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2018-03-26 The Globe and Mail
of preliminary inquiries
Expected legislation in charges being dismissed because of nal proceedings. The court said
delays. The government will also at- criminal justice suffers from a cul-
wake of 2016 Supreme tempt to cut down on the thousands ture of complacency and delay.
Court ruling aims to speed of Canadians each year who clog up Lawyers representing accused
up justice system, avoid the courts over violations of their people brought more than 1,000 ap-
bail-release conditions, according to plications for judicial “stays” of pro-
charges being dismissed a source who was briefed on the pro- ceedings in the first half-year after
posed changes. In addition, it will that ruling, in a case called Jordan.
seek to reduce the overrepresenta- Judges tossed out several murder
SEAN FINE tion of Indigenous peoples and oth- charges, though appeal courts have
OTTAWA/QUEBEC EDITION er racial minorities being denied bail since ordered two of those cases to
and winding up in custody while go to trial. Alberta set up a “triage”
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 | GLOBEANDMAIL.COM The federal government is expected awaiting trial, The Globe and Mail system to focus its resources on the
to introduce legislation this week to has learned. most serious cases and, along with
curtail the use of preliminary inqui- The long-promised legislation Quebec and Ontario, poured in mil-
ries in criminal proceedings, as part comes in response to a Supreme lions of additional dollars adding
of an attempt to speed up Canada’s Court ruling in the summer of 2016, judges, prosecutors and court staff.
plodding justice system and avoid which set new time limits for crimi-
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Criminals
keep illicit gun
sales thriving
through dark
web: RCMP
JIM BRONSKILL OTTAWA
In Newtown, Conn.,
one man’s journey away
from American gun culture
JOANNA SLATER WASHINGTON
PHILLIP CRAWLEY
DAVID WALMSLEY
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures - Junius
More madness
about reefer
fter a scare, the Liberal government’s marijuana le-
I
Please ask Gary Mason to let me to generate useful intelligence can give it greater value in the
beverage FCKDUP appeared on bus shelters near several know when he is leaving for the (Hello, Huawei). equalization of assets.
country. I want to go with him. Wayne Stangle Richard E. Austin
Quebec high schools, proclaiming “One can = 4 drinks.” I will bring my dog. Ottawa Toronto
Days later, 14-year-old Athena Gervais drank one or more Maria Walsh
Surrey, B.C. In 1997, I spontaneously paid $125
cans behind her Laval, Que., high school at lunchtime. What PLAYING THE GUN CARD for a nine-week-old puppy that
happened next isn’t clear, but four days later her body was After having read Gary Mason’s needed a home. When I called
gloomy outlook on the world, I my fiancé to tell him what I’d
found at the bottom of an adjacent ravine. turned to reading about the Rez As an avid shooter for six dec- done, he was not impressed as he
Under extreme public pressure, the drink’s Quebec-based Girls 64 Wolves hockey team ades, I congratulate you on your had wanted a different dog.
(How A Girls Hockey Team That (pretty) fair and balanced edito- However, within minutes of
makers ceased production and the province ordered existing Had Virtually Nothing Is Now rial, When Legal Gun Owner’s meeting her, he, too, fell in love
stocks removed from shelves. That’s called too little, too late. Competing In The Nation’s Cap- Play The Victim (March 23). with her. When we broke up a
ital – Folio, March 23). What a We shooters are not an endan- year and a half later, I never
Public health officials in the United States and Canada
wonderful, uplifting story. gered species and frankly I think doubted he had a meaningful re-
raised the alarm as far back as 2010 about teenagers’ exces- Douwe Smid Canada has pretty much lationship with her despite the
sive consumption of “blackout in a can” drinks. Medicine Hat, Alta. achieved a “happy medium” fire- rocky start and the fact I had paid
arms position. for her. She was most definitely
The federal government shamefully and inexplicably By the time I finished reading I say “pretty fair,” because in our dog. He kept the couch but
failed to heed the warning signs. It has belatedly launched a this marvelous article about the fairness you should have pointed we shared custody of that little
Rez Girls hockey team, I – much out the statistical subterfuge of dog for more than 16 years! (She
45-day consultation to look at regulating the alcohol and sug- like assistant coach Candi Chin- using 2013 as a baseline for crime died in 2015, just shy of her 18th
ar content of these products, which is better than nothing but Sang – was crying “tears of joy rate comparison. Naturally cur- birthday).
and sadness” at the heartwarm- rent crime rates are higher – that She went back and forth from
doesn’t fully address the “alcopop” problem. ing journey of these young wom- was the all-time low and every- his house to mine every four days
Studies conducted in Australia, the United States and else- en. thing is therefore higher than (he is a first responder) for the
We should all be angered that that. Overall, rates are way down. rest of her life. We both married
where show young people are drawn in by high-test booze blatant racism stared them down Politicians are playing the other people and had children
and sweetness, yes, but also by edgy branding, especially in during their first season’s big trip, “gun card,” as well as the femi- and everyone loved that little
but the kindness shown them nism and cannabis cards as we dog. The upsides were we never
combination with low prices. A previous ad for FCKDUP tout- since is evidence of a growing approach elections. ’Twas ever paid a penny to kennels and the
ed the product as “zero to party in a few sips”; it could be collective willingness to change thus. We do not need another vet bills were halved!
the course of history for Indige- ombudsman. We need calm and Joint custody can work: Per-
purchased for as little as three for $10. nous peoples after so much cru- reason – plus the recognition haps more judges could consid-
Most adults understand the dangers of quickly knocking elty and evil perpetrated against that only the military and the po- ering treating dogs like children
them. lice “need” AR15s. rather than couches.
back four shots of alcohol. Kids don’t. To ignore this is to be
This article, along with several Jock Williams Julie Case
sickeningly indifferent to their welfare. It is deeply irrespon- others featuring the new Indige- Toronto Port Coquitlam, B.C.
nous law program at the Univer- P.S. He has custody of her ashes.
sible to allow such products to be aimed at inexperienced
sity of Victoria, will grace my
teenage drinkers, but that’s exactly what is happening. classroom wall as part of an on- FOR THE LOVE OF A DOG
But while Ottawa is obsessed with protecting teenagers going display celebrating Indige- Letters to the Editor should be
nous triumph over adversity exclusive to The Globe and Mail.
from the risks of marijuana, it has not brought the same vi- (University Of Victoria To Launch Re The Law Doesn’t Understand Include name, address and daytime
gour to alcopops. It’s an oversight that speaks volumes about First-Of-Its-Kind Indigenous Law A Dog Isn’t A Sofa (March 23): phone number. Keep letters under
Program, March 22). The authors, both law professors, 150 words. Letters may be edited for
our society’s relationship with alcohol. So many of our First Nations come close to suggesting “custo- length and clarity. E-mail:
students need to see that good- dy and access” hearings for pets. [email protected]
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OPINION
How AI can improve Canadian health care
Technology has the computer-scientist who is con- has expanded due to growing pa- interacting with the individual in to-Waterloo Region Corridor and
sidered the godfather of deep tient volume, algorithms are their clinic. In order for AI to have the Montreal AI environment,
potential to liberate learning. By honing the incredi- teaching computers to better re- a positive impact on patients, through streamlined immigra-
physicians from the ble potential of neural nets — the fine, improve and interpret radio- health-care institutions and lead- tion policies to attract tech talent
tedious paperwork that assembly of computer networks logic studies. Intelligent pro- ers need to become invested as from around the world, and im-
— in a way that mirrors the archi- grams are helping to predict the important stakeholders in the proved high-speed transporta-
has come to plague the tecture of the human brain, Dr. type of patients that would most conversation by championing tion services to shuttle people be-
profession Hinton has unlocked the learning benefit from rehabilitation ser- the advantages that technology tween locales.
power of machines. In so doing, vices, thereby aiding in the imple- confers. One concern that AI raises is
ADAM KASSAM he has become the darling of a mentation of specific personal- They could start by encourag- the spectre of job loss. However,
NAILA KASSAM burgeoning area of computing ized therapies. Other AI technol- ing collaboration between the the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
that has the ability to completely ogies are also being created to medical and engineering facul- reported that health care was the
revolutionize the practice of augment the care of the elderly, ties at universities. Medical largest source of jobs in 2017 and
OPINION medicine and the delivery of which, for the aging Canadian so- schools and residency training is predicted to be the largest con-
health care. ciety, will be a welcome addition programs should create opportu- tributor to job growth in the next
Adam Kassam is chief resident As AI begins to take off, will the to the landscape of home and nities in their curricula for expo- decade. This is relevant to Canada
physician in the department of health-care industry be nursing care for years to come. sure to AI. This could take the given our similar demographics
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at receptive to technological disrup- Importantly, technology has form of electives, dual-degree or and the projection that the public
Western University in London, Ont. tion despite its notorious aver- the potential to liberate physi- fellowship programs that could will experience a worsening doc-
sion to change? What is clear is cians from the tedious paperwork combine areas of expertise. As tor shortage, requiring more, not
Naila Kassam is a family physician that it will be crucial for the med- that has come to plague the pro- physicians develop a deeper un- fewer, providers. Additionally,
and adjunct professor in the ical community to use fession. This would derstanding of AI, they can help technology will actually help to
department of Family Medicine at its clinical expertise to help lever- enable doctors to ultimately to curate synergies to ameliorate alleviate the burden on health-
Western University age technology and AI to spend more time with their pa- the patient experience. care providers, not replace them.
improve the delivery of health tients. Imagine, for instance, an Similarly, governments can Ultimately, every industry will
care. Indeed, this has already be- intelligent voice recognition soft- help by creating the right ecosys- have to evolve with emerging
anada has emerged as a gun. ware that would automatically tem for growth. Recent invest- technology, and medicine is no
Singapore’s housing mix could offer solutions for Toronto and Vancouver
NG WENG HOONG ternational vote of confidence in
the Singapore economy. Also,
most Singaporeans prefer to live
OPINION in the suburbs where they have
community, and access to affor-
Vancouver-based journalist originally dable housing, schools, transit
from Singapore. He writes on energy and services.
and economic issues in Asia and the Rather, it’s the government
Middle East that frets about an under-lived
downtown core, Mr. Lauw said in
ould Canada, with the right an interview in Singapore.
After 154 years, a new narrative for the Tsilhqot’in and Canada
SHAWN ATLEO would “have to reach millions” if nals – never to return home. This tion, it is necessary to first under- one another).
HEATHER ATLEO we were to change the relation- story is one that is all too familiar stand, then embrace and share We have both personally been
ship between our people and the for Indigenous peoples, who were the pain to make room for healing able to arrive at a place of healing
state. We would need a full shift in seen to be “in the way of pro- and moving forward. The Tsilh- and of real forgiveness for the
OPINION public consciousness. This time gress.” qot’in are to be recognized and horrors we experienced as a re-
has arrived. Understandably, this pain has lauded for their resilience, their sult of intergenerational trauma
Shawn Ah-up-wa-eek Atleo is former Now, I return to Ottawa having cut deep into the memory of the tenacity and their ferocious fight- and hurt. I was inspired, after I left
national chief of the Assembly of served close to 15 years in First Na- Tsilhqot’in for generations. This ing spirit. They have made it clear the office of National Chief four
First Nations and hereditary chief of tions elected roles. This time, week, the people have sent their that they will only enter negotia- years ago, to “drop the hot burn-
the Ahousaht First Nation Heather and I are travelling as co- chiefs to Ottawa, this time in tions after exoneration. We feel ing coal of anger” that I was grasp-
chairs for the Tsilhqot’in Nation’s hopes they return with the spirit hopeful about this moment in In- ing so tightly. As a result, we expe-
Heather Atleo is a long-time negotiations. We come with our of diplomatic friendship they digenous–Crown relations, and rience more days of feeling free-
strategic adviser, negotiator and friends and colleagues, the chiefs were promised in 1864. we will continue to support the dom, joy, love, calm and peace in
facilitator working with and for of the Tsilhqot’in National Gov- In 2014, a new era was ushered Tsilhqot’in chiefs. our hearts.
