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如果美国采取新关税
卡尼透露的细节不多，但表示其首要任务是达成涵盖所有行业的全面贸易协议
MARIEKE WALSH 渥太华 LAURA STONE 多伦多 ADRIAN MORROW 华盛顿
加拿大总理马克·卡尼周四表示，如果白宫推进新一轮贸易行动，加拿大不排除对美国征收报复性关税，尽管他将避免采取惩罚性措施作为主要目标。
在夏洛特顿举行的为期三天的省长会议结束之际，卡尼在新闻发布会上表示，他与美国之间的首要任务是达成一项全面的贸易协议，确保没有一个加拿大行业被排除在外。
总理表示，政府正“寻求一项涵盖所有关税相关行业的全面协议”。
“如果没有协议，一切都在讨论范围内。”
他拒绝透露渥太华正在考虑采取何种报复措施。卡尼还暗示，加拿大曾有机会签署部分协议，但为了获得一项能够解决所有针对加拿大工业（从钢铁到铝再到汽车）关税的贸易协定而放弃了该选项。
周一，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普宣布，其政府将从 8 月 19 日起对大范围的加拿大商品征收 50% 的关税。在他周四的新闻发布会上，
[[IMG_XXXX]] 加拿大队的持棒手 Ryan Bester 和持旗手 Kady Dandeneau 周四在 2026 年 Glasgow 英联邦运动会开幕式上率领队友行进。MICHAEL STEELE/GETTY IMAGES
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一名多伦多数学家因在算术几何领域通过跨子学科的启发性飞跃解决了挑战性问题，而获得了该职业的最高荣誉——菲尔兹奖。
雅各布·齐默曼（Jacob Tsimerman）现年 38 岁，是多伦多大学的数学教授，他与三位常驻美国的学者共同分享这一荣誉：
芝加哥大学的邓宇（Yu Deng）、纽约石溪大学的约翰·帕登（John Pardon），以及纽约大学和法国高等科学研究所的王宏（Hong Wang）。
每位奖项获得者都是因为在各自独立且分开的贡献（通常是与合作者共同完成）而获得认可，这些贡献横跨了
不列颠哥伦比亚省 金伯利居民在山火逼近度假小镇之际准备撤离 A3
加拿大人加入各项活动，英联邦运动会于周四在苏格兰拉开帷幕
多种数学专业领域。 王博士是自 1936 年首次颁奖以来，第三位获得菲尔兹奖的女性；而齐默曼博士则是首位就职于加拿大机构的获奖者。
世界新闻 特朗普表示，与沙特阿拉伯的核协议需要实现与以色列的关系正常化 A4
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加拿大数学家雅各布·齐默曼周四在费城走上台领取菲尔兹奖，面露喜色。 ERIN BLEWETT/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
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马克·卡尼表示，白宫的这一举动既是一种施压手段，也是一个结束已拖延一年多谈判的机会。 “我们看到了美国进行的一系列贸易谈判，通常会有一个截止日期，而且通常该截止日期伴随着巨额关税，”马克·卡尼说道。 他提醒道，他并未暗示自己认为与美国的谈判结果会是正面还是负面。他用法语表示，虽然存在报复的可能性，但另一方面，也有利于两国利益的合作选项。
卡尼，A6
四位奖项获得者于周四在费城举行的国际数学家大会开幕式上公布。 该奖项以近一个世纪前提出并倡导该奖项的加拿大数学家约翰·查尔斯·菲尔兹 (John Charles Fields) 命名，每四年颁发一次。由两到四名个人获奖，每人可获得 $15,000。 菲尔兹奖常被描述为数学界的诺贝尔奖，但在某些重要方面与诺贝尔奖不同。每四年一次的颁奖间隔产生了一种期待感，对于数学家来说，这类似于国际足联世界杯赛前的氛围。此外，该奖项仅限于 40 岁以下的数学家。
菲尔兹奖，A7
商业报道 由于担心中东战争扩大，原油价格创三个月新高 B1
ELENA BECATOROS FATMA KHALED COLLIN BINKLEY 开罗
美国军方周四宣布，随着航运路线冲突升级，正进行第 13 个夜晚的对伊朗打击。此前，也门受伊朗支持的胡塞武装表示，他们袭击了红海的两艘沙特油轮，随着国际油价突破每桶 100 美元，这可能会扩大伊朗战争。 美国中央司令部表示，最新的袭击旨在“进一步削弱伊朗威胁过境区域海域的平民海员和商船的能力”，因为美国正致力于重新控制霍尔木兹海峡并恢复国际航运流动。 不久之后，伊朗国家媒体报道了 بندر阿巴斯 (班达尔阿巴斯) 和格什姆沿海峡的爆炸，以及西北部安迪梅什和奥米迪耶附近的情况。 与此同时，胡塞武装威胁要关闭另一条关键贸易路线，而世界经济已经因伊朗关闭霍尔木兹海峡而摇摇欲坠。这一威胁出现之际，伊朗和美国正为了争夺该海峡的控制权而升级攻击；在和平时期，全球五分之一的石油和天然气通过该海峡运输，这引发了对替代路线的争夺。 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普威胁称，如果胡塞武装继续袭击船只，将对其进行“重大的军事惩罚”。
胡塞武装，A5
马修·斯凯斯 (MATTHEW SCACE) 加尔格里 马修·弗兰克 (MATTHEW FRANK) 多伦多
一名被多伦多警方指控在亲巴勒斯坦集会中涉嫌实施恐怖主义罪行的男子，此前曾处于关于抗议活动中可接受表达方式的辩论中心；两年前的一张关于他的照片引发了联邦政治家的批评，并导致了多起诽谤诉讼。
33 岁的艾哈迈德·哈桑·哈贾马德 (Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad) 周二被逮捕，并被指控参与或资助哈马斯 (Hamas) 的活动。据信，这是加拿大《反恐法》 (Anti-Terrorism Act) 一次具有潜在开创性的应用。多伦多警方表示，在他在 2024 年 5 月和 9 月的两次游行中出现后，警方收集了证据，支持其与该指定恐怖组织关联活动的指控。
在安大略省高等法院提交的起诉书并未提供关于哈贾马德先生在抗议活动中具体说了什么而导致警方对其展开调查的额外信息。他的律师否认了这些指控，且这些指控尚未经过法庭审理。
除该项指控外，哈贾马德先生在一段广泛传播的照片显示他参加 2024 年耶路撒冷日 (Al-Quds Day) 集会后，也成为了争议的对象。
耶路撒冷日集会是一项年度亲巴勒斯坦活动，经常受到批评。
恐怖主义，A6
亚历克斯·科尔维 (ALEX COLVILLE)，《边境柯利犬》(BORDER COLLIE)，1972, 丝网印刷，12.1 X 12.1 厘米。玛格丽特·R·道 (MARGUERITE R. DOW) 捐赠，1987 格尔夫美术馆 (THE ART GALLERY OF GUELPH) 的麦克唐纳·斯图尔特艺术中心藏品
在整个七月，我们将展出格尔夫美术馆 (Art Gallery of Guelph) 的艺术作品，它是加拿大顶尖的文化空间之一。AGG 涵盖了历史和当代艺术，拥有 11,000 部以上艺术作品，以及加拿大公立艺术博物馆中规模最大的雕塑公园。该馆汇集了来自加拿大及海外的多元艺术之声，从早期的汤姆·汤普森 (Tom Thomson) 及七人画派 (Group of Seven) 成员的收购作品，到原住民、梅蒂人和因纽特艺术家的当代作品。artgalleryofguelph.ca
亚历克斯·科尔维 (Alex Colville) 以精准的线条勾勒和精心构建的写实构图而闻名，他经常通过动物来探讨本能、脆弱性、控制以及日常生活背后微妙紧张关系的主题。这幅丝网印刷画描绘了一只警觉的边境柯利犬，眼睛直视观众。背景中，一群羊在原野上平静地吃草，增强了作品中挥之不去的风险感和期待感。
罗伯特·罗特伯格 (ROBERT ROTBERG)
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南非的仇外心理是其教育系统失败的下游效应 A13
一篇关于美国声明目标在年底前与加拿大和墨西哥达成临时贸易协议的周四新闻文章中错误地指出，美国贸易代表杰米森·格里尔 (Jamieson Greer) 在参议院听证会上表示，其加拿大的对应官员称渥太华不会对最新关税采取报复措施。格里尔先生实际说道：“他们没有说他们会报复。”
《环球邮报》致力于维护最高的道德、法律和编辑标准。 桑德拉·E·马丁 (SANDRA E. MARTIN)，标准编辑，standardseditor@globeandmail.com
后者在对俄战争看法转变后到访
JILL COLVIN VOLODYMYR YURCHUK 基辅
劳拉·卢默（Laura Loomer）是以煽动性社交媒体评论著称的美国总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的坚定盟友。在对战争的看法发生戏剧性转变后，她于周四与乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基（Volodymyr Zelensky）进行了会谈，此举可能会在华盛顿引发政治反响。
卢默女士曾多年淡化俄罗斯对乌克兰的入侵，并向其近两百万名追随者放大俄罗斯的宣传。本周，她改变了心意。
“刚刚在乌克兰经历了我的第一次空袭。警报大作。这就是每个乌克兰人的日常生活，”卢默女士在访问该国期间在 X 上写道。“我经常说我不关心。现在回想起来，我那样说并不太友好。”
“我们需要有道德上的清晰认识，”她周四补充道。
对于一个多年来一直批评美国支持乌克兰国防，并声称乌克兰是“一个充满纳粹辩护者的国家”（俄罗斯用这一主张为其长年的入侵辩护）且“由一个圣战辩护者领导”的女性来说，这是一个令人震惊的转变。
目前尚不清楚是什么促使卢默女士此次旅行，也不清楚她是如何安排与泽连斯基先生的会面的，她将此次会面宣传为其节目的一个采访。
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Adam Kapasi 思考 “爸爸笑话”如何 赋予人们 爱开玩笑的权利 A16
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周四一篇关于音乐家 Carole Pope 的《生活与艺术》（Life & Arts）文章中错误地提及了她的已故兄长。他的名字是 Howard。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 劳拉·卢默 2024 年在纽约被拍到。在本周改变心意之前，她曾多年向其近两百万名追随者淡化俄罗斯对乌克兰的入侵。TED SHAFFREY/美联社
她发布了两人的合影，随后发布了一段采访剪辑，她在其中询问泽连斯基先生关于在椭圆形办公室对峙的情况，以及自那时起他与特朗普先生的关系似乎是如何改善的。泽连斯基先生将这次缓和归功于在梵蒂冈的一次简短谈话——他称其为“历史性时刻，因为我们在 15, 20 分钟内改变了关系”。
此次会面早前由总统发言人 Dmytro Lytvyn 确认，他表示没有任何乌克兰政府机构组织此次访问。他补充说，泽连斯基先生的办公室首先是通过社交媒体得知卢默女士在乌克兰的。
加拿大纳税人 可能永远无法收回 他们在 戈迪·豪桥（Gordie Howe bridge） 上的投资 B4
周四一篇关于律师 Marlys Edwardh 的讣告中错误地将她的已故生活伴侣 Graham Turrall 称为法医精神病学家。他是一名法医心理学家。
除了与泽连斯基先生会面外，卢默女士还访问了基辅-佩切尔斯克修道院的圣母安息大教堂，这是该国最重要的宗教地标之一，上个月遭到了俄罗斯的袭击。
在一段从教堂内部录制的视频中，卢默女士指责俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京将俄罗斯塑造为亲基督教的形象是伪善之举。
“我认为，如果你试图用无人机袭击耶稣基督，就不应该被允许说你在保护基督教，”她说。
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七场火灾 已烧毁 1,119 公顷以上 位于不列颠哥伦比亚省度假小镇附近
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当肖恩·古德夫 (Schaun Goodeve) 走出他在不列颠哥伦比亚省金伯利 (Kimberley) 的家时，能看到火焰。由于野火距离此处约九公里，他正让家人为最坏的情况做准备——包括在撤离时选择带走 13 岁女儿的哪些童年物品。
如今，古德夫先生始终准备好应急包。他表示，BC 野火服务中心 (BC Wildfire Service) 的沟通在了解情况恶化时该如何应对方面起到了关键作用。
“不幸的是，对于加拿大各地的社区来说，这已经成了一种新的现实，对吧，”古德夫先生说道。
就他的家庭而言，他表示：“这对孩子们来说可能很困难，仅仅是那种不确定性。确保他们都感到安全，并且能及时获得更新信息，以及有人与他们沟通，这非常重要。”
在不列颠哥伦比亚省其他地区野火继续肆虐之际，位于该省东部的度假小镇金伯利附近的七场火灾已烧毁 1,119 公顷以上土地。波士顿酒吧 (Boston Bar) 自周二起一直处于撤离令之下，而克林顿村 (Clinton) 则自周三起被列入撤离警报状态。
尽管夏季开始时相对平静，但高温干燥的天气随后伴随雷击，引发了多场野火
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总统唐纳德·特朗普已动用其职权，旨在改变美国举行选举的方式。他一直在推进一项新立法——《保障美国选民资格法》（Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act），更广为人知的是其朗朗上口的缩写：SAVE法案。他诱导并威逼国会通过该法案，该法案将强制选民出示身份证件并证明其公民身份，他甚至拒绝在其他法案上签字，直到立法者通过此项法案。上周，他在一次罕见的黄金时段演讲中，要求进行他所谓的紧迫需要的改革，以解决“选举安全危机”。批评者认为，这些改革将等同于国会历史上颁布的最具限制性的投票立法。该法案尚未通过，部分原因在于少数共和党参议员的反对。阿拉斯加州的丽莎·穆尔科夫斯基（Lisa Murkowski）最近写道，这将导致“11月选举前出现混乱”。
尽管如此，国会中的共和党人目前正试图将其中部分元素作为一项不可被阻碍的预算法案的一部分予以通过，这几乎肯定会引发新的指控，称该国的保守派领导层正试图扼杀民主。毕竟，特朗普先生曾表示，SAVE法案将为共和党人“保证中期选举”的胜利。但该法案中的许多条款在美国广泛受到欢迎——而且其中一些在加拿大看来并不突兀。寻求加强选民审查的共和党人表示，他们只是想要常识性的检查，就像商店核实买啤酒者的年龄或航空公司核实旅客身份一样。“大量美国人希望能够信任他们的选举系统，”缅因州的共和党州参议员布拉德·法林（Brad Farrin）说道，他支持该州要求选民出示身份证件的六项法案。他认为，如果没有适当的检查，
“这会剥夺某些人的投票权，因为他们认为系统已经崩溃。”加拿大的经验表明，加强对选民身份证件的审查与行使选举权并不冲突。它还表明，特朗普先生的部分要求——在原则上，如果不是在精确细节上——在国境以北将是没有争议的。“大多数人认为，投票虽然是我们《宪章》保护的一项权利，但仍然是我们希望具备高度安全性的事情，”麦克马斯特大学（McMaster University）专门研究加拿大选举法的副教授安德里亚·劳勒（Andrea Lawlor）表示。加拿大选民通常被要求在填写选票前出示政府颁发的带照片身份证件——如驾照或其他带有照片和地址的文件。第二种选择允许出示一份包含 50 多个项目的清单中的两份文件，其中可以包括银行对账单、酒类身份证、来自学校的通信或来自避难所或汤厨房的确认信。第三种选择允许没有适当身份证件的人由某些人提供担保——
[[IMG_XXXX]] 周三，不列颠哥伦比亚省金伯利以西的马修克里克（Matthew Creek）山火上方烟雾升起。雷击在全省范围内引发了多起山火。BC WILDFIRE SERVICE VIA REUTERS
全省范围内。预计不列颠哥伦比亚省今年的山火季将与历史上最糟糕的几次一样严峻，天气预测似乎在模仿 2017, 2018 和 2021 年的破坏程度。 7月 19 日发布的针对东库特尼城市金伯利（Kimberley）的疏散警报，在古德（Goode）先生看来是一个好迹象，他在全加拿大的经济发展和城市规划社区工作中任职。他表示，给这座拥有约 9,000 人的城市敲响“警钟”是一个确保每个人都做好准备的机会。周三下午，金伯利的状况进一步恶化，因为
[[IMG_XXXX]] 特朗普政府的《保障美国选民资格法》将强制选民出示身份证件并证明其公民身份。MEGAN VARNER/GETTY IMAGES
与其一致。Lawlor教授表示：“加拿大赋予选举权的理念长期以来一直受到一个原则的驱动，即不对具有法定投票资格的人员设置限制，即便他们的生活环境可能使提供标准身份证件变得稍微困难一些。”公民身份的证明同样是必需的，尽管证明方式有所不同。在报税时通过勾选方框来登记投票的加拿大人必须证明自己是公民。选民无需提供任何公民身份证明，这种荣誉制度承认了许多人在提供出生证明或护照方面可能遇到的困难。加拿大选举局（Elections Canada）发言人克莱尔·麦克唐纳（Clare MacDonald）表示，相反，加拿大选举局将其国家选民登记表与加拿大移民、难民及公民部的信息进行比对，“并删除任何非公民”。在选举完成后也会进行类似的检查。
即使在美国，数百万选民也必须同时证明身份和公民身份。亚利桑那州自 2004 年起就要求州和地方选举的选民出示公民身份的证明文件；无法出示者只能参加联邦选举。但该群体仅占选民人数的 0.7 百分比，部分原因是该州围绕这一要求构建了其身份识别体系。1996 年之后颁发的任何驾驶执照都要求提供公民身份或居住证明。曾在马里科帕县（Maricopa County）登记员办公室担任特别项目经理的乔什·海伍德（Josh Heywood）表示：“我们不仅要求提供公民身份证明，还表示当你前往车辆管理局时，我们会为你提供便捷的证明办理方式。”该县涵盖了凤凰城的大部分地区，是美国最大的投票区之一。他说：“关键在于细节。”
而这些细节正是批评者对唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）先生希望在全国范围内推行的《SAVE法案》相关要求的担忧核心。例如，该法案对照片身份证件的要求比除了俄亥俄州以外的所有州都更严格。其对公民身份证明的要求将导致身份证明文件的需求骤增，据估计，目前有 12 百分比的登记选民（超过2000万人）不具备这些文件。加拿大前首席选举官、后任国际选举制度基金会（International Foundation for Electoral Systems）首席执行官的让-皮埃尔·金斯利（Jean-Pierre Kingsley）表示：“在选举前几个月对选举法进行重大变更会造成混乱。”他指出，美国的选举机构目前已经“资金不足”。（相比之下，加拿大选举局享有法定支出权限，使其能够根据需要进行支出。金斯利先生说：“这太棒了，它让我们拥有了世界上最好的选举制度。”）此外，其他州发现，要求提供公民身份证明带来的害处可能多于好处。在堪萨斯州，由于该要求禁止了数十名
[[IMG_XXXX]] 更高的温度、更强的风力以及充足的易燃燃料增加了火灾行为和烟雾产生。 “有大量的灰烬和燃烧材料落在社区里。人们感到一种不安。你会觉得不舒服，”古德夫（Goodeve）先生说。 该地区的火灾信息官宝拉·沃尔鲍尔（Paula Walbauer）表示，如果风暴带来闪电且随后几乎没有降水，较高的火灾活动可能会继续。此外，更强的风力将恶化火灾状况。 这种情况预计将
数千人无法登记投票，这远远超过了投票名册中非公民的估计人数。在犹他州，当局花费一年多时间审查了该州整个选民名单。他们在两百万名登记选民中仅发现了 27 名非公民。“每项选举保障都有成本。问题在于该成本是否与你试图解决的问题成比例，”海伍德先生（Mr. Heywood）说道。而且“如果你研究相关资料，很明显非公民投票的情况极其罕见。”在华盛顿，国会中的共和党领导人继续推进《SAVE法案》。周三，他们将该法案的部分内容塞进了预算立法中，而白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特（Karoline Leavitt）则表示，唐纳德·特朗普先生的“耐心即将耗尽”。然而，在国家的其他地区，甚至一些共和党人也认为，该法案中的某些措施不值得追求，例如要求提供公民身份证明。缅因州参议员法林先生（Mr. Farrin）表示：“我的个人观点是：在现阶段我会将此项搁置。”他认为，简单地确认选民身份更好。这样至少“能表明你是在合法地留在美国。”
沃巴尔伯女士（Ms. Walbauer）表示，这种情况将持续到周六晚上，届时冷锋可能会降低气温并减少该地区的火灾活动。较低的温度会增加潜在燃料的含水量。沃巴尔伯女士说，7 架直升机和 35 名消防员正在努力扑灭该地区的火灾。
金伯利（Kimberley）在 2018 年也曾被列入疏散警报状态，当时山火逼近社区，要求附近圣玛丽湖（St. Mary Lake）的居民撤离。
由于村庄北侧有超过 10,000 公顷的火势在燃烧，克林顿（Clinton）的数百名居民在周三收到了疏散警报。在坎卢普斯（Kamloops）西北部，距离金伯利 400 公里以外的地方，火灾导致了零星的疏散指令和警报。市长罗兰·斯坦克（Roland Stanke）在周四的一次采访中表示，火势正危险地逼近克林顿的分水岭，威胁到已经受到严格限制的供水。
“如果火势进入分水岭，那么我们就陷入大麻烦了，”斯坦克先生说。他说，社区各处都在落灰，烟雾让人难以呼吸和说话。
向南近 100 公里处的利顿（Lytton）是一个五年前大部分被山火摧毁的村庄，那里气温正创历史新高。
在博斯顿酒吧（Boston Bar）周围弗雷泽谷（Fraser Valley）火势肆虐的北面，根据加拿大环境部的数据，利顿在周三达到了 41.2 C，这是该村庄 2006, 以来该日记录到的最高气温。尽管创下新高，但仍远低于 2021 年 6 月 29 日利顿记录到的 49.6 C，那一天之后利顿便被大火夷为平地。该机构表示，利顿是周三刷新日最高气温记录的 12 个不列颠哥伦比亚省社区之一，其中卡契溪（Cache Creek）和奥索尤斯（Osoyoos）的气温均超过了 39 度。
在金伯利，古德夫先生（Mr. Goodeve）表示，他和其他居民保持着韧性。
“这就是我们的特质，”他说。“我们在照看邻居，确保每个人都安全。”
由加拿大新闻社（The Canadian Press）报道
安大略省警方在跨境调查中 缴获近 1.7 吨毒品
安大略省温莎市。警方于周四在安大略省温莎市宣布，在一项跨境走私调查中，共查获近 1.7 吨毒品，其中包括疑似可卡因。来自当地和省警方的调查人员称，此次行动是该省历史上规模最大的单一毒品破获案件之一。警方指称，一个犯罪网络利用商业卡车将毒品隐藏在合法货物中进行运输。查获的毒品包括 973 公斤当局怀疑为可卡因的物质，以及 660 公斤疑似甲基苯丙胺。官员表示，共有 21 人面临总计 102 项指控，两名来自温莎的嫌疑人仍在逃。此次破获行动涉及多个部门，包括温莎警方、安大略省省警以及皇家骑马警（RCMP），以及美国缉毒局（DEA）。搜查工作在温莎、布兰普顿（Brampton）、马卡姆（Markham）及其他社区展开。
“这个组织的触角遍布整个北美，不仅仅是在温莎和安大略省，”温莎警察局局长杰森·克劳利（Jason Crowley）在周四的新闻发布会上表示。警方称，他们还缴获了 17 把枪支（包括一支反坦克步枪）以及弹药。克劳利局长表示，毒品和武器走私“根深蒂固，坦白说，这令人不安”。加拿大边境服务局（CBSA）表示，今年以来，其在安大略省南部已查获超过 5,500 公斤非法毒品。
此次毒品破获案件的宣布，正值连接安大略省和密歇根州的、期待已久的戈迪·豪国际大桥（Gordie Howe International Bridge）即将启用前几天。在周四的新闻发布会上，当被问及大桥的启用是否会刺激温莎-埃塞克斯（Windsor-Essex）地区的毒品走私时，加拿大边境服务局的一名官员表示，观察交通模式如何变化将“非常有趣”。加拿大边境服务局南部安大略省区域总局长迈克尔·普罗西亚（Michael Prosia）表示，该桥配备了先进的毒品检测设备，并将部署大量人员，并补充道，警方在预防毒品走私方面处于有利位置。普罗西亚先生表示，加拿大边境服务局的工作人员为新桥的启用做了多年的准备。
加拿大新闻社 (THE CANADIAN PRESS)
美国总统在社交媒体上表示，该协议取决于沙特加入《亚伯拉罕协议》
AAMER MADHANI COLLIN BINKLEY MICHELLE L. PRICE 华盛顿
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在周四似乎为与沙特阿拉伯新签署的民用核计划协议增加了一项条件，称该协议将要求该王国通过《亚伯拉罕协议》将其与以色列的关系正常化。
当该协议在周三公布时，美国能源部和沙特政府都没有提到该协议取决于该王国与以色列的关系。
特朗普先生在一天后发布的社交媒体帖子声称，该协议取决于沙特加入这些协议，这一举动出乎意料，且几乎肯定会使任何最终批准变得复杂。
在 2020 年批准的这些协议扩大了与以色列拥有外交关系的阿拉伯和穆斯林多数国家的数量。
让沙特阿拉伯加入将是一项巨大的外交成就。沙特方面此前已明确表示，与以色列关系正常化首先需要为巴勒斯坦建国建立一条明确的路径。
以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡
Melissa Hortman 的男子 被判终身监禁
ELLEN SCHMIDT CLAUDIA LAUER 明尼阿波利斯
明尼苏达州民主党议员 Melissa Hortman 的亲友表示，一名男子在承认谋杀罪后，于周四被判处两项终身监禁外加 40 年，这未能抹去她的遗产，反而因为永远改变了他们的生活而造成了持久的恐惧与愤怒。周四，在对 Vance Boelter 的量刑听证会上，同行议员和枪击幸存者发表了讲话。Boelter 上个月承认了与杀害前众议院议长 Ms. Hortman 及其丈夫 Mark，以及导致州参议员 John Hoffman 及其妻子 Yvette 重伤相关的联邦指控。Boelter 先生，59, 在 6 月同意认罪，距离明尼阿波利斯地区的袭击发生已近一年，这样做是为了让联邦检察官不寻求死刑。Mark Hortman 的父亲和兄弟姐妹对无法对其判处死刑表达了愤怒。美国地方法官 John R. Tunheim 表示，这是
“我在多年审理数千起案件后所判处的最长刑期，但我相信这是应得的。”周四在法庭上，Hoffman 先生表示，他及其家人在日常生活的平凡细节中，也经常被提醒起那个夜晚极其严重的暴力行为。他表示，他们不再在家接收邮件，安装了实心钢门以作保护，并且因为伤情而改变了处理日常任务的方式。“被告盯着我的眼睛扣动了扳机。被告看着我的妻子，并决定做同样的事，”Hoffman 先生说。“我的妻子和我现在带着伤痛生活。我们的身体记得那些枪声。” Yvette Hoffman 表示，自从家中发生袭击后，她因受创过深而无法工作，且每周都去看心理治疗师。Boelter 先生上个月在法庭上承认，他花了数月时间确定并跟踪目标，随后伪装成警察开车前往他们的家中，意图将其杀害。这些杀戮引发了该州历史上最大规模的警力搜寻。民主党州众议员 Kristin Bahner 是 Boelter 先生当晚造访的三名立法者之一，但她和家人当时在度假。Bahner 女士表示，枪击事件令她深受震撼。Melissa Hortman 的父母以及 Hortman 夫妇的孩子们在发言时改变了基调，回忆起他们是细心、充满爱的父母和祖父母，是对数千人的生活产生积极影响的人。他们的女儿 Sophie Hortman 生动地描述了不得不向 Gilbert 告别的场景——这只金毛猎犬同样被 Boelter 先生枪击，但在他们到达兽医医院时还活着。她讲述了母亲与 Gilbert 之间在就寝前的习惯，Gilbert 因为太友好而未能通过服务犬测试，以及母亲给予它的照顾和爱。联邦辩护人 Manny Atwal 在周四的受害者影响陈述后仅简短发言，称 Boelter 先生通过认罪并接受终身监禁，对其行为表现出了悔意。在听证会的大部分时间里，Boelter 先生保持沉默且身体僵硬，对于幸存者和家属表达的痛苦几乎没有表现出任何情感或反应。“对于每一个我造成损失、痛苦、心碎、困惑、悲伤、羞愧或孤独的人，我深表歉意，”Boelter 先生说。Boelter 先生还面临州政府的指控，包括两项谋杀罪、四项谋杀未遂罪、冒充警察罪和虐待动物罪。Hoffman 先生及其家人于 4 月对 Boelter 先生提起个人伤害诉讼。亨内平县检察官 Mary Moriarty 在周四的一份声明中表示，针对 Boelter 先生的州政府起诉将立即推进，并指出首次出庭时间定在 8 月 3 日。
美联社
拒绝了巴勒斯坦建国的想法，认为这对该国的安全而言是不可持续的。 这位共和党总统还表示，该协议不允许浓缩铀。防扩散专家对此表示担忧，认为该协议未能包含防止铀浓缩至武器级水平的保障措施。 特朗普先生表示，该协议“将被批准，但完全取决于沙特阿拉伯加入备受尊敬且成功的《亚伯拉罕协议》”。他补充说，美国“不反对民用（非浓缩）核设施”。 当一名记者询问为何在最初的公告中没有提到这一条件时，白宫新闻秘书卡罗琳·莱维特表示，总统是“最终的交易达成者”，并且已在“多次场合”呼吁沙特阿拉伯加入该协议。 沙特驻华盛顿大使馆周四拒绝就特朗普先生关于该协议的断言发表评论。 内塔尼亚胡先生的办公室在一份声明中对沙特阿拉伯加入该协议的前景表示赞赏，称其为“中东和平的历史性跨越”。该声明未提及加强沙特民用核计划的协议。 特朗普先生一直试图在这些协议的基础上进行扩展，这些协议还正式建立了以色列与一些阿拉伯国家及穆斯林占多数国家之间的商业关系。沙特阿拉伯是中东最重要的阿拉伯强国，而特朗普先生认为，该王国加入这些协议对于建立该地区的长期稳定至关重要。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普（左）11月在白宫与沙特阿拉伯王国王储兼首相穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼会面。SAUL LOEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
据一名不愿透露姓名且未获授权公开评论的知情人士称，这项新的核协议预计将持续 30 年，并涉及美国公司参与该计划的开发。在美沙联合研究之后，该协议可能会允许在沙特阿拉伯建设一个铀浓缩设施。 根据美国和沙特政府的说法，该协议将提交国会审查。 该协议不包括国际原子能机构的“附加议定书”，如果包含该议定书，将允许进行更多的监测、检查和
[[IMG_XXXX]] 周四，一名居民和救援人员在乌克兰扎波罗热从一座在俄罗斯空袭中受损的公寓楼中清理碎片。路透社
MICHELLE L. PRICE JIM GOMEZ 菲律宾，马尼拉
美国国务卿马可·鲁比奥（Marco Rubio）周四表示，特朗普政府准备助力结束在乌克兰这场“毫无意义的战争”，但承认目前没有快速达成协议的路径，并称外交手段需要持续的努力和新的构想。
鲁比奥在菲律宾首都与俄罗斯外长谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫（Sergey Lavrov）举行了会谈，他在谈话中暗示了美国斡旋的谈判如何陷入停滞。他称过去的尝试是“不成功的，或者至少是没有结果的”，但他坚持认为，如果“条件和因素发生变化使其成为可能”，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普致力于这项工作。
“这就是挑战所在——一个双方都能接受的结局，”鲁比奥告诉记者。“我们已经尝试过，而且将继续尝试，看看是否能，你知道，找到一个能促成此事的中间地带。如果机会出现，我们准备扮演那个角色。”
鲁比奥在马尼拉举行的东盟（ASEAN）外长年度会议期间，与拉夫罗夫以及包括中国外交部长在内的其他几位领导人举行了会晤。
这位美国最高外交官表示，尽管美国在加强与伊朗的对抗、寻求结束俄罗斯在乌克兰战争的路径以及向古巴政府施压要求其做出改变，但美国依然专注于亚洲。
从周二开始的为期三天的闭门会议主要集中在中东地区升级的冲突以及南海的紧张局势，而当地周四又爆发了新的冲突。
“人们总会担心美国过于关注某个地方，而无法关注另一个地方，”鲁比奥说。但他指出，美国“每天都致力于亚洲事务”，并引用了该地区强有力的伙伴关系和经济联系。
在与鲁比奥会面后，拉夫罗夫在很大程度上忽略了记者的提问。位于莫斯科的俄罗斯外交部表示，他向鲁比奥强调了“进一步武装”乌克兰是“不可接受的”，并指责欧洲国家追求俄罗斯的“战略失败”。
俄罗斯外交部表示，拉夫罗夫重申俄罗斯准备好寻求“冲突的政治和外交解决方案”，并致力于履行去年俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京与特朗普在阿拉斯加峰会上达成的协议。
但鲁比奥表示，“我们将不得不寻找双方都能接受的新建议和新构想”。他表示，华盛顿对乌克兰的军事支持没有改变，北约盟友购买的武器将被转移到这个饱受战争蹂躏的国家。
另外在周四，乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基重申，他的优先事项是找到回归谈判的方法。
由于今年早些时候爆发的伊朗战争，美国调停俄乌战争的努力被掩盖。在临时停火协议崩溃后，华盛顿和德黑兰之间新一轮的袭击正在加剧。
特朗普已经警告过伊朗
据另一位熟悉该协议的人士核实。
这个石油富国（沙特）的能源部周三表示，该协议加强了“多样化能源来源、推进前沿技术，并以服务于两个友好国家共同利益的方式扩大合作与投资机会的努力”。
浓缩并不意味着自动获得核武器——一个国家还必须掌握其他步骤，例如同步高能炸药的使用。但这确实打开了武器化的门，引发了对伊朗计划的担忧。
特朗普大谈他推动延长协议的努力，但
以色列在加沙地带战争的后果，以及美国和以色列针对伊朗已持续近五个月的战争，使他的努力变得复杂。这些协议在某些签署国（如摩洛哥和巴林）中被证明是不受欢迎的，引发了广泛的抗议。尽管如此，特朗普政府仍然乐观地认为，在唐纳德·特朗普的第二个任期结束前，能够达成一项让沙特阿拉伯加入该协议的协议。
白宫和沙特阿拉伯尚未公开核合作协议的文本（即所谓的“123协议”），以及特朗普政府所称的“双边保障协议”，该协议由美国能源部长克里斯·赖特 (Chris Wright) 和沙特能源部长阿卜杜勒-阿齐兹·本·萨尔曼 (Abdulaziz bin Salman) 于周三签署。但该协议已经面临来自国会、部分以色列官员和核专家的审查。
随着协议细节在周三浮出水面，国会山及其他地方的反对声音开始迅速增加，共和党人和民主党人都对该协议的明智性提出了质疑。此外，通常支持特朗普政策的保守派评论员询问，总统在没有获得任何回报的情况下，为何要给沙特阿拉伯这样的协议。随后在周四，唐纳德·特朗普突然宣布，该协议取决于沙特阿拉伯加入上述协议。
美国将会在伊朗每次在霍尔木兹海峡向船只开火时，摧毁一座伊朗桥梁或一座发电厂。伊朗外交部长阿巴斯·阿拉格齐 (Abbas Araghchi) 对此回应称，该国的防御原则是“以眼还眼”。
“总统的政策是以头还眼，”卢比奥 (Mr. Rubio) 表示。“他们将为自己的行为付出沉重的代价。”
澳大利亚外交部长黄英 (Penny Wong) 再次对中国海军近期在该地区用核潜艇试射导弹表示担忧，称由于未能通知导弹飞经并落地的菲律宾及太平洋国家，这种行为具有破坏稳定性。
中国对此采取的行为进行了辩护，称此次发射是年度演习的一部分，并且已提前向该地区相关国家发出了适当通知。
在北京，中国海警表示，在周四的一次新冲突中，采取了包括监视和拦截在内的必要措施，驱离了两艘无视中方重复警告的菲律宾船只。中国表示，其行动专业且合法，并敦促菲律宾停止侵犯中国领土的挑衅行为。
然而，菲律宾海警表示，两艘渔船在向斯卡伯勒礁 (Scarborough shoal) 的菲律宾渔民提供燃油援助时遭到骚扰。其称，一艘中国海警船试图用强力水炮喷射其中一艘船但未击中，并称这些是“非法、强制性和侵略性行为”。
干扰德里通勤者与企业
由蟑螂人民党 (Cockroach Janta Party) 领衔的抗议者要求印度教育部长辞职
SAURABH SHARMA ANUSHREE FADNAVIS SUNIL KATARIA
由于当局在针对考试泄题而要求教育部长辞职的抗议活动中关闭了地铁站并屏蔽了移动互联网服务，印度首都的通勤旅程和商业活动受到了干扰。
一个贸易协会已敦促位于德里市中心、紧邻詹特·曼塔 (Jantar Mantar) 抗议现场的商业中心康诺特广场 (Connaught Place) 的所有店铺由于“危急情况”而提前关店。
在这样一个大部分支付通过手机上的统一支付接口 (Unified Payments Interface) 完成的城市里，互联网限制对小企业造成了尤为沉重的打击。
经营食品摊位的 38, 岁 Rakesh Yadav 表示，由于大多数人不再携带现金，他的日收入已从 5,000 卢比 ($73) 降至勉强 500 卢比 ($7)。
“让教育部长辞职……但至少不要毁掉我们的生计，”他说道。
24 岁的出租车司机 Umesh Kumar 同样发现自己的收入下降到每天仅 200 卢比 ($3)，因为他无法再通过常用的打车软件接单，而那些招手拦车的人很少携带现金。
路透社记者在周四晚上无法在该区域（包括抗议现场）使用移动互联网，在pop-
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“如果他们再次这样做，美国将追究伊朗的责任，因为胡塞武装是伊朗的代理人或委任机构，伊朗以及当然包括胡塞武装自身，都将受到严厉的军事惩罚，”唐纳德·特朗普在社交媒体上写道。随着辞令升级，经济后果也随之而来。国际基准布伦特原油价格周四飙升 6 % 以上，达到约 100 美元一桶。这是自 5 月以来的最高水平，此前双方在上个月达成了一项初步和平协议，但该协议随后破裂。与美国和伊朗均保持密切关系的伊拉克总理阿里·扎伊迪（Ali al-Zaidi）周四在德黑兰呼吁和平与对话；其办公室表示，他承诺不会允许伊拉克领土被用于攻击伊朗。扎伊迪先生本月早些时候在华盛顿与唐纳德·特朗普会面。
联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯（António Guterres）周四警告称，该地区正被拉入一个“不断扩大的对抗循环”，一场危机引发另一场危机，每一次升级都会触发下一次升级。“外交是唯一的前进道路，”古特雷斯先生告诉联合国安理会。他呼吁加强巴基斯坦调解结束战争的努力。
胡塞武装的 SABA 通讯社表示，反政府武装在红海袭击了两艘油轮 Encelia 号和 Layla 号，导致两艘船均起火。目前没有伤亡报告。这是自本周早些时候胡塞武装宣布封锁通过曼德海峡（Bab el-Mandeb Strait）的与沙特相关的航运以来，首次报道的对船只的袭击，此举是为了报复该王国对也门的封锁以及近期对反政府武装控制的也门首都萨那（Sanaa）国际机场的袭击。
位于阿拉伯半岛南端的曼德海峡是连接红海与亚丁湾的关键航运扼点。全球约 12 % 的贸易（包括全球四分之一的集装箱运输量）经由此处，通过埃及的苏伊士运河在欧洲和亚洲之间流动。
沙特官方的新闻社（Saudi Press Agency）报道称，一场袭击导致 Encelia 号在红海一夜之间起火。该报道未提及 Layla 号。英国海事贸易行动中心（United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center）表示，收到报告称一艘油轮在红海、沙特阿拉伯 Al Shuqaiq 西南 130 公里处被“不明飞行物”击中。
海运数据与分析公司 Lloyd’s List Intelligence 表示，胡塞武装的袭击危及了从沙特阿拉伯红海延布（Yanbu）港发出的石油运输，并且在霍尔木兹海峡（Strait of Hormuz）中断的基础上造成了“双重打击”。沙特阿拉伯已分流数百万桶——
胡塞武装的袭击危及了从沙特阿拉伯红海延布（Yanbu）港发出的石油运输，并且在霍尔木兹海峡（Strait of Hormuz）中断的基础上造成了“双重打击”，海运数据与分析公司 Lloyd’s List Intelligence 表示。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 蟑螂人民党（Cockroach Janta Party）的支持者周四在新德里的詹特·曼塔（Jantar Mantar）举行示威，要求印度教育部长达曼德拉·普拉丹（Dharmendra Pradhan）因涉嫌考试违规而辞职。 SAJJAD HUSSAIN/ AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
每天通过陆地管道向延布出口石油，因为战争封锁了波斯湾。劳合社（Lloyd’s）在周四的一次在线网络研讨会配套幻灯片中表示，胡塞武装的威胁“引发了对该路线可行性的质疑”。反政府武装声称他们正在封锁沙特阿拉伯，但在加沙战争高峰期宣布封锁以色列期间，他们袭击了许多与该冲突几乎或完全没有关系的船只，扰乱了全球贸易。伊朗表示，它有权管理霍尔木兹海峡的交通并可能收取费用，而在战争之前，该海峡对所有人免费开放。伊朗攻击了使用由美国军队监管且旨在脱离德黑兰控制的经过该海峡路线的船只。唐纳德·特朗普周四在社交媒体上表示，美国持有的被制裁的伊朗资金将支付战争中受损船只的修理费用。唐纳德·特朗普说：“请以此声明为准，直到另行通知，从此刻起，任何及所有对船只、货物或与其相关的损坏，都将由美国持有并控制的伊朗资金支付。”目前尚不清楚唐纳德·特朗普将使用何种法律机制来获取并使用这些资金，但他表示这样做是“公正且公平的做法”。为了应对伊朗的袭击，美国开始在伊朗境内扩大打击行动，并恢复对伊朗港口的 naval 封锁。美国中央司令部表示，自封锁恢复以来，它已重新引导约十几艘商业船只，并使其中一艘失效。言语战争也升级了。伊朗外交部长阿巴斯·阿拉格奇表示，德黑兰将对美国袭击其基础设施采取“以眼还眼”的政策。
美国国务卿马可·鲁比奥反驳说，唐纳德·特朗普的政策是“以头还眼”。鲁比奥在前往菲律宾参加区域峰会期间告诉记者：“在他们清醒之前，代价将在每个夜晚继续攀升。”伊朗卫生部周四表示，自 6 月 27 日重启美国空袭以来，已有 55 人死亡，629 人受伤。伊朗通过袭击能源基础设施以及为干旱的邻近海湾国家提供饮用水的淡化厂来回应美国的攻击。民意调查显示，这场战争在美国人中并不受欢迎，这一事实体现在周四美国众议院勉强通过了一项要求停止战争的决议。尽管有少数共和党人跨党派支持该措施，但投票在很大程度上仍具有象征意义。
ular 五星级酒店以及在中心商业区。 政府和电信部门的发言人没有立即回应路透社的置评请求。 两名消息人士称，电信公司已遵守政府关闭移动数据的指令。与此同时，当局表示部分地铁站已关闭，列车上也有定期广播。 金融专业人士多莉·哈尔达（Dolly Haldar）发现，由于离她办公室最近的地铁站关闭，她的通勤受到了影响。 她告诉路透社：“我们的通勤成本增加了，无法准时到达办公室，路上的拥挤程度也增加了。显然我们会感到沮丧。” 领导此次运动的“蟑螂人民党”（The Cockroach Janta Party）表示，人们将会到来
撤回对 《纽约时报》记者的传票
MICHAEL R. SISAK ERIC TUCKER LARRY NEUMEISTER 纽约
由于法律工作草率而受到一名联邦法官的批评，政府于周四勉强撤回了传票。这些传票原本将强制三名《纽约时报》记者就有关美国总统唐纳德·特朗普获赠的卡塔尔空军一号专机文章的消息来源提供证词。在联邦地区法院，这次撤回是在一名显然感到恼火的法官阿伦·苏布拉马尼安 (Arun Subramanian) 与政府律师之间进行了激烈的交锋之后发生的。此时，特朗普政府正积极打击其不喜欢的报道和覆盖范围的新闻机构，并试图严厉打击政府内部的泄密行为。
面对激烈的法律反对和法官的严厉谴责，政府的退让标志着司法部在强制记者在大陪审团前披露消息来源的激进尝试中再次后撤。该政府最近还撤回了类似的传票，此前这些传票试图强制《华盛顿邮报》和《华尔街日报》的记者在弗吉尼亚州就另一起涉及国家安全报道提供证词。
苏布拉马尼安法官表示，他本会将准该报拒绝传票的请求，因为有关向记者发送传票的法律和法规规定，传票应作为调查的最后手段。法官在引用旨在防止违反第一修正案的规则时表示：“传票是最后一步，而不是第一步，而是最后一步。”他表示，政府的行为将法律和法规“颠倒了”。
“当你看到这种情况时，如果这是一个民事诉讼，我通常会要求当事人说明理由，解释为什么不应对其进行制裁，”法官说道，他指的是对律师严重违规行为的惩罚。
听证会后，司法部在一份声明中对该法官发起猛烈抨击，称他“威胁要对我们的律师进行制裁，除非撤回传票，并阻止我们展示此次调查的细致过程。”声明称：“大陪审团有权在联邦刑事调查中听取所有重要证人的证词。这位法官的行为凌驾于清晰且长期存在的原则和常识之上——阻碍大陪审团在国家安全调查中获取核心证据。”声明补充道：“请不要误解，此次调查仍在进行中，我们将追究那些通过泄露机密信息（一种严重的联邦犯罪）威胁国家安全者的法律责任。”
苏布拉马尼安法官指出，由于涉及对记者的保护，政府在向记者发送传票之前，必须确保无法从任何其他来源获得所需信息。一名司法部律师肖恩·巴克利 (Sean Buckley) 将政府的失误描述为
尽管车站关闭，抗议仍在继续。 Anant，21, 岁，是那些周四冒着地铁中断的困难首次参加静坐示威的人之一。 “一个良好的教育系统是最起码的，我们应该[去抗议]……为了我们自己的未来，”他在乘坐火车寻找前往抗议现场的替代路线时告诉路透社。
无意中的错误，并表示“没有人试图欺骗”。巴克利先生为其他传票道歉，这些传票寻求获取一名记者的母亲以及两名记者的配偶的电话号码记录。“法官，那是我们的一个错误，我们承认，”巴克利先生说。“这是为了快速推进而导致的结果。”
“这些事情开始堆积起来了，”苏布拉马尼安法官说，语气变得越来越不耐烦。
尽管特朗普政府试图对由于向《时报》记者发出传票以试图迫使其透露消息来源而引发的诉讼保密，但此次听证会仍公开举行。该报的律师对大陪审团传票的有效性提出了质疑，同时还质疑了针对几名《时报》记者及其部分亲属的电话记录传票。
包括该报执行编辑和总法律顾问在内的《时报》高层官员在周四的庭审过程中坐在旁听席上观看。
《时报》新闻编辑部的首席律师大卫·麦克劳在听证会后的一份声明中表示，这次听证会“是对我国致力于保障新闻自由的一次重要肯定”。
总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney，中）周四在夏洛特顿举行的首脑会议期间，与加拿大-美国贸易部长多米尼克·勒布朗（Dominic LeBlanc，左）及爱德华王子岛省省长罗布·兰茨（Rob Lantz）一同向加拿大的各省省长发表讲话。DARREN CALABRESE/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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“我们不需要提前做出回应。事实上，我认为在现阶段提前回应将会产生反效果，”马克·卡尼先生表示。与此同时，特朗普政府周四表示，将对数十个国家征收另一项 10 到 12.5 per cent 的关税，这是其在最新尝试中维持对大多数美国贸易伙伴征收基准税。该关税对加拿大而言将达到 10 per cent，它取代了 2 月份实施的临时关税，而该临时关税本身取代了去年根据《国际紧急经济权力法》（IEEPA）宣布的“解放日”关税。该关税此前被美国最高法院裁定为非法。最新的关税将于周五生效，是根据 1974, 年《贸易法》第 301 条实施的，表面上是为了惩罚未打击强迫劳动进口商品的贸易伙伴。这代表了唐纳德·特朗普先生在寻找法律授权以履行其全面征收关税政策的持续努力，旨在保护美国工业免受外国进口商品的竞争。马克·卡尼先生周四将第 301 条关税仅仅描述为对唐纳德·特朗普先生试图在 IEEPA 下实施的相同征税手段的一种“不同的理由”。“那里发生的事情并不出人意料。这是更大拼图的一部分，”他说道。最新的关税将不适用于在美国-墨西哥-加拿大协议（USMCA）下贸易的商品，也不适用于任何石油和天然气，这意味着加拿大商品在很大程度上将免受其影响。唐纳德·特朗普先生对加拿大的其他关税——包括去年宣布的汽车和金属关税，以及定于下月生效的 50-per-cent 关税——则适用于 USMCA 涵盖的商品。与美国的关系究竟变得多么棘手，在马克·卡尼先生的加拿大-美国经济咨询委员会成员埃林·奥图尔（Erin O’Toole）的表述中得到了强调。
今年早些时候，安大略省省长道格·福特（Doug Ford）试图阻止这次集会，认为它是“仇恨和反犹主义的温床”。但组织者否认了这一点，民权组织则对践踏人们的抗议权利表示担忧。2024年在多伦多举行的这次集会，发生在哈马斯（Hamas）2023年10月7日对以色列发动致命袭击后不到一年，随后是以色列对加沙的入侵。随后支持巴勒斯坦人民的示威活动引发了关于公共话语和言论自由界限的激烈争论，因为这些活动通常包含对以色列的强烈谴责，批评者认为这已经越线演变成了反犹主义。
哈贾马德（Mr. Hajahmad）在2024年集会上的照片显示，他胸前绑着一条似乎装有带拉环罐子的腰带。在电子邮件中，哈贾马德的律师穆罕默德·埃尔·拉希迪（Mohamed El Rashidy）告诉《环球邮报》，他的客户佩戴的是 Enola Gaye Hang Ten 腰带。根据该公司网站，该腰带是用于放置彩弹或气枪烟雾弹的装置。
哈贾马德的照片在社交媒体上被广泛传播并引发了强烈反应。当时，保守党副党魁梅莉莎·兰茨曼（Melissa Lantsman）在社交媒体发帖中将该装置描述为“伪装的自杀式袭击背心”。前独立议员凯文·武昂（Kevin Vuong）同样称其为“模拟自杀式袭击背心”，而犹太权益团体 B’nai Brith Canada 则发布了一段包含...的视频。
经济关系。在接受《环球邮报》采访时，奥图尔（Mr. O’Toole）先生表示，在总统宣布新关税的前一天，总理、其他内阁部长以及加拿大驻美大使与特朗普（Mr. Trump）先生一同出席了 FIFA 世界杯决赛，且事先没有任何提醒。“这就像是在世界杯期间举行的一次北美小型峰会，”奥图尔先生说。“我们过去把这种关系称为‘三好友’（Three Amigos），对吧？你会认为对方会有礼貌地告知我们即将有一些关于关税的新闻，但事实并非如此。”奥图尔先生表示，新威胁的关税规模与其他关税不同，如果这些关税在 19 日实施，加拿大将很难避免经济衰退。奥图尔先生认为，加拿大若要取得成功，各省省长需要团结在马克·卡尼（Mr. Carney）先生周围，允许总理担任唯一发言人，以避免传递混乱信息或干扰谈判。
在新闻发布会上，卡尼先生表示，在加拿大应对总理所称的来自特朗普先生的“一系列单方面且毫无根据的贸易行动之最新举措”时，他与各省省长保持团结。但过去省级领导人在对美采取立场强硬程度的问题上曾出现分歧，本周再次出现了此类迹象。新的 50% 关税涵盖了广泛的商品，但对各省经济的影响并不均衡。例如，艾伯塔省和萨斯喀彻温省的出口几乎不受影响，但关税将给不列颠哥伦比亚省、魁北克省和安大略省带来沉重压力。这种不均衡的经济影响，决定了各省省长在本周于爱德华王子岛举行的年度夏季会议上所采取的立场。安大略省的道格·福特和不列颠哥伦比亚省的大卫·艾比（David Eby）在要求应对新关税方面最为强硬。而作为目前唯一仍允许销售美国酒类的两个省份，萨斯喀彻温省和艾伯塔省长期以来一直主张外交手段。不过，福特先生本周在主张外交方面的程度之深，使其成为了一个特例。
2024年，亲巴勒斯坦团体聚集在多伦多市中心的一家酒店外。 COLE BURSTON/THE CANADIAN PRESS
一张 Hajahmad 先生的照片，配文称该活动为一场“充满仇恨”的集会。 这张照片也是《多伦多太阳报》专栏作家 Brian Lilley 的一段视频和一篇文章的主题，Lilley 称 Hajahmad 先生的服装为“复制的自杀式背心”。 2024 年 7 月，Hajahmad 先生起诉 Lilley 先生及其所属的 Postmedia Network，要求 35,000 美元的损害赔偿。随后在 2025 年 11 月，Hajahmad 先生对 Lantsman 女士、Vuong 先生以及 B’nai Brith Canada 提起诽谤诉讼，寻求 18,500 美元的赔偿。 Hajahmad 先生在其起诉书（statements of claim）中表示，他出身于巴勒斯坦，并描述自己是巴勒斯坦声援运动中一个具有辨识度的人物。他的律师 El Rashidy 先生表示，关于其客户穿着假自杀式炸弹背心的指控“完全是虚假的”。 两起诉讼均称，对他人的批评具有诽谤性，且旨在“降低他在更广泛社区中其他人的评价”，并使他遭受仇恨、轻视或嘲笑。他的起诉书还称，相关帖子和文章暗示他从事的是刑事、恐怖主义、暴力、种族主义活动，或旨在伤害犹太人。 El Rashidy 先生为他的客户辩护，反驳多伦多警方关于 Hajahmad 先生代表哈马斯行动的指控。 “他面临的一项指控源于在公开示威活动中发表言论。没有暴力，没有武器，没有人受伤，”他在本周的一份声明中写道。“在抗议平民被杀时发声是受保护的表达，而非恐怖主义。” Hajahmad 先生在 2025 年被指控以干扰公共秩序罪（mischief），此前多伦多警方指控他在联合车站（Union Station）内发射烟雾弹。他的指控最终
为了报复。省长再次提出加拿大可以将能源供应作为筹码的想法。他去年曾尝试单干，对安大略省的电力出口征收附加费，但由于美国升级关税威胁，他在一天之内便撤回了该举措。本周，安大略省省长表示：“如果我们愿意，只要我们共同努力，我们可以瓦解美国。”他将钾肥和石油出口列为关键杠杆。他指责唐纳德·特朗普在周一的关税袭击中像一只“疯狗”一样对待总理。周四晚些时候，艾伯塔省省长 Danielle Smith 告诉 CBC 新闻，将能源摆在谈判桌上将是一个“非常愚蠢的决定”，因为美国可以关闭 5 号管线（Line 5），该管线将石油通过美国运往安大略省西南部。“我认为你不能在进入谈判时承诺要打对方的鼻子。进入谈判应该是讨论双赢，我认为这更符合总理的风格，我很高兴看到这一点，”她在 CBC 的《权力与政治》（Power and Politics）节目中告诉 David Cochrane。Eby 先生也对各省如何报复提出了警告。在会议结束后，他告诉记者，“自愿拿别人的资源去与美国人战斗”是他不会做的事情。各省省长一致要求渥太华在与华盛顿谈判时提高透明度并及时沟通。魁北克省的 Christine Fréchette 周四强调了这一点，她要求她的省份能够获知渥太华的谈判计划。保守党议会领袖 Andrew Scheer 批评总理在就任一年多后缺乏成果。“他一次又一次地做出让步，但没有得到任何回报，”Scheer 先生在里贾纳告诉记者。新民主党（NDP）表示，如果 8 月 19 日的关税被实施，加拿大应以反制关税予以回应。
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El Rashidy 先生表示，指控已被撤回，他被给予了治安保证书（peace bond）。
代表 Lantsman 女士的 Robert Karrass 在一次采访中表示，Hajahmad 先生的背心“显然意在塑造某种好战、暴力的形象”。“我认为我的当事人因此得到了充分的证明，因为这恰恰表明，他被指控的行为实质上比我的当事人所暗示的任何事情都要严重，”他在提到周二对 Hajahmad 先生提出的指控时说道。
Lantsman 女士的起诉书称，此前对 Hajahmad 先生提出的妨害罪（mischief charge）指控，证实并强化了她的社交媒体帖子“是基于正当公共安全担忧而发布的”。
Karrass 先生表示，针对其当事人及其他方的诉讼计划于 10 月举行和解会议。
B’nai Brith Canada 的发言人 Jonah Fried 在一封电子邮件中表示，该组织将继续“有力地”为其辩护以应对该指控。他表示，近期针对 Hajahmad 先生的恐怖主义指控和指控令人震惊。
Lilley 先生的律师 Brendan Hughes 拒绝就该诉讼发表评论。
Vuong 先生及其律师 Mark Donald 未回应置评请求。
根据法院文件，Hajahmad 先生在被捕后于周二出庭，并以 $50,000 保释金获释。他被要求与担保人一同居住在密西沙加。他的保释条件包括禁止进入多伦多，以及禁止在犹太会堂或犹太社区 500 米范围内从事与示威相关的活动。
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加拿大血液服务中心（Canadian Blood Services）表示，由于过去几周捐血人数骤减，目前正面临短缺局面。该机构称，自 6 月 1 日以来，血液供应量下降了近 20%。它正敦促全加拿大的民众预约捐血，并指出此次短缺程度已超出夏季通常的捐献下降幅度。加拿大血液服务中心表示，所有血型均有需求，且所有省份的预约捐献人数均低于预期。该机构管理除魁北克省以外所有省份的血液供应。Héma-Québec 的一名发言人表示，自 6 月底以来，该机构的捐血量也有所下降。“Héma-Québec 每天大约需要 1,000 份血液捐献，以满足全省患者的需求，”帕特里斯·拉沃伊（Patrice Lavoie）在周三的一封电子邮件中表示。“夏季传统上是血液供应较为脆弱的时期。许多定期捐献者在度假，或者干脆忘记预约，”他说道。加拿大血液服务中心表示，为了跟上全国其他地区的医院需求，每周需要约 18,000 份血液捐献，但每周缺少 1,500 到 2,500 个预约。发言人罗恩·维齐纳（Ron Vezina）在周三的一份新闻稿中表示：“血液的保质期仅为 42 天，因此今天的捐献将很快被送至患者手中。”“我们需要确保医院拥有日常护理和紧急情况所需的血液，尤其是在我们进入 8 月长假周末之际，创伤病例和其他紧急护理需求可能会增加。”加拿大血液服务中心表示，它正在增加人们捐血的机会，包括在中心增加更多周末预约。此外，数个专门的血浆捐献中心也将接受全血捐献。人们可以通过 blood.ca、GiveBlood 应用程序或拨打 1-888-2-DONATE 预约捐献。在魁北克，人们可以通过 hema-quebec.ca 预约。
以及文化中心。 据专家称，多伦多警方对 Hajahmad 先生的指控具有潜在的新颖性，因为这些指控源于他在一次抗议活动中所说的言论，警方称这些言论促进了哈马斯 (Hamas) 的利益。专家表示，这一联系将是决定指控能否在法庭上成立的关键。 Hajahmad 先生的指控最高可判处 10 年监禁。 多伦多是许多在 2023, 10 月 7 日袭击后，面对针对以色列在加沙战争的示威活动，而苦于如何监管抗议这一棘手问题的城市之一。 在 2025, 5 月，多伦多加入了一个日益扩大的加拿大城市名单（包括卡尔加里、安大略省布兰普顿和安大略省沃顿），通过了具有争议的“缓冲区”附例。多伦多的法规创建了一个 50 米的缓冲地带，以限制在某些学校、日托中心和礼拜场所附近进行抗议。违规者最高可被处以 $5,000 罚款。 虽然恐怖主义调查通常属于皇家骑警 (RCMP) 的联邦警务职能，但多伦多警方在 3 月宣布成立一个新的反恐部门，作为其应对与中东冲突相关暴力事件响应的一部分。 联邦自由党政府最近还通过了一项反仇恨法案，将阻碍他人进入礼拜场所或其他犹太人、穆斯林及其他可识别群体聚集地定为犯罪，最高可判处 10 年监禁。该法律于 7 月 18 日生效。
年龄限制反映了菲尔兹奖的初衷，即该奖项旨在培养未来的潜力，同时也认可过去的成就。在接受《环球邮报》采访时，齐默曼博士表示，由于他在过去五年中做出的一系列贡献，他意识到自己有可能入围今年的奖项，其中包括证明了安德烈-奥尔特猜想（André-Oort conjecture）和格里菲斯猜想（Griffiths conjecture），这两者均为算术几何领域的杰出难题。齐默曼博士说，在获奖通知可能发出的时候，“我确实一直在关注”。菲尔兹奖是齐默曼博士获得的最具知名度的奖项。在他的职业生涯中，他此前已获得多项认可，最早可以追溯到高中时期代表加拿大参加 2003 和 2004 年国际数学奥林匹克竞赛，并凭借满分成绩连续获得两枚金牌。他在 2019 年获得了加拿大数学学会的考克斯特-詹姆斯奖（Coxeter-James Prize），2022 年获得了突破奖基金会的数学新地平线奖（New Horizons in Mathematics Prize），以及 2023 年由巴塞尔大学颁发的奥斯特罗夫斯基奖（Ostrowski Prize）。菲尔兹奖对于齐默曼博士及其同事来说具有额外的意义。虽然该奖项是由一名加拿大人设立的，但直到几代人之后，才有人与该国有联系的数学家被命名为获奖者。这种情况首次发生在 2014 年，当时出生于汉密尔顿的曼朱尔·巴尔加瓦（Manjul Bhargava）被授予该奖项——尽管巴尔加瓦博士主要在纽约州长岛长大，目前在普林斯顿大学任教。然而，直到齐默曼博士出现之前，还没有在加拿大生活和工作的数学家获得过菲尔兹奖。“这是雅各布的日子，”多伦多大学的同事库马尔·默蒂（Kumar Murty）说道，他在齐默曼博士被聘用时担任数学系系主任。“我们正在庆祝一项智力成就。”他说，该奖项为多伦多大学标志着一个重要的里程碑，约翰·菲尔兹（John Fields）在 1932 年去世前曾是该校的教授。这对加拿大也具有重要意义，因为加拿大的学术机构在争夺顶级人才的战斗中，必须与美国及其他地区财力更为雄厚的学校竞争。拥有一位菲尔兹奖得主意味着
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加拿大数学家雅各布·齐默曼（Jacob Tsimerman）周四在费城举行的国际数学家大会（International Congress of Mathematicians）期间获得一枚菲尔兹奖（Fields Medal）。该荣誉旨在表彰 40 岁以下研究人员的杰出发现。ERIN BLEWETT/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
“我们能够站在世界舞台上，并说我们与最顶尖的人们平起平坐，”他补充道。 齐默曼博士出生于莫斯科东部的俄罗斯城市喀山，在学前阶段随家人移居以色列。该家庭于 1996 年来到加拿大，随后他在多伦多就学。 作为一名热爱谜题的数学神童，齐默曼博士在 16 岁时便在多伦多大学（University of Toronto）开始本科学习，仅用两年时间就完成了学位。 “我很幸运，我对之具有天赋的事物恰好也是我非常喜欢的事物，”齐默曼博士说。“所以，在我意识到什么是职业的时候，认为自己会成为一名数学家就成了一种自然而然的事情。” 他在普林斯顿大学完成了研究生学业，其导师是数论领域的知名专家彼得·萨纳克（Peter Sarnak）。这段经历为齐默曼博士未来的工作奠定了基础。 他在 2011 年获得博士学位，并于 2014 年回到多伦多大学加入教师队伍。 默蒂（Murty）博士表示，到那时，这位年轻的数学家已经显现出使其脱颖而出的特质。 其中就包括齐默曼博士能够避免局限于某个特定的研究领域，并从数学其他领域汲取灵感，从而为其处理的问题寻找新方法的能力。 “他的研究成果所展现的知识广度和技术的多样性令人振奋，”多伦多大学旗下的菲尔兹数学研究中心（Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences）主任迪尔德丽·哈斯克尔（Deirdre Haskell）表示。 菲尔兹奖的颁奖词赞扬了齐默曼博士在解决方案中采用了创新的技术，这为未来的进步开辟了新的路径和领域。 尽管他的研究并非出于特定的应用目的，但它源于一个与密码学及其他领域相关的数学分支。而且，与所有形式的纯数学一样，其最重要的益处可能仍在于未来——届时科学家和工程师将寻求解决尚未遇到的现实世界问题的方法。 齐默曼博士强调，与其他数学家的富有成效的合作是他成功的关键部分。 “当我独自工作时，我会开始怀疑自己是否疯了，或者我所做的一切都是错的，”他说。“至少如果你和别人在一起，而你们都被误导了，这样会更令人宽慰。” 他补充说，虽然导致数学突破的推理壮举在非专家看来可能像魔术一样，但重要的是要意识到，事情脱轨的情况远比走向成功的情况要频繁得多。 “我总是告诉我的学生，我不知道如何成为一名成功的数学家，但我知道一千种失败的方法，”他说，“而我会慢慢告诉你们如何避开所有这些不同的失败方式。”
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6月 12 日，在新泽西州纽瓦克（Newark, N.J.）的德莱尼大厅（Delaney Hall）移民拘留中心，当车辆进出时，国土安全调查局和移民与海关执法局抵达现场将抗议者向后驱逐。在距离曼哈顿仅一河之隔的哈德逊河对面，新泽西州的拉丁裔社区每天都会经历移民扫荡。MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO/GETTY IMAGES
美国驱逐出境的大规模搜捕行动正在激增
尽管白宫停止了公开宣传突击行动，但美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）在 6 月将 39,500 人关入移民拘留所——这是其有记录以来最高的一次总数。
ADRIAN MORROW 美国特派记者 新泽西州，纽瓦克
Aitana 的家庭故事是一个典型的美国移民故事。 她的父亲逃离了哥伦比亚的帮派暴力，而她的母亲则为了逃离墨西哥缺乏经济机会的现状。他们在纽约相遇，定居在新泽西州，并育有三个孩子。父亲在工厂找到了工作，母亲则担任家庭帮佣，Aitana 有时会陪同母亲一起去工作。 然而，尽管在该国生活了超过 35 年，两人仍然没有合法身份。 而 Aitana——一名 30 岁的教育工作者，为了保护她的家人不成为美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）的目标，《环球邮报》（The Globe and Mail）隐去了她的姓氏——她生命中的大部分时间都在担心，每天结束时他们能否平安回家。 这种恐惧从未像现在这样剧烈，因为美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的移民打击行动正席卷新泽西州的拉丁裔社区，那里就在曼哈顿对岸的哈德逊河之畔。 如今，在 Aitana 和丈夫工作期间，她的母亲在照顾孙女。祖母和幼儿经常去的公园之一，就位于多次发生 ICE 逮捕行动的地点附近。 “尤其是当我的母亲带着我的女儿在一起时，远离她们并陷入担忧，这真的让人心惊胆战，”Aitana 在一次采访中说道。 社区快速反应小组记录了每天数十起逮捕事件。作为其中一个网络成员的 Aitana 表示，该地区的激增始于 5 月。“我们看到他们在大街上针对人们进行抓捕。” 这里的经历预示着全国范围内正在发生的情况。大规模搜捕行动正在升级，尽管自 1 月联邦特工在明尼阿波利斯的移民执法行动中枪杀了两名美国公民后，白宫已基本停止公开宣传 ICE 的突击行动。 根据该机构本周发布的数字，ICE 在 6 月逮捕了 39,563 人，这是其有史以来最高的单月总数。同月，共和党立法者为驱逐运动额外授权了 US$70-billion（700 亿美元）。7 月至今，ICE 的日均逮捕人数接近 1,500 人。 在 1 月后基本远离公众视线之后，由于 ICE 本月在交通拦截过程中枪杀了两名移民——得克萨斯州的 Lorenzo Salgado Araujo 和缅因州的 Joan Sebastián Guerrero——这一围捕行动再次引起了关注。 在新泽西州，发布在社交媒体上的照片和视频显示，逮捕行动发生在人行道上、停车场中以及高速公路旁。位于北博根镇（North Bergen）的一片开阔绿地——詹姆斯·布拉多克公园（James Braddock Park），是一个经常被针对的地点。贯穿费尔维尤区（Fairview）的商业主街安德森大道（Anderson Avenue）也频繁出现，家得宝（Home Depot）亦然。 一些视频显示了激烈的徒步追逐，或被捕者被多名警员压在地面上的场景。 一种常见的做法是，戴面罩的 ICE 特工在清晨搜查当地的公交站点，以针对日雇劳工。 一个名为 Estamos Unidos NJ 的团体记录了 7 月 3, 一个早晨在泽西市、联合市、帕利塞兹公园以及其他附近社区共 30 起逮捕行动。 另一个团体——泽西海岸移民支持组织（Jersey Shore Immigrant Support），报告了 6 月 23 在弗里霍尔德（Freehold）镇周围发生的 40 起逮捕事件。 “我们每周都能看到，父亲被拘留，母亲被留下照顾多个孩子的家庭。我们看到过因为父母被拘留而被迫独自生活的青少年。还有年幼的孩子在安慰他们的家人，”社区中心 CEUS 的 Maya Laur 说道，该组织通过提供食品篮等方式帮助此类家庭。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 联邦特工 2 月 3. 在明尼阿波利斯拘留一名抗议者。特工在 1 月枪杀了两名美国公民。CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
在的一份声明中，ICE 的上级机构国土安全部并未就此提及
在新泽西州的袭击行动。它坚持认为，任何人声称特工使用“种族定型”来寻找目标是“令人厌恶的、鲁莽的，且绝对错误”的。
在去年的一起最高法院案件中，特朗普政府成功辩称，特工在寻找拦截对象时，应被允许使用诸如“表面种族或族裔”等因素。
与此同时，位于纽瓦克的私人监狱德莱尼礼堂（Delaney Hall）已成为反遣返斗争的焦点，该监狱是美国东海岸最大的移民拘留中心。
在一家油罐区对面工业园区内，这座灰色、像仓库一样的建筑外，抗议者们正在进行 24 小时守夜。在一个巨大的白色帐篷里，他们为被拘留者的家属提供法律援助和食物援助的联系帮助。
五月，该设施的数百名被拘留者发起了绝食和罢工，声称他们被喂食长满蠕虫的腐烂食物，并被强迫以每天低至 US$1 的薪资清理监狱，而监狱的通风问题导致内部酷热难耐。他们还表示，女性被拘留者曾遭到一名警卫的摸索。
在由 GEO Group 根据与 ICE 的合同运营的这座拥有 1,000 张床位的设施前，抗议活动变得日益喧闹。
身穿防暴装备的联邦警察和州警每晚与抗议者发生冲突，对他们使用胡椒喷雾并进行了约 90 场逮捕。最终，数百名被拘留者从德莱尼礼堂被转移到其他设施。
国土安全部在一份声明中表示，“德莱尼礼堂不存在任何次级条件或虐待行为”，且“ICE 拥有更高的拘留标准，比...”
