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Ontarios 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
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ADRIAN MORROW TORONTO

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Ontario has unveiled sweeping

plans to privatize a major hydro
utility and overhaul its monopolistic beer retail system as the
province searches for funds to
build transit lines and other infrastructure.
The heart of Premier Kathleen
Wynnes plan is the sale of 60 per

cent of Hydro One, which the

government estimates could fetch
$9-billion $4-billion toward a
transit-building fund and $5-billion to pay down debt.
The plan also includes allowing
450 grocery stores to sell beer, a
beer tax to raise $100-million
annually and new rules obliging the
privately owned Beer Store to sell
more craft brews and submit to the

scrutiny of a beer ombudsman.

Yesterdays public assets are
structured in a way that traps value today and strips us of the ability to invest and build the assets
that we know we need for tomorrow, Ms. Wynne said at a news
conference unveiling the changes
with her asset adviser, former
banker Ed Clark. We are going to
shake things up.

Ontarios decision to ride headlong into public-asset reform is in

part a reflection of its circumstances. The province faces a
$10.9-billion deficit and one of
the largest subsovereign debts in
the world. Ms. Wynne has committed to the twin objectives of
putting the provinces fiscal
house in order while also undertaking a $130-billion infrastruc-

ture plan.
But the move is also a response
to a common problem in modern
governance: how to pay for anything new amid a shaky economy,
aging infrastructure and few
available sources of new money.
Ontario, Page 7
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ALBERTA

GHOMESHI SCANDAL

Polls bleak
for PCs,
but voter anger
may not last
to election

CBC ousts two

executives as
scathing report
details abuse
in workplace

The barriers to gender transition

and the consequences

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ALLAN MAKI CALGARY

JUSTIN GIOVANNETTI EDMONTON

SIMON HOUPT

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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced it had severed ties with two executives
implicated in the Jian Ghomeshi
scandal, as it released a damning third-party report into workplace harassment and abuse by
the former star radio host.
The public broadcaster told
staff Thursday that Chris Boyce,
the executive director of radio
and audio, and Todd Spencer,
the executive director of human
resources and industrial relations, who had been on leaves
of absence since early January,
were no longer with the corporation.
The announcement came
moments before the release of a
report by employment law firm
Rubin Thomlinson that painted
Mr. Ghomeshi as a co-worker
who consistently breached the
behavourial standard of CBC by
yelling at, belittling and humiliating others.
Management knew or ought
to have known of this behaviour and conduct and failed to
take steps required of it in
accordance with its own policies
to ensure that the workplace
was free from disrespectful and
abusive conduct, the report
says. It is our conclusion that
CBC management condoned this
behaviour.
Lawyer Janice Rubin and her
colleagues conducted 99 interviews over five months, though
Mr. Ghomeshi refused their
request to participate.
The report adds that there
was no one who had clear and
consistent authority over Mr.
Ghomeshi on a day-to-day basis
in the workplace. It concludes:
There is a flaw in the manner
in which the Q workplace was
designed. Producers, the executive producer, and Mr. Ghomeshi were all in the same
bargaining unit.
During a teleconference, CBC/
Radio-Canada president Hubert
Lacroix said the findings of this
report are troubling. Theyre disappointing. They point to lapses
in our system and concerns
about our culture.

They are numbers to be celebrated or ignored, dichotomized

or adjusted. And right now, those
numbers are not working for Jim
Prentice or his Progressive Conservative party.
With 18 days to go until Albertans vote, the polls are painting a
bleak landscape for a party that
has been in power for more than
40 years. A poll released on
Wednesday sampled 3,121 people
and found the Wildrose Party
and the NDP arm-locked in the
lead, each with 24 per cent of the
voters, while the PCs came in
third at 18 per cent.
The poll was conducted by Mainstreet Technologies, a Torontobased polling and research company. Surveys done by ThinkHQ
and Forum Research have tabulated how Albertans feel about the
election and Mr. Prentice as premier. Forum Research indicates Mr.
Prentices approval rating has sunk
to 22 per cent. Four months ago, it
was at 50 per cent.
Angry people are answering
polls and giving answers
designed to put the PCs on notice, Calgary-based pollster Janet
Brown said by e-mail. But when
push comes to shove, will anger
prevail or will Albertans once
again default to the status quo?
Interpreting polls can be tricky,
as Canadians saw in the past few
years when parties that were
thought to be leading in the late
stages of campaigns came up
short on election day.
Alberta, Page 8
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Albertas reversal of fortune

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INSIDE

Bound by children,
but not by vows
How mediation
can save a family
after the end
of a marriage
Life & Arts

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Unwilling to wait one to two years for an initial gender-reassignment assessment,

Chrystofer Maillet paid for a double mastectomy out of pocket. DAVE CHAN FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Across Canada, people who want to switch gender face long waits
for approval, few options for procedures and difficulty obtaining
hormone treatments: Were not quite hitting the mark as a country
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KELLY GRANT
HEALTH REPORTER
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t took years of suffering and soul

searching, but when Chrystofer Maillet
decided to make the transition out of the
female body in which he had never felt
comfortable, he knew he was ready for
the change.
One thing stood in his way. Mr. Maillet,
now 35, was told he would have to wait
one to two years for an initial assessment
at the Centre for Addiction and Mental
Healths (CAMH) Adult Gender Identity
Clinic in Toronto, the lone site for sexreassignment approvals not just for Ontario, but for Newfoundland and Labrador and, until last year, Saskatchewan,
too. Unable to endure the wait, Mr. Maillet put nearly $7,500 on a line of credit
and paid for a double mastectomy, a procedure the Ontario Health Insurance Plan

(OHIP) would have covered if he had

managed to secure CAMHs blessing first.
Mr. Maillet is not alone. As the demand
for sex-change operations has grown, so
too has the line at CAMH. The psychiatrist who leads the small Adult Gender
Identity Clinic says the Ontario governments decision to make one facility the
sole gatekeeper for these procedures
really isnt working, especially considering that trans people who want to
switch genders but have yet to begin the
process are at an elevated risk for suicide.
The bottleneck at CAMH is just one
example of the barriers to medical care
that Canadian trans people still face, despite the fact that every jurisdiction
except New Brunswick, Nunavut and the
Northwest Territories now publicly funds
at least some gender reassignment surgeries.
Transgender, Page 12

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murdered their parents to get a multimillion-dollar inheritance. But despite the
damning facts that convicted Lyle and Erik Menendez, and the unflattering
media sensation of their trial, the brothers were spared the executioners needle by a California jury, which recommended a life sentence instead. The pair
had argued that the shotgun slayings of their father Jose, a high-flying executive, and his wife, Kitty, in their Beverly Hills mansion were acts of self-defence
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The reaction to the news of a 65year-old woman who is expecting

quadruplets is proof of societys
uneasiness with women taking
more control over their bodies.
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Theres little question that Jim

Prentice and Alberta PCs are feeling the heat ahead of the provinces May election. Dont be
fooled into thinking otherwise.
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NHL right now is also likely one
youve never heard of, but Russias Vladimir Tarasenko is certainly a talent to be admired.
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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
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MARCUS GEE DES MOINES, IOWA

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illary Clinton spent much of

her first week on the campaign trail trying to prove that,
despite all her years as a Washington insider, she is still just
folks.
Instead of kicking off her second 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, tweeting 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 taken with an everyday family at a
gas station and grab a chicken
burrito bowl at a fast-food restaurant.
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 policy, she might even have a cocktail or two. Shes 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 accomplished politician who has
served her country as a powerful U.S. senator and represented
it abroad as secretary of state.
Shouldnt it be her character
and her ideas, not whether she
is likable or not, that matter?
History is full of successful
leaders who were never just
folks. Try to imagine Pierre Trudeau travelling in a van called
Scooby or getting chummy with
voters in a gas station parking
lot. But modern U.S. politics put
a premium on demonstrating
qualities such as openness,
authenticity and genuineness, a
phenomenon that would have
bewildered past presidents such
as that sphinx Franklin Delano
Roosevelt, who kept himself to
himself.
In the United States more
than in most countries, the public expects politicians to reveal
themselves as people. That is
especially true in Iowa, the state
that often makes or breaks presidential candidates in the party
nomination season and that
prizes direct contact with voters.
Here, candidates for the highest
office in the land are expected
to be not just presidential but
personable. The more recent
buzzword is relatable: someone
voters can relate to.
We like to see the candidates
up front so we can take the
measure of them person to person, said Des Moines pollster
Ann Selzer. If you arent
genuine, thats not going to
work here.
That helps explain why Clinton backers have been trying so
hard to introduce voters to what

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, centre, has coffee with members of the community at the Tremont Grille in Marshalltown, Iowa, on Wednesday.
In the United States, more than most countries, the public expects politicians to reveal themselves as people. MICHAEL B. THOMAS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

We like to see the candidates

up front so we can take the
measure of them person to
person. If you arent genuine,
thats not going to work here.
Ann Selzer
Des Moines pollster
they say is the real Hillary
not the celebrity political star
who hobnobs with the rich and
famous, but the delighted new
grandmother with the great belly laugh. Her first couple of days
in the state featured small, lowkey, get-to-know-you meetings
with voters.
As the overwhelming favourite
to win the Democratic Party
nomination, she is being extra
careful not to appear too sure of
herself. Democrats might start
looking around for alternatives
if she acted as if she had the
nomination in the bag. It
doesnt look like a coronation if
you dont act like a queen, Ms.
Selzer said.
New Jersey Governor Chris
Christie, one of several Republican hopefuls who have been
crisscrossing Iowa to test the

presidential waters, told NBC

that Ms. Clinton cant assume
winning is a foregone conclusion. You have got to earn it.
David Axelrod, a former campaign adviser to President
Barack Obama, told The Des
Moines Register that Ms. Clintons greatest challenge is to
prove that she is genuine and
understands the concerns of the
average American. Humility is
the order of the day, he said.
Ms. Clinton is hardly the first
presidential hopeful to try to
present a more human face to
the public. John Kerry and
Michael Dukakis for the Democrats, Bob Dole and Mitt Romney for the Republicans all
these candidates struggled to
show they were not as wooden
or remote or simply dull as they
sometimes seemed.
But for Ms. Clinton, it is especially important to prove she
can connect. Throughout her
quarter-century in the public
eye, she has had to battle the
perception that she is stiff or
conniving or aloof. In her failed
2008 bid for the nomination,
critics said that she simply
failed to click with voters, who
didnt understand who she was
or why she wanted the job.
The risk in introducing the
new, relatable Ms. Clinton is
that voters may see it as noth-

ing more than a ploy a calculated attempt to appear

spontaneous, a phony attempt
to be authentic. Republicans are
already calling it precisely that.
She says she is just like
everyone else, but then she is
off on her jets and that is not
how most of us in Iowa live,
said Jennifer Smith, chairwoman
of Iowas Dubuque County Republicans. She was waiting outside Ms. Clintons first campaign
stop to have her say.
Right-wing radio and TV commentators were quick to skewer
Ms. Clinton over the road trip.
This was the same Ms. Clinton,
they noted, who admitted last
year that the last time she
drove a car herself was in 1996.
They even gave her grief about
the burrito stop, saying she
went into the restaurant in dark
glasses and didnt talk to
anyone hardly an example of
the common touch. On the Fox
News First website, Chris Stirewalt called Ms. Clintons motorized caravan the sisterhood of
the travelling pantsuit.
Naturally, her supporters see
her in a different light. Waiting
in a lawn chair to wave at Ms.
Clinton as she arrived for an
event in the Des Moines suburb
of Norwalk on Wednesday, retired union official Jamie Lekers,
57, said: Ive never found her

cold and calculating. I found her

warm and charming and I
appreciated every Hillary hug
she gave me.
Ms. Clinton has a fine line to
walk. She has to show empathy
for voters without appearing to
pander. She has to show she understands ordinary people without pretending that she is one.
In Iowa, we dont expect a
former secretary of state, senator and first lady to be necessarily as down to earth as we are,
Jennifer Glover Konfrst, an assistant professor of public relations
at Drake University in Des
Moines, says. Instead, if Ms.
Clinton came to this farm state
dressed in overalls, she adds,
we might be like, Yeah, you
dont get it. We want to see her
being who she really is not
putting on airs, not thinking
shes too fancy but not pretending to be less than she is either.
This, Prof. Konfrst concedes,
is a hard thing.
However Ms. Clinton plays it,
she is bound to be mocked. The
wealthy Mr. Romney got constant ribbing for his awkward
attempts to prove he was a regular guy. He may never live
down telling the story about
tying his dog to the car roof in
a pet carrier when the family
went on vacation.

IMMIGRATION

Anti-foreigner protests rock South Africa

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GEOFFREY YORK JOHANNESBURG

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Even as President Jacob Zuma

was pleading with South Africans
to halt their shocking and unacceptable violence against foreign migrants, another outbreak
of anti-immigrant protests erupted in two major cities on Thursday, provoking rubber bullets
and stun grenades from police
who struggled to disperse the
angry mobs.
Migrants from African and
Asian countries have become
scapegoats for the persistently
high unemployment rate in
South Africa. The waves of mob
attacks have terrified foreigners
and blighted the countrys aspirations to moral leadership in the
post-apartheid era.
At least four people have died
in the latest anti-foreigner violence over the past two weeks,
and several African governments
are preparing emergency plans to
evacuate their citizens from
South Africa if the crisis worsens.
Many migrants are already closing their shops and sheltering in
makeshift camps or fleeing home
to countries such as Mozambique
to escape the attacks. The protests continued on Thursday in
eastern Johannesburg and central Durban, with mobs demanding that foreigners leave the
country.
Even a peace march in Durban
was disrupted by the anti-immigrant protesters.
No amount of frustration or
anger can ever justify the attacks
on foreign nationals and the looting of their shops, Mr. Zuma told

A peace march yesterday, above, in the South African city of Durban was interrupted by anti-immigrant protesters.
Critics say President Jacob Zuma has done little to quell violence against foreigners. ROGAN WARD/REUTERS
the South African parliament on
Thursday. We condemn the violence in the strongest possible
terms. We appeal for calm, an
end to the violence and restraint.
Criminal elements should not be
allowed to take advantage of the
concerns of citizens to sow mayhem and destruction.
Mr. Zuma reminded his listeners that many of the foreigners
were refugees, and many were
helping South Africas economy

by contributing scarce skills. He

also reminded them that other
African governments had played
a key role in helping fight apartheid in the 1970s and 1980s.
But while his words were noble,
Mr. Zumas actions have been inadequate for the epidemic of violence that has haunted South
Africa for many years. More than
60 people were killed in horrific
assaults on foreigners in 2008,
and similar attacks have contin-

ued sporadically since then,

usually targeting African and
Asian migrants who own small
shops in South Africas poorest
communities. They are often
unfairly blamed for the countrys
25-per-cent unemployment rate
and the lack of jobs for young
people.
Despite the persistent violence,
Mr. Zuma has ignored most of
the anti-foreigner attacks in
recent years. His son, Edward,

and his close political ally, Zulu

king Goodwill Zwelithini, have
fuelled the attacks by demanding
that foreigners should pack
their bags and leave. He made
no attempt to dissociate himself
from either man in his speech on
Thursday.
Critics say the Zuma government has tried to have it both
ways: officially condemning the
anti-foreigner violence while unofficially lending support to
xenophobic sentiments. Mr.
Zuma, for example, recently
announced a plan to prohibit foreigners from owning farmland in
South Africa, prompting loud
applause from his ruling party
members in parliament.
Even his speech on Thursday
his first detailed response to the
violence that has erupted repeatedly since January contained
strong hints that he shares the
views of the anti-foreigner protesters.
He said his government was
sympathetic to some of the
issues raised by protesters. He
mentioned their complaints
about illegal immigrants, the perception that foreigners commit
crime, and the increase in the
number of shops or small businesses that have been taken over
by foreign nationals.
He promised to tighten controls on immigration into South
Africa and vowed to tackle
crime activities at the borders.
Instead of deploying South African troops to stop the violence,
he is sending 350 soldiers to the
countrys border posts to work as
immigration officers.

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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
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IAIN MARLOW
ANDREA WOO VANCOUVER
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra

Modi arrived at a Vancouver temple to a crowd of placard-waving
protesters, a reminder that the
polarizing Hindu nationalist politician is beloved by the global
business community but still disdained by many social activists in
India and abroad.
On the last leg of the first bilateral 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 protesters a much different reception from that same morning in
Toronto, where he met with a
select group of business leaders
from BlackBerry and major
banks. The protesters signs carried slogans such as Human
rights before trade deals, Modi
is a genocide perpetrator and
Modi is a fascist extremist.
Community organizer Mustafa
Alam said the protest was fuelled
by what he described as Mr. Modis discrimination against religious minorities.
Modi is a war criminal, Mr.
Alam said. He had been banned
previously by other countries
from entering into the state, and
here we are in Canada welcoming
him, giving him the red carpet
treatment, putting our economic
interests before human rights and
justice.
Several signs referred to the
anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat in
2002 in which more than 1,000
people, mainly Muslims, were
killed by mobs when Mr. Modi
was the states chief minister. Several human rights groups have

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
accused Mr. Modis government
of indifference as the killings
spread. The Supreme Court of India conducted a special investigation and cleared Mr. Modi of being
complicit in the riots, though
many think his administration
was partly responsible for not
containing the violence.
Mr. Modi was once refused a
visa to visit the U.S. over concern
about his role during the riots.
Canada, however, never refused
him a visa because Mr. Modi never asked for one, said Stewart
Beck, Canadas former high commissioner in India who helped
cement Canadas relationship
with Mr. Modi.
But in British Columbia as in
Ontario, there was also jubilation
at the Indian leaders arrival.

At the Khalsa Diwan Societys

Sikh Gurdwara, located on the
southern edge of Vancouver, a
large crowd of supporters filed
into the temple to see Mr. Modi
speak. The president of the historic Sikh society, which has roots
stretching back more than 100
years in B.C., said Mr. Modi will be
the third Indian prime minister to
visit, after Jawaharlal Nehrus visit
in 1949 and Indira Gandhis 42
years ago.
Balwant Sanghera, a retired
school psychologist, called Mr.
Modis visit a historic event, and
extolled the Indian leaders as a
man of action who will bring
progress to India and prosperity
to Indo-Canadians.
It will open a lot of doors for
both Canada and India, he said,

beneath fluttering stringers tied

between the temple and lamp
posts in the parking lot.
Naturally, any leader will have
people who dont agree with
them, Mr. Sanghera added when
asked about the protesters. But I
think, on the whole, the Indo-Canadian community is excited.
At a Hindu temple later, Mr.
Modi arrived to chants of We
love Modi. We love Harper. Mr.
Harper introduced the Indian
Prime Minister as one of the
worlds great leaders, and noted
how remarkable it was that Mr.
Modi rose from selling tea at a
small railway station in Gujarat to
becoming the leader of the
worlds largest democracy. Mr.
Modi then spoke briefly about
Hinduism, yoga and the close

watch that the Indo-Canadian

community is keeping on affairs
on the subcontinent.
What is going on in India, you
know more [than Indians themselves], he said to laughter. Its
like when you watch a cricket
match in the stadium. You cant
get the full details like when you
watch it on TV.
B.C. Premier Christy Clark, who
was also on hand to welcome Mr.
Modi and Mr. Harper, dodged
repeated questions about Mr.
Modis human rights record in
Gujarat. Instead, she held up his
visit as evidence of B.C.s role in
the new global economy. We are
in a position to really build a partnership with what will be one of
the if not the biggest economies in the world, she said.

MIKE DUFFY TRIAL

Makeup artist says invoice covered service for Harper

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STEPHANIE LEVITZ OTTAWA

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Stephen Harpers name surfaced

at the Mike Duffy trial Thursday
as court heard from a string of
contractors who were paid
through a taxpayer-funded
account that the suspended senator allegedly used to skirt finance
rules.
A former intern, a makeup artist and a personal trainer all
described being paid by companies run by Mr. Duffys long-time
friend Gerald Donohue for services they provided to the senator
and in one case, to the prime
minister as well.
The cheques form the basis for
six of 30 fraud and breach of
trust charges faced by Mr. Duffy,
in addition to a single count of
bribery involving a cheque that
came from Mr. Harpers former
chief of staff.

Mr. Duffy has pleaded not

guilty to all of the charges.
The money came at Mr. Duffys
request, court heard; both makeup artist Jacqueline Lambert and
personal trainer Michael Croskery testified he explicitly told
them to bill either Maple Ridge
Media or Ottawa ICF, both companies run by Mr. Donohue.
Cheques cut by Maple Ridge included $300 sent to Lambert,
who had known Mr. Duffy for
years in his role at CTV.
She was first called to do his
makeup as a senator in 2009, for
a photo shoot, and Mr. Duffy told
her to send him the invoice personally. A letter introduced earlier in court from the Senate
showed the expense wasnt
approved. In 2010, he called
again this time to do makeup
for both him and Mr. Harper at a
televised G8/G10 event on Parlia-

guest room, reinvented.

ment Hill. He told her to send her

$300 invoice to Maple Ridge.
Last week, a government
source told The Canadian Press
that the makeup services Mr.
Harper received that day werent
paid for by taxpayers.
On Thursday, Ms. Lambert told
a different story. On this occasion of the G8, did Prime Minister
Harper pay you anything for the
services he received, or did you
take the $300 to be payment in
respect to the services you provided the prime minister? asked
Mr. Duffys lawyer Donald Bayne.
Yes, your latter, Ms. Lambert
answered.
Court has already been told the
$300 was a flat-rate fee that
would not have changed regardless of whether one or two people had their makeup done.
Stephen Lecce, a spokesman for
the Prime Ministers Office, con-

tinued to insist Thursday that

taxpayers didnt pay for Harpers
makeup. We have no knowledge
of the invoice in question, Mr.
Lecce said in an e-mail. We did
not charge taxpayers for the PMs
preparation for this event and
had no reason to believe anyone
else would do so.
A copy of the invoice Ms. Lambert sent wasnt submitted as evidence; her computer crashed and
she no longer had a copy, court
was told. A copy of the cheque
she received indicated that it
came from Mr. Donohues company. On the envelope, there was
a notation that it was for PM
and Mike.
Ms. Lambert said she was
always paid for doing makeup for
parliamentarians, including Mr.
Harper. When she did the makeup for former finance minister
Jim Flaherty, the invoice went to

the Conservative party, court was

told. The original contracts between Mr. Duffy and Mr. Donohue stated they were for editorial
services, but the Crown has alleged those specific services were
never delivered, with the money
being funnelled elsewhere to cover costs Mr. Duffy couldnt
expense to the Senate.
Mr. Duffys lawyer argues the
work done was entirely in keeping with parliamentary business .
Ashley Cain, a former intern for
Mr. Duffy, said she was also paid
by that same company, having
received a $500 cheque after
shed been told she was doing
good work in the senators office.
Mr. Croskery testified he
received more than $9,000 from
Mr. Donohues companies between 2010 and 2012.
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LAW

Appeal court supports duress as murder defence

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People who find themselves in a

kill or be killed situation can
claim duress as a defence to murder, even though the Criminal
Code explicitly rules it out, the
Ontario Court of Appeal said
Thursday.
Until now, claiming the right to
kill an innocent person to save
ones own life has been seen as
the greater of two evils. But the
court had a different way of looking at duress, offering the hypothetical example of someone
faced with killing an innocent
person or having their own child
be killed. The putative victims
are equally innocent, the court
said.
The court cited a principle that
criminal law is not designed for a
community of saints or heroes,
but for ordinary people making
voluntary moral choices. And
sometimes those choices are no
more free than the choice of a
condemned man walking to the
gallows, the court said.
Society may regret or even
deplore the accuseds failure to
rise to the occasion, but it cannot, in a criminal justice system
predicated on individual autonomy, justly criminalize and punish
conduct absent a realistic choice,
Justice David Doherty wrote in a
3-0 ruling. The court was not

asked to rule on the constitutionality of the law barring duress as a

defence to murder, but said that
law is probably unconstitutional.
The decision came in the
appeals of several bikers charged
in the 2006 massacre of eight
members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang at a farm outside London. Three were charged with
multiple counts of first-degree
murder by aiding and abetting
three others in killing their intended targets, by opening a gate,
monitoring police scanners and
carrying weapons. The three
claimed they acted under duress,
because they would have been
killed otherwise. (The trial judge
who found them guilty ruled that
duress was not a defence to aiding
in a murder or committing murder. The Crown agreed.)
The appeal court found the men
guilty anyway, saying they were
not truly under duress. One of the
three, for instance, Marcel Aravena, had willingly put himself
under the control of Wayne Kellestine, one of the mobsters who
had participated in the multiple
killings, the court said.
But the court defended the principle at issue. Consider, for
example, a person who had no
connection to the Bandidos or to
the meeting at Kellestines farm,
but who happened to attend at
the farm for some innocent purpose that night. Assume Kelles-

tines group took him captive and

held him in the barn while Kellestine removed and murdered two
of the victims. If that person was
then ordered under threat of
death by Kellestine to assist in the
removal and murder of the next
victim, would society expect the
ordinary (not the heroic or exceptional) person to refuse Kellestines order and give up his own
life? Could it be said that the person had a realistic choice? We
think not.
France and Germany do not bar
duress as a defence to murder,
and 11 U.S. states have laws declaring duress can be a defence to
murder.
Toronto lawyer Daniel Santoro,
who represented Mr. Aravena,
said the ruling is the first by an
appeal court in Canada to affirm
that duress can be used as a
defence to murder. It recognizes
that sometimes people are put
into horrible situations where
they have no realistic choice, and
trying to punish someone in that
situation as a murderer is not
fair, he said. But it is not easy to
prove. The reality is that its an
extremely hard argument to win.
In Britain, courts have said that
allowing duress as a defence to
murder would encourage terrorists and organized criminals to
use others to do their killing. But
Justice Doherty said that was a
dubious claim.

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DISCIPLINE

Law society faces backlash over Levant decision

The Alberta Court of Queens Bench orders a hearing into whether there was an abuse of process in the dismissal of complaints
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SEAN FINE
JUSTICE WRITER
................................................................

The Alberta Law Society is under

fire for its dismissal of complaints against a prominent conservative journalist and
non-practising lawyer over
remarks he made on a television
show and website and in a newspaper column.
Ezra Levant, an author and
broadcaster with the nowdefunct Sun News Network, faced
nine charges of misconduct in
October, 2012, after the law societys conduct committee referred
those charges for a hearing. But
the hearing never happened, and
16 months later Mr. Levant
applied to a second conduct
committee to dismiss the
charges.
Mr. Levant, 43, said in an interview that he has been the subject
of many complaints to the law
society Ive lost count, more
than a dozen and all have
been dismissed. There are a
number of complainants who
have a political axe to grind and
the law society found their complaints have no merit. He said
he hasnt practised law in years.
The second committee held a
meeting without notifying the
two Ontario lawyers who had
complained about Mr. Levant,
and without the record of evidence that was before the first
committee, the Alberta Court of
Queens Bench said in a ruling

Ezra Levant, seen in 2010, was under investigation over remarks he made. PAWEL DWULIT/THE CANADIAN PRESS
this month. The committee
heard from the law societys
counsel and from Mr. Levants
lawyer, Robert Hawkes, each of
whom cautioned that some
charges might violate Mr.
Levants right to free speech, and
that others lacked the evidence
to convict.
And when the committee withdrew the charges, it did so with
an unsatisfactory and unclear
explanation, Justice Dawn Pentelechuk said.

The law societys handling of

the complaints may have
amounted to an abuse of process,
she said. It seems arguable that
the process followed is prone
to undermine the integrity of the
Law Societys disciplinary proceedings and the publics confidence in its ability to protect the
public.
She ordered that a full hearing
be held on the issue of whether
the Alberta Law Society committed an abuse of process. Univer-

sity of Ottawa law professor Amir

Attaran and Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman, who made the complaints against Mr. Levant, had
asked for a court to review the
law societys handling of their
complaints. The law society had
asked the court to dismiss that
request.
The complaints against Mr.
Levant date from as far back as
2010, but were treated as confidential under law society rules
and came to light this month in

the Alberta court ruling.

The Alberta Law Societys code
of conduct requires courtesy
from lawyers, whether they are
practising law or not. Lawyers
should aspire to the highest standards of behaviour at all times
and not just when acting as lawyers, the code says.
But law societies in Canada
rarely discipline lawyers for conduct outside of the practice of
law, except if a lawyer is convicted of a crime, according to Adam
Dodek, who teaches at the University of Ottawa law school.
I am not familiar with any
case in the last 20 years where a
Law Society has sanctioned a
lawyer for actions outside the
practice of law.
Alison Taylor, the law societys
communications manager, said it
is not the societys practice to
comment on matters that are in
front of a court.
Prof. Attaran said the law societys coddling of Mr. Levant
reminds him of justice in Third
World countries. You cant have
a lawyer on national television
hiding in a jurisdiction that
refuses to discipline him and
attacking lawyers elsewhere and
undermining the dignity of this
profession.
The nine charges sent by the
first conduct committee for a
hearing included bringing disrespect to the justice system, failing
to maintain a civil level of discourse and harassment.

JUSTICE

Eaton Centre
shooter
to serve at
least 30 years
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COLIN PERKEL TORONTO

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A man who shot two people in a

crowded downtown food court
was sentenced on Thursday to at
least 30 years behind bars an
unprecedented sentence for second-degree murder.
Ontario Superior Court Justice
Eugene Ewaschuk, who
denounced the crimes as horrific
and outrageous, decided Christopher Husbands will be ineligible
for parole for 15 years for each
killing. Justice Ewaschuk also
decided the periods of parole ineligibility should be served consecutively.
Its an unprecedented sentence for second-degree murder
in Canada its literally never
been given, defence lawyer Dirk
Derstine said. Hes in shock
because of the sentence.
Mr. Husbands was convicted of
two counts of second-degree
murder for the shooting at the
landmark Eaton Centre in June,
2012, that also critically injured a
13-year-old boy.
The 26-year-old was also convicted of five counts of aggravated assault, one count of criminal
negligence causing bodily harm
and one count of recklessly discharging a firearm.
The murder convictions carry
an automatic life sentence with
no parole for at least 10 years.
However, the federal government
recently changed the law to allow
periods of parole ineligibility in
murder cases to be consecutive,
rather than concurrent.
Mr. Husbandss defence team
had launched a constitutional
challenge to the sentencing provisions, arguing they amounted
to cruel and unusual punishment, but Justice Ewaschuk
rejected the challenge.
Mr. Derstine said he planned to
appeal both the conviction and
sentences.
The Crown, which argued he
was a menace to public safety,
had wanted Husbands to serve at
least 20 years on each of the two
murder counts consecutively in
the deaths of Nixon Nirmalendran, 22, and Ahmed Hassan, 24.
The shooting captured on
surveillance video sparked
mayhem in the mall and left
Connor Stevenson, who was shot
in the head, clinging to life. He
would need four surgeries and
still has bullet fragments in his
head. His father, Craig Stevenson,
called the sentencing appropriate, saying it reflected the horror
inflicted on the victims.
We really have to stand up and
show that were not going to put
up with gun violence, so kudos to
the judge for making that hard
decision, Mr. Stevenson said.
Weve got to make sure we put
the punishment in place to deter
the crimes.
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Folio: Ontarios big moves

RETAIL

Beer sales
on tap
for grocers
Its 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
ADRIAN MORROW
................................................................

Ontario grocers finally got the

green light to carry beer in their
stores with lots of strings
attached.
Supermarkets and other retailers have been pushing to stock
beer and wine in their stores,
counting on the products to
draw more customers in an increasingly competitive market.
The grocers didnt get everything they wanted and they
will have to go through the publicly owned Liquor Control
Board of Ontario to buy their
supplies rather than dealing
directly with brewers, which
could add costs. Their retail beer
prices will be set and margins
will be slim, industry observers
said. Still, retailers are looking
forward to the extra customer
traffic that beer sales will
generate.
This is great news for Ontario
consumers, said Kevin Groh,
spokesman for Loblaw Cos. Ltd.,
the countrys largest grocer. We
look forward to providing our
customers with beer and wine
responsibly.
The announcement was one of
a package of changes to beer
sales introduced Thursday after
the release of a report from a
panel advising Premier Kathleen
Wynne on ways to find money to
pay for her program of transit
construction.
In other parts of the country,
such as Alberta and Quebec, grocers already are selling alcoholic
beverages in a heavily regulated
industry. Now the shift to looser
booze retailing rules is coming
to Ontario, with wine expected
to be next up for review.
Its about time, said Susan
McGibbon, president of retail
consultancy the Retail Lab. Its
crazy its taken this long.
Ontario will allow any grocery
store big enough to set up a
separate area for the beer to
stock it, Ms. Wynne said. But the
government has specifically
closed the door on convenience
stores bid to sell booze.
The advisory panel to the Premier, headed by former banker
Ed Clark, said it agrees with the
government position that to sell
liquor in convenience stores
would not be a socially responsible decision, it said in its report
on Thursday.
Still, Victor Vrsnik, government
affairs manager at conveniencestore operator 7-Eleven Canada,
said the chain disagrees with any
law or regulation that would
create a competitive advantage
for one retail industry over another.
Mr. Vrsnik pointed particularly
to the blurring of the lines between grocery stores, pharmacies
and convenience stores because
they all stock similar products
and chase the same customers.
There is tough competition,
Mr. Vrsnik said. We compete

with grocers head to head.

Consultant Ms. McGibbon said
convenience stores got a black
eye from their track record of
selling tobacco to minors at
times and cases of abusing the
privilege of selling lottery tickets,
which is another big generator of
shopper traffic.
Over all, the changes
announced on Thursday to beer
retailing still keeps a dated monopoly alive, she said. But it is
a big step forward for that industry.
The province will grant 450
licences to grocery stores to sell
beer in single bottles and six
packs, with beer allowed to be
sold only in separated areas that
keep the same hours as the Beer
Store.
A new beer tax, which will
apply to all beer sold in the
province, will raise $100-million
a year. After two years, the Beer
Store will be allowed to pass this
cost on to consumers.
The foreign-owned Beer Store
will keep its monopoly on selling
cases of 24 beers. Under a new
agreement with the province,
however, it will have to give
small brewers 20 per cent of
shelf space in the stores, up from
7 per cent now. Smaller restaurants and bars will also be
allowed to buy the most popular
brands of beer at retail prices,
instead of the higher prices currently charged by the Beer Store.
It will also have to open ownership of the company to all Ontario brewers.
Its a great day for people who
like their beer cold and more
conveniently available for purchase, the Premier said.
Small grocers are relieved they
will have a chance to bid for the
licences, with the report ensuring a diversity of grocers to prevent the creation of a new
monopoly, Gary Sands, vicepresident of the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers,
said.
But hes also concerned that
the process of granting licences
could give an edge to larger
retailers and leave winners and
losers.
Cam Heaps, co-founder of
Steam Whistle Brewing and
chairman of Ontario Craft Brewers, said he is pleased that the
province will open up beer
retailing to his niche sector,
which represents about 4 per
cent of Ontarios beer sales. Its
a major step forward.
Its moving at a snails pace,
but at least theres movement,
said Stephen Bebis, chief executive officer of Edmonton-based
Liquor Stores N.A. Ltd. The largest publicly traded liquor retailer
in North America, it had asked
the Clark panel to let it enter
Ontario.
When you have competition
in retail, the customer wins, typically. And I dont think that the
province would lose any tax revenue.

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A taste of whats in store

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Beer ombudsman

........................

A job handling complaints about beer sounds a bit like

the basis for a Canadian comedy sketch. Should the person expect calls from Ontarians who dont have enough
to drink? Or when they feel awful the next day and feel
inclined to blame a skunky brew?
The actual Ontario Ombudsman, Andr Marin, was
among the many who reacted incredulously. A Beer
Store Ombudsman? Seriously? he tweeted Thursday
afternoon.
But the Ontario governments report says someone
will be named to handle issues that arise.
An independent Beer Ombudsman will be appointed
by the Independent Directors of [the Beer Store] to hear
complaints from brewers and customers regarding operational issues, it says. If the Beer Ombudsman is unable to resolve a complaint, it may be submitted to a
dispute resolution process.
The lineup to apply can start forming over on the left.
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Beer tax

.................................

The Ontario government is looking to raise an extra

$100-million annually on sales of beer in the province.
There will be a volumetric charge on all beer sold in
the province what most people would call a tax,
equivalent to $1 on a case of 24 that retailers will
have to swallow for the first two years. The province
will also seek to claw back for the taxpayer some of the
proceeds of legislatively imposed increases in the minimum price of beer, which the report says tend to be
applied at all price points. And it will index to inflation
some beer-related service charges at the LCBO.
Net impact? Pricier suds.
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Cheaper Ontario beer

.................................................

Maybe the higher price wont bother Ontarians so

much, because according to the report, beer-drinkers
pay less in this province than in others with less-stringent retailing regulations.
The report compares what it describes as the weighted average price of all home consumer packaged beer
products sold through the Beer Store. Using that metric, it claims that a two-four costs $34 to $35 in Ontario.
It says the price paid by the consumer is about the
same in Quebec, but the taxes per case are lower there,
and about $40 in Alberta and British Columbia.
Dont believe it? Take it up with the ombudsman.
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Pilot for 12-packs

..................................................................

Of course, the two-four isnt for everyone. The report

calls for a trial selling 12-packs at 10 outlets of the
LCBO, which had been restricted to sales of six-packs.
If the 12-pack pilot is successful, there could be more
than 220 LCBO stores (including the existing 167 LCBO
combination stores) and 217 agency stores selling 12- or
24-packs of beer in smaller communities across Ontario, the report says.
The recommendations are also touted as a way to
make it easier for the LCBO or the Beer Store to open
new stores in under-served communities.
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Milk, eggs and beer

........................................................

The report is calling for beer to be sold in up to 450

grocery stores across the province, as long as they meet
shelf-space requirements for small brewers and purchase the beer from the LCBO. This will make it more
convenient for some consumers. But it wont be quite
as simple as grabbing chips, dip and beer from the
same aisle.
The area selling beer will have to be physically distinct from the rest of the retail space effectively a
stand-alone boutique within the store. Employees will
need special training, minimum pricing will be in effect
and sales will be limited to six-packs.
These stores-within-stores are also to have the same
operating hours as other beer retailers. So forget about
making a midnight run for more beer.
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Oliver Moore
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FROM PAGE 1

Ontario: Retail
changes for beer
touted while
Hydro One sale
downplayed

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The province plans to start the Hydro

One sell-off with a 15-per-cent initial
public offering, and get to the 60-per-cent
mark in four years. No private investor will
be allowed to own more than 10 per cent,
leaving the government with a plurality of
shares. One small piece of Hydro One, its
Brampton distribution unit, will be sold
separately for $607-million in a solesource deal with three other local utilities.
Privatization could be a hard sell in Ontario, where previous private power deals
have added costs to electricity bills. The
province also sits in the shadow of the
sell-off of the 407 toll highway in the
late-1990s, widely derided as a deal that
left government with significantly less
money than it could have made.
Unions and the NDP immediately
warned a Hydro One sale would lead to
higher prices as private companies pushed
for greater profits with the provinces electricity regulator. They also pointed to the
fact Hydro One would be taken out of the
purview of provincial Ombudsman Andr
Marin, who has taken the corporation to
task repeatedly on behalf of consumers.
During the daily Question Period
which unfolded as Ms. Wynne was across
the street briefing reporters on the
changes the New Democrats banged
their desks for 15 minutes, bringing proceedings to a standstill as Speaker Dave
Levac ejected them.
This cannot go private because it has to
be the public interest that comes first
when it comes to hydro, NDP Leader
Andrea Horwath said later.
Mr. Clark argued the incremental sell-off
is cautious enough that it can be done
without hurting consumers: We think
weve got that right balance, and we think
the market will accept it.
But in a tacit acknowledgment of the political battle they will face over hydro, the
Liberals played up the more popular
changes to beer retail instead. During her
news conference, Ms. Wynne stood before
a massive sign that touted beer in grocery
stores but made not a single reference to
Hydro One.
The Beer Store has grown into a de facto monopoly, controlled by a very small
number of companies. This system has stifled competition, its kept craft and small
brewers from growing and its limited the
consumer experience, she said.
The beer changes themselves will likely
only raise enough money to compensate
for the dividends the government will lose
from privatizing Hydro One, but Liberal
insiders said the province felt the measures would be popular with the public.
The plan will grant 450 grocery stores
the right to sell beer, levy a tax that works
out to $1 per case and loosen some Beer
Store strictures. The company, currently
owned by three multinational conglomerates, will be made to allow all Ontario
brewers to become owners, give 20 per
cent of shelf space to craft beer and let
smaller restaurants and bars pay retail
prices instead of the higher cost they are
currently charged.
The reaction was significantly better
than on hydro.
Its creating a lot of buzz and its going
to end up increasing the overall industry,
said Cam Heaps, co-founder of Torontos
Steamwhistle Brewing and chair of Ontario Craft Brewers.
Beer Store president Ted Moroz promised to co-operate with the provinces
plans. We will continue to work with the
government now to implement our next
generation of changes, he said in a statement.
But Progressive Conservative finance
critic Vic Fedeli pointed out the changes
are relatively minor, and said they were
only meant to distract from the Hydro
One sale and the provinces fiscal woes.
The whole Beer Store discussion is to
get us talking about the shiny bauble here
of the Beer Store when the real issue is
they have a $10.9-billion deficit, he said.

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TRANSPORTATION

15-minute
GO rail service
to see gradual
introduction
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OLIVER MOORE TORONTO

URBAN TRANSPORTATION
REPORTER
................................................................

The Liberal governments pledge

of 15-minute service across the
GO Transit rail network is going
to have a slow start, with many
trains coming much less frequently 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 commuter service, running largely in
the morning and evening, to
what the government calls
Regional Express Rail: electrified
GO trains operating all day, multiple times an hour.
For more than a year, the
government has touted 15-minute
GO service. Last spring, Ms.
Wynne promised to phase in allday frequent electrified service.
Around the same time, Mr. Del
Ducas predecessor, Glen Murray,
said the service would rival commuter rail in Paris.
Official documents and senior
executives at Metrolinx, the
transit agency for the Greater
Toronto and Hamilton Area, were
always more restrained than the
public rhetoric, cautioning that
not all lines had enough riders
for such a service increase.
According to sources, the move
toward 15-minute service will
begin only at peak times.
GO service increases will start
on the Lakeshore lines, which
carry about half the current
ridership. It will also increase on
parts of the Barrie, Kitchener and
Stouffville lines. Riders on the
Milton and Richmond Hill lines
will have to wait longer.

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

FROM PAGE 1

Ghomeshi: Former host shared details about his own sex life
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Heather Conway, the executive vice-president of English services, said we support

and are in agreement with the
recommendations that are here,
and we will be working every day
to address any kinds of weaknesses that existed in the management system.
Mr. Ghomeshi faces seven
counts of sexual assault and one
of overcoming resistance by
choking, but the Rubin report
found most of his corrosive behaviour was of a more mundane
sort. He subjected his co-workers
to a steady drumbeat of ill-tempered conduct, freezing out those
who displeased him and regularly diminishing others contributions.
Still, it does detail sexualized

conduct and comments of Mr.

Ghomeshi, charging that he was
overly familiar with a number of
female employees and gave them
back rubs and massages.
Mr. Ghomeshi also flirted with
a number of women present in
the workplace, including on-air
guests, and shared details
about his own sex life. There
were incidents where Mr. Ghomeshi shared information that
witnesses found too personal, too
graphic and generally unsavoury.
While the report says Ms. Rubin
found no evidence of a formal
complaint made against Mr. Ghomeshi under the CBCs policies,
it notes that, as he was a star who
wielded power, they perceived
themselves as vulnerable. Co-

workers upset with his behaviour

were reluctant to complain for a
number of reasons, including a
lack of trust and confidence in
the complaint process. It adds
that, while Mr. Ghomeshis star
was allowed to rise, his problematic behaviour was left
unchecked.
The report makes nine recommendations to beef up its workplace protections, including the
establishment of a confidential
hotline and a Respect at Work
and Human Rights Ombudsperson, and calls for the creation of
workplace surveys and spot
audits.
It also suggests the broadcaster
establish a task force with its
union, the Canadian Media Guild,
to address the difficulties many

younger employees have securing reliable work, and establishing a career at the CBC and their
vulnerability to behaviour that is
contrary to the behavioural standard in order to maintain their
employment. The report says
younger workers eloquently
described the cost to them, financially, emotionally and otherwise,
of being professionally insecure.
On Thursday, the broadcaster
issued pink slips for 241
employees across the country,
following an announcement last
month that it would cut $15-million from its annual budget.
Mr. Ghomeshi is free on
$100,000 bail. He will be back in
court April 28. None of the allegations have been proved in
court.

A new poll indicates Jim Prentices approval rating has sunk to 22 per cent
from 50 per cent four months ago. JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Alberta: Poll veracity debated

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Parties publicly dismiss poor

results. Good numbers are
mentioned, but not so enthusiastically that the parties appear to
assume the campaign is over.
That is why all the major political
parties have their own polls
done. Political insiders say the
PCs will spend $300,000 to
$600,000 for polls and market
research.
Mr. Prentice has given his critics enough material to undermine his bid to stay on as
premier. There were the orchestrated defections of 11 Wildrose
members, including party leader
Danielle Smith, who crossed the
floor to strengthen the PCs. There
was the new budget that critics
said made too many cuts in child
care and not enough to the provinces deficit. There was the look
in the mirror comment scolding
Albertans for overspending.
There was also the call for an
election, which prompted Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi to say
that if were in a world where its
difficult to find $200,000 to
investigate the deaths of children
in care, to then find $30-million
to run an election its a tough
argument for me to make.
On Wednesday, Mr. Prentice
promised a Conservative government would not negotiate publicsector raises and would cut the
number of agencies, boards and
commissions to eliminate duplicated services. With a PC source
saying an internal poll suggests
the outcome will be a Tory
minority, the move appears to be
aimed at persuading enough people to stick to their Tory-voting
ways to give the party a clear victory, as they did when Alison
Redford was leader in 2012.
In the buildup to that election,
almost all the polls had Ms.
Smith and the Wildrose knocking
the Tories for a loop. But the PCs
handily won their 12th consecutive majority government.

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I keep going back to the lessons of 2012, Ms. Brown said.

And in 2012, I believe the public
did have a strong desire to send
the PCs a message. But, in the
end, they didnt have the nerve
to defeat the government. I think
the same thing may be going on
in this election.
So what happened with the
polling?
When I was with Redford, we
made the decision to portray
Danielle Smith and Wildrose as
extreme, said Stephen Carter,
who worked for the former premier as campaign manager and
chief of staff. People are motivated more by fear than opportunity. The hyper-engaged know
how theyre going to vote. The
less engaged make their decision
in last 72 hours to 72 seconds
before marking their ballot. It is
those people who can decide an
election.
The undecided made up 20 per
cent of the more than 3,000
Albertans who responded in the
survey released on Wednesday.
That poll had an overall margin
of error plus or minus 1.76 percentage points, 19 times out of
20.
The veracity of polling has
become a subject for debate,
because much of it is now done
using a technique called Interactive Voice Response, which is automated calls to people at home
or on their mobile phone. Critics
and some pollsters believe only
angry people who are willing to
remain on the phone with an automated voice.
If the results are, in fact,
skewed toward angry voters, and
voters who are satisfied with the
PCs are under-represented, it
would be faulty logic to conclude
that the findings are more accurate because numerous polls
have similar numbers, Ms.
Brown said. Skewed results are
skewed.

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WILDLIFE

INVESTIGATION

Spring seal hunt

Winnipeg
Ballet fires
staffer amid
police probe

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STEVE LAMBERT WINNIPEG

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of Canada states that institutions

must not use public funds to
purchase advertising in support
of a political party, Privy Council Office spokesman Raymond
Rivet said in an e-mail.
All government of Canada
advertising is designed to comply with the guidance set out in
the policy.
Compliance is in the eye of the
beholder, says Alex Marland, a
political science professor at Memorial University in St. Johns.
Strong, proud, free obviously
is something you could derive
from the national anthem.
Theres nothing necessarily partisan about that, Prof. Marland
said.

The Royal Winnipeg Ballet has

dismissed an instructor amid a
police investigation into complaints that nude photos were
taken of former female dance students.
The ballet company announced
Thursday it had parted ways with
Bruce Monk, who was named by
Macleans magazine as being under investigation for allegedly taking 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 investigation on Jan 7. On Jan. 8, Bruce
was put on administrative, paid
leave while the police did their
investigation, which I believe is
ongoing.
This week, the ballet went a step
further and severed ties with Mr.
Monk, Mr. Herd said.
Winnipeg police said the investigation was nearly complete and
the Crown was being consulted as
to the next steps. Police released
few details, other than to say
there are several alleged victims,
one unnamed male suspect and
the events date back more than
20 years, when privacy and pornography laws were different.
The significance of time, the
changes in laws there are a
number of complexities that we
are dealing with, with respect to
the investigation, said police
spokesperson Constable Jason
Michalyshen.
Any and all victims need to be
heard, and we have given them
that opportunity. Our report has
been or will be submitted [to the
Crown].
Attempts to reach Mr. Monk
Thursday were not immediately
successful.

