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Ottawa pushes for U.S. deal as tariff deadline approaches

Lumber and autos remain sticking points as negotiators aim to avert threatened new levies

MARIEKE WALSH OTTAWA ADRIAN MORROW WASHINGTON

Canada-U.S. trade talks are down to the wire this week as Ottawa tries to avert punitive new tariffs scheduled to be imposed by the Trump administration on Wednesday.

Negotiators were bargaining throughout the weekend, culminating Sunday afternoon with a virtual meeting between Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Green. The two were joined by Canada's lead trade negotiators, James Chantley, Mr. LeBlanc's office said Sunday.

Mr. LeBlanc remained in Washington on

the weekend and his office said he would stay through Monday as the fight for a deal hears up.

In advance of Mr. LeBlanc's Sunday meeting, five sources forebod on the discussions said Section 32a tariffs on autos and lumber remained the biggest point of contention. According to the sources, American negotiators have opposed lowering those tariffs on lumber and proposed reducing the tariffs on autos to injury costs. A number that is too high for Canada to accept.

Ottawa, meanwhile, is preparing plans for retaliation if the White House makes good on its threat to slam new levies on 100 per-billion worth of Canadian goods on Wednesday; one of those sources and a dif-

ferent source said.

The Globe and Mail is not identifying the sources, who were not authorized to disclose details of the confidential negotiations.

Mr. LeBlanc's office said that the minister and Mr. Chantley had a constructive hour-long meeting with Mr. Green. "They took stock of the work that has been done by their respective negotiating teams, and discussions are continuing," spokesperson Gabriel Bruner said.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's office initially said he would be in July until Monday on vacation, but spokesperson Ronnie LeBlanc Proctor said he returned Sunday and will be in St. John's on Monday. ■ TARIFEL 44

Russian and U.S. interests target Alberta separatism debate online

GRANT ROBERTSON

Canadian researchers using artificial intelligence to teach foreign interest in the Alberta separatism debate have found the province's political discourse is being targeted online by Russian and American interests in both overt and covert ways.

The first data from a study that began last month indicate Russian content turns have been pushing pro-separatist content into online communities and using Canadians to "handle" those messages by sharing such material on their social media feeds, the researchers said.

The U.S. activity, on the other hand, is more overt, with prominent American influencers, podcasts and websites openly promoting Alberta separatism, said Brian McQuinn, co-director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Conflict at the University of Regina.

The analysis is being conducted through Cipher 44, a technology developed by Dr. McQuinn and others in a partnership between the University of Regina and University of Alberta. The project is also producing data for federal and provincial governments.

Cipher was originally created to monitor attempts by Russian websites and social media accounts to spread disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine. But early this year, Dr. McQuinn and the other researchers noticed those same groups were also targeting narratives related to Alberta.

The technology has since been calibrated to catalogue suspected foreign influence campaigns related to Alberta's separatism debate and planned referendum in October.

Cipher has produced a month's work of data so far, with two reports: the first community in the last two weeks of July, and the second looks at the first two weeks of August.

Both were provided to The Globe and Mail.

Foreign aligned platforms continue to amplify anti-government grievances and issues associated with the Alberta separatist movement," according to the July report.

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Trucking industry calls for overhaul of Ontario driving school inspections

SARA MOLTOMBEZADEN

Trucking industry experts are calling for a significant overhaul of Ontario's oversight of commercial truck driver training in the wake of a scathing report from the province's Auditor-General that raised concerns about shoddy enforcement.

In a recent letter sent to the Ontario transport ministry, the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada said the transportation regulator should have a bigger role in monitoring driving schools. The letter, obtained by The Globe and Mail, calls for most frequent inspections – an effort private industry would be open to funding, the letter said.

The industry intervention follows a tie in the number of private truck driving schools in Ontario, including some found to be operating without proper licensing, leading to concern about adequate training for those behind the wheels of large vehicles on the province route.

The Auditor-General's report, released in May, found some Ontario private career colleges had labelled truck driving students' records, employed unqualified instructors and failed to comply with minimum instruction hours. Around a quarter of the 200 private colleges offering truck

driver training in the province had never been inspired by the Ministry of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security, the report found – noting the ministry employed just eight inspectors to audit all top private colleges in Ontario.

Currently, the colleges ministry is responsible for inspecting and enforcing curriculum requirements, instructor credentials, equipment regulations and other training standards at private career colleges that offer commercial driver programs.

But Kim Richardson, a senior advisor to the Professional Truck Training Alliance of Canada, said The Globe, the Ministry of Transportation would be better placed to lead inspections of truck driving schools because its inspection have a better understanding of the industry.

In response to questions from The Globe, Darius Smootam, a spokesperson for the colleges ministry, said its inspection have now blitted all career colleges that were identified by the Auditor-General in having never been audited. The said the schools were either compliant or had closed doors.

"We won't hesitate to shut down truck driving training programs should they fail to uphold the integrity of our postsecondary system," she said.

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Crews planting 1.25 million trees in N.L. park to help forest recover from moose population

SARAH SHELLIE ROCKY WARDON, N.L.

Crews are planting thousands of trees in a vast national park in western Newfoundland to help its forests recover from a moose population that was once among the most abundant on Earth.

Harvard-Wittakers and Parks Canada ecosystems scientist in Gros Morne National Park, said teams have planted about 750,000 since 2025 in once-forested areas that were chewed into grasslands by hungry herds of moose.

He figures they'll keep at it for another three years, by which time they'll have planted a 25 million trees, covering a combined area of about four square kilometres.

But they've not just planting to restore the forests that were taken down by moose, he said. They're planting a careful mix of trees that will survive warmer temperatures, creating hardy new forests that will better withstand climate change.

"The trees we plant today have to survive probably for another century, and we know the climate is changing," Dr. Whitaker said in an interview outside a Parks Canada tree nursery and greenhouse in Rocky Harbour, N.L., a town in the heart of the park.

"So we're also thinking about the forecasted climate... decades into the future and making sure these are trees that will be suited for that."

Gros Morne is known for its towering fjords and boreal forests cut with trees and waterfalls. The 1,500 square-kilometre park was established in western Newfoundland in 1971 and it is the second-largest national park in Atlantic Canada.

Moose are plentiful across Newfoundland, but they became particularly abundant in Gros Morne, where a hunting base once kept them safe from humans, their only apex predator on the island.

In the 1950s, there were about 6,000 moose in the park. Some areas were home to six or more animals per square kilometre. Dr. Whitaker said.

"We were recording some of the highest densities of moose that had ever been recorded in

A moose warning sign is on display in Gros Morne National Park in western Newfoundland in late July. The park is known for its towering fjords and boreal forests cut with trees and waterfalls. SARAH SHELLIE/OF

the world," Dr. Whitaker said. "You would see moose just about everywhere. And where they weren't hunted, they also weren't wary of people."

They were wandering on the roads, walking through towns and sleeping on the hiking trails—they were all over the place, he said. And they were eating a lot of young trees.

Their diets became a problem in areas where trees had been killed off, perhaps by beetles, for example, Dr. Whitaker said. Normally, these areas would recover on their own, but the moose are all the fresh doves that could have grown into trees. The result was a network of half-patches, or so-called moose meadows, during the park's house.

Officials opened the park up to moose hunters in 2016, who have since brought the population down to a manageable 2,000 ani-

mals. Dr. Whitaker said. And in 2025, tree planters with bags of two-year-old saplings were dropped into moose meadows to start work to explain the issue.

The saplings are planted when they are about two years old, and many are grown at the Rocky Harbour tree nursery. On a recent Thursday, the small building was lined inside with trees of tiny saplings. Outside, Dr. Whitaker and a colleague spent much of their time bent over, tilting through the leaves of new red maples and other young trees in search of destructive pests.

Gros Morne is home to a lot of black and white spruce and balsam fir. Dr. Whitaker and hunts are missing in what he called "boutique trees"—yellow birch, white pine and wild cherry, for example—which are mostly found in the southern reaches of the park. They're also using seeds from the southern parts of the park, he said. That way, those trees are already adapted to the warmer temperatures anticipated in a few decades, when the trees have fully grown.

A tree can't migrate on its own, it's stuck where it starts, where a seed falls," he said. "They can't migrate at the same rate as the climate, and so they may need a helping hand."

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Alaska is a prime example of the electoral chaos the SAVE Act would create

For Americans in remote communities, the proposed requirements for voting would be very difficult to meet

NATHAN VANDERLIPPE INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT

The Alaska community of Old Harbor counts about zoo winter residents, clustered on the mountainous southern shore of Kodiak Island.

The island was first colonized by Boreans, and, centuries later, the snows-frames of a Russian Orthodox church still stand here. What the place, situate from the outer limits of the United States, does not have any many of the trappings of modern American life. It has no big box stores, not even a bank machine. The closest McDonald's is a plane ride away, too, too, are the offices where a person can obtain a driver's license or passport. A return flight to the city of Kodiak, the nearest centre where such services are offered, costs about $50 per.

But that has been the cost of living in an extraordinary place frequently in the Kodiak brown house and enormous living salmon.

If Donald Trump has his work that may also be the cost of voting.

The U.S. President has learned that Congress pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which includes a series of measures that would require voters to furnish photo identification and proof of citizenship. Mr. Trump says it is needed to combat a scourge of electoral fraud.

Critics say it will, instead, be more than one-third millions of eligible voters from voting a bid for. The>cumulative income, a number of meetings of the state's voting requirements for some Americans – the elderly, newlyweds with recently changed surnames,

People line up to cast ballots in Anchorage, Alaska, in 2024. Some Alaskans live nearly 1,500 kilometres from the nearest election office, with 1 million people voting.

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college students living far from home – has to date prompted some Republicans to block its passage. Others, however, are determined to ensure it is pushed through before midterm elections in November. The fate of the bill is among the most pitched political battles in Washington.

But it is in the country's far north that the states are perhaps the most clear. Some Alaskans live nearly 1,000 kilometres from the nearest election office. The SAVE Act would require those

who register to vote by mail to show in-person proof of citizenship; it's not clear how such proof could be provided by online registrants.

"I don't think there is a state that would be most adversely affected by the SAVE Act than Alaska," said Andrew Gray, a Democratic state representative who elects the house judiciary committee in Juneau. Political leaders in the state estimate that four in five of the Alaskans who registered to vote for the last federal

election – tens of thousands of people – would have struggled under the proposed new rules.

The bill's requirements for photo identification at the polls are also stricter than any current state requirements, researchers have held up Alaska as an example of the problems that could occur if people travel to vote only to be rejected for having the wrong document.

For the many outlying parts of the state, the difficulty of meeting the act's requirements is so great that securing proper documentation for many voters' or the point may not be possible before the midterm elections. "We Gray said: The cost of doing so for people in communities such as Old Harbor, be asked, amounts to a 'politics', one 'that's going to eliminate an enormous percentage of bills,' who would otherwise be able to vote."

Alaska has already played a prominent role in concerns about problems the SAVE Act threatens to create. Last month, Alaska Senator Lisa Mankowski, a Republican, said she would oppose the act. Its requirements would be "completely unworkable in most remote communities," she wrote in The Wall Street Journal. Some older Indigenous Alaskans, she noted, were from before statehood in 1994. It is hard to imagine how they could furnish a certified copy of a state birth certificate they have never possessed.

Fasting the SAVE Act now, she warned, "would impose costly new barriers and prevent some perhaps many from voting, while also creating chaos before the November elections."

Old Harbor is far from unique. Only one in five Alaska communities can be reached by road. In Old Harbor, communities with the rest of the state come primarily through twice-daily flights to Kodiak. Locals call them the mail runs.

The reliance on air travel

means large numbers of people possess already proper forms of identification in order to meet boarding requirements, said Old Harbor vice mayor Glen Clough.

Nonetheless, "there are some individuals who don't necessarily fly, or may not ever really get off the island." If now voting identity requirements are proposed, "they would have to get that handled."

Despite its vast geography – it is bigger than Quebec, with some people than Winnipeg – Alaska overseas a voting system that brings physical ballots to its far-flung communities. Mr. Clough is among the people who have been called upon to receive locked ballot boxes that arrive by aircraft. They are brought to a polling station where trained workers oversee the vote.

Why elective day the complexed ballots are locked up and flown out again.

"Our system works really well for us," said Terry Haines, the mayor of Kodiak, who is also a local meeting calls host. "We get our votes in, even from our most far-flung communities." The kinds of changes Mr. Trump wants to enforce "would definitely disenfranchise a significant amount of voters in rural Alaska," he said.

The problem goes beyond making it more difficult for individuals, he said. Any changes that create greater hurdles for rural voters "essentially gives an advantage to the urban voters." Mr. Haines said, "such a shift could have political consequences. Many of the state's outermost communities lie in western Alaska, which has been a bastion of Democratic support."

"I don't know why you would do that for a good reason right before an election," Mr. Haines said. "I can think of a lot of bad reasons to do that."

If the SAVE Act is passed, Mr. Gray added, "you are depressing the Democratic vote" in Alaska.

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The brinksmanship is getting closer to the brink

Canadians are well aware they're in another Trump trade psychodrama

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When The Canadian Press tracked down U.S. Senate, Chuck Grassley at the Iowa State Fair last week, he offered some gifty analysis of Donald Trump's threat to impose whopping new tariffs on a large swath of Canadian goods.

"I think the President is probably seeing them as a lever," Mr. Grassley said.

Gov. thanks for explaining that, Mr. Grassley' Canadians have understood for a long time that the U.S. President is using leverage to demand concessions from Canada.

"Lever" doesn't quite do it jan-

tice this time. Mr. Trump is threatening to sit off a prelude to Canada-U.S. trade.

If there is no backing down by Wednesday on the part of the Canadian government—and the policemen, too, because a big cause of the American on is the hanning of U.S. house from provincial liquor stores—the President threatens to pull the pin.

Mr. Grassley, the Iowa senator, also told The Canadian Press that this episode could serve as a "wake-up call" for Canada - as if this country hasn't been alive in the threats all now.

Canadians know they are in another Trump trade psychodrama. They are used to it, so fed up with it, but still consumed with it.

This time, the brinksmanship is getting closer to the brink. Mr. Trump set the slug to headline, with the U.S. raiding a whole list of Canadian concessions. But the legal cause held by the new tariff threats is mostly about Canadian retaliation countertariffs on autos and pro-

vittal house lures. U.S. Trade Representative Janescan Greer said the U.S. is "not going to 'not state' retaliation for U.S. tariffs."

And this time, there isn't just pressure on Prime Minister Nata Carney to get a deal to alleviate the tariffs. Now he also faces pressure to fight back.

And if Mr. Trump goes ahead with his tariff threat on Wednesday, Mr. Carney will face public pressure to retaliate, then can he say?

The Globe and Mail reported last week that Canada's short trade negotiator, James Chavette, had told Mr. Greer that if Mr. Trump imposes the new tariffs it amounts to a "diff" for Canada that will end talks.

It wouldn't be easy for Mr. Carney to strike the deal Mr. Trump is demanding, either. He insists U.S. house by put back on the shelves of provincial legislators, but Ontario Premier Doug Reid would have to swallow himself whole to end the house lure if the U.S. doesn't alleviate its tariffs on Canadian autos and steel.

There isn't much hope for a deal on business, which R.C. Premier David Orr-warn, and Quebec Premier Christine Fritchette will want the U.S. to make a deal on aluminum. Ms. Fritchette might take other reasons not to co-operate.

The third complaint in the providential findings that legally justify the new tariffs is about the way Canada important in USNCA obligates to open a problem of Canada's duty market to U.S. products. Changing that interpretation would be a small trade concession, but still a potential political football in Quebec, but there is a provincial election - with the separatist Paris (public) - too leading to polls - just seven weeks away.

These are just the complications on Mr. Carney's own side. Going into involving on Sunday, Mr. U.S. rule hadn't offered serious concessions that could form the basis of a deal.

Of course, U.S. negotiators could show up at the last minute with a "final" offer. They could

play chicken Or, as he has in the past. Mr. Trump could delay the imposition of the new round of tariffs for another month, or two.

But it is Mr. Trump who set the slug to deadline. He has created a "wake-up call" for Canada, but he's not to be told it's a lever for Mr. Trump to get with his wants.

Mr. Grassley also told The Canadian Press that while there will be no absolute punishment, they can't be used to destroy the USNCA. But that's happening piece by piece.

The trade deal Mr. Trump signed eight years ago provides a set of rules, but in the long run, Mr. Cranshaw's new marketing on Canada had not on the U.S. There have been a lot of wake-up calls.

Mr. Trump keeps taking things back to the brink.

OTTAWA AND ONTARIO ANNOUNCE 5-BILLION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT HOUSING

Ontario and Ottawa are an-meaning up to 15 billion to help municipalities in the province build infrastructure for more homes.

The money will go to municipalities that do not collect development charges for things like roads, bridges and water systems.

The Ontario government and the federal government are each pitching in face stuffers.

Federal Housing Minister Gregor Robinson says the partnership will lower up front costs and boost housing supply.

Ontario's acting infrastructure minister Todd McCarthy says it's about strengthening local economies amid the economic uncertainty of U.S. tariffs.

Applications are municipalities that are eligible for the funding will open on Oct. 1st, 2024, with projects to be selected in the spring.

Mr. McCarthy said Sunday the province has heard one of the biggest barriers to new housing development in the cost of building and upgrading infrastructure.

"We know that many municipalities are dealing with repair backlogs, higher construction costs, and limited funding sources for critical infrastructure projects - especially when they do not implement development charges," he said.

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He often did not respond to questions from The Globe about whether he has spoken with U.S. President Donald Trump or whether any calls with him were planned.

Canada is trying to negotiate a deal that will avoid new tariffs under Section 1.6 of the time-of-flirt Act of 1996. The United States has threatened to bring in on Wednesday.

Ontario is also seeking to lower levels on their aluminum, autos and tariffs that Mr. Trump imposed last year under Section 1.6 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1995.

The Globe has previously reported that the United States is considering lowering - but not eliminating - the human eye tariffs and shelving the Section 1.6 tariffs in exchange for several concessions from Canada including eliminating retaliatory anti-tariffs, agreeing to Washington's interpretation of how dairy quotas should be allocated, and making the birth of American alcohol.

On Sunday, four of the sources said The Globe that the U.S. has demanded that Canada accept a tariff rate of 6 per cent on autos reported to the U.S. plus a continued exemption for the portion of the vehicles that are American content in exchange for Canada lifting its retaliatory tariffs. But two of these sources said, Canada has argued that such a tariff will too high for the industry to remain viable, as profit margins are in the single digits.

Those two sources, and anoth-

er can said Canada has also proposed that the full value of all content originating from within the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement issue be exempted from the tariff amounting the levy would only apply to the value of components from outside North America.

One of the sources said the question of whether the exemption should cover only U.S. markets or all North America content is a larger unresolved issue than the precise percentage of the tariff.

The goal of the American proposal is to embed structural advantages in the agreement that the U.S. has been to provide a steadily decrease that use of Canadian content in auto manufacturing, said Eric Miller, a trade advisor and president of the Indiana Proxmas Strategy Group.

He said the proposal from the United States source are "unimmined low" for Canadian car and auto parts manufacturers because it would slowly cut away at the industry north of the border and tariff for the Canadian and Ontario economies.

On January, the U.S. does not want to offer any reduction of Section 1.6 tariffs on the sector, three of the sources said. Instead, the U.S. has argued that Canada doesn't wait for the results of a separate review by the U.S. Department of Commerce that is expected to reduce a different set of tariffs on softwood lumber, one of the sources said. However, another of the sources said the fear in Canada is that Washington would simply raise the Section

On Sunday, three of the sources told The Globe that the U.S. has demanded that Canada accept a tariff rate of 15 per cent on autos reported to the U.S. plus a continued exemption for the portion of the vehicles that are American content in exchange for Canada lifting its retaliatory tariffs. But, two of these sources said, Canada has argued that such a tariff is still too high for the industry to remain viable, as profit margins are in the single digits.

to tariffs on lumber when the other ones are lowered.

A different source said the best Canada could hope for is an agreement from the U.S. to discuss country tariffs further.

R.C. Premier David Orr and Ontario's Doug Reid have both said they will only agree to put American alcohol back on one or before if there is a meaningful reduction in the tariffs applying to those hardest in excess, including autos and lumber.

British Canadians (history on dairy) has been hit hard by the Trump policies because the Section 1.6 tariffs on lumber track on four of pre-existing countries killing U.S. for changing tariffs. The R.C. Lumber Trade Council's interim president, Kati Hualimah, said Sunday she is concerned that if the eye tariffs stay in place, more milk could also.

She cautioned that has lived—in effect for other companies—because when primary manufacturing districts, so too can set on dairy facilities.

The R.C. Lumber Trade Council (rights in the two countries produce different types of lumber, which don't compute because they are used for separate construction purposes). Mr. Hualimah said the tariffs only raise prices for American consumers. However, Mr. Miller said that's precisely what the U.S. Lumber Coalition is lobbying for and the group is going "all out" to keep the eye tariffs in place.

If Mr. Trump unleashes his latest threatened tariffs, they would be learned stop existing tariffs, adding a 50-per-cent duty to

Ethics-Hilton north of Canadian electronics, dairy, alcohol, wood and other products.

Mr. Carney has previously said that all options will be on the basis of the U.S. imposes the protection of tariffs on Wednesday. However, he has ruled out using Canada's oil exports to retaliate.

Mr. Chavette has told U.S. negotiations that the imposition of the new tariffs would represent a "diff" in negotiations. If they come into effect, Ottawa would be forced to relocate.

Former Quebec premier Jean Chavot, who sits on the Carney's advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations, said in a Sunday interview that the Prime Minister faces no good options as he navigates the current trade relationship with Mr. Trump.

"There's only bad choices in this world," Mr. Chavot said.

The Prime Minister has frequently argued that despite the trade war, Canada still has better access to the U.S. market than others. Mr. Chavot agreed with that but sound "it's a difficult argument for the U.S. to a person who's lost their job."

He said there is hope that a deal could lead to a better outcome for Canadian industries than the U.S. is working hold. However, he added that any level of tariffs that Canada agrees to will be a difficult sell with Canadians who have little patience for any perceived concessions.

He said that if no deal is reached and the tax will not be imposed on Wednesday, the U.S. should expect a "strong response" from Canada.

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The mission: Making seafarers 'feel welcome in a strange place'

A Catholic priest is dedicated to helping this vulnerable population navigate geopolitics and corrupt ship owners

JAMES GRIFFITHS HONORARY DIRECTOR WOND KONG

The deck of the red cage ship cannot be high above Yalan Arookawonmy as he called a greeting up through pouring rain.

Three times a week, no matter the weather, the Indian-born La Reda priest takes a small boat out to visit vessels moored in the waters around Hong Kong, one of the busiest shipping ports in the world. On average, he estimates, he visits more than perhaps a year.

From the deck of the red ship, a crew member dressed in high-slightly gear and a white helmet lowered a long rope ladder down the shore field, allowing Father Yalan and a Globe and Mail over the sea to assist the air shores in the trip. On board, the priest handed out snacks, newspapers and pamphlets, before taking tea with the captain.

Father Yalan, 85, is part of a small source of private and lay volunteers to make multiple denominations, including singhones and Johncock's Womans—who came to the world's 6/6 million seafarers. That includes visiting with sailors, mostly men, in hospital or prison, working with miners to advocate for their rights; and, as Father Yalan said, simply "making them feel welcome in a strange place."

"Any problem you have, anywhere in the world, just give us a call," he told a shy crew member who approached him as he was leaving. Later regretting that he did not have more time to spend with ordinary seafarers that day.

A member of the missionary Society of the Divine Word, Father Yalan is nonetheless amassuming when it comes to talking about religious allowing the topic to come up naturally. "A real conversation lead to deep or questions about God religious work," he said. "They ask me what he has to be a priest. Here do my answers open them to the faith."

It's never been easy to be a seafarer, but this has been a particularly tough year. The war in Iran has masterly disrupted global shipping, essentially falling in the current level of Hormuz, making passage through the Red Sea, increasingly dangerous and sending ships on long detours that can add months to the world to a new spread of sea. Some 8,000 seafarers remain stranded near the Strait of Hormuz, according to the International Maritime

Father Yalan Arookawonmy, part of a small interior of priests and lay volunteers who cater to the world's seafarers, boards a large cage ship and visits its crew. PHOTOS BY JAMES GRIFFITHS, GLOBE AND WALL

As part of his work, Father Yalan visits with sailors in hospital or prison. A member of the missionary Society of the Divine Word, he also works with sisters to advocate for their rights.

Father Yalan, left, speaks to Santee, captain of the 8th Grand herop, which has been abandoned by its owner in Hong Kong, leaving the crew stuck on board.

Organization.

At the same time, many of the countries that provide the bulk of international crews – including India, the Philippines and Indonesia – are suffering economically as a result of the war, so

the conditions were home by seafarers must stretch further than ever.

"These goes to the call they're taking their lives in their hands every day," said the captain of the red ship, whom The Globe and Mail is not identifying because he was not authorised to speak publicly.

All of this is 40 out of the problems regularly plaguing the global shipping industry prices accidents, shipwrecks, labour disputes and ship abandonment "one of the most important issues which affect the society's health and well-being of seafarers," according to the Nistum in Seafarers, an Anglican charity.

That's what happened to the crew of the 8th Grand herop, a 22-year-old, Sierra Leone-flagged cage ship currently setting an anchor off the island of Hot Ling, in southwestern Hong Kong. The eight men on board, all Indonesia and Indonesia, have gone without pay for three months now, and the situation is growing increasingly dire. The men are reliant on supplies delivered by priests and the seafarers' union, as well as what fish they can catch off the back of the ship. Their presence often breaks down, leaving them with no lights or fans to break through the trifling Hong Kong summer heat.

"When I doesn't rain, we have no shower, no washing," said Iswarita, the chief engineer, who like many Indonesian gees by a single name.

The current crew are not the first Indonesians to have been abandoned by the Grand herop's owners in August, 2024, the vessel, which had spent much of

the previous year in the South China Sea, made an emergency entry into Hong Kong waters, with the crew saying they had not been paid in months and were running out of food and water.

That accident was resolved after the ship's owner, Theomani Star International (TSI), was pressured by Hong Kong and Indonesian authorities to repatrate the crew. Replacement were brought in and left with no issue, even as the Grand herop became unwavering and essentially stuck at anchor, the assumption being that TSI was planning to sell the vessel for scrap.

Then the owner disappeared. Corporate records show TSI's Hong Kong entity is essentially defunct, and ditto is the Globe to reach the company's representatives and its single listed director, Chan Kwary in, were unsuccessful.

"The owner seems to have run away," said Jason Lam, a Hong Kong-based inspector with the International Transport Workers Federation who was also involved in the seafarers' union.

We Lam and Father Yalan convicted the current crew with a lawyer and are helping them pursue a case of the Hong Kong High Court case. The lawyer abandoned the court will confiscate it and sell it for scrap to help pay the costs of repatriating the crew and paying them their back wages.

The Grand Sutera's captain, Santee, signed when asked about the owner. "We have families, children to look after," he said. "They know us here for so long with no money."

Clement Thaly Kehilahwama, a spokesman for Indonesia's corporate general in Hong Kong, said diplomats are in regular communication with the local authorities and the crew about the case.

He said the men "were well-informed of the condition and known of 8th Grand herop who is undertaking their assignment on board the vessel" and urged seafarers to "carefully study any available employment opportunities, including the risks that they entail."

On a recent visit to the ship, sitting in the dark, stuffy galley where the crew had been sharing a small breakfast, Father Yalan घेतली them on the current side of the court case.

"You have to stay for now," he said. "I know you're frustrated, but if you know you could lose the money," two, three more months, he said. "I want to pay my need anything, you call us." He asked the men their religion, and after they all said Islam, asked if they print They received it.

"Good," Father Yalan said. "We try our best down here, but sometimes we need help from above."

Rescue teams look for survivors after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Indonesia

FREDAI LOHANNET POTOM, INDONESIA

Rescue teams in western Indonesia recovered six more bodies hunder, a day after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, raising the death toll to 5, authorities said, as thousands of displaced people spent the night outdoors in four of aftershocks.

Receives dug through debris looking for anyone hunted beneath landslide triggered by the quake across six regimens on these, a pre-immuneable Catholic friend in the human-empires country. They housed mothers regimens that remained unknown. Mr. Sardoo left Manggarai, East Manggarai and Ngaplon.

"We have cleared most landslides and proposed roads to pre-country isolated and relatively high communication disruptions and power outages continue to have been made efforts," said Father Kahanan, head of the search and cross-office for steamers, the capital of Sikka region.

More than 60 of these were destroyed and put more damaged in East Nusa Tenggara province, though about 3,000 people into temporary shelters. At least 44 persons were damaged in the Flores region alone, said Abdul Mubair, the National Disaster Management Agency's chief for

disaster prevention.

The quake occurred at a depth of 10 kilometers shortly before a 6 m. Saturday, the 11.5 Geological Survey said, the unidentified impact. At tsunami warnings were recorded in later lifts.

Authorities knew since second of at least one aftershocks, but only 40 were left by residents. Mr. Mubair said, adding that 100 people were injured.

Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions because of its location on the Pacific. "Ring of Fire," a horseshoe-shaped arc of ancient faults and volcanoes.

Many residents at Lahum Riau, the gateway to Komodo National Park, one of Indonesia's best known tourist destinations, spent the night outside because of the aftershocks.

"The shading was terrifying, a critical that my house is only 7.0" signed," said farmer Anastasia Imad, speaking from a residential green tent beside her damaged

home. "We found the aftershocks would bring it down on us while we slept."

Landslides blocked sections of the 'Fraser River' Highway, a roughly 700 kilometers over the long communities across the mountainous island.

Meanwhile, relief workers distributed rice, ready-to-eat meals, drinking water, blankets and medicine, while emergency doctors were set up for the first 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions because of its location on the Pacific. "Ring of Fire," a horseshoe-shaped arc of ancient faults and volcanoes. There has experienced some of the country's deadliest disasters, a powerful earthquake and tsunami to upy killed about 2,000 people on the island. In 2024, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake triggered a tsunami on the island of Sulawesi that killed more than 4,000 people. In 2024, a magnitude 5.0 quake off tsunami unleashed a tsunami that killed about 2,000 people in a dozen countries.

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ADJ EFPORT EXPANDS IN COLOMBIA IN WAGE OF POWERTY'S, GUAKE

ARGO's beach teams worked through the rubble of collapsed buildings in western Colombia on Sunday, nearly a week after a powerful earthquake declared that after 1,000 towns across the country's west, killing hundreds and leaving many more missing, injured or homeless.

The 7.4 magnitude quake struck Monday morning in San Jose del Pobreo, causing severe damage from the Pacific port of Isona-central, a mountain, Central, swamp

region and major western cities including Cali and Pereira. Official estimates found late on Saturday 8:00 the death toll at around 2,000, with 1,000 people still missing and nearly 4,000 injured. More than two-thirds of the islands were concentrated in Cali and Pereira, where apartment blocks, homes, churches, schools and hospitals were damaged or destroyed.

