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China extended its Lunar New Year holi-day three more days to discourage peoplefrom travelling as it tries to contain thespread of a viral illness that has caused 80deaths, the government said Monday.There were 2,744 confirmed cases by

midnight Sunday, the National HealthCommission announced.Tens of millions of Chinese who visited

their hometowns or tourist spots weredue to return home this week in theworld’s largest movement of humanity,raising the risk the virus might spread incrowded trains and planes.The official end of the holiday will be

postponed to Sunday from Friday to “ef-fectively reduce mass gatherings” and“block the spread of the epidemic,” a Cab-inet statement said.Schools will postpone reopening after

the holiday until further notice, the state-ment said.About 769 new cases were confirmed

Sunday and more than 30,000 peoplewho had contact with possible cases wereunder medical observation, the HealthCommission reported.The government also reported five

cases in Hong Kong and two in Macao.Scattered cases have been found in Thai-land, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, theUnited States, Vietnam, Singapore, Malay-sia, Nepal, France, Canada and Australia.The U.S. has confirmed cases in Washing-ton state, Chicago, Southern Californiaand Arizona.President Xi Jinping has called the out-

break a grave situation and said the gov-ernment was stepping up efforts to re-strict travel and public gatherings whilerushing medical staff and supplies to thecity at the centre of the crisis, Wuhan,which remains on lockdown with no

flights, trains or buses in or out.While warning the virus’s ability to

spread seemed be getting stronger, Chi-na’s Health Minister Ma Xiaowei said trav-el restrictions and other strict measuresshould bring results “at the lowest costand fastest speed.”Hong Kong will also ban entry from

Monday to people who have visited Hubeiprovince in the past 14 days, the city’sgovernment said.The rule does not apply to Hong Kong

residents.The U.S. Consulate in Wuhan plans

evacuate its personnel and some otherAmericans aboard a charter flight. Franceand Japan were weighing similar deci-sions.The epidemic has revived memories of

the SARS outbreak that originated in Chi-na and killed nearly 800 as it spreadaround the world in 2002 and 2003.

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China prolongs New Year holidayin bid to contain spread of virusGovernment tries to restrict public gatherings and travel as death toll continues to rise

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Kobe Bryant had the habit ofgoing through people – ri-vals, teammates, reporters,

anyone who irked him. And justabout everyone did.During the twilight of his ca-

reer, ESPN bumped him out ofthe top rank of its annual list ofthe NBA’s best players. Someoneasked Mr. Bryant if that botheredhim. “Not really,” he said. “I’veknown for a long time they’re abunch of idiots.”All great athletes have confi-

dence. Mr. Bryant was stitched to-gether fromnothingbut.Which iswhy his death on Sunday in a hel-icopter crash at the age of 41 is sojarring. He didn’t seem like thesort of personwhowould toleratean untimely death, however ill-fated.Eight other people, including

Mr. Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter,Gianna, were also killed.Theyoften say of very talented,

slightly tormented people thatthey are a study in contrasts. Mr.Bryant only had one aspect – thefront part, as he was comingstraight at you.Until a mid-career sexual-as-

sault accusation made admiringhim an ambivalent exercise, youmight have said he was the em-blematic 21st-century athlete –self-absorbed, ruthless and an ab-solute delight to watch.Hewon fiveNBA titleswith the

Lakers, the only team he playedon, as well as a franchise withwhich he seemed in near-perpet-ual, low-grade war.He is linked in the public imag-

ination with Shaquille O’Neal,not just because they were socomplementary on the hard-court, but because they were souncomplimentary off it.Most basketball pros are sa-

vants. Mr. Bryant was unusual in

NBA great killedin helicopter crash willbe remembered for hispenchant for drama

CATHAL KELLY

OPINION

that he was designed to be one.His father played professional-

ly overseas. Mr. Bryant was raiseditinerantly in Europe. He spokeItalianaswell ashe spokeEnglish.Hewas home-schooled and treat-ed as an experiment in humanexcellence.He came back to the U.S. as a

teenager and turned pro out ofhigh school at 18. He’d often refer-ence the fact, in some sneeringvariation of “But how would Iknow? I never went to college.”He was touted upon entry, but

still doubted. The Lakers traded awell-likedveteran,VladeDivac, inorder to acquire his rights. Mr.Bryant set out tomake sure thosesame people all hated him.

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Much of the booze of the Prohibition erawas bad. Not just sinful, as the temper-ance societies insisted, but just plain un-palatable.Oftenproduced inhomemade

stills or with denatured industrial alcohol – deliber-ately rendered foul-tasting or even poisonous by or-der of the government – bootleg liquor had to besweetened or infused with other flavours. Cocktails

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EILEENDOOLEY

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A searing documentary aboutthe killing ofWashington Post co-lumnist Jamal Khashoggi madeits anticipated debut at the Sun-dance Film Festival, unveiling adetailed investigation into theSaudi Arabia regime and thecompanies and governmentsthat do business with it.Bryan Fogel’s The Dissidentwas

one of the most high-profile doc-umentaries at the Park City fes-tival, and it made headlines evenbefore it made its premiere onFriday. The film, Mr. Fogel’s firstsince his Oscar-winning exposéIcarus on Russian doping for theOlympics, features the explosiveconclusion of United Nations hu-man-rights investigators that thephone of Amazon billionaire JeffBezos was hacked into by a mali-cious file sent from the personalWhatsApp account of SaudiCrown Prince Mohammed binSalman.Hillary Clinton and Alec Bald-

win were among those in attend-ance at the premiere of The Dis-sident, as was Hatice Cengiz, thefiancée of Mr. Khashoggi. Mr.Khashoggi was picking up paper-work for their marriage when hewas murdered at a Saudi consul-ate in Istanbul in October, 2018.The Crown Prince ordered thekilling, the Central IntelligenceAgency has said. The CrownPrince, who initially denied Sau-di Arabia was behind Mr. Khash-oggi’s killing, eventually grantedit was carried out by the Saudigovernment, but claimed it wasnot by his orders.In an interview after the pre-

miere, Mr. Fogel said he hopesThe Dissident, which dramaticallydetails the plot to kill Mr. Khash-oggi and analyzes Saudi Arabia’scrackdown on free speech, forcesa reappraisal of the Middle East-ern country internationally. Thefilm’s end credits include a list ofcorporations with business tiesto Saudi Arabia. The UnitedStates, too, is scrutinized for itsclose alliance with the kingdom,including a 2019 arms deal al-

lowed to go forward after U.S.President Donald Trump vetoeda bill intended to block the sale.“I hope that this film will

make other countries, their gov-ernment and business leadersreassess their relationship withSaudi Arabia until they reform,”Mr. Fogel said. “As much moneyas there is, when you have peoplesitting in prisons for tweeting,when you have women arrestedand tortured for driving, it’s veryhard to look the other way.”The Dissident was greeted with

a raucous standing ovation andimmediate acclaim. Varietycalled it “an eye-opening thrillerbrew of corruption, cover-up andreal-world courage.”

Independently financed by theHuman Rights Foundation, TheDissident is for sale at Sundance,the top movie market for docu-mentaries. Speaking onstage af-ter the premiere, Mr. Fogel urgeddistributors to not be scared offby Saudi Arabia and give the filma worldwide release. “In mydream of dreams, distributorswill stand up to Saudi Arabia,”Mr. Fogel said.Media companies have capitu-

lated to Saudi pressure before.Netflix, which distributed Mr. Fo-gel’s Icarus, last year removed anepisode of Hasan Minhaj’s PatriotAct dealing with the killing of Mr.Khashoggi after a Saudi com-plaint. Mr. Fogel said he would behappy for any studio to pick upthe film, including Netflix, HBOand Mr. Bezo’s own Amazon. Af-ter the murder, relations be-tween Amazon and Saudi Arabiacooled considerably.The premiere of The Dissident

was especially emotional for Ms.Cengiz. Since Mr. Khashoggi’s

death, she has taken on a publicrole pressing for justice for herfiancé.“I’m happy because this film

will keep alive the story,” Ms.Cengiz said. “This film helpedmeto continue this fighting as a hu-man, as a woman, as a victim.”After the killing of Mr. Khash-

oggi, a veteran Saudi journalistwho fled the kingdom to urge forreforms and journalism freedomin his native country, Ms. Cengizsays she can no longer assumeher safety. The Guardian on Fri-day reported that U.S. officialsbelieved Saudi Arabia has previ-ously attempted to monitor Ms.Cengiz abroad.“No one knows who is safe be-

cause they killed Jamal inside theconsulate, the best safety placearound the world,” Ms. Cengizsaid. “So I don’t know if I’m safe ifI’m sitting in my home.”The Dissident includes exten-

sive interviews with Turkish offi-cials who uncovered the killing,and also delves into the relatedstory of Omar Abdulaziz, a Saudiactivist who is living under asy-lum in Montreal after fleeing thecountry to launch a web seriescritical of the Saudi regime.In the film, Mr. Abdulaziz says

he believes Mr. Khashoggi’s rela-tionship with him led directly tohis death. Mr. Abdulaziz’s phone,too, was hacked, the film alleges,with the powerful spyware pro-gram Pegasus believed to be usedto target Mr. Bezos.For Mr. Fogel, bringing such

revelations to light has given Mr.Khashoggi’s death more mean-ing.“There’s so much pain from

this story, but there’s a lot ofpower that has come from it,” Mr.Fogel said. “Look what his mur-der – as horrendous as it was –has done to shine the light onother human-rights abuses, toshine the light on what the Sau-dis were doing in regards to re-pressing free speech. I hope if Ja-mal was looking down, he’d bevery proud to see he didn’t die invain.”

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High-profile documentary covering Khashoggikilling makes its debut at Sundance festivalJAKE COYLE PARK CITY, UTAH

This film helped me tocontinue this fighting asa human, as a woman,

as a victim.HATICE CENGIZ

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The 2020 Grammy Awardskicked off in tribute to bas-ketball icon Kobe Bryant,

who died hours before the show,with a touching, emotional per-formance led by host Alicia Keys.Ms. Keys was joined by Boyz II

Menon Sunday to sing an a capel-la version of It’s So Hard to SayGoodbye to Yesterday at the StaplesCenter – Mr. Bryant’s stompingground–as theaudiencewatchedin awe.“Here we are together on mu-

sic’s biggest night celebrating theartists that do it best, but to behonest with youwe are all feelingcrazy sadness right now,” Ms.Keys said as she entered the stage,adding that “Los Angeles, Amer-ica and the worldwide world losta hero.”She said the audience was

“heartbroken in the house thatKobe Bryant built.”“Right now Kobe and his

daughter Gianna … are in ourspirits, they’re in our hearts,they’re in prayers, they’re in thisbuilding,” she added. “Take amo-ment andhold theminsideof youand share our strength and oursupport with their families.”Before the show officially hon-

oured Mr. Bryant, Lizzo perform-ed the songsTruthHurts andCuz ILove You, saying at the top of theshow: “Tonight is for Kobe.”Lizzo was among the mix of

newcomers and well-known actswho reached their goals of win-ning their first-ever GrammyAwards on Sunday, which also in-cludedTanyaTucker, J. Cole, BillieEilish, Lil Nas X, Billy Ray Cyrusand late rapper Nipsey Hussle.Michelle Obama, Sara Bare-

illes, Rosalia and 21 Savage alsobecame official Grammy winnerswhen the show handed out tro-phies during its pretelecast cere-mony.Gary Clark Jr. and Ms. Eilish’s

brother, Finneas, walked away asthe most awarded stars, so far,taking home three awards each.Finneas – who co-wrote, pro-

duced and engineered his sister’sdebut album, When We All FallAsleep, Where Do We Go? – wonbest engineeredalbum(non-clas-sical), best pop vocal album(shared with his sister) and non-classical producer of the year.“My heart is beating so fast

right now,” Finneas said. “Thisaward belongs to my sister Billiefor her trust and vision.”Mr. Hussle has posthumously

won best rap performance forRacks in theMiddle,which featuresRoddy Ricch and Hit-Boy.Mr. Hussle’s family, including

his brother, grandmother and ac-tress-fiancee Lauren London, ac-

cepted the honour during thepretelecast.“Nip did it not just for the

awards, but for the people,” Ms.London said onstage.Newstars suchas Lizzo,Ms. Eil-

ish and Lil Nas X – themost-nom-inated acts Sunday – won theirfirst Grammys of their careersand have chance to win more,though a cloud loomed over thisyear’s awards.

Ten days before arguably thebiggest night in music, the indus-try erupted when the RecordingAcademy announced it had putits recently hired CEO, Deborah

Dugan, on administrative leavefor misconduct. Ms. Dugan andher lawyers firedback at the acad-emy, claiming that the awardsshow is rigged.Tarriona (Tank) Ball of the

New Orleans soul-funk bandTank and the Bangas, nominatedfor best new artist, said she’s notletting the drama ruin theachievement for her band.“I feel like I’m exactly where

I’m supposed to be at, and I don’twant anything taking away fromall the nominees,” Ms. Ball said.“This is our moment. This is ourtime.”Lizzo, who walked into the

show the most nominated witheight, is nominated for album ofthe year for her major-label de-but, Cuz I Love You. Other nomi-nees includeArianaGrande, LanaDel Rey, Vampire Weekend,H.E.R., Bon Iver, Ms. Eilish and LilNas X.Lizzo scored awin for best solo

pop vocal performance for TruthHurts in what is already shapingup to be a big night for the R&Bsinger-songwriter. She had al-

ready won two Grammys beforethe telecast. She won best tradi-tional R&B performance for Je-rome and best urban contempo-rary album for Cuz I Love You (De-luxe).Lizzo, who dedicated the show

to Mr. Bryant when she opened itwith a performance, accepted theGrammy for best pop solo per-formance without invoking hisname. She simply said that todayshe realized that after being lostinher ownproblemsallweek, sherealized that “in an instant all ofthat can go away.”

Other record of the year nomi-nees include Lil Nas X’s Old TownRoad, Ms. Grande’s 7 Rings, PostMalone and Swae Lee’s Sunflower,H.E.R.’sHard Place, Bon Iver’sHey,Ma and Khalid’s Talk.The Grammys will hand out

roughly 10 awards during the liveshow. Presenters this year includeStevie Wonder, Smokey Robin-son, Billy Porter, TrevorNoah, Oz-zy and SharonOsbourne, CynthiaErivo, Ava DuVernay, ShaniaTwain and Common.

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American hip-hop artist Lizzo performs onstage during the 62nd Grammy Awards at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday night. The Grammy newcomer was nominated foralbum of the year for her major-label debut, Cuz I Love You. KEVIN WINTER/GETTY IMAGES FOR THE RECORDING ACADEMY

Nathan Morris, left, Wanya Morris, second from right, and ShawnStockman of Boyz II Men perform alongside host Alicia Keys in a tributeto the late basketball star Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crashearlier that day. MATT SAYLES/INVISION/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Billie Eilish performs at the show. One of the night’s most-nominatedartists, Ms. Eilish took home her first Grammy. MARIO ANZUONI/REUTERS

Ariana Grande appears on the red carpet before the awards.Ms. Grande’s 7 Rings was up for record of the year. MIKE BLAKE/REUTERS

Grammys honour Bryantwith moving performanceHost Alicia Keys pays tribute to basketball star alongside Boyz II Men,and Lizzo dedicates the show to him at the start of her performance

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is alive as well, and some daymaybe we’ll get to that point ofhaving it recognized on thatstage,” he added.Drake was the leading Cana-

dian, with nods for two differentcollaborations with Chris Brownand Rick Ross. He won neithercategory.Mr. Mendes shared his single

nomination with girlfriendCamila Cabello for their pop duetSenorita.Among the other mainstream

contenders, Jesse Reyez wasnominated for best urban con-temporary album for her EPBeing Human in Public, a prizethat was ultimately picked up bybreakout American star Lizzo.And Anderson .Paak grabbed

the best R&B performanceGrammy over Oshawa, Ont.,native Daniel Caesar’s collab-oration with Brandy, on LoveAgain.Despite the losses, Canadians

were represented well on thered carpet before the mainevent.YouTuber-turned-late-night-

host Lilly Singh was spottedhanding out candies from herpurse to onlookers, whilemasked indie-country singerOrville Peck dazzled in a whitecowboy gear alongside chart-topping music producer Diplo,who was dressed similarly, butin all black.THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO It was never going tobe a banner year for Canadiansat the Grammy Awards, sinceonly a handful of homegrownartists were nominated, but thisone really stings.Drake, Shawn Mendes, Jessie

Reyez and Alberta’s Indigenoussinging group Northern Creewere among the performers leftempty-handed on music’sbiggest night on Sunday in LosAngeles.All of the Canadian conten-

ders, who also included MichaelBublé and Daniel Caesar, werecompeting in categories present-ed during a ceremony before themain television broadcast eventhosted by Alicia Keys.Steve Wood, co-founder of

Northern Cree, didn’t win bestregional roots music album,which means the group is nowzero for nine on the Grammyscount. His group was nominatedfor When It’s Cold – Cree RoundDance Songs.But Mr. Wood isn’t sweating

another loss, he said, since theGrammys offer an opportunityto shine in other ways. He waslooking forward to showcasingFirst Nations cultures and fash-ion on a global scale.“It’s always a win for us when

we represent our people incircles where we’re getting ourvoice out,” Mr. Wood said short-ly before stepping onto theGrammys red carpet. “Our music

CANADIAN NOMINEES GO HOME EMPTY-HANDED

Right now Kobe and hisdaughter Gianna … arein our spirits, they’re inour hearts, they’re inprayers, they’re in this

building.ALICIA KEYS

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Justin Trudeau’s minority governmentwill face two confidence votes this weekas MPs return to Ottawa.In an interview with The Globe and

Mail, Government House Leader PabloRodriguez said the government viewsboth votes – Monday on the ThroneSpeech and a Wednesday vote on thenewNorth American free-trade deal – asmatters of confidence.“It’s a fundamental agreement,” said

Mr. Rodriguez of the U.S.-Mexico-Cana-da Agreement at the centre of the free-trade vote.“It’s such a big part of our economy.

So I’m very clear that it’s a confidencevote in both cases.”A defeat on a confidence vote could

trigger the end of the minority govern-ment, although such a scenario is un-likely given that none of the main par-ties are currently eager to fight anotherelection.Nonetheless, the Prime Minister’s de-

cision to navigate the minority Parlia-ment on an issue-by-issue basis, ratherthan striking a deal with one other partyto ensure survival through confidencevotes, means the Liberals will be reac-hing out to different parties for supportdepending on the issue.The Official Opposition Conserva-

tives, the Bloc Québécois and the NDPall have enough votes on their own toavoid an election by votingwith the gov-ernment on a confidence vote.Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François

Blanchette has said his party would sup-port the Throne Speech, which wouldallow the Liberals to survive Monday’svote.On Wednesday, MPs will vote on the

first of several votes related to ratifica-tion of the deal updating the NorthAmerican free-trade agreement.The vote is on a procedural motion

that would allow the government to in-troduce ratification legislation. That billwould then need to go through allstages of the House and the Senate be-fore the deal is formally ratified by Cana-da.MPs from all three main opposition

parties have criticized the deal. TheConservative Party would appear to bethe most likely of the three parties tovote with the government on the tradedeal, but the party has yet to officiallytake a position.Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer

told reporters Saturday that his partywants more details from the govern-ment before announcing how it willvote.“We’ll see,” he said. “But in general,

we support free trade and we realizethat it’s essential that the Canadianeconomy has certainty. And so we willuse our power in the House of Com-mons responsibly.”Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Free-

land released a public letter Sunday tothe opposition parties, urging them to“get this important work done withoutundue delay.”Votes on Throne Speeches and bud-

gets are generally always confidencevotes. Whether or not confidence ap-plies to other issues, such as votes onspecific bills, largely depends on wheth-er or not the issue has been declared amatter of confidence by the govern-ment.Ms. Freeland’s concern about “undue

delay” touches on one of the biggestchallenges the Liberals will face nowthat the party has been reduced to ami-nority. The government no longer hasthe votes to approve procedural mea-sures that limit debating time in orderto move legislation along.Mr. Rodriguez, the Government

House Leader, said the relationshipamong party House leaders, who meetweekly when the House of Commons issitting, will have an “enormous” impacton the tone of the 43rd Parliament.He said relations have been positive

to date and predicted the minority Par-liament will get work done.He said the other house leaders have

his cell number and he’s told them he’savailable around the clock.“Up to now, based on the context that

I’ve found with them, I’m convincedthat we can have a very productive rela-tionship and a very productive Parlia-ment also,” he said.NDP House Leader Peter Julian

agreed the early interactions have beenpositive but cautioned that future ac-tion is what matters.“It will be the next fewweeks that de-

termine the tone that the governmentsets,” he said Sunday.The NDP’s priorities, he said, will be

issues such as pharmacare and dentalcare and pushing for tax hikes on busi-ness and high-income Canadians to payfor improved programs.Mr. Scheer has said the Conservatives

will focus on fighting wasteful spending,as well as raising concerns with Liberalplans for gun-control measures.Mr. Rodriguez said free trade will

dominate the House agenda early onand the government’s broader legisla-tive agenda will flow from the Liberals’election platform.

Trudeau Liberalsface votes onThrone Speech,new trade dealin coming daysBILL CURRY OTTAWA

A Nova Scotia clinic that specializes inthe treatment of post-traumatic stressdisorder for soldiers and veterans hasbeen operating for months without anypsychologists – a situation that thehead of the province’s psychologists’ as-sociation says could lead to delays indiagnosis and stymie veterans from get-ting help.“They’re just not getting the assess-

ment and treatment,” said JeannetteKennedy, president of the Associationof Psychologists of Nova Scotia, addingthat delays can lead to additional suf-fering, isolation and strain on families.“The sooner you can do interventionthe better.”The staffing issues at the Nova Scotia

Operational Stress Injury Clinic, whichis run by the province and funded byVeterans Affairs, highlight a variety ofchallenges soldiers face when trying toaccess mental-health services in theprovince, veterans advocates say.The concerns are being raised just as

the provincial government is set to be-gin its long-awaited fatality inquiry intoa triple-murder suicide involving re-tired Canadian Army Corporal LionelDesmond and his family.The inquiry, scheduled to begin Mon-

day, will examine whether the formerinfantryman with the 2nd Battalion ofthe Royal Canadian Regiment based inCFB Gagetown, N.B., and his family hadaccess to appropriate mental-healthcare and domestic-violence interven-tion services from various public agen-cies he had sought help from, includingthe Nova Scotia Health Authority(NSHA) and Veterans Affairs. Mr. Des-mond attended an in-patient oper-ational stress injury clinic in Montrealfor a few months in the summer of2016.Mr. Desmond, a 33-year-old Afghan-

istan war veteran who had been re-leased from the military 18 months ear-lier, was struggling with severe post-traumatic stress disorder and depres-sion when he shot and killed his wifeShanna, 10-year-old daughter Aaliyah,his mother Brenda and himself in Up-per Big Tracadie, N.S., in January, 2017.He had been struggling to navigate get-ting help from Veterans Affairs as hetransitioned from military to civilianlife.A network of 11 Operational Stress In-

jury clinics set up across the country byVeterans Affairs around the time of the

Afghanistan War to support soldiers,veterans and former RCMP facing PTSDwas meant to streamline care. The clin-ics are meant to be staffed with psychia-trists, psychologists, social workers andmental health nurses, but many are un-derstaffed: Centres in Ontario and Que-bec are also searching for full- or part-time psychologists.Peter Stoffer, long-time veterans’ ad-

vocate and former MP says bureaucraticred tape and staffing challenges haveprevented the clinics from being as ef-fective as they were heralded. “Veter-ans, in many cases, raise their hands indisgust: ‘I’m not gonna fight this anymore. I can’t deal with this,’” he said. “Inthe case of Lionel Desmond, if he hadgotten all the support systems he re-quired in a timely fashion, is it possiblethat tragedy could’ve been averted?”To get in to the OSI clinic, a referral

must be first made through Veterans Af-fairs, and then, in Nova Scotia, it takesup to two weeks to hear from the clinic.After that, the wait to see a psychiatristis up to three months, according to dataprovided by the NSHA from April toJune, 2019.The OSI clinic in Dartmouth, which is

the only one in Nova Scotia and one ofonly two in the Atlantic Provinces, cur-rently has two psychia-trists on staff, and is tryingto recruit one or twomore. Psychologists do di-agnostic testing and as-sessment and treat men-tal-health challenges aspart of a team approach.Without psychologists,

patients could be missingmore in-depth assess-ment, Ms. Kennedy said.Psychologists also diag-nose additional condi-tions such as bipolar dis-order and major depres-sion, assess symptom se-verity, and detect over- orunder-reporting, she added. “This infor-mation is vital for treatment plans andinterventions including timing, level ofcare required, and treatment needs spe-cific to each individual.”And while clinical psychologists and

psychiatrists are both trained to diag-nose post-traumatic stress disorder, cli-ents can often see a psychologist in amore timely manner.The Nova Scotia OSI clinic has been

operating without any of the three full-time and one part-time clinical psychol-ogists it requires, including a clinicalteam leader. The clinic said it has beentrying to recruit since September.Roland Lawless, a Nova Scotia veter-

an who’s been advocating for other vet-erans for 15 years, says veterans havegiven up on the OSI clinic in Dartmouthbecause they feel it’s inaccessible. “It’stoo hard to get into,” said Mr. Lawlessabout veterans needing a referral fromVeterans Affairs in order to make an ap-

pointment.A NSHA spokesperson said a new

psychologist has been hired and willstart in the fall and other psychologistsare being actively recruited.“Our inter-professional team at the

Nova Scotia Operational Stress InjuryClinic is composed of clinicians who aretrained to provide psychotherapy andother interventions to support adultsliving with an operational stress injury,including PTSD,” said spokespersonCarla Adams of NSHA, which operatesthe OSI clinic in Dartmouth.In Montreal, Ste. Anne Operational

Stress Injury Clinic is trying to fill threefull-time and one part-time vacanciesfor clinical psychologists. A spokesper-son said recruitment “is an ongoingchallenge, particularly given the specif-icities of post-traumatic stress disor-ders.”The Royal, Ottawa’s OSI clinic, is cur-

rently searching for two full-time andone part-time psychologists, as well asone temporary full-time position inKingston and one temporary part-timeposition in Arnprior, the clinic’s satellitesites.A Veterans Affairs spokesman said a

growing shortage of mental health pro-fessionals, especially psychologists and

psychiatrists, has affectedthe retention and recruit-ment efforts at all OSIclinics. But, he said, thesituation has been miti-gated by more funding forrecruitment and special-ized training for othertypes of mental healthprofessionals, and by inte-grating community ser-vice providers into theclinic’s interdisciplinaryteam. Recruitment effortshave also been extendedoutside the country.“The situation in the

Dartmouth OSI Clinic isunique,” wrote Marc Lescoutre in astatement. “All other OSI clinics have atleast one psychologist on file.”Veterans can also access a psycholo-

gist or psychiatrist working in privatepractice that can bill Veterans Affairs forthe service. There are 4,000 working incommunities across the country, in-cluding 200 in Nova Scotia. Veterans Af-fairs also has a 24-hour mental healthhelp line.Mr. Stoffer said it’s not surprising the

Nova Scotia OSI Clinic, and others, arehaving trouble recruiting psychologists.When the federal government startedopening these specialized clinics short-ly after the start of the Afghan mission,concerns were raised by him, as NDPVeterans Affairs critic, and others aboutthe lack of medical professionals avail-able to staff them.Finding a medical health profession-

al is challenging for all Canadians, notjust soldiers and veterans, he added.

Wilfred Desmond holds a photo of his grandson, retired corporal Lionel Desmond, in 2017. Eighteen months after his release fromthe military, Mr. Desmond shot and killed his wife Shanna, 10-year-old daughter Aaliyah, his mother Brenda and himself.DARREN CALABRESE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

As Desmond inquiry begins,N.S. clinic lacks psychologistsStaffing shortages at a facilityrun by the province andfunded by Veterans Affairshighlights challenges soldiersface when trying to accessmental-health services

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In the case of LionelDesmond, if he had

gotten all thesupport systems herequired in a timelyfashion, is it possible

that tragedycould’ve been

averted?PETER STOFFER

VETERANS’ ADVOCATE

Polls have closed in a hotly contested re-gional election where Italy’s right-wingopposition leader Matteo Salvini cam-paigned hard to unseat 70 years of left-wing governments with the aimof shak-ing the weak coalition in Rome.Exit polls on Sunday evening by Ital-

ian state broadcasterRAI gave anedge tothe centre-left candidate in thenorthernregion of Emilia-Romagna, Stefano Bo-naccini, with 47 per cent to 51 per cent ofthe vote. That compared with the cen-tre-right candidate from Mr. Salvini’sLeague, with 44 per cent to 48 per cent ofthe vote. Turnout in the region was run-

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte hassaid that his government is determinedto complete its mandate until 2023, nomatter the outcome of Sunday’s vote.The Democratic Party incumbent, Mr.

Bonaccini, found himself in the role ofunderdog in Emilia-Romagna despite astrong local economy and a favourablejob rating. He ran against a little-knownLeague politician, Lucia Borgonzoni,who lost the 2016 Bolognamayoral race.Awin forMr. Salvini in the region that

has been a left-wing stronghold sincethe Second World War would be a blowto the Democratic Party, which has beenweakened by divisions in its own ranks.

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ning much higher than in the last re-gional vote.Analysts said a victory byMr. Salvini’s

right-wingpopulist League inEmilia-Ro-magna would prompt a crisis in Rome,where the 5-Star Movement is in a shakycoalition with the Democratic Party.The government was formed last

summer after Mr. Salvini, who was vice-premier and interior minister, made afailed grab for power, collapsing the pre-vious 5-Star-League government andlosing his posts. Mr. Salvini, who re-mains Italy’s most popular politician inopinion polls despite the misstep, hasmade clear that his aim is to destabilizethe national government in Rome andtake power nationally.

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One was a burger-joint chefwho loved to skateboardwhen he was growing up.

One was a big truck driver withstriking blue eyes. Another wasthe father of four kids. Anotherwas famous forhisdevotion tohisdog, Rocco.These fourmen all died of drug

overdoses on a grey Friday thismonth inBrantford, thesmall cityin Southwestern Ontario whereWayneGretzkywas raised. It is themost overdosedeaths the cityhashad in one day, the equivalent –when compared with the size ofits population – to 120 deaths inone day in Toronto.Like other Ontario cities that

have seen overdose rates rise asthe opioid crisismoves fromwestto east across the country, Brant-ford is struggling with the loss.MayorKevinDavishadtopausetoget control of his emotions whenasked about the impact on hiscity. “It’s tragic, it’s devastating,”hesaid. “Youfeelalmostasenseofhopelessness.” It is easy to “cate-gorizeandstigmatize”drugusers,he said, but “these are real peo-ple.”Just a year ago, the community

of 100,000 seemed to be makingsomemodest progress in its fightto prevent drug overdoses. A newaddiction-medicine clinic hadjust opened up. Authorities wereimplementing a new drug strate-gy that aimed to spread the wordabout thedangersof druguseandget the overdose-reversing drugnaloxone onto the streets.But the area had 35 fatal over-

doses last year, preliminary fig-ures show. That is up from 22 in2018 and 25 in 2017. Visits to thehospital emergency departmentforoverdoseswerealsoupin2019,though the number of overdosesthat emergency services werecalled to was down slightly. Nowthis – four deaths in a single day.Thedeaths arepart of awaveof

overdoses that hit the communi-ty at the startof thenewdecade.Aspecial alert fromtheBrantCoun-tyHealthUnit said that, includingthe four fatal ones, there were 17in the first 12 days of January,

more than in an average fullmonth in 2019.Other Ontario cities are also

seeing higher numbers as theoverdose epidemic that crestedfirst in British Columbia and Al-berta rolls throughCanada’smostpopulous province. Public HealthOntario reports that 435 peopledied from overdoses in the firstquarter of last year, an increase of42 per cent from the same periodin 2018.“It’s been a bad couple of

months,” said Stephanie Rochon,co-ordinator of Brantford’s addic-tionmedicine clinic. She said test-ing of patients is showing stron-ger strains of fentanyl, as well asthe even more potent carfentaniland other fentanyl analogs. Usersoftendon’t knowwhat drugs theyare using, she said, putting themat high risk of getting a bad dose.The fourmen inBrantforddied

on Friday, Jan. 10. The youngestwas 26, the oldest 38. Police aren’tsaying what drugs they may haveused orwhere andhow they died,pending the results of post mor-tems and further investigation.But Justine Radcliffe, a cousin of

one of the men, Grant York, saidshe sawauthorities removing twobodies from a house next to herplaceonMurrayStreet, a fewmin-utes from the city core.

Ms. Radcliffe said her cousin’swasn’t one of them. He died athome, she said. She called him aquiet person who cooked at theWorks Gourmet Burger Bistro.The restaurant closed itsdoors forthat evening, saying on Facebookthat it had just received “somedevastating news.”Staff at the head shop next

door, Crazy Bill’s, said Mr. Yorkwasa“sweetguy”whooftencamein for cigarettes or energy drinks.

Tohelppreventmoredeaths, theyhave given away dozens of drug-testing kits since the overdosesthismonth.A death notice called Mr. York

an “amazing soul” whose “hu-mour, laughter, loyalty, love forlife and impact on others will bemissed.” His mother, JenniferYork, posted on a local news so-cial-media page that “he was notan addict, purely recreational.”She warned others to know theirneighbours and learn to recog-nizedrughouses,with lotsofpeo-ple coming and going and expen-sive vehicles outside. “Watchyoursurroundings. I can not stress thisenough!” she said.Two of the other men, Kevin

Waring and Richie Britton, weregood friends. Mr. Waring was along-haul trucker. His Facebookfeed includes pictures of a gleam-ing white transport truck and asignthatreads,“Beer is theperfec-tion of water.” His nickname wasBundy, after the gargantuan prowrestler King Kong Bundy.Hispal,Mr.Britton, likedsoccer

and played pool in a league thathad weekly games at local bars.

His “furbaby,”Rocco, aboxer,waslike family to him, friends said.One friend, Cody Henry, orga-

nized drinks at a downtown pubto mark the passing of the twomen. He said they were “the typeof guys who, if they were yourfriends, would do anything foryou. There should have beenmore people in the world likethem.” Mr. Britton was alwayshelping friends move. Mr. Waringwas supposed to give Mr. Henrysome tips on driving a truck for aliving the day that he died.Mr. Henry’s girlfriend, Kristen

Ferguson, said Mr. Britton wouldhangoutwithherwhenMr.Henrywasawayonmotorcycle trips.Thetwo would talk and watch videoson YouTube. “I lost a brother”when he died, she said, wipingaway tears as she stood outsidethe pub.The fourth man, Cody Annis,

was remembered in his death no-tice as the “beloved dad of Aliyah,Shyvon, James ‘Devon’ and Zay-den.” The notice said, “Cody washappiest when he was outdoorsandinnature, fishingpole inhandand kids beside him.”

Ontario city struggles as opioid crisis marches onSince the start of thenew decade, Brantfordhas been hit by a waveof drug overdoses –including four fatalones in a single day

Brantford, Ont., Mayor Kevin Davis, seen at City Hall on Jan. 18, says the impact of the rising overdose rates on the community of100,000 in Southwestern Ontario is ‘tragic’ and ‘devastating.’ FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

MARCUS GEE BRANTFORD, ONT.

A special alert from theBrant County Health

Unit said that, includingthe four fatal ones, there

were 17 [overdoses]in the first 12 daysof January, morethan in an averagefull month in 2019.

OTTAWA Canadian security offi-cials have been grappling notonly with how to address thegrowing threat of right-wingextremism, but also the bestmeans of defining the phenom-enon and explaining it to thepublic, newly released docu-ments show.In a briefing for deputyminis-

ters responsible for nationalsecurity, the Canadian SecurityIntelligence Service and theRCMP openly asked whether,given the nature of the threat,the government of Canada was“able to effectively respond.”The secret briefing was aimed

at providing the senior officialswith an overview of right-wingextremism in Canada and foster-ing discussion of “broader con-siderations” on dealing with theissue, says a heavily censoredversion of the April, 2019, docu-ment, released through the

Access to Information Act.Ralph Goodale, public safety

minister at the time, also re-ceived a briefing on the issue, anaccompanyingmemo indicates.CSIS, which has spentmuch of

the past two decades investigat-ing jihadi-inspired terrorism, saidlast year it was increasinglypreoccupied by those looking tosupport or engage in violencethat is raciallymotivated, eth-nonationalist, anti-governmentormisogynist in nature.After the devastating New

Zealandmosque shooting, PrimeMinister Justin Trudeau said lastMarch that Canada had takenimportant steps to combat dis-crimination and hate.The briefingmentions a pro-

posal to include, for the firsttime, right-wing extremistgroups on the national list ofterrorist organizations.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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MONTREAL Nearly three yearsafter themassacre that claimedsix lives at the Quebec Citymosque, the length of the sen-tence imposed on theman con-victed of the crimes will be de-bated in the province’s highestcourt onMonday.Lawyers for Alexandre Bisson-

nette and the Crownwill be atthe Quebec Court of Appeal tomake legal arguments.There was no trial as Mr. Bis-

sonnette pleaded guilty inMarch, 2018, to all chargesagainst him, including six countsof first-degreemurder and six ofattemptedmurder after he walk-ed into themosque at the IslamicCultural Centre on Jan. 29, 2017,with twoweapons and openedfire during evening prayers.Mr. Bissonnette was automat-

ically sentenced to life in prisonwith the only issue being theamount of time he’d have toserve behind bars before beingeligible for parole.

Quebec Superior Court JusticeFrançois Huot ultimately sen-tencedMr. Bissonnette last yearto 40 years behind bars – theharshest prison term ever inQuebec and one of the longest inCanada, which has permittedconsecutive life sentences since a2011 Criminal Code reform al-lowed for it.Justice Huot opted for life

imprisonment without thepossibility of parole for 40 years,saying that a sentence beyondlife expectancy would have been“absurd” and a Charter violation.But neither the defence nor

the Crownwere pleased with theoutcome.Mr. Bissonnette’s lawyers

appealed his sentence, callingthe four-decade prison term“unreasonable.”The Crown andQuebec’s

Attorney-General also want thesentence changed – arguing infavour of a 50-year prison term.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The regional Métis presidents ofOntario, Alberta and Saskatche-wan are calling for reform of theMétis National Council, raisingserious concerns about “dysfunc-tion” and about a lack of trans-parency on the national body’sfinances and administration.Métis National Council vice-

president David Chartrand re-jects the allegations, saying the“real issue” involves concernsabout the way the Ontario Métisgovernment defines people asMétis, and the national body hastold the Ontario body its mem-bership in the governance insti-tutions of the Métis Nation issuspended.“This is about the very essence

of protecting our nation,” Mr.Chartrand said.Last week, the presidents of

the Métis Nation of Ontario, theMétis Nation-Saskatchewan andthe Métis Nation of Alberta –three of the national body’s fivecomponents, along with a simi-lar group in British Columbiaand one in Manitoba, which Mr.Chartrand leads – met for twodays to discuss ways to co-oper-ate and to negotiate more direct-ly with the federal government,circumventing the nationalcouncil.Last June, these same three re-

gions each signed self-governingagreements with Ottawa. That’sthe first time the federal govern-ment has signed such arrange-ments with Métis groups follow-ing recent Supreme Court ofCanada decisions formally recog-nizing Métis rights and thatthey’re part of federal financialresponsibilities.Métis Nation of Ontario presi-

dent Margaret Froh said themeeting was positive, aimed atbuilding on those agreements byworking together and sharingideas to help their communities.“There was incredible good-

will, it was a respectful environ-ment.“We had an opportunity to

talk about things like our regis-tries, to talk about all the workthat’s gone into our history, ourgovernance, how it is that wemanage our registry, the pro-grams and services that we’re of-fering,” Ms. Froh said.But the three leaders also dis-

cussed concerns they shareabout governance at the MétisNational Council (MNC).They issued a declaration that

the MNC “has become increas-ingly dysfunctional and unac-countable to its governing mem-bers and the Métis citizens.”They point to the fact the na-

tional council has not held aboard of governors meeting inmore than 14 months, despite re-peated requests for one.Despite this, MNC president

Clément Chartier sent a letter toMs. Froh earlier this week advis-ing her the Métis Nation of Onta-rio is suspended and no longereligible to participate in the gov-ernance of the national council.

