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Iveson eyes funding for transit projects Jeremy Simes

Metro | Edmonton Big transit bucks from the feds has Edmonton one step closer to long-awaited LRT expansions.

But that comes with “a big asterisk on it,” Mayor Don Iveson said over the phone from Ottawa on Wednesday.

The federal budget tabled Wednesday shows the Liberals are committing $20.1 billion over 11 years for public transit.

The money will be divided by a formula that takes both ridership numbers and provincial population into account.

“Alberta’s share of those funds and Edmonton’s share of that should be sufficient to accelerate work and fund the West LRT extension and fund the Blatchford extension of the Metro Line,” he said.

The catch? The provincial government still has to pony up, because transit projects are generally split three ways.

But Iveson is hopeful: the province indicated last week

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that Edmonton’s Valley Line extension is a good candidate for funds raised by the carbon levy.

“The green fund is available to municipalities to fund transit and particularly LRT projects,” Infrastructure Minister Brian Mason said last week.

Iveson said he was told the federal government will transfer the funds, rather than requiring the city to apply for a grant.

“The transfers will be predictable and sustained for municipalities to be able to plan for a decade to come,” he said.

Iveson explained that the city’s next steps are to finish the design work for the expansion of both lines and, if the province comes on board, start looking for bidders to begin construction.

“We need to get it right,” he said. “My definition of getting it right is property taxpayers not paying too much to keep up with the federal government’s enhanced level of investment for transit.”

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Alberta certain small brewery rebate complies with trade laws David P. Ball

Metro | Edmonton Edmonton’s “very fledgling” craft distilling industry is pouring a shot of optimism this week after the province hinted they could see the grants given to small breweries extended to them.

But not everyone in the liquor sector is happy about finance minister Joe Ceci’s announcement last Thursday that the province will “build on the success of our craft brewing program and work to model a similar program for Alberta’s craft distillers” this year.

The idea immediately raised alarm bells for the Canadian Constitution Foundation, which is suing the province over its craft brewery incentives — on behalf of alcohol importers and out-ofprovince beer-makers.

“If it is like the beer program, it would be subject to all the same criticisms,” said staff lawyer Derek James. “A protectionist tariff violates the constitution, the supreme law of the land.

“They say they’re doing it for all the right reasons: they’re going to protect local industry,

which makes sense. But it frightens me when a government feels it’s above the law.”

But the local distilling industry praised the announcement, despite the lack of public details.

“We’d been lobbying the government for the last two years to try to get some kind of program in place to get us on parity with craft breweries and winemakers,” said Geoff Stewart, owner of Rig Hand Distillery in Nisku, and a member of Alberta Craft Distillers Association. “Although, we’re waiting for the actual next steps before we get too excited.”

Ceci was not available for an interview Wednesday, but ministry spokesman Mike Brown emailed that although “details of the distilling program have not yet been announced,” Alberta already has “the most open liquor market in the country” and its consumers have “the greatest choice” of products.

“The distilling program will allow the craft distilling industry to thrive,” Brown wrote.

During his post-budget remarks last week, Ceci told reporters he was “confident that modelling a small distillers grant on the existing program would be legally sound,” he said. “I’m very confident that we are tradecompliant.”

According to Adam Smith, owner of Edmonton’s Strathcona Spirits, the argument of a level playing field with out-of-province distillers doesn’t hold up.

“We’re not on an equal play-

There’s such a big gap in the aging process. In three, five and 10 years, we need to have products ready.

Adam Smith

Adam Smith, owner of Strathcona Spirits Distillery. KEVIN TUONG/FOR METRO

ing field with other businesses,” he said. “There’s anachronistic laws and taxation that make the larger players the only ones that are truly viable — or until recently even legal.”

Because whisky takes years to make, time is of the essence to help the “very, very fledgling industry,” he said. “It’s a very small-margin industry to be in … If Alberta doesn’t facilitate this industry, we’ll fall even further behind everyone else on the worldwide scale.”

BREWER PROGRAM In 2015 Alberta started taxing craft breweries from outside western Canada at a higher rate — which out-of-province producers argued gave them an unfair advantage, by creating an illegal tariff barrier to their products.

Ontario-based Steam Whistle Brewing took the province to court and

ultimately defeated the policy.

Last year, the province replaced it with a grant program based on how much volume each brewery produces every year, in order to rebate some of the increased taxes on all breweries to benefit smaller, craft operations.

Alberta’s education minister wants a school division to immediately revamp a course entitled “Women Studies” which teaches tween girls about hairstyles, flattering clothing, dinner party etiquette and polite conversation.

David Eggen says the NDP government has made gender equity a top priority and understands why concerns are being raised about the course offered by the Pembina Hills School Division to girls in Grades 6 to 9.

His officials have spoken to the school division, he said.

“We informed them that all problematic or offensive components must be changed. They have assured me they will make appropriate changes,” Eggen said.

“My office will be actively monitoring this situation, and I trust that Pembina Hills will make the appropriate changes necessary to this course.”

David Garbutt, acting superintendent for the division in central Alberta, was in a board meeting Wednesday and unavailable for an interview. In a statement, he said the course is a “work in progress” and the board is listening to the constructive criticism.

“People are rightly concerned that our students not feel stereotyped. We agree,” he said. “We will be reviewing the curriculum to ensure that it doesn’t reinforce stereotypes in the process of encouraging positive self-image.”

The division oversees 3,800 students in 15 community schools. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Budget fails Indigenous kids First nations

Nothing new for child welfare, says Blackstock David P. Ball

Metro | Vancouver First Nations child welfare is going under the microscope at an Edmonton event Thursday, one day after the federal budget disappointed critics by offering “nothing new” towards an “unfathomable” epidemic of youth suicides and underfunded services, Canada’s leading advocate told Metro.