In Cali, Colombia's third largest city, emergency workers continued searching unstable piles of concrete and heated metal on Sunday at rescue efforts increasingly gave way to the recovery of bodies. Aftershocks have added to the 7.4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

In Suppo of leading more survivors drowned, the relief operation was expanding.

In Suppo, the capital, a stadium has been turned into the country's biggest donation collection centre, with volunteers working around the clock to sort and head food, drinking and food, and other food, including a small of areas. Co-ordinating organization houses said more than 7,000 volunteers had helped dispatch you into of aid over five days.

In Pereira, authorities were also using emergency help to expand your and development, forward natural food, underscoring the wider union on families whose incomes and homes have been upended by the disaster.

The quake is the first major crisis losing President Abulazdo De La Caprella, who took office just days before the disaster and now face the task of overseeing chief and non-contractors. Mr. De La Caprella said on Sunday that Colombia's Hibiscates from the 7.4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

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Ukraine steps up drone attacks against Russia

Kyiv kills at least six on Sunday, with targets increasingly including energy facilities, depots

Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war.

Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia like you, with long-range missiles and murals to drones increasingly targeting military industries and energy facilities. It has also increasingly postmeditated giant Nidževetsky depots, banning follows of dishevelled south of merchandise belonging to the Russian online retail giant and bringing the war home to the Russian public, among 45 years into Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Ukraine also uses under Russian attack, with drone strikes destroying homes and banning Kyiv's landmark book market.

Russia's Ministry of Defence said that it had destroyed 8m US-rainian drones overnight home two drones were directed head of several like Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Kishyan said, with one third of those 20, with more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20,000 more than 20

Are by now old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone hit a private home in the Moscow region, local Governor Andrey Novikov said. He also confirmed that a Ukrainian attack had sparked a blaze at a Midkretna warehouse in the town of Podolsk.

A drone attack targeted three towns in Russia's southeastern Rostov region, killing five people, local Governor Yury Mysyar said. The attack with more than six drones, damaged several homes and a railway station and sparked a forest fire.

A Russian missile attack on Moscow's 2nd Rift killed two people and wounded 14 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr

A Midkretna airborne walks past a phone of smoke rising from a fire at the Russian e-commerce firm's logistics complex near the town of Podolsk, about an hour south of Moscow. AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

A man reacts as firefighters battle a blaze at a city book market after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv early on Sunday. HANACGO GEOLIAP

Zelenkiy wrote on social media Sunday. He also said that one more person had been killed in the city of Ivany.

The chiefs of the city's Rift, the state's largest steel producer, confirmed that one of its only

had been hit in a missile attack and that operations had been partially suspended.

Elsewhere, a man and a woman both died when that home was hit by a Russian strike in Ukraine's southern Capuchzhikov

region, said Ivan Fedovov, the head of the local military administration.

Russian attacks also sparked fires throughout the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, wounding on people. A blaze took hold at one of the city's largest book market, leaving through knobs huddled close to the Suchania metro station. Firefighters fought back the flames, which sent planes of black smoke across the capital, and pushed their way through raided, where the market's crowded parkions once stood.

"Wherever the Russians can reach with their ballasts missiles, they strike civilian disastrousness," Mr. Zelenkiy said. "Since this morning, we said, didn't have continued to meet regions - the Russians launched another wave of drones."

Russia's Ministry of Defence said Sunday that it had targeted 8m US-rainian drones at Kyiv. Rift and several military industrial sites in Kyiv, including a

manufacturing facility for Ukraine's European missiles.

The domestically produced missiles are increasingly key to Ukraine's long-range attacks on Russia, with Mr. Zelenkiy also receiving Saturday that Kyiv had used the war. The air attack a rocket research and production centre in Samara approximately 500 kilometres from the Ukrainian border.

Romania's Ministry of National Defence said Sunday that a Spanish airborne attack in 2 of fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered Romanian airspace.

The drone's entry into the N4-3D members' airspace was detected by surveillance systems at a ( \mu ) m, the ministry said, about ( \mu ) M kilometers north of the eastern city of Galati near the border with neighbouring Nofikov, Nofikov is a landlocked country between Ukraine and Romania.

A Spanish 1st aircraft that was performing air policing duties "made radar contact with the target and received engagement approval," the ministry said. "The drone was safely shot down by the 1st aircraft at ( \omega_{1} ) m."

Officials did not specify the drone's origin.

The national airborne smoke after Romanian pilots shot down the three drones over three days from 1st fighter jets, as Russia intensified attacks against Ukraine out of the Southern West. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, however, has reported dozens of drone incidents, including some that have crashed and exploded on its territory.

Acting Foreign Minister Ginta Tota said in a post on X that the Spanish deployment in Romania was scaled up "at the respect of Romania and NATO to bolster the Eastern Bank following prior drone incidents," and that it was Spain's fourth such deployment.

Israeli Security Minister advocates killing '30 to 40' people in Gaza nightly

JULIA FRANKEL KRYLSAJOH

An extremist Israeli lawmaker in Israeli Minister Sergeiina Nishmubaly confirms publicly advocated for killing "30 to 40" people in Gaza each night, comments that surfaced Sunday and were quickly ahead by Palestinian media.

Minister of National Security Hamar Ben-Oor made the statement while speaking in a former Gaza field hostage, from Sharmaki, on Mr. Readsmith's podcast. The two were discussing Israel's recovery from the Hamas attack of Oct. 7, 2023, when Mr. Ben-Oor declared Israel's recent drawdown of strikes in Gaza.

“We no secret. Imagine with the Prime Minister,” he said. “I think targeted assassination should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night, and the President's press press is to mediate threat - there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn't live. They're not even people.”

In the post, similar statements by Mr. Ben-Oor and other Israelis

Palestinian inspect the city of an Israeli strike on a fort in Khan Towns, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday. HANACGO ARGUMENTS

officials were widely condemned. Many have been prevented to the UN's world court as evidence of potential intent to had strikes it has committed, generally in Gaza.

Israeli's domestic media has made scarce mention of the statement, highlighting how once-hinge ideologies like Mr. Ben-Oor's act ranging in the

lead-up to Israeli elections on Oct. 27.

Figures like Mr. Ben-Oor have become more popular among Israelis since Hamas' brutal attack in 2023, when the militants killed about 1,000 people and took up hostage. Many hostages have consumed long-term starvation, physical and psychological abuse and income costs, sexual abuse.

Mr. Ben-Oor does not have power over the country's military and cannot order strikes on Gaza, but, after operating for decades within Israel's far-right fringe, he is now one of the most influential people in the country.

He has substantial control over key parts of Israel's security apparatus, running the country's prisons - where thousands of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank are incarcerated - as well as the national public force.

He has previously headed to booming food cartons for Palestinian prisoners. Israel's top court ruled in 2023 that the prison service under Mr. Ben-Oor was depriving Palestinians of a minimum subsistence diet.

Until recently, Israel was smoking Gaza nearly every day, attacks that have killed more than 1,000 people since an October mass deal came into effect, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.

Israel's military, which says the strikes have targeted Hamas militants, appeared to ease off on the attacks in a quiet concession in US. President President

Trump after Mr. Nishmubaly rejected the President's latest attempt to move the mass forward.

Israeli media last week reported that the authority has carried out strikes has now been limited to the army's chief of staff, raising the air at right-wing lawmakers such as Mr. Ben-Oor.

In the same taped appearance, the lawmaker advocated for mass emigration of Palestinians from Gaza - a proposal that international lawyers say could amount to ethnic cleansing - and resettlement of Gaza by Israel.

Twenty years ago, Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip, demanding a new and improved settlement known as "Cash Katz" and pulling out its home.

"I see all of Gaza as ours," said Mr. Ben-Oor in the interview. "Settlement not just in Cash Katz had throughout Gaza, encouraging a new and improved area possible, sending them to their customers, and for the tomorrow, no emigration, nothing, just to kill them one by one."

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Moroccan security arrests 294 migrants trying to reach Spain after calls for mass crossing

ARRAM DUBACHH CASAHLANCA, MOROCCO

Hundreds of migrants trying to reach the Spanish cruisers of Ceuta by land and sea were arrested by Moroccan security forces. Moroccan state television reported Sunday, as authorities tightened security along the

border after calls for a new mass crossing.

Moroccan state broadcaster Nody's TV said 294 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were arrested Saturday while attempting to enter Ceuta. Authorities also arrested in Moroccan on board of battleship the major arm attempts, the broadcaster reported.

The attempted crossings followed a surge in social media posts calling on migrants to make their way to Ceuta, a Spanish city in the Moroccan northern coast. In response, Moroccan and Spanish authorities beefed up security pretence and limited movement toward the area.

The latest attempt comes two weeks after two of thousands of would-be migrants, driven by poverty and misinformation, rushed toward Ceuta in one of the deadliest migration crises in hit the region. At least so people died on both sides of the border, according to official numbers, while human-rights groups

reported higher figures.

The interior ministry did not respond to 187 questions about the latest arrests in the number of security personnel deployed around the border to prevent a new migration push.

A senior Moroccan diplomat previously said that more than 20,000 Moroccan security personnel are deployed along the border with Ceuta each day, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.

The diplomat was not authorized to be publicly speaking about the issue and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Thousands of migrants from across Africa and beyond travel to Morocco each year, during conflict, poverty and instability and seeking a court into Europe. Many attempt to reach Ceuta or Melilla, another Spanish cruisers on Morocco's northern coast, hoping eventually to make their way to mainland Spain and better economic opportunities.

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FURTHER HAS RARE MEETING WITH HAMAS CHIEF REPORT TO ADVANCE GAZA PEACE PLAN

U.S. negotiator and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner held a rare meeting with the Hamas chief on Sunday in a new diplomatic effort to make progress in the stalled Gaza ceasefire. Mr. Kushner will meet on Monday with Israel's Prime Minister, who is under 2000 and will be rejecting the new 10-point, U.S.-backed road map.

The talks aim to salvage the plan for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territory destroyed by war.

At stake are the lives of some unseen welfare people in Gaza and construction of the crowded cruisers now largely controlled by Israeli forces, more than to moulds since the ceasefire ended major military operations. A meeting between Mr. Kushner, fellow senior three Wilfief and Hamas leaders in Egypt last year helped clinch the ceasefire, whose progress could now had been stalled over the last years of Hamas' reestablishment.

The more-than-two-hour meeting in Egypt with Hamas' Khalil, a blunt one confirmed by a regional official and a Hamas official, both speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters. Mr. Kushner said that a number of events meeting with Mr. al-Hayra, with officials from mediating ceasefire Egypt, Qatar and Turkey also there.

Hamas is a statement later called on mediators and the U.S.-coastal Board of Trust overseeing the ceasefire to "compel" Israel to approve the road map for next steps.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nishmubaly has week rejected the 10-point plan in a case public show of defense against the Trump administration, Israel's Ghent ally. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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B.C. wildfire evacuees reunion—to assess the damage and start to rebuild

Evacuation orders are slowly coming to lift, about a week after the Bald Range fire forced more than 20,000 people to leave their homes

HONG SHEN CLINTON, A.C.

At the age of 53, Steve Landrie is facing the daunting tank of rehabilitating his home and business from scratch after losing everything when ferocious wildfires reared into the corridors of Clinton, B.C., last month.

"It's all gone," he says, reeling left. Nothing," the Landrie said in an interview on last order.

"I'm more sad that my children have to see their home is gone," he added.

Mr. Landrie, his wife and their children made it not safely but they lost their two homes and their loving business on their property. Steve Allentorres south of the city of

More wildfire evacuees in British Columbia were allowed to return home Saturday as emergency officials downgraded evacuation orders to alarm around the community of Clinton.

But for many, there aren't homes to return.

Mr. Landrie said he probably has to sleep in time for a while.

"What else am I supposed to do?" he asked.

"But Thompson has no Regional District," said once over of the townman and under evacuation orders because of the ravine and threat posed by the Pear Lake wildfire.

In a video posted in YouTube, Clinton Mayor Richard Hanke said even though people are being allowed home, they will

be returning to a community that has been prolonged in the past, with the service people on the city rely on limited or unavoidable, and the threat of wildfire season still looming.

Although Mr. Landrie lost everything in flames, he is still eager to stop up to help the community, saying he has been offering to pick up things and because they at danger to our people.

Nicholas Kovovic, who runs The Stage coach, can be Clinton with his mother, she, ra, said he was also "super dapper here" on Saturday. He had just finished the "business" process of cleaning out his visor's brewers and bridges.

"Everything was spoiled in our bridges, at once," said Mr. Kovovic, who had to evacuate works up as party while pushed the tin over the southern hills of the village.

He said fire crews are still working in and around town, changing our hot spots. On the south side of Clinton, homes have been burned out.

"It is going to be a kind of bittersweet mix of reactions in the next week, on the first day, and for the months ahead, but the community is already coming together," he said.

"We're going to be able to get through this."

Meanwhile, evacuation orders for parts of homestead and Frankland on the doors of Glanagan Lake are slowly starting to lift, about a week after the Bald Range fire forced the evacuation of more than 20,000 people.

The fire is one of about 100 fires burning in the province, with 30 per cent of those in both class and of control.

Iron Trainer, deputy mayor and councilor in homestead, returned to her home in Trout Creek on Saturday morning and buried herself in chores right away, from leading up the bandry to sweeping up silks on the deck.

"It was a week of just up and down and up and down, and you know, so many people are helping, and there are so many kind things happening, but there are so many loosing lessons," said Mr. Trainer.

"After a while you just had to come."

A no more grade posted by the District of Homestead said some homes and properties don't have power, and the district is still on day a bed water notice with water restrictions.

Officials warned these re-turning that there are several hours in the Trout Creek area and residents need to dispose of their spoiled food properly.

When the Bald Range fire broke out on Aug. 5, Mr. Trainer's husband, Erick Thompson, senior manager of communications for the regional district of Glanagan-Santallamano, was in front on busy helping with fire commuters.

Mr. Trainer said he could home to help her pack up and get everybody out of the house, including their three children, dog talk, two cats - called Frennhals and Frenn - and a laundry call at home.

Mr. Trainer said the houses in her neighborhood are still standing, although they are covered in layers of ash, like said her husband is still working, and they have barely seen each other since the fire broke out.

Her heart breaks for people who lost their places.

"Those are the people that are going to need all of us over the next while as we try to help them rebuild," said Mr. Trainer.

An update from BC Walden Service said weather conditions remain variable across the province, with hot and dry weather for going to the northeastern and southern regions while the weatherters part of the province will continue to see cooler temperatures and scattered diseases.

B.C.'s fire season started last and early, and already about 100 buildings have been destroyed, including about 100 homes on the Glanagan Indian Band reserve that were lost in the Bradley Creek wildfire.

Thousands of residents are still out of their homes, with a separate evacuation order issued for numerous fires burning in the southern one-third of the province.

Back in Clinton, Mr. Kovovic said he would cook all day to make sure that their cat's stock is up. He also said he would keep himself busy on Sunday by picking up bridges with Mr. Landrie and cleaning them out.

"I'm just eager to get to work," Mr. Kovovic said.

Looking ahead, Mr. Landrie still clung to him.

"I worked hard my whole life, and now I have nothing I never was I cannot anybody down. I never said I wouldn't help anybody. I always helped people. I always did everything. I could to make sure that anybody that had no food had food," Mr. Landrie said.

"I've known what I will make it, I will survive, and I will get through this, and I will rebuild either by myself with my own two hands, or with the help of others," he added.

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Separatism: MAGA influencers promote narrative Alberta has no choice but to leave

FREDON AS

Between July 17 and 20, Cipher found 120 million items that the researchers determined even disinformation from foreign actors of the United States (e.g. Alberta's separation debate, with roughly four out of five linked to Russia).

The activity originated primarily from Pumila Network, an online content form known to target social media users in the West. Materially going as news, designed to inflame divisions, is pushed online and makes its way into Canadian communities when people thoroughly viewfully share links. Readiness and memory with their social networks.

Much of the Pumila Network output was found to be "separately forming tarsils, affordability and investment concerns as evidence that Alberta is being economically punished within Canada," the report said.

Harmonic from right-wing U.S. producers and MALA influencers, meanwhile, have promoted the narrative that Canada is a failed state that Alberta has no choice but to leave.

Such sanitation follow statements from Alberta separatist leaders this year who said they met with Young administration officials in Washington on these occasions, and comments from U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bryant who, when asked about Alberta to January, said he had heard "a rumour that they may have a statement" and called the province "a natural partner for the U."

The second report, covering early August, produced similar findings, was made in 2015, and the activity linked to Russian content forms, and in 2016, went to U.S. sources.

During the second two-week window the researchers said they found 12 examples of disinformation linked to foreign-based sources that were aimed at Alberta separators, including content pushing the narrative that Alberta has no being but to end the old period of the 2016-2017 period.

Cipher tracks online accounts and platforms that publish, distribute, or amplify significant volumes of content from foreign sources" related to Alberta, the two reports said. That includes official subtitles by Dr. Canadian government or its allies as participating in a foreign columnar, or propaganda to reporters.

The researchers drew a distinct loss from the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2

Other activities were: the information from the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2016-2017 period of the 2

Demonstrators carrying Alberta flags gather near a fresh displaying pro-Alberta sovereignty messages during a rally in Taber, Alta., on Sunday, 2017/10/26 09:02:27 AM. CHANDLER PRESS

Dr. McQuinn, who studies disinformation, said the Alberta picture is a predictable target for outside forces that want to undermine the country, strike anger or influence the results of October's referendum.

"They are targeting as every day. The question just becomes, what are they going to target, and how effective of a topic is it to magnify polarisation and to amplify divisions?" Dr. McQuinn said in an interview.

"Retirements just are the most obvious and recent targets for what they would be doing anyway."

Dr. McQuinn said his research group also has plans to undermine online activity linked to China in future reports.

The threat of foreign influence on the referendum has been a truly debated topic this year.

During a court challenge to the referendum, lawyers represented Prent Kahn saying, "uprising the process submitted testimony from a national security expert who warned the debate was a likely target for foreign actors leading to disinformation."

A report published by Dr. McQuinn in May, in partnership with Dunnbirketch, which analyzes online influence campaigns, warned that signs had already emerged like spring that Alberta had been a major factor.

In one example, the May report cited a website, allentourapartite.com, and its associated

A report published by Dr. McQuinn in May, in partnership with Dunnbirketch, which analyzes online influence campaigns, warned that signs had already emerged like spring that Alberta was being targeted.

Instagram and YouTube accounts that were made to look like a grassroots campaign to approve of Alberta's testing to worldwide support.

The site was registered to a fictitious EC, address, and was ultimately linked to an affidavit of Russia's Director Research Agency, a State Printing-based cyber-mixing post that U.S. authorities identified as interfering in the 2016 presidential election.

In another example, the report found Prent Network generated nearly five times more content about Alberta separators than any other Canada-related topic between late December, 2016, and late April this year. Dr. McQuinn said that a bridge, director of the individuals, called these operations threaten "Canada's cognitive sovereignty."

After the release of that report, Alberta's Minister for Public Safety and Emergency Services, Mike Ellis, started a legislature on May 6 that the province had seen no signs of foreign interference related to the referendum.

"I am left you from the deputy commissioner of the RCMT, then is no credible information that has been received that suggests that the Alberta separatist movement has been subject to foreign interference," Mr. Ellis told the legislature.

The report has not confirmed that statement, and a spokesperson for the RCMT did not immediately respond to a request for

comment about what the national police force told the Alberta government.

"A few days later, on May 6, Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CISY) director Ron Rogers said during an interview on CIC's The Hounslow," a referendum like the one in Alberta, that may have a divisive effect on society, is nite for amplification, or for the open of disinformation or foreign interference that set to seen from players like Russia in the past."

Dr. McQuinn said there is an important distinctive behavior what the Cipher analysis has been tracking and what Mr. Ellis said in the Alberta legislature: foreign influence and foreign interference are two different things, he said. Influence can be many things, while interference has a criminal connection, such as backing or espionage, and there is no such higher standard of proof.

"They can all be right. The RCMT can say we haven't seen interference - a certain kind of intervention that would involve, for example, backing, but how does one define foreign influence? Everyone can be right simultaneously depending on how they define it," Dr. McQuinn said.

"This report clearly shows they are pounding in on the Canadian economies with topics related to Canada specifically, or to those foreign influence? I think by any sort of normative or practical standard, the answer is yes."

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Volunteers and their furry friends offer companionship to seniors with dementia

Mother-daughter duo play a vital supportive role, keeping the Village Langley residents company and drawing them out into the community

2016-8/8/16 1400-1500 BETHESDA PHOTOGRAPHY BY JENNIFER GAUTHIER

CASE BETWEEN THE LINES

Care between the Lines is a summer series, which will introduce you to volunteers in health care who fill gaps and provide compassion in a system that can be isolating and scary.

Residents of Village Langley are free to stroll along the community's outdoor paths. The village is secured by seven-foot fencing set back discreetly from the tree line, which aims to give the people here a full life rather than warehousing them.

Rome, Ruby and Charlie weren't the usual visitors at the Village Langley, a unique community for people living with dementia in Langley, NY.

On a sunny day in July, the three guinea pigs came along with Brenda and Celeste Archer, a mother-daughter team who've been volunteering with residents here since the spring of 2016.

In that time, Ms. Archer, 24, and Celeste, 16, have come to know the seniors well. For many, pets and farm animals have been a big part of their lives.

With their white and caramel manes and tiny pink pines, Charlie, Rose and Ruby proved popular on their visit. The seniors loved Rose's long hair, nicknaming her 'Toupex' and 'Taboo.' They were amazed, watching Ruby next down the leftist they'd grown themselves in a vegetable garden outside. And they appreciated that Charlie, 7, was cir-

joying her own relaxed life as a senior. Several nurses asked to cuddle the trio - a moment of reprieve for them, too.

Like other volunteers in Canadian nursing homes and long-term care, Ms. Archer and her daughter offer relief not just to residents, but to their families and the nurses, support workers and facilitators juggling care duties here. The mother-daughter volunteers play a vital emotional role, keeping residents company, listening the way friends would, and drawing them out into the community.

'They are wonderful,' said Natalie Podworski, the village's life enrichment manager. 'They do make the difference.'

Opened in 2016, the Village Langley provides assisted living support and long-term and complex care for up to 18 residents with mid- to late-stage dementia, neurocognitive disorders and various memory-related conditions.

Following similar models in the Netherlands, it was designed not to feel like a hospital. Set on five wooded acres, the place is a three-back in the fifties, with white picket boxes, ornate street lamps and six cottage-style homes splashed in retro hues of mat and avocado green. There's a general store and café, a hair salon, an art room and workshop, a ice pond, gardens and a barn with chickens and goats.

Residents are free to stroll outdoor paths, with the village secured by seven-foot fencing set back discreetly in the tree line. The idea is to try and give people here a full life, instead of warehousing them.

While the privately run community may be out of reach for many families (monthly residency fees start at $10,740 for assisted living, and $10,740 for extended and complex care), it's an innovative model helping fill a growing demand for care.

As of last year, more than 7,000 people were living with dementia in this country, according to the Alzheimer Society of Canada. That number is estimated to rise to 17 million people by 2016, a jump of 120 per cent. Even a decade ago, the combined health care system and out-of-pocket costs of dementia were estimated at $10.4 billion, a figure set to grow as the need for specialized care increases.

This summer, researchers from Simon Fraser University in B.C. and McMaster University in Hamilton are studying how aspects of the Village Langley affect seniors' quality of life, mobility, social engagement and participation in activities. Specifically, they're interested in the village's use of the Green Care Farm approach, which blends long-term

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Ironda Archer, top centre, along with her 20-year-old daughter Celeste, toy left, have come to know the seniors of the Village Langley well as volunteers. Working alongside guinea pigs Boise, pictured left, Bolty and Charlie, Ms. Archer and Celeste have brought relief out just to the residents, but to the families, staff and support workers juggling care delves in the community.

Opened in 2023, the Village Langley, located in Langley, R.C., provides assisted living support and long-term and complex care for up to 70 residents living with mid- to late-stage dementia, neurocognitive disorders and various memory-related conditions.

care with time outdoors, horticulture and animal care to promote autonomy, cognitive stimulation and emotional well-being for those living with dementia.

The researchers are looking at implications for programs and policy in Canada, and the potential for other countries to learn from this care model, said Didith Chaudhury, a Simon Fraser University gerontology professor who is one of the research leads. The team aims to publish its findings in late year.

By this November, Ms. Podwinski hopes to describe the ranks of volunteers at the village from so to an:

"The more volunteers, the better," she said, explaining that their companionship helps store off loneliness, which can bring its own negative health effects.

Ms. Archer and Celeste are the only mother and daughter also among the current status, and Celeste is also the youngest, arriving when she was in Grade 6 and considering a career in health care.

The family's connection is also personal. Ms. Archer's grandparents had dementia. She wishes they could have aged in a place where they could be outdoors, instead of in institutions with locked wings.

Since arriving, the two have formed close connections with the residents, or villagers as they're known here.

"I don't think they remember our names, but a lot of them are so as people they can trust," Celeste said. "A familiar, safe face," her mother claimed in.

The volunteers know who comes to musical bingo night just to dance. They know the senior who loves feeding chickens, who stows away extra food in her pockets as the birds climb in her lap. Another resident grows upset in the evenings, ruling waves of emotion as they smell together. They've learned that she calms while recovering her childhood playing baseball - the tomboy who never fit in.

"You could find someone who is, at that moment, in sport, despair or confusion because of the symptoms of their dementia. If you can get them to come out of the house and participate, you can have a light switch flips. They are able to find parts of themselves that are happy and engaged," Ms. Archer said.

"Each moment you spend with people who need help, love, friendship, attention and care - you get something back instantly from it."

With the villagers say paid staff members often caring for multiple elders at the same time, volunteers excel at the more personal touches.

Nurses Siya Kaur, right, and Janet Rampford Boise with the help of some Village Langley residents. As of last year, more than 770,000 people were living with dementia in Canada, according to the Alzheimer Society of Canada.

"The small details - they matter," Ms. Podwinski said.

Celeste, who loves Pinterest, and her mom, a seasoned Girl Guides leader now in retail, are naturals at arts and crafts. With the seniors, they've made cards for Volunteer's Fair and Swalmude, for beds to school. They've led paint sights and picked flowers together in the garden. Celeste joined the village's baking program, making strawberry blondies and red velvet cookies with residents.

They're also here to support families. They've been moved, watching grandchildren accompany a resident grandparent out to the barn, or seeing multiple generations share Christmas dinner in the bioto. They've sat with adult children distraught about how dementia changed their parents, sharing stories about who they were before the diagnosis.

"They can trust that when they go home, there's still someone here talking to their dad," Celeste said.

She remembers listening to orchestral music with a resident, who remarked that her mother would take her in the orchestra in the show. It was clearly impossible, but the teen didn't interrupt.

"It's important not to get stuck on the details," Celeste said. "It was about learning that she likes music. That's what she appreciates."

In the dementia care sector, more attention is now paid to educating families on how to communicate more empathetically with loved ones who have this condition. Ms. Archer wishes her own mother had this kind of guidance and support

when her grandmother was diagnosed with dementia.

"With my own family's experience, something my mom expressed struggling with was that you have to meet people where they're at, where their brain is at in that moment," Ms. Archer said. "If their brain thinks it's a time that was so years ago, that's where they are. Meet them there, be there with them, and figure out how to make that place feel okay for them."

Each time they sat loot in the village, the mother and daughter find themselves learning from elders. "As a volunteer, maybe you've worked all day, or you've got homework, or a house to clean. Maybe you have something stressful going on. You think, 'Oh, but I've committed to going,' as soon as you walk through the door here, it just all goes away," Ms. Archer said.

"This older generation, they know how to enjoy the simple things in life. A cup of tea, a conversation, putting on the radio - those are ways to be peaceful. The rest of us younger people have managed to complicate our lives in a lot of ways that they haven't."

Her teenage daughter feels it too. Some friends have seemed bewildered by her choice to volunteer in a dementia village.

"With a lot of younger people I've talked to about my experience, they're so afraid of death, they don't want to be around old people," Celeste said.

"But all I see there is life - 60-year-olds living every day to its father."

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EDITORIAL

The subject who is truly liquid in the chief magnitude will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary resources. Article.

An appealing case for judicial restraint

There is not, as it turns out, a constitutional right to bicycle lanes in Canada. Somewhat shockingly, the Court of Appeal of Ontario overturned, unanimously, a July, 2024, ruling that barred the Ontario government from removing bike lanes in downtown Toronto.

The appeal court ruling itself was not so surprising. It was painfully obvious that Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Schabus had an unstopped his hound (no striped outside his lane as we put it at the time).

A decade ago, the City of Toronto built bike lanes separated from roadways on several downtown streets. In 2022, the Ontario government passed a law to dismantle bike lanes on three busy streets (Orange and River streets, and University Avenue) to create more space for vehicle traffic. A court challenge argued the province's law would result in deaths of in-cyclists.

Justice Schabus agreed, ruling that the Ontario government had violated bicycleer rights to life, liberty and security of the person under Section 7 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and hearing it from the dismantling of bike lanes.

What was (pleasantly) shocking was the vigour with which the three justices on the appeal court case brushed back the original decision. Such admonitions are not uncommon, but they are typically exercises in understatement.

Not so this ruling Justice Grant Haworth starts by writing that the original decision "presents as a straightforward application" of Section 7: They continue: "But the application of these principles, directed from a broader understanding of the constitution of which they are a part, has led to a surprising outcome: the conclusion that routine legislation regulating road usage is unconstitutional."

"Something has gone wrong."

What follows is a refreshing discussion of the limits of judicial power and a reminder of the deference that courts owe to legislatures - to democracy.

Justice Schabus stood not just in applying the law, but in a most "profound sense" by subverting the fundamental principle that a legislature "cannot bind its successors," the appeal court ruling says: "Legislatures on the Westminster tradition are free to make legislation by amending or repealing it as they work. That is the nature of democratic law-making in our constitutional order."

That is a critical point: legislatures can undo things that have been previously done: Imagine if that were not the case. Any new government initiative would immediately become an entrenched, immovable obligation.

But the ruling does not stop there. It continues on to make a rousing defence of the role of democratic politics, and the balancing act between judicial independence and legislative powers. The matter of bike lanes is a political, not constitutional, matter. The court writes: "The Charter has nothing to say about whether bicycle lanes are a good or a bad idea - wise or unwise policy. These judgments are no business of the courts." (This space concern. But, politically speaking, we still disagree with the Ontario government's policy.)

The ruling also serves as an admonishment to any judge wanting to substitute their own policy preferences for a government's: "The temptation to do so may be great: judges may suppose that they have much to offer to public policy debate. But the temptation must be resisted. It is not just that courts have no expertise in policy making - no expertise in making the sorts of policymakers decisions that legislatures make routinely. It is illegitimate (emphasis added by the court) for courts to involve themselves in matters of legislative policy (Policy is for politics)."