Alberta president Audrey Poi-tras said the MNC doesn’t havethe authority to do this.A suspension can only be im-

posed by members at a generalassembly meeting, she said, andshe “absolutely” doesn’t acceptthat Ontario has been suspend-ed.The concerns about Ontario

involve its citizenship registry. InAugust, 2017, the provincial gov-ernment and the Métis Nation ofOntario held a joint announce-ment outlining work by histori-ans that had identified six newMétis communities in the prov-ince.This sparked concerns in the

national leadership that Ontariois allowing people who may notbe Métis into its registry, and indoing so, is violating an agree-ment struck in 2002 among allthe regional governments on anofficial citizenship definition.The question of Métis identity

is delicate, and fundamental. TheMétis are descended from Eu-ropean fur traders and First Na-tions people, who intermingledbeginning in the 18th century.But it’s only in the 1980s that theCanadian government recog-nized the Métis as an IndigenousPeople with rights under Cana-dian law.And only in 2003 did the Su-

preme Court rule that the Métisare a nation distinct from otherIndigenous people with rightsprotected by the Constitution.Mr. Chartrand does not be-

lieve the new communities arelegitimate.“They are not part of us, never

were. There is no connection his-torically in any way or fashionthat they can use as even an ar-gument to say that they are partof our nation,” Mr. Chartrandsaid.He believes allowing these

new communities to becomepart of the Métis Nation could

undermine its integrity by flood-ing the Métis nations with “hun-dreds of thousands, potentiallymillions, of people into our na-tion that aren’t us,” Mr. Char-trand said.“It’s something we must clear-

ly be fearful of as a people, be-cause we cannot allow anybodyto try to water down and create aspecial interest group of a na-tion, instead of a citizen of a na-tion.”In November, 2018, Mr. Char-

trand brought these concerns toa general assembly and a resolu-tion was passed that placed On-tario on probation.It called for an external com-

mittee to review Ontario’s mem-bership registry.But Ontario has refused to al-

low it. Ms. Froh said the registrybelongs to her government andcontains a large amount of sensi-tive, personal information.The Ontario nation hired a

historical expert to conduct itsown review of the files, whichMs. Froh believes should helpsatisfy the concerns raised by Mr.Chartrand and others.She also called Mr. Chartrand’s

concerns about thousands ormillions of new citizens beingadded by Ontario “absurd,” say-ing her province’s registry hasonly about 20,000 members.“What we have said is, we

have and will complete this inde-pendent review… and we’ll be ina position to be able to talkabout it, but we’re not preparedto simply open up our registryand all of that personal informa-tion to outsiders,” she said.Ms. Poitras, the Alberta leader,

said she doesn’t have a problemwith Ontario’s registry anddoesn’t understand Mr. Char-trand’s concerns. She continuesto call for a board meeting to dis-cuss them.“What we want is transparen-

cy and accountability, and if

somebody is doing somethingwrong, let’s talk about what thatwrong is and let’s fix it.”The “tri-council” also raised

questions about the finances andgovernance of the MNC in its res-olution last week, including callsfor more transparency about fi-nancial audits, and limits onamounts spent on consultants.The three leaders called for a

working group to discuss reform-ing the MNC “or the creation of anew national structure to betterrepresent the interests of Métisgovernments.”Their resolution also says they

will continue to work throughthe MNC on funding negotia-tions until after the 2020 federalbudget is released, as those talksare already under way.But they’re asking to negotiate

directly with Ottawa in the fu-ture on program and servicefunding and to ensure moneygoes to Métis citizens and gov-ernments “without allocations tothe MNC.”Mr. Chartrand brushed aside

the tri-council’s concerns, callingthem “smoke and mirrors” de-signed to distract from a “back-room deal” brokered among theleaders.Ms. Froh said she hopes the

politics involved in these issuesdoesn’t overshadow the progressthat has been achieved when itcomes to Métis governments fi-nally getting recognition by thefederal government.“I don’t want people to lose

track of the amazing thing thathappened last week in that we,as Métis governments, came to-gether, recognizing each other.That is what being self-determin-ing is about, that’s what leader-ship is about: coming together towork together to move the yard-stick forward to advance truereconciliation.”

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What we want istransparency andaccountability, andif somebody is doingsomething wrong,let’s talk aboutwhat that wrongis and let’s fix it.AUDREY POITRASPRESIDENT OF THEMÉTIS NATION OF ALBERTA

Canadian researcherMark Hadenis quickly getting up to speed onthe media circus and skepticismthat follows Gwyneth Paltrow’sjuggernaut wellness brand, Goop.The 65-year-old Vancouver

professor is the very first inter-view in Ms. Paltrow’s new Netflixseries, The Goop Lab, featured inan episode about the potentialhealing power of psychedelicdrugs.He says he only learned of

Goop’smany detractors after tap-ing his interview with Ms. Pal-trow, but he adds that he’s faced afew critics of his own as executivedirector of MAPS Canada, whichis the Multidisciplinary Associ-ation for Psychedelic Studies.MAPS’s mission is to explore

the potential psychedelic drugshold for medical treatment, andso the invitation to appear on aNetflix show helmed by one ofHollywood’s biggest stars ap-pealed to Mr. Haden, also an ad-junct professor at the Universityof British Columbia School ofPopulation and Public Health.“We already have engaged frin-

gy folks of the world and so now

our next task is to engage themainstream. You know, we wanttoheal cops –we’re targeting copsand veterans,” says Mr. Haden,whose U.S. counterparts arestudying whether MDMA – betterknown as the club drug ecstasy –can treat post-traumatic stressdisorder.“We want to appeal to guys in

suits and housewives.”To be sure, Goop’s dedicated

following is large and ardent, butMr. Haden is now aware that itsmost famous products are re-soundingly fringy – among themjade eggs for vaginas and psychicvampire repellent.Meanwhile, its wackier health

claims, including coffee enemasand vaginal steaming, havedrawn the ireofmuchof themed-ical community.Nevertheless, Mr. Haden said

he was pleased with the way hisepisode turned out, deeming itbalanced and concerned with“real issues.”Judging by the six episodes

that rolled out Friday, denounce-ments bymainstreamauthoritiesare a badge of honour for Ms. Pal-trow and the Goop crew, whoseemto revel indeclaring the top-ics they tackle as “unproven” and

“out there.”The trailer certainly highlights

a seeming effort to appear cuttingedge, with outtakes proclaimingthat what you’re about to see is“dangerous” and “unregulated.”The six episodes range from 29

to 36 minutes, with each tacklinga specific topic: psychedelics,cold therapy, sexual health, re-versing biological age, energyfields and psychic ability.Butnoneof this is cuttingedge,

says long-time Goop critic TimCaulfield, who took Ms. Paltrowand the Goop ethos to task in hisbook Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrongabout Everything? and his (nolonger airing) Netflix series, AUs-er’s Guide to Cheating Death.“On the contrary, a lot of these

things are regressive in their ap-proach to health,” says Mr. Caul-field, who blames celebrities, in-cluding Ms. Paltrow, Kim Kar-dashian West, David and VictoriaBeckham and Madonna, withspreading a decade of health andwellness misinformation.“It’s frustrating that she’s given

the opportunity to spread notjustmisinformation about partic-ular therapies, but [also] this ideathat we should embrace magicalthinking and distrust conven-

tional sources of scientific infor-mation. … Whether you’re talk-ing about the cold therapy, ener-gy therapy, the use of mediums,all of these things have no evi-dence behind them.”Each episode is prefaced by a

disclaimer insisting the content is“designed to entertain and in-form – not provide medical ad-vice.”And it’s hard to believe the

media-savvy Ms. Paltrow wouldnot be hyper-aware of the scruti-ny she seems to invite – one ofGoop’s more defiant products, acandle named This Smells LikeMyVagina, hit themarket just be-fore the Netflix premiere.The show itself includes a

lighthearted dig at which Goopstaffer is “goopier,” and a jab atMs. Paltrow for being a “princess.”Still, none of that self-aware-

ness gives Ms. Paltrow licence “topush pseudoscience,” Mr. Caul-field says.Especially problematic for him

is the fact that The Goop Lab func-tions as an extended infomercialfor Ms. Paltrow’s online andbricks-and-mortar retail outlets.While products are not overtly

pitched on the series, the Goopwebsite includes a dedicated sec-

tion known as “The Goop LabShop,” where devotees can buyitems associatedwith themes fea-tured on the show.Toronto brand consultant An-

gela Wallace stops short of de-scribing herself as a Goop fan butsays she likes the fact it exploresnon-traditional approaches towellness, believing “a lot of wom-en feel let down by more tradi-tional health-care systems.”“A lot of the criticism does

seem like: ‘Aren’t women silly?Aren’t they frivolous? Aren’t theyridiculous for buying a jade egg ordoing whatever they want interms ofmaking themselves hap-py and feeling well?’ ” says Ms.Wallace, who has shopped atGoop’s Yorkville outlet and sub-scribes to the newsletter.She feels there is a gender bias

in thewaywomen are derided fortheir choices.“Men have been doing…what

they want for a really long timeand not necessarily receiving thecultural criticism that womenhave,” she says.“Shouldn’t we have some

agency in whether we decide todo that or not?”

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BAGHDAD Hundreds of anti-government protesters floodedthe streets of Iraq’s capital andsouthern provinces on Sunday,defying a powerful Iraqi religiousleader who recently withdrew hissupport from the popularmove-ment.Separately, five katyusha

rockets crashed into a river banknear the U.S. Embassy in Bagh-dad’s heavily fortified GreenZone without causing any in-juries or serious damages, astatement fromU.S. Joint Oper-ations Command said.It is the third such attack this

month and the perpetrators werenot immediately known.Iraqi PrimeMinister Adel

Abdul-Mahdi condemned therocket attack that targeted theU.S. Embassy.Security forces fired tear gas

and live rounds to disperse thecrowds from the capital’s KhilaniSquare, medical and securityofficials said. At least 22 demon-strators were reported woundedby Iraqi security forces in the firsthours of Sunday’s street rallies.Themass protests started in

October over widespread govern-ment corruption and a lack ofpublic services and jobs.They quickly grew into calls

for sweeping changes to Iraq’spolitical system that was im-posed after the 2003 U.S. in-vasion. Iraqi security forces haveresponded harshly. At least 500protesters have been killed sincethe unrest began.Iraq also has been roiled by

U.S.-Iran tensions that threat-ened a regional war after anAmerican drone strike thismonth killed top Iranian GeneralQassem Soleimani near Bagh-dad.The U.S. attack pushed the

Shiite cleric and political leader,Muqtada al-Sadr, to turn hisinfluence toward demanding anAmerican troopwithdrawal andholding an anti-U.S. rally.He also dropped his support

for the anti-governmentmove-ment on Friday.Hundreds of protesters

marched Sunday through keysquares in the capital and south-ern Iraq to show their continuedsupport for the anti-governmentmovement, despite Mr. al-Sadr’sreversal of position.“The demonstrations have

become stronger now because ofwhat happened,” said Zaidoun,26, a protest organizer in Bagh-dad.Many demonstrators chanted

slogans against the populistpreacher. Themovement oppos-es Iraq’s sectarian system andboth U.S. and Iranian influencein Iraqi affairs.On Saturday, hours after Mr.

al-Sadr’s supporters left protestsites in Baghdad and somesouthern cities, including Basra,security forces swooped in toclear areas of demonstrators andtorch their sit-in tents. AP

IRAQI PROTESTERS DEFY TOPCLERIC, RETURN TO STREETS

U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeach-ment trial enters a pivotal week as hisdefence team resumes its case and sen-ators face a critical vote on whether tohear witnesses or proceed directly to avote that is widely expected to end in hisacquittal. The articles of impeachmentcharge Mr. Trump with abuse of powerand obstruction of Congress. The CapitolHill manoeuvring will be complementedby high-stakes efforts on both sides of theaisle to claim political advantage from theproceedings as the presidential nominat-ing season kicks off in Iowa on Feb. 3.After a two-hour opening argument

Saturday, Mr. Trump’s defence team willlay out its case in depth beginning Mon-day. White House counsel Pat Cipollonesaid Mr. Trump’s lawyers don’t expect totake the full 24 hours allotted to them,but there will be arguments from somefamiliar faces.Harvard law professor emeritus Alan

Dershowitz, former independent counselKen Starr and former Florida attorney-general Pam Bondi will speak on specifictopics. Mr. Dershowitz said Sunday hewould argue that the charges against Mr.Trump are too minor to warrant the Presi-dent’s removal from office under the Con-stitution.“Even if true, they did not allege im-

peachable offences,” Mr. Dershowitz told

Fox News Sunday.The Trump team has also teased the

notion that it would draw attention to JoeBiden and his son Hunter, who served onthe board of a Ukraine gas company Bu-risma, while the elder Mr. Biden was vice-president. An extended focus on Joe Bi-den, one of the leading Democratic presi-dential contenders, could mean blowbackfrom even some of the GOP members ofthe Senate.Once Mr. Trump’s team concludes, sen-

ators will have 16 hours to ask questionsof both the House impeachment prosecu-tors and the President’s legal team. Theirquestions must be in writing.Chief Justice John Roberts will read the

questions aloud.Senator John Barrasso told reporters

Saturday that Republicans expected to gettogether on Monday to start formulatinga list of questions. “We will meet as a con-ference and decide what questions wewant to pose, what the order may be ofthose of those questions,” he said.Under the Senate rules passed last

week, senators will get another chance tovote whether to consider new witnessesand evidence after the Q&A time iselapsed.Four Republicans would have to break

ranks to join Democrats in the GOP-con-trolled Senate to extend the trial for anundetermined amount of time.If that happens, expect a bitter fight

over which witnesses might be called andwhich documents might be subpoenaed.Democrats have called for testimony fromMr. Trump’s former national security ad-viser, John Bolton, and his acting chief ofstaff, Mick Mulvaney.

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Defence resumes arguments inkey week for impeachment trialFamiliar faces set to appearon Capitol Hill as Trumpteam lays out case againstPresident’s removal from office

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U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow, centre, and his son, left, stand with White House counsel Pat Cipollone at the Capitol inWashington on Saturday. Mr. Cipollone says the President’s defence team doesn’t expect to take the full 24 hours allotted to them to layout their case beginning on Monday. JULIO CORTEZ/ASSOCIATED PRESS

When Karl Malone – the second-leadingscorer inNBAhistory – offered to set a pickfor him in an all-star game, Mr. Bryantturned to him and said, “Nah, I got it.”Mr. Bryantwas 19 at the time andnot yet

a starter for his own club.For a while, he was balanced between

two possibilities – as either the next Mi-chael Jordan or the next “nextMichael Jor-dan” who ended up an epic bust.But his self-assurance, coupled with a

Herculeanwork ethic, turnedhim into oneof the greatest offensive players in history.Which was fortunate, since Mr. Bryantwasn’t inclined to let anyoneelse shoot theball.In 2000, Mr. Bryant led the Lakers to

their first title since theMagic Johnson era.He’d helped resurrect the most belovedfranchise in the sport. They won titles thenext two years as well.Mr. Bryant was no longer the next Jor-

dan. He was the new Jordan. A Jordan whodidn’t just approachhis on-courtwork likean assassin, but talked like one off it aswell.“As far as one on one, I’m the best to ev-

er do it,” Mr. Bryant once said.Since he treated every game as a contest

between his ability to haul up 40 shotsagainst five other guys’ ability to stop him,that was Mr. Bryant’s way of saying he wasthe best, full stop.In 2003, he was accused of sexually as-

saulting an employee at a Colorado hotel.The charges were ultimately dropped anda settlement reached. Mr. Bryant releasedan apology that stopped short of an admis-sion.In the way of things those days, Mr.

Bryant’s popularity didn’t suffermuch. Butit was now impossible for him to be theface of the league. So he became the NBA’santi-hero instead.In those early years of the century, Mr.

Bryantwas a social-media star before therewas social media. The best pros did nottend to make news unless it was the feel-

good kind. Most players followed Mr. Jor-dan’s example – speak sparingly and,when forced to do so, say nothing. Mr.Bryant treated the traditional media theway people now treat Twitter. He used it asa stick to pokehis enemies. If hewas upset,you wouldn’t hear it directly from him.You’d hear it from him on ESPN or in theL.A. Times.Attempting to explain a down season

on a mediocre Lakers team, Mr. Bryantsaid: “I was shooting 45 times a game.What was I supposed to do? Pass it to[teammates] Chris Mihm or KwameBrown?”Was he right to say it? Probably not. But

however capricious, Mr. Bryant was rarelywrong. He made news. He spun the cycle.He saw the future of the entertainmentbusiness, and it was not nice stories aboutgood guys saying kind things.Given the NBA’s penchant and popular-

ity for creating drama, that may be Mr.Bryant’s richest basketball legacy.In 2006, he scored 81 points against the

Toronto Raptors. He would later call thefeat “a testament to the imagination,” as ifhewas the first person to think of scoring alot of points.His career stretchedmore than two dec-

ades. The final years didn’t amount tomuchmore than a triumphalmarch. In re-tirement, he won an Academy Award andwas refashioning himself as an advocatefor women’s sport.For years, he’d been through regular cy-

cles of consideration and reconsideration.Was he underrated? Was he misunder-stood? Did he get away with it?Now that he’s gone, those will intensify.Few people will agree on what Mr.

Bryantmeant, not just to basketball, but topopular culture. He was the hero and thevillain, which may be why he fascinatesmore than a typical sports legend.All that can be said with confidence is

that Mr. Bryant was utterly unlike any ofhis peers, and that they are right not to trycopying him. There’s no point in being thesecond original.

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Spectators gather near the scene of a helicopter crash that killed basketball starKobe Bryant in Calabasas, Calif., on Sunday. The former L.A. Laker’s career stretchedmore than 20 years. KYLE GRILLOT/REUTERS

TRUMP TOLD BOLTON OF PLANSTO HOLD UKRAINE AID PENDINGHELP ON BIDEN PROBE: REPORT

WASHINGTON U.S. President DonaldTrump told a then-top aide in August hewanted to freeze security aid to Ukraineuntil officials there helped with investiga-tions into Democrats, including formervice-president Joe Biden, The New YorkTimes reported on Sunday.Mr. Trump’s statement was described

in an unpublished manuscript by formerWhite House national security adviserJohn Bolton, the Times reported in anarticle that did not quote directly fromthe document.The newspaper said the reported

statement could undercut a key elementof Mr. Trump’s impeachment defence:that the aid delay was separate from hisrequests that Ukraine announce in-vestigations into his perceived enemies,including Mr. Biden and his son HunterBiden, who had worked for a Ukrainianenergy firm.The elder Mr. Biden is a leading 2020

Democratic presidential contender. Thenewspaper report landed the day beforeMr. Trump’s lawyers resume their de-fence in his Senate impeachment trialand could strengthen demands fromDemocrats that the 100-member cham-ber subpoena witnesses, as well asdocuments.The Democratic-led U.S. House of

Representatives impeached Mr. Trump onDec. 18. REUTERS

BASKETBALL LEGEND BRYANTKILLED IN HELICOPTER CRASH

CALABASAS, CALIF. Kobe Bryant, thebasketball superstar who won five NBAchampionships with the Los AngelesLakers, was killed in a helicopter crashalongside his 13-year-old daughter Giannain California Sunday morning, officials said.He was 41.Chief Daryl Osby of the Los Angeles

County Fire Department said nobodysurvived the crash into a hill in Calabasas,approximately 48 kilometres west of L.A.Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanuevasaid nine people were on the helicopter – apilot and eight passengers. Sheriff Villanue-va declined to release identities, saying “itwould be entirely inappropriate right now”before coroners go through their process.In San Antonio, the NBA’s Toronto Rap-

tors and San Antonio Spurs paid theirrespects by allowing the 24-second clockto expire on each of their first possessions.Mr. Bryant wore No. 24 for much of hiscareer.Stunned fans gathered near the Lakers’

home arena surrounding a wreath with amessage: “Kobe we love you RIP.”“Most people will remember Kobe as the

magnificent athlete who inspired a wholegeneration of basketball players. But I willalways remember him as a man who wasmuchmore than an athlete,” KareemAbdul-Jabbar, the all-time NBA scoringleader and former Laker, said on Twitter.First responders put out the flames of

the crash site, Los Angeles County Sheriffsaid, posting a picture of a fire truck andsmoke emerging from the brush in aravine.Mr. Bryant was the third leading scorer in

league history, with 33,643 points, untilLeBron James passed him on Saturday.REUTERS

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Its spread has come amid China’s busiesttravel period of the year, when millionscriss-cross the country or head abroad forthe Lunar New Year holiday.A notice from the U.S. Embassy in Beij-

ing said there would be limited capacity totransport U.S. citizens on a Tuesday flightfrom Wuhan that will proceed directly toSan Francisco. It said that in the eventthere are not enough seats, priority will begiven to to individuals “at greater risk fromcoronavirus.”The French Consulate also was consid-

ering an evacuation of its nationals fromthe city. It said it’s working on arranging abus service to help French citizens leaveWuhan.FrenchautomakerPSAGroup said itwill

evacuate its employees fromWuhan, quar-antine them and then bring them toFrance.Japan was also making preparations to

fly its nationals out of Wuhan.Chinese travel agencies have been told

to halt all group tours, and concern isgrowing over the potential impact of mil-lions of people travelling back to the citiesafter the Lunar New Year holiday ends onThursday.China’s National Health Commission

said anyone travelling fromWuhan is nowrequired to register with communityhealth stations and quarantine them-selves athome for 14days – thevirus’maxi-mum incubation period.In the heart of the outbreak where 11

million residents are already on lockdown,Wuhan banned most vehicle use, includ-ing private cars, in downtown areas.China cut off trains, planes and other

links to the city Jan. 22, and has steadily ex-panded the lockdown to 16 surrounding ci-ties with a combined population of morethan 50 million.Wuhan is building twomakeshift hospi-

tals with about 1,000 beds each to handlepatients. The city has said the first is ex-pected to be completed Feb. 3.Medical workers in Wuhan have been

among those infected and local media re-ported a doctor died on Saturdaymorning.The 62-year-old physician was hospital-ized on Jan. 18 and died a week later.Xinhua also said medical supplies are

being rushed to the city, including 14,000protective suits, 110,000pairs of gloves andmasks and goggles.TheNational Health Commission said it

is bringing inmedical teams tohelphandlethe outbreak and the Chinesemilitary dis-patched450medical staff, somewith expe-rience in past outbreaks, including SARSand Ebola, Xinhua reported.The new virus is part of the coronavirus

family that includes the common cold butalso more severe illnesses like SARS andMiddle East Respiratory Syndrome. Thenew virus causes cold- and flu-like symp-toms, including cough and fever, and inmore severe cases, shortness of breath andpneumonia.The illness first surfaced lastmonth and

the virus is thought to have spread to peo-ple from wild animals sold at a food mar-ket in Wuhan.Chinese authorities announced a tem-

porary ban on the trade of wild animalsSunday and called on the public to refrainfrom eating wild animal meat.

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A street in Wuhan Hubei province, China, is seen on Sunday after the Wuhan government announced a ban on most vehicles in downtown areas to try

A health worker checks the temperature of women entworkers in Wuhan have been among those infected andSaturday morning. BETSY JOLES/GETTY IMAGES

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Holiday

The arrival of the new coronavirusin Canada has health officials fo-cused on two fronts: containingthe spread of the virus and reas-

suring an increasingly worried public thatthe overall risk remains low.Health officials confirmed the first “pre-

sumptive” case of coronavirus on Satur-day. On Sunday, Canada’s chief public offi-cer of health Theresa Tam told a news con-ference that a Torontoman,who is the firstperson in the country to test positive forthe SARS-like coronavirus, was symptom-atic onanairplane lastweek that arrived inToronto fromGuangzhou. OnMonday, theNational Microbiology Laboratory in Win-nipeg is expected to verify that the manhas the coronavirus. Tests by Ontario’spublic-health lab on Saturday said theman tested positive for it.Health officials are working to contact

passengers seatedwithina two-metre radi-us of the man to inform them of the risksand advise them to monitor for the devel-opment of any symptoms.Global concern over the coronavirus,

known as 2019-nCoV, has been mountingsince Dec. 31, when Chinese officials firstreported it to the World Health Organiza-tion. As of Sunday, the virus has sickenedmore than 2,000 and caused at least 80deaths. The vast majority illnesses are inChina, but the virus has also spread to Eu-rope, Australia and North America.Despite reassurances from Dr. Tam and

other health officials that the coronavirusposes a very low risk to Canadians, somehave taken to social media to question

Canada’s response and spread misinfor-mation about the virus, presenting healthofficials with a new challenge of quellinggrowing public unease.Susy Hota, medical director of infection

prevention and control at Toronto’s Uni-versity Health Network, said many con-cerned people with no symptoms havebeen showing up to the hospital, worriedthat they could be infected.“There’s just a ton of fear,” Dr. Hota said.In Vancouver, Caroline Ku, a woman

with a depressed immune system, said shewas “terrified” of the new coronavirus re-aching British Columbia. She wore a maskwhen she attended a parade as part of theLunar New Year celebrations.“I can’t risk infection – cold, flu, coughs.

And the thing is, there is so much stuff[about the new coronavirus] on the inter-net that we don’t know what is fake,” Ms.Ku said.In a note sent to staff on Saturday, Andy

Smith, the president of Toronto’s Sunny-brook Hospital, where the man is beingtreated, highlighted the problem of misin-formation and said the hospital will makeevery effort to be open and transparent.“Please also ensure your patients are

aware Sunnybrook remains open and clin-ics and procedures will continue to oper-ate as per normal,” Dr. Smith wrote. “Thehospital is safe forpatients andvisitors andwe do not have a reason to veer from ournormal operations.”Conflicting information from some offi-

cial sources is also creating confusion. OnSunday, the director of China’s NationalHealth Commission said 2019-nCoV is get-ting stronger and spreads among peoplebefore they are symptomatic.Several infectious disease experts have

expressed doubt over those claims.Dr. Hota said she’s interpreting the com-

ments “with caution.”While it’s not impossible for people to

spread illness before they are symptomat-ic, it isn’t common. It’s also unclear whatChinese health authorities are basing theclaim on, she said.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the di-rector-general of theWorld Health Organi-zation, announced Sunday that he was enroute to Beijing to meet with governmentandhealthofficials leading the response tothe coronavirus to “understand the latestdevelopments and strengthen our part-nership with China in providing furtherprotection against the outbreak.”What is known so far is that while the

new virus is similar to SARS in some re-spects, infectious disease experts say theystill don’t know how contagious it is orhowmany of thosewho contract it will be-come seriously ill. Some preliminary re-search shows that the vast majority ofdeaths have occurred in older men withpre-existing health conditions. Scientists

will continue to study the virus as informa-tion from new cases becomes available.The Toronto patient, a man in his 50s

who had recently travelled to Wuhan, theepicentre of the outbreak, landed at Pear-son Airport on Wednesday. He departedfrom Guangzhou on China Southern Air-lines Flight 311 onTuesday.Whilehewasonthe plane, he experienced a dry cough andmuscle aches, said Eileen de Villa, Toron-to’s medical officer of health.The day after he arrived, he called 911

when his illness worsened. He informedthe dispatcher of his symptoms and recentvisit to Wuhan, which allowed paramedicsand hospital officials to take the properprecautions, such as wearing masks, eye-glasses andgowns. Since then, themanhas

As coronavirus spreads, health officials face another issue: pExperts’ assurances that virusposes a low risk to Canadiansisn’t stopping some fromdisseminating misinformationand inciting fear online

CARLY WEEKS HEALTH REPORTER

People wearing masks stand on a street in a Hong Kong shopping district on Sunday. Thenew coronavirus is similar to SARS in some respects, but health experts are still unsure howcontagious the virus is or how many of those who contract it will become seriously ill.DALE DE LA REY/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Workers from the local disease control and prevention department disinfect a residentialarea in Ruichang, Jiangxi province, on Saturday. About 769 new cases of the disease wereconfirmed on Sunday. REUTERS

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‘We’re better prepared thistime” seems to have be-come themantra of Onta-

rio officials dealing with the chal-lenge of theWuhan coronavirus.How the case of the fiftysometh-

ing male who was transported byambulance toToronto’s SunnybrookHealth Sciences Centre on Jan. 22plays out will demonstrate whetherthat is true.So far, so good.The patient disclosed immediate-

ly thathehad travelled toWuhan.Hewas transported to hospital by para-medics wearing protective gear andisnowin isolation inanegative-pres-sure room.Tracingof contacts iswellunder way.We’re doing the medicine right

this timearound, and that’s comfort-ing.Mind you, it would be difficult torespond more poorly than we did atthe outset of the 2003 SARS debacle.On March 7, 2003, two men with

SARS were admitted to hospital inCanada.At 4:55 p.m., Mr. C., 55, was trans-

ported by ambulance to VancouverGeneral Hospital. Three hours later,Mr. T., 43,walked into the emergencyroomofScarboroughGeneralHospi-tal.The aftermath of the SARS out-

break in Ontario is well known: Theprovince would record 247 SARScases (half of them health workers)and 44 deaths (including one doctorand two nurses), and the province’seconomyvirtuallygroundtoahaltasSARS panic spread.British Columbia didn’t have an

outbreak; it recorded four cases andno deaths.The difference was that B.C. was

prepared.The BC Centre for Disease Control

was pro-active, monitoring thespread of SARS in China closely, and

Williams, Ontario’s chief medical of-ficer of health; Dr. Barbara Yaffe, On-tario’s associate chiefmedical officerof health; Dr. Eileen de Villa, Toron-to’s medical officer of health; Dr. Pe-ter Donnelly, president and chief ex-ecutiveofPublicHealthOntario, andDr. Andy Smith, president and chiefexecutive of Sunnybrook Health Sci-ences Centre.All of thatpublic-health firepower

to make an announcement that canbe summarized in a short sentence:Canada has identified its first “pre-sumptive” case of coronavirus.Talk about overkill when one

voice would suffice.Not tomention that seeing the six

dour faces at the ta-ble was eerily remi-niscent of the dailytelevised press con-ferences that Ontariostaged during SARS,where officials oftendelivered contradic-tory and confusingmessages.All the fine people

at Saturday’s presserhave a role to play inthe response to thethreat of thenewcor-onavirus. But for the

mostpart, they shouldbedoing theirwork in the shadows,not in frontof amicrophone.Clearly, most of them were there

tomark their territory,not tooffer in-sight.During a crisis or emergency, the

publicwantsatrustedandconsistentsource of information. When youhave six people talking, it leaves theimpression that no one is in charge.What is required is one well-

briefed individualwith authoritativecredentials tobethechief spokesper-son.That creates public confidence

and lends clarity and credibility tothemessages.Duringapublic-healthcrisis,what

we need from our leaders is clear in-formation, not territorial posturing.

sending bulletins to emergency-room staff. As a result, Mr. C. was iso-lated immediately. Health workerstook appropriate precautions, fromparamedics to janitorial staff. Thetracing of contacts was swift and rig-orous.By contrast, Ontario had no cen-

tral agency monitoring infectiousdiseases. Mr. T. sat in a crowdedemergency room, thenwas placed ina ward. A nurse, who was an avidreader of Chinesemediawas the onewho alerted the hospital that the pa-tient probably had SARS and morecaution was required.By then, Mr. T. had already be-

come a “superspreader,” infectingmany health workersand patients whocrossed paths withhim. It took a while totrace his contacts and,in adominoeffect, theinfection spread intothe community and toother hospitals, withtragic consequences.But good medicine

is only one aspect ofcontrolling outbreaksand epidemics.Communicating

public-healthmessag-es is, arguably, just as important.In the grand scheme of things, 44

deaths is not a huge number, espe-ciallywhenyouconsider that inCan-ada SARS was essentially a hospital-based infection that posed little riskto the general public.Fear caused billions of dollars in

economic damage in 2003, not theSARS coronavirus.Theway to assuage fear of theWu-

han coronavirus is with good infor-mation, clearly communicated. Inthat regard, it is far fromobvious thatOntario has learned the lessons ofSARS.At a hastily arranged press confer-

ence on Saturday afternoon, therewere six people (and one micro-phone) at the table: Christine Elliott,Ontario’s Health Minister; Dr. David

During a public-health crisis, we need goodinformation that is clearly communicatedANDRÉPICARD

OPINION

As Chinese authorities widened amassive urban lockdown and flewlarge numbers of medical personnelto Wuhan, the epicentre of a newSARS-like virus, medical authoritiesprovided indications that weeks ofinaction had allowed the virus tospread widely before serious mea-sures were taken.Chinese authorities had initially

reported that the new 2019-nCoVcoronavirus had most seriously af-fected the elderly and those left vul-nerablebypre-existinghealthcondi-tions.But an academic study published

byChinese researchers inTheLanceton Friday found that of the first 41confirmed cases of the virus, “lessthan half had underlying diseases.”Nearly half were 49 years of age oryounger. And a third had not beenexposed to the wild-animal marketidentified as the source of the virus,suggesting that even from the earli-est days, it had begun to leap be-tween people.Fifteen per cent of those first 41

people died.“We are concerned that 2019-

nCoVcouldhaveacquired theabilityfor efficient human transmission,”warned the paper’s authors, who in-cluded dozens of doctors from hos-pitals in Wuhan and major state in-stitutes for infectious-disease re-search.The first of the patients was ad-

mitted to hospital on Dec. 16, more

meant that, during a crucial periodin which cases were accumulating,local health-care workers were un-able to properly raise the alarm, theperson wrote. The Globe and Mailwas unable to independently verifythe report, which was widely circu-lated in China and not refuted bystate media.A doctor at Wuhan’s Hubei Xin-

hua hospital has now died from thevirus, state media reported Saturdaymorning. The death of Liang Wu-dong, 62, comesamidwidespread re-ports of a large number of unreport-ed cases of medical staff infected bythe virus andaccusations that an im-proper dissemination of informa-tion kept those treating the ill fromtaking proper precautions them-selves.A second paper published in The

Lancet on Friday provided evidencethat the virus can be transmittedfrom a person who is not showingsymptoms of being ill.The early weeks of limited action

inWuhan stand in contrast to the re-sponse China has launched in recentdays.China announced plans to build

two rapid-construction medical fa-cilities to respond to the virus inWu-han, one with 1,000 beds and a sec-ond with 1,300. Military transportjets and civilian aircraft were used tofly 1,230 medical reinforcements, in-cluding military medics, to assistoverwhelmed hospitals and takeover from health-care workers whohave themselves become sick.

With a report from Reuters

than a month before Chinese au-thorities began to lock downWuhanand neighbouring cities in Hubeiprovince.AlthoughChinahas been credited

for an unusual degree of transparen-cy in the past week, virologists havefaulted the country for acting tooslowly in the early days of the virus’spread, allowing infected people totravel widely inside and outsideWu-han.Now, new evidence is emerging

that officials in Wuhan deliberatelyplayeddownthevirus, evenafter for-mally notifying theWorldHealthOr-ganization onDec. 31 aboutwhat theWHO described as “a cluster of casesof pneumonia of unknown cause.”But the Wuhan government took

a “refrigerating strategy” in the earlydays of the viral spread, a doctor atWuhan Union Hospital told ChinaNews Weekly. Medical staff werebanned from speaking publiclyabout what was taking place or ac-ceptingmedia interviews, the doctorsaid.Police in Wuhan also said in early

January that they had arrested eightpeople for spreading “rumours”about what was then a little-under-stood pneumonia affecting a grow-ing number of people.Another person claiming to be a

Wuhan physician wrote to the Na-tional Health Commission claimingthat doctors in the city were told notto report “viral pneumonia” in theirimaging reports between Jan. 12 andJan. 16 – a period during which localofficials delivered sunny reports onalocal situation under control. That

Weeks of inaction allowed virus to spread, sources sayNATHAN VANDERKLIPPEASIA CORRESPONDENT

to contain the coronavirus outbreak. REUTERS

tering the subway on Sunday in Beijing. Medicald local media reported a 62-year-old doctor died on

been in stable condition in isolation at To-ronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Cen-tre.“Thepatientwill not bedischargeduntil

we can be assured that they are making afull recovery andno longer pose any risk topublic health,” Jerome Leis, medical direc-tor of infection prevention and control atSunnybrook, said on Sunday.Only those who were seated in close

proximity to the man are being contactedby health officials because the risk to oth-ers is low, Dr. Tam said. According to scien-tific evidence, the coronavirus is spread bydroplets, so the people who face the high-est risk of infectionwould be those in closecontact with the infected individual forprolonged periods, she said.Dr. deVilla said passengers contactedby

health officials will not be placed underquarantine. Instead, they will be told tomonitor for the development of fever,cough or any other symptoms for the next14 days and be in contact with health au-thorities if they develop.Dr. Hota said the response is prudent.

“From a public-health perspective, whatthey’re doing makes sense,” Dr. Hota said,adding that simply walking past the manon the way to the bathroom is unlikely toput anyone at risk.Danuta Skowronski, epidemiology lead

of influenza and emerging respiratorypathogens at the BC Centre on DiseaseControl, said the centre does not recom-mend the wearing of masks broadly in thecommunity. “We may recommend wear-ing a mask to a patient who is sick, whenthey are, for instance, presenting them-selves to a health-care facility, in order toprevent others from becoming infected,”she said.“But it is not a general recommendation

for community members. It doesn’t helpin terms of the management or reductionof risks associated with respiratory illness-es.”

With reports from Wency Leungand Andrea Woo

pacifying fears

A man wears a mask as people arrive from the international terminal at Toronto Pearson International Airport onSaturday. During a press conference that afternoon, several officials announced Canada has identified its first‘presumptive’ case of coronavirus. NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Good medicineis only one aspect

of controllingoutbreaks andepidemics.

Communicatingpublic-healthmessages is,arguably, justas important.

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DAVID WALMSLEYEDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Doesn’t anybody want this job? The field of aspirantsto the leadership of the Conservative Party of Cana-da spent last week growing shallower and thinner,

with a trio of bold-faced names – Jean Charest, Pierre Poi-lievre andRonaAmbrose – all backing out before the startingline.What remains is a short bench, with few players voters

have ever heard of. It leaves former Progressive Conservativeleader and Harper-era minister Peter MacKay standing outas, for the moment, the clear favourite.There’s still time for others to jump into the race, and

many Conservatives are dreaming of the return of the manwho did the most to create the party, Stephen Harper. Thisplay’s cast of characters is not yet set. But nor is it clear whatkind of party the Conservatives want to be.The party’s identity is the bigger question to be decided

when members vote for a new leader in June.The horse race to lead the party can’t be separated from

the issue of where Conservatives want to take the country.Conservative politicians have competing compasses, andtheir takes on True North don’t agree.ForCanada to remaina success story, it needs a reasonable,

humane and positive Conservative Party, one that seeks tounite voters of all backgrounds. Beyond our borders, fromHungary to the White House, many right-wing politicianshave won election by embracing the opposite. That path topower is the political equivalent of a hit-and-run on thecountry’s future.When it comes to its chances of forming the next govern-

ment, Canada’s Conservative Party is in a position that is en-viable, yet fatally constricted.The left side of thepolitical spectrum is dividedbut, on the

right, the Conservatives stand alone. Their only competitorsare the BlocQuébécois, which is limited to one province, andthePeople’s PartyofCanada,whichwasabust last fall. It leav-es the Tories with a base of one-third of the electorate.But, as this pagepointedoutduring last fall’s electionpost-

mortem, the majority of Canadians who aren’t part of theConservative base are not only not voting for the party –they’re not even considering it. The problem is particularlyacute in urban and suburban Canada, where all of the pop-ulation growth is happening.In the vote-rich Greater Toronto Area, there is now almost

no blue on themap, and few ridingswhere the Conservativescame second in 2019. Things are worse in Greater Montreal.The Conservatives, at least in their current iteration, have

a low ceiling of support. They can only form government ifthe others parties, with amuch larger combined base, obligethem by fatally splitting votes on the left and centre.Conservatives need to worry about how to win the next

election; for Canadians, the bigger issue is how the Torieswould govern if they won.Last fall, the Liberals’ best get-out-the-vote strategy was

the existence of Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative ad-ministration in Ontario. Premier Ford came into office as aspecies of populist that right-wing parties have put forwardinmany other countries. He offered outsider status, a refrainof resentment, a distrust of expertise and experience and adisdain for government.The chaos sowed by Mr. Ford in his first year proved to be

the Liberals’ top argument against voting Conservative. TheOntario PC government has since tried to change its rhetoricand its course, since it’s clear that, while unleashing Mr.Ford’s worst impulses can motivate the base, it turns off farmore voters than it attracts.The Conservative Party has a lot of soul searching to do.Does it believe that climate change is best addressed by

ignoring the problem, or by tackling it? Can the solution in-clude carbon taxes –which began life as a conservative idea –or is the party so reflexively opposed to any and all taxes thateven raising some taxes to lower others is forbidden?Are there social programs it would be willing to create or

expand, or does the Conservative Party exist solely to makegovernment smaller and lower taxes? That’s not the Tory tra-dition in Canada; it’s the conservative movement importedfrom the United States.Canadians need a Conservative Party that can offer more

than just resistance to theLiberals and resentmentof the cur-rent culture. If it can’t, the party’s next choice of leader maybe irrelevant.

What is theConservativefuture?