Thursday’s lunchtime panel discussion and film screening at MacEwan University will tackle an issue that saw Ottawa defeated at the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal last year, when it was ordered to spend as much per First Nations child as it does on other Canadian kids’ services.

But the social worker behind that landmark legal challenge — former University of Alberta

Cindy Blackstock of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, launched a new Tribunal case Wednesday to force the government to heed previous rulings. THE CANADIAN PRESS

professor Cindy Blackstock — said Wednesday’s budget failed Indigenous children once again.

“There’s nothing new in the budget for First Nations children and their families, in child welfare, or their implementation of the Jordan’s Principle,” she said in a phone interview, “even though they’ve been found out of compliance

with legal orders to stop that inequality. “It’s a moral issue: is Canada so broke that the finance minister and the Prime Minister have made a deliberate choice to discriminate against little kids?”

The Tribunal has ruled Ottawa “discriminated” against First Nations children on reserves, by paying less per-child

for welfare and education than non-Indigenous kids get.

And it ordered the government to implement “Jordan’s Principle,” an approach that ensures First Nations children can access government services such as health care as easily as non-First Nations children — even if government agencies are in dispute over which one

should pay for the service.

On Wednesday, Blackstock, director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, launched a new Tribunal case hoping to force the government to heed that court’s previous rulings. If that fails, she said, she’ll sue Ottawa for contempt of court.

The 2017 budget mentions Jordan’s Principle, but lists it under a section titled “progress to date,” stating Ottawa had already made investments towards “improving the welfare of First Nations children by providing funding for First Nations Child and Family Services and to support implementation of Jordan’s Principle.”

The budget promised to create an undefined “Indigenous Framework on Early Learning and Child Care” and touted the 2016 budget’s $108 million annually for new child welfare funding for First Nations kids.

The panel discussion and film screening of the documentary “Displaced: Indigenous Youth and the Child Welfare System” will take place Thursday 12:30 p.m. at MacEwan University’s CN Theatre (10460-105 St. North-West).

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Residents weigh in on tower Jeremy Simes

Metro | Edmonton Move aside Southpark on Whyte, Old Strathcona could soon be home to an even taller tower if a local developer gets its way.

Residents weighed in Wednesday on the proposed Bateman tower, a 31-storey building that would be larger than the recently approved 20-storey Southpark block.

Located on the corner of 99 Street and 89 Avenue by Wild Earth Bakery, the proposal would require the city to rezone that spot, which currently only allows four-storey buildings.

Strathcona Centre Community League president Maureen Duguay said the neighbourhood has yet to take a stance on the proposed tower, but has raised concerns over shadowing, the effect it will have on aging water pipes, traffic and the building’s mass. The building will contain 240 suites with retail at the ground level facing 99 Street.

Townhouse units would also face 89 Avenue.

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University hopes benches lead to talk on mental health

This is a cue to show, as a campus, that this is something we are concerned about.

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Jane Slessor

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When University of Alberta students take a break on one of two new brightly-coloured park benches on campus, Jane Slessor hopes they’ll take a second to check in about their mental health.

Slessor, a social worker with the Office for the Dean of Students, said the two Friendship Benches in the Rutherford Library Atrium are “meant to be a visual symbol to remind people to check in with one another, check on your colleagues, check on your peers and check on your classmates.”

The idea was first brought to the U of A’s attention a year ago

by The Lucas Fiorella Friendship Bench corporation. The non-profit was started in 2015

Jane Slessor is a part of a social work team that helps launch a new Yellow Friendship Bench to talk freely about mental health. kevin tuong/for metro

after Fiorella, a Canadian student, took his own life in October 2014 after suffering from depression in secret.

Since then Lucas’ family has been encouraging postsecondary institutions to be more open about the stress

and struggles students can face.

According to a 2016 study released by the Canadian Association of College and University Student Services (CACUSS) one-fifth of Canadian post-secondary students battle with depression, anxiety or

another mental health issue.

Slessor said the benches are meant to foster an environment where students feel free to talk about mental health.

“This is a cue to show, as a campus, that this is something we are concerned about,

it’s something that we care about, something we’re wanting to commit to as a campus community,” said Slessor. “It’s about having a tangible and visual reminder that the campus community is committed to the mental health of everyone.”

Funded by the Office of the Dean of Students, the Landing, the Gender Based Violence Prevention Program, U of A Facilities and Operations, and U of A Libraries, the benches were installed earlier this week.

But they aren’t permanent fixtures in the north campus’ library atrium, Slessor said.

The university might move the park benches around to reach as many students as possible with the message of “Yellow is for Hello.”

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Students welcome investment Pushpa Balgobin

For Metro | Edmonton

With over $800 million in deferred maintenance costs on campus, the University of Alberta’s Student Union is welcoming a new influx of cash from the province.

Minister of Advanced Education Marlin Schmidt announced $149 million over four years to restore the aging Dentistry/Pharmacy building and turn it into the university’s new administrative hub.

“It is related to sustainability,” Student Union President Fahim Rahman said. “If we can repurpose and renovate the spaces that we currently have, knowing that the learning experience now is not the same as it was a century ago, I think that would be the best way to spend public dollars.”

Rahman added that institutions of higher learning need to be equipped not only with good professors but also “infrastructure that can handle the capacity of students, and is designed for their educational needs.”

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The head of one of Edmonton’s largest affordable-housing organizations sees opportunity in the federal government’s plans to boost spending for affordable homes.

The Liberals have committed $11.2 billion over 11 years to support affordable housing nationally, according to the government’s 2017 budget tabled Wednesday.

Of those funds, Alberta will get a share of the $3.2-billion divided among the provinces to construct new units or renovate old ones. Alberta will then decide where it plans to allocate those dollars.

