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ASSET OVERHAUL Ontario’s power move to raise money To pay down debt and build a fund for transit, province says it will privatize majority of Hydro One and revamp how beer is sold, taxed
...... ADRIAN MORROW TORONTO cent of Hydro One, which the scrutiny of a “beer ombudsman.” Ontario’s decision to ride head- ture plan...... government estimates could fetch “Yesterday’s public assets are long into public-asset reform is in But the move is also a response Ontario has unveiled sweeping $9-billion – $4-billion toward a structured in a way that traps val- part a reflection of its circum- to a common problem in modern plans to privatize a major hydro transit-building fund and $5-bill- ue today and strips us of the abili- stances. The province faces a governance: how to pay for any- utility and overhaul its monopo- ion to pay down debt. ty to invest and build the assets $10.9-billion deficit and one of thing new amid a shaky economy, listic beer retail system as the The plan also includes allowing that we know we need for tomor- the largest subsovereign debts in aging infrastructure and few province searches for funds to 450 grocery stores to sell beer, a row,” Ms. Wynne said at a news the world. Ms. Wynne has com- available sources of new money. build transit lines and other infra- beer tax to raise $100-million conference unveiling the changes mitted to the twin objectives of Ontario, Page 7 structure. annually and new rules obliging the with her asset adviser, former putting the province’s fiscal ...... The heart of Premier Kathleen privately owned Beer Store to sell banker Ed Clark. “We are going to house in order while also under- Ontario to rein in Hydro One IPO fees Wynne’s plan is the sale of 60 per more craft brews and submit to the shake things up.” taking a $130-billion infrastruc- 7 Report on Business
ALBERTA GHOMESHI SCANDAL Polls bleak CBC ousts two for PCs, The barriers to gender transition executives as but voter anger – and the consequences scathing report may not last details abuse to election in workplace
...... ALLAN MAKI CALGARY SIMON HOUPT JUSTIN GIOVANNETTI EDMONTON ...... The Canadian Broadcasting Cor- They are numbers to be cele- poration announced it had sev- brated or ignored, dichotomized ered ties with two executives or adjusted. And right now, those implicated in the Jian Ghomeshi numbers are not working for Jim scandal, as it released a damn- Prentice or his Progressive Con- ing third-party report into work- servative party. place harassment and abuse by With 18 days to go until Alber- the former star radio host. tans vote, the polls are painting a The public broadcaster told bleak landscape for a party that staff Thursday that Chris Boyce, has been in power for more than the executive director of radio 40 years. A poll released on and audio, and Todd Spencer, Wednesday sampled 3,121 people the executive director of human and found the Wildrose Party resources and industrial rela- and the NDP arm-locked in the tions, who had been on leaves lead, each with 24 per cent of the of absence since early January, voters, while the PCs came in were “no longer with the cor- third at 18 per cent. poration.” The poll was conducted by Main- The announcement came street Technologies, a Toronto- moments before the release of a based polling and research com- report by employment law firm pany. Surveys done by ThinkHQ Rubin Thomlinson that painted and Forum Research have tabu- Mr. Ghomeshi as a co-worker lated how Albertans feel about the who “consistently breached the election and Mr. Prentice as pre- behavourial standard” of CBC by mier. Forum Research indicates Mr. yelling at, belittling and humili- Prentice’s approval rating has sunk ating others. to 22 per cent. Four months ago, it Unwilling to wait one to two years for an initial gender-reassignment assessment, “Management knew or ought was at 50 per cent. Chrystofer Maillet paid for a double mastectomy out of pocket. DAVE CHAN FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL to have known of this behav- “Angry people are answering iour and conduct and failed to polls and giving answers Across Canada, people who want to switch gender face long waits take steps required of it in designed to put the PCs on no- accordance with its own policies tice,” Calgary-based pollster Janet for approval, few options for procedures and difficulty obtaining to ensure that the workplace Brown said by e-mail. “But when hormone treatments: ‘We’re not quite hitting the mark as a country’ was free from disrespectful and push comes to shove, will anger abusive conduct,” the report prevail or will Albertans once says. “It is our conclusion that again default to the status quo?” CBC management condoned this Interpreting polls can be tricky, ...... behaviour.” as Canadians saw in the past few KELLY GRANT (OHIP) would have covered if he had Lawyer Janice Rubin and her years when parties that were HEALTH REPORTER managed to secure CAMH’s blessing first. colleagues conducted 99 inter- thought to be leading in the late ...... Mr. Maillet is not alone. As the demand views over five months, though stages of campaigns came up t took years of suffering and soul for sex-change operations has grown, so Mr. Ghomeshi refused their short on election day. Isearching, but when Chrystofer Maillet too has the line at CAMH. The psychia- request to participate. Alberta, Page 8 decided to make the transition out of the trist who leads the small Adult Gender The report adds that “there ...... female body in which he had never felt Identity Clinic says the Ontario govern- was no one who had clear and Alberta’s reversal of fortune comfortable, he knew he was ready for ment’s decision to make one facility the consistent authority over Mr. 7 Report on Business the change. sole gatekeeper for these procedures Ghomeshi on a day-to-day basis One thing stood in his way. Mr. Maillet, “really isn’t working,” especially consid- in the workplace.” It concludes: now 35, was told he would have to wait ering that trans people who want to “There is a flaw in the manner one to two years for an initial assessment switch genders but have yet to begin the in which the Q workplace was INSIDE at the Centre for Addiction and Mental process are at an elevated risk for suicide. designed. Producers, the execu- Health’s (CAMH) Adult Gender Identity The bottleneck at CAMH is just one tive producer, and Mr. Gho- Clinic in Toronto, the lone site for sex- example of the barriers to medical care meshi were all in the same Bound by children, reassignment approvals not just for On- that Canadian trans people still face, des- bargaining unit.” but not by vows tario, but for Newfoundland and Labra- pite the fact that every jurisdiction During a teleconference, CBC/ dor and, until last year, Saskatchewan, except New Brunswick, Nunavut and the Radio-Canada president Hubert How mediation too. Unable to endure the wait, Mr. Mail- Northwest Territories now publicly funds Lacroix said “the findings of this can save a family let put nearly $7,500 on a line of credit at least some gender reassignment sur- report are troubling. They’re dis- after the end and paid for a double mastectomy, a pro- geries. appointing. They point to lapses of a marriage cedure the Ontario Health Insurance Plan Transgender, Page 12 in our system and concerns Life & Arts about our culture.” Ghomeshi, Page 8
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U.S. POLITICS Clinton aims to show Iowa the ‘real Hillary’ The state often makes or breaks presidential candidates in party nomination season, and hopefuls are expected to meet with voters
...... MARCUS GEE DES MOINES, IOWA ...... illary Clinton spent much of Hher first week on the cam- paign trail trying to prove that, despite all her years as a Wash- ington insider, she is still just folks. Instead of kicking off her sec- ond run for the presidency with a splashy campaign rally or an airport-hopping dash around the country, she climbed into a big, black GMC van and, tweet- ing “Road trip!,” headed out from her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., to the heartland state of Iowa. Along the way she stopped to have her picture tak- en with an everyday family at a gas station and grab a chicken burrito bowl at a fast-food res- taurant. As she travelled, allies lined up to inform Americans what a lovely person she is. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe told CNN that his friend is simply “a load of fun to be with.” If the two are on vacation, talking pol- icy, she might even have a cock- tail or two. “She’s got a great belly laugh.” Why it should matter that Ms. Clinton is a load of fun is a bit of a mystery. She is an accom- plished politician who has served her country as a power- ful U.S. senator and represented it abroad as secretary of state. Shouldn’t it be her character and her ideas, not whether she Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, centre, has coffee with members of the community at the Tremont Grille in Marshalltown, Iowa, on Wednesday. is likable or not, that matter? In the United States, more than most countries, the public expects politicians to reveal themselves as people. MICHAEL B. THOMAS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES History is full of successful leaders who were never just presidential waters, told NBC ing more than a ploy – a calcu- cold and calculating. I found her folks. Try to imagine Pierre Tru- that Ms. Clinton can’t assume lated attempt to appear warm and charming and I deau travelling in a van called winning is a foregone conclu- spontaneous, a phony attempt appreciated every Hillary hug Scooby or getting chummy with We like to see the candidates sion. “You have got to earn it.” to be authentic. Republicans are she gave me.” voters in a gas station parking up front so we can take the David Axelrod, a former cam- already calling it precisely that. Ms. Clinton has a fine line to lot. But modern U.S. politics put paign adviser to President “She says she is just like walk. She has to show empathy a premium on demonstrating measure of them person to Barack Obama, told The Des everyone else, but then she is for voters without appearing to qualities such as openness, person. If you aren’t genuine, Moines Register that Ms. Clin- off on her jets and that is not pander. She has to show she un- authenticity and genuineness, a that’s not going to work here. ton’s greatest challenge is to how most of us in Iowa live,” derstands ordinary people with- phenomenon that would have prove that she is genuine and said Jennifer Smith, chairwoman out pretending that she is one. bewildered past presidents such understands the concerns of the of Iowa’s Dubuque County Re- In Iowa, “we don’t expect a as that sphinx Franklin Delano Ann Selzer average American. “Humility is publicans. She was waiting out- former secretary of state, sena- Roosevelt, who kept himself to Des Moines pollster the order of the day,” he said. side Ms. Clinton’s first campaign tor and first lady to be necessa- himself. Ms. Clinton is hardly the first stop to have her say. rily as down to earth as we are,” In the United States more presidential hopeful to try to Right-wing radio and TV com- Jennifer Glover Konfrst, an assis- than in most countries, the pub- they say is the “real Hillary” – present a more human face to mentators were quick to skewer tant professor of public relations lic expects politicians to reveal not the celebrity political star the public. John Kerry and Ms. Clinton over the road trip. at Drake University in Des themselves as people. That is who hobnobs with the rich and Michael Dukakis for the Demo- This was the same Ms. Clinton, Moines, says. Instead, if Ms. especially true in Iowa, the state famous, but the delighted new crats, Bob Dole and Mitt Rom- they noted, who admitted last Clinton came to this farm state that often makes or breaks pres- grandmother with the great bel- ney for the Republicans – all year that the last time she dressed in overalls, she adds, idential candidates in the party ly laugh. Her first couple of days these candidates struggled to drove a car herself was in 1996. “we might be like, ‘Yeah, you nomination season and that in the state featured small, low- show they were not as wooden They even gave her grief about don’t get it.’ We want to see her prizes direct contact with voters. key, get-to-know-you meetings or remote or simply dull as they the burrito stop, saying she being who she really is – not Here, candidates for the highest with voters. sometimes seemed. went into the restaurant in dark putting on airs, not thinking office in the land are expected As the overwhelming favourite But for Ms. Clinton, it is espe- glasses and didn’t talk to she’s too fancy but not pretend- to be not just presidential but to win the Democratic Party cially important to prove she anyone – hardly an example of ing to be less than she is ei- personable. The more recent nomination, she is being extra can connect. Throughout her the common touch. On the Fox ther.” buzzword is relatable: someone careful not to appear too sure of quarter-century in the public News First website, Chris Stire- This, Prof. Konfrst concedes, voters can relate to. herself. Democrats might start eye, she has had to battle the walt called Ms. Clinton’s motor- “is a hard thing.” “We like to see the candidates looking around for alternatives perception that she is stiff or ized caravan the “sisterhood of However Ms. Clinton plays it, up front so we can take the if she acted as if she had the conniving or aloof. In her failed the travelling pantsuit.” she is bound to be mocked. The measure of them person to per- nomination in the bag. “It 2008 bid for the nomination, Naturally, her supporters see wealthy Mr. Romney got con- son,” said Des Moines pollster doesn’t look like a coronation if critics said that she simply her in a different light. Waiting stant ribbing for his awkward Ann Selzer. “If you aren’t you don’t act like a queen,” Ms. failed to click with voters, who in a lawn chair to wave at Ms. attempts to prove he was a reg- genuine, that’s not going to Selzer said. didn’t understand who she was Clinton as she arrived for an ular guy. He may never live work here.” New Jersey Governor Chris or why she wanted the job. event in the Des Moines suburb down telling the story about That helps explain why Clin- Christie, one of several Repub- The risk in introducing the of Norwalk on Wednesday, re- tying his dog to the car roof in ton backers have been trying so lican hopefuls who have been new, relatable Ms. Clinton is tired union official Jamie Lekers, a pet carrier when the family hard to introduce voters to what crisscrossing Iowa to test the that voters may see it as noth- 57, said: “I’ve never found her went on vacation.
IMMIGRATION Anti-foreigner protests rock South Africa
...... GEOFFREY YORK JOHANNESBURG and his close political ally, Zulu ...... king Goodwill Zwelithini, have Even as President Jacob Zuma fuelled the attacks by demanding was pleading with South Africans that foreigners should “pack to halt their “shocking and unac- their bags and leave.” He made ceptable” violence against for- no attempt to dissociate himself eign migrants, another outbreak from either man in his speech on of anti-immigrant protests erupt- Thursday. ed in two major cities on Thurs- Critics say the Zuma govern- day, provoking rubber bullets ment has tried to have it both and stun grenades from police ways: officially condemning the who struggled to disperse the anti-foreigner violence while un- angry mobs. officially lending support to Migrants from African and xenophobic sentiments. Mr. Asian countries have become Zuma, for example, recently scapegoats for the persistently announced a plan to prohibit for- high unemployment rate in eigners from owning farmland in South Africa. The waves of mob South Africa, prompting loud attacks have terrified foreigners applause from his ruling party and blighted the country’s aspira- members in parliament. tions to moral leadership in the Even his speech on Thursday – post-apartheid era. his first detailed response to the At least four people have died violence that has erupted repeat- in the latest anti-foreigner vio- edly since January – contained lence over the past two weeks, strong hints that he shares the and several African governments views of the anti-foreigner pro- are preparing emergency plans to testers. evacuate their citizens from He said his government was South Africa if the crisis worsens. “sympathetic to” some of the Many migrants are already clos- issues raised by protesters. He ing their shops and sheltering in A peace march yesterday, above, in the South African city of Durban was interrupted by anti-immigrant protesters. mentioned their complaints makeshift camps or fleeing home Critics say President Jacob Zuma has done little to quell violence against foreigners. ROGAN WARD/REUTERS about illegal immigrants, the per- to countries such as Mozambique ception that foreigners commit to escape the attacks. The pro- the South African parliament on by contributing scarce skills. He ued sporadically since then, crime, and “the increase in the tests continued on Thursday in Thursday. “We condemn the vio- also reminded them that other usually targeting African and number of shops or small busi- eastern Johannesburg and cen- lence in the strongest possible African governments had played Asian migrants who own small nesses that have been taken over tral Durban, with mobs demand- terms. We appeal for calm, an a key role in helping fight apart- shops in South Africa’s poorest by foreign nationals.” ing that foreigners leave the end to the violence and restraint. heid in the 1970s and 1980s. communities. They are often He promised to tighten con- country. Criminal elements should not be But while his words were noble, unfairly blamed for the country’s trols on immigration into South Even a peace march in Durban allowed to take advantage of the Mr. Zuma’s actions have been in- 25-per-cent unemployment rate Africa and vowed to tackle was disrupted by the anti-immi- concerns of citizens to sow may- adequate for the epidemic of vio- and the lack of jobs for young “crime activities” at the borders. grant protesters. hem and destruction.” lence that has haunted South people. Instead of deploying South Afri- “No amount of frustration or Mr. Zuma reminded his listen- Africa for many years. More than Despite the persistent violence, can troops to stop the violence, anger can ever justify the attacks ers that many of the foreigners 60 people were killed in horrific Mr. Zuma has ignored most of he is sending 350 soldiers to the on foreign nationals and the loot- were refugees, and many were assaults on foreigners in 2008, the anti-foreigner attacks in country’s border posts to work as ing of their shops,” Mr. Zuma told helping South Africa’s economy and similar attacks have contin- recent years. His son, Edward, immigration officers. A4 • NEWS S THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Modi attracts protesters in B.C. stop Activists take on Indian PM for alleged human-rights abuses, but supporters, politicians out in force to greet him
...... IAIN MARLOW ANDREA WOO VANCOUVER ...... Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at a Vancouver tem- ple to a crowd of placard-waving protesters, a reminder that the polarizing Hindu nationalist poli- tician is beloved by the global business community but still dis- dained by many social activists in India and abroad. On the last leg of the first bilat- eral visit by a sitting Indian Prime Minister in 42 years, which was marked earlier by thousands of cheering Indo-Canadians at the Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto, Mr. Modi stopped at a historic Sikh temple in Vancouver and a Hindu temple in Surrey, B.C., before heading off for a state dinner with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. At the Sikh temple, though, he was greeted by around 200 pro- testers – a much different recep- tion from that same morning in Toronto, where he met with a select group of business leaders from BlackBerry and major banks. The protesters’ signs car- ried slogans such as “Human rights before trade deals,” “Modi Protesters picket outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, B.C., that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited with Stephen Harper on Thursday. BEN NELMS/REUTERS is a genocide perpetrator” and “Modi is a fascist extremist.” accused Mr. Modi’s government At the Khalsa Diwan Society’s beneath fluttering stringers tied watch that the Indo-Canadian Community organizer Mustafa of indifference as the killings Sikh Gurdwara, located on the between the temple and lamp community is keeping on affairs Alam said the protest was fuelled spread. The Supreme Court of In- southern edge of Vancouver, a posts in the parking lot. on the subcontinent. by what he described as Mr. Mod- dia conducted a special investiga- large crowd of supporters filed “Naturally, any leader will have “What is going on in India, you i’s discrimination against reli- tion and cleared Mr. Modi of being into the temple to see Mr. Modi people who don’t agree with know more [than Indians them- gious minorities. complicit in the riots, though speak. The president of the histor- them,” Mr. Sanghera added when selves],” he said to laughter. It’s “Modi is a war criminal,” Mr. many think his administration ic Sikh society, which has roots asked about the protesters. “But I like “when you watch a cricket Alam said. “He had been banned was partly responsible for not stretching back more than 100 think, on the whole, the Indo-Ca- match in the stadium. You can’t previously by other countries containing the violence. years in B.C., said Mr. Modi will be nadian community is excited.” get the full details like when you from entering into the state, and Mr. Modi was once refused a the third Indian prime minister to At a Hindu temple later, Mr. watch it on TV.” here we are in Canada welcoming visa to visit the U.S. over concern visit, after Jawaharlal Nehru’s visit Modi arrived to chants of “We B.C. Premier Christy Clark, who him, giving him the red carpet about his role during the riots. in 1949 and Indira Gandhi’s 42 love Modi. We love Harper.” Mr. was also on hand to welcome Mr. treatment, putting our economic Canada, however, never refused years ago. Harper introduced the Indian Modi and Mr. Harper, dodged interests before human rights and him a visa because Mr. Modi nev- Balwant Sanghera, a retired Prime Minister as “one of the repeated questions about Mr. justice.” er asked for one, said Stewart school psychologist, called Mr. world’s great leaders,” and noted Modi’s human rights record in Several signs referred to the Beck, Canada’s former high com- Modi’s visit a historic event, and how remarkable it was that Mr. Gujarat. Instead, she held up his anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat in missioner in India who helped extolled the Indian leaders as a Modi rose from selling tea at a visit as evidence of B.C.’s role in 2002 in which more than 1,000 cement Canada’s relationship “man of action” who will bring small railway station in Gujarat to the new global economy. “We are people, mainly Muslims, were with Mr. Modi. progress to India and prosperity becoming the leader of the in a position to really build a part- killed by mobs when Mr. Modi But in British Columbia as in to Indo-Canadians. world’s largest democracy. Mr. nership with what will be one of was the state’s chief minister. Sev- Ontario, there was also jubilation “It will open a lot of doors for Modi then spoke briefly about the – if not the – biggest econo- eral human rights groups have at the Indian leader’s arrival. both Canada and India,” he said, Hinduism, yoga and the close mies in the world,” she said.
MIKE DUFFY TRIAL Makeup artist says invoice covered service for Harper
...... STEPHANIE LEVITZ OTTAWA Mr. Duffy has pleaded not ment Hill. He told her to send her tinued to insist Thursday that the Conservative party, court was ...... guilty to all of the charges. $300 invoice to Maple Ridge. taxpayers didn’t pay for Harper’s told. The original contracts be- Stephen Harper’s name surfaced The money came at Mr. Duffy’s Last week, a government makeup. “We have no knowledge tween Mr. Duffy and Mr. Dono- at the Mike Duffy trial Thursday request, court heard; both make- source told The Canadian Press of the invoice in question,” Mr. hue stated they were for editorial as court heard from a string of up artist Jacqueline Lambert and that the makeup services Mr. Lecce said in an e-mail. “We did services, but the Crown has al- contractors who were paid personal trainer Michael Cros- Harper received that day weren’t not charge taxpayers for the PM’s leged those specific services were through a taxpayer-funded kery testified he explicitly told paid for by taxpayers. preparation for this event and never delivered, with the money account that the suspended sena- them to bill either Maple Ridge On Thursday, Ms. Lambert told had no reason to believe anyone being funnelled elsewhere to cov- tor allegedly used to skirt finance Media or Ottawa ICF, both com- a different story. “On this occa- else would do so.” er costs Mr. Duffy couldn’t rules. panies run by Mr. Donohue. sion of the G8, did Prime Minister A copy of the invoice Ms. Lam- expense to the Senate. A former intern, a makeup art- Cheques cut by Maple Ridge in- Harper pay you anything for the bert sent wasn’t submitted as evi- Mr. Duffy’s lawyer argues the ist and a personal trainer all cluded $300 sent to Lambert, services he received, or did you dence; her computer crashed and work done was entirely in keep- described being paid by compan- who had known Mr. Duffy for take the $300 to be payment in she no longer had a copy, court ing with parliamentary business . ies run by Mr. Duffy’s long-time years in his role at CTV. respect to the services you pro- was told. A copy of the cheque Ashley Cain, a former intern for friend Gerald Donohue for serv- She was first called to do his vided the prime minister?” asked she received indicated that it Mr. Duffy, said she was also paid ices they provided to the senator makeup as a senator in 2009, for Mr. Duffy’s lawyer Donald Bayne. came from Mr. Donohue’s com- by that same company, having — and in one case, to the prime a photo shoot, and Mr. Duffy told “Yes, your latter,” Ms. Lambert pany. On the envelope, there was received a $500 cheque after minister as well. her to send him the invoice per- answered. a notation that it was for “PM she’d been told she was doing The cheques form the basis for sonally. A letter introduced earli- Court has already been told the and Mike.” good work in the senator’s office. six of 30 fraud and breach of er in court from the Senate $300 was a flat-rate fee that Ms. Lambert said she was Mr. Croskery testified he trust charges faced by Mr. Duffy, showed the expense wasn’t would not have changed regard- always paid for doing makeup for received more than $9,000 from in addition to a single count of approved. In 2010, he called less of whether one or two peo- parliamentarians, including Mr. Mr. Donohue’s companies be- bribery involving a cheque that again — this time to do makeup ple had their makeup done. Harper. When she did the make- tween 2010 and 2012. came from Mr. Harper’s former for both him and Mr. Harper at a Stephen Lecce, a spokesman for up for former finance minister ...... chief of staff. televised G8/G10 event on Parlia- the Prime Minister’s Office, con- Jim Flaherty, the invoice went to The Canadian Press
LAW guest room, reinvented. Appeal court supports duress as murder defence
...... SEAN FINE asked to rule on the constitution- tine’s group took him captive and JUSTICE WRITER ality of the law barring duress as a held him in the barn while Kelles- ...... defence to murder, but said that tine removed and murdered two People who find themselves in a law is probably unconstitutional. of the victims. If that person was “kill or be killed” situation can The decision came in the then ordered under threat of claim duress as a defence to mur- appeals of several bikers charged death by Kellestine to assist in the der, even though the Criminal in the 2006 massacre of eight removal and murder of the next Code explicitly rules it out, the members of the Bandidos motor- victim, would society expect the Ontario Court of Appeal said cycle gang at a farm outside Lon- ordinary (not the heroic or excep- Thursday. don. Three were charged with tional) person to refuse Kelles- Until now, claiming the right to multiple counts of first-degree tine’s order and give up his own kill an innocent person to save murder by aiding and abetting life? Could it be said that the per- one’s own life has been seen as three others in killing their in- son had ‘a realistic choice?’ We the greater of two evils. But the tended targets, by opening a gate, think not.” court had a different way of look- monitoring police scanners and France and Germany do not bar ing at duress, offering the hypo- carrying weapons. The three duress as a defence to murder, thetical example of someone claimed they acted under duress, and 11 U.S. states have laws declar- faced with killing an innocent because they would have been ing duress can be a defence to person or having their own child killed otherwise. (The trial judge murder. be killed. “The putative victims who found them guilty ruled that Toronto lawyer Daniel Santoro, are equally innocent,” the court duress was not a defence to aiding who represented Mr. Aravena, said. in a murder or committing mur- said the ruling is the first by an The court cited a principle that der. The Crown agreed.) appeal court in Canada to affirm criminal law is not designed for “a The appeal court found the men that duress can be used as a community of saints or heroes,” guilty anyway, saying they were defence to murder. “It recognizes but for ordinary people making not truly under duress. One of the that sometimes people are put One room. Three powerful functions. Library, media room, and guest voluntary moral choices. And three, for instance, Marcel Arave- into horrible situations where room all in one. 60+ solutions designed and made in Italy by : the sometimes those choices are no na, had “willingly put himself” they have no realistic choice, and global leader in transformable furniture design for more than 50 years. more free than the choice of a under the control of Wayne Kel- trying to punish someone in that Available exclusively from Resource Furniture. condemned man walking to the lestine, one of the mobsters who situation as a murderer is not gallows, the court said. had participated in the multiple fair,” he said. But it is not easy to “Society may regret or even killings, the court said. prove. “The reality is that it’s an deplore the accused’s failure to But the court defended the prin- extremely hard argument to win.” ‘rise to the occasion,’ but it can- ciple at issue. “Consider, for In Britain, courts have said that Visit our new Toronto location: not, in a criminal justice system example, a person who had no allowing duress as a defence to predicated on individual autono- connection to the Bandidos or to murder would encourage terror- Toronto: 322 King Street East @ Parliament Street | 416.901.7555 my, justly criminalize and punish the meeting at Kellestine’s farm, ists and organized criminals to Vancouver: 861 Richards Street | 604.681.0104 conduct absent a realistic choice,” but who happened to attend at use others to do their killing. But Calgary: 104-510 12th Ave.SW|403.457.5711 Justice David Doherty wrote in a the farm for some innocent pur- Justice Doherty said that was a resourcefurniture.com 3-0 ruling. The court was not pose that night. Assume Kelles- dubious claim. THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 S NEWS • A5
DISCIPLINE Law society faces backlash over Levant decision The Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench orders a hearing into whether there was an abuse of process in the dismissal of complaints
...... SEAN FINE the Alberta court ruling. JUSTICE WRITER The Alberta Law Society’s code ...... of conduct requires courtesy The Alberta Law Society is under from lawyers, whether they are fire for its dismissal of com- practising law or not. “Lawyers plaints against a prominent con- should aspire to the highest stan- servative journalist and dards of behaviour at all times non-practising lawyer over and not just when acting as law- remarks he made on a television yers,” the code says. show and website and in a news- But law societies in Canada paper column. rarely discipline lawyers for con- Ezra Levant, an author and duct outside of the practice of broadcaster with the now- law, except if a lawyer is convict- defunct Sun News Network, faced ed of a crime, according to Adam nine charges of misconduct in Dodek, who teaches at the Uni- October, 2012, after the law socie- versity of Ottawa law school. ty’s conduct committee referred “I am not familiar with any those charges for a hearing. But case in the last 20 years where a the hearing never happened, and Law Society has sanctioned a 16 months later Mr. Levant lawyer for actions outside the applied to a second conduct practice of law.” committee to dismiss the Alison Taylor, the law society’s charges. communications manager, said it Mr. Levant, 43, said in an inter- is not the society’s practice to view that he has been the subject comment on matters that are in of many complaints to the law front of a court. society – “I’ve lost count, more Ezra Levant, seen in 2010, was under investigation over remarks he made. PAWEL DWULIT/THE CANADIAN PRESS Prof. Attaran said the law socie- than a dozen” – and all have ty’s “coddling” of Mr. Levant been dismissed. “There are a this month. The committee The law society’s handling of sity of Ottawa law professor Amir reminds him of justice in Third number of complainants who heard from the law society’s the complaints may have Attaran and Ottawa lawyer Rich- World countries. “You can’t have have a political axe to grind and counsel and from Mr. Levant’s amounted to an abuse of process, ard Warman, who made the com- a lawyer on national television the law society found their com- lawyer, Robert Hawkes, each of she said. “It seems arguable that plaints against Mr. Levant, had hiding in a jurisdiction that plaints have no merit.” He said whom cautioned that some the process followed … is prone asked for a court to review the refuses to discipline him and he hasn’t practised law in years. charges might violate Mr. to undermine the integrity of the law society’s handling of their attacking lawyers elsewhere and The second committee held a Levant’s right to free speech, and Law Society’s disciplinary pro- complaints. The law society had undermining the dignity of this meeting without notifying the that others lacked the evidence ceedings and the public’s confi- asked the court to dismiss that profession.” two Ontario lawyers who had to convict. dence in its ability to protect the request. The nine charges sent by the complained about Mr. Levant, And when the committee with- public.” The complaints against Mr. first conduct committee for a and without the record of evi- drew the charges, it did so with She ordered that a full hearing Levant date from as far back as hearing included bringing disre- dence that was before the first an “unsatisfactory and unclear” be held on the issue of whether 2010, but were treated as confi- spect to the justice system, failing committee, the Alberta Court of explanation, Justice Dawn Pente- the Alberta Law Society commit- dential under law society rules to maintain a civil level of dis- Queen’s Bench said in a ruling lechuk said. ted an abuse of process. Univer- and came to light this month in course and harassment.
JUSTICE Eaton Centre shooter to serve at least 30 years
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RETAIL Beer sales on tap for grocers
‘It’s a great day for people who like their beer cold and more conveniently available,’ says Premier Kathleen Wynne – but convenience stores have been left out of sales overhaul
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MARINA STRAUSS with grocers head to head.” ADRIAN MORROW Consultant Ms. McGibbon said ...... convenience stores got a black Ontario grocers finally got the eye from their track record of green light to carry beer in their selling tobacco to minors at stores – with lots of strings times and cases of abusing the attached. privilege of selling lottery tickets, Supermarkets and other retail- which is another big generator of ers have been pushing to stock shopper traffic. beer and wine in their stores, Over all, the changes counting on the products to announced on Thursday to beer draw more customers in an in- retailing “still keeps a dated mo- creasingly competitive market. nopoly alive,” she said. “But it is The grocers didn’t get every- a big step forward for that indus- thing they wanted – and they try.” will have to go through the pub- The province will grant 450 licly owned Liquor Control licences to grocery stores to sell Board of Ontario to buy their beer in single bottles and six supplies rather than dealing packs, with beer allowed to be directly with brewers, which sold only in separated areas that could add costs. Their retail beer keep the same hours as the Beer prices will be set and margins Store. will be slim, industry observers A new beer tax, which will said. Still, retailers are looking apply to all beer sold in the forward to the extra customer province, will raise $100-million traffic that beer sales will a year. After two years, the Beer generate. Store will be allowed to pass this “This is great news for Ontario cost on to consumers. consumers,” said Kevin Groh, The foreign-owned Beer Store spokesman for Loblaw Cos. Ltd., will keep its monopoly on selling the country’s largest grocer. “We cases of 24 beers. Under a new look forward to providing our agreement with the province, customers with beer and wine however, it will have to give responsibly.” small brewers 20 per cent of The announcement was one of shelf space in the stores, up from a package of changes to beer 7 per cent now. Smaller restau- sales introduced Thursday after rants and bars will also be the release of a report from a allowed to buy the most popular panel advising Premier Kathleen brands of beer at retail prices, Wynne on ways to find money to instead of the higher prices cur- pay for her program of transit rently charged by the Beer Store. construction. It will also have to open owner- In other parts of the country, ship of the company to all On- such as Alberta and Quebec, gro- tario brewers. cers already are selling alcoholic “It’s a great day for people who beverages in a heavily regulated like their beer cold and more industry. Now the shift to looser conveniently available for pur- booze retailing rules is coming chase,” the Premier said. to Ontario, with wine expected Small grocers are relieved they to be next up for review. will have a chance to bid for the “It’s about time,” said Susan licences, with the report ensur- McGibbon, president of retail ing “a diversity of grocers to pre- consultancy the Retail Lab. “It’s vent the creation of a new crazy it’s taken this long.” monopoly,” Gary Sands, vice- Ontario will allow any grocery president of the Canadian Feder- store “big enough to set up a ation of Independent Grocers, separate area for the beer” to said. stock it, Ms. Wynne said. But the But he’s also concerned that government has specifically the process of granting licences closed the door on convenience could give an edge to larger stores’ bid to sell booze. retailers and leave “winners and The advisory panel to the Pre- losers.” mier, headed by former banker Cam Heaps, co-founder of Ed Clark, said it agrees with the Steam Whistle Brewing and government position that “to sell chairman of Ontario Craft Brew- liquor in convenience stores ers, said he is pleased that the would not be a socially responsi- province will open up beer ble decision,” it said in its report retailing to his niche sector, on Thursday. which represents about 4 per Still, Victor Vrsnik, government cent of Ontario’s beer sales. “It’s affairs manager at convenience- a major step forward.” store operator 7-Eleven Canada, “It’s moving at a snail’s pace, said the chain disagrees with any but at least there’s movement,” law or regulation that “would said Stephen Bebis, chief execu- create a competitive advantage tive officer of Edmonton-based for one retail industry over an- Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd. The larg- other.” est publicly traded liquor retailer Mr. Vrsnik pointed particularly in North America, it had asked to the blurring of the lines be- the Clark panel to let it enter tween grocery stores, pharmacies Ontario. and convenience stores because “When you have competition they all stock similar products in retail, the customer wins, typi- and chase the same customers. cally. And I don’t think that the “There is tough competition,” province would lose any tax rev- Mr. Vrsnik said. “We compete enue.” THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 S NEWS • A7
A taste of what’s in store FROM PAGE 1 Ontario: Retail
...... changes for beer Beer ombudsman touted while A job handling complaints about beer sounds a bit like the basis for a Canadian comedy sketch. Should the per- Hydro One sale ...... son expect calls from Ontarians who don’t have enough downplayed to drink? Or when they feel awful the next day and feel inclined to blame a skunky brew? The actual Ontario Ombudsman, André Marin, was among the many who reacted incredulously. “A ‘Beer Store Ombudsman?’ Seriously?” he tweeted Thursday afternoon...... But the Ontario government’s report says someone The province plans to start the Hydro will be named to handle issues that arise. 9 One sell-off with a 15-per-cent initial “An independent Beer Ombudsman will be appointed public offering, and get to the 60-per-cent mark in four years. No private investor will by the Independent Directors of [the Beer Store] to hear be allowed to own more than 10 per cent, complaints from brewers and customers regarding op- leaving the government with a plurality of shares. One small piece of Hydro One, its erational issues,” it says. “If the Beer Ombudsman is un- Brampton distribution unit, will be sold able to resolve a complaint, it may be submitted to a separately for $607-million in a sole- dispute resolution process.” source deal with three other local utilities. Privatization could be a hard sell in On- The lineup to apply can start forming over on the left. tario, where previous private power deals ...... have added costs to electricity bills. The province also sits in the shadow of the Beer tax sell-off of the 407 toll highway in the The Ontario government is looking to raise an extra late-1990s, widely derided as a deal that $100-million annually on sales of beer in the province. left government with significantly less money than it could have made. There will be a “volumetric charge” on all beer sold in Unions and the NDP immediately the province – what most people would call a tax, warned a Hydro One sale would lead to higher prices as private companies pushed ...... equivalent to $1 on a case of 24 – that retailers will for greater profits with the province’s elec- have to swallow for the first two years. The province tricity regulator. They also pointed to the fact Hydro One would be taken out of the will also seek to claw back for the taxpayer some of the purview of provincial Ombudsman André proceeds of legislatively imposed increases in the min- Marin, who has taken the corporation to imum price of beer, which the report says tend to be task repeatedly on behalf of consumers. During the daily Question Period – applied at all price points. And it will index to inflation which unfolded as Ms. Wynne was across some beer-related service charges at the LCBO. the street briefing reporters on the changes – the New Democrats banged Net impact? Pricier suds. their desks for 15 minutes, bringing pro- ...... ceedings to a standstill as Speaker Dave Levac ejected them. Cheaper Ontario beer “This cannot go private because it has to Maybe the higher price won’t bother Ontarians so be the public interest that comes first much, because according to the report, beer-drinkers when it comes to hydro,” NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said later. pay less in this province than in others with less-strin- Mr. Clark argued the incremental sell-off gent retailing regulations. is cautious enough that it can be done without hurting consumers: “We think ...... The report compares what it describes as the “weight- we’ve got that right balance, and we think ed average price of all home consumer packaged beer the market will accept it.” products” sold through the Beer Store. Using that met- But in a tacit acknowledgment of the po- litical battle they will face over hydro, the ric, it claims that a two-four costs $34 to $35 in Ontario. Liberals played up the more popular It says the price paid by the consumer is about the changes to beer retail instead. During her news conference, Ms. Wynne stood before same in Quebec, but the taxes per case are lower there, a massive sign that touted beer in grocery and about $40 in Alberta and British Columbia. stores but made not a single reference to Don’t believe it? Take it up with the ombudsman. Hydro One...... “The Beer Store has grown into a de fac- to monopoly, controlled by a very small Pilot for 12-packs number of companies. This system has sti- fled competition, it’s kept craft and small Of course, the two-four isn’t for everyone. The report brewers from growing and it’s limited the calls for a trial selling 12-packs at 10 outlets of the consumer experience,” she said. LCBO, which had been restricted to sales of six-packs. The beer changes themselves will likely only raise enough money to compensate “If the 12-pack pilot is successful, there could be more for the dividends the government will lose than 220 LCBO stores (including the existing 167 LCBO from privatizing Hydro One, but Liberal ...... insiders said the province felt the mea- combination stores) and 217 agency stores selling 12- or sures would be popular with the public. 24-packs of beer in smaller communities across Ontar- The plan will grant 450 grocery stores the right to sell beer, levy a tax that works io,” the report says. out to $1 per case and loosen some Beer The recommendations are also touted as a way to Store strictures. The company, currently make it easier for the LCBO or the Beer Store to open owned by three multinational conglomer- ates, will be made to allow all Ontario “new stores in under-served communities.” brewers to become owners, give 20 per ...... cent of shelf space to craft beer and let smaller restaurants and bars pay retail Milk, eggs and beer prices instead of the higher cost they are The report is calling for beer to be sold in up to 450 currently charged. grocery stores across the province, as long as they meet The reaction was significantly better than on hydro. shelf-space requirements for small brewers and pur- “It’s creating a lot of buzz and it’s going chase the beer from the LCBO. This will make it more to end up increasing the overall industry,” said Cam Heaps, co-founder of Toronto’s ...... convenient for some consumers. But it won’t be quite Steamwhistle Brewing and chair of Ontar- as simple as grabbing chips, dip and beer from the io Craft Brewers. Beer Store president Ted Moroz prom- same aisle. ised to co-operate with the province’s The area selling beer will have to be physically dis- plans. “We will continue to work with the tinct from the rest of the retail space – effectively a government now to implement our next generation of changes,” he said in a state- stand-alone boutique within the store. Employees will ment. need special training, minimum pricing will be in effect But Progressive Conservative finance critic Vic Fedeli pointed out the changes and sales will be limited to six-packs. are relatively minor, and said they were These stores-within-stores are also to have the same only meant to distract from the Hydro operating hours as other beer retailers. So forget about One sale and the province’s fiscal woes. “The whole Beer Store discussion … is to making a midnight run for more beer. get us talking about the shiny bauble here ...... of the Beer Store when the real issue is Oliver Moore they have a $10.9-billion deficit,” he said.
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TRANSPORTATION 15-minute GO rail service to see gradual introduction
...... OLIVER MOORE TORONTO URBAN TRANSPORTATION REPORTER ...... The Liberal government’s pledge of 15-minute service across the GO Transit rail network is going to have a slow start, with many trains coming much less fre- quently at first, The Globe and Mail has learned. Premier Kathleen Wynne and Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca are expected to announce on Friday details on the shift from the current com- muter service, running largely in the morning and evening, to what the government calls Regional Express Rail: electrified GO trains operating all day, mul- An investigation into former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi, seen in November, found he was steadily ill-tempered at work. NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS tiple times an hour. For more than a year, the FROM PAGE 1 government has touted 15-minute GO service. Last spring, Ms. Wynne promised to phase in all- Ghomeshi: Former host ‘shared details about his own sex life’ day frequent electrified service. Around the same time, Mr. Del ...... Duca’s predecessor, Glen Murray, Heather Conway, the execu- conduct and comments of Mr. workers upset with his behaviour younger employees have secur- said the service would rival com- 9 tive vice-president of Eng- Ghomeshi,” charging that he was were reluctant to complain “for a ing reliable work, and establish- muter rail in Paris. lish services, said “we support “overly familiar with a number of number of reasons, including a ing a career at the CBC and their Official documents and senior and are in agreement with the female employees and gave them lack of trust and confidence in vulnerability to behaviour that is executives at Metrolinx, the recommendations that are here, back rubs and massages.” the complaint process.” It adds contrary to the behavioural stan- transit agency for the Greater and we will be working every day Mr. Ghomeshi also “flirted with that, “while Mr. Ghomeshi’s star dard in order to maintain their Toronto and Hamilton Area, were to address any kinds of weak- a number of women present in was allowed to rise, his problem- employment.” The report says always more restrained than the nesses that existed in the man- the workplace, including on-air atic behaviour was left younger workers “eloquently public rhetoric, cautioning that agement system.” guests,” and “shared details unchecked.” described the cost to them, finan- not all lines had enough riders Mr. Ghomeshi faces seven about his own sex life. There The report makes nine recom- cially, emotionally and otherwise, for such a service increase. counts of sexual assault and one were incidents where Mr. Gho- mendations to beef up its work- of being professionally insecure.” According to sources, the move of overcoming resistance by meshi shared information that place protections, including the On Thursday, the broadcaster toward 15-minute service will choking, but the Rubin report witnesses found too personal, too establishment of a confidential issued pink slips for 241 begin only at peak times. found most of his corrosive be- graphic and generally unsavou- hotline and a “Respect at Work employees across the country, GO service increases will start haviour was of a more mundane ry.” and Human Rights Ombudsper- following an announcement last on the Lakeshore lines, which sort. He subjected his co-workers While the report says Ms. Rubin son,” and calls for the creation of month that it would cut $15-mil- carry about half the current to a steady drumbeat of ill-tem- “found no evidence of a formal workplace surveys and “spot lion from its annual budget. ridership. It will also increase on pered conduct, freezing out those complaint made against Mr. Gho- audits.” Mr. Ghomeshi is free on parts of the Barrie, Kitchener and who displeased him and regular- meshi under the CBC’s policies,” It also suggests the broadcaster $100,000 bail. He will be back in Stouffville lines. Riders on the ly diminishing others’ contribu- it notes that, as he was a star who establish a task force with its court April 28. None of the alle- Milton and Richmond Hill lines tions. wielded power, they perceived union, the Canadian Media Guild, gations have been proved in will have to wait longer. Still, it does detail “sexualized themselves as vulnerable. Co- to address “the difficulties many court.