“大多数美国监狱。” 亚当·马歇尔（Adam Marshall）曾是一名步兵军官，一年多来一直自愿帮助被拘留者的家属。他表示，当时他正作为一名医护人员为那些被喷射胡椒喷雾的抗议者提供帮助，这时一群特工将他推到地上，抓起他的手臂和腿，将他带进德莱尼大厅（Delaney Hall）的庭院内。在那里，他们使用一个移动应用程序扫描了他的面部，将其拘留了两小时，随后将他与另外两名男子开车送至新泽西收费公路（New Jersey Turnpike）下方的一个地下通道。“我们被排成一排面对着一面金属墙，双手放在头顶，对我来说，那看起来就像是一场执行死刑，”他在一个下午站在监狱外回忆道。警员们告诉他们永远不要回来，然后开车离去。
抗议活动中最坚定的身影之一是加布里埃拉·索托（Gabriela Soto），她的丈夫马丁（Martín）在去年 2 月 1 日左右外出给孩子买尿布时被美国移民海关执法局（ICE）拦截，随后被关进德莱尼大厅。
索托女士，28, 岁，是一名美国公民，儿时从秘鲁移民至美国。她在 19. 岁时的一次利马访问期间，在一次家庭聚会上结识了马丁。他们进行了几年的异地恋爱，直到她在一次从秘鲁旅行返回后，发现自己怀孕了。因为不想等待办理未婚妻签证可能需要的数年时间，索托先生于 2023 年底在亚利桑那州未经授权跨境进入美国并申请庇护。
四个月后，他获释，法庭日期定在 2028 年。这对夫妇开始在新泽西州卡尼镇（Kearny, N.J.）共同生活，抚养他们蹒跚学步的女儿和婴儿儿子。他在一家意大利餐厅找到了一份厨师的工作。她目前怀有第三个孩子，孕期六个月。
“我的丈夫为了能和家人在一起，在那个本应是安全国家的国家里做出了很多牺牲，结果却被绑架了，”索托女士说。
在她领导的一次德莱尼大厅外的抗议活动后，守卫向索托先生提出了一个条件：如果他们释放他，他是否会让他的妻子叫停示威者？索托女士说，他回答道：“无可奉告”，随后他们将他关在牢房里好几个小时。
索托女士说，在女儿四岁生日那天，当她带女儿去看父亲时，一名守卫在安检过程中没收了女孩画的一幅全家福，并在她面前将其撕毁。
最终，索托先生，30, 岁，被转移到另一座监狱——伊丽莎白拘留中心（Elizabeth Detention Center），他目前仍在那里。为了将他救出，索托女士发起了一项请愿，呼吁 ICE 给予他酌情释放。
除了像她丈夫这样的个案中涉及的人道层面，她认为白宫应该理解其中的务实计算。
“没有移民，美国就什么都不是。人们来到这里不是为了造成伤害，而是为了过更好的生活，”她说。“要让美国再次伟大，请让移民留在美国。”
安迪·佩尔彻（Andy Pelcher）是总部位于华盛顿的非营利组织 Amica 的律师，该组织处理与移民相关的诉讼。他表示，全国范围内的搜捕行动仍在快速进行，尽管其可见度低于此前在洛杉矶、芝加哥开展的突击行动。
德莱尼大厅（Delaney Hall）是纽瓦克的一座私立监狱，是美国东海岸最大的移民拘留中心，已成为反对驱逐出境斗争的冲突点。MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO/GETTY IMAGES
一名反 ICE 抗议者在 5 月 30 日纽瓦克德莱尼大厅拘留中心外与执法人员发生冲突期间被捕。ANGELINA KATSANIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
上图：6 月 2. 日，一名 ICE 特工在纽瓦克执勤。一种常见的做法是让戴面具的特工在清晨搜查当地交通枢纽，目标是日薪劳工。MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO/GETTY IMAGES
下图：6 月 18. 日，加布里埃拉·索托在新泽西州伊丽莎白的一次抗议活动中发表讲话。加布里埃拉的丈夫马丁在去年 2 月被 ICE 拦截后被关进德莱尼大厅。 ADRIAN MORROW/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
以及明尼阿波利斯。 在某些情况下，ICE 依赖于与当地执法部门的协议。例如，警察在进行交通拦截时，如果怀疑驾驶员可能是无证移民，就会通知移民局特工。在其他情况下，ICE 在人们前来办理定期例行报到时，逮捕那些有未结移民案件的人。而且，新泽西州并非唯一出现街头逮捕的地方。
Pelcher 先生引用了华盛顿郊区的一个案例：警员在一名男子及其儿子的公寓楼外拦截并逮捕了他们两人，尽管该男子持有工作许可，且有未结的庇护申请，并且没有犯罪记录。
“明尼阿波利斯确实代表了一种试图将此问题推向全国关注焦点的尝试，但我认为这在很大程度上产生了反效果，”Pelcher 先生说。
“政府正在采取一种略有不同的方法。他们绝对没有减少逮捕人数。”
对于像 Aitana 这样无证或身份混合的家庭来说，这是他们生活了数十年的不确定性的进一步加剧。她记得父母第一次向她解释他们在该国的身份时：她五岁，当时在 9/11 袭击之后，移民突击搜查激增。
如今，有些人通过大部分时间待在室内来限制与 ICE 的接触。而对其他人来说，这行不通——在长期以来被视为家园的地方这样生活也绝非生存之道。
“人们得生活，得去工作，得去超市，”她说。“我的父母在这个国家居住的时间比在他们原籍国的时间还要长。”
此举将成为加拿大 交通管理部门首次 测试此类权力
TEMUR DURRANI 国家记者
随着全国范围内对公共安全的担忧日益增加，安大略省政府正赋予特聘治安员（special constables）一项罕见的权力：在交通系统中逮捕持有和使用非法药物的人员。专家表示，这将是对加拿大交通管理部门行使此类权力的首次实际测试。与正式宣誓就职的警员类似，治安员将能够逮捕个人、对在公共场所使用药物的行为开具罚单、销毁任何查获的非法物质（如可卡因或甲基苯丙胺），并将药物送检分析。安大略省的市政交通服务机构和警察委员会正致力于逐步执行这一新的省级法规，该法规已于 7 月 1 日生效。一旦在地方层面实施，这些新权力将授予由主要交通服务机构雇佣的特聘治安员，包括南安大略省的 Metrolinx、渥太华的 OC Transpo 以及多伦多交通局（Toronto Transit Commission）。
包括省长道格·福特（Doug Ford）在内的安大略省官员称，这一惩戒措施是扰乱公共不端行为并提高安全性的有用工具。他们将公开吸毒的增加与交通工具上的暴力行为联系起来，福特先生在新闻发布会上多次表示，“交通乘客已经忍无可忍”。但反对者认为，扩大警力并不是应对药物滥用的有效方法，并且有进一步边缘化弱势群体的风险。不列颠哥伦比亚省药物滥用研究中心（BC Centre on Substance Use）高级科学家兼不列颠哥伦比亚大学社会医学教授托马斯·克尔（Thomas Kerr）在一次采访中表示，安大略省的药物逮捕政策“只是将人们从一个不稳定地带转移到另一个不稳定地带，而没有解决他们流离失所的根本原因”。
在过去的几年里，多伦多、渥太华、温尼伯、埃德蒙顿和卡尔加里等城市的警方记录的交通工具暴力事件率激增，导致身着制服的警员在交通系统中的出现频率增加。这些系统现在已经——
在过去的几年里，多伦多、渥太华、 温尼伯、埃德蒙顿和卡尔加里等城市的警方记录的交通工具暴力事件率激增，导致身着制服的警员在交通系统中的出现频率增加。COLE BURSTON/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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成为了多种危机交织的可见体现。由于徘徊逗留现象增加，许多公交站和火车站成为了非正式的、最后的避难所，因为广泛的无家可归情况、营地关闭以及缺乏可负担住房已经导致数千人流离失所。与此同时，成瘾率依然居高不下，而针对药物使用者的资源却在减少。安大略省关闭了该省几乎所有的监督药物使用场所，其中包括多伦多至少六处。
在加拿大的每个大城市中，都至少存在某种形式的专门人员来遏制交通系统中的犯罪。即便在安大略省，早前的政府法案已经允许警察和部分特别警员在人们使用药物或造成骚扰时，强制其离开公共场所。
然而，无需逮捕令即可逮捕个人的权力十分罕见。除了不列颠哥伦比亚省（该省有警察部队在温哥华的交通系统中巡逻）之外，其他省份并未允许交通员工拥有此类权力；即便在不列颠哥伦比亚省，记录显示，利用该权力处理轻微违反药物法律的行为也非常罕见。
“没有任何证据，没有任何形式的数据表明安大略省的立法真的会有帮助，”西蒙弗雷泽大学专门研究物质使用和药物政策的教授科拉·德贝克（Kora DeBeck）告诉《环球邮报》。
从历史上看，加拿大的交通警察可以追溯到 19 世纪 50 年代的铁路部队。他们很大程度上是由私营铁路公司雇佣的，旨在保护火车及其货物免受货运抢劫，尽管一些铁路警察是
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同时也致力于乘客列车的票检、扒窃、破坏公物以及违反毒品法的行为检查。
如今，在大多数省份，特别警员和治安官（通常不携带武器）与平民安保人员及当地警方协同工作，以维护交通系统的安全、开出罚单，并在某些情况下拘留个人。
例如，埃德蒙顿去年春季实施的一项新附例禁止在公共场合使用管制药物；作为回应，更多的治安官开始在交通区域巡逻——但如果没有市警方的参与，他们无法逮捕任何人。
只有大温哥华地区雇用了一支专门针对交通系统的武装警员队伍，他们有权调查犯罪、建议起诉并实施逮捕。
大温哥华交通警察局（Metro Vancouver Transit Police, MVTP）于 2005, 开始运作，是该国首个此类专用服务机构，且独立于温哥华警察局。MVTP 拥有 200 多名警员、24 名社区安全官和 106 名平民专业人员，服务范围覆盖不列颠哥伦比亚省（B.C.）的 23 个社区和一个原住民社区。
当被问及 MVTP 自成立以来是否观察到犯罪情况恶化时，发言人 Sunny Kainth 表示，在 2012 和 2025, 之间，向交通警察局报告的针对个人的犯罪量下降了 19%。
尽管禁毒执法是 MVTP 职责的核心部分，但 Kainth 警员表示，该部队在 2025, 仅处理了 150 宗与毒品相关的案件，仅占其总案量的 0.7%。
他补充说，去年仅提交了总计 22 项毒品犯罪指控。他解释道，部分原因是“当地背景”。在 2023 和 2026, 之间，B.C. 政府授权了一项去刑事化计划，允许个人持有约 2.5 克的类鸦片药、致幻剂和其他非法药物。由于该省在公开吸毒问题上面临政治压力，政府在 2024. 修订了法律，允许包括 MVTP 在内的警方在公共场所没收这些药物。MVTP 并不追踪专门针对毒品相关犯罪的逮捕数据。
根据轶闻，DeBeck 博士和 Kerr 博士都表示，甚至在去刑事化之前，在 B.C. 的交通系统中，因吸毒而被捕的情况就不常见。这个西海岸省份以在立法上采用“伤害减轻”方案而非对违反毒品法采取惩罚性措施而闻名。Kerr 博士认为，安大略省的立法带来的“问题会比它希望解决的问题更多”。他说，没收毒品对于成瘾者是有害的，因为这在不解决其潜在健康状况的情况下中断了他们的供应。
在提到 MVTP 警员过度使用武力的几起知名案例后，他补充说，“明确允许警方在交通系统内实施逮捕会让安大略省的许多人，特别是有色人种，感到不安全，并进一步导致乘客量下降。”当被问及安大略省是否将 B.C. 或任何其他管辖区作为新政策的模板时，总检察长 Michael Kerzner 拒绝回答。在上个月的一次无关活动中接受《环球报》采访时，他没有直接回答关于该省是否发现持有或使用非法药物与交通系统内暴力犯罪之间有任何关联，或者逮捕是否会让社区更安全的问题。
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“当人们看到这种情况时，在交通工具上会感到不安。我们想要做的是传递一个信心信号，”克兹纳（Mr. Kerzner）先生说道。（克兹纳先生的办公室发言人随后发送了一封电子邮件声明，但同样没有直接回答《环球邮报》的问题。）多伦多凯西之家（Casey House，一家为艾滋病毒感染者及高风险人群提供护理的医院）的传播与公共政策总监丽莎·麦克唐纳（Lisa McDonald）表示，省政府声称要解决的问题源于无家可归危机和避难所床位的严重短缺。“虽然在公共场合看到身体不适或受药物影响的人可能会令人不安，但我们试图提醒自己，感到不舒服与不安全之间是有区别的，”她说。“我认为这样做暗示了这在某种程度上是一个安全问题，而非舒适度问题。”
安大略省特种警员协会（Ontario Special Constables Association）主席萨拉·肯尼迪（Sarah Kennedy）表示，她赞成安大略省的措施，但她主张授权特种警员配备新武器。她说，当警员们主要仅配备警棍、手铐和胡椒喷雾时，让他们“面对不可预测的人群”是非常危险的。她主张在交通工具上的警员也应配备电击枪：“我们不想在外面挥舞警棍。我们需要一种能够保持距离的工具。而电击枪可以做到这一点。”
安大略省市政协会（Association of Municipalities of Ontario）表示，对于大多数市政府来说，安大略省的政策变动将不是一个相关关注点。该协会代表了 440 多个城镇和城市。AMO 发言人安妮·玛丽·艾金斯（Anne Marie Aikins）表示：“在全省范围内，更大的问题仍然是警务成本的稳步上升，这持续挑战着市政预算和当地服务的交付。”
安大略省萨德伯里（Sudbury）、布兰普顿（Brampton）和温莎（Windsor）市的市长告诉《环球邮报》，他们欢迎这项省级立法，因为安全在他们的城市中已成为一个更严重的问题。尽管如此，他们每一个人都指出，乘客量更高且城市密度更大的管辖区域将更适合实施该政策。
TTC 发言人斯图尔特·格林（Stuart Green）表示，根据毒品法逮捕个人的权力仅仅是警员工具箱中的另一种工具。他表示，在 TTC 开始使用这一权力之前，需要解决员工额外培训的后勤问题，例如如何处理和储存包括麻醉品在内的非法物质。
但克尔博士（Dr. Kerr）担心这项新措施所开创的先例。“我们不应该依赖警察来创建更健康或更安全的社区，”他说。
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绝大多数共和党人 投票支持该冲突 并向特朗普移交 国会的战争权力
玛丽·克莱尔·贾洛尼克 (MARY CLARE JALONICK) 华盛顿
美国众议院周四以微弱优势通过了一项停止美国在伊朗军事行动的决议。随着战争升级且冲突前景日益不明，这已是第二次向美国总统唐纳德·特朗普发出警告。
这项要求战争必须经过国会批准的投票结果为 214-208。就在此前，参议院以 47-49 的投票结果微弱否决了一项类似的决议。尽管由民主党人推动的投票在很大程度上是象征性的，但其意在向这位共和党总统发出信号：随着战争的拖延，他在国会山的支持率正在削弱，且两党议员都对其政府的最终目标提出了质疑。
“这场战争‘没有明确的任务，没有战略，也没有最终目标’，”在众议院主导该项决议的华盛顿代表、民主党人普拉米拉·贾亚帕尔 (Pramila Jayapal) 表示。
在少数共和党人与民主党人共同投票要求结束战争后，该众议院决议获得通过。但两院绝大多数共和党人投票支持这场战争，并主张将国会的战争权力移交给特朗普先生。
美国与以色列的联合空袭于 2 月下旬发起了这场战争。4 月份达成了一项脆弱的停火协议，但特朗普先生在本月早些时候宣布停火已经“结束”。
特朗普先生坚称，美国对伊朗的持续攻击并不意味着回归战争或采取长期行动。在 6 月初众议院第一次投票要求停止战争后，他在社交媒体上发帖称此举是“不爱国的”且“毫无意义的”。
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白宫周四发布的一份行政政策声明指出，这些决议不具有法律效力，并鼓励议员们投票反对。
“总统拥有宪法赋予的权力，以保护美国及我们的公民免受伊朗政权带来的危险，”该政策声明称。“这要求能够果断采取行动，以确保其永远无法获得核武器。”
尽管外交努力在公开层面几乎没有显示出进展，且双方官员在关于霍尔木兹海峡（全球能源的关键水道，目前基本处于关闭状态）的争议上互不相让，但美国的空袭仍在继续。
这场不受欢迎的战争威胁将造成进一步的全球经济动荡，并在今年秋季美国中期选举前推高燃料价格。
“我们正处于这个新的升级阶段，而美国人已经”
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已被杀害，美国人正在承受日益增长的成本——我认为让相关人员承担责任至关重要，”马里兰州参议员克里斯·范·霍伦（Chris Van Hollen）说道，这位民主党人领导了周四的参议院努力。“而且这是一场非常不受欢迎的战争。”
在众议院周三晚上讨论该决议时，外交事务委员会主席布莱恩·马斯特（Brian Mast，共和党，佛罗里达州）宣读了自战争开始以来牺牲的 18 名军人的名单。
“轻视这项任务，就是轻视和贬低这些成员用生命换来的服务，”马斯特先生说。“他们的牺牲并非毫无意义。这次行动是对伊朗数百次袭击和杀害美利坚合众国人民的行为进行清算。”
该小组的首席民主党人、纽约州代表格雷戈里·米克斯（Gregory Meeks）表示，总统应当向国会说明理由。
米克斯先生说，这些牺牲的军人为“一场美国人民并不想要的非法且未经授权的战争”做出了最终的牺牲。
民主党人表示，他们将继续迫使共和党人在该问题上进行投票。
“如果 唐纳德·特朗普 不听取民众的声音并结束这场战争，那么国会必须采取行动，”参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer，民主党，纽约州）表示。
国会两边的共和党人都知道，投票反对这场战争可能会付出政治代价，尽管他们中的许多人私下里对特朗普政府处理冲突的方式提出了质疑。
在 6 月众议院投票后的帖文中，特朗普先生将 4 名与民主党人投票一致的共和党人称为“哗众取宠者！”（GRANDSTANDERS!），并表示他们应该“感到羞愧”。
他说：“他们宁愿让我们的国家失败，也不愿让我获得众多胜利中的又一次胜利。”
6 月参议院首次通过关于伊朗的战争权力决议时，特朗普先生将 4 名投票赞成的共和党人称为“失败者”，并在次日参加的参议院共和党午宴上谴责了他们。路易斯安那州参议员比尔·卡西迪（Bill Cassidy）是与民主党人投票一致的共和党人之一，他随后表示，他在这个问题上与特朗普先生发生了冲突。他说，他直接告诉特朗普先生，需要向公众提供有关冲突的更多细节。“这本来应该持续四周。结果持续了四个月，”卡西迪先生说，他在特朗普先生支持其一名对手后的初选中失去了连任机会。“我们最初的目标尚未实现。”卡西迪先生后来告诉记者，特朗普先生反驳了他，而他告诉总统，在获得简报之前，他不会改变投票结果。白宫后来让步，给予卡西迪先生一次一对一会议，这位路易斯安那州共和党人在参议院休会两周前的深夜重新投票中改变了投票结果。卡西迪先生在周四再次投票反对该决议。
根据最近的民意调查，大多数美国人不赞同特朗普先生处理伊朗局势的方式。 7 月进行的一项《华盛顿邮报》/ Ipsos 调查发现，很少有美国人认为在伊朗的战争是值得打的，大多数人也不相信美国在伊朗的军事行动以及结束战争的谈判能阻止伊朗开发核武器。调查显示，仅有约三分之二的共和党人赞成特朗普先生处理伊朗局势的方式。大多数共和党人，约 6 in 10, 认为这场战争是值得打的，并且相信军事行动及随后的谈判将阻止伊朗开发核武器，但仍有相当一部分——约三分之一——对此并不信服。
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加拿大邮政的 奖金
根据加拿大邮政自身的分析，该机构正处于破产边缘。收入持续下降，亏损正以惊人的速度累积。这家国有企业需要联邦政府的紧急救助资金才能维持运转。
加拿大邮政的领导层在审视这一局面后认为：我们应该发放数百万美元的绩效奖金，准确地说，在 2025, 年发放 $30.8-million (这是在向众议院委员会提交的一份披露文件中提到的，随后由加拿大纳税人联盟公开)。
邮政局通过多种方式为这些款项辩护。他们称这些并非奖金，而是“风险”薪酬，但这在本质上没有任何区别。无论称呼为何，这些款项都不属于基本工资的一部分。
加拿大邮政表示，这些款项并非来自政府的救助资金，而是来自其自身的收入。同样，这是一种毫无意义的区分。如果这家国有企业没有支付 $30.8-million，它向联邦政府借款的需求就会相应减少。该公司进一步指出，这些支出相当于其总劳动力成本的不到 1 per cent。
该公司还注意到管理层不得不忍受的成本削减措施：自 2010, 年起，新任管理员工已取消了定额给付养老金；自 2013, 年起，薪资等级通过立法被冻结；此外还进行了裁员。加拿大邮政表示，即使计划继续削减管理岗位，仍需要通过这些款项来留住现有的管理人员。
公平地说，这家国有企业采取的一些变革比要求核心公共部门执行的任何措施都要激进得多，最显著的是转向定额缴款养老金，目前这在管理员工中占 65 per cent。
还有一个加拿大邮政本可以提供但并未提供的理由：直到很晚的时候，联邦自由党政府仍拒绝给予高级管理层重组运营所需的自由度。特鲁多政府执意冻结住宅投递服务而非转向社区信箱，就是一个典型的错误案例。
尽管如此，加拿大邮政的辩解未能考虑到在企业转型过程中发放数百万美元奖金的观感，而这种转型将要求那些，嗯，相当固执的工会邮政工人做出重大改变。此外，他们在透明度方面也未达标，更不用说领导力了。
6 月 1, 日，加拿大邮政与加拿大邮政员工联盟终于达成了一项新合同，结束了持续两年的断断续续的劳工动荡。考虑到加拿大邮政员工联盟主席简·辛普森（Jan Simpson）在 6 月 1 日发出的信息，这次协议似乎不过是给该工会一个喘息的机会，她此前曾敦促拒绝该协议。“为了赢得未来的斗争，为下一轮谈判做准备，并动员起来反对政府对我们公共邮政服务的攻击，我们必须重新集结并团结在我们的斗争中。”
加拿大邮政的董事会和高管们为辛普森女士在这些“未来的斗争”中提供了一根沉重的大棒。反管理层的口号几乎不需要刻意撰写就能成型。
如果这些款项确实必要且合理（这是一个相当大的“如果”），加拿大邮政可以通过提高透明度来加强其论据。例如，首席执行官的薪资范围和潜在支付金额是公开的，但实际金额并非如此。仅有的少量具体信息需要通过议会委员会提取，且细节寥寥。支付给最高管理层与基层管理者的奖金分别是多少？在陷入困境的邮政运营与盈利的 Purolator 快递业务之间是如何分配的？公众对此一无所知。（这与私营企业详细的披露形成了对比
（与上市股票的关联之惊人。）
那么，支付这些款项的触发条件是什么？同样，
加拿大邮政（Canada Post）不愿透露。据推测，关键绩效指标（KPI）中并不包括
“不走向破产”。为加拿大邮政提供巨额贷款支持的加拿大人，有权获得该信息。
或许在如此透明的情况下，可以证明非执行管理层应该获得
酬金。但执行团队的情况如何？毫无疑问，该群体以及董事会，应当承担领导责任。
榨取利益
关于“白宫对加拿大的乳制品进口规则不满。欧盟是否获得了更好的协议？”（商业报告，7月22日）：加拿大在Oct. 30, 2016. 与欧盟签署了《全面经济贸易协定》。唐纳德·特朗普在Sept. 30, 2018 签署了 USMCA。他拥有近两年的时间，却仍然无法协商出比欧盟更好的协议？看来他的不满并不是针对加拿大——他只是对自己感到恼火。
Bob Rafuse，魁北克省比孔斯菲尔德
在美产葡萄酒从安大略省货架上撤走之前，我就已经停止购买了。我不买美国农产品，也不经常光顾沃尔玛。我放弃了 Costco 会员资格，并且很高兴购买一辆加拿大制造的本田车。如果加拿大必须放弃对乳制品进口的限制，以换取美国在软木材、钢铁、铝等方面的让步，我可以向加拿大乳制品农民保证，在任何情况下我都不会购买美国乳制品。作为推论，如果美国乳制品对于那些真的买不起加拿大乳制品的人来说便宜得多，那么供应管理可能并未服务于公众。我们确实掌握着一些可以利用的筹码。
Dave Barker，安大略省惠特比
援助之手
关于“安大略省山火疏散人员的救灾物资捐赠量巨大”（July 21）：随着西北安大略省的紧急状态持续，我想感谢许多与我们地区共克难关的加拿大人。来自加拿大各地及全球的捐款已汇入“西北安大略山火社区支持基金”。一位捐赠者写道，她一直在寻找支持山火受影响者的途径，直到在《环球邮报》上读到关于我们基金的消息才找到了方法。她“一直非常支持联合劝募会 (United Way)”。她的留言提醒我，人们确实想要提供帮助，他们只是需要知道如何操作。 尽管火势最终会被扑灭，但在头条新闻消退后，恢复工作仍将长期持续。我们见证的慷慨之举肯定了我们在西北安大略省一直以来所认知的一点：当一个社区陷入痛苦时，其他社区会挺身而出提供帮助。 关怀与慈悲没有国界。感谢你们与西北安大略省同在。
Albert Brulé，雷湾联合劝募会 (United Way of Thunder Bay) 首席执行官
比单户住宅更紧密？”（July 18）：这篇关于合作住房解决方案的选集讲述了以更紧密的方式生活的巨大益处。加拿大拥有许多本土解决方案，各行各业的人们都在寻找以联系、互助和共同目标为中心的创意住房替代方案。 从我个人在温哥华一座大房子中共同生活的经历，到我目前在温哥华岛建立一个新合作住房社区的热情，我亲身体验到了许多这些益处。我希望看到更多关于加拿大创新住房计划和新集体住房模式的宣传和公众认知。我认为，在当前盛行的“住房危机”论调中，这是一个非常必要且能赋予人们力量的补充。
Tamara White，不列颠哥伦比亚省考特奈
有人在那里吗？
关于“中国可能率先将火星样本带回地球”（July 18）：有些人希望我们在火星上找不到生命。 他们信奉一个名为“大过滤器”的概念，即所有生命必须通过的一系列进化门槛。如果在火星上发现了生命（无论是过去的还是现在的），这将意味着同一个太阳系中至少有两个行星产生了生命。 仅在我们的银河系中就有数万亿颗行星，其年龄约为 13.5 billion 年。如果生命如此普遍，难道不应该有不仅仅是几个智能文明在四处穿梭吗？ 到目前为止，我们没有看到任何迹象。或者，正如物理学家恩里科·费米那句名言所问：“大家都去哪儿了？” 大过滤器理论假设，外星文明可能未能通过由核战争、环境破坏或恶意人工智能等因素组合而成的考验。这就产生了一个问题：我们能通过吗？
Chris Gates 安大略省，科堡
不同的看法
关于“《奥德赛》评论：克里斯托弗·诺兰呈现了一场令人惊叹的奇观”（7月 17 日）：我尚未观看《奥德赛》，但我了解到克里斯托弗·诺兰对结局进行了修改。 奥德赛对参与特洛伊战争以及最终对特洛伊的强奸和破坏感到懊悔，并且显然对他那忠诚的妻子有所忽略，在他失踪、迷失且分心的整整 20 年里，他的妻子一直对他忠贞不渝。 Trump 的影响力者们对此嗤之以鼻。他们讨厌奥德赛表现得像个“觉醒者”，显然是在质疑他在一场破坏性战争中的角色。
对他们而言，奥德赛不仅是“大男子主义”的象征，也是盲目忠诚、爱国主义以及完全不将女性视为平等者的象征。他们无法接受奥德赛可能患有创伤后应激障碍。 大多数时候，他们似乎是讨厌诺兰先生将奥德赛塑造成一个具有同情心的人。
Norman Ostonal 不列颠哥伦比亚省，新西敏斯特
深度阅读
关于“一篇走红的论文宣称阅读的终结已至。但阅读的乐趣永无止境”（观点版，7月 18 日）：请原谅我的怀疑，但我无法忽视其中的讽刺：一系列连锁阅读——我阅读一篇关于某人阅读另一人论文的文章——这一切都需要仔细阅读。如果阅读正在死去，那它反抗得相当激烈。 书籍和报纸的衰落经常被误认为阅读本身的衰落。正如马歇尔·麦克卢汉所观察到的，媒介即讯息。 人类阅读和书写的文本从未如此之多：电子邮件、消息、标题、讨论串——人工智能提示词。我们的祖先会对这个数量感到震惊。 是的，休闲阅读确实下降了，短篇形式成为了常态。 但简短并非深度的敌人，也不是注意力缩短的指标。严肃的读者知道，深刻的思想不是通过文本的长度来衡量，而是通过思想的重量来衡量。 正如马克·吐温可能会发信息说的那样，关于阅读死亡的报道被大大夸张了。
Tony D’Andrea 多伦多
当我与兄弟姐妹、亲近的家人和朋友聚在一起时，讨论的第一个话题通常是我们最近在读什么。 我的父亲在被俘为战俘期间，通过阅读红十字会发送的所有书籍才生存下来。 小时候，我的哥哥、姐姐和我会在夏天的早晨在图书馆选择一周的阅读书目。这个习惯传给了我的孩子们，现在又传给了我们的七个孙辈。 阅读应该是一种快乐的源泉。试着坐在公园里大声给你的孩子读书。你会发现，突然之间你有了观众，而你的孩子有了新朋友。
Andrea Battista 安大略省，伯灵顿
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阿尔茨海默病药物 决策不应 孤立地做出
加拿大药物管理局（Canada’s Drug Agency）的一个专家委员会改变了主意：在 2 月，该委员会表示公共药物计划不应资助 lecanemab，这是一种用于治疗阿尔茨海默病早期症状的药物。现在，在 7 月，经过一个“重新考虑过程”，它建议 lecanemab 应该获得公共资金资助——在某些情况下。
更具体地说，加拿大药物专家委员会（CDEC）将其立场从“不报销”转变为“有条件报销”。这算不上是强有力的支持，特别是当你考虑到那些条件列表长得惊人时。
但这确实引起了公众认知的转变。很快可能出现——至少
ROBERT ROTBERG
哈佛肯尼迪学院州内冲突项目创始主任，前 CIGI 高级研究员及世界和平基金会名誉主席
南非一直处于一种破坏性和致命的排外主义痉挛之中。反移民抗议导致了暴力和恐吓，参与者指责移民“抢走”了南非人的工作，提高了犯罪率并使公共服务压力过大。政府对此做出的反应是在过去五周内遣返了 53,000 多名外国国民。据报道，另有 160,000 人在过去两个月内逃离。
但这种仇恨并非新鲜事，也不是突然出现的。这个非洲大陆最发达的经济体对来自更北方的非洲同胞具有强烈的吸引力——但对于其受教育程度最低的公民来说，其表现却危险地低迷，使他们更难在市场中竞争。
南非在种族隔离期间及其之后，在对其 65 million 公民中最不享有特权的人群进行教育方面，做得相当平庸。太多的南非人缺乏与直接同行保持同步的技能，更不用说与新来者竞争了。在每个高中学年结束时，大批南非青少年参加一项特殊的离校考试；在 2014 年开始 Grade 1 的人群中，今年只有 57 通过了该考试，而参加考试的人中大约 38 获得了足以被大学录取的高分。非-
AMIRA ELGHAWABY
人权倡导者，加拿大前反伊斯兰恐惧症特别代表
已故的约翰·L·埃斯波西托（John L. Esposito）既有支持者，也有批评者；而在这些人之中，还有一些人认为他是一名秘密穆斯林。 这位著名的学者在讲述这个传闻时总是带着些许困惑，并经常提到加拿大是该传闻的来源。 这并非事实，但它象征着他的终身事业变得多么不寻常且具有深远意义。在分歧日益加深的时代，他为跨信仰对话所做的贡献，现在成为了我们所有人都能从中获益的遗产。 埃斯波西托教授在本月早些时候因心脏手术并发症去世，逝世时是一名虔诚的天主教徒。他享年 86 岁。 作为华盛顿乔治敦大学的宗教、国际事务和伊斯兰研究教授，埃斯波西托教授试图对抗
理论上——这是一种可用于治疗轻度认知功能下降（阿尔茨海默病早期症状）的药物。 那么，在过去的五个月里发生了什么变化？ 实际上并没有太多变化。 当CDEC最初给出否定建议时，研究显示，lecanemab（品牌名为Lequembi）在 18 个月的时间段内，可以将轻度认知功能下降的症状延缓五到七个月。 研究依然显示出这种适度的益处，但公司提交的额外数据显示，患者病情的稳定性可能会延长至 18 个月之后。 本质上，如果不深入探讨过多技术细节，争论点就在于：在一个衡量认知能力的 18 分量表上降低 0.5 分，是否属于“临床上有意义”的益处？ 这个问题没有简单的答案。 在重新审议过程中，委员会主要决定应给予患者、家手和临床医生的观点更多权重。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 本月早些时候，等待遣返的人们在南非的贝特桥（Beitbridge）边境口岸附近排队登车前往津巴布韦。EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
在饱和的就业市场中，拥有相关资格的人员过早地被投入其中。难怪南非的正式失业率至少为 32 per cent——而 15-24 岁人群的失业率则高达 60 per cent。 因此，许多非法越境的新移民在争取南非工作的竞争中，往往比当地竞争者受教育程度更高。他们的英语通常也更地道，这在一定程度上弥补了他们无法说南非主要本土语言的缺陷。 在开普敦附近的一家高档餐厅里，那些举止异常优雅、谈吐得体的服务员告诉我，他们曾在津巴布韦农村（在独裁者罗伯特·穆加贝的故乡）担任教师。
对穆斯林的妖魔化和排斥，并证明弥合分歧的努力对于培育繁荣、多元的社区至关重要。 “约翰是一位巨人，在危险之时依然维护伊斯兰教和穆斯林。在消除美国的伊斯兰恐惧症毒素方面，他的贡献比我认识的任何人都要大。而且他在做这一切时从未提高过嗓门。他始终保持礼貌，继承了伊斯兰教和民主制度最优秀的传统，”加拿大记者兼作家哈伦·西迪基（Haroon Siddiqui）回忆道。 埃斯波西托教授在学术界的职业生涯始于他决定放弃成为牧师的道路。起初，他打算攻读天主教神学博士，随后又转向印度教。最终，一位朋友兼同事敦促他研究伊斯兰教。在伊朗革命以及后来的 9/11 事件之后，他最终成为了全球最受推崇的中东和穆斯林问题专家之一，为美国政府内部及外部的官员和高级领导层提供咨询。 作为 50 余部关于伊斯兰教书籍的作者、合著者或编辑，这些作品被翻译成 35 种语言，沿着
再次强调，这种方法本身没有问题。 但对于lecanemab而言，所提出的主要论据是，应当为该药物提供资金，因为目前没有其他治疗轻度认知障碍的方法，因此没有其他方式可以减缓阿尔茨海默病残酷的进展。 换句话说，有总比没有好。 在所有条件相同的情况下，这确实是真的。 但这种药物成本高昂，且需要大量其他资源。不仅存在直接和间接成本，还存在巨大的机会成本——如果我们将资金花在一种即便在最佳情况下也仅有边际效益的药物上，那么我们就失去了将这些钱用于其他用途的机会。 这才是我们应该讨论的问题。不是lecanemab是否应该由公共财政支付，而是更广泛地讨论公共医疗资金如何支出。 然而在加拿大，每一个决定似乎都在极端的孤立状态下做出，完全不顾及大局。 要符合使用lecanemab治疗的条件，患者必须
（事实上是该地区）并逃离了该国严苛且日益专制的环境，以寻求更好的机会和高得多的薪酬。在某种意义上，他们确实“抢走”了南非的就业机会。但该餐厅的所有者（以及成千上万像他一样的人）表示，能够达到这些受过更好培训的津巴布韦人工作水平的当地人实在太少了。 同样，大约 40,000 名被驱逐出南非的马拉维人（约占被遣返人数的四分之三）无疑也“抢走”了南非人的工作。但许多人之所以能如此，是因为他们拥有更好的职业技能和更好的英语表达能力；作为寻求更好生活的移民，许多人仅仅是通过勤奋努力
通过公开演讲和讲座，Esposito教授巨大的学术产出深刻影响了世界各地的人们，包括在加拿大，他于 2009 年获得了圣迈克尔学院大学（多伦多大学）的荣誉学位。 来自政治界和学术界的悼词纷至沓来，这象征着尽管有知识分子试图将文明冲突描述为不可避免，但Esposito教授依然具有重大影响。 “今天，我悼念一位亲爱的朋友，约翰·L·埃斯波西托教授，他是世界上最顶尖的伊斯兰研究学者之一，”马来西亚总理安瓦尔·易卜拉欣在社交媒体上写道。 “约翰为西方更深入地理解伊斯兰教奠定了学术基础。他为促进穆斯林与基督徒相互理解做出的贡献是巨大的……在他人满足于建立文明壁垒的地方，他架起了桥梁。” 事实上，正是他对天主教的虔诚，被认为是其多产的写作和教学的核心，而这些工作旨在向西方观众展示
被诊断为因阿尔茨海默病引起的轻度认知障碍或轻度痴呆。（在加拿大，预约神经科专家的等待时间长达一年。） 需要进行基因检测，因为携带两个APOE4基因变异副本的人不符合条件。（这不是常规筛查测试。） 该药物每两周在医院环境中进行一次输注。患者还需要定期进行MRI扫描。（MRI的等待时间可能长达数月。） 医疗系统是否能有效地管理这种药物仍有争议。CDEC还表示，该药物应资助六个月，如果病情进展到中度痴呆，则应停止使用。但我们的系统非常不擅长说“不”。 Lecanemab每年的费用约为 $30,000。 CDEC计算得出，即使在严格的条件下，资助lecanemab在第一年将耗费省药物计划 $66-million，到第 3 年将达到 $485-million。 这是用于痴呆症护理公共资金的最佳支出方式吗？
更加困难。马拉维依赖于向中国出口烟叶，一直是一个劳动力出口国，尽管发生了遣返，情况也将继续如此。被驱逐出南非的外国国民将回到极度贫困、 earning 机会寥寥的国家。在津巴布韦，正式部门的失业率约为 20 per cent，但这一数字并未反映出非正式工作——未经注册、未纳税且不受政府保护的工作——约占该国所有就业人数的 80 per cent 这一事实。而南非的人均 GDP 为 US$6,597，津巴布韦为 US$3,021，马拉维则仅为极小的 US$671。
对于伊斯兰教持有开明的观点——这一信仰在过去被太多人忽视或诋毁。 “埃斯波西托博士体现了天主教耶稣会 cura personalis（全人关怀）的价值观。他的理念核心在于相互理解，并向一个庆祝差异、为全人类福祉而共同努力的多元化世界搭建桥梁，”乔治城大学 Bridge Initiative 副主任莫巴什拉·塔扎马尔（Mobashra Tazamal）分享道。该研究项目由埃斯波西托教授创立，旨在帮助应对伊斯兰恐惧症。 “他的意裔美国人背景和他的天主教信仰，使得约翰能够以同情但并非不加批判的态度来解读伊斯兰传统，”加拿大学者纳德·哈希米（Nader Hashemi）写道。他是由埃斯波西托教授在 1993 年创立的阿尔瓦利德·本·塔拉勒王子穆斯林-基督徒理解中心的主任。 “就像今天的伊斯兰教一样，天主教在协调其历史根源、规范性伦理主张与现代性需求方面也曾挣扎。约翰利用他的天主教背景来理解——
或者，这些资金是否更应花在康复治疗和家庭护理上？ 除了成本之外，始终存在性价比的问题，而这在加拿大医疗保健体系中往往是我们关注最少的一点。 CDEC 计算出 lecanemab 的增量成本效果比为每质量调整生命年 $288,760。（QALY 是一种用于衡量医疗方案整体价值的健康指标；任何低于 $50,000 的数值都被认为是具有成本效益的。） 换句话说，在被认为是一项好的投资之前，其价格必须大幅下降。 如果各省接受这一建议，他们将尝试谈判降低价格，但这是否能降到足够低？ 每一种新药都承诺带来戏剧性的疗效。提供希望很容易，尤其是面对像痴呆症这样无法治愈的疾病时。但要真正兑现希望则困难得多。 我们真正需要问的问题是：这是利用我们稀缺资源的最佳方式吗？即便我们可能并不喜欢答案。
对于南非自身的原住民而言，看似相对的繁荣掩盖了上层阶级（包括旧有的白人群体以及年轻的黑人群体）与其他所有人之间巨大的不平等。经济不平等的基尼系数排名显示，大多数南非人未能分享其作为富裕发展中国家的地位。在这些衡量标准中，0代表绝对平等，100代表绝对不平等；南非的数值为63，位居世界之首。（加拿大的数值为29.9，美国为41.8。）
驱逐移民可能会在短期内刺激就业机会从外来者转移到南非本土人手中，但近期这种排外主义的爆发不太可能推动整个国家的进步。毕竟，与所有国家一样，它需要外部人才才能变得更富有、更成功。移民对于南非至关重要，正如自20世纪40年代以来，来自墨西哥和拉丁美洲其他地区的移民对美国的增长和经济实力至关重要一样。正如人口统计学家莱曼·斯通（Lyman Stone）最近在《纽约时报》中所写，由于创纪录的低生育率以及特朗普政府在关闭移民通道方面的有害工作，美国的人口可能会出现危险的萎缩，且速度快于我们的认知。在南非采取类似的做法也将是导致灾难的药方。
很少有国家能在没有外来者贡献的技能和劳动力的情况下维持高水平运作。挫败感是可以理解的，而排外主义正是这种愤怒的一种后果。但它严重损害了成长中社会的进步。
理解并诠释当今穆斯林社会面临的发展挑战。”
尽管自埃斯波西托（Esposito）教授进入学术界以来时代已经改变，但贯穿其作品的普世原则深刻影响了年轻一代的学者。
“埃斯波西托博士是第一个真正向我展示如何成为反对伊斯兰恐惧症的倡导者和穆斯林权益倡导者，而无需自己成为穆斯林的人。自那时起，我也尝试在自己的工作中践行这一点，”牛津大学穆斯林-基督教研究中心的教育学家和神学家乔丹·德纳里·达夫纳（Jordan Denari Duffner）解释道。
埃斯波西托教授的突然离世正值对多元主义、多元文化主义和宗教自由的支持不断受到考验之时。这提供了一个重新审视其作品并致敬他托付给我们的愿景的机会：一个以理解取代简单化漫画和负面假设的世界。
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周一，漫威工作室公布了人们期待已久的《复仇者联盟：末日》（Avengers: Doomsday）预告片，这是迪士尼为了挽救其陷入困境的大银幕超级英雄事业而采取的“倾尽所有”的尝试。
该广告将该系列中一群不相干的B级角色聚集在一起，整体美学极其庸俗，透出一种绿幕廉价感；如果是在过去几个月的任何时间发布，大概率会受到冷遇。然而，在全世界观众正沉浸在克里斯托弗·诺兰的《奥德赛》（The Odyssey）开画周末的余晖中，并重新意识到真正具有创新精神且雄心勃勃的电影奇观之宏大可能性之时，在此时发布该预告片，无疑是一个极其愚蠢的决定。
如果说《末日》代表了对过去十五年好莱坞大片时代的绝望挽留——一个品牌安全、电影制作日益软弱且平淡，且依赖于现有的熟悉知识产权高于一切的时代——那么《奥德赛》就是我们走向一个更宏大、更光明、更具冒险精神的未来的最佳机会。
势头确实在。当然，诺兰的这部电影正在打破票房纪录——在电影院上映仅仅一周后，全球票房已接近 US$300-million ——并且获得了这位长期受赞誉的导演职业生涯中最好的评价。但更重要的是，去观看这部由马特·达蒙主演的史诗片的行为本身，已经变成了一种具有文化意义的行为。对于影院观影而言，这是一个需要预约的时刻，观众们
《外部威胁》(The Outer Threat) 分级：N/A；95 分钟
由威廉·伍兹 (William Woods) 编剧并导演 主演：马克·奥布莱恩 (Mark O’Brien)、吴宣染 (Constance Wu) 和威廉·菲希特纳 (William Fichtner)
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在天文学界，有一种理论被称为“黑暗森林假设”。这一观点由中国作家刘慈欣在其三部曲小说《三体》中普及，认为宇宙中充满了先进的外星文明——但由于担心被潜在的更高级且可能具有攻击性的生命形式发现，它们都隐藏了起来。该理论认为，由于无法保证一个外星文明是友好的还是敌对的，最好的假设就是：你生存的唯一机会是保持安静且不被察觉，这就是为什么人类尚未在星辰之间发现任何生命。
这一有趣但极其愤世嫉俗的理论也许并非新加拿大科幻剧《外部威胁》的直接灵感，但在观看这部电影扣人心弦的银幕故事时，我不禁一次次地想到黑暗森林。
由长期担任加拿大制片人的威廉·伍兹（曾执导《少年侦探》(The Kid Detective)、《国王潮》(The King Tide)）编剧并导演，本片讲述了已婚天体物理学家丹尼尔 (Daniel, 马克·奥布莱恩 饰) 和米歇尔 (Michelle, 吴宣染 饰) 的故事，他们在寻找外星生命的同时，将两个孩子养在一个基本脱离主流社会网络的环境中。
嗯，丹尼尔确实在搜寻外星人，但米歇尔对这次探索以及对丹尼尔本人都感到越来越失望。然而，在丹尼尔对潜伏在广袤空间中的先进生命形式有了突破性发现后，这对夫妇重新走到了一起，而这一进展也迫使该家庭在遭到未知敌方力量入侵后突然逃离家园。
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《奥德赛》(The Odyssey) 正在刷新票房记录——在上映短短一周后全球票房近 US$300 百万——并赢得了克里斯托弗·诺兰 (Christopher Nolan) 备受赞誉的职业生涯中最好的评价。AALOK SONI/GETTY IMAGES
成为了 他们 自己的 准 奥德修斯 (Odysseus) 版本，不惜旅途 数小时，有时甚至是数天，以在尽可能最好的 可用格式中观看 这部电影。 诺兰完全使用 Imax 70mm 摄影机拍摄了这部改编自 荷马诗篇的作品——这是有史以来 第一部完全使用这种复杂、昂贵 但具有美学回报的格式拍摄的 长篇电影。投射在真实 Imax 70mm 银幕上的图像范围和质感 旨在让观众沉浸其中并被深深吸引，向 观众证明真正的血、 汗和泪投入到了这部 作品的制作中。当你观看 这部电影时，从波涛汹涌的公海 片段，到与喀尔刻 (Circe) 共同面对的身体恐怖 毁灭时刻，再到 阿伽门农 (Agamemnon) 对特洛伊 野蛮且无政府主义攻击的全貌，你无法 不完全地、奢侈地陷入诺兰所构筑的 质感丰富、瑰丽的 世界中。 但因为在 整个 世界上 只有 41 块银幕 能够投射 Imax 70mm 电影，观众——其中一些是 诺兰的信徒，但许多只是 热爱冒险的 普通 电影 爱好者，他们意识到这是一个参与 文化盛事的机遇——他们一直在 重新调整自己的生活，以获得参观其中 一座影院的机会。而在这个过程中，许多人 正在想起一个被疫情、 流媒体的出现 以及过去几年里好莱坞机器 提供的大量空洞的续集、 前传和衍生剧所冲刷掉的 强大真理。即： 走进电影院可以是一种 具有变革性的体验。如果我们希望如此的话。 这就是为什么全美各地的电影院 安排了 全天候 放映《奥德赛》的原因——而且 不仅仅是人们渴望的 Imax 70mm 格式（在纽约 和洛杉矶，该格式的票已售罄至 8月 19日，在伦敦则售罄至九月中旬）。人群 在与困意作斗争地抢看凌晨 3 点的场次， 并翘掉工作和其他职责以挤进早上 7 点的观影场次。而且这还仅仅是 对于那些幸运到能够抢到票的 人来说。
《她的私人地狱》（Her Private Hell） 分级：14A；110 分钟
导演：尼古拉斯·温丁·雷弗恩 (Nicolas Winding Refn) 编剧：尼古拉斯·温丁·雷弗恩、埃斯蒂·乔达尼 (Esti Giordani) 主演：索菲·萨彻 (Sophie Thatcher)、夏瓦纳·罗斯·刘 (Havana Rose Liu)、查尔斯·梅尔顿 (Charles Melton)
当然，尼古拉斯·温丁·雷弗恩始终在掌控着这个笑话。这位丹麦电影制片人在过去十年中大量产出电视剧集，但那些粗粝的挑衅之作在很大程度上未能逃离流媒体的漩涡。在给他的最新电影命名为《她的私人地狱》时，他一定意识到有些观众会过于字面地理解这个标题。这位导演向来热衷于在霓虹闪烁的犯罪风暴（2011年的《驾驶》）与惩罚（2013年的《只有上帝原谅》）中打转，而到了职业生涯的这个阶段，他已经获得了足够的评论界声望，使得“令观众感到疏离”成为了他个人品牌的一部分。《她的私人地狱》是雷弗恩一个极其公开的瓦尔哈拉。
然而，自我意识并不等同于拥有无穷的创造力。对于除了最核心、最盲从的雷弗恩粉丝以外的所有人来说，他的这部最新作品将是对耐心的极限考验。这是一部死气沉沉的心理性欲情节剧，亵渎了至少几个经受住时间考验的类型片遗产——从马里奥·巴瓦 (Mario Bava) 和达里奥·阿基多 (Dario Argento) 的“黄色电影”悬疑片，到约翰·沃特斯 (John Waters) 的幻觉坎普风——《她的私人地狱》是一个极其毫无价值的产物。
它太沉闷，无法成为未来的坎普经典；又太令人厌烦地不成熟，无法称之为反传统。雷弗恩的这部电影与其说是在用机智的俏皮话实现其名义上的设定，不如说它在循环往复地提醒任何在这个练习上花费时间和精力的人，他们究竟是个多么大的傻瓜。
电影设定在一个未来主义城市中，其美学似乎源自于
一年前的情况。（无论出于什么原因，Cineplex 都没有在加拿大仅有的几家 Imax 70mm 影院安排午夜和凌晨场次，包括位于安大略省沃恩市和卡尔加里的院线。不过，如果安大略广场天球影院 (Ontario Place Cinesphere) 没有因为该地区争议性的重新开发而目前关闭，我们本可以多一个选择。）
当然，并非每部电影都能成为诺兰电影。这位导演只有少数几个同辈，仅凭名字就能让一部作品本身成为一个事件——詹姆斯·卡梅隆 (James Cameron) 是其中之一，丹尼斯·维伦纽瓦 (Denis Villeneuve) 也是，还有瑞安·库格勒 (Ryan Coogler)。也许还有昆汀·塔伦蒂诺 (Quentin Tarantino)，如果他决定拍摄他第 10 部且据称是最后一部电影的话。但在《奥德赛》中有一个不可否认的教训，即一部精心构思、巧妙执行的长篇电影——无论在视觉还是表演上都同样丰富——能够提供怎样的集体文化体验。电影院仍然是一个可以让人们完全沉浸其中的地方，只要艺术
《她的私人地狱》讲述了一个名叫艾尔 (Elle) 的年轻星女（由索菲·萨彻饰演），她陷入了一群表面上在拍摄太空歌剧的年轻模特兼演员之中。
就像一个提示词：“ChatGPT，请为我设计一个由服用 MDMA 的青少年所想象的云之城”，《她的私人地狱》讲述了一个名叫艾尔（索菲·萨彻 饰）的年轻星女，她陷入了一群表面上在拍摄太空歌剧的年轻模特兼演员之中。不过，大多数时候，包括准女家长多米尼克 (Dominique)（夏瓦纳·罗斯·刘 饰）在内的女性们，整日 lounging 在奢华而庸俗的高层酒店房间里，对着一个绰号为“皮衣男”的厌女连环杀手大谈特谈，据说此人在下方雾气弥漫的街道上徘徊。
这部电影对其自身的混乱状态持有令人愤怒的自豪感，并将本应极具吸引力的演员们抹杀成了毫无生气的躯壳。
它带着一种令人愤怒的自豪感，沉溺于自身的逻辑混乱，并将原本极具吸引力的演员们抹杀成毫无生气的躯壳。 当一个角色的躯干被撕开，身体被扔出窗外时——这与其说是出于电影化的快感，不如说是一种死板的必然——你几乎能听到雷夫恩（Refn）在背景中窃笑。如果这部电影不像现在这样尴尬地疲软，那么这一切可能会显得非常自慰。 在几个月前的戛纳首映期间，很难忽视每隔一个人就有观众将目光投向出口；而皮诺·多纳吉奥（Pino Donaggio）那真正令人陶醉的配乐，则英勇地阻止了大部分观众在踏入地中海冰冷的怀抱前，冲出大皇宫剧院并往口袋里塞满石头自尽。 当然，随着《她的私人地狱》（Her Private Hell）向世界发行，支持者们自然会接踵而至——以一种邪恶天才的方式，将其作为夏季电影季的一次聪明反向营销。而雷夫恩的狂热追随者们也非常欢迎地去传播他们的福音。套用这位电影制作人的某位电影前辈的话：当地狱再无空间时，死者将行走在艺术影院中。
与此同时，雷夫恩引入了一条平行故事线，涉及一名叫 K 二等兵（Charles Melton 饰）的美国年轻士兵，他在寻找被绑架的女儿时，在城市的地下世界中穿行。 然而，试图追踪雷夫恩叙事的轮廓，就像试图拉开“皮衣男”（Leather Man）的裤子拉链一样——往好里说是不明智的，往坏里说则是致命的。这部电影
所提供的内容，正契合了观众最想看到的部分。忘掉那些关于《奥德赛》（The Odyssey）“觉醒”政治、选角决定和历史准确性的虚假争论吧——这些是那些对电影制作、文化或任何除了制造伪愤怒之外的事物毫无兴趣或鉴赏力的人，向网络沼泽中投喂的、旨在挑衅的低级胡言。至于埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）新承诺的，到今年年底 Grok 将制作一个“历史准确”的 AI 生成版《奥德赛》？如果这东西真的拍出来了，祝任何观看它而眼睛没出血的人好运。真正的、残酷的事实是，诺兰（Nolan）拍了一部电影，它不仅代表了他工艺、感知和热情的一次演进——如果说像《星际穿越》（Interstellar）、《盗梦空间》（Inception）和《奥本海默》（Oppenheimer）这样的诺兰电影不是关于一个人试图逃离他们创造的噩梦并回到家人身边，那么它是什么？——而且这是一件艺术作品，诉说着观众渴望被席卷、被震撼、被挑衅，以及在银幕上认出自身及其世界一部分的普遍欲望。理想情况下，是在尽可能大的屏幕上。即使是在 3 a.m.。如果期望好莱坞突然放弃易于营销的特许经营电影制作，立即毙掉每一个开发中的超级英雄片或真人版卡通改编片，那是愚蠢且天真的。我们也不能指望该行业凭空创造出整整一代克里斯托弗·诺兰。当然，漫画电影是诺兰能够从 A 点到 B 点（蝙蝠侠 Batman）并走到今天的原因。但如果至少不去认可、品味并真诚地反思目前全球影院中——无论是 IMAX 还是普通的多厅屏幕——正在创造的魔力，那就是在浪费一生一次的机会。我们可以让电影，以及观影体验，再次变得伟大。《奥德赛》可以是那段漫长回家旅程的第一步。
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“我饿了。” “你好，‘饿了’，我是爸爸。” 这类笑话正是那些不需要高质量地 就能生存下来的笑话。 我在一次周日早午餐的家庭聚会上听到了这个笑话的版本，当时我的两位叔叔正在做他们天生就擅长的事：将普通的对话变成一系列徘徊在喜剧与公益服务之间的笑话。 起初，我的反应和大多数人在听到“爸爸笑话”时的反应一样。 我呻吟着，翻了个白眼，然后立刻想到，“天呐，太糟糕了。” 但随后，当然，我笑了。 不是大笑。不是那种让你在椅子上后仰或笑得肚子疼的笑。更像是一种在我也来不及阻止之前就逸出的安静气息。一声轻微且不情愿的轻笑。这种笑你几乎会感到反感，因为现在讲笑话的人觉得他赢了。 但 这一次， 坐在 那里，
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被家人围绕着，我开始好奇，那声轻笑是否比我想象中发挥了更大的作用。 我开始思考这样一个想法：如果没有这些轻笑，也许真正的狂笑永远不会产生。 就在那一刻，我开始以不同的方式看待 爸爸 笑话。 我一直认为它是喜剧的一次失败尝试，太直白，太老套，太可预测。笑点通常出现得毫无技巧，就像有人撞在玻璃门上一样。每个人都预见到了，但它依然被极其自信地表达出来。 但也许这正是其意义所在。 爸爸笑话并不旨在成为房间里最聪明的笑话。它也不试图显得酷或机智。它试图做一件简单得多的事情：让房间里的气氛变得足够安全，从而可以做出回应。 这在家庭聚会上很重要。一个挤满亲戚的房间可以是温馨的。但也可以是谨慎的。人们在互相同步近况，询问问题，避开某些话题，努力不让自己说错话。即使是彼此相爱的人，也会感到一种无形的压力，要求自己表现得得体、有趣、随和且不过于尴尬。 然后，有人率先发表了那个无害但错误的评论。有人说了个双关语。有人冒着被对方呻吟抱怨的风险。有人自愿变得不酷。 这其中蕴含着慷慨。 讲爸爸笑话的人 知道它可能会失败。事实上，失败是
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虽然《外部威胁》的结构是一部典型的在逃惊悚片，配备了必要的叙事迂回——在行动中通过长时间的停顿，让导演伍兹（Woods）能够充实丹尼尔（Daniel）和米歇尔（Michelle）的背景故事，同时通过将戏剧冲突限制在人口稀少的狭小场所，来节省这部影片相对有限的制作资源——但该片的题材主干却具有独特的吸引力。丹尼尔被塑造成一个永恒的乐观主义者，深信发现外星生命对人类来说绝对是一件好事。然而，米歇尔并不认为人类值得被拯救，且认为没有一个合理的理由会让另一个文明愿意与已经变成定时炸弹的地球发生任何联系。伍兹似乎在询问他的观众：在宇宙中孤独地存在，与尝试一种可能带来共同毁灭的连接，哪一个更好？
这场辩论在演员们的投入表演中得到了最好的体现。奥布莱恩（O'Brien）是一位资深的加拿大演员，此前曾与伍兹合作过那部紧张且被低估的 2020 年惊悚片《锤子》（Hammer）；而吴则将她在好莱坞大制作《欺骗者》（Hustlers）和《摘金两条腿》（Crazy Rich Asians）的突破性演出中展现出的同样炽热的能量，带到了这部相对小规模的制作中。当这对夫妇就人类的命运——以及更紧迫的，他们婚姻的纽带——进行争执时，演员们深入探讨了关于良好初衷与错失机会的挑衅且混乱的对话。关于人类面对外星生命时可能呈现的丑陋现实，在一段精心校准的延长序列中得到了进一步挖掘，在这段戏中，一家人在一家尘土飞扬的路边餐厅稍作停留。这家餐厅神经质的店主（由卓越的性格演员威廉·菲奇特纳 William Fichtner 饰演，其表演中蕴含着深沉的紧张感）散发出的一种不安的气息，足以让任何形式的 E.T. 放弃前往地球。回想起来，《外部威胁》或许可以被视为加拿大版的史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格（Steven Spielberg）的《披露日》（Disclosure Day），只不过预算只有其千分之一。尽管如此，这部作品仍被一些即便拥有斯皮尔伯格级别的预算账户也无法解决的复杂问题所困扰。除菲奇特纳之外，部分配角难以胜任角色，一些关键的对话片段在演绎时明显缺乏分量。而第三幕揭露追踪该家庭的敌人的剧情发展，显得既符合时势又脱离实际——这是伍兹虽然对当代社会有真正重要的话要说，但却找到了一个过于便捷的机会来表达。同样的问题也出现在故事的高潮部分，它用一种“麦盖先式”的过于便捷的解决方案，化解了看似不可避免的毁灭。不过，当电影重新聚焦于丹尼尔和米歇尔，当奥布莱恩和吴能够就宏大的宇宙问题激烈碰撞时，《外部威胁》这座暗林显得相当明亮。
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你是南家，双方都处于脆弱状态。叫标情况如下：
面对以下五手牌，你现在会如何叫标？
1. Pass。对 1 钻石的强叫（takeout double）通常基于 12 点以上的高点数，并暗示对三个未叫标的花色有良好支持。这手牌显然达到了强叫的标准，但除了已宣布的价值外，它不包含任何显著价值。由于搭档没有通过跳叫响应来表明强手牌，因此 Game（局）是不可能的；事实上，搭档可能持有几乎毫无价值的牌，这更理由不采取进一步行动。
2. 两黑桃。这里你同样拥有 14 高点数，但这手牌因拥有卓越的王牌配合和单枚方块而多出约 3 点价值。单次升至两黑桃表明高点数和分布约有 16 到 18 点，并邀请搭档在之前的 1 黑桃响应中持有最大值（7 或 8 点）时叫标 Game。
3. 1 无将。对 1 方块的直接 1 无将抢标表明 15 到 18 点。当无将叫标之前有强叫时，它往往显示出比直接无将叫标更高的价值。许多玩家此时会犯错地跳叫至 2 无将，但在……
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61 制作迷你马提尼需要什么？ 62 过山车和旋转木马 63 加利福尼亚或下加利福尼亚 64 ___ring (印度婚姻象征)
纵向 1 靠近烟囱的员工 (4) 2 担心最后的课程 (8) 3 想要结识罗伯特·彭斯的合唱团成员 (6) 4 属于正确组织的部长 (6) 5 革命性多媒体杂志使用的服务器 (4) 6 迂腐者——决心坚持立场的人 (8) 11 人类最好的朋友之一在广播中公开了麻烦 (8) 13 放弃主题的文章作者 (3) 14 看看蛋糕上的杏仁膏如何被描述？ (8) 16 保护装置以不寻常的方式被持有 (6) 17 据报道，水手设法避免被捕 (6) 19 极好的惩罚 (4) 21 脾气暴躁，未能完成一系列问题 (4)
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45 林肯的头饰 48 从远处看 49 略长的裙子 50 拍摄 51 背景设定在古埃及的歌剧
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指令 填充网格，使每行九格、每列九格以及每个九宫格（3x3）都包含数字 1 到 9，顺序不限。每个谜题只有一个解。
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每一行和每一列必须包含数字 1 到 6，且不得重复。
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与此同时，他们会同意 自己不会以 2 无将（two notrump） 开启叫牌。 搭档对最初的加倍响应了 1 黑桃（one spade）—— 这没有任何保证—— 并不能证明单方面 发起 2 无将是合理的。 跳舞需要两个人配合。 4. 3 黑桃。拥有 19 分 极高价值的高位点数（high-card points），良好的 王牌（trumps）和一对方块， 你有足够的条件跳叫 3 黑桃。 这手牌对 2 黑桃来说太好， 而对 4 黑桃来说又不够好。 在这种情况下应当咨询搭档， 而最好的方式
就是跳叫 3 黑桃。 5. 4 黑桃。搭档只需要 略多于 5 张黑桃（包含 10） 就有很大机会达成局（game）。 如果因为担心搭档通过（passing） 3 黑桃而放弃这手极有可能 达成 4 黑桃的牌，就过于保守了。 你应该叫出你认为能达成的 —— 4 黑桃 —— 且无需 给搭档施加不必要的压力。
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周四，由于担心美国与伊朗之间的冲突正在中东地区扩大，并可能引发另一轮全球通货膨胀螺旋，原油价格飙升至三个月高点。
本周，随着美国和伊朗继续就霍尔木兹海峡问题相互交火，敌对行动升级。近期，受伊朗支持的也门胡塞武装的介入进一步引发了人们的担忧，认为该地区其他关键航道的石油贸易可能会中断。
周四，布伦特原油价格自 5 月以来首次触及每桶 100 美元，而北美的基准原油——
去年夏天，联合太平洋铁路公司（Union Pacific）表示希望以 850 亿美元的交易收购诺福克南方铁路公司（Norfolk Southern），这将创建美国第一条横贯大陆的铁路。加拿大国家铁路公司（CN）最初反对该交易。DARRYL DYCK/加拿大新闻社
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国际贸易谈判过去依赖于一个隐含的假设：贸易自由化才是核心目标。
谈判代表就降低哪些关税以及消除或减少哪些贸易壁垒进行讨价还价；这就是他们参与谈判的原因。一个心照不宣的共同信念是，贸易自由化，特别是像加拿大和美国这样的发达经济体之间的贸易自由化，是一个双赢的方案。自大萧条以来，贸易历史的轨迹一直向着低关税和更自由的贸易方向发展。
现在不再如此了。
在总统唐纳德·特朗普的领导下，华盛顿正在混乱地拆除其曾经建立的一切。
如果你的思维仍停留在旧世界，那么过去一年半对加拿大的攻击——最新的是宣布将对部分加拿大商品征收 50% 的待定关税——就很难理解。同样难以理解的是周四对包括加拿大在内的所有美国主要贸易伙伴采取的全面新关税，其理由极其荒谬。
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西德克萨斯中质原油（WTI）触及 $92.。
“人们担心这种升级将比霍尔木兹海峡扩散得更广，”Raymond James 旗下 Dehal Investment Partners 的高级组合经理 Michael Dehal 表示。
自 3 月初冲突开始以来，沙特阿拉伯一直在加大对替代运输路线的使用。这包括其长 1,200 公里的东西管道，该管道将石油运往红海，而红海已成为冲突中的新战场。
根据海运情报公司 Kpler 的数据，周二红海有 93 艘以上的原油轮在运行，而战争前每天约为 50 艘。
从红海的延布港（Yanbu）出发，
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加拿大国家铁路公司（Canadian National Railway）同意结束对一项重大铁路合并的反对，以换取更广泛的网络访问权限 B2
关于打击强迫劳动的文本。 但 特朗普 先生 并不 认同 关于贸易互利的 第二次世界大战后 的假设。意识到这一点，事情就变得清晰了。他想要建立贸易壁垒，而不是将其拆除。 我们并不十分了解华盛顿与渥太华之间贸易谈判的进展情况，或者目前正在发生什么。但特朗普先生及其在这一问题上的主要传声筒一年半以来发表的言论表明，美国的 objective 并非减少贸易壁垒，而是相反。 他们的目标不是一个能释放更多贸易的《美墨加协定》（USMCA），而是一个对我们施加新贸易限制的 USMCA。不是全面降低关税，而是提高美国关税。 不再像汽车工业那样，拥有生产链在无形边境两侧来回穿梭的共享产业，而是一个更厚重的边境，强迫产业迁至美国。 不再寻求共同的贸易利益，而是旨在通过加拿大的贸易损失来换取美国的贸易收益。
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沙特阿拉伯的石油一直通过曼德海峡（Bab al-Mandab Strait）向南运输——这是一条比霍尔木兹海峡更窄的水道，位于也门东部、吉布提和厄立特里亚之间。这条航道是该地区少数几个石油关键节点之一，通过红海通往苏伊士运河，将亚洲、非洲和中东与欧洲连接起来。 但沙特阿拉伯的整体原油出口量仍远低于战前水平，而来自胡塞武装的敌对行动可能进一步阻断经过曼德海峡的出口。 周一，胡塞武装威胁将在该海峡实施海军封锁，在和平时期，全球每日 10% 的贸易流经此处。
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在一项可能会加剧跨大西洋贸易紧张关系的决定中，欧盟监管机构周四对 Google 处以 US$1-billion 罚款，原因是其利用搜索引擎的主导地位非法削弱竞争。 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普此前曾威胁要对欧盟采取报复措施，因为他认为欧盟不公平地针对美国科技公司。在 Google 裁决公布时，他正在考虑对欧盟和其他主要贸易伙伴征收新一批关税。 在解释周四的 €890-million 罚款时，布鲁塞尔的监管机构表示，Google 利用其全球最大搜索引擎的地位，不公平地推广其在购物、旅行、游戏和语言翻译等领域的服务。监管机构称，Google 将自己的服务更显著地显示在搜索结果顶部，而将竞争服务排在页面的更下方。 进行调查的欧盟委员会还得出结论，这家科技巨头在其 Google Play 应用商店中使用了不公平的限制，以防止应用开发者与用户沟通。
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在安大略省布鲁克林这个小村庄周围规划的住宅区，曾被宣传为未来的社区。背后的十几家房屋开发商提议为每栋房屋配备电动汽车充电设备；此外，如果业主想要安装太阳能电池板和电池，他们还将准备好预埋管线和导管。
但出现了一个问题：布鲁克林恰好位于多伦多周边电力最匮乏的地区之一。当地电力公司 Elexicon Energy 无法在不显著扩大基础设施的情况下连接 10,000 栋新房，这包括从附近安大略省惠特比 (Whitby, Ont.) 的一个输电站建设两条新的低压馈线。关于谁该出钱的问题引发了争议。
如今，布鲁克林周围依然是青草地、休耕地、农田和零星的森林，其间偶尔可见展示中心、挖掘机和推土机。在 2024 年的一份报告中，惠特比镇承认，电力基础设施的缺乏已成为实现其到 2031 年建设 18,000 栋住宅承诺的主要障碍。
这仅仅是更大范围基础设施短缺的一个迹象，这种短缺使解决人口稠密的安大略省南部住房危机的努力变得复杂。据代表安大略省当地配送公司 (LDCs) 的电力分销商协会 (Electricity Distributors Association) 称，未来几十年升级网络的费用将高达 $103-billion 和 $120-billion 之间。
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消息人士称，WSP 是考虑对 Arcadis 发起收购的该公司之一
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据两名知情人士透露，荷兰工程咨询集团 Arcadis 已吸引包括加拿大同行 WSP Global 在内的竞标者的收购兴趣，这些人认为该公司被低估。在路透社率先报道有收购意向后，Arcadis 在阿姆斯特丹上市的股票周四跳涨 9.5%，随后交易被暂时停止。
总部位于蒙特利尔、在多伦多证券交易所上市的 WSP 在过去一年中一直与顾问进行讨论，并断断续续地针对可能收购 Arcadis 的计划开展工作，后者的市值是
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福特与中国汽车公司吉利汽车于周四宣布计划在福特位于西班牙瓦伦西亚的工厂共同生产低排放和零排放车辆。
此次合作旨在重启福特在欧洲汽车市场的产品供应，因为这家传统汽车制造商正寻求与那些在全球汽车销售中迅速占据主导地位的快速发展的中国公司展开竞争。
此次合作正值美国电动汽车市场面临挑战以及由美国关税政策引发的全球地缘政治紧张局势升级之际。在美国，相关政策几乎将中国公司排除在市场之外——尽管美国汽车制造商仍与中国公司在生产方面进行合作，且中国车辆在更广泛的北美地区正取得进展。
该合资企业在等待监管部门批准，将由福特持有三分之二股份，吉利持有三分之一股份。吉利还拥有沃尔沃、极星等品牌。
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一名消息人士称，[其市值]约为 €3.2-billion (US$3.64-billion)。
另一人补充道，WSP 的市场价值为 $23.6-billion (US$16.75-billion)，是一个显而易见的追求者，因为通过合并运营，它可以降低成本并提高收入。相关人士表示，大型私募股权公司在最近几个月也探讨了对 Arcadis 的潜在竞标。
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相关人士表示，虽然追求者正在考虑竞标，但由于包括该公司股东结构在内的潜在障碍，对 Arcadis 的报价不太可能迅速实现。
Arcadis 成立于 1888 年，拥有 34,000 名员工。由于其增长停滞且股价落后于在美国上市的同行，该公司越来越容易受到收购兴趣的影响。尽管周四在盘后交易中有所上涨，但其股价仍然
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在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普波动巨大的第二个任期内，加拿大在进入全球最大经济体的贸易准入方面一直享有相对优势的地位——这令许多其他国家羡慕。如果特朗普先生针对该国的最新一轮关税在下个月生效，那么这种优势在很大程度上将会消失，使得加拿大的平均有效关税率（衡量收取的关税占总进口额的比例）仅比法国和越南低一点点。“如果 338 levies 被引入，加拿大的相对关税优势将缩小，但仍将存在，”加拿大国家银行经济学家 Taylor Schleich 和 Ethan Currie 在一份报告中写道。“这一优势已经从 Oct-25 的‘峰值’有所下降，当时加拿大的关税率比全球平均水平低 7 个百分点。”
在讨论特朗普先生威胁根据第 338 条款（一个美国从未使用过的大萧条时期条款）对加拿大实施的新关税时，存在许多“如果”。针对 500 多个类别的产品征收 50-per-cent 的关税定于 Aug. 19, 生效，这将适用于加拿大 2025, 年向美国发货量的 5 per cent，即价值 $20.1-billion 的商品。然而，许多经济学家，甚至一些将受到这些惩罚性新关税影响的公司，都以怀疑的眼光看待特朗普先生的威胁，将其归结为一种谈判策略。
即便如此，加拿大和越南可能面临规模相似的关税墙，这本身就说明了全球贸易秩序发生了多么大的变化。目前，越南正处于超越加拿大成为美国进口来源地的轨迹上。自 2025 年初以来，美国从加拿大的进口额下降了 6.7 per cent，至 US$36.3-billion。同期，来自越南的货运量飙升 67 per cent，在 5 月达到 US$21.8-billion 的记录新高。
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比 2024 年 11 月达到 66.85 欧元 (€66.85) 的峰值下降了 40% 以上。
消息人士称，根据其网站，由员工领导和管理的基金会 Lovinklaan 持有该公司约 18% 的股份；除非建立起保护就业和技能发展的保障措施，否则该基金会可能会反对交易。他们表示，任何竞购者可能都需要向股东提供承诺以获得支持。第一位人士表示，Arcadis 还拥有一支由首席执行官 Heather Polinsky 领导的相对较新的管理团队，她于 3 月到任，董事会目前正在等待评估她和其他高管是否能提高其作为独立公司的业绩。该人士补充道，如果董事会最终对他们的扭转局面努力失去信心，交易的可能性将会增加。
福特 Kuga 插电式混合动力车型，以及一款新型 Bronco SUV，后者的生产将于 2028 年开始。吉利计划在该工厂生产两款电动 SUV，其中第一款也计划于 2028 年开始生产。汽车制造商表示，他们还将共同开发一款将于 2028 年推出的新型“多能源”跨界车型。
“这家合资企业应对欧洲市场的现实新情况——激烈的全球竞争、持续的成本压力和日益严格的法规——将瓦伦西亚（Valencia）重新设定为按照行业新兴的成本基准进行建设，”一名代表...
反对美国合并案，以换取 更多网络访问权限
CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS
加拿大国家铁路公司（Canadian National Railway Co.，简称 CN）与联合太平洋公司（Union Pacific Corp.）正达成一项协议，CN 将因此停止反对该竞争对手在边境以南提出的巨额合并方案。周三晚上公布的这项协议规定，CN 将在获得美国中西部更多网络访问权限的同时，默认支持联合太平洋公司拟以 US$85-billion 收购诺福克南方公司（Norfolk Southern Corp.）。联合太平洋公司作为美国第二大铁路运营商，于去年 7 月宣布计划收购第四大运营商——诺福克南方公司。这一交易将创建该国首条横贯大陆的铁路，并可能触发北美铁路合并的最后一波浪潮。竞争对手和客户担心，此次合并将增加客户成本，并将前所未有的市场权力集中在单一铁路公司之手，该公司将处理约 40 per cent 的美国货运流量。联合太平洋
与诺福克南方公司则认为，结合将降低成本并促使竞争对手通过降低运费来竞争。“我从第一天起就说过，我们的合并将创建一个更强大的铁路工业，为客户提供更好的服务。我们与 CN（加拿大国家铁路）的协议强化了这些承诺，”联合太平洋首席执行官吉姆·维纳（Jim Vena）在周四上午与分析师的电话会议上表示。维纳在加入这家更大的竞争对手公司之前，曾在 CN 工作了数十年。行业监管机构美国表面运输委员会（U.S. Surface Transportation Board）在 5 月份拒绝了一份修订后的合并申请，称其遗漏了关键信息，并要求在更新的提交件中提供更多细节。本周 CN 与联合太平洋公司达成的协议取决于监管机构的批准以及收购案的通过。根据双方的谅解备忘录，CN 将获得在伊利诺伊州图斯科拉（Tuscola）与东圣路易斯（East St. Louis）之间一段 200-plus-kilometre 的联合太平洋轨道上运行列车的权利，并为密苏里州圣路易斯与堪萨斯城之间的客户提供服务。在另一项不以合并为前提的与联合太平洋公司的协议中，CN 还将获得更多进入墨西哥的直接渠道。该谅解备忘录授予这家总部位于蒙特利尔的铁路公司在孟菲斯与德克萨斯州伊格尔帕斯（Eagle Pass，位于格兰德河沿岸）之间的联合太平洋轨道上运行列车的权利。“这是我们南北特许经营权的自然延伸，将为客户开辟新路线，提供更多选择，并加强加拿大与墨西哥之间的联系，”CN 首席执行官特雷西·罗宾逊（Tracy Robinson）在新闻发布会上表示。作为交换条件，联合太平洋公司将获得在 CN 旗下环绕芝加哥地区的埃尔金、乔利埃特与东部铁路（Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway）上扩大运营权的权利。
本周 CN 与 联合太平洋公司 达成的协议取决于 监管机构的批准 以及收购案的 通过。
THE CANADIAN PRESS
两家公司的租赁协议称。 近年来，中国汽车制造商势头强劲，他们以较低的价格提供具有先进技术的、高质量且高效的混合动力和纯电动汽车（被称为“新能源汽车”）。这些汽车公司得到了中国政府的大力补贴，政府对其成功持有浓厚兴趣。然而，由于消费者购车补贴的削减以及国内竞争的加剧，它们在中国也开始出现增速放缓的迹象。因此，随着美国以外的全球电动汽车转型在不同程度地推进，中国公司在亚洲其他国家、拉丁美洲和欧洲部分地区扩展业务并取得了早期成功。伊朗的战争也激发了全球对中国电动汽车的兴趣，因为霍尔木兹海峡的冲突影响了全球原油和液化天然气的供应。 与此同时，福特（Ford）在欧洲的地位多年来一直在下降，从十年前在整个欧洲大陆销售超过 1 million 辆汽车，下降到去年的不足 50 万辆。
这家总部位于温哥华的公司周四报告其产量增长了 25%
NIALL McGEE 采矿业记者
创纪录的铜价推动 Teck Resources Ltd. 第二季度的利润超出预期，目前该公司正等待中国对其拟被英国 Anglo American PLC 收购的决定。
总部位于温哥华的 Teck 周四报告，铜产量同比增长 25%，达到约 136,000 吨，其中不列颠哥伦比亚省的 Highland Valley Copper 表现尤为出色。Teck 最大的铜矿——智利的 Quebrada Blanca 同样取得了稳健成果，产量增长 6% 至 55,800 吨。
铜被用于电子产品、电线、交通运输和管道工程，其第二季度价格同比飙升 40%，平均每磅 6.05 美元。根据 Trading Economics 的数据，该大宗商品周四交易价格在每磅 6.30 美元左右，与 6 月份创下的每磅 6.67 美元历史最高点相差无几。
Teck 在 2024 年将其传统煤炭业务出售给了 Glencore PLC，从而大幅增加了对铜的风险敞口。
去年 9 月，Teck 同意被 Anglo American 收购。这家英国矿业公司周四表示，该交易仍计划在 9 月之间完成交割。
PIPPA NORMAN 创新记者
渥太华正在创建一个无人机供应商市场，以加快向加拿大军队交付低成本技术，因为持续的冲突表明这些系统对现代战争至关重要。
“国防无人机计划”（Defence Drone Initiative）市场于周四启动，联邦政府要求相关公司申请进入供应商池，以便军队和海岸警卫队从中获取特定的产品和服务。这可能包括测试、原型开发或生产机会。
该计划由国防部和国防投资局领导，是联邦政府 2 月份宣布的《国防工业战略》的直接后续措施。该战略将无人和自主系统确定为政府希望优先在国内构建的 10 项主权能力之一，以确保能够获得核心能力。
CHRIS KIRKHAM AKASH SRIRAM 洛杉矶
一年前，特斯拉首席执行官埃隆·马斯克曾表示，公司的无人驾驶出租车（robotaxi）网络将以“超指数速度”扩张，到 2025 年底将覆盖美国一半的人口。
在周三的财报电话会议上，马斯克及其执行团队在回答分析师关于推广速度低于预期的问题时，语气变得更加谨慎。无人驾驶出租车的更新情况可能导致了周四特斯拉股票的剧烈抛售。
截至上次收盘，特斯拉的股价今年已下跌近 17%，在周四的下午交易中收盘下跌 14.5%，创下一年多来最大的百分比跌幅。
巴克莱银行（Barclays）的分析师在的一份报告中表示，“需要更多证据来证明特斯拉在无人驾驶出租车方面的能力正在发生转折”，并补充说特斯拉没有提供新的扩张目标，且“未能实现此前设定的目标”。
自 2025 年 6 月在奥斯汀启动小规模无人驾驶出租车试点以来，特斯拉仅扩展到德克萨斯州和佛罗里达州的少数其他城市，且服务通常仅限于郊区。
在去年奥斯汀启动之前，马斯克曾谈到特斯拉的技术如何成为一种“适用于任何地方的通用解决方案”，与之相对的是 Alphabet 旗下 Waymo（美国无人驾驶出租车领导者）采取的是更为审慎的、一个城市接一个城市的推广方式。
在 1 月的一次投资者演示中，特斯拉表示其无人驾驶出租车将在 6 月底前扩展到七个大都市区：达拉斯、休斯顿、凤凰城、迈阿密、奥兰多、坦帕和拉斯维加斯。
直到周二，特斯拉仅在其中三个城市推出了服务：达拉斯、休斯顿和迈阿密，且在休斯顿和迈阿密的业务仅限于郊区。该公司宣布在
[[IMG_XXXX]] （图片说明：截至周二，特斯拉在其承诺的到 6 月底前覆盖的七个城市中，仅在三个城市推出了无人驾驶出租车服务：达拉斯、休斯顿和迈阿密。EVAN GARCIA/路透社）
[[IMG_XXXX]] （图片说明：图中为 Teck Resources Ltd. 位于不列颠哥伦比亚省特雷尔的锌铅冶炼和精炼综合体，拍摄于 2012.。该公司最大的铜矿表现强劲，产量增长了 6%。DARRYL DYCK/CP）
明年 2 月和 3 月。在去年获得 Teck 和 Anglo 股东批准后，加拿大联邦政府也在 12 月批准了该交易。
在交易完成前需要清除的最后监管障碍之一是获得中国的反垄断批准。中国国家市场监督管理总局正在审查 Anglo Teck 可能对该国铜市场产生的影响，以及权力是否过于集中在单一实体中。
……不必非得依赖国外的供应商。
“无人系统正在改变战争的性质，”加拿大联合部队司令部司令达西·莫尔斯塔德（Darcy Molstad）中将在一次采访中表示。“它们使得在某些情况下，昂贵且精密的作战能力可以通过成本极低的归属系统而被中和。”
“我们需要这些能力，以便在现代环境下作战。”
传统的基于项目的采购方式并不适用于无人机等需要不断迭代、测试并适应快速变化的战场环境的技术。供应协议的目标是缩短采购或审核时间，并通过升级和现代化确保技术保持实用性。
加拿大的无人机产业正在演进，许多参与者试图建立制造能力，但该行业目前主要由组装商而非零部件制造商组成。这一举措旨在对此提供帮助，通过政府创造需求信号
以及这将如何影响作为该大宗商品主要买家的中国。
在周四与分析师举行的电话会议上，Teck首席执行官乔纳森·普莱斯（Jonathan Price）表示，国家市场监督管理总局（SAMR）对该交易的调查正在正常进行，公司正作为该流程的一部分对各项请求做出回应。一名分析师询问监管机构是否要求出售任何资产作为批准交易的条件。
“我们尚未收到任何因审批流程而提出的补救要求，”普莱斯先生回答道。
“所以目前一切照旧。”
总部位于伦敦的Anglo公司打算在交易完成后将其全球总部迁至加拿大，并将公司更名为Anglo Teck。
如果Anglo成功收购这家加拿大矿业公司，它将从渥太华对Teck一项传统业务的大规模投资中获益。
本月早些时候，联邦政府表示，它打算激励工业界投资建立一个更具主权的供应链，莫尔斯塔德（Molstad）中将说道。
“在加拿大，我们拥有潜力巨大的企业、供应商、供应商和创新者，而我们尚未完全挖掘这些潜力，这将成为挖掘这些潜力的机制，”他说道。
联邦政府表示，渥太华的“购买加拿大产品”（Buy Canadian）政策——该政策并不一定排除外资拥有的子公司——“可能适用于”通过该计划提出的请求。但莫尔斯塔德中将表示，该计划的最终目标是建立一个加拿大供应商市场。
“我们的意图是通过一个受控的采购流程来实现这一点，让公司在一段时间内展示其能力，然后我们确定哪些公司具有最高的交付和规模化潜力，”他说道。
其目的不是采购并囤积无人机，因为这些技术可能在短短一两个月内就过时。相反，重点是让加拿大军队和加拿大海岸警卫队能够在短时间内调用一组选定的供应商，以提供
解决方案并进行规模化生产，莫尔斯塔德中将说道。
“这需要一段时间，但我们也可以向盟友和合作伙伴学习。是的，我们在这次供应安排中针对的是加拿大供应商，但这可能会为不同类型的伙伴关系提供机会，也许未来会与相关盟友和合作伙伴进行共同生产，”他说道。
对于总部位于弗雷德里克顿（Fredericton）的无人机公司Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions Inc.的首席执行官乔什·奥格登（Josh Ogden）来说，这是迄今为止最明确的信号，表明加拿大对本土公司有需求。
“这是向市场发出的一个信号，即‘我们准备好购买了，我们只需要知道向谁购买’，”他说道。
首先，军方正在寻找能够提供低成本监视和侦察无人机、无人地面或海上无人机、无人机弹药和打击系统，以及低成本反无人机拦截器的公司。其他能力将随时间推移而要求。
寻求申请的公司可以通过五个渠道获得资格，其中包括通信、
周二表示，在几份财报前的分析师报告提到扩张缓慢后，该服务“现在已进入坦帕（Tampa）和奥兰多（Orlando）”。
但这些城市的服务区域（例如迈阿密和休斯敦）仅限于市中心以外交通量较少的社区。
路透社在达拉斯和休斯敦启动后的几周内测试了这款无人驾驶出租车服务，发现等待时间很长，有时完全没有可用车辆。
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投资高达 $400-million 用于 Teck 位于 B.C. 省的 Trail 冶炼厂，作为其 数以十亿美元计的计划的一部分，旨在 加强北美的关键矿产供应。 另外，Anglo American 作为 其去年向渥太华提交的具有法律约束力承诺的一部分，表示 计划向 Trail 投资高达 $850-million。 这两项投资可能会 使 Trail 现有的锗和锑 产量翻倍， 并有可能增加新的镓 生产。 镓用于半导体和雷达系统。锑的 应用 包括 阻燃剂和高效电池。锗 用于光纤和 军事应用，例如红外 光学视觉。 Trail 设施雇佣了 超过 1,400 人，已 连续运行 130 年。Teck 在 2001 年 收购 Cominco 后接管了该运营项目。 Teck 报告截至 6 月 30. 季度利润为 $884-million。该矿业公司的 调整后每股收益为 $1.93， 远超 S&P Capital IQ 预测的每股 $1.41。 “两家公司在进入计划中的 合并阶段时，其核心业务似乎都 处于全力运转状态，”Jefferies 分析师 Christopher La-Femina 在周四给客户的一份照会中写道， 他指的是 Teck 和 Anglo。 Teck 的股票在周四的多伦多 证券交易所交易中上涨了 4.4% ，收于每股 $84.18。
无人系统、测试、评估和培训等。
根据莫尔斯塔德中将（Lt.-Gen. Molstad）的说法，各项流向旨在支持“端到端能力”。这意味着，例如，武装部队不仅可以通过市场采购实物无人机，还可以采购使用该无人机所需的培训服务，或者确保其在军方各分支机构之间实现互操作性所需的通信基础设施。
供应安排的申请将于 8 月 14 日截止，并在第一年内每三个月重新开放一次，以允许新供应商进入。一年后，可能会每六个月重新开放一次。该供应安排自发布之日起有效期为五年。
奥格登先生（Mr. Ogden）表示，他的公司将申请其中三到四个流向。接下来，他将关注政府将如何快速地利用这个合格供应商池并实际开始向其采购。
“意图很明确，现在工业界必须高效执行，政府在时间效率方面同样如此。”
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在渥太华大放厥词之后， 加拿大纳税人 理应获得 比一项还款承诺更多的保障
戈迪·豪国际大桥（Gordie Howe International Bridge）面临成为加拿大纳税人财政黑洞的风险。尽管目前关于加拿大与美国签署侧面协议的争议再次让公众关注该桥的财务状况，但这座连接安大略省温莎与密歇根州底特律、全长 2.5 公里的跨海大桥所涉及的财政风险不仅限于该协议。事实上，这个由加拿大全额资助的 $6.4-billion 项目，其经济可行性在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普向渥太华施压，要求其在桥梁运营前 15 年交付一半净收益之前，就已经开始崩塌。公开文件中细则的细节表明，加拿大纳税人可能无法回收他们在这一跨境通道上的投资——至少在合理的时间范围内无法回收。负责此事的联邦部门以及负责该项目的国营公司温莎-底特律桥梁管理局（Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority, WDBA）均未回答《环球邮报》的查询。不过，嘿，不透明正是加拿大的方式。显然，桥梁和道路等基础设施投资并非公司商业风险投资。它们服务于更广泛的社会和经济目的，通常不是为了盈利而建。戈迪·豪桥的主要目的是在未来数十年内促进更多的跨境贸易和经济增长。尽管有特朗普先生的搞鬼行为，这座桥在周一最终通车后确实能实现这一点。所以，如果你在想为什么纳税人应该期待这项特定的基础设施能够获偿，那是因为渥太华已经向加拿大人承诺，他们将拿回自己的钱。“戈迪·豪国际大桥将采用用户付费模式运营，以确保跨境通道的长期可持续性，包括回收加拿大的投资以及资助持续的运营与维护，”加拿大住房、基础设施和社区部的发言人 Caleb Spassov 告诉《环球报》
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特朗普先生的大脑就像一个索引卡片被打乱的图书馆一样混乱，他不可预测的冲动意味着美国贸易政策的日常波动是由心血来潮、反复无常、自负以及那天早上《福克斯新闻》(Fox News) 报道了什么所驱动的。
噪音很多。
但在这些噪音之下，特朗普先生在骨子里清楚地感觉到，自由贸易是给傻瓜准备的。
他不信任盟友，寻求乞求者，并嘲笑双赢安排的概念。他相信赢家通吃（win-lose），而他深不可测的自负要求如此。
这就是我们现在的现实。是世界的现状，而非我们希望它成为的样子。
那么加拿大该怎么做？
反击，但不要过激
特朗普政府正试图重写贸易规则，同时忽略其签署的贸易条约。这种企图面临着来自美国国会、法院和公众的反对。
在今年秋季的中期选举后，国会中至少有一个议院可能会转由民主党控制。
特朗普先生的关税行动在大多数选民中并不受欢迎，这往往会增加这种可能性的出现。
这些是加拿大的筹码。
加拿大规模不足以影响美国的宏观经济。但因为我们是美国出口全球最大的市场，我们可以制造很多噪音，并产生真正的微观经济影响。
例如，加拿大人正在广泛抵制美国烈酒，大多数省份已将美国酒类从货架上撤下。
这对加拿大经济没有影响，但却给美国生产商带来了痛苦，引起了肯塔基州等州美国政治家的关注，并产生了美国的新闻报道。这迫使美国人注意到这场针对加拿大的非理性贸易战的代价。
加拿大前往美国旅游人数的骤降，同样引起了从缅因州到迈阿密再到拉斯维加斯的商会、政治家和酒店业从业者的关注。
[[IMG_XXXX]] （图注：5月拍摄的戈迪·豪国际大桥建设现场，该桥连接安大略省温莎市与密歇根州底特律市。这座 2.5 公里长、$6.4-billion 的项目完全由加拿大出资。PAUL SANCYA/美联社）
特朗普并非永恒。时间站在我们这边
国会的控制权可能在几个月内就会在特朗普先生面前反转。除非他将美国转变为一个后民主国家，否则他已经是一个必须在 2029 年初离任的跛脚总统。
加拿大无需急于自愿放弃现状。在少打人数的劣势局面下通过控球拖延时间（Ragging the puck on the penalty kill）始终是一个明智的策略。
如果特朗普先生决定摧毁《美墨加协定》(USMCA) 呢？他能够而且将会这么做。贸易规则的重大变更可能会强加在我们身上，但我们不需要预先同意这些变更。
关于戈迪·豪国际大桥的新协议看起来像是一个渥太华方面快速让步，特朗普先生将其收入囊中，然后又用新关税和新要求打击我们的案例。有一种观点认为，卡尼政府的使节应该
加拿大无需急于自愿放弃现状。在少打人数的劣势局面下通过控球拖延时间始终是一个明智的策略。
12月。 “该框架对于确保这座桥梁高效运行且不增加加拿大纳税人的成本至关重要。” 政府本周拒绝说明是否坚持这一表态。 这是一个问题，因为渥太华将这座桥梁定义为一项可回收的投资。 此外，有关该项目的公开披露引发了人们对政府支出未来能否回收的疑问。 如前所述，加拿大政府是该桥梁的唯一出资方，温莎-底特律桥梁管理局（WDBA）计划通过未来的通行费收入偿还渥太华。 根据 WDBA 的年度报告，截至 31, 2025, 必须偿还给政府——换句话说，就是偿还给加拿大公众——的项目债务超过 $6.3-billion。 当然，该文件使用了专业术语进行披露，将其描述为“加拿大尚未回收的贡献总额”。 报告显示，仅 2025 年这一项债务的利息（即“未回收加拿大贡献的隐含成本”）就接近 $272-million。 利息每年按利率累计，该利率等于上一个财政年度最后一个工作日的加拿大政府基准长期债券收益率，外加 100 个基点。这表明 2025 年的利率为 4.34%。 但 2025 年记录的近 $272-million 利息似乎是一项会计分录，而非现金支付。WDBA 没有失去耐心的私人贷款人；相反，联邦政府已让利息债务累积至 31, 2025 之前的近 $840-million。 此外，超过 $6.3-billion 的项目债务在 WDBA 的资产负债表上并未被记录为一项负债（即欠款）。（或许由于 WDBA 是一家皇冠公司，这项债务在联邦层面进行了合并。但政府的年度财务报告并未提供这些细节。） 未能将项目债务列为负债并不一定是个问题。然而，结合报告中的另一项披露，这引发了政府是否能追回资金的问题。 一个脚注指出，WDBA 是联邦政府及其所有部门的“关联方”。但随后又声明：“WDBA 与其关联方之间不存在合同承诺或或有负债。” 如果存在一项数十亿美元的项目债务，这似乎是不可想象的。这对于 WDBA 来说是否是一项真实的财务义务？ 还有其他理由担心 WDBA 的偿还能力——他们已经礼貌地告诉白宫：谢谢，但我们认为我们花钱建的这座桥无限期关闭也没关系。 新协议规定，在接下来的 15 年里，净通行费收入的一半将进入一个由唐纳德·特朗普政府管理的美国经济发展基金。 这意味着加拿大为建桥而承担债务的偿还期延长了。
乍一看，加拿大似乎吃亏了。 然而，仔细考虑，这可能是某种能让你当地汽车经销商生意兴隆的财务工程。无法承受 48 个月的车辆贷款？看看 84 个月的分期付款是多么实惠！ 客户开着他的新起亚 Sportage 兴高采烈地离开——而经销商则赚到了利润。 这可能就是我们的“高盛政府”（Government by Goldman）所做的事情。 我不是说这很理想，我只是说，如果从几十年的跨度来看财务状况，该协议可能不像最初看起来那么糟糕。 无论如何，这项桥梁原则协议——就像唐纳德·特朗普与其他国家签署的原则贸易协议，或者他与伊朗的原则协议，亦或 USMCA 本身一样——在本质上是不确定、暂时且有条件的。 该桥梁协议预计将持续 15 年，但你可能想去 Polymarket 上赌它不会持续这么久。
关税将损害加拿大——但程度不像你想象的那么严重
“他们需要我们才能生存，”特朗普先生在本周早些时候谈到加拿大时这样说道。 “没有我们，他们绝不可能生存。” 他以前多次说过这样的话，其传达的信息很明确：加拿大别无选择，只能接受特朗普式的要求，因为如果没有进入美国市场的机会，我们的经济就完了。 诚然，加拿大经济确实从与美国的自由贸易中获益。但我们的经济并非因为与美国的自由贸易而存在。请记住，在自由贸易之前，我们已经是世界上最先进的国家之一，且相当繁荣。 许多经济学家试图估算各种假设关税水平可能产生的影响。共同的结论是，美国关税对加拿大当然不利，但即使面对相对较高的美国关税，痛苦的程度和持续时间也会低于大多数人的假设。 在 2024 年底完成的一项关于关税影响较为悲观的估计中，结论来自新斯科舍银行 (Bank of Nova Scotia) 的经济学家。 根据他们的说法，如果美国对所有加拿大出口商品征收 25 的全面关税，而加拿大对所有美国出口商品采取同等报复，将导致加拿大的国内生产总值 (GDP) 下降 5.6。如果美国对加拿大征收 25 的关税而加拿大不做出反应，结果将是对 GDP 造成 3.8 的打击。 换句话说，加拿大将陷入经济衰退，而且如果我们采取关税报复，衰退程度会更深。但在几个季度内，经济将恢复增长，尽管是从一个较低的基线开始。在高额美国关税下，我们的经济规模将永久性缩小，但幅度很小，GDP 的损失可能仅在较低的个位数范围内。 而这可能是在涵盖所有加拿大商品（包括石油、天然气、钾肥和电力等主要出口产品）的 25 关税下的影响。特朗普政府并不急于对这些产品征税，因为这将直接传导给美国消费者，且可见、迅速，并在政治上产生反效果。 加拿大经济在与邻国保持积极、自由贸易的关系中会处于更好状态。但在我们曾经最好的朋友恢复理智之前，我们无需急于做出让步，也不应觉得别无选择只能挥舞白旗。 在楼下的“吸毒屋”继续酗酒发疯时，加拿大应当保持冷静并继续前行。 美国人会做他们想做的事。然后，随着时间的推移，他们会撤销其中很大一部分。 当他们走出康复中心时，我们依然在这里。
向政府支付。 除了项目债务和利息，还存在预计每年都会变化的年度支出。 与此同时，戈迪·豪国际大桥 (Gordie Howe International Bridge) 对汽车和商业车辆的收费标准与大使桥 (Ambassador Bridge) 相比过低。例如，汽车过桥费为 $8，而大使桥则为 $14。 商业交通在近年来也有所下降。 根据桥梁与隧道运营商协会 (Bridge and Tunnel Operators Association) 的数据，2024 年有超过 2.2 million 辆卡车使用了大使桥，比 2020 年下降了 34.58。 对我而言，这些数字表明了一种非常真实的可能性，即政府未来可能会免除 WDBA 的数十亿美元债务，并可能将原因归咎于特朗普先生用其惩罚性贸易政策破坏了该项目的经济效益。 与此同时，加拿大人理应了解渥太华对这座大桥的核心假设之透明度，包括其流量预测、预计通行费收入，以及至关重要的一点——是否真的期望回收项目债务——而不是首相马克·卡尼在最近几周提供的那些变来变去的解释。 在政府的大话之后，纳税人理应得到比“小指勾勾”承诺还可靠的偿还保证。
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杰夫·贝佐斯已确定了一个全新的、高关注度的平台，用以展示亚马逊公司（Amazon.com Inc.）在人工智能领域投入的数千亿美元：Prime Video。
据四名对此事有直接了解的人士透露，这位亚马逊创始人兼执行主席敦促 Prime Video 负责人迈克·霍普金斯（Mike Hopkins）对该流媒体服务进行大修，使人工智能成为核心。
该项目在内部被称为“灯塔”（Lighthouse），旨在向使用 Prime Video 的 200 million 消费者展示亚马逊的 AI 能力。
这些人士表示，“灯塔”被视为亚马逊全公司努力提升其在人工智能领域地位的关键环节，因为像 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 这样的竞争对手正在迅速前进。
此前，熟悉此事的人士告诉路透社，其他 AI 计划（例如对 Alexa 语音助手进行为期数年的大修以提供更具对话性的回应）结果不一，且该部门仍在亏损。
亚马逊拒绝置评。
Prime Video 的这项计划源于该流媒体服务高管在去年八月向贝佐斯先生做的一次内部报告——
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欧洲委员会发言人托马斯·雷尼尔（Thomas Regnier）周四在布鲁塞尔的欧盟总部就针对谷歌的罚款举行新闻发布会。该公司因非法削弱竞争被处以 €890-million 罚款。VIRGINIA MAYO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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欧盟委员会表示，Google 还阻止开发者进行可能降低 Google 可收取费用的交易。
作为欧盟执行机构的委员会表示，Google 违反了《数字市场法》（Digital Markets Act，简称 DMA）。该法于 2022 年通过，旨在阻止最大的科技平台利用其互锁服务将用户禁锢在生态内并挤出竞争对手。当局认为，最大的科技公司在互联网搜索、智能手机、电子商务和社交媒体等领域已变得如此 dominant，以至于它们充当了“看门人”的角色，决定其他企业的命运，并可能损害竞争。
“最好的产品应该因为更优秀而成功，而不是因为它们由运行搜索引擎的公司所有，”负责监督竞争政策的欧盟委员会执行副主席 Teresa Ribera 在周四的一份声明中表示。“这就是 DMA 的承诺，即为了所有欧洲公民的利益，保护数字市场的公平性、选择权和创新。”
Google 有 60 天时间遵守该决定，包括提高竞争对手在线服务的可见度，否则将面临最高为其全球营收 5% 的进一步处罚。
在过去十年中，该公司一直是欧盟监管机构的频繁目标，自 2017. 年以来已被罚款超过 €10-billion。Google 总法律顾问 Kent Walker 表示，周四的决定将要求对产品设计进行更改，这将损害欧洲用户的服务。
“这不是公平竞争；这是产品降级，”他说道。“监管应该改善产品，而不是让产品变得更糟。”
相比之下，这笔罚款规模较小——
[[IMG_XXXX]] 根据 Nielsen 的数据，Prime Video 是美国第四大观看量流媒体服务，4 月的电视观看份额为 4.2%，排在 YouTube、Netflix 和 Disney+ 之后。FRANCIS MASCARENHAS/REUTERS
据这些人称，这使得对比情况变得具有争议。
据这些人透露，贝佐斯先生对霍普金斯先生更新 Prime Video 的计划未能充分突出该服务在 AI 和个性化方面的能力感到不满。
贝佐斯先生的反应促使 Prime Video 的高管们放弃之前的计划，启动“灯塔”（Lighthouse）项目。该公司今年已承诺投入约 US$200-billion 的资本支出，主要用于开发 AI，并向 ChatGPT 制造商 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 共计投资了最初的 US$23-billion，且未来有可能进一步增加投资。
对谷歌的整体业务影响较小。 周三，谷歌的母公司 Alphabet Inc. 报告季度利润为 US$112.1 亿美元，这得益于对 SpaceX 和 Anthropic 的投资。 布鲁塞尔的官员将等待观察 唐纳德·特朗普 先生将如何回应周四的决定。 预计白宫将在周五宣布针对欧盟及其他国家的贸易新关税。 一名欧盟官员表示，周四宣布这项罚款是因为准备工作已就绪，且这对于特朗普政府来说并不意外。 自从重返白宫之初，特朗普先生就警告称，将对针对美国科技公司的监管采取“响应行动”。 上个月，特朗普先生威胁要对那些针对美国公司征收数字服务税的国家征收关税。12 月，美国贸易代表办公室表示，包括瑞典音乐服务公司 Spotify、德国工业巨头西门子 (Siemens) 和法国人工智能开发商 Mistral 在内的欧洲公司可能会成为收费或新限制的目标。 美国监管机构也盯上了谷歌。去年，作为一项具有里程碑意义的垄断案的一部分，该公司被要求与竞争对手公司共享搜索结果和部分数据，该案与周四布鲁塞尔的裁决有某些相似之处。 长期以来，欧盟在数据隐私、竞争和有害在线内容等领域一直是全球最激进的科技行业监管者。尽管该地区领导人已采取措施放宽人工智能及其他技术的规则以促进经济增长，但该集团仍在推进对一些行业巨头公司的调查和处罚。
US$40 亿美元。 据一名要求匿名且了解该项目的知情人士透露，“Lighthouse”项目包含了一系列广泛的新功能，利用 AI 来改进电影和电视推荐（部分通过学习消费者的偏好），并响应语音请求。 其他知情人士表示，作为该项目的一部分，Prime Video 正在着手重新设计主页。 最终的重新设计方案尚未确定，但 Prime Video 高管讨论的一个选项包括 AI 驱动的平铺区块，其中包含预填充的观看建议，例如“来自...的动作电影”。
美国立法者在 OpenAI 事故发生数日后提出 AI “紧急停止开关”法案
白宫一名官员周四表示，美国总统 唐纳德·特朗普 的首席技术顾问正在监测局势，此前 OpenAI 披露其一个 AI 系统在测试期间失控。与此同时，立法者提出了一项《AI 紧急停止开关法案》(AI Kill Switch Act)，该法案将允许联邦当局叫停 AI 模型。 根据新法案的一份副本，除了《紧急停止开关法案》外，一个由六名美国众议院议员组成的跨党派小组还提出了一项立法，要求最强大的 AI 模型开发商将其提交独立安全审计。 审计员将由美国商务部认证，且该部门将设立一个新职位来监督 AI 安全。在 OpenAI 表示其 AI 代理在一次安全测试中脱离控制数日后，立法者提出了该法案。 该代理触发了一次黑客攻击，危及了 AI 初创公司 Hugging Face 的基础设施，后者是一个开发人员存储 AI 模型代码并协作的平台。这一事件表明，AI 不断扩展的能力已经引发了专家长期以来担心的安全威胁，而且即使是顶尖的开发商也可能...