Those are strong, but necessary, words. The point should be obvious to any point, but it demonstrably is not. The bike lane case is testament to that, as is an earlier ruling (also reversed on appeal) on the Ontario government's decision to reduce the rate of Toronto's city council.

And then there is this rejoinder: "It is important to remember that judicial independence is a two-way street: the government and legislature must obviously respect the independence of the courts, but courts must respect the roles and responsibilities of the other branches of government."

One could scarcely hope for a more lurid description of the proper role of courts, or for a more elegant rebuke of judicial activism that brushes aside the democratic will of Canadians expressed through their elected legislatures.

Something has gone right.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

OMNI GUAL

Re: "Betting further tightens exit-and-entry rules" (Report on Business, Aug. 12). It amazes me how announces can't help shooting themselves in the foot by misguided policies.

If I were a bright student in China, I would be looking for ways to study overseas, there has away from homes in order to have a prosperous and fulfilling future. Certainly family would be a big consideration.

Exit and entry rules for people and capital only encourage the best, brightest and most entrepreneurial, the people needed to build an economy, to learn, not return and get as much of their money as possible out of the country. No wonder contagious remains a large problem in China, regardless of how many people is living in the country.

Nothing speaks more loudly of opposition and failure than a country that forces its people to remain.

■ Michael Di Paolo Toronto

WORLD STAGE

Re: "Canada must not withdraw from peacekeeping" (Aug. 12). That our peacekeeping company has dwindled to a more handful to negotiate. Canada should start rejoining in international reputation by helping the United Nations with the tools it needs to prevent outbreaks, not wary quickly and alleviate widespread human suffering.

Canada used to be a leader not only in peacekeeping, but also major initiatives such as the Meso East Treaty and the International Criminal Court. Canada should champion the creation of the long-proposed equal-nationist UN Emergency Fraud Service.

Canada should also join the more than go behind Price winners who, in 2023, urgently called for all countries to reduce their military spending by a pie zone for five years, then spend those savings on most resources to grapple with planetary health and climate emergencies.

■ Larry Kazdin Vancouver

DATA STAMP

Re: "Moments ask to U.S. owner adds risk to Canada's data every year, and some more than 1,000 on water" (Report on Business, Aug. 12). The Wall at Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal can't read the room, it seems.

This proposed sale is unacceptable to any Canadian supposed to selling out our financial services and digital sovereignty to our untrustworthy neighbors to the south. The Liberals should carefully consider the price they will pay if they allow this.

Many of us are already concerned about the continued backsliding on the Liberal "al-

loves up" promise. Mark Carney should appreciate how easily a expected statement can become forevermore a symbol of weakness and failure.

■ Jeff Andrew Toronto

AROUND AND AROUND

Re: "Ottawa weighs proposal on zero tariffs as it proves U.S. for reprieve, sources say" (Aug. 12). If it's true that we're prepared to accept unincorporated zero tariffs, perhaps we can finally get some of the Canadian position in Washington: speak defiantly, a pitilight quietly.

We would incentivize auto-makers to switch to tariffless American parts or they maintain factories in Canada, even as those factories become increasingly automated and legacy auto-makers continue to decline. These "Canadians" care would still be uncompetitive because of tariffs, solving nothing.

Thorlindly, the United States would probably renege on any deal shortly after its signed, nullifying this latent boast of potential cowardice on our part.

■ Robert Kazdin Toronto

The plan for Canadian and U.S. trade representations to meet in-pounding, hammer out a detailed agreement on their present U.S. Donald Trump for approval to mende me of a procedure frequently encountered in automobile showrooms.

A prospective buyer meets repeatedly with a sales representative and their eventually agree to price and options. The salesperson then leaves to get the deal approved by the sales manager, who rejects it.

In my experience, when that happens, the best facts for the buyer is to get up and head for the door.

■ Dave Fenton Ottawa

WOOSE INTEREST?

Re: "The national interest in a new bitumen pipeline may be accommodated" (Liberal, Aug. 12). Opposing the construction of pipelines on the basis of its impact on the climate is nonsensical to me, so long as other sources of food both are available.

The impact on Canada's economy of building a pipeline cannot be ignored. Only a reduction in the worldwide use of food fuels would have an impact on the climate.

I think those who are against pipelines should limit their on-positions that should not control the impact, not the red herring of climate.

■ JP Clark North Vancouver

The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs speaks for all of us who are affected by climate change owing to emissions from

burning food fuels.

Climate change is a tragedy of the summons. Every two of our boys produced by the billions of individuals and organizations globally goes after the atmosphere and largely stays there, increasing the consumption of gases that are changing our climate. In this context, additional emissions from unexposed air production that a West Coast pipeline is intended to support would indeed be significant.

Rather than invest in a declining industry, Canada's economic sovereignty would be more strategically served by a rapid transition to clean energy and investment in the technologies, resources and industries needed in a low-calorie future.

■ Sue Wyatt Toronto

FOOT DOWN

Re: "I see it-scooters everywhere - but where are they actually at home?" (Ontario, Aug. 12). In Toronto, where ex-cooters are banned, the problem is less about unclear rules than unenforced users. Ex-cooters have to make commonplace while injuries rise.

If municipal governments are unable to enforce outright bans, then replace the current penile work with their provincial frameworks. Monitored micro-mobility vehicles used in public spaces should be registered, visibly identifiable and covered by liability insurance. Riders should lose meaningful penalties for dangerous operation and illegal modification.

Human-provided bicycles need not be treated the same way. But once a motor is added, so are greater speed, weight and potential harm. As controllably should follow.

■ Peter Beaman Toronto

KNOW YOUR STUFF

Re: "No one wants my stuff and maybe that's okay" (Foot Downs, Aug. 12). Thanks for bringing this common grievance to light.

I am an unique lover surrounded by tall frontiers and munchally inherited, but also sought out and purchased as I watched my predecessor in. My "stuff" is a large part of my past. I grew up with it.

This one is a friendly among my friends is that kids today do not want a stingray. There is truth to that, but our "stuff" being of value because of the memories evoked makes such sense. We can instead share our memories with our children, but they don't have to accept our stuff.

So is there anyone who will want my stuff! What will happen to it?

But, wait, it's about the memories, not the stuff. True, but hard to swallow.

■ Mary Lou Barnum Hamilton

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OPINION

Zhu Rongji was a man who did the work

The late Chinese premier engineered an economic miracle. But there was also a side of him that the mythos never caught

ANDRE DESMARACH

OPINION

Honoring chairman of the Canada China Business Council

Some years ago, where I talked about Zhu Rongji with friends, I said that when he died, it would hit me the way having a close send help you. I could hear how it landed. How was a human nature from Montreal, claiming a former Chinese premier as family. But I said it anyway, because to me, I felt it was true.

That day has come. Mr Zhu died on Aug. 12, at the age of 97. And the details were not an exaggeration.

I met him in safe, through an old Communist Party revolutionary who had both made they father and son of the country, as, as yet, in the ourselves to a single family in China. He sent me to our councils and would matter. Mr Zhu, who was about to be mayor of Shanghai, and was not yet a name for outside world know. He mattered, as promised.

The world will remember Mr Zhu the incinerator. The reformer with an engineer's command of detail and a reputation for never addressing the problem, he said, that what I remember is the devour - and the exhaustion he had to suffer for it.

We drove in our afternoon to soak to see him, and he came in late, which report happened. Where he finally arrived, he was given with fatigue. He had been out in the areas affected by the great floods, and had only just returned. I was embarrassed in the calling of the people, and then we had served it off as fine. He wanted to talk about what he had seen. The water, the millions it had displaced, and the fact that it could not be fined quickly and that people would suffer for it. That was Mr Zhu, the man.

He was really curious about the things he did not understand. He once asked me, plainly, how much money I made. I told him. He looked at me and said, 'That is

a great deal, compared to a work or. You're overpaid.' Then he spent the rest of the night interviewing me about how Western countries are paid. The options, the capital gains, why any of it worked the way it did. He was not making small talk. He was trying to understand how wealth is created in a system like it was, at that very moment, building almost from nothing.

China's me over the past three decades is one of the great economic achievements of the modern era. Hundreds of millions of people who had nothing new prosper. The credit usually goes to China's former government leader using Xiaoyang, and he deserves it. He opened the gates, Jiang Zimin, who followed, gave Mr Zhu the room to act. But Mr Zhu was the chief executive, the one answerable for the daily work.

He sat turtilly by more than half. He hailed the central bureaucracy. He rebuilt the tax system. He forced tens of millions of workers out of failing state enterprises because the enterprises could not be saved, and he did it knowing exactly what it would cost, and knowing there was no safety on waiting to catch them. Then, after years of bruising negotiations, he brought China into the World

former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, lived left, is printed on the license by about 128 students from Montreal University of Newfoundland in St. John's in April, 1999. Mr Zhu, who died on Aug. 12 at the age of 97, once said that Canada was China's best friend, veteran, numerous ser-

Much of the world that has grown comfortable on cheap and plentiful goods these past 25 years owes him a debt it has never troubled to acknowledge.

Trade Organization. Within two years the country was the largest recipient of foreign investment in the world and the engine of global manufacturing. There is nothing quite life it in economic history.

I know how the results in a Canadian newspaper. The argument has been put to me many times, by people I respect, that as doing business in China I was closing my eyes to its human rights record. I never thought it was that simple. Human rights are not only the forefronts we price in the West, or, at and vital as those values are. They are also about whether a child can, whether a family has a need, whether a country can life a self all the time. By that measure, the work Mr Zhu drove was built a profound advance in human welfare. The business are not all these yet, but I have always believed they will come.

I have heard him admirably described as Lee Kuan Yim, the former Singaporean prime minister, but in a continental scale. That undertook him. Mr Lee did something extraordinary. I'm about six million people. Mr Zhu didn't be almost one fifth of all of humanity. The consequences were one, and much of the world that has grown comfortable on cheap and plentiful goods these

past 25 years owes him a debt it has never troubled to acknowledge.

Canadians owe him something more specific. There was a period, not long ago, when Canada and China enjoyed great relations, and Mr Zhu was at the centre of it. He once stood up at one of our dinners and told the room that Canada was China's best friend, another time, as a speech, he wanted that an eight-third too close to the run would burn and fall to nothing, everyone understood the angle to be the United States, and Canada to be the steady partner China could count on. That is a remarkable thing for a Chinese premier I was convinced it is hard to imagine hearing it now.

I will not pretend I understood the whole of him, but I had the privilege of spending ordinary on-people and interaction hours in his company. He was my mentor and I was his friend. I count it as my great fortune to have known him, and to have experienced a side of him that the caricatures never caught.

He was a vast story, an eye story - and he would have embarrassingly moved all of this new picture, but, already thinking about something that mattered more.

What does 'interoperability' mean, when the U.S. and Canada aren't aligned?

PETER JONES

OPINION

Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

Last month, the federal government approved the surrounding of the Northwestern Service Center in Royal Canadian for the research from the province. That raised eyebrows, however, because of what he was being recognized for. His work helping everyone to save personnel from the director of the Councilised Air Operations Centre at the Al Ustad Air Base in Qatar, during the Israel from conflict in time, even, which the U.S. joined for the last few days of bombing. The reason: Prime Minister Mark Carney has been a 'sick' man who was 'not party to those actions.'

Canada frequently exchanges military personnel with allied forces, and particularly with the Chinese military, which was a story of such exchanges, from embracing an officer directly on to a foreign unit, in participating in joint operations in which Canadians and others serve interoperability. Such exchanges brought the experience of officers and large over lighter bonds between midfares that may have to fight alongside each other one day.

When an officer is on exchange, they act as an officer of their host country. With few exceptions (for example, by agreement, Canadians serving with the British Army did not go into Northern Ireland if their unit was transferred to the U.S. but had to going into combat, or supporting those who do.

Having an officer go into com-

An Ottawa airport ground row member walks past a parked USA Lightning Engine car, in Ottawa in 2018. ASIAN WILDER

but with an allied force is not problematic if we, as a minimum, support that fight. But what happens when the likelihood grows of an ally going into conflicts we oppose.

As U.S. foreign and defence policy moves away from one, this is not a hypothetical question. If the U.S. ever invades Greenland, would Canadians exchange officers take part? Even if the U.S. only used its military to intimidate Greenlanders into carrying an unfair deal, for instance, how would Canadians feel about some of their officers being 'part of this'?

Exchanges are only a small part of U.S. Canadian military co-operation. Historically, Canadians military leadership has been fully committed to 'interoperability' with the United States. A conviction that Canada's military should be ready to fight, not just alongside the U.S., but in a way that is so actively integrated with the U.S. military.

No Canadian service supports this imperative more than our

Air Force. The RCAF shares an integrated command, NORAH with its U.S. counterpart, and many within the service now is as a junior partner to the USAF.

Canada's Generals will say, with straight faces, that they have noticed no difference whatsoever in their co-operation with the U.S. military, whatever Donald Trump may be doing elsewhere. The Royal Canadian Navy has also expanded great effort to ensure that its Halifax class frigates are among the only ships of any Navy in the world that can seamlessly integrate into U.S. Navy carrier formations. When Canada and the U.S. foreign and defence policies were largely congruent, the idea that Canada would go to war without the U.S. was far-fetched, so was

the idea that Washington would fight for things with which we fundamentally disagreed. Does it offer also some today? When the Invasion look at U.S. Navy carrier strike groups and see a Canadian ship fully integrated into the U.S. as has happened in the past, are they going to believe that Canada is not part of operations, whatever our politicians might say? When Canadians are and social secrets are分别为 alongside the U.S. in drug-introduction operations in the Caribbean, how far removed air on from the U.S.'s illegal destruction of alleged drug-training board? Even if canadians are in public law, trigger they are providing information and other support.

The desire to be fully interoperable with the U.S. naturally extends to warning U.S. equipment. The RCAF, also in the third, still truly toward the procurement of Lockheed Master X's in lighter air can be directly traced to this. The fact that this will lead to increasing dependence on the U.S. to simply cut costs as a big problem, but if our political and diplomatic approach to the world is developing from the U.S., such reliance is worrying.

Military integration portends deeper problems as technology evolves, too. The U.S. military is increasingly committed to AI. Targeting decisions are increasingly directed to AI systems, which work more quickly than human. What are the implications for Canada of placing in forces under the command of American AI algorithms that Canadians have had basically zero impact in developing?

Canada's military leaders can be well-titled to fight for things in course. The drive for ever deeper integration with the U.S. military is deeply internalized; it

brings opportunities to train with technologies they do not have access to and work with scales of force (Canada will never be able to find. And Canada's Generals will say, with straight faces, that they have noticed no difference whatsoever in their co-operation with the U.S. military, whatever Donald Trump may be doing elsewhere. But of course, there has been no change in the Canadian force not moved to make any changes. This is a taunings' masquerading as a statement.

The issue is not whether the U.S. military will continue to co-operate with us if we are in the they want, the issue is how much we want to have going down this road. That is not just a decision for Canada's military to make.

There is an old saying that give: 'War is too important to be left to the generals.' If the U.S.'s worldview is fundamentally developing from one, this decisions about the extent to which Canada wants its Armed Forces to be seamlessly integrated with those of the U.S. will require much more political oversight than has heretofore been the case.

This is not a call to abandon all military exchanges with the U.S., which is neither desirable nor feasible. It is a call for political leaders to insist that such exchanges be much more carefully structured, to strengthen automatic off-rating work that our Forces will be required to proactively decline to be part of U.S. actions we disagree with. It is also a call to deepen military ties with countries that still show our outlook and values. Above all, we do not want to discover that how we can be able to get off-road co-operations we disagree with after the fact - for instance, when medals are handed out.

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Confused by best-before dates on food packages? Here's a primer

You're probably wasting perfectly good food, so thank twice before housing that yogurt

LEIGH RICK

WE FIND FOR THE GOOD

We're wondered what to do with a tub of yogurt or a few of crackers after its best-before date has passed! It is still okay to eat or should you lose it?

Turns out, for many Canadians, the answer isn't always clear.

According to a 2021 online national survey conducted by Del Rosario University's Age-Sized Analytics Lab, 30 per cent of Canadians don't know what the best-before date means.

The survey, commissioned by Too Good To Go, a global food waste reduction company, also found that four out of 10 Canadians throw away food past the best-before date even when it's still edible.

Here's what best-before dates and other food date labels really mean:

BEST-BEFORE DATE

Best-before dates on prepackaged foods are quality indicators, not food safety dates. Yet according to the 2021 Dalhousie Too Good-To-Go survey, 65 per cent of Canadians always or often rely solely on best-before date to determine whether food is safe to eat.

A best-before date indicates how food a properly stored, unopened food product is expected to maximize its freshness, flavour, texture and nutritional value.

In Canada, most prepackaged foods with a shelf life of 60 days or less are required to have a best-before date. Some can also include proper storage instructions if they require conditions other than normal room temperature.

Proposed foods that have a shelf life longer than no days, such as a food shaker, a dry powder and frozen foods, do not require best-before dates. Even so, many food companies and retailers provide this information voluntarily.

If stored properly and continuously refrigerated, yogurt can be consumed up to seven to 10 days beyond its best-before date. (AUG. 7/31/2023) CANADIAN FIELD

Most prepackaged foods in Canada with a shelf life of 90 days or less must be have a best-before date. (ORIGINAL COMMITTEE CANADIAN FIELD)

CAN I STILL EAT A FOOD AFTER THE BEST-BEFORE DATE?

Best-before dates apply to unopened products only. Once opened, a food's shelf life may change depending on storage conditions and other factors.

That doesn't necessarily mean a food should be discarded once in best-before date has passed. If it's been stored and handled

properly, it may still be good to eat.

Many dairy foods, for example, can often be consumed for a period beyond the best-before date if they've been continuously refrigerated.

With can often last an additional seven days, yogurt serves to so days and hard cheese never at weeks.

Packaged bread, bagels and muffins can be consumed for

several days beyond their best-before dates, provided they don't show any signs of mould.

Dried pastry foods – such as rice, pasta, ready-to-eat breakfast cereal and crackers – can often be eaten months after their best-before dates if stored properly, although their flavour, texture and nutritional value may gradually decline.

These are practical guidelines, not guarantees. Access a food's appearance, smell, taste (if appropriate) and storage history to determine its quality. Discard any product that shows signs of spoilage.

TREAT THESE FOODS WITH CAUTION

While best-before dates are not safety dates, some foods are riskier because they readily support the growth of harmful bacteria.

Take extra care with fresh meat, poultry, fish and seafood, as well as deli meats, prepared salads, foods prepared meals and cut fruits and vegetables. These foods can become unsafe even when refrigerated. Note: them properly and consume them as soon as possible. Don't judge their safety solely by the best-before date.

While appearance, smell and taste can help identify obvious spoilage and quality changes, your source cannot reliably detect harmful bacteria or toxins. When in doubt, throw it out.

WHEN TO TOTE, RESARBLUES OF BEST-BEFORE DATE

Discard food if it smells sour, cured or otherwise smoked, if it has visible mould or if the container is swollen, holding or damaged.

If the food was stored improperly (for example, left unsting) cured when it required refrigeration; it should also be thrown out.

EXPIRATION DATES

An expiration date is required only on certain foods that have strict compositional and nutritional specifications that may no longer be met after the expiration date.

International liquid diets, meal replacements, nutritional supplements, infant formula and foods for very low-calorie diets (available only from a pharmaceutical) must carry an expiration date and should not be consumed after it has passed.

OTHER DATA LATER TO KNOW

In Canada, retailers may use a 'packaged on' date instead of a best-before date for certain foods packaged and sold at the same retail location, such as fresh meats, deli meats, prepared meals and baked goods. It should be accompanied by information about how long the product will remain from (for example, 'best consumed within seven days of packaging').

The 'packaged on' date tells you when the food was packaged for sale, but it doesn't necessarily indicate when the item was prepared. Still, it can help you compare product for freshness.

'A 'prepared on' date indicates where a food was prepared or assembled. You often see it on salads, sandwiches, meals and soups made in stores. It helps you assess freshness but, like the 'packaged on' date, is not by itself an indicator of safety.

Leslie Beck, a Scottish-based private practice dietitian, is director of food and nutrition at Medcan.

What to do if your child holds it together at school but falls apart at home

ALLIAM ROBERTS

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Ask a Child Psychologist offers insights and advice on navigating youth emotional and mental well-being. It is not a substitute for professional psychological or medical advice.

Since I began writing this column, I have received questions from teachers looking for advice about how to support their kids. One parent wrote in with a concern that I suspect (counselor with many families) How to deal with a child who appears well-adjusted at school, but struggles with emotional regulation, defiance and intense behaviour at home.

The reader explained that their daughter has been diagnosed as being on the spectrum. At school, she blends in with other kids and he not flaps how been raised about her behaviour. But at home, they face struggles with emotional regulation, a lack of interest in other activities, defiance and Indigenous.

The reader went on to share that when trying to walk therapy, prison go up to service, and to consult about it they become autism, adding: 'I personally feel that my child needs some sort of emotional therapy, like understanding social cues or regulating emotions, more than any asthmatic therapy, like an mountain eye contact, is affectionate, plays with other kids and no one can pinpoint her as the old one in the group.'

For parents asking neurodivergent children, it is often painful when other people do not see the same struggles they become, probably the reader's question raises important issues about autism, smoking, disclosure and how to find support that fits the child rather than simply

the diagnosis.

To the reader who wrote in, I would offer this advice: One of the most important things in understand is that your daughter's ability to maintain eye contact, show affection and socialize with peers does not invalidate either her diagnosis or her struggles. A child can be socially connected and still experience significant emotional, sensory or regulatory challenges internally. When choosing the right support for your daughter, trust your mintners about what kind of intervention would help her better understand and manage her emotions.

Here are some things for this reader, and other families in a similar situation, to keep in mind:

SOMETHING, THE END OF THE DAY IS WHEN TOBACCO SMOKING.

It's not uncommon for teachers to describe a child as happy, social and constructive, at school, while parents experience emotional outbursts, rigidity or defiance at home. Over time, many parents begin asking themselves: 'Am I somehow causing this?'

In many cases, the answer to no. Some children work extraordinarily hard to 'hold it together' during the school day. Researchers studying autism use the terms 'samoulaging' or 'involving' to describe the ways some activity people can actually or unconsciously hide outside. Researchers, composed, the social difficulties or adapt their behaviour to surrogate social situations.

At school, there is structure, predic-

ability and external support. Many children carefully mention themselves throughout the day. By the time they return home, their emotional resources may be depleted.

Canadian counsellor and parenting educator Andrea Lawson had coined the term 'also-school restraint collapse' to describe what can happen next. A child who has managed the social, sensory and emotional demands of the day someone once home in a safe environment. Ironically, children often struggle most openly in the places where they feel most warm.

This is one reason why I encourage parents to think less in terms of, 'Why is my child behaving this way?' and more in terms of, 'What might my child be communicating through the behaviour.'

I also encourage parents to try a 'see first, then soothe' approach. This could sound like: 'You've been holding it together all day.' 'I can see that you're over-whishead,' or 'Something about today left really hard.'

Only after children feel calmer are they usually able to collect, problem-solve or repair control.

NEURODYRINITY DOES NOT LOOK THE SAME IN EVERY CHILD.

Autism is called a spectrum for a reason. Different items process information, emotions, sensory experiences and social interactions. Indigently and these variations do not look the same from one person to another.

Some neurodivergent children struggle socially in stable ways, while others become skilled at making confusion or overreliable in public.

Some of these usually successful while experiencing significant emotional exhaustion internally.

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I can't picture things in my mind, but it still have a vivid imagination

FIRST PERSON

I've lived with aphantasia all my life, I just didn't know it until my mid-20s, Crystal McDougall writes

When I had trouble sleeping, I sometimes played a guided meditation that asked letters to imagine themselves by mistake. And the sand between your toes, the smooth, calming voice instructed. Listen to the waves crashing and watch the sun setting over the water.

I tried to follow along. I heard children playing and laughing. I felt my skin warm under the sun. I smelled coconut scented manhole that what I couldn't do was see any of it.

I didn't know that some people could actually visualize themselves on the beach. What an amazing magic trick to have a movie to your mind?

But how come I can't?

I learned about aphantasia in my mid-ton, from a colleague who had listened to a podcast about the phenomenon during her commute. She was trying to explain it, but I couldn't understand. I realized she did not like instructor.

"Oh, okay, sure," I replied. People have been saying "magical 'STZ thing!'" my whole life. It has no real meaning to me. I just stood there staring at her.

Oh, close your eyes and imagine the apple.

I often left your and said nothing. People don't actually see things, I thought. That makes no sense.

"Do you see an apple?" she asked eagerly.

"Oh, actually see an apple! No, I see black and a little bit of static, like an old TV."

"Well, you can imagine an apple, right? What makes it your apple?"

All that point, I was getting frustrated. "There is no apple," I blasted out. "It's just black, so I don't know what colour the apple is."

She was quiet. I opened my eyes and saw her staring at me.

"I think you may have aphantasia," she said.

It was jarring to have a colleague hand me a diagnosis for something. I hadn't even heard of until two minutes before. I didn't get any work done the rest of the day. Instead, I researched aphantasia and

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read Reddit posts from other self-described "aphums." It was all I thought about.

I found online exercises and example images of what someone with aphantasia might see versus what someone with an active mind's eye can visualize. I learned that it's a spectrum. Some people can see faint images, others see nothing. I see nothing.

How did I not realize this until adulthood?

I grew jealous of people who have vivid imaginations. When reading books, they're able to visualize the scenes as though it's a movie in their mind. I wanted that too. All I can see are the words on the page in front of me. I can, however, hear the character's voice, infectious and time, as if I'm learning to an adulthood.

When I was told to be the love, work and create without a mind's eye.

It took me a long time to realize there's a difference between imagining and visualizing. I can imagine, I just do it in other ways. And my mind stores information

differently. I am surprisingly good at remembering how, whereas my very visual partner is terrible at it. Just don't ask me to describe a person to a sketch artist, because I will let you down.

I absolutely love to read. But I avoid fantasy novels as they read it only heavily

on visual descriptions. So I can't see people's emotions, on the grass is devoted to evoking a feeling.

I enjoy writing as well, but I need to add descriptive images during exercise, referring to actual images to get the details right.

Not long after learning I have aphantasia, my mom died of cancer, let first, I worried that the memory of her would fade if I couldn't visualize her face. But I chose to think of the positive side.

If I can't imagine them, I won't be accused with outside of the way my brain works is that, nearly a decade later, I can still hear her laugh.

When my son was little, we were denying home from school one day when his capable voice plied up from the back seat. "None! I'm imagining a ninja jumping from roof to roof on all the houses!" I felt a sudden lightness, and eyes walked up in my eyes.

Despite my work toward acceptance over the years I've guarded my son won't live with this unknown feature.

It will be easier for him to learn, grow and create in a world catered to the visual sense.

Crystal McDougall lives in St. Thomas, Ont.

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This is one reason why many parents say: "Nothing I read online sounds like my child."

DISCUSSION IS COMPLICATED

When a child appears usually successful, parents often struggle with whether, when, and how to share a diagnosis with schools, extended family members or even the child themselves.

I have written about this question before because disclosure is rarely off-or-renting. Parents can consider who needs to know what they need to know and how sharing this information might help. I encourage parents to focus less on the label itself and more on whether disclosure is likely to make an understanding, reduce misinterpretation and lead to appropriate support.

FINDING THE RIGHT SIDE OF SUPPORT

Parents' instincts about support are important. Many families feel overwhelmed trying to navigate an expensive and complicated intervention system once a diagnosis is mentioned.

The most important question is not "What therapy is recommended for autism?" but rather "What support would genuinely help this particular child?"

For some children, emotional regulation strategies, counselling, occupational therapy (which can include recommendations for modifying their environment for success) or social-emotional learning support may be more helpful than intensive autism interventions that do not fit the child's actual presentation.

I encourage parents to trust their observations. they know their children how. What situations overwhelm your child? What happens before they succeed? What helps them recover?

Ultimately, the goal is not to change who can't say that, but to help them feel more understood and better able to navigate the parts of their world that are genuinely difficult for them.

Special to The Globe and Mail

Dr. Jillian Roberts is a practicing registered psychiatrist in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. She is also a research professor of educational psychology at the University of Victoria. Her specialties in child and adolescent development family therapy and malnour education.

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BARCELONA	14 242	4 2148	7 1610
BEIRUT	14 220	8 2121	5 2019
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BRUSSELS	14 210	2 2117	10 2114
COPENHAGEN	14 214	10 1616	10 1616
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CHICAGO	13 217	1 2105	7 2017
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Renaissance artworks stolen in Sicily

Four pieces worth millions taken from museum during holiday celebrations

MILBEL STALE

Thieves stole four works attributed to Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina worth millions of euros from the regional museum in the city of Messina in Sicily while crowds gathered across town for the traditional Assumption holiday celebrations, cultural officials and Italian media said female.

The thieves Imposed alarm and security systems on Saturday evening at the Mialle museum, making off with three of the five surviving panels of the San Gregorio Polyptych, dated to 42 y, as well as the double videotaped depicting the Turgic Nare and the dead Elmen in Paris, which was removed from an armoured display case, the news agency La Presse reported.

They removed all five panels of the San Gregorio Polyptych from

The five surviving panels of Antonello da Messina's 1473 San Gregorio Polyptych, three of which were stolen on Saturday from the Museo Nazionale Accademia in Messina, Italy

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their frame, but abandoned two behind a wall while Koonge.

Art expert Alberto Fu retined off the value of the stolen works at

€70 million to €80 million. 'We are devastated by what happened. They were two of Antonello da Messina's most

important and best-known works. It is a tremendous loss for the museum, the city, the community and the art world,' Mialle director Marina Mercurio told the 1,014, 6,000 agency.

He mid-tent—said the theft occurred just before 10 p.m., and that the claims were working and the guards were on site. She described the works as central to the region's heritage.

'Three are not merely works by Antonello da Messina,' she told Sily U2a. 'They are works that hold considerable significance in terms of our identity, as well as of course, their artistic and cultural value, because they are works by our very own Antonello da Messina.'

Messina's top culture official, Enter Canaco, called the theft 'more than a loss' and 'a disaster'.

Messina without Antonello is deposed of the very essence of the present artist of the Europe: an Renaissance.' Mr Canaco told Sily, calling for the swift recovery of the theft's works.

Mr Canaco noted that international interest in the artist had intensified since Italy's Culture

Ministry acquired Antonello's devotional painting first three for U18(a) is million through negotiations with industry's 16 New York earlier this year.

Lynda Albertson, an art-crime analyst, said the works are 'instantly recognizable, impeding any effort to sell them through reputable channels.'

'Healing an Antonello may be far easier than selling one. If these are ordinary thieves, they will wonder what they will do to them,' Mr. Albertson, who is the chief executive of the AEC's art crimes research association, said the Italian daily La Repubblica, that said with him to the more serious pain from one criminal to another, serving as collateral for other illicit activity.

