned over fifty years. Throughout her journey, she maintained built a new life for himself, his GORDON JOHN
focus on family while living a full life with many travels and adventures. wife, Nancy, and their many cats MATTHEW NAVIS
in Kingston, Ontario. He spent his
She is survived by her sister, Linda McFadyen (Robert Ciastko) Winnipeg; long post-retirement indulging Gordon John Matthew Navis,
brother, Ron McFadyen (Wanda); Nanaimo; and her nieces, nephews in his favourite pastimes: 82, passed away peacefully
and their families: David Miller, Kori Nightingale, Joshua Croll, Brandon writing, travel, golf and dining at Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial
McFadyen, Katrina McFadyen, Tricia Wambold, Susan Laskosky. Elizabeth with his broad circle of friends Hospital, on May 12, 2023. He is
was predeceased by her parents, Marie and Donald McFadyen; and her and loved ones. survived by his wife of 52 years,
brothers, Roy and Raymond. Marlene (nee McDougald); and his
He is survived by his children,
Elizabeth was raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where she attended Michael (Elspeth) and Jody Evely daughters, Heather and Leslie.
Nutana Collegiate and the University of Saskatchewan. She was an (Derek), his grandchildren, Oscar, Gord was born in Toronto on
exemplary student achieving many awards and scholarships. She was the Polly and Mastewal Evely, and November 28, 1940. Gord was
only woman in her law class and awarded the Gold Medal in 1964. Her his brother, John. He also left predeceased by his parents
legal career took her to Regina, Ottawa, Edmonton, and Calgary. She was a behind a Canada-wide legion of Borden and Olive Navis and
pioneer in her field: the first female Prosecuting Attorney in Saskatchewan; former students, whose lives, brother Allen. Gord attending
Director of the Dept of Justice for Edmonton and Northern Alberta (at 31 accomplishments and happiness Bedford Park PS and Lawrence
years of age); first woman and youngest appointee to the District Court were as dear to him as his own. Park CI, where he excelled at both
of Alberta in 1976 (later the Court of Queen’s Bench 1979). In 1985, she was At his request, no funeral service track and football. He attended
elected to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Judges Conference, now or memorial is planned. Rather, a both McGill University and
the Superior Courts Judges Association and in 1987, became a member of gathering in his memory will be University of Manitoba. Gord had
the Executive Committee. She played an instrumental role in drafting the held later this summer. a successful business practice for
Canadian Judicial Council’s Ethical Principles for Judges which remains a over 50 years.
model around the world. In 1990 she was appointed to the Court Martial Expressions of sympathy can
Appeal Court of Canada. In 1993, Elizabeth was elevated to the Alberta Court be made to the Kingston He will be fondly remembered by
of Appeal and the Northwest Territories Court of Appeal. During these years Humane Society. Sharing of his family and friends for his zest
she mentored students, taught at various universities, and became bilingual memories is available at www. for life and a good conversation.
in French, graduating from the Judges Advanced French Language Program. GFTompkins-Township.ca He enjoyed sports, big band,
architecture, and traveling the
At her retirement ceremony in 2012, she was honored by her colleagues for world. A celebration of life will be
her diplomatic and gentle manner and for her commitment to the pursuit held on Saturday, June 10, 2023,
of justice throughout her career. Elizabeth cherished her circle of longtime from 2 – 4 p.m. at Glen Abbey
friends, some dating back to her high school years. In addition to her many Golf Club. A few words in honour
accomplishments, she loved to travel with friends and family throughout of Gord will be said at 3:00 p.m.
Europe, Central America, and Africa. She also enjoyed classical music,
theater, and was supportive of Canadian artists. The Navis family would like
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OWEN CHRISTOPHER PEGG

1932 – 2 023
DONALD H. PAGE DOROTHY PEREHUDOFF ALICE ANNE TRAIN
FCPA, FCGA, FCSI (née Knowles) On May 4th, in his 90th year, Owen passed away in the palliative care unit of
May 2, 1933 1927 – 2 023 Peterborough Regional Health Centre (PRHC). Owen was predeceased by his Alice Anne Train (nee Russell)
May 15, 2023 mother, Dorothy (nee Gee) and father, Ronald Pegg, and by his beloved elder died quietly and peacefully at
We are deeply saddened by brother, Alan. He is survived by his wife of 31 years, Alice Marshall, children, the age of 90, the day after
Donald H. Page passed away the passing of our much-loved Jeremy (Sheilagh, deceased), Tracey (Colleen), Jane (Alan), Charlotte (Greg), Mother’s Day. Predeceased by
peacefully on May 15, 2023, mother and grandmother, Matthew, and Victoria (Chris); grandchildren, Brittany, Abigail, Liam, Meghan her husband, Clifton Train; and
in the presence of one of his Dorothy Knowles Perehudoff, and Colby. He leaves also his nieces, Alison (Kieran; daughter Aisling) and her son, Taylor Train. Survived by
sons, after celebrating his 90th one of Canada’s most prominent Sharon (Jason). son, Hall Train (Kathryn Chorney);
birthday earlier in the month. landscape painters, on May 16, daughter, Helen Hills (Patrick
He was predeceased by his wife, Owen was born in Highams Park, Essex, England. For World War II, Owen, Hills); and grandchildren, Max,
2023 in Saskatoon. A recipient
Marion (Patterson); and survived Alan and his mother were evacuated to Oakham, Rutland, with his father Joseph and Mei Anne.
of the Order of Canada, the
by his brother, Jack; and his staying in London to manage rail freight. Their London area home was
Saskatchewan Order of Merit, Mom grew up in Timmins,
family Donald (Cathi), Gerald, bombed, leaving only the gate.
Honorary Doctor of Laws Ontario and attended Branksome
Paul (Riitta), Andrew (Christine), University of Regina, the Senate of He attended Oakham School, and was given a scholarship to study physics Hall in Toronto. She met Dad in
Elaine (Brock); and grandchildren, Canada Sesquicentennial Medal, at Keble College, Oxford. He failed the military service physical (air force) her early twenties, got married,
James (Janice), Charlie (Haley), and - most recently - the Queen at age 18. He then spent a year at Harwell nuclear research facility before settled and raised their family in
Samantha, Lauren, Sydney, Oliver, Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee starting at Oxford. Owen enjoyed coxing for a college rowing team, except old Brampton, where sheep still
Isabelle, Paige, Connor, Sarah; Medal. Dorothy passed away for being thrown into the river after a race. His love of sailing grew and grazed in the field behind their
and great-grandchildren, Clark, surrounded by her loving family continued for many years. He enjoyed especially the British West Indies. home on Union Street.
Elliott, Mackenzie and Cameron. at the Hospice at Glengarda. Owen joined first Northern Aluminium and remained in the industry A commanding and elegant
Don was born in Tyrconnell, Born in Unity, Saskatchewan, (including manufacturing the windows of the original round Toronto airport presence, stylish and graceful,
Ontario. He married his childhood in 1927, she grew up on a farm Terminal One). Starting Indalex in England was followed by a return to Alice Anne was the consummate
sweetheart, celebrating 67 years with her parents and three older Canada in 1967 to manage companies until semiretirement in 1988, when he hostess. The door was always
together residing in London, brothers, Paulden, Robert and started his MBA at York University and his consulting work. Owen completed open to drop-in visitors. There
Toronto and finally returning back Douglas, during the Depression. his PhD courses, but was asked to help start a company in England before were many dinner parties
to the community where they It was a happy way of life, mostly his thesis was completed. He then consulted for BDC until retirement in 1999. throughout the year, open
both grew up. From his humble spent outdoors, including going houses on New Year’s Eve and
Owen enjoyed retirement with Alice and daughter, Victoria, in Richmond
beginnings, he rose to the top to get the cows on her bicycle, back porch visits throughout the
Hill. They all were active in St. Mary’s Anglican Church. He kept up computer
of the financial community on often with her cat riding on her summer. The first question any
skills, using them to design a water garden and second floor renovation of
Bay Street as the Chairman of shoulder. Her attachment to guest was asked was, “Would you
their home.
the Board of Governors of the the natural environment would like to stay?” An excellent cook,
TSX, Chief Compliance Officer inspire her throughout her long Worsening health led Owen and Alice to downsize and move to
there was always a gourmet meal
Ontario Securities Commission, art career, which began in 1948 Peterborough in 2021. He enjoyed interacting with his new neighbours, store
prepared or a picnic packed for
Director and CFO Midland Doherty after taking an art class at the clerks and hospital personnel, until both dementia and cancer worsened. He
a country drive to their beloved
Financial Corp. In 1977, he received Kenderdine Campus at Emma received excellent care at PRHC in emergency, cancer care and palliative
Hockley property where they
the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal Lake in Northern Saskatchewan. care units, and the family is grateful for the teams’ expertise. During his 30
would eventually build their
for outstanding public service, Little did she realize the Emma years in Richmond Hill, his care was managed expertly also by Drs. Dawson,
retirement home. Our Brampton
and was recognized for his over 50 Lake workshops that brought in Samsoondar, Passaperuma and Thyaparan, which no doubt aided in
home always looked elegant
years of Freemasonry. Don’s other artists and critics from outside the Owen’s longevity.
with the brass and silver polished.
many accomplishments include prairie sphere would be a big part Owen has donated his body to the Anatomy Department at the University And there were always beautiful
Councillor Dutton-Dunwich, of her life for decades to come. of Toronto. As he did not want a funeral, instead there will be an informal flower arrangements created
Board of Backus-Page and Board reception early on Sunday afternoon, August 13th, at the Richmond Hill by Mom with flowers from her
of Directors St. Thomas-Elgin As is widely known, it was where
the influential New York art critic Centre for the Performing Arts; details to follow. If a donation is being cherished garden or wild flowers
General Hospital Foundation. considered, a medical or educational charity or St. Mary’s Anglican Church - gathered from the roadside-
Clement Greenberg encouraged
Music was a fundamental part her to keep painting from nature Richmond Hill, are offered as possible choices. “Wait, pull over!!”
of Don’s life, starting with the regardless of the contemporary She was an athletic person. She
Page Quartet and his many predominance of abstraction. was a ballet dancer when she
involvements with local church It’s also where composer John met our father. She was a strong
JUDY A. TONE
choirs. Don’s ability to harmonize Cage asked her if she was “the December 15, 1945 - swimmer, and an elegant skier.
both in music and in life was a one painting those beautiful January 21, 2023 She canoed the French River
testament to his soulful nature. landscapes.” regularly with our father and
Don will always be remembered Following a Bachelor of Arts in Judy died peacefully at home, introduced “The French” and
as a loyal friend and caring Science at the U of S in Saskatoon, in her own bed, as she “Camp One” to her children and
individual who believed in giving and becoming a registered wanted to, and not in a grandchildren. She also canoed
back to the community. laboratory technologist, Dorothy hospital, surrounded by her the Arctic with Dad. Alice Anne
briefly attended Goldsmiths
loving Toronto family. She taught Yoga for many years and
Don’s unwavering dedication to suffered a courageous but
School of Art in London, England, she was one of the founders of the
his family was a true reflection unexpectantly short battle
before marrying the celebrated Yoga Teacher training program in
of his character. His wife, with cancer. The world is a
Canadian Colour Field artist William Brampton. She was most proud of
children, grandchildren and great- better place for Judy having
Perehudoff in Paris in 1951. When simply lived in it as she was a the classes she designed for the
grandchildren were his pride
they returned to the prairies, they wonderful wife, mother, needs of people with MS.
and joy, and he leaves behind a
family who will be forever grateful raised three daughters, exhibited NORMAN SCHIPPER grandma and aunt. She is Mom had many passions
for his core life values of family, their work nationally survived by her husband, and causes. She worked with
community, and eternal guidance. Dorothy studied many artists such A dear husband, father, and Terrence Joseph Tone; her disadvantaged communities; was
grandfather, passed away after a daughters, Lori Judith Tone of a Social Director for a seniors’
As we bid farewell, he will be as Raphael, Monet and Pissarro, Yarker, Ontario, Kelly Lynne
though her own work always life full of love and joy. He shared home, raised funds to save
deeply missed, but his legacy of Dela Cruz of Scarborough,
came back to her Canadian roots. 67 wonderful years with his wife, heritage homes, gave consistently
kindness and integrity will live on Ontario; her son, Jeffrey
The landscape revealed itself to Estelle (Honey). His family are Michael Tone of Toronto, to multiple charities and causes
in the hearts of all who had the
her in a unique way and she was his three daughters, Carrie (Jean- Ontario; her son-in-law, that she and Dad supported.
privilege of knowing him.
able to coax this vision out from Marc Lina and the late Alexander Ronnie Dela Cruz of Always curious she continued
The family would also like to the soil and sky onto the canvas, Torgov), Jennifer (Mark Krause), Scarborough, Ontario; and a challenging reading list that
express their appreciation and whether it was the fierce strength Paula (Joel Finkelstein); and his her grandson and special included the daily newspaper, the
gratitude for the outstanding care of the mountains, the fall colours seven grandchildren, (Emma, angel, Dylan Terrence Mckay New Yorker, the Economist and
provided by the staff at Bobier in Quebec, or of course, the fields, Sydney, Dinah, Henry, Marshall, of Yarker, Ontario. the Times Literary Supplement
Villa, Dutton. river valleys and boreal forest Sam and Ellie) who all loved Judy was born in Toronto, until the end. She enjoyed sharing
Visitation will take place on of Saskatchewan. watching the birds with him, Ontario, the daughter of the what she had read and discussing
Tuesday, May 23 2023, 2-4 p.m. including his favourite warblers deceased Wilma and Ernest current events.
An avid gardener and voracious and ducks. He was also the dear
and 7-9 p.m. at Arn Funeral consumer of novels, Dorothy
Ridout. Growing up in
son of Frank and Anna Schipper; Scarborough, with her The family would like to extend
Home, 193 Shackleton Street, was happiest on painting trips to and a beloved brother to Shirley, siblings, Gary Ridout their gratitude to the staff at
Dutton, Ontario. the Rockies with her family and and to his late brothers, Sydney (deceased), Gail Henry, Dufferin Oaks Long Term Care
A memorial service will be held close friends, or out in the fields and Ben. Dennis Ridout and Ernestine home who offered comfort,
on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 battling mosquitos and strong Ridout, she loved her many respect and a safe haven to Mom
1:00 p.m. at Knox-St. Andrew’s wind to capture a particular light The funeral service will be at 1:00 homes but especially her farm until the end.
Presbyterian Church, 162 Nancy or swiftly-moving cloud. (She was p.m. at Congregation Habonim at home, the Old Scott House in
less excited when a mountain 5 Glen Park Avenue (Toronto). If Scarborough, Ontario. She Donations may be made MS
Street, Dutton, Ontario.
lion gave her a steely stare from you would like, a donation to the leaves her sisters-in-law and Society, Alzheimer’s Society or
In lieu of flowers, donations can the bushes.) Baycrest Foundation or Nature brothers-in-law, Judy and Humane Society in Alice Anne’s
be made to: Conservancy of Canada would Raymond Tone, Meredith and memory. All causes that she
She was kind, humble, strong be welcomed. Richard Tone, Marilyn and supported throughout her life.
Bobier Villa Home for Seniors and and encouraging, and is greatly
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Panthers and Hurricanes eye
DEATHS
Game 2 after epic series opener
The physical and now.” Gustav Forsling (55:41) of Florida
The Hurricanes, who are 5-2 in and defenceman Brent Burns
emotional tolls from home games this postseason, are (54.43) of Carolina.
the opening game of bound to be under more stress as “Both teams went through it,
Round 3 are bound they covet a split of the first two so both teams are feeling it,” Hur-
games at home. And there’s not ricanes defenceman Brady Skjei
to factor into play much time to assess anything said. “It’s physically demanding.
else. Mentally, too.”
“It’s going to be a quick turn- Limiting the 38-year-old
RALEIGH, N.C. around, obviously,” Hurricanes Burns’s ice time for Game 2
GLADYS RUTH RO SE
captain Jordan Staal said. doesn’t seem likely.
The Hurricanes insist they will “If I even thought that, he’d
(née Sarlin)
R
“Muppa” est and recovery takes on be able to wipe away the disap- punch me in the face,” Brind’A-
November 2, 1926 – M ay 15, 2023 new meaning for the Florida pointment of the Game 1 result. mour said.
Panthers and Carolina Hur- They are trying to keep things in As much as the Panthers cher-
Gladys (Gutte Raisel) Rose was born in Saskatoon. She was the much-loved ricanes, following a marathon perspective. ish the 1-0 series lead, they know
only child of Harry and Marcia Sarlin, immigrants from Minsk, Belarus. opening game of the Eastern Con- “It’s just one game,” Hurri- once the puck drops Saturday
Her education included public school, high school and the University of ference finals canes coach Rod Brind’Amour night something new will be
Saskatchewan, as well as five-day-a-week after-school Hebrew School The teams are set to lean on said. brewing.
(“Cheder”), where she studied both Yiddish, which she spoke fluently at
home as a child and throughout her life, and Hebrew. The only day the family
each other again after an epic be- While it counts as one in the se- “The opportunity to grab mo-
grocery store ever closed was the day of her graduation from the University. ginning for Florida to the best-of-7 ries, the duration of Game 1 lasted mentum will be up for grabs,”
series. more than two full regulation Maurice said.
She married Gerald F. (Gerry) Rose in 1946; they were happily married for 53
“We have to be refocused and games. Goalies Sergei Bobrovsky The Hurricanes managed only
years. Their four Baby Boom children, Kathy, Toby, Naomi and David, were
raised in a house full of love, books, laughter and high expectations. Gladys ready for Game 2,” Panthers de- of Florida and Frederik Andersen the tying goal during a 14-2 edge in
loved reading. She subscribed to and read The New Yorker every week for at fenceman Radko Gudas said. of Carolina were the standouts in shots in the third period. Prevent-
least 75 years until shortly before her death when deteriorating vision made “That’s why we have the sports the opener. Their statuses for ing Carolina from that form of
it too difficult. science guys.” Game 2 will be monitored. dominance is something the Pan-
Gladys did extensive and high-level volunteer work for the National Council The physical and emotional Brind’Amour said he would thers realize needs to be altered.
of Jewish Women, Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC), Multi-Faith Saskatoon tolls expended Thursday night – consider switching to Antti Raan- The Panthers have won seven
and the Royal University Hospital Foundation, among others. She was the and into Friday morning – are ta considering the workload en- of eight road games this postsea-
first woman president of a Conservative synagogue in Canada, Congregation bound to factor into Saturday dured by Andersen, whose 57 son. The loss came in their playoff
Agudas Israel in Saskatoon. A life-long learner, she obtained a Diploma in night’s Game 2 as Carolina gets set saves set a playoff franchise re- opener against the Boston Bruins
Continuing Education in 1969, becoming Chair of the Board of the Saskatoon to play host. cord. on April 17.
Region Community College and the first Chair of the Saskatchewan The Panthers took a 1-0 lead in “You have to,” Brind’Amour The Hurricanes had a seven-
Community Colleges Association. She received many awards, including the the series on Matthew Tkachuk’s said of a potential change in goal. game winning streak in overtime
Sam N. Filer Award for Distinguished Service to CJC and the Queen Elizabeth
II Jubilee Medal. goal with 12.7 seconds left in the “[Andersen] played the whole playoff games end with their first
fourth overtime. The game ended game, so that’s a consideration.” such loss in an extra session since
She loved Saskatoon and Saskatchewan, their history, geography, as the sixth-longest in NHL histo- Maurice said Bobrovsky is ex- the first round in 2021.
people, Jewish community, even the weather, and was delighted when a
ry. pected to be in the nets Saturday Carolina has a nine-game los-
celebrity had ties to the province. She loved her family and considered that
anyone who was related, however distantly, to her or to Saskatoon was a “That’s a huge cost for both night. Tops in terms of on-ice time ing streak in the conference final.
permanent member. Her sisters-in-law, Myrna Levin and Zoe Gropper and teams,” Panthers coach Paul among skaters were defencemen
their husbands were as close as siblings. Gerry and, as he called her, Glady, Maurice said. “It’s a race to recover Brandon Montour (57:56) and REUTERS
held no grudges, believing that the only behavior one could control was
one’s own. They were known as the Simcha Roses, travelling to weddings,
Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, graduations and other celebrations whenever invited.
They cultivated friends of all ages.
After being widowed and living alone for several years, with great foresight
she decided to move to Toronto in 2005, to be closer to her children. She
The legacy of Kyle Dubas includes unprecedented
lived independently, made new friends, joined and attended shabbat
services at Congregation Darchei Noam, had an Adult Bat Mitzvah, played
regular-season traction, franchise records
bridge and joined a book club. When living alone became too isolating,
she moved to the Russell Hill Retirement Residence, where she made and a continued Stanley Cup drought
new friends, joined a new community and participated in new activities.
During COVID and as she became less able, she appreciated Holy Blossom
Temple’s Shabbat services which were easily available on a tablet supplied JOSHUA CLIPPERTON million contract in free agency af- Dealing centre Nazem Kadri –
by the Russell Hill. ter just a few months on the job in twice suspended in the playoffs
Gladys suffered many tragic losses, including the deaths of her husband in 2018. with Toronto – to Colorado could
K
1999, daughter Kathy in 2000, daughter Naomi in 2016 and Kathy’s husband, yle Dubas joined the Leafs A tough negotiation with Ny- be justified at the time, but he
Gerry Cooper, in 2017. But she considered herself lucky and was at heart in 2014 as an assistant GM lander followed before he eventu- went on to be a key contributor in
happy, resilient and positive. She is survived by her daughter, Toby Rose at the age of 28 and led the ally signed a six-year extension the Avalanche’s Cup victory last
(Les Klein); son, David Rose (Marlene Kates); son-in-law, Stan Sinai; 14 AHL’s Toronto Marlies to a Calder worth US$45-million. That set the June.
grandchildren (and 12 partners); and 12 great-grandchildren; as well as many Cup title four years later. stage for Matthews to ink a five- Nick Foligno, meanwhile, got
nieces, nephews and cousins. He took over the general man- year extension with a value just hurt and played just 11 games for
Thank you to the wonderful staff of the Russell Hill, the caregivers of Toronto ager’s chair from Hall of Famer under US$58.2-million. Marner the Leafs after being acquired at
Living Care Services and to Dr. Marnie Howe and the palliative care team of Lou Lamoriello in May 2018 as then got paid with a six-year, the 2021 deadline.
the Temmy Latner Centre for their compassionate care and MAiD. part of a succession plan under US$65.4-million pact as Toronto Dubas appeared to finally get it
Funeral services were held at Congregation Darchei Noam in Toronto on Brendan Shanahan’s direction. allocated roughly half its salary right this spring in the Leafs’ six-
May 16, and burial took place at the cemetery of Congregation Agudas Israel Toronto experienced unprece- cap to four stars. game victory over Tampa that ex-
in Saskatoon on May 17. Shiva dates and times in Toronto are available on the dented regular-season traction Dubas also wasn’t shy about orcised a generation of playoff
Benjamin’s Memorial website. and set franchise records during changing course, realizing early demons, but Florida’s emphatic
Gladys believed in tzedakah and was a generous supporter of many charities. the Dubas era but their Stanley on that Toronto needed more grit 4-1 triumph in the second round
Please consider a donation in her memory to Congregation Darchei Noam Cup drought stretched to 56 years. and playoff experience. saw most of those good vibes
in Toronto, Congregation Agudas Israel in Saskatoon, Save a Child’s Heart or He didn’t shy away from big He acquired Stanley Cup quickly fade.
a charity of your choice. moves – Dubas fired decorated champions Jake Muzzin in 2019 While Dubas wasn’t able to un-
head coach Mike Babcock and re- and Ryan O’Reilly in 2023 with an lock a winning formula in Toron-
placed him with Sheldon Keefe – eye toward helping get the Leafs to, there was never any question-
FUNERAL SERVICES FUNERAL SERVICES but struggled to find the right mix over the hump. ing the GM’s passion.
in the playoffs until this spring’s Tight against the cap, Dubas al- He was caught on camera jaw-
fleeting breakthrough. so found players in the bargain ing with Lightning fans this
Dubas offered unwavering bin, including veteran forward Ja- spring, wildly celebrating the
support to Toronto’s so-called son Spezza and hometown prod- Leafs finally getting past the first
“Core Four” of offensive talent uct Michael Bunting. round, and throwing a water bot-
consisting of Auston Matthews, (The Leafs said Friday evening tle in disgust during the Panthers
MEIPOOM, Kennet Mitch Marner, John Tavares and that Spezza, who retired as a play- defeat.
Service Friday, 10:30 a.m.
William Nylander throughout his er after the 2021-22 season to be- His replacement will have to
EVANS, Janet Downing Benjamin’s half-decade at the helm. come the special assistant to Du- decide what to do with Keefe,
Service Thursday, 2 p.m. Park “Unbelievable throughout my bas, had resigned from Toronto’s while Matthews and Nylander are
HUDSON, Desiree Ann Memorial whole time here,” Marner said of front office.) entering the final years of their
Service Saturday, 11 a.m. Chapel Dubas after the Leafs were elim- Dubas remade the roster be- contacts and can sign extensions
inated by Florida. fore this season’s trade deadline July 1.
SMEE, Kenneth
Service Saturday, 1 p.m. Matthews also trumpeted by adding O’Reilly, Noel Acciari, Both players have indicated
Eglinton St. George’s United Church what Dubas brought, while de- Luke Schenn and Jake McCabe, they’d like to stay, but that was
fenceman Morgan Rielly was continuing a trend of draft picks when Dubas was still in the fold.

YEARS firmly in their now-former gener- heading out the door for immedi- Matthews and Marner, who has
Through the generations… al manager’s corner earlier this ate help. two years left on his deal, both
a sacred trust week. He also had his fair share of have full no-movement clauses
FRIDAY “I think the world of Kyle,” he misses, namely the signing of set to kick in this summer, while
BACHUS, Simon (Sunie) - 10:00 Chapel. said. “World-class GM.” goaltender Petr Mrazek and the Nylander will own a 10-team list.
MASON, Roz - 10:30 Pardes Shalom Cemetery. His first big splash was to lure trade for oft-injured netminder
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Shanahan said the head less than 24 hours after the club two with the Marlies. The news
coach’s future will be left to the was eliminated from the AHL came the same day the Leafs
next GM. That makes Keefe the playoffs in a three-game sweep announced they are “parting
Celebrate walking dead. How many conver-
sations do you want him involved
by the Rochester Americans.
Moore just finished his fourth
ways” with general manager
Kyle Dubas after five seasons.
in from now until whenever season as the Marlies’ coach, THE CANADIAN PRESS
a life someone drives to his office on a
Friday morning to have a little
Memorialize and chat? of-the-art hockey machine. For On Friday, that impression
All of a sudden, just when a the nine years Shanahan has came apart. The Leafs no longer
celebrate a loved one in whole bunch of hockey decisions been in Toronto, you always got look like a well-run team that’s
The Globe and Mail. need to be made, no one’s in the sense the Leafs had a vision. this close to breaking through.
charge. If there is a plan, it’s not Even when their ideas didn’t They look like every other dys-
apparent. work out, you did at least believe functional business, the sort
That’s the real era that’s end- there were ideas in the first place. where nobody knows what any-
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come a fully modernized, state- checkers. itself. Until one day it doesn’t.
Nurse: Star’s
recent motto
is ‘Be where
your feet are’
FROM B12
Who or what is the love

of your life?
My family is probably my great-

est love. It’s hard to give it to one
person. Definitely close with
both of my parents. So I can’t
even say I’m just a daddy’s girl or
mama’s girl. But yeah, for sure
my family.
On what occasion do you lie?
I don’t know if it’s always lying,

but I think because we’re ath-
letes and we have to deal with
the media quite often. After a
game sometimes I’m obviously
not going to tell everybody
what’s happening in our locker
room whether it’s good or bad.
That’s for the players and the
coach, so I won’t give people
scoops on the locker-room situa-
tion.
The Yankees and Blue Jays dominated the baseball news cycle this week with Aaron Judge igniting a series of discontent by sneaking little
glances into the New York dugout right before knocking a ball out of the park in Toronto. COLE BURSTON/GETTY IMAGES So that’s when you reach into
your bag of clichés?
Acting like jerks is not a bad

Yup, kind of block and bridge
and I’ll direct you somewhere
else.
look for this year’s Blue Jays

What is your most treasured
possession?
My most treasured possession I

also think would be my house
Good teams elicit strong cheating knobs. hate each other, but they both look like [in Seattle] because it’s my sanc-
Good teams elicit strong feelings. Every- they’re having a lot of fun pretending. This tuary. Just because it’s mine, I’ve
feelings in their rivals, and one else is just fine. is another thing winning teams can do – got all my stuff in it, I love interi-
the last really good Toronto The Jays haven’t been jerks in a while. wind themselves up without the need for or design and I got to do all that
team was also unlikeable That 2015 team, the last really good Jays external stimulus. They are auto-motiva- by myself, so I appreciate that.
team? Jerks. tional.
Jose Bautista alone gave off enough The only disappointment about the se- Do you have any favourite
CATHAL pompous aggro to power a wind farm. The ries? That the Jays and Yankees won’t meet writers?
KELLY bat flip may be the biggest jerk move in again until September. By then, they
modern sports history. That’s what made might be driving nails through their bats. I’m a big reader. Murder myster-
OPINION it so beautiful. Just a bunch of jerks trying to jerk their ies are my go-to. If I have to get
The ’23 Toronto Blue Jays haven’t cre- way into the playoffs. into a romance it will probably
ated anything close to a bat-flip-level jerk If good teams are jerks, average teams be a Colleen Hoover. And then
M
idway through the Blue Jays’ move yet, but they are headed in the right are nice guys. They don’t want to make a once in a while, I’ll throw in a
combative series with the New direction. fuss. They don’t like drawing attention. financial book or a non-fiction
York Yankees this week, every- Another thing about winning teams – When they do, they shy from it, or get irri- book. One of my favourite finan-
one crammed into Toronto they are often in and around news. We’re tated that you’ve asked about it. cial books is The Wealthy Barber,
manager John Schneider’s office bunker not talking about six-game winning Since everything in this city right now which was the first financial
for the pregame Q and A. streaks. We’re talking about notable hap- comes back to hockey, it should be point- book I’ve ever read. It’s based out
In the midst of the typical bumpf – penings, usually some sort of outrage that ed out the Leafs are nice guys. When Flor- of Canada so it’s got all about
“How’s Vladdy feeling?” – an old hand on gets people exercised. Winning teams are ida’s Sam Bennett Jackie Chan’d rookie RRSPs and all that kind of stuff.
the beat tried baiting Schneider into say- interesting. Winning is a side-effect of that Matthew Knies into the end boards, that But it’s a simple read when you
ing something intemperate. fascination. was a big-time jerk move. What’d the Leafs first start to make money to un-
It was a long, involved question about Between them, the Yankees and Jays do about it? Nothing. They followed the derstand savings and compound
the Yankees and their effect on people. dominated the major-league baseball rules and left it up to the officials, who also interest, that kind of stuff.
The crucial words were “smug and superi- news cycle this week. did nothing.
or.” As in, is that how you see New York? The jerk move that started it all – Aaron What would have a winning team have What’s your greatest regret?
Schneider leaned back in his chair, de- Judge’s sneaky little glances into the Yan- done? Accidentally-on-purpose broken a
lighted. kees dugout right before knocking a ball stick over Bennett’s back maybe. Anything Not being as confident in my
“That is a good question,” he said, voice out of the park. to let Florida know it could not have its game at an early age. I spent a lot
rising comically. He didn’t need to say any That was brilliant stuff. His explanation way with Toronto. of my earlier years trying to fig-
more. – “I was kinda trying to see who was chirp- The Leafs went the other way, and the ure out that I was really good at
Everybody laughed. A couple of New ing in the dugout” – was even more bril- result was all their best players standing basketball. So I think it would
York writers in the room turned their liant. Patent nonsense delivered not just up on locker-clearout day trying to deflect have been better because I was
heads. They had a look that said, “Wait. with a straight face, but a smile. Utterly en- all attention and save their own skins. No- so worried about trying to get to
Are these rubes making fun of us?” raging. body was having fun. Many looked rattled be good that I didn’t build upon
In that moment you realized something If he’d taken one look over? Maybe. But and ill at ease. the things that I was already
important about the 2023 Toronto Blue four looks over? Pull the other one. Winning teams have a look and a feel. good at at a really young age. So I
Jays – they’re jerks. That set everything off. The two teams The Leafs don’t have it. think I would have been a better
They’re the sort of jerks who complain spent the rest of the series sniping at each But the Jays do. We’re a quarter of a way player in high school or in col-
to the teacher a lot. The sort of jerks who other on the field, off the field, to the through their season and people around lege had I had more confidence
imply that when they lose, it can’t have media, anywhere they could manage it. baseball can already hear them coming. in myself.
been fairly. The sort of jerks who say The near riot over where the third-base Unlike the team of a year ago, they’re not
things like, “Shut up, fat boy” to end an coaches should stand? Childishly silly. Ab- nice guys. No cute jacket celebrations. Less What is your motto?
argument. solutely uncalled for. Also, irresistible. pointing at each other on the basepaths.
The Yankees are also jerks, but that’s The fact that Yankees pitcher Domingo More yelling at the other team. More com- I used to go by ‘Respect all, fear
because they’re from New York. Being a German got ejected and suspended for plaining in general. none.’ Recently it’s been more
jerk is the real source of Yankee pride. sticky stuff was not that unusual. Except No, not especially nice. But maybe these ‘Be where your feet are.’
Beyond talent, winning teams have a that he apparently had stickier hands than Blue Jays are winners.
few things in common. They aren’t easily a quality-control manager at a glue facto- Where would you most
rattled. More often than not, they seem as ry. ORIOLES VS. BLUE JAYS like to live?
though they’re having fun. They don’t “It’s the stickiest hand I ever felt,” um- The Toronto Blue Jays had another chance to
have to love each other, but they are never pire James Hoye told a pool reporter after- improve their record within the American League When all is said and done, I
seen fighting with one another. And ward. “My fingers had a hard time coming East when they opened a three-game series against think it’s a little bit up in the air
they’re jerks. off his palm.” the visiting Baltimore Orioles on Friday night. Their just in terms of where my life
Winning teams like to get on top of Only a Yankees pitcher thinks he’s get- first set with the Orioles this season will conclude a and my boyfriend’s life takes us.
their opponents and grind them. They rev- ting away with this. They check as a matter 10-game homestand. After sweeping the Atlanta Of all the places that I have lived,
el in the unhappiness of others. If you put of routine. What was German’s plan here? Braves in three games, the Blue Jays dropped three home is kind of my go-to, but I
one of theirs in the hospital, they will put To offer the ump his left hand instead and of four to the New York Yankees. Thursday’s 4-2 always say to everybody that if I
one of yours in the morgue. hope nobody was paying attention? Jerk loss to the Yankees in the finale dropped the Blue could, I would move to Australia
L.A. Dodgers? Nepo babies. Detestable. move on a bunch of levels. Another reason Jays to 5-9 against the AL East this season. For in a heartbeat. [But] it’s just so
Philadelphia Phillies? Total dirtbags. for everyone to yell at each other. Friday night’s game story, check our website: far away from everything.
Houston Astros? Absolute, insufferable, I’m not sure these two teams actually globesports.com
If you could change one thing
about yourself, what would it be?
Murray stellar down the stretch to help Honestly, I don’t like to say no to
people very often. And some-
times I think that is to my detri-
put Nuggets in driver’s seat up 2-0 on Lakers ment just because I end up hav-
ing no time to do anything be-
cause I don’t want to say no.
Jamal Murray played the greatest quarter was the ninth 20-point quarter of Mur- in Los Angeles on Saturday, and Game 3 of
of his career at the biggest time. ray’s career – five of those coming in Heat-Celtics is Sunday when that series Being as you read a lot of fiction,
Murray, of Kitchener, Ont., scored 37 fourth quarters. His 23-point fourth quar- shifts to Miami. The NBA Finals begin can you tell me about your
points in Denver’s 108-103 win over the ter was the seventh 20-point outburst in a June 1. favourite character in fiction?
Los Angeles Lakers in Game 2 of the West- quarter so far in these playoffs. (For com-
ern Conference finals on Thursday night – parison’s sake, there were only three such Well, I read a lot of murder
TRIPLE-DOUBLE JOKER
doing almost all of his damage in the final quarters in last season’s playoffs.) mysteries, so a lot of the charac-
10 minutes. Murray is the sixth player to score that Denver’s Nikola Jokic had his seventh tri- ters that I read are very twisted
He single-handedly outscored the Lak- many in this year’s playoffs; Miami’s Jim- ple-double of this year’s playoffs in the people, so I don’t want to be
ers 23-22 in the final 9:59. He turned my Butler has two – both from the same Nuggets’ win over the Lakers – 23 points, associated with them. My favou-
around an awful shooting start, and game. 17 rebounds, 12 assists. It’s his fourth in a rite book is Verity by Colleen
helped the Nuggets grab a 2-0 lead in the This is the first time the Lakers have row and seventh so far in this year’s play- Hoover, and it’s a really twisted
West title series. lost two straight games since March 15 and offs. The only other player with four in a book, but I don’t want people to
In that 10-minute stretch, Murray was 6 17, and the first time LeBron James has row, and seven total, in a single postsea- look at me backwards. I grew up
for 7 from the field, 4 for 5 from three- played in back-to-back losses since Feb. 4 son was Wilt Chamberlain in 1967. Jokic watching a lot of Disney Chan-
point range and 7 for 8 from the line. and 7. He hasn’t played in three consec- has as many triple-doubles in 13 games nel, always have really loved Dis-
Murray’s numbers from the game’s first utive Lakers losses since Dec. 21, 23 and 25. this postseason than the rest of the NBA – ney and musicals. Elsa and ev-
38 minutes – 5 for 17 from the field, 2 for 9 combined – does in the league’s past 189 erybody in Encanto and Frozen,
on threes, 2 for 2 from the foul line. playoff games, going back to the confer- I’m all about that. The Little Mer-
WHAT’S NEXT? ence-semi-final round of the 2021 play-
The 23-point outburst was the highest- maid was always my favourite
scoring quarter of Murray’s career. He had Miami took a 1-0 lead into Game 2 of the offs. growing up. But I haven’t seen
22 points in the third quarter of a Denver Eastern Conference finals at Boston on that in forever. So I’m glad it’s
win over Chicago on Jan. 17, 2019. And it Friday night. Game 3 of Lakers-Nuggets is THE ASSOCIATED PRESS coming out again.
Opinion
In Canada, and elsewhere, wildfires have traditionally been viewed as

a rural problem, John Vaillant writes. But as we’ve seen in recent years
around the world, cities and towns are increasingly under threat
OPINION town hall, library, radio station and 500 stood, way back in 2016, that if a fire could century fire” because that’s when fire really
houses in a few hours? do that much damage to such a wealthy, started to get weird. Before 2000, wildfire-
John Vaillant’s latest book is No, the current fire situation is not un- well-equipped subarctic city when the generated pyrocumulonimbus thunder-
Fire Weather: The Making of a Beast. precedented, and calling it the “new nor- lakes were still frozen and car-sized blocks storms were an extreme rarity. Now they
mal” is offensive. There’s nothing “normal” of ice still lined the Athabasca River, imag- are a common feature; Alberta generated
W
e weren’t a week into May about it. Do I sound angry? I have a right to ine what it could do to more southerly several of them in the first week of May
before 30,000 people had been be, and so do you. In the late 1970s, Exxon’s towns filled with old, densely packed alone.
evacuated because of dozens own scientists predicted that the effects of wooden houses? Places such as Vancouver, In Canada, and elsewhere, wildfires have
of fast-moving wildfires in increased industrial CO2 would penetrate Moose Jaw or St. John’s? Imagine what such traditionally been viewed as a rural prob-
Alberta. Structure losses were mounting, the “noise” of random climate fluctuations a fire could do in cottage country, or in the lem. But as we’ve seen in recent years in
and politicians were trotting out words like and become measurable in the form of thousands of rural communities located in Australia, the United States, Canada – and
“unprecedented.” rising global temperatures, especially at the wildland urban interface, where half of many other places – cities and towns are
Unprecedented? Where were they in higher latitudes like ours. Canadians, and a third of Americans, now increasingly under threat. The area of
2017, when British Columbia had its worst I started working on my latest book, Fire live. greatest concern to Canadians is the wil-
fire season on record and generated four Weather, in 2016, just days after Fort I was scared, but I’m also angry: This sit- dland urban interface – a.k.a. the WUI
simultaneous pyrocumulonimbus thun- McMurray disappeared beneath a fire- uation was foreseen more than half a cen- (rhymes with “phooey”). The WUI is where
derstorms? Where were they in 2016, when borne pyrocumulus cloud 14 kilometres tury ago, and it is now upon us with a ven- the forest meets the built environment, i.e.,
Fort McMurray burned – for days – along tall. I did so not because this was a once-in- geance. Wildfire seasons have been length- those tree-lined subdivisions where so
with 6,000 square kilometres of forest? a-lifetime fire (the intervening years have ening, and fires have been burning with a many new Canadian homes are being built.
What about 2011, when Slave Lake lost its proven otherwise). I did it because I under- greater destructive intensity. I call it “21st- PLANET, O6
Downtown Calgary is covered in a blanket of smoke from the forest fires in Northern Alberta on Tuesday. TODD KOROL/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Decoding Russia and China’s false narrative