A new poll indicates Jim Prentice’s approval rating has sunk to 22 per cent from 50 per cent four months ago. JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS FROM PAGE 1 Alberta: Poll veracity debated
...... Parties publicly dismiss poor “I keep going back to the les- 9 results. Good numbers are sons of 2012,” Ms. Brown said. mentioned, but not so enthusias- “And in 2012, I believe the public tically that the parties appear to did have a strong desire to send assume the campaign is over. the PCs a message. But, in the That is why all the major political end, they didn’t have the nerve Fast-forward parties have their own polls to defeat the government. I think done. Political insiders say the the same thing may be going on PCs will spend $300,000 to in this election.” $600,000 for polls and market So what happened with the to being research. polling? Mr. Prentice has given his crit- “When I was with Redford, we ics enough material to under- made the decision to portray mortgage- mine his bid to stay on as Danielle Smith and Wildrose as premier. There were the orches- extreme,” said Stephen Carter, trated defections of 11 Wildrose who worked for the former pre- members, including party leader mier as campaign manager and free. Danielle Smith, who crossed the chief of staff. “People are motiv- floor to strengthen the PCs. There ated more by fear than opportu- was the new budget that critics nity. The hyper-engaged know said made too many cuts in child how they’re going to vote. The care and not enough to the prov- less engaged make their decision ince’s deficit. There was the “look in last 72 hours to 72 seconds in the mirror” comment scolding before marking their ballot. It is Albertans for overspending. those people who can decide an There was also the call for an election.” election, which prompted Calga- The undecided made up 20 per ry Mayor Naheed Nenshi to say cent of the more than 3,000 that “if we’re in a world where it’s Albertans who responded in the difficult to find $200,000 to survey released on Wednesday. investigate the deaths of children That poll had an overall margin in care, to then find $30-million of error plus or minus 1.76 per- to run an election – it’s a tough centage points, 19 times out of argument for me to make.” 20. On Wednesday, Mr. Prentice The veracity of polling has promised a Conservative govern- become a subject for debate, ® ment would not negotiate public- because much of it is now done 5-year BMO sector raises and would cut the using a technique called Interac- number of agencies, boards and tive Voice Response, which is au- commissions to eliminate dupli- tomated calls to people at home Smart Fixed Mortgage cated services. With a PC source or on their mobile phone. Critics saying an internal poll suggests and some pollsters believe only the outcome will be a Tory angry people who are willing to minority, the move appears to be remain on the phone with an au- You could save thousands and be aimed at persuading enough peo- tomated voice. ple to stick to their Tory-voting “If the results are, in fact, mortgage-free faster. ways to give the party a clear vic- skewed toward angry voters, and tory, as they did when Alison voters who are satisfied with the Visit a branch, or have one of our Mortgage Specialists come to you. Redford was leader in 2012. PCs are under-represented, it bmo.com/smart In the buildup to that election, would be faulty logic to conclude almost all the polls had Ms. that the findings are more accu- Smith and the Wildrose knocking rate because numerous polls the Tories for a loop. But the PCs have similar numbers,” Ms. handily won their 12th consecu- Brown said. “Skewed results are TM/®Trademarks of Bank of Montreal. tive majority government. skewed. ” THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 S NEWS • A9
WILDLIFE INVESTIGATION Spring seal hunt Winnipeg ...... Ballet fires staffer amid police probe
...... STEVE LAMBERT WINNIPEG ...... The Royal Winnipeg Ballet has dismissed an instructor amid a police investigation into com- plaints that nude photos were taken of former female dance stu- dents. The ballet company announced Thursday it had parted ways with Bruce Monk, who was named by Maclean’s magazine as being un- der investigation for allegedly tak- ing nude and semi-nude photos of teenage female students in the 1980s and 90s. The magazine reported it had spoken with four women who said Mr. Monk took photos of them when they were under 18. Ballet executive director Jeff Herd said the company learned of the police probe in January. “We became aware of the inves- tigation on Jan 7. On Jan. 8, Bruce was put on administrative, paid leave while the police did their A seal hunt is shown in the Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland’s coast Thursday, in this picture provided by the Humane Society International/Canada. investigation, which I believe is ongoing.” This week, the ballet went a step FEDERAL POLITICS further and severed ties with Mr. Monk, Mr. Herd said. Winnipeg police said the inves- Genesis of Harper’s new slogan is a secret tigation was nearly complete and the Crown was being consulted as to the next steps. Police released ...... few details, other than to say BRUCE CHEADLE OTTAWA sheet of secrecy that even the year’s Canada Day celebrations of Canada states that institutions there are several alleged victims, ...... federal information commission- in Ottawa? Strong. Proud. Free. must not use public funds to one unnamed male suspect and Strong. Proud. Free. And a state er can’t penetrate. No title for “Using cabinet confidentiality purchase advertising in support the events date back more than secret. the submission, nor a date, au- on something that should be so of a political party,” Privy Coun- 20 years, when privacy and por- The genesis of the Conserva- thor or even the department benign is ridiculous,” said Math- cil Office spokesman Raymond nography laws were different. tive government’s “Strong Proud that originally prepared it can be ieu Ravignat, the NDP Treasury Rivet said in an e-mail. “The significance of time, the Free” slogan that is bombarding revealed. Board critic. “All government of Canada changes in laws – there are a television viewers is considered a A spokesman for the Privy “They’ve been caught using a advertising is designed to comp- number of complexities that we cabinet confidence and will be Council Office, the bureaucracy partisan tagline and they’re hid- ly with the guidance set out in are dealing with, with respect to sealed from public scrutiny for that supports the Prime Minis- ing behind cabinet confidential- the policy.” the investigation,” said police 20 years. ter’s Office, would only say that ity to avoid the political fallout.” Compliance is in the eye of the spokesperson Constable Jason A request under the Access to the slogan is “drawn from the No minister or department will beholder, says Alex Marland, a Michalyshen. Information Act seeking any thematics” of the government’s claim responsibility for the political science professor at Me- “Any and all victims need to be background rationale for the 2013 Throne Speech. whole-of-government marketing morial University in St. John’s. heard, and we have given them tagline, which is being used to Opposition critics point out the campaign, and requests for com- ‘Strong, proud, free’ obviously that opportunity. Our report has punctuate all the latest taxpayer- language is also drawn from the ment from the Prime Minister’s is something you could derive been or will be submitted [to the funded advertising, has come up 2011 Conservative party platform Office were returned by the Privy from the national anthem. Crown].” empty. and mirrors the themes promot- Council, which co-ordinates the There’s nothing necessarily parti- Attempts to reach Mr. Monk That’s because a 149-page Trea- ed as Conservative values on the development of government san about that,” Prof. Marland Thursday were not immediately sury Board submission on adver- party website and in fundraising advertising. said. successful. tising has been deemed advice to pitches. “Section 23 of the communica- ...... cabinet, placing it behind a lead The theme of this election tions policy of the government The Canadian Press The Canadian Press
LEGISLATION Inside Charities to be exempt from the Market The Globe’s AREALTWEET: Saskatchewan strip-club ban home for investing ten ishop ...... insights and @kbishop90 CLARE CLANCY REGINA “But any permanent liquor- analysis, ...... licence place such as a bar would brought to Licensed strip clubs are no longer not be allowed,” he said on you by a Iwonder allowed in Saskatchewan, but the Thursday. “It would only be on respected team government says it will make an special permits.” of writers. if homeless exception for charitable events He said if communities want to peoplego once a year. hold charitable striptease events tgam.ca/ Premier Brad Wall announced at smaller venues, organizers can inside-the- toheaven last month that his government apply through the Saskatchewan market 8:21PM-15Jan2015 would reverse its decision to Liquor and Gaming Authority. allow licensed strip clubs because Performers would still only be of concerns about human traf- allowed to strip down to pasties ficking and sexual exploitation. and underwear. Mr. Wall said he believed it had The government cited an been a mistake to change provin- upcoming “Ladies’ Night Out! cial liquor laws to allow partial Spring Fever” show at TCU Place stripping in bars. in Saskatoon featuring “Canadian The revised regulations will Playboyz and Body Heat” as an allow striptease entertainment in event that could benefit from the places such as theatres, casinos exemption if it were to partner and exhibition halls once a year with a charity. with a special permit. In January, Regina city council- Don McMorris, minister respon- lors voted to reject a proposal for sible for the Saskatchewan Li- the city’s first licensed strip club. quor and Gaming Authority, said The concept had been approved the exception is being made by the city’s planning commis- because there are worthy fund- sion. raising events that include strip- ...... tease entertainment. The Canadian Press
ALBERTA Wildrose Leader considers ‘wife’s pie’ controversy closed
...... BILL GRAVELAND CALGARY out-of-date assumptions about ...... who does the cooking,” she said. Wildrose Leader Brian Jean faced “I would say perhaps it’s clear he questions Thursday about an has a sweet tooth, but he needs election candidate who encour- a wisdom tooth.” aged supporters to “bring your Mr. Strankman, who is running wife’s pie” to a fundraising bake in the largely rural riding of sale. Drumheller-Stettler in the May 5 The to-do came one day after vote, apologized. “It was posted another hopeful was dumped for by our volunteers through my eight-year-old comments made account,” he tweeted. “As soon about a gay pride brunch. as I saw it, I asked them to take Candidate Rick Strankman’s it down.” campaign issued an invitation The developments came a day on Twitter to attend a pie auc- after the party announced it tion and urged folks to “take a would not sign the nomination break from calving, farming, papers for Russ Kuykendall in spring work and NHL playoffs.” the constituency of Calgary Var- It was billed as “BYWP (Bring sity. Your Wife’s Pie!!!)” The party wouldn’t say why it “Is this for real? If so, 1950 just wouldn’t endorse Mr. Kuyken- called,” tweeted Premier Jim dall, but comments made on a Prentice’s media spokeswoman blog in 2007 criticizing a gay Emily Woods. pride brunch that was held in a NDP Leader Rachel Notley Catholic church hall were circu- laughed out loud when asked lating on Twitter at the time. about the pie auction. “Mr...... Strankman has perhaps some The Canadian Press A10 • COMMENT S THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
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PHILLIP CRAWLEY, PUBLISHER AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER DAVID WALMSLEY, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ...... SINCLAIR STEWART, DEPUTY EDITOR PAUL WALDIE, EDITOR, REPORT ON BUSINESS KEVIN SIU, HEAD OF DIGITAL, EDITORIAL
ONTARIO BEER This new brew is already skunky
...... eer Ombudsman.” No two words better sum up the philoso- ‘Bphy behind Ontario’s so-called New Beer Framework. It is not about competition or customer choice. It’s not about markets. The Great Beer Leap Forward will at least bring beer to more stores – some grocery stores, even – but the system isn’t really changing. Nor is the Liberal government’s attitude to the industry. Politicians will be, more than ever, deciding who gets to sell beer and who does not, and which beer, where, when, how and at what price. Competition will still be largely forbidden. But, good news: If you are unhappy about anything, please write to the new Beer Ombudsman. He’s there to listen. Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the new beer strategy on Thursday, with her Twitter feed appropriating the hashtag #Free- TheBeer. If only it were about that. Until now, The Beer Store has been a private monopoly, owned by three major non-Canadian brewers, and maintained by an assid- uously lobbied and greased provincial government. If you think the solution is for the monopoly to be ended and free market com- petition to replace it, you are out of luck. If, on the other hand, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR your preferred idea is for politicians to get even more deeply into ...... the business of beer central planning, then the province has a plan Pray (don’t) tell itself in the flag and laud the con- er nations. In Canada’s case, it tribution of “the brave men and seems to be the sure way of guar- you’ll love. women of our Armed Forces.” anteeing an end to the Harper era. That plan, adopted by the Wynne government after a report by ...... But when it comes to providing – Margarida Krause, Guelph, Ont. Re Top Court Rules Against Prayer appropriate services to those ...... former TD Financial Group CEO Ed Clark, will turn a concentrated In Council (April 16): Since neu- same brave men and women monopoly into a complex, multi-channel, many-tiered beast, over- trality is necessary for the state upon their return home, the Con- Standard sentences rather than for individuals, why servatives are missing in action. seen by Queen’s Park. The Clark report says the number of places not have meetings of this nature – Chris Phillips, Ancaster, Ont. selling beer across the province will increase by about 30 per cent. start with a minute of silent ...... reflection so people of faith, no In my practice of psychiatry, it I am a retired provincial court But the free market – you know, consumer demand – won’t decide matter their religion, can pray was obvious that the longer a judge (Supreme Court Guns where that happens. Or when. Or how. Premier Mom and Co. will and non-religious folk, whether patient was on the waiting list for Down Good Law – editorial, April agnostic or atheist, can prepare treatment after symptoms devel- 15). In my experience, in most retain control. That is likely to ensure that beer remains one of the for the meeting as they see fit? oped, the longer and more diffi- cases where a statutory minimum province’s most lucrative neighbourhoods for lobbyists – and party Seems simple enough, even if cult successful treatment became. sentence was provided for, the some want to make it harder than In the long run, the result of this sentence was appropriate – in fundraisers. necessary. delay by Veterans Affairs will most cases, but not all. Consider the promise of beer in grocery stores. Your average gro- – Amy Soule, Hamilton mean more staff and more money Sometimes it led to an injustice...... will be required. In the short run, The solution is for Parliament cer would be happy to start selling beer the day after tomorrow, the damaging consequences to and provincial legislatures to but the government is determined to move at the pace of a banana A media elite? the ill veteran and his/her family consider instead requiring “stan- are most difficult to endure, and dard” (rather than minimum) slug on downers. Mr. Clark’s report says that eventually as many as may become insurmountable. sentences which the courts must 450 grocery stores could be licensed. For the moment, however, all ...... Not only is this a financially irre- impose for certain types of Re Does A Media Elite Exist In sponsible way to run things, but it offences unless, in the particular it promises is “up to 150 grocery stores” carrying beer by “May 1, Canada Or Not? (Life & Arts – is also very callous. circumstance of the offence or of 2017.” Two years from now? Seriously? This is not the Apollo moon April 16): To borrow from artist – Archibald Wilkie Kushner, Ottawa the offender, the court considers Jenny Holzer, “an elite is inevita- ...... that a more or less severe punish- landing. It’s putting some beer in a fridge. ble.” Whether politicians engage ment would be appropriate. But the Wynne government is instead making things as complex in direct clientelism with them is Willing a coalition In those cases, the court should another, more nuanced, story. have the discretion to depart and convoluted as possible. Only “urban grocery stores” will be eli- Many believe the Conservatives from the standard sentence. gible for a beer-selling licence. There will be “uniform pricing” be- have stacked the Senate with ...... – Jakob de Villiers, Victoria dubious appointments in order to Re Trudeau Quashes Idea Of Coa- ...... tween grocers and The Beer Store – no competition allowed – and discredit it, with the eventual goal lition With Mulcair (April 15): limits on how much beer each grocery store will be allowed to sell. of removing the obstacle of sober Why would any opposition leader Grounded security? second thought entirely. rule out the possibility of a coali- And grocers will not be allowed to sell anything larger than a six- Few could seriously doubt that tion? Michael Ignatieff made the pack. Of course not. the press in Canada is a parochial same mistake when he was Liber- ...... circus; as former U.S. treasury sec- al leader, thereby allowing Ste- Stephen Harper looked delighted Why will only some grocery stores get to sell beer? “We believe,” retary Lawrence Summers infa- phen Harper to demonize the when signing a deal with his says the Clark report, “that by offering a limited number of licenc- mously said: Outsiders can say whole idea of coalitions – for counterpart, Narendra Modi, sup- whatever they want, but insiders everyone but himself. The Con- plying uranium to fuel nuclear es, scarcity will be maintained.” Competition and consumer con- don’t criticize other insiders. servatives hold power by forming power facilities in India (Harper venience are not the primary goals. The objective is for To frame it as a shadowy, clubby one of the most successful and Inks $350-Million Nuclear Deal elite does less to expose a conspir- ruthless coalitions in history, so With India – April 16). government to extract the maximum revenue from the sector, in acy than to elevate it from low- successful that most Canadians Coming on the heels of his con- this case through what looks like an auctioned licensing fee. stakes game to chintzy pageant. If have forgotten that’s what the demnation of Iran, which is trying only it were that interesting. party is. to put its own nuclear power pro- Then there’s the LCBO. The government liquor monopoly, which – Jamie F. Reid, Toronto The opposition should keep Mr. gram in place, it seems somewhat for the benefit of the Beer Store has long been restricted in its beer ...... Harper guessing and losing sleep illogical to show such support for – not show its hand like rubes sit- India which, along with North sales – including not selling anything bigger than a six-pack – will Vets deserve better ting down to poker with a card- Korea, Pakistan and Israel, is not a now be permitted to “conduct a 10-store pilot study to explore the sharp. It must offer the public one signatory of the Nuclear Non- big tent of middle, left and Green Proliferation Treaty, nor the Com- viability of offering 12-packs.” Gosh. A pilot project. To study ...... before election day. That is the prehensive Test Ban Treaty. whether it’s humanly possible to sell more than six beers. That is What are we to think of a govern- only sure way to rid our democra- India first tested a nuclear de- ment that increasingly involves cy of a politics of fear, environ- vice called “Smiling Buddha” surely the most revolutionary idea since the fall of the Bastille. us in wars, yet won’t take care of mental destruction and contempt about 40 years ago by using pluto- But be of good cheer: The government is ordering The Beer Store our injured vets (Veterans Affairs for the values that two-thirds of nium produced in a Canadian- Cut Despite Warnings – April 16)? us hold dear. supplied reactor; now there will to “improve the experience of its customers.” It promises to spend Or a government that can’t – Ronald Wright, be seven-million pounds of urani- $100-million to “modernize,” with 80 per cent of the money “allo- manage to make laws that con- Saltspring Island, B.C. um shipped there from Saskatch- form to our Constitution? ...... ewan over the next five years. cated to retail store improvements.” Please call the Beer Ombuds- Or a government that turns a Let me add my cheers to letter – Bernie Smith, Parksville, B.C. man with your interior decorating suggestions. surplus into a deficit, then crip- writer David Greer’s for Elizabeth ...... ples its ability to repay by reduc- May as leader of a possible coali- Are my eyes deceiving me or did I This is a plan not to #FreeTheBeer. It’s more of a scheme to ing taxes for political purposes? tion of the three progressive par- see Stephen Harper and Narendra #SaveTheBeerStore. Queen’s Park wants to ensure the golden Despite Conservative criticisms ties (Ms. May For PM – April 16). Modi emerge from the same jet of the abilities of Liberal Leader I would be proud to have her as following a flight from Ottawa to goose keeps on laying golden eggs, albeit with more of them end- Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader our prime minister and her gen- Toronto? In this day and age, we ing up in government coffers. For example, the Clark panel notes Thomas Mulcair, I doubt either der is by no means my primary have the Prime Minister of Cana- could have done a worse job of consideration. It just adds to the da and the Prime Minister of India that it initially favoured allowing the LCBO to sell 12-packs, but running our country – even if many qualities she has demon- both flying on the same plane? backed off and now merely wants to “explore” the idea. Why? “This they tried to. strated during her career: intelli- Go figure. – Doug Gregory, Pickering, Ont. gence, leadership, common – Ron Kelterborn, initiative,” says the report, “may significantly erode the econom- ...... sense, integrity, outspokenness Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. ics” of The Beer Store.” Well, yes, competition might do that. Once again we note the arrogance and oratorical ability...... of the Harper government: “We I regret that the Liberals and Letters to the Editor should be The greatest irony of all? The Beer Store announcement came on make no apologies for reducing NDP seem intimidated by the exclusive to The Globe and Mail. the same day as the more controversial, more complex overhaul of bureaucratic expenses at Veterans Conservatives to the point of shy- Include name, address and daytime Affairs Canada,” states MP Parm ing away from any hint of a coali- phone number. Keep letters under the province’s electricity system – which is similarly motivated by a Gill, then-parliamentary secretary tion. There is nothing wrong 150 words. Letters may be edited need for cash. That deal, which may net the province as much as to the veterans affairs minister. about a system that has been for length and clarity. This government loves to wrap working well for a number of oth- E-mail: [email protected] $9-billion, but possibly at the cost of future revenues down the road, could ultimately have a much bigger impact on consumers ...... EDITORIAL MASTHEAD than fiddling with booze sales...... It’s a topic we’ll return to next week. SCOTT ADAMS, HEAD OF NEWSROOM DEVELOPMENT TONY KELLER, EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR GABE GONDA, HEAD OF FEATURES & WEEKEND DEVIN SLATER, HEAD OF EDITORIAL DESIGN NATASHA HASSAN, COMMENT EDITOR SYLVIA STEAD, PUBLIC EDITOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 S COMMENT • A11 Editorial & Comment
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ALBERTA ELECTION U.S. TRADE NEGOTIATIONS When anger votes, all bets are off TPP tactics – or threats?
...... ry. And then the PCs were 51-per-cent support among com- political spectrum. “He’s boxed DEREK BURNEY returned with an even bigger ma- mitted voters in Edmonton, himself in,” observes Mount Roy- FEN OSLER HAMPSON jority. which is the historical heartland al University’s David Taras. What the recent polls here of the party in Alberta. Rejuve- Consequently, Mr. Prentice has ...... don’t tell you is who they’re nated under the charismatic spent virtually every day on the onsidering what’s at stake for reaching. Will the people these leadership of Rachel Notley, the campaign trail fending off attacks CCanada in the Trans-Pacific GARY MASON firms are talking to actually vote Dippers have a real shot at win- from his two main rivals. If it’s Partnership talks, it’s hard to [email protected] on election day? In the last B.C. ning a majority of the 19 seats up not the NDP railing on about know whether all the hype ema- election, polls from the begin- for grabs in the capital. unacceptable hospital wait times nating from Washington these ...... ning to the end of the campaign Edmonton is a town of civil ser- and the decision to raise taxes for days about a “fast-approaching CALGARY had the New Democrats cruising vants, the same ones Mr. Prentice everyone but corporations, it’s finish line” is accurate – or simp- ...... to an easy victory. What the poll- says have been living too high off Wildrose criticizing the Tories for ly good, old-fashioned American nother day on the Alberta ing companies didn’t appear to the hog and need to have their continuing to allow debt to bal- negotiating tactics. Aelection trail, another poll factor in was that most of the 18- pay grades brought down a few loon while not shrinking the size Finish lines, like red lines, do suggesting the province’s natural 25-year-olds who said they were notches. This is also the same po- of government enough. have a certain elasticity with the governing party is in big trouble. going to vote NDP didn’t end up litical constituency, interestingly The opposition has done a good current administration, as we’ve This may go down as one of the casting a ballot. Sadly, it’s just not enough, that helped the PCs job of keeping Mr. Prentice on the seen repeatedly in Syria, the Unit- strangest elections in the prov- something 20-somethings are in- defeat Wildrose in 2012 – now the defensive, at the same time ed States’ nuclear negotiations ince’s history. After being ruled clined to do in this country. Tories seem to have alienated ensuring the Premier doesn’t es- with Iran and Russia’s incursions by the Progressive Conservatives Back in Alberta, the polls have them completely. tablish any momentum of his in Ukraine. for more than 43 years, we are consistently shown a high unde- Meantime, small ‘c’ conserva- own. Instead, he has been forced A glimpse at history is reveal- now seeing polls that put the cided number. It’s not uncom- tives in the province weren’t im- to make new promises – no raises ing. As the negotiations on the New Democrats in a statistical tie mon for a vast swath of the pressed with the provincial for public servants until the North American free-trade agree- with the province’s right-wing electorate to make up their mind budget, which increased taxes, in- budget is balanced – that appear ment were about to conclude in option, Wildrose. The same Wild- in the last 24 to 48 hours of the creased debt and backed off the to be a direct response to Wild- late 1992, the Americans were rose many had given up for dead campaign. Some people don’t deep program cuts the govern- rose encroachments into their adamant that Canada and Mexi- last fall when its leader and 10 decide until they step behind the ment had been foreshadowing. conservative voter base. co both ratify the deal without others defected to the Tories. ballot box. Voter turnout in this Nor were they impressed with the No one knows where this will delay. Both complied. However, Most who follow politics have election is expected to be exceed- Tories’ involvement in the mass all finally end up. But Mr. Taras, a the United States did not manage become rightly suspicious of ingly low. Who does that favour? defection of Wildrosers. One political scientist who has ob- to ratify NAFTA for almost a full mid-campaign polls, so spectacu- No one knows for sure. senses that many people believe served elections here since 1986, year, delaying implementation to larly wrong have they been in All that said, there is little ques- it’s time the province’s long- believes something is afoot. 1994 after passage by the thinnest recent years. One of the most tion something is going on here standing government is taught a “There’s anger searching for a of margins – three votes in the egregious flameouts by these that has Jim Prentice and his Pro- lesson, both for its unbridled place to go. Right now, Jim Pren- House of Representatives. So, polling firms was in the last gressive Conservatives rattled arrogance and years of fiscal mis- tice is not looking like a symbol elastic timetables were in vogue Alberta election, when virtually and concerned. Don’t let them try management. of change.” even back then, and Congress, every opinion survey from the and tell you anything different. Through his actions, Mr. Pren- ...... not the administration, is the ul- opening of the campaign showed The NDP ascendancy is real. tice has created huge problems Follow me on Twitter: timate decision maker. the Wildrose on the road to victo- The latest poll shows them with for himself on both ends of the @garymasonglobe Canada’s motivation for the TPP negotiations is primarily defensive – namely to prevent the erosion of benefits under NAFTA – although we do stand to gain as well from significant mar- ket-access improvements in key Asian markets such as Japan, Ma- laysia and Vietnam. But it is Orwellian hypocrisy for the U.S. agricultural negotiator to issue warnings to her Canadian counterparts (through gullible Canadian journalists) about changes to supply management being the price of success. Cana- dians should not forget that these threats emanate from a representative of an administra- tion with farm subsidies – on a host of agricultural commodities – so large that they dwarf those of every country on Earth. One also has to wonder for whom American negotiators speak. At least the agricultural negotiator’s Canadian counter- part represents a government that has the authority not only to negotiate, but also to conclude trade agreements. The biggest fly in the TPP oint- ment at this juncture is that the U.S. administration does not yet have such authority from Con- gress. And while the hype sug- gests that congressional action is imminent, there is also talk of riders being added that would Russian President Vladimir Putin has referred to the Soviet collapse as a form of robbery of Russia. ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/GETTY IMAGES make the negotiating authority less than pure or unadulterated. GEOPOLITICS If authority is granted without hooks, Canada will have to decide whether the “get” from the overall negotiations exceeds The Soviet Union didn’t die the “give,” and whether the pain of a gradual unwinding of supply In Russia and Ukraine, the agony inflicted by the bear’s quest for empire lives on management is a price worth paying in the run-up to an elec- tion. Consumers certainly stand ...... to benefit as would Canadian SERHII PLOKHY France’s François Hollande. The that showed overwhelming the question of disputed borders food processors but supply man- Professor of history at Harvard key factor in the lack of progress (more than 90-per-cent) support and territories and step up its ef- agement has long been a third University, 25th winner of the Lionel remains the position of Russia, for independence, then-president forts to gather back the Soviet re- rail (sacred cow!) of sorts for all Gelber Prize for his book The Last which continues to arm, supply Boris Yeltsin of Russia explained publics more than 20 years after political parties. Empire: The Final Days of the and reinforce with its mercenar- to U.S. president George H.W. the Soviet Union’s collapse. Apart from the U.S. Congress, Soviet Union ies the separatist armies in Bush that Russia would not stay But the events of the past year Japan has a pivotal role on TPP. Ukraine’s east. Why does Russia in the Soviet Union if Ukraine de- have shown that there is no easy Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will ...... do so? parted – it did not want to be way back to the imperial past. visit Washington and address ast Sunday, as Orthodox Some world leaders, including outnumbered and outvoted by Russia has paid an enormous po- Congress later this month. For LChristians throughout the Ms. Merkel, have suggested that the Muslim republics of Central litical and economic price for its Japan, security ties with the Unit- world celebrated Easter, many in Russian President Vladimir Putin Asia. Mr. Yeltsin’s advisers were venture into Ukraine. The pres- ed States and the ulterior TPP Ukraine’s war-torn Donbass is living in another world. Former telling him that Russia could not sure of Western sanctions, cou- motive of containing China are region prayed for peace. It did American president Bill Clinton afford to subsidize other repub- pled with low oil prices, helped prominent factors favouring sup- not come. That day, in fact, the thinks Mr. Putin is trying to re- lics: Oil prices were barely above to send Russia’s economy into port for the negotiation. shelling intensified. According to store the greatness of Russia as a $20 per barrel, after falling to $10 recession. The annexation of Cri- TPP may become a “consum- Ukrainian authorities, there were 19th-century empire. Mr. Putin earlier in the year. mea, which now drains more mation devoutly to be wished,” 11 mortar attacks by Russia- denies that. But he has never Like many other former imperi- money from Russia’s state budget but there is no need to panic backed separatists. In villages on concealed his regret, even bitter- al powers, Russia opted out of than Chechnya, and the ongoing until the ink is dry and Congress the Ukrainian side, people were ness, about the fall of the Soviet the empire because it lacked the war in the Donbass add to the has spoken. And the best nego- afraid to go to church to bless Union. In a speech on the occa- resources to keep the costly im- existing price tag. tiating tactic for Canada is to their Easter bread, and in some sion of the Russian annexation of perial project going. Unlike most The time has come for the Rus- keep its powder dry and hedge places, Easter services were Crimea in March, 2014, he re- of its counterparts, however, it sian leadership and the public at its bets with concrete overtures cancelled altogether. Monday ferred to the Soviet collapse as a kept the rich oil and gas resourc- large to look back at 1991 not as a to China and India that could pay brought artillery shelling and form of robbery of Russia. es of the empire – most of the So- year of humiliation to be over- similar dividends and send a tank attacks. Six Ukrainian sol- That month, the Soviet empire viet oil and gas reserves were come, but as a time when the much-needed signal to Washing- diers were killed and 12 wound- that had disappeared 23 years located in Russian Siberia. Rus- Russian leadership realized that ton that we are not on their leash ed. On Wednesday, Organization earlier struck back as the Russian sian control over oil and gas the age of empires was over and and have other suitors who want for Security and Co-operation in leadership decided to rewrite his- resources made divorce from the made a number of pragmatic po- our products and our services. Europe (OSCE) observers count- tory. The saga of Soviet disinte- empire in 1991 easier in econom- litical and economic decisions ...... ed more than 700 explosions gration seems to have taken an ic terms and prevented armed that benefited Russia not only in Derek H. Burney, Canada’s ambas- around the city of Donetsk. unexpected turn. What hap- conflict between Russia and the the short but also in the long sador to the United States from This kind of news no longer pened in 1991, however, can not republics that declared indepen- term. 1989 to 1993, was directly involved makes headlines in the West. It only help explain the origins of dence. Over the past decade, ris- ...... in negotiating the Canada-U.S. free- has become the norm, despite the current crisis, but also sug- ing oil and gas prices have made Serhii Plokhy will receive his award trade agreement. Fen Osler Hamp- the recently signed Minsk II gest a solution. it possible for Russia to rebuild and deliver a free public lecture on son is director of Global Security at agreement negotiated by Ger- In late November, 1991, on the its economic potential and mili- April 21 at the Munk School the Centre for International Gover- many’s Angela Merkel and eve of the Ukrainian referendum tary might, allowing it to reopen of Global Affairs in Toronto. nance Innovation. A12 • NEWS S THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
FROM PAGE 1 Transgender: CAMH clinic approved 177 surgeries last year, up from 59 in 2010
...... Coverage varies from place 9 to place, and it remains diffi- cult to obtain surgeries and the hormone treatments that should precede them. A private Montre- al clinic is the only place in Can- ada that offers “bottom” surgery – genital reconstruction – while trans people who need estrogen or testosterone to begin their transitions often struggle to find co-operative doctors. “We’re not quite hitting the mark as a country,” said Adrian Edgar, a New Brunswick doctor who opened that province’s first trans-friendly health clinic earli- er this year inside Fredericton’s former Morgentaler clinic. “I don’t think there’s a province that is providing the full gamut of surgeries that would truly decrease the discrimination that people feel on a daily basis.” Waiting for gender reassign- ment surgery can have serious consequences, said Greta Bauer, an associate professor of epide- miology and biostatistics at the University of Western Ontario in London. “People’s lives are actually at risk,” she said. Dr. Bauer is one of the lead researchers on the Trans PULSE Chrystofer Maillet plays guitar at home in Ottawa on Tuesday. He took on $7,401.50 in debt for a double mastectomy in 2013. DAVE CHAN FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL project, which studied 433 Ontar- io trans people who responded an appointment – on Dec. 3, ested – at all.” hunching his shoulders and suf- said it doled out nearly $2.2-mil- to an 87-page questionnaire in 2013, nine months after his sur- About a decade ago, Mr. Mail- focating under chest binders lion on gender reassignment sur- 2009-2010. It found that people gery – the Health Services let moved to Ottawa to make a designed to camouflage his geries in 2014-15, up from just who had decided to transition Appeal and Review Board ruled fresh start. Identifying as a lesbi- breasts. When he learned about more than $22,000 in 2008-09, but had not begun to do so were against him, writing that al- an, he fell into an abusive rela- the waiting times at CAMH, Mr. the year the procedures were re- often suicidal – 55 per cent had though his case was “very com- tionship from which he Maillet found an Ottawa plastic listed under OHIP after a 10-year considered suicide in the past pelling,” the rules are clear. No eventually escaped. Then he surgeon who agreed to perform hiatus. year and 27 per cent had tried to CAMH pre-approval, no public landed a federal government job, the mastectomy after spending “We certainly support people take their own lives. Those fig- funding. made a small circle of friends more than three hours assessing being able to access these serv- ures plunged after people transi- By the time he made his plea and gained confidence as a sing- him to ensure he met the crite- ices closer to their own com- tioned to their desired gender. to the board, Mr. Maillet had er performing now and then at ria for approval set by the World munities,” Dr. McIntosh said. Mr. Maillet found himself in spent nearly a lifetime wrestling pubs in the capital. Meanwhile, Professional Association for “We’re not tied to this model of that high-risk category when he with gender dysphoria. He grew he dressed as a man and intro- Transgender Health (WPATH) – us being the only game in town.” decided to pay out of pocket for up in Riverview, N.B., where, as duced himself simply as “Chrys.” the same standard of care used For its part, Saskatchewan his double mastectomy on he put it in an interview, “there It was during a month-long by CAMH. added a second site – out of March 3, 2013. weren’t even gay people there.” solo hike on Spain’s Camino de The surgery was a success, but province in Edmonton – for sur- In a Jan. 28 decision dismissing His parents still love him, he Santiago trail in 2010 that Mr. losing his OHIP appeal made gery approvals last year to in- his $7,401.50 OHIP claim, the said, but they are baffled by his Maillet finally decided to make him feel hopeless. “I want to get crease access. Newfoundland still quasi-judicial board that hears decision to become a man. His the medical transition to married. I want to have kids. I lists CAMH as its lone approval appeals of OHIP rejections ac- father insists on calling him become a man. When he don’t know if I’m ever going to site. Some other provinces, in- knowledged that Mr. Maillet was Christine. returned to Ottawa, he started be able to move into a house cluding Nova Scotia, which only suffering as he awaited surgery. “Really, what was I going to testosterone treatments, which with the debt that I’m sitting began covering gender reassign- “He explained the difficulties he do? I always wanted to be a boy. prompted his voice to drop, his on,” he said. ment surgeries last year, allow experienced and the delays in You can see pictures that my leg hair to thicken and his mus- Dr. McIntosh of CAMH said the family doctors to grant approvals obtaining an appointment at family took of me from the age cles to bulge. He was sad to lose Ontario government needs to re- using the WPATH standards. CAMH,” the decision reads. “He of three until forever. They’re all, his female singing voice, but think the approval process as David Jensen, a spokesperson explained that he made the deci- like, building forts in the back- otherwise he “felt amazing.” demand continues to surge. The for Ontario’s Ministry of Health sion to undergo surgery to ‘save yard or playing Dukes of Haz- “It was like, this is exactly how clinic approved 177 surgeries last and Long-Term Care, said by his own life.’ ” zard or playing with I want to feel,” he said. year, he said, up from 59 in 2010, e-mail that “the ministry is Despite the fact that Mr. Mail- Transformers. Not typical femi- Unfortunately, his bulked-up but staff can’t keep pace with aware of concerns related to wait let received CAMH’s retroactive nine or female things. I never chest muscles made his breasts the need. The Ministry of Health times at CAMH and is exploring blessing when he finally secured went for that. I never was inter- larger; before long he was and Long-Term Care, meanwhile, options to improve wait times.”
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UKRAINE Pro-Russia journalist killed in Kiev Attack following slaying of politician decried as attempt to destabilize country and prompts quick responses from Putin, Poroshenko
...... LAURA MILLS KIEV, UKRAINE criminal investigations into four Wednesday. Mr. Yanukovych, “In Ukraine, they claim to be a flown in Russia since the Feb. 27 ...... of the apparent suicides, but top along with many of his closest democratic country. … Where killing near the Kremlin of op- A journalist with strong pro-Rus- security officials have dismissed associates, fled to Russia last year are the murderers of these peo- position leader Boris Nemtsov. sia views was shot and killed in suggestions the deaths could be amid a pro-Europe uprising in ple? They haven’t found them, Russian officials have called that Kiev on Thursday, hours after a homicides and say they aren’t Kiev against his government. neither the people who commit- a provocation aimed at destabi- former ally of deposed Ukrainian connected. President Petro Poroshenko ted the crime nor those who lizing Russia. Mr. Putin on Thurs- president Viktor Yanukovych was The General Prosecutor’s office called for a transparent investiga- ordered it. In Europe and in day said it was “absolutely tragic slain outside his home, the Inte- couldn’t be reached for comment tion of the two latest killings and North America, they prefer not and shameful,” but praised rior Ministry said. on Thursday. condemned the attacks as the to notice this.” investigators for the quick identi- Ukrainian officials denounced Oles Buzyna, a journalist and work of Ukraine’s adversaries. Mr. Putin’s quick reaction to fication of suspects. the attacks, suggesting they were writer with vocally pro-Russia “This is a deliberate provocation the event reinforced talk among In Kiev, the killings come amid likely an outside attempt to de- views, was killed by masked gun- that plays into the hands of our many Ukrainian politicians that increasingly nationalistic lan- stabilize the country. But the kill- men who fled the scene in a blue enemies,” Mr. Poroshenko said. the deaths were a Russian guage against those with pro- ings have also prompted Ford vehicle, the Interior Minis- “This is aimed at destabilizing attempt to undermine the Kiev Russia views. The home address- concerns about the effects of ris- try said. the internal political situation in government. es of both Mr. Buzyna and Mr. ing anti-Russia sentiment in the The newspaper Segodnya said Ukraine, and at discrediting the “It seemed to me that the host Kalashnikov were listed on a country. Mr. Buzyna had worked there as political choice of the Ukrainian [of the call-in show] had so care- website dedicated to publicizing The shootings come after a a columnist and special corre- people.” fully thought through each word information about pro-Russia spate of mysterious deaths spondent since 2006, and as edi- Russia’s President Vladimir of the question that he might politicians, journalists and activ- among Ukrainian officials with tor-in-chief from January, 2015 Putin, when questioned in his have known about the tragedy in ists. ties to Mr. Yanukovych, as at until March. Mr. Buzyna then annual call-in show on Thursday Kiev ahead of time,” Anton While the creators of the web- least six politicians, many of quit the newspaper, accusing it in Moscow about the killing of Gerashchenko, adviser to the site say it is run by volunteers, whom were facing criminal of censorship and forcing him to Mr. Buzyna, said it was a politi- Ukrainian Ministry of Interior, Mr. Gerashchenko and other offi- charges, died in what local police write positively about Ukrainian cally motivated attack and crit- wrote on his official Facebook cials have publicly promoted the deemed as suicides between Jan- officials. icized what he said was Ukraine’s page. “Oles Buzyna and Oleg platform as a useful tool to help uary and March. The journalist’s death came reluctance to investigate similar Kalashnikov are sacrificial vic- government agencies root out In an April 4 intragovernmen- after 52-year-old Oleg Kalashni- crimes. tims.” potential threats to the govern- tal letter reviewed by The Wall kov, a member of Mr. Yanuko- “This is not the first political The debate surrounding the ment in Kiev. Street Journal, the General Prose- vych’s Party of Regions, was killing. In Ukraine, we have seen two killings in Kiev is an eerie ...... cutor’s office said it had opened gunned down in Kiev late on a series of such killings,” he said. echo of the allegations that have Dow Jones Newswires
GREECE COURTS Police, protesters and paint Former ...... rap mogul to stand trial on murder charges
...... BRIAN MELLEY RAQUEL MARIA DILLON LOS ANGELES ...... Marion (Suge) Knight will stand trial on murder and attempted- murder charges after the former rap music mogul struck two men with his pickup truck in January, killing one and seri- ously injuring the other. Superior Court Justice Ronald Coen made the ruling Thursday after concluding a hearing that focused heavily on testimony from Cle (Bone) Sloan, who was hit outside a Compton burger stand. The judge also reduced bail from $25-million (U.S.) to $10-million. Mr. Sloan told detectives he attacked Mr. Knight but testified Monday he didn’t remember the fight and did not want to be a “snitch.” Prosecutors played Mr. Sloan’s statement to police, which offered a lucid, detailed account of the events Jan. 29 that led up to the deadly en- counter. Authorities contend Mr. Knight intentionally hit the Riot police, who had red paint thrown on their shields, face off against leftist protesters at a rally in Athens seeking the abolition of new high-security men, killing Terry Carter, 55. Mr. prisons. The police responded with tear gas and stun grenades. ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS/REUTERS Knight’s lawyer, Matt Fletcher, says his client was ambushed and was trying to escape Mr. RELIGION Sloan’s attack when he ran over the men. Mr. Sloan’s testimony demon- Pope Francis drops investigation strated the difficulty in prose- cuting Mr. Knight, who has gang ties and a reputation for intimi- of U.S. Catholic nuns group dating witnesses. “I will not be used to send Suge Knight to prison,” Mr...... Sloan testified, adding that he LAURIE GOODSTEIN of the Jesuit order. Sister Pat Farrell, the president of was only on the stand because ...... The news came in a brief report the Leadership Conference at the he was subpoenaed. The Vatican has abruptly ended issued jointly by the Leadership time. “Our understanding is that Prosecutors granted Mr. Sloan, its standoff with U.S. nuns, Our understanding is that we Conference of Women Religious we need to continue to respond a former gang member who’s announcing that the investiga- need to continue to respond and the three U.S. bishops who to the signs of the times, and the known Mr. Knight for decades, tion and oversight of the nuns’ had been appointed by the Vat- new questions and issues that limited immunity after he said main leadership group has been to the signs of the times, and ican three years ago to take over arise in the complexities of mod- he intended to invoke his Fifth finished two years earlier than the new questions and issues and overhaul the organization. ern life are not something we see Amendment right to avoid self- expected, without instituting any that arise in the complexities The report cast the process as as a threat.” incrimination. major changes that would affect one of “collaboration,” saying, The sisters were essentially Mr. Knight, 49, was a key the group’s practices or direction. of modern life are not “Our extensive conversations caught in the riptide between a player in the gangster rap scene Four of the leaders of the U.S. something we see as a threat. were marked by a spirit of prayer, progressive wing of the Catholic that flourished in the 1990s. nuns’ group, the Leadership Con- love for the Church, mutual re- Church eager for change and Mr. Sloan, an adviser on the ference of Women Religious, spect, and cooperation. We found reform and a traditionalist flank upcoming film Straight Outta were called to an unexpected Sister Pat Farrell our conversations to be mutually focused on returning to what it Compton, said he was trying to meeting Thursday with Pope Former president of Leadership beneficial.” sees as doctrinal fundamentals. forget details of the crash, in Francis in the Vatican that lasted Conference of Women Religious It was a far cry from three years Most of the nuns have spent which he suffered two fractured 50 minutes. He did not speak ago, when the Vatican’s doctrinal their lives serving the sick or ankles, a serious cut to his publicly, but the sisters said after- office, led by an American Cardi- needy – and not engaged in bat- head, two torn knee ligaments ward in a statement that they nal, William Levada, issued a tles over theology. But when and a shoulder injury. were “deeply heartened” by Fran- report finding that the Leader- some sisters began to question “Every day, I try to forget it,” cis’s “expression of appreciation” ship Conference had “serious church prohibitions on women Mr. Sloan said. “I just know I for the lives and ministry of Cath- doctrinal problems.” It said the serving as priests, artificial birth screwed up, and Terry’s dead.” olic sisters. sisters were questioning church control or the acceptance of Mr. Sloan’s memory troubles The sweeping investigation of doctrine on homosexuality and same-sex relationships, their reli- prompted the judge to com- U.S. women’s religious orders was the male-only priesthood, and gious orders did not shut down ment on his testimony: “I find begun under Francis’ predeces- promoting “radical feminist such discussion or treat it as that this witness is being decep- sor, Pope Benedict XVI, at the themes incompatible with the apostasy. tive.” urging of U.S. and some foreign Catholic faith.” The sisters have said for years The judge also heard from the prelates who accused the sisters The power struggle between that they see no contradiction in lead detective investigating the of disobeying the bishops and de- the nuns and the church’s hierar- embracing the Catholic faith case and watched security-cam- parting from Catholic doctrine. It chy had been building for dec- while also being open to ques- era footage of the crash. The set off protests by Catholic laype- ades. At issue were questions of tioning certain church teachings camera caught a limited view of ople across the country, who obedience and autonomy, what it based on new information or the parking lot but shows Mr. signed petitions and sent letters means to be a faithful Catholic new experiences. Knight struggling with Mr. Sloan to the Vatican in defence of the and different understandings of Without taking a stand in through the window of his truck sisters. the Second Vatican Council. favour of the ordination of wom- before putting the vehicle in The matter has now been In 2012, nuns with the Leader- en or the acceptance of same-sex reverse, striking Mr. Sloan, then brought to an early conclusion by ship Conference argued that the relationships, members insisted hitting him again and running Francis, who has never spoken Vatican under Pope Benedict that open discussion of church over Mr. Carter while fleeing the directly about it in public but has seemed to regard questioning as doctrine was not only their right scene. often talked of the important defiance, while the sisters saw but was also healthy for the Mr. Knight faces up to life in role of women in the church and their stance as a form of faithful- church. prison if convicted in the case. the nuns and priests in religious ness. “We have a differing per- ...... orders. 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STREETWISE ENERGY REAL ESTATE Calloway REIT Bay St. girds for Hydro One IPO to acquire Ed Clark says province will rein in fees for dealers from stock sale of power utility SmartCentres
...... SEAN SILCOFF OTTAWA try has never seen before. So allow hundreds of supermarkets billion. TAMSIN McMAHON NIALL McGEE TORONTO there is not going to be a lot of to sell beer, a move that will Investment banks typically REAL ESTATE REPORTER ADRIAN MORROW TORONTO money made off this in Bay weaken the market clout of the earn a percentage in the mid-sin- ...... Street, I can tell you that,” said Beer Store, owned by major gle digits from IPO proceeds, al- Calloway Real Estate Investment Ed Clark is warning his former Mr. Clark, the retired chief execu- breweries. though giant-sized IPOs for hot Trust is purchasing SmartCentres Bay Street colleagues not to tive officer of Toronto-Dominion But even if the government can tech stocks like Facebook have and changing its name to expect a bonanza of fees from Bank who is leading the Ontario press investment banks to cut paid as little as 1.1 per cent. One SmartREIT in a deal that will the initial public offering of government’s asset sale efforts. their underwriting rates, the ini- banker familiar with the govern- create one of Canada’s largest Hydro One, which could be the The Ontario government on tial public offering of Hydro One ment’s plans said Hydro One retail landlords. largest Canadian new stock issue Thursday confirmed it plans to and subsequent share sales is could “grind down” fees to the For $1.16-billion, Calloway will in 15 years. sell 15 per cent of its electricity still likely to shower Bay Street low 3-per-cent range, similar to acquire 24 shopping centres, “We are quite determined that transmission and distribution with lucrative fees from the sale what Twitter paid on its 2013 ini- mainly in Ontario and Quebec, 16 when we do go public, you will utility within the next year to of equity the government figures tial share offering. of which are anchored by Wal- see a fee structure that the indus- public investors. It also plans to is currently worth at least $8.1- Hydro One, Page 5 Mart Stores Inc. The properties are 99.7-per-cent occupied and existing leases with retail tenants average 12.6 years, Calloway presi- dent and chief executive Huw Thomas said. The deal also includes nearly two million square feet of devel- opment space. Calloway paid an additional $55-million for Smart- Centres’ intellectual property, in- cluding its trademark Penguin logo, and contracts and retail de- velopment and leasing expertise. “The proposed transaction will reinforce our position as a leading Canadian retail REIT,” Mr. Thom- as said in a call with investors. “This transaction represents a very sizeable increase in our high- quality portfolio of real estate and will add to both our existing foot- print and our future pipeline.” The deal will cement Calloway’s position as the largest landlord to Wal-Mart in Canada, boosting its assets to $8.3-billion and 31 mil- lion sq ft of retail space in more than 120 shopping centres. The company also intends to expand its plans for mixed-use develop- ment and add SmartCentres’ real estate development and leasing expertise to its operations. Calloway, Page 8 Construction worker Andrew Eva in Edmonton: ‘The winter was slow ... but now there’s nothing.’ JASON FRANSON FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL ECONOMY INTERNATIONAL TRADE ALBERTA’S REVERSAL OF FORTUNE Hewers of wood, Drop in energy-sector investment ripples through economy – and the provincial election campaign drawers of water
...... JEFFREY JONES CALGARY making your money,” Mr. Eva, 29, BIG NUMBERS servative budget, which projects BARRIE McKENNA ...... said. “The winter was slow – a $5-billion (Canadian) deficit, ndrew Eva moved to Edmon- there was still a bit of work – but $5-billion even after $1.5-billion in new tax- ...... Aton from Toronto five years now there’s nothing.” es and user fees to replace some wo seemingly disparate ago, seeking the high wages and As crude sank to about $50, Alberta’s 2015-16 deficit of the waning oil revenue. Tevents this week expose a living standard the province long companies clawed back billions ...... Mr. Eva has the benefit of a stark truth about what the world afforded newcomers who don’t of dollars of spending on drilling, 0.4% base salary, a luxury in oil-field wants from Canada. mind a little hard work. prompting industry-wide layoffs. services. That and his savings will Indian Prime Minister Narendra He landed a job in construc- It’s also forced a rethink of how Expected 2015 GDP growth carry him through what is Modi was in Ottawa to buy some tion, and a couple years later as government funds everything ...... expected to be the slowest sum- uranium to fuel the country’s the oil patch boomed, he took a from health care to roads and 5.7% mer in years, but it’s not the nuclear plants. position with a contractor that bridges as Albertans prepare to route to the “big bucks” he And in Winnipeg, a Saudi-U.S. readies wellbores for rigs to begin head to the polls in a May 5 elec- Projected unemployment rate expects. The downturn means, at group bought what’s left of the drilling. Business was brisk with tion. the least, a pause for those like Canadian Wheat Board, the oil around $100 (U.S.) a barrel. Alberta’s worsening economy is him seeking their fortune in the government’s former grain mar- Time off was rare. the top issue of the provincial province, he says. keting monopoly. Not any more. campaign. Albertans are being Indeed, the outlook has deteri- To much of the world, Cana- “In the winter time, when it’s asked to accept or reject Premier orated quickly. dians are what they always have really busy, that’s when you’re Jim Prentice’s Progressive Con- Alberta, Page 8 been – hewers of wood and draw- ers of water. Ottawa has a strategy of diver- AUTOMOTIVE STREETWISE sifying our trade relations into distant and fast-growing markets, Magna chooses to exit Asset manager Aston Hill including Asia and the Middle East, while demanding better access for investors and knowl- the auto interiors business looking for a buyer edge-based exporters. But in the end, what many of ...... these countries really covet is our GREG KEENAN excludes Magna’s seating and TIM KILADZE people familiar with the discus- wheat, uranium, oil, iron ore, AUTO INDUSTRY REPORTER lighting businesses, will be pur- NIALL McGEE sions. nickel and potash...... chased by Grupo Antolin of Spain ...... The overtures have been made Mr. Modi, for example, wants to Magna International Inc. is exit- for $535-million (U.S.). The opera- Executives at Aston Hill Finan- at a volatile time for the asset transform India into a manufac- ing the highly competitive and tions generated $2.4-billion in cial Inc. have been shopping manager. Aston Hill recently lost turing powerhouse. He talked low-profit-margin automotive in- revenue for Magna last year, but their firm to other asset manag- a high-profile mandate to man- this week about wanting Canada teriors business as part of its stra- no profit figures were released. ers, hoping to find a buyer. age $2.2-billion worth of funds to become a “key partner” in tegy to narrow its product range “This transaction is consistent Over the past two months, for IA Clarington Investments every facet of its economic devel- and focus on the chunks of a vehi- with our strategy of refining our senior employees at Aston Hill, Inc., prompting the company to opment. But when he was asked cle that generate healthier product portfolio to focus on cer- whose operations are largely slash its dividend. by a reporter what India wanted returns. tain key areas of the vehicle,” split between Calgary and In February, IA Clarington from Canada in ongoing bilateral The interiors business, which Magna chief executive officer Don Toronto, have reached out to announced it would not renew a trade talks, he seemed to have includes door and instrument Walker said in a statement several Canadian firms and ex- contract that allowed Aston Hill mainly our natural resources on panels, overhead systems and car- announcing the deal. pressed interest in selling their to subadvise three of its funds. his mind. go management parts, but Magna, Page 8 company, according to multiple Aston Hill, Page 8 McKenna, Page 7
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COMMENT & ANALYSIS
...... ECONOMY LAB Budgetary rules strengthen our democracy
...... 70s and the 90s, by which time we were spending 30 cents of every tax dollar simply to service the interest on the money we’d already borrowed. That money was not available for needed BRIAN LEE CROWLEY public services. We were only able to fix that ...... when Jean Chrétien and Paul o balance or not to balance? Martin decided voluntarily to TThat is the question. renounce budgetary discretion In the hoopla surrounding the and to subject everything to the federal government’s proposed balanced budget rule. When they balanced budget legislation, edi- drove through the thicket of es- torialists and others have rightly tablished interests that loved drawn attention to the need for Ottawa’s spending and didn’t politicians to have discretion in care if future generations were budgetary matters. This goes to mortgaged to pay for it, the the heart of parliamentary de- results were stellar. It kicked off a mocracy: the ability of the cur- decade in which Canada outper- rent Parliament to decide what formed its Group of Seven peers taxes to impose and how to on virtually every measure that spend the money according to matters: growth, job creation, the conditions of the day and investment and poverty reduc- then to be answerable for their tion, for instance. decisions at election time. From Yes, politicians should have dis- this need for discretion, many of cretion to respond to unforeseen them (including this newspaper’s circumstances, but that does not editorial board) conclude that mean that the discretion should any fettering of that discretion is be absolute. We should make wrong in principle. clear that our baseline assump- Rules and discretion are not in- tion is governments should compatible, however, but are in- impose the taxes needed to pay dispensable complements to one for the services they propose to another. Nowhere is this truer The transparency in party finances has been an overall benefit for our democracy, though there were plenty of provide. than in democracy. critics who predicted devastating consequences for Canada’s political parties. PATRICK DOYLE/BLOOMBERG We should similarly make clear Much of the history of parlia- that deviations from this baseline mentary democracy has been ment’s record when election time corporate and trade-union fund- ly if they’re following through. are permitted where circum- about taming arbitrary discre- arrives. ing is gone. The resulting trans- Shine a spotlight on their actions. stances warrant, but that politi- tion, people in power making up Sometimes it might be useful parency in party finances has Hold them accountable for pro- cians must be transparent about the rules as they go along. for public authorities to be able been a boon, although there were gress or its absence. it and have to justify publicly Charles I was the last guy to to arrest us because they think plenty who predicted devastating The problem of a lack of formal their decision and their plan for think his untrammelled will was we might be engaged in criminal consequences for our political yardsticks of budgetary discipline returning to balance as soon as the principal safeguard of the in- activity. But because such discre- parties. is not a theoretical one for Cana- practical. It may be hard to get terests of the realm. Look how tion can be abused, we subject In international affairs, Ronald da. On the contrary, we had a the rules just right, and we may well that worked out for him. their powers of search and arrest Reagan famously summed up the long experience of what politi- need to experiment with them. Because the power we entrust to rules and hold them accounta- principle at work when discuss- cians, empowered by a vaguely That, however, is not an argu- to politicians is both necessary ble for abuses. ing whether the Soviet Union grasped Keynesian juju, did with ment against having rules but can be abused, successful de- Central banks used to have could be trusted to follow their unfettered budgetary dis- governing budgetary discretion, mocracies look for ways to estab- enormous unfettered discretion through on its nuclear disarma- cretion. but rather for getting on with es- lish guideposts for how we think to adjust interest rates, a power ment commitments. Trust, Mr. Yes, they borrowed and “stim- tablishing what they should be. that power ought to be used. they thought was indispensable Reagan said, but verify. In other ulated” in bad times, but the po- ...... Having those standards of what to their effectiveness. We’ve words, get the Soviets to agree to litical benefits of spending Brian Lee Crowley (twitter.com/ sensible and thoughtful steward- largely tamed that power, too, certain targets and objectives and without taxing felt so good that brianleecrowley) is the managing ship of power looks like both requiring increased transparency give them some discretion in they could not stop in good director of the Macdonald-Laurier constrains the decisions of the in their plans and decisions. how to achieve them, but at the times. Institute, an independent non-parti- powerful and gives us good In Ottawa, the discretion that same time make sure you have We were saddled with 22 years san public policy think tank in guides to judging the govern- political parties enjoyed to accept the means to establish objective- of budget deficits between the Ottawa: www.macdonaldlaurier.ca.
