Mystery remains around disappearance of Jack family
Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff
mnielsen@pgcitizen.ca
A portion of the Saik’uz First Nation reserve has been scratched off the list of places where clues might be found into the disappearance of an entire family three decades ago.
No evidence was uncovered, Prince George RCMP said Tuesday, when the detachment’s serious crimes unit carried out a search of the area over three days in late August with the help of civilian experts, ground-penetrating radar and heavy equipment.
Husband Ronald (Ronnie) Jack, wife Doreen, both 26 years old, and children Russell, 9, and Ryan, 4, were last heard from during the early morning of Aug. 2, 1989 when Ronnie called his parents in the Burns Lake area.
It is believed that shortly after that phone call, the family departed their home on Strathcona Avenue in Prince George with an unknown man in a darkcoloured four-wheel-drive pickup truck.
dren along after they were told there was daycare at the camp. Ronald had indicated to his mother that they would be gone for about 10 days, and that they would be back for Russell to start the school year in September. However, they never returned and they were reported missing on Aug. 25, 1989.
The man is described as Caucasian, 35 to 40 years old, with reddish-brown hair and a full beard, six feet to six-foot-six tall and 200 to 275 pounds and wearing a ball cap, red checkered work shirt, faded blue jeans, blue nylon jacket, and work boots with leather fringes over the toes at the time.
Man sentenced for beating death
A B.C. Supreme Court Justice has largely agreed with Crown counsel’s position in sentencing a now-23-year-old man for beating his father to death and then trying to hide the body, an act committed five years ago when he was still a youth.
Tindale described the beating as “vicious” and found the man had shown a “callous disregard” for the victim in trying to cover up the crime.
He has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and causing indignity to a body from the August 2014 incident in Mackenzie. Because he committed the offence when he was 17 years old, he is being sentenced under the Youth Criminal Justice Act and his name is protected by a publication ban. At issue was how much of a three-year intensive rehabilitative custody and supervision order – aimed at youth suffering from a mental illness, psychological disorder or an emotional disturbance – should be spent in custody.
Crown argued for two years behind bars followed by one year in the community, stressing the gravity of the offences, while defence counsel argued for serving the entire term in the community, noting he has performed well in the five years he has been living in a group home and raising a concern that spending time in custody will only cause more harm than good.
The two went back to the Jack’s home and during the early morning hours of the next day, Ronald call his parents to say he and Doreen were leaving for a “camp job,” RCMP have said.
RCMP said it appeared Ronald Jack met the man the evening before at the First Litre Pub, about four blocks away from their home, where the couple were offered jobs at a logging camp or ranch thought to be near Clucluz Lake.
It also appeared they took their chil-
Anyone with information on the incidents is asked to call Prince George RCMP at 250-561-3300 or anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477 or online at www.pgcrimestoppers. bc.ca (English only).
You do not have to reveal your identity to Crime Stoppers. If you provide information that leads to an arrest or recovery of stolen property, you could be eligible for a cash reward.
On Tuesday, Justice Ron Tindale settled on 18 months in custody and 18 months in the community.
While the man has done “exceptionally well” in terms of his behaviour since committing the offences, Tindale noted that manslaughter is one of the most serious offences in the Criminal Code.
Tindale described the beating as “vicious” and found the man had shown a “callous disregard” for the victim in trying to cover up the crime.
— see FATHER, SON, page 2
Ronald, Doreen, Russell and Ryan Jack have been missing since 1989.
Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff
Warrant issued for arrest of woman
Citizen staff
The Prince George RCMP are asking the public’s help in locating a local woman who has repeatedly failed to appear in court.
Tasha Lynn Baumle, 37, is described as Caucasian, five-foot-four and 130 pounds with brown hair and green eyes.
She faces four counts of driving while prohibited under the Motor Vehicle Act, allegedly committed in Prince George and Quesnel between August 2018 and February this year and counts of possessing stolen property over $5,000 and theft $5,000 or under and two fraud-related charges from an alleged March 2019 incident in Vernon.
She failed to appear in Prince George provincial court on Tuesday as well as on Aug. 14 and in Vernon provincial court on Aug. 8. Warrants for her arrest were subsequently issued.
Baumle travels extensively and has been known to reside or frequent other communities including Mackenzie, Quesnel, Enderby, Sicamous, Vernon and Kelowna, RCMP said.
“If located, contact the RCMP or the police of jurisdiction in your area. Do not confront Baumle,” RCMP added.
Anyone with information on where Baumle might be is asked to contact the Prince George RCMP at 250-561-3300 or anonymously contact Crime
Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www. pgcrimestoppers.bc.ca (English only).
You do not have to reveal your identity to Crime Stoppers.
If you provide information that leads to an arrest, you could be eligible for a cash reward.
SPCA issues plea for help for rescued kitten
Alaska Highway News
The North Peace SPCA is looking for the public’s help to cover the medical costs for a seven-week-old kitten in desperate need of veterinary care.
The kitten, named Liberty by shelter staff, came from a feral cat colony where population numbers were being managed through a trap, neuter, and return program, the SPCA said in a news release.
Liberty has a ruptured eye caused by untreated respiratory symptoms and a lack of vaccinations, and will need surgery to remove the damaged eye, the agency said. On top of that, her ears are plugged with mites, she has a few small wounds and is severely underweight.
“The vet believes she will make a
full recovery. She just has to put a bit of weight on prior to surgery,” branch manager Candace Buchamer said in the release.
Liberty will need to spend three weeks in SPCA care to recover before she is ready to be adopted, and the cost of her care is estimated at just over $1,800.
Liberty can still be socialized to trust humans and be happy living indoors, the SPCA said.
“Liberty allows you to cradle her like a baby and gently stretches her head out,” Buchamer said. “This tiny little fighter has a huge heart and has already shown great progress in recovery with a voracious appetite and plenty of play.”
To learn more about Liberty and to help, visit spca.bc.ca/medicalemergency, visit the branch, or call 250-785-7722.
Father, son fought with machete, club
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According to an agreed statement of facts, the man was 17 years old when he left his mother’s home in Alberta and moved in with his father despite the fact he had fallen on hard times and appeared unable to care for his son.
There was little food in the home, the father had fallen behind on his bills and both he and his son consuming marijuana and crack cocaine, the court was told.
Matters came to a head when the power was cut off and the father blamed the son for playing his music too loud.
When the son threatened to kill him, the father armed himself with
a machete while the son grabbed a club or piece of lumber and repeatedly took a swings at the older man.
Realizing the next day that he had killed the man, the son used the cover of darkness to put the body in a back yard shed.
In the days that followed, RCMP launched a search for the man that eventually led them to the shed. The son had managed to slip away but was apprehended the next day.
Upon being sentenced Tuesday, the man bowed to Tindale before he was led away to begin his time in custody, which will be served in an adult facility.
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B.C. survey shows overwhelming support for permanent daylight time
Beth LEIGHTON
The Canadian Press
VICTORIA — More than 93 per cent of respondents to a recent B.C. government survey didn’t want to turn back their clocks in the fall.
The premier’s office says 223,273 people responded to the survey and a strong majority of them supported moving permanently to daylight time.
With the exception of students, support for year-round daylight time was higher than 90 per cent in all regions of B.C. and across all industry and occupational groups.
But 54 per cent of those surveyed also said it was “important” or “very important” that the province’s clocks align with neighbouring jurisdictions.
In a statement, the premier’s office says officials in Washington, Oregon and California are in various stages of writing or enacting legislation to adopt year-round daylight time, but those states
requires federal approval before they can act.
As B.C. determines its next steps, Premier John Horgan says the survey results will be considered alongside responses from other provinces and the western states.
“This engagement has done exactly as we hoped it would in providing clarity about a preferred direction,” Horgan said in the statement on Tuesday.“The insights generated will be relied upon as we make a final decision about how to move forward.”
The online survey was conducted internally by the government with the aim of getting a wide sample of feedback. The consultation period was from June 24 to July 19.
In addition to the completed online surveys, the government received 279 email submissions from private citizens and 15 written submissions from organizations and experts.
The survey says 75 per cent of respondents identified health and wellness concerns as their
reason for wanting to scrap the time change, but the same health reasons were cited by the minority who favoured falling back and springing forward.
Fifty-three per cent of those who supported year-round daylight time mentioned the benefit of additional daylight during the evening commute in winter, while 39 per cent said other safety concerns were behind their support.
The government acknowledges that there are some limitations with the online survey, primarily that respondents were required to be users of the internet.
As a result, the government allowed non internet users to phone ServiceBC or mail in their opinions using a downloaded feedback form.
The voluntary nature of the survey also means there could a self-selection bias that sees those who hold strong views being more likely to respond, the government says, adding that the anonymous nature of the poll means it is impossible to assess how that might have affected the results.
Global uncertainty prompts rethink of B.C. budget
The Canadian Press
VICTORIA — British Columbia is downgrading its economic projections with revised forecasts of lower growth and a reduced budget surplus, citing global economic uncertainty and reduced property and natural resource revenues.
Finance Minister Carole James said Tuesday the reduced forecasts reflect B.C.’s concerns over potential negative economic impacts of trade disputes between the United States and China, tensions about the United Kingdom’s planned exit from the European Union and the uncertain status of some global
trade agreements and economies.