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FEDERAL POLITICS

Genesis of Harpers new slogan is a secret

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BRUCE CHEADLE OTTAWA

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Strong. Proud. Free. And a state

secret.
The genesis of the Conservative governments Strong Proud
Free slogan that is bombarding
television viewers is considered a
cabinet confidence and will be
sealed from public scrutiny for
20 years.
A request under the Access to
Information Act seeking any
background rationale for the
tagline, which is being used to
punctuate all the latest taxpayerfunded advertising, has come up
empty.
Thats because a 149-page Treasury Board submission on advertising has been deemed advice to
cabinet, placing it behind a lead

sheet of secrecy that even the

federal information commissioner cant penetrate. No title for
the submission, nor a date, author or even the department
that originally prepared it can be
revealed.
A spokesman for the Privy
Council Office, the bureaucracy
that supports the Prime Ministers Office, would only say that
the slogan is drawn from the
thematics of the governments
2013 Throne Speech.
Opposition critics point out the
language is also drawn from the
2011 Conservative party platform
and mirrors the themes promoted as Conservative values on the
party website and in fundraising
pitches.
The theme of this election

years Canada Day celebrations

in Ottawa? Strong. Proud. Free.
Using cabinet confidentiality
on something that should be so
benign is ridiculous, said Mathieu Ravignat, the NDP Treasury
Board critic.
Theyve been caught using a
partisan tagline and theyre hiding behind cabinet confidentiality to avoid the political fallout.
No minister or department will
claim responsibility for the
whole-of-government marketing
campaign, and requests for comment from the Prime Ministers
Office were returned by the Privy
Council, which co-ordinates the
development of government
advertising.
Section 23 of the communications policy of the government

LEGISLATION

Charities to be exempt from

Saskatchewan strip-club ban
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CLARE CLANCY REGINA

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Licensed strip clubs are no longer

allowed in Saskatchewan, but the
government says it will make an
exception for charitable events
once a year.
Premier Brad Wall announced
last month that his government
would reverse its decision to
allow licensed strip clubs because
of concerns about human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Mr. Wall said he believed it had
been a mistake to change provincial liquor laws to allow partial
stripping in bars.
The revised regulations will
allow striptease entertainment in
places such as theatres, casinos
and exhibition halls once a year
with a special permit.
Don McMorris, minister responsible for the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority, said
the exception is being made
because there are worthy fundraising events that include striptease entertainment.

But any permanent liquorlicence place such as a bar would

not be allowed, he said on
Thursday. It would only be on
special permits.
He said if communities want to
hold charitable striptease events
at smaller venues, organizers can
apply through the Saskatchewan
Liquor and Gaming Authority.
Performers would still only be
allowed to strip down to pasties
and underwear.
The government cited an
upcoming Ladies Night Out!
Spring Fever show at TCU Place
in Saskatoon featuring Canadian
Playboyz and Body Heat as an
event that could benefit from the
exemption if it were to partner
with a charity.
In January, Regina city councillors voted to reject a proposal for
the citys first licensed strip club.
The concept had been approved
by the citys planning commission.
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Wildrose Leader considers

wifes pie controversy closed
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BILL GRAVELAND CALGARY

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Wildrose Leader Brian Jean faced

questions Thursday about an
election candidate who encouraged supporters to bring your
wifes pie to a fundraising bake
sale.
The to-do came one day after
another hopeful was dumped for
eight-year-old comments made
about a gay pride brunch.
Candidate Rick Strankmans
campaign issued an invitation
on Twitter to attend a pie auction and urged folks to take a
break from calving, farming,
spring work and NHL playoffs.
It was billed as BYWP (Bring
Your Wifes Pie!!!)
Is this for real? If so, 1950 just
called, tweeted Premier Jim
Prentices media spokeswoman
Emily Woods.
NDP Leader Rachel Notley
laughed out loud when asked
about the pie auction. Mr.
Strankman has perhaps some

out-of-date assumptions about

who does the cooking, she said.
I would say perhaps its clear he
has a sweet tooth, but he needs
a wisdom tooth.
Mr. Strankman, who is running
in the largely rural riding of
Drumheller-Stettler in the May 5
vote, apologized. It was posted
by our volunteers through my
account, he tweeted. As soon
as I saw it, I asked them to take
it down.
The developments came a day
after the party announced it
would not sign the nomination
papers for Russ Kuykendall in
the constituency of Calgary Varsity.
The party wouldnt say why it
wouldnt endorse Mr. Kuykendall, but comments made on a
blog in 2007 criticizing a gay
pride brunch that was held in a
Catholic church hall were circulating on Twitter at the time.
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DAVID WALMSLEY, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
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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 philosophy behind Ontarios so-called New Beer Framework. It is

not about competition or customer choice. Its not about markets.

The Great Beer Leap Forward will at least bring beer to more stores
some grocery stores, even but the system isnt really changing.
Nor is the Liberal governments 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. Hes there to listen.
Premier Kathleen Wynne announced the new beer strategy on
Thursday, with her Twitter feed appropriating the hashtag #FreeTheBeer. 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 assiduously lobbied and greased provincial government. If you think
the solution is for the monopoly to be ended and free market competition to replace it, you are out of luck. If, on the other hand,
your preferred idea is for politicians to get even more deeply into
the business of beer central planning, then the province has a plan

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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Pray (dont) tell

youll love.
That plan, adopted by the Wynne government after a report by
former TD Financial Group CEO Ed Clark, will turn a concentrated
monopoly into a complex, multi-channel, many-tiered beast, overseen by Queens Park. The Clark report says the number of places
selling beer across the province will increase by about 30 per cent.
But the free market you know, consumer demand wont decide
where that happens. Or when. Or how. Premier Mom and Co. will
retain control. That is likely to ensure that beer remains one of the
provinces most lucrative neighbourhoods for lobbyists and party
fundraisers.
Consider the promise of beer in grocery stores. Your average gro-

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Re Top Court Rules Against Prayer

In Council (April 16): Since neutrality is necessary for the state
rather than for individuals, why
not have meetings of this nature
start with a minute of silent
reflection so people of faith, no
matter their religion, can pray
and non-religious folk, whether
agnostic or atheist, can prepare
for the meeting as they see fit?
Seems simple enough, even if
some want to make it harder than
necessary.
Amy Soule, Hamilton
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cer would be happy to start selling beer the day after tomorrow,
but the government is determined to move at the pace of a banana

A media elite?

slug on downers. Mr. Clarks report says that eventually as many as

450 grocery stores could be licensed. For the moment, however, all
it promises is up to 150 grocery stores carrying beer by May 1,
2017. Two years from now? Seriously? This is not the Apollo moon
landing. Its putting some beer in a fridge.
But the Wynne government is instead making things as complex
and convoluted as possible. Only urban grocery stores will be eligible for a beer-selling licence. There will be uniform pricing between grocers and The Beer Store no competition allowed and
limits on how much beer each grocery store will be allowed to sell.
And grocers will not be allowed to sell anything larger than a sixpack. Of course not.
Why will only some grocery stores get to sell beer? We believe,
says the Clark report, that by offering a limited number of licences, scarcity will be maintained. Competition and consumer convenience are not the primary goals. The objective is for
government to extract the maximum revenue from the sector, in
this case through what looks like an auctioned licensing fee.
Then theres the LCBO. The government liquor monopoly, which

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Re Does A Media Elite Exist In

Canada Or Not? (Life & Arts
April 16): To borrow from artist
Jenny Holzer, an elite is inevitable. Whether politicians engage
in direct clientelism with them is
another, more nuanced, story.
Many believe the Conservatives
have stacked the Senate with
dubious appointments in order to
discredit it, with the eventual goal
of removing the obstacle of sober
second thought entirely.
Few could seriously doubt that
the press in Canada is a parochial
circus; as former U.S. treasury secretary Lawrence Summers infamously said: Outsiders can say
whatever they want, but insiders
dont criticize other insiders.
To frame it as a shadowy, clubby
elite does less to expose a conspiracy than to elevate it from lowstakes game to chintzy pageant. If
only it were that interesting.
Jamie F. Reid, Toronto

for the benefit of the Beer Store has long been restricted in its beer

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sales including not selling anything bigger than a six-pack will

Vets deserve better

now be permitted to conduct a 10-store pilot study to explore the

viability of offering 12-packs. Gosh. A pilot project. To study
whether its humanly possible to sell more than six beers. That is
surely the most revolutionary idea since the fall of the Bastille.
But be of good cheer: The government is ordering The Beer Store
to improve the experience of its customers. It promises to spend
$100-million to modernize, with 80 per cent of the money allocated to retail store improvements. Please call the Beer Ombudsman with your interior decorating suggestions.
This is a plan not to #FreeTheBeer. Its more of a scheme to
#SaveTheBeerStore. Queens Park wants to ensure the golden
goose keeps on laying golden eggs, albeit with more of them ending up in government coffers. For example, the Clark panel notes
that it initially favoured allowing the LCBO to sell 12-packs, but
backed off and now merely wants to explore the idea. Why? This
initiative, says the report, may significantly erode the economics of The Beer Store. Well, yes, competition might do that.
The greatest irony of all? The Beer Store announcement came on
the same day as the more controversial, more complex overhaul of
the provinces electricity system which is similarly motivated by a
need for cash. That deal, which may net the province as much as
$9-billion, but possibly at the cost of future revenues down the
road, could ultimately have a much bigger impact on consumers
than fiddling with booze sales.
Its a topic well return to next week.

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What are we to think of a government that increasingly involves

us in wars, yet wont take care of
our injured vets (Veterans Affairs
Cut Despite Warnings April 16)?
Or a government that cant
manage to make laws that conform to our Constitution?
Or a government that turns a
surplus into a deficit, then cripples its ability to repay by reducing taxes for political purposes?
Despite Conservative criticisms
of the abilities of Liberal Leader
Justin Trudeau and NDP Leader
Thomas Mulcair, I doubt either
could have done a worse job of
running our country even if
they tried to.
Doug Gregory, Pickering, Ont.
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Once again we note the arrogance

of the Harper government: We
make no apologies for reducing
bureaucratic expenses at Veterans
Affairs Canada, states MP Parm
Gill, then-parliamentary secretary
to the veterans affairs minister.
This government loves to wrap

itself in the flag and laud the contribution of the brave men and
women of our Armed Forces.
But when it comes to providing
appropriate services to those
same brave men and women
upon their return home, the Conservatives are missing in action.
Chris Phillips, Ancaster, Ont.

er nations. In Canadas case, it

seems to be the sure way of guaranteeing an end to the Harper era.
Margarida Krause, Guelph, Ont.

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In my practice of psychiatry, it
was obvious that the longer a
patient was on the waiting list for
treatment after symptoms developed, the longer and more difficult successful treatment became.
In the long run, the result of this
delay by Veterans Affairs will
mean more staff and more money
will be required. In the short run,
the damaging consequences to
the ill veteran and his/her family
are most difficult to endure, and
may become insurmountable.
Not only is this a financially irresponsible way to run things, but it
is also very callous.
Archibald Wilkie Kushner, Ottawa

I am a retired provincial court

judge (Supreme Court Guns
Down Good Law editorial, April
15). In my experience, in most
cases where a statutory minimum
sentence was provided for, the
sentence was appropriate in
most cases, but not all.
Sometimes it led to an injustice.
The solution is for Parliament
and provincial legislatures to
consider instead requiring standard (rather than minimum)
sentences which the courts must
impose for certain types of
offences unless, in the particular
circumstance of the offence or of
the offender, the court considers
that a more or less severe punishment would be appropriate.
In those cases, the court should
have the discretion to depart
from the standard sentence.
Jakob de Villiers, Victoria

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Willing a coalition
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Re Trudeau Quashes Idea Of Coalition With Mulcair (April 15):

Why would any opposition leader
rule out the possibility of a coalition? Michael Ignatieff made the
same mistake when he was Liberal leader, thereby allowing Stephen Harper to demonize the
whole idea of coalitions for
everyone but himself. The Conservatives hold power by forming
one of the most successful and
ruthless coalitions in history, so
successful that most Canadians
have forgotten thats what the
party is.
The opposition should keep Mr.
Harper guessing and losing sleep
not show its hand like rubes sitting down to poker with a cardsharp. It must offer the public one
big tent of middle, left and Green
before election day. That is the
only sure way to rid our democracy of a politics of fear, environmental destruction and contempt
for the values that two-thirds of
us hold dear.
Ronald Wright,
Saltspring Island, B.C.
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Let me add my cheers to letter

writer David Greers for Elizabeth
May as leader of a possible coalition of the three progressive parties (Ms. May For PM April 16).
I would be proud to have her as
our prime minister and her gender is by no means my primary
consideration. It just adds to the
many qualities she has demonstrated during her career: intelligence, leadership, common
sense, integrity, outspokenness
and oratorical ability.
I regret that the Liberals and
NDP seem intimidated by the
Conservatives to the point of shying away from any hint of a coalition. There is nothing wrong
about a system that has been
working well for a number of oth-

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Grounded security?
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Stephen Harper looked delighted

when signing a deal with his
counterpart, Narendra Modi, supplying uranium to fuel nuclear
power facilities in India (Harper
Inks $350-Million Nuclear Deal
With India April 16).
Coming on the heels of his condemnation of Iran, which is trying
to put its own nuclear power program in place, it seems somewhat
illogical to show such support for
India which, along with North
Korea, Pakistan and Israel, is not a
signatory of the Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty, nor the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
India first tested a nuclear device called Smiling Buddha
about 40 years ago by using plutonium produced in a Canadiansupplied reactor; now there will
be seven-million pounds of uranium shipped there from Saskatchewan over the next five years.
Bernie Smith, Parksville, B.C.
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Are my eyes deceiving me or did I

see Stephen Harper and Narendra
Modi emerge from the same jet
following a flight from Ottawa to
Toronto? In this day and age, we
have the Prime Minister of Canada and the Prime Minister of India
both flying on the same plane?
Go figure.
Ron Kelterborn,
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.
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Include name, address and daytime
phone number. Keep letters under
150 words. Letters may be edited
for length and clarity.
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TPP tactics
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GARY MASON
gmason@globeandmail.com
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CALGARY
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nother day on the Alberta

election trail, another poll
suggesting the provinces natural
governing party is in big trouble.
This may go down as one of the
strangest elections in the provinces history. After being ruled
by the Progressive Conservatives
for more than 43 years, we are
now seeing polls that put the
New Democrats in a statistical tie
with the provinces right-wing
option, Wildrose. The same Wildrose many had given up for dead
last fall when its leader and 10
others defected to the Tories.
Most who follow politics have
become rightly suspicious of
mid-campaign polls, so spectacularly wrong have they been in
recent years. One of the most
egregious flameouts by these
polling firms was in the last
Alberta election, when virtually
every opinion survey from the
opening of the campaign showed
the Wildrose on the road to victo-

ry. And then the PCs were

returned with an even bigger majority.
What the recent polls here
dont tell you is who theyre
reaching. Will the people these
firms are talking to actually vote
on election day? In the last B.C.
election, polls from the beginning to the end of the campaign
had the New Democrats cruising
to an easy victory. What the polling companies didnt appear to
factor in was that most of the 1825-year-olds who said they were
going to vote NDP didnt end up
casting a ballot. Sadly, its just not
something 20-somethings are inclined to do in this country.
Back in Alberta, the polls have
consistently shown a high undecided number. Its not uncommon for a vast swath of the
electorate to make up their mind
in the last 24 to 48 hours of the
campaign. Some people dont
decide until they step behind the
ballot box. Voter turnout in this
election is expected to be exceedingly low. Who does that favour?
No one knows for sure.
All that said, there is little question something is going on here
that has Jim Prentice and his Progressive Conservatives rattled
and concerned. Dont let them try
and tell you anything different.
The NDP ascendancy is real.
The latest poll shows them with

51-per-cent support among committed voters in Edmonton,

which is the historical heartland
of the party in Alberta. Rejuvenated under the charismatic
leadership of Rachel Notley, the
Dippers have a real shot at winning a majority of the 19 seats up
for grabs in the capital.
Edmonton is a town of civil servants, the same ones Mr. Prentice
says have been living too high off
the hog and need to have their
pay grades brought down a few
notches. This is also the same political constituency, interestingly
enough, that helped the PCs
defeat Wildrose in 2012 now the
Tories seem to have alienated
them completely.
Meantime, small c conservatives in the province werent impressed with the provincial
budget, which increased taxes, increased debt and backed off the
deep program cuts the government had been foreshadowing.
Nor were they impressed with the
Tories involvement in the mass
defection of Wildrosers. One
senses that many people believe
its time the provinces longstanding government is taught a
lesson, both for its unbridled
arrogance and years of fiscal mismanagement.
Through his actions, Mr. Prentice has created huge problems
for himself on both ends of the

political spectrum. Hes boxed

himself in, observes Mount Royal Universitys David Taras.
Consequently, Mr. Prentice has
spent virtually every day on the
campaign trail fending off attacks
from his two main rivals. If its
not the NDP railing on about
unacceptable hospital wait times
and the decision to raise taxes for
everyone but corporations, its
Wildrose criticizing the Tories for
continuing to allow debt to balloon while not shrinking the size
of government enough.
The opposition has done a good
job of keeping Mr. Prentice on the
defensive, at the same time
ensuring the Premier doesnt establish any momentum of his
own. Instead, he has been forced
to make new promises no raises
for public servants until the
budget is balanced that appear
to be a direct response to Wildrose encroachments into their
conservative voter base.
No one knows where this will
all finally end up. But Mr. Taras, a
political scientist who has observed elections here since 1986,
believes something is afoot.
Theres anger searching for a
place to go. Right now, Jim Prentice is not looking like a symbol
of change.
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GEOPOLITICS

The Soviet Union didnt die

In Russia and Ukraine, the agony inflicted by the bears quest for empire lives on
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SERHII PLOKHY
Professor of history at Harvard
University, 25th winner of the Lionel
Gelber Prize for his book The Last
Empire: The Final Days of the
Soviet Union
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ast Sunday, as Orthodox

Christians throughout the
world celebrated Easter, many in
Ukraines war-torn Donbass
region prayed for peace. It did
not come. That day, in fact, the
shelling intensified. According to
Ukrainian authorities, there were
11 mortar attacks by Russiabacked separatists. In villages on
the Ukrainian side, people were
afraid to go to church to bless
their Easter bread, and in some
places, Easter services were
cancelled altogether. Monday
brought artillery shelling and
tank attacks. Six Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 12 wounded. On Wednesday, Organization
for Security and Co-operation in
Europe (OSCE) observers counted more than 700 explosions
around the city of Donetsk.
This kind of news no longer
makes headlines in the West. It
has become the norm, despite
the recently signed Minsk II
agreement negotiated by Germanys Angela Merkel and

Frances Franois Hollande. The

key factor in the lack of progress
remains the position of Russia,
which continues to arm, supply
and reinforce with its mercenaries the separatist armies in
Ukraines east. Why does Russia
do so?
Some world leaders, including
Ms. Merkel, have suggested that
Russian President Vladimir Putin
is living in another world. Former
American president Bill Clinton
thinks Mr. Putin is trying to restore the greatness of Russia as a
19th-century empire. Mr. Putin
denies that. But he has never
concealed his regret, even bitterness, about the fall of the Soviet
Union. In a speech on the occasion of the Russian annexation of
Crimea in March, 2014, he referred to the Soviet collapse as a
form of robbery of Russia.
That month, the Soviet empire
that had disappeared 23 years
earlier struck back as the Russian
leadership decided to rewrite history. The saga of Soviet disintegration seems to have taken an
unexpected turn. What happened in 1991, however, can not
only help explain the origins of
the current crisis, but also suggest a solution.
In late November, 1991, on the
eve of the Ukrainian referendum

that showed overwhelming

(more than 90-per-cent) support
for independence, then-president
Boris Yeltsin of Russia explained
to U.S. president George H.W.
Bush that Russia would not stay
in the Soviet Union if Ukraine departed it did not want to be
outnumbered and outvoted by
the Muslim republics of Central
Asia. Mr. Yeltsins advisers were
telling him that Russia could not
afford to subsidize other republics: Oil prices were barely above
$20 per barrel, after falling to $10
earlier in the year.
Like many other former imperial powers, Russia opted out of
the empire because it lacked the
resources to keep the costly imperial project going. Unlike most
of its counterparts, however, it
kept the rich oil and gas resources of the empire most of the Soviet oil and gas reserves were
located in Russian Siberia. Russian control over oil and gas
resources made divorce from the
empire in 1991 easier in economic terms and prevented armed
conflict between Russia and the
republics that declared independence. Over the past decade, rising oil and gas prices have made
it possible for Russia to rebuild
its economic potential and military might, allowing it to reopen

the question of disputed borders

and territories and step up its efforts to gather back the Soviet republics more than 20 years after
the Soviet Unions collapse.
But the events of the past year
have shown that there is no easy
way back to the imperial past.
Russia has paid an enormous political and economic price for its
venture into Ukraine. The pressure of Western sanctions, coupled with low oil prices, helped
to send Russias economy into
recession. The annexation of Crimea, which now drains more
money from Russias state budget
than Chechnya, and the ongoing
war in the Donbass add to the
existing price tag.
The time has come for the Russian leadership and the public at
large to look back at 1991 not as a
year of humiliation to be overcome, but as a time when the
Russian leadership realized that
the age of empires was over and
made a number of pragmatic political and economic decisions
that benefited Russia not only in
the short but also in the long
term.
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Serhii Plokhy will receive his award

and deliver a free public lecture on
April 21 at the Munk School
of Global Affairs in Toronto.

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DEREK BURNEY
FEN OSLER HAMPSON
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onsidering whats at stake for

Canada in the Trans-Pacific
Partnership talks, its hard to
know whether all the hype emanating from Washington these
days about a fast-approaching
finish line is accurate or simply good, old-fashioned American
negotiating tactics.
Finish lines, like red lines, do
have a certain elasticity with the
current administration, as weve
seen repeatedly in Syria, the United States nuclear negotiations
with Iran and Russias incursions
in Ukraine.
A glimpse at history is revealing. As the negotiations on the
North American free-trade agreement were about to conclude in
late 1992, the Americans were
adamant that Canada and Mexico both ratify the deal without
delay. Both complied. However,
the United States did not manage
to ratify NAFTA for almost a full
year, delaying implementation to
1994 after passage by the thinnest
of margins three votes in the
House of Representatives. So,
elastic timetables were in vogue
even back then, and Congress,
not the administration, is the ultimate decision maker.
Canadas 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 market-access improvements in key
Asian markets such as Japan, Malaysia 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. Canadians should not forget that
these threats emanate from a
representative of an administration 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
negotiators Canadian counterpart represents a government
that has the authority not only to
negotiate, but also to conclude
trade agreements.
The biggest fly in the TPP ointment at this juncture is that the
U.S. administration does not yet
have such authority from Congress. And while the hype suggests that congressional action is
imminent, there is also talk of
riders being added that would
make the negotiating authority
less than pure or unadulterated.
If authority is granted without
hooks, Canada will have to
decide whether the get from
the overall negotiations exceeds
the give, and whether the pain
of a gradual unwinding of supply
management is a price worth
paying in the run-up to an election. Consumers certainly stand
to benefit as would Canadian
food processors but supply management has long been a third
rail (sacred cow!) of sorts for all
political parties.
Apart from the U.S. Congress,
Japan has a pivotal role on TPP.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will
visit Washington and address
Congress later this month. For
Japan, security ties with the United States and the ulterior TPP
motive of containing China are
prominent factors favouring support for the negotiation.
TPP may become a consummation devoutly to be wished,
but there is no need to panic
until the ink is dry and Congress
has spoken. And the best negotiating tactic for Canada is to
keep its powder dry and hedge
its bets with concrete overtures
to China and India that could pay
similar dividends and send a
much-needed signal to Washington that we are not on their leash
and have other suitors who want
our products and our services.
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Derek H. Burney, Canadas ambassador to the United States from

1989 to 1993, was directly involved
in negotiating the Canada-U.S. freetrade agreement. Fen Osler Hampson is director of Global Security at
the Centre for International Governance Innovation.

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NEWS

S T H E G LO B E A N D M A I L

F R I D AY , A P R I L 1 7 , 2 0 1 5

FROM PAGE 1

Transgender: CAMH clinic approved 177 surgeries last year, up from 59 in 2010
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Coverage varies from place

to place, and it remains difficult to obtain surgeries and the
hormone treatments that should
precede them. A private Montreal clinic is the only place in Canada 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.
Were not quite hitting the
mark as a country, said Adrian
Edgar, a New Brunswick doctor
who opened that provinces first
trans-friendly health clinic earlier this year inside Frederictons
former Morgentaler clinic. I
dont think theres 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 reassignment surgery can have serious
consequences, said Greta Bauer,
an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the
University of Western Ontario in
London.
Peoples lives are actually at
risk, she said.
Dr. Bauer is one of the lead
researchers on the Trans PULSE
project, which studied 433 Ontario trans people who responded
to an 87-page questionnaire in
2009-2010. It found that people
who had decided to transition
but had not begun to do so were
often suicidal 55 per cent had
considered suicide in the past
year and 27 per cent had tried to
take their own lives. Those figures plunged after people transitioned to their desired gender.
Mr. Maillet found himself in
that high-risk category when he
decided to pay out of pocket for
his double mastectomy on
March 3, 2013.
In a Jan. 28 decision dismissing
his $7,401.50 OHIP claim, the
quasi-judicial board that hears
appeals of OHIP rejections acknowledged that Mr. Maillet was
suffering as he awaited surgery.
He explained the difficulties he
experienced and the delays in
obtaining an appointment at
CAMH, the decision reads. He
explained that he made the decision to undergo surgery to save
his own life.
Despite the fact that Mr. Maillet received CAMHs retroactive
blessing when he finally secured

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
an appointment on Dec. 3,
2013, nine months after his surgery the Health Services
Appeal and Review Board ruled
against him, writing that although his case was very compelling, the rules are clear. No
CAMH pre-approval, no public
funding.
By the time he made his plea
to the board, Mr. Maillet had
spent nearly a lifetime wrestling
with gender dysphoria. He grew
up in Riverview, N.B., where, as
he put it in an interview, there
werent even gay people there.
His parents still love him, he
said, but they are baffled by his
decision to become a man. His
father insists on calling him
Christine.
Really, what was I going to
do? I always wanted to be a boy.
You can see pictures that my
family took of me from the age
of three until forever. Theyre all,
like, building forts in the backyard or playing Dukes of Hazzard or playing with
Transformers. Not typical feminine or female things. I never
went for that. I never was inter-

ested at all.
About a decade ago, Mr. Maillet moved to Ottawa to make a
fresh start. Identifying as a lesbian, he fell into an abusive relationship from which he
eventually escaped. Then he
landed a federal government job,
made a small circle of friends
and gained confidence as a singer performing now and then at
pubs in the capital. Meanwhile,
he dressed as a man and introduced himself simply as Chrys.
It was during a month-long
solo hike on Spains Camino de
Santiago trail in 2010 that Mr.
Maillet finally decided to make
the medical transition to
become a man. When he
returned to Ottawa, he started
testosterone treatments, which
prompted his voice to drop, his
leg hair to thicken and his muscles to bulge. He was sad to lose
his female singing voice, but
otherwise he felt amazing.
It was like, this is exactly how
I want to feel, he said.
Unfortunately, his bulked-up
chest muscles made his breasts
larger; before long he was

hunching his shoulders and suffocating under chest binders

designed to camouflage his
breasts. When he learned about
the waiting times at CAMH, Mr.
Maillet found an Ottawa plastic
surgeon who agreed to perform
the mastectomy after spending
more than three hours assessing
him to ensure he met the criteria for approval set by the World
Professional Association for
Transgender Health (WPATH)
the same standard of care used
by CAMH.
The surgery was a success, but
losing his OHIP appeal made
him feel hopeless. I want to get
married. I want to have kids. I
dont know if Im ever going to
be able to move into a house
with the debt that Im sitting
on, he said.
Dr. McIntosh of CAMH said the
Ontario government needs to rethink the approval process as
demand continues to surge. The
clinic approved 177 surgeries last
year, he said, up from 59 in 2010,
but staff cant keep pace with
the need. The Ministry of Health
and Long-Term Care, meanwhile,

said it doled out nearly $2.2-million on gender reassignment surgeries in 2014-15, up from just
more than $22,000 in 2008-09,
the year the procedures were relisted under OHIP after a 10-year
hiatus.
We certainly support people
being able to access these services closer to their own communities, Dr. McIntosh said.
Were not tied to this model of
us being the only game in town.
For its part, Saskatchewan
added a second site out of
province in Edmonton for surgery approvals last year to increase access. Newfoundland still
lists CAMH as its lone approval
site. Some other provinces, including Nova Scotia, which only
began covering gender reassignment surgeries last year, allow
family doctors to grant approvals
using the WPATH standards.
David Jensen, a spokesperson
for Ontarios Ministry of Health
and Long-Term Care, said by
e-mail that the ministry is
aware of concerns related to wait
times at CAMH and is exploring
options to improve wait times.

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THE WEATHER FOR THIS AFTERNOON

NATIONAL FORECAST
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22/7

Halifax
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Washington
24/13

Atlanta
22/16

New Orleans
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Miami
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The Weather Network 2015

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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
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LAURA MILLS KIEV, UKRAINE

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A journalist with strong pro-Russia views was shot and killed in

Kiev on Thursday, hours after a
former ally of deposed Ukrainian
president Viktor Yanukovych was
slain outside his home, the Interior Ministry said.
Ukrainian officials denounced
the attacks, suggesting they were
likely an outside attempt to destabilize the country. But the killings have also prompted
concerns about the effects of rising anti-Russia sentiment in the
country.
The shootings come after a
spate of mysterious deaths
among Ukrainian officials with
ties to Mr. Yanukovych, as at
least six politicians, many of
whom were facing criminal
charges, died in what local police
deemed as suicides between January and March.
In an April 4 intragovernmental letter reviewed by The Wall
Street Journal, the General Prosecutors office said it had opened

criminal investigations into four

of the apparent suicides, but top
security officials have dismissed
suggestions the deaths could be
homicides and say they arent
connected.
The General Prosecutors office
couldnt be reached for comment
on Thursday.
Oles Buzyna, a journalist and
writer with vocally pro-Russia
views, was killed by masked gunmen who fled the scene in a blue
Ford vehicle, the Interior Ministry said.
The newspaper Segodnya said
Mr. Buzyna had worked there as
a columnist and special correspondent since 2006, and as editor-in-chief from January, 2015
until March. Mr. Buzyna then
quit the newspaper, accusing it
of censorship and forcing him to
write positively about Ukrainian
officials.
The journalists death came
after 52-year-old Oleg Kalashnikov, a member of Mr. Yanukovychs Party of Regions, was
gunned down in Kiev late on

Wednesday. Mr. Yanukovych,

along with many of his closest
associates, fled to Russia last year
amid a pro-Europe uprising in
Kiev against his government.
President Petro Poroshenko
called for a transparent investigation of the two latest killings and
condemned the attacks as the
work of Ukraines adversaries.
This is a deliberate provocation
that plays into the hands of our
enemies, Mr. Poroshenko said.
This is aimed at destabilizing
the internal political situation in
Ukraine, and at discrediting the
political choice of the Ukrainian
people.
Russias President Vladimir
Putin, when questioned in his
annual call-in show on Thursday
in Moscow about the killing of
Mr. Buzyna, said it was a politically motivated attack and criticized what he said was Ukraines
reluctance to investigate similar
crimes.
This is not the first political
killing. In Ukraine, we have seen
a series of such killings, he said.

In Ukraine, they claim to be a

democratic country. Where
are the murderers of these people? They havent found them,
neither the people who committed the crime nor those who
ordered it. In Europe and in
North America, they prefer not
to notice this.
Mr. Putins quick reaction to
the event reinforced talk among
many Ukrainian politicians that
the deaths were a Russian
attempt to undermine the Kiev
government.
It seemed to me that the host
[of the call-in show] had so carefully thought through each word
of the question that he might
have known about the tragedy in
Kiev ahead of time, Anton
Gerashchenko, adviser to the
Ukrainian Ministry of Interior,
wrote on his official Facebook
page. Oles Buzyna and Oleg
Kalashnikov are sacrificial victims.
The debate surrounding the
two killings in Kiev is an eerie
echo of the allegations that have

flown in Russia since the Feb. 27

killing near the Kremlin of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov.
Russian officials have called that
a provocation aimed at destabilizing Russia. Mr. Putin on Thursday said it was absolutely tragic
and shameful, but praised
investigators for the quick identification of suspects.
In Kiev, the killings come amid
increasingly nationalistic language against those with proRussia views. The home addresses of both Mr. Buzyna and Mr.
Kalashnikov were listed on a
website dedicated to publicizing
information about pro-Russia
politicians, journalists and activists.
While the creators of the website say it is run by volunteers,
Mr. Gerashchenko and other officials have publicly promoted the
platform as a useful tool to help
government agencies root out
potential threats to the government in Kiev.
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GREECE

COURTS

Police, protesters and paint

Former
rap mogul
to stand trial
on murder
charges

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BRIAN MELLEY
RAQUEL MARIA DILLON
LOS ANGELES
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Sister Pat Farrell, the president of

the Leadership Conference at the
time. Our understanding is that
we need to continue to respond
to the signs of the times, and the
new questions and issues that
arise in the complexities of modern life are not something we see
as a threat.
The sisters were essentially
caught in the riptide between a
progressive wing of the Catholic
Church eager for change and
reform and a traditionalist flank
focused on returning to what it
sees as doctrinal fundamentals.
Most of the nuns have spent
their lives serving the sick or
needy and not engaged in battles over theology. But when
some sisters began to question
church prohibitions on women
serving as priests, artificial birth
control or the acceptance of
same-sex relationships, their religious orders did not shut down
such discussion or treat it as
apostasy.
The sisters have said for years
that they see no contradiction in
embracing the Catholic faith
while also being open to questioning certain church teachings
based on new information or
new experiences.
Without taking a stand in
favour of the ordination of women or the acceptance of same-sex
relationships, members insisted
that open discussion of church
doctrine was not only their right
but was also healthy for the
church.

Marion (Suge) Knight will stand

trial on murder and attemptedmurder charges after the former
rap music mogul struck two
men with his pickup truck in
January, killing one and seriously 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 didnt remember the
fight and did not want to be a
snitch. Prosecutors played Mr.
Sloans statement to police,
which offered a lucid, detailed
account of the events Jan. 29
that led up to the deadly encounter.
Authorities contend Mr.
Knight intentionally hit the
men, killing Terry Carter, 55. Mr.
Knights lawyer, Matt Fletcher,
says his client was ambushed
and was trying to escape Mr.
Sloans attack when he ran over
the men.
Mr. Sloans testimony demonstrated the difficulty in prosecuting Mr. Knight, who has gang
ties and a reputation for intimidating witnesses.
I will not be used to send
Suge Knight to prison, Mr.
Sloan testified, adding that he
was only on the stand because
he was subpoenaed.
Prosecutors granted Mr. Sloan,
a former gang member whos
known Mr. Knight for decades,
limited immunity after he said
he intended to invoke his Fifth
Amendment right to avoid selfincrimination.
Mr. Knight, 49, was a key
player in the gangster rap scene
that flourished in the 1990s.
Mr. Sloan, an adviser on the
upcoming film Straight Outta
Compton, said he was trying to
forget details of the crash, in
which he suffered two fractured
ankles, a serious cut to his
head, two torn knee ligaments
and a shoulder injury.
Every day, I try to forget it,
Mr. Sloan said. I just know I
screwed up, and Terrys dead.
Mr. Sloans memory troubles
prompted the judge to comment on his testimony: I find
that this witness is being deceptive.
The judge also heard from the
lead detective investigating the
case and watched security-camera footage of the crash. The
camera caught a limited view of
the parking lot but shows Mr.
Knight struggling with Mr. Sloan
through the window of his truck
before putting the vehicle in
reverse, striking Mr. Sloan, then
hitting him again and running
over Mr. Carter while fleeing the
scene.
Mr. Knight faces up to life in
prison if convicted in the case.

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The Associated Press

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RELIGION

Pope Francis drops investigation

of U.S. Catholic nuns group
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LAURIE GOODSTEIN
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The Vatican has abruptly ended

its standoff with U.S. nuns,
announcing that the investigation and oversight of the nuns
main leadership group has been
finished two years earlier than
expected, without instituting any
major changes that would affect
the groups practices or direction.
Four of the leaders of the U.S.
nuns group, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious,
were called to an unexpected
meeting Thursday with Pope
Francis in the Vatican that lasted
50 minutes. He did not speak
publicly, but the sisters said afterward in a statement that they
were deeply heartened by Franciss expression of appreciation
for the lives and ministry of Catholic sisters.
The sweeping investigation of
U.S. womens religious orders was
begun under Francis predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, at the
urging of U.S. and some foreign
prelates who accused the sisters
of disobeying the bishops and departing from Catholic doctrine. It
set off protests by Catholic laypeople across the country, who
signed petitions and sent letters
to the Vatican in defence of the
sisters.
The matter has now been
brought to an early conclusion by
Francis, who has never spoken
directly about it in public but has
often talked of the important
role of women in the church and
the nuns and priests in religious
orders. He himself is a member

Our understanding is that we

need to continue to respond
to the signs of the times, and
the new questions and issues
that arise in the complexities
of modern life are not
something we see as a threat.
Sister Pat Farrell
Former president of Leadership
Conference of Women Religious

of the Jesuit order.

The news came in a brief report
issued jointly by the Leadership
Conference of Women Religious
and the three U.S. bishops who
had been appointed by the Vatican three years ago to take over
and overhaul the organization.
The report cast the process as
one of collaboration, saying,
Our extensive conversations
were marked by a spirit of prayer,
love for the Church, mutual respect, and cooperation. We found
our conversations to be mutually
beneficial.
It was a far cry from three years
ago, when the Vaticans doctrinal
office, led by an American Cardinal, William Levada, issued a
report finding that the Leadership Conference had serious
doctrinal problems. It said the
sisters were questioning church
doctrine on homosexuality and
the male-only priesthood, and
promoting radical feminist
themes incompatible with the
Catholic faith.
The power struggle between
the nuns and the churchs hierarchy had been building for decades. At issue were questions of
obedience and autonomy, what it
means to be a faithful Catholic
and different understandings of
the Second Vatican Council.
In 2012, nuns with the Leadership Conference argued that the
Vatican under Pope Benedict
seemed to regard questioning as
defiance, while the sisters saw
their stance as a form of faithfulness. We have a differing perspective on obedience, said

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EDITOR: PAUL WALDIE

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S&P/TSX

DOW

S&P 500

DOLLAR

GOLD

OIL

GCAN 10-YR

15,386.77 (-64.10)

18,105.77 (-6.84)

2,104.99 (-1.64)

82.10 (+0.80)

1,198.00 (-3.30)

56.71 (+0.32)

1.367% (+0.028)

STREETWISE ENERGY

REAL ESTATE

Bay St. girds for Hydro One IPO

Calloway REIT
to acquire
SmartCentres

Ed Clark says province will rein in fees for dealers from stock sale of power utility
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SEAN SILCOFF OTTAWA

NIALL McGEE TORONTO
ADRIAN MORROW TORONTO
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Ed Clark is warning his former

Bay Street colleagues not to
expect a bonanza of fees from
the initial public offering of
Hydro One, which could be the
largest Canadian new stock issue
in 15 years.
We are quite determined that
when we do go public, you will
see a fee structure that the indus-

try has never seen before. So

there is not going to be a lot of
money made off this in Bay
Street, I can tell you that, said
Mr. Clark, the retired chief executive officer of Toronto-Dominion
Bank who is leading the Ontario
governments asset sale efforts.
The Ontario government on
Thursday confirmed it plans to
sell 15 per cent of its electricity
transmission and distribution
utility within the next year to
public investors. It also plans to

allow hundreds of supermarkets

to sell beer, a move that will
weaken the market clout of the
Beer Store, owned by major
breweries.
But even if the government can
press investment banks to cut
their underwriting rates, the initial public offering of Hydro One
and subsequent share sales is
still likely to shower Bay Street
with lucrative fees from the sale
of equity the government figures
is currently worth at least $8.1-

billion.
Investment banks typically
earn a percentage in the mid-single digits from IPO proceeds, although giant-sized IPOs for hot
tech stocks like Facebook have
paid as little as 1.1 per cent. One
banker familiar with the governments plans said Hydro One
could grind down fees to the
low 3-per-cent range, similar to
what Twitter paid on its 2013 initial share offering.
Hydro One, Page 5

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TAMSIN McMAHON
REAL ESTATE REPORTER
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Calloway Real Estate Investment

Trust is purchasing SmartCentres
and changing its name to
SmartREIT in a deal that will
create one of Canadas largest
retail landlords.
For $1.16-billion, Calloway will
acquire 24 shopping centres,
mainly in Ontario and Quebec, 16
of which are anchored by WalMart Stores Inc. The properties
are 99.7-per-cent occupied and
existing leases with retail tenants
average 12.6 years, Calloway president and chief executive Huw
Thomas said.
The deal also includes nearly
two million square feet of development space. Calloway paid an
additional $55-million for SmartCentres intellectual property, including its trademark Penguin
logo, and contracts and retail development and leasing expertise.
The proposed transaction will
reinforce our position as a leading
Canadian retail REIT, Mr. Thomas said in a call with investors.
This transaction represents a
very sizeable increase in our highquality portfolio of real estate and
will add to both our existing footprint and our future pipeline.
The deal will cement Calloways
position as the largest landlord to
Wal-Mart in Canada, boosting its
assets to $8.3-billion and 31 million sq ft of retail space in more
than 120 shopping centres. The
company also intends to expand
its plans for mixed-use development and add SmartCentres real
estate development and leasing
expertise to its operations.
Calloway, Page 8

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ECONOMY

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

ALBERTAS REVERSAL OF FORTUNE

Hewers of wood,
drawers of water

Drop in energy-sector investment ripples through economy and the provincial election campaign
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JEFFREY JONES CALGARY

................................................................

ndrew Eva moved to Edmonton from Toronto five years

ago, seeking the high wages and
living standard the province long
afforded newcomers who dont
mind a little hard work.
He landed a job in construction, and a couple years later as
the oil patch boomed, he took a
position with a contractor that
readies wellbores for rigs to begin
drilling. Business was brisk with
oil around $100 (U.S.) a barrel.
Time off was rare.
Not any more.
In the winter time, when its
really busy, thats when youre

making your money, Mr. Eva, 29,

said. The winter was slow
there was still a bit of work but
now theres nothing.
As crude sank to about $50,
companies clawed back billions
of dollars of spending on drilling,
prompting industry-wide layoffs.
Its also forced a rethink of how
government funds everything
from health care to roads and
bridges as Albertans prepare to
head to the polls in a May 5 election.
Albertas worsening economy is
the top issue of the provincial
campaign. Albertans are being
asked to accept or reject Premier
Jim Prentices Progressive Con-

BIG NUMBERS

$5-billion
Albertas 2015-16 deficit
................................................................

0.4%
Expected 2015 GDP growth
................................................................

5.7%
Projected unemployment rate

servative budget, which projects

a $5-billion (Canadian) deficit,
even after $1.5-billion in new taxes and user fees to replace some
of the waning oil revenue.
Mr. Eva has the benefit of a
base salary, a luxury in oil-field
services. That and his savings will
carry him through what is
expected to be the slowest summer in years, but its not the
route to the big bucks he
expects. The downturn means, at
the least, a pause for those like
him seeking their fortune in the
province, he says.
Indeed, the outlook has deteriorated quickly.

McKenna, Page 7

Asset manager Aston Hill

looking for a buyer

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Magna International Inc. is exiting the highly competitive and

low-profit-margin automotive interiors business as part of its strategy to narrow its product range
and focus on the chunks of a vehicle that generate healthier
returns.
The interiors business, which
includes door and instrument
panels, overhead systems and cargo management parts, but

Magna, Page 8

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Executives at Aston Hill Financial Inc. have been shopping

their firm to other asset managers, hoping to find a buyer.
Over the past two months,
senior employees at Aston Hill,
whose operations are largely
split between Calgary and
Toronto, have reached out to
several Canadian firms and expressed interest in selling their
company, according to multiple

Aston Hill, Page 8

Magna chooses to exit

the auto interiors business

TIM KILADZE
NIALL McGEE

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people familiar with the discussions.

The overtures have been made
at a volatile time for the asset
manager. Aston Hill recently lost
a high-profile mandate to manage $2.2-billion worth of funds
for IA Clarington Investments
Inc., prompting the company to
slash its dividend.
In February, IA Clarington
announced it would not renew a
contract that allowed Aston Hill
to subadvise three of its funds.

Alberta, Page 8

STREETWISE

excludes Magnas seating and

lighting businesses, will be purchased by Grupo Antolin of Spain
for $535-million (U.S.). The operations generated $2.4-billion in
revenue for Magna last year, but
no profit figures were released.
This transaction is consistent
with our strategy of refining our
product portfolio to focus on certain key areas of the vehicle,
Magna chief executive officer Don
Walker said in a statement
announcing the deal.

BARRIE McKENNA

wo seemingly disparate
events this week expose a
stark truth about what the world
wants from Canada.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra
Modi was in Ottawa to buy some
uranium to fuel the countrys
nuclear plants.
And in Winnipeg, a Saudi-U.S.
group bought whats left of the
Canadian Wheat Board, the
governments former grain marketing monopoly.
To much of the world, Canadians are what they always have
been hewers of wood and drawers of water.
Ottawa has a strategy of diversifying our trade relations into
distant and fast-growing markets,
including Asia and the Middle
East, while demanding better
access for investors and knowledge-based exporters.
But in the end, what many of
these countries really covet is our
wheat, uranium, oil, iron ore,
nickel and potash.
Mr. Modi, for example, wants to
transform India into a manufacturing powerhouse. He talked
this week about wanting Canada
to become a key partner in
every facet of its economic development. But when he was asked
by a reporter what India wanted
from Canada in ongoing bilateral
trade talks, he seemed to have
mainly our natural resources on
his mind.

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ECONOMY LAB

Budgetary rules strengthen our democracy

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BRIAN LEE CROWLEY

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o balance or not to balance?

That is the question.
In the hoopla surrounding the
federal governments proposed
balanced budget legislation, editorialists and others have rightly
drawn attention to the need for
politicians to have discretion in
budgetary matters. This goes to
the heart of parliamentary democracy: the ability of the current Parliament to decide what
taxes to impose and how to
spend the money according to
the conditions of the day and
then to be answerable for their
decisions at election time. From
this need for discretion, many of
them (including this newspapers
editorial board) conclude that
any fettering of that discretion is
wrong in principle.
Rules and discretion are not incompatible, however, but are indispensable complements to one
another. Nowhere is this truer
than in democracy.
Much of the history of parliamentary democracy has been
about taming arbitrary discretion, people in power making up
the rules as they go along.
Charles I was the last guy to
think his untrammelled will was
the principal safeguard of the interests of the realm. Look how
well that worked out for him.
Because the power we entrust
to politicians is both necessary
but can be abused, successful democracies look for ways to establish guideposts for how we think
that power ought to be used.
Having those standards of what
sensible and thoughtful stewardship of power looks like both
constrains the decisions of the
powerful and gives us good
guides to judging the govern-

The transparency in party finances has been an overall benefit for our democracy, though there were plenty of
critics who predicted devastating consequences for Canadas political parties. PATRICK DOYLE/BLOOMBERG
ments record when election time
arrives.
Sometimes it might be useful
for public authorities to be able
to arrest us because they think
we might be engaged in criminal
activity. But because such discretion can be abused, we subject
their powers of search and arrest
to rules and hold them accountable for abuses.
Central banks used to have
enormous unfettered discretion
to adjust interest rates, a power
they thought was indispensable
to their effectiveness. Weve
largely tamed that power, too,
requiring increased transparency
in their plans and decisions.
In Ottawa, the discretion that
political parties enjoyed to accept

corporate and trade-union funding is gone. The resulting transparency in party finances has
been a boon, although there were
plenty who predicted devastating
consequences for our political
parties.
In international affairs, Ronald
Reagan famously summed up the
principle at work when discussing whether the Soviet Union
could be trusted to follow
through on its nuclear disarmament commitments. Trust, Mr.
Reagan said, but verify. In other
words, get the Soviets to agree to
certain targets and objectives and
give them some discretion in
how to achieve them, but at the
same time make sure you have
the means to establish objective-

ly if theyre following through.

Shine a spotlight on their actions.
Hold them accountable for progress or its absence.
The problem of a lack of formal
yardsticks of budgetary discipline
is not a theoretical one for Canada. On the contrary, we had a
long experience of what politicians, empowered by a vaguely
grasped Keynesian juju, did with
their unfettered budgetary discretion.
Yes, they borrowed and stimulated in bad times, but the political benefits of spending
without taxing felt so good that
they could not stop in good
times.
We were saddled with 22 years
of budget deficits between the

DISCLOSURES A WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF ODDS AND ENDS FROM THE WORLD OF BUSINESS
9 BY IAN MORFITT

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CEO scandals hurt

the bottom line

Gold mining
on the silver screen

Finger-lickin
good coffee

That coffees
out of this world

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No one expects a CEO to be a

saint, but the behaviour of some
bad boys in the corner office can
cost a lot more than their marriages.
A study by three American academics about chief executives
96 per cent of whom are male
found that sex scandals, substance abuse, violence and dishonesty can pull the rug out
from under shareholder value,
Fortune reported Tuesday.
Of the 219 CEOs whose indiscretions came to light, companies
on average suffered a $226-million (U.S.) loss in shareholder
value in the following three days.
And the whole mess doesnt just
blow over after the media turn
away the damage continues:
Stocks of those companies fell,
on average, between 11 per cent
and 14 per cent in the following
12 months.
While Disclosures doesnt like
to moralize, there seems to be an
obvious moral to this story.

This might be the best Canadian

movie you have ever seen.
Then again, it might not. But
thats the slogan touting a
planned cinema treatment of the
Bre-X mining scandal.
Promotional material for a
script reading of Bre-X The Movie:
Going for the Motherlode The
Motherlode of all Time arrived in
Disclosures inbox this week.
The invite for the script reading
was accompanied by a document
attendees were required to sign,
pledging they would not Record,
video or photograph any part of
the Reading, or Disclose or
communicate [including by
social media] any part of the
Reading or anything about the
Reading. Oops.
All a little odd for a press package, but in keeping with the spirit of the project, Disclosures will
only communicate that there
may or may not have been a
script reading this week.
The drama continues.

Of all the competitors youd

think Starbucks might ever face,
KFC would likely be near the bottom of your list. But thats whats
happening in China, where the
chain plans to offer high-end coffee in about 2,500 of its 4,500 outlets, the China Daily USA reports.
But if KFC tries the plan in Britain, theres one former customer
they wont be able to count on.
Raymond Allen, one of the few
people in the world to have KFCs
secret recipe after bringing Colonel Sanderss business to Britain
50 years ago, told The Daily Telegraph this week he wont set foot
in the place again, calling its food
dreadful.
Instead of staying with one
good thing that was sellable, they
have tried to compete with the
other fast food units. They
should have just stuck with the
chicken.