PREVENTION PRESCRIPTION

Re Canadian Officials ContinueTests For Coronavirus (Jan. 24):The need for precautionary mea-sures was the clear message fromthe SARS Commission inquiryinto problems with Ontario’s re-sponse in 2003.The commission advised not

to wait for scientific certainty toact. There is mounting evidencenow that the new coronavirus iseither here or on its way. Weshould get out in front of the dis-ease.There is much that can be

done now to prevent spread, yetin an echo of SARS, health-caresystem leaders once again seemmore focused on reducing anyperception of a problem. Thebetter way to allay understanda-ble fear would be to ensurehealth-care workers, particularlyin hospitals, have proper protec-tive measures, equipment andtraining to prevent the kind ofspread that happened duringSARS.Telling us to calm down seems

infinitely less effective thanshowing us concrete actions that– we learned the hard way – areneeded.Nancy Johnson

Occupational health and safetyspecialist (retired), Ontario Nurses’Association; Sudbury

Re A New Deadly Virus, And TheLesson Of SARS (Editorial, Jan.22): A key SARS lesson: Keepinghealth workers safe by taking aprecautionary approach was amajor reason why British Colum-bia had no outbreak, while Onta-rio had 44 deaths and 247 prob-able cases. Half the Ontario vic-tims were health workers.Consider: The first SARS pa-

tients in Toronto and Vancouverpresented within hours of eachother. The B.C. patient wasplaced on full precautions withinminutes of entering VancouverGeneral Hospital. The Torontopatient was not isolated for 21hours. Some suggest good for-tune was behind B.C.’s outcome.Justice Archie Campbell of theSARS Commission said B.C.“made its own luck” by taking aprecautionary approach to work-er safety.Justice Campbell further

wrote: “It is not surprising thatSARS was contained so effective-ly at an institution so steeped inthe precautionary principle.” Onhis recommendation, this ap-proach is now enshrined in On-tario’s public-health legislation.Mario Possamai

Senior advisor to thecommissioner, Commission toInvestigate the Introduction andSpread of SARS in Ontario; Toronto

FOR THE CULTURE

Re This Doesn’t Look Like Recon-ciliation (Editorial, Jan. 24): Dur-ing 30 years working in the crimi-

nal justice system, what I sawconsistently with First Nationspeople was that they were cut offfrom their cultural heritage. Thisusually led to both social andcultural isolation, and I foundthis lack of feeling rooted to any-thing was as significant a factorin criminality as poverty and lackof education.I did what I could to encour-

age them to reconnect, to find aFirst Nations elder to guide themthrough the process.And it was a process, since

they almost always lacked theconfidence to approach thosewho were in the best position tohelp them.The residential schools are

long gone, and the Sixties Scoophappened well before most FirstNations people today were born,but the lasting effects are still ve-ry much there.In addition to providing edu-

cation opportunities and work-ing to reduce poverty, helpingthem reconnect with their cul-ture should be a mandatory stepon the long road to reconcilia-tion.Steve Soloman Toronto

ABCs OF KPIs

Re On Education Funding, Ken-ney Gets It Right (Jan. 24): In hissupport for Jason Kenney’s movetoward a new set of performanceindicators for postsecondaryeducation, columnist Gary Ma-son welcomes universities to the“real world.”As a former faculty association

president, dean of arts and aca-demic vice-president, I can as-sure him that this is where wehave been all along.Remember there was Ralph

Klein’s foray into KPIs and its im-pact on Alberta’s postsecondarysystem.At that time, KPIs encouraged

the province’s two largest uni-versities to become more openand absorbent. Government pol-icy rewarded an increase in ca-pacity – thereby encouraging amodification of admission stan-dards and the increased use ofcontract and sessional faculty.But this also had consequencesand potentially unintended out-comes.KPIs placed some academic

programs and institutions in Al-berta at considerable risk: Small-er institutions lost students as adirect result of government pol-icy, and were then punished fordeclining enrolments throughreduced provincial funding.Rather than locating universi-

ties and colleges in a private sec-tor context, I would suggest thatthey are better framed as com-munity assets.It is also helpful to remain at-

tentive to another truth of the“real world” – that postsecond-ary systems can be weakened bythe consequences of governmentpolicies that fail to fully attend to

the diversity of these vital insti-tutions and what they contributeto their communities and ourcollective future.Scott Grills Brandon University

CALENDAR CHECK

Re Garneau To Meet With Fam-ilies Of Canadian Max Crash Vic-tims (Jan. 24): At long last, Trans-portation Minister Marc Garneauhas finally agreed to meet withrelatives of the 18 Canadians whodied last March in the tragic 737Max plane crash. The familieshad been wanting to meet withMr. Garneau for 10 months –even a busy cabinet ministersurely could have found an hourin his schedule to meet, offersupport and try to provide someanswers to the grieving families.Michael Gilman Toronto

TAKING A STANZA

Re Ontario, Education UnionsBattle For Public Support (Jan.24):School is a place to learnLearn about life and earnEarn knowledge and ask ques-tions that burn

So I imagine it was all quite ashockTo hear that school was comingto a stopOnce a week we were stuck inthis lock

It’s strange to not be in schoolDenying education is honestlyquite cruelStudents caught right in the mid-dle of this duel

This is all such a messParents are very distressedWe all take a moment to reassessAnd take a deep breath…

Nonetheless we say yes to thecrazy amount of stressAnd deal with this problem inthe flesh because sometimesStubbornness isn’t always thebest…

Problems are hard to deal with –sighIt’s hard to come to an agree-ment – why?Because no one will budge – it’s atie

But if you are going to disagreeIf you’re going to fight, justplease –Don’t have students caught up inyour cold cold breeze.Maariyah Jahaan Malik

Grade 7 student; Markham, Ont.

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This pastweek, Ontario’s ele-mentary and Catholicteachers joined their sec-

ondary school counterparts instaging one-day walkouts fromtheir work. There is no questionthat these walkouts, as well asteachers “working to rule,” pre-sent problems and challenges forstudents and parents.But while this is undeniably

true, it is also true that whatteachers are fighting for in stagingthese job actions is the loss ofquality of the conditions of teach-

ing and learning, without whichthe consequences for studentsand their parents would be evenmore problematic.As in other provinces and

many other countries, provinciallaws in Ontario restrict teachers’legitimate concerns – what theycanprotest about, or bargain for –to issues of salary, benefits andworking conditions. Teachers areexpressly prohibited from nego-tiating on issues of policy (for ex-ample, curriculum), even whilepolicies may be serious issues ofconcern to them.As a consequence, teacher

unions areoften criticized for em-phasizing such “trivial” or “self-serving” issues seemingly at theexpense of student learning. Butthe notion that the conditions ofteaching are also students’ learn-ing conditions is more than just aslogan. Research conducted inOntario and other jurisdictionshasdemonstrated that the factorsthat allow teachers to teach well,and to know it, are the same fac-tors that support student learn-ing.Rarely have teacher unions

been as successful in articulatingthis connectionas theyhavebeen

in recent days. They are asking fora 2-per-cent salary increase tokeep up with inflation (less thanthe increase thathasalreadybeenawarded to Ontario’s police), butthey’ve alsomade it clear tomuchof the public that some of theeducational changes put forwardby the provincial ProgressiveConservative government arelikely to compromise the qualityof teaching and learning.Full-daykindergartenhasbeen

shown by researchers to improveyoung students’ social and aca-demicdevelopment as theymoveinto the primary grades. Withoutfull-day kindergarten, such gainswill be lost.The requirement that second-

ary students must take some oftheir courses online in order tograduate, while yet to be imple-mented, may not be the optimalpedagogical approach for all ofthem and may not be readily ac-cessible to all students.Finally, increases in class size,

particularly at the secondaryschool level, have serious impli-cations for students and teachers.The research base on class size isunclear about what the optimalclass size is, or whether it matters

more when children are younger,but it is clear that in larger classes,students get less attention andteaching is more teacher-centredand didactic, and students aremore likely to get frustrated anddisengaged by teachers’ inabilityto discern how and how muchstudents are learning.Increasing class sizes also

means reducing the number ofteachers and other adults whosupport children in schools – andfewer courses available to stu-dents that engage their interests,allow them to graduate with fullcredits and qualify for entranceinto postsecondary schools.And while the changes are

touted as an increase in class size,the reality is actually a deeper,more widespread loss of revenuefor schools, a greater loss of pro-grams and services as boardsmustmakedifficult choicesaboutwhat educational services shouldbe retained and what can be cut.Options for extracurricular ac-

tivities, support workers, trans-portation and other “non-core”services may all be up for consid-eration, and the losses may dis-proportionately affect studentswho aremembers of traditionally

disadvantagedgroups,exacerbat-ing social inequities. Further, fac-ing the prospects of fewer teach-ing jobs and deteriorating work-ing conditions, fewer numbers ofyoung people are choosing to en-ter teaching careers, and applica-tions to teacher training pro-grams are down.The dissolution of programs

and services that have supportedstudents is the issue with whichteachers and their organizationsare primarily concerned. Manyparents andmembers of the pub-lic understand this and, indeed,share these concerns.It will be important, and teach-

er union leaders know this, tokeep testing the waters of publicopinion. At least for the time be-ing, thedividebetweenorganizedteachers and the public is at a lowebb, and perhaps the three-waydynamic between government,teachers and public will shift forgood. More importantly, howev-er, is the reality that Ontario’sschool system, revered aroundthe world for the high quality ofteaching and learning and its at-tention to educational equity, isin serious danger of losing itsedge.

Ontario’s educational edge is in real dangerRegardless of theinconvenience of jobactions, research showsthat teachers’ conditionsare tied to students’learning outcomes

NINA BASCIA

OPINION

Professor at the Ontario Institute forStudies in Education at theUniversity of Toronto

The victims of the Rohingyagenocide cannot bebrought back from their

mass graves. But there is finallyhope that they can rest in peace,with justice served.On Thursday, the Internation-

al Court of Justice handed downprovisional measures in Gam-bia’s case against the Myanmarmilitary, demanding an end tothe persecution of the Rohingya.This was an extraordinary mo-ment for our people: The courtinstructed the government to re-spect the requirements of theUnited Nations’ 1948 GenocideConvention, recognizing thatthere is evidence that the con-vention has been breached. It ac-knowledged the truth that theRohingya people are vulnerableto attacks by the military. Thismonumental ruling comes onthe heels of the InternationalCriminal Court’s decision toopen an investigation into thepersecution of the Rohingya, andthe launch of a case in a federalcourt in Argentina against topMyanmar officials, includingleader Aung San Suu Kyi, underthe principle of universal juris-diction.These steps toward account-

ability are critically important,

both for Rohingya survivors andfor future peace and stability inMyanmar. But justice for theRohingya cannot be complete ifthe regime fails to account forthe systematic atrocities it or-chestrated against Rohingyawomen and girls.Having worked side by side

with Rohingya refugees in thecamps of Cox’s Bazar in Bangla-desh, I have heard from femalesurvivors who shared heart-breaking accounts of survivingtorture and arson during the gen-ocide, only to be brutally gang-raped – held down against theirwill and violated repeatedly bymembers of the Myanmar mili-tary. One elderly woman re-counted the horrors of passing

the Mayyu mountain range,where officers kidnapped andsexually assaulted her daughter.Her daughter’s wounds were sodire that she was unable to walk;she had to be carried the remain-ing way to Cox’s Bazar.The scale of sexual- and gen-

der-based violence was docu-mented in devastating detail in alandmark fact-finding reportfrom the United Nations. Accord-ing to the UN, mass gang rapestook place often in full view ofsurvivors’ children, family mem-bers and neighbours. Rape wasdeployed as a spectacle, designedto shatter Rohingya society.Members of the military “brand-ed” their victims by biting theirfaces and bodies to leave perma-

nent scars. Many women wereraped until they died of bloodloss. Many of those who survivedwere killed afterward.There can be a perception that

rape – committed on the groundby individuals – is somehow dif-ferent from killing, because thereis some expectation of a calculat-ed chain of command. That is in-accurate. In Myanmar, rape wasas much a tool of genocide asmachine guns and mortar shells.The use of rape as a weapon ofwar was not incidental: It was thecornerstone of a deliberate strat-egy of forced exile, to eradicatethe Rohingya population fromRakhine State. Indeed, the UNfound that “the sexual violenceperpetrated against women and

girls … indicated the Tatmadaw’sgenocidal intent to destroy theRohingya people.” (Tatmadaw isthe official name of the armedforces of Myanmar.) Women andgirls of reproductive age were in-tentionally selected, the reportsaid, and so severely injured thatmany are now unable to bearchildren.Despite this, sexual violence is

not a prominent feature of thecase before the world’s top courtso far. As the case moves aheadlater this year, accountability forthe perpetrators of sexual vio-lence and rape must be placed atcentre stage. Countries such asCanada that have long cham-pioned women’s rights will becritical in making this a reality.Canada is one of the nearly 90

countries that boast a NationalAction Plan committing the gov-ernment to ending the dispro-portionate and unique impact ofarmed conflict on women andgirls. Given its feminist foreignpolicy and its solidarity with theRohingya, there is no better wayfor Canada to deliver on its com-mitment to our people than toback Gambia in its case at the ICJand ensure that victims of sexualand gender-based crimes receivejustice. Ideally, Canada wouldmatch its vocal support for Gam-bia’s case with psycho-social sup-port and education programs forfemale survivors in the camps ofCox’s Bazar.Bringing sexual- and gender-

based violence to the forefront ofthe case against Myanmar wouldnot only be a significant victoryfor the Rohingya, but it wouldhelp create an important legalprecedent for future cases inwhich rape is instrumentalizedto terrorize a population. We oweit to the victims and to the survi-vors to ensure this happens.

Justice for the Rohingya? Not if violence against our women persistsRAZIA SULTANA

OPINION

Rohingya leader, lawyer andhuman-rights activist. She is theco-ordinator of the Free RohingyaCoalition, the director of women’soutreach for the Arakan RohingyaNational Organisation and thefounder and director of the RWWelfare Society, which works to stophuman trafficking and supportRohingya refugee women.

This photo collage comprises portraits of some of the many Rohingya Muslim women who say they were rapedby members of Myanmar’s armed forces. WONG MAYE-E/ASSOCIATED PRESS

In the February edition of Ma-clean’s, columnist Scott Gil-more writes in praise of

shame, a quality or virtue notice-ably lacking in our national andinternational politics. “Being Ca-tholic,” he writes, allows him tosee the connection between con-sequences and shame. If the cul-ture does not see this connection– indeed denies it exists – thenshame loses its hold, along withtruth, integrity, the compellingpower of facts, accountability forpersonal behaviour and theheavy weight of conscience. “Theideals of peace, order and goodgovernment,” he says, “are builton a base of shame.”We are all diminished.Are we truly shamed by the

dread aftershocks of the horror

that is Auschwitz-Birkenau?Have we become acclimated tothat particular horror? January27 marks the 75th anniversary ofthe liberation of the camp byRussian troops, and this shouldoccasion some serious soul-searching by all those in powerwho tolerate the methodical de-humanizing of the Other, the pe-ripheralization of the stranger,the dehumanizing of the adver-sary.How fortuitous then that in

the same month of the anniver-sary of Auschwitz’s liberation weshould have the wide release offilmmaker Terrence Malick’s AHidden Life. A biopic that chron-icles the extraordinary witness ofan ordinary man in a dark timein Austrian history, the film isclassic Malick: luscious, lumi-nous and incandescent, but alsoforeboding, grim and devastat-ing.This hidden life – the life of

Franz Jagerstatter – is a portraitof quiet courage, a dramaticstatement of the power of oneperson against a mighty tyranny,a stark and yet beautiful illustra-tion of the dignity of unassail-

able conviction in the presenceof ubiquitous uniformity. It is thelife of a sequestered saint, theconscience of Austria.A bit of a roué in his early

years – fathering a child out ofwedlock and brawling occasion-ally – Jagerstatter was a slightly-out-of-sync local largely inuredto the tempest on the horizon inhis picturesque village of SanktRadegund, nestled in the moun-tains, a paradisal oasis. He even-tually settled down, married adevout Catholic, had threedaughters, did duty as the parishsacristan, and then reluctantlywent off for his military trainingin 1940-41. But he refused to takean oath of allegiance to Hitlerand bided his time.In 1943, he was called up for

active service in the Wehrmacht– after the Anschluss of 1938,Austria was fully annexed as partof the Third Reich – and the op-tion of being a conscientious ob-jector was not in the cards.As was the case for Thomas

More, there was always going tobe a price for resistance, and al-though he was an obscure farm-er in a remote village, Jagerstat-

ter had to be dealt with. Like theformer Chancellor of HenricianEngland, his family, friends, re-spected clerics and others im-plored Jagerstatter to submit – tohold whatever reservations hehad in check, to conform for thesake of familial peace, religiousrectitude, social harmony.But convinced “that it is still

best that I speak the truth eventhough it costs me my life,” hepersisted in his obstinacy, de-clined the counsel of his bishop,who urged him to renounce hisscruples and serve in the army.Jagerstatter was no fanatic lust-ing for martyrdom; he justcouldn’t see a way out otherthan betraying his conscience.He had to stand firm.In his many prison commen-

taries and in his letters, Jagerstat-ter was direct in his accusationsof ecclesiastical and politicalcomplicity in an unjust war. Hiscall for radical defiance wasgrounded in his maturing faith:“That we Catholics must makeourselves tools of the worst andmost dangerous anti-Christianpower that has ever existed issomething that I cannot and

never will believe.”For that, he was beheaded,

and declared an “enemy of thestate.”Mr. Malick’s film is not hagiog-

raphy. It is not a eulogy to thelone-wolf defier, or a swan songfor the preciously innocent. It re-flects the filmmaker’s attractionto the metaphysical probe – Mr.Malick is an astute critic of Ger-man philosophy – and his predi-lection for the ineffable. It is nota flawless portrait; Jagerstatter isnot idealized in his martyrdom.Rather, the Austrian farmer –

Blessed Franz, as he is now,poised on the penultimate stepto canonization – serves as astark reminder to our genera-tion, 75 years removed from thefreeing of the last inhabitants ofAuschwitz, that the Leni Riefen-stahl reels capturing the rallies ofNuremberg in the 1930s unnerv-ingly echo in the contemporaryrallies that dot the political land-scape of Europe and America.The price of conscience is not

a distant memory. The hiddenlife, in the end, must be a publiclife. That is how we preserve ourhumanity.

How the story of an Austrian farmer urges us not to forget the lessons from AuschwitzMICHAEL W. HIGGINS

OPINION

Distinguished professor of Catholicthought at Sacred Heart University inFairfield, Conn., and a senior fellowof Massey College at the Universityof Toronto

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Q: I’m trying to eat more fruit, butthe choices are limited this time ofyear. Which winter fruits offer themost nutritional value?

Winter isn’t known for an abun-dant variety of fresh fruit. Butthat doesn’t mean your fruitintake has to take a nosedive.During the winter months, it’s

still possible to find fresh fruitsthat deliver plenty of nutritionand flavour. Not to mention nu-merous health benefits.A higher fruit intake has been

tied to protection from heart dis-ease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, cat-aract,macular degeneration, cog-nitive decline, digestive tractcancers and lung cancer.Many people forgo fruit in or-

der to avoid eating toomuch sug-ar. But unlike refined sugar that’sadded to pastries, ice cream,candy and many highly proc-essed foods, naturally occurringsugar in fruit (fructose) comespackaged with fibre, vitamins,minerals and antioxidants. Plus,the fibre in fruit slows the body’sabsorption of its natural sugars.Include two or three servings

of whole fruit (not juice) in yourdiet each day, year-round. A me-dium-sized fruit or one cup ofberries or fruit salad is considereda fruit serving.The following nutrient-packed

fruits are worthy additions toyour winter diet:

GRAPEFRUITOne medium grapefruit offers 3grams of fibre, 356 mg of blood-pressure-regulating potassiumanda full day’sworthof vitaminC(90 mg). Not bad for 82 calories.Like all citrus fruit, grapefruit

contains flavanones, phytochem-icals that have been shown toprotect brain cells, strengthenblood vessels and dampen in-flammation. Pink and red grape-fruit are also decent sources of ly-copene, an antioxidant thoughtto guard against prostate cancer.Broil half of a grapefruit (with

a drizzle of honey) for breakfast,serve sliced grapefruit alongsidegrilled seafood and fish, or addgrapefruit segments to green sal-ads. Grapefruit interacts withmany medications, includingsome used to treat high choleste-rol and blood pressure. Consultyour pharmacist to determine ifit’s safe to eat grapefruit whiletaking certain drugs.

POMEGRANATE SEEDSOpening a pomegranate to ex-tract its juicy seed sacs (calledarils) can be tricky, but it’s worththe effort. One half cup of thesejewel-like seeds (72 calories) sup-ply fibre, potassium, folate, vita-min K and vitamin C.The fruit’s claim to fame,

though, is its exceptional contentof polyphenols, compounds with

potent antioxidant and anti-in-flammatory properties. Amongtheirmanypotential healthbene-fits, research suggests that pome-granate polyphenols may helpfight inflammation in the gut.Add pomegranate seeds to

yogurt parfaits and fruit salad,sprinkle over oatmeal, stir intowhole grainpilafs, toss into saladsand mix into muffin batter.

CLEMENTINESMy go-to wintertime snack, twoclementines (70 calories) deliverplenty of vitamin C (72mg) alongwith fibre, potassium, folate, cal-cium and beneficial citrus flava-nones.Simply peel and enjoy on their

own or add clementine segmentsto yogurt, smoothies, hot cereal,pancakes and spinach salad. Thevitamin C in citrus fruit enhancesthe body’s ability to absorb ironfrom leafy greens.

KIWIFRUITThis small green fruit is a nutrientpowerhouse. Two kiwifruit (84calories) serve up 4 g of fibre, asmuch potassium as a banana(430mg),more vitaminC thananorange (128 mg) along withfolate, vitamin E and calcium.Kiwifruit is also a good source

of vitamin K, a nutrient neededfor blood clotting and healthybones. Two fruit provide two-thirds of a day’s worth of the vita-min forwomenandhalf of a day’sworth for men.Add kiwi slices to cereal and

salads, mix chopped kiwi into yo-gurt and blend kiwifruit intosmoothies.Make a kiwi salsawithred bell pepper, onion and cilan-tro to servewith fish and chicken.

APPLESThe fact that apples keep well forup to five months after fall har-vest makes them a readily avail-able fruit in the winter months.In addition to fibre, vitamins

andminerals, apples are an excel-lent source of quercetin, a strongantioxidant concentrated in theskin that’s thought to have anti-cancer properties.Mix chopped apple into oat-

meal, add thin slices of apple toquesadillas or turkey sandwiches,snack on an apple with almondbutter or serve baked apples fordessert.

Leslie Beck, a Toronto-based privatepractice dietitian, is director of foodand nutrition at Medcan.

Five nutrient-packed fruits thatare perfect for your winter dietLESLIEBECK

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Serve sliced grapefruit with grilledseafood or add it to salads. ISTOCK

After 40 years, despite breakthroughs inthe treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS, Canadian scientists working inKenya are still up against a stubborn

roadblock: How do you encourage people toget tested for HIV?“On paper, we have the means of dealing

with the epidemic. But in practice, it is very dif-ferent,” said Larry Gelmon, an associate profes-sor at the University of Manitoba and directorof the university’s program in Kenya. “We havethe solutions. The research issues [now] arehow do you get those solutions to the peoplewho need them?”Scientists from Winnipeg are

gathering in Nairobi this week,marking the 40th anniversary ofa research partnership, initiallyestablished between the Univer-sity ofManitoba and theUniversi-ty of Nairobi before the world be-came aware of HIV/AIDS to try tocontrol sexually transmitted in-fections in Kenya. That partner-ship, called the University of Ma-nitoba-University of Nairobi Col-laborative Research Program,grew to include researchers fromthe United States, Belgium andother Canadian universities, and it turned itsattention to HIV/AIDS as the disease sweptAfrica in the 1980s.The group’s work is far from over. In 2018,

25.7million peoplewere livingwithHIV inAfri-ca and 1.1 million were infected that year, ac-counting for two-thirds of new HIV infectionsglobally, according to the World HealthOrganization.Over the decades, Gelmon said, the focus of

the research collaborative has shifted fromlearning aboutHIV in the 1980s to trying to finda way to create a vaccine in the 1990s, whichwas unsuccessful. Since then, he said, it has fo-cused on the social and cultural issues hinder-ing the prevention and treatment of infection.With the rightmedications, people withHIV

can now live long lives. Although the death tollhas plunged in Africa and around the world,the WHO estimates 470,000 people in Africadied of HIV-related causes in 2018 – more than60 per cent of the estimated 770,000 deathsglobally that year.“A lot of the stigma and prejudice that pre-

vented people from getting tested 30 years agois still happening,” Gelmon said, adding thateven though treatment is now available, manyare hesitant to be treated because they do notwant others to know they are HIV-positive.For sex workers, anti-retroviral medications

can be taken before having sex as a pre-expo-sure prophylactic to protect themselves, headded, but they are often reluctant to carry thepills for fear others will assume they are infect-ed.“So, to a large extent, the research that we’re

doing now is how do you get people to get test-ed? How do you encourage them, if they’re ontreatment, to stay on their treatment?” he said.This involves various qualitative, operation-

al research projects aimed at try-ing to figure out the best way toimplement treatments andpreventive measures beyond thelaboratory and clinical settings.For instance, the group isworkingwith sex workers in Nairobi toprovide peer education, conductHIV testing and hand out con-doms in the places where theywork, such as bars, clubs, hotelsand bus stops.Researchers are also working

onnewmethods to prevent infec-tion that are accessible and couldbe readily adopted. For example,

building upon decades of the group’s research,Keith Fowke, head of the University of Manito-ba’s department of medical microbiology andinfectious diseases, is testing the use of a lowdailydoseof aspirin toblock inflammation, as away of preventing HIV target cells from gettinginto the genital tract.Taking a pill every daywould not be ideal for

everyone, Fowke said. But for women at highrisk of exposure to the virus, particularly sexworkers, the common anti-inflammatory drugcould turn out to be an affordable, socially ac-ceptable prevention tool they could add totheir arsenal, he said.Meanwhile, researchers have not

abandoned their efforts to develop a vaccine ora cure.

HIV adherence counsellor Julia Waruguru speaks to a woman being tested for HIV at the IOMtreatment centre in Eastleigh, Nairobi, in 2018. In 2018, 25.7 million people were living with HIV inAfrica, according to the World Health Organization. BAZ RATNER/REUTERS

Fight against HIV/AIDSin Kenya still an uphill battleForty years on, Canadianresearchers still face social andcultural obstacles in persuadingKenyans to get tested for virus

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happening.LARRY GELMON

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DR. SHARON COHEN,NEUROLOGIST AND MEDICALDIRECTOR OF THE TORONTOMEMORY PROGRAM, hasexperienced the disappointmentthat comes from studying a potentialnew therapy for Alzheimer’s diseasethat ultimately proves unsuccessful.“I’ve been involved in several clini-

cal trials, and it’s devastating to buildyour team and nurture participantsthrough the process, only to have itend in failure,” she says.“But the landscape is changing,

and we are starting 2020 with manygood reasons to be hopeful.”While failure is part of the drug

development process, research into

IT’S TIME TO UNDERSTAND DEMENTIA AND MOVE PAST STIGMATHROUGH THE STORIES OF CANADIANS

During Alzheimer’s Awareness Month in January, Canadians living withAlzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia are speaking candidlyto better inform Canadians about dementia and erase the negativestereotypes and misconceptions surrounding the disease.

Read their stories at ilivewithdementia.ca and find out what you can doto beat stigma.

Alzheimer’s disease has been par-ticularly difficult, with a failure rate inclinical trials exceeding 99 per cent.In the 20-year period ending in 2017,there were 146 failed efforts.*Disappointment is now making

way for a new sense of optimism,with a high level of promising re-search activity into disease-modifyingtherapies and diagnostic options.“A significant drawback in previous

trials was that interventions wereapplied too late – after too muchimpairment had occurred – becausewe didn’t know how to identify earlyAlzheimer’s disease, says Dr. Cohen.“But recently, we gained a greater

ability to look at the underlying

Source: Alzheimer Society of Canada.

biological changes in the brain andto detect amyloid and tau proteinsassociated with the disease, evenbefore cognitive symptoms appear,”she explains.Earlier stages of Alzheimer’s dis-

ease can now be diagnosed throughpositron emission tomography (PET)brain scans or by analyzing a sampleof spinal fluid. At the same time,research is underway into easier, lesscostly diagnostic tools, including aneye exam with a hyperspectral retinacamera being developed by Re-tispec, a Canadian medical imagingcompany, and a blood test, whichDr. Cohen says could be availablewithin the next two to five years.There is also a clinic-based genetictest being developed by Spartan Bio,another innovative Canadian com-pany, which can confirm presenceof ApoE – a gene which puts its car-riers at a higher risk for Alzheimer’sdisease – within 60 minutes.Several new drug compounds

for treatment are progressing in thedevelopment pipeline, she says.Knowledge is building on numer-ous approaches to treatment – withstudies targeting different mecha-nisms understood to contribute tothe disease’s debilitating symptoms.Research is also underway into vac-cines against Alzheimer’s disease.The Alzheimer Society of Canada

is also encouraged to see this newera of progress, says Nalini Sen,director of research and knowledgetranslation and exchange (KTE). TheSociety has to date invested morethan $59-million into initiatives byCanadian researchers in areas that in-clude medical research, health policychange and community supports forpeople living with the disease.“This year, we have added new

funding opportunities to encour-age more innovation, including by

supporting early-career investigatorsleading high-risk and novel researchprojects,” says Sen.Another key advance is the grow-

ing body of research showing howlifestyle factors can help reduce therisk of developing dementias, shesays.“It’s estimated that up to half of

cases of Alzheimer’s disease in theworld may be as a result of modifi-able risk factors, such as diabetesor high blood pressure, obesityor smoking and physical inactiv-ity. We have made great strides inAlzheimer’s research to date as wenow know that healthy lifestylechoices such as physical activity andhealthy diet can help us maintainbrain function and, in some cases,reverse that decline.”Another welcome step was the

Government of Canada’s June 2019release of the country’s first-ever na-tional dementia strategy: A Demen-tia Strategy for Canada: TogetherWe Aspire. The strategy includes afederal commitment to invest up to$50-million over five years in threekey areas: prevention, advancingtherapies/finding a cure and improv-ing quality of life for individuals withAlzheimer’s disease.“The Alzheimer Society has been

advocating for this strategy for wellover a decade,” Sen says. “However,the journey isn’t over. Full funding isurgently needed to implement thestrategy.”Dr. Cohen agrees that funding is

critical, along with major changes toCanadian health-care infrastructureto ensure people can gain timelyaccess to diagnosis and treatment asearly as possible.“Most memory clinics already

have a wait list of at least a year,and that is tragic,” she says. “As weacquire more diagnostic tools andtherapies, we will need significantlymore resources to help prevent pro-gression of Alzheimer’s disease.”

Supported by Biogen Canada

Most memoryclinics already

have a wait list ofat least a year, and

that is tragic.Dr. Sharon Cohen

neurologist and medical directorof the Toronto Memory Program

We have madegreat strides

in Alzheimer’sresearch to date aswe now know that

healthy lifestylechoices such as

physical activityand healthy diet can

help us maintainbrain function...

Nalini Sendirector of research and

knowledge translation andexchange, Alzheimer Society of

Canada

RENEWED HOPE FOR DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENTOF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

In less than 12 years, close toa million Canadians will havedementia –

that’s an increase of nearly

70 per cent.Let’s talk about dementia.

Visit ilivewithdementia.ca.

1 in 4 Canadians saythey would feel embarrassed orashamed if they had dementia.

1.1 millionCanadians are impacted bydementia.

Meet some of the Canadians, pictured above, who are generously sharing their stories about living with dementia.

*Source: Researching Alzheimer’s Medicines Setbacks and Stepping Stones, PhRMA, 2018.

www.biogen.ca

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Her warm fingers lift my right breast. Shecups it in her hand, squeezes and stretchesit onto the cold steel plate. I clenchmy lips.Her other hand pushes my shoulder back

then turns my chin to face my shoulder. The mus-cles in my neck tighten, I feel a stretch run downacross my shoulder and into my tricep. I debatepractising this pose in my next yoga class.“Stay still,” she says.The visual of me going anywheremakesme grin.“We don’t want to get a blurry image.”I rollmy eyes at thewall. Of course, no onewould

want a blurry image of my flattened, 60-year-oldboob. Since I’m naked from the waist up, posed likea nude model and have nowhere else to go, I do asshe says and remain still.The technician’s runners squeak on the tiles as

she walks behind a glass partition.“Don’t move,” she says.The thoughtof anunexpected fire drillmakesme

wonder if I could retrieve my boob on my own.Click.She comes back, kneads my breast

into another pose and presses it ontotheplatformagain. This time, she low-ers the compression paddle on top.The sensation feels similar to a doorclosing on my thumb… ever so slow-ly.“I’m going to bring it down two

more times.” She pats my back. “ButI’ll stop after each one. If it’s too pain-ful, you letme know.,okay? It’s best toget both images.”She lifts her finger above a lever.

“Are you ready?”Do I have a choice? I nod.It’s painful, but I smile at her. If my

boob could smile, it wouldn’t. Shepushes the lever again.“Good job.” She walks away.“Hey,” I call out. “Do you ever have

nightmares about boobs?”“Nightmares about boobs? No. Never.” She steps

behind the glass again.Click.“Butnightmares about feet,” she comesback, “let

me tell you.” Her hand covers her mouth as shelaughs as though she just told me a big secret.“Feet?” I say. “Why feet?”Shemovesme into another position. I have to ad-

mit, I’m very impressed with the stretchiness of myboob. Could this actually be an advantage to smallbreasts? Or is it the age factor and loss of elasticity?Similar to the effect as what has happened tomy

once-firmcheeks…onmy face, as they slip down tomeet my jaw.“Feet disgustme. Somuch.” She scrunches upher

face. “Breasts are a breeze. It’s not often you find adirty breast.” She giggles like a high school girl. “Butfeet, feet are so gross.”Click.

She lifts my right arm overmy head. “When’s thelast time you soaped down your chest?”“This morning,” I say as I stare at the ceiling, “in

the shower. But I didn’t use any lotion or deodorantjust like the instructions said.”Click.“Uh-huh. How about your feet?” She turns me

and flattens my other boob on the tray. “Did yougive them a good scrub?”“Ah, no. No, I didn’t.” I feel ashamed. “Sorry.”“Don’t be. No one does. After you stop shaving

your legs you quit. And guys, well … we all knowwhere they quit with the soap.”Click.“Besides, if feet are dirty to start with, a shower

won’t help; you’re standing on them. You need toget down there,” she bends over to demonstrate.“And scrubwith a stiff bristle brush and soap, lots ofsoap.”I wiggle my toes inside my fuzzy socks. The big

toes cross over the next toes.“The things that growon and out of

feet…” She drops the compressionpaddle once. “You okay?”I nod. But my boob would wince, if

it could.“Are so repulsive! Can you stand

tall, please? Arch your back. And sum-mertime is worse than winter but notmuch. People in sandals. So gross.You’d think they know to scrub themeven harder.”Squish.Click.“I never would have guessed.”“Toe jam, toenails youcoulduse for

fish hooks, dirt-filled calluses, mon-key hair.” She liftsmy left armovermyhead and pushes it until it pressesagainst my ear. “I could go on forhours about the feet I’ve seen. Breasts,maybe a few minutes.”

“I’m awriter.” I give her a huge smile. “I can’t waitto get this down.”“You’re a writer? And you’d write about feet?”“I’d write about this conversation. Right after I go

home and scrub my feet with a brush and lots ofsoap.”“We’re done. If you need more foot material,

comeback anytime.” Shewinks as shehandsmemygown.Once inside the changing room, I sit on the

bench, grab my right foot, yank the sock off, tip myhead to see through thebifocal sectionofmyglassesandpullmy sole as close tomy face as possible; defi-nitely another yoga pose that needs work. No dirt-filled calluses. I spreadmy toes.Nomonkeyhair. Toenails trim and clean. Like a really good dream. Idon’t have gross, nightmare feet. Thank goodness.I pull my socks back on and wriggle my toes.

Barbara Wackerle Baker lives in Calgary.

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While I may have felt uncomfortable during my mammogram,the technician assured me that breasts are a breeze – it’s feetthat give her nightmares, Barbara Wackerle Baker writes

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S ince its founding in 1968, Toronto’s TheatrePasse Muraille has always sought to creatework that goes “beyond walls” – and, 52years later, it is still finding new walls to go

beyond.TPM is currently presenting its first-ever show in

Arabic, with English surtitles: Suitcase/Adrenaline, adouble-bill of short plays from Kitchener-Water-loo’s Theatre Mada.(The company’s name, fittingly, means

something close to “new horizons.”)One of the hardest walls to tear down in theatre

– and between people in general in multiculturalToronto – is language.Kudos to TPM for taking this linguistic leap.Both Suitcase and Adrenaline are written by and

star Ahmad Meree, a young artist from Aleppo,Syria, who came to Canada as a refugee in 2016 andwas co-sponsored by the shows’ director, MajdiBou-Matar.Suitcase is a 70-minute tragic farce about an

interfaith couple who did not manage to escapethe violence of the continuing Syrian civil war.Adrenaline is a shorter, 30-minute piece that

looks at the mixture of guilt, sadness and tentativehope felt by one man who, like the playwright, didescape it.In the first play, Christian reporter Razan (Nada

Abusaleh) and Muslim musician Samer (Meree)have had to leave their home with only one suit-case, and when wemeet them in some sort of eeriewaiting room, Razan is racking her brain trying toremember one particular item that she forgot topack.The married couple sit on a pair of chairs, pass-

ing the time by arguing, playing games, flirting,meditating and banging on the floor.Samer practises his English and what he would

say if he were interviewed by reporters while flee-ing through Europe, and can’t help imagining a lifewhere his charismatic soundbites help himbecome a famous musician; Razan, trying toignore her husband’s foolishness, meditatesangrily.Although the tone is comic, it soon becomes

clear that these two have escaped Syria only bydying.And after a while, Ra-

zan and Samer finallytell each other of trau-mas they hid from oneanother in life, horrorssuffered at the hands ofthe Islamic State andsupporters of SyrianPresident Bashar al-As-sad, respectively.Before coming to

Canada, Meree studiedat the Higher Instituteof Theatre Arts in Cairo,and one of the creditslisted in his bio is a pro-duction of Eugene Io-nesco’s The Lesson,which he directed there.The influence of Ionesco and other playwrights

of the theatre of the absurd, such as Samuel Beck-ett (andWaiting for Godot in particular), on Suitcaseis clear.That post-Second World War artistic movement

was a reaction to a world seemingly without mean-ing after unfathomable death and destruction, andby writing in this mode, Meree makes it clear thatis not a part of history for many of the people onthis planet.The randomness of death in war is communicat-

ed powerfully in Adrenaline, in which an unnamedmain character played by Meree has a New Year’sEve dinner with objects he has set up to representhis mother, father and brother.Eventually, the man abandons this artifice to tell

the story of how, when he was out getting a loaf ofbread for dinner, the rest of his family was blownup by a bomb.He’s struck by the absurdity that his father was

sitting on the couch watching the news aboutmounting casualties of the civil war on televisionat the exact moment he himself became one.He imagines the number scrolling across the

screen going up by one as his father died.In Suitcase, Razan similarly reflects on the reduc-

tion of humans to numbers in news reports, re-marking on one about how she and her husbandwere among 52 people who died in an explosion: “Ifeel like we’re a deck of cards.”But while Samer is angry because he didn’t “de-

serve” to die, Razan is more at peace with the rolethat chance played in their demises.Much of the power of these two works, which

both feature a bare-bones tourable design, comesfrom the knowledge that their creator is not deal-ing with abstract ideas, but embodies the subjectmatter; his presence on a Canadian stage is anartistic statement in itself.Everyone knows that old cliché in Canada – the

immigrant or refugee who was a doctor in the oldcountry is now driving a taxi.But this country has also, in general, never been

great at utilizing the talents of non-Anglophoneartists who come here, despite the fact that youdon’t need credentials to act or direct or write aplay.Theatres should do more to make productions

in other languages accessible to those of us whounderstand English, just as they should also domore to make English-language theatre accessibleto those of us who do not.It was great to hear TPM’s new artistic director

Marjorie Chan say on opening night that Suitcase/Adrenaline was just the start of something.

Suitcase/Adrenaline runs until Feb. 1.

A Syrian refugeeplaywright exploresthe absurdity of escapeJ. KELLYNESTRUCK

THEATRE REVIEW

Suitcase/AdrenalineTHEATRE PASS MURAILLE IN TORONTO

Written by Ahmad MereeDirected by Majdi Bou-MatarStarring Ahmad Meree and Nada Abusaleh★★★

Both Suitcase andAdrenaline arewritten by and starAhmad Meree, ayoung artist fromAleppo, Syria, whocame to Canada as arefugee in 2016 andwas co-sponsored bythe shows’ director,Majdi Bou-Matar.

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BRIDGEBY STEVE BECKER

The late Harry Fishbein, well-known star player and impresa-rio of New York’s now defunctMayfair Bridge Club, was notedmost for his imaginative biddingand play.For Fishbein, there was nosuch thing as a sacred rule thatcould not be broken if the situ-ation called for it, and he wasalways on the lookout for suchsituations. No one ever ac-cused him of being a monolithicplayer.Here is an example of the typeof play he was capable of makingon the spur of the moment. Fish-bein wasWest, defending against

four spades, and he began byleading the queen and anotherclub to East’s king.When East next played the aceof clubs, Fishbein had to decidewhat to discard. He knew that afourth club lead by East wouldpromote his queen of spadesinto the setting trick, but hewas afraid East might return adiamond instead. This couldprove fatal if South, who hadbid two suits and shown up withthree clubs, had no diamonds.If this was so, South could ruffthe diamond return and cashthe A-K of spades to make thecontract.