DISCLOSURES A WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF ODDS AND ENDS FROM THE WORLD OF BUSINESS JOURNALISM 9 BY IAN MORFITT Globe and ...... CEO scandals hurt Gold mining Finger-lickin’ That coffee’s Mail wins six the bottom line on the silver screen good coffee out of this world SABEW Best
...... in Business No one expects a CEO to be a “This might be the best Canadian Of all the competitors you’d And speaking of coffee, Elon saint, but the behaviour of some movie you have ever seen.” think Starbucks might ever face, Musk’s SpaceX had a special de- awards bad boys in the corner office can Then again, it might not. But KFC would likely be near the bot- livery to make to the Internation- cost a lot more than their mar- that’s the slogan touting a tom of your list. But that’s what’s al Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday. riages. planned cinema treatment of the happening in China, where the Although the unmanned Dra- ...... A study by three American aca- Bre-X mining scandal. chain plans to offer high-end cof- gon failed to land its rocket boos- STAFF demics about chief executives – Promotional material for a fee in about 2,500 of its 4,500 out- ter as planned, its 1,800-kilogram ...... 96 per cent of whom are male – script reading of Bre-X The Movie: lets, the China Daily USA reports. payload of supplies is expected The Globe and Mail has won six found that sex scandals, sub- Going for the Motherlode – The But if KFC tries the plan in Brit- to arrive today, and among it is awards from the first Best in stance abuse, violence and dis- Motherlode of all Time arrived in ain, there’s one former customer an espresso machine, dubbed the Business competition by the So- honesty can pull the rug out Disclosures’ inbox this week. they won’t be able to count on. ISSpresso, specially designed by ciety of American Business Edi- from under shareholder value, The invite for the script reading Raymond Allen, one of the few Italy’s Lavazza to spare astronaut tors and Writers (SABEW) Fortune reported Tuesday. was accompanied by a document people in the world to have KFC’s Samantha Cristoforetti the hor- Canada. Of the 219 CEOs whose indiscre- attendees were required to sign, secret recipe after bringing Colo- rors of instant coffee. Presented in Toronto on tions came to light, companies pledging they would not “Record, nel Sanders’s business to Britain Take that, KFC. Wednesday evening, nine awards on average suffered a $226-mil- video or photograph any part of 50 years ago, told The Daily Tele- recognized outstanding business lion (U.S.) loss in shareholder the Reading,” or “Disclose or graph this week he won’t set foot journalism in 2014. value in the following three days. communicate [including by in the place again, calling its food 6 Retail reporter Marina Strauss And the whole mess doesn’t just social media] any part of the “dreadful.” won the beat reporting category. blow over after the media turn Reading or anything about the “Instead of staying with one 6 European bureau chief Eric Reg- away – the damage continues: Reading.” Oops. good thing that was sellable, they uly won the commentary catego- Stocks of those companies fell, All a little odd for a press pack- have tried to compete with the ry for his work in Report on on average, between 11 per cent age, but in keeping with the spir- other fast food units. They Business magazine. and 14 per cent in the following it of the project, Disclosures will should have just stuck with the 6 Reporter Grant Robertson won 12 months. only communicate that there chicken.” the investigative category for his While Disclosures doesn’t like may or may not have been a series on pot stock manipulation to moralize, there seems to be an script reading this week. amid Ottawa’s efforts to build a obvious moral to this story. The drama continues. new industry. 6 Reporter and columnist Rob ET CETERA Carrick won the personal finance ...... and investing category. 6 DILBERT REPORT ON BUSINESS Reporter Tavia Grant’s story No ...... Safe Use, which exposed asbestos Deputy Editor: as the most common cause of Mark Heinzl work-related deaths in Canada, Investment Editor: an epidemic the government has Darcy Keith ignored, won the multimedia cat- Senior Editors: egory. Photographers and video- Michael Bird graphers Louie Palu and Pawel Nicole MacAdam Dwulit, interactive designer Chris Roula Meditskos Manza, multimedia editor Laura Claire Neary Blenkinsop and editor Ted Mum- ford were also recognized. Assistant Editors: 6 Michael Babad Freelance writer Trevor Cole Gillian Livingston won the long-form feature cate- Aron Yeomanson gory for a story on Shopify foun- Feedback: der Tobias Lutke, Report on [email protected] Business magazine’s chief execu- tive officer of the year. Alistair MacDonald of The Wall Street Journal won two catego- ries, profile and short-form fea- ture, for a piece on a growing feud inside the Irving family. The news team at Bloomberg, includ- ing Ed Greenspon, Andrew Maye- da, Rebecca Plenty, Theophilos Argitis, Jeremy van Loon and Hugo Miller, won the package or ongoing series category for “Ener- gy Super Power,” a series on how Canada’s bid for energy super- power status has unravelled. Nominees included writers from the Financial Post, Cana- dian Business magazine, Maclean’s, MoneySense and the Huffington Post. THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 S REPORT ON BUSINESS • B3
REGULATION ENERGY North Talks delay updates to nuclear reactors Montney Ontario in a better bargaining position than in the past with Bruce Power, critics argue gas route gets ...... NEB approval SHAWN McCARTHY OTTAWA ...... Bruce Power and the Ontario ...... government are mired in nego- BRENT JANG VANCOUVER tiations for a $15-billion deal to ...... refurbish six nuclear reactors, The Pacific NorthWest LNG joint delaying the planned project past venture led by Malaysia’s Petro- a self-imposed deadline and pos- nas has received a boost with ing new questions about the the approval of TransCanada province’s future energy mix. Corp.’s pipeline project in north- The Liberal government insists eastern British Columbia. it remains committed to refur- This week’s majority ruling bishing Ontario’s aging nuclear from a National Energy Board fleet. However, both sides have panel paves the way for Trans- signalled they are concerned Canada to construct the North about potential cost over-runs, Montney Mainline gas route in and Bruce and its shareholders northeastern British Columbia, worry about the province’s where producers have enjoyed schedule, which would require success with prolific gas wells. the company to take units off- The North Montney Mainline line before the end of their com- would connect with TransCana- mercial life. da’s proposed Prince Rupert Gas The company – which operates Transmission project, which eight reactors on the shore of aims to take natural gas from Lake Huron – is majority owned the northeast part of the prov- by TransCanada Corp. and the ince to liquefied natural gas ter- Ontario Municipal Employees Re- minals envisaged for the West tirement System. It completed Coast, notably one proposed by hearings this week to extend its Pacific NorthWest LNG. operating licence for five years, Pacific NorthWest LNG presi- but it had hoped to be going full- Bruce Power and its shareholders fear the province’s schedule for refurbishment would require the company to idle dent Michael Culbert said the speed ahead with its refurbish- reactors before the end of their commercial life. NORM BETTS/BLOOMBERG venture must still clear other ment plans. hurdles in order to export LNG, With electricity demand falling “We continue to work with the 2014 to meet the integrated refur- Greenpeace nuclear analyst notably obtaining clearance in the province and Quebec eager province to turn the policy and bishment schedule,” it said. The Shawn-Patrick Stensil said. But from the Canadian Environmen- to supply power to its neighbour, intention of Ontario’s Long Term OPA added that if the two sides he questioned the need for tal Assessment Agency and re- critics argue Ontario has better Energy Plan into action,” James can’t reach agreements and reac- nuclear given the declining ducing costs related to options than to commit huge Scongack, Bruce’s vice-president tors are shut down starting in demand in the province, coupled engineering and subcontractors. amounts of capital to a 25-year for corporate affairs, said in an 2019, “more expensive gas-fired with lower costs for renewables The uncertainty surrounding the source of nuclear power, particu- e-mail, “and are committed to power and imports will be and Quebec’s willingness to sell LNG proposal is gradually dimin- larly given concerns around safe- being a low-cost source of reli- required.” Bruce and OPG pro- surplus power. ishing as the project’s list of to- ty and radioactive waste. able and clean electricity for dec- mote nuclear power as free of In testimony at the licensing do items get checked off, Mr. Provincially owned Ontario ades to come through continued greenhouse gases at a time when hearing, Bruce Power chief exec- Culbert said. The federal envi- Power Generation (OPG) is work- investment in our site.” Ontario is looking to reduce its utive Duncan Hawthorne said ronmental agency began its ing on its own $10-billion plan to The two sides had hoped to emissions. the province was looking to review of the Petronas-led pro- retool four reactors at Darlington wrap up negotiations by the end Premier Kathleen Wynne pro- impose a schedule that would be ject in April, 2013, and the much- as the province’s long-term plan of 2014 and submit the refurbish- vided a negotiating mandate that costly for the company because it delayed assessment could stretch envisions nuclear contributing 50 ment plan for approval from the would ensure Bruce and its sup- would idle reactors before they into September. per cent of Ontario’s power for Canadian Nuclear Safety Com- pliers cover all cost over-runs, needed to be refurbished. “We’re trying to remove the re- the foreseeable future. mission, according to a briefing and would adjust the minimum Meanwhile, TransCanada is maining items from a regulatory Bruce and the Independent note Greenpeace obtained under price that Bruce gets for power having to adjust its business plan and fiscal perspective, and put Electricity System Operator the Access to Information Act. from two of its reactors. An Aud- to account for delays in the Bruce ourselves in a position where we (IESO) – which is negotiating on The memo – prepared by the itor-General report on the 2005 refurbishment as well as major can make a final investment de- behalf of the province – remain IESO’s predecessor, Ontario Pow- refurbishment contract conclud- pipeline projects such as Key- cision in the context of where tight-lipped about negotiations er Authority (OPA) – said the ed the province committed to stone XL and Energy East, said the economics stack up,” Mr. to refurbish six of the eight reac- province had established a time- higher prices than it should have, analyst Steven Paget of First- Culbert said in an interview tors. The first two reactors were line under which Bruce and OPG and the province is looking to Energy Capital Corp. in Calgary. Thursday. “As we nail these retooled under a 2005 contract, a would take units off-line sequen- drive a harder bargain in the cur- Still, he said TransCanada also things down, it’s quite positive project that incurred more than tially in order to maintain secure rent round, sources close to the wants to squeeze as much cash in that we create the certainty $1-billion in cost over-runs and supply and keep costs down. talks said. from the existing reactors as pos- that is required to make the de- was delayed well past its due “An agreement with Bruce Pow- Ontario is in a better negotiat- sible before having to invest in cision.” date. er would need to be executed in ing position than it was in 2005, upgrading them. Two natural gas pipelines to be built by TransCanada – the $5-billion Prince Rupert Gas Transmission plan and the $1.7- billion North Montney Mainline VANCOUVER | CALGARY | EDMONTON | WINNIPEG | TORONTO | MONTREAL – are vital elements in Pacific NorthWest LNG’s quest to export natural gas in liquid form to cus- tomers in Asia. “This is another important piece of the puzzle to help us build an industry capable of sup- porting the demands of a global energy market,” a B.C. Natural Gas Development Ministry spokeswoman said. Both TransCanada lines hinge on the LNG project getting the go-ahead from Petronas and its Asian partners. The two pipeline projects are part of $36-billion in estimated spending required to launch exports from Pacific NorthWest LNG’s proposed $11.4-billion ter- minal on Lelu Island, located near Prince Rupert in northwest- ern British Columbia. TransCana- da said it “will continue to engage and work with affected aborginal groups on further op- portunities to address and miti- gate routing and other potential project impacts.” B.C. Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman, who returned to Canada recently after meeting Petronas executives in Malaysia, said in an interview this week that is he optimistic about Pacific NorthWest LNG. He will be playing host to Petronas executives when they visit Van- couver later this spring. Meanwhile, Royal Dutch Shell PLC executives have briefed Mr. Coleman by phone after the company announced its merger with BG Group PLC last week. Shell leads the LNG Canada joint venture proposing to build a B.C. export terminal in Kitimat while BG has selected a site on Ridley Island near Prince Rupert. “I spoke to some senior Shell folks in The Hague. They are quite bullish and solid, and this is If you’re looking for the best route to new capital, good for LNG Canada,” he said. “Their focus right now really is on LNG Canada.” the right transaction advice will guide the way. Analysts say Pacific NorthWest LNG and the Shell-led LNG Cana- Deciding to look for new equity is one thing. Deciding how best to find it is another. MNP Corporate Finance transaction advisors da project are two of the front- know the right roads to take – and the connections you need – to make whatever direction you’ve decided on work for you. We’ll runners among 19 B.C. LNG pro- develop strategies for every km of the journey – whether that journey is across the street or across the international date line. posals, though fierce competition and a looming glob- Contact Ted McCarron - President, Corporate Finance at 1.877.500.0792 or [email protected] al glut of LNG will mean only a handful of plans provincially stand a chance to proceed. Transaction advice that gets you there. Mr. Culbert said Mr. Coleman has reason to have a positive outlook on Pacific NorthWest LNG. “We are continuing to move forward, and I would share the optimism. We’re working hard to make it happen,” Mr. Culbert said. B4 • REPORT ON BUSINESS S THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
MEDIA Corus to offer Disney Channel in fall Popular kids’ TV shows such as Phineas and Ferb will no longer be on the Family Channel under a new distribution agreement
...... DAVID FRIEND at kids aged 2 to 6, and Family ...... XTRM, for viewers six to 12 in Canadian parents may find November. themselves channel surfing fran- Corus said Thursday that cur- tically to find their children’s fav- rent and new series will be fea- ourite TV shows this fall, as a tured on Disney Channel when lineup of Disney programs move the service launches on Sept. 1, to a different home under a new but the company declined distribution agreement requests for interviews about the announced Thursday. new agreement with Disney. Starting in September, Corus Among the unanswered ques- Entertainment Inc. will become tions is whether Corus will the first Canadian company to relaunch more of its kid-oriented offer Disney Channel, adding a channels. new layer of confusion to the al- The Toronto-based media com- ready muddled rights ownership pany already has a broad portfo- of U.S. content in Canada. lio of specialty TV channels For decades, kids have turned geared to young audiences, in- to the Family Channel to catch cluding YTV, Treehouse, Nickel- episodes of Disney’s most odeon and ABC Spark. famous shows, including car- Under the Disney agreement, it toons such as Phineas and Ferb also gains the streaming and ad- and live-action favourites such as supported video on-demand Wizards of Waverly Place and rights to certain shows. Hannah Montana. Between September and Janu- Soon they’re going to have to ary, DHX will continue broad- flip elsewhere, as all of the new- casting Disney content on the est Disney shows migrate to the Family Channel, but gradually new Canadian Disney Channel, the lineup will be replaced with leaving the Family Channel with more of its own programs, which a schedule of almost entirely dif- Disney cartoon Phineas and Ferb has long been viewed in Canada on the Family Channel, but will move to Corus’s include Canadian-produced ferent shows next year. Disney Channel in September. DISNEY CHANNEL/THE CANADIAN PRESS shows such as Justin Time0 and “While Disney programming The Next Step. has aired before in Canada, this swapped hands last year. DHX also acquired the Canadian those Disney channels, in name, DHX also plans to add new epi- is the first time Canadian audi- Family Channel was passed to versions of two Disney Junior doesn’t matter now. Both will be sodes of Monster High, Hot Wheels ences will be treated to the full DHX after the creator and dis- channels in English and French completely revamped and and Thomas & Friends under an Disney Channel experience,” tributor of kids programs got and Disney XD – each providing renamed by DHX, replaced with agreement with Mattel, it said. Corus said Thursday in an CRTC permission to buy three specific kids’ demographics with a fresh schedule and new exten- ...... e-mail. specialty TV channels that Bell a variety of Canadian shows sions of the DHX-owned Family The Canadian Press The arrival of Disney Channel Media was required to sell when sandwiched between Disney pro- brand...... comes after a number of Cana- it bought Astral Media. grams. DHX plans to launch Family Corus (CJR.B) da’s most-prized kids’ channels As part of that transaction, Essentially, the transfer of Junior and Famille Junior, aimed Close: $17.58, up 51¢
LAW Toronto legal software firm partners with U.S. player
...... JEFF GRAY LAW REPORTER known as “virtual data rooms” tracts signed by a target com- LLP to found Kira in 2011 along he would not name, found that ...... for law firms engaged in corpo- pany in a potential acquisition. with Alexander Hudek, a com- work that took two junior law- A Toronto legal startup that of- rate merger-and-acquisition Typically, they are looking for puter science PhD from the Uni- yers six and a half hours without fers law firms an artificially intel- deals. Virtual data rooms are potential liabilities or clauses in versity of Waterloo. the software could be done in ligent (AI) search engine that secure digital locations where contracts that hinge on a change It took more than two years just two and half hours by one can scour thousands of docu- companies bidding on a deal can of control and could cause prob- for the software to be ready, and junior lawyer using Kira’s search ments in the due diligence see all of the documents of the lems for the deal. legal experts are continually engine. And the computer-assist- phase of corporate mergers and firm they are seeking to acquire. This kind of AI search technol- helping the program “learn” ed work also had fewer errors, acquisitions is partnering with a Now, users of Intralinks will ogy is increasingly being used by how to better spot potential he said. major player in the U.S. also have access to Kira’s tool to law firms as clients push for low- issues or irregularities in con- While this may mean law firms Toronto-based Kira Inc., whose scour through tens of thousands er legal bills. For example, a vari- tracts. Mr. Waisberg said his soft- will need fewer junior lawyers Kira Diligence Engine is used by of a company’s contracts, mak- ety of companies offer AI ware has already been used to on this kind of file, Mr. Waisberg blue-chip firms such as Torys ing it possible for deals to close services aimed at so-called help clear $70-billion (U.S.) said doing this kind of grunt LLP, says it has a new partner- more quickly and more cheaply, “e-discovery” in litigation. worth of deals worldwide, with work at an elite firm after gradu- ship with New York-based Intra- the companies say. This software typically sorts most of its clients’ law firms ating with high marks from law links Holdings Inc. that will see Due diligence, which can rep- through the millions of e-mails based in the United States. Kira school is not ideal for associates Kira’s AI software put to work in resent 30 per cent or much more provided before a civil trial to now has more than 20 either: “There are certainly chal- many more major corporate of the total legal bill on a deal, is find information relevant to the employees. lenges to the junior associate deals. typically the kind of grunt work case. Mr. Waisberg said using his market. But I actually think Intralinks, which is listed on that law firms leave to their Kira founder and Torontonian software is about more than re- technology can, for firms that the New York Stock Exchange, is most junior lawyers, who must Noah Waisberg left elite New ducing billable hours. He said embrace it, really be something a large provider of what are sort through thousands of con- York firm Weil Gotshal & Manges one elite Bay Street firm, which that helps them drive business.”
REGULATION Canada’s new securities regulator faces another delay
...... JANET McFARLAND tive and regulatory foundation ...... for the Co-operative system,” the The launch of Canada’s new fed- parties said in a backgrounder eral-provincial securities regula- document issued in connection tor is facing a further delay until with Thursday’s announcement. at least the end of this year as The legislation and regulations officials now say they will not have already faced repeated publish the agency’s long-await- delays. In January, 2014, for ed regulations until some time example, the ministers said they this summer. had shifted the deadline for pub- The new Co-operative Markets lishing the legislation from Jan. The Honourable David R. Peterson Regulator, which will oversee 31, 2014, to April 30 last year, and P.C., Q.C., O.Ont., C. St. J., C.L.H., D.U., L.L.D securities regulation in provinces said the regulations would be that opt to join the system, was published by June 30. However, For his contributions, commitment and achievements initially supposed to be up and the legislation was not published as an outstanding global citizen and for a lifetime of running on July 1 this year. But until last September, and minis- delays in drafting legislation and ters then said the regulations public service: 20th Premier of Ontario, Chair of the regulations for the agency have would be delayed until Decem- Toronto 2015 Pan American and Parapan American pushed the deadline back signif- ber. In December, they said the Games Organizing Committee (TO2015) and Chairman, icantly. regulations were further delayed A notice issued Thursday by until “early spring.” Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP. ministers for the participating The new regulator is being governments said the latest plan overseen by a Council of Minis- Thursday, April 30, 2015 at 6 p.m. is to republish an updated ver- ters made up of ministers from Four Seasons – Toronto sion of draft legislation for the the federal government and each agency some time this summer participating province or territo- along with the detailed regula- ry. Join us to celebrate David by participating tions laying out how it will oper- The ministers announced in sponsorship or purchasing tickets! ate. The legislation was originally Thursday that Yukon has agreed www.unac.org/honouring-david-peterson/ published last September. to join the system, bringing the There is no new deadline for total number of participating Special appearance by very special guest Ronnie Hawkins the launch of the agency, but the provinces and territories to six. notice said the drafts coming this British Columbia, Saskatchewan, summer will be open for a 120- Ontario, New Brunswick and day comment period, which will Prince Edward Island have al- David Peterson will receive this award in the presence likely end late this year. The ready joined. The largest prov- of Her Honour the Hon. Elizabeth Dowdeswell, and the launch will follow any revisions inces not participating in the event will be chaired by Frank McKenna, P.C., O.C., O.N.B., in the model after a review of the system are Quebec and Alberta. Q.C., Deputy Chair TD Bank Group. public input. The ministers also announced The announcement said the that the council has named a legislation will be republished nominating committee of promi- With special thanks to our sponsors: Business attire with the regulations because nent people in the securities sec- many stakeholders – including tor who will recommend securities lawyers and public candidates for the initial board of companies that will operate un- directors that will oversee the der the new regime – complained new regulator. last year they could not properly The board of directors will have comment on the broad legisla- between nine and 12 members, tion creating the agency without all of whom must have capital
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INFRASTRUCTURE FROM PAGE 1 Champlain Bridge costs rise to $2.5-billion Hydro One: The St. Lawrence River span, which replaces an existing bridge, will be a public-private partnered project ‘This is a yield-hungry ...... NICOLAS VAN PRAET market’ MONTREAL ...... Estimates of the value of the ...... Champlain Bridge contract to Even at that rate, underwrit- SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.’s revenue 9 ers would fetch $60-million have ballooned to as much as in fees from an expected IPO of $2.5-billion as investor attention $2-billion worth of stock plus shifts to the engineering firm’s $180-million or more from subse- ability to complete the project at quent share sales over four years, a decent profit. which would take the govern- “We knew this contract was ment’s stake down to 40 per cent. going to be big. But on a $12.3- Requests for proposals for invest- billion backlog, I don’t have to do ment banks to work on the IPO the math for you, it’s huge,” said have already gone out to Bay Yuri Lynk, an analyst at Cana- Street. ccord Genuity in Montreal. “We’re The Hydro One privatization is worried about them not execu- part of a broader effort by the fis- ting properly. It’s the main risk cally challenged province to help that comes to mind.” pay for Premier Kathleen Wynne’s The Canadian government $29-billion transportation and in- announced late Wednesday that frastructure plan. Mr. Clark said in it picked a consortium led by an interview that the utility’s SNC-Lavalin and Spanish partner board will interview the big Cana- Grupo ACS to design, build, dian banks and likely select two finance, operate and maintain Ottawa announced Wednesday that a consortium led by SNC-Lavalin and Grupo ACS was chosen as the preferred to co-lead the offering. Several Montreal’s new Champlain proponent for construction of the new bridge over the St. Lawrence River. SIGNATURE ON THE SAINT-LAWRENCE GROUP other dealers will be invited to the Bridge over a 35-year period. underwriting syndicate to ensure The St. Lawrence River span, LOCATION BRIDGE PROBLEMS the stock gets broad distribution, which replaces an existing bridge with 25 to 30 per cent earmarked nearing the end of its life, will be History for individual investors. “We a public-private partnership pro- The Champlain Bridge is the obviously want to play to the ject, meaning the SNC group has newest of Montreal’s four retail market, because I think to deliver the work at a pre-deter- prominent South Shore you’ll get better pricing with this Autoroute Victoria mined fixed price and by set MONTREAL spans, but it is the first to type of issue,” he said. dates. Bonaventure Bridge descend into decrepitude. The The goal is to complete the IPO SNC’s win surprised investors, bridge, which opened to traf- and bank the proceeds by the end many of whom had assumed the New Île des fic in 1962, has two main sec- of the current fiscal year, which Soeurs Bridge federal government would shy New bridge BROSSARD tions: the short steel ends next March 31, Energy Min- away from giving public work to for St. Lawrence cantilever portion that is ister Bob Chiarelli told The Globe a company facing charges of cor- most recognizable and in and Mail. He said Hydro One stock ruption and fraud. The allega- decent shape and a long non- would be seen as “a reliable, pre- tions against SNC relate to its Reconstruction descript section built from dictable investment, particularly dealings in Libya and have not and widening prestressed concrete that was for long-term” investors thanks to of A-15 been proven. The company has Champlain innovative for its time but is a its status as a regulated entity said it will plead not guilty. Bridge Alignment maintenance nightmare. with steady rates of returns. Federal officials said the SNC with A-10 ...... With an expected market capi- consortium submitted the low- Nuns’ Jurisdiction talization of between $13.5-billion est-cost, technically compliant Island St. Lawrence River The federal government owns and $15-billion, Hydro One will be proposal, which will help ensure the entirety of two major one of the 40 largest Canadian value for taxpayers as well as Montreal bridges and half of companies by market value, and high-quality infrastructure JOHN SOPINSKI/THE GLOBE AND MAIL 66 SOURCE: INFRASTRUCTURE CANADA another through inertia and is expected to pay a dividend of designed to last more than a cen- quirks of history, geography between 3 and 4 per cent, Mr. tury. SNC and its group partners of the business. tion charges. and politics. The first major Clark said. “This is a yield-hungry have already been involved in SNC officials declined to com- Under current federal procure- federal span was the Jacques market, so we’ll obviously have a construction of several bridges, ment Thursday. The shares rose ment rules, SNC would be Cartier Bridge, which was good dividend rate on it. For the including the Port Mann bridge 1.7 per cent in Toronto trading to banned, or debarred, from bid- built in the 1920s as a project institutions this will be a suffi- in Vancouver and the Bay Bridge close at $43.60. ding on federal work for 10 years of the federally owned Port of ciently large market cap, and will in San Francisco. Chief executive officer Robert and the government could termi- Montreal. The Champlain was be a must-have stock.” Initial estimates on the con- Card has said the company is in- nate the existing bridge contract built to pass over the federal “A 3-per-cent-plus yield is still tract’s value to SNC were in the creasingly confident it has im- with the company. More likely, St. Lawrence Seaway. Ottawa way better than a five-year bond” range of $1.5-billion. But a decla- proved project delivery and risk Ottawa would pursue the con- and the province occasionally and similar to other utility stocks, ration Thursday by consortium management in the infrastruc- tract and impose oversight and discuss selling the bridges to said Bruce Campbell, president of partner ACS that the deal is ture and construction unit. But monitoring measures on the con- Quebec. Predictably, they dis- Campbell Lee & Ross Investment worth €1.85-billion ($2.4-billion questions were being raised struction and subsequent main- agree on price tag. Management Inc., a private at current exchange rates) for its Thursday about just how aggres- tenance...... wealth management firm in Oak- 50-per-cent portion alone sug- sive it had to be in its Champlain Federal ministers insist they’ve Trouble ville, Ont. “Equities with yield are gests the value of SNC’s other 50 bid to secure the contract. prepared for that contingency. The first major cracks in the still king of the castle.” per cent has been underestimat- “You don’t want to be destroy- But this is largely new territory design of the Champlain But several fund managers said ed and could top $2.4-billion as ing your future profitability just for Canada. Bridge appeared in the 1990s, they were wary of investing in a well. The information was report- to show the market that you still “The government is bound to when the prestressed concrete company where the government ed by Reuters. have the ability to win work,” run into conflicts between its deck was replaced and a will continue to exercise consid- The work will be added to said Dundee Capital Markets ana- desire to promote companies like drainage system was installed erable control (outside investors SNC’s infrastructure and con- lyst Maxim Sytchev. “Would they SNC-Lavalin and maintain some to slow down the corrosive will be limited to holding 10-per- struction backlog. The business be as aggressive if they had $20- sort of debarment or responsible damage caused by salty water. cent stakes), including its ability unit, which includes projects like billion worth of backlog? Proba- supplier regime,” said Brenda Even then, irreversible dam- to name directors. Some worried hospitals, mass transit and water bly not.” Swick, a lawyer at McCarthy age was noted. A 2011 report that the government might not treatment plants, has posted Questions remained Thursday Tétrault in Toronto who special- found repairing the bridge for follow through on its promise to losses on earnings before interest as to what the federal govern- izes in international trade and a long-term future was “diffi- sell a majority of its stake. and taxes for the past two years. ment would do with the Cham- government contracting. “The cult, if not impossible.” “If I were an investor, I wouldn’t SNC announced this week it will plain Bridge project in the event problem for the government is – Les Perreaux touch it at any price,” said CI replace the executive in charge SNC is convicted of corrup- they haven’t thought it out.” Financial chairman Bill Holland. “I don’t want to be partners with the Ontario government.” INTERNET Others questioned the willing- ness of government to free the Yahoo wins new flexibility in search deal with Microsoft company to boost earnings by slashing costs. “Any Crown cor- poration that goes public you def- ...... initely want to look in on the BRIAN WOMACK Yahoo, which struck a 10-year to partner with others.” soft, which is based in Red- expenses side,” said Stephen ...... deal in 2009, renegotiated the The deal may even allow mond, Wash., had 20 per cent, Takacsy, chief investment officer Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. terms as Ms. Mayer seeks new Yahoo to work with Google Inc., while Sunnyvale, Calif.-based with Lester Asset Management in revamped their search agree- ways to drive revenue growth the market leader in search, to Yahoo had 13 per cent. Montreal. ment, giving the Web portal amid a turnaround effort. The provide advertising on the serv- “Scale matters in search,” Mr. With former Canada Pension more freedom over how it company has struggled to in- ice, boosting returns for promo- Wieser said. “And yet diversity Plan Investment Board CEO David makes money from advertising crease sales under her leader- tions, the analysts added. of approaches may be necessary Denison joining the board, the under chief executive officer ship. The agreement alters an alli- to find alternative ways to effec- government is hoping the market Marissa Mayer. Fourth-quarter revenue, ance some had expected Yahoo tively compete.” will view Hydro One as a credible, Yahoo no longer will have to excluding what’s shared with might try to exit. If Yahoo had a The agreement leaves independent public company. use Microsoft to serve all the partner websites, fell 1.8 per stronger negotiating position, it unchanged an arrangement in “He’s probably one of the top five ads on desktop searches, under cent to $1.18-billion (U.S.). The may have led to a more notable which Microsoft pays Yahoo a corporate managers in Canada,” the agreement announced search agreement contributed 35 update, said Brian Wieser, an percentage of Bing ad revenue Mr. Chiarelli said of Mr. Denison. Thursday. While Yahoo already per cent to sales last year, analyst at Pivotal Research delivered from Yahoo searches. “He will create a business plan had that flexibility with mobile Yahoo said in a regulatory filing. Group LLC...... that is growth oriented.” search, the new deal adds the “We are encouraged by the in- The amended agreement high- Bloomberg News Meanwhile, the status of cur- leeway for a minority of desktop creased flexibility for Yahoo,” lights the two companies’ ...... rent CEO Carmine Marcello ads. analysts at JPMorgan Chase & limited success in competing Microsoft (MSFT) appears in flux. Mr. Clark indicat- Microsoft will now handle the Co. wrote Thursday in a note to with Google in search. Google Close: $42.16 (U.S.), down 10¢ ed the CEO would have to com- relationships with advertisers clients. had 64 per cent of the U.S...... pete for his own job. for its Bing search service, “Yahoo is now able to provide desktop search market in March, Yahoo (YHOO) ...... instead of Yahoo. its own search results and also according to ComScore. Micro- Close: $45.78, up 5¢ With a file from Tim Kiladze
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MEDIA & MARKETING PERSUASION Space: the final frontier of advertising Hyundai joins a series of marketers taking an otherworldly approach to attracting product attention
...... SUSAN KRASHINSKY MARKETING REPORTER ...... dvertisers love big gestures Athat get them noticed: slap- ping brand names on buildings, breaking the bank on star-stud- ded Super Bowl ads – and in Hyundai Motor Co.’s latest effort, that means an ad so big it can be seen from space. Last week, the auto maker released an online video, claim- ing it used 11 of its Genesis cars to write a message from a 13- year-old girl in Houston to her A Hyundai video featuring Genesis cars writing a message from a 13-year-old girl in Houston to her father in space has attracted attention online. father in space. The message read, “Steph [loves] you!” It astronaut Buzz Aldrin. It held a do by imagery and nothing an Jennifer Knotts said, “No In the late nineties, Russian spanned 5.5 square kilometres contest for the chance to go to else.” NASA employee was involved in cosmonauts floated a replica on the Delamar dry lake bed in space camp in Florida, and 22 Hyundai’s video also took the commercial.” There are no soda can outside of the Mir the Nevada desert, and set a people were chosen for a ride advantage of that power to Americans on board the Inter- space station after PepsiCo Inc. Guinness world record for the on one of the Netherlands- showcase the vehicles’ handling national Space Station who are paid $5-million (U.S.) to the largest-ever tire track image. based Space Expedition Corp.’s and technological prowess. But not affiliated with NASA, she Russian space agency. A few Hyundai is just the latest in a commercial space flights. it was also a way for the brand said. years later, Pizza Hut series of marketers in recent Just last week, power equip- to connect with customers on a The particular allure of space announced that it would pay years who have seized on our ment manufacturer Andreas deeper level. is not new to marketers. more than $1-million to place captivation with the final front- Stihl AG released a video remi- “Hyundai was always very In the early days of the U.S. its logo on a Russian Proton ier. niscent of the blockbuster film much a rational purchase deci- space program, brands took full rocket bound for the ISS. In When millions tuned in online Gravity, in which marooned sion,” Hyundai Canada spokes- advantage of any association 2001, the pizza chain did anoth- and on TV to watch Felix Baum- astronauts used a fire extin- man Chad Heard said. with the quest to land a man er promotional deal with the gartner’s record-breaking free- guisher to propel themselves “Customers see us as good value on the moon. Russians, shelling out roughly fall from 39 kilometres above through the void. In Stihl’s ver- for the dollar. That’s not neces- Most famously, Tang was $1-million to deliver a pizza to the Earth, their rapt attention sion, its leaf blower does the sarily a bad place to be. But if advertised as the powdered the space station. That same also fell on the prominent Red job. you want to grow and evolve, drink “chosen for the Gemini year, Kodak paid for cosmo- Bull logos on his helmet and “We’re trying to separate our- you need to add the emotional astronauts.” In one commercial, nauts to replace the Russian flag spacesuit. selves from the competition. side of that purchase equation.” a mother describes how her outside the ISS with its adver- In addition to the meticulous You put yourself in space and The global campaign, which fussy eater is now eager for tisement. planning of the team surround- you put yourself above everyone was produced by the marketing breakfast, “because the astro- Brands today are looking for ing Mr. Baumgartner, Red Bull else,” said Stihl Canada’s mar- team out of South Korea, was nauts drink Tang in outer an association with the romance Stratos was an intricately keting manager, Jeff Loosemore. intended to show a caring, space.” and excitement of space. planned public relations stunt. The video was made in human side to the company, Even cigarettes got in on the “Space has always been one of The equivalent paid advertising France, but has received so said Dan Buckley, vice-president action: When the Apollo and those places that people are time would have cost the brand much attention that Stihl Cana- of ad agency and Hyundai sub- Soyuz spacecraft met in orbit in awestruck by,” Innocean’s Mr. millions, and the fascination da plans to promote it online as sidiary Innocean Worldwide 1975, astronauts weren’t the only Buckley said. “When we put a with the jump was arguably well. Canada. ones co-operating across a Cold man on the moon, it was con- more valuable for the brand’s “Space gives you a high-tech The emotional tale has racked War divide. Cigarette manufac- nected globally with culture and image than an ad could ever be. appeal … you’re insinuating up millions of views on You- turer Philip Morris and the Sovi- everyone who was glued to In 2013, Unilever SA-owned that there’s a lot of technical Tube. However, the details are et Yava cigarette factory entered their TV. There’s that ongoing brand Axe launched the biggest design behind the equipment,” muddy: AHyundai spokesperson into a joint venture to produce aura of what’s out there, and promotion in its history in 2013, he said. “With space, there’s a would not specify the astro- the commemorative Apollo Soy- what’s possible. That has a real with help from none other than lot of messaging that you can naut’s name. NASA spokeswom- uz packs. connection.”
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...... EMERGING MARKETS India is still a tough place to do business
...... KEVIN CARMICHAEL MUMBAI ed founder of an Indian startup growing one. Still, India remains a stan Times. and has secured hundreds of bill- ...... called FOSEngage, which has de- speculative bet. The country’s Overall, Canadian business ions of dollars worth of financial aking money in China was veloped a mobile application for state-owned banks are carrying a appears to need more convincing commitments from countries Mhard at the start of the mil- facilitating communication be- lot of debt. The stock markets are about India. such as Japan, China, Australia lennium. It took more than two tween big enterprises and their among the hottest in the world, “It’s not exactly bank friendly,” and the United States. “To remain months to start a company in suppliers. “ We are on a steady yet corporate profits are weak. Brian Porter, chief executive of a favourite partner of Mr. Modi, 2003, compared with two days in growth track for 20 to 25 years.” Even the boldest international Bank of Nova Scotia said of India you are going to have to deliver,” Australia. When the World Bank India, economically, is the op- companies struggle here. when I met him in Washington Richard Bale, Canada’s consul published its inaugural annual posite of Canada at the moment; India’s liftoff is being held back last fall, a sentiment he repeated general in Mumbai, said at public ranking of the the easiest coun- almost everything is going its by a tangle of rules and regula- last week. “We don’t have long- event earlier this year. tries in which to do business, Chi- way. tions that make the country one term aspirations for our Asia busi- India will remain a difficult na was number 91. The collapse in oil prices is huge of the more difficult places on the ness right now,” Royal Bank of place to do business for years. Au- How many investors and com- for India, a net importer of ener- planet to do business, according Canada chief executive David thorities are notoriously capri- panies stayed away from what is gy. Prime Minister Narendra Mod- to the World Bank. Mr. Raghuram McKay told a Wall Street audience cious and judges are equally now the world’s second-biggest i’s landslide victory a year ago has of FOSEngage waited a couple of last month. Canadian Prime Min- unpredictable. The country has a economy because it had too many rekindled business confidence. months simply to register his ister Stephen Harper at the end of streak of hostility toward outsid- rules and regulations? China’s Mr. Modi’s Finance Minister, Arun company. “Policy-makers need to 2009 talked of two-way trade be- ers. But these things are changing. gross domestic product increased Jaitley, has pledged to restrain the work on this,” he said. tween Canada and India reaching The children who were born in by the equivalent of about $8-tril- fiscal deficit, prompting Moody’s Mr. Modi says he is doing just $15-billion in five years – or now, the early 1990s, when India lion (U.S.) between 2004 and Investors Service last week to that. He has talked of eliminating in 2015. It’s not going to happen. opened to international trade and 2014, according to the Interna- upgrade India’s rating outlook to one law per day and of raising his Merchandise trade between Cana- investment, are now entering col- tional Monetary Fund. “positive” from “stable.” Raghu- country’s ranking in the World da and India was about $6.3-bill- lege and the work force. It will India could be on the verge of ram Rajan, the central bank gov- Bank’s list of easiest places to do ion, according to the Asia Pacific take them some time, but these reproducing a reasonable facsimi- ernor, is winning his fight against business to 50th from 142nd cur- Foundation of Canada. youngsters will change India. le of the economic boom Beijing India’s chronic inflation problem. rently. “We know that such steps Canadians should not assume ...... orchestrated through the 1990s Mr. Rajan has cut interest rates are important for creating jobs that Mr. Modi will show up in Kevin Carmichael is a senior fellow and 2000s. “India is like China twice this year, even as the Indian and opportunities for millions of Canada with a key to his king- at the Centre for International Gov- was 10 to 12 years ago,” said K.S. economy appears poised to sur- Indians,” Mr. Modi said last week dom. The Indian Prime Minister ernance Innovation, based in Mum- Raghuram, the Shanghai-educat- pass China as the world’s fastest- in an interview with the Hindu- meets billionaires almost weekly bai.
INVESTMENT Modi assures executives New Delhi’s cutting red tape
...... KIM MACKRAEL in capital to the country. “Our JACQUELINE NELSON investment programs are well DAVID BERMAN TORONTO positioned today to take advan- ...... tage of India’s future growth and Indian Prime Minister Narendra we will remain active with a Modi sought to convince the view to the long-term returns we heads of pension funds, banks seek,” he said. and a select group of business Mr. Modi’s meetings with busi- leaders in Toronto on Thursday ness and financial leaders came that his government is cutting one day after he delivered a bureaucracy and making it easier major speech to thousands of to invest in India’s rapidly grow- Indo-Canadians at Toronto’s ing economy. Ricoh Coliseum, in which he Mr. Modi, who is in Canada promised to continue to tackle this week for a long-anticipated corruption and help make India three-day visit, held a breakfast more prosperous. He travelled to roundtable with executives from Vancouver on Thursday after- Canada’s largest pension plans, noon, where he stopped at Sikh banks and insurance companies and Hindu religious sites and at Toronto’s Four Seasons Hotel attended an official dinner with Thursday morning. He also met Mr. Harper and other govern- with another group that consist- ment officials. ed of about 20 business execu- The heads of Bank of Nova tives and included Aecon Group Scotia and Royal Bank of Canada Inc. chairman John Beck and sat at the table in Mr. Modi’s first BlackBerry Ltd. chief executive meeting with banks, insurers John Chen. and pension funds, along with The Indian Prime Minister said Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seen addressing an audience in Toronto on Wednesday, said he understands Bank of Montreal’s chairman. he understands the need for pre- the need for predictability and consistency in government decisions and regulations. FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL Four top-level executives from dictability and consistency in TD met with Mr. Modi on Thurs- government decisions and regu- Minister Stephen Harper was structure projects in India, in- who attended both Thursday day, including the bank’s CEO, lations. He also said his govern- also present for the meeting. cluding new transit lines and morning meetings, said he was chairman and heads of invest- ment has made changes since he “He was very appreciative of smarter cities with improved struck by the enormity of Mr. ment banking and wholesale was elected last year and sug- the welcome he’s received here power and waste-collection sys- Modi’s vision for growth and im- banking. gested he was open to feedback in Canada [and expressed] lots tems. The push comes at a time provements in India. The insurer “Prime Minister Modi’s decisive from business leaders on what of optimism for future business,” when many institutional inves- has a long history in India and victory last year set the stage for more India can do. Tim Gitzel, CEO of Cameco tors are looking to alternative re-entered the country’s insur- many big changes,” TD chief ex- Several business leaders said Corp., said in an interview asset classes for an opportunity ance and investments market in ecutive Bharat Masrani said dur- they were impressed by the per- Thursday afternoon. Saskatche- to diversify their portfolios and 1999 through a joint venture ing the meeting, according to a sonal tone Mr. Modi took in ad- wan-based Cameco concluded a produce long-term returns. called Birla Sun Life. statement provided by the com- dressing them and his interest in deal this week to supply India “I think his timing is impecca- Mark Wiseman, CEO of the pany. “Your government is improving trade and investment with hundreds of millions of dol- ble given that interest rates have Canada Pension Plan Investment breaking down barriers that im- ties with Canada. The Prime lars in uranium over the next fallen and returns have fallen Board, said India’s market is par- pede growth, simplifying the Minister addressed the execu- five years. around the world,” said Dean ticularly well-suited to long-term way business is conducted and tives in Hindi with the assistance Mr. Modi is seeking to promote Connor, chief executive of Sun investors and noted that CPPIB unlocking the energy and inge- of a translator. Canadian Prime foreign investment to fund infra- Life Financial Corp. Mr. Connor, has committed about $2-billion nuity of your people.”