Mill closures in B.C.’s forestry industry, dips in commodity exports and declines in property tax revenues are also impacting the province’s bottom line, James said Tuesday during a quarterly budget update news conference.
“My job is to make sure we’re as well prepared as we can be and that we are in a good fiscal position to be able to weather the economic storm regardless of what it looks like,” she said.
B.C.’s economic growth is now forecast at 1.7 per cent this year and 1.9 per cent in 2020, down from earlier projections of 2.4
per cent in 2019 and 2.3 per cent next year, said James. She said the province’s budget surplus for 2019-2020 is now predicted to be $179 million, a drop of $95 million from the estimate in February’s budget.
“We continue to be on solid footing, being the only province that has the triple-A credit rating, one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country and zero operating debt,” James said.
She said private sector economists expect B.C.’s economy to rank near the top in Canada this year and first in Canada in 2020 despite the reduced forecast.
Prolific thief sentenced to jail time
Citizen staff
A man caught trying to steal a laptop and a tablet from an unlocked vehicle a day after breaking into a local business was sentenced Monday.
Jordy Martin Visser-Hayne, 22, was sentenced to a further 144 days in jail on a count of breaking and entering and committing an indictable offence and to 45 days in jail and one year probation for theft $5,000 or under.
Visser-Hayne was apprehended Friday after an officer saw a man in a uniform from a local business chasing another man carrying a
laptop bag and tablet along Second Avenue near Ottawa Street in the light industrial area near downtown. He refused to stop when ordered and then ditched the items, but was caught and arrested near 2nd and Scotia Street.
For that act, he was sentenced on the theft under count.
He also pleaded guilty to breaking into a Spruce Street business early Thursday morning and making off with electronics and other products worth over $500. A security camera recorded VisserHayne committing the act.
He was held in custody over the weekend and appeared in provin-
Manitoba premier wins second majority
Steve LAMBERT
The Canadian Press
WINNIPEG — Brian Pallister and his Progressive Conservatives went early and won big.
Pallister called an election more than a year before it was scheduled and the vote Tuesday ended with a second consecutive majority government for the Tories.
The party was projected to capture 30-plus seats in the 57-seat legislature with an agenda to continue cutting costs, streamlining health care and reducing taxes.
Pallister told supporters that voters opted to move forward.
“Forward to balanced budgets. Forward to better care, and sooner. Forward to new schools for our children and grandchildren. Forward to a stronger economy for all of us. And forward to more affordability for families, with lower taxes,” he said.
The Tories failed to match their 40-seat high in 2016, the biggest majority in a century in Manitoba, which ended 17 years of NDP government.
Pallister himself was declared the winner in his Winnipeg constituency of Fort Whyte.
The New Democrats were on track to add a handful of seats to the 14 won in 2016 and remain as the Official Opposition. They also improved their share of the vote. Leader Wab Kinew won his seat in Fort Rouge.
“I’m feeling pretty good tonight,” Kinew told supporters after telephoning Pallister to concede the election.
Kinew said the extra seats are a message of support and a shot across Pallister’s bow.
“The seats that we took back made it very clear that Manitobans want us, the New Democrats, to not only be the conscience of Manitoba, not only to be the opposition of Manitoba, but to be the progressive voice for Manitoba,” he said to applause.
Kinew ran on a promise of
more money for health, education, infrastructure and social programs, and he accused the PCs of implementing health changes that made the system more chaotic.
Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont won in his Winnipeg constituency of St. Boniface but his party was struggling to retain the four seats it had at dissolution.
Four is the minimum number needed for official party status, which carries with it extra funding for caucus staff, committee spaces and time in question period.
Lamont, speaking to supporters, said he was proud of his team running a positive campaign that pushed critical issues to the forefront. But he said politics is ultimately an unforgiving “blood sport.”
“You can put everything you have into something. You can deliver the best work of your life, and sometimes it’s still not enough. And that’s life. And that’s politics,” he said.
“We will continue to build.” Both Lamont and Kinew will face mandatory party leadership reviews.
The Green Party of Manitoba was shut out once again in its bid for its first seat. Party leader James Beddome ran and lost against Kinew in Fort Rouge - his fifth attempt at a seat. All but one of Pallister’s cabinet ministers at dissolution were re-elected, including Finance Minister Scott Fielding, Health Minister Cameron Friesen and Justice Minister Cliff Cullen.
The election broke new ground for diversity. Manitoba has never had a black MLA but that changed Tuesday when the NDP’s Uzoma Asagwara won. The campaign was a calculated gamble for Pallister, who called the election more than a year ahead of the scheduled voting date.
It was a four-week summertime fight that offered few surprises and saw Pallister run a front-runner’s campaign.
cial court on Monday, when he pleaded guilty to the offences and was sentenced. Visser-Hayne has an extensive record for property crimes. He was last in the news in November 2018 when he was sentenced to 43 days in jail and one year probation for trying to break into the shed of a Moyie Street home. Police arrived to find the home’s owner holding Visser-Hayne down.
The clock tower in Canada Games Plaza. More than 93 per cent of people surveyed in B.C. are against daylight savings time.
Hundred-foot wave recorded off the coast of Newfoundland
Morgan LOWRIE The Canadian Press
Hurricane Dorian blazed a trail of destruction from the Bahamas to the Maritimes, but it didn’t just cause turmoil on land, according to a team at Memorial University who say they recorded a 100-foot wave off the southwestern coast of Newfoundland in the wake of the post-tropical storm.
Bill Carter, director of the Marine Institute’s Centre for Applied Ocean Technology, said the more than 30-metre wave was detected at around 2 a.m. Sunday by an oceanographic buoy about 2.5 kilometres off the coast of Port aux Basques at the tail end of what was then a post-tropical storm.
“We had three or four maximum wave heights in the area of 25 metres, and a single wave height of 30.2 metres,” he said in a phone interview.
Carter said the coast of Newfoundland is “a pretty inspiring spot” when it comes to big storms and seas, but this wave is the biggest the team has recorded since it started monitoring in 2006.
“Storms aren’t uncommon off the Port aux Basques regions, but this was just huge,” he said.
While he’s not an oceanographer, Carter said he believes some combination of low pressure, wind, proximity to shore and the tides combined to create what he calls “perfect conditions” for a large wave.
Since he isn’t an ocean expert, he said he couldn’t be positive such a wave is possible under the conditions, but he is confident the technology did not malfunction.
“All I can say is our equipment was working properly before the storm, in my view it continued to work properly throughout the storm and works properly today,” he said.
The data was recorded from one of the centre’s network of buoys, which are equipped with sensors that monitor the height from the base of the wave to its apex.
Because it can’t measure every wave, he said it’s possible that even larger ones have been missed.
Carter said the monster wave likely slammed into the cliffs near shore, but he hasn’t seen a report of it causing any damage.
Dorian caused widespread damage across Atlantic Canada over the weekend as it lashed the region with rain and hurricaneforce wind gusts that approached 150 kilometres per hour at times. Carter said the event is an “eye-opener,”
and a reminder that scientists need to be vigilant amid a changing global climate.
“We probably need to pay even closer attention to the potential of storms,”he said.
“Maybe we’re starting to see additional punch as they make their way along our coast.”
Dorian damaged power, cell services in Maritimes
Michael MacDONALD
The Canadian Press
HALIFAX — Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says he’s heard from residents in the Maritimes livid about losing cellphone service after post-tropical storm Dorian swept through the region, causing widespread power outages and property damage.
Speaking Tuesday from a slightly damaged government wharf in Herring Cove, N.S., Goodale pledged financial support through disaster assistance programs, but he also made a point of urging fed-up cellphone users to take action, saying he’s heard about their frustration “loud and clear.”
“For those who have been affected by what they consider to be faulty or deficient telephone services, they... should make their concerns known to the... regulatory authority,” Goodale said, referring to the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission.
“They need to know if customers believe the response to the emergency was not at the level they have a right to expect.... Make sure you make that concern known to the CRTC.”
Goodale said cellphones have become essential tools for Canadians.
“It’s not just a frill that’s nice to have,” he said, adding that infrastructure across the country must be built to withstand the intense weather and “abnormal circumstances” caused by climate change.
Many Nova Scotia residents have come forward to complain about spotty cell service in the aftermath of the storm, with some saying they were left with no way to call for help or seek critical
information. Various wireless providers have confirmed they dispatched crews to repair damaged cell towers, but company officials have also reminded users that most cellphone towers have limited backup electricity, leaving them vulnerable to failure during extended power outages.
Dorian pulled down power lines across the region. In Nova Scotia, outages were reported from one end of the province to the other, leaving more than 400,000 Nova Scotia Power customers – 80 per cent of the homes and businesses in the province – in the dark at the height of the storm.
If nothing else, the wave of complaints confirms how reliant people have become on their smartphones and fibre optic telecommunications gear that can also fail when the lights go out and
backup batteries die.
“In 2019, internet and cellphone services are an essential service,” provincial NDP business critic Claudia Chender said.
“People should be able to expect that in the event of outages, the companies that provide these services will deliver detailed and timely reports on what the impacts are and what restoration work is underway.”
