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Blues Festival organizers remain hopeful they can revive the three­day event in 2021, /14 SIJHL welcomes Fighting EITH DUNICK/FILE despite cancellation Walleye to fold /17 RAN TO HIM: Bryan Adams helped last year’s Thunder Bay Blues Festival sell out in record-setting fashion, only taking about two weeks. 2 Thursday, February 20, 2020 For your daily news visit www.tbnewswatch.com L OCALNEWS Cold War era makes intriguing reads JOHN These highly educated members of prevented his exposure as a spy for many Macintyre tells the story of Kim Philby, wealthy and well connected middle class years. a brilliant and charming man who rose PATEMAN families were able to act in plain sight Roland Phillips unravels Donald to head Britain’s counterintelligence because of the protection afforded by the Maclean’s character and contradictions against the Soviet Union during the BOOK BANTER tightly knit social circles in which they in A Spy Named Orphan. height of the Cold War – while he was operated. Maclean became interested in secretly working for Stalin. Stalin’s Englishman by Andrew Communism during his school days, Nobody thought he knew Philby like Lownie suggests that Guy Burgess was even before he joined the Cambridge Nicholas Elliott, Philby’s best friend the most important, complex and fasci­ University Socialist Society (along and fellow officer in MI6, but every epending on which side of the Cold nating of these brilliant young men who with Fred Pateman, who became a word Elliott said to Philby was trans­ DWar you were on, the Cambridge met at Cambridge University in the journalist at The Daily Worker). mitted back to Moscow, neutralising Spies – Donald Maclean, Kim Philby, 1930s. A model diplomat, he rapidly rose almost every important Anglo­ and Guy Burgess – were either heroes of An engaging and charming companion through the ranks of the British American spy operation for 20 years. the Soviet Union or traitors to the West. to many, an unappealing, utterly ruthless Foreign Office, never arousing suspi­ When the web of suspicion closed Richard Davenport­Hines describes manipulator to others, Burgess rose cion of his double life. He had access around Philby he remained as cool as a them as Enemies Within in his study of through academia, the Foreign Office, to some of the greatest secrets of the cucumber and invited the world’s press Communists, the Cambridge Five MI5 and MI6, gaining access to thou­ time, transmitting invaluable intelli­ into his mother’s apartment to hear him (which also included Anthony Blunt and sands of highly sensitive secret gence to his Soviet handlers on the clear his name. John Cairncross) and the making of documents which he passed to the atom bomb and the shape of the His Soviet handler, Yuri Modin, modern Britain. USSR. postwar world. described his performance as breath­ He explores the operative traits of His flamboyant personal life did SPY GUY: Stalin’s Englishman tells the tale He successfully eluded the incredu­ taking. boarding schools, the universities of nothing to stop his penetration of the of Guy Burgess of the Cambridge Five. lous authorities to defect to the USSR, He denied that he was the Third Man; Oxford and Cambridge, the Intelligence British Intelligence Service, and even where he worked and lived unrepen­ in fact he had tipped off Burgess and Division, Foreign Office, MI5, MI6 and when he was under suspicion, the fabled relationships with numerous influential tantly for the next thirty years. Maclean and helped them escape to Moscow Centre. charm which enabled close personal figures (including Winston Churchill) A Spy Among Friends by Ben Russia, where he later joined them. For your daily news visit www.tbnewswatch.com Thursday, February 20, 2020 3 L OCALNEWS Weather Forecast THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY A mix of Mainly sunny Sunny sun and clouds Probability of Precipitation: 20% Probability of Precipitation: 10% Probability of Precipitation: 20% HIGH -7 LOW -13 HIGH 2 LOW -8 HIGH 3 LOW -5 SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY A mix of Mainly sunny sun and clouds Mainly cloudy Probability of Precipitation: 10% Probability of Precipitation: 30% Probability of Precipitation: 30% HIGH 2 LOW -5 HIGH 0 LOW -5 HIGH -3 LOW -9 FILE ALL TOGETHER: Members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario will join three others on the picket line on Friday. Marching en masse Ontario’s four largest teachers’ unions to walk out on Friday EDUCATION tions and tens of thousands of course options will be By Leith Dunick – TB Source lost,” Stuart said. The various unions are fighting to keep class sizes at lassroom learning across