The question, therefore, washow to get East to continue witha fourth club. Discarding a lowheart might cause East to lead adiamond, while discarding a lowdiamond might not be explicitenough. And so, Fishbein didsomething that very few playerswould think of – he discardedthe ace of diamonds!It was not difficult for East tograsp the meaning of this ex-traordinary discard, since healso knew declarermight be voidof diamonds. Accordingly, he ledthe nine of clubs at trick four,and the contract quickly wentdown the drain.

South dealer.North-South vulnerable.

The bidding:

South West North East1 [S] 2 [D] 2 [S] 3 [C]3 [H] Pass 4 [S]Opening Lead – queen of clubs.

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CRYPTIC CLUES QUICK CLUES

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ACROSS1 Weather sets problem

for loved ones (11)9 Time free for making

wreath secure (7)10 Number have a light grip (5)11 Musical soldiers in line (4)12 Uplift spiritually? (8)14 Tone adopted by doctor

coming in weary (6)16 Underground source

of salt? (6)18 Shaken and upset (8)19 A sign that Verne’s

captain has returned (4)22 Something wrong

with a knot? (5)23 Strain we hear

inducing love? (7)24 Fit to take possession (11)

DOWN2 Call we hear to help

with the laundry (5)3 Where needles are

kept just in case (4)4 He’d caught the fish

having leaned over (6)5 A writer’s attributes (8)6 A number walk wearily

around – it’s hard work (7)7 Courses in aviation (6,5)8 See 17 Down

13 Break one’s noseperhaps (8)

15 Mother’s driving in fourthgear and all at sea (7)

17 and 8 Down: Be smartand continue to work inthe theatre (4,2,11)

20 Musical composition frommore remote times (5)

21 I’m in a new car (4)

ACROSS: 1 Covet, 4 Reflect, 8 Nil, 9 Amsterdam, 10 Flouted, 11 Dingy, 13 Rarity,15 Impact, 18 Order, 19 Blatant, 21 Ho Chi Minh, 23 Ail, 24 Replete, 25 Ruddy.DOWN: 1 Conifer, 2 Volgograd, 3 Trait, 4 Reside, 5 Freedom, 6 End, 7 Tommy,12 Nyasaland, 14 Termite, 16 Totally, 17 Oblige, 18 Other, 20 Abhor, 22 Cap.

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10 Hard to accomplish (5)11 Tender (4)12 Caps, hats etc (8)14 Stately (6)16 Be present (6)18 Repudiate (8)19 Stopper (4)22 Jack (5)23 Distinguished (7)24 About to appear (11)

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13 Cheeky (8)15 In the distant past (4,3)17 Picturesque (6)20 City (5)21 Stanch (4)

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L ike many in his generation who fought inthe Second World War, Keith Crummerdidn’t share much with his family after hereturned to Canada in May, 1945, having

seen action as an infantry officer in France, Belgi-um and the Netherlands.“My father never talked about it. Never, never,

ever, ever talked about it,” his eldest daughter,Diane Teetzel, recalled – although she once sawhim in the basement watching the movie adaptionof The Longest Day, the bestseller about the Nor-mandy landing. “Tears were rolling down his face. Ijust shut the door and let him be.”Then, a trip 45 years ago to France brought Mr.

Crummer back to Criquebeuf-sur-Seine, a Normanvillage his regiment liberated in 1944. The Cana-dian soldiers had arrived just after the Germansnearly executed 63 local hostages.When Mr. Crummer visited in 1974, he showed

up unannounced. However, “word got around thatmy father was there and the mayor at the timecame to him … and they had a big celebration,”Ms. Teetzel said.Criquebeuf’s mayor later sent a letter, thanking

Mr. Crummer. “You and your brave soldiers haveleft an enduring memory and friendship in all ourhearts,” it said.Ms. Teetzel said her father was “flabbergasted,

absolutely flabbergasted” by the villagers’ kind-ness.Although Mr. Crummer has since died, his name

still resonates in Criquebeuf decades later, and adeep friendship now bonds the locals and hisfamily.Tucked against a tributary of the Seine River,

Criquebeuf is a small community off the beatenpath in Normandy. Visitors who make the 90-min-ute drive from Paris enter through a street still

lined by old stone houses, Rue des Canadiens.Then, past the town square, named HostagesPlace, sits a bridge that in August was renamedafter Mr. Crummer.Two weeks ago, friends from Criquebeuf visited

Ms. Teetzel in Chatham, Ont. Her family greetedthem at the train station with a French flag. It wasa gesture mirroring the hospitality she receivedwhen she went to Criquebeuf this summer andwitnessed the renaming of the bridge to honourher father’s memory.“We’ve become a big family. … It’s a beautiful

friendship,” said Marie-Josée Heitz, one of thethree Criquebeuf residents visiting Ms. Teetzel.Mr. Crummer was a 28-year-old employee at

Chatham’s Union Gas Ltd. when he enlisted as aprivate at the start of the war in 1939. He was com-missioned as an officer and, by 1944, was a majorwith D company of the Lincoln and Welland re-giment. They landed in France at the end of July, asCanadian and British soldiers still laboured tobreak out of the bridgeheads they established onD-Day, June 6. The regiment struggled in its firstoffensive operations. But within weeks, the bulk ofthe German military in Normandy had been sur-rounded and defeated in the battle of the FalaisePocket and the Allies rushed toward the Seine andParis.“Am in a little French house close to the road

where our army is tearing by at a great pace,” Mr.Crummer wrote in one letter to his wife, Frances.“We have been going night and day as you willhave heard by now. The enemy is on the run burn-ing his bridges behind him. We are not missing hisconvoys, passed through one the other nightwhich stretched for at least 15 miles, every vehiclewas destroyed, words cannot express the destruc-tion.”

On Aug. 24, the Lincoln and Welland movedwithin 30 kilometres of the Seine, though muddygrounds and blown-up bridges slowed their ad-vance. In Criquebeuf, meanwhile, the villagerswere in danger.Germans retreating by the village believed a lo-

cal resident had wounded one of their soldiers.They rounded up 63 men into a church and pre-pared to execute them. It was no idle threat. Inthree occasions that summer, the Germans mas-sacred hundreds of civilians in retaliation againstthe French Resistance. They hanged 99 men in thetown of Tulle and deported another 149 to concen-tration camps. The following day, they killed 642 atOradour-sur-Glane, then destroyed the village. Theday after the Criquebeuf round-up, the Germansslaughtered 124 residents of the township of Maillé.In Criquebeuf, Simonne Roman, who was then

13, remembered that the villagers came to ask hermother, Anne Fleck, to intercede. Ms. Fleck workedas a custodian for a wealthy Paris family that kept asummer mansion in the village. She spoke Germanbecause she was from Lorraine, a border areaclaimed by Germany. Ms. Roman said her motherarrived as the Germans were setting up machineguns and grenades to execute the hostages. For 45minutes, Ms. Fleck pleaded with the officer incharge. She told him the villagers had never cre-ated problems before. “Maybe you have children,”she said, reminding the officer that both he andthe villagers had children waiting at home.Eventually, the officer told his men to leave the

hostages and move on because the Allies were ap-proaching. Ms. Roman remembered her motherreturning to the mansion. “She was so relieved butvery stressed, the poor dear.”Two days later, according to the regimental di-

ary, the first elements of the Lincoln and Wellandentered the village. The Germans were still shellingthe area. The Canadians fired back with their ownartillery.Taking an abandoned boat, soldiers under Mr.

Crummer’s command used shovels as paddles toreach the other bank of the Seine. “My companywas the first Canadian troops to cross the Seineand stayed over all night,” the major later wrotehome. They held on to their bridgehead on the farbank without reinforcement for 12 hours, despiteshellfire and some street fighting when a convoy ofenemy vehicles passed by around midnight, Cana-dian military records say.In the following weeks and months, the Lincoln

and Welland faced more bitter fighting, in the ca-nals of Flanders and the ice and mud of the Dutchisland of Kapelsche Veer, in the winter of 1945. Mr.Crummer was wounded, then returned to Chath-am to be a manager at Union Gas.His wife had French relatives and friends. In

1974, they visited Georgette Testard, a Parisian cou-sin who had a holiday home in Elbeuf, eight kilo-metres from Criquebeuf. So Mr. Crummer decidedto drop by the village.Mr. Crummer died in 1990. In the summer of

2014, Ms. Teetzel saw there were many events inFrance marking the 70th anniversary of the Nor-mandy campaign. She looked at the letter fromCriquebeuf and wondered if the village had orga-nized anything.She found the town hall’s phone number and

tried to get through in her best French. They con-

After 75 years,a French villageliberated byCanadians still feelstrue patriot loveA Canadian soldier’s return to France decades after the warforged a fresh bond between his family and the community hehelped free from Nazi occupation – a bond still honoured today

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L ike many in his generation who fought inthe Second World War, Keith Crummerdidn’t share much with his family after hereturned to Canada in May, 1945, having

seen action as an infantry officer in France, Belgi-um and the Netherlands.“My father never talked about it. Never, never,

ever, ever talked about it,” his eldest daughter,Diane Teetzel, recalled – although she once sawhim in the basement watching the movie adaptionof The Longest Day, the bestseller about the Nor-mandy landing. “Tears were rolling down his face. Ijust shut the door and let him be.”Then, a trip 45 years ago to France brought Mr.

Crummer back to Criquebeuf-sur-Seine, a Normanvillage his regiment liberated in 1944. The Cana-dian soldiers had arrived just after the Germansnearly executed 63 local hostages.When Mr. Crummer visited in 1974, he showed

up unannounced. However, “word got around thatmy father was there and the mayor at the timecame to him … and they had a big celebration,”Ms. Teetzel said.Criquebeuf’s mayor later sent a letter, thanking

Mr. Crummer. “You and your brave soldiers haveaaleft an enduring memory and friendship in all ourhearts,” it said.Ms. Teetzel said her father was “flabbergasted,

absolutely flabbergasted” by the villagers’ kind-ness.Although Mr. Crummer has since died, his name

still resonates in Criquebeuf decades later, and adeep friendship now bonds the locals and hisfamily.Tucked against a tributary of the Seine River,

Criquebeuf is a small community off the beatenpath in Normandy. Visitors who make the 90-min-ute drive from Paris enter through a street still

lined by old stone houses, Rue des Canadiens.Then, past the town square, named HostagesPlace, sits a bridge that in August was renamedafter Mr. Crummer.Two weeks ago, friends from Criquebeuf visited

Ms. Teetzel in Chatham, Ont. Her family greetedthem at the train station with a French flag. It wasa gesture mirroring the hospitality she receivedwhen she went to Criquebeuf this summer andwitnessed the renaming of the bridge to honourher father’s memory.“We’ve become a big family. … It’s a beautiful

friendship,” said Marie-Josée Heitz, one of thethree Criquebeuf residents visiting Ms. Teetzel.Mr. Crummer was a 28-year-old employee at

Chatham’s Union Gas Ltd. when he enlisted as aprivate at the start of the war in 1939. He was com-missioned as an officer and, by 1944, was a majorwith D company of the Lincoln and Welland re-giment. They landed in France at the end of July, asCanadian and British soldiers still laboured tobreak out of the bridgeheads they established onD-Day, June 6. The regiment struggled in its firstoffensive operations. But within weeks, the bulk ofthe German military in Normandy had been sur-rounded and defeated in the battle of the FalaisePocket and the Allies rushed toward the Seine andParis.“Am in a little French house close to the road

where our army is tearing by at a great pace,” Mr.Crummer wrote in one letter to his wife, Frances.“We haveaa been going night and day as you willhaveaa heard by now. The enemy is on the run burn-ing his bridges behind him. We are not missing hisconvonn ys, passed through one the other nightwhich stretched for at least 15 miles, every vehiclewas destroyed, words cannot express the destruc-tion.”

On Aug. 24, the Lincoln and Welland movedwithin 30 kilometres of the Seine, though muddygrounds and blown-up bridges slowed their ad-vance. In Criquebeuf, meanwhile, the villagerswere in danger.Germans retreating by the village believed a lo-

cal resident had wounded one of their soldiers.They rounded up 63 men into a church and pre-pared to execute them. It was no idle threat. Inthree occasions that summer, the Germans mas-sacred hundreds of civilians in retaliation againstthe French Resistance. They hanged 99 men in thetown of Tulle and deported another 149 to concen-tration camps. The following day, they killed 642 atOradour-sur-Glane, then destroyed the village. Theday after the Criquebeuf round-up, the Germansslaughtered 124 residents of the township of Maillé.In Criquebeuf, Simonne Roman, who was then

13, remembered that the villagers came to ask hermother, Anne Fleck, to intercede. Ms. Fleck workedas a custodian for a wealthy Paris family that kept asummer mansion in the village. She spoke Germanbecause she was from Lorraine, a border areaclaimed by Germany. Ms. Roman said her motherarrived as the Germans were setting up machineguns and grenades to execute the hostages. For 45minutes, Ms. Fleck pleaded with the officer incharge. She told him the villagers had never cre-ated problems before. “Maybe you have children,”she said, reminding the officer that both he andthe villagers had children waiting at home.Eventually, the officer told his men to leave the

hostages and move on because the Allies were ap-proaching. Ms. Roman remembered her motherreturning to the mansion. “She was so relieved butvery stressed, the poor dear.”Two days later, according to the regimental di-

ary, the first elements of the Lincoln and Wellandentered the village. The Germans were still shellingthe area. The Canadians fired back with their ownartillery.Taking an abandoned boat, soldiers under Mr.

Crummer’s command used shovels as paddles toreach the other bank of the Seine. “My companywas the first Canadian troops to cross the Seineand stayed over all night,” the major later wrotehome. They held on to their bridgehead on the farbank without reinforcement for 12 hours, despiteshellfire and some street fighting when a convoy ofenemy vehicles passed by around midnight, Cana-dian military records say.In the following weeks and months, the Lincoln

and Welland faced more bitter fighting, in the ca-nals of Flanders and the ice and mud of the Dutchisland of Kapelsche Veer, in the winter of 1945. Mr.Crummer was wounded, then returned to Chath-am to be a manager at Union Gas.His wife had French relatives and friends. In

1974, they visited Georgette Testard, a Parisian cou-sin who had a holiday home in Elbeuf, eight kilo-metres from Criquebeuf. So Mr. Crummer decidedto drop by the village.Mr. Crummer died in 1990. In the summer of

2014, Ms. Teetzel saw there were many events inFrance marking the 70th anniversary of the Nor-mandy campaign. She looked at the letter fromCriquebeuf and wondered if the village had orga-nized anything.She found the town hall’s phone number and

tried to get through in her best French. They con-

Afterff 75 years,a French villageliberated byCanadians still feelstrue patriot loveA Canadian soldier’s return to France decades after the warforged a fresh bond between his family and the community hehelped free from Nazi occupation – a bond still honoured today

W/I22EN BY 2U 2HANH HA

Bnlowa MajorKnith Crummnrbat rightb issnnn euringa militarynxnrcisn inCanaea bnfornhn was snntovnrsnas.

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Analysts are trying to tally the potential economicand market toll of the Wuhan coronavirus, largelyusing the 2003 SARS crisis as a benchmark.The human toll is most important, of course,

and economists say the virus, known as 2019-nCoV, should play out at least somewhat differ-ently.“It is still very early days, with analysts looking

back at the SARS outbreak in 2003 for guidance,”Toronto-Dominion Bank senior economist LesliePreston said.“However, the global health system is now

much better prepared to contain an outbreak likethis,” she added in a report.“The containment restrictions in China will

hopefully help, but the disruption is likely to holdback economic growth there in the short term.”The impact will go beyond China, but should be

temporary.“The rising number of new cases of the Wuhan

coronavirus … and news of the disease’s spread toother countries have gripped markets, just whenthe global economic slump appeared to be easingand trade policy risks were settling down,” Bank ofMontreal senior economist Sal Guatieri said.“Like all health scares, this one is unpredictable

and investors are unlikely to relax until the tail riskis contained. But if the outbreak follows the courseof past ones this century, the global economy facesjust a temporary stumble. Let’s hope so.”There have been about 2,000 reported cases so

far, including the first “presumptive” case in Cana-da. Fifty-six people have died.The outbreak is unfolding as China celebrates

the Lunar New Year, and Beijing has put in placeunprecedented travel restrictions to try to containthe virus.“From an investors’s standpoint, the virus has

clearly recently caused a risk-off market tone,” saidDerek Holt, Bank of Nova Scotia’s head of capitalmarkets economics.

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After Boeing Co. recommended this monththat all pilots of its 737 Max planes gettraining on flight simulators before thegrounded aircraft return to the skies, CAE

Inc. shares surged to record highs.The reason? The Montreal-based flight simula-

tion companyhas found itself in a sweet spot amidaswell of interest in its pilot-training services andtechnology. Now, though, investors are facing atoughquestion:Howmuch further can this rally go?CAE doesn’t usually attract a lot of attention, giv-

en that flight simulation is routine training. As well,the $10.4-billion company (based on the value of itsoutstanding shares) is relatively small comparedwith most aerospace and defence companies.Boeing is lifting CAE’s profile though. Boeing has

been embroiled in a financial mess since aviationauthorities worldwide grounded the 737 Max – theaerospace giant’s bestseller – 10 months ago aftertwo fatal crashes within five months.The latest word is that the planes could return to

service this year. And Boeing is now recommendingthat pilots train in flight simulators first, reversingan earlier position that simulator training wasn’tnecessary for the 737 Max.Investors pounced on the news. Although CAE

shares have been climbing nicely over the past fouryears, reflecting the stronger financial health of air-lines and a rotation into newer planes, the latest up-tick is dazzling.The shares have bounced 8.4 per cent since Jan. 7,

when Boeing made its recommendation on train-ing. They closed Friday at $39.03, up 1.4 per cent onthe day to a fresh record high.Now what?CAE will report its third-quarter financial results

for fiscal 2020 on Feb. 7, when its exposure to Maxtraining will undoubtedly be a hot topic amonganalysts. That leaves about two weeks of specula-tion.

BERMAN, B6

How Boeing’s Max jettroubles helped boostshares of Canadian flightsimulation companyDAVID BERMAN

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The struggles of Justin Tru-deau’s Liberals with a no-windecision facing their govern-

ment have started to come out intothe open.By the end of February, the feder-

al cabinet is supposed to choosewhether to approve the Teck Fron-tier mine, a proposed oil sands pro-ject in northern Alberta that wouldbe one of the largest in the prov-

ince’s history.Give the green light, and Mr. Tru-

deau will seemingly make a mock-ery of his commitments to reducecarbon emissions.Reject it, and Albertans – from

Jason Kenney down – will accusethe Prime Minister of crushing theambitions of a province alreadyalienated from Ottawa as it strug-gles economically.Grappling with this dilemma, the

Liberals are now signalling – includ-ing in recent public comments byEnvironment Minister JonathanWilkinson – that they may need to

extend the deadline for cabinet ap-proval.In the process, they are disprov-

ing the idea that the Frontier mine’squestionable economics offer theirgovernment an easy way out.Amid increasingly heated rheto-

ric from both sides as the decisionhas grown closer, cooler minds (in-cluding this newspaper’s editorial-ists) have suggested that such an es-cape valve might exist in the formof the Liberals being able to ap-prove the project without muchfear of it actually going forward.

RADWANSKI, B6

For federal Liberals, there are no easy answerson Teck Frontier’s proposed oil sands projectADAM RADWANSKI

OPINION

Janet Bannister has been named ma-naging partner of Real Ventures, be-coming the first woman to lead oneof Canada’s largest and most activeearly-stage venture-capital firms.Ms. Bannister has built a loyal fanbase

in theCanadian techandventure ecosys-tems with a reputation for nurturingfounders as theybuild digital businesses.The former globalmanager of eBay Inc.’sclassified service Kijiji has a broad rangeof experience across the startup sector.After spending time as a startup chief ex-ecutive officer and consultant, she be-

came a general partnerwithReal in 2014.While a growing number of women

are launching and running venture firmsin Canada – including Elaine Kunda ofDisruption Ventures and Whitney Rock-ley, co-founder of McRock Capital – feware promoted within the male-dominat-ed industry to take the chief executive-level position.Women make up just 13.5 per cent of

North American venture firms’ partnerswith investment-decision power, ac-cording to tech-industry gender-track-ing group Female Funders, and thoseranks dwindle further in managerialroles.

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centred around monopolisticbehaviour that may harmconsumers through Google’scontrol of online advertisingmarkets and search traffic.The meeting between the

parties is seen as the start of aperiodic dialogue that could

expand into more formal co-operation as the probes contin-ue, according to the newspaper.Discussions will likely in-

clude Google’s dominance inonline search, possible anti-competitive behaviour in itsAndroid mobile operatingsystem, and the best division oflabour as the probes moveforward, the paper said, citingsome of the people.To date, federal and state

authorities involved in in-vestigations into the companyhave not shared materialsabout their concurrent probes,the Journal said, citing some ofthe people.

Attorneys-general from 48U.S. states, the District of Co-lumbia and Puerto Rico formal-ly launched an investigationinto Google last year in a signof growing scrutiny of tech-nology giants.The newspaper also added

that at least seven attorneys-general, who are part of theinvestigation being led by theTexas Attorney-General KenPaxton, have been invited tothe meeting in the comingweek.Google and the Justice De-

partment did not immediatelyrespond to Reuters’ requests forcomment. REUTERS

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AtBrudererU.K., a small firm sell-ing metal-stamping machinesfrom an industrial estate justnorth of London, business kickedinto high gear right after PrimeMinister Boris Johnson’s big elec-tion win last month.Clients including the Royal

Mint, which uses Bruderer equip-ment to make coins, at last knewfor sure that Britain would quitthe European Union on Jan. 31.Manyhave revived plans that hadlong been on hold.“For three years, we were stuck

in a rut of indecisiveness,” Bru-derer U.K.’s managing directorAdrian Haller said. “Once theelection happened, there was amassive sigh of relief.”Other businesses are also re-

porting a postelection recovery,and Finance Minister Sajid Javidsays he is hopeful that Britain’seconomic growth can eventuallybounce back to its prefinancialcrisis levels of nearly 3 per cent ayear.That would represent a victory

for Britain’s Brexit supportersand possibly inspire euroscepticswithin the EU.Bruderer has just sold two new

machines – used to make carparts, fountain pen nibs, scalpels,drink tins and other products –for a total of 1.5-million pounds(US$2-million).The firm, whose turnover for

all of 2019 was below 4-million

pounds, has also taken on twoprojects to retool machines forcompanies worth 140,000pounds since the vote.“January is usually synony-

mous with a very, very slow startto the year. Now, we’re only threeweeks in, but our feet have nottouched the floor,” Mr. Hallersaid.However, many firms remain

worried about leaving a bloc thataccounts for nearly half of Bri-tain’s exports. Mr. Johnson’s vic-tory has ended prospects of fur-ther Brexit delays, but Londonand Brussels have yet to starttalks on a new trade deal for 2021and beyond, after an 11-month,no-change transition period.Mr. Johnson’s win also meant

no shift to the left under theOpposition Labour Party.Its plans for renationalizing

some industries andagreater rolefor the state worried many busi-ness leaders, and the first gaugesof the economy since the electionhavepointed toabounce in confi-dence and a quickening of thehousing market.On Friday, the IHS Markit Pur-

chasing Managers’ Index showedfirms having their best month inmore than a year in January,possibly dissuading the Bank ofEngland from cutting interestrates on Jan. 30.However, it remains to be seen

if the world’s fifth-biggest econo-my really is emerging from thenear standstill of late 2019. In themedium term, few investors ex-pect British growth to speed upmuch from its current paceof justmore than 1 per cent a year.Immediately after the shock

decision by British voters to leavethe EU in 2016, the PMIs suggest-ed the economy was nosediving,only to stabilize soon afterward.The world economy had its

weakest growth since the global

financial crisis last year and hasnot yet reached a turning point,the International Monetary Fundsays, and uncertainty could re-turn to weigh on Britain if talkswith the EU about a new tradedeal go down to the wire beforethe Dec. 31 deadline.Mr. Javid plans to give the

economy a boost in March by an-nouncing more investment in in-frastructure to tackle Britain’sweak productivity record.At least for some sectors, the

picture is already brighter afterthe stasis of 2019.House-builder Berkeley is

ramping up construction whileCountryside Properties reporteda record forward order book. Pubchains said they had a goodChristmas even if supermarketshave reported little change in de-mand.Companies in other sectors, es-

pecially those with a lot to lose ifBritain and the EU do not reach atrade deal this year, remain cau-tious.RDM Group, an automotive-

technology firm thatmakes com-puter systems for cars suchas self-parking systems that can be oper-ated from an iPhone, has seen nochange in demand from clientsthat include Aston Martin andJaguar Land Rover.That reflects the high uncer-

tainty for Britain’s auto sector. Itfaces the risk of high tariffs ontrade with the EU if a deal is notreached by the end of 2020.But RDM’s Aurrigo unit, which

makes self-driving vehicles toshuttle passengers around shop-ping malls and carry baggage atairports, has seen a revival of in-terest from potential investorsfrom the Middle East, NorthAmerica and Australia who hadgone quiet before the election.

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Bruderer U.K.’s managing director, Adrian Haller, is seen at the company’s metal-stamping machine factory inLuton, England, on Friday. HENRY NICHOLLS/REUTERS

After Brexit-settling election,companies see business bounceBritish Finance Ministersays he is hopefulcountry’s economicgrowth can reach itsprefinancial crisis levels

WILLIAM SCHOMBERGLUTON, ENGLAND

Alberta’s Economic Development Minister says she is opento extending the deadline for a looming benchmark panelreport on growing the high-tech sector, but says shewants tostart taking action no later than the end of spring.Tanya Fir calls the report the natural evolutionary next

step to building the economy, but the Opposition NDP saysit’s more like a rescue operation for a vital sector ignored bythe United Conservative Party government during its firstnine months in office, left to lose momentum and drifttoward the ditch.Ms. Fir, in an interview, noted the Innovation Capital

WorkingGrouphas aFeb. 28deadline to report, but said she isopen to giving it more time in order to make sure her minis-try gets the answers they need.“We’re asking them to come up with the best ways to at-

tract investment, not only comparing best practices acrossNorth America, but new ways as well,” Ms. Fir said.Ms. Fir created the panel on Dec. 17 as Premier Jason Ken-

ney’s government figures out how to leverage its small butburgeoning tech sector, while hewing to its guiding philoso-phy that an economy is best managed via system-widechanges rather than boutique programs and mirco-incen-tives, something often derided by Mr. Kenney as “pickingwinners and losers.”To that end, the UCP government scrapped last fall mul-

tiple tax credits created by the former NDP governmentaimed at helping tech industries. The UCP said the reductionto the corporate income tax (from12per centnowdown to 10per cent and headed to 8 per cent) should be enough.“The low-rate, broad-based approach will encourage sus-

tainable diversification of Alberta’s economy that is not de-pendent on government handouts,” the Oct. 24, 2019 budgetsaid.But less than two months later, Ms. Fir created the seven-

member working group, composed of academic, businessand tech leaders, to find ways to incentivize growth of theAlberta tech sector.Ms. Fir dismissed suggestions the panel represents a reset

or rollback of the UCP’s tech-investment philosophy.“It recognizes that early-stage tech companies need ways

to attract capital,” Ms. Fir said.The UCP scrapped five tax credits last fall, saying they tar-

geted a small, select group of companies. The governmentalso said the programs were tangled in red tape and thataxing them will save $400-million by 2023.Jason Suriano, founder of Edmonton-based TIQ Software,

said for him, it was a quick one-step process under the nowdefunct Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit.That credit, he said, allowedhim tohire two full-time staff-

ers last year, and perhaps three or four more this year as thegovernment winds down the program.Mr. Suriano also noted his was one of many Alberta com-

panies showcasing their wares amongst thousands of ven-dors and representatives earlier thismonth at themammothConsumer Electronics Show, North America’s largest techtrade show, in Las Vegas.He recalled watching a presentation from a Quebec dele-

gation.“He was talking about how important the show was and

their responsibility as a province to drivemore traffic to theirtech companies and industries because that was a way forthem to generate jobs and revenue,” Mr. Suriano said.“And then I’m looking around realizing at this point we

don’t even have a rep. There’s not a person from Alberta,[maybe] just one person, to kind of go ‘OK, I representAlber-ta and it’s important to us, too.’ ”Ms. Fir said the province took a pass on Las Vegas, citing

tight budgets, adding “There’s no definite return, or guaran-teed return of business as a result of attending that Las Vegasconference.”NDPcriticDeronBilous,whohandled theeconomicdevel-

opment portfolio in the past NDP government, said his min-istry sent a senior official every year to the Las Vegas tradeshow and that 80 per cent of the Alberta businesses reportedback new business deals or opportunities.Mr. Bilous said actions speak louder thanwords, especially

from a UCP government that spends $30-million a year on a“war room” to promote the oil and gas industry.“You can’t spend $82,000 a day on a war room and then

say, ‘Yeah we can’t afford to send even one senior official tosupport Alberta companies,’ ” he said.

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Alberta open to extendingFeb. 28 deadline forhigh-tech panel reportDEAN BENNETT EDMONTON

Britain unveiled on Sunday a new50-pence coinminted tomark thecountry’s departure from theEuropean Union, which bears theinscription “Peace, prosperityand friendship with all nations,”and the Brexit date of “31 January2020.”About three million of the

coins will be distributed frombanks, post offices and shopsfromFriday, thegovernment said,with another sevenmillion enter-

ing circulation later in the year.Finance Minister Sajid Javid,

who is also Master of the Mint,was presentedwith the first batchof coins.“Leaving the European Union

is a turning point in our historyand this coin marks the begin-ning of this new chapter,” he said.The Treasury, Britain’s finance

ministry, had planned to mint acoin inscribed “29 March 2019,”the original date of Brexit beforeBritain asked to extend its EUmembership.Mr. Javid later ordered produc-

tion to commemorate a newdeadline of Oct. 31, but anotherdelay scuppered that launch andabout onemillion coins had to bemelted down.The bill implementing Bri-

tain’s exit from the Europeanbloc officially became law onThursday.After more than three years of

bitter wrangling over how, whenand if Brexit should take place,Britain will leave the EU at 11 p.m.Greenwich Mean Time on Friday.

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To Swamy Kotagiri, MagnaInternational Inc.’s newpresident,acar ismorethan

the sum of 30,000 parts thatweigh 2,800 pounds. It’s also 100sensors, a mile of wiring and 100million lines of computer code.It’s thiscomplexityanddiversi-

ty that drew the engineer into theautomotive manufacturing 25years ago after leaving his nativeIndia tostudy intheUnitedStates.“I definitely see the vehicle as a

technology platform,” said Mr.Kotagiri, a 20-year Magna veteranwhose former role was chief oftechnology at the world’s third-biggest auto-parts maker, basedin Aurora, Ont.Magna’s diverse product port-

folio, everything from mirrorsand door latches to sensors andbody panels, sets it apart fromother partsmakers,which tend tospecialize.The technology that Magna

makes includes the lidar systemsand electric powertrains that aregaining popularity as consumersand car manufacturers slowlyshift toward electric and partlyautonomous vehicles. But for allits focus on automated and driv-er-assisted technologies – Magnalikes to call itself a “a mobilitytechnology company” – the bulkofMagna’ssalescomefromthedi-vision that stamps car bodies andpanels for pickup trucks andSUVs,not gadgetry. That isnot go-ing to changeovernight,Mr. Kota-giri said in an interview.“Exteriors and our body and

structures group, which is calledCosma, will have relevance at

least for the next two decades, nomatter what we are talkingabout,” he said. “The materialsand the designs will change, butyou’ll still have a body and a chas-sis, in very simple terms.”Mr. Kotagiri steps into theNo. 2

job at the auto-parts giant at atimewhen its customers – Gener-al Motors, Ford and the rest of theworld’s automakers – are grap-plingwith fallingsales.Magna lastweekforecast lowersales for2020,and ended a partnership withride-hailing company Lyft Inc.Ray Tanguay, a former chair-

man and president of Toyota Mo-tor Manufacturing Canada Inc.,whoservesasanauto industryad-viser to the federal and Ontariogovernments, said Magna is in-vesting inadvanced technologies,but is primarily a key supplier ofmajor components to the world’sbiggest automakers in NorthAmerica andEurope. It’s amarketthat, while not growing, is largeand robust.

“Theyareverydiversified, fromseats to subframes. And they areinvesting in advanced technolo-gy. They recognize electrificationis something they need to be partof,” Mr. Tanguay said.Under chief executive officer

Don Walker, Magna has investedin advanced technologies whilenotgettingaheadofwhat itsmaincustomers want, Mr. Tanguaysaid. “They want to be a player,but their core business right nowis very traditional.”Magna said it is ending the

US$200-million partnership withLyft to develop and manufactureautonomous vehicles. Magna isbacking away from the develop-ment of fully autonomous vehi-

cles – levels 4 and 5, in industryparlance. Thehurdles to the rapidadoption and development ofthis market include roadway in-frastructure, legislation, standar-dization and high costs.Instead, the focuswill beonde-

veloping technology and systemsfor cars that fall into levels 1, 2 and3. These cars offer automatedfunctions that range from adap-tive cruise control all the way toself-driving in traffic jams or on ahighway.“That’s a significant market,”

Mr. Kotagiri said by phone fromMagna’s offices in Troy, Mich.“The technology is still evolvingsowehavetokeepaneyeonit,butright now the focus would be onthe assisted driving of the level 1,2, 3.”The advent of Lyft, Uber and

other similar services has onlyjust started to change the wayconsumers look at cars. The no-tionof thevehicle as anextensionof oneself will recede. So will theimportance of fit and finish, andhowfast it accelerates andbrakes,Mr. Kotagiri said. Rather, the carwill become an extension of theliving room or office, connected,adaptable and intuitive.This is a longway from the per-

sonal jetpacksor,morerealistical-ly, the steering-wheel-free vehi-cles some predicted would trans-formthebusinessofpersonalmo-bility.Vehicle users today and

throughthenextdecadearemorelikely to be focused on what theycando in thecar – swapmessages,keep working – than how the carlooks and handles, he said.The car will run partly on elec-

tricity, and might be shared orpart of a subscription fleet. AsMr.Kotagiri puts it, “How can I work?How can I connect? How can I getfrom point A to point B?”Those are deceptively simple

questions, ones he will bear inmind as he makes his first movesas the second-in-command atMagna, a job some believemakeshim a candidate to be the nextCEO.

A car transporter carries newly manufactured automobiles through the entrance to the Magna InternationalInc. automobile production plant in Graz, Austria, in 2015. AKOS STILLER/BLOOMBERG

Why Magna’s newpresident sees the vehicleas a technology platformKotagiri says auto-partsgiant is investing indeveloping advancedtechnologies, but itscore business won’tchange for decades

ERIC ATKINSTRANSPORTATION REPORTER

Magna said it is endingthe US$200-millionpartnership with Lyft

to develop andmanufacture

autonomous vehicles.

As businesses across all industri-es collect vast quantities of per-sonal information for artificial-intelligence applications, aunique law firm in Torontowants to help them make thebest use of that data withoutcrossing legal or ethical bounda-ries.Carole Piovesan left a senior

role with McCarthy Tétrault LLP’sdata and privacy group lastMarch, teaming up with long-time health privacy lawyer MaryJane Dykeman to start INQ DataLaw. The pair met at a confer-ence, bonded over their sharedpassion for the world of data pol-icy, went for breakfast togetherand within 90 minutes decidedto launch the firm.Now, less than a year after its

debut, INQ has recruited threeother lawyers, including recenthire Noel Corriveau, who is leav-ing the federal government after

a high-profile role developing AIpolicy at the Treasury Board. Hewill put that experience to workon one of the firm’smain areas offocus: Marketing a framework forthe responsible use of AI tech-nology.“The starting premise is that a

lot of companies are nervous toexperiment with AI systems,” Ms.Piovesan says, adding that lawsaround data use are “fluid andchanging and being interpretedall the time.” That makes it diffi-cult for businesses to know whatexactly they can do with technol-ogy such as machine-learning al-gorithms without raising con-cerns about personal privacy orthe potential for bias.In an example of an AI system

running amok, a Reuters reportfrom 2018 said Amazon.com Inc.shut down a program that usedmachine learning to scan andrate the résumés of potentialrecruits. The report said the com-pany stopped using the tool afterit determined that the softwarefavoured male applicants be-

cause it had been trained to lookat resumés submitted over theprevious 10 years, most of whichcame from men.Concerns about bias could al-

so arise if AI tools that deal withsensitive issues – such as creditratings or immigration decisions– are not designed carefully.

“Yet, there is a commercial im-perative,” Ms. Piovesan says.“Companies that have started ex-perimenting with artificial intel-ligence today stand to benefitsubstantially from a commercialperspective, from a financial per-spective.”The firm markets its AI frame-

work to companies and govern-ment agencies, particularly tar-geting those that work in highlyregulated sectors such as finan-cial services, health care or insur-ance.It also seeks out companies

that are actually building AI tech-nology and who want to offertheir own customers the reassu-rance that they have thoughtthrough some of the thornier is-sues around its use.Ms. Dykeman is also a partner

in a small health law firm, Dyke-man & O’Brien LLP, that she de-scribes as a “sister” firm to theone she launched with Ms. Piove-san. INQ also advises clients onprivacy law and cybersecurity.Over the course of more than

a decade with the federal govern-ment, working at both the De-partment of Justice and the Trea-sury Board, Mr. Corriveau beganto focus on developing AI policy.At one point he worked on asmall team under Canada’s for-mer chief information officer,Alex Benay.

The group attracted interna-tional interest for building an al-gorithmic impact assessmenttool, meant to assess the poten-tial risk of AI programs beforethe government deploys them.The project was noteworthy in

part because the team developedit using open-sourcemethods, al-lowing anyone from around theworld to go online and see thework being done or even put thetool to use themselves.Mr. Benay left government for

an AI startup, Mindbridge Ana-lytics Inc., in August and shortlyafter that he moved on to con-sulting giant KPMG LLP.Mr. Corriveau said his former

boss “empowered us to really beaggressive in our change agen-da,” and his decision to leavegovernment was tied in part toMr. Benay’s departure.“I’m very interested now in

changing gears and working withINQ to keep driving that change,but in a way that responds to cli-ent demands,” said Mr. Corri-veau, who starts on Feb. 3.

Toronto law firm to focus on responsible use of AI technologyCHRISTINE DOBBYCORPORATE LAW REPORTER

The firm markets its AIframework tocompanies and

government agencies,particularly targetingthose that work in

highly regulated sectors.

Karl Hancock spent 25 years at the epicentre of Lon-don’s financial world, working for Goldman Sachs,Citigroup and Berenberg Bank. He’s given that upfor an unlikely crusade to revitalize local news and

he’s planning on hiring 100 journalists in towns across Bri-tain.Mr. Hancock has launched Nub News, a hyperlocal media

outlet that mixes old-fashioned reporting with computeralgorithms to cover every aspect of small-town living fromwhat’s on at the cinema to train schedules, road repairs, realestate listings and the latest council shenanigans. The ser-vice has expanded to 26 communities since it launched lastyear and Mr. Hancock says he’s just getting started. His aimto reach up to 700 towns and small cities with a team ofmore than 100 reporters.There’s certainly a gap to fill. Like Canada, Britain has

seen a steady drop in the number newspapers and journal-ists covering small communities. From 2005 to 2018, Britainlost 245 local papers and the downward trend shows no signof slowing down, according to Press Gazette, which coversthe British newspaper industry.“There is a real demand for local news and that’s never

gone away,” Mr. Hancock, 51, said from his home in Devonin southwest England. “The real problem is how does onepay for it and how does one make it work?” He acknowl-edged that Nub News is a long way frommaking money butrevenue and readership are growing and he’s already hadtwo rounds of financings from eager investors.The venture is largely the brainchild of Dean Waghorn, a

51-year-old computer programmer who came up with theidea for Nub News after watching the slow decline of hisnewspaper in Bridgewater, south of Bristol. He decided tofill the vacuum by creating a website and writing shortstories based on news releasesfrom town officials and thepolice. He also developed aprogram that could aggregatelocal information from vari-ous websites such as NationalRail, eBay, and property sellerssuch as Zoopla and Right-move. He ran the site in hisspare time and was soon get-ting 20,000 unique visitors amonth. That was enough toencourage him to approachMr. Hancock, an old friendfrom university, to see if theconcept could be expanded. “Ithought, bloody hell, that’spretty impressive,” Mr. Hancock recalled. He took the ideato some investor friends and raised enough money tolaunch Nub News on a bigger scale.Mr. Hancock said the business model is simple; keep

each town’s website intensely local and automate as muchof the non-news content as possible. That frees the report-ers to write stories and work with contributors who add tothe news coverage. Nub News has one reporter cover threetowns and everyone works from home. The content is freeand revenue is generated by local businesses sponsoringpages on the site, such as news, obituaries, travel or sports.Mr. Hancock says he needs about £12,000 (about $20,480)in annual revenue in each town to break even.One of his early hires was Tim Lethaby, a veteran local

news reporter who had been laid off twice from papers thatwere downsizing. Mr. Lethaby, 40, jumped at the chance tojoin Nub News last April and he now runs five sites in-cluding one covering his hometown of Wells, a town insouthwest England that has a population of around 10,000.The Wells’ site is mix of hard news, such as a recent story

about the potential closing of a local mental-health facility,and basic information including weather forecasts, movielistings and the location of speed cameras. There’s also clas-sified ads, travel information, homes for sale and job post-ings. The latest figures show that roughly three-quarters ofthe town’s population has visited the site at least once. “Youmay only get a few hundred hits on stories, but if they areall local people and you are targeting local people, notclicks around the world, you’ve got a very engaged localaudience,” Mr. Lethaby said. “People are getting a lot morelocally focused and there isn’t anywhere else where theycan get this kind information.”Mr. Waghorn sees Nub News as something of a mission.