Chender said the province’s Liberal government should require telecom companies to advise when service will be restored, the same way electric utilities are required to do.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a brief stop at the military’s Willow Park Armoury in Halifax, where he met with Goodale, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, military officials and
Halifax Mayor Mike Savage.
There was no official photo-op for the prime minister, who is expected to announce the official start of the federal election campaign today. Trudeau steered clear of politics Tuesday, remarking in a brief statement that his government has been monitoring the storm’s impact.
“I know crews have been working around the clock to restore power throughout Nova Scotia, and there’s a lot more work to do, and the federal government is here to support in any way we can,” he told reporters assembled outside the armoury.
Goodale, Sajjan and federal Rural Economic Development Minister Bernadette Jordan later headed to Herring Cove, a tiny coastal community south of Halifax close to where Dorian made
landfall on Saturday night.
As the storm approached the coastline, it lashed the area with driving rain and gusts reaching almost 150 kilometres per hour – approaching the power of a Category 2 hurricane.
There were no reports of injuries, but roofs were torn off and trees were snapped like twigs, pulling down power lines across a wide swath of the Maritimes. At one point, more than 500,000 electricity consumers in the region were without power, including 75 per cent in Prince Edward Island and 20 per cent in New Brunswick. As Day 3 of the recovery effort drew to a close, about 16,000 customers were waiting for reconnection in P.E.I., and about 1,000 in New Brunswick. However, more than 88,000 Nova Scotia Power customers were still without electricity Tuesday evening, and the company said it would be Thursday before everyone was reconnected.
The company said it has found about 3,700 trees on power lines that stretch across 32,000 kilometres, and repairs are being made to 300 broken or leaning utility poles. As well, about 4,500 outages across Nova Scotia represent individual customers, which means one repair will bring electricity back to only one customer.
During a news conference Tuesday, Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil said the repair teams face a big challenge.
“I think it’s fair (to say) that all Nova Scotians have not seen a weather event like this for quite some time,” he said. “The physical infrastructure damage from one end of the province to the other is unprecedented. Everyone is working to best ability to restore that power as quickly as possible...”
Shelters turn evacuees away in Bahamas
DaNica COTO The Associated Press
NASSAU, Bahamas — Desperation mounted in the Bahamas on Tuesday as hurricane survivors arriving in the capital by boat and plane were turned away from overflowing shelters.
As government officials gave assurances at a news conference that more shelters would be opened as needed, Julie Green and her family gathered outside the headquarters of the island’s emergency management agency, seeking help.
“We need a shelter desperately,” the 35-year-old former waitress from Great Abaco said as she cradled one of her sevem-month-old twins on her hip, his little face furrowed. Nearby, her husband held the other twin boy as their four other children wandered listlessly nearby. One kept crying despite receiving comforting hugs.
Hurricane Dorian devastated the Abaco and Grand Bahama islands in the northern part of the archipelago a week ago, leaving at least 50 dead, with the toll certain to rise as the search for bodies goes on.
Nearly 5,000 people have arrived in Nassau by plane and by boat, and many
were struggling to start new lives, unclear of how or where to begin. More than 2,000 of them were staying in shelters, according to government figures. Green said that shelter officials told her they couldn’t accept such young children, and that the family has slept in the home of a different person every night since arriving Friday in New Providence, the island where Nassau is situated.
“We’re just exhausted,” she said. “We’re just walking up and down, asking people if they know where we can stay.”
Erick Noel, a 37-year-old landscaper from Abaco with a wife and four children, found himself in the same situation. They will have to leave a friend’s house by Wednesday and had not yet found a shelter where they could stay.
“They are full, full, full,” he said. “I keep looking for a place to go.”
Meanwhile, government officials said they were helping all evacuees and considering building temporary housing, perhaps tent or container cities.
“We are dealing with a disaster,” said Carl Smith, spokesman for the Bahamas’ National Emergency Management Agency. “It takes time to move through the chaos. We are responding to the needs.”
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Pleasure boats take a beating along the waterfront in Halifax as hurricane Dorian approaches on Saturday. A team at Memorial University says it recorded a 100-foot wave off the southwestern coast of Newfoundland.
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Madelyn Watts and Angelina Taylor clean up debris on the government wharf as Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Minister of National Defence Harjit Sajjan hold a news conference in the background in Herring Cove, N.S. on Tuesday.
MDs scale up suicide prevention efforts
The Canadian Press
Rising youth suicide rates have prompted doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto to launch a clinical trial aimed at testing whether involving families in treatment could prevent such deaths across the country.
Child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Daphne Korczak and Dr. Yaron Finkelstein, staff physician in pediatric emergency medicine, are part of a team behind a six-week program that includes adolescents who showed up at the hospital before or after they attempted to take their own lives.
The latest data from Statistics Canada from 2011 show 140 deaths due to intentional self-harm for boys and 58 for girls between the ages of 15 and 19. Considerably more cases involving youths trying to kill themselves do not end in death but lead to emergency-room visits.
“There has been an increasing trend among youth in the number of hospitalizations for intentional self-harm over the past five years, the bulk of which can be attributed to a 102-per-cent increase for girls since 2009-2010,” Stats Can says. “For girls age 10 to 17, intentional self-harm make up 45 per cent of all injury hospitalizations in 2013-2014.”
Finkelstein said an urgent response is needed because in the last two years at Sick Kids alone there has been a 66-per-cent increase in overall youth mental health cases, adding that’s a risk for suicide.
Suicide is the second-leading cause of death among Canadians aged 15 to 35, after unintentional injury.
“What we’re trying here is to fill an important void in suicide prevention in Canada, really with the hope that we can scale up, first to other centres and hopefully lead to forming a national suicide prevention program. We so need it.”
The clinical study at Sick Kids is halfway through recruiting 128 participants and their families for a program that incorporates several therapies. Korczak said while rigorous randomized clinical trials are typically done to test drugs and medical devices for example, the same “gold standard” strategy is being used for the current trial, which involves two groups of adolescents and families: those involved in therapy and those who are contacted by phone about using resources in their community.
“We wanted to offer kids and families a standardized treatment so that it didn’t really matter who the staff was and who was working with the child and family that day or whether they were admitted on a weekend or a weekday,” she said, adding most
children who come to an emergency room after harming themselves or with suiciderelated concerns are not admitted.
“For decades people have been trying to find a program for communities and schools that works and unfortunately there are several programs, many of which have not been evaluated with respect to their outcomes and many of which have not shown benefit in reducing suicide risk and death by suicide,” Korczak said.
Abby Couture, 20, was admitted from the emergency room to the intensive care unit at Kingston General Hospital in Ontario at age 14 for severe anxiety, anorexia and obsessive-compulsive disorder after waiting eight months for a referral for mental health services.
Couture said she had suicidal thoughts during her “darkest time” after leaving the hospital, when she suffered through a panic attack and depression.
“At that point it was just mainly my mom and I trying to figure this out through the help of a therapist she was able to get through her own network,” said Couture, who is now in the fourth year of her bachelor of arts and science degrees at McGill University in Montreal.
She spent another year on a wait list before participating in a peer support group, she said.
Couture said a therapy program involving adolescents and their parents would be extremely beneficial, even for families to learn about what types of events could trigger a mental health episode for their child and to get much-needed support.
“Frankly, it can be a very daunting thing for a parent to have to not only deal with the trauma of trying to cope and take care of their kid, which can be a shock to their emotional system, but also trying to learn the therapy and resources to best support them.”
Carol Todd of Port Coquitlam said her daughter Amanda Todd was in the emergency department three times in 2012 after drinking bleach, trying to overdose on her anti-depressants and cutting herself to the point that the bleeding wouldn’t stop.
Todd was 15 when she killed herself in October 2012, soon after her last visit to the ER. Getting therapy in a program involving her daughter would have been invaluable in helping her understand her needs instead of trying to navigate a system with few resources and long wait lists, Todd said.
She will be in Los Angeles this week to speak to high school students about social media and online exploitation and at a hospital conference on suicide in the city as part of her advocacy work.
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Abby Couture, 20, shown in this undated handout image, was admitted to the ICU at age 14 after waiting eight months for a referral to mental health services. She says the findings of a family-involved clinical trial aimed at creating an effective intervention for youth suicide could help a lot of vulnerable people like her.
True grit
Professional tennis players are the toughest athletes in sports. Period.
Hold on, sports fans with your knickers in a twist that football or hockey players or boxers are tougher.
They just aren’t. Here’s why.
In the major men’s professional leagues (hockey, baseball, football, basketball), the athletes are on a team with fellow athletes. As per their contracts, they are paid regardless of their performance for the duration of that contract. Not only do they have teammates to rely upon, they get to return to the sidelines continuously throughout the games to receive encouragement, feedback and direction from coaches.
In tennis, as well as boxing, golf, auto racing and ultimate fighting, athletes are paid to compete and paid more the better they perform. As they win, they move on to bigger stages and bigger purses.
Yet during boxing and ultimate fighting matches, athletes compete in rounds, after which they retreat to their corners for short rests and instructions from coaches. Race car drivers can hear their coaches in their headsets. Golfers don’t have access to coaches during tournament play but they do have their caddie to discuss tactics with
before taking their shot.