AGRICULTURE FROM PAGE 1 Water-poor Saudis snatch access to CWB’s grain McKenna: Export troubles
...... ERIC ATKINS Although Saudi Arabia is close “India … can only become a ada totalled $3.8-billion, while ...... to the grain-producing regions of 9 manufacturing hub when we outbound Canadian investment t isn’t easy to grow food in the North Africa, the Black Sea and can get the raw materials stood at $613-million. Idesert. That’s why the kingdom Saudi Arabia is not a country western Arabia, Canada’s stability required,” Mr. Modi said through A similar investment imbalance of Saudi Arabia decided to stop that can produce a lot of food. and lack of political strife make it a translator, with Prime Minister exists with Saudi Arabia, al- pumping water and money into an ideal place to invest, Prof. Stephen Harper at his side. “The though the magnitude is its domestic food supply, and … So having a fund set up to Cranfield said, adding CWB’s raw materials that are required in unknown because the federal instead look abroad for sources help with the provision of grain-handling facilities make the India are present in Canada in government does not disclose of vegetables, red meat and food from a Saudi company attractive for a country huge quantities. And therefore, what the Saudis own in Canada grains. looking to move a lot of crops. our relations are such that your because the information is The search for grain – and the perspective makes a lot of Karl Gerrand, head of G3, said it skills, your raw materials and our deemed “commercially sensitive.” elevators, terminals and ships sense because they have a was “very difficult” to say how requirements actually coincide.” Canadian investment in Saudi that handle it – is behind the much of CWB’s grain would be India no longer wants our tech- Arabia, a designated “priority” country’s investment in the Ca- little more control over that. headed to Saudi Arabia as a nology. It needs our resources, market for Canada, totalled just nadian Wheat Board, the former result of the deal. our investment pools and our $4-million in 2013. This week’s Prairie monopoly privatized by John Cranfield “SALIC will have to be competi- open markets. And that is one of $250-million deal by G3 Global the Canadian government on Professor at the University of tive with the rest of the market in the chronic challenges that Cana- Grain Group – a joint venture be- Wednesday. Guelph’s department of food, acquiring our grain. We’re an in- da faces as it tries to expand trade tween Saudi Agricultural and Saudi Agricultural and Live- agricultural and resource economics dependent business, run by Ca- with rapidly growing emerging Livestock Investment Co. and stock Investment Co. (SALIC) nadians, managed by Canadians. economies, such as India, China U.S.-based Bunge Ltd. – to buy the partnered with U.S. agribusiness We’re going to be operating in a or Brazil. Canada’s markets are al- old Canadian Wheat Board would giant Bunge Ltd. to form Global “Saudi Arabia is not a country normal commercial environ- ready mostly open to these coun- dwarf all Canadian investment in Grain Group (G3), which will be that can produce a lot of food. So ment,” he said at a news confer- tries. Because tariffs and other Saudi Arabia. the majority owner of Winnipeg- they are going around the world ence on Wednesday. investment barriers are relatively Less than 1 per cent of Canadian based CWB with an investment saying how are we going to be SALIC could not be reached on low, the Indias of the world can goods exports go to India now. valued at $250-million. able to feed people in Saudi Ara- Thursday. already sell freely here, as well to Goods exports reached $3.1-bill- SALIC was established by the bia,” said John Cranfield, a pro- Saudi Arabia’s move away from buy direct stakes in our resource ion in 2014, dominated by bulk rulers of the Arab country in 2011 fessor at the University of grain and other crop production production. commodities such as peas, lentils, with $800-million (U.S.) and the Guelph’s department of food, has come with a new focus on Canadian exporters typically fertilizer, canola oil and iron ore. goal of securing stable food sup- agricultural and resource eco- domestic poultry farming aimed face greater trade obstacles going Indeed, Canada sells relatively plies and prices and averting food nomics. “So having a fund set up at feeding growing tastes for the other way, including high tar- little of what it produces outside shortages. to help with the provision of food meat. This has also turned Saudi iffs, foreign investment barriers the United States, which sucked In 2013, SALIC and other Saudi from a Saudi perspective makes a Arabia into one of the world’s and stifling bureaucracies. Mr. up 76 per cent of our exports in funds bought large swaths of lot of sense because they have a biggest chicken-feed processors. Modi’s reform-minded govern- 2013. Add in Britain and Japan, farmland in Europe with the £60- little more control over that. In 2011, when the Canadian ment has begun to dismantle and these three highly developed million ($109.3-million) purchase “They’re a water-poor nation so Wheat Board was the global sell- many of those barriers, but pro- countries accounted for 81 per of Continental Farmers Group. that makes it difficult to grow er, Canada was Saudi Arabia’s gress is slow and politically sensi- cent of total Canadian goods The deal, for which the Saudis anything. It’s a nation where they main supplier, accounting for 30 tive. exports. It’s one thing for the paid a large premium, gave the don’t have heaps of fertile land so per cent of the country’s 2.9 mil- India, for example, limits for- government to target large and Saudis almost 40,000 hectares of it makes it difficult to put any- lion tonnes, according to the U.S. eign investors to 49-per-cent own- promising economies such as owned and leased farmland in thing in the ground,” Prof. Cran- Department of Agriculture. Since ership of local joint ventures. China and India as a way to diver- Poland and Ukraine that produce field said. then, Lithuania and Poland have Restrictions are particularly high sify export markets. sugar beet, wheat and rapeseed. Canada, Australia and Brazil are become the country’s main sup- in sectors such as financial serv- But diversification is proving to Britain-based researcher Busi- listed by SALIC as “priority desti- pliers, and Canada’s share of the ices and mining, two industries be far more difficult to achieve. ness Monitor International said nations” for investing in its nine market has fallen. where Canada has competitive We often aren’t sure what we Saudi Arabia is a year or two key foods, which include wheat, ...... advantages. The lack of balance is want, or how to get it. And many away from ceasing any wheat barley and other grains, and red Bunge (BG) reflected in two-way investment. of the doors to investment and production. meat. Close: $86.65 (U.S.), down 30¢ In 2013, Indian investment in Can- trade remain locked. B8 • REPORT ON BUSINESS S THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
FROM PAGE 1 Magna: Interiors generally ‘a low-growth, low-return business’
...... The sale is the second divesti- terior of the vehicle to come up console, you’ve got so many improve the interiors and add we believe investors will likely 9 ture by Magna this year. The with innovative solutions,” said pounds of plastic,” the source more quality materials, but keep value Magna’s focus on some of Canadian auto parts giant sold its one industry source who has said. the price [to the customer] the the remaining potentially higher- battery business to Samsung SDI spent much of his career in the That became a problem when same,” the source said. growth, higher-return business- Co. Ltd., of South Korea in Febru- auto interiors business. the soaring price of oil sent the Investors have often criticized es.” ary. “You can reconfigure the door price of resins used in plastics Magna for the diversity of its Investors will be happy if the The interiors division’s sales of panel, you can put the cupholder skyrocketing. businesses, so this deal is likely to revenues from the sale go toward $2.4-billion represented about 7 in a different position, but you’re The other key issue for produc- be seen as positive – although the increasing Magna’s share buyback per cent of Magna’s overall reve- basically still talking about a ers of trim panels, headliners and price is lower than an expected plan or are deployed in higher nue of $36.6-billion last year. The commodity item.” other components inside the car range of $800-million to $1.2-bill- growth businesses, he said. division, which was built up That’s different from other is that interiors have become a ion, said Peter Sklar, who follows The deal covers 36 Magna mainly through a series of acqui- parts of the vehicle such as the key battleground as auto makers Magna for BMO Nesbitt Burns, in plants that employ about 12,000 sitions, competed against such gi- underbody, where new technolo- try to distinguish themselves a note to clients Thursday. people in Canada, the United ants as Johnson Controls Inc., gies and new processes help auto from one another. That means “The interiors business is gener- States, Mexico, Europe, China, In- Lear Corp. and Faurecia of France makers reduce the weight of steel demands from car makers for ally considered to be a low- dia and South Korea. that are specialists in interiors as parts or substitute aluminum and price cuts by parts companies growth, low-return business,” Mr...... well as seating. magnesium for steel. became relentless. Sklar wrote. Magna International Inc. (MG) “It’s still very difficult in the in- “In a door panel or a centre “They were constantly trying to “With the business being sold, Close: $66.52, down 13¢
FROM PAGE 1 Calloway: Ties go back to early 2000s
...... While SmartCentres founder 9 Mitchell Goldhar will “not be directly involved in the day-to- day business” of the new REIT, he will become chairman of the board of directors. He also signed a five-year, $17.5-million contract to act as a strategic adviser to the company on its mixed-use pro- jects. As part of the agreement, Mr. Goldhar will continue to own 55 retail properties and another 850 acres of development land. “Both Calloway and Smart- Centres have benefitted enor- mously from Mitch’s vision, his exceptional industry relation- ships and his real estate exper- tise,” Mr. Thomas said. “I and the rest of the group are very pleased that he’ll continue with us into the future.” Two hundred SmartCentres employees will move to the new- ly formed REIT, as will chief oper- ating officer Peter Forde and Andrew Eva knows it won’t be as easy finding a job in the oil and gas sector than it was before prices started going down. JASON FRANSON FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL chief development officer Mauro Pambianchi, who will both join FROM PAGE 1 the executive team. Mr. Goldhar linked up with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. more than Alberta: Migration from other provinces has declined by 65 per cent two decades ago, before big-box stores and power-centre malls ...... that housed them in open-air A year ago, the province was A NEW REALITY sion, with a forecast 0.4-per-cent shopping centres became a com- 9 expected to maintain its increase in real GDP. Unemploy- mon sight in Canadian suburbs. record as a national economic DRILLING RIGS IN OPERATION ment is projected to climb to 5.7 He helped Wal-Mart’s founding leader as the oil patch boomed Canada United States per cent with thousands of Walton family set up its first and the population kept grow- workers, directly and indirectly stores in Canada in 1994, after it ing with the influx of those 400 1,600 employed in oil and gas, being bought 122 Woolco stores. But he seeking high-paying work. Now, handed layoff notices. also staked out other properties cutting Alberta’s reliance on The Bank of Canada said in its for further expansion opportuni- energy is suddenly job No. 300 1,200 April Monetary Policy Report on ties. In the United States, Wal- 1.“The premise for calling the Wednesday that oil’s collapse Mart counted heavily on building election, which Prentice talked will have an adverse impact on its business in small towns while about, was that we need a struc- GDP, and noted that migration leaving a trail of bankrupt retail- tural shift that is going to take 200 800 from other provinces has ers in its wake. In Canada, a simi- the economy off of oil so that declined by 65 per cent since the lar phenomenon developed as the proportion of the budget middle of last year. Wal-Mart overtook smaller, weak- that’s accounted for by oil and The main culprit is the drop in er players. gas resources goes down,” said 100 400 energy-sector investment. The In the early 2000s, Calloway Bruce Cameron, pollster and Conference Board of Canada has REIT signed deals with Mr. Gold- founder of the Calgary-based predicted that Western Canadian har’s First Pro Shopping Centres, consultancy Return on Insight. 0 0 energy spending, the bulk of of which eventually became Smart- “I think their biggest challenge 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 ‘15 which is in Alberta, will fall 21 Centres. The firm continued to is that is a five- to 10-year pro- Note: Canadian rig counts are seasonally adjusted per cent to $44-billion (Cana- turn vacant lots and farmers’ cess, and when people start dian) this year, and that job fields into Wal-Mart-anchored thinking politically five to 10 losses in the sector could total power centres across the country. years, it’s just too far out.” PROJECTED IMPACT OF THE DECLINE IN OIL PRICES ON GDP 8,000. It teamed with Calloway, selling The latest polls are worrisome 2015 Q4 The prospect has had a ripple its big-box properties to the REIT for the Tories. They show the 5% effect, no place greater than in in return for an equity stake in right-of-centre Wildrose Party, the Calgary residential real the firm. Under terms of the led by Brian Jean, and left-wing estate market. In the first quar- deals, First Pro retained the man- New Democrats under Rachel 0 ter, sales tumbled nearly 33 per agement contract on the sites Notley in a virtual dead heat for cent from the year earlier, along with the accompanying first place among decided voters. according to the Calgary Real steady income. Mr. Prentice’s PCs are running -5 Estate Board. Mr. Goldhar, who became Call- third with three weeks before The government is also depart- oway’s largest investor, got to the vote. ing from the old PC script by watch his shares of the small The Wildrose has pledged to -10 borrowing big to fund infrastruc- REIT grow in value as new inves- repeal the tax hikes and instead ture spending. It plans to issue tors piled in, attracted by the target inefficiency in govern- $9.75-billion in debt this year, Wal-Mart factor. ment departments. The resur- -15 the largest financing in at least Mr. Thomas said the deal would gent NDP has put forward a GDP Direct terms-of-trade effect on GDI 15 years and a move that would be financed by $644-million of job-creation scheme funded gross domestic income (GDI) have been unheard of in the assumed debt, a $200-million -20 through tax credits, and have ALTA. SASK. NFLD. CAN. B.C. MAN. MAR.* ONT. QUE. tight-fisted Ralph Klein era. bought deal to a syndicate led by promised to restore cuts to Mr. Eva said conditions will CIBC and a $160-million issuance health care. JOHN SOPINSKI/THE GLOBE AND MAIL 66 SOURCE: BANK OF CANADA *Maritimes eventually improve, a prospect of class B units in Calloway “Our sense in the first week of that looks closer this week as oil limited partnerships to Mr. Gold- the campaign was people were boost Mr. Prentice’s numbers, he averages $54.84 (U.S.) a barrel. prices trade above $56 (U.S.) a har and other vendors. much crankier than the PCs said. Last year, non-renewable barrel for the first time this year. The deal is expected to close at probably anticipated about the The Premier was forced into resource revenue was 18 per “It will come back, but right the end of next month, after a timing of the election and about austerity. His budget assumes cent. now it’s pretty slow. I mean, if vote by unit holders on May 26. the budget,” Mr. Cameron said. the take from energy at just In 2015, according to the you’re looking for a job it won’t ...... A recent uptick in oil prices $2.9-billion, or just 6.6 per cent government, the economy will be as easy as it once was,” he Calloway REIT (CWT.UN) could improve the mood and of total revenue, as U.S. crude hang a hairsbreadth above reces- says. Close: $29.16, up 20¢
FROM PAGE 1 Aston Hill: Company was known for having a high expense base
...... Under the old agreement, funds. Sub-advisory mandates At the same time, Aston Hill at the same time. Aston Hill did but sources say the firm was 9 Aston Hill chief investment offer lower profit margins than announced it would reduce staff not return a request for com- not interested. Sprott did not officer Ben Cheng managed in-house products, and the com- as a cost-cutting measure. His- ment. return a request for comment. three IA Clarington funds: the pany argued that adding to torically the company was Although Aston Hill has been Aston Hill was formed in 2001 Tactical Income Fund, the Glob- these more profitable areas known for having a high looking for a deal, there is no and specialized in the energy al Tactical Income Fund and the would be of net benefit to the expense base. guarantee one will be com- sector. The asset manager Tactical Bond Fund.Collectively, firm. Following these changes, Mr. pleted and several firms have opened its Toronto office in these funds had assets that However, IA Clarington’s deci- Cheng embarked on a national rebuffed the executives, accord- 2007, which coincided with the accounted for roughly one-third sion forced Aston Hill to slash roadshow to update advisers on ing to sources. Two of the best- hiring of Mr. Cheng, who was of Aston Hill’s total assets under its quarterly payout to 0.005 the company’s plans for the known names that have been previously a portfolio manager management, and 16 per cent of cents per share, from 0.015 future, and the assumption was discussed as potential buyers at CI Financial Corp. Since 2009, revenues. cents. The asset manager that he would soon launch new are Dundee Corp., which recent- the company went on a buying At the time, Aston Hill down- described this in a statement as funds for retail investors – ly relaunched an asset manage- spree to acquire firms and boost played the importance, stressing necessary “to maintain an ap- something Aston Hill had sug- ment business, and Sprott Inc., its assets under management. that executives were focused on propriate payout ratio and con- gested would happen. The com- which has struggled to move ...... growing their in-house products, tinue to reinvest in [its] pany did not disclose that it past its resource roots. Aston Hill Financial Inc. (AHF) such as mutual funds and hedge growth.” was looking for potential buyers Dundee declined to comment, Close: $0.79, down 4¢ THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 C1
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hen American Express part- Through Cloud 10, American Ex- n the early 2000s, Hellmann’s may- people came together to grow fruits nered with Toronto Pearson press premium card members at onnaise was a distant number two and vegetables. W International Airport in 2012, Pearson Airport access a full suite of I player – and it was continuing to lose Other initiatives included an aware- the credit card company wanted to benefits – from free valet parking and market share. “But we knew we had an ness campaign about the importance of do more than a traditional airport fast-track security lines to access to ownable offering: a product made with choosing locally grown food, the Real advertising campaign. It wanted to exclusive lounges. These highly vis- simple Canadian ingredients,” says Gina Food Grant Program – which donated find ways to improve and enhance ible and preferential services for card Kiroff, marketing manager at Unilever. $320,000 to organizations that help the travel experience within Canada’s members tangibly show prospective The decision to focus on this core families and children discover fresh, largest airport – for card members customers the value of holding an product attribute led to much more local food – and Real Food Trips, an and non-card members alike. American Express card. than a turnaround in sales. It led to a experiential program for children to American Express and its creative “Cloud 10 “The benefits of Cloud 10 make social movement. “The Real learn about healthy eating habits. agency Ogilvy worked closely with the airport experience easier and “Unilever wanted to inject purpose Each larger campaign is supported by the Greater Toronto Airport Author- has en- more pleasurable for card members,” into the Hellmann’s brand and create a Food Move- TV ads, online video, print campaigns, ity to deepen their understanding of hanced the says Mr. Barnes. “It’s become part of movement around something real and ment has social media, direct mail and more. how travellers journey through the reputation the value proposition, with people long term,” says Alex Furrer, chief cre- driven “The creative has been articulated airport, from dropping off a car to specifically applying for our cards ative officer at OgilvyOne, the agency differently through each initiative, but standing in security lines to passing of American so they can access these benefits.” that has worked on the Hellmann’s affinity for the core message stays the same,” time waiting for a flight. Express as Cloud 10 also offers perks for all air- account since 2007. the brand says Ms. Kiroff. “We identified key moments of in- port guests as a way of enhancing the The firm created a social mission for That message is one that is as relevant teraction where we could enhance the a customer- airport experience. Airport travellers the brand, the Real Food Movement, to because it’s today as it was in 2007. “The Real experience, primarily for our custom- centric and can access free WiFi throughout the make it easier for Canadians to choose an issue of Food Movement has driven affinity ers, as well as for all airport guests,” customer- airport and download free e-books real food and to shine a light on some fundamental for the brand because it’s an issue of says David Barnes, vice president and music to their mobile devices of the barriers that prevent us from fundamental importance to our core of advertising and communications experience- thanks to a partnership with Harp- doing so. importance market,” she says. at American Express. He says they focused erCollins Canada and Sony Music One of Hellmann’s first initiatives was to our core That core market has responded were looking for ways “not just to brand.” Canada. Urban Gardens. The company partnered market.” by making Hellmann’s the top-selling show the brand” but to engage with By both showing and telling the with a national non-profit organization mayonnaise brand in Canada. “This is current and potential customers as a David Barnes benefits of membership, Cloud 10 to provide urban garden plots in cities Gina Kiroff brand-led growth,” says Ms. Kiroff. “This service provider. is vice president has been a valuable tool in boost- across Canada. is marketing growth is really rooted in the heart of This initial on-the-ground research of advertising ing sales of premium cards, says “We were at the forefront of the trend manager at the product and brand.” led to the development of the “Cloud and commu- Mr. Barnes. “This has never been in urban gardens,” says Ms. Kiroff. “We Unilever 10” platform – a way to “show people nications at about pushing messages and buying mobilized people to establish commun- This content was produced by Randall how American Express service takes American advertising. Cloud 10 has enhanced ity gardens so they could grow their Anthony Communications, in partnership it up a level to leave guests feeling Express the reputation of American Express own produce and learn about real food.” with The Globe and Mail’s advertising special,” says Alex Furrer, chief cre- as a customer-centric and customer- A website provided gardening tips, TV department. The Globe’s editorial depart- ative officer at OgilvyOne. experience-focused brand.” ads documented the campaign and ment was not involved in its creation.
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EURO ZONE IMF unlikely to extend Greek payments Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis vows country will work to reach an agreement amid concerns of possible debt default
...... WASHINGTON response to reporters’ questions the euro zone,” he said. “Toying with Grexit … is pro- mise in order to come to a spee- ...... on Greece’s debt crisis. Ms. Lagarde, who later met foundly anti-European,” he said dy agreement, but we are not The head of the International Asked whether that meant the with Greek Finance Minister at the Brookings Institution. going to be compromised.” Monetary Fund on Thursday sig- Fund would not grant a delay if Yanis Varoufakis, in the briefing With the clock ticking in EU The EU has set an April 24 nalled that the IMF would not Athens asked for one, Ms. said Greece and its lenders need negotiations for another $7.2-bill- deadline to come to agreement agree to let Greece delay a sched- Lagarde answered indirectly. to “get on with the work” of eval- ion euros ($9.5-billion) to keep in principle with Athens over uled bailout payment, saying the “I can assure you that [IMF] uating Athens’ reform plans and the Athens government afloat, terms for a new loan that would Fund needed to protect its ster- management will do everything coming to an agreement. “Our only rational pro-European allow the country to make key ling reputation as a global lender. it can to make sure that lending “To do that, it’s not done by a response is to spend every wak- debt payments to the IMF and Greece is fast running out of to the Fund is actually the safest political, last-minute accord,” she ing hour … trying to reach an ECB over the next two months. cash and its euro zone and IMF lending route that anyone can said. “It’s done by … the tedious honourable agreement,” he said. Mr. Varoufakis was not specific lenders have frozen bailout aid go,” she said at a briefing ahead work of financial ministers, wher- But Mr. Varoufakis stressed as about the issues that are holding until the new leftist-led govern- of the IMF and World Bank spring ever they are, and the lenders.” well that the country’s bailout up a deal, but said the two sides ment in Athens reaches agree- meetings. Mr. Varoufakis said Thursday lenders – the European Commis- share “a great deal” of common ment on a package of reforms. Speaking earlier in Washington, that his country is determined to sion, European Central Bank and ground. That has raised fears the Greek EU Economic and Monetary remain in the euro zone, as con- the International Monetary Fund But he admitted that govern- government will not be able to Affairs Commissioner Pierre Mos- cerns swirl over a possible debt – need to give some ground on ment funds are drying up in the make its next payments to the covici said the financial fallout default and departure from the their demands for reforms, and current impasse, sparking market IMF, which total some €1-billion from a potential Greek exit from bloc. Asked in a Washington recognize that the previous bail- fears of an impending default. ($1.3-billion) over the next the euro zone could be con- forum what Greece is doing in out approach of deep austerity “The longer these negotiations month. tained. But he said an exit would talks with official creditors to had failed. go on, the greater the asphyxia- “We have never had an present a political rupture that avoid “Grexit” – exit from the “We’ve tried that medicine but tion of our economy.” advanced economy asking for would raise questions about who euro zone – Mr. Varoufakis said it hasn’t worked,” he said...... payment delays,” IMF managing may be next. his government refuses to con- “We will compromise, we will Reuters with files from director Christine Lagarde said in “It would be a catastrophe for sider that option. compromise and we will compro- Agence France-Presse
TICKER ...... RAILWAYS CN to upgrade lines in Western Canada
...... Canadian National Railway Co. plans to spend $500-million in Western Canada to improve feed- er rail lines that are handling ris- ing volumes of industrial products, natural resources and energy-related commodities. About $100-million will be spent this year in northern Alber- ta to handle higher anticipated volume in the Peace River region, the railway said Thursday, adding that feeder lines in Saskatchewan and Manitoba will be included in the $500-million multiyear pro- gram. “CN sees significant long- term potential in its customer base located on its Western Cana- da feeder network,” chief execu- tive officer Claude Mongeau said in a statement. The improve- ments include heavier rails, crushed rock ballast and ties along the road bed. – The Canadian Press ...... FINANCIAL SERVICES China pauses policy Miners hit their helmets on the ground during a protest outside the Ministry of Development in Athens on Thursday. ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS/REUTERS on bank tech rules MINING
...... Eldorado Gold staff protest feared job cuts China has suspended a policy that would have effectively pushed foreign technology com- ...... panies out of the country’s bank- ATHENS ject in recent years have turned Krista Muhr, Eldorado vice-pres- ing sector, according to a note ...... violent. ident for investor relations, said sent by Chinese regulators to Thousands of workers and sup- Leftist and anarchist groups in an e-mail that the company banks. porters of a Canadian-owned gold We empathize with their gathering for an anti-mine protest was aware of Thursday’s protest Dated Monday, the letter called mine in northern Greece marched concerns that the ministry’s in Athens later Thursday clashed by the Halkidiki unions and their for banks to “suspend implemen- through Athens on Thursday in with riot police, who responded supporters. tation” of the rules, which have the most significant labour chal- actions are a threat to their with tear gas and stun grenades. “We empathize with their con- been at the centre of a brewing lenge the country’s radical left-led livelihood and we respect Residents of some villages in cerns that the ministry’s actions trade conflict between the United government has faced since its their right to protect their the vicinity of the Skouries pro- are a threat to their livelihood States and China. The rules, election in January. ject back the mine, which has cre- and we respect their right to pro- which were put into effect at the Some 4,000 people in fluores- employment. ated about 2,000 jobs. But others tect their employment,” Ms. Muhr end of last year, called for com- cent green vests took part in the bitterly oppose it, arguing it will said. panies that sell computer equip- protest, waving flags and chant- Krista Muhr take a heavy toll on the environ- Ismet Ali Chotza, deputy direc- ment to Chinese banks to turn ing slogans and forcing police to Vice-president for investor relations, ment. tor of supplies, said about 6,000 over intellectual property and shut down major roads for hours. Eldorado Gold Eldorado Gold geologist Dimi- of the region’s 18,000 people are submit source code, amid other Mine workers fear they will lose tris Ballas said workers are con- dependent on the mines, includ- demands. their jobs because the governing cerned the company will be ing families of employees and At stake is billions of dollars of Syriza party has fought the mine, forced to cancel its investment other related businesses in the business for major U.S. compan- owned by Vancouver-based Eldo- and leave Greece if there is no area. ies that make the advanced com- rado Gold Corp., on environmen- progress...... puting hardware and software tal and financial grounds. The government, which has Associated Press with files that crunches numbers for banks The Skouries gold mine has accused Eldorado Gold of encou- from The Canadian Press across China. divided residents in the northern raging the protests, has tempora- ...... The suspension is temporary as Greek peninsula of Halkidiki, and rily revoked a permit for a key ore Eldorado (ELD-T) authorities revise the rules. marches for and against the pro- enrichment plant. Close: $6.11, down 18 ¢ – New York Times News Service ...... AUTO MAKERS BANKING VW stays mum after Citigroup’s earnings improve, top estimates CEO, chair meet
...... CHRISTINA REXRODE to safer businesses such as wealth ric, rose to an annualized 14.7 per which helped it overcome lower ...... PETER RUDEGEAIR management and analysts in- cent from 11.2 per cent last year. trading revenue and weakness in Volkswagen AG, Europe’s biggest JUSTIN BAER creasingly questioned the firm’s Still, Goldman’s shares fell consumer banking outside the auto manufacturer, declined to ...... strategy. about 0.4 per cent in Thursday United States. comment following a meeting of Both Citigroup Inc. and Goldman This quarter, the formula trading, a sign that investors had “This is a big deal,” said BMO senior shareholder and labour Sachs Group Inc. reported strong worked well. Goldman earned been counting on a big increase in Capital Markets analyst James representatives with beleaguered first-quater results. $2.84-billion (U.S.), or $5.94 a trading and banking revenue. Fotheringham, who had predicted chief executive officer Martin Citigroup results gave chief ex- share, up from $2.03-billion, or Goldman shares are up 6.5 per higher expenses. Winterkorn to try to end a leader- ecutive officer Michael Corbat a $4.02 a share, in the same period cent this month, best among the Citigroup hopes 2015 will be a ship crisis that has engulfed the much-needed win after a tough of 2014, the New York firm report- six largest U.S. banks. turning point, after a year of being company. “There will be no state- 2014. First-quarter profit jumped a ed. Analysts polled by Thomson For Citigroup, in calls with ana- besieged by the stress-test failure ment tonight,” a Volkswagen larger-than-expected 21 per cent, Reuters had expected earnings of lysts and reporters Thursday, and problems in its Mexico unit, spokesman said Thursday. The the bank reported Thursday. $4.26 a share. there was a notable change in Banamex. However, there are decision left questions about the Investors sent shares 2 per cent Revenue rose 14 per cent to tone from the earnings report a questions about how long the future role of the 67-year-old higher. $10.62-billion, the highest level in year ago, which came just weeks first-quarter momentum can last. unanswered. VW’s powerful The boost for the New York four years, on strong gains from after the bank had failed the Fed’s “Is this as good as it gets?” CLSA chairman, Ferdinand Piech, last bank followed its passing the U.S. both trading and merger-advisory stress test. The Fed last month analyst Mike Mayo asked. week expressed a lack of confi- Federal Reserve stress test last fees. Analysts had expected $9.35- cleared Citigroup’s 2015 stress-test Over all, Citigroup’s profit was dence in the CEO. Mr. Piech and month, which gave Citigroup the billion. request, giving it permission to $4.77-billion, or $1.51 a share five other members of the VW freedom to raise its dividend. “They crushed it,” said Jeff raise its dividend for the first time before adjusting for the one-time board’s executive committee met Goldman Sachs said Thursday Harte, an analyst with Sandler since the financial crisis. items. That compared with $3.94- with Mr. Winterkorn in an appar- its first-quarter profit climbed 40 O’Neill + Partners. “And it wasn’t Earnings were $1.52 a share, billion, or $1.23 a share, a year ago. ent attempt to end what has per cent, beating analysts’ expec- like, ‘Gee, there’s one weird thing after adjusting for one-time ...... become an overnight crisis in the tations, as the bank’s traders driving it.’ Trading was strong. items, which was significantly Dow Jones Newswires company’s top management. Mr. thrived on busier, more volatile Investment banking was strong. higher than the $1.39 a share pro- ...... Piech’s comments damaged the markets. Compensation [expenses] came jected by analysts polled by Citigroup (C) CEO, the people said, and Goldman in recent years has in below expectations.” Thomson Reuters. Revenue was Close: $54.02 (U.S.), up 81¢ prompted speculation that he stuck with its trading businesses The bank’s return on equity, a in line with expectations. Goldman Sachs Group (GS) could step down. even as many of its peers shifted closely watched profitability met- The bank aggressively cut costs, Close: $200.21 (U.S.), down 89¢ – Dow Jones Newswires THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 S REPORT ON BUSINESS • B11 Globe Investor
INFRASTRUCTURE QUICK HITS ...... Major projects a boost for engineering stocks EQUITIES Construction companies are ready for growth with bridges, dams and transit needing to be built Investors more bearish: survey ...... DAVID KENNEDY ...... ontreal’s new Champlain Canadian investors are looking MBridge is just one of several more bearish on Canadian equity major infrastructure projects in markets heading into the second the planning stages across Cana- quarter of 2015. da that could help boost the for- In a recent Advisor and Investor tunes of the nation’s engineering Sentiment Survey, conducted by and construction firms. Horizons ETFs Management A consortium led by Canadian (Canada) Inc., both Canadian ad- engineering giant SNC-Lavalin visers and investors were asked Group Inc. won a contract esti- for their expectations of returns – mated to be worth $3-billion to bullish, bearish or neutral – on 13 $5-billion this week to build and distinct asset classes in the sec- manage the replacement bridge ond quarter of this year. that will connect Montreal to Both groups saw a decline in communities on the south shore bullish sentiment for the majority of the St. Lawrence River. Other of asset classes; advisers were less large contracts being bid on in- bullish on nine of 13 major index- clude the Eglinton Crosstown es and asset classes, while inves- light-rail transit in Toronto, worth tors were less bullish on seven out around $5-billion, and the Site C of the 13. clean-energy project, a dam and Among key indexes, bullish sen- hydroelectric generating station timent for advisers on the S&P/ on the Peace River in northeast- TSX capped financial index fell to ern British Columbia, with a price 40 per cent from 57 per cent. Simi- tag estimated at $8.8-billion. larly, 36 per cent of investors said “These are very meaningful they were bullish on financials, projects. It does move the needle compared with 48 per cent last dramatically,” Dundee Securities quarter. For the S&P/TSX capped analyst Maxim Sytchev said. energy index, bullish sentiment Investors must be aware, how- for advisers dropped 12 per cent ever, that vying for major pro- The Eglinton Crosstown light-rail line in Toronto is just one of many infrastructure megaprojects around North quarter-over-quarter, while inves- jects is a high-risk, high-reward America that Canadian firms will look to take advantage of over the next decade. KEVIN VAN PAASSEN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL tors saw a 5-per-cent decline. business. – Clare O’Hara ...... “You’re hunting for elephants,” SNC-LAVALIN (SNC) STANTEC (STN) with 10 rating it as a buy, six as a Mr. Sytchev added. “If you don’t hold and no one recommending E-COMMERCE win [the contract], you don’t get selling, at an average price target paid.” $ 60 $ 38 of $37.15. Etsy shares soar Analysts are largely bullish on Mr. Bastien pointed to the com- four Canadian engineering and pany’s acquisition of Montreal- on first trading day construction companies aiming 47 33 based Dessau’s engineering oper- to take advantage of these mega- ations as a strong positive. He projects as well as smaller ones in said it has given the largely West- ...... Canada and the United States. ern Canadian company a footh- Shares of Etsy Inc., an online WSP Global Inc. is one stock al- 34 28 old in the east, and it’s now in a marketplace for handmade goods ready on a tear. It’s up about 25 M J J A S O N D J F M M J J A S O N D J F M position to win work in Quebec. and craft supplies, soared in their per cent so far this year, and ana- 2014 2015 2014 2015 Mr. Murray also said he expects debut on Thursday, valuing the lysts don’t think it’s done yet, ...... the share price to begin to climb. company at about $3.9-billion with 10 calling it a buy, two a hold Close: $43.60, up 71¢ Close: $31.77, up 35¢ “We believe Stantec remains a (U.S.). and only one a sell, at an average best-in-class story in a consolidat- The company’s initial public of- price target of $45.75. WSP GLOBAL (WSP) AECON GROUP (ARE) ing market with more than ade- fering of about 16.7 million shares AltaCorp Capital analyst Chris quate financial and operational raised about $267-million, after it Murray said the company’s acqui- capability to drive growth over was priced at the top end of the sition of Parsons Brinckerhoff $ 44 $ 20 the next several years,” he said. expected range of $14-$16. Group Inc. last year has been one The analyst added that the recent Founded in 2005 by Robert of WSP’s main growth drivers. share-price slip on oil-and-gas Kalin, Etsy has grown from a web- “By adding Parsons it gives 38 14 exposure fears understates the site selling just wooden goods to them additional diversification company’s growth potential and an online community where craf- into an area [where] they really strength in other markets such as ters and artists offer handmade didn’t have a strong presence. the U.S. and vintage goods. Both in terms of their transporta- 32 8 Mr. Sytchev is more cautious, The stock, which was the top tion business … but it also gives M J J A S O N D J F M M J J A S O N D J F M pointing to the company’s 24-per- percentage gainer on the Nasdaq, them substantially more U.S. 2014 2015 2014 2015 cent top-line exposure to the closed at $30, up $14 or 87.5 per exposure,” he said...... energy industry as worrisome in cent. Mr. Murray said he thinks the Close: $43.51, down 27¢ Close: $13.26, up 15¢ the current environment. – Reuters company will continue to per- Analysts view SNC as more of ...... form well, especially as the Unit- Group Inc. is trading closer to its “They’ve teamed up with some an uncertainty, noting that its RETAIL ed States begins investing heavily low. That may be an opportunity very strong players.” legal issues have not yet all been in infrastructure over the next for investors, as analysts are simi- Mr. Murray is also positive on resolved. Seven analysts rate SNC Party City off decade. He has an “outperform” larily upbeat about its prospects, the company. as a buy, eight as a hold and one rating on the stock and a $46 with 12 calling it a buy, three a “They’ve got a pretty deep back- as a sell. to strong start price target. hold and no analysts rating it a log,” he said. “And actually But Mr. Sytchev said the stock’s Mr. Sytchev also has a “buy” rat- sell. The average price target is they’ve got a very good track “very cheap” valuation is an op- ing on the stock, with a price tar- $15.38. record of qualifying for [public- portunity. It’s trading at only 6.22 ...... get of $48. He pointed to the Raymond James analyst Freder- private partnerships]. Not only times earnings of the past 12 Shares of Party City Holdco Inc. company’s strong internal growth ic Bastien said Aecon has a great ones they’ve already won, but months. “The downside is very jumped nearly 22 per cent in their and noted that it has less expo- shot at some of the bigger pro- ones that are coming.” limited in this story and the stock market debut on Thursday. sure to the energy industry than jects on the horizon this year. Mr. Sytchev cautioned, how- upside is just dramatically big- The Elmsford, N.Y., company many of its competitors. Aecon is shortlisted for the Eglin- ever, that as the company replen- ger,” he said. designs, sells and makes balloons, “It’s all about having that right ton Crosstown LRT, where only ishes its backlog with The analyst said the company’s invitations, costumes and other geographical mix … that’s exactly $1.5-billion of construction had infrastructure projects instead of stake in the Toronto area’s High- party goods. It operates about what WSP has,” Mr. Sytchev said. been committed as of the end of higher-margin oil and gas pro- way 407 toll expressway will like- 900 stores and sells its products “It has been very strong execu- last year, and is also vying for the jects, its margins will likely take a ly be monetized this year for through other retailers. tion on their part.” Site C project. hit. higher-than-consensus expecta- Party City raised about $372- Unlike WSP, which is trading “Their strategy really evolved in Analysts are also largely upbeat tions, and that from there, “it’s all million (U.S.) in its initial public near its 52-week high, Aecon the last five years,” he said. on Edmonton-based Stantec Inc., about righting the ship.” offering, selling 21.9 million shares at $17 a share. The stock is listed on the New York Stock EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS Exchange under the symbol PRTY. Shares of Party City rose Mackenzie Financial eyeing actively managed ETFs in expansion bid $3.70 to close at $20.70 Thursday. – Associated Press ...... E-TRADING CLARE O’HARA viser platform that builds space using traditional manage- ing industry,” said Yves Rebetez, WEALTH MANAGEMENT REPORTER automated online portfolios ment skills. If we were to play in managing director of consulting Virtu’s shares jump ...... exclusively using ETFs. that space, we would be taking firm ETF Insight. “Clearly, the ETF Mackenzie Financial Corp. is Mackenzie offers approximately advantage of our investment industry is not going to continue in market debut pursuing a strategy to broaden its 91 mutual funds, with $76.4-bill- skills at Mackenzie to explore op- to grow at a rapid pace without product offerings beyond tradi- ion in total assets under manage- portunities.” there being any response on the tional mutual funds, a move that ment. But it does not offer ETFs. Horizons ETFs Management part of the mutual fund industry.” ...... could see it sell exchange-traded ‘We are intrigued by this space (Canada) Inc. is one of the largest The banking sector has already Shares of electronic trading firm funds for the first time and mark but we need to understand how actively manged ETF providers in entered the ETF space, with Bank Virtu Financial Inc. rose as much a further shakeup of Canada’s we can add value to that space Canada with $2.5-billion in active- of Montreal and Royal Bank of as 24.6 per cent in their debut, wealth management industry. before we can step into it,” Jeff ly managed assets. The company Canada both launching ETF plat- which was postponed by nearly a The fund company has appoint- Carney, CEO of Mackenzie, said in first launched an actively manag- forms in 2009. Other banks could year due to widespread criticism ed Michael Cooke as senior vice- an interview. ed ETF in 2009, and now has 28 also eventually have their own of- of high-frequency traders. The president, head of alternative Mackenzie will not consider of- actively manged funds on its plat- ferings, said Mr. Rebetez. company’s shares touched a high products for Mackenzie Invest- fering traditional ETFs, but will form. Other players, including both of $23.67 (U.S.) on the Nasdaq on ments, a newly created position. explore those products using “We think actively managed mutual fund and insurance com- Thursday, valuing the market Mr. Cooke was former head of dis- active management, said Mr. Car- ETFs will continue to be one of panies, could enter the market if maker at about $3.2-billion. The tribution of Invesco Canada Ltd.’s ney. the fastest-growing areas of ETFs ETF sales are open to include shares ended the day at $22.18, up ETF division, PowerShares Cana- Traditional ETFs mimic an in- in Canada,” said Howard Atkin- mutual fund advisers, an initia- $3.18 or 16.7 per cent. da. He’ll be considering products dex whereas actively managed son, president of Horizons. “A tive currently being driven by the Virtu postponed its IPO last that could include hedge funds, funds have a portfolio manager new entrant in the actively man- Canadian ETF Association (CET- year, following the release of liquid alternatives and actively overseeing asset allocations. aged ETF space would help legiti- FA). Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys: A Wall managed exchange-traded funds. Active ETFs make up approxi- mize that industry. Once “I have felt for a long time now Street Revolt, a book that ques- As regulatory changes put pres- mately $8-billion of the $80-bill- competition enters the market, that it was inevitable that major tioned whether markets were sure on fund companies around ion in ETF assets under fees usually compress and inno- asset managers would start look- rigged in favour of high-frequen- fee transparency, many are look- management in Canada, accord- vation increases, bringing more ing at this space,” says Mr. Atkin- cy traders. ing to offer low-cost solutions to ing to Investor Economics. choice to the end investor.” son, who is also chairman of The IPO of 16.5 million class A keep clients in-house. “In the active space, it is up to Mr. Cooke is a well-known ETF CETFA. “I think it is more a ques- shares was priced at the top end Last week, Mackenzie’s parent your creativity,” said Mr. Carney. veteran and his move to Macken- tion of when, not if. Whether it be of the expected $17-$19-a-share company, Power Financial Corp., “There are quantitative things zie has raised eyebrows in the banks, fund companies or insur- range, raising about $314.1-mil- invested $30-million in Wealth- going on in that space, and we see industry. ance companies, one day they lion. simple Financial Inc, a robo-ad- some of the competitors in that “This speaks to a rapidly shift- will all have an ETF offering.” – Reuters B12 • GLOBE INVESTOR S THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
THURSDAY’S MARKETS ...... WHAT HAPPENED TSX ...... INDEXES AND SUB INDEXES ...... Bay Street declines Canadian stocks fell as energy bears won a scuffle in the ongoing CLOSE CHG %CHG YTD% ...... battle against bulls who expect a recovery in crude oil prices to limit long-term dam- S&P/TSX Composite 15,386.77 -64.10 -.41 5.16 age to the country’s major oil and gas industry. The biggest drags were Canadian Nat- S&P/TSX 60 896.60 -4.30 -.48 4.88 S&P/TSX Completion 1,003.11 -2.27 -.23 5.99 ural Resources, which lost 2.8 per cent, and Suncor Energy, which fell back 1.5 per cent. S&P/TSX SmallCap 601.19 -.83 -.14 3.83 ...... S&P/TSX Venture 705.59 .34 .05 1.45 Wall Street falls U.S. stocks ended marginally lower as lingering worries about Cons Discretion 179.58 -.68 -.38 4.88 Cons Staples 460.61 -2.22 -.48 4.89 upcoming corporate earnings reports offset enthusiasm about a trio of soaring Wall Energy 239.34 -2.45 -1.01 8.25 Street debuts. Apple closed 0.5 per cent lower while General Electric ended down 0.7 Financials 254.61 .19 .07 .52 Health Care 137.54 .51 .37 32.48 per cent. SanDisk lost 4.5 per cent after its forecast. Industrials 193.05 -.63 -.33 -.09 Info Tech 55.30 -.34 -.61 15.76 Materials 226.16 -2.92 -1.27 4.96 ...... Metals & Mining 714.65 -10.31 -1.42 4.38 S&P/TSX COMPOSITE INDEX Real Estate 301.81 .76 .25 12.07 ...... S&P/TSX Global Gold 164.24 -3.15 -1.88 12.65 15,386.77 9 -64.10 9 -0.41% 9 208,304,617 VOL 9 +5.16% YTD S&P/TSX Global Mining 64.64 -.76 -1.16 4.19 S&P/TSX Income Trust 202.03 1.86 .93 8.32 Daily index: Last 12 months Daily index: 5minute interval S&P/TSX Preferred Share 731.48 -2.24 -.31 -9.61 15800 15440 Telecom Serv 126.00 .41 .33 -1.84 Utilities 236.17 .23 .10 4.05
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14700 15385 INDEX LIFTERS / DRAGS STOCKS THAT MOVED THE INDEX THE MOST ON THE DAY ...... CLOSE CHG MKT CAP *INFL. % ($B) ...... Bank of Nova Scotia 65.73 .46 79.53 2.9 13600 15330 National Bank of Cda 48.96 1.66 16.15 2.1 M J J A S O N D J F M 10 11 12 1 2 3 Enbridge Inc. 64.42 .45 54.69 2.0 2014 2015 A.M. P.M. TD Bank 56.03 .23 103.40 1.9
...... EnCana Corp. 15.83 1.28 11.73 1.3 ...... S&P 500 DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE Cdn Natural Resource 40.84 -2.76 44.59 -10.0 ...... Suncor Energy 40.07 -1.48 57.87 -6.9 2,104.99 9 -1.64 9 -0.08% 9 +2.24% YTD 18,105.77 9 -6.84 9 -0.04% 9 89,515,996 VOL 9 +1.59% YTD BCE Inc. 53.98 -1.23 45.36 -4.5 Brookfield Asset Mgmt 70.47 -1.21 43.54 -3.9 Daily index: Last 12 months Daily index: Last 12 months 2140 18600 Barrick Gold Corp. 15.40 -2.47 17.94 -3.6 * Influence: How many points the stock moved the index
...... INTERNATIONAL INDEXES 1985 17300 ...... CLOSE CHG %CHG YTD% ...... Frankfurt Xetra DAX 11998.86 -232.48 -1.90 +22.37 Hong Kong Hang Seng 27739.71 120.89 0.44 +17.52 1830 16000 London FTSE 100 7060.45 -36.33 -0.51 +7.53 M J J A S O N D J F M M J J A S O N D J F M Madrid IBEX 35 11611.70 -166.70 -1.42 +12.96 2014 2015 2014 2015 Mexico C IPC 45480.23 217.29 0.48 +5.41 Nasdaq 5007.79 -3.23 -0.06 +5.74 Paris CAC40 5224.49 -29.86 -0.57 +22.27 ...... Russell 2000 1272.90 -2.45 -0.19 +5.66 MARKET BREADTH Russia RTS 1061.60 9.27 0.88 +34.26 % change indicates increase / decrease from 13-week average Sao Paulo BOVESPA 54674.21 -244.53 -0.45 +9.33 ...... Seoul Kospi 2139.90 19.94 0.94 +11.71 ...... ADVANCE %CHG VOL (000S) DECLINE %CHG VOL(000S) UNCH. %CHG VOL(000S) TOTAL NEW HIGH %CHG NEW...... LOW %CHG VOL(000S) %CHG Shanghai Composite 4194.82 110.66 2.71 +29.68 TSX 628 -19.81 155,072 1,000 24.96 238,556 687 -1.46 25,892 2,315 27 -49.56 93 92.18 419,520 6.13 Sydney All Ord 5917.60 40.30 0.69 +9.82 Venture 287 -33.53 63,421 417 -14.59 63,561 1,680 8.81 42,147 2,384 13 -34.98 22 -37.85 169,129 -11.15 Tokyo Nikkei 225 19885.77 16.01 0.08 +13.95 New York 2,064 2.08 1,876,586 2,337 22.47 2,590,709 415 3.86 74,832 4,816 143 -19.03 28 -70.54 4,542,127 -7.74 Zurich Swiss Mkt 9398.60 -29.95 -0.32 +4.62 Nasdaq 1,280 -4.11 725,403 1,431 3.99 863,903 292 -6.93 71,205 3,003 118 39.58 22 -70.01 1,660,511 -18.04
...... VOLUME ...... TSX TSX VENTURE NYSE NASDAQ Biggest volume for stocks $5 or more Biggest volume for stocks $1 or more Biggest volume for stocks $5 or more Biggest volume for stocks $5 or more ...... $ % VOL YTD $ % VOL YTD $ % VOL YTD $ % VOL YTD CLOSE CHG CHG 000S %CHG CLOSE CHG CHG 000S %CHG CLOSE CHG CHG 000S %CHG CLOSE CHG CHG 000S %CHG ...... Canadian Oil Sands 12.96 .12 .9 5001 24.4 Patient Home Monitor 1.82 .08 4.6 6297 109.2 Bank of America 15.79 .15 1.0 104962 -11.7 Applied Materials 21.88 -.67 -3.0 33184 -12.2 HBP NYMEX Crude Oil B 8.75 -.21 -2.3 4657 -19.4 NYX Gaming Group 4.69 -.09 -1.9 1621 25.1 Petroleo Bras Sa Petr 8.68 -.22 -2.5 74959 18.9 Cisco Systems 28.60 .35 1.2 29820 2.8 DHX Media 7.90 -.64 -7.5 4461 -18.6 Pine Cliff Energy 1.51 .01 .7 1005 -10.1 Spdr S&P 500 E.T.F. 210.37 -.06 -.0 68781 2.4 Intel 32.87 .04 .1 28832 -9.4 HBP NYMEX Crude Oil B 9.67 .24 2.6 3720 -14.6 Tamarack Valley Energ 4.50 -.08 -1.8 867 38.0 General Electric 27.28 -.18 -.7 62167 8.0 Apple 126.17 -.61 -.5 28035 14.3 Precision Drilling 8.63 -.46 -5.1 3324 22.2 POET Technologies 1.66 .14 9.2 624 13.7 Ishares Msci Emerg Mk 43.46 .34 .8 55058 10.6 Sandisk Corp. 67.91 -3.21 -4.5 23642 -30.7 Royal Bank of Canada 81.24 -.01 -.0 3143 1.3 Lonestar West 2.10 .20 10.5 487 -12.5 Nokia 7.77 -.07 -.9 53358 -1.2 Microsoft 42.16 -.10 -.2 22435 -9.2 Suncor Energy 40.07 -.60 -1.5 3067 8.6 Leucrotta Exploration 1.05 -.02 -1.9 449 -27.6 Petroleo Bras Sa Petr 8.58 -.21 -2.4 43585 13.2 Horizon Pharma plc 30.97 1.47 5.0 17023 140.3 EnCana Corp. 15.83 .20 1.3 3012 -2.1 Input Capital Corp. 2.93 -.05 -1.7 239 33.2 Alcoa 13.45 .11 .8 43410 -14.8 Micron Technology 28.01 -.16 -.6 16376 -20.0 Cdn Natural Resource 40.84 -1.16 -2.8 2956 13.7 Storm Resources Ltd. 4.99 .07 1.4 198 20.5 Citigroup 54.02 .81 1.5 38305 -.2 Powersh QQQ E.T.F. 107.69 -.15 -.1 16170 4.3 iShares S&P/TSX 60 In 22.58 -.11 -.5 2718 5.2 Vogogo Inc. 3.34 -.11 -3.2 178 26.5 Mrk Vectr Gold Miners 19.74 -.24 -1.2 36431 7.4 Netflix Inc. 562.05 86.59 18.2 14904 64.5
...... GAINERS ...... TSX TSX VENTURE NYSE NASDAQ Biggest % gainers for stocks $5 or more Biggest % gainers for stocks $1 or more Biggest % gainers for stocks $5 or more Biggest % gainers for stocks $5 or more ...... $ % VOL YTD $ % VOL YTD $ % VOL YTD $ % VOL YTD CLOSE CHG CHG 000S %CHG CLOSE CHG CHG 000S %CHG CLOSE CHG CHG 000S %CHG CLOSE CHG CHG 000S %CHG ...... Nobilis Health Corp. 9.28 1.04 12.6 1329 165.1 NXT Energy Solutions 2.05 .25 13.9 167 48.6 Koppers Holdings 22.65 2.17 10.6 568 -12.8 Identiv, Inc. 12.40 3.45 38.6 1565 -10.7 Kinaxis Inc. 30.90 2.59 9.2 71 67.0 Lonestar West 2.10 .20 10.5 487 -12.5 Philip Morris Internat 84.96 6.83 8.7 23590 4.3 Travelzoo Inc. 13.57 3.29 32.0 2291 7.5 DeeThree Exploration 7.42 .37 5.3 1276 45.2 POET Technologies 1.66 .14 9.2 624 13.7 Mesabi Trust 15.68 1.24 8.6 103 -9.3 Netflix Inc. 562.05 86.59 18.2 14904 64.5 COM DEV International 5.06 .21 4.3 207 26.8 Orca Exploration Group 3.62 .24 7.1 1 24.8 Sinopec Shanghai Petr 52.06 3.51 7.2 28 77.5 Capitol Acquis. Corp. 13.80 1.80 15.0 0 37.3 Manitoba Telecom Serv 26.28 1.05 4.2 511 -3.0 Starlight U.S. Multi- 12.50 .75 6.4 2 25.0 Shake Shack Inc. 61.59 4.12 7.2 1800 n-a Audience, Inc. 6.19 .74 13.6 428 40.7 Cdn. Energy Services 6.78 .27 4.2 1096 6.8 Auryn Resources Inc. 1.19 .07 6.3 73 25.3 Korea Electric Power 21.39 1.33 6.6 1367 10.5 Trivascular Technolog 8.95 .95 11.9 749 -28.8 CNOOC Limited 209.70 8.33 4.1 1 34.4 Ascot Resources 1.58 .08 5.3 46 -10.7 Eros International PL 18.64 1.11 6.3 118 -11.9 Atara Biotherapeutics 53.28 5.53 11.6 176 99.2 Westport Innovations 5.83 .21 3.7 66 32.8 EXO U Inc. 1.40 .07 5.3 10 -29.7 58.Com Inc. 67.57 3.85 6.0 3130 62.6 Panera Bread 182.89 18.97 11.6 2766 4.6 AutoCanada Inc. 37.72 1.22 3.3 192 -15.2 Nanotech Security Cor 1.43 .07 5.2 25 14.4 Csop Ftse China A50 E 22.70 1.27 5.9 48 n-a Heat Biologics 7.69 .75 10.8 196 67.5 HBP S&P/TSX Glo Gold 11.06 .35 3.3 359 -33.3 Patient Home Monitor 1.82 .08 4.6 6297 109.2 Marinemax Inc. 25.16 1.37 5.8 560 25.5 Minerva Neurosciences 5.83 .52 9.8 127 -3.2
...... LOSERS ...... TSX TSX VENTURE NYSE NASDAQ Biggest % losers for stocks $5 or more Biggest % losers for stocks $1 or more Biggest % losers for stocks $5 or more Biggest % losers for stocks $5 or more ...... $ % VOL YTD $ % VOL YTD $ % VOL YTD $ % VOL YTD CLOSE CHG CHG 000S %CHG CLOSE CHG CHG 000S %CHG CLOSE CHG CHG 000S %CHG CLOSE CHG CHG 000S %CHG ...... DHX Media 7.60 -.96 -11.2 68 -23.2 UGE International 1.02 -.36 -26.1 20 -27.1 Argan, Inc. 32.68 -2.86 -8.1 131 -2.9 Natural Health Trends 19.01 -5.56 -22.6 1550 n-a DHX Media 7.90 -.64 -7.5 4461 -18.6 Decisive Dividend 1.65 -.15 -8.3 1 65.0 Gulfmark Offshore 16.01 -1.37 -7.9 1498 -34.4 Pernix Therapeuticsho 8.34 -1.63 -16.4 7709 -11.2 Callidus Capital Corp 15.70 -1.12 -6.7 94 -10.3 CohBar Inc. 1.07 -.08 -7.0 41 n-a Global X Brazil Finan 7.95 -.65 -7.6 1 -7.7 Novogen Ltd. (D) 6.94 -.96 -12.2 1459 233.7 HBP NYMEX NatGas Bear 11.20 -.74 -6.2 1898 .4 VersaPay Corporation 1.40 -.09 -6.0 69 -.7 Ocwen Financial 7.78 -.62 -7.4 9571 -48.5 KBS Fashion Group 7.20 -.90 -11.1 1 69.4 Amaya Inc. 26.71 -1.73 -6.1 1691 -6.4 Bacanora Minerals 1.60 -.10 -5.9 111 92.8 Coeur Mining, Inc. 5.69 -.45 -7.3 3439 11.4 Codexis, Inc. 5.02 -.62 -11.0 456 99.2 Novadaq Technologies 19.73 -1.20 -5.7 0 2.1 Blackline GPS 2.00 -.10 -4.8 1 -14.9 Matador Resources 27.24 -2.11 -7.2 5487 34.7 Evoke Pharma 6.66 -.78 -10.5 100 12.9 Northern Blizzard Res 8.78 -.47 -5.1 190 11.0 Aveda Trans. & Energy 2.15 -.09 -4.0 44 -4.4 Aspen Aerogels, Inc. 6.89 -.52 -7.0 17 -13.7 Hampden Bancorp 22.62 -2.44 -9.7 4 6.7 Precision Drilling 8.63 -.46 -5.1 3324 22.2 North Arrow Minerals 1.01 -.04 -3.8 79 98.0 Penn Virginia Corp. 7.43 -.56 -7.0 5996 11.2 Pacira Pharmaceutical 83.47 -8.92 -9.7 4036 -5.9 ENERGY INDEXPLUS Divi 6.38 -.29 -4.4 6 -3.3 Chesapeake Gold 1.93 -.07 -3.5 1 -5.4 Harsco Corp. 15.83 -1.07 -6.3 1111 -16.2 Angie’S List 5.45 -.50 -8.4 2686 -12.5 Hydrogenics Corp. 15.05 -.67 -4.3 3 -2.4 Kennady Diamonds Inc. 4.50 -.16 -3.4 10 -2.2 Natural Grocers by Vi 26.55 -1.73 -6.1 167 -5.8 Akebia Therapeutics 8.67 -.65 -7.0 404 -25.5
...... HIGHS AND LOWS ...... CLOSE CHG %CHG ...... CLOSE CHG %CHG ...... CLOSE CHG %CHG ...... CLOSE CHG %CHG ...... CLOSE CHG %CHG TSX HIGHS ZCL Composites 7.35 -.05 -.68 Northern Power System .98 -.17 -14.78 TSX VENTURE LOWS WAI Capital Investmen .06 .00 .00 COM DEV International 5.06 .21 4.33 TSX LOWS PowerShares Cdn Pref 16.17 -.11 -.68 Avrupa Minerals Ltd. .11 -.01 -8.33 White Metal Resources .02 -.01 -25.00 DH Corporation 42.89 .14 .33 BMO S&P/TSX Laddered 12.04 -.08 -.66 Preferred Share Invest 8.22 -.12 -1.44 CohBar Inc. 1.07 -.08 -6.96 Yoho Resources .85 -.05 -5.56 DIRTT Envrionmental 7.58 -.32 -4.05 Canickel Mining .11 -.05 -29.03 Timmins Gold .73 .00 .00 Cricket Media Group .16 -.08 -33.33 NYSE HIGHS Dominion Diamond 22.77 .36 1.61 Connacher Oil and Gas .01 -.01 -33.33 Victory Nickel .08 -.01 -11.11 CRS Electronics .04 -.01 -22.22 Alliance Data Systems 299.93 -2.27 -.75 F.A. Morningstar Intl 22.80 .20 .88 Corvus Gold Inc. .65 -.01 -1.52 Wellgreen Platinum .43 -.02 -3.37 El Nino Ventures .02 -.01 -25.00 Autoliv Inc. 124.05 2.07 1.70 First Asset Energy Gi 10.66 .08 .76 GeneNews .57 -.03 -5.00 Yorbeau Resources .05 -.01 -10.00 Ely Gold & Minerals .04 -.01 -11.11 Cigna Corp. 132.80 2.58 1.98 Hartco 3.37 .02 .60 HBP S&P500 VIX Sh.Ter 2.99 -.04 -1.32 TSX VENTURE HIGHS Ferrum Americas Minin .01 -.01 -50.00 Energizer Holdings 142.06 .48 .34 iShares Emrg. Mkts Fu 34.14 .48 1.43 HBP S&P500 VIX ST Fut 5.95 -.23 -3.72 BriaCell Therapeutics .35 .05 15.00 Genview Capital Corp. .02 -.01 -40.00 Goldman Sachs 200.21 -.89 -.44 Kinaxis Inc. 30.90 2.59 9.15 Horizon US 7-10 Yr Tr 48.87 -.96 -1.93 Brilliant Resources .24 .02 6.82 Highland Resources .20 -.02 -6.98 Ibonds Dec 2018 Corpo 101.91 .06 .06 Kirkland Lake Gold 5.98 -.14 -2.29 Horizons Act Float Pr 9.16 -.03 -.33 Coastal Gold Corp. .03 .01 25.00 Jet Metal Corp. .11 -.02 -16.00 Ishares Ibonds Dec 20 103.87 .08 .08 Nobilis Health Corp. 9.28 1.04 12.62 Horizons Active Prefe 9.27 -.05 -.54 Foran Mining Corporat .48 .10 26.32 Match Capital Resourc .01 -.01 -33.33 Ishares Mid-Cap Growt 169.38 -.03 -.01 Parkland Fuel Corp. 26.54 .11 .42 Horizons Active Prefe 9.27 .02 .22 Golden Arrow Resource .34 -.01 -2.86 Melkior Resources .02 .00 .00 Prosh Ultra Japan E.T 102.81 .62 .61 Pollard Banknote Limit 7.35 .15 2.08 iShares S&P/TSX N.A. 19.02 -.11 -.58 Kootenay Silver .48 -.01 -2.04 NSX Silver .03 -.01 -14.29 Proshares Ultra Ftse 107.21 3.58 3.45 Regal Lifestyle Commu 9.69 .20 2.11 iShares S&P/TSX Prefe 14.77 .02 .14 Lateral Gold .36 .07 22.41 Pacific Link Mining .01 -.01 -50.00 Usana Health Sciences 120.70 -.79 -.65 Richelieu Hardware 66.85 .60 .91 iShares S&P/TSX Prefe 14.70 -.11 -.74 NXT Energy Solutions 2.05 .25 13.89 Rodinia Lithium Inc. .02 .00 .00 Wabco Holdings 126.69 4.12 3.36 Russ. 1000 Eq. Wt. US 20.64 .35 1.72 Kelso Technologies In 4.37 -.38 -8.00 Patient Home Monitor 1.82 .08 4.60 Skeena Resources .06 -.01 -15.38 ...... Tricon Capital Group 11.79 .07 .60 Marret High Yield Str .08 -.01 -5.88 Tarku Resources Ltd. .10 .01 5.26 Spearmint Resources .02 -.03 -60.00 Stocks listed in this table touched a 52week U.S. Dividend Growers 9.90 .00 .00 Mega Uranium .08 -.01 -11.76 Stakeholder Gold Corp .05 -.02 -25.00 high or low in previous day's trading. Due to theScore, Inc. .83 .00 .00 space constraints, companies with lower share UrtheCast Corp. 2.42 .08 3.42 North American Pallad .07 -.06 -44.00 Unique Broadband Syst .04 .02 75.00 Starlight U.S. Multi- 9.90 -.10 -1.00 prices might not appear on the published list. THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 S GLOBE INVESTOR • B13
STOCK ANALYSIS ...... Innovators – as seen by insiders
...... determining a stock’s rank in HIGH RANKING HEALTH CARE, INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGY STOCKS each V.I.P. category based on ...... equally weighted factors. RECENT MARKET CAP INSIDER PRICE COMPOSITE ...... RANK STOCK TICKER PRICE $ ($-MIL) SECTOR OUTLOOK VALUATIONS COMMITMENT MOMENTUM RANK ...... Valuations (past 12 months 1 Chorus Aviation Inc. CHR.B-T 5.96 722.3 Industrials SUNNY 83.0 56.7 95.1 99.3 except dividend yield) 2 The Intertain Group Ltd. IT-T 16.28 1,057.7 Technology SUNNY 5.1 99.0 95.5 98.1 TED DIXON 6 price-to-earnings, price-to-book 3 Enghouse Systems Ltd. ESL-T 52.55 1,376.9 Technology SUNNY 5.5 93.3 94.4 96.8 NUMBER CRUNCHER and price-to-sales ratios; 4 Neovasc Inc. NVC-T 11.00 730.3 Health care SUNNY 1.8 95.9 95.7 96.6 [email protected] 6 enterprise value to EBITDA 5 Extendicare Inc. EXE-T 7.72 679.8 Health care SUNNY 75.7 90.9 64.6 95.9 (earnings before interest, taxes, 6 Magellan Aerospace Corp. MAL-T 13.73 799.2 Industrials SUNNY 67.2 86.3 76.7 95.8 ...... depreciation and amortization); 7 Transcontinental Inc. TCL.A-T 17.44 1,361.6 Industrials SUNNY 85.8 69.4 78.6 95.2 What are we looking for? 6 price-to-cash flow or price-to- 8 Toromont Industries Ltd. TIH-T 33.93 2,629.5 Industrials SUNNY 37.5 82.5 88.1 94.3 The 10 highest ranking stocks in cash; 9 Velan Inc. VLN-T 18.90 414.7 Industrials SUNNY 96.2 77.2 54.6 94.0 some of Canada’s most innova- 6 shareholder yield (buybacks 10 Valeant Pharmaceuticals Int'l Inc. VRX-T 252.82 86,175.9 Health care SUNNY 3.3 82.3 96.3 93.6 tion-dependent sectors: health plus dividends). care, industrials and technology ...... Screen run on April 10, 2015, share prices as of April 15, 2015. Source: INK Research (HITs). Rankings are determined Insider (officer and director) ...... by the INK Edge V.I.P. criteria commitment in the market. Rankings are be- stock ranks in the top 10 per cent Neovasc Inc. is the top ranked (valuations, insider commitment 6 recent net insider buying; tween 0 and 100 – the higher the of all stocks on the basis of price health-care name and takes and price momentum). This is 6 personal holdings (excludes better. A composite ranking over momentum, and in the top 30 fourth spot. The stock falls in the the same approach we apply shares held for other investors); 90 goes into the top decile “sun- per cent on the basis of attractive bottom 10 per cent in terms of across the broad market to deter- 6 insider intensity, based on the ny” category. A composite rank- valuations. On the other hand, of valuations, a distinction which is mine membership for the INK number of insiders buying. ing between 70 and 90 goes into the top 10 stocks, it ranks lowest also shared by the two stocks Canadian Insider Index, which is ...... the next two deciles, or the on insider commitment. Never- above it in the rankings. used by the Horizons Canadian Price momentum “mostly sunny” category. Keep in theless, given that the stock is up Investors should conduct fur- Insider Index ETF (HII-TSX). 6 based on three-, six- and 12- mind that even if a stock is in the more than 60 per cent over the ther research before buying any ...... month returns. sunny category, it could still rain past year, the fact that insiders of the companies listed here. The screen Next, each V.I.P. category rank on your portfolio’s parade. Diver- remain modest accumulators is a ...... Our universe includes some 800 is equally weighted to determine sification remains key. positive signal. Ted Dixon, CFA, is CEO of INK TSX-listed stocks that meet min- a composite ranking...... Intertain Group Ltd. takes sec- Research, which provides research imum size and liquidity require- ...... What we found ond spot. It also has the highest and alerts on insider trading reports ments. To make the final grade, a In context Chorus Aviation Inc. leads the insider ranking. In third spot is via INKResearch.com. INK staff stock in the group must trade The percentile V.I.P. category and pack. Chorus provides Air Cana- enterprise software solutions may also hold a position in profiled over $3 and have a market cap of composite rankings of the top 10 da feeder and regional services firm Enghouse Systems. securities. at least $250-million. We begin by are shown versus all other stocks through its Jazz operations. The Cardiovascular device maker
...... EYE ON EQUITIES STOCKS THAT SHOULD BE ON YOUR RADAR SCREEN 9 BY DAVID LEEDER AND LUKE KAWA ...... Netflix Inc. (NFLX-Nasdaq) DHX Media Ltd. (DHX.B-TSX) TransAlta Renewables (RNW-TSX) SNC-Lavalin Group (SNC-TSX) Thomson Reuters Corp. (TRI-TSX) Close: $562.05 (U.S.), up $86.59 Close: $7.90, down 64¢ Close: $12.48, up 5¢ Close: $43.60, up 71¢ Close: $50.78, down $1.28
$US 590 $ 10.5 $ 13.25 $ 60 $ 54
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305 4.5 11.0 36 36 M J J A S O N D J F M M J J A S O N D J F M M J J A S O N D J F M M J J A S O N D J F M M J J A S O N D J F M 2014 2015 2014 2015 2014 2015 2014 2015 2014 2015 Research suggests that current The end of DHX Media Ltd.’s TransAlta Renewables Inc.’s CIBC World Markets analyst Paul Thomson Reuters Corp. is “due Netflix Inc. subscribers in the licensing rights contract with Dis- $1.78-billion investment in its Lechem said it is a “definite pos- for a pause” after a solid rally fol- U.S. prefer the service over televi- ney Channel brings further parent company TransAlta itive” that SNC-Lavalin Group lowing the release of its fourth- sion, says FBR Capital Markets & uncertainty to its broadcast divi- Corp.’s Australian asset portfolio Inc. can still land federal govern- quarter earnings, according to Co. analyst Barton Crockett. The sion, said CIBC World Markets an- brings both geographic and asset- ment contracts, such as the RBC Dominion Securities Inc. an- video-streaming service posted alyst Tony Rizzi. DHX said it type diversification, said Desjar- replacement of Champlain alyst Drew McReynolds. He said an impressive first-quarter earn- expects “significant cost savings” dins Securities Inc. analyst Bill Bridge in Montreal, given it is fac- the market is poised to be disap- ings report after the close on of $5-million to $7-million Cabel. TransAlta is raising its div- ing federal fraud and corruption pointed by earnings growth this Wednesday, adding more sub- annually and no revenue decline; idend by 9 per cent to 84 cents charges. However, Mr. Lechem year, downgrading the stock to scribers than anticipated. He however, Mr. Rizzi said that is un- and plans for a further increase said he is unsure whether SNC “sector perform” from “outper- upgraded the stock to “outper- likely. in the first half of 2017. can turn a profit on such pro- form.” form” from “market perform.” Target: He lowered his price tar- Target: He increased his target jects. Target: He maintained a $41 Target: He hiked his price target get to $9 from $9.50. The consen- price to $12.75 from $11.50. Con- Target: He raised his price target (U.S.) price target on the stock. to $900 (U.S.) from $400. The av- sus is $10.20. sensus is $13.42. to $46 from $44. Consensus is The consensus is $40.43. erage analyst target is $527.13. $46.95.