Greg Dewling, CEO of Capital Region Housing, said demand for affordable housing has increased five fold in Edmonton, noting 5,300 people are currently on the organization’s waiting list.

“It’s nice to have the federal government back affordable housing,” he said. “We’re quite pleased.”

Mayor Don Iveson, who was in Ottawa, told reporters over the phone Wednesday he thinks the investment is welcome news, calling it “unprecedented in this generation.”

“In Edmonton it will mean we can do more projects in partnership with the province to build more supportive hous-

Greg Dewling, CEO of Capital Region Housing, is pleased with the federal government’s commitment to affordable housing.

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ing,” he said. “It’ll start to move the needle again and support Edmontonians who rely on that aging supply of social housing.”

Dewling said he’s also happy to see $5 billion of that money go to creating a new national housing fund, which plans to encourage the private sector, community organizations and government to pool resources for large renewal projects.

“We want to transform the sector and find new ways of

providing housing,” Dewling said.

The current model, according to Dewling, doesn’t work because the government is providing cash to front units that can’t cover operating costs.

He said a new model, which he hopes would allow a mix of housing types in one unit, could make buildings sustainable. Providers would see enough rent coming in so they don’t have shortfalls.

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Edmonton may share $125M David P. Ball

Metro | Vancouver Get ready for more “deep learning” coming out of the University of Alberta, sci-fi fans.

Wednesday’s federal budget pledges $125 million to the Canadian artificial-intelligence (AI) sector — with the federal government namedropping Edmonton, Toronto, Waterloo and Montreal, home

to some of the world’s top AI research centres.

The government’s new PanCanadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy announced in the budget is meant to “promote collaboration between Canada’s main centres of expertise,” according to the fiscal plan.

“World-class expertise at Canadian universities has helped propel Canada to a position as leader in artificial intelligence and deep learning

research and use,” the budget document stated.

“Canadian talent and ideas are in high demand around the world — but activity needs to remain in Canada to harness the benefits from artificial intelligence.”

The University of Alberta is already ranked Canada’s top player for AI and deep learning, according to the Computer Science Rankings, reaching eighth on the annual survey’s global list.

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Things worth Transit riders are losing their tax breaks taking note of in the budget Ryan Tumilty

Metro | Ottawa

The 2017 federal budget has money for transit, affordable housing and is the first-ever budget to be consid­ered through a gender-based prism.

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The Liberal government is eliminating the tax credit allowing Canadians to deduct part of the cost of monthly transit passes.

The 15 per cent non-refundable tax credit has been in place since 2006.

“We will eliminate inefficient tax measures, especially those that disproportionately benefit

the wealthy,” finance minister Bill Morneau said in his speech in the Commons.

While the public transit credit does not disproportionately impact the wealthy, Morneau said it wasn’t working.

“We set on a course to make sure our tax system was fair and that our tax system was efficient,” he said. “We found that it was not doing what it was intended to do.”

Riders will be able to deduct

passes this year up until June, but after that the credit will end.

Morneau said the government was investing in building more public transit, which would ultimately do a better job of growing ridership.

Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson, chair of the Big City Mayor’s Caucus, said that tax credit amounting to $5 or $10 a month is not going to make or break a person’s decision to take transit. But NDP leader Tom Mulcair countered

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Gender equality In what was billed as an historic first, the Liberal government says the entire 2017 federal budget was considered through a genderbased prism, with specific investments framed to promote equality and bring more women into the workforce. Speaking to Parliament on Wednesday, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said all measures in the new budget were assessed based on their impact on women.

The “Gender Statement” in the 2017 budget outlines the persisting wage gap between men and women in Canada, as well as the overrepresentation of women in lower income sectors and the low proportion of women in management and boardroom positions.

Transit The government will spend $20.6 billion over the next 11 years across the country on public transit projects. The Liberals are prepared to cover up to 40 per cent of new subways and light rail lines. The number rises to 50 per cent for repair or rehabilitation projects, but the government is capping the amount that can be spent on rehabilitation, favouring the construction of new projects. As cities had asked, there will be no application process, with money flowing based on an agreed upon formula that will prioritize cities that already have large transit ridership.

Housing The government is investing $11.2 billion over 11 years on affordable housing. The money won’t start flowing until after the 2019 election, even as cities across the country are closing subsidized housing units and have people on long wait lists.

The funding will go to the provinces to build new units and repair existing ones, as well as a new national housing fund that will provide lowcoast loans for more hosing units and help keep current rent-geared-to-income units open. The government is also pledging to open up more federal land at little or no cost for affordable housing.

Child care The budget includes $7 billion over the next decade to increase access to affordable child care, the option to begin maternity leave earlier or extend parental leave to 18 months.

The details outlined estimated that child care spending could create 40,000 new, subsidized daycare spaces countrywide over the next three years, representing a bump of less than 10 per cent in the overall number of spaces.

Ethics training for judges The federal government will invest additional $2.7 million over five years, plus $500,000 annually afterwards, for the Canadian Judicial Council to support training on ethics and conduct for federally appointed judges, while also ensuring access to professional development that is gender and culturally sensitive.

back, saying that it’s a mistake to look at the credit only as an incentive to take transit; it’s also a social good.

According to the government, removing the credit will save just over $1 billion over the next five years.

The latest figures show about 1.8 million Canadians claim the credit annually, but only about 1.3 million people actually make enough money for the credit to reduce their taxes.

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Brussels marks anniversary of massacre

May vows to ‘move forward’ after attack Terrorism

Five killed, 40 injured in horror at Parliament A knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage in the heart of Britain’s seat of power Wed-

nesday, plowing a car into pedestrians on London’s Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer to death inside the gates of Parliament. Five people were killed, including the assailant, and 40 others were injured in what Prime Minister Theresa May condemned as a “sick and depraved terrorist attack.”