Only in singles tennis is the athlete competing alone. Coaches can watch nearby but are forbidden to communicate directly with their player and vice versa. Overt signals are also against the rules. In a match that can last for hours – the U.S. Open men’s final lasted an incredible four hours and 51 minutes – each player faces their opponent without direct support. Along with the physical strength and endurance required, the mental focus and emotional resilience required makes professional tennis players the epitome of athletic toughness.
And then there’s Bianca.
If there was a formula to create what Bianca Andreescu did during her historic run to win the U.S. Open women’s final and become the first Canadian to ever win a Grand Slam tournament, it would already have been created.
And don’t ask her – or Serena Williams, her opponent in the final and the greatest women’s tennis player ever – or elite athletes in any other sport to explain what separates them from the competition. They don’t know, either.
Andreescu’s performance Saturday afternoon was special but what she did Thursday night, during the semi-final against Belinda Bencic was even better. She beat Bencic
7-6 (3), 7-5 but you wouldn’t have known it until the players shook hands at the net after match point.
Andreescu looked mentally and physically exhausted, frequently scolded herself for poor play and threw her racket down in frustration numerous times. Early in the second set, the commentators noted that for someone who won the first set, Andreescu looked miserable.
Not only did she go on to win the match, she humiliated Bencic in the process.
Ahead 5-2 in the second set, Bencic had two service games to finish off Andreescu. She lost both and went on to lose five straight games to hand Andreescu the victory. Bencic’s frustration was evident in her face and body language as the match slipped away.
She had so many opportunities to finish off Andreescu but could not put her away because she simply refused to quit.
To find a way to win, even when you’re not playing your best, even when your opponent is pushing you around, even when you’re tired and uninspired, takes a special kind of grit, particularly for a tennis player who can’t get a pep talk from a coach. When the cameras cut to Andreescu’s coach, Sylvain Bruneau, he was the picture of a poker face. Except for the slightest of nods after a
Straight talk for Scheer
An open letter to Andrew Scheer, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada:
Greetings. I won’t waste your time with pleasantries – the writ is about to drop, so brevity is the soul of wit. But to ensure you, and the surrounding short-pants brigade, grasp the point of this missive, I will summarize here and then repeat ad nauseum, my thesis: you had better beat Justin Trudeau in this fall’s election or else there is a good chance the party will disintegrate.
That might sound extreme. But I assure you, if anything, it is understated, as growing discontent within the big blue tent bubbles ever closer to the surface. To put it plainly, Maxime Bernier’s scathing last words for the Tories were essentially accurate: craven, ruthless, and unprincipled apparatchiks stand at the centre of the Tory machine, and their nigh total contempt for the base is on full display whether in government, opposition, or in votes held at convention.
To be clear, this is not an endorsement of Bernier or the People’s Party of Canada, if for no other reason than that whole expedition has jumped the shark, as it can only justify itself in the light of a second Trudeau mandate. This brings us back to the beginning: you’d better win. We can start with your own serious lack of popularity during the leadership race. You won by gaining the second and third
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ranks of other candidates’ supporters, promising to deliver on the things that mattered to them. Without their support, your bid would have been in vain.
Yet trouble ensued, first with Bernier, then with Brad Trost, who held third at one point in the balloting and assisted your victory. Slowly but surely, either you or your people, almost all of whom are former Harper staffers, began to consolidate power by isolating and then eliminating former leadership candidates from the benches. This is an old story when it comes to politics, but the ruthlessness with which the long knives worked would have made some tyrants blush.
None of this mattered until a discernable pattern emerged in the nomination processes for local candidates across Canada over the last few months. There’s no hiding the plain fact that socially conservative candidates have been purposely sidelined and disqualified, regardless of past service, or passing the party’s initial scrutiny. These are contemptible and cowardly acts. Please do not misunderstand me on purpose, or by accident: I do not believe that the Conservative Party ought to serve social conservatives or their allies exclusively. Tories are a coalition
of many truculent factions, spanning every manifestation of “the right wing.”
But the current rhetoric, policies, and trajectory of the party under your leadership inspire confidence in neither the Bernierlibertarians nor the Trost-traditionalists. And if it’s expected that Tories are supposed to grin and bear more “Harperism,” the kabal at central headquarters is in for a nasty surprise: the Right Honorable muzzled these groups for a decade to stay in power, but nearly all of his legacy has been undone, so what exactly did that hyper-control achieve?
On firearms rights and religious freedom, liberating the market and decreasing taxes, as well as reestablishing the supremacy of our democratically elected Parliament over the civil servants, activist judges, and CBC hosts imposing their radical agenda onto taxpayers, the Conservatives have failed to articulate a truly alternative choice to the Liberals. That’s a spectacular feat of incompetence, given that the Dauphin cannot go a single day without making a gaffe. I cannot emphasize strongly enough how precarious the alliance within the CPC is at this moment. If Trudeau isn’t defeated, the iconic image for Tories will be the shocked faces of every progressive conservative at the leadership convention in 2017, as a social conservative placed fourth. Of course this wasn’t surprising to anyone who had actually bothered to consult the base.
big point, Bruneau’s face was a statue and he never moved.
On Saturday, it was Williams who stormed back in the second set, after having lost the first set and surrendered a huge 5-1 lead in the second to an opponent 18 years younger. When Williams tied the match 5-5, the fiercely partisan crowd of more than 25,000 roared in approval.
Under that kind of pressure against a competitor who had seized all of the momentum, most athletes would have crumbled, much like Bencic had two days earlier. Instead, Andreescu snapped the impetus Williams had built up.
Andreescu won her service game and then breaking Williams on her service to silence the crowd and win the U.S. Open. She did it on her own, against a far more experienced player and a huge audience that, except for a handful of Canadians, wanted her to lose and said so.
And just like that, the Toronto Raptors took a backseat as the Canadian sports story of the year to a 19-year-old woman from Mississauga, whose combination of skill and fortitude made her an overnight household name in this country.
Best of all, her story might be only beginning.
— Editor-in-chief Neil Godbout
Consumers flex muscles
There has never been a better time to register our displeasure with how companies treat us. The days of letters that were never answered and endless hours on the phone waiting for a representative to take a call that is “extremely important – please stay on the line” are gone.
Social media has enabled consumers to go on Twitter and Facebook to express their dismay – quickly and effectively – at everything, from delayed flights at the airport to substandard meals at restaurants. Use the correct tags in your posts and you may even get an apology or a special offer.
Another aspect of consumer behaviour that social media has tapped into is the boycott of specific establishments. American fastfood chain Chick-fil-A was one of the first to face this in 2011, after company president Dan T. Cathy expressed support for “traditional marriage.” It took just a few hours for hashtags to appear on social media and spread the word.
Across British Columbia, more than a third of respondents to a Research Co. survey say they conduct research on the environmental, social and labour practices of companies before purchasing a product or service “all of the time” or “some of the time.”
There are some slight differences, with 43 per cent of British Columbians looking into a company’s environmental practices before consuming. The proportion falls slightly to 39 per cent for social practices and 37 per cent for labour practices.
There are similar proportions of British Columbians who claim to never pay attention to the environmental (36 per cent), social (38 per cent) and labour (40 per cent) practices of companies before buying a product or service.
We dug a bit deeper to see if seven specific purchasing decisions may motivate consumers to review how companies work. We continue to see about two in five British Columbians saying that they never look into the practices of companies before buying a product. There is, however, a severe generational gap. Connectivity appears to be motivating the province’s millennials to go online and review what the companies they could be dealing with are up to. Baby boomers, it is fair to say, are way behind. When shopping for groceries, only 21 per cent of millennials admit they never review a company’s social, environmental, labour and/ or investment practices. For baby
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boomers, the number climbs to 46 per cent. When buying a vehicle, 23 per cent of British Columbians aged 18 to 34 never review how the company operates, compared with 55 per cent for those aged 55 and over. About a quarter of millennials in the province never review a company’s practices when going to a restaurant (23 per cent) or buying electronics (24 per cent). For baby boomers, the proportions are 54 per cent and 52 per cent, respectively.
Similar scenarios ensue on never reviewing how companies operate when buying cleaning products (23 per cent for 18 to 34, 53 per cent for 55-plus), household goods (21 per cent for 18 to 34, 50 per cent for 55-plus) and even clothing and shoes (19 per cent for 18 to 34, 49 per cent for 55-plus). It is evident that companies will have to earn the trust of millennials in a way that their predecessors never had to do before.
More than half of British Columbians (55 per cent) say they have boycotted an organization or establishment over the course of their lives. Baby boomers are slightly more likely to have voluntarily abstained from using, buying or dealing with specific organizations (59 per cent) than millennials (54 per cent).
When asked why they have boycotted establishments in the past, half of respondents (50 per cent) cited disagreement with how employees were treated or paid.
Smaller proportions abandoned a company because of environmental practices (43 per cent), disagreement with the ownership (37 per cent) or its animal welfare practices (33 per cent).
The survey outlines a younger public that is changing its relationship with companies.
Baby boomers are more likely to have boycotted an establishment, but that is due to the fact that they have lived as consumers for a longer period that younger British Columbians.
If the trend of millennials being extremely choosy when it comes to the products they buy continues, it is bound to make all companies rethink their approach to social, environmental and labour practices.