First Nations’ leaders and Nations ernment, to enter into the House in when the Tsilhqot’in won a Su- We accepted the invitation This is our wish for our Tsilhqo-
of Commons on March 26 to hear preme Court case that recognized from the Tsilhqot’in to help im- t’in friends. We know it won’t be
hey are just beginning to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ex- 1,900 square kilometres as Abo- plement their title case, recogniz- easy. On March 26, the pain will be
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BRAIN
DRAIN
Author Lauren Slater speaks ploration of psychedelic drugs, such as psi- whether or not we know how the drug qualifying for a diagnosis of depression.
locybin, the compound found in “magic works? It would be awfully nice to know But when physicians or psychiatrists stray
with The Globe about what it’s mushrooms,” and MDMA, also known as how the drug worked because it might ac- from that criteria and are willing to diag-
being bound to a potentially ecstasy. tually point us to the etiologies of mental nose pretty much anybody who’s not in a
toxic cocktail of psychiatric The quest to understand the biology of illness. good mood with a depressive disorder,
mental illnesses is critical for creating tar- you then have taken mood and patholo-
drugs and the haphazard geted drugs, Slater says. At the same time, You write: “Perhaps better than any other gized it. Suddenly, a bad mood becomes an
nature of new discoveries she argues psychiatry needs to unshackle drug, lithium reveals the extent to which illness.
itself from profit-seeking pharmaceutical psychiatry is tightly tied to capitalistic
interests. corporate interests.” Can you explain? You mentioned psychiatry must “take a step
WENCY LEUNG Slater spoke with The Globe and Mail back from its neurological love affair, and
about what it’s like to be bound to a poten- Lithium is a drug that no one had an in- recall its roots, which were biopsychosocial
tially toxic cocktail of drugs, the origins of terest in producing because it was a salt, it in origin.” What would that look like?
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This Les Mis skips the songs, but keeps the melodrama
Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s Perhaps I’m the only one
who’d like to see a stage version
adaptation of the Hugo that tried to incorporate Hugo’s
classic pares back the voice a bit more, his chatty histor-
pageantry, but offers ical digressions about the Battle
of Waterloo, his wonky fascina-
little in its place tion with the sewers of Paris. But
clocking in at 2 hours 45 minutes
with no songs, you’d at least still
J. KELLY expect this Les Misérables to de-
NESTRUCK pict Marius’s revolutionary co-
horts with more clarity than the
THEATRE REVIEW musical, not less.
Of course, Theatre-Smith Gil-
mour is known for its emphasis
Les Misérables on the physical side of theatre.
THE THEATRE CENTRE IN TORONTO There are a few lovely bits of stag-
ing, such as Fantine’s courtship
Written by Michele Smith and Dean and abandonment transformed
Gilmour in collaboration with the into a short, dreamy dance, but
Theatre Smith-Gilmour company, other scenes, such as the storm-
from the novel by Victor Hugo ing of the barricades, are disap-
Directed by Michele Smith pointingly drab.
Starring Mac Fyfe, Dean Gilmour, There’s something definitely
Nina Gilmour, Benjamin Muir, retro to the overall aesthetic –
Daniel Roberts and Diana Tso where movement largely exists in
##½ Nina Gilmour stars as Cosette – and her single mother, Fantine – in Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s production of service of storytelling, as a re-
Les Misérables, which uses magical stage tricks to enliven the telling of the classically depressing tale. placement for sets and props or
o you hear the people sing? to essentialize character, rather
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FIRST PERSON
Why treating
runner’s knee can
HOW DID be a simple fix
YOU SLEEP? ALEX
HUTCHINSON
OPINION
JOCKOLOGY
‘A
fore bed.”
woke me.”
“Topical,” my husband said.
“I have to stop reading the news be-
Walmart during the day.
Gradually, the children grew less anxious and
they learned to sleep and we recovered our sleep
mojo. Then, the eldest learned to drive. We feigned
We begin each day with the same question: confidence and went to bed before her curfew. We
signed an exercise that teaching
program to strength- runners to avoid
en their legs, to be “training errors,”
performed three
times a week. Anoth- such as running too
“How did you sleep?” It has preoccupied us since turned on the porch light, left a living-room lamp er third of the run- fast or increasing
the children arrived with their nocturnal needs su- on and closed our bedroom door. But I lay awake ners were assigned to distance too quickly,
perimposed on our requirement to function at listening to the night noises of the house – the a gait-retraining pro-
work the next day. gurgle in the toilet tank, the dishwasher churning gram, which in-
should be the first
As a toddler, our oldest daughter slept as lightly in the kitchen, the dog snoring under the bed. The volved increasing priority in dealing
as a hungry coyote in winter. At the end of a long digital clock burned the passing hours until the car their step rate by 7.5 with running injuries
story-time ritual comprised of a minimum of three turned into the driveway and I heard her footsteps per cent to 10 per cent of all types.
stories, I would nod off and be woken by her poin- thump up the stairs, the dog harrumph and woof by taking shorter,
ty elbow jabbing me in the ribs. Eventually, she as the front door slammed and the lock clacked quicker steps (which has been shown to reduce
dozed and I would slither off her bed and crawl behind her. potentially injurious forces on the knee), and in
toward the door, avoiding the known squeaky In the past few years, my husband has devel- some cases trying to “run softer” or avoid landing
spots in the floor. oped sleep apnea and restless legs. Simultaneously, on their heels.
“Where you going?” she would call and back I’d I entered menopause. We thrashed, sweated and The good news was that the treatments
go to sing an album-length repertoire of show panted in bed – but not from sex. The bed tortured worked. At the beginning of the study, the run-
tunes, nursery rhymes and folk songs. us. We changed mattresses, installed blackout ners had reported typical pain ratings of between
None of our three daughters, all adopted from shades, covered the glowing phone and clock with 5 and 7 out of 10 while running. By the end of the
China as infants, slept well for their first few years. tea cozies to render the room dark as a tomb. It eight-week study, the average scores for all three
Undoubtedly, this related to the upheaval in their didn’t help. groups had dropped below 3 out of 10. And they
young lives, the change in language, food, smells, With all beds occupied by our three teenagers, were still low 12 weeks after the study ended, in-
sounds and the sudden onset of constant, devoted and the couch a sway-backed, sciatic nerve crush- dicating a lasting improvement.
attention. We were all hyper-vigilant. er, I retrieved the camping mat from The surprise was that all three groups saw es-
Their anxiety and need for reassu- the garage and slept on the floor with sentially identical progress – contrary to the re-
rance that we wouldn’t disappear The coffee pot the dog. My husband twitched like searchers’ expectations.
manifested itself in sleep disruption. Elvis all night, his vibrations reaching “We were pretty sure that the addition of exer-
They checked in constantly. They de- became the me like earthquake aftershocks. I lay cise or gait training would provide better out-
manded proof we were permanent sleep-o-meter, the alert and waiting between long paus- comes,” Esculier says. “But none of that hap-
and consistent. aroma of fresh brew es in his breathing, ready to shake pened.”
From their arrivals between 1995 at all hours of the him awake. The unexpected non-result has left other re-
and 2001, and through their toddler “Did you sleep?” I asked every searchers in the field looking for possible expla-
years, we demonstrated our commit- day an indicator of morning. “No.” Anxiety about his not nations. Irene Davis, a professor at Harvard Med-
ment by showing up at their bedsides events the night sleeping grew. Heart disease and ical School and the director of the Spaulding Na-
whenever hailed. Our youngest before. stroke run in his genes and the seed- tional Running Center, published a response sug-
daughter, a determined and athletic ling of worry sprouted into a stout gesting that the gait retraining program might
child, began hurling herself out of her crib at 18 shrub, its branches slapping my nerves. I was hyp- have been insufficiently personalized to each
months when we didn’t come fast enough. By er-vigilant again. runner’s needs.
child No. 3, we understood the importance of re- Finally, he acquired a physician-approved CPAP It’s also possible that the runners in the exer-
sponding to their cries but, having lived six years machine for the apnea. After living in the same rut cise or gait-retraining groups ratcheted up their
as severely sleep-deprived adults, we weren’t so for 37 years, we changed sides in the bed to accom- training too rapidly, “perhaps because they felt
quick any more. Sometimes we debated for a min- modate his new device, which sits like a Star Wars buoyed by the fact that they were actually getting
ute. sex toy on his bedside table. Curiously, my perspec- a more concrete intervention,” says Chris Napier,
“Is it your turn?” tive has shifted with my new sleep location. a physiotherapist and running researcher at the
“No, I went the last two times.” Though he sounds like Darth Vader when he ap- University of British Columbia who works with
Thump. Pad, pad, pad. plies his breathing mask – which has a long, ele- the Canadian national track and field and cross-
Her head would appear in the doorway haloed phant-like hose connected to his machine – and he country running teams.
by the hall nightlight. looks like a member of the Fukushima clean-up To Napier, the key take-away from the study is
Soon, she didn’t bother calling us. She would crew, I think it’s sexy. That’s what a return to good that you need to minimize the stresses on the
stand on my side of the bed and I’d wake with that sleep does to your thinking. joint that caused the injury in the first place. “You
feeling of being watched. Eventually she aban- Sometimes, I still wake up with a wad of worry have to educate the patient that it isn’t just the
doned her crib and slept on a camping mat beside in my gut, especially since our eldest daughter left sports-related activity that causes load on the
us on the floor, her small hand nested in mine. My home in September. Is she okay? When will she knee,” he says. “It’s the stairs they climb every
arm numbed from dangling over our bed, and come home? Is she eating well, and, most impor- day, the prolonged sitting with knees flexed and
woke me with pins and needles an hour later. tantly, is she getting enough sleep? so on.”
“How did you sleep?” became “Did you sleep?” The sleep report, which I associated for years Neither Napier nor Esculier is abandoning ap-
or “How much did you sleep?” with parenting, is now a conversation opener and proaches such as strengthening or gait retrain-
The coffee pot became the sleep-o-meter, the connector. Every morning, swaddled in our flannel ing. Other studies, after all, have found positive
aroma of fresh brew at all hours of the day an pyjamas, I pour my husband a hot shot of espresso effects from both approaches, Esculier says. But
indicator of events the night before. The coffee – a liquid defibrillator. We stand together, cups before you embark on a time-consuming ther-
budget increased as the diaper budget decreased. I poised in our fingers taking quick sips that jolt us apy routine, you should make sure that you’re
created a new wardrobe called nap wear – mostly awake. We mumble, “How did you sleep?” training safely and not aggravating your injury –
flannel pyjamas worn on days off, perpetually and that’s a conclusion, he adds, that applies not
primed for sleeping should the opportunity arise. I Susanne Fletcher lives in Ottawa. just to patellofemoral pain, but to all running in-
juries.
When pain strikes, in other words, the first
question to ask is: Did I do too much, too soon?
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BRIDGE There’s approximately one impossible task. But of course by a diamond to the ace and
BY STEVE BECKER chance in 500,000 of being dealt the deed can be done, or the another heart ruff. This reduces
MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2018 a hand containing 30 high-card hand would not be presented declarer’s hand to five cards – a
points. And so, anytime you see here. Assume West leads a club. club and the K-J-9-8 of spades
one in a book or a bridge column, After taking the club king, – while dummy has the ace of
it’s very likely that the hand was declarer next leads a heart and trumps, a low diamond and the
composed by somebody, and not trumps it instead of doing what A-4-2 of clubs.
East dealer. actually dealt. comes much more naturally, South then leads a club to the
North-South vulnerable. That would certainly be true of which would be to cash the ace and returns a club, forcing
this deal, which was published trump ace at trick two. Cash- East to ruff as declarer in turn
as a double-dummy problem in ing the ace of trumps would in- overruffs. Next comes the nine
The Bridge World Magazine in evitably prove fatal. If you don’t of spades to the ace, followed by
The bidding: the 1930s to illustrate what was believe it, try playing the ace at a diamond or a club. East’s last
then called a quadruple trump once and see what happens. two cards, the Q-10 of spades,
East South West North grand coup. South next plays a diamond to then succumb to the K-J to put
Pass 4 [S] Pass 7 [S] Given East’s holding of the the queen, ruffs a second heart, the final touch on the extremely
Opening Lead – jack of clubs. Q-10-7-3 of trumps, making sev- then plays a diamond to the rare – and in this case, contrived
en spades would seem to be an king, ruffs a third heart, followed – quadruple trump grand coup.
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ACROSS DOWN ACROSS the numbers 1 through
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a single flower (11) homes smell! (5) 9 Obscure (7)
9 I ring to bring order 3 Forget to leave out (4) 2. The numbers within
10 Brief fight (3-2) the heavily outlined
to disorder (7) 4 Reward for a champion 11 Large marine food fish (4) boxes, called cages,
10 Poor shot at changing layer? (3,3) 12 Begin (8) must combine using
the route (5) 5 Owes cash for the 14 Identifying symbol (6) the given operation (in
11 Size of a field for a display cabinet (8) any order) to produce
16 Increase (6) the target numbers in
medley race? (4) 6 Beg for an adjustment
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12 Makes a shambles of a in net rate (7)
19 Lacking enthusiasm (4)
Schubert variation (8) 7 Lets one down lightly (6,1,4)
22 Waken (5) Freebies: Fill in
14 Points to one of several 8 Looking for golden 3. single-box cages with
children as being bright (6) opportunities (11) 23 Ineffectual (7)
the numbers in the
16 Fly to organise mixed 13 Falls for a queen (8) 24 To separate (4,7)
top-left corner.