He remembers growing up reading the Bridgewater Mercu-ry and he used to supply it with reports about his soccerteam. The paper is now part of a collection of titles that arerun from a city 20 kilometres away. Nub News “is all aboutthe unloved, forgotten news deserts,” he said. “We want tocome in and bring green shoots of news back into thatdesert.”

The Wells’ site is mixof hard news, such as arecent story about thepotential closing of alocal mental-healthfacility, and basicinformation includingweather forecasts,movie listings and thelocation of speedcameras.

Former Londonbanker aims to makedigital local newsa thriving businessPAUL WALDIEEUROPE CORRESPONDENTLONDON

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DILBERT

How daunting is the cost ofrolling out ultrafast 5Gtelecom networks in Can-

ada?Consider this take on the mul-

tibillion-dollar challenge: An ex-perienced telecom analyst pre-dicts the spending needed tokeep pace with the country’sthree biggest 5G providers – Rog-ers Communications Inc., BCEInc. and Telus Corp. – will even-tually force the fourth player inthis game, Shaw Communica-tions Inc., into a merger withRogers. And family-controlledShaw is one of the country’s

largest companies, with a $13.5-billion market capitalization.What is undermining the rol-

lout of 5G technology, networksthat are essential to the country’seconomic future? A federal Lib-eral government that seemsmore intent on lowering cell-phone bills for consumers whocannot stop streaming Netflix,rather than ensuring the telecomindustry has the capital neededto make massive investments ingear.At a time when telecom com-

panies around the world are ex-pected to drop US$225-billionover the next two decades on 5Ginfrastructure, the federal gov-ernment is engaged in yet anoth-er round of hand-wringing overwireless competition. In mid-February, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunica-tions Commission (CRTC) willkick off hearings on wireless re-sellers, known in the industry asmobile virtual network oper-ators, or MVNOs.The regulator already showed

its hand, publishing a report thatstated the country’s incumbents

– BCE, Telus and Rogers – shouldbe forced to sell network accessto resellers. The CRTC’s logic isthis move would lower billsacross the board, including in ru-ral areas.The prospect of MVNOs gain-

ing access to the incumbents’networks already has telecomexecutives promising to curtailfuture investment, includingspending on 5G and links to re-mote communities that theCRTC wants to encourage. Rogersplans to drop $3-billion on gearthis year, but last week, chief ex-ecutive officer Joe Natale said: “Ifthe regulatory environment ispunitive from a fuelling-invest-ment point of view, we will haveto cut investment.”The analyst who predicts a

combination of misguided gov-ernment policy and soaring costscould drive Calgary-based Shawinto the arms of Toronto-basedRogers, Drew McReynolds at RBCDominion Securities Inc., said ina recent report that introductionof 5G networks “should have asubstantially broader economicimpact for Canada than any oth-

er previous generation of wire-less, or even telecom technolo-gy.” He said a successful move to5G should be the government’stop priority, rather than any con-sumer-focused push to lowercellphone bills by tilting the fieldin favour of resellers.Resellers, by their nature,

don’t spend a dime on buildingnetworks. They piggyback on theincumbents’ systems. New feder-al regulations that hobble the in-cumbents and hold back the rol-lout of next-generation gear,while boosting profits at MVNOs,“is simply bad public policy,” Mr.McReynolds said. He added:“Flipping the switch to amandat-ed MVNO model in 2020 couldwell be the wrong solution at thewrong time.”The move to 5G networks will

revolutionize the way businessgets done; Mr. McReynolds com-pared what is coming in telecomto the building of Canada’s na-tional railway networks in the1800s, and the introduction ofthe internet in the 1990s.Other parts of the world, in-

cluding China and several Eu-

ropean countries, are alreadyahead of Canada in rolling outnew networks. 5G networks willtransform health care, educa-tion, transportation, entertain-ment and finance. The drive todeliver the next generation ofservices to Canadian consumerswill reshape the telecom sector;Rogers may not end up buyingShaw, but further consolidationseems inevitable.To the credit of federal regu-

lators and past governments,Canada now boasts a competi-tive and reliable telecom sector.Shaw, with its Freedom-brandedmobile offering, and QuebecorInc. are formidable rivals to theincumbents.The recent introduction of

consumer-friendly “unlimited”data plans shows old-fashionedmarket forces, rather than CRTCintervention, can lower monthlybills. It is time for government tofocus on encouraging 5G invest-ment by the country’s largesttelecom players, rather thankneecapping incumbents by tilt-ing the rules toward wireless re-sellers.

Pedestrians use their cellphones in Toronto on Thursday. The move to 5G networks will transform such fields as health care, education and finance. FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Ottawa is undermining the 5G revolutionInstead of encouraginginvestment, the federalgovernment is wringingits hands again overwireless competition

ANDREWWILLIS

OPINION

Imagine a world where the gov-ernment builds your home, ar-ranges your mortgage, sells

you drugs and makes electriccars.Sound like somewhere you

would want live?This is thepostcapitalist utopia

envisaged by writer LindaMcQuaig in her new book, TheSport and Prey of Capitalists: Howthe Rich are Stealing Canada’s Pub-lic Wealth.“Public ownership is a poten-

tially powerful, transformativevehicle for national develop-ment, and Canada has a long his-tory of using it wisely and effec-tively to advance thebroadpublicownership,” Ms. McQuaig writes.The book looks back nostalgi-

cally at past government foraysinto such businesses as vaccines(Connaught Laboratories), rail-roads (Canadian National Rail-way) and oil (Petro-Canada).She points to these ventures as

examples of what Ottawa and theprovinces should do a lotmore ofin the future.“We have foolishly sold off im-

pressive and innovative parts ofour public heritage,” she writes.So Ms. McQuaig would roll

back the clock. Canada Postwould get into the banking busi-ness,making loans and takingde-posits through post offices acrossthe country. Ottawa, or perhapsOntario, would nationalize Gen-eral Motors’ recently shutteredvehicle-assembly plant in Osha-wa, Ont., and use it to producegreen products such as electric

vehicles and solar panels. AndOt-tawa would start producing ge-neric pharmaceuticals.A crucial flaw in this little nar-

rative is that for every govern-ment success story, there are aslew of ill-fated escapades andwhite elephants that most Cana-dians would rather forget.Governments are just as prone

to failure as businesses are – per-hapsmore so. After all, they don’thave to worry about faster, betteror cheaper competitors stealingmarket share. Governments arealso more likely to let optics andpolitical considerations get in theway of sound business decisions.Canada is litteredwithbungled

government ventures. Think ofthe Muskrat Falls hydroelectricproject, which will saddle thepeople of Newfoundland and La-brador with Canada’s highestelectricity rates for decades tocome. Or Mirabel, Montreal’sone-time airport of the future,which is now a sparsely used car-go hub that flew its last commer-cial passengers in 2004.The anti-business theme does

play into the global mood. A ma-jority of people around the worldapparently have a grim view ofcapitalism, according to pollingdata released this month by fromEdelman, a U.S. public-relationsfirm.Fifty-sixper cent of 34,000peo-

ple polled in 28 countries – fromthe United States and Canada toChina and Russia – agree that“capitalism as it exists today doesmore harm than good in theworld.”But Ms. McQuaig wrongly con-

cludes that people are ready to letgovernment run just about every-thing. Those polled were signifi-cantlymore trustful of businesses

(55 per cent) and chief executiveofficers (51 per cent) than of gov-ernments (47 per cent) and poli-ticians (42 per cent), according toEdelman.In Canada, the federal govern-

ment’s track record delivering bigprojects, on time and on budget,isn’t good. That should be a cau-tionary tale, not a reason formore of the same.Of course, the private sector is

not necessarily better at every-thing. Canadians have good rea-son to be skeptical about manyrecent public-private partner-ships (P3s).The City of Ottawa’s troubled

new LRT system is a prime exam-ple ofwhat can gowrong. And yetgovernments across Canada haveembraced P3s, particularly forbuilding infrastructure, seeingthem as way to limit financialexposure and avoid cost over-runs.Instead, asMs.McQuaig rightly

points out, governments oftenend up paying more and gettingless when they shift risk to pri-vate-sector partners, who mustgenerate profits while borrowing

at higher interest rates than gov-ernments face.Unfortunately, that kindof rea-

soned analysis is drowned out byher rant against businesses andeverything they touch.Somewhat awkwardly, Ms.

McQuaig opens the book with anattack on one of the federal gov-ernment’s largest nationalizationprojects in decades – the $4.5-bil-lion purchase of the Edmonton-to-Burnaby, B.C., Trans Mountainoil pipeline, alongwithamultibil-lion-dollar project to triple its ca-pacity. Sheargues thepipeline ex-pansion is not in the national in-terest because of its impact ongreenhouse gas emissions andFirst Nations.Fine. But Ottawa is expected to

transfer ownership of TransMountain to a coalition of Indige-nous groups,muddying the story.Government forays into pri-

vate-sector activities are neitherinherently good, nor bad. Theymerely reflect the ambitions ofthe government of the day.And that’s amorenuancedpic-

ture than Ms. McQuaig wouldhave us all believe.

Dear Linda McQuaig: Government ownership is not the answerBARRIEMcKENNA

OPINION Governments are justas prone to failureas businesses are –

perhaps more so. Afterall, they don’t haveto worry about faster,better or cheaper

competitors stealingmarket share.

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When Canadian robo-ad-viser Planswell shutdown last fall, the

startup community reactedswiftly on social media, offeringboth sympathy and opportunityto the dozens of people suddenlyout of work. Posts on Twitter andFacebook from startup foundersand recruiters encouraged Plan-swell employees to reach out tothem to find their next gig.A similar story played out

when Toronto-based Nudge.ai,which had developed a salesplatform using artificial intelli-gence, announced last week thatit was shutting down. The com-pany posted bios of its employ-ees available for hire, alongsideglowing descriptions of theirskills.It has become increasingly

common in the Canadian star-tup scene that, when companiesfail, there’s an outpouring ofsupport on social media for theaffected employees, with othercompanies rushing in to hire.Kundan Joshi, chief executive

officer of Toronto-based mobileapp development companyTheAppLabb, was among nu-

merous company founders whogot actively involved in the effortto find both Nudge.ai andPlanswell employees their nextplace of employment.TheAppLabb interviewed

about half a dozen ex-Planswellemployees (and is consideringhiring some of them) and alsoreferred a handful to otherstartups. With Nudge.ai, Mr.Joshi posted on the Facebookgroup Startup North that hiscompany is hiring and was look-ing to connect with out-of-workemployees, while also offeringhis ear for anyone who wantedto talk.“The entrepreneur communi-

ty is very important for us … andit’s important for us that thecommunity stays strong andkeeps building its successes fromthe Canadian story point ofview,” Mr. Joshi said. “As a com-munity, it’s important we throwin as much shield and cushion aspossible” to protect it.Mr. Joshi acknowledges the ef-

forts aren’t just to benefit em-ployees, but the startups as well.“As much as the companies wantto take care of each other … weare also looking for good talent.”He says employees laid off

from failed startups don’t justhave the technical skills otherfirms need, but also the experi-ence of seeing what can gowrong at a company – and pos-sibly help prevent it at their nextgig.“They have had a perspective

or had a closer outlook as towhat went wrong in an organiza-tion … and learned from the er-rors that were made or the sit-uation that was created,” Mr.Joshi says. “You can’t buy thoseexperiences.”Erin Bury, CEO of Final Blue-

print Inc., a Toronto-based on-line estate-planning companyoperating as Willful, says it’s ac-cepted in the startup world – byboth founders and employees –that not every company willmake it.

“It’s never a happy day whenconducting layoffs … but it prob-ably provides some hope forfounders that the community ispitching in and their people willbe okay,” says Ms. Bury, who re-cently hired a software develop-er laid off by Planswell.For founders, hiring from a

pool of laid-off workers is also agood way to get employees with-out poaching from fellowstartups, particularly when foun-ders are often friends or ac-

quaintances in close-knit com-munities such as Toronto.“I don’t want to ruin or affect

personal relationships by goingafter their people,” Ms. Bury says.Hiring recently laid-off em-

ployees can be more competitivethan trying to poach them, Ms.Bury adds, since other foundersare also looking to hire from thesame newly available talentpool.In other words, the hires don’t

come at a discount.“Not only do I want to be a

founder that pays employees agood wage, but I know there arefive founders lined up behindme that would be happy to offerthem what they’re worth if Itried to underpay them,” shesays.Many former Planswell em-

ployees were also careful aboutwhat job they took next. Ms. Bu-ry says those she interviewedhad a lot of questions about howWillful is funded, the revenuemodel and its long-term growthstrategy.“If you’ve been burned by a

startup, you really want to becareful getting into anotherstartup,” she says.Software developer Andrew

Segal said he was both “sad andanxious” about his future afterbeing laid off at Planswell lastyear, which was his first devel-opment job after a career changefrom industrial design. He wasoptimistic, though, after seeingthe plethora of postings on so-

cial media from startups lookingfor employees or offering refer-rals.“I reached out to a bunch of

people on that thread and heardback pretty quickly and hadsome good conversations withcompanies because of it,” hesays.After weeks of conversations

with recruiters and about a doz-en interviews at both startupsand longer-established compa-nies, Mr. Segal took a job at Will-ful and started on Jan. 6.VarageSale released a list of 22

employees who lost their jobswhen the online marketplacewas acquired by Toronto-basedVerticalScope in late 2017.“Unfortunately, some very tal-

ented people won’t be joining aspart of the acquisition. Withtheir permission, I am sharingtheir names and contact info,”VarageSale co-founder TamiZuckerman posted in the StartupNorth Facebook group at thetime. The list was also publishedon LinkedIn.Some staffers got interviews

the day after that post and fordays and weeks following. Somehad more than a dozen inter-views.Ms. Zuckerman says everyone

on the list who wanted anotherjob right away was hired withinweeks.“They had their pick. It was re-

ally great,” she says.

Special to The Globe and Mail

Kundan Joshi, CEO of TheAppLab, was one of several company founders who tried to find employment for the laid-off workers of Nudge.ai and Planswell. FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

When a startup falters, competitors rush inHiring laid-off workersisn’t cheap, but someCanadian firms say theyoffer valuable insight

BRENDA BOUW

They have hada perspective or hada closer outlook as towhat went wrong in anorganization. ... You can’tbuy those experiences.

KUNDAN JOSHICEO OF THEAPPLABB

Love it or hate it, influencermarketing is a persuasiveand pervasive method of

selling products and services. Forsmaller local brands, aligningwith an influential person on so-cial media can increase brandawareness on a global scalequicker and cheaper than manyother methods. But companiesinterested in influencer market-ing need to be aware that slowly,but surely, the Canadian govern-ment has been ramping up itsgovernance of the practice.In December, the Competition

Bureau sent approximately 100letters to advertisers and adver-tising agencies urging them to becompliant with Canadian mar-keting legislation and the bu-reau’s directives relating to influ-encer marketing. This is a strongindication that the bureau willbe more carefully monitoring in-fluencer marketing campaigns,and is part of a movement by theCanadian government to increas-ingly regulate the space.In June, 2018, the Competition

Bureau issued the “DeceptiveMarketing Practices Digest,” con-firming that influencer market-

ing falls under the ambit of theCompetition Act, which tacklesfalse and misleading advertising.Accordingly, civil and criminalpenalties could be awarded forfalse or misleading testimonialsor endorsements that are includ-ed in influencer marketing cam-paigns. Influencers must discloseany relationship between thethemselves and the brand theyare promoting that could affectthe independence of the influen-cer’s opinion. To date, there havenot been any known fines for in-fluencer marketing. However,with the bureau’s flurry of cau-tionary letters, this is likely tochange in 2020.Further indication of the in-

tervention of law into the worldof influencer marketing comeswith the recent landmark case inBritish Columbia whereby an in-fluencer, Noelle Halcrow, wasfound guilty of defaming her ex-boyfriend. Ms. Halcrow was re-quired to pay a damages awardof $200,000. Ms. Halcrow usedher online platform to repeated-ly defame the character of herex-boyfriend. Her conduct was“extensive,” “relentless” and“motivated by malice,” whichwas not tolerated by the B.C. ju-diciary system. In fact, the pre-siding judge, Justice ElliottMyers, recognized the pervasiveeffect of the internet, stating:

“The courts have recognized thatthe internet can be used as anexceedingly effective tool toharm reputations. This is onesuch case.”Legislative and judiciary inter-

vention in influencer marketingdoesn’t spell the end of the prac-tice, but it should spur brandsand influencers to craft theirmarketing campaigns with careand compliance. First off, it is im-portant to ensure that all partiesare bound by an influencer mar-keting agreement.Such an agreement codifies

the business relationship be-tween the brand and the influen-cer and should include key con-tractual terms, conditions andobligations. For example, whoare the parties involved in thedeal? What are their responsib-ilities? Who is responsible for thecosts involved with the activa-tion of the influencer marketingcampaign? Who owns the intel-lectual property that is resultingfrom the campaign?Another key concern that is

particular to influencer market-ing is the morality of the cam-paign and the influencer. Thisensures that the influencer’sconduct does not jeopardize his/her personality that the brand isassociating with. In addition,compliance with governing mar-keting legislation is critical and

setting out in the agreement whois liable for any non-complianceshould also be set out in theagreement.After the agreement is in

place, care needs to be taken toensure all social-media posts arecompliant with applicable legis-lation, which could include Com-petition Act, the Trademarks Act,the Copyright Act, Canada’s anti-spam legislation and provincialdefamation laws and consumerprotection laws, depending onthe type of campaign.If you are sourcing materials

for the campaign from third par-ties, ensure that you have the ap-propriate intellectual propertyrights to use the materials. Also,ensure that the influencer in-cludes the appropriate and suffi-cient disclosures to ensure thatthe content includes a truthful,fair and accurate account of therelationship.The disclosure should include

all pertinent information relat-ing to the nature of the post, forexample, if payment or a freeproduct was provided. This infor-mation should be prominentlyplaced at the beginning of theendorsement.By setting out clear guidelines,

brands can avoid legal troublesand have a solid exit plan inplace in case a relationship withan influencer goes off the rails.

Canadian lawmakers tighten their grip on influencer marketingASHLEE FROESE

Legislative andjudiciary interventionin influencermarketing doesn’tspell the end of thepractice, but itshould spur brandsand influencers tocraft their marketingcampaigns with careand compliance.

Lawyer with Froese Law, aToronto-based branding law firm

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He cited the impact of the SARS virus on the S&P 500, theyield on the 10-year Treasury, the U.S. dollar, corporate creditspreads and high-yield debt markets amid the various find-ings of the World Health Organization and the Centers forDisease Control and Prevention.“In all cases, the effects upon markets were fleeting,” Mr.

Holt said.“While the human toll and dangers are real, strained valu-

ations in somemarketsmay just bemaking roomfor anotherleg up, although it’s likely as premature to sound alarmist asit is to dip in just yet.”Here’s how things played out in the past, involving SARS,

swine flu and Ebola, according to BMO’s Mr. Guatieri, follow-ing a “standard playbook” in the economy and markets:“Share prices of airlines, restaurants and hotels get nota-

bly slammed. Safe-haven buying lifts the yen and Swiss francat the expense of resource-based currencies, such as the loo-nie, which plumbed a four-week low (with no help from theBank of Canada’s dovish pivot),” he said.“Governmentbonds strengthen– the 10-yearU.S. Treasury

rate slid 10 basis points [last] week. Commodity prices fall inanticipation of weaker global demand. Oil prices plunged 6per cent [last] week to six-week lows on fears the virus willhammer travel in China, the world’s largest energy consum-er, while copper prices rode a six-day losing streak in antici-pation of weaker global demand.”This ripples through economies, Mr. Guatieri said:“People shop less, delay travel and stay home. Companies

turn cautious and delay investments. While some of the ad-verse economic impact is offset by increased demand forhealth-care services and government measures to controlthe crisis, the economy slows nonetheless.”The Bank of Canada, Mr. Guatieri said, estimated that

SARS cost the economy 0.6 of a percentage point in annual-ized growth in the second quarter of 2003. And it cut annualgross domestic product by just about 0.1 per cent that year.“As health-care authorities work to contain the outbreak

and the number of new cases falls, financial markets subse-quently rally and the economy rebounds. After the three ear-lier viral outbreaks this century, U.S. equities quickly reco-vered.”CIBC World Markets chief economist Avery Shenfeld

agreed.“WhenCanadawas disproportionately hitwith SARS, GDP

fell in both March and April, and its airline stocks clearly un-derperformed their U.S counterparts,” he said.“When it was all over, those stocks and the economy had

fully rebounded. For now, we’ll use that sort of short-livedshock as our base case in affected areas, but this story clearlybearswatching as the facts on its spread and fatality rate playout.”

Coronavirus:With past outbreaks,airline, restaurant and hotelshares took a hit, analyst says

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Passengers wearing masks arrive at the Los AngelesInternational Airport from Shanghai, China, on Sunday. Somefinancial analysts say although global outbreaks such ascoronavirus can affect markets, the impact has generally beentemporary. RINGO CHIU/REUTERS

Ms. Bannister says she hopes notjust to show what is possible forwomen in venture, but acrosstech, while generating industry-leading returns.“The more success we see, the

more people are like, ‘If she cando it, I can do it,’ ” she said in arecent interview in Toronto,where shewill continue to livede-spite Real being headquartered inMontreal.“She’s a role model for what’s

possible for women in the indus-try,” says Jodi Kovitz, the founderof Move the Dial, the social enter-prise focused on advancingwom-en’s leadership and participationin technology. “Janet has been anabsolute champion for growingand enriching the entire technol-ogy ecosystem in Toronto, andacross Canada, for many years.”Real launched its most recent

$150-million seed and early-stagefund in 2017 alongside a pre-seedfund. It’s invested in about 280companies since 2007, when itwas founded by JS Cournoyer,Alan MacIntosh and John Stokesin Montreal.In the first three quarters of

2019, Realwas themost activepri-vate, independent venture firm inCanada, according to the Cana-dian Venture Capital and PrivateEquity Association – investing in28 funding rounds that wereworth a total of $378-million in-cluding other investors. Ms. Ban-nister has spearheaded the fund’s

investments in the health-bene-fits startup League Inc., drug-dis-covery-research company Bench-sciAnalytics Inc. and the industri-al efficiency artificial-intelligencefirm Canvass Analytics Inc.,among others.Ms. Bannister did not start her

career in technology, but came toadmire tech as an analytical toolwith which to view the world. “Ifell in love with the level of infor-mation about business, and theability to change things quicklyand see the difference,” she says.She moved to Silicon Valley in

2001 to work for eBay, where sheoversaw its shift in focus from aspecialty-collectors’ paradise to abroader resalemarketplace.Mov-ing to Toronto a few years later torun eBay’s Canadian operations,she realized that Canadians pre-ferred offline transactions – even-tually persuading executives tolaunch a coming European classi-fieds website called Kijiji in Cana-da, too. Soon, Ms. Bannister wasKijiji’s global manager.Ms. Bannister left Kijiji in 2008

to spend timewith her young sonbefore he entered full-day school.After she spent a few years con-sultingand runninga luxuryweb-site startup, Real came calling.Hunting for a partner to be closerto Toronto and Waterloo, theywere introduced to Ms. Bannisterthrough connections at C100, theassociation of Canadian leadersin the San Francisco Bay Area.She became a hit within the

firm, sharing her own entrepre-

neurship and leadership experi-ence with founders, while learn-ing the ropes of venture capital.Mr. Stokes says Ms. Bannister be-came a natural fit to take the leadas the firm grew and needed adedicated operational leader.“She has all the things that arenecessary to run a firm that’s re-aching maturity,” he says.Within Real, Ms. Bannister has

developed a reputation as an ad-vocate for the founders sheworkswith. “The relationship we’vebuilt together has a lot of trustand collaboration,” says HumeraMalik, co-founder and chief exec-utive of Canvass Analytics. Andshe’s not afraid of pushing foun-ders in new directions, Ms. Malikcontinues – “She’s one of thosepeople who doesn’t hesitate tospeak her mind.”Sunil Sharma,managing direc-

tor of theTechstars Toronto accel-erator, which partners with Real,saysMs. Bannister’s appointmentwill be proof to outsiders that To-ronto can be a diverse, renownedstartup hub. “It’s going to in-crease the level of interest in top-tier tech founders and compa-nies,” he says.While Real will remain head-

quartered in Montreal, the firm isseeking a second partner to joinMs. Bannister in Toronto. All part-ners have board seats on compa-nies in each city and see each oth-er regularly: “We don’t think ofgeography as a dividing factor,”she says. “It’s: Who is best suitedto help this particular company?”

Janet Bannister, managing partner at Real Ventures, sits in the MaRS building in Toronto on Saturday.Ms. Bannister did not begin her career in technology, but came to admire its use as an analytical tool to viewthe world. CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

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There are plenty of factors to backup that argument. Teck’s propos-al was predicated on oil selling athigher prices than now seemsrealistic.A growing number of major

global investors are signalling in-tent to pull back from fossil fuelsowing to climate-change risks.Even with efficiency improve-ments, it could be increasinglydifficult for Alberta’s bitumen tocompete with comparatively lowcarbon-intense oil extractionelsewhere.There are smaller oil sands

proposals already approved, butyet to go forward. Teck’s $20.6-bil-lion project, which is supposed toproduce up to 260,000 barrelsdaily and operate across 24,000hectares until 2066 (so far in thefuture that even most oil-sectorboosters don’t claim to knowwhat demand will look like),would be anything but a sure beteven if Ottawa rallied behind it.But if itwere that simple – ifOt-

tawa could deliver a ruling easingAlberta’s alienation without anyreal consequence – Liberalswouldn’t greet mentions of thematter with winces.On the contrary, this is a deci-

sion that matters greatly in theirbalancing of environmental andeconomic interests, even if onestarts from the premise that themine might be doomed anyway.Not that the government can

approach a regulatory decisionfrom the perspective that whatit’s regulating won’t actually hap-pen. To some extent, sure, theproject’s viability might be betterdetermined by economic forcesthan by government regulation.But it’s not up to the markets todecide whether the Frontiermine’s operation would be com-patible with Canadian climate-

change targets – reducing green-house gas emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030,and achieving net-zero emissionsby 2050 – to which the Liberalscommitted while campaigningfor re-election. Nor can any othergovernment or agency be expect-ed to make that evaluation, in-cluding a joint federal-provincialpanel that last year recommend-ed theproject for approval, whichwas not mandated to consideremissions targets.But even if ultimately the pro-

ject won’t ever come to fruition,regardless of what the govern-ment rules, there are still stakesjust in the symbolism.

If cabinet gives its approval, itwill be taken by the environmen-tal movement as a sign that Mr.Trudeau’s government is hostageto the fossil-fuel industry and itsmost vocal advocates. He will becast, again, as a hypocrite on cli-mate matters.That backlash could hurt the

Liberals politically, with progres-sive voters in Eastern Canada orBritish Columbia. And it couldcompromise efforts to take aleadership role internationally, inencouraging other countries topursue ambitious climate targets,which has been a priority of theirgovernment. It’s already difficultfor a country that’s one of theworld’s biggest exporters of fossil

fuels to try to convince othersthey should do their part; itwould get harder after ahigh-pro-file decision held up as evidenceof prioritizing domestic industryover global good.As for what will happen if

Teck’s proposal isn’t approved,suffice it to say Alberta’s govern-mentwill not shrug it off as some-thing that wouldn’t have hap-pened anyway. In recent months,Mr. Kenney has been portrayingthe project as an otherwise guar-anteed source of thousands ofjobs, and has gone out of his wayto hold it up as the latest, biggesttest of whether Ottawa is respon-sive to his province’s needs.Electorally, the Liberals may

not have much incentive to giveMr. Kenney what he wants.They’re unlikely to compete forAlberta seats in the foreseeablefuture, and his government is lesslikely to give Ottawa much creditfor approval than to treat it as theleast that could be done andmove on to the next battle. Butthe Liberals are certainly wary ofthe national-unity implicationsof being seen to thwart the ambi-tions of an angry province al-ready flirting with nationalism.That latter concern is strong

enough that the best bet is prob-ably on the Liberals finding a way(either in late February or after adelay) to give Teck’s proposaltheir approval – albeit with asmany conditions, especiallyaround carbon intensity of ex-traction methods, as could possi-bly be attached to it.But the debate within Mr. Tru-

deau’s party is far from over. Andthe fact that the governmentmaynot be the final arbiter of the pro-ject’s fate, while a consideration,won’t stop those discussionsfrom becoming more heated inthe month ahead and maybe be-yond.

Radwanski: Teck’s proposal wouldn’t bea sure bet even if Ottawa rallied behind it

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As for what will happenif Teck’s proposal isn’tapproved, suffice itto say Alberta’s

government will notshrug it off assomething thatwouldn’t have

happened anyway.

The company’s official statement on the subject of the Maxis encouraging: “CAE is currently providing support to Boe-ing and our airline customers on the 737 Max. We are posi-tioning ourselves to be ready when the Max returns to ser-vice by adding capacity in our network and by developingaugmented training solutions.”But the significance of the 737 Max simulators and train-

ing has to be weighed against the overall size and diversifi-cation of CAE – a company that has moved well beyondcivilian aircraft and into defence and even health care. In2018, it expanded into private planes when it acquired Bom-bardier Inc.’s Business Aircraft Training division for US$645-million.In its second-quarter financial results, released in No-

vember, CAE said it had booked orders for 11 full-flightsimulators. Just one was identified as a 737 Max (sold toAlaska Airlines). That brought the total number of Maxorders to 48, compared with a current fleet of 299 full-flightsimulators in operation worldwide, across plane types.It’s a safe bet to presume that more 737 Max orders are

on their way, but their impact on CAE’s financial resultsmight not be the gold rush that investors are expecting.After the latest rally, the shares trade at about 31 timesreported earnings, implying that big hopes for big profitgrowth are already factored into the share price.The better plan may be to focus less on the 737 Max and

more on CAE’s long-term potential.The share price is already above RBC Dominion Securi-

ties analyst Steve Arthur’s 12-month target price of $39. Butin a note released this month, Mr. Arthur examined CAE’sfive-year prospects and liked what he saw.Given CAE’s commanding 70-per-cent market share in

flight simulator equipment, strong barriers to entry andexpanding civilian fleets, he can see the company’s annualrevenue increasing by an average of 8.4 per cent a year andearnings per share rising by about 14 per cent a year.As a result, Mr. Arthur expects that CAE’s share price

could trade between $55 and $60 in five years, implyingadditional gains of 41 to 54 per cent over this period.That looks like a good reason for long-term investors to

hold on – even if expectations tied to 737 Max trainingprove disappointing.

Berman: CAE has movedbeyond civilian aircraft andinto defence and health care

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Arch Biopartners Inc Feb 13 Mar 30 ASArrow Exploration Corp. Feb 12 Mar 19 AGSAtrium Mortgage Investment Cor Apr 02 May 07 ABenton Resources Inc. Feb 14 Mar 20 AGSBlack Isle Resources Corporati Feb 12 Mar 13 AGBuhler Industries Inc Feb 11 Mar 25 AGCanadian Western Bank Feb 11 Apr 02 ACanex Energy Corp. Feb 14 Mar 23 AGSCapital Regional & Coop Desjar Feb 17 Mar 27 A

CIBC Feb 12 Apr 08ACo-Operators General Insurance Mar 03 Apr 07 AGConscience Capital Inc. Feb 04 Mar 05 AGSCorridor Resources Inc Feb 03 Mar 04 SCurrency Exchange Intl. Corp. Feb 14 Mar 25 AGSData Deposit Box Inc. Feb 10 Mar 13 AGEast Asia Minerals Corporation Feb 12 Mar 19 AGSEnwave Corporation Feb 11 Mar 20 AGS

Everton Resources Inc. Feb 07 Mar 09 ASFinning International Inc Mar 13 May 05 AGGranite Oil Corp. Feb 03 Mar 05 SIamgold Corporation Mar 31 May 05 AGJupiter Resources Ltd. Feb 03 Apr 01 AGLeis Industries Limited Feb 11 Mar 17 ASLincoln Ventures Ltd. *Jan 10 Feb 26 SLions Gate Entertainment Corp. Feb 02 Apr 02 SLoblaw Companies Limited Mar 09 Apr 30 A

Lucky Minerals Inc. Jan 28 Mar 05 AGSMagellan Aerospace Corporation Mar 20 May 05 AGMainstreet Equity Corp Feb 07 Mar 13 AGManitex Capital Inc. Feb 10 Apr 03 AGMega Uranium Ltd Feb 10 Mar 25 AMemex Inc. Feb 14 Mar 26 AGMicrobix Biosystems Inc. Feb 14 Mar 31 ASNeptune Dash Technologies Corp Feb 10 Mar 25 AGNoble Mineral Exploration Inc. Feb 11 Mar 24 AGS

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Let’s say you were consider-ing laser eye surgery, butyour eye doctor told you

there was a 5-per-cent chance itwould leave you blind. Chancesare you would steer clear of it. Onthe other hand, if you planned togo for a walk and learned therewas a 5-per-cent chance of rain,you wouldn’t bat an eyelash. Ourrisk-avoidance decisions in lifeare dictated not only by the prob-ability of an adverse outcome butalso by its severity.This concept applies to retire-

ment planning as well. ConsiderNick and Susan Thompson, a hy-pothetical couple on the verge ofretirement with $500,000 in aregistered retirement incomefund (RRIF). Nick, 65, and Susan,62, want a retirement income of$60,000 plus inflationary in-creases in future years.Much of this will come from

Canada Pension Plan (CPP) andOld Age Security (OAS) benefits,but their RRIF money is essentialto fulfilling their retirementgoals. The worst financial scena-rio they could imagine is running

out of money before they die.How can they invest their RRIFmoney to make sure this doesn’thappen?Recent retirees such as the

Thompsons typically investabout 50 per cent in stocks and 50per cent in bonds and hope toachieve at least a middle-of-the-road return over time, whichthese days means about 5 percent a year before fees. If this iswhat actually happens, theThompsons would be fine; theirRRIF would produce enough in-come to see them into their 90s.The trouble is that stocks and

bonds are far from a sure thing.By definition, there is only a 50-per-cent chance of a median re-turn or better. What if their re-turns were much worse thanmedian, worse in fact than 95 percent of all possible outcomes?Under these conditions, the topchart shows what happens. TheirRRIF runs drywhenNick is just 82and Susan is 79, leaving them on-ly with their CPP and OAS pen-sions. The computer model I’musing, courtesy of Morneau She-pell, indicates there is only a 5-per-cent chance this will happen,but is that level of risk accept-able? The consequences are a lotworse thangettingwet in the rain.NickandSusanaredetermined

to avoid the situation in the topchart, so they get out of stocksand bonds. Instead, they put alltheir money in a savings accountwith one of the Big Six banks.Bank accounts don’t pay muchthese days, but as long as saversleave their money in the accountfor 360 days, they will receive in-terest at the rate of 2 per cent perannum. Investing in a savings ac-count for the long term seems theheight of folly, but take a look at

the bottom chart. As long as the2-per-cent interest rate stands up,the Thompsons can now drawenough income each year untilthe age of 90 tomeet their target,even assuming an inflation rateof 2.2 per cent.It seems crazy that a savings

account could beat a market-

based portfolio over a 25-yearspan. The reason for the bizarreresult is that global stockmarketshave been rising for 10 years andbond prices have been rising fornearly 40 years. There is a greaterthan normal risk in the years tocome of stocks falling and/orbond yields rising. Rising bond

yields sounds like a good thing,but it would actually producecapital losses for thosewho investin long-term bonds.Most people will agree that in-

solvency in retirement is some-thing to be avoided at all costs.While turning your back on thecapital markets sounds like arather draconian solution, thetwo other options that most cou-ples take insteadare really nobet-ter.For instance, the Thompsons

could simply choose to spend lessuntil they feel more comfortablethat the markets aren’t going toplummet. That might be a longtime in coming, though, and itmight require them to spend con-siderably less than they wouldlike in their more active retire-ment years. Why give up spend-ing more if the savings accountapproach says you don’t have to?Another popular option is to

stay with a market-based portfo-lio but to adopt a more conserva-tive investment strategy such as20 per cent in stocks and 80 percent in bonds. Unfortunately, mycomputer model shows thisdoesn’twork anybetter thana 50-50 asset mix. Apparently, longer-term bonds have become almostas risky as stocks now that bondyields are so low.There is a better option than a

savings account that would allowthe Thompsons to keep their 50-50 investment portfolio and stillmeet or exceed their incomegoal.It involves reducing investmentfees, deferring their CPP benefitsto the age of 70 and buying an an-nuitywith 20per centof their sav-ings. This three-part solutionwouldactuallywork, according tomy computermodel, but it seemsthere are few takers.

Should you put a retirement fund in a savings account?Banks don’t pay muchinterest, but as long asthis couple can securea 2% rate, they candraw enough incometo meet financial targets

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A 50-50 ASSET MIX WITH VERY POOR RETURNS

INVESTING IN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT AT 2%

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ANALYSIS

Former chief actuary of MorneauShepell and the author of RetirementIncome for Life

Wall Street is betting thatthe most popular U.S.technology and internet

stocks can keep outshining thebroader equities market, buttheir latest rally leaves littleroom for error this earnings sea-son.Investors dashed for the exits

after last Tuesday’s less-than-stel-lar quarterly report from Netflix– the N in FAANG – an acronymfor the group of U.S. tech compa-nies that have been the biggestdrivers of the bull market.Hopes remained high for the

other FAANGs – Facebook Inc.,Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc.and Google parentAlphabet Inc.,

as well asMicrosoft Corp., aheadof their financial reports.Daniel Morgan, portfolio man-

ager at Synovus Trust in Atlantadescribes the group as the “Cadil-lacs” of the technology sector,and said they should keep pro-viding an outsized boost to theS&P 500.“They’re still going to be the

show-business highlight stocksthat everybody focuses on, and Iexpect them to do well,” said Mr.Morgan, a long-time technologystock investor.Analysts also see the group re-

porting faster revenue growththan the broader S&P 500 for theDecember quarter and fasterearnings growth in some cases.However, with recent gains

amongmost of the group far out-

stripping the broader market,general equity strategists say themarket’s superstars may need toprovide outsize positive surpris-es in their quarterly numbersand their forecasts for futuregrowth.In comparison with the S&P

500’s gain of roughly 12 per centfrom the start of October toThursday’s close, Apple roseabout 43 per cent, while Face-book climbed about 24 per centand Google jumped almost 22per cent, just beating Microsoft’s20-per-cent advance.“We do believe there could be

downside for the stocks if they donot overdeliver on earnings andnarrative,” said John Augustine,chief investment officer atHuntington National Bank in

Columbus, Ohio.“To push the stocks higher

from here, both earnings andguidance need to beat expecta-tions.”The S&P 500’s fourth-quarter

earnings are expected to decline0.8 per cent and revenue is seenrising 4.4 per cent, according tothe latest estimates gathered byRefinitiv.In comparison, Apple earn-

ings for its fiscal first quarter end-ed in December are seen rising8.7 per cent, while revenue couldclimb 4.8 per cent year on yearwhen it releases results on Jan.28.On Jan. 30, Amazon is expect-

ed to report a revenue rise of 18.7per cent in the same timeframe,although earnings for each share

are seen declining more than 30per cent, because it announced itwould beef up investment in itspackage-delivery business duringthe fourth quarter.The last of the group due to

report, Google’s parent Alphabet,is expected to announce a de-cline of 1.7 per cent for fourth-quarter earnings and a revenueincrease of 19.5 per cent in its Feb.3 release.Of all the group, Mr. Morgan,

at Synovus, favours Amazonmost as he expects strong growthand profit margins in its cloudcomputing business. Plus, thestock has underperformed itspeers, and the S&P 500, with a 8.6per cent gain since early October.

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MONDAY

China markets closed(through Thursday)U.S. new home sales for

December. The Street projectsan annualized rate rise of 1.5 percent.Earnings include: 3M Co.; Abb-Vie Inc.; Bristol-Myers SquibbCo.; Honeywell InternationalInc.

