The Globe and Mail - 03.08.2026.pdf. . . . . . . A11 生活与艺术 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A12 天气与第一人称. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A13 谜题 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A14 商业报告. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B1 观点与分析 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B4 全球投资者 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B8 体育 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B10 漫画. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B12 讣告. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B16 内部 A 辑 B 辑 J
Jim Tennant 在 20 世纪 70 年代是服务于偏远和北方社区的一名牙医，当时加拿大政府推出了一项创新，改变了他的工作量——而且是向好的方向改变。在谈到该计划时，他说：“这简直太棒了。”该计划培训牙科治疗师，他们提供的服务范围比牙科卫生师广，但少于牙医，旨在为通常无法获得太多牙科护理的地区提供服务。随后在 2011, 该计划（此前由联邦政府资助）被搁置。但旧的东西可能会再次焕发新生。近几个月来，《全球邮报》记录了西北地区牙科护理交付的崩溃，那里一些社区已经超过六年没有牙医到访。在政府努力恢复偏远社区常规牙科护理的同时，牙科治疗再次被视为解决方案的一部分。萨斯喀彻温大学在 2023. 重新启动了一个牙科治疗培训计划，授予理学学士学位。11 月，加拿大卫生部表示将提供 $3.1-million 来将该计划扩展到西北地区。目前的规模仍然较小，但专家表示，这些努力可以进一步加强，以满足服务不足社区日益增长的需求。他们正从加拿大以外的地方（如阿拉斯加，那里牙科治疗已经相当成熟）寻找灵感。
牙科治疗师曾被称为牙科护士，他们在学校、社区环境以及诊所工作。虽然牙医可以进行根管治疗、牙冠和种植牙手术，但牙科治疗师提供诸如补牙、常规检查和简单拔牙等服务。他们还致力于预防工作，例如教授刷牙和使用牙线技巧。这一职业在一百多年前就已在新西兰建立。
牙科，A15 当偏远地区努力填补牙科护理缺口时，一个旧模式展现出前景 TAVIA GRANT
8125, 代表西捷航空 4,400 名乘务员的工会，在罢工截止日期后宣布了此次劳工行动
通过。截至周日中午，已有超过 600 趟航班被取消，由于员工离职罢工，全国各地的机场陷入混乱与沮丧。航空公司与工会之间关于工资和地面工资（flight attendants 在飞机起飞前和降落后工作所获得的报酬）的谈判在周六晚些时候破裂。加拿大公共雇员联合会 (CUPE) 表示，由于没有地面工资，西捷航空的乘务员每月最多有 35 小时是在免费工作。在发布罢工通知后，西捷航空公布了其最新合同提案的细节，其中为乘务员提供了一项新的“职责津贴”（加薪 12%），旨在解决工会对无薪工作的指控，并提供年度加薪。CUPE 8125 主席 Alia Hussain 在一份新闻稿中表示，航空公司的报价力度不足。在周日上午的一场新闻
发布会上，周日的多伦多皮尔逊国际机场内，Nikita Joseph 试图安抚她大哭的幼儿。她一只手摇着婴儿车，另一只手查看手机，寻找被取消航班的最新动态。这位温莎居民原计划飞往安提瓜和巴布达度假，与她的另外三个孩子汇合，孩子们上个月随 Joseph 女士的姐姐前往那里。“我甚至不知道该如何告诉我的五岁女儿我今天不能去了，”Joseph 女士说。“她一直期待我的到来，而我甚至无法告诉她我什么时候能到。”在她周围，潜在的旅客们也处于类似的情况——他们坐在行李箱上，在手机上疯狂地刷新网页，希望找到替代航班，以避免西捷航空乘务员罢工第一天所带来的干扰。在东部标准时间周日凌晨 2:01，航空公司与
加拿大公共雇员联合会 (CUPE) 的记录秘书 Cameron Jones 表示谈判已经恢复。“谈判委员会正试图缩小差距，以达成一项我们认为公平的协议，并将其带回成员会，这样我们就能回到我们热爱的工作中，”他在卡尔加里国际机场外的纠察线说道。去年夏天，加拿大航空的乘务员也因同样的问题举行罢工，导致数百个航班被取消，延误数日。这些由 CUPE 代表的乘务员在罢工开始后不久，无视政府发布的复工令，选择非法罢工，以强迫加拿大航空回到谈判桌前。罢工在 3 天后结束，随后一份包含四年加薪和部分地面工资条款的初步协议虽被工会成员否决，但
由仲裁员强制执行。在周日多伦多皮尔逊国际机场 3 号航站楼外，200 名工会成员走在纠察线上，场景仿佛在重演。WESTJET, A15 西捷航空罢工导致假期周末机场陷入混乱 4,400 名乘务员因薪资纠纷离职罢工，旅客匆忙抢救行程计划 OLIVIA GRANDY MATTHEW FRANK 如果你浏览圣约翰斯历史主干道 Water Street 上的旅游陷阱商店，你无法避开海鹦。咖啡杯、围裙和烈酒杯上的海鹦；明信片、日历、啤酒垫和贴纸上的海鹦；海鹦毛绒玩具、海鹦钥匙扣、海鹦开瓶器、海鹦手杖。每个人都爱海鹦。纽芬兰与拉布拉多省的官方鸟类以可爱著称。人们从各地赶来，在沿海群落观察它们。在夏天，这些鸟类上演了一场令人难忘的表演：
它们在悬崖顶上摇摇晃晃地走着，像喝了太多白兰地的管家；在空中盘旋，短小的翅膀每分钟扇动高达 400 次；在水面上拍打着前行，像匆忙的早晚高峰通勤者。研究这些鸟类的纪念大学教授伊恩·琼斯（Ian Jones）说，它们看起来就像萨尔瓦多·达利被要求画一只鸟时可能会构思出来的样子。它们有着像马塞尔·马罗（Marcel Marceau）那样的白色面孔，配上深色且浓密的眉毛，鲜橙色的蹼足，最重要的是，那只疯狂的喙——一个带有黄色、橙红色和蓝灰色条纹的多色奇迹。每年当这些鸟从公海返回纽芬兰海岸繁育后代时，其喙部便会呈现出这些鲜艳的色彩。令琼斯教授痴迷的问题是原因何在。“为什么这些动物长成这样，仍然是一个巨大的谜团，”他说。大多数海鸟是白色、黑色、灰色或这些颜色的组合。它们的喙部可能会有一个橙点或一个黑环，但绝不像海鹦那样，以其几乎像热带生物般的外观而脱颖而出。尽管经过数十年的研究，鸟类学家仍试图找到原因。当然，他们有一些理论。在开车前往纽芬兰东南部海岸向游客展示一个巨大的海鹦栖息地时，琼斯教授阐述了其中的几种。琼斯教授在渥太华长大。作为一个在学校里格格不入、头发长且笨拙的青少年，他开始通过观察鸟类来逃避现实。
海鹦，A8 有什么意义？ 海鹦好奇且色彩斑斓的喙仍在让科学家们感到困惑 马库斯·吉（MARCUS GEE） 圣约翰斯
中东 (MIDDLE EAST) 特朗普取消在伊朗的新一轮打击，称结束战争的协议即将达成 A3
健康 TikTok创作者的协助死亡引发关于预先申请的争论 A7
商业报告 数字化工具浪潮如何帮助加拿大农场赶超 B1
一只海鹦在纽芬兰省莫比附近的一个海鸟保护区水面上方飞行。该省的官方鸟类以其不寻常的外貌而闻名。 GREG LOCKE / 全球邮报
一名旅行者经过周日在不列颠哥伦比亚省里士满的温哥华国际机场进行抗议的西捷航空乘务员。航空公司与工会之间关于工资和地面薪酬问题的谈判在周六晚间破裂。 ETHAN CAIRNS / 加拿大新闻社
elizabethschindler.online 1987 LESLIE ST 1177 YONGE ST 442 BRANT ST (416) 789-1919 (647) 258-7727 (905) 681-0197 ELIZABETH SCHINDLER GERRY WEBER 多伦多 GERRY WEBER 伯灵顿 —— —— —— 纯棉弹力裤 另有：白色、米色、海军蓝、鼠尾草绿。奥丹美术馆位于不列颠哥伦比亚省的惠斯勒，由 Michael Audain 和 Yoshiko Karasawa 的慈善捐赠而建立。作为加拿大较新的博物馆之一，它于 2016. 年向公众开放。该博物馆的永久收藏包括 300 余件代表不列颠哥伦比亚省艺术的作品。全年的特展则展出具有国家和国际影响力的艺术家作品。www.audainartmuseum.com 艾米莉·卡尔（Emily Carr）是不列颠哥伦比亚省 20 世纪最著名的画家，奥丹美术馆收藏的她的作品位居世界前列。这幅描绘温哥华岛附近警报湾（Alert Bay）岸边夸夸卡瓦夸（Kwakwaka’wakw）战争独木舟的布面油画，是其作品集中的关键之作。它揭示了这位定居于维多利亚的艺术家的风格在 1910 年至 1911 年一次至关重要的法国之旅后发生了怎样的变化，因为她采用了高调的色调和松散的笔触，这显示了野兽派运动的影响。卡尔因这种激进的转变而受到谴责，因为当时 1900 年代初期主导加拿大艺术的是沉闷的英国绘画传统。艾米莉·卡尔的战争独木舟，警报湾 艾米莉·卡尔，《战争独木舟，警报湾》，1912, 布面油画，带框：83.98 × 101.44 厘米，奥丹美术馆馆藏。由 MICHAEL AUDAIN 和 YOSHIKO KARASAWA 捐赠 A2 O 全球邮报 / 星期一，2026 年 8 月 3 日 加拿大制造 萨利什海船员表明某些加美合作是必要的 A11 许多夏季饮品含有出人意料的高糖分和卡路里 A12 西捷航空的劳资纠纷是塑造工业关系未来的力量的缩影 B1 [ 专栏作家 ]
周六，数以十万计的人聚集在阿姆斯特丹的运河边，观看该市的运河船游行。这是年度骄傲节（Pride festival）的高潮，而今年的活动恰好发生在柏林一次针对骄傲活动致命袭击的一周后。公开出柜的荷兰首相罗布·杰滕（Rob Jetten）身着白衬衫、黑色救生衣并佩戴金项链，在 80 艘船只组成的色彩绚丽的游行队伍中乘着一只小船向人群挥手，在沿途扬声器播放的电子舞曲中向参与者和观众致意。这次色彩斑斓的水上游行发生在柏林袭击事件的一周后，该事件导致 1 人死亡，29 人受伤。一名名为 Abdul Ballout 的嫌疑人被怀疑在周六晚上将面包车驶入节日附近的人群中，随后显然用砍刀刺伤他人，当局认为这是一次伊斯兰极端主义袭击。当局表示，Ballout 先生在周日该市郊区的一次冲突中被警察开枪击毙。
杰滕先生是首位参加船只游行的荷兰首相，他在 X 上发布的一段视频中表示，这次活动比以往任何时候都更加重要，因为在全球范围内，LGBTQ+ 社区的自由和安全“正面临压力，包括新的歧视性立法、街道安全缺失以及上周在柏林发生的恐怖袭击”。阿姆斯特丹市长 Femke Halsema 在德国袭击事件后表示，市当局将“在必要时采取额外措施，希望访客能尽可能少地察觉到”。周六游行开始时，搭载警察的摩托艇在运河中巡逻，一架直升机在空中盘旋。柏林袭击事件也在周六给汉堡的骄傲游行蒙上了阴影，那是德国规模最大的游行之一，现场加强了安保。
当数十辆卡车驶经德国第二大城市时，场面十分壮观。据德国新闻社（dpa）报道，警方和组织者表示约有 300,000 人参加，而去年约为 260,000 人。汉堡警察局局长本周早些时候表示，保护此次活动的警力将约为去年的两倍。
船只巡游是阿姆斯特丹骄傲节（Pride）的传统亮点。今年，此次巡游恰逢由荷兰首都主办的世界骄傲节（World Pride）庆祝活动。来自多伦多的 55, 岁男子罗德·卢格滕堡（Rod Lugtenburg）表示，他是为了世界骄傲节而来到阿姆斯特丹的。当船只经过时，他站在该市著名的细桥（Skinny Bridge）上，穿着一件印有彩虹枫叶的 T 恤。
“对我来说，这关乎接纳，关乎能够做真实的自己，”他说，“我有荷兰血统，而且我一直很喜欢荷兰在 LGBTQ+ 群体的接纳和权利方面一直处于领先地位这一事实。”
“加拿大紧随其后，所以我感到非常自豪。”
这次欢乐的活动发生在这样一个背景之下：在长期被视为宽容避风港的荷兰，关于 LGBTQ+ 群体成员遭受言语和肢体攻击的报道正在增加。
参加巡游的船只包括代表荷兰政府部门、军方和警方的船只，以及 LGBTQ+ 组织和俱乐部的船只。今年庆祝成立 80 周年的荷兰 LGBTQ+ 权利组织 COC 在巡游中派遣了一艘船，船上携带了一份宣言，呼吁推进荷兰 LGBTQ+ 人士的人权斗争。船上还展示了活动家马莎·P·约翰逊（Marsha P. Johnson）的肖像，她曾参加 1969 年 6 月 28 日纽约一家同名旅馆的顾客反抗警察突袭的石墙起义（Stonewall rebellion）。这次突击行动促使同性恋权利运动进入了一个新的激进阶段。
另一艘船上载有两个巨大的充气模型，分别是美国总统唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）及其俄罗斯总统普京（Vladimir Putin）。这两个人物穿着代尔夫特蓝白瓷器风格的服装，每人拿着一朵郁金香，正以荷兰各地旅游纪念品店常见的瓷偶风格向对方倾身亲吻。创建这艘船的组织在其网站上表示，他们重新构思了爱与统一的象征，“并非为了挑衅，而是为了让权力暂时停顿，并凸显人性的一面。”
美联社（ASSOCIATED PRESS） 数以十万计的人在阿姆斯特丹运河两岸等待市年度骄傲节船只巡游 迈克·科德（MIKE CORDER），阿姆斯特丹
周六，在荷兰首都的一条历史运河上，人们在船上庆祝运河船只巡游，这是阿姆斯特丹骄傲节的热门亮点。 帕特里克·波斯特（PATRICK POST） / 美联社
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史蒂文·塔夫茨（STEVEN TUFTS）观点 迈克尔·拜尔斯（MICHAEL BYERS）观点 莱斯利·贝克（LESLIE BECK）思考之食
星期一，2026 年 8 月 3 日 / 全球邮报 O A3 美国总统唐纳德·特朗普表示，他将命令美军暂停对伊朗的新一轮袭击，并声称中东盟友已就结束这场持续五个月战争的协议达成了一个框架。特朗普先生在周六晚上的社交媒体帖子中写道，这项初步达成的协议“将包括立即、全面且彻底地开放霍尔木兹海峡，并结束伊朗的核威胁”。特朗普先生表示：“基于这一请求，为了世界的未来利益，同样为了一个成功且繁荣的伊朗的生存，我已同意取消袭击，前提是能够迅速达成一项协议。”然而，伊朗外交部发言人埃斯迈尔·巴格伊周日表示，霍尔木兹海峡“绝不会回到 2 月 28 日之前的状态”，而 2 月 28 日正是战争爆发之日。在接受伊朗国家电视台电话采访时，他补充说，伊朗正在与霍尔木兹海峡另一侧的阿曼讨论通过该海峡的航运问题，但目前并没有关于重新开放这条关键水路的讨论。自从美国和以色列在 2 月 28 日袭击伊朗以来，特朗普先生已多次宣布停止对伊朗的袭击，但随后情况总是恶化且战斗再次重启。伊朗国防部长在 X 平台上表示，在特朗普先生宣布后，该国“既不感到惊讶，也没有坐以待毙”，并表示伊朗在面对来自美国的具体威胁时继续保持警惕。虽然伊朗领导人在展示力量和耐力的战争策略上似乎一致，但在该政权内部，反对与美国进行所有谈判的人与依靠军事压力在谈判桌上获胜的人之间，似乎正在酝酿一场权力斗争。一名地区官员表示，特朗普先生在周末宣布的提案要求美国和伊朗恢复谈判，并继续解决此前阻碍协议进展的许多问题。该官员参与了调解工作，他表示，该提案要求重新开放霍尔木兹海峡，并停止整个地区的袭击，包括由伊朗支持的伊拉克民兵对阿拉伯海湾国家和约旦的袭击。他表示，作为交换，美国将结束对伊朗的海上封锁，并允许德黑兰按照临时停火协议的规定出口石油。该官员因未获授权与媒体交谈而要求匿名，他表示目前尚未达成协议，但调解工作正在进行中。特朗普先生表示，以色列将加入他的承诺，通过执行停火协议来结束战争。以色列未对该声明发表公开评论。据沙特新闻社报道，沙特王储穆罕默德·本·萨勒曼（该王国的实际领导人）周六与特朗普先生通了电话，并对美国可能升级与伊朗冲突表示担忧。一名知情人士在接受简报后表示，这次通话“坦率且具有建设性”，该人士未获授权公开评论并要求匿名。王储转达说，如果德黑兰通过针对美国在海湾地区的一些盟友来应对美国的新一轮轰炸，那么战斗升级可能会对全球经济产生严重影响。该人士表示，这次通话发生在特朗普先生发布社交媒体声明之前。王储试图从特朗普先生那里弄清楚，他正在考虑采取哪些潜在的新行动来对付伊朗。该人士补充说，沙特官员在与……的接触中强调了
特朗普政府认为，该王国——以及同样身为波斯湾能源巨头的阿拉伯联合酋长国和卡塔尔——在抵御潜在的进一步伊朗袭击方面处于有利位置，但科威特可能会更容易受到伊拉克境内伊朗支持的民兵袭击。一名未获授权公开评论并要求匿名的白宫官员确认，两国领导人周六进行了交谈，但未提供进一步细节。作为与美国持续冲突的一部分，伊朗多次袭击试图在未经其授权的情况下通过霍尔木兹海峡的船只。
美联社 特朗普表示美国将停止对伊朗的袭击 新提案要求重新开放霍尔木兹海峡，停止整个地区的袭击 AAMER MADHANI SAMY MAGDY 华盛顿
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普（中）和中央情报局局长约翰·拉特克利夫周五在马里兰州瑟蒙特的戴维营内阁会议后离开。 盖蒂图片社
一名以色列官员表示，以色列已向白宫分享了关于与哈马斯拟定的解除武装协议的“严重安全担忧”。与此同时，以色列在周夜间至周日晚间的袭击造成加沙地带至少 17 人死亡，其中包括儿童。
以色列总理本杰明·内塔尼亚胡办公室发言人多龙·斯皮尔曼发表的上述言论，是美国总统唐纳德·特朗普宣布该协议以来最早的公开评论之一。
斯皮尔曼告诉美联社，以色列的情报评估认为，哈马斯仍然致力于重建其军事力量，而非真正地去军事化。他表示，在哈马斯解除武装之前，以色列军队不会从加沙撤出——目前以色列控制着该地区 60% 以上的领土。
“我们的评估是，如果我们 在哈马斯真正解除武装之前就重新部署，它将迅速在整个加沙扩大其影响力，重建其恐怖主义基础设施，再次威胁以色列社区，并寻求发动另一次 10 月 7 日式的袭击，”他说道，指的是 2023 年触发加沙地带战争的哈马斯武装袭击以色列事件。
“解除武装意味着在物理上放弃武器。不能少于此，”斯皮尔曼说。
他的评论发表在哈马斯表示将开始解除武装的几天之后，这是九个月前签署的由美国调解的旨在结束这场持续近三年冲突的停火协议的一部分。这标志着结束冲突的一个潜在突破，但仍存在许多障碍、条件和漫长的时间表。
特朗普的 20 点停火计划要求该武装组织上交武器并摧毁其庞大的隧道网络。该计划还设想以色列军队撤出加沙，一个全新的技术官僚巴勒斯坦政府进驻，部署国际安全部队，以及重建受损严重的巴勒斯坦飞地。
哈马斯解除武装一直是争论焦点，并导致谈判陷入数月的僵局。特朗普周四在社交媒体上宣布该协议时表示，协议将分“精心设计的阶段”执行。
美联社获得并核实的一份协议副本称，一旦美国支持的巴勒斯坦技术官僚委员会（即名为“加沙管理国家委员会”的机构）抵达该飞地，由哈马斯运行的警察部队所持有的一切武器都将移交给该委员会。在巴勒斯坦委员会抵达和国际部队部署之后，将开始对重型武器进行报废和存储，并拆除军事生产场所和隧道。
以色列在加沙控制的地区大部分已...
被摧毁且人口凋零。该地区绝大多数的两百万巴勒斯坦人处于另一部分地区，那里有数十万人住在肮脏的帐篷营地和被摧毁的街区中。以色列在 10 月选举前似乎不太可能撤回大量部队或做出其他让步。内塔尼亚胡先生面临一场艰苦的连任之战，他的极右翼联盟伙伴敦促他继续向哈马斯施压并在加沙保留部队，而反对者则指责他未能阻止 2023 年 10 月 7 日的袭击。当时，由哈马斯领导的武装分子袭击了以色列社区，杀死了约 1,200 人（其中大部分为平民），并劫持了 251 人作为人质。据加沙卫生部称，以色列随即采取了惩罚性的军事攻势，已造成 73,000 多人死亡。该部门原属于近期解散的哈马斯政府，其维护的详细记录被联合国机构和国际组织认为通常是可靠的。该部门不区分平民和武装分子，但表示妇女和儿童约占所有死亡人数的一半。虽然施皮尔曼先生表示以色列非常感谢特朗普先生对其安全以及寻求持久解决方案的承诺，但政府在解除武装方面的立场是基于详细的情报，这些情报显示哈马斯仍在继续重新武装、招募战士并重建其军事能力。白宫在周日未提供进一步评论。美国官员表示，在谈判的每一步中都咨询了以色列，并且没有要求以色列在去年 10 月签署的停火和释放人质协议承诺之外做任何额外事情。自去年 10 月签署停火协议以来，以色列一直在继续
袭击加沙，称其目标是哈马斯及其基础设施。加沙当地医院表示，在最近的以色列袭击中至少有 17 人死亡，其中包括儿童。根据接收尸体的纳赛尔医院称，一次针对加沙南部一栋住宅公寓的袭击造成三个家庭成员死亡，其中包括他们 4 岁的孩子。以色列军方表示，此次袭击的目标是武装分子。美联社：周日，巴勒斯坦人在加沙地带中部视察以色列袭击车辆的现场。自去年 10 月签署停火协议以来，以色列一直在继续袭击加沙，称其目标是执政的哈马斯及其基础设施。MAHMOUD ISSA / 路透社 加沙袭击持续，以色列对哈马斯协议提出“严重安全担忧” SAM MEDNICK 特拉维夫，以色列 加拿大保守党领袖正呼吁渥太华将一个由伊朗支持的
武装组织指定为恐怖组织，此前该组织的一名成员被指控参与了一次针对加拿大犹太会堂的袭击，以及 3 月在多伦多美国领事馆发生的枪击事件。皮埃尔·波利耶夫在给公共安全部长加里·阿南达桑加里的一封信中表示，美国当局已发现真主造就旅团（Kata’ib Hezbollah）及其涉嫌的指挥官策划了在加拿大领土上的袭击。穆罕默德·巴格尔·萨德·达乌德·阿尔-萨迪（Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi）是一名被美国当局称为该组织指挥官的伊拉克男子，他于 5 月在曼哈顿联邦法院出庭，被指控计划在欧洲和北美进行至少 18 次恐怖袭击，以报复美国和以色列与伊朗的战争。法庭获悉，其中两次袭击发生在加拿大。阿尔-萨迪先生还被指控共谋向真主造就旅团和伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队提供物质支持，两者均
其中已有部分被美国政府指定为外国恐怖组织。波利耶夫先生表示，Kata’ib Hezbollah 需要被指定为恐怖实体，因为加拿大人值得拥有一个能在恐怖分子发动袭击前就将其阻止的政府。他的信中写道：“将 Kata’ib Hezbollah 列入名单将使故意与其财产或财务往来变为非法，允许当局限制或没收其资产，并加强加拿大防止其成员进入或留在该国的能力。”“加拿大不应在另一座犹太会堂遭到枪击或另一个外国领事馆遭到袭击后，才去取缔据称策划这些袭击的恐怖组织。”以色列和犹太事务中心在周日发表声明欢迎波利耶夫先生的信函，并表示该组织已于 5 月请求政府做出此项指定。该犹太倡议组织在声明中表示：“警告信号已经很明显，现在是时候严厉打击政治动机的暴力和恐怖活动了。”
加拿大新闻社，并采用了美联社的文件
波利耶夫呼吁将伊朗支持的武装组织指定为恐怖组织 渥太华新闻 |
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分析人士表示，特朗普政府旨在瓦解国际刑事法院的运动可能会削弱达尔富尔大规模暴行受害者获得正义的任何希望。国际刑事法院（ICC）最近报告称，在调查苏丹西部被围困的达尔富尔地区发生的屠杀及其他指控的战争罪行方面取得了突破，但如果邻国乍得继续执行其计划退出该法院的决定，其调查将面临新的障碍。
乍得收容了1.3百万苏丹难民，其中包括许多达尔富尔暴行的幸存者。直到7月初，该法院的副检察官访问乍得时，乍得仍与国际刑事法院保持合作。但上周，乍得政府出乎意料地宣布退出该法院。在此公告发布前几天，乍得披露一名美国高级外交官曾要求其重新考虑其在该国际法院的成员身份。
美国国务卿马可·鲁比奥在周五的一次电视内阁会议上表示，已有五个国家对美国的运动做出回应，并通知该法院其退出意向。这五个国家是乍得、委内瑞拉、马里、尼日尔和布基纳法索，它们均在上个月向国际刑事法院发函宣布退出。鲁比奥先生表示，国际刑事法院是“不合法的”且“傲慢的”，特朗普政府正寻求“让该法院俯首帖耳”。
唐纳德·特朗普总统在鲁比奥先生发言时打断道，美国的这项运动旨在保护像以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡这样的人，后者因涉嫌在加沙犯下战争罪而被国际刑事法院发出逮捕令。他说，他的国务卿正“试图维护比比以及其他各种人物”。
总部位于海牙的国际刑事法院没有权力在非成员国（如美国或以色列）的领土内起诉战争罪，但如果指控的罪行发生在成员国领土内，该法院声称有权调查这些国家的公民。已宣布的退出决定将在一年后生效，但国际刑事法院的调查可能需要数年时间，且乍得作为达尔富尔难民的接收国至关重要，因为这里有许多潜在的法庭案件证人。
“我们确实担心这将给国际刑事法院的调查员带来实际挑战，”总部位于蒙特利尔的拉乌尔·瓦伦堡人权中心高级法律顾问约拿·戴蒙德表示。他在接受《全球邮报》采访时说：“该法院能否有效地履行其职责，最终取决于各国政府的合作。”
包括瓦伦堡中心在内的人权倡导者指称，在三年前开始的战争期间，准军事组织“快速支援部队”（RSF）在达尔富尔实施了种族灭绝。在一次最恐怖的袭击中，快速支援部队去年10月在达尔富尔城市法舍尔杀害了数千名平民。根据研究卫星图像的人权组织和研究人员的数据，至少有60,000人被屠杀。
弗雷泽谷大学的犯罪学教授马克·克斯滕曾撰写大量关于国际刑事法院的文章，他指出，由于该地区持续的战争，法院的调查员无法进入达尔富尔。他告诉《全球邮报》：“因此，乍得的难民营已成为调查员与达尔富尔受害者和证人接触的关键场所。如果乍得切断这一途径，将使得调查以及保持联系变得……”
“证人提供证词将变得更加困难。”克尔斯滕先生指出，乍得仍然可以选择允许国际刑事法院（ICC）的调查员在该国开展工作。例如，菲律宾在 2019 年退出该法院后，在撤出之后仍继续与该机构合作。但另一个撤出的国家布隆迪则完全停止了对该法院的协助。国际刑事法院副检察长纳扎特·沙米姆·汗于 7 月初访问了乍得，并会见了其司法部长恩多莱诺吉·阿里克·奈姆拜。根据法院的一份声明，他们进行了“积极的讨论”，反映了乍得对国际刑事法院在达尔富尔调查的支持，并同意“深化”法院与乍得的合作。汗女士告诉记者，法院在达尔富尔调查中取得了“突破”。然而，大约两周后，美国国务卿助理弗兰克·加西亚与乍得外交部长阿卜杜拉耶·萨布尔·法杜尔交谈，并敦促他重新考虑乍得的法院成员身份。7 月 27 日，乍得宣布退出，美国国务院表示，欢迎乍得做出这一决定，“加入越来越多从这个有缺陷的机构中收回主权的国家行列”。
法院的支持者对这一举动感到担忧。“乍得决定退出国际刑事法院是对严重国际犯罪受害者正义的打击，”人权观察国际司法顾问塔玛拉·阿布拉马丹表示，“对于全球这些受害者来说，国际刑事法院是一个至关重要的最后诉求法院。”在上周给法院的正式通知中，乍得抱怨称，国际刑事法院的大部分调查都针对非洲嫌疑人，造成了该法院“被用于政治目的”的印象。然而，法院的辩护者指出，大多数非洲调查是应非洲政府自身的请求而进行的。十年前，包括南非在内的许多非洲政府指责国际刑事法院存在偏见并威胁退出。但大多数国家最终选择留下，南非后来成为了支持者，敦促法院对加沙采取行动。
苏丹难民 2 月在乍得阿德雷等待领取水。专家表示，由于有 1.3 million 苏丹人在乍得避难，该国退出国际刑事法院的计划可能会使该机构调查达尔富尔涉嫌战争罪行的工作复杂化。DAN KITWOOD / GETTY IMAGES
特朗普的反 ICC 推动可能影响达尔富尔调查 邻国乍得在收到美国外交官请求后，最近宣布计划退出国际刑事法院 GEOFFREY YORK 非洲局局长，约翰内斯堡
马克·卡尼总理向那些从世界各地赶回 渥太华 的加拿大大使们传达了一个信息：要大胆，要迅速。在 5 月的一次闭门会议上，他告诉加拿大外交使团的负责人，他的政府对风险的承受能力比之前的政治上级更高。这是一次鼓舞士气的谈话，但其目的也是为了让加拿大外交官承担一项新任务。商业利益现在是主导优先级——这引起了加拿大过去外交传统捍卫者的批评。在一个地缘政治转移和美国贸易战的世界中，多样化贸易和吸引投资位居政府议程之首已不是秘密，现在外交官们被要求与同行讨论供应链问题。而国防和安全，特别是北极地区的安全，位列第二。1 月，卡尼先生在达沃斯世界经济论坛上发表了一次著名的演讲，描述了一个新的
在一个由美国和中国等霸权国家主导的世界中，这些国家正将“经济整合作为武器”。他警告说，中等强国应共同努力建立自主权，“因为如果你不在餐桌旁，你就会变成菜单上的菜肴。”今年5月，在外交官闭门会议上，外交部长安妮塔·阿南德（Anita Anand）告诉来自全球的使节要“将这一中等强国战略付诸实践”。然而，卡尼先生在达沃斯的演讲在国内外引发了关于其实践含义的疑问。“对于那些[外交官]在回到各自的驻在机构时，这在具体层面意味着什么？”阿南德女士上周在她的渥太华办公室接受采访时表示。“这意味着他们必须确保加拿大在该管辖区的商业利益通过外交渠道得到加强和解决。这就是定义。”阿南德女士说，在她最近访问巴基斯坦期间，她请求巴基斯坦政府协助“解锁”一家加拿大公司JCM Power在当地投资清洁能源项目的许可证。她还提到，墨西哥外交部长罗伯托·贝拉斯科·阿尔瓦雷斯（Roberto Velasco Álvarez）在7月中旬访问渥太华时，她请求其在加拿大矿业公司的许可证问题上提供帮助。当然，加拿大外交官以前也处理过商业问题，但这很少被设定为他们的主导任务。维和行动、联合国多边主义、布莱恩·马尔罗尼（Brian Mulroney）对种族隔离制度的反对，以及让-克雷蒂安（Jean Chrétien）政府时期的外交部长劳埃德·阿克沃西（Lloyd Axworthy）在1990年代领导的人类安全议程，通常被吹捧为加拿大外交政策中令人自豪的传统。斯蒂芬·哈珀（Stephen Harper）的保守党政府在2012年概述一项贸易优先议程时遭到了批评，该议程引起了一些外交官的抵制。贾斯廷·特鲁多（Justin Trudeau）政府承诺回归传统，但其女性主义外交政策并未留下深刻印记。阿南德女士表示，外交服务部门目前正在适应。“他们承认这项任务与他们历史上所做的工作有 180 度不同的差异，但他们也在迎接挑战，”她说。“这是自动发生的吗？不是，但它实现了吗？是的。为什么？因为事情的紧迫性显而易见。”在政府看来，这种紧迫性源于卡尼先生在达沃斯所描述的全球经济和地缘政治的“断裂”，这使得中等强国需要建立新的网络，以降低自身的脆弱性。阿南德女士表示，其他国家不一定采取完全相同的推论，但大多数国家有类似的担忧。他们希望获得关键矿产的安全获取渠道或更多元化的供应链。“我们在会议上讨论的不是全球霸权，”她说。这不仅仅关乎贸易。卡尼先生将北极安全确定为关键，阿南德女士将其列为她的第二优先级——仅次于商业利益。卡尔顿大学教授芬·汉普森（Fen Hampson）表示，在卡尼先生的领导下，加拿大的外交不再是为了复兴联合国和世界贸易组织等多边机构，而是更具交易性。卡尼先生在乌克兰和中东政策上与欧洲领导人结盟，并推动跨太平洋伙伴关系国家与欧盟之间达成桥接协议。卡尼先生表示，他的达沃斯演讲并非旨在建议建立一个中等强国联盟，而是建立各种网络。5月，他告诉各国使团负责人，这是快速推进工作的一种方式。一个领域的分歧现在将与其他领域脱钩。在7月访问沙特阿拉伯期间，面对记者关于人权的提问，卡尼先生表示，“从远处教训国家”是
没成效。“这是关于市场，而非道德的问题，”汉普森教授（Prof. Hampson）表示。政府坚称其是在长期的价值观基础上增加贸易优先事项，但一些自由党时期的加拿大外交资深人士，尤其是艾克斯沃西（Mr. Axworthy）先生，将其视为一种更狭隘的关注点。艾克斯沃西先生在一次采访中表示，卡尼（Mr. Carney）处理沙特阿拉伯问题的方式就是一个例子，在面对关于美沙新核协议的人权和扩散担忧时，卡尼选择了沉默。“你不能简单地披上一层经济活动的斗篷，而对正在发生的其他事情不负责任，”他说。而汉普森教授怀疑外交官们是否会被促动去承担更大的风险。他说，卡尼并不以赋予内阁部长决策权而闻名，而且外交服务的预算已被削减。然而，无论外交官们是否接受冒险，他们的使命已经改变。加拿大的外交官们已被派遣执行一项新使命。
外交部长安妮塔·阿南德（Anita Anand）6月1日在渥太华举行的全球团长会议上发表讲话。SEAN KILPATRICK / THE CANADIAN PRESS
坎贝尔·克拉克（CAMPBELL CLARK）观点
据地区官员称，乌克兰的无人机袭击在周六和周日夜间于俄罗斯地区造成了至少 8 人死亡，袭击目标包括俄罗斯最大的在线零售商 Wildberries 的仓库。俄罗斯国防部表示，他们在夜间击落了 635 架乌克兰无人机。俄罗斯边境地区贝尔格罗德（Belgorod）的代理州长亚历山大·舒瓦耶夫（Alexander Shuvayev）表示，一架乌克兰无人机击中了游乐场附近的一个区域，造成一名儿童死亡，两人受伤。据俄罗斯新闻机构引用俄罗斯儿童权利专员玛丽亚·利沃娃-贝洛娃（Maria Lvova-Belova）的话称，这次袭击是乌克兰的“又一次不人道的恐怖主义行为”。乌克兰国防部未立即对置评请求做出回应。
萨马拉州（Samara）州长维亚切斯拉夫·费多里舍夫（Vyacheslav Fedorishchev）表示，乌克兰的无人机袭击了萨马拉地区的一个 Wildberries 仓库，该地距离乌克兰最前线的军事阵地约 800 公里。费多里舍夫先生表示没有人员伤亡。随着乌克兰军队扩大对经济和能源目标的打击，他们已开始打击俄罗斯内部更深层的区域，旨在削弱俄罗斯在乌克兰进行这场已持续四年多战争的能力。自 7月 18 日以来，他们袭击了大约十几个 Wildberries 站点，试图干扰这家被描述为“俄罗斯版亚马逊”、身为消费经济核心的公司。
邻近的萨拉托夫（Saratov）州州长罗曼·布萨金（Roman Busargin）表示，一次针对住宅楼的袭击造成恩格尔斯（Engels）市两人死亡。布萨金先生说，恩格尔斯市和萨拉托夫市的民用基础设施均受损。萨拉托夫市拥有大型炼油厂，而恩格尔斯市拥有一个军事空军基地，这两地近年来都多次遭到乌克兰袭击。乌克兰军方周日表示，乌克兰军队袭击了萨拉托夫炼油厂和恩格尔斯空军基地，导致两处设施起火。军方称，其部队还袭击了西部卡卢加（Kaluga）地区的一个油库。
代理州长奥尔加·阿布拉莫娃（Olga Abramova）表示，在针对俄罗斯乌德穆尔特（Udmurtia）地区的无人机袭击中，三人死亡，两人受伤。当地特遣队报告称，在边境地区贝尔格罗德，乌克兰的袭击造成三人死亡，五人受伤。俄罗斯国防部表示，其部队打击了乌克兰港口 Mykolaiv 的基础设施和两艘载有军事货物的船只，以及黑海的一艘运输军事物资的船只。在乌克兰东南部城市扎波罗热（Zaporizhzhia），地区州长伊万·费多罗夫（Ivan Fedorov）表示，俄罗斯发射的滑翔炸弹造成一人死亡，21 人受伤。路透社（REUTERS）
乌克兰无人机袭击导致俄罗斯至少 8 人死亡
星期一，2026年8月3日 / 全球邮报 A5 新闻 / 距离 2028 年总统初选还有 17 个月，民主党话语体系中的一个重要部分已经显现。在新罕布什尔州一个城镇的教堂集会大厅里，一位潜在的候选人正在寻找能引起掌声的切入点。“我们不能维持同样的状态，不能进行渐进式的政治，”来自加利福尼亚州的众议员罗·康纳（Ro Khanna）在告诉这个拥有 7,699 人的社区的选民们，这里的手写选举结果显示，唐纳德·特朗普在 2024. 年以 278 票之差获胜。随后，在第一联合卫理公会（First United Methodist Church）走廊的一次采访中，他表示“民主党必须找回系统性变革的感觉”，并解释道：“如果我们能从唐纳德·特朗普身上学到一件事，那就是要大胆。”这种语言也被阿卜杜尔·埃尔-赛义德（Abdul El-Sayed）所采用，他是一位罗德学者，曾任哥伦比亚大学流行病学教授，目前是周二密歇根州民主党参议员初选的获胜热门。
但在一个州的盛夏初选中成为热门，并不意味着埃尔-赛义德先生——或者他、康纳先生以及越来越多年轻的民主党候选人所使用的这种话语——会受到党内建制派以及像纽约州民主党参议院领袖查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer）等人物的青睐，后者的冲动往往将他们拉向美国政治的中间地带，而非左翼。“如果你是查克·舒默，而你的整套方法是去跟金主谈话，然后分发他们的企业资金来帮助选举那些会做企业想要的事情的人，”41 岁的埃尔-赛义德先生最近告诉新闻机构 Politico，“那么，是的，我对你的系统构成了威胁。所以他们当然会惊慌失措。”他在周二这个关键摇摆州民主党初选中的对手是 43 岁的众议员海莉·史蒂文斯（Haley Stevens），她得到了州长格雷琴·惠特默（Gretchen Whitmer）以及那些被埃尔-赛义德先生描绘成在消除贫富差距斗争中软弱无能、且抵制采纳广泛医疗保健计划的国会领导人的支持。
因此，民主党内出现了“范围之争”——这在超过一个世纪以来，首次包含了关于社会主义者在国家主流政治中地位的斗争。康纳先生和埃尔-赛义德先生都不是社会主义者。两人也不是“美国民主社会主义者”运动的成员，后者的观点与欧洲社会主义者并不相同。而且，尽管特朗普先生坚称相反，但没有一个可靠的美国国会候选人是共产主义者，或者持有与弗拉基米尔·列宁、约瑟夫·斯大林、毛泽东甚至克莱门特·艾特利（Clement Attlee）截然相似的观点。尽管存在这些区别，但在今年秋季的国会中期选举中，数十名候选人正参与一场只能被称作“争夺一个美国主要政党灵魂”的战斗——在过去的 38 年里，这个词组一直被反复用来描述共和党内部的辩论。
民主党的这场战斗，是在一个仍由特朗普先生控制，但民主党夺回众议院（甚至可能夺回参议院）的可能性日益增加（如果不是大概率的话）的政治氛围中，探讨该党及其候选人应该向左倾斜到什么程度。这还涉及对独立选民权力的冷峻计算，在密歇根州的民调中，独立选民以大比分支持史蒂文斯女士，并且在美国政治中日益掌握着权力平衡——而他们的本能和冲动往往抵制两个既有政党在意识形态特征上的重大转变。随着上次选举的进行，这一问题逐渐凸显。
Zohran Mamdani 成为纽约市市长，以及代表亚历山德里娅·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯 (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) 在反特朗普集会上频繁出现在佛蒙特州参议员伯尼·桑德斯 (Bernie Sanders) 身边。三人均为美国民主社会党成员。随后，三名民主社会主义者在纽约的高关注度民主党初选中获胜：克莱尔·瓦尔德斯 (Claire Valdez) 和 达里亚利萨·阿维拉·切瓦利埃 (Darializa Avila Chevalier) 在国会选举中获胜，而 阿贝尔·卡瓦辛 (Aber Kawasin) 在州参议院选举中获胜。根据 CNN 的一项民意调查，约有三分之一的民主党人现在认为自己是民主社会主义者，尽管并非所有这些选民都支持民主社会党——该党仅有约 120,000 名成员。他们也不太可能支持该党的许多政策主张，例如废除国防部、警察部门和参议院，以及重新制定总统和最高法院的产生方式。虽然四分之三的民主党人表示对支持一名民主社会主义者担任总统持开放态度，但根据《华盛顿邮报》- Ipsos 的民意调查，55 per cent 的所有选民表示他们不会支持。
多年来，特朗普一直表示，一个获胜策略是将对手描绘成“一名共产主义者或社会主义者，或者是某种将摧毁我们国家的人”。今年六月，在参加“信仰与自由联盟” (Faith & Freedom Coalition) 会议时，他警告说：“如果他们走向共产主义，他们会关闭这个国家的教堂，而他们正在这么做。他们会杀掉你们的人，这就是他们的目的。他们想要终结宗教。”《华盛顿邮报》- Ipsos 的调查显示，30 per cent 的美国人认为民主社会主义与共产主义相似，而 32 percent 则不认同。对民主社会主义者最开放的人口群体是年轻人（18至29岁人群中的 46 per cent）和高学历者（拥有学士学位者的 44 per cent 以及拥有研究生学历者的 51 per cent）。
美国政坛最后一位重要的社会主义人物是尤金·德布斯 (Eugene Debs)，他曾五次竞选总统，并在 1912. 赢得了 6 per cent 的选票。他在 1920, 进行的最后一次竞选是在监狱中完成的，当时他因反对第一次世界大战而被判处 10-year sentence for sedition（10 年煽动罪）。他仍然赢得了近一百万票，共和党总统沃伦·G·哈定 (Warren G. Harding) 在次年圣诞节将其减刑。他于次日与哈定先生会面。“好吧，”这位第 29 任总统说道，“德布斯先生，关于你的传闻实在太多了，我现在很高兴能亲身与你见面。”
《全球邮报》特稿 民主党愿意走多远的左翼路线？ 民调显示，该党绝大多数选民对由民主社会主义者担任总统的想法持开放态度。 DAVID SHRIBMAN 新罕布什尔州，吉尔福德
阿卜杜勒·埃尔-赛义德 (Abdul El-Sayed) 是密歇根州民主党参议院初选的获胜热门，周日在底特律举行游行后，他在底特律之魂纪念碑前与记者交谈。 JULIA DEMAREE NIKHINSON / 美联社 分析
A6 O 全球邮报 / 2026年8月3日 星期一 / 新闻
蒙特利尔警方正在展开调查，周六夜间该市 Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce 区的一家犹太洁食餐厅被大火严重损坏。警方表示，此案正作为纵火案进行调查，所有假设均在考虑范围内，但调查人员尚未确定动机，现阶段未将其视为仇恨犯罪。
火灾给位于 Decarie Boulevard 的 Nöam 犹太洁食餐厅造成了广泛破坏，该地区有大量犹太社区。蒙特利尔消防部门表示，在凌晨 3 点左右，近 80 名消防员对 Plamondon Avenue 与 Vézina Street 交汇处附近的一起二级火警做出了响应。
Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce 区区长 Stéphanie Valenzuela 表示，在区内另一处清真寺外部遭到车辆火灾损坏几天后，此次餐厅火灾可能会引起居民的担忧。然而，她强调，当局尚未发现这两起事件之间有任何关联。
蒙特利尔消防部门正在调查清真寺附近的火灾，但该案尚未移交给蒙特利尔警方，且不被视为可疑事件。Valenzuela 女士在社交媒体上发布的一份声明中表示，区政府正与警方及受影响社区的领导者保持联系，并密切关注局势。她写道：“暴力和恐吓行为在我们的社区中没有生存空间。我们将保持警惕，致力于确保社区安全。”
公共安全部长 Gary Anandasangaree 在社交媒体上表示，联邦政府对蒙特利尔犹太社区聚集地发生的疑似纵火袭击感到担忧。他在帖文中写道：“反犹主义在我们的社会中绝无立足之地，无论它以何种形式出现，我们必须尽一切努力将其根除。”
皇家山区议员 Anthony Housefather 表示他感到“绝对厌恶”，并呼吁将此案作为仇恨犯罪进行调查。他在社交媒体的一篇帖文中表示，责任人应被逮捕并受到“法律最严厉的制裁”。
联邦认同与文化部长 Marc Miller 同样谴责了此次火灾，他在社交媒体上表示，他相信这次“可耻的行为”将作为仇恨犯罪得到妥善调查。
犹太倡议组织 B’nai Brith Canada 亦谴责了此次火灾并呼吁采取行动。该组织在社交媒体发布的声明中称：“加拿大犹太人已经听够了谴责和承诺。现在我们需要行动。”
加拿大新闻社（THE CANADIAN PRESS） 蒙特利尔警方调查严重损坏犹太洁食餐厅的火灾 CHARLOTTE GLORIEUX 蒙特利尔
公共安全部长 Gary Anandasangaree 在社交媒体上表示，联邦政府对蒙特利尔犹太社区聚集地发生的疑似纵火袭击感到担忧。
萨斯喀彻温省参议员、农民及农业部门倡导者 Todd Lewis 已于 65 岁时去世。
参议院议长 Raymond Gagne 周六下午宣布了 Lewis 先生的去世，并称他为“萨斯喀彻温省农业部门的坚定捍卫者”。
Gagne 先生在声明中说：“在四十多年从事土地工作的职业生涯中，Lewis 参议员成为了农民利益的领先倡导者，曾担任萨斯喀彻温省农业生产者协会主席五年，并且是许多其他社区组织的领先成员。”
Lewis 先生由前总理 Justin Trudeau 于 2025年2月7日任命为参议员。
总理 Mark Carney
在一份声明中表示，刘先生一生致力于公共服务，并因此进入参议院，在那里他始终是农村社区的“坚定发声者”。“刘参议员明白，务农不仅仅是一种生计——它是对土地、对邻居以及对后代的责任。他将这一信念从萨斯喀彻温省格雷（Gray）的家庭农场带入其卓越的倡导生涯中，使他成为加拿大农业界最受信任的声音之一，”卡尼先生说道。萨斯喀彻温省省长斯科特·莫（Scott Moe）也表达了哀悼，称刘先生是一位社区领袖以及他家乡省份的倡导者。刘先生在萨斯喀彻温省格雷附近（距离里贾纳以南约 39 公里）经营农场 40 多年。刘先生过去的公共服务经历包括在当地学校董事会任职，在拉乔德（Lajord）农村自治市担任议员超过 20 年，以及担任志愿者消防员和社区溜冰场董事会主席。
加拿大新闻社（THE CANADIAN PRESS） 参议员托德·刘（Todd Lewis）2021 年 7 月在萨斯喀彻温省格雷附近的农场检查油菜花。 参议院议长在周六宣布了刘先生的去世消息。 KAYLE NEIS / 加拿大新闻社
2025 年被任命为参议员的萨斯喀彻温省农民托德·刘在 65 岁时去世 DAVID BAXTER 渥太华
一场由时速 115 公里的强风助长的山火席卷了不列颠哥伦比亚省奥肯那根湖（Okanagan Lake）西岸的房屋，迫使许多居民紧急撤离以寻求安全。网上发布的视频和照片显示，夜空中火焰吞噬了财产，居民们在水对岸目睹了这一幕。随后，在湖泊北端靠近弗农（Vernon）的地方可以看到建筑物的焦黑遗骸。
BC 省山火服务局周日表示，周六强天气系统带来的风力过大，导致飞行器无法抑制布拉德利溪（Bradley Creek）山火。这导致奥肯那根印第安原住民带（Okanagan Indian Band）保留地被迫撤离，而弗农市和阿姆斯特朗（Armstrong）市附近也发布了单独的撤离令及警报。
此次火灾是周六在不列颠哥伦比亚省南部发生的数十起山火之一，在 24 小时内迫使 5,000 多人离开家园。省级响应与恢复行动执行主任凯文·邓巴（Kevin Dunbar）称其为一次“复杂且快速演变的应急响应”。
“在过去的 24 小时里，强风和不断变化的情况导致了新的撤离，”他表示。火势跨越了 97 号公路，该公路在原本繁忙的假日旅行周末被关闭。山火服务局报告称，由于强风和雷击，又有数十起火灾被引发并迅速扩大，该省 130 场山火中几乎有一半处于失控状态。
该服务局周日表示，不列颠哥伦比亚省在 24 小时内记录了 2,200 多次雷击。截至周日上午，全省社区共有 42 个单独的撤离令以及另外 40 个警报。
弗农市代理市长阿克巴尔·蒙德（Akbal Mund）在周日的采访中表示，在周六的一阵狂风之后，风势已减弱，火焰正远离这座拥有约 50,000 人的城市。
“昨天风速非常、非常快。一个冷锋经过，我认为有人说风速超过了 50 公里 / 小时。所以，当你试图灭火时，这种情况并不理想，”他说道。
蒙德先生表示，目前已有约 250 名撤离者在弗农市设立的应急服务中心登记，他们可以在那里获得水和食物。他补充说，周日上午门外排起了长队，更多的人在抵达。
“我要告诉你，他们正像……”
在这种情况下，尽力做好准备。我从未经历过疏散，但我可以想象相关人员的感受。所以，社区会在这里提供帮助，”他说道。
加拿大新闻社（THE CANADIAN PRESS） 邓巴先生在周日的新闻发布会上表示，省内多个地区已发布疏散令及新的疏散警报。邓巴先生表示，目前进入火区评估损失或损坏的房产数量还不安全。
省野火服务局野火行动主管克利夫·查普曼（Cliff Chapman）告诉记者，8月通常是不列颠哥伦比亚省一年中最热的月份，消防人员希望在另一个高压脊带来高温之前，能有几天的凉爽天气。
“我预计在接下来的三到四天里，我们将有机会尝试围堵这些火灾，并希望在灭火方面取得很大成功，”他说道。“但随着脊状气压模式的回归和夏季条件的回归，我们将面临挑战。”
中奥肯那根搜救队的志愿者参与了协助奥肯那根印第安保留地及奥肯那根湖周边房产快速疏散的工作。
关于布拉德利溪（Bradley Creek）火灾的一份更新报告称，一个冷锋席卷该地区，在火场上空带来了持续的公里 / 小时风速，在高海拔地区风速达到 115 km / h，这超出了之前的天气预报。
“这些强风带来了巨大挑战，消防员、直升机、空中灭火机和水上飞机制止不了火势，”更新报告称。
强风加剧野火，促使不列颠哥伦比亚省发布更多疏散警报。官员表示，目前进入火区评估财产损失尚不安全。
ASHLEY JOANNOU 温哥华 当局周日表示，华盛顿州东部的野火迫使斯波坎（Spokane）地区的 60,000 人撤离，同时摧毁了至少 600 栋房屋、企业及其他建筑。
在该州第二大城市斯波坎及其周边地区，周末约有 21 平方公里的土地被焚毁。此次火灾是美国西部数十起野火之一，这些火灾使联邦、州和地方机构的应对能力达到了极限。
该州共有约 1,000 平方公里的土地被焚毁，其中部分火灾（包括斯波坎地区）尚未得到控制。
消防和执法官员表示，目前没有收到人员受伤或失踪的报告——但他们强调，目前的响应工作尚处于早期阶段。
官员还表示，斯波坎的疏散人员包括其美国退伍军人事务医院的患者。
来自斯波坎地区的视频显示，建筑物起火，黑烟在居民区附近翻滚，房屋化为烟熏的废墟，仅剩下烟囱屹立不倒。
几位官员表示担心，该地区在未来几天似乎不太可能获得天气上的喘息机会，预计天气将保持干燥。
“我们还没有脱离危险，”美国参议员玛丽亚·坎特韦尔（Maria Cantwell）在斯波坎与联邦、州和地方官员举行的新闻发布会上说道。“接下来的几天将充满挑战。”
调查人员尚未确定起火原因。
斯波坎绝非唯一一个在与火灾搏斗的地方。推土机和直升机作业小组已连续第10天扑救一场火灾，该火灾已焚毁爱达荷州西部和俄勒冈州东部近 1,360 平方公里的草原。该地区分布着牛牧场，当局表示
这场火灾正威胁着房屋以及其他 800 座建筑物。预计该地区本周大部分时间将保持晴朗且干燥，周三气温将升至 32 C 以上。官员表示，火灾是由闪电引起的。国家气象局就华盛顿州东部、俄勒冈州东部、爱达荷州西部和中部以及蒙大拿州西部的空气质量发布了警告。它还针对犹他州和蒙大拿州部分地区以及内布拉斯加州西部发布了红旗火灾警告，并针对亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州和内华达州南部以及蒙大拿州北部发布了极端高温警告。尽管周日斯波坎的预测气温将保持在 27 C 以下，但周日下午预计将出现时速 56 至 72 公里的阵风。本杰明·科塞尔（Benjamin Cossel）是周六晚被召集来应对火灾的来自加利福尼亚州的联邦响应团队公共信息官。
“天气在与我们作对，地形也在与我们作对，”科塞尔说。斯波坎地区共有三场火灾：古道火灾（Old Trails Fire）、费尔维尤火灾（Fairview Fire）和美多维尤火灾（Meadowviewview Fire）。华盛顿州州长鲍勃·弗格森（Bob Ferguson）周六宣布进入紧急状态，国家气象局针对华盛顿州东部发布了“特别危险情况”红旗警报。科塞尔表示，随着白天气温升高，贴近地面且能抑制风力的冷空气将会上升，从而使得风力在该地区流动。斯波坎河穿过这座拥有约 229,000 人的城市，两岸陡峭的峡谷起到了引导风向的作用。美联社（ASSOCIATED PRESS）周日，华盛顿州斯波坎古道火灾现场烟雾滚滚。当局周日表示，山火已摧毁至少 600 栋房屋、企业及其他建筑物。
大卫·赖德（DAVID RYDER） / 路透社（REUTERS）华盛顿州东部山火烧毁数百座建筑，迫使 60,000 人撤离家园 约翰·汉纳（JOHN HANNA）
周一，2026年8月3日 / 全球邮报 / A7 新闻
在去世前的几天里，Rebecca Luna 在 TikTok 上向她的 90,000 多名粉丝分享道，她觉得自己的身体不再安全。她说，情况已经到了她需要寻求医疗辅助死亡（MAID）的地步。这位来自维多利亚的 49 岁女性通过坦诚分享她患早发性阿尔茨海默病的经历，赢得了一批忠实的在线观众，她于 7 月 25 日去世。
Luna 女士是一位单身母亲，有两个孩子。她在 46 岁时开始注意到认知能力下降。两年后，她被诊断出患有阿尔茨海默病。这种导致记忆丧失的疾病进展速度快于预期，促使她在上个月寻求 MAID。如果失去了表达同意的能力，她将无法进行该程序。
“我并不想要这样，”她在 7 月 22 日上传到社交媒体账户的一段录音消息中说道，“我想要的是解脱。”
魁北克是唯一一个允许患有导致丧能的严重且不可治愈疾病的居民提前数月或数年寻求 MAID 的省份。患有阿尔茨海默病等疾病的魁北克居民可以在疾病导致他们丧能之前获得 MAID 的早期批准。倡导者表示，这意味着包括 Luna 女士在内的加拿大其他地区的此类患者，会感到被迫比计划更早地死去，以便在拥有表达同意的能力时完成程序。
然而，批评者对预先请求提出了警告，因为这些患者在结束生命之前将无法提供最终同意，并且在最后的时刻可能会感到恐惧。
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时刻。加拿大尊严死亡协会（Dying with Dignity Canada）首席执行官海伦·朗（Helen Long）表示，一个省向其居民提供此项服务而其他省份不提供是不恰当的。她补充说，预先申请应在全国范围内可用。“我们每天都能听到人们对此的诉求。”
一项旨在通过立法变更以允许预先申请的推动工作在2023年2月得到了议会委员会的支持。该委员会建议，在某些情况下（例如患者患有阿尔茨海默症时），应允许提交预先申请。2019年秋季，加拿大阿尔茨海默症协会（The Alzheimer’s Society of Canada）认可了希望寻求医疗辅助死亡（MAID）预先申请的患者的权利。这标志着该为痴呆症患者发声的非营利组织发生了转变，该组织此前以可能会使弱势群体面临风险为由，反对MAID的预先同意。该协会在其网站上表示：“我们尊重所有痴呆症患者为其个人最佳利益而发声的权利，包括主张通过预先申请获得MAID的权利。”
加拿大儿童文学作家罗伯特·蒙什（Robert Munsch）曾公开分享过，患有神经退行性疾病如何使其在决定自己进行MAID程序的时间点上陷入困境。这位81岁的老人患有痴呆症，居住在不列颠哥伦比亚省。“我必须在还能提出请求的时刻做出选择，”蒙什先生去年秋天告诉《纽约时报》。
魁北克在2023年6月通过了允许预先申请的立法，联邦政府并未对此提出挑战。今年早些时候，魁北克确认，自2024年10月开始批准预先申请以来，该省已有2,100人获得批准。目前尚不清楚已执行了多少次预先申请程序。
目前，该国的《刑法》仅允许患有终末期或无法治愈的身体疾病的患者寻求MAID。今年春天，针对仅患有精神疾病的患者是否能获得MAID，在一个特别议会委员会上引发了政治辩论。大多数委员会成员在报告中表示，仅患有精神疾病的个体不应具备MAID资格，且应修订法律，无限期地将这些患者排除在外。司法部长肖恩·弗雷泽（Sean Fraser）承诺，在决定政府下一步行动之前，将审查委员会的工作以及反对意见，并与利益相关者进行沟通。
独立参议员帕梅拉·沃林（Pamela Wallin）在参议院提交的一项处于二读阶段的立法，要求修改《刑法》以允许患者进行MAID的预先申请。沃林女士曾目睹她已故的母亲（一名退休教师）与阿尔茨海默症作斗争。她此前告诉参议院，那就像在目睹母亲“缓慢地坠入地狱”。她还指出，公众对预先申请的支持正在增加，尤其是随着人口老龄化以及更多的人被诊断出患有痴呆症。
2025年10月，加拿大卫生部通过全国性咨询发现，预先申请“普遍受到支持”。咨询摘要称：“在圆桌讨论过程中，许多参与者表示，人们希望能够拥有做出预先申请的选择，这符合他们关于个人自主权以及对其医疗护理需求选择权的价值观。”然而，该部门表示，一些参与者对在患者无法提供最终同意时允许实施MAID表示担忧。
家庭医生兼助理凯瑟琳·费里尔（Catherine Ferrier）...