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23 Composing an air in modern 6 Hitherto (2,2,3) 15 Ignore, 18 Layer, 19 Tenders, 21 Offensive, 23 Ire, 24 Exposes, 25 Sweet.
Persian fashion (7) 7 In addition (11) DOWN: 1 Gearbox, 2 Antiquary, 3 Levee, 4 Benita, 5 Foiling, 6 Eva, 7 Steps,
24 A direct route provided 8 Despite that (11) 12 On one side, 14 Errands, 16 Easiest, 17 Strips, 18 Loose, 20 Needs, 22 Fop.
immediately (11)
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Justice: Preliminary inquiry ‘has been on some political hit lists’ for years, lawyer says
FROM A1 criminal-justice system contin- expected this week.) pleted that year in Canada. In fence, government statistics
ues to function effectively,” Al- “The idea that preliminary in- trials with preliminary inquiries, show.
Nova Scotia experimented with berta Justice Minister Kathleen quiries are contributing to delay 1,747 ran longer than today’s Su- Administration of justice of-
speedy resolution of minor crimi- Ganley said. “If your system isn’t problems in any of the provinces preme Court deadline of 30 fences was another area of prom-
nal charges. working efficiently, you’re begin- is a red herring. There’s just no months for proceedings in Supe- ised change. These offences in-
Preliminary inquiries have ning to see safety be compro- evidence on that.” rior Court. volve a breach of a release condi-
been a staple of criminal justice mised, because people are being Mr. Naqvi, Ontario’s Attorney- tion set by a court, breach of pro-
since Canada’s first written Crimi- let back out on the street who General, said that, in cases in his bation, being unlawfully at large
nal Code took effect in 1892. They could otherwise have been con- province that have preliminary or failure to show up in court.
are pretrial hearings whose main victed.” More people are in inquiries and go on to trial, the More than one in five cases com-
purpose is to test whether there is In Alberta, lawyers made 167 average time to complete pro- pleted in criminal court in 2014-15
enough evidence to proceed to applications for stays from late custody in provincial ceedings is more than 30 months. was an administration of justice
trial. 2016 until March 18, 2018. Twelve jails while awaiting trial He also said that, long ago, pre- offence, according to Statistics
Ontario Attorney-General Ya- have been granted, prosecutors than those who have liminary inquiries were necessary Canada.
sir Naqvi had urged the federal stayed another 17 proactively and been found guilty of an to disclose the prosecution’s case A fifth area involved making
government to scrap preliminary another 12 remain to be resolved. to the defence before trial. But more crimes “hybrid offences:”
hearings from all but serious of- (Others were rejected by judges offence, government since 1991, when a Supreme Court that is, punishable either as a less
fences such as murder and trea- or withdrawn by the defence.) At statistics show. ruling made disclosure of the serious summary offence, or as
son, and the source said the fed- least 200 more charges in Alberta, state’s case mandatory, that justi- an indictable offence. The hope is
eral government will move in including some involving vio- In Jordan, the Supreme Court fication for preliminary inquiries that dealing with more offences
that direction. lence, were dropped because of a was asked to clarify the constitu- no longer exists, he said. as summary offences would al-
A spokesman for federal Jus- shortage of prosecutors, before tional right of an accused person Last April, Ms. Wilson-Ray- low for more plea bargains and
tice Minister Jody Wilson-Ray- an outcry prompted the province to a trial within a reasonable time. bould promised legislative action shorter trials. Ontario proposed
bould declined to comment over to hire dozens more. The Cana- It set 18 months as the limit in in five areas, of which four are stiffer maximum penalties than
the weekend. dian Bar Association, represent- Provincial Court, from the laying deeply contentious. Reducing the currently exist for summary of-
Ontario was not alone in call- ing 36,000 lawyers, says the prov- of a charge until the completion role played by preliminary inqui- fences, making it easier for prose-
ing for the curtailment of prelimi- inces, which handle most of the of a trial. It set a maximum of 30 ries was one. Another was elimi- cutors to choose the summary
nary inquiries. Alberta and Que- country’s prosecutions, are being months in Superior Court. Cases nating some mandatory-mini- approach in a hybrid offence.
bec also said they contribute to “opportunistic,” in using delay to already underway followed mum sentences for crimes in- Quebec says the government
delay and called for changes. Ma- weaken an important protection somewhat more lax, “transition- volving drugs, guns and sexual of- has moved slowly on delay. “The
nitoba, in an unprecedented col- for accused people. al” rules. But the 18 months are fences against children, or giving bill was expected to be tabled
laboration of its three chief justic- “The preliminary inquiry has now up in Provincial Court, and judges discretion to opt out in ex- during the parliamentary session
es and its Justice Minister, had been on some political hit lists for cases reaching Superior Court to- ceptional cases. last fall (the ministers’ meeting
asked Ottawa for a Criminal Code more than a decade,” said Eric day are also being judged under She also promised changes to was even advanced to September
amendment allowing it to launch Gottardi, a Vancouver criminal the stricter new standards. Canada’s bail system, without be- to leave the federal minister more
a four-year experiment, scrap- lawyer authorized to speak on the In 2014-15, more than 9,000 ing specific. More people are in time to prepare the bill after the
ping all preliminary inquiries. CBA’s behalf. (He spoke without preliminary inquiries were held, custody in provincial jails while meeting),” Justice Minister Sté-
The proposals to reduce delays advance knowledge of the gov- involving just under 3 per cent of awaiting trial than those who phanie Vallée said in an e-mail to
related to preliminary inquiries, ernment’s legislative response the 328,000 criminal trials com- have been found guilty of an of- The Globe.
administration of justice offences
and bail came out of emergency
talks nearly a year ago between
Ms. Wilson-Raybould and the
provincial and territorial attor-
A WORLD OF
neys-general in Quebec. The fed-
eral minister’s office said depart-
mental officials worked over the
summer to develop proposals for
legislative action. The ministers
convened again in Vancouver in
INTERESTS
September.
The Globe spoke to several at-
torneys-general in advance of the
expected legislation. Each spoke
without knowledge of its con-
tents.
“I think we all agreed in light of
DELIVERED RIGHT
the Jordan decision, there was a
need to move promptly to make
fairly bold reforms to ensure the
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As Canada, U.S. roll along deficit track, concerns emerge
Vancouver’s BuildDirect.com Technologies Inc.
has emerged from creditor protection with a clean
about ability to steer through next recession
balance sheet and US$28-million in fresh financing
to take a second crack at building the Amazon.com TIM SHUFELT restraint under the principles of Meanwhile, deep tax cuts in the
Inc. of the home-improvement market. INVESTMENT REPORTER sound fiscal policy: Be conservative United States combined with new
“We find ourselves in fantastic shape,” said Suz- during periods of strength, saving up spending has blown a hole in Wash-
anne Mercier, the company’s chief legal and people resources that will be needed when ington’s budget at a time when the
officer and corporate secretary. “We have virtually ANALYSIS the next recession hits. domestic economy is operating at
no debt, we have no liabilities and we have a signif- And yet, governments are still close to full employment.
icant amount of runway ahead of us to execute Across North America, guardians of resorting to the kind of spending Central bankers seem to get that,
against our operating plan.” the public purse are on a war footing meant to fight economic foes that as they gradually increase interest
The company overwhelmingly won creditor in peacetime. are nowhere in sight. Deficits remain rates to stave off inflation and pre-
approval on March 12 for a “plan of compromise, ar- The world economy hasn’t looked the order of the day. Finance minis- vent economies from overheating.
rangement and reorganization” that would reduce this good since before the global ters are still choosing stimulus over All of this new fiscal stimulus is
its debt to US$4-million from US$58-million and financial crisis. A synchronized swell discipline, adding to public debt pushing in the opposite direction at
pay unsecured creditors about 5 cents on the dollar of growth is creating jobs and fuel- loads in the process. a time when the bustling economy
for their claims, representing a roughly US$1-mil- ling consumer spending the world Last month’s federal budget pro- doesn’t really need the help.
lion outlay. But the court’s endorsement of the plan over, leaving virtually no major jects an $18.1-billion deficit for the “If they can’t balance the books
was subject to the company completing an equity economy behind. In the United coming fiscal year and another now, at this very strong stage of the
financing. States, unemployment is at its low- $60.5-billion in red ink in the four cycle, they may never be able to,”
That happened last Thursday, Ms. Mercier said, est in nearly two decades. And Cana- years after that. And the Ontario pro- said Doug Porter, chief economist at
when BuildDirect closed a deal brokered by Cana- da is fresh off a year in which it vincial government, having spent a the Bank of Montreal. “And as
ccord Genuity to raise US$28-million of shares led topped all Group of Seven countries decade balancing the books after its governments purposely weaken
by past investor Mohr Davidow Ventures, the Cana- in growth. post-financial-crisis spending blitz, their finances now, it gives them less
dian arm of fund-management giant Fidelity Invest- Both here and in the United said it plans to return to deficit when manoeuvring room and less fire-
ments and lenders Pelecanus Investments, Lyra States, the economy appears healthy it tables its budget on Wednesday power in the next downturn.”
Growth Partners and Beedie Capital. In addition, enough to warrant some measure of with a shortfall of up to $8-billion. DEBT, B7
the lenders, who provided US$15-million in debtor-
in-possession financing to keep the company going
under court protection, agreed to convert that fund-
ing into equity.
BUILDDIRECT, B7 THE LADDER LABOUR LEGISLATION
SVAcademy co-founder Ontario’s upcoming equal-
Rahim Fazal talks about pay rules are causing
how getting fired from his confusion, both employers
COMPANIES
first job at McDonald’s and labour advocates say
ALPHABET .............................................................. B5 changed his life B3
AMAZON.COM ........................................................ B5 B10
BLACKBERRY ........................................................... B2 OIL STOCKS LANGUISH
CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL ........................... B5 Investors avoid shares
FACEBOOK ........................................................ B2,B5
NETFLIX .................................................................. B5 in the oil patch despite
UBER ....................................................................... B2 brighter prospects
B9
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BRENDA BOUW
As private sector builds profit, On trade with China, Trump gets it right
the public sector builds trust ANDREI SULZENKO Canada has also had some ex- while the current action in large
perience with China’s unrelent- measure is legitimate. It’s also
BRUCE MacLELLAN ing thirst for access to advanced about narrow national self-inter-
OPINION technologies. As a result, the pre- est.
vious federal government put in While on the subject of self-
OPINION Former trade negotiator and place special provisions designed interest, depending on how the
currently an executive fellow to limit investment access to U.S.-China confrontation shakes
CEO of Proof Inc., a Canadian-headquartered at the School of Public Policy, Canada by state-owned or con- out, there is potential opportuni-
communications marketing firm University of Calgary trolled firms, much to the relief ty for other countries to exploit
of our security community. restrictions by the United States
anadians casually observing public reaction toward ven though Donald Trump Despite the fact that China’s and China against each other to
NOEL RANDEWICH
SAN FRANCISCO
he quartet of technology
[ TECHNOLOGY ]
Bit by bit
Mining rigs of a supercomputer operate inside a Genesis Farming bitcoin-mining facility near Reykjavik on March 16.
At the heart of Iceland’s breathtaking lava fields stands one of the world’s largest bitcoin factories at a secret location
that is rich in renewable energy, used to run the machines creating the virtual currency.