Websites and social media presences will have to become more about reality than imagery.
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Huge fanfare greets The Testaments
The Associated Press
Margaret Atwood often gets asked if The Testaments, her sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, is set in a dystopian world.
“Let us hope so,” she says drily.
The Canadian author noted as her new novel was published with a ferocious blast of publicity Tuesday that several U.S. states recently enacted laws to limit women’s reproductive rights. She likened it to the extreme control over women in Gilead, the theocratic future United States where both The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments are set.
“If you look at the legislative moves made by a number of different states within the United States, you can see that some of them are almost there,” Atwood said at London’s British Library during a publication-day news conference.
When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, some readers found the idea of a fundamentalist state supplanting the democratic United States far-fetched. Now, with authoritarianism on the rise around the world, it strikes many as eerily prescient.
Atwood said she wasn’t a prophet, just observant.
“In 1985, people were already saying these kinds of things,” Atwood said. “(Politicians) were talking about what they would like to do in the United States if they had the power. And now they do have the power.”
Atwood says she long resisted revisiting the world of The Handmaid’s Tale because she didn’t think she could recapture the voice of narrator Offred, a “handmaid” compelled to bear children for a powerful man.
The success of the Emmy Award-winning Handmaid’s Tale television series starring Elisabeth Moss – and renewed interest in the novel from the TV drama – may have helped change the writer’s mind.
The Testaments is set about 15 years on from where The Hand-
maid’s Tale ends with Offred fleeing to an undetermined future. It has three narrators, including Aunt Lydia, one of Gilead’s fearsome enforcers, who features in both book and series of The Handmaid’s Tale.
The author says the follow-up tells the story of “the beginning of the end” of Gilead.
The TV series that first aired in 2017 has helped make Atwood’s Gilead a cultural touchstone. Demonstrators at women’s rights protests routinely don the red cloaks and bonnets of the show’s handmaids.
Intriguingly, the dominant colour of The Testaments, splashed on the book’s cover and ad cam-
paign, is bright green.
“There are some new costume choices in the book,” Atwood said.
“These kinds of regimes are very big on outfits.”
The Testaments is sure to be one of the year’s biggest books, and the months leading up to its publication were surrounded by secrecy – and security.
Atwood says she and the publishers were targeted in cyberattacks aimed at stealing the manuscript.
Publisher Penguin’s tight prepublication procedures were slightly compromised when Amazon sent some customers copies early. Amazon apologized for the “technical glitch.”
The book was launched with Harry Potter levels of hype: midnight festivities in British book stores, a press conference for international journalists and a celebrity-studded evening gala broadcast to 1,300 movie theatres around the world.
The novel is on the shortlist for the prestigious Booker PrizeAtwood’s sixth time as a Booker finalist. She has won the prize once (for The Blind Assassin in 2000), along with a slew of other awards including Canada’s Governor General’s Award and the PEN/ Pinter free-speech prize.
She’s long been considered a favourite for the Nobel Prize for Literature. When British writer Ka-
zuo Ishiguro won in 2017, he said “I apologize to Margaret Atwood that it’s not her getting this prize.” Atwood was introduced at a news conference Tuesday as a “literary rock star.” Atwood, who turns 80 in November, said she is “pleased and grateful,” but unfazed.
“I think this kind of thing can be quite ruinous for a 35-year-old,” she said. “Because where do you go from there? In my case, I think we know the answer.”
She has no immediate plans for another installment, but has not ruled out a third trip to Gilead.
“I never say never to anything, because I have said ‘never’ and been wrong,” Atwood said.
Canadians ring in release of Handmaid sequel
The Canadian Press
Canadian readers have long wondered about the inner workings of the dystopian world in The Handmaid’s Tale – and now they’re getting their answers.
Copies of Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments were flying off the shelves within minutes after Indigo’s midtown Toronto location opened its doors Tuesday morning. Among those first in line was Indigo CEO Heather Reisman, who even before reading the sequel, had anointed it her pick of the month.
Reisman said she turned down an offer to get a sneak peek at the book so she could join other Canadians in celebrating the homegrown author’s moment in the global spotlight.
“We’re excited about the book, and we’re even more excited to be able to claim (Atwood) as ours,” said Reisman.
“She is ambitious in a way that allows her to be on the world stage, and I think that’s how we want to think of Canadians.”
Stacks of the book, jacketed with the silhouette of a handmaid clad in a green cloak, were strewn throughout the store. Even more pre-ordered copies were stowed away in boxes behind the checkout counter.
“Someone came in for a book not by Atwood,” one employee joked. “Do we even have any of those?”
Fearing the much-hyped sequel would sell out, 47-year-old Rob Small rushed to the store to pick one off the shelves. Small, who works at a rehabilitation clinic, said some of his clients were so eager to crack open a copy of The Testaments,
they were planning to camp outside of bookstores.
“It’s so good to see, considering what’s going on in the world, a female Canadian writer that’s up in the forefront,” said Small.
“It makes me proud to be Canadian.”
The Testaments was the number-one bestseller on Amazon.ca on Tuesday, with its 1985 predecessor ranking among the top 10.
Hannah Skinner, 28, said she felt “relieved” to finally have the novel in her hands as she picked up her pre-ordered copy at Indigo. Skinner said she’d been avoiding social media for fear of having the story spoiled by some Amazon customers who received early copies.
While Atwood was ringing in the book’s launch in London, England, some Canadians have tickets to see the on the big screen Tuesday evening.
Atwood’s celebrity-studded evening gala taped in London was set to be broadcast to 1,300 movie theatres around the world, including Cineplex theatres across Canada.
Since its publication 34 years ago, The Handmaid’s Tale has become one of Canada’s bestselling literary exports.
It has also been adapted into an Emmy Award-winning TV series, and adopted as prophecy by women’s rights protesters around the world who don the handmaids’ red cloaks and bonnets.
The story is set in the theocratic state of Gilead, which having stripped women of their rights, establishes a class of fertile “handmaids” forced to bear children for the regime’s elite commanders.
Canadian author Margaret Atwood poses for a photograph during a press conference at the British Library to launch her new book The Testaments in London on Tuesday.
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Canadian author Margaret Atwood speaks to moderator Nam Kiwanuka during a chat alongside Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey in Toronto in April.
New Monopoly celebrates women
Katie METTLER
The Washington Post
Rich Uncle Pennybags has willed his empire to his niece, Ms. Monopoly, in Hasbro’s latest iteration of it’s iconic board game, where women entrepreneurs and inventors are not only celebrated, they are paid more than men.
“The first game where women make more than men,” reads the bottom of the new Ms. Monopoly game, which for the first time in Monopoly history features a character other than Mr. Monopoly on the cover.
Ms. Monopoly wears a blazer. She holds a coffee. She stands with her hand on her popped hip.
In her world, the experiences of women, and their broad contributions to society, form the basis of the board game.
The banker gives $1,900 in Monopoly Money to female players and $1,5000 to each male, reported USA Today. When players pass go, women again get the upper hand – receiving $240 to the men’s $200. Investments in real estate from the original game have been replaced by investments in innovations made by women, like bulletproof vests, WiFi, chocolate chip cookies and ladies’ modern shapewear.
Along the way, players can pick up tokens, such as a barbell, a glass or a jet plane. The watch token symbolizes that it is “about time for some changes,” Jen Boswinkel, senior director of global brand strategy and marketing for Hasbro Gaming, told USA Today.
The white top hat token is meant to represent Mr. Monopoly passing the hat to his niece.
“With all of the things surrounding female empowerment, it felt right to bring this to Monopoly in a fresh new way,” Boswinkel said. “It’s giving the topic some relevancy to everyone playing it that everybody gets a turn, and this time women get an advantage at the start.”
Ms. Monopoly’s premise is a not-so-subtle nod to the gender imbalances in modern workplaces, including pay inequality, and the ways that women’s experiences and contributions have often been downplayed – or erased altogether – from history’s memory.
The game does two things, Boswinkel told USA Today. It illuminates inventions, innovations and products that families likely use but perhaps don’t know were invented by women.
It also provides a fun framework for a nuanced issue that, Hasbro
hopes, will prompt discussions about structural discrimination during family game night.
In a statement about the game launch, Hasbro called the pay imbalance “a fun spin” that “creates a world where women have an advantage often enjoyed by men.”
Even still, male players - the game pieces, not the humans manipulating them - can still win, even with the monetary disadvantage.
And, Boswinkel told USA Today, families can opt to take the money talk out of Ms. Monopoly by doling
out equal amounts of cash, regardless of the player’s gender.
The rollout of Ms. Monopoly, which can be preordered at Walmart starting Sept. 10, comes after the launches of two other recent spinoffs, Monopoly: Socialism and Monopoly for Millennials.
In marketing the game, Hasbro made a short video advertisement documentary featuring three young women inventors talking about gendered stereotypes around technological and scientific achievements.
In the short film, the three girls
receive $20,580 in real – not Monopoly – money to fund their own innovative projects. Sophia Wang, 16, of Connecticut, invented a device that is 93 percent accurate in detecting sinkholes before they happen. Ava Canney, also 16 and from Ireland, created a spectrometer that measures artificial dye in candy and soda.