TUESDAY

U.S. durable goods orders forDecember. The Street expects arise of 1.2 per cent from Novem-ber.U.S. S&P Case-Shiller Home

Price Index for November. Con-sensus is a rise of 0.6 per centfrom October and up 2.6 percent year over year.U.S. Conference Board Con-

sumer Confidence Index forJanuaryEarnings include: CanadianNational Railway Co.; CelaneseCorp.; Match Group Inc.; McDo-nald’s Corp.; Metro Inc.; Occi-dental Petroleum Corp.; PfizerInc.; Procter & Gamble Co.;Starbucks Corp.; Stryker Corp.;TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.;United Technologies Corp.;Xerox Corp.; eBay Inc.

WEDNESDAY

U.S. goods trade deficit forDecember. Consensus isUS$64.5-billion, up fromUS$63.2-billion in November.U.S. pending home sales for

December. Consensus is a rise of0.7 per cent from November.U.S. Federal Reserve an-

nouncementEarnings include: AutomaticData Processing Inc.; AdvancedMicro Devices Inc.; AT&T Inc.;Aflac Inc.; Apple Inc.; BiogenInc.; Boeing Co.; Canadian Pacif-ic Railway Ltd.; CGI Inc.; ExcoTechnologies Ltd.; General Dy-namics Corp.; General ElectricCo.; Ingersoll-Rand PLC; John-son Controls International PLC;Lam Research Corp.; LibertyHealth Sciences Inc.; MicrosoftCorp.; Mondelez InternationalInc.; Progressive Corp.; Qual-comm Inc.; Southern Co.; TeslaInc.

THURSDAY

Euro zone jobless rate, eco-nomic and consumer confidenceCanada’s Survey of Employ-

ment, Payrolls and Hours forNovember.U.S. real gross domestic

product for fourth quarter.Consensus is an annualized raterise of 2.2 per cent.Earnings include: Altria Group;Amgen Inc.; Danaher Corp.;Electronic Arts Inc.; Eli Lilly andCo.; Facebook Inc.; Hershey Co.;Las Vegas Sands Corp.; McKes-son Corp.; Northrop GrummanCorp.; Open Text Corp.; RealMatters Inc.; Resolute ForestProducts Inc.; Rogers Sugar Inc.;Sherwin-Williams Co.; SprintCo.; Stingray Group Inc.; TheBlackstone Group Inc.; UnitedParcel Service Inc.; VerizonCommunications Inc.; Visa Inc.;Western Digital Corp.; XcelEnergy Inc.

fRIDAY

China purchasing managers’indexEuro zone real GDP and

consumer price indexCanada’s real GDP at basic

prices for NovemberCanadian product and raw

materials price indexes forDecemberU.S. personal income for

December. Consensus is rises of0.3 per cent for both from No-vember.U.S. core personal consump-

tion expenditure price index forDecember. Consensus is a rise of0.1 per cent from November and1.6 per cent year over year.U.S. University of Michigan

Consumer Sentiment Index forJanuaryEarnings include: Amazon.comInc.; Caterpillar Inc.; CharterCommunications Inc.; ChevronCorp.; Colgate-Palmolive Co.;Dominion Energy Inc.; IllinoisTool Works Inc.; Imperial OilLtd.; LyondellBasell IndustriesNV; Mattel Inc.; Phillips 66;ServiceNow Inc.; Sirius XMHolding Inc.; Tyson Foods Inc.

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B8 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2020CAREERS

Standing 6 foot 5 and tipping thescales at more than 300 poundsof solid muscle, Christo Bilukidiplayed in the National Football

League for four seasons before being re-leased byWashington inMay, 2016.Mak-ing it to the NFL was a rare feat forsomeone from Ottawa; rarer still, forsomeone born in Angola and raised inOttawa Community Housing by a singlemother.He’s now a real estate agent with Ot-

tawa’s DreamTeam Real Estate Group.

When did you know it was time to moveon from the NFL?

During training camp inNewYork, I waswatching film and I was so uninterested.I did not pay attention. I wasn’t into thescheme that was happening or the playcalling. That’s when I knew this game isnot forme anymore. There was nomoredesire.

When did you invest in your firstproperty?

I invested the minute I got cut by Oak-land [his first team] because I knewthen this game isn’t forever. I have toput my money to work. I didn’t knowwhat I wanted to dowithmymoney, butone of my best friends – now my busi-ness partner – is a contractor. He’s beendoing it for 15 years. He started talking tome about investment properties andthat’s when I started investing in real es-tate.

Was it hard for you to have to studywhen it came time to get the licences andcertifications you needed?

I knew, through the work ethic that gotme to the NFL, I could do pretty muchwhatever I wanted to. If I told myself Iwanted to be a doctor, I guarantee Icould be a doctor. The work ethic wasthere. You can’t just waltz onto an NFLteam – you have to put in the time andthe hours.

Why return to Ottawa? You could havegone anywhere in North America.

Not a lot of people will say that Ottawais a city of a lot of opportunity, but forsomeone like myself that’s from Ottawaand grew up here and has connectionshere and, on top of that, not a lot of NFLplayers come out of Ottawa. So this iswhere I had to take that chance and op-portunity to promote myself. Peoplewill naturally gravitate towards me –“Oh this guy used to play in the NFL and

that’s cool.” If I wanted to start a busi-ness, like get my real estate licence, Icould use that to my advantage and bevery successful.

Did you stray away from wanting to beknown as ‘that guy from the NFL?’

I actually used to tell my buddies –“Don’t tell people I’m playing.” I used toalways say that because I didn’t wantthe attention to come to me. All peoplewould want to come talk to me aboutwas, “Hey, have you sacked PeytonMan-ning?” and it’s the same questions overand over. Now it’s “Yeah, I’ve hit PeytonManning. By the way, do you want tobuy a house?”

What’s the biggest adjustment you’vehad to make from playing in the NFL towhat you do now?

There were a lot of adjustments socially.[…] I settled down, I found my wife,from Ottawa. There had to be a lot ofadjustments made and I was fine withthose adjustments. When I invested inreal estate I already had a plan and I sawthe projections. I know I can do more.

Yes, I had to make a few adjustments,but I know there is a back-up plan that’sallowed me to do a lot more than whatnormal guys do after they’re done play-ing.

What would you say to people who arelooking to make a career change at thistime in their lives – maybe a decade intosomething now but ready for somethingnew?

I’d say take a chance. Don’t be afraid totake risks. If you’re successful, great, butif you’re not, you’re just going to learnand you’re going to learn what you like,what you can do, and maybe do some-thing you could be successful at. That’smy biggest thing – take risks. I took ahuge risk leaving theNFL. Obviously nota lot of people will have that same level,but I got to say, “even though I’m doneplaying I’ll still be successful in whatev-er I want to do.” Take the risk. Don’t beafraid to do it.

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This interview has been editedand condensed.

Christo Bilukidi: ‘Take a chance.Don’t be afraid to take risks’Former Canadian NFL playersays he owes his successto his work ethic, whichgot him into the big leaguesin the first place

ADAM STANLEY

THE LADDER

T ime. We all have it, and it’s ourmost precious human asset. Wejust need to choose how tospend it and not be apologetic

for our choices.Far too often I have asked someone

an innocent question such as “Did youmake this from scratch?” or “Can youhelp volunteer a couple hours over theweekend?” only to be met with the an-swer, “No, because I have a full-timejob.” Of course, my questions weremeant solely to spark participation andconversation. Instead, I’m always sur-prised when they are met with a defen-sive response and the conversation isshut down.These occurrences are surprisingly

more frequent with the ever-expandingarray of services for hire, such as mealdelivery, dog walkers, grocery shoppersand gardeners, to name a few. Theseservices are supposed to free up ourtime for other higher-value discretion-ary activities, but it seems the quick an-swer to not being able to do somethingyourself is having a full-time job.I find this answer is especially preva-

lent during the holiday season, where Iwas met with more than a couple ofsmack-downs when I asked, “How isyour holiday shopping going?” or “Howdo youmake these canapés?” Instead ofbeing simply told that the personbought the item, the conversation turnsdefensive and out comes the full-timejob excuse.For those of us with full-time jobs

and kids to boot, it’s insulting and doesa great disservice to many who admit tospending their time doing things theywant to do. It’s a similar feeling to thenever-ending response of “busy” to thequestion “How are things?” It’s a con-versation stopper, especially if you (likeI do) answer back with three or fourthings you are doing this week out ofpersonal choice – none of them neces-sarily related to work.Is the full-time job becoming just

more full time? For some, I’m sure thatthe lines between work and life are be-ing blurred by work-force reductions,yet having continuing demands thatdon’t reduce.At the same time, it just seems to be

becoming the easiest excuse, ratherthan saying “I do not want to do that,so I hired someone for that service,” or“I bought the product instead, becauseit’s excellent.” Why are we continuingto use work as the excuse for not hav-ing done something? There should beno guilt, either imposed or self-inflict-ed.In the mostly self-inflicted expecta-

tions of working people, everythingthat does not get done owes to work,including things we choose not to dofor whatever reasons. For some, it isplaying host to a dinner party. For oth-ers, it is building and maintaining a gar-den. Instead of saying, “I really do notwant to spend my time on thesethings,” we blame the job.People who have a weekly or month-

ly housekeeper have one mostly be-cause they do not want to spend pro-ductive time cleaning their house. It re-ally has nothing to do with working fulltime – they just do not want to spendtheir free time house-cleaning.A reason is not needed. What is

needed is to stop giving work as an ex-cuse and start owning your lifestylechoices. What is also needed is the ac-ceptance of others’ choices. Usually,those people you’re talking to have thesame full-time job and family commit-ments as you do. They just make differ-ent choices on how they spend theirtime and money.Start admitting what you do not

want to do, rather than saying you haveto work more. There will be noticeabledifferences in your interaction withothers. Instead of being reactive, whichis based on using the quick work ex-cuse, be responsive.At a dinner party you bought the

food for, rather than having made it –just say, “No, I chose to buy the food,giving me time to visit with my guests.”Or acknowledge that you chose to gohiking today rather than cook Canada’snext great dinner.Don’t use having a full-time job as

the reason. On the flip side, if someonehires a service for something that younormally and happily enjoy doing your-self, do not judge their choices.Ultimately, stop using the full-time

job and the children as a reason youcannot say yes to a question.Instead, use it as an opportunity to

spark conversation and garner perspec-tives around the life choices we allmake. Who knows? You may learnsomething from someone that you canapply to your full-time job.

We should stopusing work asan excuse for whywe don’t do thingsfor ourselves

EILEENDOOLEY

OPINION

Principal and executive coach in theleadership practice of Odgers Berndtson,global executive search and leadershipadvisory firm

The question

I sometimeswork 15 to20hoursoverandabove the regular 80-hour pay period,and get no overtime pay. However, if Iwork less than 80 hours, human re-sources deducts from my banked hourstomake up for it. I was told I was ineligi-ble for overtime pay so why am I being“charged” when I’m under, but not paidwhen I’m over?

The first answer

Nabila KhanAssociate lawyer, Ryan EdmondsWorkplace Counsel, Toronto

There are two issues at play: the first isovertime eligibility and the second is adeduction fromwages.Employment standards legislation in

most Canadian provinces have occupa-tional exemptions for overtime pay ortime off in lieu. In Ontario, for example,employees in managerial positions andcertain professionals (e.g. IT, engineer-ing, accounting, law) are not entitled toany form of overtime compensation re-gardless of howmany hours they work.If you are eligible for overtime, em-

ployment standards legislation will setthe rules for the rate of pay and, if appli-cable, time off in lieu (“banked hours”).In Ontario and Alberta, the overtime

rate of 1.5 times applies to all hoursworked in excess of 44 hours a week. InManitoba, the threshold is 40 hours aweek, while in Nova Scotia, overtimekicks in after 48 hours of work. Further,

inOntario, overtimemust bepaidout bydefault, and time off in lieu can only begiven if the employee provides writtenconsent. Even then, the banked hoursmustbeusedwithina specifiedperiodoftime.Employment standards legislation al-

so limits an employer’s ability to makedeductions from wages without an em-ployee’s consent, which would includebanked hours. These rules vary betweenprovinces, so you wouldwant to contact an em-ployment lawyer or yourlocalMinistryof Labour re-garding your situation.If you are not eligible for

overtime because of an oc-cupational exemption,then your employer’s poli-cies will govern. Unlike fornon-exempt employees,these rules do not need tofollow employment stan-dards legislation andcould, in theory, allow for deductionsfrom banked hours.

The second answer

Joel FairbrotherAssociate, Taylor Janis Workplace Law,Calgary

Legal principles differ between prov-inces. In Alberta, where I practise, mostemployeesgetovertimeat 1.5 timesregu-lar wages for hours exceeding eighthours adayor 44hours aweek,whichev-er is more. If an employee is manage-ment (or some professions such as law-yers, accountants etc.), the employer isnot normally forced to pay the personovertime and these people are usuallyon a set salary. Normal employee over-

time rules can be modified by overtimeagreements and averaging agreements.Overtime agreements are created

when an employer and employee(s)agree that the employee can work morethaneighthoursadayor44hoursaweekin exchange for time off at their regularpay rate.Averaging agreements are created

when an employer and employee(s)agree that the employer should be able

to average an employee’sdaily and weekly workhours over a number ofweeks to calculate over-time.These require that the

employer schedule thehours in advance. If thescheduledhours exceed 44a week, the employee getsovertime; if an employeeworks more than sched-uled hours, they may alsoget overtime.

These types of agreements can be en-tered into by a group of employees priorto a new employee starting and still bebinding on the new employee.If you are management (or certain

professions),most likely there isno issuebecause you are probably not entitled toovertime. If you are not management oroneof thoseprofessions, theemployer islikely required tocomplywith theexcep-tions above. If they are not doing that,you likely have a claim for overtime.Keep inmind that theseareall general

rules that apply to most employees, butthere are exceptions.

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If you are eligible forovertime,

employmentstandards legislationwill set the rules forthe rate of pay and,if applicable, time offin lieu (’banked

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Mark McMorris earnssilver in X Games eventto tie Shaun White’smark of 18 medals B15

[ PHOTO OF THE DAY ]

Kobe Bryant, seen during a game in 2016, was killed on Sunday along with his daughter Gianna and seven others in a helicopter crash. While all eight NBA games proceededas scheduled on Sunday, players and coaches were visibly shaken by the news. A moment of silence was observed before each game. HARRY HOW/GETTY IMAGES

Friends, fans and colleagues fromacross theworldreactedwithpro-found sadness and disbelief on

Sundayas theystruggled toabsorb thenews of Kobe Bryant’s tragic death.Teams around the NBA played

through dizzying emotions on thevery day they learned that the LosAngeles Lakers legend and his daugh-ter Gianna were among nine peoplewho perished in a California helicop-ter crash. Expressionsofpainandgriefpoured in from the worlds of sport,politics and entertainment.The 18-time NBA all-star, and win-

ner of five NBA championships and

two Olympic gold medals, died Sun-day at the age of 41. He was travellingwith his 13-year-old daughter to herbasketball game when the helicopterwent down in Calabasas, an accidentfrom which there were no survivors.Gianna – also known as Gigi – was theoldest of four daughters to Bryant andhis wife, Vanessa.“Kobe was a legend on the court

and just getting started inwhatwouldhavebeen just asmeaningful a secondact,” former U.S. president BarackObama wrote on Twitter. “To loseGianna is evenmore heartbreaking tous as parents.Michelle and I send loveand prayers to Vanessa and the entireBryant family on anunthinkable day.”

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Celebrities, athletes reminisceabout the late basketball starRACHEL BRADY

In his 40 years in basketball, noth-ing Chuck Swirksy has seen com-pared to Kobe Bryant’s perform-

ance against the Toronto Raptors.The broadcaster reminisced about

Bryant’s 81-point game against theRaptors on Sunday, shortly after thenews broke that the Los Angeles Lak-ers great had died in a helicoptercrash at the age of 41.Bryant’s scoring against visiting

Toronto on Jan. 22, 2006, stands asthe second-most in NBA history, sec-ond only to Wilt Chamberlain’s 100on March 2, 1962.“It was really the most remarkable

event I’ve ever called, to see one mantake on five players,” said Swirsky,who was the play-by-play announcerfor the Raptors at the time.“That’s exactly what it was on that

Sunday night at Staples Center in LosAngeles. Kobe Bryant was a one-manwrecking crew.“He did it at the foul line, he did it

on three-point shots, he did it ondrives to the rim. He was on a mis-sion.”Bryant was an 18-time NBA all-

star who won five championshipsand became one of the greatest bas-ketball players of his generationduring a 20-year career with the Lak-ers.

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The North sends love to oneof the NBA’s greatest playersJOHN CHIDLEY-HILL

Tributes pour in after Bryant’s death

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He retired in 2016 as the third-leading scorer in NBAhistory, fin-ishing two decades in L.A. as aprolific scorer with a sublime all-around game and a relentlesscompetitive ethic. He held thatspot in the league scoring ranksuntil Saturday night, when theLakers’ LeBron James passed himfor third place during a game inPhiladelphia, Bryant’s home-town.For Swirsky, Bryant’s legendary

performance against the Raptorswas a seminal moment in an all-time career.“He was not a big man. He was

not Wilt Chamberlain, who wasseven-feet tall, who scored 100which is crazy to begin with, andtotal respect toWilt Chamberlain,but we’re talking about a manthat was 6-6, 6-7, maybe,” saidSwirsky, who is now an announ-cer for the Chicago Bulls. “It wasjust a remarkable achievement.”Bryant had one of the greatest

careers in recent NBA history andbecame one of the game’s mostpopular players as the face of the16-time NBA champion Lakersfranchise. He was the league’sMost Valuable Player in 2008 anda two-time NBA scoring cham-pion, and he earned 12 selectionsto the NBA’s All-Defensive teams.Theworlds of sports and enter-

tainment mourned Bryant’s

deathonSunday. Amoment of si-lencewasobserved at aprebroad-cast portion of the GrammyAwards in L.A.Canadian rapper Drake posted

aphotoof a custom-made leatherjacket honouring Bryant that hewore to the 2016 NBA all-star

game in Toronto. That all-stargame was the last of Bryant’s ca-reer beforehe retiredat the endofthe season. The caption onDrake’s Instagram post read, “Itcan’t be.”Canadian singer Justin Bieber

also eulogized Bryant on Insta-

gram, posting a photo of an ado-lescent Bieber with Bryant stand-ing beside him.“It can’t be. Youalways encour-

aged me mamba. Gave me someof the best quotes that we smileabout to this day! Love youman!”Bieber’s caption said.

“You can tell there’s an empti-ness nowhere in this building, it’ssurreal,” Raptors broadcasterMatt Devlin said on the pregamebroadcast before Toronto playedtheSanAntonioSpurs inTexasonSunday afternoon.“It’s obviously very difficult [to

play],” Canadian TV commenta-tor Leo Rautins said. “If anythingyou embody yourself in a KobeBryant spirit, and that’s a guywhowould compete through any-thing. His compete level was offthe charts. How do you compete,that’s a great question. A lot ofplayers are devastated, he’s had atremendous impactona lotof theyounggenerationof theNBA, youtalk about his peers, he’s got somuch respect from everybody.”Bryant teamed with Shaquille

O’Neal in a combustible partner-ship to lead the Lakers to NBA ti-tles in 2000, 2001 and2002.He lat-er teamed with Pau Gasol to wintwo more titles in 2009 and 2010.He retired in 2016 after scoring 60points in his final NBA game.Long-time Canadian NBA star

Steve Nash, Bryant’s teammatefrom 2012-14, also took to Twitterto express his thoughts.“My heart is broken for Kobe

andhis family. I’ll never forget thebattles but what I really admiredwas the father hewas to his girls,”Nash said.

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Canadians: Broadcaster calls Bryant’s 81-point game vs. Raptors a seminal moment

Famous Canadians have flocked to social media to express love for Kobe Bryant, including Justin Bieber andDrake. DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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His death dominated socialmedia on Sunday. A stream of ce-lebrities expressed their sorrowfor the superstar who had be-come a pop culture icon, alsodabbling in business and film-making. Taylor Swift tweetedthat her heart was in pieces, add-ing, “Kobe meant so much tome.” Late-night TV host JimmyKimmel posted about his charis-ma and commitment to his fourdaughters.The Grammy Awards, taking

place at Staples Center on Sun-day night, opened with a musicaltribute to Bryant by Alicia Keysand Boyz II Men.Superstar athletes from Tom

Brady to Alexander Ovechkinand P.K. Subban posted photosof themselves with the basket-ball star many called “BlackMamba.” Wayne Gretzky postedthat he and his wife, Janet, werepraying for Bryant’s family.Many from the soccer sphere

reacted with sorrow Sunday, asBryant was such an avid support-er of their sport, from Real Ma-drid’s Gareth Bale and Manches-ter City’s Raheem Sterling to theU.S. women’s national team.Global soccer star Neymar dedi-cated his goal for Paris Saint-Ger-man to the Lakers great on Sun-day, celebrating by holding uptwo fingers with one hand andfour with the other, representingBryant’s uniform number, 24.AC Milan mourned the pass-

ing of one of their club’s greatest

fans: “We have no words to ex-press how shocked we are to hearof the tragic passing of one of thegreatest sportsmen of all timeand Rossonero fan, KobeBryant.”Countless female basketball

stars posted about Bryant, espe-cially since the father of four girlswas an outspoken voice for grow-ing the women’s game. CanadianWNBA star Kia Nurse tweeted:“this is not real my heart hurts somuch. Kobe meant & will alwaysmean so much to the game sup-ported the women’s game like noother so much love for him andGigi.”All eight NBA games proceed-

ed as scheduled on Sunday, withmoments of silence and othertributes observed at each, andplayers and staff visibly reeling.The Toronto Raptors and San

Antonio Spurs tipped off in TexasSunday afternoon, mere hoursafter the news broke. The gamebegan with a poignant moment.Both teams agreed to walk theball up the floor and let the 24-second shot clock expire at eachbasket – in honour of Bryant.Bryant was a mentor and con-

fidante to many playing in thegame, including DeMar DeRozan– a California native who idolizedBryant as a boy before they laterbecame friends. Spurs headcoach Gregg Popovich consoledDeRozan on the bench duringthe pregame warmups.“Everything I learned came

from Kobe,” DeRozan said afterthe game. “Take Kobe away and I

wouldn’t be here, I wouldn’t havethe love, the passion, the drive.”DeRozan shared long sombre

hugs with his former Torontoteammates at Sunday’s game,such as Kyle Lowry, Fred VanV-leet, Norman Powell, OG Anuno-by and Pascal Siakam. Powell andAnunoby both trained in Augustat Bryant’s exclusive summerbasketball camp.In Orlando, in the hours be-

fore the Magic and Los AngelesClippers were to face off, Clippershead coach Doc Rivers struggledto get words out as he criedthroughout his pregame sessionwith reporters.“The news is just devastating

to everyone,” said Rivers, whonoted he had known Bryant along time. “There are so manypeople he touched. Looking atmy young players and seeinghow emotional they are, andthey didn’t even know him. Itjust tells you how far his reachwas.”The Dallas Mavericks are pay-

ing tribute to Bryant by perma-nently retiring his number 24.“Kobe’s legacy transcends bas-

ketball, and our organization hasdecided that the number 24 willnever again be worn by a DallasMaverick,” Dallas Mavericksowner Mark Cuban said.NBA players past and present

expressed their sorrow in drovesat games and on social media.Philadelphia 76ers Cameroo-

nian all-star Joel Embiid tweetedthat watching Kobe Bryant in the2010 NBA Finals made him want

to be a basketball player.The NBA’s all-time leading

scorer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, puton a Lakers sweater and filmed avideo after hearing the news. TheLakers great relayed a storyabout first meeting Bryant as alittle boy, the son of Joe Bryant,one of Abdul-Jabbar’s on-courtadversaries. “This loss is so hardto comprehend,” he said.NBA legend Bill Russell tweet-

ed out, “Jeannine & I are abso-lutely shocked to hear of the lossof one of my favorite people &one of the best basketball mindsin the history of the game! Ourhearts & prayers to Vanessa & hisgirls. @kobebryant you were mybiggest fan, but I was yours.”Bryant’s final tweet before his

death had been to congratulateLeBron James on Saturday nightas he passed Bryant for third onthe NBA’s all-time scoring list.Fans had lined the streets out-

side the Staples Center in Los An-geles, gathering to process thenews together in the city wherehe was so beloved.One of his dearest friends,

Shaquille O’Neal, pulled togethera montage of the duo’s playingdays with the Lakers and postedon Twitter about his anguish:“There’s no words to express

the pain I’m going through withthis tragedy of losing my neiceGigi & my brother @kobe-bryant,” O’Neal wrote. “I love uand u will be missed.”

With a report fromThe Associated Press

Los Angeles Lakers fans gather outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday to mourn the death of Kobe Bryant. The Grammy Awards, which were taking place at Staples Centerthat night, opened with a musical tribute to Bryant by Alicia Keys and Boyz II Men. RACHEL LUNA/GETTY IMAGES

Tributes: ‘Everything I learned came from Kobe,’ DeRozan says after gameFROM B9

There are so manypeople he touched.Looking at myyoung players andseeing howemotional they are,and they didn’t evenknow him. It justtells you how far hisreach was.DOC RIVERSLOS ANGELES CLIPPERSCOACH

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PatrickMahomeswas just try-ing to runout of bounds, notmake the kind of shake-

your-head, what-did-he-just-doplay that will be shown on high-light reels for as long as the Kan-sas City Chiefs exist.It was late in the second quar-

ter of the AFC championshipgame, and theChiefswere trailingTennessee 17-14.Mahomeshadal-ready marched them nearly thelength of the field, giving KansasCity at worst a chance for a tyingfield goal, when he scrambledfrom the pocket and headed to-ward the sideline with every in-tention of avoiding any kind ofhit.Then hemade a defender miss

and saw nobody in front of him,so he turned upfield instead. Ma-homes barrelled toward the goalline and right over one defender,then spun away from two more,and crashed into the end zone forthe go-ahead score.The momentum of his TD run

would spur the Chiefs to two

more fourth-quarter touchdownsand a 35-24 victory, and into theirfirst Super Bowl in 50 years. Andthe play itself showcased why de-fending Mahomes is so difficult:Even when his pass catchers arecovered, the young quarterbackcan still beat opponents on theground.“They have the ultimate re-

spect for him,” Chiefs coachAndyReid said of defences, “and

they’re doubling our guys. You’renot just getting one guy doublebut two, and the defensive line istrying to sack him.“So if he makes one guy miss,

it’s over. He has all this runningspace. We’ve seen that the lastcouple weeks. For him to be ableto see it, decipher it and go – it’sjust part of the game for him. Youdon’t have to tell him anythingthat he doesn’t already know.”

Exceptmaybe to slide. Thathasbeen a work in progress, and Ma-homes has been much more sav-vy about gettingdownbefore tak-ing a big hit. But he wasn’t goingto do that last Sunday,when a trioof Titans were all that stood be-tween Mahomes and the endzone after a 27-yard highlight-reelscramble.“As I got to the sideline,” he

recalled last week, “I realized I

could cut up. I was running downthe sideline and I knew we hadtwo timeouts, so I might as welltry to cut it back. I cut it back, andluckily Iwas able tohold on to theball and get into the end zone.”It was the kind of improvisa-

tional play that could come inhandy against the San Francisco49ers’ stingy defence in the SuperBowl.“I think his running ability

adds a lot,” Chiefs offensive co-or-dinator Eric Bieniemy said. “Firstof all, it tells a lot about how Patsees things. I knowPat recognizesthe coverages that teamsareplay-ing, and doubling [Travis] Kelceand [Tyreek] Hill, and the thinghe recognizes is nobody is onhim, so he takes off and runs.”TheChiefs certainlywouldpre-

fer their running backs did mostof the heavy lifting in the groundgame against San Francisco. Butthey aren’t about to curtailMaho-mes’s competitive fire, evenwhen it manifests itself in run-ning the ball.“His understanding of space

and understanding of coverage isincredible,” offensive tackleMitchell Schwartz said. “Mostguys look at a play, ‘Oh, that’sgood. Let’s do that.’ But he under-stands coverages and, ‘We can dothis because this guy is here andwe can exploit him.’ It’s prettyawesome.”

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Mahomes is sharp in the air, on the groundChiefs QB can bedangerous even whenhis receivers are covered– just look at whathappened to Tennessee

DAVE SKRETTA KANSAS CITY

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes evades Tennessee Titans linebacker Rashaan Evans on his way to atouchdown during the AFC championship game on Jan. 19 in Kansas City. ED ZURGA/AP

It’s an annual tradition, stretch-ing back decades, that unitesCanadians coast-to-coast:

complainingaboutnotbeingableto see the flashy ads that air ontheAmericanbroadcastof theSu-per Bowl.But for the past three years,

we’ve had to find something elseto grouse about, after the federalTVregulator, theCanadianRadio-television and Telecommunica-tions Commission, handed downan unusual decree. That, becausethe ads are considered by someviewers to be integral elements ofthe Super Bowl broadcast, theyhad tobeallowedtoair inCanada,too.Things got messy. Bell Media,

which owns the CTV network, onwhich the Super Bowl usually airsin Canada, sued the federal gov-ernment, arguing the CRTCdidn’thave the legal authority to makesuch a rule. The NFL then joinedthe suit and lobbied a bunch ofAmerican politicians to pushtheir cause, while someone withfriends in high placesmanaged toget a special rule inserted into thenew North American free-tradeagreement (a.k.a. the UnitedStates-Mexico-Canada Agree-ment) overturning the CRTC. Thematter then ended up at the Su-preme Court of Canada, where adecision issued a few weeks agomeans that, once again, Canadianads will run in place of the Amer-ican ones.But the matter seems unlikely

to go away for good. So, as nextSunday’s (U.S.) Super Bowl adsbegin to roll out online this week,let’s catch up with how we gothere, and what might happennext.

THEY DON’T CALL IT THE‘SUPER BOWL OF ADVERTISING’FOR NOTHINGLast year’s Super Bowl, a low-scoringmatchupbetween the LosAngeles Rams and New EnglandPatriots,drewonlyabout98.5mil-lion U.S. TV viewers, the smallestaudience since 2008. (An averageof 2.6 million viewers alsostreamed the game digitally, ac-cording to CBS, which aired thegame.) Still, with entertainmentchoices continuing to grow expo-nentially, the annual broadcast isone of the few places marketerscan reach a sizable audience,prompting them to snatch up allof the available inventory fromFox, which is broadcasting thisyear’s game. All told, Fox sold theequivalent of 80 30-second spotsto marketers such as Budweiser,Doritos, Cheetos and Olay for anestimated US$5-million toUS$5.6-million each, or a totalhaul of US$400-million toUS$448-million.

THE CANADIAN SUPER BOWLAD ECONOMYUntil the CRTC’s directive took ef-fect for the 2017 Super Bowl,about seven million Canadianswatched the game broadcast onCTV and whichever U.S. channelswere showing it each year. Butover the past three years, Cana-dian viewership (which onlymeasures those exposed to theCanadian ads)was in the range of4.5million. Still, that’s enough forCTV to charge an estimated$150,000 to $200,000 an ad, net-ting the network a total of about$11-million.

WHAT IS ‘SIMSUB’ AND WHYDOESN’T IT WANT ME TO WATCHTHOSE COOL BUDWEISER ADS?Much of Canadian commercialprime-time TV consists of U.S.programs bought by domestic

networks (CTV, Global and City-TV) and airing at the same timeon Canadian channels as they doon the U.S. ones. (Say, top-fiveshow Young Sheldon, which airsThursdays at 8 pm on both CTVand its U.S. network, CBS.) TheCanadian networks which buythe domestic rights to thoseshows direct the cable, IPTV, andsatellite services to simultaneous-ly substitute (a.k.a. “simsub”) theCanadian signal, with its Cana-dian ads, for the original U.S. sig-nal, and deliver that to Canadianhomes.The practice brings in an esti-

mated $250-million annually tothe Canadian TV industry, whichenables Canadian broadcasters touse someof theprofit fromitsU.S.shows to subsidize its (generallyless popular) Canadian shows.But when Canadian viewers getupset, they complain to the CRTC– which upsets the CRTC. And so,in 2016, the CRTC passed a specialdirective that applied just to theCanadian broadcast of the SuperBowl, ordering cable and satellitecompanies to not practise sim-sub. CTV could continue to airCanadian ads on its own channel,but it could no longer substitutethose ads on the U.S. broadcast.“If [consumers] want to watch

the signal that’s available in theirarea and see the U.S. ads, that’stheir choice,” said Jean-PierreBlais, the then-chair of the CRTC.“If they want to see the Canadianversion with the Tim Hortons ad… they can look at that.”

HOW MANY CANADIANSDOES IT TAKE TO CAUSE ANINTERNATIONAL INCIDENT?In handing down its directive, theCRTC pointed to a public consul-tation ithadheld in2013, inwhichthousands of Canadians hadvoiced their opinion on a widerange of issues having to do withtelevision, including simsub.

“The Commission received 458complaints regarding simultane-ous substitution. Of these com-plaints, 20 per cent were relatedto commercials that were broad-cast during the Super Bowl,” theCRTC said in its order. For thosewho are math-challenged, thatworks out to 92 complaints.

LET’S TALK ABOUT BELL’SFRIENDS IN HIGH PLACESThe many powerful forces inBell’s corner included the NFL,whichwas concerned the value ofthe rights to its internationalgamesmightplummet if non-U.S.broadcasters such as CTV werebarred from selling ads. The NFLadded itsnameto theBell lawsuit.In December, 2016, U.S. senatorsMarco Rubio and Ron Johnsonwrote a letter to David Mac-Naughton, the Canadian ambas-sador to the United States, argu-ing that the CRTC move “sends atroubling signal about the valueCanada places on its largest trad-ing partner, best customer andclose friend.”Canadian politicians got in-

volved, too.“There is no doubt that the ec-

onomic consequences of thisflawed decision are significant,”wrote Liberal MPs Wayne Easterand Bob Nault, according to a re-port by Bloomberg. “We are ask-ing that the CRTC reverse its posi-tion immediately to ensure thatour Canadian performers, pro-ducers, actors, and broadcastersareprovided the sameopportuni-ty to showcase Canadian contentin Canada.”When the text of the newUSM-

CA trade agreement was releasedin the fall of 2018, one subsectionincluded language inwhichCana-da agreed it would rescind“Broadcasting Regulatory PolicyCRTC 2016-34 and BroadcastingOrder CRTC 2016-335,” a.k.a. theSuper Bowl simsub directive.

However, the trade agreementdidn’t pass immediately, and bythen Bell Media had taken theCRTC to court, so the 2019 broad-cast still carried U.S. ads.

WHY CAN’T CANADIANADVERTISERS CREATE REALLYCOOL ADS THAT WILL MAKEUS WANT TO WATCHTHE CTV BROADCAST?Put simply, Canadahas about one10th the population of the U.S.,and marketers have (usually lessthan) one 10th the airtime andproduction budgets. Canadiancompanies simply can’t spend onads like their U.S. counterparts.(That’s also why Canadian filmproducers have traditionally notspent the same kind ofmoney onmaking or marketing their mo-vies.Which iswhywedon’t gener-ally watch Canadian movies. Butany more talk like that and thisarticle will end up in the Arts sec-tion.)

THE SUPREME COURTOF CANADA SAVES THE DAY(FOR CANADIAN ADS)Lastmonth, theSupremeCourtofCanada ruled that theCRTCdidn’thave thepower, under the sectionof the Broadcasting Act which ithad cited in its directive, to bansimsub for the Super Bowl broad-cast. But, as a summary preparedby the Court’s communicationsdepartment noted, “Themajoritydidn’t decide whether the CRTCcould make the decision under adifferent section of the Act,though.”

OKAY, SO I WON’T GET TO SEEANY SLICK AMERICAN ADSDURING THE SUPER BOWL THISSUNDAY. IS THERE ANY OTHERWAY TO SEE THEM?Let me tell you about this thingcalled the internet.

Why U.S. ads are blocked – again – from your Super Bowl broadcastSIMONHOUPT

OPINION

W ith a fearsome front fourcapable of putting pres-sure on quarterbacks

without blitzes, a lockdown cor-nerback in Richard Sherman andthe speedat linebacker and safetyto limit big plays, the San Francis-co 49ers had the league’s stingiestpass defence in a decade.Shutting down Patrick Ma-

homesandtheKansasCityChiefs’passing game in the Super Bowlwill be a far tougher challengethan anything the Niners havefaced this season.“His mobility is unique. His

arm strength is ridiculous. He’svery, very accurate,” defensive co-ordinator Robert Saleh said. “Butwhat I don’t think people givehim enough credit for is that heactually plays quarterback.There’sa lotofpeople, there’sa lotofquarterbacks in this league thatwill say no to number one and

thenit justbecomesstreetball.Hegetsridof theballontime.Heputsitwhere itneeds tobe.Hehitsa lotof throwsinrhythm.Andwhenheneeds to take his shot, he knowshowtobuy time in thepocket anddo it. So he’s a superstar in everywayyoucanpossibly imagineandhe’s going to be tough to dealwith.”The 49ers had to deal with Ma-

homesalready inhisbriefbutbril-liant career. Back inWeek 3 of the2018 season in Mahomes’s firstyear as starter in Kansas City, hethrew for 314 yards and three TDsand led touchdown drives on allfive possessions in the first half oftheChiefs’ 38-27win.Thatmarkedthe only time in the past 20 sea-sons that the Niners allowed fivestraight TDdrives toopenagame.They had no answer for Maho-mes’s play-making ability.In the rematch this Sunday in

the Super Bowl in Miami, SanFrancisco should be betterequipped at least to try to slowMahomes down.

It added a dynamic edge rush-ing duo in the off-season, acquir-ing Dee Ford in a trade with theChiefs anddraftingNickBosa sec-ond over all. That led to the teamallowing the fewest yards in a sea-

son since the 2009 New York Jets.“Whenyouhaveedgerushers it

speedsup theprocessof thequar-terback, and, not that he needsspeedingup, he already gets rid ofit pretty quick. But it changes the

game,” Saleh said. “It unlocks theoffensive line so it creates a littlebit more space and it gives theguys insidemorespacetooperate.So having those guys out there,having them at full speed, will donothing but help.”Bosa and Ford transformed the

entire defence as the added pres-sure helped San Francisco createmore turnovers after having a re-cord-lowseventakeaways in2018.The Niners have 57 sacks in-

cluding the playoffs, with Ford,Bosa,ArikArmsteadandDeForestBuckner all recording at least 71/2,making itdifficult foroffencesto key on one spot.“If we’re covering and that guy

takes two or three hitches mostlikely he’ll be laying on his back,”safety JimmieWard said. “But Pa-trick Mahomes is a mover in thepocket. I’m pretty sure he’ll makesome guys miss and he’ll makesome plays. We just have tomakemore plays than he does.”

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Niners’ stingy pass defence is in for a tough Super Bowl test against the ChiefsJOSH DUBOWSANTA CLARA, CALIF.

Jaquiski Tartt, left, and Richard Sherman of the San Francisco 49ers takedown Green Bay Packer Aaron Jones during the NFC championship gameon Jan. 19 in Santa Clara, Calif. TONY AVELAR/AP

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ENGLANDFA CUPFFOURTHROUND

Sunday

Manchester City 4 Fulham0Shrewsbury Town 2 Liverpool 2Tranmere Rovers 0Manchester United 6

Saturday

Brentford 0 Leicester City 1Burnley 1Norwich City 2Coventry City 0 BirminghamCity 0Millwall 0 Sheffield United 2Newcastle United 0Oxford United 0Portsmouth 4 Barnsley 2Reading 1 Cardiff City 1Southampton 1 TottenhamHotspur 1West HamUnited 0West BromwichAlbion 1Hull City 1 Chelsea 2

Friday

Northampton Town 0Derby County 0Queens Park Rangers 1 SheffieldWednesday 2

MondayAll Times Eastern

Bournemouth vs. Arsenal, 3 p.m.

OHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

GP W L OL SL GF GA PtsCENTRAL DIVISIONSudbury 46 24 21 1 0 184 173 49Mississauga 47 21 23 2 1 164 167 45Barrie 44 19 21 2 2 151 182 42Niagara 44 17 22 4 1 156 203 39North Bay 45 11 32 2 0 135 236 24EAST DIVISIONOttawa 43 36 7 0 0 209 114 72Peterborough 47 28 16 2 1 180 158 59Oshawa 45 23 16 4 2 169 168 52Hamilton 45 19 21 4 1 172 182 43Kingston 43 13 26 2 2 137 198 30

WESTERN CONFERENCEGP W L OL SL GF GA Pts

WEST DIVISIONSaginaw 47 29 14 2 2 200 168 62Windsor 43 28 10 5 0 187 154 61Flint 45 26 17 1 1 186 179 54S.S. Marie 46 21 23 2 0 185 193 44Sarnia 47 16 26 4 1 189 222 37MIDWEST DIVISIONKitchener 46 28 11 5 2 189 152 63London 45 30 13 1 1 186 143 62Owen Sound 46 22 18 3 3 173 156 50Guelph 45 22 18 1 4 156 151 49Erie 45 20 17 2 6 165 166 48Sunday

Barrie 3Oshawa 2 (OT)Hamilton 4 Peterborough 3London 4Guelph 2Mississauga 5 Kitchener 4 (OT)Ottawa 5 Saginaw2Sault Ste.Marie 6North Bay 4Windsor 3 Sarnia 2 (SO)Niagara at Kingston

Saturday

Ottawa 6Niagara 0Flint 4 Guelph 1Owen Sound 5 Erie 3Sudbury 5 Sault Ste.Marie 2Oshawa 7Kingston 4Barrie 8 Hamilton 7 (OT)

Friday

Mississauga 4 Peterborough 3Saginaw5Kingston 4Erie 5Owen Sound 3North Bay 4 Sudbury 2London 4Hamilton 1Kitchener 7 Sarnia 4Flint 7 Guelph 5

Monday-Wednesday

Nogames scheduled

OHL SCORING LEADERSG A Pts

C. Perfetti, SAG 27 54 81M. Rossi, OTT 27 52 79P. Tomasino, OSH 31 45 76C.McMichael, LDN 34 40 74A. Kaliyev, HAM 31 39 70Q. Byfield, SBY 29 41 70P. Gogolev, GUE 33 36 69B. Neumann, OSH 33 32 65S. Josling, SAR 28 35 63J. Garreffa, OTT 26 37 63N. Hoefenmayer, OTT 17 45 62C. Hillis, GUE 17 43 60C. Coskey, SAG 26 33 59M. Golod, ERIE 18 41 59R. Damiani, KIT 20 38 58A. Thomas, PBO 16 42 58Not including Sunday’s games

TELEVISIONMONDAY (EASTERN TIME)

SOCCER

FA Cup: AFC Bournemouth vs. Arsenal,SNWorld, 3 p.m.

BASKETBALL

NBA: Dallas vs. Oklahoma, SN 1, 8 p.m.NBA: Houston vs. Utah, NBA TVCanada,10 p.m.

HOCKEY

NHL: Tampa Bay vs. Dallas, SNOntario,East,West, 8 p.m.NHL: Toronto vs. Nashville, TSN 4, 8 p.m.NHL: St. Louis vs. Vancouver, SN Pacific,10 p.m.AHL: 2020 All-Star Challenge, TSN 2,10 p.m.NHL: New Jersey vs. Ottawa, TSN 5,7:30 p.m.

TENNIS

AustralianOpen:Men’s andwomen’squaterfinals, TSN 1, TSN 3, 9 p.m.

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUEEASTERN CONFERENCE WESTERN CONFERENCE

ATLANTIC DIVISIONBoston 51 29 10 5 7 169135 70Tampa Bay 48 29 15 4 0 175137 62Florida 49 28 16 2 3 183 163 61METROPOLITAN DIVISIONWashington 49 33 11 3 2 177144 71Pittsburgh 50 31 14 5 0 168136 67NY Islanders 49 29 15 3 2 143 132 63WILD CARDColumbus 51 27 16 6 2 138130 62Carolina 50 29 18 3 0 159132 61

Philadelphia 50 27 17 1 5 158150 60Toronto 49 25 17 3 4 176165 57Buffalo 49 22 20 6 1 145 152 51Montreal 50 22 21 6 1 155157 51NY Rangers 48 23 21 2 2 158159 50Ottawa 48 17 23 5 3 130163 42New Jersey 48 17 24 3 4 126173 41Detroit 51 12 35 3 1 109199 28

CENTRAL DIVISIONSt. Louis 49 30 11 5 3 158134 68Colorado 49 28 15 5 1 179 143 62Dallas 48 27 17 2 2 125120 58PACIFIC DIVISIONVancouver 49 27 18 3 1 162 149 58Edmonton 49 26 18 4 1 155153 57Calgary 50 26 19 5 0 135147 57WILD CARDArizona 51 26 20 2 3 146 138 57Vegas 52 25 20 6 1 161 159 57

Winnipeg 51 25 22 3 1 152160 54Chicago 51 24 21 2 4 155 161 54Minnesota 50 23 21 4 2 156166 52Nashville 47 22 18 4 3 156154 51San Jose 50 21 25 3 1 130 167 46Anaheim 48 19 24 4 1 122150 43Los Angeles 50 18 27 3 2 125158 41

GP W L OLSL GF GA PtsGP W L OLSL GF GA Pts

NHLALL-STARWEEKEND

Sunday

NoGames Scheduled

Saturday

AtlanticAll-Stars9MetropolitanAll-Stars5Pacific All-Stars 10 Central All-Stars 5Pacific All-Stars 5 Atlantic All-Stars 4

Friday

All Star Skills competition/Elitewomen’s3-on-3

MondayAll Times Eastern

Washington atMontreal, 7 p.m.New Jersey at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.Tampa Bay at Dallas, 8 p.m.Toronto at Nashville, 8 p.m.St. Louis at Vancouver, 10 p.m.Anaheim at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Note: the top three teamsper division and the twonext-best records in the conferencequalify for theplayoffs; awinning team is creditedwith twopoints andavictory in theWcolumn; a team losing inovertimeor shootout receivesonepoint,which is registeredin the respectiveOLor SL column.

AHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

GP W L OL SL GF GA PtsNORTH DIVISIONBelleville 45 27 14 3 1 165 136 58Rochester 43 24 13 2 4 130 114 54Utica 46 25 17 2 2 162 146 54Laval 45 22 18 3 2 130 135 49Toronto 43 21 17 3 2 141 142 47Syracuse 45 20 19 3 3 152 161 46Binghamton 43 20 19 4 0 126 141 44Cleveland 44 20 20 2 2 123 130 44ATLANTIC DIVISIONHartford 44 25 10 4 5 128 118 59Hershey 46 27 14 2 3 133 120 59Providence 46 25 16 2 3 144 123 55Springfield 46 25 19 2 0 148 132 52Charlotte 43 24 16 3 0 142 119 51W-B/Scranton 45 22 16 3 4 123 139 51Lehigh Valley 45 18 21 1 5 108 126 42Bridgeport 45 15 25 4 1 98 147 35

WESTERN CONFERENCEGP W L OL SL GF GA Pts

PACIFIC DIVISIONTucson 40 28 11 1 0 143 104 57Stockton 40 24 10 3 3 150 117 54Colorado 40 22 14 3 1 131 119 48Ontario 43 20 18 4 1 112 154 45Bakersfield 42 19 18 4 1 127 144 43San Diego 39 18 16 3 2 125 116 41San Jose 39 14 22 1 2 124 138 31CENTRAL DIVISIONMilwaukee 45 31 8 4 2 151 101 68Iowa 46 26 14 3 3 141 133 58Chicago 45 21 19 3 2 111 125 47Texas 44 21 19 2 2 127 135 46Grand Rapids 46 20 20 2 4 131 148 46Rockford 45 20 23 1 1 112 136 42San Antonio 44 15 18 6 5 124 143 41Manitoba 46 20 26 0 0 123 143 40Sunday-Thursday

ALL-STARBREAK

Saturday

Cleveland 5 Toronto 4 (OT)W-B/Scranton 4 Charlotte 2Rochester 3 Syracuse 2Milwaukee 5 Rockford 2Iowa 4Manitoba 3Hartford 4 Lehigh Valley 2SanDiego 3Grand Rapids 1Belleville 4 Utica 2Springfield 6 Bridgeport 2Hershey 3 Providence 2 (SO)Binghamton 3 Laval 2 (SO)Texas 5 Chicago 3Bakersfield 4 Tucson 1SanAntonio 4 Colorado 2Ontario 3 San Jose 1

Friday

Grand Rapids 4 SanDiego 3 (OT)Cleveland 5 Toronto 2W-B/Scranton 5 Charlotte 4Belleville 5 Utica 2Binghamton 4 Syracuse 3 (SO)Providence 4 Lehigh Valley 3Hershey 5 Springfield 2Rochester 5 Laval 2Hartford 4 Bridgeport 1Milwaukee 7 Rockford 4Iowa 1Manitoba 0Chicago 2 Texas 1Colorado 5 SanAntonio 1Bakersfield 3 Tucson 2Ontario 4 Stockton 3 (OT)

AHL SCORING LEADERSG A Pts

R. Boucher, UTI 24 26 50G.Mayhew, IA 30 17 47S. Anas, IA 14 32 46C. Terry, GR 17 24 41N. Goldobin, UTI 15 26 41J. Bailey, UTI 24 16 40J. Norris, BEL 22 18 40O. Tippett, SPR 19 21 40A. Barre-Boulet, SYR 18 22 40G. Gawdin, STK 15 25 40B. Burke, TUC 17 21 38Not including Sunday’s games

QMJHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

GP W L OL SL GF GA PtsEAST DIVISIONChicoutimi 46 33 9 4 0 186138 70Rimouski 48 27 14 3 4 186138 61Baie-Comeau 46 19 19 6 2 150164 46Québec 48 19 26 2 1 152195 41MARITIMES DIVISIONMoncton 44 32 12 0 0 185114 64Cape Breton 45 28 14 2 1 192 141 59Charlottetown49 24 20 5 0 139155 53Saint John 47 22 24 1 0 168198 45Halifax 45 18 24 2 1 126177 39A-Bathurst 46 8 31 3 4 113196 23

WESTERN CONFERENCEGP W L OL SL GF GA Pts

CENTRAL DIVISIONSherbrooke 47 36 7 3 1 205114 76Drmmndville 46 26 19 1 0 163162 53Victoriaville 48 17 22 5 4 142157 43Shawinigan 45 21 24 0 0 159173 42WEST DIVISIONB-Boisbriand 47 27 17 2 1 173165 57R-Noranda 47 23 20 2 2 144 161 50Val-d’Or 46 21 19 5 1 159171 48Gatineau 46 16 26 4 0 146177 36Sunday

Blainville-Boisbriand 5Acadie-Bathurst 3Moncton 4 Charlottetown 0Rimouski 4Québec 2Sherbrooke 6 Chicoutimi 1Val-d’Or 3 Rouyn-Noranda 2Victoriaville 7 Shawinigan 3

Saturday

Cape Breton 4Gatineau 1Moncton 8Halifax 0Blainville-Boisbriand 4 Charlottetown 1Rouyn-Noranda 3Drummondville 1Victoriaville 4 Baie-Comeau 3 (SO)

Friday

Charlottetown 2 Saint John 1Québec 7 Baie-Comeau 4Sherbrooke 10Acadie-Bathurst 1Val-d’Or 7 Drummondville 3Rimouski 4 Chicoutimi 1

Monday

Nogames scheduled

TuesdayAll Times Eastern

Moncton at Cape Breton, 6 p.m.Drummondville at Sherbrooke, 7 p.m.Saint John at Rimouski, 7:30 p.m.

QMJHL SCORING LEADERSG A Pts

A. Lafreniere, Rim 24 60 84C. Pare, Rim 33 40 73E. Sokolov, Cap 35 33 68A. Khovanov,Mon 22 41 63X. Simoneau, Dru 23 37 60Not including Sunday’s games

WHLWESTERN CONFERENCE

GP W L OL SL GF GA PtsB.C. DIVISIONKamloops 46 31 12 2 1 195 109 65Victoria 45 25 17 3 0 118 122 53Kelowna 46 23 20 1 2 124 140 49Vancouver 44 19 20 3 2 110 117 43Prince George45 13 25 3 4 95 147 33U.S. DIVISIONPortland 46 35 6 2 3 192 110 75Everett 46 31 11 3 1 156 112 66Spokane 46 25 16 4 1 170 138 55Seattle 45 18 22 3 2 129 173 41Tri-City 44 14 25 4 1 114 192 33

EASTERN CONFERENCEGP W L OL SL GF GA Pts

EAST DIVISIONWinnipeg 45 28 16 1 0 170 153 57Prince Albert 47 24 14 5 4 155 129 57Brandon 46 25 17 2 2 169 128 54Saskatoon 46 23 19 2 2 144 151 50Regina 45 14 26 3 2 132 185 33Moose Jaw 43 12 29 2 0 107 196 26CENTRAL DIVISIONEdmonton 49 32 8 6 3 180 130 73Lethbridge 47 29 11 2 5 189 130 65Medicine Hat 46 30 14 1 1 199 145 62Calgary 45 25 15 4 1 154 135 55Red Deer 45 15 25 2 3 125 187 35Swift Current 45 10 31 1 3 100 198 24Sunday

Calgary 5 RedDeer 2Regina 4 Saskatoon 3 (OT)Everett 4 Spokane 1Moose Jaw atWinnipegVancouver at Kelowna

Saturday

Edmonton 3 Saskatoon 2Medicine Hat 4 Prince Albert 3 (SO)Swift Current 6Moose Jaw3Winnipeg 5Victoria 2Lethbridge 6 Brandon 5 (OT)Calgary 5 RedDeer 2Portland 6 Seattle 5 (SO)Kelowna 3Vancouver 2 (OT)Prince George 3 Kamloops 1Spokane 7 Tri-City 2

Friday

Prince Albert 3 Edmonton 2Moose Jaw5 Swift Current 2Saskatoon 6Medicine Hat 5Lethbridge 7 Regina 2Brandon 6Victoria 3Portland 8 Tri-City 2Kamloops 3 Prince George 0Kelowna 3 Seattle 2 (OT)

Monday

Nogames scheduled

WHL SCORING LEADERSG A Pts

Z. Franklin, KAM 25 47 72A. Beckman, SPO 34 37 71J. Hamblin,MH 28 43 71O. Centazzo, KAM 33 30 63S. Jarvis, POR 26 37 63Not including Sunday’s games

NBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB W L Pct GBWESTERN CONFERENCE

Milwaukee 40 6 .870 —Toronto 32 14 .696 8Miami 31 14 .689 81/2Boston 30 15 .667 91/2Indiana 30 16 .652 10Philadelphia 30 17 .638 101/2Orlando 21 26 .447 191/2Brooklyn 19 26 .422 201/2

Chicago 18 30 .375 23Detroit 17 30 .362 231/2Washington 15 30 .333 241/2Charlotte 15 31 .326 25NewYork 13 34 .277 271/2Cleveland 12 34 .261 28Atlanta 12 35 .255 281/2

L.A. Lakers 36 10 .783 —Utah 32 13 .711 31/2L.A. Clippers 33 14 .702 31/2Denver 32 14 .696 4Dallas 28 17 .622 71/2Houston 28 17 .622 71/2OklahomaCity 28 19 .596 81/2Memphis 22 24 .478 14

SanAntonio 20 25 .444 151/2Phoenix 19 27 .413 17Portland 19 27 .413 17NewOrleans 18 29 .383 181/2Sacramento 16 29 .356 191/2Minnesota 15 31 .326 21Golden State 10 37 .213 261/2

Sunday

Denver 117, Houston 110Toronto 110, SanAntonio 106NewOrleans 123, Boston 108NewYork 110, Brooklyn 97L.A. Clippers 112, Orlando 97Memphis 114, Phoenix 109Atlanta 152,Washington 133Indiana at Portland

Saturday

Utah 112, Dallas 107Brooklyn 121, Detroit 111, OTChicago 118, Cleveland 106OklahomaCity 113,Minnesota 104Philadelphia 108, L.A. Lakers 91

Friday

Milwaukee 116, Charlotte 103

Boston 109, Orlando 98Memphis 125, Detroit 112Toronto 118, NewYork 112OklahomaCity 140, Atlanta 111Denver 113, NewOrleans 106Houston 131,Minnesota 124L.A. Clippers 122,Miami 117Sacramento 98, Chicago 81Phoenix 103, SanAntonio 99Indiana 129, Golden State 118

MondayAll Times Eastern

Cleveland at Detroit, 7 p.m.Orlando atMiami, 7:30 p.m.Dallas at OklahomaCity, 8 p.m.Sacramento atMinnesota, 8 p.m.SanAntonio at Chicago, 8 p.m.Houston at Utah, 9 p.m.

NHL SCORING LEADERSG A Pts

ConnorMcDavid, Edm 27 49 76LeonDraisaitl, Edm 27 48 75NathanMacKinnon, Col 30 42 72David Pastrnak, Bos 37 33 70Artemi Panarin, NYR 26 42 68BradMarchand, Bos 21 44 65JonathanHuberdeau, Fla 18 47 65Patrick Kane, Chi 25 38 63Jack Eichel, Buf 28 34 62John Carlson,Wash 13 47 60AustonMatthews, Tor 34 23 57Mark Scheifele,Wpg 23 31 54Nikita Kucherov, TB 22 32 54Aleksander Barkov, Fla 16 38 54Elias Pettersson, Vcr 21 30 51AlexOvechkin,Wash 34 16 50Kyle Connor,Wpg 25 25 50EvgeniMalkin, Pgh 15 35 50David Perron, StL 21 28 49Steven Stamkos, TB 18 30 48Roman Josi, Nash 14 34 48Teuvo Teravainen, Car 10 38 48Max Pacioretty, VGK 21 26 47MitchMarner, Tor 13 34 47Mark Stone, VGK 18 28 46J.T.Miller, Vcr 17 29 46Andrei Svechnikov, Car 19 26 45Patrik Laine,Wpg 17 28 45Jonathan Toews, Chi 14 30 44WilliamNylander, Tor 22 21 43Bryan Rust, Pgh 21 22 43JakeGuentzel, Pgh 20 23 43Anze Kopitar, LA 17 26 43Tomas Tatar, Mtl 17 26 43As of theNHL All-Star Break

NBL CANADAGP W L Pct GB

ATLANTIC DIVISIONMoncton 11 9 2 .818 —St. John’s 9 5 4 .556 3Island 12 5 8 .384 5Halifax 11 2 9 .181 7CENTRAL DIVISIONLondon 10 8 2 .800 —Sudbury 10 6 4 .600 2Windsor 9 5 4 .556 21/2K-Waterloo 11 2 9 .182 61/2Sunday

Moncton 99 Island 81St. John’s 109Halifax 104Sudbury 111Windsor 104

Saturday

Nogames scheduled

Friday

Moncton 115, Island 113Halifax at St. John's (ppd., post-stormconditions)

MondayAll Times Eastern

Halifax at St. John’s (recheduled fromFriday), 6 p.m.

ATP/WTAWORLD TOURAUSTRALIAN OPEN

AtMelbourne, AustraliaSundayPurse:AUD71,000,000Surface:Hardcourt outdoor

MENSINGLES—FOURTHROUNDNovak Djokovic (2), Serbia, def. DiegoSchwartzman (14), Argentina, 6-3, 6-4,6-4.Roger Federer (3), Switzerland, def.Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2.Tennys Sandgren, United States, def.Fabio Fognini (12), Italy, 7-6 (5), 7-5, 6-7(2), 6-4.Milos Raonic (32), Thornhill, Ont., def.Marin Cilic, Croatia, 6-4, 6-3, 7-5.

DOUBLES—SECONDROUNDBob Bryan andMike Bryan (13), UnitedStates, def. Juan Sebastian Cabal,Colombia, and JaumeMunar, Spain, 7-6(5), 6-4.THIRDROUNDJonnyOMara, Britain, andMarceloArevalo-Gonzalez, El Salvador, def.Michael Venus, NewZealand, and JohnPeers (7), Australia, 6-4, 7-6 (7).James Duckworth andMarc Polmans,Australia, def. Bruno Soares, Brazil, andMate Pavic (10), Croatia, 7-6 (2), 2-6, 7-6(9).Mikhail Kukushkin and AlexanderBublik, Kazakhstan, def. SamQuerreyand Steve Johnson, United States, 6-4,6-2.Luke Saville andMax Purcell, Australia,def. AndresMolteni, Argentina, andHugoNys, Monaco, 6-3, 7-5.

WWOMENSINGLES—FOURTHROUNDAshleigh Barty (1), Australia, def.Alison Riske (18), United States, 6-3, 1-6,6-4.Petra Kvitova (7), Czech Republic, def.Maria Sakkari (22), Greece, 6-7 (4), 6-3,6-2.Sofia Kenin (14), United States, def. CoriGauff, United States, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-0.Ons Jabeur, Tunisia, def. WangQiang(27), China, 7-6 (4), 6-1.DOUBLES—SECONDROUNDAliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, andViktoria Kuzmova (15), Slovakia, def.Zarina Diyas and Elena Rybakina,Kazakhstan, 6-4, 7-5.THIRDROUNDBarbora Strycova, Czech Republic, andHsieh Su-wei (1), Taiwan, def. DarijaJurak, Croatia, and Nina Stojanovic,Serbia, 6-4, 6-4.Gabriela Dabrowski, Ottawa, andJelena Ostapenko (6), Latvia, def.Hayley Carter, United States, and LuisaStefani, Brazil, 6-4, 1-6, 6-4.MIXEDDOUBLES—THIRDROUNDRohan Bopanna, India, and NadiiaKichenok, Ukraine, def. Bruno Soares,Brazil, and NicoleMelichar, UnitedStates, 6-4, 7-6 (4).

SaturdayMENSINGLES—THIRDROUNDRafael Nadal (1), Spain, def. PabloCarreno Busta (27), Spain, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4.Daniil Medvedev (4), Russia, def. AlexeiPopyrin, Australia, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2.Dominic Thiem (5), Austria, def. TaylorFritz (29), United States, 6-2, 6-4, 6-7 (5),6-4.Alexander Zverev (7), Germany, def.Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4.Gael Monfils (10), France, def. ErnestsGulbis, Latvia, 7-6 (2), 6-4, 6-3.Andrey Rublev (17), Russia, def. DavidGoffin (11), Belgium, 2-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4, 7-6 (4).StanWawrinka (15), Switzerland, def.John Isner (19), United States, 6-4, 4-1,ret.Nick Kyrgios (23), Australia, def. KarenKhachanov (16), Russia, 6-2, 7-6 (5), 6-7(6), 6-7 (7), 7-6 (8).DOUBLES—SECONDROUNDJames Duckworth andMarc Polmans,Australia, def. Nikola Mektic, Croatia,andWesley Koolhof (5), Netherlands, 7-5, 6-3.Rajeev Ram, United States, and JoeSalisbury (11), Britain, def. TennysSandgren and JacksonWithrow, UnitedStates, 6-3, 6-3.Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, and KenSkupski, Britain, def. Lukasz Kubot,Poland, andMarceloMelo (2), Brazil, 7-5, 7-6 (4).SamQuerrey and Steve Johnson,United States, def. JamieMurray andNeal Skupski (14), Britain, 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (12).Marcel Granollers, Spain, and HoracioZeballos (6), Argentina, def. PabloCuevas, Uruguay, and Guido Pella,Argentina, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5.Mikhail Kukushkin and AlexanderBublik, Kazakhstan, def. Ji Sung NamandMin-Kyu Song, South Korea, 6-7 (3),6-4, 7-5.Henri Kontinen, Finland, and Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, def. MaximoGonzalez, Argentina, and FabriceMartin(15), France, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.Simone Bolelli, Italy, and Benoit Paire,France, def. Sander Gille and JoranVliegen, Belgium, 7-6 (6), 4-6, 6-3.

WWOMENSINGLES—THIRDROUNDAnastasia Pavlyuchenkova (30), Russia,def. Karolina Pliskova (2), CzechRepublic, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (3).Simona Halep (4), Romania, def. YuliaPutintseva, Kazakhstan, 6-1, 6-4.GarbineMuguruza, Spain, def. ElinaSvitolina (5), Ukraine, 6-1, 6-2.Anett Kontaveit (28), Estonia, def.Belinda Bencic (6), Switzerland, 6-0, 6-1.Kiki Bertens (9), Netherlands, def.Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 6-2, 7-6 (3).EliseMertens (16), Belgium, def. CiCiBellis, United States, 6-1, 6-7 (5), 6-0.Angelique Kerber (17), Germany, def.Camila Giorgi, Italy, 6-2, 6-7 (4), 6-3.Iga Swiatek, Poland, def. Donna Vekic(19), Croatia, 7-5, 6-3.

LPGA TOURGAINBRIDGE AT BOCA RIO

SundayAt Boca Raton, Fla.Par: 72

FINALMadelene Sgstrm, $300,000 72-62-67-70—271Nasa Hataoka, $185,623 72-64-67-69—272Danielle Kang, $134,656 72-67-65-69—273Celine Boutier, $104,167 71-67-67-70—275Sei YoungKim, $83,843 68-69-67-73—277Moriya Jutanugarn, $63,009 72-67-67-72—278Cydney Clanton, $63,009 72-64-69-73—278Yui Kawamoto, $45,563 68-73-69-69—279Klara Spilkova, $45,563 72-68-68-71—279Jessica Korda, $45,563 66-73-69-71—279Charley Hull, $34,578 75-68-69-68—280Cristie Kerr, $34,578 72-71-69-68—280Xiyu Lin, $34,578 69-72-67-72—280Jennifer Song, $34,578 72-64-72-72—280Lexi Thompson, $27,236 73-68-69-71—281Carlota Ciganda, $27,236 69-66-75-71—281Georgia Hall, $27,236 70-71-68-72—281BrookeHenderson, $27,236 72-68-68-73—281Morgan Pressel, $21,380 75-69-72-66—282CarolineMasson, $21,380 74-70-71-67—282Jennifer Kupcho, $21,380 77-67-70-68—282Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $21,380 71-71-71-69—282Austin Ernst, $21,380 71-70-70-71—282Dana Finkelstein, $21,380 70-71-70-71—282JayeMarie Green, $21,380 73-66-70-73—282Bronte Law, $21,380 73-66-70-73—282LindseyWeaver, $17,987 69-71-72-71—283Eun-Hee Ji, $15,976 73-70-73-68—284Nelly Korda, $15,976 71-69-75-69—284Mariah Stackhouse, $15,976 74-69-71-70—284Pernilla Lindberg, $15,976 73-68-73-70—284Stacy Lewis, $15,976 71-70-72-71—284Kristen Gillman, $13,821 74-70-70-71—285BrittanyAltomare, $13,821 76-69-68-72—285Lauren Stephenson, $10,874 73-72-72-69—286LindyDuncan, $10,874 72-71-74-69—286Jing Yan, $10,874 74-71-71-70—286Marina Alex, $10,874 75-69-72-70—286

PGA TOURFARMERS INSURANCE OPEN

SundayAt SanDiegoPar: 72

FINALMarc Leishman, $1,350,000 68-72-68-65—273Jon Rahm, $817,500 68-71-65-70—274RoryMcIlroy, $442,500 67-73-67-69—276Brandt Snedeker, $442,500 69-67-72-68—276TomHoge, $307,500 71-71-67-68—277Tony Finau $253,125 70-70-68-70—278Patrick Reed, $253,125 69-69-70-70—278BubbaWatson, $253,125 67-73-69-69—278Harry Higgs, $181,875 70-68-69-72—279Charley Hoffman, $181,875 69-74-71-65—279MaxHoma, $181,875 73-68-71-67—279BeauHossler, $181,875 72-66-73-68—279Patrick Rodgers, $181,875 70-69-72-68—279TigerWoods, $181,875 69-71-69-70—279MaverickMcNealy, $136,87571-71-69-69—280Keegan Bradley, $114,375 66-72-73-70—281Cameron Champ, $114,375 71-68-68-74—281JasonDay, $114,375 73-67-72-69—281J.B. Holmes, $114,375 68-69-71-73—281SungKang, $114,375 69-71-67-74—281Zac Blair, $69,042 72-66-72-72—282Will Gordon, $69,042 75-68-69-70—282Russell Knox, $69,042 69-74-69-70—282Jason Kokrak, $69,042 69-74-69-70—282CollinMorikawa, $69,042 70-69-74-69—282MatthewWolff, $69,042 76-66-71-69—282Sebastian Cappelen, $69,042 66-71-71-74—282TylerMcCumber, $69,042 72-68-68-74—282Ryan Palmer, $69,042 72-62-71-77—282Mark Anderson, $45,938 74-66-69-74—283MatthewNeSmith, $45,938 67-70-76-70—283J.J. Spaun, $45,938 73-67-74-69—283

NFL PLAYOFFSPRO BOWL

SundayAtOrlando, Fla.

AFC 38NFC 33

SUPER BOWL LIV

Sunday, Feb. 2All Times EasternAtMiami Gardens, Fla.

Kansas City vs. San Francisco, 6:30 p.m.

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The sight of Mohamed Salah andRoberto Firmino entering as sub-stitutes late in the second halfreally summed up Liverpool’sdesperation in its FA Cup matchagainst supposedpushovers fromthe third tier on Sunday.Even the two superstar for-

wards couldn’t prevent theworld,European and likely Englishchampions slumping to theirmost embarrassing result in yearsin a quaint market town near theWelsh border.Liverpool squandered a two-

goal lead and was held to a 2-2draw by Shrewsbury in a rivetingfourth-round match betweenclubs separated by 59 places inthe English soccer pyramid.“The 2-2 is the least Shrewsbu-

ry deserved,” said Liverpoolman-ager JuergenKlopp,who fielded aweakened starting lineup featur-ing fringe players and youngsters.Klopp saidhis lineup for the re-

playwill be evenweaker, with thegameatAnfieldnextmonthcom-ing amid the first “winter break”in the history of English soccer.The first-team squad will be hav-ing that break, Klopp vowed, sohe’ll be playing the kids.If that was another blow to the

integrity of the tournament, thepitch invasion that followed oneof the greatest results in Shrews-bury’s 134-year history demon-strated it still has that power tothrill.It was an evening to remem-

ber, particularly for Jason Cum-mings, who scored a 65th-minutepenalty to reduce Shrewsbury’sdeficit and then turned Liver-pool’s defence inside out beforeslotting home the equalizer inthe 75th.No team in the Premier League

hasmanaged to score twogoals inone game against Liverpool thisseason and the Reds could haveconceded more, with Shrewsbu-ryhaving Liverpool rattled attimes.The two Manchester clubs had

no such problems against lower-league opponents in the fourthround. United won 6-0 at third-tier Tranmere, after City beat 10-man Fulham 4-0.

EASY FOR UNITEDIt was billed as potentially the fi-nal stand for Ole Gunnar Solsk-jaer, an awkward game his belea-guered Manchester United teamjust could not afford to lose.In the end, the FA Cup match

against Tranmere turned out tobe a cruise.“You can see everyone wanted

us to fail, but it doesn’t botherme,” Solskjaer said after United

swept to a biggest win in its 13months under the Norwegian.Itwas ideal timing,withUnited

and Solskjaer under massivescrutiny this week after chasten-ing, back-to-back losses in thePremier League to Liverpool thenBurnley that prompted fans tovent their anger at the club’s own-ership.Beating a team in the relega-

tion zone in League One has

hardly resolved United’s issues,but themanner of thewinofferedsome source of encouragement.

EARLY RED CARDCity leadsUnited 3-1 from the firstleg at Old Trafford and warmedup for the return game with whatproved to be a non-contestagainst Fulham after U.S. defend-er Tim Ream, the captain of the

visitors, was shown a straight redcard in the sixthminute for bring-ingdownGabriel Jesus in thepen-alty area to deny a goal-scoringopportunity.City scored from the resulting

spot kick, through Ilkay Gundo-gan, and a largely second-stringteam went on to dominate thegame at Etihad Stadium.

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LONDON, BENGALURU SaudiArabia’s sovereign wealth fundis in talks to buy English soccerclub Newcastle United for about£340-million (about $585-mil-lion), a source familiar with thesituation told Reuters, confirm-ing a report in The Wall StreetJournal on Saturday.British billionaire Mike Ashley,

who made his fortune fromsportswear retailer Sports Direct(renamed Frasers Group last

month) has owned NewcastleUnited since 2007.Saudi’s Public Investment

Fund, together with a group ledby British financier AmandaStaveley, are in discussions tobuy the Premier League club,but the talks were at a delicatestage and could fall apart, asource familiar with the situationtold Reuters.A spokesman for Newcastle

United declined to comment on

Saturday. Saudi’s Public In-vestment Fund was not immedi-ately available for comment, norwere representatives for Ashleyor Staveley.Newcastle United has been up

for sale for years. Three yearsago, Staveley’s firm PCP CapitalPartners made an offer for it fora reported £250-million, but thetalks broke down.In 2019, Newcastle United was

rumoured to be on the brink of

being bought by Abu Dhabibillionaire Sheikh Khaled binZayed Al Nehayan, but that dealdid not go ahead either.Ashley, who owns a controll-

ing stake in the club, has notalways been popular amongfans and thousands have beenstaying away from matches thisseason to protest his ownership.About a third of English soccer

clubs are under foreign own-ership. REUTERS

SAUDI WEALTH FUND IN TALKS TO BUY NEWCASTLE UNITED, REPORTS SAY

Liverpool held to FA Cup draw by third-tier teamShrewsbury scorestwo against Reds –something no club inthe Premier League hasdone so far this season

STEVE DOUGLAS

Jason Cummings of Shrewsbury scores on a penalty kick against Liverpool in an FA Cup fourth-round match on Sunday in Shrewsbury, England.Cummings later scored the equalizer to make the score 2-2. CARL RECINE/ACTION IMAGES VIA REUTERS

Nathan MacKinnon enjoyed when the NHL all-stargame featured North America against the world inthe late 1990s and early 2000s.Something similar could be coming back next

year, but with a twist.The league is in talks with players to bring what commis-

sioner Gary Bettman called a “distinct international flavour”to the 2021 all-starweekend in South Florida. Not quiteNorthAmerica against the world, but more like a miniature 3-on-3tournament with players representing the United States,Canada and other top hockey countries. It’s not a replace-ment for the Olympics, but players are largely in favour ofspicing up all-star festivities.“Oh, that would be cool,” Canada-born Dallas Stars centre

Tyler Seguin said.Think about MacKinnon, Connor McDavid and Sidney

Crosby playing for Canada against Americans Auston Mat-thews, Patrick Kane and Jack Eichel, or Sweden’s Victor Hed-man, Elias Pettersson and Filip Forsberg facing off against

Finland’s Patrik Laine, Aleksan-der Barkov and Mikko Rantanen.“I think any time you get some

country rivalries going, there’ll bea littlemore aggressiveness,” U.S.-born Carolina Hurricanes defen-ceman Jaccob Slavin said. “Itwould be cool.”TheNHL is five years into hold-

ing a 3-on-3 all-star tournamentby division. The winning teamgets to split US$1-million and thewide-open ice has proved moreentertaining than the old format.“I like the 3-on-3 themost,” Se-

guin said.Given the success of the 3-on-3, it would be silly to aban-

don it now. But after the league and players couldn’t come toan agreement on holding a World Cup of Hockey in the win-ter of 2021, an international all-star tournament would be aconsolation prize.“I don’t think anything reallymeans asmuch as theOlym-

pics, to be honest with you,” Kane said.After the InternationalOlympicCommittee didn’t give the

NHL the same insurance, travel and accommodations bene-fits in 2018 as the previous five games, the league ended itsstreak of participating. And despite significant investment inand fascination with the Chinese market, there’s no guaran-tee NHL players go to Beijing in 2022.“I can’t say that with certainty – not to give people false

hope,” Bettman said. “From our standpoint, we believe andour experience both with going to five Olympics and thennot going to Pyeongchang tells us that going is extraordinari-ly disruptive to the season.”

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The NHL is five yearsinto holding a 3-on-3all-star tournamentby division. Thewinning team getsto split US$1-millionand the wide-openice has proven moreentertaining thanthe old format.

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The Toronto Raptors and the San AntonioSpurs collaborated on a touching tributeto Kobe Bryant at the beginning of theirgame Sunday, with each team dribblingout the 24-second shot clock in remem-brance of the No. 24 worn by the retiredNBA great, who died in a helicopter crashat the age of 41.Pascal Siakam scored 35 points to lead

the Raptors past the Spurs 110-106 on aday when many players’ thoughts wereelsewhere.Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter,

Gianna, were among the nine peoplekilled when the helicopter they were rid-ing on crashed in Calabasas, Calif. Theteams found out about Bryant’s deathabout an hour before the afternoon tipoff.The Spurs had many battles with

Bryant and the Lakers, especially in thepostseason. San Antonio coach GreggPopovich has spoken openly about hislove for and respect of Bryant, and that

admiration was apparent when the teamplayed a tribute video during the Lakerslegend’s final appearance in San Antonio.“An assassin in the best

sense of that word,” Spurslegend David Robinson said.“Someone you knew was go-ing to get the job done. Youfelt like it was almost inevi-table if you’re playingagainst him. You cannot lethim get that shot. Just thework ethic and the intensity,everything you bring to agame, everything that ele-vates this game to what we[want, he had].”San Antonio held a mo-

ment of silence before thegame. Spurs assistant coach-es Becky Hammon and TimDuncan and guard LonnieWalker IV were visibly upset.Hammon and Walker wipedaway tears, and Duncan had his handsover his face.Then came the memorable in-game

tribute.The teams did not contest the opening

tipoff. Instead, Toronto point guard FredVanVleet held onto the ball for 24 sec-onds, incurring a shot-clock violation. SanAntonio point guard Dejounte Murray did

the same as the crowd gave a standingovation and chanted, “Kobe! Kobe!”Kyle Lowry scored 16 points for Toron-

to, which won its seventhstraight game.DeMar DeRozan and Der-

rick White led San Antoniowith 14 points each.Popovich was not his usu-

al animated self on the side-lines as the Raptors raced toa 29-12 lead. But when Walk-er missed a defensive assign-ment on one of Siakam’sfive three-pointers, Popov-ich pulled Walker immedi-ately from the game, had thesecond-year guard sit byhim as he scolded him, andthen immediately reinsertedhim into the lineup.The Spurs also returned

to life, outscoring the Rap-tors 34-23 in the third quar-

ter after trailing by as many as 19 points inthe first half. Dejounte Murray’s three-pointer tied the game at 73 with 4:53 re-maining in the third.Marc Gasol scored eight straight points,

helping Toronto tie the game at 97 on itsway to victory.

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Raptor Pascal Siakam, seen shooting over Patty Mills of the Spurs, scored 35 points in his team’s 110-106 win in San Antonio on Sunday.DANIEL DUNN/USA TODAY SPORTS

Raptors edge Spurs ingame dedicated to BryantPlayers found out aboutNBA great’s death one hourbefore Siakam led Torontoto its seventh straight victory

RAUL DOMINGUEZ SAN ANTONIO

The teams did notcontest the opening

tipoff. Instead,Toronto point guardFred VanVleet heldonto the ball for 24seconds, incurring ashot-clock violation.... Dejounte Murraydid the same asthe crowd gave

a standing ovationand chanted,‘Kobe! Kobe!’

Milos Raonic is into the Austra-lian Open men’s singles quarter-finals for the fifth time in the pastsix years.The 29-year-old Canadian

backed up a straight-sets upset ofNo. 6 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas onFridaywith a 6-4, 6-3, 7-5 win overCroatia’s Marin Cilic in the fourthround Sunday afternoon.“Idida lotof things reallywell. I

had the idea of how I wanted toplay and I was happy I could exe-cute and sort of live up to that,”Raonic said.As a reward, Raonic will get an

opportunity to do something hehasn’t yet been able to accom-plish in his career: beat NovakDjokovic.The defending Australian

Open champion defeated No. 14seed Diego Schwartzman of Ar-gentina 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 later SundaytosetupashowdownwithRaonicin the quarters. Djokovic has a 9-0career recordagainst thebig-serv-ing Canadian.Cilic, part of Raonic’s genera-

tion of players and also a main-stay in the top 10 for many years,has struggled over the past 12months and watched his rankingtumble out of the top 30.The 2014 U.S. Open champion

was hampered by a lower back is-sue Sunday, exacerbated by the 4hours and 10 minutes he neededto upset No. 9 seed Roberto Bau-tistaAgut of Spain in thepreviousround. But there wasn’t a lot hecoulddoasRaonicputonanotherserving clinic.The Canadian fired 35 aces,

bringing his total through fourmatches to 82. No one has brokenhisserve,andonlytwoopponentshave even had opportunities.Chile’s Cristian Garinwent 0-for-3in the second round; Cilic went 0-for-4Sunday.Cilicdidearntwosetpoints in the third set. Raonicerased the first with an ace. Heerased the secondwith another.Through four rounds, Raonic

has yet todropa set.Andonlyoneof the 12hehasplayedhas goneasfar as a tiebreak.A year ago in this Melbourne,

Raonic also made the quarter-fi-nals.With that, he returned to thetop 15 in the rankings for the firsttime in 18months. RaonicmissedtheFrenchOpen inearly June, theU.S. Open last September andthen the Davis Cup Finals in Ma-drid in November.

