Darth Vader, a winter stormtrooper and Boba Fett take on Spiderman and a tie fighter pilot in a game of fooseball on Friday morning, while R2-D2 watches. Members of the 501st Legion Outer Rim Garrison, and Spiderman, made a visit to the University Hospital of Northern B.C. where they visited patients and staff. The 501st Legion – a group of cosplayers who dress in Star Wars-themed costumes – will be at Northern FanCon this weekend.
Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff mnielsen@pgcitizen.ca
Phyllis Fleury’s one-person campaign to find her son received some help on Friday.
Donning T-shirts displaying a photograph of the missing teen, about 50 people attended in a walk midday Friday to raise awareness of the disappearance of Colten Fleury.
He was 16 years old when he was last seen a year ago.
He had just moved out of a group home to live with his mother at the Downtown Motel on Dominion Street. But one day later, on May 3, 2018, he walked out and has not been seen since.
“When he woke up at 7 o’clock in the morning and stepped out of that door, he had something to do,” she said. “Nobody wakes up at seven in the morning and just runs out the door.”
Since then, she has waged a determined effort to solve the mystery of Colten’s disappearance and, if all works out, reunite with him. Much of that search has been carried out in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side where she’s scoured the streets on seven different occasions, carrying a photograph of Colten and handing out business cards with contact information in case someone comes across him.
Indeed, once the walk had ended, Phyllis was to be on her way to Vancouver once again to act on a tip she received the night before.
Alex Ovien, who works at the group
prior to a
home where Fleury had been staying, organized the walk relying on social media to get the word out.
“We still care about him, we still love him, we still want to find him,” said Ovien, who described Colten as quiet but engaging.
The walkers gathered at Canada Games Plaza and split into two groups, one heading toward the downtown and the other towards the area around Value Village.
Phyllis stressed that if her son is found, he won’t be going back to a group home.
“I’m still out there and I’m not going to stop until I find out what’s happened
with my son,” she vowed as she fought back tears. “A year is too long and I’m still not going to quit.”
Fleury is described as First Nations, five-foot-eight, 120 pounds with brown eyes and short brown hair. He was wearing a red hoodie, black jeans and black and red runners and had a black hoodie with him when he was last seen in Prince George.
Anyone who knows where Fleury may be is asked to contact the Prince George RCMP at 250-561-3300 or to anonymously contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www. pgcrimestoppers.bc.ca.
Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff
The Employers Health Tax is hitting local businesses’ bottom line, according to a survey conducted by the Prince George Chamber of Commerce.
Of the 42 members who responded, 70 per cent said the tax, which came into effect at the start of this year as a replacement for the Medical Services Premium, has delivered a negative impact.
Businesses with payrolls under $500,000 are exempt from the EHT, but for companies with payrolls over $500,000 who did not pay premiums for their employees, it became a new expense. Moreover, complete elimination of MSP premiums won’t occur until Jan. 1, 2020, although it was cut by 50 per cent this year, leading to accusations that the government is “double dipping.”
Sixty-two per cent of those who responded said the prices of their services and products will increase as a result of the EHT, while 36 per cent said they will need to reduce staffing and 23 per cent are considering changes to their structure with several saying they will move to Alberta.
“One of the more troubling survey responses was from a not-for-profit, who noted that while they are not directly impacted by the EHT from a payroll perspective, they are seeing corporate donors unable to sustain giving levels as their costs have increased,” Chamber CEO Todd Corrigall said.
“As not-for-profits support a variety of services and opportunities in our communities, this impact can be incredibly damaging.”
The estimated impact of the EHT ranged from as little as $9,500 to $1 million. — see ‘THIS MAY, page 4
One of the hottest documentaries on Netflix right now is the true-crime film Abducted In Plain Sight, the story of a man who manipulated a whole family into a submissive position in order to steal one of their children for his pedophilic fantasies.
The incident happened in the early 1970s in a sleepy American church-going town. Jan Broberg was only 12 and her abuser was her family’s best friend Robert Berchtold. Berchtold seemed like the perfect uncle figure until it was revealed he had always been setting the Broberg’s up for his ultimate goal –to have Jan all to himself.
Audiences have been enthralled with the documentary, and the film’s director, Skye Borgman, is at Northern FanCon in Prince George to talk to fans about the strange case, and the way film gets made.
With all of the true-crime stories out there, so many of them stranger than fiction, what was it that attracted Borgman to Jan Broberg’s complex case? It all started with the book the Borgman family wrote about the protracted incident, a set of events that lasted years and ended up in a fascinating court battle.
“It really was how I am interested in the human condition and why they do the things they do, or why they don’t do the things they don’t
do,” Borgman said. “I read the book and came away with more questions than when I went in, and that was appealing to me, that sense of wanting to know more. I could not figure out how a little girl could get kidnapped twice by the same guy, and really even more times, almost. That really drove me.”
Maybe it was the book already being behind them. Maybe it was the court case already behind them. Who knows why, but when Borgman’s cameras rolled to interview the many players in this unique drama, they revealed things that had never been discussed in open public about all the facets of how Berchtold had insinuated himself into their lives and taken hold of them all with a manipulative grip of secrecy and shame.
In the book, the Brobergs do not disclose how the perpetrator, their trusted family friend, managed to foster affairs with both Jan’s mother and Jan’s father, and used that as a secret pressure point in his ultimate goals of making off with their child to be his sexual gratification object and emotional toy.
But they told all this to Borgman’s camera.
“I really respect the Brobergs for taking responsibility for their own actions and their own part in this ordeal, and talking about what they did in such an open way,” Borgman said.
“Telling their story took so much more bravery and courage from them than the actual acts. You can fall into situations, succumb to emotions, and that takes you in different direc-
tions, but then to talk about it in such a public way is so respectable. And their intentions have always been to use their story to try to try to prevent more victims, because their story shows how so often the perpetrator is someone you know and trust and have your own interactive feelings for. It’s almost never a stranger. The big stories are the ones where the stranger abducts a woman, she gets away years later, and that grabs big headlines.”
These other kinds of more personal abduction or abuse stories happen more frequently, Borgman surmised, but they get less of the public’s attention because of the less sensational interpersonal connections between the victims and the perpetrators.
Borgman’s documentary storytelling was helped by having willing interviewees, court documents, tape recordings, even family movies.
She scored quality points by adding dramatizations, but ones that were shot on 8mm film to mimic the family movies. The actors doing the recreations blended seamlessly.
Borgman will discuss these topics, techniques and much more at Northern FanCon on today and Sunday at CN Centre. She is one of the guest speakers for the Women In Film panel today at 2:30 p.m., then conducts a solo workshop on Sunday at 2 p.m. on directing and producing an independent film.
The workshop is entitled From Indie to Netflix: The 20-Year Path to Overnight Success.
Passengers with check-in baggage can breath a little easier when flying out of Prince George airport. The X-ray machine used to check their luggage is back in operation, airport spokesperson Susan Clarke confirmed. A breakdown this week had prompted the airport to ask passengers with baggage they needed to check in to arrive two hours before their flights. Passengers with carry-on baggage only were unaffected. — Citizen staff
Charges have been approved against two men in relation to a shots fired incident early Thursday morning in the Hart. Ravinesh Sharma, 32, and Justin Pawluck, 35, have EACH been charged with four firearms related counts, including careless use of a firearm. Both remained in custody as of Friday morning. Responding to a report of multiple gunshots near the corner of Highway 97 and Shady Lane, RCMP said they tracked a suspect vehicle to a spot near 15th Avenue and Alward Street and seized a loaded handgun. Police are also recommending charges against a 19-year-old woman alleged to have been the driver at the time. Both Sharma and Pawluck are known to the police and the courts. — Citizen staff
SURREY (CP) — RCMP say a man from Washington state has been arrested and released from custody as the investigation continues into a deadly crash near the Peace Arch border crossing in B.C. Mounties in Surrey say at about 11:30 a.m. on Thursday they responded to a two-vehicle collision on Highway 99 only a few hundred metres north of the border crossing.
Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff mnielsen@pgcitizen.ca
Tiana Tozer was a young woman with big ambitions and “everything in the world” going for her.
A second-year student at the University of Oregon, she was studying for a career in international diplomacy with a dream of becoming the United States’ ambassador to France. Tozer had even been accepted into the University of Lyon for her junior year.
But on May 14, 1988, a “beautiful spring day,” she hopped into the back of a car with three friends and, for reasons she could not explain and against her usual practice, decided against putting on her seatbelt.
“We were heading up the street in Eugene, Ore., and all of a sudden there was a flash and I was on the ground,” Tozer told an assembly of Grade 12 Duchess Park Secondary School students on Thursday.
They had been broadsided by a drunk driver who had missed a stop sign partially blocked by a tree growing in a nearby home.
“Without the seatbelt restraint I was thrown out of the car and run over by a 3,000-pound vehicle,” Tozer said.
She initially thought she had suffered two broken legs and would be out of the hospital in a couple of weeks.
“Boy, was I wrong,” Tozer said.
Facing the likelihood she would not live, physicians transfused her body with blood two-and-a-half times. And while she survived, everything from her left hip down had been broken and the possibility remained that she would lose her lower right leg.
“The muscles had been crushed so badly that they were no longer getting the blood they needed and they were dying,” Tozer said.
Tozer was in hospital for the next month and three days, going through surgery every other day as physicians searched for the dying muscle before it became infected and forced them to amputate her leg above her knee.
They removed so much muscle that bone was exposed. They tried filling in the gap with a flap of flesh from a shoulder blade but after a couple days, it had turned blue and had to be removed. More drastic action was taken in the form of taking some muscle from her lower left leg, pulling it over the bone and attaching it to the tendons. But that too failed.
In less than two weeks, she had lost 30 pounds from her six-foot-one frame and was down to a scant 135. At the best of times, a woman of her stature needs 1,500 to 2,000 calories a day just to maintain her size. Too heal from those injuries, she needed twice that but was barely eating at
all and had to be fed intraveneously.
Through it all, Tozer was in a state of denial believing she would be walking again, just like she had before the crash. She left the hospital in a wheelchair and deeply depressed.
“I was 20 years old and I didn’t want to live anymore,” she said.
The drunk driver – whose blood alcohollevel was .09, barely above the legal limit of .08 in Oregon – has also paid dearly.
He was driving without a licence, due to a previous driving while impaired, and without insurance and so, has had to bear the full brunt of the more than $250,000 worth of reconstructive surgery Tozer has had to go through over the years.
Each month for 25 years, Tozer would get a cheque for $200 in the mail. Then they stopped even though he still had $160,000 to pay off. As a result of the crash, he was found guilty of assault with a deadly weap-
on which severely limited his job prospects.
“He was unemployed,” Tozer said. “He was having difficulty finding employment and the cheques stopped coming. For the rest of his life he will never get out from underneath that debt... for the rest of his life he will be paying for the consequence of his actions on May 14, 1988.”
Tozer said she too, will continue to pay for the consequences of her actions and noted she has gone through 34 reconstructive surgeries and counting. At one point, she showed a photo of the “bloody, mangled thing” that was once her lower left leg, leaving her audience feeling squeamish.
Despite it all, Tozer has led a remarkably accomplished life.
She twice played for the U.S. women’s wheelchair basketball team at the Paralympics, winning a silver and a bronze medal. and she has been humanitarian worker in Iraq helping people with disabilities advo-
Sean FARRELL
Special to The Citizen
The Prince George Cantata Singers delivered their 50th anniversary celebratory concert last Sunday to a sold-out audience at the Prince George Playhouse. And what a masterful performance it was. Full disclosure, I approached the event with some trepidation, a bit worried that I was about to spend my Sunday evening listening to some showtunes and toe-tapping oldies. But instead, we were treated to a program that was meaningful, thoughtful, provocative and challenging, full of rich and complex arrangements of unique choral repertoire, all professionally performed with great love and pride. As soon as the choristers arrived on stage, I was immediately struck by the wonderfully coordinated gold-coloured accoutrements and stage décor and knew right away that this was going to be a production that resulted from some very thoughtful and precise planning.
Although, to be honest, I don’t think I would ever expect anything less than that from Evelyn Lee, the organization’s highly-skilled president, and all-around community organizer and supporter.
I could also perceive a unique excitement and enthusiasm amongst the audience members, and later in the program when
(We) were treated to a program that was meaningful, thoughtful, provocative and challenging, full of rich and complex arrangements of unique choral repertoire, all professionally performed with great love and pride.
prior choir members were asked to stand, the evidence was clear that this vital local arts organization has deep, deep roots in the community – having provided musical and performance opportunities to multiple generations, often within the same families.
Both interim music director Neil Wolfe and accompanist Maureen Nielsen were stellar throughout.
Wolfe’s musical insight is very impressive and his work in preparing the ensemble to deliver such a nuanced and moving performance was first-rate. And Nielsen’s work at the keyboard was truly remarkable, knowing when to be in a supportive role and when to take
a lead. Her interpretations were flawless throughout this very demanding program of over twenty selections. Bravo to both and a hearty congratulations to Nielsen for her 35 consecutive seasons of musical service to the organization.
Two personal favourites from the program where John Rutter’s For the Beauty of the Earth and Seal Lullaby by Eric Whitacre –providing such hauntingly beautiful harmonies and arrangements that I was stirred to near tears in both pieces.
Having the youth singers of the District 57 Tapestry Singers was a beautiful touch as well, emphasizing the universality of vocal and choral music – spanning time, generations, cultures and styles. I loved the interpretation of By the Rivers of Babylon.
My personal experience with Psalm 137 is in Hebrew as it comprises the Jewish weekday grace after meals and I very much enjoyed hearing this touching and moving English-language interpretation.
Congratulations to everyone involved with this once-in-alifetime performance. The Prince George community should feel honoured to have access to such a sustainably successful, community cultural organization.
Best wishes for another 50 years of celebrating our communal love for the human voice.
cate for themselves in that country.
And while she walks with a severe limp more and more, she is able to get around without a wheelchair.
Tozer credits “strong support” from the people around her, notably her mother, for bouncing back.
“Even though this awful thing had happened to me, my mother still had expectations of me,” Tozer said, noting she was a single mother who worked as a church secretary. “She expected me to do the best I could with what I had and be a contributing member of society.”
Tozer was in Prince George as part of an ICBC campaign to encourage students to keep safe driving at top of mind, particularly as graduation season looms. On average, seven youth are killed and 400 are injured in 1,800 crashes each year in the North Central region, according to ICBC.
Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff mnielsen@pgcitizen.ca
At the relatively young age of 27, Zachary Fleck knows more than most people his age about what it’s like to be old.
For the past four months, he has been living at Gateway Lodge, where he has been taking notes and making friends while earning credits towards a degree at UNBC.
Among the things he learned was that Gateway is a pretty good place to be.
“We talk about aging in place and staying where we’ve lived but there is a ton of upside to moving into a place like this,” Fleck said.