Callidus: Catalyst funds have a lot riding on the performance of publicly traded firm
FROM B1 and there are a number stem- Oxford University private-equity structured to be long-lived to be worth $18 to $22 a share in a
ming from Catalyst’s failure to expert as saying the estimated maximize value for our inves- privatization, based on a 2016
A lengthy Reuters news report acquire Wind Mobile following return on the litigation was tors. Our process for valuing cur- National Bank Financial valua-
on Friday quoted a hedge fund talks with its previous owners. A “extraordinarily” high. rent investments is rigid, conser- tion. More than a year ago he
manager and others questioning rival investment firm, West Face Catalyst spokesman Dan Gag- vative and has been proven out suggested that as many as 17
the valuation of Catalyst’s hold- Capital Inc., acquired the cell- nier declined to say if the same repeatedly,” the statement said. potential bidders were consider-
ings, its ability to cash out of phone company for $300-million Wind Mobile-related litigation The documents obtained by ing offers in that neighbour-
some investments at advertised and sold it to Shaw Communica- figures would also be included in The Globe also show that Cata- hood.
prices and its extensions to the tions Inc. about a year and a half 2017 materials to investors, or if lyst funds have a lot riding on But the process appears to
lives of its funds, which allow it later for $1.6-billion. they had changed to reflect any the performance of publicly have bogged down. A few
to hold on to investor capital for In one high-profile case, Cata- new view of the firm’s chances in traded Callidus. The documents months later, Callidus floated
longer. lyst accused one of its former an- court. for Fund III say that the fund had the possibility of an alternative
The report said some of those alysts who was subsequently invested US$404.6-million in to a sale – that is, the absorption
holdings include litigation hired by West Face Capital of shares and debt of Callidus or of Callidus by a private debt
claims – money that Catalyst be- passing on proprietary and con- related entities, as of the end of fund.
lieves it will gain in the future fidential information. The suit 2016. Fund IV & IV-PP had invest- It was all further complicated
from lawsuits, but which are far was unsuccessful, with the trial [Newton Glassman] ed US$530.1-million. by legal action brought by Mr.
from certain. judge ruling that Mr. Glassman’s It is not known how much Glassman following a Wall Street
Financial documents for some testimony was difficult to rely contends that Callidus those figures changed in 2017. Journal story last August about
Catalyst funds, obtained by The on. “He was aggressive, argu- was the target in a But Catalyst’s ownership of Call- whistle-blower complaints to the
Globe and Mail, show that the mentative, refused to make con- ‘wolf-pack conspiracy’ idus equity, at least, has been Ontario Securities Commission,
firm put a value on nearly cessions that should have been of short-sellers to drive growing. Catalyst and funds accusing Catalyst and Callidus of
US$450-million (as of Dec. 31, made and contradicted his own managed by it owned about 70 fraud. The suit names several
2016) on litigation related to the statements made contempora- down the stock price. per cent of Callidus as of Sept. 30, defendants, including Mr. Glass-
firm’s unsuccessful attempt in neously in e-mails,” the judge up from 66.7 per cent at the end man’s nemesis, Greg Boland of
2014 to take over wireless carrier stated in his decision. In Febru- of 2016. West Face, as well as a Journal
Wind Mobile. ary, Catalyst lost an appeal of the But in a statement late on Fri- That suggests Callidus is a reporter and several others.
A fund known as Catalyst decision. day casting aspersions on the drag on the performance of Mr. Mr. Glassman contends that
Fund Limited Partnership III In a second lawsuit filed in Reuters article, Catalyst said it Glassman’s Catalyst funds. Prior Callidus was the target in a
placed a value of US$148.9-mil- May, 2016, Mr. Glassman sued was “incomprehensible” that the to Friday’s selloff, Callidus stock “wolf-pack conspiracy” of short-
lion on Wind litigation as of that former Wind Mobile owners news agency would portray in- had fallen 60 per cent in a year. sellers to drive down the stock
date, according to the docu- VimpelCom Ltd. and Globalive formational disclosure to inves- Analysts had tied the drop to a price. Mr. Boland countersued,
ments. Another fund, Catalyst Capital Inc., as well as UBS Secur- tors as being part of audited dearth of new lending announ- stating that he and West Face
Fund Limited Partnership IV & ities Canada, West Face and a financial statements. (The story cements and fears about concen- were not involved in any con-
IV-PP, valued Wind litigation at bunch of others, alleging breach said the figures were from “a pre- tration of investments in two spiracy, and that he closed out
US$297.9-million. (The financial of contract. The case has yet to sentation to investors.”) companies – Oklahoma-based his short position in Callidus a
review presents numbers both be heard. It is this case that ap- Catalyst said it considers any Horizontal Well Drillers and C&C couple years earlier.
with and without the litigation parently gives rise to the US$450- notion that it overvalues assets Wood Products of Quesnel, B.C. Amid this week’s flurry, inves-
winnings.) million in hoped-for litigation or is unable to achieve targeted Recall that Mr. Glassman had tors will look to Callidus’s finan-
Legal actions are part and par- awards for Catalyst. returns by stated deadlines to be previously helped raise investor cial and deal progress to see how
cel of Mr. Glassman’s operation The Reuters report quoted an pure effrontery. “Our funds are expectations that Callidus could that’s all playing out.
Debt: Federal deficit an extension of fiscal support designed to combat oil-price crash
FROM B1 Government debt prices were trading below US$40 intervention. The budget tabled
Net debt per capita, provincially and federally a barrel amid a global oversup- in early 2009 included a stimulus
Already, Canada appears less pre- 2016-17 fiscal year 2006-07 fiscal year ply, taking a heavy toll on Cana- package worth $47-billion over
pared for an economic shock da’s resource-dependent econo- two years. That was on top of
than it was a decade ago. Debt Newfoundland and $25,641 my. other measures, including the
Labrador 22,637
has increased materially on all “There was a reasonable case auto bailout, tens of billions in li-
fronts – government, household 22,234
to be made at the time,” Mr. Por- quidity support for Canada’s
and corporate. And perpetual Quebec ter said. Unemployment had banks and the slashing of the
deficits will only further weaken 16,287 begun to creep higher, growth Bank of Canada’s key overnight
the national balance sheet, mak- 21,583 was vanishing and long-term lending rate from 4.5 per cent in
ing it unlikely that Canada will Ontario bond yields were at record lows. late 2007 to near zero by the
12,142
weather the next recession as “A lot of those conditions just spring of 2009.
well as it did the last. 18,256 aren’t there any more,” he said. There was one big reason that
New Brunswick
These days, there is little trace 9,005 The kinds of conditions calling stimulus helped stabilize the
of what was once a national fixa- for deficits don’t seem to be ap- economy – the Canadian con-
tion on balanced public finances 17,425 parent in Ontario, either. The sumer. “The household sector
Federal
in Canada. Through the 14,346 provincial economy has outper- could respond in a big way
mid-1990s and most of the 17,216 formed even Canada’s over the because [it] had the ability to
2000s, a campaign of “fiscal con- Manitoba past three years, Finance Minister take on debt,” Mr. Porter said. In
solidation” slayed the federal 9,125 Charles Sousa said in a speech 2010 – the first full year of eco-
deficit and ultimately cut the 15,765 earlier this month. He also used nomic recovery, real consumer
country’s debt-to-GDP ratio in Nova Scotia the occasion to suggest the prov- spending rose by 3.7 per cent,
13,176
half from what had become an ince will be tabling a deficit budg- which alone contributed more
unsustainable debt load. 14,530 et on Wednesday. “Even though I than two percentage points to
Prince Edward Island
Starting in 1997-98, federal 9,517 have fought long and hard to slay GDP growth that year, the econo-
governments posted 11 straight the deficit and balance the books mist said.
annual budget surpluses, a streak 8,874 … I will not leave people But that spending binge, com-
Saskatchewan
only ended by the global finan- 7,488 behind,” Mr. Sousa said. bined with the swift rebound in
cial crisis. Even then, balance was 7,944 Ontario’s shortfall will be less the housing market, which large-
relinquished grudgingly. As late British Columbia than 1 per cent of provincial GDP, ly continues to this day, has the
as November, 2008, more than 5,779 Mr. Sousa said, and the budget average household now carrying
two months after Lehman Broth- 2,101 will set out a path back to a record level of debt. At more
ers went bankrupt, and a finan- Alberta balance. But as the Canadian fis- than 170 per cent of household
-10,536
cial calamity of historic propor- cal experience has made clear income, credit market debt has
tions was taking shape, then- THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: RBC ECONOMICS through the years, the deficit been cited by the Bank of Canada
prime minister Stephen Harper track is a difficult one from as among the biggest risks to the
was still clinging to the ideal of Household debt which to get off. domestic economy.
avoiding deficits. He finally Credit market debt to disposable income ratio, on quarterly basis “There is nothing so perma- “I don’t think we can count on
relented after an attempt by the 180% nent as a temporary program,” the consumer to pull us out of
opposition parties to form a coa- said Eveline Adomait, an assis- the next downturn,” Mr. Porter
lition government. tant economics professor at the said.
“Canada had a culture of car- 160 University of Guelph, quoting Neither are many of the prov-
ing about the fiscal position, not economist Milton Friedman. inces on as sound a footing as a
just about goodies and tax cuts. I With the start of a provincial decade ago. Ontario’s provincial
worry that’s being eroded,” said 140 election campaign just a month debt has swelled, now at 38 per
Eric Lascelles, chief economist at away, Ontario Premier Kathleen cent of GDP, compared with 26
RBC Global Asset Management. Wynne has, in recent days, prom- per cent 10 years ago. At 46 per
U.S. politicians, including 120 ised to dole out billions in new cent, Quebec’s debt is still the
many self-declared fiscal conser- spending on health care, child highest in the country. And the
vatives, have offered up little care, dental care and pharma- crash in energy prices has left its
resistance to a budget that seems 100 care. “Look at pharmacare. Once mark on the fiscal position of
designed to contend with a non- that’s in place, you don’t get rid much of Western Canada. Corpo-
existent downturn. Next year’s of that,” Ms. Adomait said. While rate debt, too, has crept up in the
U.S. deficit is projected to be 80 she’s not necessarily opposed to years since the Great Recession,
about US$1-trillion, or more than 1991 1997 2003 2009 2015 deficits, they should at least be as the era of cheap money has
5 per cent of forecast GDP. That’s THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: STATSCAN directed toward long-term encouraged borrowing across the
not quite approaching the crisis- growth, such as transportation board.
era high of nearly 10 per cent, but Corporate debt infrastructure projects. Canada’s Finance Minister Bill
it’s still “enormous,” Mr. Las- Debt service ratio for Canada's private non-financial sector, on quarterly basis “There is a clear lesson here: Morneau has been quick to point
celles said. And it’s not just taxes 25% how easy it is to get into debt, out that federal indebtedness is
behind the U.S. budget crunch. A how difficult it is to get out of it actually declining as a share of
US$1.3-trillion spending bill pro- 24 and how important it is to stay the domestic economy, despite
poses new funding for virtually out of it,” said Perrin Beatty, pres- the deficits. By that measure,
every federal department and 23 ident of the Canadian Chamber Canada’s debt load, at a little
agency over two fiscal years. of Commerce, and a former fed- higher than 30 per cent of GDP, is
“It goes against everything you 22 eral cabinet minister under the the envy of the G7. “It provides
learned in Economics 101,” writes Joe Clark, Brian Mulroney and us the opportunity to be resilient
Avery Shenfeld, chief economist 21 Kim Campbell governments. in case of a challenge,” Mr. Mor-
at CIBC World Markets. “But a That’s a lesson that seems to neau said in a speech in New
case is being made these days for 20 have been forgotten over the York on March 9.
fiscal stimulus at the top of the past decade, Mr. Beatty said. Federal debt ratios are indeed
business cycle.” The rationale is 19 In the fiscal year before the at a similar level today as what
that jolting the economy with sti- financial crisis began to unfold, they were a decade ago, leaving
mulus makes room for central 18 every single province, in addition plenty of fiscal room for stimulus
banks to hike rates as a counter- 2000 2004 2008 2012 to the federal government, spending when the business
measure. Higher rates, in turn, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS turned in a surplus, helping to cycle eventually does take a
allow for more dramatic mone- stockpile financial ammunition negative turn.
tary intervention when the next Keynesian stimulus at the top of ability. When we do tip over, it that would soon be needed. But with so much debt built
downturn hits. the business cycle seems to be will be a long drop and a terrible “That helped, I think, ensure we up elsewhere in the economy, it’s
Best, instead, to let central part of a continental trend. climb out of it.” were slower going into the reces- far less clear that fiscal interven-
banks hike rates at their own In Ottawa’s budget, there was The continuing federal deficit sion, that it was shallower and tion would be as successful in
pace, rather than risk putting too little evidence of preparation for is largely an extension of fiscal that we got out of it earlier,” Mr. stimulating aggregate demand as
much strain on indebted con- an eventual downturn, said Cath- support designed to combat the Beatty said. the last time around. That’s rea-
sumers, Mr. Shenfeld said. The erine Swift, president of Working crash in oil prices. Back in 2015, The Canadian economy was son enough for governments in
Bank of Canada, for its part, Canadians, a taxpayer advocacy as a sputtering domestic econo- clearly in contraction for only Canada to exercise restraint now,
seems inclined to take a gradual group. Frivolous spending now my became the dominant elec- three quarters, while the reces- to build up as much a buffer as
approach for that very reason. ignores the damage that will be tion issue, Justin Trudeau cam- sion in other G7 countries lasted possible for when the next big
“The case for turning Keynes wrought when a recession coin- paigned on a platform that in- between four and six quarters. one hits, Mr. Beatty said.
on his head is shaky on several cides with household debt levels, cluded modest deficit spending Most postcrisis analyses gave at “That’s the advantage of get-
grounds,” Mr. Shenfeld said. And Ms. Swift said. “We’re putting before rebalancing the budget by least some credit for that to the ting your house in order in good
yet, the curious application of ourselves in a position of vulner- 2019. At that time, U.S. crude oil federal government’s aggressive times.”