麦吉尔大学的老年医学教授也持有同样的担忧。费里尔博士担心患者在手术过程中无法给出同意书，或者无法理解发生在自己身上的情况。患有早发性阿尔茨海默症的桑德拉·德蒙蒂尼则有不同的看法。这位来自魁北克省莱维斯的三个孩子的母亲，主张她的家乡省份应提供预先指示（advanced requests）。德蒙蒂尼女士在今年早些时候告诉《全球邮报》，在目睹父亲因该疾病而衰弱，包括听到他在无法说话时发出呻吟后，她一直深受困扰。她不希望自己的孩子看到她处于这种状态。“我真的不想那样生活，”她在今年冬天说道，因为她知道自己的健康状况将继续恶化。“我不能让我的孩子经历那样的事情。”
患有早发性阿尔茨海默症的创作者通过 MAID 离世 丽贝卡·卢娜在 46 岁注意到认知能力下降后，开始在 TikTok 上记录这段旅程 KRISTY KIRKUP 健康记者
丽贝卡·卢娜在 10 月份前往哥斯达黎加完成了一次人生清单之旅。在 48 岁被诊断出患有早发性阿尔茨海默症后，她的病情恶化速度比预想的要快。 VANESSA AEGIRSDOTTIR
A8 O 全球邮报 / 2026年8月3日 星期一 卷首 他的职业生涯使他从夏威夷前往挪威，最终来到纽芬兰，在那里他研究海鸟以及如何将它们从气候变化等威胁中拯救出来。由于拥有崎岖的海岸悬崖和离岸岛屿，非常适合鸟类筑巢，这个被昵称为“岩石”的省份成为了寻找它们的绝佳之地。北美最大的大西洋海鹦集群位于圣约翰斯南部的威特莱斯湾生态保护区。每年春天，有超过 25 万对这类鸟类聚集于此。它们在离岸岛屿的草皮中挖掘洞穴抚养后代，这样老鼠和狐狸等掠食者就无法触及它们。雌雄个体外观相同，通常终生配对，共同保护并喂养雏鸟（被称作——除此之外还能叫什么？——puflings）。每对鸟每季仅产一枚蛋。一旦雏鸟长大到一定程度，它们就会起飞，独自飞向大海。在接下来的几年里，直到它们自己达到繁殖年龄，它们一直生活在狂野的北大西洋海域，在海面上起伏，利用短而有力的翅膀潜水捕食小鱼。在这些早年岁月中，海鹦实际上是一种水生动物，从未接触陆地。它们看起来与游客热衷于拍摄的那些艳丽生物完全不同。它们的腿是深色的，喙是毫无特色的灰色，尖端呈棕黄色。多年来，在海上的鸟类被认为是一个完全不同的物种，因为它们怎么可能与在海岸上看到的彩色“海鹦”有亲缘关系？但随着春天到来，海洋上的光线开始变化，达到繁殖年龄的海鹦会经历一场剧烈的蜕变。为了返回陆地，它们长出了新的飞羽。深色眼睛周围出现了一个亮红色的环，在眉纹的衬托下，这种效果被增强了，就像画了眼线一样。雄性的睾丸从罂粟籽大小增长到豆子大小。最引人注目的是，它们的喙变得扁平，像小斧头一样，并被深色的色带点亮。嘴角形成了一圈像花瓣一样的黄色皮肤。瞧，这就是出现在餐巾和冰箱贴上的经典海鹦形象。“这些准备充分的鸟类，就是你在春天集群中看到的那些美丽、完美的生物，”英国作家亚当·尼科尔森（Adam Nicolson）在《海鸟之鸣：海鹦、海钢鵟及其他海洋航行者的生活与爱》（The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers）中写道。他表示，喙像是一种健康的广告牌，证明这只鸟已经准备好且能够交配并抚养后代。为了制造这样一个鲜艳的广告牌，鸟类必须食用大量富含类胡萝卜素（carotenoids）色素的鱼类，这些色素用于塑造它们喙上的颜色。这是一个在生物学上“昂贵”的过程，只有健康的鸟类才能完成。“繁殖期的海鹦就像宫廷里的贵族，需要看起来像英雄，展示出自身之卓越，”尼科尔森先生写道。但琼斯教授说情况并非如此简单。首先，他说，研究表明——
海鹦在纽芬兰省莫比尔大岛附近的海面上飞翔。摄影：GREG LOCKE / 全球邮报 海鹦：这些鸟类大胆的喙除了捕鱼之外没有其他用途 接 A1 页
星期一，2026 年 8 月 3 日 / 全球邮报 O A9 新闻 / 发现鸟类的健康状况与其装饰的华丽程度之间并不总是存在强关联。喙部最鲜艳的海鹦未必是最强壮的海鹦。因此，科学家们提出了其他可能的解释。其中一种是，鸟类和其他动物倾向于被它们所食食物中的形状和颜色所吸引。它们对于什么具有刺激性存在一种“预先存在的偏好”。琼斯教授（Prof. Jones）举了中南美洲国王秃鹫的例子，这种鸟的头部装饰有下垂的肉垂，看起来非常像一堆新鲜的内脏。秃鹫以死动物的内脏为食，因此这可能会使该鸟对配偶产生吸引力。海鹦可能也在做类似的事情。红色是许多动物食物的颜色，因此红色是动物装饰的一种流行色。海鹦有时
食用磷虾，这是一种在海洋中呈粉红色或红色集群出现的类虾甲壳动物。这或许可以解释红色的喙。另一种理论认为，当某种异常现象失去控制时，物种中会出现奇怪的遗传特征。假设一只雌鸟看到一只具有异常钩状喙的雄鸟，并出于某种原因觉得它不可抗拒。它们的子孙将同时继承这种钩状喙的突变以及对这种外观的偏好。随着一代接一代的繁衍，这种突变将“失控”，直到整个物种都拥有这一特征。这就是费舍尔失控理论（Fisherian runaway theory），是以其作者、英国统计学家兼生物学家罗纳德·费舍尔（Ronald Fisher）命名的。因此，海鹦的喙可能只是一个毫无意义的错误，随着时间的推移而在物种中固定下来。我们通过它来认出海鹦，它们也通过它将彼此认作同类，但除此之外它并没有特殊的用途。
除了它作为捕鱼工具的实用作用之外。其锯齿状的边缘允许海鹦一次捕捉多条鱼，用强有力的舌头将第一批捕获的鱼固定在原处，同时逐一抓捕其他鱼。它们出水时将鱼横向且并排地衔在嘴里，使这些鸟看起来不仅有滑稽的喙，还有下垂的胡须。琼斯教授在纪念大学的一位同事皮埃尔-保罗·比顿（Pierre-Paul Bitton）正在研究关于这些喙的另一个假设。许多鸟类通过鸣唱相互交流。海鹦则格外安静，与它们在纽芬兰海岸上共处的喧闹海鸟形成鲜明对比。它们唯一显著的发声是有时发出的类似电锯般的低吼声。因此，比顿教授认为它们使用喙的图案而非声音来相互识别。海鹦会仔细观察对方，尤其是在
求偶时。在海上度过数月后重聚的雄性和雌性经常被观察到在进行“喙触”（billing），即通过互相敲击和摩擦喙部来进行某种仪式性的舞蹈。它们的喙具有独特的脊线和凹槽，并由颜色区分，这些可能充当了识别标志。为了验证这一理论，比顿教授和他的学生将填充的海鹦模型放入群落中，观察鸟类的反应。现在他正在尝试一种新方法。他想将这些假鸟放在微型轨道上，让它们像真正的海鹦父母那样从巢穴中弹出。他的学生们拥有设计世界上第一条“海鹦铁路”的特权。但比顿教授表示，即使他发现了支持其观点的数据，也不一定意味着其他理论被否定。海鹦夏季装饰性的喙可能同时发挥多种作用：传递其健康状况、识别身份以及帮助它与他人建立关系。“你面对的是
“这些真的是非常复杂的动态，”他说，“我们真的能解决所有问题吗？大概不能。”他之所以继续尝试，部分原因是这些信息可能帮助科学家理解海鹦之间的社会动态，以及当种群数量下降（如某些地区的情况）时，这些动态会发生什么。英国皇家鸟类保护协会在 4 月 14 日的世界海鹦日表示，自 2000 年以来，英国的海鹦数量下降了四分之一。无论其目的如何，那些令游客沉醉的喙是短暂的。在繁殖季节快结束时，它们的颜色会褪去，赋予其形状的角质板开始脱落。海鹦脱掉它们的“戏服”和“妆容”，回到它们在灰色大海广阔海域中漫游的平凡幕后生活。在繁殖期，海鹦会经历一次蜕变，长出新的飞羽，而它们的喙则呈现出一种扁平的、像斧头一样的外观，并由深色的条带增添活力。英国作家亚当·尼科尔森（Adam Nicolson）认为，海鹦的喙起到了健康广告牌的作用，证明这只鸟已经准备好且能够交配并抚养后代。纪念大学教授伊恩·L·琼斯（Ian L. Jones，右）和向导珍宁·温克尔（Jeannine Winkel）在 2025 年于大岛（Great Island）附近拍摄海鹦和其他海鸟。琼斯教授表示，研究发现，鸟类的健康状况与装饰的华丽程度之间并不总是存在强关联。乘船游览的游客们正在寻找海鹦。尽管有各种理论，但也有可能这些鸟类鲜艳的喙仅仅是一个毫无意义的错误，随着时间的推移而在该物种中固定了下来。
A10 O 全球邮报 / 周一，2026年8月3日 社论 ANDREW SAUNDERS 总裁兼首席执行官 DAVID WALMSLEY 总编辑
在 1962, 当查尔斯·戴高乐被提供证明苏联在古巴部署核导弹的照片时，这位法国总统挥手将照片推开。据报道他当时说：“美国总统的话对我来说就足够了。”这就是唐纳德·特朗普所挥霍掉的东西。曾经，美国总统的话是可以被信任的。是的，也有例外：理查德·尼克松宣称他对水门事件闯入案一无所知；乔治·W·布什坚持认为萨达姆·侯赛因总统领导下的伊拉克制造了化学武器。而且，总统们曾做出过国会未能兑现的承诺，从参议院在 1920 年拒绝支持伍德罗·威尔逊加入国际联盟的承诺，到国会今年未能通过由特朗普先生支持的旨在限制投票权的立法。但这位总统走到了此前没有任何一位美国总统走过的地方。他否认了前任总统和国会的承诺，否认了他自己之前的承诺，有时甚至否认这些否认，使得不仅是他的个人承诺，而且是美国政府的承诺几乎变得毫无价值。
这使得卡尼总理及其顾问陷入了极其尴尬的境地。美国人要求加拿大在修订和更新加拿大-美国-墨西哥贸易协定之前，在已提供的条件之外进一步做出让步。但加拿大政府究竟为什么要就 CUSMA 提供让步，既然知道任何未来的协议在特朗普先生下次发脾气时都可能被抛弃？
这位总统一次又一次地证明，他的话——更不用说现有的条约——绝非具有约束力。他多次质疑美国对北约的承诺，起初理由是其他成员国的国防支出不足，而最近则是因为他们在美国袭击伊朗时拒绝提供援助。欧洲国家正竞相建立防御体系，以应对俄罗斯可能在东欧发起的攻击，因为他们知道再也不能指望美国在背后支持他们。
特朗普政府在俄罗斯入侵之后，曾多次中断随后又恢复对乌克兰的支持。他对全球各国实施、取消并重新实施关税。没有哪个国家比加拿大在关税征收和变动中遭受的损失更多。这个国家承受着钢铁、铝和汽车的关税，并且面临一批新的针对性关税——其中一些将违反 CUSMA——这些关税将于 8月 19 日生效，除非达成一项新协议。除此之外，美国总统还威胁要征收关税，以惩罚今年夏天飘入美国的加拿大野火烟雾。
此外，还有臭名昭著的连接温莎和底特律的戈迪·豪桥案例。加拿大支付了桥梁费用，并同意在回收建设成本后与密歇根州分享收入。但随后特朗普先生介入，要求美国政府分得一杯羹。渥太华忍痛接受，并同意给美国分一杯羹。
在这样一个世界里，尽管美国在经济和文化上依然充满活力，但在政治上已变得如此功能失调，以至于大多数选民选出了一位反复沉思的总统，加拿大及其盟友该如何生存？
关于吞并加拿大并将这个国家变成第51个州？谁想吞并格陵兰，尽管格陵兰人和丹麦人强烈反对？确实，特朗普先生的任期将在两年半后结束，下一任美国总统可能会试图向盟友保证，美国可以再次被视为一个可靠的负责任伙伴。但全世界都知道，美国距离另一个 MAGA 白宫仅隔一次选举。任何与美国签署的协议都不是安全的协议。对于波兰、波罗的海国家、韩国和台湾的人来说，这一定令人恐惧，因为他们知道，如果面临入侵，他们的美国盟友已不再可靠。几十年来，夏尔·戴高乐和许多其他世界领导人理所当然地认为美国总统的话就是承诺。现在情况已不再如此，这让世界变得更加危险。
美国总统话语的分量
【年长劳动力】 关于“我们需要更多政府激励措施让年长者继续工作”（《商业报告》，7月 30日）：加拿大的老龄化速度快于其自我更新的速度。移民速度有所下降，且经济需要所有年龄段的工人以保持生产力。经济学家将“年长工人抢走年轻工人机会”这一错误信念称为“劳动力总量谬误”。我们的寿命延长速度超过了相关机构和规范的演变。越来越多的人在 65 岁之后仍继续工作；该年龄组的劳动力参与率在 2025. 达到了创纪录的 15.2%。让几代人互相竞争是徒劳的。当所有年龄段的人共同协作以优化我们所珍视的生活水平时，加拿大将从中受益。 Helen Hirsh Spence 渥太华
【保持流动】 关于“卡尼排除在与美国的贸易谈判中将能源作为筹码”（7月 30日）：虽然我并不支持加拿大在能源出口（尤其是石油和天然气）方面对美国产生如此压倒性的依赖，但以削减出口来报复近期的关税威胁，会给美国总统唐纳德·特朗普提供以国家安全为借口地损害加拿大主权的契机。记得委内瑞拉发生了什么吗？我估计，一大队搭载海军陆战队和海豹突击队的黑鹰直升机降落在国会山、制服几个保安、占领大楼并插上美国国旗，大约只需要 27 分钟。 “美国的救星”和“天命论”——即认为美国被神圣赋予在北美大陆扩张的信念——会在唐纳德·特朗普的支持者以及（我预计）许多阿尔伯塔省分离主义者中产生强烈共鸣。 Mike Priaro 卡尔加里
虽然我同意总理马克·卡尼近期排除在报复关税和侮辱时限制向美国出口石油或天然气的计划，但我质疑他为什么选择公开这一立场。他多次表示加拿大不会在公开场合进行谈判，然而这次宣布似乎恰恰做了这件事。一个更有效的应对方式是对我们出口到美国的能源收取世界市场价格。这一举措对加拿大的益处远大于限制供应，且优于报复性关税，因为后者最终会提高加拿大人的成本。说到限制，将美国烈酒从商店货架上撤走是个错误。把它们放回去，让渥太华的任务更简单些。 Peter M. Gallop 多伦多
总理在报复关税时克制不采取冲动举措是正确的。俗话说，以眼还眼只会让
全世界都视而不见。我们在这种以牙还牙的混乱世界中看到了这一点，战争在持续地翻滚——包括那些特朗普要么暗示自己参与其中，要么煽风点火的战争。能量之于生命，正如我们对洁净饮用水的需求。在接下来的几个月里，美国人民及其代表有责任扭转局面并约束白宫。在此之前，加拿大人必须保持我们的尊严（powder dry）；这份尊严在全球范围内享有很高的声誉。让美国在低谷中挣扎，而变革将如其必然发生，正如民调所呐喊的那样。 玛丽安娜·金斯米尔·汉密尔顿（Marianna Kingsmill Hamilton）
仇恨无处不在 关于“被常态化且被忽视，仇恨绝对在加拿大占有一席之地”（观点版，7月29日）：这篇专栏极其清醒地揭露了一种双重标准的幻象，即关于反犹主义（我还要加上反LGBTQ、反女性、反穆斯林等等）的言论称其“在我们的社区中没有位置”（或者说“这不是我们的样子”），随后又让我们面对这样一个现实：对“他者”的恐惧、不信任或厌恶，自古以来在世界上的这里那里以及到处都经常升级为仇恨。我同意，目前最重要的问题——不仅是对政府，而且是对我们所有人——是我们是否打算真正采取行动地去解决它。 迈克尔·A·图卡奇（Michael A. Tukatsch），多伦多
我们在各级政治领导人身上看到的态度，似乎在对该问题的漠不关心与敌视之间波动。特别是总理办公室，有机会——也有义务——来定调。例如，最近由加拿大领先的非犹太裔商业及其他领域人士签署的一封公开信，谴责反犹主义。由于卡尼先生的话被引用在其中，这本是总理深化该话题的一个绝佳机会。然而，他的回应却是震耳欲聋的沉默。加拿大犹太社区继续为我们的国家做出巨大贡献。反对仇恨常态化的斗争需要政治领导力。我们仍在等待。 罗纳德·伯肯（Ronald Birken），多伦多
机器人不购物 关于“中国正在 AI 最大化，它有很多可以教给我们的东西”（商业报告，7月30日）：在工作世界中，很难避开关于人工智能的新闻。我不禁想起工会领导人丹尼斯·麦克德莫特（Dennis McDermott）告诉我关于亨利·福特（Henry Ford）与联合汽车工会（UAW）的沃尔特·罗瑟（Walter Reuther）之间一次所谓的邂逅。福特评论道，有一天 UAW 成员所从事的工作将由机器人处理。对此，罗瑟回答道：“但这些机器人会买福特车吗？” 约翰·哈克（John Harker），新斯科舍省卢嫩堡
另一种看法 关于“倦怠的处方”（读者来信，7月30日）：我不认为人们转向急诊部门是因为“基层医疗、家庭护理和及时的后续跟进”让他们失望了。
许多患者的情况比以前更复杂。癌症现在可以成为一种慢性疾病。心力衰竭——一种在先进支架和心血管技术出现之前并不存在的情况——已成为第二常见的住院原因（仅次于分娩）。生物药控制了此前具有破坏性的疾病，但存在免疫抑制等副作用的风险。虽然我全力支持居家医院计划，但我认为，是基层医疗的匮乏导致了急诊部门的不堪重负。为了保证医疗的连续性，患者需要另一端的护理提供者。我无法控制我的患者去哪里，但如果我将他们导向急诊室（ED），是因为他们的胸痛或呼吸短促需要超出我听诊器范围的检查和护理。这不是失败。这是分诊。 本杰明·赖策尔（Benjamin Reitzel），医学博士；安大略省北湾
脱掉你的鞋子 关于“当生活节奏太快时，请赤脚行走”（第一人称，7月 25 日）：作为一个在阿尔伯塔省南部农场长大的人，我记得当我在访问的城市表亲面前，毫不畏缩地赤脚走在碎石或岩石地面上时，内心充满了满足感。诚然，这里不需要警惕潜伏在灌木丛中的蝎子或其他有毒生物，但我仍然体会到了像汤姆·索耶那样自由的闪光时刻，这让我感到勇敢且无拘无束。保罗·西森（Paul Thiessen） 温哥华
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每年夏天，加拿大人都会聚集在后院烧烤，或参加街道上的邻里聚餐。这些时刻本应是为了建立联系。但对于数百万人来说，这些时刻也带来了压力和焦虑：我们负担得起带东西去吗？我们负担得起 hosting（主办）吗？我们甚至应该去吗？同样的财务压力在一年四季的餐桌对话中占据主导地位。由于食品价格依然顽固地维持在高位，且生活成本继续超出许多家庭的预算，来自各行各业的越来越多加拿大人感到压力倍增。
总理马克·卡尼（Mark Carney）已经承认了这些担忧，并承诺让生活变得更加可负担。这依然是他政府面临的决定性国内挑战之一。这就是为什么联邦政府最近发布的《国家粮食安全战略》如此令人失望。
该战略正确地认识到加拿大的粮食系统面临着真正的挑战。气候变化、供应链中断、食品加工能力、企业集中度以及国内粮食生产，这些都值得该战略给予的严肃关注。但该战略对于今天数百万挣扎在食品购买线上的加拿大人几乎没有帮助，因为它在很大程度上忽略了导致家庭粮食不安全的最大单一驱动因素：收入不足。
加拿大的粮食不安全问题主要不是一个粮食系统问题，而是一个可负担性问题。这就是为什么一群致力于粮食安全和减贫的领先非营利组织发表联合声明，呼吁联邦政府在《国家粮食安全战略》进入实施阶段之前对其进行加强。
我们共同敦促渥太华与非营利部门召开一次正式的圆桌会议。原因很简单。几十年来，证据一致表明，家庭粮食不安全是由收入不足驱动的，而非由于粮食短缺。加拿大生产了充足的粮食。然而，这个国家有近四分之一的人——几乎 10 million，包括三分之一的儿童——经历了粮食不安全，因为 they can’t afford the basics。
粮食不安全意味着跳过某些餐食、购买更便宜且营养较低的食物、担心在发薪日前就耗尽食物，以及仅仅为了度过一个月而依赖食品慈善机构。这是最清晰的指标之一，表明我们的可负担性危机已经走得太远。
但我们如何诊断问题至关重要，因为不同的问题需要不同的解决方案。如果问题是粮食生产，我们投资于农民、食品加工商和具有韧性的供应链。如果问题是可负担性，我们还必须确保人们有足够的收入来购买已经存在的食物。
《国家粮食安全战略》在加强加拿大粮食系统方面做出了重要承诺。但它没有设定减少家庭粮食不安全的量化目标。它没有引入任何重大的新收入保障措施。虽然它承认原住民的粮食主权，但并未提供新的投资来支持原住民主导的粮食系统和传统采集。
这些都是严重的遗漏。无论在食品加工或农业创新方面投入多少，都无法帮助一个站在超市货架前、银行账户里根本没有足够钱的家长。
我们已经看到了政府增加收入时会发生什么。在疫情期间，紧急收入支持减少了许多人的粮食不安全和贫困状况。
家庭。诸如加拿大儿童福利金和保证收入补贴等计划同样证明，当收入提高时，粮食不安全和贫困就会减少。反之亦然。当生活成本的上涨速度快于收入（无论是来自工作还是政府支持）时，更多的人将难以负担食物。国家粮食安全战略仍可以成为一个更强大的路线图。在进入实施阶段时，联邦政府有机会与非营利部门合作，以确保该战略反映出数十年证据所显示的结论：当收入上升，粮食不安全程度就会下降。在一个像加拿大这样繁荣的国家，任何人都不应该在支付房租和购买杂货之间做出选择。证据很明确，解决方案触手可及。阻碍我们前进的不是缺乏资源，而是政治选择和优先顺序。问题在于联邦政府是否准备针对我们已知的情况采取行动。
加拿大新的粮食安全战略无法结束粮食不安全状态 渥太华最近发布的国家粮食安全战略承认加拿大的粮食系统面临着真正的挑战，但它在很大程度上忽略了家庭粮食不安全最主要的一个驱动因素：收入不足。
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全副武装的美国海岸警卫队人员经常在盐春岛这个小村庄的海滨餐厅 Rock Salt 停下来吃午餐。他们的出现反映了一个事实，即尽管唐纳德·特朗普总统威胁要让这个国家成为第 51 个州，但加拿大与美国之间的某些合作仍然是必要的。就在这里向南 15 公里的地方，国际海域边界将萨利什海及其由数百个岛屿组成的群岛一分为二。
经常光顾 Rock Salt 的美国官员是综合跨境海事执法行动的一部分。他们被称为“船骑者”（shipriders），因为他们进入加拿大时必须由加拿大皇家骑警（RCMP）官员陪同。有些日子，他们乘坐一艘美国海岸警卫队的小型巡逻艇抵达盐春岛。在这种情况下，船上总是三名美国官员和一名加拿大官员。在其他日子里，一名美国官员将乘坐 RCMP 的船抵达，船上随行有三名加拿大官员。
两国官员同时在船上，使他们能够在海域边界自由移动。例如，如果一艘涉嫌走私的船试图从一个国家逃往另一个国家，他们可以进行追击。当美国海岸警卫队的船进入加拿大时，船只的指挥权自动转移给船上的 RCMP 官员。当 RCMP 的船进入美国时，指挥权转移给美国海岸警卫队官员。如果需要逮捕某人，则始终由嫌疑人被抓获所在国家的官员执行。
这一切看起来可能有些过度，但该系统经过精心设计，以保护两国的主权。有时，船骑者只是收集情报。2017 年，两名涉嫌走私者（一名加拿大人，一名美国人）在海域边界的美国一侧，在两艘快艇之间转移了 55 公斤可卡因。船骑者在远处观察到了这次转移，决定不参与一场可能徒劳的高速追逐。相反，他们打了几个电话。当那名加拿大走私者回到维多利亚时，他立即被
被逮捕，当那名美国人返回华盛顿州的奥克哈博（Oak Harbor）时也是如此。联合巡逻员（Shipriders）还参与搜救行动。去年8月，一艘载有美国海岸警卫队官员的皇家骑警（RCMP）船只迅速响应了来自边界美国一侧的求救信号。这支双国船员队伍救起了十多名皮划艇游客，其中包括六名在暴风雨中受困的孩子。联合巡逻员仅是地理因素驱动加美持续合作的一个例子。出于安全原因，温哥华国际机场的空中交通管制员负责管理附近美国领空的一大部分。上个月，一艘基于该机场的加拿大海岸警卫队气垫船被部署到海上边界正南方的的一起水上飞机坠毁事故现场。与此同时，往返于温哥华和维多利亚之间的渡轮在经过美国水域时，无需任何人办理美国海关和移民手续。在更北的地方，阿拉斯加狭长地带（Alaska Panhandle）的居民使用的汽油和柴油是通过驳船从华盛顿州出发，经由温哥华岛与卑诗省大陆之间的“内海航道”（Inside Passage）运抵的。内海航道构成了“内水”，任何外国船舶未经允许不得进入，而加拿大在此始终予以许可。此外，还有大型远洋货轮在温哥华或西雅图停靠以装载货物，包括来自艾伯塔省的沥青。这些船只通过名副其实的边界通道（Boundary Pass）进入太平洋——沿着绕过温哥华岛南端的航道，由加拿大和美国共同管理。最后但同样重要的是，一群濒危的虎鲸——南部住院种虎鲸（southern resident orcas）——在海域边界来回游动，这带来了一个只能通过加拿大和美国紧密合作才能妥善解决的保护挑战。有人可能会认为所有这些合作仅仅是一系列的礼貌之举，但它们反映了一个古老的真理：邻居不需要成为朋友，但他们必须共同协作。上周，在Rock Salt享用了一顿美味的午餐后，我在联合巡逻员的桌旁停留了一会儿——并感谢这四位官员展示了如何开展此类协作。联合巡逻员证明了加拿大和美国依然能够共同协作。
迈克尔·拜尔斯（MICHAEL BYERS） 卑诗省，富尔福德港（FULFORD HARBOUR, B.C.） 观点 在不列颠哥伦比亚大学教授全球政治和国际法
民意调查和专家一致认为，生活负担能力（affordability）是加拿大人最关注的问题。许多人将缺乏负担能力描述为一场危机，特别是对于中低收入的加拿大人而言。公众理所当然地对太多家庭无法找到负担得起的住房感到愤怒，且随着平均购物篮成本飙升，食品银行的需求正在增加。政府被要求立即采取大胆行动。但成功解决任何问题的起点在于对其进行清晰的定义。而“负担能力”是一个模糊的概念，对不同的人来说意味着截然不同的事情。对于许多年轻人来说，这意味着能够负担得起房租，而不需要和父母挤在一起。对于年轻家庭来说，这意味着对拥有住房持有现实的渴望。对于许多消费者来说，这意味着购买基本食品应能舒适地适配预算。对于家庭而言，这意味着支付必需品时不应意味着牺牲所有非必需品。而对于许多人来说，这可能会勾起对那个中产阶级生活似乎更可预测、技术尚未颠覆一切（包括工作）、且父母还拥有……时代的怀旧之情。
更加自信地认为他们的孩子将会有更好的生活。除非政府将“负担能力”分解为需要解决的具体问题，并以明确的目标和针对性措施进行沟通，否则他们的努力将徒劳得令人沮丧。作为一项概括性的政府目标，无论其初衷多么高尚，负担能力无法提供衡量政策成功的客观标准，却提供了许多衡量失败的主观标准。无论是住房、食物、能源还是整体家庭预算问题，政府在启动公众讨论时，需要明确界定他们计划解决的负担能力问题，并严谨地理解其根本原因，而不是急于承诺使用财政“创可贴”来提供快速解决方案。持久的解决方案通常涉及供给侧的结构性改革，而非需求侧的价格补贴。在这样一个要求立即响应的世界里，这确实更难沟通，但它更有可能获得成功并维持公众信心。
负担能力政策架构的一个关键部分是保持消费者物价指数（CPI）低通胀。加拿大银行误判了新冠疫情带来的成本压力，导致通胀率远高于其 2-per-cent 目标，并在 2022. 年中期达到 8 per cent 的峰值。这迫使该行大幅提高利率，而更高的抵押贷款利率反过来损害了住房负担能力。自 2024, 年中期以来，随着通胀率再次接近 2 per cent，包括抵押贷款利率在内的利率有所下降，从而改善了住房负担能力。这说明了在通胀压力回归时（例如全球油价飙升并传导至整个经济）通过早期政策行动坚持通胀目标的重要性。然而，尽管通胀回到了 2-per-cent 目标，但价格水平依然较高，特别是某些项目如食品。加拿大银行的目标是通胀率而非价格水平，因此消费者必须适应当今更高的价格。
家庭负担能力的调整部分涉及收入以及价格。而提高家庭收入的最佳方式是创造能够产生优质就业岗位和强劲生产力增长的经济条件，同时利用诸如商品和服务税（GST）抵免等针对性政策工具，向最需要的人群提供过渡性收入支持。更广泛地说，影响负担能力各方面的因素通常截然不同，无论是成本压力的性质、对全球供应链的依赖程度、市场动态，还是家庭的调整方式。因此，最有效的政策补救措施也应当各不相同且具有针对性。
能源就是一个很好的例子。一个经常被提及的目标是：能源必须安全、可持续且负担得起。虽然人们很难对此持反对意见，但挑战在于当这些目标之间发生冲突时（这种情况经常发生）。当住宅电价上涨超过 2 per cent 的平均通胀率，以支付新产能（如升级的传输线或更清洁的供应源）的成本时，公众会对负担能力发出抗议；政府随后往往急于通过直接或间接补贴将价格人为地维持在低位。这是打着保护负担能力幌子的糟糕政策。
简而言之，负担能力绝不是一个可以用简单方案解决的单一问题。政府在承诺解决负担能力的宽泛表态上需要更加谦虚，而在采取行动解决具体负担能力问题时需要更加高效。有效的治理在于明确定义问题以
被解决，设定现实的目标，执行必要的政策变革，并为结果负责。这种方法将为政府信任地产生最持久的结果——更重要的是，为加拿大人的日常生活带来实效。
政府的负担能力计划需要具体细节 除非对“负担能力”做出定义和界定，否则其宽泛的政策注定会失败
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棒球 随着交易截止日期的临近，Max Scherzer 献上了他今年最出色的表现 B10
加拿大航空运输业正面临另一场劳工动荡，由 CUPE Local 8125 代表的 4,400 名西捷航空（WestJet）乘务员于周日举行罢工。今年 7 月，工会投票决定，如果谈判失败，99.4% 的成员支持采取罢工行动。此次罢工投票是在工会经历了一轮重要谈判之后进行的，工会要求获得“地面薪酬”（ground pay）——这是一种新的补偿形式，CUPE 在去年针对加拿大航空（Air Canada）的罢工行动中争取到了这一权益，旨在为乘务员在飞行时间之外的工作支付报酬。西捷航空声称，现有合同已经包含了针对因延误或其他职责而投入时间的补偿机制。然而，CUPE 寻求在整个行业内统一补偿实践，并将工资排除在竞争之外。
TUFTS, B6 西捷航空劳工纠纷实际上是 Carney 与工会之间的代理战 STEVEN TUFTS 观点
在加拿大宠物食品制造商 Open Farm 的多伦多办公室内，充当看门狗的是一只名叫 Ted 的小型伯恩山贵宾犬，它叫声尖锐但完全不咬人。不过，它不仅是首席执行官的宠物，还是一个客户。Ted 吃该公司生产的 GoodGut 益生菌颗粒粮，以控制其胃肠道问题。其护理人员将它视为一个典型案例，说明即便在加拿大人寻求各种削减开支方式（包括削减自身人类食品预算）的通货膨胀环境下，Open Farm 仍能继续销售价格高端的宠物粮。
“他们可能会削减其他更具随意性的类别，无论是零食、用品还是玩具之类的东西，”Open Farm 首席执行官 Isaac Langleben 表示。“但完整的饮食，即营养元素，我认为人们理所当然地会更加不愿削减。他们实际上愿意多支付一些钱。”
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曼尼托巴省土豆农 Sheldon Wiebe 正在使用能够识别并预测土壤疾病或昆虫侵害的数据收集和人工智能技术。 MATT HORSEMAN / 全球邮报 [ 农业 ]
农业中热门的新商品 食品生产者渴望利用新技术提高生产力，但投资者不愿押注该领域
土豆农 Sheldon Wiebe 过去依赖视觉和嗅觉线索，来检测其产品是否在旨在抵御大草原温度的温控储藏箱内腐烂。但现在，他在曼尼托巴省 MacGregor 的农场已开始在部分储藏箱中测试来自卡尔加里 Cellar Insights 公司的传感器，腐烂的第一个信号可能就是一个智能手机通知。通过能够利用人工智能检测霉菌孢子早期迹象的数据收集，该技术可以在 Mr. Wiebe 的土豆被毁之前预测变质情况。这确保了更多的土豆能运送到 Simplot Co. 的薯条加工厂，该厂距离他的农场向东 12 分钟车程。Cellar Insights 的系统还利用其收集的整个季度的数据集，针对曼尼托巴省剧烈的气候条件训练其模型。
这在不同季节之间差异很大。“我们从事的是一个高风险行业，利润非常薄，任何形式的损失在财务上都会令人心碎，因此可靠的数据确实能帮助我们做出正确的决定，”Wiebe 先生说道。他通过与总部位于温尼伯的“企业机器智能与学习计划”（Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative）签订的合同来获取早期阶段的技术。EMILI 是一个由行业主导的非营利组织，旨在帮助农民使用全球公司开发的先进农业技术。
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最近，Avanti Helium Corp. 的卡尔加里办公室收到了一次不寻常的询问。该公司是一家氦气勘探商，这种超轻气体应用范围极广，从派对气球到太空探索均在其中。这是一家来自中东的潜在客户——该地区通常是全球氦气供应的主要来源地——竟然联系了半个地球外的供应商。
“嗯，这很有意思，”Avanti 首席执行官 Chris Bakker 回忆起当时的想法，“我从未想过我会直接把货运到他们的后花园里。”
自从美国和以色列在 2 月下旬对伊朗发动战争以来，石油和天然气市场的动荡可能占据了最多的头条新闻，但这场冲突也颠覆了氦气的供应。加拿大拥有地下的原生资源可以帮助填补缺口——但行业参与者表示，政府缺乏正确的政策和激励措施来支持他们进行开发和销售。
氦气有广泛的用途，而且在几乎所有情况下都没有替代品。这种惰性元素可为核磁共振（MRI）机器冷却，为火箭部件加压，并帮助检测核电站的泄漏。在人工智能领域蓬勃发展的背景下，它也是制造先进计算机芯片的关键投入，估计占全球氦气需求的 10 到 15 l百分比。
“而且这个份额正在快速增长，”亚太基金会加拿大-印太关键矿产中心的项目协调员 Karen Hui 说道。她表示，芯片制造领域的亚洲大玩家（如台湾和韩国）高度依赖卡塔尔的氦气，且倾向于不储备太多的备份供应。
氦气可以与天然气共同生产，卡塔尔的情况正是如此。在伊朗今年早些时候打击关键基础设施之前，卡塔尔约占全球供应的三分之一。
氦气，B6 中东的动荡颠覆了全球氦气供应。加拿大拥有能够提供帮助的资源。 LAUREN KRUGEL 卡尔加里
DARRYL DYCK / 加拿大新闻社 能源 密歇根州最高法院命令审查 Enbridge 石油管道的许可 B3
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个人理财 一名哈利法克斯的单身母亲在被挤出市场后如何建立自己的家 B9
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Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena 是世界上最古老的银行。它经历了美第奇家族的兴衰、地区战争和世界大战，以及自身的几次濒死体验——包括 2017 年一项 54 亿欧元的救助计划，以及一场使其成为管理不善代名词的衍生品丑闻。但在 Luigi Lovaglio 的领导下——这位首席执行官由意大利政府于 2022 年招募来主导扭亏为盈——Monte dei Paschi 已成长为欧洲最健康的金融机构之一。现在，它成了一个收购目标。
上月底，Lovaglio 先生坐在位于锡耶纳历史中心的银行总部——一座如堡垒般的 14 世纪建筑 Palazzo Salimbeni 中，思考着银行面临的最新挑战。这家托斯卡纳的贷款机构正处于一场日益激烈的竞争中，被其最大的竞争对手追逐。“我正在加班加点地寻找最佳解决方案，”70 岁的 Lovaglio 先生说道，他在今年春季经历了一场惨烈的董事会斗争后保住了职位。
6 月，总部位于米兰的 Banco BPM 提议与 Monte dei Paschi 进行一次“平等合并”，事件由此触发。次日，意大利最大的银行 Intesa Sanpaolo 宣布了一项 350 亿欧元（400 亿美元）的现金加股票敌意收购方案，目标正是资产负债表拥有约 2400 亿欧元资产的 Monte dei Paschi。
Intesa 的计划有些复杂。它涉及与意大利保险公司 Unipol 合作，后者将收购 Monte dei Paschi 约一半的分行网络——其中一些分支机构仍运营在托斯卡纳的小镇中，包括吉利奥岛上——从而将“Siena”这个名字从门上撕掉。Intesa 觊觎的是 Monte dei Paschi 的核心资产：其 Medio-banca 投资银行和财富管理部门，以及在价值 770 亿美元的保险公司 Generali 中持有的股份。Monte dei Paschi 是在去年通过一次令人震惊的“大卫收购歌利亚”式投标获得这些资产的。
更复杂的是，Banco BPM 在周五的一份声明中表示，已终止与 Monte dei Paschi 的合并讨论，使谈判陷入僵局。“这绝对有一种《权力的游戏》的既视感，”Morningstar 的银行分析师 Johann Scholtz 在谈到排队争夺 Monte dei Paschi 的竞争利益方时说道。
当欧洲政治家、监管机构和银行官员们正专注于意大利贷款机构 UniCredit swoop 购买德国商业银行（Commerzbank）——这一敌意举动曾短暂演变为罗马与柏林之间的外交纠纷——时，一场整合狂潮正在重塑意大利国内的银行部门。
由于多年的高利率、股市飙升和丰厚的财富管理费，欧洲银行的增长速度达到了 2008 年全球金融危机前以来最健康的状态。但保护主义倾向在各国首都依然根深蒂固。尽管欧盟以及前欧洲央行行长、前意大利总理 Mario Draghi 一直在推动跨国界和跨行业的整合。他认为，只有这样，欧洲才能考虑建立“超级银行”，以便更好地与摩根大通（JPMorgan Chase）和高盛（Goldman Sachs）等美国巨头竞争。（摩根大通是 Intesa 的并购顾问。）
意大利已经接受了合并金融机构的想法。成立于 1472 年的 Monte dei Paschi 面临被收购的前景在托斯卡纳引起了剧烈震动。包括市长在内的锡耶纳市民对此表现出强烈的反对，尤其是针对 Intesa 的报价，担心这意味着他们深爱的银行将走向终结。长期以来，这家银行
一直是该地区的主要雇主和当地企业的重大支持者。它曾经强大的慈善基金会资助了社会服务、社区组织和艺术，资助了锡耶纳的一家医院扩建，以及该市著名的赛马节（Palio）——这是一场由各社区之间竞争以赢取最高荣誉的无鞍马赛。“Monte 不仅仅是一家银行。它是历史，是文化，也是经济，”退休的 Monte dei Paschi 雇员 Claudio Marignani 说道。在 2012 年，他创立了一个名为 Sena Civitas 的社区组织。他呼吁他的同胞 sene- si（当地人的称呼）公开集会，以表达对 Monte dei Paschi 独立的支持。罗马天主教会也向交易制定者发出了通知，表示任何合并都必须保护意大利家庭的生计。锡耶纳教区在 7 月写了一封公开信，表示将监督谈判，“相信即使在市场事务中，在一定程度上也能期待正义和慈善。”
Lovaglio 先生表示，看到社区围绕银行集结是很令人鼓舞的。但最终公司的命运掌握在股东手中，而最强大的股东离锡耶纳很远。Sene- si 人们以前经历过这种情况。五年前，该银行是一家国有贷款机构，处于维持生命状态。由罗马促成的一项“白衣骑士”交易失败了。随后在 2022 年 2 月，Mario Draghi 政府的一名官员邀请 Lovaglio 先生接任最高职位。“当我被邀请时，我在五分钟内就做出了决定，”Lovaglio 先生说。八个月后，他和他的团队完成了 25 亿欧元的资本筹集（€2.5-billion），终于让 Monte dei Paschi 获得了稳固的财务基础，将罗马的持股比例从大约 64% 降低。（如今已低于 5%。）自那时起，该银行的股价上涨了 475% 以上，远超更广泛的欧洲银行业。
Lovaglio 先生不会透露银行的下一步行动。但围绕该银行展开的戏剧性事件强化了他的信念，他说，“为了处于安全位置，处于避风港，你应该规模更大。”随着下午时间的推移，Lovaglio 先生离开顾问们去呼吸新鲜空气。他前往锡耶纳的 Palazzo Pubblico，这座庄严的砖砌市政厅内保存着 Ambrogio Lorenzetti 著名的 14 世纪壁画，描绘了良好治理与糟糕治理的效果。在一面墙上，艺术家绘制了一个有序的世界，正义、节制、谨慎、力量和平等这些寓言人物在此把守。而它旁边则是一幅凄惨的景象。一个像恶魔一样的人物主持着寓言中的反面角色，包括不和、战争、欺诈和愤怒。Lovaglio 先生说，观看 Lorenzetti 截然不同的世界观——阴郁与光明——总是令他动容。他凝视着，在思考下一步行动时说道：“我觉得这真的非常启发人心且具有激励作用。”
纽约时报新闻服务 (NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE) 全球最古老银行正面临危机 成立于 1472 年的意大利 Monte dei Paschi 可能被收购，引发剧烈震动 BERNHARD WARNER
得益于多年的高利率、激增的股市和丰厚的财富管理费，欧洲银行正以 2008 年全球金融危机以来最健康的增速增长。Wiebe 先生经营着 10,000 英亩的农场，有 18 人工作，同时也种植其他轮作作物，这是该计划中两个大规模测试新技术的创新农场之一。在该省及全国其他地区，具有前瞻性的农民正在采用预测性杂草控制和智能农田管理系统等工具。
这些技术是一波数字工具浪潮的一部分，旨在帮助加拿大农场追赶全球竞争对手在生产力方面的增长。然而，对于许多生产者来说，不明确的投资回报、数字素养的缺失以及农村农场糟糕的手机信号，使得这种跨越显得不切实际。在一个土豆地里，通过 EMILI，Wiebe 先生的团队正在测试一个由以色列创立的、基于人工智能的灌溉系统，名为 Autonomous Pivot。它利用地下探测雷达更精确地测量土壤水分，并检测病害或虫害问题。换句话说，它是一个智能助手，可以在作物出现压力之前开出浇水“处方”。如果没有这个系统，团队必须每周对手工挖掘的土壤样本进行水分测试。
这些技术的价值在于它们所收集的高质量、可转移的数据，以及它们能够利用这些数据识别或预测的内容。对于 Wiebe 先生来说，这项技术可以帮助缓解通常极其耗时的故障排除过程。他举了一个存储过程中出现腐烂问题的例子，以及收集的数据如何帮助定位该问题在田间产生的位置。他说，这种追踪有助于“将农场中的所有点连接起来”。
虽然像 Wiebe 先生这样的生产者渴望通过新技术提高生产力，但投资者却不愿押注于农业科技领域。RBC 该行业的首席研究员 Lisa Ashton 表示，由于综合投资者认为食品生产碎片化、令人困惑且风险较高，对国内农业食品公司（包括那些针对初级农业——即作物生长阶段的公司）的投资已经减少。根据 Ashton 女士 2 月的一份报告，目前对这些公司的总投资低于十年前，交易量下降了 29 per cent，交易价值下降了 32 per cent。
加拿大农业食品政策研究所一份 2025 年的报告指出，行业讨论往往集中在新技术的潜在收益上，而没有解决农场实际情况以争取务实的生产者。报告称，规模较大的谷物、油籽、乳制品和受控环境作业（如温室）在数字化农业应用方面处于领先地位，而小型农场则相对滞后。
像 EMILI 这样的参与者正试图改变这一现状。该计划与加拿大农信金（Farm Credit Canada）共同创立了 AIVA，这是一个让农民测试早期农业科技产品以降低商业风险的网络。“很难区分什么是事实，什么是虚构，什么是愿景，”EMILI 首席执行官 Jacqueline Keena 表示，“……当一个农民采用某项技术时，如果它已经过‘创新农场’（Innovation Farms）的验证，我们可以自信地说，这是我们的经验，它是这样运作的。”
本月，FCC 还发布了一份关于加拿大农业 AI 应用的报告，发现该行业落后于加拿大的其他工业。FCC AgExpert 和创新中心副总裁 Mohamad Yaghi 强调了广泛数字化能为该行业带来的潜在价值：“归根结底，一个轶事就是一个数据点。”这家皇冠公司近期一直在大力推动增加加拿大农业和食品创新领域的资本投资。Keena 女士表示，希望通过测试，随着农民被迫以“日益精简的方式”运营，新技术的成本会随着时间的推移而降低。随着巴西和澳大利亚等竞争对手获得市场份额，加拿大在全球农业和农业食品贸易中的地位下滑至
根据另一份RBC报告，截至2025年2月，其排名从第五位降至第七位。旨在解决采用障碍的解决方案正在增加，例如偏远农业地区缺乏可靠的蜂窝服务和高速互联网。例如，设备供应商约翰迪尔（John Deere）与SpaceX的Starlink网络合作推出了一款名为JDLink Boost的产品，该产品于去年在加拿大上市。这款基于卫星的连接工具可直接安装在设备上，确保拥有高速互联网访问权限以运行智能技术。尽管约翰迪尔以其绿色和黄色拖拉机而闻名，但该公司还提供与其他品牌兼容的数据收集和农场管理软件。这类软件可以跟踪并记录投入品、田块边界、产量和天气状况。
瑞克·卢瑟福德（Rick Rutherford）早已意识到此类数据的实用性。他是负责EMILI在马尼托巴省格罗斯岛（Grosse Isle）附近另一家创新农场的生产者，并对他过去14年里在谷物、豆类和油籽经营中积累的数据感到自豪。“数据收集是我们所有工作的基石，”他说道。这些数据集使他成为测试Geco的有力候选人，Geco是一个在温哥华创建的预测性杂草控制系统。它利用人工智能、卫星图像、作物生长模型和农田历史记录来绘制杂草分布图。随后，它可以预测下一季杂草将在何处萌发，并生成喷雾和播种率的“处方”，以针对顽固区域。与传统的在全田均匀喷洒的低精度方法相比，这使得卢瑟福德先生及其团队能够对除草剂的施用进行精准定位。卢瑟福德先生表示，通过减少化学品的使用，这项技术正使他们的“农场在环境方面更加谨慎”。
在春季，Geco还可以提供指导，告知农民在哪些地方应更密集地种植种子，以通过挤压杂草实现无化学管理的控制。卢瑟福德先生指出，没有任何一项技术（包括Geco）能成为提高生产力或可持续性的万能药，但一套由人工智能驱动的工具包确实能提供优势。“到目前为止，我还没有看到任何一个通过EMILI进入我们农场的项目能够彻底变革整个农场。它只是增加了另一种工具，”他说道。
包括风险投资家及《龙穴》（Dragons’ Den）明星阿琳·迪金森（Arlene Dickinson）在内的思想领袖已呼吁加拿大在农业食品领域把握时机。迪金森女士投资了供应链各个环节的农业食品公司。在吸引投资方面，卢瑟福德先生指出，关于某种作物的可用数据越多，其价值就越高，因为这涉及到可追溯性等因素。
“现在有一种很强的趋势，人们希望知道他们的食物来自哪里，并能够回溯地说明：‘是的，这来自马尼托巴省格罗斯岛的一块田地，而这些是在该田地中使用的投入品，’ ”他解释道。
对于许多人来说，获得预测技术的益处似乎仍然遥不可及。泰勒·菲利普斯（Taylor Phillips）是总部位于萨斯卡通的风险管理咨询公司Maverick Ag的首席技术官，他指导农民完成数字化进程。他表示，“干净、经过校准且可访问的数据”是从新工具中获得高质量结果的必要条件，但许多农民不知道从哪里开始。他一直在指导生产者利用现成的工具（如谷歌的Gemini生态系统）来培养人工智能素养。他帮助他们了解如何将多年的农场数据整合在一个地方，通常是通过使用人工智能进行编译。
分布在各种计划中的零散电子表格。菲利普斯先生的一位客户泰勒·华莱士在萨省尤尼蒂附近经营着一个 21,000 英亩的谷物和豆类农场，他已经开始将人工智能纳入团队的日常工作中。华莱士先生意识到，对于这一新兴技术浪潮所能实现的潜力，他仅仅触及了皮毛。凭借高质量的作物数据，他希望自己的农场能够很快充分利用预测工具所承诺的潜力：将农民的角色从被动应对转变为主动预防。菲利普斯先生向客户提供的价值主张是将他们的数据视为一种宝贵资源。他说：“他们没有意识到，他们在农场中种植的最有价值的商品之一不仅仅是谷物，而且是数据本身，以及这些数据点在做出不同决策时的价值。”
记者凯特·赫尔摩尔报告 农民：预测性除草、智能农田管理成为应用工具（见 B1 版） 上方图片：谢尔顿·维比在马尼托巴省麦格雷戈附近的一个马铃薯地里向灌溉枢纽走去。 右图：Cellar Insights 是一款用于检测腐烂的人工智能技术，安置在存放 15 million 磅马铃薯的仓库料仓旁。 摄影：马特·霍斯曼 / 全球邮报
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密歇根州最高法院已命令州监管机构重新审议一项关键许可，该许可原允许一项计划中的隧道工程在五大湖部分区域下方铺设输油管道。这项 6-1 的裁决进一步让这条拥有 73 年历史的管道前景变得模糊。该管道由加拿大能源运输公司 Enbridge Inc. 拥有，将石油从威斯康星州的苏必利尔市运往安大略省的萨尼亚。
涉案的管道部分被称为 Line 5，沿休伦湖和密歇根湖交汇的麦基诺海峡底部延伸六公里。Enbridge 希望将管道埋在海峡底部的隧道中。环保人士和密歇根州州长格雷琴·惠特默（Gretchen Whitmer）则希望将管道完全移出水域，称一旦发生泄漏，将给五大湖及周边地区带来灾难性后果。
密歇根州公共服务委员会在 2023. 年授予了建设该隧道的许可。四个密歇根州部落国家以及多个环保组织随后提起诉讼。密歇根州最高法院周五裁定，监管机构在授予许可时，未能考虑隧道项目是否会延长管道的寿命，从而导致对环境造成更多损害。
裁决还指出，公共服务委员会在对比输油管道的替代方案（如使用卡车或火车运输石油）时缺乏一贯性，且未评估隧道可能如何影响五大湖的捕鱼、航行及其他公众信托权利。
该管道的反对者表示，此类项目在其他任何地方都从未实施过，且会将作为原住民安尼什纳比（Anishinaabe）部落神圣之地的麦基诺海峡变成长达数年的建筑工地。
“无论 Line 5 是悬浮在水中还是 encased 在隧道内，每天向五大湖中心泵送超过 50 万桶石油，这本身就是一个糟糕的主意，”原住民权利基金会（Native American Rights Fund）的律师大卫·格弗（David Gover）在声明中表示。
Enbridge 在裁决后正在审查其法律选项，并表示对这一项目的再次延迟感到失望。该项目已审查近十年。发言人瑞安·达菲（Ryan Duffy）在声明中说，该项目将“在维持该地区关键能源可靠性的同时，加强五大湖的环境保护”。
Enbridge 在近十年前提出管道隧道方案，当时一艘船的锚损坏了部分管道。该公司称，隧道将大幅降低原油泄漏的可能性，但环保人士认为，在麦基诺海峡底部建设隧道会产生噪音、震动并造成永久性的环境破坏。
在另一系列法庭案件中，惠特默女士和其他州官员自 2020 年起一直试图关闭海峡底部的该管道。
美联社（ASSOCIATED PRESS） Enbridge 位于密歇根州麦基诺城的麦基诺设施，为该公司现有的 Line 5 水下管道及其计划在密歇根湖与休伦湖之间的麦基诺海峡建设的替代隧道提供服务。 照片：CARLOS OSORIO / 路透社
密歇根州最高法院要求审查 Enbridge 五大湖水下管道 Line 5 的部分路段沿麦基诺海峡底部延伸六公里 JEFFREY COLLINS
中国正积极为其倾向于先进产业而非消费的经济政策组合进行辩护，分析人士认为其采取了一种……
在与欧洲和美国的贸易谈判迫在眉睫之际，展现出日益增强的信心。国家主席习近平与美国总统特朗普计划在今年进行更多面对面会晤，而布鲁塞尔则设定了10月的截止日期，要求北京解决争端，因为人们对中国超过万亿美元的贸易盈余日益担忧。西方国家将中国的政策定格为重商主义且违背全球贸易规则，称其优先考虑生产商而非家庭，将廉价商品推向全球市场，从而掏空了那些寻求更平衡增长国家的工业。但周四的一次最高共产党领导人会议信号表明，政策将保持连续性，要求进行针对性支持，而非中国贸易伙伴和许多经济学家长期敦促的以消费者为中心的刺激措施和结构性变革。几天前，商务部在一篇关于“所谓工业产能过剩”的立场文件中指责西方采取保护主义，拒绝接受这一观点，称其根源于“逻辑缺陷”和“别有用心”。执政的共产党旗舰理论杂志《求是》在7月也为中国的低消费辩护，称这是投资主导的赶超发展模式下“历史性合理”的结果。
经济学情报单元（Economist Intelligence Unit）高级经济学家徐天辰（Xu Tianchen）表示，此类信息虽然没有直接告诉西方中国不会改变方向，但发出了两个姿态信号。“第一是为了希望他人理解这源自何处。更好的相互理解有助于谈判，”徐先生说。“第二是划定红线。”他补充道，商务部的文件“明确表示中国不接受针对其企业和产品的歧视性措施”。中国表示，其模式反映了一个仍在向发达经济体接轨的国家的需求。其产品不仅更便宜，而且日益优质，而其科技投资能够造福全世界。上个月，国务院总理李强反驳了关于“中国冲击 2.0”的警告（即中国企业在先进制造业中挤出西方竞争者的情景），将其描绘为全球经济的“中国机遇 2.0”。康奈尔大学贸易政策教授、国际货币基金组织前中国主任埃斯瓦尔·普拉萨德（Eswar Prasad）表示，这是一种“在承受这些出口冲击的国家中毫无说服力的说法”。“鉴于国内需求疲软，中国严重依赖出口来驱动自身增长，这使得其很难主张中国出口是对全球消费者的馈赠。”