英特尔预测 AI 芯片需求将推动第三季度营收高于预期
英特尔公司（Intel Corp.）周四预测季度利润和营收将高于预期，预计随着人工智能热潮推动计算基础设施的建设，其服务器中央处理器（CPU）芯片的需求将强劲。在盘后交易中，该公司股价上涨了 8 百分比。
根据 LSEG 汇总的数据，该公司预计第三季度营收将在 US$15.8-billion 和 US$16.8-billion 之间，而分析师的平均预期为 US$15.1-billion。预计调整后利润为每股 38 美分，而分析师预期为 27 美分。
英特尔正受益于……的繁荣。
希伯来大学加拿大之友（The Canadian Friends of Hebrew University）自豪地宣布，
[此处文本缺失/不完整] 耶路撒冷希伯来大学，已被选中获得一项奖项。
这一享有盛誉的奖项旨在表彰哈里（Harry）对众多旨在改善世界的组织的卓越贡献，他在我们社区及更广泛范围内产生了深远的影响。祝贺他获得这一实至名归的荣誉。
三位相关人士表示，[界面风格类似于]“80年代”或“圣诞浪漫喜剧”。另一名消息人士称，当前版本不包含文本密集型磁贴。
传统的搜索功能将予以保留，屏幕顶部仍将设有视频亮点区域，用于推广新片或体育赛事，例如亚马逊独家的每周国家橄榄球联盟（NFL）比赛——“周四橄榄球之夜”（Thursday Night Football）。
其中一名人士表示，亚马逊已经在少部分用户中测试重新设计的版本。这些人表示，由于早期测试者的反馈，或出于财务及其他考虑，Prime Video 的计划可能会有所改变。
Parks Associates 娱乐研究总监迈克尔·古德曼（Michael Goodman）表示，Prime Video 与其他流媒体服务一样，依赖于制片厂的付费投放以及软件算法来决定内容在主屏幕上的显示位置。他表示，任何对此的改变（包括通过增强个性化实现），都可能会颠覆该系统。
相关人士称，贝佐斯（Mr. Bezos）个人参与了 Prime Video 的全面升级，包括偶尔接收更新报告，这凸显了该公司在应对其 AI 基础模型水平不佳的声誉挑战时所面临的利害关系。
个性化的提高可以增加用户在服务上花费的时间。由于贝佐斯在 2021 年卸任首席执行官（CEO）后已退出亚马逊的大部分日常运营，他参与 Prime Video 项目的情况较为罕见。
Prime Video 是亚马逊最知名的品牌之一，在亚马逊电子商务业务有限或完全没有进入的多个市场中，消费者可以使用该服务。除了免邮服务外，Prime Video 是 Prime 订阅服务中最常用的产品。
在美国，Prime Video 是第四大观看量最高的流媒体服务，但它深受贝佐斯的重视，后者经常出入好莱坞的高端活动，并在比弗利山庄拥有一栋价值 US$165-million 的住宅。
根据尼尔森（Nielsen） 4 月的数据，Prime Video 在美国电视收视率中的份额为 4.2 百分比，落后于 YouTube 的 13.4 百分比、Netflix Inc. 的 7.8 百分比以及华特迪士尼公司（Walt Disney Co.）旗下的 Disney+ 的 5 百分比。
被其模型可能利用的缺陷所击中。
白宫一名官员表示，特朗普先生的科技顾问迈克尔·克拉齐奥斯（Michael Kratsios）已获悉 OpenAI 的披露情况并正在监控局势。美国民主党众议员特德·刘（Ted Lieu）和共和党众议员内森尼尔·莫兰（Nathaniel Moran）提出了《AI 紧急开关法案》（AI Kill Switch Act），该法案将赋予美国官员命令 AI 公司关闭危及人类生命或经济的模型之权力。
根据该法案文本，该立法将授权美国国土安全部在法案中所称的“失控情景”中进行干预，即当 AI 模型执行了开发者并非意图的风险操作时。
“这是一项紧迫且符合常识的立法，旨在解决先进 AI 模型失控并突破其护栏的问题，”刘先生在 X 平台的一篇帖子中写道。美国参议院情报委员会最高级别的民主党议员马克·沃纳（Mark Warner）在的一份声明中表示，他在该事件公布后与 OpenAI 的员工进行了沟通。 路透社
被称为智能体 AI（agentic AI），即由自主智能体代表人类用户执行任务（如计算机编程）。在芯片股广泛抛售的背景下，其股价较 6 月 22 日的历史收盘高点下跌了 25 per cent 以上，尽管今年以来股价仍上涨超过 170 per cent。
英特尔（Intel）表示，在截至 6 月 27, 的第二季度中，销售额增长 25.4 per cent 至 $16.13-billion，调整后利润为每股 42 美分，而预估值为 $14.42-billion 和每股 21 美分。调整后毛利率为 41.8 per cent，而预估值为 38.8 per cent。 路透社
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为了提供背景参考，根据最近的一项联邦估计，本世纪以来，加拿大在电力基础设施（从发电厂到输电线以及配电基础设施的所有项目）上的总支出仅为 $450-billion。而安大略省的配送商在相近的时间段内，仅在单个省份考虑就投入 $120-billion 用于“最后一公里”基础设施。 “所有的关注点都集中在核电发电、数据中心等这些大项目上，”长期担任能源律师并曾任多伦多水电公司 (Toronto Hydro) 董事会主席的 David McFadden 表示。“几乎没有人关注最后一公里——也就是说，连接到家庭或企业的电线——以及如何支付这笔费用。这就好比组织了一套铁路系统，拥有所有的干线和所有工程师，但却没有进入车站的轨道。”
政府现在开始关注此问题。在去年秋天发表的一篇评论中，安大略省能源部长 Stephen Lecce 写道，地方配电公司 (LDCs) 面临“财政悬崖”，且缺乏足够的资金来满足日益增长的需求。他成立了公用事业领导力与服务卓越小组 (PULSE)，以就改革向他提供建议。他在 2 月份收到了 PULSE 的报告，但尚未公布。Lecce 先生的决定可能会改变 LDC 的所有权，影响安大略省居民的电费账单，并有助于确定他的政府能否实现电气化安大略经济、吸引新产业以及建设 1.5 million 套住房的雄心。
Elexicon 正是通常被称作“电杆与电线”的业务：它负责维护 36,000 根电杆和数千公里的电力线，更不用说 21,000 台变压器和 58 个变电站。所有这些都已达到极限。在该公用事业公司 12 月提交的一份监管申请中，该公司确认，“Elexicon 系统中的大部分可用容量已被充分利用”；其四分之三的变电站容量不足，无法接纳需求量超过 1 兆瓦（足以供应数百甚至数千个家庭）的客户。此外，其大部分设备已经老化，其中超过三分之一的状态为较差或一般。
周三，该反政府武装组织表示，其在红海使用导弹和无人机攻击了两艘沙特石油油轮。根据 Kpler 的数据，本周早些时候，两艘前往该海峡的油轮掉头，被发现向北驶向苏伊士运河。
Desjardins 高级经济学家 Marc-Antoine Dumont 表示，围绕替代水路的这种不确定性凸显了霍尔木兹海峡作为石油运输航线的重要性。他表示，其他航线的运能仅能弥补通常出口量的约 50 per cent。
“另外一半，目前没有办法绕道，”Dumont 先生说。
冲突的扩大导致债券市场出现剧烈抛售，由于交易员权衡油价创三个月新高带来的通胀风险，周四整个收益率曲线走高。
两年期美国国债触及 52 周高点，收于 4.35 per cent，而 10 年期美国国债达到约 4.7 per cent——这是自 2025 年 1 月以来的最高水平。
与此同时，利率掉期市场增加了美联储在 7 月 29 日会议上加息的可能性。
在加拿大，近期油价的攀升也增加了市场对加拿大央行将在年底前加息的预期。
经济学家仍预计加拿大央行将在 9 月将基准利率维持在 2.25 per cent。然而，掉期市场增加了 10 月加息的可能性，并完全预期年底前会加息。
在 7 月 15 日的上次政策会议上——当时布伦特原油交易价格为每桶 $85 ——加拿大央行行长 Tiff Macklem 表示，如果高油价引起的通胀开始扩大，这将是对央行的“一个警告信号”。
“显然，如果油价进一步走高，”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 从阿曼穆桑代姆看到的船只，在本月早些时候在霍尔木兹海峡附近航行。伊朗不断升级的冲突正迫使股票市场将通胀风险置于核心位置，而不再像近期那样关注业务基本面和收益。 路透社 (REUTERS)
（此处接续相关段落） 情况。该公用事业公司一直推迟某些维护工作以抑制费率上涨。
根据法律事务所 Gowling WLG 最近的一份评论，安大略省近一半的本地配电公司 (LDC) 每家仅服务于几千名客户，这些小型供应商面临的财务压力最为剧烈。
但即使是一些较大的公司也难以应对。Alectra Utilities 服务于多伦多北部和西部的约 1.1 million 户家庭和企业，以及安大略省汉密尔顿和圣凯瑟琳斯周边地区。该公司同样报告称，在过去十年中，其资本预算未能跟上设备老化和缺陷的速度。
安大略理工大学 (Ontario Tech University) 工程系专注于电力分配等城市系统的教授 Daniel Hoornweg 表示，政府担心如果基础设施支出开始影响每月的账单，纳税人会将责任归咎于他们。
“在‘音乐停止’（危机爆发）时，没有任何一个政府层级愿意承担那 $120 的资金需求，”他说。
尽管其他省份也面临类似的基础设施赤字，但有一个关键区别：大多数地区由像 Hydro-Québec 和 BC Hydro 这样的垂直整合巨头服务。
安大略省的 LDC 是历史偶然性的产物。在 1900 年代初，城镇和城市建立了公用事业公司，向居民和企业输电。到 1920 年代，这类公司近 400, 家，这种情况在 20 世纪的大部分时间里一直持续。自 1990 年代以来的合并将数量削减至 60, 家以下，但安大略省的分配系统依然...
维持着一个混乱且碎片化的封建领地状态。（其中 Hydro One Networks Inc. 是规模最大的一家，服务于 1.5 million 绝大多数为农村地区的客户。）
在过去十年左右的时间里，由于电力需求基本持平，当地配电公司（LDCs）的问题较容易被忽略。但现在，该省的许多政策重点和增长计划都需要电力。去年，安大略省能源委员会（Ontario Energy Board）对 LDC 连接主要负荷的操作进行审查，发现“利益相关者一致将延迟视为一个关键问题”。
开发商是抱怨最激烈的人群之一。布鲁克林地主小组（Brooklin Landowners Group）是一个代表希望在该地区建设房屋的开发商的伞状组织，他们面临来自 Elexicon 的连接成本，而这些成本必须通过新房的价格来回收。开发商认为，他们被要求承担全部的新馈线成本（估计为 $26.7-million），而这些线路将在未来数十年内使整个社区受益。
代表开发商的规划公司 Malone Given Parsons 的项目经理马修·科里（Matthew Cory）拒绝就该争议的具体细节发表评论。但他表示，在过去的 15 年里，LDCs 在其基础设施上的投资“全面”不足——以至于他们现在实际上无法为新的大客户提供连接。
但 LDCs 通常没有奢侈的条件去为了预期增长而对其网络进行大规模投资。他们受到安大略省能源委员会（OEB）的严格监管，该委员会负责保护电费支付者免受那些本可以享有不受限垄断权力的公用事业公司的影响。“我们不被允许在电网中进行预投资，以期工业革命重返安大略省，”电力分销协会（Electricity Distributors Association）主席特蕾莎·萨基西安（Teresa Sarkesian）说道。萨基西安女士表示，LDCs 没有过度建设的意图。但如果“突然有大量客户敲门，而我们必须建设变压站、子站和新馈线等设施，这不可能一夜之间完成。”她补充道：“现在很多事情都在变化，现实是我们确实必须建设。”
根据现行规则，开发商基本上要为新细分区域所需的所有馈线承担责任。这遵循所谓的“受益人付费”原则，即任何从扩大电力传输和分配基础设施项目中获益的人都应为此付费。布鲁克林开发商与 Elexicon 达成的一项协议本将馈线成本转嫁给 Elexicon 的电费支付者，以换取开发商为屋顶太阳能和电动汽车充电桩建设预埋管线。然而，OEB 认为开发商才是主要受益者，并否决了该提案。该委员会解释称：“一个项目具有创新性这一事实，不能自动覆盖 OEB 在价格方面保护公众的责任。”
科里先生表示，开发商继续与 Elexicon 协商，以向拟建社区供电。“其他所有事情都已就绪，”他说，“规划审批方面——市政当局的合作非常愉快。我们已经完成了推动所有工作所需的全部准备。唯一缺失的就是电力。”今年，OEB 正在制定标准程序，规定所有 LDC 如何将新的主要负荷连接到电网。但是
它们保持在高位；这种可能性被传导出去则增加了风险。”麦克莱姆（Macklem）先生说道。 “这是一个从扩大到持久化的过程。如果这种情况发生，我们可能确实需要提高利率。”
如果美联储在加拿大银行之前加息，可能会给加元带来额外的下行压力，加元自春季以来一直处于下跌趋势。
不断升级的冲突还迫使股票市场将通胀风险放在首位，而不再像近期那样关注业务基本面和收益。
S&P 500 指数全天下跌超过 1 per cent，且
但这在很大程度上无法解决更大的问题：他们该如何支付任何重大升级的费用？一个显而易见的解决方案是让地方配电公司（LDCs）增加借款。然而，它们并不被允许肆意借款；安大略省能源委员会（OEB）将最高允许债务限制在资本化的 60 per cent。市政所有者可能是另一个来源。2024, 多伦多市议会批准了数亿美元的纳税人资金以支持多伦多电力公司（Toronto Hydro）。拥有 Elexicon 的 Whitby 及其它市在去年也采取了类似行动，进行了超过 $62-million 的股权投资。这些金额可能仅仅是微不足道的首付款。例如，多伦多电力公司估计到 2040. 年之前的支出需求高达 $10-billion。对于较小的城市来说，大规模的现金注入似乎遥不可及。事实上，其中许多城市依赖于 LDCs 提供的股息来降低居民的财产税。LDCs 应该是充实市政金库，而不是抽干金库。第三个方案是让安大略省的居民买单。但这需要 OEB 的默许，并且可能会损害竞争力：根据 C.D. Howe 研究所最近的一项研究，该省的电价已经是全国最高的一批。代表房屋建筑商的建筑工业与土地开发协会建议省政府应当出资。但政府已经通过安大略省能源回扣等措施对电费提供了沉重补贴，每年成本高达数十亿美元。它可能难以再拿出数十亿美元用于电网升级。这就是为什么有些人希望养老基金能前来救援。私募股权已经拥有部分 LDCs 的小额份额。为安大略省西南部 63,000 名客户提供服务的 Entergus，由 Corix Utilities Inc. 持有 8 per cent 的股份，而后者由加拿大最大的养老基金之一——不列颠哥伦比亚投资管理公司（BCI）间接持有。另一个大型养老基金安大略省市政员工退休金系统（OMERS）拥有 Alectra 3 per cent 的股份。这些投资规模之小并非巧合。如果安大略省的一个城市向私人投资者出售其 LDC 的大量股份，它将面临巨额税单。政府可以取消或减少其中一些处罚，这可能会鼓励进一步的整合并吸引新的重大投资者。不过，Hoornweg 教授对养老基金会急于提供资本持怀疑态度。“目前，加拿大的养老基金对拥有 LDCs 并不是那么感兴趣，”他说。他补充道，为了吸引他们投资，电价可能会需要上涨。
纳斯达克 100 下跌了约 2 per cent。 “市场中存在很多干扰因素，但我认为今天最大的新闻是石油，收益率正对股市造成 downward 压力。”Dehal 先生表示。 然而，加拿大能源股在很大程度上受益于油价的上涨，为加拿大的石油和天然气公司提供了更多的现金流和更高的股东回报。 iShares S&P/TSX Capped Energy Index ETF 包含了如 Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.、Suncor Energy Inc. 和 Cenovus Energy Inc. 等加拿大大型能源公司，自 2 月底冲突爆发以来已上涨 17 per cent。在 6 月中旬停火后，该 ETF 回落至战前水平，但自 7 月 7 日 hostilities 重新升级以来，它已收复了这些损失。 Desjardins 的 Dumont 先生表示，虽然目前加拿大生产商难以增加产量（因为许多管道已接近满负荷运转），但他们目前的生产价格环境仍然是有利的。 “我们现在拥有一个稳健的行业，目前的状况对他们是有益的。当我们谈论油价处于高位时，我们认为平均而言，这对加拿大经济是一个净正面影响，”他说道。
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这家 Google 母公司在第二季度流出 $5.9-billion，这清楚地表明了 AI 正在如何重塑大科技公司。
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Alphabet Inc. 记录在案的首次现金流出令等待下周更多大科技公司财报的投资者感到震惊，因为激增的 AI 支出正给这家全球最赚钱的公司之一带来压力，且预计这种痛苦只会增加。
这家 Google 母公司在第二季度流出了 US$5.9-billion，尽管其出租 AI 算力的云部门实现了创纪录的 82% 的增长。由于预计 Alphabet 在 2026 年将增加 US$15-billion 的支出，并预测明年将再次增加，现金流出背后的支出规模将持续上升。
这次现金打击是 AI 如何重塑大科技公司最明显的迹象之一。该群体曾因利润率丰厚且现金充沛（足以轻松资助新赌注）而受到推崇，而现在由于现金流不足，他们不得不依赖债务和出售股票来支撑支出，今年的支出预计将突破 US$700-billion。
这将使得投资者在下周微软公司 (Microsoft Corp.)、Meta Platforms Inc. 和 Amazon.com Inc. 发布业绩时加强审查。周四，这三家公司的股价下跌幅度在 2% 至 4.5% 之间，而 Alphabet 以 6.8% 的跌幅领跌。
此次下跌反映了投资者的担忧，即尽管回报速度落后于支出速度，其他科技巨头可能会效仿 Alphabet 提高支出预测。
Saxo Markets 首席投资策略师 Charu Chanana 表示：“风险倾向于进一步增加，特别是在微软和其他公司仍然受到容量限制的情况下。”
“但投资者将越来越多地关注这些现金中有多少必须重新投——”
随着中东冲突升级，抵押贷款市场再次出现波动
随着中东冲突升级，抵押贷款市场再次出现波动，导致债券收益率和原油价格上涨。
加拿大五年期债券收益率（抵押贷款机构用其设定固定利率）在本周达到 5 月以来的最高水平，周三下午触及 3.28% 的关口。自周一以来，该收益率已上涨 14 个基点。
由于此次飙升，抵押贷款买家在未来几天或几周内可能会面临利率上调。7 月大部分时间里，最低的五年期固定利率一直维持在 4% 略低的位置。
收益率上升之际，由于伊朗与美国在中东地区的袭击加剧，油价大幅上涨。伊朗支持的胡塞武装威胁要关闭红海的一条主要航运路线，这进一步增加了由于霍尔木兹海峡关闭而导致的供应限制。
结果，本周布伦特原油价格涨至每桶 US$100 以上，而 1 月初战斗处于停滞期时价格为 US$69。
更高的油价可能会增加对通胀的担忧。加拿大统计局本周报告称，通胀率降至 2.8%，低于 5 月的 3.2%。但这一下降主要是由于美国和伊朗在脆弱的停火期间油价下跌所致。这些跌幅在很大程度上已被扭转。
随着油价上涨，市场对加拿大央行加息的预期略有增加。捕捉投资者对货币政策预期的债券掉期市场几乎已经完全消化了 2026 年底前一次加息的预期。这比本周早些时候有所增加，当时人们对于今年是否会加息仍存在一些疑虑。
加息将立即增加浮动利率抵押贷款持有者的借款成本。SALMAAN FAROOQUI
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| 1 年期固定 | 4.29 True North | 4.74 CIBC |
| 2 年期固定 | 3.89 Ratehub.ca | 4.34 Scotiabank |
| 3 年期固定 | 3.89 Ratehub.ca | 4.04 Ratehub.ca |
| 4 年期固定 | 4.09 Ratehub.ca | 4.54 Scotiabank |
5年期固定利率 3.99 Ratehub.ca 4.44 Ratehub.ca
10年期固定利率 5.35 加拿大丰业银行 (Scotiabank) 5.40 加拿大皇家银行 (RBC)
5年期浮动利率 3.40 Nesto 3.75 Ratehub.ca
房屋权益信用额度 (HELOC) NA NA 4.95 Ratehub.ca 与 True North
《环球邮报》，来源：RATEHUB.CA；数据截至7月23日。
投资简单地是为了保持竞争力—— 以及 AI 带来的收入增长是否能快于 资本支出、折旧和运营成本。” 分析师预计 Alphabet 和亚马逊在 2026, 年将烧钱，而 Meta 的现金流可能会缩减 95.7 ％，仅剩 18.5 亿美元 (US$1.85-billion)。 微软的当前财年将于明年 6 月结束，预计将获得 253.9 亿美元 (US$25.39-billion) 的现金，不足上一财年预估 587.4 亿美元 (US$58.74-billion) 的一半。 它们的资本支出与营收比（衡量每 1 美元销售额中投入支出的比例）在本财年将近乎翻倍。Meta 预计将从 35.9 ％升至 54.9 ％，Alphabet 从 23 ％升至 41 ％，微软从 31 ％升至 45 ％，亚马逊从 18 ％升至 25 ％。
谷歌云的增长将给竞争对手带来压力
给亚马逊和微软带来压力的是 Google Cloud 的强劲表现，该业务在近几个季度的增长速度远高于其较大的竞争对手，这表明它可能正在抢占市场份额。 由于需求如此强劲，Alphabet 的高管表示，他们计划从其他公司租用更多的数据中心容量来服务其客户，即使这将损害利润率。 在周三财报公布后，至少 20 家经纪公司上调了 Alphabet 的目标价，将中位数提升至 430 美元 (US$430,)，比上次收盘价高出近 26 ％。Citizens 最为看好，目标价为 515 美元 (US$515,)，而 TD Cowen 最为悲观，目标价为 240 美元 (US$240.)。 “Google Cloud 的表现简直是爆发性的，”Janus Henderson Investors 的全球技术领导者组合经理 Richard Clode 表示。“Alphabet 拥有贯穿整个技术栈的竞争优势，从自研的 AI 芯片一直到面向数十亿用户的分发。”
将护理视为缺口 而非贡献
JANINE ROGAN
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CPA 注册会计师、畅销书作家及 The Wealth Building Academy 创始人
onnie McAlister 是一位 58 岁的萨斯卡通居民，她拥有学士学位和硕士学位，以及一份六位数的低端薪水，这使她在职业生涯的大部分时间里都能将加拿大养老金计划（CPP）的供款额缴至上限。但当她登录其 My Service Canada 账户时，她 65 岁时预计可领取的 CPP 为每月 958 美元，比 1,507.65 美元的最高限额低了 36 %。CPP 的给付基于三个因素：您的收入历史、您向 CPP 供款的时间长短（需 39 年才能获得最高额度）以及您的领取起始年龄。在 65 岁之前领取 CPP 会减少给付金额，而延迟至 65 岁以后领取则会增加给付金额。对 McAlister 女士来说，区别在于：她在抚养四个孩子以及支持她现在的前夫完成博士学位期间，脱离有偿劳动力市场十年，且没有 CPP 供款。McAlister 女士此前并不知晓，她可以申请一项将脱离劳动力市场年限纳入考虑的条款。该条款会有所帮助，但不足以弥补缺口，其力度也远不及其他国家的类似措施。这引发了一个问题：为什么加拿大的养老金体系将十年的护理工作视为一个缺口，而不是一项贡献？“无偿工作，如抚养孩子，与有偿工作同样重要，”McAlister 女士说。加拿大的养老金体系并不这么认为。这是因为该体系围绕有偿劳动力市场的参与而设计，奖励那些在有偿劳动力市场投入更多时间的人，而忽略了那些从事无偿护理工作、补贴伴侣职业发展以及服务社区的人。其影响是巨大的。一年的护理工作就会导致女性和男性之间出现 22 % 的退休储蓄差距，五年后这一差距将上升到 41 %。这是因为在加拿大，女性仍然是儿童的主要护理者。尽管 46 % 的父亲在申请更多的育儿假，但他们的假期明显短于女性，且女性从事兼职工作的可能性是男性的五倍。女性往往比男性长寿，这意味着她们的财务资源需要支撑更多年份，然而，保险公司 Sun Life Canada 对 1,981 名会员进行的一项 2025 年调查发现，女性在退休时的平均储蓄比男性少 27 %。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 女性往往比男性长寿，这意味着她们的财务资源需要支撑更多年份，然而，保险公司 Sun Life Canada 对 1,981 名会员进行的一项 2025 年调查发现，女性在退休时的平均储蓄比男性少 27 %。
McAlister 女士对自己离开有偿劳动力市场十年将在退休后造成如此巨大的损失感到惊讶。她不知道可以通过填写联邦政府表格来申请育儿条款，但希望在申请处理后，她的 CPP 预计金额能够增加。如果主要护理者曾领取过家庭津贴（Family Allowance）、加拿大儿童福利金（Canada Child Benefit）、在 1958 年 12 月 31 日之后生育子女，或因作为七岁以下儿童的主要护理者而导致收入较低或无收入年份，则可申请育儿条款。虽然这有助于平衡竞争环境，但这种由父母选择加入（opt-in）才能获得资格的条款，可能意味着一些女性将错过她们有权获得的一部分资金。“母亲收入惩罚”（motherhood earnings penalty）——包括收入损失、薪资降低、职业机会减少和储蓄降低等因素——在孩子长大后并不会结束。它被锁定在 CPP 的计算中并随之而行
女性在进入退休阶段的情况。考虑两名女性，她们都在 25 岁开始工作，其工资每年与 CPP（加拿大养老金计划）的最大基础可养老金收入挂钩，并假设年工资增长率为 2%。女性 A 从未请假，且每年最大化其 CPP 缴费，从而在 65 岁时获得最高养老金。女性 B 在 30 岁时生育了一个孩子；在产后第一年，她的收入下降了 49%，且十年后仍低 34%——根据 OECD 经济学家的说法，这是加拿大母亲面临的平均惩罚。她从未完全离开劳动力市场，但由于缩短工作时间、兼职工作以及晋升机会被他人夺走，资金随之流失。CPP 的抚养子女条款可能在孩子七岁前为她提供保障。此后，保障停止，而惩罚在接下来的 28 年里继续存在。这两名女性在退休后的差距通过三种方式产生。
女性 B 赚得少，因此储蓄少。由于储蓄少，她失去了在她从未拥有、因此无法投资的资金上本可获得数十年的投资增长。最后，她对 CPP 的缴费较少，因此养老金本身也更少。以 2026 年的货币计算，并假设两名女性都在完全增强的 CPP 下退休，女性 B 每年领取的 CPP 养老金比女性 A 少大约 $6,800，在 25 年的退休期内总计约 $170,000。这是在应用了抚养子女条款后剩余的差额——该条款虽有帮助，但她的收入从未完全恢复。加拿大的养老金制度可以自动剔除低收入的抚养子女年份，或引入护理者信用额度，让所有护理者能够像在法国和德国那样继续累积养老金权益。在此之前，该制度要求像麦卡利斯特女士这样的女性填写表格，以证明她花在抚养四个孩子身上的十年具有一定的价值。
被大量做空的 最严重货币
最新数据显示，非商业账户持有的 美元净空头头寸为 $12.5-billion
FERGAL SMITH
在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普宣布对加拿大征收新关税之前的几周里，投机者将对加元的看跌押注提高到了主要货币中的最高水平，这促使加元跌至近 14 个月的低点。
根据商品期货交易委员会周五发布的最新周报数据，非商业账户持有的加元净空头头寸为 US$12.5-billion。几天后，特朗普先生宣布，针对广泛商品的 50-per-cent 关税将于 8 月 19 日生效。
这是芝加哥商品交易所交易的所有货币中，连续第二周出现最高的净空头头寸，也是自 2024 年 12 月以来加元出现的最大空头头寸。
“投机者一直在押注特朗普将针对加拿大，”investingLive 的首席货币分析师 Adam Button 表示。
“特朗普有这种倾向于在危机边缘试探的习惯，我认为这将成为（贸易）谈判的一部分。”
货币贬值往往有利于出口商，但它也可能推高通胀并减缓资本投资。总理马克·卡尼正寄希望于增加投资以提升加拿大的生产力。
加元在上个月触及每美元 1.4248，即 70.19 美分，这是自 2025. 年 4 月以来的最低水平。此后，它一直稳定在 1.41 附近
SCOTT CLAYTON
数字分析师
TSI Network 高级分析师 兼 TSI Dividend Advisor 副编辑
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AI 模型的日益普及，意味着对于持有大量专有财务数据的公司而言，投资信息的价值已大幅飙升。对于该领域的领先企业来说，其独有的数据集构成了抵御潜在新竞争对手的竞争护城河。这种竞争优势也解释了为什么这些金融公司对寻求可靠收益和稳定回报的投资者具有吸引力。
尽管如此，我们在 Successful Investor 的分析师指出，这些公司通常承担着高昂的计算技术成本。这导致股东获得的分红较为有限，股息率通常上限为 2%。
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罗杰斯通信 (ROGERS COMM. RCI-B-TSX) 收盘价 $46.00, 下跌 36¢ CGI (GIB-A-TSX) 收盘价 $89.86, 下跌 $2.54 NORTHVIEW RES. REIT (NRR-UN-TSX) 收盘价 $16.54, 下跌 36¢ 布鲁克菲尔德可再生能源合伙公司 (BROOKFIELD REN. PAR. BEP-UN-TSX) 收盘价 $46.68, 上涨 $1.37 大西人寿 (GREAT-WEST LIFECO GWO-TSX) 收盘价 $91.68, 下跌 44¢
罗杰斯通信公司（Rogers Communications Inc.）平淡的第二季度财报让分析师对目标价和预估值仅做了微小——甚至没有——调整。
Desjardins Securities 分析师 Jerome Dubreuil 表示，该季度的表现大致符合预期，尽管投资者似乎更为失望，导致周三股价下跌 4.6%。一个潜在的担忧可能是无线服务收入重新回到了负值区间。
“无线增长的改善速度放缓，这可能会延长去杠杆的时间线，”Dubreuil 先生表示。
目标价：他维持“持有”评级和 $58 的目标价。平均目标价为 $60.14。
分红公司利用 AI 增强其数据产品。
关税公告的影响，因为油价上涨抵消了贸易不确定性的增加。唐纳德·特朗普 拒绝延长《美国-墨西哥-加拿大协定》（USMCA），启动了为期十年的贸易协定逐步退出时钟，并向墨西哥和加拿大施压，要求其与美国达成双边协议。
Button 先生表示，投机者在 8 月 19 日之前不太可能放弃他们的看跌赌注，并补充道：“特朗普会将（关税威胁）推到他能达到的极限。他甚至可能会将其推得更远，实施几天。”
美国贸易代表 Jamieson Greer 周三表示，他希望在今年与墨西哥和加拿大达成一些临时贸易协议，同时在 2027 年处理 USMCA 中更棘手的修订。
加拿大央行将 2026 年加拿大经济的增长预测从 1.2% 下调至 0.7%，指出与美国贸易政策及中东战争相关的不确定性。
“如果你看涨加元，现在没有什么可靠的支撑，”Bannockburn Global Forex LLC 首席市场策略师 Marc Chandler 表示。“生产力增长疲软，即便在复苏，经济增长也一直处于低位。”
外国养老基金和保险公司正以创纪录的规模购买加拿大联邦债券，但这类投资者通常会对冲其外汇风险，且对货币的短期价格波动不如投机者那么敏感。
投资者预计，尽管他们增加了对美联储收紧货币政策的押注，但加拿大央行在未来几个月内将把基准利率维持在 2.25%。
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RECENT PRICE ($)** 1 FactSet Research Systems Inc. FDS-N Above Average 9 1.9 8.8 -41.2 245.21 2 Intercontinental Exchange Inc. ICE-N Above Average 9 1.5 78.4 -21.4 142.53 3 MSCI Inc. MSCI-N Above Average 9 1.4 41.5 8.5 570.95 4 Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. BR-N Above Average 8 2.7 16.8 -41.2 144.12 5 TMX Group Ltd. X-T Above Average 8 1.8 13.8 -9.9 50.62 6 Cboe Global Markets Inc. CBOE-Q Above Average 8 1.0 29.5 16.0 281.80
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分红的加拿大和美国金融信息巨头目前正利用海量数据来扩大本已稳固的盈利。 由此，我们应用了我们的 TSI 股息可持续性评级系统，根据关键因素为股票评分：
我们的 TSI 股息可持续性 评级系统 筛选出 六 只 股票。 穆迪公司 (Moody’s Corp.) 总部位于纽约，为全球企业提供风险评估信息、分析工具和其他服务。值得注意的是，穆迪并没有依赖单一的 AI 模型提供商，而是将其数据和 AI 工作流整合在 Anthropic 的 Claude、OpenAI 的 ChatGPT Enterprise、Microsoft 365 Copilot 以及 AWS Marketplace/Amazon Quick 之中。 TMX Group Ltd. 是公共交易平台的运营商，包括多伦多证券交易所。该公司还销售广泛的
连续支付股息五年得 1 分
五年以上得 2 分
如果在过去五年中提高了支付额，得 2 分
管理层对股息的承诺得 1 分
在非周期性行业运营得 1 分
外汇汇率风险较低且不受政治干扰得 1 分
资产负债表强劲（包括债务可控且现金充足）得 2 分
长期盈利记录良好且现金流足以覆盖股息支付得 2 分
行业领导者得 1 分
得分在 10 到 12 分之间的公司股息最安全，或 可持续性 最高。 七到九分的具有高于平均水平的可持续性；四到六分的可持续性为平均水平；一 到 三 分的则低于平均水平。
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TD Cowen 分析师 David Kwan 将 CGI Inc. 的评级从“买入”下调至“持有”。他指出，CGI 的股价在近几个月内一直跑赢同行埃森哲 (Accenture PLC)，其未来 12 个月的企业价值与 EBITDA (EV/EBITDA) 倍数首次在十年内较之溢价 15% 至 20%。从历史上看，它一直处于 25% 的折价状态。这一切表明，CGI 在估值方面面临一些显著的压力。 他预计最早要到 2027 财年才会恢复正向的有机增长。 目标价：他将目标价从 $102. 下调至 $99。分析师的平均目标价为 $100.83.
Desjardins 分析师 Kyle Stanley 对 Northview Residential REIT 启动覆盖，评级为“持有”。 该房地产投资信托基金 (REIT) 拥有一系列位于二级和三级市场的公寓资产组合。 “由于集中在以资源开采为重点的市场以及北方地区，NRR 有望从长期的财政刺激计划中受益。即便如此，较高的杠杆率、有限的交易流动性以及合理的相对估值使我们保持观望，”Stanley 先生表示。 目标价：他设定了 $18 的目标价。分析师的平均目标价为 $17.80.
由于大型科技公司最新的财报更新引发了市场对 AI 巨额支出的担忧，同时油价飙升加剧了对通胀的忧虑并推高全球债券收益率，北美主要股指周四收盘下跌，其中纳斯达克指数下跌超过 2%。
标准普尔 500 指数下跌超过 1%，由于投资者对 Alphabet Inc. 和 Tesla Inc. 的第二季度业绩并不满意，损失范围广泛。这两家公司是本季首批公布业绩的“神奇七巨头”权重公司。
由于布伦特原油期货价格自 5 月以来首次升至每桶 $100 以上，股市承受了额外压力。美国原油期货结算价高于 $92.
中东局势的升级引发了对全球石油供应的担忧。美国军方对伊朗发动了新一轮空袭，而伊朗则向邻国的美国基地开火。在也门武装分子袭击红海两艘沙特油轮后，美国总统 唐纳德·特朗普 誓言将对伊朗和 胡塞武装 实施“重大军事惩罚”。
油价随之飙升，在下一次美联储政策会议前几天引发了对通胀的担忧。
“油价以这种速度上涨构成了显著的宏观和市场风险，” Manulife John Hancock Investments 的共同首席投资策略师 Matt Miskin 表示。他补充说，较低的美国失业率数据将迫使美联储专注于打击通胀。
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Desjardins 分析师 Brent Stadler 在 Brookfield Renewable Partners LP 以 $3-billion 收购 Aypa Power 扩大电池存储能力后，将其目标价上调，同时维持“持有”评级。Aypa Power 是北美最大的独立电池存储开发商。
“我们估计此次收购的 EV/EBITDA 倍数约为 10–12x，且应立即使我们预计 2027 年的单位运营资金增加 2% 以上，” Stadler 先生表示。 目标价：从 $48. 上调至 $49。平均目标价为 $32.70.
他还指出，即使是强劲的财报也缺乏热情，因为投资者难以证明高估值的合理性。
“总体来看数据很出色，但许多公司都有导致股价下跌的故事，” Miskin 先生表示，并以对资本支出的担忧为例。“任何微小的裂缝都会导致股票被抛售。”
道琼斯工业平均指数下跌 506.93 点，即 0.97%，至 51,711.65；标准普尔 500 指数下跌 90.66 点，即 1.21%，至 7,408.30；纳斯达克综合指数下跌 553.21 点，即 2.15%，至 25,137.69。
在多伦多，科技股也是领跌板块之一。S&P/TSX 综合指数收盘下跌 292.45 点，即 0.8%，至 35,192.66。科技板块下跌 2.7%。耐用消费品下跌 2.7%，权重较高的金融业下跌 1.1%，原材料板块收盘下跌 1.4%。金价下跌 2%。
在美国原油结算价上涨 6.2% 之后，TSX 能源板块上涨 2.2%。
波动剧烈的费城半导体指数收盘下跌 0.5%，因为投资者在等待芯片巨头英特尔公司 (Intel Corp.) 的业绩。在该公司报告了近 15 年来最快的营收增长后，其股价在盘后飙升 11%。
随着油价上涨，对通胀的担忧将美国 10 年期国债收益率推至 2025 年初以来的最高水平。
路透社，GLOBE 员工
通过其信息服务部门 TMX Datalinx 提供财务、企业和交易数据。该部门不断增强这家总部位于多伦多的公司的 AI 能力。
总部位于芝加哥的 Cboe Global Markets Inc. 是一个领先的衍生品和证券交易所网络。此外，通过 Cboe Market Data Services，它向银行、对冲基金、经纪商、交易所、金融科技公司和数据供应商提供实时和历史数据。
总部位于纽约州湖成功市（Lake Success, N.Y.）的 Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. 在三个主要领域为投资行业提供服务：投资者沟通、证券处理和交易结算。其客户越来越多地从其选择的两套综合 AI 平台中获益。
Intercontinental Exchange Inc. 经营大宗商品、股票、固定收益和衍生品交易所，其中包括纽约证券交易所。这家总部位于亚特兰大的公司还使用 AI 来增强其现有的以市场为中心的分析和服务目录。
FactSet Research Systems Inc. 是全球投资公司领先的财务数据和投资组合分析提供商。这家总部位于康涅狄格州诺沃克（Norwalk, Conn.）的公司向客户提供其 AI Blueprint 以利用该信息池。
国家银行（National Bank）分析师 Gabriel Dechaine 在加拿大保险公司公布第二季度收益之前，将其目标价格上调了 15%。
但这些举措伴随着谨慎态度。他警告称，结果可能会让该行业暂停脚步，特别是在人寿保险公司股票今年以来整体上涨了 26% 之后，远超 S&P/TSX 综合指数。
“尽管我们的目标价有所上调，但我们认为 2026 年第二季度的结果将不会成为该行业的实质性催化剂，”Dechaine 先生表示。
目标价：他对 Great-West Lifeco Inc. 的目标价从 $73 提高到 $93。平均目标价为 $89.50。
TSX 指数及子指数
| 指数名称 | 收盘价 | 净值变化 | 涨跌幅 % | 成交量 (千股) | 年初至今涨跌幅 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TSX 综合指数 | 35192.66 | -292.45 | -0.82 | 239632 | 10.97 |
| TSX 60 指数 | 2073.41 | -15.78 | -0.76 | 111718 | 11.47 |
| TSX 完成指数 (TSX COMPLETION IN) | 2266.29 | -25.30 | -1.10 | 127914 | 8.97 |
| TSX 小盘股指数 | 1394.70 | -13.34 | -0.95 | 91601 | 16.56 |
| TSX 创业板综合指数 | 874.09 | -7.26 | -0.82 | 40036 | -11.51 |
| TSX 非必需消费品 | 391.70 | -10.93 | -2.71 | 6130 | 2.38 |
| TSX 必需消费品 | 1299.31 | -15.20 | -1.16 | 4409 | 4.94 |
| TSX 能源 (上限) | 434.01 | 9.14 | 2.15 | 52475 | 44.47 |
| TSX 金融 (加拿大) | 759.85 | -8.76 | -1.14 | 34043 | 21.09 |
| TSX 医疗保健 | 23.17 | -0.21 | -0.90 | 1703 | 5.80 |
| TSX 工业 (加拿大) | 525.09 | 0.60 | 0.11 | 16823 | 12.44 |
| TSX 信息技术 | 282.53 | -7.97 | -2.74 | 10024 | -13.49 |
| TSX 材料 (上限) | 719.68 | -10.47 | -1.43 | 70883 | -4.00 |
| TSX 房地产 (加拿大) | 317.51 | -8.08 | -2.48 | 7146 | 0.36 |
| TSX 全球黄金指数 | 746.53 | -13.95 | -1.83 | 121519 | -8.67 |
| TSX 全球矿业指数 | 217.57 | -3.58 | -1.62 | 315903 | 3.75 |
| TSX 收益信托 | 252.45 | 0.14 | 0.06 | 7849 | 14.63 |
| TSX 优先股 | 719.54 | -0.28 | -0.04 | 1074 | 3.35 |
| TSX 通讯 | 147.64 | -1.68 | -1.13 | 11920 | -5.88 |
| TSX 实用事业 (上限) | 421.40 | 4.30 | 1.03 | 9787 | 19.61 |
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TSX 上涨股 股价在 $1 或以上的前 20 名
| 股票代码及名称 | 收盘价 | 净值变化 | 涨跌幅 % | 成交量 | 年初至今涨跌幅 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TSLD SAVVYSHORT - | 13.28 | 2.83 | 27.08 | 30 | 40.98 |
| MSTZ SAVVYSHORT - | 9.21 | 1.05 | 12.87 | 26 | -57.44 |
| SHPD SAVVYSHORT - | 13.90 | 1.48 | 11.92 | 3 | 14.22 |
| MAEC MIDDLEFIELD | 10.74 | 1.14 | 11.87 | 6.13 | |
| HFPC-U HELIOS FAI | 1.90 | 0.20 | 11.76 | 106 | 29.25 |
| OILU SAVVYLONG GE | 54.19 | 5.48 | 11.25 | 46 235.54 | |
| HOU BETAPRO CRUDE | 22.95 | 2.16 | 10.39 | 2035 | 161.69 |
| LMT LOCKHEED MART | 32.26 | 2.99 | 10.22 | 37 | 15.59 |
| TMO THERMO FISHER | 20.50 | 1.70 | 9.04 | 52 | -3.03 |
| CHLT CUSTOM HEALT | 7.01 | 0.51 | 7.85 | 8 | -29.90 |
| RTX RTX CDR (CAD | 48.12 | 3.32 | 7.41 | 14 | 12.67 |
| HUT HUT 8 CORP | 165.71 | 11.25 | 7.28 | 654 | 162.53 |
| QQQD MEGASHORT -3 | 7.98 | 0.52 | 6.97 | 7 | -33.83 |
| SLVD BETAPRO SILV | 40.57 | 2.60 | 6.85 | 86 | -40.76 |
| RBY RUBELLITE ENE | 4.62 | 0.29 | 6.70 | 267 | 92.50 |
| ASTL ALGOMA STEEL | 6.10 | 0.37 | 6.46 | 1000 | 7.96 |
| MUU SAVVYLONG 2X | 17.63 | 1.06 | 6.40 | 463 | -21.64 |
| PDN PALADIN ENERG | 9.88 | 0.58 | 6.24 | 85 | 13.82 |
| SOIL SATURN OIL A | 6.23 | 0.36 | 6.13 | 476 | 156.38 |
| CLCH CLINCH RESOU | 1.10 | 0.06 | 5.77 | 1177 | -56.00 |
S&P/TSX 综合指数股票 按市值排列的最大股票
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莱拉·费尔南德斯（Leylah Fernandez）表示，一个充满伤病与失利的艰难赛季考验了她的心理承受能力。 随着网球赛程转向硬地赛场，她期待能够从中走出。 “这个赛季的低谷比高峰多得多，”费尔南德斯说。“我很高兴身边有合适的团队和正确的人，能让我脚踏实地，不至于去想最糟糕的情况。” “现在回到家开始训练，休息了几天，我感觉好多了，身体已准备就绪，心态也已准备好。” 费尔南德斯的世界排名第 25 位，职业生涯共获得过五座 WTA 冠军——全部是在硬地上取得的——但在本赛季的单打战绩为 12-19，此前在草地赛场经历了一波 1-4 的低迷，包括上个月在温布尔登网球赛首轮出局。 这位来自魁北克省拉瓦尔（Laval）的 23 岁球员表示，她在本赛季早些时候处理过“几个身体问题”，且在失利接踵而至后难以恢复。 “这影响了我对自己的信心”
约翰·奇德利-希尔 (JOHN CHIDLEY-HILL) 多伦多
多伦多蓝鸟队历史上最著名的人物之一，正希望历史不要重演。在赢得 1992 年和 1993 年的世界系列赛后，蓝鸟队将目标定为实现大联盟 (MLB) 冠军的三连冠。在球员协会举行罢工导致赛季末的反超变得不可能之前，多伦多队在 1994 赛季中挣扎，重返季后赛的可能性已然渺茫。
在经历了 32 年的劳资和平后，今年 12 月再次出现中断的可能性若隐若现，而那些蓝鸟队的校友们希望理智能够占据上风。
“棒球是一项非常昂贵的运动。球员们赚了很多钱，而对于那些在没有胜利时依然到场观看比赛的球迷来说，成本太高了，”她在周四的一次迈阿密采访中说道。
[[IMG_BLUE JAYS VS. RAYS]] 蓝鸟队游击手 Ernie Clement（左）在周四于多伦多的比赛中，在坦帕湾光芒队捕手 Hunter Feduccia 面前安全滑入本垒。凭借 3-1 战胜光芒队，陷入困境的蓝鸟队终结了四连败。 NATHAN DENETTE/THE CANADIAN PRESS
[[IMG_Kicking up some dust]] 加拿大的 Leylah Fernandez 在 4 月 14 日于斯图加特公开赛对阵 Alexandra Eala 的比赛中注视着球。Fernandez 将于周五飞往华盛顿，在 WTA 500 赛事中卫冕冠军。MARIJAN MURAT/美联社
“值得走出家门观看所有人比赛的人们，”乔·卡特 (Joe Carter) 在周六出席多伦多背靠背夺冠纪念雕像于罗杰斯中心 (Rogers Centre) 外揭幕时表示。“但对于球迷来说，出门观赛正变得非常昂贵，所以必须做出改变。
“希望不会出现停摆，因为现在的棒球运动正处于前所未有的高潮。”
棒球目前的五年期劳资合同将于 12 月 1 日到期，预计管理层将采取停赛 (lockout) 措施，这将使休赛期的交易和签约陷入停滞，并威胁到 2 月 9 日开始的春训以及 3 月 24 日的揭幕日。
5 月，MLB 首次提出了工资帽方案，而在此之前，球员们在 1994-95 年持续 7.5 个月的罢工期间击败了类似的提案，导致了首次取消
希望不会出现停摆，因为现在的棒球运动正处于前所未有的高潮。
—— 乔·卡特 (JOE CARTER) 前蓝鸟队外野手
“我想，从开始到现在就像是一场多米诺骨牌效应。但同样，我也经历过一些艰难时刻，”
在 90 年的世界系列赛中。球员们誓言绝不接受工资帽。
蓝鸟队本来可能成为第四支赢得三连冠或更多冠军的球队，与纽约洋基队 (1936-39, 1949-53) 和奥克兰运动队 (1972-74) 并列。当 1994 赛季于当年 8 月 11 日结束时，多伦多队在东区排名第三，战绩为 55-60，落后第一名纽约队 16 场。
尽管蓝鸟队远落后于洋基队，但世界系列赛仍有很大机会留在国境线以北，因为在比赛停止时，74-40 的蒙特利尔博览队拥有全联盟最佳战绩。
然而，1994 赛季被虚掷，洋基队 (1998-2000) 成为了第四支也是最近的一支赢得三连冠的世界系列赛球队。
捕手 Pat Borders，他曾是
我的职业生涯，而我最终总是能胜出。”
费尔南德斯倾向于暂时将她的身体问题保密，仅表示一旦她准备好分享细节，这可能会成为一个“有趣的故事”。
这位身高 5 英尺 6 英寸的左手将去年也经历过类似的低谷，但随后她出人意料地以华盛顿公开赛冠军开启了硬地赛季，在夺得职业生涯最高荣誉的冠军之路上，接连击败了女子星级球员杰西卡·佩古拉和叶莲娜·雷巴金娜。
费尔南德斯原计划于周五飞往华盛顿，在 WTA 500 赛事中卫冕，随后将参加 8 月 1-13 日在多伦多举行的国家银行公开赛。
她说，在温网后进行了一次简短的调整（包括反思最初为什么爱上网球）后，她的心态已经恢复良好。
“我试着回归事物的最基本面，比如我为什么开始打网球，这是否仍然是我想要做的事情，”她说道。“我会试着问自己这些问题，当然，到头来结果总是：我热爱打网球，因为我总是想提升自己，我热爱随之而来的竞争。”
费尔南德斯，B13
这位 1992 年世界大赛 MVP 表示，在多伦多连续两届夺冠后，他感到精疲力竭。
“我们太累了，或者至少我是这样。我可以肯定我当时的状态，”他在周六说道。“我认为心理上的疲惫甚至超过了身体。当你把时间从春训一直拉长到世界大赛那个额外的比赛月，再加上每一球之间所需的高度专注，由于在思考下一场比赛、如何对付不同的投手和击球手，比赛之间几乎没有睡眠。”
“我知道就我个人而言，我在 ’94 年时已经完全精疲力竭，我认为这体现在罢工发生时我们当时的战绩中。”
环法自行车赛
第 18 赛段
随着比赛接近尾声，波加查仍保持其巨大的总成绩领先优势
法国，奥西耶尔-梅莱特 (ORCIERES-MERLETTE)
厄瓜多尔车手理查德·卡拉帕斯 (Richard Carapaz) 在周四环法自行车赛第 18 赛段的最后一次攀爬中精准地发起进攻并获得胜利，而塔代伊·波加查 (Tadej Pogacar) 落后几分钟完赛，并维持了其显著的总成绩领先地位。
这是 33 岁的卡拉帕斯在今年比赛中的首个赛段胜利，也是其总共的第二次。波加查并未追击他，因为他被认为对赢得环赛没有威胁，目前排名第 10 位。
“这是一个美妙的胜利，”卡拉帕斯说，“我将其献给我的家人。”
在距离顶峰约三公里处领先之后，卡拉帕斯脱颖而出。他在接近终点线时拍了拍头部的两侧，比瑞士车手莫罗·施密德 (Mauro Schmid) 和美国车手马特奥·约根森 (Matteo Jorgenson) 快了 45 秒。
“这是特别的一天。这需要大量的艰苦努力，”卡拉帕斯说，他在今年早些时候的比赛中尝试类似的突围但未能获胜。“对我来说，这是最值得回报的事情，知道我的努力得到了回报。”
波加查正在追求连续第三个环法冠军，也是个人总共第五个。这位斯洛文尼亚之星在一个大组中过线，组内包括他最接近的对手雷姆科·埃文波尔 (Remco Evenepoel) 以及波加查在 UAE Emirates XRG 的队友艾萨克·德尔托罗 (Isaac del Toro)。
总成绩没有变化，波加查对比利时时间赛之星埃文波尔（今年比赛中两个赛段的获胜者）保持 4 分 32 秒的领先，对比 22 岁选手的领先优势为 6:51。
MLB
美国联盟 国家联盟
东区 胜 负 胜率 落后 坦帕湾 59 43 .578 — 纽约 57 45 .559 2 波士顿 52 49 .515 61/2 巴尔的摩 50 53 .485 91/2 多伦多 47 56 .456 121/2 中区 芝加哥 54 47 .535 — 克利夫兰 54 50 .519 11/2 明尼苏达 51 53 .490 41/2 底特律 48 54 .471 61/2 堪萨斯城 43 60 .417 12 西区 德克萨斯 51 51 .500 — 西雅图 51 52 .495 1/2 休斯顿 50 54 .481 2 奥克兰 43 59 .422 8 洛杉矶 41 62 .398 101/2
东区
周四 明尼苏达 3, 克利夫兰 1, 12 局 多伦多 3, 坦帕湾 1 堪萨斯城 对阵 底特律 周三 波士顿 6, 巴尔的摩 3, 第一场 明尼苏达 10, 克利夫兰 6 坦帕湾 4, 多伦多 2 巴尔的摩 5, 波士顿 1, 第二场 芝加哥白袜 4, 德克萨斯 2 周五 — 全部为东部时间 堪萨斯城 对阵 底特律, 6:40 p.m. 克利夫兰 对阵 坦帕湾, 7:10 p.m. 多伦多 对阵 波士顿, 7:15 p.m. 休斯顿 对阵 芝加哥白袜, 7:40 p.m. 西雅图 对阵 德克萨斯, 8:05 p.m. 奥克兰 对阵 明尼苏达, 8:10 p.m. 周六 堪萨斯城 对阵 底特律, 1:10 p.m. 多伦多 对阵 波士顿, 4:10 p.m. 克利夫兰 对阵 坦帕湾, 6:10 p.m. 休斯顿 对阵 芝加哥白袜, 7:10 p.m. 奥克兰 对阵 明尼苏达, 7:10 p.m. 西雅图 对阵 德克萨斯, 7:15 p.m.
跨联盟 周三 匹兹堡 5, 纽约洋基 3, 第一场, 10 局 堪萨斯城 5, 旧金山 4 亚利桑那 15, 奥克兰 5 辛辛那提 5, 西雅图 3 圣路易斯 1, 洛杉矶天使 0 纽约洋基 2, 匹兹堡 0, 第二场 底特律 5, 芝加哥小熊 1 休斯顿 5, 迈阿密 2 周五 — 全部为东部时间 纽约洋基 对阵 费城, 6:45 p.m. 亚特兰大 对阵 巴尔的摩, 7:05 p.m. 洛杉矶天使 对阵 旧金山, 10:15 p.m. 周六 洛杉矶天使 对阵 旧金山, 4:05 p.m. 纽约洋基 对阵 费城, 6:05 p.m. 亚特兰大 对阵 巴尔的摩, 7:05 p.m.
NSL
周四 多伦多 2 蒙特利尔 0 周三 渥太华 2 卡尔加里 1 周六 — 全部为东部时间 哈利法克斯 对阵 温哥华, 4 p.m.
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SPEED BUMP
BIZARRO
厄瓜多尔的理查德·卡拉帕斯在周四环法自行车赛第 18 赛段的最后一次攀爬中精准地发起进攻并夺冠。这段 185 公里的赛段以攀登 1 级坡道的奥西耶尔-梅莱特滑雪站结束。STEPHANIE LECOCQ/路透社
墨西哥人 del Toro 暂列总成绩第三位。 周四的赛段是连续三天阿尔卑斯山攀爬赛的第一天。 这段 185 公里的行程包含一次早期的 1 级攀爬（第二难的级别）——登上 Côte d’Engins，最后以一次 1 级攀爬抵达 Orcières-Merlette 滑雪站。 在翻过 Engins 后，Jorgenson 处于前方的一个小组中。随后 Carapaz 加入了他们，而身穿黄衫的 Pogacar 则明显落后。 “我认为没有人真的想发力，”在今年赛事中赢得了四个赛段的 Pogacar 说道。 Carapaz 的赛段本可能在一次险些与站在路上的粉丝相撞时结束，他在最后一刻才地避开。 在进入 Orcières-Merlette 的最后一次攀爬时，当 2019 年环意赛冠军 Carapaz 发起进攻时，Jorgenson 和 Schmid 无法做出回应。
东区 胜 负 胜率 落后 亚特兰大 60 42 .588 — 费城 56 47 .544 4 1/2 迈阿密 52 51 .505 8 1/2 华盛顿 52 51 .505 8 1/2 纽约 43 60 .417 17 1/2
中区 密尔沃基 64 38 .627 — 芝加哥 57 45 .559 7 匹兹堡 53 50 .515 11 1/2 圣路易斯 52 50 .510 12 辛辛那提 47 54 .465 16 1/2
西区 洛杉矶 65 38 .631 — 亚利桑那 54 49 .524 11 圣地亚哥 50 53 .485 15 旧金山 42 60 .412 22 1/2 科罗拉多 41 63 .394 24 1/2
周四 亚特兰大 6, 圣地亚哥 5 亚利桑那 10, 圣路易斯 6 周三 密尔沃基 4, 纽约大都会 3 华盛顿 8, 科罗拉多 0 洛杉矶道奇 9, 费城 5 亚特兰大 7, 圣地亚哥 6 周五 — 所有时间均为东部时间 科罗拉多 在 密尔沃基, 4:10 p.m. 芝加哥小熊 在 匹兹堡, 6:40 p.m. 亚利桑那 在 华盛顿, 6:45 p.m. 洛杉矶道奇 在 纽约大都会, 7:10 p.m. 圣地亚哥 在 迈阿密, 7:10 p.m. 辛辛那提 在 圣路易斯, 8:15 p.m. 周六 亚利桑那 在 华盛顿, 4:05 p.m. 圣地亚哥 在 迈阿密, 4:10 p.m. 芝加哥小熊 在 匹兹堡, 6:40 p.m. 科罗拉多 在 密尔沃基, 7:10 p.m. 洛杉矶道奇 在 纽约大都会, 7:15 p.m. 辛辛那提 在 圣路易斯, 7:15 p.m.
PGA 巡回赛
PGA 巡回赛冠军赛 ISPS HANDA 高级公开赛
地点：英国，奥克特拉德 (Auchterarder) 周四第一轮 — 标准杆 70 Cameron Percy 31-32—63 Lionel Alexandre 32-32—64 Ernie Els 31-34—65 Miguel Angel Jimenez 33-32—65 Pat Perez 32-33—65 Tom Pernice 35-30—65 Emanuele Canonica 34-32—66 Johan Edfors 33-33—66 其他 Stephen Ames 35-35—70 Gordon Burns 39-34—73
CEBL
周四 温哥华 在 温尼伯 布兰普顿 在 萨斯卡通 周三 斯卡堡 113 渥太华 106 周五 尼亚加拉 在 斯卡堡, 7:30 p.m. 渥太华 在 蒙特利尔, 7:30 p.m. 埃德蒙顿 在 卡尔加里, 9:30 p.m. 周六 布兰普顿 在 温尼伯, 3:30 p.m. 萨斯卡通 在 温哥华, 9 p.m.
LPGA 巡回赛
ISPS HANDA 女子苏格兰赛
地点：英国，特伦 (Troon) 周四第一轮 — 标准杆 72 Lauren Coughlin 34-32—66 Jenny Shin 34-32—66 A Lim Kim 35-32—67 Lisa Pettersson 37-32—69 Erika Hara 36-34—70 Esther Henseleit 34-36—70 Anna Nordqvist 37-33—70 Miyu Yamashita 36-34—70 Pajaree Anannarukarn 35-36—71 Daniela Darquea 36-35—71 Julia Lopez Ramirez 37-34—71 Patty Tavatanakit 37-34—71 Chanettee Wannasaen 37-34—71 Jenny Bae 37-35—72 Brianna Do 36-36—72 Amanda Doherty 37-35—72 Nataliya Guseva 36-36—72 Chizzy Iwai 37-35—72 Nelly Korda 37-35—72 Leona Maguire 35-37—72 Nicole Broch Estrup 38-35—73 In Gee Chun 35-38—73 Manon De Roey 36-37—73 Ariya Jutanugarn 36-37—73 Ryann O’Toole 38-35—73 Pauline Roussin-Bouchard 35-38—73 其他 Anna Huang 41-44—85
3M 公开赛
在明尼苏达州布莱恩 (Blaine, Minn.) 周四第一轮 — 标准杆 70 Ben Kohles 32-30—62 Emiliano Grillo 30-34—64 Jackson Koivun 31-33—64 Gary Woodland 33-31—64 Michael Brennan 33-32—65 Lucas Glover 32-33—65 Kevin Roy 31-34—65 Scottie Scheffler 31-34—65 Jesper Svensson 32-33—65 Denny McCarthy 31-35—66 Troy Merritt 34-32—66 Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen 31-35—66 Chandler Phillips 31-35—66 Chandler Blanchet 35-32—67 Trace Crowe 30-37—67 Zecheng Dou 34-33—67 Rico Hoey 32-35—67 Billy Horschel 32-35—67 Jeffrey Kang 33-34—67 Keita Nakajima 32-35—67 Marcelo Rozo 33-34—67 Matti Schmid 33-34—67 Kevin Streelman 33-34—67 John VanDerLaan 36-31—67 Vince Whaley 36-31—67 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 33-35—68 Zac Blair 36-32—68 其他 Adam Svensson 35-33—68 A.J. Ewart 33-36—69 Adam Hadwin 33-36—69 Ben Silverman 35-34—69 Corey Conners 34-36—70 Taylor Pendrith 35-35—70 Mackenzie Hughes 36-35—71 Jeevan Sihota 36-35—71 Sudarshan Yellamaraju 34-37—71
“这次最后的攀升非常艰苦，而且非常适合我的强项，”Carapaz 说道，他在 2024 年也赢得过一次环法赛阶段冠军。“这是一次艰苦的胜利，但与第一次一样艰难。在这里获胜每年都变得更难。”
前路艰辛
周五的第 19 赛段将在 L’Alpe d’Huez 的 HC 攀升路段（最难级别）结束，这是环法赛的一座标志性山峰。
WNBA
东部会议
东部会议
胜 负 胜率 分差 印第安纳 17 10 .630 — 亚特兰大 16 10 .615 1/2 纽约 15 12 .556 2 华盛顿 14 12 .538 21/2 多伦多 10 16 .385 61/2 芝加哥 9 18 .333 8 康涅狄格 7 20 .259 10
西部会议
胜 负 胜率 分差 明尼苏达 22 6 .786 — 金州 19 8 .704 21/2 拉斯维加斯 18 8 .692 3 达拉斯 18 9 .667 31/2 波特兰 11 16 .407 101/2 洛杉矶 10 16 .385 11 菲尼克斯 10 18 .357 12 西雅图 6 23 .207 161/2 周三 明尼苏达 86, 西雅图 76 菲尼克斯 86, 洛杉矶 82 纽约 95, 芝加哥 94 印第安纳 123, 康涅狄格 88 达拉斯 101, 波特兰 97 华盛顿 100, 拉斯维加斯 99
全明星周末 在芝加哥 周五 — 东部时间 投篮之星与三分赛，下午 6 点 周六 Team Coop vs. Team Spoon，晚上 8:30
周四 一段从 Voiron 到 Orcieres-Merlette 的 185.2 公里 (115 英里) 骑行 1. Richard Carapaz, 厄瓜多尔, EF Education-EasyPost, 4 小时 26 分 21 秒。 2. Mauro Schmid, 瑞士, Team Jayco AlUla, 4:27:06。 3. Matteo Jorgenson, 美国, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 4:27:06。 4. Valentin Paret-Peintre, 法国, Soudal Quick-Step, 4:27:35。 5. Tobias Johannessen, 挪威, Uno-X Mobility, 4:28:18。 6. Raul Garcia Pierna, 西班牙, Movistar Team, 4:28:33。 7. Pablo Castrillo, 西班牙, Movistar Team, 4:30:51。 8. Lenny Martinez, 法国, Bahrain Victorious, 4:30:56。 9. Remco Evenepoel, 比利时, Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe, 同时间。 10. Tom Pidcock, 英国, Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, s.t. 其他 21. Derek Gee-West, 安大略省 Osgoode, Lidl-Trek, 4:31:25。 总排名 1. Tadej Pogacar, 斯洛文尼亚, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 64:35:13。 2. Remco Evenepoel, 比利时, Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe, 64:39:45。 3. Isaac Del Toro Romero, 墨西哥, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 64:42:04。 其他 25. Derek Gee-West, 安大略省 Osgoode, Lidl-Trek, 66:09:01。
MLS
场 胜 负 平 得失球 失球 积分 纳什维尔 16 12 1 3 33 11 39 迈阿密 16 10 2 4 42 30 34 芝加哥 15 8 5 2 29 19 26 新英格兰 15 8 5 2 22 18 26 辛辛那提 16 6 5 5 40 40 23 纽约城 F.C. 16 6 6 4 27 22 22 夏洛特 16 6 6 4 26 25 22 纽约红牛 16 6 6 4 26 35 22 华盛顿 16 4 5 7 22 26 19 奥兰多 16 5 9 2 27 44 17 哥伦布 16 4 8 4 22 25 16 多伦多 16 3 6 7 22 29 16 蒙特利尔 16 4 9 3 22 32 15 亚特兰大 16 3 10 3 16 26 12 费城 16 2 10 4 21 31 10 西部会议
| 球队 | 赛场(GP) | 胜(W) | 负(L) | 平(T) | 进球(GF) | 失球(GA) | 积分(Pt) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 温哥华 (Vancouver) | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 37 | 16 | 32 |
| 圣何塞 (San Jose) | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 34 | 19 | 32 |
| 洛杉矶 FC (L.A. F.C.) | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 18 | 30 |
| 盐湖城 (Salt Lake) | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 27 | 22 | 26 |
| 达拉斯 (Dallas) | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 32 | 24 | 26 |
| 希雅图 (Seattle) | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 24 |
| 休斯顿 (Houston) | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 20 | 24 | 23 |
| 圣路易斯 (St. Louis) | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 22 | 23 | 22 |
| 明尼苏达 (Minnesota) | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 24 | 22 |
| 洛杉矶银河 (L.A. Galaxy) | 17 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 23 | 28 | 20 |
| 科罗拉多 (Colorado) | 16 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 26 | 24 | 19 |
| 波特兰 (Portland) | 16 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 29 | 31 | 18 |
| 圣迭戈 (San Diego) | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 30 | 28 | 17 |
| 奥斯汀 (Austin) | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 22 | 32 | 17 |
| 堪萨斯城 (Kansas City) | 16 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 18 | 40 | 14 |
周三比赛结果 亚特兰大 2-2 夏洛特 奥斯汀 3-1 希雅图 辛辛那提 4-3 温哥华 科罗拉多 1-0 圣迭戈 华盛顿特区 1-1 休斯顿 达拉斯 2-2 波特兰 堪萨斯城 2-1 明尼苏达 洛杉矶 FC 3-1 盐湖城 迈阿密 3-2 芝加哥 纳什维尔 1-0 蒙特利尔 纽约城 FC 2-1 哥伦布 奥兰多 4-0 圣何塞 费城 3-1 纽约红牛 圣路易斯 3-1 洛杉矶银河 多伦多 0-0 新英格兰
周六赛程（均为东部时间） 夏洛特 对阵 纽约红牛，下午 6:30 辛辛那提 对阵 哥伦布，晚上 7:00 多伦多 对阵 华盛顿特区，晚上 7:30 迈阿密 对阵 蒙特利尔，晚上 7:30 亚特兰大 对阵 新英格兰，晚上 7:30 芝加哥 对阵 纽约城 FC，晚上 7:30 纳什维尔 对阵 奥兰多，晚上 7:30 希雅图 对阵 费城，晚上 7:30 奥斯汀 对阵 休斯顿，晚上 8:30 温哥华 对阵 明尼苏达，晚上 8:30 科罗拉多 对阵 圣路易斯，晚上 8:30 达拉斯 对阵 圣迭戈，晚上 9:30 堪萨斯城 对阵 洛杉矶 FC，晚上 10:30 盐湖城 对阵 波特兰，晚上 10:30 洛杉矶银河 对阵 圣何塞，晚上 10:30
加拿大超级联赛 (CPL) 周五（均为东部时间） 魁北克 对阵 哈利法克斯，下午 6:00 卡尔加里 对阵 温哥华，晚上 10:00 周日 维多利亚 对阵 渥太华，下午 2:00 汉密尔顿 对阵 多伦多，下午 5:00
攀升且在自行车运动中最负盛名的路线之一。 周六的第 20 赛段也是倒数第二个赛段，强度极大，且可能成为史诗级赛段。该赛段包含三个 HC 级爬坡——Col de la Croix de Fer、Col du Galibier 和 Col de Sarenne——以及一个 1 级爬坡 Col du Télégraphe，最后在 L’Alpe d’Huez 的丘陵地带结束。 比赛将于周日在巴黎的香榭丽舍大街结束。
美联社 (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
加拿大足协联赛 (CFL)
| 球队 | GP | 胜 | 负 | 平 | 得分(PF) | 失分(PA) | 积分(Pt) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 蒙特利尔 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 208 | 186 | 10 |
| 汉密尔顿 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 149 | 159 | 6 |
| 多伦多 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 194 | 207 | 4 |
| 渥太华 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 143 | 213 | 0 |
西区 (WEST DIVISION)
| 球队 | GP | 胜 | 负 | 平 | 得分(PF) | 失分(PA) | 积分(Pt) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 埃德蒙顿 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 167 | 138 | 10 |
| 萨斯喀彻温 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 170 | 133 | 8 |
| 温尼伯 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 155 | 156 | 8 |
| 卡尔加里 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 226 | 214 | 4 |
| 卑诗省 (BritishColumbia) | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 140 | 156 | 2 |
第八周 (WEEK EIGHT) 轮空：渥太华 周四：埃德蒙顿 对阵 萨斯喀彻温 周五：卡尔加里 对阵 温尼伯，晚上 8:30 周六：多伦多 对阵 卑诗省，晚上 7:00 周日：汉密尔顿 对阵 蒙特利尔，晚上 7:00
电视节目表 周五（均为东部时间）
澳式足球 AFL 冠军赛：黄金海岸太阳队 vs 卡尔顿蓝队，TSN 2，晚上 11:00 AFL 冠军赛：埃森登 vs 霍桑，TSN 2，凌晨 2:00（周六）
赛车 F1：匈牙利大奖赛，练习赛，TSN 2，上午 11:00 NASCAR 加拿大系列赛：XPN Delta Electrolytes 150，TSN 1, TSN 4
棒球 MLB：纽约洋基 对阵 费城，Apple TV Plus，下午 6:00 MLB：堪萨斯城 对阵 底特律，SN1，下午 6:30 MLB：多伦多 对阵 波士顿，Apple TV Plus，下午 6:30 MLB：洛杉矶道奇 对阵 纽约大都会，SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific，晚上 7:00
篮球 WNBA：三分球与技巧挑战赛，TSN 4, 5，晚上 8:00
英联邦运动会 CBC，下午 2:00
美式足球 NFL 旗式足球锦标赛：14岁以下男子组，16强赛，NFL Network，上午 10:00，下午 2:00, 6:00 NFL 旗式足球锦标赛：高中女子组，16强赛，NFL Network，中午 12:00，下午 4:00 CFL：卡尔加里 vs 温尼伯，TSN 1, 3，晚上 8:30；TSN 4, 5，晚上 9:00
高尔夫 LPGA：ISPS Handa 女子苏格兰公开赛，第二轮，Golf Channel，凌晨 4:30 高级公开赛，第二轮，Golf Channel，上午 8:30 美国青少年业余锦标赛，半决赛，TSN 2，下午 4:00 PGA：3M 公开赛，第二轮，Golf Channel，下午 4:00
橄榄球 超级联赛：圣海伦斯 vs 威根勇士，SN World，下午 3:00
统计截至周四 7月23日 晚上 9:30
前锋重新加入他曾 助力夺得三座斯坦利杯的 球队，签署了一份 为期两年、 $16-million合同
JAY COHEN 芝加哥
帕特里克·凯恩（Patrick Kane）已重新加入芝加哥黑鹰队，与其职业生涯第一支 NHL 球队达成了一份价值 US$16-million、为期两年的合同。黑鹰队在周四宣布了该协议，其中包含一项全面的禁止交易条款。
37, 岁的凯恩在芝加哥度过了最初的 15 个多赛季，成为了 NHL 最具活力的球员之一，并助力黑鹰队赢得了三次斯坦利杯冠军。他在队史生涯纪录中名列前茅，拥有 446 goals, 779 assists 和 1,225 points。
“在 16 seasons 的日复一日中，帕特里克用他令人眼花缭乱的技巧俘获了芝加哥市，在助力我们这座历史悠久的球队重返体育巅峰的同时，创造了黑鹰队历史上一些最令人难忘的时刻，”总经理凯尔·戴维森（Kyle Davidson）在新闻稿中表示。“他已在无数次机会中证明，他知道在最高水平的比赛中获胜需要付出什么。”
凯恩的加入为球队增加了一名进攻球员。该阵容将在没有康纳·贝达德（Connor Bedard）的情况下开始本赛季，后者于 7 月 8. 进行了左肩手术。当这位 21 岁的中锋回归冰场时，凯恩很可能会与他搭档。
处于重建期的黑鹰队上赛季战绩为 29-39-14，比前一赛季提高了 11 分。该球队已完-
KAITLYN McGRATH
多伦多蓝鸟队希望在周四 3-1 击败坦帕湾光芒队的比赛中，能够复制这种全场发力的表现，因为他们的目标是在美国联盟的季后赛争夺战中保持竞争力。
蓝鸟队（47-56）周四在罗杰斯中心取得的胜利终结了四连败，并避免了被美国联盟东区领先的光芒队（59-43）四场横扫。
“今天我们打了一场完整的比赛，”老将乔治·斯普林格（George Springer）说道，他在比赛中 3 击 2 安，并贡献了关键的打点分。 “我们投球出色。我们成功地在垒包间推进，并且接住了球。对我们来说这是美好的一天，但现在要看向明天了。”
多伦多的赛程并没有变得更容易。蓝鸟队将于周五开始对阵状态火热的波士顿红袜队（52-49）的三场客场系列赛。红袜队此前曾创下 15 连胜，追平了 1946, 年创下的队史纪录，直到周三输给巴尔的摩金莺队。
一个月前，红袜队还处于美国联盟东区的垫底位置，但他们令人惊讶的连胜势头使其在积分榜上攀升，目前他们独占
随着交易截止日期临近，SKUBAL 表示希望与老虎队共同完成赛季，赢下世界系列赛 Tarik Skubal 表示，他更希望与底特律老虎队一起完成本赛季并竞争冠军，尽管他知道下一次先发可能是他在球队的最后一次。Skubal 周四表示：“我认为我们有机会赢得世界系列赛。从春训开始我就这么说过，这一点从未改变。在整个赛季中，我对这支球队的信念从未改变。显然我们让自己陷入了困境，但我认为我们已经从那种局面中走出，打出了非常出色的棒球。”“在进入春训和整个休赛期期间，我从未像现在这样渴望为这座城市、为这支选中我并帮助我成长起来的球队赢得世界系列赛。这始终是我的目标，除非我被告知被交易到了其他球队，否则这一点永远不会改变。”老虎队在 8 月 3 日之前需要决定是留住 Skubal（他在世界系列赛后将成为自由球员），还是将这位两届赛扬奖得主通过一笔重磅交易送走，以期用球员和潜力新秀来增强未来的实力。Skubal (6-5. 2.83 ERA) 计划于周五晚上在 Comerica Park 对阵堪萨斯城皇家队，并承认这可能是他在老虎队的最后一次先发。“这可能是现实情况，”他说。“但五天后，主场还有一场。”这位 29 岁的右投手在 5 月 6 日接受了手术，以清除投球肘中的游离体，并于 6 月 13 日复出投球。“手术的过程完全符合预期，”Skubal 说。“我不知道‘卓越’这个词是否合适。”底特律队在 6 月初时战绩为 22-38，随后通过反弹已经进入季后赛竞争行列，而关于球队将如何处理 Skubal 的疑问依然在围绕。 美联社 (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Patrick Kane 在其 NHL 生涯的前 15 个多赛季中效力于芝加哥黑鹰队，他在周四签署了一份为期两年的合同后重新加入该俱乐部。Kane 在球队历史排名中名列前茅，拥有 446 个进球、779 次助攻和 1,225 个得分。MICHAEL REAVES/GETTY IMAGES
在过去三年中，每一年都排名 NHL 第 31 位。 芝加哥队正寻求自 2020 赛季因疫情影响而采用扩充季后赛赛制以来的首次季后赛亮相。 Kane 已经不再是他在黑鹰队第一段效力期间的那个球员了。但上赛季他在底特律红翼队的 67 场比赛中贡献了 16 个进球和 41 次助攻。他曾连续记录到至少 50
获得第三个外卡席位的机会。 与此同时，蓝鸟队在全明星赛休息期后表现挣扎。他们在最近七场比赛中输掉了五场，与美联联盟最后的对外卡席位相差六场胜场。 如果多伦多希望在排名中追回进度，那么在 Fenway Park 的系列赛将至关重要。 “他们几乎是你能遇到的最强对手，我们必须为此做好准备，特别是面对那种氛围和环境，”蓝鸟队经理 John Schneider 在周四获胜后表示。 “那里是个很难打的客场，但我们在那里的表现似乎相当不错。你必须准备好出击，必须表现得具有攻击性。你必须继续突破极限。这是一次重要的系列赛。毫无疑问，这一点毋庸置疑，尤其是考虑到他们目前的竞技状态。” 先发投手 Shane Bieber (2-1) 在周四表现犀利，在 7 局中仅让坦帕湾队获得 1 分，被击出 3 支安打，并完成 3 次三振。这是该右投手连续第二次在先发比赛中将对手限制在 1 分或以下。 与此同时，多伦多的进攻端把握住了机会。Ernie Clement 在 Alejandro Kirk 的内野安打中得分
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库班投资集团收购 在迁至拉斯维加斯前 收购田径队少数股权 拉斯维加斯 —— 一个包括前达拉斯小牛队老板马克·库班在内的投资集团已购买了田径队（Athletics）的少数股权，以期待该球队在 2028 年迁至拉斯维加斯。Harbinger Sports Group 在周四的公告中并未说明其收购了田径队的具体百分比。
库班在小牛队中仍持有少数股权，他是这家总部位于亚特兰大的集团的普通合伙人兼总裁。亚特兰大猎鹰队的少数股东 Rashaun Williams 是创始人兼首席投资官。联合创始人兼首席执行官 Steve Cannon 是 AMB Sports and Entertainment 的副主席，该机构监管梅赛德斯-奔驰体育场和亚特兰大猎鹰队。管理合伙人 Jonathan Mariner 是大联盟棒球（Major League Baseball）的前首席财务官。“我们是少数投资者，旨在让我们的投资者赚很多钱，”库班说。John Fisher 是田径队的大股东，并负责监督一座耗资 $2-billion、容量为 33,000 人的圆顶体育场在拉斯维加斯大道上的建设工作。“我们非常高兴地欢迎 Harbinger Sports Partners 成为田径队的投资者，”球队在的一份声明中表示。“其负责人通过体育、媒体和娱乐领域积累的经验，结合其长期愿景，在我们致力于在拉斯维加斯建设特许经营权未来之际，使其成为我们所有权团队的有价值补充。”田径队目前正在加州西萨克拉门托的一个 Triple-A 棒球场进行为期三个计划赛季中的第二个赛季。 美联社
在其 19 个赛季中的 18 个赛季中都取得了积分领先。 这位 2007 年选秀的状元在 1 月份超过了 Mike Modano，成为出生于美国的球员中 NHL 积分最高的球员。他职业生涯共获得 508 个进球（在美国球员名单中排名第四），并在 1,369 场常规赛中获得 1,400 个积分。 Kane 是芝加哥队在特许经营权历史上最辉煌时期的最大巨星之一，分别在 2010、2013 和
在第三局 Springer 的打点单分将 Yohendrick Piñango 送回本垒前，领先比分是 1-0，随后比分变为 2-1。Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 在第七局为 Myles Straw 贡献了一个打点，得分以确保胜利。 “我认为今天我们打出了自己的棒球风格，我认为这就是我们能做的，也将继续尝试去做的事情，”Bieber 说。“去年，我们获得了很多好运气，而现在我们没有，也许其他球队在对阵我们时获得了运气，这就是比赛。” “我认为你必须顺应这些波动，并找到脱颖而出的方法，我们今天就做到了。所以这就是我们要关注的，然后看向明天。” 蓝鸟队本赛季对阵红袜队的战绩为 5-1。考虑到即将到来的系列赛的重要性，蓝鸟队已经安排好轮值，Trey Yesavage (4-5)、Dylan Cease (6-5) 和 Kevin Gausman (4-9) 将在波士顿先发。 “现在是关键时刻，我们必须准备好全力以赴，”Schneider 说。“从 Trey 开始，从我们的进攻、防守以及所有环节开始，但我认为这对这三个球员来说是一个很好的机会，让他们挺身而出。”
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加拿大女排在排球 国家联赛四分之一决赛中 输给土耳其 加拿大在 2026 年排球国家联赛（VNL）中的征程于周四结束，在四分之一决赛中以 3-1 负于土耳其。每局比分为 22-25, 25-21, 25-21 和 25-17。 加拿大在进攻得分上领先，但在拦截、发球得分和对手失误得分上落后于土耳其。来自不列颠哥伦比亚省萨里市的 Kiera Van Ryk 和土耳其的 Melissa Vargas 均获得了全场最高分 27 分。加拿大在首次晋级 VNL 总决赛后，在本次赛事中最终排名第六。土耳其赢得了 2023 年 VNL 并进入 2024 年奥运会半决赛。 加拿大现在的关注重点转移到 8 月 21-29 日在多米尼加共和国举行的 NORCECA 女子排球锦标赛，届时将争夺奥运会资格。 加拿大新闻社
凯恩（Kane）曾获得 2016 年哈特奖（Hart Trophy，NHL最有价值球员奖），并于 2023 年 2 月被交易至纽约游骑兵队。随后，黑鹰队赢得了选秀抽签，并在同年以 1 号总签选中了贝达德（Bedard）。随着关于凯恩可能重返芝加哥的报道四起，贝达德公开表示支持这一想法。
“我无法想象他回到 [联合中心] 的第一场比赛，他会收到怎样的反响，以及这不仅会给我们的球队，还会给我们的球迷带来多么巨大的动力，”贝达德周一表示。“能与他一起比赛并向他学习将是非常不可思议的。希望他决定回来。”
进入WTA 前10名、赢得 大满贯仍是 关键目标
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费尔南德斯也思考过自己目前在职业生涯中所处的位置。自从在 2021 年美网公开赛闯入决赛以来，她一直处于加拿大网球界的聚光灯下，但目前年仅 23 岁，她在认为自己时间充裕与感受到达成目标的压力之间摇摆。她说：“这很奇怪，因为很多人说我时间很多，而在很长一段时间里我一直在想，‘嗯，其实不完全是这样’，因为职业生涯通常在 10 到 15 年之间就结束了，取决于你开始的年龄。”她补充道：“而有些人会说，你没有时间了。我就在想，‘好吧，事实上，也许我是有的，因为一个赛季很长’。这就像是一种推拉关系。”费尔南德斯仍将进入WTA前 10 名（她在 2022 年 8 月达到了职业生涯最高排名第 13 位）以及赢得她的首个大满贯冠军作为目标。每当她感到事情开始脱离掌控时，她都会依靠她的团队（包括她的父亲兼教练豪尔赫·费尔南德斯）来帮助她保持积极心态。她说：“尤其是今年，当我在想，‘不，我没时间了，我必须做得更好，我必须赢得比赛’。随我旅行的团队成员会说，‘嘿，慢下来。结果自然会来的，只要专注于过程就好’。”她表示：“希望胜利很快就会到来。”费尔南德斯还从文森特·博伊利那里得到了支持，他是她的男友，也是一名代表加拿大参加米兰-科尔蒂纳残奥会的残疾人冰球运动员。两人在去年开始交往，当时博伊利在观看了费尔南德斯在华盛顿特区公开赛后迅速转场、在蒙特利尔的国家银行公开赛首轮出局的比赛。费尔南德斯笑着说：“很不幸，他看到了我打得最糟糕的比赛之一。” “但这有点有趣，因为几天后，他发信息说，‘嘿，在你离开之前，我想请你喝杯咖啡什么的’。” “他看起来是个非常有趣的人，从我们一起吃的那顿早餐直到现在，我们一直保持联系。他是个非常温柔的家伙，很幽默。他能让我开心，也能让我客观地看待自己以及目前的比赛结果。”
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周四在白宫玫瑰园接待洛杉矶道奇队时，收到了一件道奇队球衣。KEVIN DIETSCH/GETTY IMAGES 特朗普在白宫称道奇队为“最伟大的品牌之一”
美国总统表示，他关注了道奇队在世界系列赛中与蓝鸟队交战的多次起伏
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美国总统唐纳德·特朗普周四在白宫款待了大谷翔平、弗雷迪·弗里曼以及世界系列赛冠军洛杉矶道奇队。在庆祝该队连续两年夺冠的玫瑰园活动中，他称该队是“世界上任何地方最伟大的品牌之一”。
特朗普表示，道奇队在去年秋天的第 7 场比赛中险胜多伦多蓝鸟队，为这场“极其精彩的系列赛”画上了句号。他表示，得知道奇队此前从未赢得过连续冠军令他感到惊讶，但他也对连续第三次夺冠产生了遐想。
“我很高兴地对你们说，欢迎回到白宫，”他说。“也许明年我还会再次见到你们。”
总统曾在 2025 年 4 月在东厅向该队致敬，以纪念他们 2024 年在世界系列赛中击败纽约洋基队夺冠。他在最近这次活动前表示，他最兴奋的是能见到大谷翔平，并详细地将他与传奇人物贝比·鲁斯进行了对比——甚至说这位道奇队球星可以说得上是棒球界最好的击球手和投手。
“这真的是一个伟大的——当你谈到品牌时——它是世界上任何地方最伟大的品牌之一，”特朗普在谈到道奇队时说道。他在一张摆放着两座世界系列赛奖杯和一件 Trump 47 球衣的桌前发表讲话，该球衣由球队赠送给他。
道奇队还给了特朗普一个看起来像世界系列赛冠军戒指复制品的物品。这引起了特朗普的惊呼：“哇。我得申报这个吗？我不想申报这个”，随后他将戒指揣进了西装外套的内口袋里。
特朗普表示伊朗战争让他无法密切关注棒球
人群中的人们穿着蓝色的道奇队...