Fleck was engaging in what is called experiential learning.
In addition to dealing with the rest of his course load, he devoted 10 hours each week
to spending quality time with seniors living at Gateway.
“Eating meals, doing activities and just sort of hanging out and talking,” he said.
Fleck is in his third year at UNBC where he is working towards a degree in international studies. He took the course because his grandparents are moving on towards assisted living.
“So I thought it would be a really good opportunity to come in and learn about what the assisted living situation looked like and to be able to learn from all the residents here,” Fleck said.
He was also obligated to organize some activities. Playing Wheel of Fortune and music trivia and watching movies were some of the pastimes he came up with.
Among the most popular was show and tell.
“It went a lot better than I thought it would because you’d think show and tell, it’s supposed to be for kids so it could be kind of patronizing, but everyone actually really, really enjoyed it,” Fleck said, noting one resident showed up with a $100 Confederate bill.
Residents “absolutely loved to tell their stories,” Fleck also said.
Among those who relayed their experiences was 92-year-old Rose Dorish who for years operated House of Flowers and was instrumental in establishing AimHi in the mid-1960s.
Fleck won her seal of approval.
“He was wonderful,” Dorish said. “He just loved to listen. In the end, you could feel and see that he was (interested). He wanted to know all about you.”
Fleck is the third student to participate in
the course, which was launched last fall and is part of a larger study into the interactions between old and young being conducted by UNBC professors Shannon Freeman and Dawn Hemingway.
“We’re talking to the residents, we’re talking to the staff, we’re talking to the students,” Hemingway said. “Just tracking what kinds of things residents want to do.”
They hope to produce some initial findings this summer and embedding students for a whole academic year is also on the agenda. With an abundance of baby boomers now entering their later years, taking care of them will likely become a career path for more and more young people.
Whether he is among them remains to be seen, but Fleck said he’s become more secure about getting old.
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Workers in federally-regulated workplaces should have access to free menstrual products, the Canadian government says in a proposal published Friday.
The government wants to put menstrual products, such as tampons, in the same group of supplies employers must provide free, like toilet paper, soap, warm water, and a way to dry your hands.
The government isn’t sure yet exactly how the program will work: The notice of its intentions launches a 60-day consultation to figure out what products are needed and how to take into account the cost the move might have on businesses.
There are also questions about how to provide products in trains and aircraft, for instance, where there may space limits or where workers share washrooms with the public.
cause of, for instance, not having the supplies they needed when a period started unexpectedly.
“Having open and honest conversations around menstruation, and providing women and employees with the products they need, is part of our plan to ensure equality for women and support safe and healthy work environments,” Labour Minister Patty Hajdu said in a statement.
The federal government removed the Goods and Services Tax from menstrual products in 2015, and other jurisdictions in Canada and the United States have followed suit.
At the same time, there has been a growing movement to provide free feminine hygiene products on campuses and in schools.
‘This may make us unprofitable’
— from page 1
“Still figuring that out but we already have low profit margins and this may make us unprofitable,” one respondent said.
The EHT accounted for a $1-million increase to the city’s property tax levy, based on a rate of 1.95 per cent of the city’s payroll.
The cost of menstrual products varies significantly across the country.
A 40-pack of tampons in Northern and remote communities can cost upwards of $15.
The proposed rules would apply to the 1.2 million workers in the federal labour force, a group that includes banks, telecommunications and transport workers and makes up about six per cent of the nation’s workers. Of those workers, the rules would affect about 40 per cent of them, the government notice says – or about 480,000 workers.
And affected workers bear that cost alone.
A 2018 survey from Plan Canada International, cited in the government’s notice, suggested that one-third of women under age 25 found it difficult to afford menstrual products and further suggested that almost three-quarters had missed work for reasons connected to menstruation – be-
Starting in September, students in British Columbia’s New Westminster School Board will have access to free tampons and pads in their washrooms.
Earlier this year, Toronto city councillors decided to spend more than $222,000 to buy menstrual products and dispensers for cityrun homeless shelters, drop-in and respite centres, as well as some neighbourhood community centres.
Businesses and public sector bodies with payrolls over $500,000 a year to pay a 0.98 per cent tax on annual payroll. The tax goes up in increments up for every $250,000, reaching a maximum of 1.95 per cent for those with payrolls over $1.5 million.
Despite lobbying from businesses and local governments, the provincial NDP has not backed down, stressing eliminating the MSP will save individuals up to $900 a year and families $1,800 a year.
Stephanie TAYLOR
The Canadian Press
REGINA — The federal government used a favourable court decision on its carbon tax Friday to put pressure on premiers who don’t like it to stop fighting it.
The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled in a split decision that the tax imposed on provinces without a carbon price of their own is constitutional.
“Today’s decision is a win for Canadians and for future generations,” Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said in Ottawa. “This decision confirms that putting a price on carbon pollution ... is an effective and essential part of any serious response to the global challenge of climate change.
“It is time for Conservative politicians to stop the partisan games and join in on serious and effective climate action.”
McKenna straight out challenged new Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Ontario’s Doug Ford, Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe and federal Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer: “Will you stop blocking climate action and join us in fighting climate change?”
Saskatchewan’s reply was no.
“Though I am disappointed by today’s ruling, our fight will continue on behalf of Saskatchewan people – who oppose the ineffective, job-killing Trudeau carbon tax. It was a 3-2 split decision and we look to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada,” Moe said.
“No one in this nation should confuse climate action with the carbon tax,” he said. “We will continue to use each and every tool in our toolbox to block... Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ineffective carbon tax... while we in this province continue with our fight against climate change.”
The Saskatchewan Party government had asked the court for its opinion on the levy that came into effect April 1 in provinces without
Premier
centre, look on after Saskatchewan’s Court of Appeal ruled in a split decision that a federally imposed carbon tax is constitutional during a press conference at
a carbon price of their own –Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and New Brunswick.
Alberta has a carbon tax brought in by the former NDP government, but Kenney has promised to move quickly to dump it and fight any effort by Ottawa to impose its own.
“We disagree with the narrow ruling by the majority that the federal government has the power to ensure a provincial minimum price on carbon, and will be joining Saskatchewan in their appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada,” Kenney said in a statement.
In a 155-page decision on the reference case, Chief Justice Robert Richards wrote that establishing minimum national standards
for a price on greenhouse gas emissions does fall under federal jurisdiction.
He said Ottawa has the power to impose its carbon tax under a section of the Constitution that states Parliament can pass laws in the name of peace, order and good government.
Two of the five Appeal Court justices suggested the federal government’s actions are not a valid use of that section of the Constitution.
McKenna called climate change an issue of national concern.
“Pollution doesn’t know any borders. And we need to be able to act as a country,” she said. “We are witnessing Canadians across the country hurting from the impacts
Mia RABSON The Canadian Press
OTTAWA — The Conservative Party of Canada is adding more detailed police checks to its vetting of candidates and creating a specific policy for handling complaints made against MPs and candidates.
The moves are among six recommendations made by lawyer Carol Nielsen, who was hired by the Conservatives in March 2018 to probe how Rick Dykstra was allowed to continue on as a candidate in the 2015 election after the party learned he was accused of assaulting a woman who worked for another MP. Dykstra, who represented the southern Ontario riding of St. Catharines for nearly a decade, denies doing anything wrong. He lost his seat in the election before the allegations were made public.
Nielsen’s report says party officials failed to make the necessary inquiries about the allegations, a failure she blames at least partly on the lack of any protocol for handling such complaints.
“Without guiding principles directing the campaign team’s response to the situation, each member of the campaign team relied upon his or her own commonsense approach to the situation,” Nielsen wrote in her report.
She said the party did ask its lawyer to make inquiries about the matter, which included a chat with Dykstra and another senior political staffer. But the party did not try to get any information from the woman who made the allegations – who had asked for privacy – and Nielsen said the inquiries made of Dykstra were not good enough.
The party also failed to talk to the police about their investigation. The party relied on Dykstra’s word that the police had decided not to lay charges but police said last year the investigation was closed because the complainant didn’t want to proceed.
Nielsen said it’s unclear whether a better review of the matter would have changed the party’s decision to let Dykstra run. But Ray Novak, then-leader Stephen Harper’s chief of staff at the time, said last year that had additional information about the matter been known, such as why the police investigation was closed, Dykstra would have been fired as a candidate. Senior officials in the Conservative Party became aware of the
The Conservative Party of Canada failed to properly investigate allegations of sexual assault against former Conservative MP Rick Dykstra, according to a report by a lawyer hired by the party.
(The) party did not try to get any information from the woman who made the allegations – who had asked for privacy – and Nielsen said the inquiries made of Dykstra were not good enough.
complaint against Dykstra during the 2015 campaign and there was significant disagreement about how it should be handled.
Former prime minister Stephen Harper said last year he made the decision to keep Dykstra on the ballot and he made it based on the information he had at the time.
Guy Giorno, who was the national campaign chair in 2015, thought Dykstra should have been fired during the campaign. Last year Giorno called the Nielsen investigation “a sham” and said he would have no confidence in the results, but he was pleased with the findings released Friday.
“The report confirms my position that Dykstra should have been dropped as a candidate,” he said in an email to The Canadian Press.
“I am pleased to see my input
reflected in the recommendations and look forward to seeing them implemented.”
Tory Leader Andrew Scheer has appointed Hartley Lefton, a Toronto lawyer who led the organizing of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives’ leadership race last year, as a compliance officer to ensure the recommendations are implemented.
“I’m confident our campaign team now has the tools they need to ensure that and I look forward to Mr. Lefton leading the implementation of Ms. Nielsen’s strong recommendations,” Scheer said in a news release.
A party spokesman said Scheer would not be commenting beyond what he said in the release.
All political parties fired multiple candidates throughout the 2015 campaign for various reasons, often due to racist or sexist posts on social media. The Conservatives fired at least seven candidates during the campaign, including Jerry Bance, who was found to have been in a CBC Marketplace video that caught him urinating into a mug in the kitchen of a client’s home where he was repairing an appliance.
The fact that Bance was immediately dropped and Dykstra was not was a point of contention among the top Conservatives in 2015, with campaign manager Jenni Byrne saying in an email that the party had dropped candidates “for a lot less.”
“is not a legislative subject matter that has been assigned to either Parliament or the provincial legislatures under the Constitution Act.”
Federal government lawyers argued that Ottawa has the power to put a price on pollution, because greenhouse gas emissions are a national concern.
The two dissenting judges said it is “constitutionally repugnant” for Ottawa to exercise its power to control measures taken by provinces on emissions.
“The notion that national benchmarks are required merely speaks of a federal dissatisfaction with provincial policy and a desire to impose federal policies on those provinces,” they wrote.
“It is a dispute about what the right numbers are and who gets to decide what they are.”
Ontario is also challenging the federal tax and is waiting for a decision after arguing its case in court last month.
Ford, speaking in Bracebridge, Ont., after meeting with officials about flooding, said Friday’s decision is just the beginning.
of climate change.”
Scheer said in a statement that the Liberal carbon tax “isn’t a plan to lower emissions. It’s just another cash grab which is hurting already overtaxed Canadians.”
Saskatchewan told a hearing before the Appeal Court that the question wasn’t one of climate change. It argued the federal tax is unconstitutional because it’s not applied evenly across the country and oversteps into provincial jurisdiction. Richards wrote that there is no constitutional requirement that laws enacted by Parliament must apply uniformly from coast to coast to coast. He also said the environment
“This series isn’t over yet. That’s Game 1. We still have other games to play,” he said. “If we can’t beat them in the courts, we’re going to beat them at the ballot box in (the) October (federal election).” Manitoba filed papers in Federal Court last week for its own challenge.
Justice Minister Cliff Cullen said Manitoba’s case is different because the province had planned its own, lower carbon tax, but it was rejected by Ottawa.
“We have filed for a judicial review, not just on constitutional grounds, but also on the grounds that Canada acted unfairly by rejecting our plan,” he said.
The federal government’s carbon price starts at a minimum of $20 a tonne and is to rise $10 each year until 2022.
— With files from Teresa Wright and Steve Lambert
The Canadian Press VICTORIA — Premier John Horgan is already talking about B.C.’s New Democrats being re-elected to a second term even though the next election isn’t scheduled until the fall of 2021.
Horgan told more than 600 cheering people at a Canadian Union of Public Employees Union convention speech Friday that election victory is in sight if unions and party supporters stick together. He said the Opposition Liberals are looking to exploit signs of
division over contract negotiations and social issues to weaken the government.
“When we start to fight among ourselves, when we start to quibble around the edges, that’s when those who have been out of power now for 21 months will be very, very delighted to get back in again,” Horgan said.
Horgan touted the NDP’s record of balanced budgets, solid credit ratings and strong employment numbers as examples of the success of its agenda while offering supports to families, students and vulnerable people.
The BBC has started a project called BBC Future, “which aims to stand back from the daily news cycle… [and] explore what really matters in the broader arc of human history and what it means for our descendants.”
The first article is by the managing editor, Richard Fisher. Prompted by the realization that his daughter, born in 2013, could well be alive in 2100, he explores the challenge posed by our short-term thinking, suggesting that “short-termism” is “civilization’s greatest threat.”
Such thinking is problematic when we face what might be described as a long, slow crisis. While the massive humaninduced global ecological changes we face – climate change, resource depletion, ocean acidification, pollution and species extinction – are occurring rapidly in geological and ecological terms, they are slow in human terms.
Which is presumably what led Andrew Wheeler, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, to state recently that “most of the threats from
climate change are 50 to 75 years out.” On that basis – and no doubt influenced by his background as a coal-industry lobbyist (talk about the fox guarding the hen coop) – he suggested we should focus on the issues currently killing people, such as a lack of safe, clean water supply.
Well, at least he got it half correct. Yes, of course we should address the drinkingwater problem, but there is no reason we cannot address the issue of climate change as well. We are capable of doing more than one thing at once. Because while the threats from climate change, which at least he acknowledges, might lie far in the future (and even that is not true, as effects are being felt today around the world), their cause is in our actions today.
Carbon emissions today will continue to affect the climate for many decades, even centuries into the future. We have already locked in climate change, and its health and societal impacts for our children and grandchildren; failing to act now makes it worse for them and extends the impacts into additional generations. So shrugging your shoulders and saying, in effect: “Not our problem, they will need to deal with
it then,” is both scientifically ignorant and ethically unacceptable.
Which brings me to our current crop of political leaders, and particularly what Maclean’s dubbed “the Resistance” in its November 2018 cover story. These are national Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer and the conservative premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario, who are opposed to the federal carbon tax, are fighting it in court and have not imposed or have repealed a carbon tax in their provinces.
What part of “carbon taxes work to reduce fossil-fuel use and greenhouse-gas emissions” do they not get? Why are they fighting against one of the most effective tools we have to reduce global warming, one that if done properly is revenue-neutral and socially just? It’s easy and cheap to oppose taxes, but that in itself is a foolish, shortterm approach, because as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes noted a century ago: “Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.”