去年，华盛顿试图通过超过 100% 的关税向中国施压，但由于北京利用其在稀土生产（这对广泛的全球工业至关重要）中的主导地位重新夺回战略阵地，该举措未能奏效。如今，去年与中国贸易逆差平均每天达 $1 billion（10亿美元）的欧盟，正推行自己的工业和国内采购政策以捍卫其市场。本月，德国总理弗里德里希·梅尔茨（Friedrich Merz）批评北京使其货币维持低估。但中国最近的表态表明，北京越来越自信能够在不做出重大让步的情况下缓解贸易争端。法国外贸银行（Natixis）亚太首席经济学家艾丽西亚·加西亚-埃雷罗（Alicia Garcia-Herrero）表示：“美国的关税事件似乎提供了一套‘管理型接触’的模板，北京也将此应用于欧洲——本质上是在争取时间。”“北京关于其经济模式的信息传递确实显得更加自信且框架严密。”
“比一两年前要好，”她补充道。诚然，北京今年的投资有所放缓，主要是因为加强了对地方政府支出的审查，经济学家认为这是导致制造业和基础设施产能过剩的原因。官员们公开承认存在供需“矛盾”，并承诺结束生产者为了争夺市场份额而不惜牺牲利润而引发的通货紧缩价格战。他们经常承诺提高消费需求，即使没有重大的结构性改革计划。《求是》的文章称，消费疲软的“历史合理性并不意味着长期合理性”，并补充说模式的转变是“必要的”。分析人士表示，这意味着中国意识到了失衡，但希望谨慎行事，担心出现颠覆性变化。但越来越多的国际研究警告称，北京的政策威胁到全球经济及其自身经济。
经济合作与发展组织（OECD）在最近的一份报告中表示，对于近 60% 的中国企业来说，其“市场份额的增长可以用所获得的补贴来解释”。意大利银行的一篇论文估计，国内因素（如消费疲软和产能过剩）驱动了中国约 75 的出口增长。麦肯锡全球研究院的一份报告称，中国每年增加的生产性资产是欧洲和美国总和的三倍，而其资本回报率则大致低 40。研究机构 Rhodium Group 的联合创始人 Daniel Rosen 表示：“现在中国的争论更加频繁且正式，因为国内系统性经济问题导致影响全球其他地区的证据增长速度更快。”路透社：中国在与欧盟、美国贸易谈判前为其经济模式划定“红线” CLAIRE FU KEVIN YAO LIANGPING GAO 伦敦
OPEC+ 周日批准从 9 月起将原油产量配额增加约 188,000 桶 / 日，该生产国组织表示，此举完成了对一层自愿减产计划的撤销。由于伊朗和乌克兰战争导致海湾地区、俄罗斯和哈萨克斯坦的出口中断，今年大部分时间内 OPEC+ 连续每月的增产计划在很大程度上仅停留在纸面上，对市场影响甚微。由 OPEC+ 核心成员——沙特阿拉伯、俄罗斯、伊拉克、科威特、阿尔及利亚、哈萨克斯坦和阿曼——达成一致的 9 月增产计划，标志着原定于 2023, 年达成的 1.65 million 桶 / 日供应削减的分阶段回撤正式结束，当时该组织还包括于 5 月退出 OPEC 的阿拉伯联合酋长国。这七个成员将于 9 月 6. 日举行下次会议。路透社：OPEC+ 同意 9 月增产，完成自愿减产的回撤。
B4 O 全球邮报 / 星期一，2026 年 8 月 3 日 / 商业报告 观点与分析 对于那些不需要每天精减 Claude token 的人来说，人工智能计算资源的意义似乎很遥远。但事实是，AI 及其支撑硬件正迅速成为科学、商业、国防和医疗保健的通用投入。生产力的提升已经体现在医院中更准确的健康风险检测、更快速的软件开发以及解决复杂研究问题时更低的门槛。加拿大人需要可靠的基础设施来存储、处理和保护这些应用背后的数据，并需要开发和使用这些工具的专业知识。除了吸引数据中心投资，目标还包括确保可靠的计算能力访问权限、增强对数据的管辖权，以及提升数据中心开发和运营的国内能力。
通常情况下，经济学家更关心资本的位置而非所有权，因为工厂必须设在生产发生地。但数据中心不同。计算服务通常可以从海外提供，而我们所关注的许多经济效益则来自学习如何构建、管理和改进它们（经济学家称之为“创新溢出”）。与石油一样，它们也正成为战略瓶颈，因为存储和计算正越来越多地被应用于整个经济领域。特朗普政府最近限制访问 Anthropic 前沿 AI 模型的决定印证了这一战略观点。正如同我们看到伊朗可以通过封锁霍尔穆兹海峡来瘫痪能源市场一样，美国已经表明，当其利益需要时，它愿意且能够切断对 AI 工具的访问。
随着 AI 嵌入到我们社会的各项基本功能中，加拿大不能允许基本服务或随之而来的国内创新完全依赖于外国政府的决定。虽然我们无法控制美国政府如何管理其 AI 模型的访问权限，但我们必须尽一切努力减少依赖。尽管如此，数据中心确实带来了实际成本，拟议的项目在加拿大各地理所当然地遭到了抵制。它们提高了当地居民的能源价格，产生了噪音，且提供的永久性就业岗位远少于许多其他大型资本项目。这些利润难以征税，特别是当所产生的价值与持有在其他地方的知识产权挂钩时。而原本可以激励公众支持的更广泛利益——更强的技术能力和国家韧性——到目前为止尚未得到充分实现。
安格斯·里德研究所（Angus Reid Institute）今年的民调显示，加拿大人普遍认为有必要建立国内 AI 基础设施。但超过三分之二的人反对在自己的社区附近建设。这个问题从根本上在于外部性：成本是地方性的，而潜在收益则分散且仅由加拿大人部分获取。正如同我们不能指望私人公司在生产决策中考虑国家需求一样，我们不能合理地期望个人在目前仅能获得微弱的创新和主权收益时，却乐于支付更高的电费。问题在于，我们如何解决这种激励失调，以促成这些数据中心的建设？首先，我们的政策框架需要确保加拿大人能够真正获得证明数据中心建设合理性的战略和创新收益。
首先，由于这些属于外部性，标准的外国投资协议无法自然地提供这些结果，因此采取更积极的工业政策是合理的。联邦税收抵免和补贴应倾向于那些由加拿大总部持股的项目、与加拿大公司建立的合资企业，或承诺优先为加拿大研究人员、初创公司和公共机构分配计算资源的强制性协议。加拿大应继续欢迎希望在这里建设的全球公司。但同时应当询问，加拿大工人、公司和机构能从这些项目中学习到什么，以及在地理政治动荡时期，我们对自身数据和处理能力的控制程度如何。关于所有权和参与度限制会阻碍外国投资的反对意见，在这里远比在其他行业中要弱。这是因为加拿大从数据中心寻求的收益与从工厂寻求的收益不同——外资工厂仍然可以创造可观的国内就业和产量。如果支持数据中心的主要原因是为了提升我们的创新能力并确保计算资源的主权，那么国内参与并非是“可有可无”的，它本身就是目的。
其次，当地居民不应为他们并未直接使用且并未雇佣大量当地人的基础设施而支付更高的电费。应要求数据中心所有者自行提供电力，或资助等量的电力新供应及电网容量。这种供应匹配需要以相当高的频率进行——应时刻匹配数据中心的用电量。如果居民在需求高峰时段仍需支付高得多，那么仅匹配一个月或一年的总用电量是不够的。审批过程必须足够严格，以确保科技公司无法通过巧妙的会计手段来规避这些要求。针对日益增长的数据中心电力需求，类似的构思已经开始出现，并且应该成为基准。正如曼尼托巴省省长 Wab Kinew 最近否决该省数据中心提案（该提案本将配备自身的天然气涡轮机）所显示的，“自带电力”并不能消除所有反对声音。但它会改变博弈条件，使社区不再被要求为远端用户的电力需求提供补贴。
最后，承接社区需要成为可见的财政赢家。市政当局不应通过提供当地税收减免来吸引数据中心，从而陷入彼此之间的竞标战。如果补贴或税收抵免是合理的，它们应该来自联邦政府，并基于一致的国家标准提供。这样，地方政府可以保留数据中心创造的全部房产税基，并在必要时，在接受大型项目的条件下获得用于公共物品的额外联邦转移支付。当你意识到噪音正在为道路和图书馆买单时，会更容易容忍一点噪音。
加拿大还需要一种更可靠的应对跨国公司利润转移的方法，因为现有的解决方案并不完美。艾伯塔省对计算机硬件征收 2 per cent 的税款虽易于管理，但犯了高效征税的两大基本禁忌：它对中间投入征税，且仅针对单一行业。一些法律专家认为，基于公式的利润分配可以更好地将基于知识产权的税收收入在公司运营的各个管辖区之间进行划分，但这需要精心的设计。
以及国际合作。在这些问题上取得进展，将有助于确保社区能够更明显地分享托管数据中心带来的利益。对数据中心的抵制是可以理解的。但答案并非阻止建设，而是设计一个更好的协议。
Kevin Yin 是《全球邮报》的特约专栏作家，也是加州大学伯克利分校的经济学博士候选人。
AI 数据中心是未来。加拿大必须找到某种方法来克服抵制情绪。但应要求管理人员自行提供电力，或资助等同的电网容量。
KEVIN YIN
如果在你居住地附近几个街区内拟建一座大型 AI 数据中心，你会支持还是反对？
受访者百分比 15% 15% 68% 68% 17% 17% 支持 反对 不确定 / 无法评价
《全球邮报》，来源：ANGUS REID INSTITUTE
哪一个更接近你的观点？
受访者百分比 46% 46% 28% 28% 25% 25% 我们需要国内的 AI 基础设施 这其实并不令人担心 不确定 / 无法评价
《全球邮报》，来源：ANGUS REID INSTITUTE
繁荣之路 iSTOCKPHOTO / GETTY IMAGES 图中为多伦多市中心的 Equinix 数据中心。
今年来自 Angus Reid Institute 的民调显示，加拿大人普遍认为有必要建立国内的 AI 基础设施。
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权利。全球频谱规则长期以来是通过国际共识确定的，大约每四年在 ITU 的世界无线电通信会议上敲定，且在非正式的理解下，没有任何一个国家会独自在共识之外走得太远。在 FCC 目前的领导下，美国恰恰在这样做，走在了共识之前。New America 的无线未来项目负责人 Michael Calabrese 认为，美国应继续施压以“证明这些改革的可行性”，然后推动世界其他地区采取类似的改革。长期从事电信政策律师的 Harold Feld 表示，在 20 世纪 70 年代，当像 ITU 这样的条约最初起草时，只有政府拥有技术，因此由政府设定步伐。“现在，你拥有尽可能快速行动的私营部门公司，而且你拥有”
“国家之间的竞争，”他说。“不仅没有规则，而且在现有的结构中，制定规则的动力也更少。”当外交官们在讨价还价时，一位倡导者所称的“天空中的事实”正在不断累积。SpaceX 的 Starlink 占据了所有在轨活跃卫星的约三分之二，且集中在最适合低延迟宽带的低地球轨道壳层中。Starlink 目前约占 SpaceX 营收的 60 per cent，且基本上贡献了其所有的营业收入。但将太空视为共享公共资源的人群并未放弃。汉斯-迪普·辛格（Hans-deep Singh）是一位人权律师，也是国际反歧视倡导者中心（International Center for Advocates Against Discrimination）的共同创始人，他表示，世界需要采取行动，“以免少数几个强大的国家和公司能够制定规范，而这些规范随后就变成了规则。” 纽约时报新闻服务（NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE）
太空无形地产的高风险争夺战 无线电频谱在法律上不能被所有，但随着各团体竞相争取更多控制权，其价值日益增加。彼得·科伊（PETER COY） SpaceX 星舰于 7 月从德克萨斯州星港（Starbase）的 SpaceX 发射中心起飞进行测试飞行。由于担心 SpaceX 将在明年的拍卖中抢购更多无线电频谱，电话和有线电视公司的股价一直面临压力。史蒂夫·内修斯 / 路透社（STEVE NESIUS / REUTERS）
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B10 O 全球邮报 / 星期一，2026 年 8 月 3 日 加拿大的 Kyle Reyes（左）周日在苏格兰格拉斯哥举行的 2026 Commonwealth Games（英联邦运动会）男子 100 公斤级柔道决赛中与英格兰的 Max Gregory 竞争。Reyes 在决赛中以 1-0 获得一本（ippon）击败 Gregory，夺得金牌。B13 黄金时刻 STEVE WALSH / PA VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 体育 Sabalenka 在休息一个月后抵达多伦多参加 NB Open B14 Cunningham 关于跨性别运动员的立场引发集会 B15 [ COMMONWEALTH GAMES ] F FIFA 是那种让你希望自己天生就带点骗子基因的组织。如果你有，也许你会是那个在槽前大快朵颐的人，而不是某个面相古怪的瑞士律师。FIFA 建立在除了想运行一个不需要实际运行的东西之外的虚无之上，它并没有真正的体育业务。在任何实际意义上，它并不拥有其最值钱的资产——世界杯。是的，它持有商标。但如果德国、阿根廷和日本明天决定启动一个“地球杯”，FIFA 能够采取的唯一阻止手段就是将他们除名。因此，我不明白为什么有人在讨论 FIFA 想要什么、计划什么，或者认为什么对足球运动最有利。问题不应该是“如何才能阻止 FIFA？”，而应该是“鉴于它的所作所为，FIFA 为什么还能继续存在？”在过去的几天里，FIFA 主席 Gianni Infantino 从试图出售世界杯，到推迟出售，再到撤销出售，最后试图从他自己挖掘的职业坟墓中爬出来。欧洲足球管理人员表示他们希望他离职。好吧，假设那样发生了，他们选出了一个新人。那历史记录如何？Infantino 之前的 FIFA 主席 Issa Hayatou 被指控多次收受贿赂。再之前的那位 Sepp Blatter 已被禁止接近足球运动。再之前的那位 João Havelange——更多的贿赂。这让我们回到了 20 世纪 70 年代。换一个穿着同样西装的新人不太可能是这里的答案。人们能理解为什么世界足球领导者重视 FIFA。它承担了琐碎的行政工作。偶尔，他们会给你开一张大额支票。就像一个糟糕的会计，FIFA 处理资金并省略细节。然而，现在这个会计建议，他们不再向你开账单，而是卖掉你的房产，并按其认为合适的方式分配这些资金，你为什么还要继续雇佣他们？这件事的耻辱之处不在于要求。令人尴尬的是反应，以及对反应的反应。欧洲对 FIFA 试图将国家队像垃圾债券一样分档处理的反应之糟糕，以至于他们拒绝出席任何未来的 FIFA 活动。这应该是为了展示力量吗？你当面试图抢劫我，所以我再也不去你家了，直到你承诺停止策划抢劫我？我怎么知道你这么做了？因为你把顶层的骗子换成了一个助理骗子，而这些人全部来自一个可以追溯到体育石器时代的、不间断的骗子队列？世界对这种乏味的反应之反应是赞美欧洲的力量。他们正处于被俄罗斯悄悄入侵的过程中，但至少他们向那些体育混蛋展示了谁才不是掌权者。你们发明了这个游戏。你们的联赛是它如此受欢迎的原因。一群对你们的工作没有任何权益的乡巴佬试图将其夺走，以便将其作为在 唐纳德·特朗普 的赌场里的入场券。你们还需要什么样的制度性恶意证据？我对重大事项数量的预测（over / under）是
欧洲足球强国，而推翻 FIFA 所需的人数是两个。KELLY, B13 考虑到目前的运作方式，为什么 FIFA 仍然存在？CATHAL KELLY 观点 Infantino 之前的 FIFA 主席 Issa Hayatou 被多次指控收受贿赂。再之前的那位 Sepp Blatter 已经被禁止接触足球运动。再之前的那位 João Havelange——更多次收受贿赂。这让我们回到了 20 世纪 70 年代。换一个穿着同样西装的新人不太可能是这里的答案。
在经历本赛季最好的开局后，Max Scherzer 听起来并不像一个在周一下午 6 点交易截止日期到期时，预期除了蓝鸟队以外还会在任何其他球队的人。这位 42 岁的球员是必然的未来名人堂成员，他在周日于罗杰斯中心的一场最终 5-1 的失利中，在 6 局中将圣路易斯红雀队的得分限制在 1 分，被击 4 安。他这次三振了 5 人，这使得他距离追平 Walter Johnson 在大联盟历史上的第 10 位三振记录仅差 3 个。在 19 个赛季中，他共三振了 3,512 名击球手。
“掐我一下让我醒醒，”Scherzer 在球队飞往休斯敦与 Astros 进行三场比赛前说道。在现役球员中，他的三振数在 Justin Verlander 之后排名第二。“你是在说我要超越一个全时期的伟大球员。”在饱受伤病困扰的 2026 赛季中，Scherzer 在 8 次先发中仅有两次撑过了 6 局。由于他的年龄，有可能——但可能性不大——一家更有机会进入季后赛的俱乐部会招揽他。“谁知道接下来的 24 小时会发生什么，”Scherzer 说道。
周日深夜的报道称，过去 5 年一直是多伦多最佳投手的 Kevin Gausman 已被交易至芝加哥小熊队。球队将在截止日期过后，于周一与总经理 Ross Atkins 进行视频通话。多伦多有几名球员，其中包括 George Springer 和 Daulton Varsho，他们的名字一定在那些希望加强阵容以应对漫长季后赛征程的总经理们的口中。“我们会看看结果如何，”经理 John Schneider 说道。“无论发生什么，我每天都会和这些人一起战斗。”
蓝鸟队的输场数比胜场数多 8 场，但仍处于外卡竞争的边缘。当圣路易斯在第九局得分四次时，他们浪费了 Scherzer 的一次精彩表现。Louis Varland 在 1-1 平局时上场，但出现了一次罕见的低效表现。在保送第一名击球手后，Varland 最终给出了 3 支安打和本赛季最糟糕的 4 分，其中仅有 1 分是自责分。Luis Urias 在一次简单的二垒地滚球中向一垒投球失误，而这次击球本应在仅失 1 分的情况下化解威胁。
JAYS, B13 交易截止日期临近，Scherzer 献出本赛季最佳表现 MARTY KLINKENBERG 蓝鸟队先发 Max Scherzer 在周日于多伦多罗杰斯中心对阵圣路易斯红雀队的比赛第一局中投球。COLE BURSTON / GETTY IMAGES / 商业报道
B12 O 全球邮报 / 星期一，2026年8月3日 绝地反击 减速带 奇异 LPGA 巡回赛 AIG 女子公开赛 星期日 英国，兰开夏郡 奖金：$10 million 码数：6,601；标准杆：71 最终轮 x-ShihoKuwaki,$1,500,000 66-70-73-70—279 EstherHenseleit,$921,872 73-69-67-70—279 YealimiNoh,$668,050 67-70-69-74—280 NellyKorda,$465,601 73-68-73-68—282 JeenoThitikul,$465,601 64-73-72-73—282 Wei-LingHsu,$247,127 71-74-69-69—283 CharleyHull,$247,127 69-71-71-72—283 Hae-RanRyu,$247,127 66-69-74-74—283 RioTakeda,$247,127 69-73-72-69—283 ShannonTan,$247,127 69-74-71-69—283 LottieWoad,$247,127 69-71-70-73—283 CelineBoutier,$158,889 67-74-74-69—284 MinamiKatsu,$158,889 72-68-71-73—284 SaraKouskova,$158,889 77-69-71-67—284 YukaSaso,$158,889 72-73-71-68—284 LaurenCoughlin,$126,501 69-71-74-71—285 JinHeeIm,$126,501 70-71-72-72—285 HyoJooKim,$126,501 75-71-72-67—285 LucyLi,$126,501
72-68-69-76—285 SooBinJoo,$109,799 70-69-73-74—286 另有 BrookeHenderson,$72,345 72-72-72-72—288 ATP / WTA 巡回赛 穆巴达拉 CITI DC 公开赛 华盛顿特区 星期日 奖金：$2,488,125 地面：室外硬地 男双 — 冠军赛 Lloyd Glasspool 和 Julian Cash (3)，英国，击败 Nikola Mektic，克罗地亚，以及 Austin Krajicek，美国，6-3, 6-4。 国家银行公开赛 星期日 多伦多 奖金：$7,433,076 地面：室外硬地 女单 — 128强赛 Kamilla Rakhimova，俄罗斯，击败 Venus Williams，美国，6-4, 6-1。 Jessica Bouzas Maneiro，西班牙，击败 Ari- ana Arseneault，安大略省里士满山，6- 2, 6-4。 Viktorija Golubic，瑞士，击败 Kimberly Birrell，澳大利亚，7-6 (7), 6-4。 Katherine Sebov，多伦多，击败 Aoi Ito，日本，6-3, 6-4。 Moyuka Uchijima，日本，击败 Cristina Bucsa，西班牙，6-3, 6-4。 Sara Bejlek，捷克，击败 Wang Xiyu，中国，6-3, 4-6, 7-5。 Camila
Osorio，哥伦比亚，击败 Lucrezia Stefanini，意大利，7-6 (4), 6-3。 ATP 巡回赛 洛斯卡沃斯公开赛 墨西哥，洛斯卡沃斯 星期六 男单 — 冠军赛 Arthur Gea，法国，击败 Denis Shapo- valov (8)，安大略省里士满山，6-3, 6-4。 双打 — 冠军赛 Ryan Seggerman 和 Patrik Trhac，美国，击败 Finn Reynolds 和 James Watt，新西兰，7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 10-8., CPL GP W L T GF GA Pt 汉密尔顿 14 11 1 23 8 卡尔加里 15 10 2 30 8 温哥华 15 7 24 16 23 渥太华 15 6 23 28 21 魁北克 14 5 21 26 17 哈利法克斯 16 4 20 24 17 多伦多 13 3 15 30 13 维多利亚 14 0 11 3 16 32 星期日 汉密尔顿 0 哈利法克斯 0 星期六 温哥华 3 渥太华 1 卡尔加里 5 多伦多 0 星期五 魁北克 2 维多利亚 1 星期日 芝加哥白袜 9, 坦帕湾 1 休斯顿 7, 德克萨斯 3 西雅图 7, 明尼苏达 6 底特律 11, 运动者 0 星期六 坦帕湾 1, 芝加哥白袜 0 西雅图 4, 明尼苏达 3 休斯顿 5, 德克萨斯 4 底特律 8, 运动者 6 星期一 —
所有时间均为东部时间 多伦多 (Bieber 2-2) 客场对阵 休斯顿 (Javier 1- 1), 晚上 8:10。 跨联盟赛 星期日 费城 8, 巴尔的摩 0, 6 局 圣路易斯 5, 多伦多 1 克利夫兰 5, 亚利桑那 0 纽约洋基 2, 芝加哥小熊 1 科罗拉多 8, 堪萨斯城 1 洛杉矶天使 3, 密尔沃基 0 波士顿 客场对阵 洛杉矶道奇 星期六 多伦多 5, 圣路易斯 1 芝加哥小熊 5, 纽约洋基 2 费城 5, 巴尔的摩 0 亚利桑那 12, 克利夫兰 8 科罗拉多 12, 堪萨斯城 6 波士顿 3, 洛杉矶道奇 2 密尔沃基 3, 洛杉矶天使 1 星期一 — 所有时间均为东部时间 圣路易斯 (McGreevy 4-9) 客场对阵 纽约洋基 (Schlittler 10-6), 晚上 7:05。 旧金山 (Webb 6-7) 客场对阵 德克萨斯 (Quantrill 4-3), 晚上 8:05。 坦帕湾 (Seymour 7-3) 客场对阵 科罗拉多 (Lorenzen 3-9), 晚上 8:40。 CEBL 东部联盟 GP W L Pct GB y-斯嘉堡 .826 — x-布兰普顿 .478 渥太华 .417 91 / 2 尼亚加拉 .417 91 / 2 蒙特利尔 .417 91 / 2 西部联盟 GP W L Pct GB y-温哥华 .625 — x-温尼伯 .583
x-萨斯卡通 .522 21 / 2 x-埃德蒙顿 .375 卡尔加里 .318 61 / 2 x — 锁定季后赛资格；y — 分区 周日 温哥华 114 温尼伯 90 渥太华 96 埃德蒙顿 89 周六 斯卡堡 117 布兰普顿 104 周一 所有时间均为东部时间 布兰普顿 在 斯卡堡，下午 4 点 卡尔加里 在 萨斯卡通，下午 6 点
CFL 常规赛结束 东分区 GP W L PF PA Pt 蒙特利尔 273 217 多伦多 220 219 汉密尔顿 187 234 渥太华 166 247 西分区 埃德蒙顿 229 200 萨斯喀彻温 232 195 卡尔加里 322 264 温尼伯 204 243 不列颠哥伦比亚 187 201
第九周 休息日：多伦多 周六 卡尔加里 44 汉密尔顿 20 萨斯喀彻温 28 埃德蒙顿 26 周五 蒙特利尔 34 渥太华 13
WNBA 东部会议 W L Pct GB 印第安纳 .633 — 亚特兰大 .643 1 / 2 华盛顿 .571 21 / 2 纽约 .567 21 / 2 芝加哥 .379 多伦多 .357 81 / 2 康涅狄格 .241
西部会议 W L Pct GB 明尼苏达 .806 — 拉斯维加斯 .690 31 / 2 金州 .679 达拉斯 .621 51 / 2 波特兰 .367 131 / 2 洛杉矶 .393 121 / 2 凤凰城 .367 西雅图 .194 181 / 2
周日 明尼苏达 108, 印第安纳 100 洛杉矶 106, 波特兰 101 康涅狄格 在 达拉斯 多伦多 在 金州 周六 芝加哥 84, 拉斯维加斯 83 纽约 94, 凤凰城 92 周一 所有时间均为东部时间 拉斯维加斯 在 亚特兰大，下午 7 点 西雅图 在 纽约，下午 7 点 凤凰城 在 芝加哥，下午 9 点
结果截至 8 月 2 日周日，晚上 9:35
电视节目 周一（所有时间均为东部时间）
MLS 东部会议 GP W L T GF GA Pt 纳什维尔 18 12 2 4 35 14 40 迈阿密 18 11 2 5 45 32 38 新英格兰 17 5 3 28 21 30 芝加哥 6 2 32 23 29 纽约城足球俱乐部 31 24 26 辛辛那提 6 5 45 44 26 夏洛特 7 4 29 27 25 纽约红牛 18 7 4 29 39 25 华盛顿特区 5 8 26 29 23 奥兰多 6 10 2 30 47 20 哥伦布 8 5 26 28 20 多伦多 7 8 24 32 17 费城 4 10 4 25 33 16 蒙特利尔 4 10 4 24 35 16 亚特兰大 3 12 3 19 33 12
西部会议 温哥华 17 10 3 4 38 17 34 洛杉矶 FC 19 10 5 4 35 19 34 圣何塞 18 10 5 3 37 24 33 休斯顿 6 2 25 24 29 盐湖城 6 3 29 25 27 达拉斯 5 6 32 25 27 圣路易斯 6 5 24 24 26 西雅图 7 3 20 22 24 波特兰 8 3 33 33 24 明尼苏达 6 6 20 25 24 科罗拉多 7 10 1 27 25 22 洛杉矶银河 7 7 24 29 22 圣迭戈 7 6 32 29 21 奥斯汀 9 5 22 36 17 堪萨斯城 4 12 2 18 46 14
新英格兰 2 蒙特利尔 2 洛杉矶 FC 1 温哥华 1 纽约红牛 3 奥兰多 2 纳什维尔 2 华盛顿特区 2 费城 3 亚特兰大 2 哥伦布 2 迈阿密 2 休斯顿 2 堪萨斯城 0 盐湖城 1 圣路易斯 1 圣迭戈 1 明尼苏达 1 芝加哥 2 夏洛特 1 科罗拉多 1 奥斯汀 0 辛辛那提 4 圣何塞 2 达拉斯 0 洛杉矶银河 0 波特兰 2 西雅图 1
8 月 8 日周六 休斯顿 在 新英格兰，下午 4:30
东分区 亚特兰大 .598 — 费城 .527 迈阿密 .513 91 / 2 华盛顿 .487 121 / 2 纽约 .416 201 / 2
中分区 密尔沃基 .622 — 芝加哥 .563 61 / 2 匹兹堡 .496 圣路易斯 .491 141 / 2 辛辛那提 .477
西分区 洛杉矶 .622 — 亚利桑那 .527 101 / 2 圣迭戈 .518 111 / 2 旧金山 .420 221 / 2 科罗拉多 .402 241 / 2
坦帕湾 .586 — 纽约 .563 21 / 2 波士顿 .536 51 / 2 巴尔的摩 .482 111 / 2 多伦多 .464 131 / 2
中分区 芝加哥 .532 — 克利夫兰 .504 明尼苏达 .496 底特律 .482 51 / 2 堪萨斯城 .407
休斯顿 .513 — 德克萨斯 .491 21 / 2 西雅图 .487 运动队 .402 121 / 2 洛杉矶 .384 141 / 2
MLB 美国联盟 国家联盟 NSL 周日 无预定比赛 多伦多 6 卡尔加里 0 周一 — 所有时间均为东部时间 渥太华 在 哈利法克斯，下午 2 点 亚特兰大 4, 华盛顿 2 迈阿密 2, 纽约大都会 0 辛辛那提 10, 匹兹堡 2 圣迭戈 5, 旧金山 4 迈阿密 6, 纽约大都会 2 匹兹堡 4, 辛辛那提 1 亚特兰大 8, 华盛顿 3 圣迭戈 6, 旧金山 5 华盛顿 (待定) 在 费城 (Nola 3-9), 6:40
p.m. 匹兹堡 (Chandler 3-8) 对阵 密尔沃基 (Sproat 3-6)，7:40 p.m. 洛杉矶道奇 (Wrobleski 11-2) 对阵 芝加哥小熊 (Boyd 6-1)，8:05 p.m. 圣地亚哥 (King 6-7) 对阵 亚利桑那 (Pfaadt 5- 1)，9:40 p.m.
英联邦运动会奖牌榜 苏格兰格拉斯哥 最终奖牌排名 国家 金 银 铜 总计 澳大利亚 英格兰 加拿大 印度 苏格兰 新西兰 威尔士 南非 尼日利亚 牙买加 马来西亚 北爱尔兰
棒球 MLB：多伦多 vs. 休斯顿，SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 7:30 p.m.
冰球 Hlinka Gretzky 杯：美国 vs. 捷克，TSN3,4,5, 3p.m. 瑞士 vs. 加拿大，TSN3,4,5, 7p.m.
网球 ATP / WTA 巡回赛：国家银行公开赛，SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 11 a.m. SN1, 12:30 p.m. SN1, SN 360, 7 p.m.
篮球 WNBA：拉斯维加斯 vs. 亚特兰大，NBA TV Canada, 7 p.m.
PGA 巡回赛 火箭经典赛 (ROCKET CLASSIC) 周日 地点：底特律 奖金池：$10 million 总码数：7,328；标准杆：70
决赛轮 M.Thorbjornsen, $1.8M 69-64-66-63—262 XanderSchauffele, $1.09M 66-66-67-65—264 DavisRiley, $690,000 68-64-63-70—265 RasmusHojgaard, $490,00069-68-61-68—266 HidekiMatsuyama, $370,000 67-68-68-64—267 KrisVentura, $370,000 68-66-65-68—267 MattWallace, $370,000 67-64-69-67—267 PatrickCantlay, $252,500 64-66-70-68—268 RickieFowler, $252,500 63-68-67-70—268 RyanGerard, $252,500 63-69-69-67—268 MichaelKim, $252,500 65-67-67-69—268 ChrisKirk, $252,500 65-67-66-70—268 DavisThompson, $252,500 67-68-67-66—268 CameronYoung, $252,500 69-61-68-70—268 KeeganBradley, $162,500 65-68-69-67—269 MichaelBrennan, $162,500 65-67-64-73—269 DougGhim, $162,500 65-67-70-67—269 RicoHoey, $162,500 66-69-66-68—269 SungjaeIm, $162,500 67-69-66-67—269 ChandlerBlanchet, $109,50072-65-66-67—270 RickyCastillo, $109,500 66-68-68-68—270 LukeClanton, $109,500 66-67-67-70—270 CoreyConners, $109,500 67-67-69-67—270 RussellHenley, $109,500 67-67-67-69—270 KeitaNakajima, $109,500 69-67-66-68—270 JacobBridgeman, $74,500 68-65-70-68—271 StephanJaeger, $74,500 65-68-69-69—271 BenKohles, $74,500 70-65-68-68—271 MacMeissner, $74,500 69-68-65-69—271 KevinRoy, $74,500 69-66-67-69—271 EmilianoGrillo, $57,214 66-67-69-70—272 JacksonKoivun, $57,214 69-67-67-69—272 DavidLipsky, $57,214 67-67-67-71—272 Also NickTaylor, $22,000 69-66-71-72—278 AdamSvensson, $20,500 69-68-74-70—281
在教练生涯早期，迈克·麦卡锡 (Mike McCarthy) 在训练营期间倾向于挑战球员的极限。连续两周每天进行两次全装备训练？当然。原定两小时的练习有时会延长到三小时？毫无疑问。现在不再这样了。“如果我今天还尝试那样做，我可能会被关进监狱，”麦卡锡开玩笑说。或者至少是 NFL 版本的“监狱”。在过去的 30 年里，联盟已经进化。集体协议很久以前就禁止了每日两次训练。现在对训练有具体的时间限制，且精确到分钟。因此，麦卡锡将“抢占先机”作为重点。抢占到了什么程度？那么，当匹兹堡钢人队周一走上查克·诺尔球场 (Chuck Noll Field) 进行麦卡锡时代 (Era,) 的首次全装备训练时，他们心中会带着一条特别的指示：禁止擒抱。完全禁止。虽然在球队从迈克·汤姆林 (Mike Tomlin) 过渡到麦卡锡期间，圣文森特学院 (Saint Vincent College) 训练营的大多数变化都很微妙——例如，扩音器的音乐音量调低了——但决定在训练中做除将队友击倒在地以外的所有事情，这一决定则并非微妙。汤姆林在匹兹堡的 19 年，通常在球队每年驻扎于宾夕法尼亚州西部山丘的小学校期间，采取一种“以铁磨铁”的方式。不要误会麦卡锡。他计划运行一个高强度身体对抗的训练营，但俱乐部所采用的“淬火钢” (Tempered Steel) 准则——
印在球员和工作人员穿着的衬衫上的——在多方面都是真实的。“这是一个风险评估决定，”麦卡锡（McCarthy）说道。在训练营期间禁止擒抱绝非新鲜事。近年来，很大一部分 NFL 球队（包括匹兹堡队的长期对手巴尔的摩乌鸦队）都采用了这一政策。尽管如此，这里是钢队（Steelers），他们从历史上起——无论在现实中是否总是如此，至少在名声上——一直认同某种“回归传统”的想法。所以，是的，预计会有一个适应期。“显然，我热爱擒抱，”内线卫佩顿·威尔逊（Payton Wilson）说。“过去在第 1 场季前赛之前能进行这项训练是非常棒的，但季前赛就是为了这个而存在的。”钢队将改为进行“thud up”（模拟撞击），这意味着防守者将尝试抱住持球者，但不会将他们完全撞倒在地。这在常规赛期间很常见，但在 8 月初并不总是如此。
麦卡锡强调，球队可以使用一些工具来完善擒抱技术，而无需将彼此撞入草地中。从使用 GPS 监控球员的位置，到视频分析，再到其他“体育科学”资源，以及自该项运动创立以来就一直是比赛一部分的教练指导要点，麦卡锡对钢队在需要准备好时能够准备就绪充满信心。“大跨步、小跨步，关于基础教学的细节——如何接近、击打、包裹、收尾，”他说。“因此，这些是在我们整个团队中教授的常量。” 这种转变在心理上和身体上都需要同等的调整。防守截锋卡姆·海沃德（Cam Heyward）的前 15 个训练营在一定程度上被汤姆林（Tomlin）所形容的“全方位实战对抗”而非“对着空气挥拳”所定义。在训练营期间，某些日子——如家庭日以及在附近的格特拉特罗布高中（Greater Latrobe High School）举行的“周五之夜灯光”练习——海沃德知道强度水平会飙升。“这是一项‘阿尔法’（强者）运动，”这位资历最深的钢队球员说道。“而且[我们会]直接将其升级。” 麦卡锡仍然希望这样做，但其方式旨在让这支 AFC 北区冠军球队在进入第 1 周时尽可能健康。他的哲学演变更多地与 2026 年 NFL 的运行方式有关，而非对他接手的球队年龄的担忧，尽管值得注意的是，匹兹堡队几位最顶尖的防守球员——海沃德、外线卫 T.J. 瓦特（T.J. Watt）和后卫贾伦·拉姆齐（Jalen Ramsey）——都已 30 多岁。在麦卡锡看来，让防守者处于正确的位置以击倒对手是过程中最困难的部分。一旦到达那个位置，完成这次进攻应该是简单的部分。
这并不意味着钢队不会寻找灰色地带。线卫帕特里克·奎恩（Patrick Queen）职业生涯的前四个赛季在巴尔的摩度过，当时前主教练约翰·哈博（John Harbaugh）发布了“禁止擒抱”的禁令。但这并没有阻止奎恩和队友罗昆·史密斯（Roquan Smith）有一天为了证明某个观点而“擒抱每一个人”。奎恩并不期望在接下来的几周内做得那么绝。况且，钢队也不会像在为 2028 年奥运会做准备那样，在臀部挂上旗帜四处跑。“归根结底，你仍然有机会撞击某人，用臀部顶住某人，”他说。“无论你在擒抱前做什么，这与将某人放倒是一样的。”
美联社 (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) 钢队在禁止擒抱的训练营中进入新领域 前教练汤姆林的“铁磨铁”心态在迈克·麦卡锡旗下让位于球员保护 威尔·格雷夫斯 (WILL GRAVES) 匹兹堡
匹兹堡钢队主教练迈克·麦卡锡（中）在周六于宾夕法尼亚州拉特罗布举行的球队训练营期间，观看四分卫德鲁·阿拉尔（Drew Allar，左）运行一次进攻。基因·J·普斯卡 (GENE J. PUSKAR) / 美联社 / 商业报告
星期一，2026 年 8 月 3 日 / 全球邮报 O B13 商业报告 / 随着英联邦运动会于周日在格拉斯哥闭幕，Kyle Reyes 和 Coralie Godbout 为加拿大增添了两枚柔道奖牌。Reyes 在男子 100 公斤级决赛中以 1-0 的一本分胜出，击败了英格兰的 Max Gregory 夺得金牌。这位来自多伦多的 32 岁选手在 2022 年英联邦运动会获得银牌后，在领奖台上更进一步。他在接受背部手术后于 6 月重返赛场。教练 Antoine Bouchard 表示：“我认为 Kyle 今天在自己的领域中独领风骚。他从未面临真正的危险，并且完全掌控局面。他度过了完美的一天。今天，我们再次看到了曾经的 Kyle。他的表现令人惊叹。”来自魁北克省 Lévis 的 25 岁选手 Godbout 在女子 78 公斤级比赛中，经过加时赛以 1-0 击败印度的 Ishroop Narang，摘得铜牌。加拿大在本次运动会上最终获得了七枚柔道奖牌，其中包括四枚金牌。Bouchard 说道：“我们坚信我们的所有运动员都有机会登上领奖台。在九个可能的项目中，我们最终获得了七枚奖牌，而没有获得奖牌的两名运动员也进入了铜牌决赛，所以我们真的不能要求更多了。”Bouchard 补充道：“对于希望获得 2028 年奥运会资格的运动员来说，这次运动会是一个重要的里程碑，特别是对于那些之前没有参加过综合性赛事经验的年轻选手。他们展现了出色的柔道水平。”在场地自行车赛中，来自不列颠哥伦比亚省 Maple Ridge 的 Maggie Coles-Lyster 在女子淘汰赛中获得铜牌，澳大利亚的 Alyssa Polites 和 Georgia Baker 分别获得第一和第二名。Coles-Lyster 在 2022 年运动会女子刷赛中获得铜牌后，赢得了她职业生涯的第二枚英联邦奖牌。这位 27 岁的选手表示，在去年经历了威胁职业生涯的髂动脉手术后，能够登上领奖台让她“非常开心”。Coles-Lyster 在一份新闻稿中表示：“我去年做了一次改变职业生涯的手术，所以今年是我的回归之年，也是我迄今为止表现最好的一季。在参加这次运动会时我想，‘不能在没有拿到奖牌的情况下离开’，所以今天是我实现这一目标的最后机会，我很高兴我做到了。在今天我最喜欢的项目——淘汰赛中完成任务，是一种极好的感觉，也让我松了一口气。”凭借这一天的三枚奖牌，加拿大在 10 天的比赛中总共获得了 62 枚奖牌——19 枚金牌、20 枚银牌和 23 枚铜牌。加拿大在奖牌榜上排名第三，仅次于澳大利亚和英格兰。魁北克市的 Julien Frascadore 在 Hydro 体育馆的闭幕式上为加拿大队持旗入场，为本次运动会画上句号。Frascadore 在周五的男子 66 公斤级柔道比赛中夺金。Frascadore 表示：“被任命为加拿大队的闭幕式旗手是一项难以置信的荣誉，是我将永远珍视的事情。赢得金牌是梦想成真，但关于这次运动会，我最难忘的是成为这个团队的一员。我们在柔道队内部以及整个加拿大队中作为队友所分享的支持，是我此前从未经历过的。”
加拿大通讯社 加拿大在英联邦运动会闭幕之日斩获两枚柔道奖牌 总计 62 枚奖牌——19 枚金牌、20 枚银牌和 23 枚铜牌——加拿大在奖牌榜上排名第三，仅次于澳大利亚和英格兰 加拿大自行车运动员 Maggie Coles-Lyster 在 2026 年英联邦运动会周日于苏格兰格拉斯哥 Sir Chris Hoy 赛车场举行的女子淘汰赛中获得铜牌后在领奖台上留影。QUINN ROONEY / GETTY IMAGES
底特律老虎队与王牌投手 Tarik Skubal 告别，现在必须将注意力转向一个
由于失去了最好的球员，他们将在赛季最后两个月不确定的情况下尝试冲击季后赛。老虎队在周六深夜达成的一项交易中，将两届美国联盟赛扬奖（AL Cy Young Award）得主交易给了洛杉矶道奇队，以换取三名小联盟新秀。
“棒球总有一种有趣的方式，挑战你去应对变化，”老虎队经理 A.J. Hinch 在周日对阵运动者队的系列赛收官战前表示。“有时这很困难，但有时这是比赛的一部分，也是商业的一部分。这些球员对于随之而来的某些情绪已经麻木了。”
在没有 Skubal 的情况下继续前行是最终的挑战。这位 2018 年第九轮选秀球员已成长为棒球界最顶尖的投手之一，他在 2024 和 ’25 年赢得了赛扬奖，且在过去三个赛季中交出了 2.40 的防御率（ERA）。Skubal 本赛季战绩为 7-5，防御率为 2.79，在 962⅓ 个局中投球中获得 116 次三振，并且在更衣室中产生了重大影响。
但由于他在赛季结束后将成为自由球员，老虎队选择将其交易，换来小联盟右投手 River Ryan、Brady Smith 以及外野手 Zyhir Hope。Hinch 表示，球员们在理解未来任务的同时，感激 Skubal 给球队带来的贡献是非常重要的。
“他今天不会投球。所以我们必须在某种程度上保持冷峻，意识到我们必须继续前进，去打今天的比赛，尽管失去了他在更衣室的存在，但他已无法影响今天的比赛，”Hinch 说道。“我们非常尊敬他每天所带来的贡献、他的准备工作、他的态度以及他对胜利的渴望。这种影响不会随着他登上飞机前往另一支球队而消失。但日常的运作会消失，我们将不得不找到克服这一点的方法。”
交易的消息在周六晚上底特律 8-6 击败运动者队期间传出，许多球员在比赛中首先是从休息区附近的球迷那里得知此事的。当 Skubal 收到消息时，他正身处运动者队小联盟球场中场围栏外的更衣室，这使得球员们在比赛结束前无法直接从他那里获知消息。但他们成功地集中注意力于比赛并赢得了胜利。
“球队处理得非常好，”一垒手 Spencer Torkelson 说道。“在交易发生前，我认为我们过滤噪音的能力惊人。甚至在第六局，当观众席上的所有人都在向我们大喊我们交易掉了最好的投手时，我认为我们依然保持了专注，把主要目标放在首位。我认为作为一支球队，我们依然相信自己，而且我们知道自己绝对没有出局。”
这次交易发生在老虎队一个不确定的时期。他们在克服了赛季初的缓慢启动后，在赢得本次系列赛前两场比赛后，距离最后一个外卡席位仅差 2½ 场胜差。
备受期待的新秀 Max Clark 在周五从小联盟被召回，在两场比赛中贡献了 5 次安打、2 次二垒安打、1 次全垒打和 3 次打点。但球队也将 Casey Mize 从本周末的预定先发名单中剔除，以防他在周一截止日期前被交易。
“这是一个很奇怪、非常奇怪的境地，”Mize 说。“过去几天我们打得非常好。结果我们交易掉了最好的球员。数据显示我们落后 2½ 场，但显然还有很多球队需要超越，所以这绝对是一个奇怪的处境。”
现在的任务将是在没有 Skubal 的情况下尝试重返季后赛，因为在过去两个赛季中，他们都在分区系列赛的第五场比赛中被淘汰。Skubal 在这两次失利中均担任先发。他在 2024 年对阵克利夫兰的比赛中表现不佳并承担了失利。他曾有过一次强有力的先发表现。
上赛季在对阵西雅图的六局比赛中投出 13 次三振，但牛棚浪费了 2-1 的领先优势，最终老虎队在 15 局比赛后以 3-2 输掉比赛。斯库巴尔在周六晚上交易完成后表示，他无法帮助底特律夺得自 1984 年以来的首个世界系列赛冠军，这让他感到难过。“在过去的几年里，如果没有塔里克·斯库巴尔，我们根本无法达到现在的成就，”迈兹说。“我希望我们的球迷能够意识到这一点，即使结果可能并非每个人想要的那样。”老虎队的球迷可能会在本月晚些时候再次看到斯库巴尔，届时道奇队将于 8 月 28-30 日访问底特律。美联社
老虎队在将斯库巴尔交易至道奇队后面临严峻挑战 乔什·杜博 加利福尼亚州 西萨克拉门托
在过去的几年里，如果没有塔里克·斯库巴尔，我们根本无法达到现在的成就。我希望我们的球迷能够意识到这一点，即使结果可能并非每个人想要的那样。 凯西·迈兹 老虎队投手
多伦多队在对阵左投手马修·利贝拉托的前六局中仅获得一次安打，利贝拉托在一段时期内连续让 13 名击球员出局。主队总共只有 5 次安打，唯一的得分由乌里亚斯在第八局的一次二垒安打打入。这场失利使得蓝鸟队无法追平赛季最高连续 4 场获胜的记录。高斯曼在周六表现出色并取得了他的第五场胜利。他的表现其实优于他的战绩；他经常受限于缺乏得分支持。谢尔泽整个赛季表现不稳定，在周日之前的防御率高达 9.49，但他展现出了一些神奇的发挥，正是这种能力让他大联盟生涯赢得了 222 场比赛。“我认为他今天表现很棒，”施奈德说。“他的投球非常好，且非常高效。他完成了一项伟大的工作。”
多伦多队在比赛期间进行了一次人员变动，以现金及未来对价从芝加哥小熊队交易得到了右投手杰梅森·泰隆。这位 34 岁的球员本赛季在 15 场先发比赛中防御率为 5.92，但他在职业生涯中曾两次单赛季赢得 14 场比赛。他出生于佛罗里达州，父母是加拿大人，在今年的世界棒球经典赛中为加拿大队出战。“我认为我今天的每一种球都投得很好，”谢尔泽说，并补充道，这是他连续两次出场且保持健康的第二次。 “我对自己的信心从未消失。这就是为什么我仍然在场上拼搏。”他承认蓝鸟队的表现低于水准。“我们处于这个位置是因为我们的发挥没有达到应有能力，”他说。“这是我们作为球员的责任，因为我们没能做好。”
蓝鸟队：多伦多队从小熊队引进加拿大投手泰隆 接 B10 页
如果两个欧洲足球强国——例如法国和英格兰——说：“你知道吗？我们不想再和这些人做生意了。我们很乐意参加欧洲锦标赛。反正那比世界杯是更好的赛事。如果你们其余的人能想出不依赖 FIFA 的另一种举办世界冠军赛的方法，请告诉我们。但那是你们的事，我们退出。”没有谈判。直接走人。那样会击垮 FIFA。但事实并非如此。他们无法将嘴巴从 FIFA 的金钱水龙头前移开。这正是关键所在。因凡蒂诺可能在躲避炮火，但 FIFA 并没有被吓倒。一名 FIFA 高管称出售世界杯商业权利的想法是“一个人的计划”。好吧，当然。在这一片混乱之中，FIFA 宣布计划将下一届世界杯扩大到 64 支球队。这原本看起来是一件大事，但现在看来像是一个微小的让步。这难道才是真正的目标？通过因凡蒂诺，FIFA 已经
从其美国的资助者那里吸取了教训：失败者制定计划；获胜者则采取强推。如今，计划是什么并不重要。你甚至不需要计划。重要的是持续不断的向前施压。你只需要在脑海中坚守一个想法——那就是你的对手很弱。由于近期的历史让他们过于臃肿，太过于自满，太容易被收买，他们缺乏做出艰难抉择的勇气。因此，你就一直推进，直到他们崩溃。过程中可能会有一些挫折。但最终，你将获得大部分你想要的。结果将是这样。铺垫已经完成。周末，《金融时报》宣称，因凡蒂诺（Infantino）出售世界杯计划的问题不在于出售本身，而在于估值。他提议的要价太低了。不要以为这不会引起足球界某些人的警觉。无论是否由因凡蒂诺掌权，国际足联（FIFA）都将获得一周前他们想要的部分东西。世界杯依然会举行。欧洲和其他地区的人们仍会参加。他们会大张旗鼓地表示自己支持正确的事，但他们还是会去。所有这些故事——我假设你已经意识到我不再是在谈论体育了——都将如此收场。这种情况将一直持续，直到某个有东西可失去的人决定坚持原则，并接受随之而来的实质性后果。这不是因为这是一个明智的商业决定，而是因为这是正确的事。
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“跨性别孩子在体育运动中也有位置。”这是 Fever 队的第三场连续引发集会的比赛，此前 Cunningham 在上周发表的一篇 ESPN 文章中表达了支持禁止跨性别女孩和女性参加女孩和女性体育项目的观点。在比赛前，Cunningham 和 Reeve 在中场进行了一次交谈。Reeve 不愿透露谈话的具体内容。“我们两人都明白我们拥有发声平台，而且我们都谈到了，最重要的是希望能够进行教育，”Reeve 说道。“有些事情我们持有共识，也许有些事情看法不同，就像任何问题一样。我认为关键在于你如何处理。能面对面交流确实很好。”Cunningham 在比赛第一次触球以及整个过程中都遭到了观众的嘘声。在场馆外，数十名球迷聚集在入口附近。一个人使用扩音器一遍又一遍地重复：“保护跨性别女性。”有人举着标牌，上面写着“爱即真相”和“谢谢 Sophie”。被问及她和球队如何应对外界的议论时，Caitlin Clark 在赛后表示：“我认为我们处理得非常好。”
“我认为应该由联盟和管理机构与运动员合作寻找解决方案，”Clark 说道。“我们的焦点在篮球上。这就是我们讨论的内容，以及我们如何赢得比赛，显然我们今晚没有做到这一点。所以我们需要在那个方面找到改进的空间。”有什么反应吗？“我地已经回答了，”Clark 说道。Cunningham 周五在波特兰表示，她并不担心反对跨性别者参加女子运动的集会会成为 Fever 队的干扰因素。“我认为每个私下认识我的人都知道，我充满了爱。我性格开朗。我热爱身边的人，”Cunningham 周五说道。“我热爱篮球。我热爱激励下一代——
eration and doing that in a positive light. And so that doesn’t even cross my mind. Doesn’t cross my teammates’ minds.”