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ECONOMY AND MARKETS ...... COMMODITIES CURRENCIES BONDS THOMSON REUTERS / JEFFERIES CRB INDEX CANADIAN DOLLAR / U.S. EXCHANGE RATE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA BOND YIELD CURVE ...... Last 12 months Last 12 months: value in $US Last 5 business days Most Recent 1 Week Ago 4 Weeks Ago 4% 320 $ 0.95 $ 0.83
0.82 0.89 2% 260 0.81
0.83 0.8 0% 200 0.77 0.79 136235 7 10 30 M J J A S O N D J F M M J J A S O N D J F M F M T W T Months Years 2014 2015 2014 2015 Oil prices marked gains for their sixth day running amid The Canadian dollar rose against a widely depreciating Canadian bond prices fell as the market continued to signs that U.S. production, a key driver of the global sup- U.S. dollar, moving to a new year-to-date high as investors absorb the Bank of Canada’s optimistic policy stance, and ply glut, may be on the cusp of easing. Copper notched up continued to welcome an upbeat economic outlook from felt some pressure from new supply in the shape of an its strongest gain in four weeks. The Thomson Reuters/ the Bank of Canada. The U.S. dollar was on track for its auction of 10-year bonds. U.S. government bonds Jefferies CRB Index rose 2.14 points to 226.29. biggest daily decline against a basket of major currencies. strengthened for a fifth straight day...... CLOSING PRICES FOREIGN EXCHANGE CROSS RATES CANADA U.S...... PRICE CHG PRICE CHG CAD USD GBP EUR JPY CHF MXN AUD ...... YIELD CHANGE ...... YIELD CHANGE 1 CAD= – 0.8203 0.5493 0.762 97.6294 0.7843 12.4493 1.0514 Oil West Texas US$/bbl 56.55 0.54 Nickel US$/lb 5.83 0.07 2 Year 0.58 +0.018 2 Year 0.48 –0.02 1 USD= 1.2191 – 0.6696 0.9289 119.02 0.9561 15.177 1.2818 Oil Brent US$/bbl 63.74 3.42 Wheat CBOT US$bsh 4.91 0.02 5 Year 0.81 +0.031 5 Year 1.30 –0.01 1 Br pd= 1.8206 1.4934 – 1.3872 177.7479 1.4279 22.6658 1.9143 Nat Gas H. Hub US$ mmbtu 2.68 0.08 Lumber KD W. S-P-F, Mill US$ 269.00 0.00 10 Year 1.37 +0.023 10 Year 1.89 –0.00 1 Euro= 1.3124 1.0765 0.7209 – 128.13 1.0293 16.3387 1.3799 Gold US$/troy ounce 1198.20 -4.00 Framing Lumber Composite 336.00 0.00 30 Year 2.02 +0.031 30 Year 2.58 +0.04 Silver US$/troy ounce 16.26 -0.05 Corn CBOT US$bsh 3.76 0.00 1 Yen= 0.0102 0.0084 0.0056 0.0078 – 0.008 0.1275 0.0108 Rates Rates Copper US$/lb 2.75 0.05 Soybeans CBOT US$bsh 9.66 0.01 1 Sw fr= 1.2751 1.0459 0.7003 0.9716 124.4849 – 15.8739 1.3407 ...... Lead US$/lb 0.93 0.02 Canola InStr Vn 1Cda C$ tnne 476.10 -13.50 1 Peso= 0.0803 0.0659 0.0441 0.0612 7.8421 0.063 – 0.0845 ...... RATE CHG ...... RATE CHG Zinc US$/lb 1.01 0.01 Feed Barley Lthbr. C$ tnne 216.00 0.00 1 AUSD= 0.9511 0.7802 0.5224 0.7247 92.8538 0.7459 11.8404 – BoC overnight target 0.75 Unch. Fed Target rate 0.25 Unch. Aluminum US$/lb 0.83 0.00 Feed Wheat ThdrB C$ tnne 229.00 0.00 Canadian Prime 2.85 Unch. U.S. Prime 3.25 Unch. SOURCES: REUTERS, AP, BLOOMBERG, RANDOM LENGTHS, WINNIPEG COMMODITIES SOURCES: CANADIANFOREX, BANK OF CANADA, BLOOMBERG, DJ EXCHANGE, DJ CROSS RATES ARE AS OF 4PM AND ARE SUPPLIED BY CANADIANFOREX SOURCES: CBIDATS, PERIMETER MARKETS INC., BLOOMBERG, REUTERS, AP, CP B14 • REPORT ON BUSINESS S THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 Globe Careers
LEADERSHIP LAB Five things I learned from millennials
...... NICOLE GALLUCCI ing into new territory, following ...... a passion and purpose that pre- n my position, I am routinely viously I had kept locked away Iasked how I manage “entitled” “until the time was right.” Tradi- millennials. tionally, this motivation to live Here’s the thing: I don’t find our purpose has been a rite of millennials difficult to work mid-life, but I find that the mil- with; in fact, they are the reason lennials come to this point earli- I am excited to get out of bed er in their lives. They know life is and go to work every day. I am ever-changing and tumultuous, motivated and mentored by mil- so living with passion and pur- lennials. Approaching 50 and pose is their modus operandi. having lived a reasonably conser- I have been a marketer for my vative, follow-the-rules, don’t- entire career and never has there rock-the-boat life, I am now re- been a demographic quite like defining success for myself in millennials. What I love about work, in life, and in everything them is the importance they put in between. I credit the millenni- on authenticity, integrity, friends, als in my midst – my children understanding, living in the now and my team at work – for my and experiencing life. They are recent choices. driven by passion and a need for While people in my generation purpose, rather than a follow- often need a reminder to “don the-rules, keeping-up-with-the- their own oxygen mask before Jones’s mentality. They are auto- helping others,” millennials nomous thinkers, questioning innately put on their own mask conventional wisdom and rede- first. Is that entitlement? Perhaps fining work, family life, social cir- – but there is so much more to cles, and the list goes on. the equation. Millennials choose to make life Millennials have grown up good every day – they don’t set- more connected to the world tle. and are more aware of global PESHKOVA/GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO And to that point, I have re- issues. They understand how signed from the company I start- quickly things can change. As a they know the answer is usually time to time. If the desire is not “What is the worst thing that ed 11 years ago. I am going to result, they are not prepared to only a few short keystrokes there to connect with someone, could happen?” Perhaps this atti- travel for a few months and then succumb to a job or life that away. then maybe it’s time to re-eval- tude and blunt approach comes start a new venture that feeds does not serve their spirit. They ...... uate your relationships and from learning to communicate my spirit. Perhaps rather than know life is too short. 2. Seize the moment “clean house.” Millennial men- through technology, but I have being labelled “entitled,” we I am not going to tell you that tors have taught me that just as seen countless healthy offline should appreciate millennials as millennials have it all figured out The speed at which plans can you can “friend” someone quick- examples as well. “enlightened.” (show me a generation that evolve is ever-increasing as ly, you can also “unfriend” them...... does), but I do think they have a everyone connects over social This notion seemed extreme at 5. Do what you love or don’t Nicole Gallucci (nicole@nicolegal- lot to offer. Daily, I am humbled media. Living with our phones in first, but now I am on board. It’s complain lucci.com) is a marketing strategist, by what they teach me. our hands allows us to know harsh, but honest; which leads in speaker and the author of Adver- Here are five things I’ve where everyone is and truly to the next lesson. The greatest lesson I’ve learned sperience. learned from the millennials in seize the moment because we ...... from millennials is to truly live ...... my life: are so easily connected. 4. Call it as you see it your passion and purpose. In my This column is part of Globe ...... younger years, I subscribed to Careers’ Leadership Lab series, 1. When in doubt, Google it 3. There’s no excuse for not Authenticity and integrity define expectations: school, work, mar- where executives and experts share connecting real friendship. Millennials call it riage, house, family, etc. While their views and advice about Millennials are not afraid to say as they see it. They are more much of this worked for me, leadership and management. Fol- “I don’t know,” and having It’s so easy to stay connected, so forthright. I’ve learned that their there are a few pieces that did low us at@Globe_Careers. Find all grown up with the Web, smart- stay connected. There is no rea- wisdom comes from asking not. Leadership Lab stories at tgam.ca/ phones and specifically Google, son not to check-in or chat from “What have I got to lose?” or Now, I am now boldly ventur- leadershiplab
ETIQUETTE WORK FORCE Five tips to avoid burning online bridges Immigrant worker? Be warned: We don’t do it like that in Canada ...... ESTELLE METAYER of abandonment are deciphered nate channel of communication ...... from an unfollow on Twitter or – in my case, Twitter – has ...... recently got a message an unfriend on Facebook. It allowed me to establish a con- KAT SIENIUC son’s program for new workers in Ithrough Twitter from a col- seems the world is evolving more nection with someone when I ...... Canada, and the university also league. He had noticed I unfol- slowly than its tools. It is still too don’t accept their LinkedIn arie Bountrogianni is always has a contract with the Bombay lowed him on Twitter, and with a delicate today to openly delete request. Some social-media net- Mon time. And as the dean of Stock Exchange for those who vaguely hinted tone of ill will, he people from your life. So a new works simply give you more Ryerson’s Chang School of Con- want to immigrate to Canada and had forwarded me a short article etiquette is needed. Here’s what I “open space” than others. tinuing Education, if she sched- those who want to do business called “Never burn a bridge. suggest: ...... ules a meeting for 9 a.m. she with the Western world. Ever.” ...... Tip 4: You can cross the bridge expects that everyone be there And then there’s the flip side: After a bit of research, I recalled Tip 1: Be clear on your profile – many times differently. Engag- on the dot. As much as integration training the reason I had stopped fol- your follows or unfollows are ing in social media can be time “I know that sounds obvious, promotes productive work lowing him. It was after he based on current content and in- consuming, so select well those but in some cultures a schedule among diverse teams, it also ben- shared an article filled with large- terests, not personal. Warn peo- you wish to interact with. There is a suggestion,” she says. efits companies that serve di- ly exaggerated facts about an or- ple they may change from time is nothing wrong with adapting Newcomers to Canada often verse clients. ganization I highly respect, the to time, such as when you expect the list of people you are fol- have the technical skills required “If you’re going to be operating World Economic Forum. to unfollow a large number of lowing so it matches your inter- to do their jobs, but can face in some culture somewhere in Unintentionally, I had burned a them if you are attending a con- est of the moment. challenges integrating into the the world, you can actually hire bridge. It was not a strong bridge, ference and want to focus on ...... work force because of cultural people to work for you who are but a clearly fragile one, the type that. Tip 5: Understand why someone differences in workplace interac- knowledgeable about that cultur- of tenuous link we build with ...... might unfollow you from Twit- tions. al experience and speak the local people on the Internet. Conflict Tip 2: Get back to whomever ter. Some unfollows are mistakes, Common business practices language,” said Dan Ondrack, an online rapidly grows out of pro- you did not friend or follow and but others have valid reasons and such as keeping eye contact and international business professor portion. One might compare it explain why. On LinkedIn, for do not mean a public disapproval having a firm handshake are far at the Joseph L. Rotman School with road rage; while protected example, I restrict my connec- about who you are. They should from universal across cultures. of Management. by their glass windows, drivers tions to colleagues I am or will be be taken pragmatically rather And many workplace misunder- But while workplace diversity can utter comments that they working with. When a new than personally. standings can be prevented by gives Canadian businesses a big would never say face to face. In request comes in that doesn’t fit ...... simply teaching people the ap- advantage when dealing with in- the social media world, while my rule, I find that a simple Estelle Metayer (@Competia) is the propriate ways of addressing and ternational trade or international protected behind our screens, explanation of this is usually well principal and founder of Competia, interacting with their colleagues, marketing, Prof. Ondrack says, it our comments often get ampli- received. a leadership and strategy consulting Ms. Bountrogianni says. also raises an important ques- fied and misinterpreted...... firm, and is an adjunct professor As for the work force, the signs tion: Should Canadian compan- In a world of fast media, new Tip 3: Bridges can have many with McGill University’s leadership of growing diversity are clear: It’s ies force their own corporate situations are developing as signs lanes. Providing people an alter- business programs. estimated that by 2031, one in culture onto those they do busi- three workers in Canada will not ness with, or be flexible when have been born here, Ms. Boun- they encounter cultural differ- trogianni says. ences? CHIEF NURSING The challenge is that many A prime example came when newcomers aren’t prepared to Prof. Ondrack helped a Canadian Are you looking for OFFICER adapt to working conventions employer open a factory in Mexi- once they get here. co: The Canadian management an exciting Are you an In Canada, for instance, being style of encouraging group deci- late, soft-spoken or politically in- sion-making and employee par- new challenge? enthusiastic patient correct can alienate you from ticipation didn’t fly with the centred leader? your team, Ms. Bountrogianni Mexican employees. says. “They completely refused to The Blind River District Feedback is another. “We give accept [the Canadian style] Health Centre (BRDHC), feedback here to employees as because in Mexican culture, the The College of Physicians and a part of the natural course of boss is the boss and people do Surgeons of British Columbia multi-site healthcare provider training and evaluating; in some what they’re told,” he said. That’s along the north shore of Lake cultures, that might be seen as the dilemma. And Prof. Ondrack is hiring a deputy registrar Huron is looking for you! discipline,” she says. doesn’t have an answer. Ms. Bountrogianni says if new- Most crucially, though, integrat- This is a pivotal role allowing you to make a lasting difference to health If you are that person BRDHC comers had this knowledge ion training helps people under- care in British Columbia. is seeking a Chief Nursing before they came, it would give stand each other, build good Offi cer. To fi nd out more about them time to digest it and better relationships and address con- In order to qualify, you must have at least 10 years of senior adminis- integrate at work. flict through mediation and trative experience in a complex health-related organization. The ideal this exciting position go to Indeed, it’s not just underem- negotiation, Ms. Bountrogianni candidate will either have a medical degree or a masters of business or www.brdhc.on.ca ployed and struggling employees says. health administration. signing up to learn these Cana- “Most of our Canadian immi- dian subtleties. Employers, too, grants right now are educated; Are you interested in joining one of Canada’s top 100 employers for are increasingly realizing the val- they’re raring to go contribute in 2015? ue in sending their staff to this a high-quality way,” she said. Apply today at www.cpsbc.ca/about-us/careers. kind of integration training. “The faster that we can help Richmond Hill, Ont.-based hos- them integrate and work success- GLOBE UNLIMITED tgam.ca/signup pital equipment supplier Amico fully, the better it will be for our sends their managers to Ryer- economy.” S
JEREMY MATT PETER JEREMY CATO BUBBERS CHENEY SINEK It’s all-in now, Why cars on diets Buyers using Canadians adore as Rolls-Royce are a win-win digital tools are the humble and Bentley jump both for both forcing dealers to hatchback … or into the premium speed freaks change their ways is that a compact SUV market and eco-warriors of doing business utility vehicle? PAGE 7 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 5
...... A special issue about trends and innovation, inspired by The Globe’s annual auto summit
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 SECTION E ...... Globe Drive
National Edition EDITOR: TOM MALONEY
BRAND STRATEGY The halo effect High-end vanity vehicles – supercars like the new Ford GT and Acura NSX – are central to brand building
JEREMY CATO panies make bags of money. brands. To achieve the goal, the The engine fits with the com- competition. “It’s part of our her- ...... While consumers expect the su- NSX is designed to move your pany’s family of EcoBoost itage,” Craig says, pointing to the he upcoming Acura NSX and percars from McLaren, Ferrari soul – your body just comes engines. The carbon fibre body? GT cars Ford raced to great suc- TFord GT supercars that left and Porsche, mass-market auto along for the ride, says chief engi- Lightweight and strong though cess at the 24 Hours of Le Mans fans drooling at auto shows these makers ranging from Mercedes- neer Ted Klaus. expensive, carbon fibre is a key in the mid-1960s. past few months are vanity pro- Benz and BMW to General Mo- For Ford, even though the GT is arrow in the weight reduction As an image-booster with his- jects. Yet these lovely diversions tors and Ford have their own not an electrified supercar like quivers of all auto makers. The torical and technological bona aimed at boys with Sir Robert motives for engaging in the ultra- BMW i8 or the NSX hybrid with arrangement with Multimatic fides, it’s also great fun – a ride so Bordens bending their diamond- low-volume segment. its three electric motors, it is a Motorsports of Markham, Ont., hypnotically compelling, it casts studded money clips also have The NSX, for instance, is a showcase for advanced technolo- which will build the GT, pro- a beatific glow. Ford wants you to practical purposes. metaphor for Honda Motor, gy. “We learn from a low-volume nounces Ford’s ability to work connect the dots between the GT They build brands, excite which has always seen itself as a vehicle like the GT,” says Ford of with smaller, strictly-focused sup- and its $17,000-ish, 123-horse- employees and the general mar- serious, daring engineering com- Canada president and CEO Di- pliers. The GT name also matters; power Fiesta subcompact with a ket, act as product-development pany. The plan is to use the NSX anne Craig. “It’s a halo vehicle; it it’s not just some made-up moni- thrifty 1.0-litre EcoBoost three- test beds and, if done right and to elevate Acura from its second- creates a lot of buzz in the indus- ker delivered by the ad depart- banger. marketed properly, help car com- tier status among premium try.” ment after a dart board Cato, page 4
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TECHNOLOGY Lightness weighs heavily on designers There are many considerations when it comes to shedding kilos from a vehicle
...... MATT BUBBERS ...... eighing only two pounds, WApple’s latest laptop is insanely light. It’s less than half the weight of this obsolete jugger- naut on which I’m typing now. Never mind that Apple’s new gadget is obscenely, satirically expensive – also underpowered and lacking in basic features – it’s light! And being light is – for bet- ter, or far more often for worse – deeply important in our efficien- cy-obsessed era. Vehicles are among the last con- sumer products to develop a weight complex. Although, for cars at least, lightness is a virtue. The benefits of making cars lighter are potentially enormous. It could be a rare win-win for both speed freaks and ecowar- riors. On one hand, basic physics dictate a lighter car will accelerate with more ferocity and handle with greater finesse. It will be more fun to drive. On the other hand, a lighter car takes less ener- gy to move, allowing engineers to spec smaller, more fuel-efficient engines. Why, then, aren’t our cars get- ting insanely light like our lap- tops? The answer’s not as obvious as you might think.
Balancing cost and weight is a priority for McLaren’s 570s. The carbon fibre tub that forms the base of the passenger compartment weighs just 80 kilograms.
SAFETY FEATURES FOOTPRINT MATERIALS TITANIUM MINIVANS FOR ALL? ...... Auto makers must make cars that Some auto makers do like Apple’s There’s another obvious way to Even at McLaren, where the Crash regulations are getting can survive a crash and protect done with its new laptop and make cars lighter. It doesn’t cheapest car, the new 570S, will more ambitious, consumers are occupants. simply cut out features to make a involve extra cost or cutting fea- run you about $200,000, the cost demanding more features in their “Why doesn’t everybody make lighter machine. tures. But, most customers would of materials is still a big concern. cars and there’s little tolerance very light cars? Because I think Look at niche sports cars such never put up with it. Andy Palmer, the man in charge for downsizing. At the same time, everybody is in the same devel- as the skeletal KTM X-Bow or the “Every little millimetre you in- of the 570S project at McLaren, hybrid drivetrains and large bat- opmental boat, having to fulfill Caterham Superlight series. Both crease a car’s size, you’re adding explains: “I need to balance get- tery packs are adding weight, too. crash and safety regulations – weigh less than 800 kilograms weight,” says Derek Jenkins, ting the car to its weight target, To meet mandatory emissions they add a lot of weight,” says each. But they make do without director of design for Mazda making sure we meet the per- targets, auto makers have two Grant Larson, Porsche’s design windshields, doors or roofs, let North America. “Especially in formance target and also ensur- choices: develop alternative pow- manager for special projects. alone massaging seats and auto- North America, there’s a limit to ing we meet the cost target. ertrains or drastically reduce ve- “Lighter is tricky because the new matic dual-zone climate control. how small you can make things Balancing all those three require- hicle weight. In typical laws just keep rolling in. The result is probably the purest before people just get turned off. ments using a mix of aluminum, auto-industry bet-hedging fash- “When you make a heavier car, driver’s car on the planet – but People are used to a certain size carbon fibre and more conven- ion, we’ll likely see a combination it’s a heavier car also when it how many people are willing to vehicle.” tional materials is always a big of both approaches. The evidence turns over, so you have to keep strap on a helmet every time they In the case of the new-genera- challenge.” is already out there. adding weight and strength to the have to go get groceries? tion MX-5, however, Mazda was The carbon fibre tub that forms “As everybody progresses with [window] pillars. We have the re- “If you have more extras in the able to make it smaller than the the base of the passenger com- their motor efficiency to reduce sponsibility of safety for passen- car, you have more weight,” says one it replaces. partment on the 570S weighs just fuel consumption, you have to gers, especially in a performance Steffen Koenig, product manager “That’s a big win,” Jenkins says. 80 kilograms. Palmer estimates counterbalance that with the car.” for body-in-white at Porsche. Nav- “It let us go down in wheel size it’s 130 kilograms lighter than an weight discussion,” Jenkins says. If you look at a modern convert- igation, touch screen, backup and reduce weight throughout equivalent part in steel. “They’re part of the same discus- ible, such as Porsche’s new Box- cameras, radar sensors for adap- the entire vehicle – it’s like a A report from Bloomberg in sion. I think everybody is focused ster Spyder or 911 Targa, it’s tive cruise control, glass roof, 17- philosophical shift. It’s not filled 2013 quoted the cost for carbon fi- on that.” incredible to imagine those little speaker sound system, heated with high-tech materials. The bre at $20/kilogram compared BMW has made progress in pillars that frame the window can and cooled seats: All these things technology is more in how Mazda with about $1 for steel. It makes mass-producing and lowering the hold up the entire front end of add up. scrutinized every component of sense for McLaren on the low-vol- cost of carbon fibre. The entire the car if it rolls over. But they Once you add weight in the the car to see where we can carve ume $200,000 570S, but not for passenger cell of the $45,000 i3 is can. They may look spindly, but form of features, it’s hard to off- away that weight.” Mazda on the high-volume made from the stuff. you can bet they’re not light. set, Koenig says. You can try to Making it smaller works for a $30,000 MX-5. Jaguar has invested heavily in cut weight from the structure of two-seat sports car, but for a Other lightweight materials are aluminum manufacturing. The the car, but then you run into seven-seat SUV it’s not an option. similarly expensive. Porsche uses result is a new mid-size XF sedan safety concerns. You can use “It’s really hard to make some- a magnesium roof only on its that gains features while it shed- exotic materials, but that adds thing light without using a ton of hard-core $200,000 GT3 RS to ding 120 kilograms from its steel cost. exotic materials,” Jenkins says. lower its centre of gravity. Com- predecessor. pared with an equivalent steel “Will we see cars getting really roof, Koenig at Porsche estimated lighter? Sub-1,000 kilos? I don’t the cost is roughly double for know,” Palmer says. “Let’s see magnesium. where technology moves us.” ...... Special to The Globe and Mail
DESIGN Sweating the small stuff
...... JORDAN CHITTLEY arms pull a steering wheel every ONLINE WINDSOR, ONT. few seconds, others move a shif- ...... ter. In another, the wheels are hen Tony Mancina rents a taken off and the car is hooked Wcar and buckles up, he no- up to larger robot arms that toss tices parts of the car most people and turn the car. And in yet an- We all realize you have to don’t, such as the location of the other room, all four shocks are have a foot in each and every seat belts or the ergonomic constantly pumped as if a street design and ease of access for the were filled with deep potholes. It technology, be it fuel cell, be cup holders. is mesmerizing to watch. it full electrification, be it “I have been on vacation and “We develop severe tests; some- plug-in hybrids. … I think gotten into rental vehicles and times, those tests are to complete said: ‘Wow, I can’t believe they fatigue or failure and we measure we were always there, but actually sell this thing,’ ” said the degree of failure and when now we refined the Mancina, director of Chrysler we talk about failure it is never to Canada engineering. “But I’ve the extent the customer would technology and now is the been in some cars and thought, experience,” he said. right time to introduce a ‘That is nice, we should do that Mancina points to the steering plug-in hybrid in Canada. in our cars, too.’ ” wheel test as an example of a fa- An average modern car has tigue test. When a driver climbs about 2,000 parts, making it a lot into a pickup truck or SUV, Wolfgang Hoffmann more than just an engine, four A Jeep is subject to extreme heat at the FCA Automotive Research and chances are he or she pulls the Audi Canada doors, seats and pedals. The vast Development Centre in Windsor, Ont. JORDAN CHITTLEY/THE GLOBE AND MAIL bottom of the steering wheel for majority of components go a boost. unnoticed unless there is a prob- Centre in Windsor, a 205,000- mize handling and fuel economy A small robot arm tugs on the lem with the design or engineer- square-foot facility that opened and create new methods for wheel every few seconds to dis- ing. In Chrysler vehicles, seat in 1996. Chrysler has spent $600- applying paint, because even sav- play in a matter of weeks the belts feel comfortable to most million on the plant over the ing a few millimetres per car can same pressure that may be What you see directly in drivers and passengers because past 19 years. add up to big savings for the applied to the wheel in a decade. front of you is what you Mancina’s team extensively tests In addition to seat belt place- company. They also subject cars The idea is to learn what the seat belt positions and angles ment, engineers and technicians to massive potholes to see how component is capable of and need to know right now. from the anchor points to fit test headlight angles in a tunnel quickly parts deteriorate. how it can be improved. And what you see there is from the fifth percentile woman as long as a football field, the “We dive into the very fine “The one thing that I notice what you want to know. to the 95th percentile male – or strength of steering columns details of any component or ve- when I get into all of our prod- from drivers between five feet to with constantly moving robot hicle element,” he said. “We try ucts is the impact this facility has 6-foot-3. arms and suspension durability. to identify and engineer all of the had on various elements of that Margareta Mahlstedt “A customer may take for grant- The corrosion test is a 10-year issues or opportunities we can particular vehicle,” he said. Volvo Cars of Canada ed that a seat belt is comfortable simulation in 24 weeks where the find on the vehicle so the cus- “I know that seat belt, those and in the right location, but we vehicle is driven, sprayed with tomer has the best experience designs, that location was done get into those specific items,” he salt and subjected to unusually possible.” here. I know that steering co- Go to globedrive.com to watch said during a tour of the facility. humid or dry conditions in an Many of the tests are related to lumn, the robustness of that Jeremy Cato’s interviews with Mancina runs the Automotive environmental chamber. Engi- durability, to know when parts design, we did that. It gives you a executives at The Globe’s 2015 Research and Development neers test spoiler angles to opti- will fail. In one room, tiny robot real sense of pride.” Auto Summit. THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 S GLOBE DRIVE • E3
REDLINE The last tire kicker How the Internet tipped the balance of car-buying power
...... BY THE NUMBERS The car-buying journey has three phases: thinking, researching and buying. On av- erage, the thinking phase takes PETER CHENEY 30 days. Researching takes 22 [email protected] days. Buying, 18...... The Internet is five times more n the late 1970s, I spent a few likely to influence a car buyer Imonths working as a mechan- than other forms of media. ic at a large car dealership. I ...... didn’t like the job much, but it Using the Internet as a came with an unexpected bene- research source increased to 78 fit – I got to observe sales pro- per cent in 2014, from 66 per fessionals in action. cent in 2013. During this peri- Like a National Geographic od, the use of dealers as an in- reporter on assignment in the formation source decreased to Serengeti, I was learning about a 56 per cent from 62 per cent. new species. Back then, car sales ...... had a well-established choreo- 35 per cent of car buyers sur- graphy: salespeople wore suits, veyed in 2014 visited only one polished their shoes to a high dealership before purchasing gloss and spent their days wait- (the year before, this figure ing for “Ups” – potential cus- was 28 per cent). tomers who walked into the ...... showroom. 50 per cent of car buyers said There were two kinds of Ups: they knew what they wanted The bad ones were tire kickers before entering a dealership. who never bought a car. The ...... good ones were those with bul- 33 per cent of car buyers fall letproof credit ratings and the into a “self-serve category” – urge to buy – these Ups seemed The shark-attack style of car sales has gone out the window in the age of the Internet. GETTY IMAGES they do all their own research. to exude a chemical scent that attracted salespeople. Watching tive purchases. By the time they ed for the customers to come in. invest in major upgrades that a good Up walk through the bought a car, many had visited Online hit them like a truck.” include everything from new showroom doors was like watch- at least half a dozen dealerships Dealers soon realized that the carpeting to on-site spas. ONLINE ing a fattened seal taking a in their quest for information. web was a seismic shift. Many of “Consumers will pay for the swim through the shark-feeding According to research by Goo- their customers came through experience they want,” Lucarelli grounds off the Farallon Islands gle, more than 75 per cent of all the door armed with more says. “Companies like Abercrom- – the only question was which car buyers now use the Internet knowledge than the salespeople bie & Fitch have known this for salesperson would get the Up as their primary research tool, in the showroom. Customers a long time – kids like hanging What we are doing in the first. and a growing number visit only could recite specifications, knew around their stores. And Star- dealerships is not just about Today, that car sales model is a single dealership before they what the dealer had paid for the bucks gives you free wireless so dead in the water, pushed aside buy. car they were interested in and you’ll stick around.” the bricks and mortar. The by a digital reality that has Bruno Lucarelli, an auto indus- they knew what models compet- Wilson agrees with Lucarelli’s customer gets to choose the turned the tables on the old- try consultant and former head ing dealers had in stock. assessment. “The web has type of service – whether school salesman. of eBay Motors, says few dealers “All the information was out changed the game,” he says, “There has been a complete were prepared for the way the there on the Internet,” Lucarelli adding that 50 per cent of cus- we go to his house and pick shift in power from the dealer- Internet would reshape their says. “Anyone could be an ex- tomers Google surveyed in 2014 up the car, or if he comes ship to the buyer,” says Tim Wil- business. In 2004, when Lucarel- pert.” knew exactly what they wanted son, a Google executive who li was an executive with Auto- The age of the Internet buyer to buy before they walked into a in and waits, or if he gets leads the company’s automotive trader’s online operation, he has forced dealers to change the showroom. a service loaner. program in Canada. “Informa- learned that 75 per cent of the way they do business. The “Car dealers don’t need sales- tion is power, and the consumer car dealers in his area (New shark-attack style of sales is people now. They need facilita- Tim Reuss now has it.” York and New Jersey) didn’t being pushed aside by an “expe- tors that make the customer feel Mercedes-Benz Canada Internet research has upended have websites. rience” model aimed at making good about their experience. car-buying. When I worked at a “They’d always done business customers comfortable so that The dealer used to have all the Go to globedrive.com to watch dealership, the vast majority of the same way,” Lucarelli says. they’ll choose to do business pricing info in their secret little Jeremy Cato’s interviews with consumers depended on dealers “You brewed your coffee, with your dealership. Manufac- black books. Now it’s available executives at The Globe’s 2015 for information about prospec- opened the front door and wait- turers have pushed dealers to to anyone who wants to look.” Auto Summit.
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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Cato: The supercar mystique is all about building the brand
...... We are talking a lot of dots TECH SPECS re-establishes what the DNA is 9 here. Ford sells hundreds of all about,” says Gardner. thousands of Fiestas worldwide. FORD GT ACURA NSX Gardner and Klaus insist, how- The GT with its expected 600 ...... ever, that this NSX – like the horsepower? Ford Americas pres- Price: $400,000-plus (est.) Price: $150,000-plus (est.) original – will give the Acura ident Joe Hinrichs said in New ...... brand a boost for not just good York that GT production will be Horsepower: 600-plus Horsepower: 550-plus looks and innovative technology. limited to 250 cars a year. He also ...... What separates this NSX from said the GT will be priced against Power train: 3.5-litre EcoBoost Power train: Hybrid other super halos is not just the other supercars in the $400,000 V-6 twin-turbo V-6 relatively affordable price – range...... expected to be in the $150,000- Honda’s plan for the NSX is Drive: Rear-wheel Drive: All-wheel $200,000 range – but the whole similar but different in impor- ...... user-friendliness of the thing. tant ways. It’s also a heavenly Body and frame: Carbon fibre Body and frame: Carbon fibre, “I believe that for some of our ride, but most importantly, the and aluminum, aluminum sheet molding composite competitors, it’s really more NSX wears an Acura badge. It’ll ...... about the machine – the human be sold only at Acura dealer- On sale: Late 2016 On sale: Late 2015 manages the machine,” says ships, with not a single Fiesta- Klaus. “For us, that’s upside fighting Honda Fit in sight. It is down. For us, the focus is not on critical to a brand fighting for re- hit Japanese showrooms in early tion. Instantly, Acura’s lineup the machine, but the human. We spect. 1990, Honda’s flagship model gained by association with this want to bring the machine closer What makes this NSX so in- was the rather pedestrian Prel- sleek sports car wearing the Sen- to the driver.” triguing is how such an impossi- ude. For its 1991 North American na stamp. And like Ford with its GT, jolt bly low and sleek machine launch, the NSX landed in Acura “We sold the last one, I think, the brand upwards and bring combines so many of the tech- showrooms filled with re-badged in 2005 and since that time has shoppers into showrooms. nologies available in Acura and Hondas like the Legend and the there been something missing? I ...... Honda models – technologies Integra. The NSX was a sensa- think so. I think this (new NSX) Special to The Globe and Mail The Acura NSX concept on display at the 2013 De that perhaps many shoppers overlook, ignore or perhaps un- ...... dervalue, say Honda officials. FIVE FAST AND FUN SUPERCARS “When you have a supercar, ...... the number of people that are actually going to end up driving our NSX is not such a big num- ber,” says Honda Canada senior vice-president Dave Gardner. “But if you’re looking for (the NSX’s) super-handling all-wheel drive, well, you can get that in an PORSCHE GENERAL MOTORS FERRARI MCLAREN AUTOMOTIVE (Acura) MDX. That dual-clutch technology (in the NSX), hey, we PORSCHE GT3 RS 2015 CHEVY CORVETTE Z06 FERRARI 458 SPECIALE 2016 MCLAREN 675LT have that in the (Acura) ILX...... “So there’s a little bit of that Price: $200,700 Price: $85,095 Price: $295,000 (U.S.) Price: £259,500 ($480,544) DNA in every model.” ...... This is a proven strategy. In Engine: 500 hp naturally Engine: 650 hp supercharged Engine: 605 hp naturally Engine: 666 hp twin-turbo- 1989, Acura stunned the Chicago aspirated 4.0-litre six-cylinder 6.2-litre V-8 aspirated 4.5-litre V-8 charged 3.8-litre V-8 auto show with a prototype ...... called the NS-X – New, Sportscar, Acceleration (0-100 km/h): 3.3 Acceleration (0-100 km/h): 3.1 Acceleration (0-100 km/h): 3.0 Acceleration (0-100 km/h): 2.9 eXperimental. The mid-engine seconds seconds seconds seconds production model was heavily ...... influenced by Honda’s motor- Top speed: 310 km/h Top speed: 304 km/h Top speed: 325 km/h Top speed: 330 km/h sports division...... It was low and sexy, with seat- It’s faster around the Nürburgring The 2015 Corvette Z06, equipped Designed to be the fastest Ferrari Like Ferrari, all McLaren models ing for just two, an aluminum than the heavier but more power- with supercar-worthy 650 horse- V-8 sports car around the famed are inherently tinged with an body, an aluminum V-6, and ful 911 Turbo S, blitzing the famed power, replaces the ZR1 as the Italian auto maker’s Fiorano test exotic Formula One glamour, but steering and handling that bene- German track in 7 minutes and 20 quickest and most powerful Cor- track, this is also the track where this particular limited-edition fited from extensive testing input seconds. The RS is 10 kg lighter vette ever. Co-developed with Ferrari Formula One cars undergo model takes its inspiration from from Formula One champ Ayr- than the regular GT3, thanks to a Chevy’s C7.R endurance sports serious testing. Ferrari trumpets the racing version of McLaren’s ton Senna – the brilliant Brazi- magnesium roof, and more car- car, it uses similar chassis comp- this car is only half a second slow- first road car, the F1 GTR Longtail, lian who drove Honda power to bon-fibre throughout. The GT3 al- onents, engine technologies, and er per lap than the 12-cylinder and hence the LT moniker. The three F1 championships before ready deleted niceties like rear aerodynamic features. Which F12berlinetta, and faster than its 675LT follows a similar pattern to his tragic death in 1994. So the seats, backup camera, and even made it the fastest production car pre-LaFerrari hyper car, the its namesake, and many of the NSX has its own racing heritage, plastic interior door handles, ever around GM’s Milford proving revered V-12 Enzo. cars here: lower weight, more just like the GT. which become fabric loops in the grounds. power, and upgraded track-ready When the first-generation NSX unrelenting pursuit of lightness. componentry.
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BRAND STRATEGY All hail the humble hatch ......
...... JEREMY SINEK fallen in love with hatchbacks. they’re the versions usually posi- backs in the market. Scion reveal- ...... But they ride on raised chassis tioned and priced upmarket of ed its first sedan, the subcompact obody ever went broke un- with AWD and they’re called the sedans. Mazda Canada did iA – in Canada, it will be sold as Nder-estimating the rationality compact SUVs.” that when it added the five-door the Toyota Yaris sedan. And the of the car-buying public. Emo- When it comes to tailgates on Protégé5 15 years ago, and today four-door Yaris (which is built-in- tion, prejudice and blind brand regular cars, we tolerate them on most hatchback offerings are still low-cost Mexico) will be position- loyalty all skew the process. And, starter-car subcompacts for the confined to higher trim levels (for ed as more upscale than the of all the logic-challenged young and financially challenged. example, the base Ford Focus S hatchback of the same name motives that drive purchasing de- About 75 per cent of Ford Fiesta comes only as a sedan) or priced (which is imported from France). cisions, perhaps none is more sales are the hatch. But once you higher for the same trim (Mazda3 Honda revealed that the next- muddle-headed than our attitude reach a certain station in life, your GX hatch asks $1,000 more than gen Civic will include (for the first to hatchbacks. dignity and worth as a human GX sedan). Which raises the ques- time since 2004) a hatchback ver- Let it be said that Canadians – being demand a car with a sepa- tion: chicken or egg? sion. The hatch will be a five-door, Quebecers especially – tolerate rate storage locker protruding Volkswagen has perpetuated and while it’s too soon to talk hatchbacks better than Ameri- from its hind end. Hatchback this practice with its Golf (hatch- pricing, it will be imported from cans. Compared with the rest of availability and popularity back) and Jetta (sedan) siblings. Honda’s British plant, so it’s likely the planet, however, many Cana- shrinks as you graduate to the Even though the Golf is built in to be priced above the sedan. dians remain persuaded that a car compact class, and evaporates the same Mexican plant as the Jet- Auto makers we spoke with dis- without a trunk isn’t proper. entirely above that. ta, the base Golf starts $4,000 agreed on whether hatchbacks Mysteriously, this prejudice Of course, there are practical above the entry-level Jetta. cost more to manufacture, but only applies to mass-market cars. concerns. Absent a cargo cover, The ability of auto makers to Honda Canada product planner We’re not threatened by tailgates the exposed contents of a hatch- ask more for compact hatchbacks Hayato Mori noted that sedans’ attached to minivans or SUVs. back invite theft. Then again, may also be a legacy of the Golf higher volumes give them an And what about those sports cars, most hatchbacks have cargo cov- GTI, the car that invented the hot economies-of-scale edge. Given etroit auto show. STAN HONDA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Corvette included, with liftgates ers. And hatchbacks promise hatchback category. “VW did a lot hatchbacks’ lower sales volumes, instead of trunk lids? Or prestige unmatched do-it-all versatility for to build that sense of a premium “most manufacturers will concen- ...... Europeans like the Porsche Canadian families who are more hatch,” says Toyota Canada vice- trate on the more profitable Panamera and the Audi A7? likely than Americans to have president Stephen Beatty. models, which tend to be the ...... The way George Iny, director of only one car. New models revealed at the higher trims.” the Automobile Protection Asso- Paradoxically, to the extent that New York auto show did little to ...... ciation, calls it, “Canadians have compact hatchbacks do exist, rationalize the status of hatch- Special to The Globe and Mail
...... FOUR HAPPENING HATCHES ......