Lawmakers, lords, staff and visitors were locked down after

the man was shot by police within the perimeter of Parliament, just metres from entrances to the building itself and in the shadow of the iconic Big Ben clock tower. He died, as did three pedestrians on the bridge, and the police officer.

A doctor who treated the wounded from the bridge said some had “catastrophic” injuries. Three police officers, several

French teenagers on a school trip and two Romanian tourists were among the casualties.

Police said they were treating the attack as terrorism. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Metropolitan Police counterterrorism chief Mark Rowley said police believed there was only one attacker, “but it would be foolish to be overconfident early on.”

The threat level for international terrorism in the U.K. was already listed at severe, meaning an attack was “highly likely.”

Speaking outside 10 Downing St. after chairing a meeting of government’s emergency committee, COBRA, May said that level would not change. She said attempts to defeat British values of democracy and freedom

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“Tomorrow morning, Parliament will meet as normal,” she said. Londoners and visitors “will all move forward together, never giving in to terror and never allowing the voices of hate and evil to drive us apart.”

U.S. President Donald Trump was among world leaders offering condolences, and in Paris, the lights of the Eiffel Tower were to

be dimmed in solidarity with London.

New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English told reporters in Rotorua that he has written to British Prim May to express support for her government and to offer his country’s condolences to the victim’s families, while South Korea’s Foreign Ministry says five South Koreans were among the 40 people injured in London during the terror attack outside Parliament.

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People mark one-year since the attack in Brussels on Wednesday. Getty Images

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks outside 10 Downing Street in central London on Wednesday, after the terror incident in the U.K. Parliament.

An armed police officer guards Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday.

A member of Parliament helps emergency services attend to an injured person outside the Houses of Parliament. Photos: Getty Images & the Associated Press

As the chaos in London, U.K. ensued, the city of Brussels , Belgium was marking the one-year anniversary of a day in which three bombers killed 32 people and wounded more than 300 in the Brussels airport and subway a year ago.

A year later, the city’s physical scars may have healed, but the pain is still there. Residents and authorities are determined to forge ahead, without changing the character of their city.

“It’s the responsibility of each and every one of us to make our society more humane, and more just,” King

Philippe told a remembrance service as a new monument was unveiled to the victims in the Belgian capital’s European quarter.

“Above all, let us dare to be tender,” he said.

The fear of an attack is widely shared across Europe, underlined at Britain’s parliament Wednesday as an attacker stabbed an officer and was then shot by police, and witnesses said a vehicle struck several people on the nearby bridge.

Even if locals in Brussels are mostly oblivious to heavily armed paratroopers

patrolling the city’s landmarks, visitors still stop in their tracks when they notice the camouflage dress and the machine-guns.

Normality is still far off on the anniversary of the attacks.

Before the attacks, said Patrick Bontinck, CEO of the Visit Brussels tourist office, “tourism was growing approximately 10 per cent each year since five years.”

“We had a drop of approximately from 30 to 40 per cent in just two or three days after the attack,” Bontinck said.

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Trudeau to London: ‘We stand with you’

The apparent terrorist incident outside the British Parliament is a cowardly attack on democracy around the world, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Canada stands ready to help Britain in any way it can after the attack, which left at least five dead in London, Trudeau said Wednesday.

The dead included the attacker and a police officer, and some 20 more were wounded in the incident, which occurred on the

grounds of the Parliament Buildings and the nearby Westminster Bridge, London police said.

The British Parliament was locked down while police searched the area to ensure there were no other attackers.

In Canada’s House of Commons, Trudeau called the attack on Britain’s seat of democracy “a cowardly and reprehensible act that we condemn in the strongest terms.

“Canada and the U.K. are close

friends and allies and our message to the citizens of the United Kingdom and our colleagues in the British Parliament is simple: We stand with you.”

Trudeau said the scene unfolding in London was “all too familiar” to MPs who were on Parliament Hill in October 2014 when a gun-toting Michael Zehaf Bibeau stormed into Centre Block after killing a soldier at the nearby National War Memorial.

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World health agency says 1.8 billion use unsafe supply Nearly a third of people in subSaharan Africa do not have access to safe drinking water, the World Water Council said Wednesday, urging governments to contribute adequate amounts of their budgets toward projects aimed at making safe water widely available.

“There is an absolute necessity to increase water security in order to overcome the challenges brought on by climate change and human influence ...

We need commitment at the highest levels,” the organization’s president, Benedito Braga, said in a statement marking World Water Day. Africa and Asia are the most affected by scarcity of safe water,

A man drinks water pumped from the Nile river on in Juba, South Sudan. Nearly a third of people in sub-Saharan Africa do not have access to safe drinking water. getty images

with Papua New Guinea, Equatorial Guinea and Angola reporting that clean water is available to less than 50 per cent of their populations, the statement said.

Globally, at least 1.8 billion people use a drinking-water source contaminated with feces, and half of the world’s population will be living in waterstressed areas by 2025, according

to the World Health Organization.

The water problem is particularly serious in sub-Saharan Africa, where 32 per cent of people lack access to clean water and where some of the world’s poorest live.

In Africa’s largest city, environmental activists protested for better access to clean water. Com-

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munity leaders in Lagos, Nigeria, said residents of the sprawling city of 21 million are suffering.

“When we fetch the water, it foams and smells like petrol and detergent was poured into it,” Barakatu Elegbede said.

Less than 20 per cent of Lagos residents have access to clean water, said activist Akinbode Oluwafemi. the associated press

Communications of Donald Trump’s transition officials — possibly including the incoming president himself — may have been scooped up in legal surveillance but then improperly distributed throughout the intelligence community, the chairman of the House intelligence committee said Wednesday.