ALEXANDER WOOLEY ject to colonial depredation. tightened and quickened the embrace of ern-led international order – what scholars
In a startling development, Russia has Russia and China. Agreeing that the West is Gregorio Bettiza and David Lewis in 2020
decided that this is its story, too. It is anti- a geopolitical, economic and moral foe, called “liberal mimicry.”
OPINION imperial, anti-colonial, a victim – a line that they are tag-teaming within a single talking- Russia has a long history of liberal paro-
it is touting currently as it courts a number point bloc for everyone else in the world. dy – from last year’s “referenda” in Donetsk
Writer and a director at AidData, an of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Previ- This anti-colonial stand must come as a and Luhansk, to its “peacekeeping” mis-
international development research lab at ously, at the Sept. 30, 2022 Kremlin ceremo- shock to nations, races, ethnicities and reli- sion in 2008 against Georgia, which they
William & Mary’s Global Research Institute ny announcing the annexation of four Uk- gions long under the Russian Empire, Sovi- initially tried to pitch internationally as an
rainian territories, Vladimir Putin, through et Union or Warsaw Pact. But Russia is in effort to prevent “genocide.” After 9/11, the
F
or years, China’s pitch to the world’s verbal sleight of hand, spoke of Western co- fact performing two sets of plagiaristic Kremlin switched narratives and declared
developing countries has been that lonialism 13 times in his 37-minute speech. wordplay, the likes of which would make its brutal, long-running war in Chechnya
it is uniquely qualified to lead a Whether developed independently in ChatGPT blush with shame: one of China’s was now only Russia doing its part in the
world order alternative to that of the Moscow or as a result of consultation with current narrative, the other a refresh of Global War on Terror – a rhetorical pivot
West, in large part because China itself was Beijing, it is one indicator of how the war in Russia’s own time-honoured imitation and largely accepted by the West.
once desperately poor, exploited and sub- Ukraine and its ramifications globally have inversion of the language used by the West- POWERS, O5
A N D R E W COY N E T R I N A M OY L E S KO N R A D YAK A B U S K I VICKY MOCHAMA

Is there room in Canada Budget cuts have left Donald Trump’s comments What I learned from a
for a new, centrist Albertans increasingly on Ukraine are causing crash course in emergency
political party? O2 at risk from wildfires O6 grief for Joe Biden O11 preparedness O11
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Canada has room for a new centrist party,

if we can define what ‘centre’ means
The Centre Ice Canadians group has been holding conferences,
and now the leadership is considering whether to turn it into a political party
ANDREW role as the guarantor of minority rights. poor, and not from west to east, or city to country,
COYNE And it could adopt a climate-change policy or young to old, or any of the hundred other ways
based almost entirely on the cheapest known that governments now stealthily reapportion in-
OPINION means of reducing emissions, carbon pricing, rath- come.
er than the costly subsidies and regulations that And the third category? Nothing says a centre
are the mainstay of every existing party’s program party could not freely borrow policies from the
O
ver the past nine months or so the Centre – yes, even the Liberals. other parties, where it thought they had merit.
Ice Canadians group has been holding a These are radical policies, but they are not ex- Maybe the Liberals have the best approach to im-
series of conferences aimed at rehabil- treme: They did not just suddenly occur to some- migration. Maybe the Conservatives are better on
itating the centre ground of Canadian one, nor are they nice ideas in theory that have national security. Maybe the NDP or, who knows,
politics – deserted territory, many believe, given been examined and rejected as unworkable in even the People’s Party (they’re the only party call-
the present direction of both the Liberal and Con- practice. On the contrary, they are almost tediously ing for ditching supply management) have some-
servative parties. Now the organization’s leader- well-grounded, the subject of decades of research thing to contribute.
ship is considering whether to turn it into a politi- and advocacy. They just never get done. A centre party might differ with the other par-
cal party in its own right. A decision is promised for A second category of policies for a centre party ties not on the merits of this or that policy, but on
September. would represent a synthesis of left and right, the ways in which these policies are currently pack-
I was a participant in those conferences, as I achieving the objectives of the first by the means of aged together. No, voters can’t pick policies à la
thought this was a conversation worth having. If the second, and vice versa. Such a party would, for carte: Parties exist for a reason. But there is no
the movement is now to become a political party example, seek to combat economic inequality, but reason why these policies could not be packaged in
I’ll have to keep my distance. Still, it strikes me that without the use of quotas or legislated wages. It a different way, in a way that arguably makes more
there is room, in principle, for a new party in the would take seriously the concerns of marginalized sense – or at least expands the range of options on
Canadian political landscape – that we are not cur- social groups, dismissed as “woke” on the right, offer.
rently blessed, by some happy accident, with exact- while avoiding the excesses of the left. And there’s another niche a new party might fill.
ly the right number of parties in exactly the right It would protect universal health care that was It might behave better. Its leaders might attempt to
configuration – and that there is a particular open- publicly funded and free of charge at the point of comport themselves with more dignity. They
ing in the centre. care, while embracing competition and private might avoid moronic oversimplifications, bad-faith
Of course that presupposes that we know what providers within the system: a model known as arguments, calculated attempts to divide and in-
we mean by the centre, or why it matters that it is “internal markets.” flame. They might talk to the public like adults,
currently being neglected. Centrist parties tend to It would argue not simply for tax cuts, but tax laying out the challenges that confront us and the
attract a fair degree of scorn from political sophisti- reform: lowering rates, yes, but broadening the trade-offs these imply.
cates, to whom they appear as wandering naifs, base to pay for them, eliminating scores of tax We have been taught not to expect this, indeed
unsure of what they believe in except their own credits, deductions and exemptions that are both to believe that such minimal standards of beha-
superior virtue. inefficient, in that they distort economic decision- viour – none of the above requires either a saint or
And in truth, if centrist is defined simply to making, and unjust, in that it is mostly the rich an Einstein – are not just unattainable, but incon-
mean a dogmatic determination to come up the who take advantage of them. ceivable. Why? Because that’s all we have ever
middle on every issue, always splitting the differ- In all, it would be guided by what has been known? Then perhaps we are ready for something
ence between the two main parties but never tak- called the “social market” approach: one that is new.
ing a distinctive stand of one’s own – centrism for not afraid of intervening, where intervention is Would such a party have a chance of winning?
centrism’s sake – there would be some justice in warranted, but that does so by “redistributing mar- God, no. Certainly not in the short run; probably
that verdict. Who’s to say the middle is always ket results, rather than distorting market process- not even if it were to survive beyond that. This is
right? Maybe the Liberals have it right half the es.” For example, it would guarantee a minimum perhaps the most important contribution it can
time, and the Conservatives the other. Or maybe, income, in place of a minimum wage. It would make: It should not try.
on any given issue, one of the parties to the left or fund daycare by providing cash to parents, rather Experience should have taught us that a party
right of them does. than subsidies to daycare providers. does not have to form a government to effect mea-
Or if, as is so often the case, the centre ground is More broadly, it would insist that any redistrib- ningful change. It does not even have to come
defined as the status quo, a party that mindlessly ution of income be achieved openly and transpar- close. It just has to be a threat to the other parties.
aims for the centre would not really change much ently, by means of the tax and transfer system, and The NDP has had enormous impact on Canadian
of anything. not by fixing prices or wages; as such, it might be public policy over the years, without ever winning
But there’s another way to define centrism, less easier to ensure it was redistributed from rich to power federally. The Reform Party in its day was
as a matter of positioning and more as a matter of equally influential. The Greens and the Bloc Qué-
temperament – moderation, in other words, and bécois have also had an impact, for good or ill, as in
all that that implies: judgment, reflection, open- its turn may the PPC.
mindedness, level-headedness. And there are a set Indeed, the more crowded the political spec-
of positions and policies that would fit that de- trum has grown, the more contested each slice of
scription – that would offer a sensible, distinct and the vote has become. A centrist party may start
above all useful alternative to those on offer from out, paradoxically, on the margin. But let it win
the other parties. even a few percentage points, in a few swing rid-
These can be organized into three categories. Maybe people are tired ings, and it will be right in the thick of things.
The first would be what might be called rarefied (That would be even truer, of course, if we had a
common sense: policies that command a high de- of just voting for the more proportional system of representation, rath-
gree of consensus among expert opinion, backed lesser of five evils. er than the present single-member, winner-take-all
by a substantial body of evidence, but that for one Maybe they’re ready for system. Ideally a new party would also champion
reason or another – interest-group pressures, re- a grown-up party, that electoral reform, if not on principle, then as a mat-
gional politics, the tyranny of the status quo – none ter of self-interest.)
of the established parties is willing to take on. treats them like Probably it won’t even get that far. Probably it
Free trade was once like that – universally sup- grown-ups. Maybe a will go the way of most new parties. Its leaders will
ported by economists, absolute anathema to poli- new party, without the fall out, consumed by personal ambition and petty
ticians – until the Mulroney government worked accumulated baggage of spats. Its candidates will be a motley collection of
up the courage to embrace it. Now it’s the centre malcontents and single-issue zealots. Its platform
ground. the old-line parties, can will be a collection of meaningless bromides –
Some current examples would include ending start fresh, take chances, “let’s do politics differently” – or irrelevant hobby
corporate subsidies; abolishing supply manage- represent the horses. The media will ignore it, or laugh at it.
ment; opening our remaining protected enclaves Probably.
in transportation, telecoms and financial services
unrepresented – and But maybe it won’t. Maybe people are tired of
to foreign competition and foreign investment; redefine the centre just voting for the lesser of five evils. Maybe they’re
and increasing defence spending in line with our ground. Maybe. ready for a grown-up party, that treats them like
NATO commitments. grown-ups. Maybe a new party, without the accu-
If it were really bold, a new party might also mulated baggage of the old-line parties, can start
advocate for reforming military procurement – to fresh, take chances, represent the unrepresented –
make defence readiness and value for money, not and redefine the centre ground. Maybe.
industrial strategy and regional development, its We’ll see. I hope the Centre Ice leadership de-
primary drivers. It might offer a serious plan to cides to take the plunge. If so, I will be the first to
bring our public debt back to sustainable levels. It congratulate them – and, I am sure, the first to find
could reclaim the federal government’s historic fault with the result.
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DATA DIVE WITH NIK NANOS
SEEKING NEW ALLIES IN A BIPOLAR WORLD

Caught between two superpowers, Canadians say they are ready to increase
defence spending and build stronger ties elsewhere, even while facing hardships at home
OPINION have a positive view of China and similar to the United States. intensified steadily since 2019.
another 8 per cent a somewhat About eight in 10 Canadians see Back in 2019, three of four Cana-
Nik Nanos is the chief data scientist positive view. The research sug- The war in Ukraine has Germany as a positive (45 per dians had a positive (30 per cent)
at Nanos Research, research adjunct gests that there is not much pol- put a spotlight not only cent) or somewhat positive part- or somewhat positive (47 per
professor at the Norman Paterson icy licence for a very friendly rela- on our ambitions to ner (35 per cent), outscoring cent) opinion of NATO. The out-
School for International Affairs at tionship with China. Considering France, Mexico and China. Cur- right positive impression of NA-
Carleton University, a global fellow the importance of trade and for- help Ukrainians fight the rently, there is significant latitude TO has now increased from 30 per
at the Woodrow Wilson International eign investment to our economy, Russian invaders but for more friendly relations with cent to 40 per cent in 2023 with
Center for Scholars in Washington, giving a thumbs down to one of also on the limitations Germany. The most recent visits overall positive scores cutting
the chair of Atlantik-Bruecke Canada two economic superpowers is sig- of our current of the Chancellor and German across all regions, genders and
and the official pollster for The Globe nificant. President suggest that they see a age groups.
and Mail and CTV News. New economic and political defence capabilities. stronger partnership with Cana- Interestingly, while Canadians
powers are on the minds of Cana- da as an opportunity to navigate are worried about paying for
D
onald Trump, China and dians. When asked about which in a world between the two big su- housing and food, they also are
the war in Ukraine are a countries would make for posi- perpowers. open to our country increasing
trinity of forces shaping tive partners, Britain tops the list, At the same time, positive defence spending. A CTV News
how Canadians feel about their but what is interesting is that Ger- views about the North Atlantic survey by Nanos suggests that al-
place in the world. Our political many is second with numbers Treaty Organization (NATO) have most two in three (64 per cent)
leaders should take notice be- are good with an increase in de-
cause the views of Canadians sig- fence spending to hit our 2-per-
nal the scope of public policy li- cent NATO target. According to
cence. Canadians on partner nations the World Bank, the last time
If we don’t like a foreign coun- Canada met NATO defence
try, policy licence is limited. and military spending spending commitments was in
When we discover new allies, it is 1990 under a Progressive Conser-
a green light from Canadians to vative government led by Brian
engage. Opinions of Canada’s partnerships with other countries in 2023 Mulroney. The kicker is that
Until the defeat of former U.S. about seven in 10 Canadians are
president Trump, the situation Positive Somewhat positive Neutral Somewhat negative Negative Unsure concerned (29 per cent) or some-
was one in which Canada was what concerned (40 per cent)
jammed between two economic, Britain that our current operational ca-
political and military superpow- Germany pabilities are a source of tension
ers – the U.S. and China. Under with our NATO allies.
U.S.
Mr. Trump, Canada was caught in In the old days, the debate was
the crossfire of domestic Ameri- France about guns and butter. Do we in-
can politics on issues such as free vest in defence or social pro-
Mexico
trade. Our relationship with Chi- grams? The research suggests
na was also strained because of China that there is licence to spend
the detention of a Huawei exec- more on defence and work har-
utive and the jailing of the two 0 20 40 60 80 100 der to meet our security obliga-
Michaels, Spavor and Kovrig – tions to allies.
Canadian citizens in China who Opinions of Canada’s partnerships with U.S. and China Social programs will always
were in the wrong place at the win out over defence spending in
wrong time. The war in Ukraine Positive Somewhat positive Neutral Somewhat negative Negative Unsure a head-to-head choice. After all,
has further kindled a rethink of what’s the point of defence
our commitments to allies and U.S. CHINA spending if Canadians feel per-
our security needs in an increas- 100 100 sonally defeated at home as they
ingly volatile world. 80 80
struggle to pay the bills?
New data from a Nanos track- The war in Ukraine has put a
ing survey suggest a shifting pub- 60 60 spotlight not only on our ambi-
lic opinion environment. 40 40 tions to help Ukrainians fight the
When Mr. Trump was in power, Russian invaders but also on the
Canadian views of the U.S. as a 20 20 limitations of our current defence
stable partner that provided a 0 0 capabilities. In a world where we
positive relationship were not 2019 2021 2022 2023 2019 2021 2022 2023 are caught between superpowers,
strong. Back in 2019, people iden- meeting our security commit-
tified Europe (48 per cent) rather Canada’s military spending as a percentage of GDP
ments through NATO is a way for
than the United States (34 per Canada to build stronger bridges
cent) as the partner they were 5% with allies such as Britain, Germa-
most comfortable with. With Mr. What Canadians would prefer ny and France. Collectively, stron-
Trump’s exit, the U.S. has re- ger ties with those three coun-
gained the top position as the 4 Spend less 7% tries add Canada to the club of
most positive partner (67 per Maintain current level 21 like-minded nations looking to
cent), with the Europeans second Increase to reach 2% 64 navigate a path between the Unit-
at 24 per cent. There’s little doubt 3 Unsure 8 ed States and China.
that his political return would Bipolar can refer to two poles
sink the views of Canadians on simultaneously, but also a situa-
the binational relationship. NATO ally target: 2% tion of extreme swings in beha-
2
Meanwhile, what was already a viour. That pretty well sums up
strained relationship with China 2021: 1.32% the world these days. Caught in a
in 2019 has soured even more. 1 bipolar world, Canadians are
Back in 2019, 56 per cent of Cana- ready to step up with our defence
dians had a negative or some- spending and to build stronger
what negative view of China. That 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 ties outside of the two superpow-
negativity has jumped to 73 per ers – even in the face of personal
cent in 2023. A dismal 3 per cent MURAT YÜKSELIR / THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: NANOS RESEARCH; THE WORLD BANK hardship at home.
Francophone minorities should worry

about the Liberals’ language plans
JEFFERY VACANTE concerns about the ways the bill guage on the grounds that Que- And so, if a minority French-
would limit access to English ser- bec – and even the federal gov- speaking community in Canada
vices in the province. A major By weakening the ernment – does little to protect is deemed to be threatened, it can
OPINION point of contention has been the legal protections access to English-language servic- expect more federal support. On
explicit references in the bill to for bilingualism across es there. Once governments out- the other hand, if the majority
Assistant professor of history at the Quebec’s Charter of the French side Quebec come to embrace French-speaking community in
University of Western Ontario. He is Language, which was recently
the country – and this regional approach to bilin- Quebec is itself deemed to be
the author of National Manhood and amended – with the pre-emptive embracing a regional gualism, it will not be long before threatened by virtue of the fact
the Creation of Modern Quebec. use of the notwithstanding clause and asymmetric they begin to wonder why they that it constitutes a minority in
– by Bill 96. The fact that Bill C-13 approach to bilingualism are providing French-language Canada, it can expect more feder-
T
he federal government says effectively endorses the use of the services at all. al support, as well.
it has a solution for the de- notwithstanding clause, and the – the new Official An illustration of how the lan- Any protests by English-speak-
cline of French in Canada. fact that it defers to the Charter of Languages Act will in guage issue will play out in a Can- ing Quebeckers, on the other
On Monday, Bill C-13, an act to the French Language in Quebec – effect make linguistic ada reshaped by Bill C-13 could be hand, will be understood through
amend the Official Languages which does not guarantee access minorities in Canada found in Pierre Poilievre’s recent the lens of the precariousness of
Act, passed the House of Com- to services in English – means promise to eliminate funding for the French language in Canada
mons with support from all par- that the English-speaking com- subject to the whims of the CBC – by which he meant and thus be ignored.
ties, and the legislation is now munity in Quebec has every rea- whatever government funding for the English-language And any gains that French-
headed to the Senate. This fol- son to be concerned. happens to be in power. CBC. Mr. Poilievre was quick to speaking communities outside
lowed an April announcement by There has been less talk of the clarify that he had never intended Quebec might achieve as a result
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, harm that Bill C-13 would have to suggest that he would cut fund- of Bill C-13 will be precarious be-
along with Minister of Official on French-speaking communi- ing to the French-language ser- cause they will have been
Languages Ginette Petitpas Tay- ties outside Quebec. But these vice Radio-Canada, which he achieved under an amended Offi-
lor, on the Action Plan for Official communities should be con- claimed served an important role cial Languages Act that will pro-
Languages, a five-year funding cerned, because with this newly for francophones. But in making duce a Quebec that is more
program intended to strengthen amended Official Languages Act, this distinction, Mr. Poilievre has French and a rest of Canada that
French-speaking communities the federal government is effec- essentially committed to diver- is more English.
across Canada. The government tively walking away from the ting public money extracted from When that day arrives – and
hailed the plan as a historic finan- idea that Canada is a bilingual one part of the country – let’s say when the funding announced in
cial commitment for the protec- country and embracing the idea Alberta – to fund the cultural pro- the Action Plan dries up – per-
tion of the French language in that it is an English-speaking of whatever government hap- duction of another part of the haps all those francophone
Canada. country that has a French-speak- pens to be in power. country – let’s say Quebec. groups outside Quebec that have
The measures have been em- ing region in Quebec and a smat- Moreover, if the federal gov- The federal government will embraced Bill C-13 will have sec-
braced by the Quebec govern- tering of French-speaking com- ernment will no longer defend find itself navigating similar ond thoughts about the enthusi-
ment, as well as by French-lan- munities outside that province. the principle of equality, then traps as a result of Bill C-13. Since asm they had shown for this bill.
guage minority groups across the By weakening the legal protec- there will be little reason for pro- it will no longer approach En- After all, those who sacrifice
country. However, before they tions for bilingualism across the vincial governments to do so ei- glish- and French-speaking citi- the rights of a minority group in
celebrate, French-language country – and embracing a re- ther. What this will mean is that a zens on equal terms, the govern- one part of the country in order
groups outside Quebec should gional and asymmetric ap- provincial government in an En- ment will determine its relation- to advance their own rights in
stop to ponder the long-term con- proach to bilingualism – the new glish-speaking province – let’s say ship with – and support for – lin- another part of the country will
sequences of these measures. Official Languages Act will in ef- Ontario – could limit the rights of guistic groups according to the one day wake up to find that
The English-speaking commu- fect make linguistic minorities its francophone minorities to ac- perceived threats that these their own rights are just as ex-
nity in Quebec has already raised in Canada subject to the whims cess services in their own lan- groups face. pendable.
STANDING WITH COURAGE Politicians making

partisan attacks on
Canada can help jailed Russian dissident foreign interference
Vladimir Kara-Murza by giving him honorary citizenship are falling into a trap
BRANDON SILVER the democratic opposition – a journalist, dissident, hu- DAVID SALVO
IRWIN COTLER man-rights activist and political leader with an unim-
BILL BROWDER peachable record of public service – he has spoken out
on behalf of the over 24,000 people who have been ar- OPINION
bitrarily arrested in Russia. As the most dedicated and
OPINION visible spokesperson for Russian political prisoners un- Senior fellow and managing director
til he became one himself, elevating Mr. Kara-Murza’s of the Alliance for Securing Democracy
Brandon Silver is an international human-rights lawyer and case will equally give voice to all those others unlawfully at the German Marshall Fund of the United States
director of policy and projects at the Raoul Wallenberg detained.
U
Centre for Human Rights. This spotlight would give lifesaving protective cover nderstanding the Chinese Communist Par-
from the worst dangers and deprivations that grow in ty’s (CCP) interference in Canadian elections
Irwin Cotler is a former minister of justice and the darkness of Mr. Putin’s dungeons. It would also give – and deterring it from happening in the fu-
attorney-general of Canada and special envoy of the hope to those in their most desperate moments, show- ture – should be an issue that unites Cana-
Parliamentary Assembly of the Community of Democracies ing these courageous prisoners that they are not forgot- dian politicians of all parties. On May 9, I testified as a
for Vladimir Kara-Murza. ten, and that Canadians stand with them in their strug- witness at a committee meeting in the House of Com-
gle for democracy and against Mr. Putin’s crimes. mons on this very topic and blanched at how this is-
Bill Browder is the chief executive officer of Hermitage Such a move would also directly counter the Putin re- sue had already become politicized. Several MPs de-
Capital and head of the Global Justice for Sergei Magnitsky gime and advance Canada’s interests. By elevating such bated whether a CCP disinformation operation direct-
Campaign. cases, we would be underscoring that Russians oppose ly led to the defeat of former MP Kenny Chiu in 2021
Mr. Putin and his war of aggression, and thereby also un- and spent less time debating solutions to better safe-
R
ussia tried to kill Vladimir Kara-Murza twice. dermine Mr. Putin’s aggressive propaganda campaign guard Canadian democracy. Amidst this partisan ran-
His would-be assassins now hold him in a Mos- in that regard. cour, MPs missed the point: The fact that these in-
cow prison. But it also tells a bigger story, of the dangers of au- terference operations happen at all is unacceptable,
After miraculously surviving two poisonings thoritarianism and human-rights abuses, and the costs regardless of whether they swing the vote in a partic-
by the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian dem- of inaction. ular riding.
ocratic opposition leader nonetheless courageously It was Mr. Kara-Murza who repeatedly warned us that The prolonged and politicized focus on whether a
continues his anti-Putin advocacy and opposition to internal repression is inextricably linked to external ag- foreign interference campaign directly led to the vic-
the brutal war in Ukraine. For this, he now languishes in gression. When Mr. Putin assaulted Chechnya; when he tory or defeat of a particular candidate is the gift that
a Russian prison, sentenced to 25 years in jail. This is the invaded Georgia; when he annexed Crimea; when he keeps on giving to authoritarian regimes. As an Amer-
harshest prison sentence ever meted out to a political bombarded Syria; and when he was engaged in murder- ican, I know that all too well. Six-and-a-half years after
prisoner in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. ing and maiming dissidents and journalists, it was the Russia’s widespread interference operation against
Mr. Kara-Murza is one of Russia’s most eloquent and inaction of the international community that not only the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Americans still
erudite advocates, a regular presence in parliaments indulged this culture of corruption and criminality but have not wrestled with addressing all the vulnerabil-
around the world, making the case for solidarity with also incentivized a culture of impunity. This is what ities the Kremlin exploited. Why? Because politicians
Russian civil society and support for its people in the paved the path to the full-scale aggression against Uk- and the public spent years arguing over whether Do-
struggle against Mr. Putin’s authoritarianism. In the raine. nald Trump owed his victory to a foreign power rather
process, he made our countries safer and more hu- For an enduring peace to prevail, not only must Uk- than seeing the operation as the existential threat it
mane, exposing the proceeds of corruption and crimi- raine receive the fullest extent of military, economic was for American democracy.
nality corroding our economy and democracy, and pro- and diplomatic support to drive out Mr. Putin, but so When Russia began its interference campaign to
viding tools to redress it. He was instrumental in the must Russian civil society. A democratic post-Putin Rus- denigrate Hillary Clinton’s candidacy and champion
adoption of Magnitsky legislation around the world, en- sia would mitigate against the resurgence of tyranny Mr. Trump in 2015, Kremlin operatives, like most ev-
suring that these human-rights violators cannot enjoy that has been a source of terror in Russia and the region eryone else, couldn’t have
the freedoms abroad that they deny their citizens at since the time of Czarist pogroms, through Soviet total- thought Mr. Trump would
home. itarianism, to Mr. Putin’s current authoritarian mafia win. The bigger goal was to The fact that these
Some of the first individuals to be sanctioned under state. contribute to and inflame
these laws that Mr. Kara-Murza initiated are now the Taking action on emblematic cases like Mr. Kara- America’s polarization interference
ones directly overseeing the prison in which he is arbi- Murza’s highlights and gives hope to all those other and pursue tactics that operations happen
trarily detained, and his unjust persecution and prose- cases of freedom fighters courageously confronting the would lead to more Amer- at all is
cution that underpin it. If that wasn’t Kafkaesque Russian regime. As Mr. Putin puts in prison all those icans doubting the integri- unacceptable,
enough, these are also the very same Russian officials who oppose the war – such as Aleksei Gorinov, who is ty of the electoral process.
responsible for the murder of Sergei Magnitsky in jail, serving a seven-year sentence for speaking truth to It’s hard to argue that regardless of
and the subsequent assassination attempts on Mr. Kara- power and calling Mr. Putin’s invasion the criminal war Russia’s operation hasn’t whether they swing
Murza for pursuing sanctions against them for this that it is – and killing journalists and human-rights de- paid off. During a period the vote in a
crime. He would not survive a third poisoning at their fenders who seek to expose this truth, democratic gov- that spans two very differ-
hands, the risk of which grows every day he remains in ernments should provide them a lifeline. Honorary citi- ent presidential adminis-
particular riding.
their custody. zenship for Mr. Kara-Murza would do just that. trations, polarization
The democratic world has been the beneficiary of Mr. For those few others who have evaded imprisonment among Americans is rising. Election denialism contin-
Kara-Murza’s brilliance, and should match his courage in Russia, Canada can provide a pathway to actual citi- ues to plague trust in government and democracy.
in opposing Mr. Putin with an abiding commitment to zenship. The Czech Republic, for instance, has provided Russia did not create these problems for us, but the
securing his freedom. 600 emergency visas to Russian journalists at risk. Can- United States is more consumed by this domestic tur-
Canada has led the charge, with Prime Minister Justin ada can do the same for all those independent media moil than fully addressing the vulnerabilities that
Trudeau personally announcing at the G20 summit the and human-rights defenders forced to flee to continue made America susceptible to foreign interference in
implementation of targeted Magnitsky-style sanctions their essential work unmasking the corruption and the first place.
on all those involved in the case. This follows high-level criminal abuses of Mr. Putin and his cronies. Canada is proud to distinguish itself from its south-
engagement from Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, As Mr. Kara-Murza recently wrote from prison, “It’s ern neighbour. On the issue of addressing foreign in-
who has anchored clear public statements with con- not only about moral support (although the signifi- terference in Canadian democracy, it should avoid
crete diplomatic action. In a politically fractious envi- cance of that is difficult to overstate). Sustained high- mirroring America’s politicization. Unfortunately, re-
ronment, support for Mr. Kara-Murza’s case is a rare level advocacy from democratic nations has helped se- cent bickering over the appointment of a special rap-
point of consensus, with every Canadian political party cure the release of prisoners of conscience all over the porteur to investigate China’s interference in the 2021
leader and Parliament as a whole standing in solidarity. world. … Few political accomplishments can compare election doesn’t help. The opposition has criticized
It is poetic justice that one of the main authors of our in importance to returning freedom to those unjustly the government’s refusal to launch a public inquiry,
Magnitsky laws should have them deprived of it.” arguing, among other things, that Prime Minister Jus-
used to help secure his freedom, We owe this to Mr. Kara-Murza, tin Trudeau has not been transparent in sharing
and other jurisdictions are follow- and to all Russians putting not only threat information surrounding CCP interference.
ing Canada’s lead. The United their livelihoods but their very lives True as that might be, a public inquiry could be used
States recently cited Canada’s im-
Mr. Kara-Murza is one of on the line in opposing Mr. Putin’s for political score-settling. As a middle ground, parlia-
portant stand when announcing its Russia’s most eloquent brutal dictatorship and destructive mentary meetings on the special rapporteur’s eventu-
own sanctions against Mr. Kara- and erudite advocates, a war. In recognizing Mr. Kara-Murza al findings could be an opportunity not simply to slam
Murza’s oppressors, with Britain regular presence in with honorary citizenship, advocat- the government for its failings but to discuss how to
following shortly thereafter. ing for the release of political prison- deter future malign activity by China.
Canada can continue to be a
parliaments around the ers, and offering emergency refuge On the bright side, the government is moving for-
global trendsetter in pursuing the world, making the case for for those at risk of becoming prison- ward with legislation that would establish a foreign-
natural next step: honorary citi- solidarity with Russian civil ers, we can honour their sacrifice, influence transparency registry, and that appears to
zenship. society and support for its sustain their courage, and support have broad political and public support. There should
Mr. Kara-Murza’s case is an em- our shared vision of a free and demo- be transparency when Canadians are working directly
blematic one. As a leading voice of people in the struggle cratic Russia. on behalf of the CCP and its proxies, for example.
against Vladimir Putin’s Many democracies, including the United States, main-
authoritarianism. tain such a registry. It does not outlaw working on
behalf of a foreign state actor per se, but it does pro-
vide sunlight to prevent obfuscating the nature of that
relationship – which authoritarian actors exploit to
attempt to influence policy decisions and voter opin-
ions.
Another measure that ought to enjoy broad politi-
cal support is the recent tabling of legislation to estab-
lish a beneficial ownership registry. This would un-
mask the hidden owners of companies, including
shell companies and other financial cutouts that have
enabled China, Russia and other authoritarian state-
sponsored actors to move money into the Canadian
political system. The United States, Britain and other
democracies have suffered from the same financial
infliction. Parliament should pass this legislation ex-
peditiously.
Finally, whichever party is in power ought to con-
tinue to prioritize Canadian Heritage’s support for
Canadian civil society. Canadian researchers, academ-
ics and citizen activists are, in many respects, leading
the way in tracking malign foreign influence in Cana-
dian politics and working with diaspora groups and
other communities to raise awareness about the tac-
tics authoritarian regimes use to target them. They are
also working to reduce anti-Asian sentiments that
have arisen during the pandemic and because of Chi-
na’s interference in Canadian democracy. The Chi-
nese-Canadian diaspora itself is often a target and vic-
tim of the CCP’s malign activity within Canada’s bor-
ders.
For years, Canada’s southern neighbour has been
litigating and relitigating Russia’s long-standing inter-
ference operation. It’s a symptom of how polarized
and unhealthy America’s democracy can be. Cana-
dians should learn from our example and treat the
question of China’s interference in Canadian elections
as an issue that transcends political and ideological
divides. Or they can learn from one of their own, for-
mer Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart, who both ex-
pressed concern about possible Chinese interference
in the race he lost to Ken Sim and dismissed spec-
ulation that the interference led directly to his ouster.
From the other side of the border, here’s hoping
Canadians seize this moment to strengthen demo-
Vladimir Kara-Murza, seen in October, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, the harshest such sentence ever cratic resilience and institutional defences – not to
meted out to a political prisoner in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES fight among themselves.
A supporter of Captain Ibrahim Traore, the military leader of Burkina Faso, waves a Russian flag in the streets of Ouagadougou in October. These days Russian diplomats and
businesspeople are criss-crossing Africa, hand in hand with a ramped-up media and propaganda effort, and Wagner troops on the ground. SOPHIE GARCIA/ASSOCIATED PRESS
Powers: Russia, China borrow Western