More importantly, why are they not thinking beyond the next election and considering the future for our children and grand-
San Francisco and Vancouver share a long and rich parallel history.
Major hubs during the gold rush, population centres that housed many ex-railroad workers, and the centres of North America’s involvement with the Opium Wars, these two cities have continued to evolve along similar lines regarding cannabis. From the counterculture movements of the 1960s to the medical cannabis dispensaries in the 1990s to full adult-use regulations in this century, their paths to cannabis legalization had been similar as well, until recently. Cannabis legalization has been good for San Francisco, but can the same be said of Vancouver?
In 1991, a man named Thomas O’Malley founded the first cannabis dispensary for medical use since the 1930s, and likely the first cannabis-only store in the world.
California activists fought hard for the next decade, and the result was some of the most forward-thinking cannabis policies in the world.
From subsidized medicine in Berkeley to equity initiatives in Oakland, the Bay Area would push the entire state to legalize cannabis – first for medical purposes and then full adult-use recreation.
B.C.’s path looks similar, superficially, but diving in a little further, we see the differences.
While U.S. states have been
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hampered by their federal government’s position that cannabis is illegal, they have also benefited from it.
States such as Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Nevada and California have strong local cannabis economies, and while each state certainly has its own issues (usually around testing), residents have access to product that is similar to what existed before legalization. We have also seen their industries be more diverse and make efforts to increase that diversity further. In Vancouver, it is a different story.
When the city decided to license cannabis dispensaries for medical purposes, it was Vancouver Coastal Health that drove in the first stake.
Edibles for sale in Vancouver at that time were made primarily for medical use. That meant sugar-free, dairy-free, glutenfree, healthy cannabis snacks, such as infused fruit and granola. Vancouver Coastal Health’s opposition to edibles stomped on this innovative and flourishing market.
Chocolates and gummies then emerged in the illicit market. We are still waiting to see what kinds of legal edibles the govern-
ment will allow, just as patients are still waiting to be able to access the edible forms of cannabis that R. vs. Smith proved was their right.
We are seeing medical cannabis patients being saddled with so much hassle and expense that there is a clear inducement for those who are able to access products illegally to do so. Further, legal cannabis in Canada has not included many of the most knowledgeable and skilled producers, many of which have their hopes pinned on micro-licences.
Now, five years since a federally legal medical cannabis regime has existed, and half a year since cannabis has been legal for adult use across Canada, there is more growth in Bay Street corporations than in our greenhouses.
Cannabis has been a large, untracked part of the B.C. economy for decades. At the turn of the century, the Fraser Institute estimated that the sector was worth $7.1 billion, more than agriculture, forestry, fisheries and utilities combined and equal to oil, gas and mining combined. This is a large and integral part of B.C.’s economy being shut out and replaced with Ontario-based IPOs. This is part of the great irony of Canadian cannabis legalization: the province that had the most to gain is instead on a path to being its biggest loser.
— Jamie Shaw is a partner at Groundwork Consulting and director of communications and culture for Pasha Brands.
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children on a rapidly heating planet? Good leaders – those with honour, ethics and a will to serve rather than a will to power – do not encourage and support the electorate in pursuing short-term benefits that constitute long-term folly, nor do they pursue policies of short-term gain for long-term pain. What “the Resistance” is really resisting is evidence, common sense, their duty to future generations and an acceptance of responsibility for their well-being and that of Earth itself. Far from being the resistance, they are the obstructors, or perhaps the ecological radicals, content to alter our ecosystems radically for the sake of making money today, while undermining the wellbeing of future generations. If they are not prepared to think beyond the election, to be true leaders rather than short-term profiteers, they should get out of the way and let others lead who are prepared to do the hard work of creating a healthier, more just and more sustainable future.
— Trevor Hancock is a retired professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s School of Public Health and Social Policy.
In the latest Research Co. survey of Canadians, only 29 per cent of respondents acknowledged that they rarely experience someone being rude or impolite when using social media.
In Canada, you are more likely to be harangued and insulted on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram than driving a car or using public transit. The remarkable situation is that the targets of online animosity are clearly defined.
Only 24 per cent of women and 12 per cent of Canadians aged 18 to 34 say they are rarely hassled on social media.
Simply put, this means that three in four women and almost nine in 10 in the youngest adult age group cannot escape some degree of aggravation when using platforms that were supposedly designed to “facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests and other forms of expression.”
My personal experiences on social media are limited. I have never been on Facebook and I never will.
I was introduced to Twitter by a colleague in 2011, who thought – and she continues to be right –that it would allow me to connect with a wider audience for my surveys and articles.
Many things have happened in the eight years I’ve used Twitter, in both my personal and professional lives.
I made friends after replying to tweets. I also opted to ignore and mute other users.
Earlier this year, I took a detailed look at my historical tweets and decided that it was time to remove thousands of them from the world wide web.
I’ll be clear.
These were not instances of pitiful comedic timing (such as the ubiquitous claim that “karma” is responsible when a person you dislike faces a problem) or careless grammar.
Most of these tweets amounted to content from companies I am no longer associated with and/ or led to broken links and error messages.
Others were observations that were precise at a specific moment, but are not anymore and should not be regarded as irretrievable definitions of who I am and what I care about.
It is perfectly acceptable to no longer think a particular meal was “the best one ever” and to feel no need to explain in detail all others that may have topped it since.
If your admiration for people you may have crossed paths with no longer exists, it makes no sense
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to keep old tweets that expressed a fleeting sense of appreciation.
As the municipal campaign was underway in the City of Vancouver last year, OneCity candidate for council Brandon Yan was criticized for deleting old tweets. At the time, I understood Yan’s position perfectly, even if one too many supposed “influencers” decried it.
A person should not be judged for opinions on fashion, music or social issues that were made years ago.
But for some of the “purists” of social media, Yan’s actions were tantamount to having something to hide.
Yan’s example outlines a simple fact: our views on the world can change.
What may have generated a chuckle in our youth can now easily become something offensive and hurtful.
Our perceptions of people we knew can go through transformations as well.
Many times, it has been said that the profession of polling is about snapshots.
In social media, our fondness for people, parties, politicians, even relatives, can also go through fluctuations.
On a specific day, in a specific moment, a person felt compelled to issue a statement about a particular issue.
Only a zealot would expect that statement to become the defining factor in a social media user’s life.
There can be no purity test for social media use, especially if the loudest proponents of it hide behind fake names or pictures of other individuals.
Unfortunately, everything indicates that the current state of affairs on social media will get worse before it gets better. Trolling is still rampant on Twitter.
We are warned about offensive content in replies to our tweets. There is no editor to remind users to be more considerate or look at different angles: only a window where any and all content can be placed, with little or no care.
The saddest part is that women and the youngest adults are starting to become used to the new “normal” on Canada’s social media landscape: shaming, finger-pointing, verbal abuse and threats. In any other facet of life, this behaviour would be extremely abnormal.
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Alan Freeman
The Washington Post
OTTAWA – Canada drew global attention last year – and plenty of weed-seeking tourists – when it became the world’s first advanced economy to legalize cannabis, an election promise by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Since then, marijuana shops have been popping up across the country, and buying pot will soon be as easy as ordering coffee at Tim Hortons.
But it wasn’t cannabis that was the big theme of the new budget introduced by Ontario Premier Doug Ford. It was beer – cheap, easily available beer.
Ford, 54, a Toronto businessman, is the anti-Trudeau. A rightwing populist with a brash and combative style that has earned him comparisons to Donald Trump, he relishes promoting the little guy and attacking elites. At the moment, for example, he’s waging a war against Trudeau’s federal levy on carbon and its impact on gas prices. The measure is aimed at fighting climate change; Ford calls it “the worst tax ever, bar none.”
The Ontario budget, the first since Ford’s Progressive Conservative Party gained power last June, includes cuts to legal aid, teachers, libraries and tree-planting as part of an effort to reduce the province’s $8.7 billion annual deficit.
But what has captured much of the attention here is its emphasis on improving access to beer and wine.
Ford uses the spending plan to propose a range of alcohol-related changes: allowing bars to serve alcohol starting at 9 a.m., permitting tailgating at sporting events, and broadening sales of beer and wine to more supermarkets and convenience stores.
Journalists have noted that the words “alcohol” or “beer” appear 46 times in the budget. Teachers rated just 25 mentions.
“You aren’t a baby and the
government shouldn’t treat you like one,” the Progressive Conservatives said in a fundraising pitch after the budget was introduced.
“Buck-a-beer” was a major theme of Ford’s election campaign last year (reducing the price of beer has since met with major resistance from brewers).
While Ford himself is a teetotaler, his family has a more troubled history with alcohol. His late brother Rob, the onetime mayor of Toronto, became notorious for his heavy drinking. When Rob was caught on video smoking crack cocaine in 2013, he eventually explained it was “probably in one of my drunken stupors.”
Beer is a $6.8 billion industry in Canada, the land of Molson and
Labatt, and Ontario is its centre, with more than 200 breweries. But the province is still living with a long history of strict, religiously inspired alcohol regulation. Retail sales of spirits and most wine remain the purview of a provincially owned monopoly known as the Liquor Control Board. Until the 1970s, consumers walked up to a counter and order their preferred tipple from a list of invisible products, which would then be delivered from storage by the store clerk in a paper bag. Serving rules were similarly draconian. If you wanted to change tables at a licensed establishment, you couldn’t bring along your beer or wine – the server had to do it for you.
Rules have been liberalized considerably in recent decades, but some anomalies remain. The Beer Store, the unimaginatively named, slightly Stalinist monopoly purveyor of beer in the province, has long operated from locations with all the charm of a cold-storage warehouse. Ford is anxious to break the back of the beer monopoly by expanding sales in supermarkets and convenience stores, as is the way in neighboring Quebec – but there’s a problem. The Beer Store is owned by three big breweries, who have a contract that guarantees their market until 2025. If the contract is broken, they’ll probably be asking for hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation.
Pollster Nik Nanos says a Ford voter is more likely to be a beer drinker than a consumer of cannabis or wine.
Ford isn’t running directly against Trudeau, but Nanos says his populist pitch should make the Liberals worry.
“Ford sees voters as customers and consumers,” Nanos says. “Justin Trudeau sees them as citizens with aspirations” – a much harder sell.
As for promoting cheap and convenient beer, it’s a symbolic issue on which it’s easy to show progress.
“It’s simple, it’s repeatable and it’s achievable compared to complex issues,” Nanos said. “It’s tick-the-box democracy.”
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If misery loves company the Brooks Bandits are certainly not alone in theirs. After being held to one goal or less in three of their five Doyle Cup games – all losses at the hands of the Prince George Spruce Kings – it remains a mystery to the Alberta Junior Hockey League champions how to get their vaunted triggermen on the scoreboard with a more consistency.
Facing Doyle Cup elimination tonight in Game 6 of the best-of-seven series (7 p.m. start), the Bandits can now relate to the frustration felt by the Coquitlam Express, Chilliwack Chiefs, Victoria Grizzlies and Vernon Vipers when the suffocating Spruce Kings snuffed out their BCHL playoff lives.
The Kings returned home from Brooks to their hockey palace at Rolling Mix Concrete Arena Wednesday, trailing 2-1 in the series. after a somewhat shaky opening period in Game 4 the Kings have looked like worldbeaters pretty much ever since, winning that game 3-1, followed by an even more convincing 4-1 victory Thursday in Game 5.
The Kings’ commitment to playing team defence has been a trait they’ve stuck to religiously since the season started eight months and 80 games ago. It’s not just the
defencemen taking time and space away from the Bandits. The forward group and their shot-blocking tendencies, quick feet and aggressive bodywork have made the necessary sacrifices to limit Brooks scoring chances. When they do get through, goalie Logan Neaton always seems to get in the way, just like he did in Game 4 with 51 seconds left, when William Lemay, the AJHL scoring champion, dragged the puck across the crease and had what should have been the tying goal on his stick. Instead, the six-foot-three goalie stretched out with his long legs to cover the open side of the net and just as Lemay shot, Neaton lifted one leg to make the save.
Lemay collected 32 goals and 90 points in 58 regular season games and led the Bandits with 23 points in 15 AJHL playoff games but he’s been snakebitten in the Doyle Cup, held to just one assist in five games. The same could be said about forwards Simon Gravel and Nathan Plessis. Gravel put up 67 points in 55 games and Plessis was well over a point per game with 49 in 45 games during the season. Both are pointless against the Spruce Kings and some of the blame has to go to Neaton. Through five games he sports a 1.81 goals-against average with a .939 save percentage and one shutout. The numbers posted by his Brooks counterpart, Pierce Charleson, have
been equally impressive, with a 1.82 goalsagainst average, .992 save percentage an one shutout.
“It’s been a little difficult playing in this barn and in the next coming games we’ve got to come out with lot more grit and a lot more passion and hopefully make more offensive plays and put a coupe more pucks in the net,” said Bandits winger Jake Theis.
“We’ve got a lot of depth in our forward lineup and we get our D in the play a lot and we’re able to create those offensive opportunities.
“(Neaton) has been standing on his head for a lot of the games. The two games in Brooks we were able to keep getting pucks on him, keep getting guys there, and that’s what we need to do these next coming games because we haven’t been doing it as much as we should.”
The rink at Rolling Mix is 190 feet long, 10 feet shorter than most rinks, and the Bandits have had to adjust for that with series switching to Prince George after Game 3. With less room to work with the hits have come frequently and that’s produced some bad blood with emotions running high between the teams.
“It’s a different ice surface but in a series you just have to stick with it, you’re not going to win four in a row usually in a Western Canada Cup,” said Brooks centre Arnaud
Vachon. “These are the two best teams in Canada so whenever we can we’re going to go after each other a bit, kind of rile each other up, but that’s just part of the game. They’re a good team defensively but I think we’re a better team and we’re going to show it. Bounces aren’t going our way but we’re still generating good offence. Their goalie’s been keeping them in games a lot but we broke through him in Brooks and that’s one thing we can do again.”
The Kings have run into a couple of injuries to key cogs on the blueline with veterans Liam Watson-Brawn and Jay Keranen both out with upper-body aches. They’ve had just five defencemen in the lineup since Keranen got hurt in the first period of Game 2 in Brooks. Three of them – Layton Ahac, Nick Bochen and Jason Chu are still in their 17-year-old seasons. Together with Dylan Anhorn, 20, and Max Coyle, 21, the healthy five that remain available have done their jobs admirably.