In Denver, 13-year-old Gitanjali Rao’s invention involves detecting lead in drinking water in an accessible, portable, inexpensive way.
Groundbreaking photographer mourned
The Associated Press
Robert Frank, a giant of 20th-century photography whose seminal book The Americans captured singular, candid moments of the 1950s and helped free picturetaking from the boundaries of clean lighting and linear composition, has died. He was 94. Frank died Monday in Inverness, on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, according to his second wife, June Leaf. The couple divided their time between Nova Scotia and New York.
The Swiss-born Frank influenced countless photographers and was likened to Alexis de Tocqueville for so vividly capturing the United States through the eyes of a foreigner. Besides his still photography, Frank was a prolific filmmaker, creating more than 30 movies and videos, including a cult favourite about the Beats and a graphic, censored documentary of the Rolling Stones’ 1972 tour. Black-and-white Super 8 pictures by
Frank were featured on the cover of the Stones’ “Exile On Main Street,” one of rock ‘n’ roll’s most acclaimed albums.
On Thursday, the band tweeted a tribute to Frank, calling him an “incredible artist whose unique style broke the mould.”
But he was best known for The Americans, a montage that countered the 1950s myth of bland prosperity and opened vast new possibilities for photography, shifting the paradigm from the portrait to the snapshot.
As essential to post-war culture as a Chuck Berry song or a Beat poem, Frank’s shots featured jukeboxes, luncheonettes, cigars, big cars and endless highways, with an American flag often in the picture.
“Robert Frank changed the way we see,”
Mark Lubell, executive director of the International Center of Photography, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “When ‘The Americans’ came out, America was on the rise. America had won the war. But he saw something different, things that were not as
rosy a picture as Life magazine might have had it.”
The 83 black-and-white photographs were culled from more than 28,000 images Frank took from 1955 to 1957 during a cross-country trip. He made the trip on a Guggenheim Fellowship secured for him by American photographer Walker Evans, whose stark pictures from the 1930s had helped define the country during the Great Depression.
“When you are an artist you are influenced by, you know, by the cars outside, by a painting, by literature, by Walker Evans,” Frank told Art in America in 1996.
Frank was a shy, sad-eyed man who openly, and gruffly, preferred being the storyteller and not the subject. His photographs, deadpan and unconventionally cropped, have the feel of someone standing on the outside, intently looking on.
“The more distressing new quality in Frank’s pictures was their equivocating indirection, their reluctance to state clearly
and simply either their subject or their moral,” John Szarkowski, a former head of the Museum of Modern Art’s photography collection, wrote in 1989.
Considered by many as one of the most important books of photography published since World War II, “The Americans” was not initially well received. Popular Photography could have been mistaken for the early opponents of Impressionist painting when it described the images as “meaningless blur, grain, muddy exposures.”
Finding a publisher had proved a challenge for photos that often depicted American life as bleak, dark and unhappy: black and white passengers gazing out of a racially segregated trolley in New Orleans; a tuba player at a political rally in Chicago, his face obstructed by his instrument; two women looking out a brick building, their faces obscured by a fluttering American flag. The Americans was eventually published by Grove Press, which had a history of releasing taboo-breaking works.
Ms. Monopoly incorporates the gender pay gap into the classic boardgame.
Sports
NHL camps opening with long list of free agents
Stephen WHYNO The Associated Press
P.K. Subban doesn’t want to give advice to all the unsigned young players around the NHL. He just vividly remembers his own experience as a restricted free agent. Before he signed a short, so-called “bridge” contract, he took some motherly advice.
“My mom picked up the phone and called me and said: ‘P.K., listen, you’re young still. You have lots of time. If you’re ready to go and play, go play,”’ Subban recalled. “And I went and played and won the Norris Trophy.”
Almost a dozen prominent restricted free agents remain unsigned on the eve of training camps around the league, and several situations threaten to linger into the season, like Subban in 2013 and Toronto’s William Nylander a year ago.
Maple Leafs teammate Mitch Marner, Tampa Bay’s Brayden Point, Philadelphia’s Ivan Provorov and Travis Konecny, Colorado’s Mikko Rantanen, Boston’s Charlie McAvoy and Brandon Carlo, and Winnipeg’s Patrik Laine and Kyle Connor could all be conspicuously absent when camps open this week.
“Everybody’s waiting on somebody to make a move,” Toronto centre Auston Matthews said. “I’m surprised there’s lots of guys. It’s not just (Marner). You’ve got a lot of really good players that aren’t signed yet. I guess everybody’s just kind of playing the waiting game.”
Dominoes could start to fall after Columbus signed restricted free agent defenceman Zach Werenski to a $15 million, three-year deal and New Jersey gave forward Pavel Zacha $6.75 million over three years . The salary cap is a concern: Toronto will have to use long-term injury allowance to get Marner under contract, Tampa Bay has less than $9 million in cap space for Point, Boston is roughly $7 million under with
McAvoy and Carlo unsigned, and Winnipeg has $15 million for both Laine and Connor.
“Everybody’s got room to do what they need to do,” NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said. “You’re not looking at situations where the restricted free agents haven’t been made substantial offers. It’s they and their agents want more. I respect that.”
NHLPA executive director Don Fehr said he would like all those players to have the contracts they want but acknowledged, “That’s not probably the world we live in.” The ongoing contract stalemates have sparked plenty of questions about the lack of rights for restricted free agents and the trend toward younger players wanting to cash in on their second contracts.
“The team has you in a certain situation where you have no rights, so you don’t have much of a say,” Boston defenceman Torey Krug said. “That’s how it’s set up. Those guys will make their big bucks later on or whatever. It’s just how it works.”
Krug said, “If you just look at the star power, it’s potentially damaging to some teams” if they can’t get their restricted free
agents signed in time for the start of the season. Nylander missed the first two months last season when contract talks were at an impasse. Things could also drag out with Marner and others.
“Every player just wants a deal that they think that they deserve,” Nylander said. “There’s always going back and forth, and sometimes there’s no talking at all. ... It’s always a tough process. In the end it’ll work out for both sides.”
It didn’t work out between Edmonton and restricted free agent forward Jesse Puljujärvi, who took his talents back to Finland for the season. Zacha was in talks to play in the KHL before signing with the Devils on Tuesday.
The overseas route is far more common for European players but is often considered a last resort. If Laine plays anywhere but Winnipeg or Connor stays home, it affects everything for the Jets.
“Everyone wants them back,” forward Nikolaj Ehlers said. “If we don’t have those two guys for the whole season, which I don’t think is going to happen, then it does
change our team a little bit because then we’ve lost a lot of players. As of right now, I obviously see them coming back, hopefully coming to camp, but coming back to our team and then it’s looking good.”
The Bruins without McAvoy and Carlo and the Flyers without Provorov and Konecny are in a similar spot. Boston could be without half of its top four on defence.
“It doesn’t bother us,” goaltender Tuukka Rask said. “I think it’s more for the general managers and coaches that you don’t know what’s going to happen.”
Based on his own experience, Krug said, he thinks it can be a distraction not to have key players in camp. He also believes what players are doing in their downtime matters.
“Are they still training, or are they sitting there pouting and wondering, ‘When am I going to sign and when do I actually have to get serious and ramp things up?”’ he said.
“It’s a different circumstance for all players. (But) once you show up, the contract’s over with and you just start playing.”
Whenever that happens to be.
Andreescu has eye on Beijing Open, coach says
Morgan LOWRIE The Canadian Press
MONTREAL — Bianca Andreescu’s coach says his star player is heading right back to work after her historic win in the U.S. Open. After a few days off to celebrate, the 19-year-old from Mississauga, Ont. will resume training next week with the goal of playing one tournament during the WTA Tour’s Asian swing – with the Beijing Open, Sept. 28 to Oct. 6, as the target, her coach said Tuesday.
Sylvain Bruneau told reporters in Montreal that Andreescu has made it clear that she has no intention of stopping after her win over Serena Williams in New York.
“This is the start of what she says she wants to be able to accomplish, so if it’s only the start (that means) you’re nowhere close to where you want to go or where you want to be, you’re just going in the right direction,” he said.
“If this is your mentality, then back to work.” Andreescu’s dream season has sent her skyrocketing in the rankings, from outside the top 150 at the end of last year to cracking the top five on Monday. Bruneau said he didn’t anticipate any major changes to Andreescu’s routine or her team going forward.
But some changes are inevitable, he acknowledged. Rather than coming in an underdog, she’ll be a “target” of other players on the tour, with a bigger fan reaction to match.
There’s also the money, the endorsements, the attention, the pressure – all things that can be difficult for a 19-year-
old to manage. Bruneau acknowledged the possibility for distraction, but said Andreescu’s own drive, as well as her family, were key to keeping her grounded.
“She needs to understand it’s OK to celebrate for a few days and take it in, I think she needs to and it’s the right thing to do, but then you have to move on and go about business the same way you’ve been doing from the beginning,” he said.
On Saturday, Andreescu stunned the crowd in New York by beating Williams 6-3, 7-5 to become the first Canadian
player to win a Grand Slam singles title.
The speed of her success has surprised even Bruneau, who has coached Andreescu full-time since 2018. But he said her confidence began to build with some successes in smaller tournaments early in the season, and “snowballed” throughout the season.