vocabulary to invert and disrupt the system
FROM O1 aid and economic co-operation. you. No matter whether Moscow, threats. There’s no reason why
Fast forward 60-plus years, and Beijing or Bangui, efforts are di- Russia couldn’t use the same log-
Previously, Russia had engaged in the new partnership comprises a No matter whether rected at regime maintenance ic, and cover, to march into a Ka-
“simulative peacekeeping” in world view that races toward Moscow, Beijing or and entrenchment. “Stable de- zakhstan, one of the Baltics, Mol-
Moldova (in 1992), Tajikistan (in rather than combats capitalism mocracy” is an oxymoron to Rus- dova, or to save the more than a
1993), South Ossetia (in 1992) and and luxury goods, though its own
Bangui, efforts are sian and Chinese leaderships. For million ethnic Russians under
Abkhazia (in 1993). billionaires live increasingly in directed at regime them, democracies mean chaos. dire threat of genocide in Germa-
These days Russian diplomats gilded cages, at the pleasure of maintenance and The desire for a contagion of so- ny.
and businesspeople are criss- neo-emperors. Spread the social- entrenchment. cialist revolutions spreading Then as now, most of the
crossing Africa, hand in hand ist ideology and help the proletar- around the world – once the ar- world’s developing countries do
with a ramped-up media and iat to revolt? Not so much.
‘Stable democracy’ dent desire of the USSR and the not want to have to pick a side.
propaganda effort, and Wagner Unlike in the 1950s, Russia and is an oxymoron PRC – seems diametrically anti- And unsurprisingly, the anti-colo-
troops on the ground. China is China are no longer offering prin- to Russian and thetical to what each country now nial, victim line plays less success-
providing practical help: As sev- cipled (if faulty) ideological alter- Chinese leaderships. stands for, though both countries fully the closer one reverts, geo-
eral outlets have reported, Chi- natives and a rosy future. They’ve are not immune from invoking graphically, to Mother Russia or
nese media has been helping re- accepted that the Western narra- For them, democracies the supposed glory days of Soviet the Chinese mainland.
broadcast Russian propaganda tive is dominant, so what’s an un- mean chaos. and Maoist times. Russia is a declining power, of-
content across Africa, while the happy power to do but borrow Russia and China portray the fering mainly cheap energy, arms
broadcaster RT (formerly Russia from the vocabulary to disrupt very public messiness of democ- and armed men. As its various
Today) has established its own and invert the system? Gone are racy as a weakness, a sign of de- emissaries travel across Africa,
hub in South Africa. A pro-Rus- the days when Russia and China cline. By extension, high-stakes they try to stoke memories of sup-
sian social-media campaign deployed the dense language of and chaotic debates in the West porting the African National Con-
called Russosphere, organized by Marx, Engels and Lenin. Now they about words and language are gress during apartheid, as well as
a Belgian with connections to the swipe and distort Raphael Lem- seen as opportunities to be capi- leftist movements and regimes
Wagner Group, is attempting to kin, Lester Pearson, Edward Said talized on. worldwide during the Cold War.
move public opinion in several and Kofi Annan. As scholars point out, misusing These reminiscences are as mate-
African countries away from the Russia has been afforded the words is done in part to mock the rial or applicable a benefit today
colonizers from Europe and the linguistic freedom to manoeuvre original meaning of the terms, as a college student proudly wear-
U.S. and toward the Kremlin. by the West. Sometimes the mim- and the debate itself. Thus “self- ing a Che Guevara T-shirt.
Is it working? We’ve seen the icry is not just of liberalism, but of determination” might be pitched China on the other hand, with
photos of young men in Burkina leftists. The academic movement as a social construct in the finest its immense economic, trade,
Faso waving the Russian flag, of called “post-colonialism,” the no- tradition of postmodern cultural diplomatic and military power, is
Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey tion that mainly Western Europe- studies – Russia just happens to potentially playing with fire by
Lavrov being warmly greeted in ans and the U.S., from the 1500s have a different but valid view of wedding itself to the anti-colonial
South Africa. The Russian, Chi- through the wave of countries ob- what it means in Donetsk and Lu- language, its claims to global
nese and South African navies ex- taining their independence in the hansk and Crimea. Or, since those South-South solidarity. It must
ercised together at sea earlier this mid-20th century, were colonial, on the right in the West view facts thread a needle. Its value proposi-
year, and, as was recently report- means that Russia is off the hook, as inherently fuzzy, they will sure- tion to the world’s developing
ed, the South African government never mind its current genocide ly appreciate that “peacekeeping” and non-aligned countries is that
is planning to launch a formal in- and attempts at recolonization of is in the eye of the beholder, that it is disrupting the liberal interna-
quiry as to whether arms were Ukraine. There is also the legacy there can be multiple realities. As tional order of the past few centu-
covertly shipped to Russia several soft spot that Western academics Erna Burai puts it, “the Russian re- ries, in which it too suffered. But
months ago. always had for the Soviet Union’s cycling of Western language has almost from the start of its Belt
China is also doing well: In Sier- imperialist project, even during thus exposed the Western norma- and Road Initiative (BRI) a dec-
ra Leone, of the two main political its worst excesses. Poles, for ex- tive discourse at its most ‘litera- ade ago, China has furiously bat-
parties, one – the APC – is closely ample, rarely are included in aca- ry’: as one possible, socially con- ted away charges that it is a ver-
linked to China, going so far as to demic discussions about those structed and validated reality- sion of neo-colonialism. Consid-
describe its supporters as “Black colonized, despite 123 years (1795- making script which can poten- ering its failure to condemn Rus-
Chinese.” Beijing has successfully 1918) under a trio of repressive tially be exposed and delegiti- sia for its attempt to recolonize
insinuated itself into the political foreign empires (including Rus- mised.” Ukraine, its takeover of swaths of
life of the country. sia). Clearly, there are astute peo- Take “Responsibility to Pro- land and infrastructure in coun-
This is not the first time that ple in the Kremlin who subscribe tect,” a wonkish term usually tries around the world, its search
Russia and China have teamed up. to the latest Western academic shortened to “R2P,” which seeks for possible overseas military bas-
“Our relationship can be de- journals. (Poland’s current con- to prevent future genocide, war ing opportunities, Beijing will en-
scribed as: nine out of 10 fingers of servative government also crimes and ethnic cleansing. It counter increasing difficulty in
yours and ours are quite the same throws around the colonial term, arose from the anguished inter- maintaining the narrative.
with only one finger differing,” but to refer to the EU and its sup- national self-examination after Russia is obliged to go further
Mao Zedong said to Soviet ambas- posedly interfering role in the the atrocities of Rwanda and the afield because of its near-pariah
sador Pavel Yudin in 1958. country’s affairs.) former Yugoslavia during the status among most Western coun-
Throughout the 1950s the two But China and Russia have a lit- 1990s, and was adopted by the UN tries and, ironically, a self-percep-
countries were united in promot- tle something for (and from) the in 2005. R2P as an idealistic princi- tion that it is losing influence clos-
ing – cringeworthy and naive as it right too. Like populists in the U.S. ple means the responsibility to er to home – to China. Moscow
may seem now – world communi- and Europe, they too want to up- protect any population under has watched with alarm as the BRI
sm. Then, as now, it was framed as end things, reject the liberal inter- threat, allowing outside interven- has successfully courted, for ex-
two choices, with Russia and Chi- national order, invalidate multi- tion to do so. But the Russian mis- ample, the countries of Central
na claiming to offer an alternative lateral institutions. At the same application has been used as a Asia, once considered Russia’s
to capitalism and exploitation. time, China and Russia offer na- pretext to invade, for example Ge- backyard. China has provided val-
“Sitting on the fence will not do, tion-states “stability” – and they orgia and Ukraine. R2P becomes a uable infrastructure, trade deals
nor is there a third road,” Mao can cite their own regimes as ex- new arrow in the “false flag” quiv- and people-to-people exchanges,
said. The partnership was en- cellent examples. Or that of the er. As opposed to a responsibility while Russia has been focused
shrined in the 1950 Sino-Soviet Assad regime in Syria, kept in to protect any group facing exter- elsewhere. The China-Russia rap-
Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and place in part through Russian mination, Russia uses R2P to pro- prochement may not be long-
Mutual Assistance across security, support. Class struggle? No thank tect only Russians from supposed lived.
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FROM O1 largest, most rapid displacement annihilating End-Times energy High Arctic, and in rainforests Ottawa run.
of people because of fire in mod- were volcanoes, earthquakes and from B.C. to Brazil. In 2021, even Billions of us are engaged in
It’s a beautiful place to live, until ern times – anywhere on Earth. So angry gods. Now, after two the International Energy Agency these activities. Lightning strikes
it’s on fire. The bad news is: profound was the damage, and so hundred years of relentless com- – historically, a friend to the fossil- the Earth millions of times a day,
Whether you live in the suburbs persistent were the flames bustion, our fossil-fuel-driven fuel industry – said: Enough! If we starting thousands of fires, but
of Victoria, Saskatoon or Calgary, (houses and work camps were civilization has become its own are to maintain any semblance of lightning’s got nothing on us. For
your neighbourhood is more still burning down two weeks lat- volcano. climate stability, we must stop starters, about three billion peo-
flammable than it used to be. er) that the city was closed for a What do I mean by that? building fossil-fuel projects right ple are still cooking and heating
Here’s what else is different full month. With the sole excep- It’s easier to wrap your head now. with open fires. Meanwhile, in the
about 21st-century fire: In Fort tion of New Orleans after Hurri- around the impact of a fire-pow- If the IEA is freaked out, you developed world, you’ve got hun-
McMurray on May 3, 2016, the cane Katrina, no other North ered civilization when you get know we’ve turned a corner. dreds of millions of gas stoves,
temperature broke the record American city has been disinhab- past euphemisms such as “fossil Fire, and our slavish devotion water heaters and home furnaces.
high for that date by 6 degrees ited for so long. fuels,” “coal” and “oil and gas,” to its force-multiplying power, The list of flammables goes on:
Celsius, and the relative humidity Few human beings alive have and call our prime mover by its lies at the root of our current sit- Wars and trash generate a lot of
plummeted to 12 per cent – drier experienced what tens of thou- true name: fire. In this historical uation. With our cars and stoves fires; so does slash-and-burn agri-
than Death Valley. For fire, that’s sands of our fellow citizens sud- moment, fire is what drives us, and central heating, hundreds of culture, so do forest fires, and so
as good as gasoline. The Fort denly found themselves in the what empowers us, what enables millions of us now live like empe- does petroleum refining. Accord-
McMurray fire grew so big, so fast, middle of on that blistering and enriches us, and it raises a rors of old – only instead of ening to the National Energy Board,
it overran the city in an afternoon spring day. It was terrifying, and, burning question: Who is empo- slaved people and draft animals Alberta’s bitumen industry uses
and generated its own strato- as many survivors of the fire told wering whom? Fires are now serving us, we have fire-powered more than 57,000,000 cubic
spheric storm system in the mid- me, hard to believe. Some things burning where they’ve never machines. Most Canadians com- metres (two billion cubic feet) of
dle of what had been a bluebird are just too big to fit in your head, burned before: Greenland, the mand a vast invisible retinue. Just natural gas per day – the energy
Alberta day. As the city’s residents and the Fort McMurray fire was imagine how many horses it equivalent of 350,000 barrels of
made their frantic escape, it was one of those things. For some, it would take to move a two-ton oil – for the sole purpose of sep-
through apocalyptic conditions still is. A week into the fire, then- minivan from Toronto to Ottawa arating bitumen from sand. Cana-
that recalled the seventh plague premier Rachel Notley tried to ar- at highway speed. Thanks to su- da is the fifth-largest producer of
in the Bible’s Book of Exodus: “So ticulate the devastation she saw: Fire is what drives us, perb engineering, we remain natural gas in the world; in 2017,
there was hail, and fire mingled “You go to a place where there what empowers us, blissfully unaware of the violent nearly a third of Canada’s total
with the hail, very grievous, such was a house and what do you see explosions taking place under the production was devoted to proc-
as there was none like it in all the on the ground? Nails. Piles and what enables and minivan’s hood with every turn of essing bitumen. Even after this
land since Egypt became a na- piles of nails.” enriches us, and it raises the crankshaft. Thanks to disin- colossal energy input, the ren-
tion.” a burning question: genuous advertising and lax laws, dered bitumen will still need fur-
There was none like it since Who is empowering we are equally oblivious to the ther, fire-intensive upgrading to
Canada became a nation, either: In ancient times, the only things 100 kilograms of CO2 trailing be- be actually burnable. Lest there
The exodus of May 3 was the that could manifest this kind of whom? hind us on that single Toronto-to- be any confusion, natural gas is
Cuts to Alberta Wildfire have left the province at risk

TRINA MOYLES from the ground. As a rookie loo- Conservative Party (UCP), de- lic to prevent wildfires and keep whereas a more experienced
kout, I was in awe. The system spite the severity of the 2019 fire informed on active wildfires. leader would manage the fire
worked so effectively because the season in Alberta, with multiple Despite evidence from experts with ground crews and a medi-
OPINION people within it had built up northern and Indigenous com- that climate change is predicted um-sized helicopter. Because of
multiple seasons of experience in munities affected by the Chuck- to lengthen the fire season, in- cuts to the length of her season
Author of Lookout: Love, Solitude, their respective roles. Within a egg Creek and McMillan wildfire crease lightning ignition and the and lack of opportunity for full-
and Searching for Wildfire in the few hours, there was no trace of complexes, subsequently dee- frequency of wildfires, along with time employment, Ms. Gerber
Boreal Forest smoke. The firefighters had pro- pened those cuts. In November, fire intensity and area burned, in was forced to seek employment
tected a nearby community from 2019, they slashed the Rappel At- the spring of 2022, the UCP gov- opportunities elsewhere. “While I
I
worked for Alberta Wildfire for the fires. tack Program (RAP), a 40-year- ernment cut the contractual sea- felt valued by my peers and su-
seven years as a lookout ob- In the world of wildfire man- old program that trained fire- sons of wildfire response person- pervisor, I didn’t feel valued by
server, climbing a 100-foot agement, experience matters. Ex- fighters to propel from helicop- nel, including firefighters, dis- upper management,” she says.
tower and watching for smoke perience is what keeps commu- ters into remote areas. They also patchers and lookouts, by 10 per Similarly, despite the experi-
from April to September. In 2016, nities safe from wildfires and fire- decommissioned 26 fire towers, cent. As a result, there are fewer ence and confidence that I built
my first season, on my fourth day fighters safe on the fire line. Ex- one-fifth of the province’s loo- firefighters trained and ready to up over seven years at the fire
on the job, I witnessed a grassfire perience results in a faster, more kout detection program. Then- deploy in early May than in previ- tower, reporting wildfires when
take off in the scorching hot, efficient delivery of wildfire de- agriculture and forestry minister, ous seasons. Most seasonal per- they were still small and easy to
bone-dry conditions of early May. tection, assessment and manage- Devin Dreeshen, told the CBC, sonnel were laid off mid-August manage, because of the whittling
Within minutes, not one, but ment. Experience can only be “We don’t want politics getting in last year, including the early clos- down of my contract from five to
four giant columns of smoke ex- achieved in a system where peo- the way of how we fight fires. We ing of fire towers, despite the ex- four months, I made the decision
ploded. The fires were caused by ple feel valued, fairly compensat- want experts in the actual field to treme fire hazard and potential to leave.
sparks cast from the friction of a ed, and have the opportunity to actually say how we should ac- for wildfires. This choice, however, enables
train braking along the tracks learn and grow within the orga- tually fight fires.” In four short years, the UCP me to do what my colleagues
and catching in the cured grass. nization. But the UCP have done any- has created a firefighter retention working hard on the front lines
Grassfires can race at the speed of More than a system, Alberta thing but listen to wildfire ex- crisis, or a “brain drain” of experi- of Alberta’s 2023 wildfire disaster
25 kilometres an hour. Wildfire was a culture of individ- perts. enced firefighters leaving Alberta can’t do. Speak out. Admit that
More impressive than the rate uals called to the line of wildfire In fact, they’ve ignored exper- Wildfire for other agencies that many good, talented people
of spread of the wildfires, howev- response, people who lived and tise generated from historical offer longer seasons and oppor- working inside the constraints of
er, was the speed at which Alber- breathed for “fire season,” who wildfire events that built up and tunity for full-time employment. policy and budget cuts feared this
ta’s firefighting response system planned and sacrificed their lives bolstered Alberta Wildfire’s effec- I’ve been told that in some dis- very situation would happen.
was triggered into action. The around it. Firefighter crew lead- tiveness. The Flat Top Complex tricts, 60 per cent of firefighters That, because of cuts and the dis-
tower to my east, manned by a ers often had more than seven Wildfire Review, a report released are first-years – with no previous mantling of what used to be con-
veteran lookout, or “lifer” as we years of experience. Most of my in 2012, recommended the gov- fire experience. sidered one of the best wildfire
call them, reported the locations neighbouring tower workers had, ernment hire additional wildfire That can result in reduced effi- programs in the world, Alberta
of the fires to the district’s duty on average, double that. Many of rangers and crews for doing sus- ciency managing wildfires, says was hugely underprepared to
officer. A radio dispatcher an- the managers and rangers were tained action on wildfire com- Désirée Gerber, a former firefight- face the fire in the first days of
swered and dispatched firefight- former firefighters who had dec- plexes, while commencing fire- er in Alberta who worked nine May.
ing crews, manned up at a neigh- ades of on-the-ground experi- fighter training earlier in April to fire seasons in the province. The science from experts has
bouring location, and tankers to- ence. prepare for large-scale wildfires “Many [firefighters] are becom- been clear for over a decade:
ward the location of the fire. A series of government cut- in May. From 2020 to 2021, the ing leaders with little experi- Wildfires will continue to shock
Within minutes, the wildfire was backs and defunding, however, UCP cut permanent staff in Al- ence,” Ms. Gerber says. “This can us. In the wake of the provincial
confirmed. The radio erupted has seriously damaged Alberta berta Wildfire, including wildfire lead to poorer decisions and can election in Alberta, whoever is
with voices. I watched tankers hit Wildfire’s ability to prevent and rangers – people hired from that cost more.” She cites an example elected to power, it’s imperative
the flames with red clay retar- respond to wildfires. The NDP cut very report – and regional infor- of an inexperienced crew leader to reinvest in the people working
dant to box the fire in. Multiple $15-million from the budget in mation officers, who were re- requesting costly air-tanker as- in wildfire management for the
crews landed to work the fire 2016. Three years later, the United sponsible for educating the pub- sistance to manage a wildfire, safety of our communities.
da has a role to play and culpability to own

about 80 per cent methane, a ical weathering, but the bulk of well beyond “Extreme.” In B.C., have imposed on all of us, Canada on our beautiful country and our
greenhouse gas 50 times more po- anthropogenic (human-caused) during the heat dome of 2021, it has a role to play, and culpability beloved people.
tent than CO2. CO2 is absorbed by our oceans, or went far higher. Now, that was to own. These are challenging Because here’s what happens if
Already, we’re into the billions set loose in our atmosphere “unprecedented.” subjects for a major energy-pro- we don’t: During the western heat
of daily human-caused fires, but where it remains active for dec- This is not unique to Canada; ducing (that is, fire-producing) dome of June, 2021, more than
it’s when I started looking at en- ades, if not centuries. Findings weather services around the country like ours. But if we are 600 people were killed by the
gines that the numbers really published Tuesday in the journal world are scrambling to find new strong enough, and brave heat, making it the deadliest
took off. Globally, you’ve got well Environmental Research Letters names and colours to account for enough, to get 88,000 people out weather event in Canadian histo-
over a billion cars, a quarter-bil- revealed that, over the past 40 these off-the-charts extremes in of a burning city – and then save ry. Meanwhile, the town of Lyt-
lion trucks, 200 million motorcy- years, roughly 40 per cent of the temperature, flammability, rain- that city – without losing a single ton, B.C., broke national temper-
cles, 25,000 passenger jets, and area burned in wildfires in the fall, ocean surge – you name it. It’s person to the flames, then surely ature records three days running,
50,000 ocean-going freighters (a western U.S. and southwestern like the Spinal Tap amp that goes we can do difficult things. topping out at a brain-boiling 50
third of which are devoted to Canada can be traced to industrial up to 11, only not funny: Austra- Surely, we can talk about how C. The following day, a wind-dri-
transporting more fuel to burn). CO2 emissions. lia’s new Fire Danger Ratings Sys- Canada’s emissions have contin- ven wildfire, started by sparks
A single six-cylinder minivan run- Bottom line: When you ex- tem goes from High to Extreme to ued to rise while those of other G7 from a passing freight train,
ning at driving-to-school speed – tract, upgrade, refine and burn Catastrophic. countries have been falling. burned Lytton to the ground in
2,500 RPM – will generate around toxic substances such as coal, bi- This is fire weather for a new Surely, we can talk about why half an hour. More than 500 build-
10,000 combustions a minute, tumen, oil and gas at the rate we planet. A planet we have made. Canada’s per capita emissions ings were destroyed; two people
more than half a million per hour. are burning them, decade after still vie for the highest in the died. “I’m 60,” said Lytton’s then-
That’s a lot of fires. Add them all decade, you’re going to see chang- world. mayor, Jan Polderman, “and I
up and you get tens of trillions of es. Atmospheric CO2 levels are In this new, more combustible Surely we can acknowledge thought climate change was a
individual combustions. That, now fully 50 per cent higher than world that industrialized nations that our own petroleum compa- problem for the next generation.
roughly speaking, is the number preindustrial times, and it affects nies and many elected officials Now, I’m mayor of a town that no
of fires humans make every day – everything we care about, from have been working overtime to longer exists.”
uncountable as stars in the uni- fetuses to phytoplankton, from delay progress on a safe, smooth The future is here, and too
verse. water to winter. “Fire weather” is transition from fossil fuels. (If you many Canadians have experi-
(Nature: “Behold my mighty not just a book title, it’s a techni- The future is here, want to know how hard Suncor, enced the damage these home-
volcanoes and wildfires!” Hu- cal term. Natural Resources Cana- and too many Imperial and their enablers have grown fires cause. I have stood
mans: “Hold my beer.”) da uses a Fire Weather Index to worked to subvert these efforts, with survivors in the ash and ruin
Every single one of those fires gauge fire risk, and when the in- Canadians have read Geoff Dembicki’s damning of their lives, and trust me, you
generates CO2 emissions, and all dex is high, things we care about experienced the exposé, The Petroleum Papers.) wouldn’t wish this terror and sor-
of it stays here on Earth (no, car- and depend on ignite much more damage these We must reduce our emissions row on anyone. But I’ve seen the
bon capture will not make a dent easily. When Fort McMurray homegrown fires ASAP if we are to minimize the al- Fire Weather Index and this week,
in this). A certain amount is ab- burned, the Fire Weather Index ready lethal havoc climate this month, this summer, that
sorbed into limestone by chem- peaked at 42 – record territory, cause. change is wreaking – right now – number is sure to grow.
A wildfire in Alberta is
shown in this May 5
handout image provided
What we lose when the forests burn
by the government of
Alberta. A series of AMANDA LEWIS right here in Canada. Self-styled nuts near the crashing surf. puts more carbon in the atmo-
government cutbacks and tree pilgrims in fleece, gaiters They knew the routes, and I was sphere, furthering the cycle.
defunding has seriously and hiking boots could seek left to wander. Charred trees are of no use to
damaged Alberta OPINION transcendence in these trees’ I eventually earned my place local mills, and there are fewer
Wildfire’s ability to massive size, their graceful in the woods simply by being straight cedars for harvesting
prevent and respond to Author of Tracking Giants: Big Trees, boughs, the dappled light cas- there, like these trees growing bark. When trees burn, there is
wildfires, even as experts Tiny Triumphs, and Misadventures in cading through the canopy as for themselves and their com- no possibility of reverence, or
say climate change is the Forest through stained glass in a cathe- munities in soil, water and air. even complicated ownership
predicted to lengthen dral. Brandishing lightweight When I turned my attention to through the names big-tree
the fire season, increase
A
few years ago, I came hiking poles, we could form a ecosystems rather than individ- trackers attach to the biggest
lightning ignition and the across a colourful life map network of pilgrimage routes. ual trees, the marvels began to and best. Sailors lose wayfind-
frequency of wildfires, my parents had stored for We would put the trees first, reveal themselves. ing beacons, the tallest trees jut-
along with fire intensity me while I’d been living in To- place our faith in the forest, find That’s the risk of focusing on ting above the canopy. Black
and area burned. ronto. We’d made these large shared points of reference. a beautiful cathedral – along the bears lose their dens, birds their
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charts as part of a career and The condition of some of the way, you miss the graffiti on a roosts, cougars their wide limbs
personal planning course in our Champions hadn’t been moni- crumbling wall. When we zero for perching. There is no decay-
high school in Surrey, B.C. Envi- tored since the 1990s, and it was in on charismatic megaflora, ing bark to provide insects for
ronmentalism and music were anyone’s guess whether they like the Cheewhat Giant or Big woodpeckers or cavities for
the guiding lights of my 15-year- were still upright. These Cham- Lonely Doug, we satisfy our- nesting owls. We can preserve
old life, and prominent on the pions are standouts in a land- selves with less: fewer big trees, trees based on size, but they’re
map were twin goals: plant na- scape of gargantuan trees, but less biodiversity. still at risk until we emphasize
tive trees to replace those cut even so, they are hard to find. We’re at risk of losing our last ecosystem protection and
down centuries earlier in Ire- Rule No. 1 of big-tree tracking: old-growth trees to logging and strong action against climate
land, where I was born; and visit Trees are mortal. They grow, catastrophic wildfire. The Castle change.
Jim Morrison’s grave in Paris. I’d lose limbs, get hit by lightning, Fire, which burned in Sequoia Visiting the grave of a musi-
plotted out my life the way a pil- fall down in windstorms. National Forest between August cian isn’t the way to honour
grim would set routes to cathe- Armed with a spreadsheet of and December, 2020, burned ap- their music. Artists are giants in
drals or temples. 43 trees and a one-year time proximately 7,500 to 10,600 se- my life, but I no longer seek out
In 2018, when I set out to visit frame, I soon learned that look- quoias with a diameter greater where famous writers drank or
all of B.C.’s Champion trees – ing for Champion trees is like than or equal to 1.2 metres, died – I choose to honour their
the largest of their species – pil- trying to count toddlers in a ball some approaching 3,000 years work. Seeking communion with
grimage was once again on my pit. I wasn’t equipped with the old, according to the U.S. Na- the interconnected world
mind. I’d moved back to the wilderness knowledge needed tional Park Service. One of means visiting living trees of all
West Coast and, burned out to safely traverse these deep these, named King Arthur, was sizes and appreciating those
from intellectual pursuits, I woods, or the ecological know- the ninth-largest sequoia by that have fallen. These days, I
wanted a project that would how to identify the trees in volume. admire opportunistic alders
frame my hikes and test my front of me. In the end, I lost my Remember rule No. 1? Trees growing in city lots before
mettle in the woods. The Cham- spreadsheet and extended my are mortal. But when forests they’re cleared for condos and
pions, catalogued in the B.C. one-year time frame to my life- burn in runaway wildfires or fall nod to grand firs as I walk to the
BigTree Registry at the Universi- time. Instead of doing it on my in clearcuts, we all lose. We are post office. Instead of travelling
ty of British Columbia, were the own, I found friends in fellow poorer without the oxygen the to Ireland, I plant trees on the
perfect focus. big-tree trackers who could trees would have created, the small island where I live in the
We needn’t burn carbon to bring me deeper into the woods. slope stability their roots pro- Salish Sea. And I find tiny joys
hike the Camino de Santiago, I We held the tree measuring tape vided, the soil they would have by wandering the forested
told myself, when we had for each other, marvelled over made as they decayed. The paths, watching thatching ants
world-calibre sites of pilgrimage fungi, shared a box of dough- smoke from burning forests build their nest mounds.
Strange bedfellows Israel’s operation

against Islamic Jihad
In today’s political environment, being pro-Israel proved fruitless
and antisemitic is not a contradiction, Ian Buruma writes ARI FLANZRAICH
OPINION Mr. Sunak behind the scenes. OPINION

Radical populism, mostly on the
Ian Buruma is the author, most Israeli Prime Minister far right, but not excluding the ex- Freelance Canadian journalist based in Israel who has
recently, of The Churchill Complex: The Benjamin Netanyahu, treme left, is partly a response to written for Haaretz and Tablet
Curse of Being Special, From Winston and the even more globalization and the power of
T
and FDR to Trump and Brexit. banks, multinational corporations, here is no shortage of questions floating
radical members of his
supranational institutions, and the around in the aftermath of five days of fight-
cabinet, have a great
W
hen political leaders, free flow of capital. Widespread ing between Israel and Islamic Jihad, which
and their admirers, deal in common with fear of being swept away by these killed 33 Palestinians and two people in Israel.
claim that George So- the right-wing global currents has reignited a But one stands chief among them, a simpler version of
ros, the Hungarian- yearning for leaders who promise the perennial Passover question: What, if anything,
American-Jewish philanthropist, is
nationalist figures in to return power to the “native” distinguishes this operation from all others like it?
pulling the strings of world affairs, Europe and the United people and eradicate the corrupt Rockets began pouring over the border on May 10
we know that antisemitism is not States with whom “globalist” elites. after a series of targeted air strikes eliminated three
far off. But the antisemitic nature they have aligned. Not too long ago, these globalist senior-ranking members of the Palestinian militant
of these claims has not stopped villains were commonly identified group. Yet, as hours dragged into days, questions be-
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor by radical populist leaders as gan to sprout. Why was this operation going on for so
Orban and former U.S. president Americans and Jews. Under the in- long? Why was Islamic Jihad refusing a ceasefire, de-
Donald Trump, along with their fluence of Mr. Trump and his aco- spite sustaining heavy losses? And, most of all, why
followers, from propagating them. lytes, however, the U.S. itself has was the gap between operations so rapidly narrowing?
Both Mr. Orban and Mr. Trump become a beacon for reactionaries The answer is simple: Israel’s beloved status quo is
often point to their support for Is- worldwide, including Israel’s cur- crumbling, and Gaza got a facelift.
rael as proof that they are not anti- sions can be attributed to political rent leaders. Islamic Jihad, a long-time Iranian proxy, is the large-
semites. “No president has done differences. The Israeli govern- Although the early Zionists st of numerous splinter factions that co-exist under a
more for Israel than I have,” Mr. ment rejects the liberal views sought to establish Israel as a Jew- tacit non-competition clause with Hamas, but initially
Trump boasted in October. Mr. Or- many Jews in the diaspora hold. ish homeland, it was never intend- posed no serious threat to their rule over the Gaza
ban, for his part, has cited Israel But the growing divide also reflects ed to be exclusive to Jews. The Jews Strip.
and Hungary as “models of suc- a deeper shift. who arrived in Israel and made it In 2005, Israel agreed to undertake a full withdrawal
cessful conservative communi- Throughout European history, their home were not native to the from Gaza, where they had built numerous settlement
ties.” But he has also said that ethnic nationalism has gone hand land, and only Orthodox religious blocs, and transferred administrative control to Mah-
Hungarians “do not want to be- in hand with antisemitism and, in Jews believed that it was given to moud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority as part of the Oslo
come peoples of mixed race,” a some respects, helped define it. them by God. Mr. Kahane, who cer- Accords. But within two years, Hamas ousted the PA
statement more redolent of old- Wilhelm II, the last German empe- tainly believed that, was actually and spent the next seven years fending off four Israeli
fashioned racism than of sympa- ror, who was influenced by the fer- born in Brooklyn, N.Y. (and in 1990 ground invasions intended to stunt the group’s expan-
thy for the Jewish people. vent British antisemite Houston was assassinated in Manhattan). sion.
In today’s political environ- Stewart Chamberlain, denounced His view is largely shared by evan- By 2014, Israel launched the last of four invasions,
ment, however, being pro-Israel the U.S. and Britain as “Jewified.” gelical Christians in the U.S. who which nearly decimated Hamas. The constant fighting
and antisemitic is not a contradic- Unlike those countries, which in believe that Jews are doomed un- had depleted weapons stockpiles, levelled operational
tion. In fact, Israeli Prime Minister Wilhelm’s view were dominated by less they embrace Christianity infrastructure, and incurred heavy civilian losses
Benjamin Netanyahu, and the money and granted citizenship to when the Apocalypse finally among Palestinians. Hamas, lacking resources and any
even more radical members of his anyone willing to pay, all true Ger- strikes. diplomatic sway, could not afford another war.
cabinet, have a great deal in com- mans were supposedly rooted in At last year’s Conservative Polit- Gaza then fell into a lull – bad news for a resistance
mon with the right-wing national- their native soil. Adolf Hitler, of ical Action Conference (CPAC) in faction whose grip on Palestinians was premised on
ist figures in Europe and the Unit- course, shared this view. Dallas, where he was a keynote waging tireless resistance – and the newfound quiet
ed States with whom they have While many European and speaker, Mr. Orban met fan and fel- left Gazans increasingly restless: no prisoner ex-
aligned. American antisemites viewed Jews low CPAC speaker Yishai Fleisher, changes, no kidnappings and no more invasions,
After all, Israeli far-right extre- as natural Bolsheviks, suspicion to- the international spokesperson for alongside worsening economic conditions and ram-
mists are, like Mr. Orban, ethno- ward Jewish people was not limit- the Jewish settlers in Hebron, in pant unemployment. What of Hamas’s grandiose
nationalists. Israeli National Secu- ed to the right. Joseph Stalin did the West Bank. After Mr. Fleisher promises?
rity Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, for not subscribe to the “blood and tweeted a selfie with Mr. Orban, he At the same time, Islamic Jihad began firing rockets,
example, views national identity soil” ideology, but still regarded was asked about the Hungarian occasionally without Hamas approval, attracting the
in racial terms and has called for Jews as “rootless cosmopolitans” Prime Minister’s alleged antisemi- attention of many hopeless Gazans who felt slighted
the expulsion of Palestinian-Israeli whose loyalty was always in doubt. tism, to which he responded that by Hamas. Islamic Jihad became to Hamas what Ha-
citizens suspected of “disloyalty” Antisemites tended to associate he did not care. mas was once to the Palestinian Authority: a gritty fac-
to the Jewish state. His main role Jewish cosmopolitanism with the He was not a “Diaspora Jew,” Mr. tion willing to do the dirty work that more established
model is Meir Kahane, the radical multiethnic character of American Fleisher said, but an Israeli. As a groups had forgone in order to maintain power.
rabbi who likened co-existence society. This prejudice was fre- “fellow sovereign,” he saw Mr. Or- Tensions boiled over as several clashes were report-
with Palestinians to “co-existence quently linked with anti-capital- ban as an ally in the fight against ed between the two sides, with Islamic Jihad militants
with cancer.” ism, as the pursuit of wealth was “the globalist agenda which seeks firing upon Hamas forces and Hamas, in turn, round-
Is it any wonder, then, that liber- considered a trait typical of both to force open borders and erase ing up Islamic Jihad members on multiple occasions,
al Jews worldwide feel increasingly Jews and Americans. national identities.” The growing raising concerns of a possible schism.
alienated from Israel under its cur- A recent political cartoon pub- rift between Israel and the Jewish But that has since changed, as unexpected changes
rent leadership? U.S. Democratic lished in The Guardian is a perfect diaspora could not be better de- in regional politics have given these two competing
Congressman Jake Auchincloss example of left-wing prejudice. scribed. factions better reason than ever to join forces.
said recently that his Jewish con- The cartoon depicts Richard Sharp, In 1898, Theodor Herzl, the fa- In September, 2022, Hamas senior leader Ismail Ha-
stituents differ on many issues but the outgoing chairman of the BBC ther of modern Zionism, met Wil- niyeh was invited for a meeting in Moscow. One month
are united in their concern that Is- and a former Goldman Sachs bank- helm II in Jerusalem, hoping to later, Hamas leadership met with Bashar al-Assad in
rael is headed toward “illiberal deer, as a big-nosed, thick-lipped plu- gain his support for a Jewish Syria for the first time in a decade. Hamas was shafted
mocracy.” Even the staunchly pro- tocrat carrying a box containing a homeland. The Kaiser sat on his by the Shia Axis, headed by Iran, when it denounced
Zionist Anti-Defamation League squid, which is spreading its slimy white horse. Herzl was standing. Mr. al-Assad for the slaughter of Syrian civilians. This
has condemned the “Jewish rac- tentacles and holding a puppet of The Kaiser was not interested. But meeting was assumed to be a condition for Hamas’s
ism” that characterizes Israel’s new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. if he were alive today, standing in return to the fold.
government. The message is unmistakable: Mr. the same place, he might well be Soon enough, Hamas was attending meetings with
To be sure, some of these ten- Sharp, who is Jewish, is controlling pleased by what he saw. Hezbollah in Beirut, followed by a presidential invita-
tion to Iran. Hezbollah gave Hamas approval to oper-
ate freely in Lebanon, and declared that aggressions
toward the Palestinian people will draw a response,
creating a situation in which Israel may no longer be
able to isolate Gaza without risking a major regional
escalation. By little coincidence, most of these visits
were held with the Islamic Jihad leadership and were
meant to form a united Gazan front reared against Is-
rael.
These new ties render Israel’s latest operation fruit-
less.
Hamas’s recent cozying to Iran has broken decades
of friction with Islamic Jihad and proved to each side
the benefits of close co-operation. In this case, Islamic
Jihad undertook the lowlier tasks of hitting and being
hit, while Hamas stayed on the sidelines, preserving
resources for a future confrontation.
Some have argued that Hamas’s abstention harmed
their reputation, forgetting that Islamic Jihad took
pains to hold off on claiming credit and marketed the
offensive as a product of the “joint operations room,”
which is supervised by Hamas and encourages co-
ordination between various factions.
While Hamas fired no rockets, they lent Islamic Ji-
had full approval to operate in their territory, and re-
portedly offered shelter to Islamic Jihad leaders and
logistical assistance. Unlike previous operations, Is-
lamic Jihad was given free rein to respond to Israeli
attacks, and there were no reports of Hamas pressure
on Islamic Jihad to put an end to the skirmish, even as
casualties rose and as many as 15 residential blocks
were destroyed.
The operation might have achieved its stated aims –
the elimination of senior-ranking Islamic Jihad mem-
bers – but the aims themselves failed to address the
new reality of Gaza, in which targeted assassinations
are no longer enough to put militant groups out of
commission: The three eliminated high-ranking
members will be swiftly replaced, and there is no in-
dication that the group’s capabilities were severely im-
paired.
Israelis, for their part, were expecting Islamic Jihad
to be dealt a blow large enough to secure extended
quiet, particularly for citizens residing in the so-called
“Gazan Envelope,” a collection of towns bordering the
Gaza Strip. For the third time now in four years, at least
12,000 residents were forced to flee under the assump-
tion that short-term pain would generate long-term
gain.
Yet the ceasefire has affected little change. Al-
though Islamic Jihad eventually adhered to the truce,
the group stopped short of committing to any defined
period of quiet, and expressed every intention of pur-
suing further confrontations with Israel alongside oth-
er factions, including Hamas.
Put simply: Gaza is no longer the same Gaza, and
Israeli deterrence is no stronger now than it was before
People holding Israeli flags prepare for a protest in Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, on Wednesday, in opposition the operation, leaving civilians on both sides of the
to budgetary demands by Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community. CORINNA KERN/REUTERS border wondering when the fighting will resume.
REVIEWING REVIEW
Peer review is often seen as being too slow, too opaque, too biased
and too likely to fail in its most important purpose: weeding out bad science
IRA BASEN abuse. Critics claim that, too of-
ten, reviewers will reject a paper if
it challenges their own research,
OPINION or if it’s written by an author the
reviewer may not know or like.
Toronto-based radio documentary Women and minorities have his-
producer and writer torically been seriously underrep-
resented as editors, reviewers and
I
n June, 1936, Albert Einstein authors.
submitted a paper to the jour- Peer review is unquestionably
nal Physical Review. The fa- a good way of catching research
mous physicist argued that con- errors, but it’s far from perfect.
trary to the accepted scientific Reviewers are asked to evaluate
wisdom of the day, gravitational the paper on its validity (was the
waves did not exist. research design and methodolo-
Six weeks later, Einstein re- gy appropriate?), its significance
ceived a note from the journal’s (is it an important finding?) and
editor, informing him that the pa- its originality (is there something
per had been reviewed by an un- new here?). It is not the reviewers’
named expert who had found job to check the accuracy of the
some mistakes. The editor asked data, and they don’t usually try to
Einstein if he wanted to revise the replicate experiments. Peer re-
paper based on the reviewer’s review is not a guarantee that the
port. science is right, just that it was
Einstein replied that he had done properly.
not authorized anyone to review Errors are more likely to be ex-
the paper before publication. Ac- posed after publication. Accord-
cordingly, “I see no reason to ad- ing to the oversight group Retrac-
dress the – in any case erroneous tion Watch, more than 3,000 pa-
– comments of your anonymous pers were retracted in 2021 be-
expert.” cause of errors or outright fraud,
Einstein proceeded to publish including more than 300 COVID-
his work in another journal, and related studies.
never again submitted a paper to Several solutions to the prob-
Physical Review. lems confronting peer review are
The process that Einstein currently under consideration,
found so offensive was still a nov- and one of the most innovative is
elty in 1936. It’s now called “peer coming from two biologists at the
review,” and it is the foundation University of Guelph. They’re try-
upon which all academic publishing to reinvent peer review by tak-
ing rests. It is the stamp of ap- ing the process out of the hands
proval that allows other scien- of journal editors and publishers
tists, journalists and the public to and placing it squarely with re-
trust the quality of published sci- viewers and authors.
ence. Publishing in a peer-re- In March, Dr. Andreas Heyland
viewed journal is critical for re- and Dr. Terry Van Raay launched
searchers to gain access to grants, Peer Premier, which promises a
tenure and academic promo- faster, less costly, more transpar-
tions. ent version of peer review. Au-
But today, that foundation is thors will pay US$1,100 to have
teetering, collapsing from the Albert Einstein, seen in 1938, responded curtly when he was told an expert found mistakes their papers reviewed by three re-
weight of its own contradictions. in the paper he had submitted to the journal Physical Review. AP PHOTO viewers. An AI algorithm helps
It has been attacked for being too select the reviewers to ensure
slow, too opaque, too biased, too This has led to significant back- preprints receive few if any com- they are qualified and there are
accepting of the status quo, and logs. Researchers often wait a year ments. no conflicts of interest.
too likely to fail in its most impor- or more from submission to pub- I see no reason to Journals have recently been Reviewers will be paid US$300
tant purpose: weeding out bad lication. That can have serious trying to accelerate their peer-re- each. Their reviews will be based
science. consequences if the article ad- address the – in any view process, but the length of on a standardized rubric devel-
The idea is simple enough: A vances an important area of drug case erroneous – time it takes to make a decision oped by the two co-founders, and
journal editor solicits a few ex- or medical research. comments of your remains a source of frustration. they will be expected to complete
perts in the field to help guide the Frustrated by publication de- anonymous expert. One large publishing company, their reviews within one week.
editors’ decision about whether lays during the pandemic, thou- the Taylor & Francis Group, re- At that point, the authors can
to publish a paper or not. The sands of researchers chose to by- ALBERT EINSTEIN cently offered an “Accelerated choose to submit their article to a
names of reviewers are generally pass the peer-review process alto- OFFERING A REBUTTAL TO THE Publication” deal to writers. journal, or they could post it on-
not revealed to the authors, and gether by publishing their papers JOURNAL PHYSICAL REVIEW, 1936 They’ll guarantee to make a deci- line on a public server. But unlike
reviewers are not paid. directly to the web as “preprints,” sion about the article three to five preprints, these papers will come
In some highly specialized ar- on public servers such as bioRxiv weeks from submission, but the with the Peer Premier stamp of
eas, where the pool of potential and medRxiv. cost for that service is US$7,000. approval, which means they will
reviewers is fairly small, it’s not Most preprint authors eventu- If a paper is rejected, or if re- have been subjected to peer re-
unusual for senior faculty mem- ally submit their papers to peer- viewers or editors demand major view that was fair, independent
bers to be asked to review hun- reviewed journals, and recent changes, authors will frequently and done by qualified reviewers.
dreds of articles a year. But re- studies have shown that most get do what Albert Einstein did, and That’s a promise that even the
viewing is time-consuming, and published with only minimal shop the paper around to other most prestigious journals can’t
without compensation or recog- changes. journals where they might get a always make today.
nition, they’ll typically say yes to These authors argue that pre- more positive response. Or, if One last point – it turns out
only a handful of requests. prints can foster collaborations they’re desperate, they might pay that the expert who reviewed Ein-
That means journals are con- between researchers in ways that several thousand dollars to pub- stein’s paper was right. The great
stantly scrambling to find quali- are not possible with peer review. lish in one of what the academic scientist had indeed made a com-
fied reviewers. In 2018, the editor They can get timely feedback community calls “predatory” putational error in the paper he
of Pharmacy Practice sent invita- from a worldwide community of journals, which number in the submitted to Physical Review.
tions to 879 potential peer re- experts, rather than two or three thousands and claim to be peer- Einstein eventually acknowl-
viewers. Only 198 accepted, and of overworked, unpaid, anonymous reviewed but are not. edged the error, and corrected it
those, 15 never completed their reviewers. That sounds good in The anonymity of the review when he submitted the paper to
review. theory, but the reality is that most process opens it up to potential the next journal.
Liberalize internal trade barriers, and growth will follow