Chu, who tuned 18 in February, joined the Kings in November in a trade from Surrey and after spot duty in 38 regular season games and a seat in the stands for most of the BCHL playoffs he’s played every game since Watson-Brawn was injured in the last game of the Victoria series and the Coquitlam native hasn’t missed a beat. — see ‘WE OWE IT TO OUR FANS, page 11
Mark Lamb is well aware that building a junior hockey team into a championship contender is a marathon rather than a sprint. He learned that on the job during a seven-year stint as head coach and general manager of the Swift Current Broncos and laid much of the groundwork that culminated with the Broncos’ run to the WHL championship last season. Thursday in Red Deer Lamb was at the helm as GM of the Prince George Cougars when they made their picks in the bantam draft, his first turn at the Cougars’ table since being hired for a fouryear term last June. For the first time since the Cougars franchise moved to Prince George from Victoria in 1994 they owned two of the top four picks in the draft and used them to select in respective order defenceman Keaton Dowhaniuk
and centre Koehn Ziemmer - both products of the Okanagan Hockey Academy Edmonton bantam prep team.
Lamb and Bob Simmonds, the team’s director of scouting, were elated with their first rounders, who are both intent on playing in the WHL as Cougars.
“We think we got the best (defenceman) and one of the best forwards in the draft, they’ve played together, they have chemistry together and know each other,” said Lamb.
“We didn’t go into it looking like that but when we rated the players that’s how it came out and it’s just a bonus that they played together.”
As bantam teammates given the chance to play for the same junior team a couple of seasons into the future that weighed heavily in the Cougars’ decision to pick Dowhaniuk and Ziemmer together.
Convincing drafted players to commit to a team is not always
so certain and Lamb made sure he did his homework with the scouting staff to get their two high-profile picks right, knowing how much the draft means to the Cougars’ future success.
The Cougars are coming off one of the worst seasons in their 25year Prince George history and they finished last in the Western
Conference with a 19-41-5-3 record. Mired in a prolonged slump that would eventually lead to a club-worst 17-game losing streak, the Cougars fired head coach Richard Matvichuk with 16 games left.
Lamb took over as interim coach and the Cats won just three of those 16 games but showed signs they won’t have to endure as many excruciating growing pains next season.
“We have needs in all areas and we’re trying to get depth in all positions,” said Lamb.
“We want to build a team that at some point hopefully we’ll have a chance to compete for a championship. We thought we had a really good draft last year with the (2003-born) group and we’re going into the ‘04 group and next year with the ‘05 group, which is really deep and we have multiple picks.”
The Cougars will have eight picks in the first five rounds next
year, including have two firstround choices in 2020, their own and Portland’s, and three third-rounders. They made a deal Thursday with the Winnipeg Ice to give up their second-overall pick to Winnipeg, which the Ice used to select forward Morgan Geekie after taking forward Matthew Savoie first overall. In return, the Ice gave the Cougars their third-overall pick they used to draft Dowhaniuk and a thirdround choice in 2020. Lamb said the Cougars would have picked Dowhaniuk second overall if they hadn’t made the trade.
Savoie, the consensus best player available in the draft, has already announced he intends to go the college route to Denver University and might never play in Winnipeg.
He’s among a handful of highlytouted bantams who made it known to WHL teams they want to play for NCAA college teams. — see ‘WE WANT, page 11
The Canadian Press
The Grey Cup has a new base.
The CFL announced Friday the trophy recently received a new base for just the third time in its 110-year history. That’s because the base that’s supported the original Grey Cup since 1987 ran out of room for the plaques that list the names of Grey Cup champions.
“This is our holy grail, a symbol of Canadian spirit and unity, as well as the trophy every Canadian Football League player wants to claim in victory,” CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie said.
The trophy, complete with its new base, will be front and centre Monday when Ambrosie tours Calgary, which will host this year’s Grey Cup in November.
The Canadian Football Hall of Fame houses and administers the Grey Cup and executive director Mark DeNobile said the trophy’s silhouette remains unchanged.
The names of the Grey Cup champions on the new base remain mounted in vertical columns but they’re now made up of individual plaques. The champions’ names are darkened to make them easier to see.
Starting next year, a plaque from the past will be removed each year to make room for a new one honouring the newest champion. That means a plaque listing the name of the 2020 Grey Cup champions will replace the 1909 plaque.
The Washington Post
The last time forward Brett Connolly was an unrestricted free agent, his options were limited, his price was low and his future was in question.
The Boston Bruins decided against tendering Connolly a qualifying offer in 2016, so he hit the open market on July 1 as a former top-10 draft selection that some considered a bust.
Connolly signed a one-year, $850,000 deal with the Washington Capitals, a last chance to revitalize his NHL career.
Connolly seized the opportunity and the team continued to benefit from the forward’s presence and production. Eventually, what began a one-year trial became a three-year stay in Washington.
“It was the three best years of my life,” Connolly said.
Connolly’s three seasons in Washington have been his most productive, and coming off a career-best 22 goals and 24 assists in 81 games, this time free agency will go much different for him.
If he hits the open market on July 1, he should fetch an average annual value of at least $4 million on his next contract, especially now that he has a Stanley Cup victory on his resume and scored six goals during that playoff run last year.
Of the Capitals’ unrestricted free agents, Connolly is the most likely to be re-signed, but with the team expected to run into salary-cap constraints this summer, both sides have a lot to consider. For Connolly to stay, he’d almost certainly have to compromise on term and/or salary.
“I’ve thought about it a lot,” Connolly said. “Obviously this year, knowing the situation, I’ve expressed that I want to be back, that’s obvious. But a lot of things will play into that. I had a great year – my best year by far, coming off winning a Stanley Cup. I have a lot of confidence in my game, with myself, which I think is a big thing now. I feel like my career really started in the last couple of years in a weird way, just with that confidence and the belief that I can do
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Washington Capitals right wing Brett Connolly celebrates his goal during the second period of Game 5 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series against the Carolina Hurricanes on April 20. The Prince George native and former Cougars captain is up for a new contract after scoring 22 goals this past season.
it, and I can be a contributor and score 20 goals, which is what I’ve always wanted to do. It just took a little while. We’ll see. But obviously I want to be back but there are a lot of different things that factor into it.”
Washington will be wary of how much money it ties up past next season, with both goaltender Braden Holtby and top center Nicklas Backstrom due for new contracts in the summer of 2020.
Connolly is aware of all of that, including the fact that the Capitals’ top priority this summer is extending 23-year-old forward Jakub Vrana, who’s also coming off a career year with a 40-point campaign.
Winger Carl Hagelin is also a pending
unrestricted free agent this summer, and while he was a good fit with the team after Washington acquired him in February and vastly improved the penalty kill, he doesn’t have the offensive upside of Connolly and is four years older.
Asked about how much roster turnover he expects, general manager Brian MacLellan said, “We’ll have some decisions to make. We’ll find out which direction we’re going on Vrana with a term deal or a bridge deal. Some of it’s money decisions. Some of it’s we need to make a couple changes... Depending on what we decide to do, you might have to create some space and just go from there.”
Connolly has now played for three teams – his career started with the Tampa Bay Lightning before he was traded to the Bruins – so he’s had an education in how much fit and comfort within a locker room can impact on-ice performance.
With Boston and Tampa Bay, Connolly was arguably forced into too high a spot in the lineup with too much pressure. In Washington, he consistently played on the third line. The expectations weren’t as great, and Connolly got better with each season, but his ice time maxed out at this year’s 13:20 per game with limited power-play time. The Capitals’ top six is established, so something for Connolly to consider is if he’d want another shot at that role elsewhere.
“I was able to produce here, for sure, but it was in a limited role,” Connolly said. “So, part of me wants to challenge myself again and take that next step in my development. I’m 26, I feel I’m in the prime of my career, my body feels great. There’s going to be opportunity out there, I know that. It’s just a matter of making a decision for me and for my family, something that fits. If it’s here, that’s great. Obviously, that would be ideal, but there’s also opportunities elsewhere. There are lots of good teams and a lot of good teams looking for guys to chip in offensively to help win.” No matter if Connolly ends up staying or going this summer, he repeatedly expressed his gratitude to Washington, the place where he won a championship and also realized the potential he always thought he had. His best year came last, good timing for what’s expected to be a big pay day with plenty of suitors.
“It’s a situation that three years ago, when I signed here, when I didn’t get qualified by Boston, that I never thought would come,” Connolly said. “You know you’re confident in yourself, but there’s always some doubt. I had to prove myself again and now I’m here after a great year and I’m going to the market, maybe. It’s crazy how things change in this league, and if you stick with it and keep working, it works out.”
Joedy McCREARY The Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — Teuvo Teravainen scored a quick goal, and moments later, so did Greg McKegg.
Just that quickly, the Carolina Hurricanes chased New York’s goalie out of the game – and the Islanders right out of the playoffs.
Carolina earned a second-round sweep of the Islanders on Friday night, beating them 5-2 after Teravainen and McKegg scored 66 seconds apart in the second period.
Teravainen and Sebastian Aho each finished with a goal and an assist, captain Justin Williams and rookie star Andrei Svechnikov each added insurance goals, and goalie Curtis McElhinney made 26 saves in his second career playoff start.
The Hurricanes – who went a decade between playoff berths – earned the first four-game sweep in franchise history and have reached the Eastern Conference final in each of their last four post-season appearances since 2002. They’re also unbeaten in five home playoff games.
“Imposing your will on a team and giving them doubt is the key to winning a series, whenever that may be,” Williams said. “We pushed and we pushed, we got a couple goals, we got a good lead, and that’s how you win a series. You tell a team it’s too hard for them, and it was.”
Now the Hurricanes – after winning six straight and eight of nine – have some time to heal before they face the
Columbus-Boston winner.
“I don’t have a favourite,” defenceman Justin Faulk said.
“We’re sitting here, we’re ready for whoever we’ve got next.”
Mathew Barzal scored a power-play goal and Brock Nelson added a late goal for the Islanders, who managed just five goals in the series and were swept for the first time since the Rangers did it in the first round in 1994.
Coach Barry Trotz kept the identity of his starting goalie a secret until
‘We want players
warmups – when Robin Lehner led them onto the ice for the fourth straight game in the series.
He didn’t last long.
Trotz pulled him in favour of backup Thomas Greiss after the bang-bang goals by Teravainen and McKegg early in the second period.
“We just got punched in the nose, and I was looking for a spark,” Trotz said.
“I knew that goals had been pretty hard to come by in the series... We just couldn’t get close enough in the end.”
— from page 9
“That’s their option and that’s why we have to do all our work,” said Lamb.
“We want players that want to play in Prince George and we’re going to sell our program and that’s how we’re going to build this. The players we draft and we talk to we have a very good feeling they will be committed to the league and the Cougars and that’s how we looked at the draft.”
The Cougars have signed their two first-rounders from 2018 – forward Craig Armstrong and goalie Tyler Brennan – as well as forward Blake Eastman, one of their two second-round picks in 2018. They’re hoping to sign their other second-rounder, defenceman Hudson Thornton, and third-round forward Ty Mueller.
“Goal scoring was down on our team last year, it was a sore spot, but it’s going to take a few years to get these skilled draft picks playing on our team,” Lamb said. “We’re going to be a time that will score a lot easier than in the past, that’s for sure.
“What I’m encouraged about is the players we have who can jump into the
roster next year, and that’s widespread.
The ‘03 draft was strong and we have some other guys who will be fighting to make the team. I really like how the team played down the stretch, we were starting to get some momentum and had an idea of where we’re going and we’re not going to be missing a lot of guys. The overagers are the guys leaving but for the most part we have a chance to have pretty much everyone back so we need these young guys to really push for a spot and when you have that competition it only makes the team better.”
Trading Tyson Phare, the 18th overall pick in 2017, became inevitable when Phare decided to leave the Cougars last fall after playing 14 games. In return the Cougars received Fischer O’Brien, a Prince George minor hockey product drafted in the fifth round last year by the Lethbridge Hurricanes.
The Cougars continue to search for a head coach. Lamb says he has between 25 and 30 resumes from legitimate candidates and that list will continue to grow as more coaches from the pro ranks find themselves facing unemploy-
ment and become available.
“I’ve talked to quite a few people and I’m going to be talking to more,” said Lamb. “You’ve got to be able to relate to the kids, how know the tends how hockey is being played now, how you communicate. Just being down there coaching, I have a pretty good idea what it’s going to take and what type of coach the guys do need. I have a lot of connections not just on our league but in pro leagues and I’m doing a lot of work in those areas.”
Next up for Lamb is the CHL import draft in late June. The Cougars have to European forwards who could return –20-year-old Vladislav Mikhalchuk, their leading scorer in 2018-19, and promising centre Matej Toman. If Mikhalchuk does return he would be filling up two slots as one of the three overagers and one of the two imports each team is allowed. However the league is discussing a rule change which would allow teams to kep Europeans with at least two years experience in the league as 20-yearolds without having to declare them as imports as well.
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“We’re struggling with injuries on the defensive end so it’s good to help out an take some minutes of our top guys and just be a steady strong defensive defenceman out there,” said Chu. “It’s been really exciting. The atmosphere in this building with the fans has been amazing and with the other team it’s really competitive out there and that’s how it should be, and it’s just awesome to be a part of it.”
Coyle, Anhorn and Ahac have been playing well over 30 minutes per game and seem to have the conditioning to play that much. The Kings have won the last two of the series after losing back-to-back games for the first time since Jan. 18.
“I don’t think we weren’t really used to dealing with adversity,” said Coyle. “Coming in to play a team like this, they’ve got everything they need, I mean they’re the top team. Everyone knows who Brooks is, growing up as kids, and they’re coming into our barn and we’re like, it’s time to take it to them, let’s show them who we are.
“That’s the best team we’ve come up against and they put us on our heels in the second and third games in Brooks and we just watched some video and regrouped and thought to ourselves, let’s take it to them and put them back on their heels.”
Thursday’s win improved the Kings’ home playoff record to 11-0 and they’re 19-3 in the postseason heading into what could be the last game of the season tonight at RMCA. Having clinched the Fred Page Cup as BCHL champs in Vernon, the Kings want to reward their fans by raising a trophy on home ice, and they have two chances for that.
“We really built off our second and third periods (Wednesday) night, guys like playing in front of their home crowd in our rink,” said Kings head coach Adam Maglio.
“We hadn’t lost two game in a row in a long time and it is a little deflating and we tried to push the guys pretty hard and just see how they would respond, because I think you’re going to go through that same adversity at a national championship and you have no time in a short tournament like that.
“So we kind of used (the two losses) as bit of a guide so we know how to handle ourselves when we get to the national tournament. I thought our desperation level our intensity and our focus was really good the last two games.”
The fact both teams were already qualified for the junior A national championship formerly known as the RBC/Royal Bank Cup, May 11-19 in Brooks had some hockey observers wondering whether the Doyle Cup would be a rather meaningless series with both teams just going through the motions to get to the bigger prize a few weeks down the road. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Bandits and Spruce Kings are two highly-skilled, evenly-matched teams that want to win their way into the national tournament and they are doing that by rewarding the fans with an intense series chock full of top-notch entertainment. With the exception of the Bandits’ 4-0 win in Game 3, it’s been intense, hard-hitting and suspenseful right to the end. The players are having as much fun playing in it as the fans are watching it. Kings fans are being reminded to bring their rally towels to the rink tonight, which worked well for the team in Game 4. If the Kings lose tonight, Game 7 will be played Sunday (7 p.m.).