The theft comes just days after police in the northern Italian city of Parma announced that they had recovered from the mass artworks by Renoir, Cezanne and Maiton worth about $10 million. Five people have been detained in the Mialle city's theft from the Magnani Rocca Foundation located in the Parma premises.

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Ms. Isenbaum said the ministry accepted the recommendations contained in the Auditor-General's report, which included calls for more robust inspections and improved information sharing between regulators.

However, the ministry did not detail the steps it has taken to address those recommendations. It did not respond to questions about whether it has increased its complement of inspection or confirm whether it has started sharing the results of its inspections with the transport ministry. A gap the Auditor-General report said should be fixed.

Miss Milian, president of the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada, which represents companies with in-house commercial trucking fleets, said the colleges ministry has failed to 'take any accountability.'

'The file needs to be taken from them, so far as I'm concerned,' he said in an interview.

Mr. Milian recently attended two roundtable meetings convened by industry stakeholders to discuss training standards with the provincial transport ministry, but said the ministry of colleges declined invitations to attend.

The ministry did not address The Globe's request for comment on the matter.

While large results represent about 1 per cent of all vehicles on provincial roads, they accounted for 12 per cent of all fatal collisions between area and area, Auditor-General Mialley Spence's report found thriving violations in Ontario, such as drivers failing to keep proper maintenance logs, have also spiked in recent years.

As part of the research conducted for the May report, Mr. Spence's office sent a report of the 1,000 tons to five unmanned van colleges. The report found that some students were not taught the required elements of truck driving, including reverse

pailing and emergency stopping, and found two schools provided significantly less training than the mandatory 10-15 hours.

Commercial truck driver training has become the largest and latest-growing vocational program offered by private career colleges in Ontario, according to the report.

Philip Fletcher, president of the Train Training Schools Association of Ontario, said there are too few inspectors to tackle the explosion of private colleges.

'I think they really have to improve messages,' he said.

When the colleges ministry identifies compliance issues at private colleges, it can revoke program approvals and issue fines ranging between 8 1/2- and 16,000 for first offences. No Auditor-General report said.

Mr. Milian said he believes the province's penalties 'tured to be higher for people that are willingly breaking the rules'.

The ministry did not respond to questions from The Globe regarding the number of penalties issued to non-compliant schools over the past year, or whether it is considering increasing its maximum penalties.

Truck driving schools must also have a valid commercial vehicle operator's registration profile with the transport ministry. Last year, the transport ministry established a training and oversight branch to audit training schools' compliance with carrier requirements such as trip logs and hours-of-service records, which Mr. Milian praised as a positive step.

While the transport ministry can take enforcement actions against trucking companies and their drivers, it currently does not have direct access to training schools' enlisted records, the Auditor-General said.

The transport ministry's efforts are also hampered by the fact that the colleges ministry does not share its school

inspection results, said Mr. Milian.

Mr. Spence's report also identified numerous issues with road tests, which as-going truck drivers must complete after their mandatory training.

Road causes are hooked by training schools and conducted at three first centres, which are run by a third-party provider for the transport ministry.

Drive first staff are unable to verify whether exam bookings come from authorized colleges, the Auditor-General's office found. The report said that 26 schools that had never registered with the ministry of colleges had successfully booked more than 2,000 total hours, but after 15 private colleges had booked excess despite expired, responded to revoked registration.

In its recommendations to the transport ministry, the Private Motor Truck Council of Canada said the information gaps faced by the public contractors must be fixed. The latter calls for road test pass rates to be linked back to training schools and made available to the public.

As previously reported by The Globe, five employees of driver-focusing centres in Ontario were also charged earlier this year with allegedly accepting bribes to manipulate the results of commercial truck-driving tests.

The Professional Truck Training Alliance of Canada, who also called for road test examiners to be equipped with body cameras, according to recommendations made to the transport ministry and obtained by The Globe.

In statement, transportation ministry spokesperson Zaneen Hossain said the ministry is currently leading a review of commercial driver testing and training, and is working with the colleges ministry to strengthen oversight.

'It is a priority of the government to ensure that the public's delivery are experienced and fully equipped to handle the responsibilities of operating large vehicles safely and professionally.'

Trump orders exercise with South Korea be scaled back

KONSTANTIN TIAGOIN ALANNA DITRER RYDER WASHINGTON

President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea, saying it declined to help standardize Iran and citing his good relationship with South Korea's Kim Jong Un.

Mr Trump said in a road-walls year that the exercises slated to begin this week are not only costly but 'could a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile' to North Korea, which he said 'has been undercatering and respectful' during his time in the White House.

'Therefore, and bound on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Reganik, to substantially reduce the Ford Military Exchanges' Mr Trump wrote. The President added that he recently asked South Korea's president to join the U.S. in the efforts to dense cleanse Iran, 'and they said, 'No thanks!'

'The move is the latest example of the president appearing to side against an ally in form of a leader that previous administration have cast an adversary. Mr Trump and efforts in his administration have also called against NATO alike over perceived lack of support for his war against Iran, even as they seek to confront an increasingly aggressive Russia in the Baltic region.'

The United Nations are receiving 10,000 South Korean soldiers were designed to lead up readiness against North Korean threats.

The U.S. military has read the summertime 'Only Freedom Shield' comment continues, 'the role of the alliance as the linchpin for regional peace and security' and reaffirm 'the ironical commitment between the Irish military and the United States of Korea to defend their homelands.'

U.S. and South Korean forces were expected to practice joint operations in complex scenarios, including a five-fire exercise to test joint president targeting and the U.S. to ensure security and distribution of proportioned military equipment, according to the U.S. military.

The participants yet to start date after North Korea returned ballistic missile testing activities that are harmless by the US Earlier this month, South Korea, the U.S. and Japan directed the launch of a short-range ballistic missile from North Korea in what was the North Korea's first major testing activity since late June. The missile landed on the waters off North Korea's east coast. South Korea has been pushing back to a point in a nuclear and missile arsenal since Mr Kim's high-stakes diplomacy with Mr Trump collapsed in area. Experts say Mr Kim likely believes a bigger weapons arsenal would increase his chances for resetting some countries from the U.S. in future negotiations.

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Old poem breathes new life into Imax

The Odyssey catapults film production company's fortunes as revenue, stock price soar

SUSAN KRASNINSKY ROBERTSON DECEMBER, 2026

It's nearly 11 am, on a weekday morning, and the only soul Imax theatre just north of Toronto will soon be full. But before another world-out screening of the Christopher Solaris' The Odyssey can begin, behind the scenes in the projection booth a giant film strip must go on its own epic journey.

Projectionist June Oki unwinds the film, which sits on a massive spinning platter, and threads it around multiple rollers, up, down and up again. It is then strong through the air, across to the projector itself, where it travels around most rollers before being threaded horizontally across the lens, repeating the trip back to be rewound on a second platter.

The film strip is so large - weighing 800

pounds, and measuring nearly 18 kilometres anthelbs - that it cannot be creased in the projector. It is exposed. It looks precarious.

"There are very many hazards of scratching," Mr. Oki says, shining a flashlight on the film. "I do a visual check. I also do a physical check. I always check to make sure it's all good."

The stakes are high. This single print cost roughly US$6,000. To be worth the investment, it has to be kept in peak condition, screening after screening. (The rushes currently been extended to mid-September.)

This Complex theatre in Vaughan, Ont., is one of just nine locations in Canada showing the movie in Imax (9-millimeter film - the format on which it was shot.

It's a hot ticket, both for film purists, and for newbies who have been drawn in by the director's enthusiasm for Imax.

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June Oki prepares the Imax 78-millimeter projector at the Complex Oromas in Vaughan, Ont. Only nine locations across Canada are equipped with the projectors. DUANE COULTHE GLOBE AND MAIL

RBC bets on growth in Europe as businesses diversify trade

STEPANIE MAROTTA RENOVAN REPORTER

Derek Neldner, Royal Bank of Canada's head of capital markets, travelled to London in April, where the lender's senior bankers from across the globe convened to strategize on its plan to go head to head with the world's biggest investment banks.

To trade uncertainty and geopolitical volatility whipraw markets, the capital-markets unit of Canada's largest lender is boosting listing, expanding its products and services and pushing into sectors in Britain and Europe where it believes it can grow its business.

It's part of the bank's bid to break out from its position as the cpb-largest capital-markets business globally and crack the top so far, which is dominated by U.S. banks.

"When we look at the site of the European market, it's a very big growth opportunity for us. It's very relevant to our North American clients, both in terms of cross-border opportunities as well as financing," Mr. Neldner said in an interview. "When you just look at what's going on in the world in terms of trade, the opportunity in Europe continues to improve, and the opportunity for a Canadian bank in Europe has continued to get better."

The region is making up a bigger portion of RBC's capital-markets revenue. In 2022, Britain and Europe accounted for 10 per cent of the unit's total revenue, climbing 25 per cent to 2.4 million from the year prior - subjecting growth in Canada, the U.S. and the Asia-Pacific.

Mr. Neldner said Britain and Europe are among RBC's biggest growth opportunities in capital markets, and he expects the business in the region to contribute as much as 20 per cent of the unit's revenue in the coming years.

European investment banks have been losing market share to U.S. lenders, buoyed by raising regulatory requirements that allow them to deploy more capital to clients.

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Areas outside of Toronto feel the pinch of a distressed condo market

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The glut of unsold preconstruction condos in Ontario is not concentrated in a host of new high-rises in downtown Toronto, but further north in the emerging Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, and to the west, in downtown Hamilton.

Each of those neighbourhoods had about 1,000 unsold condos at the end of the second quarter, according to data from new home research firm Zenda Urban.

For years, areas outside of Toronto were considered promising places for development because they were more affordable than the city. Today, they are some of the most distressed parts of the country's condo market.

In downtown Hamilton, a relatively affordable city, there were 1,367 unsold condos, which represents 14 per cent of the area's inventory that is either under construction, preconstruction or newly built.

In Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, where scores of skyscrapers have been built and

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planned around the eponymous subway station north of Toronto, there were 500 unsold units. That accounts for 45 per cent of the area's new condo inventory.

In comparison, Toronto's Entertainment District is one of the densest areas in downtown and has a surhd of established and newly built condos' works. The district had 70 unsold units in the second quarter, according to Zenda. That represents 47 per cent of the neighbourhood's inventory that is under construction, preconstruction or newly built.

"It will take some time and likely a mix of outcomes in relations to clear the unsold inventory in these markets," said Pauline Lerman, Zenda's vice president of market research for Ontario and Quebec.

In Hamilton, some of the developers with unsold units include Project Real Estate, Embless Developments Inc. and Rosehaven Homes.

Condo projects are now taking years to sell, unlike during the pandemic real estate boom, when a large condo project could sell out in several months.

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With AI riches at stake, pressures mount to share wealth

Virginia became first state on the U.S. to impose a lot on data centres based on amounts of electricity used

TOMY KOMM WASHINGTON

As a nation on the precipice of a technological revolution, there are few states quite like Virginia, where hundreds of warehouses half of powerful and generously competent have turned on the globe the nickname "Data Centre Alley".

So it was all the more surprising when Virginia lawmakers decided on law June to take aim at the industry that they had long, helped to maintain. Sapping a year on hand-length negotiations, the state became the first in the country to impose a small tax on data centres based on the vast amounts of electricity they consume.

For the trillion-dollar bohemoshe that were at least data centres, including data on the market, the state's first state to represent a fraction of what they might consider care from artificial intelligence, that for Virginia, it is expected to be a wealth, supplying up to trillion-million to revenue in the country. The state's first to Democrats was Senator L. Leston (now, 2020) capital profits from of data centres had raised new economic and environmental costs, the said, and the both nations try needed to shoulder more of that burden.

There do we lot the wealthiest everyone in human history come to the commonwealth? No! A case said, "and every day by the same rules as everyone else!"

The debate in Virginia is part of a larger learning on the world's history of CMBCs from the smallest city councils to the other states, to prevent its Washington. The makers are rethinking their economic relationship with artificial intelligence, trying to ensure their communities stand to benefit more clearly from a technology that may state Wilson Valley an insularable new fortune.

With AI, the nation's largest tech companies are seeking to revolutionize almost every field responsible, from medical research to warfare, but, among Americans, there is growing fear that the financial crisis of the world is high, but it is absurd - or, worse, that they may come at the direct expense.

The disparity has triggered new debate in Washington about whether, or how, the world's most important in the world's AI companies and redoubt the first profit. Among state and county officials, meanwhile, there is a new push to tax on otherwise regulated the industry. And hundreds of communities, led by Democrats and Republicans alike, have already tried to ban the construction of data centres, at least temporarily as they sort through the economic implications.

AI companies have argued they can work with government to continue job-hours on other downstairs, but these are not only has its limits, and the political groups that represent the Tech have lobbied

An Amazon Web Services data centre sits adjacent to homes in Stone Ridge, Va. The tax on data centres in Virginia is expected to be a wealth, supplying up to US$600 million on revenue in the coming year, one another says between some points per ton (977.9 MILL).

against proposals they are as too demanding - writing up chalets around the country with communities that believe they are need more.

The result has transformed AI into one of the most salient political issues in the 2020 election elections, and the outcome could shape the trajectory of the U.S. economy for decades to come.

At the heart of the AI policy debate are not possibilities.

The first it filled AI will create an additionalisable economic boom, perhaps adding more than 10-big trillion to the world's economic capacity in 2021. The forecast alone has supercharged the valuation of major tech companies. While new represents a top-judged perspective of the S&P 500, Two young AI firms, Anthony and Vincent are considering public stock offerings that may value both at $700 million or more.

The second possibility is a doomsday brought about by that same project as growth. If AI faires, it could cause a catastrophe for markets, while if AI succuds, it could leave millions of Americans unemployed. And it could concentrate more wealth in the hands of a few, like Don Mack, who briefly became the world's first statehouse after one of his communities in the world.

The two public have started a new chapter in the long-running political debate about inequality in the United States. When major economic transformation has been launched out of the costs and benefits disproportionately.

That conversation is only just beginning in hyperpurtisan Washington, where AI carries high stakes for a country that derives much of its tax revenue from another real business's income.

"AI and industry are the most transfer mature technologies by far in the history of humanity," said Senator Revise Canales, an independent firm Vermont. "They have an enormous impact on our economy and the possibility that many millions of jobs that will be lost."

Mr. Canales has proposed that the U.S.

government try to offset those consequences directly by taking a co-eye over stake in major AI companies. Under his plan, the United States would impose a one-time tax on tech giants and its agents to a newly established economy wealth fund. That fund would be worth about $500 million, based on current valuation. With the money, the government could immediately make a payment of more than $500,000 in AI Americans, Mr. Landr are estimates, and then continue to redistribute any additional wealth as it is generally.

In theory, some industry leaders, including Sam Silman, the chief executive of Quikid, and the chief executive of Anthony, support policies that outdofully do AI studies to enhance Mr. Silman has even lobbied U.S. President Donald Trump on the matter. Others, like Mr. Mack, have similarly called for "Universal 1982B 10 CPM," via Quikid, issued by the federal government.

To date, though, some of the major tech companies has endorsed specific state or federal legislation, including the proposal from Mr. Canales. Instead, they've personally urged to call the studies.

An Internal Washington, the community's first statehouse, is one of the industry - the sprawling, resource-intensive computing centres that make AI possible - have similarly started to ask if they, too, are one of a greater share of future wealth. The U.S. has been a major business in the United States, as they question whether their all-eng budgets can afford to subsidize Wilson Valley at the same time that they are making care to social services. Others have introduced new fees on data centres to offset their efforts on local energy goals.

And still other places have halted construction outright. Over the past two years, roughly (as communities have) on-tailored or adopted data-centre manufacturers of varying lengths, according to a teacher compiled by the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia.

At the heart of the policy response is a fundamental shift in the relationship between local government and powerful interests in Wilson Valley.

Once, communities nationwide eagerly courted companies such as Amazon, Meta Fisheries Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft, bombing theirs with tax incentives and other parks. Change an economic boom, local officials were willing to make short-term fiscal sacrifices in exchange for several jobs and potential tax revenues.

But the industry's demands - and profits - grew exponentially. Sometimes, their revenues did not pass out. And the new data centres that they elected to serve AI have earned a much different footprint than earlier ballots. The new warehouses are large, employ fewer people, and can consume far more of their own electricity, making local fears about their economic and environmental impact.

New tech state has taken some of the most aggressive steps in response. In July, Public Health Science for the government's reach is achieved, investments on data centres and expenses, and the new data also promised a wholesale reconstruction of the state's tax treatment of data centres.

Note in the rich industry have criticized the tech and similar developments considered or adopted elsewhere. The oppression include the Data Centre Creditors, a lobbying group representing major tech companies including Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet, as well as lesser-known data centers developed.

However, some of the two developed a state policy and government affairs at the organization, said that the New York put up was too "open ended." The team, he added, also felt some areas "not to dry with such a blissful feeling that decently would account for the fact they want this." The state's primary team - regional tough have that would have tech companies and data-centre developers to pay up that many proposals have drawn the sharp and well-freaked appreciation of an industry that now counts as one of the most powerful influences in U.S. politics.

"What they usually say is, ah, of course, they would love to do that, but they don't want to be compelled to do that," said Senator Jodi Barker (R. MA), who has long sought to win in the industry.

The U.S. companies have been a landscape, Meta, Alphabet and Quikid have pledged to furnish more of their own power for AI in centres, so that they do not handle local markets with larger bills. Some have at least been able to do so, and with a new White House past meant to reduce costs.

But the industry's efforts have virtually consequences - creating new energy demands in some communities, which reducing costs in others. Nor has progress since last enough to be a result of AI sales.

Over the past two years, roughly 30 states have considered legislation related to data centre energy use, including special tariffs on the largest electricity users, including data centres, according to the University of Virginia teacher.

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How northern buildings are killing a housing shortage

SAMMY HUBBS

A harsh Newton stills through power on commonestly facebook groups, the Westshore resident says there's an almost daily call-out that's become impossible to ignore.

The annual call-out said to be looming, both among locals and trans-

plants to the northern city, are everywhere. But with such long and indelible, No. Newton says finding a place to live is a challenging not only for people with the incomes, but even those with a political budget.

Whitchoos has for years been among Canada's known growing cities, the No. Newton fears the housing shortage is leaving the

community behind.

"It's actually insane, the harsh housing for people," said Mr. Newton, the board president of the Northern Community Land Trust, a non-profit that builds permanently off the state's state in the Yukon.

"We have a really high need for teachers, for education assistants, for health care workers, for eco-

struction workers, and these are the types of people like we can't bring into our own very right for because of the lack of housing."

Housing shortages are a common issue across Northern Canada, which faces distinctive challenges to build new supply - from environmental factors to supply chain dynamics.

An policy makers and sales leaders call for emotional housing across the country in order to improve affordability for homeowners, those with specialized knowledge of the North up the region requires an approach "designed specifically for warehouses alike."

A report published last month by Canada Mortgag and Housing Corp. (CMB), said housing in the 2020 elections was too small. He in 2020 compared with 2014 - "critically low availability" listed of both market and subsidized options.

For capita housing starts to mature before the end of Canada, constituted by the country's own costs, limited-oversized land, drugs with high-fed and labour challenges.

Up north, market-price housing, and over-incidental, is characterized in the territorial capitals, which follow the details the most of construction, said Aled at Ibareth, deputy environmental for the national housing agency.

The income for buildings where the market is acceptable, is the only state short, but have long transportation supply chains to get the materials to the North, so energy costs are important," he says.

"It's not a large market, so you have limited consumer of cash. There's probably limited access to a work from that can build, so all of this is leading to significant challenges on construction costs."

The lack of affordability has led to a growing need for the model that No. Newton's group is cham-

poning. The land trust is nearing completion on the first major problem, and the land business in Whittlesboro that will allow locals to buy at a document price thanks to land donations, federal and territorial funding, along with "silicone" design.

The development is built with local councils to increase the shift features such as for-profit ruling.

In addition to long and often harsh winters limiting when construction can take place, many materials need to be shipped from larger cities, which doesn't happen with the U.S.

The CMBCs report said the North-province unique challenges but also "opportunities for insurance." That includes "more or virtually more of the state and energy-efficient housing solutions that respond to Northers and Arctic conditions."

It highlighted projects like the Knufig Long Firm Case Facility in Easton Park, Nunezot, which incorporates high-level sanitation, thermal performance strategies, and multiple land points and mechanical heating systems to enhance comfort under Arctic conditions.

Asian Group, a general company and design company based in the Northwest Territories, has turned to building "ready-to-move" homes for the past four years, as part of a partnership with the Ray River Metis community.

Regina Canales, director of partnership and development for the company, described the model as "blinded insulated construction." Components of homes are built year-round in a tested facility, rather than at construction sites when the elements allow "to date, No. Canales—this means future has built homes on the road back to the Northwest Territories' 30 communities.

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Newfoundland, Quebec plan energy announcement

Provincial governments have been negotiating a deal for electricity from the Churchill River

ST. JOHN'S

The Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador says he'll be making an announcement with his Quebec counterpart. Monday amid reports the two Eastern provinces have struck a critical energy deal.

The Newfoundland and Labrador government is a news release says Tony Wakeham will welcome Christine Frichotte for "an energy and economic development announcement" in St. John's on Monday afternoon.

Quebec's Energy Minister, Bernard Deainville, and Hydro-Quebec president and chief executive Claudine Bouchard will also be there, according to a notice sent to media Saturday evening.

The two provincial governments have been negotiating a deal to share energy from the Churchill River in Labrador.

Last week, La Presse reported they had reached an agreement. Radio-Canada reported last week that each province would receive more electricity than what was included in a previous memorandum of understanding.

Hydro utilities in Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador jointly own the Churchill Falls generating station in Labrador, under a contract signed in 1974 and set to expire in 2011.

The provinces unveiled a framework agreement in 2012 to end the 1976 deal and establish a new arrangement to share energy and expand the Churchill River's generating capacity.

But when Mr. Wakeham was elected last fall, he subjected the draft deal to an independent review and sent a negotiating team back to the bargaining table.

Quebec is counting on the deal to secure the megawatts it needs to meet growing demand through 2015. However, Newfoundland and Labrador wanted to renegotiate the December, 2012, memorandum of understanding to secure better terms.

While Mr. Frichotte suggested last December that Quebec had other plans to secure its power supply in the event that negotiations with Newfoundland and Labrador failed, the two provinces recently appeared closer to an agreement.

At a meeting of the country's premiers last month, Quebec's Mr. Frichotte said she was confident there would be a new deal "in the coming weeks."

At the time, Mr. Wakeham noted that two sides "were making progress" at talks continued.

Then, amid reports last week a deal had been struck, Mr. Wakeham's office said nobody had signed final agreements.

However, a spokesperson for the Premier added the province had recently made significant progress in its negotiations with Quebec and the government of Canada.

Mr. Frichotte said the talks had "accelerated" and gave her confidence "that we can sign something in the near future."

Their predecessors — Andrew Furey of Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec premier François Legault — signed an ambitious memorandum of understanding in December, 2012, that appeared on track for a final agreement.

But Mr. Furey left politics in the spring of 2015, and Mr. Wakeham's subsequent Progressive Conservative government established a committee that concluded in May that the draft deal was not in Newfoundland and Labrador's best interests.

The tentative agreement was intended to resolve a long-standing dispute between the provinces by replacing the current 1974-1980 agreement governing the operation of the joint Churchill Falls power plant, which Newfoundland and Labrador consider an unfair.

And Hydro-Quebec was set to make massive investments to increase production along the Churchill River through partnership projects estimated at over $10 billion.

Currently, Hydro-Quebec purchases electricity from the plant at 0.4 cents a kilowatt hour to 10,000 at a higher price. The draft agreement stipulates that Hydro-Quebec would gradually increase the rate until 2015, reaching an effective average price of 0.4 cents a kilowatt hour, to times the current price.

The tentative deal proposed a 250-megawatt upgrade to the Churchill Falls facility and a sec-

ond 1,200-megawatt power house near the existing plant. It also proposed a new 1,200-megawatt power plant downstream at Golf Island.

The existing Churchill Falls plant has a capacity of 1,200 megawatts and supplies about 10 per cent of Hydro-Quebec's electricity.

If the agreement goes through, Quebec would have access to 1,200 megawatts to meet its needs, particularly to decarbonize its economy.

Before being defeated in the 2015 election, the Newfoundland and Labrador Liberals claimed that the proposal, if finished as planned in April, 2015, would bring the province more than $10 billion over the next 10 years.

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Quebec Premier Christine Frichotte, left, and Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham will meet in St. John's on Monday for an announcement. LOTT DARREN CALABRES/CP, FRONT PAUL DAUVY

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The devil is in the sectoral details

Amal negotiations with the U.S. what bargains benefit Canadians should be assessed sector-by-sector

MOUYGANG ALEXIMER

OPINION

Helds the Ingram: Kinsney Char is business and Trade Law of The University of Ottawa

Canada is reportedly negotiating concessions with the U.S. and Canada's leading for tariff relief on a wide range of sectors, as an Aug. to deadline for additional duties looms. Undoubtedly Prime Minister Mark Carney is aimed for a "global deal" that would complement its address trade decisions from steel to lumber that cross a global deal must weigh co-operation sector-by-sector.

Under is because the U.S. is trying to build industry-specific parallel markets partially debilitated from global commerce. In some sectors, Canada may benefit from training up with the U.S. in

others it does not.

Take the latest U.S. trade action. On Aug. 4, the United States imposed import restrictions on polychlor, a crucial input for senior industries and solar panels and aerospace products. This last "convention run" action to restore industries relevant to national security also applies to Canada. Its commercial significance is intense, likely but millions worth of European equity. The U.S. has based on zoos Statistics Canada data. The measure does however, illustrate the trade-offs involved when Canada is considering working with Washington on trade policy.

The new polyethylene manures does three things to create a commercially viable market in the U.S. First, it sets up a new tariff of a per cent for imported gas produce derivatives, including solar cells to generate demand for domestically owned polyethylene. Importantly, trading partners that impose "substantially equivalent import-adjusting action" can gain competition. That means incentives for other countries to join the U.S. and others under the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S. to the U.S.

Second, more carefully, the new measure sets a minimum import price reflected by a discount strength. The product-specific price down smokes the U.S. from fluctuations in international markets. Traders that import below that price will be permanently barred from importing production and derivative products into the U.S. That will ensure high compliance.

Third, the U.S. companies are not temporarily exempted if they make certain substantial adjustments in the United States. Linking a company-specific tariff to improve on industry efforts was presented in the pharma and commissionable details and will likely become a permanent feature of U.S. section 232 tariffs.

For Canada, costs outweigh benefits in raising these factors. U.S. efforts to increase could create Canada's international trade commitments, be a nightmare to administer and create fluteous pressure. Canada imports more than it reports. Imposing "substantially equivalent" tariffs would also make Canadian trade policy a standard on Washington's decision. Finally, the following program could push Canadian companies to relocate to the U.S.

During the U.S. effort on poly- silicon than makes little economic to replace some if anything, all-mass benefits and the local economic gains from installing solar energy weigh in favour of liberalization, wet protein-bonuses.

In other sectors, however, the U.S. offer underlying the Section 232 actions makes for a more attractive bargain.

On such for example, putting the U.S. in the U.S. market, de- linked from global downturn on variable federal, to already happening. Canada's tariff-rate quota regime pre- is about in June, 2023, acts as de facto strict tariff and price-floor substantial amounts. The U.S. has not cost factors 232 tariff on steel.

The EU imports its own strict tariff-rate quotas in July, 2023, carefully designed not only to increase the domestic industry but to remain compliant with international trade obligations. Negotiations have also heated up on the long-standing Global Forum on Total Excess Capacity hosted by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, a grouping of mostly 'blue-out states, to co-ordinate potential action. Before the end of the year, we may see a 'thousand-steal' after emerging.

Finally, steel companies already operate on both sides of the border and existing trade deals struck by the U.S. with the U.S. and others offer transition to manage steel trade. There is thus a strong case for aligning the U.S. with the U.S. on steel.

On critical minerals, by contrast, co-operation with the U.S. must be evaluated intensively manual. As a recent report by the World Economic Forum suggests, the appropriateness of policy interventions depends on the market conditions of specific minerals. While price floors can make sense for emerging markets such as minimum prices, the Canadian for mature markets such as copper or nickel markets such as gallium or germanium, which have important industrial and defence costs that lead to its import & by-products. Moreover, while the U.S. and Canada have converging interests in alternative rare earth supply chains to break China's quasi-monopoly, they evidently lack common ground on domestic trade, another critical mineral.

In short, while a global deal is desirable, what bargains benefit Canadians must be assessed sector-by-sector.

Love your loyalty pointals Consider the havoc they wreak for business

CLARE HARROP

OPINION

Partner and business lawyer in Zaire & Louisiana LLP's corporate and commercial franchise, licensing and distribution practice project

One of nearly 2,000 Marriott Canada's hotels recently sent a letter to chief executive Anthony Capuano, demanding a large share of the revenue Marriott came from its Boreve facility program.

At the same time that Marriott's Boreve-related revenues are increasing, the hotel owners—who operate independently and provide the rewards when Boreve members endorse their points for free hotel days—are reimbursably the company at steeply discounted rates. According to the hotel owners' letter, such by The Wall Street Journal, the compensation paid for the redemption of rewards doesn't match up to what they receive from paying customers.

At first glance, The overall payout is for a sample for dispute and one that could be divided by increasing the revenue share paid to hotel owners when Boreve's total annualized for free hotel days at their hotel. That's certainly part of it, but not the whole story.

The tension at the heart of the Marriott is that it can be what the provider of the rewards is the same party that benefits from selling loyalty points. Examples of this loyalty system would be Auroplan or that which rewards. Both upscale through a largely minded corporate structure.

The Boreve dispute reveals the unique problems that are associated with a program that involves separate parties representing customer loyalty to the frontline businesses and becomes, instead, a finan-

At the same time that Marriott's Boreve-related revenues are increasing, the hotel owners are reimbursed by the company at steeply discounted rates. STACER PLATOGETHY MAGUS

cial product for the profit of the brand owner. This is only made worse when the businesses that actually deliver the revenues aren't adequately compensated for the cost.

Marriott's relationship with its hotel owners is, in every functional sense, a franchise relationship. The structure here will be located by familiar to anyone in that world. The brand licenses its name and standards, independent owners operate the actual locations and a system of loss, marketing funds and shared programs, aligns everyone's incentives toward the same outcome. A customer who keeps coming back loyalty programs, does right, as a central to that alignment.

Many of Canada's most popular loyalty programs involve companies with fraiche

sees, including Loblaw's PC Optimum, Canadian Test's Triangle Box and, and Tim Robbins's Time Reveals. They would do well to benefit the losses of the Marriott saga.

In a franchise system, loyalty point may be natural and upset at the same location, but not necessarily. The franchise absorbs the costs of a discounted or less transaction, regardless of whether the customers patronized their location or a different location in the same system.