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team meetings is not something people are born with and,
judging by the many flavours of ineffective that I’ve observed,
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he insurance industry is
SPORTS
Discordant Raptors slip Leafs putting in work
against Clippers 117-106, as playoffs approach,
Rachel Brady writes David Shoalts writes
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Karolina Urban and her Markham Thunder teammates celebrate winning the Clarkson Cup in Toronto on Sunday. CHRIS DONOVAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
T
season.
poised for more than just a
record in wins over one NHL
normally do, I just let them roll
out the door there. I thought
those guys were really effective.”
They are also preparing to go After Sunday’s practice, Bab-
into the playoffs with all four lines cock said the plan always was to
on the scoring side of the hockey build something different than
equation. That is of much more the conventional NHL team of
significance in the big picture. years past: “To say do I have one
Despite the NHL’s push for fast- line that’s going to play against
er, high-scoring games, the lineup the other team’s best, and nor-
formula for success in the playoffs mally we use [Kadri] for that, but
generally remains two scoring do I have three guys that never
lines, one shutdown line and a score another goal and play
fourth line that still provides against the other team’s [best
some hitting, as in the regular sea- line]? We don’t want to have that
son, but mostly checks as well. here. We want to have everybody
And everybody works a lot harder score goals. That’s our focus, but
on their defensive game. that doesn’t mean we can’t be
That is part of the reason why good defensively.”
the hockey often gets worse as the Of course, this approach in the
playoffs progress. Not only do the Red Wings can only watch as Leaf Nazem Kadri scores the winning goal on Wings goalie Jimmy Howard when playoffs means the referees have
stars get shut down as often as Toronto beat Detroit 4-3 at the Air Canada Centre on Saturday night. DAN HAMILTON/USA TODAY SPORTS to play ball. The conventional
not, making those infrequent approach for years in the NHL was
goals pounded out by the third capable of playing against any last two years. It helps us a lot on son. The win matched them with tackling and other forms of ob-
and fourth lines far more impor- line on the opposition. the road having the ability to Leafs teams coached by Pat struction were often winked at in
tant, but the intense checking can Even when Leo Komarov, out throw whatever line out there and Quinn, who hit the 45-mark three the playoffs, although in its latest
turn late-round games into a slog, with a leg injury, displaces Johns- know they can play with who- times. The win over Detroit also vow to maintain the free-flowing
with the winners being those with son in the lineup as soon as mever.” set a franchise record as it was the standard of the regular season,
the most perseverance or simply Wednesday’s game against the Having four lines that can score Leafs’ 13th consecutive win at those overseeing the referees
the least injuries. Florida Panthers, the Leafs will gives a head coach maximum home. insist the standards have remain-
But the Leafs, who can set a still have scoring threats on all flexibility. The opposition can put Nazem Kadri and linemates ed the same in the playoffs for the
franchise record for wins in a sea- four lines. And Johnsson will be its shutdown line on his first line Marner and Patrick Marleau may past couple of years. That is the
son against the Buffalo Sabres on the first one called if anyone gets all night, but if you can send out be simultaneously Toronto’s subject of some debate, although
Monday night, are headed toward hurt. three other lines that can score, it shutdown line and its top offen- van Riemsdyk is willing to con-
the playoffs with scoring poten- “I think you look around the means nothing but headaches for sive unit right now, but until Kadri cede the point.
tial on all four lines. The top four league and the top teams all have the opponent. At the same time, if scored the winning goal in the “Yeah, I think so,” he said, “al-
in points on the team – Mitch Mar- a lot of depth,” said Tyler Bozak, your top line grows cold, then third period, the line was not hav- though to some degree maybe
ner, Auston Matthews, William the centre on the third line with there are three other lines able to ing a great night. So Babcock they let a little bit more go in the
Nylander and James van Riems- van Riemsdyk and Connor take up the slack. leaned on his fourth line of Pleka- playoffs. You’d like to think they
dyk – are spread among three Brown. “Look at Pittsburgh the That is exactly what happened nec and speedsters Kasperi Kapa- call it the same. That’s why we
lines, with the recent additions of last couple years. They’ve got a lot on Saturday night when the Leafs nen and Johnsson. have the rules in place, to play a
Tomas Plekanec and Andreas of talent and guys that can score, came back against the Detroit Red “It wasn’t their night, let’s clear game we want to play and people
Johnsson making the fourth line they won [the Stanley Cup] the Wings for their 45th win of the sea- that up,” Babcock said of Kadri’s want to watch.”
FROM B12 anthems of both Canada and China. 2018 U.S. Olympic roster, scored the lone
Roughly half of the 7,779 seats in Ricoh goal for KRS in the final minute of the Oxford University won the 100th
Markham matched up well with KRS, a Coliseum were full. There were a few second period, deflecting a shot by fellow varsity hockey match against
roster made up of Chinese national team hundred fans clustered in one section American Zoe Hickel. Stack had been the arch-rival Cambridge University,
players, former U.S. Olympians, Finnish waving tiny Chinese flags as members of pre-eminent star of this CWHL season, claiming a 4-3 victory in overtime
Olympic bronze-medal-winning goalten- the Chinese media fixed their cameras on becoming the league scoring champion on Saturday.
der Noora Raty and North American them. with 49 points (26 goals, 23 assists). “The rivalry lived up to its bill-
players of Chinese herit- The game was broadcast on Markham goalie Erica Howe, who ing,” said Oxford captain Joey
age who may qualify to a couple of secondary chan- made 17 saves, was chosen as the Clar- Wenig, a law student from Calga-
play for China at the 2022 nels in China – despite it being kson Cup MVP. ry. Oxford’s winning goal was
Games. very late at night – as well as KRS awkwardly waited around and scored by Canadian Chris Byrne,
“I’m really proud of my I’m really proud of streamed online. Journalists then left the ice as Markham got distract- from Windsor, Ont.
team; probably not a lot of from many major Chinese out- ed in celebrating and taking team photos Oxford and Cambridge have
people thought we’d make my team; probably lets were in the house. and did not take a moment to first do a been battling each other on the
it to the final,” said Raty, not a lot of people “I think definitely this is in- handshake line. Then, in the back hall- ice for more than 130 years, mak-
who saved 37 of 39 shots thought we’d make spiring kids in China to play ways of the arena, the CWHL had to rush ing it what many consider to be
on Sunday, a week after it to the final. hockey. We have high hopes its players through interviews as Ricoh the oldest hockey rivalry in the
her 66-save shutout in tri- and we still have four years to Coliseum staff hurried fans, players and world. The 100th varsity match
ple overtime helped KRS NOORA RATY go until the Olympics,” said media out of the building. The Toronto was played in St. Moritz, Switzer-
win its semi-final series KUNLUN RED STAR GOALIE Billy Ngok, the founder of Marlies and Springfield Thunderbirds land, the site of the first match in
over the Calgary Inferno. KRS, who also founded China were trying to prepare for their 4:30 p.m. 1885. Hundreds of alumni flew in
“This was their first time in the league, Environmental Energy Holdings, an ener- AHL game. from around the world and com-
and until the last week these Chinese gy-trading firm based in Hong Kong. “Also Stacey, for one, was glad this game peted in two alumni games. The
women hadn’t been in a championship we have a program to track all the North didn’t go into a shootout, as was the case universities’ development teams,
game. So hopefully this shows them to American Chinese players to play for the with the Olympic gold-medal game. the Oxford Vikings and Cam-
dream big and get in these championship country, and I think they are strong, and “It definitely was a sting at the Olym- bridge Eskimos, also faced off
games, and some day be able to win these this is very positive.” pics. It’s never great to come home with a (the women’s teams were invited
games.” Nicole Brown opened the scoring for silver,” Stacey said. “I don’t know if it but couldn’t attend because of
Before the game, the ice was jam- the Thunder in the first period. necessarily eases that pain but it’s a really scheduling conflicts).
packed with local girls’ hockey teams lin- Kelli Stack, a two-time Olympic silver special moment and I’m so happy to be “We won the two alumni
ing each faceoff circle to stand for the medalist from Ohio who didn’t make the part of it.” games and the Eskimos game,
but nothing makes up for the
heartbreak of a sudden-death
loss in the main event, especially
as the momentum was in our
Kane, Fehr boost Sharks for final road trip favour,” said Bill Harris, a Cam-
bridge anatomy professor who
plays for the Eskimos and serves
JOSH DUBOW SAN JOSE, CALIF. During this streak, they have managed first-place Vegas in the Pacific Division as a volunteer coach. “It was an
to win wide-open games as well as tight with seven games remaining, giving them amazing game.”
checking ones and have managed to ne- an outside shot at a division title. But per- The weekend boat races were
he San Jose Sharks head back to the gate the speed of teams such as Vegas as haps more importantly, they entered Sun- pretty amazing for Cambridge,
My love of movement
starts now.
Help me develop physical literacy and I will be
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NHL 2:25; Wilson Wash (holding) 14:49. Penalties — Butcher NJ (tripping) 2:27. QUEBEC (8) VS. CHARLOTTETOWN (9) NBA
THIRD PERIOD SHOTS ON GOAL BY (Series tied 1-1)
EASTERN CONFERENCE
7. Washington, Kuznetsov 23 Tampa Bay 14 10 12—36 Sunday Sunday
GP W L OTL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 Strk
(Backstrom, Carlson) 1:10 (pp). New Jersey 11 13 7—31 Quebec 3 Charlottetown 0
ATLANTIC DIVISION 8. Washington, Oshie 17 (Jerabek, Goal — Tampa Bay: Vasilevskiy (L, 42- Saturday Cleveland 121, Brooklyn 114
x-Tampa Bay 75 51 20 2 2 272 213 106 27-8-2-024-12-0-2 7-3-0-0 L-1 Burakovsky) 4:52. 15-3). New Jersey: Kinkaid (W, 21-10-2). Charlottetown 6 Quebec 2 Milwaukee 106, San Antonio 103
x-Boston 73 46 17 8 2 243 188 102 25-7-5-021-10-3-2 6-2-2-0 W-1 9. Montreal, Hudon 10 (Reilly, Shaw) Power plays (goals-chances) — Tampa Indiana 113, Miami 107, OT
Toronto 75 45 23 5 2 255 213 97 26-8-2-019-15-3-2 6-3-1-0 W-2 9:28. Bay: 1-2; New Jersey: 0-1. WHL PLAYOFFS Boston 104, Sacramento 93
METROPOLITAN DIVISION 10. Montreal, Gallagher 28 (Drouin, Attendance — 16,514 at New Jersey. L.A. Clippers 117, Toronto 106
Washington 75 44 24 6 1 236 221 95 26-9-2-018-15-4-1 7-3-0-0 W-3 Petry) 18:03 (pp). FIRST ROUND New York 101, Washington 97
Pittsburgh 76 43 27 4 2 251 233 92 28-8-2-015-19-2-2 6-2-2-0 W-1 Penalties — Drouin Mtl (hooking) 1:00; AHL All Times Local Portland 108, Oklahoma City 105
Columbus 76 42 29 1 4 215 208 89 25-12-1-117-17-0-39-1-0-0 L-1 Wilson Wash (high-sticking) 5:19; DIVISION SEMIFINALS Atlanta at Houston
WILD CARD Ovechkin Wash (slashing) 17:05. Sunday (Best-of-7) Utah at Golden State
Philadelphia 76 38 25 6 7 230 228 89 19-13-3-319-12-3-44-4-1-1 L-1 SHOTS ON GOAL BY EASTERN CONFERENCE
New Jersey 75 39 28 4 4 225 225 86 19-14-2-120-14-2-36-4-0-0 W-2 Washington 10 10 10—30 San Diego 2 Cleveland 1 EAST DIVISION Saturday
Montreal 9 5 7—21 Belleville 8 Laval 2 MOOSE JAW (1) VS. P. ALBERT (WC2)
Florida 73 38 28 4 3 223 224 83 23-11-1-215-17-3-16-3-1-0 W-1 Goal — Washington: Grubauer (W, 13-9- Bridgeport 6 W-B/Scranton 3 (Series tied 1-1) Philadelphia 120, Minnesota 108
Carolina 75 33 31 8 3 208 239 77 17-15-5-116-16-3-24-6-0-0 W-2 3). Montreal: Price (L, 15-24-6). Toronto 2 Springfield 0 Saturday Detroit 117, Chicago 95
NY Rangers 75 33 34 3 5 219 241 74 21-14-2-212-20-1-3 4-4-1-1 W-1 Power plays (goals-chances) — Hartford 4 Hershey 2 Moose Jaw 3 Prince Albert 2 (OT) Orlando 105, Phoenix 99
NY Islanders 75 31 34 7 3 242 273 72 17-16-3-114-18-4-2 2-5-2-1 L-2 Washington: 2-3; Montreal: 1-3. Utica 4 Binghamton 3 Friday Houston 114, New Orleans 91
Montreal 76 27 37 6 6 192 243 66 17-13-4-410-24-2-2 2-7-0-1 L-1 Attendance — 21,302 at Montreal. San Jose 3 Tucson 3 Prince Albert 5 Moose Jaw 3 L.A. Lakers 100, Memphis 93
Detroit 75 27 37 10 1 192 233 65 14-15-7-113-22-3-01-8-1-0 L-2 Milwaukee 7 Iowa 2 Charlotte 102, Dallas 98
EDMONTON 3, LOS ANGELES 2
Ottawa 74 26 37 4 7 203 262 63 15-17-2-411-20-2-34-5-0-1 L-4 Chicago 3 Grand Rapids 2 (SO) SWIFT CURRENT (2) VS. REGINA (3)
FIRST PERIOD
Buffalo 75 23 40 10 2 174 248 58 11-23-3-212-17-7-03-6-0-1 L-4 1. Edmonton, Aberg 4 (unassisted) 0:45. (Series tied 1-1) Friday
Monday
2. Edmonton, McDavid 37 (Rattie, Saturday
WESTERN CONFERENCE Larsson) 15:32.