RYAN MANUCHA sage of goods along the St. Law- ecosystem of internal trade ince with a massive purse. That governments, encompassing
rence River between Upper and agreements with robust dispute we have such a venue at all, how- both goods and services, could
Lower Canada, protectionism mechanisms. The Canadian Free ever, must not be lost. boost national GDP by up to 7.9
OPINION persists, often cloaked in techni- Trade Agreement (CFTA) and Inside of 150 years, Canada per cent ($200-billion a year).
cal regulation. But an equally sig- subsidiary arrangements guard went from a set of fledgling colo- Policies of mutual recognition, or
Author of Booze, Cigarettes, and nificant dimension to the issue is against acrimonious and uncivil nies with their own customs the less extreme alternative of
Constitutional Dust-Ups: Canada’s the mobility of labour within interprovincial trade battles such houses, tariff schemes, postage harmonization, would undoubt-
Quest for Interprovincial Free Trade Canada (or, more generally in an as the infamous Chicken and Egg laws and currencies choking pre- edly fuel Canadian prosperity.
era of remote work, the supply of wars of the early 1970s, during Confederation trade to an eco- To be sure, GDP-boosting lib-
C
anada’s rules for internal services). Obstacles such as li- which millions of eggs rotted in nomic union bolstered by the so- eralized trade does not come
trade are of significance to censing rules, occupational stan- pits across Canada because of phisticated apparatus of the without costs. It causes disloca-
every single Canadian. dards and protectionist provin- ego-fuelled logjams at provincial CFTA. A 2017 reform to our pan- tion, job losses and the restruc-
They affect what makes it to the cial policy restrict talent from boundaries. Canadian trade agreement ad- turing of local and regional econ-
country’s supermarket shelves supplying services in other do- While Canada’s internal trade vanced us even further by estab- omies. For example, our model-
and hardware stores, and cause mestic geographies. Enterprising court has seen disputes over un- lishing a formal venue for tech- ling further suggested that up to
fluctuations in the prices of life’s gas fitters of particular classes in justified labour mobility blockag- nical policy specialists to recon- 1.7 per cent of Canada’s work
essentials – milk, eggs, even wine Newfoundland face an uphill bat- es, claimants face no small task. cile divergent rules on such is- force (equating to approximately
– that people purchase every day. tle getting their certifications rec- In 2011, a certified and adequate- sues as truck-driver certifications 350,000 people) would migrate
It’s more than a matter of con- ognized in British Columbia, for ly trained Quebec crane operator and organic labelling. Esoteric is- to other provinces in response to
sumer access – for provincial, ter- example. The same goes for so- prevailed against Ontario when sues such as building codes, up- eliminating internal trade costs.
ritorial and federal governments cial workers from Saskatchewan he was denied the ability to prac- holstered goods regulations and Respect for provincial preferenc-
in hot pursuit of postpandemic relocating to New Brunswick. tise his trade on the other side of meat inspection may seem like es in a federal state such as ours
recession-era growth, a tinkering This hinders the full freedom of a provincial boundary. Public ac- distant cousins of tariff rates and should also not be ignored.
with the fabric of the economic movement as well as Canada’s countants in Manitoba and New customs duties, yet they can dis- Internal trade barriers are per-
union offers a high return on in- economic potential. In a recent Brunswick have similarly tort and displace flows of com- haps a necessary by-product of
vestment. Tackling technical bar- study I co-authored with the Uni- launched suits over the barriers merce all the same. the Canadian project, which
riers also aligns with an under- versity of Calgary’s professor Tre- to ply their trade in Ontario and Mutual recognition is a logical, brings together a diverse people
standing of citizenship, especial- vor Tombe for the Macdonald- Quebec respectively. Canada’s GDP-bolstering next step when spread across the world’s second-
ly when Canadians don the same Laurier Institute, we showed that purpose-built domestic trade one considers the continuum of largest country by land mass. But
uniform in times of war and a mere 1-per-cent reduction in court is globally unique and re- Canada’s economic history from our options are not limited to the
march behind the same flag at trade costs for professional and lies entirely on sustained consen- 1867 to the present. The adoption binary of either autarky or com-
the Olympics. scientific services would repre- sus amongst Canada’s govern- of mutual recognition would al- plete free trade. We’re talking
Restrictions on the availability sent an estimated $713-million ments. At any point, a province low any good, service or profes- about moving the needle. In an
of craft beer and good cheese are increase to the Canadian econo- could walk away from the politi- sional credential to automatical- epoch of contracting growth, as-
what most Canadians lament my. cal compact that has sought to ly be considered compliant in cendant global isolationism and
when thinking about interpro- A quarter-century of trade ratchet up domestic exchange. any given province if it is already friend-shoring, there is no better
vincial trade barriers. Though lawyers and policy experts ham- Our trade court also has its many compliant in another. In that time to revisit the nature of our
provincial border inspectors are mering out compromises long shortcomings – it’s David versus same study noted earlier, we esti- economic union and see how
no longer stationed at Coteau- into the night in boardrooms Goliath when the average person mated the uptake of a mutual that needle may tilt further in fa-
du-Lac, Que., to monitor the pas- across Canada has resulted in an picks a legal fight against a prov- recognition regime by Canada’s vour of economic growth.
O10 O T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L | S AT U R DAY , M AY 2 0 , 2 0 2 3
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
It’s time to talk

about CBC’s
lost relevance
F
or many progressives, the Canadian Broadcasting Cor-
poration is an article of faith, a touchstone of modern
Canada. For many conservatives, the CBC is an object
of scorn, an elitist bastion that should be defunded.
And so an ideologically driven debate about the future of
the public broadcaster spins around and around, immobi-
lized between piety and outrage. In the meantime, the CBC
itself is engaged in mission creep, with a dramatic increase in
government funding under the Trudeau Liberals allowing it
to increasingly crowd out private competitors.
What’s missing is a calm discussion of how the CBC is exe-
cuting its mission, whether taxpayer dollars are well spent,
and above all, how the 86-year-old broadcaster can still be
relevant in the 21st century.
In the broadcaster’s most recent annual report, the CBC
says its mission, in part, is to “reflect Canada and its regions to
national and regional audiences.”
By that measure, CBC English-language television is failing
badly. CBC’s third-quarter report shows its share of the na-
tional prime-time viewing audience dropped to 4.4 per cent
(excluding Saturday), down sharply from 7.6 per cent in 2018,
and trending below target for the year. Or, to turn that
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
around: 95.6 per cent of TV-viewing Canadians do not tune in
BATTERY LIFE adian passport in the top 10 most meeting in Belgium caused “dis-
to CBC’s English language prime-time programming. powerful in the world, accepted in comfort and confusion.”
Supper-hour newscasts in English-speaking markets are Re “Volkswagen, then Stellantis: some 186 visa-free destinations. A Most of us chocolate consum-
Billions for battery plants, but lit- redesign won’t change that. ers in developed countries are un-
attracting tiny audiences. In Calgary, the CBC daily broadcast
tle on mines for raw material” Ron Csillag Toronto witting contributors to the wors-
reaches just 20,000 people, on average. (Report on Business, May 16): As ening poverty among subsistence
an inorganic chemist with a mod- I struggle to get the outrage. A cocoa farmers. Increased con-
As English TV audiences have been shrinking, the CBC’s
icum of insights into the need for passport is an identification that sumer awareness, along with con-
annual government funding has increased, up nearly 21 per metals and their strategic impor- confirms one’s nationality and tinued pressure from producers,
cent from 2016, to $1.24-billion in 2022. (That funding is for all tance, I am baffled why we are not lets one go abroad. may be the only way to address it.
spending $14-billion-plus to de- Ours is not a compendium of Blaise Salmon
of CBC’s operations, not just English television.) velop the Ring of Fire and other Canadianness. So long as a pass- Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
The TV side’s dismal performance – and atrophying rele- promising ore deposits. port is secure and serves its travel
This way we could develop and purpose, it should not matter a
vance – does not carry through to either English-language MANY MORE
control the supply and value whit whether a passport is pretty.
radio or the CBC’s French-language arm, Radio-Canada. Even chain from its start (metals), rath- Stan Szpakowicz Kamloops
er than its end product (batter- Re “100 million Canadians by 2100
while TV audiences shrank, CBC Radio has managed to in- ies). Re “Trudeau’s culture war on Can- may not be federal policy, but it
crease its market share, which was already much healthier Marcel Schlaf ada’s symbols erases history” should be – even if it makes Que-
Professor of chemistry, (Opinion, May 13): I think of the bec howl” (Opinion, May 13): I will
than the English TV branch. University of Guelph time just before 1965, when Lester no longer be around in 2100 when
English radio garnered a 12.8 per cent market share in 2018; Pearson was pushing through a Canada may hit 100 million peo-
Re “Do the feds or the province new design for the Canadian flag ple. But on behalf of my children
so far this year, that share sits at 14.1 per cent. CBC morning even know how much Stellantis is that now enjoys near-universal and grandchildren, I am envision-
radio broadcasts are often at or near the top of their markets: really worth?” (May 18): Just how acceptance in the land. ing 100 million Canadians clus-
viable and competitive is Stellan- Not that a new passport design tered for 5,000 kilometres along
CBC Toronto nabbed a 12.3 per cent share in April; Montreal, compares in the slightest in im- the border that, by that glorious
tis in the rapidly evolving electric-
14.9 per cent; and Vancouver, 10.9 per cent. vehicle landscape? When it portance to that of a new national moment, would be paved from
comes to EVs, the company looks flag, but similar sentiments were sea to shining sea.
Radio-Canada also has a stronger connection with its
to me far short and late to the widespread and perhaps also a bit Great for the economy, I guess.
viewing public. Its TV viewing audience, already proportion- game. more understandable then. Cana- Do we really care about anything
Ford and General Motors have da’s experience with the new flag else? I don’t know about Quebec,
ately larger than its English-language counterpart, has grown
invested massively in their EV fu- is just another reminder that sym- but I’m thinking about howling.
since 2010 and has held steady since 2018, at just above 22 per tures. Tesla, according to industry bols can have a limited useful life Patty Benjamin Victoria
cent of TV-watching francophones in Quebec. Radio audi- insiders, is so far ahead of Ford, – and the past is a place well vis-
GM and even Volkswagen in engi- ited to learn from, but not to live
ence shares are larger, with a 23-per-cent share of listeners. EAT WELL
neering and manufacturing inno- in.
CBC’s digital audiences have been growing quickly, in part vation that it may profitably sur- Hal Hartmann West Vancouver
pass GM as top total vehicle seller Re “How the ‘food’ we eat causes
because the corporation can draw on its billion-plus in fund- by 2028/2029. Is there any chance we can ask for harm by not really being food at
ing from Ottawa. CBC as a whole had 24.2-million monthly Stellantis? Some analysts say another edition? We do have 155 all” (Opinion, May 13): So pretty
the number of engineers it em- years of history, not all glorious. much everything in the super-
average unique visitors in fiscal 2022, up from 14.6-million in ploys in new product develop- Please try to stop ignoring it. market is poison. No matter if it’s
2016. Audience size is trending down somewhat in the cur- ment is far short of other auto- Marilyn Dolenko Ottawa whole grain, plant-based and sug-
makers. ar-free: poison.
rent year, but CBC’s digital programming is widely popular. Maybe before taxpayers give Why not give the task of illustrat- “Real food” is apparently only
And why not? CBC’s government funding allows it to give Stellantis more billions, ques- ing the new passports to our es- that which is handcrafted with be-
tions should be asked about its teemed political cartoonists? As spoke, artisanal ingredients.
away its news programming online without additional long-term viability. Having them well as livening up the journey Splendid, I’ll simply quit my job to
charge, even as many of its private competitors attempt to walk away from Windsor may be a through customs and immigra- bake all day. As a busy parent of
blessing in disguise. tion with a glimpse of Globe car- two young ones, I don’t have
build a base of paying subscribers. (The Globe and Mail has
Kevin Bishop Saanich, B.C. toonist Brian Gable’s beaver, it hours to play Martha Stewart.
succeeded in making that transition, with 68 per cent of reve- would cement our reputation as a When one is this militant about
Re “Locked in standoff with Cana- country that likes to laugh, even the impossible, one can guaran-
nue coming from people paying for content. The Globe re-
da, Stellantis threatens to pull out at ourselves. tee the opposite.
ceives a small amount of government support through a fed- of UK” (May 18): I do not under- Margaret Ross Edmonton Christopher Price Toronto
eral labour tax credit, amounting to 1 per cent of expenses.) stand the handwringing over
electric-vehicle subsidies in Onta- Ultraprocessed foods have an im-
The economies of scale that the CBC enjoys also give it an CHOCOLATE CONUNDRUM
rio and Britain. Surely the end jus- pact on our health, lives – and
edge in competing with the private sector for online ad dol- tifies the means? deaths. All that comfort food
Is it not the case that the re- Re “The true cost of chocolate” eventually makes us uncomfort-
lars; its digital ad revenue soared 56.5 per cent from 2021 to placement of hydrocarbons by (Report on Business, May 13): able.
2022, rising from $54.7-million to $85.7-million. green electricity is the surest way There are many reasons why I Government tax revenue is
of saving the planet? If Canada shouldn’t be eating chocolate, but generated through the sale and
That rising tide of digital dollars is gravy for the CBC, but it does not do its bit, then who will? your article has given me the best advertising of unhealthy foods,
represents a serious threat to struggling legacy media. The Boudewyn van Oort Victoria yet. then turned around and used to
We in the West take free educa- fund our health care system to
public broadcaster’s (sort of) free-news model is another tion for granted. Cocoa farmers combat the ill effects from those
PASSPORT, PLEASE have to pay for their children to go same products. What a system.
headwind for the private sector. More handouts are not the
to school – the only way that fam- But after all, disease is big busi-
solution; curtailing CBC’s ad revenues should be examined. Re “Yes, Canada’s new passport ilies can break the bonds of pover- ness.
The economic landscape for the media has changed drasti- really is that bad” (May 15): As a ty. Martin O’Connell Burlington, Ont.
seasoned traveller, I know of no This is appalling. If chocolate
cally in the last decade. The CBC is not the cause of those manufacturers really want to ad-
one who looks to their passport to
woes, but its drifting mandate is intensifying the pain. At the bolster their sense of Canadian vertise an ethical product, they Letters to the Editor should be
identity. The word “Canada” on should start by providing educa- exclusive to The Globe and Mail.
same time, Canadians have voted, by their actions, to move
the cover should be enough to tion to children of farmers. Include name, address and daytime
on from what has been at the CBC’s core, English television. convey it. Anne Moon Victoria phone number. Keep letters under
More reassuring to our nation- 150 words. Letters may be edited for
Two things are clear. The mandate of the CBC needs to
al character than stock symbols is Good that the West African boy- length and clarity. E-mail:
adapt if it is to remain relevant, and that debate can only hap- that various rankings put the Can- cott of the chocolate industry letters@globeandmail.com
pen if Canadians get past the politicized debate about the
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Trump’s Ukraine stance is an issue for Biden

The former president’s money. Because they’re laughing woman who successfully sued is still going on when voters go to ments speak volumes about how
at us,” Mr. Trump told his May 10 him for sexual abuse, his contin- the polls. his own mind works. But they also
depiction of the war town hall. “We’re spending ued 2020 election denialism, and Though he accused Russian suggest he knows how Mr. Putin
as a conflict in a US$170-billion for a faraway land his twisted characterization of President Vladimir Putin of mak- thinks, too.
‘faraway land’ is and they’re right next door to that Jan. 6, 2021, when some of his sup- ing “a tremendous mistake” by Mr. Trump’s depiction of the
land and they’re in for [US$20-bil- porters stormed the U.S. Capitol starting the war, Mr. Trump re- war in Ukraine as a conflict in a
music to the ears of lion]. I don’t think so.” building, as “a beautiful day.” fused to answer directly when “faraway land” that has little to do
Republican isolationists Though Mr. Trump’s figures But Mr. Trump’s comments on asked whether he wanted Uk- with U.S. national security inter-
were far off the mark – the total Ukraine threaten to cause more raine to win, saying: “I don’t think ests was music to the ears of Re-
amount of U.S. military, financial grief for Mr. Biden, who an- in terms of winning and losing. I publican isolationists, now the
KONRAD and humanitarian aid committed nounced his re-election bid last think in terms of getting it settled dominant foreign-policy faction
YAKABUSKI to Ukraine stands at around month, than anything else he said so we stop killing all these peo- within the GOP. Florida Governor
US$75-billion – European coun- during the town hall. Mr. Trump’s ple.” Ron DeSantis, who is expected to
OPINION tries (excluding Britain) have pro- claim that Russia’s invasion of Uk- Mr. Trump’s unwillingness to declare his candidacy for the GOP
vided proportionally much less raine “would never have hap- label Mr. Putin – who is the sub- nomination within weeks, has re-
than that. Mr. Zelensky’s Europe- pened” if he had remained presi- ject of an International Criminal ferred to the war as “a territorial
U
krainian President Volody- an tour did yield significantly big- dent is impossible to refute. It is Court arrest warrant – a war crimi- dispute between Ukraine and
myr Zelensky’s whirlwind ger commitments for aid and one of those Trumpisms that nal was beyond the pale. But his Russia.”
tour of European capitals weapons from German Chancel- drives opponents to distraction reasoning may resonate with During a March visit to Poland,
this week began only a few days lor Olaf Scholz and French Presi- because it can neither be proved many Americans who are not in- Mr. Biden cast the Ukraine war as
after Donald Trump’s sensational dent Emmanuel Macron. Wheth- or disproved. It also raises ques- vested in the arcane workings of the frontline in “a battle between
CNN Town Hall and the former er or not that had anything to do tions about Mr. Biden’s responsib- the ICC, of which the United democracy and autocracy, be-
Republican president’s refusal to with Mr. Trump, their announce- ility for failing to prevent the war States is not a member. “[I]t’s go- tween liberty and repression, be-
take sides in Russia’s war on its ments will provide some cover for and his inability, after more than a ing to be a lot tougher to make a tween a rules-based order and
neighbour. U.S. President Joe Biden as he year of devastation, to end it. deal to get this thing stopped, be- one governed by brute force.” He
It was hard not to see Mr. Zelen- seeks to retain support in Con- Mr. Trump also boasted that if cause if he’s going to be a war warned that “this battle will not
sky’s surprise visits to Italy, Ger- gress for the war effort amid grow- he becomes president again, “I criminal, where people are going be won in days or months” and of
many, France and Britain, during ing GOP skepticism. Will it be will have that war settled in one to go and grab him and execute the need “to steel ourselves” for a
which he won pledges for more enough? day, 24 hours.” His supporters in him, he’s going to fight a lot har- long war.
weapons from European leaders, Mr. Trump’s reappearance on the audience ate it up. How many der than he’s fighting, you know, Poles needed no persuading of
as a response to Mr. Trump’s calls the cable network he long dispar- Americans watching at home or under the other circumstance,” that. But with Mr. Trump back on
for U.S. allies to bear more of the aged as “fake news” made head- catching the news did, too? De- Mr. Trump declared. As someone the campaign trail, it will become
cost for arming Ukraine. lines mostly for his disgusting pending on the answer, it could be who faces multiple criminal in- harder for Mr. Biden to keep
“I want Europe to put up more (but predictable) attack on a a disaster for Mr. Biden if the war vestigations himself, his com- Americans on board.
The fine art of preparing for an emergency

VICKY sans digital options on my phone,
MOCHAMA had a dress covered in coffee and
was scheduled to meet a date in
OPINION T-minus two hours.
On their own, none of these
could be said to constitute an
Contributing columnist for The Globe emergency in the distinct and
and Mail precise parlance of emergency
managers, but based on the pro-
I
misplaced my wallet the other bablistic modelling I will not do,
day. this should classify as a 1-in-ev-
As a problem facing the ery-35 years event causing signif-
world, it’s hardly worth elevating icant disruption and probable
to a crisis, except that I had offi- losses. Likely to result in evacua-
cially sanctioned reasons to do tion.
so. The first offer of help arrived
Last week marked Emergency from a woman who offered a
Preparedness Week, a govern- change of clothes she keeps at the
ment week-of-note that, consid- office. An hour later, another
ering all that we’ve been through friend asked what she could do to
– a pandemic, supply chain crash- help. Shortly after, a fellow Gemi-
es, interest rate hikes, a tiresome ni (and thus a perfect person) in-
recurring debate about what the sisted that my fake date cover the
passport looks like – should have cost of my existence but nonethe-
come with at least one day off. less offered to provide me a way
But, alas. Nothing for our sacrific- home. Concern and advice pep-
es. Not even an afternoon off. pered my Insta messages. In the
In British Columbia, they de- face of the extreme danger of
cided to spice up their EP Week someone being suddenly and
with a theme that I’m nominat- somewhat uncomfortable, a
ing as a new family motto: “If community of support quickly
you’re ready for an earthquake, coalesced.
you’re ready for anything.” Privilege haunts my exercise,
The preparation steps that of course; if all we have left is In-
they outline are more or less stagram Stories, the end is surely
what you’d think. Have an emer- Wildfire evacuees get lumbia are uninsured, whereas the-strong-survive hellish night- nigh. But stories, cries for help re-
gency kit of clothes and supplies, supplies and get checked up to 96 per cent of people living mare of an emergency were we ally from within capitalism’s cri-
create a plan with the people you in at the evacuation in Quebec do not have earth- being prepared for? ses, are everywhere.
live with, and failing all that, centre in Edmonton, quake coverage.” But the general spirit of the A cursory look at GoFundMe’s
“Drop, cover and hold on!” If that on May 7. It’s even scarier when the doc- week did give me an idea. If the health section reveals deep
sounds like you’re rather on your JASON FRANSON/ ument notes that a 2013 report state was practicing its emergen- cracks in what is assumed to be a
own in B.C. when the ground THE CANADIAN PRESS “estimates that a severe earth- cy responses, so should I. stable foundation. On social
starts moving, you’ll be relieved quake in British Columbia – 9.0- For two hours this week, and media, queer communities plead
to know that there will be a na- magnitude – could result in $75- unbeknownst to them, I ran an for support in the face of a crush-
tional early warning system billion in losses and a similarly ad hoc emergency drill among ing homophobic legal onslaught
“coming soon.” probable event in the Quebec my network. Some people have and moral panic. Food banks
As wildfires rage in northeast- City-Montreal-Ottawa corridor video games where they lord over across the nation bear part of the
ern B.C. and Alberta, it’s hard to could result in $61-billion in loss- island nations, others have mini- weight of many households’ in-
think that there could be yet one es.” Those poor sweet losses; my ature train yards, some buy Twit- timate economic crises, and even
more catastrophe in store, but for heart goes out to them. ter or take up knitting. We all they are warning that it may not
the federal government, an earth- Still, as I scrolled the docu- have our little hobbies. be enough.
quake is first on their list of con- ment, I was struck by the lack of This week, I suddenly found I So, how do you prepare for an
cerns in a document they practical advice for communities. was without my wallet. Quickly, I emergency?
launched called the National Risk What of my relatives and friends? drafted a simulated scenario. In Maybe you pack an emergency
Profile, which is a sort-of horror Was I simply supposed to take my reality, I had plans to meet a bag. Maybe you practice. Maybe
novel for the insurance set. Gath- emergency kit and go off to the friend who I could rely on for at you draw on the collective inge-
er ye close ‘round the fire as I tell next collection point to await the least a coffee, so I was well taken nuity of your communities.
you the The Tale of how “55 per helicopters? What kind of coloni- care of. On Instagram, however, I Failing that, drop, cover and
cent of people living in British Co- al every-man-for-himself only- was hours away from my wallet, hold on.
ChatGPT is blurring the lines between communicating with a machine and a human
DEREK RUTHS tion for the effort it made. When measures, most of us “hang out” that will prove to be profoundly other. I’m hopeful that this tech-
it rewrites the boss’s cranky e- with our friends more than two confusing for the human mind. nology can help us become kin-
mail in baby talk, send it an “LOL” times more often through mess- As a parent, all this reminds der. What’s certain is that, with
OPINION of gratitude. Extend it the courte- aging and social media than in me of the times the chaos of din- millions of us using it now,
sy we’d give a human – not be- person. That’s a lot of time our ner prep can lead to moments of ChatGPT is not going away and
Professor of computer science cause it is human, but because we closest human companions overwhelmed I’m-doing-too- it’s going to change the world in
at McGill University are human, and we may very well spend looking indistinguishable many-things brain fog. It’s during unforeseen ways. This powerful
inadvertently and unfortunately from ChatGPT. In the future, these times that slip-ups can hap- new technology isn’t just a con-
P
hilosopher Immanuel Kant develop habits to treat humans when we’re in the midst of a text pen, such as accidentally refer- versational Google search bar. Or
said, “We can judge the the way we treat ChatGPT. conversation, will we remember ring to one of your children by perhaps it is. But if we embrace
heart of a man by his treat- It will be a while before we real- whether there is an AI bot or a the name of the family dog. It’s that way of thinking about it,
ment of animals.” I wonder what ly know if that kind of thing will human on the other end? not a proud moment (sorry then we do so at great peril. We’ve
he would have said about happen. But there are two com- Second, ChatGPT does a lot of again, kids). But it happens – be- never interacted with other hu-
ChatGPT? pelling reasons to believe that the stuff that looks and feels very hu- cause the human mind gets dis- mans the way we interact with a
Over the past few months, way we message with ChatGPT man. That’s new. For example, tracted and confused. The human search engine, typing short
ChatGPT – an interactive AI-pow- will profoundly influence our I’ve never had a debate with Goo- mind gets tired or stressed and phrases largely devoid of context.
ered chatbot – has exploded in communication patterns with gle’s search bar about whether it’s takes shortcuts. And in those mo- But most of us spend lots of time
popularity. Millions of us are now partners, friends, kids and col- moral for a cyclist to follow traffic ments, the way we treat people – every day interacting with people
consulting ChatGPT every day, leagues. laws. I’ve never consulted Insta- even those people we deeply care the way that we interact with
having conversations with this First, there’s the interface. The gram’s recommendation algo- about – can reduce to the way we ChatGPT.
technological marvel. We need to way we interact with ChatGPT is rithm for advice on how to plan a treat the family pet. I think that’s We can practise humanity and
think about how our conduct in virtually identical to the way we festive birthday party, confiding a big part of what Kant was get- compassion in these interactions
these interactions reflects on our communicate with people every as we talk about my unspoken ting at. When we witness some- with ChatGPT so that we bring
hearts, behaviours, and treat- day: on a screen, with a small text fear of blowing up party balloons. one mistreating an animal, more of it into the moments of
ment of each other. box, viewing a scrolling window And I’ve certainly never expected there’s the recognition that, human connection we have. Or
I’m inclined to believe that we of dialogue. The standard Amazon to provide witty banter when that person isn’t at their we can practise impatience and
need to be kind and polite. When ChatGPT interface looks like while we contemplate what style best, they’ll treat other fellow hu- ungratefulness, and bring more
ChatGPT devises the perfect e- WhatsApp, SMS, Apple Messages of cutting board I need in my mans, maybe even us, that way. of that into the world. The choice
mail intro, congratulate it on a and every other messaging app. kitchen. ChatGPT is deeply blur- I’m both afraid and hopeful is ours and we make it every time
job well done. When it totally ChatGPT even generates little ring the lines between what it that we now have that opportuni- we type something to ChatGPT.
bungles that essay we need for to- thought typing bubbles while it’s means to connect with a machine ty with ChatGPT. I’m afraid that
morrow, at least show apprecia- working up its response. By some and connect with a human. And we will become meaner to each MARSHA LEDERMAN will return.
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BRIAN McKENNA
FILMMAKER, 77
DOCUMENTARIAN SPARKED A FIRESTORM

WITH THE VALOUR AND THE HORROR
A prolific creator of documentaries on a range of subjects, his works posed the difficult questions
related to almost every major military conflict in Canada’s history, earning both praise and condemnation
BRAD WHEELER in Montreal.

They married on Valentine’s
Day, 1944. While Ms. McKenna ran
O
n Remembrance Day, 1987, the household, Mr. McKenna ex-
documentary filmmaker celled as an insurance broker and
Brian McKenna brought was active in the church.
his young family to the cenotaph Their first-born was a sports-
in Westmount, Que. The memo- writer on the newspaper at St.
rial is a tribute to the sacrifice of Thomas High School in Pointe-
local citizens who died on the bat- Claire. He went on to earn degrees
tlefield during the First World in English literature and commu-
War. nication arts at Loyola College, a
“We were all decked out in scar- Jesuit institution in Montreal
let poppies watching old soldiers since incorporated into Concor-
in blue berets and clanking med- dia University.
als, remembering and praying,” Mr. McKenna was editor-in-
Mr. McKenna said in 1992. chief at the college’s weekly pa-
After the ceremony, one of his per, the Loyola News. There, in
daughters, Robin, ran her fingers 1966, freshman Mr. Burman first
over one of the names inscribed encountered an older Mr. McKen-
in granite: Adrian Harold McKen- na. “I could sense the impatience
na. “Is she related to us, Daddy?” and restlessness that he had in
she asked. Daddy said he did not trying to make sense of what was
know, but that he would find out. turning out to be an incredibly
The soldier turned out to be Mr. turbulent decade in Quebec as
McKenna’s great uncle, who died well as the world at large.”
from a bullet to the lung in 1916. During the Summer of Love,
The ancestral discovery instigat- both Mr. Burman and Mr. McKen-
ed a passion for telling the stories na scored internships at the Mon-
of Canada at war. In 1988, with his treal Star to cover the Expo 67
younger brother Terence McKen- world fair. One day, while Mr.
na, he made The Killing Ground, a McKenna was assigned to inter-
CBC docudrama on Canada’s role view the Emperor of Ethiopia, Mr.
in the war that did not end all Burman was pegged to speak to
wars after all. star American politician Robert F.
“The Killing Ground is a work of Kennedy.
such truth-seeking passion and Culturally Catholic and with
unsentimental eloquence that to some Irish blood in his veins, Mr.
watch it is to weep for the courage McKenna was fascinated with the
of our forebears and the criminal Kennedys. He pleaded with his
idiocy of our species,” Globe and colleague to switch assignments,
Mail television critic John Haslett which Mr. Burman graciously did.
Cuff wrote. “I remember telling Brian that he
After creating Wartime Produc- certainly owed me.”
tions Inc. with his first wife, Susan Mr. McKenna’s fanatical inter-
Purcell, in 1989, Mr. McKenna est in the assassination of John F.
would establish himself as one of Kennedy would later result in a
Canada’s foremost documentary As a writer, director and producer, Brian McKenna’s name is attached to more than 60 productions, from The pair of conspiracy-minded docu-
chroniclers of the country’s mili- Fifth Estate to Fire and Ice: The Rocket Richard Riot. mentaries on the subject.
tary history. The Montrealer in- From 1968 to 1973, he was full-
trepidly asked the difficult ques- ror won three Gemini Awards and time reporter at the Montreal
tions related to almost every ma- the French-language edition was Star, before moving on to CBC Ra-
jor military conflict in Canada’s honoured for best direction and dio’s current affairs show As It
history. best documentary at the Prix Gé- Happens as its Quebec corre-
“I have this feeling there that meaux. The awards represented a spondent. With wife Ms. Purcell,
there’s this Jungian subcon- vindication of the McKennas by he co-authored a best-selling
sciousness in this country that their television peers. biography of the enigmatic for-
has all this pain, all these stories Having seen The Valour and the mer Montreal mayor Jean Dra-
of [the First World War] passed on Horror, former prime minister peau in 1980.
genetically,” Mr. McKenna told Pierre Trudeau met with the Mr. Mr. McKenna was close friends
Saturday Night magazine in 1992. McKenna in Montreal to discuss was Nick Auf der Maur, the col-
“This pool of suffering that we’ve the shooting of what would be- ourful columnist and man about
never really tapped.” come the five-part 1994 docu- Montreal. When Mr. Auf der Maur
Mr. McKenna, an award-win- mentary Pierre Trudeau: The Mem- was dying of throat cancer in his
ning documentarian who began oirs. The first thing the iconic poli- mid-50s, Mr. McKenna encour-
his career as a parliamentary cor- tician said to the filmmaker was, aged his friend that he could be
respondent with the Montreal “If you go after me like you went healed holistically.
Star and later came into his own after those British generals, we’ll “Brian brought this radical idea
as a founding producer of CBC’s have a good time.” that if my father drank carrot
investigative series The Fifth Estate Mr. McKenna possessed jour- juice and mediated, he could be
and then thrived as an independ- nalistic irreverence. While Mr. cured,” said his daughter, the mu-
ent filmmaker, died May 5 in the Trudeau and Cuban President Fi- sician Melissa Auf der Maur. “My
palliative care unit at Montreal’s del Castro were having a casual father laughed, but I think he
Jewish General Hospital after a conversation in Havana, the for- thought to himself, ‘This dreamer
short illness. He was 77. mer prime minister asked that his is really trying to save me.’ It
“Brian was a force of nature feet not be filmed, as he was wear- wasn’t possible that my father
and a revolutionary and passion- ing flip-flops. The feet made it in- would ever try yoga, but I loved
ate journalist,” said Tony Burman, to the footage. that Brian tried.”
a former editor-in-chief of CBC In 1970, the 24-year-old Mr. Another family friend was
News. “He had this inner need to McKenna covered the Royal tour American singer-songwriter Jesse
figure out how things really of the Arctic for the Montreal Star. Winchester, who fled to Montreal
worked.” When Queen Elizabeth II was to avoid the draft during the Viet-
As a writer, director and pro- shown the latest $20 bill, she was nam War.
ducer, Mr. McKenna’s name is at- not happy with her visage. “I’ve One of Mr. McKenna’s disap-
tached to more than 60 produc- been aged,” she complained. pointments was the abandon-
tions on more than just war. A seg- The quip was off-record, but ment by some of the CBC hierar-
ment he produced for The Fifth Es- Mr. McKenna reported it anyway. chy during the controversy over
tate investigating CIA For the 2007 television film The Great War, Mr. McKenna directed future The Queen’s press secretary later The Valour and the Horror. The re-
brainwashing at a Montreal psy- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who portrayed his fifth cousin, informed him that “Her Majesty is port by ombudsman William
chiatric hospital made the front twice removed, Major Talbot Papineau. ARNIE GELBERT not amused.” Mr. McKenna was, Morgan was critical of the minis-
page of The New York Times in and asked the royal flack if it was eries, and president Gerard Veil-
1985. He also directed and wrote World War. The series, co-written veterans in the audience jeered, true that the Queen travelled with leux issued an official apology for
2000’s Fire and Ice: The Rocket Ri- and narrated by his brother Te- guffawed and yelled, Mr. McKen- a toilet seat covered with the skin airing the documentary.
chard Riot. rence, was watched by roughly 20 na defended the accuracy of The of unborn lamb. “To say we were flabbergasted
As a historian, he was an insist- per cent of the English-language Valour and the Horror as “bullet- If he had a sense of humour, his and caught totally unaware is to
ent revisionist; as a filmmaker he television audience. proof,” and said the miniseries journalism was serious, the minimize it,” Mr. McKenna told
advanced the documentary form. It was loudly denounced by was a reaction to the lionizing search for justice an overarching The Globe’s Kirk Makin. “Holy
His techniques included having some military veterans who ac- that marked traditional war doc- theme of his career. Mr. McKen- mackerel – we just got whacked.
long-dead figures played by actors cused it of demeaning their war- umentaries. na’s work with The Fifth Estate in- We felt betrayed.”
who spoke directly to the camera. time service. Particularly conten- “Surely after 50 years it was cluded investigations into state- Among Mr. McKenna’s many
For the 2007 CBC film The Great tious was the episode entitled time to look at the events and per- sponsored terrorism in El Salva- accolades was the Governor-Gen-
War he recruited 150 descendants Death by Moonlight, which sug- sonalities with candour,” he said. dor’s civil war and Nazi collabora- eral’s History Award for Popular
of Canadian soldiers, nurses and gested bombing raids were or- As the fiery debate over the se- tors hiding in Canada. Media.
airmen to bring wartime diaries dered indiscriminately against ries raged, Mr. McKenna was in- “He had been bullied as a kid in One of his favourite authors
and letters to life. One of the German civilian targets, and that troduced to author Salman Rush- school, and he wrote an essay was the English fantasy novelist
recruits was the unproven actor Canadian soldiers committed un- die, who had secretly travelled to about it, which got the bullies to J.R.R. Tolkien, who contracted
and nascent politician Justin Tru- prosecuted war crimes and their Toronto as a surprise guest at a back off,” Terence McKenna said. trench fever in the First World
deau, who wore a mustache and leaders were incompetent. PEN Canada gala to raise funds in “He realized then that there was War. During Mr. McKenna’s final
muddy boots to portray the dash- Commenting on the filmmak- support of freedom of expression. power in writing, which stimulat- days, he was read Tolkien’s The
ing Quebecker Major Talbot Papi- ers at the time, military historian Mr. Rushdie was in hiding be- ed him.” Return of the King, a story about
neau, his fifth cousin, twice re- Jack Granatstein said, “What they cause of a bounty placed on his Brian Francis McKenna was friends on the “long grey road”
moved. seemed to be doing was hitting head by the Ayatollah Khomeini born Aug. 8, 1945, in Montreal. He home. He died on the day the last
Speaking to The Globe in 2007, everyone who fought the war of Iran for his allegedly blasphe- was the first of five children to call page was read to him.
the future prime minister credit- with a wet fish in the face.” mous 1988 novel The Satanic Vers- Agatha McKenna (née Macdo- He leaves his life partner, Re-
ed Mr. McKenna with guiding him The series triggered a CRTC es. nell) and Leo McKenna mother née Baert; children, Robin
through the process, saying his di- hearing and an investigation by “Welcome to the club,” the be- and father. She was an Ontario McKenna, Katie McKenna, Conor
rection was an “absolute saviour the Senate of Canada, as well as a leaguered novelist said to Mr. farmer’s daughter with a big McKenna, and their mother Su-
for me.” failed $500-million lawsuit McKenna as they shook hands. laugh who worked as a secretary san Purcell; Emma McKenna, Tess
His most well-known and con- against the filmmakers filed by The documentarian was during the Depression; he was on McKenna, and their mother,
troversial work was 1992’s The Val- veterans who claimed numerous awarded the Gordon Sinclair the path to priesthood before a Anne Lagacé Dowson; and sib-
our and the Horror, a three-part mistakes and distortions de- Award For Broadcast Journalism change of heart. A degree in theol- lings, William McKenna, Joan
CBC series that critically examin- famed Canadian bomber crews. in 1993, the same year the English ogy and a fluency in Greek and La- McKenna, John McKenna and Te-
ed Canada’s role in the Second Speaking in a Senate hearing as version of The Valour and the Hor- tin won him work as a dishwasher rence McKenna.
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KLUANE NATIONAL PARK, YUKON sky on the surface.
On the way back down, the silence is
A day hike along the Auriol the southwest corner of the Yukon. It’s broken. Our precautionary shouts of “Hey,
home to the Kluane icefield, which is the bear!” are answered by another group’s Top left: Auriol Trail.
Trail brings the perfect ratio world’s largest remaining mass of glacial similar calls on the trail below us, and as Above, top: A lone hiker on the
of exertion to scenery ice outside the polar regions, and to Mount we cross paths with them we share the King's Throne Trail overlooking
Logan, Canada’s highest peak. usual cheerful hikers’ small talk. Mat’atana Man (Kathleen Lake).
Together with three adjoining parks – Further down we meet another small Above, bottom: The Kathleen River
I
still can’t get used to the quiet. Even af- British Columbia’s Tatshenshini-Alsek group – musicians we know from back flows into Kathleen Lake in Kluane
ter 14 seasons of hiking in the Yukon, I provincial park and Alaska’s Glacier Bay home in Whitehorse, a two-hour drive National Park and Reserve.
remain startled by just how empty the and Wrangell-St. Elias national parks – away. They’d played a show in Haines Junc- DANIELLE BERGEN, MICHAEL OVERBECK,
trails here can be. Kluane forms a massive UNESCO World tion the night before. This is classic Yukon PETER O'HARA AND JENNA DIXON
It’s a crisp bluebird Saturday on the Au- Heritage Site. The mountains filling the hiking: see almost nobody, but the person
riol Trail, one of a handful of established, horizon as we hike are just the nearest you do see is someone you know.
moderate day hikes in the vast wilderness edge of a swath of peaks that go on and on. There are shorter, easier hikes in IF YOU GO
of Kluane National Park. Apart from the The Auriol Trail is a 15-kilometre loop, Kluane: the peaceful little Dezadeash Riv- HOW TO GET THERE: Kluane
grizzly bears and moose that I know can’t gaining 400 metres in elevation over the er Trail, or the out-and-back to scenic St. National Park is roughly 160 km
be too far away, my little group seems to first eight kilometres or so before winding Elias Lake. There are more starkly dramatic from Whitehorse, nearly a two-hour
have the place to ourselves. back down to the trailhead. It never climbs hikes, such as the steep trail up King’s drive. There is a park visitors centre
The narrow, well-beaten trail climbs above the treeline. But at its apex, experi- Throne, and there are challenging multi- in Haines Junction, and trailheads
gradually through waist-high buckbrush enced hikers have the option to keep go- day hikes, too. (The gem of these is the are signposted along the Alaska
and skinny northern trees, a mix of poplar ing, off-trail, and follow a creek and then a Donjek route, a difficult 8- to 10-day adven- Highway and the Haines road. Find
and spruce. A two-lane road that connects rocky moraine up to a high alpine bowl. ture that takes hikers right to the edge of a detailed trail descriptions on the
the town of Haines Junction, Yukon, to the As we get closer to the top of the loop, glacier.) park website or yukonhiking.ca.
small port of Haines, Alaska, is behind us. we spot a bright splash of colour in the But today, for me, this is the perfect ratio
Ahead are the snowy peaks of the Auriol bowl: a small tent, belonging to someone of exertion to scenery and of solitude to WHERE TO STAY:
range. with more ambitious plans than we have community. As I near the trailhead and Accommodation options in Haines
My dog, a husky recently retired from a for the day. It’s the only indication that our waiting car, I feel like Goldilocks gob- Junction include the Raven’s Rest
racing team, leads the way, straining at his we’re not completely alone out here. bling up baby bear’s porridge: the Auriol Inn (ravensrestinn.ca), a bright
leash. The only thing he likes better than We skirt around a small lake, and my Trail was just right. and cozy option that caters to
pulling is running free, but we’ll be sparing girlfriend stops to take some photos, – EVA HOLLAND LIVES IN WHITEHORSE. hikers, or the Kluane Skyline
the local wildlife his attentions. crouching by the edge of the water. I hang (airbnb.ca), a full-home vacation
Kluane National Park and Reserve fills back with the dog, so he doesn’t wade in Special to The Globe and Mail rental that sleeps up to eight.
wooden surface delivered me into the Red Pacific Grain Co. elevator (1928-1951), Don’t head to the hamlet of
DOROTHY, ALBERTA Deer River Valley and a lesser-known slice Mashon Bros. Store (1937-1979) and other Dorothy if you are in a hurry.
of Alberta’s Badlands. structures have largely been left to the ele- Take time to enjoy the rare windy
On a day trip from Calgary, Dorothy is something between a ghost ments, a handful of buildings in Dorothy highway, above. A decaying grain
town and a mirage. It is quiet and empty, have been restored, including the hamlet’s elevator and a Catholic church, top
discover a place where time sprinkled with signs of life from yesteryear. places of worship. Between the two tiny and bottom left, prove that there
seems to have stopped But, wait, people live here? Now? Appears churches, there might be more pews than was once community and
so. people in Dorothy. commerce here, but progress
I
f you’re exploring Alberta, everyone Dorothy’s most famous landmark, a fad- The community’s Catholic church start- chose a different path.
knows you go to Drumheller for the died wooden grain elevator, is proof that ed out in 1912 as the Wilford School, which JUDE BROCKE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
nosaurs, Lake Louise for the cartoonish there was once community and commerce shuttered in 1933. Church supporters
blue calm of Canada’s most famous body here, but progress chose a different path. bought it for $50 and moved to Dorothy,
of water, and the Icefields Parkway for the The wind robbed the elevator of its roof where it became Our Lady of Perpetual
glaciers that measure time. But Dorothy? years ago. Help. It opened in June, 1944, and held its
You go to Dorothy for the Sunday drive. The elevator is whatever you want it to last mass Oct. 22, 1967. Poke your head in,
The first time I went to Dorothy was by be. It is defiant and majestic. It is tired and sign the guest book.
accident. I was shortcutting from A to B rotting. It is, regardless of what adjectives The United Church is just a few metres
and didn’t know Dorothy existed. You you apply, photogenic. away. Dorothy’s United followers paid $50 IF YOU GO
don’t go to Dorothy when you’re in a hurry. I had to rush through what’s left of Do- for their building and had it moved to A drive to Dorothy is a fine day trip
Dorothy is for stopping, gasping, imagin- rothy that day, but now I go out of my way town, too. The church hosted two wed- from Calgary. To get the switchback
ing. It is for wandering and wondering and to linger. For me, the joy is in the journey. dings in 1943, and its last service in 1961. On experience: Head east on the
giggling to yourself about a secret place The sudden transition from the plateau to July 14, 2012, the church held the first wed- TransCanada (Highway 1), turn
that’s barely there. the valley is a delight. The valley walls are ding of its revitalized era. north on 56, east on 564, north on
I was driving east from Calgary that day weathered, revealing Earth’s layered interi- And then there’s Dorothy’s blue tele- 564, east on 848. Or take 564 east
and ended up on Highway 848, which re- or: shades of red, brown, grey and white, in phone booth, right next to a park bench out of Calgary instead of Highway
sembles a highway about as much as a cow the muted palette of Alberta’s Badlands. and a sign that says “LOCAL TRAFFIC ON- 1. The drive takes about two hours.
resembles a crow. Then the Prairie plateau There are cacti and flowers and green prai- LY.” Inside, there is a collection of items
cracked open. I drove downhill, confused rie grasses. There’s a faded blue Valiant that can correctly be classified as commu- From Drumheller: Head southeast
at the switchback. This is the land of canola photographers can’t resist. nications equipment but more accurately on Highway 10/56, continue to
fields and combines, not elevation drops Get out, stretch your legs. Walk around described as a Dad joke. Go for a drive. Highway 570. The drive takes about
and mountain goat terrain. the aging farm implements and read the You’ll see. 25 minutes, making it an easy
At the bottom, a one-lane bridge with a little information cards. While the Alberta – CARRIE TAIT LIVES IN CALGARY. detour for visitors based in Calgary.
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Legends abound
about the West Point
Lighthouse, which is
considered one of
Canada's most
haunted places.
HEATHER OGG/
TOURISM PEI
WEST POINT, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