In an extraordinary set of statements to reporters, Republican Rep. Devin Nunes said the intercepted communications do not appear to be related to the ongoing FBI investigation into Trump associates’ contacts with Russia or any criminal warrants.

Nunes, who served on Trump’s transition team, said he believes the intelligence collections were done legally but that identities of Trump officials and the content of their communications may have been inappropriately disseminated in intelligence reports.

“What I’ve read bothers me, and I think it should bother the president himself and his team,” Nunes said Wednesday after briefing Trump privately.

Trump said he felt “somewhat” vindicated by the revelations, despite the fact that

Nunes said the new information did not change his assessment that the president’s explosive claim that Barack Obama wiretapped his New York skyscraper was false.

Shortly after being briefed, Trump told reporters: “I very much appreciated the fact that they found what they found.”

Nunes said the information on the Trump team was collected in November, December and January, the period after the election when Trump was holding calls with foreign leaders, interviewing potential cabinet secretaries and beginning to sketch out administration policy.

U.S. intelligence agencies routinely monitor the communications of foreign officials.

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CHANTAL HÉBERT ON THE BUDGET WE’VE SEEN BEFORE

a wordy rewrite of his previous one ... a sea of words that almost manages to drown the inconvenient fact that he is putting little or no money where his mouth is until just before the next election.

If you subscribe to the notion that governments are meant to walk their talk at budget time, then Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are on a treadmill.

Finance minister Bill Morneau’s second budget is, for the most part, a wordy rewrite of his previous one.

It adds up to sea of words that almost manage to drown the inconvenient fact that, in most instances, he is putting little or no money where his mouth is until just before the next election.

Take innovation, the selfdeclared theme of the 2017 budget. As advertised, it has pride of place in the budget.

But that placement brings the government perilously close to indulging in false advertising.

Morneau’s strategy, to put it charitably, is a work-inprogress. The government is still in consultation mode on most of the plan. Legislation to set up a previously announced infrastructure bank has yet to be introduced.

The government says it is about to engage in discussions with the CRTC as to how to go about ensuring highspeed Internet access for all Canadians.

That promise first surfaced in a Paul Martin budget in a previous century . . .

The government wants to make it easier for unemployed Canadians to get training through unemployment insurance. But, if you are out of work this year, you may also be out of luck; the government is not planning to spend new

Morneau’s strategy is, to put it charitably, a workin-progress.

MORE OF THE SAME FROM MORNEAU There are plenty of understandable reasons even a government as young as this one would go on a holding pattern, Chantal Hébert writes. SEAN KILPATRICK/ THE CANADIAN PRESS money in its skills section of its innovation agenda until next year.

Moving on to social programs, we are again presented with a slow-paced rollout that will see dollars magically materialize in greater numbers just before the next campaign.

The budget devotes what may be an all-time record number of lines to social and affordable housing, but only 20 million dollars to the file this year. It will be going up to almost a billion dollars in 2018-19.

On paper, the government is committed to helping the provinces create thousands of new child care spaces. But funds for the initiative will not start flowing until the last fiscal year of the mandate.

Ditto for culture. The Liberals would spend an extra two billion dollars over 10 years on support for the culture industry . . . with the first instalment scheduled for

2018-19.

In the same spirit, the provinces will not see the colour of most of the extra money they were promised for home-care and mental health before the next election.

There are plenty of understandable reasons why even a government as young as this one would go on a holding pattern.

It will take more time for the dust to settle in the wake of the advent of Donald Trump’s administration.

(Indeed that dust may never really settle.)

Meanwhile, the future of Canada’s trade relationship with the U.S. and the country’s trade agenda, itself, are up in the air.

Trudeau’s government already has irons in the fire on a number of fronts.

Its carbon-pricing plan has yet to be implemented. The future of the pipeline plans it has approved is uncertain. The clock is ticking on the promise

to legalize marijuana as it is on the commitment to striking a new deal with Canada’s aboriginals.

The first Liberal budget was replete with big-ticket items, leaving it, over a period of uncertain economic growth, with little more than spare change to throw at other priorities.

Given all of the above, it is possible to construe Morneau’s initial budget as a five-year spending plan and this year’s instalment as the outline of the next Liberal election platform.

Except that it was not just spending on defining items on the Liberal agenda that is being shovelled forward; the government has yet to determine whether to bite the bullet on defence spending and respond to American pressures to up its contribution to NATO. A continuing defence review will eventually shed light on that.

The government is still flirting with the possible privatization of airports. That could be fraught with political perils. Those perils will only increase as we approach the election deadline.

It has postponed a comprehensive tax reform to another day. The political price tag on that could, too, increase with every passing month until the next campaign.

Last, but not least, it has yet to turn its mind to charting a credible path to return to balanced budgets.

As former prime minister Paul Martin could testify from firsthand experience, the line between prudence and dithering is a fine one.

Chantal Hébert is a national affairs writer. Her column appears in Metro every Thursday.

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I really don’t want one but I think I should have a kid.

I was reviewing the new federal budget and that’s probably my best move.

Finance minister Bill Morneau introduced it with an anecdote about a Toronto taxi driver who, on recognizing Morneau, called his wife so they both could tell the minister about the positive impact the Canada child benefit has had on their lives. Good for them and their anecdotal children.

This budget goes further in supporting families. It proposes to let mothers to take more of their maternity leave in advance of giving birth and allow families to choose to spread parental leave payments over 18 months instead of the current 12.

I, for one, hope Morneau takes the bus when he’s in town, because I might like to meet him to have a few choice words about the mid-2017 elimination of the public transit tax credit.