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...... TED KRITSONIS ...... ehicles aren’t just becoming Vroving WiFi hot spots, they’re becoming connected devices that eventually will be part of the In- ternet of Things, the growing trend of objects that interact with each other over the Internet. Having a SIM card embedded in a car isn’t new. One of the longest- standing examples is General Mo- tor’s OnStar service, which has operated through a partnership with Verizon, one of the largest wireless providers in the United States. The GSM Association (GSMA) forecasts a sevenfold in- Volvo is pinning its turnaround hopes on the XC90, a crossover SUV. It’s just one example of luxury car makers jumping into the SUV market. VOLVO crease in new vehicles equipped with mobile connectivity by 2018, INDUSTRY TRENDS and expects substantial growth beyond that. Trying to lead the way is GM with its 4G LTE in-car Internet Setting the premium bar higher service designed to give the car its own data plan. OnStar doesn’t cost extra at the dealership; nor ...... does it require an OnStar sub- JEREMY CATO “Bentayga will open up a realm of join the lineup. And while turnaround on the upcoming scription. A majority of vehicles ...... luxury and performance pre- “things-gone-wrong” quality XC90. Jaguar? Yes, its corporate spread across the 2015 Chevrolet, ock-solid confirmation that viously unattainable within a studies suggest Land Rover has partner is the aforementioned Cadillac, Buick and GMC lines are Rthe world had officially conventional SUV,” adding else- work to do, J.D. Power and Associ- premium SUV specialist, Land equipped with it. changed arrived on Jan. 12. That where, “We don’t see an SUV. We ates’ APEAL study – a look at Rover, but that’s not stopping it “It’s integrated into the vehicle, was the day that Bentley, the see beyond.” what owners say Land Rover gets from introducing a “performance and we have the antenna to Volkswagen Group’s super-exclu- We saw all this coming. In 2012, right – puts the brand at the top crossover” next year. The F-Pace achieve optimal signal strength sive British brand, announced Bentley showed the EXP 9 F con- of the class. Sales have exploded. will go head-to-head with the X3 and coverage on the roof instead plans to introduce an “all-new cept SUV at the Geneva auto The auto industry has taken no- and perhaps even Land Rover’s of in your pocket,” says Fred Dix- and ground-breaking luxury show – to the horror of the as- tice. In 2015, premium car com- Evoque. The market seems to on, technology manager at GM SUV” to be called the Bantayga, sembled throng aghast at how panies offering SUVs and have an unquenchable thirst for Canada. “You can connect up to after the Roque Bentayga with its massive and tasteless an uber- crossovers are expanding their SUVs and crossovers. seven devices to it and it’s seam- rugged peak in the Canary luxe SUV can be. But it was only a ranges; those yet to get in the “The luxury market has moved less. You enter the car, it automat- Islands. matter of time until Bentley and game can see and hear customer quite rapidly to light trucks,” says ically connects and you can use If anyone had any doubt about Rolls turned to selling off-road demand while also smelling prof- auto analyst Dennis DesRosiers, that data, never having to turn on this shift in the earth’s axis, machines with built-in picnic it and growth. Every car company of DesRosiers Automotive Con- your phone’s hot spot.” BMW-owned Rolls-Royce wiped it tables and champagne buckets. is moving fast to fill the truck sultants. “In 1990, virtually all Customers get a three-month away a month later. Yes, another Indeed, this latest news about gaps in their lineups. luxury vehicles were passenger trial with a hard cap of three giga- storied British brand with no his- the most premium of premium Fiat-Chrylser-owned Maserati cars [99.8 per cent]. In 2014 for bytes of data. AT&T is the wireless tory of making luxury trucks said brands branching out from the and Alfa Romeo both will launch the first time, an equal number of carrier partner, and through it will also have an exclusive SUV car business into trucks has been their first four-wheel drive cross- luxury light trucks were pur- agreements with most of its Cana- in its lineup. Company officials in the works for a long time – overs soon – Maserati, the chased in Canada as luxury pas- dian counterparts, Dixon con- were not so gauche as to breathe since Toyota’s Lexus luxury Levante, due later this year and senger cars.” firms there are no roaming the actual phrase sport-utility ve- brand put the RX crossover on aimed squarely at mid-size The fastest growing luxury seg- charges incurred in Canada or the hicle, instead announcing an “all sale in Japan in late 1997, fol- Porsche and BMW SUVs, and Alfa ment: compact luxury SUVs, up United States. The car will auto- new, high-bodied Rolls-Royce.” lowed by sales in Canada and the with a smaller crossover next 19.4 per cent in 2014. Compact matically connect to whichever Industry watchers predicted United States the next year. year to rival the Audi Q5, Porsche SUVs account for 21.4 per cent of network is strongest in any partic- Rolls’ ultra chi-chi four-by-four About the same time, Mercedes- Macan and BMW X3. the luxury, says DesRosiers. ular locale, although users might sell for as much as Benz began producing the Ah, the Macan. It will almost Why this great shift? First, wouldn’t notice the shift. $400,000, perhaps more, putting M-Class SUV at a plant in Vance, certainly become Porsche’s most Americans have always loved big This all-in collaboration means it at the top of the SUV range. Ala. Shortly afterward, BMW popular model worldwide and it’s rigs. Second, government-man- consumers can’t add the car to a Details about both ultra-luxury debuted the X5 in 1999. only been on sale for a year or so. dated fuel economy rules have shared monthly data plan they SUVs remain scarce, though Brit- Today, luxury makers are mov- Land Rover has launched the Dis- been such that they actually use with a smartphone and tablet. ain’s Autocar magazine said the ing into trucks with leaps and covery Sport to expand its SUV encouraged growth in luxury The car’s data is a separate cost Rolls would ride on a new alumi- bounds. Nearly 20 years ago they footprint and grow sales. Mer- SUVs and crossovers. Car makers paid to GM, and plans start at $10 num architecture and power took to SUVs and crossovers with cedes has introduced the GLA also soon discovered they could a month for 200 megabytes up to might come from a version of the baby steps, generally preferring to compact crossover and Infiniti is make a profit selling premium $250 for 10 gigabytes over 12 6.8-litre, V-12 in the Phantom. leave luxury SUVs to Land Rover. counting the days to the launch trucks and they were greeted with months. Rates are slightly cheap- Bentley chairman and CEO Land Rover types – and many of the similarly sized QX30. Cadil- strong consumer demand. So it er for OnStar subscribers. Wolfgang Durheimer has said the others – say their rigs are the best lac simply cannot produce made sense for premium auto Mansell Nelson, senior vice- Bentayga will come with a choice at combining off-road capability enough of the giant Escalade to companies to push into luxury president of products and solu- of W-12 or V-8 engines, or in plug- with on-road dynamics and meet demand. Lincoln’s MKC trucks. By extension, it now tions for Rogers enterprise busi- in hybrid form. But don’t be so sumptuous luxury. Land Rover is crossover is so popular, it might makes more sense for ultra-luxu- ness, believes closer partnerships brash as to say SUV or truck or in the midst of a dramatic lineup save the struggling brand all by ry brands to head down this road. between auto makers and carriers crossover when he’s around. As expansion with the Discovery itself...... are inevitable. Bell has long been the Bentley website notes, the Sport, the latest new model to Volvo is pinning its hopes for a Special to The Globe and Mail the carrier partner for OnStar in Canada, and despite the agnosti- cism of the 4G LTE service, carri- BRAND STRATEGY ers will want to compete to do business with the original equip- ment manufacturers. Luxury crossover coupes: niche to know you “The car is becoming a comput- er and just one big API (applica- tion programming interface) that ...... will need constant changing and MARK HACKING NEW YORK X6. In New York, Infiniti brought updating,” says Nelson. “There ...... a new crossover coupe that’s set are about 1.3 million new cars per pair of luxury SUVs that will to join the lineup, the compact year in Canada and, if more of Abattle it out for market su- QX30, an indication that it’s not them are connected, network ca- premacy in Canada was unveiled done with this niche. pacity will have to continue to at the 2015 New York Internation- The United States remains the grow to accommodate them as al Auto Show: The 2016 Lexus RX largest SUV market in the world, connected devices.” and the 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE. but the crossover coupe appears He cites the example of Tesla, Both the Lexus – the fourth to resonate less there than in Can- which has pushed updates hun- generation of this perennial class ada. Using the BMW duo as an dreds of megabytes or even a powerhouse – and the Mercedes – example, 47,031 X5s were sold in gigabyte in size. And just like with effectively the fourth generation the United States last year com- Tesla, system updates pushed to of the ML class, but with a new pared with 3,896 X6s – or just GM’s vehicles won’t count against name – have been around since more than 8 per cent. In Canada, the customer’s data bucket. 1997, meaning that this pairing the scorecard is more balanced: “This is the future,” says Nelson. has helped drive what is one of X6 sales represent 16 per cent of “People weren’t used to the the hottest segments in the indus- The 2016 Lexus RX has a coupe-inspired design element. TOYOTA those for the X5 last year. abrupt torque acceleration in Tes- try. Many North American con- “A lot of SUV buyers like the X6 la’s cars, so they complained and sumers can’t get enough luxury – remains a niche vehicle, so it still not just because of the utility, but the company rolled out a firm- especially in their crossovers and represents a gamble. because of the command seating ware update over-the-air [using SUVs. The gambling began in earnest position, ride height and overall AT&T’s network] that they could A slice of this segment that’s with the arrival of the Infiniti FX feel of the vehicle,” says Matthew choose to install to reprogram tougher to explain is the crosso- (now the QX70) in 2003. At the Wilson, manager of product plan- their Tesla to accelerate more like ver coupe – a vehicle with a time, there was nothing like it – ning for BMW Canada. “The a gasoline car.” sweeping roof-line that, as a the exterior styling was dynamic motivation for someone buying ...... result, puts more emphasis on the to a fault. Although other SUVs – the X6 is much the same as for Special to The Globe and Mail “sport” and less on the “utility.” such as the BMW X5 and Porsche someone who chooses a coupe While it may seem an oxymoron Cayenne – could claim sporty per- over a sedan – it’s the design and to offer a utility vehicle that engi- formance, the FX was singled out the performance.” ONLINE neers out some of that utility, 2016 GLE. MERCEDES-BENZ for its lack of rear-seat headroom, Critics remain steadfast, citing manufacturers continue to test poor entrance and exit, and un- the ill-fated Acura ZDX as being a the waters and battle each other of BMW, which has, since 2008, suitability to anything less than poster child for why the crossover for sales. offered the coupe-like X6 along- perfectly paved roads. coupe is the proverbial “vehicle Now, neither the latest RX nor side the X5, both sharing a plat- “In the late 1990s, we began to that no one ever asked for.” Consumer tastes are the new GLE unveiled in New form and countless other see the first car-based vehicles in A big factor in the success of a switching to trucks of all York would be classified as a components. the SUV segment,” says Bert given vehicle, though, appears to crossover coupe – but wait just a “We are targeting a very specific Brooks, senior manager for prod- be exterior design. While the ZDX sorts – almost six of 10 New York minute. brand [BMW], but I am pretty uct planning at Infiniti Canada. and other crossover coupes have new vehicles sold last year The RX has a coupe-inspired sure we are going to get more “Our advance planning team been labelled “ugly ducklings,” were some sort of truck. design element, a “floating” roof than just their customers,” said studied the unmet opportunities the Range Rover Evoque won the created by a blacked-out C-pillar Tim Reuss, president and CEO of in the segment and identified the World Design Car of the Year Crossovers, SUVs and trucks and tapered metallic trim. This Mercedes-Benz Canada, in New idea of a crossover with the quali- award in 2012 and has sold in are so well-suited for design feature gives the RX a York. “We’re going to get custom- ties of a sports car.” droves. sportier look without sacrificing ers to the right and left who are Ultimately, the business case for Anyone looking at sales figures Canadians with the all-wheel rear-seat passenger headroom or considering a traditional SUV, but the FX made sense because it was alone would consider the niche to drive capability. They give interior volume. It’s a conserva- maybe it doesn’t hit [the] sweet based on an existing Nissan/In- be a loser. But manufacturers consumers a lot of what tive solution for the best-selling spot when it comes to design.” finiti platform and the projected claim that having a sporty crosso- model in the Lexus lineup. The ability to offer a coupe-like interest was sufficiently strong. ver in the fleet can be good for they need, the right size Mercedes has taken a different version of a given SUV is now via- While the general public seemed brand image. “We’re still going to and fuel economy. approach. The GLE is a sensible ble because of quantum leaps in confused by the FX, enthusiasts sell a lot more GLEs than we will evolution of the outgoing ML, a flexible manufacturing. A manu- generally supported the idea of Coupes,” says Reuss. “[The choice Steve Rhind traditional luxury SUV through facturer can respond to market the first crossover coupe, particu- is] going to come down to person- Nissan Canada and through. But the new line indifference to a vehicle with little larly the V-8-engined FX45. al taste. Do you want more func- also includes a crossover coupe, notice – and plants can be recon- The QX70 sells reasonably well, tionality, a styling statement or Go to globedrive.com to watch the GLE Coupe, which was intro- figured to build a more popular despite its age. In the United something sporty?” Jeremy Cato’s interviews with duced at this year’s Detroit auto version in as little as five minutes. States last year, more people ...... executives at The Globe’s 2015 show. This strategy mirrors that Nevertheless, the crossover coupe bought the Infiniti than the BMW Special to The Globe and Mail Auto Summit. JAGUAR SALES EVENT
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OPENING TODAY MONKEY KINGDOM ...... ##½ Disneynature’s latest creature feature, set among a colony of toque macaques living around abandoned temples in Sri Lanka, involves the usual trade-off be- tween cinematographic pizazz and cornball narration (this time from Tina Fey). The story involves a hierarchical society, including three senior “mean girls,” and the efforts of low-born mom, Maya, to help her irrepressible son, Kip, become a mighty king. The story of the colony’s exile and return feels like a dull sermon, but the animals themselves, with their expressive faces and Moe Howard hairdos, can switch from slapstick to pathos faster than Charlie Chaplin. Set pieces range from a scene of monkeys leaping balletically to feast on termite flies to outright horror-comedy when the troupe enters an empty house where a child’s birthday party has been carefully prepared, and go full Jackson Pollock on the scene. (G) – Liam Lacey
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...... Desert Dancer Directed by Richard Raymond Written by Jon Croker Starring Reece Ritchie, Freida Pinto, Tom Cullen, Marama Corlett, Simon Kassianides Classification: 14A; 98 minutes ##
...... REVIEWED BY GEOFF PEVERE ...... here would seem to be only Tone thing that the act of dancing cannot free the charac- ters in Desert Dancer from, and that’s the movie they’re in. No matter how dramatically, joyous- ly and intensely their bodies ar- ticulate the human spirit striving for freedom from repression – in this instance, the authoritarian Islamic state of Iran – these folks are hopelessly stuck in a sand- dune version of Footloose. Appar- ently, it’s easier to leap free of fundamentalist intolerance than it is Hollywood boilerplate. Based on the experiences of the Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaf- farian (Reece Ritchie), who vaulted to the West following a defiant performance in Paris – inevitably offered here as stand- up-and-cheer climax – Richard Raymond’s Desert Dancer wastes no time establishing its main- stream pop-cultural bona fides by casting the impressionable boy version of Ghaffarian as a Freida Pinto and Reece Ritchie star as dancers resisting Iran’s strict cultural regulations through their secret dance troupe. kid in thrall to American mov- ies, TV, music and booty shake. (Freida Pinto) shows up to audi- the inevitable clampdown on ing than “Give me Spandex or any more, not listening to tech- Growing up in Ayatollah Ruhol- tion for the crew – knocking their activities culminates with give me death!” But no. While no, hip hop or even Sleeping lah Khomeini’s Iran, Ghaffarian’s them sideways with her sinuous- the beat down of the troupe the dance sequences are perfect- Beauty any more. You’re right affinities are not only nurtured ly unbridled eroticism – you’d be during a performance on the ly stirring and expertly rendered back in those early showstopper by a kindly teacher who pumps forgiven for thinking that Bob dunes. The secondary school as- in their own right, they are MTV days along with Michael up the volume of the forbidden Fosse was alive and undercover sociations are as inescapable as unfortunately suspended in this Jackson, Madonna and Pat Bena- dance floor, they prove indelible. in Iran. they are irresistible: What the sticky sugar pot of a movie, and tar, right back in the Midwest When Ghaffarian arrives at uni- Like Jon Stewart’s Rosewater, enemies of the West really hate they can only jump so high cornfields with Kevin Bacon and versity in Tehran on the eve of Desert Dancer contextualizes isn’t our freedom, it’s our fun. before splashing right back in his Walkman, right back to Sat- the 2009 election, it’s only a Islamic Iran as a kind of bullying We’re not only cooler, sexier and the muck again. urday Night Fever, Bye Bye Birdie, matter of meeting the right con- ideological schoolyard where the better looking, we’ve got the The funny thing about all this Jailhouse Rock and beyond that spirators before a secret dance cool kids – basically fish-out-of- moves. is how ultimately reactionary it even to Singin’ in the Rain. The troupe is formed and the stage water American types – are regu- Had first-time director Ray- is in its own right, as though the times may change, the politics is set for a groove insurgency. larly beset by the ruling order’s mond had a more ambitious only way to effectively fight a shift and the enemies of free- Gathering regularly in dramati- thugs, who patrol the halls of script than Jon Croker’s, which form of oppressive religious fun- dom acquire new guises, but the cally underlit basements and state and street like high school plays like a feature-length loop damentalism is with an equally song ultimately remains the copping moves from pirated monitors with you-know-who on of inspirational teen-movie trail- oppressive form of pop-cultural same. If it’s got a good beat and YouTube clips, the secret dance their side. Indeed, as Ghaffarian er clips, Desert Dancer might conformity. Squint your eyes you can dance to it, it will set society as surely acquires and his free-expressive hipster have found something arresting while watching Desert Dancer the world free. For a minute or momentum and purpose as it cohorts gather both creative to say about the relationship be- and all the 21st-century particu- two, anyway. does like-minded and super hot momentum and a sense of tween pop culture and global larities melt away: you’re not in ...... new recruits. By the time Elaheh counter-revolutionary purpose, politics, or at least more interest- Tehran any more, not in 2009 Special to The Globe and Mail
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The Man Who Learned to Walk Three Times by Peter Kavanagh – Knopf Canada Beyond the Reach is adapted from the novel Deathwatch by Robb White. An inspiring memoir of persistence and resilience. REVIEW Music for Love and War by Martyn Burke – Cormorant Books Not quite enough reach Danny and Hank, Canadian and US veterans from Kandahar, wash up in Los Angeles many years later, trying to fi nd the women they loved and lost...... Beyond the Reach sion movie Savages, is a deadly, left to perish in the desert while Directed by Jean-Baptiste Léonetti desert-set game of cat and mouse Douglas’s Madec keeps close eye Crime Seen Written by Stephen Susco that is tired and beyond plausibil- and restrained pursuit. by Kate Lines – Random House Canada Starring Michael Douglas, Jeremy ity. “I’m not going to kill you,” A farm girl from Ennismore thrives in a Irvine Michael Douglas plays a smug, Madec says, “I'm going to watch male-dominated fi eld to become a top criminal Classification: PG; 95 minutes slick financier and trophy hunter you die.” profi ler and ground breaking leader. #½ named Horton Madec – of course One imagines director Jean- he does – who hires a hunky, Baptiste Léonetti told Douglas Middle Power, Middle Kingdom ...... heartbroken young guide named much the same thing. by David Mulroney – Allen Lane REVIEWED BY Ben (played vacantly by War Our former ambassador to China explains the BRAD WHEELER Horse’s Jeremy Irvine) to help him ...... importance of Canada’s relationship with China. rifle down a bighorn sheep. ONLINE eyond the Reach, adapted from When Madec kills an old pros- Bthe same Robb White Death- pector by mistake, a highly ma- Find more reviews of movies watch novel that spawned the nipulated plot happens, involving opening this week at 1974 Andy Griffith-starring televi- Ben taking off his shirt and being tgam.ca/arts THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 S FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS GLOBE LIFE & ARTS • L3
WORK LIFE BALANCE The new stay-at-home parent More parents than ever are carving out a new path, figuring out how to combine satisfying work with quality time with their kids
...... REBECCA CUNEO KEENAN solely on her babies, but she also ...... gets to make her own hours and he Mommy Wars are alive doesn’t have to commute. Still, Tand well, still pitting the friends don’t always realize June Cleaver stereotype against what’s involved. “People are sur- professional mothers like Mad prised that I’ve got things to do,” Men’s Joan Holloway. Most she says. “I have some flexibility recently, Huffington Post blogger but I can’t ignore my business Lydia Lovric caused a stir with a because you are going to the post titled “Dear Daughter, zoo.” Here’s Why I Don’t Work.” Best part: “I turned my hobby “I stay home because although into my job,” she says. And she writing and radio did make me still gets to bring her kids to the extremely happy … your happi- park. ness was more important to me Hardest part: When your job is than my own,” wrote Lovric, in your house, it’s very hard to detailing her sacrifices after say- turn off. She’s also that mom on ing that earning extra income her phone at the park because and making your kids proud of her phone allows her to be there you are selfish reasons for work- in the first place. ing. Down the road: Laura plans to Just in time to quell the angry continue to grow her business backlash of working mothers gradually, as the kids get older came the April issue of the Jour- and need less hands-on atten- nal of Marriage and Family. In it, tion. researchers from the University ...... of Toronto and Bowling Green IONE SMITH, 34, AND PETER State University presented new DOIG, 37, SECHELT, B.C. research showing that there’s no ...... relationship between the Two children, 6 and 2 amount of time parents spend with children ages 3 to 11 and Ione is an agrologist (an agricul- how they turn out. Quality of tural scientist) who tried to time spent together, they said, is return to her full-time job after more important than quantity. her first maternity leave, but Can you afford to stay home long hours plus commuting time with your kids? Can you afford meant she barely saw her baby. not to? No matter what you Luckily, Peter, who is also an choose, it seems, somebody will agrologist, had a secure job, so accuse you of doing it wrong. Ione decided to start consulting Except that with today’s digital from home, advising govern- technology, staying at home ment agencies and individual doesn’t have to mean what it farmers on everything from cli- used to. It doesn’t have to in- mate change to crop planning. clude giving up (or even putting After Ione spent two years of on hold) your other ambitions working from home, the family in favour of circle-time attend- moved to British Columbia’s ance and slow-cooked meals. Sunshine Coast, a 40-minute fer- More parents than ever are carv- ry ride from Vancouver. A year ing out a new path, figuring out after that, business was so good how to combine paid, satisfying that Peter quit his full-time job work with real, quality time with to work alongside her. His role their children. involves longer hours and more “There is a generational and travel, which frequently leaves cultural trend for families want- Ione on her own with the girls. ing to spend more time at Their two-year-old is at daycare home,” says Anil Verma, profes- three days a week, and Ione has sor of industrial relations and learned not to take on more human resources management work than she can handle in at the Rotman School of Man- that time. “I choose projects that agement. According to Statistics I’m passionate about so I’m Canada, the number of workers excited to sit down at the com- who consider themselves self- puter,” she says. employed or part-time continues Are you a stay-at-home mom? to rise. Even traditional “I think of a stay-at-home parent employers are likely to accom- as someone who is putting their modate working from home for career on hold,” Ione says. “I the employees who are consid- have not had to do that, but I ered key talent, according to Ver- have changed course and slowed ma. it down a bit.” Then again, she is So what does a stay-at-home Ben Holt and his kids, Tom, 9, and Kate, 7, at their home in North Vancouver. As a Web developer, Ben is able to home with her youngest daugh- parent look like today? The par- find freelance work, so he made the choice to stay at home with Tom and Kate. JOHN LEHMANN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL ter four days out of seven. “We ents at school pickup often have need a new category,” she says. demanding professional lives – it’s time for school pickup, belongs to a mountain-biking nursery school. The rest of the Ione also knows that having they just don’t have to change chauffeuring the kids around to group that gets together once or time, she manages customer the choice to decide whether to out of their yoga pants to attend activities, cooking dinner and twice a month. care inquiries on the fly from work or how much is a luxury. meetings. Today’s June Cleaver taking care of basic housework. Down the road: Ben sees both her laptop or phone. “If I have a “For us it’s worked out really could very well be that dad with Ben’s still working on expanding him and Jitka working full-time customer who needs attention well to do a bit of everything. I the threadbare cords, bushy his dinner repertoire, mostly jobs outside the house at some right now, it only take three feel mostly satisfied.” During the beard and his own graphic through trial and error. After the point, but he’s in no rush. minutes to help them online,” busy spring and fall, she often design business. Of course, he’s rest of the family has gone to ...... Laura says. “I can find three- works past 11 p.m., which is easi- too busy packing school lunches bed, Ben often stays up (some- LAURA WATT, 34, AND RYAN minute increments throughout er now that she no longer has a to worry about the Mommy times as late as 2 a.m.) to catch RANDALL, 36, TORONTO my day.” baby waking nightly at 3 a.m. Wars. up...... The summer is generally a Best part: Living in such a beau- ...... Are you a stay-at-home dad? “If Two children, 5 and 2 slow time for Ryan’s work, so the tiful place, doing what she loves BEN HOLT, 46, AND JITKA I’m at home when the kids are entire family lives in a trailer on and spending time with her chil- HOLT, 45, VANCOUVER home, then I’m a stay-at-home Six years ago, when she was the farm where she grows the dren...... parent,” Ben says. He’s the one pregnant with her first child and food that will produce her seeds. Hardest part: Living apart from Two children, 9 and 7 hosting play-dates, assisting with newly unemployed, Laura During production time, it’s all their families in Ontario and the baseball team and serving as jumped at the chance to start hands on deck, with her hus- Quebec and having a husband Ben and Jitka switched roles last class rep for parent council. her own business. “I couldn’t band and brothers pitching in. who is often on the road. Part- August when she went back to Best part: “I really enjoy the picture how I’d be going back to The kids, on the other hand, are time daycare and occasional work full-time as a communica- walk to and from school when work with a baby,” she says. Lau- having a blast. “They have no babysitters are essential. “I love tion consultant after having the kids just talk about their ra now runs her business, Cubit’s idea that we’re even working,” my child-care providers. I respect been at home, working the occa- days,” Ben says. Seed Company, from home, Laura says. them and there’s no way I could sional contract, since having Hardest part: Leaving his down- growing rare, heirloom, organic Are you a stay-at-home mom? do my job without them,” Ione children. As a Web developer, town social life behind. Spur-of- seeds for edibles and selling “I don’t identify as either a stay- says. Ben is more readily able to find the-moment coffees with old them online. Ryan works as a at-home or full-time working Down the road: When both girls freelance work, so he left the friends and colleagues can now film and video technician at mom,” Laura says. “I actually felt are in school full-time, Ione downtown tech company where take more than a week of plan- OCAD University and as a free- very isolated by this when my would really like to carve out he was a partner to stay home ning. Ben still does make that lance cinematographer. kids were babies because I felt some time to exercise more, pick with the kids. happen once in a while, bringing Laura tries to focus on bigger left out of an important conver- up old hobbies and volunteer. For Ben, a typical work day his laptop downtown and work- projects during the three days a sation.” She hasn’t ever taken ...... runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Then ing from coffee shops. He also week her two-year-old attends any maternity leave to focus Special to The Globe and Mail
BRAIN STORM Redefining masculinity to help boys succeed
...... afoot to counter the darker side with compassion, and helps boys vulnerability and empathy with- babies, which they named and of masculinity that crams boys to succeed in school and in life. out seeing it as weakness.” – cared for. As young adult men, and men into an aggressive, We should let boys be the boys Michael Reist, author of the upcom- they treat babies and children proud, emotionally empty box. they naturally are – including the ing book Raising Emotionally with great reverence. They will It’s not easy to break down the rough-and-tumble adventurer, Healthy Boys make wonderful fathers some deep-seated social law requiring the sensitive guy and every kind “Fathers and other men should day. Boys playing with baby dolls CRAIG & MARC KIELBURGER boys and men to maintain a of boy in between. Often, all lead by example in their own is anything but girly – it is the [email protected] tough-guy façade, regardless of those boys reside in the same lives. Consider how you display pinnacle of masculinity.” – Nev what’s going on inside. person. your masculinity at home, with Tami Smd ...... Progress is happening with ...... friends, while driving and in the “Dance. What other activity Craig and Marc Kielburger founded groups such as the ManKind Pro- This week’s question: How can workplace. Do you use bullying, affirms your sexuality, builds per- Me to We and Free The Children. ject, the Good Men Project and parents, schools and the rest of teasing or intimidating to build sonal confidence and teaches you Their biweekly Brain Storm column Men’s Sheds, and the recently us help to raise confident and your confidence or get your way? how to lead with both compas- taps experts and readers for solu- released documentary The Mask compassionate boys? Shift your own style to be the sion and strength?” – David tions to social issues. You Live In that targets the way ...... blueprint of confidence and com- Holmes we fail our boys through THE EXPERTS passion you want to see in the “Don’t ask boys to share their h, boys. They have a hard unhealthy expectations of manli- ...... boys in your life.” – Jonathan feelings, but do ask boys to help Oenough time figuring out ness. Yet the daily headlines are “For parents and teachers of Allan, professor of gender studies at solve a problem that will help how to behave – no hitting, ask disturbingly packed with not-so- young boys, encourage and cele- Brandon University in Manitoba other people.” – Daryl34 nicely, your shirt sleeve is not a isolated stories of hazing, rape brate rough-and-tumble play – ...... napkin. But when a boy in culture, misogynist online activi- it’s therapeutic and improves THE READERS Online now: Join the conversa- today’s world is told to “be a ty and violent acts perpetrated by self-regulation and resilience...... tion on our next Brain Storm: man,” what exactly is he sup- young men. During puberty, ensure boys have “Change how we treat boys and How can couples plan weddings posed to do? Ideally there’s a positive mascu- male role models who are com- ‘dolls.’ As toddlers, my sons to match their eco and social val- There is a welcome movement linity that balances confidence fortable with touch, intimacy, sought out their own pretend ues? tgam.ca/giving L4 • GLOBE LIFE & ARTS S THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
GENDER EQUALITY Is Clinton-style feminism the right kind for 2016?
...... ERIN ANDERSSEN States. The single mom in Clin- work-life balance solution for ...... ton’s ad, at least, has the ability stressed-out suburbanites: It’s an n 1992, back when Hillary Clin- to move: What about the ones essential economic and social Iton was merely a prospective who are trapped in poor neigh- policy to level the playing field. first lady and not a front-runner bourhoods and can’t? According (Incidentally, these income for the presidency, an advertise- to U.S. labour statistics, roughly trends are also true in Canada, if ment in the August edition of the half of all children living with sin- to a lesser extent. How best to conservative magazine The gle moms live below the poverty support families also will be a key American Spectator was peddling line. (In Canada, households issue in Canada’s upcoming elec- a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Save headed by single mothers are tion. The NDP has made afforda- the American Family! Nuke Hil- also the most likely to be poor.) ble, accessible child care one of lary.” The cover story called her It’s not male advantage that its central campaign platforms.) “The Lady Macbeth of Little preoccupies these families; it’s This is hardly a new problem Rock” and convicted her of mul- money. Currently, the most in- for feminism, long criticized for tiple sins, including signing her vogue anti-poverty strategy underplaying class and race. And tax return with her maiden thrust at women has been mar- to be fair, Clinton has touched on name. Even more egregious, she riage, which is not only sexist but these points – she has spoken was accused of believing that the simplistic, failing to recognize about the high percentage of “traditional family” was bad for that poverty is often a barrier to women in minimum-wage jobs women and kids. Hillary Clinton has been trumpeting the gains made by female executives, marriage, as well as a factor in with few benefits. But her natural Clinton should have ordered but that will be cold comfort for women mired in poverty. DOUG MILLS/NYT the stress that breaks couples up. leaning, by virtue of long-time one of those T-shirts, just for A new analysis of numbers from advantage and background, is kicks. More than two decades lat- returning to work and the single it out there so overtly, her oppo- the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statis- white feminism, the kind that er, she has confidently styled her- mom moving to get her daughter nents will have little choice but tics found that women work in often convinces itself that more self the “champion” of families, into a better school. She is now to engage in a social policy jobs that pay below-poverty female CEOs (or, for that matter, although the ones she highlights waving the banner of feminism. debate framed by gender. But in- wages twice as often as men; this a female president) will de facto in her new campaign ad are rath- It feels a little late. Over the creasingly, it’s not Silicon Valley pattern held up even for millen- change the world for the strug- er more diverse. past eight years, we’ve read She- feminism that’s needed in North nial women. gling single mom in the rough The last time she ran for presi- ryl Sandberg’s Lean In, watched America. Worrying about the per- While American women are neighbourhood who’s forced to dent, Clinton acted as though the number of women surpass centage of female executives is now slightly more likely to have choose between rent and grocer- being a woman hardly mattered: men in university degrees, and valid, but professional women in university degrees than men, ies. She would lead like a man. witnessed a shift in bread-win- those places of power can, for the that’s not true for Hispanic or Eight years ago, just owning her According to The New York ning and greater equality in par- most part, take care of them- native American women. As in- feminist identity would have Times, her chief strategist at the enting. It’s not perfect, of course, selves. equality widens within and be- been fabulously bold. Now, that time, Mark Penn, had advised her but when Clinton tells female The persistent problem for the tween generations, and more it’s safe to do so, it’s the focus of that voters didn’t want “a first leaders in Silicon Valley that “this most vulnerable women – and jobs become temporary or part- that feminism that counts more. mama.” This time, with her cre- is the best time in history to be a their families – isn’t landing pro- time, feminism needs to advocate Clinton is seeking the role of dentials secure, she is a grand- woman,” she’s telling us what we motions. It’s poverty. Inextricably for evidence-based policies that champion. The question is: mama with a capital G, looking already know. She’s following, linked to that poverty is race – as target these problems. Good child Which American families will she out for the gay couple about to not leading. has been tragically highlighted by care, for instance, can’t be cast as invest the most energy into sav- marry, the stay-at-home mom On the positive side, by putting recent events across the United a “woman’s issue” or sold as a ing?
FROM PAGE 1 Mediation: We now function more like business partners
...... Although our divorce was TIPS FOR CO-PARENTING spective before the other could their lives that we are technical- At the end of the party, once 9 nearing completion, we real- jump in. It was hard, at times, ly missing. the loot bags had been handed ized that if we wanted to parent Stella Kavoukian, a mediator to keep us both in line, but no And a few times a year, we sit out and all the other kids had as a unit over the long haul, we and therapist based in Toron- matter how many tissues we side by side, or with a chair in left, my kids clambered into needed help learning to work to, tells parents that the alter- used, we were determined to between us, through their hock- Shawn’s car for their weekly Sat- together. native to compromise is often see each session through to the ey games and school holiday urday night sleepover. I climbed When we separated nearly the legal system. “Going this end. concerts, waving to our boys. into mine and went my separate three years ago, it felt like an route, apart from being emo- “Divorce is difficult and pain- All this constant communica- way. apocalypse. We fought constant- tionally and financially drain- ful,” Kavoukian said in an inter- tion and compromise, all this ...... ly. Days would go by when we ing, forces parents to take view. “Regardless of who thoughtfulness, Special to The Globe and Mail didn’t speak; it was too painful opposing positions rather initiated the separation, it’s a makes us more to hear his voice. During stress- than work collaboratively,” huge loss for each parent, as functional in ful times and legal proceedings, she says. “Philosophically, this well as their children. Similar to divorce than we our hatred for each other was is a poor place to start when when one loses a close friend or were in mar- palpable. For weeks, we avoided trying to work toward a child’s family member, there is much riage. At the eye contact at pickups and best interests.” grieving involved. There is also birthday party, dropoffs – we literally couldn’t She offers this co-parenting usually quite a bit of apprehen- while all the stand the sight of one another. advice for divorced parents: sion, if not fear, regarding the kids devoured Yet, our kids bound us togeth- 9 Know that successful co-par- future.” pizza, er for life, even if our vows enting involves parents It’s hard to cope – and to co- Shawn didn’t. We had intended to teach working together to create parent well – when you’re stepped our children to ride their bikes security, stability and con- balancing these feelings with toward in front of our home, but after sistency between the two meeting your children’s needs. I me. we split, our goal changed. We homes. used to sob in the car during “Did had to learn to get along well 9 Help your children have the day and in my room until you enough to walk our boys down meaningful and healthy the sun rose. I didn’t want my see the aisle at their weddings. relationships with each par- kids to see my face stained with Ari’s Building a strong co-parenting ent by supporting the other mascara. Yet the ability to par- home run relationship has taken – and parent and their household. ent amid this emotional chaos today?” he still is taking – an incredible By being positive, you will is, perhaps, when it matters asked. amount of work. It’s hard to promote more open com- most. “Yeah – Ari compromise and listen when I munication between you, “Kids do as well as their par- played so well. resented watching Netflix alone, your child and your co-par- ents do,” Kavoukian said. “We And did you see night after night, once I’d put ent. are their role models. The better how fast Josh the kids to bed. I didn’t want to 9 Whenever you are unsure that parents are able to com- was running?” agree to change the kids’ play what to do, make your chil- municate and resolve issues, the We beamed at dates at the last minute to dren and their needs your better their kids will be able to our boys with accommodate Shawn’s work guiding light. manage their own relationships the kind of over- schedule, after I’d taken the 9 Try not to blame the other throughout life.” whelming love boys skiing and struggled to put parent. It is not helpful to I’ve spent a lot of time since that only parents on their ski boots and skis and anyone. It risks leaving your my separation figuring out how can feel. hats and gloves all by myself. child feeling like they are to be happy, but therapy, Being physically unable to tie caught in the middle and combined with mediation, their skates tight enough, and need to take sides. marked a turning point. crying as I watched their ankles 9 Don’t use your children as There is one concept in wobble through their lesson, messengers by communicat- particular that has stuck made me subconsciously reluc- ing through them; if you with me from our ses- tant to call Shawn when the cannot communicate direct- sions with Kavoukian – kids earned a new karate belt. ly, use a professional. the need to start from Raising kids really is a job for 9 Don’t “parentify” your child, scratch. She suggested that two people – at least – and I or make your child feel that Shawn and I learn to let go was resentful that I had to sud- he or she has to take care of of the past and build a new denly juggle bills and house you. relationship with one anoth- repairs and a job and kids and 9 Save your energy and er on a whole other level. dating all at once. My life had resources to focus on those Thinking about things in been turned upside down. areas that are of most that way – respecting and But if there was one thing we importance to you and your trusting one another as co- could agree on when we were child. Avoid conflict over parents, rather than distrust- too angry to agree on anything, minor concerns. ing each other as former it was that we needed help. Sev- 9 Remember that you cannot spouses – is what finally eral months ago, we met with control the other parent, enabled us to move for- Stella Kavoukian, a mediator but you can control your ward. and therapist who works with own behaviour and your re- Today, we function more children and adults experienc- sponse to provocations. like business partners than ing a variety of issues, including For help with co-parenting friends, but we have added separation and divorce. Our issues, try an agency such as a few nice touches. We take hope was to have her help us Families in Transition, Jewish the kids to buy one anoth- resolve disputes and improve Family and Child Service, or er gifts for our birthdays, our communication. Catholic Family Services. Your Mother’s Day and Father’s We had a stack of issues to family doctor or lawyer may Day. We sort out holidays sort through. There were feel- also be able to provide you easily enough so that our ings of aggravation and mistrust with names. The cost of a kids can spend vacation after we legally ended our mar- mediator may range from $225 time with each of us. We riage. We had said a rash of to $375 an hour. – Erin Silver trick or treat together unkind things to one another every Halloween; nei- that we couldn’t take back. We ther of us can bear struggled with the concept of the thought of miss- having to raise kids together ing out simply when it felt like we no longer because it’s “not our even knew one another. day.” We send one Seeing a mediator was an another photos of emotional process, but we the kids, so that weren’t capable of figuring out neither of us is how to do this divorce thing excluded even right on our own. Before our from the parts first joint session, we each met of with her separately to explain our concerns. 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REPRODUCTIVE CHOICES Pregnant at 65? Unusual, but it’s her right Annegret Raunigk’s late-life pregnancy highlights society’s discomfort with women exercising more control over their bodies
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LEAH McLAREN
...... he news this week that Anne- Tgret Raunigk, a teacher from Germany and mother of 13, is pregnant with quadruplets at the age of 65, set off hot debate in the German parliament and a great deal of gawking from the interna- tional press. Raunigk is an enig- ma wrapped in a maternity smock because, despite her desire to pop out pups like a Pez dispen- ser, she looks remarkably young for her age and strangely (there is no other way to say it) happy. Why anyone would want to put their own health at risk to turn their home into a daycare centre is beyond me, but for some rea- son this is what Raunigk, with the help of donor eggs and a few rounds of Ukrainian in vitro fer- tilization, has chosen to do. Setting aside for a moment the issue of whether pregnancy at 65 is medically safe (it probably isn’t), I think we need to examine our collective cultural revulsion at the notion of late motherhood. Countless experts have stood up this week to declare Raunigk’s choice to proceed with her preg- nancy a crime against nature, bi- ology and “natural” family Annegret Raunigk holds one of her 13 children, Lelia. She is pregnant with quadruplets after undergoing in vitro fertilization. PATRICK LUX/DPA/PICTURE-ALLIANCE planning. These were, of course, the same known as egg freezing) as a via- zing didn’t work very well, partic- same. 46-year-old single mother who arguments many critics made ble insurance policy to extend ularly for women with older (and Yes, it’s expensive – it can cost had recently given birth to a son against the Pill when it was intro- their short window of fertility. hence, more fragile) eggs. “When more than $15,000 for drugs, egg born from an egg she froze in her duced in the 1960s. The truth is, Petropanagos points to low preg- it first started in 1986, the practice retrieval, storage and IVF, so late 30s. There was, of course, we don’t have a problem with nancy success rates – roughly 12 was spectacularly unsuccessful,” clearly it’s not for everyone. But nothing synthetic about that fat, people making unpalatably per cent in the U.S. and 8 per cent Dr. Gillian Lockwood, a fertility given that the news on egg free- gurgling baby or the unmitigated extreme life choices so long as to 10 per cent in Britain and specialist at Midland Fertility zing has been exceptionally good pleasure his mother took in hav- they don’t hurt others – are we up Europe. “It’s not guaranteed,” she Services in Britain, told me in an of late, why is there persistent ing him on her lap. There’d been in arms over the fact that people warned, “so you can spend all interview last year. “But it’s doom and gloom and debate over no guarantee of a happy result tattoo their faces or become colo- this time, energy and money important to remember that whether women ought to do it if when she froze her eggs, but in rectal specialists? Not really. But investing in egg freezing and those low overall success rates they can afford it? For every retrospect, boy, was she ever glad it unnerves us as a society – and think you’re covered, and when it take into account the 20-odd encouraging message we get that she’d done it. always has – when women start comes down to it 10 years down years when the process was about the practice, there seems to As reproductive technology im- exercising more control over the line, the IVF won’t result in a essentially experimental.” be another official caution. Last proves and women are confront- their reproductive functions; the live birth.” Lockwood, who has seen seven October, for instance, the Cana- ed with an ever-widening array of circumstances in Raunigk’s case At least one part of the process frozen-egg babies born to her dian Fertility and Andrology Soci- choices for how and when to just amp up the discomfort. has improved. Egg freezing suc- own patients, is a leading prop- ety declared social egg freezing approach motherhood, we That brings us to the debate cess rates have dramatically im- onent of social egg freezing as an an option for women. But around should be supportive, not grimac- over egg freezing, which has also proved in recent years due to a option for women wishing to the same timem in the United ing in disapproval. I might find been in the news. This week, technique called vitrification – a extend their window of fertility. States, the American Society for Raunigk’s choice to have four Angel Petropanagos, a medical flash-freezing process that pro- Vitrification has been a game- Reproductive Medicine and the more babies as a senior citizen researcher at Dalhousie Univer- tects the “shell” of the egg by changer, she says, adding that Society for Assisted Reproductive disconcerting, but if she’s healthy sity, warned that Canadian wom- replacing egg fluid with a kind of many of her colleagues across Technology advised against it, and happy, why shouldn’t she be en should not see the antifreeze that doesn’t freeze and Europe are now using ova from because of the cost and low suc- allowed to proceed? Many men increasingly popular practice of crack the eggs. frozen egg banks for patients and cess rates. have made the same mad choice, ova cryopreservation (commonly Prior to vitrification, egg free- finding the results are exactly the Last year, I spent time with a so why not a woman? Is it okay to leave our neighbours off the guest list?
...... neighbours of our plans (so they people, sweaty shirt clinging to boys is planning one. Leave a milestone for [name of your won’t be surprised by the music my skin, crabbily chewing out note or even buttonhole neigh- husband here] and we hope it and party noise) or do we have cabbies as my wealthier friends, bours in the street to say, in does not disturb you too much. to invite them all (adding an- or those with cottages in the effect: “If you can, leave town, Thank you in advance for your other 30 per cent to our guest family, laugh and splash in the but if not, batten down the kind consideration.” list and budget)? sunshine, sipping chardonnay hatches and we apologize in I could imagine some of the DAVID EDDIE ...... and… advance for whatever is about to non-vitees’ noses getting out of DAMAGE CONTROL THE ANSWER Sorry, let my envy show a bit happen.” joint. But they shouldn’t. I [email protected] ...... there. (Columnist shakes it off, It doesn’t deter them from mean, that’s part of (adult) life, First, I want to say thank you pulls self together, tries to be calling the cops (the two times isn’t it? The realization we can’t ...... for reminding us all there is more positive.) we’ve done it, they called on the be invited to everything? Used THE QUESTION such a thing as summer. I’m Re: your situation. Now, nor- dot of 11 p.m.), and I don’t to be I’d get my knickers in a ...... even starting to believe it mally I’m not an etiquette col- blame them (thanks to social knot when I wasn’t invited to My husband and I are planning myself. For a while there, I was umnist. As the term “Damage media, these things instantly something. Not any more (hon- a party for a “significant” birth- starting to think we were Control” implies, my area of ex- mushroom-cloud into madness), estly, it’s usually a relief). I’ve day of his this summer. We plan doomed to live in perpetual cold pertise more closely resembles: but I think maybe they dialled “set aside childish things,” as to hold it outdoors at our cot- under grey skies all year round. Your guests misbehaved horri- the phone with somewhat less the Bible says. People will invite tage, invite about 30 close Second, please allow me gently bly, one of them staggered over anger in their hearts. me to stuff or not as they feel friends and family, serve a four- to observe that we should all to an uninvited neighbour’s cot- Yours doesn’t sound like that like it. No biggie. course dinner and have live mu- have such problems as yours. tage, vomited on the porch and type of party. But yes, leave a Anyway, your uninvited neigh- sic. The music we have chosen Me, I can’t even afford the drugs fell asleep on the couch. Party’s note or however you normally bours can always console them- isn’t heavy metal or punk, but I’d have to take to hallucinate over, neighbours are furious. communicate with your fellow selves by firing up the barbecue, given the lake acoustics and the we could afford to buy a cottage. Dear Dave/Damage Control, now cottagers to say, in effect: “Your grilling some ribs and washing relative proximity of our neigh- All my life, I’ve had to butter up what do I do? enjoyment of your evening mar- them down with fine wines on bours, they will certainly hear it. my friends in order to secure But since you ask: Whether tinis may be slightly impinged the dock, laughing and smoking The problem we face is that al- those precious invites. And, you’re in the city or country, I upon by the sound of classical cigars as the sun slowly sets though we do sometimes casu- man, did they ever dry up after think it not only acceptable but music, the popping of corks, the over the lake, throwing fistfuls ally socialize with some nearby we had our third kid (not to very courteous, whenever you clink of champagne flutes and of money in the air… cottagers, we would not consid- mention Murphy, our mangy, have a party, to inform those the tinkly bells of happy laugh- Sorry, I’ll definitely stop now. er most of them “close friends” possibly flea-infested mutt). you think might be affected in ter …” ...... and we only plan to invite two I’ve made my peace with it. any way. Oops, slipped again, maybe What am I supposed to do now? or three of the families at the Oh, sure! It’s just wonderful Certainly we do that whenever leave out the details and just Are you in a sticky situation? Send lake. Is it acceptable to courte- being stuck in the sweltering we’re having a party – especially say “… small party on such-and- your dilemmas to damage@glo- ously inform the non-invited city with all the other grumpy when one of our three teenage such a night to celebrate a big beandmail.com WFP/Joelle Eid
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...... KYLA FOX It’s critical to educate yourself as both are critical for her well- process is vitally important. Stay HEALTH ADVISOR because you can’t help someone ness. connected to the things that through this if you don’t under- It takes an army of experts matter to you and recognize ...... It takes an army of experts stand what they’re suffering. and loved ones to aid in some- that you can’t fix this yourself. s an eating disorder interfer- and loved ones to aid in Seeking out a professional who one’s recovery. Your work is to I’ve never in my entire career Iing with your marriage? does understand is a good start- do what you do best – play the worked with a family or loved Is an eating disorder disrupt- someone’s recovery. Your ing point. role that you mean to this per- one who wasn’t shattered (if ing your family? work is to do what you do Second, ask yourself who you son, whether that is spouse or only temporarily) from the pres- Is an eating disorder infiltrat- best – play the role that you are to this person. Parent, child, parent or child. ence of an eating disorder in ing your friendships? spouse? Are you still playing I know what you’re thinking – their relationship. In my own If someone you love has an mean to this person, whether that role or have you become how can I be that when my family, at the time of my battle eating disorder, then you do, that is spouse or parent or therapist, nutritionist, enabler, loved one isn’t who they used with anorexia, the sheer chaos too. detective, guard? You probably to be? It will feel almost impos- in our home as my parents and Though you may not be child. have – a common shift for sible. brothers fought to keep me directly suffering from harmful loved ones. So my third suggestion is to alive was indescribable. food rituals and the accompany- When an eating disorder is work with experts who can help In spite of this, people survive ing physical symptoms, you’re present in a relationship, there’s guide this journey for both of and relationships thrive. And certainly suffering emotionally. a place for a loved one and a you, which often will be more though it’s not guaranteed, it’s It’s clear you never would have place for professional insight. effective than you trying to do more likely you’ll move through signed up for this, but unbe- For example, it’s normal for a so yourselves. Receiving thera- the presence of an eating disor- knownst to you, you’re no lon- husband to feel distraught and peutic support will address the der in your marriage, family or ger on the sidelines. You’re in helpless as an eating disorder illness’s impact on both of you friendships if everyone does the trenches simply because you takes away his wife. He knows and your relationship, give their own work to beat it. love this person. That means how to be a husband. He space for your thoughts, feelings ...... you’ll need to do your own doesn’t know how to be an eat- and experiences to be shared Health Advisor contributors share work to understand the illness ing disorder professional, but he and heard, and offer guidance their knowledge in fields ranging and experience your own recov- tries desperately to keep his and direction on how to move from fitness to psychology, pediat- ery. wife safe by taking on this role. forward. rics to aging. First off, ask yourself if you Over time, as the eating disor- Lastly, deciding to support ...... understand what eating disor- der and the husband-as-profes- someone suffering with an eat- Kyla Fox is a clinical therapist and ders are: People often think eat- sional take on a bigger role in ing disorder is a huge commit- founder of the Kyla Fox Centre, an ing disorders are simply eating the relationship, the husband ment. Recovery is so eating-disorder recovery centre in too much or too little, and be- and wife drift farther and farth- unpredictable and it won’t hap- Toronto. You can find her at lieve fixing that will lead to er apart. She certainly needs a pen quickly. This explains why kylafoxcentre.com and follow her recovery. It’s not that simple. professional and her husband, taking care of yourself in the on Twitter @Kylafoxcentre.