Franchisees are generally happy with this employment because the points were earned by the customer through frequent purchases at one of the franchise owners's locations—even for the franchise's own location. In this context, the reward whether either event or a loss contributes to an investment in brand loyalty and con-

tenter retention.

This high begins to break down when loyalty points become a product earned not only through patronage of a brand, but through other means such as credit card purchases, as with the case of Boreve and many points-syncretion days. The underlying current of the hotel owners' letter to Marriott's that they do not use the points holder as a customer worth investing in.

Some reasonably, the hotel owners' letter focuses on compensators they would like to receive a greater share of the revenue in exchange for providing free hotel days when Boreve points are redeemed. This seems like a sample for, but the reality is more complicated.

Once a brand-owner starts selling its loyalty points as a wholesale product, no amount of reimbursement or revenue sharing can entertain the price biologically connection. It is almost inevitable that the franchisee will stop prioritizing the reward recipient and may even begin to resent their customers that redeem points. Over time, this unreadable, loyalty program can still be a purely financial transaction and no happy service to reward loyalty.

The matters to all franchisors, because every franchise system will operate brand loyalty points. The high, and franchisee, are stations, can service, can service chains. So in the same temptation, loyalty data and loyalty currency are valuable, and brand owners are increasingly aware that selling points is both, such as integrating them into credit card funds, can generate additional revenue.

But if loyalty points are nothing more than a financial product to be sold by the brand owner for profit, the loyalty program will stop delivering on its product to the business owner. The business owner will stop training it as an important part of the marketing and promotional mix.

Ottawa is ignoring the beating heart of the life sciences sector

L. RICHARD GOLD

OPINION

Distinguished James McGill Professor of McGill University and chief policy and partnership officer of Louisiana

By March, Ottawa created the Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Sector Task Force to "quench the power of the task work" from "a full life sciences sector. Your months later, the task force's co-chairs issued a final report with no recommendations recognizing longstanding global pharma side. These included reporting a special report on the science-sector pharmaceutical pricing, and reflecting data in better justify these prices.

New demand, however, on emerging the problem of abuse caused by general a model to Canada pharmaceutical industry. That pipeline runs through a Canadian strength that the task force ignored—open-science partnership—designed to leverage Canada's market share. The high value unrestricted sharing with Canada has been seen.

Given the brief timeline and

membership, the task force's recommendation are unscrupulous. At least to off the task force's ct members run Canadian subsidiaries of multinationals or their trade associations. There were no generic companies represented, nor are universities or research hospitals. The report's recommendations benefit this membership strict deadlines to care regulations and soften price protection for multinationals while the waiting times are "unwilling" progress that supports smaller companies.

Without a strong data generation approach and a way to find those ideas into domestic firms, Canada will remain dependent on foreign assets, building Canadian strength in innovation starts from the ground up.

The task force described the situation: Foreign finance acquired in Canadian life sciences companies over the past 15 years with pharmaceutical imports have risen from 75 per cent to 75 per cent of domestic drug importations in a decade. A recent Geller and Wall article notes that, while the Canadian market is growing well, there is an absence of Canadian capital in back Canadian medical developers.

While the task force acknowledged that Canada' problems exist in early-stage discovery, clinical research and company creation, a largely anatomic that generating these discoveries requires to further assistance. This means that much.

The economics of the pharmaceutical industry underwives a division of labour. Universities conduct research, small firms turn that research into innovations and large business communities, then, innovators at universities and small breaches accustomed to approximately half of the scientifically innovative drugs approved between 1990 and 2000 while large firms focused on their stage of commercialization, particularly when they had strong links with outside organizations.

Unlike competitive countries, Canada is unusually dependent on public institutions. A 2024 study by the Council of Canadian Academies concluded that higher education problems 15 per cent in Canadian research and development compared with an biggest 2.5 per cent in the average population and Development (OECD) average of 45 per cent. There are research output has been steady

at about 4,5 times the OECD average as a share of GDP while business M&D intensity fell from 77 per cent of the OECD average to 2000 to 10 per cent in 2023. According to the report, Canada's overall M&D intensity fell from 6 per cent of GDP for 10 percent during that period while it increased in every other 10 country.

We cannot build a stronger domestic pharmaceutical industry without arousing discoveries from public institutions into companies capable of developing them. In the U.S., all our drugs approved from 2010-2015 depended on part, on U.S. federal funding and each additional $10-million on public funding generated roughly 2.5 million in private sector projects. With its weaker innovation system, this would be even more true in Canada.

Canada has developed a world-leading model that bridges the large between universities, small and medium-sized enterprises, and large firms—open-science partnerships. These being universities, hospitals and firms together to qualify these knowledge of the market and the market segment, which the firms can protect and advance through to the classic. With our limited resources and

firms, open-science partnerships provide a mechanism for Canada to do more with less. And we have done exactly that.

The Structural Consensus Consortium, and its Laboratory at the University of Toronto, created an open-science partnership to advance drug discovery in 2019, McGill University's Montreal Neurological Institute joined the movement in 2016, with an 8 1/2 million investments by the federal government and a 12.4-million gift from Larry Tanenbaum. The Canadians government later invented 1 1/2 million in Commerce to support open-science drug discovery by Canadian titles and research laboratories, and I have been told that the 1 1/2 million drug discovery platform. These investments are now paying off, with firms such as Mark Tharma entering into clinical trials.

The new government investments in open-science partnerships have a shelf life, and, if not removed, the country will weaken its chance of translating university and hospital research into the best government of health science. The new government will only invest in the companies at the end of the pipeline but in the Canadian institutions that feed it.

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Condos: HST rebate has helped spur more sales, developers say

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Fengate launched preconstruction sales at its 7x James condo building in Hamilton in 2022, as the market started to slump. It sold about half of the 100 units in the 30-plus-storey building that year. Today, 90 per cent of the project's units are sold, which is still below the 70-per-cent threshold required to get construction financing.

"As with many residential developers across Canada, Fengate continues to evaluate a range of strategic options for its remaining inventory," said Carolyn Poirier, the developer's vice-president of sales, leading and marketing.

Those options include continuing to try to sell to individual buyers, selling multiple units at a discount to large investors, or converting some or all of a project to rental units.

Last year, Fengate launched a new-to-own plan in Hamilton, where tenants in one of its rental-only apartment buildings could apply part of their rent to purchase a condo at 7x James. A ten- and could be eligible to use 10-per cent of their paid rent as a credit toward a condo purchase - up to $35,000, according to their website.

Fengate said this would provide residents with a tangible path from renting to homeownership. Ms. Poirier said there has been strong interest from residents, with several exploring ownership opportunities.

The federal and Ontario governments have also tried to help developers get rid of their unsold condos, and have implemented a temporary HST rebate for new home purchases. Developers say the tax break has helped spur more sales.

Revolutors' vice-president of sales Stefanie Gaglietti said in an e-mailed statement that purchases at its 300-unit Rebecca condo project in Hamilton have increased since the ethnic program went into effect in April.

Emblem Development: Launched sales of a large development in downtown Hamilton in 2022. Called Design District, the

In Vaughan Metropolitan Centre in Ontario, a slow of condo units are under development (SHORT RECONCUTED GLOBE AND MAIL)

project is marketed as three in-storey buildings with a total of 100 units. Its website is still advertising units for sale, though does not specify how many are unsold. Emblem declined to comment.

Although the price of preconstruction units has been declining, they are still more expensive than condos that have already been built. That means buyers can find a better deal on the resale market.

"There will be a sell-down when people realize they have to limit of reduce their pricing to get rid of inventory," Ms. Larmant said.

Mississauga City Centre used to have a similar volume of unsold units as in Vaughan Metropolitan Centre and downtown Hamilton. But two developers in the area recently cancelled one of their joint condo projects because they were not able to sell 70 per cent of the building's units before launching construction - the threshold required to get construction financing.

The cancelled project is called 300 and was being developed by Rogers Real Estate Development Ltd. and Urban Capital, Inc. which was not yet under construction, was designed to be 18 storeys, with nearly 100 units. Sales were launched a few years earlier.

"Following a promising initial launch in late 2021, a prolonged shift in the condominium market and our inability to reach the

sales threshold required to begin construction have led us to make the difficult decision not to move forward with Ms." Rogers Real Estate's vice-president, treasurer John Anderson said in a statement to The Globe and Mail this month.

"As a result, all purchase agreements have been cancelled, and all deposits have been refunded," the statement said.

The lower was the sixth phase of a larger condo development with more than 5,000 residential units. The developers' first two skyscrapers, called Ms and Ms, have been completed and are fairly occupied. The third, Ms, is nearing completion. At its storeys, Ms is one of the tallest buildings in Canada. It has about 100 units, according to its website.

Two other condo towers, Ms and Ms, are under construction. It is unclear whether they have unsold units, and Rogers declined to comment on sales for those two buildings.

Fannola Corp. has also been developing in Mississauga City Centre and has about 60 units unsold at the area as of mid-June, according to Dominic Tompa, president of Fannola Realty Corp., the in-house brokerage for the housing developer.

Over the past few years, multiple condo projects have been completed, leading to the over-supply of units in the area.

"You had a lot of projects that

were sold between 2017 and 2022 and all having come to completion in the last 24 months to 20 months," Mr. Tompa said. "You've got a lot of product that will just take time to absorb."

In Vaughan Metropolitan Centre, or VMC, a slow of condo units are under development. VMC has been a hub of development for the past 10 years. It was designated as Vaughan's new downtown after the previous made a commitment in 2010 to extend Toronto's main subway line north to Vaughan, according to the city's website.

One of the city's brochures from 2021 said there were 20,000 housing units planted for the neighborhood.

The City of Vaughan did not really be a request for comment on the plans and volume of unsold units.

So far, 10,186 condo units have been developed in VMC, according to Emble data. Of that amount, 81 per cent was completed after 2020, in the condo market peaked and then slumped.

Some of the major developers that have projects under was in VMC include SmartCenters REIT, Menkes Developments Ltd. and pension fund British Columbia Investment Management Corp.'s real estate arm, Qualified Property Group.

Menkes and Qualified are co-developing Encore at Reave, a 18-storey condo building with more than 100 units. There are still units for sale, according to their website. Qualified declined to comment on the number of unsold units, and Menkes did not respond to a request for comment.

SmartCenters is also advertising units for sale at its Park Place development, which has two towers, one that is 48 storeys and another that is 55 storeys, according to its website.

SmartCenters did not respond to requests for comment. Its website said that its VMC development would eventually be home to 20,000 residents.

A key issue dampening sales is that mom and pop investors - who used to account for the overwhelming majority of precon-

struction purchases - have lost interest.

Many who have already closed on a purchase are bleeding cash every month, because they either cannot find a return or the rental rate is not enough to cover their monthly mortgage payment and condo fees.

In VMC, rents have dropped to an average of $5.42 a square foot, or $5.24 for a two-square-foot unit, in the first quarter of this year. That's compared to an average of $4.41 a square foot, or $4.29 for a two-square-foot unit, in the first quarter of 2024, according to data from new-home consulting firm Urbanation Inc.

For investors who bought for price appreciation, condo values are no longer increasing.

The drop in condo prices has made it more difficult for preconstruction buyers to close on their units because they often have to come up with additional funds to cover the gap between what they agreed to pay and the current price. That shortfall can run in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

If buyers are unable to close, they are in default of their purchase contract. If they walk away, they lose their deposit and the developer has to take back the unit and either hold it, or try to sell it again.

In one VMC building called the Vincent, some preconstruction buyers are trying to get out of their purchase contracts. The Vincent was launched during the height of the real estate boom in 2021 and sold out in six months. It consists of nearly 800 condo units across two skyscrapers. Buyers were expected to start closing on their units this summer.

Inchoor Scarfe, a realtor with Re/Max Plus City Team Inc. who specializes in distressed sales, said some of the Vincent's buyers were trying to get out of their sales contracts. A decline in property value from the time buyers purchased units to when they were completed has made it difficult for buyers to close on their condos.

"Toronto condos have seen a horrible downturn," Mr. Scarfe said.

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Imax: Buy-in from directors has been crucial to company's success

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I thank Chris Nolan has helped Imax in a big way. 'Crispitas chief executive officer Ellis Jacob said in an interview.

The Odyssey is the first feature-length film shot entirely with Imax cameras, and Mr. Nolan's evangelism for the format has had a real financial impact. It generated the biggest opening weekend in the company's history, with Chisys million in Imax box office revenue. That represented as per cent of total ticket sales.

Of that tale, 16.9 million came from the ad screens around the world that have one of these building film tools. (The rest are still Imax screens, but other digital projections.)

In late July, less than a week after the opening, Imax Corp. chief executive officer Richard Calfond rated about how Imax had been at the centre of the conversation about the Odyssey. During a conference call to discuss the company's results, he told analysts that the film would be 'transformational' for the company.

The success of the movie, he said, is 'something we've been building toward for decades.'

When Mr. Nolan fired up the building cameras to shoot his target plan, he was employing more in-Canada technology. Imax was invented by Canadians Gracie Ferguson, Robert Kerr, William Shaw and Roman Krenne. (The company is still partly Canadian, with headquarters in Nolmesaga as well as New York and Los Angeles.)

In its early years, Imax screens were mostly relegated to venues such as science centres, showing short documentaries. On a trip to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington in the 1960s, the American investor Richard Calfond took his family to its Imax theatre.

He was impressed by the scope of the floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall screens, and the picture quality. Relieving in the potential for Imax to make the jump to Hollywood Blackhearts, Mr. Calfond led a team of investors that acquired the company in 1994 for roughly 10,000 million.

But building stand-alone theatres that could accommodate Imax's massive proportions didn't make financial sense. Instead, the company sat about striking deals with movie theatre operators such as Easwood, Eastwood ANC and Toronto's Cineplex Inc., to include its screens in their multiplexes.

Those exhibitors pay to license the Imax brand, technology and equipment such as the projectors and sound systems. Imax also gets a cost of the ticket sales.

This model has helped make Imax into a global business. It now has more than 1,800 screens around the world, 45 of them in Canada. As the footprint grew, their studies began working Imax into their release plans for big blackheaters. A major step forward came in 2009, when James Cameron's Avstar opened in six Imax theatres worldwide, its biggest release at the time.

The company has continued to grow since then. The Odyssey opened on 1994.

Exhibitors are demanding more. In the first seven months of this year, Imax signed to agreement for new or upgraded systems worldwide. In the company's second-quarter ahead of the Odyssey, Imax did its highest number of installations in a decade.

For the theatre owners - who have been increasingly investing in premiums formats including Imax competitor Network covered by CJ 2071EX, part of South Korea's CJ Group1, and Cineplex's own - bigger-screen OXNET, among others - convincing audiences to pay a little extra for a ticket to they strategically.

In addition, 'audiences are becoming increasingly selective about when they go to the movies,' Mark Wilson, president of global Imax theatres, wrote in an e-mail to The Globe.

'When they do go, they're generating toward experiences that feel special and differentiated. That's an important part of the conversation we're having with exhibitors everywhere.'

Buy-in from directors has been crucial. Ryan Coogan's best-picture Oscar nominee Sinners was filmed partly with Imax cameras. This year's release that did the same include Resident Evil, Sister Fighter, The End of Oak Street and Dama 'Villarware's Dune: Part Three. Imax has brought Imax to much attention as Mr. Nolan's spin.

Proportional 'post Elle threads the film out of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey into an Imax 70-millimetre projector at the Cineplex theatre in Vaughan, Ont., last week. As part of his work, Mr. Ole has now watched the movie nearly 40 times. PHOTOS BY DIANNE COLLINS GLOBE AND WALL

The company has already put together a presentation for studios and directors, Mr. Calfond said, to showcase the success of The Odyssey and to make the case for them to film with Imax technology in the future.

Audiences are becoming increasingly selective about when they go to the movies. When they do go, they're gravitating toward experiences that feel special and differentiated.

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'Avstar established Imax as a force in entertainment, accelerated our network growth around the world and permanently raised the bar for our box office,' Mr. Calfond said. 'We believe The Odyssey is also a transformational writer, in many ways we can see, and many ways we can't yet predict.'

With just a handful of Imax lock-form across Canada equipped with 70-millimetre film projectors, tickets for these screenings are tough to get. So tough, in fact, that among the Canadians who have not yet snagged one is Cineplex's CEO.

'I'm telling you, it's so hard to get a ticket,' Mr. Jacob said.

He was unable to make it to the film's New York premiere, and caught an Imax digital screening in Toronto. He prefers not to sit in the front row, the only spots available for many showings. And now, he's the boss - but he adds, 'I don't want to take the suit away from a patron that's willing to pay.'

This sort of scarcity may be exactly how Imax wants it. The company's future depends on convincing movie theatre investors that they need to build more - and these types of sold-out screenings are an ideal selling point.

'They see filmmakers increasingly designing movies for IMAX and audiences actively seeking out the IMAX Experience, and that's a very compelling proposition for our partners,' Imax's Mr. Wilson wrote.

Imax has estimated that its un-tapped market could accommodate 1,000 screens in North America, more than double the current total. Globally, the company be-

Imax's revenue growth, pre-Odyssey

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Seattle prepare to enter an auditorium playing The Odyssey in Vaughan last week. Imax has more than 1,800 screens around the world, with 45 of them in Canada. Their exhibitors pay to license the Imax brand, technology and equipment such as the projectors and sound systems.

lence it could expand to more than 4,000 locations.

But that almost certainly will not include many more 70-millimetre-compatible screens for one thing, Imax hasn't manufactured the film projectors in years. And not every release will be shot on 70-millimetre film stock, or bring in the kind of traffic needed to earn back the cost of producing such expensive prints.

Still, it is becoming more common. Proportions like the Sky who are brought on site only for the specialized task of screening films - have been much lower in recent years, handling hours; no hours such as Sinners, Project that Mary and Our Battle After Another. The job has its downside: because the film must be monitored carefully for dust particles, hair or other imperfections, pre-jerications cannot simply start the rest and let it run.

Mr. Ole has now watched The Odyssey, all two hours and 10 minutes, nearly 40 times. He's memorized entire scenes of dialogue but to him, it's worth it.

'To get people to come back to the theatre to the main goal - and control about film,' Mr. Ole says, 'a he positions his chair in front of the small window for yet another viewing. 'All the younger kids, they're coming and understanding that this was a format, built in the day, that was amazing. And you can see it on the screen.

'There's no lie. When you look at it on screen, it's amazing.'

The Cineplex theatre in Vaughan is one of just nine locations in Canada showing The Odyssey in Imax 70-millimetre film, the format in which the movie was shot by Mr. Nolan.

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Total Imax cinema locations worldwide

'Imax' screenings are one of including both shows in Canada such as 'Homeric and cinema scenes.' SUGAN MANAGEMENT ROBERTSON / THE GLOBE AND WALL SQUARE: IMAX RESISTOR PRESENTATION

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Trade: Much of RBC's business in Europe involves working with Canadian companies

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RBC is eager to be part of the mix. The leader has seen growing interest from Canadian companies exploring opportunities in Europe, as well as inbound interest from foreign businesses.

Much of RBC's business in Britain and Europe involves working with Canadian companies on deals it overseas, pulling from its expertise in both regions. The bank was the sole financial advisor on Brookfield Wealth Solutions' takeover of Britain-based Just Group PLC for £1.4 billion as part of its expansion into the country's pension risk market.

RBC also advised British mining giant Anglo-American PLC on its merger with Vancouver's York Resources Ltd.

Mr. Nelder said many Canadian companies are also diversifying their funding sources through cross-border financing. The bank's debt capital markets team is spending more time with clients considering the sterling, euro, Australian dollar and U.S. dollar bond markets.

As global trade routes into RBC expects cross-border transactions to boom, Mr. Nelder said trade dynamics have been changing for more than a year now, but companies are being thoughtful when approaching their long-term strategies and navigating volatile geopolitical swings.

"Even if they make a strategic decision that they want to expand in another geography, it takes time to find the right opportunity and execute on that," Mr. Nelder said. "We're still fairly early in the journey of seeing an increase in what we expect to be a higher level of cross-border activity."

As the bank plots its expansion in the region, RBC is also increasingly taking on deals between companies that are both based in other Britain or Europe.

Earlier this year, RBC acted as an adviser to an institutional investor consortium, including Europe's largest pension fund, Dutch asset manager APG,

David Nelder, head of capital markets at RBC, says the bank will continue hiring, particularly in Germany and Paris, and the 'additions are going to be measured in the hundreds.' (AUGY RESEARCH/THE GUIDE) AND 1996.

Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte and Norps Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway's and the world's largest sovereign wealth fund The consortium acquired a 40-per-cent stake in German electricity transmission system operator Tenor-T GmbH & Co. for up to €4.9-billion.

RBC also advised German-based pension fund Antireverierung Westfalen-Lippe and two German institutional investors on the sale of their combined indirect stake in Amprion GmbH, one of the country's utility companies. The deal was valued at €1.4-billion.

"Those are interesting because we do lots of cross-border business, but both of those were effectively in-country domestic German transactions," Mr. Nelder said.

"When you think about transactions of that scale – when you get into €1 and €4-billion transactions – those were very large,

very competitive pieces of business that all banks would like to be around."

RBC is building investment-banking teams that specialize in high-demand sectors, including industrials, health care, financial institutions and technology.

Last fall, RBC moved its Frankfurt and Paris teams – its two largest in Europe – into bigger offices to accommodate its growing work force and upgrade its premises as it attracts new European clients and bigger deals. RBC has been hiring across Britain and Europe, pulling across bankers from capital markets heavyweight banks, including U.S.-based Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc.,

Germany-based Deutsche Bank AG and London's Barclays Plc.

The lender has grown its capital markets team in the region by 10 per cent in the past five years. Its 1,200 employees are largely based in Britain, but also span across Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain and the Netherlands, which also serves the other Russian countries of Bulgaria and Luxembourg.

In the past year, RBC has hired more than 10-managing directors in its European business. Mr. Nelder said the bank will continue hiring, in particular in Germany and Paris, and the 'additions are going to be measured in the hundreds.'

Looking ahead, he said the bank would consider expanding its capital-markets business in Italy where many of its global peers have offices.

The lender is looking at filling gaps in its coverage by sector and country.

RBC is building investment-

banking teams that specialize in high-demand sectors, including industrials, health care, financial institutions and technology.

In global markets, the bank is expanding its equity derivatives and financing businesses. It's also enhancing its commodities products and services to push further into the growing energy and metals markets. RBC hired from Ruffin from Citigroup's London office as its head of commodities risk solutions in the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

At its investor day in 2026, the bank surrendered its corporate-banking unit to grow in the multi-digit-digit range. Just Mr. Nelder said the business has been outpacing that target as companies seek out more capital.

RBC has also been investing in its U.S. cash management business, which it launched in 2024. It recently brought British and European companies onto its RBC Clear platform, which provides its large corporate clients with payments and receivable management, as well as other treasury and liquidity services.

But the bank still considers its U.S. capital-markets business its biggest growth opportunity. RBC was the only Canadian bank on the list of 12 bookmanners involved in the SpaceX IPO in June. It was also a joint bookrunner on Alphabet Inc.'s US$14.75-billion equity capital case.

And the Canadian business is still critical to the unit's growth strategy, especially as interest in the bank's domestic market rises from foreign companies and investors amid Ottawa's stated ambitions to bolster economic growth.

"There's been a very meaningful shift in the strategic direction of the country led by the federal government, and when you look at the focus on energy, defence, critical minerals, infrastructure, that strategy is resonating," Mr. Nelder said.

"Canada globally is being seen as a much more attractive place for investment than it has been in the last decade."

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Parents: Your RESP is a potential gold mine

Matching programs and a long investment window can boost the tax-free investment

KNOTT GAIN

BUYING

Keep your card from losing school in four further and are afters of the new book Parent Act of Melbourne (Without Being One)

One of the first things I did without we brought our own more and more to the hospital was open an RESP.

The Registrar's Education Savings Plan, or RESP, is a tax-adjusted investment account for the years, and can be used for your child's postsecondary education. Similar to a PISA, you don't get a tax refund when you contribute, but investment gains are tax-free, and the money can be withdrawn tax free to pay for school the same. The information is that if your child doesn't end up going to postsecondary you can get your contributions back, but the cost will be far with taxes and taxes.

RESP's also include a government matching portion called the Canada Education Savings Grant, or CESC. Your contributions are matched at 15 per cent a year, up to 5 per cent. So if you can

Minimum and maximum returns for three major indices

Compound annual growth rates over 1000, 1000, 10 and 15 years

8 Minimum 7 Maximum

The MEDEARTS include significant annual income. Such dollars are free to pay for schooling, $5.00.

Source: The RSP year for SEP 1978 data is 1993, while TSE and MEDEARTS are in 2003.

The GLOBE AND WALL AUGUST 2018 data is 1994 or 1995, and 1996 or 1997.

tribute is 3.5% a year, you get the maximum profit. There is also an additional amount you can get. Each the Canada Learning Board is 1.5% income to families.

These matching programs with five money are not being made. However, the real advantage to the RESP is some thing. That's little overlooked, and that's the investment horizon. It determines how risky you can afford to be.

The 10 year old the money in less than a year, it makes some to put the money into a savings ac-

count. If you don't need the money for less, so or so years, you can invest in higher returns big but more volatile assets like stocks.

It can also be a difficult question to answer. When we're looking at cash sitting in our bank accounts, we don't know exactly when we'll stand it. It could be a year from now — or tomorrow. The RESP, however, is no longer.

RESP are meant to provide for postsecondary education. That means that the money generally

can't be used until your child turns it. This has a big impact on your investment decisions.

The reason that short investment horizons force you to be conservative is that higher-trusting assets like stocks are generally more volatile. In any given year, stock markets can soar or drop a stomach-draining amount.

Looking at the price data of XIC, the other exchange market had tracking the TXL this highest one-year return was 15.05 percent in 2003. The worst was 10.45 per cent, during the depths of the sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2008.

However, what's interesting is that happens when we waken our investment horizon from one to five years. Measuring the same stock market performance over a filling five-year window, the average performance is 1.5% to 1.5 per cent, and the worst is 5.45 per cent. The range of possible outcomes has narrowed considerably, and so has been seen to be negative over the lifetime of this fund.

Thinking into our investment time frame to 10 years, the higher an annualized return becomes 14.5 per cent, and the lowest 3.45 per cent. And over 10-year windows, which is the investment time frame we're looking at, the highest return becomes 8.4 per cent, with the lowest 9.4 per cent.

I'm using this TXL as our benchmark because we're close

down, but this effect is also observable on the TX Index, the SRP 100 (SPY), as well as the WALL EACH (SE).

The best weapon to stay volatility is time, because the more time you have, the more predictable your money, the more time you have, the more every day long term, and as it turns out, when your time horizon is more than 15 years, even the volatile SRP 100 has never lost money.

In any given year, a 10 per cent stock portfolio can be brief, gaining or losing double-digit percentages. But over a long enough holding period, an all-stock portfolio doesn't seem so risky anyway. The 10 per cent return is 10.45 per cent. The 10 per cent return is 1.5% to 1.5 per cent. So what's the return amount in a TXL index fund like SE, the worst can performance they can expect would be 5.5% per cent. So that's more brief, by the time that child graduates high school, their ESP would be more about 10.45 per cent. So that's the double what the parents put in.

And if they get returns at the top end of that range of 10 per cent, that RESP would be worth over 10.45 per cent. And so many people are

So, if you have a child and you haven't opened up an RESP, do it now. If you know how to use it properly, it's a gold mine.

Investors look to earnings to keep stocks afloat

LEON MARTIN & CO. OF GLOBE

Investors had into trust work weighing further concerns over the years, inflation and geopolitical concerns against another industry earnings came to their continues to keep stocks supported. With little fresh guidance from policy makers and uncertainty focusing over the TX Federal Reserve's next move, many investors are increasingly looking to corporate earnings — further is part by spending in Administrative — to validate/military operations and offset macroeconomic risks. The primary thing is going to continue in by the Federal Reserve's, and Shares' budget, economic strategies of Prentice-Pond Management. He sees the Aug 27 to go in fashion in his competition as "black man" experiences only in policy makers to provide clarity on how they are interpreting inflation and growth.

"If you can't look to the Fed for guidance, then you have to increasingly look to earnings for guidance."

I'm investors like Mr. Nestler. He faces is his own business. The signal and move on whether policymakers can articulate a trouble framework for navigating to higher and growth after hours of mixed messaging. That uncertainty has kept readers closely by hand-moved. Treasury yields volume adjustments for inflation — they drive of acceptance. Doing yields can promote technology stocks and other long-duration assets by boosting financing costs.

The dynamic is particularly important for all related companies and hypercaloric whose shares have been among the market's biggest drivers this year. The SRP 100 XIA is used high in Thursday, and earnings shares climbed and falling oil prices boosted what a profit after a rather than expected TXL producer price report.

Treasury yields also fall as market panel back rate hike expectations next month.

Stocks and the SRP 100 information technology make how notched towards gain this week. Even so, investors remain alert to large millions could manufacture. Elevated energy prices and stalled in the take have raised concerns that oil markets could job higher, potentially adding pressure to consumer prices and bond yields. For now, however, strong corporate results have helped contain volatility. About 16 per cent of SRP 100 companies supporting have beaten earnings estimates, with profits up 12 per cent, evaluating results to earnings gains at Alphabet and Amazon, according to URS data.

Earnings results from Walmart and Alexander, leading firms and with their their own, into the health of the U.S. consumer and broader economy.

"Not only have we seen earnings

high brain and revenue beats so far, we're also seeing a lot of good and guidance as well and limited domestic guidance from company cars. They're the ones falling on. We'll be party credit for," said, today. Part, director of investment strategy at Boston Company. "When you look at what are the things during inflation right now, they're ... one-time checks/redits than something more persistent." Earnings strength has been especially notable among companies that in all-related infrastructure spending, a theme investors can put to increase from real current economy weeks.

For Chris Ginault, chief market manager at USA Capital Management, hypercaloric spending plans are among the most important developments to watch. Recent earnings reports, he said, have been a major market shift in companies round to benefit most from the d-Saves.

Big Tech's AI spending is set to

rise past US$750-billion this year from US$400-billion in 2018, and the scale of these investments has fueled questions about whether hypercaloric can generate sufficient returns to justify the massive capital outlay.

Yet, Mr. Ginault's demitated concerns that those companies are uncontrolling themselves financially, arguing their balance sheets to ensure strong life stress got in corporate America and that aggressive investment reflects strong demand.

"If you were running that business you would buy, borrow, and send to get your money to put into that business," he said, referring to some of the fast-growing cloud business.

Still, investors acknowledged that oil prices and geopolitical developments could set a rough sale for inflation and interest rate outlook.

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These are the most common mistakes you can make when it comes to money

LEON GOLBE

Portfolio manager Joos Higgins had a long time client call him one day with good news. The client had fallen really in love with a woman who lived across the country.

He was 10 years ago back. The client's 6-9 of estate spent in his 2016, wanted to call his 10-million investment portfolio, including long-term retirement accounts, to buy a house with cash for the sample to live on. There was no need to pay for the sale of the estate, but he was 10 years ago back.