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集会围绕 Fever-Lynx 比赛 Cunningham 表示，她对跨性别运动员的立场及其引发的反应不会分散她球队的注意力
明尼阿波利斯 (MINNEAPOLIS) 周日，在明尼阿波利斯的 Target Center 举行的印第安纳 Fever 与明尼苏达 Lynx 的 WNBA 比赛开始前，一名示威者在进行抗议。DAVID BERDING / GETTY IMAGES
洛杉矶 Sparks 将全明星后卫 Kelsey Plum 交易至凤凰城 Mercury，以换取明年的一轮选秀权、Monique Akoa Makani 以及 2028 年的一个二轮选秀权。该交易在周日交易截止日期前的周六晚间最终敲定，并由 ESPN 首先报道。全明星球员在赛季中期被交易的情况很少见，在周六晚上之前仅发生过寥寥几次。
“Kelsey 是联盟中最具活力的球员之一，”Mercury 总经理 Nick U’Ren 说道。“她是一名具有获胜心态的激烈竞争者，能对比赛两端产生影响。她的投篮、爆发力和决策能力的结合，使她能够在高水平上创造进攻，使其成为联盟中最全面的后卫之一。我们长期以来一直希望 Kelsey 能来到这里，在我们继续巩固基础的同时，我们很高兴终于能将她带到凤凰城。”
Plum 将在 Mercury 穿 0 号球衣。她在本赛季结束时将成为自由球员，并因小腿受伤自 6 月 21 日起一直缺阵。她在本周早些时候进行了训练，在被交易之前，预计她将参加周日 Sparks 对阵波特兰的比赛。凤凰城的下一场比赛是周一在芝加哥。
Plum 在受伤前场均贡献职业生涯最高的 23.9 分和 6.4 次助攻。洛杉矶在没有她的情况下表现挣扎，包括最近的六场比赛。凤凰城目前战绩为 11-19，落后于排名第八的纽约 Liberty 六场比赛。纽约在周六以 94-92 小胜凤凰城。Mercury 刚在上一赛季参加了 WNBA 总决赛，但尽管 Alyssa Thomas 和 Kahleah Copper 等球星回归，他们很少展现出当时球队的状态。
Akoa Makani 本赛季在 16 场比赛中场均贡献 9.4 分和 2.5 次助攻。她在赛季早些时候因腿筋问题受伤。洛杉矶在上一赛季前通过一笔重磅交易获得了 Plum，该交易将 2 号选秀权送到了西雅图。Sparks 曾希望通过此举加速重建进程。西雅图使用该选秀权选中了本赛季成为全明星的 Dominique Malonga。
美联社 (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Sparks 将 Plum 交易至 Mercury 以换取 Akoa Makani 和选秀权 DOUG FEINBERG
荷兰骑手 Lorena Wiebes 在周日于日内瓦举行的环法女子赛 (Tour de France Femmes) 第二赛段中以冲刺获胜，延续了她在开赛阶段的成功，并扩大了总成绩领先优势。Wiebes（SD Worx-Protime 车队）在从 Aigle 出发的 147.9 公里骑行接近尾声时，率先从大集团中发起进攻。这位 27 岁的选手轻松甩掉对手，在过线前有充足的时间举臂庆祝。
“我知道得靠我自己寻找机会，”Wiebes 说道。这是她的第七次环法赛段胜利，也是她首次身着黄色领骑衫获得冠军。“我跟住了几个不错的轮子，我认为在距离终点大约 200 米时我脱离而出，然后就可以发起冲刺了。”
意大利选手 Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek) 获得第二名，领先于 39 岁的荷兰选手 Marianne Vos。Wiebes 凭借赛段获胜获得了 10 秒的时间奖金，目前领先于毛里求斯的 Kimberley Le Court 14 秒，而 2023 年冠军 Demi Vollering a
在第三名之后又追回了两秒。该赛段如预期般地以冲刺结束，但 Riejanne Markus 勇敢地尝试单骑突围，可惜在距离终点不到 500 米时被追回；去年的积分赛冠军 Wiebes 始终是该赛段获胜的热门。当比赛还剩 40 公里时，大主车群即将追上早前的突围小组，此时 Markus 突然发力甩开大部队并成功领先一分钟，但这位荷兰选手的努力最终化为泡影。“身披黄色领骑衫获胜无疑让这次胜利变得特殊，而且是因为我们的团队再次为此付出了极大的努力，”Wiebes 说道。“姑娘们在最后一刻全速追击以拦截 Riejanne Markus，因此能穿着黄色领骑衫完赛就更加美好。”周一的第三赛段将从日内瓦骑行 156.5 公里前往法国波利尼（Poligny）。路透社 wiebes 赢得环法女子赛第二赛段
瑞士日内瓦，荷兰自行车运动员 Lorena Wiebes 在周日庆祝跨过终点线，赢得了环法女子赛（Tour de France Femmes）的第二赛段。这段 149 公里的赛程从艾格尔（Aigle）前往瑞士日内瓦。JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT / KEYSTONE VIA AP 排名第一的坦帕湾光芒队在周日增强了其先发轮值，从苦苦支撑的纽约大都会队那里交易来了投手 Freddy Peralta，以三名小联盟球员作为交换。Peralta 曾两次入选全明星赛，并将在今年秋季成为自由球员；在去年一月从密尔沃基被交易到大都会队后，他在大都会队的表现令人失望。“他付出了所有，每天都登板并全力竞争，”大都会队临时经理 Andy Green 说道。“我知道他想要更好的结果。我想当我们达成协议签下他时，我们都希望在今天能看到与现状不同的局面。”
Green 表示，Peralta 在 2-0 负于迈阿密马林鱼队的比赛初局中被告知交易消息。这场失利使大都会队的战绩降至 47-66 —— 这是自 2003 年（纽约队上次在国联东区排名垫底）以来，他们在 113 场比赛后最糟糕的战绩。但 Peralta 可以为光芒队强大的投手阵容提供帮助，光芒队在周日开始时拥有美联最佳战绩 65-45，并在美联东区领先纽约洋基队 31⁄2 场。 “Freddy 是一名经过证明的大联盟先发球员，拥有高强度比赛经验和强大的过往战绩，”光芒队棒球运营总裁 Erik Neander 在一份声明中表示。“增加一名像他这样水准的投手和竞争者，在我们的前进过程中增强了球队实力。”排名垫底的大都会队在交换 Peralta 后得到了外野手 Aidan Smith、内野手 Émilien Pitre 和右投手 Gary Gill Hill。Pitre 是坦帕湾在 2024 年选秀中的第二轮选秀球员，
而 Hill 是 2022 年的第六轮选秀球员。Smith 是西雅图水手队在 2023 年选秀第四轮中选中的，水手队在 2024 年 7 月的 Randy Arozarena 交易中将其送至光芒队。此次变动发生在周一东部夏令时间下午 6 点的棒球交易截止日期前一天，并且是在洛杉矶道奇队通过与底特律老虎队的交易获得市场最大目标——王牌投手 Tarik Skubal 之后数小时进行的。在上个休赛期加入大都会队之前，Peralta 在 2025 年的 33 场先发中取得了 17-6 的战绩，自防御率（ERA）为 2.70。他领跑国联胜场数，在赛扬奖（Cy Young award）投票中排名第五，并帮助酿酒人队连续第三年赢得国联中区冠军。在光芒队中，这位 30 岁的右投手将加入一个由全明星球员 Drew Rasmussen 和 Nick Martinez 领衔的轮值名单。左投手 Shane McClanahan 在 2022 年和 2023 年入选全明星，他在 20 场先发中战绩为 9-6，防御率 3.09，但已被列入 15 天
周五因左侧中背部紧绷进入伤病名单。去年冬天，纽约队将年轻人 Brandon Sproat 和 Jett Williams 送至酿酒人队以换取 Peralta 和右投手 Tobias Myers，放弃了两名被评为该项运动前 100 顶尖新秀的球员，期待 Peralta 能成为球队需要的前线先发投手。然而，他在 22 次先发中仅获得 5 胜 9 负，防御率 (ERA) 为 4.99，且在为大都会队出战的最后五场比赛中有四场未能完成五局投球。美联社 大都会队将投手 Peralta 交易至光芒队以换取三名小联盟球员 MIKE FITZPATRICK 纽约
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B16 INSIDE A SECTION B SECTION J im Tennant was a dentist working in remote and North- ern communities in the 1970s when the Canadian govern- ment launched an innovation that changed his workload – for the better. “It was absolutely fantastic,” he said of the program, which trained dental therapists, who provide a larger range of services than hygienists but fewer than dentists, to work in regions that didn’t usually have much access to dental care. And then in 2011, the program, which had been funded by the federal govern- ment, was shelved. But what is old may be new again. In recent months, The Globe and Mail has documented a breakdown in dental care deliv- ery in the Northwest Territories, where some communities haven’t had a dentist visit in more than six years. While governments work to resume routine dental care in re- mote communities, dental ther- apy is once again being eyed as part of the solution. The University of Saskatche- wan relaunched a dental-therapy training program as a bachelor of science in 2023. In November, Health Canada said it is giving $3.1-million to expand that pro- gram into the NWT. It’s still on a small scale, but experts say the efforts could be ramped up to meet growing de- mand in underserved communi- ties. They are looking to results in places outside of Canada such as Alaska, where dental therapy is now well established, for inspi- ration. Dental therapists, once known as dental nurses, work in schools and community settings as well as in clinics. While dentists can perform root canals, crowns and implants, dental therapists provide services such as fillings, routine checkups and simple extractions. They also work on prevention, such as by teaching brushing and flossing tech- niques. The profession was estab- lished in New Zealand more than a century ago. DENTAL, A15 As remote areas work to fill gaps in dental care, an old model shows promise TAVIA GRANT 8125, the local that represents WestJet’s 4,400 flight attendants, announced the la- bour action after the strike deadline passed. More than 600 flights had been can- celled as of midday Sunday as workers walked off the job, creating chaos and frus- tration at airports across the country. Talks between the airline and the union broke down late Saturday over the issue of wages and ground pay, which is the amount flight attendants are paid for the work they perform before a plane departs and after it lands. CUPE says WestJet flight attendants work up to 35 hours a month for free because they do not earn ground pay. After the strike notice, WestJet released the details of its latest contract proposal, which offered flight attendants a new “duty pay premium” (a salary increase of 12 per cent), designed to address the union’s assertion of unpaid work, as well as annual wage hikes. CUPE 8125 president Alia Hussain said in a news release that the airline’s offer did not go far enough. At a Sunday morning news conference, At Toronto Pearson International Airport on Sunday, Nikita Joseph tried to calm her crying toddler. She rocked a stroller with one hand and checked her phone with her other for updates on her cancelled flight. The Windsor resident was supposed to fly to Antigua and Barbuda for vacation to meet her three other children, who trav- elled there with Ms. Joseph’s sister last month. “I don’t even know how to tell my five-year-old that I’m not coming today,” Ms. Joseph said. “She has been anticipating my arrival, and I can’t even tell her when I’m coming.” Around her, prospective travellers found themselves in similar situations – sitting on suitcases and frantically refresh- ing webpages on their phones in hopes of finding alternative flights to avoid the dis- ruptions caused by the first day of West- Jet’s flight attendant strike. At 2:01 a.m. EST on Sunday, the airline and Canadian Union of Public Employees CUPE recording secretary Cameron Jones said talks had resumed. “The bargaining committee is trying to close that gap to get a deal that we believe is fair that we can bring back to the mem- bership so we can go back to the work that we love,” he said at the picket line outside Calgary International Airport. Last summer, Air Canada flight attend- ants went on strike over the same issue, re- sulting in hundreds of cancelled flights and days of delays. The flight attendants, also represented by CUPE, defied a back-to- work order issued by the government shortly after the strike began, and chose to strike unlawfully in order to compel Air Canada to come back to the bargaining ta- ble.Thestrikeendedafterthreedays,anda tentative agreement that includes four years of wage increases and partial ground pay provisions was later rejected by union members, but enforced by an arbitrator. In a scene that evoked déjà vu, 200 union members walked picket lines out- side Terminal 3 at Toronto Pearson Inter- national Airport on Sunday. WESTJET, A15 WestJet strike causes chaos at airports on holiday weekend Travellers scramble to salvage plans after 4,400 flight attendants walk off the job over pay dispute OLIVIA GRANDY MATTHEW FRANK I f you browse the tourist traps on Water Street, the historic main drag of St. John’s, you can’t avoid the puffins. Puffins on coffee cups, aprons and shot glasses; puffins on postcards, calen- dars, beer coasters and stickers; puffin stuffed toys, puffin key chains, puffin bot- tle openers, puffin walking sticks. Everyone loves a puffin. Newfoundland and Labrador’s official bird is famously cute. People come from all over to see them in their coastal colonies. In summertime, the birds put on an un- forgettable show: strutting unsteadily around the clifftops like butlers after too many brandies; wheeling through the air, their stubby wings going at up to 400 times a minute; flapping their way along the water’s surface like hurried rush-hour commuters. A Memorial University professor who studies them, Ian Jones, says they look like something Salvador Dali might have come up with if asked to paint a bird. There is that white, Marcel Marceau face, with its dark, sweepy eyebrows, those bright orange webbed feet and, above all, that crazy beak, a multicoloured marvel with bands of yellow, orangey red and bluish grey. The beak takes on those vivid hues when the birds return from the open sea to the coast of Newfoundland every year to breed. The question that fascinates Prof. Jones is why. “It is still one of the great mysteries, why these animals look the way they do,” he says. Most seabirds are white, black, grey or some combination of those. Their bills might feature an orange dot or a black ring, but nothing like the puffin’s, which stands out for its almost tropical appear- ance. Despite decades of research, orni- thologists are still trying to find a reason. Naturally, they have some theories. On a drive down Newfoundland’s southeast coast to show a visitor a huge puffin col- ony, Prof. Jones lays out a few of them. Prof. Jones grew up in Ottawa. An awk- ward, long-haired teenager who didn’t fit in at school, he started watching birds as an escape. PUFFINS, A8 What’s the point? Puffins’ curious, colourful beaks are still stumping scientists MARCUS GEE ST. JOHN'S MIDDLE EAST Trump calls off new strikes in Iran, claiming deal to end war is near A3 HEALTH TikTok creator’s assisted death fuels debate over advance requests A7 REPORT ON BUSINESS How a wave of digital tools is helping Canadian farms play catch-up B1 A puffin flies above the water at a seabird sanctuary near Mobile, N.L. The province’s official bird is famous for its unusual appearance. GREG LOCKE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL A traveller passes WestJet flight attendants picketing at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on Sunday. Talks between the airline and the union broke down late Saturday over the issue of wages and ground pay. ETHAN CAIRNS/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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It reveals how the Victoria-based artist’s style changed after a critical trip to France in 1910 to 1911, as she adopted a high-key palette and loose brush- work indicative of the Fauve movement’s influence. Carr was chastised for such a radical departure from the staid British painting traditions that dominated Canadian art during the early 1900s. EMILY CARR’S WAR CANOES, ALERT BAY EMILY CARR, WAR CANOES, ALERT BAY, 1912, OIL ON CANVAS, FRAMED: 83.98 × 101.44 CM., AUDAIN ART MUSEUM COLLECTION. GIFT OF MICHAEL AUDAIN AND YOSHIKO KARASAWA A2 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 MADE IN CANADA Salish Sea shipriders show some Canada-U.S. co-operation is necessary A11 Many summer drinks have surprisingly high sugar content and calories A12 WestJet’s labour dispute is a microcosm of forces shaping the future of industrial relations B1 [ COLUMNISTS ] Hundreds of thousands of people lined Amsterdam’s canals on Sat- urday to watch the city’s canal boat parade, the highlight of an annualPridefestivalthatthisyear comes just a week after a deadly attack on a Pride event in Berlin. Openly gay Dutch Prime Minis- ter Rob Jetten, dressed in a white shirt,blacklifevestandgoldneck- lace, waved to crowds as he sailed in a small boat through the col- ourfully decorated parade of 80 vessels, waving to participants and spectators as techno music pumped from speakers along the route. The colourful floating parade came a week after the Berlin at- tack left one person dead and 29 injured. A suspect, Abdul Ballout, was suspected of driving a van in- to a crowd near the festival Satur- day night before apparently stab- bing others with a machete in what authorities believe was an Islamic extremist attack. Mr. Bal- lout was shot and killed by police duringaconfrontationonSunday in a suburb of the city, authorities said. Mr.Jetten,thefirstDutchprime minister to ever take part in the boat parade, said in a video post- ed on X that the event was more important than ever because worldwide the freedom and secu- rity of the LGBTQ+ community “is under pressure with new dis- criminatory legislation, lack of safety on the street or last week’s terrible attack in Berlin.” Amsterdam Mayor Femke Hal- sema said in the aftermath of the German attack that authorities in the city would “where necessary take extra measures that visitors will hopefully notice as little as possible.” Motorboats carrying police of- ficerscruisedthecanalsandahel- icopter hovered overhead as Sat- urday’s parade got under way. The Berlin attack also cast a shadowSaturdayoverHamburg’s Pride parade, one of Germany’s biggest, where increased security wasnoticeableasdozensoftrucks made their way through Germa- ny’s second-biggest city. Police and organizers said about 300,000 attended, com- pared with about 260,000 people last year, German news agency dpa reported. Hamburg’s police chief said earlier this week that roughly twice as many officers as last year would protect the event. The boat parade is the tradi- tional highlight of Amsterdam’s Pride. This year it coincides with a World Pride celebration that is al- so being hosted by the Dutch cap- ital. Rod Lugtenburg, 55, from To- ronto, said he came to Amster- dam for World Pride. He stood on the city’s famous Skinny Bridge wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a rainbow maple leaf as the boats passed. “For me, it’s about acceptance, being able to be who you are,” he said. “I have Dutch heritage, and I havealwayslovedthefactthatthe Dutchhavebeenleadingtheway” in acceptance and rights for the LGBTQ+ community. “And Cana- da is right behind them, so I’m ve- ry proud.” The joyful event happened against a backdrop of rising re- ports of verbal and physical as- saults on members of the LGBTQ+ community in the Neth- erlands, which has long been con- sidered a haven of tolerance. Boats taking part in the parade included vessels representing the Dutchgovernmentministries,the military and police, as well as LGBTQ+organizationsandclubs. The Netherlands LGBTQ+ rights group COC, which is cele- brating its 80th anniversary this year, had a boat in the parade car- rying a manifesto calling for pro- gress in the fight for human rights forLGBTQ+peopleintheNether- lands. It also carried a portrait of activist Marsha P. Johnson, who took part in the Stonewall rebel- lion when patrons at the New York inn of that name resisted a police raid on June 28, 1969. The raid helped usher in a new, mili- tant phase of the movement for gay rights. Another boat carried two giant inflatable likenesses of U.S. Presi- dent Donald Trump and his Rus- sian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The two figures, dressed in Delft blue and white costumes and each clutching a tulip, leaned to- ward one another for a kiss, in the styleofpotteryfigurinesthatarea staple of tourist souvenir stores throughout the Netherlands. Thegroupthatcreatedtheboat said on its website that it reima- gined the symbol of love and uni- ty “not to provoke, but to pause power for a moment and high- light something human.” ASSOCIATED PRESS Hundreds of thousands line Amsterdam canals for the city’s annual Pride boat parade MIKE CORDER AMSTERDAM People celebrate atop a boat on one of the Dutch capital’s historic canals on Saturday during the canal boat parade, a popular highlight of the Pride Amsterdam festival. PATRICK POST/ASSOCIATED PRESS The Globe and Mail is committed to maintaining the highest ethical, legal and editorial standards. SANDRA E. MARTIN, STANDARDS EDITOR, standardseditor@globeandmail.com STEVEN TUFTS OPINION MICHAEL BYERS OPINION LESLIE BECK FOOD FOR THOUGHT
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL O A3 U.S. President Donald Trump says he will order American forces to hold off on new strikes against Iran, claiming Mideast al- lies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the five-month old war. The emerging deal “would in- clude the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HOR- MUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat,” Mr. Trump wrote in a Saturday evening social- media post. “Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and pros- perous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL,” Mr. Trump said. However, Iran’s Foreign Minis- try spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said on Sunday that the Strait of Hormuz “will in no way return to the status it was before Feb. 28,” the day the war started. On a call with Iranian state TV, he added that Iran is discussing shipping through the strait with Oman, on the other side of Hor- muz, but that there’s no current talk about reopening the crucial waterway. Mr. Trump has announced halts to strikes in Iran on several occasions since the United States and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, only for things to unravel and fighting to resume again. Iran’s defence minister said on X that the country was “neither surprised nor passive” after Mr. Trump’s announcement and said Iran continues to remain alert in the face of concrete threats from the U.S. While Iran’s leaders appear united in a war strategy signalling strength and endurance, a strug- gle for control seems to be brew- ing within the theocracy’s leader- ship between those who oppose all negotiations with the U.S. and others who count on military pressure to win at the negotiating table. A regional official says the pro- posal announced by Mr. Trump over the weekend calls for the U.S. and Iran to return to negotia- tions and continue working out many of the issues that have sty- mied prior progress on the deal. The official, who is involved in the mediation efforts, said the proposal calls for reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and halting attacks across the region, includ- ing by Iranian-backed militias in Iraq on the Arab Gulf countries and Jordan. The U.S., in exchange, will end its naval blockade on Iran and al- low Tehran to export its oil as stated in the tentative ceasefire deal, he said. No deal has been reached yet, but mediation efforts are under way, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity be- cause he wasn’t authorized to talk to the media. Mr. Trump said that Israel is joining his commitment to end the war by implementing the cea- sefire deal. Israel did not publicly comment on the announcement. Saudi Crown Prince Mo- hammed bin Salman, the king- dom’s de facto leader, spoke with Mr. Trump by phone on Saturday and raised concerns about the U.S. potentially escalating the conflict with Iran, according to the Saudi press agency. The call was “candid and con- structive,” according to a person briefed on the call who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity. The crown prince conveyed that an escalation in fighting could have severe impact on the global economy if Tehran respon- ded to a new U.S. bombardment by targeting some of the United States’ Gulf allies. The call happened before Mr. Trump’s social-media announce- ment, the person said. The crown prince sought clarity from Mr. Trump on what potential new ac- tion he was weighing to take against Iran. Saudi officials, the person add- ed, have underscored in their en- gagements with the Trump ad- ministration that the kingdom – as well as fellow Persian Gulf en- ergy titans the United Arab Emir- ates and Qatar – are in a good po- sition to defend against further potential Iranian attacks, but that Kuwait could be made more vul- nerable to attacks by Iranian- backed militias in Iraq. A White House official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonym- ity, confirmed the leaders spoke on Saturday but did not offer any further details. Iran has repeatedly attacked vessels attempting to transit through the Strait of Hormuz without its authorization as part of its ongoing conflict with the U.S. ASSOCIATED PRESS Trump says U.S. will stop strikes on Iran New proposal calls for reopening Strait of Hormuz, halting attacks across region AAMER MADHANI SAMY MAGDY WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump, centre, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe depart after a cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday in Thurmont, Md. GETTY IMAGES Israel has shared “serious security con- cerns” with the White House regarding the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas, an Israeli official said as Israeli strikes overnight and into Sunday evening killed at least 17 people, including children, in Gaza. The remarks by Doron Spielman, spo- kesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Benja- min Netanyahu’s office, were some of the first public comments since U.S. President Donald Trump announced the agreement. Mr. Spielman told the Associated Press that Israel’s intelligence assessment is that Hamas remains committed to rebuilding its military rather than genuinely demili- tarizing. He said the Israeli military would not withdraw from Gaza – where it con- trols more than 60 per cent of the territory – before Hamas disarms. “Our assessment is that if we redeploy before Hamas is truly disarmed, it will quickly expand its presence throughout Gaza, rebuild its terrorist infrastructure, once again threaten Israeli communities, and seek to carry out another Oct. 7-style attack,” he said, referring to the Hamas militant attack on Israel in 2023 that trig- gered the war in the Gaza Strip. “Disarming means physically giving up the weapons. Nothing less,” Mr. Spielman said. His comments come days after Hamas said that it would begin disarming as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire signed nine months ago to end the nearly three-year- long conflict. It marks a potential break- through in ending the conflict, but many hurdles, conditions and long timelines re- main. Mr. Trump’s 20-point ceasefire plan calls on the militant group to surrender its weapons and destroy its vast network of tunnels. It also envisions Israeli forces withdrawing from Gaza, the arrival of a new technocratic Palestinian government, deployment of an international security force and the rebuilding of the battered Palestinian enclave. Hamas disarming has been a sticking point and has deadlocked negotiations for months. In announcing the deal on social media on Thursday, Mr. Trump said it would be carried out in “carefully structur- ed phases.” A copy of the agreement ob- tained and verified by the AP said all weap- ons held by the Hamas-run police will be transferred to the U.S.-backed Palestinian technocratic committee, known as the Na- tional Committee for the Administration of Gaza, upon its arrival in the enclave. A process to decommission and store heavy weapons and to dismantle military production sites and tunnels will begin af- ter the arrival of the Palestinian commit- tee and the deployment of international forces. The areas Israel controls in Gaza have been mostly destroyed and depopulated. Most of the territory’s two million Palesti- nians are in the other part, where hun- dreds of thousands live in squalid tent camps and destroyed neighbourhoods. Israel appears unlikely to pull back sig- nificant forces or make other concessions ahead of its October elections. Mr. Neta- nyahu faces a tough re-election battle, with his far-right coalition partners urging him to keep up the pressure on Hamas and leave forces in Gaza, and opponents accus- ing him of failing to prevent the Oct. 7, 2023, attack. Hamas-led militants attacked Israeli communities then, killing around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking 251 others hostage. Israel responded with a punishing military offensive that has killed more than 73,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry, which was part of the re- cently dissolved Hamas-run government, maintains detailed records viewed as gen- erally reliable by UN agencies and interna- tional organizations. It does not distin- guish between civilians and militants but says women and children make up around half of all fatalities. While Mr. Spielman said Israel greatly appreciates Mr. Trump’s commitment to its security and to finding a durable resolu- tion, the government’s position on disar- mament is based on detailed intelligence saying that Hamas continues to rearm, recruit fighters, and rebuild its military ca- pabilities. The White House did not pro- vide additional comments on Sunday. U.S. officials said that Israel had been consulted at every step of the negotiations and was not being asked to do anything more than what it had committed to as part of the ceasefire and hostage release agreement signed last October. Since the ceasefire was signed last Octo- ber, Israel has continued striking Gaza, saying it’s targeting Hamas and its infras- tructure. Local Gaza hospitals said at least 17 were killed in the latest Israeli strikes, including children. A strike on a residential apart- ment in southern Gaza killed three family members, including their 4-year-old child, according to Nasser hospital, where the bodies arrived. The Israeli military said the strikes had targeted militant operatives. ASSOCIATED PRESS Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a vehicle in the central Gaza Strip on Sunday. Since a ceasefire was signed last October, Israel has continued striking Gaza, saying it’s targeting the ruling Hamas and its infrastructure. MAHMOUD ISSA/REUTERS Israel raises ‘serious security concerns’ regarding Hamas agreement as strikes on Gaza continue SAM MEDNICK TEL AVIV, ISRAEL Canada’s Conservative leader is calling on Ottawa to designate an Iran-backed militant group as a terrorist entity after one of its members was accused of contrib- uting to an attack on a Canadian synagogue, as well as the March shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto. Pierre Poilievre says in a letter to Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree that American authorities have found that Ka- ta’ib Hezbollah and its alleged commander directed attacks on Canadian soil. Mohammad Baqer Saad Da- wood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi man whom U.S. authorities have called a commander of the group, appeared in a Federal Court in Manhattan in May on al- legations he plotted at least 18 terror attacks in Europe and North America in retaliation for the U.S. and Israel war with Iran. Court heard two of those at- tacks took place in Canada. Mr. Al-Saadi is also charged with conspiracy to provide mate- rial support to Kata’ib Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, both of which have been designated by the U.S. gov- ernment as foreign terrorist orga- nizations. Mr. Poilievre says Ka- ta’ib Hezbollah needs to be desig- nated as a terrorist entity be- cause Canadians deserve a government that stops terrorists before they attack. “Listing Kata’ib Hezbollah would make it illegal to knowing- ly deal in its property or finances, allow authorities to restrain or seize its assets and strengthen Canada’s ability to prevent its members from entering or re- maining in the country,” his let- ter said. “Canada should not wait for another synagogue to be shot or another foreign consulate to be attacked before shutting down the terrorist organization alleg- edly directing these attacks.” The Centre for Israeli and Jew- ish Affairs issued a statement Sunday welcoming Mr. Poi- lievre’s letter, saying the organi- zation requested the govern- ment make this designation in May. “The warning signs are clear,” the Jewish advocacy organiza- tion said in its statement. “It’s time to get tough on polit- ically motivated violence and terror.” THE CANADIAN PRESS with files from The Associated Press Poilievre calls for terrorist designation of Iran-backed militant group OTTAWA NEWS |
A4 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | NEWS The Trump administration’s campaign to dismantle the Inter- national Criminal Court could weaken any hopes of justice for the victims of mass atrocities in Darfur, analysts say. The ICC recently reported a breakthrough in its investigation into massacres and other alleged war crimes in the besieged Darfur region of western Sudan, but its probe will face new obstacles if neighbouring Chad goes ahead with its planned withdrawal from the court. Chad, which shelters 1.3 mil- lion Sudanese refugees, including many survivors of the atrocities in Darfur, had been co-operating with the ICC as recently as early July, when the court’s deputy prosecutor visited the country. But last week, its government un- expectedly announced its pullout from the court. The announcement was made just days after it disclosed that a senior U.S. diplomat had asked it to reconsider its membership in the international court. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking at a televised cabinet meeting on Friday, said five countries have responded to the U.S. campaign by notifying the court of their intention to withdraw. The five are Chad, Ve- nezuela, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, all of which sent letters to the ICC to announce their pullout last month. Mr. Rubio said the ICC is “illeg- itimate” and “arrogant,” and the Trump administration is seeking “to bring that court to heel.” President Donald Trump, in- terrupting Mr. Rubio’s com- ments, said the U.S. campaign is aimed at protecting people such as Israeli Prime Minister Benja- min Netanyahu, who is the sub- ject of an ICC arrest warrant for al- leged war crimes in Gaza. He said his Secretary of State is “trying to defend Bibi and various other people.” The ICC, based in The Hague, lacks the power to prosecute war crimes within the territory of non-member states such as the United States or Israel, but it has asserted the right to investigate allegations against citizens of those countries if their alleged crimes took place in the territory of member states. The announced withdrawals will not take effect for a year, but ICC investigations can take sever- al years, and Chad is particularly important as a host country for Darfur refugees, including many potential witnesses in any court case. “We are indeed concerned about the practical challenges this will pose to ICC investiga- tors,” said Yonah Diamond, se- nior legal counsel at the Mon- treal-based Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. “Thecourt’sabilitytoeffective- ly fulfill its mandate ultimately depends on the co-operation of state governments,” he told The Globe and Mail. Human-rights advocates, in- cluding the Wallenberg Centre, have alleged that the paramili- tary Rapid Support Forces has committed genocide in Darfur during the war that began three years ago. In one of the most hor- rific assaults, the RSF killed thou- sands of civilians in the Darfur city of El Fasher last October. At least 60,000 people were mas- sacred, according to rights groups and researchers who studied sat- ellite imagery. Mark Kersten, a criminology professor at the University of the Fraser Valley who has written ex- tensively about the International Criminal Court, noted that the court’s investigators are unable to enter Darfur because of the con- tinuing warfare in the region. “The refugee camps in Chad have therefore become a critical place for investigators to speak with victims and witnesses from Darfur,” he told The Globe. “If Chad shuts that off, it will make investigations and main- taining contact with witnesses more difficult.” Mr. Kersten noted that Chad could still choose to allow ICC in- vestigators to work in the coun- try. The Philippines, for example, which quit the court in 2019, con- tinued to co-operate with the body after its withdrawal. But an- other country that withdrew, Bu- rundi, has completely halted its assistance to the court. The ICC’s deputy prosecutor, Nazhat Shameem Khan, visited Chad in early July and met its Jus- tice Minister, Ndolenodji Alixe Naïmbaye. They had “positive discussions” that reflected Chad’s support for the ICC investigation in Darfur, and they agreed to “deepen” the court’s co-oper- ation with Chad, according to a statement by the court. Ms. Khan told journalists that the court had achieved a “breakthrough” in its Darfur investigation. About two weeks later, how- ever, U.S. assistant secretary of state Frank Garcia spoke to Chad’s Foreign Minister, Abdou- laye Sabre Fadoul, and urged him to reconsider Chad’s court mem- bership. On July 27, Chad an- nounced its withdrawal, and the U.S. State Department said it wel- comed Chad’s decision to “join the growing number of nations reclaiming their sovereignty from this flawed institution.” The court’s supporters are wor- ried by the move. “Chad’s deci- sion to leave the ICC is a blow to justiceforvictimsofseriousinter- national crimes,” said Tamara Aburamadan, international jus- tice counsel at Human Rights Watch. “The ICC is a critical court of last resort for those victims around the world.” In its official notification to the court last week, Chad com- plained that most of the ICC’s in- vestigations have targeted Afri- can suspects, creating the impres- sion that the court “is being used for political purposes.” The court’s defenders, howev- er, have noted that most of the African investigations were a re- sult of requests from African gov- ernments themselves. A decade ago, many African governments – including South Africa – accused the ICC of bias and threatened to quit the court. But most eventually chose to stay, and South Africa later became a supporter, urging the court to take action on Gaza. Sudanese refugees wait to collect water in February in Adre, Chad. With 1.3 million Sundanese sheltering in Chad, the nation’s plan to withdraw from the International Criminal Court could complicate the body’s efforts to investigate alleged war crimes in Darfur, experts say. DAN KITWOOD/GETTY IMAGES Trump’s anti-ICC push could affect Darfur probe Neighbouring Chad recently announced plan to withdraw from International Criminal Court after request from U.S. diplomat GEOFFREY YORK AFRICA BUREAU CHIEF JOHANNESBURG P rime Minister Mark Carney had a message for the Canadian ambassadors who had trooped home to Ot- tawa from around the world: Be bold and move fast. At a closed-door session in May, he told the heads of Canada’s diplomatic missions that his government has a higher tolerance for risk than their previous political mas- ters. It was a pep talk, but it was also intended to set Canadian diplomats on a new mission. Commercial interests are now the dominant priority – raising criticism from stalwarts of Canada’s past diplomatic traditions. In a world of geopolitical shifts and U.S. trade wars, it is no secret that diversifying trade and attracting investment top the government agenda, and now diplomats are told to talk to their counterparts about supply chains. And it is defence and security, notably in the Arctic, that come second. In January, Mr. Carney famously delivered a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos that described a new world with domineering hegemonic powers – the United States and China – “using economic integration as weapons.” Mid- dle powers, he warned, should work together to build auton- omy, “because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.” In May, at the diplomats’ retreat, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand told the envoys from around the world to “bring this middle-power strategy to life.” Yet Mr. Carney’s Davos speech had raised questions at home and abroad about what it means in practice. “What does it tangibly mean for those [diplomats] when they go back to their missions?” Ms. Anand said in an in- terview in her Ottawa office last week. “It means that they have to ensure that Canadian com- mercial interests in the jurisdiction are being fortified and addressed through diplomatic channels. That’s the defini- tion.” In her own recent visit to Pakistan, Ms. Anand said, she asked the Pakistani government to assist in “unlocking” per- mits for a Canadian company, JCM Power, investing in clean- energy projects there. She asked Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco Álvarez for help with permit issues of Cana- dian mining companies when he visited Ottawa in mid-July, she said. Canadian diplomats have worked on commercial issues before, of course – yet it has rarely been set as their driving mission. Peacekeeping, United Nations multilateralism, Brian Mul- roney’s opposition to apartheid, and the human security agenda led by Jean Chrétien’s foreign minister Lloyd Axwor- thy in the 1990s are often touted as the vaunted tradition of Canadian foreign policy. Stephen Harper’s Conservative government took flak in 2012 when it outlined a trade-first agenda that met resist- ance from some diplomats. Justin Trudeau’s government promised a return to tradition, but its feminist foreign policy didn’t make an indelible mark. Ms. Anand said the foreign service is adapting now. “They acknowledge that this mission is 180 degrees differ- ent from what they have historically been doing, but they also are rising to the challenge,” she said. “Did it happen automatically? No, but has it occurred? Yes. Why? Because the urgency of the matter is clear.” The urgency, in the government’s eyes, comes from the “rupture” in global economics and geopolitics Mr. Carney described in Davos, creating a need for middle powers to build new networks that make them less vulnerable. Ms. Anand said other countries don’t necessarily adopt identical reasoning, but most share similar concerns. They want secure access to critical minerals or more diverse sup- ply chains. “We’re not in meetings talking about global hege- mons,” she said. It is not all trade alone. Mr. Carney has identified Arctic security as key, and Ms. Anand cites it as her second priority – behind commercial interests. Under Mr. Carney, Canada’s diplomacy isn’t about reviv- ing multilateral institutions such as the UN and World Trade Organization, said Carleton University professor Fen Hamp- son. It’s more transactional. Mr. Carney joined with Europe- an leaders on Ukraine and Middle East policy and promotes a bridge agreement between the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries and the European Union. Mr. Carney has said his Davos speech wasn’t intended to suggest a middle-power alliance, but building various net- works. In May, he told the heads of missions that is a way to move fast to get things done. Differences in one area are now to be delinked from oth- ers. In a visit to Saudi Arabia in July, Mr. Carney told reporters asking about human rights that “lecturing countries from afar” is ineffective. “It’s about markets, not morals,” Prof. Hampson said. The government insists it is adding trade priorities to long-standing values, but some veterans of Liberal Canadian diplomacy, notably Mr. Axworthy, see it as a narrower focus. Mr. Carney’s approach to Saudi Arabia, silent on human rights and proliferation concerns about the new U.S.-Saudi nuclear agreement, is an example, Mr. Axworthy said in an interview. “You can’t simply wear a cloak of economic activ- ity and not be responsible with the other things that are going on,” he said. And Prof. Hampson doubts diplomats will be moved to take greater risks. Mr. Carney isn’t known for empowering cabinet ministers to make decisions, he said, and foreign- service budgets have been squeezed. Yet whether the diplomats embrace risk-taking or not, their mission has changed. Canada’s diplomats have been dispatched on a new mission Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand delivers a speech at the Global Heads of Mission Meeting in Ottawa on June 1. SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS CAMPBELL CLARK OPINION Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least eight people in Russian re- gions overnight Saturday and on Sunday, hitting targets including a warehouse belonging to Wild- berries, Russia’s largest online re- tailer, regional officials said. Russia’s Defence Ministry said it downed 635 Ukrainian drones during the night. The acting governor of Russia’s border region of Belgorod, Alex- ander Shuvayev, said a Ukrainian drone struck an area next to a playground, killing one child and injuring two. Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying that the strike was “another inhumane terrorist act” by Ukraine. The Ukrainian Defence Minis- try did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Ukraine’s drones attacked a Wildberries warehouse in the Samara region, around 800 kilo- metres from Ukraine’s most ad- vanced military positions, Sama- ra Governor Vyacheslav Fedorish- chev said. Mr. Fedorishchev said there were no casualties. Ukrainianforceshavebeenhit- ting deeper inside Russia as they expand strikes on economic and energy targets, aiming to under- mine Russia’s ability to wage its more than four-year-old war in Ukraine. They have attacked about a dozen Wildberries sites since July 18 in an attempt to dis- rupttheoperationsofthecompa- ny, a linchpin of the consumer economy often described as Rus- sia’s version of Amazon. A strike on a residential build- ing in the neighbouring Saratov region killed two people in the city of Engels, Governor Roman Busargin said. Civil infrastructure was damaged both in Engels and in the city of Saratov, Mr. Busargin said. Both Saratov city, home to a major oil refinery, and Engels, home to a military airbase, have come under repeated Ukrainian attack in recent years. Ukraine’s military said on Sun- day that Ukrainian forces at- tacked the Saratov refinery and the Engels airbase, sparking fires at both facilities. It said its forces also struck an oil depot in the western Kaluga region. Three people were killed and two injured in a drone attack on the Udmurtia region of Russia, acting governor Olga Abramova said. In the border region of Bel- gorod, three people were killed and five injured in Ukrainian strikes, the local task force report- ed. Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces struck infrastructure and two vessels with military car- go in the Ukrainian port of Myko- laiv, as well as a vessel carrying military supplies in the Black Sea. In the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, regional governor Ivan Fedorov said Rus- sian-launched glide bombs killed one person and injured 21. REUTERS Ukrainian drone attacks kill at least 8 in Russia
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL O A5 NEWS | I t’s17monthsuntilthefirst2028 presidential primaries, and al- ready an important part of the Democrats’rhetoricisevidentina church assembly hall of a New Hampshire town where a likely candidate is searching for ap- plause lines. “We can’t have the same status quo, incremental politics,” Repre- sentative Ro Khanna of California istellingvotersinthiscommunity of 7,699, where the handwritten electionresultsshoweda278-vote margin of victory for Donald Trump in 2024. Later, in an inter- view in the hallway of the First United Methodist Church, he says that “Democrats have to regain the sense of systematic change,” explaining, “If there’s one thing we can learn from Donald Trump, it’s to be bold.” That’sthekindoflanguagealso being employed by Abdul El-Say- ed, a Rhodes scholar and one- time Columbia University epide- miology professor who is the fa- vourite to win the Michigan Dem- ocratic Senate primary Tuesday. But being the favourite in a midsummer primary in one state doesn’tmakeMr.El-Sayed–orthe rhetoric he, Mr. Khanna and in- creasing numbers of young Dem- ocratic candidates are using – the favourites of the party establish- ment and figures such as Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, whose im- pulses often tug them to the cen- tre of U.S. politics rather than to the left. “If you’re Chuck Schumer and your whole approach is that you get to go talk to the money people and then dole out their corporate money to help elect the people who are going to do the things that corporations want,” Mr. El- Sayed,41,toldthenewsoutletPol- itico recently, then “yeah, I’m a threattoyoursystem.Soofcourse they’re freaking out.” His opponent in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in a vital swing state is Representative Ha- ley Stevens, 43, who has the sup- port of Governor Gretchen Whitmerandthesortsofcongres- sional leaders Mr. El-Sayed is por- traying as feckless in the fight against the wealth gap and resist- ant to embrace a broad health care program. Hence the range war in the Democratic Party – one that, for the first time in more than a cen- tury, includes a struggle over the place of socialists in the country’s mainstream politics. Neither Mr. Khanna nor Mr. El- Sayed is a socialist. Nor is either a member of the Democratic So- cialists of America movement, whose views are not the same as those of European socialists. And, thoughMr.Trumpinsiststhecon- trary, no plausible U.S. congres- sional candidate is a communist orholdsviewsremotelylikethose of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong or even Clement At- tlee. But despite these sorts of dis- tinctions, dozens of candidates in this fall’s midterm congressional elections are engaged in what can only be called a battle for the soul of a major American political par- ty − a phrase that for the past 38 years has been repeatedly used to describe the debates within the Republican Party. The Democrats’ battle is over how far leftward the party and its candidates should lean in a politi- cal atmosphere still controlled by Mr. Trump but with a Democratic takeover of the House of Repre- sentatives, and perhaps even the Senate, increasingly possible if not likely. It also involves cold cal- culations of the power of Inde- pendents, who support Ms. Ste- vens by a large margin in Michi- gan polls and increasingly hold the balance of power in U.S. poli- tics – and whose instincts and im- pulses often resist major shifts in the ideological profiles of the two established parties. This issue inched to the fore with the election last November of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York and with the increased appearance of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the side of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermontatanti-Trumprallies.All three are members of the Demo- cratic Socialists of America. Then three Democratic Social- ists won high-profile New York primaries: Claire Valdez and Da- rializa Avila Chevalier in congres- sionalcontestsandAberKawasin a state Senate contest. About a third of Democrats now consider themselves demo- cratic socialists, according to a CNN poll, though not all those voters support the Democratic Socialist Party – it only has about 120,000 members. Nor do they likely support many of its policy planks, such as abolishing the De- fense Department, the police and theSenateandredrawinghowthe president and Supreme Court are chosen. And while three-quarters of Democrats expressed openness tosupportingademocraticsocial- ist for president, 55 per cent of all voters said they would not, ac- cording to a Washington Post-Ip- sos poll. For years Mr. Trump has said that a winning strategy is to paint an opponent “as being a commu- nist or a socialist or somebody who is going to destroy our coun- try.” This June, in an appearance at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference,hewarned,“Theywill close your churches in this coun- try if they go communist, and they’re trying to. They will kill your people, and that’s what they’re about. They want to end religion.” The Washington Post-Ipsos survey showed that 30 per cent of Americansbelievedemocraticso- cialism is similar to communism, while32percentdisagree.Thede- mographic groups with the great- est openness to democratic so- cialists are the young (46 per cent ofthose18to29yearsold)andthe highly educated (44 per cent of those with a bachelor’s degree and 51 per cent of those with a postgraduate education). The last major socialist figure in U.S. politics was Eugene Debs, who ran for president five times, winning 6 per cent of the vote in 1912. His last campaign, in 1920, was run from prison, where he was serving a 10-year sentence for sedition for his opposition to the First World War. He still won al- most a million votes, and Repub- licanpresidentWarrenG.Harding commuted his sentence the fol- lowing year on Christmas Day. He met with Mr. Harding the next day. “Well,” the 29th presi- dent said, “I’ve heard so damned much about you, Mr. Debs, that I am now glad to meet you person- ally.” Special to The Globe and Mail How far left is the Democratic Party willing to go? A strong majority of the party’s voters are open to the idea of a democratic socialist as president, poll shows DAVID SHRIBMAN GILFORD, N.H. Abdul El-Sayed, the favourite to win the Michigan Democratic Senate primary, speaks with reporters at the Spirit of Detroit monument after a march in Detroit on Sunday. JULIA DEMAREE NIKHINSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS ANALYSIS
A6 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | NEWS Montreal police are investigating after a fire heavily dam- aged a kosher restaurant overnight Saturday in the city’s Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough. Police said the case is being investigated as arson and that all hypotheses remain on the table, but investigators have not determined a motive and are not treating it as a hate crime at this stage. The fire caused extensive damage to Nöam, a kosher restaurant on Decarie Boulevard, an area with a large Jew- ish community. Montreal’s fire department said nearly 80 firefighters re- sponded to the two-alarm blaze near the intersection of Plamondon Avenue and Vézina Street at about 3 a.m. Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough Mayor Stéphanie Valenzuela said the restaurant fire, coming days after a vehicle fire damaged the exterior of a mosque else- where in the borough, could understandably cause concern among residents. She stressed, however, that authorities had found no indication the two in- cidents were connected. The Montreal fire department is investigating the fire near the mosque, but the case had not been transferred to Montreal po- lice and was not considered sus- picious. In a statement posted on so- cial media, Ms. Valenzuela said the borough was in contact with police and leaders from the af- fected communities and was closely monitoring the situation. “Acts of violence and intimi- dation have no place in our neighbourhoods,” she wrote. “We remain vigilant and com- mitted to the safety of our communities.” Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said on so- cial media the federal government was concerned by what appeared to be an arson attack at a gathering place for Montreal’s Jewish community. “Antisemitism simply has no place in our society and we must do everything we can to eradicate it wherever it mani- fests,” he said in his post. Mount Royal MP Anthony Housefather said he was “ab- solutely disgusted” and called for the case to be investigated as a hate crime. In a post on social media, he said those responsible should be caught and prosecuted “to the fullest extent of the law.” Federal Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller also condemned the fire, saying on social media he trusted the “disgraceful act” would be properly investigated as a hate crime. B’nai Brith Canada, a Jewish advocacy organization, also condemned the fire and called for action. “Jewish Canadians have heard enough condemnation and promises,” it said in a statement posted on social media. “Now we need action.” THE CANADIAN PRESS Montreal police investigate fire that heavily damaged kosher restaurant CHARLOTTE GLORIEUX MONTREAL Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said on social media the federal government was concerned by what appeared to be an arson attack at a gathering place for Montreal’s Jewish community. Todd Lewis, a Saskatchewan senator, farmer and agricultu- ral sector advocate has died at the age of 65. Raymond Gagne, the Speaker of the Senate, announced Mr. Lewis’s death Saturday afternoon and called him a “steadfast champion of Saskatchewan’s agricultural sector.” “Throughout his more than four-decade career on the land, Senator Lewis emerged as a leading advocate for farm- ers’ interests, serving five years as president of the Agricul- tural Producers Association of Saskatchewan and as a lead- ing member of many other community organizations,” Mr. Gagne said in a statement. Mr. Lewis was appointed to the Senate by former prime minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 7, 2025. Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement that Mr. Lewis’s lifetime of public service led him to the Senate where he remained a “steadfast voice” for rural communi- ties. “Senator Lewis understood that farming is more than a livelihood – it is a responsibility to the land, to one’s neigh- bours, and to the generations that follow. He carried that conviction from his family farm in Gray, Saskatchewan, into a distinguished career of advocacy that made him one of Canadian agriculture’s most trusted voices,” Mr. Carney said. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe also shared a message of condolences, saying Mr. Lewis was a community leader and advocate for his home province. Mr. Lewis operated a farm near Gray, Sask., about 39 kilometres south of Regina, for more than 40 years. Mr. Lewis’s past public service includes time on his local school board, more than 20 years as a council member for the rural municipality of Lajord, time as a volunteer fire- fighter and board president for his community rink. THE CANADIAN PRESS Senator Todd Lewis inspects canola at his farm near Gray, Sask., in July, 2021. The Speaker of the Senate announced Mr. Lewis’s death on Saturday. KAYLE NEIS/THE CANADIAN PRESS Todd Lewis, Saskatchewan farmer appointed to Senate in 2025, dies at 65 DAVID BAXTER OTTAWA A wildfire fanned by 115-kilo- metre-an-hour winds razed homes along the west side of Brit- ish Columbia’s Okanagan Lake, forcing many residents to escape to safety. Video and photos posted on- line showed flames in the night sky engulfing properties as resi- dents watched from the other side of the water. Later, the char- red remains of buildings could be seen along the northern end of the lake near Vernon. The BC Wildfire Service said Sunday that winds from an in- tense weather system on Satur- day were too much for aircraft to hold back the Bradley Creek fire. It prompted the evacuation of the Okanagan Indian Band re- serve, while separate evacuation orders and alerts went up near the cities of Vernon and Arm- strong. The blaze was among dozens of wildfires in Southern B.C. that started on Saturday, forcing more than 5,000 people from their homes in the span of 24 hours. Kevin Dunbar, executive direc- tor of provincial response and re- covery operations, called it a “complex and rapidly evolving emergency response.” “Over the past 24 hours, strong winds and changing conditions have contributed to new evacua- the fire across Highway 97, which has been closed to traffic on what would be a busy holiday travel weekend. The wildfire service reported that dozens more fires were sparked and have expanded quickly due to high winds and lightning strikes, with almost half of the 130 wildfires burning in the province out of control. B.C. recorded more than 2,200 lightning strikes in 24 hours, the service said on Sunday. As of Sunday morning, there were 42 separate evacuation or- ders for communities across the province and another 40 alerts. Vernon’s acting mayor Akbal Mund said in an interview Sun- day that after a gusty day on Sat- urday, the winds calmed and the flames were moving away from the city of about 50,000 people. “Yesterday the winds were ve- ry, very swift. We had a cold front move through, and I think some were saying winds were over 50 kilometres per hour. So, [that’s] not good when you’re trying to fight a fire,” he said. Mr. Mund said about 250 eva- cuees have registered so far at an emergency services centre set up in Vernon, where they can get wa- ter and food. There was a lineup out the door of more people arriving Sunday morning, he said. “I will tell you, they are as pre- pared as you can be under these circumstances. I haven’t ever had to evacuate myself, but I can just imagine what that feels like for the people involved. So, the com- munity is here to help,” he said. THE CANADIAN PRESS tion orders and new evacuation alerts in several areas across the province,”Mr.Dunbartoldanews conference on Sunday. Mr. Dunbar said it isn’t safe yet for officials to go into the fire ar- eas to assess how many proper- ties have been lost or damaged. Cliff Chapman, director of wildfire operations for the pro- vincial wildfire service, told re- porters that August is generally the hottest month of the year in B.C. and that crews are hoping for a few days of cooler temperatures before another ridge of high pres- sure brings back the heat. “I suspect that in the next three to four days, we’re going to have a chance to try to get around these fires and hopefully have a lot of success in suppression,” he said. “But we will be challenged with the return of a ridge pattern and the return of summer condi- tions.” Volunteers with the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue were among those called in to help with the quick evacuation of properties in the Okanagan Indi- an Band reserve and around Oka- nagan Lake. An update posted on the Bra- dley Creek fire said a cold front passed across the region and brought sustained km/h winds over the fire and 115 km/h winds at elevation, which was be- yond what had been in the fore- cast. “These winds caused signifi- cant challenges, and the firefight- ers, helicopters, airtankers and skimmers were unable to hold the fire,” the update said. The shifting winds also pushed Strong winds intensify wildfires, prompt more evacuation alerts in B.C. Not yet safe to go into the fire areas to assess property damages, official says ASHLEY JOANNOU VANCOUVER Wildfires in eastern Washington State forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane area while destroying at least 600 homes, businesses and other structures, authorities said Sun- day. The fires in and around Spo- kane, the state’s second-largest city, burned about 21 square kilo- metres over the weekend and were among dozens of wildfires across the Western United States that stretched the ability of fed- eral, state and local agencies to fight them. A total of about 1,000 square kilometres has burned across the state, and some of the fires, in- cluding those in the Spokane ar- ea, have not been contained. Fire and law enforcement offi- cials said there had been no re- ports of injuries or people unac- counted for — but they stressed it was early in the response ef- fort. Officials also said that the eva- cuees in Spokane included pa- tients at its U.S. Veterans Affairs hospital. Video from the Spokane area showed buildings on fire, black smoke billowing up near neigh- bourhoods, and the smoking ru- ins of homes, with only chim- neys still standing. Several officials expressed concern that the area does not appear likely to get a break in coming days from the weather, which is expected to remain dry. “We are not out of danger,” U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell said during a news conference with federal, state and local officials in Spokane. “The next couple of days will be challenging.” Investigators had yet to deter- mine how the blazes started. Spokane was hardly the only place struggling to contain fires. Crews using bulldozers and helicopters continued for a 10th day to fight a fire that has burned nearly 1,360 square kilo- metres of grassland in western Idaho and eastern Oregon. The area is home to cattle ranches, and authorities said the fire is threatening more than homes and 800 other structures. The weather in the area was expected to remain sunny – and dry – well into the week, with temperatures rising to more than 32 C on Wednesday. Offi- cials say the fire was caused by lightning. The National Weather Service issued warnings about the air quality in eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, western and central Idaho and western Mon- tana. It issued red-flag fire warnings for parts of Utah and Montana and western Nebraska, and ex- treme heat warnings for the southern parts of Arizona, Cali- fornia and Nevada and northern Montana. While temperatures Sunday in Spokane were forecast to remain below 27 C, wind gusts from 56 to 72 kilometres an hour had been expected by the afternoon, said Benjamin Cossel, public infor- mation officer for the federal re- sponse team from California called in Saturday night to deal with the fires. “We have weather working against us, and we have terrain working against us,” Cossel said. There were three fires in the Spokane area: the Old Trails Fire, the Fairview Fire and the Mead- owview Fire. Washington Gover- nor Bob Ferguson declared a state of emergency Saturday, and the National Weather Service is- sued a “particularly dangerous situation” red-flag alert for east- ern Washington. Cossel said that as it gets warmer during the day, cool air that’s closer to the ground and keeping winds at bay will rise, al- lowing those winds to move through the area. The Spokane River cuts through the city of about 229,000 people, and there are steep canyons on both sides that channel the wind. ASSOCIATED PRESS Smoke billows from the Old Trails Fire in Spokane, Wash., on Sunday. Wildfires have destroyed at least 600 homes, businesses and other structures, authorities said Sunday. DAVID RYDER/REUTERS Eastern Washington fires burn hundreds of buildings, force 60,000 from homes JOHN HANNA