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纽约洋基队的游击手何塞·卡巴列罗 (José Caballero) 成了美国职业棒球大联盟 (MLB) 试图进行“害虫防治”的目标，由此引发了又一场争端。
由于卡巴列罗习惯在投球计时器达到 8 秒之前才确认投手，MLB 周三告知裁判，他的这一套流程构成了欺骗行为。
在纽约队以 5-3 在 10 局中输给匹兹堡海盗队的双赛首场比赛中，主审裁判昆·沃尔科特 (Quinn Wolcott) 在第 6 局判定卡巴列罗违反投球计时规定，导致其被三振出局，击球教练詹姆斯·罗森 (James Rowson) 随后被驱逐出场。
“我见过其他球员做其他事情，他们却没有被吹罚，”卡巴列罗说道，“他们就是在针对我。”
卡巴列罗是去年 7 月 31 日从坦帕湾被交易而来的，洋基队经理亚伦·布恩 (Aaron Boone) 承认，在这次交换后，他对这名多功能球员的看法发生了 180 度大转弯。
“他是那种我会从休息区对他大吼大叫的球员，”布恩周三上午表示，“他以前是个讨厌鬼，我不喜欢。现在我喜欢他，因为他是个优秀的——
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（为了遮挡正午强烈的阳光，人们戴起了帽子），在唐纳德·特朗普登台之前，乐队演奏了兰迪·纽曼 (Randy Newman) 的《我爱洛杉矶》(I Love L.A.) 的爵士器乐版。特朗普描述了去年世界系列赛中史诗般的第三场比赛，道奇队在那场比赛中经过 18 局以 6-5 获胜。特朗普说他熬夜到凌晨 3 点左右观看，并指出“那场比赛时间很长，但非常精彩”。“我认为那是一场你可能会输掉四五次的比赛，但最终你赢了，”他说，并补充道，“运气也很重要，对吧？”道奇队经理戴夫·罗伯茨 (Dave Roberts) 表示赞同：“运气确实重要。”“但有了天赋，你就能获得很多运气，”特朗普继续说道。
总统表示，他在活动前与罗伯茨简短交谈，得知他的球队目前拥有全棒球联赛的最佳战绩，并提到：“我最近一直在忙于伊朗和一些其他事情。”这是他在活动中唯一一次提到中东冲突，而该地区两方的冲突在近日有所升级。罗伯茨也简短发言，称：“我们的目标是三连冠。”
冠军棒球队访问白宫的传统始于 1869 年，当时总统尤利西斯·S·格兰特 (Ulysses S. Grant) 接待了辛辛那提红袜队。他们是第一支访问白宫的完全职业球队，并且在该赛季保持不败，不过世界系列赛直到 1903 年才建立起现代形式。
体育队伍访问特朗普白宫的行为有时会成为争议的来源。2018 年，在许多球员暗示可能会缺席此次行程后，总统撤回了对超级碗冠军费城之鹰队的邀请。道奇队球星右翼野手穆基·贝茨 (Mookie Betts) 没有参加周四的玫瑰园活动，尽管他参加了 2025 年的访问。他表示，他更倾向于在球队的计划休息日与家人共度。道奇队最初考虑在今年 4 月与华盛顿国民队的系列赛期间访问白宫，但密集的赛季初期赛程未能允许。相反，他们将——
球员，而且他是我们这一边的。不过，是的，我们对此一笑而过。”
在6月14日于多伦多的一场比赛中，卡巴列罗两次故意抬头直到投球计时钟仅剩8秒，导致主审裁判史蒂文·贾辛斯基发出警告。这导致了超过2分钟的延迟，期间卡巴列罗、贾辛斯基、布恩以及主审约翰·汤姆潘讨论了该情况。
在周一晚上的系列赛揭幕战中，在第八局结束时，由于海盗队救援投手丹尼斯·桑塔纳责骂卡巴列罗在击球区准备时间过长，双方球员冲出休息区和牛棚。随后在周三，当洋基队以 2-0 落后且击球手面对卡门·姆洛兹林斯基时，沃尔科特在第六局指控卡巴列罗违规。在延迟了 2 1⁄2 分钟后，卡巴列罗被判三振出局，导致跑者留在垒上。
“他不被允许在低头看的时间上过于随意，试图诱导投手造成违规，”沃尔科特告诉一名现场记者。“没有其他击球手在进入击球区后，像卡巴列罗那样低头且不与投手进行眼神接触地耗费这么多时间。显然，这在过去造成了很多问题。这种情况将不再被允许。”
MLB在 2023 赛季采用了投球计时钟，旨在缩短比赛时间。自 2024 年起，无跑者时为 15 秒，有跑者时为 18 秒。
在对卡巴列罗进行严厉打击时，MLB引用了其《比赛速度程序》中的一项规定，该规定指出： “击球手旨在误导投手在违反本条例的情况下开始投球准备或进入设定姿势的行为应被视为规避行为。”
主审亚德里安·约翰逊表示，
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在全国首都的休赛日里，此时正处于刚刚完成的对阵费城费城人队的系列赛与周五在皇后区对阵纽约大都会队的揭幕战之间。
白宫自道奇队上次访问以来发生了变化
在过去的一年里，唐纳德·特朗普翻修了玫瑰园，并增加了一个让人想起他在佛罗里达州马阿拉歌俱乐部的露台区域。在周四为道奇队举办的活动中，他提到了安装在柱廊上的“名人大道”，上面设有历任总统的铭牌，以及针对乔·拜登和其他民主党人的党派攻击。
“我可以把一些伟大的道奇球员放在墙上，”唐纳德·特朗普开玩笑说，“但我认为把总统们放上去可能更合适。”
作为一名棒球迷和纽约人，唐纳德·特朗普多年来与洋基队关系密切，其已故的长期所有者乔治·斯坦布伦纳曾是他的密友。唐纳德·特朗普在周四提到了斯坦布伦纳，称“他为了获胜愿意做任何事情”，然后告诉道奇队的球队所有者，“但你们也在做同样的事情。”
不过，总统并非总是对所有球队都如此赞赏。在周三格鲁吉亚州的一次集会上，他赞扬了当地亚特兰大勇士队的所有权，并抨击大都会队薪资过高且战绩糟糕。
在前勇士队经理布莱恩·斯尼特克以及勇士队发展公司总裁兼首席执行官迈克·普兰特的陪同下，唐纳德·特朗普登上了该活动的舞台。
“你知道，大都会队拥有棒球界最高的薪水，但他们一直输球，”唐纳德·特朗普当时说。“我想，也许我们可以把这个家伙挖过来。”
“有些球队就像那样，他们永远不会走下坡路，”唐纳德·特朗普说。“然后你会有其他球队——‘我们在重建’。他们已经重建很多年了。我不愿提及具体球队，因为我认识所有的所有者。他们都是我的朋友。”
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该系列赛开局的冲突导致 MLB 采取了行动。 “这不再被允许。它是周一晚上引发球员集体冲出休息区冲突的原因。美国职棒大联盟介入了，并且他们[希望]执行此项规定，”主裁判 Adrian Johnson 表示。“我们接到的指示是不对他发出警告，而是直接判定他违规。” Boone 表示，MLB 在比赛前并未告知洋基队关于立场变化的决定。 “这很尴尬，”他说。 基于此前与 MLB 的沟通，Boone 指示
强击手佐佐木 在马林鱼队 孤注一掷
ALANIS THAMES 迈阿密
佐佐木凛太郎准备将他期待已久的梦想变为现实。这位日本强击手面临着一个选择。他可以回到斯坦福大学，他在那里打了两个赛季的大学棒球。他可以在故乡追求职业生涯，他曾在去年10月被福冈软银鹰队在全日本职棒选秀首轮选中。或者，他可以与大联盟的迈阿密马林鱼队签约，后者在本月早些时候的业余选秀第八轮选中了他。对于佐佐木来说，这并非一个简单的决定，但最终这是一个合适的决定。“我的梦想一直是如何尽快进入大联盟，”佐佐木周四身着马林鱼队球衣说道。“这就是选择迈阿密的一个重要原因。它给了我一个绝佳的机会。”在佐佐木本周早些时候宣布将放弃在日本的职业生涯而与迈阿密签约后，马林鱼队于周四向公众介绍了佐佐木。佐佐木与马林鱼队的合同金额为 $210,200。“我不知道结果会如何，”佐佐木用日语说道，“当然，我的目标是大舞台，我正在思考如何登上那个舞台。我已经选择了这条路，所以我将竭尽全力，做我能做的一切来提高自己。”佐佐木做出了令人惊讶的跨越，从在日本打高中棒球直接进入美国大学就读，跳过了日本的职业管道，以期加速通往大联盟的路径。他曾在日本超级巨星大谷翔平的父亲大谷透的指导下打球，并以 140 支全垒打成为日本高中历史上的全垒打记录保持者。这位 21 岁的一垒手在斯坦福大学就读了两个赛季，去年作为大二学生，其打击率为.262，击出16支全垒打并贡献47次打点。“直到最后一刻，我还在这个决定上犹豫不决，”佐佐木本周早些时候表示。
“自从我选择就读斯坦福大学以来，我一直强烈渴望在美国挑战自己。最终，这种渴望占据了上风。我觉得我想看看在美挑战自己能走多远，这种感觉变得比任何事情都强烈。”他补充说，希望在斯坦福大学的时光——学习英语、适应大学生活的喧嚣——能帮助他适应新球队和新城市。他仅在几年前才开始学习英语。他仍在努力适应这门语言，但他已将目光投向了另一种语言。“先是英语，”他说，“然后同时学习西班牙语。”
卡巴列罗说“确保你在九秒时抬头，这样在八秒时你就警觉了。” “他实际上说他们今天在制定新规则，而且责任在我，因为我在欺骗投手或类似的行为，这根本不合理，”卡巴列罗说。 “我不知道，也许是我的英语太差了以至于我不明白，但‘欺骗’意味着你试图通过某种方式误导某人，而我并没有试图欺骗任何人，因为我一次又一次地做同样的事情。你可以检查我最后 50 次打席看看我是否一直这样做，或者检查 100 次打席或 150 次。” 大联盟在 2023 年发布了一份备忘录，警告击球手不要将一只脚放在击球区外，威尔森·孔特雷拉斯将其称为“威尔森规则”。 卡巴列罗声称自己被针对了。 “对每个人来说，时间是八秒。对我来说是九秒，”他说。 “但现在他们就是不想让我执行我的例行程序，所以这对我来说有点棘手，因为这是我安定下来、尝试进入打席状态的方式。” 卡巴列罗担心这将让投手掌控投球的时机。
瓜迪奥拉、安切洛蒂商讨执教一职
官员们表示，在蓝衣军团连续第三次未能获得世界杯资格后，国家队可以等待真正想要的主教练
丹妮拉·马塔尔 意大利，米兰
意大利足球协会 (FIGC) 已与前曼彻斯特城教练佩普·瓜迪奥拉以及巴西队主帅卡洛·安切洛蒂就接管这支深陷危机的国家队进行了洽谈。 协会希望在本周内宣布新任意大利队主教练，此前蓝衣军团因连续第三次未能获得世界杯资格而仍处于沉重打击之中。 前意大利队及 AC 米兰后卫保罗·马尔蒂尼在本月初被任命为协会新任技术总监，并于周四与意甲各俱乐部参加了一场会议，出席会议的还有新任 FIGC 主席乔瓦尼·马拉戈和特别顾问莱昂纳多。 “坦率地说，今天我们无法提供关于进展的消息。你们已经指出了我们的目标之一，”马尔蒂尼在会后的新闻发布会上被问及瓜迪奥拉时表示。 “我们不能否认在与佩普谈话之前，我们也与卡洛·安切洛蒂进行了沟通。坦白说，从世界上最顶尖的人选开始，以了解他们的整体意向，这似乎是正确的做法。” 瓜迪奥拉在上赛季结束时离开了曼城，结束了为期 10 年的冠军等身时期，期间他将曼城打造成欧洲强队，并改变了英国足球的面貌。 现年 55 岁的瓜迪奥拉在整个执教生涯中赢得了 35 个主要冠军头衔，包括在巴塞
格雷厄姆·邓巴 瑞士，日内瓦
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在取消福拉林·巴洛根世界杯强制性禁赛一场决定中所扮演的角色，预计将引发向 FIFA 伦理调查员提交的正式投诉。 挪威足球协会周四表示，其董事会将在下次会议（可能在 8 月 6 日）上考虑提交该投诉。 “我们需要我们在 FIFA 的领导者承认这是一个错误，”挪威足协主席莉丝·克拉文内斯在周四发表的一篇接受伦敦日报《泰晤士报》采访的文章中说道。 在特朗普致电 FIFA 主席吉安尼·因凡蒂诺后，巴洛根针对波黑队的红卡拦截所应执行的一场禁赛被推迟，从而使他能够在决定八强席位的对阵比利时队的比赛中出场。 在世界杯经历了混乱的 36 小时后，比利时队以 4-1 击败了美国队。比利时球员们显然被这一赛事历史上最严重的争议之一所激起斗志。 特朗普称裁判在视频回看后给巴洛根开出的红卡是“糟糕”的判决，并自认为在促使 FIFA 重新审视这一通常应为禁赛一场的决定中起到了作用。 “我们都知道这个裁决受到了外部力量的影响，没有经过适当的程序，”克拉文内斯在告诉《泰晤士报》时提到，这一 FIFA 裁决在过去 60 年的世界杯历史上是前所未有的。 “当你像这样违背规则时，你就处于一个危险的斜坡上，这将使整个比赛面临风险，”这位前挪威女足世界杯球员说道，她目前是欧洲足球管理机构 UEFA 执行委员会的选举成员。
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法国的新任主教练将于下周二公布，预计齐内丁·齐达内将接替迪迪埃·德尚。
法国足球协会在周四的一份声明中表示，其主席菲利普·迪亚洛将在巴黎总部举行的新闻发布会上宣布主教练人选。
54 岁的齐达内自 2021 年离开皇家马德里后一直未执教。这位中场巨星曾率领马德里在 2016-18 年间连续三次获得冠军联赛冠军。
德尚执掌法国队 14 年，在世界杯后卸任，在那届赛事中，法国队在半决赛中负于西班牙。
在德尚的率领下，法国在 2018 年赢得了世界杯，并在 2022 年的决赛中通过点球大战落败。法国队在 2016 年主场举办的欧洲冠军赛决赛中也遭遇失利。
齐达内是法国赢得 1998 年世界杯时的组织核心，在 3-0 击败巴西的决赛中攻入两球；两年后法国赢得欧洲冠军赛时，他也表现出色。他在 1998 年获得了男子金球奖。
齐达内为法国队出场 108 场，打入 31 球，其中包括在 2006 年世界杯决赛中一次巧妙的“潘宁卡”式点球。在那场决赛的加时赛中，由于齐达内用头顶意大利后卫马尔科·马特拉齐的胸口被红牌罚下，法国队最终失利。
法国队的下一场比赛将于 9 月 25 日在欧国联中客场对阵土耳其，三天后在比利时进行一场比赛。随后，法国队将于 10 月 2 日在法兰西体育场对阵意大利。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 佩普·瓜迪奥拉在 5 月 24. 作为曼城主教练的最后一场比赛后向观众挥手。在效力该俱乐部 10 年期间，这位前巴塞罗那球员兼主教练改变了英格兰足球的面貌，并将曼城打造成为欧洲的一股强大力量。PHIL NOBLE/路透社
...与巴西在 5 月的紧张关系... ...直到 2030 年世界杯。 但这家五届世界冠军球队刚刚在足球最高舞台上遭遇了历史上最糟糕的表现之一，在 16 强赛中 2-1 负于挪威而被淘汰。
67 岁的安切洛蒂曾在意大利、英格兰、法国、西班牙和德国赢得联赛冠军。 他也是唯一一位教练[此处原文中断]。
巴塞罗那和拜仁慕尼黑。 马尔蒂尼和莱昂纳多最近在巴塞罗那停留了三天，与瓜迪奥拉商讨接手意大利队一职。
“最好的情况是本周宣布新教练，但更重要的是等待我们真正想要的人，”马尔蒂尼说。 “所以虽然有紧迫感，但我们内心并不那么急躁。”
安切洛蒂签署了一份有效期至 2022 年的合同。
...自 2022 年当选以来，挪威足协就将其视为世界足球的良心。 “当你违背比赛的基本规则时，这对于这项运动来说是一种担忧，”她在周四谈到未执行对巴洛贡的禁赛时说道。
挪威此前加入了一家总部位于伦敦的非政府组织的投诉，向国际足联（FIFA）伦理委员会指控因凡蒂诺违反了政治中立的法定职责，包括在 12 月的世界杯抽签仪式上设立一个和平奖项授予特朗普。
据《纽约邮报》本周报道，特朗普与因凡蒂诺之间密切的个人和政治关系包括，美国总统认为这位足球官员可能是下一任联合国秘书长的理想人选。
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人权非政府组织 FairSquare 也就巴洛贡事件向国际奥委会提交了一份伦理投诉，指控因凡蒂诺（他是国际奥委会的当选成员）违反了关于政治中立的规则。
在伦理机构做出裁决前，国际足联和国际奥委会很少承认或提供潜在案件的更新进展。
自 2017 年（即因凡蒂诺就任主席的第二年）首席调查员和法官均被更换以来，国际足联处理指控不道德行为投诉程序的独立性一直受到质疑。
国际足联尚未公布解释其纪律法官如何就巴洛贡或其他世界杯球员做出裁决的文件。
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曾五次赢得冠军联赛冠军。 四次冠军得主意大利在三月的一场附加赛中负于波黑，从而错过了连续第三届世界杯，导致意大利足球联合会 (FIGC) 主席加布里埃莱·格拉维纳 (Gabriele Gravina) 和教练詹纳罗·加图索 (Gennaro Gattuso) 辞职。加图索在去年六月接替被解雇的卢西亚诺·斯帕莱蒂 (Luciano Spalletti)，而当时球队在一次失利后已经陷入困境。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 英格兰中场埃利奥特·安德森 (Elliot Anderson)（中心位置）在加盟诺丁汉森林足球俱乐部之前在纽卡斯尔开启了他的职业生涯。2024年，他在诺丁汉森林期间成功进入英格兰国家队名单。ODD ANDERSEN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
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詹姆斯·罗布森 (JAMES ROBSON) 英国，曼彻斯特
曼彻斯特城周四正式完成了从诺丁汉森林签下英格兰中场埃利奥特·安德森 (Elliot Anderson) 的交易，据报道转会费为 £116-million（2.175 亿美元，$217.5-million）。这次打破俱乐部纪录的转会费超过了 2021 年签下杰克·格拉利什 (Jack Grealish) 时支付的 £100-million，也是英超联赛历史上最高转会费之一。
这位 23-year-old 的安德森签下了一份为期五年的合同。
“曼城是世界上最伟大的俱乐部之一，他们的阵容令人惊叹——每个位置都非常强大。当我得知他们想要我时，我下定决心一定要促成这次转会，”安德森说道。
“作为一名足球运动员，你希望在最高水平上挑战自己。来到曼城意味着我拥有了这样一个机会。”
自标志性主教练佩普·瓜迪奥拉 (Pep Guardiola) 在上赛季结束时卸任以来，安德森是曼城的首次重大签约。在原切尔西主帅恩佐·马雷斯卡 (Enzo Maresca) 的带领下，一个新时代正拉开帷幕。
“埃利奥特是目前世界足球中最出色的年轻中场天才之一。他带来了能量、卓越的工作率以及极其出色的传球范围，”曼城足球总监雨果·维亚纳 (Hugo Viana) 表示，“他近年来的进步令人印象深刻，这凸显了他想要成为最好球员的渴望。”
当我得知他们想要我时，我下定决心一定要促成这次转会。
“在仅有 23 岁的时候，未来几年仍有巨大的发展机会，我们认为他可以成为一名全能中场。曼彻斯特城是他提升比赛水平并持续进步的最佳场所，我们很高兴他与我们的看法一致。”
安德森在纽卡斯尔开启职业生涯，并于 2024 年加入森林队，随后入选英格兰国家队名单。他是托马斯·图赫尔 (Thomas Tuchel) 带领的英格兰队中获得世界杯铜牌的关键成员。
“休假后到达曼彻斯特，我将尽一切努力在曼城队中站稳脚跟，”他说道，“这是一个为了赢得奖杯并在顶峰竞争而建立的俱乐部。这对任何一名足球运动员来说都令人兴奋。”
英格兰前锋摩根·罗杰斯 (Morgan Rogers) 本周早些时候完成了向切尔西的转会，据报道费用为 £117-million。
瑞典前锋亚历山大·伊萨克 (Alexander Isak) 去年从纽卡斯尔转会至利物浦的 £125-million 交易，仍然是英国足球史上最昂贵的转会。
在首场预选赛对阵挪威的比赛中。前意大利队主教练罗伯托·曼奇尼 (Roberto Mancini) ——他曾带领蓝衣军团在 2021 年夺得欧洲杯冠军——以及安东尼奥·孔蒂 (Antonio Conte) 同样是接管国家队的热门人选。据报道，曾在 2006 年作为球员帮助意大利队闯入世界杯的安德里亚·皮尔洛 (Andrea Pirlo) 也在竞争之列。
Brown 在 Zach Collaros 受伤期间接任首发职责
杰夫·汉密尔顿 (JEFF HAMILTON) 温尼伯
Dru Brown 希望能延续良好的势头。自从 6 月 23 日从渥太华红黑队 (Ottawa Redblacks) 交易而来以来，这位温尼伯蓝色炸弹队 (Winnipeg Blue Bombers) 的四分卫接替了受伤的首发球员 Zach Collaros，并率队取得了连续两场胜利。由于 Collaros 进入了六场比赛伤病名单，Brown 将尝试利用这一势头，在周五晚上蓝色炸弹队 (4-2) 于 Princess Auto 体育场主场迎战卡尔加里印踏队 (Calgary Stampeders, 2-4) 时发挥作用。
“自从我来到这里，我就尝试不懈地与队友们沟通并共同努力，”Brown 在周四训练后表示。 “我对我们目前的状况非常满意，并期待进一步提升。”
Brown 曾是温尼伯队的替补，并在渥太华担任了两年的首发。他回归后的首场比赛以 30-21 击败了多伦多潜水员队 (Toronto Argonauts)。尽管训练时间有限，他依然投出了 339 码，贡献了一个达阵并有一次被拦截。
随后，他在第四节落后 17 分的情况下抹平分差，并在加时赛中以 36-34 险胜渥太华。Brown 全场贡献了 317 码传球——其中 181 码发生在最后 16 分钟内——以及两个达阵。
Brown 作为首发球员的战绩较为平庸，为 14-14-1，但他从未输给过卡尔加里队，拥有 4-0 的完美纪录。
“我尽量不去想我之前有多成功或不成功。我就把它当成一张白纸，”Brown 说。“我尝试从实际角度来看待：他们现在在做什么，以及我们本周如何执行？”
温尼伯队的接球手 Nic Demski 以 400 码领跑全队，他将进攻端的稳定性归功于 Brown 沉稳的态度。
腰旗足球名单
女队四分卫 Sara Parker 和男队冲球手/角卫 Marc-Antoine Dequoy 是加拿大参加即将到来的世界锦标赛腰旗足球名单中的亮点。
加拿大足球协会 (Football Canada) 周四公布了锦标赛的参赛名单，该赛事计划于 8 月 13-16 日在德国杜塞尔多夫举行。
Parker 曾在 2025 年中国世界运动会上帮助加拿大队获得铜牌，她在与 Elizabeth Ashkar 的竞争中赢得了女队四分卫的位置。
Dequoy 在蒙特利尔铝制鸟队 (Montreal Alouettes) 担任安全卫并取得了成功的 CFL 职业生涯后加入了腰旗足球队，其职业生涯包括两次联盟全明星提名以及在 2023 年获得一次灰杯 (Grey Cup) 冠军。
这次世界锦标赛是获得 2028 年洛杉矶奥运会资格的首次机会，届时腰旗足球将正式成为奥运项目。
迈克·库克 布莱恩，明尼苏达州
本·科尔斯（Ben Kohles）在周四 3M Open 首轮比赛的最后一洞打出老鹰球，最终以 62 杆（低于标准杆 9 杆）获得两杆领先，使得排名首位的斯科蒂·舍夫勒（Scottie Scheffler）落后三杆。
埃米利亚诺·格里略（Emiliano Grillo）、杰克逊·科武恩（Jackson Koivun）和加里·伍德兰（Gary Woodland）首轮均打出 64 杆，而舍夫勒在首次参加该赛事中以 65 杆位列该组之首。
在周日英国公开赛获得第四名后，舍夫勒在前八洞打出低于标准杆 1 杆的成绩，随后在接下来的八洞中抓获五个小鸟球。
“早期我没有击中很多球道，但我能够通过某种方式地应对，在没有打出柏忌的情况下脱离了一些危险区域。这对保持我的势头至关重要，”他说道。“一旦我开始击中球道并获得机会，我就能开始抓小鸟球。”
[[IMG_XXXX]] 温尼格蓝炸弹队（Winnipeg Blue Bombers）四分卫德鲁·布朗（Dru Brown）在周日对阵渥太华红黑队（Ottawa Redblacks）时传球。 JUSTIN TANG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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在他们的三连胜期间不断推进。
“德鲁就是这样一个人，你看到的就是他的全部，”德姆斯基（Demski）说道。“让那个负责指挥战术的人以及站在中锋后面的人保持冷静且沉着，总是件好事，这样其他人就可以跟着他的引导走。”
另一方面，快马队（Stampeders）四分卫弗农·亚当斯（Vernon Adams Jr.）在周五的对决前也正处于自己的火热状态中。
这位 33 岁的球员本赛季已传出 17 次达阵且零次被拦截，与里基·雷（Ricky Ray）和达里安·杜兰特（Darian Durant）并列为赛季开始时在无拦截情况下传球达阵次数最多的球员。快马队主教练戴夫·迪肯森（Dave Dickenson）持有 20 次的记录。
亚当斯自上赛季以来已连续 243 次传球未被拦截。他目前正朝着 51 次传球达阵和超过 6,000 码的成绩迈进，这将打破他此前 31 次和 4,769 码的最高记录。
“他并不害怕直接强攻，所以作为防守者你永远不能放松，”蓝炸弹队后卫埃文·霍尔姆（Evan Holm）说道，并指出了亚当斯独特的随机跑动能力。“他确实传过一些 [被拦截的球]，只不过人们没接住。他现在确实势不可挡。”
首秀。 在每项比赛中，美国以外的前两名球队将获得资格。其余名额将在 2027 IFAF 大洲冠军赛以及随后的 2028 年奥运会资格赛系列赛中决定。
女子组：米卡埃勒·阿扎尔（Mikaëlle Azar），后卫，蒙特利尔；劳伦斯·卡隆（Laurence Caron），后卫，蒙特利尔；莉亚·杜瓦尔（Léa Duval），冲锋手，魁北克省圣拉扎尔；亚历山德拉·富尼耶（Alexane Fournier），中锋/接球手，魁北克省圣让叙里舍流；萨布丽娜·杰尔韦（Sabrina Gervais）（队长），后卫，魁北克省马斯基农格；萨曼莎·霍普金斯（Samantha Hopkins），后卫，卡尔加里；罗莎莉·兰德里（Rosalie Landry），后卫，魁北克省雷潘蒂尼；劳拉·莫里马德（Laura Molimard），中锋/接球手，魁北克省沃德勒伊；卡罗琳·莫昆-朱贝尔（Caroline Moquin-Joubert）（队长），接球手，魁北克省圣兰贝尔；弗雷-
科尔斯在标准杆 5 级的最后一洞，从 241 码外打出的第二球距离杯口仅四英尺。这次短推为这位 36 岁的球员画上了句号，他创下了个人职业生涯最佳单轮成绩，本赛季他在 PGA 巡回赛和 Korn Ferry 巡回赛之间穿梭。
在从 6, 号洞开始的九洞区间内，他每隔一洞就抓一个小鸟球，并在 15 号洞再次抓到小鸟，以低于标准杆 7 杆的成绩并列领先。
“我一整天都掌控在自己手中，”他说道。
来自不列颠哥伦比亚省萨里（Surrey, B.C.）的亚当·斯文森（Adam Svensson）与 16 名其他球员并列第 26 位，成绩为低于标准杆 3 杆。来自不列颠哥伦比亚省阿博茨福德（Abbotsford, B.C.）的亚当·哈德温（Adam Hadwin）、不列颠哥伦比亚省高贵林（Coquitlam, B.C.）的 A.J. 埃沃特（A.J. Ewart）以及安大略省索恩希尔（Thornhill, Ont.）的本·西尔弗曼（Ben Silverman）共同在 24 人并列的第 43 位，成绩为低于标准杆 2 杆。安大略省里士满山（Richmond Hill, Ont.）的泰勒·彭德里夫（Taylor Pendrith）和安大略省利斯托韦尔（Listowel, Ont.）的科里·康纳斯（Corey Conners）与 17 人并列，成绩为低于标准杆 1 杆。
来自汉密尔顿（Hamilton）的麦肯齐·休斯（Mackenzie Hughes）、维多利亚（Victoria）的吉万·西霍塔（Jeevan Sihota）和苏达山·耶拉马拉朱（Sudarshan Yellamaraju）...
亚当斯迅速将赞誉转移到了他的队友身上。 “我给了我的接球手很多肯定，”亚当斯说道，并提到有几次他们将球从防守队员手中抢了下来。“掌控球是我们核心价值之一，所以我对此感到自豪。” 尽管亚当斯表现如此出色，但胜利依然难以获得。 卡尔加里队本赛季的所有四场失利都仅在分差一个得分的情况下被决定。上周，他们在对阵蒙特利尔 Alouettes 队时抹平了比赛后期的 18 分分差，但最终在最后一分钟的达阵中以 38-32 落败。 “最顶尖的球队总能找到获胜的方法，即使他们状态不佳，而且他们也知道如何锁定胜局并结束比赛，”迪肯森说。“我们还没有达到那个程度。我们必须成长为那样一支球队。” 温尼伯队在第 1 周以 30-28 凭借绝杀射门击败了卡尔加里队，如果周五获胜，即可锁定赛季系列赛的胜利。随着杰出防守线球员 Folarin Orimolade 和 Jaylon Hutchings 的回归，卡尔加里队得到了极大的助力，两人此前在两支分区竞争对手的首次交手中均缺阵。
dérique Morneau，接球手，魁北克市；Sara Parker，四分卫，魁北克省格林菲尔德公园；Marianne Quirion，接球手，魁北克省谢布鲁克。 男子组：Antony Auclair（队长），接球手，魁北克市；Guillaume Beland（队长），角卫，蒙特利尔；Anthony Brisebois，半卫，魁北克省 Mont-Saint-Hilaire；Émile Chênevert，半卫，魁北克市；Marc-Antoine Dequoy，冲锋手/角卫，魁北克省 Bizard 岛；James Drysdale，接球手，魁北克省特雷本；Maxym Lavallée（队长），半卫，魁北克市；Michael O’Connor，四分卫，渥太华；Daniel Petermann，接球手，安大略省 Stoney Creek；Jackson Tachinski，接球手，温尼伯；François Rocheleau，接球手，蒙特利尔；Philippe Pharand，冲锋手，蒙特利尔。
密西沙加与其他 14 人并列第 86 位，杆数持平。 三周前，Kohles 几乎获得了职业生涯首次胜利，但在最后一洞的双波基（double bogey）导致他在约翰迪尔经典赛（John Deere Classic）中获得第三名。 “当然，你希望结果有所不同，但你只能继续全力以赴，看看能走多远，”他说。 Koivu 在 TPC Twin Cities 的一场无波基回合中，前九洞 birdies 四次，后九洞 birdies 三次，而这里的比分传统上较低。在该赛事之前的七年里，平均获胜成绩为低于标准杆 19 杆。 “聪明地打，为了分数而打。在时机成熟时执行，在可以采取进攻时变得激进，”他说。“我觉得我今天很好地利用了这一点。”
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彼得·拉萨利（Peter Lassally）周一在洛杉矶去世，享年 93 岁。他是一位大屠杀幸存者，在近半个世纪的时间里，作为《今夜秀》（The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson）、《大卫·莱特曼深夜秀》（Late Show With David Letterman）以及《克雷格·弗格森深夜深夜秀》（The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson）的高级制作人，成为了深夜电视节目中的关键人物。他的儿子、电影和电视制作人汤姆（Tom）确认了他是在一家记忆护理设施中去世的。
儒雅的拉萨利先生深谙如何让访谈节目主持人获得成功。喜剧演员加里·尚德林（Garry Shandling）在 2012 年告诉 NPR，拉萨利先生的长处之一在于“让主持人明白如何倾听，如何提出观众想听的问题，并且在听取答案时不要在脑中预想接下来的笑话”。尚德林曾为卡森先生代班主持，后来主演了关于虚构深夜访谈节目的剧集《拉里·桑德斯秀》（The Larry Sanders Show）。
1969 年被聘为《今夜秀》的助理制作人后，拉萨利先生升任制作人，随后成为执行制作人，与该节目的另一位执行制作人弗雷德·德·科尔多瓦（Fred De Cordova）协同工作。在每场节目录制结束后，拉萨利先生和卡森先生会见面讨论哪些部分效果好，哪些不好。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 新不伦多省商人格里·庞德（Gerry Pond）曾与时任省长弗兰克·麦肯纳（Frank McKenna）合作，通过光纤和互联网宽带将该省遥远地区在数字化上连接起来。PAUL DARROW/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
“有时我对节目某些部分的看法比他消极得多，”拉萨利先生在 2009 年接受电视艺术科学院（Television Academy）采访时说。“他会对我说：‘在电视上播出效果会更好，别担心。’而我的职责应该是让他冷静下来。”
后来，在与弗格森先生共事时，拉萨利先生发现最好的做法是等到第二天早上再给出坦诚的评估，因为弗格森先生在节目结束后的瞬间会处于过于兴奋的状态。
这位苏格兰喜剧演员在 2004 年被聘请主持《深夜深夜秀》时还是个新手，他给拉萨利先生起了一个绰号：“主持人耳语者”。
“他拥有巨大的权威，但他很安静，说话轻柔且温和，”弗格森先生在一次采访中说道，尽管“有时他会说一些令人难以接受的话，比如，‘你的笑声很诡异，得改掉。’ 真的吗？”
弗格森先生收到的的一条建议至今仍在他心中产生共鸣。他说，拉萨利先生永远不会对某个笑话说“不”，但他会问：“这个笑话值得吗？它有多好笑？如果不够好笑，就不值得放进去。”
拉萨利先生还以在为《今夜秀》发掘新人才（尤其是喜剧演员）而闻名。
“他希望扩大——”
商人，82 岁
——与坚定忠诚的人在一起，这些人现在已成为大西洋加拿大地区的领导者。自从 Q1 Labs 和 Radian6 获得成功以来，东海岸出现了一家巨大的独角兽企业：圣约翰斯的金融欺诈检测技术初创公司 Verafin，在 2021 年以近 27.5 亿美元（US$2.75-billion）的价格出售给了一家美国买家。
庞德先生没有参与那笔交易，但纽芬兰的科技人员受到了他在新不伦多省成功经验的启发。
庞德先生一生从事的是创意的贸易，而不是大西洋加拿大经济传统的支柱——岩石、树木和鱼类。他将创意视为连接团队、公司和技术的“木匠钉子”。他说：“我的工作就是充当锤子，好让钉子钉进去。”
而这些钉子确实钉进去了，在 Radian6 和 Q1 Labs 取得了惊人的成果，这两家公司在 2011 年被美国科技巨头 Salesforce 和 IBM 收购时，总估值约为 10 亿美元（US$1-billion）。从这些公司走出来的年轻人——包括马塞尔·勒布朗（Marcel LeBrun）、桑迪·伯德（Sandy Bird）、丹妮拉·德格雷斯（Daniella De-Grace）、杰夫·怀特（Jeff White）——现在已是 50 岁或以上的天使投资人、慈善家和企业家。
但他们永远是格里的孩子。
人们往往忘记了，在庞德先生成为天使投资人之前——
...，他曾是一位电信高管，助力该省转型为数字温室。在退休后，这一使命仍在继续。一项旨在大西洋省份建立技术生态系统的 30 年合作伙伴关系，始于麦肯纳先生（Mr. McKenna）担任省长期间向潜在投资者推介该地区，而新不伦瑞克电话公司（NBTel）的高管（以及后来的首席执行官）庞德先生（Mr. Pond）则扮演了私营部门推动者的角色。
“我不能拥有比他更忠实的朋友和伙伴了，”麦肯纳先生说道。
他们将新不伦瑞克变成了被广泛研究的实验室，以及吸引投资和就业的磁铁，这通常是通过承接企业呼叫中心来实现的。这意味着在偏远地区长大的年轻人能够接触到前沿技术，使他们能够开启职业生涯，而这些旅程往往最终指向庞德先生的门前。
庞德先生本人来自一个根植于新不伦瑞克米拉米奇（Miramichi）地区森林与溪流的家庭，但他出生在魁北克北部，其父亲当时在林业部门工作。随后，他在弗雷德里克顿的新不伦瑞克大学获得了文学学士学位。毕业后，庞德先生加入 NBTel 并逐步晋升。
当他在圣约翰（Saint John）还是个青年时，
彼得·拉斯利 (PETER LASSALLY)
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除常规嘉宾之外，这对于卡森（Carson）来说至关重要，因为他是一位“旧世界”的人才，"《深夜班次：莱特曼、莱诺与深夜节目网络之战》(The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno and the Network Battle for the Night (1994))》的作者比尔·卡特（Bill Carter）在一次采访中说道。“他必须引入新人才来维持节目的生命力。”
彼得·格哈德·爱德华·拉斯利（Peter Gerhard Eduard Lassally）于 1932 年 10 月 14 日出生在德国汉堡，父亲保罗·拉斯利（Paul Lassally）是一名咖啡进口商兼出口商，母亲埃尔莎·拉斯利（Else Lassally）操持家务。
1938 年，他的家庭逃离纳粹，定居在阿姆斯特丹。在那里，身为小提琴神童的彼得继续演奏，而他的妹妹艾琳（Irene）与安妮·弗兰克（Anne Frank）一起就读小学。
几年后，他的父亲死于癌症。不久后，在 1943 年，他与母亲和妹妹被送往韦斯特博克（Westerbork），那是荷兰东北部的一个纳粹中转营。随后，他们被囚禁在当时位于捷克斯洛伐克的特雷津（Theresienstadt）集中营，在那里，他的妹妹被编入一个建造毒气室的小组。彼得见证的暴行中，包括一个婴儿被吊在灯柱上。
“对我们所有人来说，那是一段艰难的时光，”他告诉 NPR。
全家人幸存了下来，并于 1947 年乘船前往纽约，定居在皇后区。彼得从纽敦高中（Newtown High School）毕业，开始了他的演艺事业，最初在无线电城（Radio City）担任一名带位员。
他遇到了一位名叫安妮·肯尼迪（Anne Kennedy）的公共卫生护士，她来自该省的伍德斯托克（Woodstock）地区。两人坠入爱河并结婚，抚养了一个儿子和一个女儿。
在加拿大碎片化的电信产业中，NBTel 规模很小，尤其是与中加拿大地区的巨头贝尔加拿大（Bell Canada）相比。因此，它必须灵活且具有创造力。庞德先生是一系列在公司内部创建“创新孤岛”的高级管理人员之一，他招募了一批聪明的年轻人，这些人将在他余生中一直陪伴在他身边。
其中一家公司是 iMagic，它是超前于时代的先驱，致力于通过互联网传输电视内容——可以将其看作是 Netflix 出现之前的 Netflix。庞德先生提拔了当时一名新不伦瑞克大学的年轻毕业生勒布伦先生（Mr. LeBrun）来领导这家初创公司。即使在 iMagic 被拆分并关闭后，勒布伦先生依然是庞德先生麾下优秀青年团的一员，庞德先生再次起用他建立了 Radian6，一个社交媒体营销平台。如今，勒布伦先生是一位社会企业家，也是建设微型住宅社区的先驱。
1999 年，随着大西洋加拿大四家电话公司在 Aliant 旗下的合并，庞德先生的生活发生了巨变。他短暂地领导了 Aliant 的电信部门，但
音乐厅，随后在 NBC 担任助理。
在 20 世纪 50 年代，他为 NBC 广播网络制作了全国播出的节目，包括《Monitor》和《Nightline》，他在那里聘请了迈克·尼科尔斯 (Mike Nichols) 和伊莱恩·梅 (Elaine May) 等崭露头角的喜剧天才。从 1961 年到 1962, 年，他还制作了由迈克·华莱士 (Mike Wallace) 和乔伊斯·戴维森 (Joyce Davidson) 主持的深夜电视访谈节目《PM East/PM West》，以及与那个 era. 时代的超级巨星亚瑟·戈弗雷 (Arthur Godfrey) 合作的广播和电视节目。
在 2014 年接受《Carson Podcast》采访时，拉斯里 (Lassally) 先生描述了他与德科多瓦 (De Cordova) 先生的工作关系，后者是该节目更为知名的执行制片人。
“他会扮演‘快乐先生’，与嘉宾们套近乎，而我不喜欢那样做，”拉斯里先生说，“所有的工作都由我来完成。”
他与罗伯特·莫顿 (Robert Morton) 的关系则有所不同。莫顿是他在 NBC 制作莱特曼 (Letterman) 的《深夜秀》(Late Night) 节目时的共同执行制片人——在卡森 (Carson) 先生退休后，他于 1992 年转到了该节目；随后一年，他又参与了在 CBS 播出的莱特曼的《深夜秀》(Late Show)。
正如莫顿先生在一次采访中所说：“我负责运行节目，但皮特 (Pete) 是那个引导我们将节目从 12:30 档转变为 11:30 档的人。没有人比皮特更了解 11:30 档。”
拉斯里先生在莱特曼先生期间是一个关键的心腹，
公司日益处于母公司 BCE 及其关联公司贝尔加拿大 (Bell Canada) 的掌控之下。“事实是我被解雇了，”他描述自己在该公司工作 30 年后，在 57 岁时遭遇的命运。当他在圣约翰 (Saint John) 的办公室里收拾纸箱时，接到了访客——当地企业家布莱恩·弗劳德 (Brian Flood)，后者敦促他以董事和投资者的身份加入网络安全初创公司 Q1 Labs。这是一个全新的开始。庞德 (Pond) 先生在公司的成功中起到了关键作用，包括 2011 年以约 $600-million 的价格将其出售给 IBM。与此同时，他与一些 NBTel 的前同事共同创立了 IT 服务和咨询公司 Mariner Partners。在 Mariner 内部，庞德先生共同创立了 East Valley Ventures，这是一个投资部门，也是他孵化初创企业的主要工具。随着他的影响力在加拿大大西洋省份扩大，他成为了技术孵化器和加速器的幕后操盘手。他与企业家古鲁拉杰 (Desh) 德希潘德 (Gururaj (Desh) Deshpande) 合作，后者是一名在新不伦瑞克大学毕业并在美国获得技术成功的人士，共同在大学内创建了一个社会创新和创业中心。庞德-德希潘德中心 (Pond-Deshpande Centre) 的执行主任凡妮莎·帕埃萨尼 (Vanessa Paesani) 是另一个感受到“庞德式对待”的人：直接、坦率，但最终是关心人的。“他很友善但很坚定，”帕埃萨尼女士说。一位年轻的女经理将他视为一只虽然古怪但可爱的老熊。
庞德先生是那个经常被低估的“销售科学”的不懈倡导者。许多加拿大大西洋省份的人，以及一般意义上的加拿大人，都回避他们认为是不光彩的销售行为。他觉得这种反销售心态在经济上损害了国家。一项最高成就是在新不伦瑞克大学 (UNB) 设立了一个新的销售研究讲席。在最后的几年里，庞德先生患上了多种疾病，导致他多次出入医院。
最后一次是因为败血症，一种血液疾病。安妮·庞德 (Anne Pond) 目睹了她的丈夫直到最后一刻仍在工作。他停不下来。他拥有那种无法熄灭的乐观主义，相信下一个大赢家就在拐角处。正如他所说：“如果你不乐观，你就不会从事这个行业。”
《环球邮报》特稿
这位喜剧演员试图接替卡森先生主持《今夜秀》但未能成功，该职位最终由杰·莱诺获得。据《深夜轮班》（The Late Shift）的作者卡特先生称，拉斯利先生曾促成了莱特曼先生与 NBC 总裁鲍勃·赖特的会面，这次会面几乎促使莱特曼先生在莱诺先生与《今夜秀》的首份合同结束时接替后者担任主持人。
拉斯利先生还建议莱特曼先生聘请经纪人迈克尔·奥维茨，后者接洽了大量机会，最终促使莱特曼先生成为 CBS 《深夜秀》的主持人，在晚上 11 : 30 —— 实际上，在现代 era, 是 11 : 35 —— 与《今夜秀》在时间上形成竞争。与 CBS 的那笔交易还让莱特曼先生的制作公司掌控了 12 : 30 a.m. 的时段，也就是《深夜深夜秀》（The Late Late Show）的播出时间。
三年后，当拉斯利先生离开《深夜秀》时，他同时也是《深夜深夜秀》的执行制片人，该节目在 1995 年到 1999. 年期间由新闻名人汤姆·斯奈德主持。在 2005 年到 2014 年弗格森先生担任主持人期间，拉斯利先生再次回归管理该节目。
除了儿子，拉斯利先生还留下了一名女儿安德里亚·吉宾和四个孙辈。他的妻子爱丽丝（格肖恩）拉斯利于 2019 年去世。
这座位于多伦多 Millbank Ave. 36 号的 4,287 平方英尺住宅在设计时，旨在让居住其中的家庭被其艺术收藏品所包围，同时让光线流淌进屋内。
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在多伦多地区的房地产市场中，一些买家正在抄底。 即使是微型公寓单位，对于那些只要能达成理想交易就愿意住在紧凑空间内的买家来说，也具有吸引力。 蒙特利尔银行 (Bank of Montreal) 高级经济学家 Robert Kavcic 警告称，多伦多公寓市场的低迷状态可能会一直持续到 2027 年。 Kavcic 先生并未预测加拿大房地产市场会出现剧烈回升，但他确实看到国家市场在下行第五年时正处于寻找底部的迹象。 他指出，全国销售额更加稳定，且新挂牌房源数量保持平稳，两者的结合使整体市场回归平衡。 6 月份，经季节性调整后，加拿大的房屋销售额比 5 月份微增 0.5%。 在经历了五个月的下降后，这一结果标志着连续第三次增长。 新挂牌房源数量下降了 1.3%
下一步行动 如果我有买家在寻找房源——无论价位如何——只要房子有租客，我就不会向他们展示。因为你无法确定租客是否真的会搬走。
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建筑师 Siamak Hariri 参观其早期的住宅作品之一 H5
五月至六月间下降了。 Teranet-国家银行综合国家房价指数在六月份比前一个月下降了 0.4%。 总体而言，大多伦多地区和安大略省南部的市场依然比全国趋势更为疲软，但一些买家现在愿意在受影响严重的细分市场中冒险购买。 Bosley Real Estate 的经纪人 Davelle Morrison 指出，大多伦多地区的公寓板块依然充斥着大量房源，而小型一居室单位的买家寥寥。 “在 $500,000 这一区间，简直静悄悄的，”Morrison 女士说道，并补充说有些单位甚至没有吸引到看房。 因此，Morrison 女士表示，愿意考虑入门级单位的买家拥有巨大的议价能力。 她曾服务于一位首次购房者，该买家最近以 $364,000 的价格购买了位于 Jarvis Street 和 Dundas Street East 的一套单位。 Morrison 女士补充说，买家在开始时就明确表示预算在 $400,000 以下。 “我惊讶于我不得不向他们展示多少房源。” 她补充说，这位买家非常现实，不像那些因为倾向于喜欢超出预算的单位而难以做出决定的人。 “‘喜欢’那些确实在你的预算之内的东西，”是她的建议。 在这种情况下，买家购买了一套位于 10 年楼龄建筑中、生活空间为 549 平方英尺且带阳台的单位。 Morrison 女士表示，在一个充斥着布局不理想单位的细分市场中，该单位的主要卖点是它有一个带门的真正卧室。 Morrison 女士说，该单位最初于 2025 年 4 月挂牌，开价为 $519,000，经过一系列降价，最终以 $368,000 的价格挂牌。 卖家是一名在规划阶段就购买了该单位的投资者。在挂牌期间，一名租客搬走了。 她认为自己属于众多不愿向买家展示仍有租客居住单位的经纪人之一，因为有时租客拒绝搬离，这可能会在交房日期产生复杂问题。 她举例说，她在 Leslieville 社区挂牌的一栋房子在出租期间仅有一次看房。 最终租客搬走了，她计划在重新粉刷并由布置公司提供家具和装饰后重新将该房产挂牌。 “如果我有正在寻找房源的买家——无论价格点如何——只要有租客居住，我就不带看。你无法确定租客是否一定会离开，”Morrison 女士说道。 Strata Real Estate 的房地产经纪人 Anna Wong 最近服务于几位租客，他们在被房东通知涨租后决定买房。 “这激发了他们的搜房行动，”Wong 女士说。“对房东来说，涨租实际上是一个冒险的行为。” 她说，这些买家已经关注市场好几年了。 在挂牌开价为 $799,000 之后，他们以 $775,000 的价格购买了 Leslieville 社区的一栋两层镇屋。 Wong 女士说，卖家在市场最高峰附近支付了大约 $950,000。 她的客户认为，他们可以用与该地区许多两居室公寓相同的价格买到这栋独立产权的镇屋。
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这张效果图显示了由 Zenterra Developments 在不列颠哥伦比亚省萨里市 (Surrey, B.C.) 开发的 King & Crescent 项目。该公司已对在该项目及其他项目中未能履行预售购房协议的买家提起诉讼。ZENTERRA DEVELOPMENTS
在不列颠哥伦比亚省，预售买家正在违约——开发商则在起诉
部分人士在房屋竣工前房价下跌时选择放弃
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这是一个场景： 你几年前买了一套预售房，现在工程即将完工，但与你几年前同意支付的价格相比，这套房现在的价值大幅降低。你会怎么做？
这里有一笔账：你支付了 $68,000 的定金。你的购房价格是 $715,000，但现在的房屋价值接近 $585,000。你是完成购买并承担这笔损失，还是另作选择？
这是一个两难的境地，但现实情况是：如果你放弃购买，你将失去定金，且开发商还可以起诉你要求额外赔偿 $70,000。
这是一个真实的案例（数字经过四舍五入），目前正在不列颠哥伦比亚省最高法院审理。根据《环球邮报》对法院文件的审查，大温哥华地区的开发商在近几个月内已对多名个人预售购房者发起了数十起诉讼。
上述诉讼是由 Zenterra Developments 对其在不列颠哥伦比亚省萨里市 King & Crescent 项目的一名买家发起的。他们还对不列颠哥伦比亚省兰利市 (Langley, B.C.) 的 The Commons 项目的买家提起了类似诉讼。但 Zenterra 远非唯一采取法律行动的开发商。
其他起诉买家的案例包括：Dawson + Sawyer 在萨里市开发的 Fleetwood Village 2，Marcon 在不列颠哥伦比亚省波特穆迪市 (Port Moody, B.C.) 开发的 Hue，Mosaic Homes 在北温哥华开发的 Towns at Lynn，以及 Westbank 在温哥华开发的 The Butterfly。在许多情况下，开发商起诉了多名买家。《环球邮报》发现，仅在这些项目中就有 2 打独立的诉讼。
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“对他们来说，决定出手是合理的。这绝对是一笔划算的交易，”Wong 女士说道。 Wong 女士表示，如果人们租住在相当实惠的租赁房产中，许多人会满足于在观望。 大多数买家并不指望公寓能在短期内提供任何资本增值。 但如果他们能通过组合抵押贷款、物业费和税单，使其总额大致等于他们支付的租金从而达到收支平衡，他们就愿意购买。 “有很多租客正在计算这笔账，”Wong 女士说。 那些能够吸引关注的公寓往往是高档建筑中的大户型，因为这是许多寻求缩减住房规模的婴儿潮一代集中搜索的区间。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 这张渲染图展示了由 Mosaic Homes 在北温哥华为开发的 Towns at Lynn 项目。Mosaic 表示，只有极少数购房者未完成预售协议的交割。MOSAIC HOMES
在寻求置评时，Mosaic 表示他们已努力与买家合作以支持其交割，且仅有极少数购房者未能完成交割。所有其他开发商均拒绝评论或未予回应。 所有诉讼都遵循相同的通用结构：买家在几年前签署了预售购买协议，支付了定金，随后未能在购买时完成交割。 在大多数情况下，开发商成功地将单位转售，但由于如今的市场条件较弱，转售价低得多，因此目前正起诉原买家违约，并要求赔偿因售价差异而产生的损失。在几个案例中，开发商还要求赔偿与持有单位、重新营销房产甚至分层所有权费用（strata fees）相关的成本。
Morrison 女士最近在 Avenue Rd. 38 号挂牌了一套两居室角窗单位，要价 268 万美元 ($2.68-million)。 在几天之内，两名买家预约看房，该单位生活空间为 1,845 平方英尺，且电梯直通门厅。 她表示，该单位超出了许多年轻潜在买家的价格范围，但该房产更有可能适合那些拥有价值 400 万美元 ($4-million) 或更高房产待售的业主。 这座位于 Yorkville 社区、靠近 Avenue Road 和 Bloor Street 的建筑提供代客泊车和礼宾服务，她[文本中断]
法院文件中未说明这些买家未完成购买的具体原因，但诉讼的数量之多及其相似性表明，这并非心血来潮：而是有更大的市场力量在起作用。 Mike Stewart（一名专门从事预售的温哥华房地产经纪人）和 Craig Anderson（营销与销售公司 Magnum Projects 的销售副总裁）均独立表示，以下情况正变得越来越普遍：一名买家在几年前以 70 万美元 ($700,000) 达成预售协议，他们在交割前前往银行进行估价，但银行表示该房产现在仅值 60 万美元 ($600,000)，如果买家想要获得融资，必须自行筹集剩下的 10 万美元 ($100,000)。 这并不总是可行的，而且甚至可能不值得这样做。 但无论原因如何，开-
BMO 首席经济学家 Robert Kavcic 指出 在住房周期中，需求与供应 最终会重新平衡，他 预测一个新的、运行良好的 周期也将从这次 回调中出现。
开发商正在采取法律行动。 尽管之前已有此类先例，但斯图尔特先生和克雷格先生都表示，在市场行情好时这种情况很少见，因为开发商通常能以更高的价格转售单元。 现在情况不同了。 “开发商不再敷衍了事了，”斯图尔特先生说，“由于他们的成本极高且损失巨大，他们必须起诉相关人员。” “在过去的二十年里，他们通常会说，‘好吧，这套房子原价 $1-million，我们现在将以 $1.1-million 的价格出售。’有时，他们还会退还一半的定金，因为他们考虑维护名誉，”安德森先生说，“现在，他们愿意支付律师费来追究人们的责任，而且追得很凶。你可以看到他们正在[索赔]费用，包括[买方]本应支付的分层所有权管理费（strata fees）
他说，许多高端买家正在寻求这些服务。 尽管如此，她表示，由于买家在做决定时非常谨慎，该价格范围内的公寓在该地区一直处于待售状态。 BMO的卡夫奇奇先生指出，在住房周期中，需求和供应最终会重新平衡，他预测这次修正之后也将出现一个新的、良性的周期。 在他看来，对于最终用户显然不想要的、由小投资者主导的公寓供应量减少，将是最终使该细分市场重新平衡的因素。 加拿大市场的许多部分可能会在 2027 年之前持续波动，直到负担能力和投资计算变得更加合理。
以及所有的律师费。他们以前总是只拿走一小块利益，但现在他们要拿走每一美元。”为了说明市场价值下降了多少，安德森先生表示，Magnum 最近参与了萨里（Surrey）的四个低层木框架项目，去年的市场价值约为每平方英尺 $870。现在则接近 $700。 斯图尔特先生和安德森先生都承认，开发商自身也面临压力，包括可能来自其贷款机构的压力。两人都承认自己不是律师，但他们从事预售工作多年，认为这类诉讼案相当简单且证据确凿。 “我不是律师，但我的理解是，判例法非常明确，”斯图尔特先生说，“归根结底，这些是合同。当一方违反合同时，有数百年的先例可循。很多人现在意识到了这一点。” 在为《环球邮报》审查一些案例时，安德森先生表示，令他惊讶的是，在某些情况下，开发商能够以原价转售单元，因为这些价格高于目前的市场率。他怀疑此类诉讼将会增加。 在《环球邮报》审查的案例中，开发商寻求针对购买者的法院判决金额在 $70,000 到 $166,000 之间。 安德森先生表示，购买者不太可能有太强的法律依据，除非法官出于同情而宽大处理，否则很可能需要承担全额款项。 “这是预售中没人愿意谈论的隐秘负面影响，但这就是一份合同，”安德森先生说。 他补充说，Magnum 曾与几位聘请律师试图脱离购买合同的买家打交道。 “自 2010 年以来我还没见过这种情况。市场上涨时每个人都想买预售房，但市场下跌时没人想参与其中。”
他表示。 回顾 2022 年，这位经济学家指出，上一个周期的顶峰与估值过度扩张相吻合，已超出收入、租金和利率基本面所能支撑的水平——而这一切都被投机兴趣和关于供应不足的虚假叙事所推高。 Kavcic 先生表示，正如加拿大银行将利率削减至接近零的举措助长了那次上涨一样，始于 2023 年的紧缩周期使其戛然而止。 过高的估值无法承受更高的借贷成本，因此价格必须下跌。 “几乎所有住房牛市都是这样结束的，这次也不例外，”这位经济学家说道。
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FinTRAC 加强了执法力度，引发房地产经纪人的不满与挫败感
SHANE DINGMAN 房地产记者
专家表示，联邦政府的反洗钱监管机构最近对一家房地产经纪公司处以的货币处罚，应当给房地产经纪人们敲响警钟。
联邦法律要求房地产经纪公司（以及其他金融服务公司）制定反洗钱 (AML) 政策和程序，核实客户身份，保存交易记录，并将任何可疑情况报告给加拿大金融交易和报告分析中心（Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada），即 FinTRAC。
然而，尽管加拿大的现代洗钱监管条例已实施 20 年之久，房地产企业的所有者和经营者在执行合规要求时仍存在摩擦点。加拿大拥有超过 155,000 名房地产经纪人、代理人和销售员，以及超过 14,000 家经纪公司，且全部受该条例约束。
“他们通常非常讨厌 FinTRAC。”
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挂牌价：$1.35 百万 (May, 2026) 成交价：$1.3 百万 (June, 2026) 税费：$4,343 (2025) 上市天数：29 上市代理人：David St. Jean, eXp Realty 买方代理人：David St. Jean 和 Allan Dignard, eXp Realty
交易经过：鉴于这栋位于 9, 88 英亩地块上的四卧室房屋地处偏远，代理人 David St. Jean 已经做好了进行数月营销并举办多次开放日活动的准备，以吸引周边地区或来自大城市的潜在买家，例如向北约 100 公里处的埃德蒙顿。 “这栋房子的优点在于它拥有 10 英亩的土地，私密且林木茂密，而且靠近鸽湖（Pigeon Lake），”St. Jean 先生说道。 “目前，我们看到的大多数买家要么是从市区搬到乡村以获得更多空间，要么是从目前乡村住宅升级到更大的房子。” 在比预期更短的时间内，一位访客协商达成了 $1.3 百万 的购买协议，仅比挂牌价低 $50,000。 “我们只挂牌了 29 天，”St. Jean 先生说。
“他们认为这要么是政府过度干预，要么是增加了行政负担，”Greg Dent 说道。他既是不列颠哥伦比亚省的一名房产经纪人，也是 ReallyTrusted Technologies Inc. 的联合创始人兼首席运营官。该公司是一家专业的软件和培训公司，旨在帮助房产经纪人遵守加拿大的反洗钱（AML）规则。该公司在全国拥有 900 多个经纪公司客户。 “[他们说] ‘这又是要我填的一张表格’，根据你在该国的不同位置，你会听到这个说法的不同版本。” On July 9, FinTRAC 宣布，一家位于渥太华地区的经纪公司 VIP Realty Inc.（也称为 Royal LePage Integrity Realty Inc.）已支付 $33,000 的罚款（最初于 December, 2025 征收），原因是未能每两年完成一次法定的关于防止洗钱和恐怖主义融资的政策审查。虽然 FinTRAC 在之前几次对房地产经纪公司处以其他罚款的案例中，也将未进行政策审计的处罚纳入其中，但此前从未将其作为唯一的违规项。 “两年一度的审查一直以来——特别是在房地产领域——在某种程度上是合规计划中被遗忘的部分，”金融服务咨询公司 The AML Shop 的风险管理与技术主管 Adam Feldman 说道。“这些审查非常耗时，且费用昂贵。很多经纪公司根本没有去做。现在你不能再逃避了，你必须进行这些审查。” FinTRAC 的高级沟通顾问 Lori Blair 在一份声明中表示，该机构近年来加强了执法力度。
大多数拥有这些企业的经纪业主之所以能达到那个位置，是因为他们是出色的房地产经纪人，而不是因为他们对行政管理或合规问题有着某种深厚的热情。
“因为他们是优秀的房地产经纪人，而不是因为他们对管理或合规问题有着某种深沉的热情。”
行业内对于这些审核应如何开展、谁有资格进行审核以及费用应该是多少也存在困惑。
“我经常与经纪公司交流，”Iluminai Intelligence Corp. 共同创始人 Friedrich Klaus 说道。该公司开发并向房地产经纪人和抵押贷款经纪人销售反洗钱（AML）合规软件。他经常从客户那里听到完成审核的报价范围之大令人震惊。
Klaus 先生描述了埃德蒙顿的一家经纪公司，一家小型专业反洗钱咨询公司对其两年一度的审核报价为 $16,000，这与大型会计师事务所可能收取的费用大致相当。经过谈判，该经纪公司最终让对方降低了价格：“他们一直在砍价，直到降到了 $3,000，”他说。
目前的法规在谁有资格进行这些审核方面也较为宽松。“如果你愿意，你被允许审计自己的计划，”Dent 先生说道，但如果经纪公司所有者不确定相关规则，他不鼓励他们自己担任审计师。
“我认为这些可能是 FinTRAC 最终会堵上的漏洞，”Dent 先生说。“但目前，这仍然是被允许的。”
GREG DENT REALLYTRUSTED TECHNOLOGIES INC. 共同创始人兼首席运营官
“规定的审核对于确定合规计划是否存在漏洞或弱点至关重要，这些漏洞或弱点可能会阻碍企业有效检测和预防洗钱、恐怖活动融资及逃避制裁，”Blair 女士在她的声明中表示。“这些义务有助于威慑犯罪分子和恐怖分子利用加拿大的金融系统来……”
“通常在 60 到 90 天之间，取决于物业情况。”
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洗钱其犯罪所得、资助恐怖活动或规避制裁。他们还确保 FinTRAC 获得所需信息，以生成可操作的金融情报，支持加拿大执法机构、国家安全机构以及国际盟友的调查，”她说道。
除房地产公司外，FinTRAC 还监管许多涉及资金流动的企业，包括加密货币企业、珠宝商、彩票和博彩组织以及货币服务公司。
在过去的一年里，FinTRAC 宣布了 35 项执法行动。根据其网站显示，其中近三分之一是针对房地产经纪人的，罚金总计超过 $770,000，占该期间总罚金的不到 0.5%。
虽然 FinTRAC 的使命至关重要，但 Dent 先生经常发现，全国大多数房地产经纪公司在应对反恐和反洗钱法规时感到吃力，其原因在于业务层面，有时也在于态度层面。
“该行业的结构设计不利于成功，”Dent 先生表示。他指出，加拿大各地的房地产经纪公司主要是由单一所有者经营的小企业，拥有 35 到 100 名房地产经纪人。“大多数拥有这些企业的经纪业主在进入这个行业时——”
在房子的另一端，有一个休息室、一间办公室和一个家庭房，以及一个带有推拉门通向平台和带火坑院子的厨房及用餐区。
共有四个完整的浴室，连接到钻井水系统。地下室尚未装修。
现场有两个双车库和一个工作室。
代理人观点 “这是一栋漂亮的房子，”St. Jean 先生说。“它有两个主套房，非常不错，还有一个很酷的酒窖和拱形天花板。 “它还有一个非常漂亮的四季阳光房，设有纱窗、木材燃烧壁炉和热水浴缸。” – SYDNIA YU
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艺术家 John Massie 聘请了总部位于多伦多的 Studio KSA，为其母亲在安大略省波特霍普（Port Hope, Ont.）的前住处进行翻新并扩建。摄影：MICHAEL VAN LEUR 一名佛教徒，一名艺术家，一座小屋及其扩建部分
安大略省，波特霍普
翻新带来了光线 和急需的空间，同时 保留了原有的风貌
DAVE LeBLANC
建筑旅游者 (ARCHITOURIST)
每天黎明，在穿上僧袍后，Melodie Frances Massey (1923-2016) 都会轻声走下那吱吱作响的旧木楼梯。和所有佛教尼僧一样，她将一天的时光分配在冥想、供养服务、学习，以及有时地诵经。在某些日子里，她会向他人教授冥想。这座位于安大略省波特霍普、她在 1997 年购买的小小屋，是修习金刚乘佛教的绝佳之所。它坐落在公园对面的一条安静街道上，还拥有一个充满鸟鸣的大而阳光充足的后院。“直到今天，我依然认为这里的宁静与她所做的工作有关，”她的儿子、艺术家 John Massey 说道。“每一个来到这里并入住的人都会称赞这栋房子的宁静。”在 1970 年搬到波特霍普之前，Massey 女士住在一种截然不同的房子里：那是她丈夫 Hart Massey II (1918-1997) 设计的，位于渥太华 Rockcliffe Park 社区的一栋受密斯·凡·德·罗 (Mies van der Rohe) 启发、由钢材和玻璃构成的规整住宅。这栋位于 400 Lansdowne Rd. 的房子获得了 1964 年的马西建筑奖 (Massey Medal for Architecture，由总督 Vincent Massey，即 Hart 的父亲创立)，并在 2018 年被指定为国家历史遗迹。“我母亲一直不喜欢渥太华的那栋房子，”Massey 先生补充道。虽然自 1970 年起就再也没有颁发过马西建筑奖，但 John Massey 在多伦多 Studio KSA 设计师的极大帮助下，对待并重新诠释母亲小屋的方式无疑是值得赞赏的。“尽管我并非理性地思考这件事，”Massey 先生继续说道，“但这在某种程度上将两件事结合在一起了：我母亲的精神追求……以及包裹在其周围的建筑感 [正是] 我父亲的存在。”虽然 Hart Massey 并不太可能引导了 Martin Kohn（1990 年与 John Shnier 共同创立 KSA Studio）或其同事 Maggie Bennedsen 的手，但两人都同意这里确实有很好的能量，而且更重要的是，保留这种能量的方法是让原有的小屋保持原样。“房子的核心，”Kohn 先生说，“我们知道我们要保持简单：中央大厅，两个房间……[但] 为人们建造房子是一项巨大的承诺；我总是非常紧张。我尽量不表现出来，但我一直心惊胆战。而当多年后它真的起作用时，是非常令人欣慰的。”对于路过的行人来说，这也是一种愉悦。一个带有拱窗的小山墙点缀在白色的木质立面上，立面上还有一个由小栅栏围起来的不对称门廊。唯一能感觉到新意的是单车车库周围的黑色立边接缝覆层（尽管眼尖的波特霍普居民可能会注意到，旧的百叶窗不见了，而拱窗的长度增加了一些）。
这座位于安大略省波特霍普的小小屋由 Massie 先生的母亲于 1997 年购买，坐落在公园对面的一条安静街道上。
打开前门，访客首先看到的是那铺着旧宽木板、略微翘曲的木地板，以及马西女士（Ms. Massey）每天行走的磨损且有凹槽的楼梯。向右转头，可以看到一个装饰线条完整且封闭的房间；向左转头，则能看到一个迷人的壁炉。不过，那个原始的客厅现在向 Studio KSA 的扩建部分敞开，其中有一个小凸出区域，形成了一个带窗的壁龛，马西先生（Mr. Massey）在其中一侧放置了第二把沙发，另一侧则是一个高效的现代化厨房（科恩先生（Mr. Kohn）的父亲是以安装不锈钢商业厨房为生，他表示自己从中学到了很多关于如何保持厨房紧凑的经验）。这座小屋距离安大略省的纽卡斯尔（Newcastle, Ont.）约 25 公里。1847, 小丹尼尔·马西（Daniel Massey Jr.）在那里创办了一家公司，这家公司最终成为了农机巨头马西制造公司（Massey Manufacturing Co.）。该公司于 1871, 迁至多伦多。可以肯定的是，这里到那里之间——以及世界各地许多其他地方——的大部分土壤都是由马西农机翻过的。虽然 KSA 的扩建部分仅仅是一个嫁接在旧小屋后面的矩形结构，但由此产生的变化是巨大的：光线通过顶天立地的窗户进入马西先生描述的（以前）“光线不足的小房间”，并在光亮的、高踢脚线上反弹。无论坐在哪里，都能在视觉上与自然相连。从木地板到抛光混凝土（作者喜欢称之为“穷人的水磨石”）的过渡，成为了两个世界之间的一道亲切边界。要上楼，访客抓住原始扶手，像飞蛾扑火般走向浸浴缸上方的拱形窗，惊叹于木条抹灰墙壁和天花板的缺陷。
“它有一点粗糙，对我们来说是可以接受的，有时甚至是可取的，”科恩先生说。“我们对待房屋现有部分的方式，你知道，是将其整理好 [但] 并不是让一切都变得超级精确。这在某种程度上也起到了一种简化作用。”
“感谢马蒂（Marty），”马西先生笑着说。他补充道，由于在一名奉行“听我的或者走人”的家长式父亲的管教下长大，在他人生的大部分时间里，他并不怎么看重建筑师。“他把一切都处理对了；其中很多方面包括这栋房子呼吸感极佳……而且热量分布——超级舒适。”
在夏天，可开启天窗作为热烟囱的定位、用于交叉通风的窗户，以及用于遮挡后院窗墙的巨大电动遮阳篷，意味着同样不需要昂贵的空调：“我们设计的半数房屋都没有安装空调……我一直不喜欢它，”科恩先生解释道。
“你需要一扇窗户，一些绿植，以及一个坐下来的地方，大概就这样了，”科恩先生微笑着结束了谈话。
听起来像是在冥想。
[[IMG_XXXX]] 在新扩建部分的的一侧增加了一个高效的现代化厨房。
这座位于多伦多 Millbank Ave. 36 号的房屋面积为 4,287 平方英尺，由 Hariri Pontarini Architects 的 Siamak Hariri 设计。房屋围绕一个三层中庭组织，中庭设有高窗，将光线引入房屋中心。 与灵魂共鸣的建筑
著名设计师 Siamak Hariri 表示，业主 允许他进行实验
CAROLYN IRELAND
Millbank Ave. 36 号 多伦多
挂牌价：$6,695,000 税费：$26,640.63 (2025) 地块大小：45 x 148 英尺 代理人：Robin Farb-Eckler, Harvey Kalles Real Estate
背景故事
从执业初期开始，Siamak Hariri 就一直在思考如何创造能与人类灵魂产生共鸣的建筑。 “我们都是带有身体的精神存在，”这位建筑师在描述人们在接触音乐、艺术和诗歌时所感受到的情感提升时说道。 如今，总部位于多伦多的 Hariri Pontarini Architects 将这一原则置于该公司为博物馆、音乐厅、大学建筑和礼拜场所设计的中心。 在最近的 7 月的一天，Hariri 先生再次访问了他最早的住宅项目之一，当时为一对多伦多夫妇在 Forest Hill 设计新住宅，同样是对实现这一愿景的召唤。 客户是资深房地产开发商 Jerry Shear 及其妻子 Eleanor。Shear 先生表示，这对夫妇在重组家庭中共有六个儿子，但当他和妻子在 1996 年购买一块位于陡坡地块上的待拆除平房时，孩子们都已经搬走了。 那时 Shear 先生已经从开发业务中退休，但一名在业内工作的儿子告诉他关于 Hariri 先生这位新兴天才的消息。 当他邀请这位建筑师见面时，两人很快就达到了共识；他们在回顾最初视察地块时的感受时一致认为。 Hariri 先生回忆说，他站在斜坡上，思考如何布置墙壁，以便让 Shear 夫妇被他们的艺术收藏品包围，同时光线能流经房屋中心。 “当你将光线、艺术和景观结合在一起时，就会产生魔力，”Hariri 先生说。“这是一种情感参与。这就是我所追求的。”
如今的房屋
由 Hariri 先生和 David Pontarini 创立的事务所，在 Shear 先生寻求他们的帮助时仅成立了几年。 1999 年，在多伦多大学校园内建造的麦肯锡公司（McKinsey & Co.）企业总部赢得了多项著名奖项，极大地提升了该事务所的知名度。 Hariri 先生回忆说，Shear 住宅的工程与那座具有里程碑意义的建筑的开发同步进行，两者相互影响。 他说，住宅是一个试验场，因为它们提供了探索新事物的时间和空间，而 Shear 夫妇并没有回避创新。 “他们要求创新，”Hariri 先生说。“他们非常有胆量，允许我进行实验。” 这座房屋拥有 4,287 平方英尺的
房屋的二层被分为两个翼楼，由一座俯瞰餐厅的桥梁连接。
地上生活空间围绕一个三层中庭组织，中庭设有高窗，为中心的餐厅引入光线。 对于 2023 年去世的希尔女士（Ms. Shear）来说，拥有一张能让亲友聚集在一起共进晚餐和庆祝的大桌子至关重要。 房屋后部的家庭房有一个提升滑动门，可将后墙向花园打开。 哈里里先生（Mr. Hariri）表示，这种概念在今天更为常见，但在 20 世纪 90 年代是非常卓越的。 房屋前部的一个起居区俯瞰街道。 哈里里先生为厨房橱柜选择了樱桃木，为地面、台面和中心岛台选择了石灰岩。 他说，在安大略省欧文桑德（Owen Sound, Ont.）的一家采石场主提出，如果哈里里先生将其用于金融区的一个高知名度项目，则免费提供这种石材后，他开始使用这种石头。 “我确实爱上了这种材料，”这位建筑师说。“我使用了它很多次；它已经成为了一个标志。” 一座开放式楼梯通向二层，住宅被分为两个翼楼，由一座俯瞰餐厅的桥梁连接。 哈里里先生指出，将后部的主卧套房与前部的其他卧室分开，为业主创造了私密性。 “我已经这样设计很多次了。人们很满意。” 希尔先生目前使用一间俯瞰街道的房间作为家庭办公室，而第二间卧室则预留给客人。 后部的主卧套房包括一间可以看到树木景色的卧室。这里有一个带浸浴缸的套内浴室，以及一个带有休息区和阳台门的宽敞更衣室。第二个套内浴室则配备了步入式淋浴间。 三楼提供额外的卧室和浴室。在后部，一个
厨房橱柜采用了樱桃木，地面、台面和中心岛台采用了石灰岩。
大型平台提供了被树冠包围的放松空间。 在室外，哈里里先生在山坡上开辟出一块区域，创建了一个隐蔽的石平台和现代瀑布。 希尔夫妇邀请了景观建筑师珍妮特·罗森堡（Janet Rosenberg）来设计花园。 “它让我领略到一种高度且优美编排的生活，”哈里里先生在评价结果时说道。
“任何人都可以使用大量的玻璃，但你如何让它感到舒适？” 在米尔班克大道（Millbank Avenue）上，由玻璃、柚木、桃花心木以及粗糙和光滑切割石材构成的外观，采用了与被指定为遗产建筑的麦肯锡公司（McKinsey & Co.）大楼相同的材料。 希尔先生对外部铜质细节的费用犹豫不决，但建筑师说服他，一个薄的滴水边沿对于防止雨水打在桃花心木装饰的窗户上是必要的。 “你必须这样做，”哈里里先生坚持道。“我们生活在恶劣的气候中。必须让雨水流走。” 随着公司投资组合中现在拥有数十个地标性项目，哈里里先生审视这座房子，依然对结果感到欣慰。 “30 年后，我对这里非常满意，”他说。“我不知道现在是否会做出任何不同的改变。”
$267,000
132B Balmoral Ave., Toronto YONGE-ST. CLAIR
要价：$5,395,000（2026年2月） 成交价：$4.9-million（2026年6月） 此前售价：$5,167,000（2022年） 税费：$20,533（2025年） 上市天数：103 挂牌经纪人：Scott Hanton, Hanton Real Estate Inc.