What the Higgins had been it was a bad idea, the client proceeded anyway and he never lived from him again.

The continuous mining of emotional and financial decisions is something that leads clients away," said Mr. Higgins, an advisor at EthioNews, under the banner of Vancouver-based Leeds Financial. "Obviously we should be more thoughtful in reducing that our financial decisions are not just a good thing."

It's one of many common insurgency Canadians involved in the Leeds from the Globe and Mail ahead on financial advisers, including Mr. Higgins, to share the biggest money mistakes they've seen. An one-scale over the years.

The Leeds Financial is a single because of budgeting errors or picking one ETF over another. Instead, they're mistakes—when driven by retention, a lack of financial planning or a failure to discuss money altogether.

MUSTAKI 1: NOT INTERESTING

In February, 2016, the Gillespie, financial adviser and portfolio manager at Vancouver-based RSP Integrated Wealth Management, was invited to 1.99 per cent of project with client whose retirement portfolio was more than 10 million.

Three-quarters of her account was in

Sental which the rest was in blue; they were often that had been made less than Sentel. At 10 p.m. in the last 10 years, the account did more than one-third of the total valuation of companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Mr. Gillespie advised her to call at least half of her Sentel holdings. "For the rest of my life, I'll remember this common business," he said.

Mr. Gillespie recalled how she looked at him and said, "That's the simplest thing I've ever heard."

She said, "It's the only thing that made money to buy last five years and you want me to sell it."

Tenteth was also your plummeted, and she less the prospective client sold shares on her own. Mr. Gillespie estimates her retirement portfolio would have fallen from more than 10 million to roughly $25,000.

MUSTAKI 2: THE IMPRESS THAT ARE TOO GOOD YOUR TRIP

Travis Bousin, senior wealth adviser at Island Savings Wealth Management and portfolio manager at Arion Wealth in Victoria, recalled a real from shares who participated in a charitable donation tax shelter before meeting him.

The clients attended a free lunch session for the provincial if they donated money to a certain district. They would receive a savings worth more than the amount donated.

"They were wanting to do the right thing — so they thought it was a wise one," Mr. Koirala said. "I expect I looked over going. Yet the entire promise was dependent on the tax investment holdings up, he added."

Later, the Canada Revenue Agency called, "I might like arrangement, and the client had to repay the tax savings, plus interest, coming around for 10."

The company's own large question that would always work in the coronavirus. Would I still do that if there was no tax benefits? Mr. Koirala said, "If the answer is 'no,' then

that's a real flag."

He recommends getting independent tax advice about charitable donation tax shelters from a professional without any skin in the game.

MUSTAKI 3: A HOURS TO PLAN

Your Nationalism, senior wealth adviser at CI Anastro Wealth Management in Toronto, said one of the biggest mistakes clients make is failing to plan before major life events, such as transferring wealth or of things.

Some entrepreneurs, for example, will not have cash-building to successful business but put little thought into monetizing it when it comes to retirement.

One such entrepreneur, who is Mr. Ubi Gachana, is one after selling his business for two-million, hoping to reduce his tax bills.

"There was no strategy we could put in place to save him taxes because the event had already happened," she said. "He should have talked with me, should, there to live years before selling his business."

MUSTAKI 4: CONTINUE CROSS

One adviser, who asked to remain anonymous to preserve client confidentiality, pretends to questionate an outrage mistake that has been made.

One family the adviser worked with had her death, deceased or got her nothing what would happen to the property after the parents died.

There was an overarching agreement, kidding plan or decision how the outrage could be separated? or who could ever use it, the adviser said.

Somehow surfaced when the three-strongs involved tried to decide what to do with the prospect, the example is keep the business. The company's own business is to offer a case they needed the money, and the third loved the outrage but couldn't afford any taxes, repairs or maintenance.

The outrage became the perfect vehicle to health and years of overstating or refurbish family, the adviser said. By the time everything was settled, it had been sold and then decided to thousands of dollars were spent to cover legal fees and taxes, and the challenge relationships had fallen apart.

MUSTAKI 5: SURFESTATED HOUR

Revealed in Peronia, since he/she wealth adviser and associate portfolio manager at Peronia Wealth Advisory of Raymond Burr, in Toronto, said one of the biggest mistakes she sees is people inheriting wealth without being prepared to manage it.

One family she worked with was ordered to her after the fallest, a successful American entrepreneur married to a Canadian, and used her agent's name, including a U.S. retirement account, to his adult children. "What became clear very quickly was that there had been very little discussion around money growing up? No, Peronia said."

One sibling was financially independent and trained the inheritance as a long-term asset. The other was carrying debt, living psychogenic to psychologic and had little experience managing money. Although the latter sibling initially worked to support the family, they were also working with the other with domestic, around 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

"It wasn't intelligence. It wasn't entitlement and it wasn't a lack of opportunity. It was a lack of preparation. No one had to be sure of the knowledge, the habits, the confidence needed to manage it," Mr. Peronia said. "The present risk to a successful family's identity is 10 per cent. or market volatility 10 is really silence."

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At 50% Tony and his wife bought a $500,000 townhouse in Whitehorse

Work brought them to Northern Canada, where they significantly boosted their income

ZANNA KRISTINA

MY FIRST HOME

■ In 2025, Tony and his wife bought their first home: a 20mm heliotron, 3/4 heliotron and unit townhouse in Whitehorse. Taken for about $200,000.

It was a milestone that felt distant a few years earlier, when the couple was living in Victoria and watching home prices climb.

Tony and his wife, now 12, and 47, immigrated to Canada from Europe to work and settled in Victoria. They arrived with little money and spent their first years as renters, establishing their careers and raising their son.

"It just seemed like we were never going to get out of the rural water," said Tony.

Their eventual path to becoming homeowners would mean moving more than 2,800 kilometers north. After a brief stint in Alberta, the family settled in Whitehorse in 2001 when Tony's wife got a job with the territory's government.

The move transformed their finances. Her salary was at least $30,000 higher than she could have earned in a comparable position in B.C. Tony said.

As a self-employed acupuncturist, Tony went from charging five a session to four while his schedule went from partially booked to consistently fall. "My income went up pretty much doubtful," he said.

But before Tony and his wife could save for a few hours, they had debt to tackle. The couple owed $10,000 from their cash days in Canada when Tony worked cold jobs with or landscaping and can home climb, while his wife studied and worked.

After the debt was gone, they turned their attention to a down payment for the next three years. Tony said they directed their savings into their RRPA,

knowing they could eventually withdraw that money through the federal Home Report Plan.

"You didn't have to split your savings. You could just put everything into one next egg. That is really helped us to get to $20,000, which was what we know we needed to get to a down payment."

They reached their target around the beginning of the pandemic but passed their home search because his business temporarily shut. Once Tony returned to work, the pair went back to hunting and bought their own home directly from the hidden before the construction was complete.

Prior to becoming homeowners, the family was paying $4,500 to monthly cost for a two-year room house. Their initial mortgage payment was close to $1,000 a month. They'd chosen a variable rate mortgage at 10 per cent because they weren't sure if they'd be in the North long term.

But as interest rates rose, their payments did too. They eventually switched to a five-year fund at around 4 per cent and now put approximately $2,000 a month.

"We could have looked in at around $2,000, but you like and learn."

Owing a home in the North comes with unique expenses. Tony said their electricity costs jump from roughly $200 a month in summer to between $800 and $1,200 in winter months, despite they now build living well- insulated. The company also pays an extra $200 a year for earthquake insurance.

Still, Tony believes moving north opened down for his family that might not have been possible otherwise.

In Whitehorse, higher wages relative to home prices can still make home ownership a reality he households with two good in comes.

According to national asset payroll data, the average annual earnings to 9.8kms are more than $79,000, well above all in provinces in Canada.

For Tony and his family, the trade from south to north included long winters, more expensive

travel to visit family and higher costs for some goods. But the move ultimately delivered what the couple sought.

"We've got the financial security of buying a house, and that's what we came for. That was what we used to achieve, and we achieved it," he said.

He expects to stay in Whitehorse until his son, now in Grade 1,佩带着 high school. After that, he said his wife hope to sell more back to B.C. and downsize, ideally taking on a much smaller mortgage or none at all.

COSTS

■ Purchase price: Approximately $200,000

■ Down payment: $10,000 ■ Legal fees: Approximately $2,000

■ Realize fee: Now, bought directly from builder.

■ Furniture: Tony did not need the total but said furnishing a home is pricey in Whitehorse because of limited local selection and high shipping costs. For example, he said a bulky BILA at 40,000 per cent around $200 to ship

■ Mortgage: Approximately $1,000

■ Home insurance: $1,275 a year, including earthquake coverage

■ Electricity: Approximately $200 a month in summer and $800 to $1,200 a month in winter

■ Property taxes: Approximately $1,000 annually, roughly $300 a month ■ Advice: "If you're down south and selling like home ownership is out of reach, then come north. If you're get quick decisions and you can get a good job, then you can get a combined income of $200,000 plus, and with a lot of saving and a lot of living expenses can you have a house. It does pay to come north. It's paid as to come north."

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What consumers can expect as the EQ Bank-PC Financial merger takes shape

BARRY CHOI

OFFICER

Personal finance and travel support at morepotmakers.com. He was previously affiliated with EQ Bank, PC Financial and HBC but currently has no relationship with any of the brands.

When EQE—the parent company of EQ Bank—announced plans last year to acquire PC Financial from Leblanc, many people were in considering what would happen to their PC Optimum points.

PC Optimum is one of Canada's biggest loyalty programs, with more than 10 million active members earning points at Leblanc every store, Shoppers Drug Mart, and Euro gas stations. So, the stakes are high. Now that the day has officially closed, we're beginning to see how the merger is taking shape and what it means for consumers.

EQ Bank is a digital multi financial institution that launched in 2001 and built its reputation offering some of the most competitive interest rates to the country. Although rates have been drilled, now with the bank in Canada's overnight rate—and the bank now requires direct deposit to submit its highest rates—EQ Bank still consistently offers better interest rates on savings accounts and guaranteed investment certificates than traditional banks.

EQE became the exclusive financial partner for PC Optimum in July when the dual-based Early bulk system suggests that the company will have an sale. And while sales of a future devaluation are understandable, nothing is for suggests that's on the horizon.

"The first step of how EQ Bank plans to leverage PC Financial rates through a recent promotion, focused balance on the benefit of the PC Optimum points—a key value—for signing up for a PC Financial credit card and spending just four at Leblanc's last 24/7, human access such as Leblanc's No Fills, and Real Canadian Superstore. The spending requirement was far lower than what other credit cards demand for a comparable bonus.

Existing PC Financial cardholders were to left out either EQ Bank or HBC before with $1,000 PC Optimum points—a few value. These early offers were a straightforward way to demonstrate the benefits of the merger.

However, for the bank to improve PC Financial cardholders or to encourage them to sign up for an EQ Bank account, they may need to do more.

"With it's impossible to know what EQ Bank will do next, it's impossible to predict how to keep for—certain enhancements based on what the bank already does well and what to琳琅琅琅的 have introduced.

One opportunity lies in foreign transaction loss. Most credit cards charge 1.5 per cent on purchase made to be 10,000,000 units, and 1.5 per cent on purchase made to be 10,000,000 units. The credit would be 10,000,000 units, or 1,000,000 units, so adding this paid as a benefit to PC Financial cardholders would reinforce its challenge-based positioning.

Another potential improvement involves annual loss. The PC Student card—PC Financial's top-tier product—carries a Euro annual fee—is used only in the first year. EQ Bank could consider rebating that fee annually for customers who maintain a minimum balance in an EQ Bank account, a strategy used by several major banks and healthtrends.

There's also room to innovate in the mortgage space. EQ Bank offers residential mortgages, which opens the door to including PC Optimum points to homebuyers who choose EQ Bank as their lender.

This may sound ambitious, but those offers aren't uncommon. HBC recently offered first-time homebuyers up to $1,000 HBC Avion points for securing an eligible mortgage and many lenders have cashback incentives when choosing them.

Whether these ideas come to life remains uncertain, EQ Bank is a digital bank, and despite its parent company during back to 2001, some people still hesitate to sign up for an online-only financial institution. Putting EQ Bank with the most already built through PC Optimum and PC Financial could give consumers the confidence they need to finally try.

That trust could be reinforced with a more immediate, practical move by refreshing the PC Financial lender. Sound in many Leblanc stores, highs now, first function mostly as ATM banks and are occasionally stalled by representatives who aggressively push credit card sign-ups—sometimes their approaching dropouts in the aisle. If EQ Bank is branded those pariform and shifted the focus toward educating customers, it would produce and loyalty program, it could significantly boost brand recognition.

Read mergers, understandably, often spark anxiety. Products get developed into co-op-up, and consumer choice narrows. But so far, EQ Bank has backed up its product line. Optimum points will continue 5 part of its earnings.

If EQ Bank continues to innovate, it could meaningfully shift the loyalty landscape.

And if it doesn't, there will always be another challenge ready to capture more of the market.

WHAT INVESTORS NEED TO KNOW FOR THE WEEK AHEAD

MONDAY

■ China retail sales, industrial production and fixed asset investment

■ 19.50 a.m. ET1 Canadian CFI for July. The Street expects an increase of 0.5 per cent from June and up 5.0 per cent year-over-year.

■ 19.50 a.m. ET1 Canadian new stores vehicle sales for June. Estimate is a year-over-year rise of 4.5 per cent.

■ 19.50 a.m. ET1 Canada's international securities transactions for June.

■ 19.50 a.m. ET1 U.S. Empire State Manufacturing Survey for August.

■ 10.4 a.m. ET1 U.S. NABBI Housing Market Index for August.

■ 14.1 p.m. ET1 U.S. TIC flows for June.

■ Earnings include: RHP Group

Ltd.; New Found Gold Corp.

TUESDAY

■ 15 a.m. ET1 Canada's existing home sales and average prices for July. Estimates are year-over-year declines of 4.0 per cent and 5.5 per cent, respectively.

■ 15 a.m. ET1 Canada's MLS Home Price Index for July. Estimate is a decline of 5.5 per cent year-over-year.

■ 18.95 a.m. ET1 Canadian housing starts for July. Estimate is an annualized rate rise of 4.0 per cent.

■ 18.95 a.m. ET1 U.S. AIP (Implement 1.0 retail average change) for Aug. 1.

■ 18.95 a.m. ET1 U.S. housing starts for July. Consensus is an annualized rate decline of 5.0 per cent.

■ 18.95 a.m. ET1 U.S. building permits for July. Consensus is an annualized rate decline of

0.5 per cent.

■ 18.95 a.m. ET1 U.S. import prices for July. The Street is projecting a rise of 0.5 per cent from June and up 0.5 per cent year-over-year.

■ 19.45 a.m. ET1 U.S. industrial production for July. Consensus is a month-over-month rise of 0.5 per cent with capacity utilization remaining 70.5 per cent.

■ 10.4 a.m. ET1 U.S. pending home sales for July.

■ Earnings include: Racks Inc.; Home Buyer Inc.; Northern Dynasty Minerals Ltd.; Knowledge Gold Corp.

WEDNESDAY

■ Japan core machine orders ■ Euro store CFI and labour costs

■ 18.95 a.m. ET1 Canada's household and mortgage credit for June.

■ 18.95 a.m. ET1 Canada's

construction investment for June

■ 12 p.m. ET1 U.S. Fed minutes from June. It is meeting an rebound.

■ Earnings include: Analog Be-ware Inc.; State Capital Companies Inc.; Lowe's Companies Inc.; Target Corp.; Tilt Company Inc.

THURSDAY

■ Japan trade deficit ■ 18.95 a.m. ET1 Canada's new housing price index for July. Estimate is a decline of 0.5 per cent from June and down 2.5 per cent year-over-year. ■ 18.95 a.m. ET1 Canada's industrial product and raw materials price indexes for July. Estimates are month-over-month declines of 0.5 per cent and 2.5 per cent year-over-year. ■ 18.95 a.m. ET1 U.S. initial prices shown for week of Aug. 15. Estimate is 202,000, a gain of

3,000 from the previous week of 18.95 a.m. ET1 U.S. Philadelphia Fed Index for August. ■ 150 a.m. ET1 U.S. loading indicates for July.

■ 150 a.m. ET1 U.S. quarterly services for June.

■ Earnings include:391st/6th Economic Corp.; Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.; Derm & Co.; Kudum Robotics Inc.; Ross Stores Inc.; Walmart Inc.

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Timpson scores 20 points as fever best Dream in overtime 0 811

Scheffler secures eight-sheet win to open PGA Tour postseason 0 814

2024 HONDA INDY

On the mark

Marcus Ericsson crosses the finish line to win the Ontario Honda Dealers Indy in Markham, Ont., on Sunday. Romain Grosjean took second place for his first top-five finish of the year 0 812

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Everyone but the WNBA has an opinion on transgender participation

CATAL KELLY OPINION

What the WNBA now has in historic abundance is freelance advisers.

Everybody with an internet connection has an idea about how it should handle the Sophie Cunningham controversy. Toronto will join the brainstorming session on Tuesday when Cunningham and her Indiana Fever visit for a game against the Simps. Remember to boo for Top, and jerr for Top.

It's been about a month since Cunningham put a whole bunch of angry cats among some very confused pigeons by mentioning 'young girls in sport who shouldn't have to go against biological men.'

Given that the WNBA is - by valuation at least - the primary women's professional league in the world, and that the issue of participation of non-biological women in women's sport has rolled athletics for the last few years, you would think the WNBA would have a response prepared on this. But it very purposefully does not, nor that anybody would put it like that. It was really hoping no one would ever notice.

Its collective agreement notes that 'only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA.' That's not any sort of a visual word. It's the invitation to a little culture way you'll be hosting at your place.

Okay, fine, it didn't want to fight the fight where it was mostly the Olympics' problem. But now that everybody's rolling around on the grass in their front yard, the WNBA continues to operate on a closed-curtains policy. If it can't see it, then it can't be

happening.

The league released a memo promising to think about the issue more, along with holding 'listening sessions.' The players' union said that it would do likewise.

When that didn't calm everyone down, both began to complain that no one was giving them enough time to think, a process with no end date that apparently requires total silence.

At happens with any intractable cultural issue these days, the spectre of 'bad-faith arguments' was eased. So I understand it a bad faith argument is any argument you're worried you're going to lose.

Clearly, what the league wants to do on this file is what it's always done - nothing. Never having a clear stand on whether or not transgender athletes can participate hangs on the hope that no transgender athlete will ever apply.

The league's most pragmatic defenders aren't arguing that women born man should be allowed to join up. Only that room have ever tried, so why have a rule on that?

That's putting a lot of faith in a universal understanding of what constitutes fair play, which is why it's ridiculous. It we could always count on people's better natures, we wouldn't need courts.

This line of reasoning was not by two former NBA players, Enes Kanner, Emelom and Reyna White. White declared that he is 'a woman for the purposes of professional basketball.' Both say they plan to enter next April's WNBA draft.

Is this disingenuous? Obviously. Does that matter? No. You said no one would ever do this, and now two-onesones are. Their motives are immaterial.

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Blue Jays make the most of what could be a season-turning homestand

MARTY KUNKENBERG

The Blue Jays would have liked to sweep the Yankees on Sunday but won five of seven games on a difficult home stand and head to Florida with a playoff position well within striking distance.

They lost to New York a 5:10 to timing but are just one game behind in the American League wildcard race. A season that had gone astray has turned interesting. Toronto has won seven of its last 10 contests and 12 of 20.

It took three of four from the Red Sox and two of three from the Yankees. After a day off, the Blue Jays take on the first place Tampa Bay Rats in St. Petersburg, Fla., for the first of three games. From these Toronto travels to the Bronx for another three with New York.

'I like the overall feel of the club right now,' manager John Schneider said. 'We want to keep stashing across wins, continue to play and pitch like we have been.'

The Blue Jays got another quality outing from starting pitcher Dylan Guse (3-2), who lasted 6-1 innings and allowed two runs on two hits, with three walks and 10 strikeouts.

He has struck out 10 plus batters in nine of his starts this season and caught Trent Graham looking on a slider for his 10-10 punch-out to end the sixth inning. The right-hander has recorded 100 or more strikeouts in six consecutive seasons and so the first pitcher to do it since Max Scherrer accomplished the feat from 2012-2016 and Chris Sale did so from 2016-2018.

Guse leads the A2 with 200 strikeouts. It turned out to be a waned effort because Toronto was dominated by Ryan Weathers. The Yankees left-hander scattered six hits and gave up just one run before he left with one out in the seventh inning.

The Blue Jays traded a 5 until Ernie Clement drove in 1-0. Smith on a sacrifice fly with one out in the bottom of the ninth off Yankees close to David Rednar.

Until then Rednar had converted 27 consecutive save opportunities dating back to May 10. Rice made amends for his ninth-inning error in the top of the 10-10, however, when he blamed a two-run shot got hurt to tight centre field off Brayden Fisher to give New York a 2-1 lead and a lot of headlong events. It was four 5-2, 6-0 home run of the season. 0 811, 812, 813

Blue Jays first baseman Charles McAdoo, right, gets the tag on Yankees infielder José Caballero, which was called cats and later overturned to a tag out, in the seventh inning in Toronto on Sunday. The Blue Jays leaf 4-2 in 10 innings. COLE BURSTON/GETTY IMAGES

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Here come the Blue Jays, and the culture war that's latched onto the WNBA

Lakers' sale adds to the growing trend of Island owners

JAMES ROSS CAPTAIN, KELLY

MONDAY MORNING WALKBACK

James Ross to the Sports editor of the Globe and Wall

Cañad Kelly is the national sports citizen

E.K.: Cathal, the Blue Jays have crawled within striking distance from the Texas Rangers for the last American League wild and spun a couple works ago they were unloading one of their best play on at the trade deadline. Are you seeing any flashes of the same year? Some, even all the way to the World Series last year?

E.K.: Jester, what people forget about last year's how every the year' topperdeter was. They'd gagged out to a strong haul in the field. On the date of our age, they had been in games on the run and New York.

But right at the end, they tried to give the distance back. Their attempt at collapse was only halted on the final weekend of the season.

There was this: Sliding Down moment where they might have fallen apart in the wild card, and everyone gets tired. Instead, they became Cleft Refreshed, and I can imagine.

All to say, this is starting to feel like the same person using the opposite approach. It's a team that once we in luck: You last year, and is again this year. Until about a week ago, you'd have been more of that luck was half that as I write this on Sunday morning, that luck may have turned.

They're not going to win the WNBA. They get the third wild card, of the a statistical marvel that if they do do that, what team would want to play them? Forget down when much says: This is a team that'll beat you with the ninth gap in the sixth with the ballpen catcher pitching. They Enter Clement you to death.

You've watched this team play a lot of baseball. Look into your sympathy all over. How does this end?

From left to right: Sussette Blue Jays' Ernie Clement, Andrew Goodwin, Nathan Linton, and Mylan Straw celebrates after defeating the New York Yankees on Saturday in Toronto, week 8, October 17, 1962.

E.K.: There used to be a gap on the least who always said, no matter how far back the Jays had fallen, at any point in the negative season, the same. The might've rolled your eyes then, but the last couple have scavenches thrown into sight.

There is something to be said about grabbing at the right time. The Colorado Avalanche card came to figure out what that is, but the Blue Jays have a knack for it. The last time I covered the team, they mummified their way on the top of the American League East in 2010. The next year, in a lower form, they smacked into the playoffs on a wild card (and made it to the AUC).

From the same time they around, not should I be making more coverage plans for a drop ball card.

E.K.: You know how much of an insupportable option at 1 am, it's why I keep in gallon type of protection to win in the basement.

But I wrote this week, I got a feeling here. It's a combination of the day's lucky sexual and the shocking incompetence of most of the rest of the American League. More the second thing.

A gety to October.

After that, who knows? If you told me they were headed back to the GL Championship Series again, I would not be at all surprised.

All I pray is that this doesn't become the Climate Crisis Playoffs—hope to Houston, Tampa, Atlanta I will grudgingly accept your apocalypse, wildfires, but eradming home, you're more in logical bridge too far.

The big Canadian game this week will not involve the Jays. That'll be the Toronto League against the Indiana River at Newark Arena on Tuesday.

Not so long ago, the storyline of this game was The Arrest of Caden Clark: Now it's 'Catham Hat Comes North'.

I'll call you a someone who often has to handle anaged people who've read my column—who can't the WNBA figure out how to move part the Sophia Commandment transgender participants since 1949 to nearly a month into this thing and it feels like its wild picking up squad.

E.K.: Keats me. Sports are supposed to be about having him—whether you're playing or watching. Even at the highest level, it still only a game.

You may think this is naive, but it is disheartening to see something that at its best brings people together become effective. Think of the outrage that

follows every time a random 500 at every point says no warm up on a promo night. The worst version of this is playing out of the WNBA.

Of the more ridiculous development, two homes 500 players claimed they would declare in the WNBA draft based on the league's language on the issue. It's all about getting market share to the system, even more than it is working. But I think eventually people will change the channel, won't they?

E.K.: Under contemporary atmosphere, this week you'll find they'll change the channel because you've spent them. It's that they might change the channel because you've found them.

What interests me is why the league won't come out and you won't actually position it on this. It is possible for a non-biological woman to play for better 10's a simple question. There is only one sensible answer to it—only one who won't have control may participate in the league. The clear majority of people may part that position.

The WNBA is going to have to make a call eventually—as the New Karter must you've only stood across. Yet it continues to dither and hedge, which is the result of a contest to the contest.

The WNBA is either Balneady may're this to a marketing strategy. I'm going with Door No. 1,

with a snapped of Door No. 1, having your himself. Stagger produce the word in the ESPN.com every day can be addicting. I'm sure many WNBA owners don't want any channels changed, literally or figuratively.

E.K.: Having to another brand of basketball, I even have the misfortune of knowing who Josh Kushner is. He's the brother of Jared Kushner, one-in-law to the nald Trump.

Going with Job Jays, he just bought the Labors, a few weeks after he tried and failed to buy the World Cup.

This continues a long, slow death of the boisterous Owner. What were once heads, emotional and extra stuff, sure types have become being dollars and cents drivers.

In a recent profile, Brian Cadman described what it was like to be a Yashco intern (Aadhaariya) owned by the state. He felt that anyone's where he made a wrong turn.overlinehouse may be an extreme version of what I am lamenting—maybe that's Cuban in the modern update—but what are we missing when there are no other things that are going to be. E.K.: People don't run sports teams any more. As run sports teams. The humans run between the teams. At and the other teams are.

The only thing about this that is like me is how open to many CWs and presidents are about the change. They do realize they're cutting their own professional friends, right?

The owners are all Al super-fans, because they all made their money in finance. Shutters' or tech Ceff forces bought a chunk of money in the world. They are the ones pushing out coming are imbalanced.

Some boyfies had a greed business. The Mohens made best. These were capable things created by real people. Now sports is being turned over to the American club, and produce nothing but wealth.

The loss of the unhinged costs of a bad enough. Though it's not yet gone, what I already miss is a human-control media environment. Eventually, you'll go to the game to watch pH projections of players, or maybe robots, slap cash often around.

On the one hand, they are not people, but on the other, they never go on strike.

Tommy John, namesake for pioneering elbow surgery, dies at the age of 83

BETH HARRIS LOS ANGELES

Tommy John, who won 200 games during a 1st time big league career and he came the first pitcher to score carefully across after ground breaking elbow surgery that later was named after him, but died. He was 96.

He died at his home in Bradenton, Fla. on Saturday night, aged 70 in Blue Angeles said today. He had been in Douglas care.

On Aug. 8, the New York Yankees released a social media post on which John wrote that he wanted to say goodbye to everyone, including those at your time who followed him throughout his career, saying, "I will never forget you."

The Yankees called John's husband of our stratum during his time in pinstripes and a long time foreword of Yankees fans!

John was a four-time all-star with a record of 200 out and a 2.4 ERA during a recent year. He was 100 for one year, and was pitched for Cleveland, the Chicago White Sox, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Yankees, the California Angels and the Oakland Athletics.

Tommy was an exceptional pitcher throughout his career in Major League Baseball. He was a young man who is becoming the first to have surgery that would go on to bear his name, can't be overstated. John Kasten, Dodgers president and CEO, said in a statement. "He'sવામાં been on the list of the most successful employees of all ages and will be for generations to come."

The left-hander was a years-old who had over the other collateral ligament to his fighting officer in 1974, a death knell for pitcher's success in his years.

He served in 1974 in 1976 in 1978, the Dodgers team physician, to replace the ligament with a modern form for right forearm. John gave the surgery too to scolds of being successful.

Tommy's place had been down, when he fever, although it was usually performed on return and health. John was the first pitcher to have it done on his elbow.

Now that a two-leg Surgeon and thousands more amateurs have since had CCL in counteractures, better known as Tommy John, the first pitcher to go back to the record of baseball's greatest runs, including two-way sensation Shaker (Hunt), three-time Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander,

and even Philadelphia Phillies slugger Ryan Harper.

If you get it in dollars and cents, I think there's no question that Tommy John is the most valuable reconstructive procedure there is. Dodgers team physician Dr Neal Edmunds, told The Associated Press in 2024.

Born Thomas Edward John in 20 May 21, 1942, in Terre Haute, Ind. he was a top baseball and basketball player at the 1975 Greenwich High. He graduated to 1981 in valedictorian but did not give the same measurement speech because of a murky. Dodgers being in control by the University of Kentucky in 1979, basketball, John chose baseball as an equal with Cleveland.

The day I left for my first-idea is pitcher, my father looked at me it said. He said, Tommy, but remember one thing: whether you make it big in the leg (suppose or not don't, you'll always just be Tommy John from Terre Haute, Indiana). I've never forgotten the news words," John wrote in his 8q10 post.

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THE GLOBAL AND WALL

MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2018

Ericsson wins inaugural Ontario Honda Indy

Swedish racer passed Ecircsum Groupon wells four laps to go for the fifth victory of his IndyCar career

JOHN CHOLLEY HILL

BASKINING, OH

Two passes defined Marcus Ericsson victory at the inaugural Ontario Honda Drakes Indy at Markham.

First, Ericsson and teammate Will Power humped each other at the former was making a move, but its Sunday's race. That's, with four laps to go around the street course in Markham. Out, Ericsson passed Romain Grosjean to take the lead he good for the fifth win of his IndyCar career.

"I think today we won it on past pass," said Ericsson, whose last victory was the 2-era Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. "We were the best car out there, and we won it because we played the game and we pushed when we needed to and we delivered when we needed to."

"That felt really good."

Grosjean was second, his first top-fire finish of the race. Power placed them in a driver making leader Alex Falou finished fourth.

Ericsson, Power and Kyle Kirkwood—who is second on the driver's record—are all teammates on incident Global.

When Kirkwood crashed out of the race in the spot lap, the inaltient Global team knew it had to target Falou so he couldn't get more points and LEAGUE for fifth IndyCar title.