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She said it had come to the point where she would access medical assistance in dying. The 49-year-old from Victoria, who earned a devoted online au- dience by candidly sharing her experience with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease, died on July 25. Ms. Luna was a single mother of two who started to notice cog- nitive decline at the age of 46. She was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s two years later. The disease, which causes memory loss, progressed more quickly than expected, prompt- ing her to seek MAID last month. Losing the ability to consent would have put the procedure out of reach. “I did not want this,” she said in a recorded message posted to her social-media account on July 22. “What I want is relief.” Quebec is the only province that allows residents with serious and incurable illnesses that lead to incapacity to seek MAID months or years in advance. Que- beckers with conditions such as Alzheimer’s can get early approv- al for MAID – before their illness- es cause them to lose capacity. That means such patients else- where in Canada, including Ms. Luna, feel pressed to die earlier than planned so they have the ca- pacity to give consent, advocates say. Critics, however, caution against advance requests because those patients would not be able to offer final consent before end- ing their lives, and may be fright- ened in their last moments. Helen Long, chief executive of- ficer of Dying with Dignity Cana- da, said it is not appropriate that one province offers this to its resi- dents and others don’t. Advance requests should be available across the country, she added. “We hear from people about this every day.” The push for legislative change to allow advance requests was supported by a parliamentary committee in February, 2023. It recommended that the requests should be available under certain circumstances, such as if a pa- tient has Alzheimer’s. In the fall of 2019, The Alz- heimer’s Society of Canada recog- nized the right of patients who want to seek advance requests for MAID. This marked a change for the non-profit that advocates for people with dementia, which used to oppose advance consent for MAID on the grounds it could put vulnerable people at risk. “We respect the right of all per- sons with dementia to advocate for their individual best interests, including advocating for access to MAID through advance re- quests,” the society says on its website. Canadian children’s author Robert Munsch has publicly shared why living with a neuro- degenerative disease creates a co- nundrum about timing for his own MAID procedure. The 81- year-old has dementia and lives in B.C. “I have to pick the moment when I can still ask for it,” Mr. Munsch told The New York Times last fall. Quebec passed legislation al- lowing advance requests in June, 2023, and the federal government did not challenge the province. Earlier this year, Quebec con- firmed that 2,100 individuals have been approved for advance requests in the province since it began granting them in October, 2024. It is unclear how many ad- vance-request procedures have been administered. Currently, the country’s Crimi- nal Code only allows patients to seek MAID if they suffer from a terminal or incurable physical medical condition. This spring, access to MAID for patients whose sole underlying condition is mental illness was the subject of political debate at a special parliamentary committee. A majority of committee members said in a report that in- dividuals whose sole condition is mental illness should not be eligi- ble for MAID, and the law should be amended to indefinitely ex- clude these patients. Justice Minister Sean Fraser has promised to review the com- mittee’s work, as well as dissent- ing opinions, and speak to stake- holders before deciding on the government’s next steps. Pamela Wallin, an independ- ent senator, has legislation at sec- ond reading in the Senate that calls for changes to the Criminal Code to allow patients to access advance requests for MAID. Ms. Wallin watched her late mother, a former school teacher, struggle with Alzheimer’s dis- ease. It was like witnessing her mom’s “slow descent into hell," she previously told the Senate. She has also noted that public support for advance requests is mounting, especially as the pop- ulation ages and more people are diagnosed with dementia. In October, 2025, Health Cana- da found through national con- sultations that advance requests are “generally supported.” “Throughout the roundtable discussions, a number of partici- pants indicated that people want the option of being able to make advance requests, in keeping with their values around person- al autonomy and choice over their health care needs,” a sum- mary of the consultations said. However, the department said that some participants shared concerns about allowing MAID when patients are not able to of- fer final consent. Catherine Ferrier, a family doc- tor and assistant professor in ge- riatric medicine at McGill Univer- sity, shares this concern. Dr. Ferrier worries about pa- tients not being able to give con- sent at the time of a procedure or being able to understand what is happening to them. Sandra Demontigny, who has early onset Alzheimer’s, has a dif- ferent perspective. The mother of three from Lévis, Que., advocated for her home province to make advanced requests available. Ms. Demontigny told The Globe and Mail earlier this year how she is haunted after witness- ing her father’s decline with the disease, including hearing him groan while unable to speak. She does not want her own children to see her in this state. “I really don’t want to live like that,” she said this winter, know- ing her health would continue to deteriorate. “I cannot put my children through that.” Creator with young-onset Alzheimer’s dies by MAID Rebecca Luna began documenting journey on TikTok after noticing cognitive decline at 46 KRISTY KIRKUP HEALTH REPORTER Rebecca Luna made a bucket-list trip to Costa Rica in October. After being diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer’s disease at 48, her condition deteriorated more quickly than expected. VANESSA AEGIRSDOTTIR
A8 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 FOLIO It turned into a career that took him from Hawaii to Norway and eventually to New- foundland, where he studies seabirds and how to save them from threats like climate change. With its craggy coastal cliffs and offshore islands, ideal for breeding birds, the province nicknamed “the Rock” is a great place to find them. The biggest colony of Atlantic puffins in North America is at the Witless Bay Ecolog- icalReservesouthofSt.John’s.Morethana quarter of a million pairs of the birds gath- er there every spring. They raise their young in burrows dug into the turf of off- shore islands, where predators like rats and foxes can’t reach them. The males and females, which look the same and usually mate for life, work together to protect and feed their chicks (called – what else? – puf- flings). Each pair produces just one a sea- son. Once they are big enough, the young take off and fly out to sea alone. For the next few years, till they reach breeding age themselves, they live on the waters of the wild North Atlantic, bobbing on the sur- face and using their short, strong wings to dive for small fish. In these early years, puffins are effec- tively an aquatic animal, never touching land. They look nothing like the gaudy creatures that tourists love to photograph. Their legs are dark, and their beaks are a non-descript grey with a browny-yellowish tip. For years, the birds found at sea were thought to be an entirely different species, for how could they be related to the col- ourful “sea parrots” seen on the coasts? But as spring comes and the light out in the ocean starts to change, puffins of breeding age go through a dramatic meta- morphosis. They grow new flight feathers for the trip back to land. A bright red ring appears around their dark eyes, an effect heightened, as if by eyeliner, with that eye- brow streak. The testicles of the male grow from the size of a poppyseed to that of a bean. Most striking of all, their beaks take on a flattened, hatchetlike look, enlivened by those bands of deep colour. A rosette of yellow skin like a flower petal forms at the corner of their mouths. Voilà, you have the classic puffin portrayed on dish towels and fridge magnets. “These deeply readied birds are the beautiful, perfected creatures you see gathered in spring at the colony,” British author Adam Nicolson writes in The Sea- bird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers. He says the beaks serve as a kind of bill- board of health, demonstrating that the bird is ready and able to mate and raise young. To create such a bright billboard, the birds must eat lots of fish rich in the pigments known as carotenoids, which go into creating the colours on their beaks. It is a biologically “expensive” process that only a healthy bird can accomplish. “Breeding puffins, like hidalgos at court, need to look like heroes, an exhibition of their own marvellousness,” Mr. Nicolson writes. But Prof. Jones says it is not quite that simple. For one thing, he says, studies have Puffins fly above the ocean near Great Island in Mobile, N.L. PHOTOS BY GREG LOCKE/GLOBE AND MAIL Puffins: The birds’ bold beaks hold no utility beyond fishing FROM A1
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL O A9 NEWS | found that there is not always a strong link between the health of a bird and the splen- dour of its ornamentation. The puffin with the brightest beak may not be the most ro- bust puffin. So scientists have come up with other possible explanations. One is that birds, and other animals, tend to be attracted to the shapes and colours found in the foods they eat. They have a “pre-existing bias” about what they find stimulating. Prof. Jones points to the king vulture of Central and South America, which has a head, ornamented with a floppy wattle, that looks a lot like a pile of fresh guts. Vul- tures eat the guts of dead animals, so that may make the bird attractive to a mate. Puffins might be doing something simi- lar. Red is the colour of food for many ani- mals, so red is a popular colour of animal ornamentation. Puffins sometimes eat krill, shrimp-like crustaceans that appear in the sea in pink or red swarms. That could help explain the red bill. Another theory holds that weird genetic traits arise in species when an anomaly gets out of hand. Say a female bird sees a male bird with an unusual hooked beak and for some reason finds him irresistible. Their sons and daughters will inherit both the hooked-beak mutation and the prefer- ence for that look. As generation follows generation, the mutation will “run away” till the whole species has it. This is called the Fisherian runaway theory, after its au- thor, Ronald Fisher, a British statistician and biologist. So it could be that the puffin beak is just a meaningless mistake that became fixed in the species over time. We recognize puf- fins because of it, and they recognize each other as fellow puffins because of it, but it has no special utility otherwise. Apart from its practical role as a fish- catcher, that is. Its serrated edges allow puffins to catch several fish at once, hold- ing the first catches in place with their muscular tongues while seizing others one by one. They surface holding the fish cross- ways and side by side, making it look as if the birds have droopy moustaches as well as comical beaks. A colleague of Prof. Jones at Memorial, Pierre-Paul Bitton, is working on yet an- other hypothesis about those beaks. Many birds communicate with each other through song. Puffins are notably quiet, a marked contrast to the raucous seabirds that they hang out with on Newfoun- dland’s coast. Their only significant vocal- ization is a chainsaw-like growling noise they sometimes make. So Prof. Bitton thinks they use the pat- terns of their beaks instead of their voices to recognize one another. Puffins study each other closely, especially when they are courting. Males and females reuniting after months at sea can often be seen “bill- ing,” tapping and rubbing their beaks to- getherinakindofritualdance.Theirbeaks have distinct ridges and grooves, set apart by their colours, and those may serve as identifying marks. To test the theory, Prof. Bitton and his students put stuffed puffins in a colony and watched how the birds reacted. Now he is working on a new wrinkle. He wants to put the fake birds on miniature tracks and make them pop out of their burrows as real puffin parents would. His students have the privilege of designing the world’s first puffin railway. Butevenifhefindssupportforhisideas, they wouldn’t necessarily cancel out the others, Prof. Bitton says. A puffin’s orna- mental summer beak may do many things at once: signal its condition, identify it and help it form relationships with others. “You’re dealing with these really com- plex dynamics,” he says. “Are we ever go- ing to solve it all? Probably not.” He keeps trying in part because the in- formation might help scientists under- stand the social dynamics among puffins and what happens to those dynamics if populations decline, as they have been in some places. Britain has seen its numbers drop by a quarter since 2000, the Royal So- ciety for the Protection of Birds said on April 14, World Puffin Day. Whatever its purpose, the beak that de- lights tourists is a transitory thing. Toward the end of the breeding season, its colours fade, and the horny plates that give it shape start to flake off. Shedding their cos- tumes and makeup, the puffins go back to their anonymous offstage life, ranging over the expanse of the grey ocean. At breeding, puffins go through a metamorphosis where they grow new flight feathers and their beaks take on a flattened, hatchet-like look, enlivened by bands of deep colour. British author Adam Nicolson theorizes that puffins' beaks serve as a billboard of health, demonstrating that the bird is ready and able to mate and raise young. Memorial University professor, Ian L. Jones, right, and guide Jeannine Winkel photograph puffins and other sea birds in 2025 near Great Island. Prof. Jones says studies have found that there is not always a strong link between the health of a bird and the splendour of its ornamentation. Tourists on a boat tour look for puffins. Despite theories, it's possible that the birds’ bright beaks are just a meaningless mistake that became fixed in the species over time.
A10 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 EDITORIAL ANDREW SAUNDERS PRESIDENT AND CEO DAVID WALMSLEY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF I n 1962, when Charles De Gaulle was offered photographs proving the Soviet Union was stationing nuclear missiles in Cuba, the French president waved the photographs away. “The word of the President of the United States is good enough for me,” he reportedly said. This is what Donald Trump has squandered. There was a time when an American president could be taken at his word. Yes, there were exceptions: Richard Nixon declaring he knew nothing about the Watergate burglary; George W. Bush insisting Iraq under president Saddam Hus- sein had produced chemical weapons. And presidents have made promises that Congress has failed to keep, from the Senate refusing to endorse the Wood- row Wilson’s commitment to join the League of Nations in 1920 to Congress this year failing to pass legislation backed by Mr. Trump that would restrict voting rights. But this president has gone where no U.S. president has gone before. He has repudiated the commitments of previ- ous presidents and Congresses, repudiated his own previous commitments, and sometimes repudiated those repudia- tions, rendering not just his word but the word of the govern- ment of the United States virtually without worth. This leaves Prime Minister Carney and his advisers in an impossible situation. The Americans are demanding conces- sions from Canada beyond those already offered as a precon- dition for talks to revise and renew the Canada-United States- Mexico trade agreement. But why on earth would the Canadian government offer concessions on CUSMA, knowing that any future agreement could be tossed aside the next time Mr. Trump gets into a snit? Over and over again, this president has demonstrated that his word, not to mention existing treaties, is anything but binding. He has repeatedly questioned America’s commit- menttoNATO,firstonthegroundsthatothermembersdon’t spend enough on defence, and more recently because they refused to come to America’s aid when it attacked Iran. European nations are racing to build up defences against a possible Russian attack in Eastern Europe, knowing they can no longer count on the United States having their back. The Trump administration has at various times cut off, and then restored, American support for Ukraine in the wake of the Russian invasion. He has imposed, lifted and reim- posed tariffs on nations around the world. No country has suffered more from tariff impositions and shifts than Canada. This country endures tariffs on steel, alu- minium and automobiles, and faces a fresh batch of targeted tariffs – some of which would violate CUSMA – that will come into effect Aug. 19 unless a new agreement is reached. On top of all this, the U.S. President is threatening to im- pose tariffs to punish Canada for wildfire smoke that has drifted into the United States this summer. And then there is the infamous case of the Gordie Howe Bridge connecting Windsor to Detroit. Canada paid for the bridge and agreed to share revenues with Michigan, after construction costs had been recouped. But then Mr. Trump hornedin,demandingthattheU.S.governmentreceiveacut. Ottawa swallowed hard and agreed to give the United States a piece of the action. How do Canada and its allies get by in a world in which the United States, despite remaining vibrant economically and culturally, has become so politically dysfunctional that a plu- rality of voters elected a president who repeatedly muses aboutannexingCanadaandturningthiscountryintothe51st state? Who wants to annex Greenland, despite the fierce op- position of Greenlanders and Danes? It is true that Mr. Trump’s term runs out in two and a half years, and that the next U.S. president may try to assure allies that the United States can once again be trusted as a respon- sible partner. But the world knows that America is always one election away from another MAGA White House. No deal signed with the United States is a secure deal. This must be terrifying to people in Poland and the Baltic States and South Korea and Taiwan, knowing that their American ally can no longer be trusted to come to their aid if they face invasion. Charles De Gaulle and many other world leaders over dec- ades assumed as a matter of course that an American presi- dent’s word was his bond. That is no longer true, making the world a more dangerous place. The weight of the word of the U.S. president OLDER WORKERS Re “We need more government incentives for older adults to keep working” (Report on Busi- ness, July 30): Canada is aging faster than it can replace itself. Immigration has slowed, and the economy needs workers of all ag- es to remain productive. Econo- mists call the false belief that ol- der workers take opportunities away from younger workers the “lump of labour fallacy.” Our longer lives have out- paced associated institutions and norms. More people are con- tinuing to work well beyond age 65; the labour force participation rate for that age group hit a re- cord 15.2 per cent in 2025. Pitting generations against one another is unproductive. Canada benefits when all ages work together to optimize the standard of living we have come to appreciate. Helen Hirsh Spence Ottawa KEEP IT FLOWING Re “Carney rules out using ener- gy as leverage in U.S. trade talks” (July 30): While I am no fan of Canada’s overwhelming depend- ence on the United States for our energy exports – especially oil and gas – threatening to cut them in retaliation for recent tar- iff threats invites U.S. President Donald Trump to cite national security as an excuse to act against Canada’s sovereignty. Remember what happened to Venezuela? I estimate it would take 27 minutes, more or less, for a large contingent of Black Hawk helicopters carrying Navy Seals and Marines to land on Parlia- ment Hill, overcome a few secu- rity guards, secure the building and plant the American flag. “America’s saviour” and “Man- ifest Destiny”– the belief that the United States is divinely or- dained to expand across the North American continent – would play very well among Do- nald Trump’s supporters and, I expect, many Alberta separatists. Mike Priaro Calgary While I agree with Prime Minis- ter Mark Carney’s recent plan to rule out restricting exports of oil or natural gas to the U.S. in retal- iation for tariffs and insults, I question why he chose to make that position public. He has re- peatedly said that Canada would not negotiate in public, yet this announcement seems to do ex- actly that. A more effective response would be to charge world market prices for the energy we export to the United States. That move would benefit Canada far more than restricting supply and is better than retaliatory tariffs, which ultimately raise costs for Canadians. And speaking of restrictions, removing American liquor from store shelves was a mistake. Put it back and make Ottawa’s task easier. Peter M. Gallop Toronto The Prime Minister is right to withhold making knee-jerk moves in retaliation tariffs. As the saying goes, an eye for an eye makes the world blind. We see it in the mess of our tit-for-tat world, as wars churn on – includ- ing ones that Trump has either insinuated himself into or fo- mented. Energy is to life as is our need for clean potable water. Over the coming months, it is incumbent on the American people and their representatives to turn the tide and reign in the White- house. Until that happens, Canadians must hold our dignity powder dry; it is globally held in high re- gard. Let the United States go low while change happens as it must and as the polls shout it will. Marianna Kingsmill Hamilton HATE IS EVERYWHERE Re “Normalized and ignored, hate absolutely has a place in Canada” (Opinion, July 29): This column is wonderfully clear- eyed in revealing the doubles- peak mirage that antisemitism (and, I would add, anti-LBGTQ, anti-women, anti-Muslim et cet- era) rhetoric “has no place in our communities” (or that “this is not who we are”) and then mak- ing us face the reality that fear, distrust or dislike of “the Other” so often escalates to hate here, there and everywhere in the world, since time began. I agree that the most impor- tant question now, not just for government but for all of us, is whether we intend to actually do something about it. Michael A. Tukatsch Toronto The attitude of our political lead- ers at all levels seems to range between indifference and hostil- ity on this issue. The Office of the Prime Minis- ter in particular has the opportu- nity – and obligation – to set the tone. Take, for example, a recent open letter by leading non-Jew- ish Canadians in business and other sectors decrying antisemi- tism. As Mr. Carney’s words were quoted therein, it represented a clear opportunity for the Prime Minister to build upon them. However, his response was deaf- ening silence. The Canadian Jewish commu- nity continues to contribute much to our country. The fight against the normalization of hate requires political leader- ship. We continue to wait. Ronald Birken Toronto ROBOTS DON’T SHOP Re “China is AI-maxxing and it has a lot to teach us” (Report on Business, July 30): It is hard to avoid news of AI in the world of work. I can’t help recalling union leader Dennis McDermott telling me about an alleged encounter between Henry Ford and Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers. Ford remarked that one day the work undertaken by UAW members would be han- dled by robots. To which Reuther replied, “But will these robots buy Ford cars?” John Harker Lunenburg, N.S. ANOTHER TAKE Re “Prescription for burnout” (Letters, July 30): I don’t believe people turn to emergency de- partments because “primary care, home care and timely fol- low-up” have failed them. Many patients are more com- plicated than they used to be. Cancer can now be a chronic condition. Heart failure – a con- dition that didn’t exist before ad- vanced stenting and cardiovas- cular techniques – has become the second most common rea- son for hospital admission (after childbirth). Biologic medications have controlled previously dev- astating diseases, but run risks of immunosuppression (among other side effects). While I wholeheartedly sup- port hospital-at-home programs, I would propose that it’s the lack of primary care that is failing emergency departments. One needs a care provider on the oth- er end for continuity. I cannot control where my pa- tients go, but if I direct them to the ED, it’s because their chest pain or shortness of breath obli- gates investigations and care be- yond my stethoscope. This is not a failure. It’s triage. Benjamin Reitzel, MD; North Bay, Ont. KICK OFF YOUR SHOES Re “When life’s moving too fast, go barefoot” (First Person, July 25): As someone who grew up on a farm in southern Alberta, I re- call glowing with satisfaction when I strode barefoot on gravel or rocky ground without flinch- ing in front of visiting city cou- sins. Admittedly there was no need for vigilance to avoid scor- pions or other venomous crea- tures lurking in the underbrush, but I still experienced glimmers of Tom Sawyerish freedom that made me feel brave and unen- cumbered. Paul Thiessen Vancouver LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The subject who is truly loyal to the chief magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures - Junius Letters to the Editor should be exclusive to The Globe and Mail. 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MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL O A11 OPINION E very summer, Canadians gather around backyard barbecues or join neigh- bourhood potlucks on the street. These moments are meant to be about connection. But for mil- lions of people, they also come with stress and anxiety: Can we afford to bring something? Can we afford to host? Should we even go? Those same financial pres- sures dominate kitchen table conversations year-round. With grocery prices remaining stub- bornly high and the cost of living continuing to outpace many household budgets, more and more Canadians from all walks of life are feeling the squeeze. Prime Minister Mark Carney has acknowledged these con- cerns and promised to make life more affordable. It remains one of the defining domestic chal- lenges facing his government. That is why the federal gov- ernment’s recently released Na- tional Food Security Strategy is so disappointing. It rightly recog- nizes that Canada’s food system faces real challenges. Climate change, supply chain disrup- tions, food processing capacity, corporate concentration, and do- mestic food production all de- serve the serious attention it gives them. But the strategy will do little to help the millions of Canadians struggling to afford groceries to- day because it largely overlooks the single biggest driver of household food insecurity: inad- equate incomes. Food insecurity in Canada isn’t primarily a food systems prob- lem. It’s an affordability prob- lem. That’s why a group of leading non-profit organizations work- ing on food security and poverty reduction has issued a joint statement calling on the federal government to strengthen the National Food Security Strategy before it moves into implemen- tation. Together, we are urging Ottawa to convene a formal roundtable with the non-profit sector. The reason is simple. For dec- ades, evidence has consistently shown that household food inse- curity is driven by inadequate in- comes – not by a shortage of food. Canada produces plenty of food. Yet nearly a quarter of peo- ple in this country – almost 10 million, including one in three children – experience food inse- curity because they can’t afford the basics. Food insecurity means skip- ping meals, buying cheaper and less nutritious food, worrying about running out of food before payday, and relying on food char- ities simply to get through the month. It is one of the clearest indicators that our affordability crisis has gone too far. But how we diagnose the problem matters because differ- ent problems require different solutions. If the problem is food production, we invest in farmers, food processors and resilient supply chains. If the problem is affordability, we must also en- sure that people have enough in- come to buy the food that al- ready exists. The National Food Security Strategy makes important com- mitments to strengthen Canada’s food systems. But it contains no measurable targets for reducing household food insecurity. It in- troduces no significant new in- come security measures. And while it acknowledges Indige- nous food sovereignty, it does not provide new investments to support Indigenous-led food sys- tems and traditional harvesting. These are significant omissions. No amount of investment in food processing or agricultural innovation will help a parent standing in the grocery aisle who simply doesn’t have enough money in their bank account. We’ve seen what happens when governments increase in- comes. During the pandemic, emergency income supports re- duced food insecurity and pover- ty among many households. Pro- grams like the Canada Child Ben- efit and the Guaranteed Income Supplement have similarly dem- onstrated that when incomes im- prove, food insecurity and pover- ty declines. The opposite is also true. When living costs rise faster than incomes – whether from work or government supports – more people struggle to afford food. The National Food Security Strategy can still become a stron- ger roadmap. As it moves into implementation, the federal gov- ernment has an opportunity to work with the non-profit sector to ensure the strategy reflects what decades of evidence have shown: when incomes rise, food insecurity falls. In a country as prosperous as Canada, no one should have to choose between paying the rent and buying groceries. The evi- dence is clear, and the solutions are within reach. What stands in our way is not a lack of resources, but political choices and priori- ties. The question is whether the federal government is prepared to act on what we already know. Canada’s new Food Security Strategy won’t end food insecurity Ottawa’s recently released National Food Security Strategy recognizes that Canada’s food system faces real challenges, but it largely overlooks the single biggest driver of household food insecurity: inadequate incomes. CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS NICK SAUL JASMINE RAMZE REZAEE OPINION Nick Saul is the CEO of Right To Food. Jasmine Ramze Rezaee is Right To Food’s director of policy and community action. A rmed U.S. Coast Guard offi- cers often stop for lunch at Rock Salt, a seaside restau- rant in this tiny village on Salt Spring Island. Their presence reflects the fact that some Canada-U.S. co-oper- ation remains necessary, not- withstanding President Donald Trump’s threats to make this country the 51st state. Just 15 kilometres south of here, the international maritime boundary bisects the Salish Sea – and its archipelago, composed of hundreds of islands. The U.S. officers that frequent Rock Salt are part of Integrated Cross-Border Maritime Law En- forcement Operations. They are called “shipriders” because they only ever enter Canada in the company of Canadian RCMP offi- cers. Some days, they arrive on Salt Spring Island on a small U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat. When this happens, there are always three American officers on board, and one Canadian. On other days, a single American of- ficer will arrive on an RCMP boat, with three Canadians. Having officers from both countries on board enables them to move freely across the mar- itime boundary. They can, for in- stance, pursue a suspected smug- gling boat if it attempts to flee one country for the other. When a U.S. Coast Guard boat crosses into Canada, command of the vessel automatically trans- fers to the RCMP officer on board. When an RCMP boat crosses into the United States, command transfers to the U.S. Coast Guard officer. And if there is a need to arrest someone, this is always done by an officer from the country where the suspect is being apprehended. All this might look like a bit excessive, but the system is care- fully crafted to protect the sover- eignties of both countries. Sometimes, shipriders simply gather intelligence. In 2017, two suspected smugglers – one Cana- dian, one American – transferred 55 kilograms of cocaine between two speedboats on the U.S. side of the maritime boundary. Observing the transfer from a distance, the shipriders decided not to engage in a potentially fu- tile high-speed chase. Instead, they made a couple of calls. When the Canadian smuggler re- turned to Victoria, he was promptly arrested, as was the American when he returned to Oak Harbor, Wash. Shipriders also contribute to search and rescue operations. Last August, an RCMP boat with a U.S. Coast Guard officer on board responded rapidly to a dis- tress call from the American side of the boundary. The binational crew helped save a dozen kayak- ers, including six children, who had been caught in a squall. Shipriders are only one exam- ple of continued Canada-U.S. co- operation driven by geography. Air traffic controllers at Van- couver International Airport have responsibility over a large portion of nearby U.S. airspace for safety reasons. And last month, a Canadian Coast Guard hovercraft based at the airport deployed to a floatplane crash just south of the maritime boundary. Meanwhile, ferries sailing be- tween Vancouver and Victoria pass through U.S. waters without anyone being required to go through U.S. customs and immi- gration. Farther north, residents of the Alaska Panhandle use gasoline and diesel that has travelled by barge from Washington State through the “Inside Passage” be- tween Vancouver Island and mainland B.C. The Inside Passage constitutes “internal waters” that no foreign vessel can enter with- out permission, with Canada al- ways granting permission here. Then there are the large oceangoing ships that call at Vancouver or Seattle to take on cargo, including bitumen from Alberta. These vessels access the Pacific Ocean through the aptly named Boundary Pass – along shipping lanes that pass around the southern tip of Vancouver Is- land, and are co-managed by Canada and the United States. Last but not least, an endan- gered population of killer whales – the southern resident orcas – swim back and forth across the maritime boundary, creating a conservation challenge that could only ever be adequately addressed by Canada and the United States working closely to- gether. One might regard all this co- operation as just a series of cour- tesies, but they reflect an age-old truth. Neighbours do not need to be friends, but they do have to work together. The other week, after a tasty lunch at Rock Salt, I stopped by the shipriders’ table – and thanked the four officers for showing how it’s done. Shipriders demonstrate how Canada and the U.S. can still work together MICHAEL BYERS FULFORD HARBOUR, B.C. OPINION Teaches global politics and international law at the University of British Columbia O pinion polls and pundits all agree that affordability is a top concern for Cana- dians. Many describe the lack of affordability as a crisis, particu- larly for low- and middle-income Canadians. The public is rightful- ly upset that too many house- holds are unable to find housing they can afford, and demand at food banks is rising as the cost of the average grocery basket soars. Governments are being called upon to act urgently and boldly. But successfully tackling any problem starts with clearly defin- ing it. And affordability is an amorphous concept that means many different things to different people. For many young adults, it means being able to afford rent and not camping out with their parents. For young families, it is about realistically aspiring to home ownership. For many con- sumers, it means that purchases of grocery staples should com- fortably fit within a budget. For households, it means that paying for the essentials should not mean sacrificing all non-essen- tials. And for many, it can evoke nostalgia for a time when mid- dle-class life seemed more pre- dictable, technology was not up- ending everything (including work), and parents had more confidence their children would have a better life. Unless governments unpack affordability into the specific is- sues to be tackled, and commu- nicate them with clear objectives and targeted measures, their ef- forts will be frustratingly futile. Affordability as a generic govern- ment objective, however noble the intent, provides no objective measures of policy success, and many subjective measures of failure. Whether the issue is housing, food, energy, or overall house- hold budgets, governments need to start the public discussion by clearly identifying the affordabil- ity problem they plan to tackle and rigorously understanding its root causes rather than rushing to promise quick solutions using fiscal band-aids. The durable so- lutions will often involve supply- side structural reforms, not de- mand-side price support. That’s harder to communicate in a world demanding instant re- sponses, certainly, but it’s much more likely to succeed and main- tain public confidence. A key part of the affordability- policy architecture is keeping CPI inflation low. The Bank of Cana- da misread cost pressures com- ing out of the COVID-19 pandem- ic and inflation rose well above its 2-per-cent target, peaking at 8 per cent in mid-2022. This forced the bank to raise interest rates sharp ly, and the higher mort- gage rates in turn hurt housing affordability. Since mid-2024, with inflation again near 2 per cent, interest rates – including mortgage rates – have declined, improving housing affordability. This illustrates the importance of holding to the inflation targets by taking early policy action if infla- tionary pressures return – for ex- ample, a spike in global oil prices, which feeds through the econo- my. Yet, while inflation is back to its 2-per-cent target, price levels remain higher, especially for cer- tain items like food. The Bank of Canada targets inflation, not price levels, so consumers have to adjust to today’s higher prices. Part of the affordability adjust- ment for households is incomes as well as prices. And the best way to get household incomes up is by creating the economic con- ditions for good jobs and strong productivity growth, while using targeted policy vehicles such as the GST credit to deliver transi- tional income support to those most in need. More broadly, the factors af- fecting the various aspects of af- fordability are often quite differ- ent, whether it is the nature of the cost pressures, exposure to global supply chains, market dy- namics, and how households can adjust. It follows that the most ef- fective policy remedies should be different, and targeted, as well. Energy is a good example. An oft-stated goal is that energy must be secure, sustainable and affordable. While it is hard to dis- agree, the challenge arises when there is conflict among the objec- tives, as there often is. When resi- dential electricity prices rise above the average inflation rate of 2 per cent to pay for the costs of new capacity, such as upgrad- ed transmission lines or cleaner sources of supply, the public screams about affordability; gov- ernments then often rush to keep prices artificially low through direct or indirect subsi- dies. That’s bad policy in the guise of protecting affordability. In short, affordability is any- thing but a single problem in search of a simple solution. Gov- ernments need to be more mod- est in their overly broad promises to fix affordability, and more ef- fective in their actions to tackle specific affordability problems. Effective governing is about clearly defining the problem to be addressed, setting realistic tar- gets, executing the needed policy changes, and being held account- able for the outcomes. This ap- proach will yield the most dura- ble results for trust in govern- ment – and, more importantly, for Canadians in their everyday lives. Government affordability plans need specifics Unless affordability is defined and delineated, their broad policies will be doomed to fail SERGE DUPONT KEVIN LYNCH OPINION Serge Dupont is senior adviser and head of public policy at Bennett Jones. Kevin Lynch is a former senior public servant and former vice-chair of BMO. NEWS |
A12 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 LIFE & ARTS HEALTH & WELLNESS | OPINION | PUZZLES | WEATHER | NEWS I f you’re like many people, by now you’ve likely swapped your daily hot coffee for a cool, refreshing beverage, perhaps a flavoured iced cold brew, a sweet lemonade, or a fruit-flavoured slushie drink. However, you may not realize how much sugar these thirst- quenching drinks contain, not to mention how many calories. A study published last year in the journal Nature Climate Change analyzed U.S. data from 2004through2019andfoundthat people purchase, and likely con- sume, more added sugar from sugary beverages and frozen des- serts during periods of rising tem- peratures and heatwaves. The finding isn’t surprising given the sugar content of many popular summer drinks. A medium-sized (16-ounce) fruit-flavoured slush- ie, for instance, can deliver as much as 70 grams of sugar, the equivalent of 17.5 teaspoons. Here’s what to know about popular summer drinks, along with tips to help you sip smarter. HOW MUCH SUGAR IS TOO MUCH? In 2015 the World Health Organi- zation released guidelines recom- mending people reduce their in- take of “free” sugars to less than 10 per cent of daily calories, with additional health benefits at lev- els below 5 per cent. For a 2,000 calorie diet, the five per cent free- sugar limit is equivalent to no more than 25 grams a day, about six teaspoons worth. Free sugars include added sug- ars, as well as those naturally pre- sent in honey, maple syrup, agave syrup, pure fruit juice and fruit juice concentrates. HOW MUCH SUGAR IS HIDING IN YOUR SUMMER DRINK? The nutrition numbers for many popular summer drinks may sur- prise you. Consider that a large (24- ounce) Tim Hortons Peach Pop- pin’ Frozen Quencher serves up 500 calories and a whopping 93 grams of sugar, the equivalent of teaspoons. The company’s large Frozen Lemonade provides 330 calories and 73 grams of sug- ar, roughly 18 teaspoons. For comparison, a similar- sized medium (22-ounce) regular cola has fewer calories (284) and less sugar (67 grams). That doesn’t make sugar-sweetened soft drinks a healthy choice, how- ever, or a recommended substi- tute. A Grande (16-ounce) Star- buck’s Mango Strawberry Lemon- ade Refresher has 39 grams (10 teaspoons) of sugar. Upgrade to a Trenta size (30-ounce) and the sugar content jumps to 79 grams (20 teaspoons). Sip on Second Cup’s large (22- ounce) Italian Soda, “a combination of soda water and your choice of flavour,” and you’ll consume 54 grams of sugar (13.5 teaspoons). Even flavoured iced cold brews – with coffee as their main ingre- dient – can supply a considerable amount of sugar, owing to con- centrated syrups and sugar- sweetened cream toppings and sauces. Second Cup’s large (22-ounce) Vanilla Bean Flash Cold Brew has 38 grams of sugar while a Star- buck’s Venti (24-ounce) S’mores Cold Brew delivers 34 grams, equivalent to 9.5 and 8.5 tea- spoons of sugar, respectively. DOWNSIDES OF SUGARY DRINKS If consumed regularly, sugary drinks are associated with an in- creased risk weight gain and obesity. Not only do they add ex- tra calories to your diet, but re- search also suggests that calories in sugary drinks are less filling than the same number of calories from solid foods. Studies indicate that people may compensate by eating a little less later, but that isn’t enough to offset all of the calories. Over time, this can contribute to weight gain. A diet high in sugar-sweetened beverages and added sugars is al- sotiedtoagreatriskofType2dia- betes and cardiovascular disease. STRATEGIES TO SIP SMARTER You certainly don’t have to ban these sugar-sweetened, warm- weather drinks from your sum- mer diet. Many are best enjoyed as occasional treats. If you consume them more of- ten, the following tips can help you do so while reducing your in- take of sugar and calories. ORDER A SMALLER SIZE Instead of ordering the largest size, think small. For example, choosing a small rather than a large Tim Hortons Vanilla Bean Cold Brew cuts the sugar and cal- ories in half, to 15 grams of sugar and 120 calories. BECK, A13 As summer brings cold drinks high in sugar, here’s how to sip smarter LESLIE BECK FOOD FOR THOUGHT M eg Ecclestone could feel her brain “quiet quitting” on her. With nine-year-old twin daughters ricocheting between extracurricular activities all school year, Ecclestone and her partner were wiped out come Fri- days, only to face weekends filled with tedious errands. Despite using multiple calen- dar systems to co-ordinate home life in Guelph, Ont., she was for- getting things: a swim meet here, a dental visit there. She wondered whether her mind was protesting the weight of keeping everything in check. This summer, Ecclestone – a university librarian and self-de- scribed “time-management fa- natic” – decided to inject more joy into the family calendar. For these last quiet spells in August, she started slotting in “scheduled-fun adventures.” They’ll pack into the car for meandering day trips, exploring country roads and charming small towns with old libraries and coffee shops. They’ll visit a flower market, swim at the Elora Gorge, andwalkinthewoods.Themoth- er knows her daughters will ini- tially resist the hikes, only to race through the forest, morphing in- to “happy, feral, little cubs.” “My kids don’t need to do 40 things a week,” Ecclestone said. “They’re going to remember that time we swam in the Grand River. It’s family core memory-making, relaxing, enjoying our time to- gether.” As the pace of modern life ac- celerates, more families are delib- erately setting squares aside on the calendar for downtime – un- structured days with no goals or agendas. These are days for ex- ploring, adventuring but also rest – days that might be considered “unproductive” in the modern sense but feel ever more valuable for harried people hoping to re- store themselves. While scheduled fun might sound like an oxymoron, without it families often end up deprior- itizing the more exciting parts of life, says Ann Douglas, Ottawa Valley-based author of Happy Par- ents, Happy Kids. “A lot of us, multiple genera- tions, were raised with the idea that you do all the work you have to do first. On the weekend, you do the laundry and the groceries and take kids wherever you have to take them. Then it’s 7 o’clock on a Sunday night, you have a bit of spare time, but now it’s time to get ready for the week,” said Dou- glas, who raised four children with her husband in Peterbo- rough, Ont. Canadians spend a meagre 1.3 per cent of each day on hobbies, arts and leisure, according to Sta- tistics Canada. (Think board games or crafting, being in na- ture,takinginartorplayinganin- strument.) Increasingly, people are also spoiling vacation days meant for decompressing with family. Nearly half of Canadians surveyed this spring by Angus Reid and Employment Hero ad- mitted to working through a holi- day, with 41 per cent feeling guilty during their paid time off. Douglas questions why we me- ticulously plan all the dull, oblig- atory parts life, but not the mirth and pleasure. “Sometimes, we need to front- load fun,” the author said. With five kids from the age of 2 to 14 to wrangle in Burlington, Ont., Christine Tao and her hus- band made a conscious decision to confine their children’s activ- ities to two weekday evenings. That leaves three weeknights for themselves, plus Sunday, their family “sabbath” – no chores, sports practices, or driving to those practices. “We’re living our life together as a family,” said Tao, a seminary student. “It is a very hollow fam- ily structure when you’re just a chauffeur.” On the family’s free days, Tao turns to her shared Google calen- dar, where she’s plugged in re- minders about local music, arts and culture festivals, gallery ex- hibits and art crawls, library craft- ing events, as well as playgroups for her younger ones. “Our family knows this is all optional and flexible. We keep those spaces open on our calen- dar and then decide, do we want to rest today, or do we do a fun thing? We have the freedom.” She gleaned the wisdom of underscheduling while running a moms’ group. Mothers of older kids warned her that overpacking the calendar was a common par- enting trap. Douglas, the author, can see how older generations might scratch their heads at the notion of penning in fun and rest. Today, parents anxious about their chil- dren’s futures are setting aside less free time, filling their kids’ hours with activities meant to im- part new skills. But Douglas argues that unam- bitious family time is equally val- uable. “Relationship skills, the ability to relax and have fun, pac- ingyourself,emotionalflexibility, being able to change plans – these are all essential skills for the fu- ture.” She reminds parents to curate experiencesthatfeelfunforthem too, instead of letting kids run the show every time. Even in families without young children at home, fun can require foresight. Every year, Catherine Wilde, her mother and her sister careful- ly plan an adventure together. Though Wilde and her mom live 15 minutes apart in Calgary, her sister is in Vancouver. Both sib- lings work demanding schedules. “Fun for some people is going out for coffee or the local pub to shoot some pool. For me, fun is a much more planned, intentional event,” said Wilde, a director of partnerships and scholarships at a national education association. It starts with a shared Google document, where the women weigh in on how they want to spend their time together. In June, they travelled to a cot- tage on Galiano Island in British Columbia. They decided to try something different – art pro- jects, including handmade deco- rative coasters. This month, they’ll venture to Medalta, a mu- seum and former industrial ce- ramics manufacturing complex in Medicine Hat, Alta. “With my family, what we found is that we really want to be having experiences together,” Wilde said. “We’re realizing as we’re aging that time is going by really quickly. We need to co-ordi- nate because we’re all busy.” To her, spontaneity can feel stressful: Deciding things last minute means plane tickets get expensive, campsites fill up and tickets sell out. “With time pressures, my friends and I have been talking about how we don’t play or have fun the way you did as a child,” Wilde said. “How do you know that you’re having fun? Fun is where there’s this unbridled energy. You feel free. You feel unencumbered. I feel like now, fun is becoming ve- ry structured.” Does scheduling fun actually work? Being intentional about what goes on the calendar can help ensure the lively parts of life don’t fade away ZOSIA BIELSKI TIME USE REPORTER From left to right: Margaret Moynes-Ecclestone, Scott Moynes, Sadie Moynes-Ecclestone and Meg Ecclestone are pictured by the Eramosa River in Guelph, Ont. on July 18. PHOTOS BY GABRIEL HUTCHINSON/THE GLOBE AND MAIL Ecclestone said for this summer she decided to enter more ‘joy’ into the family calendar: ‘My kids don’t need to do 40 things a week.’