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Raonic beatsCilic to reachAussie Openquarter-finalsSTEPHANIE MYLES MELBOURNE

SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Marc Leish-man couldn’t miss whether itwas for birdie for par, racing fromfour shots behind with a seven-under 65 andwinning the Farm-ers Insurance Openwhen JonRahm couldn’t match his eagleputt from three years ago. Leish-man ran off five birdies on thefront nine to seize control Sun-day over a fast-faltering Rahmand RoryMcIlroy. He kept acushion with three big par savesdown the tough stretch at TorreyPines and closed with a six-footbirdie putt that was a winner.Rahmwas four over through fiveholes, the biggestmess comingat the par-three third when hewent left into the canyon andtook three shots to reach thegreen for a double bogey. Eachtime he appeared to be done, theSpaniard charged back. Hemadeeagle on the par-five 13th andbirdie on the next hole. After abogey on the 15th to fall fourshots behind, Rahm stuffed hisnext two shots for birdies. Heneeded an eagle on the par-five18th to force a playoff, and hisattempt from outside 50 feetdied off. Rahm closed with a 70.

SAGSTROM TAKES HERFIRST LPGA TITLE

BOCA RATON, FLA. MadeleneSagstromwon the GainbridgeLPGA at Boca Rio for her firstLPGA Tour title, birdieing thepar-three 17th to tie for the leadandwinning with a par whenNasa Hataokamissed a three-footer on the last. Sagstromfinished with a two-under 70 fora 17-under 271 total at rain-soft-ened Boca Rio Golf Club. The27-year-old Swede and formerLSU star openedwith a 72, shot acareer-best 62 on Friday to take aone-stroke lead and doubled heradvantage Saturday with a 67.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LEISHMAN WINSAT TORREY PINES

What were you doing when youwere 15?Sofia Kenin thought for a

moment, just a moment, be-fore answering. Kenin thinks as she talks:quickly.“Oh, my God, I was playing ITF ju-

niors,” she said. “I wasn’t out there.”“Out there” on Sunday was the Mel-

bourne Arena, packed to the rafters for afourth-round match at the AustralianOpen between Kenin and 15-year-old CocoGauff.It was an all-American duel on Austra-

lia Day and, to compare the reaction asthe two Americans were introduced, itwas clear that Gauff had the edge in sup-port and name recognition.But Kenin, a fierce and deft counter-

puncher, still has the edge as a tennisplayer. Although Gauff rallied to win thefirst set in a tiebreaker, Kenin, the No. 14seed, shrugged off that setback and sys-tematically imposed her will and patternsto win, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-0.Gauff walked off the court in tears. “I

think naturally when I lose, I’m just a bitemotional,” she said.But winning had Kenin in tears as well,

as she processed the feeling of reachingher first Grand Slam singles quarter-final.At 21, Kenin, the daughter of Russian

immigrants, is young for a tennis player inan era when Roger Federer and SerenaWilliams are still winning tournaments at38.But Gauff’s precocity skews the tennis

timeline. Her age has become not only atalking point, but also a psychologicaledge as her opponents fight the voice intheir heads reminding them that theycannot possibly lose to a 15-year-old.Naomi Osaka, 22, no longer the defend-

ing champion here, made it clear that shehad heard it as she melted into a puddleof unforced errors in her stunning third-round loss to Gauff.Kenin, who had practised with Gauff,

but never played her on tour, was wellaware of the danger.“Of course I understand the interest in

Coco,” she said after the match. “She’s 15

and she’s playing at this level, which isgreat. But I knew I needed somehow toblock everything out and just focus onmyself, on my game and what I do best.”That meant redirecting Gauff’s power

deep and into the corners. That meantchanging the pace with drop shots andcrisp slices. That meant placing her serveeffectively to limit Gauff’s ability to attackreturns.Kenin’s coach and father, Alexander

Kenin, understood the danger as well, buthe also sees potential pitfalls for Gauff asshe becomes a celebrity before she be-comes a legitimate Grand Slam conten-der.“People make such a big fuss about it

and I’m not sure it is helpingher,” he said of Gauff’s age ashe worked his way back tothe players lounge throughthe crowd exiting MelbourneArena.“I don’t think it’s going to

help her in the long run,” hesaid. “But anyway, that cre-ates some jitters among oth-er players and it’s not easy to play her. Itwas the story with Osaka, so basically So-fia was fighting more herself than the op-ponent.”In Alexander Kenin’s view, Gauff still

“has a lot of holes in her game.”There are deficiencies, which is perfect-

ly understandable at 15. Gauff’s forehandis not a pure stroke and can break down,as it did frequently in the final two sets onSunday. Because of her extreme forehandgrip, she is also vulnerable to low ballsand Kenin gave her plenty of them withher chopped groundstrokes.Gauff’s taste for risk on her second

serve has a downside: double faults. Shehad seven against Kenin and she alsoneeds to improve her backhand slice.But there is also so much to celebrate:

court coverage, serving power and a two-handed backhand that would be remarka-ble for a player of any age. There are alsothe intangibles: poise, fighting spirit andan ability to embrace the big occasion inthe game’s biggest stadiums.“The thing I’m most proud of myself is

how I handled it on the court,” Gauff said.“Even though today I lost a set 6-0, I was

still believing I could win it.”What were you doing at 15? Probably

not answering questions in a news confer-ence with this sort of perspective.Gauff is remarkable even if the perils

are clear. She and her family have saidthat she intends to be the greatest, andthat they do not want to limit her hori-zons or ability to dream big.The keys will be to avoid getting ahead

of themselves, to take delight in the proc-ess instead of fixating on distant goalsand to keep drawing lines between familylife and professional life even with Gauff’sfather, Corey, as a coach.It will not be easy, particularly as the

money rolls in, but Gauff and her teamappear to be off to a finestart, limiting her interviewsand putting the accent onthe positive.“I’m definitely going to

savour this and continue tokind of build and get betterto work for moments likethis, moments like that lastmatch,” she said, referring

to her upset of Osaka. “Even today, eventhough I lost, I still had a lot of fun.”Gauff has played in three Grand Slam

tournaments in singles, reaching thefourth round of Wimbledon, the thirdround of the U.S. Open and the fourthround in Melbourne. She will be rankedjust outside the top 50 next week, but willbe allowed to play only one more tourevent before turning 16 on March 13. Shesaid that would be at the BNP ParibasOpen in Indian Wells, Calif.But she is also permitted to play the

Fed Cup, the women’s team event, andcould be selected to play for the UnitedStates when it faces Latvia in a WorldGroup qualifying match in Everett, Wash.,near Seattle on Feb. 7 and 8.Kenin would like to be part of that

team as well, and said that making theOlympic team was high on her list ofgoals for 2020. She is fast approaching thetop 10, and if she can defeat Ons Jabeur, aflashy and unseeded shot-maker from Tu-nisia, in the quarter-finals, she will be-come the second-ranked American.

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Kenin emerges as a fierce counterpuncher against GauffCHRISTOPHER CLAREY MELBOURNE

I think naturallywhen I lose, I’m

just a bit emotional.COCO GAUFFTENNIS PLAYER

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JAMES KENNETH DEACONFebruary 7, 1955January 20, 2020

It is with profound sadnessthat we announce the passingof James Deacon on January20, 2020.Loving father to Charles andEleanor; Brother to Anne, Wendy,Andrew (Andie), and Jennifer;Uncle to J’bai (Roland), Tao(Andresa), Simon (Vera), Matthew(Katherine), Bodie, and Delia;Great Uncle to Scoller, Marshall,Beckett, Lotus, Phoenix, Quest,Eros, Jacob, Iris, India, and Ayla,cousin and friend to many.Born in Toronto to Paul andAdelle Deacon (née Smith), Jamesattended Stanstead College inthe Eastern Townships in Quebecbefore embarking on a world tourat the early age of 17, igniting hislove of travel, taking him to Europeand the Middle East. Returninghome to Canada, James movedto Vancouver, where he lived for14 years, receiving his journalismdegree from Langara College, andindulging in his love of sport andactivity, including hiking, skiing,camping, baseball, and golf.James had a long, brilliant careeras a reporter, feature writer andeditor, most notably at Maclean’smagazine where (among otherthings) he covered severalOlympic games in the 1990’sand early 2000’s. More recently,James was an admired editor atThe Globe and Mail in Torontostarting in 2006.He will also be remembered forhis TV and radio appearances,including on TV Ontario’s Studio 2with Steve Paikin and on the Fan590’s PrimeTime Sports with BobMcCown.James’ dedication to Canadianjournalism extended to his workwith the Michener Foundation,which promotes excellence inpublic service journalism. Heserved as a board member from2008 onward.James cherished his widenetwork of friends, collected fromthe many stages of life, who gavehim so much joy and laughter.More than anything, James wasdevoted to his large, lovingfamily. He was frequently hostto holiday dinners, and loved thetime spent with his many niecesand nephews. Most fortunate ofall were his children, to whom hegave so much, and who will misshim dearly.The family would like to extendtheir sincere appreciationtowards the many doctors andnurses at the Princess MargaretCancer Centre who took suchextraordinary care of James overthe last three years.A visitation will be held at MountPleasant Funeral Centre (375Mount Pleasant Road in Toronto)on Friday, January 31st between2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. with aprivate funeral on a separate date.In lieu of flowers, donationscan be made to the PrincessMargaret Cancer Foundation(thepmcf.ca) or to the MichenerAwards Foundation (cheques canbe mailed to 130 Albert StreetSuite 201, Ottawa, ON, K1P 5G4).

DEATHS

HENRIETTA KOSTMAN

On January 25, 2020,peacefully at home at the ageof 101. Beloved wife of thelate Harry. Loving mother andmother-in-law of JudithKostman and Cha r lesSternberg of New York City,Mary Kostman of Lincoln,Massachusetts, Ethel Kostmanof Halifax, and WilliamKostman of Northridge,California. Last survivingsibling of nine. Devotedgrandmother of Jacob andMiya, Lucas and Joy, Morganand Lexi, Tao and Elizabeth,and Madeleine. Grea t -grandmother of Azalea, Shel,Bodhi, and Henrietta. Aspecial thank you to Josefine,Gloria, Lily, and Marina fortheir years of love and care.Funeral will be held atBenjamin’s Park MemorialChapel, 2401 Steeles AvenueWest (3 lights west ofDufferin) for service onMonday, January 27, 2020 at1 2 : 30 p .m. Memor ia ldonations may be made toH a r r y and Hen r i e t t aEndowment Fund c/oBaycrest Foundation, (416)785-2875 or Beth TzedecCongregation, 416-781- 3511.

DEATHS

WILLIAM JAMES GORMAN“J im”

It is with great sadness the familyannounces the passing of WilliamJames “Jim” Gorman on Friday,January 24, 2020 at the age of 85.Loving husband of Phyllis for 58years. Beloved Father to Andrew(Beth), Christopher (Robyn) andJoel. Lovingly remembered byhis grandsons Bradley and Jeffreyand his brothers Tom and Peter.Predeceased by his daughterPatrice and daughter in law Beth.Jim had a long and successful40-year career with RoyalBank of Canada retiring as anExecutive Vice President in 1993.His retirement enabled him topursue his lifelong passion for cars.Jim’s passion and entrepreneurialspirit went into overdrive in his“retirement” which saw him notonly spend more time collectingand restoring cars, but togetherwith his sons expanded hisused car passion into new cardealerships that today continuehis vision and legacy. Jim alsoenjoyed time at the family cottagein Bobcaygeon, never one to relaxfor long, Jim was always eager toreturn to Milton to be around carsand starting his next project.He will be loved and rememberedalways.Visitation will take place atMcKersie-Kocher Funeral Home,114 Main St. E., Milton (905) 878-4452, on Wednesday, January29th from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m.A Mass of Christian Burial willbe held at Holy Rosary CatholicChurch 139 Martin Street, Milton at11:00 a.m. on Thursday, January30th, followed by a reception atGreystone Golf Club in Milton.In lieu of flowers, donationscan be made to the Alzheimer’sAssociation in memory of Jim.Letters of condolence, sharedstories and memorial donationsmay be left for the family online atwww.mckersie-kocher.ca

DEATHS

DENNIS LESLIE BRANNANMD

It iswith sadness thatwe announcethe passing of Dr. Dennis LeslieBrannan on January 24, 2020 atJoseph Brant Hospital. Dennisis predeceased by his parentsClaude and Lilya, and siblingsBeatrice and Michael. He will belovingly remembered by his wifeJohanne (née Graydon), childrenKelly (Ken) Laura (Paul), Cindyand Tim, grandchildren Gregory,Mitchell, Thomas, Beck, Cameronand Isla, along with his nieces,nephews and extended family.Dennis will be remembered forhis quick wit, inquisitive mind,love of family and friends andpassion for the outdoors, sailingand cottaging in Haliburton.He had many accomplishmentsthroughout his life. He was aproud Western medical schoolgrad, Chief of Staff at JosephBrant Hospital and coroner for 10years. A devoted family physicianfor 40 years, from life to death,through good times and sad, hetruly cared for the many familiesin his Burlington practice. Pleasejoin us in celebration of a life welllived at Port Nelson United Church(3132 South Dr, Burlington, ON)at 2 p.m. on Wednesday January29, 2020. A reception will followat the church hall. For those whowish, donations in memory ofDennis to Joseph Brant Hospitalwould be sincerely appreciatedby Dennis and his family.

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RORY PATRICK MANNINGJanuary 29, 1974 -January 27, 1999

As always.Mum, Shane, Clodagh.

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Suddenly, surrounded by herfamily, on Saturday, January25, 2020 at North YorkGeneral. Brenda Green,beloved wife of Bobby Greenfor fifty years. Loving motherand mother-in-law to BramGreen and Juliana Scaligineand Daniel Green andAmanda Kushnir. Dear sisterand sister-in-law to Vicki andBruce Lubel l . Adoringgrandmother to Ben, Jon,Spencer and Tom. Cherishedaunt to Lauren and RichBloomberg, Carla and MichaelLieberman and Robyn andStephen Libin. At Benjamin’sPark Memorial Chapel, 2401Steeles Avenue West (threelights west of Dufferin) forservice on Monday, January27, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.Interment Pride Of IsraelSynagogue Section at Mt.S i n a i M emo r i a l P a r kCemetery. Shiva at 3600Yonge Street, Memorialdonations may be made toBrenda Green Memorial Fundc / o t h e B e n j am i n ’ sFoundation, 416-780-0324 orwww.benjamins.ca

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On Saturday, January 25,2020 peacefully at home.Vivian Campbell age 100.Beloved wife of the late DavidCampbell. Loving mother andmother-in-law of Henry,(fiancee to Barbara Hersh) andthe late Vicki z’l, Barry andDebra, Jeffrey and Lesley.Dear sister of Judy Silver andthe late George Rothbart.Devoted grandmother ofJonathan, Leanne and Ken,Elliot and Lavanya. Jordan,Richard, Corey, Matthew andLauren, and Jeremy andM a r i s a a n d g r e a t -grandmother to Neela,Sahana, and Theo.The family are forever gratefulto Mila, Maggie and Rovelynwho have been caring for ourparents with love anddevotion.Thanks a lso to JanetRobertson and Dr.BernieGosevitz. A Graveside servicewill be held on Monday,January 27, 2020 at 12:00p.m. in the Beth SholomSynagogue section of MountSinai Cemetery. Shiva at 155Cumberland Street, suite 1102,Toronto. P lease checkwww.benjamins.ca for shivatimes. Memorial donationsmay be made toBaycrestFoundation, 416-785-2875 orArt Gallery of Ontario,416-979-6648.

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Mikaela Shiffrin won a women’sWorld Cup super-G on Sunday forher second triumph in a speedevent in three days.The three-time overall cham-

pion from the United States usedher outstanding giant slalomskills to navigate the many sharpturns on the Marc Girardellicourse, and beat another techni-cal specialist, Italy’s Marta Bassi-no, by 0.29 seconds.Shiffrin was about three 10ths

ahead of Bassino’s time from thefirst split and the margin hardlychanged throughout her run.It was Shiffrin’s first win in the

discipline since clinching the su-per-G world title in February andshe went top of the season stand-ings.Sunday’s result came two days

after the American won a down-hill on the same hill. It markedthe first time in Shiffrin’s careerthat she won two speed events inthe same weekend.Former overall champion Lara

Gut-Behrami of Switzerland was0.70 behind in third for her firstpodium result of the season.Marie-Michèle Gagnon of Lac-

Etchemin, Que., was 25th.One of Shiffrin’smain rivals for

the overall title, Federica Brig-none, was leading by 0.08 at thefinal split time, but the Italian losther balance as she hooked a gateand slid off the course.Viktoria Rebensburg, who led

the discipline standings going in-to the race, finished outside thetop 10, while the winner of theprevious super-G, Sofia Goggia,skipped the race to rest herbruised right ankle after the Ital-ian’s crash in Friday’s downhill.

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Shiffrinearns anotherWorld Cup winin super-GBANSKO, BULGAR IA

ASPEN, COLO. Canadian MarkMcMorris earned his 18th indi-vidual Winter X Games medalto equal American ShaunWhite’s mark in Aspen, Colo.McMorris took home silver

during the men’s snowboardbig air event to match White’srecord for the highest numberof winter medals won by anathlete at the X Games. Hiscompatriot Max Parrot closedout that competition for Cana-da by taking home the gold.McMorris managed to

achieve the feat after finishingseventh in men’s snowboardslopestyle earlier in the day –which was won by DarcySharpe of Calgary.Over the past nine years,

McMorris has earned eight gold(five in slopestyle, three in bigair), seven silver (four in bigair, three in slopestyle) andthree bronze medals (two inslopestyle, one in big air) atthe X Games.The two-time Olympic slop-

estyle bronze medalist isamong 31 Canadians competingin Aspen for the X Games.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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MINNEAPOLIS Former Twins firstbaseman Justin Morneau hasbeen elected to the club’s Hall ofFame.Morneau will be inducted

during a ceremony at TargetField before the May 23 gameagainst the Chicago White Sox.Morneau, from New West-

minster, B.C., played 14 seasonsin the major leagues, including11 with the Twins from 2003 to2013. He finished his Twinscareer hitting .278 with 289doubles, 16 triples and 221 homeruns. He also had 860 RBI, 669runs scored and 501 walks in1,278 games.Morneau was the 2006 Amer-

ican League Most ValuablePlayer. As a member of theTwins, he was named to four-straight American League all-star teams (2007-10) and earnedtwo Louisville Slugger SilverSlugger Awards, in 2006 and2008.He’s still with the Twins as a

special assistant to baseballoperations, and this season willmark his third as an analyst forselect Twins television broad-casts on FOX Sports North.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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When Reva Gerstein was a teen-ager, she practised long hoursto become a concert pianist,limber fingers flying over the

keys. But when she started listening tobroadcasts on a short-wave radio built byone of her brothers – broadcasts that in-cluded hate-filled speeches by Germanfuhrer Adolf Hitler, which she understoodbecause she spoke the language – she de-cided she’d be better off doing somethingthat helped people.“One of my grandmother’s major life

messages was that our society would not bejudged or remembered for the size of itswaterfronts or the height of its buildings,”her grandson Frank Gerstein said. “Instead,she said it would be remembered for howwe treat the most vulnerable, disadvan-taged people in it.”To that end, Dr. Gerstein, who earned a

doctorate in psychology at a time when awoman’s place was thought to be in thehome, spent much of her life smashingthrough glass ceilings as she worked withchildren, with the marginalized and poor,with the homeless, with addicts and withpeople who suffered from serious mental-health issues, such as schizophrenia.Her life was a series of firsts: the first

child psychologist in Ontario’s publicschool system, the first female member ofthe province’s Committee on University Af-fairs, the first woman to sit at the table as adirector of companies such as MaritimeLife Insurance, McGraw-Hill Ryerson Pub-lishing and International Nickel Ltd., or IN-CO, and, from 1992 to 1996, the first femalechancellor of the University of Western On-tario (now known as Western University).Known as Mimi to her family and

friends, she was beautiful and wore fineclothes, and at times other activists weren’tquite sure what to make of this womanwho professed to be fighting for them. PatCapponi, the Parkdale-based psychiatricsurvivor who has agitated for years for pa-tients to be treated with compassion, re-spect and dignity, recalled meeting Dr. Ger-stein for the first time in 1983, after the lat-ter had been appointed chair of then-may-or Art Eggleton’s task force on dischargedpsychiatric patients in the city.“Basically, I freaked,” Ms. Capponi said.

“I thought, ‘How is this person ever goingto understand?’ And yet, she was so gra-cious and helped us gain credibility overthe years – credibility for people on thestreet, for patients shoved into roominghouses and forgotten about. She was ableto see beneath the anger and the povertyand she renewed my faith in human na-ture.”Dr. Gerstein, who despite her numerous

accomplishments was always adamant thatshe was not a “women’s libber” or activistbut rather just who she was, died in Toron-to on Jan. 6 from the inevitable complica-tions of old age. She was 102 years old.Paul Quinn, who first met her in 1989,

dian Mental Health Association and a jobas the association’s national director ofprogram planning.Through this, she created “Mental

Health Week” in Canada and began a week-ly hour-long program on CBC radio that fo-cused on mental health.In the 1950s, Dr. Gerstein served as presi-

dent of the National Council of JewishWomen and was the founding president ofthe Canadian Council of Children andYouth. In 1960, she was made a member ofthe Hall-Dennis Committee that, under theleadership of retired Supreme Court justiceEmmett Hall, was to revamp Ontario’s edu-cation system, with a list of new goals andobjectives.From 1959 through 1962, she taught as a

fellow at the newly formed York Universityand became a driving force behind the cre-ation of Atkinson College, where studentswho worked during the day could attendclasses at night, thus opening up opportu-nities for those who otherwise might nothave been able to pursue a higher educa-tion.As head of a committee setting out new

policies for the baby-boomer generationand postsecondary education, in 1961, Dr.Gerstein presented its findings at the Onta-rio Progressive Conservative LeadershipConvention that anointed John Robarts ashead of the party and provincial premier.The next year, Mr. Robarts appointed her toserve on the Committee on University Af-fairs (CUA), where she worked closely withBill Davis, then the minister of education.In 1973, Mr. Davis, by then the Ontario

premier, made her the committee’s chair.At the same time, Dr. Gerstein spear-

headed the creation of the Hincks Treat-ment Centre for Adolescents, named forher friend and mentor, which operates tothis day under the aegis of Toronto’s Hospi-tal for Sick Children.She was also heavily involved in an ini-

tiative that brought together street workersand agencies with traditional institutionssuch as hospitals and the police in order tobrainstorm ways to deal with growing druguse among young people.“My grandma covered the gamut,” Frank

Gerstein said. “She never stopped.”In 1970, Dr. Gerstein and her husband

divorced. Nine years later, she married Da-vid Raitblat, who was in the scrap metalbusiness.Along the way, Dr. Gerstein collected a

number of honours, including promotionin 1997 to the rank of companion of theOrder of Canada, the country’s highest ci-vilian honour. In 1988, she was awarded theOrder of Ontario and she received honor-ary degrees from Western, Lakehead Uni-versity, the University of Guelph, Queen’sUniversity, York University and her almamater, the University of Toronto.Dr. Gerstein leaves her sons, Irving and

Ira Gerstein, her daughters-in-law, GailSmith and Lisa Zwig, six grandchildren andseven great-grandchildren.

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the year she established the Gerstein Cen-tre, a 24-hour community-based mental-health crisis service, said she would cometo speak to the staff, always exhorting themto be sure to listen to what the people incrisis were telling them.“She stressed that we don’t decide for

them what they want. They do,” said Mr.Quinn, the centre’s former executive direc-tor. “She also insisted that a third of theboard members be psychiatric survivors sothat the decisions it made were always in-formed by someone who could talk abouthow the issue affected them personally. Inshort, she was wonderful.”Reva Appleby was born in Toronto on

March 27, 1917, the oldest of David and Dia-na Appleby’s three children. Her father wasin the import business but also dabbled inreal estate and factory ownership, whileher mother was a homemaker. Growing upin working-class Parkdale, there wasn’t alot of money but the children never knewit, not in a home filled with books, music,lively Friday night Shabbat dinners and thefather’s tales of business trips to Europe,which always seemed to be filled with ad-ventures and life lessons. And the parentsencouraged all their offspring to followtheir passions, no matter where it led them– and no matter that their eldest was a girl,who might have been expected to marry,have children and settle for a quiet life inthe shadow of her husband.That was not to be. Indeed, in a 1980

profile of Dr. Gerstein in the Canadian Jew-ish News, she attributed her success to herfather, who had died the year before. “Hetreated me as an equal,” she said. “I’ve nev-er known the feeling of being uncomfort-able as a woman.”When she told her parents that piano

was no longer her passion – that she want-ed to do something more concrete to helppeople – they didn’t hesitate, not even awhit. They had faith that their daughterwould excel in any endeavour, as long asshe wanted to do it.Besides, she never learned how to cook.After graduating from Parkdale Colle-

giate, she got a bachelor of arts degree withhonours from the University of Toronto in1938 and amaster of arts the following year,at the outset of the Second World War. Shecompleted her PhD in 1945, just as the menwere returning home from the front; de-spite her brilliance and the fact that shetwice won the David Dunlap Award for ex-cellence and proficiency, Dr. Gerstein, whohad married Bertrand Gerstein in 1939, waspassed over for a job. After all, she was awoman and she already had the first of hertwo sons, Irving (who would grow up tobecome a successful entrepreneur, Conser-vative Party fundraiser and Canadian sen-ator).She never looked back.As Irving Gerstein outlined in his eulogy,

in 1946, Dr. Gerstein was hired by the EastYork-Leaside Board of Health, becomingthe first psychologist in the Ontario schoolsystem. In turn, that led to her meeting Dr.Clarence Hincks, the founder of the Cana-

PSYCHOLOGIST DEVOTEDHERSELF TO HELPINGTHE VULNERABLE

She worked to improve education and mental-health services in Ontario, serving asthe first child psychologist in the province’s public schools, and in other key roles

Dr. Reva Gerstein takes her turn at the podium during the 1961 Ontario Progressive Conservative Party conventionin Toronto. The next year, newly anointed head of the party and provincial premier John Robarts appointed her to serve

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Former Northern Ireland dep-uty first minister SeamusMallon, one of the architects

of the 1998 Good Friday peaceagreement, died on Friday at theage of 83, drawing tributes fromacross a political divide hehelpedto bridge.Mr. Mallon was a major politi-

cal figure inNorthern Irelanddur-ing the three decades of violencebetween Catholic nationalistsseeking union with Ireland andProtestant unionists wantingNorthern Ireland to remain partof the United Kingdom.He went on to jointly head up

the devolved power-sharing ad-ministration that followed thepeace deal and was rememberedas a peacemaker who recognized,in his words, that Northern Ire-land’s divided communitiescould “live together in generosityand compassion or we can con-tinue todie in bitter disharmony.”“History will remember Sea-

mus as a committed peace build-er and a tireless champion of aninclusive Ireland. He always op-posed sectarianism and discrimi-nation in any form,” Irish PrimeMinister Leo Varadkar said in astatement.“When others in his communi-

ty advocated violence, Seamushad an unswerving commitmentto constitutional nationalism. Hewas a peacemaker who put us onthe path to reconciliation.”Mr. Mallon died at his home in

the Northern Irish county of Ar-magh, a spokesman for his SocialDemocratic and Labour Party(SDLP) said.A marcher in the 1960s civil-

rights movement that precededNorthern Ireland’s violent “Trou-bles,” during which 3,600 peoplewere killed, Mr. Mallon said hisactivism was influenced by theinjustices he perceived Catholicchildren suffered during his timeas a headmaster.He grew up in a mainly union-

ist area in the British region andbroke the mould when – at theheight of the Troubles – he at-tended funerals of killed policeofficers from the then British-runforce when many Irish national-ists dared not.“In the darkest days of conflict,

when hope was in short supply,Seamus represented the fiercethirst for justice that ran throughthe SDLP and through communi-ties thathad lost somuch topolit-ical violence,” SDLP Leader Co-lum Eastwood said in a state-ment.“Ireland has lost one of its

most fierce champions for justice,equality and peace.”Mr. Mallon famously described

the 1998 accord as “Sunningdalefor slow learners,” in reference tothe short-lived SunningdaleAgreement brokered 25 years ear-lier that sought to set up a power-sharing government.In a 2018 interview with the

Press Association, he recalledsleeping on a table during the“frenetic” final days that led tothe peace deal still reveredaround the world.Mr. Mallon served under John

Hume as deputy leader of theSDLP for more than two decadeswhen it was the largest Irish na-tionalist party in the province,and also alongside Northern Ire-land first minister David Trimbleof the rival Ulster Unionist Partyuntil 2001.Mr. Trimble, who was awarded

the Nobel Peace Prize with Mr.Hume for their efforts in endingthe conflict, said he had visitedthe dying Mr. Mallon in recentdays andwhile they didn’t alwaysagree during their political life, “itworked,” he told the BBC.Politicians past and present

lined up to pay tribute to a manremembered as much for hisbluntness as his integrity.Former Irish foreign minister

Micheal Martin, favourite to be-come next Irish prime ministerafter a Feb. 8 election, describedMr. Mallon as his “friend andlong-time political hero.”British Prime Minister Boris

Johnson said the former deputyfirst minister made an extraor-dinary contribution to democra-cy and peace in Northern Ireland.

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L ike many in his generation who fought inthe Second World War, Keith Crummerdidn’t share much with his family after hereturned to Canada in May, 1945, having

seen action as an infantry officer in France, Belgi-um and the Netherlands.“My father never talked about it. Never, never,

ever, ever talked about it,” his eldest daughter,Diane Teetzel, recalled – although she once sawhim in the basement watching the movie adaptionof The Longest Day, the bestseller about the Nor-mandy landing. “Tears were rolling down his face. Ijust shut the door and let him be.”Then, a trip 45 years ago to France brought Mr.

Crummer back to Criquebeuf-sur-Seine, a Normanvillage his regiment liberated in 1944. The Cana-dian soldiers had arrived just after the Germansnearly executed 63 local hostages.When Mr. Crummer visited in 1974, he showed

up unannounced. However, “word got around thatmy father was there and the mayor at the timecame to him … and they had a big celebration,”Ms. Teetzel said.Criquebeuf’s mayor later sent a letter, thanking

Mr. Crummer. “You and your brave soldiers haveleft an enduring memory and friendship in all ourhearts,” it said.Ms. Teetzel said her father was “flabbergasted,

absolutely flabbergasted” by the villagers’ kind-ness.Although Mr. Crummer has since died, his name

still resonates in Criquebeuf decades later, and adeep friendship now bonds the locals and hisfamily.Tucked against a tributary of the Seine River,

Criquebeuf is a small community off the beatenpath in Normandy. Visitors who make the 90-min-ute drive from Paris enter through a street still

lined by old stone houses, Rue des Canadiens.Then, past the town square, named HostagesPlace, sits a bridge that in August was renamedafter Mr. Crummer.Two weeks ago, friends from Criquebeuf visited

Ms. Teetzel in Chatham, Ont. Her family greetedthem at the train station with a French flag. It wasa gesture mirroring the hospitality she receivedwhen she went to Criquebeuf this summer andwitnessed the renaming of the bridge to honourher father’s memory.“We’ve become a big family. … It’s a beautiful

friendship,” said Marie-Josée Heitz, one of thethree Criquebeuf residents visiting Ms. Teetzel.Mr. Crummer was a 28-year-old employee at

Chatham’s Union Gas Ltd. when he enlisted as aprivate at the start of the war in 1939. He was com-missioned as an officer and, by 1944, was a majorwith D company of the Lincoln and Welland re-giment. They landed in France at the end of July, asCanadian and British soldiers still laboured tobreak out of the bridgeheads they established onD-Day, June 6. The regiment struggled in its firstoffensive operations. But within weeks, the bulk ofthe German military in Normandy had been sur-rounded and defeated in the battle of the FalaisePocket and the Allies rushed toward the Seine andParis.“Am in a little French house close to the road

where our army is tearing by at a great pace,” Mr.Crummer wrote in one letter to his wife, Frances.“We have been going night and day as you willhave heard by now. The enemy is on the run burn-ing his bridges behind him. We are not missing hisconvoys, passed through one the other nightwhich stretched for at least 15 miles, every vehiclewas destroyed, words cannot express the destruc-tion.”

On Aug. 24, the Lincoln and Welland movedwithin 30 kilometres of the Seine, though muddygrounds and blown-up bridges slowed their ad-vance. In Criquebeuf, meanwhile, the villagerswere in danger.Germans retreating by the village believed a lo-

cal resident had wounded one of their soldiers.They rounded up 63 men into a church and pre-pared to execute them. It was no idle threat. Inthree occasions that summer, the Germans mas-sacred hundreds of civilians in retaliation againstthe French Resistance. They hanged 99 men in thetown of Tulle and deported another 149 to concen-tration camps. The following day, they killed 642 atOradour-sur-Glane, then destroyed the village. Theday after the Criquebeuf round-up, the Germansslaughtered 124 residents of the township of Maillé.In Criquebeuf, Simonne Roman, who was then

13, remembered that the villagers came to ask hermother, Anne Fleck, to intercede. Ms. Fleck workedas a custodian for a wealthy Paris family that kept asummer mansion in the village. She spoke Germanbecause she was from Lorraine, a border areaclaimed by Germany. Ms. Roman said her motherarrived as the Germans were setting up machineguns and grenades to execute the hostages. For 45minutes, Ms. Fleck pleaded with the officer incharge. She told him the villagers had never cre-ated problems before. “Maybe you have children,”she said, reminding the officer that both he andthe villagers had children waiting at home.Eventually, the officer told his men to leave the

hostages and move on because the Allies were ap-proaching. Ms. Roman remembered her motherreturning to the mansion. “She was so relieved butvery stressed, the poor dear.”Two days later, according to the regimental di-

ary, the first elements of the Lincoln and Wellandentered the village. The Germans were still shellingthe area. The Canadians fired back with their ownartillery.Taking an abandoned boat, soldiers under Mr.

Crummer’s command used shovels as paddles toreach the other bank of the Seine. “My companywas the first Canadian troops to cross the Seineand stayed over all night,” the major later wrotehome. They held on to their bridgehead on the farbank without reinforcement for 12 hours, despiteshellfire and some street fighting when a convoy ofenemy vehicles passed by around midnight, Cana-dian military records say.In the following weeks and months, the Lincoln

and Welland faced more bitter fighting, in the ca-nals of Flanders and the ice and mud of the Dutchisland of Kapelsche Veer, in the winter of 1945. Mr.Crummer was wounded, then returned to Chath-am to be a manager at Union Gas.His wife had French relatives and friends. In

1974, they visited Georgette Testard, a Parisian cou-sin who had a holiday home in Elbeuf, eight kilo-metres from Criquebeuf. So Mr. Crummer decidedto drop by the village.Mr. Crummer died in 1990. In the summer of

2014, Ms. Teetzel saw there were many events inFrance marking the 70th anniversary of the Nor-mandy campaign. She looked at the letter fromCriquebeuf and wondered if the village had orga-nized anything.She found the town hall’s phone number and

tried to get through in her best French. They con-

After 75 years,a French villageliberated byCanadians still feelstrue patriot loveA Canadian soldier’s return to France decades after the warforged a fresh bond between his family and the community hehelped free from Nazi occupation – a bond still honoured today

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L ike many in his generation who fought inthe Second World War, Keith Crummerdidn’t share much with his family after hereturned to Canada in May, 1945, having

seen action as an infantry officer in France, Belgi-um and the Netherlands.“My father never talked about it. Never, never,

ever, ever talked about it,” his eldest daughter,Diane Teetzel, recalled – although she once sawhim in the basement watching the movie adaptionof The Longest Day, the bestseller about the Nor-mandy landing. “Tears were rolling down his face. Ijust shut the door and let him be.”Then, a trip 45 years ago to France brought Mr.

Crummer back to Criquebeuf-sur-Seine, a Normanvillage his regiment liberated in 1944. The Cana-dian soldiers had arrived just after the Germansnearly executed 63 local hostages.When Mr. Crummer visited in 1974, he showed

up unannounced. However, “word got around thatmy father was there and the mayor at the timecame to him … and they had a big celebration,”Ms. Teetzel said.Criquebeuf’s mayor later sent a letter, thanking

Mr. Crummer. “You and your brave soldiers haveaaleft an enduring memory and friendship in all ourhearts,” it said.Ms. Teetzel said her father was “flabbergasted,

absolutely flabbergasted” by the villagers’ kind-ness.Although Mr. Crummer has since died, his name

still resonates in Criquebeuf decades later, and adeep friendship now bonds the locals and hisfamily.Tucked against a tributary of the Seine River,

Criquebeuf is a small community off the beatenpath in Normandy. Visitors who make the 90-min-ute drive from Paris enter through a street still

lined by old stone houses, Rue des Canadiens.Then, past the town square, named HostagesPlace, sits a bridge that in August was renamedafter Mr. Crummer.Two weeks ago, friends from Criquebeuf visited

Ms. Teetzel in Chatham, Ont. Her family greetedthem at the train station with a French flag. It wasa gesture mirroring the hospitality she receivedwhen she went to Criquebeuf this summer andwitnessed the renaming of the bridge to honourher father’s memory.“We’ve become a big family. … It’s a beautiful

friendship,” said Marie-Josée Heitz, one of thethree Criquebeuf residents visiting Ms. Teetzel.Mr. Crummer was a 28-year-old employee at

Chatham’s Union Gas Ltd. when he enlisted as aprivate at the start of the war in 1939. He was com-missioned as an officer and, by 1944, was a majorwith D company of the Lincoln and Welland re-giment. They landed in France at the end of July, asCanadian and British soldiers still laboured tobreak out of the bridgeheads they established onD-Day, June 6. The regiment struggled in its firstoffensive operations. But within weeks, the bulk ofthe German military in Normandy had been sur-rounded and defeated in the battle of the FalaisePocket and the Allies rushed toward the Seine andParis.“Am in a little French house close to the road

where our army is tearing by at a great pace,” Mr.Crummer wrote in one letter to his wife, Frances.“We haveaa been going night and day as you willhaveaa heard by now. The enemy is on the run burn-ing his bridges behind him. We are not missing hisconvonn ys, passed through one the other nightwhich stretched for at least 15 miles, every vehiclewas destroyed, words cannot express the destruc-tion.”

On Aug. 24, the Lincoln and Welland movedwithin 30 kilometres of the Seine, though muddygrounds and blown-up bridges slowed their ad-vance. In Criquebeuf, meanwhile, the villagerswere in danger.Germans retreating by the village believed a lo-

cal resident had wounded one of their soldiers.They rounded up 63 men into a church and pre-pared to execute them. It was no idle threat. Inthree occasions that summer, the Germans mas-sacred hundreds of civilians in retaliation againstthe French Resistance. They hanged 99 men in thetown of Tulle and deported another 149 to concen-tration camps. The following day, they killed 642 atOradour-sur-Glane, then destroyed the village. Theday after the Criquebeuf round-up, the Germansslaughtered 124 residents of the township of Maillé.In Criquebeuf, Simonne Roman, who was then

13, remembered that the villagers came to ask hermother, Anne Fleck, to intercede. Ms. Fleck workedas a custodian for a wealthy Paris family that kept asummer mansion in the village. She spoke Germanbecause she was from Lorraine, a border areaclaimed by Germany. Ms. Roman said her motherarrived as the Germans were setting up machineguns and grenades to execute the hostages. For 45minutes, Ms. Fleck pleaded with the officer incharge. She told him the villagers had never cre-ated problems before. “Maybe you have children,”she said, reminding the officer that both he andthe villagers had children waiting at home.Eventually, the officer told his men to leave the

hostages and move on because the Allies were ap-proaching. Ms. Roman remembered her motherreturning to the mansion. “She was so relieved butvery stressed, the poor dear.”Two days later, according to the regimental di-

ary, the first elements of the Lincoln and Wellandentered the village. The Germans were still shellingthe area. The Canadians fired back with their ownartillery.Taking an abandoned boat, soldiers under Mr.

Crummer’s command used shovels as paddles toreach the other bank of the Seine. “My companywas the first Canadian troops to cross the Seineand stayed over all night,” the major later wrotehome. They held on to their bridgehead on the farbank without reinforcement for 12 hours, despiteshellfire and some street fighting when a convoy ofenemy vehicles passed by around midnight, Cana-dian military records say.In the following weeks and months, the Lincoln

and Welland faced more bitter fighting, in the ca-nals of Flanders and the ice and mud of the Dutchisland of Kapelsche Veer, in the winter of 1945. Mr.Crummer was wounded, then returned to Chath-am to be a manager at Union Gas.His wife had French relatives and friends. In

1974, they visited Georgette Testard, a Parisian cou-sin who had a holiday home in Elbeuf, eight kilo-metres from Criquebeuf. So Mr. Crummer decidedto drop by the village.Mr. Crummer died in 1990. In the summer of

2014, Ms. Teetzel saw there were many events inFrance marking the 70th anniversary of the Nor-mandy campaign. She looked at the letter fromCriquebeuf and wondered if the village had orga-nized anything.She found the town hall’s phone number and

tried to get through in her best French. They con-

Afterff 75 years,a French villageliberated byCanadians still feelstrue patriot loveA Canadian soldier’s return to France decades after the warforged a fresh bond between his family and the community hehelped free from Nazi occupation – a bond still honoured today

W/I22EN BY 2U 2HANH HA

Bnlowa MajorKnith Crummnrbat rightb issnnn euringa militarynxnrcisn inCanaea bnfornhn was snntovnrsnas.

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