"We just talked about, 'Hey,

Marcus Ericsson celebrates winning the Honda Indy in Markham, Oct. on Sunday Before Sunday, Ericsson's last victory was the 2023 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. ©2013 NEBONNETIVE CANADIAN PRESS

Marcus has got a lot of pass, the end that advantage, we need to take the fight to Falou," said team principal Ken Sturavski. "Obviously we're always thinking about the big picture. We need to take points away from Alex to keep Kyle in the correct action at all."

Things didn't go as smoothly as planned, however, as Power finally turned into Ericsson's car when he was getting passed.

"It was more comprehensive because the team came on the road, 'Marcus is really quick, he's running.' I said, 'OK, tell him I'll let him go on the back straight to 'I can stay close to Falou,'" said Power. "He didn't get the message, or it wasn't quick enough for him."

"I didn't even look in my role"

me. I just turned. Obviously, in that point I was upset because we lost such a gap but we ended where we were going to end and stay, so it was fine."

Falou earned 32 points on Sunday and Kirkwood earned nine in his abbreviated day. Falou leads Kirkwood 9's 10 points in the standings.

Ericsson's next target was Grosjean, who has yet to win on IndyCar since making the jump from Formula One to race. Great Jean had been thinking off Falou for much of the race but it's on foot and had more out for tires considerably.

"At the end of the race I knew we had to go in six laps on the tires, so the first That was going to be a challenge," said Grosjean. "When I saw No. 10 car [Eric-

son] getting, I thought there was no way he would cash in. The No. 10 (Falou) was behind me, which is always a worry. [Brennan, the guy. We should be safe.]

"Next thing I knew, the 10 was coming."

Even with Grosjean having to budget his car's economy, Ericsson was just passing him wouldn't be easy.

"It's still difficult. Very tight with the walls. You don't know how he's going to defend," said Ericsson. "We're an advantage. I wanted to get by him straight to my because you never know the there's a yellow, the fact advantage goes away. It's a restart, any thing can happen."

Lease Kevin was the fastest car in practice and was the best of the race. He had a long run first peak of the season.

Posters predicted pre-race that there would be "cannage" on this 17 runs, 2.5% kilometre road course around downtown Markham that runs between Kennedy Road, Enterprise Boulevard, Unseerelle GO tracks and Highway 247.

That prediction was prevalent as Posters went out early on Sunday. He crashed in the april lap when he slipped the inside wall after passing Ericsson then went away from into the outside wall of Sam's. The two were cautious during the race with four cars because of the course due to contact. Eleven of the 4 cars on the race didn't finish.

It's the same. "I'm not sure how has he found the only IndyCar race in Canada after it moved from Toronto's Exhibition Place, where it had been held since 1985. The first day of practice and qualifying was cancelled on Friday by when the race was not accomplished and official couldn't do a final safety check.

That forced the IndyCar race to do their all-in practice before the race. The race was a good one. The USFของ Chattanooga, USF Pro Jones, Kodiad Cup Canada, and NASCAR Canada Series also tried to complete their weekend of training and race on the track.

"I think, obviously, Friday was not there. I'm not sure going yesterday. It's been a fantastic weekend," said Ericsson, who said all the drivers loved the track's layout. "Good showing from the fans. It's been a great atmosphere."

"It's also a challenging on the first year for a new track. I'm sure when we come back in a year's time, everything is going to be too a lot more smoothly."

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MLB

JOHNSON LEAGUE

EAST DIVISION
	M	L	PA
Houston	76	90	120
New York	80	90	100
Detroit	82	92	122
St. Louis	84	90	104
Toronto	82	87	103
CENTRAL DIVISION
Chicago	80	98	100
Detroit	82	94	100
Minneapolis	82	88	96
Chicago	82	92	100
Houston	82	92	100
WEST DIVISION
Chicago	82	92	100
Texas	82	94	100
Detroit	82	92	100
Alabama	80	76	100
Los Angeles	80	78	100

Sunday

Baltimore 12, September 2 Chicago White Sox 1, Detroit 3 Minneapolis 9, Tampa Bay 1, St. George Kansas City 2, St. Joseph 1 Detroit 4, Tucson 1 Detroit 4, Houston 1

Saturday

Chicago White Sox 6, Detroit 3 Towards 4, N.Y. 1, Kansas 1 Baltimore 9, Tampa Bay 1, St. George Kansas City 2, St. Joseph 1 St. Louis 4, Tucson 1 Detroit 4, Houston 1

Monday — All Times Eastern Baltimore Chicago 8, Cal. 10, to 16, 8 Jacksonville 9-6, 4-10, 6-11 Atlanta (Barnett) 12, at 6, Houston 10 Detroit 6-8, 7-10, 6-11

NYSE LEAGUE

Sunday Minneapolis Boston 3 Philadelphia 1, Minneapolis 1 San Diego 6, Philadelphia 1

Saturday

Minneapolis Boston 3 Philadelphia 1, Minneapolis 1 San Diego 6, Philadelphia 1

Monday

All Times Eastern Boston 2, Boston 1, N.Y. 1, Philadelphia 1 Detroit 10, 7-10, 6-11 Arizona 8, Fort 1, at 6, Boston 7, N.Y. 1, St. Louis 1 Atlanta (Frost) 8-12, at Minneapolis 9, St. Louis 1 N.Y. 1, St. Louis 1 Chicago 8-10, San Francisco 8, 1-10, 6-11 Long Beach 10, Chicago 8-10, San Francisco 8, 1-10, 6-11

COIL PLAYOFFS

Chicago 8, Pittsburgh 1, LAKE

Saturday

Winnipeg 10, St. Joseph 1

NATIONAL LEAGUE

EAST DIVISION
	M	L	PA
Detroit	64	70	120
Philadelphia	67	68	100
Miami	64	66	102
Chicago	65	68	100
New York	66	68	100
CETRAL'S INHOUSE
Milwaukee	77	90	100
Chicago	72	75	120
St. Louis	68	66	100
Pittsburgh	62	65	100
Cincinnati	59	61	100

Sunday

Atlanta 4, Atlanta 2 N.Y. Atlanta 4, Philadelphia 2 Miami 3, Cincinnati 1 St. Louis 2, Chicago 7, Cary 4 Milwaukee 4, St. Joseph 1 Cincinnati 10, San Francisco 2

Saturday

St. Louis 2, Chicago 4, Cary 4 San Francisco 7, Colorado 1 N.Y. 7, St. Louis 6, St. Louis 1 Miami 3, Cincinnati 1 Milwaukee 4, St. Joseph 1 Arizona 12, Atlanta 1

Monday

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Clark's pulses Fever's resilience in hard-fought overtime win over Dream

Atlanta gets 32 points from Czar, career high: 20 points from Timpson

CHARLES ODOM / ATLANTA

After the Indiana Fever's fourth straight win, Caitlin Clark said coach Stephanie White "made a great point" in her programs talk with the team by saying "This felt like a playoff game."

If so, the Fever bỏated playoff ready in their eyes overtime win over the Atlanta Dream on Sunday.

The Fever showed impressive depth with four players scoring at 10 more points. Perhaps of more importance, Indiana responded to a major challenge from an Atlanta team that began the day one full behind the Fever for the important fourth place spot at the playoff standings. The top four teams receive home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.

"Coming into each night, we know how important that win is to hopefully get better count advantage in the playoffs," Clark said.

Atlanta led 29-64 entering the fourth quarter. Indiana held the Dream to nine points in the final period of regulation.

Pepper, giving the Fever an overall grade of only 78 minus 7 for the game, Clark had prune for her team.

"Just proud of our group," Clark said. "Super ordinary... Obviously, this was a big one."

Clark scored 26 points with nine assists. After scoring only five points in the first half, Kelsey Mitchell had an important large fan on overtime to finish with 20 points. It was Mitchell's split-run

Indiana Power guard Sophie Cunningham, night, passes during the first half of Sunday's WNBA game against the Atlanta Dream in Atlanta, set on vacation for the 2026/2027 WNBA.

secutive game scoring at least 20. "Kelsey struggled from the floor in the first half, and she found it in the second half," White said. "I think that's part of her growth, which is knowing to stay with it, that it's going to come."

White said Clark and Mitchell "were both terrific," and said Clark was effective in creating scoring opportunities for her teammates.

"The way that she's getting up into officers, the way she's using the floor to give her teammates them... she's allowing the game to flow, and she's doing a great job of finding her teammates in that," White said. "The way she does that, it opens things up for her."

Malachi, Timpson, delivered Indiana's first three field goals of overtime to score a career high in points. Allyah Boston added 10

points with a 10-bounds.

Clark said Atlanta, which had 20 points from Allisba Cray and 16 points with a 10-bounds from Ackoff Reese, "is a team that will be scary in the playoffs. They've great at what they do. They have a lot of different weapons."

The Dream also had the support of a softest crowd of 17,144 at their farm. Anna, the home of the NBA's Atlanta Ravlex and also

the usual site of Dream games when Clark and the Fever are in town.

"For us, there are the games you get up for, that's what's fun about competition," Clark said. "You know, you want to play the best. It brings out the best in you. Obviously, that's been a challenge and we're really good at that."

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Both Canadian flag football teams qualify for L.A. Olympics

Canada's women's flag football team beat the United States for the world title, while its men's squad for which the place of the year Los Angeles Olympics on Sunday at the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) world championships.

The women, who had already qualified with a 20-9 semi-final win over top-ranked Mexico on Saturday, carried a perfect tournament with a 27-20 win over the American in the final.

Fridérique Morneau had three

touchdown catches for Canada, Quarterback Sara Parker hit Carolina Niagara Joubert for Canada's other score.

Parker, who had 20 total touchdown passes, was named the most valuable player of the seven on a tournament.

It was Canada's third title and five since beating the US in the 2014 final.

"I find so happy I can't believe it," Parker said after bugging her brother, "already the best day is it."

The Canadian men will join the women at the 2018 Games after posting a 34-40 win over Mexico in the third place game Sunday.

Quarterback Michael O'Connor led Canada with 324 yards and five touchdowns.

Former NFL tight and Antony Aguilar had 42 receiving yards and hauled its two of O'Connor's touchdowns strikes. Daniel Petronnum also found the real semi-relax and James Drydale had the other score.

The top two teams from both

flag events, not including the best Americans, qualified for Los Angeles where flag football will make its Olympic debut.

Canada lost to Italy in the men's semi-finals, but the third place game became a showdown for an Olympic booth where the American men also advanced to the final.

"We came to the level that's everybody to win, and this group got it done," Canada head coach Paul LaRolla said. "Qualifying for the Olympics doesn't happen by

accident, it's the result of a lot of hard work and dedication, and I'm proud of how our athletes competed when it mattered most.

"This is an exciting time for the sport as a whole, and to see both our men's and women's senior teams qualify together, it says a lot about where Canadian flag football is headed," he added.

The US defeated Italy 40 in the men's final.

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Kelly: The Cunningham affair has proven the WNBA is desperate to follow, not be out front

D FRANK KEE

It would be madness to wait eight months with the issue hanging over the league like an injury and to be out front, as far as to be now, that's what it looks like the league is going to do.

It's become difficult to tell if this is pure incompetence or some sort of sneaky marketing campaign I suppose it would depend on who they want trying to explain it to.

There is only one sensible solution for the league here. You release a statement saying that you're just overtime, right to turn to view on this, but that your professional league is exclusively made up of women who were born women. Then you agree to insert this word 'biological' in the next USA. It has the advantage of being able to do only anything, as well as a widely popular thing. And that's it. You go

through a few lost days and then the whole thing ends.

If the players' union wants to fight you on that, great kid them. But what a little idling word was your bosses in ownership will be doubly in your debt.

Because what's this alternative? You allow some hulling more diatonic moments in the NCAA, one with politics you had more generalist, into the league? All so you can prove that you are undue!

Someone will try it eventually because while we're running out of everything in this world, we'll never be there on chance.

It's a very state of affairs who the most visible women's league shows no willingness to lead on the most discussed women's issue in sports. Instead, it's running Every time WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelfort addresses it in a statement, you wonder if the left out of her chair backward

as she spent.

This is not to say that the league should have any particular viewpoint or programme. Just that you'd think it would want to be out front, loud and clear about what it believes in.

But no. The Cunningham affair has proven that the complete opposite situation exists. Based on its actions and statistics, the WNBA is desperate to follow. Probably whatever's yelling the loudest.

This is why they're still booing Cunningham. It's why Kante and White showed up looking to run a gift. It's why in a world where a killing can be a three-day story, the lightweight memorandum is the.

It's because even the most casual observer can sense the biggest weakness. It believes its wiser might, in this one case, be the difference. The wild thing is that it might be tight.

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Karaina Okamoto scored in the bottom half of the sixth on a single by Andrés Giménez but the Blue Jays were unable to push the tying run across against Tim Hill. Joshua ended up earning the victory and improved to 0-3. Fisher was tagged with the line and fell to 1-3.

Karaina, that opportunities but failed to generate enough offense to scratch out seven. It hit into three double jays. Just an out on a four-mixning error, and the Yankees stole four bases against Alejandro Kirk.

Tornette got two hits from rookie Charles McAdoo, a run-scoring double by Dan Cameron and two singles from Giménez, who is second on the team with 40 runs behind the Okamoto track.

Cameron, who spent most of the season playing in Korea, was called up from Buffalo over the weekend. After driving in Okamoto, who had also doubled, Cameron was thrown out trying to advance to third on a grounder to shortening.

The Blue Jays are 0-5 since the Aug. 3 trade deadline and are receiving unexpected contributions from newcomers.

"I had been good to get the new game on here," the ensuing added. "The guys have something to prove and have brought energy. This is a tough part of the schedule and they have responded."

A 'pretty balanced' Browns QB race, and the next audition belongs to Shedeur Sanders

A 'pretty balanced' Browns QB race, and the next audition belongs to Shedeur Sanders

JOE KEEZER / CLEVELAND

Dreason Watson made the most of his opportunity this past week to show he should be the Cleveland Browns' starting quarterback when the season opens on high 1/4 in last months.

The upcoming week will be Shedeur Sanders' team.

"I did feel going into late game that is secondary to the outcome of both having an opportunity at the starting position, so it would be unfair to not go into the next game and give Shedeur that same

opportunity," coach Todd Morrison said Tuesday.

"What a different team, certainly at home. There's no guarantee of the same players will be playing in this game, but it's the doorstep to have, and no one is to both players, who have handled in well and completed a high level."

Sanders will start and play the first half of Saturday's game against Buffalo, as well as take snaps with the first team on Non-Football Wednesday. "Browns will be with the first unit on Tuesday and play the third quarter."

Both quarterbacks will run snaps with the starters during

Thursday's joint weekend with the Bills. Shedeur said the snaps that both players are getting an 'pretty balanced at this point, within season."

Watson played six series in a 24-16 box in the Chicago Bears. He had the Browns for a field goal and touchdown on the second and third draws, completing 8-0-6 passes for six yards.

The 0-5 year veteran was 3-of-6 for 32 yards with late Horne series, including 4-for-2 during a two-minute drill late in the first half. Watson also had more consistent pressure in the pocket with the Browns taking out their starting

offensive line after two series. However, for his first playing in the 2-2 months, Watson had a solid 40-2 passer snaps while going 6-of-6 for 6-10 yards.

Sanders went 6-of-10 in 70 yards with an interception and a 3-10 passer snaps at three postseason.

Sanders, who started the final seven games last season, had a 24-yard completion to Cape Larvadale on the first stop and later found Luke Florica for a 30-yard gain in the Bears' 1/4.

"Overland didn't get points through, when Alonson Marshall was stepped on fourth and 1-4 in the five.

Sanders' worst throw was on the third series, where a pass on contact for Marjorie Coffey was overthrown and pulled off by Emma Bishop Jr. at the Bears 30 and returned 34 yards into Cleveland territory.

Number hopes Sanders can continue to bounce back this week, as he has throughout the offseason weekends.

"He's improved so much. I mean he really has in terms of climbing the pocket and working through his progressions," Morrison said.

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Scheffer returns to dominant form with St. Jude Championship win

The eight-shot victory was the largest in the 68-year history at the TPC Southwind

DOUG FERGUSON FRONTIER, TENN

Scotts Scheffer was back to his dominant form Sunday, turning a two-shot lead into a runaway in the FedEx St. Jude Championship. He closed with a four-under 66 for an eight-shot victory, the largest in the 68-year history at the TPC Southwind.

Scheffer ended nearly seven months without winning, a season that has been marked by an exciting consistency but only one trophy to show for it from his season opener at The American Express in the California skater.

This was only close for a fleeting moment. After months of little things getting in the way, Scheffer hit a bunker shot on the par five third that would have settled a few feet away for a sign in birdie, but it landed on a sprinkler head, took a hard hop and rolled through the green into the water for buoy.

"I was like, 'Man, when is this going to stop happening?'' Scheffer said.

That disturb his lead to one shot over tongue and the Scheffer made a consecutive birdie putty on the fifth and sixth holes and was on his way. Placing in the final group in stifling heat and the most wind of work, Scheffer matched the best score Sunday.

He finished at 92-under 49, eight shots clear of his Dallas neighbor to New York, who closed with a 60 to finish eight shots behind. The previous record was John Cook winning at TPC Southwind by seven shots in sum.

Scheffer now has a career victories on the PGA Tour, to of them by four shots or more.

Sam Burns, one of Scheffer's best friends in golf, played with Sam in the final group and book double bogey on the par five third hole. He shot 72 and led for third with Mark Twain (top).

"I don't think it would have mattered if I played with Twain and 'We was going to be tough to beat today.''

Scheffer won 1,782-3-million from the prior round, and he checked an additional 1,782-million in bonus money for being No. 1 on the FedEx Cup through next week's BMW Championship. No one can catch him. No one a particularly close in the game at the moment, even when he's not piling up trophies.

Scheffer now has two victories, five runaway finishes and five other top fours in another stellar year that until Sunday was marked by his lack of winning compared with previous years. The

Scotts Scheffer plays his third shot on the 18th hole during the final round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind on Sunday in Memphis, Tenn. Scheffer's victory ended nearly seven months without winning on the PGA Tour. ANDY JONES/GETTY IMAGES

JESNO THERUS, EALIES TO A ONE-SHOT VICTORY IN LPGA'S PORTLAND CLASSIC

Jesno Ththali on off five straight birdie, early and closed with an eight-under 64 for a one-shot victory Sunday in The Standard Portland Classic, her third LPGA Tour title of the season.

Ththali led an all-England finish, with Aunt/Seas 'tube' (67) and Chandler Wentmann (60) tying for second at

Columbia Edgewater Country Club. Sophia Schofler, the 54-hole leader, had to settle for a 72 and finished fourth.

The 23-year-old Ththali won for the 18th time in her LPGA career, making her the eighth player to reach 10 wins or more before turning 24. She also

joined Nelly Korda at three-time winners this year on the LPGA.

Ththali finished at 22-under 266 and won US$98,000, moving her closer to US$20-million in career earnings.

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TPC Southwind was the course he had played the most times without winning, and the FedEx Cup playoffs opener had been the only postseason tournament he had yet to win. All that changed.

Im wound up with a 75 to tie for fifth, but it was enough for the fourth forerun to move from No. 13 into the top 10 who advance to the BMW Championship next week in St. Louis. Im kept close his chances of reaching the Tour Championship every year since he was a rookie in

Jess. Im humped out Keith Mitchell, who stood in the water left of the 18th (among to play a shot from the bank) as he tried to give himself his best chance. That shot tumbled into the water, he made bogey and narrowly missed out.

So did Jordan Spieth, who needed to close with four pars to reach the BMW Championship for the first time since 2023, and finished with a bogey from the water on No. 9 and then pars for a 75.

The top 10 who advance also an assured of playing all the 1,782-million signature events next year.

Scheffer put himself squarely in the mix for a fifth straight PGA Tour player of the year during a season in which no one has stood out based on little ideas. The body of work has been impressive, and Scheffer still has two tournaments remaining.

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Arsenal outclasses Manchester City in Community Shield

STEVE DOUGLAS

Ennio Maresca endured a night marathshire competitive match in charge of Manchester City as Arsenal scored inside 24 seconds before杉板 vs 1-0 victory in the Community Shield on Sunday.

English soccer's annual season captain minor Fortress the reigning champion in the Premier League (Aro531) and FA Cup (Clay) offered a chance for an early assessment of the two teams most likely to challenge for playing trophies this campaign.

While Arsenal delivered a extensive, specialised match, and least by scoring after 15 seconds through Riccardo Calafiori at Cardiff's Principality Stadium, there might be some early success, but the club Maresca at the start of the post-Pop Guardiola era.

Kai Haverty headed home the second goal in the 19th through the group of City goalkeeper Garmeligi Donovanamna and Martin Odegard on second-flagged club City's area, before sitting down Donovanamna with an outrageous dummy and slotting a fire

Arsenal's Kai Haverty, centre, scores his team's second goal post Manchester City's Ganting Donovanamna in Cardiff, Wales, on Sunday. NOT THEIR CHILD'S VICTOR IMAGES 500 REUTERS

oh into an unguarded not in the 19th.

Fireful chants of 'You're getting sailed in the morning' came from Arroach's jubilant support for Ireland Maresca for part of the game in which City ready threatened opposition goalkeeper The old Rays. Erling Haaland - only

put back in training after the World Cup - was substituted in the 23rd minute after having just seven touches.

'The goal we conceded after 15 seconds affects the game,' Maresca said.

'It's a defeat that hurts us, but it's only the beginning.'

It was the perfect preparation for Arsenal ahead of the beginning of its Premier League title defence - at home to Coventry on Friday.

"I think we showed our love today, that we are ready," Odegard, Arsenal's captain, said. "We are serious and we want to do it again."

City launches its league campaign two days later at home to Roversmoorth and it remains to be seen if Maresca reacts to this defeat by changing his team around.

"I'm part of any transition, for things to not be perfect in the last century," newly appointed City captain Robert Hall said. "You need to keep on working... and there's going to be lots of challenges along the way."

EXPLORER START BY ARRBALL Calafiori cut on to Nicky Lenoir Shelly's threaded throughout to give Arsenal an explorer start and score the first goal in the opening minute of the Community Shield since 1985. On that occasion, Robby Owen turned to City against Nick Bostowski all blem.

Arsenal went on to record the biggest margin of victory in the season captain-taker since 2012 when the Gamers also beat City 3-0.

NO RIDER BUT GEHALON PLAPS Rodin, Spain's World Cup-winning captain, wasn't with the City squad in Cardiff as he continues his recovery for the player back surgery to the backdrop of a potential move to Barcelona.

He directed forer's a huge hole in Maresca's midfield that might only have been partly tilted by 18 for Anderson after his 1,782-million move from Nottingham Forest.

One interesting selection by City's new manager was Jack Gouldin, who came out at the start of the second half for his first appearance for the team in more than a year. Does it suggest his career at City could be triggered after he was sent on loan to Everton last season?

Maresca did little to clear up the situation.

'While he's here with us, it's my duty to help him,' he said.

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Cameroon beats Malawi to win Women's Africa Cup of Nations for the first time

Three goals for three lost finals Cameroon finally won the Women's Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday with a 1-0 victory over tournament defeated Malawi.

Mano Ngah Manga headed the team. Malawi then lost the other while Cameroon kept Malawi's (Suanaga) scores in check to claim its first win in the final at the fourth attempt.

The Indentitable Genesess, who failed to qualify for the previous season, made tournament head lost on their last three appearances in the final - all to 10-time winner Nigeria.

'I feel like it's a dream because two know Cameroon have been working hard to have this moment and today for us in the Champion of Africa is a very very wonderful thing,' Ngah Manga said.

FIFA's under-five president, Gaisin Infantino, attended the game along with CAF president Patrick Motsepe.

Infantino later helped Motsepe hand out medals to the top three teams Nigeria defeated Maresca in the third-place decaler on Saturday.

Infantino also posed with

Motsepe and Samuel Etz's, the president of the Cameroon Football Federation, for a photo with Cameroon forward Monique Ngocki after she received the player of the tournament trophy.

Malawi made the home start but suffered a double blow when Ngah Manga headed the opener from close range in the net minute, shortly before Etz - who had her back to goal - turned brib family to want the ball inside the right post.

Etz was also involved in the first goal, leaving a one from Malawi goalkeeper Meroy Sikolo be-

fore Ngah Manga scored.

Malawi failed to master a 10 opener and Ngah Manga effectively ended the result on a break when Etz got to the ball before Sikolo and produced a perfect score for tournament on head. Her second goal of the game said 10th overall in the tournament.

Cameroon substitutes ran onto the field to celebrate with their teammates.

The Cameroon sisters had pushed Malawi after the break. Martha Channaguabi she should have had a penalty, but a VAK

check deemed otherwise. Then she drew a good save from Michaely Bitima, and her sister Emma went close from the onboard.

Cameroon veteran Gabrielle Danda Stugolani was on an stopping time and duly scored, only to have the goal-tailed out for offside. The 27-year-old Odegard was part of the Cameroon team that lost the final at home to Nigeria in 2018. Despite her disallowed goal, this time she could celebrate.

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Swiatek takes

first match in Cincinnati after Toronto success

Anger-Aliassime gets past Tutsipas in straight sets after a lower back injury forced him to withdraw in Montreal

JEFF WALLNER NASON, OHIO

Iga Swiatek overcame a short turnaround after winning in Toronto on Thursday to beat Columbus Stadium, Anargie, 6-5, 6-5, on center count at the Cincinnati Open on Sunday.

It was the seventh consecutive win for Swiatek, who won the 5th in Cincinnati last year.

"It's not like I was super small after Toronto," Swiatek said on Sunday two days after arriving. "I know I just needed a little bit of rest. Usually one day before a tournament. I'm already in my mouth inside. But this time, I wanted to spend every hour possible just chilling."

Swiatek, a female driver, takes looks, who has spent as consecutive weeks at the342nd in Oct. in, 2014, got past Australian Talia Gibson, 6-6, 7-6 (U. California improved to 5) in Cincinnati since 2016.

Following off her loan to Swiatek in the finals in Toronto, No. 2

ranked Elma Kylukina beat American Taylor Townsend, 6-5, 5-4.

Kylukina, who reached the semi-finals last year in Cincinnati, is looking for her split hard court title after winning the Australian Open in January.

Tenth-ranked Taylor Potts beat fellow American Alex McMahon, 6-5, 6-4, in the more's tournament.

Heard No. 4, Félix Auger-Aliassime took down thirtime Tutsipas on straight sets, 6-5, 7-5.

It was Auger-Aliassime's first hard court match since March of 2016 he pulled out of Montreal into a lower back injury. It was the 10th morning with Tutsipas leading 5-4.

American Madison Joey out-turned Dukia Angus, 6-5, 6-3, 6-1.

Sixth-ranked Mitra Andreeva dispatched of Aliassian Oleksandr Olymphova, 6-5, 6-0, for her sixth win of 2016.

Brand MacAnder got past qualified Martin Triangoffitt, 6-4, 7-5.

Brazilian San Antonio, 5, became the third manager to reach the third-round in Cincinnati, joining Michael Chang in 1990 and the manager in 1991. France's defeated Rofie van de Zandviberg, 5-4, 7-6 (U).

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Iga Swiatek beat Emiliano Arango 6-5, 6-0 on centre count in the Cincinnati Open on Sunday, her seventh consecutive win. (photo by AP Photo/SHUTTER/VOYNE)

Police arrest man after security incident at European athletics championships

KEN MAGORE

KIMMINGHAM, ENGLAND

Police have made one arrest after a security incident caused transportation delays for fans and athletes leaving Alexander Hushman following Saturday night's session at the European track and field championships in Birmingham.

He had a commoner view postponed to Sunday, when West Midlands Police said a man in his 2011 had been arrested on suspicion of fraud. Correcting both European Athletics added 10 o'clock to arrest the stadium "handle night for the concluding session of the week long championships."

Police said the statement that around 8.5 p.m. Saturday "concerns were raised after a man was found in an area of Alexander Hushman with the wrong air conditions."

"In a precarious, security insurance ever put in place and transport for the championship staff and athletes were suspended," the statement said. "This does led to delays to transport from the stadium for the water public."

Police said there was "no immediate risk to the public," and that the man remained in control by Sunday for questioning.

Emo had waited in long lines while transport was suspended. I am part of p.m. Saturday, organizers posted an apology on social media for "significant delays" and that free service would "gradually begin to take place."

"The safety and well-being of our spectators, athletes, work force and the wider championships family will always be our best priority," Birmingham 20:20 said in a statement.

The following is located outside the city centre.

"We recognize that the delays presented challenges for those

affected and would like to thank everyone for their patience, understanding and co-operation throughout the evening," organizers said.

European Athletics said the local organizing committee has worked closely with authorities to ensure that all necessary measures are in place" for Sunday night.

"Any issues connected with (Saturday) night have now been fully resolved," it said Sunday. "Everything possible has been done in guarantee the safety and smooth running of tonight's competition."

"Emo can be reassured that it is safe to attend the stadium for the closing night of the championship."

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PATRICIA ANN BAIRD

GC, DRC, MD, CM, FREG, FRGFF, FCAH, FCFMG University Editor, Photoprinting/Professional Director

Dr. Patricia Baird, peacefully at home, in Vancouver, at the age of 88, with Robert, her beloved husband of his years, surrounded by her children.

Patricia was born in Lancaster and educated at Queen Mary School for Girls, Latham St. Anne. She immigrated to Canada, attending McGill University from where she graduated first with a BSc, and then in Medicine in 1983. She then resided in Australia and Canada, joining the University of British Columbia faculty of Medicine in 1984. In 1985 she became the head of the Department of Medical Sciences at UBC. She first received a degree in the Department of Medical Sciences at UBC. She was also the first woman student in the Board of Governors at UBC. Since the next decade she was instrumental in developing services in 1985 for families with genetic diseases, and was transformed in developing business and research in medical genetics. The medical genetics course that she developed at UBC was used by the American Society of Human Genetics and the Institute medical student teaching in North America. Her own research was conducted in 1985. Her work was done at the same time with children and their families affected by genetic diseases. The first phase focussed on epidemiology, identifying the incidence and symptoms of several inherited diseases. She then crossed into the application of the newly developing genetic and reproductive technologies and then made official use of family and friends. Her studies were also made in the United States and the United States. Her work was done at the National Institute of Genetics, which was also a major component of the National Institute of Genetics, which was also a major component of the National Institute of Genetics, which was also a major component of the National Institute of Genetics, which was also a major component of the National Institute of Genetics, which was also a major component of the National Institute of Genetics, which was also a major component of the National Institute of Genetics, which was also a major component of the National Institute of Genetics, which was also a major component of the National Institute of Genetics, which was also a major component of the National Institute of Genetics, which was also a major component of

In the Senate issue of a party policy she contributed to the National Advisory Board on Science & Technology and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, where she was Chair of the Board for eight years.

Her ability to situate the issues caused by the use of medical technology in a broader and more of health context led to her being asked to serve on a range of research. Her work was done at the National School Board in the Black Committee of the International Federation of Obstetricians, she was an Advisor to the British Health Organization. She chaired the Premier of British Columbia's Council on Aging and Science Issues, reporting on 2009.