“Being down 2-1 and working back to this feels pretty awesome for us,” said Kings captain Ben Poisson, who scored his 15th goal of the playoffs Thursday for the gamewinner. “We knew they’re a high-calibre offensive team but coming into our rink, it’s a hard rink to play in, especially when they pack the barn like this. It’s awesome for us to see and that probably plays a big factor.
“We owe it to our fans for a lot of our success. If we were playing in front of an empty rink in the playoffs I don’t think we’d have the same results.”
Iwas driving through the Prairies last week and as I saw farm after farm for sale, my mind drifted to what it would be like to be a farmer. I imagined the rhythm of the seasons, the sense of accomplishment of seeing crops grow before my eyes and the reaping of abundance from a few seeds scattered on fertile ground with the hope of a huge harvest.
I honestly don’t know a lot about farming or growing except for the few grains of knowledge that have been passed on to me from my brother-in-law who is an agronomist, or my mother who toils year after year in her garden. However like generations of farmers before me, I would hope that I would be successful as a farmer. But I am sure that those happy images of success, would shortly be dashed with the reality of the hard work that farmers put in season after season.
As entrepreneurs, we often look at other businesses and imagine how life would be in that trade. We think that with our skills that it would be easy for us to be successful, without knowing much about
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the business model. We think that those retailers and restaurateurs are making a killing; that running a dealership, a tech company, a construction company, a goldmine, a hotel, or a garage would be simple. We believe that if we were a consultant, coach, dentist or a doctor we would have no worries because we would be rich. The reality is often so different.
As a business coach, I am blessed to work with business owners in a huge variety of business models who are passionate about what they do. I support these leaders as they try to understand what they got themselves into. I teach them how business works and I guide them in working through their trouble spots. I am often called to help with transitioning a family from generation to generation within a business or helping an owner prepare for retirement. One day, I might assist an owner
in coming up with a strategy to ensure that a business is profitable and sustainable, the next day I might find myself mentoring a leader in engaging their employees.
Business coaching is like farming to a degree. I help plant seeds, germinate ideas, and fertilize for growth. It might look easy from the outside but it takes a lot of hard work and energy. Like any other business model, 60 per cent of business coaches, never make money or are marginally profitable. Most business coaches go on to do something else after a year or two.
However, like a farmer, this is what I am called to do. As the land calls a farmer, a table a restaurateur, or patient a doctor, as entrepreneurs we all heed our calls, we plant our seeds and hope they germinate. Too often however, as entrepreneurs we fail to stay long enough to see the seeds that we have planted through to their fruition. We seem to think that the grass is greener on another field. We don’t figure out the business model and often as we are on the cusp of something great, we get
wander lust, we become discouraged, we change directions and we fail to reap what we have sown.
Sometimes if the fields are barren and fail to produce harvest we should move to another plot of land. If the climates are changing, we may need to learn what it takes to produce a different crop. There should be no shame if we realize that we are not cut out for what it takes to be a farmer or an entrepreneur and decide we should go to work for someone else.
However, if we believe it’s just more hard work that is holding us back, the lack of understanding about how to profit from our years of venture, or we need some fertilizer for our soil, perhaps we need to think differently about how we will reap our results. Like farming, business can harvest great yields if we put the time into clearing the land and tilling the soil and are patient as our crops mature.
— Dave Fuller, MBA is an awardwinning business coach and the author of the book Profit Yourself Healthy. Send Dave the seeds of your thoughts about this article to dave@profityourselfhealthy.com
The Canadian Press
OTTAWA – At least one Canadian-based company is upbeat about its prospects in Saudi Arabia, a optimisim that comes as businesses fret about their future in the kingdom following a diplomatic battle with Ottawa.
WSP Global Inc., an engineering firm headquartered in Montreal, has continued to land infrastructure work in Saudi Arabia even after a dispute erupted with Canada last summer, said Isabelle Adjahi, one of its senior vicepresidents.
The company’s pipeline of possible projects in Saudi Arabia is “promising,” she said. “We’re knocking on wood – but we are positive on Saudi for the moment,” Adjahi said in an interview Friday. “We’re still cautious and we are looking at things carefully, but we ... think that there are opportunities there for us.” Saudi Arabia retaliated against Canada last August following criticism Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland levied on Twitter about the regime’s arrest of women’s-rights activists. Infuriated by the statement, Riyadh reacted by suspending diplomatic ties with Canada,
expelling the Canadian ambassador and calling its own envoy home from Ottawa.
Saudi Arabia also announced it would block new business deals with Canadian firms. Some companies have reported that they’ve already felt the sting. The beleaguered firm SNC-Lavalin Inc. – which is also based in Montreal and one of WSP’s main rivals – has blamed some of its recent woes on the diplomatic conflict.
“Not just ourselves but many Canadian companies saw the slowdown in contract awards or the stopping of contract awards or investments into Saudi Arabia,” SNC-Lavalin’s CEO Neil Bruce told reporters Thursday in Montreal.
When it comes to its continued work in Saudi Arabia, Adjahi said WSP’s success, despite the diplomatic tensions, can be credited to its corporate structure.
WSP’s entities around the world work independently, she said. For instance, Adjahi said its Middle East operation is mostly made up of local employees and has its own CEO, chief financial officer and human-resources team.
“The work being done locally is not being discussed, assigned by the Canadian team here, it’s really a local team with a relationship
with the clients,” said Adjahi. She said WSP’s corporate head office in Montreal has around 150 employees.
The company has been part of major infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia such as the metro systems in Riyadh and Mecca, she said.
WSP is refurbishing its offices in Saudi Arabia and, following its December acquisition of Berger Group Holdings, Inc., the company now has close to 300 employees in the country, up from around 100 before the deal, she said.
The kingdom’s relationship with Canada came under further strain – as did its relations with many in the international community - as details emerged last fall about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Asked about ethical and public-relations concerns related to working in Saudi Arabia, Adjahi replied that WSP avoids getting involved in anything political and focuses solely on contracts.
“We leave the political discussions for the politicians,” said Adjahi, who noted WSP is part of the consortium giving Parliament’s Centre Block a massive, decade-long makeover.
The Canadian Press
TransCanada Corp. is officially dropping the “Canada” from its name, but CEO Russ Girling isn’t saying he expects it will make it any easier to get pipelines approved in Canada or the United States.
The Calgary-based company is now to be called TC Energy Corp., after shareholders approved the change at its annual meeting Friday.
“The name TC Energy acknowledges our origin as TransCanada PipeLines, while adding the word ‘energy’ speaks to the breadth of our business, which includes pipelines, power generation and energy storage,” Girling told the meeting.
“But to be clear, this is a name change, not a brand name. We are very proud of who we are and what we do.”
The company said the change recognizes its growth into the United States and Mexico, including through its recent US$13-billion purchase of U.S. natural gas transporter Columbia Pipeline Group.
It has about 7,000 employees in North America, with 3,500 in Canada, 3,200 in the U.S. and 300 in Mexico.
But some analysts suggest it’s also a chance to distance itself from Canada, where difficulty in getting pipeline projects approved has been blamed for a glut of oil that caused steep discount pricing last fall and prompted the Alberta government to curtail production starting in January.
“I think the name change is semantics,” U.S.-based analyst Jennifer Rowland of Edward Jones wrote in an email.
“I don’t think it attracts new investors, but I do think it’s a subtle, or not so subtle depending on how you view it, way to de-emphasize Canada as some investors are leery of investing in Canada given the government intervention in free markets in Alberta and the difficult regulatory environment for energy.”
TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta into the U.S. was first proposed in 2008, rejected by then-president Barack Obama in 2015, approved by President Donald Trump in 2016 and again in March, but remains on hold awaiting court rulings in Montana and Nebraska.
The court delays mean the project will not be able to start construction in the U.S. this year, Paul Miller, president of liquids pipelines, confirmed during an afternoon conference call with financial analysts.
The project could still be unfinished if a new federal government is elected in the U.S. in 2020, he added, but it’s hoped all permits and approvals will be in hand by then and a new administration won’t affect bringing the project on stream.
Shareholders voted almost 90 per cent against a motion sponsored by the Pension Plan of the United Church of Canada that would have required the company to report on how it is meeting international standards for Indigenous people’s rights.
The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 83.55 points at 16,494.43, but was down 119 points for the week, following four days of losses. Ten of the 11 major sectors were up on the day, led by materials and energy on higher commodity prices.
The June gold contract was up US$9.30 at US$1,281.30 an ounce and the July copper contract was up 3.95 cents at US$2.82 a pound.
The June crude contract was up 13 cents at US$61.94 per barrel and the June natural gas contract was down 2.2 cents at US$2.57 per mmBTU.
The metals sector’s increase was led by Sherritt International and Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd., which gained 7.1 and 4.6 per cent respectively. Energy partially rebounded from crude price decreases that have seen the price of West Texas Intermediate drop by more than two per cent this week, but still remains up 36.4 per cent year-to-date.
“I think the recent pullback was a probably a little overdone,” said Kevin Headland, senior investment Strategist at Manulife Investments, adding there is still some uncertainty regarding supply and demand.
The sector’s gains were led by Baytex Energy Corp., whose shares gained 12.9 per cent on the day.
The Canadian dollar traded at an average of 74.47 cents US compared with an average of 74.28 cents US on Thursday. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 197.16 points at 26,504.95, but was down about 40 points on the week. The S&P 500 index was up 28.12 points at 2,945.64, while the Nasdaq composite was up 127.22 points at 8,164.00.
U.S. markets responded strongly to an April jobs report that beat expectations as 263,000 jobs were added, pushing the unemployment rate to a five-decade low of 3.6 per cent.
“So I think it’s a good news story all around and I think markets are reacting to that positive news,” Headland said. The impact was less pronounced in Canada, which will release its own employment numbers next week.
“I think it’s a read-through to what Canada’s going to produce next week,” he said of the U.S. jobs numbers.
Ana Lucia ARAUJO
Special To The Washington Post
Nearly five years ago, Georgetown University students brought to light an unexpected event associated with the Washington, D.C., university’s history.
In 1838, the Jesuits who owned the university sold 272 enslaved men, women and children to pay the institution’s debts. That history – hardly a surprise to historians, who know the Catholic Church was the largest slave owner in the Americas – triggered a call for reparations.
A few weeks ago, Georgetown students voted to create a fund, financed by an annual student fee, to aid the descendants of these enslaved people.
Georgetown students were not the first to demand reparations for slavery. Fifty years ago, a group of black activists led by James Forman demanded reparations for slavery from churches and synagogues. Like today’s calls for reparations, those demands emphasized the horrors of slavery and its aftermath: White America represented by the churches and synagogues exploited their ancestors and imposed on them the “most vicious, racist system in the world.”
Then, and now, the call for reparations is about the need to address wealth inequalities plaguing African Americans whose ancestors were enslaved.
There is a long and old tradition of black men and women demanding restitution for the time they were enslaved. As early as the 18th century, former slaves such as Belinda Sutton of Massachusetts formulated individual demands for reparations from their masters. (Sutton ultimately received a pension, though hers was a rare case.)
Collective calls for reparations emerged at the end of the 19th century, when it became clear that the post-Civil War attempts to redistribute land to former slaves and ensure full citizenship would not be accomplished.
Thousands of former slaves gathered around the country to demand that Congress pass a bill providing them with pensions.
But the movement was not successful. Its leaders, including a fearless formerly enslaved woman, Callie House, were prosecuted and sent to prison, accused of mail fraud.
Reparations activism resurfaced at the end of the Second World War. Jewish survivors of the Holocaust obtained financial reparations from the new German government. African American activists, who at this point identified themselves as descendants of slaves instead of former slaves, saw an opportunity to voice demands for similar compensation.
Pan-African activists such as Paul Robeson, who signed the petition “We Charge Genocide” in 1952, evoked the “tens of millions sacrificed in the slave ships and on the plantation” and stated that segregation and Jim Crow were genocidal policies against African Americans.
And yet, such demands for financial and material reparations for slavery were not an element of the civil rights agenda, which emphasized equal legal rights before any other claims.
After the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., however, new black
nationalist groups made reparations dominant elements of their programs. Because achieving legal rights erased neither racism nor the racial wealth gap that maintained the economic exclusion of black Americans, it was clear that more drastic action was necessary.
One such group was the Republic of New Africa. Founded in Detroit, its president was the author and civil rights leader Robert Franklin Williams, who had been head of a North Carolina chapter of the NAACP and the author of the influential book Negroes With Guns.
The organization embraced the cause of reparations, demanding that the federal government award land to African Americans for the creation of a black nation in a territory corresponding to the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina.
It also called on the government to pay $10,000 to every black person in the United States (while acknowledging the true value owed was much higher).
As they had with other groups demanding reparations, federal authorities prosecuted the organization’s members, several of whom were sent to prison.
It was in this context that James Forman issued his call for reparations, which was summarized in the document Black Manifesto, presented to an audience of 500 activists at the National Black Economic Development Conference in Detroit, on April 26, 1969.
He opened his appeal by stating: “We the black people assembled in Detroit, Michigan for the National Black Economic
Development Conference are fully aware that we have been forced to come together because racist white America has exploited our resources, our minds, our bodies, our labour. For centuries we have been forced to live as colonized people inside the United States, victimized by the most vicious, racist system in the world.”
The document’s arguments requested that white Christian churches and Jewish synagogues pay a total of $500 million in financial reparations. According to the manifesto, the churches and synagogues were part of a capitalist system that made their wealth based on the exploitation of black people.
The manifesto also outlined the future use of the reparations funds, which included the creation of a Southern Land Bank, publishing companies, audiovisual networks, a research center, a black university and an International Black Appeal to promote the creation of cooperative businesses.
On May 4, 1969, the Black Manifesto made news when Forman and other activists interrupted the Sunday service at Riverside Church in New York City to announce it.
Forman justified the choice of Riverside by explaining that it is “in the heart of the Harlem Community, as are a few other racist institutions” and added that the “demands of Black people are Relevant to any church which is operating in or near a Black community, or anywhere in the United States for that matter.”
By the summer of 1970, the National Black Economic Development Conference had obtained approximately $300,000 in
Ireparations, contributions that were redirected to other organizations.
Despite the manifesto’s great public visibility, multiple requests to several churches diffused the initiative by spreading it too thin. Likewise, the National Black Economic Development Conference neither sought nor obtained support from the most important African American organizations. Its leaders distrusted official institutions and did not engage in legal procedures or campaigns to petition Congress, factors that probably prevented the movement from getting support from large numbers of African Americans who might otherwise have favoured the idea of reparations for slavery. And as with previous calls for reparations, federal agents closely watched the bearers of the Black Manifesto.