It helped offset the cost of transportation by allowing you to deduct part of the cost of a transit pass on your income tax.

The government’s solution is to give millions more to provinces and territories directly and through the proposed Canada Infrastructure Bank.

All that money goes to projects that are in progress and regional plans that are

under discussion. None of it goes towards a young person who is paying more and more for transit that doesn’t go very far.

Recently, I added up how much I spend on cabs including Uber. I didn’t like the number. Yesterday’s budget promised to make it even bigger by requiring taxi-like ridesharing services to pay GST/HST – a tax increase that will be passed on to consumers. Now, if only there were some kind of infrastructure bank that paid for faster, more efficient transit so I didn’t have to take cabs.

Perhaps their back-up plan is the Youth Service Initiative, which was mentioned in last year’s budget.

This year’s budget allocates no money for this idea but there is a call for proposals.

My idea: Un- and underemployed youth should be drafted into service to piggyback those of us who can no longer afford transit passes.

Speaking to press, Opposition Leader Rona Ambrose insisted her party would be the voice of the taxpayer.

Who, I ask, will represent those of us who um, ah, haven’t been super on top of our paperwork? (Hey, CRA, these are jokes. I promise.)

The budget also increases the excise duty on alcohol paid by importers and producers. This is a niche problem, but the price of my favourite wine has already gone up.

A two-per-cent tax increase brings me down to just one or three bottles per week.

Which is bad, because I might need a glass or two to get into this baby-making venture.

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Metro Canada Tom Nichols is an expert. He has a PhD in government from Georgetown University. He’s an authority on Russian politics and a professor at the United States Naval War College. But, he argues in The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters, practically no one cares.

Across society, rich and poor, right and left, we’re not just dismissing or criticizing experts, but pooh-poohing the whole idea of expertise itself, he writes. And because it came out just as the world is reckoning with the rise of a proudly inexpert U.S. president, his book has touched a nerve.

You might know Nichols from Twitter as @RadioFreeTom, a famously ruthless conservative critic of President Trump.

(He reluctantly supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election).

We asked him about the anti-expert trend and what to do with it.

There’s always been anti-intellectualism. But it’s become so noticeable. What’s happening?

People don’t want to talk about it, but it’s because of the growth of narcissism in our society. We really have become so acclimated to thinking that our views on everything are as important and as worthwhile as everyone else’s. Every professional in the world at this point has encountered somebody who has told them how to do their job.

You blame this in part on higher education.

I think a motivated, intelligent student can still get a great education

No one listens to the experts anymore I’m pretty sure that...

What you’re saying doesn’t make sense, IMHO.

That’s not what I heard!

I’ve Googled this, so I know I’m right.

Americans steadfastly believe in the common sense of the common person, says Tom Nichols, author of The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters. istock/illustration

in Europe, Canada or the United States. But in the competition for students and loan dollars, colleges are marketing themselves to teenagers as though they’re cars. Many more people are going to college, and many of them shouldn’t be going.

And that hurts the whole issue of expertise because ... college is no longer a good discriminator for who knows what they’re talking about.

The U.S. has elected a president

who isn’t shy about his lack of expertise. What was it like watching this wave of Trump mania?

I saw it coming. And this wasn’t the first election. Although people want to tie this pretty strongly to Donald Trump, it’s important to remember Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton’s followers believed a lot of outrageous things as well. This has been going on for years. The Trump campaign,

better than anybody, caught this wave and surfed it effectively Is there something specifically American about the anti-expertise trend?

Americans are not comfortable with ideas of class. We believe in the common sense of the common person.

So there’s always been fertile ground for questioning experts. What’s different is this phenomenon of every-

one turning into insufferable knowit-alls. We (used to have) a healthy respect for the division of labour.

And that’s gone Could automation be creating a false sense that jobs are simple and easy?

Absolutely right. The death of expertise is a disease of affluence. When you’re looking around the world and everything just works, you say, “How hard can this be? Who can’t fly a plane?” The other problem with so much technology is it makes people realize how dependent on experts they are. And that breeds a sense of helplessness and anger.

What do you think will make average people suffer the most under this trend?

Most troubles are recoverable. I mean if you screw Tom Nichols up the economy, you can recover. But when people are out there suggesting that we need to do something firm about Ukraine, and then cannot place Ukraine on the right continent on a map, I worry that we’re really headed into problems of war and peace. This kind of ignorant populism sooner or later will either decay into authoritarianism, or — the bigger danger — experts will simply disengage and start running things without arguing with the public.

Does anything give you hope that this can be turned around?

Nope. There’s no hope. Thanks for the interview!

Really?

Well, I admit I’m somewhat pessimistic. I think the thing that’s most likely to change this is some kind of economic or foreign policy disaster or a pandemic. Nothing will end the anti-vaxxer nonsense faster than a pandemic.

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Netflix can chill on tax?

Not so fast, observer says budget 2017 analysis

New Uber tax may set stage for tariff on digital content Joe Callaghan

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The world’s leading streaming service might have breathed an initial sigh of relief on Wednesday afternoon when it scanned the 2017 Federal Budget and found itself off the hook in the government’s plan for the coming year.

Some observers had focused on the possible introduction of a ‘Netflix tax’ in Wednesday’s

budget. In the wake of Heritage Minister Melanie Joly’s indication earlier this year that she was eager to find a way to both establish a tax on digital content subscriptions and upgrade Canadian content rules for the digital age, Netflix looked to be in the firing line.

But the initial impression that they came out unscathed may be off the mark.

The ‘Uber tax,’ which was one of the headline policies unveiled

by Finance Minister Bill Morneau Wednesday, set the precedent for a broader tax on digital services, a net that Netflix could in the future find itself caught up in.