交易经过 这座位于 Avenue Road 和 St. Clair Avenue 附近、房龄四年的住宅由建筑师 Richard Wengle 设计，拥有众多高端元素，从电梯到内置车库前的加热车道应有尽有。 经纪人 Scott Hanton 将这座房子描述为“精美”，并表示在这个社区中很难见到这种水准的新建房屋。 该房产在非公开市场推广了两个月，随后向公众开放，标价约为 $5.4-million。 “买家在这个冬天和春天并不急于出手。他们有奢侈的等待时间，可以慢慢观察市场上的情况，”Hanton 先生表示。 业主在寻求不同的生活方式，即便这意味着他们以低于向原建筑商支付的约 $5.1-million 的价格出售这栋四居室住宅。他们在购买洽谈中比较灵活，但仅允许要价下降 10%。 “卖家已经准备好承受损失，我们都知道市场现状就是如此，”Hanton 先生说。“市场上有一些可售的、非常壮观的房子，其售价最高下降了 $1-million。”
房屋概况 这座三层住宅拥有 3,045 平方英尺的居住空间，包括四个卫浴间、两个洗衣房，以及位于起居区和用餐区之间并设有壁炉的厨房。
地下室设有一个宠物洗浴站，以及一个层高超过 13-foot 的娱乐区。
室外休闲区域包括主卧外的带火坑的屋顶露台，以及 22- by 113-foot 地块上的一个新庭院。
经纪人观点 “它位于一条安静的住宅街道上，”Hanton 先生说。 “在自己的房子里拥有私人电梯是一项非常高端的配置。” – SYDNIA YU
通往完工地下室的楼梯间有一个通向停车场的侧出口。
288 Durie St., Toronto RUNNYMEDE-BLOOR WEST VILLAGE
要价：$1,849,000（2026年4月） 成交价：$2.1-million（2026年4月） 此前售价：$375,610（1998年10月） 税费：$8,876（2026年） 上市天数：One 挂牌经纪人：Dino Capocci, Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd.
交易经过 经纪人 Dino Capocci 距离将这栋四居室住宅挂牌出售还剩一周时间，此时街道上方的一栋类似住宅在一天内以约 $2.1-million 成交。 Capocci 先生选择为他的客户采取同样的“低开高走”策略，甚至选用了相同的 $1,849,000, 要价。有 10 位买家要求参观这栋位于 Bloor Street 和 Runnymede Road 附近的住宅。其中一位买家无视卖家计划在一周内考虑所有报价的方案，在第一天就出价 $2.1-million。 “因为（另一栋房子）有多个报价，可能有些买家在等待其他机会出现，”Capocci 先生说。 “卖家不想冒拒绝这个报价并等到报价日才决定而导致机会丢失的风险。也许他们不会回来；也许他们找到了另一栋房子。I’ve seen that happen.” “（这栋房子）确实满足了很多要求，因为很多人在寻找四居室，”Capocci 先生说。“很多房子只有三个卧室。 “这栋房子的地块深度为 145-foot，而不是 110 或 100 英尺，而且在 Durie [Street] 上，平均面宽是 25 英尺 [而这栋是 27 英尺]。”
62 Roe Ave, Toronto LAWRENCE PARK NORTH
挂牌价：$1,549,900 (2026年6月) 成交价：$1,575,000 (2026年6月) 税费：$9,346 (2025年) 上市天数：五天 挂牌经纪人：Ira Jelinek, Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd.
交易情况：6 月份，在 Yonge Street 和 Avenue Road 之间、Lawrence Avenue 以北的几处独立屋房产被低价挂牌，以吸引多个买家的出价。 这座建于 20 世纪 50 年代的三卧房产的销售经纪人采用了同样的策略，将其定价在 $1.55 以下。在一周之内，有 20 位买家进行了私人看房，两方在出价日展开竞争。 “在我们想要挂牌的那周，没有比这更好的机会了，”经纪人 Ira Jelinek 表示，“这是你在该地区能买到的最便宜的独立屋。” 在谈判过程中，最终的买家将出价提高到 $1,575,000，与对比之下，这仍然是一个“可负担”的价格。
524 Balliol St., Toronto MOUNT PLEASANT EAST
挂牌价：$995,000 (2026年5月) 成交价：$1,325,000 (2026年5月) 此前成交价：$133,000 (1986年9月) 税费：$6,591 (2025年) 上市天数：六天 挂牌经纪人：Amir Kiabi 和 Robert Greenberg, Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd.
交易情况：今年春季，经纪人 Robert Greenberg 使用了一种经受时间考验的方法，为这座位于 Mount Pleasant Road 和 Davisville Avenue 附近、占地 23- by 100-foot 地块上的半独立屋吸引了多份报价。 他采用了 $995,000 的低价，结合仅六天的短时间看房期，吸引大批人群在周末的开放日前来参观。该周内有近 100 位访客看房。在出价日，共登记了三份购买报价。 “我本可以将这处房产定价在 $1.1 或 $1.2”
174 Kingsview Dr., Bolton, Ont. 波尔顿 (BOLTON)
要价：$899,000 (2026年5月) 成交价：$890,000 (2026年5月) 税费：$5,631 (2025年) 上市天数：3天 挂牌代理人：Gary Cirillo, Realty Executives Priority One Ltd.
交易情况：这座拥有三间卧室的平房保留着 1970 年代的建筑装修风格，位于波尔顿的一个角地上，距离多伦多市中心西北方向约 50 公里。在 5 月的开盘周末，一名买家提交了报价，随后又有三名买家加入了竞价。
“该物业受到了强烈的关注，在短短三天内就产生了 12 次看房，并最终获得了四份报价，”代理人 Gary Cirillo 表示。“我认为关键的卖点包括平房布局、极具吸引力的 56 by 146 英尺角地，以及一个可停放最多六辆车的私人车道。”
卖家深知今年春天其他房产在寻找买家方面存在困难，因此接受了一份与 $899,000 的要价差距在 $9,000 以内的购买提案。
“最近的几套[平房]成交时间稍微长了一些，”Greenberg 先生表示。
“在多伦多找到一套低于 $1-million 的房产相当困难，”他说道，并补充称，与社区内其他房屋相比，该半独立屋拥有更宽的门面和更大的尺寸，这也起到了推动作用。
该房屋入住即用的外观以及优越的地理位置——步行即可到达地铁线、众多餐厅和口碑良好的学校——也共同推高了成交价。
“它位于一个非常令人向往的社区，街道环境非常好，”共同挂牌代理人 Amir Kiabi 表示。“[业主]在油漆、宽幅地毯和新围栏上投入了资金，使房屋呈现出良好的状态，这得到了回报。”
尽管附近有竞争房源在出售，但其中一些的规模是这里的两倍多。
“如今的买家相当谨慎，”Jelinek 先生说。“你必须非常努力地工作才能[提高他们的报价]。”
房屋概况：这座两层住宅在二楼设有三间卧室和一个新装修的浴室。
房屋概况：这座两层住宅拥有 1,323 平方英尺的居住空间，包括三间卧室以及开放式概念的起居室和用餐区。
室内设有一个带有壁炉的起居室和一个带有护墙板的正规用餐区。
主楼层还设有一个洗手间和一个带用餐空间的厨房，并设有通往露台的出口。
地下室的娱乐区有一个独立的侧门，可通往院子，在 25-by 116 英尺的土地上还设有一个前停车坪。
代理人观点：“它有一个很棒的后院，有足够的空间让孩子们玩耍，草地很多，而且处于一个友好的社区中，”Jelinek 先生表示。“在 Yonge 和 Avenue 街区，你可以享受到包括地铁在内的所有便利设施。” – SYDNIA YU
地下室还有一个额外的娱乐区。
共有两间四件套浴室，以及一个新升级的厨房，配备不锈钢电器，并设有通往露台和院子的后门。
一条共用车道面向街道。
代理人观点：“这栋房子的独特之处在于三间卧室都相当宽敞，”Kiabi 先生表示。 – SYDNIA YU
廉价房源十分罕见，但
北温哥华一栋住宅的出售 被房产经纪人称为“我见过的 最疯狂的事情”
KERRY GOLD 温哥华
去年年底，不列颠哥伦比亚省北温哥华的一栋房屋出售，令寻求廉价房源的人们羡慕不已。买家开出了极低的价格，并在房地产交易中获得了一场大胜。位于 3095 Plymouth Dr. 的这栋房屋以 $750,000 成交——仅为 $1,495,000 要价的一半，且比 $1,724,600 的评估值低了近 $1 百万。房地产经纪人和所有关注此事的的人都被这次交易震惊了。
“这是我见过的最疯狂的事情，”从业 21 年的房地产经纪人 Patricia Houlihan 表示。
“我有许多买家在那个价格下，即使没看房也会直接购买，”房地产经纪人 Fred Trudeau 说道。
该房产在 12 月 24 日以 $750,000 成交并于 1 月完成交易之前，经历了 106 天没有记录任何降价的情况。买下这栋 70 年房龄待拆除房屋的买家，现在拥有一个 7,642 平方英尺的大地块，大约是温哥华标准 33 英尺地块宽度的两倍。该房屋
坐落在一条弯曲的道路上，背后是森林背景，位于 Windsor Park 社区的大型住宅之间，该地区独立屋的 MLS 基准价格为 $1.89-mil- lion。土地评估值为 $1,668,000。
来自 Royal LePage Sussex 的挂牌经纪人 John Buchanan 拒绝了采访，买方经纪人来自 Oakwyn Realty 的 Dylan McCansh 同样拒绝了采访，理由是买家要求保护隐私。
住在该房产附近一个街区的 Royal LePage 管理经纪人 Lawrence Putnam 表示，由于行业隐私规则，他无法透露细节，但他表示，这栋房屋位于一条繁忙道路附近，在目前的状态下无法居住。
“我认为确实有人在那儿得到了一个相当不错的交易，但我们正处于一个……目前没有多少建筑商在买入的市场，”Putnam 先生说道。
他称这次交易是一个特例，并表示它不会影响该地区的其他房产。
“当然，这个成交价格引发了很多讨论。但这些讨论的任何价值，都必须对照某人的知识来衡量——”
36 E. 14th Ave., No. 109, Vancouver SOUTH MAIN
挂牌价：$275,000（4月22日） 此前挂牌价：$299,000 （2025年10月20日）；$315,000（2025年7月2日） 成交价：$274,750（4月22日） 月费（含税）：$691.30 上市天数：294 上市经纪人：Dwayne Launt, Rick Stonehouse 及 Shaun Gregory, Oakwyn Realty
最近在北温哥华 Windsor Park 社区 Plymouth Dr. 3095 号成交的这栋房屋，代表了北岸独立屋中单次幅度最大的百分比跌幅之一。该房产挂牌价为 $1,495,000，最终以 $750,000 成交。TAEHOON KIM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
对该特定房产的认知和了解。我不确定有多少人进入过室内并看到了其状况，但我认为，如果他们没有进去看，那么他们的观点价值相对有限。” 该社区充满了建在大型地块上的房屋，对家庭很有吸引力。Plymouth Dr. 2996 号的一栋房屋在去年 9 月以 $2,025,000 成交，比评估价高出 $327,000。Plymouth Dr. 2984 号的一栋房屋在去年 10 月以 $1,650,000 成交，比评估价高出 $37,400。 Houlihan 女士无法就此次交易做进一步评论或推测。但通常情况下，她会建议客户逐渐降低价格，因为每个价格点都会吸引潜在的新买家。目前的市场在寻找合适的售价方面，地形尤为复杂。 “你真的不知道某个东西最终会卖多少钱。那些价格合适的房产——买家并不知道它们是好 deal。正是这种‘旅鼠效应’让我感到无奈，”她补充道。“当价格过高时，每个人都想买。但当东西低价出售时，大家都会想，‘如果价格进一步下降怎么办？’
一旦价格开始回升，那就太晚了。” 温哥华房地产经纪人 Lorne Goldman 同意 Plymouth Dr. 3095 号这样的交易是特例。他说，虽然市场上确实有交易，但没有那么极端。 “我们的买家中没有人见过这种程度的价格下调。这非常罕见，”他说。“诚然，市场表现可能并不理想。但正因为如此，这个市场中会出现巨大的廉价房产吗？我的答案是，‘不’。我的意思是，每天都有买家和经纪人问我，‘我的客户会接受低价报价吗？’你甚至不需要跟他们沟通。对我来说，这纯粹是浪费时间。” 但也有其他意外情况。特别是高端房产和待修房产正在经历残酷的现实审视。一栋位于 West 40th Ave. 1562 号、房龄 14 年、面积约 4,000 平方英尺的大房子在上市 530 天后，以低于挂牌价 $2.28-million 的价格成交。这栋拥有五 bedroom、七 bathroom 的房屋配有铜质装饰屋顶、中式炒菜厨房和媒体室。这栋位于 Shaughnessy 的住宅此前评估价为 $6,138,000，其中土地价值为 $3,831,000。
该房屋最终以接近土地价值的 $3.5-million 成交。 上市经纪人 Wei Du 收到了多份报价，但拒绝接受采访。 Goldman 先生表示，该房产存在挑战。它的设计目标是此前活跃的亚洲富裕买家，且房产后方紧邻一家汽车修理厂。他认为这栋相对较新的房子将会被重新开发。城市政策正在推动在低密度社区增加密度。 “讽刺的是，在这个环保时代，我们忙着拆掉房子，然后建起 15 年后又要被拆掉的房子。” 在 Strathcona，Pender St. 655 E. 号的一栋房屋在 6 月 2 日以 $980,000 成交。该房产此前评估价为 $1,377,200，其中土地部分估值为 $1,307,000。这栋需要重大维修的特色房屋在春季挂牌价为 $999,000。 上市经纪人 Fred Trudeau 表示，在上市近一个月并向约 20 人展示后，卖家收到了一份报价。他的卖家希望成交价接近 $1-million。Trudeau 先生说，该房产需要修缮，它
该房屋当时有租客，且地块面积低于平均水平。所有这些因素都影响了价格。他对那些不得不调整预期的卖家表示同情。
“BC Assessment（BC省评估局）不会挨家挨户地走访，但买家会，”他谈到评估价值时如此说道，该价值比成交价高出约 28 per cent。
“我认为人们的可支配收入已大幅减少，他们对风险的承受能力不高，”他补充道。
许多经纪人会建议他们的客户不要开出低得令人反感的出价。尽管卖家可能会对极低的出价感到不快，但买家可以尝试。大温哥华地产经纪协会（Greater Vancouver Realtors）发言人 Mark Moldowan 表示，卖家可以接受他们喜欢的任何报价。
“作为一家组织，我们不会为房屋设定任何价格或价值，”他在一封电子邮件中写道。“这由卖家决定。经纪人可能会根据经验建议一个售价，但最终设定价格并同意销售的人是卖家。”
他补充说，评估价值是一年前的，并非基于当前市场价值。
if U.S. adopts new tariffs
Carney gives few details, but says his priority is an exhaustive trade deal that covers all sectors
MARIEKE WALSH OTTAWA LAURA STONE TORONTO ADRIAN MORROW WASHINGTON
Canada won’t rule out imposing retaliato- ry tariffs on the United States if the White House moves ahead with a new wave of trade actions, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday, even as he made avoiding the punitive measures his main goal. At the close of a three-day meeting of the country’s premiers in Charlottetown, Mr. Carney said at a press conference that his priority with the United States is an ex- haustive trade deal that leaves no Cana- dian sector out in the cold. The government is “in pursuit of a com-
King’s baton bearer Ryan Bester and flagbearer Kady Dandeneau of Team Canada lead their teammates Thursday during the opening ceremony ahead of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. MICHAEL STEELE/GETTY IMAGES
for blending disciplines wins coveted Fields Medal
IVAN SEMENIUK SCIENCE REPORTER
A Toronto mathematician known for making inspired leaps across subdisciplines to solve challeng- ing problems in the domain of arithmetic geometry has won the Fields Medal, the profession’s highest accolade. Jacob Tsimerman, a 38-year- old professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto, shares the honour with three U.S.-based scholars: Yu Deng at the University of Chicago, John Par- don at New York’s Stony Brook University, and Hong Wang of New York University and France’s Institut des hautes études scien- tifiques. Each medal winner is being recognized for independent and separate contributions, often made with collaborators, across a
BRITISH COLUMBIA Residents of Kimberley prepare for evacuation as fires close in on resort town A3
prehensive agreement that addresses all tariff-related sectors,” the Prime Minister said. “Everything’s on the table if there’s no agreement.” He declined to share any details about what retaliation Ottawa is considering. Mr. Carney also suggested Canada has had the chancetosignpartialdealsbuthasforgone that option with the aim of getting a trade pact that addresses all the tariffs targeting Canadian industries, from steel to alumi- num to autos. On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that his administration would impose a 50-per-cent tariff on a wide range of Canadian goods beginning Aug. 19. At his Thursday press conference,
Canadians join the proceedings as the Commonwealth Games kick off in Scotland on Thursday
diverse range of mathematical specialties. Dr. Wang is only the third woman to receive the Fields Med- al since it was first awarded in 1936, while Dr. Tsimerman is the first person based at a Canadian
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Canadian mathematician Jacob Tsimerman rejoices as he walks onstage to receive a Fields Medal in Philadelphia on Thursday. ERIN BLEWETT/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
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Mr. Carney said the move from the White House was both a pressure tactic and an opportunity to wrap negotiations that have dragged on for well over a year. “We’ve seen a series of trade negotia- tions that the U.S. has undertaken, and normally there’s a deadline, normally there’s an outsized tariff associated with that deadline,” Mr. Carney said. He cautioned that he was not giving any indication as to whether he thought the talks with the U.S. would have a positive or negative outcome. In French, he said that while there is the possibility of retaliation, on the flip side there is the option for co- operation that serves the interests of both countries.
CARNEY, A6
institution to do so. The four medal winners were announced on Thursday at the openingceremonyoftheInterna- tional Congress of Mathemati- cians in Philadelphia. Named after John Charles Fields, a Canadian mathemati- cian who proposed and cham- pioned the prize nearly a century ago, the medal is bestowed every four years. It can be won by two to four individuals who each receive $15,000. Often described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics, the Fields Medal differs from the Nobels in some important respects. The four-year gap between awards creates a sense of anticipation that, for mathematicians, is akin to the buildup ahead of a FIFA World Cup. It is also limited to mathematicians who are under the age of 40.
FIELDS, A7
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strikes on Iran amid growing clashes over transit routes
ELENA BECATOROS FATMA KHALED COLLIN BINKLEY CAIRO
The U.S. military announced Thursday that it is conducting the 13th night of strikes against Iran as clashes escalate over shipping routes. Earlier, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they attacked two Saudi oil tank- ers in the Red Sea, potentially widening the Iran war as interna- tional oil topped US$100 a barrel. U.S. Central Command said the latest attacks are designed to “further degrade Iran’s ability to threaten civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting re- gional waters” as the Americans push to regain control over the Strait of Hormuz and restore the flow of international shipping. A short time later, Iranian state media reported explosions along the strait in Bandar Abbas and Qeshm, as well as to the northwest near Andimeshk and Omidiyeh. Meanwhile, the Houthis threatened to shut down anoth- er key trade route, with the world economy already reeling from Iran’s closing of the Strait of Hormuz. The threat came as Iran and the U.S. have stepped up attacks as they vie for control of the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas transited in peacetime, setting off a scramble for alternative routes. U.S. President Donald Trump threatened “major military puni- shment” against the Houthis if their attacks on ships continue.
HOUTHIS, A5
terror charge was a focal point of past protest debate
MATTHEW SCACE CALGARY MATTHEW FRANK TORONTO
A man charged by Toronto Police with a terrorism offence over his alleged conduct at pro- Palestinian rallies has previously been at the centre of the debate around acceptable expression at protests, after a photograph of him from two years ago prompt- ed criticism from federal politic- ians – and led to multiple libel lawsuits. Ahmad Hassan Hajahmad, 33, was arrested Tuesday and charged with participating in or contributing to the activities of Hamas, in what is believed to be a potentially groundbreaking use of Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act. Toronto Police said they gathered evidence after his ap- pearances at two demonstra- tions in May and September of 2024 supporting the allegation that he acted in association with the designated terrorist group. Charge sheets filed in Ontario Superior Court do not provide additional information on what Mr. Hajahmad allegedly said at the protests that led police to in- vestigate him. His lawyer has de- nied the allegations, which have not been tested in court. Separate from the charge, Mr. Hajahmad was a subject of con- troversy after a widely circulated photo showed him at a 2024 Al- Quds Day rally. The Al-Quds Day rally is an annual pro-Palestinian event that has frequently been criti- cized.
TERRORISM, A6
ALEX COLVILLE, BORDER COLLIE, 1972, SERIGRAPH, 12.1 X 12.1 CM. GIFT OF MARGUERITE R. DOW, 1987 MACDONALD STEWART ART CENTRE COLLECTION AT THE ART GALLERY OF GUELPH
Throughout July, we are showcasing artworks from the Art Gallery of Guelph, one of Canada’s premier cultural spaces. Spanning historical and contemporary art, AGG is home to more than 11,000 artworks and the largest sculpture park at a public art museum in Canada. The collec- tion brings together diverse artistic voices from across Canada and beyond, from early acquisi- tions by Tom Thomson and members of the Group of Seven to contemporary works by First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists. artgalleryofguelph.ca
Recognized for precise mark-making and carefully constructed realist compositions, Alex Colville often used animals to explore themes of instinct, vulnerability, control and the subtle tensions underlying everyday life. This serigraph depicts a watchful border collie with eyes fixed directly toward the viewer. In the background, a flock of sheep graze peacefully in the field, heightening the work’s lingering sense of risk and antici- pation.
ROBERT ROTBERG
OPINION
Xenophobia in South Africa is a downstream effect of failures in its education system A13
A Thursday news article about the United States’ stated goal of striking interim trade deals with Canada and Mexico by the end of the year incorrectly stated that U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer had told the Senate hearing that his Canadian counterpart said Ottawa would not retaliate against the latest tariffs. Mr. Greer said: “they did not say they’re going to retaliate.”
The Globe and Mail is committed to maintaining the highest ethical, legal and editorial standards. SANDRA E. MARTIN, STANDARDS EDITOR, standardseditor@globeandmail.com
after she changes her mind on war with Russia
JILL COLVIN VOLODYMYR YURCHUK KYIV
Laura Loomer, an ardent ally of U.S.PresidentDonaldTrumpwith areputationforincendiarysocial- media commentary, sat down with Ukrainian President Volody- myr Zelensky on Thursday after a dramatic turnaround on the war thatcouldhavepoliticalreverber- ations back in Washington. Ms. Loomer had spent years minimizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and amplifying Russian propaganda to her nearly two million followers. This week she had a change of heart. “Just experienced my first air raid in Ukraine. Sirens blaring. This is everyday for every Ukrai- nian,” Ms. Loomer wrote on X during her visit to the country. “I often said I don’t care. Looking back, that wasn’t very nice of me to say.” “We need to have moral clar- ity,” she added Thursday. It was a stunning reversal for a woman who had spent years crit- icizing U.S. support for Ukraine’s defence, declaring it “a country full of Nazi apologists” – a claim used by Russia to justify its years- long invasion – and “led by a Jiha- di apologist.” It was unclear what had prompted Ms. Loomer’s trip or how she had arranged the meet- ing with Mr. Zelensky, which she plugged as an interview for her show.
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Laura Loomer, seen in New York in 2024, spent years minimizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to her nearly two million followers before her change of heart this week. TED SHAFFREY/ASSOCIATED PRESS
She posted a photo of the two and later a clip from the interview in which she asked Mr. Zelensky about the Oval Office confronta- tion and how his relationship with Mr. Trump seemed to have improved since then. Mr. Zelen- sky credited a brief conversation at the Vatican for the détente – one he called a “historic moment, because we changed the relations during 15, 20 minutes.” The meeting was confirmed earlier by Dmytro Lytvyn, a spokesperson for the President, who said that no Ukrainian gov- ernment institution had orga- nized the visit. He added that Mr. Zelensky’s office first learned that Ms. Loomer was in Ukraine
Canadian taxpayers may never recoup their investment in the Gordie Howe bridge B4
A Thursday obituary of lawyer Marlys Edwardh incorrectly referred to her late life partner, Graham Turrall, as a forensic psychiatrist. He was a forensic psychologist.
through social media. Inadditiontothemeetingwith Mr. Zelensky, Ms. Loomer also vis- ited the Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of the country’s most significant reli- gious landmarks, which came under Russian attack last month. In a video recorded from inside the church, Ms. Loomer accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of hypocrisy by portraying Russia as pro-Christian. “I just don’t think that you should be allowed to say that you’re protecting Christianity if you’re trying to drone strike Jesus Christ,” she said.
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Seven fires are burning more than 1,119 hectares near B.C. resort town
OM SHANBHAG
Schaun Goodeve sees flames when he steps out of his house in Kimberley, B.C. With wildfires around nine kilometres away, he’s getting his family prepared for a worst-case scenario – in- cluding choosing which of his 13- year-old daughter’s childhood possessions to take when evac- uating. These days, Mr. Goodeve al- ways keeps his go-bag ready. He said communication from the BC Wildfire Service has been key in understanding what to do if the situation becomes more seri- ous. “Unfortunately, it’s a bit more of a new reality, right, for com- munities across Canada,” Mr. Goodeve said. In his family’s case, he said: “It can be hard on the kids, just the uncertainty. It’s really important to make sure that they all feel safe and they’re being updated, and people are communicating with them.” Seven fires are burning more than 1,119 hectares near Kimber- ley, an eastern British Columbia resort town, as wildfires contin- ue to rage in other parts of the province. Boston Bar has been under an evacuation order since Tuesday and the village of Clin- ton has been placed on evacua- tion alert as of Wednesday. Despite a relatively quiet start to the summer, hot and dry con- ditions followed by lightning strikes sparked several wildfires
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resident Donald Trump has direct- ed the full powers of his office to changing how elections are held in the United States. He has pressed forward new legislation, the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, better knownbyitscatchyacronym,theSAVEAct. HehascajoledandbrowbeatenCongressto passthebill,whichwouldobligatevotersto show identification and prove their citi- zenship, even withholding his signature from other bills until lawmakers pass it. Last week, he devoted a rare prime-time address to demanding what he called ur- gently needed reforms to address a “crisis of election security.” Those reforms, critics say, would amounttothemostrestrictivevotinglegis- lation ever enacted by Congress. It has not yet passed, in part thanks to opposition from a handful of Republican senators. Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski recently wrote that it would create “chaos before the No- vember elections.” Nonetheless, Republicans in Congress are now working to pass elements of it as part of a filibuster-proof budget bill that willalmostcertainlyengendernewaccusa- tions that the country’s conservative lead- ership is trying to stifle democracy. Mr. Trump, after all, has said the SAVE Act would “guarantee the midterms” for Re- publicans. But a number of the bill’s provisions are broadly popular in the U.S. − and some would not look out of place in Canada. Re- publicans who have sought greater scruti- nyofvoterssaytheysimplywantcommon- sense checks, no more than a store verify- ingabeerbuyer’sageoranairlineverifying a traveller’s identity. “There’s a vast amount of Americans thatwanttohavefaithintheirelectionsys- tem,” said Brad Farrin, a Republican state senator in Maine who has backed a half- dozen bills demanding voter identification in that state. Without proper checks, he ar- gued, “it disenfranchises some folks from voting, because they think that the system is broken.” Canadian experience suggests that grea- ter scrutiny of voter ID is not incompatible with the exercise of elections. It also sug- gests that at least some of Mr. Trump’s de- mands−inprinciple,ifnotinprecisedetail − would be uncontroversial north of the border. “Most people think that voting, while a right that’s protected in our Charter, is still something for which we want a great de- greeofsecurity,”saidAndreaLawlor,anas- sociate professor at McMaster University who specializes in Canadian election law. Canadian voters are generally obliged to show government-issued photo ID before marking a ballot − a driver’s licence or oth- er document with picture and address. A secondary option allows for the presenta- tion of two documents from a list of more than 50, which can include a bank state- ment,liquoridentitycard,correspondence from a school or a letter of confirmation from a shelter or soup kitchen. A third op- tion allows for someone without proper identification to be vouched for by some-
Smoke rises over the Matthew Creek wildfire, west of Kimberly, B.C., on Wednesday. Lightning strikes have sparked several wildfires throughout the province. BC WILDFIRE SERVICE VIA REUTERS
throughout the province. B.C. is expected to face a wildfire sea- son this year as harsh as some of the worst on record, with weath- er projections appearing to mim- ic the devastation in 2017, 2018 and 2021. The evacuation alert for the East Kootenay city of Kimberley, issued July 19, is a good sign in Mr. Goodeve’s eyes, who works with communities across Canada in economic development and urban planning. He said giving the city of around 9,000 a “wake- up call” is an opportunity to make sure everyone is prepared. Conditions in Kimberley wors- ened Wednesday afternoon as
The Trump administration’s Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act would obligate voters to show identification and prove their citizenship. MEGAN VARNER/GETTY IMAGES
one with it. “The idea of enfranchisement in Canada has long been animated by the principle of being non-restrictive against people who have the legal entitlement to vote, even where their life circumstances may make producing standard ID a little bit more challenging,” Prof. Lawlor said. Attestation of citizenship is also re- quired, although proof is assessed differ- ently. Canadians who register to vote by checkingaboxontheirtaxesmustattestto being citizens. Voters are not required to provide any proofofcitizenship,anhonoursystemthat recognizes the difficulty many would have in producing a birth certificate or passport. Instead, Elections Canada compares its na- tional register of electors with information from Immigration, Refugees and Citizen- ship Canada “and removes any non-citi- zens,” said Clare MacDonald, a spokesper- son for Elections Canada. Similar checks are done after an election is completed. Even in the U.S., millions of voters must prove both identity and citizenship. Arizo- na has required voters in state and local elections to show documented proof of ci- tizenship since 2004; those who can’t can only vote in federal elections. But that group amounts to just 0.7 per cent of the electorate, in part because the state has built its architecture of identity around the requirement. Proof of citizen- ship or residency is a requirement for any driver’s licence issued after 1996. “We didn’t just require proof of citizen- ship.WealsosaidwhenyougototheMotor Vehicle Division, we’ll make it easy to pro- vide proof,” said Josh Heywood, who workedasaspecialprojectsmanagerinthe Maricopa County Recorder’s Office. That county,whichencompassesmuchofPhoe- nix, is one of the largest voting districts in the country. “The devil’s kind of in the details,” he said. Those details form the heart of critics’ concerns regarding the requirements in the SAVE Act that Mr. Trump wants to im- pose nationwide. Its photo identification demands, for example, are stricter than those imposed by every state outside of Ohio. Its requirements for proof of citizen-
warmer temperatures, stronger winds and abundant receptive fuel increased fire behaviour and smoke production. “There’s a lot of ashes and burnt materials that were land- ing in the community. People felt a sense of unease. You feel uncomfortable,” Mr. Goodeve said. The elevated fire activity may continue if storms bring light- ning followed by little to no pre- cipitation, said Paula Walbauer, the fire information officer for the region. In addition, higher winds will increase fire condi- tions. This situation is expected to
ship would create a sudden surge in de- mand for identity documents that an esti- mated 12 per cent of registered voters − morethan20millionpeople−currentlydo not have. “Introducing major change to electoral laws months before an election is creating havoc,” said Jean-Pierre Kingsley, a former chief electoral officer of Canada who later served as chief executive officer of the In- ternational Foundation for Electoral Sys- tems. Election authorities in the U.S. are al- ready “underfunded,” he noted. (Elections Canada, by contrast, enjoys statutory spending authority, empowering it to spend what is needed. “It’s brilliant. It has given us the best electoral system in the world,” Mr. Kingsley said.) Besides, other states have discovered that demanding proof of citizenship can hurt more than help. In Kansas, such a re- quirement was struck down by a judge af- ter it barred tens of thousands of people from registering to vote, far in excess of the estimated number of non-citizens on vot- ing rolls. In Utah, authorities spent more than a year scrutinizing the state’s entire voters’ list. They found just 27 non-citizens out of two million registered voters. “Everyelectionsafeguardhasacost.The questioniswhetherthatcostisproportion- al to the problem you’re trying to solve,” Mr. Heywood said. And “if you look at the research, it’s pretty clear that non-citizen voting is astonishingly rare.” In Washington, Republican leaders in Congress have continued to press the SAVE Act forward. On Wednesday, they tucked elements of the bill into budget legislation, as Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said Mr. Trump’s “patience is running out.” Elsewhere in the country, though, even some Republicans say it’s not worth pursu- ing some of the bill’s measures, such as de- manding proof of citizenship. “Mypersonalopinion:Iwouldleavethat onthesidelineatthisstage,”saidMr.Farrin, the Maine state senator. Better simply to confirm the identity of voters, he said. That, at the very least, “would suggest that you are here in the United States legal- ly.”
continue through Saturday eve- ning, when a cold front may bring temperatures down and re- duce fire activity in the area, Ms. Walbauer said. Lower temper- atures increase the moisture content of potential fuel. Ms. Walbauer said seven hel- icopters and 35 firefighters are working to put out the fires in the region. Kimberley was also placed un- der an evacuation alert in 2018, when wildfires encroached on the community, requiring an evacuation order for residents of nearby St. Mary Lake. Clinton’s several hundred resi- dents received evacuation alerts
Wednesday, because of the more- than-10,000-hectare fire burning north of the village. Northwest of Kamloops and more than 400 kilometres away from Kimberley, the fire has caused a patchwork of evacuation orders and alerts. Mayor Roland Stanke said in an interview Thursday that the fire is getting dangerously close to Clinton’s watershed, threaten- ing a supply that is already under major restrictions. “If it gets into the watershed, well, then we’re in major trou- ble,” Mr. Stanke said. Ashes were falling everywhere in the com- munity, he said, and the smoke made it hard to breathe and talk. Nearly 100 km south in Lyt- ton, a village largely destroyed by wildfire five years ago, tem- peratures were hitting record highs. North of where fires are raging in the Fraser Valley around Bos- ton Bar, Lytton hit 41.2 C on Wednesday, the highest temper- ature recorded on that date in the village since 2006, according to Environment Canada. Despite the record high, temperatures fell far short of the 49.6 C record- ed in Lytton on June 29, 2021, a day before it was razed by fire. The agency says Lytton is among 12 B.C. communities that set daily heat records on Wednesday, with Cache Creek and Osoyoos both pushing past 39 degrees. In Kimberley, Mr. Goodeve said he and other residents were staying resilient. “That’s kind of our composi- tion,” he said. “We’re looking out for our neighbours and making sure everyone is safe.”
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ONTARIO POLICE SEIZE NEARLY 1.7 TONNES OF DRUGS IN CROSS-BORDER INVESTIGATION
WINDSOR, ONT. Nearly 1.7 tonnes of drugs including sus- pected cocaine were seized as part of a cross-border traffick- ing investigation, police an- nounced in Windsor, Ont., on Thursday. Investigators from local and provincial police forces are touting the operation as one of the single largest drug busts in the province’s history. A criminal network relied on commercial trucks to move the drugs hidden inside legitimate shipments, police alleged. The seized drugs include 973 kilo- grams of what authorities suspect to be cocaine and 660 kilograms of suspected meth- amphetamine. Twenty-one people are facing a total of 102 charges, and two suspects from Windsor are still wanted, officials said. The bust involved multiple forces, including Windsor po- lice, Ontario Provincial Police and the RCMP, as well as the U.S. Drug Enforcement Admin- istration. Searches were carried out in Windsor, Brampton, Markham and other communi- ties. “This thing has got multiple tentacles throughout North America, let alone just Windsor and Ontario,” Windsor police Chief Jason Crowley said at Thursday’s news conference. Police said they also seized 17 firearms, including an anti- tank rifle, and ammunition. The drug and weapons traf- ficking “runs very deep, and it’s disturbing, to be honest,” Chief Crowley said. The Canada Border Services Agency said it has seized more than 5,500 kilograms of illegal drugs in southern Ontario so far this year. The drug bust announce- ment comes days before the long-awaited Gordie Howe International Bridge connecting Ontario and Michigan is set to open. Asked at Thursday’s news conference whether the bridge’s opening could spur more drug smuggling in the Windsor-Essex area, an official with the Cana- da Border Services Agency said it will be “very interesting to see” how traffic patterns change. The bridge is equipped with advanced drug detection equip- ment and will be heavily staffed, said Michael Prosia, CBSA’s regional director general for Southern Ontario, adding that police are well-positioned to prevent drug trafficking. CBSA staff have spent years preparing for the opening of the new bridge, Mr. Prosia said. THE CANADIAN PRESS
The U.S. President says on social media that the deal is subject to the Saudis joining the Abraham Accords
AAMER MADHANI COLLIN BINKLEY MICHELLE L. PRICE WASHINGTON
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to add a con- dition to the newly signed agree- ment with Saudi Arabia for a civilian nuclear program, saying the deal would require the king- dom to normalize its relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords. When the deal was announced Wednesday, neither the U.S. En- ergy Department nor the Saudi government made any mention of it being contingent on the kingdom’s relations with Israel. Mr. Trump’s social-media post a day later asserting that the agreement was subject to the Saudis joining the accords was unexpected and almost certain to complicate any final approval. The accords approved in 2020 ex- panded the number of Arab and Muslim-majority nations with diplomatic ties with Israel. Getting Saudi Arabia to join would be a monumental diplo- matic achievement. The Saudis have previously made clear that normalizing relations with Israel would first require the establish- ment of a clear path for Palesti- nian statehood. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman receives life sentence
ELLEN SCHMIDT CLAUDIA LAUER MINNEAPOLIS
Friends and family of Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman said the man sentenced Thursday to two life terms plus 40 years after pleading guilty to her murder failed to eliminate her legacy but caused enduring fear and fury as he changed their lives forever. Fellow lawmakers and survivors of the shooting spoke Thursday at the sentencing hearing for Vance Boelter, the man who pleaded guilty last month to federal charges relat- ed to the killing of former House Speaker, Ms. Hortman, and her husband, Mark, as well as critically wounding state Sen- ator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. Mr. Boelter, 59, agreed to plead guilty in June, almost a year after the Minneapolis-area attacks, so federal prosecu- tors would not seek the death penalty. Mark Hortman’s father and siblings voiced anger that he could not be sen- tenced to death. U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim said it was “the long- est sentence I have imposed after hearing thousands of cases over the years, but I do believe it is deserved.” In court Thursday, Mr. Hoffman said he and his family are constantly reminded of the extraordinary violence of that night, even in the mundane details of day-to-day life. He said they don’t receive mail at home anymore, they have installed solid steel doors for protection and they have changed how they do everyday tasks because of their injuries. “The defendant looked me in the eyes and pulled the trigger. The defendant looked at my wife and chose to do the same,” Mr. Hoffman said. “My wife and I now live with injuries. We live with our bodies remembering the gunfire.” Yvette Hoffman said she has been too traumatized to work since the attack in their home, and that she sees a therapist weekly. Mr. Boelter admitted in court last month that he spent months identifying and stalking his targets before driving to their homes disguised as a police officer with the intention of killing them. The killings sparked the largest police search in state history. Democratic State Representative Kristin Bahner was one of two other legislators whose homes Mr. Boelter visited that night, but she and her family were on vacation. Ms. Bahner said the shootings had left her shaken. Melissa Hortman’s mother and father and the Hortmans’ children changed the tone of the statements when they spoke, remembering them as attentive, loving parents and grandparents and people who had a positive impact on thousands of lives. Sophie Hortman, their daughter, described in vivid detail having to say goodbye to Gilbert, the golden retriever, also shot by Mr. Boelter but who was still alive when they arrived at the veterinary hospital. She talked about the bedtime rou- tine her mother had with Gilbert, who failed his service dog test because he was too friendly, and the care and love she gave him. Federal defender Manny Atwal spoke only briefly after the victim impact statements Thursday, saying Mr. Boelter showed remorse for his actions by pleading guilty and accepting the life sentences. Mr. Boelter remained silent and sat extremely still for most of the hearing, showing little emotion or reaction to the anguish expressed by the survivors and family mem- bers. “To every person I have caused loss, pain, heartache, con- fusion, sadness, shame or loneliness, I am truly sorry,” Mr. Boelter said. Mr. Boelter also faces state charges, including two counts of murder, four counts of attempted murder, impersonating a police officer and animal cruelty. Mr. Hoffman and his fam- ily filed a personal injury lawsuit against Mr. Boelter in April. Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said in a state- ment Thursday that Mr. Boelter’s state prosecution would move forward immediately noting a first appearance is scheduled for Aug. 3.
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has rejected the idea of Palesti- nian statehood as being untena- ble for his country’s security. The Republican President also said the pact does not allow for enrichment of uranium. Non- proliferation experts have raised concerns that the deal fails to include guardrails to prevent enrichment of uranium to weap- ons-grade levels. Mr. Trump said the agreement “will be approved, but is totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining the very respected and successful Abraham Accords.” He added that the U.S. “is not opposed to Civil (Non-Enriched) Nuclear Facilities.” When asked by a reporter why the condition was not men- tioned in the initial announce- ment, White House press secre- tary Karoline Leavitt said the President was the “final deal- maker” and has called on Saudi Arabia to join the accords “on numerous occasions.” The Saudi Embassy in Wash- ington declined to comment Thursday on Mr. Trump’s asser- tions about the deal. Mr. Netanyahu’s office in a statement applauded the pros- pect of Saudi Arabia joining the accords as a “historic leap for- ward for peace in the Middle East.” The statement made no mention of the deal to bolster Saudi’s civil nuclear program. Mr. Trump has sought to build on the accords, which also for- malized commercial ties be- tween Israel and some Arab and Muslim-majority nations. Saudi Arabia is the most important Arab power in the Middle East,
U.S. President Donald Trump, left, meets with Crown Prince and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman at the White House in November. SAUL LOEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
and Mr. Trump believes the kingdom joining the accords is critical to establishing long-term stability in the region. The new nuclear deal is expected to last 30 years and involve U.S. firms in the pro- gram’s development. The agree- ment could allow for the build- ing of a uranium-enrichment facility in Saudi Arabia following a joint U.S.-Saudi study, accord- ing to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity. The pact is to be submitted to Congress for review, according to the U.S. and Saudi governments. The deal does not include the International Atomic Energy Agency’s “additional protocol,” which would allow for more monitoring, inspections and
A resident and rescuers remove debris from an apartment building damaged during a Russian air strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Thursday. REUTERS
‘senseless war’ but no quick deal ahead
MICHELLE L. PRICE JIM GOMEZ MANILA, PHILIPPINES
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Ru- bio said Thursday that the Trump administration is poised to help end the “senseless war” in Uk- raine but acknowledged there is no quick path to a deal, saying di- plomacywillrequiresustainedef- fort and new ideas. Mr. Rubio, who held talks with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in the Philippine capital, alluded to how U.S.-mediated talks have stalled. He called them “unsuccessful or at least unfruit- ful” in the past but insisted that U.S. President Donald Trump was committed to the work “if condi- tions and factors have changed to make that possible.” “That’s been the challenge – an end that both sides can accept,” Mr. Rubio told reporters. “We’ve tried and we’ll continue to try to see if we can, you know, find a middle ground that brings this about. And we’re prepared to play that role if the opportunity pre- sents itself.” Mr. Rubio met Mr. Lavrov and several other leaders, including China’s Foreign Minister, on the sidelines of an annual gathering by foreign ministers of the Associ- ation of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila. America’s top diplomat said the U.S. is focused on Asia even as it steps up fighting with Iran, seeks a pathway to end Russia’s war in Ukraine and pressures the Cuban government to make changes. Three days of closed-door talks that started Tuesday have centred on the escalating fighting in the Middle East and tensions in the South China Sea, where a new
verification, according to a sec- ond person familiar with the agreement. The oil-rich kingdom’s Energy Ministry on Wednesday said the agreement bolsters “efforts to diversify energy sources, ad- vance cutting-edge technologies, and expand opportunities for co- operation and investment in ways that serve the mutual inter- ests of the two friendly coun- tries.” Enrichment is not an automat- ic path to a nuclear weapon – a nation also must master other steps, including the use of syn- chronized high explosives, for instance. But it does open the door to weaponization, which has fuelled concerns over Iran’s program. Mr. Trump has talked up his push to extend the accords, but
clash flared Thursday. “There’s always going to be a concern that America is so fo- cused on one place that it can’t fo- cus on another,” Mr. Rubio said. But he noted that the U.S. re- mains “engaged in Asia every sin- gle day,” citing strong partner- ships and economic ties across the region. After meeting with Mr. Rubio, Mr. Lavrov largely ignored ques- tions from reporters. The Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow said he emphasized to Mr. Rubio “the unacceptability of further arm- ing” Ukraine and accused Eu- ropean countries of pursuing Russia’s “strategic defeat.” Mr. Lavrov reiterated Russia’s readiness for “a political and dip- lomatic resolution of the con- flict” and commitment to agree- ments reached at a summit be- tween Russian President Vladi- mir Putin and Mr. Trump in Alaska last year, the Russian min- istry said. But Mr. Rubio said “we’ll have to find new suggestions and new ideas” that are acceptable to both sides. There has been no change to Washington’s military support for Ukraine, with weapons being purchased by NATO allies and transferred to the war-ravaged country, he said. Separately on Thursday, Ukrai- nian President Volodymyr Zelen- sky reiterated that his priority is finding a way to get back to nego- tiations. U.S. efforts to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine war have been overshadowed by the out- break of the Iran war earlier this year. Renewed strikes by Wash- ington and Tehran have been in- tensifying after an interim cease- fire deal collapsed. Mr. Trump has warned Iran
the aftermath of Israel’s war in Gaza and the nearly five-month- old U.S. and Israel war against Iran have complicated his efforts. The agreements have proven unpopular in certain signatory countries such as Morocco and Bahrain, sparking widespread protests. Still, the Trump administra- tion remains optimistic that an agreement with Saudi Arabia on joining the accords can be sealed by the end of Mr. Trump’s second term. The White House and Saudi Arabia have not made public the text of the nuclear co-operation agreement, known as a “123 agreement,” alongside what the Trump administration described as a “bilateral safeguards agree- ment” that was signed Wednes- day by U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Saudi Minister of Energy Abdulaziz bin Salman. But it already faces scrutiny from Congress, some Israeli offi- cials and nuclear experts. As details of the deal emerged Wednesday, opposition on Capi- tol Hill and elsewhere began to snowball, with Republicans and Democrats both questioning the wisdom of the agreement. In addition, conservative commen- tators who have generally sup- ported Mr. Trump’s polices asked why the president would give Saudi Arabia such a deal without getting anything in return. Then on Thursday, Mr. Trump abruptly announced that the deal is contingent on the Saudis joining the accords.
that the U.S. will destroy one Ira- nian bridge or power plant each time Iran shoots at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi respon- ded by saying the country’s de- fence doctrine was an “eye for an eye.” “The President’s policy is a head for an eye,” Mr. Rubio said. “They will pay a very heavy price for the things they’re doing.” Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong renewed her coun- try’s alarm over the Chinese na- vy’s recent test-launch of a mis- sile from a nuclear-powered sub- marine in the region, saying the lack of notification to the Philip- pines and Pacific nations where the missile flew over and landed was destabilizing. China has defended its actions, saying the launch was part of an- nual exercises and that it gave countries in the area appropriate notice in advance. In Beijing, the Chinese coast guard said it took necessary mea- sures, including monitoring and blocking, to drive away two Phi- lippine ships that disregarded re- peated warnings from the Chi- nese side in a fresh confrontation Thursday. China said its oper- ations were professional and law- ful and urged the Philippines to stop its provocative actions in- fringing on Chinese territory. The Philippine coast guard, however, said the two fishing ves- sels were harassed while bringing fuel aid to Filipino fishermen in the Scarborough shoal. It said a Chinese coast guard ship tried to spray one vessel with a powerful water cannon but missed, calling these “illegal, coercive and ag- gressive actions.”
disrupts Delhi commuters and businesses
Protesters spearheaded by the Cockroach Janta Party demanding resignation of India’s Education Minister
SAURABH SHARMA ANUSHREE FADNAVIS SUNIL KATARIA
Commuters’ journeys and busi- nesses have been disrupted in In- dia’s national capital as author- ities have shut metro stations and blocked mobile internet services amid protests demanding the Education Minister’s resignation over exam leaks. A traders’ association has urged all establishments in the business and commercial hub Connaught Place – adjoining the Jantar Mantar protest site in cen- tral Delhi – to close early because of the “critical situation.” The internet curbs have hit small businesses particularly hard in a city where the bulk of payments are made through the Unified Payments Interface on mobile phones. Rakesh Yadav, 38, who runs a food stall, said his daily earnings have dropped from 5,000 rupees ($73) to barely 500 rupees ($7) since most people no longer carry cash. “Make the Education Minister resign ... at least don’t destroy our livelihood,” he said. Taxi driver Umesh Kumar, 24, has similarly seen his earnings fall to just 200 rupees ($3) a day, as he can no longer pick up pas- sengers through his usual ride- hailing app, while those who flag him down rarely carry cash. Reuters reporters were unable to access mobile internet in the area on Thursday evening, in- cluding at the protest site, at pop-
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U.S. will pay to fix damaged boats, Trump says
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“If they do this again, the U.S. will hold Iran responsible, in that the Houthis are a Surro- gate and/or Proxy of Iran, and major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. As the rhetoric escalated, so did the eco- nomic fallout. The price of Brent crude oil, the international standard, spiked more than 6 per cent Thursday, to about US$100 a barrel. That is the highest level since May, before the two sides reached a preliminary peace agreement last month that has since col- lapsed. Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi of Iraq, which has close ties to both the U.S. and Iran, was in Tehran on Thursday to call for peace and dia- logue, and he promised not to allow Iraqi ter- ritory to be used for attacks on Iran, his office said. Mr. Al-Zaidi met with Mr. Trump earlier this month in Washington. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned Thursday that the region is being pulled “into an ever-widening circle of con- frontation” with one crisis feed- ing another and every escalation triggering the next. “Diplomacy is the only way forward,” Mr. Guterres told the UN Security Council. He called for Pakistan’s efforts to mediate an end to the war to be strength- ened. The Houthis’ SABA news agen- cy said the rebels had struck two tankers, the Encelia and the Lay- la, in the Red Sea, causing fires on both. There were no reports of casualties. It was the first reported Houthi attack on a vessel since they an- nounced a blockade of Saudi-linked shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait earlier this week in retaliation for the kingdom’s blockade on Yemen and a recent attack on the interna- tional airport in Yemen’s rebel-held capital, Sanaa. Bab el-Mandeb, at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, is a vital shipping choke- point connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. Around 12 per cent of the world’s trade, in- cluding a fourth of global container traffic, passes through there, moving between Europe and Asia via Egypt’s Suez Canal. The state-run Saudi Press Agency reported an attack set the Encelia ablaze overnight in the Red Sea. It did not mention the Layla. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Oper- ations Center said it received a report of a tanker being struck by “an unknown projec- tile” 130 kilometres southwest of Al Shuqaiq, Saudi Arabia, in the Red Sea. The Houthi attacks put at risk oil shipments from Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu port on the Red Sea and present a “double whammy” on top of the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, said maritime data and analysis firm Lloyd’s List Intelligence. Saudi Arabia has diverted millions of bar-
The Houthi attacks put at risk oil shipments from Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu port on the Red Sea and present a ‘double whammy’ on top of the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, said maritime data and analysis firm Lloyd’s List Intelligence.
Cockroach Janta Party supporters demonstrate at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Thursday, demanding the resignation of India’s Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged exam irregularities. SAJJAD HUSSAIN/ AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
rels a day of oil exports to Yanbu via an over- land pipeline as the war has bottled up the Persian Gulf. The Houthi threat “raises questions on the viability of this route,” Lloyd’s said in slides accompanying an online webinar Thursday. The rebels say they are blockading Saudi Arabia, but during their announced blockade of Israel at the height of the war in Gaza, they targeted many vessels with little or no connec- tion to that conflict, disrupting global trade. Iran says it has the right to manage traffic and potentially charge fees in the Strait of Hormuz, which was open to all toll-free before the war. It has attacked ships using a route through the strait that is overseen by U.S. forces and intended to be outside Tehran’s control. Mr. Trump said on social media Thursday that sanctioned Iranian funds in the posses- sion of the U.S. will cover the expense of fixing boats damaged in the war. “Please let this statement serve to repre- sent, until further notice, that from this point forth, any and all damages done to Ships, Car- go, or anything related thereto, will be paid for by Iranian Mon- ey that the United States has in its possession, and controls,” Mr. Trump said. It was unclear what legal mechanisms Mr. Trump would use to access and spend the funds, but he said that doing so would be “the fair and equitable thing to do.” In response to Iran’s attacks, the U.S. began the widening campaign of strikes across Iran and restored a naval blockade of Iran’s ports. U.S. Central Com- mand said it has redirected about a dozen commercial ves- sels and disabled one since the blockade re- sumed. The war of words has also escalated. Ira- nian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran would adopt an “eye for an eye” pol- icy on U.S. strikes against its infrastructure. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio retorted that Mr. Trump’s policy is “a head for an eye.” “The price will continue to get higher every single night until they come to their senses,” Mr. Rubio told reporters while travelling in the Philippines for a regional summit. Iran’s health ministry said Thursday that 55 people have been killed and 629 have been wounded since renewed U.S. air strikes began on June 27. Iran has responded to U.S. attacks by target- ing energy infrastructure and desalination plants providing drinking water in parched neighbouring Gulf countries. Polls have shown the war is unpopular among Americans, a fact reflected in the nar- row passage Thursday of a resolution in the U.S. House to halt the war. Though a handful of Republicans crossed party lines to support the measure, the vote remained largely sym- bolic.
ular five-star hotels, and in the central business district. Spokespeople for the govern- ment and the telecom depart- ment did not immediately re- spond to requests for comment from Reuters. Two sources said the telecoms companies had complied with a government order to disable mo- bile data. Meanwhile, the author- ities have said some metro sta- tions have been closed and there are also regular announcements
on the trains. Dolly Haldar, a finance profes- sional, has seen her commute to work disrupted by the metro sta- tion closest to her office being shut. “Our commute costs more, we are not able to reach our office on time, there is more rush on the way. Obviously we will be frus- trated,” she told Reuters. The Cockroach Janta Party, which is spearheading the move- ment, says people will come for
withdraws subpoenas for New York Times reporters
MICHAEL R. SISAK ERIC TUCKER LARRY NEUMEISTER NEW YORK
Criticized by a federal judge for sloppy legal work, the govern- ment on Thursday grudgingly withdrew subpoenas that would have compelled three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources for articles about U.S. President Donald Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet. ThewithdrawalsinU.S.District Court followed a remarkable back and forth between a visibly irrita- ted Justice Arun Subramanian and government lawyers. They come at a time when the Trump administration is vigorously go- ing after news organizations whose reporting and coverage it doesn’t like – and also trying to crack down on leaks inside the government. The government’s retreat in the face of vigorous legal opposi- tion and a stern reprimand from a judge marked the latest instance of the Justice Department pulling back on its aggressive efforts to compel journalists to identify their sources before a grand jury. The administration recently withdrew similar subpoenas that sought to compel testimony in Virginia from journalists for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal related to separate national security coverage. Justice Subramanian said he otherwise would have granted the newspaper’s request to reject the subpoenas because laws and regulations pertaining to subpoe- nas served on journalists main- tain that they should be issued as a last resort in an investigation. “Subpoenas are the last step, not the first step, but the last step,” the judge said, citing rules set to protect against violations of the First Amendment. He said the government’s actions had turned the law and the regulations “on its head.” “When you see something like this, if this were a civil proceed- ing, what I would normally do is ask the parties to show causes why sanctions should not be is- sued,” the judge said, referencing punishment for lawyers for egre- gious actions. After the hearing, the Justice Department lashed out at the judge in a statement, saying he “threatened our attorneys with sanctions unless subpoenas were
the protest despite the station closures. Anant,21,wasamongthoseen- during the metro disruptions to join the sit-in for the first time on Thursday. “A good education system is the bare minimum, we should go [to protest] ... for our own future,” he told Reuters while travelling in a train to find an alternate route to the protest site.
withdrawn, and blocked us from presenting the meticulous proc- ess of this investigation.” “The grand jury has a right to hear testimony from all material witnesses in a federal criminal in- vestigation. This judge’s conduct overrides clear long-standing principles and common sense – blocking the grand jury from re- ceiving core evidence in a nation- al security investigation,” the statement said. “Make no mistake,” it added, “this investigation remains ongo- ing, and we will pursue justice against those threatening nation- alsecuritybyleakingclassifiedin- formation, a serious federal crime.” Justice Subramanian noted that with protections for journal- ists at stake, the government was required to ensure it could not obtain what it needed from any other sources before issuing sub- poenas to journalists. A Justice Department lawyer, Sean Buckley, cast the govern- ment’s missteps as inadvertent errors and said “no one was try- ing to pull a fast one.” Mr. Buckley apologized for other subpoenas that sought records for phone numbersbelongingtoonereport- er’s mother and two of the jour- nalists’ spouses. “That was an error, judge, which we own,” Mr. Buckley said. “It was a consequence of trying to move quickly.” “These things are starting to pile up,” Justice Subramanian said, becoming increasingly testy. The hearing was held publicly despite efforts by the Trump ad- ministration to keep secret the li- tigation spawned by subpoenas it served on the Times’ journalists to try to get them to divulge their sources. The newspaper’s lawyers had challenged the validity of the grand jury subpoenas, along with subpoenas issued for phone re- cords of several Times journalists and some of their relatives. Se- nior Times officials, including the paper’s managing editor and gen- eral counsel, sat in the gallery watching during Thursday’s pro- ceedings. David McCraw, the Times’ chief newsroom lawyer, said after the hearing in a statement that it “was an important affirmation of our country’s commitment to a free press.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney, centre, addresses Canada’s premiers with Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, left, and Prince Edward Island Premier Rob Lantz during first ministers meetings in Charlottetown on Thursday. DARREN CALABRESE/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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“We don’t need to respond in advance. In fact, I think it would be counterproductive at this stage to respond in advance,” Mr. Carney said. Meanwhile, the Trump administration on Thursday said it would move forward with another tariff of between 10 to 12.5 per cent on dozens of countries in its latest at- tempt to maintain a baseline levy on most of the U.S.’s trading partners. Thetariff,whichwouldamountto10per centforCanada,replacesatemporarytariff imposed in February, which itself replaced the “Liberation Day” tariff announced last year under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). That tariff wasruledillegalbytheU.S.SupremeCourt. The latest tariff, which takes effect on Friday, is being imposed under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, ostensibly to puni- sh trading partners for not cracking down on imported goods made using forced la- bour. It represents a continuing effort by Mr. Trump to find legal authorities to fulfill hispolicyofacross-the-boardtariffstopro- tect U.S. industry from competition by for- eign imports. Mr. Carney on Thursday described the Section 301 tariffs as merely a “different justification” for imposing the same levies that Mr. Trump tried to put in place under IEEPA. “It’s not unexpected what’s happening there. It’s part of the bigger puzzle,” he said. The latest tariffs will not apply to goods traded under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement or to any oil and gas, meaning Canadian goods will mostly be shielded from their effect. Mr. Trump’s other tariffs on Canada, both the autos and metals tar- iffs announced last year and the 50-per- cent tariffs set to take effect next month, apply to USMCA-covered goods. Just how thorny the relationship with the U.S. has become was underscored by Erin O’Toole, a member of Mr. Carney’s Ad- visory Committee on Canada-U.S. Eco-
Earlier this year, Ontario Premier Doug Ford attempted to block the rally, arguing it was a “breeding ground for hate and antisemi- tism.” But organizers denied this, and civil liberties groups ex- pressed concerns about tram- pling people’s rights to protest. The 2024 rally in Toronto hap- pened less than a year after Ha- mas’s deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which was followed by Israel’s invasion of Gaza. Subse- quent demonstrations in support of the Palestinian people have triggeredheateddebateaboutthe limits of public discourse and free speech because they often in- clude intense denouncements of Israel that critics say cross the line into antisemitism. The photo of Mr. Hajahmad at the 2024 rally showed him wear- ing what appeared to be a belt strapped over his chest contain- ing canisters fitted with pull rings. In an e-mail, Mohamed El Rashi- dy, Mr. Hajahmad’s lawyer, told The Globe and Mail that his client was wearing an Enola Gaye Hang Ten Belt. The belt is a device used to hold smoke grenades for paint- ball or airsoft, according to the company’s website. The photo of Mr. Hajahmad was shared widely on social media and elicited a strong reac- tion. At the time, Conservative dep- uty leader Melissa Lantsman, in a social-media post, described the device as a “pretend suicide vest.” Former independent MP Kevin Vuong likewise called it a “mock suicide vest,” and B’nai Brith Can- ada, a Jewish advocacy group, posted a video containing the
nomic Relations. In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Mr. O’Toole said that the Prime Minister, other cabinet ministers and Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. were with Mr. Trump at the FIFA World Cup final the day before the President announced the new tariffs and that there was no heads up. “It was kind of like a North American mini summit at the margins of the World Cup,” Mr. O’Toole said. “We used to call this relationship the Three Amigos, right? You’d think there’d be a courtesy to say we have some more tariff news coming, but no.” The newly threatened tariffs are at a dif- ferent scale than others, Mr. O’Toole said, andwouldmakeitverydifficultforCanada to avoid a recession if they are imposed on Aug. 19. For Canada to be successful, Mr. O’Toole said the premiers need to unite be- hindMr.CarneyandallowthePrimeMinis- ter to be the sole spokesperson in order to avoid mixed messages or derailing talks. At his press conference, Mr. Carney said he and the premiers are united as Canada navigates what the Prime Minister called “the latest in a series of unilateral and un- warranted trade actions” from Mr. Trump. Butprovincialleadershavesplinteredin the past over how forceful a position to take with the U.S. and there were hints of that again this week. The new 50-per-cent tariffs cover a wide range of goods but hit provincial econo- mies unequally. For example, Alberta and Saskatchewan will see almost no effect on their exports, but the tariffs would put a tight squeeze on B.C., Quebec and Ontario. That unequal economic impact demar- cated the positions the premiers took at their annual summer gathering in PEI this week. Ontario’s Doug Ford and British Co- lumbia’s David Eby were most forceful in their demands for a response to the new tariffs. Saskatchewan and Alberta, who are thesoleprovincesthatstillallowthesaleof U.S. liquor, have long advocated for diplo- macy. Mr. Ford, though, was an outlier this week with how far he went in advocating
Pro-Palestinian groups gather outside a downtown Toronto hotel in 2024. COLE BURSTON/THE CANADIAN PRESS
photo of Mr. Hajahmad with a caption calling the event a “hate- filled” rally. The photo was also the subject of a video and column by Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley, who calledMr.Hajahmad’sgarba“rep- lica suicide vest.” In July, 2024, Mr. Hajahmad sued Mr. Lilley and the Sun’s own- er, Postmedia Network, for $35,000 in damages. Later, in No- vember, 2025, Mr. Hajahmad filed a libel suit against Ms. Lantsman, Mr. Vuong and B’nai Brith Canada seeking $18,500. Mr. Hajahmad, in his state- ments of claim, says he is Palesti- nian by origin and describes him- selfasarecognizableindividualin the Palestinian solidarity move- ment. Mr. El Rashidy, his lawyer, said the allegations his client was wearing a fake suicide bomber vest “are completely false.” Bothlawsuitssaythecriticisms of him were defamatory and in-
for retaliation. The Premier again floated the idea that Canada could use its energy supply as leverage. He tried to go it alone last year by putting a surcharge on Ontario electricityexportsbutbackeddownwithin a day amid escalating tariff threats from the U.S. This week, the Ontario Premier said, “We could dismantle the U.S. if we wanted to, if we all work together.” He pointed to potash and oil exports as key levers. He accused Mr. Trump of turning on the Prime Minister like a “rabid dog” with Monday’s tariff salvo. Late Thursday, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told CBC News that putting energy on the table would be a “a very dumb deci- sion” because the U.S. can shut down Line 5,whichshipsoilthroughtheU.S.toSouth- western Ontario. “I don’t think you go into a negotiation promising to punch some- one in the nose. You go into a negotiation talking about a win-win, and I think that that’s more the Prime Minister’s style, and I’m glad to see that,” she told CBC’s Power and Politics with David Cochrane. Mr. Eby, too, cautioned against how provinces retaliate. “Volunteering some- body else’s resources for the fight” with the Americans is not something he would do, he told reporters after the meeting. Where the premiers were unanimous was in a call for more transparency from Ottawa as it negotiates with Washington and timely communications. That was un- derscored by Quebec’s Christine Fréchette Thursday who demanded that her prov- ince have access to Ottawa’s negotiating plan. Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer criticized the Prime Minister for a lack of results more than a year into his mandate. “He gives concession after con- cession, but doesn’t get anything in re- turn,” Mr. Scheer told reporters in Regina. The NDP has said that if the Aug. 19 tar- iffs are imposed, Canada should respond with countertariffs.
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tended to “lower him in the esti- mation of others in the broader community,” and expose him to hatred, contempt or ridicule. His statements of claim also say the posts and writings imply he was engaginginactivitiesthatwereei- ther criminal, terrorist, violent, racist or intended to harm Jewish people. Mr.ElRashidyhasdefendedhis client against the Toronto Police’s accusation that Mr. Hajahmad acted on behalf of Hamas. “He faces a single charge aris- ing from speaking at public dem- onstrations. No violence, no weapon, no one harmed,” he wrote in a statement this week. “Speaking out at a protest about the killing of civilians is protected expression, not terrorism.” Mr. Hajahmad was charged in 2025 with mischief after Toronto Police accused him of discharging a smoke canister inside Union Station.Hischargewaseventually
withdrawn and he was given a peace bond, Mr. El Rashidy said. RobertKarrass,whorepresents Ms. Lantsman, said in an inter- view that Mr. Hajahmad’s vest was “clearly meant to portray some sort of militant, violent thing.” “I think my client is quite vindicated by this because it just goes to show that he’s been charged with something substan- tially worse than anything that my client suggested,” he said, ref- erencing the charge laid against Mr. Hajahmad on Tuesday. Ms. Lantsman’s statement of claim says the previous mischief charge against Mr. Hajahmad confirms and reinforces that her social-media post “was one of le- gitimate public safety concern.” The lawsuit against his client and the other parties is scheduled for a settlement conference in Oc- tober, Mr. Karrass said. B’nai Brith Canada will contin- ue to defend itself “vigorously” against the claim, spokesperson Jonah Fried said in an e-mail. He said the recent terrorism al- legations and charge against Mr. Hajahmad are alarming. Mr. Lilley’s lawyer, Brendan Hughes, declined to comment on the lawsuit. Mr.Vuongandhislawyer,Mark Donald, did not respond to a re- quest for comment. Mr. Hajahmad appeared in court on Tuesday after his arrest and was released on bail for $50,000, according to court docu- ments. He was ordered to live in Mississauga with his surety. His bail conditions include a ban from being in Toronto and from engaging in demonstration-relat- ed activity within 500 metres of synagoguesorJewishcommunity
Blood Services urges people to donate amid shortage
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Canadian Blood Services says it is facing a shortage as blood dona- tions have plummeted over the past several weeks. The agency says the blood sup- plyhasdecreasedbynearly20per cent since June 1. It is urging people across Cana- da to book a blood donation ap- pointment, noting that the short- fall is beyond the usual drop in donations during the summer months. Canadian Blood Services says all blood types are needed and that there are fewer donation ap- pointments booked than expect- ed in all provinces. The agency manages the blood supply in all provinces except Quebec. A spokesperson for Héma- Quebec says it is has also seen a decline in blood donations since the end of June. “Héma-Québec needs approxi- mately 1,000 blood donations ev- ery day to meet the needs of pa- tients across the province,” Pa- trice Lavoie said in an e-mail on Wednesday. “Summer is traditionally a more fragile period for the blood supply. Many regular donors are on vacation or simply forget to book an appointment,” he said. Canadian Blood Services said it needs about 18,000 blood dona- tions a week to keep pace with hospital demand throughout the rest of the country, but there has been a shortfall of between 1,500 and 2,500 appointments each week. “Blood has a shelf life of only 42 days, so today’s donation will quickly make its way to a pa- tient,” said spokesperson Ron Ve- zina in a news release on Wednes- day. “We need to ensure hospitals have the blood they need for ev- eryday care and emergencies, es- pecially as we head into the Au- gust long weekend when trauma cases and other urgent care needs could see an increase.” Canadian Blood Services said it is adding more opportunities for peopletodonateblood,including more weekend appointments at its centres. In addition, several plasma-specific donor centres will accept whole blood dona- tions. People can book donation ap- pointments at blood.ca, on the GiveBlood app or by calling 1- 888-2-DONATE. In Quebec, people can book appointments through hema- quebec.ca.
and cultural centres. According to experts, the To- ronto Police’s allegations against Mr. Hajahmad are potentially novel because they stem from words he said during a protest, which police say furthered the in- terests of Hamas. That connec- tion will be key to determining whether the charges stand up in court, they say. Mr. Hajahmad’s charge carries a penalty of up to 10 years in pris- on. Toronto is among many cities that have wrestled with the thorny issue of regulating pro- tests in response to demonstra- tions against Israel’s war in Gaza in the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks. In May 2025, Toronto joined a growing list of Canadian cities, in- cluding Calgary, Brampton, Ont., and Vaughan, Ont., that passed controversial “bubble zone” by- laws. Toronto’s regulations creat- ed a 50-metre buffer zone to re- strict protests near some schools, daycares and places of worship. Violators can receive a maximum $5,000 penalty. While terrorism investigations typicallyfalltotheRCMP’sfederal policing mandate, Toronto Police in March announced a new coun- terterrorism unit as part of its re- sponse to violence linked to the Middle East conflict. The federal Liberal govern- mentalsorecentlypassedananti- hate bill that makes it a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison to obstruct someone from accessing a place of worship or other sites where Jews, Muslims and other identifiable groups gather. That law came into force on July 18.
The age restriction reflects Fields’s origi- nal intention that the medal nurture fu- ture promise as well as recognize past achievements. In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Dr. Tsimerman said he was aware that his name was likely in the running for this year’s medal because of a series of contributions he has made over the past five years, including proving the André- Oort conjecture and the Griffiths conjec- ture, both outstanding problems in the field of arithmetic geometry. As the time approached when winners were likely to be notified, “I was definitely paying attention,” Dr. Tsimerman said. The Fields Medal is the highest-profile award received by Dr. Tsimerman, who has previously won recognition through- out his career, starting with two succes- sive gold medals for a perfect score while representing Canada as a high-school stu- dent at the International Mathematical Olympiads of 2003 and 2004. He won the Canadian Mathematical So- ciety’s Coxeter-James Prize in 2019, the Breakthrough Prize Foundation’s New Horizons in Mathematics Prize in 2022 and the Ostrowski Prize, administered by the University of Basel, in 2023. The Fields Medal carries some addi- tional significance for both Dr. Tsimer- man and his colleagues. While it was es- tablished by a Canadian, it took genera- tions before any mathematician with a connection to the country was named a winner. That first happened in 2014 when Ha- milton-born Manjul Bhargava was award- ed the medal – though Dr. Bhargava main- ly grew up on Long Island, N.Y., and now teaches at Princeton University. However, until Dr. Tsimerman, no mathematician living and working in Canada has taken home a Fields Medal. “This is Jacob’s day,” said Kumar Murty, a fellow faculty member at the University of Toronto who was chair of the mathe- matics department when Dr. Tsimerman was hired. “We’re celebrating intellectual achievement.” He said the award marks an important milestone for U of T, where John Fields was a professor until his death in 1932. It is also significant for Canada, whose aca- demic institutions must compete with far wealthier schools in the United States and elsewhere in the battle to recruit top tal- ent. Having a Fields Medal winner means
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“we’re able to stand on the world stage and say we’re equal to the best,” he added. Dr. Tsimerman was born in the Russian city of Kazan, east of Moscow, and moved with his family to Israel when he was still a preschooler. The family came to Canada in 1996 where he attended school in To- ronto. Already a math prodigy who loved puz- zles, Dr. Tsimerman began his undergrad- uate studies at the University of Toronto at the age of 16, completing his degree in just two years. “I was lucky that the thing I had an affinity for is also a thing that I liked very much,” Dr. Tsimerman said. “So by the time I knew what a job was, it was just sort of natural to think that I would be a mathematician.” He did his graduate work at Princeton University, where his adviser was Peter Sarnak, a prominent expert in number theory. The experience would prove foun- dational for Dr. Tsimerman’s future work. He earned his PhD in 2011 and joined the
faculty back at U of T in 2014. Dr. Murty said by then it was already apparent the young mathematician had qualities that distinguished him from his peers. Among them is Dr. Tsimerman’s ability to avoid being siloed in a particular area of research and draw from other areas of math to find new approaches to the prob- lems he tackles. “The breadth of knowledge and versa- tility of techniques that his work displays is inspiring,” said Deirdre Haskell, director of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, which is also housed at the University of Toronto. The Fields Medal citation praised Dr. Tsimerman for employing novel tech- niques to his solutions, which open up new approaches and areas where future progress can be made. While his research is not conducted with a specific application in mind, it stems from a branch of mathematics that is relevant to cryptography among other
areas. And like all forms of pure mathe- matics, its most important benefits may still lie in the future when scientists and engineers search for ways to solve real- world problems they have not yet en- countered. Dr. Tsimerman stressed that fruitful collaborations with other mathemati- cians are a key part of his success. “When I work alone, I start to suspect I’m crazy or that everything I’m doing is wrong,” he said. “At least if you’re with someone else and you’re both deluded, it’s more comforting.” He added that while the feats of rea- soning that lead to mathematical break- throughs may seem like magic to non-ex- perts, it is important to recognize how of- ten things go off track rather than lead to success. “I always tell my students I don’t know how to succeed as a mathematician but I know a thousand ways to fail,” he said, “and I’m slowly going tell you how to avoid all those different ways.”
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Homeland Security Investigations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrive to push protesters back as cars enter and leave the Delaney Hall immigration detention centre on June 12 in Newark, N.J. Just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, New Jersey’s Latino communities see immigration sweeps daily. MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO/GETTY IMAGES
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While the White House stopped publicizing raids, ICE booked 39,500 into immigration detention in June – its highest-ever total
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itana’s family story is a classic of immigration to America. Her father escaped gang vio- lence in Colombia, and her mother a lack of economic op- portunities in Mexico. They met in New York, settled in New Jer- sey and had three children. He found work in factories and she as a housekeeper, jobs to which Aitana sometimes accompanied her. Despite living in the country for more than 35 years, however, both remain undocumented. And Aitana – a 30-year-old edu- cation worker whose last name The Globe and Mail is withhold- ing to protect her family from be- coming a target for Immigration and Customs Enforcement – has spent much of her life worrying if they’ll make it home at the end of each day. Never has that fear been more acute than it is now, as U.S. Presi- dent Donald Trump’s immigra- tion crackdown sweeps through Latino communities in New Jer- sey, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Today, Aitana’s mother takes care of her granddaughter while Aitana and her husband are at work. One of the parks the grandmother and toddler fre- quent is near the site of numer- ous ICE arrests. “Especially when my mom is with my daughter, it’s nerve- racking being far away from them and having to wonder,” Ai- tana said in an interview. Neighbourhood rapid re- sponse groups log dozens of ar- rests a day. Aitana, who is part of one such network, said the surge in the area began in May. “We’ve
seen them targeting people on the street.” The experience here is indica- tive of what is happening across the country. Mass roundups are escalating even as the White House has mostly stopped publi- cizing ICE raids since federal agents gunned down two U.S. ci- tizens during immigration oper- ations in Minneapolis in January. ICE arrested 39,563 people in June, its highest-ever monthly to- tal, according to figures released this week by the agency. That same month, Republican law- makers authorized a further US$70-billion for the deportation campaign. In July so far, ICE is approaching an average of 1,500 arrests a day. And after being largely out of the public eye since January, the dragnet is attracting renewed at- tention after ICE shot and killed two immigrants – Lorenzo Salga- do Araujo in Texas and Joan Se- bastián Guerrero in Maine – dur- ing traffic stops this month. In New Jersey, photos and vid- eo posted to social media show arrests on sidewalks, in parking lots and at the sides of express- ways. James Braddock Park, an expansive green space in the township of North Bergen, is a regularly targeted spot. Ander- son Avenue, a commercial main street that runs through the bor- ough of Fairview, shows up fre- quently, as does Home Depot. Some videos show dramatic foot chases or arrestees pinned to the ground by multiple officers. A common practice is for masked ICE agents to sweep local transit stops early in the morning to target day labourers. One group, Estamos Unidos NJ, logged 30 arrests on a single morning, July 3, across Jersey City, Union City, Palisades Park and other nearby communities. Another group, Jersey Shore Im-
migrant Support, reported 40 ar- rests around the town of Free- hold on June 23. “We’re seeing every week, fam- ilies where the dad was detained, the mom is left behind with mul- tiple kids. We’ve seen teenagers who are left to live alone because their parents were detained. Lit-
Federal agents detain a protester in Minneapolis on Feb. 3. Agents killed two U.S. citizens in January. CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
tle kids comforting their family members,” said Maya Laur at Centro Comunitario CEUS, a group that helps such families by, among other things, deliver- ing food hampers. In a statement, the Depart- ment of Homeland Security, ICE’s parent agency, did not address
the raids in New Jersey. It insisted that it is “disgusting, reckless, and categorically FALSE” for any- one to claim that agents use “ra- cial profiling” to find targets. During a Supreme Court case last year, the Trump administra- tion successfully argued that agents should be allowed to use factors such as “apparent race or ethnicity” when looking for peo- ple to stop. Meanwhile, Delaney Hall, a private prison in Newark that serves as the largest immigration detention centre on the U.S. East Coast, has become a flashpoint in the battle against deporta- tions. Outside the grey, warehouse- like building in an industrial park across the street from an oil tank farm, protesters are keeping a 24-hour vigil. In a large white tent, they offer the families of de- tainees help connecting with le- gal and food aid. In May, hundreds of detainees at the facility launched a hunger and work strike, alleging they were fed rotten food infested with worms and made to work for as little as US$1 a day cleaning the jail, whose ventilation prob- lems are making it stiflingly hot. Female detainees, they said, had been groped by a guard. Protests in front of the 1,000- bed facility, run by GEO Group under contract to ICE, got in- creasingly raucous. Federal police and state troop- ers in riot gear fought nightly battles with the protesters, pep- per-spraying them and making some 90 arrests. Ultimately, hun- dreds of detainees were trans- ferred out of Delaney to other fa- cilities. Homeland Security said in a statement that “there are NO subprime conditions or abuse at Delaney Hall” and that “ICE has higher detention standards than
most U.S. prisons.” Adam Marshall, a former in- fantry officer who has been vol- unteering to help the families of the detained for more than a year, said he was serving as a medic for protesters who had been pepper-sprayed when a group of agents pushed him to the ground, picked him up by his arms and legs and carried him in- side Delaney Hall’s courtyard. There, they scanned his face with a mobile application and held him for two hours before driving him and two other men to an underpass beneath the New Jersey Turnpike. “We were lined up against a metal wall with our hands above our heads, and to me, it looked like it was an execution,” he recalled one after- noon as he stood outside the jail. The officers told them to never come back and drove off. One of the protests’ most per- sistent figures is Gabriela Soto, whose husband, Martín, was thrown in Delaney after being stopped by ICE around sunset last Feb. 1 while out buying diap- ers for their children. Ms. Soto, 28, a U.S. citizen who immigrated from Peru as a child, met Martín at a family gathering during a visit to Lima when she was 19. They dated long-distance for several years until, returning from one trip to Peru, she discov- ered she was pregnant. Not want- ing to wait the years it could take to obtain a fiancée visa, Mr. Soto crossed the U.S. border unautho- rized in Arizona in late 2023 and made an asylum claim. After four months, he was re- leased with a court date set for 2028. The couple began building a life together in the town of Kearny, N.J., raising their toddler daughter and infant son. He found work as a cook at an Ital- ian restaurant. She is six months pregnant with their third child.