And speaking of coffee, Elon

Musks SpaceX had a special delivery to make to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday.
Although the unmanned Dragon failed to land its rocket booster as planned, its 1,800-kilogram
payload of supplies is expected
to arrive today, and among it is
an espresso machine, dubbed the
ISSpresso, specially designed by
Italys Lavazza to spare astronaut
Samantha Cristoforetti the horrors of instant coffee.
Take that, KFC.

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70s and the 90s, by which time

we were spending 30 cents of
every tax dollar simply to service
the interest on the money wed
already borrowed. That money
was not available for needed
public services.
We were only able to fix that
when Jean Chrtien and Paul
Martin decided voluntarily to
renounce budgetary discretion
and to subject everything to the
balanced budget rule. When they
drove through the thicket of established interests that loved
Ottawas spending and didnt
care if future generations were
mortgaged to pay for it, the
results were stellar. It kicked off a
decade in which Canada outperformed its Group of Seven peers
on virtually every measure that
matters: growth, job creation,
investment and poverty reduction, for instance.
Yes, politicians should have discretion to respond to unforeseen
circumstances, but that does not
mean that the discretion should
be absolute. We should make
clear that our baseline assumption is governments should
impose the taxes needed to pay
for the services they propose to
provide.
We should similarly make clear
that deviations from this baseline
are permitted where circumstances warrant, but that politicians must be transparent about
it and have to justify publicly
their decision and their plan for
returning to balance as soon as
practical. It may be hard to get
the rules just right, and we may
need to experiment with them.
That, however, is not an argument against having rules
governing budgetary discretion,
but rather for getting on with establishing what they should be.
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brianleecrowley) is the managing
director of the Macdonald-Laurier
Institute, an independent non-partisan public policy think tank in
Ottawa: www.macdonaldlaurier.ca.

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Globe and
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SABEW Best
in Business
awards
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The Globe and Mail has won six

awards from the first Best in
Business competition by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW)
Canada.
Presented in Toronto on
Wednesday evening, nine awards
recognized outstanding business
journalism in 2014.
6 Retail reporter Marina Strauss
won the beat reporting category.
6 European bureau chief Eric Reguly won the commentary category for his work in Report on
Business magazine.
6 Reporter Grant Robertson won
the investigative category for his
series on pot stock manipulation
amid Ottawas efforts to build a
new industry.
6 Reporter and columnist Rob
Carrick won the personal finance
and investing category.
6 Reporter Tavia Grants story No
Safe Use, which exposed asbestos
as the most common cause of
work-related deaths in Canada,
an epidemic the government has
ignored, won the multimedia category. Photographers and videographers Louie Palu and Pawel
Dwulit, interactive designer Chris
Manza, multimedia editor Laura
Blenkinsop and editor Ted Mumford were also recognized.
6 Freelance writer Trevor Cole
won the long-form feature category for a story on Shopify founder Tobias Lutke, Report on
Business magazines chief executive officer of the year.
Alistair MacDonald of The Wall
Street Journal won two categories, profile and short-form feature, for a piece on a growing
feud inside the Irving family. The
news team at Bloomberg, including Ed Greenspon, Andrew Mayeda, Rebecca Plenty, Theophilos
Argitis, Jeremy van Loon and
Hugo Miller, won the package or
ongoing series category for Energy Super Power, a series on how
Canadas bid for energy superpower status has unravelled.
Nominees included writers
from the Financial Post, Canadian Business magazine,
Macleans, MoneySense and the
Huffington Post.

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REGULATION

ENERGY

North
Montney
gas route gets
NEB approval

Talks delay updates to nuclear reactors

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The Pacific NorthWest LNG joint

venture led by Malaysias Petronas has received a boost with
the approval of TransCanada
Corp.s pipeline project in northeastern British Columbia.
This weeks majority ruling
from a National Energy Board
panel paves the way for TransCanada to construct the North
Montney Mainline gas route in
northeastern British Columbia,
where producers have enjoyed
success with prolific gas wells.
The North Montney Mainline
would connect with TransCanadas proposed Prince Rupert Gas
Transmission project, which
aims to take natural gas from
the northeast part of the province to liquefied natural gas terminals envisaged for the West
Coast, notably one proposed by
Pacific NorthWest LNG.
Pacific NorthWest LNG president Michael Culbert said the
venture must still clear other
hurdles in order to export LNG,
notably obtaining clearance
from the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and reducing costs related to
engineering and subcontractors.
The uncertainty surrounding the
LNG proposal is gradually diminishing as the projects list of todo items get checked off, Mr.
Culbert said. The federal environmental agency began its
review of the Petronas-led project in April, 2013, and the muchdelayed assessment could stretch
into September.
Were trying to remove the remaining items from a regulatory
and fiscal perspective, and put
ourselves in a position where we
can make a final investment decision in the context of where
the economics stack up, Mr.
Culbert said in an interview
Thursday. As we nail these
things down, its quite positive
in that we create the certainty
that is required to make the decision.
Two natural gas pipelines to be
built by TransCanada the
$5-billion Prince Rupert Gas
Transmission plan and the $1.7billion North Montney Mainline
are vital elements in Pacific
NorthWest LNGs quest to export
natural gas in liquid form to customers in Asia.
This is another important
piece of the puzzle to help us
build an industry capable of supporting 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
LNGs proposed $11.4-billion terminal on Lelu Island, located
near Prince Rupert in northwestern British Columbia. TransCanada said it will continue to
engage and work with affected
aborginal groups on further opportunities to address and mitigate 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 Vancouver 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
good for LNG Canada, he said.
Their focus right now really is
on LNG Canada.
Analysts say Pacific NorthWest
LNG and the Shell-led LNG Canada project are two of the frontrunners among 19 B.C. LNG proposals, though fierce
competition and a looming global glut of LNG will mean only a
handful of plans provincially
stand a chance to proceed.
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. Were working
hard to make it happen, Mr.
Culbert said.

Bruce Power and the Ontario

government are mired in negotiations for a $15-billion deal to
refurbish six nuclear reactors,
delaying the planned project past
a self-imposed deadline and posing new questions about the
provinces future energy mix.
The Liberal government insists
it remains committed to refurbishing Ontarios aging nuclear
fleet. However, both sides have
signalled they are concerned
about potential cost over-runs,
and Bruce and its shareholders
worry about the provinces
schedule, which would require
the company to take units offline before the end of their commercial life.
The company which operates
eight reactors on the shore of
Lake Huron is majority owned
by TransCanada Corp. and the
Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System. It completed
hearings this week to extend its
operating licence for five years,
but it had hoped to be going fullspeed ahead with its refurbishment plans.
With electricity demand falling
in the province and Quebec eager
to supply power to its neighbour,
critics argue Ontario has better
options than to commit huge
amounts of capital to a 25-year
source of nuclear power, particularly given concerns around safety and radioactive waste.
Provincially owned Ontario
Power Generation (OPG) is working on its own $10-billion plan to
retool four reactors at Darlington
as the provinces long-term plan
envisions nuclear contributing 50
per cent of Ontarios power for
the foreseeable future.
Bruce and the Independent
Electricity System Operator
(IESO) which is negotiating on
behalf of the province remain
tight-lipped about negotiations
to refurbish six of the eight reactors. The first two reactors were
retooled under a 2005 contract, a
project that incurred more than
$1-billion in cost over-runs and
was delayed well past its due
date.

Bruce Power and its shareholders fear the provinces schedule for refurbishment would require the company to idle
reactors before the end of their commercial life. NORM BETTS/BLOOMBERG
We continue to work with the
province to turn the policy and
intention of Ontarios Long Term
Energy Plan into action, James
Scongack, Bruces vice-president
for corporate affairs, said in an
e-mail, and are committed to
being a low-cost source of reliable and clean electricity for decades to come through continued
investment in our site.
The two sides had hoped to
wrap up negotiations by the end
of 2014 and submit the refurbishment plan for approval from the
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, according to a briefing
note Greenpeace obtained under
the Access to Information Act.
The memo prepared by the
IESOs predecessor, Ontario Power Authority (OPA) said the
province had established a timeline under which Bruce and OPG
would take units off-line sequentially in order to maintain secure
supply and keep costs down.
An agreement with Bruce Power would need to be executed in

2014 to meet the integrated refurbishment schedule, it said. The

OPA added that if the two sides
cant reach agreements and reactors are shut down starting in
2019, more expensive gas-fired
power and imports will be
required. Bruce and OPG promote nuclear power as free of
greenhouse gases at a time when
Ontario is looking to reduce its
emissions.
Premier Kathleen Wynne provided a negotiating mandate that
would ensure Bruce and its suppliers cover all cost over-runs,
and would adjust the minimum
price that Bruce gets for power
from two of its reactors. An Auditor-General report on the 2005
refurbishment contract concluded the province committed to
higher prices than it should have,
and the province is looking to
drive a harder bargain in the current round, sources close to the
talks said.
Ontario is in a better negotiating position than it was in 2005,

Greenpeace nuclear analyst

Shawn-Patrick Stensil said. But
he questioned the need for
nuclear given the declining
demand in the province, coupled
with lower costs for renewables
and Quebecs willingness to sell
surplus power.
In testimony at the licensing
hearing, Bruce Power chief executive Duncan Hawthorne said
the province was looking to
impose a schedule that would be
costly for the company because it
would idle reactors before they
needed to be refurbished.
Meanwhile, TransCanada is
having to adjust its business plan
to account for delays in the Bruce
refurbishment as well as major
pipeline projects such as Keystone XL and Energy East, said
analyst Steven Paget of FirstEnergy Capital Corp. in Calgary.
Still, he said TransCanada also
wants to squeeze as much cash
from the existing reactors as possible before having to invest in
upgrading them.

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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
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DAVID FRIEND
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Canadian parents may find

themselves channel surfing frantically to find their childrens favourite TV shows this fall, as a
lineup of Disney programs move
to a different home under a new
distribution agreement
announced Thursday.
Starting in September, Corus
Entertainment Inc. will become
the first Canadian company to
offer Disney Channel, adding a
new layer of confusion to the already muddled rights ownership
of U.S. content in Canada.
For decades, kids have turned
to the Family Channel to catch
episodes of Disneys most
famous shows, including cartoons such as Phineas and Ferb
and live-action favourites such as
Wizards of Waverly Place and
Hannah Montana.
Soon theyre going to have to
flip elsewhere, as all of the newest Disney shows migrate to the
new Canadian Disney Channel,
leaving the Family Channel with
a schedule of almost entirely different shows next year.
While Disney programming
has aired before in Canada, this
is the first time Canadian audiences will be treated to the full
Disney Channel experience,
Corus said Thursday in an
e-mail.
The arrival of Disney Channel
comes after a number of Canadas most-prized kids channels

Disney cartoon Phineas and Ferb has long been viewed in Canada on the Family Channel, but will move to Coruss
Disney Channel in September. DISNEY CHANNEL/THE CANADIAN PRESS
swapped hands last year.
Family Channel was passed to
DHX after the creator and distributor of kids programs got
CRTC permission to buy three
specialty TV channels that Bell
Media was required to sell when
it bought Astral Media.
As part of that transaction,

DHX also acquired the Canadian

versions of two Disney Junior
channels in English and French
and Disney XD each providing
specific kids demographics with
a variety of Canadian shows
sandwiched between Disney programs.
Essentially, the transfer of

those Disney channels, in name,

doesnt matter now. Both will be
completely revamped and
renamed by DHX, replaced with
a fresh schedule and new extensions of the DHX-owned Family
brand.
DHX plans to launch Family
Junior and Famille Junior, aimed

at kids aged 2 to 6, and Family

XTRM, for viewers six to 12 in
November.
Corus said Thursday that current and new series will be featured on Disney Channel when
the service launches on Sept. 1,
but the company declined
requests for interviews about the
new agreement with Disney.
Among the unanswered questions is whether Corus will
relaunch more of its kid-oriented
channels.
The Toronto-based media company already has a broad portfolio of specialty TV channels
geared to young audiences, including YTV, Treehouse, Nickelodeon and ABC Spark.
Under the Disney agreement, it
also gains the streaming and adsupported video on-demand
rights to certain shows.
Between September and January, DHX will continue broadcasting Disney content on the
Family Channel, but gradually
the lineup will be replaced with
more of its own programs, which
include Canadian-produced
shows such as Justin Time0 and
The Next Step.
DHX also plans to add new episodes of Monster High, Hot Wheels
and Thomas & Friends under an
agreement with Mattel, it said.
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LAW

Toronto legal software firm partners with U.S. player

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JEFF GRAY LAW REPORTER

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A Toronto legal startup that offers law firms an artificially intelligent (AI) search engine that
can scour thousands of documents in the due diligence
phase of corporate mergers and
acquisitions is partnering with a
major player in the U.S.
Toronto-based Kira Inc., whose
Kira Diligence Engine is used by
blue-chip firms such as Torys
LLP, says it has a new partnership with New York-based Intralinks Holdings Inc. that will see
Kiras AI software put to work in
many more major corporate
deals.
Intralinks, which is listed on
the New York Stock Exchange, is
a large provider of what are

known as virtual data rooms

for law firms engaged in corporate merger-and-acquisition
deals. Virtual data rooms are
secure digital locations where
companies bidding on a deal can
see all of the documents of the
firm they are seeking to acquire.
Now, users of Intralinks will
also have access to Kiras tool to
scour through tens of thousands
of a companys contracts, making it possible for deals to close
more quickly and more cheaply,
the companies say.
Due diligence, which can represent 30 per cent or much more
of the total legal bill on a deal, is
typically the kind of grunt work
that law firms leave to their
most junior lawyers, who must
sort through thousands of con-

tracts signed by a target company in a potential acquisition.

Typically, they are looking for
potential liabilities or clauses in
contracts that hinge on a change
of control and could cause problems for the deal.
This kind of AI search technology is increasingly being used by
law firms as clients push for lower legal bills. For example, a variety of companies offer AI
services aimed at so-called
e-discovery in litigation.
This software typically sorts
through the millions of e-mails
provided before a civil trial to
find information relevant to the
case.
Kira founder and Torontonian
Noah Waisberg left elite New
York firm Weil Gotshal & Manges

LLP to found Kira in 2011 along

with Alexander Hudek, a computer science PhD from the University of Waterloo.
It took more than two years
for the software to be ready, and
legal experts are continually
helping the program learn
how to better spot potential
issues or irregularities in contracts. Mr. Waisberg said his software has already been used to
help clear $70-billion (U.S.)
worth of deals worldwide, with
most of its clients law firms
based in the United States. Kira
now has more than 20
employees.
Mr. Waisberg said using his
software is about more than reducing billable hours. He said
one elite Bay Street firm, which

he would not name, found that

work that took two junior lawyers six and a half hours without
the software could be done in
just two and half hours by one
junior lawyer using Kiras search
engine. And the computer-assisted work also had fewer errors,
he said.
While this may mean law firms
will need fewer junior lawyers
on this kind of file, Mr. Waisberg
said doing this kind of grunt
work at an elite firm after graduating with high marks from law
school is not ideal for associates
either: There are certainly challenges to the junior associate
market. But I actually think
technology can, for firms that
embrace it, really be something
that helps them drive business.

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The launch of Canadas new federal-provincial securities regulator is facing a further delay until
at least the end of this year as
officials now say they will not
publish the agencys long-awaited regulations until some time
this summer.
The new Co-operative Markets
Regulator, which will oversee
securities regulation in provinces
that opt to join the system, was
initially supposed to be up and
running on July 1 this year. But
delays in drafting legislation and
regulations for the agency have
pushed the deadline back significantly.
A notice issued Thursday by
ministers for the participating
governments said the latest plan
is to republish an updated version of draft legislation for the
agency some time this summer
along with the detailed regulations laying out how it will operate. The legislation was originally
published last September.
There is no new deadline for
the launch of the agency, but the
notice said the drafts coming this
summer will be open for a 120day comment period, which will
likely end late this year. The
launch will follow any revisions
in the model after a review of the
public input.
The announcement said the
legislation will be republished
with the regulations because
many stakeholders including
securities lawyers and public
companies that will operate under the new regime complained
last year they could not properly
comment on the broad legislation creating the agency without
also seeing the regulations that
will fill in the details about how
it will operate.
The ministers are committed
to taking the time necessary to
develop an appropriate legisla-

tive and regulatory foundation

for the Co-operative system, the
parties said in a backgrounder
document issued in connection
with Thursdays announcement.
The legislation and regulations
have already faced repeated
delays. In January, 2014, for
example, the ministers said they
had shifted the deadline for publishing the legislation from Jan.
31, 2014, to April 30 last year, and
said the regulations would be
published by June 30. However,
the legislation was not published
until last September, and ministers then said the regulations
would be delayed until December. In December, they said the
regulations were further delayed
until early spring.
The new regulator is being
overseen by a Council of Ministers made up of ministers from
the federal government and each
participating province or territory.
The ministers announced
Thursday that Yukon has agreed
to join the system, bringing the
total number of participating
provinces and territories to six.
British Columbia, Saskatchewan,
Ontario, New Brunswick and
Prince Edward Island have already joined. The largest provinces not participating in the
system are Quebec and Alberta.
The ministers also announced
that the council has named a
nominating committee of prominent people in the securities sector who will recommend
candidates for the initial board of
directors that will oversee the
new regulator.
The board of directors will have
between nine and 12 members,
all of whom must have capital
markets experience and be
broadly representative of the
regions of Canada. The board will
initially be appointed to an interim organization and will focus on
launching the new regulator.

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INFRASTRUCTURE

FROM PAGE 1

Champlain Bridge costs rise to $2.5-billion

Hydro One:
This is a
yield-hungry
market

The St. Lawrence River span, which replaces an existing bridge, will be a public-private partnered project
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Estimates of the value of the

Champlain Bridge contract to
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.s revenue
have ballooned to as much as
$2.5-billion as investor attention
shifts to the engineering firms
ability to complete the project at
a decent profit.
We knew this contract was
going to be big. But on a $12.3billion backlog, I dont have to do
the math for you, its huge, said
Yuri Lynk, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity in Montreal. Were
worried about them not executing properly. Its the main risk
that comes to mind.
The Canadian government
announced late Wednesday that
it picked a consortium led by
SNC-Lavalin and Spanish partner
Grupo ACS to design, build,
finance, operate and maintain
Montreals new Champlain
Bridge over a 35-year period.
The St. Lawrence River span,
which replaces an existing bridge
nearing the end of its life, will be
a public-private partnership project, meaning the SNC group has
to deliver the work at a pre-determined fixed price and by set
dates.
SNCs win surprised investors,
many of whom had assumed the
federal government would shy
away from giving public work to
a company facing charges of corruption and fraud. The allegations against SNC relate to its
dealings in Libya and have not
been proven. The company has
said it will plead not guilty.
Federal officials said the SNC
consortium submitted the lowest-cost, technically compliant
proposal, which will help ensure
value for taxpayers as well as
high-quality infrastructure
designed to last more than a century. SNC and its group partners
have already been involved in
construction of several bridges,
including the Port Mann bridge
in Vancouver and the Bay Bridge
in San Francisco.
Initial estimates on the contracts value to SNC were in the
range of $1.5-billion. But a declaration Thursday by consortium
partner ACS that the deal is
worth 1.85-billion ($2.4-billion
at current exchange rates) for its
50-per-cent portion alone suggests the value of SNCs other 50
per cent has been underestimated and could top $2.4-billion as
well. The information was reported by Reuters.
The work will be added to
SNCs infrastructure and construction backlog. The business
unit, which includes projects like
hospitals, mass transit and water
treatment plants, has posted
losses on earnings before interest
and taxes for the past two years.
SNC announced this week it will
replace the executive in charge

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of the business.
SNC officials declined to comment Thursday. The shares rose
1.7 per cent in Toronto trading to
close at $43.60.
Chief executive officer Robert
Card has said the company is increasingly confident it has improved project delivery and risk
management in the infrastructure and construction unit. But
questions were being raised
Thursday about just how aggressive it had to be in its Champlain
bid to secure the contract.
You dont want to be destroying your future profitability just
to show the market that you still
have the ability to win work,
said Dundee Capital Markets analyst Maxim Sytchev. Would they
be as aggressive if they had $20billion worth of backlog? Probably not.
Questions remained Thursday
as to what the federal government would do with the Champlain Bridge project in the event
SNC is convicted of corrup-

tion charges.
Under current federal procurement rules, SNC would be
banned, or debarred, from bidding on federal work for 10 years
and the government could terminate the existing bridge contract
with the company. More likely,
Ottawa would pursue the contract and impose oversight and
monitoring measures on the construction and subsequent maintenance.
Federal ministers insist theyve
prepared for that contingency.
But this is largely new territory
for Canada.
The government is bound to
run into conflicts between its
desire to promote companies like
SNC-Lavalin and maintain some
sort of debarment or responsible
supplier regime, said Brenda
Swick, a lawyer at McCarthy
Ttrault in Toronto who specializes in international trade and
government contracting. The
problem for the government is
they havent thought it out.

History
The Champlain Bridge is the
newest of Montreals four
prominent South Shore
spans, but it is the first to
descend into decrepitude. The
bridge, which opened to traffic in 1962, has two main sections: the short steel
cantilever portion that is
most recognizable and in
decent shape and a long nondescript section built from
prestressed concrete that was
innovative for its time but is a
maintenance nightmare.
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Jurisdiction
The federal government owns
the entirety of two major
Montreal bridges and half of
another through inertia and
quirks of history, geography
and politics. The first major
federal span was the Jacques
Cartier Bridge, which was
built in the 1920s as a project
of the federally owned Port of
Montreal. The Champlain was
built to pass over the federal
St. Lawrence Seaway. Ottawa
and the province occasionally
discuss selling the bridges to
Quebec. Predictably, they disagree on price tag.
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Trouble
The first major cracks in the
design of the Champlain
Bridge appeared in the 1990s,
when the prestressed concrete
deck was replaced and a
drainage system was installed
to slow down the corrosive
damage caused by salty water.
Even then, irreversible damage was noted. A 2011 report
found repairing the bridge for
a long-term future was difficult, if not impossible.
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Yahoo wins new flexibility in search deal with Microsoft

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BRIAN WOMACK
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Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc.

revamped their search agreement, giving the Web portal
more freedom over how it
makes money from advertising
under chief executive officer
Marissa Mayer.
Yahoo no longer will have to
use Microsoft to serve all the
ads on desktop searches, under
the agreement announced
Thursday. While Yahoo already
had that flexibility with mobile
search, the new deal adds the
leeway for a minority of desktop
ads.
Microsoft will now handle the
relationships with advertisers
for its Bing search service,
instead of Yahoo.

Even at that rate, underwriters would fetch $60-million

in fees from an expected IPO of
$2-billion worth of stock plus
$180-million or more from subsequent share sales over four years,
which would take the governments stake down to 40 per cent.
Requests for proposals for investment banks to work on the IPO
have already gone out to Bay
Street.
The Hydro One privatization is
part of a broader effort by the fiscally challenged province to help
pay for Premier Kathleen Wynnes
$29-billion transportation and infrastructure plan. Mr. Clark said in
an interview that the utilitys
board will interview the big Canadian banks and likely select two
to co-lead the offering. Several
other dealers will be invited to the
underwriting syndicate to ensure
the stock gets broad distribution,
with 25 to 30 per cent earmarked
for individual investors. We
obviously want to play to the
retail market, because I think
youll get better pricing with this
type of issue, he said.
The goal is to complete the IPO
and bank the proceeds by the end
of the current fiscal year, which
ends next March 31, Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli told The Globe
and Mail. He said Hydro One stock
would be seen as a reliable, predictable investment, particularly
for long-term investors thanks to
its status as a regulated entity
with steady rates of returns.
With an expected market capitalization of between $13.5-billion
and $15-billion, Hydro One will be
one of the 40 largest Canadian
companies by market value, and
is expected to pay a dividend of
between 3 and 4 per cent, Mr.
Clark said. This is a yield-hungry
market, so well obviously have a
good dividend rate on it. For the
institutions this will be a sufficiently large market cap, and will
be a must-have stock.
A 3-per-cent-plus yield is still
way better than a five-year bond
and similar to other utility stocks,
said Bruce Campbell, president of
Campbell Lee & Ross Investment
Management Inc., a private
wealth management firm in Oakville, Ont. Equities with yield are
still king of the castle.
But several fund managers said
they were wary of investing in a
company where the government
will continue to exercise considerable control (outside investors
will be limited to holding 10-percent stakes), including its ability
to name directors. Some worried
that the government might not
follow through on its promise to
sell a majority of its stake.
If I were an investor, I wouldnt
touch it at any price, said CI
Financial chairman Bill Holland.
I dont want to be partners with
the Ontario government.
Others questioned the willingness of government to free the
company to boost earnings by
slashing costs. Any Crown corporation that goes public you definitely want to look in on the
expenses side, said Stephen
Takacsy, chief investment officer
with Lester Asset Management in
Montreal.
With former Canada Pension
Plan Investment Board CEO David
Denison joining the board, the
government is hoping the market
will view Hydro One as a credible,
independent public company.
Hes probably one of the top five
corporate managers in Canada,
Mr. Chiarelli said of Mr. Denison.
He will create a business plan
that is growth oriented.
Meanwhile, the status of current CEO Carmine Marcello
appears in flux. Mr. Clark indicated the CEO would have to compete for his own job.

Yahoo, which struck a 10-year

deal in 2009, renegotiated the
terms as Ms. Mayer seeks new
ways to drive revenue growth
amid a turnaround effort. The
company has struggled to increase sales under her leadership.
Fourth-quarter revenue,
excluding whats shared with
partner websites, fell 1.8 per
cent to $1.18-billion (U.S.). The
search agreement contributed 35
per cent to sales last year,
Yahoo said in a regulatory filing.
We are encouraged by the increased flexibility for Yahoo,
analysts at JPMorgan Chase &
Co. wrote Thursday in a note to
clients.
Yahoo is now able to provide
its own search results and also

to partner with others.

The deal may even allow
Yahoo to work with Google Inc.,
the market leader in search, to
provide advertising on the service, boosting returns for promotions, the analysts added.
The agreement alters an alliance some had expected Yahoo
might try to exit. If Yahoo had a
stronger negotiating position, it
may have led to a more notable
update, said Brian Wieser, an
analyst at Pivotal Research
Group LLC.
The amended agreement highlights the two companies
limited success in competing
with Google in search. Google
had 64 per cent of the U.S.
desktop search market in March,
according to ComScore. Micro-

soft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., had 20 per cent,

while Sunnyvale, Calif.-based
Yahoo had 13 per cent.
Scale matters in search, Mr.
Wieser said. And yet diversity
of approaches may be necessary
to find alternative ways to effectively compete.
The agreement leaves
unchanged an arrangement in
which Microsoft pays Yahoo a
percentage of Bing ad revenue
delivered from Yahoo searches.
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Space: the final frontier of advertising

Hyundai joins a series of marketers taking an otherworldly approach to attracting product attention
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SUSAN KRASHINSKY
MARKETING REPORTER
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dvertisers love big gestures

that get them noticed: slapping brand names on buildings,
breaking the bank on star-studded 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, claiming it used 11 of its Genesis cars
to write a message from a 13year-old girl in Houston to her
father in space. The message
read, Steph [loves] you! It
spanned 5.5 square kilometres
on the Delamar dry lake bed in
the Nevada desert, and set a
Guinness world record for the
largest-ever tire track image.
Hyundai is just the latest in a
series of marketers in recent
years who have seized on our
captivation with the final frontier.
When millions tuned in online
and on TV to watch Felix Baumgartners record-breaking freefall from 39 kilometres above
the Earth, their rapt attention
also fell on the prominent Red
Bull logos on his helmet and
spacesuit.
In addition to the meticulous
planning of the team surrounding Mr. Baumgartner, Red Bull
Stratos was an intricately
planned public relations stunt.
The equivalent paid advertising
time would have cost the brand
millions, and the fascination
with the jump was arguably
more valuable for the brands
image than an ad could ever be.
In 2013, Unilever SA-owned
brand Axe launched the biggest
promotion in its history in 2013,
with help from none other than

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.
astronaut Buzz Aldrin. It held a
contest for the chance to go to
space camp in Florida, and 22
people were chosen for a ride
on one of the Netherlandsbased Space Expedition Corp.s
commercial space flights.
Just last week, power equipment manufacturer Andreas
Stihl AG released a video reminiscent of the blockbuster film
Gravity, in which marooned
astronauts used a fire extinguisher to propel themselves
through the void. In Stihls version, its leaf blower does the
job.
Were trying to separate ourselves from the competition.
You put yourself in space and
you put yourself above everyone
else, said Stihl Canadas marketing manager, Jeff Loosemore.
The video was made in
France, but has received so
much attention that Stihl Canada plans to promote it online as
well.
Space gives you a high-tech
appeal youre insinuating
that theres a lot of technical
design behind the equipment,
he said. With space, theres a
lot of messaging that you can

do by imagery and nothing

else.
Hyundais video also took
advantage of that power to
showcase the vehicles handling
and technological prowess. But
it was also a way for the brand
to connect with customers on a
deeper level.
Hyundai was always very
much a rational purchase decision, Hyundai Canada spokesman Chad Heard said.
Customers see us as good value
for the dollar. Thats not necessarily a bad place to be. But if
you want to grow and evolve,
you need to add the emotional
side of that purchase equation.
The global campaign, which
was produced by the marketing
team out of South Korea, was
intended to show a caring,
human side to the company,
said Dan Buckley, vice-president
of ad agency and Hyundai subsidiary Innocean Worldwide
Canada.
The emotional tale has racked
up millions of views on YouTube. However, the details are
muddy: AHyundai spokesperson
would not specify the astronauts name. NASA spokeswom-

an Jennifer Knotts said, No

NASA employee was involved in
the commercial. There are no
Americans on board the International Space Station who are
not affiliated with NASA, she
said.
The particular allure of space
is not new to marketers.
In the early days of the U.S.
space program, brands took full
advantage of any association
with the quest to land a man
on the moon.
Most famously, Tang was
advertised as the powdered
drink chosen for the Gemini
astronauts. In one commercial,
a mother describes how her
fussy eater is now eager for
breakfast, because the astronauts drink Tang in outer
space.
Even cigarettes got in on the
action: When the Apollo and
Soyuz spacecraft met in orbit in
1975, astronauts werent the only
ones co-operating across a Cold
War divide. Cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris and the Soviet Yava cigarette factory entered
into a joint venture to produce
the commemorative Apollo Soyuz packs.

In the late nineties, Russian

cosmonauts floated a replica
soda can outside of the Mir
space station after PepsiCo Inc.
paid $5-million (U.S.) to the
Russian space agency. A few
years later, Pizza Hut
announced that it would pay
more than $1-million to place
its logo on a Russian Proton
rocket bound for the ISS. In
2001, the pizza chain did another promotional deal with the
Russians, shelling out roughly
$1-million to deliver a pizza to
the space station. That same
year, Kodak paid for cosmonauts to replace the Russian flag
outside the ISS with its advertisement.
Brands today are looking for
an association with the romance
and excitement of space.
Space has always been one of
those places that people are
awestruck by, Innoceans Mr.
Buckley said. When we put a
man on the moon, it was connected globally with culture and
everyone who was glued to
their TV. Theres that ongoing
aura of whats out there, and
whats possible. That has a real
connection.

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India is still a tough place to do business

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KEVIN CARMICHAEL MUMBAI

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aking money in China was

hard at the start of the millennium. It took more than two
months to start a company in
2003, compared with two days in
Australia. When the World Bank
published its inaugural annual
ranking of the the easiest countries in which to do business, China was number 91.
How many investors and companies stayed away from what is
now the worlds second-biggest
economy because it had too many
rules and regulations? Chinas
gross domestic product increased
by the equivalent of about $8-trillion (U.S.) between 2004 and
2014, according to the International Monetary Fund.
India could be on the verge of
reproducing a reasonable facsimile of the economic boom Beijing
orchestrated through the 1990s
and 2000s. India is like China
was 10 to 12 years ago, said K.S.
Raghuram, the Shanghai-educat-

ed founder of an Indian startup

called FOSEngage, which has developed a mobile application for
facilitating communication between big enterprises and their
suppliers. We are on a steady
growth track for 20 to 25 years.
India, economically, is the opposite of Canada at the moment;
almost everything is going its
way.
The collapse in oil prices is huge
for India, a net importer of energy. Prime Minister Narendra Modis landslide victory a year ago has
rekindled business confidence.
Mr. Modis Finance Minister, Arun
Jaitley, has pledged to restrain the
fiscal deficit, prompting Moodys
Investors Service last week to
upgrade Indias rating outlook to
positive from stable. Raghuram Rajan, the central bank governor, is winning his fight against
Indias chronic inflation problem.
Mr. Rajan has cut interest rates
twice this year, even as the Indian
economy appears poised to surpass China as the worlds fastest-

growing one. Still, India remains a

speculative bet. The countrys
state-owned banks are carrying a
lot of debt. The stock markets are
among the hottest in the world,
yet corporate profits are weak.
Even the boldest international
companies struggle here.
Indias liftoff is being held back
by a tangle of rules and regulations that make the country one
of the more difficult places on the
planet to do business, according
to the World Bank. Mr. Raghuram
of FOSEngage waited a couple of
months simply to register his
company. Policy-makers need to
work on this, he said.
Mr. Modi says he is doing just
that. He has talked of eliminating
one law per day and of raising his
countrys ranking in the World
Banks list of easiest places to do
business to 50th from 142nd currently. We know that such steps
are important for creating jobs
and opportunities for millions of
Indians, Mr. Modi said last week
in an interview with the Hindu-

stan Times.
Overall, Canadian business
appears to need more convincing
about India.
Its not exactly bank friendly,
Brian Porter, chief executive of
Bank of Nova Scotia said of India
when I met him in Washington
last fall, a sentiment he repeated
last week. We dont have longterm aspirations for our Asia business right now, Royal Bank of
Canada chief executive David
McKay told a Wall Street audience
last month. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the end of
2009 talked of two-way trade between Canada and India reaching
$15-billion in five years or now,
in 2015. Its not going to happen.
Merchandise trade between Canada and India was about $6.3-billion, according to the Asia Pacific
Foundation of Canada.
Canadians should not assume
that Mr. Modi will show up in
Canada with a key to his kingdom. The Indian Prime Minister
meets billionaires almost weekly

and has secured hundreds of billions of dollars worth of financial

commitments from countries
such as Japan, China, Australia
and the United States. To remain
a favourite partner of Mr. Modi,
you are going to have to deliver,
Richard Bale, Canadas consul
general in Mumbai, said at public
event earlier this year.
India will remain a difficult
place to do business for years. Authorities are notoriously capricious and judges are equally
unpredictable. The country has a
streak of hostility toward outsiders. But these things are changing.
The children who were born in
the early 1990s, when India
opened to international trade and
investment, are now entering college and the work force. It will
take them some time, but these
youngsters will change India.
................................................................

Kevin Carmichael is a senior fellow

at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, based in Mumbai.

INVESTMENT

Modi assures executives New Delhis cutting red tape

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KIM MACKRAEL
JACQUELINE NELSON
DAVID BERMAN TORONTO
................................................................

Indian Prime Minister Narendra

Modi sought to convince the
heads of pension funds, banks
and a select group of business
leaders in Toronto on Thursday
that his government is cutting
bureaucracy and making it easier
to invest in Indias rapidly growing economy.
Mr. Modi, who is in Canada
this week for a long-anticipated
three-day visit, held a breakfast
roundtable with executives from
Canadas largest pension plans,
banks and insurance companies
at Torontos Four Seasons Hotel
Thursday morning. He also met
with another group that consisted of about 20 business executives and included Aecon Group
Inc. chairman John Beck and
BlackBerry Ltd. chief executive
John Chen.
The Indian Prime Minister said
he understands the need for predictability and consistency in
government decisions and regulations. He also said his government has made changes since he
was elected last year and suggested he was open to feedback
from business leaders on what
more India can do.
Several business leaders said
they were impressed by the personal tone Mr. Modi took in addressing them and his interest in
improving trade and investment
ties with Canada. The Prime
Minister addressed the executives in Hindi with the assistance
of a translator. Canadian Prime

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seen addressing an audience in Toronto on Wednesday, said he understands
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Minister Stephen Harper was
also present for the meeting.
He was very appreciative of
the welcome hes received here
in Canada [and expressed] lots
of optimism for future business,
Tim Gitzel, CEO of Cameco
Corp., said in an interview
Thursday afternoon. Saskatchewan-based Cameco concluded a
deal this week to supply India
with hundreds of millions of dollars in uranium over the next
five years.
Mr. Modi is seeking to promote
foreign investment to fund infra-

structure projects in India, including new transit lines and

smarter cities with improved
power and waste-collection systems. The push comes at a time
when many institutional investors are looking to alternative
asset classes for an opportunity
to diversify their portfolios and
produce long-term returns.
I think his timing is impeccable given that interest rates have
fallen and returns have fallen
around the world, said Dean
Connor, chief executive of Sun
Life Financial Corp. Mr. Connor,

who attended both Thursday

morning meetings, said he was
struck by the enormity of Mr.
Modis vision for growth and improvements in India. The insurer
has a long history in India and
re-entered the countrys insurance and investments market in
1999 through a joint venture
called Birla Sun Life.
Mark Wiseman, CEO of the
Canada Pension Plan Investment
Board, said Indias market is particularly well-suited to long-term
investors and noted that CPPIB
has committed about $2-billion

in capital to the country. Our

investment programs are well
positioned today to take advantage of Indias future growth and
we will remain active with a
view to the long-term returns we
seek, he said.
Mr. Modis meetings with business and financial leaders came
one day after he delivered a
major speech to thousands of
Indo-Canadians at Torontos
Ricoh Coliseum, in which he
promised to continue to tackle
corruption and help make India
more prosperous. He travelled to
Vancouver on Thursday afternoon, where he stopped at Sikh
and Hindu religious sites and
attended an official dinner with
Mr. Harper and other government officials.
The heads of Bank of Nova
Scotia and Royal Bank of Canada
sat at the table in Mr. Modis first
meeting with banks, insurers
and pension funds, along with
Bank of Montreals chairman.
Four top-level executives from
TD met with Mr. Modi on Thursday, including the banks CEO,
chairman and heads of investment banking and wholesale
banking.
Prime Minister Modis decisive
victory last year set the stage for
many big changes, TD chief executive Bharat Masrani said during the meeting, according to a
statement provided by the company. Your government is
breaking down barriers that impede growth, simplifying the
way business is conducted and
unlocking the energy and ingenuity of your people.

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Water-poor Saudis snatch access to CWBs grain

McKenna: Export troubles

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ERIC ATKINS
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t isnt easy to grow food in the

desert. Thats why the kingdom
of Saudi Arabia decided to stop
pumping water and money into
its domestic food supply, and
instead look abroad for sources
of vegetables, red meat and
grains.
The search for grain and the
elevators, terminals and ships
that handle it is behind the
countrys investment in the Canadian Wheat Board, the former
Prairie monopoly privatized by
the Canadian government on
Wednesday.
Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Co. (SALIC)
partnered with U.S. agribusiness
giant Bunge Ltd. to form Global
Grain Group (G3), which will be
the majority owner of Winnipegbased CWB with an investment
valued at $250-million.
SALIC was established by the
rulers of the Arab country in 2011
with $800-million (U.S.) and the
goal of securing stable food supplies and prices and averting food
shortages.
In 2013, SALIC and other Saudi
funds bought large swaths of
farmland in Europe with the 60million ($109.3-million) purchase
of Continental Farmers Group.
The deal, for which the Saudis
paid a large premium, gave the
Saudis almost 40,000 hectares of
owned and leased farmland in
Poland and Ukraine that produce
sugar beet, wheat and rapeseed.
Britain-based researcher Business Monitor International said
Saudi Arabia is a year or two
away from ceasing any wheat
production.

Saudi Arabia is not a country

that can produce a lot of food.
So having a fund set up to
help with the provision of
food from a Saudi
perspective makes a lot of
sense because they have a
little more control over that.
John Cranfield
Professor at the University of
Guelphs department of food,
agricultural and resource economics
Saudi Arabia is not a country
that can produce a lot of food. So
they are going around the world
saying how are we going to be
able to feed people in Saudi Arabia, said John Cranfield, a professor at the University of
Guelphs department of food,
agricultural and resource economics. So having a fund set up
to help with the provision of food
from a Saudi perspective makes a
lot of sense because they have a
little more control over that.
Theyre a water-poor nation so
that makes it difficult to grow
anything. Its a nation where they
dont have heaps of fertile land so
it makes it difficult to put anything in the ground, Prof. Cranfield said.
Canada, Australia and Brazil are
listed by SALIC as priority destinations for investing in its nine
key foods, which include wheat,
barley and other grains, and red
meat.

Although Saudi Arabia is close

to the grain-producing regions of
North Africa, the Black Sea and
western Arabia, Canadas stability
and lack of political strife make it
an ideal place to invest, Prof.
Cranfield said, adding CWBs
grain-handling facilities make the
company attractive for a country
looking to move a lot of crops.
Karl Gerrand, head of G3, said it
was very difficult to say how
much of CWBs grain would be
headed to Saudi Arabia as a
result of the deal.
SALIC will have to be competitive with the rest of the market in
acquiring our grain. Were an independent business, run by Canadians, managed by Canadians.
Were going to be operating in a
normal commercial environment, he said at a news conference on Wednesday.
SALIC could not be reached on
Thursday.
Saudi Arabias move away from
grain and other crop production
has come with a new focus on
domestic poultry farming aimed
at feeding growing tastes for
meat. This has also turned Saudi
Arabia into one of the worlds
biggest chicken-feed processors.
In 2011, when the Canadian
Wheat Board was the global seller, Canada was Saudi Arabias
main supplier, accounting for 30
per cent of the countrys 2.9 million tonnes, according to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture. Since
then, Lithuania and Poland have
become the countrys main suppliers, and Canadas share of the
market has fallen.
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Bunge (BG)
Close: $86.65 (U.S.), down 30

India can only become a

manufacturing hub when we
can get the raw materials
required, Mr. Modi said through
a translator, with Prime Minister
Stephen Harper at his side. The
raw materials that are required in
India are present in Canada in
huge quantities. And therefore,
our relations are such that your
skills, your raw materials and our
requirements actually coincide.
India no longer wants our technology. It needs our resources,
our investment pools and our
open markets. And that is one of
the chronic challenges that Canada faces as it tries to expand trade
with rapidly growing emerging
economies, such as India, China
or Brazil. Canadas markets are already mostly open to these countries. Because tariffs and other
investment barriers are relatively
low, the Indias of the world can
already sell freely here, as well to
buy direct stakes in our resource
production.
Canadian exporters typically
face greater trade obstacles going
the other way, including high tariffs, foreign investment barriers
and stifling bureaucracies. Mr.
Modis reform-minded government has begun to dismantle
many of those barriers, but progress is slow and politically sensitive.
India, for example, limits foreign investors to 49-per-cent ownership of local joint ventures.
Restrictions are particularly high
in sectors such as financial services and mining, two industries
where Canada has competitive
advantages. The lack of balance is
reflected in two-way investment.
In 2013, Indian investment in Can-

ada totalled $3.8-billion, while

outbound Canadian investment
stood at $613-million.
A similar investment imbalance
exists with Saudi Arabia, although the magnitude is
unknown because the federal
government does not disclose
what the Saudis own in Canada
because the information is
deemed commercially sensitive.
Canadian investment in Saudi
Arabia, a designated priority
market for Canada, totalled just
$4-million in 2013. This weeks
$250-million deal by G3 Global
Grain Group a joint venture between Saudi Agricultural and
Livestock Investment Co. and
U.S.-based Bunge Ltd. to buy the
old Canadian Wheat Board would
dwarf all Canadian investment in
Saudi Arabia.
Less than 1 per cent of Canadian
goods exports go to India now.
Goods exports reached $3.1-billion in 2014, dominated by bulk
commodities such as peas, lentils,
fertilizer, canola oil and iron ore.
Indeed, Canada sells relatively
little of what it produces outside
the United States, which sucked
up 76 per cent of our exports in
2013. Add in Britain and Japan,
and these three highly developed
countries accounted for 81 per
cent of total Canadian goods
exports. Its one thing for the
government to target large and
promising economies such as
China and India as a way to diversify export markets.
But diversification is proving to
be far more difficult to achieve.
We often arent sure what we
want, or how to get it. And many
of the doors to investment and
trade remain locked.

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Magna: Interiors generally a low-growth, low-return business

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The sale is the second divestiture by Magna this year. The

Canadian auto parts giant sold its
battery business to Samsung SDI
Co. Ltd., of South Korea in February.
The interiors divisions sales of
$2.4-billion represented about 7
per cent of Magnas overall revenue of $36.6-billion last year. The
division, which was built up
mainly through a series of acquisitions, competed against such giants as Johnson Controls Inc.,
Lear Corp. and Faurecia of France
that are specialists in interiors as
well as seating.
Its still very difficult in the in-

console, youve got so many

pounds of plastic, the source
said.
That became a problem when
the soaring price of oil sent the
price of resins used in plastics
skyrocketing.
The other key issue for producers of trim panels, headliners and
other components inside the car
is that interiors have become a
key battleground as auto makers
try to distinguish themselves
from one another. That means
demands from car makers for
price cuts by parts companies
became relentless.
They were constantly trying to

terior of the vehicle to come up

with innovative solutions, said
one industry source who has
spent much of his career in the
auto interiors business.
You can reconfigure the door
panel, you can put the cupholder
in a different position, but youre
basically still talking about a
commodity item.
Thats different from other
parts of the vehicle such as the
underbody, where new technologies and new processes help auto
makers reduce the weight of steel
parts or substitute aluminum and
magnesium for steel.
In a door panel or a centre

improve the interiors and add

more quality materials, but keep
the price [to the customer] the
same, the source said.
Investors have often criticized
Magna for the diversity of its
businesses, so this deal is likely to
be seen as positive although the
price is lower than an expected
range of $800-million to $1.2-billion, said Peter Sklar, who follows
Magna for BMO Nesbitt Burns, in
a note to clients Thursday.
The interiors business is generally considered to be a lowgrowth, low-return business, Mr.
Sklar wrote.
With the business being sold,

we believe investors will likely

value Magnas focus on some of
the remaining potentially highergrowth, higher-return businesses.
Investors will be happy if the
revenues from the sale go toward
increasing Magnas share buyback
plan or are deployed in higher
growth businesses, he said.
The deal covers 36 Magna
plants that employ about 12,000
people in Canada, the United
States, Mexico, Europe, China, India and South Korea.
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Magna International Inc. (MG)

Close: $66.52, down 13

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Calloway:
Ties go back
to early 2000s
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While SmartCentres founder

Mitchell Goldhar will not be
directly involved in the day-today 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 projects. As part of the agreement,
Mr. Goldhar will continue to own
55 retail properties and another
850 acres of development land.
Both Calloway and SmartCentres have benefitted enormously from Mitchs vision, his
exceptional industry relationships and his real estate expertise, Mr. Thomas said. I and the
rest of the group are very pleased
that hell continue with us into
the future.
Two hundred SmartCentres
employees will move to the newly formed REIT, as will chief operating officer Peter Forde and
chief development officer Mauro
Pambianchi, who will both join
the executive team.
Mr. Goldhar linked up with
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. more than
two decades ago, before big-box
stores and power-centre malls
that housed them in open-air
shopping centres became a common sight in Canadian suburbs.
He helped Wal-Marts founding
Walton family set up its first
stores in Canada in 1994, after it
bought 122 Woolco stores. But he
also staked out other properties
for further expansion opportunities. In the United States, WalMart counted heavily on building
its business in small towns while
leaving a trail of bankrupt retailers in its wake. In Canada, a similar phenomenon developed as
Wal-Mart overtook smaller, weaker players.
In the early 2000s, Calloway
REIT signed deals with Mr. Goldhars First Pro Shopping Centres,
which eventually became SmartCentres. The firm continued to
turn vacant lots and farmers
fields into Wal-Mart-anchored
power centres across the country.
It teamed with Calloway, selling
its big-box properties to the REIT
in return for an equity stake in
the firm. Under terms of the
deals, First Pro retained the management contract on the sites
along with the accompanying
steady income.
Mr. Goldhar, who became Calloways largest investor, got to
watch his shares of the small
REIT grow in value as new investors piled in, attracted by the
Wal-Mart factor.
Mr. Thomas said the deal would
be financed by $644-million of
assumed debt, a $200-million
bought deal to a syndicate led by
CIBC and a $160-million issuance
of class B units in Calloway
limited partnerships to Mr. Goldhar and other vendors.
The deal is expected to close at
the end of next month, after a
vote by unit holders on May 26.

Andrew Eva knows it wont 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

FROM PAGE 1

Alberta: Migration from other provinces has declined by 65 per cent

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A year ago, the province was

expected to maintain its
record as a national economic
leader as the oil patch boomed
and the population kept growing with the influx of those
seeking high-paying work. Now,
cutting Albertas reliance on
energy is suddenly job No.
1.The premise for calling the
election, which Prentice talked
about, was that we need a structural shift that is going to take
the economy off of oil so that
the proportion of the budget
thats accounted for by oil and
gas resources goes down, said
Bruce Cameron, pollster and
founder of the Calgary-based
consultancy Return on Insight.
I think their biggest challenge
is that is a five- to 10-year process, and when people start
thinking politically five to 10
years, its just too far out.
The latest polls are worrisome
for the Tories. They show the
right-of-centre Wildrose Party,
led by Brian Jean, and left-wing
New Democrats under Rachel
Notley in a virtual dead heat for
first place among decided voters.
Mr. Prentices PCs are running
third with three weeks before
the vote.
The Wildrose has pledged to
repeal the tax hikes and instead
target inefficiency in government departments. The resurgent NDP has put forward a
job-creation scheme funded
through tax credits, and have
promised to restore cuts to
health care.
Our sense in the first week of
the campaign was people were
much crankier than the PCs
probably anticipated about the
timing of the election and about
the budget, Mr. Cameron said.
A recent uptick in oil prices
could improve the mood and

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boost Mr. Prentices numbers, he

said.
The Premier was forced into
austerity. His budget assumes
the take from energy at just
$2.9-billion, or just 6.6 per cent
of total revenue, as U.S. crude

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averages $54.84 (U.S.) a barrel.