Discover majestic beaches, a clear day that is good for your soul. Perhaps it has
something to do with the certainty that every day
unforgettable sunsets and a possibly the tide will come in and then it will go out. The best
haunted lighthouse-turned-inn spots for watching the sun rise and set are always
near the water and what could be better than your
own private lighthouse viewing room? Because not
Andria Dyer from
A
sk any Prince Edward Islander about the West only can you enjoy the beach around West Point,
the Chippewas of Point Lighthouse and the first comment is but you can sleep in the lighthouse, too.
the Thames First usually how far away it is. The inn has 13 rooms, including one at the top of
Nation, above, Long commutes are rare here and anyplace more the lighthouse. My second-floor room in an adjoin-
teaches visitors than half an hour away constitutes a “long drive.” ing building had a balcony with a postcard view of
about Ojibwe For all but a handful of Islanders, this sentinel, the beach, the New Brunswick coastline and, de-
Spirit Horses, which has been guiding ships through the western pending on the season, a fishing boat or two. Fam-
top, and their edge of Northumberland Strait since 1875, falls in ilies may prefer the Keepers Quarters where, as the
connection to that category. name implies, the lighthouse keeper and his family
First Nations Maritimers have a well deserved reputation for lived. While most Maritime lighthouses have a long
culture and being happiest when we are close to the water and I list of “keepers of the light,” West Point only had
history. Visitors have to plead guilty on that score. So the “long com- two: William Anderson MacDonald from 1875 to
can also book mute” to the West Point Lighthouse is well worth it 1925 and Benjamin MacIsaac, who took over until
a night in the for me. 1963, when he was replaced by an electronic beacon.
tipi, left. The lighthouse is painted with four black stripes Legends abound at the lighthouse. There have
DUDEK that look like a giant’s belt with the windows in the been sightings of a fiery ship, a 24-metre-long sea
PHOTOGRAPHY, middle resembling belt buckles. At the top is a red serpent and even a bearded sea captain who roams
LUIS CABRERA dome navigation light with an outdoor deck offer- the halls at night. In fact, the lighthouse holds ninth
ing a commanding view in all directions. It’s found place on the Reader’s Digest list of Canada’s most
in an area most islanders refer to as haunted places.
“up west” (as opposed to out west, IF YOU GO What is no mystery is the impact a
which usually refers to Alberta). When HOW TO GET THERE: rapidly changing climate is having on
you turn off Highway 2, pay close at- West Point is less than a this island treasure. Coastal erosion is
tention to the directional markers as two-hour drive west of bringing the edge of the building clos-
CHATHAM-KENT, ONTARIO there are a number of twists and turns. Charlottetown, and only er to the shore, and a boardwalk dam-
The fishing buoys hanging in trees an hour’s drive from aged by post-tropical storms in 2019
Getting to know Indigenous spirit horses along the way not only add colour to Confederation Bridge. and 2022 is being rebuilt. But West
the drive but reinforce the fact you are Point is ready to welcome travellers
and the story of their survival in fishing country. WHERE TO STAY: West this summer, where the view is essen-
When you arrive on the coastline Point Lighthouse Inn & tially unchanged from the one Wil-
(officially known as Cedar Dunes Park Museum opens for the liam Anderson MacDonald enjoyed al-
I
was intrigued when I read about Ojibwe Spirit Horses, be-
lieved to be the only breed developed by Indigenous people in Road) you might expect the light- season on June 2 and most a century and a half ago. Time
Canada. The horses once roamed freely in Ontario’s Great house to be the focal point. Sorry to closes Sept. 30. west- seems to slow down here just long
Lakes region – but only four remained by 1977, the result of cull- disappoint but the lighthouse is more pointlighthouseinn.com enough for you to catch up. That is the
ing ordered by colonizers. subtle – at least as subtle as a 20- Next door, Cedar Dunes real magic of the tides.
Fortunately, conservation efforts have brought the breed back metre-high building can be. Provincial Park offers – ANDY WALKER LIVES IN CORNWALL,
from the brink. And in Chatham, Ont., a three-hour drive south- The focus here is always the water. oceanfront camping sites PEI.
west of Toronto, I discovered a bucolic setting where I could There is something about the sun and supervised beach
spend some time getting to know the modern Ojibwe Spirit shimmering on the bright blue sea on access during the summer. Special to The Globe and Mail
Horse, descended from the rescued four, who mated with Span-
ish mustangs.
John Basden and his wife, Terry Jenkins, run a spirit horse en- A thriving
counter at their farm, where they also introduce visitors to Bas- immigrant
den’s Métis traditions. For a truly immersive experience, you can community
spend the night in a tipi, which is my plan. means
My partner and I arrive on a warm autumn day and I immedi- Winnipeg
ately spot the tipi, which sits between a small pond and a large is home to
sugar maple. It’s named the “Grandmother Teepee,” because many pho
John’s great-great-grandmother lived in a similar one growing restaurants,
up in Tecumseh, Ont. It’s wrapped tightly in canvas, which is each using its
joined together at the front with lacing pins made out of wood. own ancestral
Two smoke flaps give way near the top, exposing several poles recipes.
that pierce the sky. JESSICA LEE/
I place my belongings inside and take a quick look. A slow- THE GLOBE
burning fire sits in the centre and several mattresses dressed AND MAIL
with wool and furs sit around the perimeter. It’s modest yet cozy,
and I can’t wait to sleep there.
Soon after, we are introduced to our guide, Andria Dyer from
the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation. She will walk us
through our first encounter with the horses and stay with us for
the remainder of the day.
She begins with a smudging ceremony, to let the smoke
cleanse the soul before we meet the animals: “We smudge so
that we can leave any negativity out here and join the horses in a
purified state.”
marrow for 8-10 hours to make the broth. Another
We enter the gate of the horse pasture, located just a few
metres away from the tipi. As she proceeds to drum and chant,
WINNIPEG, MANITOBA popular item is the beef satay pho, which is made
one by one the horses begin to surround us, like children ready with a chicken broth and tastes slightly sweet with
for story time. It’s awe inspiring.
The city that serves up some salty flavours and a subtle spice.
These horses, all various shades of brown, are not built for of Canada’s best pho Further south is another pho hot spot, about two
riding. Standing at 1.2 to 1.4 metres high, they are relatively small kilometres away on Ellice Avenue.
H
in stature and have the innocent curiosity of puppies. Many peo- aving lived in several Canadian cities and Kiet Tran and Duchoa La opened their restau-
ple come here for equine therapy as a way to treat PTSD, depres- dined in a fair number of Vietnamese restaurant, Pho Kim Tuong, in 2012. They immigrated to
sion and more – not surprising given the horses’ sweet temper- rants across the country and Vietnam, I con- Winnipeg 43 years ago and before opening a Viet-
ament. sider myself a pho connoisseur. After I arrived in namese restaurant, they had a Chinese take-out
Two younger horses approach me and I slowly reach out my Winnipeg two years ago, it didn’t take long for me to spot and a Chinese restaurant.
hand. I pet their thick manes and notice their hairy ears, a com- notice that all of the noodle soups I ate in this prai- “They were trying to escape hard times,” says
mon trait in the breed. They rub their muzzles against my arm, rie city were particularly spectacular. After work, their daughter Jen La, adding that, at first, “I don’t
encouraging me to continue and I feel an instant weight lifted off when I need the comfort and umami of a large bowl think it was that great for them in Winnipeg either.”
my shoulders. Could this be the therapy I didn’t know I needed? of warm noodle soup, I am glad for all of the deli- Until recently, all of the cooking at the restau-
Later, we huddle by a fire, where our guide begins singing and cious options here. rants was done by Tran, who boils beef bones for 24
drumming. She asks us to repeat a few chants; at first, I am shy, Each pho restaurant has its own method of fla- hours to make the pho broth, then adds spices and
but I soon find myself leaning into it. While sipping on warm vouring broth and uses different rice noodles; in aromatics such as star anise, cloves, cinnamon
cedar tea under the stars, we listen to stories that have been Winnipeg, amazingly, many of the phos are a de- sticks, nutmeg, lemongrass, daikon and fennel
passed on from generation to gen- light. The broths are rich, complex and flavourful seeds. Pho favourites include spicy beef pho with
eration. with a harmonious blend of aromatics; the noodles peanuts, a satay seasoning and Thai chilies; and bun
That night, although the air is IF YOU GO are cooked to perfection – not too bo Hue, a noodle soup made with both
cool, the crackling fire and wool HOW TO GET THERE: tender and with a good amount of WHERE TO FIND beef and pork, served with round noo-
blankets keep me warm in the tipi. I TJ Stables in Chatham is chewiness – and the meat-to-noodle WINNIPEG’S BEST PHO dles from the Hue region in Vietnam.
feel steeped in history as I lie there, around a three-hour drive ratio per portion is always just right. BY NEIGHBOURHOOD Recently, the couple’s three daugh-
mesmerized by the flames. I hear southwest of Toronto. Tuyen Nguyen, owner-operator of West End: Ha Long Bay - ters, who all have full-time jobs else-
the nearby neighs and whinnies of tjstables.ca/awaken-your- Ha Long Bay Restaurant on Notre 772 Notre Dame Ave.; Pho where, have taken over, cooking and
the horses. To my surprise, they’ve spirit-encounter.html Dame Avenue, arrived in Canada in Kim Tuong - 856 Ellice Ave.; running the restaurant so that their
gathered around the wooden fence 1984 as a refugee from Vietnam, hav- Pho Binh Minh - 819 Sargent parents, now in their 60s and 70s, can
close to the tipi, as if they were pro- WHERE TO STAY: If a tipi ing been offered a new life in Winni- Ave.; Thanh Huong - 534 relax. Tran and La’s daughters are still
tecting me. It’s no wonder why isn’t for you, they also have peg. A few years later, he met his Sargent Ave.; Viva Restau- using recipes passed down from their
they’ve been referred to as spirit a small cabin on the prem- wife, Hoa Vo, originally from Ho Chi rant - 505 Sargent Ave.; KG ancestors.
animals by the Indigenous. I feel a ise. Otherwise, you can try Minh City. Saigon - 840 Sargent Ave.; At one point after arriving in Cana-
strong sense of peace as I start to Retro Suites Hotels on King The couple took on odd jobs to get Nhu Quynh Restaurant - da, the couple considered a move to
doze off. Street in Chatham. This by and in 1988, when Nguyen’s friend 609 Ellice Ave.; Pho Que Toronto but ultimately decided to stay
– LUIS CABRERA LIVES boutique hotel offers offered the couple a chance to buy Huong - 678 Ellice Ave.; in Winnipeg because they felt the peo-
IN TORONTO. modern eclectic décor his struggling Vietnamese restau- Phuong Nam Restaurant - ple were nicer. The city of Winnipeg
with themed rooms. rant in the West End, they took the 883 Williams Ave.; Pho No. lucked out. No matter how bad the
Special to The Globe and Mail retrosuites.com gamble. 1 - 81 Isabel St. weather gets, I know I can always
The couple grew to like Winnipeg warm up with a great bowl of pho in
He travelled as a guest of the WHAT TO BRING: and settled into their home, and now Fort Garry: T.H. Dang - 1425 my city.
Municipality Of Chatham-Kent and Dress for the weather for their restaurant is one of several doz- Pembina Hwy. – JESSICA LEE LIVES IN WINNIPEG.
Southwest Ontario Tourism this outdoor experience, en Vietnamese eateries in the city. A
Corporation. It did not review or including layers for a night staple on their menu is beef pho, St. Vital: Pho Cuu Long - Special to The Globe and Mail
approve the article before publication. in the tipi. which they make by boiling bone 757 St. Mary’s Rd.
Grasslands National
Park is a tonic for the
busyness of everyday
life. BILL WAISER
GRASSLANDS NATIONAL PARK, SASKATCHEWAN

One hike keeps us coming back to this soul-soothing landscape
T
he flat-topped 70 Mile Butte, with its steep, The views are spectacular. A 360-degree vista,
eroded sides, towers over the land in South- and we stand in awe looking back to where we start-
western Saskatchewan. So named because it ed. Eventually, we make our way down and around
was a 70-mile horseback ride from a former North- Eagle Butte to our car, which had been dropped off
West Mounted Police post, the butte doesn’t jive for us.
with the province’s popular image as a boring, re- Marley and I have done this hike in blistering
lief-less landscape. heat and in wind and cold. The worst time was after
But drop south from the Trans-Canada highway a rainfall when several inches of mud seemed glued
at Swift Current, and the road takes you past grain to our boots. It’s always different as we also never
fields and then rolling lands to the West Block of know what animals we’ll chance upon – from
Grasslands National Park. pronghorn to plains bison to rattlesnakes.
I never tire of exploring these former ranch lands Grasslands’ West Block also has the popular 20-
that have been steadily acquired for the park since kilometre ecotour scenic drive, featuring a bustling
the 1980s, and regularly return with my partner, prairie-dog town, set against a backdrop of steep
Marley, to tackle a range of hikes of hills and ridges and seemingly endless
varying distances and difficulty. Our IF YOU GO grassland. It’s not unusual to see a sol-
favourite is the 10-kilometre Bear- HOW TO GET THERE: itary bison bull along the way.
paw Sea Trail, a legacy of the retreat- Even for Saskatchewan, Grasslands National Park is divided
ing glacial ice sheet more than Grasslands National Park into two sections – the East Block is lo-
10,000 years ago. is isolated. Services are cated south of Wood Mountain, about
Starting at the edge of a deep cou- limited in both East and 170 kilometres, or a two-hour drive,
lee, with the distant 70 Mile Butte West blocks, but there are from the town of Val Marie. This land-
beckoning, we pick our way down, visitor reception centres. scape is more heavily eroded – here, di-
sometimes walking diagonally to Trailer campgrounds and nosaur fossil remains have been found
slow our descent, into another “oTENTiks,” a combination in the majestic buttes.
Visitors to Hirtle’s Beach can’t miss the Shobac cottages, world. The hike, clearly marked in tent/cabin (with cooking Visitors can drive the paved Ba-
a mix of sleek new builds by architect Brian MacKay-Lyons and places, sometimes confirmed by facilities) are available in dlands Parkway along the rim of Rock
historic structures rebuilt piece by piece on his oceanfront farm. dead reckoning, takes us across a the West and East blocks, Creek and stop at six lookouts with jaw-
JAMES BRITTAIN, WILLIAM GREEN, BENJAMIN MacDONALD, rugged landscape where grasses, and backcountry camping dropping views that stretch to the Can-
MATTHEW MacKAY-LYONS shrubs and cacti thrive in the grav- requires a permit. adian-American border. Or they can
elly soil littered with rocks. Larger hike: I’d recommend the 11-kilometre
boulders, known as erratics, were de- WHERE TO STAY: Visitors Valley of 1000 Devils loop trail deep in-
HIRTLE’S BEACH, KINGSBURG, posited here and there as the glacial to the West Block can find to the badlands.
NOVA SCOTIA ice melted. limited accommodation
Crossing an ancient glacial spill- in Val Marie. There are
At night, the sky is alive with stars.
Grasslands is a soul-soothing place –
Architecturally stunning cabins by the sea way occupied today by the subdued several bed-and-breakfast a tonic for the busyness of everyday life.
Frenchman River, little more than a establishments, including It’s one of the few places where you can
upgrade a South Shore beach holiday trickle, we tackle the butte. It’s a the restored Convent Inn. sit along a ridge, lost in thought, with
strenuous climb through a series of (convent.ca) For the East 2,000-year-old tipi rings nearby.
I
always knew we were close to Hirtle’s Beach when the candy- sandy hummocks that takes us to the Block, visitors have to It’s why we keep going back.
coloured houses we saw on our drive were replaced by ones base. Here we drop our packs, and travel to nearby communi- – BILL WAISER LIVES IN SASKATOON.
clad in unpainted wooden shakes that had turned grey from then push on, up a steep incline at ties to find overnight hotel
weathering. Before I could even see the ocean off Nova Scotia’s first, to the top. accommodation. Special to The Globe and Mail
South Shore, I’d roll down the windows so its scent could per-
fume our car.
If we were visiting in July or August, we’d pack a cooler, a blan-
ket and a pop-up sun shelter, moving from water to sand and
back again until we’d run out of food or grown fatigued from the
heat. On colder days we’d get out of the car for only a few min-
utes, strolling alongside the water while the wind whipped
through our hair. Its appeal never faded.
Our perch for one weekend visit was one of the cottages at
Shobac, a 11⁄2-acre farm site that overlooks Hirtle’s Beach. We’d
discovered the beach when my husband, an architect, had read
about the unique properties Brian MacKay-Lyons, one of Cana-
da’s most esteemed architects, had either built or moved out
there.
We were staying in the Schoolhouse, built in 1830, that MacK-
ay-Lyons’s brother had attended when they were growing up in
Yarmouth, N.S. When the architect came across it decades later,
it was in a sorry state: A farmer had let his cattle live inside. StoneHaven Le Manoir.
MacKay-Lyons bought it, had it dismantled and then transport- TOURVAL COMMUNICATIONS
ed it to Shobac to be reassembled beside the spectacular octago-
nal post-and-beam barn he’d similarly rescued and that now
hosts summer weddings.
“It was disappearing and if we didn’t save it, no one would,”
MacKay-Lyons explained to us as we sat by the fire in the Shobac
SAINTE-AGATHE-DES-MONTS, QUEBEC
Studio, a live-work space on the property. He and his wife, Mari-
lyn, had invited us for a dinner of spicy roasted haddock, bacon- Seeking peace in the Laurentians and ‘la vie de château’
wrapped scallops and a rustic carrot cake from the excellent
E
Rose Bay General Store & Bistro nearby (we ended up having ager to enjoy the fresh fallen snow and Febru- We checked into McGibbon’s original lakeside man-
lunch there twice – the highlight was a lobster Caesar salad). ary sunlight peeking behind the clouds, we set sion, now a lavishly renovated 34-room Relais &
The Schoolhouse’s renovation was impressive: both modern out to explore the hilly snowshoe trails on the Chateaux hotel.
and timeless. We ate breakfasts at the long table in the fireplace- edge of Lac des Sables in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Sometimes the most memorable discoveries are
anchored great room while sitting on the building’s original in the Laurentians region of Quebec. made not far from home. The irony that, decades
benches and sipped coffee and read books from the caramel Montrealers have long loved Sainte-Agathe-des- ago, we used to live not very far away from this glori-
leather chairs while marvelling over the ocean view. But the best Monts as a summer getaway, thanks to its magnif- ous hotel and these trails but had no idea they exist-
parts of Shobac were outside: From the Schoolhouse, we cut icent beaches along Lac des Sables and its sailing ed was not lost on us.
through the farm as sheep, their coats freshly shorn, grazed tall school. In winter, despite its vast array of activities, As my husband lay down for a nap in our room, I
grasses around a small pond. it remained in the shadows of Mont-Tremblant or slipped on a plush robe and met the massage ther-
There was a crispness and fullness in the air from being so Saint-Sauveur-des-Monts for snow sports. This past apist who soothed the well-lodged knots on my
close to the water and I started to feel my skin plumping, my winter, we enjoyed rediscovering the quiet side of back. As the snowflakes twirled in slow motion, I
blown-out hair developing a halo of frizz. this area. noticed the clover-shaped hot tub outside. It all
And then, the great ocean reveal we’d grown to love so deeply: During our hike, sunlight sparkled off the fresh looked so heavenly.
a three-kilometre stretch of pristine white sand, bordered on snowflakes dangling off each branch as we walked Over the past few years, the hotel has been metic-
one side by drumlin cliffs, houses evenly spaced across it. We in meditative unison. We traipsed past endless tall ulously restored by new owner Georges Coulombe,
were approaching it from the western side and because the tide pines on the trails of the 57-hectare StoneHaven Le who took care to honour the estate’s heritage with
was in and the beachhead was so narrow, we walked across rocks Manoir estate. We loved wandering off the beaten carefully selected antiques, a museum-worthy fine
that sounded like teacups clinking together. We only did a por- path too, breaking fresh tracks to discover an aban- art collection, magnificent 1930s light fixtures and
tion of it that day, but more adventurous beachgoers can walk doned wooden barn covered in the heavy snowfall even a vintage elevator from that era. You’ll feel like
east along the beach to the start of Gaff Point Trail, an occasion- from the night before. you’ve travelled back in time. Dining at the hotel
ally rugged path that takes about As we breathlessly made our way uphill, the view was exquisite, too, and the seven-course tasting me-
two or more hours to traverse. IF YOU GO from the summit proved worth the nu was a flavourful and unforgettable
I have seen the Atlantic Ocean HOW TO GET THERE: effort: a splendid panorama of the tour through Quebec’s highest-quality
from many vantage points, but Hirtle’s Beach is in Kings- lake with the eastern side of the Lau- IF YOU GO local products.
there is something mercurial and burg on Nova Scotia’s rentian Mountains in the distance. HOW TO GET THERE: StoneHaven Le Manoir is a good place
otherworldly about the water at Hir- South Shore, about an hour We enjoyed a precious few moments Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts to enjoy “la vie de château,” the French
tle’s Beach. On sunny days with a and a half drive southwest of total stillness. is an easy two-hour drive art of the good life. In fact, we were told
cloudless sky, it’s a shade of azure of Halifax. On the way down, the only from Ottawa or Montreal. that McGibbon, the original owner, was
that can remind you of the Mediter- sounds were the crunch of our steps For more details, visit known as the Gatsby of the Laurentians,
ranean Sea. On slightly overcast What to bring: Beach attire, in the deep snow and the occasional laurentides.com often throwing lavish parties with his
ones, the cloud-sheathed sky can plus bug spray and hiking chirp of a bird or a squirrel. Hiking in wife and hosting their guests for days. We
make the water glisten and sparkle gear if you want to check winter is a great way to connect with WHERE TO STAY: can’t wait to come back for another visit
like the display cabinet at Tiffany & out the seven-kilometre nature and yourself, which we deep- StoneHaven Le Manoir, in the summer when the lake turns into a
Co. On stormy days, massive inky Gaff Point Trail. ly needed. We vowed to unplug over 40 chemin du Lac des watersports playground. We shall dream
waves turn to thick foam when they the next few days. Sables, Sainte-Agathe- of a scenic picnic, carefully packed by the
crash on the sand and rock. The Where to stay: Shobac, a For me, the fresh mountain air des-Monts. Chef’s brigade, to further explore the
sounds, smells and astonishing sprawling oceanfront farm generated an instant feeling of well- stonehavenlemanoir.com stunning views by bike or boat.
views of Hirtle’s are captivating in site, is dotted with cabins ness and closeness. I’m not the first – MARIE-PIERE BELISLE-KENNEDY LIVES
any weather. and cottages by architect to notice this, either: This region WHAT TO BRING: IN CHELSEA, QUE.
– DAKSHANA BASCARAMURTY Brian MacKay-Lyons. The overlooking Lac des Sables enchant- In the summer or fall,
LIVES IN HALIFAX. properties are a sleek ed Douglas Lorne McGibbon, a Mon- rent a bike or bring your Special to The Globe and Mail
alternative to typical vaca- treal businessman of Scottish heri- own to explore neigh-
She travelled with assistance from tion rentals and guests tage, who was the first to build a san- bouring towns via She travelled as a guest of Tourisme
Tourism Nova Scotia. It did not review have access to a fire pit, atorium in Quebec near these Le P’tit Train du Nord, Laurentides and StoneHaven Le Manoir.
or approve the article before kayaks and barbecues. grounds in 1908 (what is now the a 234-km-long railway- It did not review or approve the article
publication. shobac.mlsarchitects.ca Sainte-Agathe Hospital location). turned-bike-path. before publication.
PLACENTIA, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR

Many race past in search of icebergs, evidence Plasencia comes from Plentzia, a Basque put into tourism: In 2020, the Placentia Area Histor- Just off Route
seaport town it resembled). France took hold of ical Society bought the Anglican church for $1 and 100, stop and
but the history is momentous in this Newfoundland and made Plaisance the first official turned it into the St. Luke’s Cultural Heritage Cen- discover
town of serial renaissance French colony in 1662. In 1713, after the Treaty of tre, where they host arts events (and sometimes an Placentia.
Utrecht, Placentia became an English settlement. escape room). Through a small laneway is O’Reilly Left: A view
Today, 18th-century cannons can be found House Museum, filled with Basque headstones, mil- from Castle
Y
ou can tell Placentia is old because the roads throughout town, left over from long-ago combat. itary photography and exhibits on resettlement. Hill National
make no sense. Created long before cars exist- At Castle Hill National Historic Site, visitors can Even dining in Placentia is steeped in history: Pla- Historic Site.
ed, they were originally mere paths between learn about the struggles for Placentia’s wide beach, centia Area Theatre d’Heritage offers dinner theatre Top right:
the houses and fishing stages of this town – which which was perfect for salting cod to send back to Eu- with performances covering everything from USO O’Reilly House
itself was developed squat between a rocky beach rope. shows to the Seven Years’ War. At the Three Sisters Museum.
and a small peak on an irregularly shaped plot of During the Second World War, another transfor- Pub, located in an 1883 heritage merchant home, pa- Above right:
land in Placentia Bay. mation: An American Naval Air Base was built in trons sip on local craft beers and polish off bar-food Placentia
The plaques are another giveaway. I started notic- neighbouring Argentia. It gained fame favourites or fancier choices such as harbour.
ing them as I strolled past the eclectic mix of heri- in August, 1941, when Winston Church- spaghetti carbonara. There’s a new ABBY MOS,
tage homes and 1980s bungalows haphazardly sep- ill and Franklin Roosevelt met aboard IF YOU GO Vietnamese restaurant, too, and an- ALICIA HOPKINS,
arated by picket fences and laneways. the USS Augusta in Placentia Bay to HOW TO GET THERE: other pub opening soon. CHERI
A new-looking sign declared that a rickety build- draft the Atlantic Charter. Placentia is 130 kilometres At Rosedale Manor, a B&B inside HOLLOWAY
ing was once Wakeham’s bustling sawmill. Another By 1943, more than 12,000 military from St. John’s, about a another restored historic home, new
explained I was standing on the site of 18th-century personnel were stationed at McAn- 1.5-hour drive, or less than owner Christopher Newhook tours
Fort Frederick. drew Air Force Base, bringing employ- a 10-minute drive along me through renovations he and his
Growing up in Newfoundland, I didn’t spend ment, infrastructure and a movie the- Route 100 from the ferry wife Lori Pretty completed recently.
much time pondering its history; I vaguely remem- atre. At Windjammer Club, Frank Sina- terminal at Argentia. Guests typically stay for just one
ber something about the 17th-century French colo- tra and Johnny Cash performed for the Ferries arrive daily from night, he says, on their way to the fer-
nies. But it was hard not to feel the past in Placentia. thousands of soldiers who, much to Sydney, N.S., in the ry to Nova Scotia.
Traces of the town’s 500-year legacy are everywhere. the chagrin of locals, were eager to summer months. Still, it’s enough time for them to
Whether I was running my hand along the 1776 lec- date (and marry) local women. legendarycoasts.ca discover the magic of Placentia. Many
tern at St. Luke’s, devouring Basque-style cheese- You can still stroll the sprawling of B&B’s reviews include the phrase
cake in a 150-year-old merchant home or standing flats on Backland Trail to see bunkers WHERE TO STAY: “if only I’d known,” Newhook says.
beside Castle Hill’s fortifications, surveying a beach and vast concrete slabs left vacant after Rosedale Manor, a If only they had known about Pla-
that had cradled drying codfish for 500 years, the the base was decommissioned in 1994, boutique B&B housed in a centia, they would have stayed longer.
place was imbued with a historical ambience. a year after Argentia was incorporated historic home built in 1893 – GABBY PEYTON LIVES
Yet most visitors disembarking at the Argentia into Placentia. with views of the water IN ST. JOHN’S
ferry terminal, keen to gun down the two-lane high- In recent years, the Argentia port and a colourful garden.
way in search of icebergs, don’t know it’s there. Nor authority has transitioned to con- rosedalemanor.ca Special to The Globe and Mail
do they know about the momentous world events structing off-shore oil platforms and is
that transpired just off Route 100. now proposing the area be developed WHAT TO BRING: Layers. She travelled with assistance from
Placentia is a town of serial renaissance – and for wind-powered hydrogen produc- The weather in Placentia Legendary Coasts, Eastern
names. First it was Beothuk fishing grounds, then a tion. can change drastically Newfoundland. It did not review or
Basque fishing station in the 1500s (there’s some Energy (and money) is also being throughout the day. approve the article before publication.
POWELL RIVER HISTORIC TOWNSITE,