“My husband sacrificed a lot to be here for his family, in what’s supposed to be a safe country, just to end up abducted,” Ms. So- to said. After she led one of the pro- tests outside Delaney, guards summoned Mr. Soto with a prop- osition: If they released him, would he have his wife call off the demonstrators? He respon- ded, “No comment,” Ms. Soto said, and they locked him up for several hours in his cell. On her daughter’s fourth birthday, when Ms. Soto brought her to see her father, a guard con- fiscated a drawing the girl had made of the family and tore it up in front of her during the security screening, Ms. Soto said. Ultimately, Mr. Soto, 30, was moved to another jail, the Eliza- beth Detention Center, where he
Delaney Hall, a private prison in Newark that serves as the largest immigration detention centre on the U.S. East Coast, has become a flashpoint in the battle against deportations. MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO/GETTY IMAGES
An anti-ICE protester is arrested May 30 during clashes with law enforcement officers outside the Delaney Hall detention centre in Newark. ANGELINA KATSANIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS
remains. In a last-ditch effort to get him out, Ms. Soto has launched a petition calling on ICE to grant him discretionary re- lease. Beyond the human aspect of cases such as her husband’s, she contends that the White House should understand the pragmat- ic calculus. “America is nothing without its immigrants. People are com- ing here not to cause harm but to do better,” she said. “To make America great again, keep immi- grants here.” Andy Pelcher, a lawyer with Amica, a Washington-based non- profit that handles immigration- related litigation, said the round- ups are continuing apace across the country, even as they’ve had less visibility than previous surge operations in Los Angeles, Chica-
Above: An ICE agent stands guard in Newark on June 2. A common practice is for masked agents to sweep local transit stops early in the morning to target day labourers. MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO/ GETTY IMAGES
Below: Gabriela Soto speaks at a protest in Elizabeth, N.J., on June 18. Gabriela’s husband, Martín, was thrown in Delaney Hall after being stopped by ICE last February. ADRIAN MORROW/ THE GLOBE AND MAIL
go and Minneapolis. In some cases, ICE is relying on deals with local law enforcement in which police who make traffic stops, for instance, will call in im- migration agents if they suspect the driver may be undocument- ed. In other cases, ICE arrests people who have open immigra- tion cases when they come in to comply with regularly scheduled check-ins. And New Jersey isn’t the only place seeing street ar- rests. Mr. Pelcher cited one case in a Washington suburb in which offi- cers approached a man and his son outside their apartment building and arrested them both, even though the man had a work permit, an open asylum claim and no criminal history. “Minneapolis very much did represent an attempt to make this front and centre in the na- tional spotlight, and I think it backfired substantially,” Mr. Pelcher said. “The administration is taking a slightly different approach. They’re definitely not reducing the number of arrests.” For undocumented or mixed- status families such as Aitana’s, it’s an intensification of the un- certainty they’ve lived with for decades. She remembers when her parents first explained their status in the country to her: she was five years old and there was a surge in immigration raids after the 9/11 attacks. Today, some are limiting their exposure to ICE by spending most of their time indoors. For others, it’s not possible – nor is it any way to live in a place that has long been home. “People have to live their lives, go to work, go to the supermar- ket,” she said. “My parents have both been in this country longer than they were in their home countries.”
Move will be the first test of such powers for transit administrators in Canada
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As concerns about public safety have risen across the country, the Ontario government is granting special constables the rare au- thority to arrest people for the possessionanduseofillegaldrugs on transit systems. The move will be the first prac- ticaltestofsuchpowersfortransit administratorsinCanada,experts say. Much like fully sworn police officers, constables will be able to arrestindividuals,issueticketsfor public drug use, destroy any seized illegal substances, such as cocaine or methamphetamine, and send drugs out for analysis. Municipal transit services and policeboardsinOntarioarework- ing to gradually enforce the new provincial regulation, which came into effect on July 1. Once it is implemented locally, the new powers will be awarded to special constables employed by major transit services, including south- ern Ontario’s Metrolinx, Ottawa’s OC Transpo and the Toronto Transit Commission. Ontarioofficials,includingPre- mier Doug Ford, have called the punitive measure a useful tool thatwoulddisruptpublicmiscon- duct and improve safety. They have linked the rise of open drug usetoviolenceontransit,withMr. Ford repeatedly stating in press conferences that “transit riders have had enough.” But opponents argue that ex- pandedpolicingisnotaneffective response to drug use, and risks further marginalizing a vulnera- ble population. Ontario’s drug-arrest policy is “just removing people from one precarious place to another with- out addressing the root causes of their displacement,” said Thomas Kerr,aseniorscientistwiththeBC Centre on Substance Use and pro- fessor of social medicine at the University of British Columbia, in an interview. Over the last few years, police in cities such as Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg,EdmontonandCalgary have logged surging rates of vio- lent occurrences on transit, lead- ing to an escalated presence of uniformed officers on transit sys- tems. These systems have now be-
Over the last few years, police in cities such as Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Calgary have logged surging rates of violent occurrences on transit, leading to an escalated presence of uniformed officers on transit systems. COLE BURSTON/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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come a visible display of converg- ing crises. Plagued by increased loitering, many bus and train sta- tions function as informal and last-resort shelters, as wide-rang- ing homelessness, encampment shutdownsandthelackofafforda- ble housing have displaced thou- sands of people. Addiction rates, meanwhile, remain stubbornly high, while resources for drug us- ers have declined. Ontario has closed down nearly every super- viseddrug-usesiteintheprovince, including at least six in Toronto. In each of Canada’s largest ci- ties, there exists at least some form of staff dedicated to curtail- ingcrimeontransit.EveninOnta- rio, earlier government bills had already allowed police and some special constables to force people to leave a public place if they were using drugs or causing a disturb- ance. However, the authority to ar- restindividualswithoutawarrant is a rarity. Save for British Colum- bia, where a police force patrols Vancouver’s transit system, such powers have not been allowed for transit employees in other prov- inces; even in B.C., records show theuseofthisauthorityforminor drug-law violations is highly un- common. “There is no evidence, no data of any sort, to suggest Ontario’s legislation would really help,” Ko- ra DeBeck, a professor specializ- inginsubstanceuseanddrugpol- icy at Simon Fraser University, told The Globe and Mail. Historically, transit police in Canada can be traced back to rail- roadforcesinthe1850s.Theywere largely hired by private railway companies to protect trains and theircargofromfreightrobberies, though some railroad police were
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alsodedicatedtowardfareinspec- tion, pickpocketing, vandalism and drug-law violations on pas- senger trains. Today, in most provinces, spe- cial constables and peace officers – usually unarmed – work in tan- dem with civilian security guards and local police to keep transit systems safe, issue fines and, in some cases, detain individuals. For example, a new bylaw that rolled out in Edmonton last spring prohibited the use of con- trolledsubstancesinpublic;inre- sponse, a larger number of peace officers started patrolling transit areas–buttheycannotarrestany- one without city police involve- ment. Only Metro Vancouver employs ateamofarmedofficersspecifical- ly for transit, who have the power to investigate crimes, recommend charges and make arrests. The Metro Vancouver Transit Police, which became operational in 2005, is the country’s first dedi- cated service of its kind, and a sep- arate entity from the Vancouver Police Department. With more than 200 police officers, 24 com- munitysafetyofficersand106civil- ianprofessionals,theMVTPserves an area spanning 23 communities and one First Nation in B.C. When asked if the MVTP has observed a deterioration of crime since its founding, spokesperson Sunny Kainth said, between 2012 and 2025, the volume of crimes against persons reported to tran- sit police declined by 19 per cent. While drug enforcement is a central plank of the MVTP’s man- date, Constable Kainth said the force handled only 150 drug-relat- ed files in 2025, representing just 0.7 per cent of its total caseload. Only a total of 22 charges were
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submitted for drug offences last year, he added. Partofthat,heexplained,isthe “local context.” Between 2023 and 2026, the B.C. government autho- rized a decriminalization pro- gram that allowed individuals to possess about 2.5 grams of opioids,psychedelicsandotheril- licit drugs. As the province faced political pressure over open-air druguse,thegovernmentamend- ed its laws to allow police, includ- ingtheMVTP,toseizethosedrugs in public spaces in 2024. The MVTP does not track data about arrests made specifically for drug-related offences. Anec- dotally, even before decriminali- zation, both Dr. DeBeck and Dr. Kerr said drug-use arrests were uncommon on B.C. transit. The West Coast province is well- known for legislatively embrac- ing a harm-reduction approach rather than adopting punitive measures for drug-law violations. Dr. Kerr believes Ontario’s leg- islation would “create more prob- lems” than it is hoping to resolve. Seizing drugs is harmful for peo- ple with addictions because it dis- rupts their supply without ad- dressing their underlying health conditions, he said. Citing some high-profile in- stances of excessive use of force by MVTP officers, he added that “explicitly allowing police to make arrests on transit would make many people in Ontario, es- pecially people of colour, feel un- safe and further decline rider- ship.” Asked whether Ontario is look- ing at B.C. or any other jurisdic- tionsasatemplateforitsnewpol- icy, Solicitor-General Michael Kerzner declined to provide an answer. SpeakingtoTheGlobeatanun- related event last month, he did not directly address questions about whether the province has seen any evidence linking the possession or use of illegal drugs to violent crimes on transit, or whether arrests would make communities safer. “People are uncomfortable in transit when they see people car- ryingonlikethis.Whatwewantto do is send a message of confi- dence,” Mr. Kerzner said. (A spo- kesperson from Mr. Kerzner’s of- fice later sent an e-mailed state- mentthatalsodidnotdirectlyan- swer The Globe’s questions.) Lisa McDonald, communica- tions and public policy director of Casey House in Toronto, a hospi- tal providing care for people liv- ing with and at risk of HIV, said theissuestheprovinceispurport-
ing to address stem from the homelessness crisis and severe shortage of shelter beds. “While it can be distressing to see people who are unwell or un- der the influence of substances in public, we try and remind our- selves that there’s a difference be- tween feeling uncomfortable and being unsafe,” she said. “And I think what this does is suggests thatsomehowthisisasafetyissue rather than a discomfort issue.” Sarah Kennedy, president of the Ontario Special Constables Association, said she approves of Ontario’s measures, but is advo- cating for special constables to be authorized new weapons. Putting constables“infrontofpeoplethat are unpredictable” is dangerous, shesaid,whentheyarelargelyon- ly armed with batons, handcuffs and pepper sprays. She argues that tasers should also be provided to constables on transit: “We don’t want to be out thereswingingthatbatonaround. We want a tool that protects dis- tance. And a taser does that.” For most municipalities, Onta- rio’s policy change will not be a relevant concern, said the Associ- ationofMunicipalitiesofOntario, which represents more than 440 towns and cities. “Across the province, the big- ger issue remains the steady rise in policing costs, which continues to challenge municipal budgets and local service delivery,” said AMO spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins. The mayors of the Ontario ci- ties of Sudbury, Brampton and Windsor told The Globe they wel- cometheprovinciallegislation,as safety has become a bigger issue in their cities. Nonetheless, each of them noted that jurisdictions with higher ridership volumes and urban density would be bet- ter suited to effectuate the policy. TTC spokesperson Stuart Green said the power to arrest in- dividuals for drug laws is simply anothertoolintheboxforconsta- bles. BeforetheTTCcanbegintouse this authority, it will need to work throughthelogisticsofadditional training for its staff on matters suchashowtohandleandstoreil- licit substances, including narcot- ics, he said. But Dr. Kerr worries about the precedent set by the new mea- sure. “We shouldn’t have to rely on police to create healthier or safer communities,” he said.
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Vast majority of Republicans voted to back the conflict and cede congressional war powers to Trump
MARY CLARE JALONICK WASHINGTON
The U.S. House on Thursday nar- rowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, send- ing a warning to U.S. President Donald Trump for the second time as the war has escalated and the future of the conflict is in- creasingly uncertain. The 214-208 vote requiring congressional approval for the war came just before the Senate narrowly rejected a similar reso- lution, 47-49. Though the votes forced by Democrats are largely symbolic, they are meant as a sig- nal to the Republican President that his support on Capitol Hill is chipping away as the war drags on and lawmakers in both parties have questioned his administra- tion’s endgame. The war has had “no clear mis- sion, no strategy, no end goal,” said Washington Representative Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat who led the resolution on the House floor. The House resolution passed after a handful of Republicans voted with Democrats to end the war. But the vast majority of Re- publicans in both chambers vot- ed to back the war and cede con- gressional war powers to Mr. Trump. Joint U.S. and Israeli air strikes launched the war in late February. Atenuous ceasefire deal was reac- hed in April, but Mr. Trump de- clared the ceasefire was “over” earlier this month. Mr. Trump has insisted that continued U.S. attacks against Iran do not mean a return to war or long-term action. After the first Housevotetohaltthewarinearly June, he posted on social media that it was “unpatriotic” and “meaningless.”
Washington Representative Pramila Jayapal, centre, pictured on Thursday with representatives Jason Crow, left, and Greg Casar, led the resolution on the House floor. ERIC LEE/REUTERS
A statement of administration policy issued by the White House on Thursday noted that the reso- lutions don’t have the force of law and encouraged lawmakers to vote against them. “The President has the Consti- tutional authority to defend the United States and our citizens from the danger posed by the Ira- nian regime,” the policy state- ment said. “This requires the abil- ity to act decisively to ensure it never obtains a nuclear weapon.” Continued American air strikes are occurring even as dip- lomatic efforts show little public sign of progress and officials on both sides have dug in on the dis- pute over the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterway for global ener- gy that remains largely closed. The unpopular war threatens fur- ther worldwide economic disrup- tion and is sending fuel prices up ahead of midterm U.S. elections this fall. “We are in this new escalatory phase where Americans have
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been killed, and Americans are experiencing the rising costs – I think it’s important that people be held accountable,” said Mary- land Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat who led the Senate ef- fortonThursday.“Andthisisave- ry unpopular war.” As the House debated the reso- lution Wednesday evening, for- eign affairs committee chair Brian Mast (R, Fla.) read out names of 18 service members killed since the war began. “To belittle this mission is to belittle and demean the very ser- vicethesemembersgavetheirlife for,” Mr. Mast said. “Their sacrifice was not meaningless. This oper- ation is bringing reckoning for the hundreds of times Iran has at- tacked and killed people of the United States of America.” The top Democrat on the pan- el, New York Representative Gre- gory Meeks, said that presidents are supposed to make the case to Congress. The service members who died
made the ultimate sacrifice for “an illegal unauthorized war that theAmericanpeopledon’twant,” Mr. Meeks said. Democrats said they would continue to force Republicans to vote on the issue. “If Donald Trump won’t listen to the people and end this war then Congress must,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D, N.Y.). Republicans on both sides of the Capitol know that voting against the war can have a politi- cal cost, even as many of them have privately questioned the Trump administration’s handling of the conflict. In his post after the June House vote, Mr. Trump called the four Republicans who voted with Democrats “GRANDSTANDERS!” and said they should be “asham- ed of themselves.” “They would rather have our Country fail than give me anoth- er, of many, victories,” he said. When the Senate passed a war
powers resolution on Iran for the first time in June, Mr. Trump called the four Republicans who voted for it “losers” and then rep- rimanded them at a Senate GOP luncheon that he attended the next day. Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy, one of the Republicans who had voted with Democrats, said after- ward that he had clashed with Mr. Trump over the issue. He said he told Mr. Trump directly that he needed to give more details to the public about the conflict. “This was supposed to last four weeks. It’s lasted four months,” said Mr. Cassidy, who had just lost re-election in a primary after Mr. Trump endorsed one of his oppo- nents. “Our original objectives have not been achieved.” Mr. Trump argued back, Mr. Cassidy later told reporters, and he told the President that he wouldn’t change his vote until he got a briefing. The White House laterrelented,givingMr.Cassidya one-on-one meeting, and the Louisiana Republican changed his vote in a late-night do-over vote before the Senate left for a two-week recess. Mr. Cassidy voted against the resolution again on Thursday. Most Americans disapprove of the way Mr. Trump is handling the situation with Iran, according to recent polling. A Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted in July found that few Americans think the war in Iran has been worth fighting, and most aren’t confi- dent that the U.S. military action in Iran and negotiations to end the war will prevent Iran from de- veloping nuclear weapons. Only about two-thirds of Re- publicans approve of Mr. Trump’s handling of the situation in Iran, according to the poll. Most Re- publicans, about six in 10, think the war has been worth fighting and are confident that the mili- tary action and ensuing negotia- tions will prevent Iran from de- velopment nuclear weapons, but a sizable share – about one-third – are unconvinced.
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bonuses at Canada Post
anada Post, by its own analysis, is on the brink of in-
solvency. Revenue has been falling, and losses have
been piling up at an astonishing rate. The Crown cor-
poration needed an emergency bailout from the federal gov-
ernment just to keep the lights on.
The leadership of Canada Post took a look at that situation
and thought: We should pay out millions of dollars in per-
formance bonuses, $30.8-million in 2025, to be precise (a dis-
closure to a House of Commons committee that was made
public by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation).
The post office defends the payouts in several ways. They
aren’t bonuses, but “at risk” pay, a distinction without any
difference. Whatever the term, the payments are not part of
base salary.
The payouts don’t come from the government’s bailout
fund, Canada Post says, but from its own revenues. Again,
that’s a distinction without meaning. If the Crown corpora-
tion had not paid out $30.8-million, it would have a corre-
spondingly smaller need to borrow from the federal govern-
ment. The company further notes that the payouts equate to
less than 1 per cent of its total labour expenses.
The company also takes note of cost cutting measures that
managers have had to swallow: defined-benefit pensions
have been eliminated for new management employees since
management employees.
2010, salary bands have been frozen through legislation since
2013, and there have been layoffs. The payouts are needed to
retain the managers who remain, Canada Post says, even
though it plans to continue to shed management jobs.
In fairness, a number of the Crown corporation’s changes
are far more aggressive than anything that has been asked of
the core public service, most notably the move to defined-
contribution pensions, now accounting for 65 per cent of
And there is one rationale that Canada Post could, but did
not offer: Until far too late in the day, the federal Liberal gov-
ernment refused to give senior management the latitude
neededtoshakeupitsoperations.Thereisnobetterexample
than the Trudeau government’s misbegotten insistence on
freezing in place home delivery services rather than moving
to community-based mailboxes.
Still, Canada Post’s justifications fail to take into account
the optics of paying out millions of dollars in bonuses in the
midst of a corporate turnaround effort that will demand big
changes from the, um, somewhat intransigent unionized
postal workers. And they also fall short of the mark on trans-
parency, not to mention leadership.
On June 1, Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal
Employees finally agreed to a new contract, ending two years
of on-again off-again labour disruptions. That seems likely to
be not much more than a pause for CUPE to catch its breath,
given the June 1 message from CUPE president Jan Simpson,
who had urged that the deal be rejected. “To win the fights
ahead,prepareforthenextroundofbargainingandmobilize
against the government’s attacks on our public postal ser-
vice, we all have to regroup and unite in our struggle.”
Canada Post’s board and executives have handed Ms.
Simpson a hefty cudgel for those “fights ahead.” The anti-
management taglines pretty much write themselves.
If the payouts were necessary and justified (a rather big if),
Canada Post could have bolstered that case through greater
transparency. The CEO’s salary range and potential payout is
publicly available, for instance, but not the actual amounts.
The little concrete information available needed to be ex-
tracted through a parliamentary committee, and there is
scant detail. What were the bonuses paid to top executives
versus rank and file managers? What was the split between
the floundering post office operations and the profitable Pu-
rolator courier business? The public has no idea. (The con-
trast with the detailed disclosures by private-sector corpora-
tions with publicly traded stocks is striking.)
And on what were the triggers for the payments? Again,
Canada Post won’t say. Presumably the KPIs didn’t include
“not heading for bankruptcy.” Canadians, who are floating a
huge loan to Canada Post, deserve that information.
Perhaps with such transparency, there would be a case to
be made that non-executive managers should have received
payouts. But what about the executive team? Surely that
group, along with the board, should have had the leadership
MILKING IT
Re “White House has beef with Canada’s dairy import rules. Does the EU have a better deal?” (Re- portonBusiness,July22):Canada signed the Comprehensive Eco- nomicandTradeAgreementwith the European Union on Oct. 30, 2016. Donald Trump signed the USMCA on Sept. 30, 2018. He had almost two years and still wasn’t able to negotiate a bet- ter deal than the EU? It seems like his beef isn’t with Canada – he’s just cheesed off with himself.
Bob Rafuse Beaconsfield, Que.
I stopped buying American wine well before it was pulled from On- tario shelves. I don’t buy Ameri- can produce and I don’t frequent Walmart. I gave up my Costco membership and was happy to buy a made-in-Canada Honda. If Canada has to give up restric- tions on dairy imports to extract concessions from the United States on softwood lumber, steel, aluminum, etc., I can reassure Canadian dairy farmers that I will not buy American dairy products under any circumstances. As a corollary, if American dairy is so much cheaper for people who really can’t afford Canadian dairy, then supply management is like- ly not serving the general public. We do indeed have some cards to play.
Dave Barker Whitby, Ont.
HELPING HAND
Re “Relief efforts inundated with donations of goods for Ontario wildfire evacuees” (July 21): As the emergency continues across Northwestern Ontario, I want to thank the many Canadians who havestoodwithourregion.Dona- tions to the Northwestern Onta- rio Wildfire Community Support Fund have arrived from across Canada and around the world. One donor wrote she had been searching for a way to support those affected by the wildfires, but hadn’t found one until she read about our fund in The Globe and Mail. She has “always been a fan of the United Way.” Her note reminded me that people genu- inely want to help and they sim- ply need to know how. While the fires will eventually be extinguished, recovery will continue long after the headlines fade. The generosity we’ve wit- nessed has affirmed something we have always known in North- western Ontario: When one com- munity is hurting, others step for- ward to help. Caring and compassion know no borders. Thanks for standing with Northwestern Ontario.
Albert Brulé CEO, United Way of Thunder Bay
together than the single-family home?” (July 18): This anthology of collaborative housing solu- tions speaks to the great benefits of living in a more connected way. Canada has many homegrown solutions, with people from all walks of life finding creative housing alternatives that centre connection, mutual support and shared purpose. From my own personal experi- ence of co-living in a large Van- couver home to my current pas- sion of building a new co-housing neighbourhood on Vancouver Island, I’ve experienced many of these benefits firsthand. I would like to see more publicity and public awareness of innovative Canadian housing initiatives and new collective housing models. I think this is a much-needed and empowering complement to the prevailing message of a “housing crisis.”
Tamara White Courtenay, B.C.
SOMEONE OUT THERE?
Re “China could be first to bring samples back from Mars” (July 18): There are those who hope we do not find life on Mars. They subscribe to a concept called “The Great Filter,” a series of evolutionary hurdles all life must pass through. If we find life (past or present) on Mars, it would mean at least two planets in the same solar system have produced life. There are trillions of planets just in our Milky Way galaxy, which is about 13.5 billion years old. If life was this common, wouldn’t there be more than a few intelligent civilizations zip- ping around? Sofar,we’venotseenanysigns. Or, as physicist Enrico Fermi famously asked, “Where is every- body?” The Great Filter posits that alien civilizations likely never madeitthroughacombinationof factors such as nuclear war, envi- ronment destruction or malevo- lent artificial intelligence. Which begs the question: Will we?
Chris Gates Cobourg, Ont.
DIFFERENT TAKE
Re “The Odyssey review: Chris- topher Nolan delivers an awe-in- spiring spectacle” (July 17): I have yet to see The Odyssey, but I’ve gathered that Christopher Nolan tinkered with the ending. Odysseus is remorseful of his participation in the Trojan War and eventual rape and destruc- tion of Troy, as well as his appar- ent neglect of his trustworthy wife who remained faithful for all 20 years he was away, lost and dis- tracted. Trump influencers have mocked this. They hate Odysseus turning up as woke, apparently questioning his role in a destruc- tive war.
For them, Odysseus is not only a symbol of “machismo,” but also of unquestioning loyalty and patriotism and complete disre- gard of women as equals. They can’t accept that Odysseus prob- ably suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Mostly they seem to hate Mr. Nolan for making Odysseus a car- ing human being.
Norman Ostonal New Westminster, B.C.
WELL READ
Re “A viral essay declares the end of reading is here. But there’s no end to its pleasures” (Opinion, July 18): Pardon my skepticism, but I couldn’t miss the irony: a chain reaction of readings – my reading of an article about some- one’s reading of someone else’s essay – all requiring careful read- ing. If reading is dying, it’s putting up quite a fight. The decline of books and newspapers is too often mistaken for the decline of reading itself. As Marshall McLuhan observed, the medium is the message. Never have humans read and written more text: e-mails, mess- ages, captions, threads – artificial- intelligence prompts. Our ances- tors would be astonished by the volume. Yes, leisure reading has declined and shorter forms have become the norm. But brevity is not the enemy of depth nor an index of shorter attention. Serious readers know that profound ideas are mea- sured not by the length of the text, but by the weight of the thought. As Mark Twain might have texted, reports of reading’s death are greatly exaggerated.
Tony D’Andrea Toronto
When I get together with my sib- lings, close family and friends, often the first topic of discussion is what we have been reading lately. My father survived his time as a prisoner of war by reading all the books sent by the Red Cross. As children, my brother, sister and I spent our summer morn- ings at the library choosing our reading for the week. This habit has passed down to my children and now to our seven grandchil- dren. Reading should be a source of joy. Try sitting in a park and read- ing out loud to your child. You will find that suddenly you have an audience and your child has new friends.
Andrea Battista Burlington, Ont.
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Alzheimer’s drug decisions shouldn’t be made in isolation
n expert committee at Canada’s Drug Agency has changed its mind: In Feb- ruary, it said public drug plans should not fund lecanemab, a drug used to treat the early symptoms of Alzheimer’s. Now, in July, after a “reconsideration process,” it is recommending that lecanemab be funded publi- cly – sometimes. More specifically, the Cana- dian Drug Expert Committee (CDEC) has shifted its position from “do not reimburse” to “reimburse with conditions.” Not exactly a ringing endorse- ment, especially when you con- sider that the list of conditions is as long as your arm. But it has certainly caused a shift in public perception. There could soon be – at least
ROBERT ROTBERG
Founding director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s program on intrastate conflict, a former senior fellow at CIGI and president emeritus of the World Peace Foundation
outh Africa has been experi- encingaspasmofdestructive and deathly xenophobia. Anti-immigration protests have led to violence and intimidation, with participants accusing mi- grants of “taking” South Africans’ jobs, increasing crime rates and strainingpublicservices.Thegov- ernment has responded by re- moving more than 53,000 foreign nationals in the past five weeks. Another 160,000 have reportedly fled over the past two months. But this hatred is not novel or sudden. The continent’s most advanced economy is intensely attractive to fellow Africans from farther north – but it is also dan- gerously underperforming for its least educated citizens, making it harderforthemtocompeteinthe market. South Africa, both during and after apartheid, has done a mediocre job educating the least privileged of its 65 million citi- zens. Too many South Africans lack the skills to keep up with their immediate peers, much less newcomers. At the end of each high school year, legions of South African youth take a special school-leaving examination; just 57 per cent of those who began Grade 1 in 2014 passed that exam this year, and about 38 per cent of those who took the exam received scores high enough to be admitted to university. The non-
AMIRA ELGHAWABY
Human-rights advocate and Canada’s former special representative on combatting Islamophobia
here were both fans and critics alike of the late John L.Esposito,andamongallof them were those who believed he was a secret Muslim. It’s a rumour the renowned academic would recount some- what bemusedly, often mention- ing Canada as its source. It wasn’t true, yet it symbolized how unusual and meaningful his life’s work had become. His con- tributions to interfaith dialogue at a time of growing division are now a legacy we all stand to gain from. Prof. Esposito died a devout Catholicaftercomplicationsfrom heart surgery earlier this month. He was 86. A professor of religion, international affairs and Islamic studies at Georgetown University in Washington, Prof. Esposito attempted to counter the
theoretically – a drug available to treat mild cognitive decline, the early symptoms of Alzheimer’s. So, what has changed in the past five months? Not very much actually. When the CDEC made its ini- tial negative recommendation, the research showed that lecane- mab (brand name Lequembi) could slow mild symptoms of cognitive decline by five to seven months over an 18-month peri- od. The research still shows that modest benefit, but the compa- ny presented additional data that shows the stability of patients’ condition could extend beyond 18 months. Essentially, without getting into too many technical details, the debate boils down to this: Is a reduction of half a point on an 18-point scale that measures cog- nitive ability a “clinically mea- ningful” benefit? There’s no easy answer to that question. In its reconsideration process, the committee mostly decided it should give more weight to the views of patients, families and clinicians.
People awaiting repatriation line up to board a bus headed to Zimbabwe near South Africa’s Beitbridge border crossing earlier this month. EMMANUEL CROSET/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
qualifiers are thrown premature- ly into a saturated job market. It’s little surprise that the formal unemployment rate in South Africa is at least 32 per cent – and 60 per cent, for those aged 15-24. As a result, many of the new- comers crossing the border ille- gally are often better educated than their local competitors for South African jobs. Their English is generally more idiomatic, too, compensating a little for their inability to speak South Africa’s main indigenous languages. In an upscale restaurant near Cape Town, the unusually pol- ished and well-spoken waiters told me they had been school- teachers in rural Zimbabwe (in dictator Robert Mugabe’s home
demonization and othering of Muslims and demonstrate how efforts to bridge divides are fun- damental to fostering thriving, pluralistic communities. “John was a giant who defend- edIslamandMuslimswhenitwas perilous to do so. He did more than anybody I know to defang Islamophobic poison in the Unit- ed States. And he did so without ever raising his voice. He was always civil in the best traditions of both Islam and democracy,” reflected Canadian journalist and author Haroon Siddiqui. Prof.Esposito’scareerinacade- mia followed a decision to aban- don a path to priesthood. At first, heintendedtocompleteaPhDon Catholic theology, and then Hin- duism. Eventually, a friend and colleague urged him to study Islam. After the Iranian revolu- tion, and later 9/11, he would eventually become one of the most sought-after global experts on the Middle East and Muslims, advising officials and senior lead- ers within the U.S. government and beyond. As author, co-author or editor of more than 50 books on Islam, translated in 35 languages, along
Again, there’s nothing wrong with that approach. Except, with lecanemab, the principal argument presented was that the drug should be funded because there is no other treatment for mild cognitive impairment, so there is no other way of slowing down the cruel march of Alzheimer’s. In other words, something is better than nothing. All things being equal, that would be true. But this drug is costly, and requires a lot of other resources. There are not only direct and indirect costs, but tremendous opportunity costs – other ways we could be using the money that might be spent on a drug with, at best, marginal benefits. And that’s the issue we should be discussing. Not whether or not lecanemab should be paid from the public purse, but how public health care dollars are spent more broadly. Yet, in Canada, every decision seems to be made in splendid isolation, with no attention paid to the big picture. To be eligible for treatment with lecanemab, a patient must
district, in fact) and had fled the country’s harsh and increasingly authoritarian conditions for bet- ter opportunities and much better pay. In a sense, they had indeed “taken” South African jobs. But the restaurant’s proprie- tor (and thousands like him) said that there are simply too few locals who can perform at the lev- elofbetter-trainedZimbabweans. Likewise, the 40,000 or so Ma- lawians who were expelled from South Africa – representing near- ly three-quarters of those deport- ed – doubtless “took” jobs from South Africans. But many did so becausetheyhadbettervocation- alskillsandbetterEnglishexpres- sion;asimmigrantsseekingabet- ter life, many have simply hustled
with public talks and lectures, Prof. Esposito’s vast intellectual output profoundly impacted peo- ple around the world, including hereinCanada,wherehereceived an honorary degree from the Uni- versity of St. Michael’s College (University of Toronto) in 2009. Tributes for the American-Ital- ian scholar have poured in from across the political and academic world, symbolizing Prof. Esposi- to’s significant influence despite intellectual efforts to present civi- lizational clashes as inevitable. “I mourn today the passing of a dear friend, Professor John L. Esposito, one of the world’s fore- most scholars of Islam,” wrote Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on social media. “John built the intellectual foundations for a deeper under- standing of Islam in the West. His contribution to the cause of Muslim-Christian understanding was enormous … He built bridges where others were content to build civilisational barriers.” It was, in fact, his devotion to Catholicism that is credited with being at the heart of his prolific writing and teaching that sought to present Western audiences
have a diagnosis of mild cogni- tive impairment or mild demen- tia owing to Alzheimer’s. (The wait time to see neurological specialists in Canada is up to a year.) Genetic testing is required because people with two copies of the gene variant APOE4 are not eligible. (It’s not a routine screening test.) The drug is infused every two weeks in a hospital setting. Patients also require regular MRI scans. (The wait time for MRIs can be months.) It is debatable whether the system could administer this drug effectively. The CDEC also says the drug should be funded for six months, and discontinued if the disease progresses to mod- erate dementia. But our system is terrible at saying “no.” Lecanemab costs about $30,000 a year. The CDEC calculated that, even with strict conditions, fund- ing lecanemab would cost pro- vincial drug plans $66-million in the first year, and $485-million by Year 3. Is that the best way to spend public dollars for dementia care?
harder. Malawi, which is depend- ent on exports of flue-cured tobaccotoChina,hasalwaysbeen alabourexporter,andwillcontin- uetobe,despitethedeportations. The foreign nationals who were removed from South Africa willreturntointenselypoorcoun- tries with few earning possibili- ties. In Zimbabwe, formal sector unemployment is around 20 per cent, though that does not reflect the fact that informal work – unregistered,untaxedandunpro- tected by the government – repre- sents about 80 per cent of all employment in the country. While South Africa’s GDP per cap- ita is US$6,597, Zimbabwe’s is US$3,021 – and Malawi’s, a minus- cule US$671.
with enlightened views of Islam – a faith that had been either ignored or maligned by far too many. “Dr. Esposito embodied the Catholic Jesuit value of cura per- sonalis, care for the whole person. Central to his ethos was under- standing one another and build- ing bridges towards a pluralistic world that celebrates our differ- ences and works together for the good of all,” shared Mobashra Tazamal, associate director of the Bridge Initiative at Georgetown University,aresearchprojectProf. Esposito established to help tackle Islamophobia. “His Italian-American back- ground and his Catholicism allowed John to interpret the Islamic tradition sympathetically but not uncritically,” wrote Cana- dian academic Nader Hashemi, director of the Prince Alwaleed binTalalCenterforMuslim-Chris- tian Understanding, which Prof. Esposito founded in 1993. “Like Islam today, Catholicism also struggled to reconcile its historical roots and normative ethical claims with the demands of modernity. John drew upon his Catholic background to under-
Or would that money be better spent on rehab and home care? Beyond cost, there is always the question of value for money, something we tend to pay very little attention to in Canadian health care. The CDEC calculated that the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for lecanemab was $288,760 per quality-adjusted life-year. (A QALY is a health metric used to measure the over- all value of medical treatments; anything below $50,000 is con- sidered cost-effective.) In other words, the price would have to come down sub- stantially before it’s considered a good investment. If the provinces accept this recommendation, they would try to negotiate a lower price, but would it be low enough? Every new drug promises dra- matic benefits. It’s easy to offer hope, especially when it comes to incurable conditions such as dementia. But it’s far more diffi- cult to deliver. The question we really need to be asking is: Is this the best way to use our scarce resources? Even if we may not like the answer.
For South Africa’s own birth- right citizens, what looks like comparative prosperity masks a vast inequality between the upper class (both old and white, and young and Black) and every- one else. The Gini co-efficient rankings of economic inequality show how most South Africans fail to share in its status as a wealthy developing country. In those measures, zero represents absolute equality, and 100 repre- sents absolute inequality; South Africa registers at 63, the highest in the world. (Canada checks in at 29.9, and the U.S. at 41.8.) Ousting immigrants may pro- vide a short-term stimulus for jobs to pass from outsiders to native South Africans, but this re- cent spasm of xenophobia is un- likely to advance the country as a whole. After all, like all countries, it needs outside talent to grow wealthier and more successful. Immigration has been vital for South Africa just as immigration from Mexico and the rest of Latin America has been intrinsic to the growth and economic strength of the U.S. since the 1940s. As the demographer Lyman Stone re- cently wrote in the New York Times, the U.S.’s population may be shrinking dangerously, and faster than we realize, because of record-low fertility rates and the Trump administration’s perni- cious work in shutting down immigration. A similar approach in South Africa would be a recipe for disaster there, too. Few countries can function at high levels without the skills and sheer hands that outsiders con- tribute. Frustration is understan- dable,andxenophobiaisonecon- sequence of this rage. But it seri- ously undermines the advance of growing societies.
stand and interpret the develop- mental challenges facing Muslim societies today.” While times have changed since Prof. Esposito first entered academia, the universal princi- ples that permeated his work haveprofoundlyaffectedyounger generations of scholars. “Dr. Esposito was the first per- son who really showed me how you could be an advocate against Islamophobia and an advocate for Muslims without actually being Muslim yourself. And that’s something that I’ve tried to take on in my own work since,” explained Jordan Denari Duffner, a theologian and educator at the CentreforMuslim-ChristianStud- ies in Oxford. Prof. Esposito’s sudden passing comes at a time when support for pluralism, multiculturalism and religious freedoms are constantly being tested. It offers an opportu- nity to revisit his work and hon- our the vision he entrusted to all of us: a world of understanding over simplistic caricatures and negative assumptions.
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Going to see the Nolan-helmed epic has become an act of cultural significance
BARRY HERTZ
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n Monday, Marvel Studios unveiled the long-awaited trailer for Avengers: Doomsday, Disney’s everything- at-the-wall attempt to rescue its flailing big-screen superhero en- terprise. The ad, which gathers together a disparate group of the franchis- e’s B-level characters underneath a garish aesthetic that screams green-screen slop, would have been received poorly were it re- leased at any time over the past few months. But it was an espe- cially boneheaded decision to un- veil it the day after moviegoers around the world were basking in the opening-weekend afterglow of Christopher Nolan’s The Odys- sey, and reawakening to the grand possibilities of truly inventive and ambitious cinematic specta- cle. If Doomsday represents a des- perate bid to hold on to the past decade and a half of the Holly- wood blockbuster – a brand-safe era of increasingly mushy and bland filmmaking, dependent on existing, familiar intellectual property over anything else – then The Odyssey is our best chance at a bigger, brighter, more adventurous future. The momentum is certainly there. Certainly, Nolan’s film is breaking box-office records – nearly US$300-million globally after barely a week in theatres – and earning the best reviews of the director’s long-applauded ca- reer. But what’s more important is that the sheer act of going to see the Matt Damon-led epic has become an act of cultural signifi- cance all its own. This is a by- appointment moment for theat- rical moviegoing, with audiences
Threat offers a new kind of close encounter
The Outer Threat CLASSIFICATION: N/A; 95 MINUTES
Written and directed by William Woods Starring Mark O’Brien, Constance Wu and William Fichtner
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n astronomy circles, there is a theory called the “dark for- est hypothesis.” Popularized by Chinese writer Liu Cixin in his Three-Body Problem trilogy of novels, the thinking posits that the universe is filled with advanced extrater- restrial civilizations – but that they are all staying hidden for fear of being discovered by potentially superior, and perhaps aggressive, life forms. Unable to guarantee that an alien civi- lization is friendly or hostile, the theory goes, it is best to as- sume that your only chance of survival is to keep yourself quiet and out of view, which is why humanity has yet to find any life among the stars. The intriguing, if highly cynical, theory might not have been the direct inspiration for the new Canadian sci-fi drama The Outer Threat, but I couldn’t help but keep returning to the dark forest while watching the film’s compelling on-screen story play out. Written and directed by long-time Canadian producer William Woods (The Kid Detective, The King Tide), the movie follows married astrophysicists Daniel (Mark O’Brien) and Michelle (Constance Wu), who are raising their two kids largely off the grid while searching for extraterrestrial life. Well,Danieliscertainlyonthehuntforaliens,butMichelle has grown more disillusioned with the quest, and with Daniel himself. The couple get thrown back together, though, after Daniel makes a revelatory discovery about advanced lifeforms hiding out in the vastness of space, a development that forces the family to suddenly flee their home after an incursion by unknown enemy forces.
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The Odyssey is breaking box-office records – nearly US$300-million globally after barely a week in theatres – and earning the best reviews of Christopher Nolan’s long-applauded career. AALOK SONI/GETTY IMAGES
becoming their own quasi- versions of Odysseus by travelling hours, sometimes days, to watch the film in the best possible for- mat available. Nolan shot his adaptation of Homer’s poem completely with Imax 70mm cameras – this is the very first feature-length film ever shot entirely in that complex, ex- pensive but aesthetically reward- ing format. The scope and texture of the images projected on a true Imax 70mm screen are designed to immerse and transfix, to prove to the viewer that real blood, sweat and tears went into the pro- duction. And you cannot watch the film, from its rollicking high- seas sequences to its body-horror moment of doom with Circe to the full scope of Agamemnon’s brutal and anarchic attack on Troy, without falling completely, luxuriouslyintothetextured,rich world Nolan has conjured. But because there are just 41 screens in the entire world equippedtoprojectafilminImax 70mm, audiences – some of them Nolan acolytes but many simply
adventurous everyday movie- lovers who are recognizing their opportunity to participate in a cultural event – have been rear- ranging their lives around the chance to visit one of them. And in the process, many are remem- bering a powerful truth that has been washed away by the pan- demic,bytheadventofstreaming and by the many empty sequels and prequels and spinoffs served up by the Hollywood machine over the past few years. Namely: Filmgoing can be a transforma- tiveexperience.Ifwewantittobe. There is a reason theatres across the United States have scheduled round-the-clock screenings of The Odyssey – and not just in the coveted Imax 70mm format (which in New YorkandL.A.aresoldoutthrough Aug. 19, and until mid-September in London). Crowds are fighting off sleep to catch 3 a.m. showings, and blowing off work and other responsibilities to squeeze in a 7 a.m. viewing. And that is only if they are among the lucky ones to have secured their tickets upward
Her Private Hell CLASSIFICATION: 14A; 110 MINUTES
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Written by Nicolas Winding Refn and Esti Giordani Starring Sophie Thatcher, Havana Rose Liu and Charles Melton
icolas Winding Refn is al- ways, of course, in on the joke. The Danish filmmak- er, who has spent the past decade pumping out television series whose gnarly provocations have largely failed to escape the streaming vortex, would not call his latest movie Her Private Hell without recognizing that some viewers will take the title all too literally. The director has a well- known penchant for mucking around in the neon-slicked storms of crime (2011’s Drive) and punishment (2013’s Only God For- gives), and by this point in his ca- reer has acquired the necessary critical cachet to make audience alienation part of his brand. Her Private Hell is Refn’s very public Valhalla. Yet being self-aware is not the same thing as being endlessly creative, and for all but the most hardcore and blindly devout of Refn fans, his latest production will test the very limits of com- mitment to the bit. A deathly dull slab of psychosexual melodrama that defiles the legacies of at least a handful of time-tested genres – from the giallo whodunits of Ma- rio Bava and Dario Argento to the hallucinatory camp of John Wa- ters – Her Private Hell is a remark- ably worthless creation. Too dull to be a future camp classic and too annoyingly im- mature to be transgressive, Refn’s film doesn’t so much live up to its name in knowing chee- kiness as it does loop back around to remind anyone who expended time and energy on this exercise just how big a suck- er they might be. Set in a futuristic city whose aesthetic seems derived from the
of a year ago. (For whatever rea- son, Cineplex has not scheduled middle-of-the-night and early- a.m.screeningsattheirhandfulof Imax 70mm theatres in Canada, including locations in Vaughan, Ont., and Calgary. We would, though, have one more option were the Ontario Place Cine- sphere not currently shuttered as part of that area’s controversial redevelopment.) Of course, not every movie can be a Nolan movie. The director has only a handful of contempo- raries whose names alone can make a production an event unto itself – James Cameron is one, De- nisVilleneuveanother,RyanCoo- gler, too. Perhaps Quentin Taran- tino, if he ever decides to produce his 10th and allegedly final film. But there is an undeniable lesson in The Odyssey about the power that a carefully crafted, skillfully executed feature film, as rich in visuals as it is performances, can offer in terms of a collective cul- tural experience. The movie the- atre is still a place where one can lose themselves entirely, if the art
Her Private Hell follows a young starlet named Elle, played by Sophie Thatcher, falling into a troupe of young models-slash-actors who are ostensibly filming a space opera.
prompt, “ChatGPT, design me Cloud City as imagined by a teen- ager tripping on MDMA,” Her Pri- vate Hell follows a young starlet named Elle (Sophie Thatcher) falling into a troupe of young models-slash-actors who are os- tensibly filming a space opera. Mostly, though, the women, in- cluding the quasi-matriarch Dominique (Havana Rose Liu), spend their days lounging in lux- uriously trashy high-rise hotel rooms rhapsodizing about a misogynistic serial killer nick- named the Leather Man, who is said to prowl the fog-drenched streets below.
The film carries an infuriating pride in its own incoherence and the otherwise compelling actors that it smears into lifeless shells.
carries an infuriating pride in its own incoherence and the other- wise compelling actors that it smears into lifeless shells. By the point at which one character’s torso is ripped open and her body tossed out a win- dow – not so much with cinemat- ic glee as a kind of dead-eyed inevitability – you can practically hear Refn tittering in the back- ground. It would all be so mas- turbatory if it weren’t so embar- rassingly flaccid. During the film’s Cannes pre- miere a few months ago, it was hard to ignore every other audi- ence member shifting their gaze to the exits, the genuinely intox- icating Pino Donaggio score he- roically keeping the bulk of the crowd from emptying out of the Grand Palais and filling their pockets with stones as they stepped into the cold embrace of the Mediterranean Sea. Naturally, there will be defend- ers coming out of the woodwork as Her Private Hell makes its way into the world – smart counter- programming for a summer movie season, in an evil-genius kind of way. And the Refn zealots are more than welcome to spread their gospel. To paraphrase one of the filmmaker’s cinematic predecessors, when there’s no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the art house.
At the same time, Refn intro- duces a parallel storyline involv- ing a young American soldier named Private K (Charles Mel- ton), who is navigating the city’s underworld as he searches for his abducted daughter. Attempting to trace the con- tours of Refn’s narrative, though, is like trying to unzip the pants of Leather Man himself – inadvisa- ble at best, fatal at worst. The film
on offer meets its audience where they most want to be. Forget the artificial arguments about The Odyssey’s “woke” poli- tics, casting decisions and histor- ical accuracy – bad-faith non- sense that has been fed into the online swamp as red-meat provo- cation by parties who have no in- terestorappreciationinfilmmak- ing, culture or anything beyond generating faux outrage. As for Elon Musk’s new promise that Grok will produce a “historically accurate” AI-generated adapta- tion of The Odyssey by year’s end? Goodlucktoanyonewhowatches that without their eyes bleeding out, should the thing indeed get made. The real, hard truth is that Nolan has made a film that not only represents an evolution in his craft and sensibilities and pas- sions – what is a Nolan movie like Interstellar, Inception and Oppen- heimer if not a movie about one man trying to escape a nightmare they’ve created and return to their family? – but a work of art that speaks to audiences’ univer- sal desires to be swept away, to be thrilled, to be provoked, to recog- nize a part of themselves and their world on the screen. Ideally, the biggest of screens possible. Even at 3 a.m. Itwouldbefoolishandnaiveto expect Hollywood to suddenly abandon easy-to-market fran- chisefilmmaking,toimmediately kibosh every superhero flick or live-action cartoon remake that’s in development. Nor can we ex- pect the industry to create an en- tirely new generation of Chris- topher Nolans out of thin air. And of course, comic-book movies are how Nolan was able to get from point A to point B(atman) to here. But to not at least recognize and savour and genuinely reflect on the magic that is currently be- ing made in theatres around the world – whether it’s Imax or a reg- ular old multiplex screen – would be throwing away the opportuni- ty of a lifetime. We can make the movies, and moviegoing, great again. The Odyssey can be the first step on that long journey home.
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Dad jokes may be the best jokes we can deploy
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to be playful and safe to laugh at something small, Adam Kapasi writes
’m hungry.” “Hi Hungry, I’m Dad.” It is one of those jokes that has never needed to be good in order to survive. I heard a version of this joke during Sunday brunch at a family gathering where two of my uncles were doing what goofy uncles are apparently born to do: turn ordinary conversation into a series of jokes that hover somewhere between comedy and public service. At first, I reacted the way most peo- ple usually do when a dad joke is heard. I groaned, rolled my eyes and then immediately thought, “Oh man, that was awful.” But then, of course, I laughed. Not a big laugh. Not the type of laugh that makes you lean back in your chair or clench your stomach. It was more a quiet breath escaping before I could stop it. A small reluctant chuckle. The sort of laugh that you almost resent, because now the joke-teller feels he has won. But this time, sitting there,
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surrounded by my family, I started to wonder if that little laugh was doing more than I gave it credit for. I began pondering the idea that with- out the small laughs, maybe the big laughs never develop. That was the moment I started to see the dad joke differently. I always thought of it as a failed attempt at com- edy, too obvious, too corny, too predict- able. The punchline usually arrives with all the subtlety of someone walking into a glass door. Everyone sees it com- ing and somehow it still gets delivered with complete confidence. But maybe that’s the point. A dad joke isn’t aimed to be the smartest joke in the room. Nor is it try- ing to be cool or clever. It’s trying to do something much simpler: to make the room feel safe enough to respond. This matters at a family gathering. A room full of relatives can be warm. But it can also be careful. People are playing catch-up, asking questions, avoiding certain topics, trying not to say the wrong thing. Even people who love each other can feel a quiet pressure to be appropriate, interesting, agreeable and not too awkward. Then someone makes the harmless- ly wrong comment first. Someone says the pun. Someone risks the groan. Someone volunteers to be uncool. There is generosity in that. The person telling the dad joke knows it might fail. In fact, failure is
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Adam Kapasi lives in Toronto.
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While The Outer Threat is structured as a typical on-the-run thriller, complete with obligatory narrative detours – extended pauses in the action that allow Woods to flesh out Daniel and Michelle’s backstories but also conserve the production’s rela- tively slim resources by limiting the drama to small, sparsely populated locations – the film’s thematic backbone is uniquely gripping. Daniel is positioned as the eternal optimist, thoroughly convinced that the discovery of alien life can only be a boon for mankind. Michelle, however, is not so convinced that humanity is even worth saving – and that there is no good reason why another civilization would even want anything to do with the ticking time bomb that Earth has become. Is it better, Woods seems to be asking his audience, to be alone in the universe, or attempt a connec- tion that risks bringing about mutually as- sured destruction? The debate plays out best in the com- mitted performances by O’Brien, a veteran Canadian actor who previously worked with Woods on the intense and underrated 2020 thriller Hammer, and Wu, who brings to this relatively small-scale production the same fiery energy that she delivered in her breakout performances in the Holly- wood-sized Hustlers and Crazy Rich Asians. As the couple spar over the fate of hu- manity – but also, more immediately, the bonds of their marriage – the actors dig in- to provocative, messy conversations about best intentions and missed opportunities. The ugly reality of how humanity might greet alien life is further poked at in an ex- tended, finely calibrated sequence in which the family make a pit stop at a dusty roadside diner. The restaurant’s twitchy proprietor (played with deep reservoirs of tension by the magnificent character actor William Fichtner) gives off just the kind of uneasy vibes that would deter any kind of E.T. from making their way to Earth. Come to think of it, The Outer Threat might be best viewed as the Canadian answer to Ste- ven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, just at one- thousandth of the budget. Still, the production is pockmarked by a handful of complications that not even a Spielbergian-sized expense account could solve. Outside of Fichtner, some members of the supporting cast struggle to rise to the occasion, with essential chunks of dia- logue delivered with a distinct lack of weight. And a third-act development that unmaskstherealenemypursuingthefam- ily feels at once of the moment and too outside of it at the same time – a case of Woods having something genuinely im- portant to say about contemporary society but finding an overly convenient opportu- nity to do so. The same fault lines can be found in the story’s climax, which MacGyv- ers an overly convenient solution to seem- ingly unavoidable doom. Still, when the film comes back to focus- ing on Daniel and Michelle, and when O’Brien and Wu are able to fire sparks at one another over grand cosmic questions, the dark forest of The Outer Threat feels rather bright.
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suit is usually based on upward of 12 high-card points and im- plies good support for the three unbid suits. This hand certainly makes the grade as a double, but it contains no significant values beyond those already announced. Game is out of the question, since partner did not make a jump-response to iden- tify a good hand; indeed, partner might have a virtually worthless hand, which is all the more rea- son to take no further action. 2. Two spades. Here you also have 14 high-card points, but this hand is worth about 3 ex- tra points because of the excel-
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lent trump fit and singleton diamond. The single raise to two spades indicates about 16 to 18 points in high cards and distri- bution, and invites partner to bid game with a maximum (7 or 8 points) for his previous one- spade response. 3. One notrump. A direct one-notrump overcall of one diamond would indicate 15 to 18 points. When the notrump bid is preceded by a double, it tends to show greater values than an im- mediate notrump bid. Many players would make the mistake of jumping to two notrump at this point, but at the
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same time they would agree that they would not have opened the bidding with two notrump. The fact that partner responded one spade to the initial double – promising nothing whatsoever – does not justify single-handedly undertaking two notrump. It takes two to tango. 4. Three spades. With 19 gilt- edged high-card points, good trumps and a doubleton dia- mond, you have enough to jump to three spades. The hand is too good for two spades and not good enough for four spades. Partner should be consulted in such cases, and the best way
of doing this is by jumping to three. 5. Four spades. Partner needs little more than five spades to the 10 to have a good chance for game. It would be overly conser- vative to risk partner’s passing three spades with a hand so like- ly to make four. You should bid what you think you can make – four spades – without put- ting partner under unnecessary pressure.
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Crude oil prices surged to a three-month high on Thursday amid concerns that the conflict between the United States and Iran is widening across the Middle East and could spark another global inflation- ary spiral. Hostilities escalated this week as the U.S. and Iran continued to trade blows over the Strait of Hormuz. The recent in- volvement of Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis has raised further fears that oil trade could be halted at other choke- points in the region. Brent crude hit US$100 a barrel for the first time since May on Thursday, while the commodity’s North American bench-
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nternational trade talks used to rest on an implicit assumption: that freer trade was the name of the game. Negotiators haggled over which tar- iffs to lower and which trade barriers to re- move or reduce; that’s why they were in the room. The unspoken shared belief was that freer trade, particularly between ad- vanced economies like Canada and the United States, was a win-win proposition. Since the Great Depression, the arc of trade history has bent toward lower tariffs and freer trade. Not any more. Under President Donald Trump, Wash- ington is chaotically dismantling what it once built. Ifyourmindisstillintheoldworld,then the past year and a half of attacks on Canada – the latest being the announce- ment of pending 50-per-cent tariffs on some Canadian goods – is hard to understand. So are Thursday’s sweeping new tariffs on all major U.S. trading part- ners, including Canada, on the absurd pre-
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mark, West Texas Intermediate, hit US$92. “The fear is this escalation is going to spread wider than the Strait of Hormuz,” said Michael Dehal, senior portfolio man- ager at Dehal Investment Partners of Ray- mond James. Since the conflict began in early March, Saudi Arabia has been ramping up its use of alternative shipping routes. That in- cludes its 1,200-kilometre East-West pipe- line carrying oil to the Red Sea, which has become a new point of conflict in the fighting. More than 93 crude oil tankers were op- erating in the Red Sea on Tuesday, com- pared with 50 tankers a day before the war, according to Kpler, a maritime intelli- gence firm. From the port of Yanbu in the Red Sea,
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text of combatting forced labour. But Mr. Trump doesn’t share the post-Second World War assumptions about the mutual benefits of trade. Recog- nize that, and things become clearer. He wants to build trade walls, not tear them down. We don’t know a lot about what has gone on, or what is going on, in trade talks between Washington and Ottawa. But a year and a half of statements from Mr. Trump and his chief water carriers on the file leaves little doubt that the United States’ objective is not fewer trade barriers, but the opposite. Their goal is not a United States- Mexico-Canada Agreement that frees up more trade, but a USMCA that imposes new trade restrictions – on us. Not lower tariffs all around, but instead higher U.S. tariffs. Not shared industries with production chains snaking back and forth and back again across an invisible border, as in the auto industry, but a thicker border, forcing industries to relocate to the U.S. And no more seeking mutual trade ben- efits,butinsteadaimingforU.S.tradegains paid for with Canadian trade losses.
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Saudi Arabian oil has been travelling south through the Bab al-Mandab Strait – a waterway narrower than the Strait of Hormuz, between eastern Yemen, Djibou- ti and Eritrea. The sea lane is one of the few oil chokepoints in the region, con- necting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to Europe by offering a path to the Suez Ca- nal through the Red Sea. But Saudi Arabia’s overall crude ex- ports are still far below prewar levels, and hostilities from the Houthis risk further halting exports that travel through the Bab al-Mandab Strait. On Monday, the Houthis threatened to impose a naval blockade in the strait, through which 10 per cent of the world’s daily trade flows in peacetime.
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with $1-billion EU penalty for abusing its search power
ADAM SATARIANO JEANNA SMIALEK LONDON
In a decision likely to intensify transatlantic trade tensions, European Union regulators on Thursday hit Google with a US$1-billion fine for illegally un- dercutting competition through its dominance as a search engine. U.S. President Donald Trump has previously threatened to re- taliate against the EU for what he views as the unfair targeting of American technology compa- nies. The Google decision was an- nounced as he was weighing a new batch of tariffs on the EU and other major trading partners. In explaining Thursday’s fine of €890-million, regulators in Brussels said Google had used its position as the world’s largest search engine to unfairly boost its services in areas such as shop- ping, travel, games and language translation. Google displayed its own services more prominently at the top of search results, while relegating competing services farther down the page, according to regulators. The European Commission, which conducted the investiga- tion, also concluded that the tech giant used unfair restrictions on its Google Play app store to pre- vent app developers from com- municating with users.
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How Ontario’s strained grid is thwarting plans for new homes
MATTHEW McCLEARN BROOKLIN, ONT.
he subdivisions planned around the small village of Brooklin, Ont., were billed as neighbourhoods of the future. The dozen housing developers behind them had proposed to build each home with charging equipment for electric vehicles; they would also have rough-ins and conduits ready should own- ers want to install solar panels and batteries. But there was a problem: Brooklin lies smack in the mid- dle of one of the most electricity- starved areas around Toronto. The local power utility, Elexicon Energy, couldn’t connect 10,000 new homes without significantly expanding its infrastructure, in- cluding building two new low- voltage feeder lines from a trans- mission station in nearby Whit- by, Ont. Disputes arose over who should pay. Today, Brooklin remains sur- rounded by grassy, fallow fields, agricultural land and patches of forest interspersed with the oc- casional presentation centre, ex- cavator and bulldozer. In a 2024 report, the Town of Whitby ac- knowledged that the lack of elec- trical infrastructure has become the main barrier to fulfilling its pledge to build 18,000 homes by 2031. It’s just one indication of a much larger infrastructure defi- cit that complicates efforts to ad- dress a housing crisis in pop- ulous Southern Ontario. Accord- ing to the Electricity Distributors Association, which represents Ontario’s local distribution com- panies (LDCs), the tab for up- grading networks over the next couple of decades will amount to between $103-billion and $120- billion.
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interests as its growth has stalled and shares have lagged those of U.S.-listed peers. SEAN VOKEY/CP WSP among firms considering bid for Arcadis, sources say
happen soon owing to potential hurdles with shareholder structure
AMY-JO CROWLEY LONDON
Dutch engineering consultancy group Arcadis has attracted take- over interest from bidders in- cluding Canadian peer WSP Global that view the company as undervalued, according to two people familiar with the matter. Trading in Arcadis’ Amster- dam-listed shares was temporari- ly halted on Thursday after they jumped 9.5 per cent on news of interest, which was first reported by Reuters. Montreal-based WSP, listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, has held talks with advisers and con- ducted work on and off over the last year on a possible bid for Ar- cadis, whose market value is
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Ford and Chinese automotive company Geely Auto announced plansonThursdaytojointlyman- ufacture low- and zero-emission vehicles at Ford’s Valencia, Spain, factory. The partnership is a bid to reig- nite Ford’s offerings for the Eu- ropean auto market as the legacy carmaker seeks to compete with the likes of fast-moving Chinese companies that are rapidly dom- inating auto sales across the globe. It comes amid challenges for
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about €3.2-billion (US$3.64-bil- lion), one of the sources said. WSP, with a market value of $23.6-billion (US$16.75-billion), is an obvious suitor because, by combining operations, it could cut costs and boost revenue, the person added. Large-cap private equity firms have also explored a potential bid for Arcadis in re- cent months, the people said. The sources asked not to be named in order to discuss the private deliberations. While the suitors are consid- ering bids, an offer for Arcadis is unlikely to materialize quickly owing to potential hurdles in- cluding the company’s shareholder structure, said the people. Founded in 1888, Arcadis, which has 34,000 employees, has become increasingly vulnerable to takeover interest as its growth has stalled and shares have lagged those of U.S.-listed peers. Despite the jump in late trading on Thursday, its shares are still
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the American electric vehicle marketandincreasingglobalgeo- political tensions driven by U.S. tariff policy. In the U.S., policy all but locks Chinese firms out of the market – though American auto- makers still partner with compa- nies in China for production, and Chinese vehicles are making in- roads in North America more broadly. The joint venture, pending reg- ulatory approval, will be owned two-thirds by Ford and one-third by Geely, which also owns brands such as Volvo, Polestar and more. Under the partnership, Ford plans to continue production of
hroughout U.S. President Donald Trump’s volatile second term, Cana- da has enjoyed a relatively advantaged position when it came to trade access to the world’s largest economy – one that made it the envy of many other countries. If Mr. Trump’s latest volley of tariffs against this country take effect next month, much of that benefit would evaporate, leaving Canada’s average effec- tive tariff rate – a measure of duties collected as a share of total imports – just a notch behind that of France and Vietnam. “Canada’s relative tariff advantage will shrink, but remain intact, if 338 levies are introduced,” National Bank of Canada economists Taylor Schleich and Eth- an Currie wrote in a note. “This advantage has already stepped down from its ‘peak’ in Oct-25, when Canada’s tariff rate was 7 percentage points below the global average.” There are a lot of “ifs” in any discussion of the new tariffs that Mr. Trump has threatened to apply against Canada under Section 338, a Depression-era provi- sion that the U.S. has never used. The 50-per-cent tariff on more than 500 categories of products is set to take effect on Aug. 19, and would apply to 5 per cent of Canada’s 2025 shipments to the U.S., or $20.1-billion worth of goods. However, many economists, and even some of the companies that would be hurt by the punishing new duties, view Mr. Trump’s threat with a skeptical eye, chalking it up to a negotiating tactic. That said, even the potential for Canada and Vietnam to share a similar-sized tariff wall speaks to how much the global trading order has shifted. As it is, Vietnam is on a trajectory to surpass Canada as a source of U.S. im- ports. Since the start of 2025, U.S. imports from Canada have fallen 6.7 per cent to US$36.3-billion. Over the same time, shipments from Vietnam soared 67 per cent to a record high in May of US$21.8-billion. JASON KIRBY
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down over 40 per cent from a peak of €66.85 reached in November, 2024. Lovinklaan, a foundation led and managed by employees, owns about 18 per cent of the company, according to its web- site, and could oppose a deal un- less safeguards are put in place to protect employment and skills development, the sources said. Any bidder would likely need to offer commitments to the sha- reholder to secure support, they said. Arcadis also has a relatively new management team led by chief executive Heather Polinsky, who started in March, and the board is waiting to assess whether she and other execu- tives can improve its perform- ance as a standalone company, the first person said. If the board ultimately loses confidence in their turnaround efforts, the likelihood of a transaction would increase, the person added.
the Ford Kuga plug-in hybrid ve- hicle, as well as a new Bronco SUV, production for which will begin in 2028. Geely plans to make two electric SUVs at the plant, the first of which is also scheduled to begin production in 2028. The automakers said they will also jointly develop a new “multi-energy” crossover model to arrive in 2028. “The joint venture addresses the new realities of the European market – intense global competi- tion, relentless cost pressure and tightening regulation – resetting Valencia to build at the industry’s emerging cost benchmark,” a re-
opposition to merger in U.S. in exchange for more network access
CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS
Canadian National Railway Co. and Union Pacific Corp. are striking a deal that would end CN’s opposition to that rival’s proposal for a massive merger south of the border. Announced Wednesday evening, the agreement would hand CN more network access in the U.S. Midwest in ex- change for its tacit support of Union Pacific’s proposed US$85-billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern Corp. Union Pacific, the second-largest railway operator in the United States, announced last July it wants to buy the fourth- largest – Norfolk Southern – in a deal that would create that country’s first transcontinental railway and potentially trig- ger a final wave of rail mergers across North America. Competitors and customers worry the merger would cost customers and place unprecedented market power in the hands of a single railway, which would handle some 40 per cent of American freight traffic. Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern argue that getting hitched would slash costs and prompt rivals to lower their rates to compete. “I said from Day 1 that our merger will create a stronger railroad industry that delivers better service for customers. Our agreement with CN – Canadian National – reinforces those commitments,” said UP chief executive Jim Vena, who worked at CN for decades before joining its bigger rival, during a conference call with analysts Thursday morning. The U.S. Surface Transporta- tion Board, the industry regula- tor, rejected an amended merger application in May, saying it left out key information and calling for more details in an updated submission. The deal this week between CN and Union Pacific hinges on approval from the regulator and approval of the acquisi- tion. Under their memorandum of understanding, CN would secure the right to run its trains on a 200-plus-kilometre stretch of Union Pacific track in Illinois between Tuscola and East St. Louis, and to serve its customers between St. Louis and Kansas City in Missouri. In a second deal with Union Pacific that is not contingent on the merger, CN will also gain more direct access to Mexico. The memorandum of understanding grants the Montreal- based railway the right to run trains over UP tracks between Memphis and Eagle Pass, Tex., which sits along the Rio Grande. “This is a natural extension of our north-south franchise and will open new routes for customers, provide greater choice and strengthen connections between Canada and Mexico,” said CN chief executive Tracy Robinson in a news release. As part of the quid pro quo, Union Pacific would enjoy ex- panded operating rights over CN’s Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Rail- way that rims the Chicago area.
The deal this week between CN and Union Pacific hinges on approval from the regulator and approval of the acquisition.
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leasefromthetwocompaniessaid. Chineseautomakershavebeen gaining momentum in recent years as they produce high-qual- ity and efficient hybrid and pure EVs – coined “new energy vehi- cles” – with advanced technology at a low price-point. These auto companies have been highly sub- sidized by the Chinese govern- ment with a vested interest in their success. However, they are also starting to see a slowdown in China owing to scaled-back con- sumer purchase incentives and increasing domestic competition. So Chinese companies have found early success expanding
throughout other nations in Asia, in Latin America and parts of Eu- rope as the global EV transition forges ahead to varying degrees outside of the U.S. The war in Iran has also spurred global interest in Chinese EVs as conflict in the Strait of Hormuz impacts the world’s crude oil and liquefied natural gas supply. Ford, meanwhile, has been los- ing ground in Europe for years, from selling more than 1 million vehicles across the continent a decade ago, down to under half a million cars last year.
The Vancouver-based company on Thursday reported a 25-per-cent jump in production
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Record-high copper prices pro- pelled Teck Resources Ltd. past profit expectations in the second quarter, as it awaits a decision from China on its proposed ac- quisition by Britain’s Anglo American PLC. Vancouver-based Teck on Thursday reported a 25-per-cent jump in year-over-year copper production to around 136,000 tonnes, with Highland Valley Copper in British Columbia per- forming particularly well. Que- brada Blanca in Chile, Teck’s big- gest copper mine, also delivered solid results with production ris- ing by 6 per cent to 55,800 tonnes. Copper, which is used in elec- tronics, wiring, transportation and plumbing, surged by 40 per cent year-over-year to an average of US$6.05 a pound in Q2. The commodity on Thursday traded around US$6.30 a pound, not far from its all-time high of US$6.67 a pound in June, according to data from Trading Economics. Teck sold its legacy coal busi- ness to Glencore PLC in 2024, broadening its exposure consid- erably to copper. Last September, Teck agreed to be acquired by Anglo American. The British miner said on Thurs- day that the deal remains on track to close between September
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Ottawa is creating a marketplace of drone suppliers to expedite the delivery of the low-cost technolo- gies to the Canadian Armed Forces, as continuing conflicts illustrate how critical these sys- tems are to modern warfare. The Defence Drone Initiative marketplace was launched on Thursday with a request by the federal government for compa- nies to apply to enter a pool of suppliers that the Armed Forces and Coast Guard can go to for spe- cific products and services. This could include testing, prototype development or production opportunities. Theinitiativeisbeingledbythe Department of National Defence and the Defence Investment Agency and is a direct follow-on from the federal government’s Defence Industrial Strategy, which was announced in Febru- ary. It identified uncrewed and autonomous systems as one of 10 sovereign capabilities that the government wants to prioritize building at home, ensuring it has access to essential capabilities
once-bullish tone on robotaxis shifts
CHRIS KIRKHAM AKASH SRIRAM LOS ANGELES
A year ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company’s robotaxi net- work would expand at a “hyper- exponential rate” and be availa- ble to half the population of the U.S. by the end of 2025. On Wednesday’s earnings call, Mr. Musk and his executive team struck a more guarded tone as they fielded analysts’ questions about a slower-than-expected rollout. The robotaxi update like- ly contributed to a steep selloff in Tesla shares on Thursday. Tesla’s stock price, which had fallen nearly 17 per cent this year as of last close, closed down 14.5 per cent in afternoon trading, set for its biggest percentage drop in more than a year. “More is needed to show that Tesla’s capabilities are inflecting” on robotaxis, Barclays analysts said in a note, adding that Tesla provided no new expansion tar- gets and “hasn’t met previously laid out targets.” Since launching a small robo- taxi pilot in Austin in June, 2025, Tesla has expanded to only a handful of other cities, in Texas and Florida, with service often limited to outlying areas. Before the Austin launch last year, Mr. Musk talked about how Tesla’s technology is “a general
Teck Resources Ltd.'s zinc and lead smelting and refining complex is pictured in Trail, B.C., in 2012. The company’s biggest copper mine delivered solid results with production rising by 6 per cent. DARRYL DYCK/CP
and March of next year. After ob- taining approval from both Teck and Anglo shareholders last year, the Canadian federal government also gave the deal the nod in De- cember. One of the final regulatory hur- dles to clear before the deal can close is obtaining antitrust ap- proval from China. The State Ad- ministration for Market Regula- tion in China is scrutinizing what impact Anglo Teck could have on the country’s copper market, whether too much power might be concentrated in one entity,
without necessarily having to rely on suppliers from outside the country. “Uncrewed systems are chang- ing the nature of warfare,” Lieu- tenant-General Darcy Molstad, commanderoftheCanadianJoint ForcesCommand,saidinaninter- view. “They are making it so that, in some cases, expensive and ex- quisite capabilities can be neu- tralized by very low-cost attributable systems. “We need those capabilities to be able to fight in a modern con- text.” Traditional project-based pro- curement doesn’t lend itself to technologies such as drones that require constant iteration, testing and adaptation to keep up with a rapidly changing battlefield. The goal with a supply arrangement is to cut down procurement or vet- ting time and to ensure the tech- nologiesremainrelevantthrough upgrades and modernization. Canada’s drone industry is evolving with many players look- ing to build manufacturing capacity, but it remains a sector largely comprised of assemblers rather than component and parts makers. This initiative aims to help with that, creating the demand signal from government
As recently as Tuesday, Tesla has launched its robotaxi service in three cities out of its promised seven by the end of June: Dallas, Houston and Miami. EVAN GARCIA/REUTERS
solution that works anywhere,” in contrast to the more deliber- ate, city-by-city approach of Al- phabet’s Waymo, the U.S. leader in driverless taxis. In an investor presentation in January, Tesla said that its robo- taxis would expand to seven met- ro areas by the end of June: Dal- las, Houston, Phoenix, Miami, Or- lando, Tampa and Las Vegas. Up until Tuesday, Tesla had on- ly launched in three of those ci- ties: Dallas, Houston and Miami, with service limited to outlying sections of Houston and Miami. The company announced on
and how that might affect China as a major buyer of the commod- ity. In a conference call with analy- sts on Thursday, Teck chief exec- utive officer Jonathan Price said that SAMR’s probe of the transac- tion is progressing in a normal fashion, and the company is re- sponding to various requests as part of that process. One analyst asked whether the regulator had asked for any asset sales as a con- dition for approving the deal. “We haven’t received any re- quests for remedies arising from
for industry to invest in building a more sovereign supply chain, Lt.- Gen. Molstad said. “Wehavebusinesses,suppliers, vendors and innovators in Cana- da that have such incredible po- tential that we haven’t quite yet tappedinto,andthisisgoingtobe a mechanism to tap into that,” he said. Ottawa’s Buy Canadian policy, whichdoesn’tnecessarilyexclude foreign-owned subsidiaries, “may apply” to requests put out through the initiative, according to the federal government. But the ultimate goal of the initiative is to establish a marketplace of Canadian suppliers, Lt.-Gen. Mol- stad said. “The intent is, to do that, a gated procurement process where we have companies dem- onstrate their capabilities over time, and we determine which ones are going to be the highest potential to deliver, as well as to scale up,” he said. The aim is not to procure and stockpile drones, as these tech- nologies can easily be obsolete in a month or two. Rather, the point is for the Canadian Armed Forces and Canadian Coast Guard to be able to call upon a select group of suppliersonshortnoticetooffera
Tuesday that it was “now in Tam- pa and Orlando,” after several analyst reports ahead of earnings that mentioned the slow expan- sion. But the service areas in those cities, like Miami and Houston, were limited to less-trafficked neighbourhoods outside the city centres. Reuters tested out the robotaxi service in the weeks after the Dal- las and Houston launches and found long wait times, with sometimes no availability at all.
the approval process,” Mr. Price replied. “So business as usual for the time being.” London-based Anglo intends to move its global headquarters to Canada once the deal is con- summated and rename itself An- glo Teck. If Anglo succeeds in buying the Canadian mining company, it stands to benefit from a major in- vestment by Ottawa into one of Teck’s legacy operations. Earlier this month, the federal government said it intends to in-
solution and produce it at scale, Lt.-Gen. Molstad said. “Itwilltakeabitoftime,butwe also can learn from our allies and partners. Yes, we are targeting Canadian suppliers in this supply arrangement, but these may pro- vide opportunities for different typesofpartnerships,perhapsco- productions for relevant allies and partners in the future,” he said. ForJoshOgden,chiefexecutive officer of the Fredericton-based drone company Aerial Vehicle SafetySolutionsInc.,it’stheclear- est sign yet that there is demand in Canada for domestic compa- nies. “This is a signal to the market that, ‘We are getting ready to buy. We just need to know who to buy from,’ ” he said. To start, the military is looking for companies who can provide low-cost drones for surveillance and reconnaissance, uncrewed ground or maritime drones, munitions and strike systems for drones, and low-cost counter- droneinterceptors.Othercapabil- ities will be requested over time. Companies looking to apply can qualify through five streams, which include communications,
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vest up to $400-million into Teck’s Trail smelter in B.C., as part of its multibillion-dollar drive to bolster North American supplies of critical minerals. Separately, Anglo American, as partofitslegallybindingcommit- ments to Ottawa last year, said it intends to invest up to $850-mil- lion into Trail. The dual investments could double Trail’s existing produc- tion of germanium and antimony and potentially add new gallium production. Gallium is used in semicon- ductors and radar systems. Anti- mony’s applications include flame retardants and high-effi- ciency batteries. Germanium is used in fibre optics and in mili- tary applications, such as infrared optical vision. The Trail facility, which em- ploys more than 1,400 people, has been in continuous operation for 130years.Tecktookovertheoper- ation in 2001 when it acquired Co- minco. Teck reported a profit of $884- million for the quarter ending on June 30. The miner’s adjusted earnings per share was $1.93, blasting past the $1.41 per share that was forecast by S&P Capital IQ. “Both companies appear to be heading into their planned merg- er firing on all cylinders in their core businesses,” Christopher La- Femina, analyst with Jefferies wrote in a note to clients on Thursday, referring to both Teck and Anglo. Shares in Teck rose by 4.4 per cent in trading on The Toronto Stock Exchange on Thursday to close at $84.18 apiece.
uncrewed systems, testing, eval- uation and training, among oth- ers. The various streams are meant to support “end-to-end capability,” according to Lt.-Gen. Molstad. This means, for exam- ple, the Armed Forces can not only procure a physical drone throughthemarketplace,butalso the training services they need to use it, or the communications in- frastructure they need to ensure it’s interoperable across various branches of the military. The request for supply arrangement will be open until Aug. 14 and will be reopened every three months in the first year, to allow new suppliers to enter. After the first year, it will likely reopen every six months. The supply arrangement lasts for five years from its date of issuance. Mr. Ogden said his company will be applying to three or four of the streams. Next, he’ll be watch- ing how quickly government can take this pool of qualified suppli- ers and actually start buying from them. “There’s clear intent, and now as much as industry has to exe- cute, so does the government on timeliness.”
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After Ottawa’s tall talk, Canadian taxpayers deserve more than a promise of repayment
he Gordie Howe Interna- tional Bridge risks becom- ing a financial sinkhole for Canadian taxpayers. Although the current uproar over Canada’s side deal with the United States is renewing public focus on the bridge’s finances, the fiscal hazards of the 2.5-kilometre span connecting Windsor, Ont., and Detroit, Mich., involve more than just that pact. Indeed, the economics of the $6.4-billion project, entirely funded by Canada, began crum- bling long before U.S. President Donald Trump put the squeeze on Ottawa to fork over half of the bridge’s net revenues for its first 15 years of operation. Details in the fine print of pub- lic documents suggest that Cana- dian taxpayers may not recoup their investment in the border crossing – at least not in a reason- able period of time. Neither the responsible federal department nor the Windsor-De- troit Bridge Authority, or WDBA, the Crown corporation in charge of the project, have answered The Globe and Mail’s queries. But, hey, opacity is the Cana- dian way. Obviously, infrastructure in- vestments, such as bridges and roads, are not corporate ventures. They serve larger social and eco- nomic purposes and aren’t gener- ally built to turn a profit. The primary purpose of the Gordie Howe bridge is to facilitate more cross-border trade and eco- nomic growth for decades. And it will do just that once it finally opens to traffic on Monday, de- spite Mr. Trump’s shenanigans. So, if you’re wondering why taxpayers should expect to be re- paid for this particular piece of in- frastructure, it’s because Ottawa has promised Canadians that they will get their money back. “The Gordie Howe Interna- tional Bridge will operate under a user-pay model to ensure the long-term sustainability of the crossing, including recovery of Canada’s investment and funding ongoing operations and mainte- nance,” Caleb Spassov, a spokesperson for Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada, told The Globe in
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Mr. Trump’s brain is as disorga- nized as a library with a scram- bled card catalogue, and his un- predictable impulses mean that the day-to-day movements of U.S. trade policy are driven by whim, caprice, ego and what was on Fox News that morning. There’s a lot of noise. But beneath it, Mr. Trump clearly feels, to the marrow of his bones, that free trade is for suck- ers. He distrusts allies, seeks sup- plicants and mocks the notion of win-win arrangements. He be- lieves in win-lose, and his bot- tomless ego requires it. This is our reality now. The world as it is, not as we wish it to be. So what does Canada do?
PUSH BACK, BUT DON’T OVERREACT
The Trump administration is try- ing to rewrite trade rules, while ignoring trade treaties it signed. The attempt faces U.S. opposi- tion from Congress, the courts and the public. At least one house of Congress is likely to pass to the control of the Democratic Party after this fall’s midterm elections. Mr. Trump’s tariff actions, which are unpopular with most voters, tend to make that more likely. These are Canadian points of leverage. Canada isn’t big enough to af- fect the U.S. macroeconomy. But because we are the world’s big- gest market for U.S. exports, we can make a lot of noise and have a real microeconomic impact. For example, Canadians are
The Gordie Howe International Bridge, seen under construction in May, connects Windsor, Ont., with Detroit, Mich. The 2.5-kilometre, $6.4-billion project was entirely funded by Canada. PAUL SANCYA/ ASSOCIATED PRESS
widely boycotting U.S. liquor, and most provinces have taken American booze off the shelves. That has no impact on the Cana- dian economy, while delivering pain to U.S. producers, getting the attention of U.S. politicians in states such as Kentucky and generating U.S. news coverage. It forces Americans to notice the cost of the irrational trade war against Canada. The abrupt drop in Canadian travel to the U.S. has similarly caught the attention of cham- bers of commerce, politicians and hospitality industry workers from Maine to Miami to Las Ve- gas.
TRUMP IS NOT FOREVER. TIME IS ON OUR SIDE
Control of Congress could flip against Mr. Trump in a few months. Unless he transforms the U.S. into a postdemocratic state, he’s already a lame duck president who has to leave office in early 2029. Canada need be in no hurry to volunteer to surrender the status quo. Ragging the puck on the penalty kill is always a sound strategy. If Mr. Trump is determined to demolish USMCA? He can and he will. Major changes to the trad- ing rules may be imposed on us, but we don’t have to pre-emp- tively agree to them. The new agreement on the Gordie Howe International Bridge looks like a case of Otta- wa making a fast concession, Mr. Trump pocketing it, and then hitting us with new tariffs and new demands. There’s an argu- ment to be made that the Carney government’s emissaries should
Canada need be in no hurry to volunteer to surrender the status quo. Ragging the puck on the penalty kill is always a sound strategy.
December. “This framework is central to ensuring that the bridge operates efficiently without increased costs to Canadian taxpayers.” The government declined to say this week if it stands by that statement. That’s a problem because Otta- wa has framed this bridge as a re- coverable investment. What’s more, public disclosures about the project raise questions about whether government outlays will be recouped down the road. As previously stated, the Cana- dian government was the bridge’s sole funder, and the WDBA plans to reimburse Ottawa through fu- ture toll revenues. The project debt that must be repaid to the government – in other words, the Canadian public – was more than $6.3-billion on March 31, 2025, according to the WDBA’s annual report. Of course, the document uses jargon to make this disclosure, describing it as “total unrecouped Canadian contributions.” The interest on this debt, the “imputed cost of unrecouped Canadian contributions,” was nearly $272-million in 2025 alone, according to the report. Interest accrues annually at a rate equal to the Government of Canada benchmark long-term bond yield on the last business day of the previous fiscal year- end, plus 100 basis points. That
have politely told the White House, thanks, but we’re fine with the bridge that we paid for remaining closed indefinitely. The new agreement says that for the next 15 years, half of net toll revenues will go into a U.S. economic development fund run by the Trump administration. That means the repayment peri- od on the debt Canada incurred to build the bridge just got long- er.
At first blush, it looks like Canada really ate it. However, considered more closely, it may be the kind of fi- nancial engineering that keeps business humming at your local car dealer. Can’t handle financ- ing a new vehicle on a 48-month term? Look at how much more affordable things are over 84 months! The customer drives away happy with his new Kia Sportage – and the dealer turns a profit. This may be what our Govern- ment by Goldman just did. I’m not saying that it’s ideal, only that the agreement may not be as bad as it first appears, if the finances are considered over a span of decades. In any case, the bridge agree- ment-in-principle – like Mr. Trump’s trade agreements in principle with other countries, or
suggests that the interest rate was 4.34 per cent for 2025. But the interest of nearly $272- million recorded in 2025 appears to be an accounting entry rather than a cash payment. There’s no impatient private lender to the WDBA; instead, the federal gov- ernment has let the interest obli- gations pile up to nearly $840- million as of March 31, 2025. Additionally, the project debt ofmorethan$6.3-billionisnotre- corded as a liability, or money owed, on the WDBA’s balance sheet. (Perhaps this debt is rolled up at the federal level since the WDBA is a Crown corporation. But the government’s annual fi- nancial report does not provide those details.) The failure to list the project debt as a liability is not necessar- ily a problem. Taken together with another disclosure in the re- port, however, they raise the question of whether the govern- ment will recover its money. A footnote states that WDBA is a “related party” of the federal government and all its depart- ments. But it goes on to declare that: “WDBA has no contractual commitments or contingent lia- bilities with its related parties.” That seems inconceivable if there is a multibillion-dollar pro- ject debt. Is this a real financial obligation for the WDBA or not? There are other reasons to wor- ry about the WDBA’s ability to re-
his agreement in principle with Iran, or the USMCA itself – is in- herently uncertain, transitory and conditional. The bridge deal is contemplat- ed to last 15 years, but you might want to go on Polymarket to bet against that.