All Times Eastern
Regina 2 Swift Current 1 Denver 108, Washington 100
GP W L OTL SL GF GA Pts Home Away Last 10 Strk Rockford at Manitoba, 8 p.m. Indiana 109, L.A. Clippers 104
3. Los Angeles, Muzzin 8 (Pearson, Friday
Carter) 16:00. Swift Current 3 Regina 0 Cleveland 120, Phoenix 95
CENTRAL DIVISION OHL PLAYOFFS Minnesota 108, New York 104
x-Nashville 74 48 16 4 6 239 187 106 25-8-1-3 23-8-3-3 7-2-0-1 L-2 Penalties — Bear Edm (slashing) 18:39. Monday
SECOND PERIOD Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m. Toronto 116, Brooklyn 112
Winnipeg 74 45 19 8 2 245 192 100 28-7-2-017-12-6-2 7-2-1-0 W-4 FIRST ROUND Milwaukee 118, Chicago 105
Minnesota 74 42 24 6 2 231 211 92 25-6-6-117-18-0-1 6-3-1-0 W-1 4. Edmonton, McDavid 38 (Slepyshev, All Times Eastern
Sekera) 4:08. CENTRAL DIVISION Oklahoma City 105, Miami 99
PACIFIC DIVISION CONFERENCE QUARTER-FINALS
5. Los Angeles, Carter 9 (Rieder, Pearson) MED. HAT (1) VS. BRANDON (WC1) San Antonio 124, Utah 120, OT
Vegas 75 47 21 4 3 250 204 101 26-9-1-121-12-3-2 5-3-1-1 L-2 (Best-of-7)
6:19. (Medicine Hat leads series 1-0) Boston 105, Portland 100
San Jose 75 43 23 6 3 232 203 95 24-11-2-119-12-4-2 8-2-0-0 W-7
Penalties — Toffoli LA (tripping) 19:51. Sunday Golden State 106, Atlanta 94
Anaheim 75 38 24 6 7 212 200 89 22-10-3-216-14-3-56-3-1-0 L-1 EASTERN CONFERENCE
WILD CARD THIRD PERIOD Brandon at Medicine Hat
HAMILTON (1) VS. OTTAWA (8) Friday Monday
Colorado 75 41 26 7 1 239 218 90 26-10-2-015-16-5-16-2-2-0 W-1 No Scoring.
(Hamilton leads series 1-0) All Times Eastern
St. Louis 75 42 28 5 0 209 196 89 23-15-0-019-13-5-07-2-1-0 W-5 Penalties — Lewis LA (slashing) 3:33. Medicine Hat 7 Brandon 2
Sunday
SHOTS ON GOAL BY Ottawa at Hamilton
LETHBRIDGE (2) VS. RED DEER (3) Denver at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Los Angeles 76 41 28 6 1 221 190 89 19-14-3-022-14-3-15-3-1-1 L-1 Los Angeles 9 16 4—29 Tuesday
(Lethbridge leads series 2-0) L.A. Lakers at Detroit, 7 p.m.
Dallas 76 38 30 5 3 215 208 84 24-12-3-014-18-2-31-7-1-1 L-8 Edmonton 11 7 9—27 Hamilton at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
Saturday New York at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
Calgary 76 35 31 5 5 205 231 80 15-18-3-120-13-2-43-6-1-0 L-5 Goal — Los Angeles: Quick (L, 30-27-2).
Lethbridge 8 Red Deer 3 Memphis at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Edmonton 75 34 36 4 1 217 238 73 17-17-3-017-19-1-1 7-2-1-0 W-3 Edmonton: Talbot (W, 29-27-2). BARRIE (2) VS. MISSISSAUGA (7)
Friday Boston at Phoenix, 10 p.m.
Chicago 76 31 36 8 1 214 234 71 17-17-4-014-19-4-1 3-6-1-0 W-1 Power plays (goals-chances) — Los (Mississauga leads series 1-0)
Vancouver 76 27 40 6 3 197 247 63 12-18-5-115-22-1-22-8-0-0 W-1 Angeles: 0-1; Edmonton: 0-2. Lethbridge 6 Red Deer 0
Monday SUNDAY
Arizona 75 25 39 6 5 186 241 61 15-20-1-310-19-5-25-5-0-0 L-2 Attendance — 18,347 at Edmonton. Mississauga at Barrie, 7:30 p.m.
COLORADO 2, VEGAS 1 (SO) Tuesday WESTERN CONFERENCE
Note: x — clinched playoff berth. The top three teams per division and the two next- FIRST PERIOD B.C. DIVISION L.A. CLIPPERS 117, TORONTO 106
Barrie at Mississauga, 7 p.m.
best records in the conference qualify for the playoffs; a winning team is credited with 1. Colorado, Soderberg 16 (Compher, KELOWNA (1) VS. TRI-CITY (WC1) L.A. CLIPPERS (117)
two points and a victory in the W column; a team losing in overtime or shootout Kerfoot) 13:52 (pp). (Tri-City leads series 2-0) Johnson 3-7 0-0 9, Harris 7-15 4-5 20,
KINGSTON (3) VS. NORTH BAY (6) Jordan 2-5 5-9 9, Rivers 5-14 0-0 11,
receives one point, which is registered in the respective OTL or SOL column. Penalties — Merrill VGK (holding) 9:01; Saturday
(Series tied 1-1) Teodosic 5-13 4-4 15, Dekker 0-0 0-0 0,
Sunday 4. Toronto, Brown 14 (Dermott, Rielly) Haula VGK (tripping) 12:21; Comeau Col Sunday Tri-City 9 Kelowna 7
(slashing) 16:34. Wednesday Harrell 9-12 1-2 19, Marjanovic 2-3 0-0 4,
14:19. Kingston 4 North Bay 3
SECOND PERIOD Kelowna at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m. L.Williams 10-24 5-5 26, Thornwell 1-2 2-
Pittsburgh 5 Philadelphia 4 (OT) Penalties — Zetterberg Det (high- Friday
No Scoring. 2 4. Totals 44-95 21-27 117.
Vancouver 4 Dallas 1 sticking) 17:24. North Bay 5 Kingston 2
Penalties — Marchessault VGK VICTORIA (2) VS. VANCOUVER (3) TORONTO (106)
Nashville at Winnipeg THIRD PERIOD Anunoby 3-8 0-2 7, Ibaka 5-12 0-0 12,
Boston at Minnesota 5. Detroit, Nielsen 15 (Witkowski, (tripping) 2:10. NIAGARA (4) VS. OSHAWA (5) Saturday
Valanciunas 7-11 1-1 16, Lowry 4-9 0-0
Anaheim at Edmonton Kronwall) 4:58. THIRD PERIOD (Niagara leads series 2-0) Victoria 5 Vancouver 4
Friday 11, DeRozan 3-12 5-5 11, Miles 4-12 0-0
6. Toronto, Nylander 17 (Matthews) 7:27. 2. Vegas, Marchessault 24 (Theodore) Sunday
Vancouver 2 Victoria 1 11, Siakam 6-8 1-2 15, Poeltl 2-6 1-4 5,
Saturday 7. Toronto, Kadri 29 (Marleau, Marner) 1:15. Niagara 6 Oshawa 1
Wright 1-5 0-0 2, VanVleet 6-9 0-0 16.
12:34. Penalties — Carpenter VGK (tripping) Friday
U.S. DIVISION Totals 41-92 8-14 106.
Colorado 2 Vegas 1 (SO) Penalties — Daley Det (holding) 9:47. 2:27. Niagara 4 Oshawa 2
L.A. Clippers 28 25 27 37—117
San Jose 5 Calgary 1 SHOTS ON GOAL BY Overtime — No Scoring. EVERETT (1) VS. SEATTLE (WC2)
Toronto 35 25 20 26—106
St. Louis 2 Columbus 1 Detroit 11 19 11—41 Penalties — None. WESTERN CONFERENCE (Series tied 1-1)
3-Point Goals—L.A. Clippers 8-18
NY Rangers 5 Buffalo 1 Toronto 15 8 6—29 Shootout — Colorado wins 1-0 SS. MARIE (1) VS. SAGINAW (8) Saturday
(Johnson 3-3, Harris 2-3, Rivers 1-3,
Chicago 3 NY Islanders 1 Goal — Detroit: Howard (L, 19-27-8). Vegas: Perron miss, Haula miss, (Sault Ste. Marie leads series 2-0) Seattle 5 Everett 4 (OT)
L.Williams 1-4, Teodosic 1-5), Toronto 16-
New Jersey 2 Tampa Bay 1 Toronto: Andersen (W, 35-19-5). Marchessault miss. Sunday Friday
36 (VanVleet 4-6, Lowry 3-7, Miles 3-10,
Florida 4 Arizona 2 Power plays (goals-chances) — Detroit: Colorado: MacKinnon miss, Rantanen Sault Ste. Marie 8 Saginaw 0 Everett 4 Seattle 1
Siakam 2-2, Ibaka 2-5, Valanciunas 1-1,
Carolina 5 Ottawa 2 0-1; Toronto: 0-4. miss, Landeskog goal. Friday Anunoby 1-3, Wright 0-1, DeRozan 0-1).
Washington 6 Montreal 4 Attendance — 19,154 at Toronto. SHOTS ON GOAL BY Sault Ste. Marie 5 Saginaw 2 PORTLAND (2) VS. SPOKANE (3) Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A.
Toronto 4 Detroit 3 CAROLINA 5, OTTAWA 2 Vegas 11 10 12 7— 40 Monday (Spokane leads series 1-0)
Clippers 44 (Jordan 14), Toronto 48
Minnesota 4 Nashville 1 FIRST PERIOD Colorado 13 9 6 2— 30 Sault Ste. Marie at Saginaw, 7:05 p.m. Sunday
(Valanciunas 10). Assists—L.A. Clippers
Edmonton 3 Los Angeles 2 1. Carolina, Di Giuseppe 4 (Zykov) 7:34. Goal — Vegas: Fleury (SOL, 27-11-4). Spokane at Portland
17 (L.Williams 7), Toronto 24 (Lowry 8).
2. Ottawa, Ryan 9 (Dzingel, Karlsson) Colorado: Varlamov (W, 23-15-6). KITCHENER (2) VS. GUELPH (7) Saturday
Total Fouls—L.A. Clippers 16, Toronto
Friday 9:38. Power plays (goals-chances) — Vegas: ( Kitchener leads series 2-0) Spokane 4 Portland 3 (OT)
23. Technicals—Jordan, Lowry.
Penalties — Staal Car (tripping) 13:38. 0-1; Colorado: 1-4. Sunday A—19,800 (19,800).