“I tried to get her to believe there was no limit to what she could do, and I think at one point she started to believe that,” he said. That confidence was crucial to beating the legendary Williams, a player who has
been winning major titles since before Andreescu was born.
On Tuesday, Bruneau recalled how Andreescu’s self-assurance was put to the test backstage about half an hour before the match was about to start, when Williams entered and began warming up in the same spot Andreescu had favoured all tournament.
While some members of Andreescu’s team wanted to ask her if she wanted to move, Bruneau was adamant that she stick to her spot, and the two warmed up sideby-side.
“We spent a lot of time making sure she was not going to be intimidated, so we’re not going to start right before the match to give her the spot for warmup,” he said. In the end, he believes it made a difference.
“Serena, there’s an aura around her,” Bruneau said.
“Honestly, she’s a legend. But you cannot back off.”
While the team had originally planned an earlier return to play, Bruneau said Andreescu’s schedule was changed to give her more time to recover and “come down” from her U.S. Open high.
She will meet the media in Toronto today before beginning training for the Beijing Open, which is part of the sport’s top level of events below Grand Slams like the U.S. Open. Beijing is one of four Premier Mandatory tournaments on schedule.
Bruneau says Andreescu also hopes to qualify for the season-ending WTA Finals, Oct. 27 to Nov. 3 in Shenzhen, China. Andreescu is fourth in the standings for the Finals. The top eight qualify for the event.
CP PHOTO Sylvain Bruneau, coach of Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu, responds to a question during a news conference in Montreal on Tuesday.
Toronto Maple Leafs center Mitch Marner celebrates his goal against the New York Islanders during a game in Toronto in 2018. Marner is one of several high-profile unsigned free agents in the NHL as teams begin their training camps.
Blue Jays end seven-game losing streak
Gregory STRONG
The Canadian Press
TORONTO
— T.J. Zeuch’s opening pitch in his first big-league start was one he’d like to have back.
The Toronto right-hander will still have fond memories of the game’s end result.
Zeuch refocused after Boston’s Mookie Betts homered on the first pitch and his Blue Jays teammates picked him up with three home runs in a 4-3 win over the Red Sox on Tuesday night at Rogers Centre.
“Facing that lineup, he did a good job,” said Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo.
“I know he feels good about it.”
Cavan Biggio and Reese McGuire hit solo shots for Toronto while Rowdy Tellez hit a go-ahead two-run blast in the fifth inning as the Blue Jays (56-89) ended a seven-game losing skid.
“We didn’t keep the ball in the ballpark,” said Boston manager Alex Cora. “When you don’t do that, you pay the price at this level.”
Zeuch did well to keep his composure after Betts launched the ball off the foul screen in left field. It was his 28th homer of the year.
The Red Sox scorched a few more pitches in the opening frame off the 2016 firstround pick. Zeuch gave up a pair of singles before retiring the side.
“I thought I made adjustments to keep the ball a little farther down in the zone as the game went on,” Zeuch said.
“But I didn’t keep the ball in the zone as much as I would have liked to and it cost me.”
He worked 4 1/3 innings, giving up six hits, three earned runs, three walks while striking out one.
Reliever Justin Shafer (2-1) worked 1 1/3 innings for the win in the opener of a sixgame homestand. Ken Giles closed things out in the ninth for his 19th save.
The Red Sox (76-69) have lost four games in a row. Toronto’s skid was its longest since a seven-gamer in April 2017.
Biggio tied the game in the third inning by turning on a 1-2 offering from Boston starter Nathan Eovaldi for his 13th homer of the year. McGuire went deep in the fourth for his fifth homer of the season.
The Red Sox chased Zeuch in the fifth after doubles by Rafael Devers and J.D. Martinez. Reliever Buddy Boshers gave up
a two-out single to Andrew Benintendi that scored Martinez to put Boston up 3-2. Eovaldi worked 4 1/3 innings and allowed six hits, three earned runs and two walks while fanning six.
His replacement, Josh Taylor (1-2), was greeted with Tellez’s 18th homer of the year. Biggio also came across after reaching on a leadoff walk.
“I’m just getting to pitches that I need to get to,” Tellez said.
“I’m not trying to do too much. Sometimes in situations when I was younger, I was trying to hit balls a country mile when
all you need to do is hit it right over the wall.”
The announced crowd of 17,819 stirred when the Blue Jays loaded the bases in the sixth for Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. However, Boston reliever Ryan Brasier handcuffed the young slugger, who grounded into a force to end the inning.
The Toronto bullpen didn’t give up an earned run. Boshers and Shafer were followed by Derek Law, Tim Mayza, Jordan Romano and Giles.
Boston put two runners on in the ninth before Giles got Devers to fly out to end the
game, which took three hours 37 minutes to play.
NOTES: Zeuch was Toronto’s 20th different starting pitcher this season. That moved the Blue Jays into a tie for second-most in MLB history, trailing only the 1915 Philadelphia Athletics (24 starters). ... Toronto’s Trent Thornton (4-9, 5.23 earned-run average) was scheduled to start Wednesday night against fellow right-hander Jhoulys Chacin (3-10, 5.66). ... Zeuch allowed two runs on three hits in his only other appearance, a four-inning relief stint against Atlanta on Sept. 3.
Canada finds goals hard to come by in rematch with Cuba
The Canadian Press
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — Canada survived heat, a hard pitch and a physical Cuba side in a 1-0 win in CONCACAF Nations League A play Tuesday, just three days after running roughshod over the Cubans in Toronto. Canada dominated play but needed a ninth-minute Alphonso Davies goal for the win.
Despite losing centre back Doneil Henry to a second yellow card in the 55th minute, the Canadian men had 82 per cent possession at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex and completed 696 passes to the Cubans’ 93.
Canada only managed six shots, the same as Cuba, and only put one on target.
“It was a tough game. The surface was not the best but I think we fought hard,” said Davies.
“We’re happy to get the three points.”
“This is football. You have to grind a result. It’s not always
pretty,” he added Davies, who had a fine game despite absorbing plenty of punishment from the Cubans, scored with a powerful left-footed blast from just inside the penalty box after a Cuban turnover at midfield.
It was the Bayern Munich teenager’s fourth goal in 15 national team appearances.
“He wouldn’t be at Bayern if he didn’t have that quality,” said goalkeeper Milan Borjan, who captained Canada for the first time.
“The kid is just amazing. He’s a wunderkind.”
Playing at a neutral site, a revamped Canadian roster found itself dealing with a Cuban side that was decidedly more stubborn and physical despite reportedly losing players to defection on the trip to Canada.
The Cubans chopped down Canadians as needed and Guatemalan referee Mario Escobar content to let them play.
Canada, ranked 78th in the world, thumped No. 179 Cuba 6-0 on Saturday at BMO Field with
captain Junior Hoilett recording a hat trick and Jonathan David, Jonathan Osorio and Henry also scoring.
The Canadian men had beaten Cuba 7-0 in group play at the Gold Cup in June.
“We knew on this pitch and (with) the conditions, the goals weren’t going to be as flowing,” said Canada coach John Herdman.
“But I was really happy with how the players responded,” he added. “I think we controlled the game, even down to 10 men.”
Tuesday’s game was shifted to the Cayman Islands capital when the stadium in Havana did not pass CONCACAF scrutiny.
While Canada controlled Tuesday’s game, the Cubans were more disciplined in defence – sitting deep with two lines of four and content with the occasional counter-attack by forward Maykel Reyes, who had a stint with Mexico’s Cruz Azul in 2018.
Canada had 72 per cent possession in the first half but only put one shot on target. The Cubans
had one first-half scoring chance but the ball hit the side of the goal.
The Canadians wanted a penalty for handball in the 46th minute but didn’t get it. Herdman introduced Osorio in the 52nd minute in a bid to help open up the Cubans.
With Henry off the field, Herdman brought on centre back Derek Cornelius and removed striker Cycle Larin in the 60th minute.
Liam Millar replaced Davies in the 79th minute.
Canada’s career record against Cuba stands at 9-2-3 with a 27-9 edge in goals.
Herdman rang in the changes with only goalkeeper Borjan, defenders Henry and Richie Laryea, midfielder Mark-Anthony Kaye and forwards Davies and David remaining in the starting 11.
Canada kept pushing the attack despite the man disadvantage.
Hoilett, who plays for Cardiff City FC, returned home after the Toronto game to deal with a family matter. In came defenders Steven
Vitoria and Sam Adekugbe, midfielders Will Johnson and David Wotherspoon and Larin up front. Borjan, making his 47th appearance for Canada, captained the squad. He had almost nothing to do.
The 24-year-old Larin started up front with the 19-year-old David on the right flank and 18-year-old Davies on the left.
Cuba made four changes from its starting 11 with goalkeeper Sandy Sanchez dropping to the bench in favour of Nelson Johnston.
The three other changes appeared not to be soccer-related. El Nuevo Herald, a Florida newspaper, reported that three of Cuba’s starters Saturday – defender Alejandro Portal, midfielder Andy Baquero and forward and captain Yordan Santa Cruz – had defected after the game.
All three were missing from the Cuban roster Tuesday.
David Urgelles and Orlendiz Benitez reportedly left before the Toronto game.