TARIFFS WILL HARM CANADA – BUT NOT AS MUCH AS YOU THINK
“They need us to survive,” Mr. Trump said earlier this week about Canada. “Without us, there’s no way they can survive.” He’s said it many times before, and the message is clear: Canada has no choice but to accept Trumpian demands, because without access to the U.S., our economy is toast. It’s true that the Canadian economy benefits from free trade with the U.S. But our econ- omy does not exist because of free trade with the U.S. Remem- ber, we were already one of the world’s most advanced coun- tries, and quite prosperous, prior to free trade. A number of economists have tried to estimate the possible im- pact of various hypothetical tar- iff levels. The common conclu- sion is that U.S. tariffs are of course bad for Canada, but the level and duration of pain, even with relatively high U.S. tariffs, would be less than most people assume. One of the more pessimistic estimates of the impact of tariffs, done in late 2024, came from the economists at Bank of Nova Sco- tia. According to them, the impact of an across-the-board, 25-per- cent U.S. tariff on all Canadian
pay the government. In addition to the project debt and interest, there are also an- nual expenses that are forecast to change from year to year. The Gordie Howe Internation- al Bridge’s toll rates for cars and commercial vehicles, meanwhile, are too low compared with those of the Ambassador Bridge. For ex- ample, cars will pay $8 to cross it compared with $14 for the Am- bassador Bridge. Commercial traffic has also de- clined in recent years. More than 2.2 million trucks used the Ambassador Bridge in 2024, down 34.58 per cent from 2020, according to the Bridge and Tunnel Operators Association. To me, these numbers suggest the very real possibility that the government will forgive the WDBA’s multibillion-dollar obli- gation in the future, likely blam- ing Mr. Trump for mucking up the project’s economics with his pu- nitive trade policies. In the meantime, Canadians deserve transparency about Otta- wa’s core assumptions for this bridge, including its traffic fore- casts, projected toll revenues and, importantly, whether it actually expects to recoup the project’s debt – not the shifting explana- tions provided by Prime Minister Mark Carney in recent weeks. After the government’s tall talk, taxpayers deserve more than a pinky swear of repayment.
exports, with equivalent Cana- dian retaliation on all U.S. ex- ports, would be a 5.6-per-cent re- duction in Canada’s gross do- mestic product. If the U.S. hit Canada with a 25-per-cent tariff and Canada did not respond, the result would be a 3.8-per-cent hit to GDP. In other words, Canada would suffer a recession, and it would be a deeper downturn if we retal- iated with tariffs of our own. But within a few quarters, the econo- my would return to growth, al- beit from a lower baseline. Our economy would be permanently smaller under high U.S. tariffs, but only marginally, likely amounting to a hit to GDP mea- sured in the low single digits. And that would be the prob- able impact of a 25-per-cent tariff covering all Canadian goods – in- cluding major exports such as oil, gas, potash and electricity. The Trump administration isn’t eager to tariff those, since the passthrough to American con- sumers would be visible, swift and politically counterproduc- tive. Canada’s economy is better off in a positive, free-trading rela- tionship with our neighbour. But until our erstwhile best friend returns to sanity, we need be in no hurry to make concessions, nor should we feel that we have no choice but to wave the white flag. Canada should keep calm and carry on while the crack house downstairs goes on its bender. Americans are gonna do what Americans are gonna do. And then, in time, they’re going to undo a lot of it. When they get out of rehab, we’ll be here.
Founder wants to see more tech-driven TV, film choices, redesigned menu and voice search
GREG BENSINGER DAWN CHMIELEWSKI SAN FRANCISCO
Jeff Bezos has identified a new, high-profile platform to help showcase the hundreds of bil- lions of dollars Amazon.com Inc. has bet on artificial intelligence: Prime Video. The Amazon founder and ex- ecutive chairman pushed Prime Video head Mike Hopkins to overhaul the streaming service so that AI is front and centre, ac- cording to four people with direct knowledge of the matter. The resulting project, known internally as Lighthouse, would shine a light on Amazon’s AI ca- pabilities for the more than 200 million consumers who use Prime Video. Lighthouse is viewed as one critical piece in Amazon’s companywide efforts to elevate the company’s stature in artificial intelligence, as com- petitors like OpenAI and An- thropic speed ahead, the people said. Other AI initiatives, such as the multiyear overhaul of its Alexa voice assistant to provide more conversational responses, have had mixed results and the unit is still losing money, people famil- iar with the matter have previ- ously told Reuters. Amazon declined to comment. The Prime Video initiative grew out of an internal presenta- tion the streaming service’s exec- utives made to Mr. Bezos last au-
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European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier speaks at a news conference regarding a fine against Google at the EU headquarters in Brussels on Thursday. The tech company was charged €890-million for illegally undercutting competition. VIRGINIA MAYO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The European Commission says Google also prevented develop- ers from conducting transactions that could reduce the fees Google can collect. The commission, the execu- tive arm of the EU, said Google violated the Digital Markets Act, known as the DMA, a law passed in 2022 to stop the largest tech platforms from using their inter- locking services to box in users and squeeze out rivals. Author- ities have argued the biggest tech companies have become so dominant in areas like internet search, smartphones, e-com- merce and social media that they serve as gatekeepers and deter- mine the fate of other businesses and can harm competition. “The best products should succeed because they’re better, not because they’re owned by the company running the search engine,” Teresa Ribera, the exec- utive vice-president of the Eu- ropean Commission overseeing competition policy, said in a statement Thursday. “This is the promise of the DMA, protecting fairness, choice and innovation in digital markets for the benefit of all European citizens.” Google has 60 days to comply with the decision, including in- creasing the prominence of rival online services, or risks further penalties of up to 5 per cent of its worldwide revenue. The company has been a fre- quent target of EU regulators over the past decade, having been fined more than €10-billion since 2017. Kent Walker, Google’s general counsel, said Thursday’s decision would require product design changes that will harm services for European users. “This isn’t fair competition; it’s product degradation,” he said. “Regulation should im- prove products, not make them worse.” The fine is small in compari-
Prime Video is the fourth most-watched streaming service in the U.S., with a 4.2-per-cent share of TV viewing in April, putting it behind YouTube, Netflix and Disney+, according to Nielsen. FRANCIS MASCARENHAS/REUTERS
tumn that turned contentious, according to these people. Mr. Bezos was displeased that Mr. Hopkins’s plans to update Prime Video failed to sufficiently highlight the service’s capabili- ties in AI and personalization, ac- cording to the people. Mr. Bezos’s response prompt- ed the Prime Video executives to scrap their previous plans and embark on Lighthouse. The com- pany has committed some US$200-billion to capital expen- ditures this year, related primar- ily to developing AI, and invested an initial US$23-billion in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and An- thropic combined, with the po- tential for upward of another
son to Google’s overall business. On Wednesday, Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. reported a quarterly profit of US$112.1-bil- lion, boosted by investments made in SpaceX and Anthropic. Officials in Brussels will be waiting to see how Mr. Trump re- sponds to Thursday’s decision. On Friday, the White House is ex- pected to announce new tariffs on trade with the EU and other countries. A European Union official said the fine was announced Thurs- day because it was ready and that it would not come as a surprise to the Trump administration. Since the earliest days return- ing to the White House, Mr. Trump has warned it would take “responsive actions” against reg- ulation of U.S. tech firms. Last month, Mr. Trump threat- ened tariffs against countries for digital services taxes against American firms. In December, the Office of the U.S. Trade Rep- resentative said European com- panies including Swedish music service Spotify, German industri- al giant Siemens and French arti- ficial-intelligence developer Mis- tral could be targeted with fees or new restrictions. U.S. regulators have also tar- geted Google. Last year, the com- pany was ordered to share search results and some data with rival companies as part of a landmark monopoly case that has some similarities to Thursday’s ruling in Brussels. The EU has long been the world’s most aggressive regulator of the tech industry in areas such as data privacy, competition and harmful online content. Even as leaders in the region have taken steps to ease rules for AI and oth- er technology to boost economic growth, the bloc has pushed for- ward with investigations of and penalties on some of the indus- try’s biggest companies.
US$40-billion. Lighthouse entails a broad swath of new features that use AI to improve film and TV recom- mendations, in part by learning consumers’ preferences, and re- sponding to spoken requests, ac- cording to one person with knowledge of the project who spoke on condition of anonymity. Prime Video is working on rede- signing the main home page as part of the project, the other peo- ple said. The final redesign has not yet been settled, but one option PrimeVideoexecutivesdiscussed includes AI-driven tiles, with pre- populated viewing suggestions like “action movies from the
U.S. LAWMAKERS PROPOSE AI ‘KILL SWITCH’ BILL DAYS AFTER OPENAI INCIDENT
U.S. President Donald Trump’s top tech- nology adviser is monitoring the situation after OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI systems had gone rogue during testing, a White House official said on Thursday, as lawmakers proposed an “AI Kill Switch Act,” which would allow federal authorities to halt AI models. In addition to the Kill Switch Act, a biparti- san group of six U.S. House lawmakers also proposed legislation that would require developers of the most powerful AI models to submit them for independent security audits, according to a copy of the new bill. The auditors would be accredited by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the department would create a new position to oversee AI security. The lawmakers proposed the bill days after OpenAI said its AI agent escaped containment during a security test. The agent triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face, a platform where developers store and work together on code for AI models. The incident signalled that AI’s expanding capabilities are already fuelling the security threat experts long feared and that even top developers can
INTEL FORECASTS THIRD-QUARTER REVENUE ABOVE ESTIMATES ON AI CHIP DEMAND
Intel Corp. forecast quarterly profit and reve- nue above estimates on Thursday, antici- pating strong demand for its server central processing unit (CPU) chips as the artificial intelligence boom fuels a computing in- frastructure buildout. Shares jumped 8 per cent in postmarket trading. The company expects third-quarter reve- nue between US$15.8-billion and US$16.8- billion, compared with analysts’ average estimate of US$15.1-billion, according to data compiled by LSEG. Adjusted profit is expected to be 38 US cents a share, compared with analyst estimates of 27 US cents. Intel is benefiting from a boom in what is
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1980s” or “Christmas rom-coms,” three of the people said. Another source said a current version does not include text-heavy tiles. Thetraditionalsearchfunction would remain, as well as space at the top of the screen for video highlights promoting new releas- es or sporting events, such as Thursday Night Football, the week- ly National Football League game that is exclusive to Amazon. Amazon is already testing ver- sions of the redesign with a few users, said one of the people. Prime Video’s plans, the people said, could change owing to feed- back from early testers, or finan- cial or other concerns. Prime Video, like other
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streaming services, relies on paid placement by studios, as well as software algorithms, to dictate where content is displayed on the home screen, said Michael Good- man, director of entertainment research for Parks Associates. Any change to that, including through greater personalization, could upend that system, he said. Mr. Bezos has been personally involved in the Prime Video over- haul, the people said, including receiving occasional updates, un- derscoring the stakes for a com- pany battling a reputation for subpar AI foundation models. Improved personalization can lead to more hours spent on the service. His involvement with the Prime Video project is unusual as he has taken a step back from most day-to-day operations at Amazon since relinquishing the CEO title in 2021. Prime Video is one of Ama- zon’s best-known brands and is available to consumers in a num- ber of markets where Amazon has limited or no e-commerce presence. Beyond no-cost ship- ping, Prime Video is the Prime subscription’s most-used offer- ing. In the U.S., Prime Video is the fourth most-watched streaming service, but it is prized by Mr. Be- zos, who frequents high-profile Hollywood events and owns a US$165-million home in Beverly Hills. Prime Video’s 4.2-per-cent share of television viewing in the U.S. trails YouTube with 13.4 per cent, Netflix Inc. at 7.8 per cent andWaltDisneyCo.’sDisney+at5 per cent, according to April data from Nielsen.
be caught off-guard by flaws their models can exploit. Mr. Trump’s tech adviser, Michael Kratsios, was briefed on OpenAI’s disclosure and is monitoring the situation, a White House official said. U.S. Representative Ted Lieu, a Democrat, and Republican Representative Nathaniel Moran, proposed the “AI Kill Switch Act,” which would give U.S. officials the power to order AI firms to shut down models that put human life or the economy at risk. The legislation would empower the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to in- tervene in what the bill calls a “loss-of-con- trol scenario,” when the AI model carries out a risky action that was not intended by the developer, according to the text of the bill. “This is urgent, common sense legislation to address the problem of an advanced AI model that has gone rogue and escaped its guardrails,” Mr. Lieu wrote in a post on X. U.S. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the chamber’s Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that he spoke with OpenAI employees after the incident announcement. REUTERS
known as agentic AI, where autonomous agents carry out tasks such as computer coding on behalf of human users. Its shares have declined more than 25 per cent from a record close on June 22 amid a broader sell- off in chip stocks, though shares remain up more than 170 per cent for the year. For the second quarter ended June 27, Intel said sales rose 25.4 per cent to US$16.13-billion and adjusted profit was 42 US cents a share, compared with estimates of US$14.42-billion and 21 US cents a share. Adjusted gross mar- gin came in at 41.8 per cent, compared with estimates of 38.8 per cent. REUTERS
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To put that into context, only $450-billion has been spent so far this century across Canada on electricity infrastructure – every- thing from power plants to trans- mission lines to distribution in- frastructure – according to a re- cent federal estimate. Ontario’s distributors are contemplating spending $120-billion on last- mile infrastructure alone, in a single province, over a similar time period. “All of the focus has been on nuclear generation, data centres, all these big things,” said David McFadden, a long-time energy lawyer who has served as chair of Toronto Hydro’s board of direc- tors. “Almost no attention has gone into the last mile – in other words, the wire to the home or to the business – and how that gets paid for. It would be like organiz- ing a railroad, having all your main lines, all the engineers, but you don’t have any track into a station.” The government is now pay- ing attention. In a commentary published last fall, Ontario Ener- gy Minister Stephen Lecce wrote that LDCs face a “fiscal cliff” and lack sufficient capital to meet ris- ing demand. He launched the Panel for Utility Leadership and Service Excellence (PULSE) to advise him on reforms. He re- ceived PULSE’s report in Febru- ary but has not yet released it. What Mr. Lecce decides could change LDC ownership, affect Ontarians’ power bills and help determine whether his govern- ment can meet its ambitions to electrify Ontario’s economy, at- tract new industries and build 1.5 million homes. Elexicon is what’s often re- ferred to as a “poles and wires” business: It’s responsible for maintaining 36,000 poles and thousands of kilometres of pow- er lines, not to mention 21,000 transformers and 58 substations. All of that is stretched to the lim- it. In a regulatory application submitted in December, the util- ity confirmed that “much of the capacity available in Elexicon’s system has been fully utilized”; three-quarters of its substations have insufficient capacity to hook up a customer requiring more than one megawatt (enough to power hundreds, per- haps thousands, of homes). Moreover, much of its equip- ment is aging, and more than one-third of it is in poor or fair
On Wednesday, the rebel group said it targeted two Saudi oil tankers with missiles and drones in the Red Sea. Earlier this week, two oil tankers heading toward the strait made U-turns and were found to be moving north to- ward the Suez Canal, according to Kpler. Marc-Antoine Dumont, senior economist at Desjardins, said the uncertainty around alternative waterways underscores how vital the Strait of Hormuz is as an oil shipping route. He said other shipping routes only have the capacity to make up for about 50 per cent of usual export volumes. “The other half, there’s cur- rently no way to get around it,” Mr. Dumont said. The widening conflict caused a sharp sell-off in the bond mar- ket, sending yields higher across the curve on Thursday, as traders weighed inflationary risks from oil hitting three-month highs. The two-year U.S. treasury hit a 52-week high, closing at 4.35 per cent, while the 10-year U.S. trea- sury reached about 4.7 per cent – its highest level since January, 2025. In tandem, interest-rate swap markets have increased the odds of a Federal Reserve rate hike at the central bank’s July 29 meet- ing. In Canada, the recent escala- tion in oil prices has also in- creased expectations that the Bank of Canada will raise rates by the end of the year. Economists still expect the Bank of Canada to hold the benchmark rate at 2.25 per cent in September. However, swap markets have increased the odds of a hike in October and fully ex- pect a hike by the end of the year. At the last policy meeting on July 15 – when Brent was trading at US$85 a barrel – Bank of Cana- da Governor Tiff Macklem said that if inflation stemming from high oil prices starts to broaden, it would be “a warning sign” to the central bank. “Clearly, if oil prices go higher,
condition. The utility has been holding off on certain mainte- nance to suppress rate increases. According to a recent com- mentary from the law firm Gow- ling WLG, nearly half of Ontario’s LDCs serve just a few thousand customers each, and these small providers face the most acute fi- nancial pressure. But even some larger ones struggle. Alectra Utilities serves roughly 1.1 million homes and businesses north and west of To- ronto, as well as around Hamil- ton and St. Catharines, Ont. It, too, reports that its capital bud- gets have failed to keep pace with its aging and defective equip- ment over the past decade. Daniel Hoornweg, a professor in Ontario Tech University’s engi- neering department who focuses on urban systems including elec- tricity distribution, said govern- ments worry ratepayers will blame them if infrastructure spending starts affecting their monthly bills. “None of the government lev- els wants to be the one holding the requirement for $120-billion when the music stops,” he said. Although other provinces face similar infrastructure deficits, there’s one key difference: Most are served by vertically integrat- ed behemoths like Hydro-Qué- bec and BC Hydro. Ontario’s LDCs are the product of historical happenstance. In the early 1900s, towns and cities established utilities to move power to their residents and businesses. By the 1920s, there were nearly 400, a situation that persisted for most of the 20th century. Mergers since the 1990s whittled the count below 60, but Ontario’s distribution system re-
Vessels seen from Musandam, Oman, sail near the Strait of Hormuz earlier this month. The escalating conflict in Iran is forcing equity markets to put inflation risks front and centre, instead of the more recent focus on business fundamentals and earnings. REUTERS
mains an unruly patchwork of fiefdoms. (Hydro One Networks Inc. is by far the largest, serving 1.5 million predominantly rural customers.) The LDCs’ troubles were easier to ignore during the past decade or so, when electricity demand was mostly flat. But now many of the province’s policy priorities and growth plans require power. Last year, an Ontario Energy Board review of LDC practices for connecting major loads found that “stakeholders consistently identified delays as a critical is- sue.” Developers are among the loudest complainants. The Brooklin Landowners Group, an umbrella group representing the developers hoping to build homes in the area, faced connec- tion costs from Elexicon that would have to be recouped through the price of the new houses. The developers argued they were being asked to shoul- der the entire cost of new feeder lines (estimated at $26.7-million) that would benefit the communi- ty for decades. Matthew Cory, a project man- ager with planning firm Malone Given Parsons who represents the developers, declined to speak about the dispute’s specifics. But he said that for the past 15 years, LDCs have invested little in their infrastructure “across the board” – to the point where they are now effectively unable to con- nect major new customers. But LDCs typically do not have the luxury of investing heavily in their networks in anticipation of growth. They’re tightly regulated by the Ontario Energy Board (OEB), which is charged with protecting ratepayers from utili-
they stay higher; the likelihood that that gets passed on broad- ens risks.” Mr. Macklem said. “There’s a progression from broadening to persistence. If that happens, we may well need to raise interest rates.” If the Fed hikes rates before the Bank of Canada, that could put additional downward pres- sure on the Canadian dollar, which has been tumbling since the spring. The escalating conflict is also forcing equity markets to put inflation risks front and centre, instead of the more recent focus on business fundamentals and earnings. The S&P 500 shed more than 1 per cent over the day, and the
ties that otherwise would enjoy unrestricted monopoly powers. “We’re not allowed to prein- vest in our grid in the hopes that the industrial revolution is com- ing back to Ontario,” said Teresa Sarkesian, president of the Elec- tricity Distributors Association. Ms. Sarkesian said LDCs have no intention of overbuilding. But if “suddenly a lot of customers come knocking at our door, and we have to build transformer sta- tions and substations and new feeder lines and things like that, that can’t be done overnight.” She added: “So much is chang- ing right now, and the reality is we do have to build.” Under existing rules, develop- ers are largely on the hook for any feeder lines their new sub- divisions require. This follows the so-called “beneficiary pays” principle, which holds that whoever benefits from a project to expand power transmission and distribution infrastructure should pay for it. The Brooklin developers and Elexicon struck a deal that would have put the cost of the feeder lines on Elexicon’s ratepayers, in exchange for the developers building rough-ins for rooftop solar and EV chargers. The OEB, though, concluded that the de- velopers were the main benefici- aries and rejected the proposal. “The fact that a project is in- novative cannot automatically override the OEB’s responsibility to protect the public with respect to price,” it explained. Mr. Cory said the developers continue to negotiate with Elex- icon to get power to the pro- posed neighbourhoods. “Everything else is in place,” he said. “Planning approvals – the municipality has been great to work with. We’ve done all the work required to move every- thing forward. There’s just no power.” This year, the OEB is drawing up standard procedures for how all LDCs connect major new loads to the grid. But that does little to address the larger prob- lem: How should they pay for any major upgrades? One obvious solution would be for LDCs to borrow more. They aren’t allowed to borrow wantonly, however; the OEB caps the maximum allowable debt at 60 per cent of capitalization. Municipal owners could be an- other source. In 2024, Toronto City Council approved hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer support for Toronto Hydro. Whit- by and the other municipalities
Nasdaq 100 fell around 2 per cent. “There’s a lot of crosswinds happening in the markets, but I think the biggest story today is oil, yields, are causing downward pressure in the equity market.” Mr. Dehal said. However, Canadian energy stocks are largely benefiting off the run-up in oil prices, offering Canadian oil and gas companies more cash flow and higher re- turns for shareholders. The iShares S&P/TSX Capped Energy Index ETF, which con- tains large Canadian energy play- ers such as Canadian Natural Re- sources Ltd., Suncor Energy Inc. and Cenovus Energy Inc., is up 17 per cent since the conflict broke
that own Elexicon followed suit last year, making an equity in- vestment of more than $62-mil- lion. These sums are probably no more than modest down pay- ments. Toronto Hydro, for exam- ple, has estimated spending re- quirements of up to $10-billion by 2040. For smaller municipalities, large cash injections can seem far-fetched. Indeed, many of them rely on dividends from their LDCs as a means of lower- ing residents’ property taxes. LDCs are supposed to fill munici- pal coffers, not drain them. A third option is to make On- tarians pay. But that would re- quire the OEB’s acquiescence, and could harm competitive- ness: The province already has some of the priciest electricity in the country, according to a recent study by the C.D. Howe Institute. The Building Industry and Land Development Association, which represents homebuilders, suggests the province should open its wallet. But the govern- ment already heavily subsidizes power bills through measures such as the Ontario Energy Re- bate, at a cost of billions of dol- lars each year. It may struggle to come up with additional billions for grid upgrades. And that’s why some hope that pension funds will ride to the rescue. Private equity already owns small portions of some LDCs. En- tegrus, which serves 63,000 cus- tomers in Southwestern Ontario, is 8 per cent owned by Corix Util- ities Inc., a utility company that is indirectly owned by the British Columbia Investment Manage- ment Corp., one of Canada’s largest pension funds. Ontario Municipal Employees Retire- ment System, another large pen- sion fund, owns 3 per cent of Alectra. The small size of these invest- ments is no coincidence. If an Ontario municipality sells a large stake in its LDC to private inves- tors, it gets whacked with a huge tax bill. The government could eliminate or reduce some of these penalties, which might en- courage further consolidation and entice major new investors. Prof. Hoornweg, though, is skeptical that pension funds will rush to supply capital. “At the moment, the pension funds in Canada aren’t all that excited about owning LDCs,” he said. To entice them to invest, he added, electricity prices would likely have to increase.
out at the end of February. After the ceasefire in mid-June, the ETF fell back to levels seen before the war, but since the renewed hostilities on July 7 it has regained those losses. Mr. Dumont of Desjardins said while it’s difficult for Canadian producers to increase output for now – as many pipelines are run- ning near full capacity – the cur- rent price environment they are producing is nevertheless favour- able. “We have a solid industry right now, and it will be beneficial for them as it is. When we talk about oil prices and being higher, we think it’s a net positive for the Canadian economy on average,” he said.
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The Google parent burned $5.9-billion in the second quarter, a clear sign of how AI is reshaping Big Tech
ADITYA SONI DEBORAH MARY SOPHIA
Alphabet Inc.’s first cash burn on record has jolted investors awaiting more Big Tech results next week as soaring AI spending strains one of the world’s most profitablecompanies,andthepainison- ly expected to increase. The Google parent burned US$5.9-bil- lion in the second quarter, even as the cloud unit that rents out AI computing power notched a record 82-per-cent growth. With Alphabet now expected to spend US$15-billion more in 2026 and predicting another increase next year, theoutlaysbehindthecashburnwillon- ly rise. Thecashhitisoneoftheclearestsigns of how AI is reshaping Big Tech. Once prized for fat margins and cash gushers that could easily fund new bets, the group is now leaning on debt and share salestobankrollspending,whichissetto topUS$700-billionthisyearastheircash flows fall short. That will sharpen scrutiny when Mi- crosoft Corp., Meta Platforms Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. report results next week.Sharesofallthreecompanieswere downbetween2percentand4.5percent on Thursday as Alphabet led the slide at 6.8 per cent. The drop reflects investor concerns that the other tech giants will likely fol- low Alphabet by raising spending fore- casts despite payoffs lagging the pace of outlays. “The risk is tilted towards further in- creases, particularly while Microsoft and others remain capacity-constrained,” Charu Chanana, chief investment strate- gist at Saxo Markets, said. “But investors will increasingly focus on how much of that cash must be rein-
Volatility has re-entered the mortgage market as conflict ramps up in the Middle East
olatility has re-entered the mortgage market as conflict ramps up in the Middle East, sending bond yields and the price of oil upward. The Canada five-year bond yield, which mortgage lenders use to set their fixed rates, reached its highest level since May this week as it hit the 3.28 per cent mark on Wednesday afternoon. The yield has increased by 14 basis points since Monday. Mortgage shoppers could be in store for rate hikes in the coming days or weeks because of the spike. The lowest five-year fixed rates have been sitting just under 4 per cent for most of July. The rise in yields comes as oil prices surge as a result of intensifying strikes between Iran and the U.S. in the Middle East. Iran-backed Houthi militants have threatened to shut down a major shipping route in the Red Sea, further adding to supply constraints from the closing of the Hormuz Strait. The price of Brent crude oil rose above US$100 a barrel this week as a result, up from US$69 at the beginning of January when fighting was at a lull. Higher oil prices could add to inflationary concerns. Statistics Canada report- ed this week that inflation reduced to 2.8 per cent, down from 3.2 per cent in May. But the decline was largely a result of dropping oil prices during a tenuous ceasefirebetweentheU.S.andIran.Thosedecreaseshavelargelybeenreversed. Market expectations of a Bank of Canada rate hike have slightly increased as oil prices rise. Bond swaps markets, which capture investor expectations on monetary policy, have almost completely priced in one rate hike by the end of 2026. It’s an increase from earlier this week when there was some doubt about whether a hike would take place this year. A rate hike would immediately increase borrowing costs for variable mort- gage holders. SALMAAN FAROOQUI
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vested simply to remain competitive – and whether AI revenue can grow faster than capital expenditure, depreciation and operating costs.” Analysts expect Alphabet and Ama- zon to burn cash in 2026, while Meta’s cash flow is likely to shrink 95.7 per cent to just US$1.85-billion. Microsoft, whose current fiscal year will end next June, is expected to garner US$25.39-billion in cash, less than half of the estimated US$58.74-billion in the previous financial year. Their capex-to-revenue ratio, a gauge ofhowmuchofeverysalesdollarisbeing plowedbackintospending,issettonear- ly double this fiscal year. Meta is expect- ed to hit 54.9 per cent from 35.9 per cent, Alphabet41percentfrom23percent,Mi- crosoft 45 per cent from 31 per cent and Amazon 25 per cent from 18 per cent.
GOOGLE CLOUD GROWTH TO PRESSURE RIVALS
Adding pressure to Amazon and Micro- soft is also the strong performance of Google Cloud, which has been growing much faster than its bigger rivals in re- cent quarters in a sign that it could be taking market share. Demand has been so strong that Al- phabet executives said they plan to rent out more data-centre capacity from oth- er companies to serve their clients, even though it will hurt margins. At least 20 brokerages raised their price targets on Alphabet after Wednes- day’s results, lifting the median to US$430, nearly 26-per-cent above the last close. Citizens was the most bullish at US$515, while TD Cowen was the most bearish at US$240. “Google Cloud was an absolute blow out,” said Richard Clode, Portfolio Man- ager of Janus Henderson Investors’ Glob- al Technology Leaders. “Alphabet has competitive advantage running all the way through the stack from their own custom AI chips through to distribution to billions of users.”
treats caregiving as a gap rather than a contribution
JANINE ROGAN
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CPA and a bestselling author and founder of The Wealth Building Academy
onnie McAlister, a 58-year-old Saskatoon resident, has a bach- elor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a low six-figure salary that has allowed her to max out her Canada Pension Plan contributions for most of her career. But when she logged into her My Ser- vice Canada account, her estimated CPP at 65 was a projected $958 a month, 36 per cent below the maximum of $1,507.65. CPP payments are based on three factors: your earning history, how long you contributed to CPP – 39 years to receive the maximum, and your start- ing age. Taking CPP before 65 reduces your payments, while delaying past 65 will increase payments. The difference for Ms. McAlister? A decade out of the paid work force and no CPP contributions while she was raising four kids and supporting her now ex-husband while he finished his doctorate. What Ms. McAlister didn’t know was that she can apply for a provision that takes into account years spent out of the work force. That provi- sion will help, but it’s not enough to make up the shortfall, nor does it go as far as similar measures in other countries. Which raises the ques- tion: Why does Canada’s pension system treat a decade of caregiving as a gap rather than a contri- bution? “Unpaid work, like rais- ing children, is just as im- portant as paid work,” Ms. McAlister says. Canada’s pension sys- tem doesn’t see it that way. That’s be- cause it’s designed around paid work force participation, rewarding those who spend more time in the paid la- bour market, leaving out those whose daily work is unpaid care work, sub- sidizing their partners’ careers, and our communities. The implications are vast. A single year of caregiving leaves a 22-per-cent retirement savings gap between wom- en and men, rising to 41 per cent after five years. That’s because women are still the primary caregivers for children in Canada. Although 46 per cent of fathers are taking more parental leave, their leaves are drastically shorter than women, who are also five times more likely to work part-time. Women also tend to live longer than men, stretching their financial re- sources across more years, yet a 2025 survey of 1,981 members by insurer Sun Life Canada found women had, on aver- age, 27 per cent less in savings than their male counterparts at retirement. Ms. McAlister was surprised by how much her decade away from the paid
Women also tend to live longer than men, stretching their financial resources across more years, yet a 2025 survey of 1,981 members by insurer Sun Life Canada found women had, on average, 27 per cent less in savings than their male counterparts at retirement.
work force would cost her in retire- ment. She didn’t know she could file a federal government form to have a child-rearing provision applied, but hopes her CPP estimate will increase once her application is processed. The child-rearing provision may be applied if a primary caregiver has re- ceived Family Allowance payments, the Canada Child Benefit, had children af- ter Dec. 31, 1958, or had low or no earn- ing years because they were the pri- mary caregiver of a child under the age of seven. While it can be helpful in evening out the playing field, an opt-in for par- ents to qualify for this provision likely means some women will miss out on money they are entitled to. The motherhood earnings penalty – which includes such things as lost and lower pay, fewer career opportunities and lower savings – doesn’t end when the kids grow up. It gets locked into the CPP calculation and follows women in- to retirement. Consider two women who both start- ed work at 25 with wages that mirror the maximum base CPP pensionable earnings each year, and which assumes 2-per-cent annual wage growth. Woman A never takes time off work and maxes out her CPP contributions each year, qualifying at age 65 for the maximum pension. Woman B has a child at age 30; her earn- ings fall 49 per cent in the first year after birth and are still 34 per cent lower a decade later, the average penalty Canadian mothers face according to OECD economists. She never leaves the work force completely but the money disappears through reduced hours, part-time work and pro- motions that go to some- one else. CPP’s child-rear- ing provisions may cover her until the child turns seven. Then the protection stops, and the penalty keeps going for the next 28 years. The gap between these two women in retirement builds in three ways. Woman B earns less, so she saves less. She saves less, so she forgoes decades of investment growth on money she nev- er had to invest. Lastly, she contributes less to CPP, so the pension itself is smaller. In 2026 dollars, and assuming both women retire under fully enhanced CPP, Woman B collects roughly $6,800 less per year in CPP than Woman A, about $170,000 across a 25-year retire- ment. That is what remains after the child-rearing provision applied – the provision helps, although her earnings never fully recover. Canada’s pension system could auto- matically drop the low-income child- rearing years or introduce caregiver credits that let all caregivers continue accumulating pension benefits, like they do in France and Germany. Until then, the system asks women like Ms. McAlister to file a form to prove that the decade she spent raising four children counted for something.
as the most heavily shorted currency
Net short dollar positions held by non-commercial accounts stand at $12.5-billion in the latest data
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Speculators raised their bearish bets on the Canadian dollar to the highest level among the major currencies in the weeks before U.S. President Donald Trump announced new tar- iffs on Canada, helping push the loonie to a recent 14-month low. Net short Canadian dollar positions held by non-commercial accounts stood at US$12.5-billion in the latest weekly data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that was released on Friday, days before Mr. Trump announced that 50-per-cent tariffs on a wide range of goods would take effect on Aug. 19. It was the highest net short position for a second straight week of any currency traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the largest in the loonie since December, 2024. “Speculators have been betting on Trump taking aim at Canada,” said Adam Button, chief currency analyst at investingLive. “Trump has this penchant for brinksmanship that I assume will be part of [trade] negotia- tions.” A weaker currency tends to help exporters but it could also raise inflation and slow cap- ital investment. Prime Minister Mark Carney is counting on increased investment to boost Canada’s productivity. The loonie touched 1.4248 per U.S. dollar, or 70.19 US cents, last month, its weakest level since April, 2025. It has steadied near 1.41 since
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WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Sustainable dividends from com- panies using AI to expand the val- ue of their financial data
THE SCREEN
The growing use of AI models means the value of investment information has shot up for com- panies holding vast amounts of proprietary financial data. For the segment’s leading play- ers, their exclusive datasets pro- vide a competitive moat against potential new rivals. That com- petitiveedgealsohelps toexplain theappealthesefinancialcompa- nies have for investors seeking re- liable income and dependable re- turns. Still, our analysts at the Suc- cessful Investor note these com- panies typically shoulder high computing technology costs. That translates into modest divi- dends for shareholders, with divi- dend yields typically capped at 2 per cent. Our search started with divi-
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Rogers Communications Inc.’s low-drama second quarter left analysts making only minor – if any – changes to their price tar- gets and estimates. Desjardins Securities analyst Jerome Dubreuil called the quar- ter broadly in line with expecta- tions, even though investors seemed more disappointed, sending shares Wednesday down 4.6 per cent. A concern may have been wireless service revenues slipping back into negative terri- tory. “Wireless growth improve- mentmoderated,whichcouldex- tend the deleveraging timeline,” Mr. Dubreuil said. Target: He maintained a “hold” rating and $58 price target. The average target is $60.14.
the tariff announcement as higher oil prices offset the increased trade uncertainty. Mr. Trump declined to extend the United States- Mexico-Canada Agreement, starting a decade- long clock to wind down the trade deal and pressuring Mexico and Canada to reach bilat- eral deals with the U.S. Speculators were unlikely to abandon their bearish bets ahead of Aug. 19, Mr. Button said, adding, “Trump will take [the tariff threat] as far as he can go. He may even take it beyond that to a couple of days of implementation.” U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Wednesday that he hopes to strike some interim trade agreements with Mexico and Canada this year while tackling thornier changes to USMCA in 2027. The Bank of Canada has cut its 2026 growth forecast for Canada’s economy to 0.7 per cent from 1.2 per cent, pointing to uncertainties re- lated to U.S. trade policy and the war in the Middle East. “If you’re bullish on the Canadian dollar, there’s not a lot to hang your hat on,” said Marc Chandler, chief market strategist at Ban- nockburn Global Forex LLC. “Productivity growth is weak, economic growth has been soft even if it’s recovering.” Foreign pension funds and insurance com- panies are buying Canada’s federal bonds in record amounts but those types of investors often hedge their foreign exchange risk and can be less sensitive than speculators to short- term price movements in the currency. Investors expect the BoC to leave its bench- mark interest rate on hold at 2.25 per cent over the coming months even as they raise bets on tighter monetary policy from the Federal Re- serve.
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Dividend-paying companies using AI for their data offerings
RECENT PRICE ($)** 1 FactSet Research Systems Inc. FDS-N Above Average 9 1.9 8.8 -41.2 245.21 2 Intercontinental Exchange Inc. ICE-N Above Average 9 1.5 78.4 -21.4 142.53 3 MSCI Inc. MSCI-N Above Average 9 1.4 41.5 8.5 570.95 4 Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. BR-N Above Average 8 2.7 16.8 -41.2 144.12 5 TMX Group Ltd. X-T Above Average 8 1.8 13.8 -9.9 50.62 6 Cboe Global Markets Inc. CBOE-Q Above Average 8 1.0 29.5 16.0 281.80
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dend-payingCanadianandU.S.fi- nancial information giants now leveraging mountains of data to expand already-solid earnings. From there, we applied our TSI Dividend Sustainability Rating System, awarding points to a stock based on key factors:
Our TSI Dividend Sustainability Rating System generated six stocks. Moody’s Corp., headquartered in New York, provides risk assess- ment information, analytics tools and other services to businesses worldwide. Notably, rather than relying on a single AI model pro- vider, Moody’s has integrated its data and AI workflows across An- thropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft 365 Copilot and AWS Market- place/Amazon Quick. TMX Group Ltd. is an operator of public trading platforms, in- cluding the Toronto Stock Ex- change. It also sells a wide range
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TD Cowen analyst David Kwan downgraded CGI Inc. to “hold” from “buy.” He noted that CGI stock has been outperforming peer Accenture PLC in recent months, trading at a 15- to 20-per- cent premium on a next 12 months enterprise value to EBIT- DA basis for the first time in a dec- ade. Historically, it has traded at a 25-per-cent discount. All this sug- gests CGI has some significant headwinds when it comes to val- uations. He does not expect a return to positive organic growth until fis- cal 2027 at the earliest. Target: He reduced his price tar- get to $99 from $102. The average analyst price target is $100.83.
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one point for being an indus- try leader Companies with 10 to 12 points have the most secure dividends, or the highest sustainability. Those with seven to nine points have above average sustainabili- ty; average sustainability, four to six points; and below average sustainability, one to three points.
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Desjardins analyst Kyle Stanley initiated coverage of Northview Residential REIT with a “hold” rating. The REIT owns a portfolio of apartment assets in secondary and tertiary markets. “With a concentration in re- source extraction–focused mar- kets and the North, NRR is posi- tioned to benefit from new fiscal stimulus programs over the long term. That said, elevated lever- age, limited trading liquidity, and a fair relative valuation keep us on the sidelines,” Mr. Stanley said. Target: He set a $18 price target. The average analyst target is $17.80.
over heavy AI spending
Major North American stock in- dexes closed lower on Thursday, with Nasdaq sinking more than 2 per cent, as the latest earnings updates from large technology companies revived concerns about heavy AI spending, while soaring oil prices amped up infla- tion worries, lifting bond yields worldwide. The S&P 500 fell more than 1 per cent as losses were broad- based after investors were unim- pressed by second-quarter results from Alphabet Inc. and Tesla Inc., the first of the heavyweight “Magnificent Seven” companies to report results this season. Stocks came under additional pressure as Brent crude oil fu- tures rose above US$100 a barrel for the first time since May. U.S. oil futures settled above US$92. Intensifying Middle East hos- tilities fanned worries about global oil supplies. The U.S. mil- itary launched another round of air strikes on Iran, and Iran fired at U.S. bases in nearby countries. U.S. President Donald Trump vowed “major military puni- shment” for Iran and Houthis, af- ter the Yemeni fighters struck two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea. The resulting surge in oil pric- es prompted worries about infla- tion days before the next Federal Reserve policy meeting. “Oil prices rising at this clip pose a meaningful macro and market risk,” said Matt Miskin, co-chief investment strategist at Manulife John Hancock Invest- ments. He added that low U.S. un- employment data would pres- sure the Fed to focus on fighting inflation.
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Desjardins analyst Brent Stadler raised his price target on Brook- field Renewable Partners LP while reiterating a “hold” rating after the company expanded its battery storage capabilities by ac- quiring Aypa Power for US$3-bil- lion. Aypa Power is the largest stand-alone battery storage de- veloper in North America. “We estimate the acquisition was completed at an EV/EBITDA multiple of ~10–12x and should be immediately accretive to our estimated 2027 funds from oper- ations per unit by over 2%,” Mr. Stadler said. Target: It went to $49 from $48. The average target is US$32.70.
He also pointed to the lack of enthusiasm, even for strong earn- ings reports, as investors struggle to justify high valuations. “The numbers in aggregate are great but many companies have had a story that’s caused the stock to fall,” Mr. Miskin said, pointing to worries about capital spending as one example. “Any chink in the armor and the stocks are being sold off.” The Dow Jones Industrial Aver- age fell 506.93 points, or 0.97 per cent, to 51,711.65, the S&P 500 lost 90.66 points, or 1.21 per cent, to 7,408.30 and the Nasdaq Com- posite lost 553.21 points, or 2.15 per cent, to 25,137.69. In Toronto, technology shares were also among the leading de- cliners. The S&P/TSX Composite Index ended down 292.45 points, or 0.8 per cent, at 35,192.66. The technology sector fell 2.7 per cent. Consumer discretionary was down 2.7 per cent, heavily weighted financials lost 1.1 per cent and the materials group ended 1.4 per cent lower. The price of gold fell 2 per cent. The TSX energy sector was up 2.2 per cent after U.S. crude set- tled up 6.2 per cent. The volatile Philadelphia semiconductor index ended down 0.5 per cent as investors an- ticipated results from chip giant Intel Corp. Its shares soared 11 per cent in the post market after it re- ported the fastest revenue growth in almost 15 years. With oil prices rising, inflation worries pushed U.S. 10-year yields to their highest levels since early 2025.
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of financial, corporate and trad- ing data through its information services division, TMX Datalinx. That unit keeps adding to the To- ronto-based company’s AI capa- bilities. Cboe Global Markets Inc., headquartered in Chicago, oper- ates as a leading derivatives and securities exchange network. In addition, through Cboe Market Data Services, it provides real- time and historical data to banks, hedge funds, brokers, exchanges, fintechs and data vendors. Broadridge Financial Solu- tions Inc., based in Lake Success, N.Y., serves the investment in- dustry in three main areas: inves- tor communications, securities processing and transaction clear- ing. Its clients increasingly bene- fit from its choice of two compre- hensive AI platforms. Intercontinental Exchange Inc. operates exchanges for com- modities, equities, fixed income, and derivatives, including the New York Stock Exchange. The Atlanta-based company also uses AI to enhance its existing cata- logue of market-focused analysis and services. FactSet Research Systems Inc. is a leading provider of financial data and portfolio analytics to in- vestment firms worldwide. The Norwalk, Conn.-based company offers clients its AI Blueprint to leverage that pool of information.
National Bank analyst Gabriel De- chaine raised his price targets on Canadian insurers by 15 per cent ahead of their second quarter earnings. But the moves came with cau- tion. He warned that results could give pause to the sector, particu- larly after lifeco stocks overall rose27percentsofarthisyear,far outpacing the S&P/TSX Compos- ite Index. “Despite the signal of our tar- get price increases, we do not be- lieve that Q2/26 results will act as a material catalyst for the sector,” Mr. Dechaine said. Target: His price target for Great- West Lifeco Inc. went from $73 to $93. The average target is $89.50.
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TSLD SAVVYSHORT - 13.28 2.83 27.08 30 40.98 MSTZ SAVVYSHORT - 9.21 1.05 12.87 26 -57.44 SHPD SAVVYSHORT - 13.90 1.48 11.92 3 14.22 MAEC MIDDLEFIELD 10.74 1.14 11.87 6.13 HFPC-U HELIOS FAI 1.90 0.20 11.76 106 29.25 OILU SAVVYLONG GE 54.19 5.48 11.25 46 235.54 HOU BETAPRO CRUDE 22.95 2.16 10.39 2035 161.69 LMT LOCKHEED MART 32.26 2.99 10.22 37 15.59 TMO THERMO FISHER 20.50 1.70 9.04 52 -3.03 CHLT CUSTOM HEALT 7.01 0.51 7.85 8 -29.90 RTX RTX CDR (CAD 48.12 3.32 7.41 14 12.67 HUT HUT 8 CORP 165.71 11.25 7.28 654 162.53 QQQD MEGASHORT -3 7.98 0.52 6.97 7 -33.83 SLVD BETAPRO SILV 40.57 2.60 6.85 86 -40.76 RBY RUBELLITE ENE 4.62 0.29 6.70 267 92.50 ASTL ALGOMA STEEL 6.10 0.37 6.46 1000 7.96 MUU SAVVYLONG 2X 17.63 1.06 6.40 463 -21.64 PDN PALADIN ENERG 9.88 0.58 6.24 85 13.82 SOIL SATURN OIL A 6.23 0.36 6.13 476 156.38 CLCH CLINCH RESOU 1.10 0.06 5.77 1177 -56.00
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VNP 5N PLUS INC. 34.72 -0.28 -0.80 350 95.94
ABRA ABRASILVER R 14.94 -0.69 -4.41 603 39.89 AAV ADVANTAGE ENE 11.10 0.23 2.12 1006 -5.45 ARE AECON GROUP I 51.82 0.28 0.54 452 65.66 AEM AGNICO EAGLE 203.45 -3.44 -1.66 881 -12.59 AC AIR CANADA 22.65 -0.03 -0.13 1674 17.42 AGI ALAMOS GOLD I 41.37 -1.61 -3.75 1504 -21.94 AQN ALGONQUIN POW 8.44 0.04 0.48 1422 0.00 ATD ALIMENTATION 88.66 -0.57 -0.64 1262 18.28 AAUC ALLIED GOLD 29.83 -0.64 -2.10 539 -5.15 AP-UN ALLIED PROP 10.02 -0.20 -1.96 695 -25.06 ALA ALTAGAS LTD. 56.98 0.76 1.35 1124 36.15 ALS ALTIUS MINERA 58.45 -0.02 -0.03 444 43.12 AIF ALTUS GROUP L 42.53 -1.57 -3.56 192 -25.00 USA AMERICAS GOLD 5.71 -0.16 -2.73 1505 -18.89 ARX ARC RESOURCES 32.46 0.02 0.06 3662 26.06 ARIS ARIS MINING 20.54 -0.43 -2.05 1215 -7.73 ATZ ARITZIA INC 132.88 -8.32 -5.89 827 13.23 ACO-X ATCO LTD. C 80.11 1.51 1.92 190 42.09 ATH ATHABASCA OIL 11.28 0.37 3.39 1641 60.46 ATRL ATKINSREALIS 86.27 -2.32 -2.62 375 -2.63 ATS ATS CORPORATI 37.25 -0.60 -1.59 208 -1.48 ASM AVINO SILVER 7.98 -0.82 -9.32 934 -6.56 AYA AYA GOLD AND 28.06 -1.35 -4.59 1447 42.87
ALA ALTAGAS LTD. 56.98 0.76 1.35 1124 36.15 ARX ARC RESOURCES 32.46 0.02 0.06 3662 26.06 ACO-X ATCO LTD. C 80.11 1.51 1.92 190 42.09 BBD-PR-B BOMBARDI 20.11 -0.23 -1.13 11.35 BBD-A BOMBARDIER 361.62 8.60 2.44 2 55.33 BBD-B BOMBARDIER 362.02 9.29 2.63 334 55.04 PAYI BROMPTON UTI 25.15 -0.01 -0.04 2 0.24 BN-PR-K BROOKFIEL 14.15 0.08 0.57 2 10.03 BN-PR-B BROOKFIEL 14.20 0.05 0.35 2 10.33 BN-PR-X BROOKFIEL 21.93 0.03 0.14 2 9.92 BN-PF-L BROOKFIEL 18.07 0.12 0.67 12.38 BIP-PR-E BROOKFIE 26.40 0.00 0.00 4 1.62 BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 57.72 1.06 1.87 340 20.98 BPO-PR-P BROOKFIE 21.20 0.10 0.47 64 24.56 CNR CANADIAN NATI 183.92 3.70 2.05 1789 35.48 CU CANADIAN UTILI 55.80 0.93 1.69 347 30.59 CSW-B CORBY SPIRI 15.00 -0.53 -3.41 6 5.49 ENB-PR-N ENBRIDGE 25.89 0.08 0.31 8 6.19 ENB-PF-G ENBRIDGE 24.70 -0.05 -0.20 9 7.02 ENB-PF-A ENBRIDGE 24.89 0.09 0.36 4 7.28
BTO B2GOLD CORP. 5.41 -0.15 -2.70 2826 -12.46 BCE BCE INC. 29.91 -0.29 -0.96 4031 -8.64 BDGI BADGER INFRA 95.41 -0.33 -0.34 79 30.47 BMO BANK OF MONTR 248.95 -3.31 -1.31 2485 39.66 BNS BANK OF NOVA 121.88 -1.48 -1.20 5821 20.40 ABX BARRICK MININ 52.31 -0.47 -0.89 3205 -12.51 BHC BAUSCH HEALTH 6.28 -0.16 -2.48 344 -34.10 BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 6.20 0.14 2.31 6853 39.64 BIR BIRCHCLIFF EN 6.61 0.06 0.92 898 -11.51 BDT BIRD CONSTRUC 70.81 -1.10 -1.53 372 148.28 BB BLACKBERRY LIM 12.15 -0.48 -3.80 2906 134.56 BEI-UN BOARDWALK 65.04 -0.46 -0.70 104 0.87 BBD-B BOMBARDIER 362.02 9.29 2.63 334 55.04 BLX BORALEX INC. 37.08 0.08 0.22 535 46.39 BYD BOYD GROUP SE 142.17 -1.83 -1.27 67 -34.97 BAM BROOKFIELD AS 64.41 -0.95 -1.45 867 -10.42 BBUC BROOKFIELD B 43.65 0.23 0.53 54 -11.01 BN BROOKFIELD COR 58.06 -0.86 -1.46 3107 -7.87 BIP-UN BROOKFIELD 57.72 1.06 1.87 340 20.98 BEP-UN BROOKFIELD 46.68 1.37 3.02 714 25.86 DOO BRP INC 84.65 -0.32 -0.38 344 -12.78
CAR-UN CDN APARTM 34.64 -0.50 -1.42 334 -6.05 CNQ CDN NATURAL R 66.20 1.75 2.72 6540 42.40 GIB-A CGI INC 89.86 -2.54 -2.75 991 -29.12 CRT-UN CT REAL ES 18.46 -0.26 -1.39 334 13.46 CAE CAE INC 34.92 0.76 2.22 1664 -16.34 CCO CAMECO CORP 125.87 -1.44 -1.13 1036 0.15 CM CANADIAN IMPER 164.13 -1.86 -1.12 3544 31.91 CNR CANADIAN NATI 183.92 3.70 2.05 1789 35.48 CP CANADIAN PACIF 130.06 1.52 1.18 1886 28.71 CTC-A CANADIAN TI 194.01 -3.59 -1.82 112 11.54 CU CANADIAN UTILI 55.80 0.93 1.69 347 30.59 CPX CAPITAL POWER 73.43 0.38 0.52 407 25.41 CS CAPSTONE COPPE 12.97 -0.49 -3.64 2190 -5.88 CJT CARGOJET INC. 85.11 -0.94 -1.09 51 1.39 CCL-B CCL INDUSTR 89.11 -1.64 -1.81 596 2.78 CLS CELESTICA INC 470.91 -2.12 -0.45 531 15.98
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WCP WHITECAP RESO 16.70 0.27 1.64 7503 45.22 BTE BAYTEX ENERGY 6.20 0.14 2.31 6853 39.64 CVE CENOVUS ENERG 41.87 1.01 2.47 6624 80.32 CNQ CDN NATURAL R 66.20 1.75 2.72 6540 42.40 BNS BANK OF NOVA 121.88 -1.48 -1.20 5821 20.40 IVN IVANHOE MINES 10.63 -0.01 -0.09 5783 -31.90 XIU ISHARES SP TS 52.43 -0.40 -0.76 4938 11.58 T TELUS CORPORATI 14.23 -0.15 -1.04 4927 -21.34 SU SUNCOR ENERGY 93.48 2.26 2.48 4350 53.45 KEEL KEEL INFRAST 6.76 0.16 2.42 4294 125.33 K KINROSS GOLD CO 33.37 -0.78 -2.28 4262 -13.68 TD TORONTO-DOMINI 167.87 -2.85 -1.67 4215 29.77 LUN LUNDIN MINING 36.24 -1.21 -3.23 4112 22.85 BCE BCE INC. 29.91 -0.29 -0.96 4031 -8.64 OM OSISKO METALS 1.59 -0.04 -2.45 3877 109.21 TRP TC ENERGY COR 98.46 0.13 0.13 3801 30.27 TLG TROILUS MININ 1.61 -0.09 -5.29 3705 2.55 ARX ARC RESOURCES 32.46 0.02 0.06 3662 26.06 RY ROYAL BANK OF 293.67 -4.28 -1.44 3562 25.51 CM CANADIAN IMPER 164.13 -1.86 -1.12 3544 31.91
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DANIEL RAINBIRD
eylah Fernandez says a trying sea- son of injuries and losses has test- ed her mental fortitude. She expects to come through it as the tennis calendar shifts to the hard courts. “This season has been a lot more downs than ups,” Fernandez said. “I’m just happy that I have the right team around me, the right people around me to bring me back down to earth, not think of the worst-possible situation. “I actually feel a lot better now that I’m back home, started training, took a cou- ple of days off, and just feeling physically ready, mentally prepared.” Fernandez, ranked 25th in the world, has won five career WTA titles – all on hard courts – but is 12-19 in singles this season following a 1-4 run on grass, in- cluding last month’s first-round exit at Wimbledon. The 23-year-old from Laval, Que., said she dealt with “a couple of physical problems” earlier this season and strug- gled to recover once the losses began pil- ing up. “That played into the confidence in my
JOHN CHIDLEY-HILL TORONTO
ne of the biggest names in Toronto Blue Jays history is hoping that history doesn’t repeat itself. Afterwinningthe1992and1993 World Series, the Blue Jays had set their sights on a three-peat as Ma- jor League Baseball champions. Toronto was already muddling throughthe1994seasonwithare- turn to the playoffs likely out of reach when the players’ associ- ation went on strike, making a late-season comeback impossi- ble. After 32 years of labour peace, the possibility of another disrup- tion looms this December, and thoseBlueJaysalumniarehoping that cooler heads prevail. “Baseball is a very expensive sport. Guys are making a lot of money, and it’s costing the fans
Blue Jays shortstop Ernie Clement, left, slides safely in to home past Tampa Bay Rays catcher Hunter Feduccia during Thursday’s game in Toronto. With a 3-1 victory over the Rays the struggling Blue Jays snapped a four-game losing streak B13 Kicking up some dust
Canada’s Leylah Fernandez eyes the ball during her match against Alexandra Eala at the Stuttgart Open on April 14. Fernandez is due to fly to Washington on Friday to defend her title at the WTA 500 event. MARIJAN MURAT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
game when wins weren’t coming in,” she said in an interview from Miami on Thursday.
who deserve to come out and watch everyone play,” said Joe Carter on Saturday after a statue honouring Toronto’s back-to- back championships was un- veiledoutsideRogersCentre.“But it’s getting very expensive for the fans to come out so something has to happen. “Hopefully there will not be a stoppage because baseball right now is going at as high as it’s ever been.” Baseball’s current five-year la- bour contract expires Dec. 1 and a management lockout is expected that would halt off-season trades and signings, and threaten the start of spring training workouts on Feb. 9 and opening day on March 24. In May, MLB proposed a salary cap for the first time since players fought off a similar proposal dur- ingthe71⁄2-monthstrikein1994-95 that led to the first cancellation of
Hopefully there will not be a stoppage because baseball right now is going at as high as it’s ever been.
[ BLUE JAYS VS. RAYS ]
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“I guess there’s just a domino effect from the beginning to now. But again, I’ve gone through some tough moments in
JOE CARTER FORMER BLUE JAYS OUTFIELDER
the World Series in 90 years. Play- ers vow never to accept a cap. The Blue Jays could have be- comethefourthteamtowinthree or more World Series in a row, joining the New York Yankees (1936-39, 1949-53) and Oakland Athletics (1972-74). When the 1994 season ended on Aug. 11 of that year, Toronto was third in the East Division, with a 55-60 record, 16 games back of first-place New York. Even with the Blue Jays well back of the Yankees there was still a good chance the World Series would stay north of the border as the 74-40 Montreal Expos had the best record in baseball when play was stopped. Instead, the 1994 season was lost and the Yankees (1998-2000) became the fourth and most re- cent team to win three consecu- tive World Series. Catcher Pat Borders, who was
my career and I’ve always come out on top at the end.” Fernandez preferred to keep her phys- ical issues a secret for now, saying only that it could make for “an interesting sto- ry” once she’s ready to share details. The 5-foot-6 lefty was working through a similar slump last year when she sud- denly opened the hard-court season with a D.C. Open victory, rattling off wins over women’s stars Jessica Pegula and Elena Rybakina en route to the biggest title of her career. Fernandez was scheduled to fly to Washington on Friday to defend her title at the WTA 500 event before entering the National Bank Open, which runs Aug. 1-13 in Toronto. She said she’s in a good headspace after a brief post-Wimbledon reset that includ- ed reflecting on why she fell in love with tennis in the first place. “I try to come back to the very basics of things, like why I started playing tennis, if this is still something that I want to do,” she said. “I would try to ask myself these questions and of course at the end of the day it’s always like, I love playing tennis because I always want to improve myself, I love the competition that comes with it.”
FERNANDEZ, B13
the 1992 World Series MVP, said that he was exhausted after To- ronto’s back-to-back champion- ships. “We were so wore out, or at least I was. I can say that I was,” he said on Saturday. “I think mental- ly more so than even physically. When you stretch it from spring training all through that extra month of playing through the World Series, and then ending with the tremendous concentra- tion you have from pitch to pitch, getting little sleep in between games because you’re thinking about the next game, how to at- tack the different pitchers, differ- ent hitters, whatever it may be. “I know personally, I was com- pletely exhausted in ’94, and I thinkitwasreflectedinourrecord at the time the strike happened.”
TOUR DE FRANCE
STAGE 18
Pogacar maintains his hefty overall lead as race nears its conclusion
ORCIERES-MERLETTE, FRANCE
Ecuadorian rider Richard Cara- paz timed his attack perfectly in the final climb to win the 18th stage of the Tour de France on Thursday, while Tadej Pogacar finished a few minutes behind and maintained his significant overall lead. Itwasthe33-year-oldCarapaz’s first stage win at this year’s race and second overall. He was not chased down by Pogacar because he is not considered a threat to win the Tour, and is in 10th spot. “This is a wonderful victory,” Carapaz said. “I dedicate it to my family.” After moving ahead about three kilometres from the sum- mit, Carapaz raced clear. He pat- ted each side of his head as he ap- proached the finish line, and was 45 seconds ahead of Swiss rider Mauro Schmid and American Matteo Jorgenson. “It’s been a special day. It took a lot of hard work,” said Carapaz, who failed to win with a similar breakaway earlier in this year’s race. “This is the most rewarding thing for me, knowing that the work I put in has paid off.” Pogacar is chasing a third straight Tour title and fifth over- all. The Slovenian star rolled over the line in a large group contain- ing his closest rival Remco Evene- poel and Pogacar’s UAE Emirates XRG teammate Isaac del Toro. There was no change overall as Pogacar maintained his lead of 4 minutes, 32 seconds over the Bel- gian time trial star Evenepoel, the winner of two stages at this year’s race, and 6:51 over the 22-year-old
MLB
AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE
EAST DIVISION W L Pct GB Tampa Bay 59 43 .578 — New York 57 45 .559 2 Boston 52 49 .515 61/2 Baltimore 50 53 .485 91/2 Toronto 47 56 .456 121/2 CENTRAL DIVISION Chicago 54 47 .535 — Cleveland 54 50 .519 11/2 Minnesota 51 53 .490 41/2 Detroit 48 54 .471 61/2 Kansas City 43 60 .417 12 WEST DIVISION Texas 51 51 .500 — Seattle 51 52 .495 1/2 Houston 50 54 .481 2 Athletics 43 59 .422 8 Los Angeles 41 62 .398 101/2
EAST DIVISION
Thursday Minnesota 3, Cleveland 1, 12 innings Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 1 Kansas City at Detroit Wednesday Boston 6, Baltimore 3, 1st game Minnesota 10, Cleveland 6 Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 2 Baltimore 5, Boston 1, 2nd game Chicago White Sox 4, Texas 2 Friday — All Times Eastern Kansas City at Detroit, 6:40 p.m. Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 7:10 p.m. Toronto at Boston, 7:15 p.m. HoustonatChicagoWhtieSox,7:40p.m. Seattle at Texas, 8:05 p.m. Athletics at Minnesota, 8:10 p.m. Saturday Kansas City at Detroit, 1:10 p.m. Toronto at Boston, 4:10 p.m. Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 6:10 p.m. Houston at Chicago Whtie Sox, 7:10 p.m. Athletics at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m. Seattle at Texas, 7:15 p.m.
INTERLEAGUE Wednesday Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Yankees 3, 1st game, 10 innings Kansas City 5, San Francisco 4 Arizona 15, Athletics 5 Cincinnati 5, Seattle 3 St. Louis 1, L.A. Angels 0 N.Y. Yankees 2, Pittsburgh 0, 2nd game Detroit 5, Chicago Cubs 1 Houston 5, Miami 2 Friday — All Times Eastern N.Y. Yankees at Philadelphia, 6:45 p.m. Atlanta at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at San Francisco, 10:15 p.m. Saturday L.A. Angels at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m. Atlanta at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.
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Thursday Toronto 2 Montreal 0 Wednesday Ottawa 2 Calgary 1 Saturday — All Times Eastern Halifax at Vancouver, 4 p.m.
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Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz perfectly timed his attack up the final climb to claim victory on the 18th stage of the Tour de France on Thursday. The 185-kilometre stage ended with a Category 1 ascent to the Orcières-Merlette ski station. STEPHANIE LECOCQ/REUTERS
Mexican del Toro in third overall. Thursday’s stage was the first of three straight days of Alpine climbs. The 185-kilometre trek fea- tured an early Category 1 climb – the second-hardest category – up Côte d’Engins, before ending with a Cat. 1 ascent to the Orcières- Merlette ski station. After going over Engins, Jor- genson was in a small group at the front. They were then joined by Carapaz with Pogacar’s yellow
EAST DIVISION W L Pct GB Atlanta 60 42 .588 — Philadelphia 56 47 .544 41/2 Miami 52 51 .505 81/2 Washington 52 51 .505 81/2 New York 43 60 .417 171/2 CENTRAL DIVISION Milwaukee 64 38 .627 — Chicago 57 45 .559 7 Pittsburgh 53 50 .515 111/2 St. Louis 52 50 .510 12 Cincinnati 47 54 .465 161/2 WEST DIVISION Los Angeles 65 38 .631 — Arizona 54 49 .524 11 San Diego 50 53 .485 15 San Francisco 42 60 .412 221/2 Colorado 41 63 .394 241/2
Thursday Atlanta 6, San Diego 5 Arizona 10, St. Louis 6 Wednesday Milwaukee 4, N.Y. Mets 3 Washington 8, Colorado 0 L.A. Dodgers 9, Philadelphia 5 Atlanta 7, San Diego 6 Friday — All Times Eastern Colorado at Milwaukee, 4:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m. Arizona at Washington, 6:45 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m. San Diego at Miami, 7:10 p.m. Cincinnati at St. Louis, 8:15 p.m. Saturday Arizona at Washington, 4:05 p.m. San Diego at Miami, 4:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh, 6:40 p.m. Colorado at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Mets, 7:15 p.m. Cincinnati at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.
PGA TOUR
PGA TOUR CHAMPIONS ISPS HANDA SENIOR OPEN
At Auchterarder, United Kingdom THURSDAY’S FIRST ROUND — PAR 70 Cameron Percy 31-32—63 Lionel Alexandre 32-32—64 Ernie Els 31-34—65 Miguel Angel Jimenez 33-32—65 Pat Perez 32-33—65 Tom Pernice 35-30—65 Emanuele Canonica 34-32—66 Johan Edfors 33-33—66 Also Stephen Ames 35-35—70 Gordon Burns 39-34—73
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Thursday Vancouver at Winnipeg Brampton at Saskatoon Wednesday Scarborough 113 Ottawa 106 Friday Niagara at Scarborough, 7:30 p.m. Ottawa at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Edmonton at Calgary, 9:30 p.m. Saturday Brampton at Winnipeg, 3:30 p.m. Saskatoon at Vancouver, 9 p.m.
jersey group clearly hanging back. “I think nobody would really commit,” said Pogacar, who has won four stages at this year’s race. Carapaz’s stage could have ended when he had a near miss with a fan stood in the road, just swerving around him in time. Heading into the final climb up Orcières-Merlette, Jorgenson and Schmid could not respond when Carapaz, who won the 2019 Giro d’Italia, attacked.
LPGA TOUR
ISPSHANDAWOMEN’SSCOTTISH
At Troon, United Kingdom THURSDAY’S FIRST ROUND — PAR 72 Lauren Coughlin 34-32—66 Jenny Shin 34-32—66 A Lim Kim 35-32—67 Lisa Pettersson 37-32—69 Erika Hara 36-34—70 Esther Henseleit 34-36—70 Anna Nordqvist 37-33—70 Miyu Yamashita 36-34—70 Pajaree Anannarukarn 35-36—71 Daniela Darquea 36-35—71 Julia Lopez Ramirez 37-34—71 Patty Tavatanakit 37-34—71 Chanettee Wannasaen 37-34—71 Jenny Bae 37-35—72 Brianna Do 36-36—72 Amanda Doherty 37-35—72 Nataliya Guseva 36-36—72 Chizzy Iwai 37-35—72 Nelly Korda 37-35—72 Leona Maguire 35-37—72 Nicole Broch Estrup 38-35—73 In Gee Chun 35-38—73 Manon De Roey 36-37—73 Ariya Jutanugarn 36-37—73 Ryann O’Toole 38-35—73 Pauline Roussin-Bouchard 35-38—73 Also Anna Huang 41-44—85
3M OPEN
At Blaine, Minn. THURSDAY’S FIRST ROUND — PAR 70 Ben Kohles 32-30—62 Emiliano Grillo 30-34—64 Jackson Koivun 31-33—64 Gary Woodland 33-31—64 Michael Brennan 33-32—65 Lucas Glover 32-33—65 Kevin Roy 31-34—65 Scottie Scheffler 31-34—65 Jesper Svensson 32-33—65 Denny McCarthy 31-35—66 Troy Merritt 34-32—66 Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen 31-35—66 Chandler Phillips 31-35—66 Chandler Blanchet 35-32—67 Trace Crowe 30-37—67 Zecheng Dou 34-33—67 Rico Hoey 32-35—67 Billy Horschel 32-35—67 Jeffrey Kang 33-34—67 Keita Nakajima 32-35—67 Marcelo Rozo 33-34—67 Matti Schmid 33-34—67 Kevin Streelman 33-34—67 John VanDerLaan 36-31—67 Vince Whaley 36-31—67 Christiaan Bezuidenhout 33-35—68 Zac Blair 36-32—68 Also Adam Svensson 35-33—68 A.J. Ewart 33-36—69 Adam Hadwin 33-36—69 Ben Silverman 35-34—69 Corey Conners 34-36—70 Taylor Pendrith 35-35—70 Mackenzie Hughes 36-35—71 Jeevan Sihota 36-35—71 Sudarshan Yellamaraju 34-37—71
“This final climb was tough and suited my strengths well,” said Carapaz, whose other Tour stage win came in 2024. “This was a hard-fought victory, but just as tough as the first one. It gets har- der every year to win here.”
TOUGH CLIMBS AHEAD
Friday’s 19th stage ends with a HC climb (the hardest category) up L’Alpe d’Huez, an iconic Tour
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EASTERN CONFERENCE
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W L Pct GB Indiana 17 10 .630 — Atlanta 16 10 .615 1/2 New York 15 12 .556 2 Washington 14 12 .538 21/2 Toronto 10 16 .385 61/2 Chicago 9 18 .333 8 Connecticut 7 20 .259 10
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W L Pct GB Minnesota 22 6 .786 — Golden State 19 8 .704 21/2 Las Vegas 18 8 .692 3 Dallas 18 9 .667 31/2 Portland 11 16 .407 101/2 Los Angeles 10 16 .385 11 Phoenix 10 18 .357 12 Seattle 6 23 .207 161/2 Wednesday Minnesota 86, Seattle 76 Phoenix 86, Los Angeles 82 New York 95, Chicago 94 Indiana 123, Connecticut 88 Dallas 101, Portland 97 Washington 100, Las Vegas 99
ALL-STAR WEEKEND At Chicago Friday — All Times Eastern Shooting Stars & 3-Point Contest, 6 p.m. Saturday Team Coop vs. Team Spoon, 8:30 p.m.
Thursday A 185.2-kilometre (115-mile) ride from Voiron to Orcieres-Merlette 1. Richard Carapaz, Ecuador, EF Educa- tion-EasyPost, four hours, 26 minutes and 21 seconds. 2. Mauro Schmid, Switzerland, Team Jayco AlUla, 4:27:06. 3. Matteo Jorgenson, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 4:27:06. 4. Valentin Paret-Peintre, France, Soudal Quick-Step, 4:27:35. 5. Tobias Johannessen, Norway, Uno-X Mobility, 4:28:18. 6. Raul Garcia Pierna, Spain, Movistar Team, 4:28:33. 7. Pablo Castrillo, Spain, Movistar Team, 4:30:51. 8. Lenny Martinez, France, Bahrain Vic- torious, 4:30:56. 9. Remco Evenepoel, Belgium, Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe, same time. 10. Tom Pidcock, United Kingdom, Pina- rello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, s.t. Also 21. Derek Gee-West, Osgoode, Ont., Lidl-Trek, 4:31:25. OVERALL RANKINGS 1. Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 64:35:13. 2. Remco Evenepoel, Belgium, Red Bull - Bora - Hansgrohe, 64:39:45. 3. Isaac Del Toro Romero, Mexico, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 64:42:04. Also 25. Derek Gee-West, Osgoode, Ont., Lidl-Trek, 66:09:01.
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GP W L T GF GA Pt Nashville 16 12 1 3 33 11 39 Miami 16 10 2 4 42 30 34 Chicago 15 8 5 2 29 19 26 New England 15 8 5 2 22 18 26 Cincinnati 16 6 5 5 40 40 23 N.Y. City F.C. 16 6 6 4 27 22 22 Charlotte 16 6 6 4 26 25 22 N.Y. Red Bulls 16 6 6 4 26 35 22 D.C. 16 4 5 7 22 26 19 Orlando 16 5 9 2 27 44 17 Columbus 16 4 8 4 22 25 16 Toronto 16 3 6 7 22 29 16 Montreal 16 4 9 3 22 32 15 Atlanta 16 3 10 3 16 26 12 Philadelphia 16 2 10 4 21 31 10 WESTERN CONFERENCE
GP W L T GF GA Pt Vancouver 15 10 3 2 37 16 32 San Jose 16 10 4 2 34 19 32 L.A. F.C. 17 9 5 3 30 18 30 Salt Lake 15 8 5 2 27 22 26 Dallas 16 7 4 5 32 24 26 Seattle 15 7 5 3 19 19 24 Houston 15 7 6 2 20 24 23 St. Louis 16 6 6 4 22 23 22 Minnesota 16 6 6 4 19 24 22 L.A. Galaxy 17 5 7 5 23 28 20 Colorado 16 6 9 1 26 24 19 Portland 16 5 8 3 29 31 18 San Diego 16 4 7 5 30 28 17 Austin 16 4 7 5 22 32 17 Kansas City 16 4 10 2 18 40 14 Wednesday Atlanta 2 Charlotte 2 Austin 3 Seattle 1 Cincinnati 4 Vancouver 3 Colorado 1 San Diego 0 D.C. 1 Houston 1 Dallas 2 Portland 2 Kansas City 2 Minnesota 1 Los Angeles F.C. 3 Salt Lake City 1 Miami 3 Chicago 2 Nashville 1 Montreal 0 New York City F.C. 2 Columbus 1 Orlando 4 San Jose 0 Philadelphia 3 N.Y. Red Bulls 1 St. Louis 3 L.A. Galaxy 1 Toronto 0 New England 0 Saturday — All Times Eastern Charlotte at N.Y. Red Bulls, 6:30 p.m. Cincinnati at Columbus, 7 p.m. Toronto at D.C., 7:30 p.m. Miami at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta at New England, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at New York City F.C., 7:30 p.m. Nashville at Orlando, 7:30 p.m. Seattle at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m. Austin at Houston, 8:30 p.m. Vancouver at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m. Colorado at St. Louis, 8:30 p.m. Dallas at San Diego, 9:30 p.m. Kansas City at L.A. F.C., 10:30 p.m. Salt Lake City at Portland, 10:30 p.m. L.A. Galaxy at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
CPL Friday — All Times Eastern Quebec at Halifax, 6 p.m. Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Sunday Victoria at Ottawa, 2 p.m. Hamilton at Toronto. 5 p.m.
climb and among the most famed in cycling. Saturday’s 20th and penulti- mate stage is brutal and could be epic. It features three HC climbs – Col de la Croix de Fer, Col du Gali- bier and Col de Sarenne – and one Cat. 1 climb up Col du Télégraphe, before a hilly finish to L’Alpe d’Huez. The race ends Sunday on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
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CFL
GP W L PF PA Pt Montreal 6 5 1 208 186 10 Hamilton 6 3 3 149 159 6 Toronto 6 2 4 194 207 4 Ottawa 6 0 6 143 213 0 WEST DIVISION
GP W L PF PA Pt Edmonton 6 5 1 167 138 10 Saskatchewan 5 4 1 170 133 8 Winnipeg 6 4 2 155 156 8 Calgary 6 2 4 226 214 4 BritishColumbia 5 1 4 140 156 2 WEEK EIGHT Bye: Ottawa Thursday Edmonton at Saskatchewan Friday Calgary at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m. Saturday Toronto at British Columbia, 7 p.m. Sunday Hamilton at Montreal, 7 p.m.
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AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTALL AFL Premiership: Gold Coast Suns vs. Carlton Blues, TSN 2, 11 p.m. AFL Premiership: Essendon vs. Haw- thorn, TSN 2, 2 a.m. (Saturday) AUTO RACING F1: Hungarian Grand Prix, Practice, TSN 2, 11 a.m. NASCAR Canada Series: XPN Delta Elec- trolytes 150, TSN 1, TSN 4 BASEBALL MLB: N.Y. Yankees at Philadelphia, Apple TV Plus, 6 p.m. MLB:KansasCityvs.Detroit,SN1,6:30p.m. MLB: Toronto vs. Boston, Apple TV Plus, 6:30 p.m. MLB: L.A. Dodgers vs. N.Y. Mets, SN On- tario, East, West, Pacific, 7 p.m. BASKETBALL WNBA: 3-Point and Skills Challenge, TSN 4, 5, 8 p.m. COMMONWEALTH GAMES CBC, 2 p.m. FOOTBALL NFL Flag Championships: Boys 14U, Round of 16, NFL Network, 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m. NFL Flag Championships: High School Girls, Round of 16, NFL Network, 12 p.m., 4 p.m. CFL: Calgary vs. Winnipeg, TSN 1, 3, 8:30 p.m.; tSN 4, 5, 9 p.m. GOLF LPGA: ISPS Handa Women's Scottish Open, Second Round, Golf Channel, 4:30 a.m. Senior Open Championship, Second Round, Golf Channel, 8:30 a.m. U.S. Junior Amateur, Semifinals, TSN 2, 4 p.m. PGA: 3M Open, Second Round, Golf Channel, 4 p.m. RUGBY Super League: St. Helens vs. Wigan War- riors, SN World, 3 p.m.
RESULTS AS OF THURSDAY, JULY 23, 9:30 P.M.
Forward rejoins the team he helped to three Stanley Cups, on a two-year, $16-million contract
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Patrick Kane has rejoined the Chicago Blackhawks, agreeing to a US$16-million, two-year con- tract with his first NHL team. The deal, which includes a full no-movement clause, was an- nounced by the Blackhawks on Thursday. Kane, 37, became one of the NHL’s most dynamic players while spending his first 15-plus seasons in Chicago, helping the Blackhawks win three Stanley Cup championships. He ranks among the franchise’s career leaders with 446 goals, 779 assists and 1,225 points. “Day in and day out for 16 sea- sons, Patrick captivated the city of Chicago with his dazzling skill, creating some of the most mem- orable moments in Blackhawks history as he helped bring our storied franchise back to the pin- nacle of our sport,” general man- ager Kyle Davidson said in a re- lease. “He’s shown on countless occasions that he knows what it takes to win at the highest lev- els.” The addition of Kane adds an- other offensive presence to a li- neup that will begin the season without Connor Bedard, who had surgery on his left shoulder on July 8. Kane likely will play with Bedard when the 21-year-old cen- tre returns to the ice. The rebuilding Blackhawks went 29-39-14 last season, an 11- point improvement on the previ- ous season. The team has fin-
losing streak, down division-leading Rays
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The Toronto Blue Jays hope they can repli- cate their complete-game effort in Thurs- day’s 3-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays as they aim to remain relevant in the Amer- ican League’s playoff hunt. The Blue Jays’ (47-56) victory at Rogers Centre on Thursday snapped a four-game losing streak and avoided a four-game sweep at the hands of the AL East-leading Rays (59-43). “Today we played a complete game,” said veteran George Springer, who went 2- for-3 with the go-ahead RBI. “We pitched. Wegotguysonandover,andwecaughtthe ball. It was a good day for us, but it’s on to tomorrow.” The schedule doesn’t get any easier for Toronto. The Jays open a three-game road series on Friday against the red-hot Boston Red Sox (52-49). The Red Sox recently won 15 straight games, tying a franchise record set in 1946, before losing to the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday. A month ago, the Red Sox sat in last place in the AL East, but their surprising win streak has propelled them up the standings, and they currently have sole
AS TRADE DEADLINE NEARS, SKUBAL SAYS HE WANTS TO FINISH SEASON WITH TIGERS, WIN WORLD SERIES Tarik Skubal said his preference is to finish the season with the Detroit Tigers and compete for a championship, though knows his next start could be his last with the team. “I think we have a chance to win World Series,” Skubal said Thursday. “I’ve said that since spring training. That’s never changed. That belief in this team has never changed throughout the season. Obvi- ously we put ourselves in a tough sit- uation, but I think we’ve come out of that situation playing really good base- ball. “Going into spring training and the whole off-season, I’ve never been more motivated to try and win a World Series for this city, the team that drafted me and helped develop me. That’s always been the goal, and that will never change unless I’m told I’m on a different team.” The Tigers have until Aug. 3 to decide whether to keep Skubal, who can become a free agent after the World Series, or to deal the two-time Cy Young Award winner in a blockbuster trade to perhaps bolster their future with players and prospects. Skubal (6-5. 2.83 ERA) is scheduled to pitch against the Kansas City Royals on Friday night at Comerica Park and acknowledged it might be his last start for the Tigers. “That might be the reality,” he said. “But also five days later, there’s another one at home.” The 29-year-old righty had surgery on May 6 to remove a loose body from his pitch-
Patrick Kane, who spent the first 15-plus seasons of his NHL career with the Chicago Blackhawks, is rejoining the club after signing a two-year contract on Thursday. Kane ranks among the franchise’s career leaders with 446 goals, 779 assists and 1,225 points. MICHAEL REAVES/GETTY IMAGES
ished No. 31 in the NHL each of the past three years. Chicago is looking for its first postseason appearance since the NHL used an expanded playoff format after the 2020 season was affected by the pandemic. Kane isn’t the same player he was during his first stint with the Blackhawks. But he had 16 goals and 41 assists in 67 games with the Detroit Red Wings last sea- son. He has recorded at least 50
possession of the third wild-card spot. The Blue Jays, meanwhile, have strug- gled coming out of the all-star break. They’ve lost five of their last seven games and fallen to six games back of the final AL wild-card berth. That makes the series at Fenway Park pivotal if Toronto wants to gain ground in the standings. “They’reaboutashotasyoucanget,and we’ve got to be ready for that, especially that atmosphere, that environment,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said after Thursday’s win. “It’s a tough place to play, but we seem to play pretty well there. You’ve got to come out ready. You’ve got to come out ag- gressive. You have to continue to push the envelope. But it’s a big series. There’s no skating around that for sure, especially with the way they’re playing.” Starting pitcher Shane Bieber (2-1) was sharp on Thursday, holding Tampa Bay to one run on three hits over seven innings with three strikeouts. It’s the second straight start the right-hander has held the opposition to one run or less. Meanwhile, Toronto’s offence capital- ized on opportunities. Ernie Clement scored on Alejandro Kirk’s infield single in
ing elbow and returned to pitch on June 13. “The way the surgery went is exactly how it was supposed to go,” Skubal said. “I don’t know if remarkable is the word I would use.” Detroit was 22-38 at the start of June and has rallied well enough to be in the playoff picture as questions swirl about what the franchise will do with Skubal. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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CUBAN’S INVESTMENT GROUP BUYS A MINORITY STAKE IN THE ATHLET- ICS AHEAD OF LAS VEGAS MOVE LAS VEGAS An investment group that includes ex-Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has bought a minority stake in the Athletics in anticipation of their move to Las Vegas in 2028. Thurs- day’s announcement by Harbinger Sports Group did not say what percent- age of the Athletics it had acquired. Cuban, who maintains a minority stake in the Mavericks, is the general partner and president of the Atlanta-based group. Atlanta Falcons minority owner Rashaun Williams is the founder and chief investment officer. Co-founder and CEO Steve Cannon is vice-chairman of AMB Sports and Entertainment that oversees Mercedes-Benz Stadium and the Atlanta Falcons. Managing partner Jonathan Mariner is the former chief financial officer for Major League Base- ball. “We are minority investors looking to make our investors a lot of money,” Cuban said. John Fisher is the majority owner of the A’s and is overseeing con-
points in 18 of his 19 seasons. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 draft passed Mike Modano in January for the most NHL points by a player born in the United States. He has 508 career goals – fourth on the U.S. list – and 1,400 points in 1,369 regular- season games. Kane was one of Chicago’s big- gest stars during the best stretch in franchise history, winning the Stanley Cup in 2010, 2013 and
the first before Springer’s RBI single in the third inning scored Yohendrick Piñango to retake a 2-1 lead. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. drove in Myles Straw in the seventh for an insurance run. “Today, I think we played our brand of baseball, and I think that’s all we can do and continue to try to do,” said Bieber. “Last year, we caught a lot of breaks that we’re not catching right now, and maybe other teams are catching against us, and that’s the game. “I think you’ve got to ride those waves and figure out a way to come out on top, which we did today. And so that’s what we’ve got to focus on and move on to to- morrow.” The Blue Jays are 5-1 against the Red Sox this season. Given the importance of the upcoming series, the Blue Jays have lined up their rotation so Trey Yesavage (4-5), Dylan Cease (6-5) and Kevin Gausman (4-9) will start in Boston. “This is big boy time, and we’ve got to be ready to roll,” Schneider said. “[It] starts with Trey, starts with our offence, defence, everything, but I think it’s a really good op- portunity for those three guys to step up.”
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struction of a US$2-billion, 33,000-capac- ity domed stadium on the Las Vegas Strip. “We are very pleased to welcome Harbinger Sports Partners as an investor in the Athletics,” the team said in a statement. “The experience of their principals across sports, media and entertainment, combined with their long-term perspective, makes them a valuable addition to our ownership group as we work to build the future of the franchise in Las Vegas.” The A’s are playing the second of three planned seasons at a Triple-A ballpark in West Sacramento, Calif. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CANADIAN WOMEN LOSE TO TURKEY IN VOLLEYBALL NATIONS LEAGUE QUARTER-FINALS Canada’s run at the 2026 Volleyball Nations League ended Thursday with a 3-1 quarter-final loss to Turkey. Set scores were 22-25, 25-21, 25-21 and 25-17. Canada led in attack points but fell behind Turkey in blocks, aces and points from opponent errors. Kiera Van Ryk of Surrey, B.C., and Turkey’s Melissa Vargas each had a game-high 27 points. Canada finished sixth overall in the tournament after advancing to the VNL finals for the first time. Turkey won the 2023 VNL and reached the 2024 Olympic semi-finals. Canada now shifts focus to the NORCE- CA Women’s Volleyball Championship Aug. 21-29 in the Dominican Republic, where Olympic qualification is at stake. THE CANADIAN PRESS
returning to Chicago, Bedard openly embraced the idea. “I can’t imagine his first game back at the [United Center], the reaction he’d get and how much juice that would bring to not only our team but our fans, as well,” Bedard said Monday. “That would be incredible to play with him and learn from him. Hope- fully he decides to come back.”