New Jersey 4 Pittsburgh 3 (OT) SECOND PERIOD Attendance — 18,042 at Colorado. Kitchener 2 Guelph 1 MLB
Montreal 3 Buffalo 0 3. Carolina, McGinn 14 (Dahlbeck, Staal) NY RANGERS 5, BUFFALO 1 Friday
Winnipeg 3 Anaheim 2 (OT) 17:19. FIRST PERIOD Kitchener 7 Guelph 2 SPRING TRAINING PGA TOUR
St. Louis 4 Vancouver 1 1. NY Rangers, Kreider 15 (Zibanejad, Sunday
Penalties — van Riemsdyk Car CORALES PUNTACANA
Boston 3 Dallas 2 (tripping) 7:32; Ottawa bench (delay of Fast) 16:29. SARNIA (3) VS. WINDSOR (6)
2. NY Rangers, Vesey 16 (Zuccarello) N.Y. Mets 4, Miami (ss) 3 RESORT & CLUB
game, served by Chlapik) 17:19. (Series tied 1-1) CHAMPIONSHIP
Monday 18:02. Saturday Detroit 10, Atlanta 3
THIRD PERIOD At Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
All Times Eastern Penalties — None. Sarnia 4 Windsor 1 Baltimore 6, Philadelphia 5
4. Carolina, Hanifin 9 (Aho, Zykov) 8:29. FINAL ROUND — PAR 72
SECOND PERIOD Friday Boston 6, Minnesota 1
5. Carolina, Skinner 23 (Di Giuseppe) Brice Garnett, $540,000 63-68-69-70—270
Ottawa at Carolina, 7 p.m. 3. NY Rangers, Pionk 1 (Vesey, Hayes) Windsor 6 Sarnia 2 Houston 6, Miami (ss) 2
9:37. Keith Mitchell, $324,000 66-66-75-67—274
Florida at NY Islanders, 7 p.m. 3:59. Tampa Bay 11, N.Y. Yankees 1
6. Ottawa, Chabot 7 (Hoffman, Paajarvi) Kelly Kraft, $204,000 68-69-71-67—275
Buffalo at Toronto, 7 p.m. 4. NY Rangers, Zibanejad 27 (Kreider, OWEN SOUND (4) VS. LONDON (5) Washington 4, St. Louis 2
16:34. Denny McCarthy, $144,000 66-69-71-70—276
Arizona at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Pionk) 8:45 (pp). (Owen Sound leads series 2-0) Pittsburgh 7, Toronto 4
7. Carolina, Staal 17 (Williams, Lindholm) K.J. Choi, $91,688 71-68-72-66—277
Detroit at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. 5. NY Rangers, Vesey 17 (Spooner, Saturday Chicago Cubs 5, Kansas City 3
19:25 (en). Paul Dunne, $91,688 67-70-71-69—277
Washington at NY Rangers, 7:30 p.m. Hayes) 14:47 (pp). Owen Sound 4 London 3 (OT) Cleveland 6, Cincinnati 4
Penalties — None. Harris English, $91,688 71-69-67-70—277
San Jose at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Penalties — Nolan Buf (holding) 8:23; Monday Chicago White Sox 16, Milwaukee 1
SHOTS ON GOAL BY Seattle 11, San Diego 7 Seungsu Han, $91,688 67-67-72-71—277
Colorado at Vegas, 10 p.m. Scandella Buf, Holland NYR (fighting) Owen Sound at London, 7 p.m.
Carolina 5 8 11—24 San Francisco 5, Oakland 1 Tom Lovelady, $91,688 69-68-68-72—277
Calgary at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. 9:17; Kreider NYR (holding) 10:25; Eichel
Ottawa 12 8 16—36 Seamus Power, $91,688 68-67-71-71—277
Goal — Carolina: Ward (W, 21-13-4). Buf (slashing) 13:28. QMJHL PLAYOFFS Arizona 8, Colorado 3
Andrew Putnam, $91,688 70-68-70-69—277
SUNDAY THIRD PERIOD L.A. Dodgers vs. L.A. Angels
Ottawa: Condon (L, 5-15-5). FIRST ROUND Xinjun Zhang, $91,688 66-68-74-69—277
Power plays (goals-chances) — 6. Buffalo, Reinhart 20 (Okposo, O’Reilly) Abraham Ancer, $53,000 71-67-73-67—278
PITTSBURGH 5, PHILADELPHIA 4 (OT) 15:26 (pp). All Times Eastern Monday
Carolina: 0-1; Ottawa: 0-2. All Times Eastern Corey Conners, $53,000 64-71-67-76—278
FIRST PERIOD Penalties — Sproul NYR (hooking) 4:50; (Best-of-7)
Attendance — 16,555 at Ottawa Joel Dahmen, $53,000 71-66-74-67—278
1. Philadelphia, Sanheim 2 (Weal, Zibanejad NYR (tripping) 14:13; Nolan ROUND OF 16
Simmonds) 5:03. SAN JOSE 5, CALGARY 1 Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh, 1:05 p.m. Martin Flores, $53,000 68-71-68-71—278
Buf (hooking) 15:33. B-BOISBRIAND (1) VS. VAL-D’OR (16)
2. Pittsburgh, Brassard 21 (Sheary, FIRST PERIOD Tampa Bay vs. Detroit, 1:05 p.m. George McNeill, $53,000 67-71-69-71—278
SHOTS ON GOAL BY (Blainville-Boisbriand leads series 2-0)
Kessel) 9:38. 1. San Jose, Dillon 4 (Tierney, Meier) Baltimore vs. Norfolk, 3:05 p.m. Shawn Stefani, $53,000 68-72-70-68—278
Buffalo 21 9 14—44 Friday
3. Philadelphia, Manning 7 (Weal, 7:52. Chicago Cubs vs. Boston, 6:05 p.m. Troy Matteson, $39,000 66-73-68-72—279
New York 10 7 6—23 Blainville-Boisbriand 5 Val-d’Or 1
Filppula) 11:07. 2. San Jose, Hansen 2 (Burns, Goodrow) Chi. White Sox vs. Charlotte, 6:05 p.m. Tyler McCumber, $39,000 67-70-67-75—279
Goal — Buffalo: Lehner (L, 14-26-9), Tuesday
Penalties — Dumoulin Pgh (hooking) 9:06. Milwaukee vs. Houston, 7:05 p.m. J.T. Poston, $39,000 72-71-69-67—279
Ullmark (11 shots, 10 saves). NY Blainville-Boisbriand at Val-d’Or, 7:30 p.m.
15:09; Couturier Pha (hooking) 17:25; 3. Calgary, Stone 3 (Ferland, Stewart) Kansas City vs. Omaha, 7:05 p.m. Matt Atkins, $27,850 69-67-72-72—280
12:17. Rangers: Georgiev (W, 4-3-1). Tommy Gainey, $27,850 70-68-72-70—280
Voracek Pha (cross-checking) 19:48. Power plays (goals-chances) — Buffalo: A-BATHURST (2) VS. CHICOUTIMI (15) St. Louis vs. Toronto at Montreal,
Penalties — None. 7:07 p.m. Fabian Gomez, $27,850 69-70-70-71—280
SECOND PERIOD 1-3; New York: 2-3. (Series tied 1-1)
SECOND PERIOD N.Y. Yankees vs. Atlanta, 7:35 p.m. Trey Mullinax, $27,850 69-66-76-69—280
4. Pittsburgh, Hornqvist 24 (Kessel, Attendance — 18,006 at NY Rangers. Saturday
4. San Jose, Kane 26 (Tierney) 8:26 (sh). Cincinnati vs. Texas, 8:05 p.m. Geoff Ogilvy, $27,850 69-67-71-73—280
Schultz) 0:37 (pp). Chicoutimi 4 Acadie-Bathurst 0
Penalties — Dillon SJ (slashing) 1:59; Chicago 3, NY Islanders 1 San Diego vs. El Paso, 8:05 p.m. Patrick Rodgers, $27,850 74-65-72-69—280
5. Pittsburgh, Malkin 42 (Schultz, Friday
Andersson Cgy (holding) 6:14; Labanc Cleveland vs. Arizona, 9:40 p.m. Lanto Griffin, $19,521 69-68-75-69—281
Dumoulin) 2:37. FIRST PERIOD Acadie-Bathurst 3 Chicoutimi 1
SJ (hooking) 6:59; Goodrow SJ (high- L.A. Angels vs. L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. Matt Jones, $19,521 72-67-73-69—281
6. Philadelphia, Weal 8 (Gostisbehere, No Scoring.
sticking) 10:17; Hamilton Cgy (high- Oakland vs. San Francisco, 10:15 p.m. Nate Lashley, $19,521 70-70-70-71—281
Lindblom) 17:10 (pp). Penalties — Anisimov Chi (tripping) RIMOUSKI (3) VS. MONCTON (14)
Penalties — Brassard Pgh (high- sticking) 17:26; Backlund Cgy, Kane SJ (Series tied 1-1)
14:51.
sticking) 15:40; Dumoulin Pgh (cross- (roughing) 18:00.
SECOND PERIOD Saturday MLS TELEVISION
checking) 17:28. THIRD PERIOD 1. Chicago, Kane 26 (Sharp, Gustafsson) Rimouski 2 Moncton 1 (OT) MONDAY (EASTERN TIME)
THIRD PERIOD 5. San Jose, Braun 4 (Couture, Karlsson) Friday Saturday
2:36 (pp).
7. Pittsburgh, Crosby 26 (Schultz, 10:09. Moncton 4 Rimouski 1 AUTO RACING
2. Chicago, Saad 17 (Oesterle, Rutta)
Guentzel) 0:17. 6. San Jose, Kane 27 (Pavelski, Dillon) Columbus 3 D.C. 1
4:25.
8. Philadelphia, Couturier 31 12:10. HALIFAX (4) VS. BAIE-COMEAU (13) Kansas City 2 Colorado 2 NASCAR Monster Energy Cup: STP 500,
Penalties — Hickey NYI (tripping) 2:03.
(Gostisbehere, Giroux) 19:17. Penalties — Hamonic Cgy, Kane SJ (Halifax leads series 2-0) L.A. Galaxy 0 Vancouver 0 TSN 1, 2 p.m.
THIRD PERIOD New York City 2 New England 2
Penalties — None. (unsportsmanlike conduct) 3:15; Saturday
3. NY Islanders, Tavares 33 (Lee, Hickey)
Hamonic Cgy, Kane SJ (fighting) 3:15; N.Y. Red Bulls 3 Minnesota 0 BASEBALL
OVERTIME 17:18. Halifax 5 Baie-Comeau 3
Giordano Cgy (cross-checking) 4:13; Friday Portland 1 Dallas 1
9. Pittsburgh, Rust 13 (Crosby, Letang) 4. Chicago, Seabrook 6 (unassisted)
2:25. Hathaway Cgy, Dillon SJ (fighting) 15:02. Halifax 5 Baie-Comeau 2 St. Louis Cardinals at Toronto Blue Jays,
18:46.
SHOTS ON GOAL BY SN Ontario, Pacific, West, East, 7 p.m.
Penalties — None.
Calgary 11 17 10—38
Penalties — Lee NYI (holding) 1:55; 2018 WORLD WOMEN’S
SHOTS ON GOAL BY Anisimov Chi (tripping) 11:48. DRMMNDVLLE (5) VS. C. BRETON (12)
Philadelphia 14 18 13 0— 45 San Jose 9 14 10—33 (Series tied 1-1)
CURLING CHAMPIONSHIP BASKETBALL
SHOTS ON GOAL BY
Pittsburgh 6 14 8 4— 32 Goal — Calgary: Rittich (L, 8-6-3). San Saturday
Chicago 9 10 6—25 At North Bay, Ont.
Goal — Philadelphia: Lyon (11 shots, 8 Jose: Jones (W, 28-18-6). Cape Breton 5 Drummondville 4 (3OT) NCAA: Women’s Basketball
New York 10 8 14—32 PLAYOFFS
saves), Mrazek (L, 13-12-5). Pittsburgh: Power plays (goals-chances) — Friday Championship, Elite Eight, South
Goal — Chicago: Forsberg (W, 10-16-3). Sunday
Murray (W, 24-14-3). Calgary: 0-4; San Jose: 0-3. Drummondville 5 Cape Breton 2 Carolina vs. UConn, TSN 1, 7 p.m.
NY Islanders: Halak (L, 18-26-6).