Michael Geist, University of Ottawa law professor and one of the country’s foremost voices on wireless and digital commerce, saw it that way.

The coming year will have enormous implications for the future of Canada’s digital policies Michael Geist, law professor

“The biggest digital implications may ultimately come from the policy reforms,” he wrote in an analysis of the budget. “First up may be new digital sales taxes.

The…commitment to extend sales taxes to ride sharing companies such as Uber, (is) a move that seems likely to ultimately lead to a broader extension of sales taxes to digital services such

as Netflix.”

The Los Gatos, Calif.-based streaming service, which has more than 5 million subscribers in this country, has been engaged in a stand-off with successive Canadian governments on a number of fronts. One of the debates is whether it should have to contribute to the Canadian Media Fund and Canadian content, something it is exempt from under the current Broadcasting Act because its operations aren’t based here.

But with yesterday’s budget promising reforms in both the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Acts, upheaval is likely.

“This guarantees that the major policy fights of the past year will continue into the next,” added Geist in his post on michaelgeist.ca.

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Renewed meaning in Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel has new reach and relevance.

A few weeks ago, it was number one on the bestseller list on Amazon. In April, the new television adaptation will premiere. The surge of interest in the dystopian tale comes at a time when the theme of totalitarianism no longer seems so imaginary.

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Last year’s rollout of a raft of cultural funding by the Liberal government was never likely to be mirrored with another bonanza for the arts Wednesday.

But the creative sector wasn’t left totally empty handed.

One of the pledges came buried on page 142 of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s plan for the next year. Budget 2017 outlined a $300 million boost to the Canada Cultural Spaces Fund which the government said will help “construct, renovate and better equip” creative spaces “for the next generation.”

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BC, an independent agency responsible for promoting the development of creative industries in the province, welcomed the proposal.

“In general we’re seeing much more of a collaborative shared workspace environment across the creative and tech industries,” Gill told Metro. “Investing in any program that brings talent together especially in the creative industry always has a huge benefit. You’re probably talking about upgrading and creating new spaces. You want it to fuel creativity when you bring people together.”

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For the on-the-ground creatives, yesterday’s pledge also found welcoming ears.

Tom Chwieszczenik is a Toronto-based landscape architect who throughout the winter turns his attention to Winter Stations (pictured), a design competition challenging artists to turn a clutch of lifeguard stations along the city’s lakefront into installations.

In light of concerns over highprofile urban creative hubs disappearing — 401 Richmond, a long-standing hive for some of Toronto’s creative and non-profits, is fighting crippling tax hikes

— Chwieszczenik welcomed the Cultural Spaces boost.

“It’s great that they’re upping the funding in this area.

It’s somewhere where there is always funding and support needed. When you read about what’s going on with 401 Richmond and all those other spaces, it’s somewhere we need assistance right now,” he said.

“From what I hear, from my friends in other categories in the arts, they all do have moments where they struggle, across the board. It’s really great to hear them use terms like the creative (economy).” joe callaghan/metro

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“Before, this furniture was strictly about the function — meaning it could recline, but there wasn’t much to the esthetics of it,” says Lewis, whose firm specializes in design for older adults. “Because Boomers want that cleaner-line look, it’s pushing the manufacturers to get on board.”

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Like other manufacturers, La-ZBoy, which introduced the recliner in 1928 and built a reputation more on comfort than style, now offers models that are smaller and more stylish.

But La-Z-Boy will never stop making the traditional chairs that made the company’s name synonymous with recliners, says Penny Eudy, product manager of upholstery for La-Z-Boy in

Monroe, Mich. Eudy believes recliners are the ideal chair for the modern home: “We all are living more casually and more comfortably than we ever have,” she says.

The trend toward open living spaces means that customers are looking for furniture that’s less formal but still eye-catching, says Erin Berg, an associate editor at Furniture Today magazine in Greensboro, N.C. Open floor plans mean there’s nowhere to hide an ugly recliner, she says.

New recliners’ smaller footprint gives homeowners more flexibility, Berg says. Some manufacturers offer a

“wall-hugger” feature: The seat moves forward when it reclines, allowing the chair to be placed against a wall.

The variety of new fabrics and styles — including some recliners with legs — means that designers no longer shy away from the chairs, Lewis says.

And as Baby Boomers downsize their homes, multi-functional furniture becomes more important, says Sarah Dooley, principal designer at Leedy Interiors in Tinton Falls, N.J. “The family room becomes the key room in the house,” she says. “It’s got to be livable and stylish, but function is key.” the associated press

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Playoff Battle of Alberta no longer a pipe dream NHL

since 2006 with the Oilers poised to end their 10-year post-season drought and the Flames set to make it for the second time in eight seasons.

Because Calgary has mightymite scorer Johnny Gaudreau and Edmonton MVP front-runner Connor McDavid, it’s no longer When four consecutive losses crazy to dream about a “Battle had the Calgary Flames floun- of Alberta” playoff series, which dering back in January, coach hasn’t happened since 1991.

Glen Gulutzan saw a train ride “The rivalry is there (and) obas the perfect opportunity for a viously it’s gotten better this seahappy hour in motion that was son because our teams are finally anything but celebratory. starting to win some hockey “I gave the guys some beer,” games,” Oilers forward Matt Henhe said. “We told the guys to dricks said. “Hearing the stories take the headphones off and of the past and how great it was, sit together and the excitement figure this thing level in Edmonout.” ton right now Riding the with hopefully rails for two You can’t have true playoffs right growth without around the corhours from Montreal to Ot- adversity and we ner for our club, tawa gave the it would be very, did struggle.

Flames a chance very exciting.”