Last year, non-renewable
resource revenue was 18 per
cent.
In 2015, according to the
government, the economy will
hang a hairsbreadth above reces-

sion, with a forecast 0.4-per-cent

increase in real GDP. Unemployment is projected to climb to 5.7
per cent with thousands of
workers, directly and indirectly
employed in oil and gas, being
handed layoff notices.
The Bank of Canada said in its
April Monetary Policy Report on
Wednesday that oils collapse
will have an adverse impact on
GDP, and noted that migration
from other provinces has
declined by 65 per cent since the
middle of last year.
The main culprit is the drop in
energy-sector investment. The
Conference Board of Canada has
predicted that Western Canadian
energy spending, the bulk of of
which is in Alberta, will fall 21
per cent to $44-billion (Canadian) this year, and that job
losses in the sector could total
8,000.
The prospect has had a ripple
effect, no place greater than in
the Calgary residential real
estate market. In the first quarter, sales tumbled nearly 33 per
cent from the year earlier,
according to the Calgary Real
Estate Board.
The government is also departing from the old PC script by
borrowing big to fund infrastructure spending. It plans to issue
$9.75-billion in debt this year,
the largest financing in at least
15 years and a move that would
have been unheard of in the
tight-fisted Ralph Klein era.
Mr. Eva said conditions will
eventually improve, a prospect
that looks closer this week as oil
prices trade above $56 (U.S.) a
barrel for the first time this year.
It will come back, but right
now its pretty slow. I mean, if
youre looking for a job it wont
be as easy as it once was, he
says.

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Calloway REIT (CWT.UN)

Close: $29.16, up 20

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Aston Hill: Company was known for having a high expense base
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Under the old agreement,

Aston Hill chief investment
officer Ben Cheng managed
three IA Clarington funds: the
Tactical Income Fund, the Global Tactical Income Fund and the
Tactical Bond Fund.Collectively,
these funds had assets that
accounted for roughly one-third
of Aston Hills total assets under
management, and 16 per cent of
revenues.
At the time, Aston Hill downplayed the importance, stressing
that executives were focused on
growing their in-house products,
such as mutual funds and hedge

funds. Sub-advisory mandates

offer lower profit margins than
in-house products, and the company argued that adding to
these more profitable areas
would be of net benefit to the
firm.
However, IA Claringtons decision forced Aston Hill to slash
its quarterly payout to 0.005
cents per share, from 0.015
cents. The asset manager
described this in a statement as
necessary to maintain an appropriate payout ratio and continue to reinvest in [its]
growth.

At the same time, Aston Hill

announced it would reduce staff
as a cost-cutting measure. Historically the company was
known for having a high
expense base.
Following these changes, Mr.
Cheng embarked on a national
roadshow to update advisers on
the companys plans for the
future, and the assumption was
that he would soon launch new
funds for retail investors
something Aston Hill had suggested would happen. The company did not disclose that it
was looking for potential buyers

at the same time. Aston Hill did

not return a request for comment.
Although Aston Hill has been
looking for a deal, there is no
guarantee one will be completed and several firms have
rebuffed the executives, according to sources. Two of the bestknown names that have been
discussed as potential buyers
are Dundee Corp., which recently relaunched an asset management business, and Sprott Inc.,
which has struggled to move
past its resource roots.
Dundee declined to comment,

but sources say the firm was

not interested. Sprott did not
return a request for comment.
Aston Hill was formed in 2001
and specialized in the energy
sector. The asset manager
opened its Toronto office in
2007, which coincided with the
hiring of Mr. Cheng, who was
previously a portfolio manager
at CI Financial Corp. Since 2009,
the company went on a buying
spree to acquire firms and boost
its assets under management.
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Aston Hill Financial Inc. (AHF)

Close: $0.79, down 4

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SPO NSO R CO NTENT

2015 Cassies Awards

Behind the scenes of Canadas best
advertising campaigns of 2014
Working with both American Express and Hellmanns, Ogilvy has created award-winning campaigns that deliver bottom-line results.
CAMPAIGN: CLOUD 10 CLIENT: AMERICAN EXPRESS
AGENCY: OGILVY & MATHER CAMPAIGN PERIOD: SEPTEMBER 2012 JULY 2013

CAMPAIGN: HELLMANNS REAL FOOD MOVEMENT CLIENT: UNILEVER

AGENCY: OGILVY & MATHER CAMPAIGN PERIOD: JANUARY 2007 DECEMBER 2013

2015 CASSIES AWARD WINNER:

2015 CASSIES AWARD WINNER:

GOLD OFF TO A GOOD START; GOLD BEST MATCHING OF MESSAGE TO MEDIUM

GOLD LONG TERM

Cloud 10 signage throughout Toronto Pearson International Airport informs American Express card
members and non-card members alike of the benefits of membership including priority access
through security lines for members.

Thanks to a Real Food Grant from Hellmanns, Camille J. Lerouge School in Red Deer was able to
renovate its cafeteria saying bye bye deep fryer by running over the schools deep fat fryer
with a monster truck, and introducing healthy and nutritious food choices.

n the early 2000s, Hellmanns mayonnaise was a distant number two

player and it was continuing to lose
market share. But we knew we had an
ownable offering: a product made with
simple Canadian ingredients, says Gina
Kiroff, marketing manager at Unilever.
The decision to focus on this core
product attribute led to much more
than a turnaround in sales. It led to a
social movement.
Unilever wanted to inject purpose
into the Hellmanns brand and create a
movement around something real and
long term, says Alex Furrer, chief creative officer at OgilvyOne, the agency
that has worked on the Hellmanns
account since 2007.
The firm created a social mission for
the brand, the Real Food Movement, to
make it easier for Canadians to choose
real food and to shine a light on some
of the barriers that prevent us from
doing so.
One of Hellmanns first initiatives was
Urban Gardens. The company partnered
with a national non-profit organization
to provide urban garden plots in cities
across Canada.
We were at the forefront of the trend
in urban gardens, says Ms. Kiroff. We
mobilized people to establish community gardens so they could grow their
own produce and learn about real food.
A website provided gardening tips, TV
ads documented the campaign and

hen American Express partnered with Toronto Pearson

International Airport in 2012,
the credit card company wanted to
do more than a traditional airport
advertising campaign. It wanted to
find ways to improve and enhance
the travel experience within Canadas
largest airport for card members
and non-card members alike.
American Express and its creative
agency Ogilvy worked closely with
the Greater Toronto Airport Authority to deepen their understanding of
how travellers journey through the
airport, from dropping off a car to
standing in security lines to passing
time waiting for a flight.
We identified key moments of interaction where we could enhance the
experience, primarily for our customers, as well as for all airport guests,
says David Barnes, vice president
of advertising and communications
at American Express. He says they
were looking for ways not just to
show the brand but to engage with
current and potential customers as a
service provider.
This initial on-the-ground research
led to the development of the Cloud
10 platform a way to show people
how American Express service takes
it up a level to leave guests feeling
special, says Alex Furrer, chief creative officer at OgilvyOne.

Cloud 10
has enhanced the
reputation
of American
Express as
a customercentric and
customerexperiencefocused
brand.
David Barnes
is vice president
of advertising
and communications at
American
Express

Through Cloud 10, American Express premium card members at

Pearson Airport access a full suite of
benefits from free valet parking and
fast-track security lines to access to
exclusive lounges. These highly visible and preferential services for card
members tangibly show prospective
customers the value of holding an
American Express card.
The benefits of Cloud 10 make
the airport experience easier and
more pleasurable for card members,
says Mr. Barnes. Its become part of
the value proposition, with people
specifically applying for our cards
so they can access these benefits.
Cloud 10 also offers perks for all airport guests as a way of enhancing the
airport experience. Airport travellers
can access free WiFi throughout the
airport and download free e-books
and music to their mobile devices
thanks to a partnership with HarperCollins Canada and Sony Music
Canada.
By both showing and telling the
benefits of membership, Cloud 10
has been a valuable tool in boosting sales of premium cards, says
Mr. Barnes. This has never been
about pushing messages and buying
advertising. Cloud 10 has enhanced
the reputation of American Express
as a customer-centric and customerexperience-focused brand.

AMERICAN EXPRESS CLOUD 10 CAMPAIGN BY THE NUMBERS

51%
INCREASE IN CARD
APPLICATIONS
COMPARED TO
FORECAST

24%
INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF
PROSPECTS AGREEING THAT
AMERICAN EXPRESS OFFERS
THE BEST CARD FOR TRAVEL

The Real
Food Movement has
driven
affinity for
the brand
because its
an issue of
fundamental
importance
to our core
market.
Gina Kiroff
is marketing
manager at
Unilever

people came together to grow fruits

and vegetables.
Other initiatives included an awareness campaign about the importance of
choosing locally grown food, the Real
Food Grant Program which donated
$320,000 to organizations that help
families and children discover fresh,
local food and Real Food Trips, an
experiential program for children to
learn about healthy eating habits.
Each larger campaign is supported by
TV ads, online video, print campaigns,
social media, direct mail and more.
The creative has been articulated
differently through each initiative, but
the core message stays the same,
says Ms. Kiroff.
That message is one that is as relevant
today as it was in 2007. The Real
Food Movement has driven affinity
for the brand because its an issue of
fundamental importance to our core
market, she says.
That core market has responded
by making Hellmanns the top-selling
mayonnaise brand in Canada. This is
brand-led growth, says Ms. Kiroff. This
growth is really rooted in the heart of
the product and brand.
This content was produced by Randall
Anthony Communications, in partnership
with The Globe and Mails advertising
department. The Globes editorial department was not involved in its creation.

REAL FOOD MOVEMENT CAMPAIGN BY THE NUMBERS

34%
INCREASE IN
AVERAGE CARD
MEMBER SPEND AT
AIRPORT RETAILERS

#1
HELLMANNS IS NOW THE NUMBER ONE SELLING MAYONNAISE BRAND IN CANADA

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Jani Yates, President of the ICA, highlighted how, whether

in real time with the American Express Cloud 10 airport treatment or over the multi-year Hellmanns Real Food Movement,
making new connections with consumers drives sales results.
These two Gold-winning campaigns developed new, more
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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
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WASHINGTON
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The head of the International

Monetary Fund on Thursday signalled that the IMF would not
agree to let Greece delay a scheduled bailout payment, saying the
Fund needed to protect its sterling reputation as a global lender.
Greece is fast running out of
cash and its euro zone and IMF
lenders have frozen bailout aid
until the new leftist-led government in Athens reaches agreement on a package of reforms.
That has raised fears the Greek
government will not be able to
make its next payments to the
IMF, which total some 1-billion
($1.3-billion) over the next
month.
We have never had an
advanced economy asking for
payment delays, IMF managing
director Christine Lagarde said in

response to reporters questions

on Greeces debt crisis.
Asked whether that meant the
Fund would not grant a delay if
Athens asked for one, Ms.
Lagarde answered indirectly.
I can assure you that [IMF]
management will do everything
it can to make sure that lending
to the Fund is actually the safest
lending route that anyone can
go, she said at a briefing ahead
of the IMF and World Bank spring
meetings.
Speaking earlier in Washington,
EU Economic and Monetary
Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said the financial fallout
from a potential Greek exit from
the euro zone could be contained. But he said an exit would
present a political rupture that
would raise questions about who
may be next.
It would be a catastrophe for

the euro zone, he said.

Ms. Lagarde, who later met
with Greek Finance Minister
Yanis Varoufakis, in the briefing
said Greece and its lenders need
to get on with the work of evaluating Athens reform plans and
coming to an agreement.
To do that, its not done by a
political, last-minute accord, she
said. Its done by the tedious
work of financial ministers, wherever they are, and the lenders.
Mr. Varoufakis said Thursday
that his country is determined to
remain in the euro zone, as concerns swirl over a possible debt
default and departure from the
bloc. Asked in a Washington
forum what Greece is doing in
talks with official creditors to
avoid Grexit exit from the
euro zone Mr. Varoufakis said
his government refuses to consider that option.

Toying with Grexit is profoundly anti-European, he said

at the Brookings Institution.
With the clock ticking in EU
negotiations for another $7.2-billion euros ($9.5-billion) to keep
the Athens government afloat,
Our only rational pro-European
response is to spend every waking hour trying to reach an
honourable agreement, he said.
But Mr. Varoufakis stressed as
well that the countrys bailout
lenders the European Commission, European Central Bank and
the International Monetary Fund
need to give some ground on
their demands for reforms, and
recognize that the previous bailout approach of deep austerity
had failed.
Weve tried that medicine but
it hasnt worked, he said.
We will compromise, we will
compromise and we will compro-

mise in order to come to a speedy agreement, but we are not

going to be compromised.
The EU has set an April 24
deadline to come to agreement
in principle with Athens over
terms for a new loan that would
allow the country to make key
debt payments to the IMF and
ECB over the next two months.
Mr. Varoufakis was not specific
about the issues that are holding
up a deal, but said the two sides
share a great deal of common
ground.
But he admitted that government funds are drying up in the
current impasse, sparking market
fears of an impending default.
The longer these negotiations
go on, the greater the asphyxiation of our economy.
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Reuters with files from

Agence France-Presse

TICKER
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RAILWAYS

CN to upgrade lines
in Western Canada
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Canadian National Railway Co.

plans to spend $500-million in
Western Canada to improve feeder rail lines that are handling rising volumes of industrial
products, natural resources and
energy-related commodities.
About $100-million will be
spent this year in northern Alberta 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 program. CN sees significant longterm potential in its customer
base located on its Western Canada feeder network, chief executive officer Claude Mongeau said
in a statement. The improvements include heavier rails,
crushed rock ballast and ties
along the road bed.
The Canadian Press
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Miners hit their helmets on the ground during a protest outside the Ministry of Development in Athens on Thursday. ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS/REUTERS

China pauses policy

on bank tech rules

MINING

Eldorado Gold staff protest feared job cuts

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Thousands of workers and supporters of a Canadian-owned gold

mine in northern Greece marched
through Athens on Thursday in
the most significant labour challenge the countrys radical left-led
government has faced since its
election in January.
Some 4,000 people in fluorescent green vests took part in the
protest, waving flags and chanting slogans and forcing police to
shut down major roads for hours.
Mine workers fear they will lose
their jobs because the governing
Syriza party has fought the mine,
owned by Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold Corp., on environmental and financial grounds.
The Skouries gold mine has
divided residents in the northern
Greek peninsula of Halkidiki, and
marches for and against the pro-

We empathize with their

concerns that the ministrys
actions are a threat to their
livelihood and we respect
their right to protect their
employment.
Krista Muhr
Vice-president for investor relations,
Eldorado Gold

ject in recent years have turned

violent.
Leftist and anarchist groups
gathering for an anti-mine protest
in Athens later Thursday clashed
with riot police, who responded
with tear gas and stun grenades.
Residents of some villages in
the vicinity of the Skouries project back the mine, which has created about 2,000 jobs. But others
bitterly oppose it, arguing it will
take a heavy toll on the environment.
Eldorado Gold geologist Dimitris Ballas said workers are concerned the company will be
forced to cancel its investment
and leave Greece if there is no
progress.
The government, which has
accused Eldorado Gold of encouraging the protests, has temporarily revoked a permit for a key ore
enrichment plant.

Krista Muhr, Eldorado vice-president for investor relations, said

in an e-mail that the company
was aware of Thursdays protest
by the Halkidiki unions and their
supporters.
We empathize with their concerns that the ministrys actions
are a threat to their livelihood
and we respect their right to protect their employment, Ms. Muhr
said.
Ismet Ali Chotza, deputy director of supplies, said about 6,000
of the regions 18,000 people are
dependent on the mines, including families of employees and
other related businesses in the
area.
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Associated Press with files

from The Canadian Press
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Eldorado (ELD-T)
Close: $6.11, down 18

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China has suspended a policy

that would have effectively
pushed foreign technology companies out of the countrys banking sector, according to a note
sent by Chinese regulators to
banks.
Dated Monday, the letter called
for banks to suspend implementation of the rules, which have
been at the centre of a brewing
trade conflict between the United
States and China. The rules,
which were put into effect at the
end of last year, called for companies that sell computer equipment to Chinese banks to turn
over intellectual property and
submit source code, amid other
demands.
At stake is billions of dollars of
business for major U.S. companies that make the advanced computing hardware and software
that crunches numbers for banks
across China.
The suspension is temporary as
authorities revise the rules.
New York Times News Service
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BANKING

VW stays mum after

CEO, chair meet

Citigroups earnings improve, top estimates

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CHRISTINA REXRODE
PETER RUDEGEAIR
JUSTIN BAER
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Both Citigroup Inc. and Goldman

Sachs Group Inc. reported strong
first-quater results.
Citigroup results gave chief executive officer Michael Corbat a
much-needed win after a tough
2014. First-quarter profit jumped a
larger-than-expected 21 per cent,
the bank reported Thursday.
Investors sent shares 2 per cent
higher.
The boost for the New York
bank followed its passing the U.S.
Federal Reserve stress test last
month, which gave Citigroup the
freedom to raise its dividend.
Goldman Sachs said Thursday
its first-quarter profit climbed 40
per cent, beating analysts expectations, as the banks traders
thrived on busier, more volatile
markets.
Goldman in recent years has
stuck with its trading businesses
even as many of its peers shifted

to safer businesses such as wealth

management and analysts increasingly questioned the firms
strategy.
This quarter, the formula
worked well. Goldman earned
$2.84-billion (U.S.), or $5.94 a
share, up from $2.03-billion, or
$4.02 a share, in the same period
of 2014, the New York firm reported. Analysts polled by Thomson
Reuters had expected earnings of
$4.26 a share.
Revenue rose 14 per cent to
$10.62-billion, the highest level in
four years, on strong gains from
both trading and merger-advisory
fees. Analysts had expected $9.35billion.
They crushed it, said Jeff
Harte, an analyst with Sandler
ONeill + Partners. And it wasnt
like, Gee, theres one weird thing
driving it. Trading was strong.
Investment banking was strong.
Compensation [expenses] came
in below expectations.
The banks return on equity, a
closely watched profitability met-

ric, rose to an annualized 14.7 per

cent from 11.2 per cent last year.
Still, Goldmans shares fell
about 0.4 per cent in Thursday
trading, a sign that investors had
been counting on a big increase in
trading and banking revenue.
Goldman shares are up 6.5 per
cent this month, best among the
six largest U.S. banks.
For Citigroup, in calls with analysts and reporters Thursday,
there was a notable change in
tone from the earnings report a
year ago, which came just weeks
after the bank had failed the Feds
stress test. The Fed last month
cleared Citigroups 2015 stress-test
request, giving it permission to
raise its dividend for the first time
since the financial crisis.
Earnings were $1.52 a share,
after adjusting for one-time
items, which was significantly
higher than the $1.39 a share projected by analysts polled by
Thomson Reuters. Revenue was
in line with expectations.
The bank aggressively cut costs,

which helped it overcome lower

trading revenue and weakness in
consumer banking outside the
United States.
This is a big deal, said BMO
Capital Markets analyst James
Fotheringham, who had predicted
higher expenses.
Citigroup hopes 2015 will be a
turning point, after a year of being
besieged by the stress-test failure
and problems in its Mexico unit,
Banamex. However, there are
questions about how long the
first-quarter momentum can last.
Is this as good as it gets? CLSA
analyst Mike Mayo asked.
Over all, Citigroups profit was
$4.77-billion, or $1.51 a share
before adjusting for the one-time
items. That compared with $3.94billion, or $1.23 a share, a year ago.
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Citigroup (C)
Close: $54.02 (U.S.), up 81
Goldman Sachs Group (GS)
Close: $200.21 (U.S.), down 89

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Volkswagen AG, Europes biggest

auto manufacturer, declined to
comment following a meeting of
senior shareholder and labour
representatives with beleaguered
chief executive officer Martin
Winterkorn to try to end a leadership crisis that has engulfed the
company. There will be no statement tonight, a Volkswagen
spokesman said Thursday. The
decision left questions about the
future role of the 67-year-old
unanswered. VWs powerful
chairman, Ferdinand Piech, last
week expressed a lack of confidence in the CEO. Mr. Piech and
five other members of the VW
boards executive committee met
with Mr. Winterkorn in an apparent attempt to end what has
become an overnight crisis in the
companys top management. Mr.
Piechs comments damaged the
CEO, the people said, and
prompted speculation that he
could step down.
Dow Jones Newswires

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INFRASTRUCTURE

Major projects a boost for engineering stocks

Construction companies are ready for growth with bridges, dams and transit needing to be built

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EQUITIES

Investors more
bearish: survey

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DAVID KENNEDY
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Canadian investors are looking

more bearish on Canadian equity
markets heading into the second
quarter of 2015.
In a recent Advisor and Investor
Sentiment Survey, conducted by
Horizons ETFs Management
(Canada) Inc., both Canadian advisers and investors were asked
for their expectations of returns
bullish, bearish or neutral on 13
distinct asset classes in the second quarter of this year.
Both groups saw a decline in
bullish sentiment for the majority
of asset classes; advisers were less
bullish on nine of 13 major indexes and asset classes, while investors were less bullish on seven out
of the 13.
Among key indexes, bullish sentiment for advisers on the S&P/
TSX capped financial index fell to
40 per cent from 57 per cent. Similarly, 36 per cent of investors said
they were bullish on financials,
compared with 48 per cent last
quarter. For the S&P/TSX capped
energy index, bullish sentiment
for advisers dropped 12 per cent
quarter-over-quarter, while investors saw a 5-per-cent decline.
Clare OHara

ontreals new Champlain

Bridge is just one of several
major infrastructure projects in
the planning stages across Canada that could help boost the fortunes of the nations engineering
and construction firms.
A consortium led by Canadian
engineering giant SNC-Lavalin
Group Inc. won a contract estimated to be worth $3-billion to
$5-billion this week to build and
manage the replacement bridge
that will connect Montreal to
communities on the south shore
of the St. Lawrence River. Other
large contracts being bid on include the Eglinton Crosstown
light-rail transit in Toronto, worth
around $5-billion, and the Site C
clean-energy project, a dam and
hydroelectric generating station
on the Peace River in northeastern British Columbia, with a price
tag estimated at $8.8-billion.
These are very meaningful
projects. It does move the needle
dramatically, Dundee Securities
analyst Maxim Sytchev said.
Investors must be aware, however, that vying for major projects is a high-risk, high-reward
business.
Youre hunting for elephants,
Mr. Sytchev added. If you dont
win [the contract], you dont get
paid.
Analysts are largely bullish on
four Canadian engineering and
construction companies aiming
to take advantage of these megaprojects as well as smaller ones in
Canada and the United States.
WSP Global Inc. is one stock already on a tear. Its up about 25
per cent so far this year, and analysts dont think its done yet,
with 10 calling it a buy, two a hold
and only one a sell, at an average
price target of $45.75.
AltaCorp Capital analyst Chris
Murray said the companys acquisition of Parsons Brinckerhoff
Group Inc. last year has been one
of WSPs main growth drivers.
By adding Parsons it gives
them additional diversification
into an area [where] they really
didnt have a strong presence.
Both in terms of their transportation business but it also gives
them substantially more U.S.
exposure, he said.
Mr. Murray said he thinks the
company will continue to perform well, especially as the United States begins investing heavily
in infrastructure over the next
decade. He has an outperform
rating on the stock and a $46
price target.
Mr. Sytchev also has a buy rating on the stock, with a price target of $48. He pointed to the
companys strong internal growth
and noted that it has less exposure to the energy industry than
many of its competitors.
Its all about having that right
geographical mix thats exactly
what WSP has, Mr. Sytchev said.
It has been very strong execution on their part.
Unlike WSP, which is trading
near its 52-week high, Aecon

The Eglinton Crosstown light-rail line in Toronto is just one of many infrastructure megaprojects around North
America that Canadian firms will look to take advantage of over the next decade. KEVIN VAN PAASSEN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL

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Close: $43.51, down 27

Close: $13.26, up 15

Group Inc. is trading closer to its

low. That may be an opportunity
for investors, as analysts are similarily upbeat about its prospects,
with 12 calling it a buy, three a
hold and no analysts rating it a
sell. The average price target is
$15.38.
Raymond James analyst Frederic Bastien said Aecon has a great
shot at some of the bigger projects on the horizon this year.
Aecon is shortlisted for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, where only
$1.5-billion of construction had
been committed as of the end of
last year, and is also vying for the
Site C project.
Their strategy really evolved in
the last five years, he said.

Theyve teamed up with some

very strong players.
Mr. Murray is also positive on
the company.
Theyve got a pretty deep backlog, he said. And actually
theyve got a very good track
record of qualifying for [publicprivate partnerships]. Not only
ones theyve already won, but
ones that are coming.
Mr. Sytchev cautioned, however, that as the company replenishes its backlog with
infrastructure projects instead of
higher-margin oil and gas projects, its margins will likely take a
hit.
Analysts are also largely upbeat
on Edmonton-based Stantec Inc.,

with 10 rating it as a buy, six as a

hold and no one recommending
selling, at an average price target
of $37.15.
Mr. Bastien pointed to the companys acquisition of Montrealbased Dessaus engineering operations as a strong positive. He
said it has given the largely Western Canadian company a foothold in the east, and its now in a
position to win work in Quebec.
Mr. Murray also said he expects
the share price to begin to climb.
We believe Stantec remains a
best-in-class story in a consolidating market with more than adequate financial and operational
capability to drive growth over
the next several years, he said.
The analyst added that the recent
share-price slip on oil-and-gas
exposure fears understates the
companys growth potential and
strength in other markets such as
the U.S.
Mr. Sytchev is more cautious,
pointing to the companys 24-percent top-line exposure to the
energy industry as worrisome in
the current environment.
Analysts view SNC as more of
an uncertainty, noting that its
legal issues have not yet all been
resolved. Seven analysts rate SNC
as a buy, eight as a hold and one
as a sell.
But Mr. Sytchev said the stocks
very cheap valuation is an opportunity. Its trading at only 6.22
times earnings of the past 12
months. The downside is very
limited in this story and the
upside is just dramatically bigger, he said.
The analyst said the companys
stake in the Toronto areas Highway 407 toll expressway will likely be monetized this year for
higher-than-consensus expectations, and that from there, its all
about righting the ship.

EXCHANGE-TRADED FUNDS

Mackenzie Financial eyeing actively managed ETFs in expansion bid

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E-COMMERCE

Etsy shares soar

on first trading day
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Shares of Etsy Inc., an online

marketplace for handmade goods
and craft supplies, soared in their
debut on Thursday, valuing the
company at about $3.9-billion
(U.S.).
The companys initial public offering of about 16.7 million shares
raised about $267-million, after it
was priced at the top end of the
expected range of $14-$16.
Founded in 2005 by Robert
Kalin, Etsy has grown from a website selling just wooden goods to
an online community where crafters and artists offer handmade
and vintage goods.
The stock, which was the top
percentage gainer on the Nasdaq,
closed at $30, up $14 or 87.5 per
cent.
Reuters
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RETAIL

Party City off

to strong start
................................................................

Shares of Party City Holdco Inc.

jumped nearly 22 per cent in their
stock market debut on Thursday.
The Elmsford, N.Y., company
designs, sells and makes balloons,
invitations, costumes and other
party goods. It operates about
900 stores and sells its products
through other retailers.
Party City raised about $372million (U.S.) in its initial public
offering, selling 21.9 million
shares at $17 a share. The stock is
listed on the New York Stock
Exchange under the symbol
PRTY. Shares of Party City rose
$3.70 to close at $20.70 Thursday.
Associated Press
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CLARE OHARA
WEALTH MANAGEMENT REPORTER
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Mackenzie Financial Corp. is

pursuing a strategy to broaden its
product offerings beyond traditional mutual funds, a move that
could see it sell exchange-traded
funds for the first time and mark
a further shakeup of Canadas
wealth management industry.
The fund company has appointed Michael Cooke as senior vicepresident, head of alternative
products for Mackenzie Investments, a newly created position.
Mr. Cooke was former head of distribution of Invesco Canada Ltd.s
ETF division, PowerShares Canada. Hell be considering products
that could include hedge funds,
liquid alternatives and actively
managed exchange-traded funds.
As regulatory changes put pressure on fund companies around
fee transparency, many are looking to offer low-cost solutions to
keep clients in-house.
Last week, Mackenzies parent
company, Power Financial Corp.,
invested $30-million in Wealthsimple Financial Inc, a robo-ad-

viser platform that builds

automated online portfolios
exclusively using ETFs.
Mackenzie offers approximately
91 mutual funds, with $76.4-billion in total assets under management. But it does not offer ETFs.
We are intrigued by this space
but we need to understand how
we can add value to that space
before we can step into it, Jeff
Carney, CEO of Mackenzie, said in
an interview.
Mackenzie will not consider offering traditional ETFs, but will
explore those products using
active management, said Mr. Carney.
Traditional ETFs mimic an index whereas actively managed
funds have a portfolio manager
overseeing asset allocations.
Active ETFs make up approximately $8-billion of the $80-billion in ETF assets under
management in Canada, according to Investor Economics.
In the active space, it is up to
your creativity, said Mr. Carney.
There are quantitative things
going on in that space, and we see
some of the competitors in that

space using traditional management skills. If we were to play in

that space, we would be taking
advantage of our investment
skills at Mackenzie to explore opportunities.
Horizons ETFs Management
(Canada) Inc. is one of the largest
actively manged ETF providers in
Canada with $2.5-billion in actively managed assets. The company
first launched an actively managed ETF in 2009, and now has 28
actively manged funds on its platform.
We think actively managed
ETFs will continue to be one of
the fastest-growing areas of ETFs
in Canada, said Howard Atkinson, president of Horizons. A
new entrant in the actively managed ETF space would help legitimize that industry. Once
competition enters the market,
fees usually compress and innovation increases, bringing more
choice to the end investor.
Mr. Cooke is a well-known ETF
veteran and his move to Mackenzie has raised eyebrows in the
industry.
This speaks to a rapidly shift-

ing industry, said Yves Rebetez,

managing director of consulting
firm ETF Insight. Clearly, the ETF
industry is not going to continue
to grow at a rapid pace without
there being any response on the
part of the mutual fund industry.
The banking sector has already
entered the ETF space, with Bank
of Montreal and Royal Bank of
Canada both launching ETF platforms in 2009. Other banks could
also eventually have their own offerings, said Mr. Rebetez.
Other players, including both
mutual fund and insurance companies, could enter the market if
ETF sales are open to include
mutual fund advisers, an initiative currently being driven by the
Canadian ETF Association (CETFA).
I have felt for a long time now
that it was inevitable that major
asset managers would start looking at this space, says Mr. Atkinson, who is also chairman of
CETFA. I think it is more a question of when, not if. Whether it be
banks, fund companies or insurance companies, one day they
will all have an ETF offering.

E-TRADING

Virtus shares jump

in market debut
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Shares of electronic trading firm

Virtu Financial Inc. rose as much
as 24.6 per cent in their debut,
which was postponed by nearly a
year due to widespread criticism
of high-frequency traders. The
companys shares touched a high
of $23.67 (U.S.) on the Nasdaq on
Thursday, valuing the market
maker at about $3.2-billion. The
shares ended the day at $22.18, up
$3.18 or 16.7 per cent.
Virtu postponed its IPO last
year, following the release of
Michael Lewiss Flash Boys: A Wall
Street Revolt, a book that questioned whether markets were
rigged in favour of high-frequency traders.
The IPO of 16.5 million class A
shares was priced at the top end
of the expected $17-$19-a-share
range, raising about $314.1-million.
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Bay Street declines Canadian stocks fell as energy bears won a scuffle in the ongoing
battle against bulls who expect a recovery in crude oil prices to limit long-term damage to the countrys major oil and gas industry. The biggest drags were Canadian Natural Resources, which lost 2.8 per cent, and Suncor Energy, which fell back 1.5 per cent.
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Wall Street falls U.S. stocks ended marginally lower as lingering worries about
upcoming corporate earnings reports offset enthusiasm about a trio of soaring Wall
Street debuts. Apple closed 0.5 per cent lower while General Electric ended down 0.7
per cent. SanDisk lost 4.5 per cent after its forecast.
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226.16
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714.65
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301.81
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164.24
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18,105.77 9 -6.84 9

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+2.24% YTD

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2140

-0.04% 9

89,515,996 VOL 9

+1.59% YTD

Daily index: Last 12 months

18600

Bank of Nova Scotia

National Bank of Cda
Enbridge Inc.
TD Bank
EnCana Corp.

65.73
48.96
64.42
56.03
15.83

.46
1.66
.45
.23
1.28

Cdn Natural Resource

Suncor Energy
BCE Inc.
Brookfield Asset Mgmt
Barrick Gold Corp.

40.84
40.07
53.98
70.47
15.40

-2.76
-1.48
-1.23
-1.21
-2.47

79.53
16.15
54.69
103.40
11.73

2.9
2.1
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44.59 -10.0
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27739.71
7060.45
11611.70
45480.23
5007.79
5224.49
1272.90
1061.60
54674.21
2139.90
4194.82
5917.60
19885.77
9398.60

-232.48
120.89
-36.33
-166.70
217.29
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-29.86
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New York
Nasdaq

628
287
2,064
1,280

-19.81
-33.53
2.08
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155,072
63,421
1,876,586
725,403

1,000
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8.81
3.86
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25,892
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74,832
71,205

2,315
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13 -34.98
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118 39.58

93 92.18
22 -37.85
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419,520
169,129
4,542,127
1,660,511

6.13
-11.15
-7.74
-18.04

Frankfurt Xetra DAX

Hong Kong Hang Seng
London FTSE 100
Madrid IBEX 35
Mexico C IPC
Nasdaq
Paris CAC40
Russell 2000
Russia RTS
Sao Paulo BOVESPA
Seoul Kospi
Shanghai Composite
Sydney All Ord
Tokyo Nikkei 225
Zurich Swiss Mkt

-1.90 +22.37
0.44 +17.52
-0.51 +7.53
-1.42 +12.96
0.48 +5.41
-0.06 +5.74
-0.57 +22.27
-0.19 +5.66
0.88 +34.26
-0.45 +9.33
0.94 +11.71
2.71 +29.68
0.69 +9.82
0.08 +13.95
-0.32 +4.62

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TSX VENTURE

NYSE

NASDAQ

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Canadian Oil Sands

12.96
HBP NYMEX Crude Oil B 8.75
DHX Media
7.90
HBP NYMEX Crude Oil B 9.67
Precision Drilling
8.63
Royal Bank of Canada
81.24
Suncor Energy
40.07
EnCana Corp.
15.83
Cdn Natural Resource
40.84
iShares S&P/TSX 60 In 22.58

Patient Home Monitor

NYX Gaming Group
Pine Cliff Energy
Tamarack Valley Energ
POET Technologies
Lonestar West
Leucrotta Exploration
Input Capital Corp.
Storm Resources Ltd.
Vogogo Inc.

Bank of America
Petroleo Bras Sa Petr
Spdr S&P 500 E.T.F.
General Electric
Ishares Msci Emerg Mk
Nokia
Petroleo Bras Sa Petr
Alcoa
Citigroup
Mrk Vectr Gold Miners

Applied Materials
Cisco Systems
Intel
Apple
Sandisk Corp.
Microsoft
Horizon Pharma plc
Micron Technology
Powersh QQQ E.T.F.
Netflix Inc.

.12
.9
-.21 -2.3
-.64 -7.5
.24 2.6
-.46 -5.1
-.01 -.0
-.60 -1.5
.20 1.3
-1.16 -2.8
-.11 -.5

5001
4657
4461
3720
3324
3143
3067
3012
2956
2718

24.4
-19.4
-18.6
-14.6
22.2
1.3
8.6
-2.1
13.7
5.2

1.82
4.69
1.51
4.50
1.66
2.10
1.05
2.93
4.99
3.34

.08 4.6
-.09 -1.9
.01
.7
-.08 -1.8
.14 9.2
.20 10.5
-.02 -1.9
-.05 -1.7
.07 1.4
-.11 -3.2

6297 109.2
1621 25.1
1005 -10.1
867 38.0
624 13.7
487 -12.5
449 -27.6
239 33.2
198 20.5
178 26.5

15.79
8.68
210.37
27.28
43.46
7.77
8.58
13.45
54.02
19.74

.15 1.0 104962

-.22 -2.5 74959
-.06 -.0 68781
-.18 -.7 62167
.34
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-.07 -.9 53358
-.21 -2.4 43585
.11
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126.17
-.61 -.5 28035 14.3
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NASDAQ

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Nobilis Health Corp.

9.28
Kinaxis Inc.
30.90
DeeThree Exploration
7.42
COM DEV International
5.06
Manitoba Telecom Serv 26.28
Cdn. Energy Services
6.78
CNOOC Limited
209.70
Westport Innovations
5.83
AutoCanada Inc.
37.72
HBP S&P/TSX Glo Gold
11.06

NXT Energy Solutions

Lonestar West
POET Technologies
Orca Exploration Group
Starlight U.S. MultiAuryn Resources Inc.
Ascot Resources
EXO U Inc.
Nanotech Security Cor
Patient Home Monitor

Koppers Holdings
Philip Morris Internat
Mesabi Trust
Sinopec Shanghai Petr
Shake Shack Inc.
Korea Electric Power
Eros International PL
58.Com Inc.
Csop Ftse China A50 E
Marinemax Inc.

Identiv, Inc.
12.40 3.45 38.6
1565 -10.7
Travelzoo Inc.
13.57 3.29 32.0 2291
7.5
Netflix Inc.
562.05 86.59 18.2 14904 64.5
Capitol Acquis. Corp.
13.80 1.80 15.0
0 37.3
Audience, Inc.
6.19
.74 13.6
428 40.7
Trivascular Technolog
8.95
.95 11.9
749 -28.8
Atara Biotherapeutics
53.28 5.53 11.6
176 99.2
Panera Bread
182.89 18.97 11.6 2766
4.6
Heat Biologics
7.69
.75 10.8
196 67.5
Minerva Neurosciences
5.83
.52 9.8
127 -3.2

1.04 12.6
2.59 9.2
.37 5.3
.21 4.3
1.05 4.2
.27 4.2
8.33 4.1
.21 3.7
1.22 3.3
.35 3.3

1329 165.1
71 67.0
1276 45.2
207 26.8
511 -3.0
1096
6.8
1 34.4
66 32.8
192 -15.2
359 -33.3

2.05
2.10
1.66
3.62
12.50
1.19
1.58
1.40
1.43
1.82

.25 13.9
.20 10.5
.14 9.2
.24 7.1
.75 6.4
.07 6.3
.08 5.3
.07 5.3
.07 5.2
.08 4.6

167 48.6
487 -12.5
624 13.7
1 24.8
2 25.0
73 25.3
46 -10.7
10 -29.7
25 14.4
6297 109.2

22.65
84.96
15.68
52.06
61.59
21.39
18.64
67.57
22.70
25.16

2.17 10.6
568
6.83 8.7 23590
1.24 8.6
103
3.51 7.2
28
4.12 7.2 1800
1.33 6.6 1367
1.11 6.3
118
3.85 6.0 3130
1.27 5.9
48
1.37 5.8
560

-12.8
4.3
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DHX Media
DHX Media
Callidus Capital Corp
HBP NYMEX NatGas Bear
Amaya Inc.
Novadaq Technologies
Northern Blizzard Res
Precision Drilling
ENERGY INDEXPLUS Divi
Hydrogenics Corp.

UGE International
Decisive Dividend
CohBar Inc.
VersaPay Corporation
Bacanora Minerals
Blackline GPS
Aveda Trans. & Energy
North Arrow Minerals
Chesapeake Gold
Kennady Diamonds Inc.

Argan, Inc.
Gulfmark Offshore
Global X Brazil Finan
Ocwen Financial
Coeur Mining, Inc.
Matador Resources
Aspen Aerogels, Inc.
Penn Virginia Corp.
Harsco Corp.
Natural Grocers by Vi

Natural Health Trends

Pernix Therapeuticsho
Novogen Ltd. (D)
KBS Fashion Group
Codexis, Inc.
Evoke Pharma
Hampden Bancorp
Pacira Pharmaceutical
AngieS List
Akebia Therapeutics

7.60 -.96 -11.2

7.90 -.64 -7.5
15.70 -1.12 -6.7
11.20 -.74 -6.2
26.71 -1.73 -6.1
19.73 -1.20 -5.7
8.78 -.47 -5.1
8.63 -.46 -5.1
6.38 -.29 -4.4
15.05 -.67 -4.3

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4461 -18.6
94 -10.3
1898
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1691 -6.4
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190
11.0
3324 22.2
6 -3.3
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1.02
1.65
1.07
1.40
1.60
2.00
2.15
1.01
1.93
4.50

-.36
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-.10
-.10
-.09
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7.78 -.62 -7.4
5.69 -.45 -7.3
27.24 -2.11 -7.2
6.89 -.52 -7.0
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5487 34.7
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TSX HIGHS
COM DEV International
DH Corporation
DIRTT Envrionmental
Dominion Diamond
F.A. Morningstar Intl
First Asset Energy Gi
Hartco
iShares Emrg. Mkts Fu
Kinaxis Inc.
Kirkland Lake Gold
Nobilis Health Corp.
Parkland Fuel Corp.
Pollard Banknote Limit
Regal Lifestyle Commu
Richelieu Hardware
Russ. 1000 Eq. Wt. US
Tricon Capital Group
U.S. Dividend Growers
UrtheCast Corp.

ZCL Composites
7.35
TSX LOWS
BMO S&P/TSX Laddered 12.04
Canickel Mining
.11
Connacher Oil and Gas
.01
Corvus Gold Inc.
.65
GeneNews
.57
HBP S&P500 VIX Sh.Ter
2.99
HBP S&P500 VIX ST Fut
5.95
Horizon US 7-10 Yr Tr
48.87
Horizons Act Float Pr
9.16
Horizons Active Prefe
9.27
Horizons Active Prefe
9.27
iShares S&P/TSX N.A.
19.02
iShares S&P/TSX Prefe
14.77
iShares S&P/TSX Prefe
14.70
Kelso Technologies In
4.37
Marret High Yield Str
.08
Mega Uranium
.08
North American Pallad
.07

Northern Power System

PowerShares Cdn Pref
Preferred Share Invest
Timmins Gold
Victory Nickel
Wellgreen Platinum
Yorbeau Resources

.98
16.17
8.22
.73
.08
.43
.05

-.17 -14.78
-.11
-.68
-.12 -1.44
.00
.00
-.01 -11.11
-.02 -3.37
-.01 -10.00

WAI Capital Investmen

White Metal Resources
Yoho Resources

.06
.02
.85

TSX VENTURE HIGHS

BriaCell Therapeutics
Brilliant Resources
Coastal Gold Corp.
Foran Mining Corporat
Golden Arrow Resource
Kootenay Silver
Lateral Gold
NXT Energy Solutions
Patient Home Monitor
Tarku Resources Ltd.
theScore, Inc.
Unique Broadband Syst

.35
.24
.03
.48
.34
.48
.36
2.05
1.82
.10
.83
.04

.05
.02
.01
.10
-.01
-.01
.07
.25
.08
.01
.00
.02

TSX VENTURE LOWS

Avrupa Minerals Ltd.
CohBar Inc.
Cricket Media Group
CRS Electronics
El Nino Ventures
Ely Gold & Minerals
Ferrum Americas Minin
Genview Capital Corp.
Highland Resources
Jet Metal Corp.
Match Capital Resourc
Melkior Resources
NSX Silver
Pacific Link Mining
Rodinia Lithium Inc.
Skeena Resources
Spearmint Resources
Stakeholder Gold Corp
Starlight U.S. Multi-

NYSE HIGHS
Alliance Data Systems
Autoliv Inc.
Cigna Corp.
Energizer Holdings
Goldman Sachs
Ibonds Dec 2018 Corpo
Ishares Ibonds Dec 20
Ishares Mid-Cap Growt
Prosh Ultra Japan E.T
Proshares Ultra Ftse
Usana Health Sciences
Wabco Holdings

299.93
124.05
132.80
142.06
200.21
101.91
103.87
169.38
102.81
107.21
120.70
126.69

5.06
42.89
7.58
22.77
22.80
10.66
3.37
34.14
30.90
5.98
9.28
26.54
7.35
9.69
66.85
20.64
11.79
9.90
2.42

.21 4.33
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.33
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.36
1.61
.20
.88
.08
.76
.02
.60
.48 1.43
2.59
9.15
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1.04 12.62
.11
.42
.15 2.08
.20
2.11
.60
.91
.35 1.72
.07
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-.05
-.08
-.05
-.01
-.01
-.03
-.04
-.23
-.96
-.03
-.05
.02
-.11
.02
-.11
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-.01
-.01
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-.68
-.66
-29.03
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-3.72
-1.93
-.33
-.54
.22
-.58
.14
-.74
-8.00
-5.88
-11.76
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15.00
6.82
25.00
26.32
-2.86
-2.04
22.41
13.89
4.60
5.26
.00
75.00

.11
1.07
.16
.04
.02
.04
.01
.02
.20
.11
.01
.02
.03
.01
.02
.06
.02
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9.90

-.01
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-.08
-.01
-.01
-.01
-.01
-.01
-.02
-.02
-.01
.00
-.01
-.01
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-.01
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-16.00
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.00
-14.29
-50.00
.00
-15.38
-60.00
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.00
-.01 -25.00
-.05 -5.56
-2.27
2.07
2.58
.48
-.89
.06
.08
-.03
.62
3.58
-.79
4.12

-.75
1.70
1.98
.34
-.44
.06
.08
-.01
.61
3.45
-.65
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determining a stocks rank in

each V.I.P. category based on
equally weighted factors.

HIGH RANKING HEALTH CARE, INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNOLOGY STOCKS

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RANK STOCK

TICKER

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

CHR.B-T
5.96
IT-T
16.28
ESL-T
52.55
NVC-T
11.00
EXE-T
7.72
MAL-T
13.73
TCL.A-T
17.44
TIH-T
33.93
VLN-T
18.90
VRX-T
252.82

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Valuations (past 12 months

except dividend yield)
6 price-to-earnings, price-to-book
and price-to-sales ratios;
6 enterprise value to EBITDA
(earnings before interest, taxes,
depreciation and amortization);
6 price-to-cash flow or price-tocash;
6 shareholder yield (buybacks
plus dividends).

TED DIXON
NUMBER CRUNCHER
teddixon@inkresearch.com
................................................................

What are we looking for?

The 10 highest ranking stocks in
some of Canadas most innovation-dependent sectors: health
care, industrials and technology
(HITs). Rankings are determined
by the INK Edge V.I.P. criteria
(valuations, insider commitment
and price momentum). This is
the same approach we apply
across the broad market to determine membership for the INK
Canadian Insider Index, which is
used by the Horizons Canadian
Insider Index ETF (HII-TSX).

OUTLOOK

Industrials
Technology
Technology
Health care
Health care
Industrials
Industrials
Industrials
Industrials
Health care

SUNNY
SUNNY
SUNNY
SUNNY
SUNNY
SUNNY
SUNNY
SUNNY
SUNNY
SUNNY

INSIDER
PRICE COMPOSITE
VALUATIONS COMMITMENT MOMENTUM
RANK

Chorus Aviation Inc.

The Intertain Group Ltd.
Enghouse Systems Ltd.
Neovasc Inc.
Extendicare Inc.
Magellan Aerospace Corp.
Transcontinental Inc.
Toromont Industries Ltd.
Velan Inc.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals Int'l Inc.

722.3
1,057.7
1,376.9
730.3
679.8
799.2
1,361.6
2,629.5
414.7
86,175.9

83.0
5.1
5.5
1.8
75.7
67.2
85.8
37.5
96.2
3.3

56.7
99.0
93.3
95.9
90.9
86.3
69.4
82.5
77.2
82.3

95.1
95.5
94.4
95.7
64.6
76.7
78.6
88.1
54.6
96.3

99.3
98.1
96.8
96.6
95.9
95.8
95.2
94.3
94.0
93.6

Screen run on April 10, 2015, share prices as of April 15, 2015. Source: INK Research

Insider (officer and director)

commitment
6 recent net insider buying;
6 personal holdings (excludes
shares held for other investors);
6 insider intensity, based on the
number of insiders buying.

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Price momentum
6 based on three-, six- and 12month returns.
Next, each V.I.P. category rank
is equally weighted to determine
a composite ranking.

The screen
Our universe includes some 800
TSX-listed stocks that meet minimum size and liquidity requirements. To make the final grade, a
stock in the group must trade
over $3 and have a market cap of
at least $250-million. We begin by

SECTOR

................................................................

................................................................

................................................................

RECENT MARKET CAP

PRICE $
($-MIL)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

................................................................

In context
The percentile V.I.P. category and
composite rankings of the top 10
are shown versus all other stocks

in the market. Rankings are between 0 and 100 the higher the
better. A composite ranking over
90 goes into the top decile sunny category. A composite ranking between 70 and 90 goes into
the next two deciles, or the
mostly sunny category. Keep in
mind that even if a stock is in the
sunny category, it could still rain
on your portfolios parade. Diversification remains key.
................................................................

What we found
Chorus Aviation Inc. leads the
pack. Chorus provides Air Canada feeder and regional services
through its Jazz operations. The

stock ranks in the top 10 per cent

of all stocks on the basis of price
momentum, and in the top 30
per cent on the basis of attractive
valuations. On the other hand, of
the top 10 stocks, it ranks lowest
on insider commitment. Nevertheless, given that the stock is up
more than 60 per cent over the
past year, the fact that insiders
remain modest accumulators is a
positive signal.
Intertain Group Ltd. takes second spot. It also has the highest
insider ranking. In third spot is
enterprise software solutions
firm Enghouse Systems.
Cardiovascular device maker

Neovasc Inc. is the top ranked

health-care name and takes
fourth spot. The stock falls in the
bottom 10 per cent in terms of
valuations, a distinction which is
also shared by the two stocks
above it in the rankings.
Investors should conduct further research before buying any
of the companies listed here.
................................................................