BRITISH COLUMBIA
McClean, a former culinary instructor at Van-
Discover a thriving architectural couver’s LaSalle College, pulls pain au chocolats
gem on the Sunshine Coast from the oven at Hearth & Grain. A half dozen
kids are scaling the walls at the Powell River
Climbing Co-op, while at Townsite Fruit & Veg
E
ver since he was a little kid, Kelly Belanger owner Martin Williams, an ex-Vancouverite car-
wanted to run a Tudor-style hotel. While va- penter, is stocking the shelves with organic pro-
cationing on British Columbia’s Sunshine duce.
Coast more than a decade ago, he drove into At Townsite Brewing, across the street from
Townsite, a fading forest industry town just the market, early afternoon sippers are starting
north of Powell River. That’s when he first laid to arrive at this repurposed art-deco brick two-
eyes upon the Old Courthouse Inn, a Tudor storey. The sound of sea lions barking around the
building in a community full of architectural harbour breakwater drifts through an open win-
treasures. dow.
The hotel and café were for sale. Within a week “I was born and raised in Powell River and I’ve
Belanger bought it and was packing up his life as seen Townsite turn from a blue-collar mill town
a cook in the Alberta oil patch. into an eclectic, artsy and outdoorsy communi-
“I fell in love with it immediately. I was like, ty,” says Cara Harmer, the cheerful tasting room
‘Wow, this place really does exist,’ ” he says, manager, as she pours a sleeve of Muscles from Above: Built in
chuckling at the improbability of an obscure Brussels IPA, a hop-forward beer that reflects 1923, Townsite’s
childhood dream coming true decades later. brew master Cedric Dauchot’s Belgian heritage. Spanish
Two blocks away on the waterfront, smoke- A few blocks up Ash Street at the Patricia The- Revival-style
stacks, massive conveyors and imposing towers atre, Creed III is on the marquee. Restoration is a Patricia Theatre
from the pulp and paper mill, mothballed in continuing work in progress at this beloved the- is a work in
2020, form an industrial backdrop fit for Gotham atre built in 1923 – and so is reconciliation. progress for
City. Up until around 1970, First Nations were per- restoration and
The fact that Townsite owes its existence to mitted to sit only in a segregated upper balcony reconciliation.
big timber isn’t unusual. However, the way this at the theatre – if those dozen or so seats were Left: The Old
town developed certainly is. filled, they were turned away. “In a lot of ways, Courthouse Inn
In 1912 the Powell River Company began oper- this building is a symbol of racism to me,” May- is one of more
ations, eventually becoming the world’s biggest nard Harry says. than 400 heritage
newsprint producer. Its owners hired architects The former chief councillor of the Tla’amin buildings in
to plan a company town that was more than just Nation has mixed feelings whenever he strolls this national
a warehouse for workers. Lovestruck couples through Townsite. More than a century ago, the historic site.
once spun across the sprawling horsehair- Tla’amin were turfed from their village at the DESTINATION BC/
sprung wooden dancefloor of the still fabulous mouth of the river to make way for the pulp and @GLAMOURASPIRIT_
Dwight Hall. On weekends, folks headed to the paper mill.
gorgeous Spanish Revival-style Patricia Theatre. But the theatre is also a symbol of a new path
Homes were built in the style of Arts and Crafts, forward for Townsite. The local film society is
characterized by pitched roofs with deep eaves, now called Qathet Film Society (quathet means
dormer windows and shady porches perfect for living and working together), dropping any ref-
sipping lemonade on a hot summer’s day. In 1995 erence to Israel Powell, once superintendent of
the federal government declared Townsite a na- Indian Affairs in B.C. and a proponent of residen-
tional historic site, recognizing its more than 400 tial schools.
significant heritage buildings. From a one-horse industry colonial town to a
Today architecture geeks, small business own- living architectural gem with a big heart, the IF YOU GO the boomtown spirit of Townsite.
ers and real estate refugees are charting a new Townsite fable seems to get more and more in- HOW TO GET THERE: Townsite is oldcourthouseinn.ca
future for this town wedged between mountains teresting the older it gets. a 41⁄2-hour drive from Vancouver
and ocean. – ANDREW FINDLAY LIVES IN THE up the Sunshine Coast on Hwy 101. WHERE TO EAT: Take a tour of the
Next door to the Old Courthouse Inn, Towns- COMOX VALLEY ON VANCOUVER ISLAND. Make it a circular route and, after taps at Townsite Brewing Company,
ite Market is bustling to life in an artful reimag- visiting Townsite, take the Westview- sit down for delicious Indian food at
ination of the Company Stores, a striking Bau- Special to The Globe and Mail Little River ferry to Vancouver Island. Royal Zayka, or head over to the ferry
haus-style modernist – and prototypical shop- terminal neighbourhood of Westview
ping mall – the mill owners commissioned in the The writer was a guest of Sunshine WHERE TO STAY: Each room at the for roasted Pacific ling cod or another
1940s. Coast Tourism. It did not review or approve Old Courthouse Inn is decorated with dish from the diverse menu at Coastal
A lip-smacking aroma fills the air as Colleen the article before publication. antiques and curiosities that summon Cookery.
SP ON S OR C ON T E N T
ROAD TRIP This week-long road trip

through the heart of Canada through southern Manitoba
showcases the prairie
province’s best activities,
experiences and food
There are few landscapes as

endlessly scenic and inspiring
as Manitoba. In the span of just
seven days, the adventurous
traveller can experience the best
of the province’s offerings, from
wilderness excursions to historic
sites to delicious eats.
This week-long itinerary will help
you plan a trip that gives your
heart room to roam – alongside a
soundtrack that pairs perfectly with
the drive.
BUCKLE UP!
DAY 2:
EASY LIVING IN PINAWA
The next morning, drive over to the Whatever activity you opt for,
resort-like community of Pinawa, your lunch plans should involve Above: The Burger
which is less than two hours away, downing a tasty bite at The Burger Boat might be the
where you’ll be able to rent a Boat. For dinner, head to nearby most unique burger
Canadian-made houseboat through community spots Spicy Radish joint in Canada.
Below: Stay cool
Voyageur Houseboats. If relaxation Cafe, or Drifter’s Inn, which offers with a relaxing
is your goal, go for an hours-long delicious comfort food and a bar tube trip down the
scenic tube float down the Pinawa and cocktail lounge. Pinawa Channel.
Channel, taking in the breathtaking
sights around you.
If play is more your vibe, head
to Pinawa Golf & Country Club,
or round up the kids and take
in the stunning Pinawa Dam
Provincial Heritage Park, located
on the Winnipeg River and home
Get back to nature to Manitoba’s first hydro-electric
with a stay at one of generating station. Seriously, you’ll
Falcon Trail Resort's
want to keep the camera out. Or
DAY 1: hand-crafted cabins.
take things up a notch with a hike
along the Trans-Canada Trail.
FRESH AIR ON FALCON LAKE

First thing’s first You’ll want to start created by a meteor impact.) Avid
out at one of Falcon Trails Resort’s cyclists should definitely check out
hand-crafted cabin rentals, which Blue Highway, a 14-kilometre cycling
sit on the shores of Falcon Lake and trail that’s surrounded by lush boreal
High Lake in Whiteshell Provincial forest. Mind the rocky terrain!
Park. This destination is an hour To wind down, head to Ban-
and half outside of Winnipeg if nock Point, home to a number of
you’re flying in for the trip, or just a petroforms, which are stones laid
stone’s throw away from Northwest out in the shapes of animals and
Ontario if you’re driving in from the geometric designs by Indigenous
neighbouring province. With private Peoples centuries ago. The best way
hot tubs and wood fireplaces, you’re to see the petroforms is on a guided
guaranteed a relaxing stay immersed walk-through of the area, which
in nature. allows visitors to learn more about
During your stay, further explore its history and hear stories from local
lush Whiteshell Provincial Park, Indigenous Knowledge Keepers.
which offers a year-round play- For meals, you’ll have a few
ground for the kids and endless delicious options around, including
outdoor activity for the adults, Nite Hawk Café’s home-cooking, the
including hiking and rock climbing. family-run Falcon’s Nest Café, or the
Or, for the ultimate beach day, head welcoming Hi-Point Restaurant and
to West Hawk Lake, the deepest Lounge, which always offers a fun
lake in Manitoba. (Fun fact: It was night out.
ADVERTISING FEATURE PRODUCED BY GLOBE CONTENT STUDIO WITH TRAVEL MANITOBA. THE GLOBE’S EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT WAS NOT INVOLVED.
DAY 3: DAY 4-5:

CULTURAL DISCOVERIES AROUND LAKE WINNIPEG HISTORIC HIGHLIGHTS AND CHIC SHOPS IN BRANDON
The next day, head to Lake of which run all summer long. Be You can’t wrap up your road antique shop and ice cream store
Winnipeg’s western shore – but sure to check out HP Tergesen & trip without a stop in Brandon, that’s tucked in the forest along
make sure to leave time for a stop Sons, an iconic shop that has served Manitoba’s second-largest city, the river. At the end of the day,
at the sprawling Lower Fort Garry the community for more than 120 which is rich with history and make your way to dinner at The
National Historic Site. Located just years. Offerings include clothing, culture. After a three-hour drive Dock on Princess, a friendly pub
outside the city of Selkirk, Lower Fort unique gifts, candles and more. – and some brunch at Komfort that prioritizes local ingredients and
Garry is where the numbered treaties The town is known as the “heart Kitchen – kick off your first activity vendors.
were signed between the Crown and of New Iceland,” so be sure to check of the day with a stop at the Daly
the area's First Nations. out the famous statue at Viking Park. House Museum. Located in the heart
For brunch, check out Roxi’s by And if you happen to be around in of the city, it recreates a Brandon
the Red Uptown Café, where you can early August, don’t miss the Icelandic home from the late 19th century.
choose from a satisfying breakfast Festival of Manitoba, where you can In addition to its beautiful Italianate
poutine, eggs Benedict or farmer’s explore a Viking village, see a battle architecture, the museum features
breakfast – or, indulge your sweet reenactment, catch live music from antique furnishings and historical
tooth with a grilled cinnamon bun or local and Icelandic musicians and, of displays.
apple bacon pancakes. course, indulge in Icelandic food and A second day in the city gives
From there, drive another half drinks. you time to check out the shops,
hour or so to Winnipeg Beach, While you’re in the area, be sure including local-first Chez Angela
where you can swim, check out the hit Beach Boy for lunch. A popular Bakery (filled with the enticing
boardwalk or build a sandcastle. seasonal restaurant, it’s known for its aroma of fresh bread), Lady of the
Then, continue the fun in Gimli. pan-fried or battered pickerel, which Lake (which doubles as a café in
You can have a beach day here, too was caught fresh in Lake Winnipeg. case you’re craving a coffee), and
– located on the eastern shoreline, For dinner, make a stop at Seagulls George Strange’s Prairie Showcase
Gimli Beach is massive so you’re Restaurant, which offers a stunning and Bookmart. Be sure to check
sure to score a prime spot on the view of Lake Winnipeg, or Ship & out the Riverbank Discovery
sand. Score treasures from local Plough, which boasts live music and Centre, where guests can explore
makers at the Gimli Farmers’ Market plenty of locals to get acquainted a network of trails bordering the
and the Arnes Farmers’ Market, both with (many of whom would be more Assiniboine River, explore the
than happy to share a story or two). waterway via rented kayak and take
in performances at the outdoor
amphitheatre. Then, treat yourself at Brandon's Daly House Museum
Crow’s General Store, a combination is located in a 19th-century home.
The Icelandic influence is strong in Gimli, which is known as the "heart of New Iceland." Locally grown and sourced ingredients are the stars of the menu at The Dock on Princess.
DAY 6-7:
ACTIVE ADVENTURES IN WASAGAMING

For the last leg of the trip, head to return, have an indulgent dinner at
the quaint town of Wasagaming the hotel’s restaurant; don’t miss
just over an hour north of Brandon, the goldeye dip, satisfying burgers
where you’ll find Riding Mountain or truffle mac and cheese.
National Park, one of the province’s When you head out to explore,
most popular destinations. Home consider renting canoes or kayaks at
to 40 plains bison that roam in a Clear Lake Marina. You can also book
large enclosure, it’s the ideal spot a sightseeing cruise on The Martese,
Left: There's no better place to take a
for wildlife spotting. Stay at nearby a grand yacht that offers spectacular
sunset walk than the boardwalk at Clear
Elkhorn Resort, which boasts a views of Clear Lake at both midday Lake. Right: Riding Mountain National
full-service mineral pool and spa, and sunset. Or, if you’d rather Park is home to a herd of 40 bison.
a nine-hole golf course, riding stay on land, rent fat bikes from
stables and year-round recreational Friends of Riding Mountain National
activities. While you’re there, grab Park. Follow that up with a little
lunch at the resort’s restaurant, shopping in Wasagaming townsite,
Buffalo Bar, which offers up hearty, breakfast or lunch at local favourite
delicious eats, including six different Whitehouse Bakery (the cinnamon
styles of burger. Or, book a room buns are a must) and dinner at TR
at Lakehouse, a rustic-chic boutique McCoy’s for pasta or pizza. Finally,
hotel for outdoor lovers. Grab a cap the night off with ice cream at Discover more of Canada’s heart
specialty coffee from the on-site the boardwalk back by Clear Lake,
coffee shop before heading out on and reminisce about your wonderful
an outdoorsy adventure. Upon your week on the road.
Returning
to roots
Lailey Winery, one of Niagara’s first premium vineyards,
is building for the future by going back to its past
CHRISTOPHER ant, while Sperling advises the vine-

WATERS yard and cellar teams. Extensive re-
planting is needed, in part to help fo-
WATERS ON WINE cus the production.
Seventeen different varieties might
have made sense to have a diverse in-
W
hen Faik Turkmen took ventory to sell to amateur winemakers
control of Lailey Winery and wineries, but that single row of
in October, 2021, one of his muscat grapes could only produce
first moves was to contact around 75 cases of wine. Sperling is al-
tour operators and bus companies to so excited about the opportunity to
tell them about the change in owner- plant better clones of existing grapes
ship. “No more buses,” he explains, to improve overall wine quality. The
was a signal that Lailey was returning plan is to have larger blocks of vines,
to its roots as a small-scale producer of notably of merlot, cabernet franc and
fine wine. cabernet sauvignon, with three differ-
Turkmen, who also produces wine ent clonal selections of each to in- ISTOCK/GETTY IMAGES
under the Stonebridge label from an- crease complexity in the finished
other vineyard in Niagara-on-the- wine. Once in the ground, those vines
Lake, was attracted to the property on will need to be cultivated for three
the Niagara River Parkway because of
the pedigree of the wines produced by
its original owners. David and Donna
Lailey had gradually transformed their
years before producing a crop of
grapes that’s suitable for wine produc-
tion.
“There is an opportunity to go to the
HOPPED-UP
family fruit farm into a vineyard, start- next level and build for the future,” With beer prices on the rise, home brewers are unleashing their
ing with 10 rows of chardonnay and pi- Sperling says. “We have seen this vine-
not noir planted in 1970. They supplied yard perform. We know what we can creativity – and saving money, too, Adrienne Matei reports
grapes to Niagara wineries and ama- expect from the soils. We have been
teur winemakers until they started able to evaluate the wines over more
I
their own winery with winemaker De- than 20 years. The hope is to build t was during pandemic lockdowns Granted, most of us aren’t about to
rek Barnett in 2000. something that is even better than that Tim Smith began to take an in- start hypermiling beer in our apartments
For 14 years, Lailey was recognized what was done in the past.” terest in the finer points of beer. First, – what we’d save in cash we’d surely lose
as one of Canada’s leading wine pro- Visitors to the Lailey today are greet- the Toronto-based design consultant in time and the trust of our friends once
ducers, with a devoted following that ed with a range of wines produced be- joined an informal High Park neighbour- we tell them they’re drinking horse-feed
would flock to its annual release tween 2017 and 2020 for the Stone- hood craft beer club and developed a taste brewskis. Fortunately, Nelson runs cost-
events to snap up its bottles of small- bridge label and a range of rosés, an or- for unique picks from local microbrewer- benefit analyses with his thriftier clients
batch wines. The 18-acre vineyard was ange wine (a white wine that was ies. Then he tried his brother’s home brew all the time: If you’re someone who regu-
planted with 17 different varieties, in- made like a red wine by fermenting vi- – and was shocked. “There’s a lot of stig- larly entertains and can get through a keg
cluding cabernet franc, malbec and dal grapes on the skins) and a zweigelt ma around those old ‘U-brew’ days where a month, you would likely pay off a mid-
zweigelt. The property and business from the 2021 vintage sporting a re- the product actually wasn’t all that good,” tier, $1,500 home brewing system in a year
sold in 2015 to John Chang and his wife freshed label that harkens back to Lai- Smith says. “But what my brother was and a half, he estimates. But you could
Allison Lu, who changed Lailey’s focus ley’s original look. making could rival a lot of the stuff that also walk out of the store with nothing
overnight to icewine production for Marketing four different rosés you could find at the LCBO or the beer except a basic $30 kit and three weeks
export markets and the tourist trade. wasn’t planned, Turkmen says. It was a store. … There was a degree of surprise.” later have your first gallon of perfectly
The Laileys’ former home was demol- reaction to the timing of the purchase Galvanized by good beer, Smith invest- drinkable beer. Plus, “Anything that
ished to expand the parking lot to ac- of Lailey, which happened during har- ed in what he considers to be a “relatively you’re buying, whether it’s a beer kit or
commodate bus traffic. vest season in October, 2021, that modest” $1,200 all-in-one home setup (a the ingredients for making beer, it’s all
“I was looking back through the would promise a high crop load of ice- piece of gear that’s like a supersized elec- tax-free,” Nelson says, because “essential-
numbers,” Turkmen explains. “They wine grapes. But premium wineries fo- tric kettle with a pump, heating element ly, you’re talking about basic staple gro-
used to have $5,000 of icewine sales on cus on low-yield, high-quality grapes and control panel) that’s currently stand- ceries.”
a single day. … During COVID that to have the necessary ingredients to ing counter-height in his kitchen. Today, Yet even if they start out by trying to
business died.” produce concentrated and flavourful he considers brewing a rewarding and de- economize, most home brewers consider
Turkmen, who worked as a finan- wines in warmer spots or finesse and licious creative outlet. beer making worthwhile even if it ends up
cial services executive in Toronto prior fruitiness in cooler locations such as Unlike other domestic hobbies (sour- being more about passion than value. It
to focusing on winemaking, fell in love Lailey. So, instead of focusing their ef- dough baking et al.) that went flat after certainly can get expensive, especially if
with Niagara-on-the-Lake in 2007, forts on icewine, producing pink wines their pandemic lockdown popularity, in- you’re keen on top-tier gear such as Spike
when he and his family first came to from the red wine varieties on the terest in brewing has only built in mo- Brewing’s $28,000 nano system or their
Ontario from Turkey. A wine lover who property was considered to have the mentum. $13,500 bottom drain trio – the kind of
holds certifications from the Wine best possible quality wines to reintro- Kyle Nelson, owner of home brew sup- serious equipment that allows for the vol-
Spirit Education Trust and Wine Schol- duce the brand. “We walked the vine- ply store Toronto Brewing Co., estimates ume, precision and scalability you’d need
ar Guild, he took his passion a step fur- yard and ran the numbers,” winemak- Canada has more than 100,000 home to start your own nano-brewery.
ther by purchasing his first vineyard in ing consultant Peter Gamble says, brewers, and local brewing supply shops Many home brewers are motivated to
2016. “and we arrived at the conclusion that are reporting strong sales this spring. At make concoctions not commonly found
Beyond the Lailey vineyard’s sto- we could make some really killer rosé.” Ontario’s GTA Brews Homebrew Club, of- at retailers, Chang-Sang explains, such as
ried history, purchasing the property Each batch was barrel-fermented ficer David Chang-Sang says there has cold-fermented IPAs and tropical stouts.
provided much-needed production and aged for four months in French been an uptick in new members joining And often, the home brewing and com-
and retail space for Turkmen’s oper- oak barrels. One is a blend of different the 450-person organization in the past mercial microbrewery communities over-
ation on a high-traffic spot just outside varieties, including merlot, cabernet six months. lap, with craft breweries picking up on the
of Old Town Niagara-on-the-Lake. Not sauvignon and malbec; the others are The trend seems to extend to the U.K., tastiest niche trends and winning recipes
that there was much wine to sell at single-variety bottlings: cabernet sau- too, where market research by the brew- from their friends and collaborators in the
first. vignon reserve rosé, cabernet franc re- ing equipment company Pinter found a home brew space, and introducing them
“We had one riesling, four icewines serve and pinot noir reserve. The pric- 77-per-cent increase in web searches for to the broader public.
and a big potential,” Turkmen says es range from $29 to $42, which is a “home brew” as the price of a British pint Chang-Sang, for instance, home brewed
lightheartedly. But customers came, premium price for pink wine. But it’s hit the equivalent of $6.50 in 2022 (which a prize-winning red lager he named
many with what Turkmen describes as consistent with the uncompromising is still less than what you’d pay in Van- Schicksal (“It means ‘fate’ in German”),
“a spiritual connection” to the winery. pricing on all the Lailey and Stone- couver or Toronto these days). In Canada, which caught the attention of Scarbo-
They would share stories about their bridge wines, which include bottles of beer prices dropped during the pandemic rough’s Common Good brewery. They
experiences with Lailey wines and cabernet franc and syrah for $78 and but are now seeing an inflation-driven adapted the recipe in collaboration with
meetings with Donna Lailey or Derek chardonnay for $110. price spike of around 6 per cent to 7 per Chang-Sang and scaled it for production
Barnett. Turkmen says the average bottle cent, according to the Con- this year. “I was offered a
“The brand is special,” he says. price of his portfolio is $45, adding that sumer Price Index, in part WHERE TO GET cut of the sales at 25 cents
“From Day 1, we pledged to focus on he feels that price reflects the invest- owing to the rising costs of YOUR BEER GEAR a can sold,” he says. “But
quality and rejuvenating the vine- ment in the operation and quality of everything from barley to instead I opted to gift that
yard.” what is in the glass. Since his tasting aluminum cans. THE COMMUNITY BREW money to local charities,”
Winemakers Ann Sperling and Pe- room caters to small groups – the res- Meanwhile, the federal SHOP: This Saint John- including the Feed Scarbo-
ter Gamble have been working with ervation system asks groups of more government’s planned ex- based online shop stocks rough food security initia-
Turkmen since he got into grape grow- than five people to call or e-mail – he is cise tax increase of 6.3 per beginner must-haves as tive. Once brewing be-
ing and started building his Stone- confident that his tasting-room staff cent gave some drinkers a well as imported specialty comes a business, “it loses
bridge label. The husband-and-wife can welcome visitors with great wines scare (it’s since been grains, hops and strains of the fun for me,” he adds.
team have been involved in key win- and a great story about a legacy that’s capped at 2 per cent till yeast that can be tricky to Even in the past decade,
ery startups in Ontario and Nova Sco- being reborn. next year). For the past few find elsewhere; they’ll even technological advances in
tia, including Stratus and Benjamin months, Nelson reports loan equipment for a stint. home brewing equipment
Bridge. Gamble acts as lead consult- Special to The Globe and Mail that new customers have communitybrewshop.ca have made experimenta-
been coming in and saying, tion easier and more ac-
“The cost of beer has gone TORONTO BREWING CO.: cessible, with all-in-one
up. ... I thought, why don’t I A mainstay in the Toronto systems such as the Brew-
just try to make my own brewing community with a Zilla and the Grainfather
and maybe save some new storefront featuring a frequently compatible
money that way?” bottle shop and everything with software apps that
But the question of you need to convert your help brewers track fer-
whether brewing beer at garage into a brewery. 3701 mentation and log their
home is actually cost-effec- Chesswood Dr. #115, North own recipes as they go.
tive isn’t straightforward: York, torontobrewing.ca When Halifax’s Spanik
Rather, outcomes vary started brewing in 2013, he
widely based on one’s ap- BARLEY’S HOMEBREWING says many of his fellow
proach. Aaron Spanik, a SUPPLIES: Named 2021’s Brewnosers were engi-
Halifax-based member of Best Homebrew Shop by neers who enjoyed the
the Brewnosers, an Atlantic the Canadian Homebrew- challenge of setting up a
Canadian home brewers ers Association, this B.C. system on their own – to-
club that dates back to supply store is known for day, “it’s a much lower
1986, points to a subset of its friendly, helpful staff. cost to get into home
home brewers he personal- 101-455 East Columbia St., brewing, maybe not total-
ly calls “hypermilers,” after New Westminster, B.C., ly in terms of dollars, but
the sort of drivers who try barleyshomebrewing.com in terms of time and ener-
to eke out the most mile- gy invested in just getting
age possible from a tank of PRAIRIE BREW SUPPLY: off the ground,” he says.
gas. “We’ve had that sort of Supporting Canadian farm- Plus, the home brewing
person in the home brew ers is easy when you can community is helpful and
club, people who were just buy Prairie-grown malt and collaborative, and You-
trying to make the absolute hops from this local legend Tube is full of videos to
cheapest beer they possibly supply store. 1120 Broad St., help folks achieve their
could,” Spanik says. “For Regina, prairiebrewsupply.ca perfect brew. Rising beer
them, it’s a challenge to see prices or not, “in some
just how inexpensive they BEER GRAINS: This brew ways,” Spanik says,
can make a keg of beer to shop boasts 85 different “there’s been no better
the point where they’re grains, 40 different hops time to get into home
Faik Turkmen took control of Lailey Winery in October, 2021, buying horse feed and ger- and the largest selection brewing.”
and also produces wine under the Stonebridge label from another vineyard minating it themselves and of yeast in Canada, with
in Niagara-on-the-Lake. He fell in love with the region in 2007, when he then malting it them- locations in Ottawa and Special to
and his family first came to Ontario from Turkey. LAILEY WINERY selves.” Gatineau. beergrains.com The Globe and Mail
S AT U R DAY 92 Nutrition info, for short

C RO S S WO R D 93 “There’s not enough
B L E N D E D FA M I LY time to do it all!”
BY S H A N N O N R A P P A N D 100 Impossible “Jeopardy!”
R E B ECCA G O L D S T E I N , result, these days
E D I T ED BY J EFF C HEN 101 Proceeded with caution
102 Fiber arts apparatus
ACROSS 103 ___ bag
1 Smartphone keyboard 107 “Hidden Figures”
featuring faces actress Taraji P.
6 Big ___ Conference 109 Pullup targets
9 Ticket remnant 111 “The weekend’s here!”
13 No-luck connector 113 “Don’t Bring Me Down”
17 Things to avoid group
18 Event with demos 114 Ramen mushroom
20 In the ballpark, say 115 Chinese calendar period
21 Aquarium layer that began in 2023
22 “We’ll start again 119 Adored
in five” 120 “___ Too Proud”
25 Tropical fruit (musical about the
26 Opposite of WSW Temptations)
27 Defect, idiomatically 121 Soul food side
28 Certain 122 Latin dance-inspired
29 “You’ve been ___!” cardio
30 Sunbeams 123 Ship’s front
32 Cheaper option in a 124 Dedicated works
mixed drink 125 Crew driver
34 “Do not recommend!” 126 Break up
37 One of five in Yahtzee!
38 Smallest Canadian DOWN
province 1 “Come in!”
42 Italian automaker 2 “How Far I’ll Go”
44 Finger-spelling sys. singer
45 Iran, once 3 Pitch perfect, say
46 Piraguero’s competitor 4 Biden, familiarly
in “In the Heights” 5 “You don’t have to
51 Pet doctor tell me”
52 Run in stockings 6 Iran’s capital
56 Nile reptiles 7 Pet store category for
57 Orange tubers iguanas
58 Snappy retort 8 “Code Switch” network
60 River under Pont Neuf 9 Sad state?
61 Letter before sigma 10 Pine product
62 Marvel-ous god? 11 Team for Rose Lavelle
63 Fruit used in a holiday 12 ___ choy
pudding 13 Curved line on sheet
65 ___ cube music
(anxiety-relieving 14 Country where
gizmo) Swahili is a mandatory
66 Tags on Twitter school subject 46 “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” 79 Take from stage to 99 Qatari monarch
67 Sacred church image 15 Collapse percussion instruments screen, say 104 Site for many a
71 Doc’s group 16 Led 47 U-Haul competitor 80 App with an self-diagnosis
72 Salad often made 19 NBA tiebreakers 48 Travel by air? envelope icon 105 Tell it to the judge!
with anchovies 21 Graf’s husband 49 Prefix meaning “all” 81 Hopping amphibians 106 Implied
74 Swiss range 23 Garment paired with a 50 Horse play? 83 Had leftovers, maybe 108 Distort, as data
75 Champagne bottle choli 53 Hardly an early bird 85 Deceived 110 Airport code for one
stopper 24 Package deal, 54 Tide pool creatures 86 ___ M. Martin (“The visiting The Castro
76 “Mazel ___!” maybe 55 Move on, after a Baby-Sitters Club” 112 Shake
77 “Moon Over Half 29 Watch spot breakup author) 115 NBA Hall of Famer
Dome” photographer 31 Minor disputes 59 Verbal hesitations 87 Letters on some TVs Ming
Adams 33 Flips (through) 60 Dishwasher’s 89 “Curiously strong” 116 “___ Mubarak”
78 Rum cake 35 Famed fountain of station mint (holiday greeting)
80 Chanukah coins Rome 62 Taken by mouth 90 Like many highways 117 Match ender,
81 Tenor in one’s voice 36 Spot seller 63 Rice dish 93 Crash assistance? briefly
82 Toffee treat brand 39 GPS rec 64 Apt rhyme for chop 94 Collateral keeper 118 Bao, e.g.
83 Assist 40 Rough guess, briefly 65 “Go ___ and prosper” 95 ThinkPad brand
84 Forestry tool used 41 Removed some hair, 68 Yak 96 Many Valentine’s Day
in a controlled burn say 69 Slushy treat shapes
88 Big shot 42 Decorative feature at 70 Young horse 97 Giant lepidopteran of
91 The Barefoot Contessa, some sushi bars 73 Medieval laborers Japanese cinema
___ Garten 43 Brief “Sure, why not?” 78 Arm day muscle 98 Turn the page?
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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD BY FRASER SIMPSON SUDOKU
DIFFICULTY RATING:
HHHHHH
INSTRUCTIONS
Fill in the grid so that each row of nine squares, each column of nine and each section
of nine (three squares by three) contains the numbers 1 through 9 in any order. There
is only one solution to each puzzle.
ACROSS DOWN KENKEN

1 Dance club accommodates 50 with 1 Starter of dumplings = hospital menu CHALLENGING
EASY
guaranteed admission (10) choice (4)
6 Trade mitts back (4) 2 Horses I featured in sections of a
10 Stop halfway and get up (5) stable (9)
11 Secured the power to negotiate, 3 Left-side shelf (5)
perhaps, free of charge (9) 4 Filthy sports team crosses line halfway (7)
12 Carried by hunk, get naked in retreat 5 Grain bowl contains colorful stripes (7)
where there are beds (5,3) 7 To the people of Austria, Vienna claims
13 Cargo unit finally reaching a kingdom (5) zits initially shrink over time (5)
15 Throng of people bearing northeast, 8 Pox kills 10 before journal writer rings
wearing tiaras (7) true medical specialist (10)
17 My pals and I visiting her last (7) 9 Precarious Tuesday dances including
19 Folks from Siena not completely men (except me) (8)
behind fires (7) 14 Weirdly, Tom Cruise takes zero
21 Howling animals retiring with broken conservation-minded vacations (10)
toes (7) 16 Owners snarled about an annoyance
22 Web addresses describing a mountain when making an urgent call (2,6)
range (5) 18 The oracle cooked breakfast food (3,6) ©2023 KENKEN Puzzle LLC. KENKEN is a registered trademark of Nextoy, LLC. Dist. by UFS, Inc.
24 Sparkling silver wrappers on the ground, 20 Bird beginning to sing and even www.kenken.com
e.g. (8) squabble (7)
27 Nearby, I hear, wearing neat cast (2,3,4) 21 Initially came on like gangbusters after
28 Stretches out next to large von Trapp trying every toothpaste brand (7)
teenager (5) 23 Half-expect prank (5) L A ST S AT U R DAY ’ S C RY P T I C A N S W E R S
29 Recalled murmuring about carbon 25 Mosaic artist fixed the pilot up (5)
a lot (4) 26 What a pity a Glasgow gal gets ACROSS
30 Trowels repeatedly used to make reported (4) 1 RESI + STING (rise anag.), 6 STO(I)C (cots rev.), 9 UNCLE (hidden), 10 CH(I + EFT)AIN,
pastries (5,5) 11 HEARTBEAT (letter bank), 12 PHASE (fays hom.), 13 S(H)EEP, 15 EX + PEDITES (despite anag.),
18 TET + LEY TE + A, 19 LOOMS (2 defs.), 20 RI(O)TS (O in stir rev.), 22 WHITE SALE (sight whale
spoonerism), 25 SEA BREEZE (Brie sees spoonerism), 26 DUTCH (I-to-U change in ditch), 27 SI(T(h)E)S,
28 PA’S + SWORDS
DOWN
1 ROUGH (ruff hom.), 2 SAC + RAMEN + T, 3 S(K(id))EET (tees rev.), 4 IN + C(R)EMENT,
5 GUILT (gilt hom.), 6 SO(F + TPED)AL (dept + F in Laos rev.), 7 OMAHA (a + ham + O rev.),
8 CON + VERSES, 13 SAT + IRIS + T.S., 14 PLEA(SURE)S, 16 PHAR + I + SEES (harp anag.),
17 T(WOM(en))ASTER, 21 O + P ART, 22 W + HELP, 23 END + OW, 24 ETHOS (anag.)
This Saturday’s Cryptic answers in next week’s section

P10 | P U R S U I TS O T H E G LOB E A N D M A I L | S AT U R DAY , M AY 2 0 , 2 0 23
OFF DUTY WITH
Lauren
Chan
The model and
entrepreneur is Have there been any influential readings
out and thriving: or podcasts or figures whom you turned to
‘I’ve learned to throughout making all of these major life changes?
chill out a little’ I’ve consumed a lot of content about evolving, and
a lot of that has focused on mental health and
therapy and spirituality. I wouldn’t call myself a
ODESSA PALOMA PARKER spiritual person, but I’m growing to like a lot of the
sentiment so maybe I’m becoming one? I loved
Glennon Doyle’s book Untamed, I love Jay Shetty’s
I
t’s likely that former Glamour fashion editor podcast On Purpose and I love Kendra Austin’s
Lauren Chan was on your radar at least once newsletter called Come Home. It’s all inspired me
this year, whether it was through her essay and to trust my gut on who my true self was and what I
photo shoot for Sport Illustrated Swimsuit wanted, and to go with that.
where she was announced as the magazine’s first
openly queer plus-sized Rookie of the Year, and How have your views changed
where Chan took the opportunity to announce her toward your life-work balance?
coming out as a lesbian. Or perhaps it was the
news that she recently sold her size-inclusive The No. 1 lesson that I’ve learned when it comes to
workwear line, Henning, to the pioneering retail work is that it’s just not that important. I come
company Universal Standard; and that she’s now from publishing, where everything is on deadline
Universal Standard’s head of brand partnerships. Lauren Chan and you’re competing for those exclusives. And
Of course, it could’ve been in any of the ensuing PHOTO ILLUSTRATION then I ran a business where things were urgent,
press around the Brampton, Ont.-raised, Brooklyn- BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL learning the hard way a few times that sending an
based entrepreneur and model’s recent achieve- e-mail in time is important. Whether imposed by
ments, which add to an already-luminous biog- other people, or out of necessity for my own busi-
raphy that includes a turn on The Globe and Mail’s ness, I really was working in a place of urgency all
Canada’s Best Dressed list five years ago. the time. Now I’m really excited because I am go-
I listened to a Brené Brown talk about vulnerabil- ing to give myself a break. In terms of modalities
I’d like to start off by talking about vulnerability. ity the morning of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit and life beyond work, I’ve learned to chill out a
What has the process been like in terms of getting photo shoot because I knew it would give me that little.
yourself comfortable with being vulnerable? last boost of confidence that I needed to knock it
out of the park. So what have you been doing
I thought I’ve always been vulnerable. I spent my to give yourself a break?
career speaking to other people through publish- You’ve been a public figure for some time,
ing, and chose my passion point and audience to but right now, you’re going through an evolution. I realized it was too hard while running a business
be plus-size women, which is an inherently emo- I’m curious about feedback from your audience, and having a full-time modelling job to let self-care
tional beat in fashion. If you had asked me as a size since you recently posted that you experienced happen when I came across downtime. What I
18 if getting dressed in clothes I didn’t really love to a drop in Instagram followers after coming out. started doing to make sure I have time for med-
talk on Good Morning America or The Today Show itation and active mental healing is therapy once a
about being physically bigger than everyone else If I had zero internet presence and a non-public- week, and bodywork, like massages. That’s when
and demanding inclusion was vulnerable, I facing job, then I wouldn’t have had as much anx- I’m really able to be in my own mind and have
would’ve said yes, I feel maxed out on how much iety about coming out. People who live LGBTQ+ clarity and breakthroughs and reflections. And
I’m able to give. [laughs] But from where I am experiences are always marginalized, experience that really worked for me. If you’re not finding
now, that feels easy-peasy, like entry-level stuff. microaggressions, assault and discrimination and time to have self-care and can afford to do any
The process of spending the last year coming legislation against them. So I expected some hate kind of activity where you’re forced to not have
out and getting divorced and preparing to be on and unfollowing, but I guess I didn’t think it would your phone, where it’s quiet, and you have no oth-
the size of the stage of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit be such a high number of people; as it stands, I er options than to think, it can be incredibly help-
has forced, helped, inspired and necessitated me think I’m about 1,200 followers down. Within two ful.
being even more vulnerable. As I’ve gone through seconds of reflecting on that, my thought was,
all of these difficult things, it has been proven that ‘Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. If that’s Special to The Globe and Mail
the best way forward, and to have an outcome that how you feel, I never wanted you here in the first
I wanted, is to be extremely vulnerable and candid. place.’ This interview has been edited and condensed.
HOROSCOPES SALLY BROMPTON LAST SATURDAY’S ANSWERS