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If you are not satisfied with the response and wish to file a formal complaint, visit mediacouncil.ca or call toll-free at 1-844-877-1163 for more information. TODAY’S SUDOKU SOLUTION TODAY’S KENKEN SOLUTION A long-time friend once said that people keep fewer traditions than they used to. He did not mean the grand ceremonies, with speeches and programs and someone assigned to cut a ribbon. He meant the smaller cus- toms: the repeated pleasures that ask for no justification beyond the happiness they provide. One of these was the Sunday drive. The phrase has not aged well. Today, a “Sunday driver” is a nuisance, a rolling ob- struction in a world that measures virtue by speed. But in Revelstoke, B.C., Sunday driving (at least when I grew up in the 1960s) was not a failure to get somewhere quickly. It was the point of going out at all. Maybe it happened in your part of the country, too. After breakfast, my father would an- nounce that we might as well take a run somewhere. That was usually the extent of the plan. My brothers and I climbed into the back seat, my mother settled in beside him and the road decided the rest. A family friend, Gordon, often came along. Years later he told me what those trips had meant to him. “Your dad never drove without making it fun,” he said. “We never knew where we might go or what we might do.” That was precisely the charm. One rela- tive called it “crop checking,” a rural ex- pression for drifting about the countryside with one’s eyes open. We might go east to see how construction was advancing on the new Trans-Canada Highway over Rog- ers Pass. As each section opened, ordinary motorists gained views of mountains and glaciers that had once belonged mostly to railway workers. My father, a Canadian Pa- cific locomotive engineer, seemed to know every curve, grade, siding and story. Pass- ing trains were greeted as though we had a duty to acknowledge them. OtherSundayscarriedusupMountRev- elstoke, through the 21 switchbacks to the alpine meadows. The car worked hard; we children worked harder at appearing pa- tient. Then the forest would loosen, the air would sharpen and the meadows would spread ahead of us with their wind, sun- warmed flowers and huckleberries. We re- turned home purple-fingered, sleepy and faintlyscratched,withnoaccomplishment to report except having gone. Sometimes we drove “down south” to Arrowhead, a village at the head of Upper Arrow Lake that now lies beneath a reser- voir. To reach it, we crossed the Columbia River on reaction ferries – unpowered barges that used cable, current and a mod- est understanding of physics to move themselves from shore to shore. I did not then think of them as historic. They were simply part of the day’s entertainment, as marvellous as cherries bought in the Oka- nagan or a roadside bouquet gathered for our Mother. Looking back, I see that those drives were an education disguised as idleness. They taught geography by repetition, his- tory by anecdote and family affection by proximity. We learned where the ceremo- nial Last Spike had been driven, where the railway entered the pass, where the high- way was changing the province and which bend in the road might produce a view worth stopping for. More importantly, we learned that a shared journey did not need to justify itself by becoming efficient. That may be the hardest part to recover. Modern driving is crowded by haste, suspi- cion, fuel prices, safety campaigns and the uneasy knowledge that unnecessary mile- age is not a neutral pleasure. Those con- cerns are real. Yet something is lost when every trip must be defended as practical. Roads do not exist only to move labour and freight. They also connect people to place and to one another. An elderly friend once told me, still in- dignant years later, of being stopped by the RCMP on the Yellowhead Highway and in- structed to go faster. “Can you imagine?” he said. “They didn’t have enough to do but tell people that?” His outrage was com- ic but it contained a principle. A country worth crossing is also worth seeing. The Sunday drive did not vanish all at once. It was crowded out by busier calen- dars, faster traffic, more anxious habits and perhaps by our embarrassment at pleasures that appear unproductive. But I think it can still be practised, even modest- ly. Take the long way home. Visit a place you already know. Go slowly enough to no- tice what has changed since last month. Bring someone whose company matters. Canada is a remarkable place in which to live. It should not be consumed only through windscreens at highway speed. It deserves to be seen slowly, spoken about while being seen and carried home in memory. Tom W. Parkin lives in Nanaimo, B.C. First Person is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. ILLUSTRATION BY DREW SHANNON What’s happened to the lazy Sunday drive? FIRST PERSON Canada deserves to be enjoyed slowly and carried home in memory, on journeys that don’t need to be defended, Tom W. Parkin writes REDUCE SYRUP PUMPS One pump of flavoured syrup adds about fivegrams of sugar and 20 calories. Ask the barista to reduce the number of syrup pumps. If ordering through an app, Starbucks, Tim Hortons and Second Cup allow you to cus- tomize the number of syrup pumps or flavour shots. DOWNSIZE THE TRIMMINGS To cut back on sugar and calo- ries, skip the whipped cream topping. You can also adjust the amount of flavoured cold foam in Starbucks cold brew drinks. CHOOSE LOWER SUGAR DRINKS Iced tea is a refreshing summer drink with little or no added sug- ar. Starbucks and Second Cup both offer unsweetened iced tea. You can also reduce the sugar in Starbucks Iced Black Tea Lem- onade by ordering it with light or no lemonade. Second Cup’s small sweetened Brewed Iced Tea contains seven grams of sugar, substantially less than many other summer drink offerings. READ NUTRITION INFORMATION To know what’s in your summer drink and make a more in- formed choice, check company websites or mobile apps for nu- trition information before you order. Leslie Beck, a Toronto-based private practice dietitian, is director of food and nutrition at Medcan. 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A14 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 BRIDGE BY STEVE BECKER Most players – good, bad or in- different – bid naturally rather than artificially. When they bid hearts, they usually have hearts; when they bid clubs, they usu- ally have clubs; and so on. But in the top echelons of bridge there are an ever- increasing number of pairs who employ very exotic methods and often bid suits that have nothing to do with their actual holdings in these suits. One pair in this category who did exceedingly well in national championships during a 15-year period are Ron Rubin and Mike Becker (this writer’s brother). They held the East-West cards in the 1978 Vanderbilt team cham- pionship and got to six spades as shown. By way of explanation, and not for instructional purposes, here is what their bids meant: One Spade: Normal opening bid, but denies more than 16 high-card points. Two Clubs: Artificial game- forcing bid asking West to de- scribe his distribution. Three Clubs: I have a void in hearts, diamonds or clubs, and a rather freakish hand. Three Diamonds: Tell me more. Four Clubs: The void is in clubs, and my distribution is 7-3-3-0! (The number of steps taken over three diamonds de- scribes West’s distribution.) Four Diamonds: What are your high-card values? Four Notrump: I have 14 to 16 high-card points and five con- trols (an ace is two controls, a king one). Five clubs: Where are your controls located? Six diamonds: I have controls in all three suits and extra hon- ours in hearts and diamonds. (Had Rubin been weak in any suit, he would have bid five of that suit. Thus, if he had held , he would have responded five diamonds.) After Mike Becker, who had made four artificial forcing bids in succession, closed the auc- tion with six spades, he was asked by South what kind of hand West had indicated by his five bids. Becker wrote down that he expected his partner to have: West dealer. Neither side vulnerable. MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 ©2026 King Features Syndicate Inc. Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating. The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners. Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the numbers in the top-left corner. 3. 2. INSTRUCTIONS 1. Solutions to today’s Sudoku and Kenken can be found in the Life & Arts content area of the A section. Crossword solutions will be with tomorrow’s puzzles. ©2026 KENKEN Puzzle LLC. KENKEN is a registered trademark of Nextoy, LLC. Dist. by Andrews McMeel www.kenken.com INSTRUCTIONS Fill in the grid so thAt eACh row of nine squAres, eACh Column of nine And eACh seCtion of nine (three squAres By three) ContAins the numBers 1 through 9 in Any order. There is only one solution to eACh puzzle. 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MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL O A15 NEWS | Ceuta over the weekend no longer looked like a city on edge, but residents were still rattled by the events of the week. Most of the 60,000 migrants who swam, scrambled and later charged into the tiny Spanish exclave in North Africa this week had walked back to Morocco by Sunday, butsomestayedoninthehillssurrounding the city. Spanish authorities continued searching for bodies in the waters near the stretch of urban beach that tens of thou- sandofmigrantshadbreacheddaysearlier. Shops in Ceuta reopened, and the usual blendofresidentsandtouristsinthecityof 84,000 were filling the open-air terraces, restaurants and cafés. At least 72 migrants died, including some who drowned and others who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier, Spanish authorities said Sunday. Morocco reported 11 deaths on its side of the border, but it wasn’t immediately clear if these were in addition to those reported by Spain. The kingdom’s authorities blamed misinformation and human traf- fickers for the breach, adding that they were opening an investigation into the events. But the city that prides itself on being home to four cultures was still grappling with the aftermath of the border surge, with locals disagreeing on what caused it and who exactly is to blame. “It’snottheyoungmen’sfault,”saidMo- hamad Abdelkader Driss, 44, a waiter at a fish restaurant in town. “If you open the border, of course everyone comes in, but the young men aren’t to blame. The au- thorities are responsible.” Some migrants who returned to Moroc- co described a border that was effectively open and said authorities did little as they watched thousands of people cross. The unauthorized arrivals on Thursday and Friday of 50,000 to 60,000, mostly young men, swelled Ceuta’s population by more than half. Mr. Abdelkader lamented what happened, but said that those who breached the border behaved relatively well. “It could have been much worse,” he said. The humanitarian crisis caused by the sudden rush of people has reignited a de- bate around immigration in Europe and beyond. Over the weekend, far-right, anti- immigrant Spanish politicians and well- known right-wing influencers descended on the city, sparking counterprotests that included members of the Spanish city’s large Muslim population, many of whom are of Moroccan descent. Alvise Pérez, a far-right Spanish politic- ian and member of the European Parlia- ment, called on Saturday evening for mi- grants to be expelled as he faced an angry crowd of rival protesters. Mr. Pérez eventu- ally had to shelter in a bar as residents banged on the windows, until police es- corted him away. Among the counterprotesters on Satur- daywas20-year-oldCeutaresidentandstu- dentNoorAhmed.Shedenouncedthepro- testandpresenceoffigureslikeMr.Pérezin her city as opportunistic. “They just want to take advantage of the humanitarian crisis Ceuta is currently ex- periencing,” Ms. Ahmed said. Santiago Abascal, the leader of the far- right Vox party, visited Ceuta on Sunday, slamming the Spanish government for the surge in migrant arrivals, which he called “an invasion.” “The frontiers of Ceuta and Melilla are the walls of our home and homeland, and they are not being protected by a corrupt and traitorous government,” he said. Pope Leo XIV on Sunday said he was “following with concern the alarming sit- uation in Ceuta, asking God … that solu- tions of peace, stability and justice may be found.” Migration has been one of Leo’s priori- ties, which he underlined during a recent visit to Spain’s Canary Islands, one of Eu- rope’s main migrant entry ports. ASSOCIATED PRESS Ceuta looks for answers after border surge Most of the 60,000 people who entered the tiny Spanish exclave in North Africa have walked back to Morocco SUMAN NAISHADHAM CEUTA, SPAIN Guardia Civil officers recover the body of a migrant who tried to cross into Ceuta, Spain, on Saturday. ANTONIO SEMPERE/ASSOCIATED PRESS In 1921, a group of 30 women be- gan training as “dental nurses,” with a goal of providing free care to schoolchildren. Since then, more than 50 coun- tries have adopted the model. In Canada, the focus of dental ther- apy has been to improve access to oral care specifically for those liv- ing in remote communities, many of whom are Indigenous. Canada currently has only one dental-therapy school program. Graduates of the University of Saskatchewan’s two-year pro- gram can be employed by the fed- eral or provincial governments, or work in private practice. Aspartofalargerpushtomake oral health more accessible na- tionally, Health Canada is provid- ing funding to the university to extend its program into the NWT, in partnership with Inuvialuit Re- gional Corp., an organization that represents Inuit of the Western Arctic. The new program will run partly in the town of Inuvik, and partly in communities under a “learn where you live” model, where students can pursue edu- cation in more remote locations. The scope of dental therapy in Canada was much larger at one time. The National School of Den- tal Therapy, inspired by the New Zealand model, opened in Fort Smith, NWT, in 1972. (Another one opened the same year in Re- gina; it closed in 1987.) The Fort Smith school trained practitio- ners in the territory to deliver ser- vices to Northern and isolated parts of the country until it was relocated to Saskatchewan in 1981. In 2011, the federal govern- ment cut funding, and the school closed. Mr. Tennant, who has practised in the territory since 1973, said in his recollection dental therapy was highly effective. The dental therapists would work in schools, get to know the children and, because they were paid a salary rather than a fee for service, they could take their time, especially if a child was nervous about treatment. According to an evaluation of one of the dental-therapy pro- grams that ran in Saskatchewan’s schools in the 1970s, it was a suc- cess. After six years of receiving care, children required, on aver- age, half the number of fillings they did at the beginning. If Mr. Tennant was taking note, so were places such as Alaska, which faced similar challenges. Rochelle Siuvuq Ferry is from Unalakleet, a rural village in northern Alaska. At the age of 16, her front tooth was knocked out in an unexpected collision. To get treatment, she had to fly multiple times to Nome, 240 kilometres away. That experience sparked her interest in dental care, especially for people in rural communities. After two years of training in New Zealand, she eventually became a dental therapist herself, living and working in rural villages in Alaska for a decade. She saw the difference that dental therapists made in improving oral health outcomes. Startup programs taught new parents how to care for their chil- dren’s teeth. More preschoolers were treated, which helped catch early decay. And elders, some of whom had experienced trauma from early dental practices and were initially hesitant, started coming in. Trust grew. “It makes a huge difference when you have somebody in the community who is consistent. You need consistency,” said Ms. Ferry. But just as its popularity was growing elsewhere, the profes- sion was shrinking in Canada. To- day, residents in many remote communities are forced to rely on occasional visits from a travelling dentist, fly great distances, or do without care. Given Canada’s vast size and distribution of rural and remote communities, “we need more dental training in different loca- tions,” said Walter Siqueira, the dean of dentistry at the Universi- ty of Saskatchewan. The NWT program “is a very important first step,” he added, “and I hope that in the future this can be expand- ed.” Anil Menon, president of the Canadian Association of Public Health Dentistry, agrees that den- tal therapists can help improve access to oral health care for those in remote, rural, Indige- nous and otherwise underserved communities. The association supports re-es- tablishing and expanding dental- therapy education programs in Canada as a way to improve oral health equity, Dr. Menon said in an e-mail. Currently, dental therapists are permitted to practice in the terri- tories, parts of B.C. and in Sas- katchewan. They are not permit- ted in Ontario and Quebec, as the profession isn’t recognized in those provinces. The first students in the Inuvik program will graduate around 2030, with five to eight people in a cohort. Ms. Ferry, who is Iñupiaq, says that she has seen good results in Alaska. Knowing the culture and living in communities helped build trust and long-term rela- tionships with clients and their children over time. “We’re there getting the decay taken care of, getting oral hygiene under control, getting things cleaned up and prepared for the dentist to come in,” said Ms. Ferry, who now works on the Tulalip Reservation in Washington State. Ms. Ferry’s observations are backed by research, which has shown that dental therapists are effective in boosting oral health outcomes in underserved com- munities in Alaska, including among children. One 2018 paper found that, in communities that had more dental-therapy treat- ment days, children and adults received more preventive care and needed fewer extractions over the 10-year study period. “What we found was actually astounding,” said Donald Chi, professor of oral health sciences in the schools of dentistry and public health at the University of Washington and co-author of the study. Over that 10-year period, “we saw these really significant changes in the treatment pat- terns, especially those communi- ties that were more heavily served by dental therapists.” Another of his studies, in 2020, found that communities with more dental-therapy treatment days had fewer dental emergen- cies. That study, based on Alaska Medicaid and electronic health records, found that children, in particular, benefited from dental therapists, as shown in lower emergency dental consultation rates. Many of the dental therapists in his study came from the same regions in which they worked in Alaska, meaning they had a shared history, language and cul- ture with the clients they were treating. “When you think about pa- tient-centred care, that was a wonderful aspect of the pro- gram,” said Dr. Chi, who is also a pediatric dentist. “Dental therapy isn’t a silver bullet,” he added, “but it could certainly address some of these large challenges that exist in a lot of rural and isolated communi- ties.” In Inuvik, the Inuvialuit Re- gional Corp. says it is pleased to see this initiative in the North. “Peopleinourregionarefacing very real gaps in access to dental and primary care,” said Evelyn Storr, IRC executive director of beneficiary services, in an e-mail. This model, along with a new health centre in Inuvik, “will help train local students in their home region and strengthen the long- term health work force in our communities.” Dental: Research shows therapists improve outcomes in underserved communities FROM A1 The University of Saskatchewan’s two-year dental-therapy program is currently the only one in Canada. UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN tionship flight attendants have with their employer, sparked by significant layoffs at the begin- ning of the pandemic. Currently, WestJet’s “credit hour”compensationsystemlinks cabincrewpaytothelengthofthe flights they work, but is used to paythemforafullrangeofduties, not just time spent in the air, the company says on its website. The “credit hour” combines flight times, ground duties, delays and other labour into a “single, higher rate of pay” that is then credited across the workday, according to WestJet. The pay rate ranges between $28.88 and $53.61 for each credit hour.At80credithoursamonth– considered full-time work – that adds up to between $27,700 and $51,500 a year. While many airlines maintain this type of compensation struc- ture, Delta Air Lines spearheaded reforms in 2022 when it became the first carrier in North America topayflightattendantsspecifical- ly for work done on the ground. AmericanAirlinesandAlaskaAir- lines followed suit with boarding pay of 50 per cent of regular rates. Mr. Gradek said the “credit hour” structure disproportion- ately benefits senior employees, while leaving junior ones strug- gling to make ends meet. “The junior flight attendants who work three or four flights a day don’t get any benefits in that at all. They’re in trouble,” he said. On what the dispute will cost WestJet, a private company, Mr. Gradek made the “conservative estimate” that the airline will be out between $8-million to $10- million dollars each day of the strike, as it must absorb the costs of rebooking passengers on com- petitor flights at premium prices. Still, he noted the airline turned downaloanofferfromthefederal government of up to $150-million inJunetooffsetsurgingfuelcosts, suggesting its financial health is stable. As for the potential of the fed- eralgovernmentorderingWestJet cabin crew back to work by invok- ing Section 107 of the Canada La- bour Code, Mr. Gradek said that provision has lost its utility. “That horse has left the barn a long time ago,” he said, referring to Air Canada flight attendants’ decision to defy the Section 107 order from Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu last summer that directed the Canada Industrial Relations Board to end the work stoppage and order binding arbitration be- tween the airline and the union. In a statement early Sunday, Ms. Hadju said she was disap- pointed that no deal could be re- ached to avoid a disruption at WestJet, but did not say whether the government planned to inter- vene. Mr. Gradek suggested the trend of frequent airline labour dis- putes signals the need for indus- try to shift. “They disrupt people’s lives. They disrupt the economy, and it’stimeforustocomeupandsay, ‘Okay, let’s come up with a differ- ent way of doing business.’ ” With reports from Vanmala Subramaniam and The Canadian Press Striking workers shouted de- mands for better wages through megaphonesasrainpoured.Pass- ing drivers honked their horns in support while dropping off trav- ellers. Meshach Baba, 25, slept on the airport floor after he arrived from TaipeiSaturdaynightandlearned his flight to Orlando, Fla., had been cancelled because of the la- bour dispute. The cancellation was for the last leg of his flight home after he spent three weeks in the Philippines for a wedding, his first solo international trip. “The trip was still pretty fun, but I’m definitely going to be more cautious about who I’m booking with,” he said. While WestJet rebooked his flight for Sunday afternoon, that trip was also cancelled because of thestrike.Hisnextflight,onDelta Air Lines, was scheduled for the next day. Domestically, Canada’s other major airlines are absorbing the surge in demand as travellers at- tempttosalvagetheirsummerva- cation plans. In an e-mail, Porter Airlines confirmed that bookings have re- cently increased across its net- work. “While flights are already ex- tremely busy, seats are available on many existing flights and we are assessing whether we can add more flights,” Porter communica- tions director Brad Cicero said. Air Canada said most seats on its flights are sold out and it cur- rently has minimal ability to in- crease capacity. “Our teams are making every effort to support WestJet passen- gers and provide available travel options. However, travellers need tobeawarethatweareinthepeak summer period and the August long weekend, representing the busiest weekend of the year,” the airline said in an e-mailed state- ment. The strike, said John Gradek, a faculty lecturer in supply net- works and aviation management at McGill University, reflects a broader reckoning with the rela- WestJet: Strike could cost company $8-million to $10-million each day, expert says FROM A1
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OTTAWA/QUEBEC EDITION ■ MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 ■ GLOBEANDMAIL.COM SOCCER After yet another scandal, we need to question why FIFA exists, Cathal Kelly writes B10 SPORTS B10-B15 BASEBALL Max Scherzer gives his best performance of the year with the trade deadline upon us B10 C anada’s air travel sector is facing another labour dis- ruption as 4,400 WestJet flight attendants, represented by CUPE Local 8125, walked off the job on Sunday. In July, the union had voted 99.4 per cent in favour of strike action if negotiations failed. The strike vote came after an important round of bargaining for the union, which is demand- ing “ground pay,” a new form of compensation that CUPE achieved with strike action against Air Canada last year, to pay flight attendants for work done outside of their time in the air. WestJet claims that the current contract already had mecha- nisms to compensate for time that flight attendants put in be- cause of delays, among other du- ties. However, CUPE is seeking to harmonize compensation prac- tices across the sector and re- move wages from competition. TUFTS, B6 WestJet labour dispute is really a proxy battle between Carney and unions STEVEN TUFTS OPINION A t the Toronto offices of Canadian pet-food maker Open Farm, what passes for a guard dog is a miniature Bernedoodle named Ted with a sharp bark and absolutely no bite. But he’s not just the CEO’s pet, he’s also a client. Ted eats the company’s GoodGut probiotic kibble to keep his gastrointesti- nal issues in check. And his caretakers point to him as a prime example of how Open Farm continues to sell pre- mium-priced chow, even in an inflationary environment where Canadians are looking for differ- ent ways to cut back – including in their own human-food bud- gets. “They might cut other cate- gories that are more discretion- ary, whether treats or supplies, toys, things like that,” said Open Farm’s chief executive officer, Isaac Langleben. “But the full diet, that nutri- tional element, is one that I think, rightly so, people are more reluctant. They’re actually willing to pay a bit more.” GROWTH, B6 Toronto-based pet-food maker considers IPO, next phase of expansion SUSAN KRASHINSKY ROBERTSON RETAILING REPORTER Manitoba potato farmer Sheldon Wiebe is using data collection and artificial intelligence that can identify and predict disease in the soil or insect infestation. MATT HORSEMAN/THE GLOBE AND MAIL [ AGRICULTURE ] The hot new commodity in farming Food producers are hungry for fresh technology to boost productivity, but investors are reluctant to bet on the sector P otato farmer Sheldon Wiebe used to rely on visual and scent cues to detect if his product was rotting inside climate- controlled storage bins designed to withstand Prairie temperatures. But now that his farm in MacGregor, Man., has started testing sensors from Calgary-based Cellar Insights on some bins, the first sign of rot may be a smartphone notification. With data collection that can detect early signs of mould spores using artificial intelli- gence, the technology can predict spoilage be- fore Mr. Wiebe’s spuds are ruined. This ensures more of his potatoes make it to Simplot Co.’s French fry processing plant, a 12-minute drive east of his farm. Cellar Insights’ system also us- es the season-long data sets it collects to train its models on Manitoba’s drastic climate, which varies considerably between the seasons. “We’re in such a high-risk business and mar- gins are very tight, and any kind of loss creates heartache financially, so good data really helps us to make good decisions,” Mr. Wiebe said. He has access to the early-stage technology through a contract with the Winnipeg-based Enterprise Machine Intelligence and Learning Initiative. EMILI is an industry-led non-profit that helps farmers use new agricultural tech- nology developed by companies around the world. FARMERS, B2 OLIVIA GRANDY COMPANIES ALPHABET ............................. B8 AMAZON.COM ...................... B8 APPLE .................................... B8 NVIDIA ................................... B8 ORACLE ................................. B8 An unusual inquiry came recently to the Calgary office of Avanti Helium Corp., an explorer for the ultralight gas used for ap- plications as wide-ranging as party bal- loons and space exploration. It was a prospective customer from the Middle East, where a sizable share of the world’sheliumsupplynormallyoriginates, reaching out to a provider half a world away. “Well, that’s interesting,” Chris Bakker, Avanti’s chief executive, recalled thinking. “I never thought I’d be shipping right in their backyard like that.” Turmoil in the oil and natural gas mar- ketsmayhavegarneredthemostheadlines since the U.S. and Israel launched their war onIraninlateFebruary,buttheconflicthas also upended helium supplies. Canada has raw resource in the ground to help fill the gap – but industry players say the govern- mentlackstherightpoliciesandincentives for them to develop and sell it. Helium has a wide array of uses, and in almost all cases there is nothing that can act as a substitute. The inert element cools MRI machines, pressurizes rocket com- ponents and helps detect leaks in nuclear plants.It’salsoavitalinputinthemanufac- turing of advanced computer chips, repre- senting an estimated 10 to 15 per cent of global helium demand as the artificial in- telligence sector booms. “Andthatshareisrisingprettyfast,”said Karen Hui, project co-ordinator with the Asia Pacific Foundation’s Canada-Indo-Pa- cific Critical Minerals Hub. Big Asian play- ers in the chip manufacturing space, such as Taiwan and South Korea, are hugely de- pendent on Qatari helium, and tend not to keep much in the way of backup supplies, she said. Helium can be produced alongside naturalgas,asisthecaseinQatar,whichac- counted for about one-third of global sup- plies before Iran hit key infrastructure ear- lier this year. HELIUM, B6 Turmoil in the Mideast has upended the world’s helium supplies. Canada has the resources to help LAUREN KRUGEL CALGARY DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS ENERGY Michigan Supreme Court orders review of permit for Enbridge oil pipeline B3 TRADE Ahead of talks with the U.S. and EU, China draws ‘red lines’ around economic policies B3 PERSONAL FINANCE How a Halifax single mom built a home after being priced out of the market B9 OPINION AI data centres are the future. Canada cannot afford to give in to the opposition B4
B2 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | REPORT ON BUSINESS B anca Monte dei Paschi di Siena is the world’s oldest bank. It has survived the rise and fall of the Medici, region- al and world wars, and its own near-death experiences – includ- ing a €5.4-billion bailout in 2017 and a derivatives scandal that made the lender a byword for mismanagement. But under Luigi Lovaglio, the CEO who was recruited by the Italian government in 2022 to en- gineer a turnaround, Monte dei Paschi has grown into one of Eu- rope’s healthiest financial insti- tutions. Now it’s a takeover tar- get. Sitting in Palazzo Salimbeni, the bank’s fortresslike 14th-cen- tury headquarters in Siena’s his- toric centre, late last month, Mr. Lovaglio reflected on the bank’s latest challenge. The Tuscan lend- er is being pursued by its biggest rival in an increasingly combat- ive contest. “I’m working around the clock to find the best solution,” said Mr. Lovaglio, 70, who survived a bruising board battle this spring to stay on the job. In June, the ball started rolling when Milan-based Banco BPM proposed a “merger of equals” with Monte dei Paschi. The next day, Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy’s big- gest bank, announced a hostile €35-billion (US$40 billion) cash- and-shares takeover bid for Monte dei Paschi, which has some €240-billion in assets on its balance sheet. The Intesa plan is somewhat convoluted. It involves teaming up with Unipol, an Italian in- surer, which would acquire roughly half of Monte dei Paschi’s branch network – some outposts still operate in tiny Tuscan towns, including on the island of Giglio – cleaving the Siena name off the door. Intesa is after Monte dei Paschi’s crown jewels: its Medio- banca investment bank and wealth management unit, and its stake in Generali, a US$77-billion insurer. Monte dei Paschi acquired those assets last year in a stun- ning David-taking-over-Goliath bid of its own. Further complicat- ing things, Banco BPM said in a statement Friday that it had ter- minated merger discussions with Monte dei Paschi, putting the talks in limbo. “It’s definitely got a Game of Thrones quality to it,” Johann Scholtz, a banking analyst at Morningstar, said of the compet- ing interests lining up for Monte dei Paschi. While European politicians, regulators and banking officials are fixated on Italian lender Uni- Credit’s swooping in to buy Ger- many’s Commerzbank – a hostile advance that briefly grew into a diplomatic spat between Rome and Berlin – a consolidation fren- zy is remaking Italy’s domestic banking sector. Europe’s banks are growing at the healthiest clip since before the 2008 global financial crisis, powered by years of high interest rates, a surging stock market and bumper wealth-management fees. But protectionist tendencies remain entrenched in national capitals. That’s despite a push by the European Union and Mario Draghi, a former European Cen- tral Bank president and an ex- prime minister of Italy, to encour- age consolidation across borders and industries. Only then, he ar- gued, can Europe think of build- ing superbanks to better compete with American behemoths like JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs. (JPMorgan is a mergers and acquisitions adviser to Inte- sa.) Italy has embraced the idea of combining financial institutions. The prospect of a takeover of Monte dei Paschi, founded in 1472, has sent shock waves through Tuscany. The people of Siena, including the mayor, have come out especially hard against the Intesa bid, fearing it would mean the beginning of the end for their beloved bank. For ages, the bank has been the region’s primary employer and a major backer of local enterprise. Its once-powerful charitable foundation funded social servic- es, community organizations and the arts, a hospital expan- sion in Siena and the city’s famed Palio, a bareback horse race pit- ting neighbourhoods against one another for winner-take-all brag- ging rights. “Monte isn’t just a bank. It is history, it’s culture and the econ- omy,” said Claudio Marignani, a retired Monte dei Paschi employ- ee. In 2012, he founded Sena Civ- itas, a community organization. He has called for his fellow sene- si, as the locals are called, to rally publicly to show their support for Monte dei Paschi’s independ- ence. The Roman Catholic Church, too, has put the dealmakers on notice, saying any tie-up must protect the livelihoods of Italian families. Siena’s archdiocese wrote an open letter in July say- ing it will monitor negotiations, “trusting that even in market matters some degree of justice and charity is to be expected.” Seeing the community rally around the bank is motivating, Mr. Lovaglio said. But ultimately the company’s fate lies in the hands of shareholders, the most powerful of which are far from Siena. The senesi have been here be- fore. Five years ago, the bank was a nationalized lender and on life support. A white-knight deal bro- kered by Rome fell through. Then in February, 2022, an official in the Mario Draghi government asked Mr. Lovaglio to take the top job. “When I was asked, I made the decision in five minutes,” Mr. Lo- vaglio said. Eight months later, he and his team pulled off a €2.5-billion rais- ing of capital that finally put Monte dei Paschi on sure finan- cial footing, lowering Rome’s stake from roughly 64 per cent. (It’s less than 5 per cent today.) Shares in the bank are up more than 475 per cent since then, far outperforming the broader Eu- ropean banking sector. Mr. Lovaglio won’t tip his hand as to the bank’s next move. But the drama playing out around the bank has reinforced his belief that “in order to be in a safe posi- tion, to be in a safe harbor, you should be bigger,” he said. As the afternoon wore on, Mr. Lovaglio left his advisers behind for some air. He headed to Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico, the stately brick town hall that houses the famous 14th-century frescoes by Ambrogio Lorenzetti depicting the effects of good and bad gov- ernment. On one wall, the artist painted an orderly world where the alle- gorical figures of Justice, Temper- ance, Prudence, Strength and Peace stand watch. Next to it is a dire landscape. A devil-like figure presides over allegorical baddies, including Discord, War, Fraud and Anger. Mr. Lovaglio said he was al- ways moved by looking at Loren- zetti’s contrasting worldviews, the bleak versus the bright. “I find this really inspiring and motivating,” he said, staring in- tently as he considered his next move. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE The knives are out for the world’s oldest bank Possible takeover of Italy’s Monte dei Paschi, founded in 1472, has caused shock waves BERNHARD WARNER Europe’s banks are growing at the healthiest clip since before the 2008 global financial crisis, powered by years of high interest rates, a surging stock market and bumper wealth-management fees. Mr. Wiebe’s 10,000 acre, 18-per- son operation, which also grows other rotational crops, is one of the initiative’s two innovation farms that test new technology at scale. Elsewhere in the province and in the country, forward-looking farmers are embracing tools such as predictive weed control and smart field management systems. These technologies are part of a wave of digital tools helping Canadian farms play catch-up with the productivity gains of global competitors. For many producers, however, an unclear return on investment, gaps in digital literacy and poor cell service on rural farms make the leap feel impractical. On one potato field, through EMILI, Mr. Wiebe’s team is test- ing out an Israeli-founded, AI- powered irrigation system called Autonomous Pivot. It uses a ground-penetrating radar to more precisely measure soil moisture and detect disease or insect issues. In other words, it’s a smart assistant that can pre- scribe watering before stress on the crop occurs. Without the sys- tem, the team has to conduct weekly moisture tests of hand- dug soil samples. The value of these technolo- gies comes down to the high- quality, transferable data they collect, and what they can use that data to identify or predict. For Mr. Wiebe, the tech can help alleviate the typically time-con- suming troubleshooting process. He gives the example of a rot issue in storage, and how the col- lected data could help locate where it’s coming from in the field. This kind of tracking helps to “connect all the dots across the farm,” he said. While producers like Mr. Wiebe are hungry for new tech- nology to improve productivity, investors are reluctant to bet on the ag-tech sector. Investment in domestic agri-food companies, including those aimed at pri- mary agriculture (the stage where crops are grown), has dwindled as generalist investors have come to view food produc- tion as fragmented, confusing and high-risk, said RBC lead re- searcher on the industry, Lisa Ashton. According to a February re- port by Ms. Ashton, overall in- vestment in these companies is lower today than it was a decade ago, with deals down 29 per cent, and the value of those deals down 32 per cent. A 2025 report from the Cana- dian Agri-Food Policy Institute said industry discussions are of- ten focused on potential benefits of new tech, without addressing on-farm realities to win over pragmatic producers. Larger grain, oilseed, dairy and con- trolled-environment operations, such as greenhouses, are leading in digital agriculture adoption, while smaller farms lag behind, the report said. Players such as EMILI are try- ing to change that. Along with Farm Credit Canada, the initia- tive founded AIVA, a network for farmers to test early-stage ag- tech products to reduce business risk. “It is hard to distinguish what is fact and what is fiction and what is aspiration,” EMILI chief executive officer Jacqueline Kee- na said. “… By the time a farmer is adopting a technology, and if it’s been through Innovation Farms, we can say with confi- dence this has been our experi- ence, this is how it’s worked for us.” This month, FCC also released a report on AI adoption in Cana- dian agriculture, which found the sector is falling behind other industries in Canada. FCC vice-president of AgExp- ert and Innovation Hub Moha- mad Yaghi emphasized the po- tential value that widespread digitalization could add to the industry: “At the end of the day, an anecdote is a data point.” The Crown corporation has re- cently been pushing hard for in- creased capital investment in in- novation across Canadian agri- culture and food. The hope, Ms. Keena said, is that testing can bring down the cost of new technologies over time as farmers are forced to op- erate in an “increasingly lean way.” As competitors such as Brazil and Australia have gained market share, Canada’s position in global agriculture and agri- food trade slipped to seventh from fifth place as of February, 2025, according to another RBC report. Solutions are growing to ad- dress obstacles to adoption, such as the lack of access to reliable cell service and high-speed inter- net in isolated farming areas. For example, equipment-pro- vider John Deere has partnered with SpaceX’s Starlink network on a product called JDLink Boost, which became available in Canada last year. The satellite-based connectiv- ity tool mounts directly on equipment and ensures high- speed internet access to run smart technology. Although best known for its green and yellow tractors, John Deere also offers data collection and farm management software that is compatible with other brands. This kind of software tracks and records inputs, field boundaries, yield and weather conditions. Rick Rutherford has recog- nized the utility of such data for quite some time. He’s the pro- ducer heading up EMILI’s other innovation farm near Grosse Isle, Man., and takes pride in the data his grain, pulse and oilseed oper- ation has amassed over the last 14 years. “The collection of the data is the cornerstone of every- thing we do,” he said. The data sets made him a strong candidate to test out Ge- co, a predictive weed control sys- tem created in Vancouver. It uses AI, satellite imagery, crop-growth modelling and a historical re- cords from fields to develop maps of weed patterns. It can then predict where weeds will sprout the following season, and generate “prescrip- tions” for spray and seeding rates to target stubborn patches. This allows Mr. Rutherford and his team to spot-target the applica- tion of herbicides, as compared to the the traditional, less precise method of spraying uniformly across the field. In using less chemicals, Mr. Rutherford said the technology is “making our farm more envi- ronmentally cautious.” During the spring, Geco can also provide guidance on where farmers should plant seeds more densely to crowd out weeds for chemical- free management. Mr. Rutherford noted that no tech, including Geco, is a silver bullet for improved productivity or sustainability, but an AI-pow- ered toolkit does provide an ad- vantage. “I haven’t seen one yet that’s come through EMILI that revolutionizes our whole farm. It just applies another tool,” he said. Thought leaders, including venture capitalist and Dragons’ Den star Arlene Dickinson, have called for Canada to meet the moment on agri-food. Ms. Dick- inson has invested in agri-food companies across supply chain steps. When it comes to attract- ing investment, Mr. Rutherford points out that the more data available on a crop, the more val- ue it has because of factors such as traceability. “There is a quite a movement now for people to know where their food comes from and to be able to go back and say: ‘Yes, this came from a field in Grosse Isle, Manitoba, and these are the in- puts that were used on that field,’ ” he explained. For many, accessing the bene- fits of predictive technology feels still on the horizon. Taylor Phillips, chief technol- ogy officer at Maverick Ag, a Sas- katoon-based risk-management consultancy, guides farmers through the digitalization proc- ess. He said “clean, calibrated and accessible data,” are the in- gredients needed to get high- quality results from new tools, but many farmers don’t know where to start. He has been coaching pro- ducers to develop AI literacy with off-the-shelf tools, such as Google’s Gemini ecosystem. He helps them understand how to consolidate years worth of their farm data in one place, often by using AI to compile scattered spreadsheets on various pro- grams. One of Mr. Phillips’s clients, Taylor Wallace, who operates a 21,000-acre grain and pulse farm near Unity, Sask., has begun in- corporating AI into his team’s daily routines. Mr. Wallace is aware he has merely skimmed the surface of what’s possible with this emerg- ing wave of tech. With high-qual- ity crop data, he hopes his farm will soon be able to tap into the full potential of what predictive tools promise: insights that shift a farmer’s role from reactive to proactive. Mr. Phillips’s value proposi- tion to his clients frames their data as a precious resource. “They don’t realize that one of the most valuable commodities that they’re growing on their farm isn’t just the grain, but it’s the data itself, and the value in- side of those data points for making different decisions,” he said. With reports from Kate Helmore Farmers: Predictive weed control, smart field management among tools being used FROM B1 Above: Sheldon Wiebe walks through one of his potato fields toward an irrigation pivot near MacGregor, Man. Right: Cellar Insights, a piece of AI tech used to detect rot, sits stationed in a warehouse bin beside 15 million pounds of potatoes. PHOTOS BY MATT HORSEMAN/ THE GLOBE AND MAIL
#$ $! ! ! $ !# $ $ "" $# $ $ $ "" $"" $" $$ !## " !# $ $ "" MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL O B3 REPORT ON BUSINESS | The Michigan Supreme Court has ordered state regulators to recon- sider a key permit that allowed a planned tunnel to carry an oil pipeline under part of the Great Lakes to move forward. The 6-1 decision further clouds the future of the 73-year-old pipeline owned by Canadian en- ergy transportation company Enbridge Inc. that carries petro- leum from Superior, Wis., to Sar- nia, Ont. The part of the pipeline in question, called Line 5, runs for six kilometres along the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac where Lakes Huron and Michigan meet. Enbridge wants to bury the pipeline in a tunnel under the straits. Environmentalists and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer want to move the pipe- line away from the waterway alto- gether,sayingaspillwouldbecat- astrophic to the Great Lakes and surrounding area. The Michigan Public Service Commission granted a permit to build the tunnel in 2023. Four Mi- chigan tribal nations along with several environmental groups sued. The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Friday that when they granted the permit, regulators failed to consider if the tunnel project will extend the lifetime of the pipeline, resulting in more harm to the environment. The ruling also said the Public Service Commission wasn’t con- sistent when it compared alterna- tives to the pipeline like using trucks or trains to move the oil and didn’t assess how the tunnel might impact fishing, boating and other public trust rights on the Great Lakes. Opponents of the pipeline say this type of project has never been done anywhere else and would turn the Straits of Macki- nac, which is a sacred site for the Indigenous Anishinaabe tribes, into a construction site for years. “Whether Line 5 is suspended in the water or encased in a tun- nel, it is simply a terrible idea to pump more than half a million barrels of oil every day through the middle of the Great Lakes,” at- torney David Gover with the Na- tive American Rights Fund said in a statement. Enbridge is reviewing its legal options after the ruling and said it is disappointed for another delay in a project that has been under review for nearly a decade and would “enhance environmental protection of the Great Lakes while maintaining critical energy reliability for the region,” spokes- man Ryan Duffy said in a state- ment. Enbridge proposed the pipe- line tunnel nearly a decade ago around the time a ship anchor dented part of the line. The com- pany said the tunnel would mas- sively reduce the possibility of an oil spill, but environmentalists said building the tunnel under the bottom of the Straits of Mack- inac would cause noise, vibra- tions and permanent environ- mental damage. In a different set of court cases, Ms. Whitmer and other state offi- cials have been trying since 2020 to shut down the pipeline under the straits. ASSOCIATED PRESS Enbridge’s Mackinaw facility in Mackinaw City, Mich., services the company’s existing underwater Line 5 pipeline and its planned replacement tunnel through the Straits of Mackinac between lakes Michigan and Huron. CARLOS OSORIO/REUTERS Michigan Supreme Court orders review of Enbridge pipeline under Great Lakes Part of Line 5 runs for six kilometres along the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac JEFFREY COLLINS C hina is energetically defending its economic policy mix that favours advanced industries over consump- tion, adopting a posture analysts see as demonstra- ting increasing confidence ahead of looming trade talks with Europe and the United States. President Xi Jinping and U.S. counterpart Donald Trump plan more face-to-face meetings this year, while Brussels has set an October deadline for Beijing to settle disputes as wor- ries grow over China’s trillion-dollar-plus trade surplus. Western countries frame China’s policies as mercantilist and opposing global trade rules, saying its priority for pro- ducers over households pushes cheaper goods into global markets, hollowing out industry in countries seeking more balanced growth. But a meeting of top Communist Party leaders signalled policy continuity on Thursday, calling for targeted support rather than the consumer-focused stimulus and structural changes long urged by China’s trading partners and many economists. Days earlier, the Commerce Ministry accused the West of protectionism in a position paper on “so-called industrial overcapacity” that rejected the notion as rooted in “logical flaws” and “ulterior motives”. The ruling Communist Party’s flagship theoretical journal, Qiushi, also defended China’s low consumption in July, as a “historically justified” outcome of the investment-led, catch- up development model. SuchmessagesstopshortoftellingtheWestthatChinawill not change course, said Xu Tianchen, a senior economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit, but send two posturing sig- nals. “The first is about hoping others understand where it comesfrom.Abettermutualunderstandinghelpsinnegotia- tions,” Mr. Xu said. “The second is about drawing a red line.” The Commerce Ministry paper “made clear that China doesn’t accept discriminatory measures against its firms and products,” he added. China says its model reflects the needs of a country still converging with advanced economies. Its products are not only cheaper, but increasingly better, while its tech and sci- ence investments can benefit the entire world. Last month, Premier Li Qiang countered warnings of a “Chinashock2.0”,orascenarioinwhichChinesefirmscrowd out Western competitors in advanced manufacturing, por- traying it as “China opportunity 2.0” for the global economy. This is a “narrative that is falling flat in countries at the re- ceiving end of those exports”, said Eswar Prasad, a professor oftradepolicyatCornellUniversityandaformerChinadirec- tor at the International Monetary Fund. “China’s heavy dependence on exports to power its own growth in light of weak domestic demand is going to make it difficult to argue that Chinese exports are a gift to consumers worldwide.” Washington’s effort to boost pressure on China through tariffs of more than 100 per cent last year floundered as Beij- ing used its dominant position in production of rare earths, key for a wide range of global industries, to regain strategic ground. Now the European Union, whose trade deficit with China averaged US$1-billion a day last year, is pursuing its own in- dustrial and domestic procurement policies to defend its market. This month, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticized Beijing for keeping its currency undervalued. ButthelateststatementsfromChinasuggestBeijing’scon- fidence is growing that it can soften trade disputes without making significant concessions. “TheU.S.tariffepisodeappearstohavesuppliedatemplate of managed engagement that Beijing is also applying to Eu- rope – essentially buying time,” said Alicia Garcia-Herrero, chief Asia-Pacific economist at Natixis. “Beijing’s messaging on its economic model does come across as more confident and tightly framed than a year or two ago,” she added. Tobesure,Beijinghasslowedinvestmentthisyear,primar- ily by tightening scrutiny on local government spending, which economists blame for driving overcapacity in manu- facturing and infrastructure. Officials publicly recognize a supply-demand “contradic- tion” and pledge to end deflationary price wars among pro- ducers battling for market share at the expense of profits. They often promise to boost consumer demand, even without major structural reform plans. “Historical justification does not mean long-term justifica- tion” of weak consumption, the Qiushi article said, adding that a change in the model was “necessary”. Analysts say this means China recognizes imbalances but wants to move carefully, fearing disruptive changes. But a growing body of international research warns Beij- ing’s policies threaten both the global economy and its own. Fornearly60percentofChinesefirms,their“marketshare gains can be explained by subsidies received”, the Organiza- tionforEconomicCooperationandDevelopmentsaidinare- cent report. ABankofItalypaperestimatedthatdomesticfactors,such as weak consumption and overcapacity, have driven about 75 per cent of Chinese export growth. A McKinsey Global Institute report said China is adding three times more productive assets each year than Europe and the United States combined, while its capital returns are roughly 40 per cent lower. “Chineseargumentsaremorefrequentandformalnowbe- cause the evidence of systemic domestic economic problems leadingtospilloversontherestoftheworldismountingeven faster,” said Daniel Rosen, co-founder of researcher Rhodium Group. REUTERS China draws ‘red lines’ around its economic model ahead of EU, U.S. trade talks CLAIRE FU KEVIN YAO LIANGPING GAO LONDON OPEC+ approved an oil production quota increase on Sunday of around 188,000 barrels a day from September, the producer group said, in a move that completes the unwinding of a layer of voluntary output cuts. Due to export disruptions from the Gulf, Russia and Kazakhstan caused by the Iran and Ukraine wars, successive monthly OPEC+ hikes over most of this year have remained largely on paper with little impact on the market. The September increase agreed by core OPEC+ members – Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Algeria, Kazakhstan and Oman – finishes the phased rollback of a 1.65 million b/d supply cut originally agreed in 2023, when the group still included the United Arab Emirates, which left OPEC in May. The seven members will hold their next meeting on Sept. 6. REUTERS OPEC+ AGREES SEPTEMBER OIL HIKE, COMPLETING ROLLBACK OF VOLUNTARY CUTS
B4 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | REPORT ON BUSINESS OPINION & ANALYSIS F or anyone not whittling down Claude tokens every day, the significance of artifi- cial-intelligence computational resources can seem remote. But the fact is that AI and the hardware that supports it are quickly becoming general-pur- pose inputs into science, busi- ness, national defence and health care. The productivity gains are already showing up as more accu- rate health-risk detection in hos- pitals, faster software develop- ment and a lower barrier to solv- ing complex research problems. Canadians need dependable in- frastructure to store, process and protect the data behind those uses, and the expertise to develop and use these tools. More than attracting data-cen- tre investment, the objective is to secure reliable access to comput- ing power, greater jurisdiction over data, and stronger domestic capabilities in data centre devel- opment and operation. Normally economists care moreaboutthelocationofcapital than its ownership because a fac- tory must be located where pro- duction occurs. But data centres are different. Computational ser- vices can often be supplied from abroad, while many of the eco- nomic benefits we care about come from learning how to build, manage and improve them (what economists call an “innovation spillover”). Much like oil, they are also becoming a strategic choke- point, because storage and com- putation are increasingly used across the entire economy. The Trump administration’s recent decision to restrict access to Anthropic’s frontier AI models drives home the strategic point. Just as we have seen how Iran can cripple energy markets by block- ingtheStraitofHormuz,theUnit- ed States has shown that it is will- ing and able to cut off access to AI tools when its interests dictate. As AI becomes embedded in the basic functions of our society, Canada cannot afford to allow es- sential services or the accompa- nying domestic innovation to de- pend entirely on the decisions of foreign governments. While we cannot control how the U.S. gov- erns access to its AI models, we must do what we can to reduce our dependence. Still, data centres impose real costs, and proposed projects have understandably faced backlash across Canada. They raise energy prices for local residents, create noise and provide far fewer per- manent jobs than many other large capital projects. The profits are hard to tax, especially when the value being produced is tied to intellectual property held else- where. And the broader benefits that could otherwise motivate public support – greater techno- logical capability and national re- silience – have not been ade- quately realized thus far. Polling this year from the An- gus Reid Institute suggests Cana- dians broadly see the need for domestic AI infrastructure. But more than two-thirds oppose having it built near their own communities. The problem is fundamentally about externali- ties: the costs are local, while the potentialbenefitsarebothdiffuse and only partially captured by Canadians. Justaswedonotexpectprivate companies to consider national needs in their production deci- sions, we cannot reasonably ex- pect individuals to be happy pay- ing higher electricity bills for what are at present only weak in- novation and sovereignty gains. The question is, how do we ad- dress this misalignment of incen- tives to get those data centres built? To start, our policy framework needs to ensure that Canadians actually receive the strategic and innovative benefits that justify data centre construction in the first place. Since these are externalities, they are not naturally delivered by standard foreign investment agreements and a more active in- dustrial policy is justified. Federal tax credits and subsidies should favour projects with Canadian- headquartered ownership stakes, joint ventures with Canadian firms, or enforceable commit- ments to allocate priority com- pute to Canadian researchers, startups and public institutions. Canada should continue to welcomeglobalfirmsthatwantto build here. But it should also ask what Canadian workers, compa- nies and institutions learn from these projects, and how much control over our data and proc- essing we have in times of geopol- itical disruption. The objection that conditions on ownership and participation will deter foreign investment is far weaker here than in other sec- tors. This is because the benefit Canada seeks from data centres is different from that of a factory – foreign-owned factories can still create substantial domestic em- ployment and production. If the reasons for supporting data cen- tres are instead primarily to boost our innovative capacity and se- cure sovereignty over our compu- tational resources, then domestic participation is not a nice-to- have. It is itself the point. Next, local residents should not have to pay higher electricity bills for infrastructure that they are not using directly and that does not employ many of them. Data centre owners should be required either to provide their own power or to finance equiva- lentnewsupplyandgridcapacity. Thissupplymatchingwouldneed to occur at a reasonably high fre- quency – it should match what the data centre uses at all times. Matchingtotalelectricityuseover a month or year is not enough if residents still have to pay much moreduringpeak-demandhours. The approval process needs to be strict enough to ensure that tech companies cannot avoid these re- quirements through clever ac- counting. Versions of this idea are al- ready emerging as a response to rising data centre electricity de- mand, and they should become the baseline. As Manitoba Pre- mier Wab Kinew’s recent rejec- tion of the province’s data centre proposal (which would have had its own natural gas turbines) shows, “bring-your-own-power” does not eliminate all opposition. But it would change the bargain so that communities are not be- ing asked to subsidize the elec- tricity needs of distant users. Finally, host communities need to become visible fiscal win- ners. Municipalities should not be forced into bidding wars against one another by offering local tax breaks to attract data centres. If subsidies or tax credits are justi- fied, they should come from the federal government and be avail- able on a consistent national ba- sis. This way, local governments can keep the full property-tax base created by the data centre and, if necessary, receive addi- tional federal transfers for public goods conditional on accepting large projects. It is easier to toler- ate a bit of noise when you know that it is paying for roads and li- braries. Canadaalsoneedsamorecred- ible approach to multinational profit-shifting because existing solutions are imperfect. Alberta’s 2 per cent levy on computer hard- ware is easy to administer but commits two cardinal sins of effi- cient taxation: It taxes intermedi- ate inputs and singles out one in- dustry. Some legal experts have ar- gued formula-based profit appor- tionment could better divide IP- based tax revenue across jurisdic- tions where companies operate, but this would require careful de- sign and international co-oper- ation. Making progress on these issues would help ensure that communities share more visibly in the benefits of hosting data centres. The backlash against data cen- tres is understandable. But the answer is not to block construc- tion. It is to design a better bar- gain. Kevin Yin is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail and an economics doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. AI data centres are the future. Canada must find some way to overcome the backlash But administrators should be required to provide their own power or to finance equivalent grid capacity KEVIN YIN If a large AI data centre was proposed within a few blocks of where you live, would you support or oppose it? Percentage of respondents 15% 15% 68% 68% 17% 17% Support Oppose Not sure / Can’t say THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: ANGUS REID INSTITUTE Which comes closer to your own view? Percentage of respondents 46% 46% 28% 28% 25% 25% We need domestic AI infrastructure This is not really a concern Not sure / Can’t say THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SOURCE: ANGUS REID INSTITUTE PROSPERITY’S PATH iSTOCKPHOTO/GETTY IMAGES The Equinix data centre is pictured in downtown Toronto. Polling this year from the Angus Reid Institute suggests Canadians broadly see the need for domestic AI infrastructure. FRED LUM/THE GLOBE AND MAIL OPINION