Ted Dixon, CFA, is CEO of INK

Research, which provides research
and alerts on insider trading reports
via INKResearch.com. INK staff
may also hold a position in profiled
securities.

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EYE ON EQUITIES STOCKS THAT SHOULD BE ON YOUR RADAR SCREEN 9 BY DAVID LEEDER AND LUKE KAWA

.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Netflix Inc. (NFLX-Nasdaq)

Close: $562.05 (U.S.), up $86.59

DHX Media Ltd. (DHX.B-TSX)

Close: $7.90, down 64

TransAlta Renewables (RNW-TSX)

Close: $12.48, up 5

SNC-Lavalin Group (SNC-TSX)

Close: $43.60, up 71

Thomson Reuters Corp. (TRI-TSX)

Close: $50.78, down $1.28

$US 590

$ 10.5

$ 13.25

$ 60

$ 54

495

8.5

12.5

52

48

400

6.5

11.75

44

42

305

4.5
M J J A S O N D J F M
2014
2015

11.0
M J J A S O N D J F M
2014
2015

Research suggests that current

Netflix Inc. subscribers in the
U.S. prefer the service over television, says FBR Capital Markets &
Co. analyst Barton Crockett. The
video-streaming service posted
an impressive first-quarter earnings report after the close on
Wednesday, adding more subscribers than anticipated. He
upgraded the stock to outperform from market perform.
Target: He hiked his price target
to $900 (U.S.) from $400. The average analyst target is $527.13.

The end of DHX Media Ltd.s

licensing rights contract with Disney Channel brings further
uncertainty to its broadcast division, said CIBC World Markets analyst Tony Rizzi. DHX said it
expects significant cost savings
of $5-million to $7-million
annually and no revenue decline;
however, Mr. Rizzi said that is unlikely.
Target: He lowered his price target to $9 from $9.50. The consensus is $10.20.

36
M J J A S O N D J F M
2014
2015

TransAlta Renewables Inc.s

$1.78-billion investment in its
parent company TransAlta
Corp.s Australian asset portfolio
brings both geographic and assettype diversification, said Desjardins Securities Inc. analyst Bill
Cabel. TransAlta is raising its dividend by 9 per cent to 84 cents
and plans for a further increase
in the first half of 2017.
Target: He increased his target
price to $12.75 from $11.50. Consensus is $13.42.

36
M J
2014

J A S O N D J F M
2015

CIBC World Markets analyst Paul

Lechem said it is a definite positive that SNC-Lavalin Group
Inc. can still land federal government contracts, such as the
replacement of Champlain
Bridge in Montreal, given it is facing federal fraud and corruption
charges. However, Mr. Lechem
said he is unsure whether SNC
can turn a profit on such projects.
Target: He raised his price target
to $46 from $44. Consensus is
$46.95.

M J
2014

J A S O N D J F M
2015

Thomson Reuters Corp. is due

for a pause after a solid rally following the release of its fourthquarter earnings, according to
RBC Dominion Securities Inc. analyst Drew McReynolds. He said
the market is poised to be disappointed by earnings growth this
year, downgrading the stock to
sector perform from outperform.
Target: He maintained a $41
(U.S.) price target on the stock.
The consensus is $40.43.

For more analyst opinions on these and other stocks, Globe Unlimited subscribers can read our upgrades and downgrades roundup at tgam.ca/inside-the-market

ROB 100 LARGEST STOCKS FROM THE TSX COMPOSITE BY MARKET CAPITALIZATION
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CHG %CHG

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CHG %CHG

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+Agnico Eagle Mines

36.63
+Agrium
130.58
+Alimentation Couche-T 49.45
AltaGas Ltd.
41.12
ARC Resources Ltd.
24.85
+ATCO Ltd.
46.27
+Bank of Montreal
79.62
+Bank of Nova Scotia
65.73
+Barrick Gold Corp.
15.40
+BCE Inc.
53.98
+BlackBerry Limited
12.10
+Bombardier Inc.
2.71
+Brookfield Asset Mgmt 70.47
Brookfield Property
30.09
+Brookfield Renewable 40.72
+CAE Inc.
14.75
Calloway REIT
29.16
+Cameco Corp.
19.75
+Canadian National Rail 80.99
+Cdn Natural Resource
40.84

-.72 -1.93
.73
.56
-.37 -.74
-.27 -.65
.09
.36
-.06
-.13
.01
.01
.30
.46
-.39 -2.47
-.67 -1.23
-.17 -1.39
.03 1.12
-.86 -1.21
.23
.77
1.07 2.70
-.10 -.67
.20
.69
-.32 -1.59
-.38 -.47
-1.16 -2.76

Canadian Oil Sands

Canadian Pacific Rail
+Canadian Tire Corporat
+Canadian Utilities
+Catamaran Corp.
+CCL Industries
+Cenovus Energy
+CGI Group
+CI Financial
+CIBC
+Constellation Software
+Crescent Point Energy
+Dollarama Inc.
+Eldorado Gold
Element Financial
+Emera Inc.
+Empire Company
Enbridge Inc.
+EnCana Corp.
+Fairfax Financial Hol

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12.96
.12
.93
229.66 -2.51 -1.08
132.99
-.17
-.13
39.63 -.27 -.68
72.77 -.48 -.66
148.68 1.86 1.27
23.02
-.41 -1.75
56.17 -.52 -.92
35.87 -.05 -.14
96.18
.34
.35
494.85 -4.86 -.97
32.37
-.16 -.49
71.00
.75 1.07
6.11
-.18 -2.86
17.82
.31 1.77
41.41
.04
.10
91.67
-.17
-.19
64.42
.29
.45
15.83
.20 1.28
667.90 -2.60 -.39

+Finning International
24.92 -.22 -.88
+First Capital Realty
19.77
.03
.15
First Quantum Mineral
16.00
-.18 -1.11
+Fortis Inc.
39.01 -.14 -.36
+Franco-Nevada Corp.
59.34 -.96 -1.59
+George Weston
104.16 -.49 -.47
+Gildan Activewear
39.08 -.32
-.81
+Goldcorp Inc.
24.16 -.38 -1.55
+Great-West Lifeco
37.02
.20
.54
H&R Real Estate Invest
23.25
.23 1.00
Hudson's Bay Co.
27.40 -.08 -.29
+Husky Energy
27.45 -.42 -1.51
+IGM Financial
45.59 -.58 -1.26
+Imperial Oil
54.90 -.08
-.15
+Industrial Alliance
44.44
.58 1.32
+Intact Financial
93.30
-.11
-.12
+Inter Pipeline
31.31
.27
.87
+Jean Coutu Group (PJC 27.57
.11
.40
+Linamar Corp.
76.56 -1.90 -2.42
+Loblaw Companies
63.35 -.50 -.78

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CHG %CHG

+Magna International
+Manulife Financial
+MEG Energy Corp.
+Methanex Corp.
+Metro Inc.
+National Bank of Cda
+Onex Corporation
+Open Text
+Paramount Resources
Pembina Pipeline Corp
Peyto Exploration
+Potash Corp. of Sask.
+Power Corp of Canada
+Power Financial Corp.
PrairieSky Royalty
Progressive Waste Sol
+Quebecor Inc.
Restaurant Brands Int
RioCan Real Estate In
+Rogers Commun

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CHG %CHG

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66.52
22.08
24.90
69.01
36.71
48.96
72.38
71.12
36.70
42.14
36.64
40.36
33.73
37.73
33.20
36.17
33.56
47.88
28.90
42.03

-.13 -.20
-.20 -.90
.26 1.06
-2.16 -3.03
-.19
-.51
.80 1.66
-.65 -.89
-.23 -.32
-.18 -.49
.16
.38
.10
.27
-.09 -.22
-.27 -.79
-.01 -.03
-.56 -1.66
-.50 -1.36
.18
.54
.03
.06
.19
.66
-.07
-.17

+Royal Bank of Canada

81.24 -.01 -.01
+Saputo Inc.
35.78
.10
.28
+Shaw Communications 27.33
.26
.96
+Silver Wheaton
23.44 -.50 -2.09
+SNC-Lavalin Group
43.60
.71 1.66
+Sun Life Financial In
39.77 -.27 -.67
+Suncor Energy
40.07 -.60 -1.48
+Talisman Energy
9.60 -.14 -1.44
+TD Bank
56.03
.13
.23
+Teck Resources
16.75 -.29 -1.70
+TELUS Corp.
42.07 -.68 -1.59
+Thomson Reuters
50.78 -1.28 -2.46
+Tourmaline Oil
42.36 -.64 -1.49
+TransCanada Corp.
55.87 -.29 -.52
+Turquoise Hill Resour
4.92
-.12 -2.38
+Valeant Pharmaceutical 252.67
-.15 -.06
+Veresen Inc.
18.09
-.13
-.71
+Vermilion Energy Inc.
58.67
.68
1.17
+West Fraser Timber Co 62.24 -1.52 -2.38
+Yamana Gold Inc.
4.85 -.14 -2.81

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CHG %CHG

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ECONOMY AND MARKETS

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CURRENCIES
CANADIAN DOLLAR / U.S. EXCHANGE RATE

BONDS
GOVERNMENT OF CANADA BOND YIELD CURVE

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..............................................................................................................

Last 12 months

Last 12 months: value in $US

COMMODITIES
THOMSON REUTERS / JEFFERIES CRB INDEX

Last 5 business days

$ 0.83

$ 0.95

320

Most Recent

1 Week Ago

4 Weeks Ago

4%

0.82
0.89

2%
0.81

260

0.83

0.8

0%
200
M
2014

M
2015

0.79

0.77
M J
2014

A S O

N D J

F M
2015

F M T W T

3
Months

Years

10

30

Oil prices marked gains for their sixth day running amid
signs that U.S. production, a key driver of the global supply glut, may be on the cusp of easing. Copper notched up
its strongest gain in four weeks. The Thomson Reuters/
Jefferies CRB Index rose 2.14 points to 226.29.

The Canadian dollar rose against a widely depreciating

U.S. dollar, moving to a new year-to-date high as investors
continued to welcome an upbeat economic outlook from
the Bank of Canada. The U.S. dollar was on track for its
biggest daily decline against a basket of major currencies.

Canadian bond prices fell as the market continued to

absorb the Bank of Canadas optimistic policy stance, and
felt some pressure from new supply in the shape of an
auction of 10-year bonds. U.S. government bonds
strengthened for a fifth straight day.

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CLOSING PRICES

FOREIGN EXCHANGE CROSS RATES

CANADA

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PRICE
CHG
....................................................

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAD
. . . . . . . . . . . . .USD
. . . . . . . . . . . .GBP
. . . . . . . . . . . . EUR
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JPY
. . . . . . . . . . . CHF
. . . . . . . . . . . . .MXN
. . . . . . . . . . . AUD
.....

YIELD
CHANGE
....................................................

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2 Year
5 Year
10 Year
30 Year

2 Year
5 Year
10 Year
30 Year

Oil West Texas US$/bbl

56.55 0.54
Oil Brent US$/bbl
63.74 3.42
Nat Gas H. Hub US$ mmbtu
2.68 0.08
Gold US$/troy ounce
1198.20 -4.00
Silver US$/troy ounce
16.26 -0.05
Copper US$/lb
2.75 0.05
Lead US$/lb
0.93 0.02
Zinc US$/lb
1.01 0.01
Aluminum US$/lb
0.83 0.00

PRICE
CHG
....................................................

Nickel US$/lb
Wheat CBOT US$bsh
Lumber KD W. S-P-F, Mill US$
Framing Lumber Composite
Corn CBOT US$bsh
Soybeans CBOT US$bsh
Canola InStr Vn 1Cda C$ tnne
Feed Barley Lthbr. C$ tnne
Feed Wheat ThdrB C$ tnne

5.83
4.91
269.00
336.00
3.76
9.66
476.10
216.00
229.00

SOURCES: REUTERS, AP, BLOOMBERG, RANDOM LENGTHS, WINNIPEG COMMODITIES

EXCHANGE, DJ

0.07
0.02
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.01
-13.50
0.00
0.00

1 CAD=

1 USD= 1.2191
1 Br pd= 1.8206
1 Euro= 1.3124
1 Yen= 0.0102
1 Sw fr= 1.2751
1 Peso= 0.0803
1 AUSD= 0.9511

0.8203

1.4934
1.0765
0.0084
1.0459
0.0659
0.7802

0.5493 0.762 97.6294 0.7843 12.4493 1.0514

0.6696 0.9289
119.02 0.9561
15.177 1.2818
1.3872 177.7479 1.4279 22.6658 1.9143
0.7209

128.13 1.0293 16.3387 1.3799

0.0056 0.0078
0.008
0.1275 0.0108
0.7003 0.9716 124.4849
15.8739 1.3407
0.0441 0.0612
7.8421 0.063
0.0845
0.5224 0.7247 92.8538 0.7459 11.8404

SOURCES: CANADIANFOREX, BANK OF CANADA, BLOOMBERG, DJ

CROSS RATES ARE AS OF 4PM AND ARE SUPPLIED BY CANADIANFOREX

U.S.

0.58
0.81
1.37
2.02

+0.018
+0.031
+0.023
+0.031

Rates

YIELD

CHANGE

0.48
1.30
1.89
2.58

0.02
0.01
0.00
+0.04

Rates

....................................................

RATE

CHG

0.75
2.85

Unch.
Unch.

....................................................

RATE

CHG

0.25
3.25

Unch.
Unch.

....................................................

....................................................

BoC overnight target

Canadian Prime

Fed Target rate

U.S. Prime

SOURCES: CBIDATS, PERIMETER MARKETS INC., BLOOMBERG, REUTERS, AP, CP

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Globe Careers
LEADERSHIP LAB

Five things I learned from millennials

.....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

What is the worst thing that

could happen? Perhaps this attitude and blunt approach comes
from learning to communicate
through technology, but I have
seen countless healthy offline
examples as well.

ing into new territory, following

a passion and purpose that previously I had kept locked away
until the time was right. Traditionally, this motivation to live
our purpose has been a rite of
mid-life, but I find that the millennials come to this point earlier in their lives. They know life is
ever-changing and tumultuous,
so living with passion and purpose is their modus operandi.
I have been a marketer for my
entire career and never has there
been a demographic quite like
millennials. What I love about
them is the importance they put
on authenticity, integrity, friends,
understanding, living in the now
and experiencing life. They are
driven by passion and a need for
purpose, rather than a followthe-rules, keeping-up-with-theJoness mentality. They are autonomous thinkers, questioning
conventional wisdom and redefining work, family life, social circles, and the list goes on.
Millennials choose to make life
good every day they dont settle.
And to that point, I have resigned from the company I started 11 years ago. I am going to
travel for a few months and then
start a new venture that feeds
my spirit. Perhaps rather than
being labelled entitled, we
should appreciate millennials as
enlightened.

................................................................

................................................................

5. Do what you love or dont

complain

Nicole Gallucci (nicole@nicolegallucci.com) is a marketing strategist,

speaker and the author of Adversperience.

NICOLE GALLUCCI
................................................................

n my position, I am routinely
asked how I manage entitled
millennials.
Heres the thing: I dont find
millennials difficult to work
with; in fact, they are the reason
I am excited to get out of bed
and go to work every day. I am
motivated and mentored by millennials. Approaching 50 and
having lived a reasonably conservative, follow-the-rules, dontrock-the-boat life, I am now redefining success for myself in
work, in life, and in everything
in between. I credit the millennials in my midst my children
and my team at work for my
recent choices.
While people in my generation
often need a reminder to don
their own oxygen mask before
helping others, millennials
innately put on their own mask
first. Is that entitlement? Perhaps
but there is so much more to
the equation.
Millennials have grown up
more connected to the world
and are more aware of global
issues. They understand how
quickly things can change. As a
result, they are not prepared to
succumb to a job or life that
does not serve their spirit. They
know life is too short.
I am not going to tell you that
millennials have it all figured out
(show me a generation that
does), but I do think they have a
lot to offer. Daily, I am humbled
by what they teach me.
Here are five things Ive
learned from the millennials in
my life:

PESHKOVA/GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO

they know the answer is usually

only a few short keystrokes
away.
................................................................

2. Seize the moment

The speed at which plans can
evolve is ever-increasing as
everyone connects over social
media. Living with our phones in
our hands allows us to know
where everyone is and truly
seize the moment because we
are so easily connected.

................................................................

................................................................

1. When in doubt, Google it

3. Theres no excuse for not

connecting

Millennials are not afraid to say

I dont know, and having
grown up with the Web, smartphones and specifically Google,

Its so easy to stay connected, so

stay connected. There is no reason not to check-in or chat from

time to time. If the desire is not

there to connect with someone,
then maybe its time to re-evaluate your relationships and
clean house. Millennial mentors have taught me that just as
you can friend someone quickly, you can also unfriend them.
This notion seemed extreme at
first, but now I am on board. Its
harsh, but honest; which leads in
to the next lesson.
................................................................

4. Call it as you see it

Authenticity and integrity define
real friendship. Millennials call it
as they see it. They are more
forthright. Ive learned that their
wisdom comes from asking
What have I got to lose? or

The greatest lesson Ive learned

from millennials is to truly live
your passion and purpose. In my
younger years, I subscribed to
expectations: school, work, marriage, house, family, etc. While
much of this worked for me,
there are a few pieces that did
not.
Now, I am now boldly ventur-

................................................................

This column is part of Globe

Careers Leadership Lab series,
where executives and experts share
their views and advice about
leadership and management. Follow us at@Globe_Careers. Find all
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Five tips to avoid burning online bridges

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We dont do it like that in Canada

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ESTELLE METAYER
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recently got a message

through Twitter from a colleague. He had noticed I unfollowed him on Twitter, and with a
vaguely hinted tone of ill will, he
had forwarded me a short article
called Never burn a bridge.
Ever.
After a bit of research, I recalled
the reason I had stopped following him. It was after he
shared an article filled with largely exaggerated facts about an organization I highly respect, the
World Economic Forum.
Unintentionally, I had burned a
bridge. It was not a strong bridge,
but a clearly fragile one, the type
of tenuous link we build with
people on the Internet. Conflict
online rapidly grows out of proportion. One might compare it
with road rage; while protected
by their glass windows, drivers
can utter comments that they
would never say face to face. In
the social media world, while
protected behind our screens,
our comments often get amplified and misinterpreted.
In a world of fast media, new
situations are developing as signs

of abandonment are deciphered

from an unfollow on Twitter or
an unfriend on Facebook. It
seems the world is evolving more
slowly than its tools. It is still too
delicate today to openly delete
people from your life. So a new
etiquette is needed. Heres what I
suggest:
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Tip 1: Be clear on your profile

your follows or unfollows are
based on current content and interests, not personal. Warn people they may change from time
to time, such as when you expect
to unfollow a large number of
them if you are attending a conference and want to focus on
that.
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Tip 2: Get back to whomever

you did not friend or follow and
explain why. On LinkedIn, for
example, I restrict my connections to colleagues I am or will be
working with. When a new
request comes in that doesnt fit
my rule, I find that a simple
explanation of this is usually well
received.
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Tip 3: Bridges can have many

lanes. Providing people an alter-

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in my case, Twitter has
allowed me to establish a connection with someone when I
dont accept their LinkedIn
request. Some social-media networks simply give you more
open space than others.
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Tip 4: You can cross the bridge

many times differently. Engaging in social media can be time
consuming, so select well those
you wish to interact with. There
is nothing wrong with adapting
the list of people you are following so it matches your interest of the moment.
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Tip 5: Understand why someone

might unfollow you from Twitter. Some unfollows are mistakes,
but others have valid reasons and
do not mean a public disapproval
about who you are. They should
be taken pragmatically rather
than personally.
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a leadership and strategy consulting
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with McGill Universitys leadership
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arie Bountrogianni is always

on time. And as the dean of
Ryersons Chang School of Continuing Education, if she schedules a meeting for 9 a.m. she
expects that everyone be there
on the dot.
I know that sounds obvious,
but in some cultures a schedule
is a suggestion, she says.
Newcomers to Canada often
have the technical skills required
to do their jobs, but can face
challenges integrating into the
work force because of cultural
differences in workplace interactions.
Common business practices
such as keeping eye contact and
having a firm handshake are far
from universal across cultures.
And many workplace misunderstandings can be prevented by
simply teaching people the appropriate ways of addressing and
interacting with their colleagues,
Ms. Bountrogianni says.
As for the work force, the signs
of growing diversity are clear: Its
estimated that by 2031, one in
three workers in Canada will not
have been born here, Ms. Bountrogianni says.
The challenge is that many
newcomers arent prepared to
adapt to working conventions
once they get here.
In Canada, for instance, being
late, soft-spoken or politically incorrect can alienate you from
your team, Ms. Bountrogianni
says.
Feedback is another. We give
feedback here to employees as
part of the natural course of
training and evaluating; in some
cultures, that might be seen as
discipline, she says.
Ms. Bountrogianni says if newcomers had this knowledge
before they came, it would give
them time to digest it and better
integrate at work.
Indeed, its not just underemployed and struggling employees
signing up to learn these Canadian subtleties. Employers, too,
are increasingly realizing the value in sending their staff to this
kind of integration training.
Richmond Hill, Ont.-based hospital equipment supplier Amico
sends their managers to Ryer-

sons program for new workers in

Canada, and the university also
has a contract with the Bombay
Stock Exchange for those who
want to immigrate to Canada and
those who want to do business
with the Western world.
And then theres the flip side:
As much as integration training
promotes productive work
among diverse teams, it also benefits companies that serve diverse clients.
If youre going to be operating
in some culture somewhere in
the world, you can actually hire
people to work for you who are
knowledgeable about that cultural experience and speak the local
language, said Dan Ondrack, an
international business professor
at the Joseph L. Rotman School
of Management.
But while workplace diversity
gives Canadian businesses a big
advantage when dealing with international trade or international
marketing, Prof. Ondrack says, it
also raises an important question: Should Canadian companies force their own corporate
culture onto those they do business with, or be flexible when
they encounter cultural differences?
A prime example came when
Prof. Ondrack helped a Canadian
employer open a factory in Mexico: The Canadian management
style of encouraging group decision-making and employee participation didnt fly with the
Mexican employees.
They completely refused to
accept [the Canadian style]
because in Mexican culture, the
boss is the boss and people do
what theyre told, he said. Thats
the dilemma. And Prof. Ondrack
doesnt have an answer.
Most crucially, though, integration training helps people understand each other, build good
relationships and address conflict through mediation and
negotiation, Ms. Bountrogianni
says.
Most of our Canadian immigrants right now are educated;
theyre raring to go contribute in
a high-quality way, she said.
The faster that we can help
them integrate and work successfully, the better it will be for our
economy.

JEREMY
CATO

MATT
BUBBERS

PETER
CHENEY

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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
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he upcoming Acura NSX and

Ford GT supercars that left
fans drooling at auto shows these
past few months are vanity projects. Yet these lovely diversions
aimed at boys with Sir Robert
Bordens bending their diamondstudded money clips also have
practical purposes.
They build brands, excite
employees and the general market, act as product-development
test beds and, if done right and
marketed properly, help car com-

panies make bags of money.

While consumers expect the supercars from McLaren, Ferrari
and Porsche, mass-market auto
makers ranging from MercedesBenz and BMW to General Motors and Ford have their own
motives for engaging in the ultralow-volume segment.
The NSX, for instance, is a
metaphor for Honda Motor,
which has always seen itself as a
serious, daring engineering company. The plan is to use the NSX
to elevate Acura from its secondtier status among premium

brands. To achieve the goal, the

NSX is designed to move your
soul your body just comes
along for the ride, says chief engineer Ted Klaus.
For Ford, even though the GT is
not an electrified supercar like
BMW i8 or the NSX hybrid with
its three electric motors, it is a
showcase for advanced technology. We learn from a low-volume
vehicle like the GT, says Ford of
Canada president and CEO Dianne Craig. Its a halo vehicle; it
creates a lot of buzz in the industry.

The engine fits with the companys family of EcoBoost

engines. The carbon fibre body?
Lightweight and strong though
expensive, carbon fibre is a key
arrow in the weight reduction
quivers of all auto makers. The
arrangement with Multimatic
Motorsports of Markham, Ont.,
which will build the GT, pronounces Fords ability to work
with smaller, strictly-focused suppliers. The GT name also matters;
its not just some made-up moniker delivered by the ad department after a dart board

competition. Its part of our heritage, Craig says, pointing to the

GT cars Ford raced to great success at the 24 Hours of Le Mans
in the mid-1960s.
As an image-booster with historical and technological bona
fides, its also great fun a ride so
hypnotically compelling, it casts
a beatific glow. Ford wants you to
connect the dots between the GT
and its $17,000-ish, 123-horsepower Fiesta subcompact with a
thrifty 1.0-litre EcoBoost threebanger.
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TECHNOLOGY

Lightness weighs heavily on designers

There are many considerations when it comes to shedding kilos from a vehicle
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MATT BUBBERS
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eighing only two pounds,

Apples latest laptop is
insanely light. Its less than half
the weight of this obsolete juggernaut on which Im typing now.
Never mind that Apples new
gadget is obscenely, satirically
expensive also underpowered
and lacking in basic features its
light! And being light is for better, or far more often for worse
deeply important in our efficiency-obsessed era.
Vehicles are among the last consumer 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 ecowarriors. 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 energy to move, allowing engineers to
spec smaller, more fuel-efficient
engines.
Why, then, arent our cars getting insanely light like our laptops? The answers not as obvious
as you might think.

Balancing cost and weight is a priority for McLarens 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?

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Auto makers must make cars that

can survive a crash and protect
occupants.
Why doesnt everybody make
very light cars? Because I think
everybody is in the same developmental boat, having to fulfill
crash and safety regulations
they add a lot of weight, says
Grant Larson, Porsches design
manager for special projects.
Lighter is tricky because the new
laws just keep rolling in.
When you make a heavier car,
its a heavier car also when it
turns over, so you have to keep
adding weight and strength to the
[window] pillars. We have the responsibility of safety for passengers, especially in a performance
car.
If you look at a modern convertible, such as Porsches new Boxster Spyder or 911 Targa, its
incredible to imagine those little
pillars that frame the window can
hold up the entire front end of
the car if it rolls over. But they
can. They may look spindly, but
you can bet theyre not light.

Some auto makers do like Apples

done with its new laptop and
simply cut out features to make a
lighter machine.
Look at niche sports cars such
as the skeletal KTM X-Bow or the
Caterham Superlight series. Both
weigh less than 800 kilograms
each. But they make do without
windshields, doors or roofs, let
alone massaging seats and automatic dual-zone climate control.
The result is probably the purest
drivers car on the planet but
how many people are willing to
strap on a helmet every time they
have to go get groceries?
If you have more extras in the
car, you have more weight, says
Steffen Koenig, product manager
for body-in-white at Porsche. Navigation, touch screen, backup
cameras, radar sensors for adaptive cruise control, glass roof, 17speaker sound system, heated
and cooled seats: All these things
add up.
Once you add weight in the
form of features, its hard to offset, Koenig says. You can try to
cut weight from the structure of
the car, but then you run into
safety concerns. You can use
exotic materials, but that adds
cost.

Theres another obvious way to

make cars lighter. It doesnt
involve extra cost or cutting features. But, most customers would
never put up with it.
Every little millimetre you increase a cars size, youre adding
weight, says Derek Jenkins,
director of design for Mazda
North America. Especially in
North America, theres a limit to
how small you can make things
before people just get turned off.
People are used to a certain size
vehicle.
In the case of the new-generation MX-5, however, Mazda was
able to make it smaller than the
one it replaces.
Thats a big win, Jenkins says.
It let us go down in wheel size
and reduce weight throughout
the entire vehicle its like a
philosophical shift. Its not filled
with high-tech materials. The
technology is more in how Mazda
scrutinized every component of
the car to see where we can carve
away that weight.
Making it smaller works for a
two-seat sports car, but for a
seven-seat SUV its not an option.
Its really hard to make something light without using a ton of
exotic materials, Jenkins says.

Even at McLaren, where the

cheapest car, the new 570S, will
run you about $200,000, the cost
of materials is still a big concern.
Andy Palmer, the man in charge
of the 570S project at McLaren,
explains: I need to balance getting the car to its weight target,
making sure we meet the performance target and also ensuring we meet the cost target.
Balancing all those three requirements using a mix of aluminum,
carbon fibre and more conventional materials is always a big
challenge.
The carbon fibre tub that forms
the base of the passenger compartment on the 570S weighs just
80 kilograms. Palmer estimates
its 130 kilograms lighter than an
equivalent part in steel.
A report from Bloomberg in
2013 quoted the cost for carbon fibre at $20/kilogram compared
with about $1 for steel. It makes
sense for McLaren on the low-volume $200,000 570S, but not for
Mazda on the high-volume
$30,000 MX-5.
Other lightweight materials are
similarly expensive. Porsche uses
a magnesium roof only on its
hard-core $200,000 GT3 RS to
lower its centre of gravity. Compared with an equivalent steel
roof, Koenig at Porsche estimated
the cost is roughly double for
magnesium.

Crash regulations are getting

more ambitious, consumers are
demanding more features in their
cars and theres little tolerance
for downsizing. At the same time,
hybrid drivetrains and large battery packs are adding weight, too.
To meet mandatory emissions
targets, auto makers have two
choices: develop alternative powertrains or drastically reduce vehicle weight. In typical
auto-industry bet-hedging fashion, well likely see a combination
of both approaches. The evidence
is already out there.
As everybody progresses with
their motor efficiency to reduce
fuel consumption, you have to
counterbalance that with the
weight discussion, Jenkins says.
Theyre part of the same discussion. I think everybody is focused
on that.
BMW has made progress in
mass-producing and lowering the
cost of carbon fibre. The entire
passenger cell of the $45,000 i3 is
made from the stuff.
Jaguar has invested heavily in
aluminum manufacturing. The
result is a new mid-size XF sedan
that gains features while it shedding 120 kilograms from its steel
predecessor.
Will we see cars getting really
lighter? Sub-1,000 kilos? I dont
know, Palmer says. Lets see
where technology moves us.
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Special to The Globe and Mail

DESIGN

Sweating the small stuff

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JORDAN CHITTLEY
WINDSOR, ONT.
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hen Tony Mancina rents a

car and buckles up, he notices parts of the car most people
dont, such as the location of the
seat belts or the ergonomic
design and ease of access for the
cup holders.
I have been on vacation and
gotten into rental vehicles and
said: Wow, I cant believe they
actually sell this thing, said
Mancina, director of Chrysler
Canada engineering. But Ive
been in some cars and thought,
That is nice, we should do that
in our cars, too.
An average modern car has
about 2,000 parts, making it a lot
more than just an engine, four
doors, seats and pedals. The vast
majority of components go
unnoticed unless there is a problem with the design or engineering. In Chrysler vehicles, seat
belts feel comfortable to most
drivers and passengers because
Mancinas team extensively tests
seat belt positions and angles
from the anchor points to fit
from the fifth percentile woman
to the 95th percentile male or
from drivers between five feet to
6-foot-3.
A customer may take for granted that a seat belt is comfortable
and in the right location, but we
get into those specific items, he
said during a tour of the facility.
Mancina runs the Automotive
Research and Development

A Jeep is subject to extreme heat at the FCA Automotive Research and

Development Centre in Windsor, Ont. JORDAN CHITTLEY/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Centre in Windsor, a 205,000square-foot facility that opened
in 1996. Chrysler has spent $600million on the plant over the
past 19 years.
In addition to seat belt placement, engineers and technicians
test headlight angles in a tunnel
as long as a football field, the
strength of steering columns
with constantly moving robot
arms and suspension durability.
The corrosion test is a 10-year
simulation in 24 weeks where the
vehicle is driven, sprayed with
salt and subjected to unusually
humid or dry conditions in an
environmental chamber. Engineers test spoiler angles to opti-

mize handling and fuel economy

and create new methods for
applying paint, because even saving a few millimetres per car can
add up to big savings for the
company. They also subject cars
to massive potholes to see how
quickly parts deteriorate.
We dive into the very fine
details of any component or vehicle element, he said. We try
to identify and engineer all of the
issues or opportunities we can
find on the vehicle so the customer has the best experience
possible.
Many of the tests are related to
durability, to know when parts
will fail. In one room, tiny robot

arms pull a steering wheel every

few seconds, others move a shifter. In another, the wheels are
taken off and the car is hooked
up to larger robot arms that toss
and turn the car. And in yet another room, all four shocks are
constantly pumped as if a street
were filled with deep potholes. It
is mesmerizing to watch.
We develop severe tests; sometimes, those tests are to complete
fatigue or failure and we measure
the degree of failure and when
we talk about failure it is never to
the extent the customer would
experience, he said.
Mancina points to the steering
wheel test as an example of a fatigue test. When a driver climbs
into a pickup truck or SUV,
chances are he or she pulls the
bottom of the steering wheel for
a boost.
A small robot arm tugs on the
wheel every few seconds to display in a matter of weeks the
same pressure that may be
applied to the wheel in a decade.
The idea is to learn what the
component is capable of and
how it can be improved.
The one thing that I notice
when I get into all of our products is the impact this facility has
had on various elements of that
particular vehicle, he said.
I know that seat belt, those
designs, that location was done
here. I know that steering column, the robustness of that
design, we did that. It gives you a
real sense of pride.

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REDLINE

The last tire kicker

How the Internet tipped the balance of car-buying power
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BY THE NUMBERS
The car-buying journey has
three phases: thinking,
researching and buying. On average, the thinking phase takes
30 days. Researching takes 22
days. Buying, 18.

PETER CHENEY
pcheney@globeandmail.com

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The Internet is five times more

likely to influence a car buyer
than other forms of media.

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n the late 1970s, I spent a few

months working as a mechanic at a large car dealership. I
didnt like the job much, but it
came with an unexpected benefit I got to observe sales professionals in action.
Like a National Geographic
reporter on assignment in the
Serengeti, I was learning about a
new species. Back then, car sales
had a well-established choreography: salespeople wore suits,
polished their shoes to a high
gloss and spent their days waiting for Ups potential customers who walked into the
showroom.
There were two kinds of Ups:
The bad ones were tire kickers
who never bought a car. The
good ones were those with bulletproof credit ratings and the
urge to buy these Ups seemed
to exude a chemical scent that
attracted salespeople. Watching
a good Up walk through the
showroom doors was like watching a fattened seal taking a
swim through the shark-feeding
grounds off the Farallon Islands
the only question was which
salesperson would get the Up
first.
Today, that car sales model is
dead in the water, pushed aside
by a digital reality that has
turned the tables on the oldschool salesman.
There has been a complete
shift in power from the dealership to the buyer, says Tim Wilson, a Google executive who
leads the companys automotive
program in Canada. Information is power, and the consumer
now has it.
Internet research has upended
car-buying. When I worked at a
dealership, the vast majority of
consumers depended on dealers
for information about prospec-

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Using the Internet as a

research source increased to 78
per cent in 2014, from 66 per
cent in 2013. During this period, the use of dealers as an information source decreased to
56 per cent from 62 per cent.
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35 per cent of car buyers surveyed in 2014 visited only one

dealership before purchasing
(the year before, this figure
was 28 per cent).
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50 per cent of car buyers said

they knew what they wanted
before entering a dealership.
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33 per cent of car buyers fall

into a self-serve category
they do all their own research.

The shark-attack style of car sales has gone out the window in the age of the Internet. GETTY IMAGES
tive purchases. By the time they
bought a car, many had visited
at least half a dozen dealerships
in their quest for information.
According to research by Google, more than 75 per cent of all
car buyers now use the Internet
as their primary research tool,
and a growing number visit only
a single dealership before they
buy.
Bruno Lucarelli, an auto industry consultant and former head
of eBay Motors, says few dealers
were prepared for the way the
Internet would reshape their
business. In 2004, when Lucarelli was an executive with Autotraders online operation, he
learned that 75 per cent of the
car dealers in his area (New
York and New Jersey) didnt
have websites.
Theyd always done business
the same way, Lucarelli says.
You brewed your coffee,
opened the front door and wait-

ed for the customers to come in.

Online hit them like a truck.
Dealers soon realized that the
web was a seismic shift. Many of
their customers came through
the door armed with more
knowledge than the salespeople
in the showroom. Customers
could recite specifications, knew
what the dealer had paid for the
car they were interested in and
they knew what models competing dealers had in stock.
All the information was out
there on the Internet, Lucarelli
says. Anyone could be an expert.
The age of the Internet buyer
has forced dealers to change the
way they do business. The
shark-attack style of sales is
being pushed aside by an experience model aimed at making
customers comfortable so that
theyll choose to do business
with your dealership. Manufacturers have pushed dealers to

invest in major upgrades that

include everything from new
carpeting to on-site spas.
Consumers will pay for the
experience they want, Lucarelli
says. Companies like Abercrombie & Fitch have known this for
a long time kids like hanging
around their stores. And Starbucks gives you free wireless so
youll stick around.
Wilson agrees with Lucarellis
assessment. The web has
changed the game, he says,
adding that 50 per cent of customers Google surveyed in 2014
knew exactly what they wanted
to buy before they walked into a
showroom.
Car dealers dont need salespeople now. They need facilitators that make the customer feel
good about their experience.
The dealer used to have all the
pricing info in their secret little
black books. Now its available
to anyone who wants to look.

ONLINE

What we are doing in the

dealerships is not just about
the bricks and mortar. The
customer gets to choose the
type of service whether
we go to his house and pick
up the car, or if he comes
in and waits, or if he gets
a service loaner.
Tim Reuss
Mercedes-Benz Canada
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Cato: The supercar mystique is all about building the brand

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We are talking a lot of dots

here. Ford sells hundreds of
thousands of Fiestas worldwide.
The GT with its expected 600
horsepower? Ford Americas president Joe Hinrichs said in New
York that GT production will be
limited to 250 cars a year. He also
said the GT will be priced against
other supercars in the $400,000
range.
Hondas plan for the NSX is
similar but different in important ways. Its also a heavenly
ride, but most importantly, the
NSX wears an Acura badge. Itll
be sold only at Acura dealerships, with not a single Fiestafighting Honda Fit in sight. It is
critical to a brand fighting for respect.
What makes this NSX so intriguing is how such an impossibly low and sleek machine
combines so many of the technologies available in Acura and
Honda models technologies
that perhaps many shoppers
overlook, ignore or perhaps undervalue, say Honda officials.
When you have a supercar,
the number of people that are
actually going to end up driving
our NSX is not such a big number, says Honda Canada senior
vice-president Dave Gardner.
But if youre looking for (the
NSXs) super-handling all-wheel
drive, well, you can get that in an
(Acura) MDX. That dual-clutch
technology (in the NSX), hey, we
have that in the (Acura) ILX.
So theres a little bit of that
DNA in every model.
This is a proven strategy. In
1989, Acura stunned the Chicago
auto show with a prototype
called the NS-X New, Sportscar,
eXperimental. The mid-engine
production model was heavily
influenced by Hondas motorsports division.
It was low and sexy, with seating for just two, an aluminum
body, an aluminum V-6, and
steering and handling that benefited from extensive testing input
from Formula One champ Ayrton Senna the brilliant Brazilian who drove Honda power to
three F1 championships before
his tragic death in 1994. So the
NSX has its own racing heritage,
just like the GT.
When the first-generation NSX

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ACURA NSX

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Price: $150,000-plus (est.)

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Horsepower: 600-plus

Horsepower: 550-plus

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Power train: 3.5-litre EcoBoost

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Power train: Hybrid

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On sale: Late 2015

hit Japanese showrooms in early

1990, Hondas flagship model
was the rather pedestrian Prelude. For its 1991 North American
launch, the NSX landed in Acura
showrooms filled with re-badged
Hondas like the Legend and the
Integra. The NSX was a sensa-

tion. Instantly, Acuras lineup

gained by association with this
sleek sports car wearing the Senna stamp.
We sold the last one, I think,
in 2005 and since that time has
there been something missing? I
think so. I think this (new NSX)

re-establishes what the DNA is

all about, says Gardner.
Gardner and Klaus insist, however, that this NSX like the
original will give the Acura
brand a boost for not just good
looks and innovative technology.
What separates this NSX from
other super halos is not just the
relatively affordable price
expected to be in the $150,000$200,000 range but the whole
user-friendliness of the thing.
I believe that for some of our
competitors, its really more
about the machine the human
manages the machine, says
Klaus. For us, thats upside
down. For us, the focus is not on
the machine, but the human. We
want to bring the machine closer
to the driver.
And like Ford with its GT, jolt
the brand upwards and bring
shoppers into showrooms.
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FIVE FAST AND FUN SUPERCARS

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PORSCHE

GENERAL MOTORS

FERRARI

MCLAREN AUTOMOTIVE

PORSCHE GT3 RS

2015 CHEVY CORVETTE Z06

FERRARI 458 SPECIALE

2016 MCLAREN 675LT

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Price: $200,700

Price: $85,095

Price: $295,000 (U.S.)

Price: 259,500 ($480,544)

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Engine: 500 hp naturally

aspirated 4.0-litre six-cylinder

Engine: 650 hp supercharged

6.2-litre V-8

Engine: 605 hp naturally

aspirated 4.5-litre V-8

Engine: 666 hp twin-turbocharged 3.8-litre V-8

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Acceleration (0-100 km/h): 3.3

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Acceleration (0-100 km/h): 3.1

seconds

Acceleration (0-100 km/h): 3.0

seconds

Acceleration (0-100 km/h): 2.9

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Top speed: 310 km/h

Top speed: 304 km/h

Top speed: 325 km/h

Top speed: 330 km/h

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Its faster around the Nrburgring

than the heavier but more powerful 911 Turbo S, blitzing the famed
German track in 7 minutes and 20
seconds. The RS is 10 kg lighter
than the regular GT3, thanks to a
magnesium roof, and more carbon-fibre throughout. The GT3 already deleted niceties like rear
seats, backup camera, and even
plastic interior door handles,
which become fabric loops in the
unrelenting pursuit of lightness.

The 2015 Corvette Z06, equipped

with supercar-worthy 650 horsepower, replaces the ZR1 as the
quickest and most powerful Corvette ever. Co-developed with
Chevys C7.R endurance sports
car, it uses similar chassis components, engine technologies, and
aerodynamic features. Which
made it the fastest production car
ever around GMs Milford proving
grounds.

Designed to be the fastest Ferrari

V-8 sports car around the famed
Italian auto makers Fiorano test
track, this is also the track where
Ferrari Formula One cars undergo
serious testing. Ferrari trumpets
this car is only half a second slower per lap than the 12-cylinder
F12berlinetta, and faster than its
pre-LaFerrari hyper car, the
revered V-12 Enzo.

Like Ferrari, all McLaren models

are inherently tinged with an
exotic Formula One glamour, but
this particular limited-edition
model takes its inspiration from
the racing version of McLarens
first road car, the F1 GTR Longtail,
and hence the LT moniker. The
675LT follows a similar pattern to
its namesake, and many of the
cars here: lower weight, more
power, and upgraded track-ready
componentry.

Handcrafted by Racers.
The new Mercedes-AMG GT.

A Daimler Brand

The Acura NSX concept on display at the 2013 De

2015 Mercedes-Benz Canada Inc.

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All hail the humble hatch

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JEREMY SINEK
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etroit auto show. STAN HONDA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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obody ever went broke under-estimating the rationality

of the car-buying public. Emotion, prejudice and blind brand
loyalty all skew the process. And,
of all the logic-challenged
motives that drive purchasing decisions, perhaps none is more
muddle-headed than our attitude
to hatchbacks.
Let it be said that Canadians
Quebecers especially tolerate
hatchbacks better than Americans. Compared with the rest of
the planet, however, many Canadians remain persuaded that a car
without a trunk isnt proper.
Mysteriously, this prejudice
only applies to mass-market cars.
Were not threatened by tailgates
attached to minivans or SUVs.
And what about those sports cars,
Corvette included, with liftgates
instead of trunk lids? Or prestige
Europeans like the Porsche
Panamera and the Audi A7?
The way George Iny, director of
the Automobile Protection Association, calls it, Canadians have

fallen in love with hatchbacks.

But they ride on raised chassis
with AWD and theyre called
compact SUVs.
When it comes to tailgates on
regular cars, we tolerate them on
starter-car subcompacts for the
young and financially challenged.
About 75 per cent of Ford Fiesta
sales are the hatch. But once you
reach a certain station in life, your
dignity and worth as a human
being demand a car with a separate storage locker protruding
from its hind end. Hatchback
availability and popularity
shrinks as you graduate to the
compact class, and evaporates
entirely above that.
Of course, there are practical
concerns. Absent a cargo cover,
the exposed contents of a hatchback invite theft. Then again,
most hatchbacks have cargo covers. And hatchbacks promise
unmatched do-it-all versatility for
Canadian families who are more
likely than Americans to have
only one car.
Paradoxically, to the extent that
compact hatchbacks do exist,

theyre the versions usually positioned and priced upmarket of

the sedans. Mazda Canada did
that when it added the five-door
Protg5 15 years ago, and today
most hatchback offerings are still
confined to higher trim levels (for
example, the base Ford Focus S
comes only as a sedan) or priced
higher for the same trim (Mazda3
GX hatch asks $1,000 more than
GX sedan). Which raises the question: chicken or egg?
Volkswagen has perpetuated
this practice with its Golf (hatchback) and Jetta (sedan) siblings.
Even though the Golf is built in
the same Mexican plant as the Jetta, the base Golf starts $4,000
above the entry-level Jetta.
The ability of auto makers to
ask more for compact hatchbacks
may also be a legacy of the Golf
GTI, the car that invented the hot
hatchback category. VW did a lot
to build that sense of a premium
hatch, says Toyota Canada vicepresident Stephen Beatty.
New models revealed at the
New York auto show did little to
rationalize the status of hatch-

backs in the market. Scion revealed its first sedan, the subcompact
iA in Canada, it will be sold as
the Toyota Yaris sedan. And the
four-door Yaris (which is built-inlow-cost Mexico) will be positioned as more upscale than the
hatchback of the same name
(which is imported from France).
Honda revealed that the nextgen Civic will include (for the first
time since 2004) a hatchback version. The hatch will be a five-door,
and while its too soon to talk
pricing, it will be imported from
Hondas British plant, so its likely
to be priced above the sedan.
Auto makers we spoke with disagreed on whether hatchbacks
cost more to manufacture, but
Honda Canada product planner
Hayato Mori noted that sedans
higher volumes give them an
economies-of-scale edge. Given
hatchbacks lower sales volumes,
most manufacturers will concentrate on the more profitable
models, which tend to be the
higher trims.
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FOUR HAPPENING HATCHES

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MERCEDES-BENZ

MERCEDES-AMG GT S
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Base price: $149,000

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Engine: 510-hp, 4.0-litre

V-8 biturbo
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HONDA

MAZDA

TOYOTA

BMW

Acceleration (0-100 km/h): 3.08

seconds

THE DO-IT-ALL SUBCOMPACT

THE MAINSTREAM COMPACT

THE GAS MISER

THE LUXURY COUPE

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Top speed: 310 km/h

HONDA FIT

MAZDA3 SPORT

TOYOTA PRIUS c

BMW4 SERIES GRAN COUPE

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The internally-mounted turbochargers (dubbed, hot inside

V), seven-speed dual clutch
transmission and aluminum double-wishbone suspension make
for racetrack performance and
decent fuel efficiency combined
9.4 litres/100 km. The two-seater
comes with the brands Intelligent Drive assistance systems and
room for luggage.

Base price: $14,575

Base price: $16,995

Base price: $21,055

Base price: $44,900

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Since its 2015 redesign, the baby

Hondas sales have soared, and
deservedly so. This reliable, economical and fun-to-drive subcompact also boasts class-above
rear-seat room and (with the rear
seats folded), near-miraculous
cargo space for its size. Or flip up
the rear-seat bottom so those giant yuccas you bought at IKEA
can stand tall on the drive home.

Sport means hatchback in Mazda-speak and, unlike its compact

competitors, the Mazda five-door
can be had in the same base trim
(GX) as its sedan equivalent,
making it the most affordable
hatchback in its class. Thanks to
SkyActiv technology, its 2.0-litre,
155-hp engine is also the most
fuel-efficient. Handling, and fitand-finish, are other strengths.

Interesting that all three models

in the Prius hybrid family are
hatchbacks. The subcompact Prius c is the baby of the family and
offers phenomenal fuel economy,
especially in the city. And, for a
full hybrid, it is relatively inexpensive considering you can easily pay as much or more for
top-trim versions of conventional
rivals.

Believe it or not, this pretty thing

is a hatchback. Based on BMWs
compact 3 Series sedan, the Gran
Coupe is one of those four-door
coupes the German auto makers
seem to love. The 4-GC comes
with a choice of turbocharged
four- (428i) or six-cylinder
engines (435i) and AWD is
optional.