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2023
CROSSWORD
IF TODAY IS look at your finances and start
making the kinds of changes that
YOUR BIRTHDAY will earn money in the long term.
Spend less, save more and aim for
Upheavals at home and at work
a big payday in the near future.
are more likely than not over
the next 12 months but don’t try SAGITTARIUS NOV. 23 – DEC. 21
to avoid them because change There may be times this weekend
is essential. Go with the flow when you don’t understand why
and become a willing co-creator loved ones act the way they do
with the universe rather than but don’t let it worry you. The
constantly fighting against it. sun’s move into your opposite
sign means they know what they
ARIES MARCH 21 – APRIL 20 still plenty of fun times to be had. are doing, even if you have a hard
The universe is very much on your You are allowed to laugh and you time working it out.
side this weekend, so don’t hold are allowed to love.
back – get out into the world and CAPRICORN DEC. 22 – JAN. 20
show what you are capable of. There LEO JULY 24 – AUG. 23 You will have to shout to get
is something about you now that Mars moves into your birth sign this yourself heard this weekend,
even your rivals recognize puts you weekend and almost immediately and even then not everyone
on a higher creative level than every- you will feel a surge of energy run- will be listening. But that’s OK.
one else. ning from the top of your head right The important point is that you SUDOKU KENKEN
down to your toes. You must though say your piece so no one can say
TAURUS APRIL 21 – MAY 21 use that energy wisely. Put your cre- later on that you did not warn them
Family and financial matters will ative and romantic aims first. of impending doom.
figure high on your “to do” list
this weekend and the good news VIRGO AUG. 24 – SEPT. 23 AQUARIUS JAN. 21 – FEB. 19
is you will be in the mood to get Something that seems trivial to you As Mars moves into your opposite
things done. Mars in the domestic may seem of earth-shattering impor- sign this weekend you will no longer
area of your chart in particular means tance to a friend or family member be able to avoid a partnership issue
you won’t take No for an answer. this weekend, so watch what you say that has been making life difficult
or your flippant attitude could cause for everyone involved. One way
GEMINI MAY 22 – JUNE 21 problems. Tell them you share their or another it needs to be resolved,
The sun’s move into your sign this concerns, even if you don’t. so get your whip out and give it a
weekend will brighten your outlook crack!
considerably after a rather bleak LIBRA SEPT. 24 – OCT. 23
phase when you thought the uni- You need to be out there making PISCES FEB. 20 – MAR. 20 FRIDAY’S QUICK ACROSS: 1 Calypso, 5 Poser, 8 Look after, 9 Cos,
verse had forgotten you exist. Social things happen now that both the sun Resist the urge to change things for 10 Oust, 12 Hear hear, 14 Cheery, 15 Divide, 17 Schubert, 18 Pear,
activities are under especially good and Mars are moving in your favour. the sake of it over the next 48 hours. 21 Inn, 22 Be all ears, 24 Nosey, 25 Healthy. DOWN: 1 Cello, 2 Leo,
stars, so get out there and make new Friendships and travel plans are under On the workfront especially there 3 Peak, 4 Outlet, 5 Portrait, 6 Secretive, 7 Reserve, 11 See things,
friends. excellent stars this weekend, and the will be a lot of pressure to modify 13 Probably, 14 Cushion, 16 Breach, 19 Risky, 20 Flea, 23 Apt.
further you wander the more good your routines and methods so you FRIDAY’S CRYPTIC ACROSS: 1 Stutter, 5 Caper, 8 Annoyance, 9 Imp,
CANCER JUNE 22 – JULY 23 times you will enjoy. are moving with the times. Don’t. 10 Palm, 12 Contacts, 14 Earthy, 15 Graphs, 17 Canister, 18 Flew,
You will be thinking deeply about Let the times catch up with you. 21 Set, 22 Magic wand, 24 Skein, 25 Scratch. DOWN: 1 Sharp, 2 Urn,
who you are and where you are going SCORPIO OCT. 24 – NOV. 22 3 Toys, 4 Random, 5 Cheaters, 6 Principal, 7 Repasts, 11 Lorgnette,
in life over the next 48 hours. Don’t The sun’s move into the wealth area Discover more about yourself at 13 Chessman, 14 Excuses, 16 Weighs, 19 Width, 20 Scar, 23 Aft.
get too serious though as there are of your chart will encourage you to sallybrompton.com
BRIDGE BY STEVE BECKER Assume you’re in four hearts ter West follows low. When the a club.
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2023 and West leads a trump. You win king wins, you play a trump to Some players might consid-
with the nine and observe that the ace and lead another low er this a tainted accomplish-
the outcome seems to depend diamond. ment, since West could have
South dealer. entirely on who has the ace of Let’s say West plays low again, stopped you from making the
North-South vulnerable. clubs. If East has it, you have 10 hoping his partner has the contract by taking his ace of
tricks; if West has it, you have queen and figuring that his play diamonds earlier. In that case,
only nine tricks. otherwise makes no difference. you would eventually have
The bidding: However, you should not al- West soon finds out he’s wrong. lost three club tricks and gone
low the contract to hinge solely After dummy’s jack wins, you down one.
South West North East on a favourable position of the become certain of the contract, But it would be wrong to
1 [H] Pass 3 [H] Pass ace of clubs. Perhaps the oppo- no matter who has the ace of criticize the recommended ap-
4 [H] nents can be induced to make clubs. proach for that reason. Part of
Opening Lead – seven of hearts. a mistake that will let you get You next cash the A-K of the skill in bridge consists of
home safely even if West has spades and ruff the nine, then creating pitfalls for your op-
the ace. exit with the queen of diamonds. ponent to fall into, and that is
In line with this, you lead a West takes the ace but must what you did here by leading
low diamond at trick two, play- hand you a 10th trick, whether a low diamond twice toward
ing the king from dummy af- he returns a spade, a diamond or dummy’s K-J-x.
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Five things to watch this weekend

Brendan Fraser lands
on Prime, plus a taste
of Taylor Sheridan
pre-Yellowstone
BARRY HERTZ
D
o you feel like you’re
drowning … but you
haven’t even left your
couch? Welcome to the Great
Content Overload Era. To help
you navigate the choppy digital
waves, here are The Globe’s best
bets for weekend streaming.
The Whale
P R I M E V I D EO
The one overwhelmingly posi-

tive thing that you’ve heard
about Darren Aronofsky’s The
Whale is true: Oscar-wining star
Brendan Fraser does a remarka-
ble job. Playing a morbidly obese
English professor who spends his
life refusing to leave the confines
of his dank apartment, Fraser
not only brings a level of tender-
ness to the proceedings but gen-
uine excitement and spirit. By
channelling heretofore unseen
depths of emotional strength,
Fraser accomplishes something
far more impressive than simply
resurrecting his career – he resur-
rects his own moribund movie,
which without him would evap-
orate.
Sisu
O N - D E M A N D, I N C LU D I N G A P P L E T V
A N D G O O G L E P L AY
Taking Brad Pitt’s famous Inglou-

rious Basterds monologue to ri-
diculously gory new heights, the
Finnish action movie Sisu is all
about “doin’ one thing and one
thing only: killin’ Nazis.” And di-
rector Jalmari Helander’s new
film does that one thing very, ve-
ry well. Across 91 swift and brutal
minutes, Sisu explores new and
vividly grisly ways to dispose of
Nazis, following a war vet Aatami
(Jorma Tommila) prospecting
for gold in the remote wilderness
who is confronted by a squad of
SS officers. What follows is a cav-
alcade of hardcore violence, with
the stoic and largely silent Aata-
mi picking off members of the
platoon one by one, like a 1940s Clockwise from top: Elizabeth Olsen and Graham Greene feature in Wind
era John Wick. If watching mass- River; Brendan Fraser stars in The Whale, which centres on an obese
murdering maniacs get absolute- English professor who spends his life refusing to leave the confines of his
ly destroyed on-screen is your apartment; The Office; Soft follows three young genderqueer friends in
thing – and it very much is mine Toronto over the course of one summer.
– then Sisu is a perfectly de-
praved night in. But half a decade ago he was just Starring Jeremy Renner as a vet- Kevin Costner gravitas. vision of the city that is as alive
making his directorial bones, eran game-tracker and Elizabeth and energetic as it is malicious.
Wind River starting with this tight little Olsen as an FBI agent, Wind River Soft
NETFLIX thriller whose setting (a Native follows the unlikely pair as they O N - D E M A N D, I N C LU D I N G A P P L E T V The Office, Seasons 1-9
American reservation in Wyom- unravel a murder-mystery. It’s a A N D G O O G L E P L AY C R AV E
Today, Taylor Sheridan is televi- ing), story (a murder-mystery) tidy little whodunit, with a late-
sion’s billion-dollar man, respon- and characters (taciturn heroes act switch in perspective that When it premiered at the Toron- There could be a whole essay – or
sible for running the increasingly holding grudges and secrets) tel- works better than it should. Al- to International Film Festival this even limited series, really – about
sprawling Yellowstone franchise. egraphed where he was heading. though, sure, it could use some past September, Canadian film- how the biggest thing to come
maker Joseph Amenta’s feature out of the streaming wars is the
debut arrived with a more pro- resurgence of decades-old U.S.
vocative, but perhaps unsellable, network television. There’s a rea-
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the hard world of Soft. A coming- new movie or original series, but
of-age film that feels like Larry all nine seasons of NBC’s The Of-
Clark’s infamous urban tragedy fice. Previously housed in Netflix
Kids stripped of its sleaze, the Canada’s catalogue, the sitcom is
film follows three young gender- now live on Crave – because
queer friends in Toronto over the some times you’d just rather
course of one summer. Amenta watch Michael Scott burn his
operates with their heart on their foot on a George Foreman Grill
sleeve and ambitions on-camera, for the umpteenth time rather
finding tremendous strength than watch something new. Hey,
with its trio of performers and a I feel you.
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It’s time to let go of

the femme fatale trope
Two shows based on the films Fatal Attraction and Damage
are meant to be modern updates of the works, but injecting
2023 talking points doesn’t fix the problem of crazy-lady plots
JOHANNA Beth with a secret smile – though that’s

SCHNELLER bad enough. (Close’s line, “I won’t be ig-
nored, Dan,” instantly entered the canon. It
BIGGER PICTURE shows up in the new series, too.) She de-
serves death because she actively sets out
to ruin his domestic life. She pours acid on
F
atal Attraction was the world’s high- his family sedan, pukes at the sight of his
est-grossing film in 1987, on the cov- Christmas-card coziness, kills his furry pet,
er of every magazine, nominated for threatens the safety of his daughter and fi-
six Oscars, the subject of disserta- nally breaks into his home to murder his
tions and scholarly books. wife. Dan shames her – “You’re so sad,” he
Another racy work, Josephine Hart’s says – and tries to put her down, but in the Charlie Murphy, left, and Richard Armitage star in the Netflix series Obsession, which is
novel Damage spent 18 weeks on The New end it’s Married Mom who deals Home- based on Josephine Hart’s racy novel Damage and the film adaptation that followed.
York Times bestseller list in 1991, was wrecker the fatal blow.
translated worldwide and was adapted in- Damage’s sensibilities were more art medial woman, “who draws men into minxy way she winks at Dan gives us a
to a Louis Malle film starring Juliette Bi- house than blockbuster. Stephen (Irons) is chaotic turmoil … who becomes the carri- chill, and in Episode 8, a horror-movie
noche and Jeremy Irons. a doctor-turned-politician whose son Mar- er of evil.” chord prangs on the soundtrack when her
So it’s no wonder that Paramount+ and tyn (Rupert Graves) is about to marry An- Supporting characters in both series unconscious eyes pop open. Though one
Netflix, respectively, thought these two na (Binoche). But the moment Anna and yammer about the overwhelming number empathic character laments that Alex
erotic thrillers – cautionary tales about the Stephen’s eyes lock and hold, they are of crimes against women, and how privi- “knows she’s not okay,” whole episodes in-
consequences of untoward carnality – doomed. Binoche plays her carnality as a leged white dudes think they can do what- vite us to shudder as she plots to run into
might be rebooted into juicy limited series. willful blankness; Irons is tortured and ever they want and get away with it, and Dan in the elevator, plots to set off the
Unfortunately, the elements that made helpless. An innocent person dies, and the how people who are struggling with their sprinklers in a bar, plots to burn down a
them sensations in the past millennium guilty are sentenced to go on living. But mental health should not be described as house with Dan’s wife, Beth, in it. (All hail
feel toxic in this one. (All four episodes of still, we are led to believe that the affair and evil. But injecting 2023 talking points the great Amanda Peet as Beth, injecting so
Obsession, the new title for Damage, are its tragic aftermath are more Anna’s fault doesn’t fix the problem inherent in both much humanity that she almost defeats
available now; the eight-episode Fatal At- than Stephen’s: “Damaged people are dan- shows, which is that they remain utterly the nonsense.) Close’s Alex kills a rabbit.
traction began April 30. And in case you gerous,” she warns him. “They know they devoted to and dependent on the trope of Caplan’s Alex kills a person. It’s hard not to
haven’t seen the originals, there are spoil- can survive.” the femme fatale, the black widow who see her as a villain after that.
ers below.) Both new series try to update the films binds her victims and renders them help- For all their attempts at contemporary
Damage and (especially) Fatal Attraction by incorporating modern psychology, and less, the praying mantis who bites off her relevance, these series feel much more ret-
spoke to a conservative cohort panicked in Obsession, mixed-race casting. In that se- mates’ heads when she’s through with ro than zeitgeisty; they don’t seem to have
that the nuclear family was failing. Hard- ries, we learn that Anna (Charlie Murphy) them. figured out what in our current moment
charging career women were the enemy, – who does something on a computer at an Obsession’s Anna is still a blank that Wil- they’re reacting to or fighting against. It’s
and the eight million people who’d been office when she’s not shagging brilliant liam projects his fantasies onto; her claim not a modern update if the “fun” in both
infected with HIV were a reminder that sex married surgeon William (Richard Armit- that her passivity and withholding are her still comes from watching a woman be de-
outside straight marriage literally was dan- age) – was abused by her brother, who choice doesn’t change that. (In one risible lusional and dangerous.
gerous. eventually killed himself; their mother retro moment, William smiles in bliss be- But brace yourselves, because the crazy-
Fatal Attraction’s Alex (Glenn Close) was knew and did nothing. cause he orders Anna to get him wine … lady retreads aren’t over: Amazon recently
a perfect villain: an unmarried New York And Fatal Attraction’s new Alex (Lizzy and she does.) For all of Damage’s flaws, Bi- announced that it’s doing a series update
book editor so undomesticated that she Caplan) – a paralegal who works for victim noche and Irons brought gravity to it; you of the 1999 film Cruel Intentions, aka Dan-
didn’t even wash her dishes (we see this services in Los Angeles, where she has a knew their affair was painful for them gerous Liaisons in prep school, in which Sa-
when she has sex in her sink). Edgy, nervy, fling with hotshot DA Dan (Joshua Jack- both. Obsession’s Murphy and Armitage rah Michelle Gellar dares Ryan Phillippe to
needy, she’s nothing like the placid, lovely son) – is herself a victim of childhood ne- just can’t pull that off, and end up looking seduce Reese Witherspoon. In the new se-
Beth (Anne Archer), a married suburban glect, abuse and trauma. She probably has ridiculous. The night they meet, Armitage ries, malevolent step-siblings at an elite
mother whose purity is evinced by her narcissistic personality disorder; she cer- feeds Murphy an olive as she stares at him Washington university team up to seduce
simple white underwear. tainly self-harms. Paramount+ describes with blank shark eyes; she takes it into her the daughter of the U.S. vice-president.
Alex doesn’t deserve to die simply be- the series as “a deep dive reimagining … mouth so “seductively” I was waiting for Shooting begins in Toronto in June. Cast-
cause she shares a weekend romp with through the lens of privilege, personality her to tie a knot in it with her tongue. ing hasn’t been announced, but I guaran-
Beth’s husband, Dan (Michael Douglas), disorders, family dynamics and murder.” Meanwhile, on Fatal Attraction, Alex’s tee the stepsister will have a wicked smile.
an attorney, or because she refuses to tip- Dan even has a daughter (Alyssa Jirrels) mercurial, unsettling nature is still played
toe away afterward and let him return to who’s studying the Jungian concept of the as scary rather than sad. In Episode 1, the Special to The Globe and Mail

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diana Jones go-round. But Harrison Ford

is at it again, eager to remind everyone he
can still kick Nazi butt at the age of 80.
James Mangold (Logan, Ford v. Ferrari)
picks up the directing duties, with Phoebe
Waller-Bridge playing Indy’s plucky god-
daughter. Expect a storyline involving
time travel, and absolutely zero referenc-
es to Shia LaBeouf. June 30
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD

RECKONING PART ONE
Not content with saving moviegoing
thanks to Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
is now trying to defeat death itself by
leading another Ethan Hunt adventure.
Perhaps the only movie whose behind-
the-scenes feature could double as the
season’s most anticipated action epic,
Dead Reckoning Part One promises every-
thing the series has become known for:
stunts, stunt-casting (hey, it’s beloved
Canadian character actor Henry Czerny
back as the villain of the first Mission: Im-
possible!), and even more stunts. God-
speed, Tom Cruise. We’ll all miss you after
you inevitably die on-screen. July 12
BARBIE Barbie
The most anticipated movie about dolls
since Russ Meyer first explored the valley,
Greta Gerwig’s Mattel-approved meta-
comedy might be a genius stroke of mer-
chandise-cinema, à la The Lego Movie. Or it
could be a Ken-brained scheme to spend
hundreds of millions of Warner Bros. in-
tellectual-property rights. Either way, with
Gerwig’s sterling reputation for high-brow
comedy, a sprawling cast of superstars
(Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu,
Will Ferrell) and enough pink to drown
Paris Hilton five times over, Barbie has the
makings of a must-see megaevent. July 21
You Hurt My Feelings
OPPENHEIMER
Big-screen blockbusters bring It will be a busy and interesting weekend
at the multiplex the third week of July
Barbies, bomb makers and when Christopher Nolan’s latest bwah-
bwah-bwah epic goes toe-to-stiletto with
Gerwig’s Barbie. Frankly, the two movies
too many Batmans to count have the makings of a perfect double bill:
First, watch Nolan destroy the world with
this typically intense tale of the father of
BARRY HERTZ travelling faster than the title character, the atomic bomb (played by Cillian Mur-
though it might all crash and burn if star phy). Then watch Gerwig build that world
Ezra Miller gets into any more legal trou- right back up in jokey bubblegum fash-
A
nother year, another Hollywood ble. Assuming studio Warner Bros. has ion. If you have to choose just one film,
crisis (or, really, another set of Miller housed under lock and key some- though, maybe Oppenheimer’s ridicu-
crises). But while the writers’ where, audiences should go nuts for the lously stacked cast will be the deciding Bones of Crows
strike, the financial instability of film’s promised Flash/Batman crossover, vote: Not only is Nolan regular Murphy
the United States’ theatre chains and the featuring not only two multiverse speed- here, but there is also Matt Damon, Rob-
looming threat of AI threaten to rain out sters but also Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne ert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Emily
the 2023 summer movie season, there are playing against Michael Keaton’s older- Blunt and Kenneth Branagh (attempting
still more than enough whiz-bang block- school caped crusader. Oh, and Michael just as funny an accent as he was doing in
busters and interesting indies to distract Shannon has somehow been coaxed back Tenet). Bombs away, in a good sense. July
us from the industry’s troubles. And all of into playing one-time Superman foe Zod. 21
them are exclusively on the big screen Good for you, Michael Shannon. June 16
(sorry, Netflix!).
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL FIVE CAN’T-MISS INDIES
OF DESTINY
FIVE CAN’T-AVOID BLOCKBUSTERS I guess Steven Spielberg and Karen Allen YOU HURT MY FEELINGS
were just too satisfied after making 2008’s The last time Julia Louis-Dreyfus teamed
THE FLASH universally, um, beloved Kingdom of the up with writer-director Nicole Holofcener,
The hype for this DC superhero flick is Crystal Skull to come back for another In- the result was the lovely, bittersweet 2013 Past Lives
From the theatre to the big top, Emilia Bassano, believed by many to be
the “dark lady” of the sonnets.
In Toronto, the most intriguing alt-
2020. Mukhtar Omar Sharif Mukhtar took
over as writer and director, but elements
of Devlin’s original concept, notably a
these performances cater to all Shakespeare comes from Shakespeare in
the Ruff (Aug. 17 to Sept. 3): This year, a
two-storey cube that Cirque’s performers
defy gravity around and inside, remain.
Richard Three multiverse adaptation by If you’re truly circus obsessed, plan a
Patricia Allison is played with only three trip around Montréal Complètement Cir-
actors; Alex Bulmer and Alexia Vassos are que (July 6-16) which brings forward-
duelling Richards, and Christine Horne thinking companies from across Quebec
plays everyone else. and around the world to town, too. The
lineup this year includes a queer hybrid of
circus and drag called Dirty Laundry from
FRINGE FESTIVALS – EVERYTHING, Australia’s Briefs Factory International
EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE and a cross-over of circus and classical cel-
lo called Sarabande from France’s Jörg
The first Canadian-style Fringe was start- Müller & Noémi Boutin.
ed in Edmonton in 1982 – and the idea of
an accessible-to-all, almost-anything-goes
performing-arts festival has since spread MUSICALS ABOUT AND/OR IN
to every city worth its salt. Major shows THE ATLANTIC PROVINCES
birthed on the Fringe include Kim’s Conve-
nience and The Drowsy Chaperone and the Come From Away, Irene Sankoff and David
artists who cut their teeth there are too Hein’s hit about kindness amid chaos, is
numerous to even start to name. But it’s getting a brand-new Canadian production
the eternal outsiders – the performance sooner than expected this summer at the
poets, the horror clowns – who are the Joseph R. Smallwood Arts & Culture Cen-
Fringe’s heart. tre (July 7 to Sept. 3) in Gander, N.L.,
The circuit kicks off with FringeMTL where, of course, the show about 9/11-
(May 29 to June 18), weird and wild in stranded travellers is set.
both official languages, before travelling Director Jillian Keiley’s fresh take fea-
Artists perform during Cirque du Soleil’s Echo in Montreal in April. The show will run until players head east to the Ottawa Fringe tures a host of Newfoundlander actors
Aug. 20 in the city’s Old Port. ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Festival (June 15-25) and the Toronto playing the Newfoundlanders for the first
Fringe Festival (July 5-16). The biggest time – as well as original Broadway cast
ones, as always, are the Winnipeg Fringe Petrina Bromley and Astrid Van Wieren
J. KELLY NESTRUCK while the weather is nicest, the uncancel- Theatre Festival (July 19-30) and the Ed- trying out new characters.
lable Bard of Avon can also be found in monton International Fringe Theatre Fes- If you can’t get a ticket, but still hanker
tents and on outdoor stages coast to tival (Aug. 17-27). for a musical trip to the Rock, perhaps try
T
he Globe and Mail mainly turns coast. Fresh new Fringes highlighting how the out an untested tuner in St. John’s. The
its critical eye on the Stratford In Vancouver, Bard on the Beach’s 2023 format is evolving include the Nogojiwa- growing Terra Bruce company will be
Festival and the Shaw Festival in season centres on a revival of director Da- nong Indigenous Fringe Festival (in opening its renovated Majestic Theatre in
the summer – a couple of classics- ryl Cloran’s hit Beatles-infused produc- what’s also called Peterborough, Ont., August with The Wild Rovers, featuring
plus destination theatre companies in On- tion of As You Like It (June 8 to Sept. 30) – June 21-25) and the Mississauga Multilin- music by the Irish-Canadian band the
tario among the most prestigious in North after successful iterations all around gual Fringe Festival (Aug. 14-27). Irish Rovers. (Exact dates TBD.)
America. But there’s so much more going North America. Not quite as far east, large-scale new
on in the performing arts between June In St. John’s, Shakespeare by the Sea musicals are the focus of the revivified
and September. celebrates its 30th season with a lineup CIRCUS: FROM BOOM TO Charlottetown Festival in Prince Edward
Canada’s city stages are dominated by that includes Romeo and Juliet (July 28 to BUST TO ECHO Island. Maggie is the big ticket this season
the Bard and the no-holds-barred – that is Aug. 12) directed by Andrew Tremblett; (June 21 to Sept. 2), telling the story of a
to say, William Shakespeare and the not to be confused with Halifax’s Shak- Hometown heroes Cirque du Soleil run a 20th-century single mom in working-class
Fringe Festival circuit – but there are am- espeare by the Sea – also celebrating its big-top show in Montreal’s Old Port all Scotland with a tuneful score by Scottish-
ple opportunities to see circus and musi- 30th season with Romeo and Juliet (July 19 summer amid the city’s myriad cultural Canadian country star Johnny Reid. It’s al-
cals and ultramodern miscellany, too. to Sept. 1) directed Drew Douris-O’Hara. confabs. This year, it’s Echo (to Aug. 20) – ready proved exceedingly popular in Ha-
In between the coasts, you’ll find Win- an original offering after a year of reboots milton – and has a post-Charlottetown
nipeg’s Shakespeare in the Ruins (June 1 – providing one of the first glimpses of run lined up in Glace Bay, N.S. (Sept. 28 to
SHAKESPEARE FROM COAST TO COAST to July 2) and Saskatoon’s Shakespeare on how the company might evolve after its Oct. 8).
the Saskatchewan (July 7 to Aug. 20) col- near-death pandemic experience.
Shakespeare is, of course, produced on laborating across provincial lines this year Echo’s built on the bones of an earlier
the largest of scales at the Stratford Festiv- on the world premiere of The Dark Lady. show created by Es Devlin – the brilliant STATE OF THE PERFORMING ART
al (where former TV Mountie Paul Gross Stratford Festival regular Jessica B. Hill’s British theatre designer who’s worked
headlines as King Lear to Oct. 29). But two-hander is about the Bard and poetess with Beyonce, too – that nearly opened in For seekers of the state-of-the-art, Mon-
rom-com Enough Said. Now, the two are

back together for this prickly-sounding
dramedy about a novelist (Louis-Dreyfus)
and her therapist husband (Tobias Men-
zies) whose marriage is tested by matters
big and small. As usual, Holofcener has as-
sembled an impressive cast to back up her
leading lady, including Michael Watkins,
David Cross and Succession’s Arian
Moayed. May 26
BONES OF CROWS
Going slightly under the radar at the To-
ronto International Film Festival this past
fall, Marie Clements’s Canadian drama
Bones of Crows will hopefully get that much
more attention this summer. A genera-
tions-spanning epic following the life of a
Cree matriarch (played at different ages by
Summer Testawich, Grace Dove and Carla
Rae) as her family is torn apart by the resi-
dential-school system, the movie should
offer stark, substantive relief from the
clanging din of the blockbusters playing
next door. June 2
PAST LIVES
The debut feature from Korean-Canadian
director Celine Song follows two child- Foretoken, 2008, by Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda. The Audain Art Museum in Whistler, B.C., offers a first major North American
hood lovebirds separated by distance and solo show of his work – claustrophobic accumulations of detail in pen and ink on paper. YAUHIDE KUGE
decades, only reuniting after one of them
(played by Greta Lee) has married an
American writer (John Magaro). Tender,
confident, frequently funny and already
backed by cool-kid U.S. distributor A24,
If you’re looking to beat the heat,
Song’s semi-autobiographical romance
looks like it could be the big indie hit of the check out these cool exhibitions running
season. June 9
ASTEROID CITY
at museums and galleries across the country
Break out the Futura font and prepare your
best bespoke bowtie: Wes Anderson is go- KATE TAYLOR by Thomas Balaban, David Theodore and Jennifer Thoro-
ing two-for-two this year, releasing both good, the project, featuring a screening room and a green-
this live-action comedy and a yet-to-be-ti- screen installation, was originally commissioned for the 2020
C
tled Roald Dahl adaptation from Netflix. anada’s museums and galleries will be busy this sum- Venice Biennale architecture exhibition and will now finally
Asteroid City is up first, with the filmmaker mer. The sector has emerged from the pandemic with be fully realized at MOCA. From June 2.
assembling his usual array of familiar faces lots of bright ideas about how to draw visitors. Climb
(Jason Schwartzman, Edward Norton, Til- inside a submarine, film yourself on a green screen or With both contemporary art and precontact pieces dating
da Swinton, Willem Dafoe) plus a number simply admire some unusual contemporary art from the bold back as far as 200 BCE, Inuit Sanaugangit: Art Across Time
of high-profile new players (Tom Hanks, carvings of the Northwest Coast artist Dempsey Bob to the brings together 400 works of Inuit art from Siberia, Alaska,
Margot Robbie, Steve Carell, Scarlett Jo- dense works on paper by the Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda. Canada and Greenland. Now at the Winnipeg Art Gallery/Qau-
hansson). Set in 1955, the film follows a Here are some of the most tantalizing offerings from East to majuq to Jan. 7, 2024.
group of families who gather in the titular West.
(and fictional) location for an annual star-
gazer convention. I couldn’t be more excit- The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia in Halifax picks up the impres-
ed. I’m not including an exclamation point sive Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity exhibi-
here only to underline my deadpan affection that originated at Toronto’s Power Plant last summer.
tation. June 16 The show features engrossing juxtapositions of work by In-
digenous artists from Peru, Brazil and Venezuela with Inuit
TALK TO ME artists from the circumpolar regions of Canada, the United
A sensation at Sundance earlier this year, States, Finland and Norway. Until Sept. 17.
the Australian horror flick Talk to Me
marks the directorial debut of Danny Phi- Bestselling children’s book illustrator Hatem Aly (The Proud-
lippou and Bill Hinzman, collectively est Blue; In My Mosque) was born in Egypt but now lives in
known as the YouTube stars RackaRacka. Bathurst, N.B., with his family and many pets. The Beaver-
Intense, sick and darkly funny, the film fol- brook Art Gallery in Fredericton celebrates this new New
lows a high-schooler (Sophie Wilde) who Brunswicker with an exhibition of his cheerful work. From
gets caught between the worlds of the June 1.
dead and the living after participating in a
séance with a mysterious embalmed hand The Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec in Quebec
(hate when that happens). Watch it with City welcomes the first North American exhibition devoted to One of Paul Hetherington’s miniature Lego displays is shown at
someone whose (preferably un-em- the radical British designer Alexander McQueen, famed for the West Vancouver Memorial Library. BLAINE CAMPBELL
balmed) hand you can grip during the the “bumster” jeans, which launched the low-rise trend in
tale’s many shocking moments. July 28 1990s. The show includes 69 fashion ensembles by the design-
er, who died in 2010, but also reveals his historical references
with 50 works by other artists. From June 15.
Dempsey Bob, leading carver of Northwest Coast totem poles

and masks, is a descendant of the Tahltan and Tlingit peoples
treal’s Festival TransAmériques (May 24 to and member of the Wolf clan, traditional cultures that he
June 8) is the country’s most significant blends into his contemporary art. Wolves, the first-ever retro-
annual event bringing in the best from spective of his work, seen previously in B.C. and Ontario, now
around the world and placing it in conver- stops at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Until Sept. 10.
sation with Canadian work; under new co-
artistic directors Martine Dennewald and To this day, Canada earns plaudits for making great children’s
Jessie Mill, it’s seamlessly transitioned to TV. The Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau explores
new times. the classics with a show called From Pepinot to Paw Patrol:
Large-scale 2023 productions include Television of Our Childhoods. It features costumes, puppets
Encantado (“an irresistible force,” said the and numerous video clips. Until Sept. 1.
Financial Times of its Paris premiere) by
veteran Brazilian choreographer/activist Kids will enjoy climbing into a submarine in Voyage to the Noah Qinuajua, attributed, One of the works from Toronto
Lia Rodrigues; and Creation Destruction, cli- Deep, a maritime exhibition at the Ontario Science Centre in Mother and Child, 1952, at artist Abraham O. Oghobase’s
mate-change choreography by Montreal’s Toronto, inspired by Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea the Winnipeg Art Gallery. current show at the Polygon
Dana Gingras featuring a 12-musician band by Jules Verne. Meanwhile, adults might want to check out ERNEST MAYER Gallery in Vancouver.
that includes local legends Godspeed You! the science centre’s classic modernist architecture, now
Black Emperor. threatened by Ontario government plans to move it down- Remai Modern in Saskatoon will play host to Oma-je, the
Luminato Festival Toronto (June 7-18) is town. From June 5. largest North American show to date from the celebrated
a festival of an ever-shifting size and iden- French artist Laure Prouvost, known for her experimental
tity. This year, its must-see is Treemonisha, The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto is organizing Being videos and surreal installations whose otherworldly environ-
Toronto-based Volcano’s resurrection of and Belonging, an exhibition in which 25 contemporary fe- ments are created from everyday things. From June 30.
Scott Joplin’s legendary semi-lost 1911 op- male artists from the Islamic world explore such themes as
era by a team that includes playwright/ sexuality, power and identity. From July 1. Contemporary Calgary is playing host to the Art Gallery of
broadcaster Leah-Simone Bowen, in-de- Ontario’s chronological retrospective of Diane Arbus photo-
mand director Weyni Mengesha and Pana- In Impostor Cities, the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto graphs drawn from its own collection. Diane Arbus: Photo-
manian-American conductor Kalena Bo- will investigate the intriguing way in which Canadian cities graphs, 1956-71 features many of her best-known and famous-
vell. pose as other places in popular television and film. Conceived ly unsettling images including the twins in party dresses, a
boy with a toy grenade and several of “female imperson-
ators.” Until Sept. 17.
The West Coast Modern design movement was famous for

Vancouver houses of glass and wood adapted to their spectac-
ular cliffside sites. At the West Vancouver Memorial Library,
artist Paul Hetherington has unveiled eight miniature mod-
els of the best examples in partnership with the West Van-
couver Art Museum. His building material is Lego. Until July 31.
In his current show at the Polygon Gallery in Vancouver,

Abraham O. Oghobase, a Toronto artist of Nigerian birth, in-
vestigates the legacy of mining in Africa, considering the im-
pact of colonial resource extraction on land, labour and the
body. His intriguing montages combine diagrams from a 1912
mining handbook with photographs of his own body while
he also works with images from an American archive of East
African photography, which he degrades through repeated
photocopying. Until July 30.
The Audain Art Museum in Whistler, B.C., offers a first major

North American solo show of work by the Japanese artist Ma-
nabu Ikeda. Creating claustrophobic accumulations of detail
in pen and ink on paper, Ikeda renders scenes of both natural
beauty and environmental apocalypse. From June 24.
Buried in the Cambodian jungle for centuries, the famed tem-

ple at Angkor was created by a Khmer civilization dating to
the 12th century. The Royal BC Museum in Victoria plays host
to a Canadian stop for Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia,
a touring exhibit of 120 works including original artifacts
from the site and information about the continuing research
there. From June 2.
New and coming albums to

complete your summer soundtrack
JOSH O’KANE beams was one of the most pleasant musi-
cal debuts of the early pandemic: empath-
etic, confident songs set to live R&B instru-
I
t’s far too early to prejudge what might mentation that was so tight that the Gen-Z
be the song of the summer, but the fun musician could even win over the heart of
is in the hunt, anyway. These albums the most cynical boomer. Two years later,
cast their gazes both forward and back- the British singer-songwriter’s follow up
LLUSTRATION BY NADA HAYEK

ward for inspiration, explore love and de- embraces a more synth-driven future.
spair, and often carry hope – either in their Songs such as Weightless and Blades – the
lyrics, or in the expectations of their fans, latter of which was directly influenced by
since in some cases these albums may or Kaytranada – take Parks’s wide-eyed lyri-
may not have even been recorded yet. cism, now steered a little more toward
What is summer for, though, if not for longing, and set it to grooves more likely to
longing? get a dance floor moving.
FRED AGAIN.. AND BRIAN ENO, FOO FIGHTERS, BUT HERE WE ARE
SECRET LIFE (ROSWELL/RCA, JUNE 2)
(TEXT RECORDS, MAY 5) Okay, so maybe rock is still a going con-
Some of 2023’s most fun musical storylines cern, but there’s a good argument to be
are the friendships that the prolific pan- made that there’s pretty much one guy
demic wunderkind Fred again.., a British holding it up. Dave Grohl, the rock ’n’ roll
dance-music producer, has been building
with the pioneers of his genre’s previous
generations. His tripartite bromance with
Atlas, has long since passed shouldering
the legacy of Nirvana – just as he’s shed the
power-pop music he made after Kurt Co-
Get lost in the rhythm at these
dubstep king Skrillex and texture manip-
ulator Four Tet has been widely document-
bain’s death – to become a stadium main-
stay. And yet he and his fellow Foos are concerts and music festivals
ed, but the two-way mentorship he’s had mourning another death: that of their
for more than a decade with Brian Eno, the drummer, Taylor Hawkins, who died last BRAD WHEELER
art-rock and ambient-music giant, has year on tour. It’s not yet clear who’s drum-
given us one of the year’s most pleasant ming on their new album’s lead single Res-
F
surprise albums. On Secret Life, Fred sheds cued, which blends the poppier side of rom on high, Neil Young declared the concert touring business was
his propulsive style to play in the ambient- their songwriting with The Pretender-like broken. “It’s over,” he posted on his website last month. “The old days
as-art sandbox Eno began building in 1978. anthemic moments. Could it be Queen are gone.”
It’s an evocative, gorgeous slow burn, per- scion Rufus Taylor? Renowned session Young is not the only one frustrated. Fans of Taylor Swift filed a
fect for lying on the beach and staring at drummer Josh Freese? Or maybe Grohl class-action lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent-company Live Nation
the sunset. himself? Entertainment for “unlawful conduct” after the Swift ticket debacle, and U.S
senators held an antitrust hearing earlier this year to investigate whether
KAYTRANADA AND AMINÉ, FÉLIX LECLERC, L’ALOUETTE EN COLÈRE Ticketmaster and promoter Live Nation hold a monopoly in the ticketing
KAYTRAMINÉ (ÉDITION ANNIVERSAIRE) industry.
(VENICE MUSIC, MAY 19) (UNIVERSAL, JUNE 9) Amid the outrage, however, the concert business rolls on robustly. Live
Kaytranada is Montreal’s king of the sum- The Québécois activist and folk singer- Nation just posted a record-breaking quarter of US$3.1-billion in revenue, with
mery, bouncy anthem; the electronic pro- songwriter Félix Leclerc died 35 years ago, a record 19.5 million fans attending its events globally. If people are protesting,
ducer has a keen ear for hooks and the but his legacy has long carried on through- they are doing it with their words (and lawsuits), not their pocketbooks.
right beats to complement the many vo- out Quebec, where the esteemed Félix As for Young, following his dire proclamation, he returned to the stage after
calists he works with. The Portland rapper- Awards still bear his name. Universal is re- more than three years away for a pair of concerts, including Willie Nelson’s
singer Aminé has been an occasional col- issuing his seminal album L’alouette en co- 90th birthday celebration. “Made me want to play more,” the Rockin’ in the
laborator for nearly a decade. In their first lère for its 50th anniversary, bringing it Free World singer said on his website afterward. “Maybe July.”
full-length together, their kinship’s play- back to the masses with never-heard-be- The system might be broken, but it’s the only one we’ve got.
fulness reveals itself. Lead single 4eva, fea- fore demos. That includes a very early re-
turing perennial hitmaker Pharrell Wil- cording of the title track, made in 1971 in
liams, shines like a sunny afternoon, while the wake of the October Crisis, which TOP 13 SUMMER MUSIC EVENTS
Rebuke builds a beach day out of a sample serves up a case study in duality: Leclerc
from Brazilian guitarist Lo Borges. exudes both calmness and extraordinary BEYONCÉ
frustration as he processes what he felt as Industry forecasters predict that her spectacle Renaissance tour could net
PONY, VELVETEEN his homeland slipped away after Ottawa’s nearly US$2-billion, easily topping the US$1.6-billion that Taylor Swift’s Eras
(TAKE THIS TO HEART RECORDS, MAY 19) heavy-handed response to the calamity. tour is expected to earn. There is a reason Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is
With rock music melting away from the known as Queen Bey. July 8 and 9, Rogers Centre, Toronto; Sept. 11, BC Place,
charts this past decade, its keenest stu- JENNY LEWIS, JOY’ALL Vancouver.
dents are less bound to the genre’s imme- (BLUE NOTE/CAPITOL, JUNE 9)
diate past than older generations. Pony, After conquering countless flavours of in- BOYGENIUS
who flit between Toronto and Windsor, die rock with her solo career, Rilo Kiley The indie-rock supergroup of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus
Ont., hew toward the wall-of-sound power (which the aforementioned Pony cites as wear its influences on its record sleeve: The trio’s demonstrative debut LP,
pop of the 1990s, when the nerds of college an influence) and the Postal Service, Jenny The Record, includes a song inspired by Paul Simon and another one called
rock crossed paths with the ethos of punk Lewis has gone to Nashville. Working with Leonard Cohen. June 21, Budweiser Stage, Toronto; July 28, PNE Amphitheatre,
and embraced crunchy, playful fun. Led by Dave Cobb – who’s produced for “alterna- Vancouver.
songwriter Sam Bielanski and guitarist tive” (scare-quotes half intended) country
Matty Morand, Pony write songs that are acts such as Sturgill Simpson, Chris Staple- HERBIE HANCOCK
both urgent and exciting, including Sucker ton and Jason Isbell – Lewis’s new record Has it really been 50 years since the release of his platinum-selling Head
Punch, Très Jolie and Peach. filters her fine songwriting through the Hunters album? The 83-year-old legend still brings the funk, touring with a
genre with great confidence. There’s often band that includes trumpetist Terence Blanchard. June 29, Toronto Jazz Festiv-
ARLO PARKS, MY SOFT MACHINE been a country element to Lewis’s evoca- al; June 30, Ottawa Jazz Festival; July 3, Montreal Jazz Festival.
(TRANSGRESSIVE, MAY 26) tions, and in some cases aesthetics (see:
Arlo Parks’s 2021 album Collapsed in Sun- Rabbit Fur Coat). But the Joy’all single Psy- WINNIPEG FOLK FESTIVAL
chos layers her evocative songwriting atop “When I was your age, I was just like you/ And just look at me now, I’m sure
the lucid pedal steel and ultratight rhythm you do.” Loudon Wainwright III wrote 1990’s A Father and A Son about his boy,
section you’d hope for from Nashville’s fin- Rufus Wainwright. The generational singer-songwriters are among the head-
est. liners at Birds Hill Provincial Park. July 6-9, Winnipeg.
JESSY LANZA, LOVE HALLUCINATION KEANU REEVES’S DOGSTAR