RESEARCH Decoding the science of knuckle-cracking With an MRI, researchers have looked inside the joint as it cracks, learning more about the sound it makes and general joint health
...... BOB WEBER EDMONTON ...... team of crack researchers Afinally may have solved the mystery of knuckle-popping. In a study published Wednes- day, University of Alberta scien- tists describe how modern imaging technology has shed new light on the age-old riddle of why some joints crack when you pull them. “It’s something that every cul- ture, every society is interested in,” said Greg Kawchuk, lead au- thor of the paper published in the online journal Plos One. “We all do it. People love it or are repulsed by it.” But nobody had actually looked closely at how the noise beloved by annoying uncles is created. The first paper on the subject dates back to 1947, said Kaw- chuk. It theorized the crack comes from an air cavity created by the sudden separation of the two affected joints. Nonsense, said a 1971 rejoinder in scientific knuckle-cracking lit- erature, which suggested the pop is the result of an air pocket col- Above: Greg Kawchuk is part of the “But what we did observe is lapsing. University of Alberta team that consistent with what was pro- Enough with theories, decided concluded the knuckle-cracking posed in 1947.” Kawchuk. sound seems to be created as the The research does have real With the help of a colleague he surfaces of the two joints are pulled importance. Fingers aren’t the describes as the Wayne Gretzky apart. The left image shows normal only joints in the body that of knuckle-cracking, he decided metacarpophalangeal joints before crack. to bring MRI technology to bear. joint distraction and a dark “By using this technique to No one had ever before looked intra-articular void after knuckle- look into people’s joints, we inside a knuckle as it cracked. cracking, on right. have a little bit of a window to “When we saw that, we said, RICHARD SIEMENS, THE CANADIAN PRESS; better understand joint health.” ‘Wow! There’s a real opportunity UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, REUTERS As well, not all people are able here.’ It’s been sitting there wait- to crack their knuckles. The pa- ing for someone to do.” per could help scientists under- The team designed a carefully stand why. calibrated knuckle-puller that re- Kawchuk’s study is silent on sembles the kind of woven fin- the fluid in the joints kept the sound is produced.” cavity is what creates the sound. the question of why some indi- ger-trap on offer in novelty bones together. A similar effect can be created “We have to be a little bit care- viduals enjoy cracking their stores. The subject digit was “As we increased the pull, sud- by pressing two hands together ful,” he said. knuckles or whether it’s as bad placed under a magnetic reso- denly you reach the point where at the palm, then quickly sepa- “We’re only imaging a very for them as their mothers say. nance imager and the requisite you overcome that surface ten- rating them. small slice of what’s happening “I’ve had people tell me, ‘It tug applied. sion and the two joint surfaces The imager wasn’t able to inside the joint. There’s things drives me crazy,’ ” he laughed. Video of the event – which suddenly fly apart,” said Kaw- determine what’s in the cavity, that are happening to the left “It’s the kind of thing people lasted about 310 milliseconds – chuk. “In that moment, we saw air or a gas released by sur- and right and in between our lose marriages over, I think.” was carefully analyzed. the creation of an air cavity that rounding tissues. Nor can Kaw- images that may be causing the ...... At first, the surface tension of happens at the same time the chuk be completely sure the sound, but we don’t see them. The Canadian Press
OSTEOPOROSIS TODAY’S SUDOKU SOLUTION ...... Middle-age women who lose weight could be losing bone density, too
...... SHEREEN LEHMAN Meryl LeBoff of Brigham and at which point 236 men and both correlated with bone densi- ...... Women’s Hospital in Boston. women completed the study. ty loss in the spine and hip, osing weight in middle age “Osteoporosis is a major public By the end of two years, men LeBoff said. Lmay mean losing not just health problem and 40 per cent lost an average of 8 per cent of “So … while weight loss can unwanted fat, but also precious of women and 20 per cent of their original body weight, and have beneficial effects on a num- bone density, at least for women, men ages 50 years and older will women lost an average of 6.4 per ber of cardiovascular and other a new U.S. study suggests. develop an osteoporotic fracture cent. health outcomes, it’s important Regardless of the types of foods in their remaining lifetime,” With comparable amounts of to consider skeletal health, par- or amount of calcium in their LeBoff said. “So there’s a real weight loss, “the women lost ticularly in women in whom diets, middle aged women who concern about skeletal health bone density at the spine and weight loss can result in bone lost a moderate amount of particularly among the popula- the hip in the postmenopausal loss and since women are at a weight over a two-year period tion 50 years and older.” group and the men actually markedly increased risk for frac- also lost more bone density than LeBoff’s team analyzed data gained bone density at the spine tures,” she said. TODAY’S KENKEN SOLUTION men or younger women. gathered during a large weight and had a stable bone density of Dr. Kathryn Diemer, director of ...... Changes in bone density fol- loss study in which 424 partici- the hip,” LeBoff said. the Bone Health Program at the lowing moderate weight loss pants were randomly assigned to Premenopausal women only Washington University School of may be sex-specific and influ- follow one of four low-calorie lost bone density at the hip, the Medicine in St. Louis, said it’s enced by hormones, the study diets. (Two diets were considered study team noted. important for obese patients to team writes in The Journal of to be high-protein, and two con- And among menopausal wom- lose weight, and there are ways Clinical Endocrinology and Me- tained an average amount of en, loss of abdominal fat – the to prevent bone density loss. tabolism. protein.) kind linked with heart disease “Walking is very important for “Weight loss has been associat- Participants were 30 to 70 years and diabetes risk – was particu- these patients,” for example, she ed with beneficial effects on car- old and overweight or obese at larly linked to bone loss. said. diovascular risk factors like the start of the study. About 60 Differences in bone loss were In addition, Diemer suggests diabetes. However, extremes of per cent were women. also tied to the amount of mus- taking calcium, getting vitamin D weight loss have been associated Bone density measurements of cle – known as lean mass – a per- levels checked and monitoring with bone loss, and according to the spine and hip were taken at son lost. bone density. some studies, increased risk of the outset, six months into the In postmenopausal women, ...... fracture,” said senior author Dr. diets and again after two years, losses of lean mass and fat mass Reuters L8 • GLOBE LIFE & ARTS S THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
FACTS & ARGUMENTS 9 BY WILFRED SLATER Can’t take that away from me In the first 37 of my 85 years, the Leafs won the Stanley Cup 11 times. Even now, old fans like me can rest smugly on our memories
...... t has become a constant white pin, also came with the kit, during that period. Iamong fans of the Toronto and I wore the pin proudly. The team stayed at a hotel Maple Leafs that early-season Envious friends scurried to join about 10 short blocks from the expectations – and one promis- the club. arena and, while walking back ing period did evolve last fall – A Maple Leafs sweater and forth, the players frequently soon devolve into despair and appeared at the next Christmas. stopped to chat with the citizen- disappointment. The 2014-2015 My parents got it from a mail- ry. Golf was included in their regi- season, being no exception, has order catalogue, which fortunate- men, as well as lounging in the mercifully ended. ly shipped the correct jersey, hotel lobby reading (television The nearly 50-year gap since unlike the situation in Roch Car- had yet to become part of hotel- the last Stanley Cup acquisition rier’s delightful story The Hockey room amenities). Occasionally, preys on those fans who have not Sweater, when a Leafs sweater some players would board a local experienced the excitement of was substituted for one bearing bus to travel to the cinema, and witnessing Toronto players hoist the Montreal Canadiens colours. boys would gather at the bus stop the venerable trophy, or lined a In 1945, I was with a midget to exchange greetings with them. downtown victory parade route. hockey team that won an Ontario I wonder sometimes whether a Not me! In the first 37 of 85 championship. Shortly after, the return to St. Catharines would years of my existence, the Leafs Maple Leafs were in possession of rekindle the Leafs’ championship were Stanley Cup winners 11 the Stanley Cup. At our midget quests of the past. The city times and finalists in eight more team’s celebration, Leafs player recently opened a new arena. seasons: an impressive record for Ted (Teeder) Kennedy, who lived Within hours of this season’s the franchise even if the Montre- in a nearby municipality in the final game, the Maple Leafs hie- al Canadiens in the same period Niagara Peninsula, was a guest. rarchy made the first moves in amassed 12 cup wins and seven Kennedy was just 19, and I still what is likely to become a major appearances in the finals. marvel about the experience of overhaul of management and I was 2 when the first win of my having a Stanley Cup winner players. Still, a Stanley Cup in lifetime occurred, but have rel- speaking to us, champions no Toronto is unlikely to be as immi- ished the remainder – especially more than four years his junior. nent as die-hard fans would like. 1942, when the Leafs, defeated in Kennedy spent several years with In the meantime, folks of my the first three games, rallied to the Leafs, many as team captain, vintage can retain the smugness oust the Detroit Red Wings in the and a statue of him occupies the of memories from long ago. seven-game series. square outside the team’s current ...... During those 37 years, the Leafs home, the Air Canada Centre. Wilfred Slater lives in Toronto. won the cup three years in a row In the early days of a 42-year ...... twice – 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1962, newspaper career, I was assigned Challenging Facts 1963, 1964. Now, missing the play- to cover a Leafs preseason train- offs appears to be the norm, let ing camp in St. Catharines, Ont. The Facts & Arguments essay turns alone making it to the finals. The highlight of that single-day 25 in June. To help us launch our A factor that intrigues me is experience was the signing of silver-jubilee year we’re issuing a that, during those championship player Dick Duff to a contract. challenge: The week of June 8 to 12, stretches, there was a single And I remember team owner we’ll run the best five personal coach, unlike today when three DREW SHANNON FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL Conn Smythe, clad in a sheep- essays we receive on the theme or more are involved. skin-lined outfit, observing the Moment of Truth. Maybe for you it I was 7 or 8 when I became in- Foster Hewitt’s voice not emanat- across my bed and reading about on-ice workout from the farthest was the straw that broke the terested in hockey: the road vari- ing from the radio until 9 p.m., I such players as Pep Kelly, Busher reaches of the chilly arena. camel’s back, or perhaps you ety. Skates were a couple of years would already be tucked in bed. Jackson, Red Horner, Turk Broda, An ice-cream shop near the St. reached a pivotal point and made a in the future. Newspapers were A cereal company offered pic- Buzz Boll and Syl Apps in an in- Catharines arena offered the huge change in your life – quit your the main source of hockey news, tures of Leafs players in exchange cluded booklet. My dad had to Maple Leafs Power Milkshake – a job, left your spouse, moved home although I’d have to wait until for a certain number of box tops, explain the meaning of “stick regular shake with the addition or away. Your deadline is 6 p.m. on Monday morning to read the and Mom obliged. My package handling,” noted among some of of a raw egg. I don’t know wheth- May 15. Please read the advice at game story. The Leafs played at arrived while I was home from the players’ skills. Membership in er players availed themselves of tgam.ca/essayguide before starting, home on Saturday nights. With school with chicken pox. I the Maple Leafs Bantam Hockey the offer, but much of the im- and send your submissions to the games beginning at 8:30 and remember spreading the pictures Club, emblazoned on a blue-and- pressive cup record unfolded [email protected].
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STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Maxim Lapierre of the Pittsburgh Penguins pursues the puck as Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist looks to cover it during the second RANGERS REACH GOAL period in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarter-finals in New The New York Rangers did what they had to do, they shut down Pittsburgh’s top threats, York on Thursday night. Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, for a fourth straight victory over the Penguins in the postseason as BRUCE BENNETT/GETTY IMAGES the Rangers won the opener of their playoff series 2-1 in New York on Thursday night. PAGE 3. In Winnipeg, Roy MacGregor takes the pulse of a nervous city as the Jets return to the playoffs, facing the Ducks in the late game in Anaheim. GLOBESPORTS.COM
RUGBY WOMEN’S SEVENS SERIES Canada’s ‘pocket rocket’ looks to help her team soar
...... DAVID EBNER VANCOUVER home in a Victoria suburb. It’s This is the third season of the sis on tackles in the open field. first again this season...... the fourth of six events on the women’s rugby sevens series, an In this milieu, Landry and Can- Commentator Melodie Robin- he’s called the pocket rocket. World Rugby Women’s Sevens event that, alongside the men’s ada have excelled. son, a former player for New Zea- SShe stands 5 foot 5 and weighs Series 2014-15 schedule and the game, was selected to join the Canada finished third in each land, was asked who in particular 137 pounds. She is in bed nightly first time the tour has come to Rio roster in 2009. of the first two seasons on the stood out at the second tour stop 1 at 8:30 p.m., to book a solid 9 ⁄2 Canada. Sevens is mostly similar to tra- sevens series and this season is of the year in Brazil, and she hours of sleep. She sees the Canada ranks second in the ditional 15-a-side rugby union – closing in on a place in the Olym- named Landry. “In terms of indi- expanse of a rugby pitch, 100 standing behind powerhouse but played much faster, given it’s pics. The top four teams win au- viduals, you can’t go past Ghis- metres by 70 metres, as a mas- New Zealand and is poised to the same size field, yet each team tomatic spots. Landry is the No. 2 laine Landry, the pocket rocket sive chess board. clinch a berth at the 2016 Rio de has only seven players. Instead of scorer on the tour, behind Portia out wide for the Canadians.” Ghislaine Landry is one of the Janeiro Olympics. an 80-minute battle, sevens flies Woodman of New Zealand. John Tait, Canada’s coach, said best women’s rugby sevens “It’s why we’re out there,” Lan- in two halves of seven minutes Woodman was the top scorer in Landry has become a “techni- players in the world, and this dry said in an interview. “We each, which can produce spectac- the inaugural 2012-13 season, cian” off the field, focused on weekend she leads Canada in an want to go to Rio and we want to ular results: rapid lead changes, a with New Zealand on top, a title video, nutrition and rest. international tournament at win a medal.” reliance on speed and an empha- it defended last year, and is in Rugby, Page 6
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...... BLUES From Russia, with lineage The Blues’ Tarasenko has a hockey pedigree, and it’s that heritage that has helped him become one of the NHL’s brightest stars
...... with it. We would sit in the room and talk and have great conver- sations. It’s one reason we’ve become such great friends now.” Last summer, the Blues signed Jori Lehtera, Tarasenko’s former ERIC DUHATSCHEK KHL linemate, as a free agent, [email protected] and the two have been effective pair in the NHL as well. Jaden ...... Schwartz, a former Canadian CALGARY world junior star, was the third ...... member of the line for much of ockey players are mostly the season, but going into the Hcreatures of habit, and the playoffs, they’ve put Alex Steen St. Louis Blues’ Vladimir Tarasen- there. ko, of the faraway Russian city of The Blues drafted Schwartz Yaroslavl, is no exception. Imme- with the 14th overall pick in the diately after every Blues game or 2010 entry draft and then traded first thing the next morning, the rights to David Rundblad to Tarasenko gets on his cellphone the Ottawa Senators for the 16th or tablet to speak to his father or overall pick, which they used to grandfather and analyze what select Tarasenko. happened in the game. Tarasenko says his father’s The Tarasenkos are a hockey- coaching is one of the reasons he playing family, with papa Andrei is able to make the plays he does. a three-time Russian league scor- “A coach can teach you to play ing champ. In the years his father a tactical game or a coach can coached in Russia’s Superleague, teach you to score goals,” Tara- Vladimir lived in his grandfa- senko said. “My father taught me ther’s home. The three are close, how to score goals.” and Vladimir relies on both as “His mannerisms and how he daily sounding boards, two peo- comes to the rink every day and ple he trusts for feedback, good The Blues’ Vladimir Tarasenko, right, celebrates after scoring as the Minnesota Wild’s Mikael Granlund, left, treats the game, you can tell it’s and bad. watches on Saturday in St. Louis. Tarasenko finished tied for fifth in this year’s goal-scoring race. JEFF ROBERSON/AP been instilled in him through his “Technology makes it possible,” father and grandfather,” Shatten- Tarasenko explained in a lengthy this game. We’re going to need body from Russia, it would have kirk added. “They’ve obviously interview before the opening of him in the playoffs to come up been harder for me because I guided him along. I also think the playoffs. “You can call right big for us, in the third period, in would have no reason to talk to playing pro at a young age also now from everywhere and see His mannerisms and how he the crucial minutes, when we someone else. If I had some gets you ready for this game and their faces. I started to play in comes to the rink every day need a goal to tie it up or win it. I problems, I could ask the Rus- lifestyle.” the KHL when I was 16 [for Sibir think he has the confidence and sian guy. Here, I was roommates Russian players have a reputa- Novosibirsk] and we talked every and treats the game, you can the ability to do that.” with Shattenkirk. He helped me tion for being mostly a dour lot, day when I went to play in St. tell it’s been instilled in him Tarasenko arrived in the NHL a lot.” but Tarasenko seems to be an Petersburg for a couple of years. through his father and following the 2012-13 lockout, According to Shattenkirk, it exception to the rule. No reason to change anything after playing the first half of the was a provision of the new col- “The common perception of now.” grandfather. season with Ilya Kovalchuk in lective agreement that serendipi- the Russians is they’re always Tarasenko is one of the bright- Russia. Right away, the Blues tously put the two of them angry; we joke about that some- est stars in the NHL galaxy and Kevin Shattenkirk were impressed with how willing together. times,” Shattenkirk said. “He’ll was a staple on sports-highlight Blues defenceman Tarasenko was to integrate into “Alex [Pietrangelo] and I were use the example of, ‘If I get on reels all season. Despite missing the team and how good his Eng- the last two guys on the team on the elevator, why do I have to say five games down the stretch to lish-language skills were. Tara- rookie contracts when Vlady hi to someone?’ We don’t do that injury, Tarasenko finished tied “It’s nice – he’s a good weapon senko said he took English came in,” Shattenkirk explained. in our culture. for fifth in the NHL goal-scoring to have in our back pocket,” classes in high school and also “The rule in the new CBA was “He has this boyish behaviour race with 37 and 10th in points Blues defenceman Kevin Shat- made two short trips to England once your rookie contract was to him, similar to [Alex] Ovech- with 73. tenkirk said. “You saw a little bit as an exchange student when he done, you get your own room. kin. When you see him score, With the Blues set to open of it last year in the Chicago was 12 or 13, which helped Alex and I were going to split the you see how excited he is and their first-round series with the series. He had a bum thumb, but smooth the transition. year with Vlady, going on and off, how happy that makes him. Vla- Minnesota Wild on Thursday still he had the ability to come “When I came here first three but I said, ‘I’m fine with rooming dy is another one of those guys. night, Tarasenko gives the team a up with some big goals for us. years ago, I can understand ev- with him.’ It’s great because we really feed dimension they’ve lacked since That’s part of the maturity of a erything, but I couldn’t talk,” he “He was very shy around the off that energy and positivity.” they became a legitimate Stanley young player. said. “Right now, it’s pretty easy. guys at first. His English was ...... Cup contender – that of a game- “It seems like in your third I’m the only Russian guy on the actually a lot better than he Follow me on Twitter: breaking forward. year, you figure out how to play team. If we would have some- thought, but he wasn’t confident @eduhatschek
...... CANUCKS Vancouver’s loss brings up the spectres of the past
...... DAVID EBNER VANCOUVER NHL game in Vancouver, the last Nine players from that roster ...... game of last season. He was an form the core of today’s team. he Vancouver Canucks this immediate presence on his first Of the team’s past 12 playoff Tseason long drew comfort shift and scored the Flames’ only games, home or away, Vancouver and reassurance from a single goal. has won a single contest. word: resilience. The stage and significance of How much of the past hangs The team imagined itself as the playoffs were something over the present? The question hardier than in years past. On more than he had bargained for, was put to Dan Hamhuis, the vet- Wednesday night, in Game 1 of and on Thursday Gaudreau said eran defenceman. the first round of the playoffs, he was more excited and ner- There was, for a couple sec- the self-declared resilience did vous and “all worked up” for onds, stony silence. not unveil itself when it counted, Game 1 than he imagined he Then: “All that matters is this and the true resilience was dem- would be. It showed. His line, year.” onstrated by the young Calgary and team, were jittery to start – The follow-up question specifi- Flames, a team that all season but by the third they had found cally noted the seven consecutive long has played its best when it composure. playoff losses at home. mattered most. After the game had been tied Hamhuis said he had been So on a beautiful Thursday in Canucks goalie Eddie Lack makes a save on the Flames’ Joe Colborne at 1-1, Gaudreau carried the puck waiting for someone to ask that Vancouver – “It’s a nice day, Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Wednesday. RICH LAM/GETTY IMAGES out of his zone and into Vancou- specific question. unless you’re the Vancouver ver’s. He paused and then put a “I think it’s a silly question,” Canucks,” quipped one cab driv- trailed after two periods. third, their 99 goals were tied crafty backhand pass into the Hamhuis said. “We’ve lost one in er – it was the Flames who were Calgary, in fact, had not pulled with Tampa Bay as the league’s middle to a charging Sean Mona- a row.” able to luxuriate, half the squad off its third-period magic trick in best, and 68 against was tied for han, whose slap shot in the slot The questioner persisted, and foregoing an optional on-ice ses- two months. ninth-best. So when Calgary had a chance to be the go-ahead highlighted that nine current sion, while the Canucks fended “We wish we could do it in the turned a 1-0 deficit at the second goal but sailed wide. Canucks were around for all off volleys from a horde of jour- first period,” defenceman Dennis intermission into a 2-1 victory, it Sun soaked Vancouver on those seven losses. nalists. Wideman said. “We’d prefer to go felt ordained. This is how it was Thursday, but the spectre over “Our team has lost one in a Game 1 pivoted on fractional into the third period with the meant to be. the Canucks felt foreboding – row,” Hamhuis said. margins – puck possession was lead.” Johnny Gaudreau, the 5-foot-9 what’s going wrong yet again? – And the exchange was over. even, shots on goal were even, The precise answer of how is wunderkind, spoke of a resil- regardless of the fact it was only The series is far from over, but the difference was a single goal – elusive. Wideman cited an unre- ience in the locker room – and a single game decided by a single on the question of veterans ver- but Calgary’s come-from-behind lenting spirit. “We’re going to on Wednesday, a settling of goal. The loss marks Vancouver’s sus youth, Vancouver’s veterans victory cemented a narrative. keep coming, we’re going to keep nerves. “We’ve got to get going” seventh consecutive playoff failed when they had the game The Cardiac Kids always pull this coming.” was the message in the Flames defeat in Rogers Arena, stretch- in their hands – and Calgary had off – even though that’s not true: The Flames this season were locker room after the second. ing to June 15, 2011, when the the insouciance of youth. Seven Calgary lost 24 of the 34 games in outscored in first periods 54-70 One year and three days ago, Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stan- of 12 Calgary forwards are rookie the regular season in which it and 75-71 in the second. In the Gaudreau had played his first ley Cup. or second-year players.
...... BLACKHAWKS Despite disastrous series-opener, coach has goalie Crawford’s back
...... TERESA M. WALKER NASHVILLE save after sparkling save for performance and the big win. check telling him what to do 11th with a 2.27 goals-against av- ...... more than 67 minutes in a 4-3 But getting pulled was pretty with a potential goalie contro- erage. oel Quenneville had never double-overtime win. frustrating. versy. Nashville jumped out to a 3-0 Jpulled Chicago goaltender The Blackhawks coach said the “I was trying to figure out “It’s a feel thing, and it’s not lead through 20 minutes. Colin Corey Crawford from a playoff tougher decision was pulling what I did wrong, some of the something that we’re accus- Wilson scored twice and former game before. The coach’s experi- Crawford in Game 1. decisions I made,” Crawford said tomed to doing, and the deci- Chicago forward Viktor Stalberg ence with the veteran made put- “He’s our starting goalie,” on a conference call. “But then sion to go back to Corey is very scored on a wraparound into an ting him back in net an easy Quenneville said of Crawford. again, you just have to sit on the easy,” Quenneville said. empty net when Crawford got decision. “He’s been our strength all year side and encourage the other Their second draft pick in the caught trying to play the puck Quenneville said Thursday that long. It was one period, and one guys. Really, I had confidence in 2003 draft is 147-79-34 in his behind the net. The Predators Crawford will start Game 2 collectively as a team – goal- our guys to come back. I always career, and he went 32-20-5 this took 58 shots, a franchise record against the Nashville Predators tending all the way out through do. This team can score goals.” season with the Blackhawks, in the playoffs, against both on Friday night despite giving the forwards – I thought our The Blackhawks came into this splitting the William M. Jennings goalies. up three goals on 12 shots and first period was ordinary at best postseason leading the NHL with Trophy with Montreal’s Carey “Either guy they put in, we’re getting yanked in Wednesday and look forward to him getting 57 wins since the 2009 playoffs, Price in allowing the fewest going to have to attack,” Nash- night’s opener. Scott Darling back in the net tomorrow.” and Crawford is 32-23 at this goals in the NHL with 189. The ville captain Shea Weber said. stopped all 42 shots he faced in Crawford was one of the first time of year for Chicago. Quen- goalie ranked sixth in the NHL ...... his postseason debut, making to congratulate Darling on his neville said there’s no book to with a .924 save percentage and The Associated Press THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 S GLOBE SPORTS • S3
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...... CANADIENS Welcome to the big-boy game Subban’s slash on Stone was a dumb thing to do, but Montreal knows how to earn the advantage – by any means necessary
...... SEAN GORDON BROSSARD, QUE. pen the officials’ focus on the ...... series. The Sens will happily live ost pro sports view acts of with the added scrutiny. Mwanton violence as a failure, Subban accepted responsibility to be lamented and erased from for the incident (“It’s on me”), de- memory as quickly as possible; in nied making any threats and hockey, they can become cultural insisted he had no intention to touchstones. injure Stone, whose status for the Call it a manifestation of the series is doubtful. game’s lizard brain: Talent can be “I’ve never done that in my countered by brutishness, and career. It’s something that my the beauty is it works almost family doesn’t condone, this or- every time. ganization doesn’t condone. I’m In a wider sense, to be a key not out there to do that,” he said. offensive performer in the NHL is The act was a remarkably dumb to suffer the democratizing decision, and Subban acknowl- effects of ill treatment. Skill edged as much. players tend to be phlegmatic “I don’t want take a penalty about it. there, we’re already down a man, “It’s part of the expectation of I just tried to let him know. I playoff hockey, right? Guys on the didn’t even look to see where I other team trying to make it was going to slash him … I try to extremely difficult in a physical play hard in front of the net; way on the other team’s skill for- obviously, it’s something that I wards – and we’re trying to do the can’t do,” he said. “As far as tar- same for them,” said Ottawa Sen- geting anybody … if anything, I ators centre Kyle Turris, a dynam- feel like a lot of times I’m the tar- ic player who is often singled out get.” for rough handling. Subban chalked his exaggerated The dominant narrative from reaction at being tossed from the Ottawa’s series opener with the game up to a surfeit of emotion Montreal Canadiens focused on and allowed that in hindsight the Sens sniper Mark Stone’s health penalty was “the right call.” following a slash from the Habs’ His tone wasn’t exactly repen- P.K. Subban. He wasn’t the only Ottawa Senators forward Mark Stone, left, grimaces after being slashed by Montreal Canadiens defenceman tant. player targeted in the game. P.K. Subban during Game 1 of their first-round series on Wednesday in Montreal. RYAN REMIORZ/THE CANADIAN PRESS “I’ve been slashed a lot harder Montreal’s Brendan Gallagher than that,” he said. plays a style that draws close op- viet star Valeri Kharlamov’s ankle big-boy sport. ligament damage – was a tidy bit When asked if planned on position interest – buzz the net, in the 1972 Summit Series, but the The Habs know this better than of gamesmanship in an era of reaching out to Stone, he said, jostle the goalie, rinse, repeat – motivation surely originates from most. “upper-body injuries.” “Nope.” it’s also a function of his skill as a a similar place. Chris Kreider’s inopportune And if coach Dave Cameron’s There’s still a whiff of Old Testa- goal scorer (he potted 24 goals The game not only encourages slide into goalie Carey Price in the postgame remarks hinted at retri- ment about the NHL, and the this year, one fewer than Stone). such behaviour, in some ways it Eastern Conference final between bution – “You either suspend him sight of Ottawa tough guy Chris “I went into the game under- demands it. Those twigs aren’t Montreal and the New York Ran- or one of their best players gets Neil lining up on the fourth line standing that I was going to have just for shooting pucks. gers last year derailed the for- slashed and just give us five” – at practice on Thursday carried to take some punches, take some The stick-swinging annals are mer’s hopes. Ottawa walked it back after news its own message. shots,” he said after a team work- full of pivotal moments and the A year earlier, Sens defenceman Subban wouldn’t, in fact, be sus- Turris said, “You’re here to play out. “I really felt it [Wednesday] post-slash situation is this: the Eric Gryba’s suspension-worthy pended. the game. You’re obviously going night … it’s not something I Habs are up 1-0 in the series, their hit in Game 1 subtracted influen- “We’re not threatening anybody to stick up for your teammates, haven’t dealt with before. For me, best defenceman has escaped fur- tial Montreal centre Lars Eller here, we’re just asking for jus- though. We’ll discuss things in I understand what they’re trying ther punishment, the Sens’ inspi- from the equation; the series tice,” Ottawa general manager our own locker room as to how to do. As long as I don’t get frus- rational goal scorer is diminished soon descended into chaos, and Bryan Murray said. we handle that.” trated and let it affect my game by an injury just as Montreal’s is the Canadiens limped away in He added a flourish to his Cameron, by contrast, said dis- then hopefully what they do set to return from one (Max Paci- defeat. remarks with an accusation of cipline will be the order of the won’t work.” oretty could figure Friday in Now the Habs have donned the premeditation: “The disturbing day. He doesn’t mind being roughed Game 2 and if not, in Sunday’s black hats, thanks to Subban. part from my point of view is that “I’d be really disappointed if my up, and there are plenty of people Game 3). Teams engage in a high level of there was a threat made before by team starts chasing any one willing to oblige. It’s advantage Montreal, earned off-ice politicking in any playoff Subban to Stone; there were two player around and we lose the This is how you get to Subban’s the old-fashioned way: by any series, and the Sens’ lobbying attempts on faceoffs to slash him. series because we couldn’t deal peak-Bobby Clarke moment. means necessary. offensive was impressive. One connected.” with an incident,” he said. The two-handed whack on The shorthand is to “play a guy Revealing the exact nature of Expressing disappointment that Grudge matches seldom live up Stone wasn’t as egregious as hard,” and if someone gets Stone’s injury – a microfracture to the league didn’t mete out sup- to the hype; it will be interesting Clarke’s infamous assault on So- injured in the process, well, it’s a his right wrist and unspecified plementary discipline may shar- to see if Game 2 plays to type.
...... DRAFT This year’s lottery has upped the drama
...... CONNOR MCDAVID SWEEPSTAKES There is also a reasonable 2.55 points a game – with the chance a team comes out of no- Otters this season, despite miss- where and gets McDavid. All 14 ing games because of a broken non-playoff teams are eligible to hand. win the lottery, and the six clubs Crosby’s points a game in his with the lowest chance include draft year (2005) were only slight- JAMES MIRTLE some previously powerhouse ly higher at 2.71. [email protected] teams such as San Jose, Los The Penguins were on life-sup- Angeles and Boston. port in Pittsburgh before winning ...... Combined, the bottom six – that lottery, needing a new build- TORONTO which also include prospect-load- ing and to reignite their fan base ...... ed teams Colorado, Dallas and after three awful seasons. Getting t was a brief moment of levity Florida – have a 17-per-cent Crosby, along with Evgeni Malkin Iduring a tense news conference chance of winning the lottery. a year earlier at second overall, for Brendan Shanahan, who was (Teams ranked beyond the bot- helped them become a power- carefully detailing why he had tom five have only won it three house franchise that made a trip cleared out the Toronto Maple times, but their odds have also to the finals three years later and Leafs front office a day earlier. historically been lower than they won the Stanley Cup in 2009. Asked what getting top pros- will be this season, a change the That’s the kind of rebirth that pect Connor McDavid would do NHL made to curb the tanking Shanahan and other executives for the Leafs president’s fledgling that appeared rampant this year. are dreaming of these days, espe- rebuild, the typically staid Hall of In addition to the Sabres, both cially in places such as Arizona, Fame player couldn’t keep the Arizona and Toronto entered a which desperately needs an infu- smile off his face. death spiral over the season’s sion of talent and good fortune. “It would certainly speed things final few months.) Not to mention all of the reve- up,” Shanahan said, before inter- The NHL has held the draft lot- nue someone as talented as rupting the next question a tery at the end of every season for McDavid can bring through jersey moment later with “I’m sorry – the past 20 years, but this will be sales, bums in the seats and play- I’m still smiling at that last one.” one of the most anticipated. off games. On Saturday night at Sportsnet’s Not only have bottom feeders “Some organization will get a TV studio during Hockey Night in year-old superstar who is current- per cent, but the two playoff-less such as Buffalo been given a low- whole lot smarter,” Oilers general Canada’s playoff coverage, the ly piling up points in the OHL Canadian teams – Edmonton and er chance of winning, increasing manager Craig MacTavish said. Leafs will find out if that’s more playoffs. (He leads the league Toronto – are among the top four. the drama, but McDavid repre- “After the lottery.” than merely a pipe dream. with 11 goals and 23 points in nine The Oilers have an 11.5-per-cent sents a franchise-changing talent, Not exactly. But they’ll certainly The NHL’s draft lottery will give postseason games.) chance of winning the lottery and a potential Sidney Crosby-like su- be better, and it’ll be thanks to 14 NHL teams a shot at the first The Buffalo Sabres, by virtue of moving to first from third. perstar who can transform a random chance. overall pick this June, a selection finishing dead last in a calculated The Leafs are right behind at 9.5 hard-luck case into a champion...... that is guaranteed to be used to tank job, will have the highest per cent and would go to first By way of comparison, McDavid Follow me on Twitter: claim McDavid, the Erie Otters’ 18- chance of getting McDavid at 20 from fourth. had 120 points in 47 games – or @mirtle
...... RANGERS 2, PENGUINS 1 RANGERS LEAD SERIES 1-0 Rangers score first-period goals and don’t look back
...... BARRY WILNER NEW YORK games of a second-round series Game 2 is in New York on Sat- in the opening 20 minutes, Mc- other end, with the Rangers un- ...... last year, rallying from a 3-1 dis- urday night. Donough’s slapper from mid- able to convert several rebounds Derick Brassard and Ryan Mc- advantage. Brassard got things started point sneaked past Fleury. off his sharp saves. Donagh scored in the first peri- In compiling the best record in only 28 seconds in, when Fleury Although New York kept con- That led to a tense, scramble od and Henrik Lundqvist made the NHL, the Rangers finished 15 sent the rebound of Rick Nash’s trol early in the second period, third period in which the goal- the goals stand up as the New points ahead of Pittsburgh in hard slap shot directly into the Comeau lifted the Penguins tenders dominated. York Rangers won the opener of the Eastern Conference. But after slot. Brassard was uncovered for within one, knocking in a Having made the finals before their playoff series with the the first period, these were two a quick wrist shot, the centre rebound with congestion around losing to Los Angeles a year ago Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 Thurs- very even teams, with Lundqvist screaming in delight as the puck Lundqvist’s crease for his first has given the Rangers a sense of day night. and Penguins goaltender Marc- went in. career playoff goal. That perked confidence they’d lacked for New York shut down Pitts- André Fleury particularly out- The Garden fans were celebrat- up the Penguins, with Malkin much of the interim. On Thurs- burgh’s top threats, Sidney Cros- standing. Lundqvist finished ing again late in the period, and Brandon Sutter getting dan- day, they showed it in particular by and Evgeni Malkin, for a with 24 saves, while Fleury was when New York’s slumping pow- gerous chances, and Lundqvist in shutting down Crosby and fourth straight victory over the far busier in making 36. er play connected. On its third flashing his right pad to thwart Malkin. Penguins in the postseason. The Blake Comeau scored in the of four-man advantages – and Maxim Lapierre...... Rangers won the final three second period for Pittsburgh. the only one that threatened – Fleury also was strong at the The Associated Press S4 • GLOBE SPORTS S THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015
BASEBALL RAYS 4, BLUE JAYS 2 Injury-prone Reyes is sidelined again as meek Jays lose series to Rays
...... ROBERT MacLEOD TORONTO why Goins was not brought up ON DECK ...... sooner to sub Reyes before a For Jose Reyes, it was anything small injury became a larger con- The Toronto Blue Jays begin but a routine out. cern. the first phase of interleague The brittle Toronto Blue Jays Goins is a useful defensive competition on Friday, when shortstop was leading off the player. At this stage in his career, the Atlanta Braves come to game Thursday night at Rogers he is probably better defensively town to play a three-game Centre and he stroked a grounder at shortstop than Reyes, but his weekend series. After a hot toward Tampa Bay Rays second bat has always been his drawback. start in which they won their baseman Logan Forsythe. In 67 games with the Blue Jays first five games, the Braves Forsythe easily gathered the last year, Goins hit a measly .188. have fallen to Earth, losing ball, and made the relay to first The Blue Jays bats were muz- three of their next four. The for the quick out – and Reyes zled by Tampa Bay starter Chris Blue Jays will send Drew loped back into the Toronto dug- Archer, who shut down the Hutchison to the mound Fri- out. Toronto offence over seven day. Hutchison will be looking Reyes took a seat by himself innings, allowing just two hits to make amends for his outing near the dugout entrance, his bat- while striking out 11 to improve to on Sunday in Baltimore, in ting helmet still lodged on his 2-1. which he laboured in his sec- head. He then grabbed the lid, The loss was absorbed by Toron- ond start, giving up seven 1 bashed it into the concrete floor to starter Aaron Sanchez, who earned runs in 4 ⁄3 innings while grimacing in obvious frus- allowed three of the Tampa Bay while earning a no-decision in tration and stalked back into the runs off five hits in 6.1-innings. a 10-7 Toronto victory. The hallway that leads to the club- The Blue Jays’ Devon Travis is upended at second base by the Rays’ David Sanchez is now 0-2 on the year. Braves will counter with Julio house. DeJesus in Toronto on Thursday. FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS With the Rays leading 2-0 in the Teheran, who is coming off a Ryan Goins, who had just been sixth, Sanchez gave up a leadoff two-hit performance over six summoned earlier in the day Last year, Reyes injured his but was intent on trying to play double to Evan Longoria before innings against the Mets. from Triple-A Buffalo, was in hamstring in the first game of the through it. getting Desmond Jennings to All games at Rogers Centre. Reyes’s spot to begin the top of season, missed 16 games and was Toronto manager John Gibbon ground out. Friday, 7:07 p.m. (ET): Toron- the second inning. plagued by leg soreness the rest of said before Thursday’s game that Gibbons went to the bullpen to RHP Drew Hutchison (1-0, Reyes, the oft-injured veteran, is the way. the primary reason Goins was after that, summoning lefty Aar- 6.97) vs. Atlanta RHP Julio Te- sidelined once again, the initial Reyes came back to play in 145 called up was so the Blue Jays on Loup, but Loup surrendered a heran (2-0, 1.50). prognosis from the American games, but he committed a could get back to a seven-man pinch-hit home run to Tim Beck- Saturday, 1:07 p.m. (ET): League club being that he left the career-worst 19 errors, the most of bullpen. ham to run the Rays lead to 4-0. Toronto RHP R.A. Dickey (0-1, game with “soreness to the left any American League shortstop. The manager said he was plan- The Blue Jays loaded the bases 2.19) vs. Atlanta LHP Alex side.” In 2013, his first season with the ning on resting Reyes, but not with nobody against Tampa Bay Wood (1-0, 3.86). Should he be gone for any Blue Jays, Reyes tore up his ankle until Saturday’s game against the reliever Steve Geltz in the eighth Sunday, 1:07 p.m. (ET): length of time, the pain will also during an awkward slide into sec- Atlanta Braves. And he said the but could only come away with Toronto LHP Daniel Norris be felt by the Blue Jays, who were ond base and was sidelined for plan was to start Steve Tolleson at one run off a sacrifice fly by Edwin (1-0, 4.22) vs. Atlanta RHP rather meek with the bats during more than two months. shortstop and not Goins. Encarnacion. Shelby Miller (1-0, 0.90). a 4-2 victory by Tampa Bay. Reyes had a spring to his step In order to make room for Goins Rays manager Kevin Cash was ...... In the process, the Rays took the this season and the switch hitter on the 25-man roster, the Blue ejected in the inning after an Robert MacLeod series three games to one, the first was sporting a .333 average Jays designated for assignment umpire’s ruling that Toronto’s series loss of the year for the Blue through the first nine games long reliever Todd Redmond, who Josh Donaldson was hit by a pitch Jays. while displaying good range at had surrendered four earned runs was upheld after video replay. During spring training, the 31- shortstop. in both of his appearances this In the ninth the Blue Jays made year-old Reyes declared himself But there was a dark cloud lin- season. The Blue Jays were well it a bit closer when Devon Travis pain free and was anxiously gering over the horizon in recent aware of the muscle soreness doubled off Rays closer Brad Box- awaiting the start of the 2015 cam- days. Reyes was trying to fight through. berger that scored Russell Martin paign in hopes of redeeming him- Reyes let it be known Saturday If the shortstop is now sidelined from second base. But Goins self after two disastrous in Baltimore he was suffering for any considerable length of popped out to the infield to end injury-filled seasons. from a sore left oblique muscle, time, the club will have to answer the rally and the game.