In the two weeks that followed its presentation, the FBI interviewed all individuals who participated in the Detroit conference. The Justice Department also held two special grand juries to investigate the group’s activities.
In the United States, the debate over reparations re-emerged five years ago when Caricom, an organization of Caribbean nations and dependencies, released a 10-point plan requesting symbolic and financial reparations from European nations.
In the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign, the reparations debate has become even more focused and visible. Nearly all candidates for the Democratic nomination have agreed that reparations for slavery must be seriously considered. Whatever they decide, because the legacies of slavery persist, reparations activism will survive.
CLERGY COMMENT
TIM SCHOUTEN
PRINCE GEORGE CANADIAN REFORMED CHURCH
The calling of the Synod of Dort was preceded, as was often the case with major synods, by doctrinal disputes and political upheaval.
t’s good to remember anniversaries, and so I note that tomorrow marks the 400th anniversary of the official publication of the Canons of Dort. These formal statements of church teaching were unanimously adopted by the Synod of Dort (Nov. 13, 1618 – May 29, 1619), a gathering of Protestant church leaders mainly from the Netherlands but also from eight other European countries. You may have never heard of the Synod of Dort, and the 400th anniversary of the publication of its canons will probably go unnoticed in most Christian churches. But I believe that the canons are a great treasure and should be celebrated. They wonderfully summarize and defend the teachings of the Bible about God’s amazing and sovereign grace.
After weathering the storm of the Spanish inquisition and celebrating political independence
in 1581, the Protestant church in the Netherlands had enjoyed a time of relative peace. But about 30 years later, civil war seemed to be simmering, in part because of a doctrinal issue that some would consider an intramural dispute.
What was this issue?
At the heart of it was a very capable and well-respected theologian by the name of Jacobus Arminius. He began to publicly question some of the accepted Reformed doctrines. He had reservations about what the church believed concerning God’s sovereignty in our salvation. In particular, he had serious questions about what the churches confessed in article 16 of the Belgic Confession, which states
the following: “We believe that, when the entire offspring of Adam plunged into perdition and ruin by the transgression of the first man, God manifested himself to be as he is: merciful and just. Merciful, in rescuing and saving from this perdition those whom in his eternal and unchangeable counsel he has elected in Jesus Christ our Lord by his pure goodness, without any consideration of their works. Just, in leaving the others in the fall and perdition into which they have plunged themselves.”
After raising many questions about this article and related teachings, Jacobus Arminius died in the year 1609. He had accumulated a group of like-minded thinkers, however,
and these followers (the Remonstrants) published five articles expressing their beliefs in 1610. After much discussion and dispute from the years 1610 to 1618, the States-General of the Netherlands finally called a synod to settle the issues. It was this synod, held in the city of Dort, that crafted and published the Canons of Dort, and declared the Remonstrants to be in error. Why not search the internet and check out the Canons of Dort for yourself?
Many Christians are skeptical about them, but I believe that they are full of faithful and rich biblical teachings about grace – a grace that gives all the praise and honour to God.
The Washington Post
The U.S. economy added 263,000 jobs in April, notching a record 103 straight months of job gains and signaling the current economic expansion shows little sign of stalling.
The unemployment rate fell to 3.6 per cent, the Labor Department said Friday, the lowest since 1969. The official unemployment rate has been at or below four per cent for more than a year.
Hiring was strong across most sectors with especially large gains in business services (76,000 jobs added), construction (33,000 jobs added) and health care (27,000 jobs added). Economists were watching government employment closely since the U.S. Census is beginning to ramp up hiring ahead of the 2020 Census. The federal government added 12,500 jobs in April, which likely included some boost from the census but isn’t a large effect yet.
“There is no denying this is a strong jobs report,” said Joel Prakken, chief U.S. economist at Macroeconomic Advisers. “The only number you can point that looks disappointing is that manufacturing employment has stalled.”
The United States has more job openings than unemployed people, a situation some economists call “full employment” since most job seekers are able to land a job. Hispanic unemployment dropped to 4.2 per cent in April, a record low since the Labor Department started measuring it in the 1970s.
“The job market looks good on about any measure,” said Matthew Luzzetti, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank. “While the unemployment rate is the lowest since 1969, a better measure is to look at the unemployment rate that includes people working part-time because they can’t find a full-time job. That is low, but it’s only the lowest since 2000.”
Low unemployment is forcing employers to raise pay and become more aggressive about
hiring and training workers. Average hourly earnings rose 3.2 per cent in the past year, well above inflation, and lower wage workers enjoyed some of the largest gains as companies scrambled to fill jobs and many states have raised their minimum wage.
Business leaders increasingly say their number one challenge is finding enough people to fill job openings. McClane Company is a large trucking and warehouse firm that specializes in moving food and grocery items around the country. They are advertising truck driving jobs for $70,000 a year and a $6,000 sign on bonus in Jessup, Pennsylvania, but even at that level of pay it’s been tough to get enough people in the door.
“The economy is good, but that’s very difficult for employers,” said Joe Stagnaro, president of McLane’s Pennsylvania opera-
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tions. “The people you want to hire are employed by someone else.”
Stagnaro decided to try something new in addition to the many internet job listings, billboards and newspaper ads that McLane uses to try to get the word out about openings.
He just inked a deal with a truck driving school to train people to become truckers right on McLane’s site with the company picking up the tab for all the training.
He has had a lot of interest from the company’s warehouse workers who are eager to learn more skills, earn a commercial driver’s license and transition into a higher paying job.
There’s no official government measure of how much money companies are investing in training their own workers, but as unemployment remains low and
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Q: My granddaughter is graduating from college this spring and will be starting her first professional job in a male-dominated field. I am hoping you can recommend a book or website to help her navigate any sexism she might encounter in the workplace. She’s a Jersey girl and tends to be outspoken, but not necessarily in a tactful way. I am concerned she may make her situation worse if she responds in an aggressive manner. Any advice you can offer would be helpful.
A: News flash: If your granddaughter is breaking into a traditionally male field of study, I’m betting life has already introduced her to Microaggressions 101, Comparative Double Standards, Applied Principles of Lewd Conduct, and a colloquium or two on You’re Only Here Because Of Quotas. She may be more prepared than you realize. Will her lack of tact backfire when she encounters postgraduate gender conflicts? Maybe. But while diplomacy is a valuable skill, I don’t want to promote
wages rise, more and more managers say they are looking to grow talent internally instead of trying to poach it from other companies.
The White House cheered the news as more proof U.S. President Donald Trump’s stimulative policies of tax cuts and increased government spending are helping more Americans gain from the robust economy. Vice President Mike Pence and National Economic Council head Larry Kudlow both stressed Friday that the economy is growing and wages are rising without triggering a worrisome increase in inflation.
“You can grow the economy without inflation,” Kudlow said.
Rising inflation typically forces the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates, which can cause a downturn. But with little sign of inflation, the Fed is on hold with no plans to change rates this year.
the notion that it’s possible for her to say Just the Right Thing in Just the Right Tone to enlighten people who have no intention of improving themselves. Depending on the work environment, a dose of Jersey girl may be just what’s called for. So trust her to find her way in her own style. Encourage her to make connections at work with trusted senior colleagues who can help her get the lay of the land and act as sounding boards when she’s unsure how to respond to a situation. Having female mentors at work can give her someone to emulate, but she needn’t rule out men for support and coaching. And odds are, her industry has a national or local networking group for women. And believe it or not, grandmama, you’re a valuable resource all on your own. Ask her about her work; share links to Web articles relevant to her struggles. Encourage her and cheer her on to keep her uplifted, and share your history to keep her grounded. Stories of how my grandmother had to keep her marriage secret to protect her job and how a landlord refused to rent an apartment
Trump has repeatedly told the Fed to cut rates, but central bank leaders see little need to lower rates given how strong the economy looks right now.
Many economists call the job market “spectacular” at the moment, although they note there are still some pockets of pain where people are struggling. The United States still has 4.7 million people stuck in part-time jobs who want full-time work and 1.2 million people who have been looking for work for over half a year.
“In a tight labour market, we should be able to find everyone a decent job,” said Susan Houseman, an economist and vice president of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. “As a country we need to think about how to improve our programs to get the chronically unemployed working again.”
Houseman urged politicians to focus on affordable child care and better transportation to help people get to work as well as expanding apprenticeships and job training programs, which can be done by both the public and private sectors.
There has also been concern about the number of people working multiple jobs or feeling they had to have a “side gig” to make ends meat. According to the Labor Department, five million Americans work more than one job, a figure that hasn’t changed much in recent years but is lower than it was during the 1990s boom.
The African-American unemployment rate is 6.7 per cent, having ticked up since hitting a record low about a year ago. It remains more than double the rate for whites.
“The unemployment rate isn’t 3.6 per cent for everybody,” said William Rodgers, chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. “This is a labor market that can still absorb more workers, especially young adults and minorities.”
to my breadwinner mother will forever remind me how much of the life I take for granted is the result of hard-fought protests and legal battles.
Lean In: Sheryl Sandberg’s book and its catchphrase have been criticized for (1) being relevant primarily to privileged white women in white-collar jobs and (2) placing the onus on individuals to overcome systemic obstacles – but the book and the advocacy group it inspired (leanin.org) are still informative and supportive resources.
Linguist Deborah Tannen’s Talking From 9 to 5 deftly analyzes how people are conditioned to communicate – and receive communications – according to gender.
In a 2019 Harvard Business Review article, Sian Beilock, president of Barnard College, offers tips on how women in majority-male fields can combat selfdoubt. Sarah Cooper’s How to Be Successful Without Hurting Men’s Feelings is a sharp palate-cleansing tonic.
‘I looked into his eyes and saw my future’
This couple may have had one of longest marriages of any pair with Down syndrome – and possibly one of the happiest
Some people who saw Paul and Kris Scharoun-DeForge from a distance felt pity for them. Others discouraged them from getting married. But the couple, both of whom were born with Down syndrome, believed they were the luckiest people in the world.
In fact, their family believes they might have had one of the longest marriages of any couple with Down syndrome. And one of the happiest marriages of anyone –with Down syndrome or without.
Paul Scharoun-DeForge died last month after 25 years of marriage to his sweetheart. When a family member read his eulogy, it began with his deep gratitude for his life and his belief that luck shined on him wherever he went.
“To an outsider, it may not seem that way – but to those of us who knew and loved him, it’s absolutely true,” stated the eulogy, read April 6 at his packed funeral in Liverpool, N.Y., near Syracuse. He was 56.
The story of Paul and his wife, Kris, 59 – which has been chronicled by various media outlets over the years – is a tale that reaches far beyond people with disabilities.
“They are role models for everybody who wants a good relationship,” said Susan Scharoun, Kris Scharoun-DeForge’s older sister. “They were a team: They deferred to each other and looked out for each other.”
Kris loved to cook, and her husband loved to eat her cooking, Scharoun said. He also kept a copy of the insulin scale for his wife, who is diabetic. When she took her blood-sugar levels, he always checked in, offering encouragement or suggestions. He often said, “darling, calm down,” when she was upset, and he said it gently and without an authoritative tone.
The soothing worked.
Paul died of complications from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, which more than half of people with Down syndrome have in their 50s or 60s, according to the National Institute on Aging.
He and his wife both came from families of eight kids. When they were born, family doctors
told each of their parents that because of the Down syndrome, they would not have full lives, Scharoun said. The doctors recommended they be put in an institution, she said.
Each of their parents had a deep faith in their children and ignored the advice, which turned out to be a smart and critical decision, for they both grew up to live extraordinary and productive lives.
They both worked at jobs – he at the Arc of Onondaga’s workshop, an organization for people with disabilities, and she at Pizza Hut and then the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities. The ScharounDeForges were popular and well-liked and were proud to be godparents to their niece.
The couple, who met at a dance for people with disabilities in the 1980s, were immediately smitten and dated for years, marrying in 1993 after a five-year engagement but not before they faced legal hurdles.
Because of their intellectual disabilities, they had to prove to the state they knew what they were consenting to by getting married, according to Scharoun. To prove it, they had to take tests that measured sexual knowledge, feelings and needs. They attended classes sponsored by Planned Parenthood that helped them acquire the skills they needed to pass the test, Scharoun said.
Kris said in an interview with The Washington Post that, even before the tests, she knew exactly what she wanted. It was she, after all, who took the initiative and asked her man to marry her.
“He made me laugh,” she said.
“I looked into his eyes and saw my future, and that’s when I proposed to him... He said yes.”
At a wedding shower before their marriage, a friend asked the bride what it was that she really loved about her groom. She replied that she really loved that he had Down syndrome, her sister recalled.
“For us, that was a complete acceptance of self,” said Scharoun, 63, a psychology professor at Le Moyne College in Syracuse.
She remembered her sister saying: “I am perfectly fine – in fact, I like a man who is like me.”
When they married, Paul and Kris took each other’s names and became Kris and Paul ScharounDeForge.
“The combination of the two names was just perfect,” Scharoun said. “Our family was just so delighted to have Paul join us, and his family was delighted to have Kris join them.”
The Scharoun-DeForges lived together in a state-supported apartment community for people with disabilities, where they shared a master bedroom and where staff members would sleep in a second bedroom.
About a year ago, Paul showed advanced signs of dementia, and he had to move into a separate residence about 10 miles away for intensive nursing care.
“Little by little, you do get used to having them less there,” Scharoun said. “He was still a part of the family, but you could tell he didn’t really recognize people.” However, his wife would say that her husband never stopped recognizing her, even if he simply showed signs of familiarity. Even with advanced Alzheimer’s, playing music would perk him up –Christmas carols or country, she said.
“When he would see Kris, he would just look at her, and you knew there was that recognition,” Scharoun said. Her spouse, Susan Hynds, wrote and delivered the eulogy.
Kris – who said she loved her husband’s “big, beautiful blue eyes” – was devastated when he had to move out.
But she and her husband met for Sunday dinners at Scharoun’s house in Onondaga Hill, a Syracuse suburb.
Last summer, when Kris was recovering from pneumonia at a hospital, her husband surprised her on their 25th wedding anniversary with a visit.
And then something beautiful happened: someone spontaneously called a church deacon, and the couple renewed vows while sitting in wheelchairs in the chapel in Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse.
In March, Paul returned to inpatient care with pneumonia, and his wife sat next to him and held his hand. Later, he put his head on a brother’s shoulder and died peacefully.
“I was very, very upset,” Kris said, who had recently drawn a picture of a butterfly that hung on the wall by her husband’s bed.
“I gave it to my sweetheart, and he loved it,” she said, adding he loved butterflies.
She even imagined him as a butterfly.
“I think of Paul flying up in the air... and being free,” she said.
The couple often spent their anniversaries vacationing in the Adirondack Mountains.
On Aug. 13, the date of their wedding anniversary, she plans to go to their special place to scatter her husband’s ashes and to imagine him flying away.