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Michael Bettencourt and staff

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Volvo is pinning its turnaround hopes on the XC90, a crossover SUV. Its just one example of luxury car makers jumping into the SUV market. VOLVO

INDUSTRY TRENDS

Setting the premium bar higher

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JEREMY CATO
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ock-solid confirmation that

the world had officially
changed arrived on Jan. 12. That
was the day that Bentley, the
Volkswagen Groups super-exclusive British brand, announced
plans to introduce an all-new
and ground-breaking luxury
SUV to be called the Bantayga,
after the Roque Bentayga with its
rugged peak in the Canary
Islands.
If anyone had any doubt about
this shift in the earths axis,
BMW-owned Rolls-Royce wiped it
away a month later. Yes, another
storied British brand with no history of making luxury trucks said
it will also have an exclusive SUV
in its lineup. Company officials
were not so gauche as to breathe
the actual phrase sport-utility vehicle, instead announcing an all
new, high-bodied Rolls-Royce.
Industry watchers predicted
Rolls ultra chi-chi four-by-four
might sell for as much as
$400,000, perhaps more, putting
it at the top of the SUV range.
Details about both ultra-luxury
SUVs remain scarce, though Britains Autocar magazine said the
Rolls would ride on a new aluminum architecture and power
might come from a version of the
6.8-litre, V-12 in the Phantom.
Bentley chairman and CEO
Wolfgang Durheimer has said the
Bentayga will come with a choice
of W-12 or V-8 engines, or in plugin hybrid form. But dont be so
brash as to say SUV or truck or
crossover when hes around. As
the Bentley website notes, the

Bentayga will open up a realm of

luxury and performance previously unattainable within a
conventional SUV, adding elsewhere, We dont see an SUV. We
see beyond.
We saw all this coming. In 2012,
Bentley showed the EXP 9 F concept SUV at the Geneva auto
show to the horror of the assembled throng aghast at how
massive and tasteless an uberluxe SUV can be. But it was only a
matter of time until Bentley and
Rolls turned to selling off-road
machines with built-in picnic
tables and champagne buckets.
Indeed, this latest news about
the most premium of premium
brands branching out from the
car business into trucks has been
in the works for a long time
since Toyotas Lexus luxury
brand put the RX crossover on
sale in Japan in late 1997, followed by sales in Canada and the
United States the next year.
About the same time, MercedesBenz began producing the
M-Class SUV at a plant in Vance,
Ala. Shortly afterward, BMW
debuted the X5 in 1999.
Today, luxury makers are moving into trucks with leaps and
bounds. Nearly 20 years ago they
took to SUVs and crossovers with
baby steps, generally preferring to
leave luxury SUVs to Land Rover.
Land Rover types and many
others say their rigs are the best
at combining off-road capability
with on-road dynamics and
sumptuous luxury. Land Rover is
in the midst of a dramatic lineup
expansion with the Discovery
Sport, the latest new model to

join the lineup. And while

things-gone-wrong quality
studies suggest Land Rover has
work to do, J.D. Power and Associates APEAL study a look at
what owners say Land Rover gets
right puts the brand at the top
of the class. Sales have exploded.
The auto industry has taken notice. In 2015, premium car companies offering SUVs and
crossovers are expanding their
ranges; those yet to get in the
game can see and hear customer
demand while also smelling profit and growth. Every car company
is moving fast to fill the truck
gaps in their lineups.
Fiat-Chrylser-owned Maserati
and Alfa Romeo both will launch
their first four-wheel drive crossovers soon Maserati, the
Levante, due later this year and
aimed squarely at mid-size
Porsche and BMW SUVs, and Alfa
with a smaller crossover next
year to rival the Audi Q5, Porsche
Macan and BMW X3.
Ah, the Macan. It will almost
certainly become Porsches most
popular model worldwide and its
only been on sale for a year or so.
Land Rover has launched the Discovery Sport to expand its SUV
footprint and grow sales. Mercedes has introduced the GLA
compact crossover and Infiniti is
counting the days to the launch
of the similarly sized QX30. Cadillac simply cannot produce
enough of the giant Escalade to
meet demand. Lincolns MKC
crossover is so popular, it might
save the struggling brand all by
itself.
Volvo is pinning its hopes for a

turnaround on the upcoming

XC90. Jaguar? Yes, its corporate
partner is the aforementioned
premium SUV specialist, Land
Rover, but thats not stopping it
from introducing a performance
crossover next year. The F-Pace
will go head-to-head with the X3
and perhaps even Land Rovers
Evoque. The market seems to
have an unquenchable thirst for
SUVs and crossovers.
The luxury market has moved
quite rapidly to light trucks, says
auto analyst Dennis DesRosiers,
of DesRosiers Automotive Consultants. In 1990, virtually all
luxury vehicles were passenger
cars [99.8 per cent]. In 2014 for
the first time, an equal number of
luxury light trucks were purchased in Canada as luxury passenger cars.
The fastest growing luxury segment: compact luxury SUVs, up
19.4 per cent in 2014. Compact
SUVs account for 21.4 per cent of
the luxury, says DesRosiers.
Why this great shift? First,
Americans have always loved big
rigs. Second, government-mandated fuel economy rules have
been such that they actually
encouraged growth in luxury
SUVs and crossovers. Car makers
also soon discovered they could
make a profit selling premium
trucks and they were greeted with
strong consumer demand. So it
made sense for premium auto
companies to push into luxury
trucks. By extension, it now
makes more sense for ultra-luxury brands to head down this road.
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Luxury crossover coupes: niche to know you

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MARK HACKING NEW YORK

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pair of luxury SUVs that will

battle it out for market supremacy in Canada was unveiled
at the 2015 New York International Auto Show: The 2016 Lexus RX
and the 2016 Mercedes-Benz GLE.
Both the Lexus the fourth
generation of this perennial class
powerhouse and the Mercedes
effectively the fourth generation
of the ML class, but with a new
name have been around since
1997, meaning that this pairing
has helped drive what is one of
the hottest segments in the industry. Many North American consumers cant get enough luxury
especially in their crossovers and
SUVs.
A slice of this segment thats
tougher to explain is the crossover coupe a vehicle with a
sweeping roof-line that, as a
result, puts more emphasis on the
sport and less on the utility.
While it may seem an oxymoron
to offer a utility vehicle that engineers out some of that utility,
manufacturers continue to test
the waters and battle each other
for sales.
Now, neither the latest RX nor
the new GLE unveiled in New
York would be classified as a
crossover coupe but wait just a
New York minute.
The RX has a coupe-inspired
design element, a floating roof
created by a blacked-out C-pillar
and tapered metallic trim. This
design feature gives the RX a
sportier look without sacrificing
rear-seat passenger headroom or
interior volume. Its a conservative solution for the best-selling
model in the Lexus lineup.
Mercedes has taken a different
approach. The GLE is a sensible
evolution of the outgoing ML, a
traditional luxury SUV through
and through. But the new line
also includes a crossover coupe,
the GLE Coupe, which was introduced at this years Detroit auto
show. This strategy mirrors that

The 2016 Lexus RX has a coupe-inspired design element. TOYOTA

2016 GLE. MERCEDES-BENZ

of BMW, which has, since 2008,
offered the coupe-like X6 alongside the X5, both sharing a platform and countless other
components.
We are targeting a very specific
brand [BMW], but I am pretty
sure we are going to get more
than just their customers, said
Tim Reuss, president and CEO of
Mercedes-Benz Canada, in New
York. Were going to get customers to the right and left who are
considering a traditional SUV, but
maybe it doesnt hit [the] sweet
spot when it comes to design.
The ability to offer a coupe-like
version of a given SUV is now viable because of quantum leaps in
flexible manufacturing. A manufacturer can respond to market
indifference to a vehicle with little
notice and plants can be reconfigured to build a more popular
version in as little as five minutes.
Nevertheless, the crossover coupe

remains a niche vehicle, so it still

represents a gamble.
The gambling began in earnest
with the arrival of the Infiniti FX
(now the QX70) in 2003. At the
time, there was nothing like it
the exterior styling was dynamic
to a fault. Although other SUVs
such as the BMW X5 and Porsche
Cayenne could claim sporty performance, the FX was singled out
for its lack of rear-seat headroom,
poor entrance and exit, and unsuitability to anything less than
perfectly paved roads.
In the late 1990s, we began to
see the first car-based vehicles in
the SUV segment, says Bert
Brooks, senior manager for product planning at Infiniti Canada.
Our advance planning team
studied the unmet opportunities
in the segment and identified the
idea of a crossover with the qualities of a sports car.
Ultimately, the business case for
the FX made sense because it was
based on an existing Nissan/Infiniti platform and the projected
interest was sufficiently strong.
While the general public seemed
confused by the FX, enthusiasts
generally supported the idea of
the first crossover coupe, particularly the V-8-engined FX45.
The QX70 sells reasonably well,
despite its age. In the United
States last year, more people
bought the Infiniti than the BMW

X6. In New York, Infiniti brought

a new crossover coupe thats set
to join the lineup, the compact
QX30, an indication that its not
done with this niche.
The United States remains the
largest SUV market in the world,
but the crossover coupe appears
to resonate less there than in Canada. Using the BMW duo as an
example, 47,031 X5s were sold in
the United States last year compared with 3,896 X6s or just
more than 8 per cent. In Canada,
the scorecard is more balanced:
X6 sales represent 16 per cent of
those for the X5 last year.
A lot of SUV buyers like the X6
not just because of the utility, but
because of the command seating
position, ride height and overall
feel of the vehicle, says Matthew
Wilson, manager of product planning for BMW Canada. The
motivation for someone buying
the X6 is much the same as for
someone who chooses a coupe
over a sedan its the design and
the performance.
Critics remain steadfast, citing
the ill-fated Acura ZDX as being a
poster child for why the crossover
coupe is the proverbial vehicle
that no one ever asked for.
A big factor in the success of a
given vehicle, though, appears to
be exterior design. While the ZDX
and other crossover coupes have
been labelled ugly ducklings,
the Range Rover Evoque won the
World Design Car of the Year
award in 2012 and has sold in
droves.
Anyone looking at sales figures
alone would consider the niche to
be a loser. But manufacturers
claim that having a sporty crossover in the fleet can be good for
brand image. Were still going to
sell a lot more GLEs than we will
Coupes, says Reuss. [The choice
is] going to come down to personal taste. Do you want more functionality, a styling statement or
something sporty?
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ehicles arent just becoming

roving WiFi hot spots, theyre
becoming connected devices that
eventually will be part of the Internet of Things, the growing
trend of objects that interact with
each other over the Internet.
Having a SIM card embedded in
a car isnt new. One of the longeststanding examples is General Motors 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 increase in new vehicles equipped
with mobile connectivity by 2018,
and expects substantial growth
beyond that.
Trying to lead the way is GM
with its 4G LTE in-car Internet
service designed to give the car its
own data plan. OnStar doesnt
cost extra at the dealership; nor
does it require an OnStar subscription. A majority of vehicles
spread across the 2015 Chevrolet,
Cadillac, Buick and GMC lines are
equipped with it.
Its integrated into the vehicle,
and we have the antenna to
achieve optimal signal strength
and coverage on the roof instead
of in your pocket, says Fred Dixon, technology manager at GM
Canada. You can connect up to
seven devices to it and its seamless. You enter the car, it automatically connects and you can use
that data, never having to turn on
your phones hot spot.
Customers get a three-month
trial with a hard cap of three gigabytes of data. AT&T is the wireless
carrier partner, and through
agreements with most of its Canadian counterparts, Dixon confirms there are no roaming
charges incurred in Canada or the
United States. The car will automatically connect to whichever
network is strongest in any particular locale, although users
wouldnt notice the shift.
This all-in collaboration means
consumers cant add the car to a
shared monthly data plan they
use with a smartphone and tablet.
The cars data is a separate cost
paid to GM, and plans start at $10
a month for 200 megabytes up to
$250 for 10 gigabytes over 12
months. Rates are slightly cheaper for OnStar subscribers.
Mansell Nelson, senior vicepresident of products and solutions for Rogers enterprise business, believes closer partnerships
between auto makers and carriers
are inevitable. Bell has long been
the carrier partner for OnStar in
Canada, and despite the agnosticism of the 4G LTE service, carriers will want to compete to do
business with the original equipment manufacturers.
The car is becoming a computer and just one big API (application programming interface) that
will need constant changing and
updating, says Nelson. There
are about 1.3 million new cars per
year in Canada and, if more of
them are connected, network capacity will have to continue to
grow to accommodate them as
connected devices.
He cites the example of Tesla,
which has pushed updates hundreds of megabytes or even a
gigabyte in size. And just like with
Tesla, system updates pushed to
GMs vehicles wont count against
the customers data bucket.
This is the future, says Nelson.
People werent used to the
abrupt torque acceleration in Teslas cars, so they complained and
the company rolled out a firmware update over-the-air [using
AT&Ts network] that they could
choose to install to reprogram
their Tesla to accelerate more like
a gasoline car.
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REVIEW

Defiant film leaps into sugary teen muck

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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

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REVIEWED BY

GEOFF PEVERE
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here would seem to be only

one thing that the act of
dancing cannot free the characters in Desert Dancer from, and
thats the movie theyre in. No
matter how dramatically, joyously and intensely their bodies articulate the human spirit striving
for freedom from repression in
this instance, the authoritarian
Islamic state of Iran these folks
are hopelessly stuck in a sanddune version of Footloose. Apparently, its easier to leap free of
fundamentalist intolerance than
it is Hollywood boilerplate.
Based on the experiences of
the Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian (Reece Ritchie), who
vaulted to the West following a
defiant performance in Paris
inevitably offered here as standup-and-cheer climax Richard
Raymonds Desert Dancer wastes
no time establishing its mainstream pop-cultural bona fides
by casting the impressionable
boy version of Ghaffarian as a
kid in thrall to American movies, TV, music and booty shake.
Growing up in Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeinis Iran, Ghaffarians
affinities are not only nurtured
by a kindly teacher who pumps
up the volume of the forbidden
dance floor, they prove indelible.
When Ghaffarian arrives at university in Tehran on the eve of
the 2009 election, its only a
matter of meeting the right conspirators before a secret dance
troupe is formed and the stage
is set for a groove insurgency.
Gathering regularly in dramatically underlit basements and
copping moves from pirated
YouTube clips, the secret dance
society as surely acquires
momentum and purpose as it
does like-minded and super hot
new recruits. By the time Elaheh

Freida Pinto and Reece Ritchie star as dancers resisting Irans strict cultural regulations through their secret dance troupe.
(Freida Pinto) shows up to audition for the crew knocking
them sideways with her sinuously unbridled eroticism youd be
forgiven for thinking that Bob
Fosse was alive and undercover
in Iran.
Like Jon Stewarts Rosewater,
Desert Dancer contextualizes
Islamic Iran as a kind of bullying
ideological schoolyard where the
cool kids basically fish-out-ofwater American types are regularly beset by the ruling orders
thugs, who patrol the halls of
state and street like high school
monitors with you-know-who on
their side. Indeed, as Ghaffarian
and his free-expressive hipster
cohorts gather both creative
momentum and a sense of
counter-revolutionary purpose,

the inevitable clampdown on

their activities culminates with
the beat down of the troupe
during a performance on the
dunes. The secondary school associations are as inescapable as
they are irresistible: What the
enemies of the West really hate
isnt our freedom, its our fun.
Were not only cooler, sexier and
better looking, weve got the
moves.
Had first-time director Raymond had a more ambitious
script than Jon Crokers, which
plays like a feature-length loop
of inspirational teen-movie trailer clips, Desert Dancer might
have found something arresting
to say about the relationship between pop culture and global
politics, or at least more interest-

ing than Give me Spandex or

give me death! But no. While
the dance sequences are perfectly stirring and expertly rendered
in their own right, they are
unfortunately suspended in this
sticky sugar pot of a movie, and
they can only jump so high
before splashing right back in
the muck again.
The funny thing about all this
is how ultimately reactionary it
is in its own right, as though the
only way to effectively fight a
form of oppressive religious fundamentalism is with an equally
oppressive form of pop-cultural
conformity. Squint your eyes
while watching Desert Dancer
and all the 21st-century particularities melt away: youre not in
Tehran any more, not in 2009

any more, not listening to techno, hip hop or even Sleeping

Beauty any more. Youre right
back in those early showstopper
MTV days along with Michael
Jackson, Madonna and Pat Benatar, right back in the Midwest
cornfields with Kevin Bacon and
his Walkman, right back to Saturday Night Fever, Bye Bye Birdie,
Jailhouse Rock and beyond that
even to Singin in the Rain. The
times may change, the politics
shift and the enemies of freedom acquire new guises, but the
song ultimately remains the
same. If its got a good beat and
you can dance to it, it will set
the world free. For a minute or
two, anyway.
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Beyond the Reach is adapted from the novel Deathwatch by Robb White.

REVIEW

Not quite enough reach

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Beyond the Reach

Directed by Jean-Baptiste Lonetti
Written by Stephen Susco
Starring Michael Douglas, Jeremy
Irvine
Classification: PG; 95 minutes
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REVIEWED BY

BRAD WHEELER
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eyond the Reach, adapted from

the same Robb White Deathwatch novel that spawned the
1974 Andy Griffith-starring televi-

sion movie Savages, is a deadly,

desert-set game of cat and mouse
that is tired and beyond plausibility.
Michael Douglas plays a smug,
slick financier and trophy hunter
named Horton Madec of course
he does who hires a hunky,
heartbroken young guide named
Ben (played vacantly by War
Horses Jeremy Irvine) to help him
rifle down a bighorn sheep.
When Madec kills an old prospector by mistake, a highly manipulated plot happens, involving
Ben taking off his shirt and being

left to perish in the desert while

Douglass Madec keeps close eye
and restrained pursuit.
Im not going to kill you,
Madec says, I'm going to watch
you die.
One imagines director JeanBaptiste Lonetti told Douglas
much the same thing.

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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
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solely on her babies, but she also

gets to make her own hours and
doesnt have to commute. Still,
friends dont always realize
whats involved. People are surprised that Ive got things to do,
she says. I have some flexibility
but I cant ignore my business
because you are going to the
zoo.
Best part: I turned my hobby
into my job, she says. And she
still gets to bring her kids to the
park.
Hardest part: When your job is
in your house, its very hard to
turn off. Shes also that mom on
her phone at the park because
her phone allows her to be there
in the first place.
Down the road: Laura plans to
continue to grow her business
gradually, as the kids get older
and need less hands-on attention.

REBECCA CUNEO KEENAN

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he Mommy Wars are alive

and well, still pitting the
June Cleaver stereotype against
professional mothers like Mad
Mens Joan Holloway. Most
recently, Huffington Post blogger
Lydia Lovric caused a stir with a
post titled Dear Daughter,
Heres Why I Dont Work.
I stay home because although
writing and radio did make me
extremely happy your happiness was more important to me
than my own, wrote Lovric,
detailing her sacrifices after saying that earning extra income
and making your kids proud of
you are selfish reasons for working.
Just in time to quell the angry
backlash of working mothers
came the April issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family. In it,
researchers from the University
of Toronto and Bowling Green
State University presented new
research showing that theres no
relationship between the
amount of time parents spend
with children ages 3 to 11 and
how they turn out. Quality of
time spent together, they said, is
more important than quantity.
Can you afford to stay home
with your kids? Can you afford
not to? No matter what you
choose, it seems, somebody will
accuse you of doing it wrong.
Except that with todays digital
technology, staying at home
doesnt have to mean what it
used to. It doesnt have to include giving up (or even putting
on hold) your other ambitions
in favour of circle-time attendance and slow-cooked meals.
More parents than ever are carving out a new path, figuring out
how to combine paid, satisfying
work with real, quality time with
their children.
There is a generational and
cultural trend for families wanting to spend more time at
home, says Anil Verma, professor of industrial relations and
human resources management
at the Rotman School of Management. According to Statistics
Canada, the number of workers
who consider themselves selfemployed or part-time continues
to rise. Even traditional
employers are likely to accommodate working from home for
the employees who are considered key talent, according to Verma.
So what does a stay-at-home
parent look like today? The parents at school pickup often have
demanding professional lives
they just dont have to change
out of their yoga pants to attend
meetings. Todays June Cleaver
could very well be that dad with
the threadbare cords, bushy
beard and his own graphic
design business. Of course, hes
too busy packing school lunches
to worry about the Mommy
Wars.

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BEN HOLT, 46, AND JITKA

HOLT, 45, VANCOUVER
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Two children, 9 and 7

Ben and Jitka switched roles last
August when she went back to
work full-time as a communication consultant after having
been at home, working the occasional contract, since having
children. As a Web developer,
Ben is more readily able to find
freelance work, so he left the
downtown tech company where
he was a partner to stay home
with the kids.
For Ben, a typical work day
runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Then

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IONE SMITH, 34, AND PETER

DOIG, 37, SECHELT, B.C.
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Two children, 6 and 2

Ben Holt and his kids, Tom, 9, and Kate, 7, at their home in North Vancouver. As a Web developer, Ben is able to
find freelance work, so he made the choice to stay at home with Tom and Kate. JOHN LEHMANN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
its time for school pickup,
chauffeuring the kids around to
activities, cooking dinner and
taking care of basic housework.
Bens still working on expanding
his dinner repertoire, mostly
through trial and error. After the
rest of the family has gone to
bed, Ben often stays up (sometimes as late as 2 a.m.) to catch
up.
Are you a stay-at-home dad? If
Im at home when the kids are
home, then Im a stay-at-home
parent, Ben says. Hes the one
hosting play-dates, assisting with
the baseball team and serving as
class rep for parent council.
Best part: I really enjoy the
walk to and from school when
the kids just talk about their
days, Ben says.
Hardest part: Leaving his downtown social life behind. Spur-ofthe-moment coffees with old
friends and colleagues can now
take more than a week of planning. Ben still does make that
happen once in a while, bringing
his laptop downtown and working from coffee shops. He also

belongs to a mountain-biking
group that gets together once or
twice a month.
Down the road: Ben sees both
him and Jitka working full-time
jobs outside the house at some
point, but hes in no rush.
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LAURA WATT, 34, AND RYAN

RANDALL, 36, TORONTO
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Two children, 5 and 2

Six years ago, when she was
pregnant with her first child and
newly unemployed, Laura
jumped at the chance to start
her own business. I couldnt
picture how Id be going back to
work with a baby, she says. Laura now runs her business, Cubits
Seed Company, from home,
growing rare, heirloom, organic
seeds for edibles and selling
them online. Ryan works as a
film and video technician at
OCAD University and as a freelance cinematographer.
Laura tries to focus on bigger
projects during the three days a
week her two-year-old attends

nursery school. The rest of the

time, she manages customer
care inquiries on the fly from
her laptop or phone. If I have a
customer who needs attention
right now, it only take three
minutes to help them online,
Laura says. I can find threeminute increments throughout
my day.
The summer is generally a
slow time for Ryans work, so the
entire family lives in a trailer on
the farm where she grows the
food that will produce her seeds.
During production time, its all
hands on deck, with her husband and brothers pitching in.
The kids, on the other hand, are
having a blast. They have no
idea that were even working,
Laura says.
Are you a stay-at-home mom?
I dont identify as either a stayat-home or full-time working
mom, Laura says. I actually felt
very isolated by this when my
kids were babies because I felt
left out of an important conversation. She hasnt ever taken
any maternity leave to focus

Ione is an agrologist (an agricultural scientist) who tried to

return to her full-time job after
her first maternity leave, but
long hours plus commuting time
meant she barely saw her baby.
Luckily, Peter, who is also an
agrologist, had a secure job, so
Ione decided to start consulting
from home, advising government agencies and individual
farmers on everything from climate change to crop planning.
After Ione spent two years of
working from home, the family
moved to British Columbias
Sunshine Coast, a 40-minute ferry ride from Vancouver. A year
after that, business was so good
that Peter quit his full-time job
to work alongside her. His role
involves longer hours and more
travel, which frequently leaves
Ione on her own with the girls.
Their two-year-old is at daycare
three days a week, and Ione has
learned not to take on more
work than she can handle in
that time. I choose projects that
Im passionate about so Im
excited to sit down at the computer, she says.
Are you a stay-at-home mom?
I think of a stay-at-home parent
as someone who is putting their
career on hold, Ione says. I
have not had to do that, but I
have changed course and slowed
it down a bit. Then again, she is
home with her youngest daughter four days out of seven. We
need a new category, she says.
Ione also knows that having
the choice to decide whether to
work or how much is a luxury.
For us its worked out really
well to do a bit of everything. I
feel mostly satisfied. During the
busy spring and fall, she often
works past 11 p.m., which is easier now that she no longer has a
baby waking nightly at 3 a.m.
Best part: Living in such a beautiful place, doing what she loves
and spending time with her children.
Hardest part: Living apart from
their families in Ontario and
Quebec and having a husband
who is often on the road. Parttime daycare and occasional
babysitters are essential. I love
my child-care providers. I respect
them and theres no way I could
do my job without them, Ione
says.
Down the road: When both girls
are in school full-time, Ione
would really like to carve out
some time to exercise more, pick
up old hobbies and volunteer.
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BRAIN STORM

Redefining masculinity to help boys succeed

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CRAIG & MARC KIELBURGER

livebetter@globeandmail.com
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Craig and Marc Kielburger founded

Me to We and Free The Children.
Their biweekly Brain Storm column
taps experts and readers for solutions to social issues.

h, boys. They have a hard

enough time figuring out
how to behave no hitting, ask
nicely, your shirt sleeve is not a
napkin. But when a boy in
todays world is told to be a
man, what exactly is he supposed to do?
There is a welcome movement

afoot to counter the darker side

of masculinity that crams boys
and men into an aggressive,
proud, emotionally empty box.
Its not easy to break down the
deep-seated social law requiring
boys and men to maintain a
tough-guy faade, regardless of
whats going on inside.
Progress is happening with
groups such as the ManKind Project, the Good Men Project and
Mens Sheds, and the recently
released documentary The Mask
You Live In that targets the way
we fail our boys through
unhealthy expectations of manliness. Yet the daily headlines are
disturbingly packed with not-soisolated stories of hazing, rape
culture, misogynist online activity and violent acts perpetrated by
young men.
Ideally theres a positive masculinity that balances confidence

with compassion, and helps boys

to succeed in school and in life.
We should let boys be the boys
they naturally are including the
rough-and-tumble adventurer,
the sensitive guy and every kind
of boy in between. Often, all
those boys reside in the same
person.
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This weeks question: How can

parents, schools and the rest of
us help to raise confident and
compassionate boys?
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THE EXPERTS
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For parents and teachers of

young boys, encourage and celebrate rough-and-tumble play
its therapeutic and improves
self-regulation and resilience.
During puberty, ensure boys have
male role models who are comfortable with touch, intimacy,

vulnerability and empathy without seeing it as weakness.

Michael Reist, author of the upcoming book Raising Emotionally
Healthy Boys
Fathers and other men should
lead by example in their own
lives. Consider how you display
your masculinity at home, with
friends, while driving and in the
workplace. Do you use bullying,
teasing or intimidating to build
your confidence or get your way?
Shift your own style to be the
blueprint of confidence and compassion you want to see in the
boys in your life. Jonathan
Allan, professor of gender studies at
Brandon University in Manitoba

babies, which they named and

cared for. As young adult men,
they treat babies and children
with great reverence. They will
make wonderful fathers some
day. Boys playing with baby dolls
is anything but girly it is the
pinnacle of masculinity. Nev
Tami Smd
Dance. What other activity
affirms your sexuality, builds personal confidence and teaches you
how to lead with both compassion and strength? David
Holmes
Dont ask boys to share their
feelings, but do ask boys to help
solve a problem that will help
other people. Daryl34

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GENDER EQUALITY

Is Clinton-style feminism the right kind for 2016?

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ERIN ANDERSSEN
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n 1992, back when Hillary Clinton was merely a prospective

first lady and not a front-runner
for the presidency, an advertisement in the August edition of the
conservative magazine The
American Spectator was peddling
a T-shirt bearing the slogan Save
the American Family! Nuke Hillary. The cover story called her
The Lady Macbeth of Little
Rock and convicted her of multiple sins, including signing her
tax return with her maiden
name. Even more egregious, she
was accused of believing that the
traditional family was bad for
women and kids.
Clinton should have ordered
one of those T-shirts, just for
kicks. More than two decades later, she has confidently styled herself the champion of families,
although the ones she highlights
in her new campaign ad are rather more diverse.
The last time she ran for president, Clinton acted as though
being a woman hardly mattered:
She would lead like a man.
According to The New York
Times, her chief strategist at the
time, Mark Penn, had advised her
that voters didnt want a first
mama. This time, with her credentials secure, she is a grandmama with a capital G, looking
out for the gay couple about to
marry, the stay-at-home mom

Hillary Clinton has been trumpeting the gains made by female executives,
but that will be cold comfort for women mired in poverty. DOUG MILLS/NYT
returning to work and the single
mom moving to get her daughter
into a better school. She is now
waving the banner of feminism.
It feels a little late. Over the
past eight years, weve read Sheryl Sandbergs Lean In, watched
the number of women surpass
men in university degrees, and
witnessed a shift in bread-winning and greater equality in parenting. Its not perfect, of course,
but when Clinton tells female
leaders in Silicon Valley that this
is the best time in history to be a
woman, shes telling us what we
already know. Shes following,
not leading.
On the positive side, by putting

it out there so overtly, her opponents will have little choice but
to engage in a social policy
debate framed by gender. But increasingly, its not Silicon Valley
feminism thats needed in North
America. Worrying about the percentage of female executives is
valid, but professional women in
those places of power can, for the
most part, take care of themselves.
The persistent problem for the
most vulnerable women and
their families isnt landing promotions. Its poverty. Inextricably
linked to that poverty is race as
has been tragically highlighted by
recent events across the United

States. The single mom in Clintons ad, at least, has the ability
to move: What about the ones
who are trapped in poor neighbourhoods and cant? According
to U.S. labour statistics, roughly
half of all children living with single moms live below the poverty
line. (In Canada, households
headed by single mothers are
also the most likely to be poor.)
Its not male advantage that
preoccupies these families; its
money. Currently, the most invogue anti-poverty strategy
thrust at women has been marriage, which is not only sexist but
simplistic, failing to recognize
that poverty is often a barrier to
marriage, as well as a factor in
the stress that breaks couples up.
A new analysis of numbers from
the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics found that women work in
jobs that pay below-poverty
wages twice as often as men; this
pattern held up even for millennial women.
While American women are
now slightly more likely to have
university degrees than men,
thats not true for Hispanic or
native American women. As inequality widens within and between generations, and more
jobs become temporary or parttime, feminism needs to advocate
for evidence-based policies that
target these problems. Good child
care, for instance, cant be cast as
a womans issue or sold as a

work-life balance solution for

stressed-out suburbanites: Its an
essential economic and social
policy to level the playing field.
(Incidentally, these income
trends are also true in Canada, if
to a lesser extent. How best to
support families also will be a key
issue in Canadas upcoming election. The NDP has made affordable, accessible child care one of
its central campaign platforms.)
This is hardly a new problem
for feminism, long criticized for
underplaying class and race. And
to be fair, Clinton has touched on
these points she has spoken
about the high percentage of
women in minimum-wage jobs
with few benefits. But her natural
leaning, by virtue of long-time
advantage and background, is
white feminism, the kind that
often convinces itself that more
female CEOs (or, for that matter,
a female president) will de facto
change the world for the struggling single mom in the rough
neighbourhood whos forced to
choose between rent and groceries.
Eight years ago, just owning her
feminist identity would have
been fabulously bold. Now, that
its safe to do so, its the focus of
that feminism that counts more.
Clinton is seeking the role of
champion. The question is:
Which American families will she
invest the most energy into saving?

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Mediation: We now function more like business partners

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Although our divorce was

nearing completion, we realized that if we wanted to parent
as a unit over the long haul, we
needed help learning to work
together.
When we separated nearly
three years ago, it felt like an
apocalypse. We fought constantly. Days would go by when we
didnt speak; it was too painful
to hear his voice. During stressful times and legal proceedings,
our hatred for each other was
palpable. For weeks, we avoided
eye contact at pickups and
dropoffs we literally couldnt
stand the sight of one another.
Yet, our kids bound us together for life, even if our vows
didnt. We had intended to teach
our children to ride their bikes
in front of our home, but after
we split, our goal changed. We
had to learn to get along well
enough to walk our boys down
the aisle at their weddings.
Building a strong co-parenting
relationship has taken and
still is taking an incredible
amount of work. Its hard to
compromise and listen when I
resented watching Netflix alone,
night after night, once Id put
the kids to bed. I didnt want to
agree to change the kids play
dates at the last minute to
accommodate Shawns work
schedule, after Id taken the
boys skiing and struggled to put
on their ski boots and skis and
hats and gloves all by myself.
Being physically unable to tie
their skates tight enough, and
crying as I watched their ankles
wobble through their lesson,
made me subconsciously reluctant to call Shawn when the
kids earned a new karate belt.
Raising kids really is a job for
two people at least and I
was resentful that I had to suddenly juggle bills and house
repairs and a job and kids and
dating all at once. My life had
been turned upside down.
But if there was one thing we
could agree on when we were
too angry to agree on anything,
it was that we needed help. Several months ago, we met with
Stella Kavoukian, a mediator
and therapist who works with
children and adults experiencing a variety of issues, including
separation and divorce. Our
hope was to have her help us
resolve disputes and improve
our communication.
We had a stack of issues to
sort through. There were feelings of aggravation and mistrust
after we legally ended our marriage. We had said a rash of
unkind things to one another
that we couldnt take back. We
struggled with the concept of
having to raise kids together
when it felt like we no longer
even knew one another.
Seeing a mediator was an
emotional process, but we
werent capable of figuring out
how to do this divorce thing
right on our own. Before our
first joint session, we each met
with her separately to explain
our concerns. At our first
appointment together, Kavoukian laid down the ground
rules, giving each of us a chance
to speak and explain our per-

TIPS FOR CO-PARENTING

Stella Kavoukian, a mediator
and therapist based in Toronto, tells parents that the alternative to compromise is often
the legal system. Going this
route, apart from being emotionally and financially draining, forces parents to take
opposing positions rather
than work collaboratively,
she says. Philosophically, this
is a poor place to start when
trying to work toward a childs
best interests.
She offers this co-parenting
advice for divorced parents:
9 Know that successful co-parenting involves parents
working together to create
security, stability and consistency between the two
homes.
9 Help your children have
meaningful and healthy
relationships with each parent by supporting the other
parent and their household.
By being positive, you will
promote more open communication between you,
your child and your co-parent.
9 Whenever you are unsure
what to do, make your children and their needs your
guiding light.
9 Try not to blame the other
parent. It is not helpful to
anyone. It risks leaving your
child feeling like they are
caught in the middle and
need to take sides.
9 Dont use your children as
messengers by communicating through them; if you
cannot communicate directly, use a professional.
9 Dont parentify your child,
or make your child feel that
he or she has to take care of
you.
9 Save your energy and
resources to focus on those
areas that are of most
importance to you and your
child. Avoid conflict over
minor concerns.
9 Remember that you cannot
control the other parent,
but you can control your
own behaviour and your response to provocations.
For help with co-parenting
issues, try an agency such as
Families in Transition, Jewish
Family and Child Service, or
Catholic Family Services. Your
family doctor or lawyer may
also be able to provide you
with names. The cost of a
mediator may range from $225
to $375 an hour. Erin Silver

spective before the other could

jump in. It was hard, at times,
to keep us both in line, but no
matter how many tissues we
used, we were determined to
see each session through to the
end.
Divorce is difficult and painful, Kavoukian said in an interview. Regardless of who
initiated the separation, its a
huge loss for each parent, as
well as their children. Similar to
when one loses a close friend or
family member, there is much
grieving involved. There is also
usually quite a bit of apprehension, if not fear, regarding the
future.
Its hard to cope and to coparent well when youre
balancing these feelings with
meeting your childrens needs. I
used to sob in the car during
the day and in my room until
the sun rose. I didnt want my
kids to see my face stained with
mascara. Yet the ability to parent amid this emotional chaos
is, perhaps, when it matters
most.
Kids do as well as their parents do, Kavoukian said. We
are their role models. The better
that parents are able to communicate and resolve issues, the
better their kids will be able to
manage their own relationships
throughout life.
Ive spent a lot of time since
my separation figuring out how
to be happy, but therapy,
combined with mediation,
marked a turning point.
There is one concept in
particular that has stuck
with me from our sessions with Kavoukian
the need to start from
scratch. She suggested that
Shawn and I learn to let go
of the past and build a new
relationship with one another on a whole other level.
Thinking about things in
that way respecting and
trusting one another as coparents, rather than distrusting each other as former
spouses is what finally
enabled us to move forward.
Today, we function more
like business partners than
friends, but we have added
a few nice touches. We take
the kids to buy one another gifts for our birthdays,
Mothers Day and Fathers
Day. We sort out holidays
easily enough so that our
kids can spend vacation
time with each of us. We
trick or treat together
every Halloween; neither of us can bear
the thought of missing out simply
because its not our
day. We send one
another photos of
the kids, so that
neither of us is
excluded even
from the parts
of

their lives that we are technically missing.

And a few times a year, we sit
side by side, or with a chair in
between us, through their hockey games and school holiday
concerts, waving to our boys.
All this constant communication and compromise, all this
thoughtfulness,
makes us more
functional in
divorce than we
were in marriage. At the
birthday party,
while all the
kids devoured
pizza,
Shawn
stepped
toward
me.
Did
you
see
Aris
home run
today? he
asked.
Yeah Ari
played so well.
And did you see
how fast Josh
was running?
We beamed at
our boys with
the kind of overwhelming love
that only parents
can feel.

At the end of the party, once

the loot bags had been handed
out and all the other kids had
left, my kids clambered into
Shawns car for their weekly Saturday night sleepover. I climbed
into mine and went my separate
way.
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Pregnant at 65? Unusual, but its her right

Annegret Raunigks late-life pregnancy highlights societys discomfort with women exercising more control over their bodies
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LEAH McLAREN
................................................................

he news this week that Annegret 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 international press. Raunigk is an enigma wrapped in a maternity
smock because, despite her desire
to pop out pups like a Pez dispenser, 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 reason this is what Raunigk, with the
help of donor eggs and a few
rounds of Ukrainian in vitro fertilization, has chosen to do.
Setting aside for a moment the
issue of whether pregnancy at 65
is medically safe (it probably
isnt), 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 Raunigks
choice to proceed with her pregnancy a crime against nature, biology and natural family
planning.
These were, of course, the same
arguments many critics made
against the Pill when it was introduced in the 1960s. The truth is,
we dont have a problem with
people making unpalatably
extreme life choices so long as
they dont hurt others are we up
in arms over the fact that people
tattoo their faces or become colorectal specialists? Not really. But
it unnerves us as a society and
always has when women start
exercising more control over
their reproductive functions; the
circumstances in Raunigks case
just amp up the discomfort.
That brings us to the debate
over egg freezing, which has also
been in the news. This week,
Angel Petropanagos, a medical
researcher at Dalhousie University, warned that Canadian women should not see the
increasingly popular practice of
ova cryopreservation (commonly

Annegret Raunigk holds one of her 13 children, Lelia. She is pregnant with quadruplets after undergoing in vitro fertilization. PATRICK LUX/DPA/PICTURE-ALLIANCE
known as egg freezing) as a viable insurance policy to extend
their short window of fertility.
Petropanagos points to low pregnancy success rates roughly 12
per cent in the U.S. and 8 per cent
to 10 per cent in Britain and
Europe. Its not guaranteed, she
warned, so you can spend all
this time, energy and money
investing in egg freezing and
think youre covered, and when it
comes down to it 10 years down
the line, the IVF wont result in a
live birth.
At least one part of the process
has improved. Egg freezing success rates have dramatically improved in recent years due to a
technique called vitrification a
flash-freezing process that protects the shell of the egg by
replacing egg fluid with a kind of
antifreeze that doesnt freeze and
crack the eggs.
Prior to vitrification, egg free-

zing didnt work very well, particularly for women with older (and
hence, more fragile) eggs. When
it first started in 1986, the practice
was spectacularly unsuccessful,
Dr. Gillian Lockwood, a fertility
specialist at Midland Fertility
Services in Britain, told me in an
interview last year. But its
important to remember that
those low overall success rates
take into account the 20-odd
years when the process was
essentially experimental.
Lockwood, who has seen seven
frozen-egg babies born to her
own patients, is a leading proponent of social egg freezing as an
option for women wishing to
extend their window of fertility.
Vitrification has been a gamechanger, she says, adding that
many of her colleagues across
Europe are now using ova from
frozen egg banks for patients and
finding the results are exactly the

same.
Yes, its expensive it can cost
more than $15,000 for drugs, egg
retrieval, storage and IVF, so
clearly its not for everyone. But
given that the news on egg freezing has been exceptionally good
of late, why is there persistent
doom and gloom and debate over
whether women ought to do it if
they can afford it? For every
encouraging message we get
about the practice, there seems to
be another official caution. Last
October, for instance, the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society declared social egg freezing
an option for women. But around
the same timem in the United
States, the American Society for
Reproductive Medicine and the
Society for Assisted Reproductive
Technology advised against it,
because of the cost and low success rates.
Last year, I spent time with a

46-year-old single mother who

had recently given birth to a son
born from an egg she froze in her
late 30s. There was, of course,
nothing synthetic about that fat,
gurgling baby or the unmitigated
pleasure his mother took in having him on her lap. Thered been
no guarantee of a happy result
when she froze her eggs, but in
retrospect, boy, was she ever glad
that shed done it.
As reproductive technology improves and women are confronted with an ever-widening array of
choices for how and when to
approach motherhood, we
should be supportive, not grimacing in disapproval. I might find
Raunigks choice to have four
more babies as a senior citizen
disconcerting, but if shes healthy
and happy, why shouldnt she be
allowed to proceed? Many men
have made the same mad choice,
so why not a woman?

Is it okay to leave our neighbours off the guest list?

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neighbours of our plans (so they

wont be surprised by the music
and party noise) or do we have
to invite them all (adding another 30 per cent to our guest
list and budget)?
DAVID EDDIE
DAMAGE CONTROL
damage@globeandmail.com
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THE QUESTION
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THE ANSWER
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First, I want to say thank you

for reminding us all there is
such a thing as summer. Im
even starting to believe it
myself. For a while there, I was
starting to think we were
doomed to live in perpetual cold
under grey skies all year round.
Second, please allow me gently
to observe that we should all
have such problems as yours.
Me, I cant even afford the drugs
Id have to take to hallucinate
we could afford to buy a cottage.
All my life, Ive had to butter up
my friends in order to secure
those precious invites. And,
man, did they ever dry up after
we had our third kid (not to
mention Murphy, our mangy,
possibly flea-infested mutt).
Ive made my peace with it.
Oh, sure! Its just wonderful
being stuck in the sweltering
city with all the other grumpy

boys is planning one. Leave a

note or even buttonhole neighbours in the street to say, in
effect: If you can, leave town,
but if not, batten down the
hatches and we apologize in
advance for whatever is about to
happen.
It doesnt deter them from
calling the cops (the two times
weve done it, they called on the
dot of 11 p.m.), and I dont
blame them (thanks to social
media, these things instantly
mushroom-cloud into madness),
but I think maybe they dialled
the phone with somewhat less
anger in their hearts.
Yours doesnt sound like that
type of party. But yes, leave a
note or however you normally
communicate with your fellow
cottagers to say, in effect: Your
enjoyment of your evening martinis may be slightly impinged
upon by the sound of classical
music, the popping of corks, the
clink of champagne flutes and
the tinkly bells of happy laughter
Oops, slipped again, maybe
leave out the details and just
say small party on such-andsuch a night to celebrate a big

milestone for [name of your

husband here] and we hope it
does not disturb you too much.
Thank you in advance for your
kind consideration.
I could imagine some of the
non-vitees noses getting out of
joint. But they shouldnt. I
mean, thats part of (adult) life,
isnt it? The realization we cant
be invited to everything? Used
to be Id get my knickers in a
knot when I wasnt invited to
something. Not any more (honestly, its usually a relief). Ive
set aside childish things, as
the Bible says. People will invite
me to stuff or not as they feel
like it. No biggie.
Anyway, your uninvited neighbours can always console themselves by firing up the barbecue,
grilling some ribs and washing
them down with fine wines on
the dock, laughing and smoking
cigars as the sun slowly sets
over the lake, throwing fistfuls
of money in the air
Sorry, Ill definitely stop now.
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What am I supposed to do now?

Are you in a sticky situation? Send
your dilemmas to damage@globeandmail.com

WFP/Joelle Eid

My husband and I are planning

a party for a significant birthday of his this summer. We plan
to hold it outdoors at our cottage, invite about 30 close
friends and family, serve a fourcourse dinner and have live music. The music we have chosen
isnt heavy metal or punk, but
given the lake acoustics and the
relative proximity of our neighbours, they will certainly hear it.
The problem we face is that although we do sometimes casually socialize with some nearby
cottagers, we would not consider most of them close friends
and we only plan to invite two
or three of the families at the
lake. Is it acceptable to courteously inform the non-invited

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people, sweaty shirt clinging to

my skin, crabbily chewing out
cabbies as my wealthier friends,
or those with cottages in the
family, laugh and splash in the
sunshine, sipping chardonnay
and
Sorry, let my envy show a bit
there. (Columnist shakes it off,
pulls self together, tries to be
more positive.)
Re: your situation. Now, normally Im not an etiquette columnist. As the term Damage
Control implies, my area of expertise more closely resembles:
Your guests misbehaved horribly, one of them staggered over
to an uninvited neighbours cottage, vomited on the porch and
fell asleep on the couch. Partys
over, neighbours are furious.
Dear Dave/Damage Control, now
what do I do?
But since you ask: Whether
youre in the city or country, I
think it not only acceptable but
very courteous, whenever you
have a party, to inform those
you think might be affected in
any way.
Certainly we do that whenever
were having a party especially
when one of our three teenage

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How do I support a loved one with an eating disorder?

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KYLA FOX
HEALTH ADVISOR
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s an eating disorder interfering with your marriage?

Is an eating disorder disrupting your family?
Is an eating disorder infiltrating your friendships?
If someone you love has an
eating disorder, then you do,
too.
Though you may not be
directly suffering from harmful
food rituals and the accompanying physical symptoms, youre
certainly suffering emotionally.
Its clear you never would have
signed up for this, but unbeknownst to you, youre no longer on the sidelines. Youre in
the trenches simply because you
love this person. That means
youll need to do your own
work to understand the illness
and experience your own recovery.
First off, ask yourself if you
understand what eating disorders are: People often think eating disorders are simply eating
too much or too little, and believe fixing that will lead to
recovery. Its not that simple.

It takes an army of experts

and loved ones to aid in
someones recovery. Your
work is to do what you do
best play the role that you
mean to this person, whether
that is spouse or parent or
child.

Its critical to educate yourself

because you cant help someone
through this if you dont understand what theyre suffering.
Seeking out a professional who
does understand is a good starting point.
Second, ask yourself who you
are to this person. Parent, child,
spouse? Are you still playing
that role or have you become
therapist, nutritionist, enabler,
detective, guard? You probably
have a common shift for
loved ones.
When an eating disorder is
present in a relationship, theres
a place for a loved one and a
place for professional insight.
For example, its normal for a
husband to feel distraught and
helpless as an eating disorder
takes away his wife. He knows
how to be a husband. He
doesnt know how to be an eating disorder professional, but he
tries desperately to keep his
wife safe by taking on this role.
Over time, as the eating disorder and the husband-as-professional take on a bigger role in
the relationship, the husband
and wife drift farther and farther apart. She certainly needs a
professional and her husband,

as both are critical for her wellness.

It takes an army of experts
and loved ones to aid in someones recovery. Your work is to
do what you do best play the
role that you mean to this person, whether that is spouse or
parent or child.
I know what youre thinking
how can I be that when my
loved one isnt who they used
to be? It will feel almost impossible.
So my third suggestion is to
work with experts who can help
guide this journey for both of
you, which often will be more
effective than you trying to do
so yourselves. Receiving therapeutic support will address the
illnesss impact on both of you
and your relationship, give
space for your thoughts, feelings
and experiences to be shared
and heard, and offer guidance
and direction on how to move
forward.
Lastly, deciding to support
someone suffering with an eating disorder is a huge commitment. Recovery is so
unpredictable and it wont happen quickly. This explains why
taking care of yourself in the

process is vitally important. Stay

connected to the things that
matter to you and recognize
that you cant fix this yourself.
Ive never in my entire career
worked with a family or loved
one who wasnt shattered (if
only temporarily) from the presence of an eating disorder in
their relationship. In my own
family, at the time of my battle
with anorexia, the sheer chaos
in our home as my parents and
brothers fought to keep me
alive was indescribable.
In spite of this, people survive
and relationships thrive. And
though its not guaranteed, its
more likely youll move through
the presence of an eating disorder in your marriage, family or
friendships if everyone does
their own work to beat it.
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Health Advisor contributors share

their knowledge in fields ranging
from fitness to psychology, pediatrics to aging.
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Kyla Fox is a clinical therapist and

founder of the Kyla Fox Centre, an
eating-disorder recovery centre in
Toronto. You can find her at
kylafoxcentre.com and follow her
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
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BOB WEBER EDMONTON

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team of crack researchers

finally may have solved the
mystery of knuckle-popping.
In a study published Wednesday, University of Alberta scientists describe how modern
imaging technology has shed
new light on the age-old riddle
of why some joints crack when
you pull them.
Its something that every culture, every society is interested
in, said Greg Kawchuk, lead author 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 Kawchuk. 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 literature, which suggested the pop
is the result of an air pocket collapsing.
Enough with theories, decided
Kawchuk.
With the help of a colleague he
describes as the Wayne Gretzky
of knuckle-cracking, he decided
to bring MRI technology to bear.
No one had ever before looked
inside a knuckle as it cracked.
When we saw that, we said,
Wow! Theres a real opportunity
here. Its been sitting there waiting for someone to do.
The team designed a carefully
calibrated knuckle-puller that resembles the kind of woven finger-trap on offer in novelty
stores. The subject digit was
placed under a magnetic resonance imager and the requisite
tug applied.
Video of the event which
lasted about 310 milliseconds
was carefully analyzed.
At first, the surface tension of

Above: Greg Kawchuk is part of the

University of Alberta team that
concluded the knuckle-cracking
sound seems to be created as the
surfaces of the two joints are pulled
apart. The left image shows normal
metacarpophalangeal joints before
joint distraction and a dark
intra-articular void after knucklecracking, on right.
RICHARD SIEMENS, THE CANADIAN PRESS;
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, REUTERS

the fluid in the joints kept the

bones together.
As we increased the pull, suddenly you reach the point where
you overcome that surface tension and the two joint surfaces
suddenly fly apart, said Kawchuk. In that moment, we saw
the creation of an air cavity that
happens at the same time the

sound is produced.
A similar effect can be created
by pressing two hands together
at the palm, then quickly separating them.
The imager wasnt able to
determine whats in the cavity,
air or a gas released by surrounding tissues. Nor can Kawchuk be completely sure the

cavity is what creates the sound.

We have to be a little bit careful, he said.
Were only imaging a very
small slice of whats happening
inside the joint. Theres things
that are happening to the left
and right and in between our
images that may be causing the
sound, but we dont see them.