NHL PLAYOFFS MLB NBA Winnipeg at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m. Bennett) 19:30 Toronto at Washington, 7 p.m. FIRST ROUND VANCOUVER (2) VS. CALGARY (3) Penalties —None. AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST Wednesday, April 29 DIVISION SEMIFINALS Shots on goal by Washington at Toronto, TBA (Calgary leads series 1-0) Calgary 10 10 10 —30 EAST DIVISION EAST DIVISION WLPctGB Friday, May 1 Wednesday’s result Vancouver 13 4 13 —30 y-Atlanta 60 22 .732 — WLPctGB WLPctGB y-Cleveland 53 29 .646 7 Toronto at Washington, TBA (Best-of-7) Calgary 2 Vancouver 1 Goal — Calgary: Hiller (W,1-0); Boston 6 3 .667 — Atlanta 6 3 .667 — x-Chicago 50 32 .610 10 Sunday, May 3 Vancouver: Lack (L, 0-1). 1 y-Toronto 49 33 .598 11 All Times Eastern Friday’s game Tampa Bay 6 4 .600 /2 New York 6 3 .667 — x-Washington 46 36 .561 14 Washington at Toronto, TBA 1 Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Power plays (goal-chances) — Cal- Baltimore 5 4 .556 1 Washington 4 6 .400 2/2 x-Milwaukee 41 41 .500 19 Atlanta vs. Brooklyn EASTERN CONFERENCE 1 gary: 0-1; Vancouver: 0-3. Toronto 5 5 .500 1 /2 Miami 3 6 .333 3 x-Boston 40 42 .488 20 Cleveland vs. Boston 1 x-Brooklyn 38 44 .463 22 ATLANTIC DIVISION Att. — 18,870 at Vancouver. New York 3 6 .333 3 Philadelphia 3 7 .300 3/2 Chicago vs. Milwaukee MONTREAL (1) VS. OTTAWA (WC) LATE WEDNESDAY CENTRAL DIVISION CENTRAL DIVISION Indiana 38 44 .463 22 WESTERN CONFERENCE WLPctGB WLPctGB Miami 37 45 .451 23 Golden State vs. New Orleans (Montreal leads series 1-0) GOLF Charlotte 33 49 .402 27 CANADIENS 4, SENATORS 3 Detroit 8 1 .889 — Chicago 5 3 .625 — Houston vs. Dallas Wednesday’s result Detroit 32 50 .390 28 First Period Kansas City 7 2 .778 1 St. Louis 5 3 .625 — Orlando 25 57 .305 35 L.A. Clippers vs. San Antonio Montreal 4 Ottawa 3 1 1 1. Ottawa, Michalek 1, 12:25 PGA-RBC HERITAGE Chicago 3 5 .375 4/2 Cincinnati 5 4 .556 /2 Philadelphia 18 64 .220 42 Portland vs. Memphis 1 1 Friday’s game Penalty — de la Rose Mtl (hook- Cleveland 3 5 .375 4/2 Pittsburgh 3 6 .333 2/2 New York 17 65 .207 43 1 Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m. ing) 6:50. At Hilton Head, S.C. Minnesota 3 6 .333 5 Milwaukee 2 7 .222 3/2 ON TELEVISION Second Period WEST DIVISION WEST DIVISION TAMPA BAY (2) VS. DETROIT (3) Yardage: 7,101; Par: 71 WEST 2. Montreal, Mitchell 1 (Flynn, Sub- WLPctGB WLPctGB Thursday’s result ban) 7:53 Oakland 5 5 .500 — Colorado 7 2 .778 — WLPctGB FRIDAY a — Amateur 1 Detroit at Tampa Bay 3. Montreal, Plekanec 1 Houston 4 5 .444 /2 Los Angeles 6 3 .667 1 y-Golden State 67 15 .817 — 1 1 y-Houston 56 26 .683 11 (Galchenyuk, Subban) 8:08 Los Angeles 4 5 .444 /2 San Diego 6 4 .600 1/2 Saturday’s game First Round x-L.A. Clippers 56 26 .683 11 All Times Eastern 4. Ottawa, Turris 1 (Karlsson, Wier- Matt Every 32-34—66 Texas 4 6 .400 1 Arizona 4 5 .444 3 y-Portland 51 31 .622 16 Detroit at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m. 1 1 cioch) 10:36 (pp) Graeme McDowell 34-32—66 Seattle 3 6 .333 1/2 San Francisco 3 7 .300 4/2 x-Memphis 55 27 .671 12 (Subject to change) METROPOLITAN DIVISION x-San Antonio 55 27 .671 12 5. Montreal, Eller 1 (Flynn) 11:42 (sh) Sangmoon Bae 32-35—67 Thursday’s results Thursday’s results AUSTRALIAN RULES NY RANGERS (1) VS. PITTSBURGH (WC) x-Dallas 50 32 .610 17 6. Ottawa, Zibanejad 1 (Wiercioch, Kevin Kisner 36-32—68 x-New Orleans 45 37 .549 22 FOOTBALL Scott Langley 33-35—68 Tampa Bay 4 Toronto 2 St. Louis 4 Milwaukee 0 (N.Y. Rangers lead series 1-0) Karlsson) 12:36 (pp) 66AFL: Essendon vs. Carlton, Morgan Hoffmann 32-36—68 Minnesota 8 Kansas City 5 Oklahoma City 45 37 .549 22 Thursday’s result 7. Montreal, Flynn 1 (Prust, Washington 5 Philadelphia 2 TSN2, 11:30 p.m. Matt Kuchar 35-33—68 Miami at N.Y. Mets Phoenix 39 43 .476 28 AUTO RACING N.Y. Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 1 Beaulieu) 17:17 Cameron Smith 32-36—68 Utah 38 44 .463 29 Wednesday’s results Arizona at San Francisco Denver 30 52 .366 37 66F1: Bahrain Grand Prix Practice, Saturday’s game Penalties — Eller Mtl (high-stick- Troy Merritt 33-36—69 Toronto 12 Tampa Bay 7 Sacramento 29 53 .354 38 TSN2, 10:55 a.m. Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 8 p.m. ing) 8:14, Turris Ott (roughing), John Merrick 33-36—69 Wednesday’s results L.A. Lakers 21 61 .256 46 66NASCAR Sprint Cup: Food City Subban Mtl (slashing major, game Ben Martin 36-33—69 Cleveland 4 Chicago White Sox 2 Minnesota 16 66 .195 51 500 qualifying, TSN 2, 4:30 p.m. WASHINGTON (2) VS. NY ISLANDERS (3) misconduct) 8:23. Ian Poulter 33-36—69 L.A. Angels 10 Texas 2 Miami 6 Atlanta 2 x-clinched playoffs; y-clinched division. BASEBALL Graham DeLaet 36-33—69 (N.Y. Islanders lead series 1-0) Third Period — No Scoring. Baltimore 7 N.Y. Yankees 5 N.Y. Mets 6 Philadelphia 1 Wednesday’s results 66MLB: Chicago White Sox at De- Penalties — Gryba Ott (interfer- Pat Perez 36-33—69 Minnesota 3 Kansas City 1 Chicago Cubs 5 Cincinnati 0 Wednesday’s result Johnson Wagner 34-35—69 Toronto 92 Charlotte 87 troit, SN Ontario, East, West, Pacif- N.Y. Islanders 4 Washington 1 ence) 13:48, Turris Ott, MacArthur Ricky Barnes 33-36—69 Houston 6 Oakland 1 St. Louis 4 Milwaukee 2 ic, 1 p.m. New Orleans 108 San Antonio 103 66MLB: Atlanta at Toronto, SN1, Friday’s game Ott, Gilbert Mtl (roughing, miscon- Jim Renner 35-34—69 Washington 10 Boston 5 San Diego 3 Arizona 2 Chicago 91 Atlanta 85 duct) 20:00. Bo Van Pelt 35-34—69 Colorado 4 San Francisco 2 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 7 p.m. Detroit 1 Pittsburgh 0 Houston 117 Utah 91 GOLF Shots on goal by Joost Luiten 34-35—69 L.A. Dodgers 5 Seattle 2 Washington 10 Boston 5 Dallas 114 Portland 98 66Champions: Greater Gwinnett WESTERN CONFERENCE Ottawa 9 17 7 —33 Louis Oosthuizen 35-34—69 Detroit 1 Pittsburgh 0 Montreal 8 19 12 —39 Boston 105 Milwaukee 100 Championship, Golf Channel, CENTRAL DIVISION Charlie Beljan 32-37—69 Friday’s games L.A. Dodgers 5 Seattle 2 Goal — Ottawa: Hammond (L,0-1); Sean O’Hair 35-35—70 Oklahoma City 138 Minnesota 113 12 p.m. ST. LOUIS (1) VS. MINNESOTA (WC) Branden Grace 34-36—70 All Times Eastern Miami 105 Philadelphia 101 66PGA: RBC Heritage, Golf Chan- Montreal: Price (W, 1-0). Friday’s games Thursday’s game Power plays (goal-chances) — Ot- Alex Cejka 35-35—70 Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 0- Cleveland 113 Washington 108 (OT) nel, 3 p.m. 66LPGA: LOTTE Championship, Minnesota at St. Louis, 9:30 p.m. tawa: 2-5; Montreal: 0-1. Andres Gonzales 36-34—70 1) at Detroit (Price 1-0), 1:08 p.m. All Times Eastern Brooklyn 101 Orlando 88 Hudson Swafford 34-36—70 Golf Channel, 7 p.m. Attendance — 21,287 at Montreal. Atlanta (Teheran 2-0) at Toronto San Diego (Shields 1-0) at Chicago Detroit 112 New York 90 Saturday’s game Brendon de Jonge 35-35—70 Memphis 95 Indiana 83 HOCKEY (Hutchison 1-0), 7:07 p.m. Cubs (Hammel 1-0), 2:20 p.m. 66 Minnesota at St. Louis, 3 p.m. FLAMES 2, CANUCKS 1 Zac Blair 34-36—70 Golden State 133 Denver 126 NHL Playoffs: Ottawa at Montre- Baltimore (U.Jimenez 1-0) at Milwaukee (Nelson 1-0) at Pitts- NASHVILLE (2) VS. CHICAGO (3) First Period — No Scoring. Justin Thomas 35-35—70 Sacramento 122 L.A. Lakers 99 al, CBC, 7 p.m.; N.Y. Islanders at James Hahn 35-35—70 Boston (J.Kelly 1-0), 7:10 p.m. burgh (Locke 1-0), 7:05 p.m. Washington, SN Ontario, East, Penalties — Bennett Cgy (high- End of regular season (Chicago leads series 1-0) Lucas Glover 35-35—70 N.Y. Yankees (Warren 0-1) at Tam- Philadelphia (O’Sullivan 0-0) at West, Pacific, 7 p.m.; Chicago at sticking) 12:12, Ferland Cgy (cross- Wednesday’s result Stewart Cink 36-34—70 pa Bay (Karns 1-1), 7:10 p.m. Washington (Scherzer 0-1), PLAYOFFS Nashville, SN Ontario, 360, East, Chicago 4 Nashville 3 (2OT) checking) 19:47. Aaron Baddeley 37-33—70 7:05 p.m. FIRST ROUND West, Pacific, 9:30 p.m.; Calgary at Second Period Daniel Summerhays 35-35—70 Cleveland (Kluber 0-1) at Minneso- Vancouver, CBC, 10 p.m. Friday’s game ta (Pelfrey 0-0), 8:10 p.m. Miami (Phelps 0-0) at N.Y. Mets EASTERN CONFERENCE 1. Vancouver, Horvat 1 (Hansen, a-Scott Vincent 36-34—70 Toronto vs. Washington RUGBY Chicago at Nashville, 9:30 p.m. Dudley Hart 37-34—71 L.A. Angels (Weaver 0-2) at Hous- (Colon 2-0), 7:10 p.m. 66 Edler) 12:08 Saturday’s game Super Rugby: Chiefs vs. Cru- Charley Hoffman 38-33—71 ton (R.Hernandez 0-1), 8:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Cueto 0-1) at St. Louis PACIFIC DIVISION Penalties — Gaudreau Cgy (delay Wash. at Toronto, 12:30 p.m. ET saders, SN World, 3:30 a.m.; Bill Haas 35-36—71 Oakland (Gray 1-0) at Kansas City (Wacha 1-0), 8:15 p.m. Waratahs vs. Hurricanes, SN ANAHEIM (1) VS. WINNIPEG (WC) of game) 8:16, Higgins Vcr (trip- Nick Taylor 37-35—72 Tuesday, April 21 (Guthrie 1-0), 8:10 p.m. Colorado (K.Kendrick 1-1) at L.A. World, 12:30 a.m. (Sat.) Thursday’s result ping) 12:45. David Hearn 36-37—73 Washington at Toronto, 8 p.m. 66NRL: Brisbane, Saint-George, SN Third Period Mike Weir 36-38—74 Texas (Gallardo 1-1) at Seattle Dodgers (Kershaw 0-1), 10:10 p.m. Winnipeg at Anaheim Friday, April 24 World, 5:30 a.m. 2. Calgary, Jones 1 (Ferland) 7:59 Adam Hadwin 35-40—75 (Happ 0-0), 10:10 p.m. Arizona (Collmenter 0-2) at San Toronto at Washington, 8 p.m. TENNIS Saturday’s game 3. Calgary, Russell 1 (Wideman, a-Corey Conners 38-39—77 Francisco (Peavy 0-1), 10:15 p.m. Sunday, April 26 66ATP: Monte Carlo Masters,SN1,9 am
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...... RAPTORS Can Toronto’s backcourt click? Much of the playoffs will depend on how Lowry, DeRozan play, who had stellar moments this season but rarely at the same time
...... RACHEL BRADY TORONTO ...... yle Lowry stood eavesdrop- Kping in the doorway, a hood pulled over his head and a smirk washing over his lips. He peeked into the room as his backcourt teammate and close friend DeMar DeRozan stood at the podium addressing reporters giddy with NBA playoff fever. DeRozan glanced casually in his point guard’s direction, and the two Toronto Raptors conversed without words. The looks they shared likely conveyed some- thing such as, “These people think they know us,” or “Enough questions already, let’s just play.” That Lowry smirk, though, seemed to curl up as his friend was asked about their potential together. Each has had stellar moments this season, but rarely at the same time. If the two stars of Toronto’s backcourt could both reach their peak perform- ance in the playoffs, what heights could the Raptors reach? “We can get done whatever we want to get done, honestly,” DeRozan said, leaving the podi- um as he ushered in his friend, shoving him like a boy would his brother. “And with that, I bring in The Toronto Raptors’ Kyle Lowry knows he and DeMar DeRozan will be the team’s focal point during the playoffs. NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS Kyle Lowry.” The point guard began the sea- point, 11-rebound night in a we’re going to do and lock in. I know they can play, I’m absolute- son finale, and he watched his son like gangbusters, off to career recent victory over the Houston think we can do a lot of good ly confident,” Raptors president buddy easily post 16 points while, highs in points (19.8), rebounds Rockets. things.” and general manager Masai Ujiri as Lowry lightheartedly ob- (4.9), assists (7.5) and steals Efficient, sharpshooting per- The Raptors aren’t considered said. “They’re both fearless, they served, “he wasn’t even trying.” (1.62) through 42 games, and formances by both in their sea- the plucky newcomers in this can both score. I think they can “We know everything is going earning a spot on the Eastern son-finale win over the Charlotte year’s playoffs, though, as they make an impact on the defensive to go through us. We’re going to Conference all-star team. He did Hornets suggested that just were last year. An exciting run side of the ball. I think DeMar is put the focal point in every single so while compensating for DeRo- maybe, DeRozan and Lowry are that ended in a first-round Game figuring that out even more than game, every minute of every play zan’s 21-game absence brought finally about to put it together at 7 one-point loss to the Brooklyn he has before. Kyle is so fierce. – it will go through us,” Lowry on by a groin injury. the same time, as the No. 4-seed- Nets was devastating, but forgiv- This is a good stage. This is a said. “We’ll put the pressure on Yet when DeRozan returned ed Raptors open the playoffs able. More is demanded this good time to see this happen and ourselves. We’ve got great team- and began to hit his stride, Low- against the No. 5 Washington time, even as DeRozan and Low- we can’t wait until Saturday.” mates that will do their jobs, do ry’s game dropped off dramati- Wizards on Saturday. ry face an equally lauded Wash- The 25-year-old DeRozan now what they have to do. At the end cally, and then he injured his “I think we can go as far as ington backcourt of John Wall has seven playoff games under of the day, things are going to go back and was sidelined. That’s playing until June,” Lowry said to and Bradley Beal. his belt, while 29-year-old Lowry through me and DeMar, through when DeRozan found his new the same question. “We’ve just “For me, if those two can reach has 20. The point guard’s shot our leadership, starting defen- gear – career bests in March and got to go out there and concen- that level where they’re playing was finally falling in a 26-point sively and continuing onto the April, including his finest-yet 42- trate and think about the things together and playing the way we performance in the regular-sea- offensive side of the ball.”
...... PLAYOFFS Plenty of legit contenders, yet no clear favourite
...... BRIAN MAHONEY With James gone from Miami, to Houston. Curry, another all-star in the shape to survive this series...... so are the days of pencilling in On Sunday, Atlanta plays host backcourt in Klay Thompson and ...... weet-shooting Stephen Curry one half of the NBA final match- to Brooklyn, Portland visits Mem- a deep bench, they have every- Texas two-step Sand the Golden State Warriors up. The Heat reached the past phis and the Los Angeles Clip- thing needed to make it happen. have the best record, an four finals, winning two of them, pers welcome San Antonio for “It’s time to go and we are The reward for James Harden unmatched home-court advan- before James returned to Cleve- the opener of what appears to be ready,” Curry said. and the Rockets after earning the tage and the understanding that land last July. the marquee first-round series. Some other things to watch in No. 2 seed? A matchup against a means nothing now. The Cavaliers don’t even have The Spurs’ beautiful basketball the playoffs: Dallas team that won 50 games. “We had a great home record the best record in the Eastern overwhelmed James and the ...... The Rockets outscored the and did some historic things, but Conference, finishing in second Heat in last year’s finals and car- Rose’s return Mavericks just 402-398 in their that doesn’t get you any extra place behind Atlanta. But they ried them to 21 wins in their final four meetings and Dallas had points in the playoffs,” Curry have rolled through the second 25 games this season – and Derrick Rose’s injury problems double-digit leads in three of said. half of the season so easily that couldn’t put a dent in their def- began in the opener of the 2012 them. The Warriors (67-15) were the it’s hard not to consider this No. icit in the West standings. They postseason, when he tore his ...... NBA’s best this season. LeBron 2 as the one. ended up with the No. 6 seed anterior cruciate ligament. He Who wins? James has been on top before, “We have an opportunity to do after losing in New Orleans on returned from his latest surgery though never in Cleveland. And something special and that kicks the final night of the regular sea- to help the Bulls finish with four James is trying to finally win one don’t forget the Spurs, even off this weekend,” James said. son, with a 55-27 record that was straight victories to earn the No. in Cleveland. The Spurs are try- though you have to look far The Cavaliers start Sunday a game worse than the Clippers, 3 seed in the East. ing to finally win back to back. down the Western Conference against Boston, a familiar foe for who surged to a 56-26 finish with ...... And the Warriors and Hawks standings to find them. James and the one that ended his seven successive victories. How healthy? were better than both teams over When the NBA postseason previous postseason in a Cava- “We’d love to have been in the the course of the season, so even opens this weekend, there will be liers uniform. [No.] 2 or [No.] 3 seeds – what- The winner of the Trail Blazers- the experts are having a hard plenty of championship conten- The playoffs begin Saturday ever it may be – and started at Grizzlies series would be in line time with that question. “This ders but perhaps no clear favour- with four games: Washington vis- home,” the Spurs’ Tim Duncan to meet the Warriors, and either year, I’ve got to be honest with ite. its Toronto in the opener before said. “But we have been on just would be a threat if healthy. But you,” Barkley said. “There’s prob- “I got no idea who’s going to the Warriors, 39-2 at home dur- about every route possible Marc Gasol, Mike Conley and ably seven teams that could win the championship. This is ing the regular season, play host throughout the years. This will Tony Allen of Memphis limped to actually win the championship the most convoluted I’ve ever to Anthony Davis and the New be another journey and hopeful- the finish, Arron Afflalo joined and I’d be like, ‘I’m not surprised seen the NBA … I’ve got no idea,” Orleans Pelicans. After that come ly it will be a fun one.” Wesley Matthews on the sideline they won it.’ ” Hall of Famer and TNT analyst two short trips: Milwaukee trav- That’s what the Warriors want. in Portland, and it’s hard to tell ...... Charles Barkley said. els to Chicago and Dallas heads And with an MVP favourite in which team is in good enough The Associated Press
...... KNICKS At Madison Square Garden, opposites attract
...... SCOTT CACCIOLA we’re focused on.” general managers and coaches as won two in a row, a landmark Minutes before tip-off, Jackson NEW YORK The finale was fitting for the if they were ratty socks, have achievement for a group that found his seat in the lower bowl...... Knicks, who punctuated their made three playoff appearances barely resembled the collection He was joined by Jeanie Buss, his he Rangers and the Knicks worst season in franchise history in the past 11 seasons. Phil Jack- of players who had congregated fiancée and the president of the Tshare two buildings, an own- with a 112-90 loss – a result son, the Knicks’ president, has at training camp. Los Angeles Lakers. Dolan has er and not much else. largely indistinguishable from been charged with changing all Gone: Iman Shumpert and J.R. pledged to give Jackson the free- That has been especially true their other 64 losses this season. that. Smith, now employed by the dom to run the team as he sees this season, with the Rangers Sated with free food and drink On Wednesday morning, the Cleveland Cavaliers. Gone: fit – a concept that sounds famil- claiming the Presidents’ Trophy on fan-appreciation night, the Rangers practised for about an Amar’e Stoudemire, who signed iar to those who follow the Ran- after assembling the NHL’s best crowd cheered and groaned, hour: short and to the point. with the Dallas Mavericks after gers. regular-season record, and the bearing witness to the bitter end. Afterward, coach Alain Vigneault being released. Gone, at least The Garden went dark for Knicks setting marks for futility If the Knicks (17-65) are search- touched on some of the usual until next season: Carmelo player introductions, and the on an almost nightly basis. At ing for a model in their pursuit topics ahead of the playoffs: Anthony, who underwent knee crowd cheered for the likes of Madison Square Garden, oppo- of respectability, they could do injuries, lineups and tactics, surgery in February. So Fisher Langston Galloway, Lance Thom- sites attract: the best team in worse than the Rangers, who albeit in the vaguest terms possi- was not exaggerating when he as and Cole Aldrich – players hockey and one of the worst occupy the same training facility ble. The postseason was going to said the team had undergone a who have provided effort, but teams in basketball, living side in Greenburgh, N.Y. Glen Sather, be “very challenging,” he said, “major transformation.” The not many victories. by side. the Rangers’ president and gen- but his team was going to be Knicks are expected to embark The Knicks were down by 12 On Wednesday, the juxtaposi- eral manager since 2000, has “focused on the game at hand.” on another one this summer, points in the second quarter tion was more glaring than helped to provide the sort of sta- About six hours later, at the given their imminent pursuit of when a fan wearing an Allan usual. As the Rangers went bility that the Knicks have Garden, the Knicks quietly went free agents and their pick in the Houston jersey sank a half-court through their final preparations lacked atop their organization. about their business of getting draft lottery. shot for $10,000 (U.S.) as part of before opening the playoffs While James Dolan, who owns ready for their final game of the Many fans seemed to treat the a promotion. They were down Thursday night against the visit- both clubs, has been meddle- season. Players stretched. Fans giveaways on the season’s final by eight in the third when ing Pittsburgh Penguins, the some with the Knicks, in con- trickled in. Fisher participated in night as if nuclear winter were Anthony appeared in uniform Knicks took the court at the Gar- stant search of the quick fix, he his 82nd pregame session with nigh. Merchandise at the team on the large video boards to de- den to close out their 82-game has left Sather to do his work members of the news media, store was 40 per cent off. The liver a recorded message. slog by facing the Detroit Pis- with something that at least gatherings that began to feel mood was almost celebratory: “I’m really looking forward to tons. approaches autonomy. The Ran- more and more as if they were school was getting out for sum- next season,” Anthony said, “and “We still have one more day on gers are aiming for a second suc- contractual obligations over the mer, an extended stretch in seeing you back on the Garden.” the job,” coach Derek Fisher said cessive trip to the NHL final. The final weeks of the season. which the Knicks are assured of ...... before the game, “and that’s all Knicks, who have cycled through The Knicks showed up having going undefeated. New York Times News Service S6 S THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 BIRTH AND DEATH NOTICES DEATHS
JOHN SAUNDERS AUSTON (SANDY) John Auston, geologist, world traveller, philanthropist, avid photographer, beloved husband, brother, devoted father and grandfather, died Sunday morning in Vancouver after a long and valiant fight with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was 77. John was born in Charlottetown, PEI, grew up in Montreal with his siblings David and Shirray, and attended McGill University, where he studied geology. A 40-year veteran of the mining industry, he spent much of his career in Toronto with the Selection Trust Group of London (which in 1981 became the minerals arm of British Petroleum). His working life took him and his family to Sydney, Australia; Denver, Colorado; Canada’s Ghislaine Landry, left, runs past Australia’s Emilee Cherry during their World Rugby Women’s Sevens Melbourne, Australia; and ultimately Vancouver. John was also President Series match in Barueri, Brazil, on Feb. 8. Landry is one of Canada’s best scorers. NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES and CEO of Ashton Mining of Canada and, prior to that, President and CEO of Granges, Inc. In recent years, he sat on the boards of Cameco, FROM PAGE 1 Eldorado Gold and the BC Cancer Foundation. In addition to his esteemed mining career, John pursued many passions. His home office, filled with hundreds of books and over fifty photo Rugby: ‘Canada is due a final’ albums, is evidence of his rich life, including his travels to over 30 countries, his large, boisterous family and his love of photography. One ...... of his daughters told him his artful eye was so good, it made life look better than it was. It is in part a response to an defeated Canada 33-24. It was a Now, Canada needs a break- 9 injury-plagued season last turning point for the young through. “Canada is due a final,” But this was not how he viewed it. John loved everything about life, especially his beloved wife and life partner of 56 years, B.J. Auston; year. On the field, Tait said Lan- team, Tait said. “We had a taste. Robinson said. “It might just be his four children, Victoria Auston (Jim Sinclair), Katy Southerland (Ned), dry produces offence in any We realized what it took to a case of belief with this team.” John Auston, Jr., Genevieve Cole (Steve); and, his six grandchildren, instance. “She can create some- win.” At home, it could be tough: Malcolm and Ellen Southerland, Julian Auston-Sinclair, Lucy, Josephine thing out of nothing,” Tait said. Canada’s last final, also against Canada is missing injured cap- and Phoebe Cole. Landry has likened it to a big New Zealand, was early last sea- tain Jen Kish. If it were the John guided them all with the highest of standards, the most moral green chess board. “Every time son, in February, 2014, when it Olympics, Kish would play, but of voices, and the greatest generosity of spirit. He was a sage and a you look, it’s going to be a dif- was smoked 36-0. Canada soon Tait rests Kish for the final two philosopher too, a true Renaissance man. ferent picture,” she said. “If I do after proved it was a worthy op- dates on the schedule. Kish has This enduring passion for living is part of what kept John alive and this, what are they going to do? ponent, losing to New Zealand expressed full confidence about fighting for 14 years, tirelessly raising awareness and significant funding And if I do that, what are they in a semi-final 24-21, which making the Olympics. “I know as a board member for the BC Cancer Foundation, resulting in a research going to do?” began a steady series of third- that we’re going to qualify,” she award in his name. What Canada needs to do, if it place finishes. Canada again said in early March. His lust for life, his unwavering ability to take the high road and the long is to be contender for gold and nearly beat New Zealand last Landry relishes Canada’s next view, the enormity of his lion-like heart and his willingness to give of it, not just vie for bronze, is defeat month in Atlanta, losing a semi- shot at New Zealand. will never be forgotten. We will work hard to carry forth his spirit and follow his fine example, all the while knowing that in his wake the world New Zealand. Canada has fin- final 24-22. Landry had opened “Every mistake you make, has lost some of its lustre and for now feels a little less grand. ished third in the past six tour- the scoring with a try to put they’re going to score a try. naments and has only reached Canada up 5-0. New Zealand They punish you,” she said. “We “Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine, I’ll taste your strawberries and drink your sweet wine. A million tomorrows shall all pass away, ‘ere I two finals in three seasons. The tied it. Landry pushed Canada know we can compete with New forget all the joy that is mine today.” first was the last tourney of up 12-5, but New Zealand tied at Zealand.” A win, she concluded, 2012-13, when New Zealand the half and then pulled away. “is a matter of actually doing it.” In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the BC Cancer Foundation or to the Paul Sugar Palliative Support Foundation. The BC Cancer Agency and the North Shore Hospice are two remarkable organizations full of caregivers whose skill and compassion lengthened and deepened the FOOTBALL VIKINGS quality of John’s life. Special thanks to Dr. Diego Villa and Dr. Joseph Connors for their many years of superior care. The Auston family is eternally grateful to all these many dedicated healthcare professionals. NFL reinstates Peterson A celebration of John’s life will be held in Vancouver at the end of May. Please refer to www.mckenziefuneralservices.com for further information.
...... JON KRAWCZYNSKI MINNEAPOLIS conduct policy to avoid further Louis, then sat out the remain- ERNIE BALTZ ...... discipline. ing 15 games of the season Ernie died Friday, April 10, at home. He was 84. Zoe and Adrian Peterson has been “Any further violation of the while tangling with the league family wish to thank everyone cleared to return to the NFL. personal-conduct policy by over the discipline. for their care, friendship and Now all that remains to be set- Peterson would result in addi- Vikings general manager Rick kindness during Ernie’s illness. tled is where he will play next tional discipline, which could Spielman has told one of his From the "Bunker Boys" of the season. include suspension without pay agents, Ben Dogra, he doesn’t Central Y to dear old school chums, and Bill McKecknie, Commissioner Roger Goodell or banishment from the NFL,” plan to release Peterson, who Andrew Whiteman, volunteers sent the Minnesota Vikings star the league said. recently turned 30. from the ROM and St. Mike’s a letter on Thursday advising Peterson’s agent has said the “They have not given us one Hospital. Also, all of the him of his reinstatement. Peter- star running back wants to play compelling reason why it’s in wonderful Nurses and Doctors son missed most of last season elsewhere next season, but the his best interest to remain as for their special loving care. A family remembrance will be held while facing child-abuse charges Vikings say they have no plans part of the Minnesota Vikings,” later this spring. Donations in BARBARA LYNN GRAN in Texas. to trade him. Dogra said. Ernie’s memory can be made to With deep sadness we announce Goodell wrote that Peterson “We look forward to Adrian re- The Vikings have leverage The Oak Ridges Moraine Land the death of Barbara Lynn Gran, would have to fulfill all the obli- joining the Vikings,” the team with Peterson’s contract, which Trust or The Niagara Escarpment peacefully at home in Toronto on gations of his plea deal that said in a statement issued after covers the next three years in- Biosphere Conservancy. 13 April, with family at her side. reduced a felony charge to a the announcement. cluding a $12.75-million (U.S.) Dear daughter of Jean and misdemeanour. Peterson was indicted on salary for 2015. None of the re- Vernon; beloved mother of Kojah Goodell also told Peterson he abuse charges after inflicting maining money on the deal, E. Donald Gower Farncomb and Kalinda in her marriage with would have to continue attend- injuries on his four-year-old son however, is guaranteed. Martin and respected member of ing counselling while adhering with a wooden switch. He ...... Passed away peacefully on the Lesmond family; cherished Sunday, April 12th , 2015. He sister and sister-in-law of Leanne to the league’s new personal- played the opener against St. The Associated Press had lived a very full life and was and Greg, Judi and Richard, and keen to remind everyone that he Betty Jean; dear aunt of Michael, ...... was in his 90th year. Dad always Jamie and Jody and loved great- FOOTBALL ARGOS joked about his custom licence aunt of Tyler; treasured friend of plate bearing his initials "EDGF" Will; close colleague and friend stating it was an acronym for to so many. Johnson picks Toronto to be close to home "Every Day Goes Faster" ...something we should all keep Lynn spent her career working in mind!!! for good, engaged first with ...... Oxfam and WWF and then Son of Eric Maulson Farncomb DAN RALPH finding her home with the Johnson admits he’s not entire- last July – reuniting with former and Graeme Gower Farncomb. Nature Conservancy of Canada, ...... ly familiar with Canadian foot- USC head coach Pete Carroll – Father of Judith Farncomb (Eric where she was passionate about onald Johnson’s family and ball, but says he’ll adjust quickly. but was let go the following Goode), Frederick Farncomb protecting Canada’s land and Rfriends could finally have the “All I know is I get a running month. (Carol), John Farncomb (Erin) influencing others to do the same. chance to watch him play foot- start, which should be an advan- For Johnson, it was yet another and Mary Farncomb (Peter Aziz -Deceased 2010). Brother to Nan In good health and in the battle ball in person. tage, and it’s only three downs, harsh reminder of just how fickle Whyte. Grandfather to Danielle, against illness, Lynn’s positive The six-foot, 185-pound receiver so you have to be prepared and and uncertain the business of pro Andrew (Sarah), Jennifer, Emily, spirit, commitment, energy and signed earlier this month with ready,” he said. “But really, foot- football can be. James (Stephanie), Jonathan sense of humour served her the Toronto Argonauts. Should ball is football. “Oh, yeah, you have to be thick- (Hayley), Jeremy, Evan and well and were an inspiration to Cameron. Great-grandfather to others. We miss her dearly and the Muskegon, Mich., native “You put the pads and cleats on skinned and let things just roll hold her in our hearts forever. crack the CFL club’s roster, family and go out and do what you have down your back because there’s Nathan and Jackson. and friends could easily drive to to do.” going to be a lot of things [that] A private family celebration will Lynn stipulated that her body be held. In lieu of flowers, a be donated to the University Rogers Centre or Hamilton’s Tim Johnson helped Muskegon just come your way when this of Toronto for medical Hortons Field to watch him play. High School win state champion- becomes a business like it does,” donation to either the Nature Conservancy or a charity of research into brain cancer. That certainly wasn’t always ships in 2004 and ’06. In 2007, he Johnson said. “It changes. It your choice would be warmly If wished, donations in her the case during Johnson’s colle- was Michigan’s top football becomes a livelihood and you received. name can be made to NCC at giate career at USC. The 26-year- recruit and chose USC after being really have to take it seriously www.natureconservancy.ca old said he spoke with multiple recruited by the likes of Texas, and not let things bother you.” A private celebration of Lynn’s CFL clubs, but Toronto’s proxim- Florida, Michigan, Ohio State, Despite his brief stay in Seattle, life will be held at a later date. ity to Michigan figured into his Michigan State and Notre Dame. Johnson said he’ll forever have Galbraith, Sheldon W. C.M., O.ONT. final decision. Johnson amassed 138 catches fond memories of his time with Canadian Figure Skating Coach “I just wanted to be close to for 1,750 yards and 20 TDs with the colourful and energetic Car- May 24, 1922 - April 14, 2015 Michigan where my family is and the Trojans. He also returned 22 roll. be able to give them a show,” punts for 312 yards (14.2-yard av- “I miss him as a coach, but I Peacefully in his 93rd year at Eagle Terrace Care Home in Birth and Death Johnson said during a recent tele- erage) and a TD and 56 kickoffs learned so many things from him Newmarket on Tuesday, April phone interview. “I went to USC for 1,351 yards (24.1-yard average). [at USC] that helped me with 14, 2015. Beloved husband of NOTICES instead of Michigan or Michigan Johnson had four catches for 82 growing up,” Johnson said. the late Jeanne. Loving father of State, and now I could have the yards and two TDs in USC’s 38-24 “Coach Carroll is definitely a Jeannie (Phil Branston), Brian Call 1-800-387-9006 chance to produce in front of my win over Penn State in the 2009 players’ coach – he listens to his (Beth), Barbara, Mary Louise Fax 416-585-5698 or Teakle and predeceased by his family and friends.” Rose Bowl as the Trojans became players, and if something is not daughter Kathy. Dear Papa of 1-866-355-4155 Johnson will certainly have an the first team in history to win right he’s going to try something Andrea, Chris, Rebecca, Travis, E-mail opportunity to make Toronto’s three straight Rose Bowl games. different to come out with the Dylan, Jamie, Kailey and "Big [email protected] receiving corps. Veterans Jason The San Francisco 49ers select- victory. Papa" of Madison, Jackson, Jack and Blake. Business Hours: Barnes and Maurice Mann both ed Johnson in the sixth round – “What made him unique was All times are EST remain unsigned, while former No. 182 over all – of the 2011 NFL he was actually going out and A Funeral Service will be held in Mon - Fri 8:30am - 5:30pm starters John Chiles (NFL’s Chica- draft before releasing him before running with us. … He’s just a the chapel of the THOMPSON Sun & most holidays 1:00 - 5:00pm go Bears) and Canadian Spencer the season. Johnson then joined different coach; he likes to be FUNERAL HOME, 530 Industrial Deadline for next day’s paper: Watt (Hamilton Tiger-Cats) are the Philadelphia Eagles’ practice involved. If I ever wanted to be a Parkway South, Aurora Sun - Fri 4:00pm 905-727-5421 on Monday at gone. roster before being promoted to coach, that’s how I’d want to do 11:00 a.m. Cremation to follow. Deadlines for photo notices: “An every-down receiver,” he the active roster in late in the it.” In lieu of flowers, in memoriam Sun - Fri 3:00pm said. “I want to say a receiver season. Actually, Johnson could see donations may be made to who can score a touchdown at But he suffered a broken and himself becoming a coach, once Southlake Regional Health will, but I know there are other dislocated ankle during training his playing days are over. Centre Foundation. TO SUBSCRIBE CALL good guys on the team. camp and spent the 2012 season “Right now, I’ve got a lot of On line condolences 1-866-36 GLOBE “I’m coming to win a champi- on injured reserve before being work to do and a lot to pick up.” may be made at onship or be part of a great sea- released on April 11, 2013. He ...... www.thompsonfh-aurora.com. son, nothing more than that.” signed with the Seattle Seahawks The Canadian Press THE GLOBE AND MAIL • FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015 S S7
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AUDREY ELITA SUMA MAY 1, 1924 – APRIL 13, 2015 Passed away peacefully at Sunrise Retirement Home in Aurora, Ontario on Monday, April 13th, 2015, two weeks shy of her 91st birthday. Audrey Elita Suma (nee Lehman) of Pembroke, Ontario, was the wife of the late Gaspar Frank Suma. Loving mother of Caroline (late) and Peter (Cheryl nee Skory). Loving grandmother to Melissa Audrey Violet Suma and Michael Gerald Gaspar Suma and aunt to numerous nieces, nephews and dear family friends in Canada, Rome, Barcelona, Brussels and Luxembourg. Sister of Adelaide Bromley, Winifred Kippen and Arden Miller (Cecil). Predeceased by parents Martin & Rebecca Lehman (nee Ashick), brothers David & Gordon Lehman, and sisters Clarice Leeder, Norine Cassidy and Erica Jones. LOIS BELLE HUMPHREY BRADY THOMAS VICKERS Born in Pembroke, Ontario, Audrey grew up in the large loving family MAR 21, 1994 - FEB 26, 2015 Peacefully at her residence in Toronto on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 in her 97th of a carpenter. Audrey was most known for being pragmatic, gracious year. Daughter of the late Joseph Leonard and Pauline Morton. Beloved and kind hearted. She was often referred to by people as “a saint”, “a Brady left this world much wife of the late Thomas A. Humphrey. Loved mother of Bruce Humphrey true lady” and by one boss as “Mrs Belvedere” for her extreme diligence too early, just shy of his 21st (Christina), and mother-in-law of Roderick Dickson and John Watson and punctuality in reference to the then famous television character. birthday. He was in Seoul, (Josie). Predeceased by daughters Valerie Dickson and Denise Watson; Audrey began her career as a salesperson at a high fashion clothing excited to have embarked on a brother Ted Leonard and his wife Doreen. Lovingly remembered by her store, eventually managing the company’s garment factory. Audrey semester abroad as an exchange grandchildren Andrew Watson (Jessica); Sean and Jeffrey Dickson (Amy); met her husband, Gaspar, in 1950 while living in adjacent apartments, student, and was looking Adam, Jacquelyn and Courtney Humphrey; great-grandmother of Anica marrying in 1954. After unsuccessfully attempting to have children, forward to earning a degree and Ridley Watson and Paige Dickson. Dear aunt of Melody (Mrs. Robert the couple adopted their two children in the early 1960’s. Audrey gave in Commerce at Dalhousie Grayer), great-aunt of Angela Grayer-Glecoff (Eric), and great-great-aunt her life to being a mother and made the family’s home in Etobicoke University. He also nurtured a of Zach and Olivia. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends. and Mississauga. Audrey was diagnosed in 2004 with Alzheimer’s and passion for astronomy. He was The family will receive friends at the HUMPHREY FUNERAL HOME A.W. began a courageous but heartbreaking 11 year battle with the disease. a kind, thoughtful and sensitive MILES - NEWBIGGING CHAPEL, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Davisville Audrey maintained her gentle nature and humour through the desperate young man with a bright mind Avenue) from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 16. challenges that the disease brings, which showed the true depth of her and a wonderful sense of Service Friday afternoon, three o’clock in LEASIDE UNITED CHURCH, 822 God given strength which lay under all that softness. Audrey was lovingly humour. His presence was a joy, Millwood Road (at McRae Drive), followed by interment at Mount Pleasant cared for by Sunrise of Aurora’s staff. Her dedicated caregiver Jean cared and his absence leaves a giant Cemetery. In Lois’ memory, donations may be made to your selected for her for 8 years in the most unbelievably loving way, aided by the hole in the hearts of his family charity and would be much appreciated. A reception will be held following incredibly warm Chris along with all the other amazing staff there. The and friends. He saw the best the interment. Condolences and memories may be forwarded through family wishes to extend their utmost gratitude for the love and care they in everyone, and his light will www.humphreymilesnewbigging.com. delivered tirelessly to Audrey. inspire and carry on through the many lives he touched. A viewing will be held Friday, April 17th, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Skinner & Middlebrook Funeral Home at 128 Lakeshore Rd East, Mississauga, Brady was deeply loved, and Ontario, L5G 1E4. A funeral mass for Audrey will be celebrated Saturday, will be forever missed by his April 18th, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Christophers Church, 1171 Clarkson Road mother Pheona Wright and North, Mississauga, Ontario, L5J 2W1. A private interment service for his father Mark Vickers, along family will be held Tuesday, at 10 a.m., at Springcreek Cemetary, 1390 with sisters Haley and Izzy, and Clarkson Rd. North, Mississauga, Ontario, L5J 2W5. Audrey’s grandson brothers Jake and Adam. Brady Michael will read God’s Garden by Dorothy Frances Gurney at the funeral was blessed with two loving mass and her granddaughter Melissa will sing Amazing Grace. stepfathers in Richard Campbell and Tim Godsall, and will be sadly God’s Garden missed by stepmother Kirsten God looked around his garden Vickers. His beloved girlfriend, And found an empty place, Ellie Hynes, was a light in his He then looked down upon the earth life, and his extended group of And saw your tired face. devoted friends were a source of He put his arms around you happiness and inspiration. Brady And lifted you to rest. was the treasured grandson God’s garden must be beautiful of Richard and Dianne Wright, He always takes the best. and the late Fred and Pauline He knew that you were suffering Vickers. He was adored by He knew you were in pain. many aunts and uncles, and 19 He knew that you would never cousins, including aunt Danielle ADRIENNE LILLEY Get well on earth again. TORONTO (Gigi) Vickers-Tjalsma and uncle He saw the road was getting rough Rimmer Tjalsma (parents of APRIL 12, 1935 - APRIL 13, 2015 And the hills were hard to climb. Matthew, Ryan and Emalie), Terie So he closed your weary eyelids It is with profound sadness but much relief that we announce the passing Vickers-Craig and Martin Craig And whispered, ‘Peace be thine’. of Adrienne Lilley (née Grime) after a courageous and lengthy battle with (Mackenzie, Jessie, Duncan and It broke our hearts to lose you debilitating health issues. Predeceased by her mother and father, Ada Alex), Tom and Vickie Vickers But you didn’t go alone, Irene and Henry Grime, survived by her brother, George Henry (Monika), (Mark, Erika, Abbey, Molly and For part of us went with you sister, Barbara (Fred), and former husband, Ken (Wendy). Loving Krissy), Marten and Averill Wright The day God called you home. and adored mum to Ileana (George), Jacqueline (Steve) and Michael. (Ainsley, Jada and Mackenzie), Cherished grandma to Michael and Adrienne. Beloved friend to many. The family wishes that in lieu of flowers, donations to your local Alzheimer’s Society Matthew Wright, Moira Wright and would be most appreciated, see http://www.alzheimer.ca/ for more information. Joseph Wilson (Max and Henry) Adrienne was born and raised in Liverpool, England where she later and Sarah and Michael Merriman graduated as an SRN from the Royal Liverpool Infirmary. In 1961, she (Keara and Keagan). moved to Winnipeg to join her husband. As a military wife, Adrienne began a series of moves to Ottawa, Chatham (NB), Montreal and Family and friends will be Germany. In 1972, she settled in Ottawa with her family and, in 1987, ENGAGEMENTS IN MEMORIAM gathering at Markland Wood Adrienne moved to Toronto, making this her final home. Golf Club, 245 Markland Drive, RAY HOLLINGS Etobicoke on Saturday, April Adrienne was exceptional; elegant, gracious, warm, thoughtful, patient March 22, 1927 - April 17, 2002 25th, 2015, from5-8p.m. and compassionate beyond compare. She was the epitome of all things Donations in Brady’s honour can true and good. Adrienne had the ability to put people at ease with her In loving memory of our be made to The Brady Vickers gentle and caring ways. She lived each day to the fullest, always with dearest Ray Bursary, care of Dalhousie an optimistic outlook. Among her many interests, she was passionate Always in our hearts University, Office of External about travelling, reading, cooking, theatre and helping others. First and We miss you Relations, PO Box 15000, Halifax foremost, though, came her family. She was a devoted wife, mother June, Bill, Jenny, John, Brenda, NS, B3H 4R2, or contact at and grandmother. Adrienne was deeply invested in the happiness and 902.494.6862. welfare of her children and grandchildren, making each feel truly special Sean, Jade, Adam, Emma, for their uniqueness, and each equally loved. Nicholas Please visit Brady’s Book of Memories at Adrienne was a nurse at the Winnipeg General Hospital, and later in life www.wardfuneralhome.com was a much sought after private caregiver for the elderly, as well as a coordinator for domiciliary nursing care. Adrienne also spent time as a FUNERAL SERVICES travel tour guide for groups to South America. PAPE/FOSTER Mr. and Mrs. Douglas and Lesia Indicative of her genuine regard for others, these were Adrienne’s final GILBERT WARREN YOUNG thoughts: Pape of Richmond Hill, Ontario are very pleased to announce Passed away unexpectedly at Do not stand at my grave and weep, the upcoming nuptials of their I am not there. Markham Stouffville Hospital daughter Amanda Leigh to Mr. April 13th, 2015, at the age of I do not sleep. Randal William Foster. Mr. Foster I am a thousand winds that blow 95. Predeceased by his loving is the son of Mrs. Betty Kight and wife Elizabeth Young (nee I am the diamond glint of snow the late Mr. William Foster, and Strange). Adored father of Brian I am the sunlight on the ripened grain stepson of Mr. Arthur Kight, of (Karen), Geoffrey (Patricia), I am the gentle autumn’s rain. Lindsay, Ontario. Amanda and Bradley and Stephanie (Peter). When you awaken in the morning’s hush, Randy plan to wed in Toronto, Predeceased by his loving son I am the swift uplifting rush Ontario this Fall. Timothy. Very proud Grandpa of Of quiet birds in circled flight. Matthew and Kendra. Dear I am the soft stars that shine at night. brother of both predeceased Do not stand at my grave and cry, THURSDAY Evelyn Lehane and Jean I am not there. FUNERAL SERVICES FISHER, Harry - 1:00 Chapel. Peterson. Gil will be dearly I did not die. MINDEN, Albert - 2:30 Chapel. missed by many other family (Mary Elizabeth Frye) FRIDAY members and friends. He will GOLDMAN, Toby - 11:30 Chapel. also be missed by friends and The family wishes to extend a sincere thank you to the superlative care BROZIAK, Bluma - 1:00 Holy Blossom Temple. staff at Rouge Valley Retirement and support Adrienne received from the staff at SunnyBrook Hospital. A SUNDAY Home. We would like to thank special thank you to Blair Henry and Dr. Shojania. A private cremation will them for their ongoing care and BENDER, Ryan - 11:30 Pardes Chaim. take place, with no visitation or service. In lieu of flowers, donations to BUTCHER, Eileen support over the years. Dad had CALL FOR INFORMATION SunnyBrook Hospital, c/o the Ethics Centre, would be most appreciated. Service Saturday 1 p.m. many fond memories of his time Dear sweet mum, may you rest in peace. Leaside United Church GELGOR, Sophia - Call for information. there. Those who knew Gil will SHIVA remember him for his tireless DOIDGE, Kenneth KULBAK (MILLER), Trisha - 16 Sadot Court, work ethic, integrity and Private Arrangements Thornhill, Ontario. strength of character. The family KOHAN, Fred - 105 Everden Road. would like to extend their HUMPHREY, Lois B. KOROTKOVA, Rozalia - 91 Townsgate Drive, Apt. 610, Thornhill, Ontario. sincere gratitude to the caring CLASSIFIED Service Friday 3 p.m. SIEGEL, Norm - 180 Charles Street, staff at Markham Stouffville Leaside United Church Thornhill, Ontario. SAVLOV, Bertha - 645 Castlefield Avenue. Hospital during his brief stay. A LINDRE, Elsa HIRSCHBERG, Emilia - 8 Covington Road, # 1108. funeral service will take place at SERNAKER, Sandy - 88 Bideford Avenue. The Simple Alternative Funeral VACATION LEISURE PROPERTY HELP WANTED Service Friday 11 a.m. FISHER, Harry - 484 Steeles Ave. West, # 502, Thornhill, Ontario. Centre, 275 Lesmill Road, North SALE, WANTED MINDEN, Albert - 160 Elmhurst Avenue. 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SHEILA KITZINGER CHILDBIRTH REVOLUTIONARY, 86 ‘Icon of home birth’ empowered women British anthropologist and author questioned the medicalization of birth and urged mothers to choose whatever course felt right
...... SAM ROBERTS Complete Book of Pregnancy & ...... Childbirth. heila Kitzinger, a British an- She frequently complained that Sthropologist who encouraged “our culture of birth is heavily women around the world to medicalized,” allowing doctors to reclaim from doctors their natu- routinely induce labour or to per- ral prerogative over pregnancy form episiotomies just to make and childbirth, died on Saturday their own jobs easier. at her home in Oxfordshire, Eng- “I was fed up with women land. She was 86. being blamed for everything that Her husband, Uwe Kitzinger, happened to them,” she wrote. said she died after a short illness. She created a Birth Crisis Net- “She was an icon of home birth work in Britain, which offers who decided also to choose “reflective listening” for women home death,” he said. traumatized after delivery. During Ms. Kitzinger’s five-dec- While she accepted the pain ade career, decision-making that accompanied labour, in Birth about childbirth underwent “a & Sex: The Power and the Passion, seismic shift in attention from she described her own five deliv- the obstetrician to the labouring eries as exhilarating and sexually woman,” said Mr. Kitzinger, an arousing, which was not surpris- economist and political scientist. ing, she said, “since both child- Beginning in 1962 with her birth and lactation involve the book The Experience of Childbirth, same hormones as in sexual she championed informing wom- arousal.” en of the options available to Tall, imposing and endowed them during pregnancy and de- with a lusty voice, even as a livery and empowered them, grandmother she would, on rather than clinicians, to choose more than one occasion, unself- which course they preferred. consciously demonstrate the or- Ms. Kitzinger, who delivered Sheila Kitzinger, seen in 2007, wanted women to be aware of childbirth options. She also campaigned against gasmic corollary of birth pangs in her five daughters at home with female genital cutting, the handcuffing of pregnant prisoners and restrictions on midwifery. MIKE FLOKIS/GETTY IMAGES public to interviewers, startling a midwife, was widely considered fellow railway passengers or res- a guru of natural childbirth, but practices were “quite harmful to Kitzinger, whom she married in changed, by simply seeing your- taurant patrons, by moaning in she said she actually urged wom- women and babies and even fa- 1952. self in the mother role. I wanted the manner of Meg Ryan in the en to do what felt natural to thers.” Besides her husband, she leaves to have warrior children.” restaurant scene in the film When them individually. She conducted “It is partly because of these five daughters – Celia, Jenny, Nell Since 1962 she had written Harry Met Sally. research and campaigned against detrimental practices,” she and Polly Kitzinger and Tessa nearly three dozen books, includ- Ms. Kitzinger offered a caveat, female genital cutting, the hand- added, “that there was a resur- McKenney – and three grandchil- ing Birth over Thirty, Woman’s Ex- however. cuffing of pregnant prisoners and gence of interest in home birth dren. perience of Sex, Breastfeeding Your “The only thing that compares restrictions on midwifery and and free-standing birth centres Asked how she reconciled Baby, Ourselves as Mothers, with having your first baby,” she other nonstandard medical care and midwifery.” motherhood with her career, she Becoming a Grandmother and wrote, “is having your first for prospective mothers in Cen- Ms. Kitzinger was born Sheila once told The Guardian: “I sup- Birth Crisis. book!” tral and Eastern Europe. Helena Elizabeth Webster in pose there’s a little bit of me that Her autobiography, A Passion ...... “Sheila may be the most impor- Taunton, Somerset, England, on thinks, if I’d stayed home, prided for Birth, is to be published by New York Times News Service tant individual in the whole field March 29, 1929, to Alec Webster, a myself on my apple pie and not Pinter & Martin next month...... of childbirth reform,” said Judy tailor, and the former Clare Bond, argued so much, then it might “It is now acknowledged that To submit an I Remember: Norsigian, a co-founder of Our a nurse who worked in an early have been easier for some of the women have a right to full and [email protected] Bodies Ourselves, a non-profit family-planning clinic. She girls to have gone and done their accurate information about their group in the United States that trained to teach drama but own thing. But I don’t think you bodies and to participate in all Send us a memory of someone we offers information on women’s switched to social anthropology can prepare girls for growing up decisions made about them,” Ms. have recently profiled on the Obitu- health and sexuality. She noted at Ruskin and St. Hugh’s Colleges for the world in which we live Kitzinger wrote in her introduc- aries page. Please include I Remem- that many mainstream hospital at Oxford, where she met Uwe today, a world which needs to be tion to the 2003 edition of The ber in the subject field.
JOEL SPIRA PHYSICIST, 88 An inventor with an incandescent idea
...... BRUCE WEBER products has been that they save switch controlled by a sliding tab ...... energy; Lutron maintains that its (he called it the Nova) as well as oel Spira, who changed the products reduce the total lighting the first infrared remote-control Jambience of homes around the bill of the United States by as dimmer, the first whole-home world and encouraged romantic much as $1-billion (U.S.) a year. lighting-control system and a sys- seductions of all types when he Lutron’s original marketing tem of motorized window shades invented the first lighting dimmer strategy was considerably sexier, marketed as Serena. for domestic use, died April 8 in however. Its first commercial A later innovation, Vierti, a dim- Coopersburg, Pa. He was 88. product was called the Capri, a mer controlled by finger pressure He had a heart attack and col- dimmer switch operated by a on a strip of LEDs, is in the collec- lapsed at his home, his daughter lighted dial implanted in an 18- tion of the Cooper-Hewitt Nation- Susan Hakkarainen said. inch-high wall panel, and its store al Design Museum in New York. Mr. Spira was a physicist work- displays featured a drawing of a Items and documents from ing for a military contractor in the shapely woman in a sleeveless Lutron, including an early version late 1950s when, puttering in a pink evening gown. Subsequent of the Capri dimmer and Mr. Spi- spare room of his Manhattan sales pitches capitalized on the ra’s notebooks and advertising apartment, he invented a way to idea of low lights and privacy. In materials from the company’s reduce the light output of an one ad, a well-dressed couple early years, are in the electricity incandescent bulb. The device hold hands and exchange longing collection of the Smithsonian spurred the creation of Lutron glances beneath a chandelier. Institution’s National Museum of Electronics, a lighting-control “Dial romance,” the copy reads, American History. company he started in Emmaus, “with a light dimmer Dim ‘n’ Glo.” Mr. Spira married Ruth Rodale Pa., in 1961 with his wife, Ruth; it Joel Solon Spira was born March in Emmaus in 1954. (Her father, was granted its first patent for a Joel Spira invented the first domestic light dimmer when he was 1, 1927, in Brooklyn, where he J.I. Rodale, was the founder of solid-state dimmer in 1962. puttering in his Manhattan apartment. DONNA CHIARELLI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS graduated from Erasmus Hall Rodale Inc., the health-oriented Relocated to Coopersburg, not High School. His mother, the for- publishing company.) Besides his far from Allentown, in 1970, Mr. Spira’s innovation, but they mer by absorbing electrical ener- mer Edna Shenker, was a fashion wife and their daughter Susan, he Lutron became a leader in the were unsuitable for home use. gy on its way to a light source, model. His father, Elias Spira, was leaves two other daughters, Lily lighting control business. It Large and unwieldy, they con- with a thyristor, a type of transis- an executive on the state liquor Housler and Juno Spira; a sister, employs more than 1,000 people sumed great amounts of energy tor that interrupted the flow of board. Mimi Poser; and three grandsons. and distributes myriad products, and gave off a lot of heat, so they power to the light. The change Mr. Spira served in the navy as a “Some day I’ll be gone,” Mr. Spi- including dimmers, automated were restricted to certain com- made the dimmers cooler and radar designer at the end of the ra said about his legacy in 2012 in window treatments fan controls mercial functions, such as regu- small enough to fit in a home wall Second World War and graduated an interview with The Morning and home- and building-control lating the stage lights in theatres. box. They also used less electric- from Purdue with a degree in Call of Allentown. “But dimmers systems. Mr. Spira’s idea was to replace a ity. physics. will be with us forever.” Devices to control the intensity rheostat, which controlled the A prime selling point for dim- In addition to the Capri, Mr. Spi- ...... of a light source existed before current flow in an industrial dim- mers and other lighting-control ra and Lutron created a dimmer New York Times News Service
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