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Boston Red Sox’ Jackie Bradley Jr. reacts after striking out against the Toronto Blue Jays in the ninth inning of a game in Toronto on Tuesday.
Trans Mountain pipeline expansion still faces hurdles
Laura KANE The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER — Barbara Gard calls her three-hectare property, nestled below the forested peak of Sumas Mountain, a “miniature Stanley Park.” Its lush trees and flowing creek reminded her of Vancouver’s majestic park, and she immediately knew she wanted to call it home.
But she said her peaceful retreat in Abbotsford now feels more like a nightmare. Gard is among thousands of landowners along the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion route who have not yet granted the Crown corporation access, and she said her dealings with the project’s owners over the years have shattered her mental health.
“It’s caused me emotional devastation,” said Gard, a 64-year-old school psychologist on medical leave from work. “They are killing me through stress and legal fees.”
Numerous hurdles remain before significant construction can begin on the massive project. Trans Mountain Corp. has not signed agreements with 33 per cent of landowners, no part of the detailed route has been approved, about half of the necessary permits are outstanding and it must meet dozens of conditions with the Canada Energy Regulator, formerly the National Energy Board. Further, it faces resistance in southwest B.C., where landowners are digging in their heels, Indigenous groups are filing legal challenges and protesters are planning to ramp up activity.
The federal Liberal government bought the pipeline for $4.5 billion last year. The parliamentary budget officer has said that if the expansion is not complete by the end of 2021, it would be fair to conclude the government overpaid for the asset.
The government said the expanded pipeline will now be operational by mid-2022.
“If all goes according to the government’s plan and hopes, then that is a realistic timeline,” said David Wright, an assistant law professor with the University of Calgary. “But there’s the significant caveat that not a lot has gone as hoped or planned from the government’s perspective in the last couple years.”
There are more than 2,500 tracts of private, Crown or Indigenous
land to which Trans Mountain must gain access to build the expansion. As of July, some 1,730 – or 67 per cent – of owners had signed agreements granting the corporation entry.
Eighty-three per cent of landowners in Alberta and eastern B.C. have signed, but in the B.C. Interior and Fraser Valley, that number drops to 54 per cent. In the Lower Mainland, just 14 per cent of landowners have signed agreements.
The current Trans Mountain pipeline already runs through Gard’s property. Her frustration with the pipeline’s owners began in 2011, when she alleges workers sheared some 232 trees on her land, 80 of which they cut down entirely. The corporation denied any wrongdoing and the debate over the damage has dragged on for eight years, she said.
Gard said the corporation has not offered her fair compensation for the risk that the expansion poses to her property’s delicate ecosystem or has it explained how it will restore vegetation and protect wildlife. The process feels extremely unbalanced, where she’s facing off against the corporation’s trained negotiators and legal team, she added.
Robin Scory, another landowner in the Fraser Valley who has not yet signed an agreement, said that the pipeline’s owners have offered
him
“lowball” sums that are only a fraction of the property’s value. Streams on his land run directly into the Fraser River and the corporation has not explained how it would mitigate the impacts of a spill, he said.
“It’s a disaster waiting to happen. I’m not against the pipeline and I’m not a ‘pay me millions of dollars’ kind of guy, but it’s just so badly run,” Scory said.
Trans Mountain said its key objective is to treat each landowner along the route fairly and it bases its compensation on a formula related to market value, but the landowner retains ownership. The corporation also strives to be a leader in emergency preparedness and has plans for quick response in the event of any spill, it said.
In cases where Trans Mountain can’t settle with a landowner, the Canadian Energy Regulator provides a process to address differences of opinion, it said, and the regulator may ultimately grant right of entry to allow the corporation to build the pipeline.
Before a court decision last August halted the project, a process was underway to confirm the detailed route of the expansion.
After the project was approved a second time in June, the regulator said the corporation must redo that process. It means none of the detailed route has been approved. Trans
Mountain has begun notifying local communities of its proposed route and is waiting for statements of opposition from affected people over 30-day periods. The energy regulator then reviews the statements and decides – segment-bysegment – whether detailed route hearings will be held and when.
The lack of route approval is already having an impact. Trans Mountain noted in an Aug. 19 letter to the regulator that it must begin construction of the Burnaby Mountain tunnel portal immediately and earth works must occur prior to the start of the peak rainy season in November. The regulator responded that it could not start work because the route is not approved.
“It’s hard to see the (detailed route approval) happening before the rainy season that they’ve cited,” said Wright.
The corporation has begun work on its two terminals in Burnaby. But Sarah Buehler, a spokeswoman for protest group Protect the Inlet, said activists aren’t staging demonstrations right now because major construction has not begun.
“At this stage, there is not enough significant construction going on for us to try to stop it. ... When the time comes, you’ll probably see something like Burnaby Mountain in 2014,” she said, referring to protests that drew hundreds and led to arrests.
U.S. farmers say pharma, not dairy, is main obstacle to ratifying trade deal
Mike BLANCHFIELD The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — A leading U.S. farmers’ organization says it wants the new North American trade agreement renegotiated to fix a major flaw – one that has nothing do with Canada’s much-attacked supply-management system for dairy.
The National Farmers Union says the new deal’s extended patent protection for new pharmaceuticals must be reduced so that less expensive generic versions of new drugs can be available to consumers sooner.
Patty Edelberg, the vice-president of the Washington-based group, says American farm families that face growing stress and shrinking markets need better access to affordable health care – which includes pharmaceuticals – than a greater slice of Canada’s protected dairy market.
Opening up access to Canada’s supplymanaged dairy market was a major U.S. priority during the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was punctuated by fierce criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump that Canadian farmers were hurting their American counterparts with unfair practices.
Republicans are pushing hard on Capitol Hill this week, urging the Democrats to introduce a ratification bill for the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement in the House of Representatives, the lower house of U.S. Congress the Democratic party controls.
Before doing that, the Democrats want changes to the USMCA, including the new intellectual-property protections for pharmaceuticals as well as stronger labour and environment provisions, and that push is also supported by the farmers’ union. Other farm groups, as well as politicians from milk-producing states, are also push-
ing the Democrats to move forward with USMCA.
Neither Canada nor the U.S. has ratified the new deal with votes in Parliament or Congress. Congress returned from its summer recess this week and the Canadian federal election campaign begins officially today, meaning Parliament can’t sit until some time after Oct. 21.
The Liberal government has said it won’t renegotiate the new deal, considering it closed, but Edelberg echoed the Democratic line that changes will have to be made, especially in the patent-protection provisions for medicines, before the farmers’ group is willing to endorse the new deal.
“Without access to quality health care, and prescription drugs is a huge part of that, it’s a tough sell for farmers,” Edelberg said. “We have to go back to the negotiating table. Why is pharma in a trade deal? It’s never been there before. It didn’t come from Canada; it didn’t come from Mexico. It came from our own big pharma industry here in the U.S. and once it’s in a trade deal it’s never coming out.”
Canadian dairy farmers also don’t like the deal, known north of the border as the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, and are critical of the increased access that it allows for American products.
“If ratified as is, CUSMA will concede an additional four per cent of our dairy production for U.S. dairy farmers to supply the Canadian market while limiting our ability to export our own dairy products,” Jacques Lefebvre, the chief executive of Dairy Farmers of Canada, said. “In addition, the agreement includes the elimination of competitive dairy classes. The federal government has said that it is committed to having a thriving dairy industry, yet CUSMA creates significant challenges for our sector.”
prices and selloff in technology stocks. Oil prices started the day higher but reversed course after U.S. President Donald Trump announced the firing of John Bolton, his national security adviser.
Investors feared the departure of the Iran hawk could result in Trump relaxing waivers or sanctions against the Middle Eastern regime, resulting in increased crude output, said Natalie Taylor, a portfolio manager with CIBC.
“It’s interesting that energy stocks have remained in positive territory even despite that,” she said in an interview.
The energy sector gained three per cent on the day with shares of Canadian Natural Resources, Husky Energy Inc. and Crescent Point Energy Corp. each climbing by more than 3.3 per cent.
The October crude contract was down 45 cents at US$57.40 per barrel and the October natural gas contract was down half a cent at US$2.58 per mmBTU.
The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 42.25 points at 16,537.34. Materials was also higher despite gold falling below the US$1,500 an ounce threshold for the first time in more than a month.
The December gold contract was down US$11.90 at US$1,499.20 an ounce and the December copper contract was flat at US$2.63 a pound.
“The 1,500 was a key level and the momentum has really shifted in gold equities as we’ve reached that level,” Taylor said. The heavyweight financials sector was higher led by the Bank of Montreal, while the technology sector dropped the most as shares of Shopify Inc. fell 6.2 per cent.
In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 73.92 points at 26,909.43. The S&P 500 index was up 0.96 of a point at 2,979.39, while the Nasdaq composite was down 3.28 points at 8,084.16.
The Canadian dollar traded for an average of 76.03 cents US, compared with an average of 76.02 cents US on Monday.
“It’s fairly non-eventful from a news and headline perspective and just a continuation of some of the shifts in momentum that we’ve seen basically starting the end of August right before the trade were announced,” said Taylor.
CP PHOTO Pipeline sections are seen at a Trans Mountain facility near Hope on Aug. 22.
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