Mayhew,
LOS ANGELES – Peter Mayhew, the towering actor who donned a huge, furry costume to give life to the rugged-and-beloved character of Chewbacca in the original Star Wars trilogy and two other films, has died, his family said Thursday.
Mayhew died at his home in north Texas on Tuesday, according to a family statement. He was 74. No cause was given.
As Chewbacca, known to his friends as Chewie, the seven-foot-three Mayhew was a fierce warrior with a soft heart, loyal sidekick to Harrison Ford’s Han Solo, and co-pilot of the Millennium Falcon.
Mayhew went on to appear as the Wookiee in the 2005 prequel Revenge of the Sith and shared the part in 2015’s The Force Awakens with actor Joonas Suotamo, who took over the role in subsequent films.
“Peter Mayhew was a kind and gentle man, possessed of great dignity and noble character,” Ford said in a statement Thursday. “These aspects of his own personality, plus his wit and grace, he brought to Chew-
bacca. We were partners in film and friends in life for over 30 years and I loved him... My thoughts are with his dear wife Angie and his children. Rest easy, my dear friend.”
Mayhew defined the incredibly wellknown Wookiee and became a worldfamous actor for most of his life without speaking a word or even making a sound
– Chewbacca’s famous roar was the creation
of sound designers.
“He put his heart and soul into the role of Chewbacca and it showed in every frame of the films,” the family statement said. “But, to him, the ‘Star Wars’ family meant so much more to him than a role in a film.”
Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker alongside Mayhew, wrote on Twitter that he was “the gentlest of giants – A big man
with an even bigger heart who never failed to make me smile & a loyal friend who I loved dearly. I’m grateful for the memories we shared & I’m a better man for just having known him.”
Born and raised in England, Mayhew had appeared in just one film and was working as a hospital orderly in London when George Lucas, who shot the first film in England, found him and cast him in 1977’s Star Wars.
“Peter was a wonderful man,” Lucas said in a statement Thursday. “He was the closest any human being could be to a Wookiee: big heart, gentle nature... and I learned to always let him win. He was a good friend and I’m saddened by his passing.”
From then on, Star Wars would become Mayhew’s life.
He made constant appearances in the costume in commercials, on TV specials and at public events. The frizzy long hair he had most of his adult life made those who saw him in real life believe he was Chewbacca, along with his stature.
His height, the result of a genetic disorder known as Marfan syndrome, was the source of constant health complications late in his life. He had respiratory problems, his speech grew limited and he often had to use scooters and wheelchairs instead of walking.
Even after he retired, Mayhew served as an adviser to his successor Suotamo, a former Finnish basketball player who told The Associated Press last year that Mayhew put him through “Wookiee boot camp” before he played the role in Solo.
The Washington Post
Somewhere out there in America are a few hundred people who know whether James Holzhauer has yet lost a game of Jeopardy!
Holzhauer’s incredible run –which he extended to 21 consecutive wins and a $1.6 million total Thursday night, the second-longest winning streak in the show’s history – started taping in front of a studio audience in mid-February. Production of this season wrapped in April, which includes episodes that won’t be broadcast until this summer. So how is it that no one has plastered spoilers all over social media?! You may have assumed that pro-
ducers make audience members sign a thick stack of nondisclosure agreements or threaten them with dire consequences if they leak. Well, it turns out Jeopardy! is a lot more chill than that.
Sure, the contestants have to sign non-disclosures about the results. But the studio audience?
Producers merely ask politely that they don’t reveal anything. And the wild part is that, mostly, they comply.
“It’s pretty fascinating,” said Harry Friedman, who has been the executive producer of Jeopardy! since 1999. “It shows remarkable respect for the show and remarkable restraint. Our studio audience isn’t that big... but it only takes one
person to be a spoiler.” Jeopardy! tapes three consecutive shows in the morning and two in the afternoon; for each block of episodes, about 160 people sit in the studio audience. Many are family and friends of the contestants, while others include tour groups and Los Angeles locals. Each session opens with a staffer warming up the crowd.
“We simply say, ‘We want you to have a good time, and go home and tell everyone you had a good time, but we ask you not to disclose the outcome of the matches,’” Friedman said. “That’s about it.”
On one hand, it’s a logistical issue: how would producers enforce non-disclosures from audience members? But Friedman thinks the reason the system is so successful is that the crowd is filled with genuine fans of the game. Jeopardy! wonks agree that these fans are inclined to adhere to the etiquette.
“I think the show is taking a bit of a chance that the audience will remain respectful,” said Andy Saunders, who runs The Jeopardy! Fan website. “But Jeopardy!’fans are usually pretty respectful about it anyway.”
Contestants, on the other hand, have a pretty big incentive to stay quiet: they don’t receive their winnings until their episode airs, and language in their contracts holds that if they blab, the show has the right to withhold their prize money. So, of course, family and friends in the audience don’t want to ruin anything either.
Occasionally, though, someone just can’t help themselves. In early September 2004, someone at a taping tipped off a blogger that Ken Jennings’ 74-game winning streak (with $2.5 million in prize money) had come to an end. The blogger, Jason Kottke, published the results; soon, a couple other websites picked up the news. Jennings’s streak officially came to a televised end nearly three months later, at the end of November. Friedman doesn’t recall all the details of that incident, though he knows the show “went to great lengths to keep it a secret.”
“But that was a long run,” he said. “And it was all new for us.”
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Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s novel, Call Me Zebra,won the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
MIFFLIN HARCOURT
Stephanie MERRY The Washington Post Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s novel, Call Me Zebra, has won the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
The book, Van der Vliet Oloomi’s second, is an offbeat, deadpan funny account of the travels of a young Iranian woman, the last in a long line of “autodidacts, anarchists and atheists,” who believe they are the “guardians of the archive of literature.”
The main character takes her legacy seriously, and she reads – and rereads and memorizes – as many books as she can while retracing the journey she took with her father decades earlier when they fled to the U.S. during the Iran-Iraq war by way of Kurdistan and Catalonia.
“It still feels like a dream to me,” Van der Vliet Oloomi, 35, said by phone Friday of her win.
“I have moments where my understanding unfolds a little bit more and then I just sit there staring at the wall and I can’t believe my fate.”
The judges, writers Percival Everett, Ernesto Quiñonez and Joy Williams, considered more than 400 novels and short story collections by American authors published in 2018.
“Once in a while a singular, adventurous and intellectually humorous voice appears that takes us on an inescapable journey,” the judges wrote in a statement.
“Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s Call Me Zebra is a library within a library, a Borges-esque labyrinth of references from all cultures and all walks of life. In today’s visual Netflix world, Ms. Van der Vliet Oloomi’s novel performs at the highest of levels in accomplishing only what the written novel can show us.”
The process of writing the book was lengthy and began in 2010 after Van der Vliet Oloomi received a Fulbright Fellowship to study the work of Catalan writer Josep Pla in Barcelona. In contrast to Van der Vliet Oloomi’s first novel, the Whiting Awardwinning Fra Keeler, which she wrote in a matter of months, Call Me Zebra took seven years and required extensive research.
Because the novel’s exiled protagonist seeks refuge in literature – and makes constant references to various texts – the author spent years just reading, revisiting the work of Dante Alighieri, Walter Benjamin and Nietzsche, among dozens of others to inform her novel. That was necessary to conjure up a character who might encourage a stranger on an airplane to compare passages from Don Quixote and The Divine Comedy during a harrowing bout of turbulence. “Zebra is obsessed with the matrix of literature and looking at how these books are talking to one another across time and space,” Van der Vliet Oloomi said. “It’s very much a text that is about the life of the mind and about reading literature and what that can do to shift our perception of reality.”
Van der Vliet Oloomi will be awarded the $15,000 prize during the PEN/Faulkner Awards ceremony on May 4 at Washington’s Arena Stage.
The four finalists – Richard Powers, who won the Pulitzer Prize earlier this month for The Overstory; Blanche McCrary Boyd (Tomb of the Unknown Racist); Ivelisse Rodriguez (Love War Stories); and Willy Vlautin (Don’t Skip Out on Me) – will receive $5,000, and all five authors will read their new writing. Van der Vliet Oloomi joins recent winners Joan Silber, for Improvement, Imbolo Mbue, for Behold the Dreamers, and James Hannaham, for Delicious Foods.
Kendal WEAVER The Associated Press
Cape May (Celadon Books), by Chip Cheek
It is early fall of 1957 when the young newlyweds arrive at Cape May for their honeymoon. This is the off-season, and the New Jersey beach with its aging Victorian homes facing a choppy sea is mostly deserted.
But not entirely. The newlyweds – Henry and Effie, arriving from rural Georgia to stay in a relative’s cottage – soon find that a beach house down the street is lit up for a party. As Chip Cheek describes it in Cape May, his first novel, the party is worthy of a Jay Gatsby soiree, jumping with music and drenched in gin. The party is also the beginning of the end of the honeymoon and the start of the novel’s descent. From a well-crafted opening and smoothly written scenes, the narrative turns increasingly to its primary subject – the pull of eros and its consequences, explicitly described. While Cheek can be deft with these scenes, the book too often sinks into erotic schlock. By the end, this novel has no main character who is genuinely likable.
Wray HERBERT The Washington Post
Tyrannical Minds: Psychological Profiling, Narcissism, and Dictatorship (Pegasus)
By Dean A. Haycock
Early on in this timely, ambitious volume, neurobiologist and science writer Dean A. Haycock offers the reader a mental exercise.
He presents two case histories, each a biographical sketch of an unidentified but well known public figure who came of age in very difficult circumstances. One was born into a nation at war, narrowly escaping enemy bombs, and later endured repeated beatings at the hands of his troubled father. He ran away from home for the final time at age 15.
The other also grew up in a dysfunctional family, with a cruel, then absent, father. He and his mother lived in chronic poverty, continually on the move, and as a result he never had any real education. After sketching out these early lives, Haycock reveals the identities. The first grew up to be David Clayton-Thomas, the highly successful frontman for the rock band Blood, Sweat and Tears. The other grew up to be Joseph Stalin. Haycock’s goal in Tyrannical Minds is to sort out all of the influences that combine to produce a hateful, immoral despot, and his point here is that it takes a lot more than a terrible childhood to turn someone into a merciless tyrant. Some of the well-known despots Haycock profiles here – Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Kim Jong Un, Idi Amin, Moammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein – did experience personal dislocation early on, but others – such as Mao – were privileged and coddled.
The rare emergence of a full-blown tyrant appears to require much more; an unusual combination of vaulting ambition, bad genes and dark personality, and the opportunity to exploit an ailing nation.
Of these contributing factors, it’s personality that most interests Haycock, who draws heavily on others’ psychological profiles of history’s meanest characters. There is wide professional agreement about the traits that make up human personality, supported by an extensive scientific literature, and also about –most relevant here – the traits that add up to malignant personality.
Scientists refer to this constellation of traits as the Dark Factor of Personality, or “D-factor,” and it’s worth spelling out these traits in a bit of detail here.
Perhaps most germane to an analysis of political tyranny is Machiavellianism, which describes the “consistent use of deception, lying, manipulation and exploitation of others in order to achieve a goal or maintain power.”
Stalin demanded loyalty but had no loyalty to those who helped him gain power, eliminating anyone who was perceived as a threat. Closely related, and also common in the personality of tyrants, is moral disengagement. Despots convince themselves that the usual moral standards don’t apply to them, ignoring or excusing criminal behavior – even murder in the extreme – by any follower who is useful.
Malignant personality is often accompanied by an extraordinary sense of entitlement, Haycock said – the belief that one has the right to, and deserves, better treatment than others.
The psychologically entitled crave admiration and praise, and often “demean, insult and begin vendettas against news organizations which ask hard questions or publish critical stories.”
Other dark traits include (to compress a bit) extreme self interest, callousness, emotional deficits, lack of empathy and pathological sadism – taking pleasure in the abuse of others. Finally, and arguably most central to this dark personality, is narcissism –“extreme self-absorption accompanied by an unrealistic, inflated image of oneself.”
Serious features of pathological narcissism include harmful, petty and vindictive responses to any criticism or threat to the narcissist’s “over-inflated, fragile self-image.”
Despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s shadowy presence here, this was not meant to be a book about the president. But in the end, Haycock devotes a third of the book to a history of homegrown tyranny, and to the current president in particular. Trump comes across as a poster boy for malignant personality, overshadowing all the other historical dictators. But does this mean the president is mentally ill – as some psychiatrists have publicly argued – or unfit for office? Does this unfortunate constellation of traits –lust for power, sadism, narcissism and more – necessarily add up to a diagnosable mental disorder, such as psychosis or legal insanity?
The author concludes: “His narcissism guarantees that he will always look out for himself first and last. Donald Trump’s only loyalty is to Donald Trump. He is a successful man trapped in narcissism. Now, to a considerable degree, the nation is, too.”
Steve MacNaull Glacier Media
Of course we’re amped.
We’re cycling over one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The wind howls, our grip tightens on the handlebars and we peddle harder.
My wife, Kerry, and I and our 16-year-old daughter, Grace, are half-way across San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge on rented mountain bikes.
We’d been told conditions could be fierce, after all, we’re 67 metres above the Golden Gate Strait and mid-way on the 2.7-kilometrelong crossing between two chunks of land known for being notorious blustery.
We don’t mind.
We wore our jackets and we’re high on the experience of traversing this aesthetic beauty and engineering marvel.
On a sunny Monday afternoon, the Golden Gate is not only busy with cars, but packed with cyclists and pedestrians commuting in their dedicated lanes.
We soak it all in, stop at some of the pull outs to snap photos and admire the views of San Francisco’s skyline to the east, Marin County’s mountains to the north and west and the choppy waters of the strait below.
We end up in Sausalito, the picturesque town on the ocean seven kilometres north of San Francisco, and reward ourselves with a lunch of pizza and California wine at waterfront Bar Bocce.
After the eats and drinks, we lose interest in further exercise, so we opt for the bike return (what an inspired idea!) in Sausalito and return to San Fran via ferry past the bridge we just conquered and Alcatraz Island.
dough bread in Gold Rush-era 1849.
As such, our sourdough-centric meal includes fish tacos on sourdough tortillas and chicken club sandwich on toasted sourdough, finishing with desserts of sourdough upside-down bread pudding and cinnamon-sugar sourdough beignets.
The Franciscan, also at Fisherman’s Wharf, has been around since 1957 in a glass building overlooking the bay that resembles a cruise liner.
It’s famous for fresh Dungeness crab pulled right from the adjacent Pacific, so it’s roasted crab in sweet, garlic sauce all round for dinner.
Our digs at the Hilton Union Square are handy for two more San Francisco classics.
We have drinks at the 46th-floor Cityscapes bar in the Hilton for panoramic views of the city and bay.
A two-block walk away is John’s Grill, a San Fran institution since 1908 when it was the first restaurant to open downtown after virtually everything was destroyed in the great earthquake of 1906.