(HYPERDUB, JULY 28) You can’t kill John Wick, and you can’t kill Canadian actor Keanu Reeves’s
The California-via-Hamilton producer- alt-rock trio, set to make its first public appearance in more than 20 years. May
singer revealed with the single Don’t Leave 27, Bottle Rock Napa Valley, Napa, Calif.
Me Now earlier this year that she’d been
nearly struck by a car soon after moving to LUNENBURG FOLK HARBOUR FESTIVAL
Los Angeles. The incident left Lanza effec- If salt air, folk music and East Coast quaintness are your jam, your schooner’s
tively agoraphobic, the experience of come in. Headliners at the beloved festival include banjo songstress Kaia
which she channelled into the song, which Kater, soprano Measha Brueggergosman and singer-songwriters Catherine
Kaytranada ARTURO HOLMES/GETTY IMAGES wraps a house-like beat around a handful MacLellan and Jane Siberry. Aug. 10-13, Lunenburg, N.S.
of hooks. The song has since been pack-
aged as the first single from Love Hallucina- GEORGE BENSON
tion, produced with a handful of collabora- In 1980, the great jazz guitarist and smooth pop singer George Benson sang
tors including fellow Canadians Jacques “Give me the night.” He gets two. June 27, Toronto Jazz Festival; June 29, Mon-
Greene and Jeremy Greenspan. Second sin- treal Jazz Festival.
gle Midnight Ontario, co-produced with
Greene, keeps beckoning to the dance CALGARY FOLK FESTIVAL
floor, where Lanza’s music is best enjoyed. Come for Emmylou Harris, stay for Amythyst Kiah. Come for Jeff Tweedy, stay
for Boy Golden. Come for Bahamas, stay for Jenn Grant. July 21-24, Prince’s
FRANK OCEAN, TBA Island Park, Calgary.
(TBA, TBA)
Listen, Frank. We know you’ve got a new LIONEL RICHIE, WITH EARTH, WIND & FIRE
album in you. We’re ready for it when you Nothing says “imperial decline” like bygone pop star Lionel Richie performing
are. (It’s been seven years since Ocean re- at the coronation concert of King Charles. Still, Richie, who is not royalty but
Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters LEO CORREA/AP leased Blond on Apple Music and iTunes, was once a Commodore, offers hits all night long (or at least until curfew).
back in the days when artists would some- Aug. 8, Scotiabank Arena, Toronto; Aug. 9, Bell Centre, Montreal; Sept. 12, Rogers
times give certain streaming services ex- Arena, Vancouver.
clusive rights. How quaint! No, but for real,
the groundbreaking R&B singer-songwrit- SHAMBHALA MUSIC FESTIVAL
er casually dropped the line “not that If you think Shambhala is the name of a Three Dog Night hit – that song is
there’s not a new album” at Coachella in Shambala – you are likely too old for this electronic music event in the West
April, so now he’s got us thirsty. Even Kootenay mountains. Chill vibes prevail in a woodsy setting where the latest
though we don’t know yet what label it advancements in dance music and recreational chemicals are enjoyed respon-
would even come out on.) sibly. July 21-24, Salmo River Ranch, Nelson, B.C.
PUSHA T AND DJ DRAMA, AS-YET- THE NATIONAL

UNTITLED GANGSTA GRILLZ MIXTAPE The group David Letterman once called “your saddest friend’s favourite band”
(DEF JAM OR GENERATION NOW, TBA) makes alt-rock music that is monochromatic and emotionally rescuing – soft
Two of the most prominent figures of hip musical hugs for the feeling people. The quintet’s new album, First Two Pages
Félix Leclerc DEVLIN-BELAIEFF-JOUSSE hop’s past two decades have promised to of Frankenstein, namechecks Canada’s Cowboy Junkies and features contribu-
join forces sometime this year. Why not tions from Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers. June 5, Deer Lake Park, Burnaby,
this summer? DJ Drama’s Gangsta Grillz B.C.; Aug. 5, Osheaga Music and Arts Festival, Montreal; Aug. 20 (with Patti Smith),
mixtape series chronicled the ascendance Budweiser Stage, Toronto.
of Southern rap, and inspired one of the
best rap albums so far this decade, Tyler OSHEAGA MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL
the Creator’s Call Me If You Get Lost, on Simply one of North America’s top curated pop fests. This year’s headliners at
which he serves as narrator. Whether the Parc Jean-Drapeau include Kendrick Lamar, Billie Eilish and Japanese Break-
Push collab will take on the same lushness fast. Aug. 4-6, Montreal.
is unclear, though where Tyler is goofy and
introspective, Push is all brashness. It’s a DRAKE
formula that’s worked from Justin Timber- The Toronto rapper has based a career on telling everyone how hard it is to be
lake collaborations to a lucrative solo ca- him. Turns out, it’s not that hard: Heart on My Sleeve, created using artificial
reer spent rapping lucidly about what he intelligence to mimic Drake and the Weeknd, was a viral hit recently. The real
knows best (which we probably shouldn’t thing hits the road this summer for his It’s All A Blur tour. July 14-15, Bell Centre,
Jessy Lanza discuss in detail in a family newspaper). Montreal; Aug. 28-29, Rogers Arena, Vancouver.
As AI comes for voice actors, some see an opportunity

A cloned voice could
help some professionals
make money without
having to do much, but
there are concerns about
work opportunities and
control over recordings
JOE CASTALDO
I
n late April, a company called
Voices.com made the kind of
routine corporate announce-
ment that often passes without
notice. Based in London, Ont.,
the company said it had acquired
a new domain – Voices.ai – and
would launch a platform this
summer for actors to clone their
voices with artificial intelligence
and earn royalties whenever a cli-
ent, be it a commercial director
or a software company creating a
virtual assistant, is in need of a
narrator.
The reaction on Twitter, how-
ever, was swift. “WHY WOULD
AN ACTOR DO THIS?” voice actor
Tara Strong tweeted. Another
tweeted at the company: “You’re
on the cusp of a mass exodus.”
And, indeed, some people said
they would shut down their ac-
counts on Voices.com, a large attached to what others might When Voices.com consent and made to say offen- for actors. But down the line,
marketplace for (human) actors dismiss as boring work. “One of announced a program sive comments, or simply used in when the technology becomes
to connect with businesses seek- my first mentors in the industry that would allow voice other commercial contexts with- flawless, maybe voice actors will
ing voiceovers for ads, anima- was the guy who announced at actors to clone their voice out her knowledge. be obsolete,” she says, adding
tions, audiobooks, video games amusement parks: ‘Please keep with AI and earn royalties The case of Canadian voice ac- that an entire ecosystem stands
and other media. your arms and legs inside the ve- whenever it’s used, the tor Bev Standing is a well-known to be affected. If clients can sim-
The company put out a state- hicle,’” says Matt Silver, a Cana- company was met with harbinger for those in the indus- ply choose from a library of AI
ment clarifying that it has never dian-born voice actor now in the backlash. CEO David try. A few years ago, she recorded voices, that could hurt casting
cloned a voice without the own- U.S. Ciccarelli says the audio as part of a project to trans- agents, too. (Some companies al-
er’s consent – nor would it ever The potential for AI to replace reaction was ‘a little late Chinese texts. In 2020, she ready use artificial intelligence to
do so – while, on Twitter, replying at least some voice work is very premature. I understand discovered the voice for TikTok’s match actors with clients, by-
individually to some of the most real, he says. When it comes to where the fear is coming text-to-speech feature sounded passing agents.)
aggrieved tweeters. advertising, he expects that agen- from, but candidly, I feel remarkably like her own. Stand- But what the most talented
“The reaction was a little pre- cies will first test the technology like it’s unfounded.’ ing sued TikTok’s parent compa- voice actors bring to any project
mature,” says David Ciccarelli, to see how audiences respond. If MARK SPOWART/ ny in 2021, and later reached a is creativity and ingenuity (along
founder and chief executive of there’s no pushback, some will THE GLOBE AND MAIL settlement. with the ability to take direction),
Voices.com. “I understand where embrace it. “It’s purely a cost-cut- With the rise of AI, actors and none of which AI can do effec-
the fear is coming from, but can- ting measure,” he says. “Voice tal- agents are increasingly vigilant tively today. That’s the message
didly, I feel like it’s unfounded.” ent is usually one of the last about the language in contracts Kim Hurdon has been reinforcing
The blowback shows the deep things to be tacked on to a com- to ensure that a voice cannot be lately. She runs a casting agency
concern and visceral opposition mercial, and one of the most ex- duplicated or used to train an AI in Toronto and serves as an in-
to AI in some corners of the cre- pensive on a per hour rate.” model. Unions are catching up, structor at a voiceover training
ative world. The quality of AI- Silver would consider cloning too, although the terms are school, and recently received a
generated voices has developed his voice only in the right circum- vague. The Toronto branch of the call from a new graduate fretting
rapidly in the past few months, stances. Recently, he’s had dis- Alliance of Canadian Cinema, about the future of the industry.
and some companies can churn cussions with a company about Television and Radio Artists “My hope is that there will al-
out a convincing copy of a voice creating different learning mod- notes in its 2023 operating plan ways be the need for humanity to
based on less than five minutes ules for the LGBTQ community, a that it will work with internation- be heard through storytelling,”
of audio, and for only a few dol- project requiring multiple al peers to develop an “artist she says. Projects with smaller
lars. Advertisers are interested in tweaks and variations, which an first” approach to AI, and ensure budgets are more likely to turn to
the potential cost-savings, star- AI voice might handle more effi- the technology is used ethically. AI, but actors will still be in de-
tups are offering AI voices for cor- ciently. “It’s a personal choice, at A looming question is what mand for premium work, she
porate and educational training the end of the day, but I do think happens to the value of a human hopes. “We’re trying to train
materials, and Apple is already we’re engaged in a bit of a race to voice in a world of AI clones. Can these voice actors to be at a high-
using artificial voices to narrate the bottom,” he says. an actor charge a premium for er level so they’re competitive,”
audio books, all of which has For David Kaplan, whose the real thing? Strong has her she says. “When it’s a human
sparked worry that the technol- throaty baritone has voiced med- doubts. “For the next few years, with a soul doing a read, it just
ogy will limit work for voice ac- ical equipment, Domino’s Pizza there’s going to be plenty of work elevates the work.”
tors. commercials and at least one
For those who depend on their Alaskan cruise safety video, arti-
voices for their livelihoods, deriv- ficial intelligence is just another
$
ing passive income from an AI tool, and his AI alter ego will be
clone might be appealing. But for among those in the Voices.ai li-
others, it represents an insidious brary when it debuts later this
creep toward their own demise. year. “What that could mean is
Ciccarelli, who founded the that I’ll be able to make money
company in 2005, has had talks while I sleep,” he says. “If some-
with voice-generation compa- body wants to hire me right away,
nies for the past few years and
found the results to be overly ro-
and it’s a small-budget job, bin-
go.”
*& +
botic, and ultimately, unusable.
That’s no longer the case. “It
went from laughable to passa-
Kaplan, though, is an estab-
lished name who has worked in
the industry for two decades and
&$
ble,” he says. The quality im- faces no shortage of opportuni- Co-produced by Tapestry Opera and Soundstreams,
provement prompted him to ties. He’s recording constantly for and realised in partnership with Luminato Festival Toronto
think seriously about how to clients from his home in New and Harbourfront Centre
jump on the trend, and a busi- York, often seven days a week.
ness model based on consent and The situation is entirely different
fair compensation seemed like for newcomers, and AI will only
an ethical approach. “We want to make it harder for them to break
protect the talent, as it’s protect- in. “They’re screwed,” Kaplan
ing our business as well,” Cicca- says. The quick, lower-paying
relli says. gigs that AI could replace today
Today, he sees limited applica- are often stepping stones for new
tions for AI clones, which still talent. Why, he asks, hire some-
lack the full emotional range of a one inexperienced when AI Da-
human voice, along with subtle- vid Kaplan is available? “And I
ties such as sarcasm and comedic don’t even have to show up,” he
timing. AI is better suited to in- says.
formational contexts, such as Younger folks are well aware of
public service announcements, this possibility, data from Voices-
digital assistants, corporate and .com show. The company recent-
educational training material ly surveyed workers in creative
and perhaps some advertise- professions about their views on
ments. generative AI, and found 42 per
A big ad campaign could recent of respondents believe the
quire multiple versions, swap- technology could take over sig-
ping out one city name for anoth- nificant elements of their jobs.
er or tweaking the pitch depend- The youngest creatives, those
ing on the target audience. Cicca- aged 18 to 34, were the most con-
relli said one ad the company was cerned, whereas older respon-
involved with last year necessi- dents were more sanguine. One-
tated some 2,000 variations – all third of those between 35 and 44
Artwork by Gracia Lam
of which had to be recorded by had no worry at all.

the actor. An AI voice could theo- Tara Strong, who grew up in
retically do so much faster, and Toronto and has played charac-
for less money. (High-end com-
mercial productions will not
want to cut corners, he believes,
ters on animated series such as
Rugrats and The Powerpuff Girls,
was approached about a year ago
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and will continue hiring voice ac-
tors.)
by a company that wanted to use
an AI version of her voice. De- *
),)(
Some voice artists Ciccarelli spite the money – “And they of-
has spoken with are intrigued by fered a lot of money,” she says –
the opportunity. The jobs where Strong turned them down for at
AI can be used are not necessarily least two reasons. “I would be
the most fulfilling, either. “Maybe
the job’s just not really interest-
teaching an artificial intelligence
to sound like me,” she says, “and,
* % &
ing,” he says. “It’s just a pretty essentially, talking myself out of
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boring corporate training video.” a job.”
But that training video is still a She also worried that her AI
paying gig, a niche some people self, once brought into existence,
specialize in, and there is pride could be hijacked without her
How these Shaw Festival productions

are getting chuckles out of classic comedies
Four directors share and more of them – even the posi- cient. With its portrait of a future
tive ones. parliament in the pocket of big
their strategies on While Payette agrees there’s a business, The Apple Cart’s under-
embracing old humour “misogynistic aspect” to the cen- lying question about whether de-
that may not fly tral character of Charles, he’s not mocracy and capitalism can truly
spooked by it: For him, there are co-exist is “legitimate,” she says:
in today’s society lots of ways for the joke to be on “It resonates around things like
Charles – and for a production to the McKenzie Group’s infiltration
use that theme to explore the into governments around the
J. KELLY NESTRUCK changing gender roles of the world.”
1940s. “I don’t think it’s entirely
far from Coward’s intention,” he The old comedy: The Game of
D
ying is easy. Comedy is says. “There is a deliberate dis- Love and Chance, Marivaux, 1730
hard. course within there.” The new director: Tim Carroll,
The old show business Making his Shaw debut, artistic director of the Shaw Fes-
adage seems truer than ever in a Payette has found there to be tival
culture where the expiration plenty enduring amusing, too, in This 18th-century French roman-
dates on humour keep moving up the physical chemistry between tic comedy inspired by commedia
to the point where, now, what was Charles (Damien Atkins) and his dell’arte concerns a mistress who
funny yesterday may not even be spectral wife Elvira (Julia Course). swaps roles with her maid to se-
funny tomorrow. Indeed, he’s leaning into how the cretly observe a man selected to
Those somehow surprised that play connects to continued inter- be her husband.
British humorist P.G. Wodehous- est in the spirit world (see: reality For his production, director
e’s books are being reissued in al- TV’s Ghost Hunters and the pop- Carroll has come up the most rad-
tered form with content warnings ular podcast A Paranormal ical way of making it fresh: Throw
seem to have forgotten that even Chicks). out the script entirely. His actors
sitcoms from this century (cough, “We’re taking that a little bit are learning the structure of Mari-
30 Rock) have had episodes edited more seriously, which is ostensi- vaux’s scenes, but will improvise
or removed from streaming for bly funny,” Payette says. the show in different style each
being no longer up to snuff sensi- night, often in different roles.
tivity-wise. The old comedy: The Apple Cart, “If you think comedy goes out
With certain stand-up comedi- Bernard Shaw, 1928 of fashion quickly, translations go
ans coming under attack for new The director: Eda Holmes, artis- out out of date incredibly quick-
jokes – sometimes literally, in the tic director of the Centaur Theatre ly,” Carroll says of how the idea
case of Chris Rock – who on Earth in Montreal first came to him.
would even try to make a live au- This was one of Shaw’s controver- The director has assembled a
dience laugh at jokes that are 40, Kristi Frank plays Christopher and Mike Nadajewski plays Weinberl in sial comedies from the get-go, cast that includes noted theatrical
100 or 300 years old? On the Razzle at the 2023 Shaw Festival. EMILY COOPER concerning as it does a wise king improvisor Rebecca Northan, but
Well, the Shaw Festival makes named Magnus who fights off at- also company members usually
the attempt each season as a mat- Stoppard was far from the first that aren’t going to land, but tacks on his power from an elect- associated with perfectly re-
ter of mission. The Ontario desti- to following in their funny foot- there’s more than enough to ed prime minister named Pro- hearsed rhetoric or impeccably
nation theatre company is even steps: Thornton Wilder, best make up for it,” he says. “I see a lot teus. In England, some critics felt timed physical comedy such as
named after a writer of century- known for Our Town, added a of directors try to fix a comedy by this was a heel turn toward royal- Graeme Somerville and Deborah
old comedies that have been de- matchmaker figure to Nestroy’s adding jokes. ... There’s no need to ist from the social-democrat play- Hay.
clared dead more often than Gor- cast of character to create The Mer- put a sauce on the sauce.” wright. According to Shaw’s pref- “The company are used to my
don Lightfoot. (Too soon?) chant of Yonkers in 1938 – which he ace, the play was prohibited in perverse desire to throw them
The Globe and Mail spoke to later rewrote into The Matchmaker The old comedy: Blithe Spirit, 1941 Dresden as “blasphemy against things that will catch them off bal-
four directors working there this in 1955. The new director: Mike Payette, Democracy.” ance,” says Carroll, who has often
season about their strategies for Then, composer Jerry Herman artistic director of Toronto’s Tar- Holmes, now an old hand at di- introduced elements of chance
getting chuckles out of classics. made Wilder’s matchmaker Dolly ragon Theatre recting the works of the uncancel- into his productions. “The people
Gallagher Levi sing when he turn- English playwright Noel Coward’s lable Shaw (in Niagara-on-the- who signed up for this show are
The old comedy: On the Razzle, ed that play into Hello, Dolly! in comedy about novelist Charles Lake, anyway), says she’s ap- actually the ones who kind of
Tom Stoppard, 1981 1964. Condomine sharing a house with proaching the show from the “po- wanted that.”
The new director: Craig Hall, for- Forty years have now passed his second wife and the acciden- litical satire end of things,” and As for the secret of the Shaw
mer artistic director of Calgary’s since Stoppard’s (Dolly-free) go at tally conjured ghost of his late sees a British style of comedy in it Festival’s success with old come-
Vertigo Theatre the material, which the play- wife is described on the Shaw that has endured, from Yes, Minis- dies in general, Carroll points to
While rewriting comedy to make wright’s biographer describes as website as “a theatre-lovers’ fa- ter to HBO’s John Oliver. its audience. “I think they under-
it funny again may seem heretical “laden, perhaps overladen, with vourite ever since it was written.” As Shaw’s plays are in the pub- stand that a play written 100 years
in publishing, it is an ancient the- puns, double entendres, mala- But that tide may be starting to lic domain, she has not been shy ago will have an impact that’s dif-
atrical tradition of which this propisms, misfiring clichés and turn: A 2020 film adaptation, de- about slicing some of the play- ferent now – that some of the
Stoppard’s play is a fine example. gleefully filthy sexual innuendo.” spite a performance by Judi wright’s more esoteric “sidebars” things that were funny then are
This is the brilliant British play- Hall calls On the Razzle very Dench as medium Madame Arca- – and an ethnic slur against Ital- no longer funny or pull you up
wright’s farcical free adaptation much “British humour of the ti, united critics and audience ians – so the audience can focus short now,” he says. “We really try
of an 1842 Viennese play by Jo- eighties,” and acknowledges that members in a low 28-per-cent rat- on the arguments in the play. to trust them to know that the
hann Nestroy about two shop some of its jokes have gone broke. ing from on the Rotten Tomatoes Though Shaw misread many past is another country.”
clerks who sneak out for a night But he’s only cut one – a non-se- splat-o-meter. things in his time (and did, in-
on the town – which itself was quitur involving a racial slur – be- A Google search of recent re- deed, flirt with fascism), Holmes The Shaw Festival continues
based on an 1835 English one-act cause the script is jam-packed views of the play shows the word says that doesn’t mean parts of through October. Visit shawfest.com
by John Oxenford. with gags. “There’s a lot of things “misogyny” creeping into more his work aren’t nevertheless pres- for schedule and tickets.
Gavin Crawford weaves humour and heartbreak into new podcast

GLENN SUMI instead.)
As research, he went through some of
his early performances and has included a
T
hroughout his career, Gavin hilarious, tuneful and prescient song
Crawford has created some of the about a gay Texas cowboy who’s disap-
most memorable characters in pointed his mother.
Canadian comedy history. There’s “I look back and think, wow, this was
Nicky, the lipstick-wearing mechanic, and 1999 and I was gaying it up all over TV. I’d
Verna, the lovable librarian (both staples get lynched for that now. It shows how far
of his early indie-scene work). And who we actually haven’t come.”
can forget the pimply adolescent reporter A day after our Zoom interview, Craw-
Mark Jackson, or a drop-dead impression ford DMs me and, away from that glaring
of political journalist Chantal Hébert overhead light and the Zoom cameras, re-
(from his lengthy stint on This Hour Has veals a bit more.
22 Minutes)? “I’ve been thinking a bit further about
Now, in Let’s Not Be Kidding, his seven- why I made this podcast and it may have
part CBC podcast about his mother’s Alz- something to do with what’s happening
heimer’s disease, he’s revealing his most in the world right now,” he writes.
intimate and honest character of all: him- “I grew up in a religious society in the
self. ’70s and ’80s and my mother is the only
“This is full-on me – a far cry from hid- reason I am still here. I had many people
ing behind a character, and it’s only taken who said they loved me yet made it very
25 years,” he says on a recent Zoom call clear that given the choice between being
from Toronto’s CBC building, where he gay and not being here at all, not being
tapes his long-running improvised Be- here at all was the better option. My mom
cause News radio show. The overhead never made me feel that way and it was
lighting is so garish he describes himself her support and care that saw me
as looking like “a combination of Norma through. So in a way I feel the need to pay
Desmond and Armond from Season 1 of Gavin Crawford, left, kept notes throughout the years his mother, right, was living with tribute to that, and to reiterate to anyone
The White Lotus.” dementia. He decided to turn them into a podcast, Let’s Not Be Kidding, which details the out there being told their existence is a
That quip is classic Crawford. Besides heartbreaking scenarios of his mother’s condition – with splashes of funny moments. CBC problem, that sticking around and doing
the on-point pop-culture reference and your thing is the most important thing
classic gay signifier, he’s attempting to get hard because you’ve got to prepare the “They all wanted to talk about this per- you can do.”
laughs from an awkward yet deeply relat- audience to not be overly sympathetic or son that they cared about so deeply, and During the production of the podcast,
able situation. Which, in a way, is one of you won’t get the laughs. Once you say, all the crazy stuff that was going on,” Crawford’s mother passed away, and so
the motivating forces behind this podcast. ‘Oh, my mom’s going through dementia Crawford says. “It felt like a safe space, he and his producers decided to add an-
Let’s Not Be Kidding follows Crawford as right now,’ you feel them going, ‘Awww,’ which was important because of the na- other episode – “A bonus episode!” he
he tells the story of losing his mother to and it’s really hard to pull them back, ture of what we do for a living, where our mockingly says in the series – which in-
dementia, from his first realization, while even though you want to say, ‘No, no, I’m brains go and how dark we can some- volves her ashes, Sweeney Todd and a
Christmas shopping with her at Toronto’s about to tell you a really funny story!’ ” times get.” graveyard scene that is equal parts come-
Eaton Centre, that she was confused and That’s the thing about this podcast. De- As Crawford demonstrates in the pod- dy and tragedy.
disoriented, to dealing with the “looping spite the heartbreaking scenarios – wit- cast, his Second City improv training What would his mother, if she were
phase” (his mom’s constant repetition of nessing a loved one’s fear and loneliness helped a lot in dealing with his mother’s alive and in good health, think of this
questions), her desire to keep driving and while saying goodbye to them, for in- condition. When she confused him with podcast?
eventually putting her in a home. stance – there are moments that are ex- someone else, he would go with it – fol- “I think she would secretly be quite
Over the years, Crawford kept notes tremely funny. low the “Yes, and …” directive – rather pleased about it,” he says. “I think publi-
about what he and his family – his father, It helps that Crawford has included than resist and try to correct her. cly she would say, ‘Well, I think you’re
Keith; his sister Regan; and his husband, talks with some of his entertainment-in- “There would be times when I would great in it, but did you have to put me in
Kyle Tingley, are also voices in the pod- dustry friends going through similar ex- be her 14-year-old best friend,” he says. there? Nobody needs to know that.’ But
cast – were going through. In one story, he periences, such as The Kids in the Hall’s “Or I’d realize I was a lady at a coffee club. she’d have a little secret smile. Luckily,
describes his mother believing Kyle had Scott Thompson, whose mother would So that’s just who I’d have to be.” I’m never going to know.”
invented the concept of the Christmas flirt and come on to him, and author Ra- Some of the most revealing sections in-
tree, which was sad but also absurd and chel Matlow, whose father took to collect- clude excerpts from her journals, which Special to The Globe and Mail
funny. ing and wearing spandex tights, often gave him insight into her younger life but
But Crawford wondered: What to do sans shorts. also shed light on the special relationship Let’s Not Be Kidding is available on CBC
with stories like that? Everyone he asked – Baroness von he had forged with her as an arts-loving podcasts, with weekly episodes dropping
“I didn’t know if it was a play or a book Sketch Show’s Aurora Browne, singer/ gay kid growing up in Alberta. (His mom Mondays until June 12. The full series is
or a stand-up set,” he says. “I was too lazy songwriter Jann Arden and others – was also an artist but was discouraged available to binge for Apple CBC Stories
to write a book, and stand-up is really agreed to appear on the podcast. from pursuing that and became a teacher subscribers and CBC Listen members.
Kyo Maclear’s new memoir is an exploration of kinship

In Unearthing, the Toronto writer meditates on race, lineage, grief and grace after learning her father wasn’t her biological parent
TABASSUM SIDDIQI
W
hat happens when you
discover that the story
of who you are and
where you come from is com-
pletely different from the one
you were told your entire life?
That’s the explosive premise at
the heart of Unearthing, the new
memoir by Toronto writer Kyo
Maclear – who, three months af-
ter the 2018 death of her father,
celebrated foreign correspond-
ent Michael Maclear, received
the results of a DNA test showing
he wasn’t her biological parent.
Maclear, the author of multi-
ple children’s books, two novels
and the Trillium Book Award-
winning memoir Birds Art Life,
found herself excavating not on-
ly her own history, but also that
of her mother Yoko (Mariko)
Koide – and the roots of their
complicated relationship.
The result is a deeply thought-
ful meditation on secrets and
stories, race and lineage, grief
and grace – all told through the
narrative of the common lan-
guage Maclear and her mother,
aging and losing her memory,
landed on: tending to a shared
garden.
As Maclear presses her reluc-
tant mother for answers to the
questions that have blown her
life wide open, she comes to real-
ize that amid the muddled me-
mories and half-truths also lie
lessons in what it takes for new Three months after her ogy and ancestry beyond hered- cy and feelings of shame. I want- [the film’s protagonist] Evelyn
things to grow – patience, prag- father’s 2018 death, Kyo ity. ed to dislodge all of that not just and her daughter are always mis-
matism and a willingness to ac- Maclear learned from What I hope to convey is that for the sake of piecing together reading each other. We all have
cept beauty (whether in flowers DNA results that he it’s okay to have your coastlines my own story, but to clear the these different sliding-door sce-
and plants or the ineffable bonds wasn’t her biological expanded and dissolved. It’s clogged passageways of my fam- narios – and I think that’s com-
of family) in all its wild, unruly parent. She began to okay to have an identity crisis ily. pounded when you have a child
forms. excavate her own history and grow and change shape – as and you’ve lost some of your
and that of her mother, individuals, families, countries. What did trying to understand previous life’s worlds.
How did you land on the non- which led to the writing The conservative, fence-driven your mother’s history – especially
linear, poetic way of framing what of her new memoir, logic we are seeing around the how she was seen and treated What do you think your mother
is a very complex narrative? Unearthing. world shows what happens under the white, patriarchal gaze would take away from the book?
DAVID WALL when identity hardens and con- as an Asian immigrant woman –
I decided to structure the book stricts. Xenophobia, anti-migra- tell you about your own experi- I think she would get a kick out
through the passage of seasons tion, fascism – these are all kin- ence as someone from a mixed- of the way she wins – because I
and in increments, partly be- driven patterns. I hope readers race background? kind of surrender. There is this
cause the way the information are reminded that permeability expectation in memoir that you
was arriving was in these tiny lit- is a strength, not a weakness. I think that as people who are go through a difficult experience
tle parcels. We often think of sea- Many of the people I’ve sensitive to language, we have to and then you have this epiphany,
sons as large, changing blocks of known in my lifetime have been be a bit more brave about the right? But I didn’t have it – it
time, but I was more interested those who’ve shown me that way we say things. For example, wasn’t possible to have that for
in looking at gradients, and how there are infinite ways of making when people talk about interra- lots of reasons. But in the end,
the landscape and scenery was family. I had to realize actually cial marriages, they’ll say things there’s no reckoning and I sur-
changing in this minuscule way. that’s where my heart is – I don’t like “cultures bumping up render – that may sound nega-
In some ways, I created a par- really need to redefine myself in against each other,” as if they tive, but it was a kind of release;
allel between the story of my relation to a new family. were bumper cars or something. a letting-go. And that had a lot to
mother and the story of the am- When really, I see that in my do with the fact that my mother
bient natural world that I didn’t What I hope to How did you approach telling a house there were these racial also had to let go of so many me-
always pay much attention to thorny story that wasn’t just your and gender lines that my mother mories. But I think of her as the
but was always the backdrop to convey is that it’s own, but involved many others was dealing with, especially in Houdini of my storytelling – any-
everything that was going on in okay to have your close to you? the time that she moved to Can- time I tried to box her in, she’d
my life. Once you start to think coastlines expanded ada in the seventies. escape.
about plants and gardens, you and dissolved. It’s I was very careful in honouring I was thinking about Every-
realize that all these things that the complexity of people – I thing Everywhere All at Once, and I Special to The Globe and Mail
you underestimated as passive okay to have an didn’t want anything to feel like I realized that my mother was al-
are actually very active agents in identity crisis and was settling scores. I wanted to ways kind of wanting an altered This interview has been edited and
the world. grow and change uplift everyone’s humanity and version of me, like in the way condensed.
The structure also felt a bit shape – as try to understand why the secret
like a garden itself, in the sense was kept the way it was kept.
that there’s a messiness to it – individuals, families, And one thing I really tried to do
there’s an attempt to reshape countries. was create a context for the story,
things, but then they fall apart which is to show that it came out
again – it’s just a constant proc- KYO MACLEAR of a social environment, respon-
AUTHOR
ess. ding to the conventions of the
time.
In trying to unravel the mystery I revealed a set of facts some
of your own family background, people once wanted hidden. I
what did the idea of kinship come tried to do this with a sense of
to mean to you? sensitivity rather than swagger. I
left a lot out and tried to respect
A close writer friend of mine re- what was not mine to tell. But I
cently called Unearthing the ulti- also pushed back when I felt en-
mate “bait-and-switch” – a DNA ergies were being directed at
surprise story that becomes a concealment for no good reason
book about kinship beyond biol- – often out of old habits of secre-

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Is a new online university a cure

for what ails the humanities?
Institution is set to be humanities is both emancipatory
and democratic. All the texts his
up and running by 2025 school will teach represent a
and will be the first in “dialogic tradition,” and have
Ontario that is dedicated stood the test of time. The most
recent book on its English syllab-
to the humanities, us, Salman Rushdie’s Shame, was
pending approval published 35 years ago, in 1988.
The texts themselves will be
read on digital devices and ex-
EMILY DONALDSON tensively annotated and hyper-
linked by the school’s professors,
who Tilson expects to be a com-
‘W
hat’s that going to get bination of retired or semi-re-
you?” my mechanical- tired academics (who likely
engineer father asked share his disillusionment with
when I enrolled as an undergrad- the current direction of postsec-
uate in English and history at ondary education), and recent
McGill University. The answer, we PhDs.
both knew, was “nothing,” at Quizzes will be administered
least as far as future employabil- regularly to ensure comprehen-
ity was concerned. sion, grading based on a major
This didn’t bother me. Spend- term paper and presentations
ing a few years cultivating one’s that students livestream to their
mind was still, in the late eight- classmates. Because students will
ies, considered by many (if not submit work in progress via a se-
my father) an acceptable precur- cure portal, Tilson is also confi-
sor to engaging with the “real dent the program will be
world,” one made more attrac- In 2018, Edward Tilson, a Whitby, Ont.-based academic, co-founded the Humanities Digital Degrees Project with ChatGPT-proof (though presum-
tive by its affordability. Montreal the aim of establishing a bilingual online humanities university. GALIT RODAN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL ably the type of student the
rents, dépanneur plonk, and school will attract will not be the
McGill’s tuition were all dirt and the arts was popular. Not with the HDDP); in particular, kind that would abase them-
cheap – less than a thousand dol- one student, though, was headed the replacement of humanities selves by having an AI bot write
lars a year for the latter when I for straight-up humanities. While it will be fully and literature with identity- their papers).
attended. Some of the reasons for this online, the university based “studies” departments While it will be fully online,
My experience there was fairly are explored in the New Yorker will not resemble (feminist, postcolonial, gender the university will not resemble
close to Northrop Frye’s descrip- piece. Here in Canada, the advent etc.). Though they cover some of “distance learning” programs of
tion of university life in a 1984 of “performance-based funding,” ‘distance learning’ the same ground as literature the past in that there will be no
NFB documentary, as one of “at- where postsecondary institu- programs of the past in programs, studies, Tilson says, videotaped lectures. This means
tachment without withdrawal” tions get funded based, in part, that there will be no tend to be deductive instead of no class discussions either, but as
from society. “Education is not a on students’ postgraduation in- videotaped lectures. inductive in that they apply ex- Tilson points out, those have
preparation for life,” he said, “becomes, does not bode well for isting theories to material in- never been a part of big under-
cause life won’t stay around to humanities departments in That institution, whose tenta- stead of encouraging students to graduate survey courses anyway.
get prepared for. To the extent some provinces. tive name is Humanities Univer- develop their own original inter- Not relying on bricks and mortar
that it’s a preparation for any- It has also created a conun- sity of Canada – Université des pretations of it. will allow the university to cast a
thing, it’s a preparation for an an- drum. To keep the lights on, pub- humanités du Canada, will offer Because studies programs global net for “highly literate”
ti-climax, with how to live with a licly assisted universities are three- and four-year bachelor’s have low literacy requirements, students, and to keep costs
lower rate of intellectual intensi- forced to admit functionally illit- degree programs in French and it’s now possible, he says, to ob- down. Tuition will be just $5,000
ty.” erate students who wouldn’t English literature, philosophy tain a degree in English or French a year.
Even as Frye was waxing poet- have passed muster in the hu- and history. It will be the first without having read an entire We all become our parents, so
ic about them though, the humanities programs of previous dedicated humanities institution book. Many mid-level universi- I asked Tilson what his graduates
manities were already in crisis. eras. But nor is there a business in Ontario, and (likely) in Cana- ties no longer offer English or will “get” with their humanities
The subject was given new fuel model for establishing a physical da. Pending ministerial approval, French literature degrees at all. education. His answer was ex-
recently by a substantive article university that caters to a literate Tilson, the school’s president That will not be the case with pectedly erudite, with soupçon of
in The New Yorker, which cited population. and rector, expects it will be up Humanities University, where Frye: “The rigour of an authentic
some eye-opening statistics For many of these problems – and running by 2025, and is cur- the onus will be on reading, lots humanities degree equips those
about the precipitous drop in en- reduced enrolment, moribund rently looking for people inter- of it, and specifically “primary who complete it with literary and
rolment in university humanities funding, student illiteracy, even ested in serving on the institu- texts” (a.k.a. the canon), which, intellectual abilities far exceed-
programs. the dawn of ChatGPT – Edward tion’s Board of Governors and on the proposed English curricu- ing the demands of professional
I saw anecdotal evidence of Tilson believes he has the solu- Board of Visitors. lum on the HDDP’s website, life. Such a degree is not just a
this when my son graduated tion. In 2018, Tilson, a Whitby, The project itself was con- spans Chaucer to Chinua Achebe. superior preparation for employ-
from his downtown Toronto high Ont.-based academic and French ceived almost a decade ago, out And while some consider very ment, though. For students ac-
school last spring. As each stu- Renaissance specialist, co-found- of Tilson’s frustration with idea of a canon problematic customed to the life of the mind,
dent mounted the stage, their fu- ed the Humanities Digital De- trends in postsecondary educa- these days, Tilson isn’t interested a humanities education is a con-
ture plans were announced. Lots grees Project with the aim of es- tion (his last teaching gig was at in courting controversy, or en- solation for employment.”
were off to study STEM subjects. tablishing a bilingual online hu- Trent University; he’s now full gaging in culture wars. He insists
A program combining business manities university. time, per ministry requirements, that the goal at the heart of the Special to The Globe and Mail
I arrived late to the Sheila Heti party, having only cracked the spine on How Should A Person Be?,
WHAT I’M the author’s 2012 list-making novel, last year. I’m following it – also belatedly, though less so – with
Pure Colour, her 2022 Governor-General’s Literary Award-winner. The book is a not-quite-linear,
not-quite-narrative exploration of creation, criticism and consciousness as seen through the eyes
READING:
of its protagonist, Mira. That’s not quite a plot synopsis, but I think Pure Colour’s core magic is that
it totally defies description (or at least one that would fit in this space). Heti’s quasi-experimental,
deeply philosophical prose is at its absolute sharpest; this is a legacy-cementing work of literature.
Globe staffers share their book picks Rebecca Tucker, Deputy Arts Editor
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PURSUITS

Hidden Canada: 10 unforgettable

ILLUSTRATION BY NADA HAYEK

ILLUSTRATION BY ROB DOBI

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