Glen Gulutzan to essentially When the save their seaFlames lost 5-1 son. They have won 17 of 22 to the Canadiens on Jan. 24, they games since and went from on were 24-24-3 and clinging to the bubble of making the play- the second wild-card spot in the offs to a team that will give op- Western Conference. That was ponents fits when the playoffs the week that turned Calgary’s begin in three weeks. season around, and it started Alberta is actually home to with some beer and conversatwo of the hottest teams in the tion on that train.

NHL: a three-hour drive to the “Guys were hanging out, north in Edmonton, the rival Oil- having a good time, chatting ers are rolling, too. The province with each other, joking around, will almost certainly have two having fun where normally playoff teams for the first time guys would be headphones on

Flames neck and neck with Oilers after recent success

IN BRIEF Highbaugh dead at 67 Larry Highbaugh, the speedy defensive back-kick returner who helped the Eskimos win six Grey Cups, has died. He was 67.

The team confirmed Highbaugh’s death but a cause was not provided.

“We will forever be proud he donned the Green and Gold and extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends and all affected by his loss,” the Esks said in a release. The Canadian Press Homan takes top spot for playoffs at curling worlds Canada’s Rachel Homan kept her unbeaten streak intact at the world women’s curling championship on Wednesday, locking up first place in the round-robin standings in the process.

Homan (9-0) posted a 6-4 win over Sweden’s Anna Hasselborg in the afternoon draw before topping Anna Kubeskova of the Czech Republic 9-3.

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The Oilers’ Milan Lucic and Deryk Engelland of the Flames slug it out in a game won 7-3 by the Oilers on Jan. 21 in Calgary. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press

watching their movies or playing cards,” right-winger Troy Brouwer said. “I think just the camaraderie that we had on that train ride really showed a lot to the guys of how close a group that we are.”

As Calgary tries to return to the playoffs under their first-year coach, the Oilers are in the pro-

cess of erasing a decade’s worth of demons. They finally have their franchise goaltender in Cam Talbot, McDavid leads the league in scoring and secondyear forward Leon Draisaitl has 65 points in 72 games. The debut season of the Oilers’ new $48million Rogers Place arena happens to feature one of their best

teams in years.

“It obviously helps when our horses are carrying us night and night out,” Hendricks said.

“Cam’s been outstanding, Connor’s been outstanding. But I think the difference is those young core guys are really carrying the mail right now.”

USA Hockey postpones women’s training camp USA Hockey has postponed the start of the women’s national team’s world championship training camp amid an ongoing wage dispute.

The camp was scheduled to begin Wednesday.

USA Hockey still “anticipates” a training camp in Plymouth, Mich., before the tournament begins March 31.

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Verifying Brady’s missing shirt was painstaking and tedious task Now that authorities believe they have recovered the jersey stolen from Tom Brady’s locker following the Patriots’ Super Bowl win last month, the next step will be determining whether it is in fact the MVP quarterback’s missing grass-stained garment.

So how exactly does that happen? Old-fashioned detective work. Experts in the sports memorabilia industry, including one that has worked directly with NFL teams, say it is a tedious process that involves comparing photos and videos that captured degradation to the jersey during the game. They also compare the jersey to team-issued serial numbers and other player-specific customizations that authentic jerseys typically have.

Every jersey is like a fingerprint, no two jerseys are alike.

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Tom Brady surveys the Patriots’ locker-room after New England’s Super Bowl win on Feb. 5 in Houston. KEVIN C. COX/GETTY IMAGES

“Every jersey is like a fingerprint. No two jerseys are alike,” said Barry Meisel, president of the MeiGroup, which has authenticated game-worn sports memorabilia since 1997. “They’re hand-stitched, full of dirt, mud, helmet stains, turf skids and burns. When you look at jersey after a game it’s unique.”

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy declined Wednesday to

discuss the authentication process due to security reasons, writing in an email only “there are a number of procedures we have been using.” The FBI also has not commented on the methods it is using.

Brady’s jersey went missing from the Patriots’ locker room after their Super Bowl win over the Atlanta Falcons Feb. 5, setting off an investigation that

stretched from Boston to the Mexican border.

Working with U.S. investigators, Mexican authorities obtained a warrant to search property of Martin Mauricio Ortega, a tabloid journalist who colleagues say went to the game with a media credential, but bragged he was there as a fan.

Authorities recovered the jersey, along with another Brady jersey that disappeared after the 2015 Super Bowl. A helmet belonging to a Denver Broncos player — possibly Von Miller — was also discovered. Ortega quit his job two days after the search, but has not been charged in the case and has not been located for comment.

Men’s and women’s basketball teams in this year’s Sweet 16 are graduating more players and experiencing all-time high academic success.

The programs still alive in the NCAA Tournament are enjoying the best academic success since The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport on the University of Central Florida campus has been tracking the numbers, according to a study it released Wednesday.

This year, 15 of the 16 men’s

teams, and all of the women’s teams, that made it to the Sweet 16 have an Academic Progress Rate (APR) of 960 or better.

These programs are also graduating their players at a higher rate, with 81 per cent of the men and 100 per cent of the women holding a Graduation Success Rate (GRS) of at least 60 per cent. These numbers either equal or surpass all-time highs for this particular TIDES study, which has been in existence since 2003. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

IN BRIEF Bouchard out in first round Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard suffered a fourth consecutive loss Wednesday, falling 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 to Ashleigh Barty in the Miami Open first round.

Barty stretched her winning streak to eight by claiming the last three games of the match between two past junior Wimbledon champions whose careers have been filled with ups and downs. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

State lowers McGregor fine Nevada athletic officials on Wednesday reduced the penalty they imposed on UFC star Conor McGregor following a fracas with a rival during a pre-fight news conference last year.

The Nevada Athletic Commission approved an agreement with McGregor that settled on a $25,000 fine (down from $150,000) and 25 hours of community service. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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