Ontario will grind to a current student­to­teacher ratios, continued support Chalt on Friday. for special needs students, the retention of full­day About 200,000 teachers and education workers with kindergarten and salary increases tied to the cost­of­ the Ontario Secondary Schools Teachers’ Federation, living. the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario, the Teachers and education workers are also fighting to Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association and ensure seniority­based hiring remains in place. the Association des enseignantes et des enseignants “It is now evident that the Ford government’s franco­ontariens will stage a unified one­day agenda is entirely ideological and not at all strike on Feb. 21. concerned with providing quality education,” It will mark the first time in 23 years that all “To achieve said OSSTF president Harvey Bischof. four unions have marched out of the class­ their cuts, “They are pulling resources out of the room together in a unified call to the Ontario public education system and, with schemes government to get back to the bargaining they have like mandatory e­learning, laying the table. knowingly groundwork for private interests to profit “It is clear to all four Ontario education thrown from our students’ education. We are heart­ unions and our members that the Ford students, ened that so many parents are standing with government and Education Minister families, us against the dismantling of Ontario’s public (Stephen) Lecce care nothing about students education system.” or educators and everything about taking educators ... All four unions have walked off the job at money out of the publicly funded education into chaos.” least once over the past few weeks, the system,” says AEFO President Rémi REMI SABOURIN AEFO the last to hit the picket lines. Sabourin in a release issued last Wednesday. Lecce condemned the ongoing strikes, "To achieve their cuts, they have knowingly saying cuts hurt kids. thrown students, families, educators and the system "Continued escalation of job action by the teachers' into chaos.” unions has gone on far too long. Students across the OECTA president Liz Stuart said the effects of the province are being hurt by the withdrawal of services government’s cuts are already being felt at schools and loss of classroom time,” the education minister across the province. said in a recent release. “The Ford government is reducing supports for “Parents expect all parties to meet at the negotiating students with special education needs and mental table and have meaningful, student­centric discus­ health issues. It is squeezing students into over­ sions. I call on union leadership to continue to work crowded classes and forcing high school students to with us, in good­faith, to end these strikes, and focus take e­learning courses. If we allow the government to on reaching a deal that keeps our students in the class­ implement its plan fully, thousands of teaching posi­ room where they belong." 4 Thursday, February 20, 2020 For your daily news visit www.tbnewswatch.com L OCALNEWS IAN KAUFMAN WANTS TO BE PM: Conservative leadership hopeful Erin O’Toole (left) with Linda Rydholm. O’Toole attacks Trudeau record Conservative leadership hopeful visits Thunder Bay POLITICS he makes a point of listening to those in the By Ian Kaufman – TB Source north, noting he was one of only two candi­ dates to visit Thunder Bay during the 2017 onservative leadership candidate Erin leadership race. He emphasized his support CO’Toole had his sights trained on one for the resource sector, arguing that Trudeau particular target on a weekend visit to has been against it. Thunder Bay. The Durham MP kept his focus “We would not have a Bay Street in Toronto largely on Justin Trudeau during a stop at the were it not for Inco and Falconbridge and the Sleeping Giant brewery, arguing the Prime mineral extraction in northern Ontario,” he Minister is out of touch with average says. “This has provided wealth to all of Canadians and failing to defend the country’s Canada. We’ve got to be the most ethical, the resource sector. most environmentally conscious, but we About 40 people attended a meet­ should be very proud of these jobs and­greet with the candidate in the – as opposed to the Trudeau brewery’s taproom Sunday after­ “I think government that seems to think noon. O’Toole was introduced by you’re going that everyone can work for Linda Rydholm, a former Thunder to find us win Google.” Bay city councillor who came this seat, O’Toole believes that dynamic second in a close three­way contest because may lead to a shift in the region’s in the Thunder Bay­Rainy River electoral fortunes, saying he riding last year.