OSTEOPOROSIS

But what we did observe is

consistent with what was proposed in 1947.
The research does have real
importance. Fingers arent the
only joints in the body that
crack.
By using this technique to
look into peoples joints, we
have a little bit of a window to
better understand joint health.
As well, not all people are able
to crack their knuckles. The paper could help scientists understand why.
Kawchuks study is silent on
the question of why some individuals enjoy cracking their
knuckles or whether its as bad
for them as their mothers say.
Ive had people tell me, It
drives me crazy, he laughed.
Its the kind of thing people
lose marriages over, I think.
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The Canadian Press

TODAYS SUDOKU SOLUTION

Middle-age women who lose weight could be losing bone density, too

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SHEREEN LEHMAN
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osing weight in middle age

may mean losing not just
unwanted fat, but also precious
bone density, at least for women,
a new U.S. study suggests.
Regardless of the types of foods
or amount of calcium in their
diets, middle aged women who
lost a moderate amount of
weight over a two-year period
also lost more bone density than
men or younger women.
Changes in bone density following moderate weight loss
may be sex-specific and influenced by hormones, the study
team writes in The Journal of
Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Weight loss has been associated with beneficial effects on cardiovascular risk factors like
diabetes. However, extremes of
weight loss have been associated
with bone loss, and according to
some studies, increased risk of
fracture, said senior author Dr.

Meryl LeBoff of Brigham and

Womens Hospital in Boston.
Osteoporosis is a major public
health problem and 40 per cent
of women and 20 per cent of
men ages 50 years and older will
develop an osteoporotic fracture
in their remaining lifetime,
LeBoff said. So theres a real
concern about skeletal health
particularly among the population 50 years and older.
LeBoffs team analyzed data
gathered during a large weight
loss study in which 424 participants were randomly assigned to
follow one of four low-calorie
diets. (Two diets were considered
to be high-protein, and two contained an average amount of
protein.)
Participants were 30 to 70 years
old and overweight or obese at
the start of the study. About 60
per cent were women.
Bone density measurements of
the spine and hip were taken at
the outset, six months into the
diets and again after two years,

at which point 236 men and

women completed the study.
By the end of two years, men
lost an average of 8 per cent of
their original body weight, and
women lost an average of 6.4 per
cent.
With comparable amounts of
weight loss, the women lost
bone density at the spine and
the hip in the postmenopausal
group and the men actually
gained bone density at the spine
and had a stable bone density of
the hip, LeBoff said.
Premenopausal women only
lost bone density at the hip, the
study team noted.
And among menopausal women, loss of abdominal fat the
kind linked with heart disease
and diabetes risk was particularly linked to bone loss.
Differences in bone loss were
also tied to the amount of muscle known as lean mass a person lost.
In postmenopausal women,
losses of lean mass and fat mass

both correlated with bone density loss in the spine and hip,
LeBoff said.
So while weight loss can
have beneficial effects on a number of cardiovascular and other
health outcomes, its important
to consider skeletal health, particularly in women in whom
weight loss can result in bone
loss and since women are at a
markedly increased risk for fractures, she said.
Dr. Kathryn Diemer, director of
the Bone Health Program at the
Washington University School of
Medicine in St. Louis, said its
important for obese patients to
lose weight, and there are ways
to prevent bone density loss.
Walking is very important for
these patients, for example, she
said.
In addition, Diemer suggests
taking calcium, getting vitamin D
levels checked and monitoring
bone density.
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Reuters

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Cant 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
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t has become a constant

among fans of the Toronto
Maple Leafs that early-season
expectations and one promising period did evolve last fall
soon devolve into despair and
disappointment. The 2014-2015
season, being no exception, has
mercifully ended.
The nearly 50-year gap since
the last Stanley Cup acquisition
preys on those fans who have not
experienced the excitement of
witnessing Toronto players hoist
the venerable trophy, or lined a
downtown victory parade route.
Not me! In the first 37 of 85
years of my existence, the Leafs
were Stanley Cup winners 11
times and finalists in eight more
seasons: an impressive record for
the franchise even if the Montreal Canadiens in the same period
amassed 12 cup wins and seven
appearances in the finals.
I was 2 when the first win of my
lifetime occurred, but have relished the remainder especially
1942, when the Leafs, defeated in
the first three games, rallied to
oust the Detroit Red Wings in the
seven-game series.
During those 37 years, the Leafs
won the cup three years in a row
twice 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1962,
1963, 1964. Now, missing the playoffs appears to be the norm, let
alone making it to the finals.
A factor that intrigues me is
that, during those championship
stretches, there was a single
coach, unlike today when three
or more are involved.
I was 7 or 8 when I became interested in hockey: the road variety. Skates were a couple of years
in the future. Newspapers were
the main source of hockey news,
although Id have to wait until
Monday morning to read the
game story. The Leafs played at
home on Saturday nights. With
the games beginning at 8:30 and

DREW SHANNON FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Foster Hewitts voice not emanating from the radio until 9 p.m., I
would already be tucked in bed.
A cereal company offered pictures of Leafs players in exchange
for a certain number of box tops,
and Mom obliged. My package
arrived while I was home from
school with chicken pox. I
remember spreading the pictures

across my bed and reading about

such players as Pep Kelly, Busher
Jackson, Red Horner, Turk Broda,
Buzz Boll and Syl Apps in an included booklet. My dad had to
explain the meaning of stick
handling, noted among some of
the players skills. Membership in
the Maple Leafs Bantam Hockey
Club, emblazoned on a blue-and-

white pin, also came with the kit,

and I wore the pin proudly.
Envious friends scurried to join
the club.
A Maple Leafs sweater
appeared at the next Christmas.
My parents got it from a mailorder catalogue, which fortunately shipped the correct jersey,
unlike the situation in Roch Carriers delightful story The Hockey
Sweater, when a Leafs sweater
was substituted for one bearing
the Montreal Canadiens colours.
In 1945, I was with a midget
hockey team that won an Ontario
championship. Shortly after, the
Maple Leafs were in possession of
the Stanley Cup. At our midget
teams celebration, Leafs player
Ted (Teeder) Kennedy, who lived
in a nearby municipality in the
Niagara Peninsula, was a guest.
Kennedy was just 19, and I still
marvel about the experience of
having a Stanley Cup winner
speaking to us, champions no
more than four years his junior.
Kennedy spent several years with
the Leafs, many as team captain,
and a statue of him occupies the
square outside the teams current
home, the Air Canada Centre.
In the early days of a 42-year
newspaper career, I was assigned
to cover a Leafs preseason training camp in St. Catharines, Ont.
The highlight of that single-day
experience was the signing of
player Dick Duff to a contract.
And I remember team owner
Conn Smythe, clad in a sheepskin-lined outfit, observing the
on-ice workout from the farthest
reaches of the chilly arena.
An ice-cream shop near the St.
Catharines arena offered the
Maple Leafs Power Milkshake a
regular shake with the addition
of a raw egg. I dont know whether players availed themselves of
the offer, but much of the impressive cup record unfolded

BRIDGE BY STEVE BECKER

reasonable rebids.
You could bid two clubs because you think it important to
identify your good club suit and
at the same time avoid an immediate raise in hearts with only
three-card trump support. Or you
could bid two hearts because it
comes closer to describing the
nature of your hand than a twoclub bid would.
While it is true a direct raise of
partners suit is usually based on
four trumps rather than three,
over the long haul the single
raise in a major on three to an

What would you bid with each

of the following four hands?

1. Two hearts. Judgment is said

to be the name of the game, and
you are certainly put to the test
in this situation, which offers
a difcult choice between two

honour and an unbalanced hand

will produce a better result than
rebidding a ve-card minor suit.
For those who might have
considered two diamonds as a
possible rebid, see No. 3 below.
2. One spade. No other bid
should seriously be considered.
The search for a 4-4 major-suit t
partner might have four spades
and four hearts, or four spades
and ve hearts takes precedence over a two-club bid or a
direct raise in hearts with only
three trumps. There is a good
chance you will get to show your

CHALLENGE CROSSWORD
2

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13

14

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16

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21

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24

CRYPTIC
Across
1 She plays with a key
in a lock (7)
5 Order cabs about one
its essential (5)
8 Admission price note
needs changing (9)
9 At the start avoid
upsetting eggs (3)
10 Creatures with feet going
in two directions (4)
12 Bob indicates a more
direct route (5,3)
14 Fairly slight resistance
encountered inside (6)
15 A new paper to be
published (6)
17 Legal actions taken
by a traveller (8)
18 A bird others turn to? (4)
21 Show some consideration
for age (3)
22 Makes me cry, this
school subject (9)
24 A revolting individual
seen in flight (5)
25 Stray U.S. serviceman
returns in female attire (7)

Wilfred Slater lives in Toronto.

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Challenging Facts
The Facts & Arguments essay turns
25 in June. To help us launch our
silver-jubilee year were issuing a
challenge: The week of June 8 to 12,
well run the best five personal
essays we receive on the theme
Moment of Truth. Maybe for you it
was the straw that broke the
camels back, or perhaps you
reached a pivotal point and made a
huge change in your life quit your
job, left your spouse, moved home
or away. Your deadline is 6 p.m. on
May 15. Please read the advice at
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three-card heart support at your

next turn, depending on what
partner does in response to your
one-spade bid.
3. Two diamonds. This is a
reverse, indicating 17 or more
high-card points as well as at
least ve clubs and four diamonds. You plan to show your
heart support next to identify
your shortness in spades.
As opener, whenever you bid
a new suit on the two-level that
ranks higher than the suit you
opened with, you indicate well
above a minimum opening bid

and also imply that you hold

greater length in the rst-bid suit.
One advantage of a reverse bid
is that you can show a strong
hand without making a jumprebid.
4. Two notrump. This rebid
shows 18 or 19 high-card points
and balanced distribution. It
describes a hand that was too
strong for an opening one-trump
bid and not strong enough to
open two notrump. Responder is
then in an ideal position to judge
what is likely to be the best nal
contract.

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You are South, both sides vulnerable, and the bidding has gone:

during that period.

The team stayed at a hotel
about 10 short blocks from the
arena and, while walking back
and forth, the players frequently
stopped to chat with the citizenry. Golf was included in their regimen, as well as lounging in the
hotel lobby reading (television
had yet to become part of hotelroom amenities). Occasionally,
some players would board a local
bus to travel to the cinema, and
boys would gather at the bus stop
to exchange greetings with them.
I wonder sometimes whether a
return to St. Catharines would
rekindle the Leafs championship
quests of the past. The city
recently opened a new arena.
Within hours of this seasons
final game, the Maple Leafs hierarchy made the first moves in
what is likely to become a major
overhaul of management and
players. Still, a Stanley Cup in
Toronto is unlikely to be as imminent as die-hard fans would like.
In the meantime, folks of my
vintage can retain the smugness
of memories from long ago.

23

25

Down
1 Unusually eager to
give consent (5)
2 Some notice a sign
of nerves (3)
3 See a key agent (4)
4 Trivial cause of offence (6)
5 He suffers from a lack
of balance (8)
6 Random inspection
for any rash
development? (4,5)
7 A novel division of
the church (7)
11 Sheridans
competitors (3,6)
13 Good man rebuilt a
crock for racing? (5,3)
14 French chemist late
on his way up (7)
16 Get up for wild
dances (6)
19 In the bay wrecked
ship sinks deep (5)
20 Part of a building birds
may be on it (4)
23 Sartorial obligation
perhaps (3)

QUICK
Across
1 Chief god of Roman state (7)
5 Rational (5)
8 Final terms (9)
9 Trite quotation (3)
10 Large heavy book (4)
12 Decisive argument (8)
14 Lackey (6)
15 Painter (6)
17 Persuasive flattery (4,4)
18 Medieval tied labourer (4)
21 Reverential wonder (3)
22 Create a stir (4,5)
24 Artful expedient (5)
25 Fraud (7)
Down
1 Short trip for pleasure (5)
2 Tap gently (3)
3 Domesticated (4)
4 To fluster (6)
5 Person of prominence (8)
6 Begin to burn (5,4)
7 Easy gentle pace (7)
11 Situation with unseen
hazards (9)
13 A clear soup (8)
14 Put in an unremembered
place (7)
16 Yearn (6)
19 Questionable (5)
20 Property obtained by theft (4)
23 Compete (3)
Yesterdays Cryptic
Across: 1 Plankton, 5 Eats,
9 Pixie, 10 Turn out, 11 Control
panel, 13 Resume, 14 Prison,
17 Lamentations, 20 Distant,
21 Naomi, 22 Sand, 23 Coolness.
Down: 1 Pope, 2 Anxious,
3 Kleptomaniac, 4 Option,
6 Adorn, 7 Settling, 8 Proportional, 12 Preludes, 15 Syncope,
16 Castro, 18 Mason, 19 Kiss.
Yesterdays Quick
Across: 1 Notional, 5 Warm,
9 Merit, 10 Caution, 11 Make ends
meet, 13 Minnow, 14 Maroon,
17 Shock tactics, 20 In truth,
21 Abate, 22 Nook, 23 Embedded.
Down: 1 Numb, 2 Terrain,
3 On the lookout, 4 Ascent,
6 Arise, 7 Monotony, 8 Substantiate, 12 Emission, 15 Orchard,
16 Fathom, 18 Outdo, 19 Heed.

INSTRUCTIONS
Fill in the grid so that each row of nine squares, each column of nine
and each section of nine (three squares by three) contains the
numbers 1 through 9 in any order. There is only one solution to each
puzzle.
KENKEN

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Each row and each column
must contain the numbers 1
through 6 without repeating.
2. The numbers within the
heavily outlined boxes, called
cages, must combine using the
given operation (in any order) to
produce the target numbers in
the top-left corners.
3. Freebies: Fill in single-box
cages with the numbers in the
top-left corner.
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EDITOR: SHAWNA RICHER

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS

RANGERS REACH GOAL

The New York Rangers did what they had to do, they shut down Pittsburghs top threats,
Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, for a fourth straight victory over the Penguins in the postseason as
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

Maxim Lapierre of the Pittsburgh

Penguins pursues the puck as
Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist
looks to cover it during the second
period in Game 1 of the Eastern
Conference quarter-finals in New
York on Thursday night.
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RUGBY WOMENS SEVENS SERIES

Canadas pocket rocket looks to help her team soar

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DAVID EBNER VANCOUVER

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hes called the pocket rocket.

She stands 5 foot 5 and weighs
137 pounds. She is in bed nightly
at 8:30 p.m., to book a solid 912
hours of sleep. She sees the
expanse of a rugby pitch, 100
metres by 70 metres, as a massive chess board.
Ghislaine Landry is one of the
best womens rugby sevens
players in the world, and this
weekend she leads Canada in an
international tournament at

home in a Victoria suburb. Its

the fourth of six events on the
World Rugby Womens Sevens
Series 2014-15 schedule and the
first time the tour has come to
Canada.
Canada ranks second in the
standing behind powerhouse
New Zealand and is poised to
clinch a berth at the 2016 Rio de
Janeiro Olympics.
Its why were out there, Landry said in an interview. We
want to go to Rio and we want to
win a medal.

This is the third season of the

womens rugby sevens series, an
event that, alongside the mens
game, was selected to join the
Rio roster in 2009.
Sevens is mostly similar to traditional 15-a-side rugby union
but played much faster, given its
the same size field, yet each team
has only seven players. Instead of
an 80-minute battle, sevens flies
in two halves of seven minutes
each, which can produce spectacular results: rapid lead changes, a
reliance on speed and an empha-

sis on tackles in the open field.

In this milieu, Landry and Canada have excelled.
Canada finished third in each
of the first two seasons on the
sevens series and this season is
closing in on a place in the Olympics. The top four teams win automatic spots. Landry is the No. 2
scorer on the tour, behind Portia
Woodman of New Zealand.
Woodman was the top scorer in
the inaugural 2012-13 season,
with New Zealand on top, a title
it defended last year, and is in

first again this season.

Commentator Melodie Robinson, a former player for New Zealand, was asked who in particular
stood out at the second tour stop
of the year in Brazil, and she
named Landry. In terms of individuals, you cant go past Ghislaine Landry, the pocket rocket
out wide for the Canadians.
John Tait, Canadas coach, said
Landry has become a technician off the field, focused on
video, nutrition and rest.
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From Russia, with lineage

The Blues Tarasenko has a hockey pedigree, and its that heritage that has helped him become one of the NHLs brightest stars
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ERIC DUHATSCHEK
eduhatschek@globeandmail.com
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CALGARY
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ockey players are mostly

creatures of habit, and the
St. Louis Blues Vladimir Tarasenko, of the faraway Russian city of
Yaroslavl, is no exception. Immediately after every Blues game or
first thing the next morning,
Tarasenko gets on his cellphone
or tablet to speak to his father or
grandfather and analyze what
happened in the game.
The Tarasenkos are a hockeyplaying family, with papa Andrei
a three-time Russian league scoring champ. In the years his father
coached in Russias Superleague,
Vladimir lived in his grandfathers home. The three are close,
and Vladimir relies on both as
daily sounding boards, two people he trusts for feedback, good
and bad.
Technology makes it possible,
Tarasenko explained in a lengthy
interview before the opening of
the playoffs. You can call right
now from everywhere and see
their faces. I started to play in
the KHL when I was 16 [for Sibir
Novosibirsk] and we talked every
day when I went to play in St.
Petersburg for a couple of years.
No reason to change anything
now.
Tarasenko is one of the brightest stars in the NHL galaxy and
was a staple on sports-highlight
reels all season. Despite missing
five games down the stretch to
injury, Tarasenko finished tied
for fifth in the NHL goal-scoring
race with 37 and 10th in points
with 73.
With the Blues set to open
their first-round series with the
Minnesota Wild on Thursday
night, Tarasenko gives the team a
dimension theyve lacked since
they became a legitimate Stanley
Cup contender that of a gamebreaking forward.

The Blues Vladimir Tarasenko, right, celebrates after scoring as the Minnesota Wilds Mikael Granlund, left,
watches on Saturday in St. Louis. Tarasenko finished tied for fifth in this years goal-scoring race. JEFF ROBERSON/AP

His mannerisms and how he

comes to the rink every day
and treats the game, you can
tell its been instilled in him
through his father and
grandfather.
Kevin Shattenkirk
Blues defenceman
Its nice hes a good weapon
to have in our back pocket,
Blues defenceman Kevin Shattenkirk said. You saw a little bit
of it last year in the Chicago
series. He had a bum thumb, but
still he had the ability to come
up with some big goals for us.
Thats part of the maturity of a
young player.
It seems like in your third
year, you figure out how to play

this game. Were going to need

him in the playoffs to come up
big for us, in the third period, in
the crucial minutes, when we
need a goal to tie it up or win it. I
think he has the confidence and
the ability to do that.
Tarasenko arrived in the NHL
following the 2012-13 lockout,
after playing the first half of the
season with Ilya Kovalchuk in
Russia. Right away, the Blues
were impressed with how willing
Tarasenko was to integrate into
the team and how good his English-language skills were. Tarasenko said he took English
classes in high school and also
made two short trips to England
as an exchange student when he
was 12 or 13, which helped
smooth the transition.
When I came here first three
years ago, I can understand everything, but I couldnt talk, he
said. Right now, its pretty easy.
Im the only Russian guy on the
team. If we would have some-

body from Russia, it would have

been harder for me because I
would have no reason to talk to
someone else. If I had some
problems, I could ask the Russian guy. Here, I was roommates
with Shattenkirk. He helped me
a lot.
According to Shattenkirk, it
was a provision of the new collective agreement that serendipitously put the two of them
together.
Alex [Pietrangelo] and I were
the last two guys on the team on
rookie contracts when Vlady
came in, Shattenkirk explained.
The rule in the new CBA was
once your rookie contract was
done, you get your own room.
Alex and I were going to split the
year with Vlady, going on and off,
but I said, Im fine with rooming
with him.
He was very shy around the
guys at first. His English was
actually a lot better than he
thought, but he wasnt confident

with it. We would sit in the room

and talk and have great conversations. Its one reason weve
become such great friends now.
Last summer, the Blues signed
Jori Lehtera, Tarasenkos former
KHL linemate, as a free agent,
and the two have been effective
pair in the NHL as well. Jaden
Schwartz, a former Canadian
world junior star, was the third
member of the line for much of
the season, but going into the
playoffs, theyve put Alex Steen
there.
The Blues drafted Schwartz
with the 14th overall pick in the
2010 entry draft and then traded
the rights to David Rundblad to
the Ottawa Senators for the 16th
overall pick, which they used to
select Tarasenko.
Tarasenko says his fathers
coaching is one of the reasons he
is able to make the plays he does.
A coach can teach you to play
a tactical game or a coach can
teach you to score goals, Tarasenko said. My father taught me
how to score goals.
His mannerisms and how he
comes to the rink every day and
treats the game, you can tell its
been instilled in him through his
father and grandfather, Shattenkirk added. Theyve obviously
guided him along. I also think
playing pro at a young age also
gets you ready for this game and
lifestyle.
Russian players have a reputation for being mostly a dour lot,
but Tarasenko seems to be an
exception to the rule.
The common perception of
the Russians is theyre always
angry; we joke about that sometimes, Shattenkirk said. Hell
use the example of, If I get on
the elevator, why do I have to say
hi to someone? We dont do that
in our culture.
He has this boyish behaviour
to him, similar to [Alex] Ovechkin. When you see him score,
you see how excited he is and
how happy that makes him. Vlady is another one of those guys.
Its great because we really feed
off that energy and positivity.
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Vancouvers loss brings up the spectres of the past

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he Vancouver Canucks this

season long drew comfort
and reassurance from a single
word: resilience.
The team imagined itself as
hardier than in years past. On
Wednesday night, in Game 1 of
the first round of the playoffs,
the self-declared resilience did
not unveil itself when it counted,
and the true resilience was demonstrated by the young Calgary
Flames, a team that all season
long has played its best when it
mattered most.
So on a beautiful Thursday in
Vancouver Its a nice day,
unless youre the Vancouver
Canucks, quipped one cab driver it was the Flames who were
able to luxuriate, half the squad
foregoing an optional on-ice session, while the Canucks fended
off volleys from a horde of journalists.
Game 1 pivoted on fractional
margins puck possession was
even, shots on goal were even,
the difference was a single goal
but Calgarys come-from-behind
victory cemented a narrative.
The Cardiac Kids always pull this
off even though thats not true:
Calgary lost 24 of the 34 games in
the regular season in which it

Canucks goalie Eddie Lack makes a save on the Flames Joe Colborne at
Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Wednesday. RICH LAM/GETTY IMAGES
trailed after two periods.
Calgary, in fact, had not pulled
off its third-period magic trick in
two months.
We wish we could do it in the
first period, defenceman Dennis
Wideman said. Wed prefer to go
into the third period with the
lead.
The precise answer of how is
elusive. Wideman cited an unrelenting spirit. Were going to
keep coming, were going to keep
coming.
The Flames this season were
outscored in first periods 54-70
and 75-71 in the second. In the

third, their 99 goals were tied

with Tampa Bay as the leagues
best, and 68 against was tied for
ninth-best. So when Calgary
turned a 1-0 deficit at the second
intermission into a 2-1 victory, it
felt ordained. This is how it was
meant to be.
Johnny Gaudreau, the 5-foot-9
wunderkind, spoke of a resilience in the locker room and
on Wednesday, a settling of
nerves. Weve got to get going
was the message in the Flames
locker room after the second.
One year and three days ago,
Gaudreau had played his first

NHL game in Vancouver, the last

game of last season. He was an
immediate presence on his first
shift and scored the Flames only
goal.
The stage and significance of
the playoffs were something
more than he had bargained for,
and on Thursday Gaudreau said
he was more excited and nervous and all worked up for
Game 1 than he imagined he
would be. It showed. His line,
and team, were jittery to start
but by the third they had found
composure.
After the game had been tied
1-1, Gaudreau carried the puck
out of his zone and into Vancouvers. He paused and then put a
crafty backhand pass into the
middle to a charging Sean Monahan, whose slap shot in the slot
had a chance to be the go-ahead
goal but sailed wide.
Sun soaked Vancouver on
Thursday, but the spectre over
the Canucks felt foreboding
whats going wrong yet again?
regardless of the fact it was only
a single game decided by a single
goal. The loss marks Vancouvers
seventh consecutive playoff
defeat in Rogers Arena, stretching to June 15, 2011, when the
Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup.

Nine players from that roster

form the core of todays team.
Of the teams past 12 playoff
games, home or away, Vancouver
has won a single contest.
How much of the past hangs
over the present? The question
was put to Dan Hamhuis, the veteran defenceman.
There was, for a couple seconds, stony silence.
Then: All that matters is this
year.
The follow-up question specifically noted the seven consecutive
playoff losses at home.
Hamhuis said he had been
waiting for someone to ask that
specific question.
I think its a silly question,
Hamhuis said. Weve lost one in
a row.
The questioner persisted, and
highlighted that nine current
Canucks were around for all
those seven losses.
Our team has lost one in a
row, Hamhuis said.
And the exchange was over.
The series is far from over, but
on the question of veterans versus youth, Vancouvers veterans
failed when they had the game
in their hands and Calgary had
the insouciance of youth. Seven
of 12 Calgary forwards are rookie
or second-year players.

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BLACKHAWKS

Despite disastrous series-opener, coach has goalie Crawfords back

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oel Quenneville had never

pulled Chicago goaltender
Corey Crawford from a playoff
game before. The coachs experience with the veteran made putting him back in net an easy
decision.
Quenneville said Thursday that
Crawford will start Game 2
against the Nashville Predators
on Friday night despite giving
up three goals on 12 shots and
getting yanked in Wednesday
nights opener. Scott Darling
stopped all 42 shots he faced in
his postseason debut, making

save after sparkling save for

more than 67 minutes in a 4-3
double-overtime win.
The Blackhawks coach said the
tougher decision was pulling
Crawford in Game 1.
Hes our starting goalie,
Quenneville said of Crawford.
Hes been our strength all year
long. It was one period, and one
collectively as a team goaltending all the way out through
the forwards I thought our
first period was ordinary at best
and look forward to him getting
back in the net tomorrow.
Crawford was one of the first
to congratulate Darling on his

performance and the big win.

But getting pulled was pretty
frustrating.
I was trying to figure out
what I did wrong, some of the
decisions I made, Crawford said
on a conference call. But then
again, you just have to sit on the
side and encourage the other
guys. Really, I had confidence in
our guys to come back. I always
do. This team can score goals.
The Blackhawks came into this
postseason leading the NHL with
57 wins since the 2009 playoffs,
and Crawford is 32-23 at this
time of year for Chicago. Quenneville said theres no book to

check telling him what to do

with a potential goalie controversy.
Its a feel thing, and its not
something that were accustomed to doing, and the decision to go back to Corey is very
easy, Quenneville said.
Their second draft pick in the
2003 draft is 147-79-34 in his
career, and he went 32-20-5 this
season with the Blackhawks,
splitting the William M. Jennings
Trophy with Montreals Carey
Price in allowing the fewest
goals in the NHL with 189. The
goalie ranked sixth in the NHL
with a .924 save percentage and

11th with a 2.27 goals-against average.

Nashville jumped out to a 3-0
lead through 20 minutes. Colin
Wilson scored twice and former
Chicago forward Viktor Stalberg
scored on a wraparound into an
empty net when Crawford got
caught trying to play the puck
behind the net. The Predators
took 58 shots, a franchise record
in the playoffs, against both
goalies.
Either guy they put in, were
going to have to attack, Nashville captain Shea Weber said.
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Welcome to the big-boy game

Subbans slash on Stone was a dumb thing to do, but Montreal knows how to earn the advantage by any means necessary
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ost pro sports view acts of

wanton violence as a failure,
to be lamented and erased from
memory as quickly as possible; in
hockey, they can become cultural
touchstones.
Call it a manifestation of the
games lizard brain: Talent can be
countered by brutishness, and
the beauty is it works almost
every time.
In a wider sense, to be a key
offensive performer in the NHL is
to suffer the democratizing
effects of ill treatment. Skill
players tend to be phlegmatic
about it.
Its part of the expectation of
playoff hockey, right? Guys on the
other team trying to make it
extremely difficult in a physical
way on the other teams skill forwards and were trying to do the
same for them, said Ottawa Senators centre Kyle Turris, a dynamic player who is often singled out
for rough handling.
The dominant narrative from
Ottawas series opener with the
Montreal Canadiens focused on
Sens sniper Mark Stones health
following a slash from the Habs
P.K. Subban. He wasnt the only
player targeted in the game.
Montreals Brendan Gallagher
plays a style that draws close opposition interest buzz the net,
jostle the goalie, rinse, repeat
its also a function of his skill as a
goal scorer (he potted 24 goals
this year, one fewer than Stone).
I went into the game understanding that I was going to have
to take some punches, take some
shots, he said after a team workout. I really felt it [Wednesday]
night its not something I
havent dealt with before. For me,
I understand what theyre trying
to do. As long as I dont get frustrated and let it affect my game
then hopefully what they do
wont work.
He doesnt mind being roughed
up, and there are plenty of people
willing to oblige.
This is how you get to Subbans
peak-Bobby Clarke moment.
The two-handed whack on
Stone wasnt as egregious as
Clarkes infamous assault on So-

Ottawa Senators forward Mark Stone, left, grimaces after being slashed by Montreal Canadiens defenceman
P.K. Subban during Game 1 of their first-round series on Wednesday in Montreal. RYAN REMIORZ/THE CANADIAN PRESS
viet star Valeri Kharlamovs ankle
in the 1972 Summit Series, but the
motivation surely originates from
a similar place.
The game not only encourages
such behaviour, in some ways it
demands it. Those twigs arent
just for shooting pucks.
The stick-swinging annals are
full of pivotal moments and the
post-slash situation is this: the
Habs are up 1-0 in the series, their
best defenceman has escaped further punishment, the Sens inspirational goal scorer is diminished
by an injury just as Montreals is
set to return from one (Max Pacioretty could figure Friday in
Game 2 and if not, in Sundays
Game 3).
Its advantage Montreal, earned
the old-fashioned way: by any
means necessary.
The shorthand is to play a guy
hard, and if someone gets
injured in the process, well, its a

big-boy sport.
The Habs know this better than
most.
Chris Kreiders inopportune
slide into goalie Carey Price in the
Eastern Conference final between
Montreal and the New York Rangers last year derailed the formers hopes.
A year earlier, Sens defenceman
Eric Grybas suspension-worthy
hit in Game 1 subtracted influential Montreal centre Lars Eller
from the equation; the series
soon descended into chaos, and
the Canadiens limped away in
defeat.
Now the Habs have donned the
black hats, thanks to Subban.
Teams engage in a high level of
off-ice politicking in any playoff
series, and the Sens lobbying
offensive was impressive.
Revealing the exact nature of
Stones injury a microfracture to
his right wrist and unspecified

ligament damage was a tidy bit

of gamesmanship in an era of
upper-body injuries.
And if coach Dave Camerons
postgame remarks hinted at retribution You either suspend him
or one of their best players gets
slashed and just give us five
Ottawa walked it back after news
Subban wouldnt, in fact, be suspended.
Were not threatening anybody
here, were just asking for justice, Ottawa general manager
Bryan Murray said.
He added a flourish to his
remarks with an accusation of
premeditation: The disturbing
part from my point of view is that
there was a threat made before by
Subban to Stone; there were two
attempts on faceoffs to slash him.
One connected.
Expressing disappointment that
the league didnt mete out supplementary discipline may shar-

pen the officials focus on the

series. The Sens will happily live
with the added scrutiny.
Subban accepted responsibility
for the incident (Its on me), denied making any threats and
insisted he had no intention to
injure Stone, whose status for the
series is doubtful.
Ive never done that in my
career. Its something that my
family doesnt condone, this organization doesnt condone. Im
not out there to do that, he said.
The act was a remarkably dumb
decision, and Subban acknowledged as much.
I dont want take a penalty
there, were already down a man,
I just tried to let him know. I
didnt even look to see where I
was going to slash him I try to
play hard in front of the net;
obviously, its something that I
cant do, he said. As far as targeting anybody if anything, I
feel like a lot of times Im the target.
Subban chalked his exaggerated
reaction at being tossed from the
game up to a surfeit of emotion
and allowed that in hindsight the
penalty was the right call.
His tone wasnt exactly repentant.
Ive been slashed a lot harder
than that, he said.
When asked if planned on
reaching out to Stone, he said,
Nope.
Theres still a whiff of Old Testament about the NHL, and the
sight of Ottawa tough guy Chris
Neil lining up on the fourth line
at practice on Thursday carried
its own message.
Turris said, Youre here to play
the game. Youre obviously going
to stick up for your teammates,
though. Well discuss things in
our own locker room as to how
we handle that.
Cameron, by contrast, said discipline will be the order of the
day.
Id be really disappointed if my
team starts chasing any one
player around and we lose the
series because we couldnt deal
with an incident, he said.
Grudge matches seldom live up
to the hype; it will be interesting
to see if Game 2 plays to type.

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DRAFT

This years lottery has upped the drama

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CONNOR MCDAVID SWEEPSTAKES

JAMES MIRTLE
jmirtle@globeandmail.com
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t was a brief moment of levity

during a tense news conference
for Brendan Shanahan, who was
carefully detailing why he had
cleared out the Toronto Maple
Leafs front office a day earlier.
Asked what getting top prospect Connor McDavid would do
for the Leafs presidents fledgling
rebuild, the typically staid Hall of
Fame player couldnt keep the
smile off his face.
It would certainly speed things
up, Shanahan said, before interrupting the next question a
moment later with Im sorry
Im still smiling at that last one.
On Saturday night at Sportsnets
TV studio during Hockey Night in
Canadas playoff coverage, the
Leafs will find out if thats more
than merely a pipe dream.
The NHLs draft lottery will give
14 NHL teams a shot at the first
overall pick this June, a selection
that is guaranteed to be used to
claim McDavid, the Erie Otters 18-

year-old superstar who is currently piling up points in the OHL

playoffs. (He leads the league
with 11 goals and 23 points in nine
postseason games.)
The Buffalo Sabres, by virtue of
finishing dead last in a calculated
tank job, will have the highest
chance of getting McDavid at 20

per cent, but the two playoff-less

Canadian teams Edmonton and
Toronto are among the top four.
The Oilers have an 11.5-per-cent
chance of winning the lottery and
moving to first from third.
The Leafs are right behind at 9.5
per cent and would go to first
from fourth.

There is also a reasonable

chance a team comes out of nowhere and gets McDavid. All 14
non-playoff teams are eligible to
win the lottery, and the six clubs
with the lowest chance include
some previously powerhouse
teams such as San Jose, Los
Angeles and Boston.
Combined, the bottom six
which also include prospect-loaded teams Colorado, Dallas and
Florida have a 17-per-cent
chance of winning the lottery.
(Teams ranked beyond the bottom five have only won it three
times, but their odds have also
historically been lower than they
will be this season, a change the
NHL made to curb the tanking
that appeared rampant this year.
In addition to the Sabres, both
Arizona and Toronto entered a
death spiral over the seasons
final few months.)
The NHL has held the draft lottery at the end of every season for
the past 20 years, but this will be
one of the most anticipated.
Not only have bottom feeders
such as Buffalo been given a lower chance of winning, increasing
the drama, but McDavid represents a franchise-changing talent,
a potential Sidney Crosby-like superstar who can transform a
hard-luck case into a champion.
By way of comparison, McDavid
had 120 points in 47 games or

2.55 points a game with the

Otters this season, despite missing games because of a broken
hand.
Crosbys points a game in his
draft year (2005) were only slightly higher at 2.71.
The Penguins were on life-support in Pittsburgh before winning
that lottery, needing a new building and to reignite their fan base
after three awful seasons. Getting
Crosby, along with Evgeni Malkin
a year earlier at second overall,
helped them become a powerhouse franchise that made a trip
to the finals three years later and
won the Stanley Cup in 2009.
Thats the kind of rebirth that
Shanahan and other executives
are dreaming of these days, especially in places such as Arizona,
which desperately needs an infusion of talent and good fortune.
Not to mention all of the revenue someone as talented as
McDavid can bring through jersey
sales, bums in the seats and playoff games.
Some organization will get a
whole lot smarter, Oilers general
manager Craig MacTavish said.
After the lottery.
Not exactly. But theyll certainly
be better, and itll be thanks to
random chance.
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RANGERS 2, PENGUINS 1 RANGERS LEAD SERIES 1-0

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BARRY WILNER NEW YORK

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Derick Brassard and Ryan McDonagh scored in the first period and Henrik Lundqvist made
the goals stand up as the New
York Rangers won the opener of
their playoff series with the
Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 Thursday night.
New York shut down Pittsburghs top threats, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, for a
fourth straight victory over the
Penguins in the postseason. The
Rangers won the final three

games of a second-round series

last year, rallying from a 3-1 disadvantage.
In compiling the best record in
the NHL, the Rangers finished 15
points ahead of Pittsburgh in
the Eastern Conference. But after
the first period, these were two
very even teams, with Lundqvist
and Penguins goaltender MarcAndr Fleury particularly outstanding. Lundqvist finished
with 24 saves, while Fleury was
far busier in making 36.
Blake Comeau scored in the
second period for Pittsburgh.

Game 2 is in New York on Saturday night.

Brassard got things started
only 28 seconds in, when Fleury
sent the rebound of Rick Nashs
hard slap shot directly into the
slot. Brassard was uncovered for
a quick wrist shot, the centre
screaming in delight as the puck
went in.
The Garden fans were celebrating again late in the period,
when New Yorks slumping power play connected. On its third
of four-man advantages and
the only one that threatened

in the opening 20 minutes, McDonoughs slapper from midpoint sneaked past Fleury.
Although New York kept control early in the second period,
Comeau lifted the Penguins
within one, knocking in a
rebound with congestion around
Lundqvists crease for his first
career playoff goal. That perked
up the Penguins, with Malkin
and Brandon Sutter getting dangerous chances, and Lundqvist
flashing his right pad to thwart
Maxim Lapierre.
Fleury also was strong at the

other end, with the Rangers unable to convert several rebounds

off his sharp saves.
That led to a tense, scramble
third period in which the goaltenders dominated.
Having made the finals before
losing to Los Angeles a year ago
has given the Rangers a sense of
confidence theyd lacked for
much of the interim. On Thursday, they showed it in particular
in shutting down Crosby and
Malkin.
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For Jose Reyes, it was anything

but a routine out.
The brittle Toronto Blue Jays
shortstop was leading off the
game Thursday night at Rogers
Centre and he stroked a grounder
toward Tampa Bay Rays second
baseman Logan Forsythe.
Forsythe easily gathered the
ball, and made the relay to first
for the quick out and Reyes
loped back into the Toronto dugout.
Reyes took a seat by himself
near the dugout entrance, his batting helmet still lodged on his
head. He then grabbed the lid,
bashed it into the concrete floor
while grimacing in obvious frustration and stalked back into the
hallway that leads to the clubhouse.
Ryan Goins, who had just been
summoned earlier in the day
from Triple-A Buffalo, was in
Reyess spot to begin the top of
the second inning.
Reyes, the oft-injured veteran, is
sidelined once again, the initial
prognosis from the American
League club being that he left the
game with soreness to the left
side.
Should he be gone for any
length of time, the pain will also
be felt by the Blue Jays, who were
rather meek with the bats during
a 4-2 victory by Tampa Bay.
In the process, the Rays took the
series three games to one, the first
series loss of the year for the Blue
Jays.
During spring training, the 31year-old Reyes declared himself
pain free and was anxiously
awaiting the start of the 2015 campaign in hopes of redeeming himself after two disastrous
injury-filled seasons.

The Blue Jays Devon Travis is upended at second base by the Rays David
DeJesus in Toronto on Thursday. FRANK GUNN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Last year, Reyes injured his
hamstring in the first game of the
season, missed 16 games and was
plagued by leg soreness the rest of
the way.
Reyes came back to play in 145
games, but he committed a
career-worst 19 errors, the most of
any American League shortstop.
In 2013, his first season with the
Blue Jays, Reyes tore up his ankle
during an awkward slide into second base and was sidelined for
more than two months.
Reyes had a spring to his step
this season and the switch hitter
was sporting a .333 average
through the first nine games
while displaying good range at
shortstop.
But there was a dark cloud lingering over the horizon in recent
days.
Reyes let it be known Saturday
in Baltimore he was suffering
from a sore left oblique muscle,

but was intent on trying to play

through it.
Toronto manager John Gibbon
said before Thursdays game that
the primary reason Goins was
called up was so the Blue Jays
could get back to a seven-man
bullpen.
The manager said he was planning on resting Reyes, but not
until Saturdays game against the
Atlanta Braves. And he said the
plan was to start Steve Tolleson at
shortstop and not Goins.
In order to make room for Goins
on the 25-man roster, the Blue
Jays designated for assignment
long reliever Todd Redmond, who
had surrendered four earned runs
in both of his appearances this
season. The Blue Jays were well
aware of the muscle soreness
Reyes was trying to fight through.
If the shortstop is now sidelined
for any considerable length of
time, the club will have to answer

NHL PLAYOFFS
FIRST ROUND
DIVISION SEMIFINALS
(Best-of-7)
All Times Eastern
EASTERN CONFERENCE
ATLANTIC DIVISION
MONTREAL (1) VS. OTTAWA (WC)
(Montreal leads series 1-0)
Wednesdays result
Montreal 4 Ottawa 3
Fridays game
Ottawa at Montreal, 7 p.m.
TAMPA BAY (2) VS. DETROIT (3)
Thursdays result
Detroit at Tampa Bay
Saturdays game
Detroit at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m.
METROPOLITAN DIVISION
NY RANGERS (1) VS. PITTSBURGH (WC)
(N.Y. Rangers lead series 1-0)
Thursdays result
N.Y. Rangers 2 Pittsburgh 1
Saturdays game
Pittsburgh at N.Y. Rangers, 8 p.m.
WASHINGTON (2) VS. NY ISLANDERS (3)
(N.Y. Islanders lead series 1-0)
Wednesdays result
N.Y. Islanders 4 Washington 1
Fridays game
N.Y. Islanders at Washington, 7 p.m.
WESTERN CONFERENCE
CENTRAL DIVISION
ST. LOUIS (1) VS. MINNESOTA (WC)
Thursdays game
Minnesota at St. Louis, 9:30 p.m.
Saturdays game
Minnesota at St. Louis, 3 p.m.
NASHVILLE (2) VS. CHICAGO (3)
(Chicago leads series 1-0)
Wednesdays result
Chicago 4 Nashville 3 (2OT)
Fridays game
Chicago at Nashville, 9:30 p.m.
PACIFIC DIVISION
ANAHEIM (1) VS. WINNIPEG (WC)
Thursdays result
Winnipeg at Anaheim
Saturdays game

why Goins was not brought up

sooner to sub Reyes before a
small injury became a larger concern.
Goins is a useful defensive
player. At this stage in his career,
he is probably better defensively
at shortstop than Reyes, but his
bat has always been his drawback.
In 67 games with the Blue Jays
last year, Goins hit a measly .188.
The Blue Jays bats were muzzled by Tampa Bay starter Chris
Archer, who shut down the
Toronto offence over seven
innings, allowing just two hits
while striking out 11 to improve to
2-1.
The loss was absorbed by Toronto starter Aaron Sanchez, who
allowed three of the Tampa Bay
runs off five hits in 6.1-innings.
Sanchez is now 0-2 on the year.
With the Rays leading 2-0 in the
sixth, Sanchez gave up a leadoff
double to Evan Longoria before
getting Desmond Jennings to
ground out.
Gibbons went to the bullpen
after that, summoning lefty Aaron Loup, but Loup surrendered a
pinch-hit home run to Tim Beckham to run the Rays lead to 4-0.
The Blue Jays loaded the bases
with nobody against Tampa Bay
reliever Steve Geltz in the eighth
but could only come away with
one run off a sacrifice fly by Edwin
Encarnacion.
Rays manager Kevin Cash was
ejected in the inning after an
umpires ruling that Torontos
Josh Donaldson was hit by a pitch
was upheld after video replay.
In the ninth the Blue Jays made
it a bit closer when Devon Travis
doubled off Rays closer Brad Boxberger that scored Russell Martin
from second base. But Goins
popped out to the infield to end
the rally and the game.

LATE WEDNESDAY
CANADIENS 4, SENATORS 3

Bennett) 19:30
Penalties None.
Shots on goal by
Calgary
Vancouver

10 10 10 30
13 4 13 30

Goal Calgary: Hiller (W,1-0);

Vancouver: Lack (L, 0-1).
Power plays (goal-chances) Calgary: 0-1; Vancouver: 0-3.
Att. 18,870 at Vancouver.

GOLF

First Period

1. Ottawa, Michalek 1, 12:25

Penalty de la Rose Mtl (hooking) 6:50.
Second Period

2. Montreal, Mitchell 1 (Flynn, Subban) 7:53

3. Montreal, Plekanec 1
(Galchenyuk, Subban) 8:08
4. Ottawa, Turris 1 (Karlsson, Wiercioch) 10:36 (pp)
5. Montreal, Eller 1 (Flynn) 11:42 (sh)
6. Ottawa, Zibanejad 1 (Wiercioch,
Karlsson) 12:36 (pp)
7. Montreal, Flynn 1 (Prust,
Beaulieu) 17:17
Penalties Eller Mtl (high-sticking) 8:14, Turris Ott (roughing),
Subban Mtl (slashing major, game
misconduct) 8:23.
Third Period No Scoring.
Penalties Gryba Ott (interference) 13:48, Turris Ott, MacArthur
Ott, Gilbert Mtl (roughing, misconduct) 20:00.
Shots on goal by
Ottawa
Montreal

9 17 7 33
8 19 12 39

Goal Ottawa: Hammond (L,0-1);

Montreal: Price (W, 1-0).
Power plays (goal-chances) Ottawa: 2-5; Montreal: 0-1.
Attendance 21,287 at Montreal.
FLAMES 2, CANUCKS 1
First Period No Scoring.
Penalties Bennett Cgy (highsticking) 12:12, Ferland Cgy (crosschecking) 19:47.
Second Period

1. Vancouver, Horvat 1 (Hansen,

Edler) 12:08
Penalties Gaudreau Cgy (delay
of game) 8:16, Higgins Vcr (tripping) 12:45.
Third Period

2. Calgary, Jones 1 (Ferland) 7:59

3. Calgary, Russell 1 (Wideman,

PGA-RBC HERITAGE
At Hilton Head, S.C.

a Amateur
First Round
Matt Every
Graeme McDowell
Sangmoon Bae
Kevin Kisner
Scott Langley
Morgan Hoffmann
Matt Kuchar
Cameron Smith
Troy Merritt
John Merrick
Ben Martin
Ian Poulter

32-3466
34-3266
32-3567
36-3268
33-3568
32-3668
35-3368
32-3668
33-3669
33-3669
36-3369
33-3669

Graham DeLaet

36-3369

Pat Perez
Johnson Wagner
Ricky Barnes
Jim Renner
Bo Van Pelt
Joost Luiten
Louis Oosthuizen
Charlie Beljan
Sean OHair
Branden Grace
Alex Cejka
Andres Gonzales
Hudson Swafford
Brendon de Jonge
Zac Blair
Justin Thomas
James Hahn
Lucas Glover
Stewart Cink
Aaron Baddeley
Daniel Summerhays
a-Scott Vincent
Dudley Hart
Charley Hoffman
Bill Haas

36-3369
34-3569
33-3669
35-3469
35-3469
34-3569
35-3469
32-3769
35-3570
34-3670
35-3570
36-3470
34-3670
35-3570
34-3670
35-3570
35-3570
35-3570
36-3470
37-3370
35-3570
36-3470
37-3471
38-3371
35-3671

Nick Taylor
David Hearn
Mike Weir
Adam Hadwin
a-Corey Conners

37-3572
36-3773
36-3874
35-4075
38-3977

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Robert MacLeod

AMERICAN LEAGUE

NATIONAL LEAGUE

EAST

EAST DIVISION

EAST DIVISION

y-Atlanta
y-Cleveland
x-Chicago
y-Toronto
x-Washington
x-Milwaukee
x-Boston
x-Brooklyn

W L
60 22
53 29
50 32
49 33
46 36
41 41
40 42
38 44

Pct GB
.732
.646
7
.610 10
.598
11
.561 14
.500 19
.488 20
.463 22

Indiana
Miami
Charlotte
Detroit
Orlando
Philadelphia
New York

38
37
33
32
25
18
17

.463
.451
.402
.390
.305
.220
.207

Boston
Tampa Bay
Baltimore
Toronto
New York

W
6
6
5
5
3

L
3
4
4
5
6

Pct GB
.667
.600 1/2
.556
1
.500 11/2
.333 3

W
8
7
3
3
3

L
1
2
5
5
6

Pct GB
.889
.778
1
.375 41/2
.375 41/2
.333 5

W
5
4
4
4
3

L
5
5
5
6
6

Pct GB
.500
.444 1/2
.444 1/2
.400 1
.333 11/2

CENTRAL DIVISION
Detroit
Kansas City
Chicago
Cleveland
Minnesota

Oakland
Houston
Los Angeles
Texas
Seattle

Atlanta
New York
Washington
Miami
Philadelphia

W
6
6
4
3
3

L
3
3
6
6
7

Pct
.667
.667
.400
.333
.300

GB

21/2
3
31/2

W
5
5
5
3
2

L
3
3
4
6
7

Pct GB
.625
.625
.556 1/2
.333 21/2
.222 31/2

W
7
6
6
4
3

L
2
3
4
5
7

Pct
.778
.667
.600
.444
.300

CENTRAL DIVISION

WEST DIVISION

Yardage: 7,101; Par: 71

The Toronto Blue Jays begin

the first phase of interleague
competition on Friday, when
the Atlanta Braves come to
town to play a three-game
weekend series. After a hot
start in which they won their
first five games, the Braves
have fallen to Earth, losing
three of their next four. The
Blue Jays will send Drew
Hutchison to the mound Friday. Hutchison will be looking
to make amends for his outing
on Sunday in Baltimore, in
which he laboured in his second start, giving up seven
earned runs in 413 innings
while earning a no-decision in
a 10-7 Toronto victory. The
Braves will counter with Julio
Teheran, who is coming off a
two-hit performance over six
innings against the Mets.
All games at Rogers Centre.
Friday, 7:07 p.m. (ET): Toronto RHP Drew Hutchison (1-0,
6.97) vs. Atlanta RHP Julio Teheran (2-0, 1.50).
Saturday, 1:07 p.m. (ET):
Toronto RHP R.A. Dickey (0-1,
2.19) vs. Atlanta LHP Alex
Wood (1-0, 3.86).
Sunday, 1:07 p.m. (ET):
Toronto LHP Daniel Norris
(1-0, 4.22) vs. Atlanta RHP
Shelby Miller (1-0, 0.90).