Cracking WTA top 10, Grand Slam win are still key goals
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Fernandez has also thought about where she stands in her ca- reer. She has been in the Cana- dian tennis spotlight since her run to the 2021 U.S. Open final, but at still only 23, she swings be- tween believing she has plenty of time and feeling pressure to reach her goals. “It’s weird because a lot of peo- ple say I have a lot of time, and for the longest time I’ve been think- ing, ‘Well, not really,’ because a ca- reer kind of ends in between 10 to 15 years, depending on what age you start,” she said. “And some people would say, you don’t have time. And I’m like, ‘Well actually, maybe I do because a season is long.’ “It’s kind of a push and pull.” Fernandez still has goals of crackingtheWTA’stop10–shere- ached a career-high No. 13 in Au- gust 2022 – and winning her first Grand Slam. Any time she’s felt things start to slip away, she’s leaned on her entourage, which includes her dad and coach Jorge Fernandez, to help her stay positive. “Especially this year when I was thinking, ‘No, I don’t got time, I gotta do better, I gotta win matches.’ The team with me that’s travelling was saying, ‘Hey, slow your roll. Results will come, just focus on the process,’ ” she said. “Hopefully soon, the wins are gonna come.” Fernandez has also found sup- port in Vincent Boily, her boy- friend and a Para hockey player who represented Canada at the Milan Cortina Paralympics. The two began dating last year after Boily watched Fernandez, on a short turnaround from the D.C. Open, crash out of the National Bank Open’s first round in Mon- treal. “Very unfortunate that he saw one of my worst matches,” Fer- nandez said with a laugh. “But it was kind of funny because a cou- ple of days later, he messaged and was like, ‘Hey, before you leave I’d love to see you for a coffee or something.’ “He seemed like a very inter- esting person, and from that breakfast that we had till now we’ve always kept in contact. He’s a very sweet guy, he’s funny. He makes me laugh and also puts things into perspective for myself and my results so far.”
U.S. President Donald Trump received a Los Angeles Dodgers jersey while playing host to the team in the Rose Garden of the White House on Thursday. KEVIN DIETSCH/GETTY IMAGES Trump calls Dodgers ‘one of the great brands’ at White House
U.S. President said he followed the many ups and downs of the Dodgers’ World Series battle with the Blue Jays
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U.S. President Donald Trump feted Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers at the White House on Thursday, calling the team “one of the great brands anywhere in the world” during a Rose Garden event cel- ebrating its second title in as many years. Trump said the Dodgers edging the To- ronto Blue Jays in Game 7 last fall capped “a hell of a series.” He indicated he was surprised to learn that the Dodgers had never before won consecutive titles but al- so mused about a third in a row. “I’m thrilled to say welcome back to the White House,” he said. “And maybe I’ll see you again next year.” The president saluted the team in the East Room in April, 2025 to mark their 2024 World Series championship over the New York Yankees. He said before the lat- est event that he was most excited about meeting Ohtani, whom he compared at length to the legendary Babe Ruth – even saying the Dodgers star was arguably the best hitter and pitcher in baseball. “It’s truly a great – when you talk about a brand – it’s one of the great brands any- where in the world,” Trump said of the Dodgers. He spoke in front of a table with two World Series trophies and a Trump 47 jersey, which the team presented to him. The Dodgers also gave Trump what looked like a replica of a World Series ring. That prompted Trump to exclaim: “Wow. Do I have to report this? I don’t want to report this” before slipping the ring into the inside pocket of his suit jacket.
TRUMP SAYS IRAN WAR HAS KEPT HIM FROM FOLLOWING BASEBALL CLOSELY
Those in the crowd wore blue Dodgers
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New York Yankees shortstop José Caballero was targeted by Major League Baseball for some pest control, sparking yet another squabble. Weary of Caballero’s routine of waitingtoacknowledgethepitch- er just before the pitch clock reac- hes eight seconds, MLB told um- pires Wednesday his regimen amounted to deception. Plate umpire Quinn Wolcott charged Caballero with a pitch- clock violation in the sixth inning that led to a strikeout and the ejection of hitting coach James Rowson as New York lost a dou- bleheader opener against the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-3 in 10 in- nings. “I’ve seen other guys do some other things and they don’t call anything on them,” Caballero said. “They’re just picking on me.” Caballero was acquired from Tampa Bay last July 31 and Yan- kees manager Aaron Boone ac- knowledged his thoughts on the utilityman spun 180 degrees with the swap. “He’s one of those guys I would yell at from the dugout,” Boone said Wednesday morning. “He was a pest and I didn’t like it. Now I like him because he’s a good
caps to guard against bright overhead sun, and the band played a jazzy instrumental version of Randy Newman’s I Love L.A. be- fore Trump took the stage. Trump described last year’s World Se- ries’ epic Game 3 during which the Dodg- ers won 6-5 in 18 innings. Trump said he stayed up until around 3 a.m. to watch, noting that “it was a long one, but it was amazing.” “I thought it was a game that you were going to lose about four or five times, and you ended up winning,” he said, adding, “Luck is OK, too, right?” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts agreed: “Luck is okay.” “But with talent you get a lot of luck,” Trump continued. The president said he spoke briefly with Roberts before the event and learned that his team currently has the best record in baseball, noting, “I’ve been a little busy with Iran and some other things.” That was his only reference during the event to fighting in the Middle East, which has escalated on both sides in recent days. Roberts also spoke briefly, saying, “We’re going for a three-peat.” Championship baseball teams have been coming to the White House since 1869, when president Ulysses S. Grant hosted the Cincinnati Red Stockings. They were the first fully professional team to visit the White House and went undefeat- ed that season, though the World Series wasn’t established in its modern form un- til 1903. Sports teams’ visits to the Trump White House have sometimes been a source of controversy. In 2018, the president re- scinded an invitation to the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles after many players suggested they might skip such a trip. Dodgers star right fielder Mookie Betts wasn’t at Thursday’s Rose Garden event, though he did make the 2025 visit. He said he prefers to spend the team’s scheduled days off with his family. The Dodgers originally considered com- ing to the White House this past April dur- ing a series with the Washington Nation- als, but a crowded early season schedule didn’t permit that. Instead, they’re
player and he’s on our side. But, yeah, we’ve had a laugh about that.” During a June 14 game at To- ronto, Caballero twice was delib- erate in raising his head until eight seconds remained on the pitch clock, leading to a warning by plate umpire Steven Jaschinsk. That prompted a delay of more than two minutes while Caballe- ro, Jaschinski, Boone and crew chief John Tumpane discussed the situation. Benches and bullpens cleared at the end of the eighth inning during Monday night’s series openerwhenPiratesrelieverDen- nisSantanayelledatCaballerofor taking too long to get ready in the batter’s box. Then on Wednesday, Wolcott charged Caballero with a violationinthesixthinningwhile the batter faced Carmen Mlodzin- ski with the Yankees trailing 2-0. After a delay of 21⁄2 minutes, Ca- ballero took a called third strike that stranded a runner. “He’snotallowedtodoaninor- dinate amount of time looking down, trying to get the pitcher to cause a violation,” Wolcott told a pool reporter. “There’s no other hitter that gets in the box, takes the amount of the time that Ca- ballero does while looking down, not making eye contact with the pitcher. Obviously it’s caused a lot
in the nation’s capital during the off-day between a just-completed series against the Philadelphia Phillies and Friday’s opener against the New York Mets in Queens.
THE WHITE HOUSE HAS CHANGED SINCE THE DODGERS’ LAST VISIT
Over the past year, Trump has revamped the Rose Garden and added a patio area reminiscent of his Mar-a-Lago club in Flor- ida. At Thursday’s event for the Dodgers, he referenced the “Walk of Fame” installed on the colonnade, which features plaques of past presidents along with partisan in- sults against Joe Biden and other Demo- crats. “I could put some of the great Dodgers on the wall,” Trump joked, “but I figured maybe it’s more appropriate that we put the presidents.” Trump, a baseball fan and New York na- tive, has for years been closely associated with the Yankees, whose late, long-time owner George Steinbrenner was a close friend. Trump referenced Steinbrenner on Thursday, saying, “He would do anything to win” before telling the Dodgers’ team owners, “But you’re doing the same thing.” The president isn’t always so compli- mentary of teams, though. During a rally in Georgia on Wednesday, he praised the ownership of the local Atlanta Braves and slammed the Mets for their sky-high pay- roll and losing record. Trump was joined on stage during that event by former Braves manager Brian Snitker, and Mike Plant, president and CEO of the Braves Development Company. “You know, the Mets have the highest salary in baseball, and they lose all the time," Trump said then. And I’m like, may- be we can steal this guy.” “There are teams like that, where they never go down,” Trump said. “Then you have other teams – ‘We’re rebuilding.’ They’ve been rebuilding for years. I don’t want to mention teams ’cause I know all the owners. They’re all friends of mine.”
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José Caballero walks back to the dugout after striking out against the Minnesota Twins on July 5. JIM MCISAAC/GETTY IMAGES
of problems in the past. It’s not going to be allowed any more.” MLB adopted the pitch clock for the 2023 season in an effort to cut game times. It has been 15 sec- onds with no runners and 18 sec- onds with runners since 2024. In cracking down on Caballero, MLBcitedaprovisioninitsPaceof Game Procedures that states: “Conduct by batters designed to deceive a pitcher into beginning their windup or coming to the set position in violation of these reg- ulations shall be considered cir- cumvention.” CrewchiefAdrianJohnsonsaid
theseriesopenerskirmishcaused MLB to take action. “It’s not allowed any more. It was the cause of a bench-clearing situation on Monday night. Major League Baseball stepped in, and they [want it] enforced,” crew chief Adrian Johnson said. “We were instructed not to warn him. We were instructed to violate him.” Boone said MLB didn’t inform the Yankees before the game of the change in stance. “It’s embarrassing,” he said. Based on previous conversa- tions with MLB, Boone instructed
slugger Sasaki rolls the dice with Marlins
ALANIS THAMES MIAMI
Rintaro Sasaki was ready to turn his long-awaited dream into a re- ality. The Japanese slugger had a choicetomake.Hecouldreturnto Stanford, where he played college baseballfortwoseasons.Hecould pursue a pro career in his home country, where was selected last October by the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in the first round of the Nippon Professional Baseball draft. Or, he could sign with Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins, who selected him in the eighth round of the amateur draft earlier this month. It wasn’t an easy decision for Sasaki, but it was ultimately a be- fitting one. “Mydreamisalwaysgoingtobe howI’mgoingtomakeittobigthe leagues as soon as possible,” Sasa- ki said Thursday, wearing a Mar- lins jersey. “That’s a big reason for choosing Miami. It’s giving me a great opportunity.” The Marlins introduced Sasaki on Thursday after he announced earlier this week that he would forgo a pro career in Japan to sign with Miami. Sasaki’s deal with the Marlins is for US$210,200. “I don’t know what the result will be,” Sasaki said in Japanese, “and of course I’m aiming for the major stage, and I’m thinking about getting up there. I’ve cho- sen this path, so I’m going to do mybesttodowhatIcando,andto do everything I can to get better.” Sasaki made the surprising jump from playing high-school ball in Japan to attending an American college, skipping Ja- pan’s professional pipeline to po- tentially accelerate his path to- ward the majors. He played under Japanese superstar Shohei Ohta- ni’s father, Toru, and is Japan’s all- time high-school home run lead- er with 140. The 21-year-old first baseman played two seasons at Stanford, hitting.262with16homersand47 RBIs as a sophomore last year. “I went back and forth on this decision until the very end,” Sasa- ki said earlier this week. “Ever since I chose to attend Stanford, I have always had a strong desire to challenge myself in the United States. In the end, that desire won out. I felt that I wanted to see how far I could go by challenging my- self in America, and that feeling became stronger than anything else.” He added that he hopes his time at Stanford – learning En- glish, getting used to the hustle- and-bustle of college life – will help him acclimate to his new team and city. He only learned to speak En- glish a few years ago. He’s still get- ting comfortable with the lan- guage, but he has his eyes on an- other. “English first, he said, “and then coming to Spanish at the same time."
Caballero to “make sure you’re looking up at nine so that you are alert by eight.” “Heactuallysaidthattheywere making new rules today and it’s on me because I was deceiving or somethinglikethattothepitcher, which doesn’t make sense,” Ca- ballero said. “I don’t know, maybe my En- glish is so bad that I don’t under- stand, but deceiving kind of means that you’re trying to trick someone and I’m not trying to trick someone because I do the samethingoverandover.Youcan checkmylast50at-batsandseeifI do it the same or not, or check maybe 100 at-bats or 150.” MLB issued a memo in 2023 warning batters not to keep a foot outofthebatter’sbox,whichWill- son Contreras called “the Willson rule.” Caballero claims he is being singled out. “For everyone, it is eight sec- onds. For me was nine,” he said. “But now they just don’t want me todomyroutinesoit’skindoflike tricky for me because it’s the way that I get settled, the way that I try to approach my at-bats.” Caballero is concerned about giving pitchers control of the tim- ing of pitches.
Guardiola, Ancelotti for coaching role
Officials say country can wait for the coach it really wants after the Azzurri failed to qualify for the World Cup for the third time in a row
DANIELLA MATAR MILAN, ITALY
The Italian soccer federation (FIGC) has talked to former Man- chester City coach Pep Guardiola and Brazil boss Carlo Ancelotti about taking over the crisis-hit national team. It hopes to announce the new Italy coach within the week, with the Azzurri still reeling after fail- ing for a third straight time to qualify for the World Cup. Former Italy and AC Milan de- fender Paolo Maldini was named as the federation’s new technical director at the start of the month and was present at a meeting with the Serie A clubs on Thurs- day, along with new FIGC presi- dent Giovanni Malagò and spe- cial adviser Leonardo. “Honestly, today we can’t give news about what’s happening. You’ve identified one of our tar- gets,” Maldini said when asked about Guardiola in a news con- ference after the meeting. “We can’t hide that we also talked with Carlo Ancelotti be- fore talking with Pep. Honestly, it seemed right to start with the best in the world, to see their general availability.” Guardiola left Man City at the end of last season, bringing to a close a trophy-laden, 10-year spell in which he established City as a force in Europe and changed the face of English soc- cer. The 55-year-old Guardiola has won 35 major titles across his coaching career including at Bar-
over Trump role in red-card ruling
GRAHAM DUNBAR GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
U.S. President Donald Trump’s role in clearing Folarin Balogun from a mandatory one-game ban at the World Cup is set to provoke a formal complaint to FIFA ethics investigators. The Norway soccer federation said Thursday its board of directors will consider filing the complaint at its next meeting, likely on Aug. 6. “We need our leader in FIFA to say that this was an error,” Norwegian federation president Lise Klaveness told London daily The Times in an interview published Thursday. After Trump called FIFA president Gianni In- fantino, a one-game ban for Balogun’s red-card tackle against Bosnia-Herzegovina was de- ferred so he could play against Belgium with a quarter-finals place at stake. Belgium beat the U.S. 4-1 after a chaotic 36 hours at the World Cup. The Belgium players were seemingly fired up by one of the all-time controversies in tournament history. Trump called the referee’s red card for Balo- gun after video review a “horrible” call and took credit for getting FIFA to review what should routinely have been a one-game ban. “We all know that this verdict was influen- ced from external forces and did not have the proper process,” Klaveness told The Times of the FIFA ruling that was unprecedented in the past 60 years at World Cups. “When you bend a rule like this, you’re on a slippery slope that will put the whole game at risk,” said the former Women’s World Cup player for Norway, who is an elected member of European soccer body UEFA’s executive committee.
SOCCER’S CONSCIENCE
Klaveness is a lawyer and judge who has posi-
Zidane as its new coach early next week
PARIS
France’s new coach will be announced next Tuesday, when Zinedine Zidane is widely ex- pected to replace Didier Deschamps. The French Football Federation said in a statement on Thursday that its president Phi- lippe Diallo will name the coach at a news conference at the headquarters in Paris. The 54-year-old Zidane has not coached since leaving Real Madrid in 2021. The mid- field great coached Madrid to three straight Champions League titles from 2016-18. Deschamps was in charge of France for 14 years and stepped down after the World Cup, where Les Bleus lost in the semi-finals to Spain. France won the World Cup under Des- champs in 2018 and lost the final on penalties
Pep Guardiola waves to the crowd after his last game as Manchester City manager on May 24. During a 10-year spell with the club, the former Barcelona player and manager changed the face of English soccer and established City as a major force in Europe. PHIL NOBLE/REUTERS
celona and Bayern Munich. Maldini and Leonardo spent three days in Barcelona recently to speak with Guardiola about taking the Italy job. “The best thing would be to announce the new coach this week, but even more to wait for the person we really want,” Mal- dini said. “So there’s urgency, but not so much inside us.” Ancelotti signed a contract ex-
tioned the Norwegian federation as a con- science in world soccer since her election in 2022. “It is a worry for the game when you com- promise fundamental rules of the game,” she said Thursday about not enforcing Balogun’s ban. Norway previously joined a London-based NGO’s complaint to the FIFA ethics committee alleging Infantino breached a statutory duty of political neutrality, including by creating a peace prize to award to Trump at the World Cup draw in December. The close personal and political ties be- tween Trump and Infantino include the U.S. president believing the soccer official could be a good pick as next secretary general of the United Nations, the New York Post reported this week.
OLYMPICS COMPLAINT
The human rights NGO, FairSquare, also has filed an ethics complaint about the Balogun incident to the International Olympic Commit- tee, where Infantino is an elected member, about breaching its rules on political neutral- ity. FIFA and the IOC rarely acknowledge or pro- vide updates on potential cases before their ethics bodies. The independence of FIFA’s process to han- dle complaints alleging unethical conduct has been questioned since the lead investigator and judge both were replaced in 2017, in the second year of Infantino’s presidency. FIFA has yet to publish documents explain- ing how its disciplinary judges reached ver- dicts about Balogun or other World Cup play- ers.
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in 2022. Les Bleus also lost the European Championship final on home soil in 2016. Zidane was France’s playmaker when it won the 1998 World Cup, scoring twice in the final in a 3-0 win against Brazil, and starred two years later when France won the Europe- an Championship. He won the men’s Ballon d’Or in 1998. Zidane played 108 games for France scoring 31 goals, including a deft Panenka-style penal- ty in the 2006 World Cup final, which Les Bleus lost after he was sent off in extra time for head-butting Italian defender Marco Mat- erazzi in the chest. France’s next games are away to Turkey in the Nations League on Sept. 25, followed by a match in Belgium three days later. France then faces Italy at the Stade de France on Oct. 2.
tension with Brazil in May through to the 2030 World Cup. But the five-time world cham- pion just had one of its worst ev- er performances on soccer’s big- gest stage as it was eliminated in the round of 16 after a 2-1 loss to Norway. The 67-year-old Ancelotti has won league titles in Italy, En- gland, France, Spain and Germa- ny. He is also the only coach to
have won the Champions League five times. Four-time champion Italy mis- sed out on a third straight World Cup after a playoff loss to Bosnia and Herzegovina in March, prompting the resignations of FIGC president Gabriele Gravina and coach Gennaro Gattuso. Gattuso had taken over from the fired Luciano Spalletti only the previous June with the squad already flailing after a defeat at
England midfielder Elliot Anderson, centre, began his career at Newcastle before joining Nottingham Forest in 2024, where he broke onto the England national team roster. ODD ANDERSEN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
ELLIOT ANDERSON
Anderson joins Man City in £116-million deal
JAMES ROBSON MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
Manchester City officially com- pleted the signing of England midfielder Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest on Thursday for a reported £116-million ($217.5-million). The club record fee for City eclipses the £100-million it paidforJackGrealish in 2021 and is among the biggest ever in the Premier League. The 23-year-old Anderson has signed a five-year contract. “City are one of the biggest clubs in the world and the squad they have is amazing – so strong in ev- ery position. As soon as I knew they wanted me, I was absolutely determined to make this move happen," Anderson said. “As a footballer, you want to test yourself at the highest level. Being at City means I have that opportunity.” Anderson is the first major signing by City since iconic man- ager Pep Guardiola stepped down at the end of last season. A new era is beginning under former Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca. “Elliot is one of the outstand- ing young midfield talents in world football right now. He of- fers energy, outstanding work rate and an exceptional range of passing,”saidCitydirectoroffoot- ball Hugo Viana. “His improve-
As soon as I knew they wanted me, I was absolutely determined to make this move happen.
Norway in its opening qualifier. Former Italy coaches Roberto Mancini – who led the Azzurri to the European Championship in 2021 – and Antonio Conte are al- so among the favourites to take charge of the national team. An- drea Pirlo, who helped Italy to the World Cup in 2006 as a play- er, is also reportedly in conten- tion.
ment in recent years has been re- ally impressive and underlines his desire to be the best player he can be. “Atjust23,thereisplentyofop- portunity for development over the coming years and we feel he can become a complete midfiel- der. Manchester City is the best place for him to de- velop his game and keep improving, we are glad that he sees things the same way as we do.” Anderson began his career at New- castle and joined Forest in 2024 where he went on to break onto the England roster. He was a key member of Tho- mas Tuchel’s England squad that won bronze at the World Cup. “AssoonasIarriveinManches- terafterabreak,Iwillbedoingev- erything I can to establish myself in the City team,” he said. “It’s a club built to win trophies and compete at the very top of the game. That is exciting for any footballer.” England forward Morgan Rog- ers completed a move to Chelsea earlier this week for a reported £117-million. Sweden striker Alexander Isak’s £125-million move to Liver- pool from Newcastle last year re- mains the most expensive in Brit- ish soccer.
aims to ride momentum
to Winnipeg, Brown has assumed starting duties with Zach Collaros injured
JEFF HAMILTON WINNIPEG
Dru Brown hopes to keep the good times rolling. Since being traded from the Ottawa Redblacks on June 23, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarter- back has stepped in for injured starter Zach Collaros and deliver- ed back-to-back victories. With Collaros on the six-game injured list, Brown will try to ride the momentum as the Bombers (4-2) host the Calgary Stamped- ers (2-4) at Princess Auto Stadi- um on Friday night. “From the time I’ve been here, I’ve tried to communicate and work with those guys pretty re- lentlessly,” Brown said after prac- tice Thursday. “I’m pretty happy with where we’re at and just look forward to building.” Brown, a former Winnipeg backup and two-year starter in Ottawa, kicked off his return with a 30-21 win over the Toron- to Argonauts. Despite limited practice time, he threw for 339 yards, a touchdown and an in- terception. He followed that up by erasing a 17-point, fourth-quarter deficit to edge Ottawa 36-34 in over- time. Brown finished with 317 passing yards – including 181 in the final 16 minutes – and two touchdowns. Brown is a modest 14-14-1 as a starter, but has never lost to Cal- gary, owning a perfect 4-0 record. “I try not to think about how successful or how non-successful I’ve been. I just treat it like a clean slate,” Brown said. “I try to look at it from a practical stand- point: what are they doing now, and how do we execute this week?” Winnipeg receiver Nic Dem- ski, who leads the team with 400 yards, credits Brown’s steady de- meanour for keeping the offence
highlight Canada’s flag football rosters
FLAG FOOTBALL ROSTERS
Women’squarterbackSaraParker and men’s rusher/cornerback Marc-Antoine Dequoy highlight Canada’s flag football rosters for the coming world champion- ships. Football Canada on Thursday announced the rosters for the championships, which are sched- uled for Aug. 13-16 in Dusseldorf, Germany. Parker, who helped Canada to bronze at the 2025 World Games in China, won a battle with Elisa- beth Ashkar for the women’s quarterback job. Dequoy joins the flag team af- ter a successful CFL career as a safety with the Montreal Alouettes that included two league all-star nominations and a Grey Cup title in 2023. The world championships are the first chance to qualify for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, where flagfootballwillmakeitsOlympic
MIKE COOK BLAINE, MINN.
Ben Kohles eagled the final hole for a nine-under 62 and a two- shot lead Thursday after the first round of the 3M Open, leaving top-ranked Scottie Scheffler three shots back. Emiliano Grillo, Jackson Koi- vun and Gary Woodland opened with 64s, and Scheffler topped the group at 65 in his first appear- ance in the event. Coming off a fourth-place fin- ish Sunday in the British Open, Scheffler was one under through eight holes, then birdied five of the next eight. “I didn’t hit a bunch of fair- ways early, but I was able to kind of manage my way around and get out of some trouble areas without making any bogeys. That was important keeping my mo- mentum going,” he said. “Once I started to hit fairways and gave myself some looks, was able to start making some birdies.”
Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback Dru Brown throws the ball against the Ottawa Redblacks on Sunday. JUSTIN TANG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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ticking during their three-game winning streak. “What you see is what you get with Dru,” Demski said. “It’s al- ways good to have the guy call- ing the plays and the guy behind centre being calm and cool, and everybody else can kind of fol- low that lead.” On the other side, Stampeders quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. enters Friday’s matchup on a tor- rid run of his own. The 33-year-old has thrown 17 touchdowns and zero intercep- tion this season, tying Ricky Ray and Darian Durant for the most touchdowns without a pick to start a campaign. Stampeders head coach Dave Dickenson holds the record with 20. Adams has thrown 243 con- secutive passes without an inter- ception dating back to last sea- son. He is on pace for 51 passing touchdowns and more than 6,000 yards, which would smash his previous highs of 31 and 4,769. “He’s not afraid to just gun it in there, so you can never relax as a defender,” said Bombers de- fensive back Evan Holm, noting Adams’s unique scrambling abil- ity. “He’s thrown some [intercep- tions], people just haven’t caught them. He’s on a tear, for sure.”
debut. The top two teams outside the UnitedStatesineachcompetition qualify. Other spots will be decid- ed at the 2027 IFAF continental championship and then the Olympic qualifier series in 2028.
Women: Mikaëlle Azar, defensive back, Montreal; Laurence Caron, defensiveback,Montreal;LéaDu- val, rusher, Saint-Lazare, Que.; Alexane Fournier, centre/receiv- er, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que.; Sabrina Gervais (captain), defensive back, Maskinongé, Que.; Samantha Hopkins, defen- sive back, Calgary; Rosalie Lan- dry, defensive back, Repentigny, Que.; Laura Molimard, centre/re- ceiver, Vaudreuil, Que.; Caroline Moquin-Joubert (captain), re- ceiver, Saint-Lambert, Que.; Fré-
Kohles’s second shot from 241 yards out on the par five finish- ing hole settled four feet from the cup. The short putt capped a ca- reer-best round for the 36-year- old who has split the season be- tween the PGA and Korn Ferry tours. In a nine-hole stretch begin- ning on No. 6, he birdied every other hole and added another birdie at No. 15 to tie for the lead at seven under. “I was just in control all day,” he said. Adam Svensson of Surrey, B.C., was tied with 16 other players for 26th at three under. Adam Had- win of Abbotsford, B.C., A.J. Ewart of Coquitlam, B.C., and Ben Sil- verman of Thornhill, Ont., were part of a 24-way tie for 43rd at two under. Taylor Pendrith of Richmond Hill, Ont., and Corey Conners of Listowel, Ont., were tied with 17 others at one under. Mackenzie Hughes of Hamil- ton, Jeevan Sihota of Victoria, and Sudarshan Yellamaraju of
Adams is quick to pass the praise onto his teammates. “I give my receivers a lot of credit,” said Adams, noting a few times they’ve knocked the ball out of defender’s hands. “Own- ing the ball is one of our core values, so I try to pride myself on that.” As good as Adams has been, victories have been hard to come by. All four of Calgary’s losses this season have been decided by a single score. Last week, they erased a late 18-point deficit against the Montreal Alouettes before falling 38-32 on a last-min- ute touchdown. “The best teams find ways to win, even when they’re not play- ing their best, and they also know how to close and finish out games,” Dickenson said. “We’re not there yet. We’ve got to devel- op into that team.” Winnipeg beat Calgary 30-28 on a walk-off field goal in Week 1 and can clinch the season series with a win Friday. Calgary gets a major boost with the return of standout defensive linemen Fo- larin Orimolade and Jaylon Hutchings, both of whom missed the first meeting between the two division rivals.
dérique Morneau, receiver, Que- bec City; Sara Parker, quarter- back, Greenfield Park, Que., Mar- ianne Quirion, receiver, Sherbrooke, Que. Men: Antony Auclair (cap- tain), receiver, Quebec City; Guil- laume Beland (captain), corner- back, Montreal; Anthony Brise- bois, halfback, Mont-Saint-Hi- laire, Que., Émile Chênevert, halfback Quebec City; Marc-An- toine Dequoy, rusher/corner- back,ÎleBizard,Que.;JamesDrys- dale, receiver, Terrebonne, Que.; Maxym Lavallée (captain), half- back, Quebec City; Michael O’Connor, quarterback, Ottawa; Daniel Petermann, receiver, Stoney Creek, Ont.; Jackson Ta- chinski, receiver, Winnipeg; Fran- çois Rocheleau, receiver, Mon- treal; Philippe Pharand, rusher, Montreal.
Mississauga were tied with 14 others for 86th at even par. Three weeks ago, Kohles near- ly got his first career win, but a double bogey on the final hole resulted in a third-place finish at the John Deere Classic. “Of course you would like the outcome to be different, but you’ve just got to keep putting the pedal down and see where you go,” he said. Koivun birdied four holes on the front nine and three on the back during a bogey-free round at the TPC Twin Cities where scores are traditionally low. In the tournament’s seven previous years, the average winning score was 19 under. “Playing smart, playing for a score. Just executing when the time is right and getting aggres- sive when you can,” he said. “Just felt like I did a good job of taking advantage of that to- day.”
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JACK PRODEUS
At LHSC University Hospital, London, on July 16, 2026, Jack Prodeus, in his 96th year. Beloved husband of Marina Prodeus (nee Calvo) for over 60 years. Jack was born and raised in Toronto, where he was the owner of Personalized Insurance Brokers for over 50 years. Jack was a proud member of the Boulevard Club and the Craigleith Ski Club at Blue Mountain. Entombment was held in Park Lawn Cemetery, 2845 Bloor Street West, Toronto, on Thursday, July 23, 2026.
MORLEY TORGOV
Canadian author, humorist, and attorney, Morley Lorne Torgov, passed away, at the age of 98, this past Sunday, July 19, 2026. Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, on December 3, 1927, Morley was the only child of Allen and Sarah Jane Torgov. He graduated Osgoode Hall Law School, embarking on a 70-year legal career in real estate and corporate law as senior partner at Olch Torgov and Cohen.
Concurrently, Morley forged a literary legacy, authoring a body of novels and winning two prestigious Stephen Leacock Medal awards for Humor for A Good Place To Come From, and The Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick. In 2015, he was awarded The Order of Canada.
Morley was predeceased by his son, Alexander Torgov. He is survived by his wife of 74 years, Anna Pearl; his daughter, Sarah Jane Torgov; his son-in-law, Douglas Steinberg; his daughter- in-law, Carrie Schipper Torgov; his sister-in-law, Shirley Kline; and his four grandchildren, Benjamin, Sydney, Rebecca, and Marshall. He will truly be missed.
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Onetime CEO of NBTel connected his province and inspired next generation of digital entrepreneurs
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erry Pond was a technol- ogy pioneer and econom- ic change agent who spearheaded a digital rev- olution in his province of New Brunswick. As a second act in his already impactful life, he emerged as an influential investor and men- tor who seeded two of Atlantic Canada’s landmark tech startups. “He was the architect of the modern New Brunswick,” said Frank McKenna. As premier from 1987 to 1997, he teamed with Mr. Pond, then a local phone company executive, to digitally connect the far-flung regions of the province through fibre optics and internet broadband. Still, in his later years Mr. Pond was haunted by a sense of unfin- ished business. He yearned for one morestartupthatwouldreaphuge economic returns – possibly a uni- corn, the venture-capital lingo for a billion-dollar valuation. He would often muse about “another big one” in conversations after 2011, when he and his partners had sold two hugely successful Freder- icton startups – Radian6 and Q1 Labs – for staggering sums by Can- adian standards. This quest was not motivated by personal gain. (Mr. Pond lived a comfortable lifestyle in Rothesay, an affluent suburb of Saint John.) Another big payday would gener- ate wealth for the region, with spinoffs to investment, talent and research capability. And the public exposure would cast a different light on an area often dismissed as hopelessly have-not. He hoped this next big exit – ideally through a public share of- fering – would spawn a major head office in a region starved of corpo- rate heft. The aspiration was typ- ical of Mr. Pond, who bristled with frustration when others did not share his drive and enthusiasm for the future of his beloved home region. When he died on July 8 at the age of 82, he had not witnessed his last great hope. There was no big public share offering. No unicorn. But he still left a powerful lega- cy. As an early angel investor, he backed as many as 55 little enter- prises, about 30 of which were still in his portfolio (some promising, others embryonic). He also left a generation of people he nurtured
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eter Lassally, a Holocaust survivor who was a pivotal figure in late-night televi- sion for nearly half a century as a top producer of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Show WithDavidLettermanandTheLate Late Show with Craig Ferguson, died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 93. His death, at a memory- care facility, was confirmed by his son, Tom, a film and TV producer. The urbane Mr. Lassally knew what made talk-show hosts suc- cessful. Among his strengths was “getting the host to understand howtolisten,howtoasktheques- tions that an audience might want to hear, and to listen to the answer and to not be thinking ahead with a joke,” comedian Garry Shandling, who guest- hosted for Mr. Carson and later starred in The Larry Sanders Show, a series about a fictional late- night talk show, told NPR in 2012. After being hired as an associ- ate producer for The Tonight Show in 1969, Mr. Lassally rose to be- come a producer and then an ex- ecutive producer, working in tan- dem with the show’s other execu- tive producer, Fred De Cordova. Following the taping of each show, Mr. Lassally and Mr. Carson would meet to discuss what had worked and what had not.
New Brunswick businessman Gerry Pond worked alongside then-premier Frank McKenna to digitally connect the province’s far-flung regions through fibre optics and internet broadband. PAUL DARROW/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
with unwavering loyalty who are now leaders in Atlantic Canada. Since Q1 Labs and Radian6 hit pay dirt, the East Coast has wit- nessed one massive unicorn: Vera- fin, a St. John’s startup in financial fraud detection technology, was sold to an American buyer in 2021 for almost US$2.75-billion. Mr. Pond wasn’t part of that deal, but the Newfoundland techies were inspired by his New Brunswick successes. Mr.Pondspenthislifetradingin ideas, not the rocks, trees and fish that were traditional mainstays of Atlantic Canada’s economy. He saw ideas as the carpenter’s nails that connected teams, companies and technologies. “My job is to be the hammer so that the nails go in,” he said. And in they went, with striking results at Radian6 and Q1 Labs, which together garnered about US$1-billion in valuation when sold to American tech giants Sales- force and IBM in 2011. The young people who came out of those companies – including Marcel LeBrun, Sandy Bird, Daniella De- Grace, Jeff White –are now angel investors, philanthropists and en- trepreneurs in their 50s and older. But they will always be Gerry’s kids. It is often forgotten that before Mr. Pond became an angel inves-
“Isometimeshadatendencyto be much more negative than he was about a portion of the show,” Mr. Lassally said during an inter- viewwiththeTelevisionAcademy in 2009. “He would say to me: ‘It’ll play better on the air. Don’t worry about it.’ I’m supposed to calm him down.” Later, while working with Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Lassally found that it was best to wait until the next morningtoofferanhonestassess- ment, because Mr. Ferguson would be on too much of a high immediately after the show. The Scottish comedian, who was a novice host when he was hired for The Late Late Show in 2004, gave Mr. Lassally a nick- name: the host whisperer. “He had a great deal of author- ity, but he was quiet, soft-spoken and gentle,” Mr. Ferguson said in an interview, although “some- times he’d say things that were hardtohear,like,‘Youhaveacree- py laugh, you have to drop it.’ Really?” One piece of advice that Mr. Ferguson received continues to resonatewithhim.Mr.Lassally,he said, would never say no to a joke, but he would say: “Is this joke worthit?Howfunnyisit?Ifit’snot funny enough, it’s not worth it.” Mr. Lassally was also known for finding new talent for The Tonight Show, especially comedians. “He was looking to expand be-
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tor, he was a telecom executive who helped transform the prov- ince into a digital hothouse. That mission continued after he retired. A 30-year partnership to build a tech ecosystem across the Atlantic provinces began when Mr. McKen- na, as premier, was selling the re- gion to would-be investors, and Mr. Pond, an executive at (and lat- er CEO of), New Brunswick Tele- phone Company (NBTel), was the private-sector enabler. “I couldn’t have a more faithful friend and partner,” Mr. McKenna said. They turned New Brunswick in- to a much-studied laboratory and a magnet for investment and jobs, often by hosting corporate call centres. It meant young kids grow- ing up in remote regions had ac- cess to cutting-edge technology, enabling them to embark on ca- reer journeys that often led to Mr. Pond’s door. Mr. Pond himself came from a family with roots in the trees and streams of New Brunswick’s Mi- ramichi region, but he was born in Northern Quebec, where his father worked in the forestry industry. There followed a bachelor of arts degree from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Af- ter school. Mr, Pond joined NBTel and rose through the ranks. As a young man in Saint John,
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yond the routine guests, which was important for Carson, who was an Old World talent,” Bill Car- ter, author of The Late Shift: Letter- man, Leno and the Network Battle for the Night (1994), said in an in- terview. “He had to bring in new talent to keep the show alive.” Peter Gerhard Eduard Lassally was born Oct. 14, 1932, in Ham- burg, Germany, to Paul Lassally, a coffeeimporterandexporter,and Else Lassally, who ran the home. In 1938, his family fled the Na- zis, settling in Amsterdam, where Peter, a violin prodigy, continued to play and his sister, Irene, at- tended grade school with Anne Frank. Several years later, his father died of cancer, and soon after, in 1943, he and his mother and sister were sent to Westerbork, a Nazi transit camp in the northeastern Netherlands. They were next im- prisoned at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, in what was then Czechoslovakia, where his sisterwaspartofagroupthatbuilt gas chambers. Among the atroci- ties Peter witnessed was a baby being hanged from a lamppost. “Itwasahardtimeforallofus,” he told NPR. The family survived and, in 1947, sailed for New York, where theysettledinQueens.Petergrad- uatedfromNewtownHighSchool and started his show business ca- reer, first as an usher at Radio City
he met a public-health nurse named Anne Kennedy from the province’s Woodstock area. They fell in love and married, raising a boy and a girl. In Canada’s balkanized telecom industry, NBTel was a pipsqueak, especially compared with behe- moth Bell Canada in Central Cana- da. It had to be nimble and cre- ative. Mr. Pond was one of a series of senior managers who created islands of innovation inside the company, enlisting smart young people who would be with him the rest of his life. One such company was iMagic, a before-its-time pioneer of trans- mitting TV content over the inter- net – think Netflix before Netflix. Mr. Pond elevated Mr. LeBrun, then a young University of New Brunswick grad, to head the star- tup. Even after iMagic was spun off and shut down, Mr. LeBrun re- mained part of Mr. Pond’s corps of bright young things, and Mr. Pond turned to him again to build Radian6, a social-media market- ing platform. Today, Mr. LeBrun is a social entrepreneur and a pio- neer in building tiny-house com- munities. In 1999, Mr. Pond’s life was blown up by the merger of Atlantic Canada’s four phone companies under the Aliant banner. He briefly headed Aliant’s telecom arm, but
Music Hall and then as a page at NBC. In the 1950s, he produced na- tionally broadcast programs for the NBC radio network, including Monitor and Nightline, where he hired rising comic talents such as Mike Nichols and Elaine May. He also produced PM East/PM West, a late-night TV talk show hosted by MikeWallaceandJoyceDavidson, from 1961 to 1962, and radio and television shows with Arthur Godfrey, a megastar of the era. In a 2014 interview with The Carson Podcast, Mr. Lassally de- scribed his working relationship with Mr. De Cordova, the better- known of the show’s executive producers. “He would be Mr. Jolly and schmoozewiththeguests,whichI don’t like to do,” Mr. Lassally said, “and I would do all the work.” He had a different sort of rela- tionship with Robert Morton, his co-executive producer on Mr. Let- terman’s Late Night program on NBC, where he moved in 1992 af- ter Mr. Carson retired, and on Mr. Letterman’s Late Show on CBS, which started a year later. As Mr. Morton said in an inter- view:“Irantheshow,butPetewas the guy who guided us in turning the show from a 12:30 show to an 11:30 show. Nobody knew 11:30 better than Pete.” Mr. Lassally was a key confi- dant of Mr. Letterman’s during
the company fell increasingly un- der the thumb of parent BCE and its Bell Canada affiliate. “The truth is I was let go,” he said, describing his fate at 57 after three decades with the business. He was packing boxes in his Saint John offices when he re- ceived a visitor, local entrepreneur Brian Flood, who urged him to join cybersecurity startup Q1 Labs as a director and investor. It was a fresh beginning. Mr. Pond would be pivotal in the company’s success, including its 2011 sale to IBM for about $600-million. Meanwhile, he had joined some old NBTel colleagues in founding Mariner Partners, an IT services and consulting firm. Inside Mariner, Mr. Pond co-founded East Valley Ventures, an investment arm that was his principal vehicle for hatching startups. As his influence widened across Atlantic Canada, he became an éminence grise for tech incubators and accelerators. He teamed up with entrepreneur Gururaj (Desh) Deshpande, a University of New Brunswick grad who had struck tech gold in the United States, to create a social innovation and en- trepreneurship hub inside the uni- versity. The executive director of the Pond-Deshpande Centre, Vanessa Paesani, is another recipient of the Pond treatment: direct, blunt but ultimately caring. “He was kind but firm,” Ms. Paesani says. One young female manager saw him as this crusty but lovable old bear. Mr. Pond was a tireless advocate for the often-underrated science of selling things. Many Atlantic Cana- dians, and Canadians generally, shy away from what they see as a grubby practice. This anti-sales mindset was hurting the country economically, he felt. A crowning achievement was a new chair in sales research at UNB. In his last few years, Mr. Pond suffered from a variety of ailments that took him in and out of hospi- tal. The last time was for septice- mia, a blood disorder. Anne Pond watched her hus- band working right to the end. He couldn’t stop. He had that un- quenchable optimism, that there was another big winner around the corner. As he said: “You wouldn’t be in this business if you weren’t optimistic.”
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the comedian’s failed attempt to succeed Mr. Carson at The Tonight Show, a position that went to Jay Leno instead. At one point, said Mr. Carter, the author of The Late Shift, Mr. Lassally brokered a meeting between Mr. Letterman and Bob Wright, the president of NBC, that nearly led to an offer for Mr. Letterman to succeed Mr. Le- no as host at the end of Mr. Leno’s first contract with The Tonight Show. Mr. Lassally also advised Mr. Letterman to hire agent Michael Ovitz,whofieldedapanoplyofof- fersthatresultedinMr.Letterman becoming the host of CBS’ Late Show, running opposite The To- night Show at 11:30 – actually, in the modern era, 11:35 – p.m. That dealwithCBSalsogaveMr.Letter- man’s production company con- trol of the 12:30 a.m. time slot, on which The Late Late Show aired. By the time Mr. Lassally left Late Show three years later, he was also an executive producer of The Late Late Show, hosted by news personalityTomSnyderfrom1995 to 1999. Mr. Lassally returned to run the show when Mr. Ferguson was the host, from 2005 to 2014. In addition to his son, Mr. Las- sally leaves a daughter, Andrea Gibbin, and four grandchildren. His wife, Alice (Gershon) Lassally, died in 2019.
This 4,287-square-foot house at 36 Millbank Ave. in Toronto was designed so the family living in it could be surrounded by their art collection with light flowing into the house.
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n the Toronto-area real estate market, some buyers are bot- tom fishing. Even miniature condo units can appeal to buyers who are willing to live in a compact space if they strike a good deal. Robert Kavcic, senior econo- mist with the Bank of Montreal, cautions that the Toronto condo bracket will likely remain weak well into 2027. Mr. Kavcic is not predicting a sharp recovery in Canadian real estate, but he does see signs that the national market is finding a floor in year five of the down- turn. He points to more steady na- tional sales and stable new list- ings, which have combined to bring the broad market back into balance. In June, home sales in Canada edged up 0.5 per cent from May on a seasonally adjusted basis. That result marked the third con- secutive increase after five months of decline. New listings slipped 1.3 per
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cent in June from May. The Teranet-National Bank Composite National House Price Index dipped 0.4 per cent in June from the previous month. Overall, the market in the Greater Toronto Area and South- ern Ontario remains softer than the national trend, but some buyers are willing to risk a pur- chase in hard-hit tranches now. Davelle Morrison, broker with Bosley Real Estate, notes the con- do segment in the GTA remains awash in listings with few buyers for smaller one-bedroom units. “In the $500,000 range, it’s crickets,” says Ms. Morrison, add- ing that some units are not even drawing showings. As a result, Ms. Morrison says, buyers who are willing to look at entry-level units have hefty bar- gaining power. She worked with one first-time buyer who recently purchased a unit for $364,000 at Jarvis Street and Dundas Street East. The buyer was upfront about having a budget below $400,000, Ms. Morrison adds. “I was shocked at how much I had to show them.” This buyer was very realistic, she adds, unlike people who have trouble deciding because
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they tend to like units that are just out of reach. “ ‘Like’ what is actually in your budget,” is her advice. In this case, the buyer pur- chased a unit with 549 square feet of living space and a balcony in a 10-year-old building. The main selling point, in a segment saturated with units with unappealing layouts, was that it had a true bedroom with a door, Ms. Morrison says. The unit, originally listed in April of 2025 with an asking price of $519,000, went through a se- ries of price cuts until it was list- ed for $368,000, Ms. Morrison says. The seller was an investor who had purchased the unit from plans. During the time it was list- ed, a tenant moved out. She counts herself among the many agents who will not show a unit to buyers if tenants are still occupying the space because sometimes they refuse to move out, which can create complica- tions on the closing date. She points to the example of one house she listed in the Leslie- ville neighbourhood that only had one showing while it was rented. Eventually the tenants did
move out, and she is planning to relist the property with a fresh paint job and furniture and décor brought in by a staging company. “If I have buyers who are look- ing – no matter the price point – I’m not showing it if it is tenant- ed. You just don’t know that the tenants are going to leave,” Ms. Morrison says. Anna Wong, real estate agent with Strata Real Estate, recently worked with tenants who decid- ed to buy when their landlord notified them of a rent increase. “That kick-started their search,” Ms. Wong says. “It’s ac- tually a risky move for landlords to raise rent.” The buyers had been keeping an eye on the market for a couple of years, she says. They purchased a two-storey townhouse in the Leslieville neighbourhood for $775,000 af- ter it was listed with an asking price of $799,000. The sellers paid approximate- ly $950,000 near the height of the market, says Ms. Wong. Her clients figured they could buy the freehold townhouse for the same price as many two-bed- room condos they had seen list- ed in the area.
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This rendering shows the King & Crescent project in Surrey, B.C., by Zenterra Developments, which has filed lawsuits against buyers in this and other projects who failed to complete the presale purchase agreement. ZENTERRA DEVELOPMENTS In B.C., presale buyers are backing out – and developers are suing
Some people walk away when the value of a home drops before construction is complete
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ere’s a scenario: You bought a presale home a few years ago, construc- tion is almost complete, but the home is worth significantly less now compared to what you agreed to pay for it years ago. What do you do? Here’s the math: You paid a $68,000 deposit. Your purchase price was $715,000, but the home is now worth closer to $585,000. Do you complete the purchase and crystallize that loss? That’s a hard place to be in, but here’s the rock: If you walk away from the purchase, you lose your deposit, and the developer can sue you for an additional $70,000. This is a real-world example, with numbers rounded, currently playing out in the Supreme Court of British Columbia, where Metro Vancouver developers have initi- ated dozens of lawsuits in recent months against individual pre- sale purchasers, according to a re- view of court filings by The Globe and Mail. The above lawsuit was initi- ated by Zenterra Developments against a buyer on their King & Crescent project in Surrey, B.C. They’ve also filed similar suits against buyers at The Commons, a project in Langley, B.C. But Zen- terra is far from the only devel- oper taking legal action. Other examples of suits against buyers include Fleetwood Village 2, by Dawson + Sawyer in Surrey, Hue by Marcon in Port Moody, B.C., Towns at Lynn by Mosaic Homes in North Vancouv- er, and The Butterfly by Westbank in Vancouver. In many of those instances, the developer has sued multiple buyers. The Globe and Mail found two dozen separate lawsuits across just these pro- jects.
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“It made sense for them to pull the trigger. It was definitely a deal,” says Ms. Wong. Ms. Wong says many people are content to sit on the sidelines if they are in a fairly affordable rental property. Most buyers are not counting on a condo to provide any cap- ital appreciation any time soon. But if they can break even with a combined mortgage, maintenance fee and tax bill roughly equivalent to the amount they’re paying in rent, they are willing to buy. “There are a lot of renters out there who are doing the math,” says Ms. Wong. Those condos that do attract interest tend to be larger units in
This rendering shows the Towns at Lynn project by Mosaic Homes in North Vancouver. Mosaic says only a small number of purchasers have not closed on presale agreements. MOSAIC HOMES
Reached for comment, Mosaic said they have made efforts to work with buyers to support their closings and that only a small number of purchasers did not close. All of the other developers declined to comment or did not respond. All of the lawsuits follow the same general structure: A buyer signed a presale purchase agree- ment a few years ago, they paid a deposit, then did not close on their purchase. In most cases, the developers managed to resell the units, but at a much lower price due to to- day’s weaker market conditions, and are now suing the original buyer for breach of contract and damages stemming from the sale price difference. In several in- stances, developers are also claiming damages for costs asso- ciated with carrying the units, having to remarket the property and even strata fees.
upscale buildings because that is the tranche where many down- sizing baby boomers are concen- trating their search. Ms. Morrison recently listed a two-bedroom corner unit at 38 Avenue Rd. with an asking price of $2.68-million. Within a couple of days, two buyers booked showings for the unit with 1,845 square feet of liv- ing space and an elevator that opens directly into the foyer. She says the unit is out of the price range of many younger as- piring buyers, but the property is more likely to suit a homeowner with a house to sell around the $4-million mark or higher. The building in the Yorkville neighbourhood near Avenue Road and Bloor Street offers val- et parking and a concierge, she
The exact reasons those buyers did not complete their purchases were not stated in court documents, but the sheer volume of lawsuits and their sim- ilarities indicate that it wasn’t just a whim: there are larger mar- ket forces at play. Mike Stewart – a Vancouver- based realtor who specializes in presales – and Craig Anderson – vice-president of sales for Mag- num Projects, a marketing and sales firm – both said, independ- ently, that the following scenario is becoming increasingly com- mon: a buyer agreed to a presale for $700,000 a few years ago, they go to their bank to get an apprais- al ahead of closing, but the bank says it’s only worth $600,000 now and that the buyer has to come up with the remaining $100,000 if they want financing. That’s not always possible, and it may not even be worth it. But whatever the reasons, de-
BMO chief economist Robert Kavcic points out that demand and supply eventually rebalance in housing cycles, and he is predicting that a new, well-behaved cycle will emerge from this correction as well.
velopers are taking legal action. Although there have been previ- ous examples of this, both Mr. Stewart and Mr. Craig say it was rare when the market was good, because developers could often resell the unit at a higher price. Times are different now. “Developers are not messing around any more,” said Mr. Stew- art. “They are going after people because their costs are so high and their losses are so high. So they need to sue people.” “For the last two decades, they would just say, ‘Well the home was $1-million, we’re now gonna sell it for $1.1-million. And some- times, they’d give half the deposit back, because they were looking at managing their reputation,” said Mr. Anderson. “Now, they’re willing to spend legal fees to go after people and go after them hard. You see they’re [claiming] fees, including the strata fees [the buyers] were supposed to pay
says, and many buyers are look- ing for those services at the high- er end. Still, condos in that price range have been sitting in the ar- ea, she says, as buyers take their time making decisions. Mr. Kavcic at BMO points out that demand and supply eventu- ally rebalance in housing cycles, and he is predicting that a new, well-behaved cycle will emerge from this correction as well. In his view, a drying up in the supply of small investor-dom- inated condos that end users clearly don’t want is the factor that will ultimately rebalance that segment. Many parts of the Canadian market could drift through 2027 until affordability and invest- ment arithmetic get more com-
and all the legal fees. They always get a little pound of flesh, but now they’re going for every dol- lar.” Illustrating how much market values have fallen, Mr. Anderson said Magnum has been involved with four low-rise wood-frame projects in Surrey recently and that the market values were around $870 per square foot last year. They are now closer to $700. Both Mr. Stewart and Mr. An- derson recognize that developers face pressures of their own, in- cluding potentially from their own lenders. Each acknowledged that they are not lawyers, but they’ve been working with pre- sales for years and believe these kinds of lawsuits are pretty open- and-shut. “I’m not a lawyer, but my un- derstanding is the case law is very clear,” said Mr. Stewart. “At the end of the day, these are con- tracts. When one breaks a con- tract, there are hundreds of years of precedent. And a lot of these people are finding out.” Reviewing some of the cases for The Globe, Mr. Anderson said he was surprised that the devel- opers were able to resell the units at the price they got, in some in- stances, as the prices were above current market rates. He suspects there will be more of these law- suits. In the cases reviewed by The Globe, the developers are seeking court judgments against the pur- chasers in amounts ranging from $70,000 to $166,000. Mr. Ander- son says it’s unlikely the purchas- ers have much legal ground to stand on and will likely be on the hook for the full amounts, bar- ring compassion and leniency from the judge. “This is the quiet downside of presale that nobody wants to talk about, but it’s a contract,” said Mr. Anderson. He added that Magnum has worked with several purchasers who have brought in lawyers trying to get out of their purchases. “I haven’t seen this since 2010. Everybody wants to buy presale when the market is going up, but nobody wants any part of it when it’s going down.”
pelling, he says. Looking back to 2022, the economist notes that the peak of the last cycle coincided with val- uations stretched beyond levels that income, rent and interest rate fundamentals could justify – all fanned by speculative interest and the false narrative of a lack of supply. And just as the Bank of Cana- da’s moves to cut interest rates to near zero helped to fuel that run-up, the tightening cycle that began in 2023 brought it to a halt, Mr. Kavcic says. Stretched valuations can’t ab- sorb higher borrowing costs, so prices must fall. “This is how almost all hous- ing bull markets end, and this was no different,” says the econ- omist.
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their anti-money-laundering paperwork in order
FinTRAC has ramped up enforcement efforts, leading to complaints, frustration from realtors
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he latest monetary penalty imposed on a real estate brokerage by the federal government’s anti-money-laun- dering regulator should serve as a wake-up call for realtors, ac- cording to experts. Federal law requires real estate brokerages (among other finan- cial services companies) to create anti-money-laundering (AML) policies and procedures, identify their clients, keep records of their transactions and report anything suspicious to Financial Transac- tions and Reports Analysis Cen- tre of Canada, or FinTRAC, as it is known. However, even though Cana- da’s modern money-laundering regulations are more than 20 years old, there are still points of friction between owners and op- erators of real estate businesses and their compliance require- ments. Canada has more than 155,000 real estate brokers, agents and salespeople, and more than 14,000 brokerage businesses, all subject to the reg- ulations. “They generally hate FinTRAC.
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15013A Township Rd. 462, Rural Wetaskiwin County, Alta. RURAL WETASKIWIN COUNTY
Asking price: $1.35-million (May, 2026) Selling price: $1.3-million (June, 2026) Taxes: $4,343 (2025) Days on the market: 29 Listing agent: David St. Jean, eXp Realty Buyer’s agents: David St. Jean and Allan Dignard, eXp Realty
THE ACTION Based on the remote location of this four-bedroom houseona9.88-acrelot,agentDa- vid St. Jean geared up for months of marketing and several open houses to flag down potential buyerswithinthesurroundingar- ea or from large cities, such as Ed- monton about 100 kilometres to the north. “The nice thing about it is it’s 10 acres, private and treed, and it’s near Pigeon Lake,” said Mr. St. Jean. “Right now, most buyers we see are moving from local areas,
They think it’s either govern- ment overreach or increased ad- ministrative burden,” said Greg Dent, who is both a realtor in British Columbia and co-founder and chief operating officer of Re- allyTrusted Technologies Inc., a specialty software and training company that helps realtors get compliant with Canada’s AML rules. It has more than 900 bro- kerage clients across the country. “[They say] ‘It’s one more form that I have to fill out’ and you’ll hear different versions of that de- pending on where you are in the country.” On July 9, FinTRAC announced that an Ottawa-area brokerage, VIP Realty Inc., also known as Royal LePage Integrity Realty Inc., had paid a $33,000 fine (ini- tially levied in December, 2025) for failing to complete a pre- scribed review of its policies to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing every two years. While FinTRAC has includ- ed such penalties for failing to conduct policy audits in several previous instances where real es- tate brokerages had been as- sessed other fines, they had nev- er been the sole violation before. “The two-year reviews have al- ways been – especially in the real estate space – kind of the forgot- ten piece of the compliance pro- gram,” said Adam Feldman, prin- cipal for risk management and technology at financial services consulting company The AML Shop. “They’re time-consuming;
either coming from the city to the country to get more space or up- sizing from their current home in the country to something bigger.” In less time than anticipated, one guest negotiated a $1.3-mil- lion purchase, just $50,000 shy of the asking price. “We only had it listed for 29 days,” Mr. St. Jean said.
they’re expensive. A lot of bro- kerages just didn’t do them. You just can’t get away with that any more, and now you need to do those reviews.” Lori Blair, senior communica- tions adviser for FinTRAC, said in a statement that the agency had ramped up its enforcement ef- forts in recent years.
Most of the broker-owners who own those businesses got there because they were good real estate agents, not because they have some sort of deep passion around administration or compliance issues.
cause they were good real estate agents, not because they have some sort of deep passion around administration or com- pliance issues.” There’s also confusion in the industry about how these re- views are to be conducted, who is qualified to do them and how ex- pensive they should be. “I speak to brokerages all the time,” said Friedrich Klaus, co- Founder of Iluminai Intelligence Corp., which makes AML compli- ance software that it sells to real- tors and mortgage brokers. He of- ten hears from his clients about the wild range of prices they re- ceive for completing the reviews. Mr. Klaus described a brokerage in Edmonton that received a quote for $16,000 from a small specialty AML consultancy to do the biennial review, about the same price that a major account- ing firm might charge. After ne- gotiations, the brokerage finally got the company to reduce their price: “They just kept cutting un- til it was $3,000,” he said. The current regulations are al- so loose when it comes to who is qualified to conduct these re- views. “You’re allowed to audit your own program if you want,” said Mr. Dent, but he doesn’t en- courage broker-owners to be their own auditor if they aren’t certain of the rules. “I think those might be holes that FinTRAC eventually closes,” said Mr. Dent. “But for now, that is still allowed.”
GREG DENT CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER OF REALLYTRUSTED TECHNOLOGIES INC.
“A prescribed review is impor- tant to determine whether a compliance program has gaps or weaknesses that may prevent a business from effectively detect- ing and preventing money laun- dering, terrorist activity financ- ing and sanctions evasion,” Ms. Blair said in her statement. “These obligations help deter criminals and terrorists from us- ing Canada’s financial system to
“Usually, it’s closer to 60 to 90 days,dependingontheproperty.”
WHAT THEY GOT This 31-year-old house has a two-storey plan with 3,519 square feet of living space, including a primary bedroom and a living room with fireplaces and access to a screened-in sun- room.
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launder the proceeds of their crimes, finance terrorist activities or evade sanctions. They also en- sure that FinTRAC receives the information that it needs to gen- erate actionable financial intelli- gence in support of the investiga- tions of Canada’s law enforce- ment and national security agen- cies and international allies,” she said. In addition to real estate com- panies, FinTRAC regulates many enterprises that deal with capital flows, including cryptocurrency enterprises, jewellers, lottery and gaming organizations, and mon- ey services companies. In the past year, FinTRAC has announced 35 enforcement ac- tions and, according to its web- site, almost a third of those were for realtors, accounting for more than $770,000 in fines, which represents less than 0.5 per cent of the fines in that period. While FinTRAC’s mission is a serious one, Mr. Dent often finds there are business and some- times attitudinal reasons why most real estate brokerages in the country struggle with coun- terterrorism and money-launder- ing regulations. “The structure of the industry is poorly designed for success,” said Mr. Dent, noting real estate brokerages across Canada are mainly small businesses with a sole owner-operator and be- tween 35 and 100 realtors. “Most of the broker-owners who own those businesses got there be-
At the other end of the house, there is a den, an office and a fam- ily room, as well as a kitchen and dining area with sliding doors to a deck and yard with a fire pit.
There are four full bathrooms connected to a drilled well sys- tem. The basement is unfinished.
There are two double garages on site and a workshop.
THE AGENT’S TAKE “It’s a beautiful house,” Mr. St. Jean said. “It had dual primary suites, which was nice, a cool wine cellar, and vaulted ceilings. “It also has a really nice, four- season sunroom that was screened off with a wood-burning fireplace and hot tub.” – SYDNIA YU
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Artist John Massie hired Toronto-based Studio KSA to renovate and create an addition to his mother’s former home in Port Hope, Ont. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL VAN LEUR A Buddhist, an artist, a cottage and an addition
PORT HOPE, ONT.
Renovation brings in light and much-needed space, while respecting the original look
DAVE LeBLANC
ARCHITOURIST
t dawn each morning after put- ting on her robes, Melodie Franc- es Massey (1923-2016) would walk softly down the old, creaky wooden stairs. Like all Buddhist nuns, she would divide her days between medita- tion, offering service, study and, some- times, chanting. On certain days, she would teach meditation to others. The little cottage in Port Hope, Ont., which she purchased in 1997, was a won- derful place to practice Vajrayana Budd- hism. On a quiet street across from a park, it also possessed a large, sunny backyard filled with birdsong. “I still, to this day, think that the peace- fulness that’s here had something to do with the work that she did,” says her son, artist John Massey. “Everybody who comes here and stays here remarks on the peacefulness of the house.” Before moving to Port Hope in 1970, Ms. Massey had lived in a very different type of house: the orderly, steel-and-glass, Mies van der Rohe-inspired dwelling in Ottawa’s Rockcliffe Park neighbourhood designed by her husband, Hart Massey II (1918-1997). Winner of the 1964 Massey Medal for Architecture (founded by gover- nor-general Vincent Massey, Hart’s fa- ther), the house at 400 Lansdowne Rd. was designated a National Historic Site in 2018. “My mom never liked the house in Ot- tawa,” Mr. Massey adds. And while they haven’t awarded a Mas- sey Medal for Architecture since 1970, the way John Massey has treated and rein- terpreted his mother’s cottage – with a great deal of help from designers at To- ronto-based Studio KSA – is certainly praiseworthy. “And even though I didn’t think of this rationally,” continues Mr. Massey, “it sort of brought those two things together: the spiritual questing of my mother … and then the architectural wrap around it [is] my father’s presence.” While it’s unlikely Hart Massey’s hand guided that of Martin Kohn, co-founder of KSA Studio in 1990 (with John Shnier) or that of his colleague, Maggie Bennedsen, both agree there’s good energy here in- deed, and, more importantly, that the way to preserve it was to leave most of the original cottage well enough alone. “The kernel of the house,” Mr. Kohn says, “we knew we were just going to keep this simple: centre hall, two rooms … [but] making houses for people is a huge commitment; I’m always very nervous. I try not to show it, but I’m always terrified. And when it actually works out years lat- er, it’s really gratifying.” It’s gratifying for the sidewalk passerby as well. A little gable with an arched win- dow punctuates the wooden, white fa- çade, which also sports an asymmetrical porch enclosed by a little picket fence. The only whiff of newness is the black, standing-seam cladding around the sin- gle-car garage (although an eagle-eyed Port Hope resident might note the old shutters are gone and the arched window has a bit of added length).
The little cottage in Port Hope, Ont., was purchased by Mr. Massie’s mother in 1997 on a quiet street across from a park.
Open the front door, and the visitor is greeted by the old, wide-planked, slightly warped wooden floor and the worn, grooved staircase that Ms. Massey travers- ed each day. A neck-swivel to the right reveals an enclosed room with all mould- ings intact, and a swivel to the left re- wards the visitor with a lovely fireplace. That original living room, however, now opens up to the Studio KSA addition, which features a small pop-out that cre- ates a windowed nook where Mr. Massey has placed a second couch on one side, and an efficient, modern kitchen on the other (Mr. Kohn’s father installed stain- less steel commercial kitchens for a living, and he says he learned a great deal about keeping them compact). The cottage sits about 25 kilometres from Newcastle, Ont., where, in 1847, Da- niel Massey Jr. started the company that would eventually become the farm ma- chinery behemoth Massey Manufacturing Co. The company moved to Toronto in 1871, and it’s a good bet most of the soil between here and there – and a great many other places around the world – was turned over by Massey farm machin- ery. While KSA’s addition is nothing more than a rectangle grafted onto the back of the old cottage, the resulting change is tremendous: light carries into what Mr. Massey describes as (formerly) “mingy lit- tle rooms” as it enters from floor-to-ceil- ing windows and bounces off shiny, tall baseboards. There are visual connections to nature no matter where one sits. The transition from wood floor to polished concrete (the poor man’s terrazzo, as this author likes to call it) is a friendly border between the two worlds. To go upstairs, a visitor grabs the origi- nal handrail and, like a moth to a flame, heads to the arched window over the soaker tub, marvelling at the imperfec- tions of the lath-and-plaster walls and ceilings. “There is a bit of crudeness to it, which to us is acceptable and sometimes desir- able,” says Mr. Kohn. “The way we treated
An efficient, modern kitchen was added to one side of the new addition.
the existing part of the house, you know, tidying it up [but] not making everything superprecise. And that contributes to a kind of economy as well.” “Praise be to Marty,” laughs Mr. Massey, who adds that growing up with a patri- archal “my way or the highway” father meant he didn’t think much of architects for a good portion of his life. “He got it all right; amongst many things is that the house breathes beautifully…and the dis- tribution of heat – it’s super cozy.”
In summer, the positioning of operable skylights as heat-chimneys, windows for cross-ventilation, and massive, powered awnings to shade the backyard window- wall means there’s no need for costly air conditioning, either: “Half the houses we did [do] not have air conditioning … I’ve never liked it,” explains Mr. Kohn. “You need a window, and some green- ery, and a place to sit, and that’s kind of it,” Mr. Kohn finishes with a smile. Sounds like meditation.
This 4,287-square-foot house at 36 Millbank Ave. in Toronto was designed by Siamak Hariri of Hariri Pontarini Architects. It is organized around a three-storey atrium that has clerestory windows, which bring light into the centre of the house. Architecture that resonates with the soul
Renowned designer Siamak Hariri says owners let him experiment
CAROLYN IRELAND
36 Millbank Ave. TORONTO
Asking Price: $6,695,000 Taxes: $26,640.63 (2025) Lot Size: 45 by 148 feet Agent: Robin Farb-Eckler, Harvey Kalles Real Estate
THE BACKSTORY
From the early days of his practice, Siamak Hariri has been contemplating ways to cre- ate architecture that resonates with the human soul. “We are all spiritual beings with a body attached,” the architect says in describing the emotional lift people experience when they engage with music, art and poetry. Today, Toronto-based Hariri Pontarini Architects places that tenet at the centre of the firm’s designs for museums, concert halls, university buildings, and places of worship. On a recent July day, Mr. Hariri made a return visit to one of his earliest residential projects, where designing a new Forest Hill residence for a Toronto couple was also a summons to meet that aspiration. The clients were veteran real estate de- veloper Jerry Shear and his wife, Eleanor. The couple shared six sons in a blended family, says Mr. Shear, but the children had all moved on in 1996, when he and his wife purchased a teardown bungalow on a steeply sloping lot. Mr. Shear had retired from the develop- ment business by that time, but a son who worked in the industry told him about the emerging talent of Mr. Hariri. When he invited the architect to meet, the two were quickly on the same wave- length; they both agreed as they reflected on their early visits to the site. Mr. Hariri recalls standing on the in- cline, puzzling out how to place walls so that the Shears could be surrounded by their art collection while light flowed through the centre of the home. “When you combine light, art and land- scape, you have magic,” says Mr. Hariri. “It’s an emotional engagement. That’s what I was after.”
THE HOUSE TODAY
The practice founded by Mr. Hariri and Da- vid Pontarini had only been established for a couple of years when Mr. Shear called on the pair. The firm’s profile was raised immeasur- ably in 1999 when the McKinsey & Co., cor- porate headquarters, built on the campus of the University of Toronto, won multiple prestigious awards. The work on the Shear house coincided with the development of that ground- breaking building, Mr. Hariri recalls, and each influenced the other. Houses are a testing ground because they allow the time and space to explore new things, he says, and the Shears did not back away from innovation. “They demanded it,” says Mr. Hariri. “They were gusty. They let me experi- ment.” The house, with 4,287 square feet of
The second floor of the house is divided into two wings that are connected by a bridge that overlooks the dining room.
above-ground living space, is organized around a three-storey atrium with cleres- tory windows, which bring light to the din- ing room at the centre. For Ms. Shear, who died in 2023, having a large table where friends and family could gather for dinners and celebrations was paramount. The family room at the rear of the house has a lift-and-slide door that opens the back wall to the garden. The concept is more commonly used today, but it was remarkable in the 1990s, says Mr. Hariri. A living area at the front of the home overlooks the street. Mr. Hariri chose cherry wood for the kitchen cabinets and limestone for the floor, countertops and centre island. He began using the stone, he says, after the owner of an Owen Sound, Ont., quarry offered it for free if Mr. Hariri would use it for a high-profile project in the financial district. “I actually fell in love with the material,” says the architect. “I’ve used it so much; it has become a signature.” An open staircase leads to the second floor, where the home is divided into two wings connected by a bridge overlooking the dining room. The separation of the primary suite at the rear and the additional bedrooms at the front creates privacy for the home- owners, Mr. Hariri notes. “I’ve used this many times now. People are happy.” Mr. Shear currently uses one room over- looking the street for his home office, while a second bedroom is reserved for guests. The primary suite at the rear includes a bedroom with views of the trees. There’s an ensuite bathroom with a soaker tub and a large dressing room with a sitting area and a door to a balcony. A second en- suite bathroom has a walk-in shower. The third floor provides an additional bedroom and bathroom. At the rear, a
Cherry wood was used for the kitchen cabinets and limestone for the floor, countertops and centre island.
large deck provides space to relax sur- rounded by the tree canopy. Outside, Mr. Hariri carved away a slice of the hillside to create a sheltered stone terrace and modern waterfall. The Shears brought in landscape archi- tect Janet Rosenberg to design the gar- dens. “It opened my eyes to a highly and beautifully orchestrated life,” Mr. Hariri says of the result.
“Anybody can do lots of glass, but how do you make it comfortable?” On Millbank Avenue, the exterior of glass, teak, mahogany, and rough and smooth-cut stone uses the same materials as the heritage-designated McKinsey & Co., building. Mr. Shear balked at the expense of the copper detailing on the exterior, but the architect persuaded him that a thin drip edge was necessary to keep rain from hit- ting the windows trimmed in mahogany. “You’ve got to do it,” Mr. Hariri insisted. “We live in a tough climate. You have to have the rain fall off.” With dozens of landmark projects now in the firm’s portfolio, Mr. Hariri surveys the house and still feels gratified by the re- sult. “I’m very happy with this after 30 years,” he says. “I don’t know if I would do it any differently now.”
$267,000 below purchase price
132B Balmoral Ave., Toronto YONGE-ST. CLAIR
Asking price: $5,395,000 (February, 2026) Selling price: $4.9-million (June, 2026) Previous selling price: $5,167,000 (2022) Taxes: $20,533 (2025) Days on the market: 103 Listing agent: Scott Hanton, Hanton Real Estate Inc.
THE ACTION This four-year-old house, near Avenue Road and St. Clair Avenue, was designed by ar- chitect Richard Wengle with plen- ty of upscale elements, from an elevator to a heated driveway in front of the built-in garage. Agent Scott Hanton described the house as “exquisite” and said it was rare to see a new build of this calibre in this neighbour- hood. It was promoted off market for two months, then opened to the public with a price tag of roughly $5.4-million. “Buyers just weren’t in a rush this winter and spring. They had the luxury of waiting and taking their time to see what’s out there,” said Mr. Hanton. The owners were looking for a different lifestyle, even if it meant selling their four-bedroom home for less than the roughly $5.1-mil- lion they paid the original build- er. They were flexible in purchase talks but only allowed a 10-per- cent drop in their asking price. “The sellers were prepared to take a loss there, we all knew the market is what it is,” Mr. Hanton said. “There were some homes available, spectacular houses, that have dropped their selling price by up to $1-million.”
WHAT THEY GOT This three-storey house has 3,045 square feet of liv- ing space, including four bath-
288 Durie St., Toronto RUNNYMEDE-BLOOR WEST VILLAGE
Asking price: $1,849,000 (April, 2026) Selling price: $2.1-million (April, 2026) Previous selling price: $375,610 (October, 1998) Taxes: $8,876 (2026) Days on the market: One Listing agent: Dino Capocci, Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd.
THE ACTION Agent Dino Capocci was a week away from posting this four-bedroom house for sale when a similar home up the street sold for roughly $2.1-mil- lion in one day. Mr. Capocci chose to mirror the same list-low, sell-high strategy, even picking the same asking price of $1,849,000, for his client’s home. Ten buyers asked for tours of the home near Bloor Street and Runnymede Road. One, disre- garding the seller’s plan to con- sider all offers in one week’s time, made a $2.1-million offer on the first day. “Because there were multiple offers [at the other house], there were probably buyers waiting for something else to come up,” said Mr. Capocci. “The seller didn’t want to take any chances turning this offer down and waiting until the offer date. Maybe they don’t come back; maybe they find another house. I’ve seen that happen. “[This house] really checks a lot of boxes because a lot of peo- ple are looking for four bed- rooms,” Mr. Capocci said. “There are a lot that only have three bed- rooms. “This has a 145-foot-deep lot in- steadof110or100feet,andonDu- rie [Street], the average frontage
rooms, two laundry rooms and a kitchen between living and din- ing areas with fireplaces.
A pet washing station is in the basement, along with a recre- ation area with over 13-foot ceil- ings.
Lounging areas outdoors in- clude a rooftop terrace with a fire pit off the primary bedroom, and
is 25 feet [whereas this one was 27 feet].
a new patio on the 22- by 113-foot lot.
THE AGENT’S TAKE “It’s on a quiet, residential street,” Mr. Hanton said. “A private elevator is a very ex- clusive feature to have in your own house.” – SYDNIA YU
The stairwell leading to the finished basement has a side exit to a parking pad.
62 Roe Ave, Toronto LAWRENCE PARK NORTH
Asking price: $1,549,900 (June, 2026) Selling price: $1,575,000 (June, 2026) Taxes: $9,346 (2025) Days on the market: Five Listing agent: Ira Jelinek, Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd.
THE ACTION Several detached prop- erties north of Lawrence Avenue, between Yonge Street and Ave- nue Road, were underpriced in June to attract offers from multi- ple buyers. The agent selling this three- bedroom house, built in the 1950s, used the same tactic, pric- ing it below $1.55-million. Within one week, 20 buyers had taken private tours, and two parties competed on the offer date. “There was nothing like this the week we wanted to list,” said agent Ira Jelinek. “It’s the least ex- pensive you can get for a de- tached house in that area.” During the negotiations, the eventual buyers boosted their of- fer to $1,575,000, still an “afforda- ble” price when compared with
524 Balliol St., Toronto MOUNT PLEASANT EAST
Asking price: $995,000 (May, 2026) Selling price: $1,325,000 (May, 2026) Previous selling price: $133,000 (September, 1986) Taxes: $6,591 (2025) Days on the market: Six Listing agents: Amir Kiabi and Robert Greenberg, Harvey Kalles Real Estate Ltd.
THE ACTION This spring, agent Rob- ert Greenberg used a time-tested method to drum up multiple of- fers for this semi-detached house on a 23- by 100-foot lot near Mount Pleasant Road and Davis- ville Avenue. He used a low price of $995,000, combined with a short viewing period of only six days, to attract large crowds to weekend open houses. Nearly 100 visitors saw it during the week. On the of- fer date, three purchase offers were registered. “I could have priced this prop- erty at $1.1-million or $1.2-mil-
174 Kingsview Dr., Bolton, Ont. BOLTON
Asking price: $899,000 (May, 2026) Selling price: $890,000 (May, 2026) Taxes: $5,631 (2025) Days on the market: Three Listing agent: Gary Cirillo, Realty Executives Priority One Ltd.
THE ACTION This three-bedroom bungalow still has its 1970s-era construction finishes on a corner lot in Bolton, about 50 kilometres northwest of downtown Toronto. One buyer delivered an offer dur- ing the opening weekend in May, after which three others joined in with their own bids. “The property received strong interest, generating 12 showings in just three days and resulting in four offers,” said agent Gary Ciril- lo. “I believe some of the key sell- ing features were the bungalow layout, the desirable corner lot measuring 56 by 146 feet, and the private driveway with parking for up to six vehicles.” The sellers, well aware that other properties were having dif- ficulty finding buyers this spring, accepted a purchase proposal within $9,000 of their asking price of $899,000. “The last couple of [bunga- lows] took a little longer to sell,
competing homes for sale nearby, though some of those were more than double the size. “Buyers are pretty tight today,” said Mr. Jelinek. “You have to work hard to get [their offer] up.”
WHAT THEY GOT This two-storey house has three bedrooms and a newly renovated bathroom on the second floor.
WHAT THEY GOT This two-storey house has 1,323 square feet of liv- ing space, including three bed- rooms and open-concept living and dining areas.
There is a living room with a fireplace and a formal dining area with wainscotting.
The main floor also has a powder room and an eat-in kitch-
lion, but it probably wouldn’t get the same attention and traffic,” said Mr. Greenberg. “Finding a property under $1- million in Toronto is pretty hard,” he said, adding that the large frontage and bigger size of the semi compared with others in the neighbourhood also helped. The home’s move-in-ready ap- pearance and prime address
en with an exit to the patio.
A recreation area in the base- ment has a separate side en- trance, with access to the yard and a front parking pad on the 25- by 116-foot lot.
THE AGENT’S TAKE “It had a great backyard with good room for kids to play and a lot of grass, and it’s in a friendly neighbourhood,” said Mr. Jelinek. “You have all the amenities on Yonge and Avenue, like the sub- way.” – SYDNIA YU
within walking distance of the subway line, numerous restau- rants and well-regarded schools also helped drive up the selling price. “It’s in a very desirable neigh- bourhood on a very good street,” said co-listing agent Amir Kiabi. “The [owner] spent money on painting, broadloom, and a new fence to make the house present-
able, and it paid off.”
An additional recreation area is in the basement.
There are two four-piece bathrooms and a newly updated
kitchen with stainless-steel ap- pliances and a back door to a deck and yard.
A mutual driveway faces the street.
THE AGENT’S TAKE “The unique thing about this house was that all three bedrooms were quite big,” Mr. Kiabi said. – SYDNIA YU
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bargains are rare, but there
Sale of North Vancouver home ‘the craziest thing I’ve ever seen,’ real estate agent says
KERRY GOLD VANCOUVER
he sale of a house in North Vancouver, B.C., late last year made it the envy of bargain hunters. The buyers made an extremely lowball offer and scored a real estate win. The house at 3095 Plymouth Dr. sold for $750,000 – half the $1,495,000 asking price and near- ly $1-million below the assessed value of $1,724,600. Realtors and anyone paying attention were shocked at the sale. “This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen,” said realtor Patricia Houlihan, who’s been in the business for 21 years. “I have many buyers who’d have bought it sight unseen for that price,” said realtor Fred Tru- deau. The property spent 106 days without any recorded price re- ductions before selling on Dec. 24 for $750,000 and closing in Ja- nuary. The buyers who snapped up the 70-year-old teardown now own a large 7,642-square- foot lot, about double the width of the standard 33-foot Vancouv- er lot. The home sits on a curved road with a forested backdrop, between large houses in the Windsor Park neighbourhood, where the benchmark MLS price for a detached home is $1.89-mil- lion. The land was assessed at $1,668,000. Listing agent John Buchanan, of Royal LePage Sussex, declined an interview, as did the buyer’s agent, Dylan McCansh of Oak- wyn Realty, citing the buyers’ re- quest for privacy. Royal LePage managing broker Lawrence Put- nam, who lives a block away from the property, said he couldn’t divulge details because of industry privacy rules, but he said the house, located not far from a busy road, could not be lived in in its current condition. “I do think somebody got a pretty good deal there, but we’re in a market … where there are not a lot of builders buying right now,” said Mr. Putnam. He called the sale an outlier, and said it won’t impact other properties in the area. “It was a sale price, certainly, that provoked a lot of discussion. But the value of any of that dis- cussion would have to be mea- sured against somebody’s knowl-
36 E. 14th Ave., No. 109, Vancouver SOUTH MAIN
Asking price: $275,000 (April 22) Previous Asking Prices: $299,000 (Oct. 20, 2025); $315,000 (July 2, 2025) Selling price: $274,750 (April 22) Monthly fee, including taxes: $691.30 Days on market: 294 Listing agents: Dwayne Launt, Rick Stonehouse and Shaun Gregory, Oakwyn Realty
The recent sale of this house at 3095 Plymouth Dr. in North Vancouver’s Windsor Park neighbourhood represents one of the single most massive percentage cuts for a detached home on the North Shore. It was listed for $1,495,000 and sold for $750,000. TAEHOON KIM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
edge of and understanding of that particular property. I’m not sure how many people have gone inside it and seen its condi- tion, but I would suggest they have a relatively limited value to their opinion if they hadn’t.” The neighbourhood is filled with houses built on large lots, and is a draw for families. A house at 2996 Plymouth Dr. sold last September for $2,025,000, or $327,000 above assessed value. A house at 2984 Plymouth Dr. sold last October for $1,650,000, or $37,400 above assessed value. Ms. Houlihan couldn’t com- ment further or speculate about the sale. But generally, she tells her clients to drop the price gradually, because each price point brings in potential new buyers. The current market is es- pecially tricky terrain for finding the right selling price. “You don’t really know what something’s going to sell for. Places that are good deals – the buyers don’t know they’re good deals. It’s the lemming factor that’s killing me,” she added. “When prices are way too high, everyone wants to buy. But when things are selling low, everyone is like, ‘What if it goes lower?’
Once it starts going back up, it’s too late.” Vancouver realtor Lorne Gold- man agreed that sales like 3095 Plymouth Dr. are outliers. Deals are out there, but they’re not that extreme, he said. “None of our buyers have seen that level of reduction in price. It’s highly unusual,” he said. “Granted, the market is not maybe doing great. But are there huge bargains out there in this market because of that? My an- swer to that is, ‘No.’ I mean, I’m always being asked every day by buyers and agents, ‘Will my cli- ents take a low offer?’ You don’t even talk to them. It’s a huge time waste for me.” But there have been other sur- prises. In particular, high-end properties and fixer-uppers are taking a harsh reality check. A large, roughly 4,000 square foot, 14-year-old house at 1562 West 40th Ave. sold for $2.28-million below the asking price after 530 days on the market. The five- bedroom, seven-bathroom house has a roof with copper fea- tures, a wok kitchen and media room. The Shaughnessy home had been assessed for $6,138,000, with land value at $3,831,000.
The house sold for close to land value, at $3.5-million. Listing agent Wei Du had received sever- al offers, but declined an inter- view. Mr. Goldman said that proper- ty had its challenges. It was de- signed for a wealthy Asian buyer who is no longer active, and it also backs onto a car repair shop. He believes the relatively new house will get redeveloped. City policies are pushing for more density in low-density neigh- bourhoods. “It’s really ironic that in this age of environmentalism we were busy ripping down houses and building houses that we’re going to rip down 15 years later.” In Strathcona, a house at 655 E. Pender St. sold for $980,000 on June 2. It had been assessed at $1,377,200, with the land portion valued at $1,307,000. The charac- ter house, which needed signif- icant repair, had been listed in the spring at $999,000. Listing agent Fred Trudeau said after nearly a month on the market, and showings to about 20 people, the seller received the one offer. His seller wanted to get close to $1-million. Mr. Trudeau said the property needed work, it
was tenanted, and it was on a smaller lot than average. All those factors affected the price. He sympathizes with sellers who are having to adjust their expec- tations. “BC Assessment doesn’t go door to door, but buyers do,” he said of the assessed value, which is about 28 per cent higher than the sale price. “I think people’s disposable income has been decimated and they don’t have a big appetite for risk,” he added. Many agents will advise their clients not to go in with an in- sultingly low offer. Although sell- ers might balk at a lowball offer, buyers can try. And sellers can accept any offer they like, says Mark Moldowan, spokesman for Greater Vancouver Realtors. “We don’t set any price or val- ue to a home as an organiza- tion,” he said in an e-mail. “That is determined by the seller. A Re- altor may recommend a sale price based on their experience, but the seller ultimately is the one who sets the price and agrees to a sale.” He added that assessed values are one year old and not based on current market value.
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