Of course, we have to order, and enjoy, John’s steak, a tender strip loin, with California Cabernet Sauvignon from Kith and Kin. In between the eating and drinking, we ride the historic and famous Powell-Hyde cable car up and down impossibly steep Nob Hill and Russian Hill.
We nab prime spots hanging off the open-air cable car by its exterior poles.
Keeping up the theme of rolling around on two wheels, the next day we hop Segways with San Francisco Electric Tour Company to zip by the city’s greatest hits –Fisherman’s Wharf, Embarcadero, Coit Tower and the Municipal Pier to get additional views of the Golden Gate Bridge.
It really is the most fun you can have on a $7 public transit ticket. To be close for the Golden Gate Bridge cycling, we transfer to the Lodge at the Presidio, a former army barracks turned luxe boutique hotel. It’s the nearest accommodation to the bridge and our room features a stellar view of the suspension beauty.
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While on the Segways, we spy two restaurants we have to come back to for quintessential San
Francisco meals. Bistro Boudin is the elegant second-floor restaurant with
San Francisco Bay views that is attached to Boudin Bakery, the founder of San Francisco sour-
Audrey HOFFER
Special To The Washington Post
Marina and Daniel Ein acquired an extraordinary collection of Oriental rugs, antiques and art over a lifetime of travel. When it came time to sell their 5,500-square-foot house in the District of Columbia, they assumed the furnishings would add to the appeal.
“Our house was on the market for a year and a half, and we had no offers,” Marina Ein said.
They turned to their friend, Theo Adamstein, a real estate agent with TTR Sotheby’s International Realty who also has a background in architecture, design and photography.
“It took him to tell us the house was not going to sell as is,” Ein said.
Adamstein knew immediately what needed to be done. They needed to stage their house.
“I walked in and said, ‘We have to get rid of the furniture, take the paintings down and repaint,’” Adamstein said. “We actually fought a bit. I told them what they thought about their house didn’t really matter because prospective buyers wouldn’t think so.”
Sellers have mixed feelings about staging.
On the one hand, they want the best price possible for their home. On the other, they think their home is beautiful as is.
It is often left to the real estate agent to help them understand that the best way to market their listing is to remove the things that make it their home and add the things that turn it into a buyer’s home.
The National Association of Realtors estimates that for every $100 spent on staging a home, a seller can potentially recoup $400.
“When the front door opens, people walk in and say, ‘Oh, this looks great.’ They’re responding to the lighting, well-placed furniture and objects in place. That’s what staging does,” Adamstein said.
“They don’t consciously think that they won’t get any of those things. They say, ‘Oh my God, look at this beautiful lamp or coffee table.’ It’s the overall impression that sells the property.”
The two instances when staging makes the most sense are an empty home and a cluttered home.
Few buyers can envision the space in a room without furnishings.
Will a king bed fit in a bedroom?
What size table fits in the dining room?
Can a sectional fit in the family room?
Furniture helps a buyer imagine which of his possessions will work in the new house.
Clutter hides a home’s potential.
“People have way too much stuff, yet advice to declutter can be taken heavily,” said Catarina Bannier, an agent with Compass. “Agents have to be brutally honest.”
Bannier had a client who had lived in her home for 45 years. The walls were olive and orange. The dining room wallpaper had brown and green flowers with gold accents.
“I gently suggested ways to make the house more attractive,” Bannier said. “She refused. We talked several times. She wouldn’t make any changes. We couldn’t get anywhere. I finally said, ‘I can’t sell your house,’ and I walked away.”
Several weeks later, Bannier offered her a compromise: move out and then she would sell it. The woman agreed. Bannier emptied the house, painted it and added new furnishings.
“It went on the market, three offers came in, and it sold,” Bannier said.
The woman never returned. She told Bannier that it wasn’t her
house anymore.
“But she sent her children a link to the online photos and a son told her it looked grand, he’d buy it,” Bannier said. “She said that was the moment she understood why we were doing all this.”
Larry Bivins, an agent with Long and Foster, will stage houses at all price points, not just high-end listings.
“If a seller can afford to hire a professional stager, then even a $200,000 condo or house could benefit” from staging, Bivins said. “In fact, (lower-priced) properties probably would benefit even more from professional staging than, say, a newly renovated, freshly painted, vacant single-family home.”
Bivins also will stage distressed properties such as short sales, foreclosures and fixer-uppers.
Holly Theis, a senior project manager with Red House Staging and Interiors, has a 40,000-square-foot warehouse in Hyattsville, Maryland, stocked with furniture, decorative decor, rugs and artwork. She views each property individually before deciding what to use.
“I let the house and neighborhood dictate the style,” Theis said.
Theis brainstorms ideas with the listing agent, who often has a
certain look in mind.
“It’s a collaborative effort,” she said.
On top of minimizing possessions, painting walls a neutral color and grouping furnishings, a thorough cleaning is essential.
“Bathrooms and kitchens are the most important,” Bivins said. “They should sparkle.”
Sweep hardwood floors and vacuum carpets, Bivins said. Wash the windows. Make the beds with clean sheets and a bedspread. Buy new towels, bathmat and shower curtain.
“You have to make the house look worth the price,” he said. The outside of the house matters as much as the inside.
“Don’t forget about curb appeal,” said Brendan Doyle, proprietor of Planterra, a landscape design and planning firm. “The front yard is the first thing people see when they drive by.”
Prune trees, shape bushes and mow the lawn. Paint the front door. Wash the windows. Polish the hardware.
Bivins recommends cleaning the gutters and repairing fences. Repaint or at least power wash the siding.
Naomi Hattaway, founder of 8th & Home, a real estate and relocation company, suggests sweeping
the front steps and clearing the driveway.
“Add pops of colour with flowers in decorative pots,” she said.
The Eins eventually realized they should heed Adamstein’s advice if they wanted to sell their house.
“Our approach clearly wasn’t working,” Ein said. “So we denuded the house, put the furniture in storage.”
The walls were painted a neutral colour. The hand-painted tiles on the backsplash were replaced with ones that mimicked the look of subways tiles. The linens and towels were changed. Art that matched was added to the walls.
“We had buyers the first week,” Ein said. “One couple even wanted to know if they could buy all the furnishings. Theo couldn’t have been more right. When we listened to him, we got results right away.”
A well-staged house can be a revelation to the sellers as well as an enticement to the buyers.
“Families are surprised when they come back after staging,” Bannier said. “They say, ‘We should have lived like this the past 10 years.’”
You don’t need an expensive consultant to stage your house. Start by putting yourself in the mind of the buyer and force yourself to look at your home unemotionally.
“It shouldn’t be assumed that all staging has to be done by a professional company,” Bivins said. “I often advise potential sellers that if they plan on moving out before selling, it would be wise to leave a few pieces of furniture for staging purposes.”
• Remove most of the furniture, but keep the best pieces and arrange them for easy conversation.
• Hang new towels in the bathroom. Buy a new floor mat. Put new soap bars in dishes.
• Add fresh flowers from the garden in vases throughout the house.
•Pull back curtains, raise shades and open blinds to allow natural light into the space.
• Cover beds with bedspreads.
• Take half the clothes out of the closets to make them feel bigger.
• Clear tables and desks.
• Put away personal photos and knickknacks.
• Empty the dishwasher and trash cans.
Bruce MacDonald 1970 - 2019
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved, Bruce Lawrence MacDonald. Our Brother, Father, Friend passed on April 15, 2019. He was born in Idaho on May 18, 1970 and immigrated to Canada in 1974. He grew up in Kamloops but moved to Prince George in 1993 when he became a spirit-filled believer. He supported his mother until her passing then married in 2004 and was blessed with two beautiful boys. His marriage ended in 2014 and he relocated to the Okanagan where he remained until his passing. Bruce had no fear, everything he did, he did well and he saw challenges as opportunities to improve things for himself and others. He loved mercy, sought justice and always gave generously. He had many passions but nothing compared to being a Dad. Bruce is predeceased by his mother, Patricia and brother David, but forever loved, honoured and remembered by his boys Joshua & Justin, their mom Laura, his siblings, Patience, Thomas (Janet), Marjorie, Nathan (Janet), Agnes (Kevin), Xander (Erin) and Robert, and numerous other loved ones. A Celebration of Life will be held at 1:00pm on May 11, 2019 at the Salvation Army Church, 777 Ospika Blvd, reception to follow.
It is with broken hearts that we announce the passing of the matriarch of our family, our beloved Mom, Grace McKinnon (Henry) on April 27, 2019. She was predeceased by her husband Mal, son Kenny and infant grandson Mitchell. She is survived by her daughters, Karen Forde (Rolly), Gale Richet, Sherry Dawson (Jack), Tracey Dowhy (Brad), Grandchildren; Michelle, Jake, Tyler, Nadine, Brad, Corbin, Cassity, Tanner (Tori), Parker, Great Grandchildren, McKayla (Drew), Katie, Tatum, Garrett, and soon to be Great-Great Granddaughter due in May. Also survived by a large extended family. Mom was born in Prince George, BC September 10th 1932. She was an incredibly hard-working woman who would tackle anything! Most everyone would say she had a feistiness about her; a trait that was passed on to her daughters. She was an impeccable homemaker, avid gardener, and every summer her and dad could be found salmon fishing in Kitimat. She began her journey with Alzheimer’s in 2006. In spite of the diagnosis, she lived her life to the fullest and leaves behind fond memories with all those she met along the way. We would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Dr. Cosio and Dr. Fredeen, and to the entire staff that cared for Mom at Gateway Lodge. For the past six years you became like family not only to Mom, but to us daughters as well. Our sincerest gratitude is beyond words knowing that Mom was so well cared for. No service as per Mom’s request. A celebration of life to be held at a later date. Mom, you held our hands when we were small, you caught us when we fell,The hero of our childhood and the latter years as well.
Hoagland,EileenE. October13,1928-April28,2019
Withbrokenhearts,wesaygoodbyetoourMom whopassedawayonApril28,2019,attheageof "90".
Sheissurvivedbyherchildren,Darlene,John, Candee(Gary),andMark(Trine);hergrandsons, Shane,Derrick(Kim),David,andSteven;andgreatgrandchildren,Josh,Rylan,Tom,Grady,andPamela, aswellasbymanyniecesandnephews.
Sheisalsosurvivedbyherchosenchildrenand grandchildren,Mona(Tina,Rich,Jolene,andDarcy), Steve,andPat(Kevin).Averyspecialpersonin Mom’slifeisStan,herbestfriend’sson.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Bernadette Slosmanis (née Atkin), on January 29th, 2019 at the age of 79. She passed away peacefully at Birchview Residences, surrounded by her loving family. Bernadette will be forever remembered by her loving husband Zigmund Slosmanis and daughter Natalie (Rodney) grand-children Emmett and Ella, sisters Helen, Mary (Alberto), Jane (David) and Julie, and brothers Roger (Christine), Trevor (Phyllis) and Michael (Rosemary), many nieces and nephews, as well as extended family and close friends in Prince George, Vancouver, Montreal and the UK. She is predeceased by her parents Mary Brenda Anita Atkin (Hall) and Albert James Atkin and sister, Theresa Cooper (Atkin). Bernadette had many passions in life including painting with watercolors (especially lilies and tulips), gardening, music, theater, literature and cooking delicious meals. She loved creating cards for family and friends of her artwork. We will always cherish Bernadette’s independent and feisty spirit, incredible intellect and strong determination. This spirit and the love we shared will help us move forward from this loss. Please join us in a celebration of her life on Saturday May 11, 2019 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm at the Two Rivers Gallery, 725 Canada Games Way, Prince George, BC. We welcome family and friends to join us and share their memories and stories of this amazing and beautiful woman.
Michael (Mikey) Aaron Lerat
January 4, 1991April 26, 2019
It is with broken hearts we announce the sudden passing of Michael on April 26, 2019 at the age of 29. Michael will forever be remembered by his loving mother Tanya (Tony) stepfather Clint, daughter Makayla, twin brother Shawn (Jennifer) brother Jerry (Ivy) special friend Steven, and sister Nicole. Michael is also mourned by his number one supporter and Gramma Gloria (Bill), Aunties; Marilyn, Bunny, Rosalind, Eileen (Chris) Uncles, Frank (Sherri), Daryl and Earl. Mike will also be remembered by numerous extended family members Great Aunt Lenora Genailles numerous friends, nieces, nephews special cousins: Terry (Patti) Daryl, Stephan, Jeanie. Mike was born and raised in Prince George and lived and attended school in Burns Lake for a few years before moving back to Prince George with his family where he graduated from PGSS and went directly to CNC to complete his Computer Technician Diploma. Mike’s passion was repairing laptops and cell phones although he also loved his chef camp cook jobs. Mike had an awesome cheerful personality and the gift of conversation he could talk to most anyone and be relatable. He had a kind heart and was always ready to offer his help in any way. His hobbies were gaming and Netflicks and spending time on his new Iphone X. A wake was held on Friday May 3, 2019 at 7pm at 6810 Langer Cres Prince George. Funeral service will be on Saturday May 4, 2019 at St Michaels Church at 11:00am. Reception to follow in the church hall.
Sheispredeceasedbyherhusband,Roy,andher great-grandson,JarredGoyer.
ServicestobeheldatAssmansFuneralHomeat1:00 PMonMay7,2019.Aluncheonwillfollowandwill beannouncedaftertheservice.
WewouldliketothankDr.Khanforhisspecialcare ofMomandanextraheartfullthankstoallthestaff attheHospiceHouse.Youwereallsoverywonderful toMomandallofus.ThankyoualsotoPatforbeing byoursideeveryday.
Inlieuofflowers,pleasemakeadonationinmemory ofMomtotheHospiceHouse.
Ethel Joan Mills August 13, 1930 - April 29, 2019
On April 29, 2019, Joan Mills (nee Croxford) passed away peacefully at the age of 88 years with her family by her side.
Joan was born and raised in Prince Rupert, BC, where she met Bruce Mills, her best friend and the love of her life for 56 years, who she greatly missed after he passed away in 2009.
Lovingly remembered by her son, David; daughter, Barb Morris (Jerry) and grandchildren, Colton Morris (Kennedy) and Erika Morris.
It is with great sadness that we share with you the passing of Bernadette Pearl Imach. Bernadette passed away after battling cancer on Saturday April 27, 2019 at 49 years old. Bernadette leaves behind her brother
Mark (Denise) and her niece Madison and will be missed dearly by extended family and friends.
Bernadette passed away at the Prince George Hospice House with family by her side.
Bernadette will forever be within our hearts.
One of the strongest women that we have ever known with the largest heart, especially when it came to animals. Bernadette would always put her pets before herself and would help anyone whom needed it.
You will be Forever loved and forever missed.
Goodbye and looking forward to when we will meet again.
Upon Bernadette’s request there will be no service however for those who desire to make a memorial donation on Bernadette’s behalf can do so to the Prince George Hospice Society - http://hospiceprincegeorge.ca/donate/
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