NBA

MLB
Winnipeg at Anaheim, 10:30 p.m.
VANCOUVER (2) VS. CALGARY (3)
(Calgary leads series 1-0)
Wednesdays result
Calgary 2 Vancouver 1
Fridays game
Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

ON DECK

Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Milwaukee

WEST DIVISION
Colorado
Los Angeles
San Diego
Arizona
San Francisco

Thursdays results

Thursdays results

Tampa Bay 4 Toronto 2

Minnesota 8 Kansas City 5

St. Louis 4 Milwaukee 0

Washington 5 Philadelphia 2
Miami at N.Y. Mets
Arizona at San Francisco

Wednesdays results
Toronto 12 Tampa Bay 7
Cleveland 4 Chicago White Sox 2
L.A. Angels 10 Texas 2
Baltimore 7 N.Y. Yankees 5
Minnesota 3 Kansas City 1
Houston 6 Oakland 1
Washington 10 Boston 5
Detroit 1 Pittsburgh 0
L.A. Dodgers 5 Seattle 2
Fridays games
All Times Eastern
Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 01) at Detroit (Price 1-0), 1:08 p.m.
Atlanta (Teheran 2-0) at Toronto
(Hutchison 1-0), 7:07 p.m.
Baltimore (U.Jimenez 1-0) at
Boston (J.Kelly 1-0), 7:10 p.m.
N.Y. Yankees (Warren 0-1) at Tampa Bay (Karns 1-1), 7:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Kluber 0-1) at Minnesota (Pelfrey 0-0), 8:10 p.m.
L.A. Angels (Weaver 0-2) at Houston (R.Hernandez 0-1), 8:10 p.m.
Oakland (Gray 1-0) at Kansas City
(Guthrie 1-0), 8:10 p.m.
Texas (Gallardo 1-1) at Seattle
(Happ 0-0), 10:10 p.m.

GB

1
11/2
3
41/2

Wednesdays results
Miami 6 Atlanta 2
N.Y. Mets 6 Philadelphia 1
Chicago Cubs 5 Cincinnati 0
St. Louis 4 Milwaukee 2
San Diego 3 Arizona 2
Colorado 4 San Francisco 2
Washington 10 Boston 5
Detroit 1 Pittsburgh 0
L.A. Dodgers 5 Seattle 2
Fridays games
All Times Eastern
San Diego (Shields 1-0) at Chicago
Cubs (Hammel 1-0), 2:20 p.m.
Milwaukee (Nelson 1-0) at Pittsburgh (Locke 1-0), 7:05 p.m.
Philadelphia (OSullivan 0-0) at
Washington (Scherzer 0-1),
7:05 p.m.
Miami (Phelps 0-0) at N.Y. Mets
(Colon 2-0), 7:10 p.m.
Cincinnati (Cueto 0-1) at St. Louis
(Wacha 1-0), 8:15 p.m.
Colorado (K.Kendrick 1-1) at L.A.
Dodgers (Kershaw 0-1), 10:10 p.m.
Arizona (Collmenter 0-2) at San
Francisco (Peavy 0-1), 10:15 p.m.

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57
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WEST
y-Golden State
y-Houston
x-L.A. Clippers
y-Portland
x-Memphis
x-San Antonio
x-Dallas
x-New Orleans

W L
67 15
56 26
56 26
51 31
55 27
55 27
50 32
45 37

Pct GB
.817
.683
11
.683
11
.622 16
.671 12
.671 12
.610 17
.549 22

Oklahoma City
Phoenix
Utah
Denver
Sacramento
L.A. Lakers
Minnesota

45 37
39 43
38 44
30 52
29 53
21 61
16 66

.549
.476
.463
.366
.354
.256
.195

POOCH CAF

BLISS

SPEED BUMP

BETTY

22
28
29
37
38
46
51

x-clinched playoffs; y-clinched division.

Wednesdays results
Toronto 92 Charlotte 87
New Orleans 108 San Antonio 103
Chicago 91 Atlanta 85
Houston 117 Utah 91
Dallas 114 Portland 98
Boston 105 Milwaukee 100
Oklahoma City 138 Minnesota 113
Miami 105 Philadelphia 101
Cleveland 113 Washington 108 (OT)
Brooklyn 101 Orlando 88
Detroit 112 New York 90
Memphis 95 Indiana 83
Golden State 133 Denver 126
Sacramento 122 L.A. Lakers 99
End of regular season
PLAYOFFS
FIRST ROUND
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Toronto vs. Washington
Saturdays game
Wash. at Toronto, 12:30 p.m. ET
Tuesday, April 21
Washington at Toronto, 8 p.m.
Friday, April 24
Toronto at Washington, 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 26

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Sunday, May 3
Washington at Toronto, TBA
Atlanta vs. Brooklyn
Cleveland vs. Boston
Chicago vs. Milwaukee
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Golden State vs. New Orleans
Houston vs. Dallas
L.A. Clippers vs. San Antonio
Portland vs. Memphis

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All Times Eastern
(Subject to change)
AUSTRALIAN RULES
FOOTBALL
66AFL: Essendon vs. Carlton,
TSN2, 11:30 p.m.
AUTO RACING
66F1: Bahrain Grand Prix Practice,
TSN2, 10:55 a.m.
66NASCAR Sprint Cup: Food City
500 qualifying, TSN 2, 4:30 p.m.
BASEBALL
66MLB: Chicago White Sox at Detroit, SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 1 p.m.
66MLB: Atlanta at Toronto, SN1,
7 p.m.
GOLF
66Champions: Greater Gwinnett
Championship, Golf Channel,
12 p.m.
66PGA: RBC Heritage, Golf Channel, 3 p.m.
66LPGA: LOTTE Championship,
Golf Channel, 7 p.m.
HOCKEY
66NHL Playoffs: Ottawa at Montreal, CBC, 7 p.m.; N.Y. Islanders at
Washington, SN Ontario, East,
West, Pacific, 7 p.m.; Chicago at
Nashville, SN Ontario, 360, East,
West, Pacific, 9:30 p.m.; Calgary at
Vancouver, CBC, 10 p.m.
RUGBY
66Super Rugby: Chiefs vs. Crusaders, SN World, 3:30 a.m.;
Waratahs vs. Hurricanes, SN
World, 12:30 a.m. (Sat.)
66NRL: Brisbane, Saint-George, SN
World, 5:30 a.m.
TENNIS
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RAPTORS

Can Torontos 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 eavesdropping 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 guards direction, and the
two Toronto Raptors conversed
without words. The looks they
shared likely conveyed something such as, These people
think they know us, or Enough
questions already, lets 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 Torontos backcourt could
both reach their peak performance in the playoffs, what heights
could the Raptors reach?
We can get done whatever we
want to get done, honestly,
DeRozan said, leaving the podium as he ushered in his friend,
shoving him like a boy would his
brother. And with that, I bring in
Kyle Lowry.
The point guard began the season like gangbusters, off to career
highs in points (19.8), rebounds
(4.9), assists (7.5) and steals
(1.62) through 42 games, and
earning a spot on the Eastern
Conference all-star team. He did
so while compensating for DeRozans 21-game absence brought
on by a groin injury.
Yet when DeRozan returned
and began to hit his stride, Lowrys game dropped off dramatically, and then he injured his
back and was sidelined. Thats
when DeRozan found his new
gear career bests in March and
April, including his finest-yet 42-

The Toronto Raptors Kyle Lowry knows he and DeMar DeRozan will be the teams focal point during the playoffs. NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS
point, 11-rebound night in a
recent victory over the Houston
Rockets.
Efficient, sharpshooting performances by both in their season-finale win over the Charlotte
Hornets suggested that just
maybe, DeRozan and Lowry are
finally about to put it together at
the same time, as the No. 4-seeded Raptors open the playoffs
against the No. 5 Washington
Wizards on Saturday.
I think we can go as far as
playing until June, Lowry said to
the same question. Weve just
got to go out there and concentrate and think about the things

were going to do and lock in. I

think we can do a lot of good
things.
The Raptors arent considered
the plucky newcomers in this
years playoffs, though, as they
were last year. An exciting run
that ended in a first-round Game
7 one-point loss to the Brooklyn
Nets was devastating, but forgivable. More is demanded this
time, even as DeRozan and Lowry face an equally lauded Washington backcourt of John Wall
and Bradley Beal.
For me, if those two can reach
that level where theyre playing
together and playing the way we

know they can play, Im absolutely confident, Raptors president

and general manager Masai Ujiri
said. Theyre both fearless, they
can both score. I think they can
make an impact on the defensive
side of the ball. I think DeMar is
figuring that out even more than
he has before. Kyle is so fierce.
This is a good stage. This is a
good time to see this happen and
we cant wait until Saturday.
The 25-year-old DeRozan now
has seven playoff games under
his belt, while 29-year-old Lowry
has 20. The point guards shot
was finally falling in a 26-point
performance in the regular-sea-

son finale, and he watched his

buddy easily post 16 points while,
as Lowry lightheartedly observed, he wasnt even trying.
We know everything is going
to go through us. Were going to
put the focal point in every single
game, every minute of every play
it will go through us, Lowry
said. Well put the pressure on
ourselves. Weve got great teammates that will do their jobs, do
what they have to do. At the end
of the day, things are going to go
through me and DeMar, through
our leadership, starting defensively and continuing onto the
offensive side of the ball.

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PLAYOFFS

Plenty of legit contenders, yet no clear favourite

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BRIAN MAHONEY
................................................................

weet-shooting Stephen Curry

and the Golden State Warriors
have the best record, an
unmatched home-court advantage and the understanding that
means nothing now.
We had a great home record
and did some historic things, but
that doesnt get you any extra
points in the playoffs, Curry
said.
The Warriors (67-15) were the
NBAs best this season. LeBron
James has been on top before,
though never in Cleveland. And
dont forget the Spurs, even
though you have to look far
down the Western Conference
standings to find them.
When the NBA postseason
opens this weekend, there will be
plenty of championship contenders but perhaps no clear favourite.
I got no idea whos going to
win the championship. This is
the most convoluted Ive ever
seen the NBA Ive got no idea,
Hall of Famer and TNT analyst
Charles Barkley said.

With James gone from Miami,

so are the days of pencilling in
one half of the NBA final matchup. The Heat reached the past
four finals, winning two of them,
before James returned to Cleveland last July.
The Cavaliers dont even have
the best record in the Eastern
Conference, finishing in second
place behind Atlanta. But they
have rolled through the second
half of the season so easily that
its hard not to consider this No.
2 as the one.
We have an opportunity to do
something special and that kicks
off this weekend, James said.
The Cavaliers start Sunday
against Boston, a familiar foe for
James and the one that ended his
previous postseason in a Cavaliers uniform.
The playoffs begin Saturday
with four games: Washington visits Toronto in the opener before
the Warriors, 39-2 at home during the regular season, play host
to Anthony Davis and the New
Orleans Pelicans. After that come
two short trips: Milwaukee travels to Chicago and Dallas heads

to Houston.
On Sunday, Atlanta plays host
to Brooklyn, Portland visits Memphis and the Los Angeles Clippers welcome San Antonio for
the opener of what appears to be
the marquee first-round series.
The Spurs beautiful basketball
overwhelmed James and the
Heat in last years finals and carried them to 21 wins in their final
25 games this season and
couldnt put a dent in their deficit in the West standings. They
ended up with the No. 6 seed
after losing in New Orleans on
the final night of the regular season, with a 55-27 record that was
a game worse than the Clippers,
who surged to a 56-26 finish with
seven successive victories.
Wed love to have been in the
[No.] 2 or [No.] 3 seeds whatever it may be and started at
home, the Spurs Tim Duncan
said. But we have been on just
about every route possible
throughout the years. This will
be another journey and hopefully it will be a fun one.
Thats what the Warriors want.
And with an MVP favourite in

Curry, another all-star in the

backcourt in Klay Thompson and
a deep bench, they have everything needed to make it happen.
Its time to go and we are
ready, Curry said.
Some other things to watch in
the playoffs:
................................................................

Roses return
Derrick Roses injury problems
began in the opener of the 2012
postseason, when he tore his
anterior cruciate ligament. He
returned from his latest surgery
to help the Bulls finish with four
straight victories to earn the No.
3 seed in the East.
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How healthy?
The winner of the Trail BlazersGrizzlies series would be in line
to meet the Warriors, and either
would be a threat if healthy. But
Marc Gasol, Mike Conley and
Tony Allen of Memphis limped to
the finish, Arron Afflalo joined
Wesley Matthews on the sideline
in Portland, and its hard to tell
which team is in good enough

shape to survive this series.

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Texas two-step
The reward for James Harden
and the Rockets after earning the
No. 2 seed? A matchup against a
Dallas team that won 50 games.
The Rockets outscored the
Mavericks just 402-398 in their
four meetings and Dallas had
double-digit leads in three of
them.
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Who wins?
James is trying to finally win one
in Cleveland. The Spurs are trying to finally win back to back.
And the Warriors and Hawks
were better than both teams over
the course of the season, so even
the experts are having a hard
time with that question. This
year, Ive got to be honest with
you, Barkley said. Theres probably seven teams that could
actually win the championship
and Id be like, Im not surprised
they won it.
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The Associated Press

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KNICKS

At Madison Square Garden, opposites attract

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SCOTT CACCIOLA
NEW YORK
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he Rangers and the Knicks

share two buildings, an owner and not much else.
That has been especially true
this season, with the Rangers
claiming the Presidents Trophy
after assembling the NHLs best
regular-season record, and the
Knicks setting marks for futility
on an almost nightly basis. At
Madison Square Garden, opposites attract: the best team in
hockey and one of the worst
teams in basketball, living side
by side.
On Wednesday, the juxtaposition was more glaring than
usual. As the Rangers went
through their final preparations
before opening the playoffs
Thursday night against the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins, the
Knicks took the court at the Garden to close out their 82-game
slog by facing the Detroit Pistons.
We still have one more day on
the job, coach Derek Fisher said
before the game, and thats all

were focused on.

The finale was fitting for the
Knicks, who punctuated their
worst season in franchise history
with a 112-90 loss a result
largely indistinguishable from
their other 64 losses this season.
Sated with free food and drink
on fan-appreciation night, the
crowd cheered and groaned,
bearing witness to the bitter end.
If the Knicks (17-65) are searching for a model in their pursuit
of respectability, they could do
worse than the Rangers, who
occupy the same training facility
in Greenburgh, N.Y. Glen Sather,
the Rangers president and general manager since 2000, has
helped to provide the sort of stability that the Knicks have
lacked atop their organization.
While James Dolan, who owns
both clubs, has been meddlesome with the Knicks, in constant search of the quick fix, he
has left Sather to do his work
with something that at least
approaches autonomy. The Rangers are aiming for a second successive trip to the NHL final. The
Knicks, who have cycled through

general managers and coaches as

if they were ratty socks, have
made three playoff appearances
in the past 11 seasons. Phil Jackson, the Knicks president, has
been charged with changing all
that.
On Wednesday morning, the
Rangers practised for about an
hour: short and to the point.
Afterward, coach Alain Vigneault
touched on some of the usual
topics ahead of the playoffs:
injuries, lineups and tactics,
albeit in the vaguest terms possible. The postseason was going to
be very challenging, he said,
but his team was going to be
focused on the game at hand.
About six hours later, at the
Garden, the Knicks quietly went
about their business of getting
ready for their final game of the
season. Players stretched. Fans
trickled in. Fisher participated in
his 82nd pregame session with
members of the news media,
gatherings that began to feel
more and more as if they were
contractual obligations over the
final weeks of the season.
The Knicks showed up having

won two in a row, a landmark

achievement for a group that
barely resembled the collection
of players who had congregated
at training camp.
Gone: Iman Shumpert and J.R.
Smith, now employed by the
Cleveland Cavaliers. Gone:
Amare Stoudemire, who signed
with the Dallas Mavericks after
being released. Gone, at least
until next season: Carmelo
Anthony, who underwent knee
surgery in February. So Fisher
was not exaggerating when he
said the team had undergone a
major transformation. The
Knicks are expected to embark
on another one this summer,
given their imminent pursuit of
free agents and their pick in the
draft lottery.
Many fans seemed to treat the
giveaways on the seasons final
night as if nuclear winter were
nigh. Merchandise at the team
store was 40 per cent off. The
mood was almost celebratory:
school was getting out for summer, an extended stretch in
which the Knicks are assured of
going undefeated.

Minutes before tip-off, Jackson

found his seat in the lower bowl.
He was joined by Jeanie Buss, his
fiance and the president of the
Los Angeles Lakers. Dolan has
pledged to give Jackson the freedom to run the team as he sees
fit a concept that sounds familiar to those who follow the Rangers.
The Garden went dark for
player introductions, and the
crowd cheered for the likes of
Langston Galloway, Lance Thomas and Cole Aldrich players
who have provided effort, but
not many victories.
The Knicks were down by 12
points in the second quarter
when a fan wearing an Allan
Houston jersey sank a half-court
shot for $10,000 (U.S.) as part of
a promotion. They were down
by eight in the third when
Anthony appeared in uniform
on the large video boards to deliver a recorded message.
Im really looking forward to
next season, Anthony said, and
seeing you back on the Garden.
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Canadas Ghislaine Landry, left, runs past Australias Emilee Cherry during their World Rugby Womens Sevens
Series match in Barueri, Brazil, on Feb. 8. Landry is one of Canadas best scorers. NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

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Rugby: Canada is due a final

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It is in part a response to an
injury-plagued season last
year. On the field, Tait said Landry produces offence in any
instance. She can create something out of nothing, Tait said.
Landry has likened it to a big
green chess board. Every time
you look, its going to be a different picture, she said. If I do
this, what are they going to do?
And if I do that, what are they
going to do?
What Canada needs to do, if it
is to be contender for gold and
not just vie for bronze, is defeat
New Zealand. Canada has finished third in the past six tournaments and has only reached
two finals in three seasons. The
first was the last tourney of
2012-13, when New Zealand

defeated Canada 33-24. It was a

turning point for the young
team, Tait said. We had a taste.
We realized what it took to
win.
Canadas last final, also against
New Zealand, was early last season, in February, 2014, when it
was smoked 36-0. Canada soon
after proved it was a worthy opponent, losing to New Zealand
in a semi-final 24-21, which
began a steady series of thirdplace finishes. Canada again
nearly beat New Zealand last
month in Atlanta, losing a semifinal 24-22. Landry had opened
the scoring with a try to put
Canada up 5-0. New Zealand
tied it. Landry pushed Canada
up 12-5, but New Zealand tied at
the half and then pulled away.

Now, Canada needs a breakthrough. Canada is due a final,

Robinson said. It might just be
a case of belief with this team.
At home, it could be tough:
Canada is missing injured captain Jen Kish. If it were the
Olympics, Kish would play, but
Tait rests Kish for the final two
dates on the schedule. Kish has
expressed full confidence about
making the Olympics. I know
that were going to qualify, she
said in early March.
Landry relishes Canadas next
shot at New Zealand.
Every mistake you make,
theyre going to score a try.
They punish you, she said. We
know we can compete with New
Zealand. A win, she concluded,
is a matter of actually doing it.

FOOTBALL VIKINGS

NFL reinstates Peterson

(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-Hodgkins
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;
Melbourne, Australia; and ultimately Vancouver. John was also President
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,
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
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.
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;
his four children, Victoria Auston (Jim Sinclair), Katy Southerland (Ned),
John Auston, Jr., Genevieve Cole (Steve); and, his six grandchildren,
Malcolm and Ellen Southerland, Julian Auston-Sinclair, Lucy, Josephine
and Phoebe Cole.
John guided them all with the highest of standards, the most moral
of voices, and the greatest generosity of spirit. He was a sage and a
philosopher too, a true Renaissance man.
This enduring passion for living is part of what kept John alive and
fighting for 14 years, tirelessly raising awareness and significant funding
as a board member for the BC Cancer Foundation, resulting in a research
award in his name.
His lust for life, his unwavering ability to take the high road and the long
view, the enormity of his lion-like heart and his willingness to give of it,
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
has lost some of its lustre and for now feels a little less grand.
Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine, Ill taste your strawberries
and drink your sweet wine. A million tomorrows shall all pass away, ere I
forget all the joy that is mine today.
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
quality of Johns 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.
A celebration of Johns life will be held in Vancouver at the end of May.
Please refer to www.mckenziefuneralservices.com for further information.

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JON KRAWCZYNSKI MINNEAPOLIS

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Adrian Peterson has been

cleared to return to the NFL.
Now all that remains to be settled is where he will play next
season.
Commissioner Roger Goodell
sent the Minnesota Vikings star
a letter on Thursday advising
him of his reinstatement. Peterson missed most of last season
while facing child-abuse charges
in Texas.
Goodell wrote that Peterson
would have to fulfill all the obligations of his plea deal that
reduced a felony charge to a
misdemeanour.
Goodell also told Peterson he
would have to continue attending counselling while adhering
to the leagues new personal-

conduct policy to avoid further

discipline.
Any further violation of the
personal-conduct policy by
Peterson would result in additional discipline, which could
include suspension without pay
or banishment from the NFL,
the league said.
Petersons agent has said the
star running back wants to play
elsewhere next season, but the
Vikings say they have no plans
to trade him.
We look forward to Adrian rejoining the Vikings, the team
said in a statement issued after
the announcement.
Peterson was indicted on
abuse charges after inflicting
injuries on his four-year-old son
with a wooden switch. He
played the opener against St.

Louis, then sat out the remaining 15 games of the season

while tangling with the league
over the discipline.
Vikings general manager Rick
Spielman has told one of his
agents, Ben Dogra, he doesnt
plan to release Peterson, who
recently turned 30.
They have not given us one
compelling reason why its in
his best interest to remain as
part of the Minnesota Vikings,
Dogra said.
The Vikings have leverage
with Petersons contract, which
covers the next three years including a $12.75-million (U.S.)
salary for 2015. None of the remaining money on the deal,
however, is guaranteed.
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The Associated Press

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FOOTBALL ARGOS

Johnson picks Toronto to be close to home

ERNIE BALTZ
Ernie died Friday, April 10, at
home. He was 84. Zoe and
family wish to thank everyone
for their care, friendship and
kindness during Ernies illness.
From the "Bunker Boys" of the
Central Y to dear old school
chums, and Bill McKecknie,
Andrew Whiteman, volunteers
from the ROM and St. Mikes
Hospital. Also, all of the
wonderful Nurses and Doctors
for their special loving care. A
family remembrance will be held
later this spring. Donations in
Ernies memory can be made to
The Oak Ridges Moraine Land
Trust or The Niagara Escarpment
Biosphere Conservancy.

E. Donald Gower Farncomb

Passed away peacefully on
Sunday, April 12th , 2015. He
had lived a very full life and was
keen to remind everyone that he
was in his 90th year. Dad always
joked about his custom licence
plate bearing his initials "EDGF"
stating it was an acronym for
"Every Day Goes Faster"
...something we should all keep
in mind!!!

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DAN RALPH
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onald Johnsons family and

friends could finally have the
chance to watch him play football in person.
The six-foot, 185-pound receiver
signed earlier this month with
the Toronto Argonauts. Should
the Muskegon, Mich., native
crack the CFL clubs roster, family
and friends could easily drive to
Rogers Centre or Hamiltons Tim
Hortons Field to watch him play.
That certainly wasnt always
the case during Johnsons collegiate career at USC. The 26-yearold said he spoke with multiple
CFL clubs, but Torontos proximity to Michigan figured into his
final decision.
I just wanted to be close to
Michigan where my family is and
be able to give them a show,
Johnson said during a recent telephone interview. I went to USC
instead of Michigan or Michigan
State, and now I could have the
chance to produce in front of my
family and friends.
Johnson will certainly have an
opportunity to make Torontos
receiving corps. Veterans Jason
Barnes and Maurice Mann both
remain unsigned, while former
starters John Chiles (NFLs Chicago Bears) and Canadian Spencer
Watt (Hamilton Tiger-Cats) are
gone.
An every-down receiver, he
said. I want to say a receiver
who can score a touchdown at
will, but I know there are other
good guys on the team.
Im coming to win a championship or be part of a great season, nothing more than that.

Johnson admits hes not entirely familiar with Canadian football, but says hell adjust quickly.
All I know is I get a running
start, which should be an advantage, and its only three downs,
so you have to be prepared and
ready, he said. But really, football is football.
You put the pads and cleats on
and go out and do what you have
to do.
Johnson helped Muskegon
High School win state championships in 2004 and 06. In 2007, he
was Michigans top football
recruit and chose USC after being
recruited by the likes of Texas,
Florida, Michigan, Ohio State,
Michigan State and Notre Dame.
Johnson amassed 138 catches
for 1,750 yards and 20 TDs with
the Trojans. He also returned 22
punts for 312 yards (14.2-yard average) and a TD and 56 kickoffs
for 1,351 yards (24.1-yard average).
Johnson had four catches for 82
yards and two TDs in USCs 38-24
win over Penn State in the 2009
Rose Bowl as the Trojans became
the first team in history to win
three straight Rose Bowl games.
The San Francisco 49ers selected Johnson in the sixth round
No. 182 over all of the 2011 NFL
draft before releasing him before
the season. Johnson then joined
the Philadelphia Eagles practice
roster before being promoted to
the active roster in late in the
season.
But he suffered a broken and
dislocated ankle during training
camp and spent the 2012 season
on injured reserve before being
released on April 11, 2013. He
signed with the Seattle Seahawks

last July reuniting with former

USC head coach Pete Carroll
but was let go the following
month.
For Johnson, it was yet another
harsh reminder of just how fickle
and uncertain the business of pro
football can be.
Oh, yeah, you have to be thickskinned and let things just roll
down your back because theres
going to be a lot of things [that]
just come your way when this
becomes a business like it does,
Johnson said. It changes. It
becomes a livelihood and you
really have to take it seriously
and not let things bother you.
Despite his brief stay in Seattle,
Johnson said hell forever have
fond memories of his time with
the colourful and energetic Carroll.
I miss him as a coach, but I
learned so many things from him
[at USC] that helped me with
growing up, Johnson said.
Coach Carroll is definitely a
players coach he listens to his
players, and if something is not
right hes going to try something
different to come out with the
victory.
What made him unique was
he was actually going out and
running with us. Hes just a
different coach; he likes to be
involved. If I ever wanted to be a
coach, thats how Id want to do
it.
Actually, Johnson could see
himself becoming a coach, once
his playing days are over.
Right now, Ive got a lot of
work to do and a lot to pick up.
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The Canadian Press

Son of Eric Maulson Farncomb

and Graeme Gower Farncomb.
Father of Judith Farncomb (Eric
Goode), Frederick Farncomb
(Carol), John Farncomb (Erin)
and Mary Farncomb (Peter Aziz
-Deceased 2010). Brother to Nan
Whyte. Grandfather to Danielle,
Andrew (Sarah), Jennifer, Emily,
James (Stephanie), Jonathan
(Hayley), Jeremy, Evan and
Cameron. Great-grandfather to
Nathan and Jackson.
A private family celebration will
be held. In lieu of flowers, a
donation to either the Nature
Conservancy or a charity of
your choice would be warmly
received.

Galbraith, Sheldon W.
C.M., O.ONT.
Canadian Figure Skating Coach
May 24, 1922 - April 14, 2015
Peacefully in his 93rd year at
Eagle Terrace Care Home in
Newmarket on Tuesday, April
14, 2015. Beloved husband of
the late Jeanne. Loving father of
Jeannie (Phil Branston), Brian
(Beth), Barbara, Mary Louise
Teakle and predeceased by his
daughter Kathy. Dear Papa of
Andrea, Chris, Rebecca, Travis,
Dylan, Jamie, Kailey and "Big
Papa" of Madison, Jackson, Jack
and Blake.
A Funeral Service will be held in
the chapel of the THOMPSON
FUNERAL HOME, 530 Industrial
Parkway South, Aurora
905-727-5421 on Monday at
11:00 a.m. Cremation to follow.
In lieu of flowers, in memoriam
donations may be made to
Southlake Regional Health
Centre Foundation.
On line condolences
may be made at
www.thompsonfh-aurora.com.

BARBARA LYNN GRAN

With deep sadness we announce
the death of Barbara Lynn Gran,
peacefully at home in Toronto on
13 April, with family at her side.
Dear daughter of Jean and
Vernon; beloved mother of Kojah
and Kalinda in her marriage with
Martin and respected member of
the Lesmond family; cherished
sister and sister-in-law of Leanne
and Greg, Judi and Richard, and
Betty Jean; dear aunt of Michael,
Jamie and Jody and loved greataunt of Tyler; treasured friend of
Will; close colleague and friend
to so many.
Lynn spent her career working
for good, engaged first with
Oxfam and WWF and then
finding her home with the
Nature Conservancy of Canada,
where she was passionate about
protecting Canadas land and
influencing others to do the same.
In good health and in the battle
against illness, Lynns positive
spirit, commitment, energy and
sense of humour served her
well and were an inspiration to
others. We miss her dearly and
hold her in our hearts forever.
Lynn stipulated that her body
be donated to the University
of
Toronto
for
medical
research into brain cancer.
If wished, donations in her
name can be made to NCC at
www.natureconservancy.ca
A private celebration of Lynns
life will be held at a later date.

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Peacefully at her residence in Toronto on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 in her 97th
year. Daughter of the late Joseph Leonard and Pauline Morton. Beloved
wife of the late Thomas A. Humphrey. Loved mother of Bruce Humphrey
(Christina), and mother-in-law of Roderick Dickson and John Watson
(Josie). Predeceased by daughters Valerie Dickson and Denise Watson;
brother Ted Leonard and his wife Doreen. Lovingly remembered by her
grandchildren Andrew Watson (Jessica); Sean and Jeffrey Dickson (Amy);
Adam, Jacquelyn and Courtney Humphrey; great-grandmother of Anica
and Ridley Watson and Paige Dickson. Dear aunt of Melody (Mrs. Robert
Grayer), great-aunt of Angela Grayer-Glecoff (Eric), and great-great-aunt
of Zach and Olivia. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.
The family will receive friends at the HUMPHREY FUNERAL HOME A.W.
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Avenue) from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 16.
Service Friday afternoon, three oclock in LEASIDE UNITED CHURCH, 822
Millwood Road (at McRae Drive), followed by interment at Mount Pleasant
Cemetery. In Lois memory, donations may be made to your selected
charity and would be much appreciated. A reception will be held following
the interment. Condolences and memories may be forwarded through
www.humphreymilesnewbigging.com.

ADRIENNE LILLEY
TORONTO
APRIL 12, 1935 - APRIL 13, 2015
It is with profound sadness but much relief that we announce the passing
of Adrienne Lilley (ne Grime) after a courageous and lengthy battle with
debilitating health issues. Predeceased by her mother and father, Ada
Irene and Henry Grime, survived by her brother, George Henry (Monika),
sister, Barbara (Fred), and former husband, Ken (Wendy). Loving
and adored mum to Ileana (George), Jacqueline (Steve) and Michael.
Cherished grandma to Michael and Adrienne. Beloved friend to many.
Adrienne was born and raised in Liverpool, England where she later
graduated as an SRN from the Royal Liverpool Infirmary. In 1961, she
moved to Winnipeg to join her husband. As a military wife, Adrienne
began a series of moves to Ottawa, Chatham (NB), Montreal and
Germany. In 1972, she settled in Ottawa with her family and, in 1987,
Adrienne moved to Toronto, making this her final home.
Adrienne was exceptional; elegant, gracious, warm, thoughtful, patient
and compassionate beyond compare. She was the epitome of all things
true and good. Adrienne had the ability to put people at ease with her
gentle and caring ways. She lived each day to the fullest, always with
an optimistic outlook. Among her many interests, she was passionate
about travelling, reading, cooking, theatre and helping others. First and
foremost, though, came her family. She was a devoted wife, mother
and grandmother. Adrienne was deeply invested in the happiness and
welfare of her children and grandchildren, making each feel truly special
for their uniqueness, and each equally loved.
Adrienne was a nurse at the Winnipeg General Hospital, and later in life
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
travel tour guide for groups to South America.
Indicative of her genuine regard for others, these were Adriennes final
thoughts:
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there.
I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glint of snow
I am the sunlight on the ripened grain
I am the gentle autumns rain.
When you awaken in the mornings hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there.
I did not die.
(Mary Elizabeth Frye)
The family wishes to extend a sincere thank you to the superlative care
and support Adrienne received from the staff at SunnyBrook Hospital. A
special thank you to Blair Henry and Dr. Shojania. A private cremation will
take place, with no visitation or service. In lieu of flowers, donations to
SunnyBrook Hospital, c/o the Ethics Centre, would be most appreciated.
Dear sweet mum, may you rest in peace.

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.
Born in Pembroke, Ontario, Audrey grew up in the large loving family
of a carpenter. Audrey was most known for being pragmatic, gracious
and kind hearted. She was often referred to by people as a saint, a
true lady and by one boss as Mrs Belvedere for her extreme diligence
and punctuality in reference to the then famous television character.
Audrey began her career as a salesperson at a high fashion clothing
store, eventually managing the companys garment factory. Audrey
met her husband, Gaspar, in 1950 while living in adjacent apartments,
marrying in 1954. After unsuccessfully attempting to have children,
the couple adopted their two children in the early 1960s. Audrey gave
her life to being a mother and made the familys home in Etobicoke
and Mississauga. Audrey was diagnosed in 2004 with Alzheimers and
began a courageous but heartbreaking 11 year battle with the disease.
Audrey maintained her gentle nature and humour through the desperate
challenges that the disease brings, which showed the true depth of her
God given strength which lay under all that softness. Audrey was lovingly
cared for by Sunrise of Auroras staff. Her dedicated caregiver Jean cared
for her for 8 years in the most unbelievably loving way, aided by the
incredibly warm Chris along with all the other amazing staff there. The
family wishes to extend their utmost gratitude for the love and care they
delivered tirelessly to Audrey.
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,
Ontario, L5G 1E4. A funeral mass for Audrey will be celebrated Saturday,
April 18th, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Christophers Church, 1171 Clarkson Road
North, Mississauga, Ontario, L5J 2W1. A private interment service for
family will be held Tuesday, at 10 a.m., at Springcreek Cemetary, 1390
Clarkson Rd. North, Mississauga, Ontario, L5J 2W5. Audreys grandson
Michael will read Gods Garden by Dorothy Frances Gurney at the funeral
mass and her granddaughter Melissa will sing Amazing Grace.
Gods Garden
God looked around his garden
And found an empty place,
He then looked down upon the earth
And saw your tired face.
He put his arms around you
And lifted you to rest.
Gods garden must be beautiful
He always takes the best.
He knew that you were suffering
He knew you were in pain.
He knew that you would never
Get well on earth again.
He saw the road was getting rough
And the hills were hard to climb.
So he closed your weary eyelids
And whispered, Peace be thine.
It broke our hearts to lose you
But you didnt go alone,
For part of us went with you
The day God called you home.
The family wishes that in lieu of flowers, donations to your local Alzheimers Society
would be most appreciated, see http://www.alzheimer.ca/ for more information.

ENGAGEMENTS

RAY HOLLINGS
March 22, 1927 - April 17, 2002
In loving memory of our
dearest Ray
Always in our hearts
We miss you
June, Bill, Jenny, John, Brenda,
Sean, Jade, Adam, Emma,
Nicholas

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Passed away unexpectedly at

Markham Stouffville Hospital
April 13th, 2015, at the age of
95. Predeceased by his loving
wife Elizabeth Young (nee
Strange). Adored father of Brian
(Karen), Geoffrey (Patricia),
Bradley and Stephanie (Peter).
Predeceased by his loving son
Timothy. Very proud Grandpa of
Matthew and Kendra. Dear
brother of both predeceased
Evelyn Lehane and Jean
Peterson. Gil will be dearly
missed by many other family
members and friends. He will
also be missed by friends and
staff at Rouge Valley Retirement
Home. We would like to thank
them for their ongoing care and
support over the years. Dad had
many fond memories of his time
there. Those who knew Gil will
remember him for his tireless
work ethic, integrity and
strength of character. The family
would like to extend their
sincere gratitude to the caring
staff at Markham Stouffville
Hospital during his brief stay. A
funeral service will take place at
The Simple Alternative Funeral
Centre, 275 Lesmill Road, North
York, Monday, April 20, at
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MAR 21, 1994 - FEB 26, 2015

Brady left this world much
too early, just shy of his 21st
birthday. He was in Seoul,
excited to have embarked on a
semester abroad as an exchange
student, and was looking
forward to earning a degree
in Commerce at Dalhousie
University. He also nurtured a
passion for astronomy. He was
a kind, thoughtful and sensitive
young man with a bright mind
and a wonderful sense of
humour. His presence was a joy,
and his absence leaves a giant
hole in the hearts of his family
and friends. He saw the best
in everyone, and his light will
inspire and carry on through the
many lives he touched.
Brady was deeply loved, and
will be forever missed by his
mother Pheona Wright and
his father Mark Vickers, along
with sisters Haley and Izzy, and
brothers Jake and Adam. Brady
was blessed with two loving
stepfathers in Richard Campbell
and Tim Godsall, and will be sadly
missed by stepmother Kirsten
Vickers. His beloved girlfriend,
Ellie Hynes, was a light in his
life, and his extended group of
devoted friends were a source of
happiness and inspiration. Brady
was the treasured grandson
of Richard and Dianne Wright,
and the late Fred and Pauline
Vickers. He was adored by
many aunts and uncles, and 19
cousins, including aunt Danielle
(Gigi) Vickers-Tjalsma and uncle
Rimmer Tjalsma (parents of
Matthew, Ryan and Emalie), Terie
Vickers-Craig and Martin Craig
(Mackenzie, Jessie, Duncan and
Alex), Tom and Vickie Vickers
(Mark, Erika, Abbey, Molly and
Krissy), Marten and Averill Wright
(Ainsley, Jada and Mackenzie),
Matthew Wright, Moira Wright and
Joseph Wilson (Max and Henry)
and Sarah and Michael Merriman
(Keara and Keagan).
Family and friends will be
gathering at Markland Wood
Golf Club, 245 Markland Drive,
Etobicoke on Saturday, April
25th, 2015, from 5 - 8 p.m.
Donations in Bradys honour can
be made to The Brady Vickers
Bursary, care of Dalhousie
University, Office of External
Relations, PO Box 15000, Halifax
NS, B3H 4R2, or contact at
902.494.6862.
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the late Mr. William Foster, and
stepson of Mr. Arthur Kight, of
Lindsay, Ontario. Amanda and
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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
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SAM ROBERTS
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heila Kitzinger, a British anthropologist who encouraged

women around the world to
reclaim from doctors their natural prerogative over pregnancy
and childbirth, died on Saturday
at her home in Oxfordshire, England. She was 86.
Her husband, Uwe Kitzinger,
said she died after a short illness.
She was an icon of home birth
who decided also to choose
home death, he said.
During Ms. Kitzingers five-decade career, decision-making
about childbirth underwent a
seismic shift in attention from
the obstetrician to the labouring
woman, said Mr. Kitzinger, an
economist and political scientist.
Beginning in 1962 with her
book The Experience of Childbirth,
she championed informing women of the options available to
them during pregnancy and delivery and empowered them,
rather than clinicians, to choose
which course they preferred.
Ms. Kitzinger, who delivered
her five daughters at home with
a midwife, was widely considered
a guru of natural childbirth, but
she said she actually urged women to do what felt natural to
them individually. She conducted
research and campaigned against
female genital cutting, the handcuffing of pregnant prisoners and
restrictions on midwifery and
other nonstandard medical care
for prospective mothers in Central and Eastern Europe.
Sheila may be the most important individual in the whole field
of childbirth reform, said Judy
Norsigian, a co-founder of Our
Bodies Ourselves, a non-profit
group in the United States that
offers information on womens
health and sexuality. She noted
that many mainstream hospital

Sheila Kitzinger, seen in 2007, wanted women to be aware of childbirth options. She also campaigned against
female genital cutting, the handcuffing of pregnant prisoners and restrictions on midwifery. MIKE FLOKIS/GETTY IMAGES
practices were quite harmful to
women and babies and even fathers.
It is partly because of these
detrimental practices, she
added, that there was a resurgence of interest in home birth
and free-standing birth centres
and midwifery.
Ms. Kitzinger was born Sheila
Helena Elizabeth Webster in
Taunton, Somerset, England, on
March 29, 1929, to Alec Webster, a
tailor, and the former Clare Bond,
a nurse who worked in an early
family-planning clinic. She
trained to teach drama but
switched to social anthropology
at Ruskin and St. Hughs Colleges
at Oxford, where she met Uwe

Kitzinger, whom she married in

1952.
Besides her husband, she leaves
five daughters Celia, Jenny, Nell
and Polly Kitzinger and Tessa
McKenney and three grandchildren.
Asked how she reconciled
motherhood with her career, she
once told The Guardian: I suppose theres a little bit of me that
thinks, if Id stayed home, prided
myself on my apple pie and not
argued so much, then it might
have been easier for some of the
girls to have gone and done their
own thing. But I dont think you
can prepare girls for growing up
for the world in which we live
today, a world which needs to be

changed, by simply seeing yourself in the mother role. I wanted

to have warrior children.
Since 1962 she had written
nearly three dozen books, including Birth over Thirty, Womans Experience of Sex, Breastfeeding Your
Baby, Ourselves as Mothers,
Becoming a Grandmother and
Birth Crisis.
Her autobiography, A Passion
for Birth, is to be published by
Pinter & Martin next month.
It is now acknowledged that
women have a right to full and
accurate information about their
bodies and to participate in all
decisions made about them, Ms.
Kitzinger wrote in her introduction to the 2003 edition of The

Complete Book of Pregnancy &

Childbirth.
She frequently complained that
our culture of birth is heavily
medicalized, allowing doctors to
routinely induce labour or to perform episiotomies just to make
their own jobs easier.
I was fed up with women
being blamed for everything that
happened to them, she wrote.
She created a Birth Crisis Network in Britain, which offers
reflective listening for women
traumatized after delivery.
While she accepted the pain
that accompanied labour, in Birth
& Sex: The Power and the Passion,
she described her own five deliveries as exhilarating and sexually
arousing, which was not surprising, she said, since both childbirth and lactation involve the
same hormones as in sexual
arousal.
Tall, imposing and endowed
with a lusty voice, even as a
grandmother she would, on
more than one occasion, unselfconsciously demonstrate the orgasmic corollary of birth pangs in
public to interviewers, startling
fellow railway passengers or restaurant patrons, by moaning in
the manner of Meg Ryan in the
restaurant scene in the film When
Harry Met Sally.
Ms. Kitzinger offered a caveat,
however.
The only thing that compares
with having your first baby, she
wrote, is having your first
book!
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JOEL SPIRA PHYSICIST, 88

An inventor with an incandescent idea

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BRUCE WEBER
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oel Spira, who changed the

ambience of homes around the
world and encouraged romantic
seductions of all types when he
invented the first lighting dimmer
for domestic use, died April 8 in
Coopersburg, Pa. He was 88.
He had a heart attack and collapsed at his home, his daughter
Susan Hakkarainen said.
Mr. Spira was a physicist working for a military contractor in the
late 1950s when, puttering in a
spare room of his Manhattan
apartment, he invented a way to
reduce the light output of an
incandescent bulb. The device
spurred the creation of Lutron
Electronics, a lighting-control
company he started in Emmaus,
Pa., in 1961 with his wife, Ruth; it
was granted its first patent for a
solid-state dimmer in 1962.
Relocated to Coopersburg, not
far from Allentown, in 1970,
Lutron became a leader in the
lighting control business. It
employs more than 1,000 people
and distributes myriad products,
including dimmers, automated
window treatments fan controls
and home- and building-control
systems.
Devices to control the intensity
of a light source existed before

Joel Spira invented the first domestic light dimmer when he was
puttering in his Manhattan apartment. DONNA CHIARELLI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mr. Spiras innovation, but they
were unsuitable for home use.
Large and unwieldy, they consumed great amounts of energy
and gave off a lot of heat, so they
were restricted to certain commercial functions, such as regulating the stage lights in theatres.
Mr. Spiras idea was to replace a
rheostat, which controlled the
current flow in an industrial dim-

mer by absorbing electrical energy on its way to a light source,

with a thyristor, a type of transistor that interrupted the flow of
power to the light. The change
made the dimmers cooler and
small enough to fit in a home wall
box. They also used less electricity.
A prime selling point for dimmers and other lighting-control

products has been that they save

energy; Lutron maintains that its
products reduce the total lighting
bill of the United States by as
much as $1-billion (U.S.) a year.
Lutrons original marketing
strategy was considerably sexier,
however. Its first commercial
product was called the Capri, a
dimmer switch operated by a
lighted dial implanted in an 18inch-high wall panel, and its store
displays featured a drawing of a
shapely woman in a sleeveless
pink evening gown. Subsequent
sales pitches capitalized on the
idea of low lights and privacy. In
one ad, a well-dressed couple
hold hands and exchange longing
glances beneath a chandelier.
Dial romance, the copy reads,
with a light dimmer Dim n Glo.
Joel Solon Spira was born March
1, 1927, in Brooklyn, where he
graduated from Erasmus Hall
High School. His mother, the former Edna Shenker, was a fashion
model. His father, Elias Spira, was
an executive on the state liquor
board.
Mr. Spira served in the navy as a
radar designer at the end of the
Second World War and graduated
from Purdue with a degree in
physics.
In addition to the Capri, Mr. Spira and Lutron created a dimmer

switch controlled by a sliding tab

(he called it the Nova) as well as
the first infrared remote-control
dimmer, the first whole-home
lighting-control system and a system of motorized window shades
marketed as Serena.
A later innovation, Vierti, a dimmer controlled by finger pressure
on a strip of LEDs, is in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.
Items and documents from
Lutron, including an early version
of the Capri dimmer and Mr. Spiras notebooks and advertising
materials from the companys
early years, are in the electricity
collection of the Smithsonian
Institutions National Museum of
American History.
Mr. Spira married Ruth Rodale
in Emmaus in 1954. (Her father,
J.I. Rodale, was the founder of
Rodale Inc., the health-oriented
publishing company.) Besides his
wife and their daughter Susan, he
leaves two other daughters, Lily
Housler and Juno Spira; a sister,
Mimi Poser; and three grandsons.
Some day Ill be gone, Mr. Spira said about his legacy in 2012 in
an interview with The Morning
Call of Allentown. But dimmers
will be with us forever.
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New York Times News Service

LIVES LIVED
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Deanna Michelle
Christie
World traveller, marine seismic
observer, auntie, knitter. Born on
July 21, 1969, in Vulcan, Alta.; died
on Dec. 8, 2014, in Hereid, Norway,
of cancer, aged 45.

veryone who knew Deanna

agreed that she was one of
the most intelligent, well-rounded and unconventional people
they ever met. Her life took the
road less travelled around the
globe and allowed her many
friends to live vicariously
through her. Her path ended too
soon, but she wrote in her final
e-mail that she had no big
regrets and had lived the life she
had wanted for herself. How
many can truly say that?
Deanna was raised on a farm
near Mossleigh, Alta., which gave
her a wealth of hands-on, practical experience. We met as students at the University of Alberta
in December, 1992, in the -30 C
parking lot of a residence. Her
car battery was dead and she
asked for a jump-start. She was
wearing her mechanical engineering class jacket, the year
ahead of me, so of course I said
yes. When I struggled with the
cable hookup, Deanna took over
in a kind but matter-of-fact man-

ner, ignoring my chagrin.

We had much in common
beyond our education, including
ease with languages and a love of
fine food. We each married a
classmate after graduation and,
fortunately, we did not split up
when our starter marriages
ended. I remarried, but Deanna
perhaps had decided that she
was better suited to be an aunt
than a parent. Some may have
found that difficult to understand but, as ever, she knew
what she wanted: plenty of alone
time.
Deanna worked as a telecom
project manager in Calgary for a
few years, but her feet never
stopped itching. In between jobs,
she travelled. Soon, her projects
were overseas in places such as
Ghana and Spain.
Then she decided on a radical
change. She launched a new
career in marine seismic-data
collection, which she learned on
the job, and moved to Norway in
2008. Until her cancer diagnosis

in the spring of 2013, she worked

all over the world, on a rotation
of five weeks on, five weeks off,
often the only woman on the
seismic vessel. Always irreverent,
she delighted in wearing bright
pink shirts to remind all that she
wasnt just one of the guys.
Deanna worked and played in
more than 50 countries and had
great stories to tell. One of my
favourites: Anchored off Rio de
Janeiro for a few days, she and a
few crew mates decided to take a
water taxi into town to experience the nightlife: rum-fuelled
samba beats and throngs of people awaited. Deanna had suitable
attire, but no purse to carry her
money and her signature red lipstick. She located some silver
blanket insulation, a stapler and
a short chain in the supply room,
et voil: a quilted Chanel purse!
They didnt return to their vessel
until 7 a.m. As Deanna put it:
Who could leave at 11 p.m. for
the last water taxi? Things were
just getting started!!

Deanna became fluent in Norwegian and a part of her community of Alesund. She was a
founding member of a craft
group, Strikken og Drikken,
which translates as Knitting and
Drinking. The local newspaper
published an article about the
group and the knitted caps they
made for African premature
babies. Although their groups
name was somehow omitted,
Deanna revelled in what she
deemed her allotted 15 minutes
of fame. The world is a lesser
place without her joie de vivre.
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Andrea Coli is a long-time friend

of Deanna.
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