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And in space, China and other countries have suggested they may want more say over who uses which spectrum to communicate with Earth. In the United States, licences to use spe- cificspectrum bandsserveaspseudoprop- erty rights. The Federal Communications Commission allows them to be bought, sold and leased (with its approval), and it renews them almost automatically, absent misconduct. USTelecom, a telecommuni- cations trade group, told a federal court that the industry had sunk more than US$230-billion into FCC auctions as well as US$700-billion into networks on the as- sumption it was buying something close to property. Shares of phone and cable companies have been under pressure in recent months over fears that SpaceX will scoop up more spectrum at an auction next year and use it to compete with them, including by connecting ordinary cellphones direct- ly to satellites. There is also a race to acquire spectrum used for communications with outer space, where satellite frequencies are man- aged by the International Telecommunica- tion Union, a branch of the United Nations. The federal government applies for these licences on behalf of U S. companies under a first-come, first-served system. Later en- trants can use the same airwaves but must co-ordinate with the incumbent to avoid interfering with it. That system has worked well for SpaceX and other American com- panies that filed early and in bulk. Much of the rest of the world isn’t thrilled with the status quo, seeing the air- waves less as a piece of property and more as a resource to be shared by all under in- ternational oversight. That may seem high-minded, but it’s also a defensive move against powerful first movers such as SpaceX. American negotiators are gearing up for a fight at the World Radiocommunication Conference, which will be held in October and November, 2027, in Shanghai – home turf of the powerful Chinese delegation. Late-coming Chinese companies have flooded the ITU with applications for satel- lite frequencies while insisting on “equita- ble access” to bands where earlier filings, mostly by American operators, hold prior- ity. The fight over the commercial exploita- tion of space goes back decades. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bars any nation from claiming sovereignty over the moon or other celestial bodies, but it never settled the question of private claims. A 1979 fol- low-up, the Moon Treaty, tried to declare space the common inheritance of all hu- manity, but the United States didn’t ratify it; nor did any of the other major space- faring nations. This has created a policy vacuum. The Trump administration favours treating space more as private property than as shared inheritance. An executive order in President Donald Trump’s first term concerning outer space flatly stated that “the United States does not view it as a global commons.” Americans are worried about the Eu- ropean Union’s proposed Space Act, which would impose requirements for operating in Europe that appear designed to burden large non-European operators, SpaceX among them. Researchers at the think tank New America note similar protection- ist instincts showing up in regulatory frameworks in Canada, Brazil, Japan, India and China. SpaceX has “a favourable administra- tion in the U.S. with the FCC, but not so much internationally,” said Chris Quilty, whose firm tracks the satellite industry’s fi- nancial statements and regulatory filings. Even with global spectrum rights secured through the ITU, SpaceX needs each coun- try’s sign-off to turn on service. The FCC deserves some of the credit for America’s leadership in new wireless ser- vices. It requires incumbents to use ad- vanced technology to minimize interfe- rence and maximize shared use of spec- trum. Clever engineering often solves con- flicts. That modernization push by the FCC, for which SpaceX has lobbied, has made the United States “the envy of the world” inspectrummatters,saidDavidRedl,exec- utive director of the SpaceConnect Associ- ation,atradegroupforlow-Earth-orbitsat- ellite companies Amazon Leo, Iridium, Te- lesat and Globalstar. He ran the National Telecommunications and Information Ad- ministration, the federal government’s spectrum office, during the first Trump ad- ministration. Mr. Redl’s group says the tighter bottle- neck now isn’t Washington. It’s the “leng- thy, often combative” licensing processes operators still face trying to serve custom- ers outside the United States. Each coun- try’s regulator must issue landing rights. Global spectrum rules have long been set through international consensus, ham- mered out at the ITU’s World Radiocom- munication Conferences roughly every four years, on the informal understanding that no country would alone move too far ahead of that consensus. The United States, under the FCC’s current leadership, has been doing exactly that, getting ahead of the consensus. Michael Calabrese, who directs the Wireless Future project at New America, argues that the United States should keep the pressure on to “demonstrate the viabil- ity” of these reforms, and then push the rest of the world to adopt similar ones. In the 1970s, when treaties like the ITU’s were first written, only governments had the technology, so governments set the pace, said Harold Feld, a long-time telecom policy lawyer. “Now you have private-sec- tor companies moving as quickly as pos- sible, and you have rivalry between coun- tries,” he said. “Not only are there no rules, there’s less incentive within the structure to create them.” While diplomats dicker, what one advo- cate calls facts in the sky keep piling up. SpaceX’s Starlink accounts for about two- thirds of all active satellites in orbit, con- centrated in the low-Earth-orbit shells best suited to low-latency broadband. Starlink is now something like 60 per cent of Space- X’s revenue and essentially all of its oper- ating income. But the contingent that sees space as a shared commons isn’t giving up. Hans- deep Singh, a human rights lawyer who co- founded the International Center for Ad- vocates Against Discrimination, says the world needs to act “before a few powerful states and companies are able to create norms that then just become the rules.” NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE The high-stakes battle for invisible real estate in space Radio spectrum cannot be legally owned, but has become more valuable as groups jostle for more control over it PETER COY The SpaceX starship lifts off from the SpaceX launch complex in Starbase, Tex., in July for a test flight. Shares of phone and cable companies have been under pressure over fears that SpaceX will scoop up more radio spectrum at an auction next year. STEVE NESIUS/REUTERS
B6 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | REPORT ON BUSINESS Output has been sharply reduced and it’s been estimated it could take three to five years for repairs to be complete. And then there’s the Strait of Hormuz to contend with. Since the war began, few ships have been able to exit the narrow wa- terway connecting the Persian Gulf with the open sea. “It’s very likely that Qatar won’t fully restart until they trust the strait is genuinely safe, and we are not seeing that right now,” Ms. Hui said. Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, and Rus- sian export controls on helium as it looks to meet its own mil- itary needs, have taken yet more supplies out of the equation. “The security of supply story I don’t think can be overstated,” said Mr. Bakker, who says he has also been fielding calls from po- tential Chinese buyers for the first time in years. Canada has one-fifth of the world’s helium reserves, but makes up about 2 per cent of global production. The resource is mainly centred in the southern Prairies. One of the biggest play- ers, North American Helium, is looking to establish a helium hub in southwest Saskatchewan. Unlike in Qatar, helium in Western Canada can be found in pockets of nitrogen deep under- ground, in separate formations from where natural gas lies. It’s extracted using the kind of no- frills rigs used in conventional oil and gas drilling. Helium is notoriously difficult to store and transport, as it be- comes a liquid at an extraordina- rily cold -269 C. Canada does not have the ability domestically to liquefy the gas – a necessary step for long-haul transport – so what supply it does produce is trucked to the U.S. for processing. North American Helium is aiming to build Canada’s first liquefaction facility in Saskatchewan. “We believe that this industry can be a major reliable, secure supplier of helium to the world that increasingly needs it and in- creasingly is finding itself prone to geopolitical pressures,” said Richard Dunn, executive director of the Helium Developers Associ- ation of Canada. “We think we’re on the cusp of something.” Helium is one of the 34 miner- als and metals the Canadian gov- ernment has designated as crit- ical, meaning the supply chain is threatened and that there is a reasonable chance of it being produced in Canada. But a “quirk” in the Income Tax Act means helium doesn’t receive the same tax treatment as the other 33 minerals on the list, said Mr. Dunn. Helium developers have been urging the federal government to rectify that so the industry can attract the capital it needs to ramp up production enough for domestic liquefaction to make economic sense. Among other things, helium companies with no current reve- nues want to be able to pass on tax credits to their investors through flow-through shares – an important source of financing in the resource space. They also want to have access to the Crit- ical Mineral Exploration Tax Credit. “We are not looking for any- thing [from] the government that is not in their economic tool box,” said Mr. Dunn. Mr. Dunn’s group has been lobbying hard and plans to make submissions to Ottawa ahead of its next budget. The tone he’s heard so far has been encourag- ing. “Securing access to critical minerals, including helium, is a priority for Canada,” Tim Hodg- son, the federal natural resources minister, wrote in a letter to Mr. Dunn in June. “Natural Resources Canada ac- knowledges your requests for support for the Canadian helium industry, and I recognize the po- tential these measures could have in growing Canada’s helium industry. “I look forward to progress in securing a sustainable supply of helium for Canada.” Ms. Hui said Ottawa could also help by acting as an “anchor” for production through long-term offtake agreements, underpin- ning early investments in an un- certain industry. There are also financial tools, like contracts for difference, that can shield pro- ducers from short-term com- modity price swings. In addition to liquefaction ca- pabilities, the industry would need specialized cryogenic con- tainers to ship the liquid helium long distances around the globe and the rail and port infrastruc- ture to get it around, Hui added. In the meantime, Avanti has been focusing on starting pro- duction from a field in Montana, where Mr. Bakker says the busi- ness environment is more con- ducive to deploying capital quickly. Land the company has on the Alberta side of the border is dormant for now. “We would love to come back and re-establish our position here.” THE CANADIAN PRESS Helium: Element is one of 34 minerals and metals Ottawa has designated as critical FROM B1 According to Mr. Langleben, Open Farm is benefiting from what economists call a K-shaped economy, in which higher-in- come households see their spending power increase, even as lower-income consumers strug- gle. During its last fiscal year ended June 30, Open Farm recorded more than $400-million in sales, he said, and since 2018, its annual growth rate has been around 58 per cent. In 2020, as the pandemic stoked a boom in pet ownership, Open Farm had fewer than 40 em- ployees; now it has a staff of roughly 135. The Globe and Mail reported in June that the company had de- layed an initial public offering it had been contemplating, amid choppy markets and concerns over consumer spending trends. The company has not yet de- cided whether to go public, though Mr. Langleben said they are “seriously considering” the option. “We’re not in a rush,” said Mr. Langleben, who co-founded the company in 2014 with his wife, Jacqueline Prehogan, and Derek Beigleman, who is no longer with the company. “We don’t really have any gun to our head to do anything. We’re profitable. We’re cash-flow positive. We have great partners,minoritypartners.AndI thinkwe’reassessingallofourop- tions to continue growing the business.” Open Farm began when the couple began seeking out more ethically sourced meat alterna- tives.Whilethetransitionwasrel- atively easy for themselves, when it came to feeding Ted’s predeces- sors – a pair of pugs whose por- traits still hang on the office walls – they didn’t find much. So they launched the company, which now makes a variety of pet foods with ethically sourced meats, as well as plant-based recipes. “We’re paying more for our meat. We’re always doing things the hard way. But we know that’s our entire reason for existing,” said Ms. Prehogan, Open Farm’s co-founder and chief brand offi- cer. AllofOpenFarm’sproteinscar- ry animal-welfare certifications, and the company has “very ag- gressive sustainability targets,” Ms. Prehogan said. Not all of those targets have been easy to meet. The most chal- lenging, she said, has been the commitment Open Farm made in 2020 to reduce its carbon emis- sions by 42 per cent within 10 years. In the meantime, the com- pany has been offsetting emis- sions with carbon credits and re- newableenergycertificates.Itwill soon provide a full update on that commitment, Ms. Prehogan said. “I think that’s the key, it’s a journey. And it’s being transpar- ent and bringing everybody along with us – the stuff that’s working, the stuff that’s really challeng- ing,” she said. Thepetindustryhasgrownsig- nificantly in recent years, as more people adopted animals and proved willing to spend liberally on care for their four-legged friends. But the costs of veterin- ary care, food and grooming have also risen, leading some consum- ers to take a second look at their budgets. In the United States – the source of 85 per cent of Open Farm’s sales – there are signs of a slowdown. The U.S. pet industry’s nearly 20-per-cent growth in 2021 moderated to 9 per cent in 2025, according to research from Mor- gan Stanley, and is expected to contract further to 4 per cent through 2030. Canadian retailer Pet Valu has alsoreportedapullbackinspend- ing, and in May the company cut its earnings outlook for this year. Onaconferencecalltodiscussthe company’s first-quarter earnings, CEO Greg Ramier told analysts that the retailer was seeing “a higher level of value-seeking be- haviour from devoted pet lovers,” while rising fuel prices had also increased transportation costs for both Pet Valu and its product sup- pliers. But the contraction is uneven across the industry. New Jersey- based Freshpet Inc., which makes premium-priced fresh and frozen pet foods, has seen continued strengthinitssales.“Year-to-date, the consumer’s remained re- markably resilient,” CEO William Cyr told analysts on the compa- ny’s most recent earnings call in May, although he added that Freshpet would keep “a watchful eye” for possible changes in buy- ing habits. “You do have some customers who are making choices to trade down and spend less to feed their pets,” Open Farm’s Mr. Langleben said. “But you’re still seeing a lot of consumers who are trading up.” Nearly half of Open Farm’s business is online, largely through its own website, as well as Amazon.com Inc. In addition, theproductsarenowsoldinmore than 10,000 stores in the U.S. and Canada, including chains such as Pet Valu and Global Pet Foods, as well as independent retailers. In June, Open Farm launched a ma- jor retail expansion in 1,700 Pet- Smart stores across North Amer- ica. In recent years, Open Farm has also begun expanding overseas, through wholesale partners in China, South Korea and Japan. “Long term, we think Open Farmwillbeaglobalbrand.That’s our vision,” Mr. Langleben said. “For now, we’re going to continue to invest in the markets we’re in today. But over time, definitely, more serious international ex- pansion will be on the table, and that includes Europe, the U.K., more focused energy on Asia as well.” The next priority for Open Farm is a major investment in marketing. “We have the distribution, and then our job is to work with them to actually drive people and con- sumers into their stores,” Ms. Pre- hogan said. “… It’s a pivotal point for us, in terms of taking the brand to the next level.” Growth: Open Farm began as couple was seeking ethically sourced meat alternatives FROM B1 Jacqueline Prehogan and Isaac Langleben, founders of pet food company Open Farm, say they are assessing all of their options in order to continue growing their business. EDUARDO LIMA/GLOBE AND MAIL The most challenging, she said, has been the commitment Open Farm made in 2020 to reduce its carbon emissions by 42 per cent within 10 years. In the meantime, the company has been offsetting emissions with carbon credits and renewable energy certificates. While the impacts of any disruption would be significant for workers and WestJet passengers, this latest dispute is also a microcosm of the larger forces shaping the future of industrial relations in Canada. In order to get a fair collective agreement, flight attendants must main- tain the power to strike. In this sector, however, the right to strike is precarious at best. Last summer, Air Canada flight attend- ants were ordered back to work by the government less than 12 hours into a strike. At that time, flight attendants de- fied the back-to-work order issued by the Jobs Minister and continued the stoppage for another two days. We can expect the government to limit the right of workers to strike this time as well. In fact, it is possible that the government may inter- vene before a strike even begins. The Liberal government continues to set a tone restricting the right to strike in federally regulated sectors, something that is emerging as foundational to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s economic strate- gy. Ordering flight attendants back to work is about much more than getting planes in the air. The government will use any disrup- tion to reinforce its own pattern of limit- ing labour rights to signal to investors that Canada’s economy will be kept moving and open at any cost. In April, the Liberals once again floated the privatization of large airports as a way of unlocking their full asset value for investors, and raising funds for new infrastructure. Airports are already sought-after investments by large investors (including pension funds), even more so if workers in the sector can’t strike to improve wages. The government has also initiated a consultation regarding the Canada La- bour Code as it considers amendments that would further stifle strikes in federal sectors. Normalizing limitations on the right to strike is fundamental to guaran- teeing that flights are on schedule, re- sources are shipped by rail and that ports allow imports and exports to flow unim- peded – all with contained labour costs. Executives at WestJet and its owner Gerald Schwartz are aware of the political context and Mr. Carney’s economic vision. Strategically, the company could very well have refused CUPE’s demands and slowed negotiations, knowing the government will intervene, minimizing the economic cost of a strike. It could have simply taken their chances with some form of arbitra- tion, hoping that any imposed settlement would maintain the current system of compensation. The best that passengers could have hoped for was that WestJet was serious about reaching a settlement with CUPE that didn’t rely on government interven- tion to do the work for them. The wildcard in all of this will be the response from other players. A relatively small group of workers, predominantly women, find themselves in the midst of a crucial struggle that is about much more than ground pay. If the rights of federally regulated workers are going to be protect- ed in the future, other unions will have to keep in mind that any labour dispute is now a two-front battle with the employer and the state. Labour leaders are already rethinking their political relationship with the “el- bows-up” Prime Minister. An opening has been created for the federal NDP Leader Avi Lewis and perhaps even Pierre Poi- lievre’s Conservatives to respect basic workers’ rights. There will be a political cost for Mr. Car- ney if he continues to limit the ability to strike – a fundamental source of workers’ power. But his recent actions show he may very well be willing to pay it. Steven Tufts is an associate professor in the faculty of environmental and urban change at York University. Tufts: Labour leaders are already rethinking political relationship with Prime Minister FROM B1 WestJet flight attendants strike at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on Sunday. Last summer, Air Canada flight attendants were ordered back to work by the government less than 12 hours into a strike. ETHAN CAIRNS/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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B8 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 GLOBE INVESTOR | REPORT ON BUSINESS I nvesting is much about inter- pretation. Markets decide which ideas deserve confi- dence, which should fade and which assumptions have outlived the evidence. Individuals and organizations can craft compelling market nar- ratives, but they can’t control them forever. Narratives can take on lives of their own and persist after facts change, although not indefinitely. Eventually, numbers force reassessment. The opportu- nity is to recognize the shift. In markets driven by news cy- cles, information travels quickly. Passive flows and algorithmic trading mean a single word such as “miss” can send a stock lower, regardless of business quality. Add “estimates” and consensus hardens. Narratives shape perception. The data reveal whether it still holds. The disconnect often ap- pears in the lag between funda- mentals changing and the market updating the story. Currently, the dominant mar- ket story remains the Magnificent Seven: Tesla Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Nvidia Corp., Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Apple Inc. The 10 large- st companies in the S&P 500 ac- count for roughly 40 per cent of the index. Their story is not over, but it’s changing. Consensus estimates show the Magnificent Seven’s earnings growth decelerating to approxi- mately 19 per cent by 2027 from roughly 40 per cent in 2024. That’s still healthy, but the gap with the rest of the market is nar- rowing quickly. The S&P 500, ex- cluding the Magnificent Seven, is projected to grow earnings by about 15 per cent in 2027. The individual numbers make the shift clearer. Earnings per share growth for the Magnificent Seven peaked in 2024, with Nvi- dia at 665 per cent, Amazon at 92 per cent and Meta at 62 per cent. By 2027, several growth rates look more ordinary: Alphabet at 4 per cent, Apple at 7 per cent, Meta at 8 per cent and Microsoft at 11 per cent. Even Nvidia is expected to moderate to 82 per cent in 2027 from 130 per cent in 2025. These businesses remain ex- ceptional, but no longer the same growth engines that justified years of multiple expansion. The Magnificent Seven’s price/earn- ings premium over the rest of the S&P 500, which spent most of the past decade in the 40-per-cent to 100-per-cent-plus range, has compressed to roughly 10 per cent to 15 per cent, its lowest level in more than 10 years. Now, compare that with small- caps. During the 10 years through 2025, the S&P 500’s cumulative total return outpaced the Russell 2000’s by roughly 120 percentage points. At the start of 2026, the av- erage S&P 500 stock traded at more than 26 times forward earn- ings compared with roughly 18 for the average Russell 2000 stock. Some of that premium was earned, but the gap had widened beyond what the earnings differ- ential appeared to justify. That’s beginning to change. The Russell 2000 is up by more than 20 per cent through the first half of 2026, its best first-half per- formance since 1991, outperform- ing the S&P 500’s 9.3 per cent gain by the widest halfway-mark mar- gin since 2003. Part of the story is fundamen- tal: 2026 earnings growth esti- mates for Russell 2000 compo- nents have jumped to 38 per cent from 23 per cent since January as AI tailwinds finally reach smaller companies. Analysts forecast Russell 2000 earnings growth of roughly 40 per cent in 2027 com- pared with 16 per cent for the S&P 500. That’s where market memory matters. The market may remem- ber small-caps as structurally weaker, more interest rate-sensi- tive or less reliable than the mega-cap leaders that carried the last cycle. Some of that memory was earned. But inherited stories can outlast the facts that created them. When fundamentals shift, investors risk trading yesterday’s narrative instead of recognizing the next one taking shape. There’s evidence for a chang- ing story here. Small- and mid- cap companies are emerging from a multi-year earnings reces- sion with cleaner balance sheets and leaner cost structures. Although large-caps spent 2025 and 2026 absorbing AI in- frastructure capital expenditures, with the top five hyperscalers (the handful of firms building AI and cloud infrastructure at mas- sive scale, including Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Oracle Corp.) projected to exceed US$600-billion by 2027, smaller companies may be better posi- tioned for the next stage. In the picks-and-shovels layer of AI, some companies supply the tools the buildout runs on and, not chasing the hype, are just fill- ing the orders. Others are using AI internally to run leaner, so pro- ductivity gains flow straight into margins instead of getting ab- sorbed by overhead. Either way, they don’t need an aggressive macro catalyst to outperform. They just need the earnings gap to keep closing. The question for investors is not simply which story is most compelling. It’s whether the story still fits the facts and whether the numbers are already pointing to the next narrative. Markets can cling to old narra- tives after the underlying reality has changed. Good investors aren’t waiting for the story to break officially; they’re paying close attention to the evidence it already has. Why market narratives often outlive data Investors are responding to the story the market has already accepted LAURA BAKER OPINION Associate client portfolio manager at PenderFund Capital Management Ltd. in Vancouver T here’s a tsunami of capital pouring into artificial intel- ligence, bringing with it at- tractive rewards but also new risks for investors. A recent Gold- man Sachs Global Institute study estimates that U.S. companies are poised to invest US$7.6-trillion in AI-related infrastructure by 2031. Alongside the trend is a growing number of companies branding, or rebranding, themselves as AI firms, raising the spectre of “AI washing.” A recent analysis from The Fi- nancial Times shows that dozens of firms from sectors as diverse as gold mining, cancer treatment and footwear have rebranded themselves as AI companies since 2023. Initially, the rebrand- ing increased total valuations by US$8.7-billion. However, the gains were short-lived, with some of the companies now sporting lower valuations than before their AI rebrand. Peter Hofstra, senior vice-pres- ident and co-head of equities, re- search, at CI Global Asset Man- agement and co-portfolio man- ager of CI Global Artificial Intelli- gence Fund, says “AI washing” may be a function of several fac- tors. One is the backdrop of every enterprise having to deal with AI in some way, either as a genera- tional opportunity or as an exist- ential threat. “A lot of the chatter around AI use is very real, but it can get ex- aggerated, especially when some- one’s trying to achieve a certain outcome, whether that’s a higher stock price or to support a capital raise,” Mr. Hofstra says. “‘AI washing’ is classic capital- ism, in which everyone wants to jump on the train and go for a ride. It’s essentially a marketing tool.” Another vector may be the vague definition of what AI is. “The only definition I’ve found is: if something appears intelli- gent and it’s not biological, it must be artificial intelligence,” Mr. Hofstra says. “Yet, there’s a lot of determi- nistic programming that looks intelligent. When the first com- puter beat a chess master, it was all deterministic programming, but it seemed very intelligent,” he adds. A related issue may be an AI knowledge gap among company leaders. During first-quarter earn- ings calls from S&P 500 compa- nies, executives at 337 firms talk- ed about AI. However, a report by AI-Driven Enterprise Institute (AIDE), which scores companies on their AI initiatives, found that “literacy among the S&P 500 board members and executives in AI is not where it needs to be.” Hence, in some cases, “AI washing” may be less a function of deceptive business practices and more a lack of AI maturity among chief executives amid rapid technological change. For business leaders, the financial in- centives to highlight their com- panies’ AI capabilities are strong, Mr. Hofstra says. Mickey Ganguly, associate portfolio manager at CIBC Global Asset Management in Toronto, who specializes in the global technology sector, notes several common red flags that could in- dicate exaggerated AI claims, starting with an executive who is unable to explain clearly how their company uses AI. “If they’re a legacy technology company and are suddenly call- ing themselves an AI company, or they claim to be generating grow- ing revenue from AI, but they’re not showing rising capital invest- ments in R&D, that would give me pause,” he says. “Sometimes, companies say they have proprietary data, but what they’re really doing is pull- ing their customers’ data with no real insight,” he adds. He says some sectors, such as enterprise software, are more prone to “AI washing” because they are more likely to report that they have proprietary data and use AI to target their audience better. “Are they really doing that, or is it just based on what they’ve al- ways done?” He prefers investing in Alpha- bet Inc. or Meta Platforms Inc., for which “AI washing” is less of a concern, as they’re investing in their capabilities, which are sup- ported by accelerated growth. Currently, he runs a concentrated portfolio of 35 technology stocks in which he has high conviction. Mr. Hofstra acknowledges the challenge investors face in ba- lancing the risk of missing out on an AI leader against the risk of in- vesting in an “AI-washing” com- pany. “You don’t have to go too far to find out if someone is just trying to ride the wave or if they really have something innovative that could benefit the current trend,” he adds. Mr. Hofstra focuses on compa- nies that have true proprietary data and can use AI to provide valuable insights back to their customers. The aforementioned Alphabet and Meta are mega-cap exam- ples; however, even a smaller firm, for example, one that col- lects medical records at a meta- data level and then uses AI to tease out why a placebo works half the time, could generate sub- stantial economic value for its cli- ents. “If you’re truly the trusted partner and key in a decision framework that the [client’s] business depends on, that sticki- ness can certainly keep you in the game.” However, he cautions inves- tors to tread carefully, “because there are so many powerful and big things happening right now” in terms of AI development. 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Earnings include: Ebay Inc.; Ele- ment Fleet Management Corp.; Eli Lilly & Co.; Ero Copper Corp.; Finning International Inc.; Kinax- is Inc.; Manulife Financial Corp.; Novo Nordisk A/S; Nurtien Ltd.; Paramount Resources Ltd.; SanD- isk Corp.; Shopify Inc.; Tourma- line Oil Corp.; Triple Flag Precious Metals Corp.; Walt Disney Co.; Western Digital Corp.; Uber Tech- nologies Inc.; WSP Global Inc. THURSDAY China’s foreign reserves Euro zone’s retail sales Germany’s factory orders (6 a.m. ET) U.S. Conference Board CEO Confidence Index for Q3. (8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. initial job- less claims for week of Aug. 1. Esti- mateis202,000,up5,000fromthe previous week. (8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. productiv- ity and labor unit costs for Q2 (preliminary reading). The Street is projecting annualized rate rises of 0.7 per cent and 2.1 per cent, re- spectively. (9:30 a.m. ET) Canada’s S&P global services PMI for July. (10 a.m. ET) U.S. wholesale in- ventories for June. (10a.m.ET)U.S.GlobalSupply Chain Pressure Index for July. Earningsinclude:AirbnbInc.;Al- gonquin Power & Utilities Corp.; Artemis Gold Inc.; AtkinsRéalis Group Inc.; BCE Inc.; B2Gold Corp.; Chartwell Retirement Resi- dences; Cloudfare Inc.; Conoco- Phillips; Constellation Energy Corp.; Datadog Inc.; Iamgold Corp.; Keyera Corp.; Lundin Gold Inc.; Open Text Corp.; Parker- Hannifin Corp.; Quebecor Inc.; Restaurant Brands International Inc.; Saputo Inc.; Siemens Ag; SoftBankGroupCorp.;SonyADR; Sun Life Financial Inc.; Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. FRIDAY China’s trade surplus, CPI and PPI Japan’s household spending Germany’s industrial produc- tion and trade surplus (8:30 a.m. ET) Canadian em- ploymentforJuly.TheStreetisex- pecting a month-over-month gain of 0.1 per cent (15,000 jobs) with the unemployment rate re- maining at 6.5 per cent and aver- age hourly wages up 3.3 per cent year-over-year. (8:30 a.m. ET) U.S. nonfarm payrolls for July. Consensus is a gain of 86,000 jobs with the un- employment rate staying at 4.2 per cent and average hourly wag- es up 0.3 per cent from June (and 3.5 per cent year-over-year). (10a.m.ET)Canada’sIveyPMI for July. (3 p.m. ET) U.S. consumer credit for June. Earnings include: Emera Inc.; PPLCorp.;SkeenaResourcesLtd.; Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.; Telesat Corp. WHAT INVESTORS NEED TO KNOW FOR THE WEEK AHEAD
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL O B9 REPORT ON BUSINESS | M oney manager Craig Jerusalim isn’t letting the latest tariff threats de- rail his bullish view on Canadian stocks. “I’m extremely optimistic when I look at the earnings growth of Canadian com- panies,” says the senior portfolio manager at CIBC Asset Management Inc. in Toronto, who co-manages more than $11-billion in assets across two strategies: Canadian growth at a reasonable price (also known as GARP) and Canadian dividend growth. Although there has been some volatility in recent months, Mr. Jerusalim says mar- ket pullbacks have provided opportunities tobuymoresharesofgoodcompaniesthat have been overlooked. “If you take a longer-term view and ride through those short-term volatile periods, then I’m long-term bullish on the market,” he says. His CIBC Dividend Growth Fund is up 19.4 per cent over the past year. Its three- year and five-year annualized returns are 18.6 per cent and 12.8 per cent, respectively. His Renaissance Canadian Growth Fund is up 17.5 per cent over the past 12 months and has three-year and five-year annual- ized returns of 18.1 per cent and 11.6 per cent, respectively. The performance data are based on total returns, net of fees, as of July 21. The Globe spoke with Mr. Jerusalim re- cently about three stocks he likes and a sector he’s recently trimmed. Name three stocks you own and continue to buy. Kraken Robotics Inc., the Mount Pearl, N.L.-based marine technology company, is a stock we started buying a few months ago. It has always been an expensive stock, but it pulled back after its transformation- al acquisition of its European peer, Covelya Group Ltd., which gave us an opportunity to buy this high-quality, growing company at a more reasonable price. We see a host of positive catalysts and signposts: Orders for its underwater robot- ics and batteries have been coming in ahead of expectations while military and commercial needs for its services have on- ly grown in the current geopolitical envi- ronment. We’ve seen less profitable peers trading at higher multiples than Kraken and both its chief executive and chief financial offi- cers have recently purchased additional shares in the open market. Consistently strong quarterly results, likely index inclusion either later this year or early next year, as well as additional U.S. Navy orders should help rerate the stock. We’ve been adding to our position in re- cent weeks. Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., the Toronto-based private equity firm spe- cializing in acquisitions and growth capital investments, is a stock we’ve been adding to in recent months. Brookfield Asset Management’s shares have fallen in sympathy with its alterna- tive asset manager peers on fears that arti- ficial intelligence will continue to disrupt their software businesses. However, unlike many of its peers, Brookfield Asset Man- agement’s software exposure is less than 1 per cent of assets. As a result, it hasn’t needed to gate any of its funds and is expected to deliver a re- cord year of fundraising. Brookfield Asset Management is also expected to be a sig- nificantbeneficiaryofcontinuedAIspend- ing across infrastructure, energy, real es- tate and data. At times we’ve been overweight the as- set manager, and other times we’ve been overweight the parent, Brookfield Corp. But today we see tremendous opportuni- ties in both of them and are overweight both [compared with the benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index]. Cameco Corp., the Saskatoon-based uranium producer, is a stock we bought in 2023 and have been adding more of in re- cent weeks. Although Cameco is not an in- expensive company, the 30-per-cent pull- back from its February highs provided us a nice opportunity to move back to an over- weight position across our portfolios. Even before the Iran war, there was en- hanced focus on internal energy security, which is now heightened. Nuclear will nec- essarily play an important role in internal energy security across many countries, both from a security-of-supply vantage and from a greenhouse gas reduction van- tage. We see this dynamic as a significant advantage for Canada and the market leader, Cameco, specifically over the medi- um and long term. Cameco also benefits from its owner- ship in Westinghouse Electric Co. [In 2023, Cameco bought a 49-per-cent interest in Westinghouse, one of the world’s largest nuclear services businesses, while Brook- field Renewable Partners bought the re- maining 51 per cent]. Name a stock or sector you recently sold. At the risk of making a career-limiting move, we’ve been trimming our exposure to the Canadian banks, moving to an un- derweight position versus the index. The Canadian banks are most definitely firing on all cylinders: margin expansion, booming wealth management franchises, strong capital markets activity and benign credit. In addition, OSFI [Office of the Su- perintendent of Financial Institutions] boosted the sector even further back in June, when it reduced the domestic stabil- ity buffer, which further freed up capital to enhance lending and investments and boost additional growth. This all sounds great except that the group is priced for perfection and any hic- cup could lead to profit-taking. The Big Six Canadian banks, as a group, are now trad- ing at a forward price-to-earnings ratio of about 16 times, which is significantly above their U.S. peers and well above their peak valuation from before the financial crisis. So, while we still maintain significant exposure across our strategies and we’re bullish long-term, we’ve now moved to a modest underweight for the group. Special to The Globe and Mail This interview has been edited and condensed. Why this $11-billion money manager is buying Cameco, Kraken Robotics ILLUSTRATION BY JOEL KIMMEL BRENDA BOUW THE MOVER M ariam’s path to home ownership has been un- traditional, shaped by a pandemic-era surge in Halifax housing prices. The 42-year-old single mom lives in a two-bedroom, one- bathroom off-grid home that she built herself on 38 acres near Bridgewater, N.S. She has no mortgage, no utility bills and fi- nanced it all without borrowing from a bank. “I needed to have some agency in the midst of all of these mas- sive global shifts,” she said. “If I have a little pocket in the world, maybe I’ll feel a bit more secure.” Before moving to Bridgewater, Mariam spent about 15 years rent- ing in Halifax. She had lived in apartments, including a housing co-op, before renting a four-bed- room house for $1,800 a month, with total housing costs reaching roughly $2,500 after utilities. Her original plan was to purchase that home through a rent-to-own agreement with her landlord. But when the pandemic ar- rived, the owner decided to sell instead. Halifax’s housing market transformed during the first year of lockdowns as record-low inter- est rates and a surge of buyers from other provinces pushed re- sale home prices up 10.9 per cent in 2020, after years of much slow- er growth. What was discussed as a $350,000 purchase suddenly be- came a listing for about $500,000. “To me, that was an unbeliev- able amount of money,” said Ma- riam, who had already spent years living frugally and had managed to save about $35,000. So instead of stretching her budget for a traditional home, she widened her search to in- clude cottages, cabins and vacant land within 90 minutes of Hali- fax. Most affordable listings dis- appeared within days, she said, sometimes before she could even submit an offer. Eventually, she found a listing on Kijiji - a 38-acre property with a small 10-by-10-foot cabin, an outhouse, a chicken coop and a driveway. The seller was asking for $65,000. Mariam negotiated the price down to $50,000 by offering to pay cash. She completed the pur- chase in November, 2020, paying around $1,500 in legal fees to transfer the deed. Coming up with that money had required years of piecing to- gether income from multiple sources. While working in office management for a non-profit earning roughly $54,000 a year, she rented out a spare bedroom on Airbnb when her children we- ren’t home to help cover housing costs. During the pandemic, she sup- plemented her income with free- lance consulting work and launched the East Coast branch of a small bakery business she co- owns with her sisters. Mariam kept money in sepa- rate bank accounts, which made it less tempting to spend. “It was just about out of sight, out of mind,” she said. “The dig- ital equivalent of just putting money under my mattress, real- ly.” The final $15,000 came through a mix of loans and gifts from friends and family. But the land purchase was just the beginning. To have a place to live while planning and building her home, Mariam bought a part- ly converted school bus for $6,000 and connected it to the ca- bin. She, her youngest child and her partner at the time lived there for two winters before she began building a permanent home. She worked alongside a friend she hired for about $30 an hour, relied heavily on volunteer help from friends and used discount supplies. She estimates spending roughly $70,000 to build her 650- square-foot home with two bed- rooms and a bathroom. She in- vested about $10,000 in solar panels rather than paying an esti- mated $30,000 to connect to the electrical grid. More recently, she spent an- other $10,000 to dig a well after years of relying on rainwater col- lection and water hauling. Growing up in a low-income family that moved frequently, she attended 13 different schools as a child. Having a permanent home, she said, provides a sense of stability she never had growing up. “I can’t imagine ever getting rid of the place,” she said. COSTS Purchase price: $50,000 Down payment: None, bought outright in cash Legal fees: Approximately $1,500 Mortgage: None Home insurance: None Utilities: None (off-grid with solar) Property taxes: $12,000- $14,000 School bus: $6,000 House construction: $70,000 (with labour) Solar power system: $10,000 Well: $10,000 Firewood: $1,200 (lasted more than one winter) Advice: Mariam recom- mends keeping an open mind about what home ownership looks like. Consider alternative properties and think realistically about what you can learn to re- pair or build yourself. “Being willing to engage with those unknown places changes everything.” Special to The Globe and Mail Some details may be changed to protect the privacy of the people profiled. Are you a first-time homeowner who would like to share their story? Send us an e-mail. Priced out of Halifax, this mom bought land and built an off-grid home ILLUSTRATION BY DIANA BOLTON ZAHRA KHOZEMA MY FIRST HOME To have a place to live while planning and building her home, Mariam bought a partially converted school bus for $6,000 and connected it to the cabin. She, her youngest child and her partner at the time lived there for two winters before she began building a permanent home.
B10 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 Canada’s Kyle Reyes, left, competes with Max Gregory of England in the men’s 100-kilogram judo final at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday. Reyes defeated Gregory 1-0 by ippon in the final to claim the gold medal B13 A golden moment STEVE WALSH/PA VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPORTS Sabalenka arrives in Toronto for NB Open after month off B14 Cunningham’s stance on transgender athletes sparks rallies B15 [ COMMONWEALTH GAMES ] F IFA is one of those outfits that makes you wish you were born with a con-artist streak. If you were, maybe you’d be the one bellying up to the trough instead of some gurning Swiss lawyer. Founded on nothing but a de- sire to run a thing that didn’t re- quire running, FIFA has no actual sports business. It doesn’t own its most valuable asset, the World Cup, in any real sense. Yes, it holds the trademark. But if Germany, Argentina and Japan decide tomorrow they would like to start an Earth Cup, the only thing FIFA could do to prevent them would be to throw them out of FIFA. So it is a mystery to me why anyone is discussing what FIFA wants, plans or thinks is best for the game of football. The ques- tion should not be, ‘How can FI- FA be stopped?’ It’s, ‘Given the way it’s carried on, why does FI- FA continue to exist?’ Over the last few days, FIFA president Gianni Infantino has gone from trying to sell off the World Cup, to delaying the sale, to rescinding the sale, to trying to scramble out of his own profes- sional grave. European football administra- tors say they want him gone. Okay, let’s say that happens and they elect someone new. What’s the history there? The FIFA president before Infantino, Issa Hayatou, was multiply accused of taking bribes. The one before that, Sepp Blatter, has been banned from coming anywhere near the game of football. João Havelange, the one before that – many more bribes. That gets us back to the 1970s. A new person in the same suit is unlikely to be the answer here. One gets why the world’s foot- ball leaders value FIFA. It does the tedious work of administra- tion. Occasionally, they cut you a big cheque. Like a bad account- ant, FIFA handles the money and spares you the details. However, now that the ac- countant has suggested that in- stead of billing you, they sell off your estate and disburse those monies as they see fit, why would you continue to employ them? The shame of this isn’t the ask. What’s cringeworthy is the reac- tion, and the reaction to the reac- tion. Europe took FIFA’s attempt to tranche their national teams like junk bonds poorly enough that they refused to show up at any future FIFA productions. Was this supposed to demon- strate strength? You try to rob me to my face, so I won’t be com- ing to your house again until you promise to stop making plans to rob me? How will I know you’ve done that? Because you’ve replaced the huckster at the top with one of the assistant hucksters, all of whom are drawn from an unbro- ken procession of hucksters go- ing back to the sporting Stone Age? The world’s reaction to this in- sipid response was hosannahs to European strength. They’re in the process of being quiet-invad- ed by Russia, but at least they’ve shown the sports knobs who’s not in charge. You invented the game. Your leagues are the reason it’s so popular. A bunch of rubes who have no claim on your work have tried to snatch it away so that they can use it as a buy-in at Do- nald Trump’s casino. What other evidence of institutional bad faith do you require? My over/under on the number of major European football pow- ers it would take to capsize FIFA is two. KELLY, B13 Given the way it’s carried on, why does FIFA continue to exist? CATHAL KELLY OPINION The FIFA president before Infantino, Issa Hayatou, was multiply accused of taking bribes. The one before that, Sepp Blatter, has been banned from coming anywhere near the game of football. João Havelange, the one before that – many more bribes. That gets us back to the 1970s. A new person in the same suit is unlikely to be the answer here. After his best start of the season, Max Scherzer did not sound like a guy who ex- pects to be on any team but the Blue Jays when the trade deadline expires on Mon- day at 6 p.m. The 42-year-old, a certain future mem- ber of the Hall of Fame, limited the St. Louis Cardinals to one run on four hits over six innings on Sunday in an eventual 5-1 defeat at Rogers Centre. He struck out five, which leaves him three short of tying Walter Johnson for the 10th-most in Major League history. In 19 seasons, he has punched out 3,512 batters. “Pinch me and wake me up,” Scherzer said before the team flew to Houston for three games against the Astros. He has the second-most strikeouts among active players after Justin Verlander. “You are talking about me moving ahead of an all- time great.” Scherzer has lasted a half-dozen innings only twice in eight starts during an injury- plagued 2026 campaign. It is possible – but improbable – that a club with a better chance to reach the postseason may beck- on him due to his age. “Who knows what is going to happen here in the next 24 hours,” Scherzer said. Reports late Sunday night said that Ke- vin Gausman, who has been Toronto’s best pitcher for the last five years, has been traded to the Chicago Cubs. The team will hold a video call with general manager Ross Atkins on Monday, after the deadline passes. Toronto has a handful of players, among them George Springer and Daulton Var- sho, whose names must be on the lips of general managers who hope to strengthen their squads for a long playoff run. “We’ll see what shakes out,” manager John Schneider said. “I’m going to ride with these guys every day no matter what happens.” The Blue Jays have won eight games fewer than they have lost but remain in the periphery of the wild card race. They wast- ed a nice outing by Scherzer when St. Louis scored four times in the ninth inning. Louis Varland came in with the score tied 1-1 but made a rare ineffective per- formance. After he walked the first batter, Varland ended up giving up three hits and a season-worst four runs, only one of which were earned. Luis Urias threw wildly to first base on an easy grounder to second that should have ended the threat with only one run conceded. JAYS, B13 With trade deadline hovering, Scherzer serves up his best showing of the season MARTY KLINKENBERG Blue Jays starter Max Scherzer makes a pitch in the first inning of Sunday’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals at Rogers Centre in Toronto. COLE BURSTON/GETTY IMAGES | REPORT ON BUSINESS
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL O B11 REPORT ON BUSINESS | J.R.: Cathal, I thought with the benefit of a breather, and the World Cup behind us, we would return to this space this week and start onto a new path. FIFA, how- ever, has forced our hand, so we must start there again. Gianni In- fantino tried to put World Cup up for sale last week and it backfired spectacularly. Surely he could’ve seen the backlash coming, yet he did it anyway. Why? C.K.: Say this much for the guy, Jamie – he knows how to stay in the news. Infantino’s entire ca- reer has been staked on making wild moves that bucked estab- lished wisdom. Pushing the World Cup back to the U.S.A., cozying up to Donald Trump, expanding the tourna- ment to 48 teams – these were all things a majority of deep football thinkersthoughtwouldendinto- tal failure. Instead, they’ve all been professional triumphs for Infantino.SoIgetwhyhethought this latest bad idea would work out as well. Who was going to stop him? The same fops who’ve been backpedallinginfrontofhimfora decade? What Infantino didn’t reckon onwastheintensityofbadfeeling he’d created with his unseemly sucking up to Trump. It was so over the top that it prompted a bunch of European bureaucrats to agree on something after less than five years of debate. That’s a Lourdes-level miracle. But I don’t think it solves the problem. Now that selling the World Cup is on the table, some- body – probably not Infantino – is going to find a more palatable way to package the idea. None of these people can say no to free money. Speaking of money, I rise to see that the richest team in baseball just won the Lotto Max – the L.A. Dodgers have acquired starter Ta- rik Skubal via trade. There are prohibitive favourites to win something, and then there’s whatever the Dodgers just be- came. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? J.R.: That it came via trade made me think, ‘Hey, they’re not just throwing money around in free agency for once.’ Then I remembered they fleec- edtheRedSoxforMookieBettsin a trade years back and the only conclusion I can draw here is that MLB owners so badly want a sala- ry cap that they are willing con- cedetheWorldSeriestotheDodg- ers every year until they get it. With the league and players union in talks for a new collective bargaining agreement, they may finally get their wish. Are you for or against salary caps? C.K.: I’m neither for nor against, since it’s not my money. But I think you’re onto some- thing. Baseball is collectively con- ceding the 2026 season to the Dodgers in anticipation that 2027 is not going to happen. Theownerswillinsistonasala- rycap.Theplayerswillrefuse.The league will shut down. And who do you think is going to win that staring contest? Thirty billio- naires who make money whether baseballisbeingplayedornot,via their team valuations. Or 1,200 of their employees, all of different ages, stages and earnings, most of whose professional prospects are aging like lettuce. There’s only one way that ends. The mystery to me is why the players bother pretending to fight. Just take the deal you know you’re going to be forced to take in the end and save yourself the hassle. The NHL is seeing its own change of circumstances at the top. I wonder who should be more vexed by Macklin Celebri- ni’s new US$18.8-million-a-year deal: Connor McDavid (two years at US$12.5-million) or Nathan MacKinnon (eight years at US$12.6-million). Does it feel to you like their era is beginning to come to a close? They both had a miserable year in 2026. J.R.: Their era beginning to come to a close?? (That’s me do- ing my best you.) No, I do not think the era of MacKinnon and McDavid is winding down. Nath- an MacKinnon scored more goals lastseasonthanhehasatanyoth- er time in his career. And all you needtodoiswatchConnorMcDa- vid to know he’s at the top of his game. They didn’t win anything , so I’ll concede they had miserable years in that respect, but it’s still their league. Unlessyouhavemoretosayon hockey, let’s pivot back to sum- mer sports: LIV golf will reported- ly cancel its big finale, the team event in Detroit, that was sup- posed to go off at the end of the month. The league has been cir- cling the drain for a while. This all ends with the superstar defectors returning to the PGA tour with hat in hand, a renewed apprecia- tion for the sanctity of golf and a generally more charitable out- look on life, right? C.K.: The problem with McDa- vid and MacKinnon isn’t their skill level. It’s that they have the miasma of failure about them now. McDavid can’t fix the Oilers on his own, MacKinnon’s Ava- lanche are a regular-season team living in a postseason world and both of them pooched things in Milan. I still get flashes of their third-period misses in the gold- medal game. Sports loves comers and win- ners, and they’re neither. By the time the next Olympics rolls around, they’ll both be profes- sionally geriatric. If it’s still their league, they ought to do some- thing this year to remind people of that. On LIV, I’m convinced no one – including the people who put it together – actually thought this would work. The appeal of golf is nostalgic. It speaks to some imag- inedtimeinthepastwhentheold empires were still ascendant. Youdon’ttakethatonbybuild- ing a league – even using that word was a bad mistake – that is intentionally ahistorical. In the end, all it was was a way for the Saudis to show that they could buy whatever they wanted, and for a few players to take that silver. In 10 years, LIV will be the USFL or the WHA – a thing that happened, but one no one re- members and nobody ever speaks about. Last one – WNBA lightning catcher Sophie Cunningham. She made a comment in an interview about wanting to “protect young girls in a locker room” and the league is in fits. She has her win- ters off. Should the PWHL reach out to see if she can skate? J.R.: The PWHL has going for it what other upstart leagues don’t: a potential for violence, which is baked into hockey. I am not advo- cating for fighting, but the more body contact becomes normal- ized, the more exciting the prod- uctwillbecome.Idon’tthinkthey need to resort to the culture wars to attract more fans. Plus, using the WNBA’s recent run through the mud might not be the best ex- ample of how to seize the public’s attention. C.K.: All attention is good at- tention in the entertainment business. It doesn’t always work out for individuals, but the collec- tivethrivesonbeingtalkedabout. The WNBA has that part down. Next week, we’ll get to discuss whether or not the Blue Jays have given up on their season. If so, that’s the real beginning of the dog days. Until then, stay cool. FIFA’s predictable fallout, and the Dodgers load up with Skubal Should the PWHL check to see if Sophie Cunningham can skate? CATHAL KELLY JAMIE ROSS FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s position has become uncertain following widespread backlash to his plan to put the World Cup up for sale. BENOIT TESSIER/REUTERS MONDAY MORNING HALFBACK Jamie Ross is the Sports editor at the Globe. Cathal Kelly is the national sports columnist. Shiho Kuwaki of Japan saved par to stay alive in a sudden-death playoff Sunday and won with a par on the second extra hole to claim the Women’s British Open over Esther Henseleit of Germany for her first major title. Kuwaki closed with a one-un- der 70 and looked like a winner as she waited nearly 30 minutes in the scoring room. Henseleit, in the final group, holed a 40-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole at Royal Lytham & St. Annes for a 70 to join Kuwaki at five-under 279. Henseleit then had the advan- tage in the playoff when the 23- year-old from Japan was in deep grass short of a bunker and had to lay up short of the green. Kuwaki hit wedge to three feet to save par and got another chance when Henseleit missed a 15-foot birdie putt for the win. The tables turned on the sec- ond extra hole. Henseleit’s tee shot on the 18th drifted far enough to the right that it was be- neath a gorse bush. She did well to get that back to the fairway, andhitwedgetoabout12feet.But her par putt stayed left of the cup, and that left Kuwaki to tap in for par. “Very happy with how I gave myself the opportunity to win to- day and how I handled myself. Just got a bit unlucky on the sec- ond playoff hole there,” Henseleit said. “I tried really hard and I guess it just wasn’t meant to be today.” This is the second straight Women’s British Open title for Ja- pan, following Miyu Yamashita’s victory last year at Royal Porth- cawl. Kuwaki, often known for her fashion, becomes the fifth player from Japan to have won an LPGA major over the past three years. “I can’t believe it,” Kuwaki said through a translator and the tro- phy presentation. The disappointment belonged to third-placed Yealimi Noh (74), the 25-year-old Californian who began the final round with a three-shot lead until it slowly went away with bogeys. She fell out of a share of the lead with a bogey on the 14th hole. Noh was one shot behind and had two rea- sonable looks at birdie – with Ku- waki already in the clubhouse at 279 – but failed to convert. “It stings being one short,” said Noh, who had missed three straight cuts before this week. “I told myself this morning, no mat- ter what happens I’m happy to be in this position again. A couple of weeks ago, I was losing a lot of motivation. This week has helped me feel so much better about my game.” Haeran Ryu fell short in her bid to become the first player since Inbee Park to win three straight majors in one year. The Women’s PGA and Evian Championship winner was still in the mix on the backnine.Sheneededbirdiesand instead closed with two straight bogeys for a 74 to tie for sixth. Nelly Korda, the No. 1 player in women’s golf and winner of the year’s first two majors, started eight shots behind and closed with a 68. She was the leader in the clubhouse for the longest time at two under until Kuwaki finished. Korda tied for fourth along with Jeeno Thitikul (73). Kuwaki, at No. 46 in the wom- en’s world ranking, played bogey- freeoverthelast13holesasevery- one around her made mistakes. She was in the scoring room after signing and stayed there, even as Henseleit and Noh had birdie chances on the final two holes to force a playoff. Henseleit delivered with a most unlikely putt, 40 feet across the 18th green. The 27-year-old German raised her right arm as the golf ball still had a few feet to go and punched the air when it dropped for birdie. It was only the second playoff since the Women’s British Open became a major in 2001. Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls,Ont.,finishedtiedfor29that four over. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kuwaki wins the Women’s British Open on second playoff hole LYTHAM ST. ANNES, ENGLAND Shiho Kuwaki celebrates on the 18th green after winning the Women’s British Open in Lytham St. Annes, England, on Sunday. GLYN KIRK/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Michael Thorbjornsen pumped his right fist after making a 26- foot putt for birdie on his last hole to shoot seven-under 63 and reach 18 under to win his first PGA Tour title by two shots at the final Rocket Classic on Sunday. “Perfect pace, perfect read,” he said. The 24-year-old Thorbjornsen sealed his spot in the FedEx Cup playoff after rolling into the Mo- tor City No. 69 in the standings. The top 70 advance to the post- season after next week’s Wynd- ham Championship. “Just to be in the playoff for the first time is very exciting, he said. “It’s great to be playing against the best players in the world.” Thorbjornsen started the fourth round three shots behind leader Davis Riley, whose rough start opened opportunities for the field. “The start got the best of me and kind of put me behind the eight-ball early unfortunately,” Riley said. Thorbjornsen took advantage, surging into the lead at No. 14 with his third of four birdies in a six-hole stretch and closing with a clutch, curling putt that went in the right side of the cup. He’s the eighth first-time win- ner this season on the PGA Tour and the second straight, follow- ing Jackson Koivun’s victory last week at the 3M Open. “It was such a battle, playing with some great players,” Thorb- jornsen said. “Everyone was in the mix after nine holes.” Xander Schauffele (65) briefly led during the final round and finished second, two shots be- hind Thorbjornsen. “I played really well and he just beat me straight up, so hats off to him,” Schauffele said. Riley (70) was another stroke behind in third, falling out of the lead with four bogeys. Rasmus Hojgaard (68) was alone in fourth, four shots back. Hideki Matsuyama (64), Matt Wallace (67) and Kristoffer Ven- tura (68) were another stroke back, tied for fifth. Thorbjornsen was born in Cle- veland, grew up in Massachusetts and attended Stanford. He won the 2018 U.S. Junior Amateur over Akshay Bhatia, who has three PGA Tour wins. He went straight to the PGA Tour in 2024 as the No. 1 player in the PGA Tour University ranking. “I think it’s one of the best programs in golf,” Thorbjornsen said. “It’s changed all of our lives.” Thorbjornsen chipped in from 35 feet for birdie at No. 12 on a day when he accurately aimed for pins that left him with some short birdie putts before his long one on his 72nd hole. He had a bogey-free round, an accomplishment many other players on the leaderboard were unable to pull off on a day that started with rain and became windy when the clouds cleared. The eighth and final Rocket Classic drew its strongest field and biggest crowds. The PGA Tour is moving to a new model for 2028, effectively creating two tours and Rocket Mortgage decided not to exercise its option to host another tour- nament next year. The Detroit- based company isn’t interested in continuing to spend US$15- million a year to be part of the second tier in the new era. “There have been some con- versations about having a tour- nament here again,” tournament director Mark Hollis said. “Michi- gan deserves to have profession- al golf.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thorbjornsen wins first PGA Tour title at the eighth and final Rocket Classic LARRY LAGE DETROIT