Power plays (goals-chances) — Attendance — 17,562 at San Jose. Monday Denver Nuggets at Philadelphia 76ers,
Power plays (goals-chances) — Championship
Philadelphia: 1-3; Pittsburgh: 1-2. WASHINGTON 6, MONTREAL 4 Chicago: 1-2; New York: 0-2. Drummondville at Cape Breton, 8 p.m. SN 1, 7 p.m.
FIRST PERIOD Canada (Jones)7 Sweden (Hasselborg) 6 NCAA: Women’s Basketball
Attendance — 18,655 at Pittsburgh. Attendance — 13,091 at New York. (extra end)
1. Montreal, Galchenyuk 17 (De La Rose) VICTORIAVILLE (6) VS. GATINEAU (11) Championship, Elite Eight, Oregon vs.
NEW JERSEY 2, TAMPA BAY 1 Sweden 000 030 100 20 — 6
SATURDAY 8:35. (Victoriaville leads series 2-0) Notre Dame, TSN 1, 9 p.m.
FIRST PERIOD Canada 000 202 002 01 — 7
2. Washington, Kuznetsov 22 (Carlson, Saturday
1. New Jersey, Hischier 18 (Butcher,
Backstrom) 11:11 (pp). Victoriaville 3 Gatineau 2 HOCKEY
TORONTO 4, DETROIT 3 Mueller) 17:51. Third Place
3. Washington, Wilson 12 (Backstrom) Friday
FIRST PERIOD Penalties — Moore NJ (holding) 18:36; Russia (Moiseeva) 6 United States
14:49. Victoriaville 7 Gatineau 2 Buffalo Sabres at Toronto Maple Leafs,
1. Toronto, Kapanen 7 (Bozak, van Hedman TB (hooking) 19:50. (Sinclair) 5
4. Washington, Wilson 13 (Backstrom, TSN 4, 7 p.m.
Riemsdyk) 14:30. Burakovsky) 18:11. SECOND PERIOD Ottawa Senators at Carolina Hurricanes,
Penalties — Helm Det, Hyman Tor 2. New Jersey, Palmieri 21 (Zacha, Hall) R-NORANDA (7) VS. SHERBROOKE (10) Saturday
Penalties — Shaw Mtl (high-sticking) (Series tied 1-1) TSN 5, 7 p.m.
(fighting) 3:50; Brown Tor (hooking) 10:59. Qualification Bracket
10:35. Saturday Detroit Red Wings at Montreal
6:14; Bertuzzi Det (interference) 8:02; Penalties — Gibbons NJ (hooking) United States 10 South Korea 3
SECOND PERIOD Rouyn-Noranda 6 Sherbrooke 2 Canadiens, TSN 2, 7:30 p.m.
Helm Det (delay of game) 9:26. 18:19; Miller TB (face-off violation) Russia 7 Czech Republic 3
5. Washington, Beagle 7 (Orlov, Friday Colorado Avalanche at Vegas Golden
SECOND PERIOD 18:19. Knights, SN 1, SN Ontario, Pacific, East,
Chiasson) 4:52. Sherbrooke 2 Rouyn-Noranda 1 Semifinals
2. Detroit, Larkin 12 (Mantha) 4:32. 6. Montreal, Hudon 9 (Jo.Benn, Shaw) THIRD PERIOD 10 p.m.
3. Detroit, Bertuzzi 3 (DeKeyser, 3. Tampa Bay, Palat 9 (Sergachev, Point) Tuesday Canada 9 United States 7
19:58. Rouyn-Noranda at Sherbrooke, 8 p.m. Calgary Flames at L.A. Kings, SN West,
Zetterberg) 9:37. 4:22 (pp). Sweden 7 Russia 6
Penalties — Scherbak Mtl (hooking) 10:30 p.m.
Braden Halladay
draws ovation
on the mound
for Canada
MELISSA COUTO
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA.
Estrada says he’s happy to get wards,” the lanky teenager said on
Saturday before Canada’s final
game of the week at Walter Fuller
PERFORMER, 80 ENTREPRENEUR, 94
R entertainer” had a nearly lifelong career in try-music show The Happy Wanderers on Ottawa radio
country music as a guitar player, singer and station CRFA. Two years later, he moved to Montreal to
television host. Mr. Prophet, who died on play in clubs.
March 2 at the age of 80, performed with some of the While still building his career, he married young, in
biggest names in country music – Chet Atkins, Glen 1958. He and his wife, Jeanne (née Lalonde), had a son
he told a docu-
mentary filmmak-
er in a 2016 inter-
view.
Mr. Lazarus
Campbell, Andy Williams, the Oak Ridge Boys – and named Tony that same year – he also went on to be a opened his first
deftly held his own. professional musician – and another son, Jimmy, was store, Children’s
“He could do it all,” says country musician Jim Staf- born in 1964. Bargain Town,
ford, a long-time friend, of Mr. Prophet’s numerous He also began releasing albums, including an which sold furni-
skills. instrumental record in 1963. By the seventies, he had ture, in 1948, seek-
He was a prolific recording artist with numerous charting hits in Canada and the United States, includ- ing to cash in on
hits in Canada and the United States, including Sanctu- ing San Diego, Sanctuary and It Ain’t Easy Loving Me. the baby boom.
ary, No Holiday in L.A. and The Phantom of the Opry. He Mr. Prophet spent a lot of time in the United States Within a few years,
also collaborated on several duets, including If This is in those years and in 1969 set up a home in Nashville. he began selling
Love and I’m Glad We’re Bad at Something, with Glory- He later bought a club and renamed it Ronnie Proph- toys along with Charles Lazarus
Anne Carriere, whom he later married. et’s Carousel Club. He played there frequently. cribs and strollers.
He received four Juno nominations for Country In 1973, he hosted CBC-TVs Country Roads, a short- In toys, Mr. Lazarus discovered a more
Male Vocalist of the Year, winning the prize in 1978 and lived variety show that had Mr. Prophet, among other lucrative business: Because toys and stuffed
1979. The Canadian Country Music Association tasks, doing the voices for a puppet frog and duck. The animals quickly fell out of favour with chil-
named him both Entertainer of the Year and Country Ronnie Prophet Show then had a stint in 1974, also on dren, parents had to make frequent trips to
Music Duo of the year (with Ms. Prophet) in 1984, and CBC. the store to keep up with the latest fads.
he was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall He got a record deal with RCA in 1975 and moved He opened his first store dedicated exclu-
of Fame in 1999. over to CTV to host Grand Old Country, sively to toys in 1957 and called it Toys “R” Us
He hosted various country-music which had a long and successful run. (although he turned the R around to face the
variety shows on television in Canada In its final season in 1980-81, it was other way to make it look like a child had
in the 1970s and 80s. Even when he Ronnie was so full renamed The Ronnie Prophet Show. In written it).
wasn’t performing on stage, he was the later eighties, he hosted Rocky The company went on to open up cavern-
performing. of mischief mixed Mountain Inn and Ronnie ’n The Browns. ous big-box stores across the North American
“When Ronnie walked into a room, with a little bit of The early eighties proved a difficult suburbs, dominating toys sales with deep dis-
he made everybody laugh,” long-time fairy dust. He time for Mr. Prophet. His first marriage counts and a huge selection, and squeezing
friend Dave Bancroft says. “He made could get away ended and, in January, 1981, his long- out smaller toy shops.
sure everybody was okay.” That time collaborator Cecil (Cy) True, a TV Along the way Mr. Lazarus’s company
approach earned him the nickname with anything. producer and director, died in a fire at endeared itself to generations of children,
“the country Don Rickles.”
JIM STAFFORD
Toronto’s Inn on the Park hotel. with a lovable mascot in Geoffrey the Giraffe
He was so devoted to performing COUNTRY MUSICIAN, Mr. Prophet had visited Mr. True at and a hummable jingle: “I don’t want to grow
that in 2010, on one of his last tours in LONG-TIME FRIEND OF the office he’d set up in the hotel, and up, I’m a Toys ‘R’ Us kid.”
Canada, he had not been feeling well RONNIE PROPHET said: “It’s lovely, but if there’s a fire, Toys “R” Us became a retailing power-
for days, with chest pain and short- you’re dead.” Glory-Anne Prophet says house internationally with stores in Spain,
ness of breath. A doctor with him on tour suggested her husband remembered saying that and “it haunted Canada and Singapore.
Mr. Prophet may have had a heart attack and should him for many years.” “He was a pioneer in big-box movement,”
go to the hospital. She met her future husband that same year, when said Gerald Storch, who was chief executive
This was before Mr. Prophet was to go onstage in she joined one of his tours. He was friendly, but also of Toys “R” Us from 2006 to 2013. “His busi-
Peterborough, Ont. “I feel fine,” he announced to his quite focused. When they ran into each other back- ness concept was as innovative as e-com-
crew. “I’m going to do the show.” stage the night before she joined the tour, he gave her merce is today.”
While his team wrung their hands backstage, Mr. a hug and welcomed her. “And if you’re not ready by 8 Mr. Storch said he regularly reminded his
Prophet delivered what he wife recalls as “the best a.m. you have to find your way to the next city.” staff of the founder’s key business principles:
show he did on the whole tour.” A year later, the two recorded their first song “Having more toys than anyone else, having
After he left the stage, he got into an ambulance together, and released several more before their mar- great prices and being in stock when no one
and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was diag- riage in 1986. else is in stock.”
nosed as having had a major heart attack. He was then In 1997, the couple moved to Branson. For a time, Born on Oct. 4, 1923, in Washington and
sent by ambulance to Toronto for further treatment. they did daily shows there from 9:30 a.m. to noon. raised there, Charles Philip Lazarus was in-
Mr. Prophet’s dynamic performances were legend- They performed live regularly in Branson for 10 years. spired to open his own retail business after
ary. For many years, he did daily shows with his wife in In 2015, they retired and moved to Tavares, Fla. helping his parents, Frank and Phoebe, run a
Branson, Mo., a hub of country-music live shows. Although he lived most of his adult life in the Unit- bicycle shop. He decided to go into baby fur-
He’d do silly things like dress up with a mask and ed States, Mr. Prophet always stayed connected to niture after watching servicemen return from
cape for The Phantom of the Opry. He even made him- Canada. He and his wife would often spend their the Second World War, marry and start hav-
self a horse costume out of wire (a crew member limited vacation time near Calumet. “He loved the ing children.
helped with the sewing) and he’d get right inside it for Laurentians,” Ms. Prophet says. He is buried at a ceme- Toys, he learned, can be a more fickle busi-
the song Horses Scare the Hell Out of Me. He’d use a tery near the family farm. ness. “If you come to us to buy a toy, nobody
crutch and put a boot on it to dress up like a three- Mr. Prophet was a high-energy person who once makes you buy a toy,” he told the documen-
legged man for another song. jumped off his tour bus in Quebec to hunt for four-leaf tary filmmaker. “Although over the years, I
While he had a basic show and set list, he’d often ad clovers with his nieces and nephews. One of his hob- have taught children to say, ‘I need, rather
lib and come up with something new – which catered bies in later adult life was lawn care: He adored his rid- than I want it.’ ”
to the many fans who would see multiple shows. ing mower. His understanding of a child’s mindset
“There was always room for him to be silly,” Ms. Ms. Prophet says the best description of her hus- helped him amass a considerable fortune; he
Prophet recalls. Frequently, a crew member would go band of 37 years came from Mr. Stafford in a recent owned a Fifth Avenue duplex in Manhattan,
backstage in the middle of the show, laughing his phone call: “Ronnie was so full of mischief mixed with which was sold for US$21-million in 2013.
head off. “What did he do this time?” the rest of the a little bit of fairy dust. He could get away with any- Mr. Lazarus stepped down as chief execu-
crew would ask. thing.” tive and chairman in March, 1994. But he re-
Ronald Lawrence Vincent Prophet was born on Before his death, Mr. Prophet was suffering from mained involved in the company as chair-
Dec. 26, 1937, in Hawkesbury, Ont., as there was no hos- numerous health concerns, including heart prob- man emeritus, making a visit to the Toys “R”
pital nearer to the Prophet family farm in Calumet, lems, and had also contracted a serious flu. He leaves Us headquarters in Wayne, N.J., as recently as
Que. Parents Victor and Elsie (née Gauley) had two his wife, two sons, three step-children and 12 grand- last year.
much older children, eldest Elvin and daughter Joy. children. He leaves his wife, Joan Lazarus, and two
(Ronnie was the second cousin of country musician daughters, Diane and Ruth.
Orval Prophet, who also grew up in Calumet.) Special to The Globe and Mail By the early 2000s, the company’s busi-
ness model was under pressure, and Toys “R”
Us was purchased by a group of private-equi-
ty investors in a leveraged buyout in 2005.
The new owners loaded the company with
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