She received many honours, including four honours degrees (Dover's, Ottawa, McMaster, and West Laurel) and was made University Affairs Professor at UBC in 1993. She was awarded the Order of British Columbia, and was an Officer of the Order of Canada.

At home, she had a long and happy marriage of six years to date. Together with their three children and her grandchildren, they spent many happy times at Whistler, and hides and hustled throughout BC and through many winter weeks in Palm Street. Pat and Bob handled widely in their retirement. Pat will be remembered for her time for art, plants and nature, her both friend garden was a feature of her last summer. She read widely and returned to ground with the latest Bureau Press for results and the book. She was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who was a very good man who

The family would like to thank Dr. Baird Fritz, who cared for her for many years so her family physician, and especially in her last weeks, was a great help, and she was a great help. Her family was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she was a great help, and she

In her memory, and in her self-haven, it is a great way to the Patricia Baird Prize for excellence in medical genetics research at UBC would be appreciated. give also a lot of her work to her.

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ROBERT WEBBURGH BAIRD MD, FREG, FRGF, FRG

Dr. Robert Meehlard Baird, in his 40th year, peacefully at home, in Vancouver, at the company of his beloved wife, Patricia, and surrounded by their children.

Both was born in York BC, to Dr. Meehlard Robert, Baird and Christ (saly) Baird in the Chicago Public School of the Surgeon (PhD), including a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of the people who were a great family of

He was produced by his parents, including his older sister, Joan MacGillie. He knows his three children, Jennifer Baird (both Brown, Joseph and Angus Stewart of Vancouver, Brian Baird, Phegge Evans Baird, Alden and James Baird of Vancouver, and Baird Baird (Baird Baird, James Baird, and Mary Baird) of Toronto, Victoria. He is also survived by his nieces and nephews. Stephanie, Herd Smith (Harold Meyer) of France, James Hark (Bandy Hark) of Toronto, and David Herd Smith (Lamb) of Toronto. He will be deeply missed.

The family would like to thank Dr. Baird Fritz, who was her family physician for many years and was a great help since the last months.

In his memory, phantom may be made to https://gout.highs/pack.com/page/RobertBaird, in his 10th flower.

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ALEXANDER BART

TANGIT HYDE

2016 1st, 1st, 2nd, August 10, 2016

Sandy, Ingle, died peacefully, on August 10, 2016. He knows behind a close and loving family, including his daughter, Laura (Sam Mevok), grandchildren, Eric Bruce (Beng) and Alison Bruce. his grandgrandchildren, Nicholas and Victoria, the brother, David ingle (Marguerite) and their children, Moniya ingle and Barbara ingle (Stephen Theodore).

He was predilexated by his wife, David from Jersey, and his daughter, David from New York.

Sandy was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1996, on, 1992, and given up recovery by youth in Montreal. After high school, he attended McGill University for six months, then enlisted. As a pilot in World War II, he learned from a local pilot, and managed in Newarkland. After the 1980s, he graduated from McGill University as a professional engineer and married his great time. David in 1992, he was a member of the McGill years (with Duce's death in 2007). David was a professional owner of the McGill University business management. He work took him across Canada and internationally, and involved him in the construction of the plantation plants, major bridges, and the engineering and building and more.

Sandy had a wide range of interests, including golf, sailing, bridge, mading, polyphony and opera. Many of his biggest times were spent with friends and family at University College near Lachelle Quebec.

He will be deeply missed by all who have been, and remembered for his charming, noble, ambitious daughter. Sandy was born with Looking back on his 1st years of life, from childhood to introduction, warlike science, from engineering to world travel, from college, retirement to opera halls, family, beloved one of leading principal always applied, he worked hard and found his family.

A Memorial Service will be held in Calgary, at Green Presbyterian Church, at noon to the 10th Calgary, 4th of a year. The August 20th, 2016. The service will also be available via courthouse at www.youtube.com/live/dpolar#March.

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GERALDINE DE HAAS

MUSICIAN, 91

THE FIRST ADY OF CHICAGO JAZZ BECAME DRIVING FORCE IN THE SCENE

Artist helped revive the genre's fortunes in the city by harnessing the power of grassroots cultural activism

CLAY RYAN

In the summer of 1974, a low trouble after the death of jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington, a group of his admirers gathered in Chicago to plan a concert to his memory.

The city had a great jazz tradition, and it was also heavily segregated, a racial line that reached as far as the musicians gathered that day. The Black musicians wanted to hold the concert in Washington Park, on the city's South Side and near its largest Black communities; the white musicians preferred somewhere on the North Side, where most of them lived.

It was left to Geraldine de Haas, a actor-crited (Jazz singer), to find a compromise. Grant Park, a jazz-actor, was an experienced between downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan.

"The Black musicians were condemned to think one way, and the white musicians were condemned another away," she told the Chicago Tribune in 2012. "They never thought about getting everyone to participate."

She wanted someplace in the middle, "I was adamant about that," she said.

The concert was a huge success, drawing thousands to the park. And it reintegrated the city's jazz scene, which had been on the decline for decades.

It also gave Mr. de Haas a reinvent. Over the coming decades, she became the driving force behind Chicago's jazz resurgence; the founded concert series, fortrude and a new profit organizing firm, Jazz Voices, Howard Reich, a jazz critic for the Tribune, called her "the first lady of Chicago jazz."

Mr. de Haas died July 26 in Englewood, N.J. She was 19.

But son, Darlan de Haas, confirmed the death, as a hospital not far from the home that she and her husband, bassist Edgar de Haas, moved to in 2013.

"She brought together people from every corner of the city—and beyond—to celebrate the universal language we all love, appreciate and understand music," jazz singer Joe Alexander said in an e-mail. "Through her vision and dedication, she around a space where artists could flourish and audiences could experience the richness of our shared culture in Chicago."

Many knew Mr. de Haas for her organizing acumen and endless energy. But before her work to revive Chicago's jazz scene, she had been a renowned musician herself.

Geraldine Wideman was born on Jan. 16, 1929, in Newark, N.J. Her

Top: Geraldine de Haas performs at a tribute to Duke Ellington in Grant Park, Chicago, in the 1970s.

Right: Mr. de Haas, left, stage with her sister Salome Boy in the early to mid-1960s. No. Boy moved to Toronto and became known as Canada's First Lady of the Blues. DE HAAS FAMILY ESTATE

father, a window washer from Andrew Wideman, was a member of the Maverick Science Temple of America, an offshoot of Islam, and followed the practice of adopting Boy as a surname. Geraldine took the surname as well, though she did not join the denomination.

Her mother, Victoria (Johnson) Wideman, managed the home.

Geraldine's brother, Andy, was a piano prodigy, and her sister Salome was already performing in high school. Geraldine not served records with Salome before the three joined forces as Andy and the tiny listens in the mid-1960s.

They became an in-demand son. Her in the Novada area and then in Miami and Europe, One evening in Paris, Mr. de Haas recalled, Marlon Brando was in the audience and then death her after the show. She declined his advance.

The married Edgar de Haas in 1974. He died in 1978.

Her sister, Salome Boy, who relocated to Toronto and became known as Canada's First Lady of

the Blues, died in 2020. Andy Boy died in 2019.

Along with her son, Geraldine de Haas leaves a daughter, Aloha de Haas.

Around 1980, after nearly a decade on the road, Andy and the boy Voices split up. The de Haas's spent several years following work opportunities, living in Colgate, Germany, Nevada, and finally Chicago, where they settled in 1980.

Interest in jazz was on the decline everywhere, including Chicago, pacing and the city and rock music. Mr. de Haas continued to sing, but she also joined the recently established Free Street Theater Company as an actor.

In the early 1970s, she appeared in several major musicals through Free Street and other companies, including New Show Boat and Brett Butler. He, I Can't Copy.

She became involved in cultural preservation as well, joining a successful campaign to cover the South Shore Cultural Center, a onetime Park for jazz that was threatened by the 1980s.

Doing in the efforts of Mr. de Haas and other procrastanism, the building was sold to the Chicago Park District and today remains a major part of the city's cultural life.

Working on the centre showed Mr. de Haas the power of grassroots cultural activism. After the success of the Ellington concert, she helped make it an annual event, it eventually evolved into the Chicago Jazz Festival.

Mr. de Haas received a bachelor's degree in music education from Chicago State University in 1980. A year later, she founded Jazz Voices, a non-profit on the South Side that promoted music education and performance.

"People in the neighbourhood started coming in off the street to the storefront I had at the time," she told the Tribune in 1980, "and they contributed one dollar, or two dollars or 10 dollars, and that made it happen."

In 1980, she organized another major concert, Jazz Comes Home, featuring stars such as Maddy Waters, Betty Carter and Count Roan.

By the time she and her husband decided to move to New Jersey to be closer to their children, Chicago was once more a vibrant jazz city, with dozens of clubs, meddling friends and strong college-level letters programs.

A few weeks before the couple left, dozens of Chicago jazz musicians gave them a send-off at a grand public concert.

"It's been a choice of love," she said to an interview with the NPRZ radio station after the concert. "This music drives me."

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HIROSHI OKUDA

BUSINESSMAN, 93

Former chief executive led Toyota's climb as a global automaker

VORI KADEYAMA TOYOTA

Hiroshi Okuda, the former chief executive of Toyota, who led the Japanese automakers in that war in global markets, has died. He was 19.

Company spokeswoman Shiro Yamada confirmed Wednesday that Mr. Okuda had died but said the date and cause of his death were not immediately available. Major Japanese companies are on summer break this week.

Mr. Okuda served as president, then chairman, of Toyota Motor Corp. from mid-1970 to 2000. In his 20-year career at Toyota, Mr. Okuda is especially remembered for having led the development of the 20th century. In 1980, he was a major owner of the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford, a model with the Ford,

The 20th century is a symbol of the auto-maker's youth for green driving.

Mr. Okuda was instrumental in reducing the Toyota's reputation for fuel efficiency at a time when 20 years were already surging, with models such as its bestseller

Camry, as well as the hybrids.

Even in central Japan, the area where Toyota has its headquarters, Mr. Okuda graduated in 1980 from the prestigious Biteishaichi University in Tokyo, with a degree in business.

Repeatedly outspoken and always ready with a quick laugh, Mr. Okuda was unusual in not being from Toyota's founding Toyota family, as the leadership at the world's top automaker tended to be.

He was key in leading Toyota's global expansion while at the helm, not only in sales, but also production, setting up manufacturing plants in the U.S. and Europe.

Mr. Okuda, a black belt in India, was vocal about his concerns over the possible backlash that Toyota might face, as he growth meant the inevitable defrosting of the "Big Three" American automakers, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, once synonymous with U.S. manufacturing dominance.

He bleaches emphasize how the auto-maker's work is a global and connected, using the term "Astro-try" to drive home that message. Toyota and other Japanese

Hiroshi Okuda served as president, then chairman, of Toyota Motor Corp. from 1980 through 2000, during which time he led the development of the 20th century. SHIZUYA AMIGAN JAZZ

automakers such as Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. were taking in huge profits, while the Americans were sinking into losses. That helped ring in "Japan-building" sentiments starting in the 1980s.

As is still the case today, the cheap yen was viewed as giving

Toyota and the other Japanese manufacturers an unfair advantage. A cheap yen raises the value of overseas earnings when translated into yen.

Mr. Okuda was an adviser on Toyota's board when Toyota added an American, Jim Press, to its board for the first time, in 2007.

He was also a proponent of promoting younger managers, when that was still relatively rare in Japanese corporate circles, although that usually meant empowering men on their 20s instead of their 20s.

A company must change when things are going well. There's no point in trying to change after things start going bad," he told reporters in 2009.

That emphasis on staying into the encapsulation Toyota's basic principle of constantly improving, known as "Astro's," which, along with just-in-time production, somming on the idea of avoiding the problem by, at the core of Toyota's founding philosophies.

Mr. Okuda served as the head of major business lobbies such as the Japan Business Federation, known as Exhibitors, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, the Prime Minister's Economic Strategy Council of Japan and the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations.

Toyota did not immediately provide details on his survivors.

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制度与权力批判深度研判：The Globe and Mail (2026-08-17)

▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)

1. 【加拿大-美国贸易关税谈判僵局】 [F1_1-F1_8]

   • 事件简述：加拿大与美国在关税截止期（8月19日）前进行最后阶段谈判，试图避免对价值1000亿加元商品征收惩罚性关税。木材与汽车关税仍是最大争议，美方提议降低汽车关税至损害成本水平但加方认为过高。谈判代表勒布朗与格林通过周末视频会议磋商，总理卡尼周日返回圣约翰斯推动协议达成。渥太华制定报复计划应对白宫威胁。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：触动了自由贸易理想与主权自保冲突的核心张力——哈贝马斯的“交往行动”理论在此被现实政治的“系统世界”所撕裂，贸易规则沦为地缘政治工具。

2. 【俄美利益集团操纵艾伯塔省分离主义话语】 [F2_9-F2_16]

   • 事件简述：Cipher 44技术监测显示，俄罗斯方面通过隐蔽转发机制放大支持分离主义的内容，美国则通过公开网络影响者、播客及网站推广艾伯塔省分离主义。里贾纳大学"人工智能、数据与冲突研究中心"联席主任布赖恩·麦奎因证实此类外国影响活动针对艾伯塔省10月计划公投。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：揭示了数字主权与信息霸权的权力新形态——福柯“生物政治”与德勒兹“控制社会”理论在加拿大联邦制脆弱性上的现实投射。

3. 【安大略省卡车驾驶学校监管失灵】 [F3_21-F3_26]

   • 事件简述：审计长报告显示安大略省200所私立卡车驾驶学校中约四分之一从未接受检查，存在篡改学员记录、聘用不合格教师等问题。货运行业呼吁运输厅主导监管改革，高等教育厅已对未审计学校进行突击检查。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：暴露了新自由主义治理逻辑下的监管真空——韦伯“合法性危机”与布迪厄“象征资本”在公共服务私有化进程中的制度性失效。

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▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)

专题一： 《贸易霸权与主权话语的现象学悬置：加拿大-美国关税谈判的哈贝马斯式困境》

1. 现实困境深描（The Concrete Dilemma）

加拿大与美国在关税截止期前的最后阶段谈判，实质上是一场主权话语与经济霸权的博弈。美方以“损害成本水平”为名要求加拿大降低汽车关税，但加方认为该数字已超出其可承受范围（[F1_4 🔍]-[F1_7 🔍]）。这一僵局不仅关乎贸易规则，更关乎加拿大作为主权国家在全球供应链中的地位。总理卡尼周日返回圣约翰斯，显示出政治决断的紧迫性——但这种决断是否能超越经济理性的束缚？

2. 博弈机制与话语策略剖析（Mechanisms & Discourse）

《环球邮报》头版以“渥太华力争与美达成协议”为标题，将谈判置于“避免惩罚性关税”的框架下，实则掩盖了不对称权力关系的本质（[F1_3 🔍]）。美方通过“损害成本”这一技术性术语，将政治决策伪装为经济技术问题，而加方则通过“报复计划”的威胁试图重建对称性。然而，这种对称性仅存在于话语层面——加拿大的报复能力（如针对1000亿加元商品）在现实中难以实现，因为其经济结构对美国市场的依赖（如汽车零部件供应链）使其陷入结构性脆弱。

3. 历史思想资源的平等对话（Theoretical Resonance）

哈贝马斯在《交往行动理论》中提出，交往理性的理想在“系统世界”的侵蚀下沦为形式化的空壳。加拿大-美国贸易谈判正是这一理论的现实注脚：双方试图通过交往行动达成共识，但现实政治的“系统世界”（经济霸权、地缘政治）却将这种交往行动工具化。康德的“永久和平”理念在这里遭遇了霍布斯式现实主义的挑战——贸易规则不再是和平的保障，而是霸权的延伸。

进一步，我们可以从萨拉曼卡学派的国际法理论中寻找批判性资源。该学派强调主权平等在国际法中的优先性，但现实中美国通过“损害成本”这一概念，将经济理性凌驾于主权平等之上。这种话语霸权使得加拿大的主权话语在谈判桌上沦为现象学悬置——其主权主张在经济技术话语的压制下被悬置。

4. 当代现实对理论的反向质询与新洞见（Contemporary Synthesis）

当代全球治理的一个关键悖论在于：主权国家在经济全球化进程中被迫放弃部分主权，但这种放弃又被用作剥夺其他主权的借口。加拿大-美国贸易谈判中的“损害成本”概念，实质上是新自由主义治理逻辑的典型体现——通过将政治问题技术化，将主权国家置于技术理性的奴役之下。

更深层的挑战在于：算法治理正在重塑贸易谈判的权力结构。美方可能通过大数据分析预测加拿大的底线，从而实现不对称信息优势。这种算法霸权使得传统的主权话语在谈判中失去效力，而加拿大则需要在数字主权与经济主权之间寻找新的平衡点。

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专题二： 《数字殖民与联邦制脆弱性：俄美利益集团在艾伯塔省分离主义话语中的权力再生产》

1. 现实困境深描（The Concrete Dilemma）

艾伯塔省分离主义辩论在10月公投前进入白热化阶段，但研究显示俄美利益集团正在线上推动这一进程（[F2_9 🔍]-[F2_16 🔍]）。俄罗斯通过“代发”隐蔽渗透，而美国则通过公开推广（如播客、网站）公开干预。这种双重渗透不仅挑战加拿大的联邦制稳定性，更暴露了数字主权的脆弱性。艾伯塔省作为加拿大能源重镇，其分离主义话语被外部势力操纵，实质上是地缘政治在数字空间的延伸。

2. 博弈机制与话语策略剖析（Mechanisms & Discourse）

Cipher 44技术通过人工智能监测发现，俄美利益集团在艾伯塔省分离主义话语中的渗透呈现双重策略： - 俄罗斯：通过隐蔽转发和“代发”机制，将支持分离主义的内容推送至加拿大在线社区，实现信息殖民。 - 美国：通过公开推广，利用知名网络影响者和播客，直接塑造艾伯塔省分离主义的叙事框架。

这种双重策略的核心在于话语权力的再生产：通过算法推荐和社交媒体传播，外部势力将分离主义话语内化为艾伯塔省的“本土”叙事，从而实现文化霸权的目标。

3. 历史思想资源的平等对话（Theoretical Resonance）

福柯的生物政治理论在此提供了关键视角：外部势力通过数字空间对艾伯塔省民众的主体性进行塑造，将其从加拿大联邦的公民转化为分离主义的主体。这种主体性的重构实质上是生物权力在数字时代的新形态。

进一步，德勒兹的控制社会理论则揭示了这种渗透的系统性特征：在控制社会中，权力不再通过压制机制（如监狱，福柯的“规训社会”），而是通过网络化控制（如算法推荐、社交媒体传播）实现。艾伯塔省分离主义话语的数字化渗透，正是这种控制社会的典型体现。

从哈贝马斯的公共领域理论来看，这种外部势力的渗透瓦解了加拿大公民的交往理性。在理想的公共领域中，公民通过理性辩论达成共识；但在数字空间中，这种辩论被算法操纵和外部势力干预所扭曲，沦为操纵的工具。

4. 当代现实对理论的反向质询与新洞见（Contemporary Synthesis）

当代数字空间的一个关键悖论在于：技术进步（如人工智能、大数据）既赋予了公民更多参与公共事务的机会，又为外部势力提供了更精准的操纵工具。艾伯塔省分离主义话语的数字化渗透，暴露了数字主权的双重困境： - 技术赋权：公民可以通过社交媒体表达诉求，但这种表达被算法操纵。 - 权力再生产：外部势力通过数字空间重塑加拿大的联邦制结构，实现地缘政治目标。

更深层的挑战在于：加拿大联邦制的脆弱性在数字时代被放大。传统的联邦制通过地理空间的分权实现稳定，但在数字空间中，话语权力的分权成为新的挑战。艾伯塔省分离主义话语的数字化渗透，实质上是后现代联邦制的危机——在数字空间中，主权不再由地理边界界定，而是由话语霸权和算法控制决定。

制度与权力批判深度研判：The Globe and Mail (2026-08-17)

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▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 3 个具体事件在生活世界痛感、情感政治动员与制度理性冲突层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 【加拿大-美国贸易关税谈判僵局】 [F1_1 🔍]-[F1_8 🔍]

   • 事件简述：加拿大与美国贸易谈判进入关键阶段，渥太华试图阻止特朗普政府于2026年8月19日对价值1000亿加元加拿大商品征收惩罚性关税。谈判代表周末密集磋商，但木材与汽车关税仍是最大争议；美方提议降低汽车关税至损害成本水平，但加方认为过高。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：该事件触动了加拿大社会对“被遗弃感”的集体痛点——作为美国最重要的贸易伙伴，加拿大在关键时刻被视为“附庸”而非平等对话者。制度理性（贸易谈判、关税博弈）与生活世界痛感（民族尊严、主权焦虑）的撕裂，凸显了全球化时代“小国”在霸权面前的脆弱性。同时，加拿大总理周日从休假中被紧急召回，这一象征性动作本身即是对制度理性“被动应对”模式的情感反弹。

2. 【俄罗斯与美国利益集团在线上推动艾伯塔省分离主义辩论】 [F2_9 🔍]-[F2_17 🔍]

   • 事件简述：加拿大研究人员利用人工智能技术追踪发现，俄罗斯与美国利益集团正在线上推动艾伯塔省分离主义辩论。俄罗斯方面通过内容转发“代发”支持分离主义信息，而美国活动则更为公开，知名网络影响者公开推广分离主义。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：该事件触动了加拿大社会对“主权完整性”的深层焦虑。外国势力通过算法操纵与情感煽动（分离主义叙事）侵蚀加拿大的政治共同体想象，将制度理性（联邦统一）与生活世界痛感（地方自治诉求、外部干预）推向对立。情感动员机制（社交媒体算法、外国影响网络）与加拿大公民身份认同的撕裂，暴露了数字时代“主权在民”与“主权在算法”之间的张力。

3. 【安大略省卡车驾驶学校监管失职与货运行业改革呼吁】 [F3_21 🔍]-[F3_27 🔍]

   • 事件简述：安大略省审计长报告发现，该省200所私立卡车驾驶学校中约四分之一从未受到检查，存在篡改学员记录、聘用不合格教师等问题。货运行业呼吁运输监管机构（而非高等教育厅）主导检查，因其对行业更了解。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：该事件触动了加拿大社会对“制度冷漠”的痛感——监管机构（高等教育厅）的官僚程序（仅雇用8名检查员）与货运行业的“活生生”需求（安全、效率）形成鲜明对比。制度理性（分权管理、程序合规）与生活世界痛感（生命安全、职业尊严）的撕裂，凸显了技术官僚主义在面对具体人类需求时的无能为力。

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▌ 精选核心专题制度与权力辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Institution and Power Monograph)

专题一： 《全球化霸权下的主权焦虑：加拿大-美国贸易关税谈判中的制度理性与民族情感撕裂》

1. 制度理性架构解构（Deconstruction of Institutional Logos）

加拿大-美国贸易关税谈判的制度理性架构，建立在两个核心假设之上：一是自由贸易的技术官僚模型，即通过关税调整实现贸易平衡与经济效率；二是霸权-附庸的权力结构，即美国作为全球霸权国家，其贸易政策（如特朗普政府的“惩罚性关税”）被视为不可挑战的外部约束。[F1_6 🔍]明确指出渥太华正在制定“报复计划”，但这一计划本身即是对制度理性的被动应对——加拿大试图通过关税对等来维护贸易平衡，而非挑战美国的霸权地位。[F1_4 🔍]-[F1_5 🔍]中，加拿大贸易部长勒布朗在周末留在华盛顿“推动达成协议”的象征性动作，进一步凸显了加拿大在制度理性层面的“跪舔”姿态。这种制度理性的核心逻辑是：效率优先、成本控制、危机止损，但其前提是忽视了加拿大作为主权国家的尊严与民族情感。

2. 生活世界真实痛感深描（Living Lifeworld Pathos）

在生活世界层面，加拿大社会对关税谈判的痛感主要体现在三个维度：一是民族尊严的受损，即加拿大被视为美国的“附庸”而非平等对话者；二是主权焦虑，即在全球化时代，小国如何在霸权面前维护自身利益；三是经济脆弱性，即1000亿加元的关税威胁将直接冲击加拿大的制造业、农业与就业市场。[F1_3 🔍]中“渥太华力争与美达成协议”的标题本身即是对加拿大“弱势地位”的隐性承认。而在生活世界层面，这种制度理性的冷漠（关税谈判、贸易数据）与民众的情感痛感（民族尊严、主权焦虑）形成了鲜明对比。例如，加拿大总理周日从休假中被紧急召回，这一象征性动作本身即是对制度理性“被动应对”模式的情感反弹——民众期待领导人能够“挺直腰杆”，而制度理性却只能“低声下气”。

3. Logos 与 Pathos 的内在辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）

制度理性与生活世界痛感的撕裂，在加拿大-美国贸易谈判中表现为两种对立的“理性”：一是技术官僚理性，即通过关税调整实现贸易平衡；二是民族情感理性，即通过主权维护实现民族尊严。[F1_7 🔍]中勒布朗办公室的表述（“双方回顾了各自谈判团队的工作进展，讨论仍在继续”）展现了制度理性的官僚程序，而这种程序在生活世界层面被感知为“冷漠”与“无能”。另一方面，民众的情感反弹（愤怒、抗议、极化）如何反噬制度理性？例如，加拿大社会可能出现的反美情绪高涨，或对政府“软弱无能”的指责，这些情感动员机制将进一步削弱制度理性的合法性。同时，这种愤怒背后蕴含的“隐性理性”是什么？即对分配正义与生存尊严的诉求——加拿大民众期待政府能够捍卫本国利益，而非在霸权面前屈服。

4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Discourse Temperature & Prognosis）

在话语温度层面，制度端的“去情感化冷色调语言”与生活端的“具象痛感热色调语言”形成了鲜明对比。[F1_1 🔍]-[F1_3 🔍]中的标题（“渥太华力争与美达成协议”）展现了制度理性的官僚语言，而这种语言在生活世界层面被感知为“冷漠”与“无能”。相比之下，民众的痛感表达（如社交媒体上的愤怒、抗议标语）则充满了“热色调”的情感色彩。这种话语温度差，反映了加拿大社会在全球化霸权面前的心理韧性危机：一方面，制度理性试图通过技术官僚手段维护秩序；另一方面，生活世界的痛感却在不断累积，最终可能爆发为更激烈的情感动员（如民族主义高涨、反美情绪）。

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专题二： 《监管失职与行业自救：安大略省卡车驾驶学校危机中的制度理性与生活世界痛感》

1. 制度理性架构解构（Deconstruction of Institutional Logos）

安大略省卡车驾驶学校监管体系的制度理性架构，建立在分权管理与程序合规的官僚逻辑之上。[F3_23 🔍]中审计长报告发现，安大略省200所私立卡车驾驶学校中约四分之一从未受到检查，这一现象暴露了制度理性的结构性失灵：高等教育厅作为监管主体，仅雇用8名检查员，无法覆盖庞大的私立学院体系。[F3_22 🔍]-[F3_25 🔍]中，货运行业呼吁运输监管机构（而非高等教育厅）主导检查，因其对行业更了解。这种制度理性的核心假设是：通过分权管理实现效率最大化，但其前提是各监管主体间的协调与资源匹配。然而，现实情况却是监管真空与行业自救并存，凸显了制度理性在面对具体人类需求时的结构性缺陷。

2. 生活世界真实痛感深描（Living Lifeworld Pathos）

在生活世界层面，安大略省卡车驾驶学校危机触动了三个核心痛感：一是生命安全焦虑，即不合格教师与篡改记录直接威胁学员与公众安全；二是职业尊严危机，即行业从业者对监管机构“冷漠无能”的愤怒；三是社会信任崩溃，即公众对私立教育机构诚信体系的普遍质疑。[F3_28 🔍]中Kim Richardson的表述（“运输厅更适合主导卡车驾驶学校检查，因为其检查人员对行业有更深入的了解”）展现了行业对制度理性的实用主义反抗。这种痛感在生活世界层面表现为对官僚程序的集体不信任，进而转化为对行业自救机制的诉求。

3. Logos 与 Pathos 的内在辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）

制度理性与生活世界痛感的撕裂，在安大略省卡车驾驶学校危机中表现为两种对立的“理性”：一是官僚程序理性，即通过分权管理与程序合规维护监管秩序；二是行业实用主义理性，即通过资源重组与行业自救满足具体需求。[F3_26 🔍]中高等教育厅发言人Darius Smootam的表述（“若卡车驾驶培训项目无法维护我们高等教育体系的诚信，我们将毫不犹豫地予以关停”）展现了制度理性的刚性与冷漠，而这种刚性在生活世界层面被感知为对行业需求的漠视。另一方面，行业的情感反弹（如呼吁资金支持、要求监管权转移）如何反噬制度理性？例如，货运行业可能通过公开抗议或媒体曝光迫使监管机构让步，这一过程将进一步削弱制度理性的权威。同时，这种反抗背后蕴含的“隐性理性”是什么？即对生命安全优先与行业生存尊严的诉求——行业期待监管机构能够以人为本，而非以程序为本。

4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Discourse Temperature & Prognosis）

在话语温度层面，制度端的“官僚冷色调语言”与行业端的“实用主义热色调语言”形成了鲜明对比。[F3_23 🔍]中审计长报告的数据化语言（“200所私立学院中约四分之一从未受到检查”）展现了制度理性的技术官僚色彩，而这种语言在生活世界层面被感知为对行业痛感的漠视。相比之下，行业代表的表述（“运输厅更适合主导检查”）则充满了实用主义的紧迫感。这种话语温度差，反映了安大略省社会在面对监管危机时的心理韧性危机：一方面，制度理性试图通过官僚程序维护秩序；另一方面，生活世界的痛感却在不断累积，最终可能爆发为行业自救运动或监管权力重组。

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▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问与研究路标 (Open Horizons for Ethical & Sociological Inquiry)

1. 【开放性学术追问一：技术官僚理性与人类安全尊严的和解可能】

   • 在监管失职与行业危机中，技术官僚理性（如分权管理、程序合规）如何与人类安全尊严（如生命安全、职业尊严）实现和解？是否存在一种“以人为本的监管技术理性”的可能性，即通过制度重构（如监管权力下放、行业参与决策）来缓解制度理性与生活世界痛感的撕裂？

2. 【开放性学术追问二：行业自救运动对制度权威的重构挑战】

   • 货运行业通过呼吁资金支持与监管权转移来应对监管失职，这一行业自救运动如何重构加拿大的制度权威？这种运动是否会导致监管权力碎片化，进而削弱政府的公共治理能力？

3. 【开放性学术追问三：全球化霸权下的小国主权困境】

   • 加拿大-美国贸易关税谈判中的主权焦虑，如何在全球化与霸权结构下重新定义“小国主权”？是否存在一种“韧性主权”的概念，即通过多边合作与内部团结来应对霸权压力？