B12 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 CORNERED OFF THE MARK SPEED BUMP BIZARRO LPGA TOUR AIG WOMEN’S OPEN Sunday At Lancashire, United Kingdom Purse: $10 million Yardage: 6,601; Par: 71 FINAL ROUND x-ShihoKuwaki,$1,500,000 66-70-73-70—279 EstherHenseleit,$921,872 73-69-67-70—279 YealimiNoh,$668,050 67-70-69-74—280 NellyKorda,$465,601 73-68-73-68—282 JeenoThitikul,$465,601 64-73-72-73—282 Wei-LingHsu,$247,127 71-74-69-69—283 CharleyHull,$247,127 69-71-71-72—283 Hae-RanRyu,$247,127 66-69-74-74—283 RioTakeda,$247,127 69-73-72-69—283 ShannonTan,$247,127 69-74-71-69—283 LottieWoad,$247,127 69-71-70-73—283 CelineBoutier,$158,889 67-74-74-69—284 MinamiKatsu,$158,889 72-68-71-73—284 SaraKouskova,$158,889 77-69-71-67—284 YukaSaso,$158,889 72-73-71-68—284 LaurenCoughlin,$126,501 69-71-74-71—285 JinHeeIm,$126,501 70-71-72-72—285 HyoJooKim,$126,501 75-71-72-67—285 LucyLi,$126,501 72-68-69-76—285 SooBinJoo,$109,799 70-69-73-74—286 Also BrookeHenderson,$72,345 72-72-72-72—288 ATP/WTA TOUR MUBADALA CITI DC OPEN At Washington D.C. Sunday Purse: $2,488,125 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor MEN’S DOUBLES — CHAMPIONSHIP Lloyd Glasspool and Julian Cash (3), Britain, def. Nikola Mektic, Croatia, and Austin Krajicek, United States, 6-3, 6-4. NATIONAL BANK OPEN Sunday At Toronto Purse: $7,433,076 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor WOMEN’S SINGLES — ROUND OF 128 Kamilla Rakhimova, Russia, def. Venus Williams, United States, 6-4, 6-1. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Spain, def. Ari- ana Arseneault, Richmond Hill, Ont., 6- 2, 6-4. Viktorija Golubic, Switzerland, def. Kimberly Birrell, Australia, 7-6 (7), 6-4. Katherine Sebov, Toronto, def. Aoi Ito, Japan, 6-3, 6-4. Moyuka Uchijima, Japan, def. Cristina Bucsa, Spain, 6-3, 6-4. Sara Bejlek, Czechia, def. Wang Xiyu, China, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5. Camila Osorio, Colombia, def. Lucrezia Stefanini, Italy, 7-6 (4), 6-3. ATP TOUR LOS CABOS OPEN At Los Cabos, Mexico Saturday MEN’S SINGLES — CHAMPIONSHIP Arthur Gea, France, def. Denis Shapo- valov (8), Richmond Hill, Ont., 6-3, 6-4. DOUBLES — CHAMPIONSHIP Ryan Seggerman and Patrik Trhac, United States, def. Finn Reynolds and James Watt, New Zealand, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (5), 10-8., CPL GP W L T GF GA Pt Hamilton 14 11 1 23 8 Calgary 15 10 2 30 8 Vancouver 15 7 24 16 23 Ottawa 15 6 23 28 21 Quebec 14 5 21 26 17 Halifax 16 4 20 24 17 Toronto 13 3 15 30 13 Victoria 14 0 11 3 16 32 Sunday Hamilton 0 Halifax 0 Saturday Vancouver 3 Ottawa 1 Calgary 5 Toronto 0 Friday Quebec 2 Victoria 1 Sunday Chicago White Sox 9, Tampa Bay 1 Houston 7, Texas 3 Seattle 7, Minnesota 6 Detroit 11, Athletics 0 Saturday Tampa Bay 1, Chicago White Sox 0 Seattle 4, Minnesota 3 Houston 5, Texas 4 Detroit 8, Athletics 6 Monday — All Times Eastern Toronto (Bieber 2-2) at Houston (Javier 1- 1), 8:10 p.m. INTERLEAGUE Sunday Philadelphia 8, Baltimore 0, 6 innings St. Louis 5, Toronto 1 Cleveland 5, Arizona 0 N.Y. Yankees 2, Chicago Cubs 1 Colorado 8, Kansas City 1 L.A. Angels 3, Milwaukee 0 Boston at L.A. Dodgers Saturday Toronto 5, St. Louis 1 Chicago Cubs 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 Philadelphia 5, Baltimore 0 Arizona 12, Cleveland 8 Colorado 12, Kansas City 6 Boston 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Milwaukee 3, L.A. Angels 1 Monday — All Times Eastern St. Louis (McGreevy 4-9) at N.Y. Yankees (Schlittler 10-6), 7:05 p.m. San Francisco (Webb 6-7) at Texas (Quantrill 4-3), 8:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Seymour 7-3) at Colorado (Lorenzen 3-9), 8:40 p.m. CEBL EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L Pct GB y-Scarborough .826 — x-Brampton .478 Ottawa .417 91/2 Niagara .417 91/2 Montreal .417 91/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L Pct GB y-Vancouver .625 — x-Winnipeg .583 x-Saskatoon .522 21/2 x-Edmonton .375 Calgary .318 61/2 x — clinched playoff berth; y — division Sunday Vancouver 114 Winnipeg 90 Ottawa 96 Edmonton 89 Saturday Scarborough 117 Brampton 104 Monday All Times Eastern Brampton at Scarborough, 4 p.m. Calgary at Saskatoon, 6 p.m. CONCLUSION OF REGULAR SEASON CFL EAST DIVISION GP W L PF PA Pt Montreal 273 217 Toronto 220 219 Hamilton 187 234 Ottawa 166 247 WEST DIVISION Edmonton 229 200 Saskatchewan 232 195 Calgary 322 264 Winnipeg 204 243 BritishColumbia 187 201 WEEK NINE Bye: Toronto Saturday Calgary 44 Hamilton 20 Saskatchewan 28 Edmonton 26 Friday Montreal 34 Ottawa 13 WNBA EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Indiana .633 — Atlanta .643 1/2 Washington .571 21/2 New York .567 21/2 Chicago .379 Toronto .357 81/2 Connecticut .241 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB Minnesota .806 — Las Vegas .690 31/2 Golden State .679 Dallas .621 51/2 Portland .367 131/2 Los Angeles .393 121/2 Phoenix .367 Seattle .194 181/2 Sunday Minnesota 108, Indiana 100 Los Angeles 106, Portland 101 Connecticut at Dallas Toronto at Golden State Saturday Chicago 84, Las Vegas 83 New York 94, Phoenix 92 Monday All Times Eastern Las Vegas at Atlanta, 7 p.m. Seattle at New York, 7 p.m. Phoenix at Chicago, 9 p.m. RESULTS AS OF SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 9:35 P.M. TELEVISION MONDAY(ALLTIMESEASTERN) MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA Pt Nashville 18 12 2 4 35 14 40 Miami 18 11 2 5 45 32 38 New England 17 5 3 28 21 30 Chicago 6 2 32 23 29 N.Y. City F.C. 31 24 26 Cincinnati 6 5 45 44 26 Charlotte 7 4 29 27 25 N.Y. Red Bulls 18 7 4 29 39 25 D.C. 5 8 26 29 23 Orlando 6 10 2 30 47 20 Columbus 8 5 26 28 20 Toronto 7 8 24 32 17 Philadelphia 4 10 4 25 33 16 Montreal 4 10 4 24 35 16 Atlanta 3 12 3 19 33 12 WESTERN CONFERENCE Vancouver 17 10 3 4 38 17 34 L.A. F.C. 19 10 5 4 35 19 34 San Jose 18 10 5 3 37 24 33 Houston 6 2 25 24 29 Salt Lake 6 3 29 25 27 Dallas 5 6 32 25 27 St. Louis 6 5 24 24 26 Seattle 7 3 20 22 24 Portland 8 3 33 33 24 Minnesota 6 6 20 25 24 Colorado 7 10 1 27 25 22 L.A. Galaxy 7 7 24 29 22 San Diego 7 6 32 29 21 Austin 9 5 22 36 17 Kansas City 4 12 2 18 46 14 Saturday New England 2 Montreal 2 Los Angeles F.C. 1 Vancouver 1 N.Y. Red Bulls 3 Orlando 2 Nashville 2 D.C. 2 Philadelphia 3 Atlanta 2 Columbus 2 Miami 2 Houston 2 Kansas City 0 Salt Lake City 1 St. Louis 1 San Diego 1 Minnesota 1 Chicago 2 Charlotte 1 Colorado 1 Austin 0 Cincinnati 4 San Jose 2 Dallas 0 L.A. Galaxy 0 Portland 2 Seattle 1 Saturday, Aug. 8 Houston at New England, 4:30 p.m. EAST DIVISION W L Pct GB Atlanta .598 — Philadelphia .527 Miami .513 91/2 Washington .487 121/2 New York .416 201/2 CENTRAL DIVISION Milwaukee .622 — Chicago .563 61/2 Pittsburgh .496 St. Louis .491 141/2 Cincinnati .477 WEST DIVISION Los Angeles .622 — Arizona .527 101/2 San Diego .518 111/2 San Francisco .420 221/2 Colorado .402 241/2 EAST DIVISION W L Pct GB Tampa Bay .586 — New York .563 21/2 Boston .536 51/2 Baltimore .482 111/2 Toronto .464 131/2 CENTRAL DIVISION Chicago .532 — Cleveland .504 Minnesota .496 Detroit .482 51/2 Kansas City .407 WEST DIVISION Houston .513 — Texas .491 21/2 Seattle .487 Athletics .402 121/2 Los Angeles .384 141/2 MLB AMERICAN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE NSL Sunday No games scheduled Saturday Toronto 6 Calgary 0 Monday — All Times Eastern Ottawa at Halifax, 2 p.m. Sunday Atlanta 4, Washington 2 Miami 2, N.Y. Mets 0 Cincinnati 10, Pittsburgh 2 San Diego 5, San Francisco 4 Saturday Miami 6, N.Y. Mets 2 Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 1 Atlanta 8, Washington 3 San Diego 6, San Francisco 5 Monday All Times Eastern Washington (TBD) at Philadelphia (Nola 3-9), 6:40 p.m. Pittsburgh (Chandler 3-8) at Milwaukee (Sproat 3-6), 7:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Wrobleski 11-2) at Chi- cago Cubs (Boyd 6-1), 8:05 p.m. San Diego (King 6-7) at Arizona (Pfaadt 5- 1), 9:40 p.m. COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDAL STANDINGS At Glasgow, Scotland Final Medal Rankings Nation G S B Tot Australia England Canada India Scotland New Zealand Wales South Africa Nigeria Jamaica Malaysia Northern Ireland BASEBALL MLB: Toronto vs. Houston, SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 7:30 p.m. HOCKEY Hlinka Gretzky Cup: UnitedStatesvs.Czechia,TSN3,4,5,3p.m. Switzerlandvs.Canada,TSN3,4,5,7p.m. TENNIS ATP/WTA Tour: National Bank Open, SN Ontario, East, West, Pacific, 11 a.m. SN1, 12:30 p.m. SN1, SN 360, 7 p.m. BASKETBALL WNBA: Las Vegas vs. Atlanta, NBA TV Canada, 7 p.m. PGA TOUR ROCKET CLASSIC Sunday At Detroit Purse: $10 million Yardage: 7,328; Par: 70 FINAL ROUND M.Thorbjornsen,$1.8M 69-64-66-63—262 XanderSchauffele,$1.09M 66-66-67-65—264 DavisRiley,$690,000 68-64-63-70—265 RasmusHojgaard,$490,00069-68-61-68—266 HidekiMatsuyama,$370,00067-68-68-64—267 KrisVentura,$370,000 68-66-65-68—267 MattWallace,$370,000 67-64-69-67—267 PatrickCantlay,$252,500 64-66-70-68—268 RickieFowler,$252,500 63-68-67-70—268 RyanGerard,$252,500 63-69-69-67—268 MichaelKim,$252,500 65-67-67-69—268 ChrisKirk,$252,500 65-67-66-70—268 DavisThompson,$252,500 67-68-67-66—268 CameronYoung,$252,500 69-61-68-70—268 KeeganBradley,$162,500 65-68-69-67—269 MichaelBrennan,$162,500 65-67-64-73—269 DougGhim,$162,500 65-67-70-67—269 RicoHoey,$162,500 66-69-66-68—269 SungjaeIm,$162,500 67-69-66-67—269 ChandlerBlanchet,$109,50072-65-66-67—270 RickyCastillo,$109,500 66-68-68-68—270 LukeClanton,$109,500 66-67-67-70—270 CoreyConners,$109,500 67-67-69-67—270 RussellHenley,$109,500 67-67-67-69—270 KeitaNakajima,$109,500 69-67-66-68—270 JacobBridgeman,$74,500 68-65-70-68—271 StephanJaeger,$74,500 65-68-69-69—271 BenKohles,$74,500 70-65-68-68—271 MacMeissner,$74,500 69-68-65-69—271 KevinRoy,$74,500 69-66-67-69—271 EmilianoGrillo,$57,214 66-67-69-70—272 JacksonKoivun,$57,214 69-67-67-69—272 DavidLipsky,$57,214 67-67-67-71—272 Also NickTaylor,$22,000 69-66-71-72—278 AdamSvensson,$20,500 69-68-74-70—281 E arlier in his coaching career, Mike McCarthy leaned into pushing the limits of his players during training camp. Two-a-days in full pads for two weeks straight? Sure. Practices scheduled for two hours that would sometimes bleed into three? You bet. Not so much any more. “I’d go to jail today if I tried to do that,” McCarthy joked. Or at least, the NFL’s version of it. The league has evolved over the past 30 years. The collective agreement banned two-a-days long ago. There are now specific time limits on practice, and they are policed down to the minute. So McCarthy has made it a point to get ahead of the curve. Just how far ahead? Well, when the Pittsburgh Steelers walk onto Chuck Noll Field on Monday for their first padded practice of the McCarthy Era, they’ll do it with one particular instruction in mind: no tackling. At all. While most of the changes to camp at Saint Vincent College have been subtle as the team transitions from Mike Tomlin to McCarthy – the volume of the music over the loudspeakers is softer, for example – the decision to do everything but take a team- mate to the ground is not. Tomlin’s 19 years in Pittsburgh often began with an “iron sharp- ens iron” approach during the club’s annual stay at the small school tucked in the western Pennsylvania hills. Don’t get McCarthy wrong. He plans to run a physical camp, but the “Tem- pered Steel” mantra the club has adopted – one printed on shirts worn by players and staff – is real in more ways than one. “It’s a risk-assessment deci- sion,” McCarthy said. Banning tackling during camp is hardly new. A significant chunk of NFL teams, Pittsburgh’s long-time rival the Baltimore Ravens included, have adopted the policy in recent years. Still, these are the Steelers, who have historically embraced – by reputation if not always in reality – the idea of being a throwback of sorts. So yeah, ex- pect an adjustment period. “Obviously, I love to tackle,” inside linebacker Payton Wilson said. “It’s been great in the past to get that in before the first pre- season game, but that’s what pre- season games are for.” The Steelers instead will “thud up,” meaning defenders will try to wrap up ball carriers but not take them all the way to the ground. It’s commonplace dur- ing the regular season, but not al- ways in early August. McCarthy stressed there are tools the team can use to refine their tackling technique without driving each other into the turf. From monitoring a player’s posi- tioning using GPS to video analy- sis to other “sports science” re- sources to coaching points that have been part of the game since its inception, McCarthy is confi- dent the Steelers will be ready when they need to be ready. “The long stride, short stride, the specifics of how the funda- mentals are being taught to the approach, the strike, the wrap, the finish,” he said. “So these are constants that are taught throughout our whole team.” The shift will require as much of a mental adjustment as a physical adjustment. Defensive tackle Cam Heyward’s first 15 camps were defined in part by what Tomlin likened to full-on sparring as opposed to shadow- boxing. There were certain days during camp – Family Day and the team’s Friday Night Lights practice at nearby Greater La- trobe High School – when Hey- ward knew the intensity level would spike. “It’s an alpha sport,” the long- est-tenured Steeler said. “And [we’d] just ramp it up.” McCarthy still wants to do just that, but in a way designed to get the defending AFC North cham- pions to Week 1 as healthy as pos- sible. His philosophical evolution has more to do with the way the NFL operates in 2026 than any concern about the age of the team he is taking over, though it should be noted that several of Pittsburgh’s highest-profile de- fenders – Heyward, outside line- backer T.J. Watt and defensive back Jalen Ramsey – are all in their 30s. The way McCarthy figures it, getting defenders in the right po- sition to drop an opponent is the hardest part of the process. Once they get there, finishing the play should be the easy part. That doesn’t mean the Steel- ers won’t be searching for grey ar- eas. Linebacker Patrick Queen spent the first four seasons of his career in Baltimore, where for- mer head coach John Harbaugh placed a “no tackling” edict. That didn’t stop Queen and teammate Roquan Smith from “tackling ev- erybody” one day just to prove a point. Queen doesn’t expect to go quite that far over the next few weeks. Besides, it’s not like the Steelers are going to run around with flags on their hips like they’re preparing for the 2028 Olympics. “At the end of the day, you still got a chance to put yourself on somebody, put your hip on somebody,” he said. “Whatever you do pretackle, it’s the same as putting somebody on the ground.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Steelers enter new territory with no-tackle training camp Former coach Tomlin’s iron-sharpens-iron mentality gives way to player preservation under Mike McCarthy WILL GRAVES PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike McCarthy, centre, watches as quarterback Drew Allar, left, runs a play during the team’s camp in Latrobe, Pa., on Saturday. GENE J. PUSKAR/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | REPORT ON BUSINESS
MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | THE GLOBE AND MAIL O B13 REPORT ON BUSINESS | Kyle Reyes and Coralie Godbout added a pair of judo medals to Canada’s tally as competition wrapped up Sunday at the Com- monwealth Games. Reyes captured gold in the men’s 100-kilogram division, de- featingEngland’sMaxGregory1-0 by ippon in the final. The 32-year-old from Toronto movedonestepupthepodiumaf- ter winning silver at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. He re- turned to competition in June af- ter undergoing back surgery. “I think Kyle was in a league of his own today,” coach Antoine Bouchard said. “He was never in any real danger, and he remained completely in control. He had a perfect day. “Today, we saw the old Kyle again. He was sensational.” Godbout, a 25-year-old from Lévis, Que., needed extra time to defeat India’s Ishroop Narang 1-0 and claim bronze in the women’s 78-kilogram division. Canada finished with seven ju- do medals at the Games, includ- ing four gold. “We truly believed all our ath- leteshadashotatthepodium.We ended up with seven medals out of nine possible ones, and the two athletes who didn’t win medals made it to the bronze-medal fi- nals, so we really couldn’t have asked for much more,” Bouchard said. “For the athletes who hope to qualify for the 2028 Olympics, these Games have been an impor- tant milestone, especially for the younger ones who had no prior experience at multisport events. They performed some great ju- do.” In track cycling, Maggie Coles- LysterofMapleRidge,B.C.,earned bronze in the women’s elimina- tion race, with Australia’s Alyssa Polites and Georgia Baker finish- ing first and second. Coles-Lyster won her second career Commonwealth medal af- ter taking bronze in the women’s scratch race at the 2022 Games. The 27-year-old said she was “really happy” to reach the podi- um after undergoing career- threatening iliac artery surgery last year. “I had a career-changing sur- gery last year, so this has been my comeback year, and it’s also been mybestseasonever,”Coles-Lyster saidinapressrelease.“Comingin- to these Games I thought, ‘Don’t leave without a medal,’ so today was my last chance to make that happenandI’mreallyhappyIdid. “To get the job done in the elimination today, my favourite event,wasagreatfeelingandabig sigh of relief.” The three-medal day helped Canada finish with 62 medals overall – 19 gold, 20 silver and 23 bronze – across 10 days of compe- tition. Canada placed third in the medal table behind Australia and England. Quebec City’s Julien Frasca- dore capped the Games by carry- ing Canada’s flag into the closing ceremony at the Hydro arena. Frascadore won judo gold in the men’s 66-kilogram division on Friday. “Being named Team Canada’s closing ceremony flag bearer is an incrediblehonourandsomething I will cherish forever,” Frascadore said. “Winning a gold medal was a dream come true, but what I’ll re- member most about these Games isbeingpartofthisteam.Thesup- port we’ve shared as teammates, within judo and across Team Can- ada,hasbeenunlikeanythingI’ve experienced.” THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada closes Commonwealth Games with a pair of medals in judo With 62 medals overall – 19 gold, 20 silver and 23 bronze – Canada placed third in the medal table behind Australia and England Canadian cyclist Maggie Coles-Lyster poses on the podium after winning the bronze medal in the women’s elimination race at the 2026 Commonwealth Games at Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome on Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland. QUINN ROONEY/GETTY IMAGES T he Detroit Tigers said their goodbyes to ace Tarik Sku- bal and now must turn their focus to an uncertain final two months of the season as they try to make a playoff push with- out their best player. The Tigers traded the two- time reigning AL Cy Young Award winner to the Los Angeles Dodgers for three minor league prospects in a deal that was agreed to late Saturday night. “Baseball has a funny way of challenging you to deal with change,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said before the series fi- nale against the Athletics on Sunday. “Sometimes that’s diffi- cult, sometimes it’s part of the game and part of the business. These guys are callous to some of the emotions that come with it.” Moving on without Skubal is the ultimate challenge. The ninth-round draft pick in 2018 developed into one of the best pitchers in baseball, winning the Cy Young in 2024 and ’25 and posting a 2.40 ERA over the past three seasons. Skubal is 7-5 this season with a 2.79 ERA and 116 strikeouts in 962⁄3 innings and had a major im- pact in the clubhouse. But with him set to become a free agent after the season, the Tigers opted to trade him for minor league right-handers River Ryan and Brady Smith and outfielder Zyhir Hope. Hinch said it was important for the players to appreciate what Skubal gave the team while still understanding the task ahead. “He wasn’t going to pitch to- day. So we have to be sort of cold about we got to move on and go play today’s game that he wasn’t going to impact despite the loss of his presence in our club- house,” Hinch said. “We have a ton of respect for what he brought every day, his preparation, his attitude, his de- sire to win. That impact doesn’t leave with him as he gets on a plane to go to a different team. The day-to-day does, and we’re going to have to find a way to overcome it.” News of the trade broke dur- ing Detroit’s 8-6 win over the A’s on Saturday night with many players first hearing about it from fans near the dugout during the game. Skubal was back in the clubhouse beyond the centre- field fence at the minor league stadium where the A’s play when he got the news, making it im- possible for the players to get the news directly from him until af- ter the game. But they managed to focus on the game and come up with the win. “The team’s handled it really well,” first baseman Spencer Tor- kelson said. “Leading up to the trade, I thought we blocked out the noise amazing. Even in the sixth inning when everyone’s screaming at us from the stands that we traded our best pitcher, I think we kept our focus and kept the main thing the main thing. I think as a team we still believe in ourselves and we know that we’re definitely not out of it.” The trade came at an uncer- tain time for the Tigers, who have overcome a slow start to the season to move with 21⁄2 games of the final wild-card spot after win- ning the first two games of this series. Prized prospect Max Clark was called up from the minors on Fri- day and has delivered five hits, two doubles, a homer and three RBIs in two games. But the team also scratched Casey Mize from his scheduled start this weekend in case he gets traded before the deadline Monday. “It’s a weird, weird place,” Mize said. “We’ve played really good baseball the last couple days. We trade our best player. It says we’re 21⁄2 back, but obviously there’s a lot of teams still to over- pass, so it’s certainly a strange spot.” The task now will be to try to get back to the playoffs without Skubal after they lost in Game 5 of the division series the past two seasons. Skubal started both of those losses. He had a rough start and took the loss in 2024 against Cleveland. He had a strong start last season with 13 strikeouts in six innings against Seattle but the bullpen squandered a 2-1 lead and the Tigers went on to lose 3-2 in 15 innings. Skubal said Saturday night af- ter the trade that it hurt that he couldn’t help deliver Detroit its first World Series title since 1984. “Over the last couple of years, we don’t get anywhere near to what we’ve done without Tarik Skubal,” Mize said. “I hope our fan base is appreciative of that, even if it maybe didn’t end the way that everyone wanted it to.” The Tigers fans might get a chance to see Skubal again later this month when the Dodgers visit Detroit Aug. 28-30. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tigers face a difficult challenge after trading Skubal to the Dodgers JOSH DUBOW WEST SACRAMENTO, CALIF. Over the last couple of years, we don’t get anywhere near to what we’ve done without Tarik Skubal. I hope our fan base is appreciative of that, even if it maybe didn’t end the way that everyone wanted it to. CASEY MIZE TIGERS PITCHER Toronto only got one hit in the first six frames off left-hander Matthew Liberatore, who at one point retired 13 batters in a row. The home side had just five hits overall with its only run plated by a double by Urias in the eighth. The loss prevented the Blue Jays from tying a season-high mark of four straight victories. Gausman was excellent on Sat- urday as he earned his fifth win. He has pitched better than his re- cord indicates; often he has suf- fered from a lack of run support. Scherzer has been erratic all season and came into Sunday with a 9.49 earned run average but performed some of the magic that has allowed him to win 222 games in the big leagues. “I thought he was great today,” Schneider said. “He threw the ball really well and was very effi- cient. It was a great job by him.” Toronto made one move during the game when it ac- quired right-handed pitcher Ja- meson Taillon from the Chicago Cubs for cash and future consid- erations. The 34-year-old has posted a 5.92 ERA over 15 starts this season but has won as many as 14 games twice in his career. Born in Flor- ida to Canadian parents, he pitched for Canada at this year’s World Baseball Classic. “I thought all of my pitches were very good today,” Scherzer said, adding that it was only the second time he has been healthy in back-to-back appearances. “My belief in myself hasn’t quit. That is why I am still out there grinding.” He acknowledged the Blue Jays have been subpar. “We are in this position be- cause we have not performed up to our ability,” he said. “It is on us as players because we haven’t done a good job.” Jays: Toronto adds Canadian pitcher Taillon from Cubs FROM B10 If two European powerhouses – France and En- gland, for instance – said, ‘You know what? We don’t want to be in business with these people any more. We’re happy playing in the European championships. It’s a better tournament than the World Cup anyway. If the rest of you figure out some other way to do a world champion- ship, minus FIFA, let us know. But that’s on you, and we’re out.’ No negotiations. Just go. That would sink FI- FA. But no. They cannot remove their lips from FIFA’s money spigot. This is the crux of it. Infantino may be dodging fire, but FIFA hasn’t been cowed. One FIFA executive called the idea to sell the World Cup’s commercial rights “the project of one person.” Okay. Sure. In the midst of this mess, FIFA announced an intention to expand the next World Cup to 64 teams. That would have seemed like a major deal, but now seems like a minor concession. Could that have been the real goal? Via Infantino, FIFA has taken a lesson from its American benefactors: losers make plans; winners bulldoze. Nowadays, it doesn’t matter what the plan is. You don’t even need a plan. What matters is relentless forward pressure. You need only hold one idea in your mind – that your opponents are weak. Made too fat by recent history, too complacent, too easily bought, they lack the steel to make a hard choice. So you push until they collapse. There may be some setbacks along the way. But in the end, you’ll get most of what you want. That’s how this will turn out. The ground is already being laid. Over the weekend, the Fi- nancial Times proclaimed that the problem with Infantino’s plan to sell the World Cup wasn’t the sale itself. It was the valuation. He’d proposed asking for too little. Don’t think that won’t put some antennae up around the foot- ball world. Whether it’s Infantino in charge or not, FIFA will get some part of what it wanted a week ago. There will still be a World Cup. Europe and the rest will be there. They’ll make a great show of being for the right thing, but they’ll go. That’s how all these stories – and I assume you’re getting that I’m no longer taking about sports – will continue to end. They will do so until someone who has something to lose decides to stand on princi- ple, and accept the material consequences of whatever that entails. Not because it’s the smart business decision, but because it’s right. Kelly: FIFA’s only plan is to keep the bulldozer plowing forward FROM B10
B14 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 | REPORT ON BUSINESS A lexander Zverev has faced Jannik Sinner five times in the semi-finals or finals of tournaments this season, losing on each occasion. Despite that, the German star wishes the world No. 1 hadn’t withdrawn from the National Bank Open. “I think you want to be com- peting against the best, especially before the U.S. Open,” Zverev said at a news conference Sunday at IGA Stadium. “I understand it, though. I mean, we had a thought also of maybe skipping Montreal this year, but then we decided to play it. “Of course, it’s not a positive that I keep losing to the same guy, or I have lost to the same guy multiple times, but I think it defi- nitely shows that we were prob- ably the two most stable players on tour this year, and that’s a pos- itive.” Zverev, ranked No. 2 in the world and the top seed in Mon- treal, notably lost to Sinner in the Madrid final and most recently at Wimbledon. The 29-year-old said he quickly moved past the defeat to Sinner at the grass-court Grand Slam, al- thoughhewouldhavelikedtoex- tend the match by forcing a decid- ing set. Zverev also realized after his French Open triumph in June that winning his first Grand Slam title did not really change his life. “It’s a satisfaction, for sure. I mean, I’ve waited for that Grand Slam title a very long time, in a way, and, of course, I’m very hap- py that it came,” he said. “But the work continues since we have three Masters tournaments here in North America, and that’s what the focus is on.” Zverev said it was important for him to play a lot of matches to feel comfortable on court. As a re- sult, he took only one week off af- ter Wimbledon before returning to training. He added, however, that every player has their own approach, and he understands why Sinner and veteran Novak Djokovic de- cided to skip the Montreal tour- nament. Zverev also did not appear par- ticularly interested in discussing ways to encourage all players to participate in Masters events. “Honestly, if everything goes back to the old [way] and we would play one-week Masters events, yeah, we can talk about it,” he said. “But if you’re forcing us to be away for two and a half, three weeks during Grand Slams and the same then goes for Mas- ters events, you can’t force us to play. Sorry, that’s nonsense. “At the end of the day, if you play all nine Masters, you get a bonus at the end of the year. So there is that to it as well. “YouthinkNovakwillcareifhe gets a bigger bonus?” he added. “I think the guy has – I mean, if I would have to guess, the guy is north of 400-million in his bank account, and so I’m not sure he would care.” Zverev is therefore not a big fan of 12-day Masters events, a for- mat the National Bank Open adopted last year. “I used to play more 500 events, 250 events when the Mas- ters were shorter,” he said. Still, Zverev hopes the Mon- treal tournament, which he won in 2017, will serve as a spring- board for his hard-court season. “I don’t think maybe I’ll play mybesttennishere,”hesaid.“But the result of me playing here, I think I’ll play better in Cincinnati and then hopefully my best ten- nis in New York.” THE CANADIAN PRESS Zverev laments Sinner, Djokovic withdrawals at National Bank Open World’s second-ranked player not fond of new, longer Masters tournaments ALEXIS BÉLANGER-CHAMPAGNE MONTREAL Alexander Zverev serves against Jannik Sinner during their men’s singles final at Wimbledon in London on July 12. Zverev has faced Sinner five times this season, losing on each occasion. CAMERON SPENCER/GETTY IMAGES A ryna Sabalenka desperately needed a break. The WTA’s top-ranked player had just been bounced from Wimbledon in the fourth round – her earliest Grand Slam exit since 2022 – on the heels of a stunning quarter-final loss at the French Open a month prior. “I want to get completely drunk, for- get about tennis,” Sabalenka told report- ers July 5 in London after falling to Nao- mi Osaka in straight sets at the All En- gland Club. “And try to get better.” Following some time away from the game, her journey starts anew at the Na- tional Bank Open. Sabalenka headlines a star-studded field at Canada’s annual showcase with the aim of turning things around on North America’s hard courts coming off a challenging stretch on Europe’s grass and clay. “I was trying a couple things,” the 28- year-old from Belarus said Sunday at So- beys Stadium. “Didn’t go the way that I expected, and now we’re kind of back to basics, and I really hope it’s going to work out well.” Sabalenka will have been off almost a month – including some down time in Greece – when she’s scheduled to open her tournament Tuesday night. “The rest was much-needed,” said the four-time Grand Slam winner. “I suf- fered during the summer swing a lot with my body [and] mentally also a little bit.” Her hunger returned after about a week of decompression. “I felt much better,” Sabalenka added. “I couldn’t wait to get back on court and start working toward my goals.” Some of the names joining her at the US$7.4-million WTA 1000 event are world No. 2 Elena Rybakina, who beat Sabalenka to claim this year’s Australian Open, two-time NBO champion Jessica Pegula,two-timeGrandSlamwinnerCo- co Gauff, and 2026 French Open titlehol- der Mirra Andreeva. Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., is the only seeded Canadian at No. 30. The WTA’s top-ranked player since October, 2024, Sabalenka skipped last year’s Canadian stop in Montreal due to fatigue after winning the French Open and making Wimbledon’s semi-finals. While most of the top women’s talent available is in Toronto, the men’s brack- et saw a trend of late, high-profile with- drawals continue after world No. 1 Jan- nik Sinner and No. 5 Novak Djokovic pulled the plug on their participation. The NBO represents the start of a hec- tic run-up to the U.S. Open that also fea- tures the Cincinnati Open, which begins before the final matches in both Toronto and Montreal, where the men are com- peting in 2026. Sabalenka said it’s a lot of tennis in a short period, especially when shifting to the hard courts. “Very tricky scheduling lots of [long- er] tournaments,” she said. “If you go far at the grass [events], you don’t have much time to reset, recharge, and go back on court to practise and then play the tournament … skipping the vaca- tion time, which is really needed after that big part of the season.” Sabalenka added a packed schedule and changing surfaces means players have to make difficult decisions. “If you go far in the grass court [sea- son], you feel really fatigued and you’re not able to pull out any good tennis,” she said. “What’s the reason of coming when your body is really under so much stress? Not enough time for recovery, you force your body too much, and then it can cause you an injury.” After a sub-par showing on grass and clay, however, Sabalenka’s path was straightforward. “This year I didn’t do well,” she said with a laugh. “So I’m here.” Wimbledon winner Linda Noskova reflected on a wild month after she de- feated Karolina Muchova in an all-Cze- chia final. “The last couple of weeks have been nothing more but crazy and chaos,” said the21-year-oldrankedNo.7intheworld. “I’m glad I can start over. It’s a new week, new tournament, new surface. It’s all the changes at the same time. “I’llhavetogetusedtoitasfastaspos- sible.” Andreeva, who won her first Grand Slam at the French Open, will debut in Toronto coming off a 2025 third-round loss in Montreal. “One of the dreams that I was able to accomplish,” said the 19-year-old Rus- sian. “I’m happy it happened, but now I also have to focus on the future.” THE CANADIAN PRESS Sabalenka ready for hard-court return in Toronto JOSHUA CLIPPERTON TORONTO After having been off for almost a month, world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka headlines a star-studded field at the National Bank Open in Toronto. ANDREW COULDRIDGE/REUTERS Venus Williams sat through a weather delay as rain pelted centre court. The seven-time Grand Slam winner then battled hard early before bowing out late after the skies finally cleared. Kamilla Rakhimova defeated Wil- liams 6-4, 6-1 to kick off the National Bank Open women’s main draw Sunday at Sobeys Stadium. Granted a singles wild-card entry at the WTA 1000 event, the 46-year-old ten- nis icon has now lost 12 straight matches dating back to July, 2025. Williams did not speak with reporters following her latest setback that includ- ed a wait of close to two hours from the original 12:30 p.m. ET start, but conduct- edabriefinterviewwithamemberofthe tour’s communications department. “We play outside … you can’t control theweather,”saidthefour-timeOlympic gold medalist. “But the fans were amaz- ing. They were with me right in every point – that was fantastic. “I was just fighting to put the ball on the court,” she added. “I had some chances.” Rakhimova fought off a break point down 4-3 in the first set and then broke Williams to go up 5-4 before the 24-year- old from Uzbekistan held serve. Ranked No. 82 in the world, she broke Williams again to open the second set andsecuredtwomorebreaksincoasting to victory in one hour 27 minutes in the players’ first-ever meeting. “Playing Venus is not an everyday ex- perience,” Rakhimova said. “I’m very glad to actually get a chance to play against her. I was looking forward to that match. I knew it was gonna be a centre- court match. I was trying to enjoy my time on it, no matter what the result is. “And I think I did pretty well.” Making her 13th appearance in Cana- da, the 664th-ranked Williams put up her best showing at the country’s annual showcase in 2014 when she defeated younger sister Serena to reach the final. “Determinationandjustfighting,”she said of the takeaways from Sunday’s per- formance.“Itwasreallyfuntobebackaf- ter having not been here for a while.” Heavy rain pelted the venue on the YorkUniversitycampusinTorontoearli- er Sunday, pushing a scheduled late- morning start into the afternoon. Fellow wild card Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., who became the first Canadian in 50 years to win the tourna- ment in 2019, was slated to meet Cze- chia’s Nikola Bartunkova in evening play. Toronto’s Katherine Sebov topped Ja- panese qualifier Aoi Ito 6-3, 6-4, while Spain’s Jessica Bouzas Maneiro picked upa6-2,6-4winoverArianaArsenaultof Richmond Hill, Ont. Cadence Brace of Oakville, Ont., faced McCartney Kessler of the U.S. later Sunday. Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., is the top-seeded Canadian at No. 30. Her tour- nament is set to begin Wednesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS Venus Williams flames out vs. Rakhimova in first round at NBO JOSHUA CLIPPERTON TORONTO GianniInfantino’spositionasFIFApresi- dent looks untenable following his failed plan to sell a stake in the World Cup’s commercial rights, the head of Eu- rope’s professional football leagues said on Sunday. Claudius Schaefer, whose organiza- tion represents 53 professional men’s and women’s football leagues, said there could be “only one consequence” for In- fantino after his plan triggered a storm of protest from regional associations. “When I saw how this whole thing un- folded and that FIFA’s key bodies weren’t involved, then there’s essentially only one consequence in any company or as- sociation,” Schaefer told Swiss newspa- per SonntagsZeitung. Asked if this meant that Infantino was now unacceptable as FIFA presi- dent, Schaefer said: “This is usually the consequence when someone in a com- pany pushes such a business deal for- ward without anyone knowing about it.” Infantino said on Friday that FIFA had scrapped the plan after a widespread backlash. Regional confederations UEFA and CONCACAF said on Saturday they had lost confidence in his leadership. Schaefer, also chief executive of the Swiss Football League, said the proposal suggested that FIFA’s main goal was to maximize profits for third parties by having more and bigger competitions in future. “It’s solely about the financial advan- tages; everything else is completely ig- nored,” he said. The European Leagues opposed this because it would add more matches to an already packed international calen- dar to the detriment of national cham- pionships, Schaefer said. “Nobody knew about the plans, not even the FIFA Council, the governing body of FIFA. I was very surprised that the president was acting completely alone in this matter.” REUTERS Infantino’s position as FIFA president looks untenable, head of European league says ZURICH
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There were fans in the stands wearing T- shirts that read, “Trans kids be- long in sports.” It’s the third straight Fever game that drew a rally after Cun- ningham recently voiced support for barring transgender girls and women from girls’ and women’s sports in an ESPN article publish- ed last week. Before the contest, Cunningham and Reeve held a conversation at midcourt. Reeve didn’t want to share the exact na- ture of their talk. “Both of us understand that we have platforms and we both talk- ed about wanting to, more than anything, educate,” Reeve said. “There are some things that we have in common, and maybe some things you differ on, just like any issues. I think it’s how you handle things. It was nice to be in person, for sure.” Cunningham was booed by the crowd on her first touch of the game and throughout. Outside the arena, dozens of fans gathered near the entrance. A person using a loud speaker re- peated over and over, “Protect trans women.” There were signs held up that read, “Love is truth” and “Thank you Sophie.” Asked how she and the team are navigating the outside con- versations, Caitlin Clark said after thegame,“Ithinkwe’reexcellent. “Ithinkit’sforleaguesandgov- erning bodies to work with their athletes to find solutions,” Clark said. “Our focus is on basketball. That’s what we talk about and howwecangetwinsandobvious- ly we didn’t do that tonight. So we need to find an area to improve in that way.” Any reaction? “I just answered,” Clark said. Cunningham said Friday in Portland that she wasn’t con- cerned about rallies against transgender participation in women’s sports becoming a dis- traction for the Fever. “I think everyone who knows me personally, they know that I’m full of love. I’m bubbly. I love the people around me,” Cunning- ham said Friday. “I love basket- ball. I love inspiring the next gen- eration and doing that in a posi- tive light. And so that doesn’t even cross my mind. Doesn’t cross my teammates’ minds.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS rallies surround Fever-Lynx game Cunningham says her stance on transgender athletes and the reaction it has created won’t be a distraction for her team MINNEAPOLIS A demonstrator protests prior to the start of the WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and Minnesota Lynx at Target Center on Sunday in Minneapolis. DAVID BERDING/GETTY IMAGES The Los Angeles Sparks traded all-star guard Kelsey Plum to the Phoenix Mercury for a first- round pick next year, Monique Akoa Makani and a second- round draft choice in 2028. The deal was finalized late Sat- urday night ahead of Sunday’s trade deadline and was first re- ported by ESPN. It’s rare for an all-star to be traded in the mid- dle of the season, only happen- ing a handful of times before Sat- urday night. “Kelsey is one of the league’s most dynamic players,” Mercury GM Nick U’Ren said. “She is a fierce competitor with a winning mentality who impacts the game on both ends of the floor. Her combination of shooting, explosiveness and de- cision-making allows her to cre- ate offence at a high level and makes her one of the league’s most complete guards. We have wanted Kelsey here for a long time, and we’re excited to finally bring her to Phoenix as we con- tinue to build on our founda- tion.” Plum will wear No. 0 for the Mercury. She is a free agent at the end of this season and has been sidelined since June 21 be- cause of a lower leg injury. She practised earlier this week and was expected to play Sunday in the Sparks’ game against Por- tland before getting traded. Phoenix’s next game is Monday at Chicago. Plum was averaging a career- best 23.9 points and 6.4 assists before getting hurt. Los Angeles has struggled without her, in- cluding its last six games. Phoenix is currently 11-19 and six games behind the New York Liberty, who sit in eighth place. New York edged Phoenix 94-92 on Saturday. The Mercury are coming off a WNBA finals appearance last season, but have seldom looked like that team despite returning stars Alyssa Thomas and Kah- leah Copper. Akoa Makani is averaging 9.4 points and 2.5 assists this season in 16 games. She was injured ear- lier in the season with a hamstr- ing issue. Los Angeles acquired Plum before last season in a blockbus- ter deal that sent the No. 2 pick to Seattle. The Sparks had hoped they could accelerate a rebuild- ing effort. Seattle used that pick on Dominique Malonga, who was an all-star this season. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS sparks trade plum to Mercury for Akoa Makani, draft picks DOUG FEINBERG Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes re- peated her opening-stage suc- cess with a sprint win on Stage 2 of the Tour de France Femmes in Geneva on Sunday and extended her overall lead. Wiebes (Team SD Worx-Pro- time) was first to attack from the bunch coming to the end of the 147.9-kilometre ride from Aigle, and the 27-year-old easily held off her rivals with time to raise her arms in celebration before the line. “I knew that it was up to me to find my own way,” said Wiebes, whose seventh Tour de France stage win was her first while wearing the yellow jersey. “I found some good wheels and I could come out I think around 200 metres to go and then I just could launch my sprint.” Italian Elisa Balsamo (Lidl- Trek) came in second ahead of 39-year-old Marianne Vos of the Netherlands. Wiebes earned a 10-second time bonus for the stage win and now holds a 14-second lead over Kimberley Le Court of Mauritius, with 2023 winner Demi Vollering a further two seconds back in third. The stage got its anticipated sprint finish but Riejanne Mar- kus made a brave bid for solo success only to get reeled in with less than 500 metres left, and last year’s points classification win- ner Wiebes was always favourite to triumph at that stage. The peloton was about to catch an earlier breakaway with 40-kilometres remaining when Markus stole a march on the bunch and managed to get one minute ahead but the Dutch- woman’s efforts came to noth- ing. “Winning in yellow makes it for sure special but also because, again, our team worked really hard for it,” Wiebes said. “The girls were chasing full, full gas in the final to bring back Riejanne Markus, so it’s even more beautiful to finish it off in the yellow.” Monday’s stage three is a 156.5-kilometre ride from Geneva to Poligny in France. REUTERS wiebes wins second stage of tour de France Femmes GENEVA, SWITZERLAND Netherlands cyclist Lorena Wiebes celebrates crossing the finish line to win the second stage of the Tour de France Femmes on Sunday. The 149-kilometre stage went from Aigle to Geneva, Switerland. JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT/KEYSTONE VIA AP The first-place Tampa Bay Rays gave their starting rotation a boost Sunday, acquiring pitcher Freddy Peralta from the strug- gling New York Mets for three mi- nor leaguers. Peralta,atwo-timeall-starwho can become a free agent this fall, has been a disappointment for the Mets after they acquired him from Milwaukee in a January trade. “He gave us everything that he had, stepped out on the mound every single day and competed,” interim Mets manager Andy Green said. “I know he wanted better results. And I think when we struck the deal to get him, we were all hoping for a different set of circumstances on this day than what we’re looking at.” Green said Peralta was in- formed of the trade during the early innings of a 2-0 loss to the Miami Marlins that dropped the Mets to 47-66 – their worst record through 113 games since 2003, the lasttimeNewYorkfinishedlastin the NL East. But Peralta could help a strong pitching staff with the Rays, who began the day with the best re- cord in the American League at 65-45 and a 31⁄2-game lead in the AL East over the New York Yan- kees. “Freddy is a proven major league starter with high-stakes experience and a strong track re- cord,” Rays president of baseball operations Erik Neander said in a statement. “Adding a pitcher and competitor of his calibre streng- thens our team as we push for- ward.” The last-place Mets received outfielder Aidan Smith, infielder Émilien Pitre and right-hander Gary Gill Hill in exchange for Per- alta. Pitre was a second-round pick of Tampa Bay in the 2024 draft while Hill was a sixth-round pick in 2022. Smith was picked in the fourth round of the 2023 draft by the Seattle Mariners, who sent him the Rays in the Randy Aroza- rena trade in July, 2024. The move came a day before baseball’s trade deadline at 6 p.m. EDT on Monday, and hours after the Los Angeles Dodgers landed the biggest prize on the market, ace pitcher Tarik Skubal, in a deal with the Detroit Tigers. Before joining the Mets last off- season, Peralta went 17-6 with a 2.70 ERA over 33 starts in 2025. He led the National League in wins, finished fifth in Cy Young award voting and helped the Brewers win their third straight NL Cen- tral crown. With the Rays, the 30-year-old right-hander joins a rotation headed by all-stars Drew Rasmus- senandNickMartinez.Left-hand- er Shane McClanahan, an all-star in 2022 and 2023, is 9-6 with a 3.09 ERA in 20 starts but was placed on the 15-day injured list Friday with midbacktightnessonhisleftside. Last winter, New York sent youngsters Brandon Sproat and Jett Williams to the Brewers for Peralta and right-hander Tobias Myers, giving up a pair of players rated among the game’s top 100 prospects in the anticipation Per- alta would be the front line start- er the team needed. Instead, he went 5-9 with a 4.99 ERA in 22 starts and failed to com- plete five innings in four of his last five outings for the Mets. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mets trade pitcher peralta to rays for trio of minor leaguers MIKE FITZPATRICK NEW YORK
B16 O THE GLOBE AND MAIL | MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 2026 OBITUARIES To submit an I Remember: obit@globeandmail.com Send us a memory of someone we have recently profiled on the Obituaries page. Please include I Remember in the subject field A rtist Betye Saar, whose workreflectsBlackidentity, culture and spirituality, died Sunday morning in Los An- geles at 99. Ms. Saar’s death was confirmed Monday by relatives. She would have turned 100 this week. A central figure of the 1960s BlackArtMovement,Ms.Saarpio- neered assemblage boxes, or sculptures madeoffound objects, and reclaimed Jim Crow-era memorabilia as powerful totems of Black liberation. “Her symbolically rich body of work has evolved over time to demonstrate the environmental, cultural, political, racial, techno- logical, economic and historical context in which it exists,” ac- cording to Roberts Projects, the Los Angeles gallery that repre- sents her. Ms.Saarbeganhercareerinde- signandshiftedtoartattheageof 35. She continued to make art into her 90s. She grew up in Pasadena, Calif.,andwaspartofacommuni- ty of Black artists in nearby Alta- dena; she often cited Simon Ro- dia’s Watts Towers as an early source of inspiration. Ms. Saar’s practice incorporat- ed painting, printmaking, sculp- ture and found objects including dolls, washboards and other an- tiques. Boats, clocks, cages and al- tarsrecurinherpractice,aswellas symbolsoftheoccultandcosmol- ogy. She often referenced her as- trological sign of Leo in the form oflions,punctuatingmanyworks. “Her appropriation of Black collectibles, heirlooms and utili- tarian objects are transformed through subversion,” the gallery said. “Among the older genera- tion of Black American artists, Saar is without reproach.” Made in 1969, Black Girl’s Win- dow, was groundbreaking. Still, it wasn’t widely celebrated until decades later, and it was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2019. “There weren’t thatmanygalleriesinLosAngeles atthetimeandtherecertainlywe- ren’t any for Black artists,” she once said in an interview. The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, created in 1972, is one of her most important works. It features memorabilia she collected that denigrated Black people, includ- ed a “mammy,” or 19th-century minstrel character who smiled while serving white slave owners. In Ms. Saar’s hands though, the figure is reclaimed: She smiles, but holds a rifle and has a hand grenade. It came in response to the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tenn. Ms. Saar said Rev. King’s death “triggered a rage within me, and the mystic transformed into the warrior.” “I had a lot of hesitation about using powerful, negative images such as these – thinking about how white people saw Black peo- ple, and how that influenced the ways in which Black people saw each other,” Ms. Saar said. “What saved it was that I made Aunt Je- mimaintoarevolutionaryfigure.” After more than 130 years, Quaker Oats announced it would retire its Aunt Jemima brand in 2020,acknowledgingthelogoand its origins were “based on a racial stereotype.” Ms. Saar taught and mentored generations of Black artists, in- cluding painter Kerry James Mar- shall. Though Ms. Saar’s work was exhibited in a 1975 solo show at the Whitney Museum of Ameri- can Art, in the decades that fol- lowed large institutions have ex- hibited her work only sporadical- ly.In2019though,theLosAngeles County Museum of Art and Mo- MA mounted concurrent solo shows. In spring 2026, Ms. Saar was in- ducted to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. “She had boundless energy for makingart.Ithinkshehadalotto say and was tired of the art world being dominated by white males,” said Angela Robinson Witherspoon, who produced and directed a documentary in 2023 onMs.Saar’slife.BetyeSaar:Ready toBeAWarriorfeaturesinterviews with John Legend, Tina Knowles and other prominent voices. “She was raising her three young daughters and she wanted tobepartoftheCivilRightsMove- ment,” Ms. Robinson Wither- spoon said. Let’s Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar, which focuses on costume design, is currently on view at Robert Projects in Los Angeles, and there are 26 of an eventual 100 dolls on view at the New-York Historical Society in Manhattan. ASSOCIATED PRESS BETYE SAAR ARTIST, 99 Central figure in Black Art Movement reclaimed problematic totems COREY WILLIAMS Betye Saar pioneered assemblage boxes, or sculptures made of found objects. One of her most important works is The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, created in 1972. It features memorabilia she collected that denigrated Black people. DAVID SPRAGUE/ASSOCIATED PRESS G len Hansard, the Oscar-winning singer songwriter who was best known as the frontman of the popular Irish band the Frames, died Wednesday in a motorcycle crash in Dublin. He was 56. Mr. Hansard’s representative, ATC Man- agement, confirmed the songwriter’s death on his website. Micheál Martin, Ireland’s prime minis- ter, known in the country as the taoiseach, wrote on social media: “Deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Glen Hansard. A talented musician and actor who made a significant contribution to Ireland’s cul- tural landscape over many years.” Irish police issued a news release Wednesday appealing for witnesses to the crash in the Lucan area of West Dublin. The crash occurred shortly before 4:30 a.m., the news release said. It did not name Mr. Hansard but said that “the motorcyclist, a man in his 50s, was treated at the scene but was pronounced deceased a short time lat- er.” On Wednesday, the Irish news media reported that Mr. Hansard was the victim. Mr. Hansard, who began performing as a busker on the streets of Dublin, formed the Frames in 1990, and the band went on to have multiple hit albums in Ireland. He came to more international fame after starring in Once, a movie about an Irish street musician and the woman he falls for. He and his co-star, Marketa Irglova, won a 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song for Falling Slowly, which is featured in the film. Soon, Once became a Broadway show that won multiple Tony Awards. A.O. Scott, in a review of Once for The New York Times, said it was a simple film about a busker (Mr. Hansard) who meets a Czech pianist (Ms. Irglova) while out on the streets, and the two then become col- laborators and potential lovers. “You can’t take your eyes off them,” Mr. Scott said, de- scribing the movie as “almost perfect.” Mr. Hansard previously had a small role in The Commitments, and said in a 2007 in- terview with the Times that he had been reluctant to act again. “I’m a real believer in sticking to your craft,” he said. He even- tually accepted on the stipulation that he could flee if the first few days of filming didn’t work out, he said. Glen Hansard was born on April 21, 1970, in Dublin and grew up in a working-class household. His father, a heavy drinker, was prone to bouts of violence, the singer said in a 2012 interview with the Times. “My dad was quiet, angry, shut down,” he said, “so my thing is: I express everything that’s there. I want to get it all out.” When an uncle left a guitar behind after being sent to prison, Mr. Hansard picked up the instrument. “I was kind of in a fun- ny spot. I was getting into trouble,” he said in a recent podcast interview, recalling his journey to learning guitar. He soon fell in love with the music of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Van Morrison. He dropped out of school to busk and play in bands. By 1990, he had formed what would be his own long-time rock band, the Frames. He started acting when he won a role in The Commitments, the 1991 film about a group of working-class Irish young people who form a 10-piece soul band. Mr. Han- sard said in the podcast interview that he had tagged along with a friend who was auditioning for a role in the film. “I fit the bill. I had red hair and I played the guitar,” he said of his character, Out- span Foster. “I read a couple of lines, and I got the part.” The film was positively received, with the Times calling the cast “a group of talented newcomers.” Then came an even bigger breakout: Once, the 2007 Irish film that catapulted Mr. Hansard into international stardom. The wistful film, written and directed by John Carney, one of Mr. Hansard’s former bandmates, was filmed in 17 days on a modest budget. It became a hit at the Sun- dance Film Festival and went on to inspire a Tony Award-winning musical of the same name. Mr. Hansard, who initially resisted the idea of turning Once into a musical, even- tually gave the production his blessing. “Forget about being correct,” he recalled telling Steve Kazee, the actor who played his role in the Broadway production. “The muse hates correct.” He leaned into being a solo artist in the years after Once, releasing albums includ- ing 2015’s Didn’t He Ramble, which was nominated for a Grammy Award. Mr. Hansard was also an activist, cam- paigning for awareness of homelessness and protesting over housing shortages. He performed often in an annual Christmas Eve Busk event in Dublin, an event that raises money to help people at risk of homelessness. The singer had been scheduled to play European tour dates in the coming months to perform music from two al- bums released this year. He leaves his wife, Maire Saaritsa; three brothers; and a son, Christy. As well as the Frames, Mr. Hansard played with the Swell Season, a folk duo he formed with Ms. Irglova, his Once co-star and onetime partner. Mr. Hansard said in the 2012 Times in- terview that he always found himself sing- ing “within the vernacular of the love song,” but that his music wasn’t simply about romance. “It’s also the relationship between me and my country, me and my friends, me and myself, me and my God,” he said. “It’s not always about me and my girl. That’s just the language I’ve gotten used to us- ing.” NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE GLEN HANSARD MUSICIAN, 56 FRONTMAN OF IRISH BAND THE FRAMES FOUND INTERNATIONAL FAME AS AN ACTOR After dropping out of school to busk and play in bands, he formed the Frames in 1990 and had multiple hit albums in Ireland before starring in Once, the film that earned him and co-star Marketa Irglova an Oscar for Best Original Song ALEX MARSHALL ISABELLA KWAI Irish singer Glen Hansard performs at The Caverns in Pelham, Tenn., in March, 2019. Mr. Hansard leaned into being a solo artist in the years after Once, releasing albums including 2015’s Didn’t He Ramble, which was nominated for a Grammy Award. RON HARRIS/ASSOCIATED PRESS *
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